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start_time) + +async def benchmark_async(user, func, input_data, num_runs=DEFAULT_RUNS): + + latencies = [] + + INCREMENTS = 10 + for batch_size in range(1, num_runs+1, INCREMENTS): + + batch_tasks = [] + + batch_start_time = time.perf_counter() + + # Create batch of tasks + for i in range(batch_size): + task = asyncio.ensure_future(dispatch_func_async(user, func, input_data)) + batch_tasks.append(task) + + sleep_time = max(0, 1/i - (time.perf_counter() - batch_start_time)) + await asyncio.sleep(sleep_time) + + # Await batch + responses = await asyncio.gather(*batch_tasks) + + for response in responses: + latencies.append((batch_size, response)) + + # Save results to timestamped file + timestamp = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") + with open(f"./results/{timestamp}_{func}_{LOAD_BALANCE_STRATEGY}_{FORBID_NDP}", "a") as f: + + # Write header containing all metadata + f.write("User,{user},\n") + f.write("Function,{func},\n") + f.write("Input Data,{input_data},\n") + f.write("Num Runs,{num_runs},\n") + f.write("Load Balance Strategy,{LOAD_BALANCE_STRATEGY},\n") + f.write("Async Toggled,{ASYNC_TOGGLED},\n") + f.write("Forbid NDP,{FORBID_NDP},\n") + + + f.write("Batch Size,Latency\n") + for batch_size, latency in latencies: + f.write(f"{batch_size},{latency},\n") + + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + + # Parse args (user function input_data num_runs load_balance_strategy async_toggle forbid_ndp) + arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Benchmark load balancer") + + arg_parser.add_argument("user", help="User to invoke function as") + arg_parser.add_argument("func", help="Function to invoke") + arg_parser.add_argument("input_data", help="Input data for function") + arg_parser.add_argument("num_runs", help="Number of runs to perform", type=int, default=10) + arg_parser.add_argument("load_balance_strategy", help="Load balance strategy to use") + #arg_parser.add_argument("async_toggle", help="Toggle async behaviour", type=bool, default=False) + #arg_parser.add_argument("forbid_ndp", help="Toggle NDP", type=bool, default=False) + + args = arg_parser.parse_args() + + LOAD_BALANCE_STRATEGY = args.load_balance_strategy + + # if args.async_toggle: + # ASYNC_TOGGLED = True + # + # if args.forbid_ndp: + # FORBID_NDP = True + + asyncio.run(benchmark_async(args.user, args.func, args.input_data, args.num_runs)) diff --git a/experiments/results/test.csv b/experiments/results/test.csv new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e69de29b diff --git a/experiments/run_wordcount.py b/experiments/run_wordcount.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2767ced2 --- /dev/null +++ b/experiments/run_wordcount.py @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +import time +import os +import subprocess +import asyncio + +text_sources_dir = "/users/DonaldJ/faasm/cpp/experiments/text_sources/" +def run_benchmark(gutenberg_title, user, func, num_runs=10): + + for i in range(num_runs): + cmd = "inv func.invoke " + user + " " + func + " \'" + gutenberg_title + "\'" + print("Command: ", cmd) + start = time.time() + subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True) + print("Time taken to run wordcount: ", time.time() - start) + +async def invoke_func_async(user, func, gutenberg_title): + cmd = ["inv", "func.invoke", user, func, gutenberg_title] + process = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(*cmd, stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE, stderr=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE) + stdout, stderr = await process.communicate() + print(f'[{cmd!r} exited with {process.returncode}]') + return stdout, stderr + +async def run_benchmark_async(gutenberg_title, user, func, num_runs=10): + tasks = [] + for i in range(num_runs): + task = asyncio.ensure_future(invoke_func_async(user, func, gutenberg_title)) + tasks.append(task) + await asyncio.sleep(1/i) + + responses = await asyncio.gather(*tasks) + for response in responses: + print(response) +if __name__ == "__main__": + # Run the benchmark + run_benchmark("pride_and_prejudice", "ndp", "wordcount") \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experiments/text_sources/brown_corpus.txt b/experiments/text_sources/brown_corpus.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3e5f1334 --- /dev/null +++ b/experiments/text_sources/brown_corpus.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23715 @@ +The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation +of Atlanta's recent primary election produced "no evidence" that +any irregularities took place. The jury further said in term-end +presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all +charge of the election, "deserves the praise and thanks of the +City of Atlanta" for the manner in which the election was conducted. + +The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton +Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible +"irregularities" in the hard-fought primary which was won by +Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr&. "Only a relative handful +of such reports was received", the jury said, "considering the +widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size +of this city". The jury said it did find that many of Georgia's +registration and election laws "are outmoded or inadequate +and often ambiguous". It recommended that Fulton legislators +act "to have these laws studied and revised to the end of modernizing +and improving them". The grand jury commented on a number +of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing +departments which it said "are well operated and follow generally +accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments". + +#MERGER PROPOSED# + +However, the jury said it believes "these +two offices should be combined to achieve greater efficiency and reduce +the cost of administration". The City Purchasing Department, +the jury said, "is lacking in experienced clerical personnel +as a result of city personnel policies". It urged that the city "take +steps to remedy" this problem. Implementation of Georgia's +automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury. + +It urged that the next Legislature "provide enabling funds +and re-set the effective date so that an orderly implementation of +the law may be effected". The grand jury took a swipe at the +State Welfare Department's handling of federal funds granted for +child welfare services in foster homes. "This is one of the +major items in the Fulton County general assistance program", the +jury said, but the State Welfare Department "has seen fit to distribute +these funds through the welfare departments of all the counties +in the state with the exception of Fulton County, which receives +none of this money. The jurors said they realize "a proportionate +distribution of these funds might disable this program in our less +populous counties". Nevertheless, "we feel that in the +future Fulton County should receive some portion of these available +funds", the jurors said. "Failure to do this will continue to place +a disproportionate burden" on Fulton taxpayers. The jury +also commented on the Fulton ordinary's court which has been under +fire for its practices in the appointment of appraisers, guardians and +administrators and the awarding of fees and compensation. + +#WARDS PROTECTED# + +The jury said it found the court "has incorporated into +its operating procedures the recommendations" of two previous grand +juries, the Atlanta Bar Association and an interim citizens committee. + +"These actions should serve to protect in fact and in effect the court's wards from undue costs and its appointed and elected servants from unmeritorious criticisms", the jury said. Regarding Atlanta's new multi-million-dollar airport, the jury recommended "that when the new management takes charge Jan& 1 the airport be operated in a manner that will eliminate political influences". + +The jury did not elaborate, but it added that "there should be periodic surveillance of the pricing practices of the concessionaires for the purpose of keeping the prices reasonable". + +#ASK JAIL DEPUTIES# + +On other matters, the jury recommended that: _(1)_ Four additional deputies be employed at the Fulton County Jail and "a doctor, medical intern or extern be employed for night and weekend duty at the jail". _(2)_ Fulton legislators "work with city officials to pass enabling legislation that will permit the establishment of a fair and equitable" pension plan for city employes. + +The jury praised the administration and operation of the Atlanta Police Department, the Fulton Tax Commissioner's Office, the Bellwood and Alpharetta prison farms, Grady Hospital and the Fulton Health Department. + +Mayor William B& Hartsfield filed suit for divorce from his wife, Pearl Williams Hartsfield, in Fulton Superior Court Friday. His petition charged mental cruelty. The couple was married Aug& 2, 1913. They have a son, William Berry Jr&, and a daughter, Mrs& J& M& Cheshire of Griffin. Attorneys for the mayor said that an amicable property settlement has been agreed upon. The petition listed the mayor's occupation as "attorney" and his age as 71. It listed his wife's age as 74 and place of birth as Opelika, Ala&. The petition said that the couple has not lived together as man and wife for more than a year. + +The Hartsfield home is at 637 E& Pelham Rd& ~NE. + +Henry L& Bowden was listed on the petition as the mayor's attorney. + +Hartsfield has been mayor of Atlanta, with exception of one brief interlude, since 1937. His political career goes back to his election to city council in 1923. The mayor's present term of office expires Jan& 1. He will be succeeded by Ivan Allen Jr&, who became a candidate in the Sept& 13 primary after Mayor Hartsfield announced that he would not run for reelection. + +Georgia Republicans are getting strong encouragement to enter a candidate in the 1962 governor's race, a top official said Wednesday. + +Robert Snodgrass, state ~GOP chairman, said a meeting held Tuesday night in Blue Ridge brought enthusiastic responses from the audience. State Party Chairman James W& Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept& 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen& John Tower will be the featured speaker. In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters. Despite the warning, there was a unanimous vote to enter a candidate, according to Republicans who attended. + +When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no- and there were no dissents. + +The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a +state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative +courses must be taken: _1._ Five per cent of the voters +in each county must sign petitions requesting that the Republicans be +allowed to place names of candidates on the general election ballot, +or _2._ The Republicans must hold a primary under the county unit +system- a system which the party opposes in its platform. + +Sam Caldwell, State Highway Department public relations director, +resigned Tuesday to work for Lt& Gov& Garland Byrd's +campaign. Caldwell's resignation had been expected for some +time. He will be succeeded by Rob Ledford of Gainesville, who has +been an assistant more than three years. When the gubernatorial campaign +starts, Caldwell is expected to become a campaign coordinator for +Byrd. + +The Georgia Legislature will wind up its 1961 session Monday +and head for home- where some of the highway bond money it approved +will follow shortly. Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the +Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators +allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should +be made. Gov& Vandiver is expected to make the traditional +visit to both chambers as they work toward adjournment. Vandiver likely +will mention the $100 million highway bond issue approved earlier +in the session as his first priority item. + +#CONSTRUCTION BONDS# + +Meanwhile, +it was learned the State Highway Department is very near +being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction +bonds. The bond issue will go to the state courts for a +friendly test suit to test the validity of the act, and then the sales +will begin and contracts let for repair work on some of Georgia's +most heavily traveled highways. A Highway Department source +said there also is a plan there to issue some $3 million to $4 million +worth of Rural Roads Authority bonds for rural road construction work. + +#A REVOLVING FUND# + +The department apparently intends to make +the Rural Roads Authority a revolving fund under which new bonds would +be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid off by tax +authorities. Vandiver opened his race for governor in 1958 with +a battle in the Legislature against the issuance of $50 million worth +of additional rural roads bonds proposed by then Gov& Marvin +Griffin. The Highway Department source told The Constitution, +however, that Vandiver has not been consulted yet about the plans +to issue the new rural roads bonds. + +Schley County Rep& B& D& Pelham will offer a resolution +Monday in the House to rescind the body's action of Friday in +voting itself a $10 per day increase in expense allowances. Pelham +said Sunday night there was research being done on whether the +"quickie" vote on the increase can be repealed outright or whether +notice would have to first be given that reconsideration of the action +would be sought. While emphasizing that technical details were +not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set +aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31. + +A similar resolution passed in the Senate by a vote of 29-5. +As of Sunday night, there was no word of a resolution being offered +there to rescind the action. Pelham pointed out that Georgia +voters last November rejected a constitutional amendment to allow legislators +to vote on pay raises for future Legislature sessions. + +A veteran Jackson County legislator will ask the Georgia House +Monday to back federal aid to education, something it has consistently +opposed in the past. Rep& Mac Barber of Commerce is +asking the House in a privilege resolution to "endorse increased federal +support for public education, provided that such funds be received +and expended" as state funds. Barber, who is in his 13th +year as a legislator, said there "are some members of our congressional +delegation in Washington who would like to see it (the resolution) +passed". But he added that none of Georgia's congressmen specifically +asked him to offer the resolution. The resolution, which +Barber tossed into the House hopper Friday, will be formally read +Monday. It says that "in +the event Congress does provide this increase in federal funds", the +State Board of Education should be directed to "give priority" +to teacher pay raises. _COLQUITT_- After a long, hot controversy, +Miller County has a new school superintendent, elected, as a +policeman put it, in the "coolest election I ever saw in this county". + +The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran +agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and +chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee. + +Davis received 1,119 votes in Saturday's election, and Bush +got 402. Ordinary Carey Williams, armed with a pistol, stood by at +the polls to insure order. "This was the coolest, calmest +election I ever saw", Colquitt Policeman Tom Williams said. "Being +at the polls was just like being at church. I didn't smell +a drop of liquor, and we didn't have a bit of trouble". The +campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however. It was +marked by controversy, anonymous midnight phone calls and veiled threats +of violence. The former county school superintendent, George +P& Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he +resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board. During +the election campaign, both candidates, Davis and Bush, reportedly +received anonymous telephone calls. Ordinary Williams said he, +too, was subjected to anonymous calls soon after he scheduled the election. + +Many local citizens feared that there would be irregularities +at the polls, and Williams got himself a permit to carry a gun +and promised an orderly election. Sheriff Felix Tabb said the +ordinary apparently made good his promise. "Everything went +real smooth", the sheriff said. "There wasn't a bit of trouble". +_AUSTIN, TEXAS_- Committee approval of Gov& Price Daniel's +"abandoned property" act seemed certain Thursday despite the adamant +protests of Texas bankers. Daniel personally led the fight +for the measure, which he had watered down considerably since its +rejection by two previous Legislatures, in a public hearing before +the House Committee on Revenue and Taxation. Under committee +rules, it went automatically to a subcommittee for one week. But +questions with which committee members taunted bankers appearing as witnesses +left little doubt that they will recommend passage of it. + +Daniel termed "extremely conservative" his estimate that it would +produce 17 million dollars to help erase an anticipated deficit of +63 million dollars at the end of the current fiscal year next Aug& +31. He told the committee the measure would merely provide means +of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books "since +Texas was a republic". It permits the state to take over bank accounts, +stocks and other personal property of persons missing for seven +years or more. The bill, which Daniel said he drafted personally, +would force banks, insurance firms, pipeline companies and other +corporations to report such property to the state treasurer. The escheat +law cannot be enforced now because it is almost impossible to locate +such property, Daniel declared. Dewey Lawrence, a Tyler +lawyer representing the Texas Bankers Association, sounded the opposition +keynote when he said it would force banks to violate their contractual +obligations with depositors and undermine the confidence of bank +customers. "If you destroy confidence in banks, you do something +to the economy", he said. "You take out of circulation many +millions of dollars". Rep& Charles E& Hughes of Sherman, +sponsor of the bill, said a failure to enact it would amount "to +making a gift out of the taxpayers' pockets to banks, insurance +and pipeline companies". His contention was denied by several +bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B& Jones +of Houston, J& B& Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin. + +Cox argued that the bill is "probably unconstitutional" +since, he said, it would impair contracts. He also complained +that not enough notice was given on the hearing, since the bill was +introduced only last Monday. + +_AUSTIN, TEXAS_- Senators unanimously approved Thursday the bill +of Sen& George Parkhouse of Dallas authorizing establishment +of day schools for the deaf in Dallas and the four other largest counties. + +The bill is designed to provide special schooling for more +deaf students in the scholastic age at a reduced cost to the state. + +There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the +House. It would authorize the Texas Education Agency to establish +county-wide day schools for the deaf in counties of 300,000 or +more population, require deaf children between 6 and 13 years of age +to attend the day schools, permitting older ones to attend the residential +Texas School for the Deaf here. Operating budget for the +day schools in the five counties of Dallas, Harris, Bexar, Tarrant +and El Paso would be $451,500, which would be a savings of $157,460 +yearly after the first year's capital outlay of $88,000 was absorbed, +Parkhouse told the Senate. The ~TEA estimated there +would be 182 scholastics to attend the day school in Dallas County, +saving them from coming to Austin to live in the state deaf school. +#@# + +{DALLAS MAY GET} to hear a debate on horse race +parimutuels +soon between Reps& V& E& (Red) Berry and Joe Ratcliff. + +While details are still be to worked out, Ratcliff said +he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed +constitutional amendment should be rejected. "We're +getting more 'pro' letters than 'con' on horse race betting", +said Ratcliff. "But I believe if people were better informed on +this question, most of them would oppose it also. I'm willing to stake +my political career on it". Rep& Berry, an ex-gambler +from San Antonio, got elected on his advocacy of betting on the ponies. +A House committee which heard his local option proposal is expected +to give it a favorable report, although the resolution faces hard +sledding later. #@# + +{THE HOUSE} passed finally, and +sent +to the Senate, a bill extending the State Health Department's +authority to give planning assistance to cities. #@# + +{THE +SENATE} +quickly whipped through its meager fare of House bills approved +by committees, passing the three on the calendar. One validated acts +of school districts. Another enlarged authority of the Beaumont +Navigation District. The third amended the enabling act for +creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special +constitutional amendment previously was adopted. #@# + +{WITHOUT +DISSENT}, +senators passed a bill by Sen& A& R& Schwartz +of Galveston authorizing establishment in the future of a school for +the mentally retarded in the Gulf Coast district. Money for its construction +will be sought later on but in the meantime the State Hospital +board can accept gifts and donations of a site. #@# + +{TWO +TAX REVISION} +bills were passed. One, by Sen& Louis Crump of +San Saba, would aid more than 17,000 retailers who pay a group of +miscellaneous excise taxes by eliminating the requirement that each return +be notarized. Instead, retailers would sign a certificate of correctness, +violation of which would carry a penalty of one to five years +in prison, plus a $1,000 fine. It was one of a series of recommendations +by the Texas Research League. #@# + +{THE OTHER BILL}, +by Sen& A& M& Aikin Jr& of Paris, would relieve real +estate brokers, who pay their own annual licensing fee, from the $12 annual +occupation license on brokers in such as stocks and bonds. #@# + +{NATURAL GAS} +public utility companies would be given the right +of eminent domain, under a bill by Sen& Frank Owen /3, of +El Paso, to acquire sites for underground storage reservoirs for gas. +#@# + +{MARSHALL FORMBY} of Plainview, former chairman +of +the Texas Highway Commission, suggested a plan to fill by appointment +future vacancies in the Legislature and Congress, eliminating the +need for costly special elections. Under Formby's plan, an +appointee would be selected by a board composed of the governor, lieutenant +governor, speaker of the House, attorney general and chief justice +of the Texas Supreme Court. +_AUSTIN, TEXAS_- State representatives decided Thursday against +taking a poll on what kind of taxes Texans would prefer to pay. + +An adverse vote of 81 to 65 kept in the State Affairs Committee +a bill which would order the referendum on the April 4 ballot, when +Texas votes on a U&S& senator. Rep& Wesley Roberts +of Seminole, sponsor of the poll idea, said that further delay in the +committee can kill the bill. The West Texan reported that +he had finally gotten Chairman Bill Hollowell of the committee to set +it for public hearing on Feb& 22. The proposal would have to receive +final legislative approval, by two-thirds majorities, before March +1 to be printed on the April 4 ballot, Roberts said. Opponents +generally argued that the ballot couldn't give enough information +about tax proposals for the voters to make an intelligent choice. + +All Dallas members voted with Roberts, except Rep& Bill +Jones, who was absent. +_AUSTIN, TEXAS_- Paradise lost to the alleged water needs of Texas' +big cities Thursday. Rep& James Cotten of Weatherford +insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House +of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort +Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet +of 250 people. When the shouting ended, the bill passed, 114 +to 4, sending it to the Senate, where a similar proposal is being sponsored +by Sen& George Parkhouse of Dallas. Most of the fire +was directed by Cotten against Dallas and Sen& Parkhouse. The +bill would increase from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000 the maximum loan +the state could make to a local water project. Cotten construed +this as a veiled effort by Parkhouse to help Dallas and other large +cities get money which Cotten felt could better be spent providing +water for rural Texas. Statements by other legislators that +Dallas is paying for all its water program by local bonds, and that less +populous places would benefit most by the pending bill, did not sway +Cotten's attack. The bill's defenders were mostly small-town +legislators like J& W& Buchanan of Dumas, Eligio (Kika) +de la Garza of Mission, Sam F& Collins of Newton and Joe Chapman +of Sulphur Springs. "This is a poor boy's bill", +said Chapman. "Dallas and Fort Worth can vote bonds. This would +help the little peanut districts". +_AUSTIN, TEXAS_- A Houston teacher, now serving in the Legislature, +proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning "educational +methods". Rep& Henry C& Grover, who teaches +history in the Houston public schools, would reduce from 24 to 12 semester +hours the so-called "teaching methods" courses required to +obtain a junior or senior high school teaching certificate. A normal +year's work in college is 30 semester hours. Grover also would +require junior-senior high teachers to have at least 24 semester hours +credit in the subject they are teaching. The remainder of the 4-year +college requirement would be in general subjects. "A person +with a master's degree in physics, chemistry, math or English, +yet who has not taken Education courses, is not permitted to teach in +the public schools", said Grover. College teachers in Texas +are not required to have the Education courses. Fifty-three +of the 150 representatives immediately joined Grover as co-signers +of the proposal. +_PARIS, TEXAS (SP&)_- The board of regents of Paris Junior +College has named Dr& Clarence Charles Clark of Hays, Kan& +as the school's new president. Dr& Clark will succeed Dr& +J& R& McLemore, who will retire at the close of the present +school term. Dr& Clark holds an earned Doctor of Education +degree from the University of Oklahoma. He also received a Master +of Science degree from Texas ~A+~I College and a Bachelor +of Science degree from Southwestern State College, Weatherford, +Okla&. In addition, Dr& Clark has studied at Rhode Island +State College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. + +During his college career, Dr& Clark was captain of his basketball +team and was a football letterman. Dr& Clark has served +as teacher and principal in Oklahoma high schools, as teacher and +athletic director at Raymondville, Texas, High School, as an instructor +at the University of Oklahoma, and as an associate professor +of education at Fort Hays, Kan&, State College. He has served +as a border patrolman and was in the Signal Corps of the U&S& +Army. +_DENTON, TEXAS (SP&)_- Principals of the 13 schools in the Denton +Independent School District have been re-elected for the 1961-62 +session upon the recommendation of Supt& Chester O& Strickland. + +State and federal legislation against racial discrimination in +employment was called for yesterday in a report of a "blue ribbon" +citizens committee on the aid to dependent children program. +The report, culminating a year long study of the ~ADC program in +Cook county by a New York City welfare consulting firm, listed 10 +long range recommendations designed to reduce the soaring ~ADC +case load. The report called racial discrimination in employment "one +of the most serious causes of family breakdown, desertion, and ~ADC +dependency". #"MUST SOLVE PROBLEM"# + +The monthly cost +of ~ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the county is 4.4 million +dollars, said C& Virgil Martin, president of Carson Pirie +Scott + Co&, committee chairman. "We must solve the problems +which have forced these people to depend upon ~ADC for subsistence", +Martin said. The volume of ~ADC cases will decrease, +Martin reported, when the community is able to deal effectively +with two problems: Relatively limited skills and discrimination +in employment because of color. These, he said, are "two of the principal +underlying causes for family breakups leading to ~ADC". + +#CALLS FOR EXTENSION# + +Other recommendations made by the committee +are: Extension of the ~ADC program to all children in +need living with any relatives, including both parents, as a means of +preserving family unity. Research projects as soon as possible +on the causes and prevention of dependency and illegitimacy. + +Several defendants in the Summerdale police burglary trial made +statements indicating their guilt at the time of their arrest, Judge +James B& Parsons was told in Criminal court yesterday. +The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled +observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six +attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial. + +Bellows made the disclosure when he asked Judge Parsons to grant +his client, Alan Clements, 30, a separate trial. Bellows made the request +while the all-woman jury was out of the courtroom. + +#FEARS PREJUDICIAL +ASPECTS# + +"The statements may be highly prejudicial to my +client", Bellows told the court. "Some of the defendants strongly +indicated they knew they were receiving stolen property. It is impossible +to get a fair trial when some of the defendants made statements +involving themselves and others". Judge Parsons leaned over +the bench and inquired, "You mean some of the defendants made statements +admitting this"? "Yes, your honor", replied +Bellows. "What this amounts to, if true, is that there will be a free-for-all +fight in this case. There is a conflict among the defendants". +_WASHINGTON, JULY 24_- President Kennedy today pushed aside other +White House business to devote all his time and attention to working +on the Berlin crisis address he will deliver tomorrow night to the +American people over nationwide television and radio. The +President spent much of the week-end at his summer home on Cape Cod +writing the first drafts of portions of the address with the help of +White House aids in Washington with whom he talked by telephone. + +Shortly after the Chief Executive returned to Washington in midmorning +from Hyannis Port, Mass&, a White House spokesman said +the address text still had "quite a way to go" toward completion. + +#DECISIONS ARE MADE# + +Asked to elaborate, Pierre Salinger, White +House press secretary, replied, "I would say it's got to go +thru several more drafts". Salinger said the work President +Kennedy, advisers, and members of his staff were doing on the address +involved composition and wording, rather than last minute decisions +on administration plans to meet the latest Berlin crisis precipitated +by Russia's demands and proposals for the city. + +The last 10 cases in the investigation of the Nov& 8 election +were dismissed yesterday by Acting Judge John M& Karns, who +charged that the prosecution obtained evidence "by unfair and fundamentally +illegal means". Karns said that the cases involved a +matter "of even greater significance than the guilt or innocence" +of the 50 persons. He said evidence was obtained "in violation of +the legal rights of citizens". Karns' ruling pertained to +eight of the 10 cases. In the two other cases he ruled that the state +had been "unable to make a case". Contempt proceedings originally +had been brought against 677 persons in 133 precincts by Morris J& +Wexler, special prosecutor. + +#ISSUE JURY SUBPENAS# + +Wexler +admitted in earlier court hearings that he issued grand jury subpenas +to about 200 persons involved in the election investigation, questioned +the individuals in the Criminal courts building, but did not take them +before the grand jury. Mayer Goldberg, attorney for election +judges in the 58th precinct of the 23d ward, argued this procedure +constituted intimidation. Wexler has denied repeatedly that coercion +was used in questioning. Karns said it was a "wrongful act" +for Wexler to take statements "privately and outside of the grand +jury room". He said this constituted a "very serious misuse" +of the Criminal court processes. "Actually, the abuse of the +process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook +county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the +function of this court", said Karns, who is a City judge in East +St& Louis sitting in Cook County court. + +#FACED SEVEN CASES# + +Karns had been scheduled this week to hear seven cases involving 35 +persons. Wexler had charged the precinct judges in these cases with +"complementary" miscount of the vote, in which votes would be taken +from one candidate and given to another. The cases involved +judges in the 33d, 24th, and 42d precincts of the 31st ward, the 21st +and 28th precincts of the 29th ward, the 18th precinct of the 4th ward, +and the 9th precinct of the 23d ward. The case of the judges +in the 58th precinct of the 23d ward had been heard previously and taken +under advisement by Karns. Two other cases also were under advisement. + +#CLAIMS PRECEDENT LACKING# + +After reading his statement discharging +the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases +scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he +would dismiss them. +_WASHINGTON, FEB& 9_- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth +new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million +American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other +medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by +social security or railroad retirement programs. The President, +in a special message to Congress, tied in with his aged care plan +requests for large federal grants to finance medical and dental scholarships, +build 20 new medical and 20 new dental schools, and expand child +health care and general medical research. The aged care plan, +similar to one the President sponsored last year as a senator, a +fight on Capitol hill. It was defeated in Congress last year. + +#COST +UP TO $37 A YEAR# + +It would be financed by boosting the social security +payroll tax by as much as $37 a year for each of the workers now +paying such taxes. The social security payroll tax is now 6 +per cent- 3 per cent on each worker and employer- on the first $4,800 +of pay per year. The Kennedy plan alone would boost the base to +$5,000 a year and the payroll tax to 6.5 per cent- 3.25 per cent each. +Similar payroll tax boosts would be imposed on those under the railroad +retirement system. The payroll tax would actually rise +to 7.5 per cent starting Jan& 1, 1963, if the plan is approved, because +the levy is already scheduled to go up by 1 per cent on that date +to pay for other social security costs. + +#OUTLAYS WOULD INCREASE# + +Officials estimated the annual tax boost for the medical plan would +amount to 1.5 billion dollars and that medical benefits paid out would +run 1 billion or more in the first year, 1963. Both figures would go +higher in later years. Other parts of the Kennedy health plan +would entail federal grants of 750 million to 1 billion dollars over +the next 10 years. These would be paid for out of general, not payroll, +taxes. + +#NURSING HOME CARE# + +The aged care plan carries these +benefits for persons over 65 who are under the social security and railroad +retirement systems: _1._ Full payment of hospital bills for +stays up to 90 days for each illness, except that the patient would +pay $10 a day of the cost for the first nine days. _2._ Full payment +of nursing home bills for up to 180 days following discharge from +a hospital. A patient could receive up to 300 days paid-for nursing +home care under a "unit formula" allowing more of such care for those +who use none or only part of the hospital-care credit. _3._ Hospital +outpatient clinic diagnostic service for all costs in excess +of $20 a patient. _4._ Community visiting nurse services at home +for up to 240 days an illness. The President noted that Congress +last year passed a law providing grants to states to help pay medical +bills of the needy aged. + +#CALLS PROPOSAL MODEST# + +He said his +plan is designed to "meet the needs of those millions who have no wish +to receive care at the taxpayers' expense, but who are nevertheless +staggered by the drain on their savings- or those of their children- +caused by an extended hospital stay". "This is a very +modest proposal cut to meet absolutely essential needs", he said, +"and with sufficient 'deductible' requirements to discourage any +malingering or unnecessary overcrowding of our hospitals. "This +is not a program of socialized medicine. It is a program of prepayment +of health costs with absolute freedom of choice guaranteed. Every +person will choose his own doctor and hospital". + +#WOULDN'T +PAY DOCTORS# + +The plan does not cover doctor bills. They would still +be paid by the patient. Apart from the aged care plan the President's +most ambitious and costly proposals were for federal scholarships, +and grants to build or enlarge medical and dental schools. + +The President said the nation's 92 medical and 47 dental schools +cannot now handle the student load needed to meet the rising need +for health care. Moreover, he said, many qualified young people are +not going into medicine and dentistry because they can't afford the +schooling costs. + +#CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCHOOLS# + +The scholarship plan +would +provide federal contributions to each medical and dental school equal +to $1,500 a year for one-fourth of the first year students. The +schools could use the money to pay 4-year scholarships, based on need, +of up to $2,000 a year per student. In addition, the government +would pay a $1,000 "cost of education" grant to the schools for +each $1,500 in scholarship grants. Officials estimated the combined +programs would cost +5.1 million dollars the first year and would go up to 21 +millions by 1966. The President recommended federal "matching +grants" totaling 700 million dollars in 10 years for constructing +new medical and dental schools or enlarging the capacity of existing +ones. + +#MORE FOR NURSING HOMES# + +In the area of "community health +services", the President called for doubling the present 10 million +dollar a year federal grants for nursing home construction. He asked +for another 10 million dollar "initial" appropriation for "stimulatory +grants" to states to improve nursing homes. He further +proposed grants of an unspecified sum for experimental hospitals. + +In the child health field, the President said he will recommend +later an increase in funds for programs under the children's bureau. +He also asked Congress to approve establishment of a national +child health institute. + +#ASKS RESEARCH FUNDS# + +The President said +he will ask Congress to increase grants to states for vocational rehabilitation. +He did not say by how much. For medical research +he asked a 20 million dollar a year increase, from 30 to 50 millions, +in matching grants for building research facilities. The President +said he will also propose increasing, by an unspecified amount, the 540 +million dollars in the 1961-62 budget for direct government research +in medicine. The President said his proposals combine the "indispensable +elements in a sound health program- people, knowledge, +services, facilities, and the means to pay for them". + +#REACTION +AS EXPECTED# + +Congressional reaction to the message was along expected +lines. Legislators who last year opposed placing aged-care under +the social security system criticized the President's plan. Those +who backed a similar plan last year hailed the message. Senate +Republican Leader Dirksen [Ill&] and House Republican Leader +Charles Halleck [Ind&] said the message did not persuade them +to change their opposition to compulsory medical insurance. Halleck +said the voluntary care plan enacted last year should be given a fair +trial first. House Speaker Sam Rayburn [D&, Tex&] +called the Kennedy program "a mighty fine thing", but made no prediction +on its fate in the House. +_WASHINGTON, FEB& 9_- Acting hastily under White House pressure, +the Senate tonight confirmed Robert C& Weaver as the nation's +federal housing chief. Only 11 senators were on the floor +and there was no record vote. A number of scattered "ayes" and +"noes" was heard. Customary Senate rules were ignored in +order to speed approval of the Negro leader as administrator of the housing +and home finance agency. In the last eight years, all +Presidential appointments, including those of cabinet rank, have been +denied immediate action because of a Senate rule requiring at least +a 24 hour delay after they are reported to the floor. + +#ENFORCE BY DEMAND# + +The rule was enforced by demand of Sen& Wayne Morse [D&, +Ore&] in connection with President Eisenhower's cabinet +selections in 1953 and President Kennedy's in 1961. +_OSLO_ The most positive element to emerge from the Oslo meeting +of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Foreign Ministers has been +the freer, franker, and wider discussions, animated by much better mutual +understanding than in past meetings. This has been a working +session of an organization that, by its very nature, can only proceed +along its route step by step and without dramatic changes. In Oslo, +the ministers have met in a climate of candor, and made a genuine +attempt to get information and understanding one another's problems. + +This atmosphere of understanding has been particularly noticeable +where relations are concerned between the "colonialist" powers +and those who have never, or not for a long time, had such problems. +The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated +by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other +allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances +that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicious by +its absence. + +#EXPLOSION AVOIDED# + +In the case of Portugal, which +a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the ~NATO Council +should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been +a noticeable relaxation of tension. The general, remarkably courteous, +explanation has left basic positions unchanged, but there has been +no explosion in the council. There should even be no more bitter surprises +in the ~UN General Assembly as to ~NATO members' votes, +since a new ad hoc ~NATO committee has been set up so that +in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance. + +Canada alone has been somewhat out of step with the Oslo attempt +to get all the allied cars back on the track behind the ~NATO +locomotive. Even Norway, despite daily but limited manifestations against +atomic arms in the heart of this northernmost capital of the alliance, +is today closer to the ~NATO line. On the negative +side of the balance sheet must be set some disappointment that the +United States leadership has not been as much in evidence as hoped for. +One diplomat described the tenor of Secretary of State Dean Rusk's +speeches as "inconclusive". But he hastened to add that, +if United States policies were not always clear, despite Mr& Rusk's +analysis of the various global danger points and setbacks for the +West, this may merely mean the new administration has not yet firmly +fixed its policy. + +#EXPLORATORY MOOD# + +A certain vagueness may also +be caused by tactical appreciation of the fact that the present council +meeting is a semipublic affair, with no fewer than six Soviet correspondents +accredited. The impression has nevertheless been +given during these three days, despite Mr& Rusk's personal popularity, +that the United States delegation came to Oslo in a somewhat +tentative and exploratory frame of mind, more ready to listen and learn +than to enunciate firm policy on a global scale with detailed application +to individual danger spots. The Secretary of State +himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of +events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the +new administration in the past four months. But where the core +of ~NATO is concerned, the Secretary of State has not only +reiterated the United States' profound attachment to the alliance, +"cornerstone" of its foreign policy, but has announced that five +nuclear submarines will eventually be at ~NATO's disposal in +European waters. The Secretary of State has also solemnly repeated +a warning to the Soviet Union that the United States will +not stand for another setback in Berlin, an affirmation once again taken +up by the council as a whole. + +#CONFLICT SURVEYED# + +The secretary's +greatest achievement is perhaps the rekindling of ~NATO realization +that East-West friction, wherever it take place around the +globe, is in essence the general conflict between two entirely different +societies, and must be treated as such without regard to geographical +distance or lack of apparent connection. The annual spring +meeting has given an impetus in three main directions: more, deeper, +and more timely political consultation within the alliance, the use +of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (when +ratified) as a method of coordinating aid to the underdeveloped countries, +and the need for strengthening conventional forces as well as the +maintenance of the nuclear deterrent. This increase in the +"threshold", as the conventional forces strengthening is called, will +prove one of the alliance's most difficult problems in the months +to come. Each ally will have to carry out obligations long since laid +down, but never completely fulfilled. +_WASHINGTON_ The Kennedy administration moves haltingly toward a +Geneva conference on Laos just as serious debate over its foreign policy +erupts for the first time. There is little optimism here +that the Communists will be any more docile at the conference table +than they were in military actions on the ground in Laos. The +United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly +interested in setting up an international inspection system which will +prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring +Thailand and South Viet Nam. They count on the aid +of the neutral countries attending the Geneva conference to achieve +this. The United States hopes that any future Lao Cabinet +would not become Communist dominated. But it is apparent that no acceptable +formula has been found to prevent such a possibility. + +#POLICIES MODIFIED# + +The inclination here is to accept a de facto cease-fire +in Laos, rather than continue to insist on a verification of the +cease-fire by the international control commission before participating +in the Geneva conference. This is another of the modifications +of policy on Laos that the Kennedy administration has felt compelled +to make. It excuses these actions as being the chain reaction to +basic errors made in the previous administration. Its spokesmen +insist that there has not been time enough to institute reforms in +military and economic aid policies in the critical areas. But +with the months moving on- and the immediate confrontations with the +Communists showing no gain for the free world- the question arises: + +How effective have Kennedy administration first foreign policy +decisions been in dealing with Communist aggression? Former +Vice-President Richard M& Nixon in Detroit called for a +firmer and tougher policy toward the Soviet Union. He was critical +of what he feels is President Kennedy's tendency to be too conciliatory. + +#~GOP RESTRAINED# + +It does not take a Gallup poll to +find out that most Republicans in Congress feel this understates the +situation as Republicans see it. They can hardly restrain themselves +from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been +in power, would have made "amateurish and monumental blunders" in +Cuba. One Republican senator told this correspondent that he +was constantly being asked why he didn't attack the Kennedy administration +on this score. His reply, he said, was that he agreed to the +need for unity in the country now. But he further said that it was +better politics to let others question the wisdom of administration policies +first. The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through +Senator Thruston B& Morton (~R) of Kentucky, chairman +of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration +would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition +government susceptible of Communist domination. Kennedy administration +policies also have been assailed now from another direction +by 70 Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and Massachusetts Institute +of Technology educators. + +#DETENTE URGED# + +This group pleads +with the administration to "give no further support for the invasion +of Cuba by exile groups". It recommends that the United States +"seek instead to detach the Castro regime from the Communist bloc +by working for a diplomatic detente and a resumption of trade relations; +and concentrate its constructive efforts on eliminating in other +parts of Latin America the social conditions on which totalitarian +nationalism feeds". Mr& Nixon, for his part, would oppose +intervention in Cuba without specific provocation. But he did recommend +that President Kennedy state clearly that if Communist countries +shipped any further arms to Cuba that it would not be tolerated. + +Until the Cuban fiasco and the Communist military victories +in Laos, +almost any observer would have said that President Kennedy had blended +a program that respected, generally, the opinions voiced both by +Mr& Nixon and the professors. + +#AID PLANS REVAMPED# + +Very early +in his administration he informed the Kremlin through diplomatic channels, +a high official source disclosed, that the new administration +would react even tougher than the Eisenhower administration would during +the formative period of the administration. Strenuous efforts +were made to remove pin pricking from administration statements. Policies +on nuclear test ban negotiations were reviewed and changed. But +thus far there has been no response in kind. Foreign aid programs +were revamped to give greater emphasis to economic aid and to +encourage political reform in recipient nations. In Laos, the +administration looked at the Eisenhower administration efforts to show +determination by sailing a naval fleet into Southeast Asian waters +as a useless gesture. Again and again it asked the Communists +to "freeze" the military situation in Laos. But the Communists +aided the Pathet Lao at an even faster rate. And after several +correspondents went into Pathet Lao territory and exposed the +huge build-up, +administration spokesmen acclaimed them for performing a +"great service" and laid the matter before the Southeast Asia Treaty +Organization. ~SEATO was steamed up and prepared +contingency plans for coping with the military losses in Laos. But +the Communists never gave sufficient provocation at any one time for +the United States to want to risk a limited or an all-out war over Laos. +(Some ~SEATO nations disagreed, however.) There +was the further complication that the administration had very early concluded +that Laos was ill suited to be an ally, unlike its more determined +neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam. The administration +declared itself in favor of a neutralized Laos. The pro-Western +government, which the United States had helped in a revolt against +the Souvanna Phouma "neutralist" government, never did appear +to spark much fighting spirit in the Royal Lao Army. There +certainly was not any more energy displayed after it was clear the United +States would not back the pro-Western government to the hilt. + +If the administration ever had any ideas that it could find an +acceptable alternative to Prince Souvanna Phouma, whom it felt was +too trusting of Communists, it gradually had to relinquish them. + +One factor was the statement of Senator J& W& Fulbright (~D) +of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. +He declared on March 25 that the United States had erred a +year and a half ago by "encouraging the removal" of Prince Souvanna. +_WASHINGTON_ The White House is taking extraordinary steps to check +the rapid growth of juvenile delinquency in the United States. + +The President is deeply concerned over this problem and its effect +upon the "vitality of the nation". In an important assertion +of national leadership in this field, he has issued an executive +order establishing the President's committee on Juvenile Delinquency +and Crime, to be supported and assisted by a Citizens Advisory +Council of recognized authorities on juvenile problems. The +President asks the support and cooperation of Congress in his efforts +through the enactment of legislation to provide federal grants to +states for specified efforts in combating this disturbing crime trend. + +#OFFENSES MULTIPLY# + +The President has also called upon the Attorney +General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and +the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts "in the development +of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local +communities in their efforts to cope with the problem. Simultaneously +the President announced Thursday the appointment of David L& +Hackett, a special assistant ot the Attorney General, as executive +director of the new Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth +Crime. His sense of urgency in this matter stems from the +fact that court cases ond juvenile arrests have more than doubled since +1948, each year showing an increase in offenders. Among arrests +reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1959, about +half for burglary and larceny involved persons under 18 years of age. + +East Providence should organize its civil defense setup and begin +by appointing a full-time director, Raymond H& Hawksley, the +present city ~CD head, believes. Mr& Hawksley said yesterday +he would be willing to go before the city council "or anyone +else locally" to outline his proposal at the earliest possible time. + +East Providence now has no civil defense program. Mr& Hawksley, +the state's general treasurer, has been a part-time ~CD +director in the city for the last nine years. He is not interested in +being named a full-time director. Noting that President Kennedy +has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for +the nation's civil defense program, Mr& Hawksley said the federal +government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director. + +He expressed the opinion the city could hire a ~CD director +for about $3,500 a year and would only have to put up half that amount +on +a matching fund basis to defray the salary costs. Mr& Hawksley +said he believed there are a number of qualified city residents +who would be willing to take the full-time ~CD job. One of these +men is former Fire Chief John A& Laughlin, he said. Along +with a director, the city should provide a ~CD headquarters so +that pertinent information about the local organization would be centralized. +Mr& Hawksley said. One advantage that would come to +the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence +would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial +aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense +program. Matching funds also can be obtained for procurement of +such items as radios, sirens and rescue trucks, he said. Mr& +Hawksley believes that East Providence could use two more rescue +trucks, similar to the ~CD vehicle obtained several years ago and +now detailed to the Central Fire Station. He would assign +one of the rescue trucks to the Riverside section of the city and the +other to the Rumford area. Speaking of the present status of +civil defense in the city, Mr& Hawksley said he would be willing +to bet that not more than one person in a hundred would know what to +do or where to go in the event of an enemy attack. The Narragansett +Race Track grounds is one assembly point, he said, and a drive-in +theater in Seekonk would be another. Riverside residents would +go to the Seekonk assembly point. Mr& Hawksley said he was +not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to +assemble in case of an air attack. Such vital information, he +said, has to be made available to the public frequently and at regular +intervals for residents to know. If the city council fails to +consider appointment of a full-time ~CD director, Mr& Hawksley +said, then he plans to call a meeting early in September so that a +civil defense organization will be developed locally. One of +the first things he would do, he said, would be to organize classes in +first aid. Other steps would be developed after information drifts down +to the local level from the federal government. + +Rhode Island is going to examine its Sunday sales law with possible +revisions in mind. Governor Notte said last night he +plans to name a committee to make the study and come up with recommendations +for possible changes in time for the next session of the General +Assembly. The governor's move into the so-called "blue +law" controversy came in the form of a letter to Miss Mary R& +Grant, deputy city clerk of Central Falls. A copy was released to +the press. Mr& Notte was responding to a resolution adopted +by the Central Falls City Council on July 10 and sent to the state +house by Miss Grant. The resolution urges the governor to have a +complete study of the Sunday sales laws made with an eye to their revision +at the next session of the legislature. While the city +council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, +Mr& Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty& +Gen& J& Joseph Nugent to get "the benefit of his views". +He will then appoint the study committee with Mr& Nugent's +cooperation, the governor said. "I would expect the proposed +committee to hold public hearings", Mr& Notte said, "to obtain +the views of the general public and religious, labor and special-interest +groups affected by these laws". The governor wrote +Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time "with the continuous +problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers +as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales". The +attorney general has advised local police that it is their duty to enforce +the blue laws. Should there be evidence they are shirking, he has +said, the state police will step into the situation. There +has been more activity across the state line in Massachusetts than in +Rhode Island in recent weeks toward enforcement of the Sunday sales +laws. The statutes, similar in both the Bay State and Rhode Island +and dating back in some instances to colonial times, severely limit +the types of merchandise that may be sold on the Sabbath. The +Central Falls City Council expressed concern especially that more +foods be placed on the eligible list and that neighborhood grocery +and variety stores be allowed to do business on Sunday. The only +day they "have a chance to compete with large supermarkets is on +Sunday", the council's resolution said. The small shops "must +be retained, for they provide essential service to the community", +according to the resolution, which added that they "also are the source +of livelihood for thousands of our neighbors". It declares that +Sunday sales licenses provide "great revenue" to the local government. + +The council advised the governor that "large supermarkets, +factory outlets and department stores not be allowed to do business" +on Sunday. They "operate on a volume basis", it was contended, +"and are not essential to provide the more limited but vital +shopping needs of the community". + +Liberals and conservatives in both parties- Democratic and +Republican- should divorce themselves and form two independent parties, +George H& Reama, nationally known labor-management expert, said +here yesterday. Mr& Reama told the Rotary Club of Providence +at its luncheon at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel that about +half of the people in the country want the "welfare" type of government +and the other half want a free enterprise system. He suggested +that a regrouping of forces might allow the average voter a better pull +at the right lever for him on election day. He said he was "confessing +that I was a member of the Socialist Party in 1910". +That, he added, was when he was "a very young man, a machinist and +toolmaker by trade. "That was before I studied law. Some +of my fellow workers were grooming me for an office in the Socialist +Party. The lawyer with whom I studied law steered me off the Socialist +track. He steered me to the right track- the free enterprise track". + +He said that when he was a Socialist in 1910, the party +called for government operation of all utilities and the pooling of +all resources. He suggested that without the Socialist Party ever +gaining a national victory, most of its original program has come to +pass under both major parties. Mr& Reama, who retired as vice +president of the American Screw Co& in 1955 said, "Both parties +in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth +in the gross national product- but neither told us how to achieve it". + +He said he favors wage increases for workers- "but manufacturers +are caught in a profit squeeze"- and raises should only +come when the public is conditioned to higher prices, he added. + +Indicating the way in which he has turned his back on his 1910 philosophy, +Mr& Reama said: "A Socialist is a person who believes +in dividing everything he does not own". Mr& Reama, far from +really being retired, is engaged in industrial relations counseling. + +A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston +taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped +will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town. + +William A& Martinelli, chairman of the Citizens Group +of Johnston, transferred the petitions from his left hand to his right +hand after the council voted to accept them at the suggestion of Council +President Raymond Fortin Sr&. The law which governs +home rule charter petitions states that they must be referred to the +chairman of the board of canvassers for verification of the signatures +within 10 days and Mr& Martinelli happens to hold that post. + +Mr& Martinelli explained that there should be more than enough +signatures to assure the scheduling of a vote on the home rule charter +and possible election of a nine member charter commission within 70 +days. He explained that by law the council must establish procedures +for a vote on the issue within 60 days after the board of canvassers +completes its work. A difference of opinion arose between Mr& +Martinelli and John P& Bourcier, town solicitor, over the exact +manner in which the vote is handled. Mr& Martinelli has, in recent +weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called +for the vote, while Mr& Bourcier said that a special election +might be called instead. Mr& Bourcier said that he had consulted +several Superior Court justices in the last week and received +opinions favoring both procedures. He assured Mr& Martinelli and +the council that he would study the correct method and report back to +the council as soon as possible. Mr& Martinelli said yesterday +that the Citizens Group of Johnston will meet again July 24 to +plan further strategy in the charter movement. He said that the group +has no candidates for the charter commission in mind at present, but +that it will undoubtedly endorse candidates when the time comes. + +"After inspiring this, I think we should certainly follow through +on it", he declared. "It has become our responsibility and I +hope that the Citizens Group will spearhead the movement". +He said he would not be surprised if some of the more than 30 members +of the group are interested in running on the required non-partisan +ballot for posts on the charter commission. "Our most immediate +goal is to increase public awareness of the movement", he indicated, +"and to tell them what this will mean for the town". He expects +that if the present timetable is followed a vote will be scheduled +during the last week in September. Some opposition to the home +rule movement started to be heard yesterday, with spokesmen for the +town's insurgent Democratic leadership speaking out against the home +rule charter in favor of the model municipal league charter. +Increasing opposition can be expected in coming weeks, it was indicated. + +Misunderstanding of the real meaning of a home rule charter +was cited as a factor which has caused the Citizens Group to obtain +signatures under what were termed "false pretenses". Several signers +affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax +increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly +and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town +take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system. + +Action on a new ordinance permitting motorists who plead guilty +to minor traffic offenses to pay fines at the local police station may +be taken at Monday's special North Providence Town Council meeting. + +Council president Frank SanAntonio said yesterday +he may ask the council to formally request Town Solicitor Michael A& +Abatuno to draft the ordinance. At the last session of the +General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance +as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective. +Nothing has been done yet to take advantage of the enabling legislation. + +At present all offenses must be taken to Sixth District +Court for disposition. Local police have hesitated to prosecute them +because of the heavy court costs involved even for the simplest offense. + +_PLAINFIELD_- James P& Mitchell and Sen& Walter H& Jones +~R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign +issue a remark by Richard J& Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial +candidate, that the ~GOP is "Campaigning on the carcass +of Eisenhower Republicanism". Mitchell was for using it, Jones +against, and Sen& Wayne Dumont Jr& ~R-Warren did not +mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke +at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel. +The controversial remark was first made Sunday by Hughes at a Westfield +Young Democratic Club cocktail party at the Scotch Plains +Country Club. It was greeted with a chorus of boos by 500 women in +Trenton Monday at a forum of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. + +Hughes said Monday, "It is the apparent intention of +the Republican Party to campaign on the carcass of what they call Eisenhower +Republicanism, but the heart stopped beating and the lifeblood +congealed after Eisenhower retired. Now he's gone, the Republican +Party is not going to be able to sell the tattered remains to the +people of the state". Sunday he had added, "We can love Eisenhower +the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president **h but +there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership". + +Mitchell said the statement should become a major issue +in the primary and the fall campaign. "How can a man with any degree +of common decency charge this"? he asked. The former secretary +of labor said he was proud to be an Eisenhower Republican "and proud +to have absorbed his philosophy" while working in his adminstration. + +Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's +Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism +was a dead issue. + +#REGRETS ATTACK# + +Jones said he regretted Hughes +had made a personal attack on a past president. "He is wrong to +inject Eisenhower into this campaign", he said, "because the primary +is being waged on state issues and I will not be forced into re-arguing +an old national campaign". The audience last night did +not respond with either applause or boos to mention of Hughes' remark. + +Dumont spoke on the merit of having an open primary. He +then launched into what the issues should be in the campaign. State +aid to schools, the continuance of railroad passenger service, the proper +uses of surplus funds of the Port of New York Authority, and +making New Jersey attractive to new industry. + +#DECRIES JOBLESSNESS# + +Mitchell decried the high rate of unemployment in the state and said +the Meyner administration and the Republican-controlled State Senate +"Must share the blame for this". Nothing that Plainfield +last year had lost the Mack Truck Co& plant, he said industry will +not come into this state until there is tax reform. "But +I am not in favor of a sales or state income tax at this time", Mitchell +said. Jones, unhappy that the candidates were limited to +eight minutes for a speech and no audience questions, saved his barbs +for Mitchell. He said Mitchell is against the centralization of government +in Washington but looks to the Kennedy Administration for +aid to meet New Jersey school and transportation crises. "He +calls for help while saying he is against centralization, but you +can't have it both ways", Jones said. The state is now faced with +the immediate question of raising new taxes whether on utilities, real +estate or motor vehicles, he said, "and I challenge Mitchell to +tell the people where he stands on the tax issue". + +#DEFENDS IKE# + +Earlier, Mitchell said in a statement: "I think that all +Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President +Eisenhower by Richard J& Hughes. His reference to 'discredited +carcass' or 'tattered remains' of the president's leadership +is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest +war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by +the American people as president of the United States, and who has +been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the +free +nations. "I find it hard to understand how anyone seeking +a position in public life could demonstrate such poor judgment and +bad taste. "Such a vicious statement can only have its origin +in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known +by condemning a man of world stature. It can only rebound to Mr& +Hughes' discredit". + +#SEES JONES AHEAD# + +Sen& Charles W& +Sandman, ~R-Cape May, said today Jones will run well ahead +of his ~GOP opponents for the gubernatorial nomination. Sandman, +state campaign chairman for Jones, was addressing a meeting in the +Military Park Hotel, Newark, of Essex County leaders and campaign +managers for Jones. Sandman told the gathering that reports +from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones +will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority +given a candidate in recent years. Sandman said: "The +announcement that Sen& Clifford Case ~R-N&J&, has decided +to spend all his available time campaigning for Mr& Mitchell +is a dead giveaway. It is a desperate effort to prop up a sagging candidate +who has proven he cannot answer any questions about New Jersey's +problems. "We have witnessed in this campaign the effort +to project Mr& Mitchell as the image of a unity candidate from +Washington. That failed. "We are now witnessing an effort +to transfer to Mr& Mitchell some of the glow of Sen& Case's +candidacy of last year. That, too, will fail". Sandman announced +the appointment of Mrs& Harriet Copeland Greenfield of 330 +Woodland Ave&, Westfield, as state chairman of the Republican +Women for Jones Committee. Mrs& Greenfield is president +of the Westfield Women's Republican Club and is a Westfield county +committeewoman. + +County Supervisor Weldon R& Sheets, who is a candidate for +the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, today called for an end to +paper ballots in those counties in the state which still use them. The +proposal, Sheets said, represents part of his program for election +reforms necessary to make democracy in New Jersey more than a "lip +service word". Sheets said that his proposed law would offer +state financing aid for the purchase of voting machines, enabling +counties to repay the loan over a 10-year period without interest or charge. +Sheets added that he would ask for exclusive use of voting machines +in the state by January, 1964. Although he pointed out +that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, +he added that the vital interest in election results transcended +county lines. + +The candidacy of Mayor James J& Sheeran of West Orange, +for the Republican nomination for sheriff +of Essex County, was supported +today by Edward W& Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner. + +Sheeran, a lawyer and former ~FBI man is running +against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William +MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, +now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals. "My +experience as public safety commissioner", Roos said, "has shown +me that the office of sheriff is best filled by a man with law enforcement +experience, and preferably one who is a lawyer. Jim Sheeran fits +that description". + +_TRENTON_- William J& Seidel, state fire warden in the Department +of Conservation and Economic Development, has retired after +36 years of service. A citation from Conservation Commissioner +Salvatore A& Bontempo credits his supervision with a reduction +in the number of forest fires in the state. Seidel joined the +department in 1925 as a division fire warden after graduation in 1921 +from the University of Michigan with a degree in forestry and employment +with private lumber companies. In October 1944, he was appointed +state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section. Under +his supervision, the state fire-fighting agency developed such techniques +as plowing of fire lines and established a fleet of tractor plows +and tractor units for fire fighting. He also expanded and modernized +the radio system with a central control station. He introduced +regular briefing sessions for district fire wardens and first aid training +for section wardens. He is credited with setting up an annual +co-operative fire prevention program in co-operation with the Red Cross +and State Department of Education. + +_BOONTON_- Richard J& Hughes made his Morris County debut +in his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination here last night +with a pledge "to carry the issues to every corner of the state". + +He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members +at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: "When I come back here +after the November election you'll think, 'You're my man- +you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected'". He +said, "We Democrats must resolve our issues on the test of what +is right and just, and not what is expedient at the time". + +#ATTACKS +REPUBLICANS# + +In his only attack on the Republicans, Hughes said, +"The three Republican candidates for governor are tripping over +their feet for popular slogans to win the primary. But we'll have +a liberal, well planned, forward looking, honest platform. We'll not +talk out of one side of our mouth in Morris County and out of the +other side in Hudson. "We'll take the truth to the people, +and the people will like the truth and elect their candidate and party +in November". He said, "You can see signs of the Republicans' +feeble attack on the Meyner administration. But I shall +campaign on the Meyner record to meet the needs of the years ahead". + +He urged New Jersey to "become a full partner in the courageous +actions of President Kennedy". He called for a greater +attraction of industry and a stop to the piracy of industry by Southern +states, and a strong fight against discrimination in business and +industry. "We must keep the bloodstream of New Jersey clean", +the former Superior Court judge said. "To prevent hoodlums +from infiltrating the state as they did in the Republican administration +in the early 1940s". Calling the Democrats the "party +that lives, breathes and thinks for the good of the people", Hughes +asked, "a representative Democratic vote in the primary for a springboard +toward victory in November". Hughes supported Gov& +Meyner's "Green Acres" plan for saving large tracts of open +land from the onrush of urban development. He said legislation for +a $60 million bond issue to underwrite the program is expected to be +introduced Monday. + +#CONSERVATION PLAN# + +The plan will provide $45 +million for purchase of open land by the state. The other $15 million +is to be alloted to municipalities on a matching fund basis. +Hughes said, "This is not a plan to conquer space- but to conserve +it", pointing out the state population has increased 125,000 each +year since 1950. He said "Morris County is rapidly changing and +unless steps are taken to preserve the green areas, there will be no +land +left to preserve". Hughes would not comment on tax reforms +or other issues in which the Republican candidates are involved. He +said no matter what stand he takes it would be misconstrued that he +was sympathetic to one or the other of the Republicans. "After the +primary", he promised, "I'll be explicit on where I stand to +bring you a strong, dynamic administration. I'm not afraid to tangle +with the Republican nominee". + +_TRENTON_- Fifteen members of the Republican State Committee +who are retiring- voluntarily- this year were honored yesterday by +their colleagues. The outgoing members, whose four-year terms +will expire a week after the April 18 primary election, received carved +wooden elephants, complete with ivory tusks, to remember the state +committee by. There may be other 1961 state committee retirements +come April 18, but they will be leaving by choice of the Republican +voters. A special presentation was made to Mrs& Geraldine +Thompson of Red Bank, who is stepping down after 35 years on +the committee. She also was the original ~GOP national committeewoman +from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's +suffrage amendment. She served one four-year term on the national +committee. + +Resentment welled up yesterday among Democratic district leaders +and some county leaders at reports that Mayor Wagner had decided +to seek a third term with Paul R& Screvane and Abraham D& Beame +as running mates. At the same time reaction among anti-organization +Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's +reported plan was generally favorable. Some anti-organization +Democrats saw in the program an opportunity to end the bitter internal +fight within the Democratic party that has been going on for the +last three years. The resentment among Democratic organization +leaders to the reported Wagner plan was directed particularly at +the Mayor's efforts to name his own running mates without consulting +the leaders. Some viewed this attempt as evidence that Mr& Wagner +regarded himself as bigger than the party. + +#OPPOSITION REPORTED# + +Some Democratic district and county leaders are reported trying to +induce State Controller Arthur Levitt of Brooklyn to oppose Mr& +Wagner for the Mayoral nomination in the Sept& 7 Democratic +primary. These contend there is a serious question as to whether +Mr& Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file +in the city. Their view is that last-minute changes the Mayor is proposing +to make in the Democratic ticket only emphasize the weakness of +his performance as Mayor. In an apparent effort to head off +such a rival primary slate, Mr& Wagner talked by telephone yesterday +with Representative Charles A& Buckley, the Bronx Democratic +leader, and with Joseph T& Sharkey, the Brooklyn Democratic +leader. + +#MAYOR VISITS BUCKLEY# + +As usual, he made no attempt to get +in touch with Carmine G& De Sapio, the Manhattan leader. He +is publicly on record as believing Mr& De Sapio should be replaced +for the good of the party. Last night the Mayor visited Mr& +Buckley at the Bronx leader's home for a discussion of the situation. +Apparently he believes Mr& Buckley holds the key to the Democratic +organization's acceptance of his choices for running mates +without a struggle. In talks with Mr& Buckley last week +in Washington, the Mayor apparently received the Bronx leader's assent +to dropping Controller Lawrence E& Gerosa, who lives in the +Bronx, from this year's ticket. But Mr& Buckley seems to have +assumed he would be given the right to pick Mr& Gerosa's successor. + +#SCREVANE AND BEAME HAILED# + +The Mayor declined in two interviews +with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he +had decided to run and wanted Mr& Screvane, who lives in Queens, +to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President +of the City Council and Mr& Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to +replace Mr& Gerosa as the candidate for Controller. The +Mayor spoke yesterday at the United Irish Counties Feis on the Hunter +College Campus in the Bronx. After his speech, reporters asked +him about the report of his political intentions, published in yesterday's +New York Times. The Mayor said: "It didn't +come from me. But as I have said before, if I announce my candidacy, +I will have something definite to say about running mates". + +_BOSTON, JUNE 16_- A wave of public resentment against corruption +in government is rising in Massachusetts. There is a tangible +feeling in the air of revulsion toward politics. The taxi driver +taking the visitor from the airport remarks that politicians in the state +are "all the same". "It's 'See Joe, see Jim'", +he says. "The hand is out". A political scientist writes +of the growth of "alienated voters", who "believe that voting +is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are +corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control. **h These voters view the +political process as a secret conspiracy, the object of which is to +plunder them". Corruption is hardly a recent development in +the city and state that were widely identified as the locale of Edwin +O'Connor's novel, "The Last Hurrah". But there are reasons +for the current spotlight on the subject. A succession of +highly publicized scandals has aroused the public within the last year. +Graft in the construction of highways and other public works has brought +on state and Federal investigations. And the election of President +Kennedy has attracted new attention to the ethical climate of +his home state. A reader of the Boston newspapers can hardly +escape the impression that petty chicanery, or worse, is the norm in +Massachusetts +public life. Day after day some new episode is reported. + +The state Public Works Department is accused of having spent +$8,555 to build a private beach for a state judge on his waterfront +property. An assistant attorney general is directed to investigate. + +_WASHINGTON, JUNE 18_- Congress starts another week tomorrow with +sharply contrasting forecasts for the two chambers. In the +Senate, several bills are expected to pass without any major conflict +or opposition. In the House, the Southern-Republican coalition is +expected to make another major stand in opposition to the Administration's +housing bill, while more jockeying is expected in an attempt +to advance the aid-to-education bill. The housing bill is now +in the House Rules Committee. It is expected to be reported out Tuesday, +but this is a little uncertain. The panel's action depends +on the return of Representative James W& Trimble, Democrat +of Arkansas, who has been siding with Speaker Sam Rayburn's forces +in the Rules Committee in moving bills to the floor. Mr& Trimble +has been in the hospital but is expected back Tuesday. + +#LEADERSHIP +IS HOPEFUL# + +The housing bill is expected to encounter strong +opposition by the coalition of Southern Democrats and conservative +Republicans. The Democratic leadership, however, hopes to pass it +sometime this week. The $6,100,000,000 measure, which was passed +last Monday by the Senate, provides for forty-year mortgages at low +down-payments for moderate-income families. It also provides for funds +to clear slums and help colleges build dormitories. The education +bill appears to be temporarily stalled in the Rules Committee, +where two Northern Democratic members who usually vote with the +Administration are balking because of the religious controversy. They +are James J& Delaney of Queens and Thomas P& O'Neill Jr& +of Massachusetts. + +#THREE GROUPS TO MEET# + +What could rescue +the bill would be some quick progress on a bill amending the National +Defense Education Act of 1958. This would provide for long-term +Federal loans for construction of parochial and other private-school +facilities for teaching science, languages and mathematics. + +Mr& Delaney and Mr& O'Neill are not willing to vote on the +public-school measure until the defense education bill clears the House +Education and Labor Committee. + +About half of all Peace Corps projects assigned to voluntary +agencies will be carried out by religious groups, according to an official +of the corps. In the $40,000,000 budget that has been submitted +for Congressional approval, $26,000,000 would be spent through +universities and private voluntary agencies. Twelve projects +proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon +Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in +a Washington interview. Six of these were proposed by religious groups. +They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development +in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. + +#QUESTION RAISED# + +Interviews with several church leaders have disclosed +that this development has raised the question whether the Peace +Corps will be able to prevent confusion for church and state over +methods, means and goals. There are a number of ways this could +happen, the churchmen pointed out, and here is an example: +Last month in Ghana an American missionary discovered when he came +to pay his hotel bill that the usual rate had been doubled. When he protested, +the hotel owner said: "Why do you worry? The +U& S& Government is paying for it. The U& S& Government +pays for all its overseas workers". + +#MISSIONARY +EXPLAINS# + +"I don't work for the Government", the American +said. "I'm a missionary". The hotel owner shrugged. +"Same thing", he said. And then, some churchmen remarked, +there is a more classical church-state problem: Can religious +agencies use Government funds and Peace Corps personnel in their +projects and still preserve the constitutional requirement on separation +of church and state? R& Sargent Shriver Jr&, director +of the corps, is certain that they can. No religious group, he +declared in an interview, will receive Peace Corps funds unless it +forswears all proselytizing on the project it proposes. + +_MOSCOW, JUNE 18_- At a gay party in the Kremlin for President +Sukarno of Indonesia, Premier Khrushchev pulled out his pockets +and said, beaming: "Look, he took everything I had"! +Mr& Khrushchev was jesting in the expansive mood of the successful +banker. Indonesia is one of the twenty under-developed countries of +Asia, Africa and Latin America that are receiving Soviet aid. + +The Soviet Union and other members of the Communist bloc are rapidly +expanding their economic, technical and military assistance to +the uncommitted nations. The Communist countries allocated more +than $1,000,000,000 in economic aid alone last year, according to Western +estimates. This was the biggest annual outlay since the Communist +program for the under-developed countries made its modest beginning +in 1954. In 1960 more than 6,000 Communist technicians were present +in those countries. + +_UNITED NATIONS, N& Y&, JUNE 18_- A committee of experts has +recommended that a country's population be considered in the distribution +of professional posts at the United Nations. This was disclosed +today by a responsible source amid intensified efforts by the Soviet +Union to gain a greater role in the staff and operation of the United +Nations. One effect of the proposal, which puts a premium +on population instead of economic strength, as in the past, would +be to take jobs from European nations and give more to such countries +as India. India is the most populous United Nations member with more +than 400,000,000 inhabitants. The new formula for filling +staff positions in the Secretariat is one of a number of recommendations +made by a panel of eight in a long and detailed report. The report +was completed after nearly eighteen months of work on the question of +the organization of the United Nations. + +#FORMULA IS DUE THIS WEEK# + +The Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions +is expected to receive the report this week. The jobs formula is +understood to follow these lines: _@_ Each of the organization's +ninety-nine members would get two professional posts, such as +political affairs officer, a department head or an economist, to start. +#@# + +Each member would get one post for each 10,000,000 people +in its population up to 150,000,000 people or a maximum of fifteen posts. +#@# + +Each member with a population above 150,000,000 would +get one additional post for each additional 30,000,000 people up to +an unspecified cut-off point. + +_GENEVA, JUNE 18_- The three leaders of Laos agreed today to begin +negotiations tomorrow on forming a coalition government that would +unite the war-ridden kingdom. The decision was made in Zurich +by Prince Boun Oum, Premier of the pro-Western royal Government; +Prince Souvanna Phouma, leader of the nation's neutralists +and recognized as Premier by the Communist bloc, and Prince Souphanouvong, +head of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces. The latter +two are half-brothers. Their +joint statement was welcomed by the Western delegations who will attend +tomorrow the nineteenth plenary session of the fourteen-nation conference +on the future of Laos. An agreement among the Princes on a coalition +government would ease their task, diplomats conceded. But no +one was overly optimistic. + +#TACTICS STUDIED IN GENEVA# + +W& Averell +Harriman of the United States, Malcolm MacDonald of Britain, +Maurice Couve de Murville, France's Foreign Minister, and Howard +C& Green, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, concluded, +meanwhile, a round of consultations here on future tactics in the +conference. The pace of the talks has slowed with each passing week. + +Princess Moune, Prince Souvanna Phouma's young daughter, +read the Princes' statement. They had a two-hour luncheon together +in "an atmosphere of cordial understanding and relaxation", she +said. The three Laotians agreed upon a six-point agenda for +their talks, which are to last three days. The Princess said +it was too early to say what would be decided if no agreement was reached +after three days. + +#TO DEAL WITH PRINCIPLES# + +The meetings in +Zurich, the statement said, would deal only with principles that would +guide the three factors in their search for a coalition Government. + +Appointment of William S& Pfaff Jr&, 41, as promotion +manager +of The Times-Picayune Publishing Company was announced Saturday +by John F& Tims, president of the company. Pfaff succeeds +Martin Burke, who resigned. The new promotion manager +has been employed by the company since January, 1946, as a commercial +artist in the advertising department. He is a native of New +Orleans and attended Allen Elementary school, Fortier High school +and Soule business +college. From June, 1942, until December, +1945, Pfaff served in the Army Air Corps. While in the service +he attended radio school at Scott Field in Belleville, Ill&. + +Before entering the service, Pfaff for five years did clerical +work with a general merchandising and wholesale firm in New Orleans. + +He is married to the former Audrey Knecht and has a daughter, +Karol, 13. They reside at 4911 Miles dr&. + +_WASHINGTON_- Thousands of bleacher-type seats are being erected +along Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House +for the big inaugural parade on Jan& 20. Assuming the +weather is halfway decent that day, hundreds of thousands of persons +will mass along this thoroughfare as President John F& Kennedy +and retiring President Dwight D& Eisenhower leave Capitol Hill +following the oath-taking ceremonies and ride down this historic ceremonial +route. Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original +13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District +of Columbia from a commercial standpoint. But from a historic viewpoint +none can approach it. + +#MANY BUILDINGS# + +Within view of the +avenue are some of the United States government's tremendous buildings, +plus shrines and monuments. Of course, 1600 Pennsylvania, the +White House, is the most famous address of the free world. +Within an easy walk from Capitol Hill where Pennsylvania Avenue comes +together with Constitution Avenue, begins a series of great federal +buildings, some a block long and all about seven-stories high. + +Great chapters of history have been recorded along the avenue, now +about 169 years old. In the early spring of 1913 a few hundred thousand +persons turned out to watch 5000 women parade. They were the suffragettes +and they wanted to vote. In the 1920 presidential election +they had that right and many of them did vote for the first time. + +#SEATS +ON SQUARE# + +Along this avenue which saw marching soldiers from +the War Between the States returning in 1865 is the National Archives +building where hundreds of thousands of this country's most valuable +records are kept. Also the department of justice building is +located where J& Edgar Hoover presides over the federal bureau of +investigation. Street car tracks run down the center of Pennsylvania, +powered with lines that are underground. Many spectators +will be occupying seats and vantage points bordering Lafayette Square, +opposite the White House. In this historic square are several +statutes, but the one that stands out over the others is that of Gen& +Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans. Moving +past the presidential viewing stand and Lafayette Square will +be at least 40 marching units. About 16,000 military members of all +branches of the armed forces will take part in the parade. Division +one of the parade will be the service academies. Division two will +include the representations of Massachusetts and Texas, the respective +states of the President and of Vice-President L& B& Johnson. +Then will come nine other states in the order of their admission +to the union. Division three will be headed by the Marines +followed by 12 states; division four will be headed by the Navy, +followed by 11 states; division five, by the Air Force followed +by +11 states. Division six will be headed by the Coast Guard, followed +by the reserve forces of all services, five states, Puerto Rico, the +Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territories and +the Canal Zone. + +_JACKSON, MISS&_- What does 1961 offer in political and governmental +developments in Mississippi? Even for those who have +been observing the political scene a long time, no script from the past +is worth very much in gazing into the state's immediate political +future. This is largely because of the unpredictability of the +man who operates the helm of the state government and is the elected +leader of its two million inhabitants- Gov& Ross Barnett. + +Barnett, who came into office with no previous experience in public +administration, has surrounded himself with confusion which not only +keeps his foes guessing but his friends as well. Consequently, +it is uncertain after nearly 12 months in office just which direction +the Barnett administration will take in the coming year. + +#COULD +BE SCRAMBLE# + +Some predict the administration will settle down during +1961 and iron out the rough edges which it has had thus far. +The builtin headache of the Barnett regime thus far has been the steady +stream of job-seekers and others who feel they were given commitments +by Barnett at some stage of his eight-year quest for the governor's +office. There are many who predict that should Barnett decide +to call the Legislature back into special session, it will really +throw his administration into a scramble. Certainly nobody +will predict that the next time the lawmakers come back together Barnett +will be able to enjoy a re-enactment of the strange but successful +"honeymoon" he had in the 1960 legislative session. If Barnett +doesn't call a special session in 1961, it will be the first +year in the last decade that the Legislature has not met in regular or +special session. The odds favor a special session, more than +likely early in the year. + +#DISTRICTS ISSUE# + +Legislators always get +restless for a special session (whether for the companionship or the +$22.50 per diem is not certain) and if they start agitating. Barnett +is not expected to be able to withstand the pressure. The issue +which may make it necessary to have a session is the highly sensitive +problem of cutting the state's congressional districts from six +to five to eliminate one congressional seat. With eyes focused +on the third congressional district, the historic Delta district, and +Congressman Frank E& Smith as the one most likely to go, the redistricting +battle will put to a test the longstanding power which lawmakers +from the Delta have held in the Legislature. Mississippi's +relations with the national Democratic party will be at a crossroads +during 1961, with the first Democratic president in eight years +in the White House. Split badly during the recent presidential +election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and +independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck. +And there has been no effort since the election to pull it back together. + +#FUTURE CLOUDED# + +Barnett, as the titular head of the Democratic +party, apparently must make the move to reestablish relations +with the national Democratic party or see a movement come from the loyalist +ranks to completely bypass him as a party functionary. +With a Democratic administration, party patronage would normally begin +to flow to Mississippi if it had held its Democratic solidarity +in the November election. Now, the picture is clouded, and even +~US Sens& James O& Eastland and John C& Stennis, who +remained loyal to the ticket, are uncertain of their status. +Reports are that it is more than probability that the four congressmen +from Mississippi who did not support the party ticket will be stripped +of the usual patronage which flows to congressmen. + +_BATON ROUGE, LA&_- The Gov& Jimmie H& Davis administration +appears to face a difficult year in 1961, with the governor's +theme of peace and harmony subjected to severe stresses. The +year will probably start out with segregation still the most troublesome +issue. But it might give way shortly to another vexing issue- +that of finances in state government. The transition from segregation +to finances might already be in progress, in the form of an administration +proposal to hike the state sales tax from 2 per cent to 3 +per cent. The administration has said the sales tax proposal +is merely part of the segregation strategy, since the revenues from the +increase would be dedicated to a grant in aid program. But the +tardiness of the administration in making the dedication has caused +legislators to suspect the tax bill was related more directly to an over-all +shortage of cash than to segregation. + +#LEGISLATORS WEARY# + +Indeed, the administration's curious position on the sales tax was +a major factor in contributing to its defeat. The administration could +not say why $28 million was needed for a grant-in-aid program. + +The effectiveness of the governor in clearing up some of the inconsistencies +revolving about the sales tax bill may play a part in determining +whether it can muster the required two-thirds vote. The +tax bill will be up for reconsideration Wednesday in the House when +the Legislature reconvenes. Davis may use the tax bill as a +means to effect a transition from special sessions of the Legislature +to normalcy. If it fails to pass, he can throw up his hands and +say the Legislature would not support him in his efforts to prevent +integration. He could terminate special sessions of the Legislature. + +Actually, +Davis would have to toss in the towel soon anyway. +Many legislators are already weary and frustrated over the so-far losing +battle to block token integration. This is not the sort +of thing most politicos would care to acknowledge publicly. They would +like to convey the notion something is being done, even though it is +something they know to be ineffectual. + +#UNDERLYING CONCERN# + +Passage +of the sales tax measure would also give Davis the means to effect +a transition. He could tell the Legislature they had provided the +needed funds to carry on the battle. Then he could tell them to +go home, while the administration continued to wage the battle with +the $28 million in extra revenues the sales tax measure would bring in +over an eight months period. It is difficult to be certain how +the administration views that $28 million, since the views of one leader +may not be the same as the views of another one. But if +the administration should find it does not need the $28 million for a +grant-in-aid program, a not unlikely conclusion, it could very well seek +a way to use the money for other purposes. This would be in +perfect consonance with the underlying concern in the administration- +the shortage of cash. It could become an acute problem in the coming +fiscal year. If the administration does not succeed in passing +the sales tax bill, or any other tax bill, it could very well be +faced this spring at the fiscal session of the Legislature with an interesting +dilemma. Since the constitution forbids introduction +of a tax bill at a fiscal session, the administration will either have +to cut down expenses or inflate its estimates of anticipated revenues. + +#CONSTANT PROBLEM# + +In either case, it could call a special session +of the Legislature later in 1961 to make another stab at raising +additional revenues through a tax raiser. The prospect of cutting +back spending is an unpleasant one for any governor. It is one +that most try to avoid, as long as they can see an alternative approach +to the problem. But if all alternatives should be clearly +blocked +off, it can be expected the Davis administration will take steps +to trim spending at the spring session of the state Legislature. + +This might be done to arouse those who have been squeezed out by +the trims to exert pressure on the Legislature, so it would be more +receptive to a tax proposal later in the year. A constant problem +confronting Davis on any proposals for new taxes will be the charge +by his foes that he has not tried to economize. Any tax bill +also will revive allegations that some of his followers have been using +their administration affiliations imprudently to profit themselves. + +The new year might see some house-cleaning, either genuine or +token, depending upon developments, to give Davis an opportunity to +combat some of these criticisms. + +City Controller Alexander Hemphill charged Tuesday that the +bids on the Frankford Elevated repair project were rigged to the advantage +of a private contracting company which had "an inside track" +with the city. Estimates of the city's loss in the $344,000 +job have ranged as high as $200,000. + +#'SHORTCUTS' UNNOTICED# + +Hemphill said that the Hughes Steel Erection Co& contracted to +do the work at an impossibly low cost with a bid that was far less than +the "legitimate" bids of competing contractors. The Hughes +concern then took "shortcuts" on the project but got paid anyway, +Hemphill said. The Controller's charge of rigging was +the latest development in an investigation which also brought these +disclosures Tuesday: {The city has sued for the full amount +of the $172,400 performance bond covering the contract. The +Philadelphia Transportation Co& is investigating the part its +organization played in reviewing the project. The signature of +Harold V& Varani, former director of architecture and engineering +in the Department of Public Property, appeared on payment vouchers +certifying work on the project. Varani has been fired on charges of +accepting gifts from the contractor. Managing Director Donald +C& Wagner has agreed to cooperate fully with Hemphill after a +period of sharp disagreement on the matter}. The announcement +that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made +by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following +a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city +and the ~PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that +was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959. + +#CONCERN +BANKRUPT# + +The Hughes company and the Consolidated Industries, +Inc&, both of 3646 N& 2d st&, filed for reorganization under +the Federal bankruptcy law. On Monday, the Hughes concern was formally +declared bankrupt after its directors indicated they could not +draw up a plan for reorganization. Business relations between +the companies and city have been under investigation by Hemphill and +District Attorney James C& Crumlish, Jr&. + +#INTERVENES IN +CASE# + +The suit was filed later in the day in Common Pleas Court +7 against the Hughes company and two bonding firms. Travelers Indemnity +Co& and the Continental Casualty Co&. At Berger's +direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case +in U& S& District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim +there. "I am taking the position that the contract was clearly +violated", Berger said. The contract violations mostly +involve failure to perform rehabilitation work on expansion joints along +the El track. The contract called for overhauling of 102 joints. +The city paid for work on 75, of which no more than 21 were repaired, +Hemphill charged. + +#WIDE RANGE IN BIDS# + +Hemphill said the Hughes +concern contracted to do the repairs at a cost of $500 for each +joint. The bid from A& Belanger and Sons of Cambridge, Mass&, +which listed the same officers as Hughes, was $600 per joint. + +But, Hemphill added, bids from other contractors ranged from $2400 +to $3100 per joint. Berger's decision to sue for the full +amount of the performance bond was questioned by Wagner in the morning +press conference. Wagner said the city paid only $37,500 to the Hughes +company. "We won't know the full amount until we get a full +report", Wagner said. "We can claim on the maximum amount +of the bond", Berger said. Wagner replied, "Can't you +just see the headline: 'City Hooked for $172,000'"? #'KNOW +ENOUGH TO SUE'# + +Berger insisted that "we know enough to +sue for the full amount". Douglas M& Pratt, president of +the ~PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is +reviewing the work on the El. "We want to find out who knew +about it", Pratt said. "Certain people must have known about it". + +"The ~PTC is investigating the whole matter", Pratt +said. + +Samuel D& Goodis, representing the Philadelphia Hotel Association, +objected on Tuesday to a proposed boost by the city in licensing +fees, saying that occupancy rates in major hotels here ranged +from 48 to 74 percent last year. Goodis voiced his objection before +City Council's Finance Committee. For hotels with +1000 rooms, the increased license fee would mean an expense of $5000 +a year, Goodis said. + +#TESTIFIES AT HEARING# + +His testimony came +during a hearing on a bill raising fees for a wide variety of licenses, +permits and city services. The new fees are expected to raise an additional +$740,000 in the remainder of 1961 and $2,330,000 more a year +after that. The ordinance would increase the fee for rooming +houses, hotels and multi-family dwellings to $5 a room. The cost of a +license now is $2, with an annual renewal fee of $1. Goodis said +that single rooms account for 95 percent of the accomodations in some +hotels. + +#REVENUE ESTIMATED# + +The city expects the higher rooming +house, hotel and apartment house fees to bring in an additional $457,000 +a year. The increase also was opposed by Leonard Kaplan, +spokesman for the Home Builders Association of Philadelphia, on +behalf of association members who operate apartment houses. A +proposal to raise dog license fees drew an objection from Councilwoman +Virginia Knauer, who formerly raised pedigreed dogs. The ordinance +would increase fees from $1 for males and $2 for females to a flat +$5 a dog. + +#COMMISSIONER REPLIES# + +Mrs& Knauer said she did not +think dog owners should be penalized for the city's services to animal +care. In reply, Deputy Police Commissioner Howard R& +Leary said that the city spends more than $115,000 annually to license +and regulate dogs but collects only $43,000 in fees. He reported +that the city's contributions for animal care included $67,000 +to the Women's S&P&C&A&; $15,000 to pay six policemen +assigned as dog catchers and $15,000 to investigate dog bites. + +#BACKS +HIGHER FEES# + +City Finance Director Richard J& McConnell +indorsed the higher fees, which, he said, had been under study for more +than a year. The city is not adequately compensated for the services +covered by the fees, he said. The new fee schedule also was +supported by Commissioner of Licenses and Inspections Barnet Lieberman +and Health Commissioner Eugene A& Gillis. + +Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian +W& Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court +Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A& Davenport, counsel +for the widow of the man killed last Nov& 1 by Barnard's hit-run +car. The petitions will be presented in open court to President +Judge William F& Dannehower, Davenport said. Barnard, +who pleaded no defense to manslaughter and hit-run charges, was +fined $500 by Judge Warren K& Hess, and placed on two years' probation +providing he does not drive during that time. He was caught +driving the day after the sentence was pronounced and given a warning. + +Victim of the accident was Robert Lee Stansbery, 39. His +widow started the circulation of petitions after Barnard was reprimanded +for violating the probation. + +The City Planning Commission on Tuesday approved agreements +between two redevelopers and the Redevelopment Authority for the purchase +of land in the $300,000,000 Eastwick Redevelopment Area project. + +The commission also approved a novel plan that would eliminate +traffic hazards for pedestrians in the project. One of +the agreements calls for the New Eastwick Corp& to purchase a 1311 +acre tract for $12,192,865. The tract is bounded by Island ave&, +Dicks ave&, 61st st&, and Eastwick ave&. + +#FOUR PARKS PLANNED# + +It is designated as Stage 1 Residential on the Redevelopment +Authority's master plan and will feature row houses, garden apartments, +four small parks, schools, churches, a shopping center and several +small clusters of stores. The corporation was formed by the +Reynolds Metal Co& and the Samuel A& and Henry A& Berger +firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project. The second +agreement permits the authority to sell a 520-acre tract west of +Stage 1 Residential to Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corp&, +a firm composed of 10 Philadelphia area builders, which is interested +in developing part of the project. + +#WOULD BAR VEHICLES# + +The plan +for eliminating traffic hazards for pedestrians was developed by Dr& +Constantinos A& Doxiadis, former Minister of Reconstruction +in Greece and a consulting planner for the New Eastwick Corp&. + +The plan calls for dividing the project into 16 sectors which would +be barred to vehicular traffic. It provides for a series of landscaped +walkways and a central esplanade that would eventually run through +the center of the entire two-and-a-half-mile length of the project. + +The esplanade eliminates Grovers ave&, which on original +plans ran through the center of the development. The esplanade would +feature pedestrian bridges over roads in the project. + +_KANSAS CITY, MO&, FEB& 9 (~UPI)_- The president of the +Kansas City local of the International Association of Fire Fighters +was severly injured today when a bomb tore his car apart as he left +home for work. Battalion Chief Stanton M& Gladden, 42, +the central figure in a representation dispute between the fire fighters +association and the teamsters union, suffered multiple fractures +of both ankles. He was in Baptist Memorial hospital. + +#IGNITION SETS +OFF BLAST# + +The battalion chief said he had just gotten into his +1958 model automobile to move it from the driveway of his home so that +he could take his other car to work. "I'd just turned on +the ignition when there was a big flash and I was lying on the driveway", +he said. Gladden's wife and two of his sons, John, +17, and Jim, 13, were inside the house. The younger boy said the blast +knocked him out of bed and against the wall. + +#HOOD FLIES OVER HOUSE# + +The explosion sent the hood of the car flying over the roof of +the house. The left front wheel landed 100 feet away. Police +laboratory technicians said the explosive device, containing either ~TNT +or nitroglycerine, was apparently placed under the left front +wheel. It was first believed the bomb was rigged to the car's starter. + +Gladden had been the target of threatening telephone calls +in recent months and reportedly received one last night. The +fire department here has been torn for months by dissension involving +top personnel and the fight +between the fire fighters association and the +teamsters union. + +#LED FIGHT ON TEAMSTERS# + +Gladden has been an +outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's +battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen +in 1959. The fire fighters association here offered a $5,000 reward +for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible +for the bombing. A $500 reward was offered by the association's +local in Kansas City, Kas&. The association said +it would post 24 hour guards at Gladden's home and at those of James +Mining and Eugene Shiflett. Mining is secretary-treasurer of the +local and Shiflett is a member of its executive committee. Both have +been active in the association. + +_ANKARA, TURKEY, OCT& 24 (~AP)_- Turkish political leaders +bowed today to military pressure and agreed to form an emergency national +front government with Gen& Cemal Gursel as president. +An agreement between the leaders of four parties which contested indecisive +elections on Oct& 15 was reached after almost 18 hours of political +bargaining under the threat of an army coup d'etat. By-passing +the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow +of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, +led by Gen& Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to +join in a national coalition government. The army leaders threatened +to form a new military government if the parties failed to sign +an eight point protocol agreeing on Gen& Gursel as president. Gen& +Gursel has headed the military junta the last 17 months. +The military also had demanded pledges that there would be no changes +in the laws passed by the junta and no leaders of the Menderes regime +now in prison would be pardoned. Party leaders came out of +the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement +had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections +which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its +own. + +Vincent G& Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant +district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E& Raymond, +District Attorney. Ierulli will replace Desmond D& Connall +who has been called to active military service but is expected back +on the job by March 31. Ierulli, 29, has been practicing +in Portland since November, 1959. He is a graduate of Portland University +and the Northwestern College of Law. He is married and the +father of three children. + +Helping foreign countries to build a sound political structure +is more important than aiding them economically, E& M& Martin, +assistant secretary of state for economic affairs told members of the +World Affairs Council Monday night. Martin, who has been +in office in Washington, D& C&, for 13 months spoke at the +council's annual meeting at the Multnomah Hotel. He told some 350 +persons that the United States' challenge was to help countries build +their own societies their own ways, following their own paths. + +"We must persuade them to enjoy a way of life which, if not identical, +is congenial with ours", he said but adding that if they do +not develop the kind of society they themselves want it will lack ritiuality +and loyalty. + +#PATIENCE NEEDED# + +Insuring that the countries +have a freedom of choice, he said, was the biggest detriment to the Soviet +Union. He cited East Germany where after 15 years of +Soviet rule it has become necessary to build a wall to keep the people +in, and added, "so long as people rebel, we must not give up". + +Martin called for patience on the part of Americans. "The +countries are trying to build in a decade the kind of society we +took a century to build", he said. By leaving our doors open +the United States gives other peoples the opportunity to see us and +to compare, he said. + +#INDIVIDUAL HELP BEST# + +"We have no reason +to fear failure, but we must be extraordinarily patient", the assistant +secretary said. Economically, Martin said, the United +States could best help foreign countries by helping them help themselves. +Private business is more effective than government aid, he explained, +because individuals are able to work with the people themselves. + +The United States must plan to absorb the exported goods of +the country, at what he termed a "social cost". Martin said +the government has been working to establish firmer prices on primary +products which may involve the total income of one country. + +The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive +stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense +more plans for the city's schools in event of attack. +But there seemed to be some difference of opinion as to how far the board +should go, and whose advice it should follow. The board members, +after hearing the coordination plea from Mrs& Ralph H& +Molvar, 1409 ~SW Maplecrest Dr&, said they thought they had already +been cooperating. Chairman C& Richard Mears pointed +out that perhaps this was not strictly a school board problem, in case +of atomic attack, but that the board would cooperate so far as possible +to get the children to where the parents wanted them to go. + +Dr& Melvin W& Barnes, +superintendent, said he thought the schools +were waiting for some leadership, perhaps on the national level, +to make sure that whatever steps of planning they took would "be more +fruitful", and that he had found that other school districts were +not as far along in their planning as this district. "Los Angeles +has said they would send the children to their homes in case of +disaster", he said. "Nobody really expects to evacuate. I think +everybody is agreed that we need to hear some voice on the national +level that would make some sense and in which we would have some confidence +in following. Mrs& Molvar, who kept reiterating her request +that they "please take a stand", said, "We must have faith +in somebody- on the local level, and it wouldn't be possible for +everyone to rush to a school to get their children". Dr& +Barnes said that there seemed to be feeling that evacuation plans, even +for a high school where there were lots of cars "might not be realistic +and would not work". Mrs& Molvar asked again that +the board join in taking a stand in keeping with Jack Lowe's program. +The board said it thought it had gone as far as instructed so far +and asked for more information to be brought at the next meeting. + +It was generally agreed that the subject was important and the board +should be informed on what was done, is going to be done and what +it thought should be done. + +_SALEM (~AP)_- The statewide meeting of war mothers Tuesday +in Salem will hear a greeting from Gov& Mark Hatfield. Hatfield +also is scheduled to hold a public United Nations Day reception +in the state capitol on Tuesday. His schedule calls for +a noon speech Monday in Eugene at the Emerald Empire Kiwanis Club. + +He will speak to Willamette University Young Republicans +Thursday night in Salem. On Friday he will go to Portland +for the swearing in of Dean Bryson as Multnomah County Circuit +Judge. He will attend a meeting of the Republican State Central +Committee Saturday in Portland and see the Washington-Oregon +football game. + +Beaverton School District No& 48 board members examined blueprints +and specifications for two proposed junior high schools at a +Monday night workshop session. A bond issue which would have +provided some $3.5 million for construction of the two 900-student schools +was defeated by district voters in January. Last week the +board, by a 4 +to 3 vote, decided to ask voters whether they prefer the +6-3-3 (junior high school) system or the 8-4 system. Board members +indicated Monday night this would be done by an advisory poll to be +taken on Nov& 15, the same date as a $581,000 bond election for the +construction of three new elementary schools. + +Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg will speak Sunday night +at the Masonic Temple at a $25-a-plate dinner honoring Sen& Wayne +L& Morse, ~D-Ore&. The dinner is sponsored by organized +labor and is scheduled for 7 p&m&. Secretary Goldberg +and Sen& Morse will hold a joint press conference at the Roosevelt +Hotel at 4:30 p&m& Sunday, Blaine Whipple, executive secretary +of the Democratic Party of Oregon, reported Tuesday. + +Other speakers for the fund-raising dinner include Reps& Edith +Green and Al Ullman, Labor Commissioner Norman Nilsen and Mayor +Terry Schrunk, all Democrats. + +_OAK GROVE (SPECIAL)_- Three positions on the Oak Lodge +Water +district board of directors have attracted 11 candidates. The election +will be Dec& 4 from 8 a&m& to 8 p&m&. Polls will be in +the water office. Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election +and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term. Incumbent +William Brod is opposed in his re-election bid by Barbara Njust, +Miles C& Bubenik and Frank Lee. Five candidates seek the +place vacated by Secretary Hugh G& Stout. Seeking this two-year +term are James Culbertson, Dwight M& Steeves, James C& Piersee, +W&M& Sexton and Theodore W& Heitschmidt. + +A stronger stand on their beliefs and a firmer grasp on their +future were taken Friday by delegates to the 29th general council of +the Assemblies of God, in session at the Memorial Coliseum. +The council revised, in an effort to strengthen, the denomination's +16 basic beliefs adopted in 1966. The changes, unanimously adopted, +were felt necessary in the face of modern trends away from the +Bible. The council agreed it should more firmly state its belief in +and dependence on the Bible. At the adoption, the Rev& T& +F& Zimmerman, general superintendent, commented, "The Assemblies +of God has been a bulwark for fundamentalism in these modern days +and has, without compromise, stood for the great truths of the Bible +for which men in the past have been willing to give their lives". + +#NEW POINT ADDED# + +Many changes involved minor editing and clarification; +however, the first belief stood for entire revision with a +new third point added to the list. The first of 16 beliefs of +the denomination, now reads: "The scriptures, both Old and +New Testament, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation +of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct". + +The third belief, in six points, emphasizes the Diety +of the Lord Jesus Christ, and: - emphasizes the Virgin +birth - the sinless life of Christ - His miracles + - His substitutionary work on the cross - His bodily +resurrection from the dead - and His exaltation to the right +hand of God. + +#SUPER AGAIN ELECTED# + +Friday afternoon the Rev& +T& F& Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year +term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God. His offices +are in Springfield, Mo&. Election came on the nominating ballot. + +Friday night the delegates heard the need for their forthcoming +program, "Breakthrough" scheduled to fill the churches for the +next two years. In his opening address Wednesday the Rev& Mr& +Zimmerman, urged the delegates to consider a 10-year expansion program, +with "Breakthrough" the theme for the first two years. +The Rev& R& L& Brandt, national secretary of the home missions +department, stressed the need for the first two years' work. + +"Surveys show that one out of three Americans has vital contact +with the church. This means that more than 100 million have no vital +touch with the church or religious life", he told delegates Friday. + +#CHURCH LOSES PACE# + +Talking of the rapid population growth (upwards +of 12,000 babies born daily) with an immigrant entering the United +States every 1-1/2 minutes, he said "our organization has not +been keeping pace with this challenge". "In 35 years we have +opened 7,000 churches", the Rev& Mr& Brandt said, adding that +the denomination had a national goal of one church for every 10,000 +persons. "In this light we need 1,000 churches in Illinois, +where we have 200; 800 in Southern New England, we have 60; +we need 100 in Rhode Island, we have none", he said. To step +up the denomination's program, the Rev& Mr& Brandt suggested +the vision of 8,000 new Assemblies of God churches in the next 10 +years. To accomplish this would necessitate some changes in methods, +he said. #'CHURCH MEETS CHANGE'# + +"The church's +ability to change her methods is going to determine her ability to meet +the challenge of this hour". A capsule view of proposed plans +includes: - Encouraging by every means, all existing Assemblies +of God churches to start new churches. - Engaging +mature, experienced men to pioneer or open new churches in strategic population +centers. - Surrounding pioneer pastors with vocational +volunteers (laymen, who will be urged to move into the area of new +churches in the interest of lending their support to the new project). + - Arranging for ministerial graduates to spend from 6-12 months +as apprentices in well-established churches. + +U&S& Dist& Judge Charles L& Powell denied all motions +made by defense attorneys Monday in Portland's insurance fraud +trial. Denials were of motions of dismissal, continuance, mistrial, +separate trial, acquittal, striking of testimony and directed +verdict. In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated +that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that +"a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators +are". Attorney Dwight L& Schwab, in behalf of +defendant Philip Weinstein, argued there is no evidence linking Weinstein +to the conspiracy, but Judge Powell declared this is a matter +for the jury to decide. + +#PROOF LACK CHARGED# + +Schwab also declared +there is no proof of Weinstein's entering a conspiracy to use the +U&S& mails to defraud, to which federal prosecutor A& Lawrence +Burbank replied: "It is not necessary that a defendant +actually have conpired to use the U&S& mails to defraud as long +as there is evidence of a conspiracy, and the mails were then used +to carry it out". In the afternoon, defense attorneys began +the presentation of their cases with opening statements, some of which +had been deferred until after the government had called witnesses and +presented its case. + +_MIAMI, FLA&, MARCH 17_- The Orioles tonight retained the distinction +of being the only winless team among the eighteen Major-League +clubs as they dropped their sixth straight spring exhibition decision, +this one to the Kansas City Athletics by a score of 5 to 3. + +Indications as late as the top of the sixth were that the Birds +were to end their victory draought as they coasted along with a 3-to-o +advantage. + +#SIEBERN HITS HOMER# + +Over the first five frames, Jack +Fisher, the big righthandler who figures to be in the middle of +Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held +the ~A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits. Then +Dick Hyde, submarine-ball hurler, entered the contest and only +five batters needed to face him before there existed a 3-to-3 deadlock. + +A two-run homer by Norm Siebern and a solo blast by Bill +Tuttle tied the game, and single runs in the eighth and ninth gave the +Athletics their fifth victory in eight starts. + +#HOUSE THROWS WILD# + +With one down in the eighth, Marv Throneberry drew a walk and stole +second as Hyde fanned Tuttle. Catcher Frank House's throw +in an effort to nab Throneberry was wide and in the dirt. Then +Heywood Sullivan, Kansas City catcher, singled up the middle and +Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run. + +Rookie southpaw George Stepanovich relieved Hyde at the start of +the ninth and gave up the ~A's fifth tally on a walk to second baseman +Dick Howser, a wild pitch, and Frank Cipriani's single under +Shortstop Jerry Adair's glove into center. The Orioles +once again performed at the plate in powderpuff fashion, gathering +only seven blows off the offerings of three Kansas City pitchers. Three +were doubles, Brooks Robinson getting a pair and Marv Breeding +one. + +#HARTMAN IMPRESSIVE# + +Bill Kunkel, Bob Hartman and Ed +Keegan did the mound chores for the club down from West Palm Beach +to play the game before 767 paying customers in Miami Stadium. + +The Birds got five hits and all three of their runs off Kunkel before +Hartman took over in the top of the fourth. Hartman, purchased +by the ~A's from the Milwaukee Braves last fall, allowed no hits +in his scoreless three-inning appearance, and merited the triumph. + +Keegan, a 6-foot-3-inch 158-pounder, gave up the Orioles' last +two safeties over the final three frames, escaping a load of trouble +in the ninth when the Birds threatened but +failed to tally. + +#ROBINSON +DOUBLES AGAIN# + +In the ninth, Robinson led off with his second +double of the night, a blast off the fence 375 feet deep into left. + +Whitey Herzog, performing in right as the Orioles fielded possibly +their strongest team of the spring, worked Keegan for a base on +balls. Then three consecutive pinch-hitters failed to produce. + +Pete Ward was sent in for House and, after failing in a bunt +attempt, popped to Howser on the grass back of short. John +Powell, batting for Adair, fanned after fouling off two 2-and-2 pitches, +and Buddy Barker, up for Stepanovich, bounced out sharply to +Jerry Lumpe at second to end the 2-hour-and-27-minute contest. + +The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding, along with +Robinson, the two Birds who got a pair of hits, doubled to right +center, moved to third on Russ Snyder's single to right and crossed +on Kunkel's wild pitch into the dirt in front of the plate. + +The Flock added a pair of tallies in the third on three straight hits +after two were out. Jackie Brandt singled deep into the hole +at short to start the rally. + +#LUMPE ERRS# + +Jim Gentile bounced +a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and +when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's +head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error. + +Then Robinson slammed a long double to left center to score both +runners. When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he +was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey. +The detailed rundown on the Kansas City scoring in the sixth went +like this: Lumpe worked a walk as the first batter to face Hyde +and romped around as Siebern blasted Hyde's next toss 415 feet +over the scoreboard in right center. + +#CAREY SINGLES# + +Carey singled +on a slow-bouncing ball to short which Robinson cut across to field +and threw wide to first. It was ruled a difficult chance and a hit. + +Then Throneberry rapped into a fast double play. Breeding +to Adair to Gentile, setting up Tuttle's 390-foot homer over the +wall in left center. If the Orioles are to break their losing +streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense +of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here +tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon. + +_MIAMI, FLA&, MARCH 17_- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida +Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles +were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under +the Army's military training program and is ready for belated +spring training. Hansen, who slugged the 1960 Oriole high of +22 homers and drove in 86 runs on a .255 freshman average, completes the +Birds' spring squad at 49 players. The big, 22-year-old +shortstop, the 1960 American league "rookie-of-the year", flew here +late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated +$15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas +City- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row. + +#15 POUNDS +LIGHTER# + +The 6-foot 3 inch Hansen checked in close to 200 pounds, +15 pounds lighter than his reporting weight last spring. He hopes +to melt off an additional eight pounds before the Flock breaks camp three +weeks hence. When he was inducted into the Army at Fort +Knox, Ky&, Hansen's weight had dropped to 180- "too light +for me to be at my best" he said. "I feel good physically", +Hansen added, "but I think I'll move better carrying a little +less weight than I'm carrying now". + +#SEEKS "IMPROVED FIELDING"# + +The rangy, Albany (Cal&) native, a surprise slugging +sensation for the Flock last year as well as a defensive whiz, set +"improved fielding" as his 1961 goal. + +"I think I can do a better job with the glove, now that I +know the hitters around the league a little better", he said. + +Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to +the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New +York Yankees. Skinny Brown and Hoyt Wilhelm, the Flock's +veteran knuckleball specialists, are slated to oppose the American +League champions in tomorrow's 8 P&M& contest. + +#DUREN, SHELDON +ON HILL# + +Ryne Duren and Roland Sheldon, a rookie righthander +who posted a 15-1 record last year for the Yanks' Auburn (N&Y&) +farm club of the Class-~D New York-Pennsylvania League, +are the probable rival pitchers. Twenty-one-year-old Milt Pappas +and Jerry Walker, 22, are scheduled to share the Oriole mound +chores against the Bombers' Art Ditmar in Sunday's 2 P&M& +encounter. Ralph Houk, successor to Casey Stengel at the +Yankee helm, plans to bring the entire New York squad here from +St& Petersburg, including Joe Dimaggio and large crowds are anticipated +for both weekend games. The famed Yankee Clipper, now retired, +has been assisting as a batting coach. + +#SQUAD CUT NEAR# + +Pitcher +Steve Barber joined the club one week ago after completing his hitch +under the Army's accelerated wintertime military course, also at +Fort Knox, Ky&. The 22-year-old southpaw enlisted earlier last +fall than did Hansen. Baltimore's bulky spring-training contingent +now gradually will be reduced as Manager Paul Richards and +his coaches seek to trim it down to a more streamlined and workable unit. +#@# + +"Take a ride on this one", Brooks Robinson greeted +Hansen as the Bird third sacker grabbed a bat, headed for the plate +and bounced a third-inning two-run double off the left-centerfield +wall tonight. It was the first of two doubles by Robinson, +who was in a mood to celebrate. Just before game time, Robinson's +pretty wife, Connie informed him that an addition to the family +can be expected late next summer. Unfortunately, Brooks' +teammates were not in such festive mood as the Orioles expired before +the seven-hit pitching of three Kansas City rookie hurlers. #@# + +Hansen arrived just before nightfall, two hours late, in company +with Lee MacPhail; J& A& W& Iglehart, chairman of the +Oriole board of directors, and Public Relations Director Jack Dunn. + +Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp +inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane. #@# + +Ex-Oriole +Clint Courtney, now catching for the ~A's is all for the +American League's 1961 expansion to the West Coast. "But +they shouldda brought in Tokyo, too", added Old Scrapiron. +"Then we'd really have someplace to go". + +_BOWIE, MD&, MARCH 17_- Gaining her second straight victory, +Norman B&, Small, Jr&'s Garden Fresh, a 3-year-old filly, +downed promising colts in the $4,500 St& Patrick's Day Purse, +featured seventh race here today, and paid $7.20 straight. Toying +with her field in the early stages, Garden Fresh was asked for +top speed only in the stretch by Jockey Philip Grimm and won by a length +and a half in 1.24 3-5 for the 7 furlongs. + +#8,280 ATTEND RACES# + +Richard M& Forbes's Paget, which had what seemed to be a +substantial lead in the early stages, tired rapidly nearing the wire and +was able to save place money only a head in front of Glen T& +Hallowell's +Milties Miss. A bright sun and brisk wind had the +track in a fast condition for the first time this week and 8,280 St& +Patty Day celebrants bet $842,617 on the well-prepared program. + +Prior to the featured race, the stewards announced that apprentice +James P& Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and +crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday. + +#CULMONE GETS +FIRST WIN# + +Garden Fresh, the result of a mating of Better Self +and Rosy Fingered, seems to improve with each start and appeared to +win the St& Patrick's Day Purse with some speed in reserve. +She was moving up to the allowance department after winning a $10,000 +claiming event. + +_CLEVELAND, MARCH 17 (~AP)_- George Kerr, the swift-striding +Jamaican, set a meet record in the 600-yard run in the Knights of Columbus +track meet tonight, beating Purdue's Dave Mills in a hot +duel in 1.10.1. Kerr, who set the world record earlier this month +in New York with a clocking of 1.09.3, wiped out Mills's early +pace and beat the young Big 10 quarter-mile king by 5 yards. Both +were under the meet mark of 1.10.8 set in 1950 by Mal Whitfield. + +Mills shot out in front and kept the lead through two thirds of +the race. Then Kerr, a graduate student from Illinois, moved past +him on a straightaway and held off Mills's challenge on the final turn. +Mills was timed in 1.10.4. The crowd at the twenty-first +annual K& of C& Games, final indoor meet of the season, got a +thrill a few minutes earlier when a slender, bespectacled woman broke +the one-week-old world record in the half-mile run. Mrs& Grace +Butcher, of nearby Chardon, a 27-year-old housewife who has two +children, finished in 2.21.6. She snapped five tenths of a second off +the mark set by Helen Shipley, of Wellsley College, in the National +A&A&U& meet in Columbus, Ohio. + +_SAN FRANCISCO, MARCH 17 (~AP)_- Bobby Waters of Sylvania, +Ga&, relief quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National +Football League, will undergo a knee operation tomorrow at Franklin +Hospital here. Waters injured his left knee in the last +game of the 1960 season. While working out in Sylvania a swelling +developed in the knee and he came here to consult the team physician._ST& +PETERSBURG, FLA&, MARCH 17 (~AP)_- Two errors by New +York Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek in the eleventh inning donated +four unearned runs and a 5-to-2 victory to the Chicago White Sox +today. + +_AUSTIN, TEXAS_- A Texas halfback who doesn't even know the +team's plays, Eldon Moritz, ranks fourth in Southwest Conference +scoring after three games. Time stands still every time Moritz, +a 26-year-old Army Signal Corps veteran, goes into the field. Although +he never gets to play while the clock is running, he gets a big +kick- several every Saturday, in fact- out of football. +Moritz doesn't even have a nose guard or hip pads but he's one of +the most valuable members of the Longhorn team that will be heavily +favored Saturday over Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. That's +because he already has kicked 14 extra points in 15 tries. He ran +his string of successful conversions this season to 13 straight before +one went astray last Saturday night in the 41-8 slaughter of Washington +State. Moritz is listed on the Longhorn roster as a right +halfback, the position at which he lettered on the 1956 team. But +ask coach Darrell Royal what position he plays and you'll get the +quick response, "place-kicker". A 208-pound, 6-foot 1-inch +senior from Stamford, Moritz practices nothing but place-kicking. Last +year, when he worked out at halfback all season, he didn't get +into a single game. "This year, coach Royal told me if I'd +work on my place-kicking he thought he could use me", said Moritz. +"So I started practicing on it in spring training. Moritz +was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle +in the thigh of his right (kicking) leg and, as a result, several of +his successful conversions have gone barely far enough. Moritz +said Monday his leg feels fine and, as a result, he hopes to start +practicing field goals this week. He kicked several while playing at +Stamford High School, including one that beat Anson, 3-0, in a 1953 +district game. "I kicked about 110 extra points in 135 tries +during three years in high school", he said, "and made 26 in a +row at one time. I never did miss one in a playoff game- I kicked +about 20 in the five playoff games my last two years". Moritz +came to Texas in 1954 but his freshman football efforts were hampered +by a knee injury. He missed the 1955 season because of an operation +on +the ailing knee, then played 77 minutes in 1956. His statistical record +that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from +impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 +yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards. + +He went into the Army in March, 1957, and returned two years later. +But he was scholastically ineligible in 1959 and merely present +last season. Place kicking is largely a matter of timing, Moritz +declared. "Once you get the feel of it, there's not much +to it. I've tried to teach some of the other boys to kick and some +of them can't seem to get the feel. Practice helps you to get your +timing down. "It's kind of like golf- if you don't +swing a club very often, your timing gets off". Moritz, however, +kicks only about 10 or 12 extra points during each practice session. + +"If you kick too much, your leg gets kinda dead", he +explained. @ _FOOTNOTES:_ In their first three games, the Longhorns +have had the ball 41 times and scored 16 times, or 40 per cent +**h their total passing yardage in three games, 447 on 30 completions +in 56 attempts, is only 22 yards short of their total passing yardage +in 1959, when they made 469 on 37 completions in 86 tries **h. Tailback +James Saxton already has surpassed his rushing total for his brilliant +sophomore season, when he netted 271 yards on 55 carries; he +now has 273 yards in 22 tries during three games **h. Saxton has made +only one second-half appearance this season and that was in the Washington +State game, for four plays: he returned the kickoff 30 yards, +gained five yards through the line and then uncorked a 56-yard touchdown +run before retiring to the bench **h. Wingback Jack Collins injured +a knee in the Washington State game but insists he'll be ready +for Oklahoma **h. Last week, when Royal was informed that three +Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: +"That won't last long". It didn't; Monday, he had four +Longhorns in the top four **h. + +A good feeling prevailed on the ~SMU coaching staff Monday, +but attention quickly turned from Saturday's victory to next week's +problem: Rice University. The Mustangs don't play this +week. "We're just real happy for the players", Coach Bill +Meek said of the 9-7 victory over the Air Force Academy. "I +think the big thing about the game was that our kids for the third straight +week stayed in there pitching and kept the pressure on. It was +the first time we've been ahead this season (when John Richey kicked +what proved to be the winning field goal)". Assistant coach +John Cudmore described victory as "a good feeling, I think, on +the part of the coaches and the players. We needed it and we got it". + +Meek expressed particular gratification at the defensive +performances of end Happy Nelson and halfback Billy Gannon. Both +turned in top jobs for the second straight game. "Nelson played +magnificent football", Meek praised. "He knocked down the interference +and made key stops lots of times. And he caused the fumble +that set up our touchdown. He broke that boy (Air Force fullback Nick +Arshinkoff) in two and knocked him loose from the football". + +Gannon contributed saving plays on the Falcons' aerial thrusts +in the late stages. One was on a fourth-down screen pass from +the Mustang 21 after an incomplete pass into Gannon's territory. + +"As soon as it started to form, Gannon spotted it", Meek +said. "He timed it just right and broke through there before the +boy (halfback Terry Isaacson) had time to turn around. He really crucified +him **h he nailed it for a yard loss". The Air Force's, +and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback +Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned +22 yards. "He just lay back there and waited for it", Meek +said. "He almost brought it back all the way". Except +for sophomore center Mike Kelsey and fullback Mike Rice, Meek expects +the squad to be physically sound for Rice. "Kelsey is +very doubtful for the Rice game", Meek said. "He'll be out of +action all this week. He got hit from the blind side by the split end +coming back on the second play of the game. There is definitely some +ligament damage in his knee". Rice has not played since injuring +a knee in the opener with Maryland. "He's looking +a lot better, and he's able to run", Meek explained. "We'll +let him do a lot of running this week, but I don't know if he'll +be able to play". The game players saw the Air Force film +Monday, ran for 30 minutes, then went in, while the reserves scrimmaged +for 45 minutes. "We'll work hard Tuesday, Wednesday +and Thursday", Meek said, "and probably will have a good scrimmage +Friday. We'll work out about an hour on Saturday, then we'll +work Monday and Tuesday of next week, then taper off". ~SMU +will play the Owls at Rice Stadium in Houston in a night game +Saturday, Oct& 21. + +#HUDDLE HEARSAY#- Held out of {Texas +Tech's} sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle {Richard +Stafford}, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered +in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas ~A+~M **h Because +of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, {Baylor} +worked out in the rain Monday- mud or no mud **h End {Gene +Raesz}, who broke a hand in the Owl's game with ~LSU, was back +working out with {Rice} +Monday, and {John Nichols}, sophomore +guard, moved back into action after a week's idleness with an ankle +injury **h The {Texas Aggies} got a day off Monday- a special +gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday +night, but Myers announced that halfback {George Hargett}, +shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday +**h Halfback {Bud Priddy}, slowed for almost a month by a +slowly-mending sprained ankle, joined ~{TCU's} workout Monday. + +The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory +in four American Football League starts- a 19-12 triumph over +the Denver Broncos- but their visit will be a short one. +The Texans have two more road games- at Buffalo and Houston- +before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank +Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into +the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings. + +Buffalo coach Buster Ramsey, who has become one of the game's +greatest collectors of quarterbacks, apparently now has found a productive +pair in two ex-National Football Leaguers, M& C& Reynolds +and Warren Rabb. Rabb, the former Louisiana State +field general, came off the bench for his debut with the Bills Sunday +and directed his new team to a 22-12 upset victory over the Houston +Oilers, defending league champions. "Just our luck"! exclaimed +Stram. "Buster would solve that quarterback problem just +as we head that way". Ramsey has a thing or two to mutter about +himself, for the Dallas defensive unit turned in another splendid +effort against Denver, and the Texans were able to whip the dangerous +Broncs without the fullbacking of a top star, Jack Spikes, though +he did the team's place-kicking while nursing a knee injury. + +"Our interior line and out linebackers played exceptionally well", +said Stram Monday after he and his staff reviewed movies of the +game. "In fact our whole defensive unit did a good job". +The Texans won the game through ball control, with Quarterback Cotton +Davidson throwing only 17 passes. "We always like to keep +the ball as much as we can against Denver because they have such an +explosive attack", explained Stram. "They can be going along, +doing little damage, then bang, bang- they can hit a couple of passes +on you for touchdowns and put you in trouble". The Broncs +did hit two quick strikes in the final period against the Texans, but +Dallas had enough of a lead to hold them off. The principal +tactic in controlling the ball was giving it to Abner Haynes, the flashy +halfback. He was called upon 26 times- more than all of the other +ball-carriers combined- and delivered 145 yards. The Texans +made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's +Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, +the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed +it for Dallas. A quick touchdown resulted. "That permitted +us to start controlling the ball right away", said Stram, quipping, +"I think I'll put that play in the book". + +The early Southwest Conference football leaders- Texas, Arkansas +and Texas ~A+~M- made a big dent in the statistics last +week. Texas' 545-yard spree against Washington State gave +the Longhorns a 3-game total offense of 1,512 yards (1,065 rushing +and 447 passing) a new ~SWC high. Arkansas combined 280 +yards rushing with 64 yards passing (on 5 completions in 7 tosses) and +a tough defense to whip ~TCU, and ~A+~M, with a 38-point +bulge against Texas Tech ran up its biggest total loop play since 1950. +Completing 12 of 15 passes for 174 yards, the Aggies had a total +offense of 361 yards. Texas leads in per-game rushing averages, +355 yards, and passing 149 (to Baylor's 126), but idle Baylor has +the best defensive record (187.5 yards per game to Texas' 189). +~A+~M has the best defense against passes, 34.7 yards per game. + +Not satisfied with various unofficial checks on the liveliness +of baseballs currently in use, the major leagues have ordered their own +tests, which are in progress at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. + +{Rookie Ron Nischwitz continued his pinpoint pitching Monday +night as the Bears made it two straight over Indianapolis, 5-3}. + +The husky 6-3, 205-pound lefthander, was in command all the +way before an on-the-scene audience of only 949 and countless of television +viewers in the Denver area. It was Nischwitz' third +straight victory of the new season and ran the Grizzlies' winning +streak to four straight. They now lead Louisville by a full game on +top of the American Association pack. {Nischwitz fanned six +and walked only Charley Hinton in the third inning. He has given +only the one pass in his 27 innings, an unusual characteristic for a +southpaw}. The Bears took the lead in the first inning, as +they did in Sunday's opener, and never lagged. Dick McAuliffe +cracked the first of his two doubles against Lefty Don Rudolph +to open the Bear's attack. After Al Paschal gruonded out, Jay +Cooke walked and Jim McDaniel singled home McAuliffe. Alusik then +moved Cooke across with a line drive to left. Jay Porter drew a +base on balls to fill the bases but Don Wert's smash was knocked +down by Rudolph for the putout. The Bears added two more in +the fifth when McAuliffe dropped a double into the leftfield corner, +Paschal doubled down the rightfield line and Cooke singled off Phil +Shartzer's glove. {Nischwitz was working on a 3-hitter +when the Indians bunched three of their eight hits for two runs in the +sixth. Chuck Hinton tripled to the rightfield corner, Cliff Cook +and Dan Pavletich singled and Gaines' infielder roller accounted +for +the tallies}. The Bears added their last run in the sixth +on Alusik's double and outfield flies by Porter and Wert. + +Gaines hammered the ball over the left fence for the third Indianapolis +run in the ninth. Despite the 45-degree weather the game +was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some +good infield play. Chico Ruiz made a spectacular play on Alusik's +grounder in the hole in the fourth and Wert came up with some +good stops and showed a strong arm at third base. + +#BINGLES AND BOBBLES:# +{Cliff Cook} accounted for three of the Tribe's +eight hits **h It was the season's first night game and an obvious +refocusing of the lights are in order **h The infield was well flooded +but the expanded outfield was much too dark **h {Mary Dobbs Tuttle} +was back at the organ **h Among the spectators was the noted exotic +dancer, {Patti Waggin} who is Mrs& Don Rudolph when off +the stage. **h {Lefty Wyman Carey}, another Denver rookie, +will be on the mound against veteran {John Tsitouris} at 8 o'clock +Tuesday night **h {Ed Donnelly} is still bothered by a side +injury and will miss his starting turn. + +_DALLAS, TEX&, MAY 1- (~AP)_- Kenny Lane of Muskegon, +Mich&, world's seventh ranked lightweight, had little trouble in +taking a unanimous decision over Rip Randall of Tyler, Tex&, here +Monday night. + +_ST& PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, MAY 1- (~AP)_- {Billy Gardner's +line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left +field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the +last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the +Chicago White Sox Monday}. Lemon was on with his fourth +single of the game, a liner to center. He came all the way around on +Gardner's hit before 5777 fans. It was Gardner's second run batted +in of the game and his only ones of the year. Turk Lown +was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray +Moore won his second game against a single loss. The Twins tied +the score in the sixth inning when Reno Bertoia beat out a high +chopper to third base and scored on Lenny Green's double to left. + +The White Sox had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the sixth on +a pair of pop fly hits- a triple by Roy Sievers and single by Camilo +Carreon- a walk and a sacrifice fly. Jim Landis' 380-foot +home run over left in the first inning gave the Sox a 1-0 lead, +but Harmon Killebrew came back in the bottom of the first with his +second homer in two days with the walking Bob Allison aboard. + +Al Smith's 340-blast over left in the fourth- his fourth homer +of the campaign- tied the score and Carreon's first major league +home run in the fifth put the Sox back in front. A double by +Green, Allison's run-scoring 2-baser, an infield single by Lemon +and Gardner's solid single to center put the Twins back in front +in the last of the fifth. + +_OGDEN, UTAH, MAY 1- (~AP)_- Boston Red Sox Outfielder +Jackie Jensen said Monday night he was through playing baseball. + +"I've had it", he told a newsman. "I know when my reflexes +are gone and I'm not going to be any 25th man on the ball club". + +This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout. + +Jensen got only six hits in 46 at-bats for a .130 batting average +in the first 12 games. He took a midnight train out of Cleveland +Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed +away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev&, +where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, +awaited. She said, when she learned Jackie was heading home: +"I'm just speculating, but I have to think Jack feels he's +hurting Boston's chances". The Union Pacific Railroad +streamliner, City of San Francisco, stopped in Ogden, Utah, for +a few minutes. Sports Writer Ensign Ritchie of the Ogden Standard +Examiner went to his compartment to talk with him. The conductor +said to Ritchie: "I don't think you want to talk to him. +You'll probably get a ball bat on the head. He's mad at the +world". But Jackie had gone into the station. Ritchie walked +up to him at the magazine stand. "I told him who I was and +he was quite cold. But he warmed up after a while. I told him what +Liston had said and he said Liston was a double-crosser and said anything +he (Liston) got was through a keyhole. He said he had never +talked to Liston". Liston is Bill Liston, baseball writer +for the Boston Traveler, who quoted Jensen as saying: +"I +can't hit anymore. I can't run. I can't throw. Suddenly my +reflexes are gone. + +{JUST WHEN IT SEEMS baseball might be losing its grip on +the masses up pops heroics to start millions of tongues to wagging}. + +And so it was over the weekend what with 40-year-old Warren +Spahn pitching his no-hit masterpiece against the Giants and the Giants' +Willie Mays retaliating with a record-tying 4-homer spree +Sunday. Both, of course, were remarkable feats and further embossed +the fact that baseball rightfully is the national pastime. + +Of the two cherished achievements the elderly Spahn's hitless pitching +probably reached the most hearts. It was a real stimulant +to a lot of guys I know who have moved past the 2-score-year milestone. +And one of the Milwaukee rookies sighed and remarked, "Wish +I was 40, and a top-grade big leaguer. #@# + +{THE MODEST +AND +HAPPY} Spahn waved off his new laurels as one of those good days. +But there surely can be no doubt about the slender southpaw belonging +with the all-time great lefthanders in the game's history. + +Yes, with Bob Grove, Carl Hubbell, Herb Pennock, Art Nehf, +Vernon Gomez, et al. {Spahn not only is a superior pitcher +but a gentlemanly fine fellow, a ball player's ball player, as they +say in the trade}. I remember his beardown performance in +a meaningless exhibition game at Bears Stadium Oct& 14, 1951, before +a new record crowd for the period of 18,792. #@# + +{"SPAHNIE +DOESN'T KNOW} how to merely go through the motions", remarked +Enos Slaughter, another all-out guy, who played rightfield that +day and popped one over the clubhouse. The spectacular Mays, +who reaches a decade in the big leagues come May 25, joined six other +sluggers who walloped four home runs in a span of nine innings. + +{Incidentally, only two did it before a home audience. Bobby Lowe +of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned +the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field}. Ed Delahanty +and Chuck Klein of the Phillies, the Braves' Joe Adcock, Lou +Gehrig of the Yankees, Pat Seerey of the White Sox and Rocky +Colavito, then with Cleveland, made their history on the road. #@# + +WILLIE'S BIG DAY REVIVED} the running argument about +the +relative merits of Mays and Mickey Mantle. This is an issue +which boils down to a matter of opinion, depending on whether you're +an American or National fan and anti or pro-Yankee. The record +books, however, would favor the Giants' ace. In four of his +nine previous seasons Mays hit as many as 25 home runs and stole as +many as 25 bases. Once the figure was 30-30. Willie's lifetime batting +average of .318 is 11 points beyond Mickey's. {The +Giants who had been anemic with the bat in their windy Candlestick +Park suddenly found the formula in Milwaukee's park. It will forever +be a baseball mystery how a team will suddenly start hitting after +a distressing slump}. #@# + +{THE DENVER-AREA ~TV} +audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a +new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked +out when his Bears are playing at home. This rule providing +for a blackout of televised baseball 30 minutes before the start of +a major or minor league game in any area comes from the game's top +rulers. {The last couple of years the Bears management got +the business from the "Living Room Athletic Club" when games +were cut off. Actually they were helpless to do anything about the nationwide +policy}. This year, I am told, the ~CBS network +will continue to abide by the rule but ~NBC will play to a conclusion +here. There are two more Sunday afternoons when the situation +will arise. It is an irritable rule that does baseball more +harm than good, especially at the minor league level. You would be surprised +how many fans purposely stayed away from Bears Stadium last +year because of the television policy. This dissatisfaction led +to Howsam's request that the video not be terminated before the end +of the game. + +_CINCINNATI, OHIO (~AP)_- The powerful New York Yankees +won their 19th world series in a 5-game romp over outclassed Cincinnati, +crushing the Reds in a humiliating 13-5 barrage Monday in the loosely +played finale. With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both +out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted +a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, +the most ever used by one team in a series game. Johnny Blanchard, +Mantle's replacement, slammed a 2-run homer as the Yankees routed +loser Joey Jay in a 5-run first inning. Hector Lopez, subbing +for Berra, smashed a 3-run homer off Bill Henry during another 5-run +explosion in the fourth. The Yanks also took advantage of +three Cincinnati errors. The crowd of 32,589 had only two chances +to applaud. In the third Frank Robinson hammered a long +home run deep into the corner of the bleachers in right center, about +400 feet away, with two men on. Momentarily the Reds were back in +the ball game, trailing only 6-3, but the drive fizzled when John Edwards +fouled out with men on second and third and two out. In +the fifth, Wally Post slashed a 2-run homer off Bud Daley, but by +that time the score was 11-5 and it really didn't matter. The +Yankee triumph made Ralph Houk only the third man to lead a team +to both a pennant and a World Series victory in his first year as a +manager. Only Bucky Harris, the "boy-manager" of Washington in +1924, and Eddie Dyer of the St& Louis Cardinals in 1946 had accomplished +the feat. + +_PHILADELPHIA, JAN& 23_- Nick Skorich, the line coach for the +football champion Philadelphia Eagles, was elevated today to head +coach. Skorich received a three-year contract at a salary believed +to be between $20,000 and $25,000 a year. He succeeds Buck Shaw, +who retired at the end of last season. The appointment was +announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain +two members of Shaw's staff- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer. + +Williams is a defensive coach. Gauer works with the ends. + +#CHOICE WAS EXPECTED# + +The selection had been expected. Skorich +was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin +permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, +the newest National Football League entry. Van Brocklin, +the quarterback who led the Eagles to the title, was signed by the +Vikings last Wednesday. Philadelphia permitted him to seek a better +connection after he had refused to reconsider his decision to end +his career as a player. With Skorich at the helm, the Eagles +are expected to put more emphasis on running, rather than passing. In +the past the club depended largely on Van Brocklin's aerials. + +Skorich, however, is a strong advocate of a balanced attack- split +between running and passing. + +#COACH PLAYED 3 YEARS# + +Skorich, +who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and +then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland +with the Pittsburgh Steelers. An injury forced Skorich +to quit after the 1948 season. He began his coaching career at Pittsburgh +Central Catholic High School in 1949. He remained there +for four years before moving to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute +in Troy, N& Y&. He was there one season before rejoining the Steelers +as an assistant coach. Four years later he resigned to +take a similar job with the Green Bay Packers. The Eagles signed +him for Shaw's staff in 1959. Skorich began his new job auspiciously +today. At a ceremony in the reception room of Mayor Richardson +Dilworth, the Eagles were honored for winning the championship. + +Shaw and Skorich headed a group of players, coaches and team +officials who received an engrossed copy of an official city citation +and a pair of silver cufflinks shaped like a football. + +With the announcement of a "special achievement award" to +William A& (Bill) Shea, the awards list was completed yesterday +for Sunday night's thirty-eighth annual dinner and show of the New +York Chapter, Baseball Writers' Association of America, at the +Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Shea, the chairman of Mayor Wagner's +Baseball Committee, will be joined on the dais by Warren Spahn, +the southpaw pitching ace of the Milwaukee Braves; Frank Graham, +the Journal-American sports columnist; Bill Mazeroski, the +World Series hero of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Casey Stengel, +the former manager of the Yankees. Stengel will receive the +Ben Epstein Good Guy Award. Mazeroski, whose homer beat the Yankees +in the final series game, will receive the Babe Ruth Award as +the outstanding player in the 1960 world series. Graham will +be recognized for his meritorious service to baseball and will get the +William J& Slocum Memorial Award. To Spahn will go the Sid +Mercer Memorial Award as the chapter's player of the year. + +#SHOW +FOLLOWS CEREMONIES# + +A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, +which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon +baseball personalities in skit, dance and song. The 53-year-old +Shea, a prominent corporation lawyer with a sports background, +is generally recognized as the man most responsible for the imminent return +of a National League club to New York. Named by Mayor Wagner +three years ago +to head a committee that included James A& Farley, +Bernard Gimbel and Clint Blume, Shea worked relentlessly. + +His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city. The +departure of the Giants and the Dodgers to California left New York +with only the Yankees. Despite countless barriers and disappointments, +Shea moved forward. When he was unable to bring about +immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League +club to move here. When that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's +aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, +with New York as the key franchise. The Continental League never +got off the ground, but after two years it forced the existing majors +to expand. + +#FLUSHING STADIUM IN WORKS# + +The New York franchise +is headed by Mrs& Charles Shipman Payson. A big-league municipal +stadium at Flushing Meadow Park is in the works, and once the lease +is signed the local club will be formally recognized by Commissioner +Ford C& Frick. Shea's efforts figure prominently in the new +stadium. Shea and his wife, Nori, make their home at Sands +Point, L& I&. Bill Jr&, 20; Kathy, 15, and Patricia, +9, round out the Shea family. Shea was born in Manhattan. He +attended New York University before switching to Georgetown University +in Washington. He played basketball there while working toward +a law degree. Later, Shea owned and operated the Long Island +Indians, a minor league professional football team. He was the lawyer +for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football +League. #@# + +All was quiet in the office of the Yankees +and the local National Leaguers yesterday. On Friday, Roger Maris, +the Yankee outfielder and winner of the American League's most-valuable-player +award, will meet with Roy Hamey, the general manager. +Maris is in line for a big raise. + +Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead will be among those honored at +the national awards dinner of the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association +tonight. The dinner will be held at the Hotel Pierre. +Palmer, golf's leading money-winner in 1960, and Snead will be saluted +as the winning team in the Canada Cup matches last June in Dublin. +Deane Beman, the National Amateur champion, and all the metropolitan +district champions, including Bob Gardner, the amateur title-holder, +also will receive awards. The writers' Gold Tee +Award will go to John McAuliffe of Plainfield, N& J&, and +Palm Beach, Fla&, for his sponsorship of charity tournaments. Horton +Smith of Detroit, a former president of the Professional Golfers +Association, will receive the Ben Hogan Trophy for his comeback +following a recent illness. The principal speaker will be Senator +Stuart Symington, Democrat of Missouri. + +#GOLF'S GOLDEN BOY# + +ARNOLD PALMER has been a blazing figure +in golf over the past twelve months. He won the Masters, the United +States Open and a record $80,738 in prize money. He was heralded +as "Sportsman of the Year" by Sports Illustrated, and last night +was acclaimed in Rochester as the "Professional Athlete of the +Year", a distinction that earned for him the $10,000 diamond- studded +Hickok Belt. But he also achieved something that endeared +him to every duffer who ever flubbed a shot. A couple of weeks ago, +he scored a monstrous 12 on a par-5 hole. It made him human. And +it also stayed the hands of thousands of brooding incompetents who were +meditating the abandonment of a sport whose frustrations were driving +them to despair. If such a paragon of perfection as Palmer could +commit such a scoring sacrilege, there was hope left for all. It +was neither a spirit of self-sacrifice nor a yen to encourage the downtrodden +that motivated Arnold. He merely became victimized by a form +of athletics that respects no one and aggravates all. The world's +best golfer, shooting below par, came to the last hole of the opening +round of the Los Angeles open with every intention of delivering +a final crusher. He boomed a 280-yard drive. Then the pixies and the +zombies took over while the banshees wailed in the distance. + +#NO MARGIN +FOR ERROR# + +On the narrow fairway of a 508-yard hole, Arnold whipped +into his second shot. The ball went off in a majestic arc, an +out-of-bounds slice. He tried again and once more sliced out of bounds. +He hooked the next two out of bounds on the opposite side. +"It is possible that I over-corrected", he said ruefully. Each +of the four wayward shots cost him two strokes. So he wound up with a +dozen. "It was a nice round figure, that 12", he said as +he headed for the clubhouse, not too much perturbed. From the +standpoint of the army of duffers, however, this was easily the most heartening +exhibition they had had since Ben Hogan fell upon evil ways +during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas open. The idol of +the hackers, of course, is Ray Ainsley, who achieved a 19 in the United +States Open. Their secondary hero is another pro, Willie Chisholm, +who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his +way out of a rock-strewn gully. Willie's partner was Long Jim Barnes, +who tried to keep count. + +#STICKLER FOR RULES# + +"How many +is that, Jim"? asked Willie at one stage of his excavation project. + +"Thirteen", said Long Jim. "Nae, man", +said Willie, "ye must be countin' the echoes". He had a 16. + +Palmer's dozen were honestly earned. Nor were there any rules +to save him. If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because +Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man +who wrote the book. This knowledge has come in handy, too. His +first shot in the Open last year landed in a brook that flowed along +the right side of the fairway. The ball floated downstream. A spectator +picked up the ball and handed it to a small boy, who dropped this +suddenly hot potato in a very playable lie. Arnold sent for +Joe Dey, the executive secretary of the golf association. Joe naturally +ruled that a ball be dropped from alongside the spot where it had +originally entered the stream. "I knew it all along", confessed +Arnold with a grin, "but I just happened to think how much +nicer it would be to drop one way up there". For a serious young +man who plays golf with a serious intensity, Palmer has such an +inherent sense of humor that it relieves the strain and keeps his nerves +from jangling like banjo strings. Yet he remains the fiercest of competitors. +He'll even bull head-on into the rules when he is sure +he's right. That's how he first won the Masters in 1958. +It happened on the twelfth hole, a 155-yarder. Arnold's iron shot +from +the tee burrowed into the bunker guarding the green, an embankment +that had become soft and spongy from the rains, thereby bringing local +rules into force. + +#RULING FROM ON HIGH# + +"I can remove the ball, +can't I"? asked Palmer of an official. "No", said +the official. "You must play it where it lies". "You're +wrong", said Arnold, a man who knows the rules. "I'll do +as you say, but I'll also play a provisional ball and get a +ruling". + +He scored a 4 for the embedded ball, a 3 with the provisional +one. The golfing fathers ruled in his favor. So he picked up a stroke +with the provisional ball and won the tournament by the margin of +that stroke. Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer +was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers. +But after that 12 at Los Angeles he became one of the boys, a bigger +hero than he ever had been before. + +A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings +and +the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will +be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the +Hotel Warwick today. Other items on the agenda during the +meetings, which are expected to continue through Saturday, concern television, +rules changes, professional football's hall of fame, players' +benefits and constitutional amendments. The owners would +like each club in the fourteen-team league to play a home-and-home series +with teams in its division, plus two games against teams in the other +division. However, this would require a lengthening of the season +from thirteen to fourteen weeks. Pete Rozelle, the league commissioner, +pointed out: "We'll have the problem of baseball +at one end and weather at the other". Nine of the league's +teams play in baseball parks and therefore face an early-season +conflict in dates. + +If the Cardinals heed Manager Gene Mauch of the Phillies, +they won't be misled by the Pirates' slower start this season. + +"Pittsburgh definitely is the team to beat", Mauch said here +the other day. "The Pirates showed they could outclass the field +last year. They have the same men, no age problem, no injuries and +they also have Vinegar Bend Mizell for the full season, along with +Bobby Shantz". Tonight at 8 o'clock the Cardinals, who +gave the Pirates as much trouble as anyone did in 1960, breaking even +with them, will get their first 1961 shot at baseball's world champions. +The Pirates have a 9-6 record this year and the Redbirds are +7-9. + +#CHANGE IN PITCHERS.# + +Solly Hemus announced a switch in his +starting pitcher, from Bob Gibson to Ernie Broglio, for several +reasons: 1. Broglio's 4-0 won-lost record and 1.24 earned-run mark +against Pittsburgh a year ago; 2. The desire to give Broglio as +many starts as possible; 3. The Redbirds' disheartening 11-7 collapse +against the Phillies Sunday. Manager Hemus, eager to +end a pitching slump that has brought four losses in the five games +on the current home stand, moved Gibson to the Wednesday night starting +assignment. After Thursday's open date, Solly plans to open with +Larry Jackson against the Cubs here Friday night. Harvey +Haddix, set back by the flu this season, will start against his former +Cardinal mates, who might be playing without captain Kenny Boyer +in tonight's game at Busch Stadium. Boyer is suffering from a stiff +neck. Haddix has a 13-8 record against the Redbirds, despite +only a 1-3 mark in 1960. Pirate Manager Danny Murtaugh +said he hadn't decided between Mizell and Vern Law for Wednesday's +game. Mizell has won both of his starts. + +#NIEMAN KEPT IN LINEUP.# + +After a lengthy workout yesterday, an open date, Hemus said that +Bob Nieman definitely would stay in the lineup. That means Stan +Musial probably will ride the bench on the seventh anniversary of his +record five-home run day against the Giants. "I have to stay +with Nieman for a while", Hemus said. "Bill White (sore ankles) +should be ready. With a lefthander going for Pittsburgh, I may +use Don Taussig in center". "Lindy McDaniel threw batting +practice about 25 minutes, and he looked good", Hemus said. "He +should be getting back in the groove before long. Our pitching +is much better than it has shown". The statistics hardly indicated +that the Pirates needed extra batting practice, but Murtaugh +also turned his men loose at Busch Stadium yesterday. + +#SIX BUCKS OVER +.300.# + +Until the Bucs' bats quieted down a bit in Cincinnati +over the weekend, the champions had eight men hitting over .300. Despite +the recession, Pittsburgh came into town with this imposing list +of averages: Smoky Burgess .455, Gino Cimoli .389, Bill Virdon +.340, Bob Clemente and Dick Groat, each .323, Dick Stuart .306, +Don Hoak .280 and Bob Skinner .267. Bill Mazeroski with +.179 and Hal Smith with .143 were the only Pirates dragging their +feet. Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the +news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, +who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home +runs. Friend is off to a great start with a 4-0 record but isn't likely +to see action here this week. "We're getting Friend +some runs for a change, and he has been pitching good", Murtaugh said. +"Virdon has been blasting the ball. No plunkers for him". + +#SIX +BUCS OVER .300.# + +The Pirates jumped off to an 11-3 start by May +1 last year, when the Redbirds as well as the Dodgers held them +even over the season. On last May 1, the Cardinals stood at 7-6, ending +a two-season fall-off on that milestone. In 1958, the Birds were +3-10 on May 1. A year later they were 4-13. Since 1949, the +St& Louis club has been below .500 on May 1 just four times. The +'49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 +on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories. The '52 Cards +were 6-7 on May 1 but ended with 88 triumphs, the club's top +since +1949. Then last season the Birds tumbled as low as 11-18 on May +19 before recovering to make a race of it and total 86 victories. + +Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot +start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team. Those +Dodgers won their first 10 games and owned a 21-2 mark and a nine-game +lead by May 8. The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable +period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who +dropped 11 of their first 13. + +They honored the battling Billikens last night. Speakers at +a Tipoff Club dinner dealt lavish praise to a group of St& Louis +University players who, in the words of Coach John Benington, "had +more confidence in themselves than I did". The most valuable +player award was split three ways, among Glen Mankowski, Gordon +Hartweger and Tom Kieffer. In addition, a special award was given +to Bob (Bevo) Nordmann, the 6-foot-10 center who missed much of +the season because of a knee injury. "You often hear people +talk about team spirit and that sort of thing", Benington said in a +conversation after the ceremonies, "but what this team had was a little +different. The boys had a tremendous respect for each other's +ability. They knew what they could do and it was often a little more +than I thought they could do. + +"Several times I found the players +pepping me up, where it usually is the coach who is supposed to +deliver the fight talk. We'd be losing at halftime to a good team +and Hartweger would say, 'Don't worry, Coach- we'll get 'em +all right'". The trio who shared the most-valuable honors +were introduced by Bob Broeg, sports editor of the Post-Dispatch. + +Kieffer, the only junior in the group, was commended for his +ability to hit in the clutch, as well as his all-round excellent play. + +Mankowski, the ball-hawking defensive expert, was cited for +his performance against Bradley in St& Louis U&'s nationally +televised victory. Benington said, "I've never seen a player +have a game as great as Mankowski did against Bradley that day". + +Benington recalled that he once told Hartweger that he doubted +Gordon would ever play much for him because he seemed to be lacking +in all of the accepted basketball skills. After the coach listed all +the boy's faults, Hartweger said, "Coach before I leave here, +you'll get to like me". Mrs& Benington admired Gordon's +spirit and did what she could to persuade her husband that the boy +might help the team. As Hartweger accepted his silver bowl, +he said, "I want to thank coach's wife for talking him into letting +me play". Bob Burnes, sports editor of the Globe-Democrat, +presented Bob Nordmann with his award. Bevo was congratulated for +his efforts to stay in shape so that he could help the team if his +knee healed in time. Within a week after the injury, suffered in St& +Louis's victory in the final game of the Kentucky tournament, Nordmann +was sitting on the Bill's bench doing what he could to help +Benington. On the clock given him was the inscription, "For +Outstanding Contribution to Billiken Basketball, 1960-61". + +Other lettermen from the team that compiled a 21-9 record and finished +as runner-up in the National Invitation Tournament were: +Art Hambric, Donnell Reid, Bill Nordmann, Dave Harris, Dave Luechtefeld +and George Latinovich. "This team set a precedent +that could be valuable in the future", Benington pointed out. "By +winning against Bradley, Kentucky and Notre Dame on those teams' +home courts, they showed that the home court advantage can be overcome +anywhere and that it doesn's take a super team to do it". + +St& Louis University found a way to win a baseball game. Larry +Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first +in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast +Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City. The victory +was the first of the season for the Billikens after nine defeats and +a tie. The tie was against Southeast Missouri last Friday. +Scherer also had a big night at bat with four hits in five trips including +a double, Len Boehmer also was 4-for-5 with two doubles and Dave +Ritchie had a home run and a triple. St& Louis U& +was to be in action again today with a game scheduled at 4 against Washington +University at Ligget Field. The game opened a busy +week for Washington. The Bears are set to play at Harris Teachers +College at 3:30 tomorrow and have a doubleheader at Quincy, Ill&, +Saturday. + +#HAPPY HITTING# + +If it's true that contented cows give more milk, +why shouldn't happy ball players produce more base hits? +The two top talents of the time, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, +have +hit the ball harder and more successfully so far this early season +than at any period in careers which, to be frank about it, never have +quite reached expectations. And that's meant as a boost, not +a knock. Mays and Mantle, both 10-year men at 30, have so +much ability that, baseball men agree, they've never hit the heights. +Their heights, that is. Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, +had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted +.365 and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and ~RBIs, +130. Like the Yankees' slugger, Mays, the terror of +the Giants, has had seasons that would be considered the ultimate by +most players, but not by- or for- Willie. His best years were 1954 +when he hit .345 with 41 homers and '55 when he belted 51 home runs, +drove in 127 and stole 24 bases. Now, apparently happier +under new managers, Mays and Mantle, the perfect players, are behaving +as though they're going to pass those previous peaks. + +#LABOR RELATIONS# + +Yes, we know, they're professionals, men paid to play, and +they shouldn't care how they're handled, just as long as their +names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each month. + +The truth is, though, that men react differently to different +treatment. For that matter, Stan Musial is rare, possessing the disposition +that enabled him to put out the same for seven managers, reserving +his opinions, but not +his effort. Mantle, it's apparent, +resented Casey Stengel's attempts to push and prod him into the +perfection the veteran manager saw as a thrilling possibility. The old +man was almost too possessive. Stengel inherited DiMaggio, Rizzuto, +but HE brought up Mantle from Class ~C to the majors, from +Joplin to New York. With the speed and power of the body +beautiful he saw before him, Ol' Case wanted No& 7 to be not +only the best homerun hitter, but also the best bunter, base-runner and +outfielder. Stengel probably preached too much in the early days when +the kid wanted to pop his bubble gum and sow his oats. Inheriting +a more mature Mantle, who now has seen the sights on and off Broadway, +Ralph Houk quietly bestowed, no pun intended, the mantle of +authority on Mickey. The Major decided that, rather than be led, +the slugger could lead. And what leadership a proud Mantle has given +so far. The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, +pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting +target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr&, Mantle just might +break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers +of 1927. + +#FOUR FOR ALVIN# + +Mays' day came a day earlier for +Willie than for the kids and Commies this year. Willie's wonderful +walloping Sunday- four home runs- served merely to emphasize how +happy he is to be playing for Alvin Dark. Next to Leo Durocher, +Dark taught Mays the most when he was a grass-green rookie rushed +up to the Polo Grounds 10 years ago this month, to help the Giants +win a dramatic pennant. + +ROMANTIC news concerns Mrs& Joan Monroe Armour and +F& Lee H& Wendell, who are to be married at 4:30 p& m& tomorrow +in the Lake Forest home of her brother, J& Hampton Monroe, +and Mrs& Monroe. Only the families and a dozen close friends +will be present. The bride's brother, Walter D& Monroe +Jr&, will give her in marriage. In the small group will be the junior +and senior Mrs& Walter Monroe; the bridegroom's parents, +the Barrett Wendells, who are returning from a winter holiday in Sarasota, +Fla&, for the occasion; and his brother, Mr& Wendell +Jr&, and his wife, who will arrive from Boston. Mr& Wendell Jr& +will be best man. Also present will be the bride's children, +Joan, 13, and Kirkland, 11. Their father is Charles B& Armour. +The bridegroom's children were here for the Christmas holidays +and can't return. Young Peter Wendell, a student at the Westminster +school, has measles, and his sister, Mrs& Andrew Thomas, +and her husband, who live in Missoula, Mont&, have a new baby. Their +mother is Mrs& Camilla Alsop Wendell. Mr& Wendell +and his bride will live in his Lake Forest house. They will take a +wedding trip later. #'BACK WITH THE MET'# + +"We are back with +the 'Met' again now that the 'Met' is back in +Chicago", +bulletins Mrs& Frank S& Sims, president of the women's board +of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation. The New +York Metropolitan Opera Company will be here in May, and the board +will sponsor the Saturday night, May 13, performance of "Turandot" +as a benefit. Birgit Nilsson will be starred. "Housed +in the new McCormick Place theater, this should prove to be an +exciting evening", adds Mrs& Sims. The board's last money raising +event was a performance by Harry Belafonte- "quite off-beat +for this group", decided some of the members. Mrs& Henry T& +Sulcer of Winnetka, a new board member, will be chairman of publicity +for the benefit. Her husband recently was appointed vice president +of the university, bringing them back here from the east. + +#PARICHY-HAMM# + +Because of the recent death of the bride's father, Frederick +B& Hamm, the marriage of Miss Terry Hamm to John Bruce Parichy +will be a small one at noon tomorrow in St& Bernadine's church, +Forest Park. A small reception will follow in the Oak Park Arms +hotel. Mrs& Hamm will not come from Vero Beach, Fla&, +for the wedding. However, Mr& Parichy and his bride will go +to Vero Beach on their wedding trip, and will stay in the John G& +Beadles' beach house. The Beadles formerly lived in Lake Forest. + +Harvey B& Stevens of Kenilworth will give his niece in +marriage. Mr& and Mrs& Stevens and the bride's other uncles +and aunts, the Rush C& Butlers, the Homer E& Robertsons, and +the David Q& Porters, will give the bridal dinner tonight in the +Stevenses' home. + +#HERE AND THERE# + +The Chicago Press club will +fete George E& Barnes, president of the United States Lawn +Tennis association, at a cocktail party and buffet supper beginning +at 5:30 p& m& tomorrow. Later, a bus will carry members to the +Chicago Stadium to see Jack Kramer's professional tennis matches +at 8 p& m&. + +WITH loud huzzahs for the artistic success of the Presbyterian-St& +Luke's Fashion show still ringing in her ears, its director, +Helen Tieken Geraghty [Mrs& Maurice P& Geraghty] +is taking off tomorrow on a 56 day world trip which should earn her even +greater acclaim as director of entertainment for next summer's International +Trade fair. Armed with letters from embassies to ministers +of countries, especially those in the near and far east, Mrs& +Geraghty "will beat the bushes for oriental talent". "We +[the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry] expect to establish +closer relations with nations and their cultural activities, +and it will be easy as a member of the fair staff to bring in acts", +explains Mrs& Geraghty. "For instance, Djakarta, Indonesia, +has three groups of dancers interested in coming here. I'm even going +to try to get the whirling dervishes of Damascus"! The +last obstacle in Mrs& Geraghty's globe-girdling trip was smoothed +out when a representative of Syria called upon her to explain that +his brother would meet her at the border of that country- so newly +separated from Egypt and the United Arab Republic that she hadn't +been able to obtain a visa. + +#FIRST, HONOLULU# + +Honolulu will be +Mrs& Geraghty's first stop. Then Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, +India, Pakistan, Damascus, Beirut, and to Rome, London, and Paris +"to look over wonderful talent". Dec& 22 is the deadline +for Mrs& Geraghty's return; the Geraghtys' youngest daughter, +Molly, bows in the Passavant Debutante Cotillion the next +night. Molly already has her cotillion gown, and it's fitted, says +her mother. Also, invitations have been addressed to Molly's debut +tea the afternoon of Dec& 29 in the Arts club. It won't +be a "tea", however, but more of an international folk song festival, +with singers from Chicago's foreign groups to sing Christmas +songs from around the world. The international theme will be continued +with the Balkan strings playing for a dinner the Byron Harveys will +give in the Racquet club after the tea. Miss Abra Prentice's +debut supper dance in the Casino will wind up the day. + +#BURKE-ROSTAGNO# + +The Richard S& Burkes' home in Wayne may be the setting +for the wedding reception for their daughter, Helen Lambert, and the +young Italian she met last year while studying in Florence during +her junior year at Smith college. He is Aldo Rostagno, son of the +Guglielmo Rostagnos of Florence whom the Burkes met last year in +Europe. The Burkes, who now live in Kankakee, are telling friends +of the engagement. Miss Burke, a graduate of Miss Hall's +school, stayed on in Florence as a career girl. Her fiance, who is with +a publishing firm, translates many books from English into Italian. +He will be coming here on business in December, when the wedding +is to take place in Wayne. Miss Burke will arrive in December also. + +#HERE AND THERE# + +A farewell supper Mr& and Mrs& Charles +H& Sethness Jr& planned Sunday for Italian Consul General +and Mrs& Giacomo Profili has been canceled because Mr& Sethness +is in Illinois Masonic hospital for surgery. Mrs& William +Odell, Mrs& Clinton B& King, John Holabird Jr&, Norman +Boothby, and Actress Maureen O'Sullivan will judge the costumes +in the grand march at the Affaire Old Towne Bal Masque tomorrow +in the Germania club. The party is to raise money for the Old Town +Art center and to plant more crabapple trees along the streets of +Old Town. + +LYON AROUND: Columnist Walter Winchell, well and +rat-a-tat-tatty +again, wheeled thru town between trains yesterday en route +to his Phoenix, Ariz&, rancho, portable typewriter in hand. If W& +W&'s retiring soon, as hinted, he ain't talking- yet. **h +Pretty Sunny Ainsworth, the ex-Mrs& Tommy Manville and the +ex-Mrs& Bud Arvey, joined Playboy-Show-Biz Illustrated, as a +promotional copy writer. She's a whiz. **h You can get into an argument +about fallout shelters at the drop of a beer stein in clubs and +pubs these nights. Everybody has a different idea on the ethics and morals +of driving away neighbors, when and if. **h Comic Gary Morton +signed to play the Living Room here Dec& 18, because that's the +only time his heart, Lucille Ball, can come along. And watch for +a headline from this pair any time now. ## + +{The Living Room has +another scoop: Jane Russell will make one of her rare night club +singing appearances there, opening Jan& 22. La Russell's run +in "Skylark", debuting next week at Drury Lane, already is a sellout. +**h Johnny Ray, at the same L& R&, has something to +cry +about. He's been warbling in severe pain; a medico's injection +inflamed a nerve, and Johnny can barely walk. **h Charley Simonelli, +top Universal-International +film studio exec, makes an honest man out +of this column. As we bulletin'd way back, he'll wed pretty Rosemary +Strafaci, of the Golf Mag staff, in N& Y& C& today. +Handsome bachelor Charley was a favorite date of many of Hollywood's +glamor gals for years}. @ +## + +GEORGE SIMON, exec director +of Danny Thomas A& L& S& A& C& [Aiding Leukemia +Stricken American Children] fund raising group, filled me in on the +low-down phonies who are using phones to solicit funds for Danny's +St& Jude hospital in Memphis. There is no such thing as an "emergency +telephone building fund drive". The only current event they're +staging is the big show at the Stadium Nov& 25, when Danny +will entertain thousands of underprivileged kids. You can mail contribs +to Danny Thomas, Post Office Box 7599, Chicago. So, if anybody +solicits by phone, make sure you mail the dough to the above. **h +Olivia De Havilland signed to do a Broadway play for Garson Kanin +this season, "A Gift of Time". She'll move to Gotham after +years in Paris. ## + +{Gorgeous Doris Day and her producer-hubby, +Marty Melcher, drive in today from a motor tour thru New England. +D& D& will pop up with ~U-~I Chief Milt Rackmil +at the Carnegie theater tomorrow to toast 300 movie exhibitors. It'll +be an all day affair with screenings of Doris' new one, "Lover +Come Back", and "Flower Drum Song". **h Whee the People: +Lovely Thrush Annamorena gave up a promising show biz career to +apply glamor touches to her hubby, Ray Lenobel's fur firm here. +Typical touch: She sold a $10,000 morning light mink to Sportsman +Freddie Wacker for his frau, +Jana Mason, also an ex-singer. In honor +of the Wackers' new baby. Fur goodness sake!} @ ## + +EMCEE +Jack Herbert insists Dick Nixon's campaign slogan for governor +of California is, "Knight Must Fall"! **h Give generously +when you buy candy today for the Brain Research Foundation. It's +one of our town's worthiest charities. **h Best Bet for Tonight: +That darlin' dazzler from Paree, Genevieve, opening in the +Empire room. **h Dave Trager, who is quite a showman and boss of Chicago's +new pro basketball Packers, is debuting a new International +club, for the exclusive use of season ticket holders, in the Stock +Yards Inn. Jump off is tomorrow night when the Packs meet St& +Louis in their season home opener. **h Nobody's mentioned it, but +when ol' Casey Stengel takes over as boss of the New York Mets, +he'll be the only baseballight ever to wear the uniform of all New +York area clubs, past and present: Yankees, Dodgers, Giants, and +now the Mets. **h And Bernie Kriss calls the bayonet clashes at +Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, "The Battle of the Sentry"! +## + +THE JOTTED LYON: This mad world dept&: Khrush and +the Kremlin crowd are confident all right. They're contaminating +the earth's atmosphere including their own via mighty megaton bombs +but their own peasants still don't know about it! **h More: On +the free world side. Albert John Luthuli, awarded a Nobel prize +for his South African integration struggles, has to get permission to +fly to collect his honor. Hmpf **h But on to the frothier side **h +Johnny Weissmuller, the only real Tarzan, telephoned Maureen O'Sullivan, +his first "Jane" [now at Drury Lane, and muttered, +"Me Tarzan, this Jane"? Snapped Maureen, "Me Jane"! +**h Actually Johnny is a glib, garrulous guy, with a rare sense of +humor. Everywhere he went in town, people sidled up, gave him the guttural +bit or broke into a frightening Tarzan yodel. He kids his Tarzan +roles more than anyone. ## + +{"La Dolce Vita", the dynamite +Italian flicker, opens at popular prices at the Loop theater +Nov& 2. My idea of masterful movie making. **h Bill Veeck's health +is back to the dynamo stage, but his medics insist he rest for several +more months before getting back into the baseball swim. William +keeps up with our town's doings daily, via the Tribune, and he tells +me he never misses the Ticker. That's our boy Bill. **h Jean +Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that +crazy new dance, the Twist. They'll start lessons, too, pronto. **h +A cheer here for Francis Lorenz, state treasurer, who will meet +with the probate advisory board of the Chicago Bar association, for +suggestions on how to handle the opening of safety deposit boxes after +somebody dies. + +After being closed for seven months, the Garden of the Gods +Club will have its gala summer opening Saturday, June 3. Music +for dancing will be furnished by {Allen Uhles} and his orchestra, +who will play each Saturday during June. Members and guests +will be in for an added surprise with the new wing containing 40 +rooms and suites, each with its own private patio. {Gene +Marshall}, genial manager of the club, has announced that the Garden +of the Gods will open to members Thursday, June 1. Beginning +July 4, there will be an orchestra playing nightly except Sunday +and Monday for the summer season. {Mrs& J& Edward Hackstaff} +and {Mrs& Paul Luette} are planning a luncheon next +week in honor of {Mrs& J& Clinton Bowman}, who celebrates +her birthday on Tuesday. {Mr& and Mrs& Jerry Chase} +announce the birth of a daughter, {Sheila}, on Wednesday in +Mercy Hospital. Grandparents are {Mr& and Mrs& Robert +L& Chase} and {Mr& and Mrs& Guy Mullenax} of Kittredge. + +Mrs& Chase is the former {Miss Mary Mullenax}. + +#BACK TO W& COAST# + +{Mrs& McIntosh Buell} will +leave +Sunday to return to her home in Santa Barbara, Calif&, after spending +a week in her Polo Grounds home. {Mrs& John C& +Vroman Jr}& of Manzanola is spending several days in her Sherman +Plaza apartment. {Mr& and Mrs& Merrill Shoup} +have returned to their home in Colorado Springs after spending a few +days at the Brown Palace Hotel. {Brig& Gen& and +Mrs& Robert F& McDermott} will entertain at a black tie dinner +Wednesday, May 3, in the Officers' Club at the Air Force +Academy. + +#COCKTAIL PARTY# + +{Mr& and Mrs& Piero de Luise} +will honor Italian {Consul and Mrs& Emilio Bassi} at a +cocktail party Tuesday, May 2, from 6 to 8 p&m& in their home. The +Bassis are leaving soon for their new post. There will be +a stag dinner Friday evening at the Denver Country Club which will +precede the opening of the 1961 golf season. Cocktails will +be served from 6 to 7 p&m&, with dinner at 7 and entertainment in +the main dining room immediately following. {Miss Betsy Parker} +was one of the speakers on the panel of the Eastern Women's +Liberal Arts College panel on Wednesday evening in the Security +Life Bldg&. Guests were juniors in the public high schools. + +#FASHION SHOW# + +The committee for the annual Central City fashion +show has been announced by {Mrs& D& W& Moore}, chairman. + +The event, staged yearly by Neusteters, will be held in +the Opera House Wednesday, Aug& 16. It will be preceded by luncheon +in the Teter House. {Mrs& Roger Mead} is head +of the luncheon table decorations {Mrs& Stanley Wright} is +ticket chairman and {Mrs& Theodore Pate} is in charge of publicity. + +Members of the committee include {Mrs& Milton Bernet, +Mrs& J& Clinton Bowman, Mrs& Rollie W& Bradford, +Mrs& Samuel Butler Jr&, Mrs& Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs& +Douglas Carruthers, Mrs& John C& Davis /3,, Mrs& +Cris Dobbins, Mrs& William E& Glass, Mrs& Alfred Hicks +/2,, Mrs& Donald Magarrell, Mrs& Willett Moore, Mrs& Myron +Neusteter, Mrs& Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs& James S& +Sudier /2,} and {Mrs& Thomas Welborn}. The first +committee meeting will be held on May 19. {Mr& and Mrs& +Andrew S& Kelsey} of Washington, D&C&, announce the birth +of a daughter, {Kira Ann Kelsey}, on Monday in Washington, +D&C&. Grandparents are {Mr& and Mrs& R&L& +Rickenbaugh} and {Mr& and Mrs& E&O& Kelsey} of +Scarsdale, N&Y&. Mrs& Kelsey is the former {Miss +Ann Rickenbaugh}. + +A cheery smile, a compassionate interest in others and a practical +down-to-earth approach. Those qualities make {Esther Marr} +a popular asset at the Salvation Army's Social +Center at 1200 Larimer st&. The pert, gray-haired woman +who came to Denver three years ago from Buffalo, N&Y&, is +a "civilian" with the Army. Her position covers a number +of daily tasks common to any social director. The job also covers a +number of other items. "Mom" Marr, as the more than 80 men +at the center call her, +is the link that helps to bridge the gulf between +alcoholics and the outside world and between parolees and society. + +Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters +there are to be written (and during May, which is National Salvation +Army Week, there are plenty), schedules to be made or problems +to be solved, Mrs& Marr's office is always open and the welcome +mat is out. {MRS& MARR} is the first contact a Skid +Row +figure talks to after he decides he wants to pick himself up. + +She sees that there is a cup of steaming hot coffee awaiting him and +the two chat informally as she presents the rules of the center and +explains procedures. "Usually at this point a man is withdrawn +from society and one of my jobs is to see that he relearns to mingle +with his fellow men", Mrs& Marr explained. The Denverite +has worked out an entire program to achieve this using the facilities +of the center. "And I bum tickets to everything I can", +she said. "I've become the greatest beggar in the world". + +{IN ADDITION} +to the tickets to the movies, sporting events +and concerts, Mrs& Marr lines up candy and cookies because alcoholics +require a lot of sweets to replace the sugar in their system. + +Mrs& Marr also has a number of parolees to "mother", watching +to see that they do not break their parole and that they also learn +to readjust to society. + +By mid-June, millions of Americans will take to the road on +vacation trips up and down and back and forth across this vast and lovely +land. In another four weeks, with schools closed across the +nation, the great all-American summer safari will be under way. By +July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, +by 6 p&m&, be switching on that bleak- to motorists- sign, "No +Vacancy". No matter how many Americans go abroad in +summer, probably a hundred times as many gas up the family car, throw +suitcases, kids and comic books in the back seat, and head for home. And +where is "home", that magic place of the heart? Ah, +that is simple. Home is where a man was born, reared, went to school +and, most particularly, where grandma is. That is where we turn in the +good old summertime. The land lies ready for the coming onslaught. +My husband and I, a month ahead of the rush, have just finished +a 7-day motor journey of 2809 miles from Tucson, Ariz&, to New +York City: + +#SET FOR INFLUX# + +I can testify that motels, service +and comfort stations (they go together like Scots and heather), dog +wagons, roadside restaurants, souvenir stands and snake farms are braced +and waiting. I hope it can be said without boasting that +no other nation offers its vacationing motorists such variety and beauty +of scene, such an excellent network of roads on which to enjoy it and +such decent, far-flung over-night accommodations. Maybe motel-keeping +isn't the nation's biggest industry, but it certainly looks +that way from the highway. There are motels for all purposes +and all tastes. There are even motels for local weather peculiarities, +as I discovered in Shamrock, Tex&. There the Royal Motel +advertises "all facilities, vented heat, air conditioned, carpeted, +free ~TV, storm cellar". + +#MANY WITH POOLS# + +Innumerable motels +from Tucson to New York boast swimming pools ("swim at your +own risk" is the hospitable sign poised at the brink of most pools). +Some even boast two pools, one for adults and one for children. But +the Royal Motel in Shamrock was the only one that offered the comfort +and security of a storm cellar. Motorists like myself who +can remember the old "tourists accommodated" signs on farm houses +and village homes before World War /2, can only marvel at the great +size and the luxury of the relatively new and fast-grossing motel business. + +#ALL FOR $14!# + +At the Boxwood Motel in Winchester, +Va&, we accidentally drew the honeymoon suite, an elegant affair with +wall-to-wall carpeting, gold and white furniture, pink satin brocade +chairs, 24-inch ~TV and a pink tile bath with masses of pink towels. +All for $14. That made up for the "best" motel in Norman, +Okla&, where the proprietor knocked $2 off the $8.50 tab when +we found ants in the pressed-paper furniture. + +Oxnard, Calif&, will be the home of the Rev& Robert D& +Howard and his bride, the former Miss Judith Ellen Gay, who were +married Saturday at the Munger Place Methodist Church. +Parents of the bride are Mr& and Mrs& Ferris M& Gay, 7034 +Coronado. The bridegroom is the son of Mrs& James Baines of Los +Angeles, Calif&, and Carl E& Howard of Santa Monica, Calif&. +He is a graduate of ~UCLA and Perkins School of Theology, +~SMU. Dr& W& B& I& Martin officiated, and +the bride was given in marriage by her father. Honor attendants for +the couple were Miss Sandra Branum and Warren V& McRoberts. + +The couple will honeymoon in Sequoia National Park, Calif&. + +Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of ~SMU, was married +Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State +College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian +Church of Houston. The bride, daughter of Rhodes Semmes +Baker Jr& of Houston and the late Mrs& Baker, was president of +Kappa Kappa Gamma and a member of Mortar Board at ~SMU. Her +husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La&, +and the late Mrs& Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha +Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did +graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, +on a Rotary Fellowship. The Rev& Richard Freeman of +Texas City officiated and Charles Pabor and Mrs& Marvin Hand +presented music. The bride was given in marriage by her father. + +She wore a court-length gown of organdy designed with bateau neckline +and princesse skirt accented by lace appliques. Her veil was caught +to a crown, and she carried gardenias and stephanotis. Miss +Mary Ross of Baird was maid of honor, and bridesmaids were Miss Pat +Dawson of Austin, Mrs& Howard M& Dean of Hinsdale, Ill&, +and Mrs& James A& Reeder of Shreveport, La&. Cecil +Mason of Hartford, Conn&, was best man for his brother, and +groomsmen were Rhodes S& Baker /3, of Houston, Dr& James +Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La&. +Lee Jackson and Ken Smith, both of Houston, and Alfred Neumann +of Beaumont seated guests. After a reception at The Mayfair, +the newlyweds left for a wedding trip to New Orleans, La&. They +will live in Corpus Christi. + +Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas +State University, was married Saturday to Larry W& Mills, who +has attended Arlington State College. They will live at 2705 Fitzhugh +after a wedding trip to Corpus Christi. Parents of the +couple are Ray Meredith of Denton and the late Mrs& Meredith +and Mrs& Hardy P& Mills of Floresville and the late Mr& Mills. + +The Rev& Melvin Carter officiated at the ceremony +in Slaughter Chapel of the First Baptist Church. Dan Beam presented +music and the bride was given in marriage by her father. +She wore a gown of satin designed along princesse lines and featuring +a flared skirt and lace jacket with bateau neckline. Her veil was +caught to a pearl headdress, and she carried stephanotis and orchids. + +Miss Glenda Kay Meredith of Denton was her sister's maid +or honor, and Vernon Lewelleyn of San Angelo was best man. Robert +Lovelace and Cedric Burgher Jr& seated guests. A reception was +held at the church. + +The First Christian Church of Pampa was the setting for the +wedding last Sunday of Miss Marcile Marie Glison and Thomas Earl +Loving Jr&, who will live at 8861 Gaston after a wedding trip +to New Orleans, La& The bride, daughter of Mr& and Mrs& +Charles Ervin Glison of Pampa, has attended Texas Woman's +University and will continue her studies at ~SMU. + +"A Night in New Orleans" is the gayety planned by members +of the Thrift Shop Committee for May 6 at Philmont Country Club. +The women have a reputation for giving parties that are different +and are fun and this year's promises to follow in this fine tradition. +Mrs& H& J& Grinsfelder is chairman. The Louisiana +city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful +hospitality "and, +when guests arrive at Philmont that night", +says Mrs& Grinsfelder, "that is exactly what we expect to offer +them. We've been working for weeks. The prospects look great. +We are keeping a number of surprises under our hats. But we can't +tell it all now and then have no new excitement later". + +#BASIN STREET +BEAT# + +But she does indicate festivities will start early, that +a jazz combo will "give with the Basin Street beat" during the +cocktail and dinner hours and that Lester Lanin's orchestra will take +over during the dancing. As for food, Mrs& Henry Louchheim, +chairman of this phase, +is a globetrotter who knows good food. "New +Orleans"? she says, "of course I've had the best. It +is just bad luck that we are having the party in a month with no ~R's, +so no oysters. But we have lots of other New Orleans specialties. +I know they will be good. We've tried them out on the club chef- +or say, he has tried them out on us and we have selected the best". + +#SCENIC EFFECTS# + +Guests will be treated to Gulf Coast scenic +effects. There will be masses of flowers, reproductions of the +handsome old buildings with their grillwork and other things that are +typical of New Orleans. Mrs& Harry K& Cohen is chairman of this +phase and she is getting an artistic assist from A& Van Hollander, +display director of Gimbel Brothers. The gala is the Thrift +Shop's annual bundle party and, as all Thrift Shop friends +know, that means the admission is a bundle of used clothing in good condition, +contributions of household equipment, bric-a-brac and such to +stock the shelves at the shop's headquarters at 1213 Walnut St&. + +#BUNDLE CENTERS# + +For the convenience of guests bundle centers +have been established throughout the city and suburbs where the donations +may be deposited between now and the date of the big event. In addition +to the bundles, guests pay the cost of their dinners. Members +of the young set who would like to come to the party only during the dancing +time are welcomed. The Thrift Shop, with Mrs& Bernhard +S& Blumenthal as president, is one of the city's most successful +fund-raisers for the Federation of Jewish Agencies. Some idea +of the competence of the women is indicated in the contribution made +by them during the past 25 years that totals $840,000. + +#IT'S BIG +BUSINESS# + +"Big business, this little Thrift Shop business", +say the members. For most of the 25 years the operation was under feminine +direction. In the past few years the men, mostly husbands of members, +have taken an interest. Louis Glazer is chairman of the men's +committee that, among other jobs, takes over part of the responsibility +for staffing the shop during its evening hours. Mrs& Theodore +Kapnek is vice chairman of the committee for the gala. Mrs& +Richard Newburger is chairman of hostesses. Mrs& Arthur +Loeb is making arrangements for a reception; Mrs& Joan Lichtenstein, +for publicity; Mrs& Harry M& Rose, Jr&, for secretarial +duties; Mrs& Ralph Taussig, for junior aides; Mr& and +Mrs& B& Lewis Kaufnabb, for senior aides, and Mrs& Samuel +P& Weinberg, for the bundles. In addition, Mr& and Mrs& +Allan Goodman are controllers, Mrs& Paul Stone is treasurer +and Mrs& Albert Quell is in charge of admittance for the dancing +at 9 P& M&. Besides the bundle centers where contributions +may be made there will be facilities at Philmont Country Club +for those who would like to bring the bundles on the night of the party. + +The women's committee of St& David's Church will hold +its annual pre-Fair pink parade, a dessert bridge and fashion show at +1 P& M& on Monday, April 17, in the chapel assembly room, Wayne. + +Mrs& Robert O& Spurdle is chairman of the committee, +which includes Mrs& James A& Moody, Mrs& Frank C& Wilkinson, +Mrs& Ethel Coles, Mrs& Harold G& Lacy, Mrs& +Albert W& Terry, Mrs& Henry M& Chance, 2d, Mrs& Robert +O& Spurdle, Jr&, Mrs& Harcourt N& Trimble, Jr&, Mrs& +John A& Moller, Mrs& Robert Zeising, Mrs& William +G& Kilhour, Mrs& Hughes Cauffman, Mrs& John L& Baringer +and Mrs& Clyde Newman. The fashion show, by Natalie +Collett will have Mrs& John Newbold as commentator. Models will +be Mrs& Samuel B& D& Baird, Mrs& William H& Meyle, +Jr&, Mrs& Richard W& Hole, Mrs& William F& Harrity, +Mrs& Robert O& Spurdle, Mrs& E& H& Kloman, Mrs& +Robert W& Wolcott, Jr&, +Mrs& Frederick C& Wheeler, Jr&, +Mrs& William ~A Boyd, ~Mrs F& Vernon Putt. + +Col& Clifton Lisle, of Chester Springs, who headed the Troop +Committee for much of its second and third decades, is now an honorary +member. Each year he invites the boys to camp out on his estate +for one of their big week ends of the year. The Troop is proud +of its camping-out program- on year-round schedule and was continued +even when sub-zero temperatures were registered during the past +winter. "We worry", say the mothers. "But there never is +any need. The boys love it". Mrs& John Charles Cotty +is chairman of publicity for the country fair and Mrs& Francis G& +Felske and Mrs& Francis Smythe, of posters. They all are of +Wayne. + +"Meet the Artist" is the invitation issued by members of +the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish +Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings +and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9. + +A preview party for sponsors of the event and for the artists is set +for April 8. The event will be open to the public the following day. +Proceeds will be used by the section to further its program in science, +education and social action on local, national and international +levels. + +#NOTED ARTIST# + +Mrs& Monte Tyson, chairman, says the +work of 100 artists well known in the Delaware Valley area will be +included in the exhibition and sale. Among them will be Marc Shoettle, +Ben Shahn, Nicholas Marsicano, Alfred Van Loen and Milton +Avery. Mr& Shoettle has agreed to do a portrait of the family of +the person who wins the door prize. The event is the sixth on +the annual calendar of the local members of the National Council of +Jewish Women. It originated with the Wissahickon Section. When this +and other units combined to form the present group, it was taken on +as a continuing fund-raiser. + +#OTHERS ASSISTING# + +Mrs& Jerome +Blum and Mrs& Meyer Schultz are co-chairmen this year. Assisting +as chairmen of various committees are Mrs& Alvin Blum, Mrs& +Leonard Malmud, Mrs& Edward Fernberger, Mrs& Robert Cushman. + +Also Mrs& Berton Korman, Mrs& Morton Rosen, Mrs& Jacques +Zinman, Mrs& Evelyn Rosen, Mrs& Henry Schultz, Mr& and +Mrs& I& S& Kamens, Mrs& Jack Langsdorf, Mrs& Leonard +Liss, Mrs& Gordon Blumberg, Mrs& Oscar Bregman, Mrs& +Alfred Kershbaum and Mrs& Edward Sabol. + +Dr& and Mrs& N& Volney Ludwick have had as guests Mr& +and Mrs& John J& Evans, Jr&, of "Kimbolton House", +Rockhall, Md&. Mrs& Edward App will entertain the +members of her Book Club on Tuesday. Mrs& A& Voorhees +Anderson entertained at a luncheon at her home, on Monday. Mr& and +Mrs& Anderson were entertained at dinner on Sunday by Mr& and +Mrs& Frank Coulson, of Fairless Hills. Mr& and Mrs& +Major Morris and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr& and Mrs& +Thomas Glennon, and their children will spend several days in Brigantine, +N& J&. Mr& and Mrs& James Janssen announce +the birth of a daughter, Patricia Lynn Janssen, on March 2. + +Mr& and Mrs& Charles Marella announce the engagement of +their daughter, Miss Mary Ann Marella, to Mr& Robert L& Orcutt, +son of Mr& and Mrs& Donald R& Orcutt, of Drexel Hill. + +Miss Eileen Grant is spending several weeks visiting in Florida. + +Mr& and Mrs& Frederick Heinze are entertaining Mr& Walter +Lehner, of Vienna; Mr& Ingo Dussa, of Dusseldorf, Germany, +and Mr& Bietnar Haaek, of Brelin. Mr& and Mrs& +Harry D& Hoaps, Jr& have returned to their home in Drexel +Park, after spending some time in Delray Beach Fla&. Mr& +and Mrs& James F& Mitchell, with their daughter, Anne, and +son, James, Jr& are spending several weeks in Florida, and will +visit in Clearwater. Cmdr& Warren Taylor, USN&, and +Mrs& Taylor, of E& Greenwich, R& I&, will have with them +for the Easter holidays the latter's parents, Mr& and Mrs& John +B& Walbridge, of Drexel Hill. Mr& and Mrs& L& +DeForest Emmert, formerly of Drexel Hill, and now of Newtown +Square, are entertaining Mr& and Mrs& Ashman E& Emmert, of +Temple, Pa&. Mrs& William H& Merner, of Drexel Park, +entertained at a luncheon at her home on Wednesday. Mr& +and Mrs& Robert Brown will return next week from Bermuda. + +Mrs& H& E& Godwin will entertain the members of her Book +Club at her home on Tuesday. +DR& AND MRS& Richard Peter Vieth announce the engagement +of their daughter, Miss Susan Ann Vieth, to Mr& Conrad Wall /3,, +son of Dr& Conrad Wall /2,, and Mrs& Nell Kennedy Wall. +The marriage will be quietly celebrated in early February. + +Miss Vieth was graduated from the Louise S& McGehee school +and is attending Wellesley college in Wellesley, Mass&. Her mother +is the former Miss Stella Hayward. Mr& Wall is a student +at Tulane university, where he is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon +fraternity. @ Their Majesties, The Queen of Carnival +and The Queen of Comus, have jointly issued invitations for Shrove +Tuesday evening at midnight at which time they will entertain in the +grand ballroom of a downtown hotel following the balls of Rex and +Comus. @ Mr& and Mrs& Richard B& McConnell and their +son-in-law and daughter, Mr& and Mrs& Raymond B& Walker +will be hosts this Tuesday evening at dinner at the State st& home +of the Walkers honoring Mrs& McConnell's debutante niece, Miss +Barbara Williams. @ Debutante Miss Lady Helen Hardy +will be feted at luncheon this Tuesday at which the hostess will +be Mrs& Edwin Socola of Waveland, Miss&. She will entertain +at a Vieux Carre restaurant at 1 o'clock in the early afternoon. @ + +Another debutante, Miss Virginia Richmond, will also be +the honoree this Wednesday at luncheon at which Mrs& John Dane, +will be hostess entertaining at a downtown hotel. @ Miss Katherine +Vickery, who attends Sweet Briar college in Virginia, will rejoin +her father, Dr& Eugene Vickery, at the family home in Richmond +pl& Wednesday for part of the Carnival festivities. @ When +the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival +masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the +festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her +ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn +Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss& and Helene +Rowley. The large municipal hall was ablaze with color, which shown +out from the bright array of chic ballgowns worn by those participating +in the "maskers' dances". The mother of young queen, +Mrs& G& Henry Pierson Jr& chose a white brocade gown made +on slim lines with panels of tomato-red and bright green satin extending +down the back. Mrs& Thomas Jordan selected a black taffeta frock +made with a skirt of fringed tiers and worn with crimson silk slippers. +Mrs& Clayton Nairne, whose daughter, was among the court maids, +chose a deep greenish blue lace gown. Mrs& Fenwick Eustis, whose +daughter was also a maid to the queen, wore an ashes of roses slipper +satin gown. Mrs& Peter Feringa Jr&, last year's Achaeans' +queen, chose an eggshell white filmy lace short dress made with +a wide decolletage trimmed with an edging of tulle. Mrs& Eustis Reily's +olive-green +street length silk taffeta dress was embroidered on +the bodice with gold threads and golden sequins and beads. + +The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced yesterday it would +reduce the total amount of its payroll by 10 per cent through salary +cuts and lay-offs effective at 12.01 A&M& next Saturday. The +current monthly payroll comes to about $15,000,000. Howard E& +Simpson, the railroad's president, said, "A drastic decline in +freight loading due principally to the severe slump in the movement +of heavy goods has necessitated this regrettable action". The +reduction in expenses will affect employees in the thirteen states in +which the B& + O& operates. + +#SALARY CUT AND LAY-OFFS# + +It +will be accomplished in two ways: _1._ A flat reduction of 10 per +cent in the salary of all officers, supervisors and other employees +not belonging to unions. There are about 3,325 officers and employees +in this class. _2._ Sufficient lay-offs of union employees to +bring about a 10 per cent cut in the union payroll expense. Since +the railroad cannot reduce the salary of individual union members +under contract, it must accomplish its payroll reduction by placing some +of the men on furlough, a B&+O& spokesman said. Those +union members kept on their jobs, therefore, will not take a cut in their +wages. The spokesman said the number to be furloughed cannot +be estimated since the lay-offs must be carried out in each area depending +on what men are most needed on the job. + +A thug struck a cab driver in the face with a pistol last night +after robbing him of $18 at Franklin and Mount streets. The +victim, Norman B& Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles street, +was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery. + +The driver told police he followed as the Negro man got +out of the cab with his money. The victim was beaten when he attempted +to stop the bandit. He said the assailant, who was armed +with a .45-caliber automatic, entered the taxi at Pennsylvania avenue +and Gold street. In another attack, Samuel Verstandig, 41, +proprietor of a food store in the 2100 block Aiken street, told police +two Negroes assaulted him in his store and stole $150 from the cash +register after choking and beating him. + +A baby was burned to death and two other children were seriously +injured last night in a fire which damaged their one-room Anne Arundel +county home. The victim Darnell Somerville, Negro, 1, +was pronounced dead on arrival at Anne Arundel General Hospital +in Annapolis. His sister and brother, Marie Louise, 3, and +John Raymond, Jr& 22 months, were admitted to the hospital. The +girl was in critical condition with burns over 90 per cent of her body. + +#BOY IN FAIR CONDITION# + +The boy received second-degree burns of +the face, neck and back. His condition was reported to be fair. + +Police said the children's mother, Mrs& Eleanor Somerville, +was visiting next door when the fire occurred. The house is +on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, +police said. + +_ANNAPOLIS, JAN& 7_- The Anne Arundel county school superintendent +has asked that the Board of Education return to the practice +of recording its proceedings mechanically so that there will be no more +question about who said what. The proposal was made by Dr& +David S& Jenkins after he and Mrs& D& Ellwood Williams, +Jr&, +a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued +for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting. The disagreement +was over what Dr& Jenkins had said at a previous session +and how his remarks appeared in the minutes presented at the following +meeting. + +#CITES DISCREPANCIES# + +Mrs& Williams had a list which +she said contained about nine or ten discrepancies between her memory +of Dr& Jenkins's conversation and how they were written up for +the board's approval. "I hate to have these things come +up again and again", Dr& Jenkins commented as he made his suggestion. +"These are the board's minutes. I'll write what you tell +me to". For a number of years the board used a machine to +keep a permanent record but abandoned the practice about two years ago. + +It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr& +Thomas G& Pullen, Jr&, +State superintendent of schools, told +Dr& Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would +not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him. + +The Board of County Commissioners, the Sanitary Commission, +the Planning and Zoning Board and other county official bodies +use recording machines for all public business in order to prevent law +suits and other misunderstandings about what actually happened at their +meetings. Dr& Jenkins notes, however, that most of the +school boards in the State do not do so. + +State Senator Joseph A& Bertorelli (D&, First Baltimore) +had a stroke yesterday while in his automobile in the 200 block +of West Pratt street. He was taken to University Hospital +in a municipal ambulance. Doctors at the hospital said he was +partially paralyzed on the right side. His condition was said to be, +"fair". Police said he became ill while parked in front of +a barber shop at 229 West Pratt street. + +#BARBER SUMMONED# + +He called +Vincent L& Piraro, proprietor of the shop, who summoned police +and an ambulance. + +The vice president of the City Council complained yesterday +that there are "deficiencies" in the city's snow clearing program +which should be corrected as soon as possible. Councilman William +D& Schaefer (D&, Fifth) said in a letter to Mayor Grady +that plowing and salting crews should be dispatched earlier in storms +and should be kept on the job longer than they were last month. + +#WERNER +CRITICIZED# + +Conceding that several cities to the north were +in worse shape than Baltimore after the last storm, Mr& Schaefer +listed several improvements he said should be made in the snow plan here. + +He said the snow plan was put in effect too slowly in December. +Equipment should be in operation "almost immediately after the +first snowfall", Mr& Schaefer said. The Councilman, +who is the Administration floor leader, also criticized Bernard L& +Werner, public works director, for "halting snow operations" on +Tuesday night after the Sunday storm. + +#SENT HOME FOR REST# + +Mr& +Werner said yesterday that operations continued through the week. +What he did, Mr& Werner said, was let manual laborers go home Tuesday +night for some rest. Work resumed Wednesday, he said. +Mr& Schaefer also recommended that the snow emergency route plan, +under which parking is banned on key streets and cars are required to +use snow tires or chains on them, should be "strictly enforced". + +Admitting that main streets and the central business district +should have priority, the Councilman said it is also essential that +small shopping areas "not be overlooked **h if our small merchants are +to survive". Recounting personal observations of clearance +work, the Councilman cited instances of inefficient use of equipment +or supplies by poorly trained workers and urged that plow blades be +set so they do not leave behind a thin layer of snow which eventually +freezes. + +_ANNAPOLIS, JAN& 7 (SPECIAL)_- The 15-year-old adopted son of +a Washington attorney and his wife, who were murdered early today in +their Chesapeake Bay-front home, has been sent to Spring Grove State +Hospital for detention. The victims were H& Malone Dresbach, +47, and his wife, Shirley, 46. Each had been shot in the back +several times with a .22-caliber automatic rifle, according to Capt& +Elmer Hagner, chief of Anne Arundel detectives. Judge +Benjamin Michaelson signed the order remanding the boy to the hospital +because of the lack of juvenile accommodations at the Anne Arundel +County Jail. The Circuit Court jurist said the boy will have +a hearing in Juvenile Court. + +#YOUNGER SON CALLS POLICE# + +Soon after 10 A&M&, when police reached the 1-1/2-story brick +home +in the Franklin Manor section, 15 miles south of here on the bay, in +response to a call from the Dresbach's other son, Lee, 14, they +found Mrs& Dresbach's body on the first-floor bedroom floor. Her +husband was lying on the kitchen floor, police said. The younger +son told police his brother had run from the house after the shootings +and had driven away in their mother's car. The description +of the car was immediately broadcast throughout Southern Maryland +on police radio. + +#TWO BROTHERS ADOPTED# + +Police said the boys +are natural brothers and were adopted as small children by the Dresbachs. + +Trooper J& A& Grzesiak spotted the wanted car, +with +three boys, at a Route 2 service station, just outside Annapolis. The +driver admitted he was the Dresbachs' son and all three were taken +to the Edgewater Station, police said. + +_ANNAPOLIS, JAN& 7_- Governor Tawes today appointed Lloyd L& +Simpkins, his administrative assistant, as Maryland's Secretary +of State. Mr& Simpkins will move into the post being vacated +by Thomas B& Finan, earlier named attorney general to succeed +C& Ferdinand Sybert, who will be elevated to an associate judgeship +on the Maryland Court of Appeals. Governor Tawes announced +that a triple swearing-in ceremony will be held in his office +next Friday. + +#SIMPKINS FROM SOMERSET# + +Mr& Simpkins is a resident +of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, +have been friends since Mr& Simpkins was a child. Now +38, Mr& Simpkins was graduated from the University of Maryland's +College of Agriculture in 1947. Five years later, he +was awarded the university's degree in law. Mr& Simpkins +made a name for himself as a member of the House of Delegates from +1951 through 1958. From the outset of his first term, he established +himself as one of the guiding spirits of the House of Delegates. + +MARYLAND contracts for future construction during October +totaled $77,389,000, up to 10 per cent compared to October, 1960, F& +W& Dodge, Dodge Corporation, reported. Dodge reported +the following breakdown: Nonresidential at $20,447,000, down +28 per cent; residential at $47,101,000, up 100 per cent; and +heavy engineering at $9,841,000, down 45 per cent. The cumulative +total of construction contracts for the first ten months of 1961 amounted +to $634,517,000, a 4 per cent increase compared to the corresponding +period of last year. A breakdown of the ten-month total +showed: Nonresidential at $253,355,000, up 22 per cent; residential +at $278,877,000, up 12 per cent; and heavy engineering at +$102,285,000, down 33 per cent. Residential building consists +of houses, apartments, hotels, dormitories and other buildings designed +for shelter. + +The share of the new housing market enjoyed by apartments, which +began about six years ago, has more than tripled within that span of +time. In 1961, it is estimated that multiple unit dwellings +will account for nearly 30 per cent of the starts in residential construction. + +While availability of mortgage money has been a factor +in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of +prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among +the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the +apartment-building +field. Although economic and personal circumstances +vary widely among those now choosing apartments, Leo J& Pantas, +vice president of a hardware manufacturing company, pointed out recently +that many apartment seekers seem to have one characteristic in common: +a desire for greater convenience and freedom from the problems +involved in maintaining a house. + +#CONVENIENCE HELD KEY# + +"Convenience +is therefore the key to the housing market today. Trouble-free, +long-life, quality components will play an increasingly important +part in the merchandising of new housing in 1960", Pantas +predicted. + +SIXTY-SEVEN living units are being added to the 165-unit +Harbor View Apartments in the Cherry Hill section. Ultimately +the development will comprise 300 units, in two-story and three-story +structures. Various of the apartments are of the terrace type, being +on the ground floor so that entrance is direct. Others, which are +reached by walking up a single flight of stairs, have balconies. + +The structures housing the apartments are of masonry and frame construction. +Heating is by individual gas-fired, forced warm air systems. + +CONSTRUCTION in 1962 will account for about 15 per cent of +the gross national product, according to a study by Johns-Manville +Corporation. + +_LONDON, FEB& 9_- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic +submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United +States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a +London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today. + +The Dreadnought was built on designs supplied by the United +States in 1959 and was launched last year. It is a killer sub- that +is, a hunter of enemy subs. It has a hull patterned on that of the +United States navy's Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine. +Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more +modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack. + +#FIVE HELD FOR TRIAL# + +The announcement that the secrets of the Dreadnought had been stolen +was made in Bow st& police court here at the end of a three day +hearing. A full trial was ordered for: Two British civil +servants, Miss Ethel Gee, 46, and her newly devoted friend, Harry +Houghton, 55, and divorced. They are accused of whisking secrets out +of naval strongrooms over which they kept guard. Gordon A& +Lonsdale, 37, a mystery man presumed to be Russian altho he carries +a Canadian passport. When arrested, he had the submarine secrets +on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in +Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified. + +#FLASHED TO MOSCOW# + +A +shadowy couple who call themselves Peter Kroger, bookseller, and wife, +Joyce. [.] In their suburban +cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery +man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and +spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either +on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted +over period marks in used books. Each dot on magnification resumed +its original condition as a drawing, a printed page, or a manuscript. + +All five pleaded innocent. Only Miss Gee asked for bail. +Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely +needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden +aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once +ran a candy shop. + +#REFUSES TO GRANT BAIL# + +"I am not prepared to +grant bail to any of them", said the magistrate, K&J&P& Baraclough. + +The trial will be held, probably the first week of +March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus +Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded +in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and +thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years +in prison. Fourteen years is the maximum penalty now faced +by the new five, who may have altered history in the 1960s. Fuchs, +after nine and a half years, was released, being given time off for good +behavior. He promptly went to communist East Germany. The +magistrate tonight refused to return to the five $29,000 in American +and British currency, mostly $20 bills, and in British government +bonds and stocks. "This is Russian money", said Mervin Griffith-Jones +for the attorney general's office. He asserted that +the Krogers were the bankers for Moscow, Lonsdale the Red paymaster, +and the two civil servants the recipients for selling their country's +secrets. #"OF HIGHEST VALUE"# + +The fact that secrets of +the Dreadnought, and thereby of the American undersea fleet, were involved +in the spy case had been hinted at earlier. But just before +luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's +chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt& George +Symonds. He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed +details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of +film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants +outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan& 7. + +The information, he said, would have been of the highest value to +a potential enemy. + +#COURT CLEARED# + +Just how many sub secrets were +being handed over when the ring, watched for six months, was broken +remained untold. The British defending lawyers, who today increased +from three to four, demanded to know if they could make the information +involved seem of little value to a jury, the chances of their +clients would improve. So in the name of justice the magistrate cleared +the court of all except officials to allow the captain to elaborate +for almost an hour. Almost any information about the Dreadnought +would also reveal secrets about the American underwater fleet. +Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American +government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with +Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed. The United +States offered to supply a complete set of propelling equipment like +that used in the Skipjack. With the machinery went a complete +design for the hull. The Skipjack was a second generation +atomic sub, much advanced on the Nautilus and the other four which preceded +it. + +#NAVY'S FUTURE INVOLVED# + +"Much of the navy's future +depends upon her", an American naval announcement said on the +Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition +to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station. +It was there that the two accused civil servants were at work. + +"Her basic hull form [a teardrop] and her nuclear power +plant will be used for almost all new submarines, including the potent +Polaris missile submarines", the statement went on. The atom +reactor, water cooled, was the result of almost a decade of research +at the naval reactors branch of the atomic energy commission and Westinghouse +Electric Corp&. Thru development, the reactor and its +steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, +allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said. The +hull was also a result of almost a decade of work. It was first tried +out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954. The +Skipjack became the fastest submarine ever built. Reputedly it could +outrun, underwater, the fastest destroyers. It could, reputedly, go +70,000 miles without refueling and stay down more than a month. +It was of the hunter-killer type, designed to seek out ships and other +submarines with its most advance gear and destroy them with torpedoes. + +The navy captain disclosed also that a list of questions found +in Miss Gee's purse would, if completed and handed back, have +given the Kremlin a complete picture "of our current anti-submarine +effort and would have shown what we are doing in research and development +for the future". + +#INTERESTED IN DETECTOR# + +The spy ring also +was particularly interested in ~ASDIC, the underwater equipment +for detecting submarines, it was testified. Range was a vital detail. +Designs of parts were sought. Six radiomen told how, twice +on two days after the ring was nabbed, a transmitter near Moscow was +heard calling, using signals, times and wavelengths specified on codes +found hidden in cigaret lighters in Lonsdale's apartment and the +Krogers' house and also fastened to the transmitter lid. Oddly, +the calls were still heard 11 days after the five were arrested. + +The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics +detail detectives "is the product of rumor, combined with malice, +and individual enmity" on the part of the federal narcotics unit here +was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph +Sam Perry in federal District court. The three- Miles J& +Cooperman, Sheldon Teller, and Richard Austin- and eight other +defendants are charged in six indictments with conspiracy to violate +federal narcotic laws. In his opening statement to a jury +of eight women and four men, Bernard H& Sokol, attorney for the detectives, +said that evidence would show that his clients were "entirely +innocent". #'HAD TO KNOW PEDDLERS'# + +"When they became +members of the city police narcotics unit", Sokol said, "they were +told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which +narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in +the narcotics racket. They, on occasion, posed as addicts and peddlers". + +Altho federal and city narcotic agents sometimes worked +together, Sokol continued, +rivalries developed when they were "aiming +at the same criminals". This, he added, brought about "petty jealousies" +and "petty personal grievances". "In the same +five year period that the United States says they [the detectives] +were engaged in this conspiracy", Sokol continued, "these three +young men received a total of 26 creditable mentions and many special +compensations, and were nominated for the Lambert Tree award and the +mayor's medal". + +#NO COMMENTS BY U&S&# + +In opening, D& +Arthur Connelly, assistant United States attorney, read the indictment, +but made no comments. Attorneys for the eight other defendants +said only that there was no proof of their clients' guilt. +Cooperman and Teller are accused of selling $4,700 worth of heroin +to a convicted narcotics peddler, Otis Sears, 45, of 6934 Indiana av&. +Among other acts, Teller and Austin are accused of paying $800 +to Sears. The first witness, Moses Winston Mardis, 5835 +Michigan av&, a real estate agent and former bail bondsman, took the +stand after opening statements had been made. But court adjourned after +he testified he introduced James White and Jeremiah Hope Pullings, +two of the defendants, and also introduced Pullings to Jessy +Maroy, a man mentioned in the indictment but not indicted. + +Buaford Robinson, 23, of 7026 Stewart av&, a ~CTA bus +driver, was slugged and robbed last night by a group of youths at 51st +street and South Park way. Robinson was treated at a physician's +office for a cut over his left eyebrow and a possible sprained knee. +His losses included his money bag, containing $40 to $50 and his $214 +paycheck. Robinson told Policemen James Jones and Morgan +Lloyd of the Wabash avenue district that 10 youths boarded his south +bound express bus in front of Dunbar Vocational High school, 30th +street and South Park way, and began "skylarking". When +51st street was reached, Robinson related, he stopped the bus and told +the youths he was going to call the ~CTA supervisor. As he left +the bus with his money bag, Robinson added, the largest youth accosted +him, a quarrel ensued, and the youth knocked him down. Then the +youths fled with his money. + +Mrs& Blanche Dunkel, 60, who has spent 25 years in the Dwight +reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law, Ervin +Lang, then 28, appealed for a parole at a hearing yesterday before +two Illinois pardon and parole board members, John M& Bookwalter +and Joseph Carpentier. She had been sentenced to 180 years in +prison, but former Gov& Stratton commuted her term to 75 years, making +her eligible for parole, as one of his last acts in office. + +Mrs& Dunkel admitted the slaying and said that the son-in-law became +her lover after the death of her daughter in 1934. It was when he +attempted to end the relationship that the murder took place. + +The son of a wealthy Evanston executive was fined $100 yesterday +and forbidden to drive for 60 days for leading an Evanston policeman +on a high speed chase over icy Evanston and Wilmette streets Jan& +20. The defendant, William L& Stickney /3, 23, of +3211 Park pl&, Evanston, who pleaded guilty to reckless driving, also +was ordered by Judge James Corcoran to attend the Evanston traffic +school each Tuesday night for one month. Stickney is a salesman +for Plee-Zing, Inc&, 2544 Green Bay rd&, Evanston, a +food brokerage and grocery chain firm, of which his father, William L& +Jr&, is president. Patrolman James F& Simms said +he started in pursuit when he saw young Stickney speeding north in Stewart +avenue at Central street. At Jenks street, Simms said, +the car skidded completely around, just missed two parked cars, and +sped east in Jenks. The car spun around again, Simms said, +before Stickney could turn north in Prairie avenue, and then violated +two stop lights as he traveled north into Wilmette in Prairie. + +_ST& JOHNS, MICH&, APRIL 19._- A jury of seven men and five +women found 21-year-old Richard Pohl guilty of manslaughter yesterday +in the bludgeon slaying of Mrs& Anna Hengesbach. Pohl +received the verdict without visible emotion. He returned to his cell +in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, +without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his +guard. + +#STEPSON VINDICATED# + +The verdict brought vindication to +the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried +for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed +to reach a verdict. Mrs& Hengesbach was killed on Aug& 31, 1958. + +Hengesbach has been living under a cloud ever since. When +the verdict came in against his young neighbor, Hengesbach said: + +"I am very pleased to have the doubt of suspicion removed. Still, +I don't wish to appear happy at somebody's else's misfortune". + +#LIVES ON WELFARE# + +Hengesbach, who has been living on welfare +recently, said he hopes to rebuild the farm which was settled by +his grandfather in Westphalia, 27 miles southwest of here. Hengesbach +has been living in Grand Ledge since his house and barn were +burned down after his release in 1958. Pohl confessed the +arson while being questioned about several fires in the Westphalia area +by State Police. He also admitted killing Mrs& Hengesbach. +However, the confession, which was the only evidence against him, +was retracted before the trial. + +#CHARGES IN DOUBT# + +Assistant Prosecutor +Fred Lewis, who tried both the Hengesbach and Pohl cases, +said he did not know what would be done about two arson charges pending +against Pohl. Circuit Judge Paul R& Cash did not set +a date for sentencing. Pohl could receive from 1 to 15 years in prison +or probation. Walker said he was considering filing a motion +for a new trial which would contend that the verdict was against the +weight of the evidence and that there were several errors in trial +procedure. + +#LOCKED IN MOTEL# + +A verdict against Pohl came at 4:05 +p&m& after almost 13-1/2 hours of deliberation. The jury, which +was locked up in a motel overnight, was canvassed at the request of +Walker after the verdict was announced. The jury foreman, Mrs& +Olive Heideman, of rural Elsie, said that a ballot was not even +taken until yesterday morning and that the first day of deliberation +was spent in going over the evidence. She said the jurors agreed +that Pohl's confession was valid. The jury asked Judge +Cash to send in his written definition of the difference between first +and second-degree murder and manslaughter. The verdict came +three hours later. Some 30 spectators remained in the court during +the day and were on hand to hear the verdict read. The trial had +packed the large courtroom for more than a week. + +A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose +mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one +of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors +and school friends. While neighbor women assumed some of the +dead mother's duties, fund-raising events were being planned by a homeowners +association and a student council for the hard-hit Henry Kowalski +family, 34220 Viceroy. Mrs& Eleanor Kowalski, 42, +died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered +in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the +flat of her widowed mother, Mrs& Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining +suburb of Warren. + +#SERVICES TOMORROW# + +Funeral services for Mrs& +Kowalski and her daughter, Christine, 11, who died of burns at +the same hospital Monday, have been scheduled for 10 a&m& tomorrow +in St& Anne's Catholic Church, 31978 Mound, in Warren. + +The +mother and daughter, who will be buried side by side in Mt& Olivet +Cemetery, rested together today in closed caskets at the Lyle Elliott +Funeral Home, 31730 Mound, Warren. Mrs& Pankowski, +61, remained in Holy Cross Hospital as a result of the explosion, +which occurred while Mrs& Kowalski fueled a cook stove in the grandmother's +small upstairs flat at 2274 Eight Mile road east. + +#HELD +CANDLE# + +Assistant Fire Chief Chester Cornell said gas fumes +apparently were ignited by a candle which one of the three Kowalski +girls present held for her mother, because the flat lacked electricity. + +Christine's twin sister, Patricia, and Darlene Kowalski, +8, escaped with minor burns. They are home now with the other Kowalski +children, Vicky, 14; Dennis, 6; Eleanor, 2; and Bernardine, +1. "All we have left in the world is one another, and we +must stay together the way Mother wanted", Kowalski said in telling +his children of their mother's death yesterday afternoon. +Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears +on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered +him with medical and funeral bills. #$135 DONATED# + +Neighbor +women, such as Mrs& Sidney Baker, 2269 Serra, Sterling Township, +have been supplying the family with meals and handling household chores +with Kowalski's sister-in-law, Mrs& Anna Kowalski, 22111 +David, East Detroit. Another neighbor, Mrs& Frank C& +Smith, 2731 Pall Mall, Sterling Township, surprised Kowalski by +coming to the home yesterday with $135 collected locally toward the +$400 funeral costs. John C& Houghton, president of the Tareytown +Acres Homeowners Association, followed that by announcing plans +last night for a door-to-door fund drive throughout their subdivision +on behalf of the Kowalski family. + +#STUDENTS HELP OUT# + +Houghton +said 6 p&m& Friday had been set for a canvass of all 480 homes +in the subdivision, which is located northeast of Dequindre and 14 +Mile road east. He said contributions also could be mailed to Post +Office Box 553, Warren Village Station. Vicky Kowalski +meanwhile learned that several of her fellow students had collected almost +$25 for her family during the lunch hour yesterday at Fuhrmann Junior +High School, 5155 Fourteen Mile road east. Principal +Clayton W& Pohly said he would allow a further collection between +classes today, and revealed that ~Y-Teen Club past surpluses had +been used to provide a private hospital nurse Monday for Mrs& Kowalski. + +#FUNDS FROM DANCES# + +Student Council officers announced +today the Kowalski family would be given the combined proceeds from +a school dance held two weeks ago, and another dance for Fuhrmann's +770 students this Friday night. "Furhmann's faculty is proud +that this has been a spontaneous effort, started largely among the +students themselves, because of fondness for Vicky and sympathy for +her entire family, Pohly said. There also were reports of a +collection at the County Line Elementary School, 3505o Dequindre, +which has been attended this year by four of the Kowalski children including +Christine. + +#EXPRESSES THANKS# + +Kowalski has spoken but +little since the fire last Saturday. But today he wanted to make a public +statement. "I never knew there were such neighbors and +friends around me and my family. I wasn't sure there were such people +anywhere in the world. I'll need more than a single day to find +the words to properly express my thanks to them". + +An alert 10-year-old safety patrol boy was congratulated by police +today for his part in obtaining a reckless driving conviction against +a youthful motorist. Patrolman George Kimmell, of McClellan +Station, said he would recommend a special safety citation for +Ralph Sisk, 9230 Vernor east, a third grader at the Scripps School, +for his assistance in the case. Kimmell said he and Ralph +were helping children across Belvidere at Kercheval Monday afternoon +when a car heading north on Belvidere stopped belatedly inside the +pedestrian crosswalk. + +#GETS CAR NUMBER# + +Kimmell ordered the driver +to back up, watched the children safely across and was approaching +the car when it suddenly "took off at high speed", he said, narrowly +missing him. Commandeering a passing car, Kimmell pursued +the fleeing vehicle, but lost it in traffic. Returning to the school +crossing, the officer was informed by the Sisk boy that he recognized +the driver, a neighbor, and had obtained the license number. The +motorist later was identified as Richard Sarkees, 17, of 2433 McClellan, +currently on probation and under court order not to drive. + +#GIVEN 15 DAYS# + +He was found guilty of reckless driving yesterday +by Traffic Judge George T& Murphy, who continued his no-driving +probation for another year and ordered him to spend 15 days in the Detroit +House of Correction. The jail sentence is to begin the day +after Sarkees graduates from Eastern High School in June. + +The long crisis in Laos appeared nearing a showdown today. + +Britain announced that it is asking the Soviet Union to agree +tomorrow to an immediate cease-fire. + +#HELP ASKED# + +In Vientiane, +the royal Laotian government decided today to ask its "friends and +neighbors" for help in fighting what it called a new rebel offensive +threatening the southeast Asian kingdom. Britain's plans +to press Russia for a definite cease-fire timetable was announced in +London by Foreign Secretary Lord Home. He said Britain also +proposed that the international truce commission should be reconvened, +sent to New Delhi and from there to Laos to verify the cease-fire. + +A 14-power conference on Laos should then meet on May 5, +he said. + +#PLEA FOR ARMS# + +The Laos government plea for help was +made by Foreign Minister Tiao Sopsaisana. He indicated that requests +would be made for more U&S& arms and more U&S& military +advisers. He declared the government is thinking of asking +for foreign troops if the situation worsens. One of the first +moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States +to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the +current civilian body. A note making the request was handed to +U&S& Ambassador Winthrop G& Brown. + +#HEAVY SUPPORT# + +The +Laos government said four major Pathet Lao rebel attacks had been +launched, heavily supported by troops from Communist North Viet Nam. + +The minister, describing the attacks which led up to the +appeal, said that 60,000 Communist North Vietnamese were fighting royal +army troops on one front- near Thakhek, in southern-central Laos. + +There was no confirmation of such massive assaults from independent +sources. In the past such government claims have been found +exaggerated. + +_HAVANA, APRIL 19._- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed +by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing +the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators. + +A Havana radio broadcast identified the Americans +as Howard Anderson and August Jack McNair. The executions +took place at dawn only a few hours after Havana radio announced their +conviction by a revolutionary tribunal at Pinar del Rio, where the +executions took place. + +#ARMS PLOT CHARGED# + +The broadcast said +Anderson, a Seattle ex-marine and Havana businessman, and McNair, +of Miami, were condemned on charges of smuggling arms to Cuban rebels. + +Anderson operated three Havana automobile service stations +and was commander of the Havana American Legion post before it disbanded +since the start of Fidel Castro's regime. Anderson's +wife and four children live in Miami. McNair, 25, was seized +March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload +of rifles in Pinar del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana. + +#REPORT +OTHERS HELD# + +At least 20 other Americans were reported to have +been arrested in a mass political roundup. Among them were a +number of newsmen, including Henry Raymont, of United Press International, +and Robert Berrellez, of Associated Press. So many +Cubans were reported being swept into the Castro dragnet that the +massive Sports Palace auditorium and at least one hotel were converted +into makeshift jails. More than 1,000 were said to have been arrested- +100 of them Roman Catholic priests. + +Of the millions who have served time in concentration camps in +Siberia as political prisoners of the Soviet state, few emerge in the +West to tell about it. M& Kegham- the name is a pseudynom- +was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary +Federation (~ARF)- two reasons the Communists put +him +away when they arrived in 1945. Today, M& Kegham was in Detroit, +en route to join his wife and children in California. + +Emory University's Board of Trustees announced Friday that +it was prepared to accept students of any race as soon as the state's +tax laws made such a step possible. "Emory University's +charter and by-laws have never required admission or rejection of +students on the basis of race", board chairman Henry L& Bowden +stated. But an official statement adopted by the 33-man Emory +board at its annual meeting Friday noted that state taxing requirements +at present are a roadblock to accepting Negroes. The statement +explained that under the Georgia Constitution and state law, +tax-exempt status is granted to educational institutions only if they +are segregated. "Emory could not continue to operate according +to its present standards as an institution of higher learning, of +true university grade, and meet its financial obligations, without the +tax-exemption privileges which are available to it only so long as it +conforms to the aforementioned constitutional and statutory provisions", +the statement said. The statement did not mention what steps +might be taken to overcome the legal obstacles to desegregation. + +An Emory spokesman indicated, however, that the university itself +did not intend to make any test of the laws. The Georgia +Constitution gives the Legislature the power to exempt colleges from +property taxation if, among other criteria, "all endowments to institutions +established for white people shall be limited to white people, +and all endowments to institutions established for colored people shall +be limited to colored people". At least two private colleges +in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student +bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the +state. Emory is affiliated with the Methodist Church. Some +church leaders, both clerical and lay, have criticized the university +for not taking the lead in desegregation. + +#URGED IN 1954# + +The student +newspaper, The Emory Wheel, as early as the fall of 1954 called +for desegregation. "From its beginning", the trustees' +statement said Friday, "Emory University has assumed as its primary +commitment a dedication to excellence in Christian higher learning. +Teaching, research and study, according to highest standards, under +Christian influence, are paramount in the Emory University policy. + +"As a private institution, supported by generous individuals, +Emory University will recognize no obligation and will adopt no +policy that would conflict with its purpose to promote excellence in +scholarship and Christian education. "There is not now, nor +has there ever been in Emory University's charter or by-laws any +requirement that students be admitted or rejected on the basis of race, +color or creed. Insofar as its own governing documents are concerned, +Emory University could now consider applications from prospective +students, and others +seeking applications from prospective students, +and others seeking the opportunity to study or work at the university, +irrespective of race, color or creed. + +#CORPORATE EXISTENCE# + +"On +the other hand, Emory University derives its corporate existence from +the State of Georgia. **h "When and if it can do so without +jeopardizing constitutional and statutory tax-exemption privileges +essential to the maintenance of its educational program and facilities, +Emory University will consider applications of persons desiring +to study or work at the University without regard to race, color or +creed, continuing university policy that all applications shall be considered +on the basis of intellectual and moral standards and other criteria +designed to assure the orderly and effective conduct of the university +and the fulfillment of its mission as an institution of Christian +higher education". + +A young man was killed and two others injured at midnight Friday +when the car they were riding slid into a utility pole on Lake Avenue +near Waddell Street, ~NE, police said. The dead youth +was identified as Robert E& Sims, 19, of 1688 Oak Knoll Cir&, +~SE. Patrolman G& E& Hammons said the car evidently +slid out of control on rain-slick streets and slammed into the +pole. The other occupants were James Willard Olvey, 18, of +963 Ponce de Leon Ave&, ~NE, and Larry Coleman Barnett, 19, +of 704 Hill St&, ~SE, both of whom were treated at Grady Hospital +for severe lacerations and bruises. + +The Atlanta Negro student movement renewed its demands for movie +theater integration Friday and threatened picketing and "stand-ins" +if negotiations failed. The demands were set forth in +letters to seven owners of first-run theaters by the Committee on Appeal +for Human Rights. #'INTEND TO ATTEND'# + +"We intend to +attend the downtown theaters before the first of the year", the identically +worded letters said. The letters set a Nov& 15 deadline +for the start of negotiations. They indicated that stand-ins and +picketing would be started if theater owners failed to cooperate. + +Downtown and art theater managers and owners, contacted Friday +night for comment on the ~COAHR request, said they had no knowledge +of such a letter, and that it was not in the Friday mail. However, +three of the managers did say that they would agree to attend the +proposed meeting if all of the other managers decided to attend. + +#GATHER +HERE# + +The ~COAHR letter comes on the eve of a large gathering +of theater managers and owners scheduled to begin here Sunday. +Several theater operators said, however, that there is little likelihood +of the subject being discussed during the three-day affair. + +Student leaders began sporadic efforts to negotiate theater integration +several months ago. Charles A& Black, ~COAHR chairman, +said Friday that three theater representatives had agreed to meet +with the students on Oct& 31 but had failed to show up. He declined +to name the three. Friday's letters asked for a Nov& 15 +meeting. Failure to attend the meeting or explain inability to attend, +the letters said, would be considered a "sign of indifference". + +Black said ~COAHR "hoped to be able to integrate the +theaters without taking direct action, but we are pledged to using every +legal and nonviolent means at our disposal **h" A +prepared +statement released by the student group Friday stated that "extensive +research by ~COAHR into techniques and methods of theater +integration in other cities indicated that the presence of picket lines +and stand-ins +before segregated theaters causes a drop in profits **h" + +Besides managers of downtown theaters, the students sent +letters to owners of art theaters in the uptown area and Buckhead. + +#R& E& KILLINGSWORTH# + +Raymond E& Killingsworth, 72, died +Sunday at his home at 357 Venable St&, ~NW. Mr& Kililngsworth +was a foreman with ~S and ~W Cafeteria. He was born +in Pittsboro, Miss&, and was a veteran of World War /1,. He +was a member of the Baptist church. Survivors include two brothers, +C& E& Killingsworth, Atlanta, and John Killingsworth, +Warren, Ohio; and two sisters, Miss Minnie Kililngsworth and +Mrs& Bessie Bloom, both of Gettysburg, Pa&. + +#JOHN W& BALL# + +John William Ball, 68, of 133 Marietta St& ~NW, Apartment +101~B, died Sunday at his home. Mr& Ball was a house +painter. He was a member of the Oakland City Methodist Church +and a native of Atlanta. Funeral services will be at 2 p&m& +Tuesday at Blanchard's Chapel with the Rev& J& H& Hearn +officiating. Survivors include his sister, Mrs& Emma +B& Odom of Atlanta. + +#MRS& LOLA HARRIS# + +Mrs& Lola M& +Harris, a native of Atlanta, died Sunday at her home in Garland, +Tex&. Survivors include a son, Charles R& Fergeson, Memphis, +Tenn&; two daughters, Mrs& Gene F& Stoll and Miss +Nancy Harris, both of Garland; her father, H& T& Simpson, +Greenville, S&C&, and three sisters, Mrs& W& E& Little +and Mrs& Hal B& Wansley, both of Atlanta, and Mrs& Bill +Wallace, Wilmington, N&C&. + +A 24-year-old Atlanta man was arrested Sunday after breaking +into the home of relatives in search of his wife, hitting his uncle with +a rock and assaulting two police officers who tried to subdue him, +police said. Patrolmen J& W& Slate and A& L& Crawford +Jr& said they arrested Ronald M& Thomas, of 1671 Nakoma +St&, ~NW, after he assaulted the officers. + +#POLICE ACCOUNT# + +The officers gave this account: Thomas early Sunday went +to the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr& and Mrs& R& C& Thomas, +511 Blanche St&, ~NW, looking for his wife, Margaret Lou +Thomas, 18, and their 11-month-old baby. The younger Thomas +ripped a screen door, breaking the latch, and after an argument struck +his uncle with a rock, scratching his face. He also struck his aunt +and wife, and during the melee the baby also suffered scratches. + +When police arrived the man was still violent, Slate said. + +#ATTACKS +OFFICER# + +He attacked one of the officers and was restrained. +About five minutes later he jumped up, Slate said, and struck the +two policemen again. He was then subdued and placed in the police +car to be taken to Grady Hospital for treatment of scratches received +in the melee. Then he attacked the two officers again and was again +restrained, Slate related. Slate said he and Crawford received +cuts and scratches and their uniforms were badly torn. +Thomas was charged with four counts of assault and battery. Two counts +of assault on an officer, resisting arrest, disturbance and cursing, +police said. A hearing was set for 8:30 a&m& Tuesday. + +Mrs& Mary Self, who knows more than any other person about +the 5,000 city employes for whom she has kept personnel records over +the years, has closed her desk and retired. Over the weekend, +Mrs& Self, personnel clerk, was a feted and honored guest of the +Atlanta Club, organization of women employes at City Hall. +After 18 years in the personnel office, she has taken a disability pension +on advice of her doctors. As personnel clerk, she handled +thousands of entries, ranging from appointments to jobs, to transfers +to other employments, to pensions. "I have enjoyed it and +will feel a bit lost at least for a while", she said wistfully Friday. + +One of the largest crowds in the club's history turned out +to pay tribute to Mrs& Self and her service. + +Georgia's Department of Agriculture is intensifying its fire +ant eradication program in an effort to stay ahead of the fast-spreading +pest. The department is planning to expand its eradication +program soon to four additional counties- Troup, Pierce, Bryan +and Bulloch- to treat 132,000 acres infested by the ants, according +to W& E& Blasingame state entomologist. Low-flying planes +will spread a granular-type chemical, heptachlor, over 30,000 acres +in Troup, 37,000 acres in Pierce and 65,000 acres in Bulloch and +Bryan counties. + +The eradication effort is being pushed in Bibb +and Jones counties, over 37,679 acres. The department has just finished +treating 20,000 acres in urban areas of Macon. Also being +treated are Houston, Bleckley, Tift, Turner and Dodge counties, +Blasingame said. The fire ant is thought to infest approximately +two million acres of land in Georgia, attacking crops, young wildlife +and livestock and can be a serious health menace to humans who are allergic +to its venom, Blasingame said. + +The north-bound entrance to the Expressway at 14th Street will +be closed during the afternoon rush traffic hours this week. +This is being done so that Georgia Tech can complete the final phase +of a traffic survey on the North Expressway. Students have been +using electric computers and high speed movie cameras during the study. +Perhaps the engineers can find out what causes all the congestion and +suggest methods to eliminate it. Incidentally, 14th Street +and the Expressway is the high accident intersection during daylight +hours. It is followed by Cain Street and Piedmont Avenue, ~NE; +the junction of the Northeast and Northwest Expressways and Jones +Avenue and Marietta Street, ~NW. + +Four persons died in Georgia weekend traffic crashes, two of +them +in a fiery crash near Snellville, the State Patrol said Sunday. + +The latest death reported was that of 4-year-old Claude Douglas +Maynor of Calvary. Troopers said the child ran into the path +of a passing car a half-mile north of Calvary on Georgia 111 in Grady +County. That death occurred at 6:50 p&m& Friday and +was reported Sunday, the patrol said. + +#BURSTS INTO FLAMES# + +An +auto overturned, skidding into a stopped tractor-trailer and burst into +flames near Snellville, the patrol said. Bobby Bester Hammett, +21, of Rte& 3, Lawrenceville, and Mrs& Lucille Herrington +Jones, 23, of Lawrenceville, died in the flaming car, the patrol +said. + +_SALEM (SPECIAL)_- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County +may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an +unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission +was told Friday. It is the only county in the state so +far this month reporting a possible shortage in ~GA category, for +which emergency allotment can be given by the state if necessary. + +William Smythe, director of field service, told the commissioners +that Multnomah, as of Aug& 22, had spent $58,918 out of its budgeted +$66,000 in the category, leaving only $7,082 for the rest of the month. + +At the rate of need indicated in the early weeks of the +month, this could mean a shortage of as high as $17,000. But it probably +will be less because of a usual slackening during the last weeks of +each month, Smythe said. No request for emergency allotment had yet +been received, however. + +#BOARD OKS PACT# + +The commission, meeting +for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy +Webster, of Hood River, and Dr& Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, +approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing +department who has been the center of considerable controversy in +the past. The contract with Ray Field, who has been converting +the agencies electronic data processing program to magnetic tape, would +renew his present salary of $8 an hour up to a maximum of 200 hours +a month. Field does the planning for the machine operations +and fiscal processes and the adapting of the data processing system to +new programs as they are made necessary by legislative and policy changes. + +Acting Administrator Andrew F& Juras said that because +of Field's unique position and knowledge in the program, the +agency now would be seriously handicapped if he was not continued for +a period. But he emphasized that the agency must train people +within its own employ to fulfill what Field handles, and he said he personally +"regrets very much that the agency has not done this in the +past". He pointed out to the commissioners that the agency +was literally dependent now on the machine processing, "and the whole +wheels of the agency would stop if it broke down or the three or four +persons directing it were to leave". + +#SALARY TERMED MODEST# + +Juras +said he insisted Field be continued on a consultant basis only +and be answerable directly to the administrator of the agency and not +to other agencies of the government. He also said that the salary, +in +terms of going rates in the field, was "modest" in terms of the man's +responsibility. The conversion to magnetic tape is not yet completed, +he said, and added Field's long service in state government +and welfare employ gave him familiarity with the welfare program. + +"Do you feel you can stand up to the next legislative session and +defend this contract"? asked Mrs& Grace O& Peck, representative +from Multnomah County, of the commission chairman, Joseph E& +Harvey Jr&. "My feeling at the moment", he said, +"is that we have no alternative, irrespective of some of the arguments +about him. The continued operation of this program depends on having +his service". + +#HARVEY CRITICIZED# + +Mrs& Peck, later joined +by the commission's vice-chairman, Mrs& Lee Patterson, took Harvey +to task for comments he had made to the North Portland Rotary +Club Tuesday. A publicity release from Oregon Physicians +Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare +office move to Salem, instead of "crippling" the agency, +had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the +key being improved communications between ~F+~A and the commission +staff. "I rather resent", she said, "you speaking to +those groups in Portland as though just the move accomplished this. +**h I think you fell short of the real truth in the matter: That the +move is working out through the fine cooperation of the staff and all +the people. **h The staff deserves a lot of credit working +down here under real obstacles". Harvey said his objective +was to create a better public image for welfare". + +The wife of convicted bank robber Lawrence G& Huntley was +arrested in Phoenix, Ariz&, last week and will be returned to Portland +to face charges of assault and robbery, Portland detectives said +Friday. Mrs& Lavaughn Huntley is accused of driving the +getaway car used in a robbery of the Woodyard Bros&' Grocery, +2825 E& Burnside St&, in April of 1959. Her husband, +who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island +last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, +also was charged with the store holdup. Secret Grand Jury indictments +were returned against the pair last week, Detective Murray Logan +reported. The Phoenix arrest culminates more than a year's +investigation by Detective William Taylor and other officers. Taylor +said Mrs& Huntley and her husband also will be questioned about +a series of 15 Portland robberies in spring of 1959 in which the +holdup men bound their victims with tape before fleeing. Mrs& +Huntley was held on $20,000 bond in Phoenix. She was arrested by +Phoenix Police after they received the indictment papers from Portland +detectives. + +A 12-year-old girl, Susan Elaine Smith, 9329 ~NE Schuyler +St& was in serious condition Friday at Bess Kaiser Hospital, +victim of a bicycle-auto collision in the Gateway Shopping Center, +parking area, Deputy Sheriff W& H& Forsyth reported. + +Funeral for William Joseph Brett, 1926 ~NE 50th Ave&, +who died Thursday in Portland, will be Monday 1 p&m& at the Riverview +Abbey. Mr& Brett, born in Brooklyn, N&Y&, +Dec& 15, 1886, came to Portland in 1920. He owned a logging equipment +business here from 1923 to 1928, and later became Northwest district +manager for Macwhyte Co&. He retired in 1958. Survivors +are his widow, Alice; a son, William, Seattle, Wash&; three +sisters, Mrs& Eugene Horstman, Los Angeles, Mrs& Lucy +Brett Andrew, New York City, and Mrs& Beatrice Kiefferm, New +York City, and five grandchildren. + +Employes of Montgomery Ward + Co& at The Dalles, in a National +Labor Relations Board election Thursday voted to decertify +Local 1565, Retail Clerks International Association, ~AFL-~CIO, +as their collective bargaining agent. The ~NLRB +said that of 11 potentially eligible voters eight voted against the +union, two voted for it, and one vote was challenged. + +Monte Brooks, 67, theatrical producer and band leader, collapsed +and died Thursday in a Lloyd Center restaurant. He lived at 6124 +N& Willamette Blvd&. For many years he had provided +music and entertainment for functions throughout the Northwest. These +included Oregon State Fair, for which he had been booked on and off, +for 30 years. He collaborated with many of the big name entertainers +visiting Portland, among the most recent being Jimmy Durante +and Phil Silvers. He had conducted the 20-piece band in +a series of concerts at Blue Lake park during the summer months. + +Mr& Brooks was born in New York, and came to Portland in 1920. +He planned at one time to enter the legal profession, but gave up +the plan in favor of the entertainment field. He was a member +of Harmony lodge, No& 12, ~AF+~AM, Scottish Rite; Al +Kader Temple of the Shrine; Order of Elks, Lodge No& 142; +40 + 8 Voiture, No& 25, Musician's Union, Local 99. + +He was a former commander of Willamette Heights, Post, and a member +of Nevah Sholom Congregation. Survivors are his widow, +Tearle; a son, Sheldon Brooks; a daughter, Mrs& Sidney S& +Stein Jr&, Dorenzo, Calif&; a sister, Mrs& Birdie Gevurtz; +two brothers, Charley and Aaron Cohn, San Francisco; and +five grandchildren. Services will be at 2:30 p&m& Monday +at Holman + Son Funeral Home, with interment in Neveh Zebek +cemetery. The family requests that flowers be omitted. + +A 16-year-old Portland businessman and his Junior Achievement +company, have been judged the "Company of the Year" in national +competition completed this week at Ohio State University, Columbus, +Ohio. Tim Larson, a junior at Wilson High School +and president of Spice-Nice, is the young executive who guided his firm +to the top-ranking position over the 4,500 other Junior Achievement +companies in the United States and Canada. The award is the first +such honor in the 11-year history of ~JA activities in Portland, +according to Ralph Scolatti, local executive director for Junior +Achievement. Spice-Nice, counseled by Georgia-Pacific Corp&, +had previously taken first-place honors in both local competition +and the regional conference at San Francisco. The "pocket-size" +company set records with $2,170 in sales of its products, a selection +of barbecue spices, and paid stockholders a 20 per cent dividend +on their investment. + +#YOUNGSTERS DO BUSINESS# + +The Junior Achievement +program is designed to give teenagers practical experience in business +by allowing them actually to form small companies, under the guidance +and sponsorship of business firms. The youngsters sell stock, +produce and sell a product, pay taxes, and show a profit **h or loss **h +just like full-scale businesses. National competition was the +culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and +continued until just before summer vacation. Participants in the 27 Portland +companies worked one night a week through the school year, guided +and counseled by adult advisors drawn from local business and industry. +Over 400 Portland firms contributed funds for the maintenance +of Junior Achievement headquarters here. For winning Larson +will receive a $100 U&S& Savings Bond from the Junior Achievement +national organization. His company, Spice-Nice, will receive +a $250 award, which will be distributed among the 16 charter members. +#~G-~P MEN SERVED# + +Advisors for the "national champion" +company were John K& Morgan, William H& Baker, Leonard Breuer +and William F& Stephenson, all of Georgia-Pacific Corp&. + +Young Larson is the son of Mr& and Mrs& Lawrence Larson, +5847 ~SW Nevada Ct&, Portland. Other members of +the Portland delegation attending the conference in Columbus are: +Kathleen Mason, Jefferson high school; Phil Reifenrath, Madison +high school; Ann Wegener, Madison; Richard E& Cohn, Grant; +Karen Kolb, Franklin; and Shelby Carlson, Cleveland. + +_HILLSBORO (SPECIAL)_- Washington County's 36th annual fair +will close Saturday evening with 4-~H and ~FFA awards program +at 7, public dance at 8 and variety show at 8:30. On the day's +schedule are a flower show, 4-~H horsemanship contest and clown +shows, the latter at 11 a&m& and 3 p&m&. Attendance +continued to run ahead of last year's during the five-day show, with +clear skies helping attract fairgoers. Exhibition ballroom dancers +from the studio of Helen Wick Walters of Hillsboro won the +all-county talent contest. Bill Davis quartet of Hillsboro was second +and baton twirler Sue Ann Nuttall of Reedville third. Finalists +from the county's east end failed to place. + +#RESULTS:# + +Janet +Jossy of North Plains won grand champion honors of the 4-~H sheep +showman contest. Blue ribbons went to Stephanie Shaw of Hillsboro, +Larry Hinton +of Beaverton. Joan Zurcher of Hillsboro, Phyllis +Jossy of North Plains, Jane Cox of North Plains. Kathy Jossy +of Hillsboro, Carol Jossy of North Plains and Lorlyn and Tom +Zurcher of Hillsboro. Tom Day of Beaverton exhibited the +grand champion 4-~H market hog, a Chester White. Also winning blue +ribbons were Bob Day of Beaverton, Tony Traxel of Beaverton and +Steve Hutchins of Banks. Swine showmanship championship +went +to Bob Day, with Tom Day and Hutchins winning other blues. + +Charles Reynolds of Pumpkin Ridge was rabbit showmanship champion. + +In poultry judging, blues were won by John Nyberg of Tualatin, +Anne Batchelder of Hillsboro, Jim Shaw of Hillsboro, Stephanie +Shaw of Hillsboro and Lynn Robinson of Tigard. Blue +ribbon for one dozen white eggs was taken by Nyberg. In +open class poultry, Donald Wacklin of Sherwood had the champion male +and female bird and grand champion bird. John Haase + Son +of Corneilus was the only entrant in open class swine and swept all +championships. + +Carol Strong, 13, of Cedar Mill cooked the championship +junior dollar dinner. Millie Jansen, high school senior from +Verboort, had the championship dollar dinner, and Jody Jaross of +Hillsboro also won a blue ribbon. Barbara Borland of Tigard +took top senior individual home economics honors with a demonstration +called filbert hats. + +About 70 North Providence taxpayers made appeals to the board +of tax accessors for a review of their 1961 tax assessments during the +last two days at the town hall in Centredale. These were +the last +two days set aside by the board for hearing appeals. Appeals were heard +for two days two weeks ago. About 75 persons appeared at that time. + +Louis H& Grenier, clerk of the board, said that the appeals +will be reviewed in December at the time the board is visiting new +construction sites in the town for assessment purposes. They also +will visit properties on which appeals have been made. Any adjustments +which are made, Mr& Grenier said earlier this month, will +appear on the balance of the tax bill since most of the town's taxpayers +take the option of paying quarterly with the balance due next year. + +John Pezza, 69, of 734 Hartford Avenue, Providence, complained +of shoulder pains after an accident in which a car he was driving +collided with a car driven by Antonio Giorgio, 25, of 12 DeSoto St&, +Providence, on Greenville Avenue and Cherry Hill Road in +Johnston yesterday. Mr& Giorgio had started to turn left off +Greenville Avenue onto Cherry Hill Road when his car was struck +by the Pezza car, police said. Both cars were slightly damaged. + +Mr& Pezza was taken to a nearby Johnston physician, Dr& Allan +A& DiSimone, who treated him. Mr& Giorgio was +uninjured. + +Thieves yesterday ransacked a home in the Garden Hills section +of Cranston and stole an estimated $3,675 worth of furs, jewels, +foreign coins and American dollars. Mr& and Mrs& Stephen +M& Kochanek reported the theft at their home on 41 Garden Hills +Drive at about 6 last night. They told police the intruders took a +mink coat worth $700, a black Persian lamb jacket worth $450; a wallet +with $450 in it; a collection of English, French and German +coins, valued at $500; four rings, a watch and a set of pearl earrings. + +One of the rings was a white gold band with a diamond setting, +valued at $900. The others were valued at $325, $75 and $65. The +watch was valued at $125 and the earrings at $85. The Kochaneks +told police they left home at 8 a&m& and returned about 5:45 +p&m& and found the house had been entered. Patrolman Robert J& +Nunes, who investigated, said the thieves broke in through the back +door. Drawers and cabinets in two bedrooms and a sewing room were ransacked. + +The city sewer maintenance division said efforts will be made +Sunday to clear a stoppage in a sewer connection at Eddy and Elm Streets +responsible for dumping raw sewage into the Providence River. + +The division said it would be impossible to work on the line +until then because of the large amount of acid sewage from jewelry plants +in the area flowing through the line, heavy vehicle traffic on Eddy +Street and tide conditions. + +A two-family house at 255 Brook Street has been purchased by +Brown University from Lawrence J& Sullivan, according to a deed +filed Monday at City Hall. F& Morris Cochran, university vice +president and business manager, said the house has been bought to provide +rental housing for faculty families, particularly for those here +for a limited time. + +Employes of Pawtucket's garbage and rubbish collection contractor +picketed the firm's incinerator site yesterday in the second +day of a strike for improved wages and working conditions. Thomas +Rotelli, head of Rhode Island Incinerator Service, Inc&, said +four of the company's eight trucks were making collections with +both newly hired and regular workers. Sydney Larson, a staff +representative for the United Steel Workers, which the firm's 25 +workers joined before striking, said the state Labor Relations Board +has been asked to set up an election to pick a bargaining agent. + +A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E& Stone of 19 Beverly +Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of +Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a +car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue +in North Providence near Stevens Street. Mr& Stone suffered +fractured ribs and chest cuts, hospital authorities said. He was +taken to the hospital by the North Providence ambulance. Before +hitting the pole, Mr& Stone's car brushed against a car driven +by Alva W& Vernava, 21, of 23 Maple Ave&, North Providence, +tearing away the rear bumper and denting the left rear fender of +the Vernava car, police said. Mr& Vernava was uninjured. The +impact with the utility pole caused a brief power failure in the immediate +area of the accident. One house was without power for about +half an hour, a Narragansett Electric Co& spokesman said. The power +was off for about five minutes in houses along Smith Street as far +away as Fruit Hill Avenue shortly before 5 p&m& when the accident +occurred. + +The fight over the Warwick School Committee's appointment +of a coordinator of audio-visual education may go to the state Supreme +Court, it appeared last night. Two members of the Democratic-endorsed +majority on the school board said they probably would vote +to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday +that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of +the coordinator, Francis P& Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed +committee chairman, could not be reached for comment. In its +ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr& Michael F& Walsh, +state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that +the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F& Tougas as coordinator +of audio-visual education without first finding that the school +superintendent's candidate was not suitable. Supt& Clarence +S& Taylor had recommended Roger I& Vermeersch for the post. + +Milton and Rosella Lovett of Cranston were awarded $55,000 +damages from the state in Superior Court yesterday for industrial property +which they owned at 83 Atwells Ave&, Providence, and which +was condemned for use in construction of Interstate Route 95. + +The award was made by Judge Fred B& Perkins who heard their +petition without a jury by agreement of the parties. The award, +without interest, compared with a valuation of $57,500 placed on the +property by the property owners' real estate expert, and a valuation +of $52,500 placed on it by the state's expert. The property +included a one-story brick manufacturing building on 8,293 square feet +of land. Saul Hodosh represented the owners. Atty& Gen& +J& Joseph Nugent appeared for the state. + +Santa's lieutenants in charge of the Journal-Bulletin Santa +Claus Fund are looking for the usual generous response this year +from Cranston residents. Persons who find it convenient may send +their contributions to the Journal-Bulletin's Cranston office +at 823 Park Avenue. All contributed will be acknowledged. The +fund's statewide quota this year is $8,250 to provide Christmas +gifts for needy youngsters. Scores of Cranston children will be remembered. + +Cranston residents have been generous contributors to +the fund over the years. Public school children have adopted the fund +as one of their favorite Christmas charities and their pennies, nickels, +dimes and quarters aid greatly in helping Santa to reach the fund's +goal. + +Bernard Parrillo, 20, of 19 Fletcher Ave&, Cranston, was +admitted to Roger Williams Hospital shortly before 11:30 a&m& +yesterday after a hunting accident in which a shotgun he was carrying +discharged against his heel. Mr& Parrillo was given first +aid at Johnston Hose 1. (Thornton) where he had been driven by a companion. +The two had been hunting in the Simmonsville area of town +and Mr& Parrillo dropped the gun which fired as it struck the ground. + +Hospital officials said the injury was severe but the youth +was in good condition last night. + +A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 +federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital +administrator, Oliver G& Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte. + +The hospital has used the money to assist in alterations on +the fifth floor of the Jane Brown Hospital, part of Rhode Island +Hospital. The work added eight beds to the hospital, giving it a total +capacity of 646 general beds. + +Vincent Sorrentino, founder and board chairman of the Uncas +Mfg& Co&, has been designated a Cavaliere of the Order of Merit +of the Republic of Italy. The decoration will be presented +by A& Trichieri, Italian consul general in Boston, at a ceremony +at 2:30 p& m& on Dec& 7 +at the plant, which this year is celebrating +its golden anniversary. About 500 employes of the firm will be +on hand to witness bestowal of the honor upon Mr& Sorrentino. + +Mr& Sorrentino will be honored on the evening of Dec& 7 +at a dinner to be given by the Aurora Club at the Sheraton-Biltmore +Hotel. + +The Newport-based destroyer picket escort Kretchmer has arrived +back at Newport after three months' patrol in North Atlantic +waters marked by mercy jobs afloat and ashore. On Sept& 6, +the Kretchmer rescued the crew of a trawler they found drifting on a +life raft after they had abandoned a sinking ship. In August while stopping +in Greenock, Scotland, three members of the crew on liberty +rendered first aid to a girl who fell from a train. Local authorities +credited the men with saving the girl's life. + +_BIRMINGHAM, ALA&- (~AP)_- +The ~FBI yesterday arrested +on a perjury charge one of the members of the jury that failed to reach +a verdict in the "Freedom Rider" bus burning trial four weeks +ago. U&S& Attorney Macon Weaver said the federal complaint, +charged that the juror gave false information when asked about +Ku Klux Klan membership during selection of jury. He identified +the man as Lewis Martin Parker, 59, a farmer of Hartselle, +Ala&. Eight men were tried together in U&S& District +Court in Anniston, Ala&, on charges of interfering with interstate +transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack +on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders. The +bus was +burned outside Anniston. One of the eight defendants was +freed on a directed verdict of acquittal. A mistrial was declared in +the case against the other seven when the jury was unable to agree on +a verdict. The arrest of Mr& Parker marks the third charge +of wrongdoing involving the jury that heard the case. The first +incident occurred before the trial got under way when Judge H& +Hobart Grooms told the jury panel he had heard reports of jury-tampering +efforts. He asked members of the panel to tell him if anyone +outside the court had spoken to them about the case. Two members +of the panel later told in court about receiving telephone calls at their +homes from anonymous persons expressing interest in the trial. Neither +was seated on the jury. Then, when the case went to the +jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him +he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the +trial opened. The juror said the masked men had advised him to be lenient. +The judge replaced the juror with an alternate. No formal +charges have been filed as a result of either of the two reported +incidents. At the opening of the trial, the jury panel was questioned +as a group by Mr& Weaver about Ku Klux Klan connections. + +One member of the panel- not Mr& Parker- indicated +he had been a member of the ~KKK at one time. He was not seated +on the jury. The perjury charge against Mr& Parker carries +a maximum penalty of $2,000 fine and five years imprisonment on conviction. + +_NEW YORK- (~UPI)_- The New York University Board of +Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history +of ~NYU, it was announced yesterday. The new president is +37-year-old Dr& James McN& Hester, currently dean of the ~NYU +Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He will take over his +new post Jan& 1. Dr& Hester, also one of the youngest +men ever to head a major American university, succeeds Dr& Carroll +V& Newsom who resigned last September to join Prentice-Hall Inc& +publishing firm. Dr& Hester, of Princeton, N&J&, +is a native of Chester, Pa& He joined ~NYU in September, +1960. Prior to that he was associated with Long Island University +in Brooklyn. + +_ASILOMAR, MARCH 26_ Vast spraying programs conducted by "technicians +with narrow training and little wisdom" are endangering crops +and wildlife, Carl W& Buchheister, president of the National Audubon +Society, said today. "It is like handing a loaded .45 +automatic to an 8-year-old and telling him to run out and play", he +commented. Buchheister told delegates to the West Coast Audubon +Convention that aerial spraying in Louisiana failed to destroy +its target, the fire ant. "But it did destroy the natural +controls of a borer and released a new plague that wrecked a sugar cane +crop", he said. The conservation leader said other mistakes +in spraying had caused serious damage in Ohio and Wyoming. There +have even been serious errors in the U& S& Forest Service, +whose +officials pride themselves in their scientific training, he added. + +"The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting +that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, +are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally +peck their grapes or their blueberries", Buchheister told the delegates. + +In addition to urging greater restrictions on aerial spraying, +Buchheister called for support of the Wilderness bill, creation +of national seashore parks, including Point Reyes; preservation +of the wetlands where birds breed; a pesticides co-ordination act; +stronger water pollution control programs, and Federal ratification +of an international convention to halt pollution of the sea by +oil. + +The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin +county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon +Society. Mrs& Norman Livermore, president of the Marin +Conservation League, handed over the deed to the 645-acre tidelands +tract south of Greenwood Beach to Carl W& Buchheister, president +of the Society. The presentation was made before several +hundred persons at the annual meeting of the League at Olney Hall, +College of Marin, Kentfield. Buchheister pledged the land +would be an "inviolate" sanctuary for all birds, animals and plants. + +Seventeen years ago today, German scientist Willy Fiedler climbed +into a makeshift cockpit installed in a ~V-1 rocket-bomb that +was attached to the underbelly of a Heinkel bomber. The World +War /2, German bomber rolled down a runway and took off. + +The only way Fiedler could get back to earth alive was to fly the +pulse jet missile and land it on the airstrip. This had never been done +before. Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an +aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division +at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the +Navy's Polaris missile. He sat in his office yesterday and +recalled that historic flight in 1944. "The first two pilots +had crashed", he said. "I had developed the machines and therefore +knew them. It was time to go up myself". Fiedler was then +technical director of Hitler's super-secret "Reichenberg project", +which remained unknown to the Allies until after the war. + +About 200 of the special ~V-1 rocket-bombs were to be made ready +for manned flight with an explosive warhead. The target was Allied +shipping- a desperate effort to stave off the Allied invasion of +Europe. The success of the project depended upon Fiedler's +flight. Squeezed into the few cubic feet normally filled by +the rocket's automatic guidance mechanism, the scientist waited while +the bomber gained altitude. At 12,000 feet, Fiedler signaled +"release", and started the roaring pulse-jet engine- then streaked +away from beneath the Heinkel. To the German pilot in the +bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the +sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m&p&h&. It was probably +man's first successful flight in a missile. "She flew beautifully", +said Fiedler. "There was only one power control- a valve +to adjust the fuel flow. I had exactly 20 minutes to get down to +the test strip". Using a steering system that controlled the +modified rocket's tail surfaces and wings equipped with ailerons, +Fiedler was to land the missile on a skid especially bolted under the +fuselage. He managed to maneuver the missile to a landing speed +of 200 m&p&h&- fast even for a modern jet plane touchdown- +and banked into the airfield. Moments later the ~V-1 skimmed +across the landing strip, edging closer and closer to a touchdown- +then in a streamer of dust it landed. Fiedler went on to make +several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg +missiles. The missiles were to be armed with an underwater +bomb. Pilots would steer them in a suicide dive into the water, +striking below the waterline of individual ships. A crack corps +of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project +was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into +Allied hands. Now a family man with three children, Fiedler +lives in a quiet residential area near the Lockheed plant at Sunnyvale. +His spare time is spent in soaring gliders. "It's +so quiet", he said, "so slow, serene- and so challenging". + +John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus +Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday. +Other officers are Angelo J& Scampini, vice president, Joseph V& +Arata, treasurer, and Fred J& Casassa, secretary. +Judge +John B& Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee. +Elected to the board of directors were: Elios P& Anderlini, +Attilio Beronio, Leo M& Bianco, Frederic Campagnoli, +Joseph Cervetto, Armond J& De Martini, Grace Duhagon, John +P& Figone, John P& Figone Jr&, Stephen Mana, John Moscone, +Calude Perasso, Angelo Petrini, Frank Ratto, and George R& +Reilly. + +Dr& Albert Schweitzer, world-famous theologian and +medical +missionary, has endorsed an Easter March for Disarmament which begins +tomorrow in Sunnyvale. Members of the San Francisco American +Friends Service, a Quaker organization, will march to San Francisco +for a rally in Union Square at 2 p& m& Saturday. + +In a letter to the American Friends Service, Dr& Schweitzer +wrote: "Leading Nations of the West and of the East keep +busy making newer nuclear weapons to defend themselves in the event +the constantly threatening nuclear war should break out. "They +cannot do otherwise than live in dread of each other since these weapons +imply the possibility of such grisly surprise attack. The only +way out of this state of affairs is agreement to abolish nuclear weapons; +otherwise no peace is possible. "Governments apparently +do not feel obligated to make the people adequately aware of this danger; +therefore we need guardians to demonstrate against the ghastly +stupidity of nuclear weapons and jolt the people out of their complacency". + +A federal grand jury called 10 witnesses yesterday in an investigation +of the affairs of Ben Stein, 47, who collected big fees as +a "labor consultant" and operator of a janitors' service. +Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake +Shore dr&, admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with +crime syndicate hoodlums. + +#GLIMCO A BUDDY# + +Among his gangland +buddies, he said, were +Joseph [Joey] Glimco, a mob labor racketeer, +and four gang gambling chiefs, Gus [Slim] Alex, Ralph Pierce, +Joe [Caesar] DiVarco, and Jimmy [Monk] Allegretti. +Another hoodlum, Louis Arger, drew $39,000 from Stein's janitor +firm, the National Maintenance company, in three years ending in 1959, +Stein disclosed in an interview. "I put Arger on the payroll +because he promised to get my firm the stevedore account at Navy +pier", Stein said. "But Arger never was able to produce it, so +I cut him off my payroll". + +#CONNECTION IS SOUGHT# + +Other witnesses, +after appearances before the jury, which reportedly is probing +into possible income tax violations, disclosed that government prosecutors +were attempting to connect Stein and his company with a number of +gangsters, including Glimco and Alex. The federal lawyers, +according to their witnesses, also were tracing Stein's fees as a +labor consultant. Under scrutiny, two of the witnesses said, were payments +and loans to Stein's National Maintenance company at 543 Madison +st&. The company supplies janitors and workmen for +McCormick +Place and factories, liquor firms, and other businesses. + +#LEE +A WITNESS# + +Among the witnesses were Ed J& Lee, director of +McCormick Place; Jerome Leavitt, a partner in the Union Liquor +company, 3247 S& Kedzie av&, Dominic Senese, a teamster union +slugger who is a buddy of Stein and a cousin of Tony Accardo, onetime +gang chief; and Frank W& Pesce, operator of a Glimco dominated +deodorant firm, the Best Sanitation and Supply company, 1215 +Blue Island av&. Lee said he had told the jury that he made +an agreement in April with Stein to supply and supervise janitors +in McCormick Place. Stein's fee, Lee said, was 10 per cent of +the janitors' pay. Stein estimated this amount at "about $1,500 +or $1,600 a month". + +#A $12,500 PAYMENT# + +Leavitt, as he entered +the jury room, said he was prepared to answer questions about the $12,500 +his liquor firm paid to Stein for "labor consultant work" with +five unions which organized Leavitt's workers. Leavitt identified +the unions as a warehouseman's local, the teamsters union, a salesman's +union, the janitors' union, and a bottling workers' union. + +Government attorneys, Leavitt said, have questioned him closely +about "five or six loans" totaling about $40,000 which the liquor +company made to Stein in the last year. All of the loans, +in amounts up to $5,000 each, have been repaid by Stein, according +to Leavitt. Stein said he needed the money, Leavitt said, to "meet +the payroll" at National Maintenance company. The deodorant +firm run by Pesce has offices in the headquarters of Glimco's +discredited taxi drivers' union at 1213-15 Blue Island av&. + +The radiation station of the Chicago board of health recorded +a reading of 1 micro-microcurie of radiation per cubic meter of air over +Chicago yesterday. The reading, which has been watched +with +interest since Russia's detonation of a super bomb Monday, was 4 +on Tuesday and 7 last Saturday, a level far below the danger point, +according to the board of health. The weather bureau has estimated +that radioactive fallout from the test might arrive here next week. +A board of health spokesman said there is no reason to believe that +an increase in the level here will occur as a result of the detonation. + +Curtis Allen Huff, 41, of 1630 Lake av&, Wilmette, was arrested +yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling +an undetermined amount of money from the First Federal Savings +and Loan association, 1 S& Dearborn st&, where he formerly +was employed +as an attorney. Federal prosecutors estimated that the +amount may total $20,000, altho a spokesman for the association estimated +its loss at approximately $10,000. + +#LIEN PAYMENTS INVOLVED# + +Huff's attorney, Antone F& Gregorio, quoted his client as saying +that part of the embezzlement represented money paid to Huff, as +attorney for the loan association, in satisfaction of mechanic's liens +on property on which the association held mortgages. Huff told +Gregorio that he took the money to pay "the ordinary bills and +expenses of suburban living". Huff, who received a salary of +$109 a week from the loan association from October of 1955 until September +of this year, said that his private practice was not lucrative. +Huff lives with his wife, Sue, and their four children, 6 to 10 years +old, in a $25,000 home with a $17,000 mortgage. + +#CHARGE LISTS 3 +CHECKS# + +The complaint on which the warrant was issued was filed by +Leo Blaber, an attorney for the association. The shortage was +discovered after Huff failed to report for work on Sept& 18. On +that date, according to Gregorio, Huff left his home and took a room +in the New Lawrence hotel at 1020 Lawrence av&. There, Gregorio +said, Huff wrote a complete statement of his offense. Later, +Huff cashed three checks for $100 each at the Sherman House, using +a credit card. All bounced. When Huff attempted to cash another +$100 check there Monday, hotel officials called police. + +_BONN, OCT& 24 (~UPI)_- Greece and West Germany have ratified +an agreement under which Germany will pay $28,700,000 to Greek +victims of Nazi persecution, it was announced today. + +PROBABLY THE hottest thing that has hit the Dallas investment +community in years was the Morton Foods stock issue, which was +sold to the public during the past week. For many reasons, the +demand to buy shares in the Dallas-headquartered company was tremendous. +It was not a case of the investment bankers having to sell the +stock; it was more one of allotting a few shares to a number of customers +and explaining to others why they had no more to sell. Investors +who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended up with 25, and customers +who had put in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 +and counted themselves lucky to get that many. In fact, very +few customers, anywhere in the nation, were able to get more than 100 +shares. Some Dallas investment firms got only 100 shares, for all of +their customers. A measure of how hot the stock was, can be +found in what happened to it on the market as soon as trading began. + +The stock was sold in the underwriting at a price of $12.50 a share. +The first over-the-counter trade Wednesday afternoon at Eppler, +Guerin + Turner, the managing underwriter, was at $17 a share. And +from that the stock moved right on up until it was trading Thursday +morning at around $22 a share. But the Morton Foods issue +was hot long before it was on the market. Indeed, from the moment the +reports of the coming issue first started circulating in Dallas last +January, the inquiries and demand for the stock started building up. + +Letters by the reams came in from investment firms all over the +nation, all of them wanting to get a part of the shares that would +be sold (185,000 to the public at $12.50, with another 5,000 reserved +for Morton Foods employes at $11.50 a share). There was even +a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned +about the Dallas stock offering. "We subscribe 500 shares of Morton +Foods of Texas. Cable confirmation", it said translated. But +E&G&T& could not let the Swiss bank have even 10 shares. + +After it allotted shares to 41 underwriters and 52 selling group +members from coast to coast there were not many shares for anyone. + +But the result of it all was, E&G&T& partner Dean Guerin +believes, an effective distribution of the stock to owners all +over the nation. "I feel confident the stock will qualify for +the 'national list'", he said, meaning its market price would +be quoted regularly in newspapers all over the country. He was +also pleased with the wide distribution because he thought it proved +again his argument that Dallas investment men can do just as good a +job as the big New York investment bankers claim only they can do. + +But what made the Morton Foods stock issue such a hot one? + +The answer is that it was a combination of circumstances. + +First, the general stock market has been boiling upward for the last +few months, driving stocks of all kinds up. As a result, it is not +easy to find a stock priced as the Morton issue was priced (at roughly +10 times 1960 earnings, to yield a little over 5 per cent on the 64~c +anticipated dividend). Second, the "potato chip industry" +has caught the fancy of investors lately, and until Morton Foods +came along there were only two potato chip stocks- Frito and H& +W& Lay- on the market. Both of those have had dynamic run-ups +in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher +price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market +at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock +to have a fast run-up. And third, the potato chip industry has +taken on the flavor of a "growth" industry in the public mind of +late. Foods, which long had been considered "recession resistant" +but hardly dynamic stocks, have been acting like growth stocks, going +to higher price-earnings ratios. The potato chip industry these +days is growing, not only as a +result of population increase and public +acceptance of convenience foods, but also because of a combination +of circumstances +that has led to growth by merger. The history of the +U&S& potato chip industry is that many of today's successful +companies got started during the deep depression days. Those that remain +are those that were headed by strong executives, men with the abilities +to last almost 30 years in the competitive survival of the fittest. + +But today many of those men are reaching retirement age and +suddenly realizing that they face an estate tax problem with their +closely held companies and also that they have no second-echelon management +in their firms. So they go looking for mergers with other +firms that have publicly quoted stock, and almost daily they pound on +the doors of firms like Frito. All those things combined to +make the Morton Foods stock the hot issue that it was and is. + +Now, if Morton's newest product, a corn chip known as Chip-o's, +turns out to sell as well as its stock did, the stock may turn out +to be worth every cent of the prices that the avid buyers bid it up +to. +Dallas and North Texas is known world-wide as the manufacturing and +distribution center of cotton gin machinery and supplies, valued in the +millions of dollars. More than 10 companies maintain facilities +in Dallas and one large manufacturer is located to the north at +Sherman. It is no coincidence that the Texas Cotton Ginner's +Association is meeting here this week for the 46th time in their +52-year history. The exhibition of cotton ginning machinery at +the State Fair grounds is valued at more than a million dollars. It +weighs in the tons, so the proximity of factory and exhibition area +makes it possible for an outstanding exhibit each year. A modern +cotton gin plant costs in the neighborhood of $250,000, and it's +a safe assumption that a large percentage of new gins in the U&S& +and foreign countries contain machinery made in this area. +The Murray Co& of Texas, Inc&, originated in Dallas in 1896. +They've occupied a 22-acre site since the early 1900's. More than +700 employes make gin machinery that's sold anywhere cotton is grown. + +Murray makes a complete line of ginning equipment except +for driers and cleaners, and this machinery is purchased from a Dallas-based +firm. The Continental Gin Co& began operations in +Dallas in 1899. The present company is a combination of several smaller +ones that date back to 1834. Headquarters is in Birmingham, +Ala&. Factories are located here and in Prattville, Ala&. +About +40 per cent of the manufacturing is done at the Dallas plant by +more than 200 employes. The company sells a complete line of +gin machinery all over the cotton-growing world. Hardwicke-Etter +Co& of Sherman makes a full line of gin machinery and equipment. +The firm recently expanded domestic sales into the Southeastern +states as a result of an agreement with Cen-Tennial Gin Co&. They +export also. The company began operation in 1900 with hardware +and oil mill supplies. In 1930, they began making cotton processing +equipment. Presently, Hardwicke-Etter employs 300-450 people, depending +on the season of the year. The Lummus Cotton Gin Co& +has had a sales and service office in Dallas since 1912. Factory +operations are in Columbus, Ga&. The district office here employs +about 65. The Moss Gordin Lint Cleaner Co& and Gordin +Unit System of Ginning have joint headquarters here. The cleaner +equipment firm began operations in 1953 and the unit system, which +turns out a complete ginning system, began operations in 1959. +Gordin manufacturing operations are in Lubbock. The John E& +Mitchell Co& began work in Dallas in 1928. The firm is prominent +in making equipment for cleaning seed cotton, driers, and heaters, +and they lay claim to being the first maker (1910) of boil extraction +equipment. The increase in mechanical harvesting of cotton makes +cleaning and drying equipment a must for modern gin operation. + +Mitchell employs a total of about 400 people. They export cotton +ginning machinery. The Hinckley Gin Supply Co& is a maker +of "overhead equipment". This includes driers, cleaners, burr +extractors, separators and piping that's located above gin stands in +a complete gin. The firm began operations back in 1925 and sells +equipment in the central cotton belt, including the Mississippi +Delta. The Cen-Tennial Gin Supply Co& has home offices +and factory facilities here. They make gin saws and deal in parts, supplies +and some used gin machinery. The Stacy Co& makes cleaning +and drying equipment for sale largely in Texas. They've been +in Dallas since 1921. Cotton Belt Gin Service, Inc& +of Dallas makes gin saws and started here 14 years ago. They distribute +equipment in 11 states. The firm also handles gin and oil mill supplies +such as belting, bearings, etc&. Cotton processing equipment +is a sizable segment of Dallas business economy. +New car sales in Dallas County during March showed slight signs of +recovering from the doldrums which have characterized sales this year. + +Registrations of new cars in Dallas County cracked the 3,000 +mark in March for the first time this year. Totaling 3,399, +sales jumped 14 per cent over February's 2,963. However, compared +with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per +cent. On a quarter-to-quarter comparison, the first quarter of +1961 total of 9,273 cars was 21 per cent behind the previous year's +3-month total of 11,744. This year-to-year decline for Dallas +County closely follows the national trend- estimated sales of domestic +cars in the U&S& for first three months of 1961 were about +1,212,000 or 80 per cent of the total in the first quarter a year earlier. + +With the March pickup, dealers are optimistic that the +April-June quarter will equal or top last year. The March gain plus +this optimism has been encouraging enough to prompt auto makers to boost +production schedules for the next quarter. On the local level, +compacts continue to grab a larger share of the market at the expense +of lower-priced standard models and foreign cars. Only three standard +models- Buick, Chrysler, and Mercury- had slight year-to-year +gains in March sales in the county. + +The top 3 students from 11 participating Dallas County high +schools will be honored by the Dallas Sales Executives Club at a banquet +at 6 p&m& Tuesday in the Sam Houston Room of the Sheraton-Dallas +Hotel as the club winds up its annual Distributive Education +project. Now in its third year, the program is designed +to provide a laboratory for those youngsters seeking careers in marketing +and salesmanship. Business firms provide 20 weeks of practical employment +to supplement classroom instruction in these fields. More +than 500 juniors and seniors are taking part in the program and 100 +firms offer jobs on an educational rather than a need basis. +Principal address will be delivered by Gerald T& Owens, national +sales manager for Isodine Pharmical Corp& of New York. +The 33 honored students are: Mike Trigg, Raymond Arrington, and +Ronald Kaminsky of Bryan Adams, Janice Whitney, Fil Terral, +and Carl David Page of W& H& Adamson; Bill Burke, Tommie +Freeman, and Lawrence Paschall of N& R& Crozier Tech& +Paulah +Thompson, Gerald Kestner, and Nancy Stephenson of Hillcrest; +Arnold Hayes, Mary Ann Shay, and Lloyd Satterfield of Thomas +Jefferson; William Cluck, Deloris Carrel Carty, and +Edna Earl Eaton of North Dallas; Patricia Ann Neal, Johnny +Carruthers, and David McLauchlin of Rylie of Seagoville; David +Wolverton, Sharon Flanagan, and James Weaver of W& W& Samuels; +William Austin, Gary Hammond, and Ronnie Davis of South +Oak Cliff; Bill Eaton, Carolyn Milton, and Ronnie Bert Stone +of Sunset; and Charles Potter, Ronnie Moore, and Robert Bailey +of Woodrow Wilson. + +The Kennedy administration's new housing and urban renewal +proposals, particularly their effect on the Federal Housing Administration, +came under fire in Dallas last week. The Administration's +proposals, complex and sweeping as they are, all deal with fringe +areas of the housing market rather than its core, stated Caron +S& Stallard, first vice-president of the Mortgage Bankers Association +of America. + +_SANTA BARBARA_- "The present recovery movement will gather steady +momentum to lift the economy to a new historic peak by this autumn", +Beryl W& Sprinkel, economist of Harris Trust + Savings +Bank, Chicago, predicted at the closing session here Tuesday of Investment +Bankers Assn&, California group, conference. Another +speaker, William H& Draper, Jr&, former Under Secretary +of the Army and now with the Palo Alto venture capital firm of Draper, +Gaither + Anderson, urged the U&S& to "throw down the +gauntlet of battle to communism and tell Moscow bluntly we won't be +pushed arouny any more". He urged support for President Kennedy's +requests for both defense and foreign aid appropriations. #'NOT +FLASH IN PAN'# + +Sprinkel told conferees that the recent improvement +in economic activity was not a "temporary flash in the pan" +but the beginning of a substantial cyclical expansion that will carry +the economy back to full employment levels and witness a renewal of our +traditional growth pattern. "In view of the current expansion, +which promises to be substantial" he said the odds appear to favor +rising interest rates in coming months, but "there is reason to +believe the change will not be as abrupt as in 1958 nor as severe as +in late 1959 and 1960". + +#THESIS REFUTED# + +Sprinkel strongly refuted +the current neo-stagnationist thesis that we are facing a future of +limited and slow growth, declaring that this pessimism "is based +on +very limited and questionable evidence". Rather than viewing +the abortive recovery in 1959-60 as a reason for believing we have lost +prospects for growth", he said "it should be viewed as a lesson +well learned which will increase the probability of substantial improvement +in this recovery". + +#DANGER CITED# + +He cautioned that "the +greater danger in this recovery may be excessive stimulation by government +which could bring moderate inflation". The economist +does not look for a drastic switch in the budget during this recovery +and believes it "even more unlikely that the Federal Reserve will +aggressively tighten monetary policy in the early phases of the upturn +as was the case in 1958". The unsatisfactory 1958-60 expansion, +he said, was not due to inadequate growth forces inherent in our +economy but rather to the adverse effect of inappropriate economic policies +combined with retrenching decisions resulting from the steel strike. + +#SACRIFICES NEEDED# + +Draper declared, "As I see it, this +country has never faced such great dangers as threaten us today. We +must justify our heritage. We must be ready for any needed sacrifice". + +He said that from his experience of two years with Gen& +Clay in West Berlin administration, that "Russia respects our show +of strength, but that presently we're not acting as we should and +must". He called the Cuban tractor plan an outright blackmail +action, and noted that in war "you can't buy yourself out and +that's what we're trying to do". While he declined to suggest, +how, he said that sooner or later we must get rid of Castro, +"for unless we do we're liable to face similar situations in this +hemisphere. Its the start of a direct threat to our own security and +I don't believe we can permit that". + +_NEW YORK (~AP)_- {Stock market Tuesday staged a technical +recovery, erasing all of Monday's losses in the Associated Press +average and making the largest gain in about two weeks.} Analysts +saw the move as a continuation of the recovery drive that got under +way late Monday afternoon when the list sank to a hoped-for "support +level" represented by around 675 in the Dow Jones industrial +average. It was a level at which some of the investors standing on +the sidelines were thought likely to buy the pivotal issues represented +in the averages. + +#SOME GOOD NEWS# + +Although it looked like a routine +technical snapback to Wall Streeters it was accompanied by some +good news. A substantial rise in new orders and sales of durable goods +was reported for last month. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon +said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next +year, paving the way for lower taxes. The Dow Jones industrial +average advanced 7.19 to 687.87. Of 1,253 issues traded, 695 +advanced and 354 declined. New highs for the year totaled nine and +new lows 14. Trading was comparatively dull throughout the day. +Volume dipped to 3.28 million shares from 3.98 million Monday. + +A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was +envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G& Peterson, head +of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before +the American Marketing Assn&. However, Peterson, president +of Bell + Howell, warned 800 U&S& marketing leaders attending +a national conference at the Ambassador, that the future will +belong to the industrialist of creative and "unconventional wisdom". + +#CREATION'S NEEDED# + +"As we look to the $800 billion economy +that is predicted for 1970 and the increase of about 40% in consumer +expenditures that will be required to reach that goal, management +can well be restless about how this tremendous volume and number of new +products will be created and marketed", Peterson said. "With +this kind of new product log-jam, the premium for brilliant +product +planning will obviously go up geometrically". The executive +paid tribute to research and development and technology for their +great contributions in the past, but he also cautioned industry that +they tend to be great equalizers because they move at a fairly even pace +within an industry and fail to give it the short-term advantage which +it often needs. + +#NOTHING TO FEAR# + +Peterson said America has nothing +to fear in world competition if it dares to be original in both +marketing and product ideas. He cited, as an example, how the American +camera industry has been able to meet successfully the competition +of Japan despite lower Japanese labor costs, by improving its production +know-how and technology. He also used as an example the +manufacturer who introduced an all-automatic camera in Germany, with +the result that it became the best selling camera in the German +market. + +Election of Howard L& Taylor to membership in Pacific Coast +Stock Exchange, effective Tuesday, has been announced by Thomas +P& Phelan, president of the exchange. Taylor, president +and voting stockholder of Taylor and Co&, Beverly Hills, has been +active in the securities business since 1925. + +Union Oil Co& of California Tuesday offered $120 million +in debentures to the public through a group of underwriters headed by +Dillon, Read + Co&, to raise money to retire a similar amount held +by Gulf Oil Corp&. Gulf's holdings could have been converted +into 2,700,877 shares of Union Oil common upon surrender of +debentures plus cash, according to Union. Under the new offering, only +$60 million in debentures are convertible into 923,076 common shares. + +#DUE IN 1986# + +The new offering Tuesday consisted of $60 million +worth of 4-7/8 debentures, due June 1, 1986, at 100%, and $60 +million of 4-1/2% convertible subordinated debentures due June 1, 1991, +at 100%. The convertible debentures are convertible into common +shares at $65 a share by June 1, 1966; $70 by 1971; $75 by 1976; +$80 by 1981; $85 by 1986, and $90 thereafter. + +_NEW YORK(~AP)_- American Stock Exchange prices enjoyed a fairly +solid rise but here also trading dwindled. Volume was 1.23 million +shares, down from Monday's 1.58 million. Gains of 2-3/4 were posted +for Teleprompter and Republic Foil. Fairchild Camera and Kawecki +Chemical gained 2-1/2 each. + +_QUESTION_- I bought 50 shares of Diversified Growth Stock Fund +on Oct& 23, 1959, and 50 more shares of the same mutual fund on +Feb& 8, 1960. Something has gone wrong some place. I am getting +dividends on only 50 shares. In other words, I am getting only half +the dividends I should. _ANSWER_- Write to the fund's custodian +bank- the First National Bank of Jersey City, N&J&. +That bank handles most of the paper work for Diversified Growth Stock +Fund, Fundamental Investors, Diversified Investment Fund and +Television-Electronics Fund. The bank installed a magnetic +tape electronic data processing system to handle things. But it seems +that this "electronic brain" wasn't "programmed" correctly. + +This resulted in a great number of errors. And letters began +to come in to this column from irate shareholders. I visited +the bank in March and wrote a story about the situation. At that time, +the people at the bank said they felt that they had the situation +in hand. They indicated that no new errors were being made and that all +old errors would be corrected +"within 60 days". That 60-day +period is over and letters are still coming in from shareholders of +these four funds, complaining about mistakes in their accounts. +Maybe it's taking longer to get things squared away than the bankers +expected. Any shareholder of any of these funds who finds a mistake +in his account certainly should get in touch with the bank. {Doyle +cannot undertake to reply to inquiries. He selects queries or +general interest to answer}. + +_WASHINGTON (~AP)_- Alfred Hayes, president of the Federal +Reserve Bank of New York, said Tuesday "there is no present need +for far-reaching reforms" which would basically alter the international +financial system. Hayes said that if a way can be found +to deal effectively with short-term capital movements between nations, +"there is no reason, in my judgment why the international financial +system cannot work satisfactorily for at least the foreseeable +future". + +_WASHINGTON (~UPI)_- New York Central Railroad president Alfred +E& Perlman said Tuesday his line would face the threat of +bankruptcy if the Chesapeake + Ohio and Baltimore + Ohio Railroads +merge. Perlman said bankruptcy would not be an immediate effect +of the merger, but could possibly be an ultimate effect. The +railroad president made the statement in an interview as the Interstate +Commerce Commission opened Round 2 of its hearing into the ~C+~O's +request to control and then merge with the ~B+~O. + +"All these kind of things weaken us", Perlman said. + +#BAD +CONDITION# + +Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore + Ohio +Railroad Co&, testified the ~B+~O was in its worst financial +condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic +lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake + Ohio Railroad. + +"The financial situation of the Baltimore + Ohio, +has become precarious- much worse than at any time since the depression +of the 1930s", he told the hearing. ~C+~O president +Walter J& Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New +York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing +the complex case. The New York Central also has asked the +~ICC to permit it to gain control of the ~B+~O. Central +was rebuffed by the other two railroads in previous attempts to +make it a three-way merger. The proposed ~C+~O-~B+~O railroad +would make it the hemisphere's second largest. + +_WASHINGTON (~AP)_- The government's short-term borrowing costs +rose with Tuesday weekly offering of Treasury bills. On $1.1 billion +of 90-day bills, the average yield was 2.325%. The rate a week +ago was 2.295%. + +_WASHINGTON, MARCH 11 (~UPI)._- "Consumer uncertain about economic +conditions". This was the chief reason for a so-so sales +outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National +Housing Center. Other reasons mentioned by one-third or more +of the builders were "resistance to high interest rates, cost advantage +of buying over renting has narrowed, shelter market nearing saturation +and prospects unable to qualify". + +#INCREASE EXPECTED# + +The +poll was taken at the Center's annual builders' intentions conference. +It disclosed that the builders: Expect their own production +volume, and presumably sales, to jump 30 percent in 1961. + +Look for home building nationally to advance less than 10 percent +this year from 1960's 1,257,7000 non-farm housing starts. The industry +has said 1960 was a poor year. Starts were down 20 percent from +1959. Why the discrepancy between the builders' forecasts for +themselves and for the industry? + +#LEADERS OF INDUSTRY# + +The +reason, says the Housing Center, is that the builders invited to the +intentions conference "are generally among the more successful businessmen, +and usually do somewhat better than their fellow builders". + +_ELBURN, ILL&_- Farm machinery dealer Bob Houtz tilts back +in a battered chair and tells of a sharp pickup in sales: "We've +sold four corn pickers since Labor Day and have good prospects for +10 more. We sold only four pickers all last year". Gus Ehlers, +competitor of Mr& Houtz in this farm community, says his business +since August 1 is running 50% above a year earlier. "Before +then, my sales during much of the year had lagged behind 1960 by 20%", +he says. Though the sales gains these two dealers are +experiencing are above average for their business, farm equipment sales +are climbing in most rural areas. Paradoxically, the sales rise is +due in large +measure to Government efforts to slash farm output. Although +the Administration's program cut crop acreage to the lowest point +since 1934, farmers, with the help of extra fertilizer and good weather, +are getting such high yields per acre that many are being forced +to buy new harvesting machines. Fields of corn and some other crops +in many cases are so dense that older equipment cannot handle them +efficiently. +The higher price supports provided by the new legislation, +together with rising prices for farm products, are pushing up farm income, +making it possible for farmers to afford the new machinery. + +Seven of the eight companies that turn out full lines of farm machinery +say sales by their dealers since the start of August have shown +gains averaging nearly 10% above last year. "In August our dealers +sold 13% more farm machinery than a year earlier and in September +retail sales were 14% higher than last year", says Mark V& +Keeler, farm equipment vice president of International Harvester +Co&. For the year to date, sales of the company's farm equipment +dealers still lag about 5% behind 1960. + +#TWO OF THREE REPORT GAINS# + +Among individual dealers questioned in nearly a score of states, +two out of three report their sales since August 1 show sizable gains +from a year earlier, with the increases ranging from 5% to 50%. +Not all sections are showing an upswing, however; the drought-seared +North Central states are the most notable exceptions to the uptrend. + +The significance of the pickup in farm machinery sales extends +beyond the farm equipment industry. The demand for farm machinery +is regarded as a yardstick of rural buying generally. Farmers spend +more of their income on tractors and implements than on any other group +of products. More than 20 million people live on farms and they own +a fourth of the nation's trucks, buy more gasoline than any other +industry and provide a major market for home appliances, chemicals and +other products. Farmers are so eager for new machinery that +they're haggling less over prices than they did a year ago, dealers +report. "Farmers aren't as price conscious as last year so +we can get more money on a sale", says Jack Martin, who sells J& +I& Case tractors and implements in Sioux City, Iowa. "This +morning, we allowed a farmer $600 on the old picker he traded in on +a new $2,700 model. Last year, we probably would have given him $700 +for a comparable machine". Mr& Martin sold 21 tractors in August; +in August of 1960, he sold seven. + +#DEALERS' STOCKS DOWN# + +With dealer stocks of new equipment averaging about 25% below a year +ago, the affects of the rural recovery are being felt almost immediately +by the country's farm equipment manufacturers. For example, farm +equipment shipments of International Harvester in August climbed +about 5% above a year earlier, Mr& Keeler reports. Tractor +production at Massey-Ferguson, Ltd&, of Toronto in July and +August rose to 2,418 units from 869 in the like period a year earlier, +says John Staiger, vice president. With the lower dealer +inventories and the stepped-up demand some manufacturers believe there +could be shortages of some implements. Merritt D& Hill, Ford Motor +Co& vice president, says his company is starting to get calls +daily from dealers demanding immediate delivery or wanting earlier shipping +dates on orders for corn pickers. Except for a few months +in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed +year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959. The rise in sales +last winter was checked when the Government's new feed grain program +was adopted; the program resulted in a cutback of around 20% +in +planted acreage and, as a result, reduced the immediate need for machines. + +Nearly all of the farm equipment manufacturers and dealers +say the upturn in sales has resulted chiefly from the recent improvement +in crop prospects. Total farm output for this year is officially +forecast at 129% of the 1947-49 average, three points higher than +the July 1 estimate and exactly equal to the final figure for 1960. + +The Government also is aiding farmers' income prospects. Agriculture +Department economists estimate the Government this year will +hand farmers $1.4 billion in special subsidies and incentive payments, +well above the record $1.1 billion of 1958 and about double the $639 +million of 1960. Price support loans may total another $1 billion +this year. With cash receipts from marketings expected to be slightly +above 1960, farmers' gross income is estimated at $39.5 billion, $1.5 +billion above 1960's record high. Net income may reach $12.7 billion, +up $1 billion from 1960 and the highest since 1953. The Government +reported last week that the index of prices received by farmers +rose in the month ended at mid-September for the third consecutive month, +reaching 242% of the 1910-14 average compared with 237% at mid-July. + +{KENNEDY OPPOSES any widespread relief from a High Court +depletion ruling.} The Supreme Court decision in mid-1960 +was in the case of a company making sewer pipe from clay which it +mined. The company, in figuring its taxable earnings, deducted a percentage +of the revenue it received for its finished products. Such "depletion +allowances", in the form of percentages of sales are authorized +by tax law for specified raw materials producers using up their +assets. The High Court held that the company must apply its percentage +allowance to the value of the raw materials removed from the ground, +not to the revenue from finished products. A measure passed +by Congress just before adjourning softened the ruling's impact, on +prior-year returns still under review, for clay-mining companies that +make brick and tile products. The measure allows such companies in +those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the +value of the finished products rather than the lower value of raw clay +alone. . #@# + +{CHARITABLE DEDUCTIONS come in for +closer scrutiny by the I&R&S&.} The Service announced +that taxpayers making such claims may be called on to furnish a statement +from the recipient organization showing the date, purpose, amount +and other particulars of the contribution. Requests for substantiation, +the Service indicated, can be especially expected in cases where +it suspects the donor received some material benefit in return, such +as tickets to a show. In such instance, revenuers stressed, +the deduction must be reduced by the value of the benefit received. #@# + +A RULE on the Federal deductibility of state taxes +is contested.} A realty corporation in Louisiana owed no tax +under Federal law, on its gain from the sale of property disposed +of in line with a plan of liquidation. Louisiana, however, collected +an income tax on the profits from the sale. The corporation, in filing +its final Federal income return, claimed the state tax payment as a +deductible expense, as permitted under U&S& tax law. The +Revenue Service disallowed the claim, invoking a law provision that +generally bars deductions +for expenses incurred in connection with what +it said was tax-exempt income. The Tax Court rejected this view. +It said the tax-freedom of the gain in this case stemmed not from the +exempt status of the income but from a special rule on corporate liquidations. + +. #@# + +{PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS} +are assured a tax benefit under the law creating the agency. It provides +that the $1,800 termination payment each cadet is to get, after +serving a two-year hitch without pay, will be spread over both years, +not taxed in its entirety at a possibly higher rate in the year received.#@# + +THE OWNER} of a public relations firm owed no +income tax on payments he received from a client company and "kicked +back" to the company's advertising manager, the Tax Court ruled. +The taxpayer testified that in order to retain the account he had +to pad his invoices and pay the excess to the manager. The Court upheld +the taxpayer's contention that these "kickbacks" were not his +income though they passed through his hands. The Court limited its +decision to the tax issue involved, commenting: "It is not our province +to pass judgment on the morality of the transaction". #@# + +A PORTABLE KEROSENE RANGE} designed for use aboard boats +is sold with a special railing to keep it from moving with the motion +of the vessel. The Revenue Service said the addition of the attachment +does not keep the range from coming under the Federal manufacturers' +excise tax on household-type appliances. #@# + +{HIRING +THE WIFE for one's company may win her tax-aided retirement income}. + +A spouse employed by a corporation her husband controls, +for example, may be entitled to distributions under the company's +pension plan as well as to her own Social Security coverage. She would +be taxed on the pensions when received, of course, but the company's +contributions would be tax-free. A frequent pitfall in this +sort of arrangement, experts warn, is a tendency to pay the wife more +than her job is worth and to set aside an excessive amount for her +as retirement income. In that event, they note, the Revenue Service +might declare the pension plan is discriminatory and deny it tax privileges +under the law. . #@# + +{STATE BRIEFS:} Voters in four counties +containing and bordering Denver authorized the imposition of an additional +2% sales tax within that area. Colorado has a 2% sales +tax. Denver itself collects a 1% sales tax which is to be absorbed +in the higher area tax **h. The Washington state supreme court ruled +that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an +oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain +supplies without divulging the identity of the parent. The state's +occupation tax is computed on gross sales. The court held that the tax +applied to non-profit sales because the corporations realized economic +benefits by doing business as two separate entities. + +_WASHINGTON_- Consumer spending edged down in April after rising +for two consecutive months, the Government reported. The Commerce +Department said seasonally adjusted sales of retail stores dropped +to slightly under $18 billion in April, down 1% from the March +level of more than $18.2 billion. April sales also were 5% below +those of April last year, when volume reached a record for any month, +$18.9 billion (see chart on Page One). The seasonal adjustment +takes into account such factors as Easter was on April 2 this +year, two weeks earlier than in 1960, and pre-Easter buying was pushed +into March. Commerce Department officials were inclined to +explain the April sales decline as a reaction from a surge of consumer +buying in March. Adjusted sales that month were up a relatively +steep 2.5% from those of the month before, which in turn were slightly +higher than the January low of $17.8 billion. + +Greer Garson world-famous star of stage, screen and television, +will be honored for the high standard in tasteful sophisticated fashion +with which she has created a high standard in her profession. + +As a Neiman-Marcus award winner the titian-haired Miss Garson +is a personification of the individual look so important to fashion +this season. She will receive the 1961 "Oscar" at the 24th annual +Neiman-Marcus Exposition, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Grand +Ballroom of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel. ## + +{THE ONLY WOMAN} +recipient, Miss Garson will receive the award with Ferdinando +Sarmi, creator of chic, beautiful women's fashions; Harry Rolnick, +president of the Byer-Rolnick Hat Corporation and designer +of men's hats; Sydney Wragge, creator of sophisticated casuals +for women and Roger Vivier, designer of Christian Dior shoes Paris, +France, whose squared toes and lowered heels have revolutionized +the shoe industry. The silver and ebony plaques will be presented +at noon luncheons by Stanley Marcus, president of Neiman-Marcus, +Beneficiary of the proceeds from the two showings will be the Dallas +Society for Crippled Children Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center. + +The attractive Greer Garson, who loves beautiful clothes +and selects them as carefully as she does her professional roles, prefers +timeless classical designs. Occasionally she deserts the simple +and elegant for a fun piece simple because "It's unlike me". ## +{IN PRIVATE LIFE}, Miss Garson is Mrs& E& E& +Fogelson and on the go most of the time commuting from Dallas, +where +they maintain an apartment, to their California home in Los Angeles' +suburban Bel-Air to their ranch in Pecos, New Mexico. Therefore, +her wardrobe is largely mobile, to be packed at a moment's notice +and to shake out without a wrinkle. Her creations in fashion +are from many designers because she doesn't want a complete wardrobe +from any one designer any more than she wants "all of her pictures +by one painter". ## + +{A FAVORITE} is Norman Norell, +however. She likes his classic chemise. Her favorite cocktail dress +is a Norell, a black and white organdy and silk jersey. Irene +suits rate high because they are designed for her long-bodied silhouette. +She also likes the femininity +and charm of designs by Ceil Chapman +and Helen Rose. Balenciaga is her favorite European +designer. "I bought my first dress from him when I was still +a struggling young actress", she reminisces. "I like his clothes +for their drama and simplicity and appreciate the great impact he has +on fashion". ## + +{BLACK AND WHITE} is her favorite color +combination along with lively glowing pinks, reds, blues and greens. + +Of Scotch-Irish-Scandinavian descent, Greer Garson was +born in County Down, Ireland. Her mother was a Greer and her father's +family came from the Orkney Isles. Reared in England, +she studied to be a teacher, earned several scholarships and was graduated +with honors from the University of London. She took postgraduate +work at the University of Grenoble in France and then returned +to London to work on market research with an advertising firm. ## +{HER ACTING} began with the Birmingham Repertory Company +and she soon became the toast of the West End. Among stage performances +was a starring role in "Golden Arrow" directed by Noel +Coward. It was during "Old Music" at the St& James Theater +that Hollywood's Louis B& Mayer spotted her. After +signing a motion-picture contract, she came to America and had "Goodbye, +Mr& Chips" as her first assignment after a year's wait. +Other triumphs include "Random Harvest", "Madame Curie", +"Pride and Prejudice", "The Forsythe Saga" and "Mrs& +Miniver" (which won her the Academy Award in 1943). ## + +{HONORS} +that have come to Greer Garson are countless. Just this +April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award +for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello". +She gave a fine portrayal of Auntie Mame on Broadway in 1958 +and has appeared in live television from "Captain Brassbound's +Conversion" to "Camille". She is in Madame Tussard's Waxworks +in London, a princess of the Kiowa tribe and an honorary colonel +in many states. She is adept at skeet shooting, trout fishing, +Afro-Cuban and Oriental dancing and Southwestern archaeology. +She now serves on the board of directors of the Dallas Symphony +Orchestra and the Dallas Theater Center and on the board of trustees +of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. She is state chairman for +the New Mexico Tuberculosis and Cancer Associations. Both Miss +Garson and her oilman-rancher husband are active supporters of Boys +Clubs of America and patrons of the vivid art and opera colony that +flourishes in New Mexico. + +Back in college, today's handsome Gander was the only male +member of a Texas Tech class on food. The pretty coeds must have ogled +him all day long- but he dutifully kept his eye on the gravy. + +Last October he gave a public speech in Washington, D&C& +entitled "Are Women Here to Stay"? So you can see that Gerald +G& Ramsey, director of ~SMU's food services, is not the +ordinary type of craven, women-trodden chef. He is apt to rear back +and claim his rights. ## + +{RAMSEY}, as ~SMU's food +wrangler, buys enough groceries to serve 32,000 meals a week. Tell +that to the little wife when she moans at the woman's burden! + +He also dishes up 3,000 snacks. And he operates three cafeterias +in the Student Center, along with McElvaney Dining Hall and the +athlete's tables. Ramsey, 6-3, 195 and ruggedly slim, says, +"I can't remember when I didn't pester my mother to teach me +to cook". ## + +{HE WAS IN CHARGE} of the Hockaday School +meals from 1946 to 1950, before he moved to ~SMU. And you'll +notice that in both places, there are acres of charming young ladies +who with little effort spice up any chow line. What does he feed +his ~SMU football mastodons at the training table? "Mostly +meat and potatoes- they have to have that go-go-go without +getting too fat", says Ramsey. So he hides the mayonnaise. And to +keep athletes' stomachs from getting jumpy under physical duress, +he bans all highly flavored condiments. ## + +{WHAT DO} the +pretty ~SMU girls like on their plates? "Pretty much +hamburger, hotdogs, steak and, at night, maybe pizza", says the handsome +food expert. "Unfortunately, there is still little demand for +broccoli and cauliflower". Ramsey has stoked up Harry Truman, +Henry Cabot Lodge, the King of Morocco, Clement Atlee and +other shiny characters. Once four Tibetan monks, in their saffron robes, +filed through the cafeteria line. "They aren't supposed +to look at women, you know", Ramsey recalled. "What with all +those pretty girls around, they had a hard time". + +#CHICKEN CADILLAC# + +Use one 6-ounce chicken breast for each guest. Salt and pepper +each breast. Dip in melted butter and roll in flour. Place side by +side in a 2-inch deep baking pan. Bake slowly about one hour at 250-275 +F& until lightly brown. Add enough warmed cream, seasoned +to taste with onion juice, to about half cover the chicken breasts. +Bake slowly at least one-half hour longer. While this is baking, +saute mushrooms, fresh or canned, in butter. Sprinkle over top +of chicken breasts. Serve each breast on a thin slice of slow-baked ham +and sprinkle with Thompson seedless grapes. (Leave off the +ham and you call it Chicken Pontiac, says Ramsey.) + +Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line +modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity +and an effect of utter comfort and livability. That is the +goal of two new collections being introduced in Dallas this month. + +Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary +furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, +two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, +but warm look in contemporary. These two, Heritage and Drexel, +chose too not to produce the exactly matching design for every piece, +but a collection of correlated designs, each of which could stand alone. + +The Heritage collection, to be shown by Sanger-Harris and +Anderson's Studio, has perhaps more different types of woods and +decorations than any one manufacturer ever assembled together at one +time. Called Perennian, to indicate its lasting, good today and tomorrow +quality, the collection truly avoids the monotony of identical pieces. + +Walnut, wormy chestnut, pecan, three varieties of burl, +hand-woven Philippine cane, ceramic tiles, marble are used to emphasize +the feeling of texture and of permanence, the furniture to fit into +rooms with tiled floors, brick or paneled walls, windows that bring +in the outdoors. It is a collection with a custom-design look, offering +simplicity with warmth, variety and vitality. The Drexel collection, +called Composite, to be shown by Titche's offers a realistic +approach to decorating, a mature modern that is a variation of many +designs. Rounded posts give a soft, sculptured look, paneled +doors have decorative burl panels or cane insets plus softening arches, +table tops are inlaid in Macassar ebony or acacia. A high-legged +buffet provides easy-to-reach serving, a cocktail table has small snack +tables tucked under each end, recessed arched panels decorate a 60-inch +long chest. An interesting approach to the bedroom is presented, +with a young, basic, functional group of chests, dressers and +corner units and a canted headboard. The other bedroom has heavier styling, +door-fronted dressers with acacia panels, a poster bed or a bed +with arched acacia panels and matching mirror. Colorful, bright +Eastman Chromspun fabrics, with the magenta, pink and white tones +predominating as well as golden shades are used with Composite. The +fabrics have Scotchgard finish to resist soil and wrinkles. +Design elements closely rooted to traditional forms but wearing a definite +contemporary label keynote Drexel's fall 1961 group, Composite. +The spider-leg pedestal table has a base finished in an ebony, to +set off the lustrous brown of the walnut top. See-through design of +the chairs combines both the nostalgic ladder back and an Oriental shoji +flavor. To bring warmth to the dining area, golden orange tones +are used in the fabrics. Dignity and comfort, in a contemporary +manner, reflecting the best aspects of today's design, with substance +and maturity, keynote the Perennian collection from Heritage. Center +panel, hand-screened wood, actually is a back of one of the tall +bookcases. Mellow bronzy-green-gold fabrics and the gleam of copper +and hand-crafted ceramic accessories reiterate the mood as does the Alexander +Smith carpet in all wool loop pile. + +The Vagabonds are "on the road" again. Members are on their +way to Saledo, not by stage coach, but in air-conditioned cars. + +This coming weekend they have reserved the entire Stagecoach Inn +and adjoining country club, Saledo, for festivities. Invitations +have been extended to some Austin dignitaries including Gov& and +Mrs& Price Daniel. Stagecoach Days is the theme for the +weekend on the Old Chisholm Trail. ## + +{THE GET-TOGETHER} +Friday night will be a banquet at the country club patio and pool, +and an orchestra will play for dancing. Guests will wear costumes +typical of the Chisholm Trail Days. Ginghams and calico will +be popular dress for the women. The men will be in western attire, +including Stetsons and colored vests. ## + +{DECORATING} +the ballroom +will be the yellow rose of Texas, in tall bushes; bluebonnets +and stagecoach silhouettes. There will be a large drawing of a sunbonnet +girl with eyes that flash at the guests. Mr& and Mrs& +Phil G& Abell are chairmen for the Saledo trip. Committee members +aiding them in planning the entertainment are ~Messrs and ~Mmes +Roy McKee, George McElyee, Jack Fanning, W& H& Roquemore +and Joe Darrow. ## + +{THE TRAVEL CLUB} is comprised of +75 fun-loving couples who have as their motto "Go Somewhere, Anywhere, +Everywhere". Their activities will be climaxed in the spring +of 1962 when they go to Europe. In the past, the men and women +have chartered planes to Las Vegas and Jamaica, buses to Mineral +Wells and Kerrville and private railway coaches to Shreveport and +Galveston. Four parties are given a year. Two of these are +in or near Dallas and the others away from the vicinity. Serving +on the club's board are ~Mmes R& P& Anderson, president; +A& F& Schmalzried, secretary; W& H& Roquemore, +treasurer, and the following chairmen: ~Mmes McKee, publicity; +Lawrence B& Jones, yearbook, and Sam Laughlin, scrapbook. + +A cooky with caramel filling and chocolate frosting won $25,000 +for a Minneapolis housewife in the 13th annual Pillsbury Bake-Off +Tuesday. Mrs& Alice H& Reese, wife of an engineer and +mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon +in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Mrs& Reese entered 10 past bake-offs +before she got into the finals. Second grand prize +of $5,000 went to Mrs& Clara L& Oliver for her Hawaiian coffee +ring, a rich yeast bread with coconut filling and vanilla glaze. + +#MOTHER +OF FIVE# + +Mrs& Oliver is mother of five children and wife +of a machinist. She lives in Wellsville, Mo&. Mrs& Reese +baked her cookies for only the third time in the Bake-off finals. +And the third time was the charm. She dreamed up the cooky recipe, +tried it, liked it and entered it in the contest. The second baking +was for photographing when told she was a finalist. The third time +was on the floor of the Beverly Hilton ballroom and for the critical +eyes and tongues of judges. + +Mr& and Mrs& Joseph R& Bolker will give a dinner +on Friday at their home in Beverly Hills to honor Mrs& Norman Chandler, +chairman of the Music Center Building Fund Committee, and +Mr& Chandler. Mr& Bolker heads a group within the building +and development industry to raise funds in support of this cultural +center for the performing arts. A feature of the party will +be a presentation by Welton Becket, center architect, of color slides +and renderings of the three-building complex. + +#FOLIAGE WILL GLOW +AT FORMAL FALL PARTY# + +Fall foliage and flowers will decorate Los +Angeles Country Club for the annual formal party Saturday evening. +More than 200 are expected at the autumn event which is matched in +the spring. Among those with reservations are Messrs& and +Mmes& William A& Thompson, Van Cott Niven, A& B& Cox, +David Bricker, Samuel Perry and Robert D& Stetson. +Others are Drs& and Mmes& Alfred Robbins, and J& Lafe Ludwig +and Gen& and Mrs& Leroy Watson. + +#GUESTS FROM ACROSS U&S& +HONOR DR& SWIM# + +When Dr& W& A& Swim celebrated his +75th birthday at the Wilshire Country Club, guests came by chartered +plane from all over the country. A flight originating in +Florida picked up guests on the East Coast and Midwest and a plane +left from Seattle taking on passengers at West Coast points. + +Cocktails and a buffet supper were served to more than 100 persons +who had known Dr& Swim when he practiced in Los Angeles. He started +practice in 1917, and served on the State Board of Medical Examiners. + +Giving up the violin opened a whole new career for Ilona Schmidl-Seeberg, +a tiny Hungarian who Fritz Kreisler had predicted would +have a promising career on the concert stage. A heart attack +when she was barely 20 put an end to the 10-hour daily practicing. +She put the violin away and took out some linen, needles and yarn to +while away the long, idle days in Budapest. Now her modern tapestries +have been exhibited on two continents and, at 26, she feels she +is on the threshold of a whole new life in Los Angeles. Her +days as an art student at the University of Budapest came to a sudden +end during the Hungarian uprisings in 1957 and she and her husband +Stephen fled to Vienna. There they continued their studies +at the university, she in art, he in architecture. And there she had +her first showing of tapestry work. + +There's a lot of talk about the problem of education in America +today. What most people don't seem to realize, if they aren't +tied up with the thing as I am, is that 90% of the problem is transportation. + +I never dreamed of the logistical difficulties involved +until, at long last, both of my boys got squeezed into high school. +It seems like only last year that we watched them set out up the +hill hand in hand on a rainy day in their yellow raincoats to finger-paint +at the grammar school. Getting to and from school was no +problem. They either walked or were driven. #@# + +Now they go to +a high school that is two miles away. One might think the problem would +be similar. They could walk, ride on a bus or be driven. +It's much more complex than that. Generally, they go to school with +a girl named Gloriana, who lives down the block, and has a car. + +This is a way of getting to school, but, I understand, it entails +a certain loss of social status. A young man doesn't like to be driven +up in front of a school in a car driven by a girl who isn't even +in a higher class than he is, and is also a girl. "Why don't +you walk to school then"? I suggested. "My father walked, +through two miles of snow, in Illinois". "Did you"? +I was asked. "No", I said, "I didn't happen to grow +up in Illinois". I explained, however, that I had my share +of hardship in making my daily pilgrimage to the feet of wisdom. #@# + +I had to ride a streetcar two miles. Sometimes the streetcar +was late. Sometimes there weren't even any seats. I had to stand +up, with the ladies. Sometimes I got on the wrong car and didn't get +to school at all, but wound up at the ocean, or some other dismal place, +and had to spend the day there. I've tried to compromise +by letting them take the little car now and then. When they do that +my wife has to drive me to work in the big car. She has to have at +least one car herself. I feel a certain loss of status when I am driven +up in front of work in a car driven by my wife, who is only a woman. + +Even that isn't satisfactory. If they have to take any car, +they'd rather take the big one. They say that when they take a +car, Gloriana doesn't take her car, but rides with them. But when +Gloriana rides with them they also have to take the two girls who usually +ride with her, so the little car isn't big enough. #@# + +The +logic of that is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a +fool being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife, when everybody +knows I have a big car and am capable of driving myself. The +solution, naturally, is the bus. However, it's a half-mile walk +down a steep hill from our house to the bus, and it's too hard on my +legs. My wife could drive us down the hill and we could all +walk +from there. But that's hardly realistic. Nobody walks any +more but crackpots and Harry Truman, and he's already got an education. + +Advance publicity on the Los Angeles Blue Book does not mention +names dropped as did the notices for the New York Social Register +which made news last week. Published annually by William +Hord Richardson, the 1962 edition, subtitled Society Register of +Southern California, is scheduled to arrive with Monday morning's +postman. Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book "but +it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for +those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, +club +affiliations and marriages". + +#STARS FOR MARRIAGE# + +Stars throughout +the volume denote dates of marriages during the past year. Last +two to be added before the book went to press were the marriages of Meredith +Jane Cooper, daughter of the Grant B& Coopers, to Robert +Knox Worrell, and of Mary Alice Ghormley to Willard Pen Tudor. + +Others are Carla Ruth Craig to Dan McFarland Chandler +Jr&; +Joanne Curry, daughter of the Ellsworth Currys, to James +Hartley Gregg, and Valerie Smith to James McAlister Duque. + +Also noted are the marriages of Elizabeth Browning, daughter +of the George L& Brownings, to Austin C& Smith Jr&; +Cynthia +Flower, daughter of the Ludlow Flowers Jr&, to Todd Huntington, +son of the David Huntingtons. + +#PASADENA LISTINGS# + +Listed +as newly wed in the Pasadena section of the new book are Mr& and Mrs& +Samuel Moody Haskins /3,. She is the former Judy Chapman, +daughter of John S& Chapman of this city. The young couple live +in Pasadena. Another marriage of note is that of Jane McAlester +and William Louis Pfau. Changes in address are noted. + +For instance, the Edwin Pauleys Jr&, formerly of Chantilly +Rd&, are now at home on North Arden Dr& in Beverly Hills. + +Mr& and Mrs& Robert Moulton now live on Wilshire and the +Franklin Moultons on S& Windsor Blvd&. The Richard Beesemyers, +formerly of Connecticut, have returned to Southern California +and are now residing on South Arden Blvd&. But the Raoul Esnards +have exchanged their residence in Southern California for Mexico +City. + +#MORE NEW ADDRESSES# + +Judge and Mrs& Julian Hazard +are now at Laguna Beach, while the Frank Wangemans have moved from +Beverly Hills to New York, where he is general manager of the Waldorf-Astoria +Hotel. And Lawrence Chase, son of the Ransom Chases, +is listed at his new address in Oxford, Eng&. Others +listed at new addresses are the Richard T& Olerichs, the Joseph +Aderholds Jr&, the Henri de la Chapelles, the John Berteros and +Dr& and Mrs& Egerton Crispin, the John Armisteads, the Allen +Chases, the Howard Lockies, the Thomas Lockies, and Anthony +Longinotti. Newcomers of social note from other parts of the +country are the Ray Carbones, formerly of Panama; the Geddes MacGregors, +formerly of Scotland, and Mr& and Mrs& Werner H& +Althaus, formerly of Switzerland. + +HERE'S an idea for a child's room that is easy to execute +and is completely charming, using puppets for lamp bases. Most children +love the animated puppet faces and their flexible bodies, and +they prefer to see them as though the puppets were in action, rather than +put away in boxes. Displayed as lamps, the puppets delight the children +and are decorative accent. To create such a lamp, order +a wired pedestal from any lamp shop. Measure the puppet to determine +the height of the light socket, allowing three to four inches above the +puppet's head. Make sure that the metal tube through which the wire +passes is in the shape of an inverted "~L", the foot of the +"~L" about three inches long, so that the puppet can hang directly +under the light. + +#PULLING STRINGS# + +Using the strings that manipulate +the puppet, suspend him from the light fixture by tying the +strings to the lamp base. In this way, you can arrange his legs and arms +in any desired position, with feet, or one foot, barely resting on +the pedestal. If the puppets are of uniform size, you can change them +in accord with your child's whims. Although a straight drum +shade would be adequate and sufficiently neutral that the puppets could +be changed without disharmony, it is far more fun to create shades +in the gay spirit of a child's playtime. Those illustrated are reminiscent +of a circus top or a merry-go-round. The scalloped edge is particularly +appealing. + +TODAY'S trend toward furniture designs from America's +past is teaching home-owners and decorators a renewed respect for the +shrewd cabinetmakers of our Colonial era. A generation ago +there were plenty of people who appreciated antiques and fine reproductions. +In the background lurked the feeling, however, that these pieces, +beautiful as they were, lacked the utilitarian touch. So junior's +bedroom was usually tricked out with heavy, nondescript pieces that +supposedly could take the "hard knocks", while the fine secretary +was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only. This +isn't true of the many homemakers of the 1960's, according to decorator +consultant, Leland Alden. Housewives are finding literally +hundreds of ways of getting the maximum use out of traditional designs, +says Mr& Alden and they are doing it largely because Colonial +craftsmen had "an innate sense of the practical". + +#SOLID INVESTMENT# + +There are a number of reasons why the Eighteenth Century +designer had to develop "down to earth" designs- or go out of +business. + +{HOTEL ESCAPE'S} Bonanza room has a real bonanza in +its new attraction, the versatile "Kings /4, Plus Two". + +This is the strongest act to hit the area in a long while- a well +integrated, fast moving outfit specializing in skits, vocals, comedy +and instrumentals all of it distinctly displaying the pro touch. + +{Show spotlights the Kings- George Worth, Bill Kay, Frank +Ciciulla and Gene Wilson, flanked by Dave Grossman and Ron Stevens}. + +The plus two remain at a fixed position with drums +and guitar but the quartet covers the stage with a batch of instruments +ranging from tuba to tambourine, and the beat is solid. {In +the comedy division, the Kings simply augmenting talent and imagination +with a few props. Net result is some crazy-wonderful nonsense, part +of which can be classed as pure slapstick}. Kings /4, +have rated as a popular act in Vegas and Western nightclubs. If they +can't chalk up BIG business here then let's stop this noise +about how hip we are, and stick to our community singing, @ + +#ELSEWHERE# +{ANDY BARTHA} and his trio have booked into Oceania Lounge +**h the Cumbancheros, Latin combo, open Tuesday at the Four O'Clock +Club **h "Flip" Phillips for a return engagement at Fireside +Steak Ranch Wednesday; same date, Johnny LaSalle trio to +the Jolly Roger **h Dick Carroll and his accordion (which we now +refer to as "Freida") held over at Bahia Cabana where "Sir" +Judson Smith brings in his calypso capers Oct& 13. {Johnny +Leighton picked up some new numbers out in Texas which he's +springing on the ringsiders in the Rum House at Galt Ocean Mile +Hotel}. "Skip" Hovarter back in town from a summer in +the Reno-Lake Tahoe area where he ran into Rusty Warren, Kay Martin, +the Marskmen and Tune Toppers- all pulling good biz, he says. +@ + +#WE LIKE FIKE# + +{AL FIKE}, an ex-schoolteacher from +Colorado, is currently pursuing the three ~R's- rhythm, reminiscence +and repartee- in a return class session at the Trade Winds +Hotel. Al has added some sidemen to the act which makes for +a smoother operation but it's substantially the same format heard +last spring. {Newcomers are Ernie Kemm on piano, Wes Robbins, +bass and trumpet, and Jack Kelly on drums. It's a solid show +but, except for some interim keyboarding by Ernie, it's Al's +all the way}. Maestro's biggest stock in trade is his personality, +and ability to establish a warm rapport with his audience. He +skips around from jazz, to blues to boogie- accompanying himself on +piano and frequently pulling the customers in on the act. This +is a bouncy show which may get a little too frantic at times, but is +nevertheless worth your appraisal. + +#NEW OWNERS# + +{CAFE SOCIETY} +opens formally this afternoon under its new ownership. George +Kissak is the bossman; Terry Barnes has been named manager. + +Spot retains the same decor although crystal chandeliers have been +installed above the terrace dining area, and the kitchen has undergone +a remodeling job. {Latter domain, under the guidance of +Chef Tom Yokel, will specialize in steaks, chops, chicken and prime +beef as well as Tom's favorite dish, stuffed shrimp}. Bandstand +features Hal DeCicco, pianist, for both dinner hour and the +late trade. The Tic-Tac-Toe trio is the club's new show group +which also plays for dancing. @ + +#HERE AND THERE# + +{HERBERT +HEILMAN} in +town for a day. Hubie's restaurant activities up in +Lorain, Ohio, may preclude his return here until after Oct& 20, +date set for reopening the Heilman Restaurant on Sunman Restaurant +on Sunrise **h {Louise Franklin cornering the gift shop +market in Lauderdale. Vivacious redhead debuts another shop, her sixth, +in the Governor's Club Hotel this week} **h Sunday +New Orleans brunches continue at the Trade Winds but the daily French +buffets have been called off **h Mackey Airline's new +Sunshine Inn at Bimini set to open some time this month, according +to Hank Johnson **h Student Prince Lounge on Atlantic +Blvd& plotting a month-long "festival" throughout October, with +special features **h {Don Drinkhouse of Pal's Restaurant +planning a reunion with the Miami Playboy Club's pianist, Julian +Gould. Two were in the same band 18 years ago; Don, who played +drums, hasn't seen his chum since} **h Steak House has +such a run on beer to wash down that Mexican food "Tex" Burgess +had to call the draft man twice in one day. (Which is understandable- +if you've ever sampled the exotic, peppery fare.) @ + +#FACES +IN PLACES# + +{PUALANI} and Randy Avon, Dave Searles, George +(Papa) Gill, Al Bandish, Jim Morgart, Bob Neil at the Mouse +trap **h Billy and Jean Moffett at the Rickshaw **h Bea Morley, +Jimmy Fazio, Jim O'Hare, Ralph Michaels, Bill and Evelyn +Perry at the Escape. @ + +#MURPHY HONORS# + +{HEAR THAT} +Patricia Murphy flies up to St& John's Newfoundland, next Sunday +to attend the government's special ceremonies at Memorial University +honoring distinguished sons and daughters of the island province. + +Miss Murphy was born in Placentia, Newfoundland. Her +invitation from Premier Joseph Smallwood is reported to be the only +one extended to a woman. + +_FORT LAUDERDALE_- The first in a series of five productions will +be held in War Memorial Auditorium Thursday, Oct& 26. + +"Le Theatre D'Art Du Ballet", of Monte Carlo, will present +a program of four ballets including "Francesca Da Rimini". +Performers include a company of 46 dancers and a symphony orchestra. + +{The series of ballets is sponsored by the Milenoff Ballet +Foundation, Inc&, a non-profit foundation with headquarters in Coral +Gables}. Also set for appearances at the auditorium this +season are: "American Ballet Theatre" on Jan& 27, "Ximenez-Vargas +Ballet Espagnol" on Feb& 2; Jorge Bolet, pianist, +on Feb& 23; and "Dancers of Bali" on March 8. + +_HOLLYWOOD_- A Southeast Library Workshop will be held here +Oct& 9, conducted by Mrs& Gretchen Schenk of Summerdale, Ala&, +author, lecturer and library leader. The workshop will begin +at 10 a&m& and end at 3 p&m& in the auditorium of the Library +and Fine Arts Building. There is no registration fee but there +will be a charge of $2.50 for the luncheon to be held in the library +and fine arts building. Anyone interested in attending the meeting +may have reservations with Mrs& John Whelan at the Hollywood +Public Library. At the workshop, Mrs& Schenk will discuss +"the board and the staff, librarian-board relationships, personnel +policies, how good is our librarian and staff, how good am I as a +library board member and how good is our library". Other workshops +will be in Tallahassee Oct& 5; Jacksonville, Oct& 6; +Orlando, Oct& 10; Plant City Oct& 11. + +_FORT LAUDERDALE_- A series of high school assemblies to acquaint +junior and senior students with the Junior Achievement program begins +at St& Thomas Aquinas Monday. Subsequent assemblies +will be held at Stranahan High School Tuesday, at Pompano Beach +High Wednesday, and at Fort Lauderdale high Thursday. The +business education program operates with the cooperation of local high +schools and business firms. + +Is there anything a frustrated individual can do about Communism's +growing threat on our doorstep and around the world? +More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more +are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from +4 to 8 p&m& Sunday at First Presbyterian Church. At that +time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism +will be staged. {A young real estate salesman, Kern first +got seriously interested in the problems posed by Communism when in the +Navy Air Force. He was particularly struck by a course on Communist +brainwashing}. Kern began reading a lot about the history +and philosophy of Communism, but never felt there was anything +he, +as an individual, could do about it. When he attended the Christian +Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, +Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive +in the ideological battle and set out to do it. The best approach, +he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high +schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church. + +{And he wanted to be careful that the kids not only learn +about Communist but also about what he feels is the only antidote- +a Biblically strong Christianity}. So the Christian +Youth Crusade against Communisn developed and more than 300 top teenagers +and 65 adult advisers from Presbyterian churches of the area sat +enthralled at the four-hour program. This Sunday those attending +the second session will hear a lecture by Kern on the world situation; +a review of the philosophy of Communist leaders by Ted Slack, +another real estate agent who became interested as a philosophy +major at the University of Miami; and talks on how their Christian +faith can guide them in learning about and fighting Communism during +high school and college days, by Ted Place, director of Greater Miami +Youth for Christ, and Jon Braun, director of Campus Crusade +for Christ. {The second half of the film "Communism on +the Map" and the movie "Operation Abolition" also will be +shown}. + +Response to the program has been so encouraging, Kern +said, that a city-wide youth school at Dade County Auditorium may be +set up soon. And to encourage other churches to try their own +programs, Kern said this Sunday's sessions- including the free +dinner- will be open to anyone who makes reservations. + +The need for and the way to achieve a Christian home will be +stressed in special services marking National Christian Family Week +in Miami area churches next week. Of particular meaning to +the Charles MacWhorter family, 3181 ~SW 24th Ter&, will be the +Family Dedication Service planned for 10:50 a&m& Sunday {at +First Christian Church}. It will be the second time +the assistant manager of a Coral Gables restaurant and his wife have +taken part in the twice-a-year ceremonies for families with new babies. + +The first one, two years ago, changed the routine of their +home life. {"When you stand up in public and take vows to +strive to set an example before your children and to teach them the +fundamentals of the Christian faith, you strive a little harder to uphold +those vows", explains the slender vice president of the young couples +Sunday school class}. Until that first dedication service, +he and Lois felt their children were too young to take part in +any religious life at home. They have five daughters- Coral Lee, +5, Glenda Rae, 4, Pamela, 3, Karen, 2, and Shari, five months. + +But after that service, they decided to try to let the girls say +grace at the table, have bedtime prayers, and Bible stories. To their +surprise, the children all were eager and quite able to take part. +Even the two-year-old feels miffed if the family has a prayer-time without +her. #@# + +{DADE'S CHIEF} probation officer, Jack +Blanton, will lead a discussion on "The Changes in the American +Family" at 7:30 p&m& Sunday at {Christ Lutheran Church}. +#@# + +{MR& AND MRS&} George Treadwell will +be honored at a Family Week supper and program at 6 p&m& Sunday +at {Trinity Methodist Church}. He is the sexton of the church. + +A family worship service will follow the program at 7:45 +p&m&. #@# + +{THE OUTSTANDING} family of {Central +Nazarene Church} will be picked by ballot from among eight families +during the 10:45 a&m& Sunday service marking National Family +Week. #@# + +{EVERY} family of {Riviera Presbyterian +Church} has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily +during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project +in which all members of the family participate. {To start +the week of special programs at the church, the Rev& John D& +Henderson will preach on "A Successful Marriage" at 9:40 and +11 a&m& Sunday. New officers of the church will be ordained and +installed at the 7:30 p& m& service}. A father and son +dinner sponsored by the Men's Club will be held at 6:15 p&m& +Monday and the annual church picnic at 4 p&m& next Saturday. + +The week will end with the Rev& Mr& Henderson preaching on +"The Marriage Altar" at 7:30 p&m& Sunday, May 14. + +The resignation of the Rev& Warren I& Densmore, headmaster +of St& Stephen's Episcopal Day School in Coconut Grove, +becomes effective July 15. + +Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco +Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements +in Europe before returning home to open the symphony's Golden Anniversary +season, it was announced. The guest assignments are +scheduled +for November 14 and 18, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana +in Palermo and the Orchestra of Radio Cologne. The season in San +Francisco will open with a special Gala Concert on November 22. + +During his five-month visit abroad, Jorda recently conducted +the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeau in France, and the Santa +Cecilia Orchestra in Rome. In announcing Jorda's return, +the orchestra also announced that the sale of single tickets for the +50th anniversary season will start at the Sherman Clay box office on +Wednesday. Guest performers and conductors during the coming +season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing +with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac +Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel; pianists Leon Fleisher, +Ruth Slenczynka and Stephen Bishop and conductor Earl Bernard +Murray. + +The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances +Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest "classical" +ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of +the Petipa-Tschaikowsky "Sleeping Beauty" with which it began +the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of +witnessing. This work is no favorite of mine. I am prepared +to demonstrate at an ytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial +Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect; that +its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates +that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was; +that its presentation in this country is part of a capitalist plot +to boobify the American people; that its choreography is undistinguished +and its score a shapeless assemblage of self-plagiarisms. All +of this is true and all of it is totally meaningless in the face of +the Kirov's utterly captivating presentation. + +#PRECISE# + +The reasons +for this enchantment are numerous, but most of them end in "ova", +"eva", or "aya". In other words, no merely male creature +can resist that corps de ballet. It seems to have been chosen exclusively +from the winners of beauty contests- Miss Omsk, Miss Pinsk, +Miss Stalingr **h oops, skip it. These qualities alone, +however, would not account for their success, and it took me a while to +discover the crowning virtue that completes this company's collective +personality. It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address +toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to +the American ballet. Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian +ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters +of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to thestage out of filial piety, +is totally absent from the Kirov. This is all the more remarkable +because the Kirov is to ballet what Senator Goldwater is to American +politics. But, obviously, at least some things have changed for +the better in Russia so far as the ballet is concerned. Irina +Kolpakova, the Princess Aurora of Friday's performance, would +be a change for the better anywhere, at any time, no matter who had had +the role before. She is the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes +on, and her dancing has a feminine suavity, lightness, sparkle, and refinement +which are simply incomparable. + +#HIT# + +Alla Sizova, who +seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady +Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully +virile, +acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike +that of Nijinsky. Vladilen Semenov, a fine "danseur noble"; +Konstantin Shatilov, a great character dancer; and Inna Zubkovskaya, +an excellent Lilac Fairy, were other outstanding members of the +cast, but every member of the cast was magnificent. The production, +designed by Simon Virsaladze, was completely traditional but +traditional in the right way. It was done with great taste, was big and +spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, +but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies +of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes +and the scenery. Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally +large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists- the violin +solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine- but one +in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally +had not had time to achieve much unity. + +Mail orders are now being received for the series of concerts +to be given this season under the auspices of the San Francisco Chamber +Music Society. The season will open at the new Hall of +Flowers in Golden Gate Park on November 20 at 8:30 p& m& with +a concert by the Mills Chamber Players. Sustaining members +may sign up at $25 for the ten-concert season; annual members +may +attend for $16. Participating members may attend five of the concerts +for $9 (not all ten concerts as was erroneously announced earlier in The +Chronicle). Mail orders for the season and orders for single +tickets at $2, may be addressed to the society, 1044 Chestnut street, +San Francisco 9. + +San Francisco firemen busied themselves last week with their +annual voluntary task of fixing up toys for distribution to needy children. + +Fire Fighters Local 798, which is sponsoring the toy program +for the 12th straight year, issued a call for San Franciscans +to turn in discarded toys, which will be repaired by off-duty firemen. + +Toys will not be collected at firehouses this year. They will +be accepted at all branches of the Bay View Federal Savings and +Loan Association, at a collection center in the center of the Stonestown +mall, and at the Junior Museum, 16th street and Roosevelt way. + +From the collection centers, toys will be taken to a warehouse +at 198 Second street, where they will be repaired and made ready +for distribution. Any needy family living in San Francisco can +obtain toys by writing to Christmas Toys, 676 Howard street, San +Francisco 5, and listing the parent's name and address and the age +and sex of each child in the family between the ages of 1 and 12. Requests +must be mailed in by December 5. +Famed cellist Pablo Casals took his instrument to the East Room of +the White House yesterday and charmed the staff with a two-hour rehearsal. +He was getting the feel of the room for a concert tomorrow night +for Puerto Rico Governor Luis Munoz Marin. President Kennedy's +invitation to the Spanish-born master said, "We feel your +performance as one of the world's greatest artists would lend distinction +to the entertainment of our guests". + +FOR A GOOD MANY SEASONS I've been looking at the naughty +stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see +how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies. After +all, this year's movies are next year's television shows. + +So I went to see "La Dolce Vita". . +After television, "La Dolce Vita" seems as harmless as a Gray +Line tour of North Beach at night. I cannot imagine a single scene +that isn't done in a far naughtier manner on ~TV every week. + +I believe ~TV watchers will be bored. <"La Dolce +Vita" has none of the senseless brutality or sadism of the average +~TV Western. Week in, week out, there is more sex to be seen +in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet". There is more decadence +on "77 Sunset Strip". There are more obvious nymphomaniacs +on any private-eye series>. #@# + +{IN ANOTHER RESPECT}, +television viewers will feel right at home because most of the actors +are unknowns. With the exception of Lex Barker and Anita Ekberg, +the credits are as unfamiliar as you'll find on the Robert Herridge +Theater. Most of the emphasis has been placed on a "wild +party" at a seaside villa. Producer Fellini should have looked at +some of the old silent films where they really had {PARTIES}! +The Dolce Vita get-together boasted a strip tease (carried as +far as a black slip); a lady drunk on her hands and knees who carries +the hero around on her back while he throws pillow feathers in her +face; a frigid beauty, and three silly fairies. Put them all +together and they spell out the only four-letter word I can think of: +dull. #@# + +{AS A MORAL SHOCKER} +it is a dud. But this doesn't detract from its merit as an +interesting, if not great, film. The Chronicle's Paine Knickerbocker +summed it up neatly: "This is a long picture and a controversial +one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking +description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps +Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious +glories". . #@# + +TONIGHT +Atlantic Monthly editor Edward Weeks moderates a round table of four +Russian writers in a discussion of Soviet literature. Among the +subjects discussed will be Russian restrictions on poets and writers +in the ~USSR (Channel 9 at 9:30) **h Person to Person ventilates +the home lives of Johnny Mercer and Joan Collins- both in +Southern California (Channel 5 at 10:30) **h ~KQED Summer +Music Festival features a live concert by the Capello de Musica (Channel +9 at 8:30). ~NBC plans a new series of three long +programs exploring America's scientific plans titled "Threshold", +to start in the fall **h. "Science in Action", San Francisco's +venerable television program, will be seen in Hong Kong this +fall in four languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chiuchow and English, +according to a tip from Dr& Robert C& Miller. +YOU . + +THE WEEK WENT along briskly enough. I bought a new little +foreign bomb. It is a British bomb. Very austere yet racy. + +It is very chic to drive foreign cars. With a foreign car you must +wear a cap- it has a leather band in the back. You must also wear +a car coat. The wardrobe for a foreign bomb is a little expensive. +But we couldn't really get along without it. #@# + +"WHERE +DO YOU put the lighter fluid, ha, ha"? asked the gas station +man. The present crop of small cars is enriching American humor. + +Gas station people are very debonair about small cars. +When I drove a car with tail fins, I had plenty status at the wind-and-water +oases. My car gulped 20 gallons without even wiping its mouth. + +This excellent foreign bomb takes only six. When +I had my big job with the double headlights and yards of chrome, the +gas people were happy to see me. " OK? " They polished the windshield. +They had a loving touch. #@# + +THE MAN STUCK the nozzle +in the gas tank. "What kind of car is it"? he asked gloomily. + +"It is a British Austin, the smallest they make". +"Get much mileage"? "About 35". The gas station +man sighed unhappily. "What I always say is what if +somebody clobbers you in a little car like that? Crunch, that's all +she wrote". "I will die rich". "That will be +$1.80", said the gas station man. "The windshield looks pretty +clean". #@# + +AH, THE FAIR-WEATHER friends of yesteryear! +When I wheeled about, finned fore and aft, I was the darling of the +doormen. Dollar bills skidded off my hands and they tipped their caps +politely. With a small bomb, I tuck it between Cadillacs. +(The last doorman that saw me do that should calm himself. High +blood pressure can get the best of any of us.) + +AT LAST the White House is going to get some much-copied +furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose +designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U& S& Presidents +of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings. The American +Institute of Decorators has acquired a rare complete set of +sofas +and chairs which are to be placed in the Executive Mansion's library. +The suite has been in the same family since the early 1800's. +The gift is being presented by "heirs and descendants of the Rutherford +family of New Jersey, whose famous estate, +"Tranquility", +was located near the Duncan Phyfe workshop at Andover, N& J&. + +Authenticated pieces of Duncan Phyfe furniture are uncommon, +although millions of American homes today display pieces patterned +after the style trends he set 150 years ago. This acquisition is +a +matched, perfect set- consisting of two sofas six feet long, plus six +sidechairs and two armchairs. THE ~AID HAS undertaken +the redecoration of the White House library as a project in +connection with the work being done by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's +Fine Arts Advisory Committee to secure antiques for the presidential +home. It is the ~AID's intention to create in the +library "a miniature museum of Americana" before completed refurbishing +is unveiled early this fall. The room will also feature +another rarity many antiquarians would consider more important than the +Duncan Phyfe furniture. The ~AID has found a mantlepiece attributed +to Samuel McIntyre of Salem, Mass&, an architect and woodcarver +who competed for the designing of the Capitol here in 1792. + +The mantel was found in a recently demolished Salem house and +is being fitted over the White House library fireplace. It will be +painted to match the paneling in the room. The ~AID committee's +chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs& Henry Francis +Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff +members on the project. Mrs& Lenygon's committee associates, +announced formally yesterday by the ~AID in New York, include Mrs& +Allen Lehman McCluskey and Stephen J& Jussel, both wellknown +Manhattan decorators. Regional representatives appointed to serve +from each section of the country include Frank E& Barnes of +Boston. + +PRESIDENT KENNEDY couldn't stay away from his desk for +the 75-minute young people's concert played on the White House lawn +yesterday by the 85-piece Transylvania Symphony Orchestra from Brevard, +N& C&. But he left the doors to his office open so he +could hear the music. At 4 p& m& the President left the White +House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of +12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, +and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the +District area who were special guests at the concert. It was +the first in the series of "Concerts for Young People by Young +People" to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the +White House. She was not present yesterday, however, to enjoy the +music or watch the faces of the delighted audience. She is vacationing +at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass&, and in +his welcoming remarks, the President said he was representing her. + +As he approached the open bandstand, erected facing the South +entrance to the Executive Mansion, the band struck up the "Star Spangled +Banner" and followed it with "Hail to the Chief". + +"I think they played Hail to the Chief better than the Marine +Corps Band, and we are grateful to them", President Kennedy remarked +after mounting the bandstand and shaking hands with conductor +James Christian Pfohl. AFTER PAYING tribute to the conductor +and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, +"As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that +is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States- +schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested +young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music". + +He added "**h I think that sometimes in this country +we are not aware as we should be of the extraordinary work that +is being done in this field". Displaying his knowledge of +music, the New England-born President remarked that "probably the +best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans- +and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary +musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across +the United States. "This is a great national cultural asset, +and therefore it is a great source of satisfaction to me, representing +as I do today my wife, to welcome all of you here today at the +White House". As he left the bandstand to return to his office, +the slender, sun-tanned Chief Executive paused along the way to +shake hands with the members of the audience in wheel chairs forming +the first row under the field tent set up for the guests. He +expressed surprise to learn that pretty, blonde Patricia Holbrook, 16, +of Mount Rainier, +had attended the Joseph P& Kennedy School +for the Handicapped in Boston. "The nuns there do a wonderful work", +the President commented. Patricia now attends the C& Melvin +Sharpe Health School in the District. Each of the children +invited to the concert wore a name tag marked with a red, white and +blue ribbon. They enjoyed lemonade and cookies served before and during +the concert by teenage sons and daughters of members of the White +House staff. MANY of the music-loving members of the President's +staff gathered around the tent listening and watching the +rapt attention given by the young seated audience. And it turned out +to be more of a family affair than expected. Henry Hall Wilson, a +student at the music camp 25 years ago and now on the President's +staff as liaison representative with the House of Representatives, turned +guest conductor for a Sousa march, the "Stars and Stripes Forever". + +Transylvania Symphony Conductor Pfohl said yesterday that Mrs& +Kennedy's Social Secretary, Letitia Baldrige, told about +plans for White House youth concerts before the National Symphony +Orchestra League in Philadelphia last spring. He said he contacted +a friend, Henry Hall Wilson, on the President's staff and +asked whether his orchestra could play, in the series. A flow of correspondence +between Pfohl and Miss Baldrige resulted in an invitation +to the 85-student North Carolina group to play the first concert. + +ONE OF THE MOST interested "students" on the tour which +the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following +their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social +secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. "I was an art +major in college", Miss Baldrige explained. "I've been here +so many times I couldn't count them". She turned out to be a fan, +too, of Margaret Bouton, the Gallery's associate curator of education. + +Miss Bouton headed up one of the four groups that went +on simultaneous tours after the Gallery had closed at 5 +p& m&. +The Brevard group of 85 arrived at the Gallery at 6 p& m&, remaining +for about 45 minutes. The Brevard visitors had very little +to say at the beginning of the tour but warmed up later. They decided +that they thought Rembrandt's self-portrait made him look "sad"**h +they noticed Roman buildings in the background of Raphael's +"Alba Madonna" and "texture" in a Monet painting of Rheims +Cathedral. Everybody had heard of Van Gogh, the French impressionist. + +Gallery Director John Walker greeted the group, standing +on one of the benches in the downstairs lobby to speak to them. +He pointed out to the young musicians that the National Gallery "is +the only museum in the country to have a full-time music director +**h Richard Bales **h I'm sure you've heard af him **h and his +record, 'The Confederacy'". Along with the gallery aide +who explained the various paintings and sculptures to each group, went +one of the Gallery's blue-uniformed guards. In 45 minutes, +the Gallery leaders had given the students a quick rundown on art +from the Renaissance to the late 19th Century. A few of them +said they "preferred contemporary art". Among the other +artists, whose paintings were discussed were Boucher, Courbet, Fra +Angelico. The thing that impressed one of the visitors the most +was the Gallery's rotunda fountain **h "because it's on the +second floor". + +That imposing, somewhat austere, and seemingly remote collonaded +building with the sphynxes perched on its threshold at 1733 16th st& +nw& took on bustling life yesterday. More than 250 Scottish +Rite Masons and guests gathered in their House of the Temple +to pay tribute to their most prominent leader, Albert Pike, who headed +the Scottish Rite from 1859 to 1891. They came together in +the huge, high-ceilinged Council Chamber to hear the late leader eulogized. +C& Wheeler Barnes of Denver, head of the Scottish Rite +in Colorado, praised Pike as a historian, author, poet, journalist, +lawyer, jurist, soldier and musician, who devoted most of his mature +years to the strengthening of the Masonic Order. The ceremony +ended with the laying of a wreath at the crypt of Pike in the House +of the Temple. A reception and tea followed. About 1500 +delegates are expected to register today for the biennial session of the +Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction +of the United States. The opening session of the 5-day session +will begin at 10 a& m& today. There will be a pilgrimage to +Mount Vernon at 2:30 p& m&. A wreath will be placed at the +tomb of George Washington, one of this Nation's first Masons- +a past master of Washington-Alexandria Lodge 22 in Alexandria. + +THE MARRIAGE of John and Mary Black had clearly reached +the breaking point after eight years. John had a job in a small +firm where the work was dull and monotonous. He would come home in +the evening tired and discouraged- in no frame of mind to play with +their three children, or spend much time chatting with his wife. + +Hurt by his lack of interest and attention, Mary complained often +that he didn't help around the house, and that he didn't really +care about the family. She accused him of ignoring her. He in turn told +her she demanded too much. They were both discouraged, disgusted +and miserable. Mary decided she had had enough. Without any definite +plan in mind, she went to a judge to see what could be done. The +judge listened quietly as the young woman poured out her frustrations- +then discussing with her the possibility of seeking aid from +Family +Service before going to a lawyer. Family Service, sharing +in ~UGF, has five agencies in the Washington area. They offer +to the people of this community case work service and counseling on +a wide variety of family problems. Because neither of them really +wanted their marriage to break up, Mr& and Mrs& Black agreed +to a series of interviews at Family Service of Northern Virginia, +the agency nearest them. For nearly a year, they have been receiving +counseling, separately and together, in an effort to understand and +overcome the antagonisms which had given rise to the possibility of divorce. +The interviews have led each of them to a new appreciation of +the problems confronting the other. They are now working together toward +solving their difficulties. JOHN received a promotion +in his firm. He gives credit for the promotion to his new outlook on +life. Mary is cheery and gay when her husband comes home in the evenings, +and the children's bed-time is frequently preceeded by a session +of happy, family rough-housing. To outsiders, the Blacks seem +to be an ordinary, happy family, and they are- but with a difference. +They know the value of being just that- an ordinary, happy family. + +Family Service has helped hundreds of families in this +area. Perhaps to some their work does not seem particularly vital. But +to the families it serves, their help cannot be measured. Family Service +could not open its doors to a single family without the financial +support of the United Givers Fund. + +Anticipated heavy traffic along the Skyline Drive failed to +materialize yesterday, park rangers said, and those who made the trip +got a leisurely view of the fall colors through skies swept clear of haze. + +#FOR CRUCIAL ENCOUNTER# + +One of the initial questions put to President +Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his +attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev. Mr& Kennedy +replied: @ "I'm hopeful that from @ more traditional +exchanges we can perhaps find greater common ground". The +President knew that a confrontation with Mr& Khrushchev sooner or +later probably was inevitable and even desirable. But he was convinced +that the realities of power- military, economic and ideological- +were the decisive factors in the struggle with the Communists and that +these could not be talked away at a heads of government meeting. He +wanted to buy time to strengthen the U& S& and its allies and +to define and begin to implement his foreign policy. Last Friday +the White House announced: President Kennedy will +meet +with Soviet Premier Nikita S& Khrushchev in Vienna June 3 and +4. The announcement came after a period of sharp deterioration +in East-West relations. The heightened tension, in fact, had been +a major factor in the President's change of view about the urgency +of a meeting with the Soviet leader. He was not going to Vienna +to negotiate- the simultaneous announcements in Washington and Moscow +last week stressed that no formal negotiations were planned. But +Mr& Kennedy had become convinced that a personal confrontation with +Mr& Khrushchev might be the only way to prevent catastrophe. + +That objective set the high stakes and drama of the Vienna meeting. +Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance +of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters +of the cold war. @ + +#ROAD TO VIENNA# + +The U& S& and +Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston +Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy +with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace "at the +summit of the nations". The first time was in 1955 when a +full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the "spirit of Geneva". +The spirit served chiefly to lull the West while Moscow made inroads +into the Middle East. In 1959 President Eisenhower +and Premier Khrushchev held an informal session in the U& S&. +That meeting produced the "spirit of Camp David"- a spirit, it +later turned out, that masked a basic misunderstanding about progress +toward a Berlin settlement. On the third occasion- another +Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago- there was no problem +of an illusory "spirit". Premier Khrushchev wrecked the conference +at its initial session with a bitter denunciation of the U& S& +for the ~U-2 incident. The episode tended to confirm the U& +S& belief that propaganda, the hope of one-sided concessions, and +the chance to split the Allies, rather than genuine negotiation, were +the Soviet leader's real aims in summitry. + +#PRE-INAUGURAL POSITION# + +Thus when Premier Khrushchev intimated even before inauguration +that he hoped for an early meeting with the new President, Mr& +Kennedy was confronted with a delicate problem. Shortly before his +nomination he had set forth his basic view about the problem of negotiations +with the Soviet leader in these words: "As long +as Mr& Khrushchev is convinced that the balance of world power is +shifting his way, no amount of either smiles or toughness, neither Camp +David talks nor kitchen debates, can compel him to enter fruitful +negotiations". + +The President had set for himself the task, which +he believed vital, of awakening the U& S& and its allies to +the hard and complex effort necessary to shift that balance. He did +not want the effort weakened by any illusion that summit magic might make +it unnecessary. He wanted time, too, to review the United States' +global commitments and to test both the policies he had inherited +and new ones he was formulating. Above all, he did not want to appear +to be running hat in hand to Premier Khrushchev's doorstep. + +#ATTITUDE +FLEXIBLE# + +At the same time the President took pains not to +rule out an eventual meeting with the Soviet leader. Ideally, he knew, +it should be preceded by concrete progress at lower levels. But Mr& +Kennedy saw value even in an informal meeting, provided that undue +hopes were not raised in connection with it. It would give him an +opportunity to take the measure of his chief adversary in the cold war, +to try to probe Mr& Khrushchev's intentions and to make clear +his own views. Moreover, an eventual meeting was desirable if for no +other reason than to satisfy world opinion that the U& S& was not +inflexible and was sparing no effort to ease international tensions. + +Both elements- the caution about a meeting, the willingness +eventually to hold one- were reflected in a letter from the President +which Ambassador Llewellyn E& Thompson brought back to Russia +late in February. The letter, dated Feb& 22, was delivered to +Premier Khrushchev in Novosibirsk, Siberia, on March 9. It dealt +mainly with a broad range of East-West issues. But it also briefly +suggested the possibility of a meeting with Mr& Khrushchev before +the end of the year if the international climate were favorable and +schedules permitted. Developments over the next two months, however, +caused the President to reconsider the question of the timing. +There were intense discussions in the inner councils of the White House +about the advisability of an early meeting, not because the international +climate was improving, but precisely because it was deteriorating +alarmingly. + +#DEADLOCK ON TESTS# + +The President was especially +concerned about the deadlock in the nuclear test ban negotiations at +Geneva. The deadlock has been caused by the Russians' new demand +for a three-man (East, West and neutral) directorate, and thus a veto, +over the control machinery. In the U& S&, strong pressures +have been building up for a resumption of tests on grounds that the Russians +may be secretly testing. Mr& Kennedy was less troubled +by that possibility than by the belief that a Geneva breakdown, +or even continued stalemate, would mean an unchecked spread of nuclear +weapons to other countries as well as a fatal blow to any hope for disarmament. +There was reason to believe that Premier Khrushchev was +also concerned about a possible spread of nuclear weapons, particularly +to Communist China. The question arose as to whether a frank discussion +of that danger with the Soviet leader had not become urgent. Moreover, +Moscow appeared determined to apply the tripartite veto principle +to the executive organs of all international bodies, including +the U& N& Secretariat and the International Control Commission +for Laos. Mr& Kennedy was convinced that insistence on the demand +would make international agreements, or even negotiations, impossible. + +Developments in Cuba and Laos also suggested the advisability +of an early summit meeting. Initially the White House reaction +was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict +in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting. At the same time, +there was increased reason for a quick meeting lest the Soviet leader, +as a result of those episodes, come to a dangerously erroneous conclusion +about the West's ability and determination to resist Communist +pressure. In Cuba, the U& S& had blundered badly and +created the impression of impotency against Communist penetration even +on its own doorstep. In Laos, the picture was almost equally bad. +U& S& willingness to accept a neutral Laos may have led Premier +Khrushchev to believe that other areas could be "neutralized" +on Soviet terms. Beyond that, Allied disagreement about military intervention +in Laos- despite warnings that they might do so- allowed +Moscow to carry out with impunity a series of military and diplomatic +moves that greatly strengthened the pro-Communist forces. As a result, +the West is in a poor bargaining position at the current Geneva +negotiations on Laos, and South Vietnam and other nations in Southeast +Asia are under increased pressure. In the light of those +events, there appeared to be a real danger that Premier Khrushchev +might overreach himself. Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow +that the Soviet leader's mood was cocky and aggressive. He has indicated +that he plans new moves on Berlin before the year is out. The +President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn +Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such +as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning +back. It was in the midst of such White House deliberations +that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the +U& S& Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in +the near future. Mr& Kennedy told Moscow he would give his answer +by May 20 after consultation with the Allies. The response from +London, Paris and Bonn was favorable. Firm arrangements for the meeting +in Vienna were worked out in a final exchange between Moscow and +Washington last week. Apparently at the insistence of the U& S&, +the simultaneous announcements issued in Washington and Moscow +last Friday emphasized the "informal" nature of the meeting. The +Washington announcement said: @ "The President and Chairman +Khrushchev understand that this meeting is not for the purpose +of negotiating or reaching agreement on the major international problems +that involve the interest of many other countries. The meeting +will, however, afford a timely and convenient opportunity for the first +personal contact between them and a general exchange of views on the +major issues which affect the relationships between the two countries". +@ + +#THE OUTLOOK# + +The Vienna meeting will bring together a +seasoned, +67-year-old veteran of the cold war who, in Mr& Kennedy's +own words, is "shrewd, tough, vigorous, well-informed and confident", +and a 44-year-old President (his birthday is May 29) with a +demonstrated capacity for political battle but little experience in international +diplomacy. The announcement last week of the forthcoming +encounter produced strong reactions in the U& S& of both approval +and disapproval. The approval did not arise from an expectation +of far-reaching agreements at Vienna. The inclination was to accept +the statement that there would be no formal negotiations. But those +who were in favor of the meeting felt that a frank exchange between +the two men and an opportunity to size one another up would prove salutary. +Mr& Khrushchev is known to rely heavily on his instincts about +his adversaries and to be a shrewd judge of men. The feeling was +that he would sense an inner core of toughness and determination in the +President and that plain talk by Mr& Kennedy would give him pause. + +Apart from the personal equation, another reason advanced +in favor of the meeting was that too often in the past the U&S& +appeared to have been dragged reluctantly to the summit. Premier Khrushchev +has made propaganda capital out of that fact and in the end got +his summit meeting anyway. This time the initiative came, in part +at least, from Washington. + +#OTHER ALLIES CONSULTED# + +There was also +the fact that by the time he meets Mr& Khrushchev, the President +will have completed conversations with all the other principal Allied +leaders. Thus he will be in a position to disabuse the Soviet leader +of any notions he may have about grave Allied disunity. Finally, +there was a wide area of agreement on the value of the President's +making a final effort in the summit spotlight for a nuclear test +accord. There is no single issue that has aroused stronger feelings +throughout the world. If tests are to be resumed, the argument went, +it is vital that the U& S& make plain that the onus belongs to +the Soviet Union. Disapproval of the meeting was based largely +on the belief that the timing could hardly be worse. After Cuba +and Laos, it was argued, Mr& Khrushchev will interpret the President's +consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness- +perhaps even panic- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage +he now believes he holds. Moreover, the President is meeting the +Soviet leader at a time when the Administration has still not decided +on the scope of America's firm foreign policy commitments. The +question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President +would take if Mr& Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending +from Southeast Asia to the Middle East. + +THERE ARE, so my biologist friends tell me, mechanisms of +adaptation and defense that are just too complete and too satisfactory. +Mollusks are a case in point. The shell, which served the strain +so well at a relatively early stage in the evolutionary scheme, tended +to cancel out the possibility of future development. Though this may +or may not be good biology, it does aptly illustrate the strength and +the weakness of American Catholic higher education. There can +be no doubt that the American Catholic accomplishment in the field +of higher education is most impressive: our European brethren never +cease to marvel at the number and the size of our colleges and universities. +The deeper wonder is how this miracle was accomplished in decades, +rather than in centuries and by immigrant minorities at that. +By way of explanation we ourselves are prone to imagine that this achievement +stems from the same American Catholic zeal and generosity which +brought the parochial school system into existence. There +is, however, one curious discrepancy in this broad and flattering picture. +Viewing the American Catholic educational achievement in retrospect, +we may indeed see it as a unified whole extending from grade school +to university. But the simple truth is that higher education has +never really been an official American Catholic project; certainly +not in the same sense that the establishment of a parochial school +system has been a matter of official policy. Official encouragement +is one thing, but the down-to-earth test is the allocation of diocesan +and parochial funds. American Catholics have responded generously +to bishops' and pastors' appeals for the support necessary to +create parochial schools but they have not contributed in a similar +fashion to the establishment of institutions of higher learning. They +have not done so for the simple reason that such appeals have hardly +ever been made. Diocesan authorities generally have not regarded this +as their direct responsibility. All of this may be understandable +enough: it is, however, in fact difficult to see how diocesan +authorities could have acted otherwise. Yet for better or for worse, +the truth of the matter is that most American Catholic colleges do + owe their existence to general Catholic support but rather to +the initiative, resourcefulness and sacrifices of individual religious +communities. Community has been the protective +shell which has made the achievement possible. To understand +the past history- and the future potential- of American Catholic +higher education, it is necessary to appreciate the special character +of the of the religious community. It is something +more than the arithmetical sum of individual totals of piety and +detachment. A religious community with a vital sense of mission achieves +a degree of group orientation and group identification seldom found +elsewhere. The fact that the group orientation and group identification +are founded on supernatural principles and nourished by the well-springs +of devotion simply give them a deeper and more satisfying dimension. +The net result is a uniquely satisfying sense of comradeship, +the kind of comradeship which sparks enthusiasm and blunts the cutting +edge of sacrifice and hardship. American Catholic colleges +and universities are, in a very real sense, the product of "private +enterprise"- the "private enterprise" of religious communities. +Had it not been for such private enterprise, diocesan authorities +might of course have been goaded into establishing institutions subsidized +by diocesan funds and parish collections and staffed by religious +as paid employees. There is however no point in speculating about such +a possibility: the fact of the matter is that our institutions of +higher learning owe their existence to a spirit not unlike that which +produces the "family business". This "family-community" spirit +is the real explanation of the marvel of our achievement. ## + +IT IS this spirit which explains some of the anomalies of American +Catholic higher education, in particular the wasteful duplication +apparent in some areas. I think for example of three women's colleges +with pitifully small enrollments, clustered within a few miles of +a major Catholic university, which is also co-educational. This is not +an isolated example; this aspect of the total picture has been commented +upon often enough. It would seem to represent +run riot. Apart, however, from the question of wasteful duplication, +there is another aspect of the "family business" spirit +in American Catholic higher education which deserves closer scrutiny. +For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have +been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone +closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would +seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles +the university in its "pursuit of excellence". At the earlier +"pre-academic excellence" stage of Catholic education, the operation +could be conducted on an intra-mural community basis. But with today's +demand for professional qualifications and specialized training, +the need for "outsiders" become more pressing. ## + +THE PROBLEM +is not merely that more "outside teachers" are needed but +that a different brand is called for. Commenting on the earlier stage, +the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University +Professors +(in a recent report on the question of faculty participation +in administrative decision-making) noted that the term "teacher-employee" +(as opposed to, e&g&, "maintenance employee") was +a not inapt description. Today however, the "outsider" is likely +to have professional qualifications of the highest order (otherwise +the college would not be interested in hiring him) and to be acclimatized +to the democratic processes of the secular or state university. And +while no one expects total democracy on the academic scene, the scholar +will be particularly sensitive to a line between first and second +class citizenship drawn on any basis other than that of academic rank +or professional achievement. In the above mentioned report of +the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University +Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges +very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see +it: "Even with the best of intentions he (the President of the +university) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to +a group the membership of which, considered (as it must be by him) in +individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying +temperament, interests and capabilities. It is natural that he should +turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization +which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in +their opinion, identified with its highest good and (to use that oft-repeated +phrase) 'the attainment of excellence'". The pattern +here pictured is clearly not peculiar to Notre Dame: it is simply +that the paradox involved in this kind of control of the institution +by "the organization which actually owns" it, becomes more obvious +where there is a larger and more distinguished "outside" faculty. +It is particularly interesting that those who framed the report +should refer to "the organization which actually owns the university": +this seems to show an awareness of the fact that there is more +to the problem than the ordinary issue of clerical-lay tension. But +in any case, one does not have to read very closely between the lines +to realize that the situation is not regarded as a particularly happy +one. "Outside" faculty members want to be considered partners in +the academic enterprise and not merely paid employees of a family business. + +There are two reasons why failure to come to grips with +this demand could be fatal to the future of the Catholic university. +In the first place there is the obvious problem of recruiting high caliber +personnel. Word spreads rapidly in the tightly knit academic profession, +much given to attending meetings and conferences. Expressions +of even low-key dissatisfaction by a Catholic college faculty member +has the effect of confirming the already existing stereotype. In +the academic world there is seldom anything so dramatic as a strike or +a boycott: all that happens is that the better qualified teacher declines +to gamble two or three years of his life on the chance that conditions +at the Catholic institution will be as good as those elsewhere. + +To appreciate the nature of the gamble, it should be realized +that while college teaching is almost a public symbol of security, +that security does not come as quickly or as automatically as it does +in an elementary school system or in the Civil Service. Much has +been made of the fact that major Catholic institutions now guarantee +firm tenure. This is a significant advance but its import should not +be exaggerated. When a man invests a block of his years at a university +without gaining the coveted promotion, not only is he faced with the +problem of starting over but there is also a certain depreciation in +the market value of his services. A man does not make that kind of +gamble if he suspects that one or more of the limited number of tenure +positions is being reserved for members of the "family". ## + +JUST +AS IT is possible to exaggerate the drawing power of the new +tenure practices, it is also possible to exaggerate the significance +of the now relatively adequate salaries paid by major Catholic institutions. +Adequate compensation is indispensable. Yet adequate compensation- +and particularly adequate compensation is no substitute +for those intangibles which cause a man to sacrifice part of his +earning potential by taking up college teaching in the first place. Broadly +speaking the total Catholic atmosphere is such an intangible +but the larger demand is for a sense of creative participation and mature +responsibility in the total work of the university. Religious who +derive their own sense of purpose through identification with the religious +community rather than the academic community are prone to underestimate +both the layman's reservoir of idealism and his need for this +identification. There is no need here to spell out the conditions +of creative teaching except to point out that, at the college +level, the sense of community and of community responsibility is even +more necessary than it is at other levels. The college teacher needs +the stimulus of communication with other faculty members but he also +needs to feel that such communication, even informal debates over the +luncheon table, are a contribution to the total good of the institution. +But this in turn means that decisions are not merely imposed from +the top but that there be some actual mechanism of faculty participation. + +The second reason for being concerned with the dichotomy +between faculty members who are part of the "in-group" that owns and +operates the institution and those who are merely paid employees, is, +therefore, the baneful effect on the caliber of the teaching itself. +This is a problem that goes considerably beyond questions of salary +and tenure. Yet though it may seem difficult to envision any definitive +resolution of the problem of ownership and control, there are nevertheless +certain suggestions which seem to be in order. The first +is a negative warning: there is no point in the creation of faculty +committees and advisory boards with high-sounding titles but no real +authority. In the case of academic personnel the "feeling" of +participation can hardly be "faked". Competent teachers are well +versed in the technique of leading students to pre-set conclusions without +destroying the students' illusion that they are making their own +decisions. Those who have served as faculty advisers are too familiar +with the useful but artificial mechanisms of student government to +be taken in by "busy-work" and decision making. +In any case it is by no means clear that formally structured organs of +participation are what is called for at all. In the Notre Dame report, +reference was made to the fact that faculty members were reduced +to "luncheon-table communication". In itself there is nothing wrong +with this form of "participation": the only difficulty on the +Catholic campus is that those faculty members who are in a position +to implement policy, i&e&, members of the religious community which +owns and administers the institution, have their own eating arrangements. +SEN& JOHN L& McCLELLAN of Arkansas and Rep& David +Martin of Nebraska are again beating the drums to place the unions +under the anti-monopoly laws. Once more the fallacious equation is advanced +to argue that since business is restricted under the anti-monopoly +laws, there must be a corresponding restriction against labor unions: +the law must treat everybody equally. Or, in the words of Anatole +France, "The law in its majestic equality must forbid the rich, +as well as the poor, from begging in the streets and sleeping under +bridges". The public atmosphere that has been generated which +makes acceptance of this law a possibility stems from the disrepute +into which the labor movement has fallen as a result of Mr& McClellan's +hearings into corruption in labor-management relations and, later, +into the jurisdictional squabbles that plagued industrial relations +at the missile sites. The Senator was shocked by stoppages over +allegedly trivial disputes that delayed our missile program. In addition, +disclosures that missile workers were earning sums far in excess +of what is paid for equivalent work elsewhere provoked his indignation +on behalf of the American taxpayer who was footing the bill. +It is now disclosed that the taxpayer not only pays for high wages, but +he pays the employers' strike expenses when the latter undertakes +to fight a strike. (Aug& 9, 1961) reports that +the United Aircraft Company, against which the International Association +of Machinists had undertaken a strike, decided to keep its plants +operating. The company incurred some $10 million of expenses attributable +to four factors: advertising to attract new employees, hiring +and training them, extra overtime, and defective work performed by +the new workers. The company has billed the United States Government +for $7,500,000 of these expenses under the Defense Department regulation +allowing costs of a type generally recognized as ordinary and +necessary for the conduct of the contractor's business. Rep& +Frank Kowalski of Connecticut has brought this problem to the +attention of the Armed Services Committee. The committee remains unresponsive. +Neither has Congressman Martin nor Senator McClellan +been heard from on the matter; they are preoccupied with ending labor +abuses by extending the anti-monopoly laws to the unions. ## + +THE +RECENT publicity attending the successful federal prosecution +of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers +has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified +neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained. The +anti-trust laws inform a business that it must compete, but along completely +undefined lines; it must play a game in which there never is +a winner. The fact is that any business that wants to operate successfully +cannot follow the law. Hypocrisy thus becomes the answer to a +foolish public policy. Let us look at the heavy-electrical-goods +industry in which General Electric, Westinghouse and a number of +other manufacturers were recently convicted of engaging in a conspiracy +to rig prices and allocate the market. The industry is so structured +that price-setting by a multi-product company will vary with the way +overhead charges are allocated- whether marginal or average pricing +is applied. The problem becomes even more complex where an enterprise +is engaged in the manufacture of a wide variety of other goods +in addition to the heavy electrical equipment. Accounting procedures +can be varied to provide a rationale for almost any price. Naturally, +enterprises of the size of General Electric are in a position to +structure their prices in such a way that the relatively small competitors +can be forced to the wall in a very short time. Should these giants +really flex their competitive muscles, they would become the only +survivors in the industry. Uncle Sam would then accuse them of creating +a monopoly by "unfair competition". But if they show self-restraint, +they don't get the orders. Under the circumstances, +the only protection for the relatively small manufacturers is to engage +in exactly the kind of conspiracy with the giants for which the latter +were convicted. Engaging in such a conspiracy was an act of mercy +by the giants. The paradox implicit in the whole affair is shown by +the demand of the government, after the conviction, that General Electric +sign a wide-open consent decree that . In other words, +the anti-trust laws, designed to reduce prices to the consumer on Monday, +Wednesday and Friday, become a tool to protect the marginal manufacturer +on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. And which theory would +govern the enforcers of the law on Sunday? ## + +THE QUESTION +might be asked: "Don't the managements of the heavy-electrical-goods +manufacturers know these facts? Why did they engage in a +flood of , throw a few scapegoats to the dogs and promise +to be good boys thereafter, expressing their complete confidence in +the laws"? The past usefulness of the anti-trust laws to +management was explained by Thurman Arnold, in , +back in 1937. He wrote: "(P& 211) **h the anti-trust +laws were the answer of a society which unconsciously felt the need +of great organizations, and at the same time had to deny them a place +in the moral and logical ideology of the social structure. (P& 214) +**h anti-trust laws became the greatest protection to uncontrolled +business dictatorship. (P& 215) **h when corporate abuses were attacked, +it was done on the theory that criminal penalties would be invoked +rather than control. **h In this manner, every scheme for direct +control broke to pieces on the great protective rock of the anti-trust +laws. (Pp& 228-229) **h in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust +laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial +empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most +fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation +is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control +by the government". This escape from control has led to management's +evaluating the risk of occasional irrational prosecution as +worth while. A plea of , followed by a nominal fine, +after all is a small price to pay for this untrammeled license. (The +penalties handed out in the electrical case, which included jail +sentences, were unprecedented in anti-trust prosecutions, perhaps because +the conspirators had displayed unusual ineptness in their pricing +activities.) If a substitute mechanism is needed for the control +of a fictitious impersonal market, quite obviously some method must +be devised for representing the public interest. A secret conspiracy +of manufacturers is hardly such a vehicle. However, one can argue that +no such control is necessary as long as one pretends that the anti-trust +laws are effective and rational. Quite clearly the anti-trust laws +are neither effective nor rational- and yet the argument goes that +they should be extended to the labor union. THOSE WHO +favor placing trade unions under anti-trust laws imply that they are advocating +a brand new reform. Before 1933, individuals who opposed +trade unions and collective bargaining said so in plain English. +The acceptance of collective bargaining as a national policy in 1934, +implicit in the writing of Section 7~A of the National Industrial +Recovery Act, has made it impolitic to oppose collective bargaining +in principle. The Wagner Act, the Taft-Hartley Act and the Landrum-Griffin +Act all endorse the principle of collective bargaining. + +The basic purpose of an effective collective-bargaining system +is the removal of wages from competition. If a union cannot perform +this function, then collective bargaining is being palmed off by organizers +as a gigantic fraud. The tortured reasoning that unions +use to deny their ambition to exercise monopoly power over the supply +and price of labor is one of the things that create a legal profession. +The problem must be faced squarely. If laborers are merely commodities +competing against each other in a market place like so many bags +of wheat and corn (unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy), +then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism +to a system that imposes such status upon them. Human labor +was exactly that- a commodity- in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century +America. As early as 1776, Adam Smith wrote in : "We have no acts of Parliament against combining +to lower the price of work; but many against combining to raise it". +Eighteenth-century England, upon whose customs our common law was +built, had outlawed unions as monopolies and conspiracies. In 1825, +the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced +by the organized employers, who declared: "It is **h considered +that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to **h effect +the value of labor **h tend to convert all its branches into monopolies". + +There were no pious hypocrisies then about being +collective bargaining, but labor monopoly. The courts +shared the opinion of the employers. In , Justice +Savage of the New York Supreme Court declared: "Without +any officious and improper interference on the subject, the +price of labor or the wages of mechanics will be regulated by the demand +for the manufactured article and the value of that which is paid +for it; but the right does not exist to raise **h the wages of the mechanic +by any forced and artificial means". Compare this statement +of a nineteenth-century judge with how Congressman Martin, according +to the of Sept& 19, 1961, defends +the necessity of enacting anti-trust legislation in the field of labor +"if we wish to prevent monopolistic fixing of wages, production or +prices and if we wish to preserve the freedom of the employer and his +employees to contract on wages, hours and conditions of employment". + +Senator McClellan is proposing the application of anti-trust +measures to unions in transportation. His bill, allegedly aimed at +Hoffa, would amend the Sherman, Clayton and Norris-LaGuardia acts +to authorize the issuance of federal injunctions in any transportation +strike and would make it illegal for any union to act in concert +with any other union- even a sister local in the same international. + +Paradoxically, the same week in which Senator McClellan was +attempting to extend the anti-trust act to labor in transportation, +the Civil Aeronautics Board was assuring the airlines that if they +met in concert to eliminate many costly features of air travel, the action +would not be deemed a violation of the anti-trust act. Indeed, it +is in the field of transportation that Congress has most frequently +granted employers exemption from the anti-trust laws; for example, +the organization of steamship conferences to set freight rates and the +encouragement of railroads to seek mergers. At the very moment that +every attempt is being made to take management out from under the irrationality +of anti-trust legislation, a drive is on to abolish collective +bargaining under the guise of extending the anti-monopoly laws to unions +who want no more than to continue to set wages in the same way that +ship operators set freight rates. ## + +THE passage of the +Sherman Act was aimed at giant monopolies. It was most effective against +trade unions. In the famous Danbury Hatters case, a suit was +brought against the union by the Loewe Company for monopolistic practices, +e&g&, trying to persuade consumers not to purchase the product +of the struck manufacturer. The suit against the union was successful +and many workers lost their homes to pay off the judgment. + +In 1914, the Clayton Act attempted to take labor out from under +the anti-trust legislation by stating that human labor was not to be +considered a commodity. The law could not suspend economics. Labor remained +a commodity- but presumably a privileged one granted immunization +from the anti-trust laws. The courts, by interpretation, +emasculated the act. In 1922, the United Mine Workers struck the +Coronado Coal Company. The company sued under the anti-trust laws, +alleging that the union's activity interfered with the movement of +interstate commerce. (What other purpose could a striking union have +but to interrupt the flow of commerce from the struck enterprise?) The +court first ruled that the strike constituted only an indirect interference +with commerce. + +#THE NATION# + + +_THE THREE-FRONT WAR_ At a closed-door session +on Capitol Hill last week, Secretary of State Christian Herter made +his final report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on +U&S& affairs abroad. Afterward, Tennessee's Democratic Senator +Albert Gore summed it up for newsmen. What Herter presented, +said Gore, was "not a very encouraging review". That was something +of an understatement in a week when the underlying conflict between +the West and Communism erupted on three fronts. While Communists +were undermining United Nations efforts to rescue the Congo from chaos, +two other Communist offensives stirred the Eisenhower Administration +into emergency conferences and serious decisions. _1) CUBA._ +Hours after a parade of his new Soviet tanks and artillery, Dictator +Fidel Castro suddenly confronted the U&S& with a blunt and +drastic demand: within 48 hours, the U&S& had to reduce its +embassy and consulate staffs in Cuba to a total of eleven persons (the +embassy staff alone totaled 87 U&S& citizens, plus 120 Cuban +employees). President Eisenhower held an 8:30 a&m& meeting with +top military and foreign-policy advisers, decided to break off diplomatic +relations immediately. "There is a limit to what the United +States in self-respect can endure", said the President. "That limit +has now been reached". Through Secretary Herter, Ike +offered President-elect Kennedy an opportunity to associate his new +Administration with the breakoff decision. Kennedy, through Secretary-designate +of State Dean Rusk, declined. He thus kept his hands +free for any action after Jan& 20, although reaction to the break +was generally favorable in the U&S& and Latin America ( +THE HEMISPHERE). _2) LAOS._ After a White House huddle +between the President and top lieutenants, the Defense Department reacted +sharply to a cry from the pro-Western government of Laos that +several battalions of Communist troops had invaded Laos from North +Viet Nam. "In view of the present situation in Laos", said the +Pentagon's announcement, "we are taking normal precautionary actions +to increase the readiness of our forces in the Pacific". Cutting +short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers +and steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied +by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines. +On the U&S&'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made +up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move +southward on signal. But by week's end the Laotian cry of +invasion was read as an exaggeration ( FOREIGN NEWS), and +the U&S& was agreeing with its cautious British and French allies +that a neutralist- rather than a pro-Western- government might +be best for Laos. _FRENCH + INDIANS._ There was a moral of +sorts in the Laotian situation that said much about all other cold-war +fronts. Political, economic and military experts were all agreed that +chaotic, mountainous little Laos was the last place in the world +to fight a war- and they were probably right. "It would be like fighting +the French and Indian War all over again", said one military +man. But why was Laos the new Southeast Asian battleground? + +At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the +British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands +and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet +Nam- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations +against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos. The late Secretary +of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement +a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to +keep it from becoming a calamity for the West. He began the diplomatic +discussions that resulted in the establishment of ~SEATO. +"The important thing from now on", he said, "is not to mourn the +past but to seize the future opportunity to prevent the loss in northern +Viet Nam from leading to the extension of Communism throughout +Southeast Asia". Russian tanks and artillery parading through +the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian +arms drops in Laos (using the same Ilyushin transports that were +used to carry Communist agents to the Congo) made it plain once more +that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time. Soviet Premier +Khrushchev sent New Year's hopes for peace to President-elect +Kennedy, and got a cool acknowledgment in reply. Considering the +state of the whole world, the cold war's three exposed fronts did +not seem terribly ominous; but, in Senator Gore's words, it was +"not a very encouraging" situation that would confront John F& +Kennedy on Inauguration Day. + +#THE CONGRESS# + + +_TURMOIL IN THE +HOUSE_ As the 87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal +Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled +by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal +legislation to the floor. The liberal pressure bloc (which coyly +masquerades under the name Democratic Study Group) had fought the +committee before, and had always lost. This time, they were much better +prepared and organized, and the political climate was favorable. +They had the unspoken support of President-elect Kennedy, whose own +legislative program was menaced by the Rules Committee bottleneck. +And counting noses, they seemed to have the votes to work their will. + +_DEADLY DEADLOCK._ There were two possible methods of breaching +the conservative barriers around the Rules Committee: 1) to pack +it with additional liberals and break the conservative-liberal deadlock, +or 2) to remove one of the conservatives- namely Mississippi's +14-term William Meyers Colmer (pronounced Calmer). Caucusing, the +liberals decided to go after Colmer, which actually was the more drastic +course, since seniority in the House is next to godliness. + +A dour, gangling man with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than +his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist +position +to that of a diehard conservative. He is generally and initially +suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his +Gulf Coast constituents. He is, of course, a segregationist, but +he says he has never made an "anti-Negro" speech. For 20 years he +has enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along +with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, +and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 +deadlock that blocked far-out, +Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation +(a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership +to avoid embarrassing votes). _EQUAL TREATMENT._ There was +sufficient pretext to demand Colmer's ouster: he had given his +lukewarm support to the anti-Kennedy electors in Mississippi. Reprisals +are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has +been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons. In 1949 the Dixiecrats +escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry +Truman, and in 1957, +after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned +for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch +his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily +of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive last week, +Judge +Smith threatened reprisal against Powell. Said he: "We will +see whether whites and Negroes are treated the same around here".) +But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with +President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be +done about the Rules Committee- and that he was the only man who could +do anything effective. In a tense, closed-door session with +Judge Smith, Rayburn attempted to work out a compromise: to add +three new members to the Rules Committee (two Democrats, including +one Southerner, and one Republican). Smith flatly rejected the offer, +and Mister Sam thereupon decided to join the rebels. The next +morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and +broke the news: he would lead the fight to oust Colmer, whom he +is said to regard as "an inferior man". News of +Rayburn's +commitment soon leaked out. When Missouri's Clarence Cannon got +the word, he turned purple. "Unconscionable"! he shouted, and +rushed off to the Speaker's Room to object: "A dangerous precedent"! +Cannon, a powerful, conservative man, brought welcome support +to the Smith-Colmer forces: as chairman of the Appropriations +Committee, he holds over each member the dreadful threat of excluding +this or that congressional district from federal pork-barrel projects. +Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge +Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services +Committee. _THREAT OF WAR._ As the battle raged in the cloakrooms +and caucuses, it became clear that Judge Smith could lose. His +highest count of supporters numbered 72- and he needed nearly twice +that number to control the 260-member Democratic caucus. The liberals, +smelling blood, were faced with the necessity of winning three +big votes- in the Democratic Committee on Committees, in the full +party caucus, and on the floor of the House- before they could oust +Colmer. (One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should +the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported +the maverick electors?) In all three arenas, they seemed certain +of victory- especially with Sam Rayburn applying his whiplash. + +But in the prospect of winning the battle loomed the specter +of losing a costlier war. If the Southerners were sufficiently aroused, +they could very well cut the Kennedy legislative program to ribbons +from their vantage point of committee chairmanships, leaving Sam +Rayburn leading a truncated, unworkable party. With that possibility +in mind, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills deliberately delayed calling a +meeting of the Committee on Committees, and coolheaded Democrats sought +to bring Rayburn and Smith together again to work out some sort +of face-saving compromise. "Here are two old men, mad at each other +and too proud to pick up the phone", said a House Democratic leader. +"One wants a little more power, and the other doesn't want +to give up any". _BATTLE IN THE SENATE_ The Senate launched the +87th Congress with its own version of an ancient liberal-conservative +battle, but in contrast with the House's guerrilla war it seemed +as as a Capitol guide's speech. Question at issue: +How big a vote should be necessary to restrict Senate debate- and +thereby cut off legislation-delaying filibusters? A wide-ranging, +bipartisan force- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey +to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall- was +drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally +used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills. New Mexico's +Clint Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate's +notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and +voting to cut off debate, instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds. +Fair Dealer Humphrey upped the ante, asked cloture power for a +mere majority of Senators. Georgia's Dick Russell objected politely, +and the battle was joined. Privately, the liberals admitted +that the Humphrey amendment had no chance of passage. Privately, +they also admitted that their hopes for Clint Anderson's three-fifths +modification depended on none other than Republican Richard Nixon. +In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of +Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each +new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were +not binding. Armed with the Nixon opinion, the Senate liberals +rounded up their slim majority and prepared to choke off debate +on the filibuster battle this week. Hopefully, the perennial battle +of Rule 22 then would be fought to a settlement once and for all. + +#REPUBLICANS# + + +_LAST ACT_ Since Election Day, Vice President +Richard Nixon had virtually retired- by his own wish- from public +view. But with the convening of the new Congress, he was the public +man again, presiding over the Senate until John Kennedy's Inauguration. +One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore +that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to +hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to +make "sufficient declaration" of the election of the man who defeated +him in the tight 1960 presidential election. Nixon fulfilled his +assignment with grace, then went beyond the required "sufficient declaration". + +"This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate +for the presidency announced the result of an election in which +he was defeated", he said. + +The Masters golf tournament proved last Monday what it can do +to the strongest men and the staunchest nerves. Gary Player, the small, +trim South African, was the eventual winner, but in all his 25 +years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the +victory to drop in his lap. Arnold Palmer, the defending champion, lost +his title on the 72nd hole after a few minutes of misfortune that +left even his fellow pros gaping in disbelief. "Just when you +think you have it licked, this golf course can get up and bite you", +Player had said one afternoon midway through the tournament. And +that is just what happened on the last few holes. The Augusta National +Golf Club Course got up and bit both Player and Palmer. + +Player was the first to feel its teeth. After playing a splendid first +nine holes in 34- two strokes under par- on this fifth and final +day of the tournament (Sunday's fourth round had been washed out +by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed), Player's +game rapidly fell to pieces. He bogeyed the 10th. After a journey through +woods and stream he double-bogeyed the 13th. He bogeyed the 15th +by missing a short putt and finally scrambled through the last three +holes without further mishap for a 2-over-par 74 and a 72-hole total +of 280. As he signed his scorecard and walked off the course, +Player was almost in tears. He could read on the nearby scoreboard +that Palmer, by then playing the 15th hole, was leading him by a stroke. +Palmer had started the round four strokes behind Player, and at +one point in the afternoon had trailed by as many as six strokes. Now +all he had to do was finish in even par to collect the trophy and the +biggest single paycheck in golf. When Palmer hit a good straight +drive up the fairway on the 72nd hole, he seemed to have the championship +won. But the seven-iron shot he used to approach the green +strayed into a bunker and lodged in a slight depression. In trying to +hit it out with a sand wedge Palmer bounced the ball over the green, +past spectators and down the slope toward a ~TV tower. Afterwards, +Palmer told Charlie Coe, his last-round partner, that he +simply played the hole too fast. He did seem hasty on his second and +third shots, but then there was an agonizing wait of several minutes while +Coe graciously putted out, giving Palmer a chance to recover his +composure, +which he had quite visibly lost. When the shaken Palmer +finally did hit his fourth shot, he overshot the hole by 15 feet. +Palmer was now putting merely for a tie, and Player, who was sitting +beside his wife and watching it all on television in Tournament Chairman +Clifford Roberts' clubhouse apartment, stared in amazement when +Palmer missed the putt. Palmer's 281 for the four rounds +at Augusta was a comfortable four strokes ahead of the next closest +pro, but it was barely good enough for a second-place tie with Coe. +The lean and leathery Oklahoma amateur, who has been playing topnotch +tournament golf for many years, refused to let the Masters jitters +overtake him and closed the tournament with his second straight 69. + +#END +AT SEVEN# + +Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played +seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters- four last year +and three this- without ever being out of first place. As evening +approached and Palmer finished his Saturday round with a disappointing +one-over-par 73, this remarkable record was still intact, thanks to +his Thursday and Friday rounds of 68 and 69. His three-round total +of 210 was three strokes better than the next best score, a 213 by Bill +Collins, the tall and deliberate Baltimorean who had been playing +very well all winter long. But Palmer knew, as did everybody +else at Augusta, that his streak was about to be broken. Half an hour +after he finished his round, Player holed out at the 18th green with +a 69 and a three-round total of 206, four strokes ahead of Palmer. + +More than a streak had ended. Long after the erratic climate +and the washed-out final round on Sunday have become meteorological +footnotes, the 1961 Masters will be remembered as the scene of the + between Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. Unlike most +such sports rivalries, it appeared to have developed almost spontaneously, +although this was not exactly the case. When the winter +tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to +challenge Palmer's towering prestige. As if to confirm his stature, +he quickly won three of the first eight tournaments. Player won only +one. But as the tour reached Pensacola a month ago, Player was +leading Palmer in official winnings by a few hundred dollars, and the +rest of the field was somewhere off in nowhere. On the final round at +Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same +threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery +was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of +the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come. On +that final Sunday at Pensacola neither Palmer nor Player was leading +the tournament and, as it turned out, neither won it. But whichever +of these two finished ahead of the other would be the undisputed financial +leader of the tour. Player immediately proved he was not in the +least awed by the dramatic proximity of Palmer. He outplayed Palmer +all around the course and finished with a tremendous 65 to Palmer's +71. Thereafter, until the Masters, Player gradually increased +his lead over Palmer in winnings and added one more tournament victory +at Miami. When they reached Augusta last week, together they had +won five of the 13 tournaments to date. + +#INSTANT RIVALRY# + +On Thursday, +the first day of the Masters, the contest between Palmer and +Player developed instantly. It was a dismal, drizzly day but a good +one on which to score over the Augusta National course. The usually +skiddy greens were moist and soft, so the golfers were able to strike +their approach shots boldly at the flag-stick and putt firmly toward +the hole without too much worry about the consequences. Palmer's 4-under-par +68 got him off to an early lead, which he shared with Bob Rosburg. +But Player was only one stroke back, with a 69. Even +so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators- +unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever- that this tournament +was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player. A lot +of people were still thinking about Jack Nicklaus, the spectacular +young amateur, who had a 70; or Ken Venturi, who had a somewhat shaky +72 but was bound to do better; or Rosburg, whose accurate short +game and supersensitive putter can overcome so many of Augusta's treacheries; +or even old Byron Nelson, whose excellent 71 made one +wonder if he had solved the geriatric aspects of golf. (On Thursday +nobody except Charlie Coe was thinking of Charlie Coe.) On +Friday, a day as cloudless and lovely as Thursday had been gray and +ugly, the plot of the tournament came clearly into focus. Rosburg +had started early in the day, and by the time Palmer and Player were +on the course- separated, as they were destined to be for the rest +of the weekend, +by about half an hour- they could see on the numerous +scoreboards spotted around the course that Rosburg, who ended with a +73, was not having a good day. As Player began his second round +in a twosome with amateur Bill Hyndman, his share of the gallery +was not conspicuously large for a contender. Player began with a birdie +on the first hole, added five straight pars and then another birdie +at the 9th. On the back nine he began to acquire the tidal wave of +a gallery that stayed with him the rest of the tournament. He birdied +the 13th, the 15th and the 18th- five birdies, one bogey and 12 pars +for a 68. Starting half an hour behind Player in company with +British Open Champion Kel Nagle, Palmer birdied the 2nd, the +9th, the 13th and the 16th- four birdies, one bogey and 13 pars for +a 69. The roar of Palmer's gallery as he sank a thrilling putt would +roll out across the parklike landscape of Augusta, only to be answered +moments later by the roar of Player's gallery for a similar triumph. +At one point late in the day, when Palmer was lining up a 25-foot +putt on the 16th, a thunderous cheer from the direction of the 18th +green unmistakably announced that Player had birdied the final hole. +Without so much as a grimace or a gesture to show that he had noticed +(although he later admitted that he had) Palmer proceeded to sink +his 25-footer, and his gallery sent its explosive vocalization rolling +back along the intervening fairways in reply. + +#THE BOLDNESS OF CHAMPIONS# + +Anyone who now doubted that a personal duel was under way +had only to watch how these exceptionally gifted golfers were playing +this most difficult golf course. It is almost axiomatic that golfers +who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots +with a vehemence bordering on violence. The bad luck that can so often +mar a well-played round of golf is simply overpowered and obliterated +by the contemptuous boldness of these champions. Bob Jones played +that way. Byron Nelson did, Hogan did. And last week at the Masters +Palmer and Player did. As the third round of the tournament +began on Saturday and the duel was resumed in earnest, it was Player's +superior aggressiveness that carried him into the lead. This +day Palmer had started first. As Player stepped on the first tee +he knew that Palmer had birdied the first two holes and already was +2 under par for the day. Player immediately proceeded to follow suit. +In fact, he went on to birdie the 6th and 8th as well, to go 4 under +par for the first eight holes. But Player's real test came +on the ninth hole, a downhill dogleg to the left measuring 420 yards. +He hit a poor tee shot, pulling it off into the pine woods separating +the 9th and first fairways. Having hit one of the trees, the ball came +to rest not more than 160 yards out. Player then had the choice of +punching the ball safely out of the woods to the 9th fairway and settling +for a bogey 5, or gambling. The latter involved hitting a full +four-wood out to the first fairway and toward the clubhouse, hoping to +slice it back to the deeply bunkered 9th green. "I was hitting +the ball well", Player said later, "and I felt strong. When +you're playing like that you'd better attack". Player attacked +with his four-wood and hit a shot that few who saw it will ever +forget. It struck the 9th green on the fly and stopped just off the +edge. From there he chipped back and sank his putt for a par 4. + +Palmer, meanwhile, had been having his troubles. They started on +the 4th hole, a 220-yard par-3. On this day the wind had switched 180` +from the northwest to the southeast, and nearly every shot on the +course was different from the previous few days. At the 4th tee Palmer +chose to hit a one-iron when a three-wood was the proper club, so +he put the ball in a bunker in front of the green. His bogey 4 on this +hole and subsequent bogeys at 5 and 7 along with a birdie at 8 brought +him back to even par. Starting the second nine, Palmer was +already four strokes behind Player and knew it. + +When Mickey Charles Mantle, the New York Yankees' man +of muscle, drives a home run 450 feet into the bleachers, his feat touches +upon the sublime. When Roger Eugene Maris, Mantle's muscular +teammate, powers four home runs in a double-header, his performance +merits awe. But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the +Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center +field because, as a teammate explained, "the other team thought +no one was out there", hits seven home runs in four months (three +more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960), his achievement borders +on the ridiculous. This is Baseball 1961. This is the year home runs +ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. It is the year when +(1) amiable Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles ambled to the +plate in consecutive innings with the bases loaded and, in unprecedented +style, delivered consecutive grand-slam home runs; (2) Willie Mays +of the San Francisco Giants borrowed a teammate's bat and became +the ninth big leaguer to stroke four home runs in a game; (3) the +Milwaukee Braves tied a major-league record with fourteen home runs +in three games and lost two of them; and (4) catcher Johnny Blanchard +of the New York Yankees matched a record with home runs in four +successive times at bat, two of them as a pinch-hitter. Pitchers +grumble about lively balls and lively bats, the shrinking strike +zone, and the fact that the knock-down pitch is now illegal. Experts +point to the thinning of pitching talent in the American League caused +by expansion. Whatever the reasons, not in 30 years has a single season +produced such thunderous assaults upon the bureau of baseball records, +home-run division. Of all the records in peril, one stands +apart, dramatic in its making, dramatic in its endurance, and now, +doubly dramatic in its jeopardy. This, of course, is baseball's most +remarkable mark: The 60 home runs hit in 1927 by the incorrigible +epicure, the incredible athlete, George Herman (Babe) Ruth of the +Yankees. Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious +runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted. +What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September +surge. In the final month of the 1927 season, he hit seventeen +home runs, a closing spurt never matched. + +#DOUBLE THREAT:# + +Always, +in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record, one man alone- a +Jimmy Foxx (58 in 1932) or a Hank Greenberg (58 in 1938) or a Hack +Wilson (56 in 1930)- made the bid. But now, for the first time +since Lou Gehrig (with 47 home runs) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men +playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60. Their names are Mantle +and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real. + +After 108 games in 1927, Ruth had 35 home runs. After 108 +games in 1961, Mickey Mantle has 43, Roger Maris 41. Extend Mantle's +and Maris's present paces over the full 1961 schedule of 162 +games, and, mathematically, each will hit more than 60 home runs. This +is the +great edge the two Yankees have going for them. To better Ruth's +mark, neither needs a spectacular September flourish. All Mantle +needs is eight more home runs in August and ten in September, +and he will establish a new record. In Ruth's day- and until this +year- the schedule was 154 games. Baseball commissioner Ford Frick +has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is +broken in 154 games.) "Even on the basis of 154 games, this +is the ideal situation", insists Hank Greenberg, now vice-president +of the Chicago White Sox. "It has to be easier with two of them. +How can you walk Maris to get to Mantle"? + +#ROOMMATES:# + +Neither Mantle nor Maris, understandably, will predict 60 home runs +for himself. Although both concede they would like to hit 60, they +stick primarily to the baseball player's standard quote: "The +important thing is to win the pennant". But one thing is for certain: +There is no dissension between Mantle, the American League's +Most Valuable Player in 1956 and 1957, and Maris, the ~MVP +in 1960. Each enjoys seeing the other hit home runs ("I hope Roger +hits 80", Mantle says), and each enjoys even more seeing himself +hit home runs ("and I hope I hit 81"). The sluggers get +along so well in fact, that with their families at home for the summer +(Mantle's in Dallas, Maris's in Kansas City), they are rooming +together. Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv, a utility outfielder, share +an apartment in Jamaica, Long Island, not far from New York +International Airport. The three pay $251 a month for four rooms (kitchen, +dining room, living room, and bedroom), with air-conditioning +and new modern furniture. Mantle and Cerv use the twin beds in the bedroom; +Maris sleeps on a green studio couch in the living room. They +divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking (breakfast +and sandwich snacks, with dinner out), Mantle supplies the +transportation (a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible), and Maris drives +the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium. +Mantle, Maris, and Cerv probably share one major-league record already: +Among them, they have fifteen children- eight for Cerv, four +for Mantle, and three for Maris. As roommates, teammates, +and home-run mates, Mantle, 29, who broke in with the Yankees ten years +ago, and Maris, 26, who came to the Yankees from Kansas City +two years ago, have strikingly similar backgrounds. Both were scholastic +stars in football, basketball, and baseball (Mantle in Commerce, +Okla&, Maris in Fargo, N&D&); as halfbacks, both came close +to playing football at the University of Oklahoma ("Sometimes +in the minors", Maris recalls, "I wished I had gone to Oklahoma"). + +To an extent, the two even look alike. Both have blue +eyes and short blond hair. Both are 6 feet tall and weigh between 195 +and 200 pounds, but Mantle, incredibly muscular (he has a 17-1/2-inch +neck), looks bigger. With their huge backs and overdeveloped shoulders, +both must have their clothes made to order. Maris purchases $100 +suits from Simpson's in New York. Mantle, more concerned with +dress, buys his suits four at a time at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and +pays as much as $250 each. + +#LIGHT READING:# + +Neither Mantle nor +Maris need fear being classified an intellectual, but lately Mantle +has shown unusual devotion to an intellectual opus, Henry Miller's +"Tropic of Cancer". Mantle so appreciated Miller's delicate +literary style that he broadened teammates' minds by reading sensitive +passages aloud during road trips. Mantle is not normally +given to public speaking- or, for that matter, to private speaking. +"What do you and Mickey talk about at home"? a reporter asked +Maris recently. "To tell you the truth", Maris said, "Mickey +don't talk much". This is no surprising trait for +a ballplayer. What is surprising and pleasant is that Mantle and Maris, +under constant pressure from writers and photographers, are trying +to be cooperative. Of the two, Mantle is by nature the less +outgoing, Maris the more outspoken. But last week, when a reporter +was standing near Mantle's locker, Mickey walked up and volunteered +an anecdote. "See that kid"? he said, pointing to a dark-haired +11-year-old boy. "That's [Yogi] Berra's. I'll never +forget one time I struck out three times, dropped a fly ball, and we +lost the game. I came back, sitting by my locker, feeling real low, +and the kid walks over to me, looks up, and says: 'You stunk'". + +Maris, in talking to reporters, tries to answer all questions +candidly and fully, but on rare occasions, he shuns newsmen. "When +I've made a dumb play", he says, "I don't want to talk to +anyone. I'm angry". By his own confession, Maris is an +angry young man. Benched at Tulsa in 1955, he told manager Dutch Meyer: +"I can't play for you. Send me where I can play". (Meyer +sent him to Reading, Pa&.) Benched at Indianapolis in 1956, +he told manager Kerby Farrell: "I'm not learning anything on +the bench. Play me". (Farrell did- and Maris led the team to victory +in the Little World Series.) "That's the way I am", +he says. "I tell people what I think. If you're a good ballplayer, +you've got to get mad. Give me a team of nine angry men and I'll +give you a team of nine gentlemen and we'll beat you nine out of +ten times". + +#IDOLS' IDOLS:# + +One good indication of the two +men's personalities is the way they reacted to meeting their own heroes. +Maris's was Ted Williams. "When I was a kid", Maris +told a sportswriter last week, "I used to follow Williams every day +in the box score, just to see whether he got a hit or not". + +"When you came up to the majors, did you seek out Williams for advice"? + +"Are you kidding"? said Maris. "You're +afraid to talk to a guy you idolize". Mantle's hero was Joe +DiMaggio. "When Mickey went to the Yankees", says Mark Freeman, +an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, "DiMaggio +still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, +just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this +hero of his. But DiMaggio never said a word. It crushed Mickey. +He told me he vowed right then that if he ever got to be a star, this +never would be said of him". Mantle has kept the vow. Among all +the Yankees, he is the veteran most friendly to rookies. Neither +Mantle nor Maris is totally devoted to baseball above all else. +If laying ties on a railroad track, which he once did for $1 an hour, +paid more than playing right field for the Yankees, Maris would +lay ties on a railroad track. If working in a zinc mine, which he once +did for 87-1/2 cents an hour, paid more than playing center field for +the Yankees, Mantle would work in a zinc mine. But since railroading +and mining are not the highest paid arts, Mantle and Maris concentrate +on baseball. They try to play baseball the best they can. + +Each is a complete ballplayer. Mantle, beyond any question, can +do more things well. ("One of the reasons they get along fine", +says a sportswriter who is friendly with the two men, "is that both +realize Mantle is head-and-shoulders above Maris".) Hitting, +Mantle +has an immediate advantage because he bats both left-handed and right-handed, +Maris only left-handed. They both possess near classic +stances, +dug in firmly, arms high, set for fierce swings. Mantle is considerably +better hitting for average (.332, fourth in the league, to .280 +for Maris so far this year). Both are good bunters: Maris +once beat out eighteen of nineteen in the minor leagues; Mantle +is a master at dragging a bunt toward first base. Both have brilliant +speed: Mantle was timed from home plate (batting left-handed) to +first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer; Maris +ran the 100-yard dash in ten seconds in high school and once won a +race against Luis Aparicio, the swift, base-stealing shortstop of the +White Sox. Both are good, daring fielders: Mantle covers more +ground; Maris's throwing arm is stronger. Yet with all their +skills, the appeal of Mantle and Maris in 1961 comes down to one +basic: The home run. With this ultimate weapon, the two Yankees +may have saved baseball from its dullest season. (American League expansion +created, inevitably, weaker teams. Only two teams in each league +[the Yankees and Detroit, the Dodgers and Cincinnati] are battling +for first place. Appropriately, the emphasis on the home +run, at a peak this year, came into being at baseball's lowest moment. +In 1920, as the startling news that the 1919 White Sox had conspired +to lose the World Series leaked out, fans grew disillusioned +and disinterested in baseball. Something was needed to revive interest; +the something was the home run. + +Into Washington on President-elect John F& Kennedy's +Convair, the , winged Actor-Crooner {Frank Sinatra} +and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack +Kennedy's brother-in-law. Also included in the entourage: a dog +in a black sweater, Frankie and Peter had an urgent mission: to stage +a mammoth Inauguration Eve entertainment gala in the capital's +National Guard Armory. Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as +he had hinted upon his arrival: "It's really tremendous when you +think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia. I could talk to +you for three hours and still not be able to give you all of our plans"! +As the plans were laid, some several thousand fat cats were to +be ensconced in the armory's $100 seats and in 68 ringside boxes priced +at $10,000 each. The biggest single act would doubtless be staged +by Frankie himself: his Inaugural wardrobe had been designed by +Hollywood Couturier Don Loper, who regularly makes up ladies' ensembles. +Soon after Loper leaked the news that Frankie had ordered +"two of everything" just "in case he spills anything", Frankie +got so mad at the chic designer that he vowed he would not wear a stitch +of Loper clothing. @ ## + +A year after he was catapulted over +nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, +General {David M& Shoup} delivered a peppery annual report +in the form of a "happy, warless New Year" greeting to his +Pentagon staff. Said Leatherneck Shoup: "A year ago I took the +grips of the plow in my hands. After pushing an accumulation of vines +and weeds from the moldboard, I lifted the lines from the dust and +found hitched to that plow the finest team I ever held a rein on. Little +geeing and hawing have been necessary". But Shoup also gave +the Corps a tilling in spots. Speaking of "pride", he deplored +the noncommissioned officer "whose uniform looks like it belonged to +someone who retired in 1940; the officer with the yellow socks or +the bay window. A few of these people are still around". @ ## + +Old and new briefly crossed paths in the U&S& Senate, then +went their respective ways. At a reception for new members of Congress, +Oregon Democrat {Maurine Neuberger}, taking the Senate seat +held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly +buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U&S& +Ambassador-designate to the U&N&. Meanwhile, after 24 years +in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat {Theodore +Francis Greene}- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to +the hearty age of 93- left that august body (voluntarily, because he +could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November), +as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate. @ ## + +The +most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is +a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist {Fabian} (real +name: Fabian Forte), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain +an undergraduate for a while. The principal of the school announced +that- despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia- +Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics. +Lacking his needed credits in those subjects, Fabian will not +graduate with his old classmates next week. South Philadelphia High's +principal added that the current delay was caused by the "pressure" +of a movie that the toneless lad was making. @ ## + +To Decathlon +Man {Rafer Johnson} (TIME cover, Aug& 29), whose gold +medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption +as talent, went the A&A&U&'s James E& Sullivan Memorial +Trophy as the outstanding U&S& amateur athlete of 1960. As +the world's top sportsman- +pro or amateur- SPORTS ILLUSTRATED +tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer (TIME cover, May +2), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and +U&S& Open crowns, +went on to win a record $80,738 for the year. +@ ## + +Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand +Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver {Stirling Moss}, +31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination. +"I'm a slob", he announced. "My taste is gaudy. I'm +useless for anything but racing cars. I'm ruddy lazy, and I'm +getting on in years. It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't +know what I could do if I gave up racing". Has Moss no stirling +virtues? "I appreciate beauty". @ ## + +One of Nikita +Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U&S&S&R&'s +daily , enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian +{Charlie Chaplin} at his Swiss villa, where he has been in +self-exile since 1952. Chaplin, 71, who met K& when the Soviet boss +visited England in 1956, confided that he hopes to visit Russia +some time this summer because "I have marveled at your grandiose experiment +and I believe in your future". Then Charlie spooned out +some quick impressions of the Nikita he had glimpsed: "I was captivated +by his humor, frankness and good nature and by his kind, strong +and somewhat sly face". + +G& David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards +of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, +but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town +of Pittsburgh. There the name vaguely connotes new-rich wealth, a +reputation for eccentricity, and an ardor for collecting art. Last week, +in the German city of Du^sseldorf, G& David Thompson was +making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause. On display were +343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection- +and every single one of them was up for sale. Like Philadelphia's +late Dr& Albert C& Barnes who kept his own great collection +closed to the general public (TIME, Jan& 2), Thompson, +at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime. He made his +fortune during World War /2, when he took over a number of dying +steel plants and kept them alive until the boom. Even before he hit +big money, he had begun buying modern paintings. He gave the impression +of never having read a word about art, but there was no doubt that +he had an eye for the best. He was able to smell a bargain- +and a masterpiece- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's +Alfred Barr said of him: "I have never mentioned a new artist +that Thompson didn't know about". He might barge into a gallery, +start haggling over prices without so much as a word of greeting. +He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, +but with dealers he was tough. He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, +Legers, a splendid Picasso series, more than 70 Giacometti +sculptures. He gathered one of the biggest collections of Paul Klees +in the world. All these he hung in his burglarproof home called Stone's +Throw, outside Pittsburgh, and only people he liked and trusted +ever got to see them. Two years ago Thompson offered his +collection to the city. But he insisted that it be housed in a special +museum. Pittsburgh turned him down, just as Pittsburgh society had +been snubbing him for years. He went then to a 40-year-old Basel art +dealer named Ernst Beyeler, with whom he had long been trading pictures. +Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees +to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in +a museum that is yet to be built. Last week most of the other prizes, +once offered to Pittsburgh, went on the block. At the opening +of the Du^sseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the +treasures that he was seeing together for the last time. In fact he +seemed delighted to get rid of them. Some observers speculated that +this might be his revenge on his home town. Thompson himself said: +"I want to enjoy once more the pleasure of bare walls waiting for new +pictures". + +#BREAK IN GEORGIA# + +The University of Georgia has long claimed that +it does not discriminate against any applicant on the basis +of race or color. But in all its 175 years, not a single Negro +student has entered its classrooms. Last week Federal District Judge +William A& Bootle ordered the university to admit immediately +a "qualified" Negro boy and girl. Their entry will crack the +total segregation of all public education, from kindergarten through graduate +school, in Georgia- and in Alabama, Mississippi and South +Carolina as well. For 18 months, Hamilton Holmes, 19, and +Charlayne Hunter, 18, had tried to get into the university. They graduated +together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian +Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third. The university +rejected them on a variety of pretexts, but was careful never +to mention the color of their skins. Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse +(Negro) College, where he is a B+ student and star halfback. +Charlayne studied journalism at Detroit's Wayne State University. +Last fall, after they took their hopes for entering Georgia to +court, Judge Bootle ordered them to apply again. Charlayne +was "tentatively" admitted for next fall, after state investigators +questioned her white roommate at Wayne State. But Holmes was rejected +again "on the basis of his record and interview". The evidence +in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted +an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through +this ritual by a simple phone conversation. Holmes was asked if he +had ever visited a house of prostitution, or a "beatnik parlor or teahouse". +No, said he, but officials still called him "evasive". +They also said he lied in saying that he had never been "arrested". +Their reason: Holmes once paid a $20 speeding fine, had his license +suspended. Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white +students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all- and few +had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes. The real reason +for his rejection, they argued, is the fact that Georgia law automatically +cuts off funds for any desegregated school. Judge Bootle's +decision: "The two plaintiffs are qualified for admission +to said university and would already have been admitted had it not been +for their race and color". The state will appeal- but few think +it will actually try to close the university. "Surprised and pleased", +Students Holmes and Hunter may enter the University of Georgia +this week. + +#CATCH FOR CHICAGO# + +When the University of +Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence A& Kimpton +submitted his resignation last March, a mighty talent hunt +gripped the Midway. Out went letters to 60,000 old grads, asking for +suggestions. Such academic statesmen as James B& Conant were consulted. +Two committees pondered 375 possible Kimpton successors, including +Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, and Harvard's Dean McGeorge +Bundy. The debate led to a decision that Chicago needed neither +a big name nor an experienced academic administrator, but rather, +as Trustee Chairman Glen A& Lloyd put it, "a top scholar in +his own right"- a bright light to lure other top scholars to Chicago. + +Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's +acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells +Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology +for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell +chemistry (TIME, Cover, July 14, 1958). It fell to Chancellor +Kimpton, now a Standard Oil (Indiana) executive, to spend +his nine-year reign tidying up Chicago after the 21-year typhoon of +Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins. He threw out some of Hutchins' +more wildly experimental courses, raised sagging undergraduate enrollment +to 2,100, nearly doubled endowment to $139.3 million. But though +Kimpton put Chicago in what he felt was working order, some old grads +feel that it still needs the kind of lively teachers who filled it +in the heady Hutchins era. At Caltech, Geneticist Beadle +has stuck close to his research as head of the school's famous biology +division since 1946. But he has shown a sixth-sense ability to spot, +recruit and excite able researchers, and has developed unexpected +talents in fund raising and speech-making. Beadle is even that rare +scientist +who takes an interest in money matters; he avidly reads the +, and took delight in driving a $250 model ~A +Ford for 22 years, then selling it for $300. + +A philosopher may point out that the troubles of the Congo began +with the old Adam and consequently will never end. But a historian +might put his finger on a specific man and date, and hold out the hope +that the troubles will sometime pass away. The man was King Leopold +/2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better +grab a colony while the grabbing was still good. By force, he took under +his protection, or stole, 900,000 square miles of wilderness in Central +Africa. This is an area nearly as large as Western Europe; +and it was filled then as now by quarreling tribes with no political +or historical unity. Its boundaries had nothing to do with geography +or ethnic groupings; they were determined by the points at which Leopold's +explorers and gunmen got tired of walking. The population +of the Congo is 13.5 million, divided into at least seven major +"culture clusters" and innumerable tribes speaking 400 separate +dialects. The religions of the people include Christianity, Mohammedanism, +paganism, ancestor worship and animism. The climate ranges from +the steamily equatorial to the temperate. The hospitals contain patients +trampled by elephants or run over by sports cars. To make one +nation out of these disparities would be a problem large enough in any +case; it has been made far more difficult by what the Belgians have +done, or failed to do, in the Congo since 1885. At first the +Belgian royal family administered the Congo as its own private property. +But by 1908 its record of brutality had touched the national conscience. +The Belgian government itself took over administration, commencing +a program of paternalism unmatched in the history of colonialism. +One definition of paternalism is "The principle or practice, +on the part of a government, of managing the affairs of a country in +the manner of a father dealing with his children". The honor of the +Belgians in this matter is not to be questioned- only their judgment. +Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time- +but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, +if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until +then been treated as an infant. ## + +The Belgians were interested +primarily in the economic development of the Congo, which is rich in +copper, tin, cobalt, manganese, zinc, and uranium, and cotton and palm +oil. The colony was administered from Brussels, with neither the +Congolese nor the resident Belgians having any vote. The beneficiaries +of this administration were a number of huge cartels in which both +individuals and the Belgian government itself held stock. In , John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, +as "the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us +say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance +Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various +companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with +the United States as a heavy partner". Had +they been truly ruthless, the Belgians might have exploited the Congolese +without compassion. But they were not. They provided a social +security system which covered all their African employes; their program +of mass medical care was doubtless the best on the continent; +they put much effort into public housing. They also instituted a ration +system under which all employers in the Congo were required to furnish +their employes with clothing and adequate food. But instead of +delivering the ration- either in actual commodities or in cash- at +intervals of perhaps two weeks or a month, the Belgians felt obliged +to dole it out more often. Would not the children, if they received all +their food on the first day of the month, eat it up immediately, and +later go hungry? The Belgians also placed great emphasis +on education. During the 1950s there were as many as 25,000 schools in +the Congo. But almost all the schools were primary. The average Congolese +can do little more than puzzle out the meaning of "" +and "" and write his name. Some schools were +technical- the Belgians needed carpenters and mechanics to help exploit +the land, and trained many. But they did not believe in widespread +secondary education, much less in college. It was their conviction +that the people should be "brought up together", a grade at a time, +until in some indefinite future some might be ready to tackle history, +economics and political science. Indeed, the Belgians discouraged +higher education, fearing the creation of a native intellectual elite +which might cause unrest. When the Congo received its independence +in 1960 there were, among its 13.5 million people, exactly 14 university +graduates. ## + +Why did the Belgians grant independence to a +colony so manifestly unprepared to accept it? In one large oversimplification, +it might be said that the Belgians felt, far too late, the +gale of nationalism sweeping Africa. They lacked time to prepare +the Congo, as the British and French had prepared their colonies. The +Congolese were clamoring for their independence, even though most +were unsure what it meant; and in Brussels, street crowds shouted, +"" (Not one drop of blood!). The +Belgians would not fight for the privilege of being the detested pedagogue; +rather than teach where teaching was not wanted, they would +wash their hands of the mess. It is hard to blame them for this. Yet +there were other motivations and actions which the Belgians took after +independence for which history may not find them guiltless. +As the time for independence approached there were in the Congo no +fewer than 120 political parties, or approximately eight for each university +graduate. There were four principal ones. First, there were those +Congolese (among them Joseph Kasavubu) who favored splitting the +country into small independent states, Balkanizing it. Second, there +were those (Moise Tshombe) who favored near-Balkanization, a loose +federalism having a central government of limited authority, with +much power residing in the states. Third, there were those (notably Patrice +Lumumba) who favored a unified Congo with a very strong central +government. And fourth, there were moderates who were in no hurry +for independence and wished to wait until the Congo grew up. However, +the positions of all parties and leaders were constantly shifting. + +A final factor which contributed greatly to the fragmentation +of the Congo, immediately after independence, was the provincial structure +that had been established by the Belgians for convenience in administration. +They had divided the Congo into six provinces- Leopoldville, +Kasai, Kivu, Katanga, Equator and Eastern- unfortunately +with little regard for ethnic groupings. Thus some provinces contained +tribes which detested each other, and to them independence meant +an opportunity for war. The Belgian Congo was granted its independence +with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: +there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature +elected by universal suffrage in the provinces. Well-wishers +around the world hoped that the Congo would quickly assume a respectable +position in the society of nations. If internal frictions arose, +they could be handled by the 25,000-man Congolese army, the , which had been trained and was still officered by white +Belgians. The president, Joseph Kasavubu, seemed an able administrator +and the premier, Patrice Lumumba, a reasonable man. Twenty-four +hours after independence the wild tribesmen commenced fighting +each other. Presently the well-armed members of the - +many of them drawn from savage and even cannibalistic tribes, +erupted in mutiny, rioting, raping and looting. Terror engulfed the thousands +of Belgian civilians who had remained in the country. The Belgian +government decided to act, and on July 10 dispatched paratroops +to the Congo. On July 11 the head of the mineral-rich province of +Katanga, Moise Tshombe, announced that his province had seceded from +the country. Confusion became chaos; each succeeding day brought +new acts of violence. Lumumba and Kasavubu blamed it all on the military +intervention by the Belgians, and appealed to the United Nations +to send troops to oust them. ## + +On July 14 the Security +Council- +with France and Great Britain abstaining- voted the resolution +which drew the U&N& into the Congo. Vague in wording, it +called for withdrawal of Belgian troops and authorized the Secretary-General +"to take the necessary steps **h to provide the [Congolese] +Government with such military assistance as may be necessary, until, +through the efforts of the Congolese Government with the technical +assistance of the United Nations, the national security forces +may be able, in the opinion of the Government, to meet fully their tasks +**h". Secretary-General Hammarskjo^ld decided that it +would be preferable if the U&N& troops sent into the Congo were +to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations- certainly not +from the U&S&, +Russia, Great Britain or France. He quickly +called on Ghana, Tunisia, Morocco, Guinea and Mali, which dispatched +troops within hours. Ultimately the U&N& army in the Congo +reached a top strength of 19,000, including about 5,000 from India +and a few soldiers from Eire and Sweden, who were the only whites. + +It took the U&N& three months to bring a modest form of +order to the Congo. The Belgians were reluctant to withdraw their troops +and often obstructed U&N& efforts. The wildly erratic nature +of Patrice Lumumba caused constant problems- he frequently announced +that he wanted the U&N& to get out of the Congo along with +the Belgians, and appealed to Russia for help. (However, there is +little evidence that the late Lumumba was a Communist. Before appealing +to the U&N& or to Russia, he first appealed to the U&S& +for military help, and was rejected.) Lumumba further complicated +the U&N&'s mission by initiating small "wars" with the +secessionist province of Katanga and with South Kasai which, under +Albert Kalonji, wanted to secede as well. Meanwhile Russia took every +opportunity to meddle in the Congo, sending Lumumba equipment for +his "wars", dispatching "technicians" and even threatening, +on occasion, to intervene openly. But by the end of the three-month +period, in October 1960, something approaching calm settled on +the Congo. President Kasavubu became exasperated with Lumumba and +fired him. Lumumba fired Kasavubu. Control of the government- such +control as there was and such government as there was- passed into +the hands of Joseph Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese army. +Mobutu promptly flung out the Russians, who have not since played any +significant part on the local scene, although they have redoubled their +obstructionist efforts at U&N& headquarters in New York. +The Belgians- at least officially- departed from the Congo as well, +withdrawing all of their uniformed troops. But they left behind +them large numbers of officers, variously called "volunteers" or +"mercenaries", who now staff the army of Moise Tshombe in Katanga, +the seceded province which, according to Tshombe, holds 65% of +the mineral wealth of the entire country. From October 1960 +to February 1961, the U&N& forces in the Congo took little action. +There was no directive for it- the Security Council's resolution +had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United +Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political +affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize +it. During the five-month lull, civil war smoldered and +flickered throughout the Congo. In February the murder of Patrice +Lumumba, who had been kidnaped into Katanga and executed on order of +Tshombe, again stirred the U&N& to action. On Feb& 21 the +council passed another resolution urging the taking of "all appropriate +measures to prevent the occurrence of civil war in the Congo, including +**h the use of force, if necessary, in the last resort". Although +the resolution might have been far more specific, it was considerably +tougher than the earlier one. It also urged that the U&N& +eject, and prevent the return of, all Belgian and other foreign military +and political advisers; ordered an investigation of Lumumba's +death; urged the reconvention of the Congolese Parliament and the +reorganization of the army. + +#THE PRESIDENCY: TALKING AND LISTENING# + +Though President John +F& Kennedy was primarily concerned with the crucial problems of Berlin +and disarmament adviser McCloy's unexpected report from Khrushchev, +his new enthusiasm and reliance on personal diplomacy involved +him in other key problems of U&S& foreign policy last week. + +High up on the President's priority list was the thorny question +of Bizerte. On this issue, the President received a detailed +report from his U&N& Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had just +returned from Paris, and Mr& Kennedy asked Stevenson to search +for a face-saving +way- for both Paris and Tunis- out of the imbroglio. +Ideally, the President would like the French to agree on a "status +quo ante" on Bizerte, and accept a new timetable for withdrawing +their forces from the Mediterranean base. To continue their important +conversations about the Tunisian issue and the whole range of +other problems, Mr& Kennedy invited stevenson to Cape Cod for +the weekend. + +The President also discussed the Bizerte deadlock with +the No& 2 man in the Tunisian Government, Defense Minister Bahi +Ladgham, who flew to Washington last week to seek U&S& support. +The conversation apparently convinced Mr& Kennedy that the +positions of France and Tunisia were not irreconcilable. Through Ladgham, +Mr& Kennedy sent a message along those lines to Tunisian +President Habib Bourguiba; and one U&S& official said: "The +key question now is which side picks up the phone first". + +On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary +of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay +and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council (which the President +himself had originally hoped to attend). Main purpose of the +meeting: To discuss President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. + +And that was not all. In conferences with Nationalist China's +dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr& Kennedy +assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U&S& is as +firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United +Nations. Chen was equally adamant in his opposition to the admission +of Outer Mongolia; however the President, who would like to woo +the former Chinese province away from both Peking and Moscow, would +promise Chen nothing more than an abstention by the U&S& if Outer +Mongolia's admission comes to a vote. The President +also conferred with emissaries from Guatemala and Nepal who are seeking +more foreign aid. To Africa, he sent his most trusted adviser, +his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on a good-will mission +to the Ivory Coast. All week long the President clearly was playing +a larger personal role in foreign affairs; in effect, he was practicing +what he preached in his Berlin message two weeks ago when he +declared: +"We shall always be prepared to discuss international problems +with any and all nations that are willing to talk, and listen, with +reason". + +#CRIME: 'SKYJACKED'# + +From International Airport +in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the +great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, +including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio. When +Continental Airlines night-coach Flight 54 took off at 11:30 one +night last week, there was no reason to think it would take any longer. + +The plane put down on schedule at 1:35 a&m& in Phoenix. +Thirty-one minutes later, when it took off for El Paso, hardly +anyone of the crew of six or the 65 other passengers paid any attention +to the man and teen-age boy who had come aboard. At 3:58 a&m&, +with the plane about twenty minutes out of El Paso, passenger Robert +Berry, a San Antonio advertising man, glanced up and saw the +man and boy, accompanied by a stewardess, walking up the aisle toward +the cockpit. "The man was bent over with his hand on his stomach", +Berry said. "I figured he was sick". John Salvador, a +farmer from Palm Desert, Calif&, was sitting up front and could +see through the door as the trio entered the cockpit. "The kid had +a .45 automatic, like they issue in the Army", he said. "The other +fellow had a .38". Salvador saw the youth hold his .45 against the +head of stewardess Lois Carnegey; the man put his .38 at the head +of Capt& Byron D& Rickards. To Rickards, a 52-year-old +veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was +being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when +Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa. But +last week's pirates, like the Cuban-American who recently hijacked +an Eastern Airlines Electra (NEWSWEEK, Aug& 7), wanted to +go to Havana. _STALLING:_ "Tell your company there are four +of us here +with guns", the elder man told Rickards. The pilot radioed +El Paso International Airport with just that message. But, he +told the "skyjackers", the 707 didn't carry enough fuel to reach +Havana; they would have to refuel at El Paso. Most passengers +didn't know what had happened until they got on the ground. +Jerry McCauley of Sacramento, Calif&, one of some twenty Air Force +recruits on board, awoke from a nap in confusion. "The old man +came from the front of the plane and said he wanted four volunteers +to go to Cuba", McCauley said, "and like a nut I raised my hand. +I thought he was the Air Force recruiter". What the man +wanted was four persons to volunteer as hostages, along with the crew. +They chose four: Jack Casey, who works for Continental Airlines +in Houston; Fred Mullen from Mercer Island, Wash&; +Pfc& +Truman Cleveland of St& Augustine. Fla&, and Leonard Gilman, +a former college boxer and veteran of the U&S& Immigration +Service Border Patrol. Everybody else was allowed to file off the +plane after it touched down at El Paso at 4:18 a&m&. +They found a large welcoming group- El Paso policemen, Border Patrol, +sheriff's deputies, and ~FBI men, who surged around the +plane with rifles and submarine guns. Other ~FBI men, talking with +the pilot from the tower, conspired with him to delay the proposed +flight to Havana. The ground crew, which ordinarily fuels a 707 in twenty +minutes, took fully three hours. Still more time was consumed while +the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert +Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for +a propeller-driven Douglas ~DC-7. Actually, the officers +on the ground had no intention of letting the hijackers get away with +any kind of an airplane; they had orders to that effect straight +from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that +it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over +the 707. Mr& Kennedy had been informed early in the day of the +attempt to steal the plane, kept in touch throughout by telephone. At +one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a +Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on +trade with Cuba. As the morning wore on and a blazing West Texas +sun wiped the shadows off the Franklin Mountains, police got close +enough to the plane to pry into the baggage compartment. From the +luggage, they learned that the two air pirates, far from being Cubans, +were native Americans, subsequently identified as Leon Bearden, +50-year-old ex-convict from Coolidge, Ariz&, and his son, Cody, +16, a high-school junior. _TENSION_ The heat and strain began +to tell on the Beardens. The father, by accident or perhaps to show, +as he said, "we mean business", took the .45 and fired a slug +between the legs of Second Officer Norman Simmons. At 7:30 a&m&, +more than three hours after landing, the Beardens gave an ultimatum: + +Take off or see the hostages killed. The tower +cleared the plane for take-off at 8 a&m&, and Captain Rickards +began taxiing toward the runway. Several police cars, loaded with +armed officers, raced alongside, blazing away at the tires of the +big jet. The slugs flattened ten tires and silenced one of the inboard +engines; the plane slowed to a halt. Ambulances, baggage trucks, +and cars surrounded it. The day wore on. At 12:50 p&m& +a ramp was rolled up to the plane. A few minutes later, ~FBI agent +Francis Crosby, talking fast, eased up the ramp to the plane, unarmed. +While Crosby distracted the Beardens, stewardesses Carnegey +and Toni Besset dropped out of a rear door. So did hostages Casey, +Cleveland, and Mullen. That left only the four crew members, Crosby, +and Border Patrolman Gilman, all unarmed, with the Beardens. +The elder Bearden had one pistol in his hand, the other in a hip pocket. +Gilman started talking to him until he saw his chance. He caught +officer Simmons' eye, nodded toward young Bearden, and- "I +swung my right as hard as I could. Simmons and Crosby jumped the boy +and it was all over". Frog-marched off the airplane at 1:48 +p&m&, the Beardens were held in bail of $100,000 each on charges +of kidnapping and transporting a stolen plane across state lines. +(Bearden reportedly hoped to peddle the plane to Castro, and live high +in Cuba.) Back home in Coolidge, Ariz&, his 36-year-old wife, +Mary, said: "I thought they were going to Phoenix to look for +jobs". + +#CONGRESS: MORE MUSCLE# + +Taking precedence over all other +legislation on +Capitol Hill last week was the military strength of +the nation. The Senate put other business aside as it moved with unaccustomed +speed and unanimity to pass- 85 to 0- the largest peacetime +defense budget in U&S& history. With the money all +but in hand, however, the Administration indicated that, instead of +the 225,000 more men in uniform that President Kennedy had requested, +the armed forces would be increased by only 160,000. The "hold-back", +as Pentagon mutterers labeled it, apparently was a temporary +expedient intended to insure that the army services are built up gradually +and, thus, the new funds spent prudently. In all, the Senate +signed a check for $46.7 billion, which not only included the extra +$3.5 billion requested the week before by President Kennedy, but +tacked on $754 million more than the President had asked for. (The +Senate, on its own, decided to provide additional ~B-52 and other +long-range bombers for the Strategic Air Command.) The House, which +had passed its smaller appropriation before the President's urgent +call for more, was expected to go along with the increased defense +budget in short order. In other areas, Congressional action last +week included: @ The Senate (by voice vote) and the House +(by 224-170) passed and sent to the White House the compromise +farm bill which the President is expected to sign, not too unhappily. + +@ The Senate also voted $5.2 billion to finance the government's +health, welfare, and labor activities. Debate on the +all-important foreign-aid +bill, with its controversial long-range proposals, +had just begun on the Senate floor at the weekend. White House +legislative aides were still confident the bill would pass intact. + +#FOOD: STEW A LA MULLIGATAWNY# + +Most members of the U&S& Senate, +because they are human, like to eat as high on the hog as they +can. But, because they are politicians, they like to talk as poor-mouth +as the lowliest voter. As a result, ever since 1851 when the Senate +restaurant opened in the new wing of the Capitol Building, the senators +have never ceased to grumble about the food- even while they +opposed every move that might improve it. Over the years, enlivened +chiefly by disputes about the relative merits of Maine and Idaho +potatoes, the menu has pursued its drab all-American course. Individual +senators, with an eye to the voters back home, occasionally introduced +smelts from Michigan, soft-shell crabs from Maryland, oysters +from Washington, grapefruit from Florida. But plain old bean soup, +served daily +since the turn of the century (at the insistence of the +late Sen& Fred Dubois of Idaho), made clear to the citizenry that +the Senate's stomach was in the right place. In a daring +stroke, the Senate ventured forth last week into the world of haute +cuisine and hired a $10,000-per-year French-born maitre d'hotel. + +{Holders of toll-road bonds are finding improvements in monthly +reports on operation of the turnpikes}. {Long-term trend +of traffic on these roads seems clearly upward. Higher toll rates +also are helping boost revenues}. {Result is a better prospect +for a full payoff by bonds that once were regarded as highly speculative}. + +Things are looking up these days for many of the +State turnpikes on which investors depend for income from their toll-road +bonds. traffic on nearly all the turnpikes has been growing. +That added traffic means rising streams of dimes and quarters at toll +gates. As a result of the new outlook for turnpikes, investors +who bought toll-road bonds when these securities ranked as outright +speculations are now finding new hope for their investments. + +Another +result is that buyers are tending to bid up the prices of these +tax-exempt bonds. Other tax-exempt bonds of State and local +governments hit a price peak on February 21, according to Standard ++ Poor's average. On balance, prices of those bonds have slipped +a bit since then. However, in the same three-month period, toll-road +bonds, as a group, have bucked this trend. On these bonds, price rises +since February 21 easily outnumber price declines. + +#TAX-FREE RETURNS.# + +Investors, however, still see an element of more-than-ordinary +risk in the toll-road bonds. You find the evidence of that in the +chart on this page. Many of the toll-road bonds still are selling +at prices that offer the prospect of an annual yield of 4 per cent, +or very close to that. And this is true in the case of some turnpikes +on which revenues have risen close to, or beyond, the point at which +the roads start to pay all operating costs plus annual interest on +the bonds. That 4 per cent yield is well below the return to be +had on good corporation bonds. It's not much more, in fact, than +the return that is offered on U& S& Treasury bonds. For +investors whose income is taxed at high rates, though, a tax-free yield +of 4 per cent is high. It is the equivalent of 8 per cent for an unmarried +investor with more than $16,000 of income to be taxed, or for +a married couple with more than $32,000 of taxed income. + +#SWELLING +TRAFFIC.# + +A new report on the earnings records of toll roads in the +most recent 12-month period- ending in February or March- shows +what is happening. The report is based on a survey by Blyth + Company, +investment bankers. Nearly all the turnpikes show gains in +net revenues during the period. And there is the bright note: +The gains were achieved in the face of temporary traffic lags late +in 1960 and early in 1961 as a result of business recession. Many +of the roads also were hit by an unusually severe winter. Indication: +The long-term trend of turnpike traffic is upward. Look, +for example, at the Ohio Turnpike. Traffic on that road slumped +sharply in January and February, as compared with those same months +in 1960. Then March brought an 18 per cent rise in net revenues- +after operating costs. As a result, the road's net revenues +in the 12 months ending March 31 were 186 per cent of the annual interest +payments on the turnpike bonds. That was up from 173 per cent +in the preceding 12 months. That same pattern of earnings shows +up on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Operating revenues were off in +the first three months of 1961, but up for the 12 months ending in March. +Costs were held down, despite a bitter winter. For the +year, the road earned 133 per cent of its interest costs, against 121 +per cent in the preceding period. The road's engineers look for further +improvement when the turnpike is extended into Boston. + +#SLOW SUCCESSES.# + +Some turnpikes have not been in full operation long enough +to prove what they can do. The 187-mile Illinois State Toll +Highway, +for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958. +In the 12 months ended in February, 1960, the highway earned enough +to cover 64 per cent of its interest load- with the remainder paid +out of initial reserves. In the 12 months ended in February, 1961, +this highway earned 93 per cent of its interest. That improvement +is continuing. In the first two months of 1961, earnings of the +Illinois highway available for interest payments were up 55 per cent +from early 1960. Success, for many turnpikes, has come hard. +Traffic frequently has failed to measure up to engineers' rosy estimates. +In these cases, the turnpike managements have had to turn to +toll-rate increases, or to costly improvements such as extensions or +better +connections with other highways. Many rate increases already +have been put into effect. Higher tolls are planned for July 1, +1961, on the Richmond-Petersburg, Va&, Turnpike, and proposals for +increased tolls on the Texas Turnpike are under study. + +#EASIER +ACCESS.# + +Progress is being made, too, in improving motorists' access +to many turnpikes. The Kansas Turnpike offers an illustration. +Net earnings of that road rose from 62 per cent of interest requirements +in calendar 1957 to 86 per cent in the 12 months ended Feb& 28, +1961. Further improvements in earnings of the Kansas Turnpike +are expected late in 1961, with the opening of a new bypass at Wichita, +and still later when the turnpike gets downtown connections in +both Kansas City, Kans&, and Kansas City, Mo&. Meanwhile, there +appears to be enough money in the road's reserve fund to cover +the interest deficiency for eight more years. + +#FOR SOME ROADS, TROUBLES.# + +Investors studying the toll-road bonds for opportunities find +that not all roads are nearing their goals. Traffic and revenues +on the Chicago Skyway have been a great disappointment to planners +and investors alike. If nothing is done, the prospect is that that +road will be in default of interest in 1962. West Virginia toll bonds +have defaulted in interest for months, and, despite recent improvement +in revenues, holders of the bonds are faced with more of the same. + +These, however, are exceptions. The typical picture at this +time is one of steady improvement. It's going to take time +for investors to learn how many of the toll-road bonds will pay out in +full. Already, however, several of the turnpikes are earning enough +to cover interest requirements by comfortable margins. Many others are +attracting the traffic needed to push revenues up to the break-even +point. +## + +@ A top American official, after a look at Europe's +factories, thinks the +accompanied by a member of our staff, on May 10 toured plants of +two of Italy's biggest companies- the auto producer, +and maker of typewriters and calculating machines. + +Our staff man cabled from Turin as follows- "Follow +Secretary Hodges through the Fiat plant, and you learn this: + +"One, - much of it supplied under the +Marshall Plan- enables Fiat to turn out 2,100 cars a day. About +half of these are exported. "Two, are a fraction +of the U&S& costs. A skilled worker on the assembly line, +for example, earns $37 a week. "Three, +are infrequent. Fiat officials say they have had no strikes for more +than six years. "Said Secretary Hodges: 'It's a tough +combination for the U&S& to face'. <"Olivetti +had a special interest> for Hodges. Olivetti took over Underwood, +the U&S& typewriter maker, in late 1959. Within a year, without +reducing wages, Underwood's production costs were cut one third, +prices were slashed. The result has been that exports of Underwood +products have doubled. "The Olivetti plant near Turin has + The firm is "Hodges is +trying +to get more foreign business to go to the U&S&. The inflow +of foreign capital would help the U&S& balance of payments. + +"Hodges predicted: 'I think we will see more foreign firms +coming to the U&S&. +There are many places where we can use their +vigor and new ideas'". ## + +@ has +become so severe in certain textiles that Washington is exploring new +ways of handling competitive imports. The recently unveiled + can be +significant for American businessmen in many lines. of the Kennedy textile plans are these: of the big textile-importing and textile-exporting +countries will be called shortly by President Kennedy. + + are worth noting. + +The U&S& will try to get agreement among the industrialized +countries to from the less-developed +countries over the years. that developing countries +often build up a textile industry first, need encouragement to +get on their feet. If they have trouble exporting, international bill +for their support will grow larger than it otherwise would. to let these countries earn their way as much as possible. +## + +@ At the same time, of the conference +will be to get certain low-wage countries to control textile exports- +especially dumping of specific products- to high-wage textile-producing +countries. since 1957, has been "voluntarily" +curbing exports of textiles to the U&S&. have been limiting exports of certain types +of textiles to Britain for several years under the "Lancashire Pact". + +None of these countries is happy with these arrangements. + + +While they have been curbing shipments, they have watched Hong Kong +step in and capture an expanding share of the big U&S& market. + + loudly protest limiting their exports +to Britain, while Spanish and Portuguese textiles pour into +British market unrestrictedly. +are chafing under similar restrictions on the British market for +similar reasons. is that, at the conference +or through bilateral talks, the low-wage textile-producing countries +in Asia and Europe will see that "dumping" practices cause +friction all around and may result in import quotas. of the world's textile trade is what President +Kennedy wants. This may point the way toward international stabilization +agreements in other products. ## + +@ Note, too, that the Kennedy +textile plan looks toward modernization or shrinkage of the U&S& +textile industry. <"Get competitive or get out".> In +veiled terms, that's what the Kennedy Administration is saying to +the American textile industry. in +transferring companies and workers into new lines, where modernization +doesn't seem feasible. on new textile machinery +may be allowed. will look into new +products and methods. +where the national interest is involved. But the Kennedy Administration + import quotas. Rather, they are impressed +with the British Government's success in forcing- and helping- +the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to +other products. What's happening in textiles can be for other lines having difficulty competing with +imports from low-wage countries. ## + +@ Among the highest-paid workers +in the world are U&S& coal miners. Yet U&S& coal is +cheap enough to make foreign steelmakers' mouths water. a British steelmaker, wants to bring in +Virginia coal, cut down on its takings of Welsh coal in order to be +able to compete more effectively- especially in foreign markets. + + delivered by ship in Wales, will be about +$2.80 a ton cheaper than Welsh coal delivered by rail from nearby mines. + + despite high wages, because +of widespread mechanization of mines, wide coal seams, attactive rates +on ocean freight. Many of the coal seams in the nationalized British +mines are twisting, narrow and very deep. is twice that of the British. Communist-led, are up in arms at the suggestion that +the steel company bring in American coal. They threaten to strike. + +The British Government will have to decide whether to let +U&S& coal in. The British coal industry is unprofitable, has large +coal stocks it can't sell. + +EVERY library borrower, or at least those whose taste goes +beyond the five-cent fiction rentals, knows what it is to hear the librarian +say apologetically, "I'm sorry, but we don't have that +book. There wouldn't be much demand for it, I'm afraid". + +Behind this reply, and its many variations, is the ever-present budget +problem all libraries must face, from the largest to the smallest. +What to buy out of the year's grist of nearly 15,000 book titles? +What to buy for adult and child readers, for lovers of fiction and +nonfiction, for a clientele whose wants are incredibly diversified, when +your budget is pitifully small? Most library budgets are hopelessly +inadequate. A startlingly high percentage do not exceed $500 annually, +which includes the librarian's salary, and not even the New +York Public has enough money to meet its needs- this in the world's +richest city. The plight of a small community library is proportionately +worse. Confronted with this situation, most libraries +either endure the severe limitations of their budgets and do what they +can with what they have, or else depend on the bounty of patrons and +local governments to supplement their annual funds. In some parts of +the country, however, a co-operative movement has begun to grow, under +the wing of state governments, whereby, with the financial help of the +state, libraries share their book resources on a county-wide or regional +basis. New York State has what is probably the most advanced +of these co-operative systems, so well developed that it has become +a model for others to follow. Because it is so large a state, with +marked contrasts in population density, the organization of the New +York co-operative offers a cross-section of how the plan works. At +one extreme are the systems of upper New York State, where libraries +in two or more counties combine to serve a large, sparsely populated +area. At the other are organizations like the newly formed Nassau Library +System, in a high-density area, with ample resources and a rapidly +growing territory to serve. Both these types, and those +in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries +that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the +legislature of county library systems financed by county governments +with matching funds from the state. It was a step in the right direction, +but it took an additional act passed in 1958 to establish fully +the thriving systems of today. Under this law annual grants are +given to systems in substantial amounts. An earlier difficulty was +overcome by making it clear that individual libraries in any area might +join or not, as they saw fit. Some library boards are wary of the +plan. A large, well-stocked library, surrounded in a county by smaller +ones, may feel that the demands on its resources are likely to be too +great. A small library may cherish its independence and established +ways, and resist joining in a cooperative movement that sometimes seems +radical to older members of the board. Within a system, however, +the autonomy of each member library is preserved. The local community +maintains responsibility for the financial support of its own library +program, facilities, and services, but wider resources and additional +services become available through membership in a system. All +services are given without cost to members. So obvious are these advantages +that nearly 95 per cent of the population of New York State +now has access to a system, and enthusiastic librarians foresee the day, +not too distant, when all the libraries in the state will belong to +a co-op. ## + +TO SET up a co-operative library system, the law +requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as +the nucleus, and the system is organized around it. The collection may +be in an existing library, or it may be built up in a central collection. +Each system develops differently, according to the area it serves, +but the universal goal is to pool the resources of a given area for +maximum efficiency. The basic state grant is thirty cents for each +person served, and there is a further book incentive grant that provides +an extra twenty cents up to fifty cents per capita, if a library spends +a certain number of dollars. In Nassau County, for example, +the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the +system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure +that has doubled since 1950. This system, by virtue of its variety +and size, offers an inclusive view of the plan in operation. + +The Nassau system recognizes that its major task it to broaden reference +service, what with the constant expansion of education and knowledge, +and the pressure of population growth in a metropolitan area. The +need is for reference works of a more specialized nature than individual +libraries, adequate to satisfy everyday needs, could afford. Nassau +is currently building a central collection of reference materials +in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 +volumes by 1965. The major part of this collection is in the +central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five +libraries in the system designated as subject centers. Basic +reference +tools are the backbone of the collection, but there is also specialization +in science and technology, an indicated weakness in local libraries. +On microfilm, headquarters also has a file of the from its founding in 1851 to the present day, as well as bound +volumes of important periodicals. The entire headquarters collection +is available to the patrons of all members on interlibrary loans. + +Headquarters gets about 100 requests every day. It is connected +by teletype with the State Library in Albany, which will supply any +book to a system that the system itself cannot provide. The books are +carried around by truck in canvas bags from headquarters to the other +libraries. Each subject center library was chosen because +of its demonstrated strength in a particular area, which headquarters +could then build upon. East Meadow has philosophy, psychology, and +religion; Freeport houses social science, pure science, and language; +history, biography, and education are centered in Hempstead; Levittown +has applied science, business, and literature; while Hewlett-Woodmere +is the repository of art, music, and foreign languages. +The reference coordinator at headquarters also serves as a consultant, +and is available to work with the local librarian in helping to strengthen +local reference service. This kind of cooperation is not +wholly new, of course. Public libraries in Nassau County have been +lending books to each other by mail for a quarter-century, but the system +enables this process to operate on an organized and far more comprehensive +basis. Local libraries find, too, that the new plan saves +tax dollars because books can be bought through the system, and since +the system buys in bulk it is able to obtain larger discounts than would +be available to an individual library. The system passes on these +savings to its members. Further money is saved through economy in bookkeeping +and clerical detail as the result of central billing. + +Books are not the only resource of the system. Schools and community +groups turn to the headquarters film library for documentary, art, +and experimental films to show at libraries that sponsor local programs, +and to organizations in member communities. The most recent film +catalogue, available at each library, lists 110 titles presently in the +collection, any of which may be borrowed without charge. This catalogue +lists separately films suitable for children, young adults, or adults, +although some classics cut across age groups, such as "Nanook +of the North", "The Emperor's Nightingale", and "The +Red Balloon". Workshops are conducted by the system's audio-visual +consultant for the staffs of member libraries, teaching them the effective +use of film as a library service. The system well understands +that one of its primary responsibilities is to bring children +and books together; consequently an experienced children's librarian +at headquarters conducts a guidance program designed to promote well-planned +library activities, cooperating with the children's librarians +in member libraries by means of individual conferences, workshops, +and frequent visits. Headquarters has also set up a central juvenile +book-review and book-selection center, to provide better methods of +purchasing and selection. Sample copies of new books are on display +at headquarters, where librarians may evaluate them by themselves or in +workshop groups. Story hours, pre-school programs, activities with +community agencies, and lists of recommended reading are all in the province +of the children's consultant. Headquarters of the Nassau +system is an increasingly busy place these days, threatening to expand +beyond its boundaries. In addition to the interlibrary loan service +and the children's program, headquarters has a public relations +director who seeks to get wider grassroots support for quality library +service in the county; it prepares cooperative displays (posters, +booklists, brochures, and other promotional material) for use in member +libraries; it maintains a central exhibit collection to share displays +already created and used; and it publishes , +a monthly newsletter, which reports the system's activities to +the staffs and trustees of member libraries. The system itself is governed +by a board of trustees, geographically representing its membership. + +In Nassau, as in other systems, the long-range objective +is to bring the maximum service of libraries to bear on the schools, and +on adult education in general. Librarians, a patient breed of men +and women who have borne much with dedication, can begin to see results +today. Library use is multiplying daily, and the bulk of the newcomers +are those maligned Americans, the teen-agers. To them especially +the librarians, with the help of co-ops, hope they will never have to +say, "I'm sorry, we don't have that book". + +TODAY, more than ever before, the survival of our free society +depends upon the citizen who is both informed and concerned. The +great advances made in recent years in Communist strength and in our +own capacity to destroy require an educated citizenry in the Western +world. The need for lifetime reading is apparent. Education must not +be limited to our youth but must be a continuing process through our +entire lives, for it is only through knowledge that we, as a nation, +can cope with the dangers that threaten our society. The desire +and ability to read are important aspects of our cultural life. We +cannot consider ourselves educated if we do not read; if we are not +discriminating in our reading; if we do not know how to use what we +do read. We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific +age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint +that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom +absorbed from the written word. A fundamental source of knowledge +in the world today is the book found in our libraries. Although +progress has been made in America's system of libraries it still +falls short of what is required if we are to maintain the standards that +are needed for an informed America. The problem grows in intensity +each year as man's knowledge, and his capacity to translate such knowledge +to the written word, continue to expand. The inadequacy of our +library system will become critical unless we act vigorously to correct +this condition. There are, for example, approximately 25,000,000 +people in this country with no public library service and about 50,000,000 +with inadequate service. In college libraries, 57 per cent of the +total number of books are owned by 124 of 1,509 institutions surveyed +last year by the U&S& Office of Education. And over 66 per +cent of the elementary schools with 150 or more pupils do not have any +library at all. ## + +IN every aspect of service- to the public, +to children in schools, to colleges and universities- the library +of today is failing to render vitally needed services. Only public +understanding and support can provide that service. This is +one of the main reasons for National Library Week, April 16-22, and +for its theme: "For a richer, fuller life, read"! + +#ASSEMBLY SESSION BROUGHT MUCH GOOD# + +The General Assembly, which +adjourns today, has performed in an atmosphere of crisis and struggle +from the day it convened. It was faced immediately with a showdown +on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the +governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education. + +There followed the historic appropriations and budget fight, in +which the General Assembly decided to tackle executive powers. The +final decision went to the executive but a way has been opened for strengthening +budgeting procedures and to provide legislators information +they need. Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance +them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid +crisis-to-crisis government. This session, for instance, may have +insured +a financial crisis two years from now. In all the turmoil, +some good legislation was passed. Some other good bills were lost +in the shuffle and await future action. Certainly all can applaud passage +of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher +pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility +for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate +as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the +road maintenance bond issue. No action has been taken, however, +on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification +of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks +sales. Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal +question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state. + +The legislature expended most of its time on the schools and appropriations +questions. Fortunately it spared us from the usual spate +of silly resolutions which in the past have made Georgia look like +anything but "the empire state of the South". We congratulate +the entire membership on its record of good legislation. In the +interim between now and next year, we trust the House and Senate will +put their minds to studying Georgia's very real economic, fiscal +and social problems and come up with answers without all the political +heroics. @ + +#LEAGUE REGULARLY STANDS ON THE SIDE OF RIGHT# + +The +League of Women Voters, 40 now and admitting it proudly, is inviting +financial contributions in the windup of its fund drive. It's a +good use of money. These women whose organization grew out of +the old suffrage movement are dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's dictum +that one must cherish the people's spirit but "Keep alive their +attention". "If once they become inattentive to the public +affairs", Jefferson said, "you and I, and Congress and assemblies, +judges and governors, shall all become wolves". Newspapermen +and politicians especially are aware of the penetrating attention +and expert analysis the league gives to public affairs. The league +workers search out the pros and cons of the most complex issues and +make them available to the public. The harder the choice, the more willing +the league is to wade in. And the league takes a stand, with great +regularity, on the side of right. @ + +#LOOK TO COOSA VALLEY FOR +INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS# + +Cities and counties interested in industrial +development would do well in the months ahead to keep their eyes peeled +toward the 13 northwest +Georgia counties that are members of the Coosa +Valley Area Planning and Development Commission. Coupling +its own budget of $83,750 with a $30,000 state grant authorized by +Gov& Vandiver, the group expects to sign a contract in March with +Georgia Tech&. Then a full-time planning office will be established +in Rome to work with a five-member Georgia Tech research staff +for development of an area planning and industrial development program. + +The undertaking has abundant promise. It recognizes the fact +that what helps one county helps its neighbors and that by banding +together in an area-wide effort better results can be accomplished than +through the go-it-alone approach. @ + +#RUSK IDEA STRENGTHENS UNITED +STATES DEFENSE# + +The Rusk belief in balanced defense, replacing +the +Dulles theory of massive retaliation, removes a grave danger that +has existed. The danger lay not in believing that our own ~A-bombs +would deter Russia's use of hers; that theory was and is +sound. The danger lay in the American delusion that nuclear deterrence +was enough. By limiting American strength too much to nuclear +strength, this country limited its ability to fight any kind of war +besides a nuclear war. This strategy heightened the possibility that +we would have a nuclear war. It also weakened our diplomatic +stance, because Russia could easily guess we did not desire a nuclear +war except in the ultimate extremity. This left the Soviets +plenty of leeway to start low-grade brushfire aggressions with considerable +impunity. By maintaining the nuclear deterrent, but gearing +American military forces to fight conventional wars too, Secretary +of State Rusk junks bluff and nuclear brinkmanship and builds more +muscle and greater safety into our military position. @ + +#DEKALB BUDGET +SHOWS COUNTY IS ON BEAM# + +DeKalb's budget for 1961 is a record +one and carries with it the promise of no tax increase to make it balance. + +It includes a raise in the county minimum wage, creation +of several new jobs at the executive level, financing of beefed-up +industrial development efforts, and increased expenditures for essential +services such as health and welfare, fire protection, sanitation and +road maintenance. That such expansion can be obtained without +a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal +planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman +Charles O& Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust +he was given was well placed, and other county officials. @ + +#SOMEWHERE, +SOMEBODY IS BOUND TO LOVE US# + +G& Mennen Williams is learning +the difficulties of diplomacy rapidly. Touring Africa, the new +U&S& assistant secretary of state observed "Africa should be +for the Africans" and the British promptly denounced him. Then he +arrived in Zanzibar and found Africans carrying signs saying "American +imperialists, go home". Chin up, Soapy. @ + +#POWER COMPANY +BACKS CONFIDENCE WITH DOLLARS# + +Confidence in the state's economic +future is reflected in the Georgia Power Company's record construction +budget for this year. The firm does a large amount of +research and its forecasts have meaning. It is good to know that Georgia +will continue to have sufficient electrical power not only to meet +the demands of normal growth but to encourage a more rapid rate of +industrialization. + +Georgia's mental health program received a badly needed boost +from the General Assembly in the form of a $1,750,000 budget increase +for the Milledgeville State Hospital. Actually it amounts +to $1,250,000 above what the institution already is receiving, considering +the additional half-million dollars Gov& Vandiver allocated +last year from the state surplus. Either way it sounds like +a sizable hunk of money and is. But exactly how far it will go toward +improving conditions is another question because there is so much that +needs doing. The practice of charging employes for meals whether +they eat at the hospital or not should be abolished. The work week +of attendants who are on duty 65 hours and more per week should be +reduced. More attendants, nurses and doctors should be hired. +Patients deserve more attention than they are getting. Even with +the increase in funds for the next fiscal year, Georgia will be spending +only around $3.15 per day per patient. The national average is +more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental +health field to be too low. Kansas, regarded as tops in the nation in +its treatment of the mentally ill, spends $9 per day per patient. + +Georgia has made some reforms, true. The intensive treatment program +is working well. But in so many other areas we still are dragging. + +Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be +done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning +toward making the best possible use of the increase granted. The +boost is helpful but inadequate.- @ + +#THE END OF TRUJILLO# + +Assassination, even of a tyrant, is repulsive +to men of good conscience. Rafael Trujillo, the often-blood thirsty +dictator of the Dominican Republic for 31 years, perhaps deserved +his fate in an even-handed appraisal of history. But whether the murder +of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people +of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered. + +Trujillo knew a great deal about assassination. The responsibility +for scores of deaths, including the abduction and murder of Jesus +Maria Galindez, a professor at Columbia University in New York, +has been laid at his door. He had been involved in countless schemes +to do away with democratic leaders in neighboring countries such +as President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela. It was a sort of poetic +justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow +the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican +arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has +been uncovered and quashed. The recent history of the Dominican +Republic is an almost classical study of the way in which even a professedly +benevolent dictatorship tends to become oppressive. Unquestionably +Trujillo did some good things for his country: he improved +public facilities such as roads and sanitation, attracted industry and +investment and raised the standard of living notably. But the price +was the silence of the grave for all criticism or opposition. +El Benefactor's vanity grew with his personal wealth. The jails were +filled to overflowing with political prisoners who had incurred his +displeasure. He maintained amply financed lobbies in the United States +and elsewhere which sycophantically chanted his praise, and his +influence extended even to Congress. Until the last year or so +the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article +of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession +was accepted here as evidence of his good character. Tardily the Government +here +came to understand how this country's own reputation was +tarnished by the association with repression. Last year, after Trujillo +had been cited for numerous aggressions in the Caribbean, the +United States and many other members of the Organization of American +States broke diplomatic relations with him. Thereupon followed +a demonstration that tyranny knows no ideological confines. Trujillo's +dictatorship had been along conservative, right-wing lines. But +after the censure he and his propaganda started mouthing Communist +slogans. There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with +Castro in Cuba, previously a to Trujillo- thus +illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces. + +What comes after Trujillo is now the puzzle. The +Dominican people have known no democratic institutions and precious little +freedom for a generation, and all alternative leadership has been +suppressed. Perhaps the army will be able to maintain stability, but +the vacuum of free institutions creates a great danger. The Dominican +Republic could turn toward Communist-type authoritarianism as easily +as toward Western freedom. Such a twist would be a tragedy for +the Dominican people, who deserve to breathe without fear. For that +reason any democratic reform and effort to bring genuine representative +government to the Dominican Republic will need the greatest sympathy +and help. + +#START ON RAPID TRANSIT# + +High-speed buses on the George +Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington +and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute +an +alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency +can do for this city. In presenting plans for such express buses +before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the ~NCTA, +C& Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for +the projects his agency will soon be launching. Such support should +not be difficult to come by if all the plans to be presented by the ~NCTA +are as attractive as this outline of express buses coming into +the downtown area. Because the buses would not stop on the +parkway, land for bus stations and for parking areas nearby will be needed. +The ~NCTA is well advised to seek funds for this purpose +from the present session of Congress. + +#MUST BERLIN REMAIN DIVIDED?# + +The inference has been too +widely +accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades +across Berlin the free world must acquiesce in dismemberment of +that living city. So far as the record is concerned, the Western +powers have not acquiesced and should not do so. Though Walter +Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East +Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of +East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone. + +The wartime protocol of September 12, 1944, designated a special "Greater +Berlin" area, comprising the entire city, to be under joint +occupation. It was not a part of any one of the three (later four) +zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops +respectively. After the Berlin blockade and airlift, the Council +of Foreign Ministers in 1949 declared a purpose "to mitigate the +effects of the present administrative division of Germany and of Berlin". + +For some time the Communists honored the distinction +between the Soviet zone of Germany and the Soviet sector of Berlin +by promulgating separately the laws for the two areas. Then they moved +offices of the East German puppet government into East Berlin +and began illegally to treat it as the capital of East Germany. + +That this and the closing of the East Berlin-West Berlin border +have not +been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which +Britain, +France, and the United States sent to Moscow after the latter's +gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor Adenauer and other +West German officials to West Berlin. The Chancellor had as +much business there as Ulbricht had in East Berlin- and was certainly +less provocative than the juvenile sound-truck taunts of Gerhard +Eisler. The British and other replies to that Moscow note +pointed out efforts of the Communist authorities "to integrate East +Berlin into East Germany by isolating it from the outside and attempting +to make it the capital of East Germany". They insisted on +the "fundamental fact" that "the whole of Berlin has a quadripartite +status". This is far from acknowledging or recognizing +those efforts as an accomplished fact. There remains, of course, the +question of what the West can do beyond diplomatic protest to prevent +the illegal efforts from becoming accomplished facts. One ground +of action certainly exists when fusillades of stray shots go over +into West Berlin as Communist "vopos" try to gun down fleeing +unarmed residents. Another remained when an American Army car was +recovered but with a broken glass. The glass may seem trivial but Communist +official hooliganism feeds on such incidents unless they are redressed. + +Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the +West German misgivings about "salami" tactics, it is to be hoped +that +the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's +representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future +indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed. + +#PRAIRIE +NATIONAL PARK# + +Thousands of buffalo ("bison" they will +never be to the man on the street) grazing like a mobile brown throw-rug +upon the rolling, dusty-green grassland. A horizon even and seamless, +binding the vast sun-bleached dome of sky to earth. That +picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of +those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any +later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood. +For it was the millions of buffalo and prairie chicken and the +endless seas of grass that symbolized for a whole generation of Americans +the abundant supply that was to take many of them westward when the +Ohio and Mississippi valleys began to fill. The National +Park Service now proposes to preserve an area in Pottawatomie County, +northeast Kansas, as a "Prairie National Park". There the +buffalo would roam, to be seen as a tapestry, not as moth-eaten zoo +specimens. Wooded stream valleys in the folds of earth would be saved. +Grasslands would extend, unfenced, unplowed, unbroken by silo or barn- +as the first settlers saw them. The Park Service makes +an impressive ecological and statistical case for creating this new +park. +American history should clinch the case when Congress is asked to +approve. + +#WHISKY ON THE AIR# + +A Philadelphia distiller is currently +breaching the customary prohibition against hard-liquor advertising +on ~TV and radio. Starting with small stations not members of +the National Association of Broadcasters, the firm apparently is seeking +to break down the anti-liquor barriers in major-market stations. + +Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional +action requiring the Federal Communications Commission +to ban such advertising through its licensing power. The National +Association of Broadcasters code specifically bars hard-liquor +commercials. Past polls of public opinion show popular favor for this +policy. Even the Distilled Spirits Institute has long had a specific +prohibition. Why, then, with these voluntary barricades and +some state laws barring liquor ads, is it necessary to seek congressional +action? Simply because the subverting action of firms that are +not members of the Distilled Spirits Institute and of radio and ~TV +stations that are not members of the ~NAB tends to spread. + +Soon some members of the two industry groups doubtless will want +to amend their codes on grounds that otherwise they will suffer unfairly +from the efforts of non-code competitors. Although the +false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly +no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which ~TV +soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference +between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him +into downing bourbon. A law is needed. + +#NEW YORK: DEMOCRATS' +CHOICE# + +Registered Democrats in New York City this year have +the opportunity to elect their party's candidates for Mayor and +other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization. + +In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found +some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other. + +Mayor Robert F& Wagner must, as his opponents demand, assume +responsibility for his performance in office. While all citizens +share in blame for lax municipal ethics the Wagner regime has seen serious +problems in the schools, law enforcement and fiscal policies. The +Mayor is finding it awkward to campaign against his own record. + +State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively +deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders +who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than +in the city's welfare. They, too, have links with the city's +ills. Both men are known to be honest and public-spirited. Mayor +Wagner's shortcomings have perhaps been more mercilessly exposed +than those of Mr& Levitt who left an impression of quiet competence +in his more protected state post. As Mayor, Mr& Levitt +might turn out to be more independent than some of his leading supporters +would like. His election, on the other hand, would unquestionably +strengthen the "regulars". Mr& Wagner might or might +not be a "new" Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of +the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls "bosses". These +are, of course, the same people whose support he has only now rejected +to seek the independent vote. But his reelection would strengthen +the liberal Democrats and the labor unions who back him. + +If this choice is less exciting than New York Democrats may wish, +it nevertheless must be made. The vote still gives citizens a voice +in the operation of their government and their party. + +#LITTLE WAR, BIG TEST# + +Both Mr& ~K's have so far continued +to speak softly and carry big sticks over Laos. President +Kennedy, already two quiet demands down, still refused Thursday to +be drawn into delivering a public ultimatum to Moscow. But at the same +time he moved his helicopter-borne marines to within an hour of the +fighting. And Secretary Rusk, en route to Bangkok, doubtless is +trying to make emergency arrangements for the possible entry of Australian +or Thai ~SEATO forces. For Mr& Kennedy, speaking +softly and carrying a sizable stick is making the best of a bad +situation. The new President is in no position to start out his dealings +with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs. He must show at the outset +that he means exactly what he says. In this case he has put +the alternatives clearly to Mr& Khrushchev for the third time. At +his press conference Mr& Kennedy said, "All we want in Laos +is peace not war **h a truly neutral government not a cold war pawn". +At the scene he has just as clearly shown his military strength in +unprovocative but ready position. Since Laos is of no more purely +military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this +approach might be expected to head off Mr& Khrushchev for the moment. +But because of the peculiar nature of the military situation in +Laos, the Soviet leader must be tempted to let things ride- a course +that would appear to cost him little on the spot, but would bog Washington +in a tactical mess. As wars go, Laos is an extremely +little one. Casualties have been running about a dozen men a day. The +hard core of the pro-Communist rebel force numbers only some 2,000 +tough Viet Minh guerrilla fighters. But for the United States and +its ~SEATO allies to attempt to shore up a less tough, less combat-tested +government army in monsoon-shrouded, road-shy, guerrilla-th'-wisp +terrain is a risk not savored by Pentagon planners. +But if anything can bring home to Mr& Khrushchev the idea that he +will not really get much enjoyment from watching this +Braddock-against-the-Indians +contest, it will probably be the fact that ~SEATO +forces are ready to attempt it- plus the fact that Moscow has something +to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations +with Washington. Fortunately both the Republicans and America's +chief Western allies now are joined behind the neutral Laos +aim of the President. Actually it would be more accurate to say that +the leader of the alliance now has swung fully behind the British +policy of seeking to achieve a neutral Laos via the international bargaining +table. It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle +so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable. +The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after +the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the +rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma. But +since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist +position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire +patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of +interested powers. The road to a guaranteed-neutral, coup-proof +Laos is today almost as difficult as warfare on that nation's terrain. +But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the +Laotian people- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority +now engaged in the fighting- this last big effort to seal that +country from the cold war had to be made. The world awaits Mr& Khrushchev's +choice of alternatives. + +#A VOTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ~TV# + +The Senate's overwhelming (64-13) vote to support locally controlled +educational ~TV efforts should be emulated in the lower +house. Twice previously the Senate has approved measures backing +~ETV and the House has let them die. But this year prospects +may be better. The House communications subcommittee is expected to +report out a good bill calling for the states to match federal funds. + +This year's Senate measure would provide each state and the +District of Columbia with $1,000,000 to be used in support of private, +state, or municipal ~ETV efforts. The funds would be used +for equipment, not for land, buildings, or operation. The relatively +few communities that have educational stations have found them +of considerable value. But, lacking money from commercial sponsors, the +stations have had +difficulties meeting expenses or improving their service. +Other communities- the ones to be aided most by the Senate bill- +have had difficulty starting such stations because of the high initial +cost of equipment. + +#A GOOD MAN DEPARTS GOODBY, MR& SAM# + +Sam Rayburn was a good man, +a good American, and, third, a good Democrat. He was all +of these rolled into one sturdy figure; Mr& Speaker, Mr& Sam, +and Mr& Democrat, at one and the same time. The House was +his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, +then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which +he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second +most powerful man in Washington. Mr& Rayburn was not an easy +man to classify or to label. He was no flaming liberal, yet the New +Deal, the Fair Deal and the New Frontier needed him. He was +not a rear-looking conservative, yet partisans of that persuasion will +miss him as much as any. Two of the vital qualities demanded +of a politician by other politicians are that he always keep a confidence +and that he keep his word. Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with +him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once +given, was not subject to retraction. It might be added that as he kept +his word so he expected that others keep theirs. The demonstration +of his power was never flamboyant or theatrical. His leadership +was not for audiences. A growl, a nod, was usually enough. When it +was not, one of the great dramas of Washington would be presented. +He would rise in the well of the House, his chin upon his chest, his +hands gripping the side of a desk, and the political and legislative +chatter would subside into silence. He spoke briefly, sensibly, +to the point and without oratorical flourishes He made good, plain +American common sense and the House usually recognized it and acted +upon it. These public efforts were rare because Mr& Rayburn +normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before +an issue reached its test on the House floor. He expected Democrats +to do their duty when it had been patiently pointed out to them. With +his long service he had a long memory, an excellent thing in a political +leader. {He was, of course, in the House for a very long +time. There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, +voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917. To +almost two generations of Americans it must have seemed as though the +existence of Mr& Sam coincided with that of the House}. +And it was the House he loved. To be presiding officer of it was the +end of his desire and ambition. The Senate to him was not the "upper +body" and he corrected those who said he served "under" the +president. He served "with" him. Sound the roll of those +with whom he served and who preceded him in death. Woodrow Wilson, +with whom he began his years in Washington, Warren G& Harding, +Calvin Coolidge, ~FDR, with whom he managed a social revolution. +And those still with us, Herbert C& Hoover, Harry S& Truman, +Dwight D& Eisenhower and John F& Kennedy. He was +a fighter for those of his own party. Mr& Truman has only to recall +the "hopeless" campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan +he was and the first experience of Mr& Kennedy with Congress would +have been sadder than it was had not Mr& Sam been there. As it +was, his absence because of his final illness was a blow to the administration. + +With Republican presidents, he fought fair. He was +his own man, not an automatic obstructionist. He kept his attacks +on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game +he +was born to play. Under any name- Mr& Speaker, Mr& +Democrat, Mr& Sam- he was a good man. #~UN OFF THE CONGO TRACK# + +Thirteen Italian airmen who went to the Congo to serve the +cause of peace under the United Nations banner have instead met violent +death at the hands of Congolese troops supposedly their friends. + +In 18 months, no more grisly incident has been reported from that +jungle. Simply out of bloodlust, their murderers dismembered the +bodies and tossed the remains into the river. The excuse was offered +for them that they had mistaken the Italians for Belgian mercenaries. +In other words, atrocities by savages wearing the uniform of the central +government might be condoned, had the victims been serving the cause +of dissident Katanga. Does this suggest that the Congo +is fit for nationhood or that ~UN is making any progress whatever +toward its goal of so making it? To the contrary, through the past +six +weeks violence has been piled upon violence. Mass rapes, troop mutinies, +uncontrolled looting and pillage and reckless military adventures, +given no sanction by any political authority, have become almost +daily occurrences. Yet this basic condition of outlawry and anarchy is +not the work of Katanga. It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville +government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable +of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as ~UN +support gives it. The main question raised by the incident is +how much longer will ~UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo +problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in +present terms? The probable answer is that it will do so just as long +as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African +nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting +ruin on Central Africa. Right now, they are pushing +a resolution which would have ~UN use its forces to invade and subjugate +Katanga. That notion is fantastically wrong-headed from several +points of view. The ~UN army is too weak, too demoralized for +the task. Further, it has its work cut out stopping anarchy where it +is now garrisoned. Last, it makes no sense to deliver Katanga, the one +reasonably solid territory, into the existing chaos. The Congo +should have been mandated, because it was not ready for independence. +The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed +over wisdom. It is perhaps too late now to talk of mandate because +it is inconsistent with what is termed political realism. But if +any realism and feeling for truth remain in the General Assembly, it +is time for men of courage to measure the magnitude of the failure and +urge some new approach. Otherwise, ~UN will march blindly on to +certain defeat. + +#FEATHERBED REVERSAL# + +A recent editorial discussing +a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific +Co& and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized +on the grounds that it was not based on complete information. +The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that +the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed +40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction +in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year. Our comment +was that this was "featherbedding" in its ultimate form and that +sympathy for the railroad was misplaced since it had entered into such +an agreement. The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad +had received some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but +that it was difficult to imagine what could balance a job for life. + +Additional information supplied to us discloses that the railroad +gained a stabilized supply of telegraphers of which it was in need. +Also, normal personal attrition would make the job reduction provision +more or less academic. The situation with regard to the Southern +Pacific was therefore a special one and not necessarily applicable +to other situations in other industries. The solution reached in +the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally +included in a series of union demands. + +#MEDITATIONS FROM A FALLOUT SHELTER# + +Time was when the house of delegates +of the American Bar association leaned to the common sense +side. But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of +the bar, and when the lads met in St& Louis, it was not to grumble +about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations +was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and +there. It was, the brief writers decided, "man's best hope +for a peaceful and law abiding world". Peace, it's wonderful, and +"world law", it's wonderful, too, and shouldn't we get an international +covenant extending it into space, before the Russians put +some claim jumper on the moon? Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev +was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build +a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of ~TNT, to knock +sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice +of surrendering West Berlin to communism. A nuclear pacifier +of these dimensions- roughly some six and a half times bigger +than anything the United States has triggered experimentally- would +certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might +use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St& +Louis to the moon, where there wouldn't even be any beer to drink. + +While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed +an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in +the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide. "Fools", +he bayed, "what do you think you are doing"? The +only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't +playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but +perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this +feeble effort. Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason +was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American +plane by a demented Algerian with a gun. The craft made the familiar +unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro +rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian +foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock +Shadow. The plane was sent back to the United States, for +a change, but Castro kept the crazy gunman, who will prove a suitable +recruit to the revolution. Less respect for the legal +conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, +who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting +in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined +from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela. The contents +were highly embarrassing to American spokesmen, who were on hand +to promise Latin Americans a 20 billion dollar foreign aid millennium. + +Perhaps the moralities of world law are not advanced by stealing +American diplomatic papers and planes, but the Kennedy administration +can always file a demurrer to the effect that, but for its own +incompetence in protecting American interests, these things would +not happen. The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion +mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not +symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious +Khrushchev. Pass the iron rations, please, and light another +candle, for it's getting dark down here and we're minded to read +a bit of world law just to pass the time away. + +#THE CUSTOMER LOSES +AGAIN# + +The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission +has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates +on grain, as they had planned to do this month. The request for +lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent +a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which +it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, +smaller car. By reducing rates as much as 60 per cent, it and +its +associated railroads hope to win back some of the business they have +lost to truckers and barge lines. The board's action shows +what free enterprise is up against in our complex maze of regulatory laws. + +#A SHOCK WAVE FROM AFRICA# + +WORD OF Dag Hammarskjold's death +in an African plane crash has sent a shockwave around the globe. +As head of the United Nations he was the symbol of world peace, and +his tragic end came at a moment when peace hangs precariously. It was +on the eve of a momentous U&N& session to come to grips with cold +war issues. His firm hand will be desperately missed. Mr& +Hammarskjold was in Africa on a mission of peace. He had sought +talks with Moise Tshombe, the secessionist president of Congo's Katanga +province where recent fighting had been bloody. He earnestly +urged a cease-fire. The story of the fatal crash is not fully +known. The U&N&-chartered plane which was flying from the conference +city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun +bullets last weekend and was newly repaired. Whether this, or +overt action, was the cause of the crash must be promptly determined. + +The death of Mr& Hammarskjold removes the United Nations' +most controversial leader. He was controversial because he was uncompromising +for peace and freedom with justice. He courageously defended +the rights of small nations, and he stood his ground against the +savage attacks of the Communist bloc. The Congo, in whose cause +he died, was the scene of one of his greatest triumphs. His policies +had resolved the conflicts that threatened to ignite the cold war +and workable solutions were beginning to take shape. When the recent +Katangan outbreaks imperiled these solutions Mr& Hammarskjold, despite +the danger, flew to exert a calming influence. He gave his life +for his beliefs. The U&N& session scheduled for today +will meet under the cloud of his passing. It is a crucial session with +the world on the edge of momentous developments. If the manner +of his passing moves the nations to act in the spirit of his dedication +the sore issues that plague the world can yet be resolved with reason +and justice. That is the hope of mankind. + +#MONUMENT TO TOGETHERNESS# + +REACHING AGREEMENT on projects of value to the whole community +has long been one of Greater Miami's hardest tasks. Too +many have bogged down in bickering. Even when public bodies arrived at +a consensus, at least one dissenting vote has been usual. So +we note approvingly a fresh sample of unanimity. All nine members of +the Inter-American Center Authority voted for Goodbody + Company's +proposal to finance the long-awaited trade and cultural center. + +The widely known financial firm has 60 days to spell out the terms +of its contract. If the indenture is accepted, the authority will +proceed to validate a bond issue repayable from revenue. Then Goodbody +will hand over a minimum of $15.5 million for developing the spacious +Graves Tract to house the center. The next step awaits +approval today by the Metro commissioners as the members of the Dade +County Port Authority. They allotted $500,000 three years ago to +support Interama until its own financing could be arranged. Less than +half the sum has been spent, since the Interama board pinched pennies +during that period of painstaking negotiations. The balance is being +budgeted for the coming year. Unanimity on Interama is not +surprising. It is one of the rare public ventures here on which nearly +everyone is agreed. The City of Miami recently yielded a prior claim +of $8.5 million on the Graves Tract to clear the way for the project. +County officials have cooperated consistently. So have the people's +elected spokesmen at the state and federal levels. Interama, +as it rises, will be a living monument to Greater Miami's +ability +to get together on worthwhile enterprises. + +#A SHORT REPORT AND +A GOOD ONE# + +PROGRESS, or lack of it, toward civil rights in +the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued +last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights. + +Much happened in this field during the past 12 months. Each state +advisory committee documented its own activity. Some accounts are quite +lengthy but Florida's is the shortest of all, requiring only four +paragraphs. "The established pattern of relative calm in the +field of race relations has continued in all areas", reported this +group headed by Harold Colee of Jacksonville and including two South +Floridians, William D& Singer and John B& Turner of Miami. + +"No complaints or charges have been filed during the past +year, either verbally or written, from any individual or group. + +"The committee continues to feel that Florida has progressed +in a sound and equitable program at both the state and local levels in +its efforts to review and assess transition problems as they arise from +time to time in the entire spectrum of civil rights". Problems +have arisen in this sensitive field but have been handled in most +cases with understanding and restraint. The progress reported by the +advisory committee is real. While some think we move too fast and others +too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among +the 50. + +#WEST GERMANY REMAINS WESTERN# + +WEST GERMANY will +face the crucial tests that lie ahead, on Berlin and unification, with +a coalition government. This is the key fact emerging from Sunday's +national election. Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic +Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough +to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957. In +order to form a new government it must deal with one of the two rival +parties which gained strength. Inevitably this means some compromise. + +The aging chancellor in all likelihood will be retired. Both +Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the +new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist +on that before they enter the government. Moon-faced Ludwig +Erhart, the economic expert, probably will ascend to the leadership +long denied him. If he becomes chancellor, Dr& Erhart would +make few changes. The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing +industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise. He is dedicated +to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, +to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany. + +What is in doubt as the free Germans and their allies consider the +voting trends is the nature of the coalition that will result. +If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, +approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result +would be a stiffening of the old resolve. West Berlin's Mayor +Brandt vigorously demanded a firmer stand on the dismemberment of his +city and won votes by it. The Free Democrats (12 per cent +of the vote) believe a nuclear war can be avoided by negotiating with +the Soviet Union, and more dealings with the Communist bloc. + +The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly +toward more firmness or more flexibility. It could go either +way, since the gains for both points of view were about the same. + +Regardless of the decision two facts are clear. West Germany, with +its industrial and military might, reaffirmed its democracy and remains +firm with the free nations. And the career of Konrad Adenauer, +who upheld Germany's tradition of rock-like leaders which +Bismarck +began, draws near the end. + +#BETTER ASK BEFORE JOINING# + +AMERICANS +are a nation of joiners, a quality which our friends find endearing +and sometimes amusing. But it can be dangerous if the joiner doesn't +want to make a spectacle of himself. For instance, so-called +"conservative" organizations, some of them secret, are sprouting +in the garden of joining where "liberal" organizations once took +root. One specific example is a secret "fraternity" which +will "coordinate anti-Communist efforts". The principle is commendable +but we suspect that in the practice somebody is going to get +gulled. According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, +State Atty& Gen& Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series +of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization +seeking his money and his name: _1._ Does it assail schools +and churches with blanket accusations? _2._ Does it attack other +traditional American institutions with unsupportable and wild charges? + +_3._ Does it put the label of un-American or subversive on +everyone with whom it disagrees politically? _4._ Does it attempt +to rewrite modern history by blaming American statesmen for wars, +communism, depression, and other troubles of the world? _5._ Does +it employ crude pressure tactics with such means as anonymous telephone +calls and letter writing campaigns? _6._ Do its spokesmen +seem more interested in the amount of money they collect than in the +principles they purport to advocate? In some instances a seventh +question can be added: _7._ Does the organization show an +affinity for a foreign government, political party or personality in opposition +or preference to the American system? If the would-be +joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists +who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic +apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time. FALLING somewhere +in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas- difficult +to see but undeniably there, nevertheless- is the tropical green +"city" of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost +no residents, limited access and an unlimited future. The latter is +what concerns us all. Whatever land you can see here, from the North +tip end of Elliott Key looking southward, belongs to someone- people +who have title to the land. And what you can't see, the land +underneath the water, belongs to someone, too. The public. The only +real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water +land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater +land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment. +In the fairly brief but hectic history of Florida, the developers +of waterfront land have too often wound up with both their land and ours. +In this instance, happily, insistence is being made that our share +is protected. And until this protection is at least as concrete as, +say, the row of hotels that bars us from our own sands at Miami Beach, +those who represent us all should agree to nothing. + +#CLOSED DOORS IN CITY HALL# + +The reaction of certain City Council members to +California's newest anti-secrecy laws was as dismaying as it was disappointing. + +We had assumed that at least this local legislative +body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making +the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available +to the public. In the preamble to the open-meeting statutes, +collectively known as the Brown Act, the Legislature declares that +"the public commissions, boards and councils and other public agencies +in this state exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business. +It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly and +that their deliberations be conducted openly. "The people +of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve +them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public +servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and +what is not good for them to know. The full implementation of +these noble words, however, has taken the efforts of five sessions of +the Legislature. Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting +guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not +until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining +loopholes in the Brown Act. Despite the lip service paid by +local governments, the anti-secrecy statutes have been continuously subverted +by reservations and rationalizations. When all else fails, it +is argued that open sessions slow down governmental operations. + +We submit that this is a most desirable effect of the law- and one +of its principal aims. Without public scrutiny the deliberations +of public agencies would no doubt be conducted more speedily. But the +citizens would, of course, never be sure that the decisions that resulted +were as correct as they were expeditious. + +#HELP WHEN NEEDED# + +@ IF THE Dominican Republic achieves +free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U&S& +show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened +restoration of Trujillo dictatorship. Outwardly, Ciudad +Trujillo is calm. None of the Trujillo family remains. Mr& +Balaguer is in control, and opposition leaders have no further excuse +to suspect his offer of a coalition government preliminary to free elections +in the spring. Had U&S& warships not appeared off +the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would +now be wracked by civil war. Ultimately either the Trujillos would +have been returned to power or the conflict would have produced conditions +favorable to a takeover by Dominican elements responsive to Castro +in Cuba. Within the Organization of American States, +there may be some criticism of this unilateral American intervention +which was not without risk obviously. But there was no complaint from +the Dominican crowds which lined Ciudad Trujillo's waterfront +shouting, "Vive Yankees"! More, the U&S& action was hailed +by a principal opposition leader, Dr& Juan Bosch, as having saved +"many lives and many troubles in the near future". Mr& +Balaguer's troubles are by no means over. He will need the help +of all ~OAS members to eradicate, finally, the forces of authoritarianism, +pro-Trujillo and pro-Castro alike. In cooperating toward +that objective, ~OAS might move with the speed and effectiveness +demonstrated by the United States. @ + +#MATTER OF SURVIVAL# + +@ +THOSE watching the growing rivalry between craft unions and industrial +unions may recognize all the pressures that led to the big labor +split in 1935. Now, as then, it is a matter of jobs. Craft +unions seek work that industrial unions claim, such as factory maintenance. + +The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession +from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union +members. That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American +Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. +Or that's what it looked like at the time. But automation +and the increasing complexity of factories has renewed the competition +for jobs. Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction +of the ~AFL-~CIO, says another two years of this squabbling +will be disastrous for all American labor. Whether it could +be as disastrous for American labor as, say, Jimmy Hoffa of the +Teamsters, is a matter of conjecture. But the jurisdictional disputes +that result from the craft-industrial rivalry do not win friends for +labor. Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition +of national survival, this country can have little patience with +labor's family feuds. The concept of labor as a special class is +outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free +world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself +to survive. @ + +#DETERRENT# + +@ THE Army, Navy and Air +Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that +the high estate of United States agriculture is the "strongest +deterrent" to the spread of communism. But the secretary insists that +the success of the American farmer is the "greatest single source +of strength" in the struggle to insure freedom around the world. + +Mr& Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on +a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity +to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production- or +even by the Soviet's successes in space. This shouldn't surprise +the secretary; American taxpayers have been impressed by the surpluses +for a long, long time. In fact, over the years, the American +farmer's capacity to over-produce has cost the taxpayers a large +dollar. And thus far, Mr& Freeman has offered very little relief. + +The 1961 feed grain program, which the secretary sponsored, +has been declared a billion dollar fiasco. In exchange for higher price +supports, growers pledged reduction in planted acreage. But the +farmers outsmarted Washington by shortening the distance between the +rows and pouring on the fertilizer. The result: $1.1 billion +added to the deficit in the federal budget. Perhaps, as Mr& Freeman +says, American agriculture may stop the Communists, but it is also +swindling the American taxpayer. @ + +#WHAT'S WRONG AT STATE# +@ A SENATE subcommittee headed by Sen& Jackson of Washington +has been going over the State Department and has reached some +predictable conclusions. The department needs a clearer "sense of +direction" at the top and it needs fewer, but better, people, Sen& +Jackson says. The subcommittee is not alone in questioning +the effectiveness of the department. President Kennedy has indicated +his dissatisfaction with its performance. But those who would +revitalize so complex an organization must, first of all, overcome the +resistance of layers of officials wedded to traditional procedures, +suspicious of innovation and fearful of mistakes. Nor does Sen& +Jackson discuss the delicate situation created by the presence in +the White House of a corps of presidential assistants engaged in the +study of foreign policy. This tends to create friction and confusion +and has not made it easier for Secretary Rusk to restore vigor and +initiative among his subordinates. But competent observers believe +he is making progress, particularly toward what Sen& Jackson +lists as the primary need- "a clearer understanding of where our +vital national interests lie and what we must do to promote them". + +The Jackson report will provide some of the political support +Mr& Rusk will need if he is to get rid of department personnel +engaged, as Sen& Jackson puts it, "in work that does not really +need doing". Mr& Rusk should also draw comfort from Sen& Jackson's +recommendation that congressional methods of dealing with national +security problems be improved. Self-criticism is a rare but needed +commodity in Congress. @ + +#BETTING MEN# + +@ FORECASTING +economic activity is a hazardous undertaking even for the specialist. +But now apparently the job of Secretary of Labor requires that he +be willing to risk his reputation as a prognosticator of unemployment +trends. James P& Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, +promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below +three million a couple of years ago. He lost, but settled for a cake +in the shape of a fedora. His successor, Secretary Goldberg, +also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which +has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months. No +betting man, Mr& Goldberg says he's merely "putting my neck out +again" by predicting the rate will go down this month. He is basing +his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened +its stride- a new record high in personal income, an increase +in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for +durable goods. Mr& Mitchell had an excuse for losing- the +steel strike lasted much longer than he anticipated. Mr& Goldberg +has less reason for missing. The economy seems to be sailing along on +an even keel and the 1961 hurricane season and auto strikes are at an +end so they can't be blamed in November. The odds thus appear favorable +that the secretary's neck may be spared. @ + +#LITTLE RESISTANCE# +@ CAMBODIA'S chief of state, who has been accused of +harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for +neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very +unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia. + +But so convinced of communism's inevitable triumph is Prince +Sihanouk that he is ready to throw in the towel. "I have to see the +facts", is the way the prince puts it. And from that point of vantage +he concedes another two years of grace to nations maintaining a pro-Western +posture. Prince Sihanouk's powers of prognostication +some day may be confirmed but history is not likely to praise the +courage of his convictions. + +#BOTTOM SIGHTED# + +@ COMMERCE Secretary Hodges seems to have +been cast in the role of pacemaker for official Washington's economic +forecasters. Weeks ago he saw a business upturn in the second +quarter of this year while his colleagues in the Cabinet were shaking +their heads in disagreement. Recently Treasury Secretary Dillon and +Labor Secretary Goldberg fell into line with Mr& Hodges' appraisal, +though there has been some reluctance to do so at the White +House. And now Mr& Hodges has pioneered further into the +economic unknown with the announcement that he thinks business has stopped +sliding and that it should start going upward from this point. He +is the first top administration officer to see the bottom of the slump. + +The secretary based his assessment on the upturn in retail +sales. February's volume was 1 per cent above January's for the +first pickup since last October, although it's still 1.5 per cent +off from February 1960. Corroborating Mr& Hodges' figures +was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase +in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4. +In Newark, for example, this gain was put at 26 per cent above the +year-earlier level. Of course, some of the credit for the sale boost +must be given to improvement in the weather and to the fact that Easter +comes more than two weeks earlier than in 1960. Another optimistic +sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that +the long rise in unemployment compensation payments "was interrupted +for the first time in the week ending Feb& 25". Initial claims +for jobless benefits were said to have dropped by 8,100 in the week +ending March 4. Mr& Hodges is so hopeful over the outlook +that he doesn't think there will be any need of a cut in income taxes. +Well, we can't have everything. Prosperity for the whole nation +is certainly preferred to a tax cut. @ + +#IN NEW JERSEY, TOO# +@ NEW JERSEY folk need not be told of the builder's march to +the sea, for in a single generation he has parceled and populated miles +of our shoreline and presses on to develop the few open spaces that +remain. Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction +for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends +far beyond our state. Against the dramatic fight being waged +for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract +at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant. But Interior Secretary Udall +warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few +surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment +of all as public preserves. The move for establishment +of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown +to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest +in that area. But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape +is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the +recreation spot of people from all over the country. By comparison, +Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, +for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, +common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and +black-crowned herons who nest and feed there. But there is hope, for +Conservation Commissioner Bontempo has tagged the sanctuary as the +kind of place the state hopes to include in its program to double its +park space. The desirability of preserving such places as the +Cape dunes and Stone Harbor sanctuary becomes more apparent every +year. Public sentiment for conserving our rich natural heritage is +growing. But that heritage is shrinking even faster. @ + +#NO JOYRIDE# +@ MUCH of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps +may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent +Shriver, the head corpsman. Anybody who is expecting a joyride +should, according to Mr& Shriver, get off the train right now. + +First of all, the recruits will have to undergo arduous schooling. +It will be a 16-hour training day. Then off to a remote place in +an underdeveloped country where the diet, culture, language and living +conditions will be different. And the pay, of course, will be nil. + +Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination +of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by +the response than anybody else. + +The study of the St& Louis area's economic prospects prepared +for the Construction Industry Joint Conference confirms and +reinforces both the findings of the Metropolitan St& Louis Survey +of 1957 and the easily observed picture of the Missouri-Illinois +countryside. St& Louis sits in the center of a relatively slow-growing +and in some places stagnant mid-continent region. Slackened +regional demand for St& Louis goods and services reflects the region's +relative lack of purchasing power. Not all St& Louis industries, +of course, have a market area confined to the immediate neighborhood. +But for those which do, the slow growth of the area has a retarding +effect on the metropolitan core. The city has a stake in stimulating +growth and purchasing power throughout outstate Missouri and Southern +Illinois. Gov& Dalton's new Commerce and Industry +Commission is moving to create a nine-state regional group in a collective +effort to attract new industry. That is one approach. Another +would be to take the advice of Dr& Elmer Ellis, president of +the University of Missouri, and provide for an impartial professional +analysis of Missouri's economy. He says the state, in order to +proceed with economic development, must develop an understanding of how +the various parts of its economy fit together and dovetail into the +national economy. @ The research center of the University's +School of Business and Public Administration is prepared to undertake +the analysis Dr& Ellis has been talking about. He and Dean +John W& Schwada of the Business School outlined the project at +a recent conference. The University can make a valuable contribution +to the state's economic development through such a study. +In Southern Illinois, the new federal program of help to economically +depressed areas ought to provide some stimulus to growth. The Carbondale +Industrial Development Corp& has obtained a $500,000 loan +to help defray the cost of remodeling a city-owned factory to accommodate +production that will provide 500 new jobs. Carbondale is in the +Herrin-Murphysboro-West +Frankfort labor market, where unemployment +has been substantially higher than the national average. The Federal +program eventually should have a favorable impact on Missouri's depressed +areas, and in the long run that will benefit St& Louis as +well. @ + +Politics-ridden St& Clair county in Illinois presents +another piece of the problem of metropolitan development. More industrial +acreage lies vacant in St& Clair county than in any other +jurisdiction in the St& Louis area. The unstable political situation +there represents one reason new plants shy away from the East Side. + +And then there is St& Louis county, where the Democratic +leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, +of the important relationship between proper land use and economic +growth. St& Louis county under its present leadership also has +largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted +parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests. Some +plant-location specialists take these signs to mean St& Louis +county doesn't want industry, and so they avoid the area, and more +jobs are lost. Metropolitan St& Louis's relatively slow +rate of growth ought to be a priority concern of the political, business, +civic and other leaders on both sides of the Mississippi. Without +a great acceleration in the metropolitan area's economy, there will +not be sufficient jobs for the growing numbers of youngsters, and St& +Louis will slip into second-class status. + +#AN EXCESS OF ZEAL# + +Many of our very best friends are reformers. Still we must confess +that sometimes some of them go too far. Take, for example, the reformers +among New York City's Democrats. Having whipped Mr& De +Sapio in the primaries and thus come into control of Tammany Hall, +they have changed the name to Chatham Hall. Even though headquarters +actually have been moved into the Chatham building, do they believe +that they can make the new name stick? Granted that the Tammany +name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political +shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to +their credit. But it is tradition rather than the record which balks +at the expunging of the Tammany name. After all, it goes back to the +days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons +of St& Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force +and violence- the British government that is. Further, do +our reforming friends really believe that the cartoonists will consent +to the banishment of the tiger from their zoo? They will- when they +give up the donkey and the elephant. Instead of attempting the impossible, +why not a publicity campaign to prove that all the tiger's +stripes are not black? That might go over. + +#THE FAGET CASE# + +The +White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, +Col& Mariano Faget, +from his preposterous position as interrogator +of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service. The +Faget appointment was preposterous on several grounds. The Kennedy +Administration had assured anti-Castro Cubans that it would have +nothing to do with associates of Dictator Batista. Using a Batista +man to screen refugees represented a total misunderstanding of the democratic +forces which alone can effectively oppose Castro. Moreover, +Col& Faget's information on Cuba was too outdated to be +useful in "screening" Castro agents; the Colonel fled to the +friendly haven of the Dominican dictatorship as soon as Castro seized +power. And while he had headed Batista's anti-Communist +section, +the Batista regime did not disturb the Communists so much as more open +opponents who were alleged to be Communists. Responsibility +for the Faget appointment rests with Gen& J& M& swing, an +Eisenhower appointee as head of the Immigration Service. Gen& Swing +has received public attention before this for abuse of some of the +prerogatives of his office. His official term expired last summer. +Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, +Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy +Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it +could get. Congressman Walter has been all-powerful in immigration +matters, but he has announced plans to retire in 1962. At that +point the Administration will have little reason to hang onto Gen& +Swing. The Faget case was the kind of salvage job the Administration +should not have to repeat. + +#MR& EISENHOWER, POLITICIAN# + +As +President, Dwight D& Eisenhower often assumed a role aloof from +the strife of partisan politics. As a former President, however, Mr& +Eisenhower abandoned this role to engage in partisan sniping during +a New York Republican rally, and generally missed his target. + +Mr& Eisenhower seized upon the incident of the postcard lost +by a Peace Corps girl in Nigeria to attack the entire Corps as a +"juvenile experiment" and to suggest sending a Corps member to the +moon. This was juvenile ridicule. Nowhere did the speaker recognize +the serious purpose of the Corps or its welcome reception abroad. His +words were the more ungracious to come from a man who lent his name +to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships dedicated to the same goal +of international understanding. The former President blithely +ignored recent history in speaking of "dollarette" dollars under +Kennedy Administration fiscal policies. It was the Eisenhower Administration +which produced the largest peacetime deficit. Finally, +Mr& Eisenhower found nothing but confusion in Washington. +This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower +first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional +weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the +picture too. The crisis has been renewed since then but the confusion +has hardly been compounded. Ex-Presidents, relieved of accountability +for policy, sometimes seem to feel free of accountability +for their words. Some of former President Truman's off-the-cuff +discourses have been in that vein. Nobody can deny the right of former +Chief Executives to take part in politics, but the American people +expect them always to remember the obligations of national leadership +and to treat issues with a sense of responsibility. This is a matter +of respect for the Presidency. Mr& Eisenhower's New York speech +does not encourage respect for that or for his elder statesmanship. + +#QUEEN OF THE SEAS# + +The Queen Mary has long been a symbol of +speed, luxury, and impeccable British service on the high seas. Reports +that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was +to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us. But the Cunard +line, influenced by unpleasant economic facts and not sentiment, has +decided to keep the Queen Mary in service until next Spring at least. + +A new queen, with the prosaic title of ~Q3, had been planned +for several years to replace the Queen Mary. The British government, +concerned about the threat of unemployment in the shipbuilding +industry, had put through a bill to give Cunard loans and grants totaling +$50,400,000 toward the $84,000,000 cost of a new 75,000-ton passenger +liner. Since 1957, more and more trans-Atlantic passengers +have been crossing by air. Economy class fares and charter flights +have attracted almost all new passengers to the airlines. Competition +from other steamship lines has cut Cunard's share of sea passengers +from one-third to one-fourth and this year the line showed a marked +drop of profits on the Atlantic run. The Cunard line has +under consideration replacing the Queen Mary with a ship smaller than +75,000 tons. This would be cheaper to operate and could be used for +cruises during the lean winter months. Also under consideration is +an increased investment in Cunard Eagle Airways which has applied to +serve New York. The decline of the Cunard line from its position +of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development +in the history of transportation. + +#MISSION TO VIET NAM# + +Gen& Maxwell +Taylor's statement in Saigon that he is "very much encouraged" +about the chances of the pro-Western government of Viet Nam +turning back Communist guerrilla attacks comes close to an announcement +that he will not recommend dispatching United States troops to +bolster the Vietnamese Army. Gen& Taylor will report to President +Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet +Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, +he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese +military, economic, political and other resources. There was +good reason for Gen& Taylor to make an inspection trip at this time. +Communist guerrillas recently have been reported increasing their +activities and the great flood of the Mekong River has interposed a +new crisis. South Viet Nam's rice surplus for next year- more than +300,000 tons- may have been destroyed. The Viet Cong, the Communist +rebels, may have lost their stored grain and arms factories. +The +rebels may try to seize what is left of the October harvest when the +floods recede and the monsoon ends in November. Nothing that +is likely to happen, however, should prompt the sending of United +States soldiers for other than instructional missions. The Indochina +struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen& Ridgway +estimated +it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win +a war the French were losing. It is a war to stay out of today, especially +in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently +does not want United States troops. He may want additional technical +help, and this should be forthcoming. South Viet Nam has received +$1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance +has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B& Johnson's +visit last May. Gen& Taylor, the President's +special military adviser, is a level-headed officer who is not likely +to succumb to propaganda or pressure. It is probable that his recommendations +will be informed and workable, and that they will not lead to +involving the United States in an Asian morass. + +Gov& John M& Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long +service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when +he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the +Missouri General Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals +and corporations who have controversies with or axes to grind with the +government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, +but because of their government influence. + +#THE U& N&'S 'GRAVEST CRISIS'# + +Ambassador Stevenson yesterday +described the U& N&'s problem of electing a temporary +successor to the late Dag Hammarskjold as "the gravest crisis the +institution has faced". Of course it is. If the decision goes wrong, +it may be- as Mr& Stevenson fears- "the first step on the +slippery path downhill" to a U& N& without operational responsibilities +and without effective meaning. The integrity of the +office not merely requires that the Secretary General shall be, as +the Charter puts it, "the chief administrative officer of the Organization", +but that neither he nor his staff shall seek or receive instructions +from any government or any other authority "external to +the Organization". In other words, the Secretary General is to be +a nonpartisan, international servant, not a political, national one. +He should be, as Dag Hammarskjold certainly was, a citizen of the +world. The Charter does stipulate that "due regard" shall +be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on "as wide a geographical +basis as possible". The United States and its allies have +had no objection to this. What they have objected to is the attempt +of the Russians to make use of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's +death to turn the entire U& N& staff from the Secretary down +into political agents of the respective countries from which they come. + +The controversy now revolves mainly around the number and geographic +origin of the deputies of the Secretary General and, more particularly, +around the nature of his relationship with them. Although +the United States and the U& S& S& R& have been arguing +whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important +element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the +manner in which these deputies are to do their work. If any one +of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions +the nature of the organization will have changed. If they give him advice +when he asks it, or if they perform specified duties under his direction, +the nature of the U& N& will not of necessity change. +The Secretary General must have, subject to the constitutional direction +of the Security Council and the General Assembly, the power +to act, to propose action and to organize action without being hobbled +by advisers and assistants acting on someone else's instructions. + +This is the root issue for which the United States should stand. +We should not become confused or let our public become confused over +irrelevant questions of number or even of geography. What we must +have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan +an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject +to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's +ambition. + +#WHAT THE NEW CHARTER DOES# + +The new City Charter, +which should get a Yes vote as Question No& 1 on Nov& 7, would +not make a good Mayor out of a bad one. There is no such magic +in man-made laws. But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive +powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of +inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority +both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right +to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy. + +Lawmaking power is removed from the Board of Estimate +and made +a partnership responsibility of the City Council and the Mayor. Thus +there is a clearer division of authority, administrative and legislative. +The board is diminished in both respects, while it retains control +over zoning, franchises, pier leases, sale, leasing and assignment +of property, and other trusteeship functions. The board will be able +to increase, decrease, add or eliminate budget items, subject to the +Mayor's veto; but the City Council will now share fully this +budget-altering power. Overriding of mayoral veto on budget changes +will require concurrence by board and Council, and a two-thirds vote. + +The Controller retains his essential "fiscal watchdog" functions; +his broad but little used investigative powers are confirmed. +He loses now-misplaced tax collection duties, which go to the Finance +Department. On net balance, in spite of Controller Gerosa's +opposition to the new Charter as an invasion of his office, the Controller +will have the opportunity for greater usefulness to good government +than he has now. Borough Presidents, while retaining +membership in the Board of Estimate, lose their housekeeping functions. +Highways go to a new Department of Highways, sewers to the Department +of Public Works, such street cleaning as Borough Presidents +now do (in Queens and Richmond) to the Sanitation Department. + +Some fiscal changes are important. The expense (operating) budget +is to be a program budget, and red tape is cut to allow greater autonomy +(with the Mayor approving) in fund transfers within a department. +The capital budget, for construction of permanent improvements, becomes +an appropriating document instead of just a calendar of pious promises; +but, as a second-look safeguard, each new project must undergo +a Board of Estimate public hearing before construction proceeds. + +A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore +dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on +progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city +instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected. This will +have a beneficial effect by expediting public business; it will also +correct some injustices. Enlargement of the City Council +and a new method of selecting members will be discussed tomorrow. + +#INTER-AMERICAN PRESS# + +The Inter-american Press Association, +which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape +Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in +eleven years. The I& A& P& A& is a reflection of the problems +and hopes of the hemisphere; and in these days this inevitably +means a concentration on the effects of the Cuban revolution. +As the press in Cuba was gradually throttled by the Castro regime, +more and more Cuban publishers, editors and correspondents were forced +into exile. The I& A& P& A& found itself driven from journalism +into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall +of the Castro Government and the return of the Cuban press to the +freedom it knew before Batista's dictatorship began in 1952. +Freedom of the press was lost in Cuba because of decades of corruption +and social imbalances. In such conditions all freedoms are lost. +This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the +newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States +Government. He felt able to end on a note of hope. He sees evidence +of fair winds for the ten-year Alliance for Progress plan with +its emphasis on social reforms. No group can contribute more to the +success of the program than the editors and publishers of the Inter-American +Press Association. + +#MEETING IN MOSCOW# + +The Twenty-second +Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a +situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago +when this meeting was first announced. According to the original program, +Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin +this morning to be filled with admiration or rage- depending +upon individual or national politics- because of the "bold program +for building communism in our time" which the Congress will adopt. +But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have +achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily +for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in +the immediate future. The evident contradiction between the rosy +picture of Russia's progress painted by the Communist party's +program and the enormous dangers for all humanity posed by Premier +Khrushchev's Berlin policy has already led to speculation abroad that +the program may be severely altered. Whether it is or not, the propaganda +impact on the free world of the document scheduled to be adopted +at this meeting will be far less than had been originally anticipated. +And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on +and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised +for 1980 they and their children must first survive. This +Congress will see Premier Khrushchev consolidating his power and +laying the groundwork for an orderly succession should death or illness +remove him from the scene in the next few years. The widespread purge +that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist +leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who +will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, +will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both +for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job. + +#DR& CONANT'S CALL TO ACTION# + +Dr& James B& Conant has +earned a nationwide reputation as a moderate and unemotional school reformer. +His earlier reports considered the American public schools +basically sound and not in need of drastic change. Now, a close look +at the schools in and around the ten largest cities, including New York, +has shattered this optimism. Dr& Conant has come away shocked +and angry. His new book, entitled "Slums and Suburbs", calls for +fast and drastic action to avert disaster. There is room for +disagreement concerning some of Dr& Conant's specific views. His +strong opposition to the transfer of Negro children to schools outside +their own neighborhood, in the interest of integration, will be +attacked by Negro leaders who have fought for, and achieved, this open +or permissive enrollment. Dr& Conant may underestimate the psychological +importance of even token equality. His suggestion that +the prestige colleges be made the training institutions for medical, +law and graduate schools will run into strong opposition from these colleges +themselves- even though what he is recommending is already taking +shape as a trend. But these are side issues to a powerful +central theme. That theme cuts through hypocrisies, complacency and +double-talk. It labels the slums, especially the Negro slums, as dead-end +streets for hundreds of thousands of youngsters. The villains +of the piece are those who deny job opportunities to these youngsters, +and Dr& Conant accuses employers and labor unions alike. The facts, +he adds, are hidden from public view by squeamish objections to calling +bad conditions by their right name and by insistence on token integration +rather than on real improvement of the schools, regardless of +the color of their students. A call for action "before it +is too late" has alarming implications when it comes from a man who, +in his +previous reports on the schools, cautioned so strongly against extreme +measures. These warnings must not be treated lightly. Dr& Conant's +conscientious, selfless efforts deserve the nation's +gratitude. +He has served in positions of greater glamour, both at home and abroad; +but he may well be doing his greatest service with his straightforward +report on the state of the public schools. + +#AND NOW- MORE JUNK MAIL# + +A fascinating letter has just reached +this desk from a correspondent who likes to receive so-called junk mail. +He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now +going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives +in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses +or even zone numbers. In accordance with legislation passed +at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to +deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other +literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district. This means +an added burden to innumerable postmen, who already are complaining +of heavy loads and low pay, and it presumably means an increased postal +deficit, but, our correspondent writes, think of the additional junk +mail each citizen will now be privileged to receive on a regular basis. +@ + +#OUR CREDITORS DO NOT FORGET US# + +Letter writing is a dying +art. Occasional letters are sent by individuals to one another and +many are written by companies to one another, but these are mostly +typewritten. Most mail these days consists of nothing that could truly +be called a letter. + +Old, tired, trembling the woman came to the cannery. She had, +she said, heard that the plant was closing. It couldn't close, she +said. She had raised a calf, grown it beef-fat. She had, with her own +work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, +blossom, and get ready to bear. She was ready to kill the beef, dress +it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, +hash, and stew against the winter. She had done it last year, and +the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people +were dependent upon these cans for food. This did not happen in +counties of North Georgia, where the rivers run and make rich the +bottom land. Nor in South Georgia, where the summer sun shines warmly +and gives early life to the things growing in the flat fields. + +This happened in Decatur, DeKalb County, not 10 miles from the +heart of metropolitian Atlanta. And now, the woman, tired and +trembling, came here to the DeKalb County cannery. "Is it so the +cannery is going to close"? O& N& Moss, 61, tall, +grey as a possum, canning plant chief since 1946, didn't know what +to say. He did say she could get her beef and vegetables in cans this +summer. He did say he was out of cans, the No& 3's, but "I requisitioned +22,000". He said he had No& 2's enough to last two +weeks more. Threat of closing the cannery is a recent one. A +three-man committee has recommended to Commission Chairman Charles +O& Emmerich that the DeKalb County cannery be closed. Reason: +the cannery loses $3,000 yearly. But DeKalb citizens, those +who use the facilities of the cannery, say the cannery is not supposed +to make any money. "The cannery", said Mrs& Lewellyn +Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during +the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the "victory garden" +produce, "is a service to the taxpayer. And one of the best services +available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, +grow vegetables and put them up. It helps those people who help themselves. + +"The county, though, seems more interested in those +people who don't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and +line up for surplus food". A driver of a dairy truck, who +begins work at 1 a&m& finishes before breakfast, then goes out and +grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family +of five, asked, "What in the world will we do"? "What +in the world", echoed others, those come with the beans, potatoes, +the tomatoes, "will any of us do"? Moss, a man who knows +how much the cannery helps the county, doesn't believe it will close. +But he is in the middle, an employe of DeKalb, but on the side +of the people. The young married people; the old couples. The +dairy truck driver; the old woman with the stew. "Don't +ask me if I think the cannery helps", he said. "Sir, I know +the cannery helps". + +Most of us would be willing to admit that forgiveness comes hard. +When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or +hardship it is not always easy to say, "Just forget it". There +is one thing I know; a person will never have spiritual poise and inner +peace as long as the heart holds a grudge. I know a man who held +resentment against a neighbor for more than three decades. Several years +ago I was his pastor. One night, at the close of the evening service, +he came forward, left his resentment at the altar and gave his +heart to God. After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story +of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on +his land. "We tried to settle this dispute", he said, "but +could never come to an agreement. I settled it tonight", he continued. +"I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has +been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven +my neighbor". Forgiveness is the door through which a +person must pass to enter the Kingdom of God. You cannot wear the banner +of God and at the same time harbor envy, jealousy and grudges in +your heart. Henry van Dyke said, "Forgive and forget if you can; +but forgive anyway". Jesus made three things clear about +forgiveness. We must, first of all, be willing to forgive others before +we can secure God's forgiveness. "For if ye forgive men their +trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye +forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive +your trespasses". Matthew 6:14-15. It will do no good to seek +God's forgiveness until we have forgiven those who have done us wrong. + +Then, Jesus indicated that God's forgiveness is unlimited. +In the prayer Jesus taught his disciples to pray we find these +words, "Forgive us our debts". When a person meets God's requirements +for the experience of forgiveness he is forgiven. God's mercy +and patience will last forever. Forgiveness implies more than a person +wanting his past sins covered by God's love. It also implies +that a man wants his future to be free from the mistakes of the past. +We want the past forgiven, but at the same time we must be willing for +God to direct the future. Finally, we must be willing to forgive +others as many times as they sin against us. Once Peter asked, +"How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till +seven times? Jesus saith unto him, until seventy times seven". +Matthew 18:21-22. Jesus not only taught forgiveness, He +gave us an example of it on the cross. With all the energy of his broken +body he prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what +they do". Luke 23:34. + +She's been in and out of my house for a dozen years now, although +she's still a teen-ager who looks like a baby, she is getting +married. Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to +tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish +to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish +said. For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't +have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message +to Garcia. But when some of the squeals had subsided and she had been +through one of those sessions that are so indispensable to the young +female- six girls sprawled on one bed, drinking Cokes and giggling- +she came back to the kitchen to talk with me a minute. "How +do you know you love somebody enough to get married"? she asked. + +It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have +ever asked: How can you be sure? "Aren't you sure"? +I asked, looking at her searchingly. I wanted to grab her by the +arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life +is so long and marriage is so important. But if she were just having +a normal case of pre-nuptial jitters such a question might frighten +her out of a really good marriage. Besides, in all honesty, I don't +know how you can be sure. I don't know any secret recipe for certainty. +In the fevered, intoxicating, breathless state of being in love +the usual signposts that guide you to lasting and satisfying relationships +are sometimes obscured. I knew of but one test and I threw it +out to her for what it was worth. "Does he ever bore you"? +I asked. "Bore me"? she was shocked. Oh, no-o! Why, +he's so darling and **h" "I mean", I went on ruthlessly, +"when he's not talking about you or himself or the wonders +of love, is he interesting? Does he care about things that matter +to you? Can you visualize being stranded with him on a desert island +for years and years and still find him fascinating? Because, +honey, I thought silently, there are plenty of desert islands in +every marriage- long periods when you're hopelessly stranded, together. +And if you bore each other then, heaven help you. She came +back the other day to reassure me. She has studied and observed and +she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting. + +She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, +I rushed it in, I hope not too late. Be friends with your mother-in-law. +Jokes, cartoons and cynics to the contrary, mothers-in-law make +good friends. + +I do not know Dr& Wilson Sneed well. But I was deeply moved +by his letter of resignation as rector of St& Luke's Church +in Atlanta. It was the cry of not just one heart; it spoke for many +in the clergy, I suspect. The pulpit is a lonely place. Who stops +to think of that? Imagine the searching and the prayer that +lay behind the letter the rector wrote after almost a decade of service +to this majestic church. "Such a church needs vigor and vitality +in its rector and one man has only so much of these endowments", +he told his members. A minister should not stay "beyond the +time that his leadership should benefit" his church, he wrote, "**h +for he becomes ordinary **h". @ ## + +And so the young minister +resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he +told his parishioners, when "I did not gain from you far more than +I ever gave to you". His very honest act called up the recent +talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: +"I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love +and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and +it is unworthy to think of self. But oh, how I do sometimes need just +a moment of rest, and peace, in myself". A man who gives +himself to God and to the believers of his church takes upon himself +a life of giving. He does not expect to get great riches or he would +not have chosen to answer the call to preach. The good ones are not +motivated to seek vainly, nor are they disposed to covet comfort, or they +would have been led to fields that offer comfort and feed vanity. +Theirs is a sacrificial life by earthly standards. ## + +Yet we who +lean upon such a man and draw strength from him and expect interpretation +of the infinite through him- we who readily accept his sacrifice +as our due, we of the congregations are the first to tell him what is +in our minds instead of listening to what is in his soul. We press +him to conform to our comfortable conceptions and not to bruise our satisfactions +with his word, and God's. We do not defeat the good ones +with this cruelty, but we add to their burden, while expecting them +to bestow saintliness upon us in return for ostentatious church attendance +and a few bucks a week, American cash. If we break the minister +to our bit, we are buying back our own sins. If he won't break, we +add to the stress he bears. And a minister of all men is most +conscious that he is mere man- prone to the stresses that earthly +humanity is heir to. We expect him to be noble, and to make us so- +yet he knows, and tries to tell us, how very humble man must be. + +We expect bestowal of God's love through him. But how little love +we give him. The church truly is not a rest home for saints, but a +hospital for sinners. Yet every Sunday we sinners go to that emergency +room to receive first aid, and we leave unmindful that the man who +ministered to us is a human being who suffers, too. + +Mr& Podger always particularly enjoyed the last night of each +summer at Loon Lake. The narrow fringe of sadness that ran around +it only emphasized the pleasure. The evening was not always +spent in the same way. This year, on a night cool with the front of September +moving in, but with plenty of summer still about, the Podgers +were holding a neighborhood gathering in the Pod. The little cottage +was bursting with people of all ages. In the midst of it all, +Mr& Podger came out on the Pod porch, alone. He had that day +attended a country auction, and he had come back with a prize. +The prize was an old-fashioned, woven cloth hammock, complete with cross-top +pillow, fringed side pieces, and hooks for hanging. Mrs& Podger +had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for +it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze +rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement. Mr& +Podger sat down in it, pushed himself back and forth in one or two +slow, rhythmic motions, and then swung his feet up into it. He closed +his eyes and let the unintelligible drift of voices sweep pleasantly +over him. Suddenly one young voice rose above the others. "But", +it said, "do you always when you're happy"? +The voice sank back into the general tangle of sound, but the question +stayed in Mr& Podger's mind. Here, in the cool, autumn-touched +evening, Mr& Podger mentally retraced a day that had left him greatly +contented and at peace. #@# + +It had begun with the blue jay +feather. Walking along the lake before breakfast, Mr& Podger had +seen the feather, and the bird that had lost it in flight. The winging +spread of blue had gone on, calling harshly, into the wood. The +small shaft of blue had drifted down and come to rest at his feet. All +day long Mr& Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had +worn +the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield. Would a blue +feather in a man's hat make him happy all day? Hardly. But it +was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning +sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by +the lake. Then, since the auction was being held nearby, he had +walked to it. And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that +slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for +reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road. It was doing very +well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable +singleness of purpose when Mr& Podger saw hazard approaching +in the shape of a flashy little sports car. Would the driver see +the turtle? Would he take pains to avoid it? Mr& Podger +took no chances. Taking off his hat and signaling the driver with +it, Mr& Podger stepped into the road, lifted the surprised turtle +and consummated its road-crossing with what must have been a breath-taking +suddenness. The turtle immediately withdrew into its private +council room to study the phenomenon. But Mr& Podger and the +driver of the sports car waved at each other. Here in the cool darkness +Mr& Podger could still feel the warmth of midday, could still +see the yellow butterflies dancing over the road, could still see the +friendly grin on the young, sun-browned face as the driver looked back +over his shoulder for a moment before the car streaked out of sight. + +Where was the driver now? What was he doing? And the turtle? +Mr& Podger smiled. For a few brief minutes they had all been +part of one little drama. The three would never meet again, but for +some reason or other Mr& Podger was sure he would always remember +the incident. Then there had been the auction itself. Mr& +Podger heard again, at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices +of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested +in Mr& Podger's hammock purchase. "I like them things, +too", he had said. "We got one at home. You know what? If +you're lyin' out in the hammock at night, and it gets kinda cool- +you know- you just take these sides with the fringe on- see- +and wrap 'em right over you. I do it, lots o' times- I like to +lie in a hammock at night, by myself, when it's all quiet. **h The +wind moves it a little bit- you know **h". #@# + +Mr& Podger +had +thanked him gravely, and now he made use of the advice. As he pulled +the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr& Podger +saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that +the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet. Alacrity, +the Podger cat, came by the hammock, rubbed her back briefly +against it, and then, sure of a welcome, hopped up. She remarked that +she found the night wind a little chilly, and Mr& Podger took her +inside the fringe. Soon her purring rivaled the chirping of the tree +crickets, rivaled the hum of voices from inside the Pod. Mr& +Podger was just adding this to his pictures of the day when the screen +door opened and Pam burst out. "Dad"! she said. "It's +getting so chilly we've lighted a fire, and we're going to tell +a round robin story- a nice, scary one. We need you to start it. Why +are you out here all by yourself? Aren't you happy"? + +Mr& Podger opened his cocoon and emerged, tucking Alacrity under +his arm to bring her in by the fire. "Of course I am", he said. +"Never happier in my life. I just came out here to know it". + +_DALLAS_ As the South begins another school year, national and even +world +attention is directed at the region's slow progress toward racial +equality in the public schools. Desegregation is beginning in +two more important Southern cities- Dallas and Atlanta. In each +city civic and education leaders have been working hard to get public +opinion prepared to accept the inevitability of equal treatment. + +These programs emphasize the acceptance of biracial classrooms peacefully. +The programs do not take sides on the issue itself. They point +out simply that "it is the law of the land". The two +cities have the examples of Little Rock and New Orleans to hold up +as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes +of desegregation. Even better, they have the examples of Nashville +and Houston to hold up as peaceful and progressive programs. +In each case there was an initial act of violence. In Nashville, a +school was dynamited. In Houston, there were a few incidents of friction +between whites and Negroes, none of which were serious. In +each city quick public reaction and fast action by the city government +halted the threats of more serious incidents. The Nashville +plan, incidentally, has become recognized as perhaps the most acceptable +and thus the most practical to put into effect in the troubled South. +It is a "stair-step" plan, in which desegregation begins in +the first grade. Each year another grade is added to the process, until +finally all 12 grades are integrated. The schedules are flexible +so that the program can be accelerated as the public becomes more tolerant +or realizes that it is something that has to be done, "so why +not now". The program has worked well in both Nashville and +Houston. It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools +selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by +white parents. Another attempt will be made this year in New Orleans +to resume the program. Generally, throughout the South, +there is a +growing impatience with the pattern of violence with which every +step of desegregation is met. Perhaps the most eloquent move +toward removal of racial barriers has been in Dallas. During the summer, +Negroes began quietly patronizing previously segregated restaurants +and lunch counters in downtown retail establishments. It was part +of a citywide move toward full integration. So successful has +been this program, worked out by white and Negro civic leaders, that +further extensions are expected in the next few months. Hotels, for +example, are ready to let down the bars. Already, at least one hotel +has been quietly taking reservations on a nonracial basis. Several conventions +have been held in recent months in hotels on a nonsegregated +basis. This is a radical change in attitude from the conditions +which prevailed several years ago, when a series of bombings was directed +against Negroes who were moving into previously all-white neighborhoods +of Dallas. It is also symptomatic of a change in attitude +which appears to be spreading all across the South. Southern +whites themselves are realizing that they had been wrong in using violence +to try to stop Negroes from claiming equal rights. They insist +they are ashamed of such violence and intimidation as occurred in Alabama +when the Freedom Riders sought to break down racial discrimination +in local bus depots. All across the South there are signs +that racial violence is finding less approval among whites who themselves +would never take active part but might once have shown a tolerant +attitude toward it. There are many causes for this change. One +of the most important is economic. Business leaders are aware now +that they suffer greatly from any outbreak of violence. They are putting +strong pressure on their police departments to keep order. In the +past these same Southerners were inclined to look the other way. + +And as the businessmen have begun to act, a real sense of +co-operation +has sprung up. This co-operation has emboldened other Southern whites +to add their voices to demands for peaceable accommodation. They +realize that by acting in concert, rather than individually, they will +not be picked out as objects of retaliation- economic and +otherwise. + +Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a +few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship. +Played mostly on the freeways around Los Angeles, it goes like +this: A driver cruising easily at 70 m&p&h& in Lane +~A of a four-lane freeway spies an incipient traffic jam ahead. Traffic +in the next lane appears to be moving more smoothly so he pokes +a tentative fender into Lane ~B, which is heavily populated by cars +also moving at 70 m&p&h&. The adjacent driver in Lane +~B has three choices open to him. He can (1) point his car resolutely +at the invading fender and force the other driver back into Lane +~A; (2) slow down and permit the ambivalent driver to change lanes; +or (3) alternately accelerate and decelerate, thus keeping the +first driver guessing as to his intentions, thereby making a fascinating +sport of the whole affair. The really remarkable thing to +me is that most California natives unhesitatingly elect to slow down +and permit the invading car free access. Whether or not this is done +out of enlightened self-preservation, I don't know. But it is done, +consistently and I'm both surprised and impressed. #@# + +This +could never happen in my native Chicago. There such soggy acquiesence +would be looked upon as a sure sign of deteriorating manhood. In +Chicago, the driver cut out would likely jam his gas pedal to the floor +in an effort to force the other car back. Failing this, he would pull +alongside at the first opportunity and shake his fist threateningly. + +This negative explanation of courtesy on the freeways, however, +does an injustice to Southern California drivers. At the risk +of losing my charge-a-plate at Marshall Field and Company, I would +like to challenge an old and hallowed stereotype. After three months +of research, I can state unequivocally that Los Angeles drivers are +considerably more courteous and competent than any other drivers I've +ever encountered. During one recent day of driving about Los +Angeles there were actually a dozen occasions when oncoming drivers +stopped an entire lane of traffic to permit me to pull out of an impossible +side street. + +_MIAMI, FLA&, MARCH 17._ An out-of-town writer came up to Paul +Richards today and asked the Oriole manager if he thought his ball +club would be improved this year. Now Richards, of course, is +known as a deep thinker as baseball managers go. He can often make the +complex ridiculously simple, and vice versa. This happened to be +vice versa, but even so, the answer +was a masterpiece. "It's a whole lot easier", he said, +"to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the +population of New York city". And with that he walked off to give +instruction to a rookie pitcher. "That is undoubtedly a hell +of a quote", said the writer, scratching his head. "Now, if I +can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it". + +#TWO +SPOTS OPEN# + +This was just Richard's way of saying that last +year the Birds opened spring training with a lot of jobs wide open. +Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two +spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs. It should +be easier to plug two spots than it was to fill the wholesale lots +that were open last year, but so far it hasn't worked that way. + +This angle of just where the Orioles can look for improvement this +year is an interesting one. You'd never guess it from the way they've +played so far this spring, but there remains a feeling among some +around here that the Orioles still have a chance to battle for the +pennant in 1961. Obviously, if this club is going to move from +second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement +someplace. Where can that improvement possibly come from? + +You certainly can't expect the infield to do any better than +it did last year. + +#ROBBY COULD BE BETTER# + +Brooks Robinson is great, +and it is conceivable that he'll do even better in 1961 than he +did in 1960. You can't expect it, though. Robby's performance last +year was tremendous. It's the same with Ron Hansen and +jim Gentile. If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no +complaint. They shouldn't be asked to carry any more of the burden. + +Hansen will be getting a late spring training start, which might +very well set him back. He got off to an exceptional start last season, +and under the circumstances probably won't duplicate it. + +There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching +to him last year. They don't expect to stop him, just slow him +down some with the bat. He'll still be a top player, they concede, +because he's got a great glove and the long ball going for him. But +they expect to reduce his over-all offensive production. + +#BREEDING +MIGHT MOVE UP# + +Gentile can hardly do better than drive in 98 runs. +Don't ask him more. I have a hunch Marv Breeding might move +up a notch. But even so, he had a good year in 1960 and won't do +too much better. So, all in all, the infield can't be expected +to supply the added improvement to propel the Birds from second +to first. And the pitching will also have trouble doing better. +Richards got a great performance out of his combination of youth and +experience last season. Where, then, can we look for improvement? + +"From Triandos, Brandt and Walker", answers Richards. +"They're the ones we can expect to do better". The +man is right, and at this time, indications are that these three are +ready for better seasons. Triandos hasn't proved it yet, but +he says he's convinced his thumb is all right. He jammed it this +spring and has had to rest it, but he says the old injury hasn't bothered +him. If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, +the club will have to be better off offensively. I'm still +not convinced, though, I'll have to see more of him before predicting +that big year for him. Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House +who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second +line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still +that big man you need when you start talking pennant. To me, +Brandt +looks as though he could be in for a fine year. He hasn't played +too much, because Richards has been working on him furiously in batting +practice. He's hitting the ball hard, in the batting cage, and +his whole attitude is improved over this time last year. When +he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win +the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be +a second division American League club. He was down, hard to talk +to, +and far too nonchalant on the field. As of now, that all seems behind +him. He's been entirely different all spring. And Walker +looks stronger, seems to be throwing better than he did last year. Let +him bounce back, and he could really set up the staff. So, +if the Orioles are to improve, Brandt, Triandos and Walker will have +to do it. So far the platoons on left and right fielders don't +seem capable of carrying the load. Of course, this isn't +taking into consideration the population of Nevada and New York +city, but it's the way things look from here at this point. + +Is the mother of an "autistic" child at fault? (The "autistic" +child is one who seems to lack a well-defined sense of self. +He tends to treat himself and other people as if they were objects- +and sometimes he treats objects as if they were people.) Did his +mother make him this way? Some people believe she did. + +We think differently. We believe that autism, like so many other conditions +of defect and deviation, is to a large extent inborn. A mother +can help a child adapt to his difficulties. Sometimes she +can- to a large extent- help him overcome them. But we don't think +she creates them. We don't think she can make her child defective, +emotionally disturbed or autistic. The mother of a difficult +child can do a great deal to help her own child and often, by sharing +her experiences, she can help other mothers with the same problem. +Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written +for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments. +She wrote: + +#TOTAL DISINTEREST# + +"As the mother of an autistic +child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, +I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he +first +plays with a new toy. He wants me to do everything for him. "You +don't believe that autistic children become autistic because of +something that happens to them or because of the way their mother treats +them. But I do and my psychiatrist does, too. I know, that my +son wants control and direction, but being autistic myself I cannot give +full control or direction. "One thing I notice which I +have seldom heard mentioned. This is that autistic people don't enjoy +physical contact with others- for instance, my children and I. +When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is +as straight and stiff as a board. He pushes and straightens himself +as if he can't stand the feeling of being held. Physical contact is +uncomforatble for him"! This mother is quite correct. As +a rule, the autistic child doesn't enjoy physical contact with others. +Parents have to find other ways of comforting him. For the young +child this may be no more than providing food, light or movement. As +he grows older it may be a matter of providing some accustomed object +(his "magic" thing). Or certain words or rituals that child and +adult go through may do the trick. The answer is different for each autistic +child, but for most there is an answer. Only ingenuity will uncover +it. + +#WHAT FUTURE HOLDS# + +"Dear Doctors: We learned this +year that our older son, Daniel, is autistic. We did not accept the +diagnosis at once, but gradually we are coming to. Fortunately, there +is a nursery school which he has been able to attend, with a group +of normal children. "I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, +though of course I realize he is far from that at present. What +I do is to try to bring him into contact with reality as much as possible. +I try to give him as many normal experiences as possible. + +"What is your experience with autistic children? How do they +turn out later"? Many autistic children grow up to lead +relatively normal lives. Certainly, most continue to lack a certain warmth +in communication with other people, but many adjust to school, even +college, to jobs and even to marriage and parenthood. + +#SINGLE-COLOR +USE# + + +_QUESTION_- . _ANSWER_- Her choice of one color +means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having +reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects. +This immature use of crayons may suggest that she is a little immature +for the first grade. No, coloring isn't exactly something +you teach a child. You sometimes give them a little demonstration, +a little guidance, and suggestions about staying inside the lines. But +most learn to color and paint as and when they are ready with only +a very little demonstration. + +SEEN in decorating circles of late is a renewed interest +in an old art: embroidery. Possibly responsible for this is the incoming +trend toward multicolor schemes in rooms, which seems slated to +replace the one-color look to which we have been accustomed. Just as +a varitinted Oriental rug may suggest the starting point for a room scheme, +so may some of the newest versions of embroidery. One such, +in fact, is a rug. Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has +that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze +and gold and a sauterne background. The twirled, stylized design of +winding stems and floral forms strongly suggests the embroidered patterns +used so extensively for upholstery during the Jacobean period in +England. Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing +more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available +in this country. The work is executed in England (by hand) and +can be worked in any desired design and color. Among some recent +imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on +which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens +and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color. + +#CHINESE INFLUENCE# + +For a particularly fabulous room which houses +a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels +were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this +revered Eighteenth Century period. Since the work is done by hand, +the only limitation, it is said, "is that of human conception". + +Modern embroidered panels, framed and meant to be hung on the +wall, are another aspect of this trend. These have never gone out of +style in Scandinavian homes and now seem to be reappearing here and +there in shops which specialize in handicrafts. An amateur decorator +might try her hand at a pair during the long winter evenings, and, by +picking up her living room color scheme, add a decorative do-it-yourself +note to the room. + +California Democrats this weekend will take the wraps off a 1962 +model statewide campaign vehicle which they have been quietly assembling +in a thousand district headquarters, party clubrooms and workers' +backyards. They seem darned proud of it. And they're +confident that the ~GOP, currently assailed by dissensions +within the ranks, will be impressed by the purring power beneath the hood +of this grassroots-fueled machine. #@# + +Their meeting at San +Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California +Democratic Council directorate. But it will include 200-odd officeholders, +organization leaders and "interested party people". + +Out of this session may come: _1_- Plans for a dramatic, +broad-scale party rally in Los Angeles next December that would enlist +top-drawer Democrats from all over the country. _2_- Blueprints +for doubling the ~CDC's present 55,000 enrollment. _3_- +Arrangements for a statewide pre-primary endorsing convention in +Fresno next Jan& 26-28. _4_- And proposals for a whole series +of lesser candidate-picking conventions in the state's 38 new Congressional +districts. At the head of the ~CDC is an unorthodox, +39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B& Carvey Jr&, +whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon +missiles. He's approached his Democratic duties in hard-nosed engineering +fashion. #@# + +Viewed from afar, the ~CDC looks like +a rather stalwart political pyramid: its elected directorate fans out +into an array of district leaders and standing committees, and thence +into its component clubs and affiliated groups- 500 or so. +Much of its strength stems from the comfortable knowledge that every +"volunteer" Democratic organization of any consequence belongs to +the ~CDC. #@# + +Moreover, the entire state Democratic hierarchy, +from Gov& Brown on down to the county chairmen, also participates +in this huge operation. Contrarily, Republican "volunteers" +go their separate ways, and thus far have given no indication +that they'd be willing to join forces under a single directorate, +except in the most loose-knit fashion. Carvey believes that +reapportionment, +which left many Democratic clubs split by these new district +boundaries, actually will increase ~CDC membership. Where +only one club existed before, he says, two will flourish henceforth. + +Biggest organizational problem, he adds, is setting up ~CDC +units in rock-ribbed Democratic territory. Paradoxically the council +is weakest in areas that register 4- and 5-to-1 in the party's +favor, strongest where Democrats and Republicans compete on a fairly +even basis. Like most Democratic spokesmen, Carvey predicts +1962 will be a tremendously "partisan year". Hence the attention +they're lavishing on the ~CDC. In all probability, the +council will screen and endorse candidates for the Assembly and for +Congress, and then strive to put its full weight behind these pre-primary +favorites. This bodes heated contests in several districts where +claims have already been staked out by Democratic hopefuls who don't +see eye-to-eye with the ~CDC. Naturally, the statewide +races will provide the major test for the expanding council. Shunted +aside by the rampant organizers for John F& Kennedy last +year, who relegated it to a somewhat subordinate role in the Presidential +campaign, the ~CDC plainly intends to provide the party's +campaign muscle in 1962. There is evidence that it will be happily received +by Gov& Brown and the other constitutional incumbents. #@# + +Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's +most formidable foe, with ex-Gov& Knight a close second. +But the rest of the ~GOP gubernatorial aspirants don't worry +him very much. In his ~CDC work, Carvey has the close-in +support and advice of one of California's shrewdest political strategists: +former Democratic National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, +who backed him over a Northland candidate espoused by Atty& Gen& +Stanley Mosk. (Significantly, bitter echoes of the 1960 power struggle +that saw Mosk moving into the national committee post over Ziffren +are still audible in party circles.) #@# + +NOTE: We've +just received an announcement of the 54th Assembly district post-reapportionment +organizing convention Wednesday night in South +Pasadena's War Memorial Bldg&, which graphically illustrates the +~CDC's broad appeal. State Sen& Dick Richards will keynote; +state and county +committeemen, ~CDC directors and representatives, +members of 16 area clubs, and "all residents" have been invited. + +This is going to be a language lesson, and you can master it in +a few minutes. It is a short course in Communese. It works +with English, Russian, German, Hungarian or almost any other foreign +tongue. Once you learn how to translate Communese, much of each +day's deluge of news will become clearer. At least, I have found it +so. #@# + +For some compulsive reason which would have fascinated +Dr& Freud, Communists of all shapes and sizes almost invariably +impute to others the very motives which they harbor themselves. They +accuse their enemies of precisely the crimes of which they themselves +are most guilty. President Kennedy's latest warning to the +Communist world that the United States will build up its military +strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was somewhat surprisingly, +reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the +Iron Curtain. Then the Communese reply came back from many mouthpieces +with striking consistency. Now listen closely: +Moscow radio from the Literary Gazette in English to England: +#@# + +"President Kennedy once again interpreted the Soviet proposals, +to sign a peace treaty with Germany as a threat, as part of +the world menace allegedly looming over the countries of capitalism. Evidently +the war drum beating and hysteria so painstakingly being stirred +up in the West have been planned long in advance. The West Berlin +crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the +United States to justify its arms drive". The Soviet news +agency ~TASS datelined from New York in English to Europe: + +"President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military +program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American +munitions industry. When the stock exchange opened this morning, +many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and +United Aircraft and prices rose substantially. Over 4 million shares +were sold, the highest figures since early June. (Quotations follow".) + +~TASS datelined Los Angeles, in English to Europe: + +"Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of +President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race. He also +demanded that Kennedy take additional measures to increase international +tension: specifically to crush the Cuban revolution, resume +nuclear testing, resist more vigorously admission of China to its lawful +seat in the United Nations, and postpone non-military programs at +home". ~TASS from Moscow in English to Europe: + +"The American press clamored for many days promising President +Kennedy would reply to the most vital domestic and foreign problems +confronting the United States. In fact, the world heard nothing +but sabre-rattling, the same exercises which proved futile for the +predecessors of the current President. If there were no West Berlin +problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping +up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems +besetting the United States and its ~NATO partners. Washington +apparently decided to use an old formula, by injecting large +military appropriations to speed the slow revival of the U&S& economy +after a prolonged slump". #@# + +And now, for Communist +listeners and readers: Moscow Radio in Russian to the ~USSR: + +"The U&S& President has shown once again that +the United States needs the fanning of the West Berlin crisis +to justify the armaments race. As was to be expected Kennedy's latest +speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, +where officials of the West German government praised it". + +Moscow Novosti article in Russian, datelined London: + +"U&S& pressure on Britain to foster war hysteria over the status +of West Berlin has reached its apogee. British common sense is +proverbial. The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate +ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to +pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures". +#@# + +East Berlin (Communist) radio in German to Germany: + +"A better position for negotiations is the real point +of this speech. Kennedy knows the West will not wage war for West +Berlin, neither conventional nor nuclear, and negotiations will come +as certainly as the peace treaty. Whenever some Washington circles +were really ready for talks to eliminate friction they have always +succumbed to pressure from the war clique in the Pentagon and in Bonn. +In Kennedy's speech are cross currents, sensible ones and senseless +ones, reflecting the great struggle of opinions between the President's +advisers and the political and economic forces behind them. +Well, dear listeners, despite all the shouting, there will be no war +over West Berlin". Moscow ~TASS in Russian datelined +Sochi: "Chairman Khrushchev received the U&S& President's +disarmament adviser, John McCloy. Their conversation +and dinner passed in a warm and friendly atmosphere". Now, +to translate from the Communese, this means: The "West Berlin" +crisis is really an East Berlin crisis. #@# + +The crisis +was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin (Wall Street) and the +Red Army (Pentagon) egged on by the West Germans (East Germans). + +The reason was to speed up domestic production in the ~USSR, +which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end +the permanent recession in Russian living standards. Chairman +Khrushchev (Kennedy) rattles his rockets (sabre) in order to cure +his internal ills and to strengthen his negotiating position. His advisers +in the Politburo (White House) are engaged in a great struggle +of opinions, so he is not always consistent. The Soviet Union +will fight neither a conventional nor a nuclear war over Berlin, +and neither will its Warsaw Pact allies. The West has no intention +of attacking Russia. Chairman Khrushchev and John McCloy +had a terrible row at Sochi. See, Communese is easy- once +you get onto it. + +Aug& 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded +the Pennsylvania Gazette- a century during which it had undergone +several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication- +this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening +Post. The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C& Atkinson +and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's +old paper, desired a more distinctive name. When founded by Franklin +the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name +its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually +contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays. In the +middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one +of the most popular weeklies in the country. But during the second half +of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus +H& K& Curtis purchased it- "paper, type, and all"- +for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and +initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers. Little +more than a fine old name, valuable principally because of the +Franklin tradition, the Saturday Evening Post was slow to revive. +But Curtis poured over $1 million into it and in time it again became +one of the most popular weeklies of the country. + +"Remember the French railroad baron who was going to take me +floating down the Nile"? **h "Remember the night Will Rogers +filled a tooth for me between numbers"? **h "Sure, we met a +barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're +young, beautiful and the toast of two continents" **h "Remember +Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road"? + +All this remembering took place the other night when I +had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club. + +A quarter of a century has gone by since this bevy of walking dreams +sashayed up and down the staircases of the old New Amsterdam Theater, +N&Y&. But watching Mrs& Cyril Ring, Berniece Dalton +Janssen, Mrs& Robert Jarvis, Mrs& Walter Adams order low-calory +seafood, no bread, I could see the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 +were determined to be glamorous grandmothers of 1961. I was +anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way. All +I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my +big brother's room. "Billie was really beautiful"! exclaimed +Vera Forbes Adams, batting lovely big eyes behind glitter rimmed +glasses. + +SING SING'S prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable +purpose, a fair break from parole boards. But once the strike trend +hits hoosegows, there is no telling how far it may go. Inmates might +even demand the 34-hour week, all holidays off and fringe benefits including +state contributions toward lawyers' fees. Some day we might +see a Federation of Prison and Jail Inmates, with a leader busily +trying to organize reformatory occupants, defendants out on bail, convicts +opposed to probation officers, etc&. _@_ A three-day confinement +week, with a month's vacation and shorter hours all around +could be an ultimate demand from cell occupants of the nation, with +fringe benefits including: _1._ Wider space between iron bars +and agreement by prison boards to substitute rubber in 20 per cent of +metal. _2._ An agreement allowing convicts to pass on type of locks +used on prison doors. In case of a deadlock between prison boards +and inmates, a federal arbitration board to include a "lifer" and +two escapees should decide the issue. _3._ Specific broadening of +travel rights. _4._ The right to leave the hoosegow any time to +see a lawyer instead of waiting for a lawyer to make a trip to the prison. + +_5._ Recognition of Prisoners Union rule that no member of +an iron or steel workers union be permitted to repair a sawed-off bar +without approval and participation of representative of the cell occupant. + +_6._ No warden or guard to touch lock, key or doorknob except +when accompanied by a prisoners' committee with powers of veto. + +_7._ State and federal approval of right to walk out at any time +when so voted by 51 per cent of the prisoners. #@# + +The death of +Harold A& Stevens, oldest of the Stevens brothers, famed operators +of baseball, football and race track concessions, revived again the +story of one of the greatest business successes in history. Harold, +with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their +father, Harry M& Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball +program, introduced the "hot dog" and paved the way for creation +of a catering empire. Family loyalties and cooperative work have been +unbroken for generations. #@# + +~IBM has a machine that can +understand spoken words and talk back. Nevertheless, it will seem +funny to have to send for a mechanic to improve conversation. #@# + +Rembrandt's "Aristotle Contemplating Bust of Homer" brought +$2,300,000 at auction the other night. Both Aristotle and Homer +may in spirit be contemplating "bust" of the old-fashioned American +dollar. #@# + +The owner of the painting got it for $750,000, +sold it for $500,000 in a market crash, and bought it back for $590,000. +Apologies are in order from anybody who said "Are you sure you're +not making a mistake"? #@# + +"Wagon Train" is reported +the No& 1 ~TV show. After all, where else can the public see +a wagon these days? #@# + +Lucius Beebe's book, "Mr& +Pullman's Elegant Palace Car", fills us with nostalgia, recalling +days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine +woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery. +Beebe tells of one private car that has gold plumbing. Jay +Gould kept a cow on one de luxer. + +_WASHINGTON_- Rep& Frelinghuysen, ~R-5th Dist&, had a +special reason for attending the reception at the Korean Embassy for +Gen& Chung Hee Park, the new leader of South Korea. Not +only is Mr& Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs +Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental +in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick +T& Frelinghuysen, secretary of state in the administration of Chester +A& Arthur. In addition Rep& Frelinghuysen's brother +Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War +/2,. Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of +the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul +are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, +who was secretary of state in 1883 and 1884, and Gen& Lucius +Foote, who was the first minister to Korea. They enlisted the +help of the New Jersey congressman, who has been able to trace the +letters to the national archives, where they are available on microfilm. + +#ON THE JOB# + +A top official of the New Frontier who kept a +record of his first weeks on the job here gives this report of his experiences: + +In his first six weeks in office he presided over +96 conferences, attended 35 official breakfasts and dinners, studied +and signed 285 official papers and personally took 312 telephone calls. + +In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages +of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided +he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest +of his life. _@_ Sen& Case ~R-N&J&, has received a +nice "thank you" note from a youngster he appointed to the Air Force +Academy in Colorado. Air Force life is great, the cadet +wrote, "though the fourth-class system is no fun". He invited Mr& +Case to stop by to say hello if he ever visited the academy and +then added that he was on the managerial staff of the freshman football +team "We have just returned from Roswell, N&M&, where +we were defeated, 34 to 9", the young man noted. "We have a +tremendous amount of talent- but we lack cohesion". @ + +#KIND MR& +SAM# + +Among the many stories about the late Speaker Rayburn is +one from Rep& Dwyer, ~R-6th Dist&. Mrs& Dwyer's husband, +M& Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County +on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session. +They ran across Mr& Rayburn and the youngster expressed a +desire to get the Speaker's autograph. Mr& Dwyer said that +although it was obvious that Mr& Rayburn was not well he stopped, +gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed +the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress. Two +days later Mr& Rayburn left Washington for the last time. + +THE 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being +celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, +the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new +translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English. Since +it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has +been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations +of the Bible. However, Biblical scholars frequently attested +to its numerous inaccuracies, as old manuscripts were uncovered +and scholarship advanced. This resulted in revisions of the King +James Bible in 1881-85 as the English Revised Version and in +1901 as the American Standard Version. Then in 1937 America's +International Council of Religious Education authorized a new revision, +in the light of expanded knowledge of ancient manuscripts and languages. +Undertaken by 32 American scholars, under the chairmanship +of Rev& Dr& Luther A& Weigle, former dean of Yale University +Divinity School, their studies resulted in the publishing of the +Revised Standard Version, 1946-52. + +#NOT RIVAL# + +The New English +Bible (the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a +future date) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James +Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered "simply as the Bible +to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship". + +Time, of course will testify whether the new version will have +achieved its purpose. Bible reading, even more so than good classical +music, grows in depth and meaning upon repetition. If this +new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout +the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James +Version. However, an initial perusal and comparison of some +of the famous passages with the same parts of other versions seems to +speak well of the efforts of the British Biblical scholars. One is +impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation +into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of +the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary +language than in the frequently +archaic words and phrases of the +King James. For example, in the third chapter of Matthew, verses +13-16, describing the baptism of Jesus, the 1611 version reads: + +"Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, +to be baptized of him. "But John forbad him, saying, I have +need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? "And +Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it +becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him. + +"And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the +water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit +of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him". + +#CLEARER +MEANING# + +Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not +familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: +"Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came +to John to be baptized by him. John tried to dissuade him. 'Do you +come to me'? he said; 'I need rather to be baptized by you'. +Jesus replied, 'let it be so for the present; we do well to +conform this way with all that God requires'. John then allowed him +to come. After baptism Jesus came up out of the water at once, and +at that moment heaven opened; he saw the Spirit of God descending +like a dove to alight upon him"; (the paragraphing, spelling +and punctuation are reproduced as printed in each version.) +Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes +and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the +true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning +of the Sermon on the Mount. To illustrate, the first blessing +in the King James Bible reads: "Blessed are the poor in +spirit; for their's is the kingdom of heaven". The new version +states: "How blest are those who know that they are poor; the +kingdom of Heaven is theirs". Some of the poetic cadence of +the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, +with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the +meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar. +To a novice +that is significant. In the second and third +chapters of Revelation the new version retains, however, the old phrase +"angel of the church" which Biblical scholars have previously +interpreted as meaning bishop. This is not contemporary English. + +#MOSTLY +CONTEMPORARY# + +For the most part, however, the new version is +contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a +clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds +of years ago by the first followers of Christ. Originally +recorded by hand, these words have been copied and recopied, translated +and retranslated through the ages. Discoveries recently made of +old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, +some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy +of the Bible. To have the results recorded in everyday usable +English should be of benefit to all who seek the truth. There +is one danger, however. With contemporary English changing with the +rapidity that marks this jet age, some of the words and phrases of the +new version may themselves soon become archaic. The only answer will +be continuous study. The New Testament offered to the public +today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up +of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, +Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian +Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, +Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National +Society of Scotland. Prof& C& H& Dodd, 76, a Congregational +minister and a leading authority on the New Testament, +is general director of the project and chairman of the New Testament +panel. + +Sizzling temperatures and hot summer pavements are anything but +kind to the feet. That is why it is important to invest in comfortable, +airy types of shoes. There are many soft and light shoe +leathers available. Many styles have perforations and an almost weightlessness +achieved via unlined leathers. Softness is found in crushed +textures. Styles run the gamut from slender and tapered with +elongated toes to a newer squared toe shape. Heels place emphasis on +the +long legged silhouette. Wine glass heels are to be found in both high +and semi-heights. Stacked heels are also popular on dressy or tailored +shoes. Just the barest suggestion of a heel is found on teenage +pumps. + +#COOLEST SHADE# + +While white is the coolest summer shade, +there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend +with any wardrobe color. In the tintable group are high and +little heels, squared and oval throats, and shantung-like textures. + +Don't overlook the straws this year. They come in crisp basket +weaves in natural honey hues, along with lacey open weaves with a +lustre finish in natural, white, black and a whole range of colors. In +the casual field straws feature wedge heels of cork or carved wood in +a variety of styles. For added comfort some of the Italian designed +sandals have foam padded cushioning. The citrus tones popular +in clothing are also to be found afoot. Orange and lemon are considered +important as are such pastels as blue and lilac. In a brighter nautical +vein is Ille de France blue. Contrast trim provides other touches +of color. Spectators in white crush textures dip toe and heel +in smooth black, navy and taffy tan. + +#DESIGNED FOR EASE# + +Designed +for summer comfort are the shoes illustrated. At the left is a pair +of dressy straw pumps in a light, but crisp texture. In a lacey open +weave shoes have a luster finish, braided collar and bow highlight on +the squared throat. At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined +white leather. Flats have a scalloped throat. + +An electric toothbrush (Broxodent) may soon take its place next +to the electric razor in the American bathroom. The brush moves up +and down and is small enough to clean every dental surface, including +the back of the teeth. In addition, the motor has the seal of approval +of the Underwriters Laboratories, which means it is safe. +The unit consists of a small motor that goes on as soon as it is plugged +in. The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons +located where the index finger and thumb are placed when holding the +motor. The bushes can be cleaned and sterilized by boiling and are detachable +so that every member of the family can have his own. +Most of us brush our teeth by hand. The same can be said of shaving +yet the electric razor has proved useful to many men. The electric +toothbrush moves in a vertical direction, the way dentists recommend. +In addition, it is small enough to get into crevices, jacket and +crown margins, malposed anteriors, and the back teeth. The bristles +are soft enough to massage the gums and not scratch the enamel. + +It is conceivable that Broxodent could do a better job than ordinary +bushing, especially in those who do not brush their teeth properly. +Several dentists and patients with special dental problems have experimented +with the device. The results were good although they are difficult +to compare with hand brushing, particularly when the individual +knows how to brush his teeth properly. The electric gadget is most helpful +when there are many crowned teeth and in individuals who are elderly, +bedfast with a chronic disease, or are handicapped by disorders +such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy. But for many of +us, it will prove an enjoyable luxury. It is not as convenient as the +old type toothbrush and the paste tends to shimmy of the bristles. Since +the apparatus is new, it requires experimentation and changes in +technique. + +#TURN OVER# + +@ writes: Does numbness in the left +hand at night, which awakens the person, indicate brain tumor? _REPLY_ +No. This is a common symptom and the cause usually is pressure +on the nerve leading to the affected hand. The pressure may come from +muscles, tendons, or bones anywhere from the neck to the hand. + +#STEAM +BATHS# + +@ writes: Do steam baths have any health value? + +_REPLY_ No, other than cleaning out the pores and making the sweat +glands work harder. An ordinary hot bath or shower will do the same. + +#SEWING BRINGS NUMBNESS# + +@ writes: What makes my hands numb +when sewing? _REPLY_ There are many possibilities, including +poor circulation, a variety of neurological conditions, and functional +disorders. This manifestation may be an early sign of multiple sclerosis +or the beginning of sewer's cramp. + +#BRACE FOR SCIATICA# + +@ +writes: Does a brace help in sciatica? _REPLY_ A back brace +might help, depending upon the cause of sciatica. + +#CHOLESTEROL AND +THYROID# + +@ writes: Does the cholesterol go down when most of +the thyroid gland is removed? _REPLY_ No. It usually goes up. +The cholesterol level in the blood is influenced by the glands of the +body. It is low when the thyroid is overactive and high when the gland +is sluggish. The latter is likely to occur when the thyroid is removed. + +The gap between the bookshelf and the record cabinet grows smaller +with each new recording catalogue. There's more reading +and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken +rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's +first experiment in recorded sound. Edison could hardly have guessed, +however, that Sophocles would one day appear in stereo. If +the record buyer's tastes are somewhat eclectic or even the slightest +bit esoteric, he will find them satisfied on educational records. And +he will avoid eye-strain in the process. Everything from poetry +to phonetics, history to histrionics, philosophy to party games +has been adapted to the turntable. For sheer ambition, take the +Decca series titled modestly "Wisdom". Volumes One and Two, +selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain "conversations +with the elder wise men of our day". These sages +include poet Carl Sandburg, statesman Jawaharlal Nehru and sculptor +Jacques Lipchitz, in Volume One, and playwright Sean O'Casey, +David Ben-Gurion, philosopher Bertrand Russell and the late Frank +Lloyd Wright in the second set. Hugh Downs is heard interviewing +Wright, for an added prestige fillip. There's more specialization +and a narrower purpose in two albums recently issued by Dover +Publications. Dover "publishes" what the company calls "Listen +and Learn" productions designed to teach foreign languages. +Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, +German and Japanese. But the firm has recognized the tight +dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the "smaller, less-traveled +and relatively inexpensive countries", and is now prepared to +teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings. The respective +vocabularies "essential for travel" are available in separate +albums. Thanks to Spoken Arts Records, history buffs may hear +Lincoln's "most memorable speeches and letters" in a two-disc +set, interpreted by Lincoln authority and lecturer Roy P& Basler. +As a comtemporary bonus, the set includes Carl Sandburg's address +at a joint session of Congress, delivered on Lincoln's birthday +two years ago. For those who "like poetry but never get +around to reading it", the Library of Congress makes it possible +for poets to be heard reading their own work. The program was instituted +in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory +of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D& C& A catalogue +is available on request. Newest on the list are John +Ciardi, W& D& Snodgrass, I& A& Richards, Oscar Williams, +Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, +Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim. Two poets +are paired on each record, in the order given above. Decca is +not the only large commercial company to impart instruction. ~RCA +Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called +"Adventures in Music", which is an instructional record library +for elementary schools. Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony +perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two. Teaching +guides are included with each record. + +In an effort to fortify himself against the unforseen upsets sure +to arise in the future, Herbert A& Leggett, banker-editor of +the Phoenix "Arizona Progress", reflects upon a few of the depressing +experiences of the feverish fifties. One of the roughest +was the +~TV quiz shows, which gave him inferiority complexes. Though +it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out +to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the +editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American. +But the one that upset the financially wise was the professional dancer +who related in a book how he parlayed his earnings into a $2,000,000 +profit on the stock market. Every man who dabbles in the market to +make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time +hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so +dumb. Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic +dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book +to make some dough. People who take us for suckers are like +the Westerner who had on exhibit his superior marksmanship in the form +of a number of bull's-eye achievements. The promoter who wanted +to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it. His +answer was simple but honest. He just shot at the board and then drew +circles around the holes to form a bull's-eye. + +One of the obstacles to the easy control of a 2-year-old child +is a lack of verbal communication. The child understands no. He senses +his mother's disapproval. But explanations leave him confused and +unmoved. If his mother loves him, he clings to that love as +a ballast. It motivates his behavior. He wants Mommy to think him +a good boy. He doesn't want her to look frowningly at him, or speak +to him angrily. This breaks his heart. He wants to be called sweet, +good, considerate and mother's little helper. But even mother's +loving attitude will not always prevent misbehavior. His desires +are so strong that he needs constant reassurance of his mother's +love for him and what she expects of him, in order to overcome them. +His own inner voice, which should tell him what not to do, has not developed. +It won't develop until he has words with which to clothe it. +The conscience is non-existent in the 2-year-old. What can +a mother do then to prevent misbehavior? She can decrease the number +of temptations. She can remove all knick-knacks within reach. The +fewer nos she has to utter the more effective they will be. She +should offer substitutes for the temptations which seem overwhelmingly +desirable to the child. If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, +he should have some old numbers of his own. If Daddy's books +are out of bounds his own picture books are not. Toys he has can be +made to act as substitutes for family temptations such as refrigerator +and gas stove. During this precarious period of development the +mother should continue to influence the growth of the child's conscience. +She tells him of the consequences of his behavior. If he bites +a playmate she says, "Danny won't like you". If he snatches +a toy, she says, "Caroline wants her own truck just as you do". + +There is no use trying to "Explain" to a 2-year-old. Actions +speak louder. Remove temptations. Remove the child from the scene +of his misbehavior. Substitute approved objects for forbidden ones +and keep telling him how he is to act. He won't submit to his natural +desires all the time, and it's Mother's love that is responsible +for his good behavior. + +This is the period during the melancholy days of autumn when universities +and colleges schedule what they call "Homecoming Day". +They seek thereby to lure the old grad back to the old scenes. + +The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with +the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian +when thrown to one of the emperor's lions. It is true, of +course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and +then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined +by a visiting team. Even with all possible precaution, homecomings +are usually rather cruel and sad, and only the perpetually ebullient +and the continually optimistic are made happy by them. More +often than not, as the Old Grad wanders along the old paths, his +memory of happy days when he strolled one of the paths with a coed beside +him becomes an ache and a pain. He can smell again the perfume she +wore and recall the lilting sound of laughter, and can smell again the +aroma of autumn- fallen leaves, the wine of cool air, and the nostalgia +of woodsmoke which blows through all the winds of fall. + +#UNDERGRADUATES# + +It is at precisely such moments that he encounters a couple +of undergraduates, faces alight, holding hands and talking happily +as they come along, oblivious of him, or throwing him the most fleeting +and casual of glances, such as they would give a tethered goat. Usually, +they titter loudly after they have passed by. His dream +goes. He feels, suddenly, the weight of the fat that is on him. His +bridgework or his plates feel loose and monstrous. His bifocals blur. +His legs suddenly feel heavy and unaccountably weary, as if he had +walked for miles, instead of strolling a few hundred yards along the +old campus paths. Bitterness comes over him and the taste of time is +like unripe persimmons in his mouth. It is not much better if +he meets with old classmates. Too often, unless he hails them, they +pass him by. He recalls with a wry smile the wit who said, on returning +from a homecoming reunion, that he would never go again because all +his class had changed so much they didn't even recognize him. + +If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, +the moment soon is done. After all, when one has asked whatever became +of old Joe and Charlie **h when one has inquired who it was Sue +Brown married and where it is they now live **h when questions are asked +and answered about families and children, and old professors **h when +the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted **h that does +it. + +#MIDDLE-AGED SPREAD# + +By then one begins to notice the middle-age +spread; the gray hairs, the eyeglasses, bodies that are too thin +or too heavy; the fading signs of old beauty; the athlete of by-gone +years who wears a size 46 suit and puffs +when he has finished a sentence +of any length **h then, it is time to break it up and move on. + +It is, if anything, worse on the old player **h He sits +in the stands and he doesn't like that. Enough of his life was spent +there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator +in the crowd. He always feels lonely. A team feels something. +On a team a man feels he is a part of it and akin to the men next +to him. In the stands he is lonely and lost, no matter how many are about +him. He sits there remembering the tense moment before the +ball was snapped; the churning of straining feet, the rasp of the +canvas pants; the smell and feel of hot, wet woolen sleeves across his +face. He remembers the desperate, panting breath; the long runs +on the kick-offs; the hard, jolting tackles; the breakthrough; the +desperate agony of goal-line stands. And so, he squirms with each +play, remembering his youth. But it is no use. It is gone. + +No matter how often a man goes back to the scenes of his youth and +strength, they can never be recaptured again. + +Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National +Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that +it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities. Of 40 cities +with populations of 300,000 and more, Mr& Kennedy carried 26 and Mr& +Nixon 14. There are eight states in which the largest urban vote +can be the balance of power in any close election. These are New +York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Illinois +and Minnesota. In 1952 Mr& Eisenhower won all but Missouri. +Yet, in 1960 all eight gave majorities to Mr& Kennedy. + +Republican research broke down the vote in Philadelphia. Mr& Nixon, +despite a very earnest effort to capture the minority groups, failed +to do so. His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey +in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, +in several cities, is substantial. Yet, the ~GOP breakdown discovered +that in Philadelphia Mr& Nixon received but 21 per cent of +the so-called "Polish" vote; 30 per cent of the "Irish" vote, +and 18 per cent of the "Negro" vote. #'TASK FORCE'# + +A ~GOP "task force' committee will seek to find out how its +party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities. + +The task force might make a start in Washington with Republican +congressional leaders. These gentlemen already have done the party +harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas +and by their criticism of Mr& Kennedy for talking about a recession +and unemployment. This error was compounded by declaring the recession +to be "a statistical one", and not a reality. The almost six +million persons without jobs and the two million working part-time do +not consider themselves and their plight as statistical. They did not +view the tour of the distressed cities and towns by Secretary of Labor +Goldberg as politics, which the ~GOP declared it to be. The +people visited were glad to have a government with heart enough to take +an interest in their misery. Senator Mundt's gross distortion +of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation +of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr& Eisenhower +declared to be entirely false, is another case in point. If the Republicans +and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the +old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still +another barrier to ~GOP hopes in the cities. + +#ERRORS REPEATED# + +The present Republican leadership as practiced by Mundt, Goldwater, +Bridges, Dirksen, et al, is repeating the errors of the party +leadership of the 1930s. In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr& +Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the +depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican +party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human +beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic +crash. The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, +but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear +devoid of any consideration for people in trouble. Farmers called their +mule-drawn pickup trucks "Hoover carts". Smokers reduced to +"the makings", spoke of the sack tobacco as "Hoover dust". + +One may be sure the present Republican congressional leadership +hasn't meant to repeat this error. But it is in the process of so +doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John +F& Kennedy. That this is not good politics is underscored by the +latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like +the way in which the new President is conducting the nation's business. + +The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their +desire to get back at Mr& Kennedy, already have created the image +of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed +and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people +who need medical care. If they also defeat the school bill, the +~GOP task force won't have much research to do. It will early +know why the party won't win back city votes. + +The 1962 General Assembly has important business to consider. +The tragedy is that it will not be able to transact that business in +any responsible manner. After the Griffin-Byrd political troup +has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative +Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature +in history. Every legislator from Brasstown Bald to +Folkston is going to have his every vote subjected to the closest scrutiny +as a test of his political allegiances, not his convictions. + +Hoped-for legislative action on adjustment of the county unit system +stands less chance than ever. And just how far can the Legislature +go toward setting up a self-insurance system for the state in the +midst of a governor's race"? How unpartisan will be the +recommendations +of Lt& Gov& Garland Byrd's Senate Committee +on Government Operations? The situation already was bad because +the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, +causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual. But +when former Gov& Marvin Griffin and Lt& Gov& Byrd accepted +the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join +the tour next November, the situation was aggravated. Neither +had a choice other than to accept the invitation. To have refused +would have been political suicide. And it may be that one or both men +actually welcomed the opportunity, when the bravado comments are cast +aside. The Georgia State Chamber of Commerce tried to guard +against the danger of eliminating potential candidates. It wanted +the State Democratic Executive Committee to pick the "serious +candidates". But State Party Chairman James Gray of Albany +said no, and he didn't mince any words. "They are just asking +too much", he said. We can't think of anyone else who would want +to separate serious candidates from other candidates, either. + +There are other dangers: Politics is an accelerating game. +"If an opponent accuses you of lying, don't deny it. Say he is +a horse thief", runs an old adage. These men are spenders. +If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where +the promises would end. Griffin's Rural Roads Authority and Byrd's +60,000 miles of county contracts would look like pauper's oaths. + +The trouble is that at first glance the idea looks like such +a good one. Why not have them travel the state in November debating? +It would present a forum for them in almost every community. + +But further thought brings the shuddery visions of a governor's +race being run in the next Legislature, the spectre of big spending +programs, the ooze of mudslinging before the campaign should even begin. +There isa way out of this. The Chamber has not arranged a pre-legislative +forum. It has arranged a campaign for governor. If +it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed +next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, +it can provide a service to the state. But the Legislature should +be granted the opportunity to compelte its work before choosing +up sides for the race. + +Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was +not a +"great soldier". Ike's somewhat like George Washington. +Both won a pretty fair-sized war with a modest assist from British strategy. + +Congressmen returning from recess say the people admire +President Kennedy so much, they're even willing to heed his call +to sacrifice- and give up his program. Slogan of the John +Birch Society: "Paddle your own canoe. The guy who makes the +motor boats may be a Communist". A Republican survey says +Kennedy +won the '60 election on the religious issue. Too many people were +afraid if the ~GOP won, they'd have to spend all their time praying. + +The Providence Journal editorial (Jan& 25) entitled "East +Greenwich Faces a Housing Development Problem" points to a +dilemma that faces communities such as ours. Your suggested solution, +it seems to me, is grossly oversimplified and is inconsistent with your +generally realistic attitude toward, and endorsement of, sound planning. + +First of all there is ample area in East Greenwich already +zoned in the classification similar to that which petitioner requested. +This land is in various stages of development in several locations +throughout the town. The demand for these lots can be met for some +time to come. This would seem to indicate that we are trying neither +"to halt an influx of migrants" nor are we "setting up such standards +for development that only the well-to-do could afford to buy +land and build in the new sites". What we are attempting to +do is achieve and maintain a balance between medium density and low density +residential areas and industrial and commercial development. It +is in fact entirely consistent with your suggestion of modest industrial +development to help pay governmental costs. Bostitch, Inc& is +approximately half way through a 10-year exemption of their real estate +tax. The wisdom of granting such tax exemptions is another matter, +but this particular instance is, in my opinion, completely satisfactory. +The 1960 tax book for East Greenwich indicates a valuation for this +property in excess of two million dollars. With our current $3 per +hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you +suggest a community should "try to develop a modest industrial plant" +as the best way to meet these problems. In order to attract +additional industry that is compatible with this community it is +all the more important to present to the industrial prospect an orderly +balance in the tax structure. As this tax base grows so then can your +medium and low density residential areas grow. Mr& Richard Preston, +executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and +Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference +on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned +against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce +the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when +he said: "If this is the fundamental reason for a community's +interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult +to obtain". He went on to say: "In the first place, industry +per se is not dedicated to the role of savior of foundering municipalities. +It is not in business for the purpose of absorbing increased +municipal costs no matter how high a purpose that may be". + +While Councilman Olson cited the anticipated increase in school +costs in answer to a direct question from a taxpayer, the impact upon +a school system does not have to be measured only in increased taxes +to find alarm in uncontrolled growth. We in East Greenwich have the +example of two neighboring communities, one currently utilizing double +sessions in their schools, and the other facing this prospect next year. +It has already been reported in your newspapers that the East Greenwich +School Committee is considering additions to at least one +elementary school and to the high school to insure future accommodations +for a school population that we know will increase. If they are to +be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment +of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage? +Where then is the sound planning and cooperation between agencies +within the community that you have called for in other editorials? +I submit that it cannot be dismissed simply by saying we are not +facing the facts of life. The "fruitful course" of metropolitanization +that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of +East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it +was called. For example: _1._ The East Greenwich Police Department +utilizes the radio transmission facilities of the Warwick Police +Department, thereby eliminating duplication of facilities and +ensuring police coordination in the Cowessett-East Greenwich-Potowomut +area of the two communities. _2._ The East Greenwich +Fire District services parts of Warwick as well as East Greenwich. + +_3._ The taxpayers of East Greenwich appropriate sums of money, +as do other Kent County communities, for the support of the Kent +County Memorial Hospital, a regional facility. _4._ The East +Greenwich Free Library receives financial support from the town of +East Greenwich and the City of Warwick to supplement its endowment. + +_5._ Feelers were put out last year to the City of Warwick, +as reported in your newspapers, suggesting investigation of a common rubbish +disposal area to service the Potowomut and Cowessett areas of +Warwick along with East Greenwich. _6._ East Greenwich was one +of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with +the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we +could not provide for ourselves. _7._ The education program for retarded +children conducted by the East Greenwich school system has pupils +from at least one neighboring community. I feel compelled +to write this because I am greatly concerned with the problem of community +growth rate and the relation between types of growth in a town +such as East Greenwich. I believe it is an area in which professional +planners have failed to set adequate guide posts; and yet they cannot +ignore this problem because it concerns the implementation of nearly +all the planning programs they have devised. These programs are +volumes of waste paper and lost hours if the citizens of a community must +stand aside while land developers tell them when, where, and in what +manner the community shall grow. We have far less to fear in the migrant +family than we have in the migrant developer under these conditions. + +Until professional planners meet this situation squarely +and update the concepts of zoning in a manner acceptable to the courts, +I hope we in East Greenwich can continue to shape our own destiny. +@ + +I would like very much, on behalf of my husband and myself, to +send our eternal thanks to all the wonderful people responsible for the +Gabrielle Fund. It is indeed true, as stated in the famous +novel of our day, "For Whom the Bell Tolls", that "no man +is an island, entirely of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, +a part of the main". Thanks to the generosity of Mr& +Irving J& Fain, president of the Temple Beth El; Rev& +DeWitt Clemens, pastor of the Mathewson Street Methodist Church; +Mr& Felix Miranda, of the Imperial Knife Co&; and to Mrs& +Rozella Switzer, regional director of The National Conference +of Christians and Jews, who asked them to serve as a committee for +the fund. It is through them that we have become aware of the divine +humanity in man, and therefore, that most people are noble, helpful +and good. Bless you my friends, for it is through love and service +that brotherhood becomes a reality. @ + +I am a sophomore at Mount Pleasant High School. My future +plans are to become a language teacher. Of course, having this desire, +I am very interested in education. A few weeks ago, I read +in the Bulletin that there were to be given Chinese classes in Cranston. +The article also said that a person had to be 18 years old or +over, and must not be going to high school to attend these classes. + +The following week, I read in the Sunday paper that the students +of Russia begin European and Asian languages in the seventh grade. + +I wish you could see the situation as I see it. If Russian +pupils have to take these languages, how come American students have +a choice whether or not to take a language, but have to face so many +exceptions? I do not think that America is like Russia, +not in the least! I am proud of my country, the small city I live +in, my wonderful parents, my friends and my school; but I am also +a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language +but is not old enough. Then people wonder why Russian pupils +are more advanced than American students. Well, there lies your answer. +@ + +At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible +for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency. However, +the East Providence Rescue Squad made its way through to my +home in time of desperation. Words cannot tell of the undivided +attention and comfort their service gave to me. The concern they +felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always +be grateful. The rescue squad is to be praised immensely +for the fine work they do in all kinds of weather. Had they not gotten +me to the hospital when they did, perhaps I would not be here to +commend them at this time. Many thanks for a job well +done. @ + +The Providence Sunday Journal article (Jan& 29) asking whether +American taxpayers are being victimized by a gigantic giveaway +to pay for the care of war veterans who have non-service-connected disabilities +sounds as though The Providence Journal is desperate for +news. Usually a veteran has to hang himself to get space on the front +page. On the question of admission to Veterans Administration +hospitals of service-connected and non-service-connected disabled +veterans, it must be recognized that there are many men who are greatly +affected by war service. It can manifest itself before discharge from +service, or it can come out years later. There is one other point +we should never lose sight of: Many veterans who enter ~VA hospitals +as non-service cases later qualify as service-connected. No psychiatrist +could tell me that the experience in a war can not have its +effect in the ensuing years. The arguments advanced by those individuals +and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically +curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected +case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with +the wishes of the general public. I believe in priority for +service-connected disabled veterans in admission to ~VA hospitals. +But I don't believe we should close the door on nonservice-connected +patients. This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may +mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, +for many veterans. Some critics say that the length of stay +in a hospital is too long. There's a reason for this length of stay. +First of all, the admitting physician in the ~VA hospital gets +the patient as a new patient. He has no experience with this veteran's +previous medical record. If the doctor is conscientious, he wants +to study the patient. As a result, it takes a little longer than +it would on the outside where the family physician knows about the patient. + +Secondly, the ~VA physician knows that when the patient +leaves the hospital, he is no longer going to have a chance to visit +his patient. So he keeps the veteran in until he can observe the effects +of treatment or surgery. The American public must be presented +with the facts concerning ~VA hospitalization. The public +should understand that whether they support a state hospital or a ~VA +hospital, the tax dollar has to be paid one way or the other. The +responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a ~VA +hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital. An +adequate system of ~VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the +veterans than any 50 state hospitals. @ + +It seems that open season upon veterans' hospitalization is +once more upon us. The American Medical Association is once again +grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the +Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer. +Do they, the A&M&A&, offer any solution other than outright +abolition of a medical system unsurpassed anywhere in the world? + +We veterans acknowledge the fact that as time passes the demand +for medical care at ~VA hospitals will grow proportionately as age +fosters illness. Nevertheless, we wonder at the stand of the A&M&A& +on the health problem confronting the aged. They opposed +the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial +support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction; +yet they supported the Eisenhower administration which will +cost a small state like ours approximately five million dollars (matched +incidentally by a federal grant) to initiate. +#"A LOUSY JOB"# + + +_CHICAGO, AUG& 9_- No doubt there have +been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House +has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even +panic. This we can sympathetically understand. But no President ever +before referred to his as a "lousy job" [as Walter Trohan recently +quoted President Kennedy as doing in conversation with Sen& +Barry Goldwater]. During his aggressive campaign to win +his present position, Mr& Kennedy was vitriolic about this country's +"prestige" abroad. What does he think a remark like this "lousy" +one does to our prestige and morale? If the President +of the United States really feels he won himself a "lousy job", +then heaven help us all. @ + +#QUESTIONS SHELTERS# + + +_EVANSVILLE, +IND&, AUG& 5_- Defense Secretary Robert S& McNamara +has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters +costing about 200 million dollars. Why should Congress even consider +allowing such a sum for that which can give no protection? + +Top scientists have warned that an area hit by an atomic missile of +massive power would be engulfed in a suffocating fire storm which would +persist for a long time. The scientists have also warned that no life +above ground or underground, sheltered or unsheltered could be expected +to survive in an area at least 50 miles in diameter. This +sum spent for foreign economic aid, the peace corps, food for peace, +or any other program to solve the problems of the underdeveloped countries +would be an investment that would pay off in world peace, increased +world trade, and prosperity for every country on the globe. +Let us prepare for peace, instead of for a war which would mean the +end of civilization. @ + +#SHORT SHORTS ON THE CAMPUS# + + +_CHICAGO, +AUG& 4_- It seems college isn't what it should be. I refer to +the attire worn by the students. Upon a visit to a local junior college +last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts +and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts. Is this what +our children are to come face to face with when they are ready for college +in a few years? +Education should be uppermost in their minds, but +with this attire how can anyone think it is so? It looks more like +they are going to play at the beach instead of taking lessons on bettering +themselves. High school students have more sense of the +way to dress than college students. Many high school students go past +my house every day, and they look like perfect ladies and gentlemen. +No matter how hot the day, they are dressed properly and not in shorts. +@ + +#MASARYK AWARD# + + +_CHICAGO, AUG& 9_- The granting of +the Jan Masaryk award August 13 to Senator Paul Douglas is a bitter +example of misleading minorities. Douglas has consistently +voted to aid the people who killed Masaryk, and against principles +Masaryk died to uphold. Douglas has voted for aid to Communists and +for the destruction of individual freedom [public housing, foreign aid, +etc&]. @ + +#SUBSIDIES FROM ~CTA# + + +_OAK PARK, AUG& +8_- In today's "Voice", the ~CTA is urged to reduce fares +for senior citizens. Rising costs have increased the difficulties +of the elderly, and I would be the last to say they should not receive +consideration. But why is it the special responsibility of the ~CTA +to help these people? Why should ~CTA regular riders +subsidize reduced transportation for old people any more than the +people who drive their own cars or walk to work should? The welfare +of citizens, old and young, is the responsibility of the community, +not only of that part of it that rides the ~CTA. ~CTA regulars +already subsidize transportation for school children, policemen, +and firemen. @ + +#MARKETING MEAT# + + +_CHICAGO, AUG& 9_- In +reply to a letter in today's "voice" urging the sale of meat after +6 p& m&, I wish to state the other side of the story. I +am the wife of the owner of a small, independent meat market. My husband's +hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a& +m& to 7 p& m& the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or +9 on week-ends. Now he is apparently expected to give up his evenings- +and Sundays, too, for this is coming. There is a trend to +packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying +stores, where meat cutters will not be required. If a customer +wishes a special cut, it will not be available. We are slowly being +regimented to having everything packaged, whether we want it or not. + +Most women, in this age of freezers, shop for the entire week +on week-ends, when prices are lower. Also, many working wives have children +or husbands who take over the shopping chores for them. +Independent market owners work six days a week; and my husband hasn't +had a vacation in 14 years. No, we are not greedy. But if we closed +the store for a vacation, we would lose our customers to the chain +stores in the next block. The meat cutters' union, which has +a history of being one of the fairest and least corrupt in our area, +represents the little corner markets as well as the large supermarkets. +What it is trying to do is to protect the little man, too, as well +as trying to maintain a flow of fresh meat to all stores, with choice +of cut being made by the consumer, not the store. @ + +#THE LEGION +CONVENTION AND SIDNEY HOLZMAN# + + +_CHICAGO, AUG& 9_- I, too, +congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been +a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention. + +I regret that Bertha Madeira [today's "Voice"] obtained +incorrect information. Had I been granted the floor on a point of +personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified. + +The resolution under discussion at the convention was to require +the boards of election to instruct judges to properly display the +American flag. Judges under the jurisdiction of the Chicago board of +election commissioners are instructed to do this. The resolution +further asked that polling place proprietors affix an attachment +to their premises for the display of the flag. It was my desire +to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling +places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, +we could not enforce this. My discussion with reference to the resolution +was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of +election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors +who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo +criticize them. At no time did I attempt to seek approval or commendation +for the members of the Chicago board of election commissioners +for the discharge of their duties. @ + +#TEACHING THE HANDICAPPED# + + +_CHICAGO, AUG& 7_- The Illinois Commission for Handicapped +Children wishes to commend the recent announcement by the Catholic +charities of the archdiocese of Chicago and DePaul university of +the establishment of the Institute for Special Education at the university +for the training of teachers for physically handicapped and mentally +retarded children. In these days of serious shortage +of properly trained teachers qualified to teach physically handicapped +and mentally handicapped children, the establishment of such an institute +will be a major contribution to the field. The Illinois +Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the +responsibility of coo^rdinating the services of tax supported and voluntary +organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the +needs +of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate +services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will +help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education +for all of its children. @ + +#FROM CANDLELIGHT CLUB# + + +_MINNEAPOLIS, +AUG& 7_- I just want to let you know how much I enjoyed +your June 25 article on Liberace, and to thank you for it. Please +do put more pictures and articles in about Liberace, as he is truly +one of our greatest entertainers and a really wonderful person. @ + +#MORE SCHOOL, LESS PAY# + + +_CHICAGO, AUG& 7_- Is this, +perhaps, +one of the things that is wrong with our country? Engineering +graduates of Illinois Institute of Technology are reported receiving +the highest average starting salaries in the school's history- +$550 a month. My son, who has completed two years in engineering +school, has a summer job on a construction project as an unskilled +laborer. At a rate of $3.22 an hour he is now earning approximately +$580 a month. Ironic, is it not, that after completing years +of costly scientific training he will receive a cut in pay from what +he is receiving as an ordinary unskilled laborer? @ + +#THE DUPONT +CASE# + +[.] _WASHINGTON, AUG& 4_- Your July 26 editorial regarding +the position of Attorney General Robert F& Kennedy on prospective +tax relief for du Pont stockholders is based on an erroneous +statement of fact. As a result, your criticism of Attorney General +Robert F& Kennedy and the department of justice was inaccurate, +unwarranted and unfair. The editorial concerned legislative proposals +to ease the tax burden on du Pont stockholders, in connection +with the United States Supreme court ruling that du Pont must divest +itself of its extensive General Motors stock holdings. These proposals +would reduce the amount of tax that du Pont stockholders might +have to pay- from an estimated 1.1 billion dollars under present +law to as little as 192 million dollars. Congressman Wilbur D& +Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, asked +the department of justice for its views on these legislative proposals +as they related to anti-trust law enforcement. The attorney general +responded by letter dated July 19. Copies of this letter were made +avaliable to the press and public. In this letter, Mr& Kennedy +made it clear that he limited his comment only to one consideration- +what effect the legislative proposals might have on future anti-trust +judgments. There are a number of other considerations besides +this one but it is for the Congress, not the department of justice, +to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation. + +Yet your editorial said: "Now the attorney general +writes that no considerations 'justify any loss of revenue of this +proportion'". What Mr& Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: "It +is the department's view that no considerations +justify any loss of revenue of this proportion". The +editorial, by omitting the words , totally +distorted Mr& Kennedy's views. The headline is offensive, particularly +in view of the total inaccuracy of the editorial. @ + +#CONGRESSWOMAN +CHURCH# + + +_WILMETTE, AUG& 7_- I concur most heartily +with today's letter on the futility of writing to Sen& Dirksen +and Sen& Douglas. But when you write to Congresswoman +Church, bless her heart, your letter is answered fully and completely. +Should she disagree, she explains why in detail. When she agrees, +you can rest assured her position will remain unchanged. I think +we have the hardest working, best representative in Congress. + +#HARMFUL +DRINKS# + + +_DOWNERS GROVE, AUG& 8_- A recent news story +reported that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin delayed 103 airplane +passengers 10 minutes in London while they finished their drinks. + +They do our country great harm by such actions. Those in the public +eye should be good examples of American citizens while abroad. + +The plane should have started at the scheduled time and left Sinatra +and Martin to guzzle. @ + +#TOWARD SOCIALISM# + + +_PROVIDENCE, +AUG& 5_- Overt socialism means government ownership and management +of a nation's main industries. In covert socialism- toward +which America is moving- private enterprise retains the ownership +title to industries but government thru direct intervention and excessive +regulations actually controls them. In order to attract +new industries, 15 states or more are issuing tax free bonds to build +government owned plants which are leased to private enterprise. This +is a step toward overt socialism. Issuing bonds for plant construction +has brought new industries to certain regions. +#"WORKERS OF THE PARTY"# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ Sir- We are +writing in reference to a recent "suggestion" made to the staff +of the Public Health Nursing Service of Jersey City (registered +professional nurses with college background and varying experiences). +The day before Election Day, to which we are entitled as a legal holiday, +we were informed to report to our respective polls to work as "workers +of the party". Being ethical and professional people +interested in community health and well-being, we felt this wasn't +a function of our position. Such tactics reek of totalitarianism! +As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes. + +To our knowledge no nurse in our agency has been employed +because of political affiliation. We, therefore, considered the "suggestion" +an insult to our intelligence, ethics, Bill of Rights, +etc&. Our only obligation for this day is to vote, free of persuasion, +for the person we feel is capable in directing the public. + +This is our duty- not as nurses or city employes- but as citizens +of the United States. @ #"PLUS-ONE" SHELTERS# + + +_TO THE +EDITOR:_ Sir- I read of a man who felt he should not build +a fallout shelter in his home because it would be selfish for him to +sit secure while his neighbors had no shelters. Does this man live in +a neighborhood where all are free loaders unwilling to help themselves, +but ready to demand that "the community" help and protect them? + +Community shelters are, of course, necessary for those +having +no space for shelter. If in a town of 2,000 private homes, half of +them have shelters, the need for the community shelters will be reduced +to that extent. In designing his home fallout shelter there +is nothing to prevent a man from planning to shelter that home's occupants, +"plus-one"- so he will be able to take in a stranger. I +hope the man who plans to sit on his hands until the emergency comes +will have a change of heart, will get busy and be the first member of +our "plus-one" shelter club. @ + +#ESCAPE# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ +Sir- People continue to inquire the reason for the race for outer +space. It's simple enough from my point of view. I am for it. + +It is the only method left for a man to escape from a woman's +world. @ + +#SUPPORTS KATANGA# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ Sir- When +the colonies decided upon freedom from England, we insisted, through +the Declaration of Independence, that the nations of the world recognize +us as a separate political entity. It is high time the United +States began to realize that the God-given rights of men set forth +in that document are applicable today to Katanga. In the United +Nations Charter, the right of self-determination is also an essential +principle. This, again, applies to Katanga. The people of Katanga +had fought for, and obtained, their freedom from the Communist +yoke of Antoine Gizenga, and his cohorts. By political, economic, geographic +and natural standards, they were justified in doing so. + +The United States and the U&N& denounce their own principles +when they defend the Communist oppressors and refuse to acknowledge +the right of self-determination of the Katangans. @ + +#COUNTY +COLLEGE COSTS# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ Sir- Permit me to commend +your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county +colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers +have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit +them to. The bill which passed the Assembly last May and +is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny. The procedure +for determining the amounts of money to be spent by county colleges +and raised by taxation will certainly startle many taxpayers. + +Under the proposal the members of the board of trustees of a county +college will be appointed; none will be elected. The trustees +will prepare an annual budget for the college and submit it to the board +of school estimate. This board will consist of two of the trustees +of the college, and the director and two members of the board of freeholders. +It will determine the amount of money to be spent by the college +and will certify this amount to the board of freeholders, which "shall +appropriate in the same manner as other appropriations are made +by it the amount so certified and the amount shall be assessed, levied +and collected in the same manner as moneys appropriated for other purposes". + +The approval of only three members of the board of +school estimate is required to certify the amount of money to be allotted +to the college. Since two of these could be trustees of the college, +actually it would be necessary to have the consent of only one elected +official to impose a levy of millions of dollars of tax revenue. +This is taxation without representation. @ + +#TAXING IMPROVEMENTS# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ Sir- Your editorial, +"Housing Speedup", is certainly not the answer to our slum problems. +The very rules and regulations in every city are the primary +case of slum conditions. Change our taxing law so that no tax +shall be charged to any owner for additions or improvements to his properties. +Then see what a boom in all trades, as well as slum clearance +at no cost to taxpayers, will happen. Our entire economy will have +a terrific uplift. @ #"NATURAL CAUSES"# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ +Sir- An old man is kicked to death by muggers. The medical examiner +states that death was due to "natural causes". I once +heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, +it is listed as "death due to natural causes". @ + +#PRAISES +EXHIBIT# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ Sir- Every resident of this city +should visit the Newark Museum and see the exhibit "Our Changing +Skyline in Newark". It will be at the museum until March 30. + +It is a revelation of what has been done, what is being done +and what will be done in Newark as shown by architects' plans, models +and pictures. It shows what a beautiful city Newark will become and +certainly make every Newarker proud of this city. It should +also make him desire to participate actively in civic, school and religious +life of the community so that that phase of Newark will live +up to the challenge presented by this exhibit. @ + +#PARKWAY COURTESY# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ Sir- I hasten to join in praise of the +men in the toll booths on the Garden State Parkway. Recently I traveled +the parkway from East Orange to Cape May and I found the most +courteous group of men you will find anywhere. One even gave my little +dog a biscuit. It was very refreshing. @ +#"DEEP PEEP SHOW"# + +The viewers of the "deep Peep Show" +at 15th and ~M streets nw& have an added attraction- the view +of a fossilized cypress swamp. Twenty feet below the street level +in the excavation of the new motel to be constructed on this site, a black +coal-like deposit has been encountered. This is a black swamp +clay in which about one hundred million years ago cypress-like trees +were growing. The fossilized remains of many of these trees are found +embedded in the clay. Some of the stumps are as much as three feet +long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying +sediments. Although the wood has been changed to coal, much +of it still retains its original cell structure. In the clay are +entombed millions of pollen grains and spores which came from plants +growing in the region at the time. These microfossils indicate the +swamp was "formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs +were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing. + +The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with +the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported +in , August 2, 1955, which was probably +formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger. +@ + +#WORKING FOR PEACE# + +Recently the secretary of the Friends +Committee on National Legislation was interviewed on the air. +While I respect his sincere concern for peace, he made four points +that I would like to question. _1._ He said, "Let's work for +peace instead of protection from aggression". I would ask, "Why +not do both"? Military power does not cause war; war is the result +of mistrust and lack of understanding between people. Are we not +late, especially those of us who call ourselves Friends, in doing enough +about this lack of understanding? _2._ As to protection, +the speaker disapproved of shelters, pointing out that fallout shelters +would not save everyone. Is this a reason for saving no one? Would +the man with an empty life boat row away from a shipwreck because his +boat could not pick up everyone? _3._ The speaker suggested +that the desolation of a post-attack world would be too awful to face. +If the world comes to this, wouldn't it be the very time when courage +and American know-how would be needed to help survivors rebuild? +Many of our young people think it would. _4._ Lastly, the speaker +decried our organized program of emergency help calling it "Civilian +Defense". In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense +(different from Civilian-groups of World War /2,), a responsibility +of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property +in disaster, natural or manmade. Far from creating fear, +as the speaker suggests, preparedness- knowing what to do in an emergency- +gives people confidence. Civil Defense has far to go and +many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer +tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families +and help our neighbors in any disaster- storm, flood, accident +or even war? @ + +#PETS IN APARTMENTS# + +It seems rather peculiar +that residents of apartments are denied the right of providing themselves +with the protection and companionship of dogs. I feel that few +burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment +if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide. In +addition, would not the young female public of Washington be afforded +a greater degree of protection at night when they are on the streets +if they were accompanied by a dog on a leash? I grant that +the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you +were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady +to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with +a dog? I would like to suggest that the landlords and Commissioners +get together and consider liberalizing the practice of prohibiting +dogs in apartments. @ + +#SIDEWALK CAFES# + +Use the terraces of the +Capitol for a sidewalk cafe? Could Senator Humphrey be serious +in his proposal? Is nothing in this country more sacred than the tourists' +comfort? Perhaps the idea of sidewalk cafes could +be extended. The Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials are rather bleak. +Why not put a cafe in each so the tourists would not have to travel +too far to eat? Unfortunately the cafes might not make enough money +to support themselves during the off season. As an added suggestion +to balance the budget, the Government could sell advertising space +on the Washington Monument. It is visible throughout the city, and +men from Madison ave& would jump at the chance. @ #@# + +Sen& +Hubert Humphrey is obviously a man with a soul and heart. He, like +most of us, wants to be able to sit, to contemplate and be moved by +the great outdoors. Let us have more benches and fewer forbidden areas +around fountains and gardens. Let us, like the French, have outdoor +cafes where we may relax, converse at leisure and enjoy the passing +crowd. @ + +#DISSENTING VIEWS OF SENATORS# + +Two strong dissents from +the majority report of the Joint Economic Committee (May 2) by +Senators Proxmire and Butler allege that the New Deal fiscal policy +of the Thirties did not work. + +#FOR A NEUTRAL GERMANY# + +@ _SOVIETS SAID TO FEAR RESURGENCE OF +GERMAN MILITARISM_ @ _TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES:_ +For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, +powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional +warfare of the past a nullity. The United States and Soviet +Russia have enough nuclear weapons to destroy all nations. Recent +statements +by well-known scientists regarding the destructive power +of the newest nuclear bombs and the deadly fall-outs should be sufficient +to still the voices of those who advocate nuclear warfare instead +of negotiations. President Kennedy was right when he said, "We +shall never negotiate out of fear and we never shall fear to negotiate". +I have just returned from a seven-week trip to Europe and +the Far East. It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe +are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war. The +fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have +no defense against nuclear bombs. We have no right to criticize them, +as they realize they would be sitting ducks in a nuclear war. +We should stand firmly and courageously for our right to free access +into Berlin. It would be criminal folly if the Communists tried to +prevent us. But there is nothing we can do to stop Soviet Russia from +granting de facto recognition to East Germany. Soviet Russia has +been invaded twice by German troops in a generation. In the last war +Russia lost more than ten million killed and its lands and factories +were devastated. _PROBABLE AGREEMENT_ The truth is that Communist +Russia fears the resurgence of German militarism. Berlin is merely +being used by Moscow as a stalking horse. Actually, the +Communists, +out of fear of a united and armed Germany, would probably be willing +to agree to a disarmed Germany that would be united and neutral +and have its independence guaranteed by the U& N&. If +the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed +Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this +nuclear age. It could provide security without cost of armaments and +increase German prosperity and lessen taxation. France and other Western +European nations likewise fear a rearmed Germany. If the German +people favor such a settlement we should not oppose Germany following +the example of Austria. President Kennedy has urged a +peace race on disarmament that might be called "Operation Survival" +which has many facets. Why not make a beginning with a united and +disarmed Germany whose neutrality and immunity from nuclear bombing +would be guaranteed by the Big Four powers and the United States? +A united Germany, freed of militarism, might be the first step toward +disarmament and peace in a terrorized and tortured world. @ + +#MEETING +U& N& OBLIGATIONS# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK +TIMES:_ In your editorial of Sept& 30 "The Smoldering Congo" +you make the following comment: "Far too many states are following +the Russian example in refusing to pay their assessments. It +is up to the Assembly to take action against them. They are violating +their Charter obligation, the prescribed penalty for which is suspension +of membership or expulsion". I would like to quote from +the Charter of the United Nations: "Article 17, Section +1: The General Assembly shall consider and approve the budget +of the Organization. "Section 2: The expenses of the +Organization shall be borne by the Members as apportioned by the General +Assembly. "Article 19: A Member of the United Nations +which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions +to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if +the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions +due from it for the preceding two full years". The U& +S& S& R& and her followers are careful in paying their obligations +to the regular budget. But they refuse, as do the Arab states, +to support the United Nations' expenses of maintaining the United +Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East as a buffer between +Egypt and Israel, and the U& N& troops in the Congo, which +expenses are not covered by the regular budget of the United Nations, +but by a special budget. According to the official interpretation +of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the +right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial +obligations to the "special" United Nations' budgets, and of +course cannot be expelled from the Organization (which you suggested +in your editorial), due to the fact that there is no provision in the +Charter for expulsion. @ + +#TO AID INTERNATIONAL LAW# + +@ _CONNALLY +AMENDMENT'S REPEAL HELD STEP TOWARD WORLD ORDER_ @ _TO THE +EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES:_ In your Sept& 27 editorial appraisal +of the work of the First Session of the Eighty-seventh Congress +you referred to the lack of "consciousness of destiny in a time +of acute national and world peril". Yet your list of things left +undone did not include repeal of the Connally amendment to this country's +domestic jurisdiction reservation to its Adherence to the Statute +of the International Court of Justice. The Connally +amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall +determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction +of the United States in a case before the World Court to which +the United States is a party. If the case is thus determined by us +to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction. Since the Connally +amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other +party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from +using the court effectively. Yet although the Kennedy Administration, +and the Eisenhower Administration before it, have both declared themselves +solidly for repeal of the Connally amendment, as contrary to +our best interests, no action has yet been taken. Our "destiny" +in these perilous times should be to lead strongly in the pursuit +of peace, with justice, under law. To achieve this destiny, acts +as well as words are needed- not only acts that lead to physical strength +but also acts that lead to strength based on right doing and respect. + +What better affirmative step could be taken to this end +than repeal of the Connally amendment- an act which could expose +the +United States to no practical risk yet would put an end to our self-judging +attitude toward the court, enable us to utilize it, and advance +in a tangible way the cause of international law and order? + +We believe that the list of vital things left undone to date by the +Eighty-seventh Congress should have included repeal by the Senate +of the Connally amendment. @ + +#FOR BETTER SUBWAY SERVICES# + + +_TO +THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES:_ Many home-bound subway riders +utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with +the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their +express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained. To the +tens of thousands who must transfer to ride to Seventy-fourth Street +and change for the ~IND, this takes a daily toll of time and temper. + +The Transit Authority has recently placed in operation +"hold" lights at ~BMT Thirty-ninth and Fifty-ninth Street +stations in Brooklyn. This "holds" the local until the express +passengers change trains. Without question, this time and temper saver +should be immediately installed at the Woodside station. @ + +#PHONE +SERVICE CRITICIZED# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES:_ +As a business man I have to use the telephone constantly, from three +to four hours a day. In the last few years the telephone company +has managed to automate many areas of their service. It has not +been any great mental effort on my part to keep up with this mechanization +which has brought about new ways of dialing. However, there +are still several types of calls that necessitate the use of telephone +operators. I have been absolutely shocked at the ineptness of the +young ladies who are servicing person-to-person calls, special long-distance +calls, etc&. Either it is lack of training, lack of proper +screening when hiring, lack of management or possibly lack of interest +on the part of the telephone company, which does have a Government-blessed +monopoly. + +#FAIR-PRICED FUNERAL# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ I disagree with the +writer who says funeral services should be government-controlled. +The funeral +for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far +less than I had expected to pay. But the hospitals and doctors should +be. @ + +#HELPING RETARDED CHILDREN# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ Recently +I visited the very remarkable Pilgrim School for retarded children. + +Hazel Park donates its recreation center, five days a +week, to the school. There is no charge and no state aid. Kiwanis, +American Legion and other groups donate small sums and the mothers do +what they can to bring in dollars for its support. There are +70 children there and the mothers donate one day a week to the school. +Reading, writing and simple arithmetic are taught along with such crafts +as working in brass. They make beautiful objects. Enough +trading stamps were collected to buy a 12-passenger station wagon. Southfield +schools furnish an old 45-passenger bus (the heater in which +needs repair since some of the children ride a long distance and need +the heat). The school is located at 9-1/2 Mile road, Woodward +Heights. Visitors are welcome to come see what these dedicated +mothers can do. @ + +#JOBS FOR CAVANAGH# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ I +was surprised at Mayor Miriani's defeat, but perhaps Mayor-elect +Cavanagh can accomplish some things that should have been done years +ago. Maybe he can clean out the white elephants in some of the city +departments such as welfare, ~DPW and sanitation. Negligence in +garbage and rubbish collections and alley cleaning is great. He +should put the police back to patrolling and walking the streets at +night. There should be better bus service and all of our city departments +and their various branches need a general and complete overhauling. + +Our litterbug ordinances are not enforced and I have yet to +read of a conviction in a littering case. Drunken truck drivers +in the city departments should be weeded out. Educate the city employes +to give real service to the public. After all, they are paid by +the public, they should be examples. @ + +#CHURCH FINDS NEWS FEATURES +ARE HELPFUL# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ At a recent meeting of the Women's +Association of the Trumbull Ave& United Presbyterian +Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News +on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English +Bible. Some members of the organization called attention +also to the article on hymns of inspiration, the Daily Prayer and +Three Minutes a Day, as being very helpful. We feel that +The Detroit News is to be complimented upon arranging for articles +on these subjects and we hope that it will continue to provide material +along wholesome lines. @ + +#RUDE YOUNGSTERS# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ +Thank you for the article by George Sokolsky on the public apathy +to impudence. How old do you have to be to remember when Americans, +especially children, were encouraged to be polite? Why has +this form of gentility gone out of American life? How can +we old-fashioned parents, who still feel that adults are due some respect +from children, battle the new type of advertising that appears on +~TV without denying the children the use of television entirely? +Writers of ads must get their inspiration from the attitude of "modern" +parents they have observed. From necessity, they are also inspired +by the "hard-sell" attitude of the sponsor, so, finally, it +is the sponsor who must take the responsibility for the good or bad taste +of his advertising. @ + +#DUNES PARK ADVOCATE# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ +I commend Senator Hart for his brave fight to establish a national +park in the dunes area. + +#GHOST TOWN?# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ I just wish +to +congratulate Inspector Trimmer and his efficient police troops in +cleaning the city of those horrible automobiles. We have now a quiet +city, fewer automobiles, less congestion, and fewer retail customers shopping +in center city. Good for Mr& Trimmer. Maybe he will help +to turn our fair city into a "ghost" town. @ + +#DEFENDS BIG TRUCKS# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ I worked on the Schuylkill +Expressway and if it had not been for the big trucks carrying rock +and concrete there wouldn't be an Expressway. Without these massive +trucks highways would still be just an idea of the future. +Mr& George Hough (Oct& 30) sounds like a business man who waits +until the last minute to leave his home or shop. The trucks today +help pay for this highway. They try to keep within the speed limits. +Although today's trucks are as fast as passenger cars, a truck driver +has to be a sensible person and guard against hogging the road. @ + +#OUT OF SCHOOL AT 14# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ The +letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school +at 14 should have signed his letter "SIMPLETON" instead of +"SIMPLICITUDE". Such kids only wind up among the unemployed +on relief or in jail where they become a much bigger burden. There are +lots of jobs available for trained high school graduates, but not for +the dropouts. What we need is more vocational training in high schools, +not more dropouts. @ + +#TWO WRONGS# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE +INQUIRER:_ I suppose I am missing some elementary point but I honestly +cannot see how two wrongs can make a right! I am referring +to this country conducting atmosphere tests of nuclear bombs just because +Russia is. Will our bombs be cleaner or will their fallout be less +harmful to future generations of children? If an atom bomb in 1945 +could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have +is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it. + +As I see it, if war starts and we survive the initial attack +enough to be able to fight back, the nuclear weapons we now have- +at least the bombs- can inflict all the demage that is necessary. Why +do we need bigger and better bombs? I repeat, two wrongs do not +make a right. @ #'WE TREMBLE NOT'# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ +Everyone should take time to read Martin Luther's Hymn +"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God". Especially the +first half of the third verse: @ @ + +#OUT OF THE RACE# + + +_TO +THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ To our everlasting shame, we led the +world in this nuclear arms race sixteen years ago when we dropped the +first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Having led the world +in this mad race I pray that we may have the wisdom and courage to lead +it out of the race. Are we to be the master of the atom, or +will the atom be our master- and destroy us! @ + +#WHY TRUST JAGAN?# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ Just because Cheddi +Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States +is no reason to think he isn't a Red. We have quite a few home-grown +specimens of our own. If we go all gooey over this newest Castro +(until he proves he isn't) we've got rocks in our heads. How +many times must we get burned before we learn? @ + +#RUSSIA AND U&N&# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ Just to remind the Communists +that the bombs dropped on Japan were to end a war not start +one. The war could have continued many years with many thousands killed +on both sides. Intelligent people will admit that bombs and rockets +of destruction are frightening whether they fall on Japan, London +or Pearl Harbor. That is why the United Nations was formed so that +intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet +and solve problems without resorting to war. Russia has showed +its intentions by exploding bombs in peace time to try to frighten the +world. Why aren't the Soviets expelled from the U&N&? @ + +#BELATED TRIBUTE# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ While +"better late than never" may have certain merits, the posthumous +award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to the late Dag Hammarskjold +strikes me as less than a satisfactory expression of appreciation. Had +it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations +was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in +pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task. According +to one report, however, Mr& Hammarskjold was considered "too +controversial" a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last +spring. Actually, of course, that label "controversial" applied +only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world +organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet +Union. At Khrushchev's door, therefore, can be placed +the primary blame but also at fault are those who permitted themselves +to be intimidated. It is well for us to remember that a wreath on a +coffin never can atone for flowers withheld while they still can be enjoyed. +As has happened so often in the past, the ability to recognize +true greatness has been inadequate and tardy. @ #'PEOPLE TO PEOPLE'# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ Just a brief note of +appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver +Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of "people to people" +good will. If only this could be done more often- with such +heartening results- many of the earth's "big problems" would +shrink to the insignificances they really are. P& S&. Thanks +for your good coverage of Ahmad's visit, too! @ + +#EXPRESSWAY +ANSWER: EAST RIVER DRIVE# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ +Your continuing editorials concerning the Schuylkill Expressway +are valuable; however, several pertinent considerations deserve recognition. + +One of the problems associated with the expressway +stems from the basic idea. We shuffle a large percentage of the cars +across the river twice. They start on the East side of the Schuylkill, +have to cross over to the West to use the expressway and cross over +again to the East at their destination. Bridges, tunnels and ferries +are the most common methods of river crossings. Each one of these +is, by its nature, a focal point or a point of natural congestion. We +should avoid these congestion points or, putting it another way, keep +cars starting and ending on the East side of the river- on the East +side. This can be accomplished by several logical steps: +_(1)_ Widen the East River Drive at least one lane. _(2)_ +So widen it as to minimize the present curves and eliminate drainage +problems. _(3)_ Paint continuous lane stripes and install overhead +directional lights as on our bridges. One additional lane would then +be directional with the traffic burden and effectively increase the +traffic carrying capability of the East River Drive by fifty percent. +_(4)_ This could be accomplished without the tremendous expenditures +necessitated by the Schuylkill Expressway and without destroying +the natural beauty of the East River Drive. @ + +#SHADOW OVER +WASHINGTON SQUARE# + + +_TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ I wish +to advocate two drastic changes in Washington Square: _1._ Take +away George Washington's statue. _2._ Replace it with the +statue of one or another of the world's famous dictators. There's +no sense in being reminded of times that were. Washington Square seems +not part of a free land. It may remind one of Russia, China or +East Berlin; but it can't remind one of the freedom that Washington +and the Continental soldiers fought for. The Fairmount +Park Commission will no doubt approve my two proposals, because it +is responsible for the change of ideological atmosphere in the Square. +The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's +a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism **h The Commission +has posted signs in Washington Square saying: {The +Feeding of Birds is Prohibited in This Square.} Does each tentacle of the octopus of +City Government reach out and lash at whatever it dislikes or considers +an annoyance? If birds don't belong in a Square or Park, what +does? They are the most beautiful part of that little piece of Nature. +The trees are their homes; but the Commission does not share +such sentiments. The whole official City apparently has an +intense hatred toward birds. Starlings and blackbirds are scared off +by cannon, from City Hall. Just a preliminary measure. If any are +left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically {PROHIBITING} +the feeding of them too. The City Government is not +united in an all-out, to-the-death drive to stamp out gangs, delinquents, +thugs, murderers, rapists, subversives. Indeed no. Let every +policeman and park guard keep his eye on John and Jane Doe, lest one +piece of bread be placed undetected and one bird survive. Of +course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and +innocent and dependent creatures die because we're afraid to feed them +and afraid to protest and say "How come? What's your motive? +{WHO} wants this deed done"?- in this small way do +the leaders of a city, or of a nation, iniure the masses to watching, +or even inflicting, torture and death, upon even their fellow men. + +One means to help the birds occurs to me: Let the chimes that +ring over Washington Square twice daily, discontinue any piece of music +but one. Let them offer on behalf of those creatures whose melody +has been the joy of mankind since time began, the hymn "Abide With +Me". We will know, and He will know, to whom it is rendered, what +the birds would ask: @ @ + +#NOT PUSH-UPS BUT STAND-UPS# + + +_TO +THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ There is a trend today to bemoan +the fact that Americans are too "soft". Unfortunately, those who +would remedy our "softness" seek to do so with calisthenics. They +are working on the wrong part of our anatomy. It is not our bodies +but our hearts and heads that have grown too soft. Ashamed of our wealth +and power, afraid of so-called world opinion and addicted to peace, +we have allowed our soft-heartedness to lead to soft-headed policies. + +When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which +we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations +which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough +to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when +we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize +that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, +and only then will we no longer be "soft". America doesn't need +to "push-up", she needs to stand up! @ + +#DISPUTES STANS COLUMN BUSINESS SCANDAL VIEWS# + + +_TO THE EDITOR:_ +The new column by Maurice Stans regarding business scandals, is +fair and accurate in most respects and his solution to the problem has +some merit. However, he states unequivocally "the scandals in business +are far less significant than the scandals in labor". I must, +in fairness, take issue with his premise, primarily because the so-called +scandals in labor unions were very much connected with business scandals. + +The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan +hearings had to do with "sweetheart contracts". These arrangements +would have been impossible if the business community was truly +interested in the welfare of its employes. A sweetheart arrangement +can come about as often by employers doing the corrupting as by unscrupulous +labor leaders demanding tribute. Anyone familiar with the details +of the McClellan hearings must at once realize that the sweetheart +arrangements augmented employer profits far more than they augmented +the earnings of the corruptible labor leaders. Further, it +should be recalled that some very definite steps were taken by Congress +to combat corruption in the labor movement by its passage of the +Landrum-Griffin Act. + +#ESCALATION UNTO DEATH# + +The nuclear war is already being fought, +except that the bombs are not being dropped on enemy targets- not yet. +It is being fought, moreover, in fairly close correspondence with +the predictions of the soothsayers of the think factories. They predicted +escalation, and escalation is what we are getting. The biggest nuclear +device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, +although our ~B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs +apiece. Some time ago, however, Mr& Khrushchev decided that when +bigger bombs were made, the Soviet Union would make them. He seems +to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot +assume that he has exploded his entire stock. And now, of course, +the hue and cry for counter-escalation is being raised on our side. +Khrushchev threatens us with a 100-megaton bomb? So be it- then +we must embark on a crash program for 200-megaton bombs of the common +or hydrogen variety, and neutron bombs, which do not exist but are said +to be the coming thing. So escalation proceeds, ad infinitum or, more +accurately, until the contestants begin dropping them on each other +instead of on their respective proving grounds. What is needed, +Philip Morrison writes in (October +26) is a discontinuity. The escalation must end sometime, and probably +quite soon. "Only a discontinuity can end it", Professor Morrison +writes. "The discontinuity can either be that of war to destruction, +or that of diplomatic policy". Morrison points out +that since our country is more urbanized than the Soviet Union or Red +China, it is the most vulnerable of the great powers- Europe of +course must be written off out of hand. He feels, therefore, that to +seek a discontinuity in the arms policy of the United States is the +least risky path our government can take. His proposal is opposed to +that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss +and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr& Edward Teller +and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation +of the cold war. These gentlemen are calling for a resumption +of testing- in the atmosphere- on the greatest possible scale, all +in the name of national security. Escalation is their first love and +their last; they will be faithful unto death. Capable as their +minds may be in some directions, these guardians of the nation's +security are incapable of learning, or even of observing. If this capacity +had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a +disastrous miscalculation. He has gained only one thing- he has exploded +a 50-megaton bomb and he probably has rockets with sufficient thrust +to lob it over the shorter intercontinental ranges. But if his +purpose was to inspire terror, his action could hardly have miscarried +more obviously. Not terror, but anger and resentment have been the +general +reaction outside the Soviet sphere. Khrushchev himself is +reported to be concerned by the surge of animosity he has aroused, yet +our own nuclear statesmen seem intent on following compulsively in his +footsteps. When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success +of another, it is only natural. Thus, when the Russians sent up their +first sputnik, American chagrin was human enough, and American determination +to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable. +But to imitate an opponent when he has made the mistake of +his life would be a new high in statesmanlike folly. + +#THE TIDE TURNS# + +When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of +joy rose from the throats of Western publicists. They are less vocal +now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating. The flood +is not as great- only 700 a week according to one apparently conservative +account- but it is symptomatic. West Berlin morale is low and, +in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable. Nearly 18 per cent +of West Berlin's 2,200,000 residents are sixty-five or older, +only 12.8 per cent are under fifteen. R& H& S& Crossman, +M&P&, writing in , states that +departures from West Berlin are now running at the rate not of 700, +but of 1,700 a week, and applications to leave have risen to 1,900 a +week. The official statistics show that 60 per cent are employed workers +or independent professional people. Whole families are moving and +removal firms are booked for months ahead. The weekly loss is partly +counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the +hard truth, says Crossman, is that "The closing off of East Berlin +without interference from the West and with the use only of East +German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, +which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow. The +gallant half-city is dying on its feet". Another piece of +evidence appears in a dispatch from Bonn in the (London). +Mark Arnold-Foster writes: "People are leaving [West Berlin] +because they think it is dying. They are leaving so fast that +the president of the West German Employers' Federation issued an +appeal this week to factory workers in the West to volunteer for six +months' front-line work in factories in West Berlin. Berlin's +resilience is amazing, but if it has to hire its labor in the West the +struggle will be hard indeed". The handwriting is on the wall. +The only hope for West Berlin lies in a compromise which will +bring down the wall and reunite the city. State Department officials +refusing to show their passes at the boundary, and driving two blocks +into East Berlin under military escort, will not avail. Tanks lined +up at the border will be no more helpful. The materials for compromise +are at hand: , Walter Lippmann and other sober +commentators (see Alan Clark on p& 367) have spelled them out again +and again. A compromise will leave both sides without the glow of +triumph, but it will save Berlin. Or the city can be a graveyard monument +to Western intransigence, if that is what the West wants. + +#VACANCY# + +The removal of Stalin's body from the mausoleum he shared +with Lenin to less distinguished quarters in the Kremlin wall is not +unprecedented in history. It is, in fact, a relatively mild chastisement +of the dead. A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, +, recalls that in the turmoil preceding +the French Revolution the body of Henry /4,, who had died nearly +180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob. And in England, after +the Restoration, the body of Cromwell was disinterred and hanged at +Tyburn. The head was then fixed on a pole at Westminster, and the +rest of the body was buried under the gallows. Contemplating +these posthumous punishments, Stalin should not lose all hope. In 1899, +Parliament erected a statue to Cromwell in Westminster, facing +Whitehall and there, presumably, he still stands. Nikita Khrushchev, +however, has created yet another problem for himself. The Lenin tomb +is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, +and the creed of communism deplores waste. Who will take Stalin's +place beside Lenin? There is Karl Marx, of course, buried in +London. +The Macmillan government might be willing to let him go, but he has +been dead seventy-eight years and even the Soviet morticians could +not make him look presentable. Who, then, is of sufficient stature to +lodge with Lenin? Who but Nikita himself? Since he has just +shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor +in the gift of the Soviet people. Besides, he can hardly avoid musing +on the instability of death which, what with exhumations and rehabilitations, +seems to match that of life. Suppose he did lie beside Lenin, +would it be permanent? If some future Khrushchev decided to +rake up the misdeeds of his revered predecessor, would not the factory +workers pass the same resolutions applauding his dispossession? When +a man is laid to rest, he is entitled to stay put. If Nikita buys +a small plot in some modest rural cemetery, everyone will understand. + +#U THANT OF BURMA# + +The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the +U&N&'s Acting Secretary General- at this writing, the choice +appears to be certain- offers further proof that in politics +it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential +friends. Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland +were early +favorites in the running, but France didn't like the +former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter. With the +neutralists maintaining pressure for one of their own to succeed +Mr& +Hammarskjold, U Thant emerged as the only possible candidate unlikely +to be waylaid by a veto. What is interesting is that his positive +qualifications for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to +his candidacy. In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election +procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played +on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed +himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat. He has, +moreover, another qualification which augurs well for the future. +He is a Buddhist, which means that to him peace and the sanctity of +human life are not only religious dogma, but a profound and unshakable +. U Thant of course, will hold office until +the spring of 1963, when Mr& Hammarskjold's term would have come +to an end. Whether the compromises- on both sides- that made +possible the interim appointment can then be repeated remains to be seen. +Mr& Khrushchev's demand for a is dormant, not dead; +the West may or not remain satisfied with the kind of neutralism +that U Thant represents. In a sense, the showdown promised by Mr& +Hammarskjold's sudden and tragic death has been avoided; no precedents +have been set as yet; structurally, the U&N& is still +fluid, vulnerable to the pressures that its new and enlarged membership +are bringing to bear upon it. But at least the pessimists who believed +that the world organization had plunged to its death in that plane +crash in the Congo have been proved wrong. + +#TO THE HILLS, GIRLS# + +No one who has studied the radical Right can suppose that words are +their sole staple in trade. These are mentalities which crave action- +and they are beginning to get it, as Messrs& Salsich and Engh +report on page 372. Even in areas where political connotations are +(deliberately?) left vague, the spirit of vigilantism is spreading. +, a picture magazine distributed by Chevrolet dealers, describes +a paramilitary organization of employees of the Gulf Telephone +Company at Foley, Alabama. "If the day should ever come that +foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast", the account reads, +"they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained +telephone employees- all girls. **h Heavily armed and mobilized +as a fast-moving Civil Defense outfit, 23 operators and office +personnel **h stand ready to move into action at a minute's notice". +According to , the unit was organized by John Snook, +a former World War /2, commando who is vice president and general +manager of the telephone company. The girls, very fetching in their +uniforms, are shown firing rockets from a launcher mounted on a dump truck; +they are also trained with carbines, automatic weapons, pistols, +rifles and other such ladies' accessories. This may be now, but it will become more serious should the cold war +mount in frenzy. The country is committed to the doctrine of security +by military means. The doctrine has never worked; it is not working +now. The official military establishment can only threaten to use +its nuclear arms; it cannot bring them into actual play. A more dangerous +formula for national frustration cannot be imagined. As the civic +temper rises, the more naive citizens begin to play soldier- but +the guns are real. Soon they will begin to hunt down the traitors they +are assured are in our midst. +All false gods resemble Moloch, at least in the early phases of their +careers, so it would be unreasonable to expect any form of idol-worship +to become widespread without the accompaniment of human sacrifice. +But there is reason in all things, and in this country the heathenish +cult of the motor-car is exceeding all bounds in its demands. The annual +butchery of 40,000 American men, women and children to satiate +its blood-lust is excessive; a quota of 25,000 a year would be more +than sufficient. No other popular idol is accorded even that much +grace. If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 +passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause +to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite +demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States. +But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively +new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it +may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily. + +Yet it is plainly time to make a start, and to be effective +the first move should be highly dramatic, without being fanatical. Here, +then, is what Swift would have called a modest proposal by way of +a beginning. From next New Year's Day let us keep careful account +of each successive fatality on the highways, publicizing it on all +media of communication. To avoid suspicion of bigotry, let the hand +of vengeance be stayed until the meat-wagon has picked up the twenty-five +thousandth corpse; but let the twenty-five thousand and first butchery +be the signal for the arrest of the 50 state highway commissioners. + +Then let the whole lot be hanged in a public mass execution +on July 4, 1963. The scene, of course, should be nine miles northwest +of Centralia, Illinois, the geographical center of population according +to the census. A special grandstand, protected by awnings from +the midsummer sun of Illinois, should be erected for occupancy by +honored guests, who should include the ambassadors of all those new African +nations as yet not quite convinced that the United States is +thoroughly civilized. The band should play the Rogues' March as a +processional, switching to "Hail Columbia, Happy Land"! as +the trap is sprung. Independence Day is the appropriate date +as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments +are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable +rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive +of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish +it. The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds +up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own +taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do. + +Hanging the responsible officials would not abolish the government, +but would emphasize its accountability for the lives of its individual +citizens, which would certainly alter it, and definitely for +the better. Moreover, the salubrious effects would not be exclusively +political, but at least partially, and perhaps primarily social. It +would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some +of its ancillary beliefs and practices- for instance, the doctrine +that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, +not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the +cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put. + +True, the adherents of staying put are now reduced to a minor, +even a miniscule sect, and their credo, "Home-keeping hearts are +happiest", is as disreputable as Socinianism. Nonetheless, although +few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the +Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital +principle embodied in their faith. Perhaps there is more truth than we +are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, +Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse +of the modern world is "all this gallivantin'". In any +event, the yearly sacrifice of 40,000 victims is a hecatomb too large +to be justified by the most ardent faith. Somehow our contemporary Moloch +must be induced to see reason. Since appeals to morality, to humanity, +and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse +is the deterrent example. If we make it established custom that +whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive, say beyond 25,000 +, then is going to hang, it follows that the +more eminent the victim, the more impressive the lesson. To hang 50 +Governors might be preferable except that they are not directly related +to the highways; so, all things considered, the highway commissioners +would seem to be elected. +As the new clouds of radioactive fallout spread silently and invisibly +around the earth, the Soviet Union stands guilty of a monstrous crime +against the human race. But the guilt is shared by the United States, +Britain and France, the other members of the atomic club. Until +Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the ~US and +~UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere +as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still +coming down. As it descends, the concentration of radioactivity builds +up in the human body; for a dose of radiation is not like a flu +virus which causes temporary discomfort and then dies. The effect of +radiation is cumulative over the years- and on to succeeding generations. +So, while we properly inveigh against the new poisoning, history +is not likely to justify the pose of righteousness which some in the +West were so quick to assume when Mr& Khrushchev made his cynical +and irresponsible threat. Shock, dismay and foreboding for future +generations were legitimate reactions; a holier-than-thou sermon was +not. On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least +20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the ~UN General +Assembly that this country, in "self protection", might have +to resume above-ground tests. More recently, the chairman of the Atomic +Energy Commission, Dr& Glenn T& Seaborg, "admitted" +to a news conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the ~US might +fall behind Russia (he apparently meant in weapons development) if the +Soviets continue to test in the atmosphere while we abstain. The +trial balloons are afloat. All of which makes it more imperative +than ever that the biological and genetic effects of fallout be understood. +But for the average citizen, unfortunately, this is one of science's +worst-marked channels, full of tricky currents and unknown +depths. The scientists, in and out of government, do not agree on some +of the most vital points, at least publicly. On the one hand, the Public +Health Service declared as recently as October 26 that present +radiation levels resulting from the Soviet shots "do not warrant +undue public concern" or any action to limit the intake of radioactive +substances by individuals or large population groups anywhere in the +~US. But the ~PHS conceded that the new radioactive particles +"will add to the risk of genetic effects in succeeding generations, +and possibly to the risk of health damage to some people in the United +States". Then it added: "It is not possible to determine +how extensive these ill effects will be- nor how many people will +be affected". Having hedged its bets in this way, ~PHS +apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination +after all: "At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat +higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will +be affected". Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note: "Nevertheless, +if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for +a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health +hazard in this country and throughout the world". Dr& Linus +Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, has been less ambiguous, +whether you choose to agree with him or not. After declaring, in +an article last month in magazine, that the Russian testing +"carries with it the possibility of the most tragic consequences +of any action in the history of the world", he gave this estimate +of the biologic and genetic consequences if the new Soviet shots totaled +200 megatons: The damage to human germ plasm would be +such that in the next few generations 160,000 children around the world +would be born with gross physical or mental defects. Long-lived carbon-14 +from the fusion process would cause four million embryonic, neonatal +or childhood deaths and stillbirths over the next 20 generations, +and between 200,000 and one million human beings now living would have +their lives cut short by radiation-produced diseases such as leukemia. +Most of these would be in the Northern Hemisphere, where the fallout +is concentrating. Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from +the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be +too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility. + +The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due +in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from +which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn. But more than one conscientious +researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion +of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout +has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem. Its +dangerous effects have been downgraded to the public by some who believe +national security requires further testing. An illustration of this +attitude is found in John A& McCone's letter to Dr& Thomas +Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of . To this day the Atomic Energy Commission shies +away from discussing the health aspects of fallout. A recent study +on radiation exposure by the ~AEC's division of biology and +medicine stated: "The question of the biological effect **h of [radiation] +doses is not considered" herein. Of course, the ~AEC +is in a bind now. If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers +of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests. +So the Commission's announcements of the new Soviet shots have +been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually +left vague. Now, of course, that the Russians are the +nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid-1950s, +when the ~US was testing in the atmosphere. The prevailing +official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good +for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold. After a nuclear blast, +one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had +to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof. Things +aren't that simple anymore. Yet if Washington gets too indignant +about Soviet fallout, it will have to do a lot of fast footwork +if America decides it too must start pushing up the radiation count. + +#HOW MUCH FALLOUT WILL WE GET?# + +As of October 25, the ~AEC +had reported 24 shots in the new Soviet series, 12 of them in a megaton +range, including a super bomb with a yield of 30 to 50 megatons +(the equivalent of 30 million to 50 million tons of ~TNT); and +President Kennedy indicated there were one or two more than those reported. + +Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot +estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation +is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 +megatons. Some government scientists say privately that the figure +probably is closer to 80 megatons, and that the full 50-megaton bomb +that Khrushchev mentioned may still be detonated. If the new +Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian +tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a +fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far. To this must be added the +90 to 92 megatons of fission yield produced between the dawn of the +atomic age in 1945 and the informal three-power test moratorium that +began in November, 1958. + +#RESUMING ATMOSPHERIC TESTS# + +ONE OF THE inescapable realities +of the Cold War is that is has thrust upon the West a wholly new +and historically unique set of moral dilemmas. The first dilemma was +the morality of nuclear warfare itself. That dilemma is as much with +us as ever. The second great dilemma has been the morality of nuclear +testing, a dilemma which has suddenly become acute because of the present +series of Soviet tests. When this second dilemma first +became +obvious- during the mid to late '50's- the United States +appeared to have three choices. It could have unilaterally abandoned +further testing on the grounds of the radiation hazard to future generations. +It could have continued testing to the full on the grounds +that the radiation danger was far less than the danger of Communist +world domination. Or it could have chosen to find- by negotiation- +some way of stopping the tests without loss to national security. This +third choice was in fact made. With the resumption of Soviet +testing and their intransigence at the Geneva talks, however, the +hope that this third choice would prove viable has been shaken. Once +again, the United States must choose. And once again, the +choices +are much the same. Only this time around the conditions are different +and the choice is far harder. The first choice, abandoning tests +entirely, would not only be unpopular domestically, but would surely +be exploited by the Russians. The second choice, full testing, has +become even more risky just because the current Soviet tests have +already dangerously contaminated the atmosphere. The third choice, negotiation, +presupposes, as Russian behavior demonstrates, a great deal +of wishful thinking to make it appear reasonable. We take the +position, however, that the third choice still remains the only sane +one open to us. It is by no stretch of the imagination a happy choice +and the arguments against it as a practical strategy are formidable. +Its primary advantage is that it is a moral choice; one which, should +it fail, will not have contaminated the conscience. That is the +contamination we most fear. ## + +LEAVING ASIDE the choice of unilateral +cessation of tests as neither sane nor clearly moral, the question +must arise as to why resumption of atmospheric tests on our part +would not be a good choice. For that is the one an increasingly large +number of prominent Americans are now proposing. In particular, Governor +Nelson Rockefeller has expressed as cogently and clearly as +anyone the case for a resumption of atmospheric tests. Speaking +recently in Miami, Governor Rockefeller said that "to assure +the sufficiency of our own weapons in the face of the recent Soviet +tests, we are now clearly compelled to conduct our own nuclear tests". +Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be +unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United +States is "to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, +but what is right". What was missing in the Governor's +argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would +enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable +to what is right. The possibility, as he asserted, that the Russians +may get ahead of us or come closer to us because of their tests +does not supply the needed ethical premise- unless, of course, we have +unwittingly become so brutalized that nuclear superiority is now taken +as a moral demand. Besides the lack of an adequate ethical +dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our +lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons +is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary. Recent statements +by the President and Defense Department spokesmen have, to the +contrary, assured us that our lead is very great. Unless the Administration +and the Defense Department have been deceiving us, the facts +do not support the assertion that we are "compelled" to resume atmospheric +testing. It is perfectly conceivable that a resumption +of atmospheric tests may, at some point in the future, be necessary +and even justifiable. But a resumption does not seem justifiable now. +What we need to realize is that the increasingly great contamination +of the atmosphere by the Soviet tests has radically increased our +own moral obligations. We now have to think not only of our national +security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests +we might undertake. This is an ethical demand which cannot be evaded +or glossed over by talking exclusively of weapon superiority or even +of the evil of Communism. Too often in the past Russian +tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part. There ought +to be a point beyond which we will not allow ourselves to go regardless +of what Russia does. The refusal to resume atmospheric testing +would be a good start. + +#ECUMENICAL HOPES# + +WHEN HIS Holiness +Pope John /23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the +same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm +among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate. With good +reason it appeared that a new day was upon divided Christendom. But +as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became +known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides. +The Council we now know will concern itself directly only with +the internal affairs of the Church. As it has turned out, however, +the excessive enthusiasm in the first instance and the loss of +hope in the second were both wrong responses. Two things have happened +in recent months to bring the Council into perspective: each provides +a basis for renewed hope and joy. First of all, it is now +known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church +as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity. Far from +being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a +revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism +in the best possible light. Equally significant, Pope John +has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian +disunity. A major aim of the Council will be to remove as +far as possible whatever in the Church today stands in the way of unity. + +Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the +Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very +much alive and growing within the Church. The establishment, by the +Holy Father, of a permanent Secretariat for Christian Unity in +1960 was the most dramatic mark of this concern. The designation of +five Catholic theologians to attend the World Council of Churches +assembly in New Delhi as "official" observers reverses the Church's +earlier stand. The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary +of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern +and Western reunion was still another remarkable act. Nor can one +forget Pope John's unprecedented meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury. + +Augustin Cardinal Bea, the director of the Secretariate +for Christian Unity, has expressed as directly as anyone the +new spirit that pervades the Church's stance toward the Protestant +and Orthodox Churches. Noting all the difficulties that stand in +the way of reunion, he has said that they ought not to discourage anyone. +For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, "would +show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without +thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of +prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit". +Can any Christian fail to respond to these words? + +#THE BUDGET DEFICIT# + +THE ADMINISTRATION'S official budget review, which estimates +a 6.9 billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year, isn't +making anyone happy. Certainly it isn't making the President happy, +and he has been doing his apologetic best to explain how the budget +got into its unbalanced condition, how he intends to economize wherever +he can and how he hopes to do better next year. We sympathize +with Mr& Kennedy, but we feel bound to say that his budget review +doesn't please us either, although for very different reasons. +Furthermore, we find his defense of the unbalanced budget more dismaying +than reassuring. In the first place, a large part of the +discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion +dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost +seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's +farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor. The Eisenhower +budget was simultaneously inadequate in its provisions and +yet extravagant in its projections of revenue to be received. The +rest of the deficit is also easily understood. Four billion dollars +of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated +by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite +apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere. Four hundred +million dollars of the increase is for the expanded space program, a +responsibility similarly neglected by Mr& Eisenhower. The farm program +will cost an additional 1.5 billion, because of unusual weather +factors, the Food for Peace program and other new measures. Anti-recession +programs- aid for the unemployed, their children and for depressed +areas- account for only 900 million of the 6.9 billion dollar +deficit. Our complaint is that in many crucial areas the Kennedy +programs are not too large but too small, most seriously in regard +to the conventional arms build-up and in aid and welfare measures. +And yet Mr& Kennedy persists in trying to mollify the intransigents +of the right with apologies and promises of "tightening up" and +"economizing". We wish the President would remember that "fiscal +responsibility" was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election. +The party that won used to say something about a New Frontier. + +#ETHICS AND PEACE# + +INTRODUCTION of the "dialogue" principle +proved strikingly effective at the thirty-fourth annual meeting +of the Catholic Association for International Peace in Washington +the last weekend in October. Two of the principal addresses were delivered +by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, +one "discussant" on the dais tended to be of another religious +persuasion. Several effects were immediately evident. Sessions +devoted to "Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends", "Moral Principle +and Political Judgment", "Christian Ethics in the Cold +War" and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this +procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves. Usually +questions from the floor were directed to the non-Catholic speaker +or discussion leader. In the earlier sessions there was plentiful +discussion on the natural law, which Dr& William V& O'Brien +of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable +ethical judgments on foreign policy. That Aristotelean-Thomistic +principle experienced a thorough going-over from a number of the +participants, but in the end the concept came to reassert itself. Speakers +declared that Protestants often make use of it, if, perhaps, +by some other name. A Lebanese Moslem told about its existence and +application in the Islamic tradition as the "divine law", while a +C&A&I&P& member who has been working in close association +with delegates of the new U&N& nations told of its widespread recognition +on the African continent. The impression was unmistakable +that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning +generality with a certain objective existence. Another question +that arose was the nature of the dialogue itself. The stimulus from +the confrontation of philosophical systems involving certain differences +was undeniable. It was expected that the comparison of different +approaches to ethics would produce a better grasp of each other's +positions and better comprehension of one's own. But a realization +that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, +and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions +to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political +issues. One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these +discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity +of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive +force of even the tiniest "tactical" atomic weapon would have a bearing +on judgments as to the advisability of its use- to defend Berlin, +for example; the pervasive influence of ideology on our political +judgments needs to be recognized and taken into due account; it +is necessary to perceive the extent of foreign aid demanded by the Christian +imperative. +Everywhere I went in Formosa I asked the same question. I was searching +for an accent of self-delusion or, even, of hypocrisy. I never +found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted +they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, +harbor official thoughts. But I questioned, also, professional soldiers, +who would not easily be hypnotized by a septuagenarian's dreamy +irredentism. Their answer was: it can be done, and we will do it. +And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang +Kai-shek: "In America", I said, "practically no one +believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland. What +evidence is there of an objective kind that in fact your government +proposes to do just that, and that it can be done"? He smiled. +(He always smiles- at least at visitors, I gather. He smiled +also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine +questions. I recalled sympathetically the Duke's complaint in Browning's +"My Last Duchess". **h) He smiled, and said a word +or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, "The President wonders +where you are going after you leave Taipei"? That, I smarted, +is a royal rebuff if ever there was one. I answered the routine +question about my itinerary, rather coolly. Chiang spoke again, +this +time at greater length. "The President says", the translator +came in, "that the reason he asked you where you were going is because +he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and +that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question. +He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound +determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return +is feasible, he would merely sound redundant. So you yourself must +seek these objective data, and come to your own conclusions. Any information +we have here in Taiwan is at your disposal". Fair +enough. What are the relevant data? For every person on Taiwan, there +are sixty in Mainland China. If the raw population figures are +crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as +to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia. Relative military manpower? +Less than 60-1, but at least 6-1. The estimates vary widely +on the strength of the Chinese army. Say four million. The armed +forces of Taiwan are at a working strength of about 450,000, though +a reserve potential twice that high is contemplated. Skill? Training? +Morale? It is generally conceded that the Formosan air force +is the best by far in Asia, and the army the best trained. The morale +is very high. Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except +that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese +army fight? The miserable people of China, the largest cast +ever conscripted to enact an ideological passion play, cannot themselves +resist overtly. They think, perforce, of physical survival: +everything else is secondary. But the army which Mao continues to feed +well, where are its sympathies? The psychological strategists in +Taiwan stress the great sense of family, cultivated in China over +thousands of years. It has not been extirpated by ten years of Communist +depersonalization. Every soldier in the army has, somewhere, relatives +who are close to starvation. The soldiers themselves cannot stage +a successful rebellion, it is assumed: but will their discontent +spread to the officer class? The immediate families of the generals +and the admirals are well fed: a despot does not economize on his +generals. But there are the cousins and aunts and nephews. Their privations +are almost beyond endurance. In behalf of what? Leninism-Marxism, +as understood by Exegete Mao. To whom will the generals stay +loyal? There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they +would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out +on the farm. It is another question whether "they"- or a single +general, off in a corner of China, secure for a few (galvanizing?) +days at least from instant retaliation- will defy the Party. But +the disposition to rebel is most definitely there. ## + +But there +must be a catalytic pressure. The military in Taiwan believe that +the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal. +The first was the commune program, which will ensure agricultural +poverty for years. The family is largely broken up; and where it +is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is +enormous. For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social +security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of +the clan. Now the government must do that; but the government is +left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained. +Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of +social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and +created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems +of social security. The second mistake is Tibet. Tibet has +historically served China as a buffer state. A friendly state, sometimes +only semi-independent, but never hostile. China never tried to +integrate Tibet by extirpating the people's religion and institutions. +Red China is trying to do this, and she is not likely ever to succeed. +Tibet is too vast, the terrain is too difficult. Tibet may bleed +China as Algeria is bleeding France. These continuing +pressures, social, economic and military, are doing much to keep China +in a heightening state of tension. The imposition of yet another pressure, +a strong one, from the outside, might cause it to snap. ## + +The planners in Taiwan struck me as realistic men. They know that +they must depend heavily on factors outside their own control. First +and foremost, they depend on the inhuman idiocies of the Communist regime. +On these they feel they can rely. Secondly, they depend on America's +"moral cooperation" when the crucial moment arrives. They +hope that if history vouchsafes the West another Budapest, we will +receive the opportunity gladly. I remarked jocularly to the President +that the future of China would be far more certain if he would invite +a planeload of selected American Liberals to Quemoy on an odd +day. He affected (most properly) not to understand my point. But he- +and all of China- wear the scars of American indecisiveness, and +he knows what an uncertain ally we are. We have been grand to Formosa +itself- lots of aid, and, most of the time, a policy of support +for the offshore islands. But our outlook has been, and continues to +be, defensive. A great deal depends on the crystallization of Mr& +Kennedy's views on the world struggle. The Free Chinese know that +the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike. +There is not anywhere on the frontiers of freedom a more highly mobilized +force for liberation. +The moment of truth is the moment of crisis. During the slow buildup, +the essence of a policy or a man is concealed under embroidered details, +fine words, strutting gestures. The crisis burns these suddenly +away. There the truth is, open to eyes that are willing to look. The +moment passes. New self-deceiving rags are hurriedly tossed on the too-naked +bones. A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for +a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure +verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies. Before memory, +too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen. + +The measure was instantly taken, as always in such cases, of +public men at many levels. One knows better, now, who has bone and +who +has jelly in his spine. But I am here concerned more with policy +than with men. Public men come and go but great issues of policy remain. + +Now, everyone knows- or knew in the week of December 10- +that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy. +The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, +orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most +pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations- +the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship +between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved. Of course the +fighting was officially under the auspices of the United Nations. But +in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U&S& was +in reality the principal. The moment simultaneously revealed that +in the crisis our policy ran counter to that of all our ~NATO +allies, to the entire Western community. By our policy the West was- +is- split. But the key revelation is not new. The controlling +pattern was first displayed in the Hungary-Suez crisis of November +1956. It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis +exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring (with which the Dominican +events of last month should be paired); at the peaks of the nuclear +test and the Berlin cycles; in relation to Laos, Algeria, South +Africa; right now, with almost cartoon emphasis, in the temporally +linked complex of Tshombe-Gizenga-Goa-Ghana. + +#WHAT THE MOMENTS +REVEAL# + +This prime element of the truth may be stated as follows: +. +It makes no difference what part of the world is involved, what form +of regime, what particular issue. . There is even some question whether +the U& S& can any longer itself against an initiative +by the Left. We can attack Tshombe, but not Gigenza. No +matter that Gizenga is Moscow's man in the Congo. No matter that +it is his troops who rape Western women and eat Western men. No matter +that the Katanga operation is strategically insane in terms of Western +interests in Africa. (Even granted that the Congo should be +unified, you don't protect Western security by removing +the pro-Western weight from the power equilibrium.) We can force +Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as +to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest. We can mass our +fleet against the Trujillos, but not against the Castros. We can +vote in the ~UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule +in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall- +much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down. We officially +receive the anti-French, Moscow-allied Algerian +~FLN, +but we denounce the pro-Europe, anti-Communist ~OAS as criminal. + +In the very week of our war against Katanga, we make a $133 +million grant to Kwame Nkrumah, who has just declared his solidarity +with the Communist bloc, and is busily turning his own country into +a totalitarian dictatorship. As our planes land the war materiel that +kills pro-Western Katangans, we stand supinely bleating while Nehru's +troops smash into a five-hundred-year-old district of our ~NATO +ally, Portugal. What explains this uni-directional paralysis? +It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes +the frame of our international- and in some degree our domestic- +policy. The Suez-Hungary crisis proves that this system was not +invented by the new Administration, but only made more consistent and +more active. + +#KEY TO THE PUZZLES# + +Most immediately relevant to these +episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis +before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama +is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America. +From this belief is derived the practical orientation of our policy +on the "uncommitted" ("neutralist", "contested") nations, +especially on those whose leaders make the most noise- Nehru, Tito, +Nkrumah, Sukarno, Betancourt, etc&. Our chief aim becomes that +of finding favor in neutralist eyes. If we grasp this orientation +as a key, our national conduct in all of the events here mentioned +becomes intelligible. And it becomes clear why in general we cannot +take the initiative against the Left. + +#BROADWAY# + + +_THE UNORIGINALS_ To write a play, the dramatist once +needed an idea plus the imagination, the knowledge of life and the +craft to develop it. Nowadays, more and more, all he needs is someone +else's book. To get started, he does not scan the world about him; +he and his prospective producer just read the bestseller lists. So +far this season, Broadway's premieres have included twice as many +adaptations and imports as original American stage plays. _BEST FROM +ABROAD._ Of straight dramas, there are +which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel, awkwardly based on the John Hersey +novel; lively but shallow theater drawn +from the mountainously detailed bestseller; (closed), +based on a Pierre Boulle novel. The only original works +attempting +to reach any stature: Tennessee Williams' disappointing domestic +comedy, and Arthur Laurents' clever +but empty . Clearly the most provocative +plays are all imported originals- by Britain's +young (19 when she wrote it) Shelagh Delaney; +by France's Jean Anouilh; (closed), by Ireland's +Brendan Behan. Among the musicals, came +from T& H& White's and novels +were the sources of the less than momentous and and were originals, +but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import- the +jaunty and charmingly French . The only other works +at least technically original were dreary farces- (closed), . +In the forthcoming and +Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies +( and ). _DRY OF LIFE._ +Originals +are not necessarily good and adaptations are not necessarily +bad. Some memorable plays have been drawn from books, notably and . And particularly in the +musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from +and to and . As Critic Walter Kerr points out: "Adaptations, +so long as they are good, still qualify as creative". And other defenders +invariably argue that, after all, Shakespeare and Moliere were +adapters too. The difference is that the masters took the bare frame +of a plot and filled it with their own world; most modern adapters +totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only +one contribution of their own: stage technique. The most +frequent excuse for the prevalence of unoriginals and tested imports +is increasing production expense- producers cannot afford to take chances. +But that explanation is only partly true. Off-Broadway, where +production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly +more original. Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat +imports, but last week only one U&S& original was on the boards, +Robert D& Hock's stunning Civil War work, . The +real trouble seems to be the failing imagination of U&S& playwrights. + +#NIGHTCLUBS# + + +_THE COOCH TERPERS_ +That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, +as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and +Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like +Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American +inpost of belly dancing. Several more will open soon. Their +burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street +burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always +familial- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis. +The belly with their papier-mache palm trees or hand-painted +Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek +and Turkish families. Customers often bring their children; between +performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take +the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd +uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in +calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved +orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, +using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that +would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, +a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, +a low-pitched tambourine. The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing +prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to +go off to a back room and reappear in the spare uniform of the harem. + +_CONTINUUM OF MANKIND._ If a dancer is good, she suggests purely +and +superbly the fundamental mechanics of ancestry and progeny- the continuum +of mankind. But a great many of what calls the +"cooch terpers" are considerably less cosmic than that. Each dancer +follows the ancient Oriental pattern- she glides sideways with +shoulders motionless while her stomach migrates, and, through breathing +and muscle control, she sends ripples across her body to the fingertips +and away to the far end of the room. This is done at varying speeds, +ranging from the slow and fast (a musical term +meaning +double strings) to the fastest, ecstatic (meaning +greetings or welcome). The New York dancers are highly eclectic, varying +the pattern with all kinds of personal improvisations, back bends +or floor crawls. But they do not strip. The striptease is crass; +the belly dance leaves more to the imagination. When a dancer +does well, she provokes a quiet bombardment of dollar bills- although +the Manhattan clubs prohibit the more cosmopolitan practice of slipping +the tips into the dancers' costumes. With tips, the girls average +between $150 and $200 a week, depending on basic salary. Although +they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes +proffered drinks, and most of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy. + +_THE MELTING POT._ All over the country, belly clubs have never +been bigger, especially in Detroit, Boston and Chicago, and even +in small towns; one of the best dancers, a Turkish girl named Semra, +works at a roadhouse outside Bristol, Conn&. The girls are kept +booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded +Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central +abdomen. He can offer nine Turkish girls, plans to import at least +15 more. But a great many of the dancers are more or less native. Sometimes +they get their initial experience in church conducted +by Lebanese and Syrians in the U&S&, where they dance with +just as +few veils across their bodies as in nightclubs. As the +girls come to belly dancing from this and other origins, the melting +pot has never bubbled more intriguingly. Some Manhattan examples: + +@ Jemela (surname: Gerby), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental +but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America +and educated at +Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says +she learned belly dancing at family picnics. @ Serene (Mrs& +Wilson), 23, was born in Budapest and raised in Manhattan. Daughter +of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few +really beautiful girls in the New York casbah, with dark eyes and dark, +waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, +glimmering body. Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one +of the few who will admit it. @ Marlene (surname: Adamo), +25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends +in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best +belly dancer working the casbah, loves it so much that she dances on +her day off. She has the small, highly developed body of a prime athlete, +and holds in contempt the "girls who just move sex". @ +Leila (Malia Phillips), 25, is a Greenwich Village painter of +Persianesque miniatures +who has red hair that cascades almost to her ankles. +A graduate of Hollywood High School, she likes to imagine herself, +as she takes the floor, "a village girl coming in to a festival". + +@ Gloria (surname: Ziraldo), circa 30, who was born +in Italy and once did "chorus work" in Toronto, has been around +longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days +when +"we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck +sweaters and handkerchiefs and all. But the ships are very slow +now, and we don't get so many sailors any more". The uptown crowd +has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck +sweater for a button-down collar? + +#A SHORT, TORMENTED SPAN# + +Of the handful of painters that Austria +has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely +known in the U&S&. This state of unawareness may not last +much longer. For ten years a small group of European and U&S& +critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian +expressionist +Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28. The +critics' campaign finally inspired the first major U&S& exhibit +of Schiele's works. The show has been to Boston and Manhattan, +will in time reach Pittsburgh and Minneapolis. Last week it opened +at the J& B& Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment +that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau +gallery in Los Angeles. Schiele's paintings are anything +but pleasant. His people () are angular and knobby-knuckled, +sometimes painfully stretched, sometimes grotesquely foreshortened. +His colors are dark and murky, and his landscapes and cityscapes +seem swallowed in gloom. But he painted some of the boldest and +most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, +the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its +fascination. _THE DEVIL HIMSELF._ The son of a railway stationmaster, +Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town +of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna. He was an emotional, lonely +boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely +any schoolwork. When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend +classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Even there he +did not last for long. Cried one professor after a few months of Student +Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: "The devil himself must +have defecated you into my classroom"! For a while his +work was influenced deeply by the French impressionists, and by the patterned, +mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian +art. Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own- +and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter. His pictures were +roundly denounced as "the most disgusting things one has ever seen +in Vienna". He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and +jailed for 24 days- the first three of which he spent desperately trying +to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle. For years he +wore hand-me-down suits and homemade paper collars, was even driven +to scrounging for cigarette butts in Vienna's gutters. Drafted +into +the Austrian army, he rebelliously rejected discipline, wangled a Vienna +billet, went on painting. It was not until the last year of his +life that he had his first moneymaking show. _MELANCHOLY OBSESSION._ +The unabashed sexuality of so many of this paintings was not the +only +thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of +almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded +Vienna. He was obsessed by disease and poverty, by the melancholy of +old age and the tyranny of lust. The children he painted were almost +always in rags, his portraits were often ruthless to the point of ugliness, +and his nudes- including several self-portraits- were stringy, +contorted and strangely pathetic. The subject he liked most was the +female body, which he painted in every state- naked, half-dressed, +muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a +bed or locked in an embrace. +THE MOST surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of +the Soviet Communist Party is that it surprising- perhaps +quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which +ended with that famous "secret" report on Stalin. The publication +last July of the party's Draft Program- that blueprint for +the "transition to communism"- had led the uninitiated to suppose +that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis +of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in +fact, been current over the last three or four years (i&e&, since +the defeat of the "anti-party group") in all theoretical party +journals. These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx +and Lenin "full communism" was still a very distant ideal, the establishment +of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become +an "immediate and tangible reality". It seems that Khrushchev +himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution +to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program (a large part of +his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely +a rehash of that interminable document). He and other Soviet leaders +responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward +some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship +of the proletariat by an "All People's State", and also of having +laid down the lines for a much greater "democratization" of +the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself. +Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at +"bureaucracy" and would enable "the people" to take a more direct +and active part in running the country. Also, elections would be +more democratic; there might even be two or more candidates for voters +to choose from. No doubt, there was still a lot in the Draft +Program- and in Khrushchev's speech- which left many points +obscure. Was it the party's intention, for example, to abolish gradually +the system and replace it by uniformly wage-earning +, i&e&, state farms (which were, moreover, to be progressively +"urbanized")? As we know, the Soviet peasant today +still very largely thrives on being able to sell the produce grown on +his private plot; and it is still very far from certain how valid +the party's claim is that in "a growing number of " +the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private +plots to the + and to let the latter be turned into something +increasingly like a state farm. If one follows the reports of the +Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty +in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this +matter. The Draft Program was interesting in other respects, +too. It contained, for example, a number of curious admissions about +the peasants, who enjoy no sickness benefits, no old-age pensions, +no paid holidays; they still benefit far less than the "other" 50 +per cent of the nation from that "welfare state" which the Soviet +Union so greatly prides itself on being. ## + +OVER ALL these +fairly awkward problems Khrushchev was to skate rather lightly; +and, though he repeated, over and over again, the spectacular figures +of industrial and agricultural production in 1980, the "ordinary" +people in Russia are still a little uncertain as to how "communism" +is really going to work in practice, especially in respect of food. +Would agriculture progress as rapidly as industry? This was something +on which K& himself seemed to have some doubts; for he kept +on threatening that he would "pull the ears" of those responsible +for agricultural production. And, as we know, the Virgin Lands are + producing as much as Khrushchev had hoped. One cannot +but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev's +agricultural policy have not at least something to do with one of the +big surprises provided by this Congress- the obsessive harping on the +crimes and misdeeds of the "anti-party group"- Molotov, Malenkov, +Kaganovich and others- including the eighty-year-old Marshal +Voroshilov. Molotov, in particular, is being charged with all kinds +of sins- especially with wanting to cut down free public services, +to increase rents and fares; in fact, with having been against +the more popular features of the Khrushchev "welfare state". +The trouble with all these doctrinal quarrels is that we hear only one +side of the story: what, in the secret councils of the Kremlin, +Molotov had proposed, we just don't know, and he has had +no chance to reply. ## + +BUT ONE cannot escape the suspicion +that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated +"anti-party" group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, +inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on +vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the +"transition to communism" and, last but not least, on foreign policy. + +The whole problem of "peaceful coexistence and peaceful +competition" with the capitalist world is in the very center of this +Congress. Mikoyan declared: "Molotov altogether rejects +the line of peaceful coexistence, reducing this concept merely to the +state of peace or rather, the absence of war at a given moment, and +to a denial of the possibility of averting a world war. His views, in +fact, coincide with those of foreign enemies of peaceful coexistence, +who look upon it merely as a variant of the "cold war" or of an "armed +peace"". One cannot help wondering whether Molotov +and the rest of the "anti-party group" are not being used as China's +whipping-boys by Khrushchev and his faithful followers. For +something, clearly, has gone very, very seriously wrong in Soviet-Chinese +relations, which were never easy, and have now deteriorated. + +The effect of Chou En-lai's clash with Khrushchev, together +with the everlasting attacks on Molotov + Co&, has shifted the whole +attention of the world, including that of the Soviet people, from +the "epoch-making" twenty-year program to the present Soviet-Chinese +conflict. Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat +Khrushchev's attack on Albania as "something that we cannot consider +as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach" to the problem (i&e&, +as something thoroughly dictatorial and "undemocratic"), but +the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to +Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on. It is extremely +doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists +could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends. +The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet +solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians +to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev- or get rid of +Enver Hoxa. These seem about the only two ways in which the "unhappy +incident" can now be closed. But Albania is merely a symptom +of a real malaise between China and Russia. There are other +symptoms. Khrushchev, for all his bombastic prophecies about the inevitable +decay of capitalism, is genuinely favorable to "peaceful coexistence" +and would like, above all, the Berlin and German problems +to be settled peacefully; he knows that he was never more popular than +at the time of the Russo-American "honeymoon" of 1959. But +it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere- in the +first place from China, but perhaps also from that "China Lobby" +which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on +the quiet inside the party. To these people, solidarity and unity with +China should be the real basis of Russia's future policy. And the +Chinese, as the Albanian incident shows, have strong suspicions that +Khrushchev is anxious to secure a "shameful" peace with the West. +The fact that China (which is obsessed by Formosa- to Khrushchev +a very small matter) should be supported by North Korea and North +Vietnam is highly indicative. And one cannot but wonder whether +Marshal Malinovsky, +who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but +also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against +the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet. And this +brings us inevitably to the 30- +or 50-megaton bomb. Was not this dropped +primarily in order to "appease" the Chinese- especially after +"Khrushchev's "humiliating" surrender to the West in canceling +the German peace-treaty deadline of December 31? What +does it all add up to? Indications are that Khrushchev (and, with +him, the bulk of the Soviet people) favor peaceful coexistence and (with +the exception of Berlin) the maintenance of the in +the world. The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on +the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support +them in the "just wars of liberation" they would like to embark +on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans +and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective +countries. Perhaps Khrushchev is in a more difficult +position than any since 1957, when the "anti-party group" nearly +liquidated him. He seems strong enough inside the party to cope with +any internal opposition; but if he is up against China's crusading +spirit in world affairs, he is going to be faced with the most agonizing +choice in his life. He may support China (but he won't); he +may break with China (which would be infernally difficult and perhaps +disastrous), or he may succeed, by all kinds of dangerous concessions, +in persuading China to be patient. The next days may show where things +stand. +ON a misty Sunday morning last month, a small band of militant +anti-Communists called the Minutemen held maneuvers in a foggy field +about fifteen miles east of here. Eleven men, a woman and a teen-age +boy tramped over cold, damp, fog-enshrouded ground during a two-hour +field drill in the problems of guerrilla warfare. To the average +American, this must sound like an incredible tale from a Saturday +night ~TV movie. But to the Minutemen, this is a serious business. +They feel that the United States is engaged in a life-and-death +struggle with communism for survival and world supremacy. They feel +that World War /3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves +up as a "last line of defense" against the Communist advance. + +Their national leader, Robert Bolivar DePugh of Norborne, +Mo&, says the Minutemen believe that guerrilla tactics are best +suited to defeat the Red onslaught. In their maneuvers last month, +they wore World War /2, camouflage garb and helmets, and carried unloaded +~M-1 rifles. The maneuvers were held "in secret" +after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, +Ill&, had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had +arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill&, +and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, +two Browning automatic rifles and an ~M-4 rifle. Undismayed +by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's +home at 6:30 A&M& the next day, put on their uniforms, +and headed for a farm several miles away. A 60 mm& mortar and a +57 mm& +recoilless rifle owned by Lauchli were brought along. The mortar +was equipped with dummy shells and the recoilless rifle was deactivated. + +After a tortuous drive in an open truck and a World War +/2, army jeep down soggy trails, the band arrived at a small clearing +squeezed between a long, low ridge and a creek-filled gully. Here +the two leaders, DePugh and Lauchli, hastened to put the group +through its paces. The Minutemen were instructed in the use +of terrain for concealment. They were shown how to advance against an +enemy outpost atop a cleared ridge. They practiced movement behind a +smoke screen laid by smoke grenades; and they attempted a skirmish +line of advance against a camouflaged enemy encampment. Eleven dummy +rounds were fired by Lauchli in a demonstration of rapid-fire mortar +shooting. Mrs& DePugh, the mother of five children and an +active member of her husband's organization, participated in all the +exercises. There were no "casualties", but the "guerrillas" +admitted to being "a little tired" when the leaders called +a halt at 9 A&M& to enable out-of-town members to catch a plane. + +#TENURE AS CRITERION# + +I would like to add one more practical reform +to those mentioned by Russell Kirk [Dec& 16]. It has to do +with teachers' salaries and tenure. Next September, after receiving +a degree from Yale's Master of Arts in Teaching Program, +I will be teaching somewhere- that much is guaranteed by the present +shortage of mathematics teachers. I will also be underpaid. The +amazing thing is that this too is caused by the dearth of teachers. Teaching +is at present a sellers' market; as a result buyers, the +public, must be satisfied with second-rate teachers. But this is not +the real problem; the rub arises from the fact that teachers are usually +paid on the basis of time served rather than quality. Hence all +teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of +years are paid the same salary. I am firmly convinced that considering +the average quality of teachers in this country, the profession is grossly +overpaid. It follows that teachers as a group cannot expect +any marked salary increases; there is a limit to how much the public +will pay for shoddy performance. The only hope which good teachers +have for being paid their due is to stop dragging the dead weight +of poor teachers up the economic ladder with them. The only hope which +the public has for getting good teachers is to pay teachers on the basis +of merit rather than tenure. Here, as in all sectors of the economy, +quality and justice are both dependent on the right of the individual +to deal directly with his employer if he so chooses. @ + +#LOSS +OF INITIATIVE# + +On the eve of the "great debate" on the proposal +to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions +which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, +we should face the alternatives on this proposition. What we will +be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be +which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which +we now operate. Without this power we lay open any American industry +which the Europeans may find it economically profitable to destroy +to the will of others. It is this loss of initiative in how we conduct +our which may lead to the loss of initiative in how we +conduct our affairs. @ + +#A BRIEF FOR THE NEGATIVE# + +I disagree with Mr& Burnham's position on the Common Market +[Nov& 18] as a desirable organization for us to join. For him to +ignore the political consequences involved in an Atlantic Union of +this kind is difficult to understand. The pressure for our entry to +the Common Market is mounting and we will proceed towards this amalgamated +trade union by way of a purely "economic thoroughfare", or +garden path, with the political ramifications kept neatly in the background. +The appeal is going to be to the pocketbook and may be very convincing +to those who do not see its relation to political and legal, +as well as economic, self-rule. In entering this union we will be surrendering +most, if not all, of our economic autonomy to international +bodies such as the Atlantic Institute (recently set up) or the O&E&C&D&, +I&M&F& and others. To think that we can merely +relinquish our economic autonomy without giving up our political +or legal autonomy is wishful thinking. If it is not enough that +all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join +this market, I refer you to an article in the ' +magazine section [Nov& 12, 1961], by Mr& Eric Johnston, +entitled "We Must Join the Common Market". He says: "It +has swept aside petty nationalisms, age-old rivalries, and worn-out +customs". Referring to Britain, he says, "We see a nation that +traditionally values sovereignty above all else willing to give up its +economy, placing this authority in Continental hands". **h Since +the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic +Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once +American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question +of time. Frankly, it is being very cleverly done for, in a sense, +they have us over a barrel. Listen to what Mr& Johnston has to +say: "Consider the savage wounds that isolationism would inflict. +**h We would lose our export markets and deny ourselves the imports +we need. We would be crippled by reduced output, industrial decline, +widespread unemployment". But the solution to this dilemma +is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community +or "economic empire", but merely what libertarians like Henry +Hazlitt and Ludwig von Mises have been arguing for years: an +end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, +and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry. Create a +free market here, give us a sound, debt-free money system, and we'll +compete with anyone, Europe and Asia combined. In short, get this +governmental monstrosity off our backs and we won't have to worry about +European competition or Communism either. If we want to preserve +our sovereignty, this is the way to do it; not acquiesce to an international +planning board. If we go into this Common Market, we might +just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally +Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general. @ + + ~NR . -ED&. + +#MENTAL TELEPATHY?# + +The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the +world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November +27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U&S& +Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed. @ + +#A PROFESSOR +AND THE ARMY# + +In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two +years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in +any further Army Reserve activities. Now, more than five years later, +I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier. But, +in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College +Professor, have been recalled "by direction of the President" +to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another +twelve months of Active Duty as an ~Sp 4 (the equivalent of a +~PFC). Today, seven years after the date of my initial induction +as a draftee, I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Science +at St& Michael's College. For, after leaving the Army in 1956, +I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College +and then at the University of Toronto. This time, added to that which +I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes +a total of twenty-two (22) years of education. The possibility +of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American +has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys. With +this no loyal citizen can quarrel. However, it seems axiomatic that +the government has an obligation "to exercise its mandate reasonably, +equitably and with full regard for the disruptions which it inevitably +causes". In my own case, I submit that such reasonable and fair +exercise is woefully lacking. Taken back into the Army now as an +~Sp 4, I am leaving 110 college students whose teacher I am. (A +wry sidelight on this is that most of my students have deferments from +the draft in order to attend my classes.) At this late date, it is +impossible for St& Michael's College to find a suitable replacement +for me. Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal +life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very +compelling reason- I cannot help looking around at the black leather +jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns +of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone +mad. @ + +#MERCENARY: TERM OF HONOR?# + +In news broadcasts I consistently +hear the foreign volunteers fighting in the Katanga Army +referred to as mercenaries. This confuses me no end. If the Hessian +troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for +England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the ~UN +troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by governments to +fight for the United Nations? If the ~UN troops are not mercenaries +then the Hessians were not mercenaries either. And if the foreigners +fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette +and von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the +Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War /1, and of +Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War /2,. +@ + +#MODERN POSTAL SLOGAN# + +It doesn't take a Gore Vidal to tell you +what's wrong with Cherokee Textile's slogan ["Pitney-Bowes +Objects", July 1]. It's an eighteenth-century negative, man! +Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: @ By moving +the term "Republic" to lower case, substituting the modern +phrase "move ahead" for the stodgy "keep", and by using the Postmaster's +name on every envelope (in caps, of course, with the "in +spite" as faded as possible), the slogan cannot fail. @ + +#THE +IMPENDING DEATH OF POPE# + +In the issue of March 5, 1960 you had an +excellent editorial which said: "On trial in Jakarta for +having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, +U&S& +pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting +the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence +of Indonesia. Facing a prosecution which has demanded the +death penalty, he said: 'I have participated in the war against +Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation +of North Vietnamese to the free world. I have done all this +for the freedom of the individuals concerned and also for the states +which have been threatened by Communist domination'. At least in +Indonesia, Khrushchev found an American proud to be at total war with +Communism"! Since then nothing has happened to save the +life of Pope. I found recently a very small article in the "U&S& +Flier loses Plea. Indonesia Court +Upholds Pope's Death Sentence.- Indonesia Military Supreme +Court has confirmed the death sentence passed on Alan Lawrence +Pope, an American pilot. Pope was convicted last year of having aided +North Celebes rebels by flying bombing missions. He has been in +prison since May, 1958, when his aircraft was shot down over Moluccas. +He may appeal to President Sukarno for clemency". As +we see, Pope may appeal to President Sukarno, Khrushchev's friend, +for clemency. This possibility is anything but reassuring. +The Eleanor Roosevelt Tractor Committee acts on behalf of the Cuban +freedom fighters. But who will act now and immediately to save the +life of Alan Pope? Are tractors available for him? Does anybody +think of saving the life of an anti-Communist American pilot? +@ + +#AN ANALOGY# + +A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas +Liberals were doing to promote "Louis Capet" ["The Week", +June 3], another analogy had occurred to me. Consider +this table: _1._ Louis /14,- ~FDR. "**h With no strong +men and no parliament to dispute his will, he the government". + +_2._ Regency- Truman. "A 'dust-settling' period +of decadence and decline". _3._ Louis /15,- Eisenhower. +"**h he opened his mouth, said little, and thought not at all". _4._ +Louis /16,- Kennedy. "**h not virtuous, +but incompetent". And Marie Antoinette- Jacqueline +Bouvier. "**h the beautiful and light-hearted". _5._ +French Revolution- Conservative Revolution? Truly, +that Liberals should choose Louis /14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism +is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis /14, character +of their Grand Monarque, ~FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute +power and personal deification, (), +but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies. + +In defeating "Louis Capet", John Tower's victory in +Texas signals, once again, the end of the divine right of Liberalism. + +#CONFRONTATION# + +IT SEEMS TO ME that N&C&, in his editorial +"Confrontation" [~SR, Mar& 25], has hit upon the real +problem that bothers all of us in a complex world: how do we retain +our personal relationship with those who suffer? This affects us +all intimately, and can leave us hopeless in the face of widespread distress. +I know of no other solution than the one N&C& proposes- +to do what we can for each sufferer as he confronts us, hoping that +this will spread beyond him to others at some time and some place. Never +have I seen this expressed so clearly and so sympathetically. @ + +THANK YOU for the illustrated editorial "Confrontation". +It is both great writing and profound religion. @ N&C& +HAS SAID something important so well that this preacher +will many times be tempted to quote the whole piece. @ I +FEEL THAT N&C& hit the very core of our existence in the editorial +"Confrontation". Personally, it meant a great deal; my +only hope is that it will be shared by many, many others. @ "CONFRONTATION" +should fortify us all, whether in Southeast +Asia or the U&S&. @ CONGRATULATIONS TO N&C& +for successfully delving into the heart of the problems that face the +Peace Corps. I concur that it is necessary for Americans to have +a confrontation of the situation existing in foreign lands. It would +be heartbreaking to see idealism, and hence effective leadership, thwarted +by the poverty and hardship which young Americans will run into. +@ THE EDITORIAL "Confrontation" was certainly direct +in its appear to those of us living here in America. I personally +gained strength from it. Thanks for continuing to capture the attention +and uncover so many areas of need in this amazing world. @ + +N&C&'s EDITORIAL "Confrontation" is a stunning piece +of writing. I would hope that Sargent Shriver will encourage everyone +entering the Peace Corps to read it. The important people to +humanity are not the Khrushchevs and the Castros **h but the Schweitzers +and the Dooleys, and the others like them whose names we will +never know. @ EDITOR'S NOTE: ". + +#IMPROPER +BOSTONIAN?# + +F& L& LUCAS'S article in ~SR's +April 1 issue seemed to be a very fair and objective analysis of the +New English Bible. I certainly hope this will be the impression left +in the minds of readers, rather than the comment by Cleveland Amory +in his FIRST OF THE MONTH column. It is blind, fundamentalist +dogmatism to say, "Messing around with the King James version +**h seems to us a perilous sport at best". @ + +#FACTS IN FOCUS# + +LESTER MARKEL is on the right track in his article "Interpretation +of Interpretation" +[~SR, Mar& 11]. The current stereotype +of straight news reporting was probably invaluable in protecting +the press and its readers from pollution by that combination of doctored +fact, fancy, and personal opinion called yellow journalism which flourished +in this country more than a generation ago. We don't +need this type of protection any more. The public is now armed with +sophistication and numerous competing media. Besides, there are no +longer enough corruptible journalists about. The accepted method +of writing news has two major liabilities. First, it does not communicate. +A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements +of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell +his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute. +Second, it subjects the news to distortion by the unscrupulous. The +charges by the late junior Senator from Wisconsin not only destroyed +innocent people but misled the nation. Yet the press was powerless +to put these charges in perspective in its news columns. despite several +years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get +a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen +what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way +of communicating. The Senator had boxed them in with their own restrictions. + +It seems to me the time has come for the American +press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will +do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by +those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve +their own ends. The objective should be to provide a method of getting +into print a higher percentage than is now possible of the relevant +information in the possession of reporters and editors. @ + +#SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLACKOUT# + +I WOULD LIKE to see you devote +some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President +Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned. +You have on more than one occasion praised the idea of a televised +press conference and the chance it gives the people to form intelligent +opinions. To begin with, the all-powerful Los Angeles +does not publish a transcript of these press conferences. I +am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President. Next, +because of the time differential, the conferences come on the networks +during the middle of the day. Up until now, the networks have grudgingly +run half-hour tapes at 5 P&M& or sometimes 7 or 10:30 P&M&. +Even then, a few of the "less interesting" questions are +edited out and glibly summarized by a commentator. However, last night +the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got +on ~TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley +and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs. This is no criticism +of them, as they obviously cannot get a half-hour program into a fifteen-minute +news summary. The radio stations did run "transcripts" +(I thought) during the evening hours. However, by comparing +the ~TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored +Los Angeles version, I found that the radio stations +had edited out questions (~ABC removed the one regarding Laos) +or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President's answer. +I am interested to know he is getting mail from all over the country +about the "abuse" he is being subjected to. We out here don't +see enough of the conference to know he is being abused. I don't +know if this is the situation in other parts of the country; apparently +it is not. It also happened with the Inauguration, which was +not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the ~TV +editor of the . He did mention in his column the fact that +he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand +the networks and the independent local stations' not doing this- +but nothing happened. Can you bring the networks' attention +to this? @ + +#FOR A COLLEGE OF PROPAGANDA# + +I WAS INTERESTED +in James Webb Young's MADISON AVENUE column in which +he raised the question "Do We Need a College of Propaganda"? +[~SR, Feb& 11]. In my estimation, we definitely +do; and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into +excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die. During +the war, we set up schools for the teaching of psychological warfare, +which included the teaching of propaganda, both black and white and the +various shades of grey in between. We had a couple of schools in this +country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out +in Lloyd's Neck. There were also a couple in Canada, and several +in England. The English schools preceded ours, and by the time we +got into it they had learned a lot about the techniques of propaganda +and its teaching. Four of us here in the United States attended, +first as students, then as instructors, almost every one of these +schools, in England, Canada, and the United States. We set up +the Lloyd's Neck school, worked out its curriculum, and taught there. +Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something +about propaganda and how to teach it. When the end did +come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped +that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust. +We hoped that its practitioners and teachers might be put on some +sort of reserve list and called back for refresher courses each year +or so. Alas, no such thing happened. There apparently is no school of +propaganda or psychological warfare. A study at the Pentagon and at +the service academies revealed that nothing was being done there. And +not one of the four men who attended all the schools has ever been +called on to apply any of his knowledge in any way. @ CONGRATULATIONS +on the article "Do We Need a College of Propaganda"? +This is one of the most constructive suggestions made in this +critical field in years, and I certainly hope it sparks some action. +@ + +#LET THE MEDIA CLEAN HOUSE, TOO# + +MANY OF US in public +relations were flattered that Richard L& Tobin chose to devote his +editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger +of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public +Relations Association. + +#SNOW STORM# + +I WAS SURPRISED and sorry to find in your issue +of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet +been published. Whether in his forthcoming book C& P& Snow +commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily +autobiographical critic charged him is important. One should be able +to get hold of the book at once. But the attack was made from an advance +copy. If this practice should take root and spread, the man who +submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before +he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality. +@ EDITOR'S NOTE: ~SR/ ~SR Life . ## + +SIR ROBERT WATSON-WATT'S "rebuttal" +of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout +by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself +from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those "falsehoods" +in an unclear incoherent argument. The article +presents the reader with an absurdity at its beginning. It calls the +conclusion admitted valid by "historians and military strategists alike" +a "perverted conclusion. **h nonsense". It submits +an enthusiastic, impressionistic conception of Lindemann contributing +another aspect of the man, but on no more authoritative basis than Sir +Charles' account. We are left to choose between the two Lindemanns. + +The only fact that holds any weight in the article is the +result of the tea party. But we are to believe that Lindemann actively +supported radar outside the Tizard Committee, and dissembling, +discounted it inside? If so, I would lean to Sir Charles' conception +of the man. I think it was a grave error to print the +article at this time. To the unfortunate people unable to attend the +Godkin lectures it casts an unjustifiable aura of falsehood over the +book which may dissuade some people from reading it. @ + +IT IS NOT NEWS that Nathan Milstein is a wizard of the +violin. Certainly not in Orchestra hall where he has played countless +recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with +the Chicago Symphony orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with +his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, +pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, +or forever finds it closed. There was about that song something +incandescent, for this Brahms was Milstein at white heat. Not +the noblest performance we have heard him play, or the most spacious, +or even the most eloquent. Those would be reserved for the orchestra's +great nights when the soloist can surpass himself. This time the +orchestra gave him some superb support fired by response to his own +high mood. But he had in Walter Hendl a willing conductor able only +up to a point. That is, when Mr& Milstein thrust straight +to the core of the music, sparks flying, bow shredding, violin singing, +glittering and sometimes spitting, Mr& Hendl could go along. But +Mr& Hendl does not go straight to any point. He flounders and +lets music sprawl. There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and +marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra +and music to ultimate fusion. So we had some dazzling and memorable +Milstein, but not great Brahms. The concert opened with +another big romantic score, Schumann's Overture to "Manfred", +which suffered fate, this time with orchestral thrusts to the Byronic +point to keep it afloat. Hindemith's joust with Weber tunes was +a considerably more serious misfortune, for it demands transluscent +textures, buoyant rhythms, and astringent wit. It got the kind of scrambled, +coarsened performance that can happen to best of orchestras when +the man with the baton lacks technique and style. + +#BAYREUTH NEXT +SUMMER# + +The Bayreuth Festival opens July 23 with a new production +of "Tannhaeuser" staged by Wieland Wagner, who is doing all the +operas this time, and conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. Sawalisch +also conducts "The Flying Dutch", opening July 24. "Parsifal" +follows July 25, with Hans Knappertsbusch conducting, and he +also conducts "Die Meistersinger", to be presented Aug& 8 and +12. The "Ring" cycles are July 26, 27, 28 and 30, and Aug& +21, 22, 23 and 25. Rudolf Kempe conducts. No casts are listed, but +Lotte Lehmann sent word that the Negro soprano, Grace Bumbry, will +sing Venus in "Tannhaeuser". + +REMEMBER HOW BY a series of booking absurdities Chicago +missed seeing the Bolshoi Ballet? Remember how by lack of two big +theaters Chicago missed the first visit of the Royal Danish Ballet? +Well, now we have two big theaters. But barring a miracle, and +don't hold your breath for it, Chicago will not see the Leningrad-Kirov +Ballet, which stems from the ballet cradle of the Maryinsky and +is one of the great companies of the world. Before you let +loose a howl saying we announced its coming, not once but several times, +indeed we did. The engagement was supposed to be all set for the big +theater in McCormick Place, which Sol Hurok, ballet booker extraordinary, +considers the finest house of its kind in the country- and +of course he doesn't weep at the capacity, either. #@# + +It +was all set. Allied Arts corporation first listed the Chicago dates +as Dec& 4 thru 10. Later the Hurok office made it Dec& 8 thru +17, a nice, long booking for the full repertory. But if you keep a calendar +of events, as we do, you noticed a conflict. Allied Arts had +booked Marlene Dietrich into McCormick Place Dec& 8 and 9. Something +had to give. Not La Dietrich. Allied Arts then notified +us that the Kirov would cut short its Los Angeles booking, fly here +to open Nov& 28, and close Dec& 2. Shorter booking, but still +a booking. We printed it. A couple of days later a balletomane +told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was +told "the newspapers had made a mistake". So I started making +some calls of my own. These are the results. #@# + +The Kirov Ballet +is firmly booked into the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, Nov& +21 thru Dec& 4. Not a chance of opening here Nov& 28- +barring that miracle. Then why not the juicy booking Hurok had held +for us? Well, Dietrich won't budge from McCormick Place. Then +how about the Civic Opera house? Well, Allied Arts has booked +Lena Horne there for a week starting Dec& 4. Queried about +the impasse, Allied Arts said: "Better cancel the Kirov for +the time being. It's all up in the air again". So the Kirov +will fly back to Russia, minus a Chicago engagement, a serious +loss for dance fans- and for the frustrated bookers, cancellation of +one of the richest bookings in the country. Will somebody please +reopen the Auditorium? + +Paintings and drawings by Marie Moore of St& Thomas, Virgin +Islands, are shown thru Nov& 5 at the Meadows gallery, 3211 +Ellis av&, week days, 3 p& m& to 8 p& m&, Sundays 3 p& m& +to 6 p& m&, closed Mondays. @ #@# + +An exhibition of +Evelyn Cibula's paintings will open with a reception Nov& 5 at +the Evanston Community center, 828 Davis st&. It will continue all +month. #@# + +Abstractions and semi-abstractions by Everett McNear +are being exhibited by the University gallery of Notre Dame +until Nov& 5. + +In the line of operatic trades to cushion the budget, the Dallas +Civic Opera will use San Francisco's new Leni Bauer-Ecsy +production of "Lucia di Lammermoor" this season, returning the favor +next season when San Francisco uses the Dallas "Don Giovanni", +designed by Franco Zeffirelli. + +H E& BATES has scribbled a farce called "Hark, Hark, +the Lark"! It is one of the most entertaining and irresponsible +novels of the season. If there is a moral lurking among the +shenanigans, it is hard to find. Perhaps the lesson we should take from +these pages is that the welfare state in England still allows wild +scope for all kinds of rugged eccentrics. Anyway, a number of +them meet here in devastating collisions. One is an imperial London +stockbroker called Jerebohm. Another is a wily countryman called Larkin, +whose blandly boisterous progress has been chronicled, I believe, +in earlier volumes of Mr& Bates' comedie humaine. What's +up now? Well, Jerebohm and his wife Pinkie have reached the +stage of affluence that stirs a longing for the more atrociously expensive +rustic simplicities. They want to own a junior-grade castle, +or a manor house, or some modest little place where Shakespeare might +once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded +courtiers. They are willing to settle, however, in anything +that offers pheasants to shoot at and peasants to work at. And of course +Larkin has just the thing they want. + +#SPLENDOR BY SORCERY# + +It's a horror. The name of it is Gore Court, and it is surrounded +by a wasteland that would impress T& S& Eliot. That's not +precisely the way Larkin urges them to look at it, though. He conjures +herds +of deer, and wild birds crowding the air. He suggests +that Gore Court embodies all the glories of Tudor splendor. The stained-glass +windows may have developed unpremeditated patinas, the paneling +may be no more durable than the planks in a political platform. +The vast, dungeon kitchens may seem hardly worth using except on occasions +when one is faced with a thousand unexpected guests for lunch. + +Larkin has an answer to all that. The spaciousness of the Tudor +cooking areas, for example, will provide needed space for the extra +television sets required by modern butlers, cooks and maids. Also, perhaps, +table-tennis and other indoor sports to keep them fit and contented. + +It's a wonder, really, to how much mendacious trouble +Larkin puts himself to sell the Jerebohms that preposterous manse. +He doesn't really need the immense sum of money (probably converted +from American gold on the London Exchange) he makes them pay. + +For Larkin is already wonderfully contented with his lot. He has +a glorious wife and many children. When he needs money to buy something +like, say, the Rolls-Royce he keeps near his vegetable patch, he +takes a flyer in the sale of surplus army supplies. One of those capital-gains +ventures, in fact, has saddled him with Gore Court. He is +willing to sell it just to get it off his hands. And the Jerebohms +are more than willing to buy it. They plan to become county people +who know the proper way to terminate a fox's life on earth. + +#FIRST +ONE, THEN THE OTHER# + +If, in Larkin's eyes, they are nothing +but Piccadilly farmers, he has as much to learn about them as they +have to learn about the ways of truly rural living. Mr& Bates +shows us how this mutual education spreads its inevitable havoc. Oneupmanship +is practiced by both sides in a total war. First +the Larkins are ahead, then the Jerebohms. After Larkin has been persuaded +to restock his tangled acres with pheasants, he poaches only what +he needs for the nourishment of his family and local callers. One +of the local callers, a retired brigadier apparently left over from Kipling's +tales of India, does not approve of the way Larkin gets +his birds. He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair +on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance +is entirely sporting. But the brigadier dines on the birds with +relish. + +IT is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive +film yet made from Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" +is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, +which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street +Playhouses. More than a beautiful visualization of the +illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant +and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably +abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an +affectingly warm and human exposition of character. #@# + +Nikolai +Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander +Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, +and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility +and the surface absurdity of this poignant man. His addle-brained +knight-errant, self-appointed to the ridiculous position in an +age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous +code of knight-errantry had become a joke, is, as Cervantes no doubt +intended, a gaunt but gracious symbol of good, moving soberly and sincerely +in a world of cynics, hypocrites and rogues. Cherkasov +does not caricature him, as some actors have been inclined to do. He +treats this deep-eyed, bearded, bony crackpot with tangible affection +and respect. Directed by Grigory Kozintsev in a tempo that is +studiously +slow, he develops a sense of a high tradition shining brightly and +passing gravely through an impious world. The complexities +of communication have been considerably abetted in this case by appropriately +stilted English language that has been excellently dubbed in +place of the Russian dialogue. The voices of all the characters, including +that of Cherkasov, have richness, roughness or color to conform +with the personalities. And the subtleties of the dialogue are most +helpfully conveyed. Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, +there is no violation of artistry or logic here. Splendid, +too, is the performance of Yuri Tolubeyev, one of Russia's leading +comedians, as Sancho Panza, the fat, grotesque "squire". Though +his character is broader and more comically rounded than the don, +he gives it a firmness and toughness- a sort of peasant dignity- +too. It is really as though the Russians have seen in this character +the +oftentimes underlying vitality and courage of supposed buffoons. + +The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played +on him when he is facetiously put in command of an "island" is +one of the best in the film. #@# + +True, the pattern and flow of +the drama have strong literary qualities that are a bit wearisome in +the first half, before Don Quixote goes to the duke's court. But +strength and poignancy develop thenceforth, and the windmill and deathbed +episodes gather the threads of realization of the wonderfulness of +the old boy. There are other good representations of peasants +and people of the court by actors who are finely costumed and magnificently +photographed in this last of the Russian films to reach this +country in the program of joint cultural exchange. Also on the +bill at the Fifty-fifth Street is a nice ten-minute color film called +"Sunday in Greenwich Village", a tour of the haunts and joints. + +Television has yet to work out a living arrangement with jazz, +which comes to the medium more as an uneasy guest than as a relaxed member +of the family. There seems to be an unfortunate assumption +that an hour of Chicago-style jazz in prime evening time, for example, +could not be justified without the trimmings of a portentous documentary. +At least this seemed to be the working hypothesis for "Chicago +and All That Jazz", presented on ~NBC-~TV Nov& +26. The program came out of the ~NBC Special Projects department, +and was slotted in the Du Pont Show of the Week series. +Perhaps Special Projects necessarily thinks along documentary lines. +If so, it might be worth while to assign a future jazz show to a different +department- one with enough confidence in the musical material +to cut down on the number of performers and give them a little room +to display their talents. As a matter of fact, this latter approach +has already been tried, and with pleasing results. A few years +ago a +"Timex All-Star Jazz Show" offered a broad range of styles, +ranging from Lionel Hampton's big band to the free-wheeling +Dukes of Dixieland. An enthusiastic audience confirmed the "live" +character of the hour, and provided the interaction between musician +and hearer which almost always seems to improve the quality of performance. + +About that same time John Crosby's ~TV series +on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space +is one of the most sensible things a producer can do. In an hour remembered +for its almost rudderless movement, a score of jazz luminaries +went before the cameras for lengthy periods. The program had been arranged +to permit the establishment of a mood of intense concentration +on the music. Cameras stared at soloists' faces in extreme closeups, +then considerately pulled back for full views of ensemble work. + +"Chicago and All That Jazz" could not be faulted on the choice +of artists. Some of the in-person performers were Jack Teagarden, +Gene Krupa, Bud Freeman, Pee Wee Russell, Johnny St& Cyr, +Joe Sullivan, Red Allen, Lil Armstrong, Blossom Seeley. The +jazz buff could hardly ask for more. Furthermore, Garry Moore +makes an ideal master of ceremonies. (He played host at the Timex +show already mentioned.) One of the script's big problems +was how to blend pictures and music of the past with live performances +by musicians of today. ~NBC had gathered a lot of historical material +which it was eager to share. For example, there was sheet music +with the word "jazz" in the title, +to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold. Samples +soomed into closeup range in regular succession, like telephone poles +passing on the highway, while representative music reinforced the mood +of the late teens and 1920's. However well chosen and cleverly +arranged, such memorabilia unfortunately amounted to more of an +interruption than an auxiliary to the evening's main business, which +(considering the talent at hand) should probably have been the gathering +of fresh samples of the Chicago style. Another source of +~NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this +view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would +have blotted out the entire glimpse. Similarly, in presenting still +photographs of early jazz groups, the program allowed no time for a +close perusal. "Chicago and All That Jazz" may have wound +up satisfying neither the confirmed fan nor the inquisitive newcomer. +By trying to be both a serious survey of a bygone era and a showcase +for today's artists, the program turned out to be a not-quite-perfect +example of either. Still, the network's willingness to experiment +in this musical field is to be commended, and future essays happily +anticipated. + +Even Joan Sutherland may not have anticipated the tremendous +reception she received from the Metropolitan Opera audience attending +her debut as Lucia in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" Sunday +night. The crowd staged its own mad scene in salvos of +cheers and applause and finally a standing ovation as Miss Sutherland +took curtain call after curtain call following a fantastic "Mad +Scene" created on her own and with the help of the composer and the +other performers. Her entrance in Scene 2, Act 1, brought some +disconcerting applause even before she had sung a note. Thereafter +the audience waxed applause-happy, but discriminating operagoers reserved +judgment as her singing showed signs of strain, her musicianship +some questionable procedure and her acting uncomfortable stylization. +As she gained composure during the second act, her technical resourcefulness +emerged stronger, though she had already revealed a trill almost +unprecedented in years of performances of "Lucia". She topped +the sextet brilliantly. Each high note had the crowd in ecstasy +so that it stopped the show midway in the "Mad Scene", but the +real reason was a realization of the extraordinary performance unfolding +at the moment. Miss Sutherland appeared almost as another person +in this scene: A much more girlish Lucia, a sensational coloratura +who ran across stage while singing, and an actress immersed in her +role. What followed the outburst brought almost breathless silence as +Miss Sutherland revealed her mastery of a voice probably unique among +sopranos today. This big, flexible voice with uncommon range +has been superbly disciplined. Nervousness at the start must have caused +the blemishes of her first scene, or she may warm up slowly. In +the fullness of her vocal splendor, however, she could sing the famous +scene magnificently. Technically it was fascinating, aurally +spell-binding, and dramatically quite realistic. Many years have passed +since a Metropolitan audience heard anything comparable. Her debut +over, perhaps the earlier scenes will emerge equally fine. The +performance also marked the debut of a most promising young conductor, +Silvio Varviso. He injected more vitality into the score than +it has revealed in many years. He may respect too much the Italian tradition +of letting singers hold on to their notes, but to restrain them +in a singers' opera may be quite difficult. Richard Tucker +sang Edgardo in glorious voice. His bel canto style gave the performance +a special distinction. The remainder of the cast fulfilled its +assignments no more than satisfactorily just as the old production and +limited stage direction proved only serviceable. Miss Sutherland +first sang Lucia at Covent Garden in 1959. (The first Metropolitan +Opera broadcast on Dec& 9 will introduce her as Lucia.) +She +has since turned to Bellini, whose opera "Beatrice di Tenda" +in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her +to New York last season. She will sing "La Sonambula" with +it here next week. + +Anyone for musical Ping-pong? It's really quite fun- +as long as you like games. You will need a stereo music system, +with speakers preferably placed at least seven or eight feet apart, and +one or more of the new London "Phase 4" records. There are 12 +of these to choose from, all of them of popular music except for the +star release, {Pass in Review} (~SP-44001). This features +the marching songs of several nations, recorded as though the various +national bands were marching by your reviewing stand. Complete with +crowd effects, interruptions by jet planes, and sundry other touches of +realism, this disc displays London's new technique to the best effect. + +All of the jackets carry a fairly technical and detailed +explanation of this new recording program. No reference is made to the +possibility of recording other than popular music in this manner, and +it would not seem to lend itself well to serious music. Directionality +is greatly exaggerated most of the time; but when the sounds of +the two speakers are allowed to mix, there is excellent depth and dimension +to the music. You definitely hear some of the instruments close +up and others farther back, with the difference in placement apparently +more distinct than would result from the nearer instruments merely +being louder than the ones farther back. This is a characteristic of +good stereo recording and one of its tremendous advantages over monaural +sound. London explains that the very distinct directional +effect in the Phase 4 series is due in large part to their novel methods +of microphoning and recording the music on a number of separate tape +channels. These are then mixed by their sound engineers with the active +co-operation of the musical staff and combined into the final two +channels which are impressed on the record. In some of the numbers +the instrumental parts have even been recorded at different times and +then later combined on the master tape to produce special effects. + +Some clue to the character of London's approach in these discs +may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include +the word "percussion" or "percussive". Drums, xylophones, +castanets, and other percussive instruments are reproduced remarkably +well. Only too often, however, you have the feeling that you are sitting +in a room with some of the instruments lined up on one wall to your +left and others facing them on the wall to your right. They are definitely +in the same room with you, but your head starts to swing as +though you were sitting on the very edge of a tennis court watching a +spirited volley. {The Percussive Twenties} (~SP-44006) +stirs pleasant memories with well-known songs of that day, and Johnny +Keating's Kombo gives forth with tingling jazz in {Percussive +Moods} (~SP-44005). {Big Band Percussion} (~SP-44002) +seemed one of the least attractive discs- the arrangements just +didn't have so much character as the others. There is an extraordinary +sense of presence in all of these recordings, apparently obtained +at least in part by emphasizing the middle and high frequencies. +The penalty for this is noticeable in the big, bold, brilliant, +but brassy piano sounds in {Melody and Percussion for Two Pianos} +(~SP-44007). All of the releases, however, are recorded at a +gratifyingly high level, with resultant masking of any surface noise. +{Pass in Review} practically guarantees enjoyment, and is a dramatic +demonstration of the potentialities of any stereo music system. + +Many Hollywood films manage somehow to be authentic, but not +realistic. Strange, but true- authenticity and realism often +aren't related at all. Almost every film bearing the imprimatur +of Hollywood is physically authentic- in fact, impeccably so. In +any given period piece the costumes, bric-a-brac, vehicles, and decor, +bear the stamp of unimpeachable authenticity. The major studios +maintain a cadre of film librarians and research specialists who +look to this matter. During the making recently of an important Biblical +film, some 40 volumes of research material and sketches not only +of costumes and interiors, but of architectural developments, sports +arenas, vehicles, and other paraphernalia were compiled, consulted, and +complied with. But, alas, the authenticity seems to stop at +the set's edge. The drama itself- and this seems to be lavishly true +of Biblical drama- often has hardly any relationship with authenticity +at all. The storyline, in sort, is wildly unrealistic. +Thus, in "The Story of Ruth" we have Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz +and sets that are meticulously authentic. But except for a vague adherence +to the basic storyline- i&e&, that Ruth remained with Naomi +and finally wound up with Boaz- the film version has little to +do with the Bible. And in the new "King of Kings" the +plot involves intrigues and twists and turns that cannot be traced to +the Gospels. Earlier this month Edward R& Murrow, director +of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and +had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry. + +He talked about unauthentic storylines too. He intimated that +they weren't doing the country much good in the Cold War. And +to an industry that prides itself on authenticity, he urged greater realism. + +"in many corners of the globe", he said, "the major +source of impressions about this country are in the movies they meet. +Would we want a future-day Gibbon or Macaulay recounting the saga +of America with movies as his prime source of knowledge? Yet for +much of the globe, Hollywood is just that- prime, if not sole, source +of knowledge. If a man totally ignorant of America were to judge +our land and its civilization based on Hollywood alone, what conclusions +do you think he might come to? + +Francois D'Albert, Hungarian-born violinist who made his +New York debut three years ago, played a return engagement last night +in Judson Hall. He is now president of the Chicago Conservatory +College. His pianist was Donald Jenni, a faculty member at DePaul +University. The acoustics of the small hall had been misgauged +by the artists, so that for the first half of the program, when +the +piano was partially open, Mr& Jenni's playing was too loud. In +vying with him, Mr& D'Albert also seemed to be overdriving his +tone. This was not an overriding drawback to enjoyment of the +performances, however, except in the case of the opening work, Mozart's +Sonata in ~A (K& 526), which clattered along noisily in +an unrelieved fashion. Brahm's Sonata in ~A, although also +vigorous, stood up well under the two artists' strong, large-scale +treatment. Mr& D'Albert has a firm, attractive tone, which eschews +an overly sweet vibrato. He made the most of the long Brahmsian +phrases, and by the directness and drive of his playing gave the work +a handsome performance. A Sonata for Violin and Piano, called +"Bella Bella", by Robert Fleming, was given its first United +States performance. The title refers to the nickname given his +wife by the composer, who is also a member of the National Film Board +of Canada. The work's two movements, one melodically sentimental, +the other brightly capricious, are clever enough in a Ravel-like +style, but they rehash a wornout idiom. They might well indicate conjugal +felicity, but in musical terms that smack of Hollywood. Works +by Dohnanyi, Hubay, Mr& D'Albert himself and Paganini, +indicated that the violinist had some virtuoso fireworks up his sleeve +as well as a reserved attitude toward a lyric phrase. Standard items +by Sarasate and Saint-Saens completed the program. @ + +IN recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York +Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night +at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital +since 1948. Miss Xydis has a natural affinity for the keyboard, +and in the twenty years since her debut here she has gained the +authority and inner assurance that lead to audience control. And the +tone she commands is always beautiful in sound. Since she also +has considerable technical virtuosity and a feeling for music in the +romantic tradition, Miss Xydis gave her listeners a good deal of pleasure. +She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every +piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures. + +The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers +of this century. It was in them that Miss Xydis was at her best. +The Rachmaninoff Prelude No& 12, Op& 32, for instance, gave +her an opportunity to exploit one of her special facilities- the +ability to produce fine deep-sounding bass tones while contrasting them +simultaneously with fine silver filagree in the treble. The +four Kabalevsky Preludes were also assured, rich in color and songful. +And the Prokofieff Seventh Sonata had the combination of romanticism +and modern bravura that Prokofieff needs. Miss +Xydis' +earlier selections were Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses, in which +each variation was nicely set off from the others; Haydn's Sonata +in ~E minor, which was unfailingly pleasant in sound, and Chopin's +Sonata in ~B flat minor. A memory lapse in the last somewhat +marred the pianist's performance. So what was the deepest music +on her program had the poorest showing. Miss Xydis was best when +she did not need to be too probing. + +ALL the generals who held important commands in World War +/2, did not write books. It only seems as if they did. And the +best books by generals were not necessarily the first ones written. One +of the very best is only now published in this country, five years +after its first publication in England. It is "Defeat Into Victory", +by Field Marshal Viscount Slim. A long book heavily +weighted with military technicalities, in this edition it is neither +so long nor so technical as it was originally. Field Marshal Slim +has abridged it for the benefit of "those who, finding not so great +an attraction in accounts of military moves and counter-moves, are more +interested in men and their reactions to stress, hardship and danger". +The man whose reactions and conclusions get the most space is, of +course, the Field Marshal himself. William Joseph Slim, +First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the +principal British commander in the field during the Burma War. He +had been a corps commander during the disastrous defeat and retreat +of 1942 when the ill-prepared, ill-equipped British forces "were outmaneuvered, +outfought and outgeneraled". He returned in command of +an international army of Gurkhas, Indians, Africans, Chinese and +British. And in a series of bitterly fought battles in the jungles +and hills and along the great rivers of Burma he waged one of the most +brilliant campaigns of the war. "The Forgotten War" his soldiers +called the Burma fighting because the war in Africa and Europe +enjoyed priorities in equipment and in headlines. Parts of "Defeat +Into Victory" are a tangle of Burmese place names and military +units, but a little application makes everything clear enough. On +the whole this is an interesting and exceptionally well-written book. +Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes. +He has a pleasant sense of humor and is modest enough to admit +mistakes and even "a cardinal error". He praises many individuals +generously. He himself seems to be tough, tireless, able and intelligent, +more intellectual and self-critical than most soldiers. + +#REMAKING +AN ARMY TO WIN# + +"Defeat Into Victory" is a dramatic +and lively military narrative. But it is most interesting in its account +of the unending problems of high command, of decisions and their +reasons, of the myriad matters that demand attention in addition to battle +action. Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal +Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite +them with fresh recruits. His remarks about training, discipline, +morale, leadership and command are enlightening. He believed in making +inspiring speeches and he made a great many. He believed in being +seen near the front lines and he was there. For general morale reasons +and to encourage the efforts of his supply officers, when food was +short for combat troops he cut the rations of his headquarters staff accordingly. + +Other crucial matters required constant supervision: +labor and all noncombatant troops, whose morale was vital, too; +administrative organization and delicate diplomatic relations with +Top Brass- British, American and Chinese; health, hygiene, medical +aid and preventive medicine; hospitals (inadequate) and nurses +(scanty); food and military supplies; logistics and transport; +airdrops and airstrips; roads and river barges to be built. + +#EXPECTED +OF A COMMANDER# + +Commenting on these and other matters, Field +Marshal Slim makes many frank and provocative remarks: "When +in doubt as to two courses of action, a general should choose the +bolder". "The commander has failed in duty if he +has not won victory- for that his duty". "It only +does harm to talk to troops about new and desirable equipment which +others may have but which you cannot give them. It depresses them. So +I made no mention of air transport until we could get at least some +of it". Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage +of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders. +Of the Japanese private he says: "He fought and marched till +he died. If 500 Japanese were ordered to hold a position, we had to +kill 495 before it was ours- and then the last five killed themselves". + +Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this +to say: "The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave [as +the white], usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental +doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by +slaughter and mutilation around him. He is, by background and living +standards, better fitted to endure hardship uncomplainingly, to demand +less in the way of subsistence or comfort, and to look after himself +when thrown on his own resources". + +A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name +of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded +in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience. Actually, the +program they sang was at least two-thirds serious and high-minded, +and they sang it beautifully. Under the capable direction of the choir's +founder, Geroge Bragg, the twenty-six boys made some lovely sounds +in an opening group of Renaissance and baroque madrigals and motets, +excerpts from Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" and all of the +Britten "Ceremonial of Carols". Their singing was well-balanced, +clear and, within obvious limitations, extremely pleasing. The +limitations are those one expects from untrained and unsettled voices- +an occasional shrillness of almost earsplitting intensity, an occasional +waver and now and then a bleat. But Mr& Bragg is +a remarkably gifted conductor, and the results he has produced with +his boys are generally superior. Most surprising of all, he has accomplished +some prodigies in training for the production of words. The Latin, +for example, was not only clear; it was even beautiful. + +Furthermore, there were solid musical virtues in the interpretation +of the music. Lines came out neatly and in good balance. Tempos were +lively. The piano accompaniments by Istvan Szelenyi were stylish. + +A boy soprano named Dixon Boyd sang a Durante solo motet and +a few other passages enchantingly. Other capable soloists included +David Clifton, Joseph Schockler and Pat Thompson. The final +group included folk songs from back home, stomped out, shouted and +chanted with irresistible spirit and in cowboy costume. Boys will be +boys, and Texans will be Texans. The combination proved quite irresistible +last night. @ + +THE Polish song and dance company called Mazowsze, after +the region of Poland, where it has its headquarters, opened a three-week +engagement at the City Center last night. A thoroughly ingratiating +company it is, and when the final curtain falls you may suddenly +realize that you have been sitting with a broad grin on your face all +evening. Not that it is all funny, by any means, though some +of it is definitely so, but simply that the dancers are young and handsome, +high-spirited and communicative, and the program itself is as vivacious +as it is varied. There is no use at all in trying to follow +it dance by dance and title by title, for it has a kind of nonstop format, +and moves along in an admirable continuity that demands no pauses +for identification. The material is all basically of folk origin, +gleaned from every section of Poland. But under the direction of +Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska, who with her late husband founded the +organization in 1948, it has all been put into theatrical form, treated +selectively, choreographed specifically for presentation to spectators, +and performed altogether professionally. Under the surface of the +wide range of folk movements is apparent a sound technical ballet training, +and an equally professional sense of performing. #@# + +Since +the organization was created thirteen years ago, it is obvious that +this is not the original company; it is more likely the sons and daughters +of that company. The girls are charming children and the men +are wonderfully vital and engaging youngsters. The stage is constantly +full of them; indeed, there are never fewer than eight of them on +stage, and that is only for the more intimate numbers. They can be exuberant +or sentimental, flirtatious or funny, but the only thing they +seem unable to be is dull. To pick out particular numbers is +something of a problem, but one or two identifiable items are too conspicuously +excellent to be missed. There is for example, a stunning Krakowiak +that closes the first act; the mazurka choreographed by Witold +Zapala to music from Moniuszko's opera, "Strasny Dwor', +may be the most beautiful mazurka you are likely ever to see; there +is an enchanting polonaise; and the dances and songs from the Tatras +contain a magnificent dance for the men. Everywhere there are +little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians +is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments +with winning warmth. + +The {THEATRE-BY-THE-SEA}, Matunuck, presents "King +of +Hearts" by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke. Directed by Michael +Murray; settings by William David Roberts. The cast: @ + +Producer John Holmes has chosen a delightful comedy for his season's +opener at Matunuck in Jean Kerr's "King of Hearts". + +The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid- typical "don't eat +the daisies" material- which has stamped the author throughout her +books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience +liked it. The story is of a famous strip cartoonist, an +arty individual, whose specialty is the American boy and who adopts +a 10-year-old to provide him with fresh idea material. This is +when his troubles begin, not to mention a fiedgling artist who he hires, +and who turns out to have ideas of his own, with particular respect +to the hero's sweetheart-secretary. John Heffernan, playing +Larry Larkin, the cartoonist, carries the show in marvelous fashion. +His portrayal of an edgy head-in-the-clouds artist is virtually flawless. + +This may be unfortunate, perhaps, from the standpoint +of David Hedison, Providence's contribution to Hollywood, who is +appearing by special arrangement with 20th Century-Fox. Not that +Mr& Hedison does not make the most of his role. He does, and more. +But the book is written around a somewhat dizzy cartoonist, and it +has to be that way. A word should be said for Gary Morgan, a +Broadway youngsters who, as the adopted son, makes life miserable for +nearly everybody and Larkin in particular. And for his playmate, Francis +Coletta of West Warwick, who has a bit part, Billy. +On the whole, audiences will like this performance. It is a tremendous +book, lively, constantly moving, and the Matunuck cast does well +by it. + +The {NEWPORT PLAYHOUSE} presents {"EPITAPH FOR +GEORGE DILLON"} +by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, directed by Wallace +Gray. The cast: @ The angriest young man in +Newport last night was at the Playhouse, where "Epitaph for George +Dillon" opened as the jazz festival closed. For the hero +of this work by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton is a chap embittered +by more than the lack of beer during a jam session. He's mad +at a world he did not make. Furthermore, he's something of +a scoundrel, an artist whose mind and feelings are all finger-tips. +This is in contrast to the family with whom he boards. They not only +think and feel cliches but live cliches as well. It is into this +household, one eroded by irritations that have tortured the souls +out of its people, that George Dillon enters at the beginning of the +play. An unsuccessful playwright and actor, he has faith only +in himself and in a talent he is not sure exists. By the end of the +third act, the artist is dead but the body lingers on, a shell among other +shells. Not altogether a successful play, "Epitaph for +George Dillon" overcomes through sheer vitality and power what in +a lesser work might be crippling. It is awfully talky, for instance, +and not all of the talk is terribly impressive. But it strikes sparks +on occasion and their light causes all else to be forgotten. +There is a fine second act, as an example, one in which Samuel Groom, +as Dillon, has an opportunity to blaze away in one impassioned passage +after another. This is an exciting young actor to watch. +Just as exciting but in a more technically proficient way is Laura Stuart, +whose complete control of her every movement is lovely to watch. +Miss Stuart is as intensely vibrant as one could wish, almost an +icy shriek threatening to explode at any moment. Also fine are +Sue Lawless, as a mother more protective and belligerent than a female +spider and just as destructive, Harold Cherry, as her scratchy +spouse, and Hildy Weissman, as a vegetable in human form. Wallace +Gray has directed a difficult play here, usually well, but with +just a bit too much physical movement in the first act for my taste. +Still, his finale is put together with taste and a most sensitive projection +of that pale sustenance, despair. + +The {WARWICK MUSICAL THEATER} presents {"Where's +Charley?"} with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, directed +by Christopher Hewett, choreography by Peter Conlow, musical direction +by Samuel Matlowsky. The cast: @ Everybody fell +in love with Amy again last night at the Warwick Musical Theater, +and Shelley Berman was to blame. One of the finest soft shoe +tunes ever invented, "Once in Love with Amy" is also, of course, +one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come +out of American musical comedy in our era. So the audience last +night was all ears and eyes just after Act /2, got a rousing opening +chorus, "Where's Charley?", and Berman sifted out all alone +on the stage with the ambling chords and beat of the song just whispering +into being. It is greatly to Berman's credit that he +made no attempt to outdo Ray Bolger. He dropped his earlier and delightful +hamming, which is about the only way to handle the old war horse +called "Charley's Aunt", and let himself go with as an appealing +an "Amy" as anybody could ask. In brief, Berman played +himself and not Bolger. The big audience started applauding even +before he had finished. The whole production this week is fresh +and lively. The costumes are stunning evocations of the voluminous +gowns and picture hats of the Gibson Girl days. The ballet work +is on the nose, especially in the opening number by "The New Ashmolean +Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band", along +with a fiery and sultry Brazilian fantasia later. Berman, whose +fame has rested in recent years on his skills as a night club monologist, +proved himself very much at home in musical comedy. Sparrow-size +Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful +smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real +aunt, was positively +monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner. + +All told, "Where's Charley?" ought not to be missed. +It has a fast pace, excellent music, expert direction, and not only +a good comedian, but an appealing person in his own right, Mr& +Berman. + +The Broadway Theater League of Rhode Island presents C& +Edwin Knill's and Martin Tahse's production of {"FIORELLO!"} +at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. The book is by Jerome +Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon +Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and +lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, +and the production was directed by Mr& Abbott. The cast: +@ This is one of the happier events of the season. +The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night +and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians +are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little +Flower rides to break a lance again. I saw "Fiorello!" +performed in New York by the original cast and I think this company +is every bit as good, and perhaps better. Certainly in the matter +of principals there is nothing lacking. Bob Carroll may not bear +quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley +does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello +as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and +remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again. + +Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught +Republican Party district chieftain. And Paul Lipson, as Morris, +the faithful one who never gets home to his Shirley's dinner, was +fine, too. As for the ladies, they were full of charm, and sincerity, +and deep and abiding affection for this hurrying driving, honest, +little man. Charlotte Fairchild was excellent as the loyal Marie, +who became the second Mrs& LaGuardia, singing and acting with +remarkable conviction. Jen Nelson, as Thea, his first wife, managed +to make that short role impressive. And little Zeme North, a Dora +with real spirit and verve, was fascinating whether she was singing of +her love for Floyd, the cop who becomes sewer commissioner and then +is promoted into garbage, or just dancing to display her exuberant feelings. + +Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual +treatment of "On the Side of the Angels" and "Politics and Poker" +were handled splendidly, and I thought Rudy Bond and his band +of tuneful ward-heelers made "Little Tin Box" even better than +it was done by the New York cast; all the words of its clever +lyrics came through with perfect clarity. The party at Floyd's +penthouse gave the "chorines" a chance for a nostalgic frolic +through all those hackneyed routines which have become a classic choreographic +statement of the era's nonsense. LaGuardia's multi-lingual +rallies, when he is running for Congress, are well staged, +and wind up in a wild Jewish folk-dance that is really great musical +theater. Martin Tahse has established quite a reputation for +himself as a successful stager of touring productions. Not a corner +has been visibly cut in this one. The sets are remarkably elaborate +for a road-show that doesn't pause long in any one place, and they +are devised so that they shift with a minimum of interruption or obtrusiveness. +(Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were +being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience +with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their +eyes. I'm glad to say there's none of that distraction in this +"Fiorello!") It has all been done in superb style, +and the result is a show which deserves the support of every person hereabouts +who enjoys good musical theater. + +{LOEW'S THEATER} presents {"Where the Boys are"}, +an ~MGM picture produced by Joe Pasternak and directed +by Henry Levin from a screenplay by George Wells. The cast: @ + +Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown +senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose +I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on "Where the +Boys are", but I shall do nothing of the sort. Instead- +and not just to prove my objectivity- I hasten to report that it's +a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of +reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort +Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with +the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group- +that is to say, sex. The answers the girls give struck +me as reasonably varied and healthily individual. If most of them weren't +exactly specific- well, that's the way it is in life, I guess. +But at least it's reassuring to see some teenagers who don't +profess to know all the answers and are thinking about their problems +instead. "Where the Boys Are" also has a juvenile bounce +that makes for a refreshing venture in comedy. There are some sharp +and whipping lines and some hilariously funny situations- the best +of the latter being a mass impromptu plunge into a nightclub tank where +a "mermaid" is performing. Most of the female faces are +new, or at least not too familiar. Dolores Hart, is charming in a leading +role, and quite believable. I was delighted with Paula Prentiss' +comedy performance, which was as fresh and unstilted as one's +highest hopes might ask. A couple of the males made good comedy, too- +Jim Hutton and Frank Gorshin. The only performance which +was too soft for me was that of Yvette Mimieux, but since someone +had to become the victim of despoilers, just to emphasize that such things +do happen at these fracases, I suppose this was the attitude the +part called for. I must say, however, that I preferred the acting that +had something of a biting edge to it. To anyone who remembers +Newport at its less than maximum violence, this view of what the +boys and girls do in the springtime before they wing north for the Jazz +Festival ought to prove entertaining. The second feature, +{"The Price of Silence"}, is a British detective story that +will talk your head off. + +The superb intellectual and spiritual vitality of William James +was never more evident than in his letters. Here was a man with an +enormous gift for living as well as thinking. To both persons and ideas +he brought the same delighted interest, the same open-minded relish +for what was unique in each, the same discriminating sensibility and +quicksilver intelligence, the same gallantry of judgment. For +this latest addition to the Great Letters Series, under the general +editorship of Louis Kronenberger, Miss Hardwick has made a selection +which admirably displays the variety of James's genius, not +to mention the felicities of his style. And how he could +His famous criticism of brother Henry's "third style" is surely +as subtly, even elegantly, worded an analysis of the latter's intricate +air castles as Henry himself could ever have produced. His letter +to his daughter on the pains of growing up is surely as trenchant, +forthright, and warmly understanding a piece of advice as ever a grown-up +penned to a sensitive child, and with just the right tone of unpatronizing +good humor. #@# + +Most of all, his letters to his philosophic +colleagues show a magnanimity as well as an honesty which help +to explain Whitehead's reference to James as "that adorable genius". +Miss Hardwick speaks of his "superb gift for intellectual +friendship", and it is certainly a joy to see the intellectual life +lived so free from either academic aridity or passionate dogmatism. + +This is a virtue of which we have great need in a society where +there seems to be an increasing lack of communication- or even desire +for communication- between differing schools of thought. It holds +an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word "intellectual" +has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people +who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human +virtues. To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic +position differed radically from his own, James could write, +"Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other +social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have always felt +that my life was being lived importantly". Of another colleague, +George Santayana, he could write: "The great event in +my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book. Although +I absolutely reject the Platonism of it, I have literally squealed +with delight at the imperturbable perfection with which the position +is laid down on page after page". #@# + +Writing to his colleague +George Herbert Palmer- "Glorious old Palmer", as he addresses +him- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really +understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that +their varying systems are "so many religions, ways of fronting life, +and worth fighting for", then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic +universe. "The best condition of it would be an open conflict +and rivalry of the diverse systems **h. The world might ring with the +struggle, if we devoted ourselves exclusively to belaboring each other". + +The "belaboring" is of course jocular, yet James was +not lacking in fundamental seriousness- unless we measure him by +that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who +stakes all on his vision of God. To James this vision never quite +came, despite his appreciation of it in others. But there is a +dignity and even a hint of the inspired prophet in his words to one +correspondent: +"You ask what I am going to 'reply' to Bradley. +But why need one reply to everything and everybody? **h I think +that readers generally hate polemics and recriminations. +All polemic of ours should, I believe, be either very broad statements +of contrast, or fine points treated singly, and as far as possible +impersonally **h. As far as the rising generation goes, why not simply +express ourselves positively, and trust that the truer view quietly +will displace the other. Here again 'God will know his own'". + +The collected works of James Thurber, now numbering 25 volumes +(including the present exhibit) represent a high standard of literary +excellence, as every schoolboy knows. The primitive-eclogue quality +of his drawings, akin to that of graffiti scratched on a cave wall, +is equally well known. About all that remains to be said is that the +present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, +comprises (as usual) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little +more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the +book. The one unifying note, if any, is sounded in the initial +article entitled: "How to Get Through the Day". It is repeated +at intervals in some rather sadly desperate word-games for insomniacs, +the hospitalized, and others forced to rely on inner resources, +including (in the ~P's alone) "palindromes", "paraphrases", +and "parodies". "The Tyranny of Trivia" suggests +arbitrary alphabetical associations to induce slumber. And new vistas +of hairshirt asceticism are opened by scholarly monographs entitled: +"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear-Muffs", +"Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dream", and "The New Vocabularianism". +Some of Thurber's curative methods involve strong +potions of mixed metaphor, malapropism, and gobbledygook and are recommended +for use only in extreme cases. #@# + +A burlesque paean +entitled: "Hark the Herald Tribune, Times, and All the Other +Angels Sing" brilliantly succeeds in exaggerating even motion-picture +ballyhooey. "How the Kooks Crumble" features an amusingly +accurate take-off on sneaky announcers who attempt to homogenize radio-~TV +commercials, and "The Watchers of the Night" is a veritable +waking nightmare. A semi-serious literary document entitled +"The Wings of Henry James" is noteworthy, if only for a keenly +trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult +later period by modest Owen Wister, author of "The Virginian". +James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, "is attempting the impossible +**h namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces +upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions. He +would like to put several sentences on top of each other so that you +could read them all at once, and get all at once, the various shadings +and complexities". Equally penetrating in its fashion is +the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation: +"So much has already been written about everything that you can't +find out anything about it". Or the mildly epigrammatic utterance +(also a quotation): "Woman's place is in the wrong". Who +but Thurber can be counted on to glean such nectareous essences? + +A tribute to midsummer "bang-sashes" seems terribly funny, +though it would be hard to explain why. "One of them banged the sash +of the window nearest my bed around midnight in July and I leaped +out of sleep and out of bed. 'It's just a bat' said my wife reassuringly, +and I sighed with relief. 'Thank God for that' I said; +'I thought it was a human being'". #@# + +In a sense, +perhaps, Thurber is indebted artistically to the surrealist painter +(was it Salvador Dali?) who first conceived the startling fancy of +a picture window in the abdomen. That is, it is literally a picture +window: you don't see into the viscera; you see a picture- trees, +or flowers. This is something like what Thurber's best effects +are like, if I am not mistaken. Though no longer able to turn +out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches (several old favorites are +scattered through the present volume) Thurber has retained unimpaired +his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness. In +his concluding paragraph he writes: "The devoted writer of humor +will continue to try to come as close to truth as he can". For many +readers Thurber comes closer than anyone else in sight. + +The latest Low is a puzzler. The master's hand has lost none +of its craft. He is at his usual best in exposing the shams and self-deceptions +of political and diplomatic life in the fifties. The reader +meets a few old friends like Blimp and the ~TUC horse, and +becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like +the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the +nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out. But there +is a difference between the present volume and the early Low. There +is fear in the fifties as his title suggests and as his competent drawings +show. But there was terror in the thirties when the Nazis were +on the loose and in those days Low struck like lightning. #@# + +Anyone +can draw his own conclusions from this difference. It might be +argued that the Communists are less inhuman than the Nazis and furnish +the artist with drama in a lower key. But this argument cannot be +pushed very far because the Communist system makes up for any shortcomings +of its leaders in respect to corrosion. The Communists wield +a power unknown to Hitler. And the leading issue, that of piecemeal +aggression, remains the same. This is drama enough. Do we ourselves +offer Mr& Low less of a crusade? In the thirties we would +not face our enemy; that was a nightmarish situation and Low was +in his element. Now we have stood up to the Communists; we are stronger +and more self-confident- and Low cannot so easily put us to rights. + +Or does the reason for less Jovian drawings lie elsewhere? +It might be that Low has seen too many stupidities and that they +do not outrage him now. He writes, "Confucius held that in times +of stress one should take short views- only up to lunchtime". + +Whatever the cause, his mood in the fifties rarely rises above +the level of the capably sardonic. Dulles? He does not seem to have +caught the subtleties of the man. McCarthy? The skies turn dark +but the clouds do not loose their wrath. Suez? Low seems to have +supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, +so there is no fire in his eye. #@# + +Stalin's death, +Churchill's farewell to public life, Hillary and Tensing on Everest, +Quemoy and Matsu- all subjects for a noble anger or an accolade. +Instead the cartoons seem to deal with foibles. Their Eisenhower +is insubstantial. Did Low decide to let well enough alone when +he made his selections? He often drew the bomb. He showed puny +men attacked by splendidly tyrannical machines. And Khrushchev turned +out to be prime copy for the most witty caricaturist of them all. +But, but and but. Look in this book for weak mortals and only +on occasion for virtues and vices on the heroic scale. Read the moderately +brief text, not for captions, sometimes for tart epigrams, once +in a while for an explosion in the middle of your fixed ideas. + +A gray fox with a patch on one eye- confidence man, city slicker, +lebensraum specialist- tries to take over Catfish Bend in this +third relaxed allegory from Mr& Burman's refreshing Louisiana +animal community. The fox is all ingratiating smiles when he +arrives from New Orleans, accompanied by one wharf rat. But like all +despots, as he builds his following from among the gullible, he grows +more threatening toward those who won't follow- such solid citizens +as Doc Raccoon; Judge Black, the vegetarian black snake; +and the eagle, who leads the bird community when he is not too busy in +Washington posing for fifty-cent pieces. As soon as the fox +has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, +of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination +campaign +in the city. (The followers of bullies invariably are aggrieved +about the very things +they plan to do to others.) They train the mink +and other animals to fight. And pretty soon gray fox is announcing that +he won't have anyone around that's against him, and setting out +to break his second territorial treaty with the birds. Robert +Hillyer, the poet, writes in his introduction to this brief animal +fable that Mr& Burman ought to win a Nobel Prize for the Catfish +Bend series. He may have a point in urging that decadent themes be +given fewer prizes. But it's hard to imagine Mr& Burman as a Nobel +laureate on the basis of these charming but not really momentous +fables. In substance they lie somewhere between the Southern +dialect animal stories of Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) and +the polished, witty fables of James Thurber. + +George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the +West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War /2, is the +finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years. +It combines qualities that are seldom found in one work: Scrupulous +scholarship, a fund of personal experience, a sense of drama and characterization +and a broad grasp of the era's great historical issues. + +In short, the book, based largely on lectures delivered at Harvard +University, is both reliable and readable; the author possesses +an uncommonly fine English style, and he is dealing with subjects +of vast importance that are highly topical for our time. If Mr& +Kennan is sometimes a little somber in his appraisals, if his analysis +of how Western diplomacy met the challenge of an era of great wars +and social revolutions is often critical and pessimistic- well, the +record itself is not too encouraging. Mr& Kennan takes careful +account of every mitigating circumstance in recalling the historical +atmosphere in which mistaken decisions were taken. But he rejects, +perhaps a little too sweepingly, the theory that disloyal and pro-Communist +influences may have contributed to the policy of appeasing Stalin +which persisted until after the end of the war and reached its high +point at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945. After all, +Alger Hiss, subsequently convicted of perjury in denying that he +gave secret State Department documents to Soviet agents, was at Yalta. +And Harry Dexter White, implicated in F&B&I& reports +in Communist associations, was one of the architects of the Morgenthau +Plan, which had it ever been put into full operation, would have +simply handed Germany to Stalin. One item in this unhappy scheme was +to have Germany policed exclusively by its continental neighbors, +among whom only the Soviet Union possessed real military strength. + +It is quite probable, however, that stupidity, inexperience and +childish adherence to slogans like "unconditional surrender" had +more to do with the unsatisfactory settlements at the end of the war than +treason or sympathy with Communism. Mr& Kennan sums up his judgment +of what went wrong this way: + +#DASHED HOPE# + +"You see, +first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable +American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: +The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as +a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given +status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and +total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought +to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages +or complications this might involve for the more distant +future". Recognizing that there could have been no effective +negotiated peace with Hitler, he points out the shocking failure to +give support to the anti-Nazi underground, which very nearly eliminated +Hitler in 1944. A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge +of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at +the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned +a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope +that "never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in +the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries". The +hope was vain. With justified bitterness the author speaks of "what +seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the +nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its +diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had +been going on in Poland and the Baltic States". He also speaks of +Franklin D& Roosevelt's "puerile" assumption that "if only +he (Stalin) could be exposed to the persuasive charm of someone +like F&D&R& himself, ideological preconceptions would melt and +Russia's co-operation with the West could be easily arranged". + +No wonder Khrushchev's first message to President Kennedy +was a wistful desire for the return of the "good old days" of Roosevelt. + +This fascinating story begins with a sketch, rich in +personal detail, of the glancing mutual impact of World War /1, and +the two instalments of the Russian Revolution. The first of these +involved the replacement of the Tsar by a liberal Provisional Government +in March, 1917; the second, the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks +(who later called themselves Communists) in November of the +same year. As Kennan shows, the judgment of the Allied governments +about what was happening in Russia was warped by the obsession +of defeating Germany. They were blind to the evidence that nothing +could keep the Russian people fighting. They attributed everything +that went wrong in Russia to German influence and intrigue. This, +more than any other factor, led to the fiasco of Allied intervention. +As the author very justly says: "Had a world war not been +in progress, there would never, under any conceivable stretch of the +imagination, have been an Allied intervention in North Russia". +The scope and significance of this intervention have been grossly exaggerated +by Communist propaganda; here Kennan, operating with precise +facts and figures, performs an excellent job of debunking. + +#PLEBIAN +DICTATORS# + +Of many passages in the book that exemplify the author's +vivid style, the characterizations of the two plebeian dictators +whose crimes make those of crowned autocrats pale by comparison may +be selected. On Stalin: "This was a man of incredible criminality, +of a criminality effectively without limits; a man apparently +foreign to the very experience of love, without mercy or pity; +a man in whose entourage none was ever safe; a man whose hand was set +against all that could not be useful to him at the moment; a man who +was most dangerous of all to those who were his closest collaborators +in crime **h". And here is Kennan's image of Hitler, +Stalin's +temporary collaborator in the subjugation and oppression of +weaker peoples, and his later enemy: "Behind that Charlie +Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered +his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate +orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, +the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency +to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: +Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed- like +Stalin- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing +his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and +resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not +possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion +and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word". Two criticisms +of this generally admirable and fascinating book involve the treatment +of wartime diplomacy which is jagged at the edges- there is +no mention of the Potsdam Conference or the Morgenthau Plan. And +in a concluding chapter about America's stance in the contemporary +world, one senses certain misplacements of emphasis and a failure to come +to grips with the baffling riddle of our time: How to deal with +a wily and aggressive enemy without appeasement and without war. + +But one should not ask for everything. Mr& Kennan, who has recently +abandoned authorship for a new round of diplomacy as the recently +appointed American ambassador to Yugoslavia, is not the only man who +finds it easier to portray the past than to prescribe for the future. +The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations +is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical +narrator. +The Ireland we usually hear about in the theater is a place of bitter +political +or domestic unrest, lightened occasionally with flashes of native wit +and charm. In "Donnybrook", there is quite a different Eire, a +rural land where singing, dancing, fist-fighting and romancing are the +thing. There is plenty of violence, to be sure, but it is a nice violence +and no one gets killed. By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation +of Maurice Walsh's film, "The Quiet Man", provides +the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if +not a superlative one. _@_ This is the tale of one John Enright, +an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring +and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become +a quiet man. But Innesfree, where Ellen Roe Danaher and her +bullying brother, Will, live, is no place for a man who will not use +his fists. So Enright's courting of the mettlesome Ellen is impeded +considerably, thereby providing the tale which is told. You may be +sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with +the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way +to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means. +Then there is a matchmaker, one Mikeen Flynn, a role for which Eddie +Foy was happily selected. Now there is no reason in the world why +a matchmaker in Ireland should happen also to be a talented soft-shoe +dancer and gifted improviser of movements of the limbs, torso and neck, +except that these talents add immensely to the enjoyment of the play. +Mr& Foy is a joy, having learned his dancing by practicing it +until he is practically perfect. His matchmaking is, naturally, incidental, +and it only serves Flynn right when a determined widow takes +him by the ear and leads him off to matrimony. Art Lund, a fine +big actor with a great head of blond hair and a good voice, impersonates +Enright. Although he is not graced with the subtleties of romantic +technique, that's not what an ex-prize fighter is supposed to have, +anyway. Joan Fagan, a fiery redhead who can impress you that she +has a temper whether she really has one or not, plays Ellen, and sings +the role very well, too. If the mettle which Ellen exhibits has +a bit of theatrical dross in it, never mind; she fits into the general +scheme well enough. Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the +first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented +death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new +one. She has a good, firm delivery of songs and adds to the solid virtues +of the evening. Then there are a pair of old biddies played +by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf +of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good +will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining. +And in the role of Will Danaher, Philip Bosco roars and sneers +sufficiently to intimidate not only one American but the whole British +army, if he chose. "Donnybrook" is no "Brigadoon", +but it does have some very nice romantic background touches and some +excellent dancing. The ballads are sweet and sad, and the music generally +competent. It sometimes threatens to linger in the memory after +the final curtain, and some of it, such as the catchy "Sez I", +does. "A Toast To The Bride", sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing +a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and +touching. The men of Innesfree are got up authentically in +cloth caps and sweaters, and their dancing and singing is fine. So is +that of the limber company of lasses who whirl and glide and quickstep +under Jack Cole's expert choreographic direction. The male dancers +sometimes wear kilts and their performance in them is spirited and +stimulating. Rouben Ter-Arutunian, in his stage settings, +often uses the scrim curtain behind which Mr& Cole has placed couples +or groups who sing and set the mood for the scenes which are to follow. +There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty +good time at "Donnybrook", unless they are permanently in the +mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable +Irish. + +WE can all breathe more easily this morning- more easily +and joyously, too- because Joshua Logan has turned the stage show, +"Fanny", into a delightful and heart-warming film. The +task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio +of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting +them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway +musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed. More than +the fans of Pagnol's old films and of their heroic star, the great +Raimu, were looking askance at the project. The fans of the musical +were, too. But now the task is completed and the uncertainty +resolved with the opening of the English-dialogue picture at the Music +Hall yesterday. Whether fan of the Pagnol films or stage show, whether +partial to music or no, you can't help but derive joy from this +picture if you have a sense of humor and a heart. + +SOME of the New York Philharmonic musicians who live in +the suburbs spent yesterday morning digging themselves free from snow. +A tiny handful never did make the concert. But, after a fifteen-minute +delay, the substantially complete Philharmonic assembled on stage +for the afternoon's proceedings. They faced a rather small audience, +as quite a few subscribers apparently had decided to forego the pleasures +of the afternoon. It was an excellent concert. Paul +Paray, rounding out his current stint with the orchestra, is a solid +musician, and the Philharmonic plays for him. Their collaboration in +the Beethoven Second Symphony was lucid, intelligent and natural sounding. +It was not a heavy, ponderous Beethoven. The music sang nicely, +sprinted evenly when necessary, was properly accented and balanced. +#@# + + The Franck symphonic poem, "Psyche", is a +lush, +sweet-sounding affair that was pleasant to encounter once again. Fortunate +for the music itself, it is not too frequent a visitor; if +it were, its heavily chromatic harmonies would soon become cloying. + +Mr& Paray resisted the temptation to over-emphasize the melodic +elements of the score. He did not let the strings, for instance, +weep, whine or get hysterical. His interpretation was a model of refinement +and accuracy. And in the Prokofieff ~C major Piano +Concerto, with Zadel Skolovsky as soloist, he was an admirable partner. +Mr& Skolovsky's approach to the concerto was bold, sweeping +and tonally percussive. He swept through the music with ease, in a +non-sentimental and ultra-efficient manner. #@# + +An impressive technician, +Mr& Skolovsky has fine rhythm, to boot. His tone is the +weakest part of his equipment; it tends to be hard and colorless. +A school of thought has it that those attributes are exactly what this +concerto needs. It is, after all, a non-romantic work (even with the +big, juicy melody of the second movement); and the composer himself +was called the "age of steel pianist". But granted all this, one +still would have liked to have heard a little more tonal nuance than +Mr& Skolovsky supplied. Taken as a whole, though, it was +a strong performance from both pianist and orchestra. Mr& Skolovsky +fully deserved the warm reception he received. A new work on +the program was Nikolai Lopatnikoff's "Festival Overture", +receiving its first New York hearing. This was composed last year as +a salute to the automobile industry. It is not program music, though. +It runs a little more than ten minutes, is workmanlike, busy, methodical +and featureless. + +"La Gioconda", like it or not, is a singer's opera. And +so, of course, it is a fan's opera as well. Snow or no, the fans +were present in force at the Metropolitan Opera last night for a performance +of the Ponchielli work. So the plot creaks, the sets +are decaying, the costumes are pre-historic, the orchestra was sloppy +and not very well connected with what the singers were doing. After +all, the opera has juicy music to sing and the goodies are well distributed, +with no less than six leading parts. One of those parts +is that of evil, evil Barnaba, the spy. His wicked deeds were carried +on by Anselmo Colzani, who was taking the part for the first time +with the company. He has the temperament and the stage presence +for a rousing villain and he sang with character and strong tone. +What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing +that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after +all, a very oily character. Regina Resnik as Laura and Cesare +Siepi as Alvise also were new to the cast, but only with respect +to this season; they have both sung these parts here before. Laura +is a good role for Miss Resnik, and she gave it force, dramatic color +and passion. Mr& Siepi was, as always, a consummate actor; +with a few telling strokes he characterized Alvise magnificently. +Part of this characterization was, of course, accomplished with the +vocal chords. His singing was strong and musical; unfortunately his +voice was out of focus and often spread in quality. Eileen Farrell +in the title role, Mignon Dunn as La Cieca and Richard Tucker +as Enzo were holdovers from earlier performances this season, and +all contributed to a vigorous performance. If only they and Fausto +Cleva in the pit had got together a bit more. @ + +"MELODIOUS birds sing madrigals" saith the poet and no +better description of the madrigaling of the Deller Consort could +be imagined. Their Vanguard album {Madrigal Masterpieces} +(~BG 609; stereo ~BGS 5031) is a good sample of the special, +elegant art of English madrigal singing. It also makes a fine introduction +to the international art form with good examples of Italian +and English madrigals plus several French "chansons". +The English have managed to hold onto their madrigal tradition better +than anyone else. The original impulses came to England late (in the +sixteenth century) and continue strong long after everyone else had +gone on to the baroque basso continuo, sonatas, operas and the like. + +Even after Elizabethan traditions were weakened by the Cromwellian +interregnum, the practice of singing together- choruses, catches +and glees- always flourished. The English never again developed +a strong native music that could obliterate the traces of an earlier +great age the way, say, the opera in Italy blotted out the Italian +madrigal. + +#EARLY INTEREST# + +Latter-day interest in Elizabethan singing +dates well back into the nineteenth century in England, much ahead +of similar revivals in other countries. As a result no comparable +literature of the period is better known and better studied nor more +often performed than the English madrigal. Naturally, Mr& +Deller and the other singers in his troupe are most charming and elegant +when they are squarely in their tradition and singing music by their +countrymen: William Byrd, Thomas Morley and Thomas Tomkins. +There is an almost instrumental quality to their singing, with a tendency +to lift out important lines and make them lead the musical texture. +Both techniques give the music purity and clarity. Claude +Jannequin's vocal description of a battle (the French equivalents +of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque) is +lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other +chansons by Jannequin and Lassus. Only with the more sensual, intense +and baroque expressions of Marenzio, Monteverdi and Gesualdo +does the singing seem a little superficial. Nevertheless, the +musicality, accuracy and infectious charm of these performances, excellently +reproduced, make it an attractive look-see at the period. The +works are presented chronologically. Texts and translations are provided. + +#ELEGANCE AND COLOR# + +The elements of elegance and color in Jannequin +are strong French characteristics. Baroque instrumental music +in Italy and Germany tends to be strong, lively, intense, controlled +and quite abstract. In France, it remained always more picturesque, +more dancelike, more full of flavor. Couperin and Rameau +gave titles to nearly everything they wrote, not in the later sense +of "program music" but as a kind of nonmusical reference for the close, +clear musical forms filled with keen wit and precise utterance. + +Both composers turn up on new imports from France. ~BAM +is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is +Editions de la boite a musique. They specialize in out-of-the-way +items and old French music naturally occupies a good deal of their attention. +{Sonates et Concerts Royaux} of Couperin le grand occupy +two disks (~LD056 and ~LD060) and reveal the impeccable taste +and workmanship of this master- delicate, flexible and gemlike. + +The Concerts- Nos& 2, 6, 9, 10 and 14 are represented- +are really closer to chamber suites than to concertos in the Italian +sense. The sonatas, "La Francaise", "La Sultane", "L'Astree" +and "L'Imperiale", are often more elaborately worked +out and, in fact, show a strong Italian influence. Couperin +also turns up along with some lesser-known contemporaries on a disk +called {Musique Francaise du /18,e Siecle} (~BAM ~LD +060). Jean-Marie LeClair still is remembered a bit, but Bodin de +Beismortier, Corrette and Mondonville are hardly household words. +What is interesting about these chamber works here is how they all reveal +the aspect of French music that was moving toward the rococo. + +The Couperin "La Steinkerque", with its battle music, brevity, +wit and refined simplicity, already shakes off Corelli and points +towards the mid-century elegances that ended the baroque era. If +Couperin shows the fashionable trend, the others do so all the more. + +All these records have close, attractive sound and the performances +by a variety of instrumentalists is characteristic. Rameau's +{Six Concerts en Sextuor,} recorded by L'orchestre de +chambre Pierre Menet (~BAM ~LD 046), turn out to be harpsichord +pieces arranged for strings apparently by the composer himself. +The strange, delightful little character pieces with their odd and sometimes +inexplicable titles are still evocative and gracious. {Maitres +Allemands des /17,e et /18,e Siecles} contains music +by Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Rosenmueller and Telemann, well performed +by the Ensemble Instrumental Sylvie Spycket (~BAM ~LD +035). + +Rococo music- a lot of it- was played in Carnegie Recital +Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored +this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts. + +Works by J& C& Bach, Anton Craft, Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe +Sammartini, Comenico Dragonetti and J& G& Janitsch were +performed by seven instrumentalists including Anabel Brieff, flutist, +Josef Marx, oboist, and Robert Conant, pianist and harpsichordist. + +Since rococo music tends to be pretty and elegant above all, +it can seem rather vacuous to twentieth-century ears that have grown +accustomed to the stress and dissonances of composers from Beethoven +to Boulez. Thus there was really an excess of eighteenth-century +charm as one of these light-weight pieces followed another on Saturday +night. Each might find a useful place in a varied musical program, +but taken together they grew quite tiresome. The performances +were variable, those of the full ensemble being generally satisfying, +some by soloists proving rather trying. @ + +Ellie Mao, soprano, and Frederick Fuller, baritone, presented +a program of folksongs entitled "East Meets West" in Carnegie +Recital Hall last night. They were accompanied by Anna Mi Lee, +pianist. Selections from fifteen countries were sung as solos +and duets in a broad range of languages. Songs from China and Japan +were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, +and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr& Fuller, who is +English by birth. This was not a program intended to illustrate +authentic folk styles. On the contrary, Miss Mao and Mr& Fuller +chose many of their arrangements from the works of composers such +as Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Canteloube, Copland and Britten. Thre +was, +therefore, more musical substance in the concert than might have been +the case otherwise. The performances were assured, communicative and +pleasingly informal. @ + +WHAT was omitted from "A Neglected Education" were +those essentials known as "the facts of life". Chabrier's +little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, +is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit +and charm. The poor uneducated newlywed, a certain Gontran de Boismassif, +has his problems in getting the necessary information. The humor +of the situation can be imagined. It all takes place in the +eighteenth century. What a silly, artificial way of life, Chabrier +and his librettists chuckle. But they wish they could bring it back. +#@# + +Chabrier's delightful music stands just at the point where +the classical, rationalist tradition, (handed down to Chabrier largely +in the form of operetta and salon music) becomes virtually neo-classicism. +The musical cleverness and spirit plus a strong sense of taste +and measure save a wry little joke from becoming either bawdy or +mawkish. The simple, clever production was also able to tread +the thin line between those extremes. Arlene Saunders was charming as +poor Gontran. Yes, Arlene is her name; the work uses the old eighteenth-century +tradition of giving the part of a young inexperienced +youth to a soprano. Benita Valente was delightful as the young wife +and John Parella was amusing as the tutor who failed to do all his tutoring. + +The work was presented as the final event in the Town +Hall Festival of Music. It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, +"The Poor Sailor", set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a +kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and +gets done in by his wife. With the exception of a few spots, +Milhaud's music mostly churns away with his usual collection of ditties, +odd harmonies, and lumbering, satiric orchestration. + +Had a funny experience at Newport yesterday afternoon. Sat there +and as a woman sang, she kept getting thinner and thinner, right +before my eyes, and the eyes of some 5,500 other people. I make +this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought +up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female +reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote +in the paper the next day: "Judy Garland has arrived +in London. She's not chubby. She's not plump. She's fat". + +But who cares, when the lady sings? Certainly not the largest +afternoon audience Newport has ever had at a jazz concert and the +most attentive and quiet. They applauded every number, not only at its +conclusion but also at the first statement of the theme- sometimes +at the first chord. And Judy sang the lovely old familiar things +which seemed, at times, a blessed relief from the way-out compositions +of the progressive jazzmen who have dominated these proceedings. +Things like "When You're Smiling", "Almost Like Being In +Love", "Do It Again", "Born to Wander", "Alone Together", +"Who Cares?", "Puttin' on the Ritz", "How +Long Has This Been Going On?" and her own personal songs +like "The Man That Got Away", and the inevitable "Over the +Rainbow". Miss Garland is not only one of the great singers +of our time but she is one of the superb showmen. At the start of +her program there were evidences of pique. She had held to the letter +of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 +p&m&, the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had +tried to get the program underway at 3. Then there was a bad delay +in getting Mort Lindsey's 30-piece orchestra wedged into its chairs. + +Along about 4:30, just when it was getting to be about time +to turn the audience over and toast them on the other side, Judy +came on singing, in a short-skirted blue dress with a blue and white jacket +that flapped in the wind. Her bouffant coiffure was fortunately +combed on the left which happened to be the direction from which a brisk +breeze was blowing. In her first song she waved away one +encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden and thereafter +the boys with the cameras had to unsheathe their 300 mm& lenses +and shoot at extreme range. There also came a brief contretemps +with the sound mixers who made the mistake of being overheard during +a quiet moment near the conclusion of "Do It Again", and +she made the tart observation that "I never saw so much moving about +in an audience". But it didn't take Judy Garland, showman, +long to realize that this sort of thing was par for the course at +Newport and that you have to learn to live with it. Before her chore +was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling +microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining +in the informal atmosphere. And time after time she really +belted out her songs. Sometimes they struck me as horribly over-arranged- +which was the way I felt about her "Come Rain or Come +Shine"- and sometimes they were just plain magnificent, like her +shatteringly beautiful "Beautiful Weather". To her partisan +audience, such picayune haggling would have seemed nothing more than +a critic striving to hold his franchise; they just sat back on their +haunches and cried for more, as though they could never get enough. + +They were rewarded with splendid, exciting, singing. Her "Rockabye +Your Baby" was as good as it can be done, and her really +personal songs, like "The Man That Got Away" were deeply moving. + +The audience wouldn't let her leave until it had heard +"Over The Rainbow"- although the fellow that kept crying for +"Get Happy" had to go home unhappy, about that item anyway. She +was generous with her encores and the audience was equally so with +its cheers and applause and flowers. All went home happy except +the Newport police, who feared that the throng departing at 6:35 +might meet head-on the night crowd drawing nigh, and those deprived of +their happy hour at the cocktail bar. + +In Newport last night there were flashes of distant lightning +in the northern skies. This was perhaps symbolic of the jazz of the +evening- flashes in the distance, but no storm. Several times +it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder +from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation +as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond +found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap. Mulligan's +band has been infected with his solid sense of swing, and what it +does seems far more meaningful than most of the noise generated by the +big concert aggregations. But what is equally impressive is +the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's +baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement +of "Django's Castle". For subtle swinging rhythms, +I could admire intensely Mulligan's version of "Weep", and +the fireworks went on display in "18 Carrots for Robert", a sax +tribute to Johnny Hodges. There was considerable contrast +between this Mulligan performance and that of Art Blakey and The +Jazz Messengers, who are able to generate a tremendous sound for such +a small group. Unfortunately, Blakey doesn't choose to work much +of the time in this vein. He prefers to have his soloist performing +and thus we get only brief glimpses of what his ensemble work is like. + +What we did get, however, was impressive. A few drops +of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of +her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, +but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners +didn't care whether they got wet. Miss Vaughan was back +in top form, somehow mellowed and improved with the passage of time- +like a fine wine. After the spate of female vocalists we have been +having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried +to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed +that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than +ever. + +#JAZZ THREE OPEN PROGRAM# + +The evening program was opened +by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein +on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano. This was a +continuation of a good idea which was first tried out Saturday night +when the Eddie Stack group, also local talent, went on first. +Putting on local musicians at this place in the program serves a triple +purpose: it saves the top flight jazz men from being wasted in +this unenviable spot, when the audience is cold, restless, and in flux; +it prevents late-comers from missing some of the people they have +come a long way to hear, and it gives the resident musicians a chance +to perform before the famous Newport audience. The Jazz Three +displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, +but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns + Leon James, the +superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three +successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution +of the blues to a spot on the evening program. + +#JULIE WILSON +SINGS# + +Julie Wilson, a vigorous vocalist without many wild twists, +sang a set, a large part of which consisted of such seldom heard old +oldies as "Hard-Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah", and +the delightful "Sunday". She frosted the cake with the always reliable +"Bill Bailey". From this taste of the 1920s, we +leaped way out to Stan Getz's private brand of progressive jazz, +which did lovely, subtle things for "Baubles, Bangles and Beads", +and a couple of ballards. Getz is a difficult musician to categorize. +He plays his sax principally for beauty of tone, rather than +for scintillating flights of meaningless improvisations, and he has +a quiet way of getting back and restating the melody after the improvising +is over. In this he is sticking with tradition, however far removed +from it he may seem to be. + +#SHEARING TAKES OVER# + +George Shearing +took over with his well disciplined group, a sextet consisting of +vibes, guitar, bass, drums, Shearing's piano and a bongo drummer. +He met with enthusiastic audience approval, especially when he swung +from jazz to Latin American things like the Mambo. Shearing, himself, +seemed to me to be playing better piano than in his recent Newport +appearances. A very casual, pleasant program- one of those +easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a +relaxing delight- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh +breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came +to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach. Divided +almost equally into two parts, it consisted of "The Evolution of +the Blues", narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last +year at the Monterey, Calif&, Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session +of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band. + +Hendricks' story was designed for children and he had a small +audience of small children right on stage with him. Tracing the blues +from its African roots among the slaves who were brought to this country +and the West Indies, he stressed the close relationship between +the early jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches. + +#SURPRISE +ADDITION# + +To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz +he had "Big" Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, +while Oscar Brown Jr&, an extremely talented young +man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and +a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, "Brown Baby", which was one of +the truly moving moments of the festival. One of those delightful +surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, +was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming +to "Old Man River", which seems to have been elected the favorite +solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts. + +Demonstrating the primitive African rhythmic backgrounds of the Blues +was Michael Babatunde Olatunji, who plays such native drums as +the konga and even does a resounding job slapping his own chest. He +has been on previous Newport programs and was one of the sensations of +last year's afternoon concerts. Hendricks had Billy Mitchell, +tenor +sax; Pony Poindexter, alto sax; Jimmy Witherspoon, +blues singer (and a good one), and the Ike Isaacs Trio, which has done +such wonderful work for two afternoons now, helping him with the musical +examples. It all went very well. + +PIANISTS who are serious about their work are likely to know +the interesting material contained in Schubert's Sonatas. Music +lovers who are not familiar with this literature may hear an excellent +example, played for ~RCA by Emil Gilels. He has chosen Sonata +Op& 53 in ~D. The playing takes both sides of the disc. Perhaps +one of the reasons these Sonatas are not programmed more often +is their great length. Rhythmic interest, melodic beauty and the expansiveness +of the writing are all qualities which hold one's attention +with the Gilels playing. His technique is ample and his musical ideas +are projected beautifully. The male chorus of the Robert +Shaw Chorale sings Sea Shanties in fine style. The group is superbly +trained. What a discussion can ensue when the title of this type +of song is in question. Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived +from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think +of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian +use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as +a boat-yard? I say chantey. Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus +sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame +spelled out in terms of agreeable listening. If your favorite song +is not here it must be an unfamiliar one. The London label offers +an operatic recital by Ettore Bastianini, a baritone whose fame +is international. + +MURRAY LOUIS and his dance company appeared at the Henry +Street Playhouse on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons +in the premiere of his latest work, "Signal", and the repetition +of an earlier one, "Journal". "Signal" is choreographed +for three male dancers to an electronic score by Alwin Nikolais. +Its abstract decor is by John Hultberg. Program note reads +as follows: "Take hands **h this urgent visage beckons us". + +Here, as in "Journal", Mr& Louis has given himself +the lion's share of the dancing, and there is no doubt that he is +capable of conceiving and executing a wide variety of difficult and arresting +physical movements. Indeed, both "Journal" and "Signal" +qualify as instructive catalogues of modern-dance calisthenics. + +But chains of movements are not necessarily communicative, and +it is in the realm of communication that the works prove disappointing. +One frequently has the feeling that the order of their movement combinations +could be transposed without notable loss of effect, there is +too little suggestion of organic relationship and development. + +It may be, of course, that Mr& Louis is consciously trying to create +works that anticipate an age of total automation. But it may be, +also, that he is merely more mindful of athletics than of esthetics +at the present time. One thing is certain, however, and that is that +he is far more slavish to the detailed accents, phrasings and contours +of the music he deals with than a confident dance creator need be. @ +#'AN AMERICAN JOURNEY'# + +A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary +American mores entitled "An American Journey" was given its +first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night +by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company. Choreographed +by Mr& Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that +also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' "Once +Upon a Time **h" as well as her "Women's Song" and +Mr& Nagrin's "Indeterminate Figure". Eugene Lester +assembled a witty and explicit score for "An American Journey", +and Malcolm McCormick gave it sprightly imaginative costumes. + +Mr& Nagrin has described four "places", each with its scenery +and people, added two "diversions", and concluded with "A +Toccata for the Young", a refreshingly underplayed interpretation +of rock'n'roll dancing. The "places" could be anywhere, +the idiosyncrasies +and foibles observed there could be anybody's, and +the laugh is on us all. But we need not mind too much, because Mr& +Nagrin has expressed it through movement that is diverting and clever +almost all the way. Miss Tamiris' "Once Upon a Time +**h" is a problem piece about a man and a woman and the three "figures" +that bother them somehow. Unfortunately, the man and +woman were not made to appear very interesting at the outset and the +menacing figures failed to make them any more so. Nor did the dancing +involved really seize the attention at any time. The music here, Russell +Smith's "Tetrameron", sounded good. All the performances +of the evening were smooth and assured, and the sizable company, +with Mr& Nagrin and Marion Scott as its leading dancers, seemed +to be fine shape. + +THE Symphony of the Air, greatly assisted by Van Cliburn, +last night got its seven-concert Beethoven cycle at Carnegie Hall +off to a good start. At the same time the orchestra announced that +next season it would be giving twenty-five programs at Carnegie, and +that it would be taking these concerts to the suburbs, repeating each +of them in five different communities. This news, announced +by Jerome Toobin, the orchestra's administrative director, brought +applause from the 2,800 persons who filled the hall. They showed they +were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there +so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln +Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra +and the Boston Symphony. This season the orchestra has already +taken a step toward the suburbs in that it is giving six subscription +concerts for the Orchestral Society of Westchester in the County +Center in White Plains. The details of the suburban concerts +next season, and the centers in which they will be given, will be announced +later, Mr& Toobin said. #@# + +The concertos that Van +Cliburn has been associated with in New York since his triumphant return +from Russia in 1958 have been the Tchaikovsky, the Rachmaninoff +Third, and the Prokofieff Third. It was pleasant last night, therefore, +to hear him do something else: a concerto he has recently recorded, +"The Emperor". The young Texas pianist can make +great chords ring out as well as anyone, so last night the massive sonorities +of this challenging concerto were no hazard to him. But they +were not what distinguished his performance. The elements that did +were the introspective slow movement, the beautiful transition to the +third movement, and the passages of filigree that laced through the bigger +moments of the opening movement and the final Rondo. Mr& +Cliburn gave the slow movement some of the quality of a Chopin Nocturne. +Alfred Wallenstein, the conductor, sensitive accompanist that +he is, picked up the idea and led the orchestra here with a sense of +broodinf, poetic mystery. The collaboration was remarkable, as it was +in both the other movements, too. #@# + +Mr& Wallenstein, who +will lead all of the concerts in the cycle, also conducted the "Leonore" +Overture No& 3 and the Fourth Symphony. The orchestra +was obviously on its mettle and it played most responsively. And although +there was plenty of vigor in the performance, the ensemble was at +its best when the playing was soft and lyrical, yet full of the suppressed +tension that is one of the hallmarks of Beethoven. Igor Oistrakh +will be the next soloist on Feb& 4. + +THERE are times when one suspects that the songs that are +dropped from musical shows before they reach Broadway may really be +better than many of those that are left in. Today, in the era of the +integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all +development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter +how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does +not perform the function required of it. In the more casually +constructed musicals of the Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties +there would seem to have been less reason for eliminating a song +of merit. Yet there is the classic case of the Gershwins' "The +Man I Love". Deemed too static when it was first heard in "Lady +Be Good" in Philadelphia in 1924, it was dropped from the score. +It was heard again in Philadelphia in 1927 in the first version +of "Strike Up the Band" and again abandoned shortly before the +entire show was given up. It finally reached Broadway in the second +and successful version of "Strike Up the Band" in 1929. (Still +another song in "Strike Up the Band"- "I've Got a Crush +on You"- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, "Treasure Girl".) + +#SECOND CHANCE# + +Like the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and +Lorenz Hart were loath to let a good song get away from them. If one +of Mr& Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than +interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr& Hart +was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance +in another show. Several of these double entries have been +collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers +and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York +and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly +heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing +album, {Rodgers and Hart Revisited} (Spruce Records, 505 Fifth +Avenue, New York). Among the particular gems in this collection +is the impudent opening song of "The Garrick Gaieties", +an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from +Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed; Dorothy Loudon's +raucous listing of the attractions "At the Roxy Music Hall" from +"I Married an Angel"; and the incisive style with which Charlotte +Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of "I Blush", +a song that was cut from "A Connecticut Yankee". Altogether +fifteen virtually unknown Rodgers and Hart songs are sung by +a quintet of able vocalists. Norman Paris has provided them with extremely +effective orchestral accompanimen Turning to the current +musical season on Broadway, the most widely acclaimed of the new arrivals, +{How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying}, +has been transferred to an original cast album (R& C& A& Victor +~LOC 1066; stereo ~LSO 1066) that has some entertaining +moments, although it is scarcely as inventive as the praise elicited +by the show might lead one to expect. Robert Morse, singing with comically +plaintive earnestness, carries most of the burden and is responsible +for the high spots in Frank Loesser's score. Rudy +Vallee, who shares star billing with Mr& Morse, makes only two +appearances. He shares with Mr& Morse a parody of the college anthems +he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia +Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice. +In general, Mr& Loesser has done a more consistent job as lyricist +than he has as composer. Like Mr& Loesser, Jerry Herman +is both composer and lyriist for {Milk and Honey} (R& +C& +A& Victor ~LOC 1065; stereo ~LSO 1065), but in this +case it is the music that stands above the lyrics. For this story of +an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr& Herman +has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles. + +#RESOURCEFUL VOICES# + +There are the full-bodied, resourceful +voices of Robert Weede, Mimi Benzell and Tommy Rall to make the +most of Mr& Herman's lilting melodies and, for an occasional +change of pace, the bright humor of Molly Picon. Mr& Herman has +managed to mix musical ideas drawn from Israel and the standard American +ballad style in a manner that stresses the basic tunefulness of both +idioms. Not content to create only the music and lyrics, Noe^l +Coward also wrote the book and directed {Sail Away} (Capitol +~WAO 1643; stereo ~SWAO 1643), a saga of life on a +cruise ship that is not apt to be included among Mr& Coward's more +memorable works. The melodies flow along pleasantly, as Mr& Coward's +songs usually do, but his lyrics have a tired, cut-to-a-familiar-pattern +quality. Elaine Stritch, who sings with a persuasively +warm huskiness, belts some life into most of her songs, but the other +members of the cast sound as lukewarm as Mr& Coward's songs. + +WITH three fine Russian films in recent months on World +War /2,- "The House I Live In", "The Cranes Are Flying" +and "Ballad of a Soldier"- we had every right to expect +a real Soviet block-buster in "The Day the War Ended". It +simply isn't, not by a long shot. The Artkino presentation, with English +titles, opened on Saturday at the Cameo Theatre. #@# + +Make no mistake, this Gorky Studio drama is a respectable import- +aptly grave, carefully +written, performed and directed. In describing the initial Allied +occupation of a middle-sized German city, the picture has color, pictorial +pull and genuinely moving moments. Told strictly from the viewpoint +of the Russian conquerors, the film compassionately peers over +the shoulders of a smitten Soviet couple, at both sides of the conflict's +aftermath. Unfortunately, the whole picture hinges on this +romance, at the expense of everything else. Tenderly and rather tediously, +the camera rivets on the abrupt, deep love of a pretty nurse +and a uniformed teacher, complicated by nothing more than a friend they +don't want to hurt. It's the old story, war or no war, and more +than one viewer may recall Hollywood's "Titanic", several seasons +back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of +a society dilettante. Not that the picture is superficial. Under +Yakov Segal's direction, it begins stirringly, as crouching Soviet +and Nazi troops silently scan each other, waiting for the first +surrender gesture. One high-up camera shot is magnificent, as the Germans +straggle from a cathedral, dotting a huge, cobblestone square, +and drop their weapons. + +#RING OF BRIGHT WATER, BY GAVIN MAXWELL. 211 PAGES. DUTTON. $5.# + +Only +once in a very long while comes a book that gives the reader a magic +sense of sharing a rare experience. "Ring of Bright Water" by +Gavin Maxwell is just that- a haunting, warmly personal chronicle +of a man, an otter, and a remote cottage in the Scottish West Highlands. + +"He has married me with **h a ring of bright +water", +begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, +and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the +author conveys. The place is Camusfearna, the site of a long-vanished +sea-village opposite the isle of Skye. It is a land of long fjords, +few people, a single-lane road miles away- and of wild stags, Greylag +geese, wild swans, dolphins and porpoises playing in the waters. +How Maxwell recounts his first coming to Camusfearna, his furnishing +the empty house with beach-drift, the subtle changes in season over +ten years, is a moving experience. Just the evocations of time and +place, of passionate encounter between man and a natural world which today +seems almost lost, would be enough. But it isn't. There +is Mijbil, an otter who travelled with Maxwell- and gave Maxwell's +name to a new species- from the Tigris marshes to his London +flat. It may sound extravagant to say that there has never been a more +engaging animal in all literature. This is not only a compliment to +Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings +in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened +otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train +(where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap) +to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail. Mij, as his owner +was soon to learn, had strange, inexplicable habits. He liked to nip +ear lobes of unsuspecting visitors with his needle-sharp teeth. He preferred +sleeping in bed with his head on a pillow. Systematically he +would open and ransack drawers. Given a small ball or marbles, he would +invent games and play by himself for hours. With curiosity and elan, +he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself +for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting +with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life +in doing so. A year and a day of this idyll is described for the +reader, one in which not only discovery of a new world of personality +is charted, but self-discovery as well. In the solitude of Camusfearna +there had been no loneliness. "To be quite alone where there +are no other human beings is sharply exhilarating; it is as though some +pressure had suddenly been lifted, allowing an intense awareness **h +a sharpening of the senses". Now, with the increasing interdependence +between himself and Mij came a knowledge of an obscure need, +that of being trusted implicitly by some creature. Two other people +in time shared Mijbil's love: "**h it remained around us three +that his orb revolved when he was not away in his own imponderable +world of wave and water **h; we were his Trinity, and he behaved +towards us **h with a mixture of trust and abuse, passion and irritation. +In turn each of us in our own way depended, as gods do, upon his +worship". + +Yet the idyll ended. The brief details of Mijbil's +death lend depth to the story, give it an edge of ironic tragedy. +Man, to whom Mij gave endless affection and fealty, was responsible +in the form of a road worker with a pickaxe who somehow becomes an abstract +symbol of the savage in man. But then, through a strange coincidence, +Maxwell manages to acquire Idal, a female otter, and the fascinating +story starts once more. One is not sure who emerges as +the main personality of this book- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, +or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller +and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an +unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid +and unabashed. This reviewer read the book when it was first brought +out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement. Now Gavin +Maxwell's ring of bright water has widened to enchant the world. + +_NEW YORK_- The performances of the Comedie Francaise are the +most important recent events in the New York theater. They +serve to contradict a popular notion that the Comedie merely repeats, +as accurately as possible, the techniques of acting the classics that +prevailed in the 17th century. On the contrary, the old plays are continually +being reinterpreted, and each new production of a classic has +only a brief history at the Comedie. Of course, the well-received +revivals last longer than the others, and that further reminds +us that the Comedie is not insensitive to criticism. The directors of +the Comedie do not respond to adverse notices in as docile and subservient +a manner as the Broadway producers who, in two instances this +season, closed their plays after one performance. But they are aware +of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full +houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic +classic. In France, novel approaches to the classic French +plays are frequently attempted. The government pays a subsidy +for revival of the classics, and this policy attracts experimenters who +sometimes put Moliere's characters in modern dress and often achieve +interesting results. So far as I know, the Comedie has never +put Moliere's people in the costumes of the 20th century, but +they do reinterpret plays and characters. Last season, the Comedie's +two principal experiments came to grief, and, in consequence, we can +expect fairly soon to see still newer productions of Racine's "Phedre" +and Moliere's "School for Wives". The new +"Phedre" was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek; +perhaps that is the Comedie's equivalent for thrusting this +play's characters into our own time. The speaking of the lines seemed +excessively slow and stately, possibly in an effort to capture the +spirit of 17th century elegance. A few literary men defended what they +took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but +the response was mainly hostile and quite violent. The new "School +for Wives" was interpreted according to a principle that +is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy- the +idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character. + +Among the Moliere specialists of some years ago, Louis +Jouvet tried to humanize some of the clowns, while Fernand Ledoux, +often performing at the Comedie, made them more gross than Moliere may +have intended. Apparently, Jouvet and Ledoux attempted just +these dissimilar approaches in the role of Arnolphe in "The School +for Wives". I say "apparently" although I saw Jouvet as +Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death; by +that time, he seemed to have dropped the tragic playing of the last moments +of the comedy. Arnolphe, it will be recalled, is a man +of mature years who tries to preserve the innocence of his youthful wife-to-be. +The part can lend itself to serious treatment; one influential +French critic remarked: "Pity for Arnolphe comes with age". + +Accordingly, at the Comedie last year, Jean Meyer played +a sympathetic Arnolphe and drew criticism for turning the comedy into +a tragedy. But the stuff of tragedy was not truly present and the +play became only comedy acted rather slowly. Wisely, the Comedie +has brought Moliere's "Tartuffe" on its tour and has left +"The School for Wives" at home. Tartuffe is the religious hypocrite +who courts his benefactor's wife. Jouvet played him as a sincere +zealot, and Ledoux, at the Comedie, made him a gross buffoon, or +so the historians tell us. Louis Seigner, who formerly played +the deluded benefactor opposite Ledoux, is the Tartuffe of the present +production, which he himself directed. His Tartuffe observes the +golden mean. His red face, his coarse gestures, and his lustful stares +bespeak his sensuality. But his heavenward glances and his pious +speeches are not merely perfunctory; of course, they do not reflect +sincerity, but they exhibit a concern to make a good job out of his +pious impersonation. Occasionally, Seigner draws some justly +deserved laughs by his quick shifts from one personality to another. The +whole role, by the way, is a considerable transformation for anyone +who has seen Seigner in his other parts. His normal specialty is playing +the good-natured old man, frequently stupid or deluded but never +mean or sly. Here, he is, quite persuasively, the very embodiment of +meanness and slyness. Seigner is the dean of the company, the +oldest actor in point of continuous service. In that function, he helps +to rebut another legend about the Comedie. We are often told that +the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who +are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but +probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage. +Seigner, however, is a fine actor and probably the busiest man in the +company; among his other parts are the leads in "The Bourgeois +Gentleman" and "The Imaginary Invalid". In Moliere's +farce, "The Tricks of Scapin", Robert Hirsch undertakes +another of the great roles. Here some innovation is attempted. +To begin with, Scapin is a trickster in the old tradition of the clever +servant who plots the strategy of courtship for his master. Hirsch's +Scapin is healthy, cheerful, energetic, revelling in his physical +agility and his obvious superiority to the young gentlemen whom he +serves. Hirsch says that he has given the role certain qualities +he has observed in the city toughs of the real world. And surely +his Scapin has a fresh directness, a no-nonsense quality that seems to +make him his own master and nobody's servant. + +DJANGO REINHARDT, the ill-fated gypsy, was a true artist, +one who demonstrated conclusively the power of art to renew itself and +flow into many channels. There is hardly a jazz guitarist in +the business today who doesn't owe something to Django. And Django +owed much to Louis Armstrong. He told once of how he switched his +style of playing to jazz after listening to two old Armstrong records +he bought in the Flea Market in Paris. It was the first jazz he +had heard. Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in +Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man. Most +of the fingers on his left hand were burned off when he fell asleep +with a cigarette. And this was before he began to play his startlingly +beautiful jazz. You can catch up with him- if you haven't +already- on ~RCA-Victor's album. "Djangology", made +up of tracks he recorded with Stephane Grappelly and the Quintet of +the Hot Club of France. This is a choice item and Grappely deserves +mention too, of course. He is one of the few men in history who +plays jazz on a violin. They play: "Minor Swing", "Honeysuckle +Rose", "Beyond the Sea", "Bricktop", "Heavy +Artillery", "Djangology", "After You've Gone", "Where +Are You, My Love"? "I Saw Stars", "Lover Man", +"Menilmontant" and "Swing 42". All this is great +proceedings- get the minutes. Kid Ory, the trombonist chicken +farmer, is also one of the solid anchor points of jazz. He dates +back to the days before the first sailing ship pulled into New Orleans. +His horn has blown loud and clear across the land for more years +than he cares to remember. Good Time Jazz has released a nice +two-record album which he made. He is starred against Alvin Alcorn, +trumpet; Phil Gomez, clarinet; Cedric Haywood, piano; Julian +Davidson, guitar; Wellman Braud, bass, and Minor Hall, drums. + +The set contains "High Society", "Do What Ory +Say", "Down Home Rag", "Careless Love", Jazz Me Blues", +"Weary Blues", "Original Dixieland One-Step", "Bourbon +Street Parade", "Panama", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie", +"Oh Didn't He Ramble", "Beale Street Blues", "Maryland, +My Maryland", "1919 Rag", "Eh, La Bas", "Mood +Indigo", and "Bugle Call Rag". All this will serve +to show off the Ory style in fine fashion and is a must for those +who want to collect elements of the old-time jazz before it is too late +to lay hands on the gems. + +MISCHA ELMAN shared last night's Lewisohn Stadium concert +with three American composers. His portion of the program- +and a big portion it was- consisted of half the major nineteenth-century +concertos for the violin: to wit, the Mendelssohn and the +Tchaikovsky. That is an evening of music-making that would faze many +a younger man; Mr& Elman is 70 years old. There were +8,000 persons at the Stadium who can tell their grandchildren that they +heard Elman. But, with all due respects and allowances, it must +truthfully be said that what they heard was more syrupy than sweet, +more mannered than musical. The occasion was sentimental; so was the +playing. #@# + +The American part of the evening consisted of Paul +Creston's Dance Overture, William Schuman's "Chester" +from "New England Triptych" and two works of Wallingford Riegger, +Dance Rhythms, +Op& 58, and a Romanza for Strings, Op& +56~A. + +The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, +French and American dances mixed into the stew. The Riegger, +with its Latin hesitation bounce, is just this side of the pale; +like his sweet, attractive Romanza, it belongs to what the composer +called his "Non-Dissonant (Mostly)" category of works. The Schuman +"Chester" takes off from an old William Billings tune with +rousing woodwind and brass effect. #@# + +All these- potboilers +or no- provided a welcome breath of fresh air in the form of lively, +colorful, unstuffy works well suited for the great out-of-doors. It +was nice to have something a little up-to-date for a change. We have +Alfredo Antonini to thank for this healthy change of diet as well +as the lively performances of the Stadium Symphony. + +A WOMAN who undergoes artificial insemination against the +wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of "A Question of Adultery", +yesterday's new British import at the Apollo. +Since an objective viewer might well conclude that this is not a situation +that would often arise, the film's extensive discussion of the +problem seems, at best, superfluous. In its present artless, low-budget +form, the subject matter seems designed to invite censorial wrath. + +With Julie London enacting the central role with husky-voiced +sincerity, the longsuffering heroine is at least attractive. The explanation +offered for her conduct is a misguided attempt to save her marriage +to a neurotic husband left sterile as a result of an automobile +accident. Anthony Steel, as the husband, is a jealous type +who argues against her course and sues for divorce, labeling her action +adulterous. The actor plays his role glumly under the lurid direction +of Don Chaffey, as do Basil Sydney as his unsympathetic father +and Anton Diffring as an innocent bystander. After a protracted, +hysterical trial scene more notable for the frankness of its language +than for dramatic credibility, the jury, to no one's surprise, +leaves the legal question unresolved. When the husband drops the case +and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in +the first place. So was the audience. + +_LONDON, JULY 4_- For its final change of bill in its London season, +the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one +of those choreographic miscellanies known as a "gala program" at the +Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. No doubt the underlying idea +was to show that for all the elegance and artistry that have distinguished +its presentations thus far, it too could give a circus if it pleased. + +And please it did, in every sense of the word, for it had +the audience shouting much of the time in a manner far from typical +of London audiences. At the end of the program, indeed, there was a +demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop +it. Alexandre Livshitz repeated a fantastic +technical bit from the closing number, "Taras Bulba", but even +then there was a substantial number of diehards who seemed determined +not to go home at all. Only a plea from the house manager, John Collins, +finally broke up the party. #@# + +But for all the manifest +intention to "show off", this was a circus with a difference, for +instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, +it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company. + +The "Taras Bulba" excerpt is a rousing version of +Gogol's Ukrainian folk-tale choreographed by Bo Fenster to music +of Soloviev-Sedoi. It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, +and it contains everything in the books- lusty comedy, gregarious +cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt +to make the human body perform. Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei +Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr& Livshitz were the +chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent. #@# + +At +the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus +ballet "Bayaderka", which opened the evening. What +a man this Petipa was! And why do we in the West know so few of +his ballets? This scene is a "white ballet" in which a lovelorn +hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily +beautiful "shadows" who can all dance like nothing human- +which, of course, is altogether fitting. The ensemble enters +in a long adagio passage that is of fantastic difficulty, as well as loveliness, +and adagio is the general medium of the piece. #@# + +Its +ballerina, Olga Moiseyeva, performs simple miracles of beauty, and +Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Inna Korneyeva and Gabrielle Komleva make +up a threesome of exquisite accomplishments. Sergei Vikulov, as the +lone male, meets the competition well with some brilliant hits, but the +work is designed to belong to the ladies. The middle section +of the program was made up of short numbers, naturally enough of unequal +merit, but all of them pretty good at that. They consisted of a new +arrangement of "Nutcracker" excerpts danced stunningly by Irina +Kolpakova and Mr& Sokolev, with a large ensemble; a winning +little "Snow Maiden" variation by the adorable Galina Kekisheva; +two of those poetic adagios in Greek veils (and superb esthetic +acrobacy) by Alla Osipenko and Igor Chernishev in one case and Inna +Zubkovskaya and Yuri Kornevey in the other; an amusing character +pas de cinq called "Gossiping Women"; a stirring "Flames +of Paris" pas de deux by Xenia Ter-Stepanova and Alexandre Pavlovsky, +and a lovely version of Fokine's "Le Cygne" by Olga +Moiseyeva, which had to be repeated. Vadim Kalentiev was the +conductor. It was quite an evening! + +A YEAR ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking +in Los Angeles and John F& Kennedy was still only an +able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility +of the Presidency, Theodore H& White had already compiled masses +of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960. As the +pace of the quadrennial American political festival accelerated, Mr& +White took more notes. He traveled alternately with Mr& Kennedy +and with Richard M& Nixon. He asked intimate questions +and got frank answers from the members of what he calls the candidates' +"in-groups". He assembled quantities of facts about the nature +of American politics in general, as well as about the day-to-day course +of the closest Presidential election in American history. + +Those of us who read the papers may think we know a good deal about +that election; how little we know of what there is to be known is +made humiliatingly clear by Mr& White in "The Making of the President +1960". This is a remarkable book and an astonishingly +interesting one. What might have been only warmed-over topical journalism +turns out to be an eyewitness contribution to history. Mr& +White, who is only a competent novelist, is a brilliant reporter. His +zest for specific detail, his sensitivity to emotional atmosphere, +his tireless industry and his crisply turned prose all contribute to the +effectiveness of his book. + +#A LESSON IN POLITICS# + +As a dramatic +narrative "The Making of the President 1960" is continuously +engrossing. And as an introduction to American politics it is highly +educational. + +The author begins this volume with a close-up of Mr& +Kennedy, his family and his entourage waiting for the returns. +He then switches back to a consideration of the seven principal Presidential +hopefuls: five Democrats- Senator Hubert H& Humphrey, +Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Lyndon B& Johnson, Adlai +E& Stevenson and Mr& Kennedy- and two Republicans- Governor +Rockefeller and Mr& Nixon. Then, in chronological +order, Mr& White covers the primary campaigns, the conventions and +the Presidential campaign itself. In the process he writes at length +about many related matters: the importance of race, religion, local +tradition, bosses, organizations, zealous volunteers and television. +Mr& White is bluntly frank in his personal opinions. He frequently +cites intimate details that seem to come straight from the horse's +mouth, from numerous insiders and from Mr& Kennedy himself; but +never from Mr& Nixon, who looked on reporters with suspicion and +distrust. "Rarely in American history has there been a political +campaign that discussed issues less or clarified them less", +says Mr& White. Mr& Nixon, he believes, has no particular political +philosophy and mismanaged his own campaign. Although a skillful +politician and a courageous and honest man, Mr& Nixon, Mr& White +believes, ignored his own top-level planners, wasted time and effort +in the wrong regions, missed opportunities through indecision and +damaged his chances on television. Mr& Nixon is "a broody, +moody man, given to long stretches of introspection; he trusts only +himself and his wife. **h He is a man of major talent- but a man +of solitary, uncertain impulses. **h He was above all a friend seeker, +almost pathetic in his eagerness to be liked. He wanted to identify +with people and have a connection with them; **h the least inspiring +candidate since Alfred M& Landon". Mr& Kennedy, +Mr& White believes, "had mastered politics on so many different +levels that no other +American could match him". Calm, dignified, composed, +"superbly eloquent", Mr& Kennedy always knew everything +about everybody. He enlisted a staff of loyal experts and of many zealous +volunteers. Every decision was made quickly on sound grounds. +Efficiency was enforced and nothing was left to chance. Mr& Kennedy +did not neglect to cultivate the personal friendship of reporters. +Mr& White admires him profoundly and leaves no doubt that he is a +Democrat himself who expects Mr& Kennedy to be a fine President. + +#PRESSURES PORTRAYED# + +Throughout "The Making of a President" +Mr& White shows wonderfully well how the pressures pile up on +candidates, how decisions have constantly to be made, how fatigue and +illness and nervous strain wear candidates down, how subordinates play +key roles. And he makes many interesting comments. Here are several: + +"The root question in American politics is always: +Who's the Man to See? To understand American politics is, simply, +to know people, to know the relative weight of names- who are +heroes, who are straw men, who controls, who does not. But to operate +in American politics one must go a step further- one must build a +bridge to such names, establish a warmth, a personal connection". + +"In the hard life of politics it is well known that no platform +nor any program advanced by either major American party has any purpose +beyond expressing emotion". "All platforms are meaningless: +the program of either party is what lies in the vision and conscience +of the candidate the party chooses to lead it". + +NOSTALGIA WEEK at Lewisohn Stadium, which had begun with +the appearance of the 70-year-old Mischa Elman on Tuesday night, +continued last night as Lily Pons led the list of celebrities in an +evening of French operatic excerpts. Miss Pons is certainly +not +70-no singer ever is- and yet the rewards of the evening again +lay more in paying tribute to a great figure of times gone by than in +present accomplishments. The better part of gallantry might be, perhaps, +to honor her perennial good looks and her gorgeous rainbow-hued gown, +and to chide the orchestra for not playing in the same keys in which +she had chosen to sing. No orchestra, however, could be expected +to follow a singer through quite as many adventures with pitch as +Miss Pons encountered last night. In all fairness, there were flashes +of the great stylist of yesteryear, flashes even of the old consummate +vocalism. #@# + +One such moment came in the breathtaking way +Miss Pons sang the cadenza to Meyerbeer's "Shadow Song". +The years suddenly fell away at this point. On the whole, however, one +must wonder at just what it is that forces a beloved artist to besmirch +her own reputation as time marches inexorably on. Sharing +the program was the young French-Canadian tenor Richard Verreau, +making his stadium debut on this occasion. Mr& Verreau began shakily, +with a voice that tended toward an unpleasant whiteness when pushed +beyond middle volume. Later on this problem vanished, and the "Flower +Song" from Bizet's "Carmen" was beautifully and intelligently +projected. + +Radio is easily outdistancing television in its strides to reach +the minority listener. Lower costs and a larger number of stations +are the key factors making such specialization possible. The +mushrooming of ~FM outlets, offering concerts (both jazz and classical), +lectures, and other special events, is a phenomenon which has had +a fair amount of publicity. Not so well known is the growth +of broadcasting operations aimed wholly or partly at Negro listeners- +an audience which, in the United States, comprises some 19,000,000 +people with $20,000,000,000 to spend each year. Of course, +the nonwhite listener does his share of television watching. He even +buys a lot of the products he sees advertised- despite the fact that +the copy makes no special bid for his favor and sponsors rarely use any +but white models in commercials. But the growing number of +Negro-appeal radio stations, plus evidence of strong listener support +of their advertisers, give time salesmen an impressive argument as they +approach new prospects. It is estimated that more than 600 stations +(of a total of 3,400) do a significant amount of programing for the +Negro. At least 60 stations devote all of their time to reaching this +audience in about half of the 50 states. These and other figures +and comments have been reported in a special supplement of Sponsor +magazine, a trade publication for radio and ~TV advertisers. For +10 years Sponsor has issued an annual survey of the size and characteristics +of the Negro market and of successful techniques for reaching +this market through radio. In the past 10 years, Sponsor +observes, these trends have become apparent: _@_ Negro population +in the U&S& has increased 25 per cent while the white population +was growing by 18 per cent. "The forgotten 15 million"- as +Sponsor tagged the Negro market in its first survey- has become +a better-remembered 19 million. _@_ Advertisers are changing their +attitudes, both as to the significance of this market and the ways +of speaking to it. _@_ Stations programing to Negro listeners +are having to upgrade their shows in order to keep pace with rising educational, +economic, and cultural levels. Futhermore, the station which +wants real prestige must lead or participate in community improvement +projects, not simply serve on the air. In the last decade +the number of Negro-appeal radio program hours has risen at least 15 +per cent, and the number of Negro-appeal stations has increased 30 per +cent, according to a research man quoted by Sponsor. A year +ago the Negro Radio Association was formed to spur research which +the 30-odd member stations are sure will bring in more business. + +The 1960 census underscored the explosive character of the population +growth. It also brought home proof of something a casual observer +might have missed: that more than half of the U&S& Negroes live +outside the southeastern states. Also, the state with the largest +number of Negroes is New York- not in the South at all. +In New York City, ~WLIB boasts "more community service programs +than any other Negro station" and "one of the largest Negro +news staffs in America". And ~WWRL's colorful mobile unit, +cruising predominately Negro neighborhoods, is a frequent reminder +of that station's round-the-clock dedication to nonwhite interests. +Recently, ~WWRL won praise for its expose of particular cases +of employment agency deceit. A half-dozen other stations in the New +York area also bid for attention of the city's Negro population, +up about 50 per cent in the past decade. In all big cities outside +the South, and even in small towns within the South, radio stations +can be found beaming some or all of their programs at Negro listeners. +The Keystone Broadcasting System's Negro network includes +360 affiliated stations, whose signals reach more than half the total +U&S& Negro population. One question which inevitably +crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the +Negro is moving into a fully integrated status. Whatever the +long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations +these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal. Advertisers +have discovered the tendency of Negroes to shop for brand names +they have heard on stations catering to their special interests. +And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro +disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only +from a fact sheet. What sets Negro-appeal programing apart from +other radio shows? Sponsor magazine notes the stress on popular +Negro bands and singers; rhythm-and-blues mood music; "race" +music, folk songs and melodies, and gospel programs. Furthermore, news +and special presentations inform the listener about groups, projects, +and personalities rarely mentioned on a general-appeal station. Advertising +copy frequently takes into account matters of special Negro +concern. Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony +station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious +of quality and and "does not wish to be associated with radio +which is any way degrading to his race; he tends to shy away from the +hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro radio +programs famous". The sociological impact is perhaps most +eloquently summed up in this quotation of J& Walter Carroll of ~KSAN, +San Francisco: "Negro-appeal radio is more important +to the Negro today, because it provides a direct and powerful +mirror in which the Negro can hear and see his ambitions, achievements +and desires. It will continue to be important as a means of orientation +to the Negro, seeking to become urbanized, as he tries to make +adjustment to the urban life. Negro radio is vitally necessary during +the process of assimilation". + +Presentation of "The Life and Times of John Sloan" in +the Delaware Art Center here suggests a current nostalgia for human +values in art. Staged by way of announcing the gift of a large +and intimate Sloan collection by the artist's widow, Helen Farr +Sloan, to the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, the exhibition +presents a survey of Sloan's work. From early family portraits, +painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of +the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed +in his last year (1951) and still part of his estate. Few +artists have left a life work so eloquent of the period in which they +lived. Few who have painted the scenes around them have done so with +so little bitterness. The paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrations +all reflect the manners, costumes, and mores of America in the first +half of the present century. Obviously Sloan's early years +were influenced by his close friend Robert Henri. As early as +1928, however, the Sloan style began to change. The dark pigments of +the early work were superseded by a brighter palette. The solidity of +brush stroke yielded to a hatching technique that finally led to virtual +abandonment of American genres in favor of single figure studies +and studio nudes. The exhibition presents all phases of Sloan's +many-sided art. In addition to the paintings are drawings, prints, +and illustrations. Sloan created such works for newspaper supplements +before syndication threw him out of a job and sent him to roam the +streets of New York, thereby building for America an incomparable +city survey from paintings of McSorley's Saloon to breezy clotheslines +on city roofs. One of the most appealing of the rooftop +canvases is "Sun and Wind on the Roof", with a woman and child +bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds. Although +there are landscapes in the show (one of the strongest is a vista of +"Gloucester Harbor" in 1915), the human element was the compelling +factor in Sloan's art. Significant are such canvases as +"Bleeker Street, Saturday Night", with its typically American +crowd (Sloan never went abroad); the multifigure "Traveling Carnival", +in which action is vivified by lighting; or "Carmine +Theater, 1912", the only canvas with an ash can (and foraging dog), +although Sloan was a member of the famous "Eight", and of the +so-called "Ash-Can School", a term he resented. Not all +the paintings, however, are of cities. The exhibition touches briefly +on his sojourn in the Southwest ("Koshare in the Dust", a vigorous +Indian dance, and landscapes suggest the influence of western +color on his palette). The fact that Sloan was an extrovert, +concerned primarily with what he saw, adds greatly to the value of his +art as a human chronicle. There are 151 items in the Wilmington +show, including one painting by each member of the "Eight", +as well as work by Sloan's friends and students. Supplementing the +actual art are memorabilia- correspondence, diaries, books from the +artist's library, etc&. All belong to the collection being given +to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs& Sloan, who has cherished +such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at +the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920's. To +enable students and the public to spot Sloan forgeries, the Delaware +Art Center (according to its director, Bruce St& John) will maintain +a complete file of photographs of all Sloan works, as well as +a card index file. The entire Sloan collection will be made available +at the center to all serious art students and historians. The +current exhibition, which remains on view through Oct& 29, has tapped +14 major collections and many private sources. + +Any musician playing Beethoven here, where Beethoven was born, +is likely to examine his own interpretations with special care. In +a sense, he is offering Bonn what its famous son (who left as a youth) +never did- the sound of the composer's mature style. Robert +Riefling, who gave the only piano recital of the recently concluded +23rd Beethoven Festival, penetrated deep into the spirit of the +style. +His readings were careful without being fussy, and they were authoritative +without being presumptuous. The 32 ~C minor Variations +with which he opened moved fluently yet logically from one to another, +leaving the right impression of abundance under discipline. +The ~D minor Sonata, Op& 31 No& 2, introduced by dynamically +shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative- +single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way +toward the idea to come. These inwardly dramatic moments showed the +kind of "opera style" of which Beethoven was genuinely capable, +but which did not take so kindly to the mechanics of staging. +Two late Sonatas, Op& 110 and 111, were played with similar insight, +the disarming simplicities of the Op& 111 Adagio made plain without +ever becoming obvious. The two were separated from each other by +the Six Bagatelles of Op& 126. Herr Riefling, in everything he +gave his large Beethoven Hall audience, proved himself as an interpreter +of unobtrusive authority. Volker Wangenheim, who conducted +Bonn's Sta^dtisches +Orchester on the following evening, made +one more conscious of the process of interpretation. Herr Wangenheim +has only recently become the city's music director, and is a young +man with a clear flair for the podium. But he weighted the Eighth +Symphony, at times, with a shuddering subjectivity which seemed +considerably at odds with the music. He might have been hoping, to all +appearances, that this relatively sunny symphony, in conjunction +with the Choral Fantasy at the end of the program, could amount +to something like the Ninth; but no amount of head-tossing could +make it so. The conductor's preoccupation with the business +of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness, as with the first +orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto, but when he put +his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed, +it did so with plenty of spring. The concerto's soloist, +Hans Richter-Haaser, played with compensatory ease and economy, though +without the consummate plasticity to which we had been treated on +the previous evening by Herr Riefling. His was a burgomaster's +Beethoven, solid and sensible. Everybody returned after intermission +for the miscellaneous sweepings of the Fantasy for Piano, Chorus, +and Orchestra in ~C minor, made up by its composer to fill +out one of his programs. The entrance of the Sta^dtisches Gesangverein +(Bonn's civic chorus) was worth all the waiting, however, as the +young Rhenish voices finally brought the music to life. The +last program of this festival, which during two weeks had sampled most +compositional categories, brought the Cologne Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester +and Rundfunkchor to Bonn's gold-filled hall for a performance +of the Missa Solemnis. + +A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray +resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood +on the shell of a great tortoise. This theory eventually proved inexact. +But the primitive method of explaining the unknown with what is known +bears at least a symbolic resemblance to the methods of modern science. + +It is the business of cosmologists, the scientists who +study the nature and structure of the universe, to try to solve the great +cosmic mysteries by using keys that have clicked open other doors. +These keys are the working principles of physics, mathematics and astronomy, +principles which are then extrapolated, or projected, to explain +phenomena of which we have little or no direct knowledge. In +the autumn of 1959, the British Broadcasting Corporation presented +a series of talks by four scientists competent in cosmology. Three +of these men discussed major theories of the universe while the other +acted as a moderator. The participants were Professor H& Bondi, +professor of mathematics at King's College, London; Dr& W& +B& Bonnor, reader in mathematics at Queen Elizabeth College, +London; Dr& R& A& Lyttleton, a lecturer at St& John's +College, Cambridge, and a reader in theoretical astronomy at the +University of Cambridge; and Dr& G& J& Whitrow, reader +in applied mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, +London. Dr& Whitrow functioned as moderator. The +programs were so well received by the British public that the arguments +have been published in a totally engrossing little book called, "Rival +Theories of Cosmology". Dr& Bonnor begins with +a discussion of the relativistic theories of the universe, based on +the general theory of relativity. First of all, and this has been calculated +by observation, the universe is expanding- that is, the galaxies +are receding from each other at immense speeds. Because of this +Dr& Bonnor holds that the universe is becoming more thinly populated +by stars and whatever else is there. This expansion has been going +on for an estimated eight billion years. + +#EXPANDS AND CONTRACTS# + +Dr& Bonnor supports the idea that the universe both expands and contracts, +that in several billion years the expansion will slow up and +reverse itself and that the contraction will set in. Then, after many +more billions of years, when all the galaxies are whistling toward a +common center, this movement will slow down and reverse itself again. + +Professor Bondi disagrees with the expansion-contraction theory. +He supports the steady-state theory which holds that matter is continually +being created in space. For this reason, he says, the density +of the universe always remains the same even though the galaxies are +zooming away in all directions. New galaxies are forever being formed +to fill in the gaps left by the receding galaxies. If this +is true, then the universe today looks just as it did millions of years +ago and as it will look millions of years hence, even though the universe +is expanding. For new galaxies to be created, Professor Bondi +declares, it would only be necessary for a single hydrogen atom to be +created in an area the size of your living room once every few million +years. He contends this idea doesn't conflict with experiments on +which the principle of conservation of matter and energy is based because +some slight error must be assumed in such experiments. Dr& +Lyttleton backs the theory that we live in an electric universe +and this theory starts with the behavior of protons and electrons. Protons +and electrons bear opposite electrical charges which make them attract +each other, and when they are joined they make up an atom of hydrogen- +the basic building block of matter. The charges of the electron +and proton are believed to be exactly equal and opposite, but Dr& +Lyttleton is not so sure. Suppose, says Dr& Lyttleton, the proton +has a slightly greater charge than the electron (so slight it is +presently immeasurable). This would give the hydrogen atom a slight +charge-excess. + +Now if one hydrogen atom were placed at the surface +of a large sphere of hydrogen atoms, it would be subject both to the +gravitation of the sphere and the charge-excess of all those atoms +in the sphere. Because electrical forces (the charge-excess) are far +more powerful than gravitation, the surface hydrogen atoms would shoot +away from the sphere. Dr& Lyttleton then imagines the universe +as a large hydrogen sphere with surface atoms shooting away from +it. This, he claims, would reasonably account for the expansion of the +universe. + +#FLEETING GLIMPSE# + +This slim book, while giving the +reader only a fleeting glimpse of the scientific mind confronting the +universe, has the appeal that informed conversation always has. Several +photographs and charts of galaxies help the non-scientist keep up with +the discussion, and the smooth language indicates the contributors +were determined to avoid the jargon that seems to work its way into almost +every field. It is clear from this discussion that cosmologists +of every persuasion look hopefully toward the day when a man-made +satellite can be equipped with optical devices which will open up +new vistas to science. Presently, the intense absorption of ultra-violet +rays in the earth's atmosphere seriously hinders ground observation. +These scientists are convinced that a telescope unclouded by the +earth's gases will go a long way toward bolstering or destroying cosmic +theories. There would seem to be some small solace in +the prospect that the missile race between nations is at the same time +accelerating the study of the space around us, giving us a long-sought +ladder from which to peer at alien regions. In doing away with +the tea tray, the elephants and the giant tortoise, science has developed +a series of rationally defensible explanations of the cosmos. +And although the universe may forever defy understanding, it might even +now be finding its match in the imagination of man. +"Roots", the new play at the brand-new Mayfair Theater on 46th +St& +which has been made over from a night club, is about the intellectual +and spiritual awakening of an English farm girl. Highly successful +in England before its transfer to New York, most of "Roots" is +as relentlessly dour as the trappings of the small new theater are +gaudy. Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant (Mary +Doyle) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual +lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile +the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch +for most of the first two and one-half acts. The burden of Mr& +Wesker's message is that people living close to the soil (at least +in England) are not the happy, fine, strong, natural, earthy people +city-bred intellectuals imagine. Rather they are genuine clods, proud +of their cloddishness and openly antagonistic to the illuminating +influences of aesthetics or thought. They care no more for politics, +says Mr& Wesker, than they do for a symphony. Seeming to have roots +in the soil, they actually have none in life. They dwell, in short, +in the doltish twilight in which peasants and serfs of the past are +commonly reported to have lived. But this is a theme which does +not take so much time to state as Mr& Wesker dedicates to it. So +much untidiness of mind and household does not attract the interest +of the theatergoer (unless he has been living in a gilded palace, perhaps, +and wants a real big heap of contrast). The messy meals, the washing +of dishes, the drying of clothes may be realism, but there is such +a thing as redundancy. Now for the good points. Miss Doyle +as Beatie has a great fund of animal spirits, a strong voice and a +warm smile. She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has +become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie (we never do +see him) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, +including a dose of good British socialism. But while she +is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open +before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and +instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, +he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal. Beatie, getting +no sympathy for her misfortune, soon rallies and finds that although she +has lost a lover she has gained her freedom. Despite a too long sustained +declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see +why British audiences apparently were impressed by "Roots". + +There were several fairly good minor portraits in the play, including +William Hansen's impersonation of a stubborn, rather pathetic +father, and Katherine Squire's vigorous characterization of a farm +mother who brooked no hifalutin' nonsense from her daughter, or anyone +else. But I am afraid Mr& Wesker's meat and potatoes dish +isn't well seasoned enough for local audiences. + +SHAKESPEARE had a word for everything, even for the rain +that disrupted Wednesday night's "Much Ado About Nothing" opening +the season of free theatre in Central Park. The New +York Shakespeare Festival, which is using the Wollman Memorial Skating +Rink while its theatre near the Belvedere is being completed, +began bravely. Joseph Papp, impassioned founder of the festival and +director of "Much Ado", had a vibrant, colorful production under +way. Using a wide stage resourcefully he mingled music and dance with +Shakespeare's words in a spirited mixture. The audience +filled all the seats inside the Wollman enclosure and overflowed onto +the lawns outside the fence. The barbed sallies of Beatrice and Benedick, +so contemporary to a public inured to the humor of insult, raised +chuckles. The simple-minded comedy of Dogberry and Verges, also +familiar in a day that responds easily to jokes skimmed off the top of +writers' heads, evoked laughter. The vivacity of the masquers' +party at Leonato's palace, with the Spanish motif in the music and +dancing in honor of the visiting Prince of Arragon, cast a spell of +delight. #@# + +As "Much Ado" turned serious while the insipid +Claudio rejected Hero at the altar, a sprinkle began to fall. At +first hardly a person in the audience moved, although some umbrellas +were opened. But the rain came more heavily, and men and women in +light summer clothes began to depart. The grieving Hero and her father, +Leonato, followed by the Friar, left the stage. A voice on the +loudspeaker system announced that if the rain let up the performance +would resume in ten minutes. More than half the audience departed. +Some remained in the Wollman enclosure, fortified with raincoats +or with newspapers to cover their heads. Others huddled under the trees +outside the fence. Twenty minutes after the interruption, although +it was still raining, the play was resumed at the point in the fourth +act where it had been stopped. Beatrice (Nan Martin) and +Benedick (J& D& Cannon) took their places on the stage. In their +very first speeches it was clear that Shakespeare, like a Nostradamus, +had foreseen this moment. Said Benedick: "Lady Beatrice, +have you wept all this while"? Replied Beatrice: +"Yea, and I will weep a while longer". The heavens refused +to give up their weeping. The gallant company completed Act /4, +and got through part of Act /5,. But the final scenes could not +be played. If any among the hardy hundreds who sat in the downpour +are in doubt about how it comes out, let them take comfort. "Much +Ado" ends happily. #@# + +The Parks Department has done an admirable +job of preparing the Wollman Rink for Shakespeare. One could +hardly blame Newbold Morris, the Parks Commissioner, for devoting +so much grateful mention to the department's technicians who at short +notice provided the stage with its rising platforms, its balcony, +its generous wings and even its impressive trapdoors for the use of the +villains. Eldon Elder, who designed the stage, also created +a gay, spacious set that blended attractively with the park background +and Shakespeare's lighthearted mood. Mr& Papp has directed a +performance that has verve and pace, although he has tolerated obvious +business to garner easy laughs where elegance and consistency of style +would be preferable. + +Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sang so magnificently Saturday night at +Hunter College that it seems a pity to have to register any complaints. +Still a demurrer or two must be entered. Schwarzkopf is, +of course, Schwarzkopf. For style and assurance, for a supreme and +regal bearing there is still no one who can touch her. If the voice +is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful +instrument, controlled and flexible. Put to the service of lieder +of Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and Wolf in a dramatical and musical +way, it made its effect with ease and precision. But what has +been happening recently might be described as creeping mannerism. Instead +of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical +expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic +sin of artistic pride- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads +a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the +music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch +imposed from the outside. The symptoms Saturday night were +unmistakable. Clever light songs were overly coy, tragic songs a little +too melodramatic. There was an extra pause here, a gasp or a sigh +there, here and there an extra little twist of a word or note, all in +the interest of effect. The result was like that of a beautiful painting +with some of the highlights touched up almost to the point of garishness. + +There were stunning musical phrases too, and sometimes +the deepest kind of musical and poetic absorption and communication. +Miss Schwarzkopf and her excellent pianist, John Wustman, often achieved +the highest lyrical ideals of the lieder tradition. All the more +reason why there should have been no place for the frills; Miss +Schwarzkopf is too great an artist to need them. + +THE dance, dancers and dance enthusiasts (8,500 of them) +had a much better time of it at Lewisohn Stadium on Saturday night +than all had had two nights earlier, when Stadium Concerts presented +the first of two dance programs. On Saturday, the orchestra +was sensibly situated down on the field, the stage floor was apparently +in decent condition for dancing, and the order of the program improved. +#@# + +There was, additionally, a bonus for the Saturday-night +patrons. Alvin Ailey and Carmen De Lavallade appeared in the first +New York performance of Mr& Ailey's "Roots of the Blues", +a work given its premiere three weeks ago at the Boston Arts Festival. + +Otherwise, the program included, as on Thursday, the +Taras-Tchaikovsky "Design for Strings", the Dollar-Britten +"Divertimento", the Dollar-De Banfield "The Duel" and +the pas de deux from "The Nutcracker". Maria Tallchief +and Erik Bruhn, who danced the "Nutcracker" pas de deux, were +also seen in the Petipa-Minkus pas de deux from "Don Quixote", +another brilliant showpiece that displayed their technical prowess handsomely. + +Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, +Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in +their roles in "The Duel", a work that depends so much upon the +precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants. Mr& +Ailey's "Roots of the Blues", an earthy and very human modern +dance work, provided strong contrast to the ballet selections of +the evening. #@# + +As Brother John Sellers sang five "blues" +to the guitar and drum accompaniments of Bruce Langhorne and Shep +Shepard, Mr& Ailey and Miss De Lavallade went through volatile +dances that were by turns insinuating, threatening, contemptuous and +ecstatic. Their props were two stepladders, a chair and a palm +fan. He wore the clothes of a laborer, and she was wondrously seductive +in a yellow and orange dress. The cat-like sinuousness +and agility of both dancers were exploited in leaps, lifts, crawls and +slides that were almost invariably compelling in a work of strong, sometimes +almost frightening, tensions. "Roots of the Blues" may +not be for gentle souls, but others should welcome its super-charged impact. + +"PERHAPS it is better to stay at home. The armchair traveler +preserves his illusions". This somewhat cynical comment may +be found in "Blue Skies, Brown Studies", a collection of travel +essays by William Sansom, who would never consider staying home for +long. Mr& Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the +versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and +of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something +midway between. The only man alive who seems qualified by +his learning, his disposition and his addiction to a baroque luxuriance +of language to inherit the literary mantle of Sacheverell Sitwell, +Mr& Sansom writes of foreign parts with a dedication to decoration +worthy of a pastry chef creating a wedding cake for the marriage of +a Hungarian beauty (her third) and an American multimillionaire (his +fourth). The result is rather wonderful, but so rich as to be indigestible +if taken in too thick slices. There are sixteen essays +in "Blue Skies, Brown Studies". Most of them were written between +1953 and 1960 and originally appeared in various magazines. All +are well written and are overwritten. But, even if Mr& Sansom labors +too hard to extract more refinements of meaning and feeling from +his travel experiences than the limits of language allow, he still can +charm and astound. Too many books and articles are just assembled by +putting one word after another. Mr& Sansom actually his +with a nice ear for a gracefully composed sentence, with an intense +relish in all the metaphorical resources of English, with a thick shower +of sophisticated, cultural references. + +#A CONTEMPLATIVE CONNOISSEUR# +"I like to sniff a place, and reproduce what it really smells +and looks like, its color, its particular kind of life". This is +an exact description of what Mr& Sansom does. He ignores guidebook +facts. He only rarely tells a personal anecdote and hardly ever sketches +an individual or quotes his opinions. It is an over-all impression +Mr& Sansom strives for, an impression compounded of visual details, +of a savory mixture of smells, of much loving attention to architecture +and scenery, of lights and shadows, of intangibles of atmosphere +and of echoes of the past. William Sansom writes only about +Europe in this book and frequently of such familiar places as London, +Vienna, the French Riviera and the Norwegian fjords. But no +matter what he writes about he brings to his subject his own original +mind and his own sensitive reactions. "A writer lives, at best, in +a state of astonishment", he says. "Beneath any feeling he has of +the good or the evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it +all. To transmit that feeling he writes". This may not be true of +many writers, but it certainly is true of Mr& Sansom. So in these +pages one can share his wonder at the traditional fiesta of St& Torpetius +that still persists in St& Tropez; at the sun and the +heat of Mediterranean lands, always much brighter and hotter to an Englishman +than to an American used to summers in New York or Kansas +City; at the supreme delights to be found in one of the world's +finest restaurants, La Bonne Auberge, which is situated on the seacoast +twenty miles west of the Nice airport; and at the infinite variety +of London. Mr& Sansom can be eloquent in a spectacular +way which recalls (to those who recall easily) the statues of Bernini +and the gigantic paintings of Tintoretto. He can coin a neat phrase: +"a street spattered with an invigoration of people"; tulips +with "petals wide and shaggy as a spaniel's ears"; after a +snowstorm a landscape smelling "of woodsmoke and clarity". And, for +all his lacquered, almost Byzantine self-consciousness, he can make +one recognize the aptness of an unexpected comparison. + +#BEAUTY BORROWED +FROM AFAR# + +In one of his best essays Mr& Sansom expresses +his enthusiasm for the many country mansions designed by Andrea Palladio +himself that dot the environs of Vicenza. How far that pedimented +and pillared style has shed its influence Mr& Sansom reminds +us thus: "The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion +is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England +to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, +the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of +Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair +on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise +firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light +and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns +framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple +of mating lips". Nice, even if a trifle gaudy. "Blue Skies, +Brown Studies" is illustrated with numerous excellent photographs. + +IN recent days there have been extensive lamentations over +the absence of original drama on television, but not for years have +many regretted the passing of new plays on radio. ~WBAI, the listener-supported +outlet on the frequency-modulation band, has decided +to do what it can to correct this aural void. Yesterday it offered +"Poised for Violence", by Jean Reavey. ~WBAI is on +the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis +on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, +as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue +to demonstrate. Unfortunately, "Poised for Violence" was not +the happiest vehicle with which to make the point. #@# + +Mrs& +Reavey's work is written for the stage- it is mentioned for an off-Broadway +production in the fall- and, in addition, employs an avant-garde +structure that particularly needs to be seen if comprehension +is to be encouraged. The play's device is to explore society's +obsession with disaster and violence through the eyes of a group +of artist's models who remain part of someone else's painting +rather than just be themselves. In a succession of scenes they appear +in different guises- patrons of a cafe, performers in a circus and +participants in a family picnic- but in each instance they inevitably +put ugliness before beauty. #@# + +Somewhere in Mrs& Reavey's +play there is both protest and aspiration of merit. But its relentless +discursiveness and determined complexity are so overwhelming that +after an hour and a half a listener's stamina begins to wilt. Moreover, +her central figures are so busily fulfilling their multitudinous +assignments that none emerges as an arresting individual in his own +right or as a provocative symbol of mankind's ills. But quite +conceivably an altogether different impression will obtain when the +work is offered in the theatre and there can be other effects to relieve +the burden on the author's words. Which in itself is an immediate +reward of the ~WBAI experiment; good radio drama has its own +special demands that badly need reinvigoration. + +A WEEKLY showcase for contemporary music, from the austere +archaism of Stravinsky to the bleeps and bloops of electronic music, +is celebrating its fourth anniversary this month. Titled "What's +New in Music"? the enterprising program is heard Saturday +afternoons on radio station ~WQXR. The brief notes +introducing each work offer salient historical or technical points, and +many listeners are probably grateful for being intelligently taken by +the hand through an often difficult maze. The show is programed and +written by the station's assistant continuity editor, Chuck Briefer. + +The first Saturday in each month is set aside for new recordings. +Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, +Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from +a new "space" opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl. + +Other Saturdays are devoted to studies of a selected American +composer, a particular type of music or the music of a given +country. It is commendable that a regularly scheduled hour is +set aside for an introduction to the contemporary musical scene. But +one wishes, when the appetite is whetted, as it was in the case of +the all-too-brief excerpt from the Blomdahl opera, that further opportunity +would be provided both for hearing the works in their entirety +and for a closer analytical look at the sense and nature of the compositions. + +THE Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square +Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before +it brings its long American tour to a close. It is not simply +giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York +engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers +that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's +heart. It is good to see those numbers again. The "Suite +of Old Russian Dances" that opened that inaugural program +with the slow and modest entrance of the maidens and built steadily into +typical Moiseyev vigor and warmth; the amusing "Yurochka", +in which a hard-to-please young man is given his come-uppance; the +lovely (and of course vigorous) "Polyanka" or "The Meadow"; +the three Moldavian dances entitled "Zhok"; the sweet and funny +little dance about potato planting called "Bul'ba"; and +the hilarious picture of social life in an earlier day called "City +Quadrille" are all just as good as one remembers them to have been, +and they are welcome back. + +So, for that matter, are the newer +dances- the "Kalmuk Dance" with its animal movements, that genial +juggling act by Sergei Tsvetkov called "The Platter", the +rousing and beautiful betrothal celebration called "Summer", "The +Three Shepherds" of Azerbaijan hopping up on their staffs, +and, of course, the trenchant "Rock 'n' Roll". +As autumn starts its annual sweep, few Americans and Canadians realize +how fortunate they are in having the world's finest fall coloring. +Spectacular displays of this sort are relatively rare in the entire +land surface of the earth. The only other regions so blessed are the +British Isles, western Europe, eastern China, southern Chile and +parts of Japan, New Zealand and Tasmania. Their autumn tints are +all fairly low keyed compared with the fiery stabs of crimson, gold, +purple, bronze, blue and vermilion that flame up in North America. +Jack Frost is not really responsible for this great seasonal spectacle; +in fact, a freezing autumn dulls the blaze. The best effects come +from a combination of temperate climate and plenty of late-summer rain, +followed by sunny days and cool nights. Foliage pilgrimages, either +organized or individual, are becoming an autumn item for more and +more Americans each year. Below is a specific guide, keyed to the calendar. + +#NATURE# + + +_CANADA._ Late September finds Quebec's +color at its peak, especially in the Laurentian hills and in the area +south of the St& Lawrence River. In the Maritime provinces farther +east, the tones are a little quieter. Ontario's foliage is most +vivid from about Sept& 23 to Oct& 10, with both Muskoka (100 +miles north of Toronto) and Haliburton (125 miles northwest of Toronto) +holding color cavalcades starting Sept& 23. In the Canadian +Rockies, great groves of aspen are already glinting gold. _NEW ENGLAND._ +Vermont's sugar maples are scarlet from Sept& 25 to Oct& +15, and often hit a height in early October. New Hampshire figures +its peak around Columbus Day and boasts of all its hardwoods including +the yellow of the birches. The shades tend to be a little softer +in the forests that blanket so much of Maine. In western Massachusetts +and northwest Connecticut, the Berkshires are at their vibrant +prime the first week of October. + +#MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES._ The +Adirondacks blaze brightest in early October, choice routes being +9~N from Saratoga up to Lake George and 73 and 86 in the Lake +Placid area. Farther south in New York there is a heavy haze of color +over the Catskills in mid-October, notably along routes 23 and 23~A. +About the same time the Alleghenies and Poconos in Pennsylvania +are magnificent- Renovo holds its annual Flaming Foliage Festival +on Oct& 14, 15. New Jersey's color varies from staccato +to pastel all the way from the Delaware Water Gap to Cape May. _SOUTHEAST._ +During the first half of October the Blue Ridge and +other parts of the Appalachians provide a spectacle stretching from +Maryland and West Virginia to Georgia. The most brilliant displays +are along the Skyline Drive above Virginia's Shenandoah Valley +and throughout the Great Smokies between North Carolina and Tennessee. + +_MIDWEST._ Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many +superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few +days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, +, Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama +celebration +is Sept& 29-Oct& 8. In Wisconsin, take route 55 north +of Shawano or routes 78 and 60 from Portage to Prairie du Chien. +In Michigan, there is fine color on route 27 up to the Mackinac Straits, +while the views around Marquette and Iron Mountain in the +Upper Peninsula are spectacular. In Minnesota, Arrowhead County +and route 53 north to International Falls are outstanding. Farther +south, there are attractive patches all the way to the Ozarks, with some +seasonal peaks as late as early November. Illinois' Shawnee +National Forest, Missouri's Iron County and the maples of Hiawatha, +Kan& should be at their best in mid-October. _THE WEST._ +The Rockies have many "Aspencades", which are organized tours +of the aspen areas with frequent stops at vantage points for viewing +the golden panoramas. In Colorado, Ouray has its Fall Color Week +Sept& 22-29, Rye and Salida both sponsor Aspencades Sept& 24, +and Steamboat Springs has a week-long Aspencade Sept& 25-30. +New Mexico's biggest is at Ruidoso Oct& 7, 8, while Alamogordo +and Cloudcroft cooperate in similar trips Oct& 1. + +#AMERICANA# + + +_PLEASURE DOMES._ Two sharply contrasting places designed for +public enjoyment are now on display. The Corn Palace at Mitchell, +S& Dak&, "the world's corniest building", has a carnival through +Sept& 23 headlining the Three Stooges and Pee Wee Hunt. +Since 1892 ears of red, yellow, purple and white corn have annually +been nailed to 11 big picture panels to create hugh "paintings". The +1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures +including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, +the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and +today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs. The panels +will stay up until they are replaced next summer. Longwood +Gardens, near Kennett Square, Pa& (about 12 miles from Wilmington, +Del&), was developed and heavily endowed by the late Pierre S& +du Pont. Every Wednesday night through Oct& 11 there will be +an elaborate colored fountain display, with 229 nozzles throwing jets +of water up to 130 feet. The "peacock tail" nozzle throws a giant +fan of water 100 feet wide and 40 feet high. The gardens themselves +are open free of charge the year round, and the 192 permanent employes +make sure that not a dead or wilted flower is ever seen indoors or out +by any visitor. The greenhouses alone cover 3-1/2 acres. + +#BOOKS# + + +_CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS._ Carson McCullers, after a long, painful +illness that might have crushed a less-indomitable soul, has come +back with an absolute gem of a novel which jumped high on best-seller +lists even before official publication. Though the subject- segregation +in her native South- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers +uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm +her place at the very top of modern American writing. @ _FRANNY +AND ZOOEY._ With an art that almost conceals art, J& D& Salinger +can create a fictional world so authentic that it hurts. Here, in +the most eagerly awaited novel of the season (his first since ), he tells of a college girl in flight from the +life around her and the tart but sympathetic help she gets from her +25-year-old brother. @ _THE HEAD OF MONSIEUR M&,_ Althea Urn. +A deft, hilarious satire on very high French society involving a +statesman with two enviable possessions, a lovely young bride and a head +containing such weighty thoughts that he has occasionally to remove +it for greater comfort. There is probably a moral in all this about +"mind heart". @ _A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH._ Virgilia +Peterson, a critic by trade, has turned her critical eye pitilessly +and honestly on herself in an autobiography more of the mind and +heart than of specific events. It is an engrossing commentary on a repressive, +upper-middle-class New York way of life in the first part +of this +century. @ _DARK RIDER._ This retelling by Louis Zara of +the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane- poet and master novelist +at 23, dead at 28- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic +subject. @ _RURAL FREE,_ Rachel Peden. Subtitled , this is a gentle and nostalgic +chronicle of the changing seasons seen through the clear, humorous +eye of a Hoosier housewife and popular columnist. @ + +#DANCE# + + +_RUSSIANS, +FILIPINOS._ Two noted troupes from overseas will get the +fall dance season off to a sparkling start. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, +famous for classic purity of technique, begins its first U&S& +tour in New York (through Sept& 30). The Bayanihan Philippine +Dance Company, with music and dances that depict the many facets +of Filipino culture, opens its 60-city U&S& tour in San Francisco +(through Sept& 24) then, via one-night stands, moves on to +Los +los Angeles (Sept& 29-Oct& 1). + +#FESTIVALS# + + +_ACROSS THE LAND._ +With harvests in full swing, you can enjoy festivals for grapes +at Sonoma, Calif& (Sept& 22-24), as well as for cranberries +at Bandon, Ore& (Sept& 28-Oct& 1), for buckwheat at Kingwood, +W& Va& (Sept& 28-30), sugar cane at New Iberia, La& (Sept& +29-Oct& 1) and tobacco at Richmond, Va& (Sept& 23-30). + +The mule is honored at Benson, N&C& (Sept& 22,23) +and at Boron, Calif& (Sept& 24-Oct& 1), while the legend +of +the Maid of the Mist is celebrated at Niagara Falls through the +24th. The fine old mansions of U&S& Grant's old home town of +Galena, Ill& are open for inspection (Sept& 23, 24). An archery +tournament will be held at North Falmouth, Mass& (Sept& 23, +24). The 300th anniversaries of Staten Island (through Sept& 23) +and of Mamaroneck, N&Y& (through Sept& 24) will both include +parades and pageants. + +#MOVIES# + + +_PURPLE NOON:_ This French +film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all +shot in lovely sunny scenery- so breath-taking that at times you +almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with. But slowly they +take over as Alain Delon (LIFE, Sept& 15), playing a sometimes +appealing but always criminal boy, casually tells a rich and foot-loose +American that he is going to murder him, then does it even while +the American is trying to puzzle out how Delon expects to profit from +the act. + +#RECORDS# + + +_NORMA._ Callas devotees will have good +reason to do their customary cart wheels over a new and complete stereo +version of the Bellini opera. Maria goes all out as a Druid princess +who gets two-timed by a Roman big shot. By turns, her beautifully +sung Norma is fierce, tender, venomous and pitiful. The tenor lead, +Franco Corelli, and La Scala cast under Maestro Tullio Serafin +are all first rate. @ _JEREMIAH PEABODY'S POLYUNSATURATED QUICK +DISSOLVING FAST ACTING PLEASANT TASTING GREEN AND PURPLE PILLS._ +In a raucous take-off on radio commercials, Singer Ray Stevens hawks +a cure-all for neuritis, neuralgia, head-cold distress, beriberi, +overweight, fungus, mungus and water on the knee. @ +Of the nation's eight million pleasure-boat owners a sizable number +have learned that late autumn is one of the loveliest seasons to be afloat- +at least in that broad balmy region that lies below America's +belt line. Waterways are busy right now from the Virginia capes +to the Texas coast. There true yachtsmen often find November winds +steadier, the waters cooler, the fish hungrier, and rivers more pleasant- +less turbulence and mud, and fewer floating logs. More and +more boats move overland on wheels (1.8 million trailers are now in +use) and Midwesterners taking long weekends can travel south with their +craft. In the Southwest, the fall brings out flotillas of boatsmen +who find the summer too hot for comfort. And on northern shores indomitable +sailors from Long Island to Lake Michigan will beat around +the buoys in dozens of frostbite races. Some pleasant fall cruising +country is mapped out below. + +#BOATING# + + +_WEST COAST._ Pleasure +boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp +breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water- ocean, +lake and reservoir. Shore facilities are enormous- Los Angeles +harbors 5,000 boats, and Long Beach 3,000- but marinas are crowded +everywhere. New docks and ramps are being rushed at Playa del Rey, +Ventura, Dana Point, Oceanside and Mission Bay. Inland, +outboard motorists welcome cooler weather and the chance to buzz over +Colorado River sandbars and Lake Mead. Newest small-boat playground +is the Salton Sea, a once-dry desert sinkhole which is now a +salty lake 42 miles long and 235 feet below sea level. On Nov& 11, +12, racers will drive their flying shingles in 5-mile laps over its 500-mile +speedboat course. In San Francisco Bay, winds are gusty and +undependable +during this season. A sailboat may have a bone in her teeth +one minute and lie becalmed the next. But regattas are scheduled +right up to Christmas. The Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon launches +its winter races Nov& 5. _GULF COAST._ Hurricane Carla damaged +70% of the marinas in the Galveston-Port Aransas area but +fuel service is back to normal, and explorers can roam as far west as +Port Isabel on the Mexican border. Sailing activity is slowed down +by Texas northers, but power cruisers can move freely, poking into the +San Jacinto, Trinity and Brazos rivers (fine tarpon fishing in +the Brazos) or pushing eastward to the pirate country of Barataria. +Off Grand Isle, yachters often visit the towering oil rigs. The Mississippi +Sound leads into a protected waterway running about 200 miles +from Pascagoula to Apalachicola. _LOWER MISSISSIPPI._ Memphis +stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors +look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is +now in progress. River cruising for small craft is ideal in November. +At New Orleans, 25-mile-square Lake Pontchartrain has few squalls +and year-long boating. Marinas are less plush than the Florida type +but service is good and Creole cooking better. _~TVA LAKES._ +Ten thousand twisty miles of shoreline frame the 30-odd lakes in the +vast Tennessee River system that loops in and out of seven states. +When dam construction began in 1933, fewer than 600 boats used these +waters; today there are 48,500. + +{A YEAR} ago it was bruited that the primary character +in Erich +Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso +de Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia +automobile race of 1957. If this was in fact Mr& Remarque's +intention he has achieved a notable failure. Clerfayt of "Heaven +Has No Favorites" resembles Portago only in that he is male and +a race-driver- quite a bad race-driver, whereas Portago was a good +one. He is a dull, unformed, and aimless person; the twelfth Marquis +de Portago was intelligent, purposeful, and passionate. One +looked forward to Mr& Remarque's ninth book if only because +not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile +racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised. Unhappily, +"Heaven Has No Favorites" does not alter the record except to +add one more bad book to the list. Mr& Remarque's conception +of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble. He proposed throwing +together a man in an occupation of high hazard and a woman balanced +on a knife-edge between death from tuberculosis and recovery. His +treatment of it is something else. His heroine chooses to die- the +price of recovery, years under the strict regimen of a sanatorium, being +higher than she wishes to pay. Her lover precedes her in death, at +the wheel, and presumably he too has chosen. Between the first meeting +of Clerfayt and Lillian and this dismal denouement, Mr& Remarque +has laid down many pages of junior-philosophical discourse, some demure +and rather fetching love-making, pleasant talk about some of the +countryside and restaurants of Europe, and a modicum of automobile racing. +The ramblings on life, death, and the wonder of it all are distressing; +the love-making, perhaps because it is pale and low-key when +one has been conditioned to expect harsh colors and explicitness, is +often charming; the automobile racing bears little relation to reality. + +This latter failure is more than merely bad reportage and +it is distinctly more important than it would have been had the author +drawn Clerfayt as, say, a tournament golfer. Hazards to life and +limb on the golf course, while existent, are actuarially insignificant. +Race-drivers, on the other hand, are quite often killed on the circuit, +and since it was obviously Mr& Remarque's intention to establish +automobile racing as life in microcosm, one might reasonably have +expected him to demonstrate precise knowledge not only of techniques +but of mores and attitudes. He does not. The jacket biography describes +him as a former racing driver, and he may indeed have been, although +I do not recall having encountered his name either in the records +or the literature. Perhaps he has only forgotten a great deal. The +book carries a disclaimer in which Remarque says it has been necessary +for him to take minor liberties with some of the procedures and formalities +of racing. The necessity is not clear to me, and, in any case, +to present a case-hardened race-driver as saying he has left his car, +which, or whom, he calls "Giuseppe", parked "on the Place Vendome +sneering at a dozen Bentleys and Rolls-Royces parked around +him" is not a liberty; it is an absurdity. But it is in the +matter of preoccupation with death, which is the primary concern of +the book, that Remarque's failure is plainest. Clerfayt is neurotic, +preoccupied, and passive. To be human, he believes, is to seek one's +own destruction: the Freudian "death-wish" cliche inevitably +cited whenever laymen talk about auto race-drivers. In point of fact, +the race-drivers one knows are nearly always intelligent, healthy +technicians who differ from other technicians only in the depth of the +passion they feel for the work by which they live. A Clerfayt may moon +on about the face of Death in the cockpit; a Portago could say, +as he did say to me, "If I die tomorrow, still I have had twenty-eight +wonderful years; but I shan't die tomorrow; I'll live +to be 105". Clerfayt, transported, may think of the engine +driving his car as "a mystical beast under the hood". The Italian +master Piero Taruffi, no less sensitive, knows twice the ecstasy +though he thinks of a car's adhesion to a wet two-lane road at 165 miles +an hour as a matter best expressed in algebraic formulae. Clerfayt, +driving, +sees himself "a volcano whose cone funneled down to hell"; +the Briton Stirling Moss, one of the greatest of all +time, believes that ultra-fast road-circuit driving is an art form related +to ballet. Errors in technical terminology suggest that +the over-all translation from the German may not convey quite everything +Mr& Remarque hoped to tell us. However, my principal +objection in this sort of novel is to the hackneyed treatment of race-drivers, +pilots, submariners, atomic researchers, and all the machine-masters +of our age as brooding mystics or hysterical fatalists. + +{THE WEST} is leaderless, according to this book. In +contrast, +the East is ably led by such stalwart heroes as Khrushchev, Tito, +and Mao. Against this invincible determination to communize the +whole world stands a group of nations unable to agree on fundamentals +and each refusing to make any sacrifice of sovereignty for the common +good of all. It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that +in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really +care about democracy or Christianity; about 30 per cent call themselves +Christians in order to keep up appearances and be considered +respectable, and only the last 10 per cent are genuine Christians and +believers in democracy. But these Western countries do care +about themselves. Each feels intensely national. If, say, the Russians +intended to stop Tom Jones' going to the pub, then Tom Jones +would fight the Commies. But he would fight for his own liberty rather +than for any abstract principle connected with it- such as "cause". +For all practical purposes, the West stands disunited, undedicated, +and unprepared for the tasks of world leadership. With +this barrage, Montgomery of Alamein launches his attack upon the +blunderings of the West. Never given to mincing words, he places heavy +blame upon the faulty, uncourageous leadership of Britain and particularly +America. At war's end leadership in Western Europe passed +from Britain because the Labour Government devoted its attention +to the creation of a welfare state. With Britain looking inward, overseas +problems were neglected and the baton was passed on to the United +States. Montgomery believes that she started well. "America +gave generously in economic aid and military equipment to friend +and foe alike". She pushed wartorn and poverty-stricken nations into +prosperity, but she failed to lead them into unity and world peace. +America has divided more than she has united the West. The reasons +are that America generally believes that she can buy anything with +dollars, and that she compulsively strives to be liked. However, she +really does not know how to match the quantity of dollars given away by +a quality of leadership that is basically needed. But the greater +reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the +shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor. +"They are determined", Montgomery writes, "not to be surprised +again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not +only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness **h among other nations +in the Western Alliance- not to mention such great suspicions among +the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful +coexistence or disarmament is not possible". The net result +is that under American leadership the general world situation has +become bad. To "Monty", the American people, who in two previous +world wars were very reluctant to join the fight, "now look like the +nation most likely to lead us all into a third World War". ## +{AS} +faulty as has been our leadership clearly the United States +must be relied upon to lead. The path to leadership is made clear. +Montgomery calls for a leader who will first put the West's own +house in order. Such a man must be able and willing to give clear and +sensible advice to the whole group, a person in whom all the member nations +will have absolute confidence. This leader must be a man who lives +above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of +the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, +that the East German government does not exist, that events in +Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government +of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind +Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that +either China or Russia wants or expects war. Such a leader +must strengthen ~NATO politically, and establish that true unity +about which it has always talked. After drastically overhauling ~NATO, +Western leadership should turn to reducing the suspicions that +tear apart the East and West. Major to this effort is to get all +world powers to withdraw to their own territories, say by 1970. "The +West should make the central proposal; but the East would have +to show sincerity in carrying it out". "But where is the +leader who will handle all these things for us"? Montgomery knew +all the national leaders up to the time of Kennedy. The man whom he +would select as our leader for this great task is de Gaulle. He alone +has the wisdom, the conviction, the tenacity, and the courage to reach +a decision. But de Gaulle is buried in the cause of restoring France's +lost soul. Whoever rises to the occasion walks a treacherous +path to leadership. The leader Montgomery envisages will need +to discipline himself, lead a carefully regulated and orderly life, +allow time for quiet thought and reflection, adapt decisions and plans +to changing situations, be ruthless, particularly with inefficiency, +and be honest and morally proper. All in all, Montgomery calls for a +leader who will anticipate and dominate the events that surround him. +## + +{IN LOOKING} as far back as Moses, thence to Cromwell, +Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, and Nehru, Montgomery attempts +to trace the stirrings and qualities of great men. He believes that +greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented +by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history +as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war. + +However, Montgomery makes little contribution to leadership theory +and practice. Most of what is said about his great men of history +has already been said, and what has not is largely irrelevant to the contemporary +scene. Like Eisenhower, he holds the militarist's suspicion +of politicians. However, at the same time Montgomery selects as +his hero de Gaulle, who is a militarist dominated by political ambitions. +"Monty" shows a remarkable capacity for the direct statement +and an equally remarkable incapacity for giving adequate support. +For the most part, his writing rambles and jogs, preventing easy access +by the reader to his true thoughts. Nevertheless, Montgomery +has stated courageously and wisely the crisis of the Western world. +It suffers from a lack of unity of purpose and respect for heroic leadership. +And it remains to be seen if the new frontier now taking form +can produce the leadership and wisdom necessary to understand the +current shape of events. + +{IT IS} no common thing for a listener (critical or otherwise) +to hear a singer "live" for the first time only after he +has died. But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole +career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional +happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first "recital" +only when he has ceased to be a living voice. It is a kind +of justice, too, that it should originate in London's Royal Albert +Hall, where, traditionally, the loudest, if not the greatest, performers +have entertained the thousands it will accommodate (~RCA Victor +~LM 2454, $4.98). To be sure, Lanza made numerous concert +tours, here and abroad, but these did not take him to New York +where the carping critic might lurk. + +The reading public, the theatergoing public, the skindiving +public, the +horse-playing public- all these and others fill substantial roles +in U&S& life, but none is so varied, vast and vigilant as the eating +public. The Department of Agriculture averaged out U&S& +food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs& per person, which, allowing +for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry +every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow +down 8 lbs& or more a day. That mother hen of the weight-height +tables, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co&, clucks that 48 million +Americans are overweight. Through previous centuries, eating +changed by nearly imperceptible degrees, and mostly toward just +getting enough. Now big forces buffet food. For the first time in history, +the U&S& has produced a society in which less than one-tenth +of the people turn out so much food that the Government's most +embarrassing problem is how to dispose inconspicuously of 100 million +tons of surplus farm produce. In this same society, the plain citizen +can with an average of only one-fifth his income buy more calories than +he can consume. Refrigeration, automated processing and packaging +conspire to defy season and banish spoilage. And in the wake of the new +affluence and the new techniques of processing comes a new American +interest in how what people eat affects their health. To eat is human, +the nation is learning to think, to survive divine. + +#FADS, FACTS +**H# + +Not all the concern for health is well directed. From the fusty +panaceas of spinach, eggs and prunes, the U&S& has progressed +to curds, concentrates and capsules. Each year, reports the American +Medical Association, ten million Americans spend $900 million on +vitamins, tonics and other food supplements. At juice bars in Los +Angeles' 35 "health" stores, a new sensation is a pink, high-protein +cocktail, concocted of dried eggs, powdered milk and cherry-flavored +No-Cal, which sells for 59@ per 8-oz& glass. Grocery stores +sell dozens of foods that boast of having almost no food value at all. + +But a big part of the public wants to know facts about diet +and health, and a big group of U&S& scientists wants to supply +them. The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University +of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime +~K (for Keys) ration and author of last year's bestselling +. From his birch-paneled office in the +Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, under the university's football +stadium in Minneapolis ("We get a rumble on every touchdown"), +blocky, grey-haired Dr& Keys directs an ambitious, $200,000-a-year +experiment on diet, which spans three continents and seven nations +and is still growing. Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered +indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected +physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, +from Bantu tribesmen to Italian . He has measured +the skinfolds (the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades) of Neapolitan +firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed +the "mealie-meal" eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented +on Minneapolis businessmen. #**H AND FATS.# + +Keys's findings, +though far from complete, are likely to smash many an eating cliche. +Vitamins, eggs and milk begin to look like foods to hold down on (though +mothers' milk is still the ticket). Readings of the number of milligrams +of cholesterol in the blood, which seem to have value in predicting +heart attacks, are becoming as routine as the electrocardiogram, +which can show that the heart has suffered a symptomatic attack. Already +many an American knows his count, and rejoices or worries depending +on whether it is nearer 180 (safe) or 250 (dangerous). Out +of cholesterol come Keys's main messages so far: @ Americans +eat too much. The typical U&S& daily menu, says Dr& +Keys, contains 3,000 calories, should contain 2,300. And extra weight +increases the risk of cancer, diabetes, artery disease and heart attack. + +@ Americans eat too much fat. With meat, milk, butter +and ice cream, the calorie-heavy U&S& diet is 40% fat, and most +of that is saturated fat- the insidious kind, says Dr& Keys, +that increases blood cholesterol, damages arteries, and leads to coronary +disease. + +#OBESITY: A MALNUTRITION.# + +Throughout much of the +world, food is still so scarce that half of the earth's population +has trouble getting the 1,600 calories a day necessary to sustain life. +The deficiency diseases- scurvy, tropical sprue, pellagra- run +rampant. In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies +must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, +a childhood menace is or "red Johnny", a growth-stunting +protein deficiency (signs: reddish hair, bloated belly) +that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites +and lingering tropical disease. In the well-fed U&S&, +deficiency diseases have virtually vanished in the past 20 years. Today, +as Harrison's a standard +internist's text, puts it, "The most common form of malnutrition +is caloric excess or obesity". Puritan New England regarded +obesity as a flagrant symbol of intemperance, and thus a sin. Says +Keys: "Maybe if the idea got around again that obesity is immoral, +the fat man would start to think". Morals aside, the fat man +has plenty to worry about- over and above the fact that no one any +longer loves him. The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New +York's Dr& Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the +heart "for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac +body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it +was built". The fat man has trouble buying life insurance or has to +pay higher premiums. He has- for unclear reasons- a 25% higher +death rate from cancer. He is particularly vulnerable to diabetes. He +may find even moderate physical exertion uncomfortable, because excess +body fat hampers his breathing and restricts his muscular movement. + +Physiologically, people overeat because what Dr& Jolliffe +calls the "appestat" is set too high. The appestat, which adjusts +the appetite to keep weight constant, is located, says Jolliffe, +in the hypothalamus- near the body's temperature, sleep and water-balance +controls. Physical exercise raises the appestat. So does cold +weather. In moderate doses, alcohol narcotizes the appestat and enhances +appetite (the original reason for the cocktail); but because liquor +has a high caloric value- 100 calories per oz&- the heavy +drinker is seldom hungry. In rare cases, diseases such as encephalitis +or a pituitary tumor may damage the appestat permanently, destroying +nearly all sense of satiety. + +#FOOD FOR FRUSTRATION.# + +Far more frequently, +overeating +is the result of a psychological compulsion. It +may be fostered by frustration, depression, insecurity- or, in children, +simply by the desire to stop an anxious mother's nagging. Some +families place undue emphasis on food: conversations center on it, +and rich delicacies are offered as rewards, withheld as punishment. The +result says Jolliffe: "The child gains the feeling that food +is the purpose of life". Food may act as a sedative, giving temporary +emotional solace, just as, for some people, alcohol does. Reports +Dr& Keys: "A fairly common experience for us is the wife who +finds her husband staying out more and more. He may be interested in +another woman, or just like being with the boys. So she fishes around +in the cupboard and hauls out a chocolate cake. It's a matter of +boredom, and the subconscious feeling that she is entitled to something, +because she's being deprived of something else". For the +army of compulsive eaters- from the nibblers and the gobblers to +the downright gluttons- reducing is a war with the will that is rarely +won. Physiologist Keys flatly dismisses such appetite depressants +as the amphetamines +(Benzedrine, Dexedrine) as dangerous "crutches +for a weak will". Keys has no such objections to Metrecal, +Quaker Oats's Quota and other 900-calorie milk formulas that are +currently winning favor from dieters. "Metrecal is a pretty complete +food", he says. "It contains large amounts of protein, vitamins +and minerals. In the quantity of 900 calories a day, anyone will lose +weight on it- 20, 30 or 40 lbs&". But Keys worries that the +Metrecal drinker will never make either the psychological or physiological +adjustment to the idea of eating smaller portions of food. + +#THAT +REMARKABLE CHOLESTEROL.# + +Despite his personal distaste for obesity +("disgusting"), Dr& Keys has only an incidental interest +in how much Americans eat. What concerns him much more is the relationship +of diet to the nation's No& 1 killer: coronary artery disease, +which accounts for more than half of all heart fatalities and kills +500,000 Americans a year- twice the toll from all varieties of +cancer, five times the deaths from automobile accidents. Cholesterol, +the cornerstone of Dr& Keys's theory, is a mysterious +yellowish, +waxy substance, chemically a crystalline alcohol. Scientists +assume that cholesterol (from the Greek meaning bile, and + meaning solid) is somehow necessary for the formation of +brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total +solid weight. They know it is the chief ingredient in gallstones. They +suspect it plays a role in the production of adrenal hormones, and +they believe it is essential to the transport of fats throughout the +circulatory system. But they cannot fully explain the process of its +manufacture by the human liver. Although the fatty protein molecules, +carried in the blood and partly composed of cholesterol, are water soluble, +cholesterol itself is insoluble, and cannot be destroyed by the +body. "A remarkable substance", says Dr& Keys, "quite apart +from its tendency to be deposited in the walls of arteries". + +When thus deposited, Keys says that cholesterol is mainly responsible +for the arterial blockages that culminate in heart attacks. Explains +Keys: As the fatty protein molecules travel in the bloodstream, +they are deposited in the intima, or inner wall of a coronary artery. +The proteins and fats are burned off, and the cholesterol is left +behind. As cholesterol piles up, it narrows, irritates and damages the +artery, encouraging formation of calcium deposits and slowing circulation. +Eventually, says Keys, one of two things happens. A clot forms +at the site, seals off the flow of blood to the heart and provokes +a heart attack. Or (more commonly, thinks Keys) the deposits themselves +get so big that they choke off the artery's flow to the point that +an infarct occurs: the heart muscle is suffocated, cells supplied +by the artery die, and the heart is permanently, perhaps fatally injured. + +#FATS + CORONARIES.# + +Ordinarily, the human liver synthesizes +only enough cholesterol to satisfy the body's needs- for transportation +of fats and for production of bile. Even eggs and other cholesterol-rich +foods, eaten in normal amounts, says Dr& Keys, do not materially +affect the amount of cholesterol in the blood. But fatty foods +do. During World War /2,, doctors in The Netherlands +and Scandinavia noted a curious fact: despite the stresses of Nazi +occupation, the death rate from coronary artery disease was slowly dropping. +Not until long after the war- 1950, in fact- did they get +a hint of the reason. That year, Sweden's Haqvin Malmros showed +that the sinking death rate neatly coincided with increasingly severe +restrictions on fatty foods. That same year the University of California's +Dr& Laurance Kinsell, timing oxidation rates of blood +fats, stumbled onto the discovery that many vegetable fats cause blood +cholesterol levels to drop radically, while animal fats cause them to +rise. Here Keys and others, such as Dr& A& E& Ahrens of +the Rockefeller Institute, took over to demonstrate the chemical difference +between vegetable and animal fats- and even between different +varieties of each. All natural food fats fall into one of three +categories- saturated, mono-unsaturated and poly-unsaturated. +The +degree of saturation depends on the number of hydrogen atoms on the +fat molecule. Saturated fats can accommodate no more hydrogens. Mono-unsaturated +fats have room for two more hydrogens on each molecule, +and the poly-unsaturated fat molecule has room for at least four hydrogens. + +The three fats have similar caloric values (about 265 calories +per oz&), but each exerts a radically different influence on +blood cholesterol. +As a result, although we still make use of this distinction, there is +much confusion as to the meaning of the basic terms employed. Just what +is meant by "spirit" and by "matter"? The terms are generally +taken for granted as though they referred to direct and axiomatic +elements in the common experience of all. Yet in the contemporary +context this is precisely what one must not do. For in the modern world +neither "spirit" nor "matter" refer to any generally agreed-upon +elements of experience. We are in a transitional stage in which +many of the connotations of former usage have had to be revised or rejected. +When the words are used, we are never sure which of the traditional +meanings the user may have in mind, or to what extent his revisions +and rejections of former understandings correspond to ours. + +One of the most widespread features of contemporary thought is the +almost universal disbelief in the reality of spirit. Just a few centuries +ago the world of spirits was as populous and real as the world of +material entities. Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly +educated as well was this true. Demons, fairies, angels, and a host +of other spiritual beings were as much a part of the experiential +world of western man as were rocks and trees and stars. In such a world +the words "matter" and "spirit" both referred to directly +known realities in the common experience of all. In it important elements +of Christianity and of the Biblical view of reality in general, +which now cause us much difficulty, could be responded to quite naturally +and spontaneously. The progress of science over these last +few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific +categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit world +of the entities which previously populated it. In carrying out this +program science has undoubtedly performed a very considerable service +for which it can claim due credit. The objectification of the world +of spirit in popular superstition had certainly gone far beyond what the +experience of spirit could justify or support. Science is fully competent +to deal with any element of experience which arises from an object +in space and time. When, therefore, it turned its attention to the +concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world +of spirit, these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed +as actual elements of external reality. In doing so science has unquestionably +cleared up widespread misconceptions, removed extraneous +and illusory sources of fear, and dispelled many undesirable popular +superstitions. There have been, indeed, many important and valuable gains +from the development of our present scientific view of the world +for which we may be rightly grateful. All this has not, however, +been an unmixed blessing. The scientific debunking of the spirit world +has been in a way too successful and too thorough. The house has +been swept so clean that contemporary man has been left with no means, +or at best with wholly inadequate means, for dealing with his experience +of spirit. Although the particular form of conceptualization which +popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit +was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such +excesses remains with us as vividly as ever. We simply find ourselves +in the position of having no means for inquiring into the structure +and meaning of this range of our experience. There is no framework +or structure of thought with respect to which we can organize it and +no part +of reality, as we know and apprehend it, with respect to which we +can refer this experience. Science has simply left us helpless and powerless +in this important sector of our lives. The situation in +which we find ourselves is brought out with dramatic force in Arthur +Miller's play which deals with the Salem witch +trials. As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community +of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century. +Aside from a quaint concern with witches and devils which provides +the immediate problem in the opening scene, it is a quite normal community. +The conversation of the characters creates an atmosphere suggesting +the usual mixture of pleasures, foibles, irritations, and concerns +which would characterize the common life of a normal village in any +age. There is no occasion to feel uneasy or disturbed about these people. +Instead, the audience can sit back at ease and, from the perspective +of an enlightened time which no longer believes in such things, +enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take +the witches and devils which are under discussion. A teenage girl, Abigail +Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, +the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods +in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with +these evil beings. For all involved in this discussion the devil is +a real entity who can really be confronted in the woods on a dark night, +the demon world is populated with real creatures, and witches actually +can be seen flying through the air. As the play unfolds, however, +the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil +which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community. +Everyone in Salem, saint and sinner alike, is swept up by it. +It is like a mysterious epidemic which, starting first with Abigail +and Parris, spreads inexorably with a dreadfully growing virulence through +the whole town until all have been infected by it. It grows terribly +and unavoidably in power and leaves in its wake a trail of misery, +moral disintegration, and destruction. The audience leaves the play +under a spell, It is the kind of spell which the exposure to spirit +in its living active manifestation always evokes. If one asks +about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works +within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give +than "spirit". This is not to attempt to say what spirit is, but +only to employ a commonly used word to designate or simply identify a +common experience. In the end the good man, John Proctor, expresses +what the audience has already come to feel when he says, "A fire, +a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy +face"! The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and +concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with +formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from +detecting the real devil when he came among them. We marvel at their +blindness for not seeing this. Yet are not we of the mid-twentieth +century, who rightly do not believe there is any such "thing" as the +devil, just as bad off as they- only in a different way? In our +disbelief we think that we can no longer even use the word and so are +unable to even name the elemental power which is so vividly real in +this play. We are left helpless to cope with it because we do not dare +speak of it as anything real for fear that to do so would imply a commitment +to that which has already been discredited and proved false. + +Even Mr& Miller himself seems uncertain on this score. In +a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the +first act of the play, he says at one point: "However, that experience +never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld +or the existence of Lucifer's many-faced lieutenants. And his +belief is not to his discredit. Better minds than Hale's were- +and still are- convinced that there is a society of spirits beyond +our ken". (page 33) On the other hand, a little later on he says: +"Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's +beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between +two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which +positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good +and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon- +such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences +and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas **h. When we see +the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's +worthlessness- until redeemed- the necessity of the Devil may +become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time +again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church +or church-state". (page 34) Apparently he does not intend +that those who read or view this play should think of the devil as being +actually real. Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that +the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and +potency of that which came over Salem. It casts a spell upon them +so that they leave with a feeling of having been in the mysterious presence +of an evil power. It is not enough in accounting for this feeling +to analyze it into the wickedness of individual people added together +to produce a cumulative effect. For this does not account for the +integral, elemental power of that which grows with abounding vigor as +the play unfolds, nor does it explain the strange numinous sense of presentness +which comes over those who watch the play like a spell. The +reality of spirit emerges in this play in spite of the author's convictions +to the contrary. + +#SPIRIT AND COMMUNITY# + + There is +nothing in the whole range of human experience more widely known and +universally felt than spirit. Apart from spirit there could be no community, +for it is spirit which draws men into community and gives to any +community its unity, cohesiveness, and permanence. Think, for example, +of the spirit of the Marine Corps. Surely this is a reality we +all acknowledge. We cannot, of course, assign it any substance. It +is not material and is not a "thing" occupying space and time. Yet +it exists and has an objective reality which can be experienced and +known. So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the +spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street +corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux +Klan. Every community, if it is alive has a spirit, and that spirit +is the center of its unity and identity. In searching for clues +which might lead us to a fresh apprehension of the reality of spirit, +the close connection between spirit and community is likely to prove +the most fruitful. For it is primarily in community that we know and +experience spirit. It is spirit which gives life to a community and +causes it to cohere. It is the spirit which is the source of a community's +drawing power by means of which others are drawn into it from +the world outside so that the community grows and prospers. Yet the +spirit which lives in community is not identical with the community. +The idea of community and the idea of spirit are two distinct and separable +ideas. One characteristic of the spirit in community is +its givenness. The members of the community do not create the spirit +but rather find it present and waiting for them. It is for them a given +which they and they alone possess. The spirit of the Marine Corps +was present and operative before any of the present members of it came +into it. It is they, of course, who keep it alive and preserve it +so the same spirit will continue to be present in the Corps for future +recruits to find as they come into it. +If the content of faith is to be presented today in a form that can be +"understanded of the people"- and this, it must not be forgotten, +is one of the goals of the perennial theological task- there is +no other choice but to abandon completely a mythological manner of +representation. + +This does not mean that mythological language as +such can no longer be used in theology and preaching. The absurd notion +that demythologization entails the expurgation of all mythological +concepts completely misrepresents Bultmann's intention. His point +is not that mythology may not be used, but that it may no longer be regarded +as the only or even the most appropriate conceptuality for expressing +the Christian kerygma. When we say that a mythological mode +of thought must be completely abandoned, we mean it must be abandoned +as the sole or proper means for presenting the Christian understanding +of existence. Mythological concepts may by all means still be used, +but they can be used responsibly only as "symbols" or "ciphers", +that is, only if they are also constantly in nonmythological +(or existential) terms. The statement is often made +that when Bultmann argues in this way, he "overestimates the intellectual +stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting +the Christian faith". But this statement is completely unconvincing. +If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered +to (and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who +make such pronouncements), the evidence is overwhelming that he does +not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of +traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant. Nor is +it necessary to look for such evidence in the great urban centers of our +culture that are admittedly almost entirely secularized and so profoundly +estranged from the conventional forms in which the gospel has been +communicated. On the contrary, even in the heart of "the Bible +belt" itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, +the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under +way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself +and his world. In fact, it is in just such a situation +that the profundity of Bultmann's argument is disclosed. Although +the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do +not in a more secularized situation, the striking thing is the rapidity +with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence. This is +especially in evidence among the present generation of the suburban middle +class. Time and again in counseling and teaching, one encounters +members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity +the insubstantial mythologies of their "fundamentalist" heritage +and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious. + +The same thing is also evidenced by the extreme "culture-Protestantism" +so often observed to characterize the preaching +and teaching of the American churches. In the absence of a truly adequate +conceptuality in which the gospel can be expressed, the unavoidable +need to demythologize it makes use of whatever resources are at +hand- and this usually means one or another of the various forms of +"folk religion" current in the situation. This is not to say that +the explanation of the present infatuation with Norman Vincent +Peale's "cult of reassurance" or the other types of a purely +cultural Christianity is the ever-present need for a demythologized +gospel. But it is to say that this need is far more important for such +infatuation than most of the pundits seem to have suspected. + +However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly +as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements +of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference +to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace. To be +sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen +is to fulminate about "the little flock" and "the great crowd" +and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the "wisdom of +the wise" in the opening chapter of First Corinthians. But can +we any longer afford the luxury of such smug indigation? Can the church +risk assuming that the "folly" of men is as dear to God as their +"wisdom", or, as is also commonly implied, that "the foolishness +of God" and "the foolishness of men" are simply two ways +of talking about the same thing? Can we continue to alienate precisely +those whose gifts we so desperately need and apart from whose co-operation +our mission in the world must become increasingly precarious? + +There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church (which +derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from +the Bible) that God is completely independent of his creation and +so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world. by analogy, +the church also has been regarded as entirely independent of the +"world" in the sense of requiring nothing from it in order to be +the church. But, as Scripture everywhere reminds us, God +have need of his creatures, and the church, , can ill afford +to do without the talents with which the world, by God's providence, +presents it. And yet this is exactly the risk we run when +we assume, as we too often do, that we can continue to preach the gospel +in a form that makes it seem incredible and irrelevant to cultured +men. Until we translate this gospel into a language that enlightened +men today can understand, we are depriving ourselves of the very resources +on which the continued success of our witness most certainly depends. + +In arguing in this way, we are obviously taking for granted +that a demythologized restatement of the kerygma can be achieved; +and that we firmly believe this will presently become evident when +we set forth reasons to justify such a conviction. But the main point +here is that even if such a restatement were possible, the +demand to demythologize the kerygma would still be unavoidable. +This is what we mean when we say this demand must be accepted without +condition. If to be a Christian means to say yes where I otherwise +say no, or where I do not have the right to say anything at all, then +my only choice is to refuse to be a Christian. Expressed differently: +if the price for becoming a faithful follower of Jesus Christ +is some form of self-destruction, whether of the body or of the mind- +- then there is +no alternative but that the price remain unpaid. This must be +stressed because it is absolutely essential to the argument of this concluding +chapter. Modern man, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer has told us, has +"come of age"; and though this process by no means represents +an unambiguous gain and is, in fact, marked by the estrangement from +the depths that seems to be the cost of human maturation, it is still +a positive step forward; and those of us who so richly benefit from +it should be the last to despise it. In any event, it is an irreversible +step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we +have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has +seen fit to place us. To say this, of course, is to take up a +position on one side of a controversy going on now for some two hundred +years, or, at any rate, since the beginning of the distinctively modern +period in theological thought. We have aligned ourselves with that +"liberal" tradition in Protestant Christianity that counts among +the great names in its history those of Schleiermacher, Ritschl, +Herrmann, Harnack, and Troeltsch, and more recently, Schweitzer and +the early Barth and, in part at least, Bultmann. It is to this same +tradition that most of the creative figures in the last century and +a half of American theology also belong. For we must number here not +only the names of Bushnell, Clarke, and Rauschenbusch, not to mention +those of "the Chicago School" and Macintosh, but those of +the brothers Niebuhr and (if America may claim him!) Tillich as +well. Finally, we may also mention the several members of the self-consciously +"neoliberal" movement that developed at the University +of Chicago and is heavily indebted philosophically to the creative work +of Alfred North Whitehead. What makes this long and diverse +tradition essentially is that those who have belonged to it +have been profoundly in earnest about being modern men in a distinctively +modern world. Although they have also been concerned to stand squarely +within the tradition of the apostolic church, they have exhibited +no willingness whatever to sacrifice their modernity to their Christianity. +They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely +within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, +have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him. + +When we say, then, that today, in our situation, the demand for +demythologization must be accepted without condition, we are simply +saying that at least this much of the liberal tradition is an enduring +achievement. However much we may have to criticize liberal theology's +constructive formulations, the theology we ourselves must strive +to formulate can only go liberalism, not it. + +In affirming this we have already taken the decisive step in breaking +the deadlock into which Bultmann's attempt to formulate such a +theology has led. For we have said, in effect, that of the two alternatives +to his position variously represented by the other participants +in the demythologizing discussion, only one is really an alternative. +If the demand for demythologization is unavoidable and so must be +accepted +by theology unconditionally, the position of the "right" is +clearly untenable. Whereas Bultmann's "center" position is structurally +inconsistent and is therefore indefensible on formal grounds +alone, the general position of the "right", as represented, say, +by Karl Barth, involves the rejection or at least qualification of +the demand for demythologization and so is invalidated on the material +grounds we have just considered. It follows, then, provided +the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only alternative +is the general viewpoint of the "left", which has been represented +on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, +is found in much that is significant in American and English theology. + +In order to make the implications of our position as clear +as possible, we may develop this argument at greater length. We +may show, first, that there cannot possibly be an alternative other +than the three typically represented by Bultmann, Barth, and Buri. +To do this, it is sufficient to point out that if the principle in terms +of which alternatives are to be conceived is such as to exclude more +than two, then the question of a "third" possibility is a meaningless +question. Thus, if what is at issue is whether "All ~S +is ~P", it is indifferent whether "Some ~S is not ~P" +or "No ~S is ~P", since in either case the judgment in question +is false. Hence, if what is in question is whether in a given theology +myth is or is not completely rejected, it is unimportant whether +only a little bit of myth or a considerable quantity is accepted; +for, in either event, the first possibility is excluded. Therefore, +the only conceivable alternatives are those represented, on the one hand, +by the two at least apparently self-consistent but mutually exclusive +positions of Buri and Barth and, on the other hand, by the third +but really pseudo position (analogous to a round square) of Bultmann. + +A second point requires more extended comment. It will be recalled +from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the "right", +as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The +only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that +(1) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization +and existential interpretation; (2) accepts instead a +special biblical hermeneutics or method of interpretation; and (3) +in so doing, frees itself to give appropriate emphasis to the event Jesus +Christ by means of statements that, from Bultmann's point of +view, are mythological. + +ONE HUNDRED years ago there existed in England the Association +for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom. Representing +as it did the efforts of only unauthorized individuals of the Roman +and Anglican Churches, and urging a communion of prayer unacceptable +to Rome, this association produced little fruit, and, in fact, was +condemned by the Holy Office in 1864. Now again in 1961, in +England, there is perhaps nothing in the religious sphere so popularly +discussed as Christian unity. The Church Unity Octave, January +18-25, was enthusiastically devoted to prayer and discussion by the various +churches. Many people seem hopeful, yet it is difficult to predict +whether or not there will be any more real attainment of Christian +unity in 1961 than there was in 1861. But it must be readily seen +that the religious picture in England has so greatly changed during these +hundred years as to engender hope, at least on the Catholic side. +For the "tide is well on the turn", as the London Catholic weekly + has written. I came to England last summer to +do research on the unpublished letters of Cardinal Newman. As an +American Catholic of Irish ancestry, I came with certain preconceptions +and expectations; being intellectually influenced by Newman +and the general 19th-century literature of England, I knew only a +Protestant-dominated +country. Since arriving here, however, I have formed +a far different religious picture of present-day England. In representing +part of this new picture, I will be recounting some of my +own personal experiences, reactions and judgments; but my primary aim +is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing +and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the +present religious +state of England. Since the Protestant clergy for the +most part wear gray or some variant from the wholly black suit, my Roman +collar and black garb usually identify me in England as a Roman +Catholic cleric. In any case, I have always been treated with the +utmost courtesy by Englishmen, even in Devonshire and Cornwall, where +anti-Catholic feeling has supposedly existed the strongest and longest. + +Nowhere have I seen public expression of anti-Catholicism. +On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well +as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, +and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not +concerned with the historical significance of the day. A Birmingham +newspaper printed in a column for children an article entitled "The +True Story of Guy Fawkes", which began: "When you +pile your +"guy" on the bonfire tomorrow night, I wonder how much of the +true story of Guy Fawkes you will remember? In the 355 years since +the first Guy Fawkes Night, much of the story has been forgotten, +so here is a reminder". The article proceeded to give an inaccurate +account of a catholic plot to kill King James /1,. ## + +IN +SPITE OF the increase in numbers and prestige brought about by the +conversions of Newman and other Tractarians of the 1840's and 1850's, +the Catholic segment of England one hundred years ago was a very +small one (four per cent, or 800,000) which did not enjoy a gracious +hearing from the general public. The return of the Catholic hierarchy +in 1850 was looked upon with indignant disapprobation and, in fact, +was charged with being a gesture of disloyalty. In 1864 Newman professedly +had to write his with his keenest feelings in +order to be believed and to command a fair hearing from English readers. + +Now, in 1961, the Catholic population of England is still +quite small (ten per cent, or 5 million); yet it represents a very +considerable percentage of the churchgoing population. A Protestant +woman marveled to me over the large crowds going in and out of the Birmingham +Oratory (Catholic) Church on Sunday mornings. She found +this a marvel because, as she said, only six per cent of English people +are churchgoers. She may not have been exact on this number, but +others here feel quite certain that the percentage would be less than +ten. From many sides come remarks that Protestant churches are badly +attended and the large medieval cathedrals look all but empty during +services. A Catholic priest recently recounted how in the chapel of +a large city university, following Anglican evensong, at which there +was a congregation of twelve, he celebrated Mass before more than a +hundred. The Protestants themselves are the first to admit the +great falling off in effective membership in their churches. According +to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, +the "total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 +are registered on the parochial church rolls", and "over 27 million +people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but +roughly only a tenth of them continue". An amazing article in the + of last November, entitled "Fate of Redundant +Churches", states than an Archbishops' Commission "reported +last month that in the Church of England alone there are 790 +churches which are redundant now, or will be in 20 years' time. A further +260 Anglican churches have been demolished since 1948". And +in the last five years, the "Methodist chapel committee has +authorized +the demolition or, more often, the sale of 764 chapels". Most of +these former churches are now used as warehouses, but "neither Anglicans +nor +Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics", +and have done so. While it must be said that these same +Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that +religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason +for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are +going to church. It should be admitted, too, that there is a good +percentage of lapsed or nonchurchgoing Catholics (one paper writes 50 +per cent). Still, it is clear from such reports, and apparently clear +from the remarks of many people, that Protestants are decreasing and +Catholics increasing. An Anglican clergyman in Oxford sadly +but frankly acknowledged to me that this is true. A century ago, +Newman saw that liberalism (what we now might call secularism) would +gradually but definitely make its mark on English Protestantism, and +that even high Anglicanism would someday no longer be a "serviceable +breakwater against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own". +That day is perhaps today, 1961, and it seems no longer very meaningful +to call England a "Protestant country". One of the ironies +of the present crusade for Christian unity is that there are not, relatively +speaking, many real Christians to unite. Many English +Catholics are proud of their Catholicism and know that they are +in a new ascendancy. The London devoted its centenary +issue +last December 8 to mapping out various aspects of Catholic progress +during the last one hundred years. With traditional nationalistic spirit, +some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism +at its best. I have found myself saying with other foreigners here +that English Catholics good Catholics. It has been my experience +to find as many men as women in church, and to hear almost everyone +in church congregations reciting the Latin prayers and responses +at Mass. They hope, of course, to reclaim the non-Catholic +population to the Catholic faith, and at every Sunday Benediction +they recite by heart the "Prayer for England": "O Blessed +Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle queen and mother, +look down in mercy upon England, thy "dowry", and upon us +all who greatly hope and trust in thee **h. Intercede for our separated +brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the +chief Shepherd, the vicar of thy Son **h". A hymn often to be +heard in Catholic churches is "Faith of our Fathers", which glories +in England's ancient faith that endured persecution, and which +proclaims: "Faith of our Fathers: Mary's prayers/Shall win +our country back to thee". The English saints are widely venerated, +quite naturally, and now there is great hope that the Forty Martyrs +and Cardinal Newman will soon be canonized. Because they +have kept the faith of their medieval fathers, English Catholics have +always strongly resented the charge of being "un-English". I +have not seen this charge made during my stay here, but apparently it +is still in the air. For example, a writer in a recent number of hyperbolically states that "of the myriad imprecations the +only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion +that they are 'un-English'". In this connection, it has been +observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and +laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, +is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic +English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind +their Christian brethren of this good. ## + +ONE OF THE +more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century +is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. +At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, +partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854. Moreover, +for those few there was almost no ecclesiastical representation in the +city to care for their religious needs. Now, not only are there considerably +more laity as students and professors at Oxford, but there +are also numerous houses of religious orders existing in respectable +and friendly relations with the non-Catholic members of the University. +Some Catholic priests lecture there; Catholic seminarians attend +tutorials and row on the Cherwell with non-Catholic students. + +Further evidence that Roman Catholicism enjoys a more favorable +position today than in 1861 is the respectful attention given to it +in the mass media of England. The general tone of articles appearing +in such important newspapers as the Manchester and the +Sunday implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic +Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant +churches. On successive Sundays during October, 1960, Paul Ferris +(a non-Catholic) wrote articles in the depicting +clergymen of the Church of England, the Church of Rome and the Nonconformist +Church. The Catholic priest, though somewhat superficially +drawn, easily came out the best. There were many letters of strong +protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed +portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters +and without really very much to do as clergyman. Such a series of +articles was certainly never printed in the public press of mid-Victorian +England. There was so much interest shown in this present-day +venture that it was continued on B&B&C&, where comments were +equally made by an Anglican parson, a Free Church minister and a Catholic +priest. Catholic priests have frequently appeared on +television programs, sometimes discussing the Christian faith on an equal +footing with Protestant clergymen. A notable example of this was +the discussion of Christian unity by the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, +Dr& Heenan, and the Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr& +Ramsey, recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. The good +feeling which exists between these two important church figures is now +well known in England. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with commentary +has been televised several times in recent months. And it was +interesting to observe that B&B&C&'s television film on Christmas +Eve was . Of course, +the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern +of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr& +Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican +last December. It was the first time an English Primate has done +this since the 14th century. English Catholics reacted to this event +with moderate but real hope. Almost daily something is reported +which feeds this Catholic hope in England: statistics of the increasing +numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants; news of +a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic +priest to preach from his pulpit; a report that a Catholic nun +had been requested to teach in a non-Catholic secondary school during +the sickness of one of its masters; the startling statement in a +respectable periodical that "Catholics, if the present system is still +in operation, will constitute almost one-third of the House of Lords +in the next generation"; a report that 200 Protestant clergymen +and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at +a Catholic church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave. +The death of a man is unique, and yet it is universal. The straight +line would symbolize its uniqueness, the circle its universality. But +how can one figure symbolize both? Christianity declares that +in the life and death of Jesus Christ the unique and the universal +concur. Perhaps no church father saw this concurrence of the unique +and the universal as clearly, or formulated it as precisely, as Irenaeus. +To be the Savior and the Lord, Jesus Christ has to be a historical +individual with a biography all his own; he dare not be a cosmic +aeon that swoops to earth for a while but never identifies itself +with man's history. Yet this utterly individual historical person +must also contain within himself the common history of mankind. His +history is his alone, yet each man must recognize his own history in +it. His death is his alone, yet each man can see his own death in the +crucifixion of Jesus. Each man can identify himself with the history +and the death of Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ has identified +himself with human history and human death, coming as the head of a +new humanity. Not a circle, then, nor a straight line, but a spiral +represents the shape of death as Irenaeus sees it; for a spiral has +motion as well as recurrence. As represented by a spiral, history may, +in some sense, be said to repeat itself; yet each historical event +remains unique. Christ is both unique and universal. The first +turn of the spiral is the primeval history of humanity in Adam. As +Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, +so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of +Christ. "Whence, then, comes the substance of the first man? From +God's Will and Wisdom, and from virgin earth. For 'God had +not rained', says the Scripture, before man was made, 'and there +was no man to till the earth'. From this earth, then, while it was +still virgin God took dust and fashioned the man, the beginning of humanity". +Irenaeus does not regard Adam and Eve merely as private +individuals, but as universal human beings, who were and are all of humanity. +Adam and Eve were perfect, not in the sense that they possessed +perfection, but in the sense that they were capable of development +toward perfection. They were, in fact, children. Irenaeus does not +claim pre-existence for the human soul; therefore there is no need for +him, as there is for Origen, to identify existence itself with the +fall. Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence +of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity +into history. Historical existence is a created good. The biblical +symbol for this affirmation is expressed in the words: "So +God created man in his own image; in the similitude of God he created +him". There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where +the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished, so +most notably in the statement: "If the [Holy] Spirit is absent +from the soul, such a man is indeed of an animal nature; and, being +left carnal, he will be an imperfect being, possessing the image +[of +God] in his formation, but not receiving the similitude [of God] +through the Spirit". Thus the image of God is that which makes +a man a man and not an oyster; the similitude of God, by contrast, +is that which makes a man a child of God and not merely a rational creature. +Recent research on Irenaeus, however, makes it evident that +he does not consistently maintain this distinction. He does not mean +to say that Adam lost the similitude of God and his immortality through +the fall; for he was created not exactly immortal, nor yet exactly +mortal, but capable of immortality as well as of mortality. +Therefore Irenaeus describes man's creation as follows: +"So that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur, and become lifted +up, as if he had no lord, because of the dominion that had been +given to him, and the freedom, fall into sin against God his Creator, +overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance +towards God, a law was given him by God, that he might know +that he had for lord the lord of all. And He laid down for him certain +conditions: so that, if he kept the command of God, then he would +always remain as he was, that is, immortal; but if he did not, he +would become mortal, melting into earth, whence his frame had been taken". +These conditions man did not keep, and thus he became mortal; +yet he did not stop being human as a result. There is no justification +for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image +of God beyond this, nor for reading into his imprecise usage the +later theological distinction between the image of God (humanity) and +the similitude of God (immortality). Man was created with the +capacity for immortality, but the devil's promise of immortality +in exchange for disobedience cost Adam his immortality. He was, in the +words of Irenaeus, "beguiled by another under the pretext of immortality". +The true way to immortality lay through obedience, but man +did not believe this. "Eve was disobedient; for she did +not obey when as yet she was a virgin. And even as she, having indeed +a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin **h, having +become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and +to the entire human race; so also did Mary, having a man betrothed +[to her], and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become +the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race". +Because he interprets the primitive state of man as one of mere +potentiality or capacity and believes that Adam and Eve were created +as children, Irenaeus often seems inclined to extenuate their disobedience +as being "due, no doubt, to carelessness, but still wicked". +His interpretation of the beginning on the basis of the end prompts +him to draw these parallels between the Virgin Eve and the Virgin +Mary. That parallelism affects his picture of man's disobedience too; +for as it was Christ, the Word of God, who came to rescue man, +so it was disobedience to the word of God in the beginning that brought +death into the world, and all our woe. With this act of disobedience, +and not with the inception of his individual existence, man +began the downward circuit on the spiral of history, descending from +the created capacity for immortality to an inescapable mortality. At +the nadir of that circuit is death. "Along with the fruit they did +also fall under the power of death, because they did eat in disobedience; +and disobedience to God entails death. Wherefore, as they became +forfeit to death, from that [moment] they were handed over to it". +This leads Irenaeus to the somewhat startling notion that Adam +and Eve died on the same day that they disobeyed, namely, on a Friday, +as a parallel to the death of Christ on Good Friday; he sees +a parallel also to the Jewish day of preparation for the Sabbath. In +any case, though they had been promised immortality if they ate of +the tree, they obtained mortality instead. The wages of sin is death. +Man's life, originally shaped for immortality and for communion with +God, must now be conformed to the shape of death. Nevertheless, +even at the nadir of the circuit the spiral of history belongs +to God, and he still rules. Even death, therefore, has a providential +as well as a punitive function. "Wherefore also He [God] +drove him [man] out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree +of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture +to assert, but because He pitied him, [and did not desire] that +he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded +him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable. But +He set a bound to his [state of] sin, by interposing death, and thus +causing sin to cease, putting an end to it by the dissolution of the +flesh, which should take place in the earth, so that man, ceasing at +length to live in sin, and dying to it, might live to God". This +idea, which occurs in both Tatian and Cyprian, fits especially well +into the scheme of Irenaeus' theology; for it prepares the way for +the passage from life through death to life that is achieved in Christ. +As man can live only by dying, so it was only by his dying that +Christ could bring many to life. It is probably fair to say +that the idea of death is more profound in Irenaeus than the idea of +sin is. This applies to his picture of Adam. It is borne out also +by the absence of any developed theory about how sin passes from one generation +to the next. It becomes most evident in his description of +Christ as the second Adam, who does indeed come to destroy sin, but +whose work culminates in the achievement of immortality. This emphasis +upon death rather than sin as man's fundamental problem Irenaeus +shares with many early theologians, especially the Greek-speaking ones. +They speak of the work of Christ as the bestowal of incorruptibility, +which can mean (though it does not have to mean) deliverance from +time and history. Death reminds man of his sin, but it reminds +him also of his transience. It represents a punishment that he knows +he deserves, but it also symbolizes most dramatically that he lives +his life within the process of time. These two aspects of death cannot +be successfully separated, but they dare not be confused or identified. +The repeated efforts in Christian history to describe death as +altogether the consequence of human sin show that these two aspects of +death cannot be separated. Such efforts almost always find themselves +compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and +then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was +intended to be part of the process of time. If it was, then it must +have been God's intention to translate him at a certain point from +time to eternity. One night, so some of these theories run, Adam would +have fallen asleep, much as he fell asleep for the creation of Eve; +and thus he would have been carried over into the life eternal. The +embarrassment of these theories over the naturalness of death is an +illustration of the thesis that death cannot be only a punishment, for +some termination seems necessary in a life that is lived within the +natural order of time and change. On the other hand, Christian +faith knows that death is more than the natural termination of temporal +existence. It is the wages of sin, and its sting is the law. +If +this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea +of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that +temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state +into which man is put by the will of the Creator. This seems to have +been the conclusion to which Origen was forced. If death receives +more than its share of attention from the theologian and if sin receives +less than its share, the gift of the life eternal through Christ +begins to look like the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal, +i&e&, created, existence. Such an interpretation of death radically +alters the Christian view of creation; for it teaches salvation +from, not salvation in, time and history. Because Christianity +teaches not only salvation in history, but salvation by the history of +Christ, such an interpretation of death would require a drastic revision +of the Christian understanding of the work of Christ. + +Furthermore, as an encouragement to revisionist thinking, it manifestly +is fair to admit that any fraternity has a constitutional right +to refuse to accept persons it dislikes. The Unitarian clergy were +an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen- as the term was then understood +in the Back Bay- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, +either in theology or in manners. Ezra Stiles Gannett, an honorable +representative of the sanhedrin, addressed himself frankly to the +issue in 1845, insisting that Parker should not be persecuted or calumniated +and that in this republic no power to restrain him by force +could exist. Even so, Gannett judiciously argued, the Association could +legitimately decide that Parker "should not be encouraged nor +assisted in diffusing his opinions by those who differ from him in regard +to their correctness". We today are not entitled to excoriate +honest men who believed Parker to be downright pernicious and who +barred their pulpits against his demand to poison the minds of their +congregations. +One can even argue- though this is a delicate matter- +that every justification existed for their returning the Public Lecture +to the First Church, and so to suppress it, rather than let Parker +use it as a sounding board for his propaganda when his turn should +come to occupy it. Finally, it did seem clear as day to these clergymen, +as Gannett's son explained in the biography of his father, +they had always contended for the propriety of their claim to the title +of Christians. Their demand against the Calvinist Orthodoxy for +intellectual liberty had never meant that they would follow "free inquiry" +to the extreme of proclaiming Christianity a "natural" religion. + +Grant all this- still, when modern Unitarianism and +the Harvard Divinity School recall with humorous affection the insults +Parker lavished upon them, or else argue that after all Parker +received the treatment he invited, they betray an uneasy conscience. +Whenever New England liberalism is reminded of the dramatic confrontation +of Parker and the fraternity on January 23, 1843- while it +may defend the privilege of Chandler Robbins to demand that Parker +leave the Association, while it may plead that Dr& N& L& Frothingham +had every warrant for stating, "The difference between Trinitarians +and Unitarians is a difference in Christianity; the difference +between Mr& Parker and the Association is a difference +between no Christianity and Christianity"- despite these supposed +conclusive assurances, the modern liberal heaves repeatedly a sigh +of relief, of positive thanksgiving, that the Association never quite +brought itself officially to expel Parker. Had it done so, the blot +on its escutcheon would have remained indelible, nor could the Harvard +Divinity School assemble today to honor Parker's insurgence other +than by getting down on its collective knees and crying "peccavi". + +Happily for posterity, then, the Boston Association did +not actually command Parker to leave the room, though it came too close +for comfort to what would have been an unforgivable brutality. Fortunately, +the honor of the denomination can attest that Cyrus Bartol +defended Parker's sincerity, as did also Gannett and Chandler +Robbins; whereupon Parker broke down into convulsions of weeping and +rushed out of the room, though not out of the Fellowship. In the +hall, after adjournment, Dr& Frothingham took him warmly by the +hand +and requested Parker to visit him- whereupon our burly Theodore +again burst into tears. All this near tragedy, which to us borders +on comedy, enables us to tell the story over and over again, always +warming ourselves with a glow of complacency. It was indeed a near +thing, but somehow the inherent decency of New England (which we inherit) +did triumph. Parker was never excommunicated. To the extent +that he was ostracized or even reviled, we solace ourselves by saying +he asked for it. Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience +of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is +the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance +for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School +Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him. In both cases +the stubborn fact remains: liberalism gave birth to two brilliant +apostates, both legitimate offspring of its loins, and when brought +to the test, it behaved shabbily. Suppose they both had ventured into +realms which their colleagues thought infidel: is this the way gentlemen +settle frank differences of opinion? Is it after all possible +that no matter how the liberals trumpet their confidence in human dignity +they are exposed to a contagion of fear more insidious than any +conservative has ever to worry about? However, there is a crucial +difference between the two histories. Emerson evaded the problem +by shoving it aside, or rather by leaving it behind him: he walked +out of the Unitarian communion, so that it could lick the wound of his +departure, preserve its self-respect and eventually accord him pious +veneration. Parker insisted upon resigning, even when the majority +wanted him to depart, upon daring the Fellowship to throw him +out. Hence he was in his lifetime, as is the memory of him afterwards, +a canker within the liberal sensitivity. He still points an accusing +finger at all of us, telling us we have neither the courage to support +him nor the energy to cut his throat. Actually, the dispute +between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and +social, was a real one, a bitter one. It cannot be smoothed over by +now cherishing his sarcasms as delightful bits of self-deprecation or +by solemnly calling for a reconsideration of the justice of the objections +to him. The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian +Boston narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid +of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, +and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle +foundations were threatened. Parker, along with Garrison and +Charles Sumner, showed a magnificent moral bravery when facing mobs +mobilized in defense of the Mexican War and slavery. Nevertheless, +we can find reasons for respecting even the bigotry of the populace; +their passions were genuine, and the division between them and the abolitionists +is clear-cut. But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within +the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository +of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by +holding him up as the champion of freedom. Even though his theological +theses have become, to us, commonplaces, the fundamental interrogation +he phrased is very much with us. It has been endlessly rephrased, +but I may here put it thus: at what point do the tolerant find themselves +obliged to become intolerant? And then, as they become aware +that they have reached the end of their patience, what do they, to +their dismay, learn for the first time about themselves? There +can be no doubt, the Boston of that era could be exquisitely cruel +in enforcing its canons of behavior. The gentle Channing, revered +by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville +that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant +spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and +action: "No city in the world is governed so little by a police, +and so much by mutual inspections and what is called public sentiment. +We stand more in awe of one another than most people. Opinion is +less individual or runs more into masses, and often rules with a rod +of iron". Even more poignantly, and with the insight of a genius, +Channing added- remember, this is Channing, not Parker!- +that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should +he "speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, +or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy". + +Channing wrote this- in a letter! I think it fair to +say that he never quite reached such candor in his sermons. But Theodore +Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised +as the minister of a "twenty-eighth Congregational Church" which +bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the +founders (among which were still the Unitarian churches), made explicit +from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish +society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel +difference about clerical decorum. Because he spoke openly with what +Channing had prophesied someone might- with daring hyperbole- Parker +vindicated Channing's further prophecy that he who committed +this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals +were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines. +An institutionalized liberalism proved itself fundamentally an +institution, and only within those defined limits a license. +By reminding ourselves of these factors in the situation, we should, +I am sure, come to a fresh realization, however painful it be, that the +battle between Parker and his neighbors was fought in earnest. He +arraigned the citizens in language of so little courtesy that they had +to respond with, at the least, resentment. What otherwise could "the +lawyer, doctor, minister, the men of science and letters" do when +told that they had "become the cherubim and seraphim and the three +archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually +cried, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty +Dollar'"? +Nor, when we recollect how sensitive were the emotions of the old Puritan +stock in regard to the recent tides of immigration, should we be +astonished that their thin lips were compressed into a white line of +rage as Parker snarled at them thus: "Talk about the Catholics +voting as the bishop tells! reproach the Catholics for it! You +and I do the same thing. There are a great many bishops who have never +had a cross on their bosom, nor a mitre on their head, who appeal not +to the authority of the Pope at Rome, but to the Almighty Dollar, +a pope much nearer home. Boston has been controlled by a few capitalists, +lawyers and other managers, who told the editors what to say and +the preachers what to think". This was war. Parker meant business. +And he took repeated care to let his colleagues know that he intended +them: "Even the Unitarian churches have caught the malaria, +and are worse than those who deceived them"- which implied that they +were very bad indeed. It was "" he said that his parents +had given him as a rule- beyond even the love that suffused his +being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied- and +it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted +him by the age of fifty. Parker could weep- and he wept astonishingly +often and on the slightest provocation- but the psychology of +those tears was entirely compatible with a remorseless readiness to +massacre his opponents. "If it gave me pleasure to say hard things", +he wrote, "I would shut up forever". We have to tell ourselves +that when Parker spoke in this vein, he believed what he said, because +he could continue, "But the TRUTH, which cost me bitter +tears to say, I must speak, though it cost other tears hotter than +fire". Because he copiously shed his own tears, and yielded himself +up as a living sacrifice to the impersonalized conscience of New England, +he was not disturbed by the havoc he worked in other people's +consciences. Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how +strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very +issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its +Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the +miracles as reported in the Four Gospels. It is idle to ask why we +are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, +decides anew +that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the +water into wine at eleven A& M& on the third of August, A& +D& 32. We have no answer as to why we are not alarmed. So we are +the more prepared to give Parker the credit for having taken the right +side in an unnecessary controversy, to salute his courage, and to pass +on, happily forgetting both him and the entire episode. We have not +the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working +in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard +Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most +formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying +that, while he believed Jesus "like other religious teachers", worked +miracles, "I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine". + +I have, within the past fifty years, come out of all uncertainty +into a faith which is a dominating conviction of the Truth and about +which I have not a shadow of doubt. It has been my lot all through +life to associate with eminent scientists and at times to discuss with +them the deepest and most vital of all questions, the nature of the +hope of a life beyond this. I have also constantly engaged in scientific +work and am fully aware of the value of opinions formed in science +as well as in the religions in the world. In an amateurish, yet in +a very real sense, I have followed the developments of archaeology, geology, +astronomy, herpetology, and mycology with a hearty appreciation +of the advances being made in these fields. At one time I became +disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent +inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a "Higher +Criticism" of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better +knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that +to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure. + +Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while +and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the +Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have +been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: +attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving +generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race. Although +still aware of a great light and glow of warmth in the Book, I +stood outside shivering in the cold. In one thing the higher +critics, like the modernists, however, overreached themselves, in claiming +that the Gospel of John was not written in John's time but +well after the first century, perhaps as late as 150 A&D&. Now, +if any part of the Bible is assuredly the very Word of God speaking +through His servant, it is John's Gospel. To ask me to believe +that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the +events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the +Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any +of those recorded in the Bible. Here I took my leave of my learned +friends to step out on another path, to which we might give the modern +name of Pragmatism, or the thing that works. Test it, try it, and +if it works, accept it as a guiding principle. So, I put my +Bible to the practical test of noting what it says about itself, and +then tested it to see how it worked. As a short, possibly not the best +method, I looked up "Word" in the Concordance and noted that +the Bible claims from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 to be God's personal +message to man. The next traditional step then was to accept it +as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would +accept a treatise on any earthly "science", and I submitted to +its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, +<"If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether +it be of God, or whether I speak of myself"> (John 7:17). + +The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance +of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly +different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of +our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man +by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world. I believe, +therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated +from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, +the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay +the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ +as his personal Saviour is "born again" spiritually, with new +privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in +His likeness forever. Nor can any man save himself by good works or +by a commendable "moral life", although such works are the natural +fruits and evidences of a saving faith already received and naturally +expressing itself through such avenues. I now ever look for +Christ acording to His promises and those of the Old Testament as +well, to appear again in glory to put away all sin and to reign in righteousness +over the whole earth. To state fully what the Bible +means as my daily spiritual food is as intimate and difficult as to +formulate the reasons for loving my nearest and dearest relatives and +friends. The Bible is as obviously and truly food for the spirit as +bread is food for the body. Again, as faith reveals God my Father +and Christ my Saviour, I follow without question where He leads me +daily by His Spirit of love, wisdom, power and prayer. I place His +precepts and His leadings above every seeming probability, dismissing +cherished convictions and holding the wisdom of man as folly when opposed +to Him. I discern no limits to a faith vested in God and Christ, +who is the sum of all wisdom and knowledge, and daring to trust Him +even though called to stand alone before the world. Our Lord's +invitation with its implied promise to all is, "Come and see". + +I STOOD at the bedside of my patient one day and beheld +a very sick man in terrible pain. As I ministered to his needs, +I noticed that his face was radiant in spite of his suffering and I +learned that he was trusting not only in the skill of his doctor and +nurse but also the Lord. In his heart he had that peace of which +the Lord spoke when He said, <"Peace I leave with you, my peace +I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let +not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid">. What +a joy to realize that we, too, can claim this promise tendered by +the Lord during His earthly ministry to a group of men who were very +dear to Him. He was about to leave them, to depart from this world, +and return to His Father in Heaven. Before He left them He promised +that His peace would be their portion to abide in their hearts +and minds. I praise God for the privilege of being a nurse who +has that peace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It makes +my work a great deal easier to be able to pray for the Lord's guidance +while ministering to the physical needs of my patients. How +often have I looked to Jesus when entering the sick room, asking +for His presence and help in my professional duties as I give my talents +not only as the world giveth but as one who loves the Saviour and +His creatures. Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote +these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: <"Thou wilt +keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because +he trusteth in thee">. Are you longing for peace in your heart? +Such a calm and assuring peace can be yours. As only a member +of the family can share in the innermost joys of the family, likewise +one must belong to the family of God in order to receive the benefits +that are promised to those who are His own. Perhaps you are +not His child. Perhaps you do not know if you belong to Him. You +may know that you are in God's family and be just as sure of it as +you are that you belong to the family of your earthly father. +<"God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that +whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life",> +and <"as many as received him, to them gave he power to become +the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name">. + +It is to those who believe on His name and belong to Him that +He gives His peace; not that empty peace the world offers, but a deep, +abiding peace which nothing can destroy. Why not open your +heart to the Lord Jesus Christ now, accept Him as your Saviour +and +let Him fill you with peace that only He can give. Then, +with the hymn writer of old, you can say: "I am resting today +in His wonderful peace, Resting sweetly in Jesus' control. + +I am kept from all danger by night and by day, And +His glory is flooding my soul". + +SATELLITES, SPUTNIKS, ROCKETS, +BALLOONS; what next? Our necks are stiff from gazing at +the wonders of outer space, which have captured the imagination of the +American public. Cape Canaveral's achievements thunder forth from +the radio, television, and newspaper. While we are filling +outer space with scientific successes, for many the "inner" space +of their soul is an aching void. Proof? An average of 50 suicides +are reported in America each day! One out of every three or +four marriages end in divorce! Over $200,000,000 is paid yearly to +the 80,000 full-time fortune-tellers in the United States by fearful +mankind who want to "know" what the future holds! Delinquency, +juvenile and adult, is at an all-time high! Further proof? Read +your daily newspaper! Unfortunately, in our rush to beat +the Russians, we have forgotten these truth-packed words of Jesus Christ: +<"What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world> +[that includes outer space], (Mark 8:36, 37). + +Gaining outer space and losing "inner" space is bad business +according to God's standards. It is true that we must +keep up our national defenses and scientific accomplishments; only +a fool would think otherwise. But we must not forget man's soul. + +Is putting a rocket in orbit half so significant as the good news +that God put His Son, +Jesus Christ, on earth to live and die to +save our hell-bound souls? <"For God so loved the world, that +he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should +not perish, but have everlasting life"> (John 3:16). Never +forget that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Your spiritual +"inner" space helps determine the spirituality of America +as a nation. We trust you are not one of the 70,000,000 Americans +who do not attend church, but who feel that various forms of recreation +are more important than worshipping the God who made our country great. + +Is forgiveness of past sins, assurance of present help, and +hope of future bliss in your orbit? Or are you trying the devil's +substitutes to relieve that spiritual hunger you feel within? Pleasure, +fame and fortune, drowning your troubles with a drink, and "living +it up" with the gang are like candy bars when you're hungry: +they may ease your hunger temporarily, but they'll never take the +place of a satisfying, mouth-watering steak. So it is spiritually. +No amount of religious ceremonies or even joining a church will +relieve the gnawing of your "inner" space. Why? Because your +soul was made to be filled with God Himself, not religious functions +"about" Him. Only He can satisfy the deepest longings. That +is why the Bible commands you to <"Taste and see that the Lord +is good: blessed> [happy] +(Psalm 34:8). You can receive God into your heart and life +by a step of personal faith. Accept the sinless Son of God, Jesus +Christ, as your own personal Saviour. <"As many as received him> +[Jesus], +<"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? +the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be +afraid"?> +Psalm 27:1 A certain teacher scheduled a "Fear Party" +for her fourth grade pupils. It was a session at which all the youngsters +were told to express their fears, to get them out in the open +where they could talk about them freely. The teacher thought it was +so successful that she asks: "Wouldn't it be helpful to all age +groups if they could participate in a similar confessional of their +fears and worries"? Dr& George W& Crane, a medical +columnist, thinks it would. He says: "That would reduce neurotic +ailments tremendously. Each week an estimated 20 million patients call +upon us doctors. Of this number, 50%, or 10 million patients have +no diagnosable physical ailments whatever. They are 'worry warts'. +Yet they keep running from one physician to another, largely to get +a willing ear who will listen to their parade of troubles. One of +the most wholesome things you could schedule in your church would thus +be a group confessional where people could admit of their inner tensions". + +We are evidently trying hard to think of new ways to +deal with the problem of fear these days. It must be getting more serious. +People are giving their doctors a hard time. One doctor made +a careful survey of his patients and the reasons for their troubles, and +he reported that 40% of them worried about things that never happened; +30% of them worried about past happenings which were completely +beyond their control; 12% of them worried about their health, +although their ailments were imaginary; 10% of them worried about +their friends, neighbors, and relatives, most of whom were quite capable +of taking care of themselves. Only 8% of the worries had behind +them real causes which demanded attention. Well, most of our +fears may be unfounded, but after you discover that fact, you have something +else to worry about: Why then do we have these fears? What +is the real cause of them? What is there about us that makes us so +anxious? Look at the things we do to escape our fears and +to forget our worries. We spend millions of dollars every year on fortune +tellers and soothsayers. We spend billions of dollars at the race +tracks, and more billions on other forms of gambling. We spend billions +of dollars on liquor, and many more billions on various forms of +escapist entertainment. We consume tons of aspirin and tranquilizers +and sleeping pills in order to get a moment's relief from the tensions +that are tearing us apart. A visitor from a more peaceful +country across the sea was taken to one of our amusement parks, and after +he had seen it all, he said to a friend: "You must be a very +sad people". "Sad" was not the right word, of course. He should +have said "jittery", for that's what we are. And that's worse +than sad. Watch people flock to amusement houses, cocktail lounges, +and night clubs that advertise continuous entertainment, which means +an endless flow of noise and frivolity by paid entertainers who are supposed +to perform in those incredible ways which are designed to give +men a few hours of dubious relaxation- watch them and you can tell +that many of them are running away from something. In one of +his writings Pascal speaks of this mania for diversion as being a sign +of misery and fear which man cannot endure without such opiates. Yes, +and as tension mounts in this world, fear is increasing. Does that +explain why there is now such a big boom in the bomb shelter business? +We have so many new things to fear in this age of nuclear weapons, +dreadful things which are too horrible to contemplate. I doubt that +"fear parties" and "group confessionals" will help very much. +Suppose we do get our fears out in the open, what then? Isn't that +where most of them are already- right out on the front page of our +newspapers? Maybe we are talking about them too much. The question +is: what are we going to do about them? Meanwhile, the +enemy will capitalize on our fears, if he can. Hitler did just that +23 years ago, building up tensions that first led to a Munich and then +to a world war. The fear of war can make us either too weak to stand +and too willing to compromise, or too reckless and too nervous to negotiate +for peace as long as there is any chance to negotiate. It is +said that fear in human beings produces an odor that provokes animals +to attack. It could have the same effect on Communists. The President +of the United States has said: "We will never negotiate out +of fear, and we will never fear to negotiate". That is a sound position, +but it is important that Moscow shall recognize it not merely +as the word of a president but as the mind of a free people who are not +afraid. And that's another reason why it is imperative for us these +days to conquer our fears, to develop the poise that promotes peace. + +Turning to the Word of God, we find the only sure way to do +that. In Psalm 27:1 you read those beautiful words which you must +have in your heart if you are to master the fears that surround you, +or to drive them out if they have you in their grip: "The Lord +is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the +strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid"? Well, +you say, those are beautiful words all right, but it was easy for the +psalmist to sing them in his day. He didn't live in a world of perpetual +peril like ours. He didn't know anything about the problems +we face today. No? Read the next two verses: "When the +wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, +they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my +heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will +I be confident". That is almost a perfect description of +the predicament in which we find ourselves today, isn't it? Our +enemy is also threatening to devour us. He has already devoured huge +areas of the world, putting men behind concrete walls and iron curtains +and barbed wire, reducing them to slavery, systematically crushing +not only their bodies but their souls, and shooting them to death if they +try to escape their prison. Yes indeed, we too can see a warlike +host of infidels encamped against us. What a terrible thing, that +"wailing wall" in Berlin! A man with a baby in his arms stood +there pleading for his wife who is on the other side with the rest +of the family. Another man tried to swim across the river from the East +to the West, but was shot and killed. A middle aged woman opened +a window on the third floor of her house which was behind the wall, +she threw out a few belongings and then jumped; she was fatally injured. +The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, +most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there +anymore. Practically everybody in Berlin has relatives and friends +that live in the opposite part of the city. People stand at the wall +giving vent to their feelings, weeping, pounding it with their fists, +pleading for loved ones. But the enemy answers them from loudspeakers +that pour out Communist propaganda with a generous mixture of terrible +profanity. There is only one escape left, a tragic one, and too +many people are taking it: suicide. The normal rate of suicides in +East Berlin was one a day, but since the border was closed on August +13 it has jumped to 25 a day! These things may be happening +many miles away from us but really they are right next door. We are +all involved in them, deeply involved. And nobody knows what comes next. +We live from crisis to crisis. And there is only one way for a +man to conquer his fears in such a world. He must learn to say with +true faith what the psalmist said in a similar world: "The Lord +is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the +strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid"? + +Notice +that this man had a threefold conception of God which is the secret +of his faith. First, "the Lord is my ". He lived in a +very dark world, but he was not in the dark. The same God who called +this world into being when He said: "Let there be light"!- +those were His very first creative words- He began the world with +light- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged +into darkness. For those who put their trust in Him He still says +every day again: "Let there be light"! And there is light! + +In fact, He came into this world Himself, in the person of +His Son, Jesus Christ, who stood here amid the darkness of human +sin and said: "I am the light of the world: he that followeth +me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life". The +psalmist could say that God was his light even though he could only +anticipate the coming of Christ. He lived in the dawn; he could +only see the light coming over the horizon. We live in the bright daylight +of that great event; for us it is a fact in history. Why should +we not have the same faith, and an even greater experience of the light +which it gives? This is the faith that moved the psalmist +to add his second conception of God: "The Lord is **h my ". +He knew that his God would save him from his enemies +because He had saved him from his sins. If God could do that, He could +do anything. The enemies at his gate, threatening to eat up his +flesh, were nothing compared with the enemy of sin within his own soul. +And God had conquered that one by His grace! So why worry about +all the others? The apostle Paul said the same thing in the +language and faith of the New Testament: "He that spared not +His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with +Him freely give us all things? **h If God be for us, who can be +against us? **h Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? +shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, +or peril, or sword"? (Romans 8:31, 32, 35) Salvation! +This is the key to +the conquest of fear. This gets down to the heart of our problem, for +it reconciles us with God, whom we fear most of all because we have +sinned against Him. When that fear has been removed by faith in Jesus +Christ, when we know that He is our Savior, that He has paid our +debt with His blood, that He has met the demands of God's justice +and thus has turned His wrath away- when we know that, we have peace +with God in our hearts; and then, with this God on our side, +we can face the whole world without fear. And so the psalmist +gives us one more picture of God: "The Lord is the +of my life". The word is really "stronghold". It recalls those +words of another psalm: "God is our refuge and strength, a very +present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth +be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the +sea **h Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He +hath made in the earth. +But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until +the close of the ninth century A&D&, when an Arabic scholar, Tabit +ibn Korra (836-901) is said to have discussed the magic square of +three. Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or +the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before +the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from +the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her +claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years. + +#2. THE "LO SHU" SQUARE AS AN EXPRESSION OF CENTRALITY# + +The +concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a +forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of +the +Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese +Empire under the Ch'in dynasty (221-207 B&C&). But this +was only accomplished by excessive cruelty and extremes of totalitarian +despotism. Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, +Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of +this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B&C&, +with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for +divergent thinking; but, as he had a special fondness for magic and +divination, he ordered that books on these subjects should be spared. +Many of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning +of the vast Ch'in palace some ten years later; yet some must have +survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, +and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting +China and keeping it together for a longer period (from 202 B&C& +to A&D& 220). In fact, during +the first century B&C&, an extensive literature sprang up devoted +to these subjects, finding its typical expression in the so-called +" books", a number of which were specifically devoted to +the and related numerical diagrams, especially in connection +with divination. However, the books were also destroyed +in a series of Orthodox Confucian purges which culminated in a final +proscription in 605. After all this destruction of old literature, +it should be obvious why we have so little information about the +early history and development of the , which was already +semisecret anyhow. But, in spite of all this, enough evidence remains +to show that the magic square of three must indeed have been the object +of a rather extensive cult- or series of cults- reaching fullest +expression in the Han period. Although modern scholars have +expressed surprise that "the simple magic square of three", a mere +"mathematical puzzle", was able to exert a considerable influence +on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, +they could have found most of the answers right within the square +itself. But, up to now, no one has attempted to analyze its inherent +mathematical properties, or the numerical significance of its numbers- +singly or in combination- and then tried to consider these in +the light of Old Chinese cosmological concepts. Such an analysis +speedily reveals why the middle number of the , 5, +was so vitally significant for the Chinese ever since the earliest hints +that they had a knowledge of this diagram. The importance of this +5 can largely be explained by the natural mathematical properties of +the middle number and its special relationship to all the rest of the +numbers- quite apart from any numerological considerations, which is +to say, any symbolic meaning arbitrarily assigned to it. Indeed, mathematically +speaking, it was both functionally and symbolically the most +important number in the entire diagram. If one takes the middle +number, 5, and multiplies it by 3 (the base number of the magic +square of three), the result is 15, which is also the constant sum of +all the rows, columns, and two main diagonals. Then, if the middle number +is activated to its greatest potential in terms of this square, through +multiplying it by the highest number, 9 (which is the square of +the base number), the result is 45; and the latter is the total sum +of all the numbers in the square, by which all the other numbers are +overshadowed and in which they may be said to be absorbed. Furthermore, +the middle number of the is not only the physical +mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of +its central position; it is also their mathematical mean, since it +is equal to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which equal 10. +In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and their subtle equilibrium, +would have had special meaning in the minds of the Old Chinese. +For they considered the odd numbers as male and the even ones as female, +equating the two groups with the Yang and Yin principles in Nature; +and in this square, the respective pairs made up of large and +small odd (Yang) numbers, and those composed of large and small even +(Yin) numbers, were all equal to each other. Thus all differences were +leveled, and all contrasts erased, in a realm of no distinction, and +the harmonious balance of the square could effectively +symbolize the world in balanced harmony around a powerful central axis. + +The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the square- +for purely mathematical reasons- and the fact that this number so +neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain +why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and +why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality. These twin +tendencies seem to have reached their height in the Han dynasty. + +The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further +stimulated toward the close of the second century B&C&, when +the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow- +which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions- +and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus +place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious +influences. His immediate motive for doing this may not have +been directly inspired by the , but this measure must inevitably +have increased the existing beliefs in the latter's efficacy. + +After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well +as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one's +self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest. +Later, we shall see what happened when an emperor took this idea too +literally. All this emphasis on Centrality and on the number +5 as a symbolic expression of the Center, which seems to have begun +as far back as 400 B&C&, also may conceivably have led to the development +of the Five-Elements School and the subsequent efforts to +fit everything into numerical categories of five. We find, for example, +such groupings as the Five Ancient Rulers, the Five Sacred Mountains, +the Five Directions (with Center), the Five Metals, Five +Colors, Five Tastes, Five Odors, Five Musical Notes, Five +Bodily Functions, Five Viscera, and many others. This trend has +often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though +they had served as the base for all the rest; but why did the Old +Chinese postulate elements, when the Ancient Near East- +which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence +in human life and activities- recognized only four? And why +did the Chinese suddenly begin to talk about the Five Directions, +when the animals they used as symbols of the directions designated only +the usual four? Obviously, something suddenly caused them to start +thinking in terms of fives, and that may have been the workings of +the . This whole tendency had an unfortunate effect +on Chinese thinking. Whereas the primary meanings of the +diagram seemed to have been based on its inner mathematical properties- +and we shall see that even its secondary meanings rested on +some mathematical bases- the urgent desire to place everything into +categories of fives led to other groupings based on other numbers, until +an exaggerated emphasis on mere numerology pervaded Chinese thought. +Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, +or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that +seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and +philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought +in China for many centuries. + +#3. YIN AND YANG IN THE "LO SHU" +SQUARE# + +Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle +number at the center of the , and the interrelation +of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep +fascination which the held for the Old Chinese philosophers, +this was actually only a beginning of wonders. For the square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief +religious and philosophical ideas of its time. As such, one cannot +fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without +knowing the meanings inherent in the ; but, conversely, +one cannot begin to understand the without knowing something +about the world view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they +saw expressed in it. The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, +when the seems to have been at the height of its +popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang +and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou +Yen. According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, +- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme +Sky-god- governing all things by means of a process called the +, +which can be roughly interpreted as "the Order of the Universe" +or "the Universal Way". Heaven, acting through the Tao, +expressed itself by means of the workings of two basic principles, +the Yin and the Yang. The Yang, or male principle, was the source +of light, heat, and dynamic vitality, associated with the Sun; while +the Yin, or female principle, flourished in darkness, cold, and quiet +inactivity, and was associated with the Moon. Together these two +principles influenced all things, and in varying combinations they were +present in everything. We have already seen that odd numbers +were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so +that the eight outer numbers of the represented these two +principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center. During +the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the , considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China. Instead +of linking the nine numbers of this diagram with the traditional Nine +Provinces, as was usually +done, this equated the odd, Yang numbers +with mountains (firm and resistant, hence Yang) and the even numbers +with rivers (sinuous and yielding, hence Yin); taking the former +from the Five Sacred Mountains of the Han period and the latter from +the principal river systems of Old China. Thus the middle +number, 5, represented Sung-Shan in Honan, Central China; the +3, T'ai-Shan in Shantung, East China; the 7, Hwa-Shan in Shensi, +West China; the 1, Heng-Shan in Hopei, North China (or +the mountain with the same name in neighboring Shansi); and the +9, Huo-Shan in Anhwei, which was then the South Sacred Mountain. +For the rivers, the 4 represented the Huai, to the (then) Southeast; +the 2, the San Kiang (three rivers) in the (then) Southwest; +the 8, the Chi in the Northeast; and the 6, the (upper) Yellow River +in the Northwest. Note that by Western standards this +plan was "upside down", as it put North at the bottom and South +at the top, with the other directions correspondingly altered; but in +this respect it was merely following the accepted Chinese convention +for all maps. The same arrangement was used when the was +equated with the Nine Provinces; and whenever the +involved directional symbolism, it was oriented in this same fashion. +Few persons who join the Church are insincere. They earnestly desire +to do the will of God. When they fall by the wayside and fail to achieve +Christian stature, it is an . These +fatalities are dramatic evidence of "halfway evangelism", a failure +to follow through. A program of Lay Visitation Evangelism can +end in dismal defeat with half the new members drifting away unless +practical plans and strenuous efforts are made to keep them in the active +fellowship. The work of Lay Visitation Evangelism is not +completed when all of the persons on the Responsibility List have +been interviewed. In the average situation about one-third of those visited +make commitments to Christ and the Church. The pastor and the +Membership Preparation and Assimilation Committee immediately with a carefully planned program. The first thirty +to sixty days after individuals make their decision will determine +their interest and participation in the life of the Church. Neglect +means spiritual paralysis or death. + +#PREPARATION FOR MEMBERSHIP# + +CHURCHES THAT HAVE a carefully planned program of membership preparation +and assimilation often keep 85 to 90 per cent of their new members +loyal and active. This is the answer to the problem of "membership +delinquency". It is important that persons desiring to +unite with the Church be for this experience so that it +may be meaningful and spiritually significant. It is unfair and unchristian +to ask a person to take the sacred vows of Church membership +before he has been carefully instructed concerning their implications. + +Preparation for Church membership begins immediately after +the commitment is received. _1)_ The pastor +to each individual, expressing his joy over the decision, assuring +him of a pastoral call at the earliest convenient time, and outlining +the plan for membership preparation classes and Membership Sunday. +Some pastors write a letter the same night the decision is reported +by the visitors. It should not be postponed later than the next day. +A helpful leaflet may be enclosed in the letter. _2)_ The pastor +calls in the home of each individual or family for a . If possible, he should make an appointment in order +that all persons involved may be present. This is a social +call. It is definitely a "spiritual guidance conference". He +will discuss the significance of Christian commitment, the necessity +of family religion and private devotions, and the importance of the +membership preparation sessions. There may be problems of conduct or +questions of belief which will require his counsel. Each conference +should be concluded naturally with prayer. A piece of devotional material, +such as , may be left in each home. _3)_ +A minimum of is necessary +for adults. Some churches require more. None should ask less. +Those who join the Church need to be instructed in the faith and the +meaning of Christian discipleship they take the sacred +vows. They will have a greater appreciation for the Church and a deeper +devotion to it if membership requires something of them. Many +churches find the Sunday school hour to be the most practical time +for adult preparation classes. Others meet on Sunday night, at the +mid-week service, or for a series of four nights. Some pastors have +two sessions in one evening, with a refreshment period between. +The sessions should cover four major areas: _A_- The Christian +Faith _B_- History of the Church _C_- Duties of Church +Membership _D_- The Local Church and Its Program + +Following each instruction period a piece of literature dealing +with the topic should be handed each one for further reading during the +week. This procedure is much more effective than giving out a membership +packet. + +#FOURTH SESSION IMPORTANT# + +MOST PASTORS FIND +that the fourth session should take at least two hours and therefore +hold it on a week night prior to Reception Sunday. In this session +the persons seeking membership are provided information concerning the +work of the denomination as well as the program and activities of the +local church. The lay leadership of the church may be invited to speak +on the various phases of church life, service opportunities, the church +school, missions, men's work, women's work, youth program, social +activities, and finances. The budget of the church may be presented +and pledges solicited at this session. An "interest finder" or +"talent sheet" may be filled out by each person. (See sample on +pp& 78-79.) The fourth session may be concluded with a tour of the +church facilities and refreshments. The social time gives an opportunity +for church leaders to become acquainted with the new members. + +#ADDITIONAL +SUGGESTIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP PREPARATION# + +IN CONDUCTING +the Membership Preparation-Inquirers' Class, the pastor should +plan a variety of teaching techniques in order to develop greater interest +on the part of the class. The following have been found effective. + +_1)_ . Some churches have +six or more training sessions of two hours each, generally held on Sunday +night or during the week. This gives greater opportunity for the +learning process. _2)_ - for example, in +discussing the Lord's Supper or church symbolism. _3)_ . Some excellent filmstrips with recordings and motion +pictures may be secured from your denominational headquarters to +enrich the class session. _4)_ ". +Some new members will hesitate to ask questions audibly. Urge them +to write out their questions for the box. _5)_ +with assigned readings each week. _6)_ the missile to be fired against the target, + ballistics for the flight, and the missile for +firing. Even if all these operations could be performed , +the ~ICBM still has a time of flight to the target +of about 30 minutes. Therefore, if the target can significantly change +its location in something less than 30 minutes, the probability of +having destroyed it is drastically lowered. Because of this, +it would appear inevitable that an increasing percentage of strategic +missiles will seek self-protection in mobility- at least until missile +defenses are perfected which have an exceedingly high kill probability. + +In order to destroy the enemy's mobile, moving, or imprecisely +located strategic forces, we must have a hunter-killer capability + to our missiles. Until this hunter-killer operation +can be performed by spacecraft, manned aircraft appear to be the only +means available to us. It seems reasonable that if general +nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's +citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance +aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and +destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us. +Let us suppose the Russians decide to build a rail-mobile ~ICBM +force. It is entirely feasible to employ aircraft such as the ~B-52 +or ~B-70 in hunter-killer operations against Soviet railway-based +missiles. If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton +nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which +may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would +seem that the ~B-52 or ~B-70 could carry a great many small +nuclear weapons. An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons +could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains +operating within a specified geographic area of Russia- provided that +we had used some of our ~ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses +before our bombers got there. The aircraft could be used to destroy +other mobile, fleeting, and imprecisely located targets as well as +the known, fixed and hardened targets which can also be destroyed by +missile. Why, then, aren't we planning a larger, more important +role for manned military aircraft? Is there any other way to do +the job? Survivability of our strategic forces (Polaris, +mobile and hardened Minuteman, hardened Atlas and Titan, and airborne +Skybolt) means that it will take some time, perhaps weeks, to destroy +a strategic force. War, under these circumstances, cannot be one +massive exchange of nuclear devastation. Forces a surprise +attack, and these forces will give depth, or considerable duration, +to the conflict. ## + +THE forces which survive the initial +attack +must be found and destroyed. Even mobile forces must be found and +destroyed. But, how does one go about the job of finding and destroying +mobile forces? They are not susceptible to wholesale destruction +by ballistic missile. Some day, many years in the future, true +spacecraft will be able to find and destroy mobile targets. But until +we have an effective spacecraft, the answer to the hunter-killer +problem is manned aircraft. However, the aircraft which we have +today are tied to large, "soft" airfields. Nuclear rockets can +destroy airfields with ease. Here then is our problem: aircraft are +vital to winning a war today because they can perform those missions +which a missile is totally incapable of performing; but the airfield, +on which the aircraft is completely dependent, is doomed by the missile. +This makes today's aircraft a one-shot, or one mission, weapon. +Aircraft are mighty expensive if you can use them only once. + +This is the point on which so many people have written off the aircraft +in favor of the missile. But remember this- it isn't the +which is vulnerable to nuclear rockets, it is the . +Eliminate the and you +have essentially eliminated its vulnerability to long-range ballistic +missiles. There are to reduce or +eliminate the vulnerability of aircraft on the ground: @ Put +aircraft in "bomb-proof" hangars when they are on the ground. + +@ Build long-range aircraft which can take off from small (3,000-foot) +airfields with runways. If we could use all the small airfields +we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft +by a factor of 10 or more. @ Use nuclear propulsions to keep +our long-range military aircraft in the air for the majority of their +useful life. @ Using very high thrust-to-weight ratio engines, +develop a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (~VTOL) long-range +military aircraft. We have the technology today with which to +build aircraft shelters which could withstand at least 200 ~psi. We +could put a portion of our strategic bombers in such shelters. +Large, +long-range bombers can be developed which would have the capability +to take off from 3,000-foot runways, but they would require more powerful +engines than we have today. There is little enthusiasm for spending +money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief +that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile. This +same preoccupation with missiles at the expense of aircraft has resulted +in our half-hearted effort to develop nuclear propulsion for aircraft. +One seldom hears the analogy "nuclear propulsion will do for +the aircraft what it has already done for the submarine". If, +for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft +nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should +turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio +of 12 or 15 to one. With powerplants such as these, vertical takeoff +and landing combat aircraft could be built. For example, a 12-to-one +engine would power a ~VTOL fighter. With a 15-to-one +engine, a supersonic aircraft weighing 300,000 pounds could rise +vertically. The reason that we are not going ahead full speed to +develop high thrust-to-weight engines is that it would cost perhaps a +billion dollars- and you don't spend that sort of money if aircraft +are obsolete. When aircraft are no longer helpless on airfields, +they are no longer vulnerable to ~ICBMs. If our ~SAC +bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and +, those bombers would +unquestionably assure our military dominance. We would have +the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force- whether it +were fixed or mobile. With such a force of manned bombers we could bring +enormous pressure to bear on an enemy, and this pressure would be +selective and extremely discriminating. No need to kill an entire city +and all its people because we lacked the precision and reconnaissance +to selectively disarm the enemy's military force. Our first +necessity, at the very outset of war, is post-attack reconnaissance. +In a few years we will have ~SAMOS (semiautomatic missile observation +system). But in the case of moving targets, and targets which +have limited mobility, what will their location be when it is time to +destroy them? What targets have we successfully knocked out? A +ballistic missile cannot, today, tell you if it was successful or unsuccessful. +What targets still remain to be hit? These crucial questions +must be answered by post-attack reconnaissance. ~SAMOS will +be hard put to see through clouds- and to see in the dark. +Even if this is some day possible, there remains the 30-minute time +of flight of a missile to its overseas target. If the target can change +its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in +the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target +is drastically reduced. 
-attack reconnaissance is vital 
+but only -attack reconnaissance will allow us to terminate 
+the war favorably. It would be priceless to have an aircraft to gather 
+that post-attack reconnaissance. It could operate under the clouds 
+and perform infrared photography through clouds and at night. 
+It would be even more valuable because that same aircraft could immediately 
+destroy any targets it discovered- no need to wait for a missile 
+to come all the way from the United States with the chance that 
+the target, if it were mobile, would be gone.   A large aircraft, 
+such as the ~B-52 or ~B-70, could carry perhaps 50 or 100 small 
+nuclear weapons. Few people realize that one kiloton of nuclear explosive 
+power will create 1,000 ~psi overpressure at 100 feet. Or 
+put 
+another way, the hardest missile site planned today could be destroyed 
+by placing a one-kiloton warhead (1/20th the size of those used in Hiroshima 
+and Nagasaki) within 100 to 200 feet of the target!
+
+It is our lack of extreme accuracy which forces the use of very large 
+yield nuclear weapons.   Today we have side-looking radar which 
+has such high resolution that the radar picture clearly shows individual 
+buildings, runways, taxi-ways, separate spans of bridges, etc&. 
+With these keen "eyes" and small nuclear weapons delivered with accuracy, 
+military forces can be directly attacked .   If we fail to develop the means to hunt down 
+and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, 
+and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, 
+our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.
+
+THE LYRIC BEAUTIES of Schubert's  Quintet- 
+its elemental rhythms and infectious melodies- make it a source 
+of pure pleasure for almost all music listeners. But for students of 
+musical forms and would-be classifiers, the work presents its problems. 
+Since it requires only five players, it would seem to fall into the 
+category of chamber music- yet it calls for a double bass, an instrument 
+generally regarded as symphonic. Moreover, the piece is written 
+in five movements, rather than the conventional four of most quintets, 
+and this gives the opus a serenade or divertimento flavor.   The 
+many and frequent performances of the  serve to emphasize 
+the dual nature of its writing. Some renditions are of symphonic dimensions, 
+with the contrabass given free rein. Other interpretations present 
+the music as an essentially intimate creation. In these readings, 
+the double bass is either kept discreetly in the background, or it 
+is dressed in clown's attire- the musical equivalent of a bull in 
+a china shop. Recently I was struck anew by the divergent approaches, 
+when in the course of one afternoon and evening I listened to no fewer 
+than ten different performances. The occasion for this marathon: 
+Angel's long-awaited reissue in its "Great Recordings of the 
+Century" series of the Schnabel-Pro Arte version. Let me say at 
+the outset that the music sounded as sparkling on the last playing as 
+it did on the first.   Whether considered alone or in relation 
+to other editions, ~COLH 40 is a document of prime importance. 
+Artur Schnabel was one of the greatest Schubert-Beethoven-Mozart 
+players of all time, and any commentary of his on this repertory is valuable. 
+But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great 
+performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to 
+are by Schnabel pupils (Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, 
+and Victor Babin) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical 
+skills. Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian 
+renditions, most notably the "Schnabel trill" (which differs 
+from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously). 
+But the most impressive testimony to Schnabel's distinction 
+as a teacher is reflected by the individuality which marks each 
+student's approach as distinctly his own.   Schnabel's emphasis 
+on structural clarity, his innate rhythmic vibrancy, and impetuous 
+intensity all tend to stamp his reading as a symphonic one. Yet no 
+detail was too small to receive attention from this master, and as a 
+result the playing here has humor, delicacy, and radiant humanity. This 
+is a serious-minded interpretation, but it is never strait-laced. And 
+although Schnabel's pianism bristles with excitement, it is meticulously 
+faithful to Schubert's dynamic markings and phrase indications. 
+The piano performance on this  is one that really demands 
+a search for superlatives.   About the Pro Arte's contribution 
+I am less happy. I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't 
+collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic 
+playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook 
+than the style of the Belgian group. From a technical standpoint, 
+the string playing is good, but the Pro Arte people fail to enter 
+into the spirit of things here. The violinist, in particular, is very 
+indulgent with swoops and slides, and his tone is pinched and edgy. 
+The twenty-five-year-old recording offers rather faded string tone, 
+but the balance between the instruments is good and the transfer is very 
+quiet. There is a break in continuity just before the fourth variation 
+in the "" movement, and I suspect that this is 
+due to imperfect splicing between sides of the original ~SPs.
+
+Turning to the more modern versions, Curzon's (London) offers 
+the most sophisticated keyboard work. Every detail in his interpretation 
+has been beautifully thought out, and of these I would especially 
+cite the delicious  touch the pianist brings to the fifth 
+variation (an obvious indication that he is playing with Viennese 
+musicians), and the gossamer shading throughout. Some of Curzon's 
+playing strikes me as finicky, however. Why, for example, does he favor 
+ tempos, rather than one, for the third movement? The assisting 
+musicians from the Vienna Octet are somewhat lacking in , 
+but their contribution is rustic and appealing. (Special compliments 
+to the double bass playing of Johann Krumpp: his scrawny, 
+tottering sound adds a delightful hilarity to the performance.)
+
+The Glazer-Fine Arts edition (Concert-Disc) is a model of lucidity 
+and organization. It is, moreover, a perfectly integrated ensemble 
+effort. But having lived with the disc for some time now, I find 
+the performance less exciting than either Schnabel's or Fleisher's 
+(whose superb performance with the Budapest Quartet has still to 
+be recorded) and a good deal less filled with humor than Curzon's. 
+Aeschbacher's work is very much akin to Schnabel's, but the sound 
+on his Decca disc is dated, and you will have a hard time locating 
+a copy of it.   The Hephzibah Menuhin-Amadeus Quartet (Angel) 
+and Victor Babin-Festival Quartet (~RCA Victor) editions 
+give us superlative string playing (both in symphonic style) crippled 
+by unimaginative piano playing. (Babin has acquired some of Schnabel's 
+keyboard manner, but his playing is of limited insight.) Badura-Skoda-Vienna 
+Konzerthaus (Westminster) and Demus-Schubert Quartet 
+(Deutsche Grammophon) are both warm-toned, pleasantly lyrical, 
+but rather slack and tensionless. Helmut Roloff, playing with a group 
+of musicians from the Bayreuth Ensemble, gives a sturdy reading, in 
+much the same vein as that of the last-mentioned pianists. Telefunken 
+has accorded him beautiful sound, and this bargain-priced disc (it 
+sells for $2.98) is worthy of consideration.   Returning once again 
+to the Schnabel reissue, I am beguiled anew by the magnificence 
+of this pianist's musical penetration. Here is truly a "Great Recording 
+of the Century", and its greatness is by no means diminished 
+by the fact that it is not quite perfect. This recording surely belongs 
+in everyone's collection. 
+MUST records always sound like records?   From the beginning 
+of commercial recording, new discs purported to be indistinguishable 
+from The Real Thing have regularly been put in circulation. Seen 
+in perspective, many of these releases have a genuine claim to be milestones. 
+Although lacking absolute verisimilitude, they supply the 
+ear and the imagination with all necessary materials for re-creation 
+of the original. On the basis of what they give us we can know how the 
+young Caruso sang, appreciate the distinctive qualities of  
+under Karl Muck's baton, or sense the type of ensemble Toscanini 
+created in his years with the New York Philharmonic.   Since 
+the concept of high fidelity became important some dozen years ago, 
+the claims of technical improvements have multiplied tenfold. In many 
+cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational 
+effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning 
+as the gap between sound and substance became clearer. Other 
+innovations with better claims to musical interest survived rehearing 
+to acquire in time the status of classics. If we return to them today, 
+we have no difficulty spotting their weaknesses but we find them 
+still pleasing.   Records sound like records because they provide 
+a different sort of experience than live music. This difference is 
+made up of many factors. Some of them are obvious, such as the fact 
+that we associate recorded and live music with our reponses and behavior 
+in different types of environments and social settings. (Music often 
+sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something 
+more comfortable than a theatre seat.) From the technical standpoint, 
+records differ from live music to the degree that they fail to convey 
+the true color, texture, complexity, range, intensity, pulse, and pitch 
+of the original. Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, 
+although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced 
+that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests. 
+Yet it is the accumulation of distortion, the fitting together of 
+fractional bits until the total reaches the threshold of our awareness, 
+that makes records sound like records. The sound may be good; 
+but if you know The Real Thing, you know that what you are hearing 
+is only a clever imitation.   Command's new Brahms Second is 
+a major effort to make a record that sounds like a real orchestra rather 
+than a copy of one. Like the recent  from London 
+(HIGH FIDELITY, Sept& 1961), it is successful because emphasis 
+has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than 
+on creating sensational effects. Because of this, only those with 
+truly fine equipment will be able to appreciate the exact degree of the 
+engineers' triumph.   The easiest way to describe this release 
+is to say that it reproduces an interesting and effective Steinberg 
+performance with minimal alteration of its musical values. The engineering 
+as such never obtrudes upon your consciousness. The effect of 
+the recording is very open and natural, with the frequency emphasis 
+exactly what you would expect from a live performance. This absence of 
+peaky highs and beefed-up bass not only produces greater fidelity, but 
+it eliminates listener fatigue. A contributing factor is the perspective, 
+the uniform aesthetic distance which is maintained. The orchestra 
+is far enough away from you that you miss the bow scrapes, valve 
+clicks, and other noises incidental to playing. Yet you feel the orchestra 
+is near at hand, and the individual instruments have the same firm 
+presence associated with listening from a good seat in an acoustically 
+perfect hall. Command has achieved the ideal amount of reverberation. 
+The music is always allowed the living space needed to attain its 
+full sonority; yet the hall never intrudes as a quasi-performer. The 
+timbre remains that of the instruments unclouded by resonance.
+
+All of this would be wasted, of course, if the performance lacked 
+authority and musical distinction. For me it has more of both elements 
+than the majority of its competitors. Steinberg seems to have gone 
+directly back to the score, discounting tradition, and has built his 
+performance on the intention to reproduce as faithfully as possible exactly 
+what Brahms set down on paper.   Those accustomed to broader, 
+more romantic statements of the symphony can be expected to react 
+strongly when they hear this one. Without losing the distinctive undertow 
+of Brahmsian rhythm, the pacing is firm and the over-all performance 
+has a tightly knit quality that makes for maximum cumulative effect. 
+The  of the first trio of the scherzo is 
+taken literally and may shock you, as the real  
+of the finale is likely to bring you to your feet. In the end, however, 
+the thing about this performance that is most striking is the way 
+it sings. Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element 
+which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create 
+the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.   The 
+engineering provides exactly the support needed for such a result. Too 
+many records seem to reduce a work of symphonic complexity to a melody 
+and its accompaniment. The Command technique invites you to listen 
+to the depth of the orchestration. Your ear takes you into the ensemble, 
+and you may well become aware of instrumental details which previously 
+were apparent only in the score. It is this sort of experience 
+that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance 
+for the home music listener. 
+The first substantially complete stereo  (and the only one 
+of its scope since Feyer's four-sided ~LP edition of 1958 for 
+Angel), this set is, I'm afraid, likely to provide more horrid fascination 
+than enjoyment. The already faded pastel charms of the nai^ve 
+music itself vanish entirely in Fistoulari's melodramatic contrasts 
+between ultravehement brute power and chilly, if suave, sentimentality. 
+And in its engineers' frantic attempts to achieve maximum dynamic 
+impact and earsplitting brilliance, the recording sounds as though 
+it had been "doctored for super-high fidelity". The home listener 
+is overpowered, all right, but the experience is a far from pleasant 
+one. As with the penultimate  release (Wolff's abridgment 
+for ~RCA Victor) I find the cleaner, less razor-edged 
+monophonic 
+version, for all its lack of big-stage spaciousness, the more 
+aurally tolerable- but this may be the result of processing defects 
+in my ~SD copies.
+
+At the Westminster ~KC Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, 
+New York on the second day, the Finals of the Junior Class 
+brought out the most competitive competition in the history of this Class. 
+The Class had entries from as far west as Wisconsin and as far 
+south as Kentucky. This year several entries from Canada were entered 
+which made the Junior Class International.   Forty-six of 
+the 53 Juniors who mailed in entries were present. It was interesting 
+to note that many of these Juniors were showing dogs in various other 
+classes at the show prior to the Finals of the Junior Class.
+
+As has been the custom for the past several years, John Cross, 
+Jr&, Bench Show Chmn& of Westminster, arranged for the Juniors' 
+meeting before the Class, and invited two speakers from the dog 
+world to address them. Over 60 Juniors, parents and guests attended. 
+
+#MRS& WILLIAM H& LONG, JR& SPEAKS#
+
+After the Juniors 
+were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the 
+Junior Class, Mrs& William H& Long, Jr& was introduced as 
+the first speaker.   In her opening remarks Mrs& Long also 
+welcomed the Juniors and stated, "There isn't any other show quite 
+like Westminster. I know because this is my 37th year with hardly 
+a break. Mrs& Long still feels the same unique spirit of Westminster 
+which she stated the present Juniors will experience today but probably 
+will not appreciate in full for a number of years.   Twenty 
+years ago her daughter Betsey Long, then 13 years of age, won the 
+Grand Challenge Trophy, Children's Handling Class (as they were 
+called then) at Westminster. No sooner had Betsey come out of the 
+ring than Mrs& Long walked into the Working Competition with 
+Ch& Cadet or Noranda, another home-bred product, and won!
+
+Speaking from long years of experience, Mrs& Long advised the Juniors: 
+", 
+STOP! Dogs have a way of sensing our feelings! When you and 
+your dog step into the Junior ring, it should be just what the dog 
+wants to do as much as what you want him to do. If you walk into the 
+ring because it is fun to show your dog, he will feel it and give you 
+a good performance! He knows your signals, what is expected of him 
+and the way the Class is conducted, right up through the flash-bulbs 
+of the photographers". 
+
+#RIGHT ATTITUDE ESSENTIAL!#
+
+"Take 
+away your attitude", said Mrs& Long, "and what have you left? 
+Either a nervous dog because you are livid with rage- a sure sign 
+that you are taking things too seriously and had better stop! Or a 
+bored dog because you are more interested in something else- maybe 
+the way you look, or the date you have after the Class, or you are just 
+doing this to please the parents.   "The reason you are in 
+the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most 
+attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can 
+produce. Aids sounds more like a Pony Club, or horsemanship classes- 
+riding a horse and showing a dog are very similar!   "Your 
+aids are your attitude, which comes through your voice, your hands 
+and legs- voice to encourage, discourage or whatever the need may 
+be; hands to guide or restrain; legs to produce motion and rate of 
+speed. Without right attitude the other aids just do not work right".
+
+Mrs& Long wished all the Juniors luck in the Class and 
+stated, "Have fun! And may you all continue to show at Westminster 
+in the years to come"! 
+
+#HARVEY BARCUS, SECOND SPEAKER#
+
+The 
+second speaker was Harvey Barcus, President of the Dog Writers 
+Ass'n of America.   Mr& Barcus spoke on the subject of 
+scholarships for Juniors- with which he is very familiar. Last year 
+a boy he knows and helped in Journalism won the Thoroughbred Racing 
+Ass'n Scholarship which is worth $10,000. He gave a resume of 
+the steps taken in order for the boy he sponsored to win the scholarship.
+
+"Junior Showmanship is an extremely worthy project and 
+should be earnestly encouraged"! is one of Mr& Barcus' strong 
+beliefs. He feels very forcibly that the American Kennel Club should 
+take a MORE ACTIVE part in encouraging the Junior Division!
+
+In closing, Mr& Barcus also wished all the Juniors 
+luck in their Class. 
+
+#WESTMINSTER SHOW NOTES#
+
+Instead of 3 a&m& 
+in the past, the Juniors Class at Westminster was held at 4:45 
+p&m&. This gave the Juniors the use of the entire ring at the 
+show- a great advantage to them!   Before the Juniors entered 
+the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved 
+their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their 
+dogs. From there on, each Junior was going to be judged individually. 
+This thoughtful gesture was well received by the Juniors as the 
+Class had an entry of 46 Juniors and it took approximately one hour, 
+45 minutes to judge the Class. 
+
+#ANNE HONE ROGERS JUDGES 28TH FINALS# 
+
+This year Anne Hone Rogers, outstanding Handler, judged the 
+Class. This is the third time in 28 years of Junior Showmanship at 
+Westminster that a lady Handler has judged the Class.   As the 
+Juniors entered the ring, Mr& Spring, the announcer, stated over 
+the public-address system that this was the 28th year that Westminster 
+has held the Finals of the Junior Competition. Juniors competed 
+last year at American Kennel Club and Canadian Kennel Club recognized 
+shows to be eligible to compete in this Class- the Finals 
+for the year. A Junior who won two or more wins in the Open Class 
+was eligible.   (The purpose of the Junior Showmanship Competition 
+is to teach and encourage Juniors to become good sportsmen. Many 
+adults showing at Westminster today are products of this Class.)
+
+It seemed an almost impossible job for Miss Rogers to select 
+4 winners from the 46 Juniors entered. A large number of these Juniors 
+have 7 and 8 wins to their credit and are seasoned campaigners.
+
+After the judge moved all the dogs individually, she selected 
+several from the group and placed them in the center of the ring. She 
+then went over them thoroughly giving each a strenuous test in showmanship. 
+
+#INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION OF THE YEAR#
+
+BETTY LOU HAM, 
+age 
+16, Holyoke, Mass&, showing an Irish Setter, was chosen as International 
+Champion of the year. She was awarded the Professional Handlers' 
+Ass'ns' LEONARD BRUMBY, SR& Memorial Trophy 
+(named for the FOUNDER-ORIGINATOR of the Junior Classes.)
+
+Betty is 16 years of age and had several wins to her credit 
+last year. In addition to showing an Irish Setter throughout the year, 
+she also scored with an Afghan. 
+
+#OTHER WINNERS#
+
+SYDNEY LE 
+BLANC, age 15, Staten Island, N&Y&, showing a Doberman Pinscher, 
+was 2nd.   SUSAN HACKMANN, age 14, from Baltimore, 
+Md&, showing a Dachshund, was 3rd. Last year Susan also placed 
+3rd in the Finals at Westminster. From the records we keep- 
+Susan is the only Junior who has placed in the Junior Classes in 
+both United States and Canada.   KAREN MARCMANN, age 16, 
+Trapp, Penna&, showing a Keeshond was 4th.   Most Juniors 
+who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only 
+show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as 
+well. 
+
+#ENTRIES INCREASING- REQUIREMENTS RAISED#
+
+In 1960, there 
+were 7287 entries in the Junior Classes. Each year these shows have 
+increased in entries. Next year 1962, at Westminster, the Bench Show 
+Committee has raised the requirements so that a JUNIOR MUST WIN 
+3 OR MORE JUNIOR CLASSES IN THE OPEN DIVISION ONLY TO QUALIFY FOR WESTMINSTER.
+
+PERCY ROBERTS, a leading judge will not be 
+at the International Show this year for the Junior Judging Contest 
+as he has been invited to judge in Australia in March. 
+
+#JUDGING 
+CLASS FOR INTERMEDIATES PROPOSED#
+
+It has been suggested many times 
+that a Class be set up for the Juniors who are overage and cannot enter 
+the Junior Classes. For some time this writer has been suggesting 
+a Junior Judging Class for Intermediates over 16 and under 20 years 
+of age who are ineligible to compete in the Junior Class.
+
+Such a Class was tried out successfully at the Westchester ~KC 
+Show recently. Not only were the contestants pleased with the Class, 
+but it aroused the interest of all in attendance that day. The Intermediates 
+in the Class with the Judge were asked to pick 4 winners 
+and give their reasons but their decisions did not affect the choice 
+of the Judge.   We suggested this Class in the horse world and 
+it was accepted immediately and included in the programs of horse shows 
+At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated 
+that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success 
+and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world. 
+This Class can be just as successful in the dog world if it is given 
+a cha
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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+Title: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
+
+
+Author: William Shakespeare
+
+Release date: January 1, 1994 [eBook #100]
+                Most recently updated: January 18, 2024
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+Language: English
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+
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ***
+The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
+
+by William Shakespeare
+
+
+
+
+                    Contents
+
+    THE SONNETS
+    ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
+    THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
+    AS YOU LIKE IT
+    THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
+    THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS
+    CYMBELINE
+    THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
+    THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH
+    THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH
+    THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH
+    THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH
+    THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH
+    THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH
+    KING HENRY THE EIGHTH
+    THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN
+    THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR
+    THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR
+    LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
+    THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
+    MEASURE FOR MEASURE
+    THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
+    THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
+    A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
+    MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
+    THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE
+    PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE
+    KING RICHARD THE SECOND
+    KING RICHARD THE THIRD
+    THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET
+    THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
+    THE TEMPEST
+    THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS
+    THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS
+    TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
+    TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL
+    THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
+    THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN
+    THE WINTER’S TALE
+    A LOVER’S COMPLAINT
+    THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
+    THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE
+    THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
+    VENUS AND ADONIS
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+THE SONNETS
+
+                    1
+
+From fairest creatures we desire increase,
+That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,
+But as the riper should by time decease,
+His tender heir might bear his memory:
+But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
+Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
+Making a famine where abundance lies,
+Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
+Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament,
+And only herald to the gaudy spring,
+Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
+And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding:
+  Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
+  To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.
+
+
+                    2
+
+When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
+And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
+Thy youth’s proud livery so gazed on now,
+Will be a tattered weed of small worth held:
+Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
+Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
+To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
+Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
+How much more praise deserv’d thy beauty’s use,
+If thou couldst answer ‘This fair child of mine
+Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,’
+Proving his beauty by succession thine.
+  This were to be new made when thou art old,
+  And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.
+
+
+                    3
+
+Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest,
+Now is the time that face should form another,
+Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
+Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
+For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
+Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
+Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
+Of his self-love to stop posterity?
+Thou art thy mother’s glass and she in thee
+Calls back the lovely April of her prime,
+So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
+Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.
+  But if thou live remembered not to be,
+  Die single and thine image dies with thee.
+
+
+                    4
+
+Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend,
+Upon thyself thy beauty’s legacy?
+Nature’s bequest gives nothing but doth lend,
+And being frank she lends to those are free:
+Then beauteous niggard why dost thou abuse,
+The bounteous largess given thee to give?
+Profitless usurer why dost thou use
+So great a sum of sums yet canst not live?
+For having traffic with thyself alone,
+Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive,
+Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
+What acceptable audit canst thou leave?
+  Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,
+  Which used lives th’ executor to be.
+
+
+                    5
+
+Those hours that with gentle work did frame
+The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell
+Will play the tyrants to the very same,
+And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
+For never-resting time leads summer on
+To hideous winter and confounds him there,
+Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
+Beauty o’er-snowed and bareness every where:
+Then were not summer’s distillation left
+A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
+Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft,
+Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
+  But flowers distilled though they with winter meet,
+  Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.
+
+
+                    6
+
+Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface,
+In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled:
+Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place,
+With beauty’s treasure ere it be self-killed:
+That use is not forbidden usury,
+Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
+That’s for thyself to breed another thee,
+Or ten times happier be it ten for one,
+Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
+If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
+Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
+Leaving thee living in posterity?
+  Be not self-willed for thou art much too fair,
+  To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.
+
+
+                    7
+
+Lo in the orient when the gracious light
+Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
+Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
+Serving with looks his sacred majesty,
+And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill,
+Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
+Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
+Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
+But when from highmost pitch with weary car,
+Like feeble age he reeleth from the day,
+The eyes (fore duteous) now converted are
+From his low tract and look another way:
+  So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon:
+  Unlooked on diest unless thou get a son.
+
+
+                    8
+
+Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
+Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
+Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
+Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
+If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
+By unions married do offend thine ear,
+They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
+In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear:
+Mark how one string sweet husband to another,
+Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
+Resembling sire, and child, and happy mother,
+Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
+  Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
+  Sings this to thee, ‘Thou single wilt prove none’.
+
+
+                    9
+
+Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye,
+That thou consum’st thyself in single life?
+Ah, if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
+The world will wail thee like a makeless wife,
+The world will be thy widow and still weep,
+That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
+When every private widow well may keep,
+By children’s eyes, her husband’s shape in mind:
+Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
+Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
+But beauty’s waste hath in the world an end,
+And kept unused the user so destroys it:
+  No love toward others in that bosom sits
+  That on himself such murd’rous shame commits.
+
+
+                    10
+
+For shame deny that thou bear’st love to any
+Who for thyself art so unprovident.
+Grant if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
+But that thou none lov’st is most evident:
+For thou art so possessed with murd’rous hate,
+That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire,
+Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
+Which to repair should be thy chief desire:
+O change thy thought, that I may change my mind,
+Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?
+Be as thy presence is gracious and kind,
+Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove,
+  Make thee another self for love of me,
+  That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
+
+
+                    11
+
+As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow’st,
+In one of thine, from that which thou departest,
+And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow’st,
+Thou mayst call thine, when thou from youth convertest,
+Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase,
+Without this folly, age, and cold decay,
+If all were minded so, the times should cease,
+And threescore year would make the world away:
+Let those whom nature hath not made for store,
+Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:
+Look whom she best endowed, she gave thee more;
+Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
+  She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby,
+  Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.
+
+
+                    12
+
+When I do count the clock that tells the time,
+And see the brave day sunk in hideous night,
+When I behold the violet past prime,
+And sable curls all silvered o’er with white:
+When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
+Which erst from heat did canopy the herd
+And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves
+Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard:
+Then of thy beauty do I question make
+That thou among the wastes of time must go,
+Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
+And die as fast as they see others grow,
+  And nothing ’gainst Time’s scythe can make defence
+  Save breed to brave him, when he takes thee hence.
+
+
+                    13
+
+O that you were your self, but love you are
+No longer yours, than you yourself here live,
+Against this coming end you should prepare,
+And your sweet semblance to some other give.
+So should that beauty which you hold in lease
+Find no determination, then you were
+Yourself again after yourself’s decease,
+When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
+Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
+Which husbandry in honour might uphold,
+Against the stormy gusts of winter’s day
+And barren rage of death’s eternal cold?
+  O none but unthrifts, dear my love you know,
+  You had a father, let your son say so.
+
+
+                    14
+
+Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
+And yet methinks I have astronomy,
+But not to tell of good, or evil luck,
+Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons’ quality,
+Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell;
+Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
+Or say with princes if it shall go well
+By oft predict that I in heaven find.
+But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
+And constant stars in them I read such art
+As truth and beauty shall together thrive
+If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert:
+  Or else of thee this I prognosticate,
+  Thy end is truth’s and beauty’s doom and date.
+
+
+                    15
+
+When I consider everything that grows
+Holds in perfection but a little moment.
+That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
+Whereon the stars in secret influence comment.
+When I perceive that men as plants increase,
+Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky:
+Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
+And wear their brave state out of memory.
+Then the conceit of this inconstant stay,
+Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
+Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay
+To change your day of youth to sullied night,
+  And all in war with Time for love of you,
+  As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
+
+
+                    16
+
+But wherefore do not you a mightier way
+Make war upon this bloody tyrant Time?
+And fortify yourself in your decay
+With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?
+Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
+And many maiden gardens yet unset,
+With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
+Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
+So should the lines of life that life repair
+Which this (Time’s pencil) or my pupil pen
+Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
+Can make you live yourself in eyes of men.
+  To give away yourself, keeps yourself still,
+  And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.
+
+
+                    17
+
+Who will believe my verse in time to come
+If it were filled with your most high deserts?
+Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
+Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts:
+If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
+And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
+The age to come would say this poet lies,
+Such heavenly touches ne’er touched earthly faces.
+So should my papers (yellowed with their age)
+Be scorned, like old men of less truth than tongue,
+And your true rights be termed a poet’s rage,
+And stretched metre of an antique song.
+  But were some child of yours alive that time,
+  You should live twice,—in it, and in my rhyme.
+
+
+                    18
+
+Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
+Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
+Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
+And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
+Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
+And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
+And every fair from fair sometime declines,
+By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
+But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
+Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
+Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
+When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
+  So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
+  So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
+
+
+                    19
+
+Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws,
+And make the earth devour her own sweet brood,
+Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws,
+And burn the long-lived phoenix, in her blood,
+Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet’st,
+And do whate’er thou wilt swift-footed Time
+To the wide world and all her fading sweets:
+But I forbid thee one most heinous crime,
+O carve not with thy hours my love’s fair brow,
+Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen,
+Him in thy course untainted do allow,
+For beauty’s pattern to succeeding men.
+  Yet do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
+  My love shall in my verse ever live young.
+
+
+                    20
+
+A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted,
+Hast thou the master mistress of my passion,
+A woman’s gentle heart but not acquainted
+With shifting change as is false women’s fashion,
+An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling:
+Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth,
+A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
+Which steals men’s eyes and women’s souls amazeth.
+And for a woman wert thou first created,
+Till nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting,
+And by addition me of thee defeated,
+By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
+  But since she pricked thee out for women’s pleasure,
+  Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their treasure.
+
+
+                    21
+
+So is it not with me as with that muse,
+Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,
+Who heaven it self for ornament doth use,
+And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
+Making a couplement of proud compare
+With sun and moon, with earth and sea’s rich gems:
+With April’s first-born flowers and all things rare,
+That heaven’s air in this huge rondure hems.
+O let me true in love but truly write,
+And then believe me, my love is as fair,
+As any mother’s child, though not so bright
+As those gold candles fixed in heaven’s air:
+  Let them say more that like of hearsay well,
+  I will not praise that purpose not to sell.
+
+
+                    22
+
+My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
+So long as youth and thou are of one date,
+But when in thee time’s furrows I behold,
+Then look I death my days should expiate.
+For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
+Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
+Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me,
+How can I then be elder than thou art?
+O therefore love be of thyself so wary,
+As I not for my self, but for thee will,
+Bearing thy heart which I will keep so chary
+As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
+  Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain,
+  Thou gav’st me thine not to give back again.
+
+
+                    23
+
+As an unperfect actor on the stage,
+Who with his fear is put beside his part,
+Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
+Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart;
+So I for fear of trust, forget to say,
+The perfect ceremony of love’s rite,
+And in mine own love’s strength seem to decay,
+O’ercharged with burthen of mine own love’s might:
+O let my looks be then the eloquence,
+And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
+Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
+More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.
+  O learn to read what silent love hath writ,
+  To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.
+
+
+                    24
+
+Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled,
+Thy beauty’s form in table of my heart,
+My body is the frame wherein ’tis held,
+And perspective it is best painter’s art.
+For through the painter must you see his skill,
+To find where your true image pictured lies,
+Which in my bosom’s shop is hanging still,
+That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes:
+Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done,
+Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
+Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
+Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
+  Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,
+  They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
+
+
+                    25
+
+Let those who are in favour with their stars,
+Of public honour and proud titles boast,
+Whilst I whom fortune of such triumph bars
+Unlooked for joy in that I honour most;
+Great princes’ favourites their fair leaves spread,
+But as the marigold at the sun’s eye,
+And in themselves their pride lies buried,
+For at a frown they in their glory die.
+The painful warrior famoused for fight,
+After a thousand victories once foiled,
+Is from the book of honour razed quite,
+And all the rest forgot for which he toiled:
+  Then happy I that love and am beloved
+  Where I may not remove nor be removed.
+
+
+                    26
+
+Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
+Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit;
+To thee I send this written embassage
+To witness duty, not to show my wit.
+Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine
+May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it;
+But that I hope some good conceit of thine
+In thy soul’s thought (all naked) will bestow it:
+Till whatsoever star that guides my moving,
+Points on me graciously with fair aspect,
+And puts apparel on my tattered loving,
+To show me worthy of thy sweet respect,
+  Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee,
+  Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me.
+
+
+                    27
+
+Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
+The dear respose for limbs with travel tired,
+But then begins a journey in my head
+To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired.
+For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
+Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
+And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
+Looking on darkness which the blind do see.
+Save that my soul’s imaginary sight
+Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
+Which like a jewel (hung in ghastly night)
+Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
+  Lo thus by day my limbs, by night my mind,
+  For thee, and for my self, no quiet find.
+
+
+                    28
+
+How can I then return in happy plight
+That am debarred the benefit of rest?
+When day’s oppression is not eased by night,
+But day by night and night by day oppressed.
+And each (though enemies to either’s reign)
+Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
+The one by toil, the other to complain
+How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
+I tell the day to please him thou art bright,
+And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
+So flatter I the swart-complexioned night,
+When sparkling stars twire not thou gild’st the even.
+  But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer,
+  And night doth nightly make grief’s length seem stronger
+
+
+                    29
+
+When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
+I all alone beweep my outcast state,
+And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
+And look upon my self and curse my fate,
+Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
+Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
+Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
+With what I most enjoy contented least,
+Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
+Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
+(Like to the lark at break of day arising
+From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate,
+  For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,
+  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
+
+
+                    30
+
+When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,
+I summon up remembrance of things past,
+I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
+And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
+Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow)
+For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
+And weep afresh love’s long since cancelled woe,
+And moan th’ expense of many a vanished sight.
+Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
+And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
+The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
+Which I new pay as if not paid before.
+  But if the while I think on thee (dear friend)
+  All losses are restored, and sorrows end.
+
+
+                    31
+
+Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
+Which I by lacking have supposed dead,
+And there reigns love and all love’s loving parts,
+And all those friends which I thought buried.
+How many a holy and obsequious tear
+Hath dear religious love stol’n from mine eye,
+As interest of the dead, which now appear,
+But things removed that hidden in thee lie.
+Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
+Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,
+Who all their parts of me to thee did give,
+That due of many, now is thine alone.
+  Their images I loved, I view in thee,
+  And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.
+
+
+                    32
+
+If thou survive my well-contented day,
+When that churl death my bones with dust shall cover
+And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
+These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover:
+Compare them with the bett’ring of the time,
+And though they be outstripped by every pen,
+Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
+Exceeded by the height of happier men.
+O then vouchsafe me but this loving thought,
+’Had my friend’s Muse grown with this growing age,
+A dearer birth than this his love had brought
+To march in ranks of better equipage:
+  But since he died and poets better prove,
+  Theirs for their style I’ll read, his for his love’.
+
+
+                    33
+
+Full many a glorious morning have I seen,
+Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
+Kissing with golden face the meadows green;
+Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy:
+Anon permit the basest clouds to ride,
+With ugly rack on his celestial face,
+And from the forlorn world his visage hide
+Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
+Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
+With all triumphant splendour on my brow,
+But out alack, he was but one hour mine,
+The region cloud hath masked him from me now.
+  Yet him for this, my love no whit disdaineth,
+  Suns of the world may stain, when heaven’s sun staineth.
+
+
+                    34
+
+Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
+And make me travel forth without my cloak,
+To let base clouds o’ertake me in my way,
+Hiding thy brav’ry in their rotten smoke?
+’Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
+To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
+For no man well of such a salve can speak,
+That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:
+Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief,
+Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss,
+Th’ offender’s sorrow lends but weak relief
+To him that bears the strong offence’s cross.
+  Ah but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,
+  And they are rich, and ransom all ill deeds.
+
+
+                    35
+
+No more be grieved at that which thou hast done,
+Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud,
+Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
+And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
+All men make faults, and even I in this,
+Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
+My self corrupting salving thy amiss,
+Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are:
+For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense;
+Thy adverse party is thy advocate,
+And ’gainst my self a lawful plea commence:
+Such civil war is in my love and hate,
+  That I an accessary needs must be,
+  To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.
+
+
+                    36
+
+Let me confess that we two must be twain,
+Although our undivided loves are one:
+So shall those blots that do with me remain,
+Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
+In our two loves there is but one respect,
+Though in our lives a separable spite,
+Which though it alter not love’s sole effect,
+Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love’s delight.
+I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
+Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
+Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
+Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
+  But do not so, I love thee in such sort,
+  As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
+
+
+                    37
+
+As a decrepit father takes delight,
+To see his active child do deeds of youth,
+So I, made lame by Fortune’s dearest spite
+Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
+For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
+Or any of these all, or all, or more
+Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,
+I make my love engrafted to this store:
+So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
+Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give,
+That I in thy abundance am sufficed,
+And by a part of all thy glory live:
+  Look what is best, that best I wish in thee,
+  This wish I have, then ten times happy me.
+
+
+                    38
+
+How can my Muse want subject to invent
+While thou dost breathe that pour’st into my verse,
+Thine own sweet argument, too excellent,
+For every vulgar paper to rehearse?
+O give thyself the thanks if aught in me,
+Worthy perusal stand against thy sight,
+For who’s so dumb that cannot write to thee,
+When thou thyself dost give invention light?
+Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth
+Than those old nine which rhymers invocate,
+And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth
+Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
+  If my slight Muse do please these curious days,
+  The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.
+
+
+                    39
+
+O how thy worth with manners may I sing,
+When thou art all the better part of me?
+What can mine own praise to mine own self bring:
+And what is’t but mine own when I praise thee?
+Even for this, let us divided live,
+And our dear love lose name of single one,
+That by this separation I may give:
+That due to thee which thou deserv’st alone:
+O absence what a torment wouldst thou prove,
+Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave,
+To entertain the time with thoughts of love,
+Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive.
+  And that thou teachest how to make one twain,
+  By praising him here who doth hence remain.
+
+
+                    40
+
+Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all,
+What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
+No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call,
+All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more:
+Then if for my love, thou my love receivest,
+I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest,
+But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest
+By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
+I do forgive thy robbery gentle thief
+Although thou steal thee all my poverty:
+And yet love knows it is a greater grief
+To bear greater wrong, than hate’s known injury.
+  Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
+  Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.
+
+
+                    41
+
+Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
+When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
+Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
+For still temptation follows where thou art.
+Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,
+Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed.
+And when a woman woos, what woman’s son,
+Will sourly leave her till he have prevailed?
+Ay me, but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,
+And chide thy beauty, and thy straying youth,
+Who lead thee in their riot even there
+Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:
+  Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
+  Thine by thy beauty being false to me.
+
+
+                    42
+
+That thou hast her it is not all my grief,
+And yet it may be said I loved her dearly,
+That she hath thee is of my wailing chief,
+A loss in love that touches me more nearly.
+Loving offenders thus I will excuse ye,
+Thou dost love her, because thou know’st I love her,
+And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
+Suff’ring my friend for my sake to approve her.
+If I lose thee, my loss is my love’s gain,
+And losing her, my friend hath found that loss,
+Both find each other, and I lose both twain,
+And both for my sake lay on me this cross,
+  But here’s the joy, my friend and I are one,
+  Sweet flattery, then she loves but me alone.
+
+
+                    43
+
+When most I wink then do mine eyes best see,
+For all the day they view things unrespected,
+But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
+And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
+Then thou whose shadow shadows doth make bright
+How would thy shadow’s form, form happy show,
+To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
+When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
+How would (I say) mine eyes be blessed made,
+By looking on thee in the living day,
+When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade,
+Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
+  All days are nights to see till I see thee,
+  And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
+
+
+                    44
+
+If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
+Injurious distance should not stop my way,
+For then despite of space I would be brought,
+From limits far remote, where thou dost stay,
+No matter then although my foot did stand
+Upon the farthest earth removed from thee,
+For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
+As soon as think the place where he would be.
+But ah, thought kills me that I am not thought
+To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
+But that so much of earth and water wrought,
+I must attend, time’s leisure with my moan.
+  Receiving nought by elements so slow,
+  But heavy tears, badges of either’s woe.
+
+
+                    45
+
+The other two, slight air, and purging fire,
+Are both with thee, wherever I abide,
+The first my thought, the other my desire,
+These present-absent with swift motion slide.
+For when these quicker elements are gone
+In tender embassy of love to thee,
+My life being made of four, with two alone,
+Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy.
+Until life’s composition be recured,
+By those swift messengers returned from thee,
+Who even but now come back again assured,
+Of thy fair health, recounting it to me.
+  This told, I joy, but then no longer glad,
+  I send them back again and straight grow sad.
+
+
+                    46
+
+Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
+How to divide the conquest of thy sight,
+Mine eye, my heart thy picture’s sight would bar,
+My heart, mine eye the freedom of that right,
+My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
+A closet never pierced with crystal eyes;
+But the defendant doth that plea deny,
+And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
+To side this title is impanelled
+A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
+And by their verdict is determined
+The clear eye’s moiety, and the dear heart’s part.
+  As thus, mine eye’s due is thy outward part,
+  And my heart’s right, thy inward love of heart.
+
+
+                    47
+
+Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
+And each doth good turns now unto the other,
+When that mine eye is famished for a look,
+Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother;
+With my love’s picture then my eye doth feast,
+And to the painted banquet bids my heart:
+Another time mine eye is my heart’s guest,
+And in his thoughts of love doth share a part.
+So either by thy picture or my love,
+Thyself away, art present still with me,
+For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
+And I am still with them, and they with thee.
+  Or if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
+  Awakes my heart, to heart’s and eye’s delight.
+
+
+                    48
+
+How careful was I when I took my way,
+Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
+That to my use it might unused stay
+From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
+But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
+Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,
+Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
+Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
+Thee have I not locked up in any chest,
+Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,
+Within the gentle closure of my breast,
+From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part,
+  And even thence thou wilt be stol’n I fear,
+  For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.
+
+
+                    49
+
+Against that time (if ever that time come)
+When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
+When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
+Called to that audit by advised respects,
+Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass,
+And scarcely greet me with that sun thine eye,
+When love converted from the thing it was
+Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
+Against that time do I ensconce me here
+Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
+And this my hand, against my self uprear,
+To guard the lawful reasons on thy part,
+  To leave poor me, thou hast the strength of laws,
+  Since why to love, I can allege no cause.
+
+
+                    50
+
+How heavy do I journey on the way,
+When what I seek (my weary travel’s end)
+Doth teach that case and that repose to say
+’Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend.’
+The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
+Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
+As if by some instinct the wretch did know
+His rider loved not speed being made from thee:
+The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
+That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,
+Which heavily he answers with a groan,
+More sharp to me than spurring to his side,
+  For that same groan doth put this in my mind,
+  My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
+
+
+                    51
+
+Thus can my love excuse the slow offence,
+Of my dull bearer, when from thee I speed,
+From where thou art, why should I haste me thence?
+Till I return of posting is no need.
+O what excuse will my poor beast then find,
+When swift extremity can seem but slow?
+Then should I spur though mounted on the wind,
+In winged speed no motion shall I know,
+Then can no horse with my desire keep pace,
+Therefore desire (of perfect’st love being made)
+Shall neigh no dull flesh in his fiery race,
+But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade:
+  Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,
+  Towards thee I’ll run, and give him leave to go.
+
+
+                    52
+
+So am I as the rich whose blessed key,
+Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
+The which he will not every hour survey,
+For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
+Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
+Since seldom coming in that long year set,
+Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
+Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
+So is the time that keeps you as my chest
+Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
+To make some special instant special-blest,
+By new unfolding his imprisoned pride.
+  Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,
+  Being had to triumph, being lacked to hope.
+
+
+                    53
+
+What is your substance, whereof are you made,
+That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
+Since every one, hath every one, one shade,
+And you but one, can every shadow lend:
+Describe Adonis and the counterfeit,
+Is poorly imitated after you,
+On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set,
+And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
+Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
+The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
+The other as your bounty doth appear,
+And you in every blessed shape we know.
+  In all external grace you have some part,
+  But you like none, none you for constant heart.
+
+
+                    54
+
+O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,
+By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
+The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
+For that sweet odour, which doth in it live:
+The canker blooms have full as deep a dye,
+As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
+Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly,
+When summer’s breath their masked buds discloses:
+But for their virtue only is their show,
+They live unwooed, and unrespected fade,
+Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so,
+Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:
+  And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
+  When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.
+
+
+                    55
+
+Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
+Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
+But you shall shine more bright in these contents
+Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.
+When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
+And broils root out the work of masonry,
+Nor Mars his sword, nor war’s quick fire shall burn:
+The living record of your memory.
+’Gainst death, and all-oblivious enmity
+Shall you pace forth, your praise shall still find room,
+Even in the eyes of all posterity
+That wear this world out to the ending doom.
+  So till the judgement that yourself arise,
+  You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.
+
+
+                    56
+
+Sweet love renew thy force, be it not said
+Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
+Which but to-day by feeding is allayed,
+To-morrow sharpened in his former might.
+So love be thou, although to-day thou fill
+Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
+To-morrow see again, and do not kill
+The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness:
+Let this sad interim like the ocean be
+Which parts the shore, where two contracted new,
+Come daily to the banks, that when they see:
+Return of love, more blest may be the view.
+  Or call it winter, which being full of care,
+  Makes summer’s welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.
+
+
+                    57
+
+Being your slave what should I do but tend,
+Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
+I have no precious time at all to spend;
+Nor services to do till you require.
+Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,
+Whilst I (my sovereign) watch the clock for you,
+Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
+When you have bid your servant once adieu.
+Nor dare I question with my jealous thought,
+Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
+But like a sad slave stay and think of nought
+Save where you are, how happy you make those.
+  So true a fool is love, that in your will,
+  (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill.
+
+
+                    58
+
+That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
+I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
+Or at your hand th’ account of hours to crave,
+Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
+O let me suffer (being at your beck)
+Th’ imprisoned absence of your liberty,
+And patience tame to sufferance bide each check,
+Without accusing you of injury.
+Be where you list, your charter is so strong,
+That you yourself may privilage your time
+To what you will, to you it doth belong,
+Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
+  I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
+  Not blame your pleasure be it ill or well.
+
+
+                    59
+
+If there be nothing new, but that which is,
+Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled,
+Which labouring for invention bear amiss
+The second burthen of a former child!
+O that record could with a backward look,
+Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
+Show me your image in some antique book,
+Since mind at first in character was done.
+That I might see what the old world could say,
+To this composed wonder of your frame,
+Whether we are mended, or whether better they,
+Or whether revolution be the same.
+  O sure I am the wits of former days,
+  To subjects worse have given admiring praise.
+
+
+                    60
+
+Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
+So do our minutes hasten to their end,
+Each changing place with that which goes before,
+In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
+Nativity once in the main of light,
+Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned,
+Crooked eclipses ’gainst his glory fight,
+And Time that gave, doth now his gift confound.
+Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,
+And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow,
+Feeds on the rarities of nature’s truth,
+And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow.
+  And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand
+  Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
+
+
+                    61
+
+Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
+My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
+Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
+While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
+Is it thy spirit that thou send’st from thee
+So far from home into my deeds to pry,
+To find out shames and idle hours in me,
+The scope and tenure of thy jealousy?
+O no, thy love though much, is not so great,
+It is my love that keeps mine eye awake,
+Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
+To play the watchman ever for thy sake.
+  For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
+  From me far off, with others all too near.
+
+
+                    62
+
+Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye,
+And all my soul, and all my every part;
+And for this sin there is no remedy,
+It is so grounded inward in my heart.
+Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
+No shape so true, no truth of such account,
+And for my self mine own worth do define,
+As I all other in all worths surmount.
+But when my glass shows me my self indeed
+beated and chopt with tanned antiquity,
+Mine own self-love quite contrary I read:
+Self, so self-loving were iniquity.
+  ’Tis thee, myself, that for myself I praise,
+  Painting my age with beauty of thy days.
+
+
+                    63
+
+Against my love shall be as I am now
+With Time’s injurious hand crushed and o’erworn,
+When hours have drained his blood and filled his brow
+With lines and wrinkles, when his youthful morn
+Hath travelled on to age’s steepy night,
+And all those beauties whereof now he’s king
+Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
+Stealing away the treasure of his spring:
+For such a time do I now fortify
+Against confounding age’s cruel knife,
+That he shall never cut from memory
+My sweet love’s beauty, though my lover’s life.
+  His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
+  And they shall live, and he in them still green.
+
+
+                    64
+
+When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced
+The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age,
+When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased,
+And brass eternal slave to mortal rage.
+When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
+Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
+And the firm soil win of the watery main,
+Increasing store with loss, and loss with store.
+When I have seen such interchange of State,
+Or state it self confounded, to decay,
+Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate:
+That Time will come and take my love away.
+  This thought is as a death which cannot choose
+  But weep to have, that which it fears to lose.
+
+
+                    65
+
+Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
+But sad mortality o’ersways their power,
+How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
+Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
+O how shall summer’s honey breath hold out,
+Against the wrackful siege of batt’ring days,
+When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
+Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays?
+O fearful meditation, where alack,
+Shall Time’s best jewel from Time’s chest lie hid?
+Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back,
+Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
+  O none, unless this miracle have might,
+  That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
+
+
+                    66
+
+Tired with all these, for restful death I cry:
+As to behold desert a beggar born,
+And needy nothing trimmed in jollity,
+And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
+And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,
+And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
+And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
+And strength by limping sway disabled
+And art made tongue-tied by authority,
+And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
+And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
+And captive good attending captain ill.
+  Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
+  Save that to die, I leave my love alone.
+
+
+                    67
+
+Ah wherefore with infection should he live,
+And with his presence grace impiety,
+That sin by him advantage should achieve,
+And lace it self with his society?
+Why should false painting imitate his cheek,
+And steal dead seeming of his living hue?
+Why should poor beauty indirectly seek,
+Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
+Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is,
+Beggared of blood to blush through lively veins,
+For she hath no exchequer now but his,
+And proud of many, lives upon his gains?
+  O him she stores, to show what wealth she had,
+  In days long since, before these last so bad.
+
+
+                    68
+
+Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
+When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
+Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
+Or durst inhabit on a living brow:
+Before the golden tresses of the dead,
+The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
+To live a second life on second head,
+Ere beauty’s dead fleece made another gay:
+In him those holy antique hours are seen,
+Without all ornament, it self and true,
+Making no summer of another’s green,
+Robbing no old to dress his beauty new,
+  And him as for a map doth Nature store,
+  To show false Art what beauty was of yore.
+
+
+                    69
+
+Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view,
+Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend:
+All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
+Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
+Thy outward thus with outward praise is crowned,
+But those same tongues that give thee so thine own,
+In other accents do this praise confound
+By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
+They look into the beauty of thy mind,
+And that in guess they measure by thy deeds,
+Then churls their thoughts (although their eyes were kind)
+To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
+  But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,
+  The soil is this, that thou dost common grow.
+
+
+                    70
+
+That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
+For slander’s mark was ever yet the fair,
+The ornament of beauty is suspect,
+A crow that flies in heaven’s sweetest air.
+So thou be good, slander doth but approve,
+Thy worth the greater being wooed of time,
+For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
+And thou present’st a pure unstained prime.
+Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days,
+Either not assailed, or victor being charged,
+Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
+To tie up envy, evermore enlarged,
+  If some suspect of ill masked not thy show,
+  Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.
+
+
+                    71
+
+No longer mourn for me when I am dead,
+Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
+Give warning to the world that I am fled
+From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
+Nay if you read this line, remember not,
+The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
+That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
+If thinking on me then should make you woe.
+O if, I say, you look upon this verse,
+When I (perhaps) compounded am with clay,
+Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
+But let your love even with my life decay.
+  Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
+  And mock you with me after I am gone.
+
+
+                    72
+
+O lest the world should task you to recite,
+What merit lived in me that you should love
+After my death, dear love, forget me quite,
+For you in me can nothing worthy prove.
+Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
+To do more for me than mine own desert,
+And hang more praise upon deceased I,
+Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
+O lest your true love may seem false in this,
+That you for love speak well of me untrue,
+My name be buried where my body is,
+And live no more to shame nor me, nor you.
+  For I am shamed by that which I bring forth,
+  And so should you, to love things nothing worth.
+
+
+                    73
+
+That time of year thou mayst in me behold,
+When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
+Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
+Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
+In me thou seest the twilight of such day,
+As after sunset fadeth in the west,
+Which by and by black night doth take away,
+Death’s second self that seals up all in rest.
+In me thou seest the glowing of such fire,
+That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
+As the death-bed, whereon it must expire,
+Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
+  This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,
+  To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.
+
+
+                    74
+
+But be contented when that fell arrest,
+Without all bail shall carry me away,
+My life hath in this line some interest,
+Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
+When thou reviewest this, thou dost review,
+The very part was consecrate to thee,
+The earth can have but earth, which is his due,
+My spirit is thine the better part of me,
+So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
+The prey of worms, my body being dead,
+The coward conquest of a wretch’s knife,
+Too base of thee to be remembered,
+  The worth of that, is that which it contains,
+  And that is this, and this with thee remains.
+
+
+                    75
+
+So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
+Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground;
+And for the peace of you I hold such strife
+As ’twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
+Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
+Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
+Now counting best to be with you alone,
+Then bettered that the world may see my pleasure,
+Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
+And by and by clean starved for a look,
+Possessing or pursuing no delight
+Save what is had, or must from you be took.
+  Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
+  Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
+
+
+                    76
+
+Why is my verse so barren of new pride?
+So far from variation or quick change?
+Why with the time do I not glance aside
+To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
+Why write I still all one, ever the same,
+And keep invention in a noted weed,
+That every word doth almost tell my name,
+Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
+O know sweet love I always write of you,
+And you and love are still my argument:
+So all my best is dressing old words new,
+Spending again what is already spent:
+  For as the sun is daily new and old,
+  So is my love still telling what is told.
+
+
+                    77
+
+Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
+Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste,
+These vacant leaves thy mind’s imprint will bear,
+And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
+The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show,
+Of mouthed graves will give thee memory,
+Thou by thy dial’s shady stealth mayst know,
+Time’s thievish progress to eternity.
+Look what thy memory cannot contain,
+Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
+Those children nursed, delivered from thy brain,
+To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
+  These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,
+  Shall profit thee, and much enrich thy book.
+
+
+                    78
+
+So oft have I invoked thee for my muse,
+And found such fair assistance in my verse,
+As every alien pen hath got my use,
+And under thee their poesy disperse.
+Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing,
+And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
+Have added feathers to the learned’s wing,
+And given grace a double majesty.
+Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
+Whose influence is thine, and born of thee,
+In others’ works thou dost but mend the style,
+And arts with thy sweet graces graced be.
+  But thou art all my art, and dost advance
+  As high as learning, my rude ignorance.
+
+
+                    79
+
+Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
+My verse alone had all thy gentle grace,
+But now my gracious numbers are decayed,
+And my sick muse doth give an other place.
+I grant (sweet love) thy lovely argument
+Deserves the travail of a worthier pen,
+Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent,
+He robs thee of, and pays it thee again,
+He lends thee virtue, and he stole that word,
+From thy behaviour, beauty doth he give
+And found it in thy cheek: he can afford
+No praise to thee, but what in thee doth live.
+  Then thank him not for that which he doth say,
+  Since what he owes thee, thou thyself dost pay.
+
+
+                    80
+
+O how I faint when I of you do write,
+Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
+And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
+To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
+But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,
+The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
+My saucy bark (inferior far to his)
+On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
+Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
+Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride,
+Or (being wrecked) I am a worthless boat,
+He of tall building, and of goodly pride.
+  Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
+  The worst was this: my love was my decay.
+
+
+                    81
+
+Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
+Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,
+From hence your memory death cannot take,
+Although in me each part will be forgotten.
+Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
+Though I (once gone) to all the world must die,
+The earth can yield me but a common grave,
+When you entombed in men’s eyes shall lie,
+Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
+Which eyes not yet created shall o’er-read,
+And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse,
+When all the breathers of this world are dead,
+  You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,
+  Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
+
+
+                    82
+
+I grant thou wert not married to my muse,
+And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook
+The dedicated words which writers use
+Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
+Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
+Finding thy worth a limit past my praise,
+And therefore art enforced to seek anew,
+Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.
+And do so love, yet when they have devised,
+What strained touches rhetoric can lend,
+Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathized,
+In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend.
+  And their gross painting might be better used,
+  Where cheeks need blood, in thee it is abused.
+
+
+                    83
+
+I never saw that you did painting need,
+And therefore to your fair no painting set,
+I found (or thought I found) you did exceed,
+That barren tender of a poet’s debt:
+And therefore have I slept in your report,
+That you yourself being extant well might show,
+How far a modern quill doth come too short,
+Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
+This silence for my sin you did impute,
+Which shall be most my glory being dumb,
+For I impair not beauty being mute,
+When others would give life, and bring a tomb.
+  There lives more life in one of your fair eyes,
+  Than both your poets can in praise devise.
+
+
+                    84
+
+Who is it that says most, which can say more,
+Than this rich praise: that you alone are you,
+In whose confine immured is the store,
+Which should example where your equal grew.
+Lean penury within that pen doth dwell,
+That to his subject lends not some small glory,
+But he that writes of you, if he can tell,
+That you are you, so dignifies his story.
+Let him but copy what in you is writ,
+Not making worse what nature made so clear,
+And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
+Making his style admired every where.
+  You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,
+  Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.
+
+
+                    85
+
+My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still,
+While comments of your praise richly compiled,
+Reserve their character with golden quill,
+And precious phrase by all the Muses filed.
+I think good thoughts, whilst other write good words,
+And like unlettered clerk still cry Amen,
+To every hymn that able spirit affords,
+In polished form of well refined pen.
+Hearing you praised, I say ’tis so, ’tis true,
+And to the most of praise add something more,
+But that is in my thought, whose love to you
+(Though words come hindmost) holds his rank before,
+  Then others, for the breath of words respect,
+  Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.
+
+
+                    86
+
+Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
+Bound for the prize of (all too precious) you,
+That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
+Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
+Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write,
+Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
+No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
+Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
+He nor that affable familiar ghost
+Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
+As victors of my silence cannot boast,
+I was not sick of any fear from thence.
+  But when your countenance filled up his line,
+  Then lacked I matter, that enfeebled mine.
+
+
+                    87
+
+Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
+And like enough thou know’st thy estimate,
+The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing:
+My bonds in thee are all determinate.
+For how do I hold thee but by thy granting,
+And for that riches where is my deserving?
+The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
+And so my patent back again is swerving.
+Thyself thou gav’st, thy own worth then not knowing,
+Or me to whom thou gav’st it, else mistaking,
+So thy great gift upon misprision growing,
+Comes home again, on better judgement making.
+  Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter,
+  In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.
+
+
+                    88
+
+When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,
+And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
+Upon thy side, against my self I’ll fight,
+And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn:
+With mine own weakness being best acquainted,
+Upon thy part I can set down a story
+Of faults concealed, wherein I am attainted:
+That thou in losing me, shalt win much glory:
+And I by this will be a gainer too,
+For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,
+The injuries that to my self I do,
+Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
+  Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
+  That for thy right, my self will bear all wrong.
+
+
+                    89
+
+Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
+And I will comment upon that offence,
+Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt:
+Against thy reasons making no defence.
+Thou canst not (love) disgrace me half so ill,
+To set a form upon desired change,
+As I’ll my self disgrace, knowing thy will,
+I will acquaintance strangle and look strange:
+Be absent from thy walks and in my tongue,
+Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
+Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong,
+And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
+  For thee, against my self I’ll vow debate,
+  For I must ne’er love him whom thou dost hate.
+
+
+                    90
+
+Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now,
+Now while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
+join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
+And do not drop in for an after-loss:
+Ah do not, when my heart hath ’scaped this sorrow,
+Come in the rearward of a conquered woe,
+Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
+To linger out a purposed overthrow.
+If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
+When other petty griefs have done their spite,
+But in the onset come, so shall I taste
+At first the very worst of fortune’s might.
+  And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
+  Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.
+
+
+                    91
+
+Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
+Some in their wealth, some in their body’s force,
+Some in their garments though new-fangled ill:
+Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse.
+And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,
+Wherein it finds a joy above the rest,
+But these particulars are not my measure,
+All these I better in one general best.
+Thy love is better than high birth to me,
+Richer than wealth, prouder than garments’ costs,
+Of more delight than hawks and horses be:
+And having thee, of all men’s pride I boast.
+  Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take,
+  All this away, and me most wretched make.
+
+
+                    92
+
+But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
+For term of life thou art assured mine,
+And life no longer than thy love will stay,
+For it depends upon that love of thine.
+Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
+When in the least of them my life hath end,
+I see, a better state to me belongs
+Than that, which on thy humour doth depend.
+Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
+Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie,
+O what a happy title do I find,
+Happy to have thy love, happy to die!
+  But what’s so blessed-fair that fears no blot?
+  Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.
+
+
+                    93
+
+So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
+Like a deceived husband, so love’s face,
+May still seem love to me, though altered new:
+Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place.
+For there can live no hatred in thine eye,
+Therefore in that I cannot know thy change,
+In many’s looks, the false heart’s history
+Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange.
+But heaven in thy creation did decree,
+That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell,
+Whate’er thy thoughts, or thy heart’s workings be,
+Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell.
+  How like Eve’s apple doth thy beauty grow,
+  If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show.
+
+
+                    94
+
+They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
+That do not do the thing, they most do show,
+Who moving others, are themselves as stone,
+Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow:
+They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces,
+And husband nature’s riches from expense,
+They are the lords and owners of their faces,
+Others, but stewards of their excellence:
+The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,
+Though to it self, it only live and die,
+But if that flower with base infection meet,
+The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
+  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds,
+  Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds.
+
+
+                    95
+
+How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame,
+Which like a canker in the fragrant rose,
+Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
+O in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!
+That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
+(Making lascivious comments on thy sport)
+Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise,
+Naming thy name, blesses an ill report.
+O what a mansion have those vices got,
+Which for their habitation chose out thee,
+Where beauty’s veil doth cover every blot,
+And all things turns to fair, that eyes can see!
+  Take heed (dear heart) of this large privilege,
+  The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.
+
+
+                    96
+
+Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness,
+Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport,
+Both grace and faults are loved of more and less:
+Thou mak’st faults graces, that to thee resort:
+As on the finger of a throned queen,
+The basest jewel will be well esteemed:
+So are those errors that in thee are seen,
+To truths translated, and for true things deemed.
+How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,
+If like a lamb he could his looks translate!
+How many gazers mightst thou lead away,
+If thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state!
+  But do not so, I love thee in such sort,
+  As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
+
+
+                    97
+
+How like a winter hath my absence been
+From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
+What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
+What old December’s bareness everywhere!
+And yet this time removed was summer’s time,
+The teeming autumn big with rich increase,
+Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
+Like widowed wombs after their lords’ decease:
+Yet this abundant issue seemed to me
+But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit,
+For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
+And thou away, the very birds are mute.
+  Or if they sing, ’tis with so dull a cheer,
+  That leaves look pale, dreading the winter’s near.
+
+
+                    98
+
+From you have I been absent in the spring,
+When proud-pied April (dressed in all his trim)
+Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing:
+That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.
+Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
+Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
+Could make me any summer’s story tell:
+Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
+Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
+Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose,
+They were but sweet, but figures of delight:
+Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
+  Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,
+  As with your shadow I with these did play.
+
+
+                    99
+
+The forward violet thus did I chide,
+Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,
+If not from my love’s breath? The purple pride
+Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells,
+In my love’s veins thou hast too grossly dyed.
+The lily I condemned for thy hand,
+And buds of marjoram had stol’n thy hair,
+The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,
+One blushing shame, another white despair:
+A third nor red, nor white, had stol’n of both,
+And to his robbery had annexed thy breath,
+But for his theft in pride of all his growth
+A vengeful canker eat him up to death.
+  More flowers I noted, yet I none could see,
+  But sweet, or colour it had stol’n from thee.
+
+
+                    100
+
+Where art thou Muse that thou forget’st so long,
+To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
+Spend’st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
+Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
+Return forgetful Muse, and straight redeem,
+In gentle numbers time so idly spent,
+Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem,
+And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
+Rise resty Muse, my love’s sweet face survey,
+If time have any wrinkle graven there,
+If any, be a satire to decay,
+And make time’s spoils despised everywhere.
+  Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life,
+  So thou prevent’st his scythe, and crooked knife.
+
+
+                    101
+
+O truant Muse what shall be thy amends,
+For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
+Both truth and beauty on my love depends:
+So dost thou too, and therein dignified:
+Make answer Muse, wilt thou not haply say,
+’Truth needs no colour with his colour fixed,
+Beauty no pencil, beauty’s truth to lay:
+But best is best, if never intermixed’?
+Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
+Excuse not silence so, for’t lies in thee,
+To make him much outlive a gilded tomb:
+And to be praised of ages yet to be.
+  Then do thy office Muse, I teach thee how,
+  To make him seem long hence, as he shows now.
+
+
+                    102
+
+My love is strengthened though more weak in seeming,
+I love not less, though less the show appear,
+That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming,
+The owner’s tongue doth publish every where.
+Our love was new, and then but in the spring,
+When I was wont to greet it with my lays,
+As Philomel in summer’s front doth sing,
+And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
+Not that the summer is less pleasant now
+Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
+But that wild music burthens every bough,
+And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
+  Therefore like her, I sometime hold my tongue:
+  Because I would not dull you with my song.
+
+
+                    103
+
+Alack what poverty my muse brings forth,
+That having such a scope to show her pride,
+The argument all bare is of more worth
+Than when it hath my added praise beside.
+O blame me not if I no more can write!
+Look in your glass and there appears a face,
+That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
+Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
+Were it not sinful then striving to mend,
+To mar the subject that before was well?
+For to no other pass my verses tend,
+Than of your graces and your gifts to tell.
+  And more, much more than in my verse can sit,
+  Your own glass shows you, when you look in it.
+
+
+                    104
+
+To me fair friend you never can be old,
+For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
+Such seems your beauty still: three winters cold,
+Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride,
+Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned,
+In process of the seasons have I seen,
+Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burned,
+Since first I saw you fresh which yet are green.
+Ah yet doth beauty like a dial hand,
+Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived,
+So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand
+Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived.
+  For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred,
+  Ere you were born was beauty’s summer dead.
+
+
+                    105
+
+Let not my love be called idolatry,
+Nor my beloved as an idol show,
+Since all alike my songs and praises be
+To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
+Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
+Still constant in a wondrous excellence,
+Therefore my verse to constancy confined,
+One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
+Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
+Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words,
+And in this change is my invention spent,
+Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
+  Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.
+  Which three till now, never kept seat in one.
+
+
+                    106
+
+When in the chronicle of wasted time,
+I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
+And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
+In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights,
+Then in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best,
+Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
+I see their antique pen would have expressed,
+Even such a beauty as you master now.
+So all their praises are but prophecies
+Of this our time, all you prefiguring,
+And for they looked but with divining eyes,
+They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
+  For we which now behold these present days,
+  Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
+
+
+                    107
+
+Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul,
+Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come,
+Can yet the lease of my true love control,
+Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
+The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
+And the sad augurs mock their own presage,
+Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
+And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
+Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
+My love looks fresh, and death to me subscribes,
+Since spite of him I’ll live in this poor rhyme,
+While he insults o’er dull and speechless tribes.
+  And thou in this shalt find thy monument,
+  When tyrants’ crests and tombs of brass are spent.
+
+
+                    108
+
+What’s in the brain that ink may character,
+Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit,
+What’s new to speak, what now to register,
+That may express my love, or thy dear merit?
+Nothing sweet boy, but yet like prayers divine,
+I must each day say o’er the very same,
+Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
+Even as when first I hallowed thy fair name.
+So that eternal love in love’s fresh case,
+Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
+Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,
+But makes antiquity for aye his page,
+  Finding the first conceit of love there bred,
+  Where time and outward form would show it dead.
+
+
+                    109
+
+O never say that I was false of heart,
+Though absence seemed my flame to qualify,
+As easy might I from my self depart,
+As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
+That is my home of love, if I have ranged,
+Like him that travels I return again,
+Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
+So that my self bring water for my stain,
+Never believe though in my nature reigned,
+All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
+That it could so preposterously be stained,
+To leave for nothing all thy sum of good:
+  For nothing this wide universe I call,
+  Save thou my rose, in it thou art my all.
+
+
+                    110
+
+Alas ’tis true, I have gone here and there,
+And made my self a motley to the view,
+Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,
+Made old offences of affections new.
+Most true it is, that I have looked on truth
+Askance and strangely: but by all above,
+These blenches gave my heart another youth,
+And worse essays proved thee my best of love.
+Now all is done, have what shall have no end,
+Mine appetite I never more will grind
+On newer proof, to try an older friend,
+A god in love, to whom I am confined.
+  Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,
+  Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.
+
+
+                    111
+
+O for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
+The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
+That did not better for my life provide,
+Than public means which public manners breeds.
+Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
+And almost thence my nature is subdued
+To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand:
+Pity me then, and wish I were renewed,
+Whilst like a willing patient I will drink,
+Potions of eisel ’gainst my strong infection,
+No bitterness that I will bitter think,
+Nor double penance to correct correction.
+  Pity me then dear friend, and I assure ye,
+  Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
+
+
+                    112
+
+Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill,
+Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow,
+For what care I who calls me well or ill,
+So you o’er-green my bad, my good allow?
+You are my all the world, and I must strive,
+To know my shames and praises from your tongue,
+None else to me, nor I to none alive,
+That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.
+In so profound abysm I throw all care
+Of others’ voices, that my adder’s sense,
+To critic and to flatterer stopped are:
+Mark how with my neglect I do dispense.
+  You are so strongly in my purpose bred,
+  That all the world besides methinks are dead.
+
+
+                    113
+
+Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind,
+And that which governs me to go about,
+Doth part his function, and is partly blind,
+Seems seeing, but effectually is out:
+For it no form delivers to the heart
+Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch,
+Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
+Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch:
+For if it see the rud’st or gentlest sight,
+The most sweet favour or deformed’st creature,
+The mountain, or the sea, the day, or night:
+The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.
+  Incapable of more, replete with you,
+  My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue.
+
+
+                    114
+
+Or whether doth my mind being crowned with you
+Drink up the monarch’s plague this flattery?
+Or whether shall I say mine eye saith true,
+And that your love taught it this alchemy?
+To make of monsters, and things indigest,
+Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
+Creating every bad a perfect best
+As fast as objects to his beams assemble:
+O ’tis the first, ’tis flattery in my seeing,
+And my great mind most kingly drinks it up,
+Mine eye well knows what with his gust is ’greeing,
+And to his palate doth prepare the cup.
+  If it be poisoned, ’tis the lesser sin,
+  That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
+
+
+                    115
+
+Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
+Even those that said I could not love you dearer,
+Yet then my judgement knew no reason why,
+My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer,
+But reckoning time, whose millioned accidents
+Creep in ’twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
+Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp’st intents,
+Divert strong minds to the course of alt’ring things:
+Alas why fearing of time’s tyranny,
+Might I not then say ‘Now I love you best,’
+When I was certain o’er incertainty,
+Crowning the present, doubting of the rest?
+  Love is a babe, then might I not say so
+  To give full growth to that which still doth grow.
+
+
+                    116
+
+Let me not to the marriage of true minds
+Admit impediments, love is not love
+Which alters when it alteration finds,
+Or bends with the remover to remove.
+O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
+That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
+It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
+Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
+Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
+Within his bending sickle’s compass come,
+Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
+But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
+  If this be error and upon me proved,
+  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
+
+
+                    117
+
+Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all,
+Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
+Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
+Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day,
+That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
+And given to time your own dear-purchased right,
+That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
+Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
+Book both my wilfulness and errors down,
+And on just proof surmise, accumulate,
+Bring me within the level of your frown,
+But shoot not at me in your wakened hate:
+  Since my appeal says I did strive to prove
+  The constancy and virtue of your love.
+
+
+                    118
+
+Like as to make our appetite more keen
+With eager compounds we our palate urge,
+As to prevent our maladies unseen,
+We sicken to shun sickness when we purge.
+Even so being full of your ne’er-cloying sweetness,
+To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;
+And sick of welfare found a kind of meetness,
+To be diseased ere that there was true needing.
+Thus policy in love t’ anticipate
+The ills that were not, grew to faults assured,
+And brought to medicine a healthful state
+Which rank of goodness would by ill be cured.
+  But thence I learn and find the lesson true,
+  Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.
+
+
+                    119
+
+What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
+Distilled from limbecks foul as hell within,
+Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
+Still losing when I saw my self to win!
+What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
+Whilst it hath thought it self so blessed never!
+How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted
+In the distraction of this madding fever!
+O benefit of ill, now I find true
+That better is, by evil still made better.
+And ruined love when it is built anew
+Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
+  So I return rebuked to my content,
+  And gain by ills thrice more than I have spent.
+
+
+                    120
+
+That you were once unkind befriends me now,
+And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,
+Needs must I under my transgression bow,
+Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.
+For if you were by my unkindness shaken
+As I by yours, y’have passed a hell of time,
+And I a tyrant have no leisure taken
+To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.
+O that our night of woe might have remembered
+My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,
+And soon to you, as you to me then tendered
+The humble salve, which wounded bosoms fits!
+  But that your trespass now becomes a fee,
+  Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
+
+
+                    121
+
+’Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
+When not to be, receives reproach of being,
+And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed,
+Not by our feeling, but by others’ seeing.
+For why should others’ false adulterate eyes
+Give salutation to my sportive blood?
+Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
+Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
+No, I am that I am, and they that level
+At my abuses, reckon up their own,
+I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;
+By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown
+  Unless this general evil they maintain,
+  All men are bad and in their badness reign.
+
+
+                    122
+
+Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
+Full charactered with lasting memory,
+Which shall above that idle rank remain
+Beyond all date even to eternity.
+Or at the least, so long as brain and heart
+Have faculty by nature to subsist,
+Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
+Of thee, thy record never can be missed:
+That poor retention could not so much hold,
+Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score,
+Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
+To trust those tables that receive thee more:
+  To keep an adjunct to remember thee
+  Were to import forgetfulness in me.
+
+
+                    123
+
+No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change,
+Thy pyramids built up with newer might
+To me are nothing novel, nothing strange,
+They are but dressings of a former sight:
+Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire,
+What thou dost foist upon us that is old,
+And rather make them born to our desire,
+Than think that we before have heard them told:
+Thy registers and thee I both defy,
+Not wond’ring at the present, nor the past,
+For thy records, and what we see doth lie,
+Made more or less by thy continual haste:
+  This I do vow and this shall ever be,
+  I will be true despite thy scythe and thee.
+
+
+                    124
+
+If my dear love were but the child of state,
+It might for Fortune’s bastard be unfathered,
+As subject to time’s love or to time’s hate,
+Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gathered.
+No it was builded far from accident,
+It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
+Under the blow of thralled discontent,
+Whereto th’ inviting time our fashion calls:
+It fears not policy that heretic,
+Which works on leases of short-numbered hours,
+But all alone stands hugely politic,
+That it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.
+  To this I witness call the fools of time,
+  Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime.
+
+
+                    125
+
+Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy,
+With my extern the outward honouring,
+Or laid great bases for eternity,
+Which proves more short than waste or ruining?
+Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
+Lose all, and more by paying too much rent
+For compound sweet; forgoing simple savour,
+Pitiful thrivers in their gazing spent?
+No, let me be obsequious in thy heart,
+And take thou my oblation, poor but free,
+Which is not mixed with seconds, knows no art,
+But mutual render, only me for thee.
+  Hence, thou suborned informer, a true soul
+  When most impeached, stands least in thy control.
+
+
+                    126
+
+O thou my lovely boy who in thy power,
+Dost hold Time’s fickle glass his fickle hour:
+Who hast by waning grown, and therein show’st,
+Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow’st.
+If Nature (sovereign mistress over wrack)
+As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
+She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
+May time disgrace, and wretched minutes kill.
+Yet fear her O thou minion of her pleasure,
+She may detain, but not still keep her treasure!
+  Her audit (though delayed) answered must be,
+  And her quietus is to render thee.
+
+
+                    127
+
+In the old age black was not counted fair,
+Or if it were it bore not beauty’s name:
+But now is black beauty’s successive heir,
+And beauty slandered with a bastard shame,
+For since each hand hath put on nature’s power,
+Fairing the foul with art’s false borrowed face,
+Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
+But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
+Therefore my mistress’ eyes are raven black,
+Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
+At such who not born fair no beauty lack,
+Slandering creation with a false esteem,
+  Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
+  That every tongue says beauty should look so.
+
+
+                    128
+
+How oft when thou, my music, music play’st,
+Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
+With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway’st
+The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
+Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,
+To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
+Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,
+At the wood’s boldness by thee blushing stand.
+To be so tickled they would change their state
+And situation with those dancing chips,
+O’er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,
+Making dead wood more blest than living lips,
+  Since saucy jacks so happy are in this,
+  Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss.
+
+
+                    129
+
+Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame
+Is lust in action, and till action, lust
+Is perjured, murd’rous, bloody full of blame,
+Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
+Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight,
+Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
+Past reason hated as a swallowed bait,
+On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
+Mad in pursuit and in possession so,
+Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme,
+A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
+Before a joy proposed behind a dream.
+  All this the world well knows yet none knows well,
+  To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
+
+
+                    130
+
+My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,
+Coral is far more red, than her lips red,
+If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun:
+If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head:
+I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
+But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
+And in some perfumes is there more delight,
+Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
+I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,
+That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
+I grant I never saw a goddess go;
+My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
+  And yet by heaven I think my love as rare,
+  As any she belied with false compare.
+
+
+                    131
+
+Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
+As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;
+For well thou know’st to my dear doting heart
+Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
+Yet in good faith some say that thee behold,
+Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;
+To say they err, I dare not be so bold,
+Although I swear it to my self alone.
+And to be sure that is not false I swear,
+A thousand groans but thinking on thy face,
+One on another’s neck do witness bear
+Thy black is fairest in my judgement’s place.
+  In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,
+  And thence this slander as I think proceeds.
+
+
+                    132
+
+Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me,
+Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,
+Have put on black, and loving mourners be,
+Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
+And truly not the morning sun of heaven
+Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
+Nor that full star that ushers in the even
+Doth half that glory to the sober west
+As those two mourning eyes become thy face:
+O let it then as well beseem thy heart
+To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace,
+And suit thy pity like in every part.
+  Then will I swear beauty herself is black,
+  And all they foul that thy complexion lack.
+
+
+                    133
+
+Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
+For that deep wound it gives my friend and me;
+Is’t not enough to torture me alone,
+But slave to slavery my sweet’st friend must be?
+Me from my self thy cruel eye hath taken,
+And my next self thou harder hast engrossed,
+Of him, my self, and thee I am forsaken,
+A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed:
+Prison my heart in thy steel bosom’s ward,
+But then my friend’s heart let my poor heart bail,
+Whoe’er keeps me, let my heart be his guard,
+Thou canst not then use rigour in my gaol.
+  And yet thou wilt, for I being pent in thee,
+  Perforce am thine and all that is in me.
+
+
+                    134
+
+So now I have confessed that he is thine,
+And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
+My self I’ll forfeit, so that other mine,
+Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
+But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
+For thou art covetous, and he is kind,
+He learned but surety-like to write for me,
+Under that bond that him as fist doth bind.
+The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
+Thou usurer that put’st forth all to use,
+And sue a friend, came debtor for my sake,
+So him I lose through my unkind abuse.
+  Him have I lost, thou hast both him and me,
+  He pays the whole, and yet am I not free.
+
+
+                    135
+
+Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will,
+And Will to boot, and Will in overplus,
+More than enough am I that vex thee still,
+To thy sweet will making addition thus.
+Wilt thou whose will is large and spacious,
+Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
+Shall will in others seem right gracious,
+And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
+The sea all water, yet receives rain still,
+And in abundance addeth to his store,
+So thou being rich in will add to thy will
+One will of mine to make thy large will more.
+  Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill,
+  Think all but one, and me in that one Will.
+
+
+                    136
+
+If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
+Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
+And will thy soul knows is admitted there,
+Thus far for love, my love-suit sweet fulfil.
+Will will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
+Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one,
+In things of great receipt with case we prove,
+Among a number one is reckoned none.
+Then in the number let me pass untold,
+Though in thy store’s account I one must be,
+For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold,
+That nothing me, a something sweet to thee.
+  Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
+  And then thou lov’st me for my name is Will.
+
+
+                    137
+
+Thou blind fool Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
+That they behold and see not what they see?
+They know what beauty is, see where it lies,
+Yet what the best is, take the worst to be.
+If eyes corrupt by over-partial looks,
+Be anchored in the bay where all men ride,
+Why of eyes’ falsehood hast thou forged hooks,
+Whereto the judgement of my heart is tied?
+Why should my heart think that a several plot,
+Which my heart knows the wide world’s common place?
+Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is not
+To put fair truth upon so foul a face?
+  In things right true my heart and eyes have erred,
+  And to this false plague are they now transferred.
+
+
+                    138
+
+When my love swears that she is made of truth,
+I do believe, her though I know she lies,
+That she might think me some untutored youth,
+Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties.
+Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
+Although she knows my days are past the best,
+Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue;
+On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.
+But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
+And wherefore say not I that I am old?
+O love’s best habit is in seeming trust,
+And age in love loves not to have years told.
+  Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,
+  And in our faults by lies we flattered be.
+
+
+                    139
+
+O call not me to justify the wrong,
+That thy unkindness lays upon my heart,
+Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue,
+Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
+Tell me thou lov’st elsewhere; but in my sight,
+Dear heart forbear to glance thine eye aside,
+What need’st thou wound with cunning when thy might
+Is more than my o’erpressed defence can bide?
+Let me excuse thee, ah my love well knows,
+Her pretty looks have been mine enemies,
+And therefore from my face she turns my foes,
+That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:
+  Yet do not so, but since I am near slain,
+  Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain.
+
+
+                    140
+
+Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press
+My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain:
+Lest sorrow lend me words and words express,
+The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
+If I might teach thee wit better it were,
+Though not to love, yet love to tell me so,
+As testy sick men when their deaths be near,
+No news but health from their physicians know.
+For if I should despair I should grow mad,
+And in my madness might speak ill of thee,
+Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,
+Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be.
+  That I may not be so, nor thou belied,
+  Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.
+
+
+                    141
+
+In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
+For they in thee a thousand errors note,
+But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise,
+Who in despite of view is pleased to dote.
+Nor are mine ears with thy tongue’s tune delighted,
+Nor tender feeling to base touches prone,
+Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
+To any sensual feast with thee alone:
+But my five wits, nor my five senses can
+Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,
+Who leaves unswayed the likeness of a man,
+Thy proud heart’s slave and vassal wretch to be:
+  Only my plague thus far I count my gain,
+  That she that makes me sin, awards me pain.
+
+
+                    142
+
+Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
+Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
+O but with mine, compare thou thine own state,
+And thou shalt find it merits not reproving,
+Or if it do, not from those lips of thine,
+That have profaned their scarlet ornaments,
+And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine,
+Robbed others’ beds’ revenues of their rents.
+Be it lawful I love thee as thou lov’st those,
+Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee,
+Root pity in thy heart that when it grows,
+Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
+  If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
+  By self-example mayst thou be denied.
+
+
+                    143
+
+Lo as a careful huswife runs to catch,
+One of her feathered creatures broke away,
+Sets down her babe and makes all swift dispatch
+In pursuit of the thing she would have stay:
+Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase,
+Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent,
+To follow that which flies before her face:
+Not prizing her poor infant’s discontent;
+So run’st thou after that which flies from thee,
+Whilst I thy babe chase thee afar behind,
+But if thou catch thy hope turn back to me:
+And play the mother’s part, kiss me, be kind.
+  So will I pray that thou mayst have thy Will,
+  If thou turn back and my loud crying still.
+
+
+                    144
+
+Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
+Which, like two spirits, do suggest me still:
+The better angel is a man right fair,
+The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
+To win me soon to hell my female evil
+Tempteth my better angel from my side,
+And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
+Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
+And whether that my angel be turned fiend
+Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
+But being both from me both to each friend,
+I guess one angel in another’s hell.
+  Yet this shall I ne’er know, but live in doubt,
+  Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
+
+
+                    145
+
+Those lips that Love’s own hand did make,
+Breathed forth the sound that said ‘I hate’,
+To me that languished for her sake:
+But when she saw my woeful state,
+Straight in her heart did mercy come,
+Chiding that tongue that ever sweet,
+Was used in giving gentle doom:
+And taught it thus anew to greet:
+‘I hate’ she altered with an end,
+That followed it as gentle day,
+Doth follow night who like a fiend
+From heaven to hell is flown away.
+  ‘I hate’, from hate away she threw,
+  And saved my life saying ‘not you’.
+
+
+                    146
+
+Poor soul the centre of my sinful earth,
+My sinful earth these rebel powers array,
+Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth
+Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
+Why so large cost having so short a lease,
+Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
+Shall worms inheritors of this excess
+Eat up thy charge? is this thy body’s end?
+Then soul live thou upon thy servant’s loss,
+And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
+Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
+Within be fed, without be rich no more,
+  So shall thou feed on death, that feeds on men,
+  And death once dead, there’s no more dying then.
+
+
+                    147
+
+My love is as a fever longing still,
+For that which longer nurseth the disease,
+Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
+Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please:
+My reason the physician to my love,
+Angry that his prescriptions are not kept
+Hath left me, and I desperate now approve,
+Desire is death, which physic did except.
+Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
+And frantic-mad with evermore unrest,
+My thoughts and my discourse as mad men’s are,
+At random from the truth vainly expressed.
+  For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
+  Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
+
+
+                    148
+
+O me! what eyes hath love put in my head,
+Which have no correspondence with true sight,
+Or if they have, where is my judgement fled,
+That censures falsely what they see aright?
+If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
+What means the world to say it is not so?
+If it be not, then love doth well denote,
+Love’s eye is not so true as all men’s: no,
+How can it? O how can love’s eye be true,
+That is so vexed with watching and with tears?
+No marvel then though I mistake my view,
+The sun it self sees not, till heaven clears.
+  O cunning love, with tears thou keep’st me blind,
+  Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.
+
+
+                    149
+
+Canst thou O cruel, say I love thee not,
+When I against my self with thee partake?
+Do I not think on thee when I forgot
+Am of my self, all-tyrant, for thy sake?
+Who hateth thee that I do call my friend,
+On whom frown’st thou that I do fawn upon,
+Nay if thou lour’st on me do I not spend
+Revenge upon my self with present moan?
+What merit do I in my self respect,
+That is so proud thy service to despise,
+When all my best doth worship thy defect,
+Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?
+  But love hate on for now I know thy mind,
+  Those that can see thou lov’st, and I am blind.
+
+
+                    150
+
+O from what power hast thou this powerful might,
+With insufficiency my heart to sway,
+To make me give the lie to my true sight,
+And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
+Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
+That in the very refuse of thy deeds,
+There is such strength and warrantise of skill,
+That in my mind thy worst all best exceeds?
+Who taught thee how to make me love thee more,
+The more I hear and see just cause of hate?
+O though I love what others do abhor,
+With others thou shouldst not abhor my state.
+  If thy unworthiness raised love in me,
+  More worthy I to be beloved of thee.
+
+
+                    151
+
+Love is too young to know what conscience is,
+Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
+Then gentle cheater urge not my amiss,
+Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove.
+For thou betraying me, I do betray
+My nobler part to my gross body’s treason,
+My soul doth tell my body that he may,
+Triumph in love, flesh stays no farther reason,
+But rising at thy name doth point out thee,
+As his triumphant prize, proud of this pride,
+He is contented thy poor drudge to be,
+To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
+  No want of conscience hold it that I call,
+  Her love, for whose dear love I rise and fall.
+
+
+                    152
+
+In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn,
+But thou art twice forsworn to me love swearing,
+In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn,
+In vowing new hate after new love bearing:
+But why of two oaths’ breach do I accuse thee,
+When I break twenty? I am perjured most,
+For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee:
+And all my honest faith in thee is lost.
+For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness:
+Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy,
+And to enlighten thee gave eyes to blindness,
+Or made them swear against the thing they see.
+  For I have sworn thee fair: more perjured I,
+  To swear against the truth so foul a lie.
+
+
+                    153
+
+Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep,
+A maid of Dian’s this advantage found,
+And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
+In a cold valley-fountain of that ground:
+Which borrowed from this holy fire of Love,
+A dateless lively heat still to endure,
+And grew a seething bath which yet men prove,
+Against strange maladies a sovereign cure:
+But at my mistress’ eye Love’s brand new-fired,
+The boy for trial needs would touch my breast,
+I sick withal the help of bath desired,
+And thither hied a sad distempered guest.
+  But found no cure, the bath for my help lies,
+  Where Cupid got new fire; my mistress’ eyes.
+
+
+                    154
+
+The little Love-god lying once asleep,
+Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
+Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep,
+Came tripping by, but in her maiden hand,
+The fairest votary took up that fire,
+Which many legions of true hearts had warmed,
+And so the general of hot desire,
+Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarmed.
+This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
+Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual,
+Growing a bath and healthful remedy,
+For men diseased; but I, my mistress’ thrall,
+  Came there for cure and this by that I prove,
+  Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+Scene II. Paris. A room in the King’s palace.
+Scene III. Rossillon. A Room in the Palace.
+
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. Paris. A room in the King’s palace.
+Scene II. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+Scene III. Paris. The King’s palace.
+Scene IV. Paris. The King’s palace.
+Scene V. Another room in the same.
+
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. Florence. A room in the Duke’s palace.
+Scene II. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+Scene III. Florence. Before the Duke’s palace.
+Scene IV. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+Scene V. Without the walls of Florence.
+Scene VI. Camp before Florence.
+Scene VII. Florence. A room in the Widow’s house.
+
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. Without the Florentine camp.
+Scene II. Florence. A room in the Widow’s house.
+Scene III. The Florentine camp.
+Scene IV. Florence. A room in the Widow’s house.
+Scene V. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. Marseilles. A street.
+Scene II. Rossillon. The inner court of the Countess’s palace.
+Scene III. The same. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+
+
+ Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING OF FRANCE.
+THE DUKE OF FLORENCE.
+BERTRAM, Count of Rossillon.
+LAFEW, an old Lord.
+PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram.
+Several young French Lords, that serve with Bertram in the Florentine
+War.
+RYNALDO, servant to the Countess of Rossillon.
+Clown, servant to the Countess of Rossillon.
+A Page, servant to the Countess of Rossillon.
+COUNTESS OF ROSSILLON, mother to Bertram.
+HELENA, a Gentlewoman protected by the Countess.
+An old WIDOW of Florence.
+DIANA, daughter to the Widow.
+VIOLENTA, neighbour and friend to the Widow.
+MARIANA, neighbour and friend to the Widow.
+
+Lords attending on the KING; Officers; Soldiers, &c., French and
+Florentine.
+
+SCENE: Partly in France, and partly in Tuscany.
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+
+ Enter Bertram, the Countess of Rossillon, Helena, and Lafew, all in
+ black.
+
+COUNTESS.
+In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.
+
+BERTRAM.
+And I in going, madam, weep o’er my father’s death anew; but I must
+attend his majesty’s command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in
+subjection.
+
+LAFEW.
+You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you, sir, a father. He
+that so generally is at all times good, must of necessity hold his
+virtue to you, whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted,
+rather than lack it where there is such abundance.
+
+COUNTESS.
+What hope is there of his majesty’s amendment?
+
+LAFEW.
+He hath abandon’d his physicians, madam; under whose practices he hath
+persecuted time with hope, and finds no other advantage in the process
+but only the losing of hope by time.
+
+COUNTESS.
+This young gentlewoman had a father—O that “had!”, how sad a passage
+’tis!—whose skill was almost as great as his honesty; had it stretch’d
+so far, would have made nature immortal, and death should have play for
+lack of work. Would for the king’s sake he were living! I think it
+would be the death of the king’s disease.
+
+LAFEW.
+How called you the man you speak of, madam?
+
+COUNTESS.
+He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his great right to be
+so: Gerard de Narbon.
+
+LAFEW.
+He was excellent indeed, madam; the king very lately spoke of him
+admiringly, and mourningly; he was skilful enough to have liv’d still,
+if knowledge could be set up against mortality.
+
+BERTRAM.
+What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?
+
+LAFEW.
+A fistula, my lord.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I heard not of it before.
+
+LAFEW.
+I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman the daughter of
+Gerard de Narbon?
+
+COUNTESS.
+His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my overlooking. I have those
+hopes of her good that her education promises her dispositions she
+inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind
+carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity, they are
+virtues and traitors too. In her they are the better for their
+simpleness; she derives her honesty, and achieves her goodness.
+
+LAFEW.
+Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.
+
+COUNTESS.
+’Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in. The remembrance
+of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows
+takes all livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena; go to, no
+more, lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow than to have.
+
+HELENA.
+I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.
+
+LAFEW.
+Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief the
+enemy to the living.
+
+COUNTESS.
+If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess makes it soon mortal.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Madam, I desire your holy wishes.
+
+LAFEW.
+How understand we that?
+
+COUNTESS.
+Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father
+In manners, as in shape! Thy blood and virtue
+Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
+Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,
+Do wrong to none. Be able for thine enemy
+Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
+Under thy own life’s key. Be check’d for silence,
+But never tax’d for speech. What heaven more will,
+That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,
+Fall on thy head! Farewell. My lord,
+’Tis an unseason’d courtier; good my lord,
+Advise him.
+
+LAFEW.
+He cannot want the best
+That shall attend his love.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram.
+
+ [_Exit Countess._]
+
+BERTRAM.
+The best wishes that can be forg’d in your thoughts be servants to you!
+[_To Helena._] Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make
+much of her.
+
+LAFEW.
+Farewell, pretty lady, you must hold the credit of your father.
+
+ [_Exeunt Bertram and Lafew._]
+
+HELENA.
+O, were that all! I think not on my father,
+And these great tears grace his remembrance more
+Than those I shed for him. What was he like?
+I have forgot him; my imagination
+Carries no favour in’t but Bertram’s.
+I am undone: there is no living, none,
+If Bertram be away. ’Twere all one
+That I should love a bright particular star,
+And think to wed it, he is so above me.
+In his bright radiance and collateral light
+Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
+Th’ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
+The hind that would be mated by the lion
+Must die for love. ’Twas pretty, though a plague,
+To see him every hour; to sit and draw
+His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
+In our heart’s table,—heart too capable
+Of every line and trick of his sweet favour.
+But now he’s gone, and my idolatrous fancy
+Must sanctify his relics. Who comes here?
+
+ Enter Parolles.
+
+One that goes with him: I love him for his sake,
+And yet I know him a notorious liar,
+Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
+Yet these fix’d evils sit so fit in him
+That they take place when virtue’s steely bones
+Looks bleak i’ th’ cold wind: withal, full oft we see
+Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Save you, fair queen!
+
+HELENA.
+And you, monarch!
+
+PAROLLES.
+No.
+
+HELENA.
+And no.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Are you meditating on virginity?
+
+HELENA.
+Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you; let me ask you a question.
+Man is enemy to virginity; how may we barricado it against him?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Keep him out.
+
+HELENA.
+But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant, in the defence, yet
+is weak. Unfold to us some warlike resistance.
+
+PAROLLES.
+There is none. Man setting down before you will undermine you and blow
+you up.
+
+HELENA.
+Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers-up! Is there no
+military policy how virgins might blow up men?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up; marry, in
+blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made, you lose your
+city. It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve
+virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never
+virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is
+metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times
+found; by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion.
+Away with it!
+
+HELENA.
+I will stand for’t a little, though therefore I die a virgin.
+
+PAROLLES.
+There’s little can be said in’t; ’tis against the rule of nature. To
+speak on the part of virginity is to accuse your mothers; which is most
+infallible disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity
+murders itself, and should be buried in highways out of all sanctified
+limit, as a desperate offendress against nature. Virginity breeds
+mites, much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very paring, and so
+dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish,
+proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the
+canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but lose by’t. Out with’t! Within
+the year it will make itself two, which is a goodly increase, and the
+principal itself not much the worse. Away with it!
+
+HELENA.
+How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Let me see. Marry, ill, to like him that ne’er it likes. ’Tis a
+commodity will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less
+worth. Off with’t while ’tis vendible; answer the time of request.
+Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion, richly
+suited, but unsuitable, just like the brooch and the toothpick, which
+wear not now. Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in
+your cheek. And your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our
+French wither’d pears; it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, ’tis a
+wither’d pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet ’tis a wither’d pear.
+Will you anything with it?
+
+HELENA.
+Not my virginity yet.
+There shall your master have a thousand loves,
+A mother, and a mistress, and a friend,
+A phoenix, captain, and an enemy,
+A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,
+A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear:
+His humble ambition, proud humility,
+His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,
+His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world
+Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms
+That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he—
+I know not what he shall. God send him well!
+The court’s a learning-place; and he is one.
+
+PAROLLES.
+What one, i’ faith?
+
+HELENA.
+That I wish well. ’Tis pity—
+
+PAROLLES.
+What’s pity?
+
+HELENA.
+That wishing well had not a body in’t
+Which might be felt, that we, the poorer born,
+Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,
+Might with effects of them follow our friends,
+And show what we alone must think, which never
+Returns us thanks.
+
+ Enter a Page.
+
+PAGE.
+Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.
+
+ [_Exit Page._]
+
+PAROLLES.
+Little Helen, farewell. If I can remember thee, I will think of thee at
+court.
+
+HELENA.
+Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Under Mars, I.
+
+HELENA.
+I especially think, under Mars.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Why under Mars?
+
+HELENA.
+The wars hath so kept you under, that you must needs be born under
+Mars.
+
+PAROLLES.
+When he was predominant.
+
+HELENA.
+When he was retrograde, I think rather.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Why think you so?
+
+HELENA.
+You go so much backward when you fight.
+
+PAROLLES.
+That’s for advantage.
+
+HELENA.
+So is running away, when fear proposes the safety: but the composition
+that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and
+I like the wear well.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I am so full of business I cannot answer thee acutely. I will return
+perfect courtier; in the which my instruction shall serve to naturalize
+thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier’s counsel, and understand
+what advice shall thrust upon thee; else thou diest in thine
+unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away. Farewell. When
+thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy
+friends. Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee. So,
+farewell.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+HELENA.
+Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
+Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
+Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull
+Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
+What power is it which mounts my love so high,
+That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
+The mightiest space in fortune nature brings
+To join like likes, and kiss like native things.
+Impossible be strange attempts to those
+That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose
+What hath been cannot be. Who ever strove
+To show her merit that did miss her love?
+The king’s disease,—my project may deceive me,
+But my intents are fix’d, and will not leave me.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Paris. A room in the King’s palace.
+
+ Flourish of cornets. Enter the King of France, with letters; Lords and
+ others attending.
+
+KING.
+The Florentines and Senoys are by th’ ears;
+Have fought with equal fortune, and continue
+A braving war.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+So ’tis reported, sir.
+
+KING.
+Nay, ’tis most credible, we here receive it,
+A certainty, vouch’d from our cousin Austria,
+With caution, that the Florentine will move us
+For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend
+Prejudicates the business, and would seem
+To have us make denial.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+His love and wisdom,
+Approv’d so to your majesty, may plead
+For amplest credence.
+
+KING.
+He hath arm’d our answer,
+And Florence is denied before he comes:
+Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see
+The Tuscan service, freely have they leave
+To stand on either part.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+It well may serve
+A nursery to our gentry, who are sick
+For breathing and exploit.
+
+KING.
+What’s he comes here?
+
+ Enter Bertram, Lafew and Parolles.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+It is the Count Rossillon, my good lord,
+Young Bertram.
+
+KING.
+Youth, thou bear’st thy father’s face;
+Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,
+Hath well compos’d thee. Thy father’s moral parts
+Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.
+
+BERTRAM.
+My thanks and duty are your majesty’s.
+
+KING.
+I would I had that corporal soundness now,
+As when thy father and myself in friendship
+First tried our soldiership. He did look far
+Into the service of the time, and was
+Discipled of the bravest. He lasted long,
+But on us both did haggish age steal on,
+And wore us out of act. It much repairs me
+To talk of your good father; in his youth
+He had the wit which I can well observe
+Today in our young lords; but they may jest
+Till their own scorn return to them unnoted
+Ere they can hide their levity in honour
+So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness
+Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,
+His equal had awak’d them, and his honour,
+Clock to itself, knew the true minute when
+Exception bid him speak, and at this time
+His tongue obey’d his hand. Who were below him
+He us’d as creatures of another place,
+And bow’d his eminent top to their low ranks,
+Making them proud of his humility,
+In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man
+Might be a copy to these younger times;
+Which, followed well, would demonstrate them now
+But goers backward.
+
+BERTRAM.
+His good remembrance, sir,
+Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb;
+So in approof lives not his epitaph
+As in your royal speech.
+
+KING.
+Would I were with him! He would always say,—
+Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words
+He scatter’d not in ears, but grafted them
+To grow there and to bear,—“Let me not live,”
+This his good melancholy oft began
+On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,
+When it was out,—“Let me not live” quoth he,
+“After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff
+Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses
+All but new things disdain; whose judgments are
+Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies
+Expire before their fashions.” This he wish’d.
+I, after him, do after him wish too,
+Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,
+I quickly were dissolved from my hive
+To give some labourers room.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+You’re lov’d, sir;
+They that least lend it you shall lack you first.
+
+KING.
+I fill a place, I know’t. How long is’t, Count,
+Since the physician at your father’s died?
+He was much fam’d.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Some six months since, my lord.
+
+KING.
+If he were living, I would try him yet;—
+Lend me an arm;—the rest have worn me out
+With several applications; nature and sickness
+Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, Count;
+My son’s no dearer.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Thank your majesty.
+
+ [_Exeunt. Flourish._]
+
+SCENE III. Rossillon. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Countess, Steward and Clown.
+
+COUNTESS.
+I will now hear. What say you of this gentlewoman?
+
+STEWARD.
+Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I wish might be found
+in the calendar of my past endeavours; for then we wound our modesty,
+and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we
+publish them.
+
+COUNTESS.
+What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah. The complaints I have
+heard of you I do not all believe; ’tis my slowness that I do not; for
+I know you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough to
+make such knaveries yours.
+
+CLOWN.
+’Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Well, sir.
+
+CLOWN.
+No, madam, ’tis not so well that I am poor, though many of the rich are
+damned; but if I may have your ladyship’s good will to go to the world,
+Isbel the woman and I will do as we may.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Wilt thou needs be a beggar?
+
+CLOWN.
+I do beg your good will in this case.
+
+COUNTESS.
+In what case?
+
+CLOWN.
+In Isbel’s case and mine own. Service is no heritage, and I think I
+shall never have the blessing of God till I have issue of my body; for
+they say barnes are blessings.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.
+
+CLOWN.
+My poor body, madam, requires it; I am driven on by the flesh, and he
+must needs go that the devil drives.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Is this all your worship’s reason?
+
+CLOWN.
+Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons, such as they are.
+
+COUNTESS.
+May the world know them?
+
+CLOWN.
+I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and all flesh and blood
+are; and indeed I do marry that I may repent.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness.
+
+CLOWN.
+I am out of friends, madam, and I hope to have friends for my wife’s
+sake.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Such friends are thine enemies, knave.
+
+CLOWN.
+Y’are shallow, madam, in great friends; for the knaves come to do that
+for me which I am a-weary of. He that ears my land spares my team, and
+gives me leave to in the crop: if I be his cuckold, he’s my drudge. He
+that comforts my wife is the cherisher of my flesh and blood; he that
+cherishes my flesh and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my
+flesh and blood is my friend; ergo, he that kisses my wife is my
+friend. If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no
+fear in marriage; for young Charbon the puritan and old Poysam the
+papist, howsome’er their hearts are sever’d in religion, their heads
+are both one; they may jowl horns together like any deer i’ the herd.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouth’d and calumnious knave?
+
+CLOWN.
+A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next way:
+   _For I the ballad will repeat,
+   Which men full true shall find;
+   Your marriage comes by destiny,
+   Your cuckoo sings by kind._
+
+COUNTESS.
+Get you gone, sir; I’ll talk with you more anon.
+
+STEWARD.
+May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to you; of her I am to
+speak.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her; Helen I mean.
+
+CLOWN.
+[_Sings._]
+_   Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,
+     Why the Grecians sacked Troy?
+   Fond done, done fond,
+      Was this King Priam’s joy?
+   With that she sighed as she stood,
+   With that she sighed as she stood,
+      And gave this sentence then:
+   Among nine bad if one be good,
+   Among nine bad if one be good,
+     There’s yet one good in ten._
+
+COUNTESS.
+What, one good in ten? You corrupt the song, sirrah.
+
+CLOWN.
+One good woman in ten, madam, which is a purifying o’ the song. Would
+God would serve the world so all the year! We’d find no fault with the
+tithe-woman, if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth ’a! And we might
+have a good woman born but or every blazing star, or at an earthquake,
+’twould mend the lottery well; a man may draw his heart out ere he
+pluck one.
+
+COUNTESS.
+You’ll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you!
+
+CLOWN.
+That man should be at woman’s command, and yet no hurt done! Though
+honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt; it will wear the
+surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am going,
+forsooth; the business is for Helen to come hither.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+COUNTESS.
+Well, now.
+
+STEWARD.
+I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Faith I do. Her father bequeath’d her to me, and she herself, without
+other advantage, may lawfully make title to as much love as she finds;
+there is more owing her than is paid, and more shall be paid her than
+she’ll demand.
+
+STEWARD.
+Madam, I was very late more near her than I think she wish’d me; alone
+she was, and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears;
+she thought, I dare vow for her, they touch’d not any stranger sense.
+Her matter was, she loved your son. Fortune, she said, was no goddess,
+that had put such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no god,
+that would not extend his might only where qualities were level; Diana
+no queen of virgins, that would suffer her poor knight surpris’d,
+without rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward. This she
+deliver’d in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e’er I heard virgin
+exclaim in, which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal;
+sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns you something to
+know it.
+
+COUNTESS.
+You have discharg’d this honestly; keep it to yourself; many
+likelihoods inform’d me of this before, which hung so tottering in the
+balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you leave me;
+stall this in your bosom; and I thank you for your honest care. I will
+speak with you further anon.
+
+ [_Exit Steward._]
+
+ Enter Helena.
+
+Even so it was with me when I was young;
+If ever we are nature’s, these are ours; this thorn
+Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;
+Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;
+It is the show and seal of nature’s truth,
+Where love’s strong passion is impress’d in youth.
+By our remembrances of days foregone,
+Such were our faults, or then we thought them none.
+Her eye is sick on’t; I observe her now.
+
+HELENA.
+What is your pleasure, madam?
+
+COUNTESS.
+You know, Helen,
+I am a mother to you.
+
+HELENA.
+Mine honourable mistress.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Nay, a mother.
+Why not a mother? When I said a mother,
+Methought you saw a serpent. What’s in mother,
+That you start at it? I say I am your mother,
+And put you in the catalogue of those
+That were enwombed mine. ’Tis often seen
+Adoption strives with nature, and choice breeds
+A native slip to us from foreign seeds.
+You ne’er oppress’d me with a mother’s groan,
+Yet I express to you a mother’s care.
+God’s mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood
+To say I am thy mother? What’s the matter,
+That this distempered messenger of wet,
+The many-colour’d Iris, rounds thine eye?
+—Why, that you are my daughter?
+
+HELENA.
+That I am not.
+
+COUNTESS.
+I say, I am your mother.
+
+HELENA.
+Pardon, madam;
+The Count Rossillon cannot be my brother.
+I am from humble, he from honoured name;
+No note upon my parents, his all noble,
+My master, my dear lord he is; and I
+His servant live, and will his vassal die.
+He must not be my brother.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Nor I your mother?
+
+HELENA.
+You are my mother, madam; would you were—
+So that my lord your son were not my brother,—
+Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers,
+I care no more for than I do for heaven,
+So I were not his sister. Can’t no other,
+But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?
+
+COUNTESS.
+Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law.
+God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother
+So strive upon your pulse. What! pale again?
+My fear hath catch’d your fondness; now I see
+The mystery of your loneliness, and find
+Your salt tears’ head. Now to all sense ’tis gross
+You love my son; invention is asham’d,
+Against the proclamation of thy passion
+To say thou dost not. Therefore tell me true;
+But tell me then, ’tis so; for, look, thy cheeks
+Confess it, t’one to th’other; and thine eyes
+See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours,
+That in their kind they speak it; only sin
+And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
+That truth should be suspected. Speak, is’t so?
+If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew;
+If it be not, forswear’t: howe’er, I charge thee,
+As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,
+To tell me truly.
+
+HELENA.
+Good madam, pardon me.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Do you love my son?
+
+HELENA.
+Your pardon, noble mistress.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Love you my son?
+
+HELENA.
+Do not you love him, madam?
+
+COUNTESS.
+Go not about; my love hath in’t a bond
+Whereof the world takes note. Come, come, disclose
+The state of your affection, for your passions
+Have to the full appeach’d.
+
+HELENA.
+Then I confess,
+Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,
+That before you, and next unto high heaven,
+I love your son.
+My friends were poor, but honest; so’s my love.
+Be not offended; for it hurts not him
+That he is lov’d of me; I follow him not
+By any token of presumptuous suit,
+Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;
+Yet never know how that desert should be.
+I know I love in vain, strive against hope;
+Yet in this captious and inteemable sieve
+I still pour in the waters of my love
+And lack not to lose still. Thus, Indian-like,
+Religious in mine error, I adore
+The sun that looks upon his worshipper,
+But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,
+Let not your hate encounter with my love,
+For loving where you do; but if yourself,
+Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,
+Did ever, in so true a flame of liking,
+Wish chastely, and love dearly, that your Dian
+Was both herself and love; O then, give pity
+To her whose state is such that cannot choose
+But lend and give where she is sure to lose;
+That seeks not to find that her search implies,
+But riddle-like, lives sweetly where she dies!
+
+COUNTESS.
+Had you not lately an intent,—speak truly,—
+To go to Paris?
+
+HELENA.
+Madam, I had.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Wherefore? tell true.
+
+HELENA.
+I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear.
+You know my father left me some prescriptions
+Of rare and prov’d effects, such as his reading
+And manifest experience had collected
+For general sovereignty; and that he will’d me
+In heedfull’st reservation to bestow them,
+As notes whose faculties inclusive were
+More than they were in note. Amongst the rest
+There is a remedy, approv’d, set down,
+To cure the desperate languishings whereof
+The king is render’d lost.
+
+COUNTESS.
+This was your motive
+For Paris, was it? Speak.
+
+HELENA.
+My lord your son made me to think of this;
+Else Paris, and the medicine, and the king,
+Had from the conversation of my thoughts
+Haply been absent then.
+
+COUNTESS.
+But think you, Helen,
+If you should tender your supposed aid,
+He would receive it? He and his physicians
+Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him;
+They, that they cannot help. How shall they credit
+A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,
+Embowell’d of their doctrine, have let off
+The danger to itself?
+
+HELENA.
+There’s something in’t
+More than my father’s skill, which was the great’st
+Of his profession, that his good receipt
+Shall for my legacy be sanctified
+By th’ luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honour
+But give me leave to try success, I’d venture
+The well-lost life of mine on his grace’s cure.
+By such a day, an hour.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Dost thou believe’t?
+
+HELENA.
+Ay, madam, knowingly.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,
+Means and attendants, and my loving greetings
+To those of mine in court. I’ll stay at home,
+And pray God’s blessing into thy attempt.
+Be gone tomorrow; and be sure of this,
+What I can help thee to, thou shalt not miss.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT II.
+
+SCENE I. Paris. A room in the King’s palace.
+
+ Flourish. Enter the King with young Lords taking leave for the
+ Florentine war; Bertram, Parolles and Attendants.
+
+KING.
+Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles
+Do not throw from you; and you, my lords, farewell;
+Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all,
+The gift doth stretch itself as ’tis receiv’d,
+And is enough for both.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+’Tis our hope, sir,
+After well-ent’red soldiers, to return
+And find your grace in health.
+
+KING.
+No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart
+Will not confess he owes the malady
+That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords.
+Whether I live or die, be you the sons
+Of worthy Frenchmen; let higher Italy,—
+Those bated that inherit but the fall
+Of the last monarchy—see that you come
+Not to woo honour, but to wed it, when
+The bravest questant shrinks: find what you seek,
+That fame may cry you loud. I say farewell.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Health, at your bidding serve your majesty!
+
+KING.
+Those girls of Italy, take heed of them;
+They say our French lack language to deny
+If they demand; beware of being captives
+Before you serve.
+
+BOTH.
+Our hearts receive your warnings.
+
+KING.
+Farewell.—Come hither to me.
+
+ [_The King retires to a couch._]
+
+FIRST LORD.
+O my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us!
+
+PAROLLES.
+’Tis not his fault; the spark.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+O, ’tis brave wars!
+
+PAROLLES.
+Most admirable! I have seen those wars.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I am commanded here, and kept a coil with,
+“Too young”, and “the next year” and “’tis too early”.
+
+PAROLLES.
+An thy mind stand to’t, boy, steal away bravely.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,
+Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,
+Till honour be bought up, and no sword worn
+But one to dance with. By heaven, I’ll steal away.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+There’s honour in the theft.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Commit it, count.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+I am your accessary; and so farewell.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I grow to you, and our parting is a tortur’d body.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Farewell, captain.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Sweet Monsieur Parolles!
+
+PAROLLES.
+Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good sparks and lustrous, a
+word, good metals. You shall find in the regiment of the Spinii one
+Captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his
+sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrench’d it. Say to him I
+live; and observe his reports for me.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+We shall, noble captain.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Mars dote on you for his novices!
+
+ [_Exeunt Lords._]
+
+What will ye do?
+
+BERTRAM.
+Stay the king.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords; you have restrain’d
+yourself within the list of too cold an adieu. Be more expressive to
+them; for they wear themselves in the cap of the time; there do muster
+true gait; eat, speak, and move, under the influence of the most
+receiv’d star; and though the devil lead the measure, such are to be
+followed. After them, and take a more dilated farewell.
+
+BERTRAM.
+And I will do so.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.
+
+ [_Exeunt Bertram and Parolles._]
+
+ Enter Lafew.
+
+LAFEW.
+Pardon, my lord [_kneeling_], for me and for my tidings.
+
+KING.
+I’ll fee thee to stand up.
+
+LAFEW.
+Then here’s a man stands that has brought his pardon.
+I would you had kneel’d, my lord, to ask me mercy,
+And that at my bidding you could so stand up.
+
+KING.
+I would I had; so I had broke thy pate,
+And ask’d thee mercy for’t.
+
+LAFEW.
+Good faith, across;
+But, my good lord, ’tis thus: will you be cur’d
+Of your infirmity?
+
+KING.
+No.
+
+LAFEW.
+O, will you eat
+No grapes, my royal fox? Yes, but you will
+My noble grapes, and if my royal fox
+Could reach them. I have seen a medicine
+That’s able to breathe life into a stone,
+Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary
+With sprightly fire and motion; whose simple touch
+Is powerful to araise King Pippen, nay,
+To give great Charlemain a pen in’s hand
+And write to her a love-line.
+
+KING.
+What ‘her’ is this?
+
+LAFEW.
+Why, doctor ‘she’! My lord, there’s one arriv’d,
+If you will see her. Now, by my faith and honour,
+If seriously I may convey my thoughts
+In this my light deliverance, I have spoke
+With one that in her sex, her years, profession,
+Wisdom, and constancy, hath amaz’d me more
+Than I dare blame my weakness. Will you see her,
+For that is her demand, and know her business?
+That done, laugh well at me.
+
+KING.
+Now, good Lafew,
+Bring in the admiration; that we with thee
+May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
+By wond’ring how thou took’st it.
+
+LAFEW.
+Nay, I’ll fit you,
+And not be all day neither.
+
+ [_Exit Lafew._]
+
+KING.
+Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.
+
+ Enter Lafew with Helena.
+
+LAFEW.
+Nay, come your ways.
+
+KING.
+This haste hath wings indeed.
+
+LAFEW.
+Nay, come your ways.
+This is his majesty, say your mind to him.
+A traitor you do look like, but such traitors
+His majesty seldom fears; I am Cressid’s uncle,
+That dare leave two together. Fare you well.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING.
+Now, fair one, does your business follow us?
+
+HELENA.
+Ay, my good lord.
+Gerard de Narbon was my father,
+In what he did profess, well found.
+
+KING.
+I knew him.
+
+HELENA.
+The rather will I spare my praises towards him.
+Knowing him is enough. On his bed of death
+Many receipts he gave me; chiefly one,
+Which, as the dearest issue of his practice,
+And of his old experience the only darling,
+He bade me store up as a triple eye,
+Safer than mine own two; more dear I have so,
+And hearing your high majesty is touch’d
+With that malignant cause, wherein the honour
+Of my dear father’s gift stands chief in power,
+I come to tender it, and my appliance,
+With all bound humbleness.
+
+KING.
+We thank you, maiden,
+But may not be so credulous of cure,
+When our most learned doctors leave us, and
+The congregated college have concluded
+That labouring art can never ransom nature
+From her inaidable estate. I say we must not
+So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,
+To prostitute our past-cure malady
+To empirics, or to dissever so
+Our great self and our credit, to esteem
+A senseless help, when help past sense we deem.
+
+HELENA.
+My duty then shall pay me for my pains.
+I will no more enforce mine office on you,
+Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts
+A modest one to bear me back again.
+
+KING.
+I cannot give thee less, to be call’d grateful.
+Thou thought’st to help me; and such thanks I give
+As one near death to those that wish him live.
+But what at full I know, thou know’st no part;
+I knowing all my peril, thou no art.
+
+HELENA.
+What I can do can do no hurt to try,
+Since you set up your rest ’gainst remedy.
+He that of greatest works is finisher
+Oft does them by the weakest minister.
+So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,
+When judges have been babes. Great floods have flown
+From simple sources, and great seas have dried
+When miracles have by the great’st been denied.
+Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
+Where most it promises; and oft it hits
+Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
+
+KING.
+I must not hear thee. Fare thee well, kind maid.
+Thy pains, not us’d, must by thyself be paid;
+Proffers, not took, reap thanks for their reward.
+
+HELENA.
+Inspired merit so by breath is barr’d.
+It is not so with Him that all things knows
+As ’tis with us that square our guess by shows;
+But most it is presumption in us when
+The help of heaven we count the act of men.
+Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent;
+Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.
+I am not an impostor, that proclaim
+Myself against the level of mine aim,
+But know I think, and think I know most sure,
+My art is not past power nor you past cure.
+
+KING.
+Art thou so confident? Within what space
+Hop’st thou my cure?
+
+HELENA.
+The greatest grace lending grace.
+Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
+Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,
+Ere twice in murk and occidental damp
+Moist Hesperus hath quench’d her sleepy lamp;
+Or four and twenty times the pilot’s glass
+Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass;
+What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,
+Health shall live free, and sickness freely die.
+
+KING.
+Upon thy certainty and confidence
+What dar’st thou venture?
+
+HELENA.
+Tax of impudence,
+A strumpet’s boldness, a divulged shame,
+Traduc’d by odious ballads; my maiden’s name
+Sear’d otherwise; nay worse of worst extended
+With vilest torture, let my life be ended.
+
+KING.
+Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak
+His powerful sound within an organ weak;
+And what impossibility would slay
+In common sense, sense saves another way.
+Thy life is dear, for all that life can rate
+Worth name of life in thee hath estimate:
+Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all
+That happiness and prime can happy call.
+Thou this to hazard needs must intimate
+Skill infinite, or monstrous desperate.
+Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,
+That ministers thine own death if I die.
+
+HELENA.
+If I break time, or flinch in property
+Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,
+And well deserv’d. Not helping, death’s my fee;
+But if I help, what do you promise me?
+
+KING.
+Make thy demand.
+
+HELENA.
+But will you make it even?
+
+KING.
+Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven.
+
+HELENA.
+Then shalt thou give me, with thy kingly hand
+What husband in thy power I will command:
+Exempted be from me the arrogance
+To choose from forth the royal blood of France,
+My low and humble name to propagate
+With any branch or image of thy state;
+But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know
+Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.
+
+KING.
+Here is my hand; the premises observ’d,
+Thy will by my performance shall be serv’d;
+So make the choice of thy own time, for I,
+Thy resolv’d patient, on thee still rely.
+More should I question thee, and more I must,
+Though more to know could not be more to trust:
+From whence thou cam’st, how tended on; but rest
+Unquestion’d welcome, and undoubted bless’d.
+Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
+As high as word, my deed shall match thy deed.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+
+ Enter Countess and Clown.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of your breeding.
+
+CLOWN.
+I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. I know my business is
+but to the court.
+
+COUNTESS.
+To the court! Why, what place make you special, when you put off that
+with such contempt? But to the court!
+
+CLOWN.
+Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he may easily put it
+off at court: he that cannot make a leg, put off’s cap, kiss his hand,
+and say nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed such
+a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the court; but for me, I have
+an answer will serve all men.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Marry, that’s a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
+
+CLOWN.
+It is like a barber’s chair, that fits all buttocks—the pin-buttock,
+the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Will your answer serve fit to all questions?
+
+CLOWN.
+As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French
+crown for your taffety punk, as Tib’s rush for Tom’s forefinger, as a
+pancake for Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his
+hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding quean to a wrangling
+knave, as the nun’s lip to the friar’s mouth; nay, as the pudding to
+his skin.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all questions?
+
+CLOWN.
+From below your duke to beneath your constable, it will fit any
+question.
+
+COUNTESS.
+It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all demands.
+
+CLOWN.
+But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned should speak truth
+of it. Here it is, and all that belongs to’t. Ask me if I am a
+courtier; it shall do you no harm to learn.
+
+COUNTESS.
+To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in question, hoping to
+be the wiser by your answer. I pray you, sir, are you a courtier?
+
+CLOWN.
+O Lord, sir! There’s a simple putting off. More, more, a hundred of
+them.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.
+
+CLOWN.
+O Lord, sir! Thick, thick; spare not me.
+
+COUNTESS.
+I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.
+
+CLOWN.
+O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to’t, I warrant you.
+
+COUNTESS.
+You were lately whipp’d, sir, as I think.
+
+CLOWN.
+O Lord, sir! Spare not me.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Do you cry ‘O Lord, sir!’ at your whipping, and ‘spare not me’? Indeed
+your ‘O Lord, sir!’ is very sequent to your whipping. You would answer
+very well to a whipping, if you were but bound to’t.
+
+CLOWN.
+I ne’er had worse luck in my life in my ‘O Lord, sir!’ I see things may
+serve long, but not serve ever.
+
+COUNTESS.
+I play the noble housewife with the time, to entertain it so merrily
+with a fool.
+
+CLOWN.
+O Lord, sir! Why, there’t serves well again.
+
+COUNTESS.
+An end, sir! To your business. Give Helen this,
+And urge her to a present answer back.
+Commend me to my kinsmen and my son.
+This is not much.
+
+CLOWN.
+Not much commendation to them?
+
+COUNTESS.
+Not much employment for you. You understand me?
+
+CLOWN.
+Most fruitfully. I am there before my legs.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Haste you again.
+
+ [_Exeunt severally._]
+
+SCENE III. Paris. The King’s palace.
+
+ Enter Bertram, Lafew and Parolles.
+
+LAFEW.
+They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to
+make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it
+that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming
+knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Why, ’tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our
+latter times.
+
+BERTRAM.
+And so ’tis.
+
+LAFEW.
+To be relinquish’d of the artists,—
+
+PAROLLES.
+So I say; both of Galen and Paracelsus.
+
+LAFEW.
+Of all the learned and authentic fellows,—
+
+PAROLLES.
+Right; so I say.
+
+LAFEW.
+That gave him out incurable,—
+
+PAROLLES.
+Why, there ’tis; so say I too.
+
+LAFEW.
+Not to be helped.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Right; as ’twere a man assur’d of a—
+
+LAFEW.
+Uncertain life and sure death.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Just; you say well. So would I have said.
+
+LAFEW.
+I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.
+
+PAROLLES.
+It is indeed; if you will have it in showing, you shall read it in what
+do you call there?
+
+LAFEW.
+A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.
+
+PAROLLES.
+That’s it; I would have said the very same.
+
+LAFEW.
+Why, your dolphin is not lustier; fore me, I speak in respect—
+
+PAROLLES.
+Nay, ’tis strange, ’tis very strange; that is the brief and the tedious
+of it; and he’s of a most facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge
+it to be the—
+
+LAFEW.
+Very hand of heaven.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Ay, so I say.
+
+LAFEW.
+In a most weak—
+
+PAROLLES.
+And debile minister, great power, great transcendence, which should
+indeed give us a further use to be made than alone the recov’ry of the
+king, as to be—
+
+LAFEW.
+Generally thankful.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king.
+
+ Enter King, Helena and Attendants.
+
+LAFEW.
+Lustique, as the Dutchman says. I’ll like a maid the better, whilst I
+have a tooth in my head. Why, he’s able to lead her a coranto.
+
+PAROLLES.
+_Mor du vinager!_ is not this Helen?
+
+LAFEW.
+Fore God, I think so.
+
+KING.
+Go, call before me all the lords in court.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+Sit, my preserver, by thy patient’s side,
+And with this healthful hand, whose banish’d sense
+Thou has repeal’d, a second time receive
+The confirmation of my promis’d gift,
+Which but attends thy naming.
+
+ Enter several Lords.
+
+Fair maid, send forth thine eye. This youthful parcel
+Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
+O’er whom both sovereign power and father’s voice
+I have to use. Thy frank election make;
+Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.
+
+HELENA.
+To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
+Fall, when love please! Marry, to each but one!
+
+LAFEW.
+I’d give bay curtal and his furniture
+My mouth no more were broken than these boys’,
+And writ as little beard.
+
+KING.
+Peruse them well.
+Not one of those but had a noble father.
+
+ She addresses her to a Lord.
+
+HELENA.
+Gentlemen,
+Heaven hath through me restor’d the king to health.
+
+ALL.
+We understand it, and thank heaven for you.
+
+HELENA.
+I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest
+That I protest I simply am a maid.
+Please it, your majesty, I have done already.
+The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me:
+“We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused,
+Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever,
+We’ll ne’er come there again.”
+
+KING.
+Make choice; and, see,
+Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.
+
+HELENA.
+Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,
+And to imperial Love, that god most high,
+Do my sighs stream. [_To first Lord._] Sir, will you hear my suit?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+And grant it.
+
+HELENA.
+Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.
+
+LAFEW.
+I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace for my life.
+
+HELENA.
+[_To second Lord._] The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,
+Before I speak, too threat’ningly replies.
+Love make your fortunes twenty times above
+Her that so wishes, and her humble love!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+No better, if you please.
+
+HELENA.
+My wish receive,
+Which great Love grant; and so I take my leave.
+
+LAFEW.
+Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine I’d have them whipp’d;
+or I would send them to th’ Turk to make eunuchs of.
+
+HELENA.
+[_To third Lord._] Be not afraid that I your hand should take;
+I’ll never do you wrong for your own sake.
+Blessing upon your vows, and in your bed
+Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!
+
+LAFEW.
+These boys are boys of ice, they’ll none have her. Sure, they are
+bastards to the English; the French ne’er got ’em.
+
+HELENA.
+[_To fourth Lord._] You are too young, too happy, and too good,
+To make yourself a son out of my blood.
+
+FOURTH LORD.
+Fair one, I think not so.
+
+LAFEW.
+There’s one grape yet. I am sure thy father drank wine. But if thou
+beest not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen; I have known thee already.
+
+HELENA.
+[_To Bertram._] I dare not say I take you, but I give
+Me and my service, ever whilst I live,
+Into your guiding power. This is the man.
+
+KING.
+Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she’s thy wife.
+
+BERTRAM.
+My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,
+In such a business give me leave to use
+The help of mine own eyes.
+
+KING.
+Know’st thou not, Bertram,
+What she has done for me?
+
+BERTRAM.
+Yes, my good lord,
+But never hope to know why I should marry her.
+
+KING.
+Thou know’st she has rais’d me from my sickly bed.
+
+BERTRAM.
+But follows it, my lord, to bring me down
+Must answer for your raising? I know her well;
+She had her breeding at my father’s charge:
+A poor physician’s daughter my wife! Disdain
+Rather corrupt me ever!
+
+KING.
+’Tis only title thou disdain’st in her, the which
+I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,
+Of colour, weight, and heat, pour’d all together,
+Would quite confound distinction, yet stands off
+In differences so mighty. If she be
+All that is virtuous, save what thou dislik’st,
+A poor physician’s daughter,—thou dislik’st—
+Of virtue for the name. But do not so.
+From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
+The place is dignified by the doer’s deed.
+Where great additions swell’s, and virtue none,
+It is a dropsied honour. Good alone
+Is good without a name; vileness is so:
+The property by what it is should go,
+Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;
+In these to nature she’s immediate heir;
+And these breed honour: that is honour’s scorn
+Which challenges itself as honour’s born,
+And is not like the sire. Honours thrive
+When rather from our acts we them derive
+Than our fore-goers. The mere word’s a slave,
+Debauch’d on every tomb, on every grave
+A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
+Where dust and damn’d oblivion is the tomb
+Of honour’d bones indeed. What should be said?
+If thou canst like this creature as a maid,
+I can create the rest. Virtue and she
+Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I cannot love her, nor will strive to do ’t.
+
+KING.
+Thou wrong’st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose.
+
+HELENA.
+That you are well restor’d, my lord, I am glad.
+Let the rest go.
+
+KING.
+My honour’s at the stake, which to defeat,
+I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,
+Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift,
+That dost in vile misprision shackle up
+My love and her desert; that canst not dream
+We, poising us in her defective scale,
+Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know
+It is in us to plant thine honour where
+We please to have it grow. Check thy contempt;
+Obey our will, which travails in thy good;
+Believe not thy disdain, but presently
+Do thine own fortunes that obedient right
+Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;
+Or I will throw thee from my care for ever
+Into the staggers and the careless lapse
+Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate
+Loosing upon thee in the name of justice,
+Without all terms of pity. Speak! Thine answer!
+
+BERTRAM.
+Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit
+My fancy to your eyes. When I consider
+What great creation, and what dole of honour
+Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late
+Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now
+The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,
+Is as ’twere born so.
+
+KING.
+Take her by the hand,
+And tell her she is thine; to whom I promise
+A counterpoise; if not to thy estate,
+A balance more replete.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I take her hand.
+
+KING.
+Good fortune and the favour of the king
+Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony
+Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,
+And be perform’d tonight. The solemn feast
+Shall more attend upon the coming space,
+Expecting absent friends. As thou lov’st her,
+Thy love’s to me religious; else, does err.
+
+ [_Exeunt King, Bertram, Helena, Lords, and Attendants._]
+
+LAFEW.
+Do you hear, monsieur? A word with you.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Your pleasure, sir.
+
+LAFEW.
+Your lord and master did well to make his recantation.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Recantation! My lord! My master!
+
+LAFEW.
+Ay. Is it not a language I speak?
+
+PAROLLES.
+A most harsh one, and not to be understood without bloody succeeding.
+My master!
+
+LAFEW.
+Are you companion to the Count Rossillon?
+
+PAROLLES.
+To any count; to all counts; to what is man.
+
+LAFEW.
+To what is count’s man: count’s master is of another style.
+
+PAROLLES.
+You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old.
+
+LAFEW.
+I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot bring
+thee.
+
+PAROLLES.
+What I dare too well do, I dare not do.
+
+LAFEW.
+I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou
+didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass. Yet the scarfs
+and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing
+thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found thee; when I lose
+thee again I care not. Yet art thou good for nothing but taking up, and
+that thou art scarce worth.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee—
+
+LAFEW.
+Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial;
+which if—Lord have mercy on thee for a hen! So, my good window of
+lattice, fare thee well; thy casement I need not open, for I look
+through thee. Give me thy hand.
+
+PAROLLES.
+My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
+
+LAFEW.
+Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I have not, my lord, deserv’d it.
+
+LAFEW.
+Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not bate thee a scruple.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Well, I shall be wiser.
+
+LAFEW.
+Ev’n as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack o’ th’
+contrary. If ever thou beest bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt
+find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my
+acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say in the
+default, “He is a man I know.”
+
+PAROLLES.
+My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.
+
+LAFEW.
+I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor doing eternal; for
+doing I am past, as I will by thee, in what motion age will give me
+leave.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PAROLLES.
+Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old,
+filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of
+authority. I’ll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with any
+convenience, an he were double and double a lord. I’ll have no more
+pity of his age than I would have of—I’ll beat him, and if I could but
+meet him again.
+
+ Enter Lafew.
+
+LAFEW.
+Sirrah, your lord and master’s married; there’s news for you; you have
+a new mistress.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of
+your wrongs. He is my good lord; whom I serve above is my master.
+
+LAFEW.
+Who? God?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Ay, sir.
+
+LAFEW.
+The devil it is that’s thy master. Why dost thou garter up thy arms o’
+this fashion? Dost make hose of thy sleeves? Do other servants so? Thou
+wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine honour, if
+I were but two hours younger, I’d beat thee. Methink’st thou art a
+general offence, and every man should beat thee. I think thou wast
+created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.
+
+PAROLLES.
+This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.
+
+LAFEW.
+Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a
+pomegranate; you are a vagabond, and no true traveller. You are more
+saucy with lords and honourable personages than the commission of your
+birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not worth another word,
+else I’d call you knave. I leave you.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Bertram.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Good, very good, it is so then. Good, very good; let it be conceal’d
+awhile.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!
+
+PAROLLES.
+What’s the matter, sweetheart?
+
+BERTRAM.
+Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,
+I will not bed her.
+
+PAROLLES.
+What, what, sweetheart?
+
+BERTRAM.
+O my Parolles, they have married me!
+I’ll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.
+
+PAROLLES.
+France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits
+The tread of a man’s foot: to the wars!
+
+BERTRAM.
+There’s letters from my mother; what th’ import is
+I know not yet.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Ay, that would be known. To th’ wars, my boy, to th’ wars!
+He wears his honour in a box unseen
+That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,
+Spending his manly marrow in her arms,
+Which should sustain the bound and high curvet
+Of Mars’s fiery steed. To other regions!
+France is a stable; we that dwell in’t, jades,
+Therefore, to th’ war!
+
+BERTRAM.
+It shall be so; I’ll send her to my house,
+Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,
+And wherefore I am fled; write to the king
+That which I durst not speak. His present gift
+Shall furnish me to those Italian fields
+Where noble fellows strike. War is no strife
+To the dark house and the detested wife.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Will this caprichio hold in thee, art sure?
+
+BERTRAM.
+Go with me to my chamber and advise me.
+I’ll send her straight away. Tomorrow
+I’ll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Why, these balls bound; there’s noise in it. ’Tis hard:
+A young man married is a man that’s marr’d.
+Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go.
+The king has done you wrong; but hush ’tis so.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Paris. The King’s palace.
+
+ Enter Helena and Clown.
+
+HELENA.
+My mother greets me kindly: is she well?
+
+CLOWN.
+She is not well, but yet she has her health; she’s very merry, but yet
+she is not well. But thanks be given, she’s very well, and wants
+nothing i’ the world; but yet she is not well.
+
+HELENA.
+If she be very well, what does she ail that she’s not very well?
+
+CLOWN.
+Truly, she’s very well indeed, but for two things.
+
+HELENA.
+What two things?
+
+CLOWN.
+One, that she’s not in heaven, whither God send her quickly! The other,
+that she’s in earth, from whence God send her quickly!
+
+ Enter Parolles.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Bless you, my fortunate lady!
+
+HELENA.
+I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own good fortune.
+
+PAROLLES.
+You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them on, have them
+still. O, my knave how does my old lady?
+
+CLOWN.
+So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, I would she did as you
+say.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Why, I say nothing.
+
+CLOWN.
+Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man’s tongue shakes out his
+master’s undoing. To say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and
+to have nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which is within a
+very little of nothing.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Away! Thou art a knave.
+
+CLOWN.
+You should have said, sir, before a knave thou art a knave; that is
+before me thou art a knave. This had been truth, sir.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee.
+
+CLOWN.
+Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you taught to find me? The
+search, sir, was profitable; and much fool may you find in you, even to
+the world’s pleasure and the increase of laughter.
+
+PAROLLES.
+A good knave, i’ faith, and well fed.
+Madam, my lord will go away tonight;
+A very serious business calls on him.
+The great prerogative and right of love,
+Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;
+But puts it off to a compell’d restraint;
+Whose want, and whose delay, is strew’d with sweets;
+Which they distil now in the curbed time,
+To make the coming hour o’erflow with joy
+And pleasure drown the brim.
+
+HELENA.
+What’s his will else?
+
+PAROLLES.
+That you will take your instant leave o’ the king,
+And make this haste as your own good proceeding,
+Strengthen’d with what apology you think
+May make it probable need.
+
+HELENA.
+What more commands he?
+
+PAROLLES.
+That, having this obtain’d, you presently
+Attend his further pleasure.
+
+HELENA.
+In everything I wait upon his will.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I shall report it so.
+
+HELENA.
+I pray you. Come, sirrah.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another room in the same.
+
+ Enter Lafew and Bertram.
+
+LAFEW.
+But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.
+
+LAFEW.
+You have it from his own deliverance.
+
+BERTRAM.
+And by other warranted testimony.
+
+LAFEW.
+Then my dial goes not true; I took this lark for a bunting.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in knowledge, and
+accordingly valiant.
+
+LAFEW.
+I have, then, sinned against his experience and transgressed against
+his valour; and my state that way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find
+in my heart to repent. Here he comes; I pray you make us friends; I
+will pursue the amity.
+
+ Enter Parolles.
+
+PAROLLES.
+[_To Bertram._] These things shall be done, sir.
+
+LAFEW.
+Pray you, sir, who’s his tailor?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Sir!
+
+LAFEW.
+O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, is a good workman, a very good
+tailor.
+
+BERTRAM.
+[_Aside to Parolles._] Is she gone to the king?
+
+PAROLLES.
+She is.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Will she away tonight?
+
+PAROLLES.
+As you’ll have her.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,
+Given order for our horses; and tonight,
+When I should take possession of the bride,
+End ere I do begin.
+
+LAFEW.
+A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner; but one
+that lies three-thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand
+nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.— God save you,
+Captain.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur?
+
+PAROLLES.
+I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord’s displeasure.
+
+LAFEW.
+You have made shift to run into ’t, boots and spurs and all, like him
+that leapt into the custard; and out of it you’ll run again, rather
+than suffer question for your residence.
+
+BERTRAM.
+It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.
+
+LAFEW.
+And shall do so ever, though I took him at his prayers. Fare you well,
+my lord; and believe this of me, there can be no kernal in this light
+nut; the soul of this man is his clothes; trust him not in matter of
+heavy consequence; I have kept of them tame, and know their natures.
+Farewell, monsieur; I have spoken better of you than you have or will
+to deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PAROLLES.
+An idle lord, I swear.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I think so.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Why, do you not know him?
+
+BERTRAM.
+Yes, I do know him well; and common speech
+Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog.
+
+ Enter Helena.
+
+HELENA.
+I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,
+Spoke with the king, and have procur’d his leave
+For present parting; only he desires
+Some private speech with you.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I shall obey his will.
+You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,
+Which holds not colour with the time, nor does
+The ministration and required office
+On my particular. Prepared I was not
+For such a business; therefore am I found
+So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you;
+That presently you take your way for home,
+And rather muse than ask why I entreat you:
+For my respects are better than they seem;
+And my appointments have in them a need
+Greater than shows itself at the first view
+To you that know them not. This to my mother.
+
+ [_Giving a letter._]
+
+’Twill be two days ere I shall see you; so
+I leave you to your wisdom.
+
+HELENA.
+Sir, I can nothing say
+But that I am your most obedient servant.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Come, come, no more of that.
+
+HELENA.
+And ever shall
+With true observance seek to eke out that
+Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail’d
+To equal my great fortune.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Let that go.
+My haste is very great. Farewell; hie home.
+
+HELENA.
+Pray, sir, your pardon.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Well, what would you say?
+
+HELENA.
+I am not worthy of the wealth I owe;
+Nor dare I say ’tis mine, and yet it is;
+But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal
+What law does vouch mine own.
+
+BERTRAM.
+What would you have?
+
+HELENA.
+Something; and scarce so much; nothing indeed.
+I would not tell you what I would, my lord. Faith, yes,
+Strangers and foes do sunder and not kiss.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.
+
+HELENA.
+I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.
+Where are my other men, monsieur?
+Farewell,
+
+ [_Exit Helena._]
+
+BERTRAM.
+Go thou toward home, where I will never come
+Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum.
+Away, and for our flight.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Bravely, coragio!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT III.
+
+SCENE I. Florence. A room in the Duke’s palace.
+
+ Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence attended; two French Lords, and
+ Soldiers.
+
+DUKE.
+So that, from point to point, now have you heard
+The fundamental reasons of this war,
+Whose great decision hath much blood let forth,
+And more thirsts after.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Holy seems the quarrel
+Upon your Grace’s part; black and fearful
+On the opposer.
+
+DUKE.
+Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
+Would, in so just a business, shut his bosom
+Against our borrowing prayers.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Good my lord,
+The reasons of our state I cannot yield,
+But like a common and an outward man
+That the great figure of a council frames
+By self-unable motion; therefore dare not
+Say what I think of it, since I have found
+Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
+As often as I guess’d.
+
+DUKE.
+Be it his pleasure.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+But I am sure the younger of our nature,
+That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
+Come here for physic.
+
+DUKE.
+Welcome shall they be;
+And all the honours that can fly from us
+Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
+When better fall, for your avails they fell.
+Tomorrow to the field.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+
+ Enter Countess and Clown.
+
+COUNTESS.
+It hath happen’d all as I would have had it, save that he comes not
+along with her.
+
+CLOWN.
+By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very melancholy man.
+
+COUNTESS.
+By what observance, I pray you?
+
+CLOWN.
+Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the ruff and sing; ask
+questions and sing; pick his teeth and sing. I know a man that had this
+trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come.
+
+ [_Opening a letter._]
+
+CLOWN.
+I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court. Our old lings and our
+Isbels o’ th’ country are nothing like your old ling and your Isbels o’
+th’ court. The brains of my Cupid’s knock’d out, and I begin to love,
+as an old man loves money, with no stomach.
+
+COUNTESS.
+What have we here?
+
+CLOWN.
+E’en that you have there.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+COUNTESS.
+[_Reads._] _I have sent you a daughter-in-law; she hath recovered the
+king and undone me. I have wedded her, not bedded her, and sworn to
+make the “not” eternal. You shall hear I am run away; know it before
+the report come. If there be breadth enough in the world, I will hold a
+long distance. My duty to you.
+              Your unfortunate son,_
+                            BERTRAM.
+
+This is not well, rash and unbridled boy,
+To fly the favours of so good a king,
+To pluck his indignation on thy head
+By the misprizing of a maid too virtuous
+For the contempt of empire.
+
+ Enter Clown.
+
+CLOWN.
+O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two soldiers and my young
+lady.
+
+COUNTESS.
+What is the matter?
+
+CLOWN.
+Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some comfort; your son will not
+be kill’d so soon as I thought he would.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Why should he be kill’d?
+
+CLOWN.
+So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does; the danger is in
+standing to’t; that’s the loss of men, though it be the getting of
+children. Here they come will tell you more. For my part, I only hear
+your son was run away.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Helena and the two Gentlemen.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Save you, good madam.
+
+HELENA.
+Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Do not say so.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen,—
+I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief
+That the first face of neither on the start
+Can woman me unto ’t. Where is my son, I pray you?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Madam, he’s gone to serve the Duke of Florence;
+We met him thitherward, for thence we came,
+And, after some despatch in hand at court,
+Thither we bend again.
+
+HELENA.
+Look on this letter, madam; here’s my passport.
+
+[_Reads._] _When thou canst get the ring upon my finger, which never
+shall come off, and show me a child begotten of thy body that I am
+father to, then call me husband; but in such a “then” I write a
+“never”._
+This is a dreadful sentence.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Brought you this letter, gentlemen?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Ay, madam; And for the contents’ sake, are sorry for our pains.
+
+COUNTESS.
+I pr’ythee, lady, have a better cheer;
+If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
+Thou robb’st me of a moiety. He was my son,
+But I do wash his name out of my blood,
+And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Ay, madam.
+
+COUNTESS.
+And to be a soldier?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Such is his noble purpose, and, believe’t,
+The duke will lay upon him all the honour
+That good convenience claims.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Return you thither?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.
+
+HELENA.
+[_Reads._] _Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France._
+’Tis bitter.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Find you that there?
+
+HELENA.
+Ay, madam.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis but the boldness of his hand haply, which his heart was not
+consenting to.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Nothing in France until he have no wife!
+There’s nothing here that is too good for him
+But only she, and she deserves a lord
+That twenty such rude boys might tend upon,
+And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+A servant only, and a gentleman which I have sometime known.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Parolles, was it not?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Ay, my good lady, he.
+
+COUNTESS.
+A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.
+My son corrupts a well-derived nature
+With his inducement.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Indeed, good lady,
+The fellow has a deal of that too much,
+Which holds him much to have.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Y’are welcome, gentlemen.
+I will entreat you, when you see my son,
+To tell him that his sword can never win
+The honour that he loses: more I’ll entreat you
+Written to bear along.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+We serve you, madam,
+In that and all your worthiest affairs.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Not so, but as we change our courtesies.
+Will you draw near?
+
+ [_Exeunt Countess and Gentlemen._]
+
+HELENA.
+“Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.”
+Nothing in France until he has no wife!
+Thou shalt have none, Rossillon, none in France;
+Then hast thou all again. Poor lord, is’t I
+That chase thee from thy country, and expose
+Those tender limbs of thine to the event
+Of the none-sparing war? And is it I
+That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou
+Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark
+Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,
+That ride upon the violent speed of fire,
+Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,
+That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord.
+Whoever shoots at him, I set him there;
+Whoever charges on his forward breast,
+I am the caitiff that do hold him to’t;
+And though I kill him not, I am the cause
+His death was so effected. Better ’twere
+I met the ravin lion when he roar’d
+With sharp constraint of hunger; better ’twere
+That all the miseries which nature owes
+Were mine at once. No; come thou home, Rossillon,
+Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,
+As oft it loses all. I will be gone;
+My being here it is that holds thee hence.
+Shall I stay here to do’t? No, no, although
+The air of paradise did fan the house,
+And angels offic’d all. I will be gone,
+That pitiful rumour may report my flight
+To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day;
+For with the dark, poor thief, I’ll steal away.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. Florence. Before the Duke’s palace.
+
+ Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, Bertram, drum and trumpets,
+ Soldiers, Parolles.
+
+DUKE.
+The general of our horse thou art, and we,
+Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence
+Upon thy promising fortune.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Sir, it is
+A charge too heavy for my strength; but yet
+We’ll strive to bear it for your worthy sake
+To th’extreme edge of hazard.
+
+DUKE.
+Then go thou forth;
+And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm,
+As thy auspicious mistress!
+
+BERTRAM.
+This very day,
+Great Mars, I put myself into thy file;
+Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove
+A lover of thy drum, hater of love.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+
+ Enter Countess and Steward.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Alas! and would you take the letter of her?
+Might you not know she would do as she has done,
+By sending me a letter? Read it again.
+
+STEWARD.
+[_Reads._] _I am Saint Jaques’ pilgrim, thither gone.
+Ambitious love hath so in me offended
+That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,
+With sainted vow my faults to have amended.
+Write, write, that from the bloody course of war
+My dearest master, your dear son, may hie.
+Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far
+His name with zealous fervour sanctify.
+His taken labours bid him me forgive;
+I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth
+From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,
+Where death and danger dog the heels of worth.
+He is too good and fair for death and me;
+Whom I myself embrace to set him free._
+
+COUNTESS.
+Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!
+Rynaldo, you did never lack advice so much
+As letting her pass so; had I spoke with her,
+I could have well diverted her intents,
+Which thus she hath prevented.
+
+STEWARD.
+Pardon me, madam;
+If I had given you this at over-night,
+She might have been o’erta’en; and yet she writes
+Pursuit would be but vain.
+
+COUNTESS.
+What angel shall
+Bless this unworthy husband? He cannot thrive,
+Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear
+And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath
+Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rynaldo,
+To this unworthy husband of his wife;
+Let every word weigh heavy of her worth,
+That he does weigh too light; my greatest grief,
+Though little he do feel it, set down sharply.
+Dispatch the most convenient messenger.
+When haply he shall hear that she is gone
+He will return; and hope I may that she,
+Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,
+Led hither by pure love. Which of them both
+Is dearest to me I have no skill in sense
+To make distinction. Provide this messenger.
+My heart is heavy, and mine age is weak;
+Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Without the walls of Florence.
+
+ Enter an old Widow of Florence, Diana, Violenta, Mariana and other
+ Citizens.
+
+WIDOW.
+Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we shall lose all the
+sight.
+
+DIANA.
+They say the French count has done most honourable service.
+
+WIDOW.
+It is reported that he has taken their great’st commander, and that
+with his own hand he slew the duke’s brother.
+
+ [_A tucket afar off._]
+
+We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary way. Hark! you may
+know by their trumpets.
+
+MARIANA.
+Come, let’s return again, and suffice ourselves with the report of it.
+Well, Diana, take heed of this French earl; the honour of a maid is her
+name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty.
+
+WIDOW.
+I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited by a gentleman his
+companion.
+
+MARIANA.
+I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles; a filthy officer he is in
+those suggestions for the young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their
+promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust,
+are not the things they go under; many a maid hath been seduced by
+them; and the misery is, example, that so terrible shows in the wreck
+of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, but that they
+are limed with the twigs that threaten them. I hope I need not to
+advise you further; but I hope your own grace will keep you where you
+are, though there were no further danger known but the modesty which is
+so lost.
+
+DIANA.
+You shall not need to fear me.
+
+ Enter Helena in the dress of a pilgrim.
+
+WIDOW.
+I hope so. Look, here comes a pilgrim. I know she will lie at my house;
+thither they send one another; I’ll question her. God save you,
+pilgrim! Whither are bound?
+
+HELENA.
+To Saint Jaques le Grand.
+Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?
+
+WIDOW.
+At the Saint Francis here, beside the port.
+
+HELENA.
+Is this the way?
+
+ [_A march afar._]
+
+WIDOW.
+Ay, marry, is’t. Hark you, they come this way.
+If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,
+But till the troops come by,
+I will conduct you where you shall be lodg’d;
+The rather for I think I know your hostess
+As ample as myself.
+
+HELENA.
+Is it yourself?
+
+WIDOW.
+If you shall please so, pilgrim.
+
+HELENA.
+I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.
+
+WIDOW.
+You came, I think, from France?
+
+HELENA.
+I did so.
+
+WIDOW.
+Here you shall see a countryman of yours
+That has done worthy service.
+
+HELENA.
+His name, I pray you.
+
+DIANA.
+The Count Rossillon. Know you such a one?
+
+HELENA.
+But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him;
+His face I know not.
+
+DIANA.
+Whatsome’er he is,
+He’s bravely taken here. He stole from France,
+As ’tis reported, for the king had married him
+Against his liking. Think you it is so?
+
+HELENA.
+Ay, surely, mere the truth; I know his lady.
+
+DIANA.
+There is a gentleman that serves the count
+Reports but coarsely of her.
+
+HELENA.
+What’s his name?
+
+DIANA.
+Monsieur Parolles.
+
+HELENA.
+O, I believe with him,
+In argument of praise, or to the worth
+Of the great count himself, she is too mean
+To have her name repeated; all her deserving
+Is a reserved honesty, and that
+I have not heard examin’d.
+
+DIANA.
+Alas, poor lady!
+’Tis a hard bondage to become the wife
+Of a detesting lord.
+
+WIDOW.
+Ay, right; good creature, wheresoe’er she is,
+Her heart weighs sadly. This young maid might do her
+A shrewd turn, if she pleas’d.
+
+HELENA.
+How do you mean?
+Maybe the amorous count solicits her
+In the unlawful purpose.
+
+WIDOW.
+He does indeed,
+And brokes with all that can in such a suit
+Corrupt the tender honour of a maid;
+But she is arm’d for him, and keeps her guard
+In honestest defence.
+
+ Enter, with a drum and colours, a party of the Florentine army,
+ Bertram and Parolles.
+
+MARIANA.
+The gods forbid else!
+
+WIDOW.
+So, now they come.
+That is Antonio, the Duke’s eldest son;
+That Escalus.
+
+HELENA.
+Which is the Frenchman?
+
+DIANA.
+He;
+That with the plume; ’tis a most gallant fellow.
+I would he lov’d his wife; if he were honester
+He were much goodlier. Is’t not a handsome gentleman?
+
+HELENA.
+I like him well.
+
+DIANA.
+’Tis pity he is not honest. Yond’s that same knave
+That leads him to these places. Were I his lady
+I would poison that vile rascal.
+
+HELENA.
+Which is he?
+
+DIANA.
+That jack-an-apes with scarfs. Why is he melancholy?
+
+HELENA.
+Perchance he’s hurt i’ the battle.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Lose our drum! Well.
+
+MARIANA.
+He’s shrewdly vex’d at something. Look, he has spied us.
+
+WIDOW.
+Marry, hang you!
+
+MARIANA.
+And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!
+
+ [_Exeunt Bertram, Parolles, Officers and Soldiers._]
+
+WIDOW.
+The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you
+Where you shall host; of enjoin’d penitents
+There’s four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,
+Already at my house.
+
+HELENA.
+I humbly thank you.
+Please it this matron and this gentle maid
+To eat with us tonight; the charge and thanking
+Shall be for me; and, to requite you further,
+I will bestow some precepts of this virgin,
+Worthy the note.
+
+BOTH.
+We’ll take your offer kindly.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Camp before Florence.
+
+ Enter Bertram and the two French Lords.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Nay, good my lord, put him to’t; let him have his way.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no more in your
+respect.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+On my life, my lord, a bubble.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Do you think I am so far deceived in him?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge, without any malice,
+but to speak of him as my kinsman, he’s a most notable coward, an
+infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no
+one good quality worthy your lordship’s entertainment.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far in his virtue, which
+he hath not, he might at some great and trusty business, in a main
+danger fail you.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I would I knew in what particular action to try him.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+None better than to let him fetch off his drum, which you hear him so
+confidently undertake to do.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I with a troop of Florentines will suddenly surprise him; such I will
+have whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy; we will bind and
+hoodwink him so that he shall suppose no other but that he is carried
+into the leaguer of the adversaries when we bring him to our own tents.
+Be but your lordship present at his examination; if he do not for the
+promise of his life, and in the highest compulsion of base fear, offer
+to betray you, and deliver all the intelligence in his power against
+you, and that with the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never
+trust my judgment in anything.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum; he says he has a
+stratagem for’t. When your lordship sees the bottom of his success
+in’t, and to what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted, if
+you give him not John Drum’s entertainment, your inclining cannot be
+removed. Here he comes.
+
+ Enter Parolles.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+O, for the love of laughter, hinder not the honour of his design: let
+him fetch off his drum in any hand.
+
+BERTRAM.
+How now, monsieur! This drum sticks sorely in your disposition.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+A pox on ’t; let it go; ’tis but a drum.
+
+PAROLLES.
+But a drum! Is’t but a drum? A drum so lost! There was excellent
+command, to charge in with our horse upon our own wings, and to rend
+our own soldiers.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+That was not to be blam’d in the command of the service; it was a
+disaster of war that Caesar himself could not have prevented, if he had
+been there to command.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some dishonour we had in
+the loss of that drum, but it is not to be recovered.
+
+PAROLLES.
+It might have been recovered.
+
+BERTRAM.
+It might, but it is not now.
+
+PAROLLES.
+It is to be recovered. But that the merit of service is seldom
+attributed to the true and exact performer, I would have that drum or
+another, or _hic jacet_.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Why, if you have a stomach, to’t, monsieur, if you think your mystery
+in stratagem can bring this instrument of honour again into his native
+quarter, be magnanimous in the enterprise, and go on; I will grace the
+attempt for a worthy exploit; if you speed well in it, the duke shall
+both speak of it and extend to you what further becomes his greatness,
+even to the utmost syllable of your worthiness.
+
+PAROLLES.
+By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.
+
+BERTRAM.
+But you must not now slumber in it.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I’ll about it this evening; and I will presently pen down my dilemmas,
+encourage myself in my certainty, put myself into my mortal
+preparation; and by midnight look to hear further from me.
+
+BERTRAM.
+May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it?
+
+PAROLLES.
+I know not what the success will be, my lord, but the attempt I vow.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I know th’art valiant; and to the possibility of thy soldiership, will
+subscribe for thee. Farewell.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I love not many words.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FIRST LORD.
+No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a strange fellow, my lord,
+that so confidently seems to undertake this business, which he knows is
+not to be done; damns himself to do, and dares better be damn’d than to
+do’t.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+You do not know him, my lord, as we do; certain it is that he will
+steal himself into a man’s favour, and for a week escape a great deal
+of discoveries, but when you find him out, you have him ever after.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of this, that so
+seriously he does address himself unto?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+None in the world; but return with an invention, and clap upon you two
+or three probable lies; but we have almost embossed him; you shall see
+his fall tonight; for indeed he is not for your lordship’s respect.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+We’ll make you some sport with the fox ere we case him. He was first
+smok’d by the old Lord Lafew; when his disguise and he is parted, tell
+me what a sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this very
+night.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I must go look my twigs. He shall be caught.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Your brother, he shall go along with me.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+As’t please your lordship. I’ll leave you.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BERTRAM.
+Now will I lead you to the house, and show you
+The lass I spoke of.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+But you say she’s honest.
+
+BERTRAM.
+That’s all the fault. I spoke with her but once,
+And found her wondrous cold, but I sent to her
+By this same coxcomb that we have i’ the wind
+Tokens and letters which she did re-send,
+And this is all I have done. She’s a fair creature;
+Will you go see her?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+With all my heart, my lord.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. Florence. A room in the Widow’s house.
+
+ Enter Helena and Widow.
+
+HELENA.
+If you misdoubt me that I am not she,
+I know not how I shall assure you further,
+But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.
+
+WIDOW.
+Though my estate be fall’n, I was well born,
+Nothing acquainted with these businesses,
+And would not put my reputation now
+In any staining act.
+
+HELENA.
+Nor would I wish you.
+First give me trust, the count he is my husband,
+And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken
+Is so from word to word; and then you cannot,
+By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,
+Err in bestowing it.
+
+WIDOW.
+I should believe you,
+For you have show’d me that which well approves
+Y’are great in fortune.
+
+HELENA.
+Take this purse of gold,
+And let me buy your friendly help thus far,
+Which I will over-pay, and pay again
+When I have found it. The count he woos your daughter
+Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,
+Resolv’d to carry her; let her in fine consent,
+As we’ll direct her how ’tis best to bear it.
+Now his important blood will naught deny
+That she’ll demand; a ring the county wears,
+That downward hath succeeded in his house
+From son to son, some four or five descents
+Since the first father wore it. This ring he holds
+In most rich choice; yet, in his idle fire,
+To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,
+Howe’er repented after.
+
+WIDOW.
+Now I see
+The bottom of your purpose.
+
+HELENA.
+You see it lawful then; it is no more
+But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,
+Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;
+In fine, delivers me to fill the time,
+Herself most chastely absent. After,
+To marry her, I’ll add three thousand crowns
+To what is pass’d already.
+
+WIDOW.
+I have yielded.
+Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
+That time and place with this deceit so lawful
+May prove coherent. Every night he comes
+With musics of all sorts, and songs compos’d
+To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us
+To chide him from our eaves; for he persists
+As if his life lay on ’t.
+
+HELENA.
+Why then tonight
+Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,
+Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed,
+And lawful meaning in a lawful act,
+Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact.
+But let’s about it.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT IV.
+
+SCENE I. Without the Florentine camp.
+
+ Enter first Lord with five or six Soldiers in ambush.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner. When you sally upon
+him, speak what terrible language you will; though you understand it
+not yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to understand him,
+unless someone among us, whom we must produce for an interpreter.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Good captain, let me be th’ interpreter.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Art not acquainted with him? Knows he not thy voice?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+No sir, I warrant you.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+But what linsey-woolsey has thou to speak to us again?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+E’en such as you speak to me.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+He must think us some band of strangers i’ the adversary’s
+entertainment. Now he hath a smack of all neighbouring languages,
+therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy; not to know what
+we speak one to another, so we seem to know, is to know straight our
+purpose: choughs’ language, gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,
+interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch, ho! Here he comes;
+to beguile two hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear the lies
+he forges.
+
+ Enter Parolles.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Ten o’clock. Within these three hours ’twill be time enough to go home.
+What shall I say I have done? It must be a very plausive invention that
+carries it. They begin to smoke me, and disgraces have of late knock’d
+too often at my door. I find my tongue is too foolhardy, but my heart
+hath the fear of Mars before it, and of his creatures, not daring the
+reports of my tongue.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+[_Aside._] This is the first truth that e’er thine own tongue was
+guilty of.
+
+PAROLLES.
+What the devil should move me to undertake the recovery of this drum,
+being not ignorant of the impossibility, and knowing I had no such
+purpose? I must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in exploit;
+yet slight ones will not carry it. They will say “Came you off with so
+little?” and great ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what’s the
+instance? Tongue, I must put you into a butter-woman’s mouth, and buy
+myself another of Bajazet’s mule, if you prattle me into these perils.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+[_Aside._] Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?
+
+PAROLLES.
+I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn, or the
+breaking of my Spanish sword.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+[_Aside._] We cannot afford you so.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Or the baring of my beard, and to say it was in stratagem.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+[_Aside._] ’Twould not do.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+[_Aside._] Hardly serve.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Though I swore I leap’d from the window of the citadel,—
+
+FIRST LORD.
+[_Aside._] How deep?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Thirty fathom.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+[_Aside._] Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I would I had any drum of the enemy’s; I would swear I recover’d it.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+[_Aside._] You shall hear one anon.
+
+PAROLLES.
+A drum now of the enemy’s!
+
+ [_Alarum within._]
+
+FIRST LORD.
+_Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo._
+
+ALL.
+_Cargo, cargo, cargo, villianda par corbo, cargo._
+
+ [_They seize and blindfold him._]
+
+PAROLLES.
+O, ransom, ransom! Do not hide mine eyes.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+_Boskos thromuldo boskos._
+
+PAROLLES.
+I know you are the Muskos’ regiment,
+And I shall lose my life for want of language.
+If there be here German, or Dane, Low Dutch,
+Italian, or French, let him speak to me,
+I’ll discover that which shall undo the Florentine.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+_Boskos vauvado._ I understand thee, and can speak thy tongue.
+_Kerelybonto._ Sir, Betake thee to thy faith, for seventeen poniards
+are at thy bosom.
+
+PAROLLES.
+O!
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+O, pray, pray, pray!
+_Manka revania dulche._
+
+FIRST LORD.
+_Oscorbidulchos volivorco._
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+The General is content to spare thee yet;
+And, hoodwink’d as thou art, will lead thee on
+To gather from thee. Haply thou mayst inform
+Something to save thy life.
+
+PAROLLES.
+O, let me live,
+And all the secrets of our camp I’ll show,
+Their force, their purposes; nay, I’ll speak that
+Which you will wonder at.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+But wilt thou faithfully?
+
+PAROLLES.
+If I do not, damn me.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+_Acordo linta._
+Come on; thou art granted space.
+
+ [_Exit, with Parolles guarded._]
+
+ A short alarum within.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Go tell the Count Rossillon and my brother
+We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled
+Till we do hear from them.
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Captain, I will.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+’A will betray us all unto ourselves;
+Inform on that.
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+So I will, sir.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Till then I’ll keep him dark, and safely lock’d.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Florence. A room in the Widow’s house.
+
+ Enter Bertram and Diana.
+
+BERTRAM.
+They told me that your name was Fontybell.
+
+DIANA.
+No, my good lord, Diana.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Titled goddess;
+And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,
+In your fine frame hath love no quality?
+If the quick fire of youth light not your mind,
+You are no maiden but a monument;
+When you are dead, you should be such a one
+As you are now; for you are cold and stern,
+And now you should be as your mother was
+When your sweet self was got.
+
+DIANA.
+She then was honest.
+
+BERTRAM.
+So should you be.
+
+DIANA.
+No.
+My mother did but duty; such, my lord,
+As you owe to your wife.
+
+BERTRAM.
+No more a’ that!
+I pr’ythee do not strive against my vows;
+I was compell’d to her; but I love thee
+By love’s own sweet constraint, and will for ever
+Do thee all rights of service.
+
+DIANA.
+Ay, so you serve us
+Till we serve you; but when you have our roses,
+You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves,
+And mock us with our bareness.
+
+BERTRAM.
+How have I sworn?
+
+DIANA.
+’Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,
+But the plain single vow that is vow’d true.
+What is not holy, that we swear not by,
+But take the highest to witness: then, pray you, tell me,
+If I should swear by Jove’s great attributes
+I lov’d you dearly, would you believe my oaths
+When I did love you ill? This has no holding,
+To swear by him whom I protest to love
+That I will work against him. Therefore your oaths
+Are words and poor conditions; but unseal’d,—
+At least in my opinion.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Change it, change it.
+Be not so holy-cruel. Love is holy;
+And my integrity ne’er knew the crafts
+That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,
+But give thyself unto my sick desires,
+Who then recovers. Say thou art mine, and ever
+My love as it begins shall so persever.
+
+DIANA.
+I see that men make hopes in such a case,
+That we’ll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I’ll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power
+To give it from me.
+
+DIANA.
+Will you not, my lord?
+
+BERTRAM.
+It is an honour ’longing to our house,
+Bequeathed down from many ancestors,
+Which were the greatest obloquy i’ the world
+In me to lose.
+
+DIANA.
+Mine honour’s such a ring;
+My chastity’s the jewel of our house,
+Bequeathed down from many ancestors,
+Which were the greatest obloquy i’ the world
+In me to lose. Thus your own proper wisdom
+Brings in the champion honour on my part
+Against your vain assault.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Here, take my ring;
+My house, mine honour, yea, my life be thine,
+And I’ll be bid by thee.
+
+DIANA.
+When midnight comes, knock at my chamber window;
+I’ll order take my mother shall not hear.
+Now will I charge you in the band of truth,
+When you have conquer’d my yet maiden-bed,
+Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me.
+My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them
+When back again this ring shall be deliver’d;
+And on your finger in the night, I’ll put
+Another ring, that what in time proceeds
+May token to the future our past deeds.
+Adieu till then; then fail not. You have won
+A wife of me, though there my hope be done.
+
+BERTRAM.
+A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+DIANA.
+For which live long to thank both heaven and me!
+You may so in the end.
+My mother told me just how he would woo,
+As if she sat in’s heart. She says all men
+Have the like oaths. He had sworn to marry me
+When his wife’s dead; therefore I’ll lie with him
+When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,
+Marry that will, I live and die a maid.
+Only, in this disguise, I think’t no sin
+To cozen him that would unjustly win.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. The Florentine camp.
+
+ Enter the two French Lords and two or three Soldiers.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+You have not given him his mother’s letter?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+I have deliv’red it an hour since; there is something in’t that stings
+his nature; for on the reading it, he chang’d almost into another man.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking off so good a wife
+and so sweet a lady.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Especially he hath incurred the everlasting displeasure of the king,
+who had even tun’d his bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you
+a thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+When you have spoken it, ’tis dead, and I am the grave of it.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most
+chaste renown, and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her
+honour; he hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made
+in the unchaste composition.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Now, God delay our rebellion! As we are ourselves, what things are we!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course of all treasons,
+we still see them reveal themselves till they attain to their abhorr’d
+ends; so he that in this action contrives against his own nobility, in
+his proper stream, o’erflows himself.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Is it not meant damnable in us to be trumpeters of our unlawful
+intents? We shall not then have his company tonight?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+That approaches apace. I would gladly have him see his company
+anatomized, that he might take a measure of his own judgments, wherein
+so curiously he had set this counterfeit.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+We will not meddle with him till he come; for his presence must be the
+whip of the other.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+In the meantime, what hear you of these wars?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+I hear there is an overture of peace.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+What will Count Rossillon do then? Will he travel higher, or return
+again into France?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I perceive by this demand, you are not altogether of his council.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Let it be forbid, sir! So should I be a great deal of his act.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his house. Her pretence
+is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques le Grand; which holy undertaking with
+most austere sanctimony she accomplished; and there residing, the
+tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her grief; in fine, made a
+groan of her last breath, and now she sings in heaven.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+How is this justified?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+The stronger part of it by her own letters, which makes her story true,
+even to the point of her death. Her death itself, which could not be
+her office to say is come, was faithfully confirm’d by the rector of
+the place.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Hath the count all this intelligence?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from point, to the full
+arming of the verity.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+I am heartily sorry that he’ll be glad of this.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+And how mightily some other times we drown our gain in tears! The great
+dignity that his valour hath here acquir’d for him shall at home be
+encountered with a shame as ample.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our
+virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes
+would despair if they were not cherish’d by our virtues.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+How now? Where’s your master?
+
+MESSENGER.
+He met the duke in the street, sir; of whom he hath taken a solemn
+leave: his lordship will next morning for France. The duke hath offered
+him letters of commendations to the king.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+They shall be no more than needful there, if they were more than they
+can commend.
+
+ Enter Bertram.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+They cannot be too sweet for the king’s tartness. Here’s his lordship
+now. How now, my lord, is’t not after midnight?
+
+BERTRAM.
+I have tonight despatch’d sixteen businesses, a month’s length apiece;
+by an abstract of success: I have congied with the duke, done my adieu
+with his nearest; buried a wife, mourn’d for her, writ to my lady
+mother I am returning, entertained my convoy, and between these main
+parcels of despatch effected many nicer needs: the last was the
+greatest, but that I have not ended yet.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+If the business be of any difficulty and this morning your departure
+hence, it requires haste of your lordship.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I mean the business is not ended, as fearing to hear of it hereafter.
+But shall we have this dialogue between the Fool and the Soldier? Come,
+bring forth this counterfeit module has deceiv’d me like a
+double-meaning prophesier.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Bring him forth.
+
+ [_Exeunt Soldiers._]
+
+Has sat i’ the stocks all night, poor gallant knave.
+
+BERTRAM.
+No matter; his heels have deserv’d it, in usurping his spurs so long.
+How does he carry himself?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I have told your lordship already; the stocks carry him. But to answer
+you as you would be understood: he weeps like a wench that had shed her
+milk; he hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes to be a
+friar, from the time of his remembrance to this very instant disaster
+of his setting i’ the stocks. And what think you he hath confessed?
+
+BERTRAM.
+Nothing of me, has he?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his face; if your
+lordship be in’t, as I believe you are, you must have the patience to
+hear it.
+
+ Enter Soldiers with Parolles.
+
+BERTRAM.
+A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of me; hush, hush!
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Hoodman comes! _Portotartarossa._
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+He calls for the tortures. What will you say without ’em?
+
+PAROLLES.
+I will confess what I know without constraint. If ye pinch me like a
+pasty I can say no more.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+_Bosko chimurcho._
+
+FIRST LORD.
+_Boblibindo chicurmurco._
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+You are a merciful general. Our general bids you answer to what I shall
+ask you out of a note.
+
+PAROLLES.
+And truly, as I hope to live.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+‘First demand of him how many horse the duke is strong.’ What say you
+to that?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Five or six thousand; but very weak and unserviceable: the troops are
+all scattered, and the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation
+and credit, and as I hope to live.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Shall I set down your answer so?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Do. I’ll take the sacrament on ’t, how and which way you will.
+
+BERTRAM.
+All’s one to him. What a past-saving slave is this!
+
+FIRST LORD.
+You are deceived, my lord; this is Monsieur Parolles, the gallant
+militarist (that was his own phrase), that had the whole theoric of war
+in the knot of his scarf, and the practice in the chape of his dagger.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean, nor believe
+he can have everything in him by wearing his apparel neatly.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Well, that’s set down.
+
+PAROLLES.
+‘Five or six thousand horse’ I said—I will say true—or thereabouts, set
+down,—for I’ll speak truth.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+He’s very near the truth in this.
+
+BERTRAM.
+But I con him no thanks for’t in the nature he delivers it.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Poor rogues, I pray you say.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Well, that’s set down.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I humbly thank you, sir; a truth’s a truth, the rogues are marvellous
+poor.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+‘Demand of him of what strength they are a-foot.’ What say you to that?
+
+PAROLLES.
+By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present hour, I will tell
+true. Let me see: Spurio, a hundred and fifty, Sebastian, so many;
+Corambus, so many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick, and
+Gratii, two hundred fifty each; mine own company, Chitopher, Vaumond,
+Bentii, two hundred fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and
+sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll; half of the
+which dare not shake the snow from off their cassocks lest they shake
+themselves to pieces.
+
+BERTRAM.
+What shall be done to him?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my condition, and what
+credit I have with the duke.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Well, that’s set down. ‘You shall demand of him whether one Captain
+Dumaine be i’ the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is with the
+duke, what his valour, honesty and expertness in wars; or whether he
+thinks it were not possible with well-weighing sums of gold to corrupt
+him to a revolt.’ What say you to this? What do you know of it?
+
+PAROLLES.
+I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of the inter’gatories.
+Demand them singly.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Do you know this Captain Dumaine?
+
+PAROLLES.
+I know him: he was a botcher’s ’prentice in Paris, from whence he was
+whipped for getting the shrieve’s fool with child, a dumb innocent that
+could not say him nay.
+
+ [_First Lord lifts up his hand in anger._]
+
+BERTRAM.
+Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know his brains are
+forfeit to the next tile that falls.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Well, is this captain in the Duke of Florence’s camp?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Nay, look not so upon me; we shall hear of your lordship anon.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+What is his reputation with the duke?
+
+PAROLLES.
+The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer of mine, and writ to
+me this other day to turn him out o’ the band. I think I have his
+letter in my pocket.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Marry, we’ll search.
+
+PAROLLES.
+In good sadness, I do not know; either it is there or it is upon a
+file, with the duke’s other letters, in my tent.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Here ’tis; here’s a paper; shall I read it to you?
+
+PAROLLES.
+I do not know if it be it or no.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Our interpreter does it well.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Excellently.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+[_Reads._] _Dian, the Count’s a fool, and full of gold._
+
+PAROLLES.
+That is not the duke’s letter, sir; that is an advertisement to a
+proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the allurement of
+one Count Rossillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish.
+I pray you, sir, put it up again.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Nay, I’ll read it first by your favour.
+
+PAROLLES.
+My meaning in’t, I protest, was very honest in the behalf of the maid;
+for I knew the young count to be a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is
+a whale to virginity, and devours up all the fry it finds.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Damnable both sides rogue!
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+[_Reads._]
+_When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it;
+After he scores, he never pays the score.
+Half won is match well made; match, and well make it;
+He ne’er pays after-debts, take it before.
+And say a soldier, ‘Dian,’ told thee this:
+Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss;
+For count of this, the count’s a fool, I know it,
+Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.
+Thine, as he vow’d to thee in thine ear,_
+                                     PAROLLES.
+
+BERTRAM.
+He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme in’s forehead.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist, and the
+armipotent soldier.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I could endure anything before but a cat, and now he’s a cat to me.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+I perceive, sir, by our general’s looks we shall be fain to hang you.
+
+PAROLLES.
+My life, sir, in any case. Not that I am afraid to die, but that, my
+offences being many, I would repent out the remainder of nature. Let me
+live, sir, in a dungeon, i’ the stocks, or anywhere, so I may live.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+We’ll see what may be done, so you confess freely. Therefore, once more
+to this Captain Dumaine: you have answer’d to his reputation with the
+duke, and to his valour. What is his honesty?
+
+PAROLLES.
+He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for rapes and ravishments
+he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking
+them he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such
+volubility that you would think truth were a fool: drunkenness is his
+best virtue, for he will be swine-drunk, and in his sleep he does
+little harm, save to his bedclothes about him; but they know his
+conditions and lay him in straw. I have but little more to say, sir, of
+his honesty; he has everything that an honest man should not have; what
+an honest man should have, he has nothing.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I begin to love him for this.
+
+BERTRAM.
+For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon him for me, he’s more
+and more a cat.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+What say you to his expertness in war?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Faith, sir, has led the drum before the English tragedians,—to belie
+him I will not,—and more of his soldiership I know not, except in that
+country he had the honour to be the officer at a place there called
+Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of files. I would do the man
+what honour I can, but of this I am not certain.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+He hath out-villain’d villainy so far that the rarity redeems him.
+
+BERTRAM.
+A pox on him! He’s a cat still.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+His qualities being at this poor price, I need not to ask you if gold
+will corrupt him to revolt.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Sir, for a quart d’ecu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation,
+the inheritance of it, and cut the entail from all remainders, and a
+perpetual succession for it perpetually.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+What’s his brother, the other Captain Dumaine?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Why does he ask him of me?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+What’s he?
+
+PAROLLES.
+E’en a crow o’ the same nest; not altogether so great as the first in
+goodness, but greater a great deal in evil. He excels his brother for a
+coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. In a
+retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray the Florentine?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rossillon.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+I’ll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure.
+
+PAROLLES.
+[_Aside._] I’ll no more drumming; a plague of all drums! Only to seem
+to deserve well, and to beguile the supposition of that lascivious
+young boy the count, have I run into this danger: yet who would have
+suspected an ambush where I was taken?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+There is no remedy, sir, but you must die. The general says you that
+have so traitorously discovered the secrets of your army, and made such
+pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can serve the world for no
+honest use; therefore you must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.
+
+PAROLLES.
+O Lord! sir, let me live, or let me see my death.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends.
+
+ [_Unmuffling him._]
+
+So, look about you; know you any here?
+
+BERTRAM.
+Good morrow, noble captain.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+God bless you, Captain Parolles.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+God save you, noble captain.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafew? I am for France.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Good Captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet you writ to Diana
+in behalf of the Count Rossillon? And I were not a very coward I’d
+compel it of you; but fare you well.
+
+ [_Exeunt Bertram, Lords &c._]
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+You are undone, captain: all but your scarf; that has a knot on’t yet.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Who cannot be crushed with a plot?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+If you could find out a country where but women were that had received
+so much shame, you might begin an impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir. I
+am for France too; we shall speak of you there.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+PAROLLES.
+Yet am I thankful. If my heart were great
+’Twould burst at this. Captain I’ll be no more,
+But I will eat, and drink, and sleep as soft
+As captain shall. Simply the thing I am
+Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,
+Let him fear this; for it will come to pass
+That every braggart shall be found an ass.
+Rust, sword; cool, blushes; and, Parolles live
+Safest in shame; being fool’d, by foolery thrive.
+There’s place and means for every man alive.
+I’ll after them.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Florence. A room in the Widow’s house.
+
+ Enter Helena, Widow and Diana.
+
+HELENA.
+That you may well perceive I have not wrong’d you
+One of the greatest in the Christian world
+Shall be my surety; fore whose throne ’tis needful,
+Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel.
+Time was I did him a desired office,
+Dear almost as his life; which gratitude
+Through flinty Tartar’s bosom would peep forth,
+And answer thanks. I duly am inform’d
+His grace is at Marseilles; to which place
+We have convenient convoy. You must know
+I am supposed dead. The army breaking,
+My husband hies him home, where, heaven aiding,
+And by the leave of my good lord the king,
+We’ll be before our welcome.
+
+WIDOW.
+Gentle madam,
+You never had a servant to whose trust
+Your business was more welcome.
+
+HELENA.
+Nor you, mistress,
+Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour
+To recompense your love. Doubt not but heaven
+Hath brought me up to be your daughter’s dower,
+As it hath fated her to be my motive
+And helper to a husband. But, O strange men!
+That can such sweet use make of what they hate,
+When saucy trusting of the cozen’d thoughts
+Defiles the pitchy night; so lust doth play
+With what it loathes, for that which is away.
+But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,
+Under my poor instructions yet must suffer
+Something in my behalf.
+
+DIANA.
+Let death and honesty
+Go with your impositions, I am yours
+Upon your will to suffer.
+
+HELENA.
+Yet, I pray you;
+But with the word the time will bring on summer,
+When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
+And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;
+Our waggon is prepar’d, and time revives us.
+All’s well that ends well; still the fine’s the crown.
+Whate’er the course, the end is the renown.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Rossillon. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+
+ Enter Clown, Countess and Lafew.
+
+LAFEW.
+No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta fellow there,
+whose villanous saffron would have made all the unbak’d and doughy
+youth of a nation in his colour. Your daughter-in-law had been alive at
+this hour, and your son here at home, more advanc’d by the king than by
+that red-tail’d humble-bee I speak of.
+
+COUNTESS.
+I would I had not known him; it was the death of the most virtuous
+gentlewoman that ever nature had praise for creating. If she had
+partaken of my flesh and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I
+could not have owed her a more rooted love.
+
+LAFEW.
+’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady. We may pick a thousand salads ere
+we light on such another herb.
+
+CLOWN.
+Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or, rather, the
+herb of grace.
+
+LAFEW.
+They are not herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs.
+
+CLOWN.
+I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not much skill in grass.
+
+LAFEW.
+Whether dost thou profess thyself,—a knave or a fool?
+
+CLOWN.
+A fool, sir, at a woman’s service, and a knave at a man’s.
+
+LAFEW.
+Your distinction?
+
+CLOWN.
+I would cozen the man of his wife, and do his service.
+
+LAFEW.
+So you were a knave at his service indeed.
+
+CLOWN.
+And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service.
+
+LAFEW.
+I will subscribe for thee; thou art both knave and fool.
+
+CLOWN.
+At your service.
+
+LAFEW.
+No, no, no.
+
+CLOWN.
+Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as great a prince as you
+are.
+
+LAFEW.
+Who’s that? a Frenchman?
+
+CLOWN.
+Faith, sir, ’a has an English name; but his phisnomy is more hotter in
+France than there.
+
+LAFEW.
+What prince is that?
+
+CLOWN.
+The black prince, sir; alias the prince of darkness; alias the devil.
+
+LAFEW.
+Hold thee, there’s my purse. I give thee not this to suggest thee from
+thy master thou talk’st of; serve him still.
+
+CLOWN.
+I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a great fire, and the
+master I speak of ever keeps a good fire. But sure he is the prince of
+the world; let his nobility remain in’s court. I am for the house with
+the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for pomp to enter: some
+that humble themselves may, but the many will be too chill and tender,
+and they’ll be for the flow’ry way that leads to the broad gate and the
+great fire.
+
+LAFEW.
+Go thy ways, I begin to be a-weary of thee; and I tell thee so before,
+because I would not fall out with thee. Go thy ways; let my horses be
+well look’d to, without any tricks.
+
+CLOWN.
+If I put any tricks upon ’em, sir, they shall be jades’ tricks, which
+are their own right by the law of nature.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LAFEW.
+A shrewd knave, and an unhappy.
+
+COUNTESS.
+So he is. My lord that’s gone made himself much sport out of him; by
+his authority he remains here, which he thinks is a patent for his
+sauciness; and indeed he has no pace, but runs where he will.
+
+LAFEW.
+I like him well; ’tis not amiss. And I was about to tell you, since I
+heard of the good lady’s death, and that my lord your son was upon his
+return home, I moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of my
+daughter; which, in the minority of them both, his majesty out of a
+self-gracious remembrance did first propose. His highness hath promis’d
+me to do it; and, to stop up the displeasure he hath conceived against
+your son, there is no fitter matter. How does your ladyship like it?
+
+COUNTESS.
+With very much content, my lord, and I wish it happily effected.
+
+LAFEW.
+His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able body as when he
+number’d thirty; he will be here tomorrow, or I am deceived by him that
+in such intelligence hath seldom fail’d.
+
+COUNTESS.
+It rejoices me that I hope I shall see him ere I die. I have letters
+that my son will be here tonight. I shall beseech your lordship to
+remain with me till they meet together.
+
+LAFEW.
+Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might safely be admitted.
+
+COUNTESS.
+You need but plead your honourable privilege.
+
+LAFEW.
+Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but, I thank my God, it holds
+yet.
+
+ Enter Clown.
+
+CLOWN.
+O madam, yonder’s my lord your son with a patch of velvet on’s face;
+whether there be a scar under’t or no, the velvet knows; but ’tis a
+goodly patch of velvet. His left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a
+half, but his right cheek is worn bare.
+
+LAFEW.
+A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so
+belike is that.
+
+CLOWN.
+But it is your carbonado’d face.
+
+LAFEW.
+Let us go see your son, I pray you. I long to talk with the young noble
+soldier.
+
+CLOWN.
+Faith, there’s a dozen of ’em, with delicate fine hats, and most
+courteous feathers, which bow the head and nod at every man.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT V.
+
+SCENE I. Marseilles. A street.
+
+ Enter Helena, Widow and Diana with two Attendants.
+
+HELENA.
+But this exceeding posting day and night
+Must wear your spirits low. We cannot help it.
+But since you have made the days and nights as one,
+To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,
+Be bold you do so grow in my requital
+As nothing can unroot you. In happy time;—
+
+ Enter a Gentleman.
+
+This man may help me to his majesty’s ear,
+If he would spend his power. God save you, sir.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+And you.
+
+HELENA.
+Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+I have been sometimes there.
+
+HELENA.
+I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen
+From the report that goes upon your goodness;
+And therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions,
+Which lay nice manners by, I put you to
+The use of your own virtues, for the which
+I shall continue thankful.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+What’s your will?
+
+HELENA.
+That it will please you
+To give this poor petition to the king,
+And aid me with that store of power you have
+To come into his presence.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+The king’s not here.
+
+HELENA.
+Not here, sir?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Not indeed.
+He hence remov’d last night, and with more haste
+Than is his use.
+
+WIDOW.
+Lord, how we lose our pains!
+
+HELENA.
+All’s well that ends well yet,
+Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.
+I do beseech you, whither is he gone?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Marry, as I take it, to Rossillon;
+Whither I am going.
+
+HELENA.
+I do beseech you, sir,
+Since you are like to see the king before me,
+Commend the paper to his gracious hand,
+Which I presume shall render you no blame,
+But rather make you thank your pains for it.
+I will come after you with what good speed
+Our means will make us means.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+This I’ll do for you.
+
+HELENA.
+And you shall find yourself to be well thank’d,
+Whate’er falls more. We must to horse again.
+Go, go, provide.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rossillon. The inner court of the Countess’s palace.
+
+ Enter Clown and Parolles.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafew this letter; I have ere now,
+sir, been better known to you, when I have held familiarity with
+fresher clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in Fortune’s mood, and
+smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure.
+
+CLOWN.
+Truly, Fortune’s displeasure is but sluttish, if it smell so strongly
+as thou speak’st of. I will henceforth eat no fish of Fortune’s
+buttering. Pr’ythee, allow the wind.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir. I spake but by a metaphor.
+
+CLOWN.
+Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my nose, or against
+any man’s metaphor. Pr’ythee, get thee further.
+
+PAROLLES.
+Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper.
+
+CLOWN.
+Foh, pr’ythee stand away. A paper from Fortune’s close-stool to give to
+a nobleman! Look here he comes himself.
+
+ Enter Lafew.
+
+Here is a pur of Fortune’s, sir, or of Fortune’s cat, but not a
+musk-cat, that has fallen into the unclean fishpond of her displeasure,
+and as he says, is muddied withal. Pray you, sir, use the carp as you
+may, for he looks like a poor, decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally
+knave. I do pity his distress in my similes of comfort, and leave him
+to your lordship.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PAROLLES.
+My lord, I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratch’d.
+
+LAFEW.
+And what would you have me to do? ’Tis too late to pare her nails now.
+Wherein have you played the knave with Fortune that she should scratch
+you, who of herself is a good lady, and would not have knaves thrive
+long under her? There’s a quart d’ecu for you. Let the justices make
+you and Fortune friends; I am for other business.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I beseech your honour to hear me one single word.
+
+LAFEW.
+You beg a single penny more. Come, you shall ha’t; save your word.
+
+PAROLLES.
+My name, my good lord, is Parolles.
+
+LAFEW.
+You beg more than word then. Cox my passion! Give me your hand. How
+does your drum?
+
+PAROLLES.
+O my good lord, you were the first that found me.
+
+LAFEW.
+Was I, in sooth? And I was the first that lost thee.
+
+PAROLLES.
+It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace, for you did bring
+me out.
+
+LAFEW.
+Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once both the office of
+God and the devil? One brings thee in grace, and the other brings thee
+out.
+
+ [_Trumpets sound._]
+
+The king’s coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah, inquire further
+after me. I had talk of you last night; though you are a fool and a
+knave, you shall eat. Go to; follow.
+
+PAROLLES.
+I praise God for you.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A room in the Countess’s palace.
+
+ Flourish. Enter King, Countess, Lafew, Lords, Gentlemen, Guards &c.
+
+KING.
+We lost a jewel of her, and our esteem
+Was made much poorer by it; but your son,
+As mad in folly, lack’d the sense to know
+Her estimation home.
+
+COUNTESS.
+’Tis past, my liege,
+And I beseech your majesty to make it
+Natural rebellion, done i’ the blaze of youth,
+When oil and fire, too strong for reason’s force,
+O’erbears it and burns on.
+
+KING.
+My honour’d lady,
+I have forgiven and forgotten all,
+Though my revenges were high bent upon him,
+And watch’d the time to shoot.
+
+LAFEW.
+This I must say,—
+But first, I beg my pardon,—the young lord
+Did to his majesty, his mother, and his lady,
+Offence of mighty note; but to himself
+The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife
+Whose beauty did astonish the survey
+Of richest eyes; whose words all ears took captive;
+Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn’d to serve
+Humbly call’d mistress.
+
+KING.
+Praising what is lost
+Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither;
+We are reconcil’d, and the first view shall kill
+All repetition. Let him not ask our pardon;
+The nature of his great offence is dead,
+And deeper than oblivion do we bury
+Th’ incensing relics of it. Let him approach
+A stranger, no offender; and inform him
+So ’tis our will he should.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+I shall, my liege.
+
+ [_Exit Gentleman._]
+
+KING.
+What says he to your daughter? Have you spoke?
+
+LAFEW.
+All that he is hath reference to your highness.
+
+KING.
+Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me
+That sets him high in fame.
+
+ Enter Bertram.
+
+LAFEW.
+He looks well on ’t.
+
+KING.
+I am not a day of season,
+For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
+In me at once. But to the brightest beams
+Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth;
+The time is fair again.
+
+BERTRAM.
+My high-repented blames
+Dear sovereign, pardon to me.
+
+KING.
+All is whole.
+Not one word more of the consumed time.
+Let’s take the instant by the forward top;
+For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees
+Th’inaudible and noiseless foot of time
+Steals ere we can effect them. You remember
+The daughter of this lord?
+
+BERTRAM.
+Admiringly, my liege. At first
+I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart
+Durst make too bold herald of my tongue:
+Where the impression of mine eye infixing,
+Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,
+Which warp’d the line of every other favour,
+Scorn’d a fair colour, or express’d it stolen,
+Extended or contracted all proportions
+To a most hideous object. Thence it came
+That she whom all men prais’d, and whom myself,
+Since I have lost, have lov’d, was in mine eye
+The dust that did offend it.
+
+KING.
+Well excus’d:
+That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away
+From the great compt: but love that comes too late,
+Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
+To the great sender turns a sour offence,
+Crying, That’s good that’s gone. Our rash faults
+Make trivial price of serious things we have,
+Not knowing them until we know their grave.
+Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,
+Destroy our friends, and after weep their dust:
+Our own love waking cries to see what’s done,
+While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon.
+Be this sweet Helen’s knell, and now forget her.
+Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin.
+The main consents are had, and here we’ll stay
+To see our widower’s second marriage-day.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless!
+Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!
+
+LAFEW.
+Come on, my son, in whom my house’s name
+Must be digested; give a favour from you,
+To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,
+That she may quickly come.
+
+ [_Bertram gives a ring to Lafew._]
+
+By my old beard,
+And ev’ry hair that’s on ’t, Helen that’s dead
+Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,
+The last that e’er I took her leave at court,
+I saw upon her finger.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Hers it was not.
+
+KING.
+Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,
+While I was speaking, oft was fasten’d to it.
+This ring was mine; and when I gave it Helen
+I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood
+Necessitied to help, that by this token
+I would relieve her. Had you that craft to ’reave her
+Of what should stead her most?
+
+BERTRAM.
+My gracious sovereign,
+Howe’er it pleases you to take it so,
+The ring was never hers.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Son, on my life,
+I have seen her wear it; and she reckon’d it
+At her life’s rate.
+
+LAFEW.
+I am sure I saw her wear it.
+
+BERTRAM.
+You are deceiv’d, my lord; she never saw it.
+In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,
+Wrapp’d in a paper, which contain’d the name
+Of her that threw it. Noble she was, and thought
+I stood engag’d; but when I had subscrib’d
+To mine own fortune, and inform’d her fully
+I could not answer in that course of honour
+As she had made the overture, she ceas’d,
+In heavy satisfaction, and would never
+Receive the ring again.
+
+KING.
+Plutus himself,
+That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine,
+Hath not in nature’s mystery more science
+Than I have in this ring. ’Twas mine, ’twas Helen’s,
+Whoever gave it you. Then if you know
+That you are well acquainted with yourself,
+Confess ’twas hers, and by what rough enforcement
+You got it from her. She call’d the saints to surety
+That she would never put it from her finger
+Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,
+Where you have never come, or sent it us
+Upon her great disaster.
+
+BERTRAM.
+She never saw it.
+
+KING.
+Thou speak’st it falsely, as I love mine honour,
+And mak’st conjectural fears to come into me
+Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove
+That thou art so inhuman,—’twill not prove so:
+And yet I know not, thou didst hate her deadly.
+And she is dead; which nothing but to close
+Her eyes myself, could win me to believe
+More than to see this ring. Take him away.
+
+ [_Guards seize Bertram._]
+
+My fore-past proofs, howe’er the matter fall,
+Shall tax my fears of little vanity,
+Having vainly fear’d too little. Away with him.
+We’ll sift this matter further.
+
+BERTRAM.
+If you shall prove
+This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy
+Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,
+Where she yet never was.
+
+ [_Exit, guarded._]
+
+KING.
+I am wrapp’d in dismal thinkings.
+
+ Enter a Gentleman.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Gracious sovereign,
+Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:
+Here’s a petition from a Florentine,
+Who hath for four or five removes come short
+To tender it herself. I undertook it,
+Vanquish’d thereto by the fair grace and speech
+Of the poor suppliant, who by this, I know,
+Is here attending: her business looks in her
+With an importing visage, and she told me
+In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern
+Your highness with herself.
+
+KING.
+[_Reads._] _Upon his many protestations to marry me when his wife was
+dead, I blush to say it, he won me. Now is the Count Rossillon a
+widower; his vows are forfeited to me, and my honour’s paid to him. He
+stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow him to his country
+for justice. Grant it me, O king, in you it best lies; otherwise a
+seducer flourishes, and a poor maid is undone._
+                                    DIANA CAPILET.
+
+LAFEW.
+I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for this. I’ll none of
+him.
+
+KING.
+The heavens have thought well on thee, Lafew,
+To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors.
+Go speedily, and bring again the count.
+
+ [_Exeunt Gentleman and some Attendants._]
+
+I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,
+Was foully snatch’d.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Now, justice on the doers!
+
+ Enter Bertram, guarded.
+
+KING.
+I wonder, sir, since wives are monsters to you,
+And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,
+Yet you desire to marry. What woman’s that?
+
+ Enter Widow and Diana.
+
+DIANA.
+I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,
+Derived from the ancient Capilet;
+My suit, as I do understand, you know,
+And therefore know how far I may be pitied.
+
+WIDOW.
+I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour
+Both suffer under this complaint we bring,
+And both shall cease, without your remedy.
+
+KING.
+Come hither, count; do you know these women?
+
+BERTRAM.
+My lord, I neither can nor will deny
+But that I know them. Do they charge me further?
+
+DIANA.
+Why do you look so strange upon your wife?
+
+BERTRAM.
+She’s none of mine, my lord.
+
+DIANA.
+If you shall marry,
+You give away this hand, and that is mine,
+You give away heaven’s vows, and those are mine,
+You give away myself, which is known mine;
+For I by vow am so embodied yours
+That she which marries you must marry me,
+Either both or none.
+
+LAFEW.
+[_To Bertram_] Your reputation comes too short for my daughter; you are
+no husband for her.
+
+BERTRAM.
+My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature
+Whom sometime I have laugh’d with. Let your highness
+Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour
+Than for to think that I would sink it here.
+
+KING.
+Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend
+Till your deeds gain them; fairer prove your honour
+Than in my thought it lies!
+
+DIANA.
+Good my lord,
+Ask him upon his oath, if he does think
+He had not my virginity.
+
+KING.
+What say’st thou to her?
+
+BERTRAM.
+She’s impudent, my lord,
+And was a common gamester to the camp.
+
+DIANA.
+He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so
+He might have bought me at a common price.
+Do not believe him. O, behold this ring,
+Whose high respect and rich validity
+Did lack a parallel; yet for all that
+He gave it to a commoner o’ the camp,
+If I be one.
+
+COUNTESS.
+He blushes, and ’tis it.
+Of six preceding ancestors, that gem
+Conferr’d by testament to th’ sequent issue,
+Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife;
+That ring’s a thousand proofs.
+
+KING.
+Methought you said
+You saw one here in court could witness it.
+
+DIANA.
+I did, my lord, but loath am to produce
+So bad an instrument; his name’s Parolles.
+
+LAFEW.
+I saw the man today, if man he be.
+
+KING.
+Find him, and bring him hither.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+BERTRAM.
+What of him?
+He’s quoted for a most perfidious slave,
+With all the spots o’ the world tax’d and debauch’d:
+Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.
+Am I or that or this for what he’ll utter,
+That will speak anything?
+
+KING.
+She hath that ring of yours.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I think she has. Certain it is I lik’d her
+And boarded her i’ the wanton way of youth.
+She knew her distance, and did angle for me,
+Madding my eagerness with her restraint,
+As all impediments in fancy’s course
+Are motives of more fancy; and in fine,
+Her infinite cunning with her modern grace,
+Subdu’d me to her rate; she got the ring,
+And I had that which any inferior might
+At market-price have bought.
+
+DIANA.
+I must be patient.
+You that have turn’d off a first so noble wife
+May justly diet me. I pray you yet,—
+Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband—
+Send for your ring, I will return it home,
+And give me mine again.
+
+BERTRAM.
+I have it not.
+
+KING.
+What ring was yours, I pray you?
+
+DIANA.
+Sir, much like
+The same upon your finger.
+
+KING.
+Know you this ring? This ring was his of late.
+
+DIANA.
+And this was it I gave him, being abed.
+
+KING.
+The story then goes false you threw it him
+Out of a casement.
+
+DIANA.
+I have spoke the truth.
+
+ Enter Attendant with Parolles.
+
+BERTRAM.
+My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.
+
+KING.
+You boggle shrewdly; every feather starts you.
+Is this the man you speak of?
+
+DIANA.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+KING.
+Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true I charge you,
+Not fearing the displeasure of your master,
+Which on your just proceeding, I’ll keep off,—
+By him and by this woman here what know you?
+
+PAROLLES.
+So please your majesty, my master hath been an honourable gentleman.
+Tricks he hath had in him, which gentlemen have.
+
+KING.
+Come, come, to the purpose. Did he love this woman?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Faith, sir, he did love her; but how?
+
+KING.
+How, I pray you?
+
+PAROLLES.
+He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman.
+
+KING.
+How is that?
+
+PAROLLES.
+He lov’d her, sir, and lov’d her not.
+
+KING.
+As thou art a knave and no knave.
+What an equivocal companion is this!
+
+PAROLLES.
+I am a poor man, and at your majesty’s command.
+
+LAFEW.
+He’s a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator.
+
+DIANA.
+Do you know he promised me marriage?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Faith, I know more than I’ll speak.
+
+KING.
+But wilt thou not speak all thou know’st?
+
+PAROLLES.
+Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between them as I said; but more
+than that, he loved her, for indeed he was mad for her, and talked of
+Satan, and of Limbo, and of furies, and I know not what: yet I was in
+that credit with them at that time that I knew of their going to bed;
+and of other motions, as promising her marriage, and things which would
+derive me ill will to speak of; therefore I will not speak what I know.
+
+KING.
+Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say they are married;
+but thou art too fine in thy evidence; therefore stand aside. This
+ring, you say, was yours?
+
+DIANA.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+KING.
+Where did you buy it? Or who gave it you?
+
+DIANA.
+It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.
+
+KING.
+Who lent it you?
+
+DIANA.
+It was not lent me neither.
+
+KING.
+Where did you find it then?
+
+DIANA.
+I found it not.
+
+KING.
+If it were yours by none of all these ways,
+How could you give it him?
+
+DIANA.
+I never gave it him.
+
+LAFEW.
+This woman’s an easy glove, my lord; she goes off and on at pleasure.
+
+KING.
+This ring was mine, I gave it his first wife.
+
+DIANA.
+It might be yours or hers for ought I know.
+
+KING.
+Take her away, I do not like her now.
+To prison with her. And away with him.
+Unless thou tell’st me where thou hadst this ring,
+Thou diest within this hour.
+
+DIANA.
+I’ll never tell you.
+
+KING.
+Take her away.
+
+DIANA.
+I’ll put in bail, my liege.
+
+KING.
+I think thee now some common customer.
+
+DIANA.
+By Jove, if ever I knew man, ’twas you.
+
+KING.
+Wherefore hast thou accus’d him all this while?
+
+DIANA.
+Because he’s guilty, and he is not guilty.
+He knows I am no maid, and he’ll swear to’t:
+I’ll swear I am a maid, and he knows not.
+Great King, I am no strumpet, by my life;
+I am either maid, or else this old man’s wife.
+
+ [_Pointing to Lafew._]
+
+KING.
+She does abuse our ears; to prison with her.
+
+DIANA.
+Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir;
+
+ [_Exit Widow._]
+
+The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,
+And he shall surety me. But for this lord
+Who hath abus’d me as he knows himself,
+Though yet he never harm’d me, here I quit him.
+He knows himself my bed he hath defil’d;
+And at that time he got his wife with child.
+Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick;
+So there’s my riddle: one that’s dead is quick,
+And now behold the meaning.
+
+ Enter Widow with Helena.
+
+KING.
+Is there no exorcist
+Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?
+Is’t real that I see?
+
+HELENA.
+No, my good lord;
+’Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,
+The name, and not the thing.
+
+BERTRAM.
+Both, both. O, pardon!
+
+HELENA.
+O, my good lord, when I was like this maid;
+I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring,
+And, look you, here’s your letter. This it says,
+‘When from my finger you can get this ring,
+And is by me with child, &c.’ This is done;
+Will you be mine now you are doubly won?
+
+BERTRAM.
+If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,
+I’ll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.
+
+HELENA.
+If it appear not plain, and prove untrue,
+Deadly divorce step between me and you!
+O my dear mother, do I see you living?
+
+LAFEW.
+Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon.
+[_to Parolles_] Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher.
+So, I thank thee. Wait on me home, I’ll make sport with thee.
+Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.
+
+KING.
+Let us from point to point this story know,
+To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
+[_To Diana._] If thou beest yet a fresh uncropped flower,
+Choose thou thy husband, and I’ll pay thy dower;
+For I can guess that by thy honest aid,
+Thou kept’st a wife herself, thyself a maid.
+Of that and all the progress more and less,
+Resolvedly more leisure shall express.
+All yet seems well, and if it end so meet,
+The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
+
+ [_Flourish._]
+
+[EPILOGUE]
+
+_The king’s a beggar, now the play is done;
+All is well ended if this suit be won,
+That you express content; which we will pay
+With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
+Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;
+Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts._
+
+ [_Exeunt omnes._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I.
+Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra’s palace.
+Scene II.
+Alexandria. Another Room in Cleopatra’s palace.
+Scene III.
+Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra’s palace.
+Scene IV.
+Rome. An Apartment in Caesar’s House
+Scene V.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ACT II
+Scene I.
+Messina. A Room in Pompey’s house.
+Scene II.
+Rome. A Room in the House of Lepidus.
+Scene III.
+Rome. A Room in Caesar’s House.
+Scene IV.
+Rome. A street.
+Scene V.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene VI.
+Near Misenum.
+Scene VII.
+On board Pompey’s Galley, lying near Misenum.
+
+ACT III
+Scene I.
+A plain in Syria.
+Scene II.
+Rome. An Ante-chamber in Caesar’s house.
+Scene III.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene IV.
+Athens. A Room in Antony’s House.
+Scene V.
+Athens. Another Room in Antony’s House.
+Scene VI.
+Rome. A Room in Caesar’s House.
+Scene VII.
+Antony’s Camp near the Promontory of Actium.
+Scene VIII.
+A plain near Actium.
+Scene IX.
+Another part of the Plain.
+Scene X.
+Another part of the Plain.
+Scene XI.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene XII.
+Caesar’s camp in Egypt.
+Scene XIII.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I.
+Caesar’s Camp at Alexandria.
+Scene II.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene III.
+Alexandria. Before the Palace.
+Scene IV.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene V.
+Antony’s camp near Alexandria.
+Scene VI.
+Alexandria. Caesar’s camp.
+Scene VII.
+Field of battle between the Camps.
+Scene VIII.
+Under the Walls of Alexandria.
+Scene IX.
+Caesar’s camp.
+Scene X.
+Ground between the two Camps.
+Scene XI.
+Another part of the Ground.
+Scene XII.
+Another part of the Ground.
+Scene XIII.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene XIV.
+Alexandria. Another Room.
+Scene XV.
+Alexandria. A monument.
+
+ACT V
+Scene I.
+Caesar’s Camp before Alexandria.
+Scene II.
+Alexandria. A Room in the Monument.
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+MARK ANTONY, Triumvir
+OCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir
+LEPIDUS, Triumvir
+SEXTUS POMPEIUS,
+DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, friend to Antony
+VENTIDIUS, friend to Antony
+EROS, friend to Antony
+SCARUS, friend to Antony
+DERCETUS, friend to Antony
+DEMETRIUS, friend to Antony
+PHILO, friend to Antony
+MAECENAS, friend to Caesar
+AGRIPPA, friend to Caesar
+DOLABELLA, friend to Caesar
+PROCULEIUS, friend to Caesar
+THIDIAS, friend to Caesar
+GALLUS, friend to Caesar
+MENAS, friend to Pompey
+MENECRATES, friend to Pompey
+VARRIUS, friend to Pompey
+TAURUS, Lieutenant-General to Caesar
+CANIDIUS, Lieutenant-General to Antony
+SILIUS, an Officer in Ventidius’s army
+EUPHRONIUS, an Ambassador from Antony to Caesar
+ALEXAS, attendant on Cleopatra
+MARDIAN, attendant on Cleopatra
+SELEUCUS, attendant on Cleopatra
+DIOMEDES, attendant on Cleopatra
+A SOOTHSAYER
+A CLOWN
+
+CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt
+OCTAVIA, sister to Caesar and wife to Antony
+CHARMIAN, Attendant on Cleopatra
+IRAS, Attendant on Cleopatra
+
+Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants
+
+SCENE: Dispersed, in several parts of the Roman Empire.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+
+SCENE I. Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra’s palace.
+
+ Enter Demetrius and Philo.
+
+PHILO.
+Nay, but this dotage of our general’s
+O’erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes,
+That o’er the files and musters of the war
+Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn
+The office and devotion of their view
+Upon a tawny front. His captain’s heart,
+Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
+The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper
+And is become the bellows and the fan
+To cool a gipsy’s lust.
+
+ Flourish. Enter Antony and Cleopatra, her Ladies, the Train, with
+ Eunuchs fanning her.
+
+Look where they come:
+Take but good note, and you shall see in him
+The triple pillar of the world transform’d
+Into a strumpet’s fool. Behold and see.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
+
+ANTONY.
+There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I’ll set a bourn how far to be beloved.
+
+ANTONY.
+Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+News, my good lord, from Rome.
+
+ANTONY.
+Grates me, the sum.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Nay, hear them, Antony.
+Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows
+If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent
+His powerful mandate to you: “Do this or this;
+Take in that kingdom and enfranchise that.
+Perform’t, or else we damn thee.”
+
+ANTONY.
+How, my love?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Perchance! Nay, and most like.
+You must not stay here longer; your dismission
+Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.
+Where’s Fulvia’s process?—Caesar’s I would say? Both?
+Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt’s queen,
+Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine
+Is Caesar’s homager; else so thy cheek pays shame
+When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!
+
+ANTONY.
+Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
+Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
+Kingdoms are clay. Our dungy earth alike
+Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life
+Is to do thus [_Embracing_]; when such a mutual pair
+And such a twain can do’t, in which I bind,
+On pain of punishment, the world to weet
+We stand up peerless.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Excellent falsehood!
+Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?
+I’ll seem the fool I am not. Antony
+Will be himself.
+
+ANTONY.
+But stirred by Cleopatra.
+Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
+Let’s not confound the time with conference harsh.
+There’s not a minute of our lives should stretch
+Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Hear the ambassadors.
+
+ANTONY.
+Fie, wrangling queen!
+Whom everything becomes—to chide, to laugh,
+To weep; whose every passion fully strives
+To make itself, in thee fair and admired!
+No messenger but thine, and all alone
+Tonight we’ll wander through the streets and note
+The qualities of people. Come, my queen,
+Last night you did desire it. Speak not to us.
+
+ [_Exeunt Antony and Cleopatra with the Train._]
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?
+
+PHILO.
+Sir, sometimes when he is not Antony,
+He comes too short of that great property
+Which still should go with Antony.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I am full sorry
+That he approves the common liar who
+Thus speaks of him at Rome, but I will hope
+Of better deeds tomorrow. Rest you happy!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Alexandria. Another Room in Cleopatra’s palace.
+
+ Enter Enobarbus, a Soothsayer, Charmian, Iras, Mardian and Alexas.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most anything Alexas, almost most absolute
+Alexas, where’s the soothsayer that you praised so to th’ queen? O,
+that I knew this husband which you say must charge his horns with
+garlands!
+
+ALEXAS.
+Soothsayer!
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Your will?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Is this the man? Is’t you, sir, that know things?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+In nature’s infinite book of secrecy
+A little I can read.
+
+ALEXAS.
+Show him your hand.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough
+Cleopatra’s health to drink.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Good, sir, give me good fortune.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+I make not, but foresee.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Pray, then, foresee me one.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+You shall be yet far fairer than you are.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+He means in flesh.
+
+IRAS.
+No, you shall paint when you are old.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Wrinkles forbid!
+
+ALEXAS.
+Vex not his prescience. Be attentive.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Hush!
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+You shall be more beloving than beloved.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+I had rather heat my liver with drinking.
+
+ALEXAS.
+Nay, hear him.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married to three kings in a
+forenoon and widow them all. Let me have a child at fifty, to whom
+Herod of Jewry may do homage. Find me to marry me with Octavius Caesar,
+and companion me with my mistress.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+O, excellent! I love long life better than figs.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune
+Than that which is to approach.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Then belike my children shall have no names. Prithee, how many boys and
+wenches must I have?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+If every of your wishes had a womb,
+And fertile every wish, a million.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.
+
+ALEXAS.
+You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Nay, come, tell Iras hers.
+
+ALEXAS.
+We’ll know all our fortunes.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Mine, and most of our fortunes tonight, shall be drunk to bed.
+
+IRAS.
+There’s a palm presages chastity, if nothing else.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+E’en as the o’erflowing Nilus presageth famine.
+
+IRAS.
+Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication, I cannot
+scratch mine ear. Prithee, tell her but workaday fortune.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Your fortunes are alike.
+
+IRAS.
+But how, but how? give me particulars.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+I have said.
+
+IRAS.
+Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than I, where would you
+choose it?
+
+IRAS.
+Not in my husband’s nose.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas—come, his fortune! his
+fortune! O, let him marry a woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech
+thee, and let her die too, and give him a worse, and let worse follow
+worse, till the worst of all follow him laughing to his grave,
+fiftyfold a cuckold! Good Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny
+me a matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!
+
+IRAS.
+Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people! For, as it is a
+heartbreaking to see a handsome man loose-wived, so it is a deadly
+sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded. Therefore, dear Isis, keep
+decorum and fortune him accordingly!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Amen.
+
+ALEXAS.
+Lo now, if it lay in their hands to make me a cuckold, they would make
+themselves whores but they’d do’t!
+
+ Enter Cleopatra.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Hush, Here comes Antony.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Not he, the queen.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Saw you my lord?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+No, lady.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Was he not here?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+No, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden
+A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Madam?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Seek him and bring him hither. Where’s Alexas?
+
+ALEXAS.
+Here, at your service. My lord approaches.
+
+ Enter Antony with a Messenger.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+We will not look upon him. Go with us.
+
+ [_Exeunt Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, Alexas and
+ Soothsayer._]
+
+MESSENGER.
+Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.
+
+ANTONY.
+Against my brother Lucius.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Ay.
+But soon that war had end, and the time’s state
+Made friends of them, jointing their force ’gainst Caesar,
+Whose better issue in the war from Italy
+Upon the first encounter drave them.
+
+ANTONY.
+Well, what worst?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The nature of bad news infects the teller.
+
+ANTONY.
+When it concerns the fool or coward. On.
+Things that are past are done with me. ’Tis thus:
+Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,
+I hear him as he flattered.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Labienus—
+This is stiff news—hath with his Parthian force
+Extended Asia from Euphrates
+His conquering banner shook from Syria
+To Lydia and to Ionia,
+Whilst—
+
+ANTONY.
+“Antony”, thou wouldst say—
+
+MESSENGER.
+O, my lord!
+
+ANTONY.
+Speak to me home; mince not the general tongue.
+Name Cleopatra as she is called in Rome;
+Rail thou in Fulvia’s phrase, and taunt my faults
+With such full licence as both truth and malice
+Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds
+When our quick minds lie still, and our ills told us
+Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.
+
+MESSENGER.
+At your noble pleasure.
+
+ [_Exit Messenger._]
+
+ Enter another Messenger.
+
+ANTONY.
+From Sicyon, ho, the news? Speak there!
+
+SECOND MESSENGER.
+The man from Sicyon—
+
+ANTONY.
+Is there such a one?
+
+SECOND MESSENGER.
+He stays upon your will.
+
+ANTONY.
+Let him appear.
+
+ [_Exit second Messenger._]
+
+These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,
+Or lose myself in dotage.
+
+ Enter another Messenger with a letter.
+
+What are you?
+
+THIRD MESSENGER.
+Fulvia thy wife is dead.
+
+ANTONY.
+Where died she?
+
+THIRD MESSENGER.
+In Sicyon:
+Her length of sickness, with what else more serious
+Importeth thee to know, this bears.
+
+ [_Gives a letter._]
+
+ANTONY.
+Forbear me.
+
+ [_Exit third Messenger._]
+
+There’s a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.
+What our contempts doth often hurl from us,
+We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,
+By revolution lowering, does become
+The opposite of itself. She’s good, being gone.
+The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
+I must from this enchanting queen break off.
+Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,
+My idleness doth hatch. How now, Enobarbus!
+
+ Enter Enobarbus.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+What’s your pleasure, sir?
+
+ANTONY.
+I must with haste from hence.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Why then we kill all our women. We see how mortal an unkindness is to
+them. If they suffer our departure, death’s the word.
+
+ANTONY.
+I must be gone.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Under a compelling occasion, let women die. It were pity to cast them
+away for nothing, though, between them and a great cause they should be
+esteemed nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of this, dies
+instantly. I have seen her die twenty times upon far poorer moment. I
+do think there is mettle in death which commits some loving act upon
+her, she hath such a celerity in dying.
+
+ANTONY.
+She is cunning past man’s thought.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of
+pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they
+are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report. This cannot
+be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as
+Jove.
+
+ANTONY.
+Would I had never seen her!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece of work, which not
+to have been blest withal would have discredited your travel.
+
+ANTONY.
+Fulvia is dead.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Sir?
+
+ANTONY.
+Fulvia is dead.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Fulvia?
+
+ANTONY.
+Dead.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When it pleaseth their
+deities to take the wife of a man from him, it shows to man the tailors
+of the earth; comforting therein that when old robes are worn out,
+there are members to make new. If there were no more women but Fulvia,
+then had you indeed a cut, and the case to be lamented. This grief is
+crowned with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new petticoat:
+and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.
+
+ANTONY.
+The business she hath broached in the state
+Cannot endure my absence.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+And the business you have broached here cannot be without you,
+especially that of Cleopatra’s, which wholly depends on your abode.
+
+ANTONY.
+No more light answers. Let our officers
+Have notice what we purpose. I shall break
+The cause of our expedience to the Queen,
+And get her leave to part. For not alone
+The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
+Do strongly speak to us, but the letters too
+Of many our contriving friends in Rome
+Petition us at home. Sextus Pompeius
+Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands
+The empire of the sea. Our slippery people,
+Whose love is never linked to the deserver
+Till his deserts are past, begin to throw
+Pompey the Great and all his dignities
+Upon his son, who, high in name and power,
+Higher than both in blood and life, stands up
+For the main soldier; whose quality, going on,
+The sides o’ th’ world may danger. Much is breeding
+Which, like the courser’s hair, hath yet but life
+And not a serpent’s poison. Say our pleasure
+To such whose place is under us, requires
+Our quick remove from hence.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I shall do’t.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra’s palace.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Alexas and Iras.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Where is he?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+I did not see him since.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+See where he is, who’s with him, what he does.
+I did not send you. If you find him sad,
+Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report
+That I am sudden sick. Quick, and return.
+
+ [_Exit Alexas._]
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,
+You do not hold the method to enforce
+The like from him.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What should I do I do not?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Thou teachest like a fool: the way to lose him.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear.
+In time we hate that which we often fear.
+But here comes Antony.
+
+ Enter Antony.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I am sick and sullen.
+
+ANTONY.
+I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Help me away, dear Charmian! I shall fall.
+It cannot be thus long; the sides of nature
+Will not sustain it.
+
+ANTONY.
+Now, my dearest queen—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Pray you, stand farther from me.
+
+ANTONY.
+What’s the matter?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I know by that same eye there’s some good news.
+What, says the married woman you may go?
+Would she had never given you leave to come!
+Let her not say ’tis I that keep you here.
+I have no power upon you; hers you are.
+
+ANTONY.
+The gods best know—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O, never was there queen
+So mightily betrayed! Yet at the first
+I saw the treasons planted.
+
+ANTONY.
+Cleopatra—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Why should I think you can be mine and true,
+Though you in swearing shake the throned gods,
+Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,
+To be entangled with those mouth-made vows
+Which break themselves in swearing!
+
+ANTONY.
+Most sweet queen—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Nay, pray you seek no colour for your going,
+But bid farewell and go. When you sued staying,
+Then was the time for words. No going then,
+Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
+Bliss in our brows’ bent; none our parts so poor
+But was a race of heaven. They are so still,
+Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
+Art turned the greatest liar.
+
+ANTONY.
+How now, lady!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I would I had thy inches, thou shouldst know
+There were a heart in Egypt.
+
+ANTONY.
+Hear me, queen:
+The strong necessity of time commands
+Our services awhile, but my full heart
+Remains in use with you. Our Italy
+Shines o’er with civil swords; Sextus Pompeius
+Makes his approaches to the port of Rome;
+Equality of two domestic powers
+Breed scrupulous faction; the hated, grown to strength,
+Are newly grown to love; the condemned Pompey,
+Rich in his father’s honour, creeps apace
+Into the hearts of such as have not thrived
+Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;
+And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge
+By any desperate change. My more particular,
+And that which most with you should safe my going,
+Is Fulvia’s death.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Though age from folly could not give me freedom,
+It does from childishness. Can Fulvia die?
+
+ANTONY.
+She’s dead, my queen.
+Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read
+The garboils she awaked; at the last, best,
+See when and where she died.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O most false love!
+Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill
+With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,
+In Fulvia’s death how mine received shall be.
+
+ANTONY.
+Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know
+The purposes I bear; which are, or cease,
+As you shall give th’ advice. By the fire
+That quickens Nilus’ slime, I go from hence
+Thy soldier, servant, making peace or war
+As thou affects.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Cut my lace, Charmian, come!
+But let it be; I am quickly ill and well,
+So Antony loves.
+
+ANTONY.
+My precious queen, forbear,
+And give true evidence to his love, which stands
+An honourable trial.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+So Fulvia told me.
+I prithee, turn aside and weep for her,
+Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears
+Belong to Egypt. Good now, play one scene
+Of excellent dissembling, and let it look
+Like perfect honour.
+
+ANTONY.
+You’ll heat my blood. No more.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+You can do better yet, but this is meetly.
+
+ANTONY.
+Now, by my sword—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+And target. Still he mends.
+But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,
+How this Herculean Roman does become
+The carriage of his chafe.
+
+ANTONY.
+I’ll leave you, lady.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Courteous lord, one word.
+Sir, you and I must part, but that’s not it;
+Sir, you and I have loved, but there’s not it;
+That you know well. Something it is I would—
+O, my oblivion is a very Antony,
+And I am all forgotten.
+
+ANTONY.
+But that your royalty
+Holds idleness your subject, I should take you
+For idleness itself.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+’Tis sweating labour
+To bear such idleness so near the heart
+As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me,
+Since my becomings kill me when they do not
+Eye well to you. Your honour calls you hence;
+Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly,
+And all the gods go with you! Upon your sword
+Sit laurel victory, and smooth success
+Be strewed before your feet!
+
+ANTONY.
+Let us go. Come.
+Our separation so abides and flies
+That thou, residing here, goes yet with me,
+And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee.
+Away!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Rome. An Apartment in Caesar’s House.
+
+ Enter Octavius [Caesar], Lepidus and their train.
+
+CAESAR.
+You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,
+It is not Caesar’s natural vice to hate
+Our great competitor. From Alexandria
+This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes
+The lamps of night in revel: is not more manlike
+Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy
+More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or
+Vouchsafed to think he had partners. You shall find there
+A man who is the abstract of all faults
+That all men follow.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+I must not think there are
+Evils enough to darken all his goodness.
+His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,
+More fiery by night’s blackness; hereditary
+Rather than purchased; what he cannot change
+Than what he chooses.
+
+CAESAR.
+You are too indulgent. Let’s grant it is not
+Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy,
+To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit
+And keep the turn of tippling with a slave,
+To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet
+With knaves that smell of sweat. Say this becomes him—
+As his composure must be rare indeed
+Whom these things cannot blemish—yet must Antony
+No way excuse his foils when we do bear
+So great weight in his lightness. If he filled
+His vacancy with his voluptuousness,
+Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones
+Call on him for’t. But to confound such time
+That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud
+As his own state and ours, ’tis to be chid
+As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge,
+Pawn their experience to their present pleasure
+And so rebel to judgment.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Here’s more news.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Thy biddings have been done, and every hour,
+Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report
+How ’tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea,
+And it appears he is beloved of those
+That only have feared Caesar. To the ports
+The discontents repair, and men’s reports
+Give him much wronged.
+
+CAESAR.
+I should have known no less.
+It hath been taught us from the primal state
+That he which is was wished until he were,
+And the ebbed man, ne’er loved till ne’er worth love,
+Comes deared by being lacked. This common body,
+Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
+Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,
+To rot itself with motion.
+
+ Enter a second Messenger.
+
+SECOND MESSENGER.
+Caesar, I bring thee word
+Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,
+Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound
+With keels of every kind. Many hot inroads
+They make in Italy—the borders maritime
+Lack blood to think on’t—and flush youth revolt.
+No vessel can peep forth but ’tis as soon
+Taken as seen; for Pompey’s name strikes more
+Than could his war resisted.
+
+CAESAR.
+Antony,
+Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once
+Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew’st
+Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel
+Did famine follow, whom thou fought’st against,
+Though daintily brought up, with patience more
+Than savages could suffer. Thou didst drink
+The stale of horses and the gilded puddle
+Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did deign
+The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.
+Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets,
+The barks of trees thou browsed. On the Alps
+It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh
+Which some did die to look on. And all this—
+It wounds thine honour that I speak it now—
+Was borne so like a soldier that thy cheek
+So much as lanked not.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+’Tis pity of him.
+
+CAESAR.
+Let his shames quickly
+Drive him to Rome. ’Tis time we twain
+Did show ourselves i’ th’ field, and to that end
+Assemble we immediate council. Pompey
+Thrives in our idleness.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Tomorrow, Caesar,
+I shall be furnished to inform you rightly
+Both what by sea and land I can be able
+To front this present time.
+
+CAESAR.
+Till which encounter
+It is my business too. Farewell.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Farewell, my lord. What you shall know meantime
+Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,
+To let me be partaker.
+
+CAESAR.
+Doubt not, sir.
+I knew it for my bond.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Mardian.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Charmian!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Madam?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Ha, ha!
+Give me to drink mandragora.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Why, madam?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+That I might sleep out this great gap of time
+My Antony is away.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+You think of him too much.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O, ’tis treason!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Madam, I trust not so.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Thou, eunuch Mardian!
+
+MARDIAN.
+What’s your highness’ pleasure?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Not now to hear thee sing. I take no pleasure
+In aught an eunuch has. ’Tis well for thee
+That, being unseminared, thy freer thoughts
+May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?
+
+MARDIAN.
+Yes, gracious madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Indeed?
+
+MARDIAN.
+Not in deed, madam, for I can do nothing
+But what indeed is honest to be done.
+Yet have I fierce affections, and think
+What Venus did with Mars.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O, Charmian,
+Where think’st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?
+Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse?
+O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
+Do bravely, horse, for wot’st thou whom thou mov’st?
+The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
+And burgonet of men. He’s speaking now,
+Or murmuring “Where’s my serpent of old Nile?”
+For so he calls me. Now I feed myself
+With most delicious poison. Think on me
+That am with Phœbus’ amorous pinches black,
+And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,
+When thou wast here above the ground, I was
+A morsel for a monarch. And great Pompey
+Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;
+There would he anchor his aspect, and die
+With looking on his life.
+
+ Enter Alexas.
+
+ALEXAS.
+Sovereign of Egypt, hail!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!
+Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath
+With his tinct gilded thee.
+How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?
+
+ALEXAS.
+Last thing he did, dear queen,
+He kissed—the last of many doubled kisses—
+This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Mine ear must pluck it thence.
+
+ALEXAS.
+“Good friend,” quoth he,
+“Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends
+This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,
+To mend the petty present, I will piece
+Her opulent throne with kingdoms. All the east,
+Say thou, shall call her mistress.” So he nodded
+And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,
+Who neighed so high that what I would have spoke
+Was beastly dumbed by him.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What, was he sad or merry?
+
+ALEXAS.
+Like to the time o’ th’ year between the extremes
+Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O well-divided disposition!—Note him,
+Note him, good Charmian, ’tis the man; but note him:
+He was not sad, for he would shine on those
+That make their looks by his; he was not merry,
+Which seemed to tell them his remembrance lay
+In Egypt with his joy; but between both.
+O heavenly mingle!—Be’st thou sad or merry,
+The violence of either thee becomes,
+So does it no man else.—Met’st thou my posts?
+
+ALEXAS.
+Ay, madam, twenty several messengers.
+Why do you send so thick?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Who’s born that day
+When I forget to send to Antony
+Shall die a beggar.—Ink and paper, Charmian.—
+Welcome, my good Alexas.—Did I, Charmian,
+Ever love Caesar so?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+O that brave Caesar!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Be choked with such another emphasis!
+Say “the brave Antony.”
+
+CHARMIAN.
+The valiant Caesar!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth
+If thou with Caesar paragon again
+My man of men.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+By your most gracious pardon,
+I sing but after you.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+My salad days,
+When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
+To say as I said then. But come, away,
+Get me ink and paper.
+He shall have every day a several greeting,
+Or I’ll unpeople Egypt.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+
+SCENE I. Messina. A Room in Pompey’s house.
+
+ Enter Pompey, Menecrates and Menas in warlike manner.
+
+POMPEY.
+If the great gods be just, they shall assist
+The deeds of justest men.
+
+MENECRATES.
+Know, worthy Pompey,
+That what they do delay they not deny.
+
+POMPEY.
+Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays
+The thing we sue for.
+
+MENECRATES.
+We, ignorant of ourselves,
+Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
+Deny us for our good; so find we profit
+By losing of our prayers.
+
+POMPEY.
+I shall do well.
+The people love me, and the sea is mine;
+My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope
+Says it will come to th’ full. Mark Antony
+In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make
+No wars without doors. Caesar gets money where
+He loses hearts. Lepidus flatters both,
+Of both is flattered; but he neither loves
+Nor either cares for him.
+
+MENAS.
+Caesar and Lepidus
+Are in the field. A mighty strength they carry.
+
+POMPEY.
+Where have you this? ’Tis false.
+
+MENAS.
+From Silvius, sir.
+
+POMPEY.
+He dreams. I know they are in Rome together,
+Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,
+Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!
+Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both;
+Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts;
+Keep his brain fuming. Epicurean cooks
+Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
+That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour
+Even till a Lethe’d dullness—
+
+ Enter Varrius.
+
+How now, Varrius!
+
+VARRIUS.
+This is most certain that I shall deliver:
+Mark Antony is every hour in Rome
+Expected. Since he went from Egypt ’tis
+A space for farther travel.
+
+POMPEY.
+I could have given less matter
+A better ear.—Menas, I did not think
+This amorous surfeiter would have donned his helm
+For such a petty war. His soldiership
+Is twice the other twain. But let us rear
+The higher our opinion, that our stirring
+Can from the lap of Egypt’s widow pluck
+The ne’er lust-wearied Antony.
+
+MENAS.
+I cannot hope
+Caesar and Antony shall well greet together.
+His wife that’s dead did trespasses to Caesar;
+His brother warred upon him, although I think,
+Not moved by Antony.
+
+POMPEY.
+I know not, Menas,
+How lesser enmities may give way to greater.
+Were’t not that we stand up against them all,
+’Twere pregnant they should square between themselves,
+For they have entertained cause enough
+To draw their swords. But how the fear of us
+May cement their divisions, and bind up
+The petty difference, we yet not know.
+Be’t as our gods will have’t! It only stands
+Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.
+Come, Menas.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rome. A Room in the House of Lepidus.
+
+ Enter Enobarbus and Lepidus.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Good Enobarbus, ’tis a worthy deed,
+And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
+To soft and gentle speech.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I shall entreat him
+To answer like himself. If Caesar move him,
+Let Antony look over Caesar’s head
+And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
+Were I the wearer of Antonius’ beard,
+I would not shave’t today.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+’Tis not a time
+For private stomaching.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Every time
+Serves for the matter that is then born in’t.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+But small to greater matters must give way.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Not if the small come first.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Your speech is passion;
+But pray you stir no embers up. Here comes
+The noble Antony.
+
+ Enter Antony and Ventidius.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+And yonder Caesar.
+
+ Enter Caesar, Maecenas and Agrippa.
+
+ANTONY.
+If we compose well here, to Parthia.
+Hark, Ventidius.
+
+CAESAR.
+I do not know, Maecenas. Ask Agrippa.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Noble friends,
+That which combined us was most great, and let not
+A leaner action rend us. What’s amiss,
+May it be gently heard. When we debate
+Our trivial difference loud, we do commit
+Murder in healing wounds. Then, noble partners,
+The rather for I earnestly beseech,
+Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,
+Nor curstness grow to th’ matter.
+
+ANTONY.
+’Tis spoken well.
+Were we before our armies, and to fight,
+I should do thus.
+
+CAESAR.
+Welcome to Rome.
+
+ANTONY.
+Thank you.
+
+CAESAR.
+Sit.
+
+ANTONY.
+Sit, sir.
+
+CAESAR.
+Nay, then.
+
+ANTONY.
+I learn you take things ill which are not so,
+Or being, concern you not.
+
+CAESAR.
+I must be laughed at
+If, or for nothing or a little, I
+Should say myself offended, and with you
+Chiefly i’ th’ world; more laughed at that I should
+Once name you derogately when to sound your name
+It not concerned me.
+
+ANTONY.
+My being in Egypt, Caesar,
+What was’t to you?
+
+CAESAR.
+No more than my residing here at Rome
+Might be to you in Egypt. Yet if you there
+Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt
+Might be my question.
+
+ANTONY.
+How intend you, practised?
+
+CAESAR.
+You may be pleased to catch at mine intent
+By what did here befall me. Your wife and brother
+Made wars upon me, and their contestation
+Was theme for you; you were the word of war.
+
+ANTONY.
+You do mistake your business. My brother never
+Did urge me in his act. I did inquire it,
+And have my learning from some true reports
+That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather
+Discredit my authority with yours,
+And make the wars alike against my stomach,
+Having alike your cause? Of this my letters
+Before did satisfy you. If you’ll patch a quarrel,
+As matter whole you have not to make it with,
+It must not be with this.
+
+CAESAR.
+You praise yourself
+By laying defects of judgment to me; but
+You patched up your excuses.
+
+ANTONY.
+Not so, not so.
+I know you could not lack—I am certain on’t—
+Very necessity of this thought, that I,
+Your partner in the cause ’gainst which he fought,
+Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars
+Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,
+I would you had her spirit in such another.
+The third o’ th’ world is yours, which with a snaffle
+You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Would we had all such wives, that the men
+Might go to wars with the women.
+
+ANTONY.
+So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar,
+Made out of her impatience—which not wanted
+Shrewdness of policy too—I grieving grant
+Did you too much disquiet. For that you must
+But say I could not help it.
+
+CAESAR.
+I wrote to you
+When rioting in Alexandria; you
+Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts
+Did gibe my missive out of audience.
+
+ANTONY.
+Sir,
+He fell upon me ere admitted, then.
+Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want
+Of what I was i’ th’ morning. But next day
+I told him of myself, which was as much
+As to have asked him pardon. Let this fellow
+Be nothing of our strife; if we contend,
+Out of our question wipe him.
+
+CAESAR.
+You have broken
+The article of your oath, which you shall never
+Have tongue to charge me with.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Soft, Caesar!
+
+ANTONY.
+No, Lepidus, let him speak.
+The honour is sacred which he talks on now,
+Supposing that I lacked it. But on, Caesar:
+The article of my oath?
+
+CAESAR.
+To lend me arms and aid when I required them,
+The which you both denied.
+
+ANTONY.
+Neglected, rather;
+And then when poisoned hours had bound me up
+From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may
+I’ll play the penitent to you. But mine honesty
+Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power
+Work without it. Truth is that Fulvia,
+To have me out of Egypt, made wars here,
+For which myself, the ignorant motive, do
+So far ask pardon as befits mine honour
+To stoop in such a case.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+’Tis noble spoken.
+
+MAECENAS.
+If it might please you to enforce no further
+The griefs between ye; to forget them quite
+Were to remember that the present need
+Speaks to atone you.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Worthily spoken, Maecenas.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Or, if you borrow one another’s love for the instant, you may, when you
+hear no more words of Pompey, return it again. You shall have time to
+wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.
+
+ANTONY.
+Thou art a soldier only. Speak no more.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.
+
+ANTONY.
+You wrong this presence; therefore speak no more.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Go to, then. Your considerate stone!
+
+CAESAR.
+I do not much dislike the matter, but
+The manner of his speech; for’t cannot be
+We shall remain in friendship, our conditions
+So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew
+What hoop should hold us staunch, from edge to edge
+O’ th’ world I would pursue it.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Give me leave, Caesar.
+
+CAESAR.
+Speak, Agrippa.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Thou hast a sister by the mother’s side,
+Admired Octavia. Great Mark Antony
+Is now a widower.
+
+CAESAR.
+Say not so, Agrippa.
+If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof
+Were well deserved of rashness.
+
+ANTONY.
+I am not married, Caesar. Let me hear
+Agrippa further speak.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+To hold you in perpetual amity,
+To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
+With an unslipping knot, take Antony
+Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims
+No worse a husband than the best of men;
+Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
+That which none else can utter. By this marriage
+All little jealousies, which now seem great,
+And all great fears, which now import their dangers,
+Would then be nothing. Truths would be tales,
+Where now half-tales be truths. Her love to both
+Would each to other, and all loves to both,
+Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke,
+For ’tis a studied, not a present thought,
+By duty ruminated.
+
+ANTONY.
+Will Caesar speak?
+
+CAESAR.
+Not till he hears how Antony is touched
+With what is spoke already.
+
+ANTONY.
+What power is in Agrippa,
+If I would say “Agrippa, be it so,”
+To make this good?
+
+CAESAR.
+The power of Caesar, and
+His power unto Octavia.
+
+ANTONY.
+May I never
+To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,
+Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand.
+Further this act of grace; and from this hour
+The heart of brothers govern in our loves
+And sway our great designs!
+
+CAESAR.
+There’s my hand.
+A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother
+Did ever love so dearly. Let her live
+To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never
+Fly off our loves again!
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Happily, amen!
+
+ANTONY.
+I did not think to draw my sword ’gainst Pompey,
+For he hath laid strange courtesies and great
+Of late upon me. I must thank him only,
+Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;
+At heel of that, defy him.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Time calls upon ’s.
+Of us must Pompey presently be sought,
+Or else he seeks out us.
+
+ANTONY.
+Where lies he?
+
+CAESAR.
+About the Mount Misena.
+
+ANTONY.
+What is his strength by land?
+
+CAESAR.
+Great and increasing; but by sea
+He is an absolute master.
+
+ANTONY.
+So is the fame.
+Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it.
+Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we
+The business we have talked of.
+
+CAESAR.
+With most gladness,
+And do invite you to my sister’s view,
+Whither straight I’ll lead you.
+
+ANTONY.
+Let us, Lepidus, not lack your company.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Noble Antony, not sickness should detain me.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt all except Enobarbus, Agrippa and Maecenas._]
+
+MAECENAS.
+Welcome from Egypt, sir.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Maecenas! My honourable friend,
+Agrippa!
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Good Enobarbus!
+
+MAECENAS.
+We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. You stayed
+well by ’t in Egypt.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Ay, sir, we did sleep day out of countenance and made the night light
+with drinking.
+
+MAECENAS.
+Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and but twelve persons
+there. Is this true?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+This was but as a fly by an eagle. We had much more monstrous matter of
+feast, which worthily deserved noting.
+
+MAECENAS.
+She’s a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart upon the river
+of Cydnus.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+There she appeared indeed, or my reporter devised well for her.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I will tell you.
+The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
+Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold;
+Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
+The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
+Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
+The water which they beat to follow faster,
+As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
+It beggared all description: she did lie
+In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue,
+O’erpicturing that Venus where we see
+The fancy outwork nature. On each side her
+Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
+With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem
+To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
+And what they undid did.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+O, rare for Antony!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
+So many mermaids, tended her i’ th’ eyes,
+And made their bends adornings. At the helm
+A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle
+Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands
+That yarely frame the office. From the barge
+A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
+Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast
+Her people out upon her, and Antony,
+Enthroned i’ th’ market-place, did sit alone,
+Whistling to th’ air, which, but for vacancy,
+Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
+And made a gap in nature.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Rare Egyptian!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,
+Invited her to supper. She replied
+It should be better he became her guest,
+Which she entreated. Our courteous Antony,
+Whom ne’er the word of “No” woman heard speak,
+Being barbered ten times o’er, goes to the feast,
+And, for his ordinary, pays his heart
+For what his eyes eat only.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Royal wench!
+She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed.
+He ploughed her, and she cropped.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I saw her once
+Hop forty paces through the public street
+And, having lost her breath, she spoke and panted,
+That she did make defect perfection,
+And, breathless, pour breath forth.
+
+MAECENAS.
+Now Antony must leave her utterly.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Never. He will not.
+Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
+Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
+The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
+Where most she satisfies. For vilest things
+Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
+Bless her when she is riggish.
+
+MAECENAS.
+If beauty, wisdom, modesty can settle
+The heart of Antony, Octavia is
+A blessed lottery to him.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Let us go.
+Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest
+Whilst you abide here.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Humbly, sir, I thank you.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Rome. A Room in Caesar’s House.
+
+ Enter Antony, Caesar, Octavia between them.
+
+ANTONY.
+The world and my great office will sometimes
+Divide me from your bosom.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+All which time
+Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers
+To them for you.
+
+ANTONY.
+Good night, sir.—My Octavia,
+Read not my blemishes in the world’s report.
+I have not kept my square, but that to come
+Shall all be done by th’ rule. Good night, dear lady.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+Good night, sir.
+
+CAESAR.
+Good night.
+
+ [_Exeunt Caesar and Octavia._]
+
+ Enter Soothsayer.
+
+ANTONY.
+Now, sirrah, you do wish yourself in Egypt?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Would I had never come from thence, nor you thither!
+
+ANTONY.
+If you can, your reason.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+I see it in my motion, have it not in my tongue.
+But yet hie you to Egypt again.
+
+ANTONY.
+Say to me,
+Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar’s or mine?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Caesar’s.
+Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side.
+Thy dæmon—that thy spirit which keeps thee—is
+Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable,
+Where Caesar’s is not. But near him, thy angel
+Becomes afeard, as being o’erpowered. Therefore
+Make space enough between you.
+
+ANTONY.
+Speak this no more.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+To none but thee; no more but when to thee.
+If thou dost play with him at any game,
+Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck
+He beats thee ’gainst the odds. Thy lustre thickens
+When he shines by. I say again, thy spirit
+Is all afraid to govern thee near him;
+But, he away, ’tis noble.
+
+ANTONY.
+Get thee gone.
+Say to Ventidius I would speak with him.
+
+ [_Exit Soothsayer._]
+
+He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,
+He hath spoken true. The very dice obey him,
+And in our sports my better cunning faints
+Under his chance. If we draw lots, he speeds;
+His cocks do win the battle still of mine
+When it is all to naught, and his quails ever
+Beat mine, inhooped, at odds. I will to Egypt:
+And though I make this marriage for my peace,
+I’ th’ East my pleasure lies.
+
+ Enter Ventidius.
+
+O, come, Ventidius,
+You must to Parthia. Your commission’s ready.
+Follow me and receive ’t.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Rome. A street.
+
+ Enter Lepidus, Maecenas and Agrippa.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Trouble yourselves no further. Pray you hasten
+Your generals after.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Sir, Mark Antony
+Will e’en but kiss Octavia, and we’ll follow.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Till I shall see you in your soldier’s dress,
+Which will become you both, farewell.
+
+MAECENAS.
+We shall,
+As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount
+Before you, Lepidus.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Your way is shorter;
+My purposes do draw me much about.
+You’ll win two days upon me.
+
+BOTH.
+Sir, good success!
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Farewell.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, Alexas.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Give me some music—music, moody food
+Of us that trade in love.
+
+ALL.
+The music, ho!
+
+ Enter Mardian, the eunuch.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Let it alone. Let’s to billiards. Come, Charmian.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+My arm is sore. Best play with Mardian.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+As well a woman with an eunuch played
+As with a woman. Come, you’ll play with me, sir?
+
+MARDIAN.
+As well as I can, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+And when good will is showed, though’t come too short,
+The actor may plead pardon. I’ll none now.
+Give me mine angle; we’ll to the river. There,
+My music playing far off, I will betray
+Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce
+Their slimy jaws, and as I draw them up
+I’ll think them every one an Antony,
+And say “Ah, ha! You’re caught.”
+
+CHARMIAN.
+’Twas merry when
+You wagered on your angling; when your diver
+Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he
+With fervency drew up.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+That time?—O times!—
+I laughed him out of patience; and that night
+I laughed him into patience, and next morn,
+Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed,
+Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst
+I wore his sword Philippan.
+
+ Enter Messenger.
+
+O! from Italy!
+Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,
+That long time have been barren.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam, madam—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Antony’s dead! If thou say so, villain,
+Thou kill’st thy mistress. But well and free,
+If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here
+My bluest veins to kiss, a hand that kings
+Have lipped, and trembled kissing.
+
+MESSENGER.
+First, madam, he’s well.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Why, there’s more gold.
+But sirrah, mark, we use
+To say the dead are well. Bring it to that,
+The gold I give thee will I melt and pour
+Down thy ill-uttering throat.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Good madam, hear me.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Well, go to, I will.
+But there’s no goodness in thy face if Antony
+Be free and healthful. So tart a favour
+To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,
+Thou shouldst come like a Fury crowned with snakes,
+Not like a formal man.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Will’t please you hear me?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak’st.
+Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,
+Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,
+I’ll set thee in a shower of gold and hail
+Rich pearls upon thee.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam, he’s well.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Well said.
+
+MESSENGER.
+And friends with Caesar.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Th’ art an honest man.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Make thee a fortune from me.
+
+MESSENGER.
+But yet, madam—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I do not like “But yet”, it does allay
+The good precedence. Fie upon “But yet”!
+“But yet” is as a gaoler to bring forth
+Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,
+Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,
+The good and bad together: he’s friends with Caesar,
+In state of health, thou say’st; and, thou say’st, free.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Free, madam? No. I made no such report.
+He’s bound unto Octavia.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+For what good turn?
+
+MESSENGER.
+For the best turn i’ th’ bed.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I am pale, Charmian.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam, he’s married to Octavia.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+The most infectious pestilence upon thee!
+
+ [_Strikes him down._]
+
+MESSENGER.
+Good madam, patience.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What say you?
+
+ [_Strikes him again._]
+
+Hence, horrible villain, or I’ll spurn thine eyes
+Like balls before me! I’ll unhair thy head!
+
+ [_She hales him up and down._]
+
+Thou shalt be whipped with wire and stewed in brine,
+Smarting in ling’ring pickle.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Gracious madam,
+I that do bring the news made not the match.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Say ’tis not so, a province I will give thee,
+And make thy fortunes proud. The blow thou hadst
+Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage,
+And I will boot thee with what gift beside
+Thy modesty can beg.
+
+MESSENGER.
+He’s married, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Rogue, thou hast lived too long.
+
+ [_Draws a knife._]
+
+MESSENGER.
+Nay then I’ll run.
+What mean you, madam? I have made no fault.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Good madam, keep yourself within yourself.
+The man is innocent.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Some innocents ’scape not the thunderbolt.
+Melt Egypt into Nile, and kindly creatures
+Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again.
+Though I am mad, I will not bite him. Call!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+He is afeard to come.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I will not hurt him.
+
+ [_Exit Charmian._]
+
+These hands do lack nobility that they strike
+A meaner than myself, since I myself
+Have given myself the cause.
+
+ Enter the Messenger again with Charmian.
+
+Come hither, sir.
+Though it be honest, it is never good
+To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message
+An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell
+Themselves when they be felt.
+
+MESSENGER.
+I have done my duty.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Is he married?
+I cannot hate thee worser than I do
+If thou again say “Yes.”
+
+MESSENGER.
+He’s married, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+The gods confound thee! Dost thou hold there still!
+
+MESSENGER.
+Should I lie, madam?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O, I would thou didst,
+So half my Egypt were submerged and made
+A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence.
+Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me
+Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?
+
+MESSENGER.
+I crave your highness’ pardon.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+He is married?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Take no offence that I would not offend you.
+To punish me for what you make me do
+Seems much unequal. He’s married to Octavia.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O, that his fault should make a knave of thee
+That art not what thou’rt sure of! Get thee hence!
+The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome
+Are all too dear for me. Lie they upon thy hand,
+And be undone by ’em!
+
+ [_Exit Messenger._]
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Good your highness, patience.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Many times, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I am paid for’t now.
+Lead me from hence;
+I faint. O Iras, Charmian! ’Tis no matter.
+Go to the fellow, good Alexas, bid him
+Report the feature of Octavia, her years,
+Her inclination; let him not leave out
+The colour of her hair. Bring me word quickly.
+
+ [_Exit Alexas._]
+
+Let him for ever go—let him not, Charmian.
+Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,
+The other way ’s a Mars. [_To Mardian_] Bid you Alexas
+Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,
+But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Near Misenum.
+
+ Flourish. Enter Pompey and Menas at one door, with drum and trumpet;
+ at another, Caesar, Lepidus, Antony, Enobarbus, Maecenas, Agrippa,
+ with Soldiers marching.
+
+POMPEY.
+Your hostages I have, so have you mine,
+And we shall talk before we fight.
+
+CAESAR.
+Most meet
+That first we come to words, and therefore have we
+Our written purposes before us sent,
+Which if thou hast considered, let us know
+If ’twill tie up thy discontented sword
+And carry back to Sicily much tall youth
+That else must perish here.
+
+POMPEY.
+To you all three,
+The senators alone of this great world,
+Chief factors for the gods: I do not know
+Wherefore my father should revengers want,
+Having a son and friends, since Julius Caesar,
+Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,
+There saw you labouring for him. What was’t
+That moved pale Cassius to conspire? And what
+Made the all-honoured, honest Roman, Brutus,
+With the armed rest, courtiers of beauteous freedom,
+To drench the Capitol, but that they would
+Have one man but a man? And that is it
+Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burden
+The angered ocean foams, with which I meant
+To scourge th’ ingratitude that despiteful Rome
+Cast on my noble father.
+
+CAESAR.
+Take your time.
+
+ANTONY.
+Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails.
+We’ll speak with thee at sea. At land thou know’st
+How much we do o’ercount thee.
+
+POMPEY.
+At land indeed
+Thou dost o’ercount me of my father’s house;
+But since the cuckoo builds not for himself,
+Remain in’t as thou mayst.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Be pleased to tell us—
+For this is from the present—how you take
+The offers we have sent you.
+
+CAESAR.
+There’s the point.
+
+ANTONY.
+Which do not be entreated to, but weigh
+What it is worth embraced.
+
+CAESAR.
+And what may follow
+To try a larger fortune.
+
+POMPEY.
+You have made me offer
+Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must
+Rid all the sea of pirates; then to send
+Measures of wheat to Rome. This ’greed upon,
+To part with unhacked edges and bear back
+Our targes undinted.
+
+CAESAR, ANTONY, and LEPIDUS.
+That’s our offer.
+
+POMPEY.
+Know, then,
+I came before you here a man prepared
+To take this offer. But Mark Antony
+Put me to some impatience. Though I lose
+The praise of it by telling, you must know
+When Caesar and your brother were at blows,
+Your mother came to Sicily and did find
+Her welcome friendly.
+
+ANTONY.
+I have heard it, Pompey,
+And am well studied for a liberal thanks
+Which I do owe you.
+
+POMPEY.
+Let me have your hand.
+I did not think, sir, to have met you here.
+
+ANTONY.
+The beds i’ th’ East are soft; and thanks to you,
+That called me timelier than my purpose hither,
+For I have gained by ’t.
+
+CAESAR.
+Since I saw you last,
+There is a change upon you.
+
+POMPEY.
+Well, I know not
+What counts harsh Fortune casts upon my face,
+But in my bosom shall she never come
+To make my heart her vassal.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Well met here.
+
+POMPEY.
+I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed.
+I crave our composition may be written
+And sealed between us.
+
+CAESAR.
+That’s the next to do.
+
+POMPEY.
+We’ll feast each other ere we part, and let’s
+Draw lots who shall begin.
+
+ANTONY.
+That will I, Pompey.
+
+POMPEY.
+No, Antony, take the lot.
+But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
+Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
+Grew fat with feasting there.
+
+ANTONY.
+You have heard much.
+
+POMPEY.
+I have fair meanings, sir.
+
+ANTONY.
+And fair words to them.
+
+POMPEY.
+Then so much have I heard.
+And I have heard Apollodorus carried—
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+No more of that. He did so.
+
+POMPEY.
+What, I pray you?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.
+
+POMPEY.
+I know thee now. How far’st thou, soldier?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Well;
+And well am like to do, for I perceive
+Four feasts are toward.
+
+POMPEY.
+Let me shake thy hand.
+I never hated thee. I have seen thee fight
+When I have envied thy behaviour.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Sir,
+I never loved you much, but I ha’ praised ye
+When you have well deserved ten times as much
+As I have said you did.
+
+POMPEY.
+Enjoy thy plainness;
+It nothing ill becomes thee.
+Aboard my galley I invite you all.
+Will you lead, lords?
+
+CAESAR, ANTONY, and LEPIDUS.
+Show’s the way, sir.
+
+POMPEY.
+Come.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Enobarbus and Menas._]
+
+MENAS.
+[_Aside_.] Thy father, Pompey, would ne’er have made this treaty.—
+You and I have known, sir.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+At sea, I think.
+
+MENAS.
+We have, sir.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+You have done well by water.
+
+MENAS.
+And you by land.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I will praise any man that will praise me, though it cannot be denied
+what I have done by land.
+
+MENAS.
+Nor what I have done by water.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Yes, something you can deny for your own safety: you have been a great
+thief by sea.
+
+MENAS.
+And you by land.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+There I deny my land service. But give me your hand, Menas. If our eyes
+had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing.
+
+MENAS.
+All men’s faces are true, whatsome’er their hands are.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+But there is never a fair woman has a true face.
+
+MENAS.
+No slander. They steal hearts.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+We came hither to fight with you.
+
+MENAS.
+For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking. Pompey doth this
+day laugh away his fortune.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+If he do, sure he cannot weep ’t back again.
+
+MENAS.
+You have said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony here. Pray you, is he
+married to Cleopatra?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Caesar’s sister is called Octavia.
+
+MENAS.
+True, sir. She was the wife of Caius Marcellus.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.
+
+MENAS.
+Pray you, sir?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+’Tis true.
+
+MENAS.
+Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophesy so.
+
+MENAS.
+I think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage than the
+love of the parties.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I think so too. But you shall find the band that seems to tie their
+friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity. Octavia
+is of a holy, cold, and still conversation.
+
+MENAS.
+Who would not have his wife so?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony. He will to his
+Egyptian dish again. Then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up
+in Caesar, and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their
+amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Antony will
+use his affection where it is. He married but his occasion here.
+
+MENAS.
+And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard? I have a health for
+you.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I shall take it, sir. We have used our throats in Egypt.
+
+MENAS.
+Come, let’s away.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. On board Pompey’s Galley, lying near Misenum.
+
+ Music. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Here they’ll be, man. Some o’ their plants are ill-rooted already; the
+least wind i’ th’ world will blow them down.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+Lepidus is high-coloured.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+They have made him drink alms-drink.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out “no more”,
+reconciles them to his entreaty and himself to th’ drink.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+Why, this it is to have a name in great men’s fellowship. I had as lief
+have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in ’t, are
+the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
+
+ A sennet sounded. Enter Caesar, Antony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa,
+ Maecenas, Enobarbus, Menas with other Captains.
+
+ANTONY.
+[_To Caesar_.] Thus do they, sir: they take the flow o’ th’ Nile
+By certain scales i’ th’ pyramid; they know
+By th’ height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth
+Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells,
+The more it promises. As it ebbs, the seedsman
+Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,
+And shortly comes to harvest.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+You’ve strange serpents there?
+
+ANTONY.
+Ay, Lepidus.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your
+sun; so is your crocodile.
+
+ANTONY.
+They are so.
+
+POMPEY.
+Sit, and some wine! A health to Lepidus!
+
+LEPIDUS.
+I am not so well as I should be, but I’ll ne’er out.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Not till you have slept. I fear me you’ll be in till then.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies’ pyramises are very goodly
+things. Without contradiction I have heard that.
+
+MENAS.
+[_Aside to Pompey_.] Pompey, a word.
+
+POMPEY.
+[_Aside to Menas_.] Say in mine ear what is ’t?
+
+MENAS.
+[_Whispers in ’s ear._] Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee, captain,
+And hear me speak a word.
+
+POMPEY.
+[_Aside to Menas._] Forbear me till anon.—
+This wine for Lepidus!
+
+LEPIDUS.
+What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?
+
+ANTONY.
+It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth.
+It is just so high as it is, and moves with it own organs. It lives by
+that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it
+transmigrates.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+What colour is it of?
+
+ANTONY.
+Of its own colour too.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+’Tis a strange serpent.
+
+ANTONY.
+’Tis so, and the tears of it are wet.
+
+CAESAR.
+Will this description satisfy him?
+
+ANTONY.
+With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a very epicure.
+
+POMPEY.
+[_Aside to Menas._] Go hang, sir, hang! Tell me of that? Away!
+Do as I bid you.—Where’s this cup I called for?
+
+MENAS.
+[_Aside to Pompey_.] If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me,
+Rise from thy stool.
+
+POMPEY.
+[_Aside to Menas_.] I think thou’rt mad.
+
+ [_Rises and walks aside._]
+
+The matter?
+
+MENAS.
+I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.
+
+POMPEY.
+Thou hast served me with much faith. What’s else to say?—
+Be jolly, lords.
+
+ANTONY.
+These quicksands, Lepidus,
+Keep off them, for you sink.
+
+MENAS.
+Wilt thou be lord of all the world?
+
+POMPEY.
+What sayst thou?
+
+MENAS.
+Wilt thou be lord of the whole world?
+That’s twice.
+
+POMPEY.
+How should that be?
+
+MENAS.
+But entertain it,
+And though you think me poor, I am the man
+Will give thee all the world.
+
+POMPEY.
+Hast thou drunk well?
+
+MENAS.
+No, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.
+Thou art, if thou dar’st be, the earthly Jove.
+Whate’er the ocean pales or sky inclips
+Is thine, if thou wilt have’t.
+
+POMPEY.
+Show me which way.
+
+MENAS.
+These three world-sharers, these competitors,
+Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable,
+And when we are put off, fall to their throats.
+All then is thine.
+
+POMPEY.
+Ah, this thou shouldst have done
+And not have spoke on ’t! In me ’tis villainy;
+In thee ’t had been good service. Thou must know
+’Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;
+Mine honour it. Repent that e’er thy tongue
+Hath so betray’d thine act. Being done unknown,
+I should have found it afterwards well done,
+But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.
+
+MENAS.
+[_Aside_.] For this,
+I’ll never follow thy palled fortunes more.
+Who seeks, and will not take when once ’tis offered,
+Shall never find it more.
+
+POMPEY.
+This health to Lepidus!
+
+ANTONY.
+Bear him ashore. I’ll pledge it for him, Pompey.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Here’s to thee, Menas!
+
+MENAS.
+Enobarbus, welcome!
+
+POMPEY.
+Fill till the cup be hid.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+There’s a strong fellow, Menas.
+
+ [_Pointing to the servant who carries off Lepidus._]
+
+MENAS.
+Why?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+’A bears the third part of the world, man. Seest not?
+
+MENAS.
+The third part, then, is drunk. Would it were all,
+That it might go on wheels!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Drink thou. Increase the reels.
+
+MENAS.
+Come.
+
+POMPEY.
+This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.
+
+ANTONY.
+It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho!
+Here is to Caesar!
+
+CAESAR.
+I could well forbear’t.
+It’s monstrous labour when I wash my brain
+And it grows fouler.
+
+ANTONY.
+Be a child o’ the time.
+
+CAESAR.
+Possess it, I’ll make answer.
+But I had rather fast from all, four days,
+Than drink so much in one.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_To Antony_.] Ha, my brave emperor,
+Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals
+And celebrate our drink?
+
+POMPEY.
+Let’s ha’t, good soldier.
+
+ANTONY.
+Come, let’s all take hands
+Till that the conquering wine hath steeped our sense
+In soft and delicate Lethe.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+All take hands.
+Make battery to our ears with the loud music,
+The while I’ll place you; then the boy shall sing.
+The holding every man shall beat as loud
+As his strong sides can volley.
+
+ Music plays. Enobarbus places them hand in hand.
+
+       THE SONG.
+  Come, thou monarch of the vine,
+  Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
+  In thy vats our cares be drowned,
+  With thy grapes our hairs be crowned.
+  Cup us till the world go round,
+  Cup us till the world go round!
+
+CAESAR.
+What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother,
+Let me request you off. Our graver business
+Frowns at this levity.—Gentle lords, let’s part.
+You see we have burnt our cheeks. Strong Enobarb
+Is weaker than the wine, and mine own tongue
+Splits what it speaks. The wild disguise hath almost
+Anticked us all. What needs more words. Good night.
+Good Antony, your hand.
+
+POMPEY.
+I’ll try you on the shore.
+
+ANTONY.
+And shall, sir. Give’s your hand.
+
+POMPEY.
+O Antony,
+You have my father’s house.
+But, what? We are friends. Come, down into the boat.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Take heed you fall not.
+
+ [_Exeunt Pompey, Caesar, Antony and Attendants._]
+
+Menas, I’ll not on shore.
+
+MENAS.
+No, to my cabin. These drums, these trumpets, flutes! What!
+Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
+To these great fellows. Sound and be hanged, sound out!
+
+ [_Sound a flourish with drums._]
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Hoo, says ’a! There’s my cap!
+
+MENAS.
+Hoo! Noble captain, come.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+
+SCENE I. A plain in Syria.
+
+ Enter Ventidius as it were in triumph, with Silius and other Romans,
+ Officers and Soldiers; the dead body of Pacorus borne before him.
+
+VENTIDIUS.
+Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck, and now
+Pleased Fortune does of Marcus Crassus’ death
+Make me revenger. Bear the king’s son’s body
+Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,
+Pays this for Marcus Crassus.
+
+SILIUS.
+Noble Ventidius,
+Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,
+The fugitive Parthians follow. Spur through Media,
+Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither
+The routed fly. So thy grand captain Antony
+Shall set thee on triumphant chariots, and
+Put garlands on thy head.
+
+VENTIDIUS.
+O Silius, Silius,
+I have done enough. A lower place, note well,
+May make too great an act. For learn this, Silius:
+Better to leave undone than by our deed
+Acquire too high a fame when him we serve’s away.
+Caesar and Antony have ever won
+More in their officer, than person. Sossius,
+One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,
+For quick accumulation of renown,
+Which he achieved by th’ minute, lost his favour.
+Who does i’ th’ wars more than his captain can
+Becomes his captain’s captain; and ambition,
+The soldier’s virtue, rather makes choice of loss
+Than gain which darkens him.
+I could do more to do Antonius good,
+But ’twould offend him, and in his offence
+Should my performance perish.
+
+SILIUS.
+Thou hast, Ventidius, that
+Without the which a soldier and his sword
+Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony?
+
+VENTIDIUS.
+I’ll humbly signify what in his name,
+That magical word of war, we have effected;
+How, with his banners, and his well-paid ranks,
+The ne’er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia
+We have jaded out o’ th’ field.
+
+SILIUS.
+Where is he now?
+
+VENTIDIUS.
+He purposeth to Athens, whither, with what haste
+The weight we must convey with ’s will permit,
+We shall appear before him.—On there, pass along!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rome. An Ante-chamber in Caesar’s house.
+
+ Enter Agrippa at one door, Enobarbus at another.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+What, are the brothers parted?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+They have dispatched with Pompey; he is gone.
+The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
+To part from Rome. Caesar is sad, and Lepidus,
+Since Pompey’s feast, as Menas says, is troubled
+With the greensickness.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+’Tis a noble Lepidus.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+A very fine one. O, how he loves Caesar!
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Caesar? Why he’s the Jupiter of men.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+What’s Antony? The god of Jupiter.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Spake you of Caesar? How, the nonpareil!
+
+AGRIPPA.
+O, Antony! O thou Arabian bird!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Would you praise Caesar, say “Caesar”. Go no further.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+But he loves Caesar best, yet he loves Antony.
+Hoo! Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot
+Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number—hoo!—
+His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,
+Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Both he loves.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+They are his shards, and he their beetle.
+
+ [_Trumpets within._]
+
+So,
+This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Good fortune, worthy soldier, and farewell.
+
+ Enter Caesar, Antony, Lepidus and Octavia.
+
+ANTONY.
+No further, sir.
+
+CAESAR.
+You take from me a great part of myself.
+Use me well in’t. Sister, prove such a wife
+As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest bond
+Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,
+Let not the piece of virtue which is set
+Betwixt us, as the cement of our love
+To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
+The fortress of it. For better might we
+Have loved without this mean, if on both parts
+This be not cherished.
+
+ANTONY.
+Make me not offended
+In your distrust.
+
+CAESAR.
+I have said.
+
+ANTONY.
+You shall not find,
+Though you be therein curious, the least cause
+For what you seem to fear. So the gods keep you,
+And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends.
+We will here part.
+
+CAESAR.
+Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well.
+The elements be kind to thee, and make
+Thy spirits all of comfort! Fare thee well.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+My noble brother!
+
+ANTONY.
+The April’s in her eyes. It is love’s spring,
+And these the showers to bring it on.—Be cheerful.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+Sir, look well to my husband’s house, and—
+
+CAESAR.
+What, Octavia?
+
+OCTAVIA.
+I’ll tell you in your ear.
+
+ANTONY.
+Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
+Her heart inform her tongue—the swan’s-down feather,
+That stands upon the swell at the full of tide,
+And neither way inclines.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_Aside to Agrippa_.] Will Caesar weep?
+
+AGRIPPA.
+[_Aside to Enobarbus_.] He has a cloud in ’s face.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_Aside to Agrippa_.] He were the worse for that were he a horse;
+So is he, being a man.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+[_Aside to Enobarbus_.] Why, Enobarbus,
+When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,
+He cried almost to roaring, and he wept
+When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_Aside to Agrippa_.] That year, indeed, he was troubled with a rheum;
+What willingly he did confound he wailed,
+Believe ’t, till I weep too.
+
+CAESAR.
+No, sweet Octavia,
+You shall hear from me still. The time shall not
+Outgo my thinking on you.
+
+ANTONY.
+Come, sir, come,
+I’ll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
+Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
+And give you to the gods.
+
+CAESAR.
+Adieu, be happy!
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Let all the number of the stars give light
+To thy fair way!
+
+CAESAR.
+Farewell, farewell!
+
+ [_Kisses Octavia._]
+
+ANTONY.
+Farewell!
+
+ [_Trumpets sound. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Alexas.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Where is the fellow?
+
+ALEXAS.
+Half afeared to come.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Go to, go to.
+
+ Enter a Messenger as before.
+
+Come hither, sir.
+
+ALEXAS.
+Good majesty,
+Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you
+But when you are well pleased.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+That Herod’s head
+I’ll have! But how, when Antony is gone,
+Through whom I might command it?—Come thou near.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Most gracious majesty!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Didst thou behold Octavia?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Ay, dread queen.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Where?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam, in Rome
+I looked her in the face, and saw her led
+Between her brother and Mark Antony.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Is she as tall as me?
+
+MESSENGER.
+She is not, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongued or low?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam, I heard her speak. She is low-voiced.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+That’s not so good. He cannot like her long.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Like her? O Isis! ’Tis impossible.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue and dwarfish!
+What majesty is in her gait? Remember,
+If e’er thou look’dst on majesty.
+
+MESSENGER.
+She creeps.
+Her motion and her station are as one.
+She shows a body rather than a life,
+A statue than a breather.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Is this certain?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Or I have no observance.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Three in Egypt
+Cannot make better note.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+He’s very knowing;
+I do perceive’t. There’s nothing in her yet.
+The fellow has good judgment.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Excellent.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Guess at her years, I prithee.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam,
+She was a widow.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Widow! Charmian, hark!
+
+MESSENGER.
+And I do think she’s thirty.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Bear’st thou her face in mind? Is’t long or round?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Round even to faultiness.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.
+Her hair, what colour?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Brown, madam, and her forehead
+As low as she would wish it.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+There’s gold for thee.
+Thou must not take my former sharpness ill.
+I will employ thee back again; I find thee
+Most fit for business. Go make thee ready;
+Our letters are prepared.
+
+ [_Exit Messenger._]
+
+CHARMIAN.
+A proper man.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Indeed, he is so. I repent me much
+That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,
+This creature’s no such thing.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Nothing, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,
+And serving you so long!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian.
+But ’tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me
+Where I will write. All may be well enough.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+I warrant you, madam.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Athens. A Room in Antony’s House.
+
+ Enter Antony and Octavia.
+
+ANTONY.
+Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that—
+That were excusable, that and thousands more
+Of semblable import—but he hath waged
+New wars ’gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it
+To public ear;
+Spoke scantly of me; when perforce he could not
+But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly
+He vented them; most narrow measure lent me;
+When the best hint was given him, he not took ’t,
+Or did it from his teeth.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+O, my good lord,
+Believe not all, or if you must believe,
+Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,
+If this division chance, ne’er stood between,
+Praying for both parts.
+The good gods will mock me presently
+When I shall pray “O, bless my lord and husband!”
+Undo that prayer by crying out as loud
+“O, bless my brother!” Husband win, win brother,
+Prays and destroys the prayer; no midway
+’Twixt these extremes at all.
+
+ANTONY.
+Gentle Octavia,
+Let your best love draw to that point which seeks
+Best to preserve it. If I lose mine honour,
+I lose myself; better I were not yours
+Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,
+Yourself shall go between’s. The meantime, lady,
+I’ll raise the preparation of a war
+Shall stain your brother. Make your soonest haste,
+So your desires are yours.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+Thanks to my lord.
+The Jove of power make me, most weak, most weak,
+Your reconciler! Wars ’twixt you twain would be
+As if the world should cleave, and that slain men
+Should solder up the rift.
+
+ANTONY.
+When it appears to you where this begins,
+Turn your displeasure that way, for our faults
+Can never be so equal that your love
+Can equally move with them. Provide your going;
+Choose your own company, and command what cost
+Your heart has mind to.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Athens. Another Room in Antony’s House.
+
+ Enter Enobarbus and Eros meeting.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+How now, friend Eros?
+
+EROS.
+There’s strange news come, sir.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+What, man?
+
+EROS.
+Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+This is old. What is the success?
+
+EROS.
+Caesar, having made use of him in the wars ’gainst Pompey, presently
+denied him rivality; would not let him partake in the glory of the
+action, and, not resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly
+wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him. So the poor third is
+up, till death enlarge his confine.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more,
+And throw between them all the food thou hast,
+They’ll grind the one the other. Where’s Antony?
+
+EROS.
+He’s walking in the garden, thus, and spurns
+The rush that lies before him; cries “Fool Lepidus!”
+And threats the throat of that his officer
+That murdered Pompey.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Our great navy’s rigged.
+
+EROS.
+For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius:
+My lord desires you presently. My news
+I might have told hereafter.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+’Twill be naught,
+But let it be. Bring me to Antony.
+
+EROS.
+Come, sir.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Rome. A Room in Caesar’s House.
+
+ Enter Agrippa, Maecenas and Caesar.
+
+CAESAR.
+Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and more
+In Alexandria. Here’s the manner of ’t:
+I’ th’ market-place, on a tribunal silvered,
+Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
+Were publicly enthroned. At the feet sat
+Caesarion, whom they call my father’s son,
+And all the unlawful issue that their lust
+Since then hath made between them. Unto her
+He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her
+Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
+Absolute queen.
+
+MAECENAS.
+This in the public eye?
+
+CAESAR.
+I’ th’ common showplace where they exercise.
+His sons he there proclaimed the kings of kings:
+Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia
+He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assigned
+Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia. She
+In th’ habiliments of the goddess Isis
+That day appeared, and oft before gave audience,
+As ’tis reported, so.
+
+MAECENAS.
+Let Rome be thus informed.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Who, queasy with his insolence already,
+Will their good thoughts call from him.
+
+CAESAR.
+The people knows it and have now received
+His accusations.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Who does he accuse?
+
+CAESAR.
+Caesar, and that, having in Sicily
+Sextus Pompeius spoiled, we had not rated him
+His part o’ th’ isle. Then does he say he lent me
+Some shipping, unrestored. Lastly, he frets
+That Lepidus of the triumvirate
+Should be deposed and, being, that we detain
+All his revenue.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Sir, this should be answered.
+
+CAESAR.
+’Tis done already, and messenger gone.
+I have told him Lepidus was grown too cruel,
+That he his high authority abused,
+And did deserve his change. For what I have conquered
+I grant him part; but then in his Armenia
+And other of his conquered kingdoms, I
+Demand the like.
+
+MAECENAS.
+He’ll never yield to that.
+
+CAESAR.
+Nor must not then be yielded to in this.
+
+ Enter Octavia with her train.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+Hail, Caesar, and my lord! Hail, most dear Caesar!
+
+CAESAR.
+That ever I should call thee castaway!
+
+OCTAVIA.
+You have not called me so, nor have you cause.
+
+CAESAR.
+Why have you stolen upon us thus? You come not
+Like Caesar’s sister. The wife of Antony
+Should have an army for an usher, and
+The neighs of horse to tell of her approach
+Long ere she did appear. The trees by th’ way
+Should have borne men, and expectation fainted,
+Longing for what it had not. Nay, the dust
+Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,
+Raised by your populous troops. But you are come
+A market-maid to Rome, and have prevented
+The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown,
+Is often left unloved. We should have met you
+By sea and land, supplying every stage
+With an augmented greeting.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+Good my lord,
+To come thus was I not constrained, but did it
+On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,
+Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted
+My grieved ear withal, whereon I begged
+His pardon for return.
+
+CAESAR.
+Which soon he granted,
+Being an abstract ’tween his lust and him.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+Do not say so, my lord.
+
+CAESAR.
+I have eyes upon him,
+And his affairs come to me on the wind.
+Where is he now?
+
+OCTAVIA.
+My lord, in Athens.
+
+CAESAR.
+No, my most wronged sister. Cleopatra
+Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire
+Up to a whore, who now are levying
+The kings o’ th’ earth for war. He hath assembled
+Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus
+Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king
+Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas;
+King Manchus of Arabia; King of Pont;
+Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king
+Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas,
+The kings of Mede and Lycaonia,
+With a more larger list of sceptres.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+Ay me, most wretched,
+That have my heart parted betwixt two friends
+That does afflict each other!
+
+CAESAR.
+Welcome hither.
+Your letters did withhold our breaking forth
+Till we perceived both how you were wrong led
+And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart.
+Be you not troubled with the time, which drives
+O’er your content these strong necessities,
+But let determined things to destiny
+Hold unbewailed their way. Welcome to Rome,
+Nothing more dear to me. You are abused
+Beyond the mark of thought, and the high gods,
+To do you justice, make their ministers
+Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort,
+And ever welcome to us.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Welcome, lady.
+
+MAECENAS.
+Welcome, dear madam.
+Each heart in Rome does love and pity you.
+Only th’ adulterous Antony, most large
+In his abominations, turns you off
+And gives his potent regiment to a trull
+That noises it against us.
+
+OCTAVIA.
+Is it so, sir?
+
+CAESAR.
+Most certain. Sister, welcome. Pray you
+Be ever known to patience. My dear’st sister!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. Antony’s Camp near the Promontory of Actium.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra and Enobarbus.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I will be even with thee, doubt it not.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+But why, why, why?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars
+And say’st it is not fit.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Well, is it, is it?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Is ’t not denounced against us? Why should not we
+Be there in person?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Well, I could reply:
+If we should serve with horse and mares together,
+The horse were merely lost. The mares would bear
+A soldier and his horse.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What is’t you say?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Your presence needs must puzzle Antony,
+Take from his heart, take from his brain, from ’s time,
+What should not then be spared. He is already
+Traduced for levity, and ’tis said in Rome
+That Photinus, an eunuch, and your maids
+Manage this war.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Sink Rome, and their tongues rot
+That speak against us! A charge we bear i’ th’ war,
+And, as the president of my kingdom, will
+Appear there for a man. Speak not against it.
+I will not stay behind.
+
+ Enter Antony and Canidius.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Nay, I have done.
+Here comes the Emperor.
+
+ANTONY.
+Is it not strange, Canidius,
+That from Tarentum and Brundusium
+He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea
+And take in Toryne?—You have heard on ’t, sweet?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Celerity is never more admired
+Than by the negligent.
+
+ANTONY.
+A good rebuke,
+Which might have well becomed the best of men
+To taunt at slackness.—Canidius, we
+Will fight with him by sea.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+By sea, what else?
+
+CANIDIUS.
+Why will my lord do so?
+
+ANTONY.
+For that he dares us to ’t.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+So hath my lord dared him to single fight.
+
+CANIDIUS.
+Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia,
+Where Caesar fought with Pompey. But these offers,
+Which serve not for his vantage, he shakes off,
+And so should you.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Your ships are not well manned,
+Your mariners are muleteers, reapers, people
+Engrossed by swift impress. In Caesar’s fleet
+Are those that often have ’gainst Pompey fought.
+Their ships are yare, yours heavy. No disgrace
+Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,
+Being prepared for land.
+
+ANTONY.
+By sea, by sea.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Most worthy sir, you therein throw away
+The absolute soldiership you have by land;
+Distract your army, which doth most consist
+Of war-marked footmen; leave unexecuted
+Your own renowned knowledge; quite forgo
+The way which promises assurance; and
+Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard
+From firm security.
+
+ANTONY.
+I’ll fight at sea.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.
+
+ANTONY.
+Our overplus of shipping will we burn,
+And with the rest full-manned, from th’ head of Actium
+Beat th’ approaching Caesar. But if we fail,
+We then can do ’t at land.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+Thy business?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The news is true, my lord; he is descried.
+Caesar has taken Toryne.
+
+ANTONY.
+Can he be there in person? ’Tis impossible;
+Strange that his power should be. Canidius,
+Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,
+And our twelve thousand horse. We’ll to our ship.
+Away, my Thetis!
+
+ Enter a Soldier.
+
+How now, worthy soldier?
+
+SOLDIER.
+O noble emperor, do not fight by sea.
+Trust not to rotten planks. Do you misdoubt
+This sword and these my wounds? Let th’ Egyptians
+And the Phoenicians go a-ducking. We
+Have used to conquer standing on the earth
+And fighting foot to foot.
+
+ANTONY.
+Well, well, away.
+
+ [_Exeunt Antony, Cleopatra and Enobarbus._]
+
+SOLDIER.
+By Hercules, I think I am i’ th’ right.
+
+CANIDIUS.
+Soldier, thou art. But his whole action grows
+Not in the power on ’t. So our leader’s led,
+And we are women’s men.
+
+SOLDIER.
+You keep by land
+The legions and the horse whole, do you not?
+
+CANIDIUS.
+Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,
+Publicola, and Caelius are for sea,
+But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar’s
+Carries beyond belief.
+
+SOLDIER.
+While he was yet in Rome,
+His power went out in such distractions as
+Beguiled all spies.
+
+CANIDIUS.
+Who’s his lieutenant, hear you?
+
+SOLDIER.
+They say one Taurus.
+
+CANIDIUS.
+Well I know the man.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+The Emperor calls Canidius.
+
+CANIDIUS.
+With news the time’s with labour, and throes forth
+Each minute some.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium.
+
+ Enter Caesar with his army and Taurus marching.
+
+CAESAR.
+Taurus!
+
+TAURUS.
+My lord?
+
+CAESAR.
+Strike not by land; keep whole; provoke not battle
+Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed
+The prescript of this scroll. Our fortune lies
+Upon this jump.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IX. Another part of the Plain.
+
+ Enter Antony and Enobarbus.
+
+ANTONY.
+Set we our squadrons on yon side o’ th’ hill
+In eye of Caesar’s battle, from which place
+We may the number of the ships behold
+And so proceed accordingly.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE X. Another part of the Plain.
+
+Canidius marching with his land army one way over the stage, and
+Taurus, the Lieutenant of Caesar, with his Army, the other way. After
+their going in, is heard the noise of a sea fight.
+
+ Alarum. Enter Enobarbus.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer.
+Th’ Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
+With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder.
+To see ’t mine eyes are blasted.
+
+ Enter Scarus.
+
+SCARUS.
+Gods and goddesses,
+All the whole synod of them!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+What’s thy passion?
+
+SCARUS.
+The greater cantle of the world is lost
+With very ignorance. We have kissed away
+Kingdoms and provinces.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+How appears the fight?
+
+SCARUS.
+On our side, like the tokened pestilence,
+Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,
+Whom leprosy o’ertake, i’ th’ midst o’ th’ fight,
+When vantage like a pair of twins appeared,
+Both as the same—or, rather, ours the elder—
+The breeze upon her, like a cow in June,
+Hoists sails and flies.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+That I beheld.
+Mine eyes did sicken at the sight and could not
+Endure a further view.
+
+SCARUS.
+She once being loofed,
+The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
+Claps on his sea-wing and, like a doting mallard,
+Leaving the fight in height, flies after her.
+I never saw an action of such shame.
+Experience, manhood, honour, ne’er before
+Did violate so itself.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Alack, alack!
+
+ Enter Canidius.
+
+CANIDIUS.
+Our fortune on the sea is out of breath
+And sinks most lamentably. Had our general
+Been what he knew himself, it had gone well.
+O, he has given example for our flight
+Most grossly by his own!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Ay, are you thereabouts?
+Why, then, good night indeed.
+
+CANIDIUS.
+Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.
+
+SCARUS.
+’Tis easy to’t, and there I will attend
+What further comes.
+
+CANIDIUS.
+To Caesar will I render
+My legions and my horse. Six kings already
+Show me the way of yielding.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I’ll yet follow
+The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
+Sits in the wind against me.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE XI. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Antony with attendants.
+
+ANTONY.
+Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon’t.
+It is ashamed to bear me. Friends, come hither.
+I am so lated in the world that I
+Have lost my way for ever. I have a ship
+Laden with gold. Take that, divide it. Fly,
+And make your peace with Caesar.
+
+ALL.
+Fly? Not we.
+
+ANTONY.
+I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards
+To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone.
+I have myself resolved upon a course
+Which has no need of you. Be gone.
+My treasure’s in the harbour. Take it. O,
+I followed that I blush to look upon.
+My very hairs do mutiny, for the white
+Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
+For fear and doting. Friends, be gone. You shall
+Have letters from me to some friends that will
+Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
+Nor make replies of loathness. Take the hint
+Which my despair proclaims. Let that be left
+Which leaves itself. To the sea-side straightway.
+I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
+Leave me, I pray, a little—pray you, now,
+Nay, do so; for indeed I have lost command.
+Therefore I pray you. I’ll see you by and by.
+
+ [_Sits down._]
+
+ Enter Cleopatra led by Charmian, Iras and Eros.
+
+EROS.
+Nay, gentle madam, to him! Comfort him.
+
+IRAS.
+Do, most dear queen.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Do! Why, what else?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Let me sit down. O Juno!
+
+ANTONY.
+No, no, no, no, no.
+
+EROS.
+See you here, sir?
+
+ANTONY.
+O, fie, fie, fie!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Madam.
+
+IRAS.
+Madam, O good empress!
+
+EROS.
+Sir, sir!
+
+ANTONY.
+Yes, my lord, yes. He at Philippi kept
+His sword e’en like a dancer, while I struck
+The lean and wrinkled Cassius, and ’twas I
+That the mad Brutus ended. He alone
+Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had
+In the brave squares of war. Yet now—no matter.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Ah, stand by.
+
+EROS.
+The Queen, my lord, the Queen!
+
+IRAS.
+Go to him, madam; speak to him.
+He is unqualitied with very shame.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Well then, sustain me. O!
+
+EROS.
+Most noble sir, arise. The Queen approaches.
+Her head’s declined, and death will seize her but
+Your comfort makes the rescue.
+
+ANTONY.
+I have offended reputation,
+A most unnoble swerving.
+
+EROS.
+Sir, the Queen.
+
+ANTONY.
+O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See
+How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
+By looking back what I have left behind
+’Stroyed in dishonour.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O my lord, my lord,
+Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought
+You would have followed.
+
+ANTONY.
+Egypt, thou knew’st too well
+My heart was to thy rudder tied by th’ strings,
+And thou shouldst tow me after. O’er my spirit
+Thy full supremacy thou knew’st, and that
+Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
+Command me.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O, my pardon!
+
+ANTONY.
+Now I must
+To the young man send humble treaties, dodge
+And palter in the shifts of lowness, who
+With half the bulk o’ th’ world played as I pleased,
+Making and marring fortunes. You did know
+How much you were my conqueror, and that
+My sword, made weak by my affection, would
+Obey it on all cause.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Pardon, pardon!
+
+ANTONY.
+Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates
+All that is won and lost. Give me a kiss.
+Even this repays me.
+We sent our schoolmaster. Is he come back?
+Love, I am full of lead. Some wine
+Within there, and our viands! Fortune knows
+We scorn her most when most she offers blows.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE XII. Caesar’s camp in Egypt.
+
+ Enter Caesar, Agrippa, Dolabella with others.
+
+CAESAR.
+Let him appear that’s come from Antony.
+Know you him?
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Caesar, ’tis his schoolmaster—
+An argument that he is plucked, when hither
+He sends so poor a pinion of his wing,
+Which had superfluous kings for messengers
+Not many moons gone by.
+
+ Enter Ambassador from Anthony.
+
+CAESAR.
+Approach, and speak.
+
+AMBASSADOR.
+Such as I am, I come from Antony.
+I was of late as petty to his ends
+As is the morn-dew on the myrtle leaf
+To his grand sea.
+
+CAESAR.
+Be’t so. Declare thine office.
+
+AMBASSADOR.
+Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and
+Requires to live in Egypt, which not granted,
+He lessens his requests, and to thee sues
+To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,
+A private man in Athens. This for him.
+Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness,
+Submits her to thy might, and of thee craves
+The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,
+Now hazarded to thy grace.
+
+CAESAR.
+For Antony,
+I have no ears to his request. The queen
+Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she
+From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,
+Or take his life there. This if she perform,
+She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.
+
+AMBASSADOR.
+Fortune pursue thee!
+
+CAESAR.
+Bring him through the bands.
+
+ [_Exit Ambassador, attended._]
+
+[_To Thidias_.] To try thy eloquence now ’tis time. Dispatch.
+From Antony win Cleopatra. Promise,
+And in our name, what she requires; add more,
+From thine invention, offers. Women are not
+In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure
+The ne’er-touch’d vestal. Try thy cunning, Thidias;
+Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we
+Will answer as a law.
+
+THIDIAS.
+Caesar, I go.
+
+CAESAR.
+Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,
+And what thou think’st his very action speaks
+In every power that moves.
+
+THIDIAS.
+Caesar, I shall.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE XIII. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian and Iras.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What shall we do, Enobarbus?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Think, and die.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Is Antony or we in fault for this?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Antony only, that would make his will
+Lord of his reason. What though you fled
+From that great face of war, whose several ranges
+Frighted each other? Why should he follow?
+The itch of his affection should not then
+Have nicked his captainship, at such a point,
+When half to half the world opposed, he being
+The mered question. ’Twas a shame no less
+Than was his loss, to course your flying flags
+And leave his navy gazing.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Prithee, peace.
+
+ Enter the Ambassador with Antony.
+
+ANTONY.
+Is that his answer?
+
+AMBASSADOR.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+The Queen shall then have courtesy, so she
+Will yield us up.
+
+AMBASSADOR.
+He says so.
+
+ANTONY.
+Let her know’t.—
+To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head,
+And he will fill thy wishes to the brim
+With principalities.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+That head, my lord?
+
+ANTONY.
+To him again. Tell him he wears the rose
+Of youth upon him, from which the world should note
+Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,
+May be a coward’s; whose ministers would prevail
+Under the service of a child as soon
+As i’ th’ command of Caesar. I dare him therefore
+To lay his gay comparisons apart,
+And answer me declined, sword against sword,
+Ourselves alone. I’ll write it. Follow me.
+
+ [_Exeunt Antony and Ambassador._]
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Yes, like enough high-battled Caesar will
+Unstate his happiness, and be staged to th’ show
+Against a sworder! I see men’s judgments are
+A parcel of their fortunes, and things outward
+Do draw the inward quality after them
+To suffer all alike. That he should dream,
+Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will
+Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued
+His judgment too.
+
+ Enter a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+A messenger from Caesar.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What, no more ceremony? See, my women,
+Against the blown rose may they stop their nose
+That kneeled unto the buds. Admit him, sir.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_Aside_.] Mine honesty and I begin to square.
+The loyalty well held to fools does make
+Our faith mere folly. Yet he that can endure
+To follow with allegiance a fallen lord
+Does conquer him that did his master conquer,
+And earns a place i’ th’ story.
+
+ Enter Thidias.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Caesar’s will?
+
+THIDIAS.
+Hear it apart.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+None but friends. Say boldly.
+
+THIDIAS.
+So haply are they friends to Antony.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has,
+Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master
+Will leap to be his friend. For us, you know
+Whose he is we are, and that is Caesar’s.
+
+THIDIAS.
+So.—
+Thus then, thou most renowned: Caesar entreats
+Not to consider in what case thou stand’st
+Further than he is Caesar.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Go on; right royal.
+
+THIDIAS.
+He knows that you embrace not Antony
+As you did love, but as you feared him.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O!
+
+THIDIAS.
+The scars upon your honour, therefore, he
+Does pity as constrained blemishes,
+Not as deserved.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+He is a god and knows
+What is most right. Mine honour was not yielded,
+But conquered merely.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_Aside_.] To be sure of that,
+I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky
+That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for
+Thy dearest quit thee.
+
+ [_Exit Enobarbus._]
+
+THIDIAS.
+Shall I say to Caesar
+What you require of him? For he partly begs
+To be desired to give. It much would please him
+That of his fortunes you should make a staff
+To lean upon. But it would warm his spirits
+To hear from me you had left Antony,
+And put yourself under his shroud,
+The universal landlord.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What’s your name?
+
+THIDIAS.
+My name is Thidias.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Most kind messenger,
+Say to great Caesar this in deputation:
+I kiss his conqu’ring hand. Tell him I am prompt
+To lay my crown at’s feet, and there to kneel.
+Tell him, from his all-obeying breath I hear
+The doom of Egypt.
+
+THIDIAS.
+’Tis your noblest course.
+Wisdom and fortune combating together,
+If that the former dare but what it can,
+No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay
+My duty on your hand.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Your Caesar’s father oft,
+When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,
+Bestowed his lips on that unworthy place
+As it rained kisses.
+
+ Enter Antony and Enobarbus.
+
+ANTONY.
+Favours, by Jove that thunders!
+What art thou, fellow?
+
+THIDIAS.
+One that but performs
+The bidding of the fullest man and worthiest
+To have command obeyed.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_Aside_.] You will be whipped.
+
+ANTONY.
+Approach there.—Ah, you kite!—Now, gods and devils,
+Authority melts from me. Of late when I cried “Ho!”
+Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth
+And cry “Your will?” Have you no ears? I am
+Antony yet.
+
+ Enter Servants.
+
+Take hence this jack and whip him.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+’Tis better playing with a lion’s whelp
+Than with an old one dying.
+
+ANTONY.
+Moon and stars!
+Whip him. Were’t twenty of the greatest tributaries
+That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them
+So saucy with the hand of she here—what’s her name
+Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows,
+Till like a boy you see him cringe his face
+And whine aloud for mercy. Take him hence.
+
+THIDIAS.
+Mark Antony—
+
+ANTONY.
+Tug him away. Being whipp’d,
+Bring him again. This jack of Caesar’s shall
+Bear us an errand to him.
+
+ [_Exeunt Servants with Thidias._]
+
+You were half blasted ere I knew you. Ha!
+Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome,
+Forborne the getting of a lawful race,
+And by a gem of women, to be abused
+By one that looks on feeders?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Good my lord—
+
+ANTONY.
+You have been a boggler ever.
+But when we in our viciousness grow hard—
+O misery on’t!—the wise gods seal our eyes,
+In our own filth drop our clear judgments, make us
+Adore our errors, laugh at’s while we strut
+To our confusion.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O, is’t come to this?
+
+ANTONY.
+I found you as a morsel cold upon
+Dead Caesar’s trencher; nay, you were a fragment
+Of Gneius Pompey’s, besides what hotter hours,
+Unregistered in vulgar fame, you have
+Luxuriously pick’d out. For I am sure,
+Though you can guess what temperance should be,
+You know not what it is.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Wherefore is this?
+
+ANTONY.
+To let a fellow that will take rewards
+And say “God quit you!” be familiar with
+My playfellow, your hand, this kingly seal
+And plighter of high hearts! O that I were
+Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar
+The horned herd! For I have savage cause,
+And to proclaim it civilly were like
+A haltered neck which does the hangman thank
+For being yare about him.
+
+ Enter a Servant with Thidias.
+
+Is he whipped?
+
+SERVANT.
+Soundly, my lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+Cried he? And begged he pardon?
+
+SERVANT.
+He did ask favour.
+
+ANTONY.
+If that thy father live, let him repent
+Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry
+To follow Caesar in his triumph, since
+Thou hast been whipped for following him. Henceforth
+The white hand of a lady fever thee;
+Shake thou to look on’t. Get thee back to Caesar;
+Tell him thy entertainment. Look thou say
+He makes me angry with him; for he seems
+Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,
+Not what he knew I was. He makes me angry,
+And at this time most easy ’tis to do’t,
+When my good stars that were my former guides
+Have empty left their orbs and shot their fires
+Into th’ abysm of hell. If he mislike
+My speech and what is done, tell him he has
+Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom
+He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,
+As he shall like, to quit me. Urge it thou.
+Hence with thy stripes, be gone.
+
+ [_Exit Thidias._]
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Have you done yet?
+
+ANTONY.
+Alack, our terrene moon is now eclipsed,
+And it portends alone the fall of Antony.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I must stay his time.
+
+ANTONY.
+To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes
+With one that ties his points?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Not know me yet?
+
+ANTONY.
+Cold-hearted toward me?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Ah, dear, if I be so,
+From my cold heart let heaven engender hail
+And poison it in the source, and the first stone
+Drop in my neck; as it determines, so
+Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite,
+Till, by degrees the memory of my womb,
+Together with my brave Egyptians all,
+By the discandying of this pelleted storm,
+Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile
+Have buried them for prey!
+
+ANTONY.
+I am satisfied.
+Caesar sits down in Alexandria, where
+I will oppose his fate. Our force by land
+Hath nobly held; our severed navy too
+Have knit again, and fleet, threat’ning most sea-like.
+Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady?
+If from the field I shall return once more
+To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood.
+I and my sword will earn our chronicle.
+There’s hope in’t yet.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+That’s my brave lord!
+
+ANTONY.
+I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed,
+And fight maliciously. For when mine hours
+Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
+Of me for jests. But now I’ll set my teeth
+And send to darkness all that stop me. Come,
+Let’s have one other gaudy night. Call to me
+All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more
+Let’s mock the midnight bell.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+It is my birthday.
+I had thought t’have held it poor, but since my lord
+Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.
+
+ANTONY.
+We will yet do well.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Call all his noble captains to my lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+Do so; we’ll speak to them; and tonight I’ll force
+The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen,
+There’s sap in’t yet. The next time I do fight
+I’ll make Death love me, for I will contend
+Even with his pestilent scythe.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Enobarbus._]
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Now he’ll outstare the lightning. To be furious
+Is to be frighted out of fear, and in that mood
+The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still
+A diminution in our captain’s brain
+Restores his heart. When valour preys on reason,
+It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek
+Some way to leave him.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+
+SCENE I. Caesar’s Camp at Alexandria.
+
+ Enter Caesar, Agrippa, and Maecenas, with his army.
+Caesar reading a letter.
+
+CAESAR.
+He calls me boy, and chides as he had power
+To beat me out of Egypt. My messenger
+He hath whipped with rods; dares me to personal combat,
+Caesar to Antony. Let the old ruffian know
+I have many other ways to die; meantime
+Laugh at his challenge.
+
+MAECENAS.
+Caesar must think,
+When one so great begins to rage, he’s hunted
+Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now
+Make boot of his distraction. Never anger
+Made good guard for itself.
+
+CAESAR.
+Let our best heads
+Know that tomorrow the last of many battles
+We mean to fight. Within our files there are,
+Of those that served Mark Antony but late,
+Enough to fetch him in. See it done,
+And feast the army; we have store to do’t,
+And they have earned the waste. Poor Antony!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Antony, Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, Alexas with
+ others.
+
+ANTONY.
+He will not fight with me, Domitius?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+No.
+
+ANTONY.
+Why should he not?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
+He is twenty men to one.
+
+ANTONY.
+Tomorrow, soldier,
+By sea and land I’ll fight. Or I will live,
+Or bathe my dying honour in the blood
+Shall make it live again. Woo’t thou fight well?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I’ll strike, and cry “Take all.”
+
+ANTONY.
+Well said. Come on.
+Call forth my household servants. Let’s tonight
+Be bounteous at our meal.—
+
+ Enter Servants.
+
+Give me thy hand.
+Thou has been rightly honest; so hast thou,
+Thou, and thou, and thou. You have served me well,
+And kings have been your fellows.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+[_Aside to Enobarbus_.] What means this?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_Aside to Cleopatra_.] ’Tis one of those odd tricks which sorrow
+shoots
+Out of the mind.
+
+ANTONY.
+And thou art honest too.
+I wish I could be made so many men,
+And all of you clapped up together in
+An Antony, that I might do you service
+So good as you have done.
+
+ALL THE SERVANTS.
+The gods forbid!
+
+ANTONY.
+Well, my good fellows, wait on me tonight.
+Scant not my cups, and make as much of me
+As when mine empire was your fellow too
+And suffered my command.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+[_Aside to Enobarbus_.] What does he mean?
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+[_Aside to Cleopatra_.] To make his followers weep.
+
+ANTONY.
+Tend me tonight;
+May be it is the period of your duty.
+Haply you shall not see me more, or if,
+A mangled shadow. Perchance tomorrow
+You’ll serve another master. I look on you
+As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,
+I turn you not away, but, like a master
+Married to your good service, stay till death.
+Tend me tonight two hours, I ask no more,
+And the gods yield you for’t!
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+What mean you, sir,
+To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep,
+And I, an ass, am onion-eyed. For shame,
+Transform us not to women.
+
+ANTONY.
+Ho, ho, ho!
+Now the witch take me if I meant it thus!
+Grace grow where those drops fall! My hearty friends,
+You take me in too dolorous a sense,
+For I spake to you for your comfort, did desire you
+To burn this night with torches. Know, my hearts,
+I hope well of tomorrow, and will lead you
+Where rather I’ll expect victorious life
+Than death and honour. Let’s to supper, come,
+And drown consideration.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Alexandria. Before the Palace.
+
+ Enter a Company of Soldiers.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Brother, good night. Tomorrow is the day.
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+It will determine one way. Fare you well.
+Heard you of nothing strange about the streets?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Nothing. What news?
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Belike ’tis but a rumour. Good night to you.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Well, sir, good night.
+
+ Enter two other Soldiers.
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Soldiers, have careful watch.
+
+THIRD SOLDIER.
+And you. Good night, good night.
+
+ [_They place themselves in every corner of the stage._]
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Here we. And if tomorrow
+Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope
+Our landmen will stand up.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+’Tis a brave army, and full of purpose.
+
+ [_Music of the hautboys under the stage._]
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Peace, what noise?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+List, list!
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Hark!
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Music i’ th’ air.
+
+THIRD SOLDIER.
+Under the earth.
+
+FOURTH SOLDIER.
+It signs well, does it not?
+
+THIRD SOLDIER.
+No.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Peace, I say! What should this mean?
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+’Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,
+Now leaves him.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Walk. Let’s see if other watchmen
+Do hear what we do.
+
+ [_They advance to another post._]
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+How now, masters!
+
+ALL.
+How now! How now! Do you hear this?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Ay. Is’t not strange?
+
+THIRD SOLDIER.
+Do you hear, masters? Do you hear?
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Follow the noise so far as we have quarter.
+Let’s see how it will give off.
+
+ALL.
+Content. ’Tis strange.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Antony and Cleopatra with others.
+
+ANTONY.
+Eros! Mine armour, Eros!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Sleep a little.
+
+ANTONY.
+No, my chuck.—Eros! Come, mine armour, Eros!
+
+ Enter Eros with armour.
+
+Come, good fellow, put thine iron on.
+If fortune be not ours today, it is
+Because we brave her. Come.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Nay, I’ll help too.
+What’s this for?
+
+ANTONY.
+Ah, let be, let be! Thou art
+The armourer of my heart. False, false. This, this!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Sooth, la, I’ll help. Thus it must be.
+
+ANTONY.
+Well, well,
+We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow?
+Go put on thy defences.
+
+EROS.
+Briefly, sir.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Is not this buckled well?
+
+ANTONY.
+Rarely, rarely.
+He that unbuckles this, till we do please
+To daff’t for our repose, shall hear a storm.
+Thou fumblest, Eros, and my queen’s a squire
+More tight at this than thou. Dispatch. O love,
+That thou couldst see my wars today, and knew’st
+The royal occupation, thou shouldst see
+A workman in’t.
+
+ Enter an Officer, armed.
+
+Good morrow to thee. Welcome.
+Thou look’st like him that knows a warlike charge.
+To business that we love we rise betime
+And go to’t with delight.
+
+OFFICER.
+A thousand, sir,
+Early though’t be, have on their riveted trim
+And at the port expect you.
+
+ [_Shout. Trumpets flourish._]
+
+ Enter other Captains and Soldiers.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+The morn is fair. Good morrow, general.
+
+ALL.
+Good morrow, general.
+
+ANTONY.
+’Tis well blown, lads.
+This morning, like the spirit of a youth
+That means to be of note, begins betimes.
+So, so. Come, give me that. This way. Well said.
+Fare thee well, dame.
+Whate’er becomes of me,
+This is a soldier’s kiss. [_Kisses her._] Rebukeable
+And worthy shameful check it were, to stand
+On more mechanic compliment. I’ll leave thee
+Now like a man of steel.—You that will fight,
+Follow me close, I’ll bring you to’t. Adieu.
+
+ [_Exeunt Antony, Eros, Captains and Soldiers._]
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Please you, retire to your chamber.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Lead me.
+He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might
+Determine this great war in single fight!
+Then Antony—but now—. Well, on.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Antony’s camp near Alexandria.
+
+ Trumpets sound. Enter Antony and Eros, a Soldier meeting them.
+
+SOLDIER.
+The gods make this a happy day to Antony!
+
+ANTONY.
+Would thou and those thy scars had once prevailed
+To make me fight at land!
+
+SOLDIER.
+Hadst thou done so,
+The kings that have revolted and the soldier
+That has this morning left thee would have still
+Followed thy heels.
+
+ANTONY.
+Who’s gone this morning?
+
+SOLDIER.
+Who?
+One ever near thee. Call for Enobarbus,
+He shall not hear thee, or from Caesar’s camp
+Say “I am none of thine.”
+
+ANTONY.
+What sayest thou?
+
+SOLDIER.
+Sir,
+He is with Caesar.
+
+EROS.
+Sir, his chests and treasure
+He has not with him.
+
+ANTONY.
+Is he gone?
+
+SOLDIER.
+Most certain.
+
+ANTONY.
+Go, Eros, send his treasure after. Do it.
+Detain no jot, I charge thee. Write to him—
+I will subscribe—gentle adieus and greetings.
+Say that I wish he never find more cause
+To change a master. O, my fortunes have
+Corrupted honest men! Dispatch.—Enobarbus!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Alexandria. Caesar’s camp.
+
+ Flourish. Enter Agrippa, Caesar with Enobarbus and Dolabella.
+
+CAESAR.
+Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight.
+Our will is Antony be took alive;
+Make it so known.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Caesar, I shall.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CAESAR.
+The time of universal peace is near.
+Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nooked world
+Shall bear the olive freely.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Antony
+Is come into the field.
+
+CAESAR.
+Go charge Agrippa
+Plant those that have revolted in the van
+That Antony may seem to spend his fury
+Upon himself.
+
+ [_Exeunt Caesar and his Train._]
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Alexas did revolt and went to Jewry on
+Affairs of Antony; there did dissuade
+Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar
+And leave his master Antony. For this pains
+Caesar hath hanged him. Canidius and the rest
+That fell away have entertainment but
+No honourable trust. I have done ill,
+Of which I do accuse myself so sorely
+That I will joy no more.
+
+ Enter a Soldier of Caesar’s.
+
+SOLDIER.
+Enobarbus, Antony
+Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
+His bounty overplus. The messenger
+Came on my guard, and at thy tent is now
+Unloading of his mules.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I give it you.
+
+SOLDIER.
+Mock not, Enobarbus.
+I tell you true. Best you safed the bringer
+Out of the host. I must attend mine office,
+Or would have done’t myself. Your emperor
+Continues still a Jove.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+I am alone the villain of the earth,
+And feel I am so most. O Antony,
+Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
+My better service, when my turpitude
+Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart.
+If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
+Shall outstrike thought, but thought will do’t, I feel.
+I fight against thee! No, I will go seek
+Some ditch wherein to die; the foul’st best fits
+My latter part of life.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VII. Field of battle between the Camps.
+
+ Alarum. Drums and Trumpets. Enter Agrippa and others.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+Retire! We have engaged ourselves too far.
+Caesar himself has work, and our oppression
+Exceeds what we expected.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+ Alarums. Enter Antony and Scarus wounded.
+
+SCARUS.
+O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!
+Had we done so at first, we had droven them home
+With clouts about their heads.
+
+ANTONY.
+Thou bleed’st apace.
+
+SCARUS.
+I had a wound here that was like a T,
+But now ’tis made an H.
+
+ _Sounds retreat far off._
+ANTONY.
+They do retire.
+
+SCARUS.
+We’ll beat ’em into bench-holes. I have yet
+Room for six scotches more.
+
+ Enter Eros.
+
+EROS.
+They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves
+For a fair victory.
+
+SCARUS.
+Let us score their backs
+And snatch ’em up as we take hares, behind.
+’Tis sport to maul a runner.
+
+ANTONY.
+I will reward thee
+Once for thy sprightly comfort, and tenfold
+For thy good valour. Come thee on.
+
+SCARUS.
+I’ll halt after.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VIII. Under the Walls of Alexandria.
+
+ Alarum. Enter Antony again in a march; Scarus with others.
+
+ANTONY.
+We have beat him to his camp. Run one before
+And let the Queen know of our gests.
+Tomorrow,
+Before the sun shall see’s, we’ll spill the blood
+That has today escaped. I thank you all,
+For doughty-handed are you, and have fought
+Not as you served the cause, but as’t had been
+Each man’s like mine. You have shown all Hectors.
+Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,
+Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears
+Wash the congealment from your wounds and kiss
+The honoured gashes whole.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra.
+
+[_To Scarus_.] Give me thy hand.
+To this great fairy I’ll commend thy acts,
+Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o’ th’ world,
+Chain mine armed neck. Leap thou, attire and all,
+Through proof of harness to my heart, and there
+Ride on the pants triumphing.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Lord of lords!
+O infinite virtue, com’st thou smiling from
+The world’s great snare uncaught?
+
+ANTONY.
+Mine nightingale,
+We have beat them to their beds. What, girl! Though grey
+Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha’ we
+A brain that nourishes our nerves and can
+Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man.
+Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand.—
+Kiss it, my warrior. He hath fought today
+As if a god, in hate of mankind, had
+Destroyed in such a shape.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I’ll give thee, friend,
+An armour all of gold. It was a king’s.
+
+ANTONY.
+He has deserved it, were it carbuncled
+Like holy Phœbus’ car. Give me thy hand.
+Through Alexandria make a jolly march;
+Bear our hacked targets like the men that owe them.
+Had our great palace the capacity
+To camp this host, we all would sup together
+And drink carouses to the next day’s fate,
+Which promises royal peril.—Trumpeters,
+With brazen din blast you the city’s ear;
+Make mingle with our rattling tabourines,
+That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,
+Applauding our approach.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IX. Caesar’s camp.
+
+ Enter a Sentry and his company. Enobarbus follows.
+
+SENTRY.
+If we be not relieved within this hour,
+We must return to th’ court of guard. The night
+Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle
+By th’ second hour i’ th’ morn.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+This last day was a shrewd one to’s.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+O, bear me witness, night.—
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+What man is this?
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Stand close and list him.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
+When men revolted shall upon record
+Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
+Before thy face repent.
+
+SENTRY.
+Enobarbus?
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Peace! Hark further.
+
+ENOBARBUS.
+O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
+The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
+That life, a very rebel to my will,
+May hang no longer on me. Throw my heart
+Against the flint and hardness of my fault,
+Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder
+And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
+Nobler than my revolt is infamous,
+Forgive me in thine own particular,
+But let the world rank me in register
+A master-leaver and a fugitive.
+O Antony! O Antony!
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Let’s speak to him.
+
+SENTRY.
+Let’s hear him, for the things he speaks may concern Caesar.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Let’s do so. But he sleeps.
+
+SENTRY.
+Swoons rather, for so bad a prayer as his
+Was never yet for sleep.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Go we to him.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Awake, sir, awake! Speak to us.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Hear you, sir?
+
+SENTRY.
+The hand of death hath raught him.
+
+ [_Drums afar off._]
+
+Hark! The drums
+Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
+To th’ court of guard; he is of note. Our hour
+Is fully out.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Come on, then. He may recover yet.
+
+ [_Exeunt with the body._]
+
+SCENE X. Ground between the two Camps.
+
+ Enter Antony and Scarus with their army.
+
+ANTONY.
+Their preparation is today by sea;
+We please them not by land.
+
+SCARUS.
+For both, my lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+I would they’d fight i’ th’ fire or i’ th’ air;
+We’d fight there too. But this it is: our foot
+Upon the hills adjoining to the city
+Shall stay with us—order for sea is given;
+They have put forth the haven—
+Where their appointment we may best discover
+And look on their endeavour.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE XI. Another part of the Ground.
+
+ Enter Caesar and his army.
+
+CAESAR.
+But being charged, we will be still by land,
+Which, as I take’t, we shall, for his best force
+Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,
+And hold our best advantage.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE XII. Another part of the Ground.
+
+ Alarum afar off, as at a sea fight. Enter Antony and Scarus.
+
+ANTONY.
+Yet they are not joined. Where yond pine does stand
+I shall discover all. I’ll bring thee word
+Straight how ’tis like to go.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCARUS.
+Swallows have built
+In Cleopatra’s sails their nests. The augurs
+Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,
+And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony
+Is valiant and dejected, and by starts
+His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear
+Of what he has and has not.
+
+ Enter Antony.
+
+ANTONY.
+All is lost!
+This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me.
+My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder
+They cast their caps up and carouse together
+Like friends long lost. Triple-turned whore! ’Tis thou
+Hast sold me to this novice, and my heart
+Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;
+For when I am revenged upon my charm,
+I have done all. Bid them all fly! Be gone!
+
+ [_Exit Scarus._]
+
+O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more.
+Fortune and Antony part here; even here
+Do we shake hands. All come to this! The hearts
+That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave
+Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
+On blossoming Caesar, and this pine is barked
+That overtopped them all. Betray’d I am:
+O this false soul of Egypt! This grave charm,
+Whose eye becked forth my wars and called them home,
+Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,
+Like a right gypsy hath at fast and loose
+Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.
+What, Eros, Eros!
+
+ Enter Cleopatra.
+
+Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Why is my lord enraged against his love?
+
+ANTONY.
+Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving
+And blemish Caesar’s triumph. Let him take thee
+And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians!
+Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot
+Of all thy sex; most monster-like be shown
+For poor’st diminutives, for dolts, and let
+Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
+With her prepared nails.
+
+ [_Exit Cleopatra._]
+
+’Tis well thou’rt gone,
+If it be well to live; but better ’twere
+Thou fell’st into my fury, for one death
+Might have prevented many.—Eros, ho!—
+The shirt of Nessus is upon me. Teach me,
+Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage.
+Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o’ th’ moon,
+And with those hands that grasped the heaviest club
+Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die.
+To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall
+Under this plot. She dies for’t.—Eros, ho!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE XIII. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Mardian.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Help me, my women! O, he is more mad
+Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly
+Was never so embossed.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+To th’ monument!
+There lock yourself and send him word you are dead.
+The soul and body rive not more in parting
+Than greatness going off.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+To th’ monument!
+Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself.
+Say that the last I spoke was “Antony”,
+And word it, prithee, piteously. Hence, Mardian,
+And bring me how he takes my death.—To th’ monument!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE XIV. Alexandria. Another Room.
+
+ Enter Antony and Eros.
+
+ANTONY.
+Eros, thou yet behold’st me?
+
+EROS.
+Ay, noble lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish,
+A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
+A towered citadel, a pendant rock,
+A forked mountain, or blue promontory
+With trees upon’t, that nod unto the world
+And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs.
+They are black vesper’s pageants.
+
+EROS.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+That which is now a horse, even with a thought
+The rack dislimns and makes it indistinct
+As water is in water.
+
+EROS.
+It does, my lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+My good knave Eros, now thy captain is
+Even such a body. Here I am Antony,
+Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.
+I made these wars for Egypt, and the Queen,
+Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine,
+Which, whilst it was mine, had annexed unto’t
+A million more, now lost—she, Eros, has
+Packed cards with Caesar, and false-played my glory
+Unto an enemy’s triumph.
+Nay, weep not, gentle Eros. There is left us
+Ourselves to end ourselves.
+
+ Enter Mardian.
+
+O, thy vile lady!
+She has robbed me of my sword.
+
+MARDIAN.
+No, Antony,
+My mistress loved thee and her fortunes mingled
+With thine entirely.
+
+ANTONY.
+Hence, saucy eunuch! Peace!
+She hath betrayed me and shall die the death.
+
+MARDIAN.
+Death of one person can be paid but once,
+And that she has discharged. What thou wouldst do
+Is done unto thy hand. The last she spake
+Was “Antony! Most noble Antony!”
+Then in the midst a tearing groan did break
+The name of Antony; it was divided
+Between her heart and lips. She rendered life,
+Thy name so buried in her.
+
+ANTONY.
+Dead, then?
+
+MARDIAN.
+Dead.
+
+ANTONY.
+Unarm, Eros. The long day’s task is done,
+And we must sleep.—That thou depart’st hence safe
+Does pay thy labour richly. Go.
+
+ [_Exit Mardian._]
+
+Off, pluck off!
+The sevenfold shield of Ajax cannot keep
+The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!
+Heart, once be stronger than thy continent;
+Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace!
+No more a soldier. Bruised pieces, go;
+You have been nobly borne. From me awhile.
+
+ [_Exit Eros._]
+
+I will o’ertake thee, Cleopatra, and
+Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now
+All length is torture. Since the torch is out,
+Lie down, and stray no farther. Now all labour
+Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles
+Itself with strength. Seal then, and all is done.
+Eros!—I come, my queen.—Eros!—Stay for me.
+Where souls do couch on flowers, we’ll hand in hand,
+And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze.
+Dido and her Aeneas shall want troops,
+And all the haunt be ours.—Come, Eros, Eros!
+
+ Enter Eros.
+
+EROS.
+What would my lord?
+
+ANTONY.
+Since Cleopatra died,
+I have lived in such dishonour that the gods
+Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword
+Quartered the world, and o’er green Neptune’s back
+With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack
+The courage of a woman; less noble mind
+Than she which, by her death, our Caesar tells
+“I am conqueror of myself.” Thou art sworn, Eros,
+That when the exigent should come, which now
+Is come indeed, when I should see behind me
+Th’ inevitable prosecution of
+Disgrace and horror, that on my command
+Thou then wouldst kill me. Do’t. The time is come.
+Thou strik’st not me; ’tis Caesar thou defeat’st.
+Put colour in thy cheek.
+
+EROS.
+The gods withhold me!
+Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts,
+Though enemy, lost aim and could not?
+
+ANTONY.
+Eros,
+Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see
+Thy master thus with pleached arms, bending down
+His corrigible neck, his face subdued
+To penetrative shame, whilst the wheeled seat
+Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded
+His baseness that ensued?
+
+EROS.
+I would not see’t.
+
+ANTONY.
+Come, then, for with a wound I must be cured.
+Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn
+Most useful for thy country.
+
+EROS.
+O, sir, pardon me!
+
+ANTONY.
+When I did make thee free, swor’st thou not then
+To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once,
+Or thy precedent services are all
+But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come.
+
+EROS.
+Turn from me then that noble countenance
+Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.
+
+ANTONY.
+Lo thee!
+
+ [_Turning from him._]
+
+EROS.
+My sword is drawn.
+
+ANTONY.
+Then let it do at once
+The thing why thou hast drawn it.
+
+EROS.
+My dear master,
+My captain and my emperor, let me say,
+Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.
+
+ANTONY.
+’Tis said, man, and farewell.
+
+EROS.
+Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?
+
+ANTONY.
+Now, Eros.
+
+EROS.
+Why, there then! [_kills himself_]
+Thus do I escape the sorrow
+Of Antony’s death.
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+ANTONY.
+Thrice nobler than myself!
+Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what
+I should and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros
+Have by their brave instruction got upon me
+A nobleness in record. But I will be
+A bridegroom in my death and run into’t
+As to a lover’s bed. Come then, and, Eros,
+Thy master dies thy scholar. To do thus
+
+ [_Falling on his sword._]
+
+I learned of thee. How? Not dead? Not dead?
+The guard, ho! O, dispatch me!
+
+ Enter a company of the Guard, one of them Dercetus.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+What’s the noise?
+
+ANTONY.
+I have done my work ill, friends. O, make an end
+Of what I have begun.
+
+SECOND GUARD.
+The star is fallen.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+And time is at his period.
+
+ALL.
+Alas, and woe!
+
+ANTONY.
+Let him that loves me strike me dead.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+Not I.
+
+SECOND GUARD.
+Nor I.
+
+THIRD GUARD.
+Nor anyone.
+
+ [_Exeunt guard._]
+
+DERCETUS.
+Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly.
+This sword but shown to Caesar with this tidings,
+Shall enter me with him.
+
+ Enter Diomedes.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Where’s Antony?
+
+DERCETUS.
+There, Diomed, there.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Lives he? Wilt thou not answer, man?
+
+ [_Exit Dercetus._]
+
+ANTONY.
+Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword and give me
+Sufficing strokes for death.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Most absolute lord,
+My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.
+
+ANTONY.
+When did she send thee?
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Now, my lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+Where is she?
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Locked in her monument. She had a prophesying fear
+Of what hath come to pass. For when she saw—
+Which never shall be found—you did suspect
+She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage
+Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead;
+But fearing since how it might work, hath sent
+Me to proclaim the truth, and I am come,
+I dread, too late.
+
+ANTONY.
+Too late, good Diomed. Call my guard, I prithee.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+What, ho! The emperor’s guard! The guard, what ho!
+Come, your lord calls!
+
+ Enter four or five of the Guard of Antony.
+
+ANTONY.
+Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides.
+’Tis the last service that I shall command you.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear
+All your true followers out.
+
+ALL.
+Most heavy day!
+
+ANTONY.
+Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate
+To grace it with your sorrows. Bid that welcome
+Which comes to punish us, and we punish it,
+Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up.
+I have led you oft; carry me now, good friends,
+And have my thanks for all.
+
+ [_Exeunt, bearing Antony._]
+
+SCENE XV. Alexandria. A monument.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra and her maids aloft, with Charmian and Iras.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O Charmian, I will never go from hence.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Be comforted, dear madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+No, I will not.
+All strange and terrible events are welcome,
+But comforts we despise. Our size of sorrow,
+Proportioned to our cause, must be as great
+As that which makes it.
+
+ Enter, below Diomedes.
+
+How now! Is he dead?
+
+DIOMEDES.
+His death’s upon him, but not dead.
+Look out o’ th’ other side your monument;
+His guard have brought him thither.
+
+ Enter, below Antony borne by the Guard.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O sun,
+Burn the great sphere thou mov’st in! Darkling stand
+The varying shore o’ th’ world. O Antony,
+Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian! Help, Iras, help!
+Help, friends below! Let’s draw him hither.
+
+ANTONY.
+Peace!
+Not Caesar’s valour hath o’erthrown Antony,
+But Antony’s hath triumphed on itself.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+So it should be, that none but Antony
+Should conquer Antony, but woe ’tis so!
+
+ANTONY.
+I am dying, Egypt, dying. Only
+I here importune death awhile until
+Of many thousand kisses the poor last
+I lay upon thy lips.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I dare not, dear
+Dear my lord, pardon. I dare not,
+Lest I be taken. Not th’ imperious show
+Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall
+Be brooched with me; if knife, drugs, serpents, have
+Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe.
+Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes
+And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour
+Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony—
+Help me, my women—we must draw thee up.
+Assist, good friends.
+
+ANTONY.
+O, quick, or I am gone.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Here’s sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord!
+Our strength is all gone into heaviness;
+That makes the weight. Had I great Juno’s power,
+The strong-winged Mercury should fetch thee up
+And set thee by Jove’s side. Yet come a little;
+Wishers were ever fools. O come, come come,
+
+ [_They heave Antony aloft to Cleopatra._]
+
+And welcome, welcome! Die where thou hast lived;
+Quicken with kissing. Had my lips that power,
+Thus would I wear them out.
+
+ALL.
+A heavy sight!
+
+ANTONY.
+I am dying, Egypt, dying.
+Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+No, let me speak, and let me rail so high
+That the false huswife Fortune break her wheel,
+Provoked by my offence.
+
+ANTONY.
+One word, sweet queen:
+Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+They do not go together.
+
+ANTONY.
+Gentle, hear me.
+None about Caesar trust but Proculeius.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+My resolution and my hands I’ll trust;
+None about Caesar.
+
+ANTONY.
+The miserable change now at my end
+Lament nor sorrow at, but please your thoughts
+In feeding them with those my former fortunes
+Wherein I lived the greatest prince o’ th’ world,
+The noblest; and do now not basely die,
+Not cowardly put off my helmet to
+My countryman; a Roman by a Roman
+Valiantly vanquished. Now my spirit is going;
+I can no more.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Noblest of men, woo’t die?
+Hast thou no care of me? Shall I abide
+In this dull world, which in thy absence is
+No better than a sty? O, see, my women,
+
+ [_ Antony dies._]
+
+The crown o’ th’ earth doth melt.—My lord!
+O, withered is the garland of the war,
+The soldier’s pole is fallen; young boys and girls
+Are level now with men. The odds is gone,
+And there is nothing left remarkable
+Beneath the visiting moon.
+
+ [_Faints._]
+
+CHARMIAN.
+O, quietness, lady!
+
+IRAS.
+She is dead too, our sovereign.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Lady!
+
+IRAS.
+Madam!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+O madam, madam, madam!
+
+IRAS.
+Royal Egypt, Empress!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Peace, peace, Iras!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+No more but e’en a woman, and commanded
+By such poor passion as the maid that milks
+And does the meanest chares. It were for me
+To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods,
+To tell them that this world did equal theirs
+Till they had stolen our jewel. All’s but naught;
+Patience is sottish, and impatience does
+Become a dog that’s mad. Then is it sin
+To rush into the secret house of death
+Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?
+What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian?
+My noble girls! Ah, women, women! Look,
+Our lamp is spent, it’s out! Good sirs, take heart.
+We’ll bury him; and then, what’s brave, what’s noble,
+Let’s do it after the high Roman fashion
+And make death proud to take us. Come, away.
+This case of that huge spirit now is cold.
+Ah, women, women! Come, we have no friend
+But resolution and the briefest end.
+
+ [_Exeunt, bearing off Antony’s body._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+
+SCENE I. Caesar’s Camp before Alexandria.
+
+ Enter Caesar, Agrippa, Dolabella, Maecenas, Gallus, Proculeius with
+ his council of war.
+
+CAESAR.
+Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield.
+Being so frustrate, tell him, he mocks
+The pauses that he makes.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Caesar, I shall.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Dercetus with the sword of Antony.
+
+CAESAR.
+Wherefore is that? And what art thou that dar’st
+Appear thus to us?
+
+DERCETUS.
+I am called Dercetus.
+Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy
+Best to be served. Whilst he stood up and spoke,
+He was my master, and I wore my life
+To spend upon his haters. If thou please
+To take me to thee, as I was to him
+I’ll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,
+I yield thee up my life.
+
+CAESAR.
+What is’t thou say’st?
+
+DERCETUS.
+I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.
+
+CAESAR.
+The breaking of so great a thing should make
+A greater crack. The round world
+Should have shook lions into civil streets,
+And citizens to their dens. The death of Antony
+Is not a single doom; in the name lay
+A moiety of the world.
+
+DERCETUS.
+He is dead, Caesar,
+Not by a public minister of justice,
+Nor by a hired knife, but that self hand
+Which writ his honour in the acts it did
+Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,
+Splitted the heart. This is his sword.
+I robbed his wound of it. Behold it stained
+With his most noble blood.
+
+CAESAR.
+Look you sad, friends?
+The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings
+To wash the eyes of kings.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+And strange it is
+That nature must compel us to lament
+Our most persisted deeds.
+
+MAECENAS.
+His taints and honours
+Waged equal with him.
+
+AGRIPPA.
+A rarer spirit never
+Did steer humanity, but you gods will give us
+Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touched.
+
+MAECENAS.
+When such a spacious mirror’s set before him,
+He needs must see himself.
+
+CAESAR.
+O Antony,
+I have followed thee to this, but we do lance
+Diseases in our bodies. I must perforce
+Have shown to thee such a declining day
+Or look on thine. We could not stall together
+In the whole world. But yet let me lament
+With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,
+That thou, my brother, my competitor
+In top of all design, my mate in empire,
+Friend and companion in the front of war,
+The arm of mine own body, and the heart
+Where mine his thoughts did kindle, that our stars,
+Unreconciliable, should divide
+Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends—
+
+ Enter an Egyptian.
+
+But I will tell you at some meeter season.
+The business of this man looks out of him;
+We’ll hear him what he says. Whence are you?
+
+EGYPTIAN.
+A poor Egyptian yet. The queen, my mistress,
+Confined in all she has, her monument,
+Of thy intents desires instruction,
+That she preparedly may frame herself
+To the way she’s forced to.
+
+CAESAR.
+Bid her have good heart.
+She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,
+How honourable and how kindly we
+Determine for her. For Caesar cannot lean
+To be ungentle.
+
+EGYPTIAN.
+So the gods preserve thee!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CAESAR.
+Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say
+We purpose her no shame. Give her what comforts
+The quality of her passion shall require,
+Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke
+She do defeat us, for her life in Rome
+Would be eternal in our triumph. Go,
+And with your speediest bring us what she says
+And how you find of her.
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+Caesar, I shall.
+
+ [_Exit Proculeius._]
+
+CAESAR.
+Gallus, go you along.
+
+ [_Exit Gallus._]
+
+Where’s Dolabella, to second Proculeius?
+
+ALL.
+Dolabella!
+
+CAESAR.
+Let him alone, for I remember now
+How he’s employed. He shall in time be ready.
+Go with me to my tent, where you shall see
+How hardly I was drawn into this war,
+How calm and gentle I proceeded still
+In all my writings. Go with me and see
+What I can show in this.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Alexandria. A Room in the Monument.
+
+ Enter Cleopatra, Charmian and Iras.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+My desolation does begin to make
+A better life. ’Tis paltry to be Caesar;
+Not being Fortune, he’s but Fortune’s knave,
+A minister of her will. And it is great
+To do that thing that ends all other deeds,
+Which shackles accidents and bolts up change,
+Which sleeps and never palates more the dung,
+The beggar’s nurse and Caesar’s.
+
+ Enter Proculeius.
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+Caesar sends greetings to the queen of Egypt,
+And bids thee study on what fair demands
+Thou mean’st to have him grant thee.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What’s thy name?
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+My name is Proculeius.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Antony
+Did tell me of you, bade me trust you, but
+I do not greatly care to be deceived
+That have no use for trusting. If your master
+Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him
+That majesty, to keep decorum, must
+No less beg than a kingdom. If he please
+To give me conquered Egypt for my son,
+He gives me so much of mine own as I
+Will kneel to him with thanks.
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+Be of good cheer.
+You are fallen into a princely hand; fear nothing.
+Make your full reference freely to my lord,
+Who is so full of grace that it flows over
+On all that need. Let me report to him
+Your sweet dependency, and you shall find
+A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness
+Where he for grace is kneeled to.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Pray you tell him
+I am his fortune’s vassal and I send him
+The greatness he has got. I hourly learn
+A doctrine of obedience, and would gladly
+Look him i’ th’ face.
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+This I’ll report, dear lady.
+Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied
+Of him that caused it.
+
+ Enter Gallus and Roman Soldiers.
+
+You see how easily she may be surprised.
+Guard her till Caesar come.
+
+IRAS.
+Royal queen!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+O Cleopatra, thou art taken, queen!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Quick, quick, good hands.
+
+ [_Drawing a dagger._]
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+Hold, worthy lady, hold!
+
+ [_Seizes and disarms her._]
+
+Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this
+Relieved, but not betrayed.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What, of death too,
+That rids our dogs of languish?
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+Cleopatra,
+Do not abuse my master’s bounty by
+Th’ undoing of yourself. Let the world see
+His nobleness well acted, which your death
+Will never let come forth.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Where art thou, Death?
+Come hither, come! Come, come, and take a queen
+Worth many babes and beggars!
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+O, temperance, lady!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Sir, I will eat no meat; I’ll not drink, sir;
+If idle talk will once be necessary,
+I’ll not sleep neither. This mortal house I’ll ruin,
+Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I
+Will not wait pinioned at your master’s court,
+Nor once be chastised with the sober eye
+Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up
+And show me to the shouting varletry
+Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt
+Be gentle grave unto me! Rather on Nilus’ mud
+Lay me stark-naked, and let the water-flies
+Blow me into abhorring! Rather make
+My country’s high pyramides my gibbet
+And hang me up in chains!
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+You do extend
+These thoughts of horror further than you shall
+Find cause in Caesar.
+
+ Enter Dolabella.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Proculeius,
+What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,
+And he hath sent for thee. For the queen,
+I’ll take her to my guard.
+
+PROCULEIUS.
+So, Dolabella,
+It shall content me best. Be gentle to her.
+[_To Cleopatra._] To Caesar I will speak what you shall please,
+If you’ll employ me to him.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Say I would die.
+
+ [_Exeunt Proculeius and Soldiers._]
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Most noble empress, you have heard of me?
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I cannot tell.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Assuredly you know me.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+No matter, sir, what I have heard or known.
+You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams;
+Is’t not your trick?
+
+DOLABELLA.
+I understand not, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony.
+O, such another sleep, that I might see
+But such another man!
+
+DOLABELLA.
+If it might please you—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck
+A sun and moon, which kept their course, and lighted
+The little O, the earth.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Most sovereign creature—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm
+Crested the world; his voice was propertied
+As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;
+But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,
+He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,
+There was no winter in’t; an autumn ’twas
+That grew the more by reaping. His delights
+Were dolphin-like; they showed his back above
+The element they lived in. In his livery
+Walked crowns and crownets; realms and islands were
+As plates dropped from his pocket.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Cleopatra—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Think you there was or might be such a man
+As this I dreamt of?
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Gentle madam, no.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+You lie up to the hearing of the gods!
+But if there be nor ever were one such,
+It’s past the size of dreaming. Nature wants stuff
+To vie strange forms with fancy; yet t’ imagine
+An Antony were nature’s piece ’gainst fancy,
+Condemning shadows quite.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Hear me, good madam.
+Your loss is, as yourself, great; and you bear it
+As answering to the weight. Would I might never
+O’ertake pursued success, but I do feel,
+By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites
+My very heart at root.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+I thank you, sir.
+Know you what Caesar means to do with me?
+
+DOLABELLA.
+I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Nay, pray you, sir.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Though he be honourable—
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+He’ll lead me, then, in triumph.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Madam, he will. I know it.
+
+ Flourish. Enter Caesar, Proculeius, Gallus, Maecenas and others of his
+ train.
+
+ALL.
+Make way there! Caesar!
+
+CAESAR.
+Which is the Queen of Egypt?
+
+DOLABELLA.
+It is the Emperor, madam.
+
+ [_Cleopatra kneels._]
+
+CAESAR.
+Arise, you shall not kneel.
+I pray you, rise. Rise, Egypt.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Sir, the gods
+Will have it thus. My master and my lord
+I must obey.
+
+CAESAR.
+Take to you no hard thoughts.
+The record of what injuries you did us,
+Though written in our flesh, we shall remember
+As things but done by chance.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Sole sir o’ th’ world,
+I cannot project mine own cause so well
+To make it clear, but do confess I have
+Been laden with like frailties which before
+Have often shamed our sex.
+
+CAESAR.
+Cleopatra, know
+We will extenuate rather than enforce.
+If you apply yourself to our intents,
+Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find
+A benefit in this change; but if you seek
+To lay on me a cruelty by taking
+Antony’s course, you shall bereave yourself
+Of my good purposes, and put your children
+To that destruction which I’ll guard them from
+If thereon you rely. I’ll take my leave.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+And may, through all the world. ’Tis yours, and we,
+Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall
+Hang in what place you please. Here, my good lord.
+
+CAESAR.
+You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels
+I am possessed of. ’Tis exactly valued,
+Not petty things admitted. Where’s Seleucus?
+
+ Enter Seleucus.
+
+SELEUCUS.
+Here, madam.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+This is my treasurer. Let him speak, my lord,
+Upon his peril, that I have reserved
+To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus.
+
+SELEUCUS.
+Madam, I had rather seal my lips
+Than to my peril speak that which is not.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+What have I kept back?
+
+SELEUCUS.
+Enough to purchase what you have made known.
+
+CAESAR.
+Nay, blush not, Cleopatra. I approve
+Your wisdom in the deed.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+See, Caesar! O, behold,
+How pomp is followed! Mine will now be yours
+And should we shift estates, yours would be mine.
+The ingratitude of this Seleucus does
+Even make me wild. O slave, of no more trust
+Than love that’s hired! What, goest thou back? Thou shalt
+Go back, I warrant thee! But I’ll catch thine eyes
+Though they had wings. Slave, soulless villain, dog!
+O rarely base!
+
+CAESAR.
+Good queen, let us entreat you.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this,
+That thou vouchsafing here to visit me,
+Doing the honour of thy lordliness
+To one so meek, that mine own servant should
+Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
+Addition of his envy! Say, good Caesar,
+That I some lady trifles have reserved,
+Immoment toys, things of such dignity
+As we greet modern friends withal; and say
+Some nobler token I have kept apart
+For Livia and Octavia, to induce
+Their mediation, must I be unfolded
+With one that I have bred? The gods! It smites me
+Beneath the fall I have.
+[_To Seleucus_.] Prithee go hence,
+Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits
+Through th’ ashes of my chance. Wert thou a man,
+Thou wouldst have mercy on me.
+
+CAESAR.
+Forbear, Seleucus.
+
+ [_Exit Seleucus._]
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought
+For things that others do; and when we fall,
+We answer others’ merits in our name,
+Are therefore to be pitied.
+
+CAESAR.
+Cleopatra,
+Not what you have reserved nor what acknowledged
+Put we i’ th’ roll of conquest. Still be’t yours;
+Bestow it at your pleasure, and believe
+Caesar’s no merchant to make prize with you
+Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheered;
+Make not your thoughts your prisons. No, dear queen;
+For we intend so to dispose you as
+Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed and sleep.
+Our care and pity is so much upon you
+That we remain your friend; and so, adieu.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+My master and my lord!
+
+CAESAR.
+Not so. Adieu.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt Caesar and his train._]
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not
+Be noble to myself. But hark thee, Charmian!
+
+ [_Whispers to Charmian._]
+
+IRAS.
+Finish, good lady. The bright day is done,
+And we are for the dark.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Hie thee again.
+I have spoke already, and it is provided.
+Go put it to the haste.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Madam, I will.
+
+ Enter Dolabella.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Where’s the Queen?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Behold, sir.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Dolabella!
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Madam, as thereto sworn by your command,
+Which my love makes religion to obey,
+I tell you this: Caesar through Syria
+Intends his journey, and within three days
+You with your children will he send before.
+Make your best use of this. I have performed
+Your pleasure and my promise.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Dolabella,
+I shall remain your debtor.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+I your servant.
+Adieu, good queen. I must attend on Caesar.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Farewell, and thanks.
+
+ [_Exit Dolabella._]
+
+Now, Iras, what think’st thou?
+Thou an Egyptian puppet shall be shown
+In Rome as well as I. Mechanic slaves
+With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers shall
+Uplift us to the view. In their thick breaths,
+Rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded,
+And forced to drink their vapour.
+
+IRAS.
+The gods forbid!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Nay, ’tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors
+Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers
+Ballad us out o’ tune. The quick comedians
+Extemporally will stage us and present
+Our Alexandrian revels; Antony
+Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
+Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
+I’ th’ posture of a whore.
+
+IRAS.
+O the good gods!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Nay, that’s certain.
+
+IRAS.
+I’ll never see’t, for I am sure mine nails
+Are stronger than mine eyes.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Why, that’s the way
+To fool their preparation and to conquer
+Their most absurd intents.
+
+ Enter Charmian.
+
+Now, Charmian!
+Show me, my women, like a queen. Go fetch
+My best attires. I am again for Cydnus
+To meet Mark Antony. Sirrah, Iras, go.
+Now, noble Charmian, we’ll dispatch indeed,
+And when thou hast done this chare, I’ll give thee leave
+To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all.
+
+ [_Exit Iras. A noise within._]
+
+Wherefore’s this noise?
+
+ Enter a Guardsman.
+
+GUARDSMAN.
+Here is a rural fellow
+That will not be denied your highness’ presence.
+He brings you figs.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Let him come in.
+
+ [_Exit Guardsman._]
+
+What poor an instrument
+May do a noble deed! He brings me liberty.
+My resolution’s placed, and I have nothing
+Of woman in me. Now from head to foot
+I am marble-constant. Now the fleeting moon
+No planet is of mine.
+
+ Enter Guardsman and Clown with a basket.
+
+GUARDSMAN.
+This is the man.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Avoid, and leave him.
+
+ [_Exit Guardsman._]
+
+Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there
+That kills and pains not?
+
+CLOWN.
+Truly, I have him, but I would not be the party that should desire you
+to touch him, for his biting is immortal. Those that do die of it do
+seldom or never recover.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Remember’st thou any that have died on’t?
+
+CLOWN.
+Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of them no longer than
+yesterday—a very honest woman, but something given to lie; as a woman
+should not do but in the way of honesty—how she died of the biting of
+it, what pain she felt. Truly she makes a very good report o’ th’ worm;
+but he that will believe all that they say shall never be saved by half
+that they do. But this is most falliable, the worm’s an odd worm.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Get thee hence. Farewell.
+
+CLOWN.
+I wish you all joy of the worm.
+
+ [_Sets down the basket._]
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Farewell.
+
+CLOWN.
+You must think this, look you, that the worm will do his kind.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Ay, ay, farewell.
+
+CLOWN.
+Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the keeping of wise
+people; for indeed there is no goodness in the worm.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Take thou no care; it shall be heeded.
+
+CLOWN.
+Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is not worth the
+feeding.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Will it eat me?
+
+CLOWN.
+You must not think I am so simple but I know the devil himself will not
+eat a woman. I know that a woman is a dish for the gods if the devil
+dress her not. But truly, these same whoreson devils do the gods great
+harm in their women, for in every ten that they make, the devils mar
+five.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Well, get thee gone. Farewell.
+
+CLOWN.
+Yes, forsooth. I wish you joy o’ th’ worm.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Iras with a robe, crown, &c.
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have
+Immortal longings in me. Now no more
+The juice of Egypt’s grape shall moist this lip.
+Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear
+Antony call. I see him rouse himself
+To praise my noble act. I hear him mock
+The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men
+To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come!
+Now to that name my courage prove my title!
+I am fire and air; my other elements
+I give to baser life.—So, have you done?
+Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.
+Farewell, kind Charmian. Iras, long farewell.
+
+ [_Kisses them. Iras falls and dies._]
+
+Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?
+If thou and nature can so gently part,
+The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch,
+Which hurts and is desired. Dost thou lie still?
+If thus thou vanishest, thou tell’st the world
+It is not worth leave-taking.
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say
+The gods themselves do weep!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+This proves me base.
+If she first meet the curled Antony,
+He’ll make demand of her, and spend that kiss
+Which is my heaven to have.—Come, thou mortal wretch,
+
+ [_To an asp, which she applies to her breast._]
+
+With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
+Of life at once untie. Poor venomous fool,
+Be angry and dispatch. O couldst thou speak,
+That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass
+Unpolicied!
+
+CHARMIAN.
+O eastern star!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+Peace, peace!
+Dost thou not see my baby at my breast
+That sucks the nurse asleep?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+O, break! O, break!
+
+CLEOPATRA.
+As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle—
+O Antony!—Nay, I will take thee too.
+
+ [_Applying another asp to her arm._]
+
+What should I stay—
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+CHARMIAN.
+In this vile world? So, fare thee well.
+Now boast thee, Death, in thy possession lies
+A lass unparalleled. Downy windows, close,
+And golden Phœbus never be beheld
+Of eyes again so royal! Your crown’s awry;
+I’ll mend it and then play.
+
+ Enter the Guard rustling in.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+Where’s the queen?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Speak softly. Wake her not.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+Caesar hath sent—
+
+CHARMIAN.
+Too slow a messenger.
+
+ [_Applies an asp._]
+
+O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+Approach, ho! All’s not well. Caesar’s beguiled.
+
+SECOND GUARD.
+There’s Dolabella sent from Caesar. Call him.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+What work is here, Charmian? Is this well done?
+
+CHARMIAN.
+It is well done, and fitting for a princess
+Descended of so many royal kings.
+Ah, soldier!
+
+ [_Charmian dies._]
+
+ Enter Dolabella.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+How goes it here?
+
+SECOND GUARD.
+All dead.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Caesar, thy thoughts
+Touch their effects in this. Thyself art coming
+To see performed the dreaded act which thou
+So sought’st to hinder.
+
+ Enter Caesar and all his train, marching.
+
+ALL.
+A way there, a way for Caesar!
+
+DOLABELLA.
+O sir, you are too sure an augurer:
+That you did fear is done.
+
+CAESAR.
+Bravest at the last,
+She levelled at our purposes and, being royal,
+Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?
+I do not see them bleed.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Who was last with them?
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+A simple countryman that brought her figs.
+This was his basket.
+
+CAESAR.
+Poisoned then.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+O Caesar,
+This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake.
+I found her trimming up the diadem
+On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood,
+And on the sudden dropped.
+
+CAESAR.
+O noble weakness!
+If they had swallowed poison ’twould appear
+By external swelling; but she looks like sleep,
+As she would catch another Antony
+In her strong toil of grace.
+
+DOLABELLA.
+Here on her breast
+There is a vent of blood, and something blown.
+The like is on her arm.
+
+FIRST GUARD.
+This is an aspic’s trail, and these fig leaves
+Have slime upon them, such as th’ aspic leaves
+Upon the caves of Nile.
+
+CAESAR.
+Most probable
+That so she died, for her physician tells me
+She hath pursued conclusions infinite
+Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed,
+And bear her women from the monument.
+She shall be buried by her Antony.
+No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
+A pair so famous. High events as these
+Strike those that make them; and their story is
+No less in pity than his glory which
+Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall
+In solemn show attend this funeral,
+And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see
+High order in this great solemnity.
+
+ [_Exeunt omnes._]
+
+
+
+
+AS YOU LIKE IT
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. An Orchard near Oliver’s house
+ Scene II. A Lawn before the Duke’s Palace
+ Scene III. A Room in the Palace
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. The Forest of Arden
+ Scene II. A Room in the Palace
+ Scene III. Before Oliver’s House
+ Scene IV. The Forest of Arden
+ Scene V. Another part of the Forest
+ Scene VI. Another part of the Forest
+ Scene VII. Another part of the Forest
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. A Room in the Palace
+ Scene II. The Forest of Arden
+ Scene III. Another part of the Forest
+ Scene IV. Another part of the Forest. Before a Cottage
+ Scene V. Another part of the Forest
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. The Forest of Arden
+ Scene II. Another part of the Forest
+ Scene III. Another part of the Forest
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. The Forest of Arden
+ Scene II. Another part of the Forest
+ Scene III. Another part of the Forest
+ Scene IV. Another part of the Forest
+ Epilogue
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+ORLANDO, youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys
+OLIVER, eldest son of Sir Rowland de Boys
+JAQUES DE BOYS, second son of Sir Rowland de Boys
+ADAM, Servant to Oliver
+DENNIS, Servant to Oliver
+
+ROSALIND, Daughter of Duke Senior
+CELIA, Daughter of Duke Frederick
+TOUCHSTONE, a Clown
+
+DUKE SENIOR (Ferdinand), living in exile
+
+JAQUES, Lord attending on the Duke Senior
+AMIENS, Lord attending on the Duke Senior
+
+DUKE FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of his Dominions
+CHARLES, his Wrestler
+LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick
+
+CORIN, Shepherd
+SILVIUS, Shepherd
+PHOEBE, a Shepherdess
+AUDREY, a Country Wench
+WILLIAM, a Country Fellow, in love with Audrey
+SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar
+
+A person representing HYMEN
+
+Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other
+Attendants.
+
+The scene lies first near Oliver’s house; afterwards partly in the
+Usurper’s court and partly in the Forest of Arden.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. An Orchard near Oliver’s house
+
+
+Enter Orlando and Adam.
+
+ORLANDO.
+As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but
+poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayst, charged my brother, on his
+blessing, to breed me well; and there begins my sadness. My brother
+Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit.
+For my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more
+properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you that keeping, for
+a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an ox?
+His horses are bred better, for, besides that they are fair with their
+feeding, they are taught their manage and to that end riders dearly
+hired; but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth, for the
+which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I.
+Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something
+that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me. He lets me
+feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in
+him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that
+grieves me, and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me,
+begins to mutiny against this servitude. I will no longer endure it,
+though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.
+
+Enter Oliver.
+
+ADAM.
+Yonder comes my master, your brother.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up.
+
+[_Adam retires._]
+
+OLIVER.
+Now, sir, what make you here?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Nothing. I am not taught to make anything.
+
+OLIVER.
+What mar you then, sir?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor
+unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.
+
+OLIVER.
+Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Shall I keep your hogs, and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion
+have I spent that I should come to such penury?
+
+OLIVER.
+Know you where you are, sir?
+
+ORLANDO.
+O, sir, very well: here in your orchard.
+
+OLIVER.
+Know you before whom, sir?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know you are my eldest
+brother, and in the gentle condition of blood you should so know me.
+The courtesy of nations allows you my better in that you are the
+first-born, but the same tradition takes not away my blood, were there
+twenty brothers betwixt us. I have as much of my father in me as you,
+albeit I confess your coming before me is nearer to his reverence.
+
+OLIVER.
+What, boy!
+
+ORLANDO.
+Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
+
+OLIVER.
+Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I am no villain. I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys; he was
+my father, and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot
+villains. Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand from thy
+throat till this other had pulled out thy tongue for saying so. Thou
+has railed on thyself.
+
+ADAM.
+[_Coming forward_.] Sweet masters, be patient. For your father’s
+remembrance, be at accord.
+
+OLIVER.
+Let me go, I say.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I will not till I please. You shall hear me. My father charged you in
+his will to give me good education. You have trained me like a peasant,
+obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities. The spirit
+of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it.
+Therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me
+the poor allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go
+buy my fortunes.
+
+OLIVER.
+And what wilt thou do? Beg when that is spent? Well, sir, get you in. I
+will not long be troubled with you. You shall have some part of your
+will. I pray you leave me.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I no further offend you than becomes me for my good.
+
+OLIVER.
+Get you with him, you old dog.
+
+ADAM.
+Is “old dog” my reward? Most true, I have lost my teeth in your
+service. God be with my old master. He would not have spoke such a
+word.
+
+[_Exeunt Orlando and Adam._]
+
+OLIVER.
+Is it even so? Begin you to grow upon me? I will physic your rankness,
+and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!
+
+Enter Dennis.
+
+DENNIS
+Calls your worship?
+
+OLIVER.
+Was not Charles, the Duke’s wrestler, here to speak with me?
+
+DENNIS
+So please you, he is here at the door and importunes access to you.
+
+OLIVER.
+Call him in.
+
+[_Exit Dennis._]
+
+’Twill be a good way, and tomorrow the wrestling is.
+
+Enter Charles.
+
+CHARLES.
+Good morrow to your worship.
+
+OLIVER.
+Good Monsieur Charles. What’s the new news at the new court?
+
+CHARLES.
+There’s no news at the court, sir, but the old news. That is, the old
+Duke is banished by his younger brother the new Duke, and three or four
+loving lords have put themselves into voluntary exile with him, whose
+lands and revenues enrich the new Duke; therefore he gives them good
+leave to wander.
+
+OLIVER.
+Can you tell if Rosalind, the Duke’s daughter, be banished with her
+father?
+
+CHARLES.
+O, no; for the Duke’s daughter, her cousin, so loves her, being ever
+from their cradles bred together, that she would have followed her
+exile or have died to stay behind her. She is at the court and no less
+beloved of her uncle than his own daughter, and never two ladies loved
+as they do.
+
+OLIVER.
+Where will the old Duke live?
+
+CHARLES.
+They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men
+with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They
+say many young gentlemen flock to him every day and fleet the time
+carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
+
+OLIVER.
+What, you wrestle tomorrow before the new Duke?
+
+CHARLES.
+Marry, do I, sir, and I came to acquaint you with a matter. I am given,
+sir, secretly to understand that your younger brother Orlando hath a
+disposition to come in disguised against me to try a fall. Tomorrow,
+sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some
+broken limb shall acquit him well. Your brother is but young and
+tender, and for your love I would be loath to foil him, as I must for
+my own honour if he come in. Therefore, out of my love to you, I came
+hither to acquaint you withal, that either you might stay him from his
+intendment, or brook such disgrace well as he shall run into, in that
+it is a thing of his own search and altogether against my will.
+
+OLIVER.
+Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which thou shalt find I will
+most kindly requite. I had myself notice of my brother’s purpose
+herein, and have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from it;
+but he is resolute. I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest
+young fellow of France, full of ambition, an envious emulator of every
+man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his
+natural brother. Therefore use thy discretion. I had as lief thou didst
+break his neck as his finger. And thou wert best look to’t; for if thou
+dost him any slight disgrace, or if he do not mightily grace himself on
+thee, he will practise against thee by poison, entrap thee by some
+treacherous device, and never leave thee till he hath ta’en thy life by
+some indirect means or other. For I assure thee (and almost with tears
+I speak it) there is not one so young and so villainous this day
+living. I speak but brotherly of him, but should I anatomize him to
+thee as he is, I must blush and weep, and thou must look pale and
+wonder.
+
+CHARLES.
+I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come tomorrow I’ll give
+him his payment. If ever he go alone again I’ll never wrestle for prize
+more. And so, God keep your worship.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+OLIVER.
+Farewell, good Charles. Now will I stir this gamester. I hope I shall
+see an end of him; for my soul—yet I know not why—hates nothing more
+than he. Yet he’s gentle, never schooled and yet learned, full of noble
+device, of all sorts enchantingly beloved, and indeed so much in the
+heart of the world, and especially of my own people, who best know him,
+that I am altogether misprized. But it shall not be so long; this
+wrestler shall clear all. Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy
+thither, which now I’ll go about.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. A Lawn before the Duke’s Palace
+
+Enter Rosalind and Celia.
+
+CELIA.
+I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of, and would you yet
+I were merrier? Unless you could teach me to forget a banished father,
+you must not learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure.
+
+CELIA.
+Herein I see thou lov’st me not with the full weight that I love thee.
+If my uncle, thy banished father, had banished thy uncle, the Duke my
+father, so thou hadst been still with me, I could have taught my love
+to take thy father for mine. So wouldst thou, if the truth of thy love
+to me were so righteously tempered as mine is to thee.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Well, I will forget the condition of my estate to rejoice in yours.
+
+CELIA.
+You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is like to have; and
+truly, when he dies thou shalt be his heir, for what he hath taken away
+from thy father perforce, I will render thee again in affection. By
+mine honour I will! And when I break that oath, let me turn monster.
+Therefore, my sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry.
+
+ROSALIND.
+From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let me see—what think
+you of falling in love?
+
+CELIA.
+Marry, I prithee do, to make sport withal; but love no man in good
+earnest, nor no further in sport neither than with safety of a pure
+blush thou mayst in honour come off again.
+
+ROSALIND.
+What shall be our sport, then?
+
+CELIA.
+Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her
+gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and
+the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
+
+CELIA.
+’Tis true, for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest, and
+those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Nay, now thou goest from Fortune’s office to Nature’s. Fortune reigns
+in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
+
+Enter Touchstone.
+
+CELIA.
+No? When Nature hath made a fair creature, may she not by Fortune fall
+into the fire? Though Nature hath given us wit to flout at Fortune,
+hath not Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when Fortune makes
+Nature’s natural the cutter-off of Nature’s wit.
+
+CELIA.
+Peradventure this is not Fortune’s work neither, but Nature’s, who
+perceiveth our natural wits too dull to reason of such goddesses, and
+hath sent this natural for our whetstone; for always the dullness of
+the fool is the whetstone of the wits.—How now, wit, whither wander
+you?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Mistress, you must come away to your father.
+
+CELIA.
+Were you made the messenger?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Where learned you that oath, fool?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they were good pancakes,
+and swore by his honour the mustard was naught. Now, I’ll stand to it,
+the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the
+knight forsworn.
+
+CELIA.
+How prove you that in the great heap of your knowledge?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and swear by your beards
+that I am a knave.
+
+CELIA.
+By our beards, if we had them, thou art.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+By my knavery, if I had it, then I were. But if you swear by that that
+is not, you are not forsworn. No more was this knight swearing by his
+honour, for he never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away before
+ever he saw those pancackes or that mustard.
+
+CELIA.
+Prithee, who is’t that thou mean’st?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+One that old Frederick, your father, loves.
+
+CELIA.
+My father’s love is enough to honour him. Enough! Speak no more of him.
+You’ll be whipped for taxation one of these days.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do
+foolishly.
+
+CELIA.
+By my troth, thou sayest true. For since the little wit that fools have
+was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
+Here comes Monsieur Le Beau.
+
+Enter Le Beau.
+
+ROSALIND.
+With his mouth full of news.
+
+CELIA.
+Which he will put on us as pigeons feed their young.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Then shall we be news-crammed.
+
+CELIA.
+All the better; we shall be the more marketable.
+_Bonjour_, Monsieur Le Beau. What’s the news?
+
+LE BEAU.
+Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.
+
+CELIA.
+Sport! Of what colour?
+
+LE BEAU.
+What colour, madam? How shall I answer you?
+
+ROSALIND.
+As wit and fortune will.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Or as the destinies decrees.
+
+CELIA.
+Well said. That was laid on with a trowel.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Nay, if I keep not my rank—
+
+ROSALIND.
+Thou losest thy old smell.
+
+LE BEAU.
+You amaze me, ladies. I would have told you of good wrestling, which
+you have lost the sight of.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Yet tell us the manner of the wrestling.
+
+LE BEAU.
+I will tell you the beginning and, if it please your ladyships, you may
+see the end, for the best is yet to do; and here, where you are, they
+are coming to perform it.
+
+CELIA.
+Well, the beginning that is dead and buried.
+
+LE BEAU.
+There comes an old man and his three sons—
+
+CELIA.
+I could match this beginning with an old tale.
+
+LE BEAU.
+Three proper young men of excellent growth and presence.
+
+ROSALIND.
+With bills on their necks: “Be it known unto all men by these
+presents.”
+
+LE BEAU.
+The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the Duke’s wrestler,
+which Charles in a moment threw him and broke three of his ribs, that
+there is little hope of life in him. So he served the second, and so
+the third. Yonder they lie, the poor old man their father making such
+pitiful dole over them that all the beholders take his part with
+weeping.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Alas!
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies have lost?
+
+LE BEAU.
+Why, this that I speak of.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Thus men may grow wiser every day. It is the first time that ever I
+heard breaking of ribs was sport for ladies.
+
+CELIA.
+Or I, I promise thee.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But is there any else longs to see this broken music in his sides? Is
+there yet another dotes upon rib-breaking? Shall we see this wrestling,
+cousin?
+
+LE BEAU.
+You must if you stay here, for here is the place appointed for the
+wrestling, and they are ready to perform it.
+
+CELIA.
+Yonder, sure, they are coming. Let us now stay and see it.
+
+Flourish. Enter Duke Frederick, Lords, Orlando, Charles and Attendants.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Come on. Since the youth will not be entreated, his own peril on his
+forwardness.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Is yonder the man?
+
+LE BEAU.
+Even he, madam.
+
+CELIA.
+Alas, he is too young. Yet he looks successfully.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+How now, daughter and cousin? Are you crept hither to see the
+wrestling?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+You will take little delight in it, I can tell you, there is such odds
+in the man. In pity of the challenger’s youth I would fain dissuade
+him, but he will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies; see if you can
+move him.
+
+CELIA.
+Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Do so; I’ll not be by.
+
+[_Duke Frederick steps aside._]
+
+LE BEAU.
+Monsieur the challenger, the Princess calls for you.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I attend them with all respect and duty.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler?
+
+ORLANDO.
+No, fair princess. He is the general challenger. I come but in as
+others do, to try with him the strength of my youth.
+
+CELIA.
+Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your years. You have
+seen cruel proof of this man’s strength. If you saw yourself with your
+eyes or knew yourself with your judgement, the fear of your adventure
+would counsel you to a more equal enterprise. We pray you for your own
+sake to embrace your own safety and give over this attempt.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Do, young sir. Your reputation shall not therefore be misprized. We
+will make it our suit to the Duke that the wrestling might not go
+forward.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts, wherein I confess
+me much guilty to deny so fair and excellent ladies anything. But let
+your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my trial, wherein if I
+be foiled there is but one shamed that was never gracious; if killed,
+but one dead that is willing to be so. I shall do my friends no wrong,
+for I have none to lament me; the world no injury, for in it I have
+nothing. Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better
+supplied when I have made it empty.
+
+ROSALIND.
+The little strength that I have, I would it were with you.
+
+CELIA.
+And mine to eke out hers.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Fare you well. Pray heaven I be deceived in you.
+
+CELIA.
+Your heart’s desires be with you.
+
+CHARLES.
+Come, where is this young gallant that is so desirous to lie with his
+mother earth?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+You shall try but one fall.
+
+CHARLES.
+No, I warrant your grace you shall not entreat him to a second, that
+have so mightily persuaded him from a first.
+
+ORLANDO.
+You mean to mock me after; you should not have mocked me before. But
+come your ways.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Now, Hercules be thy speed, young man!
+
+CELIA.
+I would I were invisible, to catch the strong fellow by the leg.
+
+[_Orlando and Charles wrestle._]
+
+ROSALIND.
+O excellent young man!
+
+CELIA.
+If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should down.
+
+[_Charles is thrown. Shout._]
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+No more, no more.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Yes, I beseech your grace. I am not yet well breathed.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+How dost thou, Charles?
+
+LE BEAU.
+He cannot speak, my lord.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Bear him away.
+
+[_Charles is carried off by Attendants._]
+
+What is thy name, young man?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Orlando, my liege, the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+I would thou hadst been son to some man else.
+The world esteemed thy father honourable,
+But I did find him still mine enemy.
+Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed
+Hadst thou descended from another house.
+But fare thee well, thou art a gallant youth.
+I would thou hadst told me of another father.
+
+[_Exeunt Duke Frederick, Le Beau and Lords._]
+
+CELIA.
+Were I my father, coz, would I do this?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I am more proud to be Sir Rowland’s son,
+His youngest son, and would not change that calling
+To be adopted heir to Frederick.
+
+ROSALIND.
+My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,
+And all the world was of my father’s mind.
+Had I before known this young man his son,
+I should have given him tears unto entreaties
+Ere he should thus have ventured.
+
+CELIA.
+Gentle cousin,
+Let us go thank him and encourage him.
+My father’s rough and envious disposition
+Sticks me at heart.—Sir, you have well deserved.
+If you do keep your promises in love
+But justly, as you have exceeded promise,
+Your mistress shall be happy.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Gentleman,
+
+[_Giving him a chain from her neck_.]
+
+Wear this for me—one out of suits with Fortune,
+That could give more but that her hand lacks means.—
+Shall we go, coz?
+
+CELIA.
+Ay.—Fare you well, fair gentleman.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts
+Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up
+Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.
+
+ROSALIND.
+He calls us back. My pride fell with my fortunes.
+I’ll ask him what he would.—Did you call, sir?—
+Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown
+More than your enemies.
+
+CELIA.
+Will you go, coz?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Have with you.—Fare you well.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosalind and Celia._]
+
+ORLANDO.
+What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?
+I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.
+O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown.
+Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.
+
+Enter Le Beau.
+
+LE BEAU.
+Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
+To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved
+High commendation, true applause, and love,
+Yet such is now the Duke’s condition
+That he misconsters all that you have done.
+The Duke is humorous; what he is indeed
+More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I thank you, sir; and pray you tell me this:
+Which of the two was daughter of the Duke
+That here was at the wrestling?
+
+LE BEAU.
+Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners,
+But yet indeed the smaller is his daughter.
+The other is daughter to the banished Duke,
+And here detained by her usurping uncle
+To keep his daughter company, whose loves
+Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.
+But I can tell you that of late this Duke
+Hath ta’en displeasure ’gainst his gentle niece,
+Grounded upon no other argument
+But that the people praise her for her virtues
+And pity her for her good father’s sake;
+And, on my life, his malice ’gainst the lady
+Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well.
+Hereafter, in a better world than this,
+I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I rest much bounden to you; fare you well!
+
+[_Exit Le Beau._]
+
+Thus must I from the smoke into the smother,
+From tyrant Duke unto a tyrant brother.
+But heavenly Rosalind!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A Room in the Palace
+
+Enter Celia and Rosalind.
+
+CELIA.
+Why, cousin, why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! Not a word?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Not one to throw at a dog.
+
+CELIA.
+No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon curs. Throw some of
+them at me. Come, lame me with reasons.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Then there were two cousins laid up, when the one should be lamed with
+reasons and the other mad without any.
+
+CELIA.
+But is all this for your father?
+
+ROSALIND.
+No, some of it is for my child’s father. O, how full of briers is this
+working-day world!
+
+CELIA.
+They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in holiday foolery. If we
+walk not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I could shake them off my coat; these burs are in my heart.
+
+CELIA.
+Hem them away.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I would try, if I could cry “hem” and have him.
+
+CELIA.
+Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.
+
+ROSALIND.
+O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself.
+
+CELIA.
+O, a good wish upon you! You will try in time, in despite of a fall.
+But turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. Is
+it possible on such a sudden you should fall into so strong a liking
+with old Sir Rowland’s youngest son?
+
+ROSALIND.
+The Duke my father loved his father dearly.
+
+CELIA.
+Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son dearly? By this
+kind of chase I should hate him, for my father hated his father dearly;
+yet I hate not Orlando.
+
+ROSALIND.
+No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.
+
+CELIA.
+Why should I not? Doth he not deserve well?
+
+Enter Duke Frederick with Lords.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Let me love him for that, and do you love him because I do.—Look, here
+comes the Duke.
+
+CELIA.
+With his eyes full of anger.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste,
+And get you from our court.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Me, uncle?
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+You, cousin.
+Within these ten days if that thou be’st found
+So near our public court as twenty miles,
+Thou diest for it.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I do beseech your Grace,
+Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me.
+If with myself I hold intelligence,
+Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,
+If that I do not dream, or be not frantic—
+As I do trust I am not—then, dear uncle,
+Never so much as in a thought unborn
+Did I offend your Highness.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Thus do all traitors.
+If their purgation did consist in words,
+They are as innocent as grace itself.
+Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor.
+Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Thou art thy father’s daughter, there’s enough.
+
+ROSALIND.
+So was I when your highness took his dukedom;
+So was I when your highness banished him.
+Treason is not inherited, my lord,
+Or, if we did derive it from our friends,
+What’s that to me? My father was no traitor.
+Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much
+To think my poverty is treacherous.
+
+CELIA.
+Dear sovereign, hear me speak.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Ay, Celia, we stayed her for your sake,
+Else had she with her father ranged along.
+
+CELIA.
+I did not then entreat to have her stay;
+It was your pleasure and your own remorse.
+I was too young that time to value her,
+But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
+Why, so am I. We still have slept together,
+Rose at an instant, learned, played, ate together,
+And wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s swans,
+Still we went coupled and inseparable.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+She is too subtle for thee, and her smoothness,
+Her very silence, and her patience
+Speak to the people, and they pity her.
+Thou art a fool. She robs thee of thy name,
+And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous
+When she is gone. Then open not thy lips.
+Firm and irrevocable is my doom
+Which I have passed upon her. She is banished.
+
+CELIA.
+Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege.
+I cannot live out of her company.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself.
+If you outstay the time, upon mine honour
+And in the greatness of my word, you die.
+
+[_Exeunt Duke Frederick and Lords._]
+
+CELIA.
+O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?
+Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.
+I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I have more cause.
+
+CELIA.
+Thou hast not, cousin.
+Prithee be cheerful. Know’st thou not the Duke
+Hath banished me, his daughter?
+
+ROSALIND.
+That he hath not.
+
+CELIA.
+No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love
+Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one.
+Shall we be sundered? Shall we part, sweet girl?
+No, let my father seek another heir.
+Therefore devise with me how we may fly,
+Whither to go, and what to bear with us,
+And do not seek to take your change upon you,
+To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out.
+For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,
+Say what thou canst, I’ll go along with thee.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Why, whither shall we go?
+
+CELIA.
+To seek my uncle in the Forest of Arden.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Alas, what danger will it be to us,
+Maids as we are, to travel forth so far?
+Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
+
+CELIA.
+I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire,
+And with a kind of umber smirch my face.
+The like do you; so shall we pass along
+And never stir assailants.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Were it not better,
+Because that I am more than common tall,
+That I did suit me all points like a man?
+A gallant curtal-axe upon my thigh,
+A boar-spear in my hand, and in my heart
+Lie there what hidden woman’s fear there will,
+We’ll have a swashing and a martial outside,
+As many other mannish cowards have
+That do outface it with their semblances.
+
+CELIA.
+What shall I call thee when thou art a man?
+
+ROSALIND.
+I’ll have no worse a name than Jove’s own page,
+And therefore look you call me Ganymede.
+But what will you be called?
+
+CELIA.
+Something that hath a reference to my state:
+No longer Celia, but Aliena.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But, cousin, what if we assayed to steal
+The clownish fool out of your father’s court?
+Would he not be a comfort to our travel?
+
+CELIA.
+He’ll go along o’er the wide world with me.
+Leave me alone to woo him. Let’s away,
+And get our jewels and our wealth together,
+Devise the fittest time and safest way
+To hide us from pursuit that will be made
+After my flight. Now go we in content
+To liberty, and not to banishment.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. The Forest of Arden
+
+
+Enter Duke Senior, Amiens and two or three Lords, dressed as foresters.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
+Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
+Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
+More free from peril than the envious court?
+Here feel we not the penalty of Adam,
+The seasons’ difference, as the icy fang
+And churlish chiding of the winter’s wind,
+Which when it bites and blows upon my body
+Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say:
+“This is no flattery. These are counsellors
+That feelingly persuade me what I am.”
+Sweet are the uses of adversity,
+Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
+Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
+And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
+Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
+Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
+
+AMIENS.
+I would not change it. Happy is your grace,
+That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
+Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
+And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
+Being native burghers of this desert city,
+Should in their own confines with forked heads
+Have their round haunches gored.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Indeed, my lord,
+The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,
+And in that kind swears you do more usurp
+Than doth your brother that hath banished you.
+Today my lord of Amiens and myself
+Did steal behind him as he lay along
+Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out
+Upon the brook that brawls along this wood;
+To the which place a poor sequestered stag,
+That from the hunter’s aim had ta’en a hurt,
+Did come to languish; and indeed, my lord,
+The wretched animal heaved forth such groans
+That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
+Almost to bursting, and the big round tears
+Coursed one another down his innocent nose
+In piteous chase. And thus the hairy fool,
+Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,
+Stood on th’ extremest verge of the swift brook,
+Augmenting it with tears.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+But what said Jaques?
+Did he not moralize this spectacle?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+O yes, into a thousand similes.
+First, for his weeping into the needless stream:
+“Poor deer,” quoth he “thou mak’st a testament
+As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
+To that which had too much.” Then, being there alone,
+Left and abandoned of his velvet friends:
+“’Tis right”; quoth he, “thus misery doth part
+The flux of company.” Anon a careless herd,
+Full of the pasture, jumps along by him
+And never stays to greet him. “Ay,” quoth Jaques,
+“Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens!
+’Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
+Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?”
+Thus most invectively he pierceth through
+The body of the country, city, court,
+Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we
+Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what’s worse,
+To fright the animals and to kill them up
+In their assigned and native dwelling-place.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+And did you leave him in this contemplation?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+We did, my lord, weeping and commenting
+Upon the sobbing deer.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Show me the place.
+I love to cope him in these sullen fits,
+For then he’s full of matter.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I’ll bring you to him straight.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Room in the Palace
+
+Enter Duke Frederick with Lords.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Can it be possible that no man saw them?
+It cannot be! Some villains of my court
+Are of consent and sufferance in this.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I cannot hear of any that did see her.
+The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,
+Saw her abed, and in the morning early
+They found the bed untreasured of their mistress.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
+Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.
+Hesperia, the princess’ gentlewoman,
+Confesses that she secretly o’erheard
+Your daughter and her cousin much commend
+The parts and graces of the wrestler
+That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;
+And she believes wherever they are gone
+That youth is surely in their company.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither.
+If he be absent, bring his brother to me.
+I’ll make him find him. Do this suddenly!
+And let not search and inquisition quail
+To bring again these foolish runaways.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Before Oliver’s House
+
+Enter Orlando and Adam, meeting.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Who’s there?
+
+ADAM.
+What, my young master? O my gentle master,
+O my sweet master, O you memory
+Of old Sir Rowland! Why, what make you here?
+Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you?
+And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant?
+Why would you be so fond to overcome
+The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke?
+Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.
+Know you not, master, to some kind of men
+Their graces serve them but as enemies?
+No more do yours. Your virtues, gentle master,
+Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.
+O, what a world is this, when what is comely
+Envenoms him that bears it!
+
+ORLANDO.
+Why, what’s the matter?
+
+ADAM.
+O unhappy youth,
+Come not within these doors! Within this roof
+The enemy of all your graces lives.
+Your brother—no, no brother, yet the son—
+Yet not the son; I will not call him son—
+Of him I was about to call his father,
+Hath heard your praises, and this night he means
+To burn the lodging where you use to lie,
+And you within it. If he fail of that,
+He will have other means to cut you off;
+I overheard him and his practices.
+This is no place; this house is but a butchery.
+Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?
+
+ADAM.
+No matter whither, so you come not here.
+
+ORLANDO.
+What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food,
+Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce
+A thievish living on the common road?
+This I must do, or know not what to do.
+Yet this I will not do, do how I can.
+I rather will subject me to the malice
+Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.
+
+ADAM.
+But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,
+The thrifty hire I saved under your father,
+Which I did store to be my foster-nurse,
+When service should in my old limbs lie lame,
+And unregarded age in corners thrown.
+Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,
+Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
+Be comfort to my age. Here is the gold.
+All this I give you. Let me be your servant.
+Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty,
+For in my youth I never did apply
+Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
+Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
+The means of weakness and debility.
+Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
+Frosty but kindly. Let me go with you.
+I’ll do the service of a younger man
+In all your business and necessities.
+
+ORLANDO.
+O good old man, how well in thee appears
+The constant service of the antique world,
+When service sweat for duty, not for meed.
+Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
+Where none will sweat but for promotion,
+And having that do choke their service up
+Even with the having. It is not so with thee.
+But, poor old man, thou prun’st a rotten tree,
+That cannot so much as a blossom yield
+In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry.
+But come thy ways, we’ll go along together,
+And ere we have thy youthful wages spent
+We’ll light upon some settled low content.
+
+ADAM.
+Master, go on and I will follow thee
+To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
+From seventeen years till now almost fourscore
+Here lived I, but now live here no more.
+At seventeen years many their fortunes seek,
+But at fourscore it is too late a week.
+Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
+Than to die well and not my master’s debtor.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The Forest of Arden
+
+Enter Rosalind as Ganymede, Celia as Aliena, and Touchstone.
+
+ROSALIND.
+O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I could find in my heart to disgrace my man’s apparel, and to cry like
+a woman, but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose
+ought to show itself courageous to petticoat. Therefore, courage, good
+Aliena.
+
+CELIA.
+I pray you bear with me, I cannot go no further.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear you. Yet I should
+bear no cross if I did bear you, for I think you have no money in your
+purse.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Well, this is the forest of Arden.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I! When I was at home I was in a
+better place, but travellers must be content.
+
+Enter Corin and Silvius.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Ay, be so, good Touchstone. Look you, who comes here? A young man and
+an old in solemn talk.
+
+CORIN.
+That is the way to make her scorn you still.
+
+SILVIUS.
+O Corin, that thou knew’st how I do love her!
+
+CORIN.
+I partly guess, for I have loved ere now.
+
+SILVIUS.
+No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,
+Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
+As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.
+But if thy love were ever like to mine—
+As sure I think did never man love so—
+How many actions most ridiculous
+Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?
+
+CORIN.
+Into a thousand that I have forgotten.
+
+SILVIUS.
+O, thou didst then never love so heartily!
+If thou rememb’rest not the slightest folly
+That ever love did make thee run into,
+Thou hast not loved.
+Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,
+Wearing thy hearer in thy mistress’ praise,
+Thou hast not loved.
+Or if thou hast not broke from company
+Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,
+Thou hast not loved.
+O Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe!
+
+[_Exit Silvius._]
+
+ROSALIND.
+Alas, poor shepherd, searching of thy wound,
+I have by hard adventure found mine own.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+And I mine. I remember when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone
+and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember
+the kissing of her batlet, and the cow’s dugs that her pretty chopped
+hands had milked; and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of
+her, from whom I took two cods, and, giving her them again, said with
+weeping tears, “Wear these for my sake.” We that are true lovers run
+into strange capers. But as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature
+in love mortal in folly.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Thou speak’st wiser than thou art ware of.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Nay, I shall ne’er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins
+against it.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Jove, Jove, this shepherd’s passion
+Is much upon my fashion.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+And mine, but it grows something stale with me.
+
+CELIA.
+I pray you, one of you question yond man
+If he for gold will give us any food.
+I faint almost to death.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Holla, you clown!
+
+ROSALIND.
+Peace, fool, he’s not thy kinsman.
+
+CORIN.
+Who calls?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Your betters, sir.
+
+CORIN.
+Else are they very wretched.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Peace, I say.—Good even to you, friend.
+
+CORIN.
+And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold
+Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
+Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed.
+Here’s a young maid with travel much oppressed,
+And faints for succour.
+
+CORIN.
+Fair sir, I pity her
+And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,
+My fortunes were more able to relieve her.
+But I am shepherd to another man
+And do not shear the fleeces that I graze.
+My master is of churlish disposition
+And little recks to find the way to heaven
+By doing deeds of hospitality.
+Besides, his cote, his flocks, and bounds of feed
+Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now,
+By reason of his absence, there is nothing
+That you will feed on. But what is, come see,
+And in my voice most welcome shall you be.
+
+ROSALIND.
+What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?
+
+CORIN.
+That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,
+That little cares for buying anything.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,
+Buy thou the cottage, pasture, and the flock,
+And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.
+
+CELIA.
+And we will mend thy wages. I like this place,
+And willingly could waste my time in it.
+
+CORIN.
+Assuredly the thing is to be sold.
+Go with me. If you like upon report
+The soil, the profit, and this kind of life,
+I will your very faithful feeder be,
+And buy it with your gold right suddenly.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Amiens, Jaques and others.
+
+AMIENS.
+[_Sings_.]
+
+        Under the greenwood tree,
+        Who loves to lie with me
+        And turn his merry note
+        Unto the sweet bird’s throat,
+    Come hither, come hither, come hither!
+        Here shall he see
+        No enemy
+    But winter and rough weather.
+
+JAQUES.
+More, more, I prithee, more.
+
+AMIENS.
+It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.
+
+JAQUES.
+I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song
+as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more.
+
+AMIENS.
+My voice is ragged. I know I cannot please you.
+
+JAQUES.
+I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to sing. Come, more,
+another _stanzo_. Call you ’em _stanzos?_
+
+AMIENS.
+What you will, Monsieur Jaques.
+
+JAQUES.
+Nay, I care not for their names. They owe me nothing. Will you sing?
+
+AMIENS.
+More at your request than to please myself.
+
+JAQUES.
+Well then, if ever I thank any man, I’ll thank you; but that they call
+compliment is like th’ encounter of two dog-apes. And when a man thanks
+me heartily, methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me the
+beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will not, hold your tongues.
+
+AMIENS.
+Well, I’ll end the song.—Sirs, cover the while. The Duke will drink
+under this tree; he hath been all this day to look you.
+
+JAQUES.
+And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is too disputable for my
+company. I think of as many matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and
+make no boast of them. Come, warble, come.
+
+AMIENS.
+[_Sings_.]
+
+        Who doth ambition shun
+        And loves to live i’ th’ sun,
+        Seeking the food he eats
+        And pleased with what he gets,
+    Come hither, come hither, come hither.
+        Here shall he see
+        No enemy
+    But winter and rough weather.
+
+JAQUES.
+I’ll give you a verse to this note that I made yesterday in despite of
+my invention.
+
+AMIENS.
+And I’ll sing it.
+
+JAQUES.
+Thus it goes:
+
+        If it do come to pass
+        That any man turn ass,
+        Leaving his wealth and ease
+        A stubborn will to please,
+    Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame;
+        Here shall he see
+        Gross fools as he,
+    An if he will come to me.
+
+AMIENS.
+What’s that “ducdame?”
+
+JAQUES.
+’Tis a Greek invocation to call fools into a circle. I’ll go sleep if I
+can; if I cannot, I’ll rail against all the first-born of Egypt.
+
+AMIENS.
+And I’ll go seek the Duke; his banquet is prepared.
+
+[_Exeunt severally._]
+
+SCENE VI. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Orlando and Adam.
+
+ADAM.
+Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food! Here lie I down
+and measure out my grave. Farewell, kind master.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Why, how now, Adam? No greater heart in thee? Live a little, comfort a
+little, cheer thyself a little. If this uncouth forest yield anything
+savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee. Thy
+conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake, be comfortable.
+Hold death awhile at the arm’s end. I will here be with thee presently,
+and if I bring thee not something to eat, I’ll give thee leave to die.
+But if thou diest before I come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well
+said, thou look’st cheerly, and I’ll be with thee quickly. Yet thou
+liest in the bleak air. Come, I will bear thee to some shelter and thou
+shalt not die for lack of a dinner if there live anything in this
+desert. Cheerly, good Adam!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Duke Senior, Amiens and Lords as outlaws.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+I think he be transformed into a beast,
+For I can nowhere find him like a man.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+My lord, he is but even now gone hence;
+Here was he merry, hearing of a song.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+If he, compact of jars, grow musical,
+We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.
+Go seek him, tell him I would speak with him.
+
+Enter Jaques.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+He saves my labour by his own approach.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Why, how now, monsieur? What a life is this
+That your poor friends must woo your company?
+What, you look merrily.
+
+JAQUES.
+A fool, a fool! I met a fool i’ th’ forest,
+A motley fool. A miserable world!
+As I do live by food, I met a fool,
+Who laid him down and basked him in the sun,
+And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
+In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.
+“Good morrow, fool,” quoth I. “No, sir,” quoth he,
+“Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.”
+And then he drew a dial from his poke,
+And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
+Says very wisely, “It is ten o’clock.
+Thus we may see,” quoth he, “how the world wags.
+’Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
+And after one hour more ’twill be eleven.
+And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
+And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
+And thereby hangs a tale.” When I did hear
+The motley fool thus moral on the time,
+My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
+That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
+And I did laugh sans intermission
+An hour by his dial. O noble fool!
+A worthy fool! Motley’s the only wear.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+What fool is this?
+
+JAQUES.
+O worthy fool!—One that hath been a courtier,
+And says if ladies be but young and fair,
+They have the gift to know it. And in his brain,
+Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
+After a voyage, he hath strange places crammed
+With observation, the which he vents
+In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!
+I am ambitious for a motley coat.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Thou shalt have one.
+
+JAQUES.
+It is my only suit,
+Provided that you weed your better judgements
+Of all opinion that grows rank in them
+That I am wise. I must have liberty
+Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
+To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
+And they that are most galled with my folly,
+They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?
+The “why” is plain as way to parish church.
+He that a fool doth very wisely hit
+Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
+Not to seem senseless of the bob. If not,
+The wise man’s folly is anatomized
+Even by the squandering glances of the fool.
+Invest me in my motley. Give me leave
+To speak my mind, and I will through and through
+Cleanse the foul body of th’ infected world,
+If they will patiently receive my medicine.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do.
+
+JAQUES.
+What, for a counter, would I do but good?
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin;
+For thou thyself hast been a libertine,
+As sensual as the brutish sting itself,
+And all th’ embossed sores and headed evils
+That thou with license of free foot hast caught
+Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.
+
+JAQUES.
+Why, who cries out on pride
+That can therein tax any private party?
+Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea
+Till that the weary very means do ebb?
+What woman in the city do I name
+When that I say the city-woman bears
+The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
+Who can come in and say that I mean her,
+When such a one as she, such is her neighbour?
+Or what is he of basest function
+That says his bravery is not on my cost,
+Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits
+His folly to the mettle of my speech?
+There then. How then, what then? Let me see wherein
+My tongue hath wronged him. If it do him right,
+Then he hath wronged himself. If he be free,
+Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies
+Unclaimed of any man. But who comes here?
+
+Enter Orlando with sword drawn.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Forbear, and eat no more.
+
+JAQUES.
+Why, I have eat none yet.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Nor shalt not till necessity be served.
+
+JAQUES.
+Of what kind should this cock come of?
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Art thou thus boldened, man, by thy distress?
+Or else a rude despiser of good manners,
+That in civility thou seem’st so empty?
+
+ORLANDO.
+You touched my vein at first. The thorny point
+Of bare distress hath ta’en from me the show
+Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
+And know some nurture. But forbear, I say!
+He dies that touches any of this fruit
+Till I and my affairs are answered.
+
+JAQUES.
+An you will not be answered with reason, I must die.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+What would you have? Your gentleness shall force
+More than your force move us to gentleness.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I almost die for food, and let me have it.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you.
+I thought that all things had been savage here
+And therefore put I on the countenance
+Of stern commandment. But whate’er you are
+That in this desert inaccessible,
+Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
+Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time,
+If ever you have looked on better days,
+If ever been where bells have knolled to church,
+If ever sat at any good man’s feast,
+If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear,
+And know what ’tis to pity and be pitied,
+Let gentleness my strong enforcement be,
+In the which hope I blush and hide my sword.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+True is it that we have seen better days,
+And have with holy bell been knolled to church,
+And sat at good men’s feasts, and wiped our eyes
+Of drops that sacred pity hath engendered.
+And therefore sit you down in gentleness,
+And take upon command what help we have
+That to your wanting may be ministered.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Then but forbear your food a little while,
+Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn,
+And give it food. There is an old poor man
+Who after me hath many a weary step
+Limped in pure love. Till he be first sufficed,
+Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger,
+I will not touch a bit.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Go find him out,
+And we will nothing waste till you return.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I thank ye, and be blest for your good comfort.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy.
+This wide and universal theatre
+Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
+Wherein we play in.
+
+JAQUES.
+All the world’s a stage,
+And all the men and women merely players;
+They have their exits and their entrances,
+And one man in his time plays many parts,
+His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
+Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
+Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
+And shining morning face, creeping like snail
+Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
+Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
+Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
+Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
+Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
+Seeking the bubble reputation
+Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
+In fair round belly with good capon lined,
+With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
+Full of wise saws and modern instances;
+And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
+Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
+With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
+His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
+For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
+Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
+And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
+That ends this strange eventful history,
+Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
+Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
+
+Enter Orlando bearing Adam.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Welcome. Set down your venerable burden,
+And let him feed.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I thank you most for him.
+
+ADAM.
+So had you need;
+I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Welcome, fall to. I will not trouble you
+As yet to question you about your fortunes.
+Give us some music, and good cousin, sing.
+
+SONG.
+
+
+AMIENS. (_Sings_.)
+        Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
+        Thou art not so unkind
+            As man’s ingratitude.
+        Thy tooth is not so keen,
+        Because thou art not seen,
+            Although thy breath be rude.
+Heigh-ho, sing heigh-ho, unto the green holly.
+Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
+        Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
+            This life is most jolly.
+
+         Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
+        That dost not bite so nigh
+            As benefits forgot.
+        Though thou the waters warp,
+        Thy sting is not so sharp
+            As friend remembered not.
+Heigh-ho, sing heigh-ho, unto the green holly.
+Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
+        Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
+            This life is most jolly.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+If that you were the good Sir Rowland’s son,
+As you have whispered faithfully you were,
+And as mine eye doth his effigies witness
+Most truly limned and living in your face,
+Be truly welcome hither. I am the Duke
+That loved your father. The residue of your fortune
+Go to my cave and tell me.—Good old man,
+Thou art right welcome as thy master is.
+Support him by the arm. [_To Orlando_.] Give me your hand,
+And let me all your fortunes understand.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. A Room in the Palace
+
+
+Enter Duke Frederick, Lords and Oliver.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be.
+But were I not the better part made mercy,
+I should not seek an absent argument
+Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
+Find out thy brother wheresoe’er he is.
+Seek him with candle. Bring him dead or living
+Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more
+To seek a living in our territory.
+Thy lands, and all things that thou dost call thine
+Worth seizure, do we seize into our hands,
+Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother’s mouth
+Of what we think against thee.
+
+OLIVER.
+O that your highness knew my heart in this:
+I never loved my brother in my life.
+
+DUKE FREDERICK.
+More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors,
+And let my officers of such a nature
+Make an extent upon his house and lands.
+Do this expediently, and turn him going.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The Forest of Arden
+
+Enter Orlando with a paper.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love.
+     And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey
+With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,
+     Thy huntress’ name that my full life doth sway.
+O Rosalind, these trees shall be my books,
+     And in their barks my thoughts I’ll character,
+That every eye which in this forest looks
+     Shall see thy virtue witnessed everywhere.
+Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree
+The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Corin and Touchstone.
+
+CORIN.
+And how like you this shepherd’s life, Master Touchstone?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in
+respect that it is a shepherd’s life, it is naught. In respect that it
+is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it
+is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me
+well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As it is a
+spare life, look you, it fits my humour well; but as there is no more
+plenty in it, it goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in
+thee, shepherd?
+
+CORIN.
+No more but that I know the more one sickens, the worse at ease he is;
+and that he that wants money, means, and content is without three good
+friends; that the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that
+good pasture makes fat sheep; and that a great cause of the night is
+lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may
+complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in court, shepherd?
+
+CORIN.
+No, truly.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Then thou art damned.
+
+CORIN.
+Nay, I hope.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Truly, thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.
+
+CORIN.
+For not being at court? Your reason.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never saw’st good manners; if
+thou never saw’st good manners, then thy manners must be wicked, and
+wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous state,
+shepherd.
+
+CORIN.
+Not a whit, Touchstone. Those that are good manners at the court are as
+ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the country is most
+mockable at the court. You told me you salute not at the court but you
+kiss your hands. That courtesy would be uncleanly if courtiers were
+shepherds.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Instance, briefly. Come, instance.
+
+CORIN.
+Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are
+greasy.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Why, do not your courtier’s hands sweat? And is not the grease of a
+mutton as wholesome as the sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow. A better
+instance, I say. Come.
+
+CORIN.
+Besides, our hands are hard.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again. A more sounder
+instance, come.
+
+CORIN.
+And they are often tarred over with the surgery of our sheep; and would
+you have us kiss tar? The courtier’s hands are perfumed with civet.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Most shallow man! Thou worm’s meat in respect of a good piece of flesh
+indeed! Learn of the wise and perpend. Civet is of a baser birth than
+tar, the very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd.
+
+CORIN.
+You have too courtly a wit for me. I’ll rest.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man! God make incision in
+thee, thou art raw.
+
+CORIN.
+Sir, I am a true labourer. I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no
+man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content
+with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and
+my lambs suck.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes and the rams
+together and to offer to get your living by the copulation of cattle;
+to be bawd to a bell-wether and to betray a she-lamb of a twelvemonth
+to crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram, out of all reasonable match. If
+thou be’st not damned for this, the devil himself will have no
+shepherds. I cannot see else how thou shouldst ’scape.
+
+Enter Rosalind as Ganymede.
+
+CORIN.
+Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress’s brother.
+
+ROSALIND.
+[_Reads_.]
+         _From the east to western Inde
+         No jewel is like Rosalind.
+         Her worth being mounted on the wind,
+         Through all the world bears Rosalind.
+         All the pictures fairest lined
+         Are but black to Rosalind.
+         Let no face be kept in mind
+         But the fair of Rosalind._
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+I’ll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and suppers and
+sleeping hours excepted. It is the right butter-women’s rank to market.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Out, fool!
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+         For a taste:
+         If a hart do lack a hind,
+         Let him seek out Rosalind.
+         If the cat will after kind,
+         So be sure will Rosalind.
+         Winter garments must be lined,
+         So must slender Rosalind.
+         They that reap must sheaf and bind,
+         Then to cart with Rosalind.
+         Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,
+         Such a nut is Rosalind.
+         He that sweetest rose will find
+         Must find love’s prick, and Rosalind.
+This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you infect yourself
+with them?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Peace, you dull fool, I found them on a tree.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I’ll graft it with you, and then I shall graft it with a medlar. Then
+it will be the earliest fruit i’ th’ country, for you’ll be rotten ere
+you be half ripe, and that’s the right virtue of the medlar.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+You have said, but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.
+
+Enter Celia as Aliena, reading a paper.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Peace, here comes my sister, reading. Stand aside.
+
+CELIA.
+[_Reads_.]
+            _Why should this a desert be?
+                For it is unpeopled? No!
+            Tongues I’ll hang on every tree
+                That shall civil sayings show.
+            Some, how brief the life of man
+                Runs his erring pilgrimage,
+            That the streching of a span
+                Buckles in his sum of age;
+            Some, of violated vows
+                ’Twixt the souls of friend and friend.
+            But upon the fairest boughs,
+                Or at every sentence’ end,
+            Will I “Rosalinda” write,
+                Teaching all that read to know
+            The quintessence of every sprite
+                Heaven would in little show.
+            Therefore heaven nature charged
+                That one body should be filled
+            With all graces wide-enlarged.
+                Nature presently distilled
+            Helen’s cheek, but not her heart,
+                Cleopatra’s majesty;
+            Atalanta’s better part,
+                Sad Lucretia’s modesty.
+            Thus Rosalind of many parts
+                By heavenly synod was devised,
+            Of many faces, eyes, and hearts
+                To have the touches dearest prized.
+            Heaven would that she these gifts should have,
+                And I to live and die her slave._
+
+ROSALIND.
+O most gentle Jupiter, what tedious homily of love have you wearied
+your parishioners withal, and never cried “Have patience, good people!”
+
+CELIA.
+How now! Back, friends. Shepherd, go off a little. Go with him, sirrah.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat, though not with bag
+and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
+
+[_Exeunt Corin and Touchstone._]
+
+CELIA.
+Didst thou hear these verses?
+
+ROSALIND.
+O yes, I heard them all, and more too, for some of them had in them
+more feet than the verses would bear.
+
+CELIA.
+That’s no matter. The feet might bear the verses.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Ay, but the feet were lame and could not bear themselves without the
+verse, and therefore stood lamely in the verse.
+
+CELIA.
+But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name should be hanged and
+carved upon these trees?
+
+ROSALIND.
+I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder before you came; for
+look here what I found on a palm-tree. I was never so berhymed since
+Pythagoras’ time that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember.
+
+CELIA.
+Trow you who hath done this?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Is it a man?
+
+CELIA.
+And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck. Change you colour?
+
+ROSALIND.
+I prithee, who?
+
+CELIA.
+O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to meet; but mountains
+may be removed with earthquakes and so encounter.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Nay, but who is it?
+
+CELIA.
+Is it possible?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Nay, I prithee now, with most petitionary vehemence, tell me who it is.
+
+CELIA.
+O wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful wonderful, and yet again
+wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!
+
+ROSALIND.
+Good my complexion! Dost thou think, though I am caparisoned like a
+man, I have a doublet and hose in my disposition? One inch of delay
+more is a South Sea of discovery. I prithee tell me who is it quickly,
+and speak apace. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightst pour
+this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of
+narrow-mouthed bottle—either too much at once or none at all. I prithee
+take the cork out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings.
+
+CELIA.
+So you may put a man in your belly.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Is he of God’s making? What manner of man? Is his head worth a hat, or
+his chin worth a beard?
+
+CELIA.
+Nay, he hath but a little beard.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Why, God will send more if the man will be thankful. Let me stay the
+growth of his beard, if thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin.
+
+CELIA.
+It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler’s heels and your
+heart both in an instant.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Nay, but the devil take mocking! Speak sad brow and true maid.
+
+CELIA.
+I’ faith, coz, ’tis he.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Orlando?
+
+CELIA.
+Orlando.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Alas the day, what shall I do with my doublet and hose? What did he
+when thou saw’st him? What said he? How looked he? Wherein went he?
+What makes he here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he? How parted he
+with thee? And when shalt thou see him again? Answer me in one word.
+
+CELIA.
+You must borrow me Gargantua’s mouth first. ’Tis a word too great for
+any mouth of this age’s size. To say ay and no to these particulars is
+more than to answer in a catechism.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But doth he know that I am in this forest and in man’s apparel? Looks
+he as freshly as he did the day he wrestled?
+
+CELIA.
+It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a
+lover. But take a taste of my finding him, and relish it with good
+observance. I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn.
+
+ROSALIND.
+It may well be called Jove’s tree when it drops forth such fruit.
+
+CELIA.
+Give me audience, good madam.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Proceed.
+
+CELIA.
+There lay he, stretched along like a wounded knight.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well becomes the ground.
+
+CELIA.
+Cry “holla!” to thy tongue, I prithee. It curvets unseasonably. He was
+furnished like a hunter.
+
+ROSALIND.
+O, ominous! He comes to kill my heart.
+
+CELIA.
+I would sing my song without a burden. Thou bring’st me out of tune.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak. Sweet, say
+on.
+
+Enter Orlando and Jaques.
+
+CELIA.
+You bring me out. Soft, comes he not here?
+
+ROSALIND.
+’Tis he! Slink by, and note him.
+
+[_Rosalind and Celia step aside._]
+
+JAQUES.
+I thank you for your company but, good faith, I had as lief have been
+myself alone.
+
+ORLANDO.
+And so had I, but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you too for your
+society.
+
+JAQUES.
+God be wi’ you, let’s meet as little as we can.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I do desire we may be better strangers.
+
+JAQUES.
+I pray you, mar no more trees with writing love songs in their barks.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading them ill-favouredly.
+
+JAQUES.
+Rosalind is your love’s name?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Yes, just.
+
+JAQUES.
+I do not like her name.
+
+ORLANDO.
+There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
+
+JAQUES.
+What stature is she of?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Just as high as my heart.
+
+JAQUES.
+You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with
+goldsmiths’ wives, and conned them out of rings?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from whence you have
+studied your questions.
+
+JAQUES.
+You have a nimble wit. I think ’twas made of Atalanta’s heels. Will you
+sit down with me? And we two will rail against our mistress the world
+and all our misery.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know
+most faults.
+
+JAQUES.
+The worst fault you have is to be in love.
+
+ORLANDO.
+’Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue. I am weary of you.
+
+JAQUES.
+By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found you.
+
+ORLANDO.
+He is drowned in the brook. Look but in, and you shall see him.
+
+JAQUES.
+There I shall see mine own figure.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.
+
+JAQUES.
+I’ll tarry no longer with you. Farewell, good Signior Love.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I am glad of your departure. Adieu, good Monsieur Melancholy.
+
+[_Exit Jaques.—Celia and Rosalind come forward._]
+
+ROSALIND.
+I will speak to him like a saucy lackey, and under that habit play the
+knave with him.
+Do you hear, forester?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Very well. What would you?
+
+ROSALIND.
+I pray you, what is’t o’clock?
+
+ORLANDO.
+You should ask me what time o’ day. There’s no clock in the forest.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Then there is no true lover in the forest, else sighing every minute
+and groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot of time as well as a
+clock.
+
+ORLANDO.
+And why not the swift foot of time? Had not that been as proper?
+
+ROSALIND.
+By no means, sir. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
+I’ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time
+gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I prithee, who doth he trot withal?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her
+marriage and the day it is solemnized. If the interim be but a
+se’nnight, time’s pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven
+year.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Who ambles time withal?
+
+ROSALIND.
+With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that hath not the gout;
+for the one sleeps easily because he cannot study, and the other lives
+merrily because he feels no pain; the one lacking the burden of lean
+and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden of heavy tedious
+penury. These time ambles withal.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Who doth he gallop withal?
+
+ROSALIND.
+With a thief to the gallows; for though he go as softly as foot can
+fall, he thinks himself too soon there.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Who stays it still withal?
+
+ROSALIND.
+With lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep between term and term, and
+then they perceive not how time moves.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Where dwell you, pretty youth?
+
+ROSALIND.
+With this shepherdess, my sister, here in the skirts of the forest,
+like fringe upon a petticoat.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Are you native of this place?
+
+ROSALIND.
+As the coney that you see dwell where she is kindled.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a
+dwelling.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I have been told so of many. But indeed an old religious uncle of mine
+taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man, one that knew
+courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read
+many lectures against it, and I thank God I am not a woman, to be
+touched with so many giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their
+whole sex withal.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Can you remember any of the principal evils that he laid to the charge
+of women?
+
+ROSALIND.
+There were none principal. They were all like one another as halfpence
+are, every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to
+match it.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I prithee recount some of them.
+
+ROSALIND.
+No. I will not cast away my physic but on those that are sick. There is
+a man haunts the forest that abuses our young plants with carving
+“Rosalind” on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on
+brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind. If I could meet
+that fancy-monger, I would give him some good counsel, for he seems to
+have the quotidian of love upon him.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I am he that is so love-shaked. I pray you tell me your remedy.
+
+ROSALIND.
+There is none of my uncle’s marks upon you. He taught me how to know a
+man in love, in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
+
+ORLANDO.
+What were his marks?
+
+ROSALIND.
+A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye and sunken, which you have
+not; an unquestionable spirit, which you have not; a beard neglected,
+which you have not—but I pardon you for that, for simply your having in
+beard is a younger brother’s revenue. Then your hose should be
+ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe
+untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
+But you are no such man. You are rather point-device in your
+accoutrements, as loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Me believe it? You may as soon make her that you love believe it, which
+I warrant she is apter to do than to confess she does. That is one of
+the points in the which women still give the lie to their consciences.
+But, in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses on the trees,
+wherein Rosalind is so admired?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of Rosalind, I am that he,
+that unfortunate he.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark
+house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so
+punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers
+are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Did you ever cure any so?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to imagine me his love, his
+mistress, and I set him every day to woo me; at which time would I,
+being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing
+and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of
+tears, full of smiles; for every passion something and for no passion
+truly anything, as boys and women are for the most part cattle of this
+colour; would now like him, now loathe him; then entertain him, then
+forswear him; now weep for him, then spit at him; that I drave my
+suitor from his mad humour of love to a living humour of madness, which
+was to forswear the full stream of the world and to live in a nook
+merely monastic. And thus I cured him, and this way will I take upon me
+to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep’s heart, that there shall
+not be one spot of love in ’t.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I would not be cured, youth.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind and come every day
+to my cote and woo me.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Now, by the faith of my love, I will. Tell me where it is.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Go with me to it, and I’ll show it you; and by the way you shall tell
+me where in the forest you live. Will you go?
+
+ORLANDO.
+With all my heart, good youth.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Nay, you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you go?
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Touchstone and Audrey; Jaques at a distance observing them.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Come apace, good Audrey. I will fetch up your goats, Audrey. And how,
+Audrey? Am I the man yet? Doth my simple feature content you?
+
+AUDREY.
+Your features, Lord warrant us! What features?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most capricious poet, honest
+Ovid, was among the Goths.
+
+JAQUES.
+[_Aside_.] O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove in a thatched
+house!
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+When a man’s verses cannot be understood, nor a man’s good wit seconded
+with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than
+a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made
+thee poetical.
+
+AUDREY.
+I do not know what “poetical” is. Is it honest in deed and word? Is it
+a true thing?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most feigning, and lovers are
+given to poetry, and what they swear in poetry may be said, as lovers,
+they do feign.
+
+AUDREY.
+Do you wish, then, that the gods had made me poetical?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+I do, truly, for thou swear’st to me thou art honest. Now if thou wert
+a poet, I might have some hope thou didst feign.
+
+AUDREY.
+Would you not have me honest?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for honesty coupled to
+beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
+
+JAQUES.
+[_Aside_.] A material fool!
+
+AUDREY.
+Well, I am not fair, and therefore I pray the gods make me honest.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut were to put good meat
+into an unclean dish.
+
+AUDREY.
+I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness; sluttishness may come
+hereafter. But be it as it may be, I will marry thee. And to that end I
+have been with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next village, who
+hath promised to meet me in this place of the forest and to couple us.
+
+JAQUES.
+[_Aside_.] I would fain see this meeting.
+
+AUDREY.
+Well, the gods give us joy!
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart, stagger in this
+attempt, for here we have no temple but the wood, no assembly but
+horn-beasts. But what though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are
+necessary. It is said, “Many a man knows no end of his goods.” Right.
+Many a man has good horns and knows no end of them. Well, that is the
+dowry of his wife; ’tis none of his own getting. Horns? Even so. Poor
+men alone? No, no, the noblest deer hath them as huge as the rascal. Is
+the single man therefore blessed? No. As a walled town is more worthier
+than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honourable
+than the bare brow of a bachelor. And by how much defence is better
+than no skill, by so much is horn more precious than to want.
+
+Enter Sir Oliver Martext.
+
+Here comes Sir Oliver. Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met. Will you
+dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go with you to your
+chapel?
+
+MARTEXT.
+Is there none here to give the woman?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+I will not take her on gift of any man.
+
+MARTEXT.
+Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful.
+
+JAQUES.
+[_Coming forward_.] Proceed, proceed. I’ll give her.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Good even, good Master What-ye-call’t, how do you, sir? You are very
+well met. God ’ild you for your last company. I am very glad to see
+you. Even a toy in hand here, sir. Nay, pray be covered.
+
+JAQUES.
+Will you be married, motley?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb, and the falcon her
+bells, so man hath his desires; and as pigeons bill, so wedlock would
+be nibbling.
+
+JAQUES.
+And will you, being a man of your breeding, be married under a bush
+like a beggar? Get you to church, and have a good priest that can tell
+you what marriage is. This fellow will but join you together as they
+join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like
+green timber, warp, warp.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+[_Aside_.] I am not in the mind but I were better to be married of him
+than of another, for he is not like to marry me well, and not being
+well married, it will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my
+wife.
+
+JAQUES.
+Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Come, sweet Audrey. We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.
+Farewell, good Master Oliver. Not
+             _O sweet Oliver,
+             O brave Oliver,
+         Leave me not behind thee._
+But
+             _Wind away,—
+             Begone, I say,
+         I will not to wedding with thee._
+
+[_Exeunt Touchstone, Audrey and Jaques._]
+
+MARTEXT.
+’Tis no matter. Ne’er a fantastical knave of them all shall flout me
+out of my calling.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another part of the Forest. Before a Cottage
+
+Enter Rosalind and Celia.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Never talk to me, I will weep.
+
+CELIA.
+Do, I prithee, but yet have the grace to consider that tears do not
+become a man.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But have I not cause to weep?
+
+CELIA.
+As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep.
+
+ROSALIND.
+His very hair is of the dissembling colour.
+
+CELIA.
+Something browner than Judas’s. Marry, his kisses are Judas’s own
+children.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I’ faith, his hair is of a good colour.
+
+CELIA.
+An excellent colour. Your chestnut was ever the only colour.
+
+ROSALIND.
+And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread.
+
+CELIA.
+He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana. A nun of winter’s
+sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in
+them.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But why did he swear he would come this morning, and comes not?
+
+CELIA.
+Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Do you think so?
+
+CELIA.
+Yes. I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer, but for his
+verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a
+worm-eaten nut.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Not true in love?
+
+CELIA.
+Yes, when he is in, but I think he is not in.
+
+ROSALIND.
+You have heard him swear downright he was.
+
+CELIA.
+“Was” is not “is”. Besides, the oath of a lover is no stronger than the
+word of a tapster. They are both the confirmer of false reckonings. He
+attends here in the forest on the Duke your father.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I met the Duke yesterday, and had much question with him. He asked me
+of what parentage I was. I told him, of as good as he, so he laughed
+and let me go. But what talk we of fathers when there is such a man as
+Orlando?
+
+CELIA.
+O, that’s a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words,
+swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart
+the heart of his lover, as a puny tilter, that spurs his horse but on
+one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose. But all’s brave that
+youth mounts and folly guides. Who comes here?
+
+Enter Corin.
+
+CORIN.
+Mistress and master, you have oft enquired
+After the shepherd that complained of love,
+Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,
+Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
+That was his mistress.
+
+CELIA.
+Well, and what of him?
+
+CORIN.
+If you will see a pageant truly played
+Between the pale complexion of true love
+And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,
+Go hence a little, and I shall conduct you,
+If you will mark it.
+
+ROSALIND.
+O, come, let us remove.
+The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
+Bring us to this sight, and you shall say
+I’ll prove a busy actor in their play.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Silvius and Phoebe.
+
+SILVIUS.
+Sweet Phoebe, do not scorn me, do not, Phoebe.
+Say that you love me not, but say not so
+In bitterness. The common executioner,
+Whose heart th’ accustomed sight of death makes hard,
+Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
+But first begs pardon. Will you sterner be
+Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?
+
+Enter Rosalind, Celia and Corin, at a distance.
+
+PHOEBE.
+I would not be thy executioner;
+I fly thee, for I would not injure thee.
+Thou tell’st me there is murder in mine eye.
+’Tis pretty, sure, and very probable
+That eyes, that are the frail’st and softest things,
+Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
+Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers.
+Now I do frown on thee with all my heart,
+And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee.
+Now counterfeit to swoon; why, now fall down;
+Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,
+Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers.
+Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee.
+Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains
+Some scar of it; lean upon a rush,
+The cicatrice and capable impressure
+Thy palm some moment keeps. But now mine eyes,
+Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not;
+Nor I am sure there is not force in eyes
+That can do hurt.
+
+SILVIUS.
+O dear Phoebe,
+If ever—as that ever may be near—
+You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,
+Then shall you know the wounds invisible
+That love’s keen arrows make.
+
+PHOEBE.
+But till that time
+Come not thou near me. And when that time comes,
+Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not,
+As till that time I shall not pity thee.
+
+ROSALIND.
+[_Advancing_.] And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother,
+That you insult, exult, and all at once,
+Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty—
+As, by my faith, I see no more in you
+Than without candle may go dark to bed—
+Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?
+Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?
+I see no more in you than in the ordinary
+Of nature’s sale-work. ’Od’s my little life,
+I think she means to tangle my eyes too!
+No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it.
+’Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
+Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
+That can entame my spirits to your worship.
+You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,
+Like foggy south, puffing with wind and rain?
+You are a thousand times a properer man
+Than she a woman. ’Tis such fools as you
+That makes the world full of ill-favoured children.
+’Tis not her glass but you that flatters her,
+And out of you she sees herself more proper
+Than any of her lineaments can show her.
+But, mistress, know yourself; down on your knees,
+And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
+For I must tell you friendly in your ear,
+Sell when you can; you are not for all markets.
+Cry the man mercy, love him, take his offer;
+Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer.
+So take her to thee, shepherd. Fare you well.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Sweet youth, I pray you chide a year together!
+I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.
+
+ROSALIND.
+He’s fall’n in love with your foulness, and she’ll fall in love with my
+anger. If it be so, as fast as she answers thee with frowning looks,
+I’ll sauce her with bitter words. Why look you so upon me?
+
+PHOEBE.
+For no ill will I bear you.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I pray you do not fall in love with me,
+For I am falser than vows made in wine.
+Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,
+’Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.
+Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard.
+Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better,
+And be not proud. Though all the world could see,
+None could be so abused in sight as he.
+Come, to our flock.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosalind, Celia and Corin._]
+
+PHOEBE.
+Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might:
+“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
+
+SILVIUS.
+Sweet Phoebe—
+
+PHOEBE.
+Ha, what sayst thou, Silvius?
+
+SILVIUS.
+Sweet Phoebe, pity me.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.
+
+SILVIUS.
+Wherever sorrow is, relief would be.
+If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
+By giving love your sorrow and my grief
+Were both extermined.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Thou hast my love. Is not that neighbourly?
+
+SILVIUS.
+I would have you.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Why, that were covetousness.
+Silvius, the time was that I hated thee;
+And yet it is not that I bear thee love;
+But since that thou canst talk of love so well,
+Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
+I will endure, and I’ll employ thee too.
+But do not look for further recompense
+Than thine own gladness that thou art employed.
+
+SILVIUS.
+So holy and so perfect is my love,
+And I in such a poverty of grace,
+That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
+To glean the broken ears after the man
+That the main harvest reaps. Loose now and then
+A scattered smile, and that I’ll live upon.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Know’st thou the youth that spoke to me erewhile?
+
+SILVIUS.
+Not very well, but I have met him oft,
+And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
+That the old carlot once was master of.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Think not I love him, though I ask for him.
+’Tis but a peevish boy—yet he talks well.
+But what care I for words? Yet words do well
+When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
+It is a pretty youth—not very pretty—
+But sure he’s proud, and yet his pride becomes him.
+He’ll make a proper man. The best thing in him
+Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue
+Did make offence, his eye did heal it up.
+He is not very tall, yet for his years he’s tall;
+His leg is but so-so, and yet ’tis well.
+There was a pretty redness in his lip,
+A little riper and more lusty red
+Than that mixed in his cheek. ’Twas just the difference
+Betwixt the constant red and mingled damask.
+There be some women, Silvius, had they marked him
+In parcels as I did, would have gone near
+To fall in love with him; but for my part
+I love him not nor hate him not; and yet
+I have more cause to hate him than to love him.
+For what had he to do to chide at me?
+He said mine eyes were black and my hair black,
+And now I am remembered, scorned at me.
+I marvel why I answered not again.
+But that’s all one: omittance is no quittance.
+I’ll write to him a very taunting letter,
+And thou shalt bear it. Wilt thou, Silvius?
+
+SILVIUS.
+Phoebe, with all my heart.
+
+PHOEBE.
+I’ll write it straight,
+The matter’s in my head and in my heart.
+I will be bitter with him and passing short.
+Go with me, Silvius.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. The Forest of Arden
+
+
+Enter Rosalind, Celia and Jaques.
+
+JAQUES.
+I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with thee.
+
+ROSALIND.
+They say you are a melancholy fellow.
+
+JAQUES.
+I am so; I do love it better than laughing.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Those that are in extremity of either are abominable fellows, and
+betray themselves to every modern censure worse than drunkards.
+
+JAQUES.
+Why, ’tis good to be sad and say nothing.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Why then, ’tis good to be a post.
+
+JAQUES.
+I have neither the scholar’s melancholy, which is emulation; nor the
+musician’s, which is fantastical; nor the courtier’s, which is proud;
+nor the soldier’s, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer’s, which is
+politic; nor the lady’s, which is nice; nor the lover’s, which is all
+these; but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,
+extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my
+travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous
+sadness.
+
+ROSALIND.
+A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad. I fear you
+have sold your own lands to see other men’s. Then to have seen much and
+to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.
+
+JAQUES.
+Yes, I have gained my experience.
+
+ROSALIND.
+And your experience makes you sad. I had rather have a fool to make me
+merry than experience to make me sad—and to travel for it too.
+
+Enter Orlando.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!
+
+JAQUES.
+Nay, then, God be wi’ you, an you talk in blank verse.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Farewell, Monsieur Traveller. Look you lisp and wear strange suits;
+disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your
+nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are,
+or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
+
+[_Exit Jaques._]
+
+Why, how now, Orlando, where have you been all this while? You a lover!
+An you serve me such another trick, never come in my sight more.
+
+ORLANDO.
+My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Break an hour’s promise in love? He that will divide a minute into a
+thousand parts, and break but a part of the thousand part of a minute
+in the affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapped
+him o’ the shoulder, but I’ll warrant him heart-whole.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Pardon me, dear Rosalind.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight. I had as lief be
+wooed of a snail.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Of a snail?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Ay, of a snail, for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his
+head—a better jointure, I think, than you make a woman. Besides, he
+brings his destiny with him.
+
+ORLANDO.
+What’s that?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be beholding to your wives
+for. But he comes armed in his fortune and prevents the slander of his
+wife.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Virtue is no horn-maker and my Rosalind is virtuous.
+
+ROSALIND.
+And I am your Rosalind.
+
+CELIA.
+It pleases him to call you so, but he hath a Rosalind of a better leer
+than you.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humour, and like enough
+to consent. What would you say to me now, an I were your very, very
+Rosalind?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I would kiss before I spoke.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were gravelled for lack
+of matter, you might take occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when
+they are out, they will spit; and for lovers lacking—God warn
+us—matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
+
+ORLANDO.
+How if the kiss be denied?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress, or I should think my
+honesty ranker than my wit.
+
+ORLANDO.
+What, of my suit?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit. Am not I your
+Rosalind?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I take some joy to say you are because I would be talking of her.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Well, in her person, I say I will not have you.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Then, in mine own person, I die.
+
+ROSALIND.
+No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost six thousand years
+old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
+_videlicet_, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed out with a
+Grecian club, yet he did what he could to die before, and he is one of
+the patterns of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair year
+though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer
+night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont
+and, being taken with the cramp, was drowned; and the foolish
+chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all
+lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but
+not for love.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind, for I protest her
+frown might kill me.
+
+ROSALIND.
+By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now I will be your
+Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition, and ask me what you will, I
+will grant it.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Then love me, Rosalind.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and all.
+
+ORLANDO.
+And wilt thou have me?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Ay, and twenty such.
+
+ORLANDO.
+What sayest thou?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Are you not good?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I hope so.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?—Come, sister, you
+shall be the priest and marry us.—Give me your hand, Orlando.—What do
+you say, sister?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Pray thee, marry us.
+
+CELIA.
+I cannot say the words.
+
+ROSALIND.
+You must begin “Will you, Orlando—”
+
+
+CELIA.
+Go to.—Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I will.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Ay, but when?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Why now, as fast as she can marry us.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Then you must say “I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.”
+
+ORLANDO.
+I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I might ask you for your commission. But I do take thee, Orlando, for
+my husband. There’s a girl goes before the priest, and certainly a
+woman’s thought runs before her actions.
+
+ORLANDO.
+So do all thoughts. They are winged.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Now tell me how long you would have her after you have possessed her.
+
+ORLANDO.
+For ever and a day.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Say “a day” without the “ever.” No, no, Orlando, men are April when
+they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids,
+but the sky changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of thee
+than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot
+against rain, more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires
+than a monkey. I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and
+I will do that when you are disposed to be merry. I will laugh like a
+hyena, and that when thou are inclined to sleep.
+
+ORLANDO.
+But will my Rosalind do so?
+
+ROSALIND.
+By my life, she will do as I do.
+
+ORLANDO.
+O, but she is wise.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Or else she could not have the wit to do this. The wiser, the
+waywarder. Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the
+casement. Shut that, and ’twill out at the keyhole. Stop that, ’twill
+fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
+
+ORLANDO.
+A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say, “Wit, whither
+wilt?”
+
+ROSALIND.
+Nay, you might keep that check for it till you met your wife’s wit
+going to your neighbour’s bed.
+
+ORLANDO.
+And what wit could wit have to excuse that?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall never take her
+without her answer unless you take her without her tongue. O, that
+woman that cannot make her fault her husband’s occasion, let her never
+nurse her child herself, for she will breed it like a fool.
+
+ORLANDO.
+For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours.
+
+ORLANDO.
+I must attend the Duke at dinner. By two o’clock I will be with thee
+again.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Ay, go your ways, go your ways. I knew what you would prove. My friends
+told me as much, and I thought no less. That flattering tongue of yours
+won me. ’Tis but one cast away, and so, come death! Two o’clock is your
+hour?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Ay, sweet Rosalind.
+
+ROSALIND.
+By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend me, and by all pretty
+oaths that are not dangerous, if you break one jot of your promise or
+come one minute behind your hour, I will think you the most pathetical
+break-promise, and the most hollow lover, and the most unworthy of her
+you call Rosalind that may be chosen out of the gross band of the
+unfaithful. Therefore beware my censure, and keep your promise.
+
+ORLANDO.
+With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my Rosalind. So, adieu.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let
+time try. Adieu.
+
+[_Exit Orlando._]
+
+CELIA.
+You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate! We must have your
+doublet and hose plucked over your head and show the world what the
+bird hath done to her own nest.
+
+ROSALIND.
+O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many
+fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded; my affection hath
+an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.
+
+CELIA.
+Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour affection in, it runs
+out.
+
+ROSALIND.
+No, that same wicked bastard of Venus, that was begot of thought,
+conceived of spleen, and born of madness, that blind rascally boy that
+abuses everyone’s eyes because his own are out, let him be judge how
+deep I am in love. I’ll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out of the sight
+of Orlando. I’ll go find a shadow and sigh till he come.
+
+CELIA.
+And I’ll sleep.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Jaques and Lords, like foresters.
+
+JAQUES.
+Which is he that killed the deer?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Sir, it was I.
+
+JAQUES.
+Let’s present him to the Duke, like a Roman conqueror, and it would do
+well to set the deer’s horns upon his head for a branch of victory.
+Have you no song, forester, for this purpose?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Yes, sir.
+
+JAQUES.
+Sing it. ’Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it make noise enough.
+
+SONG
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Sings_.]
+  What shall he have that killed the deer?
+        His leather skin and horns to wear.
+                  Then sing him home:
+  [_The rest shall bear this burden_.]
+            Take thou no scorn to wear the horn.
+            It was a crest ere thou wast born.
+                  Thy father’s father wore it
+                  And thy father bore it.
+            The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
+            Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Rosalind and Celia.
+
+ROSALIND.
+How say you now? Is it not past two o’clock? And here much Orlando.
+
+CELIA.
+I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain he hath ta’en his bow
+and arrows and is gone forth to sleep.
+
+Enter Silvius.
+
+Look who comes here.
+
+SILVIUS.
+My errand is to you, fair youth.
+My gentle Phoebe did bid me give you this.
+
+[_Giving a letter._]
+
+I know not the contents, but, as I guess
+By the stern brow and waspish action
+Which she did use as she was writing of it,
+It bears an angry tenor. Pardon me,
+I am but as a guiltless messenger.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Patience herself would startle at this letter
+And play the swaggerer. Bear this, bear all!
+She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
+She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
+Were man as rare as phoenix. ’Od’s my will,
+Her love is not the hare that I do hunt.
+Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,
+This is a letter of your own device.
+
+SILVIUS.
+No, I protest, I know not the contents.
+Phoebe did write it.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Come, come, you are a fool,
+And turned into the extremity of love.
+I saw her hand. She has a leathern hand,
+A freestone-coloured hand. I verily did think
+That her old gloves were on, but ’twas her hands.
+She has a huswife’s hand—but that’s no matter.
+I say she never did invent this letter;
+This is a man’s invention, and his hand.
+
+SILVIUS.
+Sure, it is hers.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Why, ’tis a boisterous and a cruel style,
+A style for challengers. Why, she defies me,
+Like Turk to Christian. Women’s gentle brain
+Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention,
+Such Ethiop words, blacker in their effect
+Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?
+
+SILVIUS.
+So please you, for I never heard it yet,
+Yet heard too much of Phoebe’s cruelty.
+
+ROSALIND.
+She Phoebes me. Mark how the tyrant writes.
+
+[_Reads._]
+
+            _Art thou god to shepherd turned,
+            That a maiden’s heart hath burned?_
+Can a woman rail thus?
+
+SILVIUS.
+Call you this railing?
+
+ROSALIND.
+            _Why, thy godhead laid apart,
+            Warr’st thou with a woman’s heart?_
+Did you ever hear such railing?
+            _Whiles the eye of man did woo me,
+            That could do no vengeance to me._
+Meaning me a beast.
+            _If the scorn of your bright eyne
+            Have power to raise such love in mine,
+            Alack, in me what strange effect
+            Would they work in mild aspect?
+            Whiles you chid me, I did love,
+            How then might your prayers move?
+            He that brings this love to thee
+            Little knows this love in me;
+            And by him seal up thy mind,
+            Whether that thy youth and kind
+            Will the faithful offer take
+            Of me, and all that I can make,
+            Or else by him my love deny,
+            And then I’ll study how to die._
+
+SILVIUS.
+Call you this chiding?
+
+CELIA.
+Alas, poor shepherd.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Do you pity him? No, he deserves no pity.—Wilt thou love such a woman?
+What, to make thee an instrument and play false strains upon thee? Not
+to be endured! Well, go your way to her, for I see love hath made thee
+a tame snake, and say this to her: that if she love me, I charge her to
+love thee; if she will not, I will never have her unless thou entreat
+for her. If you be a true lover, hence, and not a word, for here comes
+more company.
+
+[_Exit Silvius._]
+
+Enter Oliver.
+
+OLIVER.
+Good morrow, fair ones. Pray you, if you know,
+Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
+A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees?
+
+CELIA.
+West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom;
+The rank of osiers, by the murmuring stream,
+Left on your right hand, brings you to the place.
+But at this hour the house doth keep itself.
+There’s none within.
+
+OLIVER.
+If that an eye may profit by a tongue,
+Then should I know you by description,
+Such garments, and such years. “The boy is fair,
+Of female favour, and bestows himself
+Like a ripe sister; the woman low,
+And browner than her brother.” Are not you
+The owner of the house I did inquire for?
+
+CELIA.
+It is no boast, being asked, to say we are.
+
+OLIVER.
+Orlando doth commend him to you both,
+And to that youth he calls his Rosalind
+He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?
+
+ROSALIND.
+I am. What must we understand by this?
+
+OLIVER.
+Some of my shame, if you will know of me
+What man I am, and how, and why, and where
+This handkerchief was stained.
+
+CELIA.
+I pray you tell it.
+
+OLIVER.
+When last the young Orlando parted from you,
+He left a promise to return again
+Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,
+Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
+Lo, what befell. He threw his eye aside,
+And mark what object did present itself.
+Under an oak, whose boughs were mossed with age
+And high top bald with dry antiquity,
+A wretched ragged man, o’ergrown with hair,
+Lay sleeping on his back; about his neck
+A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,
+Who with her head, nimble in threats, approached
+The opening of his mouth. But suddenly,
+Seeing Orlando, it unlinked itself
+And with indented glides did slip away
+Into a bush; under which bush’s shade
+A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,
+Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch
+When that the sleeping man should stir. For ’tis
+The royal disposition of that beast
+To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead.
+This seen, Orlando did approach the man
+And found it was his brother, his elder brother.
+
+CELIA.
+O, I have heard him speak of that same brother,
+And he did render him the most unnatural
+That lived amongst men.
+
+OLIVER.
+And well he might so do,
+For well I know he was unnatural.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,
+Food to the sucked and hungry lioness?
+
+OLIVER.
+Twice did he turn his back and purposed so;
+But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,
+And nature, stronger than his just occasion,
+Made him give battle to the lioness,
+Who quickly fell before him; in which hurtling
+From miserable slumber I awaked.
+
+CELIA.
+Are you his brother?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Was it you he rescued?
+
+CELIA.
+Was’t you that did so oft contrive to kill him?
+
+OLIVER.
+’Twas I; but ’tis not I. I do not shame
+To tell you what I was, since my conversion
+So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But, for the bloody napkin?
+
+OLIVER.
+By and by.
+When from the first to last betwixt us two
+Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed—
+As how I came into that desert place—
+In brief, he led me to the gentle Duke,
+Who gave me fresh array and entertainment,
+Committing me unto my brother’s love,
+Who led me instantly unto his cave,
+There stripped himself, and here upon his arm
+The lioness had torn some flesh away,
+Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted,
+And cried in fainting upon Rosalind.
+Brief, I recovered him, bound up his wound,
+And after some small space, being strong at heart,
+He sent me hither, stranger as I am,
+To tell this story, that you might excuse
+His broken promise, and to give this napkin,
+Dyed in his blood, unto the shepherd youth
+That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.
+
+[_Rosalind faints._]
+
+CELIA.
+Why, how now, Ganymede, sweet Ganymede!
+
+OLIVER.
+Many will swoon when they do look on blood.
+
+CELIA.
+There is more in it. Cousin—Ganymede!
+
+OLIVER.
+Look, he recovers.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I would I were at home.
+
+CELIA.
+We’ll lead you thither.
+I pray you, will you take him by the arm?
+
+OLIVER.
+Be of good cheer, youth. You a man? You lack a man’s heart.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would think this was well
+counterfeited. I pray you tell your brother how well I counterfeited.
+Heigh-ho.
+
+OLIVER.
+This was not counterfeit. There is too great testimony in your
+complexion that it was a passion of earnest.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Counterfeit, I assure you.
+
+OLIVER.
+Well then, take a good heart, and counterfeit to be a man.
+
+ROSALIND.
+So I do. But, i’ faith, I should have been a woman by right.
+
+CELIA.
+Come, you look paler and paler. Pray you draw homewards. Good sir, go
+with us.
+
+OLIVER.
+That will I, for I must bear answer back
+How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I shall devise something. But I pray you commend my counterfeiting to
+him. Will you go?
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. The Forest of Arden
+
+
+Enter Touchstone and Audrey.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.
+
+AUDREY.
+Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old gentleman’s saying.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile Martext. But Audrey,
+there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to you.
+
+AUDREY.
+Ay, I know who ’tis. He hath no interest in me in the world.
+
+Enter William.
+
+Here comes the man you mean.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+It is meat and drink to me to see a clown. By my troth, we that have
+good wits have much to answer for. We shall be flouting; we cannot
+hold.
+
+WILLIAM.
+Good ev’n, Audrey.
+
+AUDREY.
+God ye good ev’n, William.
+
+WILLIAM.
+And good ev’n to you, sir.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Good ev’n, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy head. Nay, prithee,
+be covered. How old are you, friend?
+
+WILLIAM.
+Five-and-twenty, sir.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+A ripe age. Is thy name William?
+
+WILLIAM.
+William, sir.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+A fair name. Wast born i’ th’ forest here?
+
+WILLIAM.
+Ay, sir, I thank God.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+“Thank God.” A good answer. Art rich?
+
+WILLIAM.
+Faith, sir, so-so.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+“So-so” is good, very good, very excellent good. And yet it is not, it
+is but so-so. Art thou wise?
+
+WILLIAM.
+Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Why, thou sayst well. I do now remember a saying: “The fool doth think
+he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” The heathen
+philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open his lips
+when he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby that grapes were made to
+eat and lips to open. You do love this maid?
+
+WILLIAM.
+I do, sir.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Give me your hand. Art thou learned?
+
+WILLIAM.
+No, sir.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Then learn this of me: to have is to have. For it is a figure in
+rhetoric that drink, being poured out of cup into a glass, by filling
+the one doth empty the other. For all your writers do consent that
+_ipse_ is “he.” Now, you are not _ipse_, for I am he.
+
+WILLIAM.
+Which he, sir?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you clown,
+abandon—which is in the vulgar, “leave”—the society—which in the
+boorish is “company”—of this female—which in the common is “woman”;
+which together is, abandon the society of this female, or, clown, thou
+perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit, I kill
+thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death, thy liberty into
+bondage. I will deal in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel.
+I will bandy with thee in faction; will o’errun thee with policy. I
+will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways! Therefore tremble and depart.
+
+AUDREY.
+Do, good William.
+
+WILLIAM.
+God rest you merry, sir.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Corin.
+
+CORIN.
+Our master and mistress seek you. Come away, away.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Trip, Audrey, trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Orlando and Oliver.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Is’t possible that on so little acquaintance you should like her? That
+but seeing, you should love her? And loving woo? And wooing, she should
+grant? And will you persever to enjoy her?
+
+OLIVER.
+Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the poverty of her, the
+small acquaintance, my sudden wooing, nor her sudden consenting. But
+say with me, I love Aliena; say with her that she loves me; consent
+with both that we may enjoy each other. It shall be to your good, for
+my father’s house and all the revenue that was old Sir Rowland’s will I
+estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd.
+
+Enter Rosalind.
+
+ORLANDO.
+You have my consent. Let your wedding be tomorrow. Thither will I
+invite the Duke and all’s contented followers. Go you and prepare
+Aliena; for, look you, here comes my Rosalind.
+
+ROSALIND.
+God save you, brother.
+
+OLIVER.
+And you, fair sister.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ROSALIND.
+O my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a
+scarf!
+
+ORLANDO.
+It is my arm.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon when he showed
+me your handkercher?
+
+ORLANDO.
+Ay, and greater wonders than that.
+
+ROSALIND.
+O, I know where you are. Nay, ’tis true. There was never anything so
+sudden but the fight of two rams, and Caesar’s thrasonical brag of “I
+came, saw and overcame.” For your brother and my sister no sooner met
+but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but
+they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no
+sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees
+have they made pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb
+incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage. They are in the
+very wrath of love, and they will together. Clubs cannot part them.
+
+ORLANDO.
+They shall be married tomorrow, and I will bid the Duke to the nuptial.
+But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another
+man’s eyes! By so much the more shall I tomorrow be at the height of
+heart-heaviness, by how much I shall think my brother happy in having
+what he wishes for.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Why, then, tomorrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I can live no longer by thinking.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I will weary you then no longer with idle talking. Know of me then—for
+now I speak to some purpose—that I know you are a gentleman of good
+conceit. I speak not this that you should bear a good opinion of my
+knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are. Neither do I labour for a
+greater esteem than may in some little measure draw a belief from you,
+to do yourself good, and not to grace me. Believe then, if you please,
+that I can do strange things. I have, since I was three year old,
+conversed with a magician, most profound in his art and yet not
+damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart as your gesture
+cries it out, when your brother marries Aliena shall you marry her. I
+know into what straits of fortune she is driven and it is not
+impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient to you, to set her
+before your eyes tomorrow, human as she is, and without any danger.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Speak’st thou in sober meanings?
+
+ROSALIND.
+By my life, I do, which I tender dearly, though I say I am a magician.
+Therefore put you in your best array, bid your friends; for if you will
+be married tomorrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.
+
+Enter Silvius and Phoebe.
+
+Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Youth, you have done me much ungentleness
+To show the letter that I writ to you.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I care not if I have; it is my study
+To seem despiteful and ungentle to you.
+You are there followed by a faithful shepherd.
+Look upon him, love him; he worships you.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Good shepherd, tell this youth what ’tis to love.
+
+SILVIUS.
+It is to be all made of sighs and tears,
+And so am I for Phoebe.
+
+PHOEBE.
+And I for Ganymede.
+
+ORLANDO.
+And I for Rosalind.
+
+ROSALIND.
+And I for no woman.
+
+SILVIUS.
+It is to be all made of faith and service,
+And so am I for Phoebe.
+
+PHOEBE.
+And I for Ganymede.
+
+ORLANDO.
+And I for Rosalind.
+
+ROSALIND.
+And I for no woman.
+
+SILVIUS.
+It is to be all made of fantasy,
+All made of passion, and all made of wishes,
+All adoration, duty, and observance,
+All humbleness, all patience, and impatience,
+All purity, all trial, all observance,
+And so am I for Phoebe.
+
+PHOEBE.
+And so am I for Ganymede.
+
+ORLANDO.
+And so am I for Rosalind.
+
+ROSALIND.
+And so am I for no woman.
+
+PHOEBE.
+[_To Rosalind_.] If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
+
+SILVIUS.
+[_To Phoebe_.] If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
+
+ORLANDO.
+If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
+
+ROSALIND.
+Why do you speak too, “Why blame you me to love you?”
+
+ORLANDO.
+To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Pray you, no more of this, ’tis like the howling of Irish wolves
+against the moon.
+[_to Silvius_.] I will help you if I can.
+[_to Phoebe_.] I would love you if I could.—Tomorrow meet me all
+together.
+[_to Phoebe_.] I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I’ll be
+married tomorrow.
+[_to Orlando_.] I will satisfy you if ever I satisfied man, and you
+shall be married tomorrow.
+[_to Silvius_.] I will content you, if what pleases you contents you,
+and you shall be married tomorrow.
+[_to Orlando_.] As you love Rosalind, meet.
+[_to Silvius_.] As you love Phoebe, meet.—And as I love no woman, I’ll
+meet. So fare you well. I have left you commands.
+
+SILVIUS.
+I’ll not fail, if I live.
+
+PHOEBE.
+Nor I.
+
+ORLANDO.
+Nor I.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Touchstone and Audrey.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Tomorrow is the joyful day, Audrey, tomorrow will we be married.
+
+AUDREY.
+I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is no dishonest desire
+to desire to be a woman of the world.
+
+Enter two Pages.
+
+Here come two of the banished Duke’s pages.
+
+FIRST PAGE.
+Well met, honest gentleman.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+By my troth, well met. Come sit, sit, and a song.
+
+SECOND PAGE.
+We are for you, sit i’ th’ middle.
+
+FIRST PAGE.
+Shall we clap into’t roundly, without hawking or spitting or saying we
+are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?
+
+SECOND PAGE.
+I’faith, i’faith, and both in a tune like two gipsies on a horse.
+
+                        SONG
+
+PAGES.
+[_Sing_.]
+    It was a lover and his lass,
+        With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
+    That o’er the green cornfield did pass
+        In the spring-time, the only pretty ring time,
+        When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
+    Sweet lovers love the spring.
+
+    Between the acres of the rye,
+        With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
+    These pretty country folks would lie,
+        In the spring-time, the only pretty ring time,
+        When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
+    Sweet lovers love the spring.
+
+    This carol they began that hour,
+        With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
+    How that a life was but a flower,
+        In the spring-time, the only pretty ring time,
+        When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
+    Sweet lovers love the spring.
+
+    And therefore take the present time,
+        With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
+    For love is crowned with the prime,
+        In the spring-time, the only pretty ring time,
+        When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
+    Sweet lovers love the spring.
+
+TOUCHSTONE
+Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great matter in the ditty,
+yet the note was very untuneable.
+
+FIRST PAGE.
+You are deceived, sir, we kept time, we lost not our time.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+By my troth, yes. I count it but time lost to hear such a foolish song.
+God be wi’ you, and God mend your voices. Come, Audrey.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, Jaques, Orlando, Oliver and Celia.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
+Can do all this that he hath promised?
+
+ORLANDO.
+I sometimes do believe and sometimes do not,
+As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.
+
+Enter Rosalind, Silvius and Phoebe.
+
+ROSALIND.
+Patience once more whiles our compact is urged.
+[_To the Duke._] You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,
+You will bestow her on Orlando here?
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.
+
+ROSALIND.
+[_To Orlando_.] And you say you will have her when I bring her?
+
+ORLANDO.
+That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.
+
+ROSALIND.
+[_To Phoebe_.] You say you’ll marry me if I be willing?
+
+PHOEBE.
+That will I, should I die the hour after.
+
+ROSALIND.
+But if you do refuse to marry me,
+You’ll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?
+
+PHOEBE.
+So is the bargain.
+
+ROSALIND.
+[_To Silvius_.] You say that you’ll have Phoebe if she will?
+
+SILVIUS.
+Though to have her and death were both one thing.
+
+ROSALIND.
+I have promised to make all this matter even.
+Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daughter,
+You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter.
+Keep your word, Phoebe, that you’ll marry me,
+Or else, refusing me, to wed this shepherd.
+Keep your word, Silvius, that you’ll marry her
+If she refuse me. And from hence I go
+To make these doubts all even.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosalind and Celia._]
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+I do remember in this shepherd boy
+Some lively touches of my daughter’s favour.
+
+ORLANDO.
+My lord, the first time that I ever saw him
+Methought he was a brother to your daughter.
+But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born
+And hath been tutored in the rudiments
+Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
+Whom he reports to be a great magician,
+Obscured in the circle of this forest.
+
+Enter Touchstone and Audrey.
+
+JAQUES.
+There is sure another flood toward, and these couples are coming to the
+ark. Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are
+called fools.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Salutation and greeting to you all.
+
+JAQUES.
+Good my lord, bid him welcome. This is the motley-minded gentleman that
+I have so often met in the forest. He hath been a courtier, he swears.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation. I have trod a
+measure; I have flattered a lady; I have been politic with my friend,
+smooth with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have had four
+quarrels, and like to have fought one.
+
+JAQUES.
+And how was that ta’en up?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause.
+
+JAQUES.
+How seventh cause?—Good my lord, like this fellow?
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+I like him very well.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+God ’ild you, sir, I desire you of the like. I press in here, sir,
+amongst the rest of the country copulatives, to swear and to forswear
+according as marriage binds and blood breaks. A poor virgin, sir, an
+ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor humour of mine, sir, to
+take that that no man else will. Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir,
+in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+According to the fool’s bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases.
+
+JAQUES.
+But, for the seventh cause. How did you find the quarrel on the seventh
+cause?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+Upon a lie seven times removed—bear your body more seeming, Audrey—as
+thus, sir. I did dislike the cut of a certain courtier’s beard. He sent
+me word if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it
+was. This is called the “retort courteous”. If I sent him word again it
+was not well cut, he would send me word he cut it to please himself.
+This is called the “quip modest”. If again it was not well cut, he
+disabled my judgement. This is called the “reply churlish”. If again it
+was not well cut, he would answer I spake not true. This is called the
+“reproof valiant”. If again it was not well cut, he would say I lie.
+This is called the “countercheck quarrelsome”, and so, to the “lie
+circumstantial”, and the “lie direct”.
+
+JAQUES.
+And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+I durst go no further than the lie circumstantial, nor he durst not
+give me the lie direct; and so we measured swords and parted.
+
+JAQUES.
+Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?
+
+TOUCHSTONE.
+O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good
+manners. I will name you the degrees: the first, the retort courteous;
+the second, the quip modest; the third, the reply churlish; the fourth,
+the reproof valiant; the fifth, the countercheck quarrelsome; the
+sixth, the lie with circumstance; the seventh, the lie direct. All
+these you may avoid but the lie direct and you may avoid that too with
+an “if”. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but
+when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an
+“if”, as, “if you said so, then I said so;” and they shook hands, and
+swore brothers. Your “if” is the only peacemaker; much virtue in “if.”
+
+JAQUES.
+Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? He’s as good at anything, and yet a
+fool.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of
+that he shoots his wit.
+
+Enter Hymen, Rosalind in woman’s clothes, and Celia. Still music.
+
+HYMEN.
+    Then is there mirth in heaven
+    When earthly things made even
+        Atone together.
+    Good Duke, receive thy daughter.
+    Hymen from heaven brought her,
+        Yea, brought her hither,
+    That thou mightst join her hand with his,
+    Whose heart within his bosom is.
+
+ROSALIND.
+[_To Duke Senior_.] To you I give myself, for I am yours.
+[_To Orlando_.] To you I give myself, for I am yours.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.
+
+ORLANDO.
+If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.
+
+PHOEBE.
+If sight and shape be true,
+Why then, my love adieu.
+
+ROSALIND.
+[_To Duke Senior_.] I’ll have no father, if you be not he.
+[_To Orlando_.] I’ll have no husband, if you be not he.
+[_To Phoebe_.] Nor ne’er wed woman, if you be not she.
+
+HYMEN.
+    Peace, ho! I bar confusion.
+    ’Tis I must make conclusion
+        Of these most strange events.
+    Here’s eight that must take hands
+    To join in Hymen’s bands,
+        If truth holds true contents.
+[_To Orlando and Rosalind_.] You and you no cross shall part.
+[_To Celia and Oliver_.] You and you are heart in heart.
+[_To Phoebe_.] You to his love must accord
+Or have a woman to your lord.
+[_To Audrey and Touchstone_.] You and you are sure together
+As the winter to foul weather.
+Whiles a wedlock hymn we sing,
+Feed yourselves with questioning,
+That reason wonder may diminish
+How thus we met, and these things finish.
+
+                         SONG
+      Wedding is great Juno’s crown,
+            O blessed bond of board and bed.
+      ’Tis Hymen peoples every town,
+            High wedlock then be honoured.
+      Honour, high honour, and renown
+      To Hymen, god of every town.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me
+Even daughter, welcome in no less degree.
+
+PHOEBE.
+[_To Silvius_.] I will not eat my word, now thou art mine,
+Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.
+
+Enter Jaques de Boys.
+
+JAQUES DE BOYS.
+Let me have audience for a word or two.
+I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,
+That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.
+Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
+Men of great worth resorted to this forest,
+Addressed a mighty power, which were on foot
+In his own conduct, purposely to take
+His brother here and put him to the sword;
+And to the skirts of this wild wood he came,
+Where, meeting with an old religious man,
+After some question with him, was converted
+Both from his enterprise and from the world,
+His crown bequeathing to his banished brother,
+And all their lands restored to them again
+That were with him exiled. This to be true
+I do engage my life.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Welcome, young man.
+Thou offer’st fairly to thy brother’s wedding:
+To one his lands withheld, and to the other
+A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
+First, in this forest let us do those ends
+That here were well begun and well begot;
+And after, every of this happy number
+That have endured shrewd days and nights with us
+Shall share the good of our returned fortune,
+According to the measure of their states.
+Meantime, forget this new-fall’n dignity,
+And fall into our rustic revelry.
+Play, music! And you brides and bridegrooms all,
+With measure heaped in joy to th’ measures fall.
+
+JAQUES.
+Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,
+The Duke hath put on a religious life
+And thrown into neglect the pompous court.
+
+JAQUES DE BOYS.
+He hath.
+
+JAQUES.
+To him will I. Out of these convertites
+There is much matter to be heard and learned.
+[_To Duke Senior_.] You to your former honour I bequeath;
+Your patience and your virtue well deserves it.
+[_To Orlando_.] You to a love that your true faith doth merit.
+[_To Oliver_.] You to your land, and love, and great allies.
+[_To Silvius_.] You to a long and well-deserved bed.
+[_To Touchstone_.] And you to wrangling, for thy loving voyage
+Is but for two months victualled.—So to your pleasures,
+I am for other than for dancing measures.
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Stay, Jaques, stay.
+
+JAQUES.
+To see no pastime, I. What you would have
+I’ll stay to know at your abandoned cave.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+DUKE SENIOR.
+Proceed, proceed! We will begin these rites,
+As we do trust they’ll end, in true delights.
+
+[_Dance. Exeunt all but Rosalind._]
+
+EPILOGUE
+
+ROSALIND.
+It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue, but it is no more
+unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that good
+wine needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet
+to good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better
+by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am
+neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of
+a good play! I am not furnished like a beggar; therefore to beg will
+not become me. My way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the women.
+I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of
+this play as please you. And I charge you, O men, for the love you bear
+to women—as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them—that
+between you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman, I
+would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions
+that liked me, and breaths that I defied not. And I am sure as many as
+have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will for my kind
+offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. A hall in the Duke’s palace
+Scene II. A public place
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. A public place
+Scene II. The same
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. The same
+Scene II. The same
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. The same
+Scene II. The same
+Scene III. The same
+Scene IV. The same
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. The same
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus.
+EGEON, a Merchant of Syracuse.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS, Twin brothers and sons to Egeon and
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE, Emilia, but unknown to each other.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS, Twin brothers, and attendants on
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE, the two Antipholuses.
+
+BALTHASAR, a Merchant.
+ANGELO, a Goldsmith.
+A MERCHANT, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse.
+PINCH, a Schoolmaster and a Conjurer.
+EMILIA, Wife to Egeon, an Abbess at Ephesus.
+ADRIANA, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.
+LUCIANA, her Sister.
+LUCE, her Servant.
+A COURTESAN
+Messenger, Jailer, Officers, Attendants
+
+SCENE: Ephesus
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. A hall in the Duke’s palace
+
+ Enter Duke, Egeon, Jailer, Officers and other Attendants.
+
+EGEON.
+Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,
+And by the doom of death end woes and all.
+
+DUKE.
+Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more.
+I am not partial to infringe our laws.
+The enmity and discord which of late
+Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke
+To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,
+Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives,
+Have seal’d his rigorous statutes with their bloods,
+Excludes all pity from our threat’ning looks.
+For since the mortal and intestine jars
+’Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,
+It hath in solemn synods been decreed,
+Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,
+To admit no traffic to our adverse towns;
+Nay more, if any born at Ephesus
+Be seen at Syracusian marts and fairs;
+Again, if any Syracusian born
+Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,
+His goods confiscate to the Duke’s dispose,
+Unless a thousand marks be levied
+To quit the penalty and to ransom him.
+Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,
+Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;
+Therefore by law thou art condemn’d to die.
+
+EGEON.
+Yet this my comfort; when your words are done,
+My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
+
+DUKE.
+Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause
+Why thou departedst from thy native home,
+And for what cause thou cam’st to Ephesus.
+
+EGEON.
+A heavier task could not have been impos’d
+Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable;
+Yet, that the world may witness that my end
+Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence,
+I’ll utter what my sorrow gives me leave.
+In Syracusa was I born, and wed
+Unto a woman happy but for me,
+And by me, had not our hap been bad.
+With her I liv’d in joy; our wealth increas’d
+By prosperous voyages I often made
+To Epidamnum, till my factor’s death,
+And the great care of goods at random left,
+Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse;
+From whom my absence was not six months old
+Before herself (almost at fainting under
+The pleasing punishment that women bear)
+Had made provision for her following me,
+And soon and safe arrived where I was.
+There had she not been long but she became
+A joyful mother of two goodly sons,
+And, which was strange, the one so like the other
+As could not be distinguish’d but by names.
+That very hour, and in the self-same inn,
+A mean woman was delivered
+Of such a burden, male twins, both alike.
+Those, for their parents were exceeding poor,
+I bought, and brought up to attend my sons.
+My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys,
+Made daily motions for our home return.
+Unwilling I agreed; alas, too soon
+We came aboard.
+A league from Epidamnum had we sail’d
+Before the always-wind-obeying deep
+Gave any tragic instance of our harm;
+But longer did we not retain much hope;
+For what obscured light the heavens did grant
+Did but convey unto our fearful minds
+A doubtful warrant of immediate death,
+Which though myself would gladly have embrac’d,
+Yet the incessant weepings of my wife,
+Weeping before for what she saw must come,
+And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,
+That mourn’d for fashion, ignorant what to fear,
+Forc’d me to seek delays for them and me.
+And this it was (for other means was none).
+The sailors sought for safety by our boat,
+And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us.
+My wife, more careful for the latter-born,
+Had fast’ned him unto a small spare mast,
+Such as sea-faring men provide for storms.
+To him one of the other twins was bound,
+Whilst I had been like heedful of the other.
+The children thus dispos’d, my wife and I,
+Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix’d,
+Fast’ned ourselves at either end the mast,
+And, floating straight, obedient to the stream,
+Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought.
+At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,
+Dispers’d those vapours that offended us,
+And by the benefit of his wished light
+The seas wax’d calm, and we discovered
+Two ships from far, making amain to us,
+Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this.
+But ere they came—O, let me say no more!
+Gather the sequel by that went before.
+
+DUKE.
+Nay, forward, old man, do not break off so,
+For we may pity, though not pardon thee.
+
+EGEON.
+O, had the gods done so, I had not now
+Worthily term’d them merciless to us.
+For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues,
+We were encountered by a mighty rock,
+Which being violently borne upon,
+Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst;
+So that, in this unjust divorce of us,
+Fortune had left to both of us alike
+What to delight in, what to sorrow for.
+Her part, poor soul, seeming as burdened
+With lesser weight, but not with lesser woe,
+Was carried with more speed before the wind,
+And in our sight they three were taken up
+By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought.
+At length another ship had seiz’d on us;
+And, knowing whom it was their hap to save,
+Gave healthful welcome to their ship-wrack’d guests,
+And would have reft the fishers of their prey,
+Had not their bark been very slow of sail;
+And therefore homeward did they bend their course.
+Thus have you heard me sever’d from my bliss,
+That by misfortunes was my life prolong’d
+To tell sad stories of my own mishaps.
+
+DUKE.
+And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for,
+Do me the favour to dilate at full
+What have befall’n of them and thee till now.
+
+EGEON.
+My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care,
+At eighteen years became inquisitive
+After his brother, and importun’d me
+That his attendant, so his case was like,
+Reft of his brother, but retain’d his name,
+Might bear him company in the quest of him;
+Whom whilst I laboured of a love to see,
+I hazarded the loss of whom I lov’d.
+Five summers have I spent in farthest Greece,
+Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia,
+And, coasting homeward, came to Ephesus,
+Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought
+Or that or any place that harbours men.
+But here must end the story of my life;
+And happy were I in my timely death,
+Could all my travels warrant me they live.
+
+DUKE.
+Hapless Egeon, whom the fates have mark’d
+To bear the extremity of dire mishap;
+Now, trust me, were it not against our laws,
+Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,
+Which princes, would they, may not disannul,
+My soul should sue as advocate for thee.
+But though thou art adjudged to the death,
+And passed sentence may not be recall’d
+But to our honour’s great disparagement,
+Yet will I favour thee in what I can.
+Therefore, merchant, I’ll limit thee this day
+To seek thy health by beneficial help.
+Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus;
+Beg thou, or borrow, to make up the sum,
+And live; if no, then thou art doom’d to die.
+Jailer, take him to thy custody.
+
+JAILER.
+I will, my lord.
+
+EGEON.
+Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend,
+But to procrastinate his lifeless end.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A public place
+
+ Enter Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse and a Merchant.
+
+MERCHANT.
+Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,
+Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
+This very day a Syracusian merchant
+Is apprehended for arrival here,
+And, not being able to buy out his life,
+According to the statute of the town
+Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.
+There is your money that I had to keep.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host,
+And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee.
+Within this hour it will be dinnertime;
+Till that, I’ll view the manners of the town,
+Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,
+And then return and sleep within mine inn,
+For with long travel I am stiff and weary.
+Get thee away.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Many a man would take you at your word,
+And go indeed, having so good a mean.
+
+ [_Exit Dromio._]
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+A trusty villain, sir, that very oft,
+When I am dull with care and melancholy,
+Lightens my humour with his merry jests.
+What, will you walk with me about the town,
+And then go to my inn and dine with me?
+
+MERCHANT.
+I am invited, sir, to certain merchants,
+Of whom I hope to make much benefit.
+I crave your pardon. Soon, at five o’clock,
+Please you, I’ll meet with you upon the mart,
+And afterward consort you till bedtime.
+My present business calls me from you now.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Farewell till then: I will go lose myself,
+And wander up and down to view the city.
+
+MERCHANT.
+Sir, I commend you to your own content.
+
+ [_Exit Merchant._]
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+He that commends me to mine own content
+Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
+I to the world am like a drop of water
+That in the ocean seeks another drop,
+Who, failing there to find his fellow forth,
+Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
+So I, to find a mother and a brother,
+In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
+
+ Enter Dromio of Ephesus.
+
+Here comes the almanac of my true date.
+What now? How chance thou art return’d so soon?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Return’d so soon? rather approach’d too late.
+The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit;
+The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;
+My mistress made it one upon my cheek.
+She is so hot because the meat is cold;
+The meat is cold because you come not home;
+You come not home because you have no stomach;
+You have no stomach, having broke your fast;
+But we that know what ’tis to fast and pray,
+Are penitent for your default today.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Stop in your wind, sir, tell me this, I pray:
+Where have you left the money that I gave you?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+O, sixpence that I had o’ Wednesday last
+To pay the saddler for my mistress’ crupper:
+The saddler had it, sir, I kept it not.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I am not in a sportive humour now.
+Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?
+We being strangers here, how dar’st thou trust
+So great a charge from thine own custody?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+I pray you jest, sir, as you sit at dinner:
+I from my mistress come to you in post;
+If I return, I shall be post indeed,
+For she will score your fault upon my pate.
+Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,
+And strike you home without a messenger.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season,
+Reserve them till a merrier hour than this.
+Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+To me, sir? why, you gave no gold to me!
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness,
+And tell me how thou hast dispos’d thy charge.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+My charge was but to fetch you from the mart
+Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner.
+My mistress and her sister stay for you.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Now, as I am a Christian, answer me
+In what safe place you have bestow’d my money,
+Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours
+That stands on tricks when I am undispos’d;
+Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+I have some marks of yours upon my pate,
+Some of my mistress’ marks upon my shoulders,
+But not a thousand marks between you both.
+If I should pay your worship those again,
+Perchance you will not bear them patiently.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Thy mistress’ marks? what mistress, slave, hast thou?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Your worship’s wife, my mistress at the Phoenix;
+She that doth fast till you come home to dinner,
+And prays that you will hie you home to dinner.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,
+Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+What mean you, sir? for God’s sake hold your hands.
+Nay, an you will not, sir, I’ll take my heels.
+
+ [_Exit Dromio._]
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Upon my life, by some device or other
+The villain is o’er-raught of all my money.
+They say this town is full of cozenage,
+As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
+Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
+Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
+Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
+And many such-like liberties of sin:
+If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.
+I’ll to the Centaur to go seek this slave.
+I greatly fear my money is not safe.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. A public place
+
+ Enter Adriana, wife to Antipholus (of Ephesus) with Luciana her
+ sister.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Neither my husband nor the slave return’d
+That in such haste I sent to seek his master?
+Sure, Luciana, it is two o’clock.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,
+And from the mart he’s somewhere gone to dinner.
+Good sister, let us dine, and never fret;
+A man is master of his liberty;
+Time is their master, and when they see time,
+They’ll go or come. If so, be patient, sister.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Why should their liberty than ours be more?
+
+LUCIANA.
+Because their business still lies out o’ door.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Look when I serve him so, he takes it ill.
+
+LUCIANA.
+O, know he is the bridle of your will.
+
+ADRIANA.
+There’s none but asses will be bridled so.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Why, headstrong liberty is lash’d with woe.
+There’s nothing situate under heaven’s eye
+But hath his bound in earth, in sea, in sky.
+The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls
+Are their males’ subjects, and at their controls.
+Man, more divine, the masters of all these,
+Lord of the wide world and wild wat’ry seas,
+Indued with intellectual sense and souls,
+Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls,
+Are masters to their females, and their lords:
+Then let your will attend on their accords.
+
+ADRIANA.
+This servitude makes you to keep unwed.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed.
+
+ADRIANA.
+But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Ere I learn love, I’ll practise to obey.
+
+ADRIANA.
+How if your husband start some other where?
+
+LUCIANA.
+Till he come home again, I would forbear.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Patience unmov’d! No marvel though she pause;
+They can be meek that have no other cause.
+A wretched soul bruis’d with adversity,
+We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
+But were we burd’ned with like weight of pain,
+As much, or more, we should ourselves complain:
+So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,
+With urging helpless patience would relieve me:
+But if thou live to see like right bereft,
+This fool-begg’d patience in thee will be left.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Well, I will marry one day, but to try.
+Here comes your man, now is your husband nigh.
+
+ Enter Dromio of Ephesus.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Say, is your tardy master now at hand?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Nay, he’s at two hands with me, and that my two ears can witness.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Say, didst thou speak with him? know’st thou his mind?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear.
+Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Spake he so doubtfully thou couldst not feel his meaning?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Nay, he struck so plainly I could too well feel his blows; and withal
+so doubtfully that I could scarce understand them.
+
+ADRIANA.
+But say, I prithee, is he coming home?
+It seems he hath great care to please his wife.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Horn-mad, thou villain?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+I mean not cuckold-mad,
+But sure he’s stark mad.
+When I desir’d him to come home to dinner,
+He ask’d me for a thousand marks in gold.
+“’Tis dinner time,” quoth I. “My gold,” quoth he.
+“Your meat doth burn” quoth I. “My gold,” quoth he.
+“Will you come home?” quoth I. “My gold,” quoth he.
+“Where is the thousand marks I gave thee, villain?”
+“The pig” quoth I “is burn’d”. “My gold,” quoth he.
+“My mistress, sir,” quoth I. “Hang up thy mistress;
+I know not thy mistress; out on thy mistress!”
+
+LUCIANA.
+Quoth who?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Quoth my master.
+“I know,” quoth he, “no house, no wife, no mistress.”
+So that my errand, due unto my tongue,
+I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders;
+For, in conclusion, he did beat me there.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Go back again, and be new beaten home?
+For God’s sake, send some other messenger.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Back slave, or I will break thy pate across.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+And he will bless that cross with other beating.
+Between you I shall have a holy head.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Hence, prating peasant. Fetch thy master home.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Am I so round with you, as you with me,
+That like a football you do spurn me thus?
+You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither.
+If I last in this service, you must case me in leather.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LUCIANA.
+Fie, how impatience loureth in your face.
+
+ADRIANA.
+His company must do his minions grace,
+Whilst I at home starve for a merry look.
+Hath homely age th’ alluring beauty took
+From my poor cheek? then he hath wasted it.
+Are my discourses dull? barren my wit?
+If voluble and sharp discourse be marr’d,
+Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard.
+Do their gay vestments his affections bait?
+That’s not my fault; he’s master of my state.
+What ruins are in me that can be found
+By him not ruin’d? Then is he the ground
+Of my defeatures. My decayed fair
+A sunny look of his would soon repair;
+But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale
+And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Self-harming jealousy! fie, beat it hence.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense.
+I know his eye doth homage otherwhere,
+Or else what lets it but he would be here?
+Sister, you know he promis’d me a chain;
+Would that alone, a love he would detain,
+So he would keep fair quarter with his bed.
+I see the jewel best enamelled
+Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still
+That others touch, yet often touching will
+Wear gold; and no man that hath a name
+By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.
+Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,
+I’ll weep what’s left away, and weeping die.
+
+LUCIANA.
+How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same
+
+ Enter Antipholus of Syracuse.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up
+Safe at the Centaur, and the heedful slave
+Is wander’d forth in care to seek me out.
+By computation and mine host’s report.
+I could not speak with Dromio since at first
+I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes.
+
+ Enter Dromio of Syracuse.
+
+How now, sir! is your merry humour alter’d?
+As you love strokes, so jest with me again.
+You know no Centaur? you receiv’d no gold?
+Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?
+My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad,
+That thus so madly thou didst answer me?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+What answer, sir? when spake I such a word?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Even now, even here, not half an hour since.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I did not see you since you sent me hence,
+Home to the Centaur with the gold you gave me.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Villain, thou didst deny the gold’s receipt,
+And told’st me of a mistress and a dinner,
+For which I hope thou felt’st I was displeas’d.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I am glad to see you in this merry vein.
+What means this jest, I pray you, master, tell me?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth?
+Think’st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that.
+
+ [_Beats Dromio._]
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Hold, sir, for God’s sake, now your jest is earnest.
+Upon what bargain do you give it me?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Because that I familiarly sometimes
+Do use you for my fool, and chat with you,
+Your sauciness will jest upon my love,
+And make a common of my serious hours.
+When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,
+But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
+If you will jest with me, know my aspect,
+And fashion your demeanour to my looks,
+Or I will beat this method in your sconce.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Sconce, call you it? so you would leave battering, I had rather have it
+a head. And you use these blows long, I must get a sconce for my head,
+and ensconce it too, or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders. But I
+pray, sir, why am I beaten?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Dost thou not know?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Shall I tell you why?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say, every why hath a wherefore.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Why, first, for flouting me; and then wherefore,
+For urging it the second time to me.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season,
+When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason?
+Well, sir, I thank you.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Thank me, sir, for what?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I’ll make you amends next, to give you nothing for something.
+But say, sir, is it dinner-time?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+No, sir; I think the meat wants that I have.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+In good time, sir, what’s that?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Basting.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Well, sir, then ’twill be dry.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+If it be, sir, I pray you eat none of it.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Your reason?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Lest it make you choleric, and purchase me another dry basting.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Well, sir, learn to jest in good time.
+There’s a time for all things.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I durst have denied that before you were so choleric.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+By what rule, sir?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time
+himself.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Let’s hear it.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+There’s no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by
+nature.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+May he not do it by fine and recovery?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig, and recover the lost hair of another
+man.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an
+excrement?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts, and what he hath
+scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Why, but there’s many a man hath more hair than wit.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+The plainer dealer, the sooner lost. Yet he loseth it in a kind of
+jollity.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+For what reason?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+For two, and sound ones too.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Nay, not sound, I pray you.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Sure ones, then.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Certain ones, then.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Name them.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+The one, to save the money that he spends in tiring; the other, that at
+dinner they should not drop in his porridge.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+You would all this time have proved there is no time for all things.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Marry, and did, sir; namely, e’en no time to recover hair lost by
+nature.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+But your reason was not substantial why there is no time to recover.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald, and therefore, to the world’s end
+will have bald followers.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I knew ’twould be a bald conclusion.
+But soft! who wafts us yonder?
+
+ Enter Adriana and Luciana.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown,
+Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects.
+I am not Adriana, nor thy wife.
+The time was once when thou unurg’d wouldst vow
+That never words were music to thine ear,
+That never object pleasing in thine eye,
+That never touch well welcome to thy hand,
+That never meat sweet-savour’d in thy taste,
+Unless I spake, or look’d, or touch’d, or carv’d to thee.
+How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it,
+That thou art then estranged from thyself?
+Thyself I call it, being strange to me,
+That, undividable, incorporate,
+Am better than thy dear self’s better part.
+Ah, do not tear away thyself from me;
+For know, my love, as easy mayst thou fall
+A drop of water in the breaking gulf,
+And take unmingled thence that drop again
+Without addition or diminishing,
+As take from me thyself, and not me too.
+How dearly would it touch thee to the quick,
+Should’st thou but hear I were licentious?
+And that this body, consecrate to thee,
+By ruffian lust should be contaminate?
+Wouldst thou not spit at me, and spurn at me,
+And hurl the name of husband in my face,
+And tear the stain’d skin off my harlot brow,
+And from my false hand cut the wedding-ring,
+And break it with a deep-divorcing vow?
+I know thou canst; and therefore, see thou do it.
+I am possess’d with an adulterate blot;
+My blood is mingled with the crime of lust;
+For if we two be one, and thou play false,
+I do digest the poison of thy flesh,
+Being strumpeted by thy contagion.
+Keep then fair league and truce with thy true bed,
+I live distain’d, thou undishonoured.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not.
+In Ephesus I am but two hours old,
+As strange unto your town as to your talk,
+Who, every word by all my wit being scann’d,
+Wants wit in all one word to understand.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Fie, brother, how the world is chang’d with you.
+When were you wont to use my sister thus?
+She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+By Dromio?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+By me?
+
+ADRIANA.
+By thee; and this thou didst return from him,
+That he did buffet thee, and in his blows
+Denied my house for his, me for his wife.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman?
+What is the course and drift of your compact?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I, sir? I never saw her till this time.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Villain, thou liest, for even her very words
+Didst thou deliver to me on the mart.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I never spake with her in all my life.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+How can she thus, then, call us by our names?
+Unless it be by inspiration.
+
+ADRIANA.
+How ill agrees it with your gravity
+To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave,
+Abetting him to thwart me in my mood;
+Be it my wrong, you are from me exempt,
+But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
+Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine.
+Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
+Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
+Makes me with thy strength to communicate:
+If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,
+Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss,
+Who all, for want of pruning, with intrusion
+Infect thy sap, and live on thy confusion.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme.
+What, was I married to her in my dream?
+Or sleep I now, and think I hear all this?
+What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?
+Until I know this sure uncertainty
+I’ll entertain the offer’d fallacy.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+O, for my beads! I cross me for a sinner.
+This is the fairy land; O spite of spites!
+We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites;
+If we obey them not, this will ensue:
+They’ll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Why prat’st thou to thyself, and answer’st not?
+Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I am transformed, master, am I not?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I think thou art in mind, and so am I.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Thou hast thine own form.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+No, I am an ape.
+
+LUCIANA.
+If thou art chang’d to aught, ’tis to an ass.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+’Tis true; she rides me, and I long for grass.
+’Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be
+But I should know her as well as she knows me.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Come, come, no longer will I be a fool,
+To put the finger in the eye and weep
+Whilst man and master laughs my woes to scorn.
+Come, sir, to dinner; Dromio, keep the gate.
+Husband, I’ll dine above with you today,
+And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks.
+Sirrah, if any ask you for your master,
+Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter.
+Come, sister; Dromio, play the porter well.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
+Sleeping or waking, mad, or well-advis’d?
+Known unto these, and to myself disguis’d!
+I’ll say as they say, and persever so,
+And in this mist at all adventures go.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Master, shall I be porter at the gate?
+
+ADRIANA.
+Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. The same
+
+ Enter Antipholus of Ephesus, his man Dromio of Ephesus, Angelo the
+ goldsmith and Balthasar the merchant.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all,
+My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours.
+Say that I linger’d with you at your shop
+To see the making of her carcanet,
+And that tomorrow you will bring it home.
+But here’s a villain that would face me down.
+He met me on the mart, and that I beat him,
+And charg’d him with a thousand marks in gold,
+And that I did deny my wife and house.
+Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know.
+That you beat me at the mart I have your hand to show;
+If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink,
+Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I think thou art an ass.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Marry, so it doth appear
+By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear.
+I should kick, being kick’d; and being at that pass,
+You would keep from my heels, and beware of an ass.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+You’re sad, Signior Balthasar; pray God our cheer
+May answer my good will and your good welcome here.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+O, Signior Balthasar, either at flesh or fish
+A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+And welcome more common, for that’s nothing but words.
+
+BALTHASAR
+Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Ay, to a niggardly host and more sparing guest.
+But though my cates be mean, take them in good part;
+Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart.
+But soft; my door is lock’d. Go bid them let us in.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicely, Gillian, Ginn!
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+[_Within._] Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch!
+Either get thee from the door or sit down at the hatch:
+Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call’st for such store
+When one is one too many? Go, get thee from the door.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+What patch is made our porter? My master stays in the street.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Let him walk from whence he came, lest he catch cold on’s feet.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Who talks within there? Ho, open the door.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Right, sir, I’ll tell you when an you’ll tell me wherefore.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Wherefore? For my dinner. I have not dined today.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Nor today here you must not; come again when you may.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+What art thou that keep’st me out from the house I owe?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+The porter for this time, sir, and my name is Dromio.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+O villain, thou hast stolen both mine office and my name;
+The one ne’er got me credit, the other mickle blame.
+If thou hadst been Dromio today in my place,
+Thou wouldst have chang’d thy face for a name, or thy name for an ass.
+
+ Enter Luce concealed from Antipholus of Ephesus and his companions.
+
+LUCE.
+[_Within._] What a coil is there, Dromio, who are those at the gate?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Let my master in, Luce.
+
+LUCE.
+Faith, no, he comes too late,
+And so tell your master.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+O Lord, I must laugh;
+Have at you with a proverb:—Shall I set in my staff?
+
+LUCE.
+Have at you with another: that’s—When? can you tell?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+If thy name be called Luce,—Luce, thou hast answer’d him well.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Do you hear, you minion? you’ll let us in, I hope?
+
+LUCE.
+I thought to have ask’d you.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+And you said no.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+So, come, help. Well struck, there was blow for blow.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Thou baggage, let me in.
+
+LUCE.
+Can you tell for whose sake?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Master, knock the door hard.
+
+LUCE.
+Let him knock till it ache.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+You’ll cry for this, minion, if I beat the door down.
+
+LUCE.
+What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town?
+
+ Enter Adriana concealed from Antipholus of Ephesus and his companions.
+
+ADRIANA.
+[_Within._] Who is that at the door that keeps all this noise?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+By my troth, your town is troubled with unruly boys.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Are you there, wife? you might have come before.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Your wife, sir knave? go, get you from the door.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+If you went in pain, master, this knave would go sore.
+
+ANGELO.
+Here is neither cheer, sir, nor welcome. We would fain have either.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+They stand at the door, master; bid them welcome hither.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+You would say so, master, if your garments were thin.
+Your cake here is warm within; you stand here in the cold.
+It would make a man mad as a buck to be so bought and sold.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Go, fetch me something, I’ll break ope the gate.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Break any breaking here, and I’ll break your knave’s pate.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind;
+Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+It seems thou want’st breaking; out upon thee, hind!
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Here’s too much “out upon thee”; I pray thee, let me in.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Well, I’ll break in; go, borrow me a crow.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+A crow without feather; master, mean you so?
+For a fish without a fin, there’s a fowl without a feather.
+If a crow help us in, sirrah, we’ll pluck a crow together.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Go, get thee gone; fetch me an iron crow.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Have patience, sir. O, let it not be so:
+Herein you war against your reputation,
+And draw within the compass of suspect
+The unviolated honour of your wife.
+Once this,—your long experience of her wisdom,
+Her sober virtue, years, and modesty,
+Plead on her part some cause to you unknown;
+And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse
+Why at this time the doors are made against you.
+Be rul’d by me; depart in patience,
+And let us to the Tiger all to dinner,
+And about evening, come yourself alone
+To know the reason of this strange restraint.
+If by strong hand you offer to break in
+Now in the stirring passage of the day,
+A vulgar comment will be made of it;
+And that supposed by the common rout
+Against your yet ungalled estimation
+That may with foul intrusion enter in,
+And dwell upon your grave when you are dead;
+For slander lives upon succession,
+For ever hous’d where it gets possession.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+You have prevail’d. I will depart in quiet,
+And, in despite of mirth, mean to be merry.
+I know a wench of excellent discourse,
+Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle;
+There will we dine. This woman that I mean,
+My wife (but, I protest, without desert)
+Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal;
+To her will we to dinner.—Get you home
+And fetch the chain, by this I know ’tis made.
+Bring it, I pray you, to the Porpentine,
+For there’s the house. That chain will I bestow
+(Be it for nothing but to spite my wife)
+Upon mine hostess there. Good sir, make haste.
+Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
+I’ll knock elsewhere, to see if they’ll disdain me.
+
+ANGELO.
+I’ll meet you at that place some hour hence.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Do so; this jest shall cost me some expense.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same
+
+ Enter Luciana with Antipholus of Syracuse.
+
+LUCIANA.
+And may it be that you have quite forgot
+A husband’s office? Shall, Antipholus,
+Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot?
+Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?
+If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
+Then for her wealth’s sake use her with more kindness;
+Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth,
+Muffle your false love with some show of blindness.
+Let not my sister read it in your eye;
+Be not thy tongue thy own shame’s orator;
+Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;
+Apparel vice like virtue’s harbinger;
+Bear a fair presence though your heart be tainted;
+Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint,
+Be secret-false. What need she be acquainted?
+What simple thief brags of his own attaint?
+’Tis double wrong to truant with your bed
+And let her read it in thy looks at board.
+Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed;
+Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.
+Alas, poor women, make us but believe,
+Being compact of credit, that you love us.
+Though others have the arm, show us the sleeve;
+We in your motion turn, and you may move us.
+Then, gentle brother, get you in again;
+Comfort my sister, cheer her, call her wife.
+’Tis holy sport to be a little vain
+When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Sweet mistress, what your name is else, I know not,
+Nor by what wonder you do hit on mine;
+Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not
+Than our earth’s wonder, more than earth divine.
+Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak;
+Lay open to my earthy gross conceit,
+Smother’d in errors, feeble, shallow, weak,
+The folded meaning of your words’ deceit.
+Against my soul’s pure truth why labour you
+To make it wander in an unknown field?
+Are you a god? would you create me new?
+Transform me, then, and to your power I’ll yield.
+But if that I am I, then well I know
+Your weeping sister is no wife of mine,
+Nor to her bed no homage do I owe.
+Far more, far more, to you do I decline.
+O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note
+To drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.
+Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote;
+Spread o’er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
+And as a bed I’ll take thee, and there lie,
+And, in that glorious supposition think
+He gains by death that hath such means to die.
+Let love, being light, be drowned if she sink!
+
+LUCIANA.
+What, are you mad, that you do reason so?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know.
+
+LUCIANA.
+It is a fault that springeth from your eye.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being by.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+As good to wink, sweet love, as look on night.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Why call you me love? Call my sister so.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Thy sister’s sister.
+
+LUCIANA.
+That’s my sister.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+No,
+It is thyself, mine own self’s better part,
+Mine eye’s clear eye, my dear heart’s dearer heart,
+My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope’s aim,
+My sole earth’s heaven, and my heaven’s claim.
+
+LUCIANA.
+All this my sister is, or else should be.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Call thyself sister, sweet, for I aim thee;
+Thee will I love, and with thee lead my life;
+Thou hast no husband yet, nor I no wife.
+Give me thy hand.
+
+LUCIANA.
+O, soft, sir, hold you still;
+I’ll fetch my sister to get her goodwill.
+
+ [_Exit Luciana._]
+
+ Enter Dromio of Syracuse.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Why, how now, Dromio? where runn’st thou so fast?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your man? Am I myself?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Thou art Dromio, thou art my man, thou art thyself.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I am an ass, I am a woman’s man, and besides myself.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What woman’s man? and how besides thyself?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Marry, sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman, one that claims me,
+one that haunts me, one that will have me.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What claim lays she to thee?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Marry, sir, such claim as you would lay to your horse, and she would
+have me as a beast; not that I being a beast she would have me, but
+that she being a very beastly creature lays claim to me.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What is she?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may not speak of without
+he say “sir-reverence”. I have but lean luck in the match, and yet is
+she a wondrous fat marriage.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+How dost thou mean a “fat marriage”?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Marry, sir, she’s the kitchen wench, and all grease, and I know not
+what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by
+her own light. I warrant her rags and the tallow in them will burn a
+Poland winter. If she lives till doomsday, she’ll burn a week longer
+than the whole world.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What complexion is she of?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Swart like my shoe, but her face nothing like so clean kept. For why?
+she sweats, a man may go overshoes in the grime of it.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+That’s a fault that water will mend.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+No, sir, ’tis in grain; Noah’s flood could not do it.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What’s her name?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Nell, sir; but her name and three quarters, that’s an ell and three
+quarters, will not measure her from hip to hip.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Then she bears some breadth?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip. She is spherical,
+like a globe. I could find out countries in her.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+In what part of her body stands Ireland?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Marry, sir, in her buttocks; I found it out by the bogs.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Where Scotland?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I found it by the barrenness, hard in the palm of the hand.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Where France?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war against her hair.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Where England?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no whiteness in them.
+But I guess it stood in her chin, by the salt rheum that ran between
+France and it.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Where Spain?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Where America, the Indies?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+O, sir, upon her nose, all o’er-embellished with rubies, carbuncles,
+sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain, who
+sent whole armadoes of carracks to be ballast at her nose.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+O, sir, I did not look so low. To conclude: this drudge or diviner laid
+claim to me, called me Dromio, swore I was assured to her, told me what
+privy marks I had about me, as the mark of my shoulder, the mole in my
+neck, the great wart on my left arm, that I, amazed, ran from her as a
+witch. And, I think, if my breast had not been made of faith, and my
+heart of steel, she had transformed me to a curtal dog, and made me
+turn i’ the wheel.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Go, hie thee presently, post to the road;
+And if the wind blow any way from shore,
+I will not harbour in this town tonight.
+If any bark put forth, come to the mart,
+Where I will walk till thou return to me.
+If everyone knows us, and we know none,
+’Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+As from a bear a man would run for life,
+So fly I from her that would be my wife.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+There’s none but witches do inhabit here,
+And therefore ’tis high time that I were hence.
+She that doth call me husband, even my soul
+Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,
+Possess’d with such a gentle sovereign grace,
+Of such enchanting presence and discourse,
+Hath almost made me traitor to myself.
+But lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,
+I’ll stop mine ears against the mermaid’s song.
+
+ Enter Angelo with the chain.
+
+ANGELO.
+Master Antipholus.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Ay, that’s my name.
+
+ANGELO.
+I know it well, sir. Lo, here is the chain;
+I thought to have ta’en you at the Porpentine,
+The chain unfinish’d made me stay thus long.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What is your will that I shall do with this?
+
+ANGELO.
+What please yourself, sir; I have made it for you.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not.
+
+ANGELO.
+Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have.
+Go home with it, and please your wife withal,
+And soon at supper-time I’ll visit you,
+And then receive my money for the chain.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I pray you, sir, receive the money now,
+For fear you ne’er see chain nor money more.
+
+ANGELO.
+You are a merry man, sir; fare you well.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What I should think of this I cannot tell,
+But this I think, there’s no man is so vain
+That would refuse so fair an offer’d chain.
+I see a man here needs not live by shifts,
+When in the streets he meets such golden gifts.
+I’ll to the mart, and there for Dromio stay;
+If any ship put out, then straight away.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. The same
+
+ Enter Merchant, Angelo and an Officer.
+
+MERCHANT.
+You know since Pentecost the sum is due,
+And since I have not much importun’d you,
+Nor now I had not, but that I am bound
+To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage;
+Therefore make present satisfaction,
+Or I’ll attach you by this officer.
+
+ANGELO.
+Even just the sum that I do owe to you
+Is growing to me by Antipholus,
+And in the instant that I met with you
+He had of me a chain; at five o’clock
+I shall receive the money for the same.
+Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,
+I will discharge my bond, and thank you too.
+
+ Enter Antipholus of Ephesus and Dromio of Ephesus from the
+ Courtesan’s.
+
+OFFICER.
+That labour may you save. See where he comes.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+While I go to the goldsmith’s house, go thou
+And buy a rope’s end; that will I bestow
+Among my wife and her confederates
+For locking me out of my doors by day.
+But soft, I see the goldsmith; get thee gone;
+Buy thou a rope, and bring it home to me.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+I buy a thousand pound a year! I buy a rope!
+
+ [_Exit Dromio._]
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+A man is well holp up that trusts to you,
+I promised your presence and the chain,
+But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me.
+Belike you thought our love would last too long
+If it were chain’d together, and therefore came not.
+
+ANGELO.
+Saving your merry humour, here’s the note
+How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat,
+The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion,
+Which doth amount to three odd ducats more
+Than I stand debted to this gentleman.
+I pray you, see him presently discharg’d,
+For he is bound to sea, and stays but for it.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I am not furnished with the present money;
+Besides, I have some business in the town.
+Good signior, take the stranger to my house,
+And with you take the chain, and bid my wife
+Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof;
+Perchance I will be there as soon as you.
+
+ANGELO.
+Then you will bring the chain to her yourself.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+No, bear it with you, lest I come not time enough.
+
+ANGELO.
+Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+And if I have not, sir, I hope you have,
+Or else you may return without your money.
+
+ANGELO.
+Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain;
+Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman,
+And I, to blame, have held him here too long.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Good Lord, you use this dalliance to excuse
+Your breach of promise to the Porpentine.
+I should have chid you for not bringing it,
+But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.
+
+MERCHANT.
+The hour steals on; I pray you, sir, dispatch.
+
+ANGELO.
+You hear how he importunes me. The chain!
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Why, give it to my wife, and fetch your money.
+
+ANGELO.
+Come, come, you know I gave it you even now.
+Either send the chain or send by me some token.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Fie, now you run this humour out of breath.
+Come, where’s the chain? I pray you, let me see it.
+
+MERCHANT.
+My business cannot brook this dalliance.
+Good sir, say whe’er you’ll answer me or no;
+If not, I’ll leave him to the officer.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I answer you? What should I answer you?
+
+ANGELO.
+The money that you owe me for the chain.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I owe you none till I receive the chain.
+
+ANGELO.
+You know I gave it you half an hour since.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+You gave me none. You wrong me much to say so.
+
+ANGELO.
+You wrong me more, sir, in denying it.
+Consider how it stands upon my credit.
+
+MERCHANT.
+Well, officer, arrest him at my suit.
+
+OFFICER.
+I do, and charge you in the duke’s name to obey me.
+
+ANGELO.
+This touches me in reputation.
+Either consent to pay this sum for me,
+Or I attach you by this officer.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Consent to pay thee that I never had?
+Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou dar’st.
+
+ANGELO.
+Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer.
+I would not spare my brother in this case
+If he should scorn me so apparently.
+
+OFFICER.
+I do arrest you, sir. You hear the suit.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I do obey thee till I give thee bail.
+But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear
+As all the metal in your shop will answer.
+
+ANGELO.
+Sir, sir, I shall have law in Ephesus,
+To your notorious shame, I doubt it not.
+
+ Enter Dromio of Syracuse from the bay.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Master, there’s a bark of Epidamnum
+That stays but till her owner comes aboard,
+And then, sir, bears away. Our fraughtage, sir,
+I have convey’d aboard, and I have bought
+The oil, the balsamum, and aqua-vitae.
+The ship is in her trim; the merry wind
+Blows fair from land; they stay for nought at all
+But for their owner, master, and yourself.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+How now? a madman? Why, thou peevish sheep,
+What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope,
+And told thee to what purpose and what end.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+You sent me for a rope’s end as soon.
+You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I will debate this matter at more leisure,
+And teach your ears to list me with more heed.
+To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight:
+Give her this key, and tell her in the desk
+That’s cover’d o’er with Turkish tapestry
+There is a purse of ducats; let her send it.
+Tell her I am arrested in the street,
+And that shall bail me. Hie thee, slave; be gone.
+On, officer, to prison till it come.
+
+ [_Exeunt Merchant, Angelo, Officer and Antipholus of Ephesus._]
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+To Adriana, that is where we din’d,
+Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband.
+She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.
+Thither I must, although against my will,
+For servants must their masters’ minds fulfil.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The same
+
+ Enter Adriana and Luciana.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?
+Might’st thou perceive austerely in his eye
+That he did plead in earnest, yea or no?
+Look’d he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?
+What observation mad’st thou in this case
+Of his heart’s meteors tilting in his face?
+
+LUCIANA.
+First he denied you had in him no right.
+
+ADRIANA.
+He meant he did me none; the more my spite.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Then swore he that he was a stranger here.
+
+ADRIANA.
+And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Then pleaded I for you.
+
+ADRIANA.
+And what said he?
+
+LUCIANA.
+That love I begg’d for you he begg’d of me.
+
+ADRIANA.
+With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?
+
+LUCIANA.
+With words that in an honest suit might move.
+First he did praise my beauty, then my speech.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Did’st speak him fair?
+
+LUCIANA.
+Have patience, I beseech.
+
+ADRIANA.
+I cannot, nor I will not hold me still.
+My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
+He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,
+Ill-fac’d, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
+Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind,
+Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Who would be jealous then of such a one?
+No evil lost is wail’d when it is gone.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Ah, but I think him better than I say,
+And yet would herein others’ eyes were worse:
+Far from her nest the lapwing cries away;
+My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.
+
+ Enter Dromio of Syracuse.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Here, go; the desk, the purse, sweet now, make haste.
+
+LUCIANA.
+How hast thou lost thy breath?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+By running fast.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+No, he’s in Tartar limbo, worse than hell.
+A devil in an everlasting garment hath him,
+One whose hard heart is button’d up with steel;
+A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough;
+A wolf, nay worse, a fellow all in buff;
+A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands
+The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands;
+A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dryfoot well,
+One that, before the judgement, carries poor souls to hell.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Why, man, what is the matter?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I do not know the matter. He is ’rested on the case.
+
+ADRIANA.
+What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I know not at whose suit he is arrested, well;
+But he’s in a suit of buff which ’rested him, that can I tell.
+Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk?
+
+ADRIANA.
+Go fetch it, sister. This I wonder at,
+
+ [_Exit Luciana._]
+
+Thus he unknown to me should be in debt.
+Tell me, was he arrested on a band?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Not on a band, but on a stronger thing;
+A chain, a chain. Do you not hear it ring?
+
+ADRIANA.
+What, the chain?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+No, no, the bell, ’tis time that I were gone.
+It was two ere I left him, and now the clock strikes one.
+
+ADRIANA.
+The hours come back! That did I never hear.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant, ’a turns back for very fear.
+
+ADRIANA.
+As if time were in debt. How fondly dost thou reason!
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he’s worth to season.
+Nay, he’s a thief too. Have you not heard men say
+That time comes stealing on by night and day?
+If he be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way,
+Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?
+
+ Enter Luciana.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Go, Dromio, there’s the money, bear it straight,
+And bring thy master home immediately.
+Come, sister, I am press’d down with conceit;
+Conceit, my comfort and my injury.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same
+
+ Enter Antipholus of Syracuse.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
+As if I were their well-acquainted friend,
+And everyone doth call me by my name.
+Some tender money to me, some invite me;
+Some other give me thanks for kindnesses;
+Some offer me commodities to buy.
+Even now a tailor call’d me in his shop,
+And show’d me silks that he had bought for me,
+And therewithal took measure of my body.
+Sure, these are but imaginary wiles,
+And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here.
+
+ Enter Dromio of Syracuse.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Master, here’s the gold you sent me for.
+What, have you got the picture of old Adam new apparelled?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What gold is this? What Adam dost thou mean?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Not that Adam that kept the paradise, but that Adam that keeps the
+prison; he that goes in the calf’s skin that was killed for the
+Prodigal; he that came behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you
+forsake your liberty.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I understand thee not.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+No? Why, ’tis a plain case: he that went like a bass-viol in a case of
+leather; the man, sir, that, when gentlemen are tired, gives them a
+sob, and ’rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed men and gives
+them suits of durance; he that sets up his rest to do more exploits
+with his mace than a morris-pike.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+What! thou mean’st an officer?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band; he that brings any man to answer it
+that breaks his band; one that thinks a man always going to bed, and
+says, “God give you good rest.”
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Well, sir, there rest in your foolery. Is there any ship puts forth
+tonight? may we be gone?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the bark _Expedition_
+put forth tonight, and then were you hindered by the sergeant to tarry
+for the hoy _Delay_. Here are the angels that you sent for to deliver
+you.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+The fellow is distract, and so am I,
+And here we wander in illusions.
+Some blessed power deliver us from hence!
+
+ Enter a Courtesan.
+
+COURTESAN.
+Well met, well met, Master Antipholus.
+I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now.
+Is that the chain you promis’d me today?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Master, is this Mistress Satan?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+It is the devil.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Nay, she is worse, she is the devil’s dam; and here she comes in the
+habit of a light wench, and thereof comes that the wenches say “God
+damn me”, that’s as much to say, “God make me a light wench.” It is
+written they appear to men like angels of light. Light is an effect of
+fire, and fire will burn; ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near
+her.
+
+COURTESAN.
+Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir.
+Will you go with me? We’ll mend our dinner here.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Why, Dromio?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Avoid then, fiend! What tell’st thou me of supping?
+Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress.
+I conjure thee to leave me and be gone.
+
+COURTESAN.
+Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner,
+Or, for my diamond, the chain you promis’d,
+And I’ll be gone, sir, and not trouble you.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Some devils ask but the paring of one’s nail,
+A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,
+A nut, a cherry-stone; but she, more covetous,
+Would have a chain.
+Master, be wise; and if you give it her,
+The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it.
+
+COURTESAN.
+I pray you, sir, my ring, or else the chain;
+I hope you do not mean to cheat me so.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Avaunt, thou witch! Come, Dromio, let us go.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Fly pride, says the peacock. Mistress, that you know.
+
+ [_Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse._]
+
+COURTESAN.
+Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad,
+Else would he never so demean himself.
+A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,
+And for the same he promis’d me a chain;
+Both one and other he denies me now.
+The reason that I gather he is mad,
+Besides this present instance of his rage,
+Is a mad tale he told today at dinner
+Of his own doors being shut against his entrance.
+Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,
+On purpose shut the doors against his way.
+My way is now to hie home to his house,
+And tell his wife that, being lunatic,
+He rush’d into my house and took perforce
+My ring away. This course I fittest choose,
+For forty ducats is too much to lose.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same
+
+ Enter Antipholus of Ephesus with an Officer.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Fear me not, man, I will not break away:
+I’ll give thee ere I leave thee so much money,
+To warrant thee, as I am ’rested for.
+My wife is in a wayward mood today,
+And will not lightly trust the messenger
+That I should be attach’d in Ephesus;
+I tell you ’twill sound harshly in her ears.
+
+ Enter Dromio of Ephesus with a rope’s end.
+
+Here comes my man. I think he brings the money.
+How now, sir! have you that I sent you for?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Here’s that, I warrant you, will pay them all.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+But where’s the money?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Why, sir, I gave the money for the rope.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+I’ll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+To what end did I bid thee hie thee home?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+To a rope’s end, sir; and to that end am I return’d.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+And to that end, sir, I will welcome you.
+
+ [_Beating him._]
+
+OFFICER.
+Good sir, be patient.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Nay, ’tis for me to be patient. I am in adversity.
+
+OFFICER.
+Good now, hold thy tongue.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Thou whoreson, senseless villain.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+I would I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel your blows.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him
+from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his
+hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with
+beating; when I am warm he cools me with beating. I am waked with it
+when I sleep, raised with it when I sit, driven out of doors with it
+when I go from home, welcomed home with it when I return. Nay, I bear
+it on my shoulders as a beggar wont her brat; and I think when he hath
+lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door.
+
+ Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtesan and a Schoolmaster called Pinch.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Come, go along, my wife is coming yonder.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Mistress, _respice finem_, respect your end, or rather, the prophesy
+like the parrot, “Beware the rope’s end.”
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Wilt thou still talk?
+
+ [_Beats him._]
+
+COURTESAN.
+How say you now? Is not your husband mad?
+
+ADRIANA.
+His incivility confirms no less.
+Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer;
+Establish him in his true sense again,
+And I will please you what you will demand.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!
+
+COURTESAN.
+Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy.
+
+PINCH.
+Give me your hand, and let me feel your pulse.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+There is my hand, and let it feel your ear.
+
+PINCH.
+I charge thee, Satan, hous’d within this man,
+To yield possession to my holy prayers,
+And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight.
+I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Peace, doting wizard, peace; I am not mad.
+
+ADRIANA.
+O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul!
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+You minion, you, are these your customers?
+Did this companion with the saffron face
+Revel and feast it at my house today,
+Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut,
+And I denied to enter in my house?
+
+ADRIANA.
+O husband, God doth know you din’d at home,
+Where would you had remain’d until this time,
+Free from these slanders and this open shame.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Din’d at home? Thou villain, what sayest thou?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Were not my doors lock’d up and I shut out?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Perdy, your doors were lock’d, and you shut out.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+And did not she herself revile me there?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Sans fable, she herself revil’d you there.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Certes, she did, the kitchen-vestal scorn’d you.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+And did not I in rage depart from thence?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+In verity, you did; my bones bear witness,
+That since have felt the vigour of his rage.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Is’t good to soothe him in these contraries?
+
+PINCH.
+It is no shame; the fellow finds his vein,
+And yielding to him, humours well his frenzy.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Thou hast suborn’d the goldsmith to arrest me.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Alas! I sent you money to redeem you
+By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Money by me? Heart and goodwill you might,
+But surely, master, not a rag of money.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Went’st not thou to her for a purse of ducats?
+
+ADRIANA.
+He came to me, and I deliver’d it.
+
+LUCIANA.
+And I am witness with her that she did.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+God and the rope-maker bear me witness
+That I was sent for nothing but a rope.
+
+PINCH.
+Mistress, both man and master is possess’d,
+I know it by their pale and deadly looks.
+They must be bound and laid in some dark room.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth today,
+And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?
+
+ADRIANA.
+I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+And gentle master, I receiv’d no gold;
+But I confess, sir, that we were lock’d out.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Dissembling villain, thou speak’st false in both.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all,
+And art confederate with a damned pack
+To make a loathsome abject scorn of me.
+But with these nails I’ll pluck out these false eyes
+That would behold in me this shameful sport.
+
+ [_Enter three or four, and offer to bind him. He strives. _]
+
+ADRIANA.
+O, bind him, bind him; let him not come near me.
+
+PINCH.
+More company; the fiend is strong within him.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks!
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+What, will you murder me? Thou jailer, thou,
+I am thy prisoner. Wilt thou suffer them
+To make a rescue?
+
+OFFICER.
+Masters, let him go.
+He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.
+
+PINCH.
+Go, bind this man, for he is frantic too.
+
+ADRIANA.
+What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?
+Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
+Do outrage and displeasure to himself?
+
+OFFICER.
+He is my prisoner. If I let him go,
+The debt he owes will be requir’d of me.
+
+ADRIANA.
+I will discharge thee ere I go from thee;
+Bear me forthwith unto his creditor,
+And knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it.
+Good master doctor, see him safe convey’d
+Home to my house. O most unhappy day!
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+O most unhappy strumpet!
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Master, I am here enter’d in bond for you.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Will you be bound for nothing? Be mad, good master; cry, “the devil”.
+
+LUCIANA.
+God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!
+
+ADRIANA.
+Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me.
+
+ [_Exeunt Pinch and Assistants, with Antipholus of Ephesus and Dromio
+ of Ephesus._]
+
+Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?
+
+OFFICER.
+One Angelo, a goldsmith; do you know him?
+
+ADRIANA.
+I know the man. What is the sum he owes?
+
+OFFICER.
+Two hundred ducats.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Say, how grows it due?
+
+OFFICER.
+Due for a chain your husband had of him.
+
+ADRIANA.
+He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.
+
+COURTESAN.
+When as your husband, all in rage, today
+Came to my house and took away my ring,
+The ring I saw upon his finger now,
+Straight after did I meet him with a chain.
+
+ADRIANA.
+It may be so, but I did never see it.
+Come, jailer, bring me where the goldsmith is,
+I long to know the truth hereof at large.
+
+ Enter Antipholus of Syracuse with his rapier drawn, and Dromio of
+ Syracuse.
+
+LUCIANA.
+God, for thy mercy, they are loose again!
+
+ADRIANA.
+And come with naked swords. Let’s call more help
+To have them bound again.
+
+OFFICER.
+Away, they’ll kill us.
+
+ [_Exeunt, as fast as may be, frighted._]
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I see these witches are afraid of swords.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+She that would be your wife now ran from you.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Come to the Centaur, fetch our stuff from thence.
+I long that we were safe and sound aboard.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Faith, stay here this night, they will surely do us no harm; you saw
+they speak us fair, give us gold. Methinks they are such a gentle
+nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of
+me, I could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I will not stay tonight for all the town;
+Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. The same
+
+ Enter Merchant and Angelo.
+
+ANGELO.
+I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder’d you,
+But I protest he had the chain of me,
+Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.
+
+MERCHANT.
+How is the man esteem’d here in the city?
+
+ANGELO.
+Of very reverend reputation, sir,
+Of credit infinite, highly belov’d,
+Second to none that lives here in the city.
+His word might bear my wealth at any time.
+
+MERCHANT.
+Speak softly. Yonder, as I think, he walks.
+
+ Enter Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse.
+
+ANGELO.
+’Tis so; and that self chain about his neck
+Which he forswore most monstrously to have.
+Good sir, draw near to me, I’ll speak to him.
+Signior Antipholus, I wonder much
+That you would put me to this shame and trouble,
+And not without some scandal to yourself,
+With circumstance and oaths so to deny
+This chain, which now you wear so openly.
+Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,
+You have done wrong to this my honest friend,
+Who, but for staying on our controversy,
+Had hoisted sail and put to sea today.
+This chain you had of me, can you deny it?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I think I had: I never did deny it.
+
+MERCHANT.
+Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?
+
+MERCHANT.
+These ears of mine, thou know’st, did hear thee.
+Fie on thee, wretch. ’Tis pity that thou liv’st
+To walk where any honest men resort.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Thou art a villain to impeach me thus;
+I’ll prove mine honour and mine honesty
+Against thee presently, if thou dar’st stand.
+
+MERCHANT.
+I dare, and do defy thee for a villain.
+
+ [_They draw._]
+
+ Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtesan and others.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Hold, hurt him not, for God’s sake, he is mad.
+Some get within him, take his sword away.
+Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Run, master, run, for God’s sake, take a house.
+This is some priory; in, or we are spoil’d.
+
+ [_Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse to the
+ priory._]
+
+ Enter Lady Abbess.
+
+ABBESS.
+Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither?
+
+ADRIANA.
+To fetch my poor distracted husband hence.
+Let us come in, that we may bind him fast
+And bear him home for his recovery.
+
+ANGELO.
+I knew he was not in his perfect wits.
+
+MERCHANT.
+I am sorry now that I did draw on him.
+
+ABBESS.
+How long hath this possession held the man?
+
+ADRIANA.
+This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad,
+And much different from the man he was.
+But till this afternoon his passion
+Ne’er brake into extremity of rage.
+
+ABBESS.
+Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea?
+Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye
+Stray’d his affection in unlawful love?
+A sin prevailing much in youthful men
+Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing?
+Which of these sorrows is he subject to?
+
+ADRIANA.
+To none of these, except it be the last,
+Namely, some love that drew him oft from home.
+
+ABBESS.
+You should for that have reprehended him.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Why, so I did.
+
+ABBESS.
+Ay, but not rough enough.
+
+ADRIANA.
+As roughly as my modesty would let me.
+
+ABBESS.
+Haply in private.
+
+ADRIANA.
+And in assemblies too.
+
+ABBESS.
+Ay, but not enough.
+
+ADRIANA.
+It was the copy of our conference.
+In bed he slept not for my urging it;
+At board he fed not for my urging it;
+Alone, it was the subject of my theme;
+In company I often glanced it;
+Still did I tell him it was vile and bad.
+
+ABBESS.
+And thereof came it that the man was mad.
+The venom clamours of a jealous woman
+Poisons more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.
+It seems his sleeps were hindered by thy railing,
+And thereof comes it that his head is light.
+Thou say’st his meat was sauc’d with thy upbraidings.
+Unquiet meals make ill digestions;
+Thereof the raging fire of fever bred,
+And what’s a fever but a fit of madness?
+Thou say’st his sports were hinder’d by thy brawls.
+Sweet recreation barr’d, what doth ensue
+But moody and dull melancholy,
+Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,
+And at her heels a huge infectious troop
+Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
+In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest
+To be disturb’d would mad or man or beast.
+The consequence is, then, thy jealous fits
+Hath scar’d thy husband from the use of’s wits.
+
+LUCIANA.
+She never reprehended him but mildly,
+When he demean’d himself rough, rude, and wildly.
+Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?
+
+ADRIANA.
+She did betray me to my own reproof.
+Good people, enter and lay hold on him.
+
+ABBESS.
+No, not a creature enters in my house.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Then let your servants bring my husband forth.
+
+ABBESS.
+Neither. He took this place for sanctuary,
+And it shall privilege him from your hands
+Till I have brought him to his wits again,
+Or lose my labour in assaying it.
+
+ADRIANA.
+I will attend my husband, be his nurse,
+Diet his sickness, for it is my office,
+And will have no attorney but myself;
+And therefore let me have him home with me.
+
+ABBESS.
+Be patient, for I will not let him stir
+Till I have used the approved means I have,
+With wholesome syrups, drugs, and holy prayers,
+To make of him a formal man again.
+It is a branch and parcel of mine oath,
+A charitable duty of my order;
+Therefore depart, and leave him here with me.
+
+ADRIANA.
+I will not hence and leave my husband here;
+And ill it doth beseem your holiness
+To separate the husband and the wife.
+
+ABBESS.
+Be quiet and depart. Thou shalt not have him.
+
+ [_Exit Abbess._]
+
+LUCIANA.
+Complain unto the duke of this indignity.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Come, go. I will fall prostrate at his feet,
+And never rise until my tears and prayers
+Have won his grace to come in person hither
+And take perforce my husband from the abbess.
+
+MERCHANT.
+By this, I think, the dial points at five.
+Anon, I’m sure, the Duke himself in person
+Comes this way to the melancholy vale,
+The place of death and sorry execution
+Behind the ditches of the abbey here.
+
+ANGELO.
+Upon what cause?
+
+MERCHANT.
+To see a reverend Syracusian merchant,
+Who put unluckily into this bay
+Against the laws and statutes of this town,
+Beheaded publicly for his offence.
+
+ANGELO.
+See where they come. We will behold his death.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Kneel to the Duke before he pass the abbey.
+
+ Enter the Duke, attended; Egeon, bareheaded; with the Headsman and
+ other Officers.
+
+DUKE.
+Yet once again proclaim it publicly,
+If any friend will pay the sum for him,
+He shall not die; so much we tender him.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess!
+
+DUKE.
+She is a virtuous and a reverend lady,
+It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong.
+
+ADRIANA.
+May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband,
+Who I made lord of me and all I had
+At your important letters, this ill day
+A most outrageous fit of madness took him;
+That desp’rately he hurried through the street,
+With him his bondman all as mad as he,
+Doing displeasure to the citizens
+By rushing in their houses, bearing thence
+Rings, jewels, anything his rage did like.
+Once did I get him bound and sent him home,
+Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went,
+That here and there his fury had committed.
+Anon, I wot not by what strong escape,
+He broke from those that had the guard of him,
+And with his mad attendant and himself,
+Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,
+Met us again, and, madly bent on us,
+Chased us away; till raising of more aid,
+We came again to bind them. Then they fled
+Into this abbey, whither we pursued them.
+And here the abbess shuts the gates on us,
+And will not suffer us to fetch him out,
+Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.
+Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command
+Let him be brought forth and borne hence for help.
+
+DUKE.
+Long since thy husband serv’d me in my wars,
+And I to thee engag’d a prince’s word,
+When thou didst make him master of thy bed,
+To do him all the grace and good I could.
+Go, some of you, knock at the abbey gate,
+And bid the lady abbess come to me.
+I will determine this before I stir.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself.
+My master and his man are both broke loose,
+Beaten the maids a-row, and bound the doctor,
+Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire,
+And ever as it blazed they threw on him
+Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair.
+My master preaches patience to him, and the while
+His man with scissors nicks him like a fool;
+And sure (unless you send some present help)
+Between them they will kill the conjurer.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Peace, fool, thy master and his man are here,
+And that is false thou dost report to us.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true.
+I have not breath’d almost since I did see it.
+He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you,
+To scorch your face and to disfigure you.
+
+ [_Cry within._]
+
+Hark, hark, I hear him, mistress. Fly, be gone!
+
+DUKE.
+Come, stand by me, fear nothing. Guard with halberds.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Ay me, it is my husband. Witness you
+That he is borne about invisible.
+Even now we hous’d him in the abbey here,
+And now he’s there, past thought of human reason.
+
+ Enter Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Justice, most gracious duke; O, grant me justice!
+Even for the service that long since I did thee
+When I bestrid thee in the wars, and took
+Deep scars to save thy life; even for the blood
+That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice.
+
+EGEON.
+Unless the fear of death doth make me dote,
+I see my son Antipholus and Dromio.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Justice, sweet prince, against that woman there.
+She whom thou gav’st to me to be my wife;
+That hath abused and dishonour’d me
+Even in the strength and height of injury.
+Beyond imagination is the wrong
+That she this day hath shameless thrown on me.
+
+DUKE.
+Discover how, and thou shalt find me just.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me
+While she with harlots feasted in my house.
+
+DUKE.
+A grievous fault. Say, woman, didst thou so?
+
+ADRIANA.
+No, my good lord. Myself, he, and my sister
+Today did dine together. So befall my soul
+As this is false he burdens me withal.
+
+LUCIANA.
+Ne’er may I look on day nor sleep on night
+But she tells to your highness simple truth.
+
+ANGELO.
+O perjur’d woman! They are both forsworn.
+In this the madman justly chargeth them.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+My liege, I am advised what I say,
+Neither disturb’d with the effect of wine,
+Nor heady-rash, provok’d with raging ire,
+Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.
+This woman lock’d me out this day from dinner.
+That goldsmith there, were he not pack’d with her,
+Could witness it, for he was with me then,
+Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,
+Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,
+Where Balthasar and I did dine together.
+Our dinner done, and he not coming thither,
+I went to seek him. In the street I met him,
+And in his company that gentleman.
+There did this perjur’d goldsmith swear me down
+That I this day of him receiv’d the chain,
+Which, God he knows, I saw not. For the which
+He did arrest me with an officer.
+I did obey, and sent my peasant home
+For certain ducats. He with none return’d.
+Then fairly I bespoke the officer
+To go in person with me to my house.
+By th’ way we met
+My wife, her sister, and a rabble more
+Of vile confederates. Along with them
+They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
+A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
+A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller;
+A needy, hollow-ey’d, sharp-looking wretch;
+A living dead man. This pernicious slave,
+Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer,
+And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,
+And with no face (as ’twere) outfacing me,
+Cries out, I was possess’d. Then altogether
+They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence,
+And in a dark and dankish vault at home
+There left me and my man, both bound together,
+Till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,
+I gain’d my freedom and immediately
+Ran hither to your Grace, whom I beseech
+To give me ample satisfaction
+For these deep shames and great indignities.
+
+ANGELO.
+My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him,
+That he din’d not at home, but was lock’d out.
+
+DUKE.
+But had he such a chain of thee, or no?
+
+ANGELO.
+He had, my lord, and when he ran in here
+These people saw the chain about his neck.
+
+MERCHANT.
+Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine
+Heard you confess you had the chain of him,
+After you first forswore it on the mart,
+And thereupon I drew my sword on you;
+And then you fled into this abbey here,
+From whence I think you are come by miracle.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I never came within these abbey walls,
+Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me.
+I never saw the chain, so help me heaven;
+And this is false you burden me withal.
+
+DUKE.
+Why, what an intricate impeach is this!
+I think you all have drunk of Circe’s cup.
+If here you hous’d him, here he would have been.
+If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly.
+You say he din’d at home, the goldsmith here
+Denies that saying. Sirrah, what say you?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porpentine.
+
+COURTESAN.
+He did, and from my finger snatch’d that ring.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+’Tis true, my liege, this ring I had of her.
+
+DUKE.
+Saw’st thou him enter at the abbey here?
+
+COURTESAN.
+As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace.
+
+DUKE.
+Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither.
+I think you are all mated, or stark mad.
+
+ [_Exit one to the Abbess._]
+
+EGEON.
+Most mighty Duke, vouchsafe me speak a word;
+Haply I see a friend will save my life
+And pay the sum that may deliver me.
+
+DUKE.
+Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt.
+
+EGEON.
+Is not your name, sir, call’d Antipholus?
+And is not that your bondman Dromio?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Within this hour I was his bondman, sir,
+But he, I thank him, gnaw’d in two my cords.
+Now am I Dromio, and his man, unbound.
+
+EGEON.
+I am sure you both of you remember me.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you.
+For lately we were bound as you are now.
+You are not Pinch’s patient, are you, sir?
+
+EGEON.
+Why look you strange on me? you know me well.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I never saw you in my life till now.
+
+EGEON.
+O! grief hath chang’d me since you saw me last,
+And careful hours with time’s deformed hand,
+Have written strange defeatures in my face.
+But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Neither.
+
+EGEON.
+Dromio, nor thou?
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+No, trust me, sir, nor I.
+
+EGEON.
+I am sure thou dost.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Ay, sir, but I am sure I do not, and whatsoever a man denies, you are
+now bound to believe him.
+
+EGEON.
+Not know my voice! O time’s extremity,
+Hast thou so crack’d and splitted my poor tongue
+In seven short years that here my only son
+Knows not my feeble key of untun’d cares?
+Though now this grained face of mine be hid
+In sap-consuming winter’s drizzled snow,
+And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
+Yet hath my night of life some memory,
+My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
+My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.
+All these old witnesses, I cannot err,
+Tell me thou art my son Antipholus.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I never saw my father in my life.
+
+EGEON.
+But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy,
+Thou know’st we parted; but perhaps, my son,
+Thou sham’st to acknowledge me in misery.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+The duke and all that know me in the city,
+Can witness with me that it is not so.
+I ne’er saw Syracusa in my life.
+
+DUKE.
+I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years
+Have I been patron to Antipholus,
+During which time he ne’er saw Syracusa.
+I see thy age and dangers make thee dote.
+
+ Enter the Abbess with Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse.
+
+ABBESS.
+Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong’d.
+
+ [_All gather to see them._]
+
+ADRIANA.
+I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.
+
+DUKE.
+One of these men is _genius_ to the other;
+And so of these, which is the natural man,
+And which the spirit? Who deciphers them?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+I, sir, am Dromio, command him away.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+I, sir, am Dromio, pray let me stay.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+Egeon, art thou not? or else his ghost?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+O, my old master, who hath bound him here?
+
+ABBESS.
+Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds,
+And gain a husband by his liberty.
+Speak, old Egeon, if thou be’st the man
+That hadst a wife once called Emilia,
+That bore thee at a burden two fair sons.
+O, if thou be’st the same Egeon, speak,
+And speak unto the same Emilia!
+
+DUKE.
+Why, here begins his morning story right:
+These two Antipholus’, these two so like,
+And these two Dromios, one in semblance,
+Besides her urging of her wreck at sea.
+These are the parents to these children,
+Which accidentally are met together.
+
+EGEON.
+If I dream not, thou art Emilia.
+If thou art she, tell me where is that son
+That floated with thee on the fatal raft?
+
+ABBESS.
+By men of Epidamnum, he and I
+And the twin Dromio, all were taken up;
+But, by and by, rude fishermen of Corinth
+By force took Dromio and my son from them,
+And me they left with those of Epidamnum.
+What then became of them I cannot tell;
+I to this fortune that you see me in.
+
+DUKE.
+Antipholus, thou cam’st from Corinth first?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+No, sir, not I, I came from Syracuse.
+
+DUKE.
+Stay, stand apart, I know not which is which.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+And I with him.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Brought to this town by that most famous warrior,
+Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.
+
+ADRIANA.
+Which of you two did dine with me today?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I, gentle mistress.
+
+ADRIANA.
+And are not you my husband?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+No, I say nay to that.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+And so do I, yet did she call me so;
+And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,
+Did call me brother. What I told you then,
+I hope I shall have leisure to make good,
+If this be not a dream I see and hear.
+
+ANGELO.
+That is the chain, sir, which you had of me.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+I think it be, sir. I deny it not.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+And you, sir, for this chain arrested me.
+
+ANGELO.
+I think I did, sir. I deny it not.
+
+ADRIANA.
+I sent you money, sir, to be your bail
+By Dromio, but I think he brought it not.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+No, none by me.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+This purse of ducats I receiv’d from you,
+And Dromio my man did bring them me.
+I see we still did meet each other’s man,
+And I was ta’en for him, and he for me,
+And thereupon these errors are arose.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+These ducats pawn I for my father here.
+
+DUKE.
+It shall not need, thy father hath his life.
+
+COURTESAN.
+Sir, I must have that diamond from you.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+There, take it, and much thanks for my good cheer.
+
+ABBESS.
+Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains
+To go with us into the abbey here,
+And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes;
+And all that are assembled in this place,
+That by this sympathised one day’s error
+Have suffer’d wrong, go, keep us company,
+And we shall make full satisfaction.
+Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail
+Of you, my sons, and till this present hour
+My heavy burden ne’er delivered.
+The duke, my husband, and my children both,
+And you, the calendars of their nativity,
+Go to a gossips’ feast, and go with me.
+After so long grief, such nativity.
+
+DUKE.
+With all my heart, I’ll gossip at this feast.
+
+ [_Exeunt except the two Dromios and two Brothers._]
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard?
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS.
+Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark’d?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur.
+
+ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
+He speaks to me; I am your master, Dromio.
+Come, go with us. We’ll look to that anon.
+Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him.
+
+ [_Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus._]
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+There is a fat friend at your master’s house,
+That kitchen’d me for you today at dinner.
+She now shall be my sister, not my wife.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother.
+I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
+Will you walk in to see their gossiping?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+Not I, sir, you are my elder.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+That’s a question, how shall we try it?
+
+DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
+We’ll draw cuts for the senior. Till then, lead thou first.
+
+DROMIO OF EPHESUS.
+Nay, then, thus:
+We came into the world like brother and brother,
+And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Rome. A street
+ Scene II. Corioles. The Senate House
+ Scene III. Rome. An apartment in Martius’ house
+ Scene IV. Before Corioles
+ Scene V. Within Corioles. A street
+ Scene VI. Near the camp of Cominius
+ Scene VII. The gates of Corioles
+ Scene VIII. A field of battle between the Roman and the Volscian camps
+ Scene IX. The Roman camp
+ Scene X. The camp of the Volsces
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. Rome. A public place
+ Scene II. Rome. The Capitol
+ Scene III. Rome. The Forum
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. Rome. A street
+ Scene II. Rome. A room in Coriolanus’s house
+ Scene III. Rome. The Forum
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. Rome. Before a gate of the city
+ Scene II. Rome. A street near the gate
+ Scene III. A highway between Rome and Antium
+ Scene IV. Antium. Before Aufidius’s house
+ Scene V. Antium. A hall in Aufidius’s house
+ Scene VI. Rome. A public place
+ Scene VII. A camp at a short distance from Rome
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Rome. A public place
+ Scene II. An Advanced post of the Volscian camp before Rome.
+ Scene III. The tent of Coriolanus
+ Scene IV. Rome. A public place
+ Scene V. Rome. A street near the gate
+ Scene VI. Antium. A public place
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+CAIUS MARTIUS CORIOLANUS, a noble Roman
+VOLUMNIA, his mother
+VIRGILIA, his wife
+YOUNG MARTIUS, their son
+VALERIA, friend to Volumnia and Virgilia
+A GENTLEWOMAN, Volumnia’s attendant
+
+MENENIUS AGRIPPA, Friend to Coriolanus
+COMINIUS, General against the Volscians
+TITUS LARTIUS, General against the Volscians
+SICINIUS VELUTUS, Tribune of the People
+JUNIUS BRUTUS, Tribune of the People
+A ROMAN HERALD
+
+TULLUS AUFIDIUS, General of the Volscians
+LIEUTENANT, to Aufidius
+Conspirators with Aufidius
+A CITIZEN of Antium
+TWO VOLSCIAN GUARDS
+
+Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Aediles, Lictors, Soldiers,
+Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants
+
+SCENE: Partly in Rome, and partly in the territories of the Volscians
+and Antiates.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Rome. A street
+
+
+Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other
+weapons.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.
+
+ALL.
+Speak, speak!
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?
+
+ALL.
+Resolved, resolved!
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+First, you know Caius Martius is chief enemy to the people.
+
+ALL.
+We know’t, we know’t!
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Let us kill him, and we’ll have corn at our own price. Is’t a verdict?
+
+ALL.
+No more talking on’t; let it be done. Away, away!
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+One word, good citizens.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good. What authority
+surfeits on would relieve us. If they would yield us but the
+superfluity while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us
+humanely. But they think we are too dear. The leanness that afflicts
+us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularize their
+abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge this with
+our pikes ere we become rakes; for the gods know I speak this in hunger
+for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Would you proceed especially against Caius Martius?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Against him first. He’s a very dog to the commonalty.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Consider you what services he has done for his country?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Very well, and could be content to give him good report for’t, but that
+he pays himself with being proud.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Nay, but speak not maliciously.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+I say unto you, what he hath done famously he did it to that end.
+Though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his
+country, he did it to please his mother and to be partly proud, which
+he is, even to the altitude of his virtue.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+What he cannot help in his nature you account a vice in him. You must
+in no way say he is covetous.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations. He hath faults,
+with surplus, to tire in repetition. [_Shouts within_.] What shouts are
+these? The other side o’ th’ city is risen. Why stay we prating here?
+To th’ Capitol!
+
+ALL.
+Come, come!
+
+Enter Menenius Agrippa.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Soft, who comes here?
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Worthy Menenius Agrippa, one that hath always loved the people.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+He’s one honest enough. Would all the rest were so!
+
+MENENIUS.
+What work’s, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you
+With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Our business is not unknown to th’ Senate. They have had inkling this
+fortnight what we intend to do, which now we’ll show ’em in deeds. They
+say poor suitors have strong breaths; they shall know we have strong
+arms too.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours,
+Will you undo yourselves?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+We cannot, sir; we are undone already.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I tell you, friends, most charitable care
+Have the patricians of you. For your wants,
+Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well
+Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them
+Against the Roman state, whose course will on
+The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs
+Of more strong link asunder than can ever
+Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,
+The gods, not the patricians, make it, and
+Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,
+You are transported by calamity
+Thither where more attends you, and you slander
+The helms o’ th’ state, who care for you like fathers,
+When you curse them as enemies.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Care for us? True, indeed! They ne’er cared for us yet. Suffer us to
+famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury
+to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against
+the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and
+restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there’s
+all the love they bear us.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Either you must confess yourselves wondrous malicious
+Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you
+A pretty tale. It may be you have heard it,
+But since it serves my purpose, I will venture
+To stale’t a little more.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Well, I’ll hear it, sir; yet you must not think to fob off our disgrace
+with a tale. But, an’t please you, deliver.
+
+MENENIUS.
+There was a time when all the body’s members
+Rebelled against the belly, thus accused it:
+That only like a gulf it did remain
+I’ th’ midst o’ th’ body, idle and unactive,
+Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing
+Like labour with the rest, where th’ other instruments
+Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,
+And, mutually participate, did minister
+Unto the appetite and affection common
+Of the whole body. The belly answered—
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Well, sir, what answer made the belly?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile,
+Which ne’er came from the lungs, but even thus—
+For, look you, I may make the belly smile
+As well as speak—it tauntingly replied
+To th’ discontented members, the mutinous parts
+That envied his receipt; even so most fitly
+As you malign our senators for that
+They are not such as you.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Your belly’s answer—what?
+The kingly crowned head, the vigilant eye,
+The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier,
+Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter,
+With other muniments and petty helps
+Is this our fabric, if that they—
+
+MENENIUS.
+What then?
+’Fore me, this fellow speaks. What then? What then?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Should by the cormorant belly be restrained,
+Who is the sink o’ th’ body—
+
+MENENIUS.
+Well, what then?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+The former agents, if they did complain,
+What could the belly answer?
+
+MENENIUS.
+I will tell you,
+If you’ll bestow a small—of what you have little—
+Patience awhile, you’st hear the belly’s answer.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+You are long about it.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Note me this, good friend;
+Your most grave belly was deliberate,
+Not rash like his accusers, and thus answered:
+“True is it, my incorporate friends,” quoth he,
+“That I receive the general food at first
+Which you do live upon; and fit it is,
+Because I am the storehouse and the shop
+Of the whole body. But, if you do remember,
+I send it through the rivers of your blood
+Even to the court, the heart, to th’ seat o’ th’ brain;
+And, through the cranks and offices of man,
+The strongest nerves and small inferior veins
+From me receive that natural competency
+Whereby they live. And though that all at once,
+You, my good friends”—this says the belly, mark me—
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Ay, sir, well, well.
+
+MENENIUS.
+“Though all at once cannot
+See what I do deliver out to each,
+Yet I can make my audit up, that all
+From me do back receive the flour of all,
+And leave me but the bran.” What say you to’t?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+It was an answer. How apply you this?
+
+MENENIUS.
+The senators of Rome are this good belly,
+And you the mutinous members. For examine
+Their counsels and their cares, digest things rightly
+Touching the weal o’ th’ common, you shall find
+No public benefit which you receive
+But it proceeds or comes from them to you
+And no way from yourselves. What do you think,
+You, the great toe of this assembly?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+I the great toe? Why the great toe?
+
+MENENIUS.
+For that, being one o’ th’ lowest, basest, poorest,
+Of this most wise rebellion, thou goest foremost.
+Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,
+Lead’st first to win some vantage.
+But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs.
+Rome and her rats are at the point of battle;
+The one side must have bale.
+
+Enter Caius Martius.
+
+Hail, noble Martius.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Thanks.—What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
+That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
+Make yourselves scabs?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+We have ever your good word.
+
+MARTIUS.
+He that will give good words to thee will flatter
+Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,
+That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you;
+The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,
+Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;
+Where foxes, geese. You are no surer, no,
+Than is the coal of fire upon the ice
+Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is
+To make him worthy whose offence subdues him,
+And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness
+Deserves your hate; and your affections are
+A sick man’s appetite, who desires most that
+Which would increase his evil. He that depends
+Upon your favours swims with fins of lead,
+And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust ye?
+With every minute you do change a mind
+And call him noble that was now your hate,
+Him vile that was your garland. What’s the matter,
+That in these several places of the city
+You cry against the noble senate, who,
+Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else
+Would feed on one another?—What’s their seeking?
+
+MENENIUS.
+For corn at their own rates, whereof they say
+The city is well stored.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Hang ’em! They say?
+They’ll sit by th’ fire and presume to know
+What’s done i’ th’ Capitol, who’s like to rise,
+Who thrives and who declines; side factions and give out
+Conjectural marriages, making parties strong
+And feebling such as stand not in their liking
+Below their cobbled shoes. They say there’s grain enough?
+Would the nobility lay aside their ruth
+And let me use my sword, I’d make a quarry
+With thousands of these quartered slaves as high
+As I could pick my lance.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded;
+For though abundantly they lack discretion,
+Yet are they passing cowardly. But I beseech you,
+What says the other troop?
+
+MARTIUS.
+They are dissolved. Hang ’em!
+They said they were an-hungry, sighed forth proverbs
+That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
+That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
+Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds
+They vented their complainings, which being answered
+And a petition granted them—a strange one,
+To break the heart of generosity
+And make bold power look pale—they threw their caps
+As they would hang them on the horns o’ th’ moon,
+Shouting their emulation.
+
+MENENIUS.
+What is granted them?
+
+MARTIUS.
+Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,
+Of their own choice. One’s Junius Brutus,
+Sicinius Velutus, and I know not. ’Sdeath!
+The rabble should have first unroofed the city
+Ere so prevailed with me. It will in time
+Win upon power and throw forth greater themes
+For insurrection’s arguing.
+
+MENENIUS.
+This is strange.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Go get you home, you fragments.
+
+Enter a Messenger hastily.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Where’s Caius Martius?
+
+MARTIUS.
+Here. What’s the matter?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.
+
+MARTIUS.
+I am glad on’t. Then we shall ha’ means to vent
+Our musty superfluity.
+
+Enter Sicinius Velutus, Junius Brutus, two Tribunes; Cominius, Titus
+Lartius with other Senators.
+
+See, our best elders.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Martius, ’tis true that you have lately told us:
+The Volsces are in arms.
+
+MARTIUS.
+They have a leader,
+Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to’t.
+I sin in envying his nobility,
+And, were I anything but what I am,
+I would wish me only he.
+
+COMINIUS.
+You have fought together.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Were half to half the world by th’ ears and he
+Upon my party, I’d revolt, to make
+Only my wars with him. He is a lion
+That I am proud to hunt.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Then, worthy Martius,
+Attend upon Cominius to these wars.
+
+COMINIUS.
+It is your former promise.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Sir, it is,
+And I am constant.—Titus Lartius, thou
+Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus’ face.
+What, art thou stiff? Stand’st out?
+
+TITUS LARTIUS.
+No, Caius Martius,
+I’ll lean upon one crutch and fight with th’ other
+Ere stay behind this business.
+
+MENENIUS.
+O, true bred!
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Your company to th’ Capitol, where I know
+Our greatest friends attend us.
+
+TITUS LARTIUS.
+Lead you on.
+Follow Cominius. We must follow you;
+Right worthy your priority.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Noble Martius.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+[_To the Citizens_.]
+Hence to your homes, begone.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Nay, let them follow.
+The Volsces have much corn; take these rats thither
+To gnaw their garners. Worshipful mutineers,
+Your valour puts well forth. Pray follow.
+
+[_Exeunt. Sicinius and Brutus remain_.]
+
+SICINIUS.
+Was ever man so proud as is this Martius?
+
+BRUTUS.
+He has no equal.
+
+SICINIUS.
+When we were chosen tribunes for the people—
+
+BRUTUS.
+Marked you his lip and eyes?
+
+SICINIUS.
+Nay, but his taunts.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Bemock the modest moon.
+
+BRUTUS.
+The present wars devour him! He is grown
+Too proud to be so valiant.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Such a nature,
+Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
+Which he treads on at noon. But I do wonder
+His insolence can brook to be commanded
+Under Cominius.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Fame, at the which he aims,
+In whom already he’s well graced, cannot
+Better be held nor more attained than by
+A place below the first; for what miscarries
+Shall be the General’s fault, though he perform
+To th’ utmost of a man, and giddy censure
+Will then cry out of Martius “O, if he
+Had borne the business!”
+
+SICINIUS.
+Besides, if things go well,
+Opinion that so sticks on Martius shall
+Of his demerits rob Cominius.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Come.
+Half all Cominius’ honours are to Martius,
+Though Martius earned them not, and all his faults
+To Martius shall be honours, though indeed
+In aught he merit not.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Let’s hence and hear
+How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,
+More than in singularity, he goes
+Upon this present action.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Let’s along.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Corioles. The Senate House
+
+Enter Tullus Aufidius with Senators of Corioles.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+So, your opinion is, Aufidius,
+That they of Rome are entered in our counsels
+And know how we proceed.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Is it not yours?
+What ever have been thought on in this state
+That could be brought to bodily act ere Rome
+Had circumvention? ’Tis not four days gone
+Since I heard thence. These are the words—I think
+I have the letter here. Yes, here it is.
+[_Reads_.] _They have pressed a power, but it is not known
+Whether for east or west. The dearth is great.
+The people mutinous; and, it is rumoured,
+Cominius, Martius your old enemy,
+Who is of Rome worse hated than of you,—
+And Titus Lartius, a most valiant Roman,
+These three lead on this preparation
+Whither ’tis bent. Most likely ’tis for you.
+Consider of it._
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Our army’s in the field.
+We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready
+To answer us.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Nor did you think it folly
+To keep your great pretences veiled till when
+They needs must show themselves, which, in the hatching,
+It seemed, appeared to Rome. By the discovery
+We shall be shortened in our aim, which was
+To take in many towns ere almost Rome
+Should know we were afoot.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Noble Aufidius,
+Take your commission; hie you to your bands.
+Let us alone to guard Corioles.
+If they set down before’s, for the remove
+Bring up your army. But I think you’ll find
+They’ve not prepared for us.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+O, doubt not that;
+I speak from certainties. Nay, more,
+Some parcels of their power are forth already,
+And only hitherward. I leave your Honours.
+If we and Caius Martius chance to meet,
+’Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike
+Till one can do no more.
+
+ALL.
+The gods assist you!
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+And keep your Honours safe!
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Farewell.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Farewell.
+
+ALL.
+Farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Rome. An apartment in Martius’ house
+
+Enter Volumnia and Virgilia, mother and wife to Martius. They set them
+down on two low stools and sew.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+I pray you, daughter, sing, or express yourself in a more comfortable
+sort. If my son were my husband, I should freelier rejoice in that
+absence wherein he won honour than in the embracements of his bed where
+he would show most love. When yet he was but tender-bodied and the only
+son of my womb, when youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way,
+when for a day of kings’ entreaties a mother should not sell him an
+hour from her beholding, I, considering how honour would become such a
+person—that it was no better than picture-like to hang by th’ wall, if
+renown made it not stir—was pleased to let him seek danger where he was
+like to find fame. To a cruel war I sent him, from whence he returned,
+his brows bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not more in
+joy at first hearing he was a man-child than now in first seeing he had
+proved himself a man.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+But had he died in the business, madam, how then?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Then his good report should have been my son; I therein would have
+found issue. Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my
+love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Martius, I had
+rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously
+surfeit out of action.
+
+Enter a Gentlewoman.
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit you.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Indeed you shall not.
+Methinks I hear hither your husband’s drum,
+See him pluck Aufidius down by th’ hair;
+As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him.
+Methinks I see him stamp thus and call thus:
+“Come on, you cowards! You were got in fear,
+Though you were born in Rome.” His bloody brow
+With his mailed hand then wiping, forth he goes
+Like to a harvestman that’s tasked to mow
+Or all or lose his hire.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+His bloody brow? O Jupiter, no blood!
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Away, you fool! It more becomes a man
+Than gilt his trophy. The breasts of Hecuba,
+When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier
+Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood
+At Grecian sword, contemning.—Tell Valeria
+We are fit to bid her welcome.
+
+[_Exit Gentlewoman._]
+
+VIRGILIA.
+Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius!
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+He’ll beat Aufidius’ head below his knee
+And tread upon his neck.
+
+Enter Valeria with an Usher and a Gentlewoman.
+
+VALERIA.
+My ladies both, good day to you.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Sweet madam.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+I am glad to see your Ladyship.
+
+VALERIA.
+How do you both? You are manifest housekeepers. What are you sewing
+here? A fine spot, in good faith. How does your little son?
+
+VIRGILIA.
+I thank your Ladyship; well, good madam.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+He had rather see the swords and hear a drum than look upon his
+schoolmaster.
+
+VALERIA.
+O’ my word, the father’s son! I’ll swear ’tis a very pretty boy. O’ my
+troth, I looked upon him o’ Wednesday half an hour together. H’as such
+a confirmed countenance. I saw him run after a gilded butterfly, and
+when he caught it, he let it go again, and after it again, and over and
+over he comes, and up again, catched it again. Or whether his fall
+enraged him or how ’twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it. O, I
+warrant how he mammocked it!
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+One on’s father’s moods.
+
+VALERIA.
+Indeed, la, ’tis a noble child.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+A crack, madam.
+
+VALERIA.
+Come, lay aside your stitchery. I must have you play the idle huswife
+with me this afternoon.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+No, good madam, I will not out of doors.
+
+VALERIA.
+Not out of doors?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+She shall, she shall.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+Indeed, no, by your patience. I’ll not over the threshold till my lord
+return from the wars.
+
+VALERIA.
+Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably. Come, you must go visit
+the good lady that lies in.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+I will wish her speedy strength and visit her with my prayers, but I
+cannot go thither.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Why, I pray you?
+
+VIRGILIA.
+’Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love.
+
+VALERIA.
+You would be another Penelope. Yet they say all the yarn she spun in
+Ulysses’ absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Come, I would your
+cambric were sensible as your finger, that you might leave pricking it
+for pity. Come, you shall go with us.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+No, good madam, pardon me; indeed, I will not forth.
+
+VALERIA.
+In truth, la, go with me, and I’ll tell you excellent news of your
+husband.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+O, good madam, there can be none yet.
+
+VALERIA.
+Verily, I do not jest with you. There came news from him last night.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+Indeed, madam!
+
+VALERIA.
+In earnest, it’s true. I heard a senator speak it. Thus it is: the
+Volsces have an army forth, against whom Cominius the General is gone
+with one part of our Roman power. Your lord and Titus Lartius are set
+down before their city Corioles. They nothing doubt prevailing, and to
+make it brief wars. This is true, on mine honour, and so, I pray, go
+with us.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+Give me excuse, good madam. I will obey you in everything hereafter.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Let her alone, lady. As she is now, she will but disease our better
+mirth.
+
+VALERIA.
+In troth, I think she would.—Fare you well, then.—Come, good sweet
+lady.—Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out o’ door, and go along
+with us.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+No, at a word, madam. Indeed I must not. I wish you much mirth.
+
+VALERIA.
+Well then, farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Before Corioles
+
+Enter Martius, Titus Lartius, with drum and colours, with Captains and
+Soldiers, as before the city of Corioles. To them a Messenger.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Yonder comes news. A wager they have met.
+
+LARTIUS.
+My horse to yours, no.
+
+MARTIUS.
+’Tis done.
+
+LARTIUS.
+Agreed.
+
+MARTIUS.
+[_To Messenger_.] Say, has our general met the enemy?
+
+MESSENGER.
+They lie in view but have not spoke as yet.
+
+LARTIUS.
+So the good horse is mine.
+
+MARTIUS.
+I’ll buy him of you.
+
+LARTIUS.
+No, I’ll nor sell nor give him. Lend you him I will
+For half a hundred years.—Summon the town.
+
+MARTIUS.
+How far off lie these armies?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Within this mile and half.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Then shall we hear their ’larum, and they ours.
+Now, Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work,
+That we with smoking swords may march from hence
+To help our fielded friends!—Come, blow thy blast.
+
+[_They sound a parley._]
+
+Enter two Senators with others on the walls of Corioles.
+
+Tullus Aufidius, is he within your walls?
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+No, nor a man that fears you less than he:
+That’s lesser than a little.
+[_Drum afar off_.]
+Hark, our drums
+Are bringing forth our youth. We’ll break our walls
+Rather than they shall pound us up. Our gates,
+Which yet seem shut, we have but pinned with rushes.
+They’ll open of themselves.
+[_Alarum far off_.]
+Hark you, far off!
+There is Aufidius. List what work he makes
+Amongst your cloven army.
+
+MARTIUS.
+O, they are at it!
+
+LARTIUS.
+Their noise be our instruction.—Ladders, ho!
+
+Enter the Army of the Volsces as through the city gates.
+
+MARTIUS.
+They fear us not but issue forth their city.—
+Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight
+With hearts more proof than shields.—Advance, brave Titus.
+They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts,
+Which makes me sweat with wrath.—Come on, my fellows!
+He that retires, I’ll take him for a Volsce,
+And he shall feel mine edge.
+
+[_Alarums. The Romans are beat back to their trenches. They exit, with
+the Volsces following_.]
+
+Enter Martius cursing, with Roman soldiers.
+
+MARTIUS.
+All the contagion of the south light on you,
+You shames of Rome! You herd of—Boils and plagues
+Plaster you o’er, that you may be abhorred
+Farther than seen, and one infect another
+Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese,
+That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
+From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell!
+All hurt behind. Backs red, and faces pale
+With flight and agued fear! Mend, and charge home,
+Or, by the fires of heaven, I’ll leave the foe
+And make my wars on you. Look to’t. Come on!
+If you’ll stand fast we’ll beat them to their wives,
+As they us to our trenches. Follow’s!
+
+[_Another alarum. The Volsces re-enter and are driven back to the gates
+of Corioles, which open to admit them._]
+
+So, now the gates are ope. Now prove good seconds!
+’Tis for the followers fortune widens them,
+Not for the fliers. Mark me, and do the like.
+
+[_Martius follows the fleeing Volsces through the gates, and is shut
+in._]
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Foolhardiness, not I.
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Nor I.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+See, they have shut him in.
+
+[_Alarum continues._]
+
+ALL.
+To th’ pot, I warrant him.
+
+Enter Titus Lartius.
+
+LARTIUS.
+What is become of Martius?
+
+ALL.
+Slain, sir, doubtless.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Following the fliers at the very heels,
+With them he enters, who upon the sudden
+Clapped to their gates. He is himself alone,
+To answer all the city.
+
+LARTIUS.
+O noble fellow,
+Who sensibly outdares his senseless sword,
+And when it bows, stand’st up! Thou art left, Martius.
+A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art,
+Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier
+Even to Cato’s wish, not fierce and terrible
+Only in strokes, but with thy grim looks and
+The thunderlike percussion of thy sounds
+Thou mad’st thine enemies shake, as if the world
+Were feverous and did tremble.
+
+Enter Martius, bleeding, assaulted by the enemy.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Look, sir.
+
+LARTIUS.
+O, ’tis Martius!
+Let’s fetch him off or make remain alike.
+
+[_They fight, and all enter the city._]
+
+SCENE V. Within Corioles. A street
+
+Enter certain Romans, with spoils.
+
+FIRST ROMAN.
+This will I carry to Rome.
+
+SECOND ROMAN.
+And I this.
+
+THIRD ROMAN.
+A murrain on’t! I took this for silver.
+
+Enter Martius and Titus Lartius with a Trumpet.
+
+MARTIUS.
+See here these movers that do prize their hours
+At a cracked drachma. Cushions, leaden spoons,
+Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen would
+Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves,
+Ere yet the fight be done, pack up. Down with them!
+
+[_Exit the Romans with spoils._]
+
+[_Alarum continues still afar off._]
+
+And hark, what noise the General makes! To him!
+There is the man of my soul’s hate, Aufidius,
+Piercing our Romans. Then, valiant Titus, take
+Convenient numbers to make good the city,
+Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste
+To help Cominius.
+
+LARTIUS.
+Worthy sir, thou bleed’st.
+Thy exercise hath been too violent
+For a second course of fight.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Sir, praise me not.
+My work hath yet not warmed me. Fare you well.
+The blood I drop is rather physical
+Than dangerous to me. To Aufidius thus
+I will appear and fight.
+
+LARTIUS.
+Now the fair goddess Fortune
+Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
+Misguide thy opposers’ swords! Bold gentleman,
+Prosperity be thy page!
+
+MARTIUS.
+Thy friend no less
+Than those she placeth highest! So farewell.
+
+LARTIUS.
+Thou worthiest Martius!
+
+[_Exit Martius._]
+
+Go sound thy trumpet in the marketplace.
+Call thither all the officers o’ th’ town,
+Where they shall know our mind. Away!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Near the camp of Cominius
+
+Enter Cominius as it were in retire, with Soldiers.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Breathe you, my friends. Well fought! We are come off
+Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands
+Nor cowardly in retire. Believe me, sirs,
+We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,
+By interims and conveying gusts we have heard
+The charges of our friends. The Roman gods
+Lead their successes as we wish our own,
+That both our powers, with smiling fronts encount’ring,
+May give you thankful sacrifice!
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+Thy news?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The citizens of Corioles have issued,
+And given to Lartius and to Martius battle.
+I saw our party to their trenches driven,
+And then I came away.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Though thou speakest truth,
+Methinks thou speak’st not well. How long is’t since?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Above an hour, my lord.
+
+COMINIUS.
+’Tis not a mile; briefly we heard their drums.
+How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour
+And bring thy news so late?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Spies of the Volsces
+Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel
+Three or four miles about; else had I, sir,
+Half an hour since brought my report.
+
+[_Exit Messenger._]
+
+Enter Martius, bloody.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Who’s yonder,
+That does appear as he were flayed? O gods,
+He has the stamp of Martius, and I have
+Before-time seen him thus.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Come I too late?
+
+COMINIUS.
+The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabor
+More than I know the sound of Martius’ tongue
+From every meaner man.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Come I too late?
+
+COMINIUS.
+Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,
+But mantled in your own.
+
+MARTIUS.
+O, let me clip you
+In arms as sound as when I wooed, in heart
+As merry as when our nuptial day was done
+And tapers burned to bedward!
+
+COMINIUS.
+Flower of warriors, how is’t with Titus Lartius?
+
+MARTIUS.
+As with a man busied about decrees,
+Condemning some to death and some to exile;
+Ransoming him or pitying, threat’ning the other;
+Holding Corioles in the name of Rome
+Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,
+To let him slip at will.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Where is that slave
+Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?
+Where’s he? Call him hither.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Let him alone.
+He did inform the truth. But for our gentlemen,
+The common file—a plague! Tribunes for them!—
+The mouse ne’er shunned the cat as they did budge
+From rascals worse than they.
+
+COMINIUS.
+But how prevailed you?
+
+MARTIUS.
+Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.
+Where is the enemy? Are you lords o’ th’ field?
+If not, why cease you till you are so?
+
+COMINIUS.
+Martius, we have at disadvantage fought,
+And did retire to win our purpose.
+
+MARTIUS.
+How lies their battle? Know you on which side
+They have placed their men of trust?
+
+COMINIUS.
+As I guess, Martius,
+Their bands i’ th’ vaward are the Antiates,
+Of their best trust; o’er them Aufidius,
+Their very heart of hope.
+
+MARTIUS.
+I do beseech you,
+By all the battles wherein we have fought,
+By th’ blood we have shed together, by th’ vows we have made
+To endure friends, that you directly set me
+Against Aufidius and his Antiates,
+And that you not delay the present, but,
+Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,
+We prove this very hour.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Though I could wish
+You were conducted to a gentle bath
+And balms applied to you, yet dare I never
+Deny your asking. Take your choice of those
+That best can aid your action.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Those are they
+That most are willing. If any such be here—
+As it were sin to doubt—that love this painting
+Wherein you see me smeared; if any fear
+Lesser his person than an ill report;
+If any think brave death outweighs bad life,
+And that his country’s dearer than himself;
+Let him alone, or so many so minded,
+Wave thus to express his disposition
+And follow Martius.
+
+[_He waves his sword._]
+
+[_They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in their arms, and
+cast up their caps._]
+
+O, me alone! Make you a sword of me?
+If these shows be not outward, which of you
+But is four Volsces? None of you but is
+Able to bear against the great Aufidius
+A shield as hard as his. A certain number,
+Though thanks to all, must I select from all.
+The rest shall bear the business in some other fight,
+As cause will be obeyed. Please you to march,
+And I shall quickly draw out my command,
+Which men are best inclined.
+
+COMINIUS.
+March on, my fellows.
+Make good this ostentation, and you shall
+Divide in all with us.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. The gates of Corioles
+
+Titus Lartius, having set a guard upon Corioles, going with drum and
+trumpet toward Cominius and Caius Martius, enters with a Lieutenant,
+other Soldiers, and a Scout.
+
+LARTIUS.
+So, let the ports be guarded. Keep your duties
+As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch
+Those centuries to our aid; the rest will serve
+For a short holding. If we lose the field,
+We cannot keep the town.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Fear not our care, sir.
+
+LARTIUS.
+Hence, and shut your gates upon’s.
+Our guider, come. To th’ Roman camp conduct us.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VIII. A field of battle between the Roman and the Volscian camps
+
+Alarum, as in battle. Enter Martius and Aufidius at several doors.
+
+MARTIUS.
+I’ll fight with none but thee, for I do hate thee
+Worse than a promise-breaker.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+We hate alike.
+Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor
+More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Let the first budger die the other’s slave,
+And the gods doom him after!
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+If I fly, Martius,
+Hollo me like a hare.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Within these three hours, Tullus,
+Alone I fought in your Corioles’ walls,
+And made what work I pleased. ’Tis not my blood
+Wherein thou seest me masked. For thy revenge
+Wrench up thy power to th’ highest.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Wert thou the Hector
+That was the whip of your bragged progeny,
+Thou shouldst not scape me here.
+
+[_Here they fight, and certain Volsces come to the aid of Aufidius._]
+
+Officious and not valiant, you have shamed me
+In your condemned seconds.
+
+[_Martius fights till they be driven in breathless. Aufidius and
+Martius exit, separately._]
+
+SCENE IX. The Roman camp
+
+Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Flourish. Enter, at one door, Cominius
+with the Romans; at another door, Martius, with his arm in a scarf.
+
+COMINIUS.
+If I should tell thee o’er this thy day’s work,
+Thou’t not believe thy deeds. But I’ll report it
+Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles;
+Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,
+I’ th’ end admire; where ladies shall be frighted
+And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the dull tribunes,
+That with the fusty plebeians hate thine honours,
+Shall say against their hearts “We thank the gods
+Our Rome hath such a soldier.”
+Yet cam’st thou to a morsel of this feast,
+Having fully dined before.
+
+Enter Titus Lartius with his power, from the pursuit.
+
+LARTIUS.
+O general,
+Here is the steed, we the caparison.
+Hadst thou beheld—
+
+MARTIUS.
+Pray now, no more. My mother,
+Who has a charter to extol her blood,
+When she does praise me grieves me. I have done
+As you have done—that’s what I can;
+Induced as you have been—that’s for my country.
+He that has but effected his good will
+Hath overta’en mine act.
+
+COMINIUS.
+You shall not be
+The grave of your deserving. Rome must know
+The value of her own. ’Twere a concealment
+Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,
+To hide your doings and to silence that
+Which, to the spire and top of praises vouched,
+Would seem but modest. Therefore, I beseech you—
+In sign of what you are, not to reward
+What you have done—before our army hear me.
+
+MARTIUS.
+I have some wounds upon me, and they smart
+To hear themselves remembered.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Should they not,
+Well might they fester ’gainst ingratitude
+And tent themselves with death. Of all the horses—
+Whereof we have ta’en good and good store—of all
+The treasure in this field achieved and city,
+We render you the tenth, to be ta’en forth
+Before the common distribution
+At your only choice.
+
+MARTIUS.
+I thank you, general,
+But cannot make my heart consent to take
+A bribe to pay my sword. I do refuse it;
+And stand upon my common part with those
+That have beheld the doing.
+
+[_A long flourish. They all cry “Martius, Martius!” and cast up their
+caps and lances. Cominius and Lartius stand bare._]
+
+May these same instruments which, you profane,
+Never sound more! When drums and trumpets shall
+I’ th’ field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be
+Made all of false-faced soothing! When steel grows soft
+Soft as the parasite’s silk, let him be made
+An ovator for the wars! No more, I say.
+For that I have not washed my nose that bled,
+Or foiled some debile wretch—which, without note,
+Here’s many else have done—you shout me forth
+In acclamations hyperbolical,
+As if I loved my little should be dieted
+In praises sauced with lies.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Too modest are you,
+More cruel to your good report than grateful
+To us that give you truly. By your patience,
+If ’gainst yourself you be incensed, we’ll put you,
+Like one that means his proper harm, in manacles,
+Then reason safely with you. Therefore be it known,
+As to us to all the world, that Caius Martius
+Wears this war’s garland, in token of the which
+My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him,
+With all his trim belonging. And from this time,
+For what he did before Corioles, call him,
+With all th’ applause and clamour of the host,
+Caius Martius Coriolanus! Bear
+Th’ addition nobly ever!
+
+[_Flourish. Trumpets sound, and drums._]
+
+ALL.
+Caius Martius Coriolanus!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I will go wash;
+And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
+Whether I blush or no. Howbeit, I thank you.
+I mean to stride your steed and at all times
+To undercrest your good addition
+To th’ fairness of my power.
+
+COMINIUS.
+So, to our tent,
+Where, ere we do repose us, we will write
+To Rome of our success.—You, Titus Lartius,
+Must to Corioles back. Send us to Rome
+The best, with whom we may articulate
+For their own good and ours.
+
+LARTIUS.
+I shall, my lord.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+The gods begin to mock me. I, that now
+Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg
+Of my lord general.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Take’t, ’tis yours. What is’t?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I sometime lay here in Corioles
+At a poor man’s house; he used me kindly.
+He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;
+But then Aufidius was within my view,
+And wrath o’erwhelmed my pity. I request you
+To give my poor host freedom.
+
+COMINIUS.
+O, well begged!
+Were he the butcher of my son, he should
+Be free as is the wind.—Deliver him, Titus.
+
+LARTIUS.
+Martius, his name?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+By Jupiter, forgot!
+I am weary; yea, my memory is tired.
+Have we no wine here?
+
+COMINIUS.
+Go we to our tent.
+The blood upon your visage dries; ’tis time
+It should be looked to. Come.
+
+[_A flourish of cornets. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE X. The camp of the Volsces
+
+A flourish. Cornets. Enter Tullus Aufidius, bloody, with two or three
+soldiers.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+The town is ta’en.
+
+SOLDIER.
+’Twill be delivered back on good condition.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Condition?
+I would I were a Roman, for I cannot,
+Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition?
+What good condition can a treaty find
+I’ th’ part that is at mercy? Five times, Martius,
+I have fought with thee; so often hast thou beat me
+And wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter
+As often as we eat. By th’ elements,
+If e’er again I meet him beard to beard,
+He’s mine or I am his. Mine emulation
+Hath not that honour in’t it had; for where
+I thought to crush him in an equal force,
+True sword to sword, I’ll potch at him some way,
+Or wrath or craft may get him.
+
+SOLDIER.
+He’s the devil.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour’s poisoned
+With only suff’ring stain by him; for him
+Shall fly out of itself. Nor sleep nor sanctuary,
+Being naked, sick, nor fane nor Capitol,
+The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice,
+Embarquements all of fury, shall lift up
+Their rotten privilege and custom ’gainst
+My hate to Martius. Where I find him, were it
+At home, upon my brother’s guard, even there,
+Against the hospitable canon, would I
+Wash my fierce hand in’s heart. Go you to th’ city;
+Learn how ’tis held and what they are that must
+Be hostages for Rome.
+
+SOLDIER.
+Will not you go?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+I am attended at the cypress grove. I pray you—
+’Tis south the city mills,—bring me word thither
+How the world goes, that to the pace of it
+I may spur on my journey.
+
+SOLDIER.
+I shall, sir.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Rome. A public place
+
+
+Enter Menenius with the two Tribunes of the people, Sicinius and
+Brutus.
+
+MENENIUS.
+The augurer tells me we shall have news tonight.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Good or bad?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Not according to the prayer of the people, for they love not Martius.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Pray you, who does the wolf love?
+
+SICINIUS.
+The lamb.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Ay, to devour him, as the hungry plebeians would the noble Martius.
+
+BRUTUS.
+He’s a lamb indeed, that baas like a bear.
+
+MENENIUS.
+He’s a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. You two are old men; tell
+me one thing that I shall ask you.
+
+BOTH TRIBUNES.
+Well, sir.
+
+MENENIUS.
+In what enormity is Martius poor in, that you two have not in
+abundance?
+
+BRUTUS.
+He’s poor in no one fault, but stored with all.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Especially in pride.
+
+BRUTUS.
+And topping all others in boasting.
+
+MENENIUS.
+This is strange now. Do you two know how you are censured here in the
+city, I mean of us o’ th’ right-hand file, do you?
+
+BOTH TRIBUNES.
+Why, how are we censured?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Because you talk of pride now, will you not be angry?
+
+BOTH TRIBUNES.
+Well, well, sir, well?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Why, ’tis no great matter; for a very little thief of occasion will rob
+you of a great deal of patience. Give your dispositions the reins, and
+be angry at your pleasures, at the least, if you take it as a pleasure
+to you in being so. You blame Martius for being proud.
+
+BRUTUS.
+We do it not alone, sir.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I know you can do very little alone, for your helps are many, or else
+your actions would grow wondrous single. Your abilities are too
+infantlike for doing much alone. You talk of pride. O that you could
+turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks and make but an interior
+survey of your good selves! O, that you could!
+
+BOTH TRIBUNES.
+What then, sir?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting, proud, violent,
+testy magistrates, alias fools, as any in Rome.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Menenius, you are known well enough, too.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I am known to be a humorous patrician and one that loves a cup of hot
+wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in’t; said to be something
+imperfect in favouring the first complaint, hasty and tinder-like upon
+too trivial motion; one that converses more with the buttock of the
+night than with the forehead of the morning. What I think I utter, and
+spend my malice in my breath. Meeting two such wealsmen as you are—I
+cannot call you Lycurguses—if the drink you give me touch my palate
+adversely, I make a crooked face at it. I cannot say your Worships have
+delivered the matter well when I find the ass in compound with the
+major part of your syllables. And though I must be content to bear with
+those that say you are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that
+tell you have good faces. If you see this in the map of my microcosm,
+follows it that I am known well enough too? What harm can your bisson
+conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough,
+too?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Come, sir, come; we know you well enough.
+
+MENENIUS.
+You know neither me, yourselves, nor anything. You are ambitious for
+poor knaves’ caps and legs. You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in
+hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a faucet-seller, and then
+rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience. When
+you are hearing a matter between party and party, if you chance to be
+pinched with the colic, you make faces like mummers, set up the bloody
+flag against all patience, and, in roaring for a chamber pot, dismiss
+the controversy bleeding, the more entangled by your hearing. All the
+peace you make in their cause is calling both the parties knaves. You
+are a pair of strange ones.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Come, come. You are well understood to be a perfecter giber for the
+table than a necessary bencher in the Capitol.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter such
+ridiculous subjects as you are. When you speak best unto the purpose,
+it is not worth the wagging of your beards, and your beards deserve not
+so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher’s cushion or to be entombed
+in an ass’s packsaddle. Yet you must be saying Martius is proud, who,
+in a cheap estimation, is worth all your predecessors since Deucalion,
+though peradventure some of the best of ’em were hereditary hangmen.
+Good e’en to your Worships. More of your conversation would infect my
+brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians. I will be bold to
+take my leave of you.
+
+[_He begins to exit. Brutus and Sicinius stand aside._]
+
+Enter Volumnia, Virgilia and Valeria
+
+How now, my as fair as noble ladies—and the moon, were she earthly, no
+nobler—whither do you follow your eyes so fast?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Honourable Menenius, my boy Martius approaches. For the love of Juno,
+let’s go!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Ha? Martius coming home?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Ay, worthy Menenius, and with most prosperous approbation.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee! Hoo! Martius coming home?
+
+VALERIA, VIRGILIA.
+Nay, ’tis true.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Look, here’s a letter from him. The state hath another, his wife
+another, and I think there’s one at home for you.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I will make my very house reel tonight. A letter for me?
+
+VIRGILIA.
+Yes, certain, there’s a letter for you; I saw it.
+
+MENENIUS.
+A letter for me? It gives me an estate of seven years’ health, in which
+time I will make a lip at the physician. The most sovereign
+prescription in Galen is but empiricutic and, to this preservative, of
+no better report than a horse drench. Is he not wounded? He was wont to
+come home wounded.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+O, no, no, no!
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+O, he is wounded, I thank the gods for’t.
+
+MENENIUS.
+So do I too, if it be not too much. Brings he victory in his pocket,
+the wounds become him.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+On’s brows, Menenius. He comes the third time home with the oaken
+garland.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Titus Lartius writes they fought together, but Aufidius got off.
+
+MENENIUS.
+And ’twas time for him too, I’ll warrant him that. An he had stayed by
+him, I would not have been so ’fidiused for all the chests in Corioles
+and the gold that’s in them. Is the Senate possessed of this?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Good ladies, let’s go.—Yes, yes, yes. The Senate has letters from the
+General, wherein he gives my son the whole name of the war. He hath in
+this action outdone his former deeds doubly.
+
+VALERIA.
+In troth, there’s wondrous things spoke of him.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Wondrous? Ay, I warrant you, and not without his true purchasing.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+The gods grant them true.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+True? Pow, waw!
+
+MENENIUS.
+True? I’ll be sworn they are true. Where is he wounded? [_To the
+Tribunes_.] God save your good Worships! Martius is coming home; he has
+more cause to be proud.—Where is he wounded?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+I’ th’ shoulder and i’ th’ left arm. There will be large cicatrices to
+show the people when he shall stand for his place. He received in the
+repulse of Tarquin seven hurts i’ th’ body.
+
+MENENIUS.
+One i’ th’ neck and two i’ th’ thigh—there’s nine that I know.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+He had, before this last expedition, twenty-five wounds upon him.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Now it’s twenty-seven. Every gash was an enemy’s grave.
+
+
+[_A shout and flourish_.]
+
+Hark, the trumpets!
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+These are the ushers of Martius: before him he carries noise, and
+behind him he leaves tears.
+Death, that dark spirit, in’s nervy arm doth lie,
+Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die.
+
+[_A sennet_.]
+
+Enter Cominius the General and Titus Lartius, between them Coriolanus
+crowned with an oaken garland, with Captains and Soldiers and a Herald.
+Trumpets sound.
+
+HERALD.
+Know, Rome, that all alone Martius did fight
+Within Corioles’ gates, where he hath won,
+With fame, a name to Caius Martius; these
+In honour follows “Coriolanus.”
+Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus.
+
+[_Sound flourish._]
+
+ALL.
+Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+No more of this, it does offend my heart.
+Pray now, no more.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Look, sir, your mother.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+O,
+You have, I know, petitioned all the gods
+For my prosperity.
+
+[_Kneels._]
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Nay, my good soldier, up.
+
+[_He stands._]
+
+My gentle Martius, worthy Caius, and
+By deed-achieving honour newly named—
+What is it? Coriolanus must I call thee?
+But, O, thy wife—
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+My gracious silence, hail.
+Wouldst thou have laughed had I come coffined home,
+That weep’st to see me triumph? Ah, my dear,
+Such eyes the widows in Corioles wear
+And mothers that lack sons.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Now the gods crown thee!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+And live you yet? [_To Valeria_] O my sweet lady, pardon.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+I know not where to turn. O, welcome home!
+And welcome, general.—And you’re welcome all.
+
+MENENIUS.
+A hundred thousand welcomes! I could weep,
+And I could laugh; I am light and heavy. Welcome.
+A curse begin at very root on’s heart
+That is not glad to see thee! You are three
+That Rome should dote on; yet, by the faith of men,
+We have some old crab trees here at home that will not
+Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors!
+We call a nettle but a nettle, and
+The faults of fools but folly.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Ever right.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Menenius ever, ever.
+
+HERALD.
+Give way there, and go on!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+[_To Volumnia and Virgilia_.] Your hand, and yours.
+Ere in our own house I do shade my head,
+The good patricians must be visited,
+From whom I have received not only greetings,
+But with them change of honours.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+I have lived
+To see inherited my very wishes
+And the buildings of my fancy. Only
+There’s one thing wanting, which I doubt not but
+Our Rome will cast upon thee.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Know, good mother,
+I had rather be their servant in my way
+Than sway with them in theirs.
+
+COMINIUS.
+On, to the Capitol.
+
+[_Flourish of cornets. Exeunt in state, as before._]
+
+Brutus and Sicinius come forward.
+
+BRUTUS.
+All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights
+Are spectacled to see him. Your prattling nurse
+Into a rapture lets her baby cry
+While she chats him. The kitchen malkin pins
+Her richest lockram ’bout her reechy neck,
+Clamb’ring the walls to eye him. Stalls, bulks, windows
+Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed
+With variable complexions, all agreeing
+In earnestness to see him. Seld-shown flamens
+Do press among the popular throngs and puff
+To win a vulgar station. Our veiled dames
+Commit the war of white and damask in
+Their nicely-gauded cheeks to th’ wanton spoil
+Of Phoebus’ burning kisses. Such a pother,
+As if that whatsoever god who leads him
+Were slyly crept into his human powers
+And gave him graceful posture.
+
+SICINIUS.
+On the sudden
+I warrant him consul.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Then our office may,
+During his power, go sleep.
+
+SICINIUS.
+He cannot temp’rately transport his honours
+From where he should begin and end, but will
+Lose those he hath won.
+
+BRUTUS.
+In that there’s comfort.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Doubt not the commoners, for whom we stand,
+But they, upon their ancient malice will forget
+With the least cause these his new honours—which
+That he will give them make as little question
+As he is proud to do’t.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I heard him swear,
+Were he to stand for consul, never would he
+Appear i’ th’ marketplace nor on him put
+The napless vesture of humility,
+Nor showing, as the manner is, his wounds
+To th’ people, beg their stinking breaths.
+
+SICINIUS.
+’Tis right.
+
+BRUTUS.
+It was his word. O, he would miss it rather
+Than carry it but by the suit of the gentry to him
+And the desire of the nobles.
+
+SICINIUS.
+I wish no better
+Than have him hold that purpose and to put it
+In execution.
+
+BRUTUS.
+’Tis most like he will.
+
+SICINIUS.
+It shall be to him then, as our good wills,
+A sure destruction.
+
+BRUTUS.
+So it must fall out
+To him, or our authorities for an end.
+We must suggest the people in what hatred
+He still hath held them; that to’s power he would
+Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders, and
+Dispropertied their freedoms; holding them
+In human action and capacity
+Of no more soul nor fitness for the world
+Than camels in their war, who have their provand
+Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows
+For sinking under them.
+
+SICINIUS.
+This, as you say, suggested
+At some time when his soaring insolence
+Shall touch the people—which time shall not want
+If it be put upon’t, and that’s as easy
+As to set dogs on sheep—will be his fire
+To kindle their dry stubble, and their blaze
+Shall darken him for ever.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+BRUTUS.
+What’s the matter?
+
+MESSENGER.
+You are sent for to the Capitol. ’Tis thought
+That Martius shall be consul. I have seen
+The dumb men throng to see him, and the blind
+to hear him speak; matrons flung gloves,
+Ladies and maids their scarves and handkerchiefs,
+Upon him as he passed; the nobles bended
+As to Jove’s statue, and the Commons made
+A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts.
+I never saw the like.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Let’s to the Capitol;
+And carry with us ears and eyes for th’ time,
+But hearts for the event.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Have with you.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rome. The Capitol
+
+Enter two Officers, to lay cushions, as it were in the Capitol.
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+Come, come. They are almost here. How many stand for consulships?
+
+SECOND OFFICER.
+Three, they say; but ’tis thought of everyone Coriolanus will carry it.
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+That’s a brave fellow, but he’s vengeance proud and loves not the
+common people.
+
+SECOND OFFICER.
+’Faith, there have been many great men that have flattered the people
+who ne’er loved them; and there be many that they have loved they know
+not wherefore; so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon
+no better a ground. Therefore, for Coriolanus neither to care whether
+they love or hate him manifests the true knowledge he has in their
+disposition and, out of his noble carelessness, lets them plainly
+see’t.
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+If he did not care whether he had their love or no, he waved
+indifferently ’twixt doing them neither good nor harm; but he seeks
+their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him and leaves
+nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite. Now, to seem
+to affect the malice and displeasure of the people is as bad as that
+which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love.
+
+SECOND OFFICER.
+He hath deserved worthily of his country, and his ascent is not by such
+easy degrees as those who, having been supple and courteous to the
+people, bonnetted, without any further deed to have them at all into
+their estimation and report; but he hath so planted his honours in
+their eyes and his actions in their hearts that for their tongues to be
+silent and not confess so much were a kind of ingrateful injury. To
+report otherwise were a malice that, giving itself the lie, would pluck
+reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it.
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+No more of him; he’s a worthy man. Make way. They are coming.
+
+A sennet. Enter the Patricians and the Tribunes of the people, Lictors
+before them; Coriolanus, Menenius, Cominius the consul. The Patricians
+sit.  Sicinius and Brutus take their places by themselves. Coriolanus
+stands.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Having determined of the Volsces and
+To send for Titus Lartius, it remains,
+As the main point of this our after-meeting,
+To gratify his noble service that
+Hath thus stood for his country. Therefore please you,
+Most reverend and grave elders, to desire
+The present consul and last general
+In our well-found successes to report
+A little of that worthy work performed
+By Martius Caius Coriolanus, whom
+We met here both to thank and to remember
+With honours like himself.
+
+[_Coriolanus sits._]
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Speak, good Cominius.
+Leave nothing out for length, and make us think
+Rather our state’s defective for requital,
+Than we to stretch it out. Masters o’ th’ people,
+We do request your kindest ears and, after,
+Your loving motion toward the common body
+To yield what passes here.
+
+SICINIUS.
+We are convented
+Upon a pleasing treaty and have hearts
+Inclinable to honour and advance
+The theme of our assembly.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Which the rather
+We shall be blest to do if he remember
+A kinder value of the people than
+He hath hereto prized them at.
+
+MENENIUS.
+That’s off, that’s off!
+I would you rather had been silent. Please you
+To hear Cominius speak?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Most willingly.
+But yet my caution was more pertinent
+Than the rebuke you give it.
+
+MENENIUS.
+He loves your people,
+But tie him not to be their bedfellow.—
+Worthy Cominius, speak.
+
+[_Coriolanus rises, and offers to go away._]
+
+Nay, keep your place.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Sit, Coriolanus. Never shame to hear
+What you have nobly done.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Your Honours, pardon.
+I had rather have my wounds to heal again
+Than hear say how I got them.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Sir, I hope
+My words disbenched you not?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+No, sir. Yet oft,
+When blows have made me stay, I fled from words.
+You soothed not, therefore hurt not; but your people,
+I love them as they weigh.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Pray now, sit down.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I had rather have one scratch my head i’ th’ sun
+When the alarum were struck than idly sit
+To hear my nothings monstered.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+MENENIUS.
+Masters of the people,
+Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter—
+That’s thousand to one good one—when you now see
+He had rather venture all his limbs for honour
+Than one on’s ears to hear it?—Proceed, Cominius.
+
+COMINIUS.
+I shall lack voice. The deeds of Coriolanus
+Should not be uttered feebly. It is held
+That valour is the chiefest virtue and
+Most dignifies the haver; if it be,
+The man I speak of cannot in the world
+Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years,
+When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought
+Beyond the mark of others. Our then dictator,
+Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight
+When with his Amazonian chin he drove
+The bristled lips before him. He bestrid
+An o’erpressed Roman and i’ th’ Consul’s view
+Slew three opposers. Tarquin’s self he met
+And struck him on his knee. In that day’s feats,
+When he might act the woman in the scene,
+He proved best man i’ th’ field and for his meed
+Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age
+Man-entered thus, he waxed like a sea,
+And in the brunt of seventeen battles since
+He lurched all swords of the garland. For this last,
+Before and in Corioles, let me say,
+I cannot speak him home. He stopped the flyers
+And by his rare example made the coward
+Turn terror into sport. As weeds before
+A vessel under sail, so men obeyed
+And fell below his stem. His sword, Death’s stamp,
+Where it did mark, it took; from face to foot
+He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
+Was timed with dying cries. Alone he entered
+The mortal gate o’ th’ city, which he painted
+With shunless destiny; aidless came off
+And with a sudden reinforcement struck
+Corioles like a planet. Now all’s his,
+When by and by the din of war gan pierce
+His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit
+Requickened what in flesh was fatigate,
+And to the battle came he, where he did
+Run reeking o’er the lives of men as if
+’Twere a perpetual spoil; and till we called
+Both field and city ours, he never stood
+To ease his breast with panting.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Worthy man!
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+He cannot but with measure fit the honours
+Which we devise him.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Our spoils he kicked at;
+And looked upon things precious as they were
+The common muck of the world. He covets less
+Than misery itself would give, rewards
+His deeds with doing them, and is content
+To spend the time to end it.
+
+MENENIUS.
+He’s right noble.
+Let him be called for.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Call Coriolanus.
+
+OFFICER.
+He doth appear.
+
+Enter Coriolanus.
+
+MENENIUS.
+The Senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased
+To make thee consul.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I do owe them still
+My life and services.
+
+MENENIUS.
+It then remains
+That you do speak to the people.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I do beseech you
+Let me o’erleap that custom, for I cannot
+Put on the gown, stand naked, and entreat them
+For my wounds’ sake to give their suffrage. Please you
+That I may pass this doing.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Sir, the people
+Must have their voices; neither will they bate
+One jot of ceremony.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Put them not to’t.
+Pray you, go fit you to the custom, and
+Take to you, as your predecessors have,
+Your honour with your form.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+It is a part
+That I shall blush in acting, and might well
+Be taken from the people.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Mark you that?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+To brag unto them, “thus I did, and thus!”
+Show them th’ unaching scars which I should hide,
+As if I had received them for the hire
+Of their breath only!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Do not stand upon’t.—
+We recommend to you, tribunes of the people,
+Our purpose to them, and to our noble consul
+Wish we all joy and honour.
+
+SENATORS.
+To Coriolanus come all joy and honour!
+
+[_Flourish cornets. Exeunt all but Sicinius and Brutus._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+You see how he intends to use the people.
+
+SICINIUS.
+May they perceive’s intent! He will require them
+As if he did contemn what he requested
+Should be in them to give.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Come, we’ll inform them
+Of our proceedings here. On th’ marketplace
+I know they do attend us.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Rome. The Forum
+
+Enter seven or eight Citizens.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+We may, sir, if we will.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a power that we have no
+power to do; for, if he show us his wounds and tell us his deeds, we
+are to put our tongues into those wounds and speak for them. So, if he
+tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him our noble acceptance of
+them. Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful
+were to make a monster of the multitude, of the which we being members,
+should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+And to make us no better thought of, a little help will serve; for once
+we stood up about the corn, he himself stuck not to call us the
+many-headed multitude.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+We have been called so of many; not that our heads are some brown, some
+black, some auburn, some bald, but that our wits are so diversely
+coloured; and truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of one
+skull, they would fly east, west, north, south, and their consent of
+one direct way should be at once to all the points o’ th’ compass.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Think you so? Which way do you judge my wit would fly?
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Nay, your wit will not so soon out as another man’s will; ’tis strongly
+wedged up in a blockhead. But if it were at liberty, ’twould, sure,
+southward.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Why that way?
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+To lose itself in a fog, where being three parts melted away with
+rotten dews, the fourth would return for conscience’ sake, to help to
+get thee a wife.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+You are never without your tricks. You may, you may.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Are you all resolved to give your voices? But that’s no matter; the
+greater part carries it. I say, if he would incline to the people,
+there was never a worthier man.
+
+Enter Coriolanus in a gown of humility, with Menenius.
+
+Here he comes, and in the gown of humility. Mark his behaviour. We are
+not to stay all together, but to come by him where he stands, by ones,
+by twos, and by threes. He’s to make his requests by particulars,
+wherein everyone of us has a single honour in giving him our own voices
+with our own tongues. Therefore follow me, and I’ll direct you how you
+shall go by him.
+
+ALL.
+Content, content.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+MENENIUS.
+O sir, you are not right. Have you not known
+The worthiest men have done’t?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+What must I say?
+“I pray, sir”—plague upon’t! I cannot bring
+My tongue to such a pace. “Look, sir, my wounds!
+I got them in my country’s service when
+Some certain of your brethren roared and ran
+From th’ noise of our own drums.”
+
+MENENIUS.
+O me, the gods!
+You must not speak of that. You must desire them
+To think upon you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Think upon me! Hang ’em!
+I would they would forget me, like the virtues
+Which our divines lose by ’em.
+
+MENENIUS.
+You’ll mar all.
+I’ll leave you. Pray you speak to ’em, I pray you,
+In wholesome manner.
+
+[_Exit Menenius._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Bid them wash their faces
+And keep their teeth clean.
+
+Enter three of the Citizens.
+
+So, here comes a brace.
+You know the cause, sirs, of my standing here.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+We do, sir. Tell us what hath brought you to’t.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Mine own desert.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Your own desert?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Ay, but not mine own desire.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+How, not your own desire?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+No, sir, ’twas never my desire yet to trouble the poor with begging.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+You must think if we give you anything, we hope to gain by you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Well then, I pray, your price o’ th’ consulship?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+The price is to ask it kindly.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Kindly, sir, I pray, let me ha’t. I have wounds to show you, which
+shall be yours in private.—Your good voice, sir. What say you?
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+You shall ha’ it, worthy sir.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+A match, sir. There’s in all two worthy voices begged. I have your
+alms. Adieu.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+But this is something odd.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+An ’twere to give again—but ’tis no matter.
+
+[_Exeunt two citizens._]
+
+Enter two other Citizens.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your voices that I may
+be consul, I have here the customary gown.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+You have deserved nobly of your country, and you have not deserved
+nobly.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Your enigma?
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+You have been a scourge to her enemies; you have been a rod to her
+friends. You have not indeed loved the common people.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+You should account me the more virtuous that I have not been common in
+my love. I will, sir, flatter my sworn brother, the people, to earn a
+dearer estimation of them; ’tis a condition they account gentle. And
+since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my hat than my
+heart, I will practise the insinuating nod and be off to them most
+counterfeitly. That is, sir, I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some
+popular man and give it bountiful to the desirers. Therefore, beseech
+you, I may be consul.
+
+FIFTH CITIZEN.
+We hope to find you our friend, and therefore give you our voices
+heartily.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+You have received many wounds for your country.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I will make much of
+your voices and so trouble you no farther.
+
+BOTH CITIZENS.
+The gods give you joy, sir, heartily.
+
+[_Exeunt citizens._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Most sweet voices!
+Better it is to die, better to starve,
+Than crave the hire which first we do deserve.
+Why in this wolvish toge should I stand here
+To beg of Hob and Dick that does appear
+Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to’t.
+What custom wills, in all things should we do’t?
+The dust on antique time would lie unswept
+And mountainous error be too highly heaped
+For truth to o’erpeer. Rather than fool it so,
+Let the high office and the honour go
+To one that would do thus. I am half through;
+The one part suffered, the other will I do.
+
+
+Enter three Citizens more.
+
+Here come more voices.
+Your voices! For your voices I have fought;
+Watched for your voices; for your voices bear
+Of wounds two dozen odd. Battles thrice six
+I have seen and heard of; for your voices have
+Done many things, some less, some more. Your voices!
+Indeed, I would be consul.
+
+SIXTH CITIZEN.
+He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest man’s voice.
+
+SEVENTH CITIZEN.
+Therefore let him be consul. The gods give him joy, and make him good
+friend to the people!
+
+ALL THREE CITIZENS.
+Amen, amen. God save thee, noble consul.
+
+[_Exeunt citizens._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Worthy voices!
+
+Enter Menenius with Brutus and Sicinius.
+
+MENENIUS.
+You have stood your limitation, and the Tribunes
+Endue you with the people’s voice. Remains
+That in th’ official marks invested, you
+Anon do meet the Senate.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Is this done?
+
+SICINIUS.
+The custom of request you have discharged.
+The people do admit you, and are summoned
+To meet anon upon your approbation.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Where? At the Senate House?
+
+SICINIUS.
+There, Coriolanus.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+May I change these garments?
+
+SICINIUS.
+You may, sir.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+That I’ll straight do and, knowing myself again,
+Repair to th’ Senate House.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I’ll keep you company.—Will you along?
+
+BRUTUS.
+We stay here for the people.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Fare you well.
+
+[_Exeunt Coriolanus and Menenius._]
+
+He has it now; and by his looks, methinks,
+’Tis warm at his heart.
+
+BRUTUS.
+With a proud heart he wore
+His humble weeds. Will you dismiss the people?
+
+Enter the Pebleians.
+
+SICINIUS.
+How now, my masters, have you chose this man?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+He has our voices, sir.
+
+BRUTUS.
+We pray the gods he may deserve your loves.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Amen, sir. To my poor unworthy notice,
+He mocked us when he begged our voices.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Certainly, he flouted us downright.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+No, ’tis his kind of speech. He did not mock us.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Not one amongst us, save yourself, but says
+He used us scornfully. He should have showed us
+His marks of merit, wounds received for’s country.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Why, so he did, I am sure.
+
+ALL.
+No, no. No man saw ’em.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+He said he had wounds, which he could show in private,
+And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,
+“I would be consul,” says he; “aged custom,
+But by your voices, will not so permit me;
+Your voices therefore.” When we granted that,
+Here was “I thank you for your voices. Thank you.
+Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices,
+I have no further with you.” Was not this mockery?
+
+SICINIUS.
+Why either were you ignorant to see’t
+Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness
+To yield your voices?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Could you not have told him
+As you were lessoned? When he had no power,
+But was a petty servant to the state,
+He was your enemy, ever spake against
+Your liberties and the charters that you bear
+I’ th’ body of the weal; and, now arriving
+A place of potency and sway o’ th’ state,
+If he should still malignantly remain
+Fast foe to th’ plebeii, your voices might
+Be curses to yourselves. You should have said
+That as his worthy deeds did claim no less
+Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature
+Would think upon you for your voices, and
+Translate his malice towards you into love,
+Standing your friendly lord.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Thus to have said,
+As you were fore-advised, had touched his spirit
+And tried his inclination; from him plucked
+Either his gracious promise, which you might,
+As cause had called you up, have held him to;
+Or else it would have galled his surly nature,
+Which easily endures not article
+Tying him to aught. So putting him to rage,
+You should have ta’en th’ advantage of his choler
+And passed him unelected.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Did you perceive
+He did solicit you in free contempt
+When he did need your loves, and do you think
+That his contempt shall not be bruising to you
+When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies
+No heart among you? Or had you tongues to cry
+Against the rectorship of judgment?
+
+SICINIUS.
+Have you ere now denied the asker, and now
+Again, of him that did not ask but mock,
+Bestow your sued-for tongues?
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+He’s not confirmed.
+We may deny him yet.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+And will deny him.
+I’ll have five hundred voices of that sound.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+I twice five hundred, and their friends to piece ’em.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends
+They have chose a consul that will from them take
+Their liberties, make them of no more voice
+Than dogs that are as often beat for barking
+As therefore kept to do so.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Let them assemble
+And, on a safer judgment, all revoke
+Your ignorant election. Enforce his pride
+And his old hate unto you. Besides, forget not
+With what contempt he wore the humble weed,
+How in his suit he scorned you; but your loves,
+Thinking upon his services, took from you
+Th’ apprehension of his present portance,
+Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion
+After the inveterate hate he bears you.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Lay
+A fault on us, your tribunes, that we laboured,
+No impediment between, but that you must
+Cast your election on him.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Say you chose him
+More after our commandment than as guided
+By your own true affections, and that your minds,
+Preoccupied with what you rather must do
+Than what you should, made you against the grain
+To voice him consul. Lay the fault on us.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you,
+How youngly he began to serve his country,
+How long continued, and what stock he springs of,
+The noble house o’ th’ Martians, from whence came
+That Ancus Martius, Numa’s daughter’s son,
+Who, after great Hostilius here was king,
+Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,
+That our best water brought by conduits hither;
+And Censorinus, that was so surnamed,
+And nobly named so, twice being censor,
+Was his great ancestor.
+
+SICINIUS.
+One thus descended,
+That hath beside well in his person wrought
+To be set high in place, we did commend
+To your remembrances; but you have found,
+Scaling his present bearing with his past,
+That he’s your fixed enemy, and revoke
+Your sudden approbation.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Say you ne’er had done’t—
+Harp on that still—but by our putting on.
+And presently when you have drawn your number,
+Repair to th’ Capitol.
+
+ALL.
+We will so. Almost all
+Repent in their election.
+
+[_Exeunt Plebeians._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+Let them go on.
+This mutiny were better put in hazard
+Than stay, past doubt, for greater.
+If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
+With their refusal, both observe and answer
+The vantage of his anger.
+
+SICINIUS.
+To th’ Capitol, come.
+We will be there before the stream o’ th’ people,
+And this shall seem, as partly ’tis, their own,
+Which we have goaded onward.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Rome. A street
+
+
+Cornets. Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, all the Gentry, Cominius, Titus
+Lartius and other Senators.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Tullus Aufidius then had made new head?
+
+LARTIUS.
+He had, my lord, and that it was which caused
+Our swifter composition.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+So then the Volsces stand but as at first,
+Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road
+Upon’s again.
+
+COMINIUS.
+They are worn, lord consul, so
+That we shall hardly in our ages see
+Their banners wave again.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Saw you Aufidius?
+
+LARTIUS.
+On safeguard he came to me, and did curse
+Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely
+Yielded the town. He is retired to Antium.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Spoke he of me?
+
+LARTIUS.
+He did, my lord.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+How? What?
+
+LARTIUS.
+How often he had met you sword to sword;
+That of all things upon the earth he hated
+Your person most; that he would pawn his fortunes
+To hopeless restitution, so he might
+Be called your vanquisher.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+At Antium lives he?
+
+LARTIUS.
+At Antium.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
+To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home.
+
+Enter Sicinius and Brutus.
+
+Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,
+The tongues o’ th’ common mouth. I do despise them,
+For they do prank them in authority
+Against all noble sufferance.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Pass no further.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Ha? What is that?
+
+BRUTUS.
+It will be dangerous to go on. No further.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+What makes this change?
+
+MENENIUS.
+The matter?
+
+COMINIUS.
+Hath he not passed the noble and the common?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Cominius, no.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Have I had children’s voices?
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Tribunes, give way. He shall to the marketplace.
+
+BRUTUS.
+The people are incensed against him.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Stop,
+Or all will fall in broil.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Are these your herd?
+Must these have voices, that can yield them now
+And straight disclaim their tongues? What are your offices?
+You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?
+Have you not set them on?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Be calm, be calm.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,
+To curb the will of the nobility.
+Suffer’t, and live with such as cannot rule
+Nor ever will be ruled.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Call’t not a plot.
+The people cry you mocked them; and, of late,
+When corn was given them gratis, you repined,
+Scandaled the suppliants for the people, called them
+Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Why, this was known before.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Not to them all.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Have you informed them sithence?
+
+BRUTUS.
+How? I inform them?
+
+COMINIUS.
+You are like to do such business.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Not unlike, each way, to better yours.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Why then should I be consul? By yond clouds,
+Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me
+Your fellow tribune.
+
+SICINIUS.
+You show too much of that
+For which the people stir. If you will pass
+To where you are bound, you must inquire your way,
+Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,
+Or never be so noble as a consul,
+Nor yoke with him for tribune.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Let’s be calm.
+
+COMINIUS.
+The people are abused, set on. This palt’ring
+Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus
+Deserved this so dishonoured rub, laid falsely
+I’ th’ plain way of his merit.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Tell me of corn?
+This was my speech, and I will speak’t again.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Not now, not now.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Not in this heat, sir, now.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Now, as I live, I will.
+My nobler friends, I crave their pardons. For
+The mutable, rank-scented many, let them
+Regard me, as I do not flatter, and
+Therein behold themselves. I say again,
+In soothing them we nourish ’gainst our senate
+The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
+Which we ourselves have ploughed for, sowed, and scattered
+By mingling them with us, the honoured number,
+Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that
+Which they have given to beggars.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Well, no more.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+No more words, we beseech you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+How? No more?
+As for my country I have shed my blood,
+Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs
+Coin words till their decay against those measles
+Which we disdain should tetter us, yet sought
+The very way to catch them.
+
+BRUTUS.
+You speak o’ th’ people
+As if you were a god to punish, not
+A man of their infirmity.
+
+SICINIUS.
+’Twere well
+We let the people know’t.
+
+MENENIUS.
+What, what? His choler?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Choler?
+Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,
+By Jove, ’twould be my mind.
+
+SICINIUS.
+It is a mind
+That shall remain a poison where it is,
+Not poison any further.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+“Shall remain”?
+Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
+His absolute “shall”?
+
+COMINIUS.
+’Twas from the canon.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+“Shall”?
+O good but most unwise patricians, why,
+You grave but reckless senators, have you thus
+Given Hydra leave to choose an officer,
+That with his peremptory “shall,” being but
+The horn and noise o’ th’ monster’s, wants not spirit
+To say he’ll turn your current in a ditch
+And make your channel his? If he have power,
+Then vail your ignorance; if none, awake
+Your dangerous lenity. If you are learned,
+Be not as common fools; if you are not,
+Let them have cushions by you. You are plebeians,
+If they be senators; and they are no less
+When, both your voices blended, the great’st taste
+Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate,
+And such a one as he, who puts his “shall,”
+His popular “shall,” against a graver bench
+Than ever frowned in Greece. By Jove himself,
+It makes the consuls base! And my soul aches
+To know, when two authorities are up,
+Neither supreme, how soon confusion
+May enter ’twixt the gap of both and take
+The one by th’ other.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Well, on to th’ marketplace.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Whoever gave that counsel to give forth
+The corn o’ th’ storehouse gratis, as ’twas used
+Sometime in Greece—
+
+MENENIUS.
+Well, well, no more of that.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Though there the people had more absolute power,
+I say they nourished disobedience, fed
+The ruin of the state.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why shall the people give
+One that speaks thus their voice?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I’ll give my reasons,
+More worthier than their voices. They know the corn
+Was not our recompense, resting well assured
+They ne’er did service for’t. Being pressed to th’ war,
+Even when the navel of the state was touched,
+They would not thread the gates. This kind of service
+Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i’ th’ war,
+Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they showed
+Most valour, spoke not for them. Th’ accusation
+Which they have often made against the Senate,
+All cause unborn, could never be the native
+Of our so frank donation. Well, what then?
+How shall this bosom multitude digest
+The senate’s courtesy? Let deeds express
+What’s like to be their words: “We did request it;
+We are the greater poll, and in true fear
+They gave us our demands.” Thus we debase
+The nature of our seats and make the rabble
+Call our cares fears, which will in time
+Break ope the locks o’ th’ Senate and bring in
+The crows to peck the eagles.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Come, enough.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Enough, with over-measure.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+No, take more!
+What may be sworn by, both divine and human,
+Seal what I end withal! This double worship—
+Where one part does disdain with cause, the other
+Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom
+Cannot conclude but by the yea and no
+Of general ignorance—it must omit
+Real necessities and give way the while
+To unstable slightness. Purpose so barred, it follows
+Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech you—
+You that will be less fearful than discreet,
+That love the fundamental part of state
+More than you doubt the change on’t, that prefer
+A noble life before a long, and wish
+To jump a body with a dangerous physic
+That’s sure of death without it—at once pluck out
+The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick
+The sweet which is their poison. Your dishonour
+Mangles true judgment and bereaves the state
+Of that integrity which should become’t,
+Not having the power to do the good it would
+For th’ ill which doth control’t.
+
+BRUTUS.
+’Has said enough.
+
+SICINIUS.
+’Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer
+As traitors do.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Thou wretch, despite o’erwhelm thee!
+What should the people do with these bald tribunes,
+On whom depending, their obedience fails
+To th’ greater bench. In a rebellion,
+When what’s not meet but what must be was law,
+Then were they chosen. In a better hour,
+Let what is meet be said it must be meet,
+And throw their power i’ th’ dust.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Manifest treason.
+
+SICINIUS.
+This a consul? No.
+
+BRUTUS.
+The aediles, ho! Let him be apprehended.
+
+Enter an Aedile.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Go call the people;
+
+[_Exit Aedile._]
+
+in whose name myself
+Attach thee as a traitorous innovator,
+A foe to th’ public weal. Obey, I charge thee,
+And follow to thine answer.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Hence, old goat.
+
+ALL PATRICIANS.
+We’ll surety him.
+
+COMINIUS.
+[_to Sicinius_.] Aged sir, hands off.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+[_to Sicinius_.] Hence, rotten thing, or I shall shake thy bones
+Out of thy garments.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Help, ye citizens!
+
+Enter a rabble of Plebeians with the Aediles.
+
+MENENIUS.
+On both sides more respect!
+
+SICINIUS.
+Here’s he that would take from you all your power.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Seize him, aediles.
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+Down with him, down with him!
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Weapons, weapons, weapons!
+
+[_They all bustle about Coriolanus._]
+
+Tribunes, patricians, citizens, what, ho!
+Sicinius, Brutus, Coriolanus, citizens!
+
+ALL.
+Peace, peace, peace! Stay, hold, peace!
+
+MENENIUS.
+What is about to be? I am out of breath.
+Confusion’s near. I cannot speak. You tribunes
+To th’ people!—Coriolanus, patience!—
+Speak, good Sicinius.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Hear me, people! Peace!
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+Let’s hear our tribune. Peace! Speak, speak, speak.
+
+SICINIUS.
+You are at point to lose your liberties.
+Martius would have all from you, Martius,
+Whom late you have named for consul.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Fie, fie, fie!
+This is the way to kindle, not to quench.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+To unbuild the city and to lay all flat.
+
+SICINIUS.
+What is the city but the people?
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+True,
+The people are the city.
+
+BRUTUS.
+By the consent of all, we were established
+The people’s magistrates.
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+You so remain.
+
+MENENIUS.
+And so are like to do.
+
+COMINIUS.
+That is the way to lay the city flat,
+To bring the roof to the foundation
+And bury all which yet distinctly ranges
+In heaps and piles of ruin.
+
+SICINIUS.
+This deserves death.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Or let us stand to our authority
+Or let us lose it. We do here pronounce,
+Upon the part o’ th’ people, in whose power
+We were elected theirs, Martius is worthy
+Of present death.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Therefore lay hold of him,
+Bear him to th’ rock Tarpeian, and from thence
+Into destruction cast him.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Aediles, seize him!
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+Yield, Martius, yield!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Hear me one word.
+Beseech you, tribunes, hear me but a word.
+
+AEDILES.
+Peace, peace!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Be that you seem, truly your country’s friend,
+And temp’rately proceed to what you would
+Thus violently redress.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Sir, those cold ways,
+That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous
+Where the disease is violent.—Lay hands upon him,
+And bear him to the rock.
+
+[_Coriolanus draws his sword._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+No; I’ll die here.
+There’s some among you have beheld me fighting.
+Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Down with that sword!—Tribunes, withdraw awhile.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Lay hands upon him!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Help Martius, help!
+You that be noble, help him, young and old!
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+Down with him, down with him!
+
+[_In this mutiny the Tribunes, the Aediles and the People are beat
+in._]
+
+MENENIUS.
+Go, get you to your house. Begone, away.
+All will be naught else.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Get you gone.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Stand fast!
+We have as many friends as enemies.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Shall it be put to that?
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+The gods forbid!
+I prithee, noble friend, home to thy house;
+Leave us to cure this cause.
+
+MENENIUS.
+For ’tis a sore upon us
+You cannot tent yourself. Begone, beseech you.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Come, sir, along with us.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I would they were barbarians, as they are,
+Though in Rome littered, not Romans, as they are not,
+Though calved i’ th’ porch o’ th’ Capitol.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Begone!
+Put not your worthy rage into your tongue.
+One time will owe another.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+On fair ground
+I could beat forty of them.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I could myself
+Take up a brace o’ th’ best of them, yea, the two tribunes.
+
+COMINIUS.
+But now ’tis odds beyond arithmetic,
+And manhood is called foolery when it stands
+Against a falling fabric. Will you hence,
+Before the tag return, whose rage doth rend
+Like interrupted waters, and o’erbear
+What they are used to bear?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Pray you, begone.
+I’ll try whether my old wit be in request
+With those that have but little. This must be patched
+With cloth of any colour.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Nay, come away.
+
+[_Exeunt Coriolanus and Cominius._]
+
+PATRICIAN.
+This man has marred his fortune.
+
+MENENIUS.
+His nature is too noble for the world.
+He would not flatter Neptune for his trident
+Or Jove for’s power to thunder. His heart’s his mouth;
+What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent,
+And, being angry, does forget that ever
+He heard the name of death.
+
+[_A noise within._]
+
+Here’s goodly work.
+
+PATRICIAN.
+I would they were abed!
+
+MENENIUS.
+I would they were in Tiber! What the vengeance,
+Could he not speak ’em fair?
+
+Enter Brutus and Sicinius with the rabble again.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Where is this viper
+That would depopulate the city and
+Be every man himself?
+
+MENENIUS.
+You worthy tribunes—
+
+SICINIUS.
+He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock
+With rigorous hands. He hath resisted law,
+And therefore law shall scorn him further trial
+Than the severity of the public power
+Which he so sets at naught.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+He shall well know
+The noble tribunes are the people’s mouths,
+And we their hands.
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+He shall, sure on’t.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Sir, sir—
+
+SICINIUS.
+Peace!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Do not cry havoc where you should but hunt
+With modest warrant.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Sir, how comes’t that you
+Have holp to make this rescue?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Hear me speak.
+As I do know the Consul’s worthiness,
+So can I name his faults.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Consul? What consul?
+
+MENENIUS.
+The consul Coriolanus.
+
+BRUTUS.
+He consul?
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+No, no, no, no, no!
+
+MENENIUS.
+If, by the Tribunes’ leave, and yours, good people,
+I may be heard, I would crave a word or two,
+The which shall turn you to no further harm
+Than so much loss of time.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Speak briefly then,
+For we are peremptory to dispatch
+This viperous traitor. To eject him hence
+Were but one danger, and to keep him here
+Our certain death. Therefore it is decreed
+He dies tonight.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Now the good gods forbid
+That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude
+Towards her deserved children is enrolled
+In Jove’s own book, like an unnatural dam
+Should now eat up her own.
+
+SICINIUS.
+He’s a disease that must be cut away.
+
+MENENIUS.
+O, he’s a limb that has but a disease—
+Mortal to cut it off; to cure it easy.
+What has he done to Rome that’s worthy death?
+Killing our enemies, the blood he hath lost—
+Which I dare vouch is more than that he hath
+By many an ounce—he dropt it for his country;
+And what is left, to lose it by his country
+Were to us all, that do’t and suffer it
+A brand to th’ end o’ th’ world.
+
+SICINIUS.
+This is clean cam.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Merely awry. When he did love his country,
+It honoured him.
+
+MENENIUS.
+The service of the foot,
+Being once gangrened, is not then respected
+For what before it was.
+
+BRUTUS.
+We’ll hear no more.
+Pursue him to his house, and pluck him thence,
+Lest his infection, being of catching nature,
+Spread further.
+
+MENENIUS.
+One word more, one word!
+This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find
+The harm of unscanned swiftness, will too late,
+Tie leaden pounds to’s heels. Proceed by process,
+Lest parties—as he is beloved—break out
+And sack great Rome with Romans.
+
+BRUTUS.
+If it were so—
+
+SICINIUS.
+What do ye talk?
+Have we not had a taste of his obedience?
+Our aediles smote! Ourselves resisted? Come.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Consider this: he has been bred i’ th’ wars
+Since he could draw a sword, and is ill schooled
+In bolted language; meal and bran together
+He throws without distinction. Give me leave,
+I’ll go to him and undertake to bring him
+Where he shall answer by a lawful form,
+In peace, to his utmost peril.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Noble tribunes,
+It is the humane way: the other course
+Will prove too bloody, and the end of it
+Unknown to the beginning.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Noble Menenius,
+Be you then as the people’s officer.—
+Masters, lay down your weapons.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Go not home.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Meet on the marketplace. We’ll attend you there,
+Where if you bring not Martius, we’ll proceed
+In our first way.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I’ll bring him to you.
+[_To Senators_.] Let me desire your company. He must come,
+Or what is worst will follow.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Pray you, let’s to him.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rome. A room in Coriolanus’s house
+
+Enter Coriolanus with Nobles.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Let them pull all about mine ears, present me
+Death on the wheel or at wild horses’ heels,
+Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,
+That the precipitation might down stretch
+Below the beam of sight, yet will I still
+Be thus to them.
+
+FIRST PATRICIAN.
+You do the nobler.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I muse my mother
+Does not approve me further, who was wont
+To call them woollen vassals, things created
+To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads
+In congregations, to yawn, be still, and wonder
+When one but of my ordinance stood up
+To speak of peace or war.
+
+Enter Volumnia.
+
+I talk of you.
+Why did you wish me milder? Would you have me
+False to my nature? Rather say I play
+The man I am.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+O, sir, sir, sir,
+I would have had you put your power well on
+Before you had worn it out.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Let go.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+You might have been enough the man you are
+With striving less to be so. Lesser had been
+The thwartings of your dispositions if
+You had not showed them how ye were disposed
+Ere they lacked power to cross you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Let them hang!
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Ay, and burn too.
+
+Enter Menenius with the Senators.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Come, come, you have been too rough, something too rough.
+You must return and mend it.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+There’s no remedy,
+Unless, by not so doing, our good city
+Cleave in the midst and perish.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Pray be counselled.
+I have a heart as little apt as yours,
+But yet a brain that leads my use of anger
+To better vantage.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Well said, noble woman.
+Before he should thus stoop to th’ herd—but that
+The violent fit o’ th’ time craves it as physic
+For the whole state—I would put mine armour on,
+Which I can scarcely bear.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+What must I do?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Return to th’ Tribunes.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Well, what then? What then?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Repent what you have spoke.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+For them? I cannot do it to the gods.
+Must I then do’t to them?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+You are too absolute,
+Though therein you can never be too noble
+But when extremities speak. I have heard you say
+Honour and policy, like unsevered friends,
+I’ th’ war do grow together. Grant that, and tell me
+In peace what each of them by th’ other lose
+That they combine not there.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Tush, tush!
+
+MENENIUS.
+A good demand.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+If it be honour in your wars to seem
+The same you are not, which for your best ends
+You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse
+That it shall hold companionship in peace
+With honour as in war, since that to both
+It stands in like request?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Why force you this?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Because that now it lies you on to speak
+To th’ people, not by your own instruction,
+Nor by th’ matter which your heart prompts you,
+But with such words that are but rooted in
+Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables
+Of no allowance to your bosom’s truth.
+Now, this no more dishonours you at all
+Than to take in a town with gentle words,
+Which else would put you to your fortune and
+The hazard of much blood.
+I would dissemble with my nature where
+My fortunes and my friends at stake required
+I should do so in honour. I am in this
+Your wife, your son, these senators, the nobles;
+And you will rather show our general louts
+How you can frown than spend a fawn upon ’em
+For the inheritance of their loves and safeguard
+Of what that want might ruin.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Noble lady!—
+Come, go with us; speak fair. You may salve so,
+Not what is dangerous present, but the loss
+Of what is past.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+I prithee now, my son,
+Go to them with this bonnet in thy hand,
+And thus far having stretched it—here be with them—
+Thy knee bussing the stones—for in such busines
+Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant
+More learned than the ears—waving thy head,
+Which often thus correcting thy stout heart,
+Now humble as the ripest mulberry
+That will not hold the handling. Or say to them
+Thou art their soldier and, being bred in broils,
+Hast not the soft way, which thou dost confess
+Were fit for thee to use, as they to claim,
+In asking their good loves; but thou wilt frame
+Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far
+As thou hast power and person.
+
+MENENIUS.
+This but done
+Even as she speaks, why, their hearts were yours;
+For they have pardons, being asked, as free
+As words to little purpose.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Prithee now,
+Go, and be ruled; although I know thou hadst rather
+Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf
+Than flatter him in a bower.
+
+Enter Cominius.
+
+Here is Cominius.
+
+COMINIUS.
+I have been i’ th’ marketplace; and, sir, ’tis fit
+You make strong party or defend yourself
+By calmness or by absence. All’s in anger.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Only fair speech.
+
+COMINIUS.
+I think ’twill serve, if he
+Can thereto frame his spirit.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+He must, and will.—
+Prithee, now, say you will, and go about it.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce? Must I
+With my base tongue give to my noble heart
+A lie that it must bear? Well, I will do’t.
+Yet, were there but this single plot to lose,
+This mould of Martius, they to dust should grind it
+And throw’t against the wind. To th’ marketplace!
+You have put me now to such a part which never
+I shall discharge to th’ life.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Come, come, we’ll prompt you.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said
+My praises made thee first a soldier, so,
+To have my praise for this, perform a part
+Thou hast not done before.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Well, I must do’t.
+Away, my disposition, and possess me
+Some harlot’s spirit! My throat of war be turned,
+Which choired with my drum, into a pipe
+Small as an eunuch or the virgin voice
+That babies lulls asleep! The smiles of knaves
+Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys’ tears take up
+The glasses of my sight! A beggar’s tongue
+Make motion through my lips, and my armed knees,
+Who bowed but in my stirrup, bend like his
+That hath received an alms! I will not do’t,
+Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth
+And, by my body’s action, teach my mind
+A most inherent baseness.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+At thy choice, then.
+To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour
+Than thou of them. Come all to ruin. Let
+Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear
+Thy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death
+With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list.
+Thy valiantness was mine; thou suck’dst it from me,
+But owe thy pride thyself.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Pray, be content.
+Mother, I am going to the marketplace.
+Chide me no more. I’ll mountebank their loves,
+Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved
+Of all the trades in Rome. Look, I am going.
+Commend me to my wife. I’ll return consul,
+Or never trust to what my tongue can do
+I’ th’ way of flattery further.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Do your will.
+
+[_Exit Volumnia._]
+
+COMINIUS.
+Away! The Tribunes do attend you. Arm yourself
+To answer mildly, for they are prepared
+With accusations, as I hear, more strong
+Than are upon you yet.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+The word is “mildly.” Pray you, let us go.
+Let them accuse me by invention, I
+Will answer in mine honour.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Ay, but mildly.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Well, mildly be it, then. Mildly.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Rome. The Forum
+
+Enter Sicinius and Brutus.
+
+BRUTUS.
+In this point charge him home, that he affects
+Tyrannical power. If he evade us there,
+Enforce him with his envy to the people,
+And that the spoil got on the Antiates
+Was ne’er distributed.
+
+Enter an Aedile.
+
+What, will he come?
+
+AEDILE.
+He’s coming.
+
+BRUTUS.
+How accompanied?
+
+AEDILE.
+With old Menenius, and those senators
+That always favoured him.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Have you a catalogue
+Of all the voices that we have procured,
+Set down by th’ poll?
+
+AEDILE.
+I have. ’Tis ready.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Have you collected them by tribes?
+
+AEDILE.
+I have.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Assemble presently the people hither;
+And when they hear me say “It shall be so
+I’ th’ right and strength o’ th’ commons,” be it either
+For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them
+If I say “Fine,” cry “Fine,” if “Death,” cry “Death,”
+Insisting on the old prerogative
+And power i’ th’ truth o’ th’ cause.
+
+AEDILE.
+I shall inform them.
+
+BRUTUS.
+And when such time they have begun to cry,
+Let them not cease, but with a din confused
+Enforce the present execution
+Of what we chance to sentence.
+
+AEDILE.
+Very well.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Make them be strong and ready for this hint
+When we shall hap to give’t them.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Go about it.
+
+[_Exit Aedile._]
+
+Put him to choler straight. He hath been used
+Ever to conquer and to have his worth
+Of contradiction. Being once chafed, he cannot
+Be reined again to temperance; then he speaks
+What’s in his heart; and that is there which looks
+With us to break his neck.
+
+Enter Coriolanus, Menenius and Cominius with other Senators.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Well, here he comes.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Calmly, I do beseech you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Ay, as an ostler, that for th’ poorest piece
+Will bear the knave by th’ volume.—Th’ honoured gods
+Keep Rome in safety and the chairs of justice
+Supplied with worthy men! Plant love among’s!
+Throng our large temples with the shows of peace
+And not our streets with war!
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Amen, amen.
+
+MENENIUS.
+A noble wish.
+
+Enter the Aedile with the Plebeians.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Draw near, ye people.
+
+AEDILE.
+List to your tribunes. Audience! Peace, I say!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+First, hear me speak.
+
+BOTH TRIBUNES.
+Well, say.—Peace, ho!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Shall I be charged no further than this present?
+Must all determine here?
+
+SICINIUS.
+I do demand
+If you submit you to the people’s voices,
+Allow their officers, and are content
+To suffer lawful censure for such faults
+As shall be proved upon you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I am content.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Lo, citizens, he says he is content.
+The warlike service he has done, consider. Think
+Upon the wounds his body bears, which show
+Like graves i’ th’ holy churchyard.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Scratches with briars,
+Scars to move laughter only.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Consider further,
+That when he speaks not like a citizen,
+You find him like a soldier. Do not take
+His rougher accents for malicious sounds,
+But, as I say, such as become a soldier
+Rather than envy you.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Well, well, no more.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+What is the matter,
+That, being passed for consul with full voice,
+I am so dishonoured that the very hour
+You take it off again?
+
+SICINIUS.
+Answer to us.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Say then. ’Tis true, I ought so.
+
+SICINIUS.
+We charge you that you have contrived to take
+From Rome all seasoned office and to wind
+Yourself into a power tyrannical,
+For which you are a traitor to the people.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+How? Traitor?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Nay, temperately! Your promise.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+The fires i’ th’ lowest hell fold in the people!
+Call me their traitor? Thou injurious tribune!
+Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,
+In thy hands clutched as many millions, in
+Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say
+“Thou liest” unto thee with a voice as free
+As I do pray the gods.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Mark you this, people?
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+To th’ rock, to th’ rock with him!
+
+SICINIUS.
+Peace!
+We need not put new matter to his charge.
+What you have seen him do and heard him speak,
+Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,
+Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying
+Those whose great power must try him—even this,
+So criminal and in such capital kind,
+Deserves th’ extremest death.
+
+BRUTUS.
+But since he hath
+Served well for Rome—
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+What do you prate of service?
+
+BRUTUS.
+I talk of that that know it.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+You?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Is this the promise that you made your mother?
+
+COMINIUS.
+Know, I pray you—
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I’ll know no further.
+Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,
+Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger
+But with a grain a day, I would not buy
+Their mercy at the price of one fair word,
+Nor check my courage for what they can give,
+To have’t with saying “Good morrow.”
+
+SICINIUS.
+For that he has,
+As much as in him lies, from time to time
+Envied against the people, seeking means
+To pluck away their power, as now at last
+Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence
+Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers
+That do distribute it, in the name o’ th’ people
+And in the power of us the Tribunes, we,
+Even from this instant, banish him our city
+In peril of precipitation
+From off the rock Tarpeian, never more
+To enter our Rome gates. I’ th’ people’s name,
+I say it shall be so.
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+It shall be so, it shall be so! Let him away!
+He’s banished, and it shall be so.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Hear me, my masters and my common friends—
+
+SICINIUS.
+He’s sentenced. No more hearing.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Let me speak.
+I have been consul and can show for Rome
+Her enemies’ marks upon me. I do love
+My country’s good with a respect more tender,
+More holy and profound, than mine own life,
+My dear wife’s estimate, her womb’s increase,
+And treasure of my loins. Then if I would
+Speak that—
+
+SICINIUS.
+We know your drift. Speak what?
+
+BRUTUS.
+There’s no more to be said, but he is banished
+As enemy to the people and his country.
+It shall be so.
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+It shall be so, it shall be so!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate
+As reek o’ th’ rotten fens, whose loves I prize
+As the dead carcasses of unburied men
+That do corrupt my air, I banish you!
+And here remain with your uncertainty;
+Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts;
+Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
+Fan you into despair! Have the power still
+To banish your defenders, till at length
+Your ignorance—which finds not till it feels,
+Making but reservation of yourselves,
+Still your own foes—deliver you,
+As most abated captives to some nation
+That won you without blows! Despising
+For you the city, thus I turn my back.
+There is a world elsewhere.
+
+[_Exeunt Coriolanus, Cominius, with other Senators._]
+
+AEDILE.
+The people’s enemy is gone, is gone.
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+Our enemy is banished; he is gone. Hoo, hoo!
+
+[_They all shout and throw up their caps._]
+
+SICINIUS.
+Go see him out at gates, and follow him,
+As he hath followed you, with all despite.
+Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard
+Attend us through the city.
+
+ALL PLEBEIANS.
+Come, come, let’s see him out at gates! Come!
+The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Rome. Before a gate of the city
+
+
+Enter Coriolanus, Volumnia, Virgilia, Menenius, Cominius with the young
+nobility of Rome.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Come, leave your tears. A brief farewell. The beast
+With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,
+Where is your ancient courage? You were used
+To say extremities was the trier of spirits;
+That common chances common men could bear;
+That when the sea was calm, all boats alike
+Showed mastership in floating; fortune’s blows
+When most struck home, being gentle wounded craves
+A noble cunning. You were used to load me
+With precepts that would make invincible
+The heart that conned them.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+O heavens! O heavens!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Nay, I prithee, woman—
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,
+And occupations perish!
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+What, what, what!
+I shall be loved when I am lacked. Nay, mother,
+Resume that spirit when you were wont to say
+If you had been the wife of Hercules,
+Six of his labours you’d have done and saved
+Your husband so much sweat.—Cominius,
+Droop not. Adieu.—Farewell, my wife, my mother.
+I’ll do well yet.—Thou old and true Menenius,
+Thy tears are salter than a younger man’s
+And venomous to thine eyes.—My sometime general,
+I have seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld
+Heart-hard’ning spectacles. Tell these sad women
+’Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes
+As ’tis to laugh at ’em.—My mother, you wot well
+My hazards still have been your solace, and—
+Believe’t not lightly—though I go alone,
+Like to a lonely dragon that his fen
+Makes feared and talked of more than seen, your son
+Will or exceed the common or be caught
+With cautelous baits and practice.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+My first son,
+Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius
+With thee awhile. Determine on some course
+More than a wild exposture to each chance
+That starts i’ th’ way before thee.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+O the gods!
+
+COMINIUS.
+I’ll follow thee a month, devise with thee
+Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us
+And we of thee; so if the time thrust forth
+A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send
+O’er the vast world to seek a single man
+And lose advantage, which doth ever cool
+I’ th’ absence of the needer.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Fare ye well.
+Thou hast years upon thee, and thou art too full
+Of the wars’ surfeits to go rove with one
+That’s yet unbruised. Bring me but out at gate.—
+Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
+My friends of noble touch. When I am forth,
+Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come.
+While I remain above the ground, you shall
+Hear from me still, and never of me aught
+But what is like me formerly.
+
+MENENIUS.
+That’s worthily
+As any ear can hear. Come, let’s not weep.
+If I could shake off but one seven years
+From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,
+I’d with thee every foot.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Give me thy hand.
+Come.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rome. A street near the gate
+
+Enter two Tribunes, Sicinius, Brutus with the Aedile.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Bid them all home. He’s gone, and we’ll no further.
+The nobility are vexed, whom we see have sided
+In his behalf.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Now we have shown our power,
+Let us seem humbler after it is done
+Than when it was a-doing.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Bid them home.
+Say their great enemy is gone, and they
+Stand in their ancient strength.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Dismiss them home.
+
+[_Exit Aedile._]
+
+Here comes his mother.
+
+Enter Volumnia, Virgilia and Menenius.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Let’s not meet her.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why?
+
+SICINIUS.
+They say she’s mad.
+
+BRUTUS.
+They have ta’en note of us. Keep on your way.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+O, you’re well met. The hoarded plague o’ th’ gods
+Requite your love!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Peace, peace! Be not so loud.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+If that I could for weeping, you should hear—
+Nay, and you shall hear some. [_To Sicinius_.] Will you be gone?
+
+VIRGILIA.
+[_To Brutus_.] You shall stay too. I would I had the power
+To say so to my husband.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Are you mankind?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Ay, fool, is that a shame? Note but this, fool.
+Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
+To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
+Than thou hast spoken words?
+
+SICINIUS.
+O blessed heavens!
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+More noble blows than ever thou wise words,
+And for Rome’s good. I’ll tell thee what—yet go.
+Nay, but thou shalt stay too. I would my son
+Were in Arabia and thy tribe before him,
+His good sword in his hand.
+
+SICINIUS.
+What then?
+
+VIRGILIA.
+What then?
+He’d make an end of thy posterity.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Bastards and all.
+Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Come, come, peace.
+
+SICINIUS.
+I would he had continued to his country
+As he began, and not unknit himself
+The noble knot he made.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I would he had.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+“I would he had?” ’Twas you incensed the rabble.
+Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth
+As I can of those mysteries which heaven
+Will not have Earth to know.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Pray, let’s go.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Now, pray, sir, get you gone.
+You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this:
+As far as doth the Capitol exceed
+The meanest house in Rome, so far my son—
+This lady’s husband here, this, do you see?—
+Whom you have banished, does exceed you all.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Well, well, we’ll leave you.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Why stay we to be baited
+With one that wants her wits?
+
+[_Exeunt Tribunes._]
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Take my prayers with you.
+I would the gods had nothing else to do
+But to confirm my curses. Could I meet ’em
+But once a day, it would unclog my heart
+Of what lies heavy to’t.
+
+MENENIUS.
+You have told them home,
+And, by my troth, you have cause. You’ll sup with me?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Anger’s my meat. I sup upon myself
+And so shall starve with feeding. Come, let’s go.
+Leave this faint puling, and lament as I do,
+In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+MENENIUS.
+Fie, fie, fie!
+
+[_Exit Menenius._]
+
+SCENE III. A highway between Rome and Antium
+
+Enter a Roman and a Volsce.
+
+ROMAN.
+I know you well, sir, and you know me. Your name I think is Adrian.
+
+VOLSCE.
+It is so, sir. Truly, I have forgot you.
+
+ROMAN.
+I am a Roman, and my services are, as you are, against ’em. Know you me
+yet?
+
+VOLSCE.
+Nicanor, no?
+
+ROMAN.
+The same, sir.
+
+VOLSCE.
+You had more beard when I last saw you, but your favour is well
+approved by your tongue. What’s the news in Rome? I have a note from
+the Volscian state to find you out there. You have well saved me a
+day’s journey.
+
+ROMAN.
+There hath been in Rome strange insurrections, the people against the
+senators, patricians, and nobles.
+
+VOLSCE.
+Hath been? Is it ended, then? Our state thinks not so. They are in a
+most warlike preparation and hope to come upon them in the heat of
+their division.
+
+ROMAN.
+The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame
+again; for the nobles receive so to heart the banishment of that worthy
+Coriolanus that they are in a ripe aptness to take all power from the
+people and to pluck from them their tribunes for ever. This lies
+glowing, I can tell you, and is almost mature for the violent breaking
+out.
+
+VOLSCE.
+Coriolanus banished?
+
+ROMAN.
+Banished, sir.
+
+VOLSCE.
+You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor.
+
+ROMAN.
+The day serves well for them now. I have heard it said the fittest time
+to corrupt a man’s wife is when she’s fallen out with her husband. Your
+noble Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his great opposer
+Coriolanus being now in no request of his country.
+
+VOLSCE.
+He cannot choose. I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter
+you. You have ended my business, and I will merrily accompany you home.
+
+ROMAN.
+I shall between this and supper tell you most strange things from Rome,
+all tending to the good of their adversaries. Have you an army ready,
+say you?
+
+VOLSCE.
+A most royal one. The centurions and their charges, distinctly
+billeted, already in th’ entertainment, and to be on foot at an hour’s
+warning.
+
+ROMAN.
+I am joyful to hear of their readiness and am the man, I think, that
+shall set them in present action. So, sir, heartily well met, and most
+glad of your company.
+
+VOLSCE.
+You take my part from me, sir. I have the most cause to be glad of
+yours.
+
+ROMAN.
+Well, let us go together.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Antium. Before Aufidius’s house
+
+Enter Coriolanus in mean apparel, disguised and muffled.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+A goodly city is this Antium. City,
+’Tis I that made thy widows. Many an heir
+Of these fair edifices ’fore my wars
+Have I heard groan and drop. Then know me not,
+Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
+In puny battle slay me.
+
+Enter a Citizen.
+
+Save you, sir.
+
+CITIZEN.
+And you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Direct me, if it be your will,
+Where great Aufidius lies. Is he in Antium?
+
+CITIZEN.
+He is, and feasts the nobles of the state
+At his house this night.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Which is his house, beseech you?
+
+CITIZEN.
+This here before you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Thank you, sir. Farewell.
+
+[_Exit Citizen._]
+
+O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,
+Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,
+Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
+Are still together, who twin, as ’twere, in love
+Unseparable, shall within this hour,
+On a dissension of a doit, break out
+To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,
+Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
+To take the one the other, by some chance,
+Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
+And interjoin their issues. So with me:
+My birthplace hate I, and my love’s upon
+This enemy town. I’ll enter. If he slay me,
+He does fair justice; if he give me way,
+I’ll do his country service.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. Antium. A hall in Aufidius’s house
+
+Music plays. Enter a Servingman.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Wine, wine, wine! What service is here? I think our fellows are asleep.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter another Servingman.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Where’s Cotus? My master calls for him. Cotus!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Coriolanus.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+A goodly house. The feast smells well, but I
+Appear not like a guest.
+
+Enter the First Servingman.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+What would you have, friend? Whence are you? Here’s no place for you.
+Pray go to the door.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I have deserved no better entertainment
+In being Coriolanus.
+
+Enter Second Servingman.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Whence are you, sir?—Has the porter his eyes in his head, that he gives
+entrance to such companions?—Pray, get you out.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Away!
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Away? Get you away.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Now th’ art troublesome.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Are you so brave? I’ll have you talked with anon.
+
+Enter Third  Servingman; the First, entering, meets him.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+What fellow’s this?
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+A strange one as ever I looked on. I cannot get him out o’ th’ house.
+Prithee call my master to him.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+What have you to do here, fellow? Pray you, avoid the house.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Let me but stand. I will not hurt your hearth.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+What are you?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+A gentleman.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+A marv’llous poor one.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+True, so I am.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other station. Here’s no place
+for you. Pray you, avoid. Come.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Follow your function, go, and batten on cold bits.
+
+[_Pushes him away from him_.]
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+What, you will not?—Prithee, tell my master what a strange guest he has
+here.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+And I shall.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Where dwell’st thou?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Under the canopy.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Under the canopy?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Ay.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Where’s that?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I’ th’ city of kites and crows.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+I’ th’ city of kites and crows? What an ass it is! Then thou dwell’st
+with daws too?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+No, I serve not thy master.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+How, sir? Do you meddle with my master?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Ay, ’tis an honester service than to meddle with thy mistress. Thou
+prat’st and prat’st. Serve with thy trencher, hence!
+
+[_Beats him away_.]
+
+[_Exit Third Servingman._]
+
+Enter Aufidius with the Second Servingman.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Where is this fellow?
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Here, sir. I’d have beaten him like a dog, but for disturbing the lords
+within.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Whence com’st thou? What wouldst thou?
+Thy name? Why speak’st not? Speak, man. What’s thy name?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+[_Removing his muffler_.] If, Tullus,
+Not yet thou know’st me, and, seeing me, dost not
+Think me for the man I am, necessity
+Commands me name myself.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+What is thy name?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+A name unmusical to the Volscians’ ears
+And harsh in sound to thine.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Say, what’s thy name?
+Thou has a grim appearance, and thy face
+Bears a command in’t. Though thy tackle’s torn,
+Thou show’st a noble vessel. What’s thy name?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Prepare thy brow to frown. Know’st thou me yet?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+I know thee not. Thy name?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+My name is Caius Martius, who hath done
+To thee particularly and to all the Volsces
+Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may
+My surname Coriolanus. The painful service,
+The extreme dangers, and the drops of blood
+Shed for my thankless country are requited
+But with that surname, a good memory
+And witness of the malice and displeasure
+Which thou shouldst bear me. Only that name remains.
+The cruelty and envy of the people,
+Permitted by our dastard nobles, who
+Have all forsook me, hath devoured the rest,
+And suffered me by th’ voice of slaves to be
+Whooped out of Rome. Now this extremity
+Hath brought me to thy hearth, not out of hope—
+Mistake me not—to save my life; for if
+I had feared death, of all the men i’ th’ world
+I would have ’voided thee, but in mere spite,
+To be full quit of those my banishers,
+Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast
+A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge
+Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims
+Of shame seen through thy country, speed thee straight
+And make my misery serve thy turn. So use it
+That my revengeful services may prove
+As benefits to thee, for I will fight
+Against my cankered country with the spleen
+Of all the under fiends. But if so be
+Thou dar’st not this, and that to prove more fortunes
+Thou ’rt tired, then, in a word, I also am
+Longer to live most weary, and present
+My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice,
+Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,
+Since I have ever followed thee with hate,
+Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country’s breast,
+And cannot live but to thy shame, unless
+It be to do thee service.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+O Martius, Martius,
+Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart
+A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter
+Should from yond cloud speak divine things
+And say ’tis true, I’d not believe them more
+Than thee, all-noble Martius. Let me twine
+Mine arms about that body, whereagainst
+My grained ash an hundred times hath broke
+And scarred the moon with splinters. Here I clip
+The anvil of my sword and do contest
+As hotly and as nobly with thy love
+As ever in ambitious strength I did
+Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,
+I loved the maid I married; never man
+Sighed truer breath. But that I see thee here,
+Thou noble thing, more dances my rapt heart
+Than when I first my wedded mistress saw
+Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars, I tell thee
+We have a power on foot, and I had purpose
+Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn
+Or lose mine arm for’t. Thou hast beat me out
+Twelve several times, and I have nightly since
+Dreamt of encounters ’twixt thyself and me;
+We have been down together in my sleep,
+Unbuckling helms, fisting each other’s throat,
+And waked half dead with nothing. Worthy Martius,
+Had we no other quarrel else to Rome but that
+Thou art thence banished, we would muster all
+From twelve to seventy and, pouring war
+Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,
+Like a bold flood o’erbear ’t. O, come, go in,
+And take our friendly senators by th’ hands,
+Who now are here, taking their leaves of me,
+Who am prepared against your territories,
+Though not for Rome itself.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+You bless me, gods!
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have
+The leading of thine own revenges, take
+Th’ one half of my commission and set down—
+As best thou art experienced, since thou know’st
+Thy country’s strength and weakness—thine own ways,
+Whether to knock against the gates of Rome,
+Or rudely visit them in parts remote
+To fright them ere destroy. But come in.
+Let me commend thee first to those that shall
+Say yea to thy desires. A thousand welcomes!
+And more a friend than e’er an enemy—
+Yet, Martius, that was much. Your hand. Most welcome!
+
+[_Exeunt Coriolanus and Aufidius._]
+
+Two of the Servingmen come forward.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Here’s a strange alteration!
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+By my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with a cudgel, and yet
+my mind gave me his clothes made a false report of him.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+What an arm he has! He turned me about with his finger and his thumb as
+one would set up a top.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in him. He had, sir, a
+kind of face, methought—I cannot tell how to term it.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+He had so, looking as it were—Would I were hanged, but I thought there
+was more in him than I could think.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+So did I, I’ll be sworn. He is simply the rarest man i’ th’ world.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+I think he is. But a greater soldier than he you wot one.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Who, my master?
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Nay, it’s no matter for that.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Worth six on him.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Nay, not so neither. But I take him to be the greater soldier.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that. For the defence of a
+town our general is excellent.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Ay, and for an assault too.
+
+Enter the Third Servingman.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+O slaves, I can tell you news, news, you rascals!
+
+FIRST and SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+What, what, what? Let’s partake.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+I would not be a Roman, of all nations; I had as lief be a condemned
+man.
+
+FIRST and SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Wherefore? Wherefore?
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Why, here’s he that was wont to thwack our general, Caius Martius.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Why do you say, “thwack our general”?
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+I do not say “thwack our general,” but he was always good enough for
+him.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Come, we are fellows and friends. He was ever too hard for him; I have
+heard him say so himself.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+He was too hard for him directly, to say the troth on’t, before
+Corioles; he scotched him and notched him like a carbonado.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+An he had been cannibally given, he might have boiled and eaten him
+too.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+But, more of thy news?
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Why, he is so made on here within as if he were son and heir to Mars;
+set at upper end o’ th’ table; no question asked him by any of the
+senators but they stand bald before him. Our general himself makes a
+mistress of him, sanctifies himself with’s hand, and turns up the white
+o’ th’ eye to his discourse. But the bottom of the news is, our general
+is cut i’ th’ middle and but one half of what he was yesterday, for the
+other has half, by the entreaty and grant of the whole table. He’ll go,
+he says, and sowl the porter of Rome gates by th’ ears. He will mow all
+down before him and leave his passage polled.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+And he’s as like to do’t as any man I can imagine.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Do’t? He will do’t! For look you, sir, he has as many friends as
+enemies, which friends, sir, as it were, durst not, look you, sir, show
+themselves, as we term it, his friends whilest he’s in directitude.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Directitude? What’s that?
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again, and the man in blood,
+they will out of their burrows like coneys after rain, and revel all
+with him.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+But when goes this forward?
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Tomorrow, today, presently. You shall have the drum struck up this
+afternoon. ’Tis as it were parcel of their feast, and to be executed
+ere they wipe their lips.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Why then, we shall have a stirring world again. This peace is nothing
+but to rust iron, increase tailors, and breed ballad-makers.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Let me have war, say I. It exceeds peace as far as day does night. It’s
+sprightly walking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy,
+lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard
+children than war’s a destroyer of men.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+’Tis so, and as war in some sort, may be said to be a ravisher, so it
+cannot be denied but peace is a great maker of cuckolds.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Ay, and it makes men hate one another.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+Reason: because they then less need one another. The wars for my money!
+I hope to see Romans as cheap as Volscians. They are rising; they are
+rising.
+
+ALL.
+In, in, in, in!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Rome. A public place
+
+Enter the two Tribunes. Sicinius and Brutus.
+
+SICINIUS.
+We hear not of him, neither need we fear him.
+His remedies are tame—the present peace,
+And quietness of the people, which before
+Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends
+Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,
+Though they themselves did suffer by’t, behold
+Dissentious numbers pest’ring streets than see
+Our tradesmen singing in their shops and going
+About their functions friendly.
+
+BRUTUS.
+We stood to’t in good time.
+
+Enter Menenius.
+
+Is this Menenius?
+
+SICINIUS.
+’Tis he, ’tis he. O, he is grown most kind
+Of late.—Hail, sir!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Hail to you both.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Your Coriolanus is not much missed
+But with his friends. The commonwealth doth stand,
+And so would do were he more angry at it.
+
+MENENIUS.
+All’s well, and might have been much better if
+He could have temporized.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Where is he, hear you?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Nay, I hear nothing;
+His mother and his wife hear nothing from him.
+
+Enter three or four Citizens.
+
+ALL CITIZENS.
+The gods preserve you both!
+
+SICINIUS.
+Good e’en, our neighbours.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Good e’en to you all, good e’en to you all.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Ourselves, our wives, and children, on our knees
+Are bound to pray for you both.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Live and thrive!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Farewell, kind neighbours. We wished Coriolanus
+Had loved you as we did.
+
+CITIZENS.
+Now the gods keep you!
+
+BOTH TRIBUNES.
+Farewell, farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt Citizens._]
+
+SICINIUS.
+This is a happier and more comely time
+Than when these fellows ran about the streets
+Crying confusion.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Caius Martius was
+A worthy officer i’ th’ war, but insolent,
+O’ercome with pride, ambitious, past all thinking
+Self-loving.
+
+SICINIUS.
+And affecting one sole throne, without assistance.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I think not so.
+
+SICINIUS.
+We should by this, to all our lamentation,
+If he had gone forth consul, found it so.
+
+BRUTUS.
+The gods have well prevented it, and Rome
+Sits safe and still without him.
+
+Enter an Aedile.
+
+AEDILE.
+Worthy tribunes,
+There is a slave, whom we have put in prison,
+Reports the Volsces with two several powers
+Are entered in the Roman territories,
+And with the deepest malice of the war
+Destroy what lies before ’em.
+
+MENENIUS.
+’Tis Aufidius,
+Who, hearing of our Martius’ banishment,
+Thrusts forth his horns again into the world,
+Which were inshelled when Martius stood for Rome,
+And durst not once peep out.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Come, what talk you of Martius?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Go see this rumourer whipped. It cannot be
+The Volsces dare break with us.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Cannot be?
+We have record that very well it can,
+And three examples of the like hath been
+Within my age. But reason with the fellow
+Before you punish him, where he heard this,
+Lest you shall chance to whip your information
+And beat the messenger who bids beware
+Of what is to be dreaded.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Tell not me.
+I know this cannot be.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Not possible.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+The nobles in great earnestness are going
+All to the Senate House. Some news is coming
+That turns their countenances.
+
+SICINIUS.
+’Tis this slave—
+Go whip him ’fore the people’s eyes—his raising,
+Nothing but his report.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Yes, worthy sir,
+The slave’s report is seconded, and more,
+More fearful, is delivered.
+
+SICINIUS.
+What more fearful?
+
+MESSENGER.
+It is spoke freely out of many mouths—
+How probable I do not know—that Martius,
+Joined with Aufidius, leads a power ’gainst Rome
+And vows revenge as spacious as between
+The young’st and oldest thing.
+
+SICINIUS.
+This is most likely!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Raised only that the weaker sort may wish
+Good Martius home again.
+
+SICINIUS.
+The very trick on ’t.
+
+MENENIUS.
+This is unlikely;
+He and Aufidius can no more atone
+Than violent’st contrariety.
+
+Enter a Second Messenger.
+
+SECOND MESSENGER.
+You are sent for to the Senate.
+A fearful army, led by Caius Martius
+Associated with Aufidius, rages
+Upon our territories, and have already
+O’erborne their way, consumed with fire and took
+What lay before them.
+
+Enter Cominius.
+
+COMINIUS.
+O, you have made good work!
+
+MENENIUS.
+What news? What news?
+
+COMINIUS.
+You have holp to ravish your own daughters and
+To melt the city leads upon your pates,
+To see your wives dishonoured to your noses—
+
+MENENIUS.
+What’s the news? What’s the news?
+
+COMINIUS.
+Your temples burned in their cement, and
+Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined
+Into an auger’s bore.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Pray now, your news?—
+You have made fair work, I fear me.—Pray, your news?
+If Martius should be joined with Volscians—
+
+COMINIUS.
+If?
+He is their god; he leads them like a thing
+Made by some other deity than Nature,
+That shapes man better; and they follow him
+Against us brats with no less confidence
+Than boys pursuing summer butterflies
+Or butchers killing flies.
+
+MENENIUS.
+You have made good work,
+You and your apron-men, you that stood so much
+Upon the voice of occupation and
+The breath of garlic eaters!
+
+COMINIUS.
+He’ll shake your Rome about your ears.
+
+MENENIUS.
+As Hercules did shake down mellow fruit.
+You have made fair work.
+
+BRUTUS.
+But is this true, sir?
+
+COMINIUS.
+Ay, and you’ll look pale
+Before you find it other. All the regions
+Do smilingly revolt, and who resists
+Are mocked for valiant ignorance
+And perish constant fools. Who is’t can blame him?
+Your enemies and his find something in him.
+
+MENENIUS.
+We are all undone unless
+The noble man have mercy.
+
+COMINIUS.
+Who shall ask it?
+The Tribunes cannot do’t for shame; the people
+Deserve such pity of him as the wolf
+Does of the shepherds. For his best friends, if they
+Should say “Be good to Rome,” they charged him even
+As those should do that had deserved his hate
+And therein showed like enemies.
+
+MENENIUS.
+’Tis true.
+If he were putting to my house the brand
+That should consume it, I have not the face
+To say “Beseech you, cease.”—You have made fair hands,
+You and your crafts! You have crafted fair!
+
+COMINIUS.
+You have brought
+A trembling upon Rome such as was never
+S’ incapable of help.
+
+TRIBUNES.
+Say not we brought it.
+
+MENENIUS.
+How? Was it we? We loved him, but like beasts
+And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,
+Who did hoot him out o’ th’ city.
+
+COMINIUS.
+But I fear
+They’ll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,
+The second name of men, obeys his points
+As if he were his officer. Desperation
+Is all the policy, strength, and defence
+That Rome can make against them.
+
+Enter a troop of Citizens.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Here comes the clusters.—
+And is Aufidius with him? You are they
+That made the air unwholesome when you cast
+Your stinking, greasy caps in hooting at
+Coriolanus’ exile. Now he’s coming,
+And not a hair upon a soldier’s head
+Which will not prove a whip. As many coxcombs
+As you threw caps up will he tumble down
+And pay you for your voices. ’Tis no matter.
+If he could burn us all into one coal
+We have deserved it.
+
+ALL CITIZENS.
+Faith, we hear fearful news.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+For mine own part,
+When I said banish him, I said ’twas pity.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+And so did I.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+And so did I. And, to say the truth, so did very many of us. That we
+did we did for the best; and though we willingly consented to his
+banishment, yet it was against our will.
+
+COMINIUS.
+You are goodly things, you voices!
+
+MENENIUS.
+You have made good work, you and your cry!—
+Shall’s to the Capitol?
+
+COMINIUS.
+O, ay, what else?
+
+[_Exeunt Cominius and Menenius._]
+
+SICINIUS.
+Go, masters, get you home. Be not dismayed.
+These are a side that would be glad to have
+This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,
+And show no sign of fear.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let’s home. I ever said we were
+i’ th’ wrong when we banished him.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+So did we all. But, come, let’s home.
+
+[_Exeunt Citizens._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+I do not like this news.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Nor I.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Let’s to the Capitol. Would half my wealth
+Would buy this for a lie!
+
+SICINIUS.
+Pray let’s go.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. A camp at a short distance from Rome
+
+Enter Aufidius with his Lieutenant.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Do they still fly to th’ Roman?
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+I do not know what witchcraft’s in him, but
+Your soldiers use him as the grace ’fore meat,
+Their talk at table, and their thanks at end;
+And you are dark’ned in this action, sir,
+Even by your own.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+I cannot help it now,
+Unless by using means I lame the foot
+Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,
+Even to my person, than I thought he would
+When first I did embrace him. Yet his nature
+In that’s no changeling, and I must excuse
+What cannot be amended.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Yet I wish, sir—
+I mean for your particular—you had not
+Joined in commission with him, but either
+Had borne the action of yourself or else
+To him had left it solely.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+I understand thee well, and be thou sure,
+When he shall come to his account, he knows not
+What I can urge against him, although it seems,
+And so he thinks and is no less apparent
+To th’ vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly,
+And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,
+Fights dragonlike, and does achieve as soon
+As draw his sword; yet he hath left undone
+That which shall break his neck or hazard mine
+Whene’er we come to our account.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Sir, I beseech you, think you he’ll carry Rome?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+All places yield to him ere he sits down,
+And the nobility of Rome are his;
+The Senators and Patricians love him too.
+The Tribunes are no soldiers, and their people
+Will be as rash in the repeal as hasty
+To expel him thence. I think he’ll be to Rome
+As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
+By sovereignty of nature. First, he was
+A noble servant to them, but he could not
+Carry his honours even. Whether ’twas pride,
+Which out of daily fortune ever taints
+The happy man; whether defect of judgment,
+To fail in the disposing of those chances
+Which he was lord of; or whether nature,
+Not to be other than one thing, not moving
+From th’ casque to th’ cushion, but commanding peace
+Even with the same austerity and garb
+As he controlled the war; but one of these—
+As he hath spices of them all—not all,
+For I dare so far free him—made him feared,
+So hated, and so banished. But he has a merit
+To choke it in the utt’rance. So our virtues
+Lie in th’ interpretation of the time,
+And power, unto itself most commendable,
+Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
+T’ extol what it hath done.
+One fire drives out one fire, one nail one nail;
+Rights by rights falter; strengths by strengths do fail.
+Come, let’s away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,
+Thou art poor’st of all; then shortly art thou mine.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Rome. A public place
+
+
+Enter Menenius, Cominius, Sicinius, Brutus (the two Tribunes), with
+others.
+
+MENENIUS.
+No, I’ll not go. You hear what he hath said
+Which was sometime his general, who loved him
+In a most dear particular. He called me father,
+But what o’ that? Go you that banished him;
+A mile before his tent, fall down, and knee
+The way into his mercy. Nay, if he coyed
+To hear Cominius speak, I’ll keep at home.
+
+COMINIUS.
+He would not seem to know me.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Do you hear?
+
+COMINIUS.
+Yet one time he did call me by my name.
+I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops
+That we have bled together. “Coriolanus”
+He would not answer to, forbade all names.
+He was a kind of nothing, titleless,
+Till he had forged himself a name i’ th’ fire
+Of burning Rome.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Why, so; you have made good work!
+A pair of tribunes that have wracked Rome
+To make coals cheap! A noble memory!
+
+COMINIUS.
+I minded him how royal ’twas to pardon
+When it was less expected. He replied
+It was a bare petition of a state
+To one whom they had punished.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Very well.
+Could he say less?
+
+COMINIUS.
+I offered to awaken his regard
+For’s private friends. His answer to me was
+He could not stay to pick them in a pile
+Of noisome musty chaff. He said ’twas folly
+For one poor grain or two to leave unburnt
+And still to nose th’ offence.
+
+MENENIUS.
+For one poor grain or two!
+I am one of those! His mother, wife, his child,
+And this brave fellow too, we are the grains;
+You are the musty chaff, and you are smelt
+Above the moon. We must be burnt for you.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Nay, pray, be patient. If you refuse your aid
+In this so-never-needed help, yet do not
+Upbraid’s with our distress. But sure, if you
+Would be your country’s pleader, your good tongue,
+More than the instant army we can make,
+Might stop our countryman.
+
+MENENIUS.
+No, I’ll not meddle.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Pray you, go to him.
+
+MENENIUS.
+What should I do?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Only make trial what your love can do
+For Rome, towards Martius.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Well, and say that Martius
+Return me, as Cominius is returned, unheard,
+What then? But as a discontented friend,
+Grief-shot with his unkindness? Say’t be so?
+
+SICINIUS.
+Yet your good will
+Must have that thanks from Rome after the measure
+As you intended well.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I’ll undertake’t.
+I think he’ll hear me. Yet to bite his lip
+And hum at good Cominius much unhearts me.
+He was not taken well; he had not dined.
+The veins unfilled, our blood is cold, and then
+We pout upon the morning, are unapt
+To give or to forgive; but when we have stuffed
+These pipes and these conveyances of our blood
+With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
+Than in our priestlike fasts. Therefore I’ll watch him
+Till he be dieted to my request,
+And then I’ll set upon him.
+
+BRUTUS.
+You know the very road into his kindness
+And cannot lose your way.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Good faith, I’ll prove him,
+Speed how it will. I shall ere long have knowledge
+Of my success.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+COMINIUS.
+He’ll never hear him.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Not?
+
+COMINIUS.
+I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye
+Red as ’twould burn Rome; and his injury
+The jailer to his pity. I kneeled before him;
+’Twas very faintly he said “Rise”; dismissed me
+Thus with his speechless hand. What he would do
+He sent in writing after me; what he
+Would not, bound with an oath to yield to his
+Conditions. So that all hope is vain
+Unless his noble mother and his wife,
+Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him
+For mercy to his country. Therefore let’s hence
+And with our fair entreaties haste them on.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. An Advanced post of the Volscian camp before Rome.
+
+Enter Menenius to the Watch, or Guard.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Stay! Whence are you?
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Stand, and go back.
+
+MENENIUS.
+You guard like men; ’tis well. But by your leave,
+I am an officer of state and come
+To speak with Coriolanus.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+From whence?
+
+MENENIUS.
+From Rome.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+You may not pass; you must return. Our general
+Will no more hear from thence.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+You’ll see your Rome embraced with fire before
+You’ll speak with Coriolanus.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Good my friends,
+If you have heard your general talk of Rome
+And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks
+My name hath touched your ears. It is Menenius.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Be it so; go back. The virtue of your name
+Is not here passable.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I tell thee, fellow,
+Thy general is my lover. I have been
+The book of his good acts, whence men have read
+His fame unparalleled happily amplified;
+For I have ever verified my friends—
+Of whom he’s chief—with all the size that verity
+Would without lapsing suffer. Nay, sometimes,
+Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground,
+I have tumbled past the throw, and in his praise
+Have almost stamped the leasing. Therefore, fellow,
+I must have leave to pass.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Faith, sir, if you had told as many lies in his behalf as you have
+uttered words in your own, you should not pass here, no, though it were
+as virtuous to lie as to live chastely. Therefore, go back.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius, always factionary on the
+party of your general.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Howsoever you have been his liar, as you say you have, I am one that,
+telling true under him, must say you cannot pass. Therefore go back.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Has he dined, can’st thou tell? For I would not speak with him till
+after dinner.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+You are a Roman, are you?
+
+MENENIUS.
+I am, as thy general is.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Then you should hate Rome as he does. Can you, when you have pushed out
+your gates the very defender of them, and, in a violent popular
+ignorance given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges
+with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your
+daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as
+you seem to be? Can you think to blow out the intended fire your city
+is ready to flame in with such weak breath as this? No, you are
+deceived. Therefore back to Rome and prepare for your execution. You
+are condemned. Our general has sworn you out of reprieve and pardon.
+
+MENENIUS.
+Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he would use me with
+estimation.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Come, my captain knows you not.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I mean thy general.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+My general cares not for you. Back, I say, go, lest I let forth your
+half pint of blood. Back! That’s the utmost of your having. Back!
+
+MENENIUS.
+Nay, but fellow, fellow—
+
+Enter Coriolanus with Aufidius.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+What’s the matter?
+
+MENENIUS.
+Now, you companion, I’ll say an errand for you. You shall know now that
+I am in estimation; you shall perceive that a Jack guardant cannot
+office me from my son Coriolanus. Guess but by my entertainment with
+him if thou stand’st not i’ th’ state of hanging or of some death more
+long in spectatorship and crueller in suffering; behold now presently,
+and swoon for what’s to come upon thee. [_to Coriolanus_.] The glorious
+gods sit in hourly synod about thy particular prosperity and love thee
+no worse than thy old father Menenius does! O my son, my son! Thou art
+preparing fire for us; look thee, here’s water to quench it. I was
+hardly moved to come to thee; but being assured none but myself could
+move thee, I have been blown out of your gates with sighs, and conjure
+thee to pardon Rome and thy petitionary countrymen. The good gods
+assuage thy wrath and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet here, this,
+who, like a block, hath denied my access to thee.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Away!
+
+MENENIUS.
+How? Away?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs
+Are servanted to others. Though I owe
+My revenge properly, my remission lies
+In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar,
+Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison rather
+Than pity note how much. Therefore begone.
+Mine ears against your suits are stronger than
+Your gates against my force. Yet, for I loved thee,
+Take this along; I writ it for thy sake,
+
+[_He gives Menenius a paper._]
+
+And would have sent it. Another word, Menenius,
+I will not hear thee speak.—This man, Aufidius,
+Was my beloved in Rome; yet thou behold’st.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+You keep a constant temper.
+
+[_They exit._]
+
+[_The Guard and Menenius remain._]
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Now, sir, is your name Menenius?
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+’Tis a spell, you see, of much power. You know the way home again.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your Greatness back?
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+What cause do you think I have to swoon?
+
+MENENIUS.
+I neither care for th’ world nor your general. For such things as you,
+I can scarce think there’s any, you’re so slight. He that hath a will
+to die by himself fears it not from another. Let your general do his
+worst. For you, be that you are, long; and your misery increase with
+your age! I say to you, as I was said to, away!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+A noble fellow, I warrant him.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+The worthy fellow is our general. He is the rock, the oak not to be
+wind-shaken.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The tent of Coriolanus
+
+Enter Coriolanus and Aufidius.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+We will before the walls of Rome tomorrow
+Set down our host. My partner in this action,
+You must report to th’ Volscian lords how plainly
+I have borne this business.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Only their ends
+You have respected, stopped your ears against
+The general suit of Rome; never admitted
+A private whisper, no, not with such friends
+That thought them sure of you.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+This last old man,
+Whom with cracked heart I have sent to Rome,
+Loved me above the measure of a father,
+Nay, godded me indeed. Their latest refuge
+Was to send him, for whose old love I have—
+Though I showed sourly to him—once more offered
+The first conditions, which they did refuse
+And cannot now accept, to grace him only
+That thought he could do more. A very little
+I have yielded to. Fresh embassies and suits,
+Nor from the state nor private friends, hereafter
+Will I lend ear to.
+
+[_Shout within._]
+
+Ha? What shout is this?
+Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow
+In the same time ’tis made? I will not.
+
+Enter Virgilia, Volumnia, Valeria, young Martius with attendants.
+
+My wife comes foremost, then the honoured mold
+Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand
+The grandchild to her blood. But out, affection!
+All bond and privilege of nature, break!
+Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.
+What is that curtsy worth? Or those doves’ eyes,
+Which can make gods forsworn? I melt and am not
+Of stronger earth than others. My mother bows,
+As if Olympus to a molehill should
+In supplication nod; and my young boy
+Hath an aspect of intercession which
+Great Nature cries “Deny not!” Let the Volsces
+Plough Rome and harrow Italy, I’ll never
+Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
+As if a man were author of himself,
+And knew no other kin.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+My lord and husband.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+The sorrow that delivers us thus changed
+Makes you think so.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Like a dull actor now,
+I have forgot my part, and I am out,
+Even to a full disgrace. Best of my flesh,
+Forgive my tyranny, but do not say
+For that, “Forgive our Romans.”
+
+[_They kiss._]
+
+O, a kiss
+Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
+Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
+I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
+Hath virgined it e’er since. You gods! I prate
+And the most noble mother of the world
+Leave unsaluted. Sink, my knee, i’ th’ earth;
+
+[_Kneels._]
+
+Of thy deep duty more impression show
+Than that of common sons.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+O, stand up blest,
+
+[_He rises_.]
+
+Whilst with no softer cushion than the flint
+I kneel before thee and unproperly
+Show duty, as mistaken all this while
+Between the child and parent.
+
+[_She kneels._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+What is this?
+Your knees to me? To your corrected son?
+
+[_He raises her up._]
+
+Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
+Fillip the stars! Then let the mutinous winds
+Strike the proud cedars ’gainst the fiery sun,
+Murdering impossibility to make
+What cannot be slight work.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Thou art my warrior;
+I holp to frame thee. Do you know this lady?
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+The noble sister of Publicola,
+The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
+That’s curdied by the frost from purest snow
+And hangs on Dian’s temple!—Dear Valeria.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+This is a poor epitome of yours,
+Which by th’ interpretation of full time
+May show like all yourself.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+The god of soldiers,
+With the consent of supreme Jove, inform
+Thy thoughts with nobleness, that thou mayst prove
+To shame unvulnerable, and stick i’ th’ wars
+Like a great seamark standing every flaw
+And saving those that eye thee.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+[_To young Martius_.] Your knee, sirrah.
+
+[_He kneels._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+That’s my brave boy!
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Even he, your wife, this lady, and myself
+Are suitors to you.
+
+[_Young Martius rises._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I beseech you, peace;
+Or, if you’d ask, remember this before:
+The thing I have forsworn to grant may never
+Be held by you denials. Do not bid me
+Dismiss my soldiers or capitulate
+Again with Rome’s mechanics. Tell me not
+Wherein I seem unnatural; desire not
+T’ allay my rages and revenges with
+Your colder reasons.
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+O, no more, no more!
+You have said you will not grant us anything;
+For we have nothing else to ask but that
+Which you deny already. Yet we will ask,
+That if you fail in our request, the blame
+May hang upon your hardness. Therefore hear us.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark, for we’ll
+Hear naught from Rome in private. Your request?
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment
+And state of bodies would bewray what life
+We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself
+How more unfortunate than all living women
+Are we come hither; since that thy sight, which should
+Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts,
+Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow,
+Making the mother, wife, and child to see
+The son, the husband, and the father tearing
+His country’s bowels out. And to poor we
+Thine enmity’s most capital. Thou barr’st us
+Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort
+That all but we enjoy. For how can we—
+Alas, how can we—for our country pray,
+Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,
+Whereto we are bound? Alack, or we must lose
+The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,
+Our comfort in the country. We must find
+An evident calamity, though we had
+Our wish, which side should win, for either thou
+Must as a foreign recreant be led
+With manacles through our streets, or else
+Triumphantly tread on thy country’s ruin
+And bear the palm for having bravely shed
+Thy wife and children’s blood. For myself, son,
+I purpose not to wait on fortune till
+These wars determine. If I cannot persuade thee
+Rather to show a noble grace to both parts
+Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner
+March to assault thy country than to tread—
+Trust to’t, thou shalt not—on thy mother’s womb
+That brought thee to this world.
+
+VIRGILIA.
+Ay, and mine,
+That brought you forth this boy to keep your name
+Living to time.
+
+YOUNG MARTIUS.
+He shall not tread on me.
+I’ll run away till I am bigger, but then I’ll fight.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Not of a woman’s tenderness to be
+Requires nor child nor woman’s face to see.—
+I have sat too long.
+
+[_He rises._]
+
+VOLUMNIA.
+Nay, go not from us thus.
+If it were so, that our request did tend
+To save the Romans, thereby to destroy
+The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us
+As poisonous of your honour. No, our suit
+Is that you reconcile them, while the Volsces
+May say “This mercy we have showed,” the Romans
+“This we received,” and each in either side
+Give the all-hail to thee and cry, “Be blessed
+For making up this peace!” Thou know’st, great son,
+The end of war’s uncertain, but this certain,
+That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
+Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name
+Whose repetition will be dogged with curses,
+Whose chronicle thus writ: “The man was noble,
+But with his last attempt he wiped it out;
+Destroyed his country, and his name remains
+To th’ ensuing age abhorred.” Speak to me, son.
+Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour
+To imitate the graces of the gods,
+To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o’ th’ air
+And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt
+That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak?
+Think’st thou it honourable for a noble man
+Still to remember wrongs?—Daughter, speak you.
+He cares not for your weeping.—Speak thou, boy.
+Perhaps thy childishness will move him more
+Than can our reasons.—There’s no man in the world
+More bound to’s mother, yet here he lets me prate
+Like one i’ th’ stocks. Thou hast never in thy life
+Showed thy dear mother any courtesy
+When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
+Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home,
+Loaden with honour. Say my request’s unjust
+And spurn me back; but if it be not so,
+Thou art not honest, and the gods will plague thee
+That thou restrain’st from me the duty which
+To a mother’s part belongs.—He turns away.—
+Down, ladies! Let us shame him with our knees.
+To his surname Coriolanus ’longs more pride
+Than pity to our prayers. Down! An end.
+
+[_They kneel._]
+
+This is the last. So we will home to Rome
+And die among our neighbours.—Nay, behold’s.
+This boy that cannot tell what he would have,
+But kneels and holds up hands for fellowship,
+Does reason our petition with more strength
+Than thou hast to deny’t.—Come, let us go.
+
+[_They rise._]
+
+This fellow had a Volscian to his mother,
+His wife is in Corioles, and his child
+Like him by chance.—Yet give us our dispatch.
+I am hushed until our city be afire,
+And then I’ll speak a little.
+
+[_He holds her by the hand, silent._]
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+O mother, mother!
+What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,
+The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
+They laugh at. O my mother, mother, O!
+You have won a happy victory to Rome,
+But, for your son—believe it, O, believe it!—
+Most dangerously you have with him prevailed,
+If not most mortal to him. But let it come.—
+Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars,
+I’ll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius,
+Were you in my stead, would you have heard
+A mother less? Or granted less, Aufidius?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+I was moved withal.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+I dare be sworn you were.
+And, sir, it is no little thing to make
+Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir,
+What peace you’ll make, advise me. For my part,
+I’ll not to Rome, I’ll back with you; and pray you,
+Stand to me in this cause.—O mother!—Wife!
+
+[_He speaks with them aside._]
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+[_Aside_.] I am glad thou hast set thy mercy and thy honour
+At difference in thee. Out of that I’ll work
+Myself a former fortune.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+[_To the Women_.] Ay, by and by;
+But we’ll drink together, and you shall bear
+A better witness back than words, which we,
+On like conditions, will have countersealed.
+Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve
+To have a temple built you. All the swords
+In Italy, and her confederate arms,
+Could not have made this peace.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Rome. A public place
+
+Enter Menenius and Sicinius.
+
+MENENIUS.
+See you yond coign o’ the Capitol, yond cornerstone?
+
+SICINIUS.
+Why, what of that?
+
+MENENIUS.
+If it be possible for you to displace it with your little finger, there
+is some hope the ladies of Rome, especially his mother, may prevail
+with him. But I say there is no hope in’t. Our throats are sentenced
+and stay upon execution.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Is’t possible that so short a time can alter the condition of a man?
+
+MENENIUS.
+There is differency between a grub and a butterfly, yet your butterfly
+was a grub. This Martius is grown from man to dragon. He has wings;
+he’s more than a creeping thing.
+
+SICINIUS.
+He loved his mother dearly.
+
+MENENIUS.
+So did he me; and he no more remembers his mother now than an
+eight-year-old horse. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. When
+he walks, he moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before his
+treading. He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye, talks like a
+knell, and his hum is a battery. He sits in his state as a thing made
+for Alexander. What he bids be done is finished with his bidding. He
+wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Yes, mercy, if you report him truly.
+
+MENENIUS.
+I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy his mother shall bring
+from him. There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male
+tiger. That shall our poor city find, and all this is long of you.
+
+SICINIUS.
+The gods be good unto us.
+
+MENENIUS.
+No, in such a case the gods will not be good unto us. When we banished
+him, we respected not them; and he returning to break our necks, they
+respect not us.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Sir, if you’d save your life, fly to your house.
+The plebeians have got your fellow tribune
+And hale him up and down, all swearing if
+The Roman ladies bring not comfort home,
+They’ll give him death by inches.
+
+Enter another Messenger.
+
+SICINIUS.
+What’s the news?
+
+SECOND MESSENGER.
+Good news, good news! The ladies have prevailed.
+The Volscians are dislodged and Martius gone.
+A merrier day did never yet greet Rome,
+No, not th’ expulsion of the Tarquins.
+
+SICINIUS.
+Friend,
+Art thou certain this is true? Is’t most certain?
+
+SECOND MESSENGER.
+As certain as I know the sun is fire.
+Where have you lurked that you make doubt of it?
+Ne’er through an arch so hurried the blown tide
+As the recomforted through th’ gates. Why, hark you!
+
+[_Trumpets, hautboys, drums beat, all together._]
+
+The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries, and fifes,
+Tabors and cymbals, and the shouting Romans
+Make the sun dance. Hark you!
+
+[_A shout within._]
+
+MENENIUS.
+This is good news.
+I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia
+Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians
+A city full; of tribunes such as you
+A sea and land full. You have prayed well today.
+This morning for ten thousand of your throats
+I’d not have given a doit. Hark, how they joy!
+
+[_Sound still with the shouts._]
+
+SICINIUS.
+First, the gods bless you for your tidings; next, accept my
+thankfulness.
+
+SECOND MESSENGER.
+Sir, we have all great cause to give great thanks.
+
+SICINIUS.
+They are near the city?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Almost at point to enter.
+
+SICINIUS.
+We’ll meet them, and help the joy.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Rome. A street near the gate
+
+Enter two Senators, with Ladies (Volumnia, Virgilia, Valeria) passing
+over the stage, with other Lords.
+
+SENATOR.
+Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!
+Call all your tribes together, praise the gods,
+And make triumphant fires. Strew flowers before them,
+Unshout the noise that banished Martius,
+Repeal him with the welcome of his mother.
+Cry “Welcome, ladies, welcome!”
+
+ALL.
+Welcome, ladies, welcome!
+
+[_A flourish with drums and trumpets._]
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Antium. A public place
+
+Enter Tullus Aufidius with Attendants.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Go tell the lords o’ th’ city I am here.
+Deliver them this paper.
+
+[_He gives them a paper_.]
+
+Having read it,
+Bid them repair to th’ marketplace, where I,
+Even in theirs and in the commons’ ears,
+Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse
+The city ports by this hath entered and
+Intends t’ appear before the people, hoping
+To purge himself with words. Dispatch.
+
+[_Exeunt Attendants._]
+
+Enter three or four Conspirators of Aufidius’s faction.
+
+Most welcome!
+
+FIRST CONSPIRATOR.
+How is it with our general?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Even so
+As with a man by his own alms empoisoned
+And with his charity slain.
+
+SECOND CONSPIRATOR.
+Most noble sir,
+If you do hold the same intent wherein
+You wished us parties, we’ll deliver you
+Of your great danger.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Sir, I cannot tell.
+We must proceed as we do find the people.
+
+THIRD CONSPIRATOR.
+The people will remain uncertain whilst
+’Twixt you there’s difference, but the fall of either
+Makes the survivor heir of all.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+I know it,
+And my pretext to strike at him admits
+A good construction. I raised him, and I pawned
+Mine honour for his truth, who being so heightened,
+He watered his new plants with dews of flattery,
+Seducing so my friends; and to this end,
+He bowed his nature, never known before
+But to be rough, unswayable, and free.
+
+THIRD CONSPIRATOR.
+Sir, his stoutness
+When he did stand for consul, which he lost
+By lack of stooping—
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+That I would have spoke of.
+Being banished for’t, he came unto my hearth,
+Presented to my knife his throat. I took him,
+Made him joint servant with me, gave him way
+In all his own desires; nay, let him choose
+Out of my files, his projects to accomplish,
+My best and freshest men; served his designments
+In mine own person; holp to reap the fame
+Which he did end all his; and took some pride
+To do myself this wrong; till at the last
+I seemed his follower, not partner; and
+He waged me with his countenance as if
+I had been mercenary.
+
+FIRST CONSPIRATOR.
+So he did, my lord.
+The army marvelled at it, and, in the last,
+When he had carried Rome and that we looked
+For no less spoil than glory—
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+There was it
+For which my sinews shall be stretched upon him.
+At a few drops of women’s rheum, which are
+As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour
+Of our great action. Therefore shall he die,
+And I’ll renew me in his fall. But, hark!
+
+[_Drums and trumpets sound, with great shouts of the people._]
+
+FIRST CONSPIRATOR.
+Your native town you entered like a post
+And had no welcomes home, but he returns
+Splitting the air with noise.
+
+SECOND CONSPIRATOR.
+And patient fools,
+Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear
+With giving him glory.
+
+THIRD CONSPIRATOR.
+Therefore at your vantage,
+Ere he express himself or move the people
+With what he would say, let him feel your sword,
+Which we will second. When he lies along,
+After your way his tale pronounced shall bury
+His reasons with his body.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Say no more.
+Here come the lords.
+
+Enter the Lords of the city.
+
+ALL LORDS.
+You are most welcome home.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+I have not deserved it.
+But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused
+What I have written to you?
+
+ALL LORDS.
+We have.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+And grieve to hear’t.
+What faults he made before the last, I think
+Might have found easy fines, but there to end
+Where he was to begin and give away
+The benefit of our levies, answering us
+With our own charge, making a treaty where
+There was a yielding—this admits no excuse.
+
+Enter Coriolanus marching with Drum and Colours, the Commoners being
+with him.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+He approaches. You shall hear him.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Hail, lords! I am returned your soldier,
+No more infected with my country’s love
+Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting
+Under your great command. You are to know
+That prosperously I have attempted, and
+With bloody passage led your wars even to
+The gates of Rome. Our spoils we have brought home
+Doth more than counterpoise a full third part
+The charges of the action. We have made peace
+With no less honour to the Antiates
+Than shame to th’ Romans, and we here deliver,
+Subscribed by th’ Consuls and patricians,
+Together with the seal o’ th’ Senate, what
+We have compounded on.
+
+[_He offers the lords a paper._]
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Read it not, noble lords,
+But tell the traitor in the highest degree
+He hath abused your powers.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+“Traitor?” How now?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Ay, traitor, Martius.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Martius?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Ay, Martius, Caius Martius. Dost thou think
+I’ll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol’n name
+Coriolanus, in Corioles?
+You lords and heads o’ th’ state, perfidiously
+He has betrayed your business and given up
+For certain drops of salt your city Rome—
+I say your city—to his wife and mother,
+Breaking his oath and resolution like
+A twist of rotten silk, never admitting
+Counsel o’ th’ war, but at his nurse’s tears
+He whined and roared away your victory,
+That pages blushed at him and men of heart
+Looked wond’ring each at other.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Hear’st thou, Mars?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Name not the god, thou boy of tears.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Ha?
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+No more.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart
+Too great for what contains it. “Boy”? O slave!—
+Pardon me, lords, ’tis the first time that ever
+I was forced to scold. Your judgments, my grave lords,
+Must give this cur the lie; and his own notion—
+Who wears my stripes impressed upon him, that
+Must bear my beating to his grave—shall join
+To thrust the lie unto him.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Peace, both, and hear me speak.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+Cut me to pieces, Volsces. Men and lads,
+Stain all your edges on me. “Boy”? False hound!
+If you have writ your annals true, ’tis there,
+That like an eagle in a dovecote, I
+Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles,
+Alone I did it. “Boy”!
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Why, noble lords,
+Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune,
+Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart,
+’Fore your own eyes and ears?
+
+ALL CONSPIRATORS.
+Let him die for’t.
+
+ALL PEOPLE
+Tear him to pieces! Do it presently! He killed my son! My daughter! He
+killed my cousin Marcus! He killed my father!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Peace, ho! No outrage! Peace!
+The man is noble, and his fame folds in
+This orb o’ th’ Earth. His last offences to us
+Shall have judicious hearing. Stand, Aufidius,
+And trouble not the peace.
+
+CORIOLANUS.
+O that I had him,
+With six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe,
+To use my lawful sword.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+Insolent villain!
+
+ALL CONSPIRATORS.
+Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill him!
+
+
+[_Draw the Conspirators, and kills Martius, who falls. Aufidius stands
+on him._]
+
+LORDS.
+Hold, hold, hold, hold!
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+My noble masters, hear me speak.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+O Tullus!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.
+
+THIRD LORD.
+Tread not upon him.—Masters, all be quiet.—
+Put up your swords.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+My lords, when you shall know—as in this rage,
+Provoked by him, you cannot—the great danger
+Which this man’s life did owe you, you’ll rejoice
+That he is thus cut off. Please it your Honours
+To call me to your senate, I’ll deliver
+Myself your loyal servant, or endure
+Your heaviest censure.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Bear from hence his body,
+And mourn you for him. Let him be regarded
+As the most noble corse that ever herald
+Did follow to his urn.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+His own impatience
+Takes from Aufidius a great part of blame.
+Let’s make the best of it.
+
+AUFIDIUS.
+My rage is gone,
+And I am struck with sorrow.—Take him up.
+Help, three o’ th’ chiefest soldiers; I’ll be one.—
+Beat thou the drum that it speak mournfully.—
+Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he
+Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
+Which to this hour bewail the injury,
+Yet he shall have a noble memory.
+Assist.
+
+[_Exeunt, bearing the body of Martius. A dead march sounded._]
+
+
+
+
+CYMBELINE
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. Britain. The garden of Cymbeline’s palace.
+Scene II. The same.
+Scene III. Britain. A public place.
+Scene IV. Britain. Cymbeline’s palace.
+Scene V. Rome. Philario’s house.
+Scene VI. Britain. Cymbeline’s palace.
+Scene VII. Britain. The palace.
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. Britain. Before Cymbeline’s palace.
+Scene II. Britain. Imogen’s bedchamber in Cymbeline’s palace; a trunk
+in one corner.
+Scene III. Cymbeline’s palace. An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen’s
+apartments.
+Scene IV. Rome. Philario’s house.
+Scene V. Rome. Another room in Philario’s house.
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. Britain. A hall in Cymbeline’s palace.
+Scene II. Britain. Another room in Cymbeline’s palace.
+Scene III. Wales. A mountainous country with a cave.
+Scene IV. Wales, near Milford Haven.
+Scene V. Britain. Cymbeline’s palace.
+Scene VI. Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.
+Scene VII. The same.
+Scene VIII. Rome. A public place.
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. Wales. Near the cave of Belarius.
+Scene II. Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.
+Scene III. Britain. Cymbeline’s palace.
+Scene IV. Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. Britain. The Roman camp.
+Scene II. Britain. A field of battle between the British and Roman
+camps.
+Scene III. Another part of the field.
+Scene IV. Britain. A prison.
+Scene V. Britain. Cymbeline’s tent.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+CYMBELINE, King of Britain
+CLOTEN, son to the Queen by a former husband
+POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, a gentleman, husband to Imogen
+BELARIUS, a banished lord, disguised under the name of Morgan
+GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS, sons to Cymbeline, disguised under the names
+of POLYDORE and CADWAL, supposed sons to Belarius
+PHILARIO, Italian, friend to Posthumus
+IACHIMO, Italian, friend to Philario
+CAIUS LUCIUS, General of the Roman forces
+PISANIO, servant to Posthumus
+CORNELIUS, a physician
+A SOOTHSAYER
+A ROMAN CAPTAIN
+TWO BRITISH CAPTAINS
+A FRENCH GENTLEMAN, friend to Philario
+TWO LORDS of Cymbeline’s court
+TWO GENTLEMEN of the same
+TWO GAOLERS
+
+QUEEN, wife to Cymbeline
+IMOGEN, daughter to Cymbeline by a former queen
+HELEN, a lady attending on Imogen
+
+APPARITIONS
+
+Lords, Ladies, Roman Senators, Tribunes, a Dutch Gentleman, a Spanish
+Gentleman, Musicians, Officers, Captains, Soldiers, Messengers, and
+Attendants
+
+SCENE: Britain; Italy.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Britain. The garden of Cymbeline’s palace.
+
+
+ Enter two Gentlemen.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+You do not meet a man but frowns; our bloods
+No more obey the heavens than our courtiers
+Still seem as does the King’s.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+But what’s the matter?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+His daughter, and the heir of’s kingdom, whom
+He purpos’d to his wife’s sole son—a widow
+That late he married—hath referr’d herself
+Unto a poor but worthy gentleman. She’s wedded;
+Her husband banish’d; she imprison’d. All
+Is outward sorrow, though I think the King
+Be touch’d at very heart.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+None but the King?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+He that hath lost her too. So is the Queen,
+That most desir’d the match. But not a courtier,
+Although they wear their faces to the bent
+Of the King’s looks, hath a heart that is not
+Glad at the thing they scowl at.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+And why so?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+He that hath miss’d the Princess is a thing
+Too bad for bad report; and he that hath her—
+I mean that married her, alack, good man!
+And therefore banish’d—is a creature such
+As, to seek through the regions of the earth
+For one his like, there would be something failing
+In him that should compare. I do not think
+So fair an outward and such stuff within
+Endows a man but he.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+You speak him far.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I do extend him, sir, within himself;
+Crush him together rather than unfold
+His measure duly.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+What’s his name and birth?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I cannot delve him to the root; his father
+Was call’d Sicilius, who did join his honour
+Against the Romans with Cassibelan,
+But had his titles by Tenantius, whom
+He serv’d with glory and admir’d success,
+So gain’d the sur-addition Leonatus;
+And had, besides this gentleman in question,
+Two other sons, who, in the wars o’ th’ time,
+Died with their swords in hand; for which their father,
+Then old and fond of issue, took such sorrow
+That he quit being; and his gentle lady,
+Big of this gentleman, our theme, deceas’d
+As he was born. The King he takes the babe
+To his protection, calls him Posthumus Leonatus,
+Breeds him and makes him of his bed-chamber,
+Puts to him all the learnings that his time
+Could make him the receiver of; which he took,
+As we do air, fast as ’twas minist’red,
+And in’s spring became a harvest, liv’d in court—
+Which rare it is to do—most prais’d, most lov’d,
+A sample to the youngest; to th’ more mature
+A glass that feated them; and to the graver
+A child that guided dotards. To his mistress,
+For whom he now is banish’d, her own price
+Proclaims how she esteem’d him and his virtue;
+By her election may be truly read
+What kind of man he is.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I honour him
+Even out of your report. But pray you tell me,
+Is she sole child to th’ King?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+His only child.
+He had two sons—if this be worth your hearing,
+Mark it—the eldest of them at three years old,
+I’ th’ swathing clothes the other, from their nursery
+Were stol’n; and to this hour no guess in knowledge
+Which way they went.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+How long is this ago?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Some twenty years.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+That a king’s children should be so convey’d,
+So slackly guarded, and the search so slow
+That could not trace them!
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Howsoe’er ’tis strange,
+Or that the negligence may well be laugh’d at,
+Yet is it true, sir.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I do well believe you.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+We must forbear; here comes the gentleman,
+The Queen, and Princess.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same.
+
+ Enter Queen, Posthumus and Imogen.
+
+QUEEN.
+No, be assur’d you shall not find me, daughter,
+After the slander of most stepmothers,
+Evil-ey’d unto you. You’re my prisoner, but
+Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys
+That lock up your restraint. For you, Posthumus,
+So soon as I can win th’ offended King,
+I will be known your advocate. Marry, yet
+The fire of rage is in him, and ’twere good
+You lean’d unto his sentence with what patience
+Your wisdom may inform you.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Please your Highness,
+I will from hence today.
+
+QUEEN.
+You know the peril.
+I’ll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying
+The pangs of barr’d affections, though the King
+Hath charg’d you should not speak together.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+IMOGEN.
+O dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant
+Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband,
+I something fear my father’s wrath, but nothing
+(Always reserv’d my holy duty) what
+His rage can do on me. You must be gone;
+And I shall here abide the hourly shot
+Of angry eyes, not comforted to live
+But that there is this jewel in the world
+That I may see again.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+My queen! my mistress!
+O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause
+To be suspected of more tenderness
+Than doth become a man. I will remain
+The loyal’st husband that did e’er plight troth;
+My residence in Rome at one Philario’s,
+Who to my father was a friend, to me
+Known but by letter; thither write, my queen,
+And with mine eyes I’ll drink the words you send,
+Though ink be made of gall.
+
+ Enter Queen.
+
+QUEEN.
+Be brief, I pray you.
+If the King come, I shall incur I know not
+How much of his displeasure. [_Aside._] Yet I’ll move him
+To walk this way. I never do him wrong
+But he does buy my injuries, to be friends;
+Pays dear for my offences.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Should we be taking leave
+As long a term as yet we have to live,
+The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu!
+
+IMOGEN.
+Nay, stay a little.
+Were you but riding forth to air yourself,
+Such parting were too petty. Look here, love:
+This diamond was my mother’s; take it, heart;
+But keep it till you woo another wife,
+When Imogen is dead.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+How, how? Another?
+You gentle gods, give me but this I have,
+And sear up my embracements from a next
+With bonds of death! Remain, remain thou here
+
+ [_Puts on the ring._]
+
+While sense can keep it on. And, sweetest, fairest,
+As I my poor self did exchange for you,
+To your so infinite loss, so in our trifles
+I still win of you. For my sake wear this;
+It is a manacle of love; I’ll place it
+Upon this fairest prisoner.
+
+ [_Puts a bracelet on her arm._]
+
+IMOGEN.
+O the gods!
+When shall we see again?
+
+ Enter Cymbeline and Lords.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Alack, the King!
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Thou basest thing, avoid; hence from my sight
+If after this command thou fraught the court
+With thy unworthiness, thou diest. Away!
+Thou’rt poison to my blood.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+The gods protect you,
+And bless the good remainders of the court!
+I am gone.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+IMOGEN.
+There cannot be a pinch in death
+More sharp than this is.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+O disloyal thing,
+That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap’st
+A year’s age on me!
+
+IMOGEN.
+I beseech you, sir,
+Harm not yourself with your vexation.
+I am senseless of your wrath; a touch more rare
+Subdues all pangs, all fears.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Past grace? obedience?
+
+IMOGEN.
+Past hope, and in despair; that way past grace.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+That mightst have had the sole son of my queen!
+
+IMOGEN.
+O blessed that I might not! I chose an eagle,
+And did avoid a puttock.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Thou took’st a beggar, wouldst have made my throne
+A seat for baseness.
+
+IMOGEN.
+No; I rather added
+A lustre to it.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+O thou vile one!
+
+IMOGEN.
+Sir,
+It is your fault that I have lov’d Posthumus.
+You bred him as my playfellow, and he is
+A man worth any woman; overbuys me
+Almost the sum he pays.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+What, art thou mad?
+
+IMOGEN.
+Almost, sir. Heaven restore me! Would I were
+A neat-herd’s daughter, and my Leonatus
+Our neighbour shepherd’s son!
+
+ Enter Queen.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Thou foolish thing!
+[_To the Queen._] They were again together. You have done
+Not after our command. Away with her,
+And pen her up.
+
+QUEEN.
+Beseech your patience. Peace,
+Dear lady daughter, peace!—Sweet sovereign,
+Leave us to ourselves, and make yourself some comfort
+Out of your best advice.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Nay, let her languish
+A drop of blood a day and, being aged,
+Die of this folly.
+
+ [_Exit with Lords._]
+
+ Enter Pisanio.
+
+QUEEN.
+Fie! you must give way.
+Here is your servant. How now, sir! What news?
+
+PISANIO.
+My lord your son drew on my master.
+
+QUEEN.
+Ha!
+No harm, I trust, is done?
+
+PISANIO.
+There might have been,
+But that my master rather play’d than fought,
+And had no help of anger; they were parted
+By gentlemen at hand.
+
+QUEEN.
+I am very glad on’t.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Your son’s my father’s friend; he takes his part
+To draw upon an exile! O brave sir!
+I would they were in Afric both together;
+Myself by with a needle, that I might prick
+The goer-back. Why came you from your master?
+
+PISANIO.
+On his command. He would not suffer me
+To bring him to the haven; left these notes
+Of what commands I should be subject to,
+When’t pleas’d you to employ me.
+
+QUEEN.
+This hath been
+Your faithful servant. I dare lay mine honour
+He will remain so.
+
+PISANIO.
+I humbly thank your Highness.
+
+QUEEN.
+Pray walk awhile.
+
+IMOGEN.
+About some half-hour hence,
+Pray you speak with me.
+You shall at least go see my lord aboard.
+For this time leave me.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Britain. A public place.
+
+ Enter Cloten and two Lords.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the violence of action hath
+made you reek as a sacrifice. Where air comes out, air comes in;
+there’s none abroad so wholesome as that you vent.
+
+CLOTEN.
+If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] No, faith; not so much as his patience.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Hurt him! His body’s a passable carcass if he be not hurt. It is a
+throughfare for steel if it be not hurt.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] His steel was in debt; it went o’ th’ backside the town.
+
+CLOTEN.
+The villain would not stand me.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] No; but he fled forward still, toward your face.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Stand you? You have land enough of your own; but he added to your
+having, gave you some ground.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] As many inches as you have oceans.
+Puppies!
+
+CLOTEN.
+I would they had not come between us.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] So would I, till you had measur’d how long a fool you were
+upon the ground.
+
+CLOTEN.
+And that she should love this fellow, and refuse me!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] If it be a sin to make a true election, she is damn’d.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain go not together;
+she’s a good sign, but I have seen small reflection of her wit.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] She shines not upon fools, lest the reflection should hurt
+her.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Come, I’ll to my chamber. Would there had been some hurt done!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] I wish not so; unless it had been the fall of an ass, which
+is no great hurt.
+
+CLOTEN.
+You’ll go with us?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I’ll attend your lordship.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Nay, come, let’s go together.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Well, my lord.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Britain. Cymbeline’s palace.
+
+ Enter Imogen and Pisanio.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I would thou grew’st unto the shores o’ th’ haven,
+And questioned’st every sail; if he should write,
+And I not have it, ’twere a paper lost,
+As offer’d mercy is. What was the last
+That he spake to thee?
+
+PISANIO.
+It was: his queen, his queen!
+
+IMOGEN.
+Then wav’d his handkerchief?
+
+PISANIO.
+And kiss’d it, madam.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Senseless linen, happier therein than I!
+And that was all?
+
+PISANIO.
+No, madam; for so long
+As he could make me with his eye, or ear
+Distinguish him from others, he did keep
+The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
+Still waving, as the fits and stirs of’s mind
+Could best express how slow his soul sail’d on,
+How swift his ship.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Thou shouldst have made him
+As little as a crow, or less, ere left
+To after-eye him.
+
+PISANIO.
+Madam, so I did.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I would have broke mine eyestrings, crack’d them but
+To look upon him, till the diminution
+Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;
+Nay, followed him till he had melted from
+The smallness of a gnat to air, and then
+Have turn’d mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,
+When shall we hear from him?
+
+PISANIO.
+Be assur’d, madam,
+With his next vantage.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I did not take my leave of him, but had
+Most pretty things to say. Ere I could tell him
+How I would think on him at certain hours
+Such thoughts and such; or I could make him swear
+The shes of Italy should not betray
+Mine interest and his honour; or have charg’d him,
+At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
+T’ encounter me with orisons, for then
+I am in heaven for him; or ere I could
+Give him that parting kiss which I had set
+Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father,
+And like the tyrannous breathing of the north
+Shakes all our buds from growing.
+
+ Enter a Lady.
+
+LADY.
+The Queen, madam,
+Desires your Highness’ company.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch’d.
+I will attend the Queen.
+
+PISANIO.
+Madam, I shall.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Rome. Philario’s house.
+
+ Enter Philario, Iachimo, a Frenchman, a Dutchman and a Spaniard.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain. He was then of a crescent
+note, expected to prove so worthy as since he hath been allowed the
+name of. But I could then have look’d on him without the help of
+admiration, though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by
+his side, and I to peruse him by items.
+
+PHILARIO.
+You speak of him when he was less furnish’d than now he is with that
+which makes him both without and within.
+
+FRENCHMAN.
+I have seen him in France; we had very many there could behold the sun
+with as firm eyes as he.
+
+IACHIMO.
+This matter of marrying his king’s daughter, wherein he must be weighed
+rather by her value than his own, words him, I doubt not, a great deal
+from the matter.
+
+FRENCHMAN.
+And then his banishment.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this lamentable divorce
+under her colours are wonderfully to extend him, be it but to fortify
+her judgement, which else an easy battery might lay flat, for taking a
+beggar, without less quality. But how comes it he is to sojourn with
+you? How creeps acquaintance?
+
+PHILARIO.
+His father and I were soldiers together, to whom I have been often
+bound for no less than my life.
+
+ Enter Posthumus.
+
+Here comes the Briton. Let him be so entertained amongst you as suits
+with gentlemen of your knowing to a stranger of his quality. I beseech
+you all be better known to this gentleman, whom I commend to you as a
+noble friend of mine. How worthy he is I will leave to appear
+hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
+
+FRENCHMAN.
+Sir, we have known together in Orleans.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies, which I will be
+ever to pay and yet pay still.
+
+FRENCHMAN.
+Sir, you o’errate my poor kindness. I was glad I did atone my
+countryman and you; it had been pity you should have been put together
+with so mortal a purpose as then each bore, upon importance of so
+slight and trivial a nature.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+By your pardon, sir. I was then a young traveller; rather shunn’d to go
+even with what I heard than in my every action to be guided by others’
+experiences; but upon my mended judgement (if I offend not to say it is
+mended) my quarrel was not altogether slight.
+
+FRENCHMAN.
+Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of swords, and by such two
+that would by all likelihood have confounded one the other or have
+fall’n both.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Can we, with manners, ask what was the difference?
+
+FRENCHMAN.
+Safely, I think. ’Twas a contention in public, which may, without
+contradiction, suffer the report. It was much like an argument that
+fell out last night, where each of us fell in praise of our country
+mistresses; this gentleman at that time vouching (and upon warrant of
+bloody affirmation) his to be more fair, virtuous, wise, chaste,
+constant, qualified, and less attemptable, than any the rarest of our
+ladies in France.
+
+IACHIMO.
+That lady is not now living, or this gentleman’s opinion, by this, worn
+out.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+She holds her virtue still, and I my mind.
+
+IACHIMO.
+You must not so far prefer her ’fore ours of Italy.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Being so far provok’d as I was in France, I would abate her nothing,
+though I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.
+
+IACHIMO.
+As fair and as good—a kind of hand-in-hand comparison—had been
+something too fair and too good for any lady in Britain. If she went
+before others I have seen as that diamond of yours outlustres many I
+have beheld, I could not but believe she excelled many; but I have not
+seen the most precious diamond that is, nor you the lady.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I prais’d her as I rated her. So do I my stone.
+
+IACHIMO.
+What do you esteem it at?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+More than the world enjoys.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Either your unparagon’d mistress is dead, or she’s outpriz’d by a
+trifle.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+You are mistaken: the one may be sold or given, if there were wealth
+enough for the purchase or merit for the gift; the other is not a thing
+for sale, and only the gift of the gods.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Which the gods have given you?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Which by their graces I will keep.
+
+IACHIMO.
+You may wear her in title yours; but you know strange fowl light upon
+neighbouring ponds. Your ring may be stol’n too. So your brace of
+unprizable estimations, the one is but frail and the other casual; a
+cunning thief, or a that-way-accomplish’d courtier, would hazard the
+winning both of first and last.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Your Italy contains none so accomplish’d a courtier to convince the
+honour of my mistress, if in the holding or loss of that you term her
+frail. I do nothing doubt you have store of thieves; notwithstanding, I
+fear not my ring.
+
+PHILARIO.
+Let us leave here, gentlemen.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Sir, with all my heart. This worthy signior, I thank him, makes no
+stranger of me; we are familiar at first.
+
+IACHIMO.
+With five times so much conversation I should get ground of your fair
+mistress; make her go back even to the yielding, had I admittance and
+opportunity to friend.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+No, no.
+
+IACHIMO.
+I dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate to your ring, which, in
+my opinion, o’ervalues it something. But I make my wager rather against
+your confidence than her reputation; and, to bar your offence herein
+too, I durst attempt it against any lady in the world.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+You are a great deal abus’d in too bold a persuasion, and I doubt not
+you sustain what y’are worthy of by your attempt.
+
+IACHIMO.
+What’s that?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+A repulse; though your attempt, as you call it, deserve more; a
+punishment too.
+
+PHILARIO.
+Gentlemen, enough of this. It came in too suddenly; let it die as it
+was born, and I pray you be better acquainted.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Would I had put my estate and my neighbour’s on th’ approbation of what
+I have spoke!
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+What lady would you choose to assail?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Yours, whom in constancy you think stands so safe. I will lay you ten
+thousand ducats to your ring that, commend me to the court where your
+lady is, with no more advantage than the opportunity of a second
+conference, and I will bring from thence that honour of hers which you
+imagine so reserv’d.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I will wage against your gold, gold to it. My ring I hold dear as my
+finger; ’tis part of it.
+
+IACHIMO.
+You are a friend, and therein the wiser. If you buy ladies’ flesh at a
+million a dram, you cannot preserve it from tainting. But I see you
+have some religion in you, that you fear.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+This is but a custom in your tongue; you bear a graver purpose, I hope.
+
+IACHIMO.
+I am the master of my speeches, and would undergo what’s spoken, I
+swear.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Will you? I shall but lend my diamond till your return. Let there be
+covenants drawn between’s. My mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness
+of your unworthy thinking. I dare you to this match: here’s my ring.
+
+PHILARIO.
+I will have it no lay.
+
+IACHIMO.
+By the gods, it is one. If I bring you no sufficient testimony that I
+have enjoy’d the dearest bodily part of your mistress, my ten thousand
+ducats are yours; so is your diamond too. If I come off, and leave her
+in such honour as you have trust in, she your jewel, this your jewel,
+and my gold are yours: provided I have your commendation for my more
+free entertainment.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I embrace these conditions; let us have articles betwixt us. Only, thus
+far you shall answer: if you make your voyage upon her, and give me
+directly to understand you have prevail’d, I am no further your enemy;
+she is not worth our debate; if she remain unseduc’d, you not making it
+appear otherwise, for your ill opinion and th’ assault you have made to
+her chastity you shall answer me with your sword.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Your hand, a covenant! We will have these things set down by lawful
+counsel, and straight away for Britain, lest the bargain should catch
+cold and starve. I will fetch my gold and have our two wagers recorded.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Agreed.
+
+ [_Exeunt Posthumus and Iachimo._]
+
+FRENCHMAN.
+Will this hold, think you?
+
+PHILARIO.
+Signior Iachimo will not from it. Pray let us follow ’em.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Britain. Cymbeline’s palace.
+
+ Enter Queen, Ladies and Cornelius.
+
+QUEEN.
+Whiles yet the dew’s on ground, gather those flowers;
+Make haste; who has the note of them?
+
+LADY.
+I, madam.
+
+QUEEN.
+Dispatch.
+
+ [_Exeunt Ladies._]
+
+Now, Master Doctor, have you brought those drugs?
+
+CORNELIUS.
+Pleaseth your Highness, ay. Here they are, madam.
+
+ [_Presenting a box._]
+
+But I beseech your Grace, without offence,
+(My conscience bids me ask) wherefore you have
+Commanded of me these most poisonous compounds
+Which are the movers of a languishing death,
+But, though slow, deadly?
+
+QUEEN.
+I wonder, Doctor,
+Thou ask’st me such a question. Have I not been
+Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn’d me how
+To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so
+That our great king himself doth woo me oft
+For my confections? Having thus far proceeded
+(Unless thou think’st me devilish) is’t not meet
+That I did amplify my judgement in
+Other conclusions? I will try the forces
+Of these thy compounds on such creatures as
+We count not worth the hanging (but none human)
+To try the vigour of them, and apply
+Allayments to their act, and by them gather
+Their several virtues and effects.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+Your Highness
+Shall from this practice but make hard your heart;
+Besides, the seeing these effects will be
+Both noisome and infectious.
+
+QUEEN.
+O, content thee.
+
+ Enter Pisanio.
+
+[_Aside._] Here comes a flattering rascal; upon him
+Will I first work. He’s for his master,
+An enemy to my son. How now, Pisanio!
+Doctor, your service for this time is ended;
+Take your own way.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+[_Aside._] I do suspect you, madam;
+But you shall do no harm.
+
+QUEEN.
+[_To Pisanio._] Hark thee, a word.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+[_Aside._] I do not like her. She doth think she has
+Strange ling’ring poisons. I do know her spirit,
+And will not trust one of her malice with
+A drug of such damn’d nature. Those she has
+Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile,
+Which first perchance she’ll prove on cats and dogs,
+Then afterward up higher; but there is
+No danger in what show of death it makes,
+More than the locking up the spirits a time,
+To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool’d
+With a most false effect; and I the truer
+So to be false with her.
+
+QUEEN.
+No further service, Doctor,
+Until I send for thee.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+I humbly take my leave.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+QUEEN.
+Weeps she still, say’st thou? Dost thou think in time
+She will not quench, and let instructions enter
+Where folly now possesses? Do thou work.
+When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son,
+I’ll tell thee on the instant thou art then
+As great as is thy master; greater, for
+His fortunes all lie speechless, and his name
+Is at last gasp. Return he cannot, nor
+Continue where he is. To shift his being
+Is to exchange one misery with another,
+And every day that comes comes to decay
+A day’s work in him. What shalt thou expect
+To be depender on a thing that leans,
+Who cannot be new built, nor has no friends
+So much as but to prop him?
+
+ [_The Queen drops the box. Pisanio takes it up._]
+
+Thou tak’st up
+Thou know’st not what; but take it for thy labour.
+It is a thing I made, which hath the King
+Five times redeem’d from death. I do not know
+What is more cordial. Nay, I prithee take it;
+It is an earnest of a further good
+That I mean to thee. Tell thy mistress how
+The case stands with her; do’t as from thyself.
+Think what a chance thou changest on; but think
+Thou hast thy mistress still; to boot, my son,
+Who shall take notice of thee. I’ll move the King
+To any shape of thy preferment, such
+As thou’lt desire; and then myself, I chiefly,
+That set thee on to this desert, am bound
+To load thy merit richly. Call my women.
+Think on my words.
+
+ [_Exit Pisanio._]
+
+A sly and constant knave,
+Not to be shak’d; the agent for his master,
+And the remembrancer of her to hold
+The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that
+Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her
+Of liegers for her sweet; and which she after,
+Except she bend her humour, shall be assur’d
+To taste of too.
+
+ Enter Pisanio and Ladies.
+
+So, so. Well done, well done.
+The violets, cowslips, and the primroses,
+Bear to my closet. Fare thee well, Pisanio;
+Think on my words.
+
+ [_Exeunt Queen and Ladies._]
+
+PISANIO.
+And shall do.
+But when to my good lord I prove untrue
+I’ll choke myself: there’s all I’ll do for you.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VII. Britain. The palace.
+
+ Enter Imogen alone.
+
+IMOGEN.
+A father cruel and a step-dame false;
+A foolish suitor to a wedded lady
+That hath her husband banish’d. O, that husband!
+My supreme crown of grief! and those repeated
+Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol’n,
+As my two brothers, happy! but most miserable
+Is the desire that’s glorious. Blessed be those,
+How mean soe’er, that have their honest wills,
+Which seasons comfort. Who may this be? Fie!
+
+ Enter Pisanio and Iachimo.
+
+PISANIO.
+Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome
+Comes from my lord with letters.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Change you, madam?
+The worthy Leonatus is in safety,
+And greets your Highness dearly.
+
+ [_Presents a letter._]
+
+IMOGEN.
+Thanks, good sir.
+You’re kindly welcome.
+
+IACHIMO.
+[_Aside._] All of her that is out of door most rich!
+If she be furnish’d with a mind so rare,
+She is alone th’ Arabian bird, and I
+Have lost the wager. Boldness be my friend!
+Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!
+Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight;
+Rather, directly fly.
+
+IMOGEN.
+[_Reads._] _He is one of the noblest note, to whose kindnesses I am
+most infinitely tied. Reflect upon him accordingly, as you value your
+trust.
+                    LEONATUS._
+
+So far I read aloud;
+But even the very middle of my heart
+Is warm’d by th’ rest and takes it thankfully.
+You are as welcome, worthy sir, as I
+Have words to bid you; and shall find it so
+In all that I can do.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Thanks, fairest lady.
+What, are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes
+To see this vaulted arch and the rich crop
+Of sea and land, which can distinguish ’twixt
+The fiery orbs above and the twinn’d stones
+Upon the number’d beach, and can we not
+Partition make with spectacles so precious
+’Twixt fair and foul?
+
+IMOGEN.
+What makes your admiration?
+
+IACHIMO.
+It cannot be i’ th’ eye, for apes and monkeys,
+’Twixt two such shes, would chatter this way and
+Contemn with mows the other; nor i’ th’ judgement,
+For idiots in this case of favour would
+Be wisely definite; nor i’ th’ appetite;
+Sluttery, to such neat excellence oppos’d,
+Should make desire vomit emptiness,
+Not so allur’d to feed.
+
+IMOGEN.
+What is the matter, trow?
+
+IACHIMO.
+The cloyed will—
+That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, that tub
+Both fill’d and running—ravening first the lamb,
+Longs after for the garbage.
+
+IMOGEN.
+What, dear sir,
+Thus raps you? Are you well?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Thanks, madam; well. Beseech you, sir,
+Desire my man’s abode where I did leave him.
+He’s strange and peevish.
+
+PISANIO.
+I was going, sir,
+To give him welcome.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+IMOGEN.
+Continues well my lord? His health beseech you?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Well, madam.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Is he dispos’d to mirth? I hope he is.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Exceeding pleasant; none a stranger there
+So merry and so gamesome. He is call’d
+The Briton reveller.
+
+IMOGEN.
+When he was here
+He did incline to sadness, and oft-times
+Not knowing why.
+
+IACHIMO.
+I never saw him sad.
+There is a Frenchman his companion, one
+An eminent monsieur that, it seems, much loves
+A Gallian girl at home. He furnaces
+The thick sighs from him; whiles the jolly Briton
+(Your lord, I mean) laughs from’s free lungs, cries “O,
+Can my sides hold, to think that man, who knows
+By history, report, or his own proof,
+What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose
+But must be, will’s free hours languish for
+Assured bondage?”
+
+IMOGEN.
+Will my lord say so?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter.
+It is a recreation to be by
+And hear him mock the Frenchman. But heavens know
+Some men are much to blame.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Not he, I hope.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Not he; but yet heaven’s bounty towards him might
+Be us’d more thankfully. In himself, ’tis much;
+In you, which I account his, beyond all talents.
+Whilst I am bound to wonder, I am bound
+To pity too.
+
+IMOGEN.
+What do you pity, sir?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Two creatures heartily.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Am I one, sir?
+You look on me: what wreck discern you in me
+Deserves your pity?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Lamentable! What,
+To hide me from the radiant sun and solace
+I’ th’ dungeon by a snuff?
+
+IMOGEN.
+I pray you, sir,
+Deliver with more openness your answers
+To my demands. Why do you pity me?
+
+IACHIMO.
+That others do,
+I was about to say, enjoy your—But
+It is an office of the gods to venge it,
+Not mine to speak on’t.
+
+IMOGEN.
+You do seem to know
+Something of me, or what concerns me; pray you,
+Since doubting things go ill often hurts more
+Than to be sure they do; for certainties
+Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
+The remedy then born—discover to me
+What both you spur and stop.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Had I this cheek
+To bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch,
+Whose every touch, would force the feeler’s soul
+To th’ oath of loyalty; this object, which
+Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye,
+Fixing it only here; should I, damn’d then,
+Slaver with lips as common as the stairs
+That mount the Capitol; join gripes with hands
+Made hard with hourly falsehood (falsehood as
+With labour): then by-peeping in an eye
+Base and illustrious as the smoky light
+That’s fed with stinking tallow: it were fit
+That all the plagues of hell should at one time
+Encounter such revolt.
+
+IMOGEN.
+My lord, I fear,
+Has forgot Britain.
+
+IACHIMO.
+And himself. Not I
+Inclin’d to this intelligence pronounce
+The beggary of his change; but ’tis your graces
+That from my mutest conscience to my tongue
+Charms this report out.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Let me hear no more.
+
+IACHIMO.
+O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
+With pity that doth make me sick! A lady
+So fair, and fasten’d to an empery,
+Would make the great’st king double, to be partner’d
+With tomboys hir’d with that self exhibition
+Which your own coffers yield! with diseas’d ventures
+That play with all infirmities for gold
+Which rottenness can lend nature! Such boil’d stuff
+As well might poison poison! Be reveng’d;
+Or she that bore you was no queen, and you
+Recoil from your great stock.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Reveng’d?
+How should I be reveng’d? If this be true,
+(As I have such a heart that both mine ears
+Must not in haste abuse) if it be true,
+How should I be reveng’d?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Should he make me
+Live like Diana’s priest betwixt cold sheets,
+Whiles he is vaulting variable ramps,
+In your despite, upon your purse? Revenge it.
+I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure,
+More noble than that runagate to your bed,
+And will continue fast to your affection,
+Still close as sure.
+
+IMOGEN.
+What ho, Pisanio!
+
+IACHIMO.
+Let me my service tender on your lips.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Away! I do condemn mine ears that have
+So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable,
+Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not
+For such an end thou seek’st, as base as strange.
+Thou wrong’st a gentleman who is as far
+From thy report as thou from honour; and
+Solicits here a lady that disdains
+Thee and the devil alike. What ho, Pisanio!
+The King my father shall be made acquainted
+Of thy assault. If he shall think it fit
+A saucy stranger in his court to mart
+As in a Romish stew, and to expound
+His beastly mind to us, he hath a court
+He little cares for, and a daughter who
+He not respects at all. What ho, Pisanio!
+
+IACHIMO.
+O happy Leonatus! I may say
+The credit that thy lady hath of thee
+Deserves thy trust, and thy most perfect goodness
+Her assur’d credit. Blessed live you long,
+A lady to the worthiest sir that ever
+Country call’d his! and you his mistress, only
+For the most worthiest fit! Give me your pardon.
+I have spoke this to know if your affiance
+Were deeply rooted, and shall make your lord
+That which he is new o’er; and he is one
+The truest manner’d, such a holy witch
+That he enchants societies into him,
+Half all men’s hearts are his.
+
+IMOGEN.
+You make amends.
+
+IACHIMO.
+He sits ’mongst men like a descended god:
+He hath a kind of honour sets him off
+More than a mortal seeming. Be not angry,
+Most mighty Princess, that I have adventur’d
+To try your taking of a false report, which hath
+Honour’d with confirmation your great judgement
+In the election of a sir so rare,
+Which you know cannot err. The love I bear him
+Made me to fan you thus; but the gods made you,
+Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray your pardon.
+
+IMOGEN.
+All’s well, sir; take my pow’r i’ th’ court for yours.
+
+IACHIMO.
+My humble thanks. I had almost forgot
+T’ entreat your Grace but in a small request,
+And yet of moment too, for it concerns
+Your lord; myself and other noble friends
+Are partners in the business.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Pray what is’t?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Some dozen Romans of us, and your lord
+(The best feather of our wing) have mingled sums
+To buy a present for the Emperor;
+Which I, the factor for the rest, have done
+In France. ’Tis plate of rare device, and jewels
+Of rich and exquisite form, their values great;
+And I am something curious, being strange,
+To have them in safe stowage. May it please you
+To take them in protection?
+
+IMOGEN.
+Willingly;
+And pawn mine honour for their safety. Since
+My lord hath interest in them, I will keep them
+In my bedchamber.
+
+IACHIMO.
+They are in a trunk,
+Attended by my men. I will make bold
+To send them to you only for this night;
+I must aboard tomorrow.
+
+IMOGEN.
+O, no, no.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Yes, I beseech; or I shall short my word
+By length’ning my return. From Gallia
+I cross’d the seas on purpose and on promise
+To see your Grace.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I thank you for your pains.
+But not away tomorrow!
+
+IACHIMO.
+O, I must, madam.
+Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please
+To greet your lord with writing, do’t tonight.
+I have outstood my time, which is material
+To th’ tender of our present.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I will write.
+Send your trunk to me; it shall safe be kept
+And truly yielded you. You’re very welcome.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Britain. Before Cymbeline’s palace.
+
+
+ Enter Cloten and the two Lords.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Was there ever man had such luck! When I kiss’d the jack, upon an
+upcast to be hit away! I had a hundred pound on’t; and then a whoreson
+jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of
+him, and might not spend them at my pleasure.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+What got he by that? You have broke his pate with your bowl.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] If his wit had been like him that broke it, it would have
+run all out.
+
+CLOTEN.
+When a gentleman is dispos’d to swear, it is not for any standers-by to
+curtail his oaths. Ha?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+No, my lord; [_Aside._] nor crop the ears of them.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Whoreson dog! I gave him satisfaction. Would he had been one of my
+rank!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] To have smell’d like a fool.
+
+CLOTEN.
+I am not vex’d more at anything in th’ earth. A pox on’t! I had rather
+not be so noble as I am; they dare not fight with me, because of the
+Queen my mother. Every jackslave hath his bellyful of fighting, and I
+must go up and down like a cock that nobody can match.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] You are cock and capon too; and you crow, cock, with your
+comb on.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Sayest thou?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you
+give offence to.
+
+CLOTEN.
+No, I know that; but it is fit I should commit offence to my inferiors.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Ay, it is fit for your lordship only.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Why, so I say.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Did you hear of a stranger that’s come to court tonight?
+
+CLOTEN.
+A stranger, and I not known on’t?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] He’s a strange fellow himself, and knows it not.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+There’s an Italian come, and, ’tis thought, one of Leonatus’ friends.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Leonatus? A banish’d rascal; and he’s another, whatsoever he be. Who
+told you of this stranger?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+One of your lordship’s pages.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in’t?
+
+SECOND LORD.
+You cannot derogate, my lord.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Not easily, I think.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+[_Aside._] You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being
+foolish, do not derogate.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Come, I’ll go see this Italian. What I have lost today at bowls I’ll
+win tonight of him. Come, go.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+I’ll attend your lordship.
+
+ [_Exeunt Cloten and First Lord._]
+
+That such a crafty devil as is his mother
+Should yield the world this ass! A woman that
+Bears all down with her brain; and this her son
+Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,
+And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess,
+Thou divine Imogen, what thou endur’st,
+Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern’d,
+A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer
+More hateful than the foul expulsion is
+Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act
+Of the divorce he’d make! The heavens hold firm
+The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshak’d
+That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand
+T’ enjoy thy banish’d lord and this great land!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Britain. Imogen’s bedchamber in Cymbeline’s palace; a trunk
+in one corner.
+
+ Enter Imogen in her bed, and a Lady attending.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Who’s there? My woman Helen?
+
+LADY.
+Please you, madam.
+
+IMOGEN.
+What hour is it?
+
+LADY.
+Almost midnight, madam.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I have read three hours then. Mine eyes are weak;
+Fold down the leaf where I have left. To bed.
+Take not away the taper, leave it burning;
+And if thou canst awake by four o’ th’ clock,
+I prithee call me. Sleep hath seiz’d me wholly.
+
+ [_Exit Lady._]
+
+To your protection I commend me, gods.
+From fairies and the tempters of the night
+Guard me, beseech ye!
+
+ [_Sleeps. Iachimo comes from the trunk._]
+
+IACHIMO.
+The crickets sing, and man’s o’er-labour’d sense
+Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus
+Did softly press the rushes ere he waken’d
+The chastity he wounded. Cytherea,
+How bravely thou becom’st thy bed! fresh lily,
+And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch!
+But kiss; one kiss! Rubies unparagon’d,
+How dearly they do’t! ’Tis her breathing that
+Perfumes the chamber thus. The flame o’ th’ taper
+Bows toward her and would under-peep her lids
+To see th’ enclosed lights, now canopied
+Under these windows white and azure, lac’d
+With blue of heaven’s own tinct. But my design
+To note the chamber. I will write all down:
+Such and such pictures; there the window; such
+Th’ adornment of her bed; the arras, figures,
+Why, such and such; and the contents o’ th’ story.
+Ah, but some natural notes about her body
+Above ten thousand meaner movables
+Would testify, t’ enrich mine inventory.
+O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her!
+And be her sense but as a monument,
+Thus in a chapel lying! Come off, come off;
+
+ [_Taking off her bracelet._]
+
+As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard!
+’Tis mine; and this will witness outwardly,
+As strongly as the conscience does within,
+To th’ madding of her lord. On her left breast
+A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops
+I’ th’ bottom of a cowslip. Here’s a voucher
+Stronger than ever law could make; this secret
+Will force him think I have pick’d the lock and ta’en
+The treasure of her honour. No more. To what end?
+Why should I write this down that’s riveted,
+Screw’d to my memory? She hath been reading late
+The tale of Tereus; here the leaf’s turn’d down
+Where Philomel gave up. I have enough.
+To th’ trunk again, and shut the spring of it.
+Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning
+May bare the raven’s eye! I lodge in fear;
+Though this a heavenly angel, hell is here.
+
+ [_Clock strikes._]
+
+One, two, three. Time, time!
+
+ [_Exit into the trunk._]
+
+SCENE III. Cymbeline’s palace. An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen’s
+apartments.
+
+ Enter Cloten and Lords.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the most coldest that
+ever turn’d up ace.
+
+CLOTEN.
+It would make any man cold to lose.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+But not every man patient after the noble temper of your lordship. You
+are most hot and furious when you win.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Winning will put any man into courage. If I could get this foolish
+Imogen, I should have gold enough. It’s almost morning, is’t not?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Day, my lord.
+
+CLOTEN.
+I would this music would come. I am advised to give her music a
+mornings; they say it will penetrate.
+
+ Enter Musicians.
+
+Come on, tune. If you can penetrate her with your fingering, so. We’ll
+try with tongue too. If none will do, let her remain; but I’ll never
+give o’er. First, a very excellent good-conceited thing; after, a
+wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich words to it, and then let her
+consider.
+
+SONG
+
+
+    Hark, hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings,
+        And Phœbus ’gins arise,
+    His steeds to water at those springs
+        On chalic’d flow’rs that lies;
+    And winking Mary-buds begin
+        To ope their golden eyes.
+    With everything that pretty is,
+        My lady sweet, arise;
+            Arise, arise!
+
+CLOTEN.
+So, get you gone. If this penetrate, I will consider your music the
+better; if it do not, it is a vice in her ears which horsehairs and
+calves’ guts, nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to boot, can never amend.
+
+ [_Exeunt Musicians._]
+
+ Enter Cymbeline and Queen.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Here comes the King.
+
+CLOTEN.
+I am glad I was up so late, for that’s the reason I was up so early. He
+cannot choose but take this service I have done fatherly.—Good morrow
+to your Majesty and to my gracious mother.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Attend you here the door of our stern daughter?
+Will she not forth?
+
+CLOTEN.
+I have assail’d her with musics, but she vouchsafes no notice.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+The exile of her minion is too new;
+She hath not yet forgot him; some more time
+Must wear the print of his remembrance on’t,
+And then she’s yours.
+
+QUEEN.
+You are most bound to th’ King,
+Who lets go by no vantages that may
+Prefer you to his daughter. Frame yourself
+To orderly solicits, and be friended
+With aptness of the season; make denials
+Increase your services; so seem as if
+You were inspir’d to do those duties which
+You tender to her; that you in all obey her,
+Save when command to your dismission tends,
+And therein you are senseless.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Senseless? Not so.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+So like you, sir, ambassadors from Rome;
+The one is Caius Lucius.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+A worthy fellow,
+Albeit he comes on angry purpose now;
+But that’s no fault of his. We must receive him
+According to the honour of his sender;
+And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,
+We must extend our notice. Our dear son,
+When you have given good morning to your mistress,
+Attend the Queen and us; we shall have need
+T’ employ you towards this Roman. Come, our queen.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Cloten._]
+
+CLOTEN.
+If she be up, I’ll speak with her; if not,
+Let her lie still and dream. By your leave, ho!
+
+ [_Knocks._]
+
+I know her women are about her; what
+If I do line one of their hands? ’Tis gold
+Which buys admittance (oft it doth) yea, and makes
+Diana’s rangers false themselves, yield up
+Their deer to th’ stand o’ th’ stealer; and ’tis gold
+Which makes the true man kill’d and saves the thief;
+Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man. What
+Can it not do and undo? I will make
+One of her women lawyer to me, for
+I yet not understand the case myself.
+By your leave.
+
+ [_Knocks._]
+
+ Enter a Lady.
+
+LADY.
+Who’s there that knocks?
+
+CLOTEN.
+A gentleman.
+
+LADY.
+No more?
+
+CLOTEN.
+Yes, and a gentlewoman’s son.
+
+LADY.
+That’s more
+Than some whose tailors are as dear as yours
+Can justly boast of. What’s your lordship’s pleasure?
+
+CLOTEN.
+Your lady’s person; is she ready?
+
+LADY.
+Ay,
+To keep her chamber.
+
+CLOTEN.
+There is gold for you; sell me your good report.
+
+LADY.
+How? My good name? or to report of you
+What I shall think is good? The Princess!
+
+ Enter Imogen.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Good morrow, fairest sister. Your sweet hand.
+
+ [_Exit Lady._]
+
+IMOGEN.
+Good morrow, sir. You lay out too much pains
+For purchasing but trouble. The thanks I give
+Is telling you that I am poor of thanks,
+And scarce can spare them.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Still I swear I love you.
+
+IMOGEN.
+If you but said so, ’twere as deep with me.
+If you swear still, your recompense is still
+That I regard it not.
+
+CLOTEN.
+This is no answer.
+
+IMOGEN.
+But that you shall not say I yield, being silent,
+I would not speak. I pray you spare me. Faith,
+I shall unfold equal discourtesy
+To your best kindness; one of your great knowing
+Should learn, being taught, forbearance.
+
+CLOTEN.
+To leave you in your madness ’twere my sin;
+I will not.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Fools are not mad folks.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Do you call me fool?
+
+IMOGEN.
+As I am mad, I do;
+If you’ll be patient, I’ll no more be mad;
+That cures us both. I am much sorry, sir,
+You put me to forget a lady’s manners
+By being so verbal; and learn now, for all,
+That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce,
+By th’ very truth of it, I care not for you,
+And am so near the lack of charity
+To accuse myself I hate you; which I had rather
+You felt than make’t my boast.
+
+CLOTEN.
+You sin against
+Obedience, which you owe your father. For
+The contract you pretend with that base wretch,
+One bred of alms and foster’d with cold dishes,
+With scraps o’ th’ court, it is no contract, none.
+And though it be allowed in meaner parties
+(Yet who than he more mean?) to knit their souls
+(On whom there is no more dependency
+But brats and beggary) in self-figur’d knot,
+Yet you are curb’d from that enlargement by
+The consequence o’ th’ crown, and must not foil
+The precious note of it with a base slave,
+A hilding for a livery, a squire’s cloth,
+A pantler; not so eminent!
+
+IMOGEN.
+Profane fellow!
+Wert thou the son of Jupiter, and no more
+But what thou art besides, thou wert too base
+To be his groom. Thou wert dignified enough,
+Even to the point of envy, if ’twere made
+Comparative for your virtues to be styl’d
+The under-hangman of his kingdom, and hated
+For being preferr’d so well.
+
+CLOTEN.
+The south fog rot him!
+
+IMOGEN.
+He never can meet more mischance than come
+To be but nam’d of thee. His mean’st garment
+That ever hath but clipp’d his body, is dearer
+In my respect, than all the hairs above thee,
+Were they all made such men. How now, Pisanio!
+
+ Enter Pisanio.
+
+CLOTEN.
+‘His garment’! Now the devil—
+
+IMOGEN.
+To Dorothy my woman hie thee presently.
+
+CLOTEN.
+‘His garment’!
+
+IMOGEN.
+I am sprited with a fool;
+Frighted, and ang’red worse. Go bid my woman
+Search for a jewel that too casually
+Hath left mine arm. It was thy master’s; shrew me,
+If I would lose it for a revenue
+Of any king’s in Europe! I do think
+I saw’t this morning; confident I am
+Last night ’twas on mine arm; I kiss’d it.
+I hope it be not gone to tell my lord
+That I kiss aught but he.
+
+PISANIO.
+’Twill not be lost.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I hope so. Go and search.
+
+ [_Exit Pisanio._]
+
+CLOTEN.
+You have abus’d me.
+‘His meanest garment’!
+
+IMOGEN.
+Ay, I said so, sir.
+If you will make ’t an action, call witness to ’t.
+
+CLOTEN.
+I will inform your father.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Your mother too.
+She’s my good lady and will conceive, I hope,
+But the worst of me. So I leave you, sir,
+To th’ worst of discontent.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CLOTEN.
+I’ll be reveng’d.
+‘His mean’st garment’! Well.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Rome. Philario’s house.
+
+ Enter Posthumus and Philario.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Fear it not, sir; I would I were so sure
+To win the King as I am bold her honour
+Will remain hers.
+
+PHILARIO.
+What means do you make to him?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Not any; but abide the change of time,
+Quake in the present winter’s state, and wish
+That warmer days would come. In these fear’d hopes
+I barely gratify your love; they failing,
+I must die much your debtor.
+
+PHILARIO.
+Your very goodness and your company
+O’erpays all I can do. By this your king
+Hath heard of great Augustus. Caius Lucius
+Will do’s commission throughly; and I think
+He’ll grant the tribute, send th’ arrearages,
+Or look upon our Romans, whose remembrance
+Is yet fresh in their grief.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I do believe
+Statist though I am none, nor like to be,
+That this will prove a war; and you shall hear
+The legions now in Gallia sooner landed
+In our not-fearing Britain than have tidings
+Of any penny tribute paid. Our countrymen
+Are men more order’d than when Julius Cæsar
+Smil’d at their lack of skill, but found their courage
+Worthy his frowning at. Their discipline,
+Now mingled with their courages, will make known
+To their approvers they are people such
+That mend upon the world.
+
+ Enter Iachimo.
+
+PHILARIO.
+See! Iachimo!
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+The swiftest harts have posted you by land,
+And winds of all the corners kiss’d your sails,
+To make your vessel nimble.
+
+PHILARIO.
+Welcome, sir.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I hope the briefness of your answer made
+The speediness of your return.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Your lady
+Is one of the fairest that I have look’d upon.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+And therewithal the best; or let her beauty
+Look through a casement to allure false hearts,
+And be false with them.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Here are letters for you.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Their tenour good, I trust.
+
+IACHIMO.
+’Tis very like.
+
+PHILARIO.
+Was Caius Lucius in the Britain court
+When you were there?
+
+IACHIMO.
+He was expected then,
+But not approach’d.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+All is well yet.
+Sparkles this stone as it was wont, or is’t not
+Too dull for your good wearing?
+
+IACHIMO.
+If I have lost it,
+I should have lost the worth of it in gold.
+I’ll make a journey twice as far t’ enjoy
+A second night of such sweet shortness which
+Was mine in Britain; for the ring is won.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+The stone’s too hard to come by.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Not a whit,
+Your lady being so easy.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Make not, sir,
+Your loss your sport. I hope you know that we
+Must not continue friends.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Good sir, we must,
+If you keep covenant. Had I not brought
+The knowledge of your mistress home, I grant
+We were to question farther; but I now
+Profess myself the winner of her honour,
+Together with your ring; and not the wronger
+Of her or you, having proceeded but
+By both your wills.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+If you can make’t apparent
+That you have tasted her in bed, my hand
+And ring is yours. If not, the foul opinion
+You had of her pure honour gains or loses
+Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both
+To who shall find them.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Sir, my circumstances,
+Being so near the truth as I will make them,
+Must first induce you to believe; whose strength
+I will confirm with oath; which I doubt not
+You’ll give me leave to spare when you shall find
+You need it not.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Proceed.
+
+IACHIMO.
+First, her bedchamber,
+(Where I confess I slept not, but profess
+Had that was well worth watching) it was hang’d
+With tapestry of silk and silver; the story,
+Proud Cleopatra when she met her Roman
+And Cydnus swell’d above the banks, or for
+The press of boats or pride. A piece of work
+So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive
+In workmanship and value; which I wonder’d
+Could be so rarely and exactly wrought,
+Since the true life on’t was—
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+This is true;
+And this you might have heard of here, by me
+Or by some other.
+
+IACHIMO.
+More particulars
+Must justify my knowledge.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+So they must,
+Or do your honour injury.
+
+IACHIMO.
+The chimney
+Is south the chamber, and the chimneypiece
+Chaste Dian bathing. Never saw I figures
+So likely to report themselves. The cutter
+Was as another nature, dumb; outwent her,
+Motion and breath left out.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+This is a thing
+Which you might from relation likewise reap,
+Being, as it is, much spoke of.
+
+IACHIMO.
+The roof o’ th’ chamber
+With golden cherubins is fretted; her andirons
+(I had forgot them) were two winking Cupids
+Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely
+Depending on their brands.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+This is her honour!
+Let it be granted you have seen all this, and praise
+Be given to your remembrance; the description
+Of what is in her chamber nothing saves
+The wager you have laid.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Then, if you can, [_Shows the bracelet_]
+Be pale. I beg but leave to air this jewel. See!
+And now ’tis up again. It must be married
+To that your diamond; I’ll keep them.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Jove!
+Once more let me behold it. Is it that
+Which I left with her?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Sir (I thank her) that.
+She stripp’d it from her arm; I see her yet;
+Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
+And yet enrich’d it too. She gave it me, and said
+She priz’d it once.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+May be she pluck’d it off
+To send it me.
+
+IACHIMO.
+She writes so to you, doth she?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+O, no, no, no! ’tis true. Here, take this too;
+
+ [_Gives the ring._]
+
+It is a basilisk unto mine eye,
+Kills me to look on’t. Let there be no honour
+Where there is beauty; truth where semblance; love
+Where there’s another man. The vows of women
+Of no more bondage be to where they are made
+Than they are to their virtues, which is nothing.
+O, above measure false!
+
+PHILARIO.
+Have patience, sir,
+And take your ring again; ’tis not yet won.
+It may be probable she lost it, or
+Who knows if one her women, being corrupted
+Hath stol’n it from her?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Very true;
+And so I hope he came by’t. Back my ring.
+Render to me some corporal sign about her,
+More evident than this; for this was stol’n.
+
+IACHIMO.
+By Jupiter, I had it from her arm!
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Hark you, he swears; by Jupiter he swears.
+’Tis true, nay, keep the ring, ’tis true. I am sure
+She would not lose it. Her attendants are
+All sworn and honourable:—they induc’d to steal it!
+And by a stranger! No, he hath enjoy’d her.
+The cognizance of her incontinency
+Is this: she hath bought the name of whore thus dearly.
+There, take thy hire; and all the fiends of hell
+Divide themselves between you!
+
+
+PHILARIO.
+Sir, be patient;
+This is not strong enough to be believ’d
+Of one persuaded well of.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Never talk on’t;
+She hath been colted by him.
+
+IACHIMO.
+If you seek
+For further satisfying, under her breast
+(Worthy the pressing) lies a mole, right proud
+Of that most delicate lodging. By my life,
+I kiss’d it; and it gave me present hunger
+To feed again, though full. You do remember
+This stain upon her?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Ay, and it doth confirm
+Another stain, as big as hell can hold,
+Were there no more but it.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Will you hear more?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Spare your arithmetic; never count the turns.
+Once, and a million!
+
+IACHIMO.
+I’ll be sworn—
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+No swearing.
+If you will swear you have not done’t, you lie;
+And I will kill thee if thou dost deny
+Thou’st made me cuckold.
+
+IACHIMO.
+I’ll deny nothing.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+O that I had her here to tear her limb-meal!
+I will go there and do’t, i’ th’ court, before
+Her father. I’ll do something—
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PHILARIO.
+Quite besides
+The government of patience! You have won.
+Let’s follow him and pervert the present wrath
+He hath against himself.
+
+IACHIMO.
+With all my heart.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Rome. Another room in Philario’s house.
+
+ Enter Posthumus.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Is there no way for men to be, but women
+Must be half-workers? We are all bastards,
+And that most venerable man which I
+Did call my father was I know not where
+When I was stamp’d. Some coiner with his tools
+Made me a counterfeit; yet my mother seem’d
+The Dian of that time. So doth my wife
+The nonpareil of this. O, vengeance, vengeance!
+Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain’d,
+And pray’d me oft forbearance; did it with
+A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on’t
+Might well have warm’d old Saturn; that I thought her
+As chaste as unsunn’d snow. O, all the devils!
+This yellow Iachimo in an hour, was’t not?
+Or less; at first? Perchance he spoke not, but,
+Like a full-acorn’d boar, a German one,
+Cried “O!” and mounted; found no opposition
+But what he look’d for should oppose and she
+Should from encounter guard. Could I find out
+The woman’s part in me! For there’s no motion
+That tends to vice in man but I affirm
+It is the woman’s part. Be it lying, note it,
+The woman’s; flattering, hers; deceiving, hers;
+Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers;
+Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,
+Nice longing, slanders, mutability,
+All faults that man may name, nay, that hell knows,
+Why, hers, in part or all; but rather all;
+For even to vice
+They are not constant, but are changing still
+One vice but of a minute old for one
+Not half so old as that. I’ll write against them,
+Detest them, curse them. Yet ’tis greater skill
+In a true hate to pray they have their will:
+The very devils cannot plague them better.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Britain. A hall in Cymbeline’s palace.
+
+
+ Enter in state Cymbeline, Queen, Cloten and Lords at one door, and at
+ another Caius Lucius and Attendants.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Now say, what would Augustus Cæsar with us?
+
+LUCIUS.
+When Julius Cæsar, (whose remembrance yet
+Lives in men’s eyes, and will to ears and tongues
+Be theme and hearing ever) was in this Britain,
+And conquer’d it, Cassibelan, thine uncle,
+Famous in Cæsar’s praises no whit less
+Than in his feats deserving it, for him
+And his succession granted Rome a tribute,
+Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately
+Is left untender’d.
+
+QUEEN.
+And, to kill the marvel,
+Shall be so ever.
+
+CLOTEN.
+There be many Cæsars ere such another Julius. Britain is a world by
+itself, and we will nothing pay for wearing our own noses.
+
+QUEEN.
+That opportunity,
+Which then they had to take from’s, to resume
+We have again. Remember, sir, my liege,
+The kings your ancestors, together with
+The natural bravery of your isle, which stands
+As Neptune’s park, ribb’d and pal’d in
+With rocks unscaleable and roaring waters,
+With sands that will not bear your enemies’ boats
+But suck them up to th’ top-mast. A kind of conquest
+Cæsar made here, but made not here his brag
+Of ‘Came, and saw, and overcame.’ With shame
+(The first that ever touch’d him) he was carried
+From off our coast, twice beaten; and his shipping
+(Poor ignorant baubles!) on our terrible seas,
+Like egg-shells mov’d upon their surges, crack’d
+As easily ’gainst our rocks; for joy whereof
+The fam’d Cassibelan, who was once at point
+(O, giglot fortune!) to master Cæsar’s sword,
+Made Lud’s Town with rejoicing fires bright
+And Britons strut with courage.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Come, there’s no more tribute to be paid. Our kingdom is stronger than
+it was at that time; and, as I said, there is no moe such Cæsars. Other
+of them may have crook’d noses; but to owe such straight arms, none.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Son, let your mother end.
+
+CLOTEN.
+We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as Cassibelan. I do not say
+I am one; but I have a hand. Why tribute? Why should we pay tribute? If
+Cæsar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or put the moon in his
+pocket, we will pay him tribute for light; else, sir, no more tribute,
+pray you now.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+You must know,
+Till the injurious Romans did extort
+This tribute from us, we were free. Cæsar’s ambition,
+Which swell’d so much that it did almost stretch
+The sides o’ th’ world, against all colour here
+Did put the yoke upon’s; which to shake off
+Becomes a warlike people, whom we reckon
+Ourselves to be.
+
+CLOTEN.
+We do.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Say then to Cæsar,
+Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which
+Ordain’d our laws, whose use the sword of Cæsar
+Hath too much mangled; whose repair and franchise
+Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed,
+Though Rome be therefore angry. Mulmutius made our laws,
+Who was the first of Britain which did put
+His brows within a golden crown, and call’d
+Himself a king.
+
+LUCIUS.
+I am sorry, Cymbeline,
+That I am to pronounce Augustus Cæsar
+(Cæsar, that hath moe kings his servants than
+Thyself domestic officers) thine enemy.
+Receive it from me, then: war and confusion
+In Cæsar’s name pronounce I ’gainst thee; look
+For fury not to be resisted. Thus defied,
+I thank thee for myself.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Thou art welcome, Caius.
+Thy Cæsar knighted me; my youth I spent
+Much under him; of him I gather’d honour,
+Which he to seek of me again, perforce,
+Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect
+That the Pannonians and Dalmatians for
+Their liberties are now in arms, a precedent
+Which not to read would show the Britons cold;
+So Cæsar shall not find them.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Let proof speak.
+
+CLOTEN.
+His majesty bids you welcome. Make pastime with us a day or two, or
+longer. If you seek us afterwards in other terms, you shall find us in
+our salt-water girdle. If you beat us out of it, it is yours; if you
+fall in the adventure, our crows shall fare the better for you; and
+there’s an end.
+
+LUCIUS.
+So, sir.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+I know your master’s pleasure, and he mine;
+All the remain is, welcome.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Britain. Another room in Cymbeline’s palace.
+
+ Enter Pisanio reading of a letter.
+
+PISANIO.
+How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not
+What monsters her accuse? Leonatus!
+O master, what a strange infection
+Is fall’n into thy ear! What false Italian
+(As poisonous-tongu’d as handed) hath prevail’d
+On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal? No.
+She’s punish’d for her truth, and undergoes,
+More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults
+As would take in some virtue. O my master,
+Thy mind to her is now as low as were
+Thy fortunes. How? that I should murder her?
+Upon the love, and truth, and vows, which I
+Have made to thy command? I, her? Her blood?
+If it be so to do good service, never
+Let me be counted serviceable. How look I
+That I should seem to lack humanity
+So much as this fact comes to?
+
+ [_Reads._]
+
+‘Do’t. The letter
+That I have sent her, by her own command
+Shall give thee opportunity.’ O damn’d paper,
+Black as the ink that’s on thee! Senseless bauble,
+Art thou a fedary for this act, and look’st
+So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes.
+
+ Enter Imogen.
+
+I am ignorant in what I am commanded.
+
+IMOGEN.
+How now, Pisanio?
+
+PISANIO.
+Madam, here is a letter from my lord.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Who? thy lord? That is my lord, Leonatus?
+O, learn’d indeed were that astronomer
+That knew the stars as I his characters;
+He’d lay the future open. You good gods,
+Let what is here contain’d relish of love,
+Of my lord’s health, of his content; yet not
+That we two are asunder; let that grieve him!
+Some griefs are med’cinable; that is one of them,
+For it doth physic love: of his content,
+All but in that. Good wax, thy leave. Blest be
+You bees that make these locks of counsel! Lovers
+And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike;
+Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet
+You clasp young Cupid’s tables. Good news, gods!
+
+ [_Reads._]
+
+_Justice and your father’s wrath, should he take me in his dominion,
+could not be so cruel to me as you, O the dearest of creatures, would
+even renew me with your eyes. Take notice that I am in Cambria, at
+Milford Haven. What your own love will out of this advise you, follow.
+So he wishes you all happiness that remains loyal to his vow, and your
+increasing in love.
+                    LEONATUS POSTHUMUS._
+
+O for a horse with wings! Hear’st thou, Pisanio?
+He is at Milford Haven. Read, and tell me
+How far ’tis thither. If one of mean affairs
+May plod it in a week, why may not I
+Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,
+Who long’st like me to see thy lord, who long’st
+(O, let me ’bate!) but not like me, yet long’st,
+But in a fainter kind. O, not like me,
+For mine’s beyond beyond: say, and speak thick,
+(Love’s counsellor should fill the bores of hearing
+To th’ smothering of the sense) how far it is
+To this same blessed Milford. And by th’ way
+Tell me how Wales was made so happy as
+T’ inherit such a haven. But first of all,
+How we may steal from hence; and for the gap
+That we shall make in time from our hence-going
+And our return, to excuse. But first, how get hence.
+Why should excuse be born or ere begot?
+We’ll talk of that hereafter. Prithee speak,
+How many score of miles may we well rid
+’Twixt hour and hour?
+
+PISANIO.
+One score ’twixt sun and sun,
+Madam, ’s enough for you, and too much too.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Why, one that rode to’s execution, man,
+Could never go so slow. I have heard of riding wagers
+Where horses have been nimbler than the sands
+That run i’ th’ clock’s behalf. But this is fool’ry.
+Go bid my woman feign a sickness; say
+She’ll home to her father; and provide me presently
+A riding suit, no costlier than would fit
+A franklin’s huswife.
+
+PISANIO.
+Madam, you’re best consider.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I see before me, man. Nor here, nor here,
+Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them
+That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee;
+Do as I bid thee. There’s no more to say.
+Accessible is none but Milford way.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Wales. A mountainous country with a cave.
+
+ Enter from the cave Belarius, Guiderius and Arviragus.
+
+BELARIUS.
+A goodly day not to keep house with such
+Whose roof’s as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate
+Instructs you how t’ adore the heavens, and bows you
+To a morning’s holy office. The gates of monarchs
+Are arch’d so high that giants may jet through
+And keep their impious turbans on without
+Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven!
+We house i’ th’ rock, yet use thee not so hardly
+As prouder livers do.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Hail, heaven!
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Hail, heaven!
+
+BELARIUS.
+Now for our mountain sport. Up to yond hill,
+Your legs are young; I’ll tread these flats. Consider,
+When you above perceive me like a crow,
+That it is place which lessens and sets off;
+And you may then revolve what tales I have told you
+Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war.
+This service is not service so being done,
+But being so allow’d. To apprehend thus
+Draws us a profit from all things we see,
+And often to our comfort shall we find
+The sharded beetle in a safer hold
+Than is the full-wing’d eagle. O, this life
+Is nobler than attending for a check,
+Richer than doing nothing for a robe,
+Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:
+Such gain the cap of him that makes him fine,
+Yet keeps his book uncross’d. No life to ours!
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Out of your proof you speak. We, poor unfledg’d,
+Have never wing’d from view o’ th’ nest, nor know not
+What air’s from home. Haply this life is best,
+If quiet life be best; sweeter to you
+That have a sharper known; well corresponding
+With your stiff age. But unto us it is
+A cell of ignorance, travelling abed,
+A prison for a debtor that not dares
+To stride a limit.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+What should we speak of
+When we are old as you? When we shall hear
+The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
+In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse.
+The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing;
+We are beastly: subtle as the fox for prey,
+Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat.
+Our valour is to chase what flies; our cage
+We make a choir, as doth the prison’d bird,
+And sing our bondage freely.
+
+BELARIUS.
+How you speak!
+Did you but know the city’s usuries,
+And felt them knowingly; the art o’ th’ court,
+As hard to leave as keep, whose top to climb
+Is certain falling, or so slipp’ry that
+The fear’s as bad as falling; the toil o’ th’ war,
+A pain that only seems to seek out danger
+I’ th’ name of fame and honour, which dies i’ th’ search,
+And hath as oft a sland’rous epitaph
+As record of fair act; nay, many times,
+Doth ill deserve by doing well; what’s worse,
+Must curtsy at the censure. O, boys, this story
+The world may read in me; my body’s mark’d
+With Roman swords, and my report was once
+First with the best of note. Cymbeline lov’d me;
+And when a soldier was the theme, my name
+Was not far off. Then was I as a tree
+Whose boughs did bend with fruit. But in one night
+A storm, or robbery, call it what you will,
+Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves,
+And left me bare to weather.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Uncertain favour!
+
+BELARIUS.
+My fault being nothing, as I have told you oft,
+But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail’d
+Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline
+I was confederate with the Romans. So
+Follow’d my banishment, and this twenty years
+This rock and these demesnes have been my world,
+Where I have liv’d at honest freedom, paid
+More pious debts to heaven than in all
+The fore-end of my time. But up to th’ mountains!
+This is not hunters’ language. He that strikes
+The venison first shall be the lord o’ th’ feast;
+To him the other two shall minister;
+And we will fear no poison, which attends
+In place of greater state. I’ll meet you in the valleys.
+
+ [_Exeunt Guiderius and Arviragus._]
+
+How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!
+These boys know little they are sons to th’ King,
+Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive.
+They think they are mine; and though train’d up thus meanly
+I’ th’ cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit
+The roofs of palaces, and nature prompts them
+In simple and low things to prince it much
+Beyond the trick of others. This Polydore,
+The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, who
+The King his father call’d Guiderius—Jove!
+When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell
+The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out
+Into my story; say ‘Thus mine enemy fell,
+And thus I set my foot on’s neck’; even then
+The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats,
+Strains his young nerves, and puts himself in posture
+That acts my words. The younger brother, Cadwal,
+Once Arviragus, in as like a figure
+Strikes life into my speech, and shows much more
+His own conceiving. Hark, the game is rous’d!
+O Cymbeline, heaven and my conscience knows
+Thou didst unjustly banish me! Whereon,
+At three and two years old, I stole these babes,
+Thinking to bar thee of succession as
+Thou refts me of my lands. Euriphile,
+Thou wast their nurse; they took thee for their mother,
+And every day do honour to her grave.
+Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan call’d,
+They take for natural father. The game is up.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Wales, near Milford Haven.
+
+ Enter Pisanio and Imogen.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Thou told’st me, when we came from horse, the place
+Was near at hand. Ne’er long’d my mother so
+To see me first as I have now. Pisanio! Man!
+Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind
+That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh
+From th’ inward of thee? One but painted thus
+Would be interpreted a thing perplex’d
+Beyond self-explication. Put thyself
+Into a haviour of less fear, ere wildness
+Vanquish my staider senses. What’s the matter?
+Why tender’st thou that paper to me with
+A look untender? If’t be summer news,
+Smile to’t before; if winterly, thou need’st
+But keep that count’nance still. My husband’s hand?
+That drug-damn’d Italy hath out-craftied him,
+And he’s at some hard point. Speak, man; thy tongue
+May take off some extremity, which to read
+Would be even mortal to me.
+
+PISANIO.
+Please you read,
+And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing
+The most disdain’d of fortune.
+
+IMOGEN.
+[_Reads._] _Thy mistress, Pisanio, hath play’d the strumpet in my bed,
+the testimonies whereof lie bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak
+surmises, but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain as I
+expect my revenge. That part thou, Pisanio, must act for me, if thy
+faith be not tainted with the breach of hers. Let thine own hands take
+away her life; I shall give thee opportunity at Milford Haven; she hath
+my letter for the purpose; where, if thou fear to strike, and to make
+me certain it is done, thou art the pandar to her dishonour, and
+equally to me disloyal._
+
+PISANIO.
+What shall I need to draw my sword? The paper
+Hath cut her throat already. No, ’tis slander,
+Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
+Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
+Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
+All corners of the world. Kings, queens, and states,
+Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave,
+This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam?
+
+IMOGEN.
+False to his bed? What is it to be false?
+To lie in watch there, and to think on him?
+To weep twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge nature,
+To break it with a fearful dream of him,
+And cry myself awake? That’s false to’s bed,
+Is it?
+
+PISANIO.
+Alas, good lady!
+
+IMOGEN.
+I false! Thy conscience witness! Iachimo,
+Thou didst accuse him of incontinency;
+Thou then look’dst like a villain; now, methinks,
+Thy favour’s good enough. Some jay of Italy,
+Whose mother was her painting, hath betray’d him.
+Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion,
+And for I am richer than to hang by th’ walls
+I must be ripp’d. To pieces with me! O,
+Men’s vows are women’s traitors! All good seeming,
+By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought
+Put on for villainy; not born where’t grows,
+But worn a bait for ladies.
+
+PISANIO.
+Good madam, hear me.
+
+IMOGEN.
+True honest men being heard, like false Æneas,
+Were, in his time, thought false; and Sinon’s weeping
+Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity
+From most true wretchedness. So thou, Posthumus,
+Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men:
+Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjur’d
+From thy great fail. Come, fellow, be thou honest;
+Do thou thy master’s bidding; when thou seest him,
+A little witness my obedience. Look!
+I draw the sword myself; take it, and hit
+The innocent mansion of my love, my heart.
+Fear not; ’tis empty of all things but grief;
+Thy master is not there, who was indeed
+The riches of it. Do his bidding; strike.
+Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause,
+But now thou seem’st a coward.
+
+PISANIO.
+Hence, vile instrument!
+Thou shalt not damn my hand.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Why, I must die;
+And if I do not by thy hand, thou art
+No servant of thy master’s. Against self-slaughter
+There is a prohibition so divine
+That cravens my weak hand. Come, here’s my heart:
+Something’s afore’t. Soft, soft! we’ll no defence,
+Obedient as the scabbard. What is here?
+The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus
+All turn’d to heresy? Away, away,
+Corrupters of my faith, you shall no more
+Be stomachers to my heart. Thus may poor fools
+Believe false teachers; though those that are betray’d
+Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
+Stands in worse case of woe. And thou, Posthumus,
+That didst set up my disobedience ’gainst the King
+My father, and make me put into contempt the suits
+Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find
+It is no act of common passage but
+A strain of rareness; and I grieve myself
+To think, when thou shalt be disedg’d by her
+That now thou tirest on, how thy memory
+Will then be pang’d by me. Prithee dispatch.
+The lamb entreats the butcher. Where’s thy knife?
+Thou art too slow to do thy master’s bidding,
+When I desire it too.
+
+PISANIO.
+O gracious lady,
+Since I receiv’d command to do this busines
+I have not slept one wink.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Do’t, and to bed then.
+
+PISANIO.
+I’ll wake mine eyeballs first.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Wherefore then
+Didst undertake it? Why hast thou abus’d
+So many miles with a pretence? This place?
+Mine action and thine own? our horses’ labour?
+The time inviting thee? The perturb’d court,
+For my being absent? whereunto I never
+Purpose return. Why hast thou gone so far
+To be unbent when thou hast ta’en thy stand,
+Th’ elected deer before thee?
+
+PISANIO.
+But to win time
+To lose so bad employment, in the which
+I have consider’d of a course. Good lady,
+Hear me with patience.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Talk thy tongue weary, speak.
+I have heard I am a strumpet, and mine ear,
+Therein false struck, can take no greater wound,
+Nor tent to bottom that. But speak.
+
+PISANIO.
+Then, madam,
+I thought you would not back again.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Most like,
+Bringing me here to kill me.
+
+PISANIO.
+Not so, neither;
+But if I were as wise as honest, then
+My purpose would prove well. It cannot be
+But that my master is abus’d. Some villain,
+Ay, and singular in his art, hath done you both
+This cursed injury.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Some Roman courtezan!
+
+PISANIO.
+No, on my life!
+I’ll give but notice you are dead, and send him
+Some bloody sign of it, for ’tis commanded
+I should do so. You shall be miss’d at court,
+And that will well confirm it.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Why, good fellow,
+What shall I do the while? Where bide? How live?
+Or in my life what comfort, when I am
+Dead to my husband?
+
+PISANIO.
+If you’ll back to th’ court—
+
+IMOGEN.
+No court, no father, nor no more ado
+With that harsh, noble, simple nothing,
+That Cloten, whose love-suit hath been to me
+As fearful as a siege.
+
+PISANIO.
+If not at court,
+Then not in Britain must you bide.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Where then?
+Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night,
+Are they not but in Britain? I’ th’ world’s volume
+Our Britain seems as of it, but not in’t;
+In a great pool a swan’s nest. Prithee think
+There’s livers out of Britain.
+
+PISANIO.
+I am most glad
+You think of other place. Th’ ambassador,
+Lucius the Roman, comes to Milford Haven
+Tomorrow. Now, if you could wear a mind
+Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise
+That which t’ appear itself must not yet be
+But by self-danger, you should tread a course
+Pretty and full of view; yea, happily, near
+The residence of Posthumus; so nigh, at least,
+That though his actions were not visible, yet
+Report should render him hourly to your ear
+As truly as he moves.
+
+IMOGEN.
+O! for such means,
+Though peril to my modesty, not death on’t,
+I would adventure.
+
+PISANIO.
+Well then, here’s the point:
+You must forget to be a woman; change
+Command into obedience; fear and niceness
+(The handmaids of all women, or, more truly,
+Woman it pretty self) into a waggish courage;
+Ready in gibes, quick-answer’d, saucy, and
+As quarrelous as the weasel. Nay, you must
+Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek,
+Exposing it (but, O, the harder heart!
+Alack, no remedy) to the greedy touch
+Of common-kissing Titan, and forget
+Your laboursome and dainty trims wherein
+You made great Juno angry.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Nay, be brief;
+I see into thy end, and am almost
+A man already.
+
+PISANIO.
+First, make yourself but like one.
+Fore-thinking this, I have already fit
+(’Tis in my cloak-bag) doublet, hat, hose, all
+That answer to them. Would you, in their serving,
+And with what imitation you can borrow
+From youth of such a season, ’fore noble Lucius
+Present yourself, desire his service, tell him
+Wherein you’re happy; which will make him know
+If that his head have ear in music; doubtless
+With joy he will embrace you; for he’s honourable,
+And, doubling that, most holy. Your means abroad:
+You have me, rich; and I will never fail
+Beginning nor supplyment.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Thou art all the comfort
+The gods will diet me with. Prithee away!
+There’s more to be consider’d; but we’ll even
+All that good time will give us. This attempt
+I am soldier to, and will abide it with
+A prince’s courage. Away, I prithee.
+
+PISANIO.
+Well, madam, we must take a short farewell,
+Lest, being miss’d, I be suspected of
+Your carriage from the court. My noble mistress,
+Here is a box; I had it from the Queen.
+What’s in’t is precious. If you are sick at sea
+Or stomach-qualm’d at land, a dram of this
+Will drive away distemper. To some shade,
+And fit you to your manhood. May the gods
+Direct you to the best!
+
+IMOGEN.
+Amen. I thank thee.
+
+ [_Exeunt severally._]
+
+SCENE V. Britain. Cymbeline’s palace.
+
+ Enter Cymbeline, Queen, Cloten, Lucius and Lords.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Thus far, and so farewell.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Thanks, royal sir.
+My emperor hath wrote; I must from hence,
+And am right sorry that I must report ye
+My master’s enemy.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Our subjects, sir,
+Will not endure his yoke; and for ourself
+To show less sovereignty than they, must needs
+Appear unkinglike.
+
+LUCIUS.
+So, sir. I desire of you
+A conduct overland to Milford Haven.
+Madam, all joy befall your Grace, and you!
+
+CYMBELINE.
+My lords, you are appointed for that office;
+The due of honour in no point omit.
+So farewell, noble Lucius.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Your hand, my lord.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Receive it friendly; but from this time forth
+I wear it as your enemy.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Sir, the event
+Is yet to name the winner. Fare you well.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Leave not the worthy Lucius, good my lords,
+Till he have cross’d the Severn. Happiness!
+
+ [_Exeunt Lucius and Lords._]
+
+QUEEN.
+He goes hence frowning; but it honours us
+That we have given him cause.
+
+CLOTEN.
+’Tis all the better;
+Your valiant Britons have their wishes in it.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Lucius hath wrote already to the Emperor
+How it goes here. It fits us therefore ripely
+Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness.
+The pow’rs that he already hath in Gallia
+Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves
+His war for Britain.
+
+QUEEN.
+’Tis not sleepy business,
+But must be look’d to speedily and strongly.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Our expectation that it would be thus
+Hath made us forward. But, my gentle queen,
+Where is our daughter? She hath not appear’d
+Before the Roman, nor to us hath tender’d
+The duty of the day. She looks us like
+A thing more made of malice than of duty;
+We have noted it. Call her before us, for
+We have been too slight in sufferance.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+QUEEN.
+Royal sir,
+Since the exile of Posthumus, most retir’d
+Hath her life been; the cure whereof, my lord,
+’Tis time must do. Beseech your Majesty,
+Forbear sharp speeches to her; she’s a lady
+So tender of rebukes that words are strokes,
+And strokes death to her.
+
+ Enter Attendant.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Where is she, sir? How
+Can her contempt be answer’d?
+
+ATTENDANT.
+Please you, sir,
+Her chambers are all lock’d, and there’s no answer
+That will be given to th’ loud of noise we make.
+
+QUEEN.
+My lord, when last I went to visit her,
+She pray’d me to excuse her keeping close;
+Whereto constrain’d by her infirmity
+She should that duty leave unpaid to you
+Which daily she was bound to proffer. This
+She wish’d me to make known; but our great court
+Made me to blame in memory.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Her doors lock’d?
+Not seen of late? Grant, heavens, that which I fear
+Prove false!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+QUEEN.
+Son, I say, follow the King.
+
+CLOTEN.
+That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant,
+I have not seen these two days.
+
+QUEEN.
+Go, look after.
+
+ [_Exit Cloten._]
+
+Pisanio, thou that stand’st so for Posthumus!
+He hath a drug of mine. I pray his absence
+Proceed by swallowing that; for he believes
+It is a thing most precious. But for her,
+Where is she gone? Haply despair hath seiz’d her;
+Or, wing’d with fervour of her love, she’s flown
+To her desir’d Posthumus. Gone she is
+To death or to dishonour, and my end
+Can make good use of either. She being down,
+I have the placing of the British crown.
+
+ Enter Cloten.
+
+How now, my son?
+
+CLOTEN.
+’Tis certain she is fled.
+Go in and cheer the King. He rages; none
+Dare come about him.
+
+QUEEN.
+All the better. May
+This night forestall him of the coming day!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CLOTEN.
+I love and hate her; for she’s fair and royal,
+And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite
+Than lady, ladies, woman. From every one
+The best she hath, and she, of all compounded,
+Outsells them all. I love her therefore; but
+Disdaining me and throwing favours on
+The low Posthumus slanders so her judgement
+That what’s else rare is chok’d; and in that point
+I will conclude to hate her, nay, indeed,
+To be reveng’d upon her. For when fools
+Shall—
+
+ Enter Pisanio.
+
+Who is here? What, are you packing, sirrah?
+Come hither. Ah, you precious pandar! Villain,
+Where is thy lady? In a word, or else
+Thou art straightway with the fiends.
+
+PISANIO.
+O good my lord!
+
+CLOTEN.
+Where is thy lady? or, by Jupiter—
+I will not ask again. Close villain,
+I’ll have this secret from thy heart, or rip
+Thy heart to find it. Is she with Posthumus?
+From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
+A dram of worth be drawn.
+
+PISANIO.
+Alas, my lord,
+How can she be with him? When was she miss’d?
+He is in Rome.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Where is she, sir? Come nearer.
+No farther halting! Satisfy me home
+What is become of her.
+
+PISANIO.
+O my all-worthy lord!
+
+CLOTEN.
+All-worthy villain!
+Discover where thy mistress is at once,
+At the next word. No more of ‘worthy lord’!
+Speak, or thy silence on the instant is
+Thy condemnation and thy death.
+
+PISANIO.
+Then, sir,
+This paper is the history of my knowledge
+Touching her flight.
+
+ [_Presenting a letter._]
+
+CLOTEN.
+Let’s see’t. I will pursue her
+Even to Augustus’ throne.
+
+PISANIO.
+[_Aside._] Or this or perish.
+She’s far enough; and what he learns by this
+May prove his travel, not her danger.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Humh!
+
+PISANIO.
+[_Aside._] I’ll write to my lord she’s dead. O Imogen,
+Safe mayst thou wander, safe return again!
+
+CLOTEN.
+Sirrah, is this letter true?
+
+PISANIO.
+Sir, as I think.
+
+CLOTEN.
+It is Posthumus’ hand; I know’t. Sirrah, if thou wouldst not be a
+villain, but do me true service, undergo those employments wherein I
+should have cause to use thee with a serious industry—that is, what
+villainy soe’er I bid thee do, to perform it directly and truly—I would
+think thee an honest man; thou shouldst neither want my means for thy
+relief nor my voice for thy preferment.
+
+PISANIO.
+Well, my good lord.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Wilt thou serve me? For since patiently and constantly thou hast stuck
+to the bare fortune of that beggar Posthumus, thou canst not, in the
+course of gratitude, but be a diligent follower of mine. Wilt thou
+serve me?
+
+PISANIO.
+Sir, I will.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Give me thy hand; here’s my purse. Hast any of thy late master’s
+garments in thy possession?
+
+PISANIO.
+I have, my lord, at my lodging, the same suit he wore when he took
+leave of my lady and mistress.
+
+CLOTEN.
+The first service thou dost me, fetch that suit hither. Let it be thy
+first service; go.
+
+PISANIO.
+I shall, my lord.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CLOTEN.
+Meet thee at Milford Haven! I forgot to ask him one thing; I’ll
+remember’t anon. Even there, thou villain Posthumus, will I kill thee.
+I would these garments were come. She said upon a time—the bitterness
+of it I now belch from my heart—that she held the very garment of
+Posthumus in more respect than my noble and natural person, together
+with the adornment of my qualities. With that suit upon my back will I
+ravish her; first kill him, and in her eyes. There shall she see my
+valour, which will then be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground,
+my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath
+dined—which, as I say, to vex her I will execute in the clothes that
+she so prais’d—to the court I’ll knock her back, foot her home again.
+She hath despis’d me rejoicingly, and I’ll be merry in my revenge.
+
+ Enter Pisanio with the clothes.
+
+Be those the garments?
+
+PISANIO.
+Ay, my noble lord.
+
+CLOTEN.
+How long is’t since she went to Milford Haven?
+
+PISANIO.
+She can scarce be there yet.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Bring this apparel to my chamber; that is the second thing that I have
+commanded thee. The third is that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my
+design. Be but duteous and true, preferment shall tender itself to
+thee. My revenge is now at Milford, would I had wings to follow it!
+Come, and be true.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PISANIO.
+Thou bid’st me to my loss; for true to thee
+Were to prove false, which I will never be,
+To him that is most true. To Milford go,
+And find not her whom thou pursuest. Flow, flow,
+You heavenly blessings, on her! This fool’s speed
+Be cross’d with slowness! Labour be his meed!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VI. Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.
+
+ Enter Imogen alone, in boy’s clothes.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I see a man’s life is a tedious one.
+I have tir’d myself, and for two nights together
+Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick
+But that my resolution helps me. Milford,
+When from the mountain-top Pisanio show’d thee,
+Thou wast within a ken. O Jove! I think
+Foundations fly the wretched; such, I mean,
+Where they should be reliev’d. Two beggars told me
+I could not miss my way. Will poor folks lie,
+That have afflictions on them, knowing ’tis
+A punishment or trial? Yes; no wonder,
+When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness
+Is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood
+Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord!
+Thou art one o’ th’ false ones. Now I think on thee
+My hunger’s gone; but even before, I was
+At point to sink for food. But what is this?
+Here is a path to’t; ’tis some savage hold.
+I were best not call; I dare not call. Yet famine,
+Ere clean it o’erthrow nature, makes it valiant.
+Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever
+Of hardiness is mother. Ho! who’s here?
+If anything that’s civil, speak; if savage,
+Take or lend. Ho! No answer? Then I’ll enter.
+Best draw my sword; and if mine enemy
+But fear the sword, like me, he’ll scarcely look on’t.
+Such a foe, good heavens!
+
+ [_Exit into the cave._]
+
+SCENE VII. The same.
+
+ Enter Belarius, Guiderius and Arviragus.
+
+BELARIUS.
+You, Polydore, have prov’d best woodman and
+Are master of the feast. Cadwal and I
+Will play the cook and servant; ’tis our match.
+The sweat of industry would dry and die
+But for the end it works to. Come, our stomachs
+Will make what’s homely savoury; weariness
+Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
+Finds the down pillow hard. Now, peace be here,
+Poor house, that keep’st thyself!
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+I am thoroughly weary.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+I am weak with toil, yet strong in appetite.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+There is cold meat i’ th’ cave; we’ll browse on that
+Whilst what we have kill’d be cook’d.
+
+BELARIUS.
+[_Looking into the cave._] Stay, come not in.
+But that it eats our victuals, I should think
+Here were a fairy.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+What’s the matter, sir?
+
+BELARIUS.
+By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not,
+An earthly paragon! Behold divineness
+No elder than a boy!
+
+ Enter Imogen.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Good masters, harm me not.
+Before I enter’d here I call’d, and thought
+To have begg’d or bought what I have took. Good troth,
+I have stol’n nought; nor would not though I had found
+Gold strew’d i’ th’ floor. Here’s money for my meat.
+I would have left it on the board, so soon
+As I had made my meal, and parted
+With pray’rs for the provider.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Money, youth?
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
+As ’tis no better reckon’d but of those
+Who worship dirty gods.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I see you’re angry.
+Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should
+Have died had I not made it.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Whither bound?
+
+IMOGEN.
+To Milford Haven.
+
+BELARIUS.
+What’s your name?
+
+IMOGEN.
+Fidele, sir. I have a kinsman who
+Is bound for Italy; he embark’d at Milford;
+To whom being going, almost spent with hunger,
+I am fall’n in this offence.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Prithee, fair youth,
+Think us no churls, nor measure our good minds
+By this rude place we live in. Well encounter’d!
+’Tis almost night; you shall have better cheer
+Ere you depart, and thanks to stay and eat it.
+Boys, bid him welcome.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Were you a woman, youth,
+I should woo hard but be your groom. In honesty
+I bid for you as I’d buy.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+I’ll make’t my comfort
+He is a man. I’ll love him as my brother;
+And such a welcome as I’d give to him
+After long absence, such is yours. Most welcome!
+Be sprightly, for you fall ’mongst friends.
+
+IMOGEN.
+’Mongst friends,
+If brothers. [_Aside._] Would it had been so that they
+Had been my father’s sons! Then had my prize
+Been less, and so more equal ballasting
+To thee, Posthumus.
+
+BELARIUS.
+He wrings at some distress.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Would I could free’t!
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Or I, whate’er it be,
+What pain it cost, what danger! Gods!
+
+BELARIUS.
+[_Whispering._] Hark, boys.
+
+IMOGEN.
+[_Aside._] Great men,
+That had a court no bigger than this cave,
+That did attend themselves, and had the virtue
+Which their own conscience seal’d them, laying by
+That nothing-gift of differing multitudes,
+Could not out-peer these twain. Pardon me, gods!
+I’d change my sex to be companion with them,
+Since Leonatus false.
+
+BELARIUS.
+It shall be so.
+Boys, we’ll go dress our hunt. Fair youth, come in.
+Discourse is heavy, fasting; when we have supp’d,
+We’ll mannerly demand thee of thy story,
+So far as thou wilt speak it.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Pray draw near.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+The night to th’ owl and morn to th’ lark less
+welcome.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Thanks, sir.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+I pray draw near.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VIII. Rome. A public place.
+
+ Enter two Roman Senators and Tribunes.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+This is the tenour of the Emperor’s writ:
+That since the common men are now in action
+’Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,
+And that the legions now in Gallia are
+Full weak to undertake our wars against
+The fall’n-off Britons, that we do incite
+The gentry to this business. He creates
+Lucius proconsul; and to you, the tribunes,
+For this immediate levy, he commands
+His absolute commission. Long live Cæsar!
+
+TRIBUNE.
+Is Lucius general of the forces?
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Ay.
+
+TRIBUNE.
+Remaining now in Gallia?
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+With those legions
+Which I have spoke of, whereunto your levy
+Must be supplyant. The words of your commission
+Will tie you to the numbers and the time
+Of their dispatch.
+
+TRIBUNE.
+We will discharge our duty.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Wales. Near the cave of Belarius.
+
+
+ Enter Cloten alone.
+
+CLOTEN.
+I am near to th’ place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapp’d
+it truly. How fit his garments serve me! Why should his mistress, who
+was made by him that made the tailor, not be fit too? The rather,
+saving reverence of the word, for ’tis said a woman’s fitness comes by
+fits. Therein I must play the workman. I dare speak it to myself, for
+it is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own
+chamber; I mean, the lines of my body are as well drawn as his; no less
+young, more strong, not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the
+advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike conversant in general
+services, and more remarkable in single oppositions. Yet this
+imperceiverant thing loves him in my despite. What mortality is!
+Posthumus, thy head, which now is growing upon thy shoulders, shall
+within this hour be off; thy mistress enforced; thy garments cut to
+pieces before her face; and all this done, spurn her home to her
+father, who may, haply, be a little angry for my so rough usage; but my
+mother, having power of his testiness, shall turn all into my
+commendations. My horse is tied up safe. Out, sword, and to a sore
+purpose! Fortune, put them into my hand. This is the very description
+of their meeting-place; and the fellow dares not deceive me.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.
+
+ Enter from the cave, Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus and Imogen.
+
+BELARIUS.
+[_To Imogen._] You are not well. Remain here in the cave;
+We’ll come to you after hunting.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+[_To Imogen._] Brother, stay here.
+Are we not brothers?
+
+IMOGEN.
+So man and man should be;
+But clay and clay differs in dignity,
+Whose dust is both alike. I am very sick.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Go you to hunting; I’ll abide with him.
+
+IMOGEN.
+So sick I am not, yet I am not well;
+But not so citizen a wanton as
+To seem to die ere sick. So please you, leave me;
+Stick to your journal course. The breach of custom
+Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me
+Cannot amend me; society is no comfort
+To one not sociable. I am not very sick,
+Since I can reason of it. Pray you trust me here.
+I’ll rob none but myself; and let me die,
+Stealing so poorly.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+I love thee; I have spoke it.
+How much the quantity, the weight as much
+As I do love my father.
+
+BELARIUS.
+What? how? how?
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+If it be sin to say so, sir, I yoke me
+In my good brother’s fault. I know not why
+I love this youth, and I have heard you say
+Love’s reason’s without reason. The bier at door,
+And a demand who is’t shall die, I’d say
+‘My father, not this youth.’
+
+BELARIUS.
+[_Aside._] O noble strain!
+O worthiness of nature! breed of greatness!
+Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.
+Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.
+I’m not their father; yet who this should be
+Doth miracle itself, lov’d before me.—
+’Tis the ninth hour o’ th’ morn.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Brother, farewell.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I wish ye sport.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Your health. [_To Belarius._] So please you, sir.
+
+IMOGEN.
+[_Aside._] These are kind creatures. Gods, what lies I
+have heard!
+Our courtiers say all’s savage but at court.
+Experience, O, thou disprov’st report!
+Th’ imperious seas breed monsters; for the dish,
+Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish.
+I am sick still; heart-sick. Pisanio,
+I’ll now taste of thy drug.
+
+ [_Swallows some._]
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+I could not stir him.
+He said he was gentle, but unfortunate;
+Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Thus did he answer me; yet said hereafter
+I might know more.
+
+BELARIUS.
+To th’ field, to th’ field!
+We’ll leave you for this time. Go in and rest.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+We’ll not be long away.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Pray be not sick,
+For you must be our huswife.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Well, or ill,
+I am bound to you.
+
+BELARIUS.
+And shalt be ever.
+
+ [_Exit Imogen into the cave._]
+
+This youth, howe’er distress’d, appears he hath had
+Good ancestors.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+How angel-like he sings!
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+But his neat cookery! He cut our roots in characters,
+And sauc’d our broths as Juno had been sick,
+And he her dieter.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Nobly he yokes
+A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh
+Was that it was for not being such a smile;
+The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly
+From so divine a temple to commix
+With winds that sailors rail at.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+I do note
+That grief and patience, rooted in him both,
+Mingle their spurs together.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Grow patience!
+And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine
+His perishing root with the increasing vine!
+
+BELARIUS.
+It is great morning. Come, away! Who’s there?
+
+ Enter Cloten.
+
+CLOTEN.
+I cannot find those runagates; that villain
+Hath mock’d me. I am faint.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Those runagates?
+Means he not us? I partly know him; ’tis
+Cloten, the son o’ th’ Queen. I fear some ambush.
+I saw him not these many years, and yet
+I know ’tis he. We are held as outlaws. Hence!
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+He is but one; you and my brother search
+What companies are near. Pray you away;
+Let me alone with him.
+
+ [_Exeunt Belarius and Arviragus._]
+
+CLOTEN.
+Soft! What are you
+That fly me thus? Some villain mountaineers?
+I have heard of such. What slave art thou?
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+A thing
+More slavish did I ne’er than answering
+A slave without a knock.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Thou art a robber,
+A law-breaker, a villain. Yield thee, thief.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+To who? To thee? What art thou? Have not I
+An arm as big as thine, a heart as big?
+Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not
+My dagger in my mouth. Say what thou art;
+Why I should yield to thee.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Thou villain base,
+Know’st me not by my clothes?
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
+Who is thy grandfather; he made those clothes,
+Which, as it seems, make thee.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Thou precious varlet,
+My tailor made them not.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Hence, then, and thank
+The man that gave them thee. Thou art some fool;
+I am loath to beat thee.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Thou injurious thief,
+Hear but my name, and tremble.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+What’s thy name?
+
+CLOTEN.
+Cloten, thou villain.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name,
+I cannot tremble at it. Were it Toad, or Adder, Spider,
+’Twould move me sooner.
+
+CLOTEN.
+To thy further fear,
+Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know
+I am son to th’ Queen.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+I’m sorry for’t; not seeming
+So worthy as thy birth.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Art not afeard?
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Those that I reverence, those I fear—the wise;
+At fools I laugh, not fear them.
+
+CLOTEN.
+Die the death.
+When I have slain thee with my proper hand,
+I’ll follow those that even now fled hence,
+And on the gates of Lud’s Town set your heads.
+Yield, rustic mountaineer.
+
+ [_Exeunt, fighting._]
+
+ Enter Belarius and Arviragus.
+
+BELARIUS.
+No company’s abroad?
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+None in the world; you did mistake him, sure.
+
+BELARIUS.
+I cannot tell; long is it since I saw him,
+But time hath nothing blurr’d those lines of favour
+Which then he wore; the snatches in his voice,
+And burst of speaking, were as his. I am absolute
+’Twas very Cloten.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+In this place we left them.
+I wish my brother make good time with him,
+You say he is so fell.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Being scarce made up,
+I mean to man, he had not apprehension
+Or roaring terrors; for defect of judgement
+Is oft the cease of fear.
+
+ Enter Guiderius with Cloten’s head.
+
+But, see, thy brother.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse;
+There was no money in’t. Not Hercules
+Could have knock’d out his brains, for he had none;
+Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne
+My head as I do his.
+
+BELARIUS.
+What hast thou done?
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten’s head,
+Son to the Queen, after his own report;
+Who call’d me traitor, mountaineer, and swore
+With his own single hand he’d take us in,
+Displace our heads where, thank the gods, they grow,
+And set them on Lud’s Town.
+
+BELARIUS.
+We are all undone.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Why, worthy father, what have we to lose
+But that he swore to take, our lives? The law
+Protects not us; then why should we be tender
+To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us,
+Play judge and executioner all himself,
+For we do fear the law? What company
+Discover you abroad?
+
+BELARIUS.
+No single soul
+Can we set eye on, but in all safe reason
+He must have some attendants. Though his humour
+Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that
+From one bad thing to worse, not frenzy, not
+Absolute madness could so far have rav’d,
+To bring him here alone. Although perhaps
+It may be heard at court that such as we
+Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time
+May make some stronger head, the which he hearing,
+As it is like him, might break out and swear
+He’d fetch us in; yet is’t not probable
+To come alone, either he so undertaking
+Or they so suffering. Then on good ground we fear,
+If we do fear this body hath a tail
+More perilous than the head.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Let ordinance
+Come as the gods foresay it. Howsoe’er,
+My brother hath done well.
+
+BELARIUS.
+I had no mind
+To hunt this day; the boy Fidele’s sickness
+Did make my way long forth.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+With his own sword,
+Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta’en
+His head from him. I’ll throw’t into the creek
+Behind our rock, and let it to the sea
+And tell the fishes he’s the Queen’s son, Cloten.
+That’s all I reck.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BELARIUS.
+I fear ’twill be reveng’d.
+Would, Polydore, thou hadst not done’t! though valour
+Becomes thee well enough.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Would I had done’t,
+So the revenge alone pursu’d me! Polydore,
+I love thee brotherly, but envy much
+Thou hast robb’d me of this deed. I would revenges,
+That possible strength might meet, would seek us through,
+And put us to our answer.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Well, ’tis done.
+We’ll hunt no more today, nor seek for danger
+Where there’s no profit. I prithee to our rock.
+You and Fidele play the cooks; I’ll stay
+Till hasty Polydore return, and bring him
+To dinner presently.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Poor sick Fidele!
+I’ll willingly to him; to gain his colour
+I’d let a parish of such Cloten’s blood,
+And praise myself for charity.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BELARIUS.
+O thou goddess,
+Thou divine Nature, thou thyself thou blazon’st
+In these two princely boys! They are as gentle
+As zephyrs blowing below the violet,
+Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough,
+Their royal blood enchaf’d, as the rud’st wind
+That by the top doth take the mountain pine
+And make him stoop to th’ vale. ’Tis wonder
+That an invisible instinct should frame them
+To royalty unlearn’d, honour untaught,
+Civility not seen from other, valour
+That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop
+As if it had been sow’d. Yet still it’s strange
+What Cloten’s being here to us portends,
+Or what his death will bring us.
+
+ Enter Guiderius.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Where’s my brother?
+I have sent Cloten’s clotpoll down the stream,
+In embassy to his mother; his body’s hostage
+For his return.
+
+ [_Solemn music._]
+
+BELARIUS.
+My ingenious instrument!
+Hark, Polydore, it sounds. But what occasion
+Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark!
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Is he at home?
+
+BELARIUS.
+He went hence even now.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+What does he mean? Since death of my dear’st mother
+It did not speak before. All solemn things
+Should answer solemn accidents. The matter?
+Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys
+Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
+Is Cadwal mad?
+
+ Enter Arviragus with Imogen as dead, bearing her in his arms.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Look, here he comes,
+And brings the dire occasion in his arms
+Of what we blame him for!
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+The bird is dead
+That we have made so much on. I had rather
+Have skipp’d from sixteen years of age to sixty,
+To have turn’d my leaping time into a crutch,
+Than have seen this.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+O sweetest, fairest lily!
+My brother wears thee not the one half so well
+As when thou grew’st thyself.
+
+BELARIUS.
+O melancholy!
+Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find
+The ooze to show what coast thy sluggish crare
+Might’st easiliest harbour in? Thou blessed thing!
+Jove knows what man thou mightst have made; but I,
+Thou diedst, a most rare boy, of melancholy.
+How found you him?
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Stark, as you see;
+Thus smiling, as some fly had tickled slumber,
+Not as death’s dart, being laugh’d at; his right cheek
+Reposing on a cushion.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Where?
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+O’ th’ floor;
+His arms thus leagu’d. I thought he slept, and put
+My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness
+Answer’d my steps too loud.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Why, he but sleeps.
+If he be gone he’ll make his grave a bed;
+With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,
+And worms will not come to thee.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+With fairest flowers,
+Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele,
+I’ll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack
+The flower that’s like thy face, pale primrose; nor
+The azur’d hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor
+The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,
+Out-sweet’ned not thy breath. The ruddock would,
+With charitable bill (O bill, sore shaming
+Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie
+Without a monument!) bring thee all this;
+Yea, and furr’d moss besides, when flow’rs are none,
+To winter-ground thy corse—
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Prithee have done,
+And do not play in wench-like words with that
+Which is so serious. Let us bury him,
+And not protract with admiration what
+Is now due debt. To th’ grave.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Say, where shall’s lay him?
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+By good Euriphile, our mother.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Be’t so;
+And let us, Polydore, though now our voices
+Have got the mannish crack, sing him to th’ ground,
+As once to our mother; use like note and words,
+Save that Euriphile must be Fidele.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Cadwal,
+I cannot sing. I’ll weep, and word it with thee;
+For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse
+Than priests and fanes that lie.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+We’ll speak it, then.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Great griefs, I see, med’cine the less, for Cloten
+Is quite forgot. He was a queen’s son, boys;
+And though he came our enemy, remember
+He was paid for that. Though mean and mighty rotting
+Together have one dust, yet reverence,
+That angel of the world, doth make distinction
+Of place ’tween high and low. Our foe was princely;
+And though you took his life, as being our foe,
+Yet bury him as a prince.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Pray you fetch him hither.
+Thersites’ body is as good as Ajax’,
+When neither are alive.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+If you’ll go fetch him,
+We’ll say our song the whilst. Brother, begin.
+
+ [_Exit Belarius._]
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to th’ East;
+My father hath a reason for’t.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+’Tis true.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Come on, then, and remove him.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+So. Begin.
+
+SONG
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+_    Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun,
+        Nor the furious winter’s rages;
+    Thou thy worldly task hast done,
+        Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages.
+    Golden lads and girls all must,
+    As chimney-sweepers, come to dust._
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+_    Fear no more the frown o’ th’ great;
+        Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke.
+    Care no more to clothe and eat;
+        To thee the reed is as the oak.
+    The sceptre, learning, physic, must
+    All follow this and come to dust._
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+_    Fear no more the lightning flash._
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+_        Nor th’ all-dreaded thunder-stone._
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+_    Fear not slander, censure rash;_
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+_    Thou hast finish’d joy and moan._
+
+BOTH.
+_    All lovers young, all lovers must
+    Consign to thee and come to dust._
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+_    No exorciser harm thee!_
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+_    Nor no witchcraft charm thee!_
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+_    Ghost unlaid forbear thee!_
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+_    Nothing ill come near thee!_
+
+BOTH.
+_    Quiet consummation have,
+    And renowned be thy grave!_
+
+ Enter Belarius with the body of Cloten.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+We have done our obsequies. Come, lay him down.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Here’s a few flowers; but ’bout midnight, more.
+The herbs that have on them cold dew o’ th’ night
+Are strewings fit’st for graves. Upon their faces.
+You were as flow’rs, now wither’d. Even so
+These herblets shall which we upon you strew.
+Come on, away. Apart upon our knees.
+The ground that gave them first has them again.
+Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Imogen._]
+
+IMOGEN.
+[_Awaking._] Yes, sir, to Milford Haven. Which is the way?
+I thank you. By yond bush? Pray, how far thither?
+’Ods pittikins! can it be six mile yet?
+I have gone all night. Faith, I’ll lie down and sleep.
+But, soft! no bedfellow. O gods and goddesses!
+
+ [_Seeing the body._]
+
+These flow’rs are like the pleasures of the world;
+This bloody man, the care on’t. I hope I dream;
+For so I thought I was a cave-keeper,
+And cook to honest creatures. But ’tis not so;
+’Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing,
+Which the brain makes of fumes. Our very eyes
+Are sometimes, like our judgements, blind. Good faith,
+I tremble still with fear; but if there be
+Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity
+As a wren’s eye, fear’d gods, a part of it!
+The dream’s here still. Even when I wake it is
+Without me, as within me; not imagin’d, felt.
+A headless man? The garments of Posthumus?
+I know the shape of’s leg; this is his hand,
+His foot Mercurial, his Martial thigh,
+The brawns of Hercules; but his Jovial face—
+Murder in heaven! How! ’Tis gone. Pisanio,
+All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks,
+And mine to boot, be darted on thee! Thou,
+Conspir’d with that irregulous devil, Cloten,
+Hath here cut off my lord. To write and read
+Be henceforth treacherous! Damn’d Pisanio
+Hath with his forged letters (damn’d Pisanio)
+From this most bravest vessel of the world
+Struck the main-top. O Posthumus! alas,
+Where is thy head? Where’s that? Ay me! where’s that?
+Pisanio might have kill’d thee at the heart,
+And left this head on. How should this be? Pisanio?
+’Tis he and Cloten; malice and lucre in them
+Have laid this woe here. O, ’tis pregnant, pregnant!
+The drug he gave me, which he said was precious
+And cordial to me, have I not found it
+Murd’rous to th’ senses? That confirms it home.
+This is Pisanio’s deed, and Cloten. O!
+Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,
+That we the horrider may seem to those
+Which chance to find us. O, my lord, my lord!
+
+ [_Falls fainting on the body._]
+
+ Enter Lucius, Captains and a Soothsayer.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+To them the legions garrison’d in Gallia,
+After your will, have cross’d the sea, attending
+You here at Milford Haven; with your ships,
+They are in readiness.
+
+LUCIUS.
+But what from Rome?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+The Senate hath stirr’d up the confiners
+And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,
+That promise noble service; and they come
+Under the conduct of bold Iachimo,
+Sienna’s brother.
+
+LUCIUS.
+When expect you them?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+With the next benefit o’ th’ wind.
+
+LUCIUS.
+This forwardness
+Makes our hopes fair. Command our present numbers
+Be muster’d; bid the captains look to’t. Now, sir,
+What have you dream’d of late of this war’s purpose?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Last night the very gods show’d me a vision
+(I fast and pray’d for their intelligence) thus:
+I saw Jove’s bird, the Roman eagle, wing’d
+From the spongy south to this part of the west,
+There vanish’d in the sunbeams; which portends,
+Unless my sins abuse my divination,
+Success to th’ Roman host.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Dream often so,
+And never false. Soft, ho! what trunk is here
+Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime
+It was a worthy building. How? a page?
+Or dead or sleeping on him? But dead, rather;
+For nature doth abhor to make his bed
+With the defunct, or sleep upon the dead.
+Let’s see the boy’s face.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+He’s alive, my lord.
+
+LUCIUS.
+He’ll then instruct us of this body. Young one,
+Inform us of thy fortunes; for it seems
+They crave to be demanded. Who is this
+Thou mak’st thy bloody pillow? Or who was he
+That, otherwise than noble nature did,
+Hath alter’d that good picture? What’s thy interest
+In this sad wreck? How came’t? Who is’t?
+What art thou?
+
+IMOGEN.
+I am nothing; or if not,
+Nothing to be were better. This was my master,
+A very valiant Briton and a good,
+That here by mountaineers lies slain. Alas!
+There is no more such masters. I may wander
+From east to occident; cry out for service;
+Try many, all good; serve truly; never
+Find such another master.
+
+LUCIUS.
+’Lack, good youth!
+Thou mov’st no less with thy complaining than
+Thy master in bleeding. Say his name, good friend.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Richard du Champ. [_Aside._] If I do lie, and do
+No harm by it, though the gods hear, I hope
+They’ll pardon it.—Say you, sir?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Thy name?
+
+IMOGEN.
+Fidele, sir.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Thou dost approve thyself the very same;
+Thy name well fits thy faith, thy faith thy name.
+Wilt take thy chance with me? I will not say
+Thou shalt be so well master’d; but, be sure,
+No less belov’d. The Roman Emperor’s letters,
+Sent by a consul to me, should not sooner
+Than thine own worth prefer thee. Go with me.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I’ll follow, sir. But first, an’t please the gods,
+I’ll hide my master from the flies, as deep
+As these poor pickaxes can dig; and when
+With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha’ strew’d his grave,
+And on it said a century of prayers,
+Such as I can, twice o’er, I’ll weep and sigh;
+And leaving so his service, follow you,
+So please you entertain me.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ay, good youth;
+And rather father thee than master thee.
+My friends,
+The boy hath taught us manly duties; let us
+Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can,
+And make him with our pikes and partisans
+A grave. Come, arm him. Boy, he is preferr’d
+By thee to us; and he shall be interr’d
+As soldiers can. Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes.
+Some falls are means the happier to arise.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Britain. Cymbeline’s palace.
+
+ Enter Cymbeline, Lords, Pisanio and Attendants.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Again! and bring me word how ’tis with her.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+A fever with the absence of her son;
+A madness, of which her life’s in danger. Heavens,
+How deeply you at once do touch me! Imogen,
+The great part of my comfort, gone; my queen
+Upon a desperate bed, and in a time
+When fearful wars point at me; her son gone,
+So needful for this present. It strikes me past
+The hope of comfort. But for thee, fellow,
+Who needs must know of her departure and
+Dost seem so ignorant, we’ll enforce it from thee
+By a sharp torture.
+
+PISANIO.
+Sir, my life is yours;
+I humbly set it at your will; but for my mistress,
+I nothing know where she remains, why gone,
+Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your Highness,
+Hold me your loyal servant.
+
+LORD.
+Good my liege,
+The day that she was missing he was here.
+I dare be bound he’s true and shall perform
+All parts of his subjection loyally. For Cloten,
+There wants no diligence in seeking him,
+And will no doubt be found.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+The time is troublesome.
+[_To Pisanio._] We’ll slip you for a season; but our jealousy
+Does yet depend.
+
+LORD.
+So please your Majesty,
+The Roman legions, all from Gallia drawn,
+Are landed on your coast, with a supply
+Of Roman gentlemen by the Senate sent.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Now for the counsel of my son and queen!
+I am amaz’d with matter.
+
+LORD.
+Good my liege,
+Your preparation can affront no less
+Than what you hear of. Come more, for more you’re ready.
+The want is but to put those pow’rs in motion
+That long to move.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+I thank you. Let’s withdraw,
+And meet the time as it seeks us. We fear not
+What can from Italy annoy us; but
+We grieve at chances here. Away!
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Pisanio._]
+
+PISANIO.
+I heard no letter from my master since
+I wrote him Imogen was slain. ’Tis strange.
+Nor hear I from my mistress, who did promise
+To yield me often tidings. Neither know I
+What is betid to Cloten, but remain
+Perplex’d in all. The heavens still must work.
+Wherein I am false I am honest; not true, to be true.
+These present wars shall find I love my country,
+Even to the note o’ th’ King, or I’ll fall in them.
+All other doubts, by time let them be clear’d:
+Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.
+
+ Enter Belarius, Guiderius and Arviragus.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+The noise is round about us.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Let us from it.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it
+From action and adventure?
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Nay, what hope
+Have we in hiding us? This way the Romans
+Must or for Britons slay us, or receive us
+For barbarous and unnatural revolts
+During their use, and slay us after.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Sons,
+We’ll higher to the mountains; there secure us.
+To the King’s party there’s no going. Newness
+Of Cloten’s death (we being not known, not muster’d
+Among the bands) may drive us to a render
+Where we have liv’d, and so extort from’s that
+Which we have done, whose answer would be death,
+Drawn on with torture.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+This is, sir, a doubt
+In such a time nothing becoming you
+Nor satisfying us.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+It is not likely
+That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
+Behold their quarter’d fires, have both their eyes
+And ears so cloy’d importantly as now,
+That they will waste their time upon our note,
+To know from whence we are.
+
+BELARIUS.
+O, I am known
+Of many in the army. Many years,
+Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him
+From my remembrance. And, besides, the King
+Hath not deserv’d my service nor your loves,
+Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
+The certainty of this hard life; aye hopeless
+To have the courtesy your cradle promis’d,
+But to be still hot summer’s tanlings and
+The shrinking slaves of winter.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Than be so,
+Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to th’ army.
+I and my brother are not known; yourself
+So out of thought, and thereto so o’ergrown,
+Cannot be questioned.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+By this sun that shines,
+I’ll thither. What thing is’t that I never
+Did see man die! scarce ever look’d on blood
+But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison!
+Never bestrid a horse, save one that had
+A rider like myself, who ne’er wore rowel
+Nor iron on his heel! I am asham’d
+To look upon the holy sun, to have
+The benefit of his blest beams, remaining
+So long a poor unknown.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+By heavens, I’ll go!
+If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,
+I’ll take the better care; but if you will not,
+The hazard therefore due fall on me by
+The hands of Romans!
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+So say I. Amen.
+
+BELARIUS.
+No reason I, since of your lives you set
+So slight a valuation, should reserve
+My crack’d one to more care. Have with you, boys!
+If in your country wars you chance to die,
+That is my bed too, lads, and there I’ll lie.
+Lead, lead. [_Aside._] The time seems long; their blood thinks scorn
+Till it fly out and show them princes born.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Britain. The Roman camp.
+
+
+ Enter Posthumus alone, with a bloody handkerchief.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Yea, bloody cloth, I’ll keep thee; for I wish’d
+Thou shouldst be colour’d thus. You married ones,
+If each of you should take this course, how many
+Must murder wives much better than themselves
+For wrying but a little! O Pisanio!
+Every good servant does not all commands;
+No bond but to do just ones. Gods! if you
+Should have ta’en vengeance on my faults, I never
+Had liv’d to put on this; so had you saved
+The noble Imogen to repent, and struck
+Me, wretch more worth your vengeance. But alack,
+You snatch some hence for little faults; that’s love,
+To have them fall no more. You some permit
+To second ills with ills, each elder worse,
+And make them dread it, to the doers’ thrift.
+But Imogen is your own. Do your best wills,
+And make me blest to obey. I am brought hither
+Among th’ Italian gentry, and to fight
+Against my lady’s kingdom. ’Tis enough
+That, Britain, I have kill’d thy mistress; peace!
+I’ll give no wound to thee. Therefore, good heavens,
+Hear patiently my purpose. I’ll disrobe me
+Of these Italian weeds, and suit myself
+As does a Britain peasant. So I’ll fight
+Against the part I come with; so I’ll die
+For thee, O Imogen, even for whom my life
+Is every breath a death. And thus unknown,
+Pitied nor hated, to the face of peril
+Myself I’ll dedicate. Let me make men know
+More valour in me than my habits show.
+Gods, put the strength o’ th’ Leonati in me!
+To shame the guise o’ th’ world, I will begin
+The fashion less without and more within.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Britain. A field of battle between the British and Roman
+camps.
+
+ Enter Lucius, Iachimo and the Roman army at one door, and the British
+ army at another, Leonatus Posthumus following like a poor soldier.
+ They march over and go out. Alarums. Then enter again, in skirmish,
+ Iachimo and Posthumus. He vanquisheth and disarmeth Iachimo and then
+ leaves him.
+
+IACHIMO.
+The heaviness and guilt within my bosom
+Takes off my manhood. I have belied a lady,
+The Princess of this country, and the air on’t
+Revengingly enfeebles me; or could this carl,
+A very drudge of nature’s, have subdu’d me
+In my profession? Knighthoods and honours borne
+As I wear mine are titles but of scorn.
+If that thy gentry, Britain, go before
+This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds
+Is that we scarce are men, and you are gods.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ The battle continues; the Britons fly; Cymbeline is taken. Then enter
+ to his rescue Belarius, Guiderius and Arviragus.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Stand, stand! We have th’ advantage of the ground;
+The lane is guarded; nothing routs us but
+The villainy of our fears.
+
+GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS.
+Stand, stand, and fight!
+
+ Enter Posthumus and seconds the Britons; they rescue Cymbeline and
+ exeunt. Then re-enter Lucius and Iachimo with Imogen.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself;
+For friends kill friends, and the disorder’s such
+As war were hoodwink’d.
+
+IACHIMO.
+’Tis their fresh supplies.
+
+LUCIUS.
+It is a day turn’d strangely. Or betimes
+Let’s reinforce or fly.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another part of the field.
+
+ Enter Posthumus and a Briton Lord.
+
+LORD.
+Cam’st thou from where they made the stand?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I did:
+Though you, it seems, come from the fliers.
+
+LORD.
+I did.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+No blame be to you, sir, for all was lost,
+But that the heavens fought. The King himself
+Of his wings destitute, the army broken,
+And but the backs of Britons seen, all flying,
+Through a strait lane; the enemy, full-hearted,
+Lolling the tongue with slaught’ring, having work
+More plentiful than tools to do’t, struck down
+Some mortally, some slightly touch’d, some falling
+Merely through fear, that the strait pass was damm’d
+With dead men hurt behind, and cowards living
+To die with length’ned shame.
+
+LORD.
+Where was this lane?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Close by the battle, ditch’d, and wall’d with turf,
+Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier,
+An honest one, I warrant, who deserv’d
+So long a breeding as his white beard came to,
+In doing this for’s country. Athwart the lane
+He, with two striplings (lads more like to run
+The country base than to commit such slaughter;
+With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer
+Than those for preservation cas’d or shame)
+Made good the passage, cried to those that fled
+‘Our Britain’s harts die flying, not our men.
+To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards! Stand;
+Or we are Romans and will give you that,
+Like beasts, which you shun beastly, and may save
+But to look back in frown. Stand, stand!’ These three,
+Three thousand confident, in act as many—
+For three performers are the file when all
+The rest do nothing—with this word ‘Stand, stand!’
+Accommodated by the place, more charming
+With their own nobleness, which could have turn’d
+A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks,
+Part shame, part spirit renew’d; that some turn’d coward
+But by example (O, a sin in war
+Damn’d in the first beginners) ’gan to look
+The way that they did and to grin like lions
+Upon the pikes o’ th’ hunters. Then began
+A stop i’ th’ chaser, a retire; anon
+A rout, confusion thick. Forthwith they fly,
+Chickens, the way which they stoop’d eagles; slaves,
+The strides they victors made; and now our cowards,
+Like fragments in hard voyages, became
+The life o’ th’ need. Having found the back-door open
+Of the unguarded hearts, heavens, how they wound!
+Some slain before, some dying, some their friends
+O’erborne i’ th’ former wave. Ten chas’d by one
+Are now each one the slaughterman of twenty.
+Those that would die or ere resist are grown
+The mortal bugs o’ th’ field.
+
+LORD.
+This was strange chance:
+A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Nay, do not wonder at it; you are made
+Rather to wonder at the things you hear
+Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon’t,
+And vent it for a mock’ry? Here is one:
+
+
+        ‘Two boys, an old man (twice a boy), a lane,
+        Preserv’d the Britons, was the Romans’ bane.’
+
+LORD.
+Nay, be not angry, sir.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+’Lack, to what end?
+Who dares not stand his foe I’ll be his friend;
+For if he’ll do as he is made to do,
+I know he’ll quickly fly my friendship too.
+You have put me into rhyme.
+
+LORD.
+Farewell; you’re angry.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Still going? This is a lord! O noble misery,
+To be i’ th’ field and ask ‘What news?’ of me!
+Today how many would have given their honours
+To have sav’d their carcasses! took heel to do’t,
+And yet died too! I, in mine own woe charm’d,
+Could not find death where I did hear him groan,
+Nor feel him where he struck. Being an ugly monster,
+’Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds,
+Sweet words; or hath moe ministers than we
+That draw his knives i’ th’ war. Well, I will find him;
+For being now a favourer to the Briton,
+No more a Briton, I have resum’d again
+The part I came in. Fight I will no more,
+But yield me to the veriest hind that shall
+Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is
+Here made by th’ Roman; great the answer be
+Britons must take. For me, my ransom’s death;
+On either side I come to spend my breath,
+Which neither here I’ll keep nor bear again,
+But end it by some means for Imogen.
+
+ Enter two British Captains and soldiers.
+
+FIRST CAPTAIN.
+Great Jupiter be prais’d! Lucius is taken.
+’Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels.
+
+SECOND CAPTAIN.
+There was a fourth man, in a silly habit,
+That gave th’ affront with them.
+
+FIRST CAPTAIN.
+So ’tis reported;
+But none of ’em can be found. Stand! who’s there?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+A Roman,
+Who had not now been drooping here if seconds
+Had answer’d him.
+
+SECOND CAPTAIN.
+Lay hands on him; a dog!
+A leg of Rome shall not return to tell
+What crows have peck’d them here. He brags his service,
+As if he were of note. Bring him to th’ King.
+
+ Enter Cymbeline, Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, Pisanio and Roman
+ captives. The Captains present Posthumus to Cymbeline, who delivers
+ him over to a gaoler.
+
+ [_Exeunt omnes._]
+
+SCENE IV. Britain. A prison.
+
+ Enter Posthumus and two Gaolers.
+
+FIRST GAOLER. You shall not now be stol’n, you have locks upon you;
+So graze as you find pasture.
+
+SECOND GAOLER.
+Ay, or a stomach.
+
+ [_Exeunt Gaolers._]
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Most welcome, bondage! for thou art a way,
+I think, to liberty. Yet am I better
+Than one that’s sick o’ th’ gout, since he had rather
+Groan so in perpetuity than be cur’d
+By th’ sure physician death, who is the key
+T’ unbar these locks. My conscience, thou art fetter’d
+More than my shanks and wrists; you good gods, give me
+The penitent instrument to pick that bolt,
+Then, free for ever! Is’t enough I am sorry?
+So children temporal fathers do appease;
+Gods are more full of mercy. Must I repent,
+I cannot do it better than in gyves,
+Desir’d more than constrain’d. To satisfy,
+If of my freedom ’tis the main part, take
+No stricter render of me than my all.
+I know you are more clement than vile men,
+Who of their broken debtors take a third,
+A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again
+On their abatement; that’s not my desire.
+For Imogen’s dear life take mine; and though
+’Tis not so dear, yet ’tis a life; you coin’d it.
+’Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp;
+Though light, take pieces for the figure’s sake;
+You rather mine, being yours. And so, great pow’rs,
+If you will take this audit, take this life,
+And cancel these cold bonds. O Imogen!
+I’ll speak to thee in silence.
+
+ [_Sleeps._]
+
+ Solemn music. Enter, as in an apparition, Sicilius Leonatus, father to
+ Posthumus, an old man attired like a warrior; leading in his hand an
+ ancient matron, his wife and Mother to Posthumus, with music before
+ them. Then, after other music, follows the two young Leonati, brothers
+ to Posthumus, with wounds, as they died in the wars. They circle
+ Posthumus round as he lies sleeping.
+
+SICILIUS.
+No more, thou thunder-master, show
+Thy spite on mortal flies.
+With Mars fall out, with Juno chide,
+That thy adulteries
+Rates and revenges.
+Hath my poor boy done aught but well,
+Whose face I never saw?
+I died whilst in the womb he stay’d
+Attending nature’s law;
+Whose father then, as men report
+Thou orphans’ father art,
+Thou shouldst have been, and shielded him
+From this earth-vexing smart.
+
+MOTHER.
+Lucina lent not me her aid,
+But took me in my throes,
+That from me was Posthumus ripp’d,
+Came crying ’mongst his foes,
+A thing of pity.
+
+SICILIUS.
+Great Nature like his ancestry
+Moulded the stuff so fair
+That he deserv’d the praise o’ th’ world
+As great Sicilius’ heir.
+
+FIRST BROTHER.
+When once he was mature for man,
+In Britain where was he
+That could stand up his parallel,
+Or fruitful object be
+In eye of Imogen, that best
+Could deem his dignity?
+
+MOTHER.
+With marriage wherefore was he mock’d,
+To be exil’d and thrown
+From Leonati seat and cast
+From her his dearest one,
+Sweet Imogen?
+
+SICILIUS.
+Why did you suffer Iachimo,
+Slight thing of Italy,
+To taint his nobler heart and brain
+With needless jealousy,
+And to become the geck and scorn
+O’ th’ other’s villainy?
+
+SECOND BROTHER.
+For this from stiller seats we came,
+Our parents and us twain,
+That, striking in our country’s cause,
+Fell bravely and were slain,
+Our fealty and Tenantius’ right
+With honour to maintain.
+
+FIRST BROTHER.
+Like hardiment Posthumus hath
+To Cymbeline perform’d.
+Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,
+Why hast thou thus adjourn’d
+The graces for his merits due,
+Being all to dolours turn’d?
+
+SICILIUS.
+Thy crystal window ope; look out;
+No longer exercise
+Upon a valiant race thy harsh
+And potent injuries.
+
+MOTHER.
+Since, Jupiter, our son is good,
+Take off his miseries.
+
+SICILIUS.
+Peep through thy marble mansion. Help!
+Or we poor ghosts will cry
+To th’ shining synod of the rest
+Against thy deity.
+
+BROTHERS.
+Help, Jupiter! or we appeal,
+And from thy justice fly.
+
+ Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle. He
+ throws a thunderbolt. The Ghosts fall on their knees.
+
+JUPITER.
+No more, you petty spirits of region low,
+Offend our hearing; hush! How dare you ghosts
+Accuse the Thunderer whose bolt, you know,
+Sky-planted, batters all rebelling coasts?
+Poor shadows of Elysium, hence and rest
+Upon your never-withering banks of flow’rs.
+Be not with mortal accidents opprest:
+No care of yours it is; you know ’tis ours.
+Whom best I love I cross; to make my gift,
+The more delay’d, delighted. Be content;
+Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift;
+His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.
+Our Jovial star reign’d at his birth, and in
+Our temple was he married. Rise and fade!
+He shall be lord of Lady Imogen,
+And happier much by his affliction made.
+This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein
+Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine;
+And so, away; no farther with your din
+Express impatience, lest you stir up mine.
+Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.
+
+ [_Ascends._]
+
+SICILIUS.
+He came in thunder; his celestial breath
+Was sulphurous to smell; the holy eagle
+Stoop’d as to foot us. His ascension is
+More sweet than our blest fields. His royal bird
+Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his beak,
+As when his god is pleas’d.
+
+ALL.
+Thanks, Jupiter!
+
+SICILIUS.
+The marble pavement closes, he is enter’d
+His radiant roof. Away! and, to be blest,
+Let us with care perform his great behest.
+
+ [_Ghosts vanish._]
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+[_Waking._] Sleep, thou has been a grandsire and begot
+A father to me; and thou hast created
+A mother and two brothers. But, O scorn,
+Gone! They went hence so soon as they were born.
+And so I am awake. Poor wretches, that depend
+On greatness’ favour, dream as I have done;
+Wake and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve;
+Many dream not to find, neither deserve,
+And yet are steep’d in favours; so am I,
+That have this golden chance, and know not why.
+What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one!
+Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
+Nobler than that it covers. Let thy effects
+So follow to be most unlike our courtiers,
+As good as promise.
+
+[_Reads._] _When as a lion’s whelp shall, to himself unknown, without
+seeking find, and be embrac’d by a piece of tender air; and when from a
+stately cedar shall be lopp’d branches which, being dead many years,
+shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock, and freshly grow; then
+shall Posthumus end his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in
+peace and plenty._
+
+’Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
+Tongue, and brain not; either both or nothing,
+Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such
+As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,
+The action of my life is like it, which
+I’ll keep, if but for sympathy.
+
+ Enter Gaoler.
+
+GAOLER.
+Come, sir, are you ready for death?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Over-roasted rather; ready long ago.
+
+GAOLER.
+Hanging is the word, sir; if you be ready for that, you are well
+cook’d.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+So, if I prove a good repast to the spectators, the dish pays the shot.
+
+GAOLER.
+A heavy reckoning for you, sir. But the comfort is, you shall be called
+to no more payments, fear no more tavern bills, which are often the
+sadness of parting, as the procuring of mirth. You come in faint for
+want of meat, depart reeling with too much drink; sorry that you have
+paid too much, and sorry that you are paid too much; purse and brain
+both empty; the brain the heavier for being too light, the purse too
+light, being drawn of heaviness. O, of this contradiction you shall now
+be quit. O, the charity of a penny cord! It sums up thousands in a
+trice. You have no true debitor and creditor but it; of what’s past,
+is, and to come, the discharge. Your neck, sir, is pen, book, and
+counters; so the acquittance follows.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I am merrier to die than thou art to live.
+
+GAOLER.
+Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache. But a man that
+were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he
+would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not
+which way you shall go.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Yes indeed do I, fellow.
+
+GAOLER.
+Your death has eyes in’s head, then; I have not seen him so pictur’d.
+You must either be directed by some that take upon them to know, or to
+take upon yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or jump the
+after-inquiry on your own peril. And how you shall speed in your
+journey’s end, I think you’ll never return to tell one.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes to direct them the way I
+am going, but such as wink and will not use them.
+
+GAOLER.
+What an infinite mock is this, that a man should have the best use of
+eyes to see the way of blindness! I am sure hanging’s the way of
+winking.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Knock off his manacles; bring your prisoner to the King.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Thou bring’st good news: I am call’d to be made free.
+
+GAOLER.
+I’ll be hang’d then.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler; no bolts for the dead.
+
+ [_Exeunt Posthumus and Messenger._]
+
+GAOLER.
+Unless a man would marry a gallows and beget young gibbets, I never saw
+one so prone. Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to
+live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die
+against their wills; so should I, if I were one. I would we were all of
+one mind, and one mind good. O, there were desolation of gaolers and
+gallowses! I speak against my present profit, but my wish hath a
+preferment in’t.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. Britain. Cymbeline’s tent.
+
+ Enter Cymbeline, Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, Pisanio, Lords,
+ Officers and Attendants.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made
+Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart
+That the poor soldier that so richly fought,
+Whose rags sham’d gilded arms, whose naked breast
+Stepp’d before targes of proof, cannot be found.
+He shall be happy that can find him, if
+Our grace can make him so.
+
+BELARIUS.
+I never saw
+Such noble fury in so poor a thing;
+Such precious deeds in one that promis’d nought
+But beggary and poor looks.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+No tidings of him?
+
+PISANIO.
+He hath been search’d among the dead and living,
+But no trace of him.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+To my grief, I am
+The heir of his reward, [_To Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus_] which
+I will add
+To you, the liver, heart, and brain of Britain,
+By whom I grant she lives. ’Tis now the time
+To ask of whence you are. Report it.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Sir,
+In Cambria are we born, and gentlemen;
+Further to boast were neither true nor modest,
+Unless I add we are honest.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Bow your knees.
+Arise my knights o’ th’ battle; I create you
+Companions to our person, and will fit you
+With dignities becoming your estates.
+
+ Enter Cornelius and Ladies.
+
+There’s business in these faces. Why so sadly
+Greet you our victory? You look like Romans,
+And not o’ th’ court of Britain.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+Hail, great King!
+To sour your happiness I must report
+The Queen is dead.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Who worse than a physician
+Would this report become? But I consider
+By med’cine life may be prolong’d, yet death
+Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?
+
+CORNELIUS.
+With horror, madly dying, like her life;
+Which, being cruel to the world, concluded
+Most cruel to herself. What she confess’d
+I will report, so please you; these her women
+Can trip me if I err, who with wet cheeks
+Were present when she finish’d.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Prithee say.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+First, she confess’d she never lov’d you; only
+Affected greatness got by you, not you;
+Married your royalty, was wife to your place;
+Abhorr’d your person.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+She alone knew this;
+And but she spoke it dying, I would not
+Believe her lips in opening it. Proceed.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love
+With such integrity, she did confess
+Was as a scorpion to her sight; whose life,
+But that her flight prevented it, she had
+Ta’en off by poison.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+O most delicate fiend!
+Who is’t can read a woman? Is there more?
+
+CORNELIUS.
+More, sir, and worse. She did confess she had
+For you a mortal mineral, which, being took,
+Should by the minute feed on life, and ling’ring,
+By inches waste you. In which time she purpos’d,
+By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to
+O’ercome you with her show; and in time,
+When she had fitted you with her craft, to work
+Her son into th’ adoption of the crown;
+But failing of her end by his strange absence,
+Grew shameless-desperate, open’d, in despite
+Of heaven and men, her purposes, repented
+The evils she hatch’d were not effected; so,
+Despairing, died.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Heard you all this, her women?
+
+LADIES.
+We did, so please your Highness.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Mine eyes
+Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
+Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart
+That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious
+To have mistrusted her; yet, O my daughter!
+That it was folly in me thou mayst say,
+And prove it in thy feeling. Heaven mend all!
+
+ Enter Lucius, Iachimo, the Soothsayer and other Roman prisoners,
+ guarded; Posthumus behind, and Imogen.
+
+Thou com’st not, Caius, now for tribute; that
+The Britons have raz’d out, though with the loss
+Of many a bold one, whose kinsmen have made suit
+That their good souls may be appeas’d with slaughter
+Of you their captives, which ourself have granted;
+So think of your estate.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Consider, sir, the chance of war. The day
+Was yours by accident; had it gone with us,
+We should not, when the blood was cool, have threaten’d
+Our prisoners with the sword. But since the gods
+Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives
+May be call’d ransom, let it come. Sufficeth
+A Roman with a Roman’s heart can suffer.
+Augustus lives to think on’t; and so much
+For my peculiar care. This one thing only
+I will entreat: my boy, a Briton born,
+Let him be ransom’d. Never master had
+A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,
+So tender over his occasions, true,
+So feat, so nurse-like; let his virtue join
+With my request, which I’ll make bold your Highness
+Cannot deny; he hath done no Briton harm
+Though he have serv’d a Roman. Save him, sir,
+And spare no blood beside.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+I have surely seen him;
+His favour is familiar to me. Boy,
+Thou hast look’d thyself into my grace,
+And art mine own. I know not why, wherefore
+To say “Live, boy.” Ne’er thank thy master. Live;
+And ask of Cymbeline what boon thou wilt,
+Fitting my bounty and thy state, I’ll give it;
+Yea, though thou do demand a prisoner,
+The noblest ta’en.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I humbly thank your Highness.
+
+LUCIUS.
+I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad,
+And yet I know thou wilt.
+
+IMOGEN.
+No, no! Alack,
+There’s other work in hand. I see a thing
+Bitter to me as death; your life, good master,
+Must shuffle for itself.
+
+LUCIUS.
+The boy disdains me,
+He leaves me, scorns me. Briefly die their joys
+That place them on the truth of girls and boys.
+Why stands he so perplex’d?
+
+CYMBELINE.
+What wouldst thou, boy?
+I love thee more and more; think more and more
+What’s best to ask. Know’st him thou look’st on? Speak,
+Wilt have him live? Is he thy kin? thy friend?
+
+IMOGEN.
+He is a Roman, no more kin to me
+Than I to your Highness; who, being born your vassal,
+Am something nearer.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Wherefore ey’st him so?
+
+IMOGEN.
+I’ll tell you, sir, in private, if you please
+To give me hearing.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Ay, with all my heart,
+And lend my best attention. What’s thy name?
+
+IMOGEN.
+Fidele, sir.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Thou’rt my good youth, my page;
+I’ll be thy master. Walk with me; speak freely.
+
+ [_Cymbeline and Imogen converse apart._]
+
+BELARIUS.
+Is not this boy reviv’d from death?
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+One sand another
+Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad
+Who died and was Fidele. What think you?
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+The same dead thing alive.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Peace, peace! see further. He eyes us not; forbear.
+Creatures may be alike; were’t he, I am sure
+He would have spoke to us.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+But we see him dead.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Be silent; let’s see further.
+
+PISANIO.
+[_Aside._] It is my mistress.
+Since she is living, let the time run on
+To good or bad.
+
+ [_Cymbeline and Imogen advance._]
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Come, stand thou by our side;
+Make thy demand aloud. [_To Iachimo._] Sir, step you forth;
+Give answer to this boy, and do it freely,
+Or, by our greatness and the grace of it,
+Which is our honour, bitter torture shall
+Winnow the truth from falsehood. On, speak to him.
+
+IMOGEN.
+My boon is that this gentleman may render
+Of whom he had this ring.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+[_Aside._] What’s that to him?
+
+CYMBELINE.
+That diamond upon your finger, say
+How came it yours?
+
+IACHIMO.
+Thou’lt torture me to leave unspoken that
+Which to be spoke would torture thee.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+How? me?
+
+IACHIMO.
+I am glad to be constrain’d to utter that
+Which torments me to conceal. By villainy
+I got this ring; ’twas Leonatus’ jewel,
+Whom thou didst banish; and—which more may grieve thee,
+As it doth me—a nobler sir ne’er liv’d
+’Twixt sky and ground. Wilt thou hear more, my lord?
+
+CYMBELINE.
+All that belongs to this.
+
+IACHIMO.
+That paragon, thy daughter,
+For whom my heart drops blood and my false spirits
+Quail to remember—Give me leave, I faint.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+My daughter? What of her? Renew thy strength;
+I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will
+Than die ere I hear more. Strive, man, and speak.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Upon a time, unhappy was the clock
+That struck the hour: was in Rome, accurs’d
+The mansion where: ’twas at a feast, O, would
+Our viands had been poison’d (or at least
+Those which I heav’d to head) the good Posthumus
+(What should I say? he was too good to be
+Where ill men were, and was the best of all
+Amongst the rar’st of good ones) sitting sadly
+Hearing us praise our loves of Italy
+For beauty that made barren the swell’d boast
+Of him that best could speak; for feature, laming
+The shrine of Venus or straight-pight Minerva,
+Postures beyond brief nature; for condition,
+A shop of all the qualities that man
+Loves woman for; besides that hook of wiving,
+Fairness which strikes the eye.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+I stand on fire.
+Come to the matter.
+
+IACHIMO.
+All too soon I shall,
+Unless thou wouldst grieve quickly. This Posthumus,
+Most like a noble lord in love and one
+That had a royal lover, took his hint;
+And (not dispraising whom we prais’d, therein
+He was as calm as virtue) he began
+His mistress’ picture; which by his tongue being made,
+And then a mind put in’t, either our brags
+Were crack’d of kitchen trulls, or his description
+Prov’d us unspeaking sots.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Nay, nay, to th’ purpose.
+
+IACHIMO.
+Your daughter’s chastity (there it begins)
+He spake of her as Dian had hot dreams
+And she alone were cold; whereat I, wretch,
+Made scruple of his praise, and wager’d with him
+Pieces of gold ’gainst this which then he wore
+Upon his honour’d finger, to attain
+In suit the place of’s bed, and win this ring
+By hers and mine adultery. He, true knight,
+No lesser of her honour confident
+Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring;
+And would so, had it been a carbuncle
+Of Phoebus’ wheel; and might so safely, had it
+Been all the worth of’s car. Away to Britain
+Post I in this design. Well may you, sir,
+Remember me at court, where I was taught
+Of your chaste daughter the wide difference
+’Twixt amorous and villainous. Being thus quench’d
+Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain
+Gan in your duller Britain operate
+Most vilely; for my vantage, excellent;
+And, to be brief, my practice so prevail’d
+That I return’d with simular proof enough
+To make the noble Leonatus mad,
+By wounding his belief in her renown
+With tokens thus and thus; averring notes
+Of chamber-hanging, pictures, this her bracelet
+(O cunning, how I got it!) nay, some marks
+Of secret on her person, that he could not
+But think her bond of chastity quite crack’d,
+I having ta’en the forfeit. Whereupon
+Methinks I see him now—
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+[_Coming forward._] Ay, so thou dost,
+Italian fiend! Ay me, most credulous fool,
+Egregious murderer, thief, anything
+That’s due to all the villains past, in being,
+To come! O, give me cord, or knife, or poison,
+Some upright justicer! Thou, King, send out
+For torturers ingenious. It is I
+That all th’ abhorred things o’ th’ earth amend
+By being worse than they. I am Posthumus,
+That kill’d thy daughter; villain-like, I lie;
+That caus’d a lesser villain than myself,
+A sacrilegious thief, to do’t. The temple
+Of virtue was she; yea, and she herself.
+Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set
+The dogs o’ th’ street to bay me. Every villain
+Be call’d Posthumus Leonatus, and
+Be villainy less than ’twas! O Imogen!
+My queen, my life, my wife! O Imogen,
+Imogen, Imogen!
+
+IMOGEN.
+Peace, my lord. Hear, hear!
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Shall’s have a play of this? Thou scornful page,
+There lies thy part.
+
+ [_Strikes her. She falls._]
+
+PISANIO.
+O gentlemen, help!
+Mine and your mistress! O, my lord Posthumus!
+You ne’er kill’d Imogen till now. Help, help!
+Mine honour’d lady!
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Does the world go round?
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+How comes these staggers on me?
+
+PISANIO.
+Wake, my mistress!
+
+CYMBELINE.
+If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me
+To death with mortal joy.
+
+PISANIO.
+How fares my mistress?
+
+IMOGEN.
+O, get thee from my sight;
+Thou gav’st me poison. Dangerous fellow, hence!
+Breathe not where princes are.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+The tune of Imogen!
+
+PISANIO.
+Lady,
+The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if
+That box I gave you was not thought by me
+A precious thing! I had it from the Queen.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+New matter still?
+
+IMOGEN.
+It poison’d me.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+O gods!
+I left out one thing which the Queen confess’d,
+Which must approve thee honest. ‘If Pisanio
+Have’ said she ‘given his mistress that confection
+Which I gave him for cordial, she is serv’d
+As I would serve a rat.’
+
+CYMBELINE.
+What’s this, Cornelius?
+
+CORNELIUS.
+The Queen, sir, very oft importun’d me
+To temper poisons for her; still pretending
+The satisfaction of her knowledge only
+In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs,
+Of no esteem. I, dreading that her purpose
+Was of more danger, did compound for her
+A certain stuff, which, being ta’en would cease
+The present pow’r of life, but in short time
+All offices of nature should again
+Do their due functions. Have you ta’en of it?
+
+IMOGEN.
+Most like I did, for I was dead.
+
+BELARIUS.
+My boys,
+There was our error.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+This is sure Fidele.
+
+IMOGEN.
+Why did you throw your wedded lady from you?
+Think that you are upon a rock, and now
+Throw me again.
+
+ [_Embracing him._]
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Hang there like fruit, my soul,
+Till the tree die!
+
+CYMBELINE.
+How now, my flesh? my child?
+What, mak’st thou me a dullard in this act?
+Wilt thou not speak to me?
+
+IMOGEN.
+[_Kneeling._] Your blessing, sir.
+
+BELARIUS.
+[_To Guiderius and Arviragus._] Though you did love this youth, I blame
+ye not;
+You had a motive for’t.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+My tears that fall
+Prove holy water on thee! Imogen,
+Thy mother’s dead.
+
+IMOGEN.
+I am sorry for’t, my lord.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+O, she was naught, and long of her it was
+That we meet here so strangely; but her son
+Is gone, we know not how nor where.
+
+PISANIO.
+My lord,
+Now fear is from me, I’ll speak troth. Lord Cloten,
+Upon my lady’s missing, came to me
+With his sword drawn, foam’d at the mouth, and swore,
+If I discover’d not which way she was gone,
+It was my instant death. By accident
+I had a feigned letter of my master’s
+Then in my pocket, which directed him
+To seek her on the mountains near to Milford;
+Where, in a frenzy, in my master’s garments,
+Which he enforc’d from me, away he posts
+With unchaste purpose, and with oath to violate
+My lady’s honour. What became of him
+I further know not.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+Let me end the story:
+I slew him there.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Marry, the gods forfend!
+I would not thy good deeds should from my lips
+Pluck a hard sentence. Prithee, valiant youth,
+Deny’t again.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+I have spoke it, and I did it.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+He was a prince.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+A most incivil one. The wrongs he did me
+Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke me
+With language that would make me spurn the sea,
+If it could so roar to me. I cut off’s head,
+And am right glad he is not standing here
+To tell this tale of mine.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+I am sorry for thee.
+By thine own tongue thou art condemn’d, and must
+Endure our law. Thou’rt dead.
+
+IMOGEN.
+That headless man
+I thought had been my lord.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Bind the offender,
+And take him from our presence.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Stay, sir King.
+This man is better than the man he slew,
+As well descended as thyself, and hath
+More of thee merited than a band of Clotens
+Had ever scar for. [_To the guard._] Let his arms alone;
+They were not born for bondage.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Why, old soldier,
+Wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for
+By tasting of our wrath? How of descent
+As good as we?
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+In that he spake too far.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+And thou shalt die for’t.
+
+BELARIUS.
+We will die all three;
+But I will prove that two on’s are as good
+As I have given out him. My sons, I must
+For mine own part unfold a dangerous speech,
+Though haply well for you.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Your danger’s ours.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+And our good his.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Have at it then by leave!
+Thou hadst, great King, a subject who
+Was call’d Belarius.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+What of him? He is
+A banish’d traitor.
+
+BELARIUS.
+He it is that hath
+Assum’d this age; indeed a banish’d man;
+I know not how a traitor.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Take him hence,
+The whole world shall not save him.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Not too hot.
+First pay me for the nursing of thy sons,
+And let it be confiscate all, so soon
+As I have receiv’d it.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Nursing of my sons?
+
+BELARIUS.
+I am too blunt and saucy: here’s my knee.
+Ere I arise I will prefer my sons;
+Then spare not the old father. Mighty sir,
+These two young gentlemen that call me father,
+And think they are my sons, are none of mine;
+They are the issue of your loins, my liege,
+And blood of your begetting.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+How? my issue?
+
+BELARIUS.
+So sure as you your father’s. I, old Morgan,
+Am that Belarius whom you sometime banish’d.
+Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment
+Itself, and all my treason; that I suffer’d
+Was all the harm I did. These gentle princes
+(For such and so they are) these twenty years
+Have I train’d up; those arts they have as I
+Could put into them. My breeding was, sir, as
+Your Highness knows. Their nurse, Euriphile,
+Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children
+Upon my banishment; I mov’d her to’t,
+Having receiv’d the punishment before
+For that which I did then. Beaten for loyalty
+Excited me to treason. Their dear loss,
+The more of you ’twas felt, the more it shap’d
+Unto my end of stealing them. But, gracious sir,
+Here are your sons again, and I must lose
+Two of the sweet’st companions in the world.
+The benediction of these covering heavens
+Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy
+To inlay heaven with stars.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Thou weep’st and speak’st.
+The service that you three have done is more
+Unlike than this thou tell’st. I lost my children.
+If these be they, I know not how to wish
+A pair of worthier sons.
+
+BELARIUS.
+Be pleas’d awhile.
+This gentleman, whom I call Polydore,
+Most worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius;
+This gentleman, my Cadwal, Arviragus,
+Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapp’d
+In a most curious mantle, wrought by th’ hand
+Of his queen mother, which for more probation
+I can with ease produce.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Guiderius had
+Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star;
+It was a mark of wonder.
+
+BELARIUS.
+This is he,
+Who hath upon him still that natural stamp.
+It was wise nature’s end in the donation,
+To be his evidence now.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+O, what am I?
+A mother to the birth of three? Ne’er mother
+Rejoic’d deliverance more. Blest pray you be,
+That, after this strange starting from your orbs,
+You may reign in them now! O Imogen,
+Thou hast lost by this a kingdom.
+
+IMOGEN.
+No, my lord;
+I have got two worlds by’t. O my gentle brothers,
+Have we thus met? O, never say hereafter
+But I am truest speaker! You call’d me brother,
+When I was but your sister: I you brothers,
+When we were so indeed.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Did you e’er meet?
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+GUIDERIUS.
+And at first meeting lov’d,
+Continu’d so until we thought he died.
+
+CORNELIUS.
+By the Queen’s dram she swallow’d.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+O rare instinct!
+When shall I hear all through? This fierce abridgement
+Hath to it circumstantial branches, which
+Distinction should be rich in. Where? how liv’d you?
+And when came you to serve our Roman captive?
+How parted with your brothers? how first met them?
+Why fled you from the court? and whither? These,
+And your three motives to the battle, with
+I know not how much more, should be demanded,
+And all the other by-dependances,
+From chance to chance; but nor the time nor place
+Will serve our long interrogatories. See,
+Posthumus anchors upon Imogen;
+And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye
+On him, her brothers, me, her master, hitting
+Each object with a joy; the counterchange
+Is severally in all. Let’s quit this ground,
+And smoke the temple with our sacrifices.
+[_To Belarius._] Thou art my brother; so we’ll hold thee ever.
+
+IMOGEN.
+You are my father too, and did relieve me
+To see this gracious season.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+All o’erjoy’d
+Save these in bonds. Let them be joyful too,
+For they shall taste our comfort.
+
+IMOGEN.
+My good master,
+I will yet do you service.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Happy be you!
+
+CYMBELINE.
+The forlorn soldier, that so nobly fought,
+He would have well becom’d this place and grac’d
+The thankings of a king.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+I am, sir,
+The soldier that did company these three
+In poor beseeming; ’twas a fitment for
+The purpose I then follow’d. That I was he,
+Speak, Iachimo. I had you down, and might
+Have made you finish.
+
+IACHIMO.
+[_Kneeling._] I am down again;
+But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee,
+As then your force did. Take that life, beseech you,
+Which I so often owe; but your ring first,
+And here the bracelet of the truest princess
+That ever swore her faith.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Kneel not to me.
+The pow’r that I have on you is to spare you;
+The malice towards you to forgive you. Live,
+And deal with others better.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Nobly doom’d!
+We’ll learn our freeness of a son-in-law;
+Pardon’s the word to all.
+
+ARVIRAGUS.
+You holp us, sir,
+As you did mean indeed to be our brother;
+Joy’d are we that you are.
+
+POSTHUMUS.
+Your servant, Princes. Good my lord of Rome,
+Call forth your soothsayer. As I slept, methought
+Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back’d,
+Appear’d to me, with other spritely shows
+Of mine own kindred. When I wak’d, I found
+This label on my bosom; whose containing
+Is so from sense in hardness that I can
+Make no collection of it. Let him show
+His skill in the construction.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Philarmonus!
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Here, my good lord.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Read, and declare the meaning.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+[_Reads._] _When as a lion’s whelp shall, to himself unknown, without
+seeking find, and be embrac’d by a piece of tender air; and when from a
+stately cedar shall be lopp’d branches which, being dead many years,
+shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock, and freshly grow; then
+shall Posthumus end his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in
+peace and plenty._
+Thou, Leonatus, art the lion’s whelp;
+The fit and apt construction of thy name,
+Being Leo-natus, doth import so much.
+[_To Cymbeline_] The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter,
+Which we call _mollis aer_, and _mollis aer_
+We term it _mulier_; which _mulier_ I divine
+Is this most constant wife, who even now
+Answering the letter of the oracle,
+Unknown to you, unsought, were clipp’d about
+With this most tender air.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+This hath some seeming.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline,
+Personates thee; and thy lopp’d branches point
+Thy two sons forth, who, by Belarius stol’n,
+For many years thought dead, are now reviv’d,
+To the majestic cedar join’d, whose issue
+Promises Britain peace and plenty.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Well,
+My peace we will begin. And, Caius Lucius,
+Although the victor, we submit to Cæsar
+And to the Roman empire, promising
+To pay our wonted tribute, from the which
+We were dissuaded by our wicked queen,
+Whom heavens in justice, both on her and hers,
+Have laid most heavy hand.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+The fingers of the pow’rs above do tune
+The harmony of this peace. The vision
+Which I made known to Lucius ere the stroke
+Of yet this scarce-cold battle, at this instant
+Is full accomplish’d; for the Roman eagle,
+From south to west on wing soaring aloft,
+Lessen’d herself and in the beams o’ th’ sun
+So vanish’d; which foreshow’d our princely eagle,
+Th’ imperial Cæsar, should again unite
+His favour with the radiant Cymbeline,
+Which shines here in the west.
+
+CYMBELINE.
+Laud we the gods;
+And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils
+From our bless’d altars. Publish we this peace
+To all our subjects. Set we forward; let
+A Roman and a British ensign wave
+Friendly together. So through Lud’s Town march;
+And in the temple of great Jupiter
+Our peace we’ll ratify; seal it with feasts.
+Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
+Ere bloody hands were wash’d, with such a peace.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Elsinore. A platform before the Castle
+ Scene II. Elsinore. A room of state in the Castle
+ Scene III. A room in Polonius’s house
+ Scene IV. The platform
+ Scene V. A more remote part of the Castle
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. A room in Polonius’s house
+ Scene II. A room in the Castle
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. A room in the Castle
+ Scene II. A hall in the Castle
+ Scene III. A room in the Castle
+ Scene IV. Another room in the Castle
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. A room in the Castle
+ Scene II. Another room in the Castle
+ Scene III. Another room in the Castle
+ Scene IV. A plain in Denmark
+ Scene V. Elsinore. A room in the Castle
+ Scene VI. Another room in the Castle
+ Scene VII. Another room in the Castle
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. A churchyard
+ Scene II. A hall in the Castle
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+HAMLET, Prince of Denmark
+CLAUDIUS, King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle
+The GHOST of the late king, Hamlet’s father
+GERTRUDE, the Queen, Hamlet’s mother, now wife of Claudius
+POLONIUS, Lord Chamberlain
+LAERTES, Son to Polonius
+OPHELIA, Daughter to Polonius
+HORATIO, Friend to Hamlet
+FORTINBRAS, Prince of Norway
+VOLTEMAND, Courtier
+CORNELIUS, Courtier
+ROSENCRANTZ, Courtier
+GUILDENSTERN, Courtier
+MARCELLUS, Officer
+BARNARDO, Officer
+FRANCISCO, a Soldier
+OSRIC, Courtier
+REYNALDO, Servant to Polonius
+Players
+A Gentleman, Courtier
+A Priest
+Two Clowns, Grave-diggers
+A Captain
+English Ambassadors.
+Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and Attendants
+
+SCENE. Elsinore.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the Castle.
+
+
+Enter Francisco and Barnardo, two sentinels.
+
+BARNARDO.
+Who’s there?
+
+FRANCISCO.
+Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.
+
+BARNARDO.
+Long live the King!
+
+FRANCISCO.
+Barnardo?
+
+BARNARDO.
+He.
+
+FRANCISCO.
+You come most carefully upon your hour.
+
+BARNARDO.
+’Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco.
+
+FRANCISCO.
+For this relief much thanks. ’Tis bitter cold,
+And I am sick at heart.
+
+BARNARDO.
+Have you had quiet guard?
+
+FRANCISCO.
+Not a mouse stirring.
+
+BARNARDO.
+Well, good night.
+If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
+The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
+
+Enter Horatio and Marcellus.
+
+FRANCISCO.
+I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who is there?
+
+HORATIO.
+Friends to this ground.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+And liegemen to the Dane.
+
+FRANCISCO.
+Give you good night.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+O, farewell, honest soldier, who hath reliev’d you?
+
+FRANCISCO.
+Barnardo has my place. Give you good-night.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Holla, Barnardo!
+
+BARNARDO.
+Say, what, is Horatio there?
+
+HORATIO.
+A piece of him.
+
+BARNARDO.
+Welcome, Horatio. Welcome, good Marcellus.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+What, has this thing appear’d again tonight?
+
+BARNARDO.
+I have seen nothing.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy,
+And will not let belief take hold of him
+Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us.
+Therefore I have entreated him along
+With us to watch the minutes of this night,
+That if again this apparition come
+He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
+
+HORATIO.
+Tush, tush, ’twill not appear.
+
+BARNARDO.
+Sit down awhile,
+And let us once again assail your ears,
+That are so fortified against our story,
+What we two nights have seen.
+
+HORATIO.
+Well, sit we down,
+And let us hear Barnardo speak of this.
+
+BARNARDO.
+Last night of all,
+When yond same star that’s westward from the pole,
+Had made his course t’illume that part of heaven
+Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
+The bell then beating one—
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Peace, break thee off. Look where it comes again.
+
+Enter Ghost.
+
+BARNARDO.
+In the same figure, like the King that’s dead.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
+
+BARNARDO.
+Looks it not like the King? Mark it, Horatio.
+
+HORATIO.
+Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder.
+
+BARNARDO
+It would be spoke to.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Question it, Horatio.
+
+HORATIO.
+What art thou that usurp’st this time of night,
+Together with that fair and warlike form
+In which the majesty of buried Denmark
+Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee speak.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+It is offended.
+
+BARNARDO.
+See, it stalks away.
+
+HORATIO.
+Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee speak!
+
+[_Exit Ghost._]
+
+MARCELLUS.
+’Tis gone, and will not answer.
+
+BARNARDO.
+How now, Horatio! You tremble and look pale.
+Is not this something more than fantasy?
+What think you on’t?
+
+HORATIO.
+Before my God, I might not this believe
+Without the sensible and true avouch
+Of mine own eyes.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Is it not like the King?
+
+HORATIO.
+As thou art to thyself:
+Such was the very armour he had on
+When he th’ambitious Norway combated;
+So frown’d he once, when in an angry parle
+He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
+’Tis strange.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
+With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
+
+HORATIO.
+In what particular thought to work I know not;
+But in the gross and scope of my opinion,
+This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
+Why this same strict and most observant watch
+So nightly toils the subject of the land,
+And why such daily cast of brazen cannon
+And foreign mart for implements of war;
+Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
+Does not divide the Sunday from the week.
+What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
+Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:
+Who is’t that can inform me?
+
+HORATIO.
+That can I;
+At least, the whisper goes so. Our last King,
+Whose image even but now appear’d to us,
+Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
+Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride,
+Dar’d to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet,
+For so this side of our known world esteem’d him,
+Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal’d compact,
+Well ratified by law and heraldry,
+Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands
+Which he stood seiz’d of, to the conqueror;
+Against the which, a moiety competent
+Was gaged by our King; which had return’d
+To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
+Had he been vanquisher; as by the same cov’nant
+And carriage of the article design’d,
+His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
+Of unimproved mettle, hot and full,
+Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there,
+Shark’d up a list of lawless resolutes,
+For food and diet, to some enterprise
+That hath a stomach in’t; which is no other,
+As it doth well appear unto our state,
+But to recover of us by strong hand
+And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands
+So by his father lost. And this, I take it,
+Is the main motive of our preparations,
+The source of this our watch, and the chief head
+Of this post-haste and rummage in the land.
+
+BARNARDO.
+I think it be no other but e’en so:
+Well may it sort that this portentous figure
+Comes armed through our watch so like the King
+That was and is the question of these wars.
+
+HORATIO.
+A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.
+In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
+A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
+The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
+Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;
+As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
+Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,
+Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands,
+Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
+And even the like precurse of fierce events,
+As harbingers preceding still the fates
+And prologue to the omen coming on,
+Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
+Unto our climatures and countrymen.
+
+Re-enter Ghost.
+
+But, soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again!
+I’ll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!
+If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
+Speak to me.
+If there be any good thing to be done,
+That may to thee do ease, and grace to me,
+Speak to me.
+If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,
+Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
+O speak!
+Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
+Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
+For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
+Speak of it. Stay, and speak!
+
+[_The cock crows._]
+
+Stop it, Marcellus!
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
+
+HORATIO.
+Do, if it will not stand.
+
+BARNARDO.
+’Tis here!
+
+HORATIO.
+’Tis here!
+
+[_Exit Ghost._]
+
+MARCELLUS.
+’Tis gone!
+We do it wrong, being so majestical,
+To offer it the show of violence,
+For it is as the air, invulnerable,
+And our vain blows malicious mockery.
+
+BARNARDO.
+It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
+
+HORATIO.
+And then it started, like a guilty thing
+Upon a fearful summons. I have heard
+The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
+Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
+Awake the god of day; and at his warning,
+Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
+Th’extravagant and erring spirit hies
+To his confine. And of the truth herein
+This present object made probation.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+It faded on the crowing of the cock.
+Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes
+Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,
+The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
+And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
+The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
+No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm;
+So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.
+
+HORATIO.
+So have I heard, and do in part believe it.
+But look, the morn in russet mantle clad,
+Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
+Break we our watch up, and by my advice,
+Let us impart what we have seen tonight
+Unto young Hamlet; for upon my life,
+This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
+Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
+As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Let’s do’t, I pray, and I this morning know
+Where we shall find him most conveniently.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE II. Elsinore. A room of state in the Castle.
+
+Enter Claudius King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen, Hamlet, Polonius,
+Laertes, Voltemand,
+Cornelius, Lords and Attendant.
+
+KING.
+Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
+The memory be green, and that it us befitted
+To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
+To be contracted in one brow of woe;
+Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
+That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
+Together with remembrance of ourselves.
+Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
+Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state,
+Have we, as ’twere with a defeated joy,
+With one auspicious and one dropping eye,
+With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
+In equal scale weighing delight and dole,
+Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr’d
+Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
+With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
+Now follows, that you know young Fortinbras,
+Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
+Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death
+Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
+Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,
+He hath not fail’d to pester us with message,
+Importing the surrender of those lands
+Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
+To our most valiant brother. So much for him.
+Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:
+Thus much the business is: we have here writ
+To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,
+Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
+Of this his nephew’s purpose, to suppress
+His further gait herein; in that the levies,
+The lists, and full proportions are all made
+Out of his subject: and we here dispatch
+You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand,
+For bearers of this greeting to old Norway,
+Giving to you no further personal power
+To business with the King, more than the scope
+Of these dilated articles allow.
+Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty.
+
+CORNELIUS and VOLTEMAND.
+In that, and all things, will we show our duty.
+
+KING.
+We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt Voltemand and Cornelius._]
+
+And now, Laertes, what’s the news with you?
+You told us of some suit. What is’t, Laertes?
+You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,
+And lose your voice. What wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
+That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
+The head is not more native to the heart,
+The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
+Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
+What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
+
+LAERTES.
+Dread my lord,
+Your leave and favour to return to France,
+From whence though willingly I came to Denmark
+To show my duty in your coronation;
+Yet now I must confess, that duty done,
+My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France,
+And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
+
+KING.
+Have you your father’s leave? What says Polonius?
+
+POLONIUS.
+He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
+By laboursome petition; and at last
+Upon his will I seal’d my hard consent.
+I do beseech you give him leave to go.
+
+KING.
+Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,
+And thy best graces spend it at thy will!
+But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son—
+
+HAMLET.
+[_Aside._] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
+
+KING.
+How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
+
+HAMLET.
+Not so, my lord, I am too much i’ the sun.
+
+QUEEN.
+Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
+And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
+Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
+Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
+Thou know’st ’tis common, all that lives must die,
+Passing through nature to eternity.
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, madam, it is common.
+
+QUEEN.
+If it be,
+Why seems it so particular with thee?
+
+HAMLET.
+Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems.
+’Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
+Nor customary suits of solemn black,
+Nor windy suspiration of forc’d breath,
+No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
+Nor the dejected haviour of the visage,
+Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief,
+That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,
+For they are actions that a man might play;
+But I have that within which passeth show;
+These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
+
+KING.
+’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
+To give these mourning duties to your father;
+But you must know, your father lost a father,
+That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
+In filial obligation, for some term
+To do obsequious sorrow. But to persevere
+In obstinate condolement is a course
+Of impious stubbornness. ’Tis unmanly grief,
+It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
+A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
+An understanding simple and unschool’d;
+For what we know must be, and is as common
+As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
+Why should we in our peevish opposition
+Take it to heart? Fie, ’tis a fault to heaven,
+A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
+To reason most absurd, whose common theme
+Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
+From the first corse till he that died today,
+‘This must be so.’ We pray you throw to earth
+This unprevailing woe, and think of us
+As of a father; for let the world take note
+You are the most immediate to our throne,
+And with no less nobility of love
+Than that which dearest father bears his son
+Do I impart toward you. For your intent
+In going back to school in Wittenberg,
+It is most retrograde to our desire:
+And we beseech you bend you to remain
+Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
+Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
+
+QUEEN.
+Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet.
+I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.
+
+HAMLET.
+I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
+
+KING.
+Why, ’tis a loving and a fair reply.
+Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;
+This gentle and unforc’d accord of Hamlet
+Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof,
+No jocund health that Denmark drinks today
+But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
+And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
+Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Hamlet._]
+
+HAMLET.
+O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
+Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
+Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
+His canon ’gainst self-slaughter. O God! O God!
+How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
+Seem to me all the uses of this world!
+Fie on’t! Oh fie! ’tis an unweeded garden
+That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
+Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
+But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two:
+So excellent a king; that was to this
+Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother,
+That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
+Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
+Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
+As if increase of appetite had grown
+By what it fed on; and yet, within a month—
+Let me not think on’t—Frailty, thy name is woman!
+A little month, or ere those shoes were old
+With which she followed my poor father’s body
+Like Niobe, all tears.—Why she, even she—
+O God! A beast that wants discourse of reason
+Would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle,
+My father’s brother; but no more like my father
+Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
+Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
+Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
+She married. O most wicked speed, to post
+With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
+It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
+But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
+
+Enter Horatio, Marcellus and Barnardo.
+
+HORATIO.
+Hail to your lordship!
+
+HAMLET.
+I am glad to see you well:
+Horatio, or I do forget myself.
+
+HORATIO.
+The same, my lord,
+And your poor servant ever.
+
+HAMLET.
+Sir, my good friend;
+I’ll change that name with you:
+And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?—
+Marcellus?
+
+MARCELLUS.
+My good lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+I am very glad to see you.—Good even, sir.—
+But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
+
+HORATIO.
+A truant disposition, good my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+I would not hear your enemy say so;
+Nor shall you do my ear that violence,
+To make it truster of your own report
+Against yourself. I know you are no truant.
+But what is your affair in Elsinore?
+We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
+
+HORATIO.
+My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.
+
+HAMLET.
+I prithee do not mock me, fellow-student.
+I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.
+
+HORATIO.
+Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon.
+
+HAMLET.
+Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak’d meats
+Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
+Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
+Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio.
+My father,—methinks I see my father.
+
+HORATIO.
+Where, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+In my mind’s eye, Horatio.
+
+HORATIO.
+I saw him once; he was a goodly king.
+
+HAMLET.
+He was a man, take him for all in all,
+I shall not look upon his like again.
+
+HORATIO.
+My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
+
+HAMLET.
+Saw? Who?
+
+HORATIO.
+My lord, the King your father.
+
+HAMLET.
+The King my father!
+
+HORATIO.
+Season your admiration for a while
+With an attent ear, till I may deliver
+Upon the witness of these gentlemen
+This marvel to you.
+
+HAMLET.
+For God’s love let me hear.
+
+HORATIO.
+Two nights together had these gentlemen,
+Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch
+In the dead waste and middle of the night,
+Been thus encounter’d. A figure like your father,
+Armed at point exactly, cap-à-pie,
+Appears before them, and with solemn march
+Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk’d
+By their oppress’d and fear-surprised eyes,
+Within his truncheon’s length; whilst they, distill’d
+Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
+Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me
+In dreadful secrecy impart they did,
+And I with them the third night kept the watch,
+Where, as they had deliver’d, both in time,
+Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
+The apparition comes. I knew your father;
+These hands are not more like.
+
+HAMLET.
+But where was this?
+
+MARCELLUS.
+My lord, upon the platform where we watch.
+
+HAMLET.
+Did you not speak to it?
+
+HORATIO.
+My lord, I did;
+But answer made it none: yet once methought
+It lifted up it head, and did address
+Itself to motion, like as it would speak.
+But even then the morning cock crew loud,
+And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,
+And vanish’d from our sight.
+
+HAMLET.
+’Tis very strange.
+
+HORATIO.
+As I do live, my honour’d lord, ’tis true;
+And we did think it writ down in our duty
+To let you know of it.
+
+HAMLET.
+Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.
+Hold you the watch tonight?
+
+MARCELLUS and BARNARDO.
+We do, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Arm’d, say you?
+
+Both.
+Arm’d, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+From top to toe?
+
+BOTH.
+My lord, from head to foot.
+
+HAMLET.
+Then saw you not his face?
+
+HORATIO.
+O yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up.
+
+HAMLET.
+What, look’d he frowningly?
+
+HORATIO.
+A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
+
+HAMLET.
+Pale, or red?
+
+HORATIO.
+Nay, very pale.
+
+HAMLET.
+And fix’d his eyes upon you?
+
+HORATIO.
+Most constantly.
+
+HAMLET.
+I would I had been there.
+
+HORATIO.
+It would have much amaz’d you.
+
+HAMLET.
+Very like, very like. Stay’d it long?
+
+HORATIO.
+While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
+
+MARCELLUS and BARNARDO.
+Longer, longer.
+
+HORATIO.
+Not when I saw’t.
+
+HAMLET.
+His beard was grizzled, no?
+
+HORATIO.
+It was, as I have seen it in his life,
+A sable silver’d.
+
+HAMLET.
+I will watch tonight;
+Perchance ’twill walk again.
+
+HORATIO.
+I warrant you it will.
+
+HAMLET.
+If it assume my noble father’s person,
+I’ll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
+And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
+If you have hitherto conceal’d this sight,
+Let it be tenable in your silence still;
+And whatsoever else shall hap tonight,
+Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
+I will requite your loves. So, fare ye well.
+Upon the platform ’twixt eleven and twelve,
+I’ll visit you.
+
+ALL.
+Our duty to your honour.
+
+HAMLET.
+Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt Horatio, Marcellus and Barnardo._]
+
+My father’s spirit in arms! All is not well;
+I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
+Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
+Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ SCENE III. A room in Polonius’s house.
+
+Enter Laertes and Ophelia.
+
+LAERTES.
+My necessaries are embark’d. Farewell.
+And, sister, as the winds give benefit
+And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,
+But let me hear from you.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Do you doubt that?
+
+LAERTES.
+For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,
+Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood;
+A violet in the youth of primy nature,
+Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting;
+The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
+No more.
+
+OPHELIA.
+No more but so?
+
+LAERTES.
+Think it no more.
+For nature crescent does not grow alone
+In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes,
+The inward service of the mind and soul
+Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,
+And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
+The virtue of his will; but you must fear,
+His greatness weigh’d, his will is not his own;
+For he himself is subject to his birth:
+He may not, as unvalu’d persons do,
+Carve for himself; for on his choice depends
+The sanctity and health of this whole state;
+And therefore must his choice be circumscrib’d
+Unto the voice and yielding of that body
+Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
+It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
+As he in his particular act and place
+May give his saying deed; which is no further
+Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
+Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain
+If with too credent ear you list his songs,
+Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
+To his unmaster’d importunity.
+Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;
+And keep you in the rear of your affection,
+Out of the shot and danger of desire.
+The chariest maid is prodigal enough
+If she unmask her beauty to the moon.
+Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes:
+The canker galls the infants of the spring
+Too oft before their buttons be disclos’d,
+And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
+Contagious blastments are most imminent.
+Be wary then, best safety lies in fear.
+Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
+
+OPHELIA.
+I shall th’effect of this good lesson keep
+As watchman to my heart. But good my brother,
+Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
+Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
+Whilst like a puff’d and reckless libertine
+Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
+And recks not his own rede.
+
+LAERTES.
+O, fear me not.
+I stay too long. But here my father comes.
+
+Enter Polonius.
+
+A double blessing is a double grace;
+Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame.
+The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
+And you are stay’d for. There, my blessing with you.
+
+[_Laying his hand on Laertes’s head._]
+
+And these few precepts in thy memory
+Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
+Nor any unproportion’d thought his act.
+Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
+Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
+Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;
+But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
+Of each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade. Beware
+Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
+Bear’t that th’opposed may beware of thee.
+Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
+Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement.
+Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
+But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
+For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
+And they in France of the best rank and station
+Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
+Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
+For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
+And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
+This above all: to thine own self be true;
+And it must follow, as the night the day,
+Thou canst not then be false to any man.
+Farewell: my blessing season this in thee.
+
+LAERTES.
+Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
+
+POLONIUS.
+The time invites you; go, your servants tend.
+
+LAERTES.
+Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well
+What I have said to you.
+
+OPHELIA.
+’Tis in my memory lock’d,
+And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
+
+LAERTES.
+Farewell.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+POLONIUS.
+What is’t, Ophelia, he hath said to you?
+
+OPHELIA.
+So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Marry, well bethought:
+’Tis told me he hath very oft of late
+Given private time to you; and you yourself
+Have of your audience been most free and bounteous.
+If it be so,—as so ’tis put on me,
+And that in way of caution,—I must tell you
+You do not understand yourself so clearly
+As it behoves my daughter and your honour.
+What is between you? Give me up the truth.
+
+OPHELIA.
+He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
+Of his affection to me.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Affection! Pooh! You speak like a green girl,
+Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
+Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?
+
+OPHELIA.
+I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Marry, I’ll teach you; think yourself a baby;
+That you have ta’en these tenders for true pay,
+Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;
+Or,—not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
+Running it thus,—you’ll tender me a fool.
+
+OPHELIA.
+My lord, he hath importun’d me with love
+In honourable fashion.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
+
+OPHELIA.
+And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,
+With almost all the holy vows of heaven.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,
+When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
+Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,
+Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,
+Even in their promise, as it is a-making,
+You must not take for fire. From this time
+Be something scanter of your maiden presence;
+Set your entreatments at a higher rate
+Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
+Believe so much in him that he is young;
+And with a larger tether may he walk
+Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia,
+Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,
+Not of that dye which their investments show,
+But mere implorators of unholy suits,
+Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
+The better to beguile. This is for all:
+I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth
+Have you so slander any moment leisure
+As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
+Look to’t, I charge you; come your ways.
+
+OPHELIA.
+I shall obey, my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE IV. The platform.
+
+Enter Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus.
+
+HAMLET.
+The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
+
+HORATIO.
+It is a nipping and an eager air.
+
+HAMLET.
+What hour now?
+
+HORATIO.
+I think it lacks of twelve.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+No, it is struck.
+
+HORATIO.
+Indeed? I heard it not. It then draws near the season
+Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
+
+[_A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off within._]
+
+What does this mean, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse,
+Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels;
+And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
+The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out
+The triumph of his pledge.
+
+HORATIO.
+Is it a custom?
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay marry is’t;
+And to my mind, though I am native here,
+And to the manner born, it is a custom
+More honour’d in the breach than the observance.
+This heavy-headed revel east and west
+Makes us traduc’d and tax’d of other nations:
+They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase
+Soil our addition; and indeed it takes
+From our achievements, though perform’d at height,
+The pith and marrow of our attribute.
+So oft it chances in particular men
+That for some vicious mole of nature in them,
+As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty,
+Since nature cannot choose his origin,
+By their o’ergrowth of some complexion,
+Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason;
+Or by some habit, that too much o’erleavens
+The form of plausive manners;—that these men,
+Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
+Being Nature’s livery or Fortune’s star,—
+His virtues else,—be they as pure as grace,
+As infinite as man may undergo,
+Shall in the general censure take corruption
+From that particular fault. The dram of evil
+Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
+To his own scandal.
+
+HORATIO.
+Look, my lord, it comes!
+
+Enter Ghost.
+
+HAMLET.
+Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
+Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d,
+Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
+Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
+Thou com’st in such a questionable shape
+That I will speak to thee. I’ll call thee Hamlet,
+King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me!
+Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
+Why thy canoniz’d bones, hearsed in death,
+Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
+Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn’d,
+Hath op’d his ponderous and marble jaws
+To cast thee up again! What may this mean,
+That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,
+Revisit’st thus the glimpses of the moon,
+Making night hideous, and we fools of nature
+So horridly to shake our disposition
+With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
+Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do?
+
+[_Ghost beckons Hamlet._]
+
+HORATIO.
+It beckons you to go away with it,
+As if it some impartment did desire
+To you alone.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Look with what courteous action
+It waves you to a more removed ground.
+But do not go with it.
+
+HORATIO.
+No, by no means.
+
+HAMLET.
+It will not speak; then will I follow it.
+
+HORATIO.
+Do not, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, what should be the fear?
+I do not set my life at a pin’s fee;
+And for my soul, what can it do to that,
+Being a thing immortal as itself?
+It waves me forth again. I’ll follow it.
+
+HORATIO.
+What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
+Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
+That beetles o’er his base into the sea,
+And there assume some other horrible form
+Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,
+And draw you into madness? Think of it.
+The very place puts toys of desperation,
+Without more motive, into every brain
+That looks so many fathoms to the sea
+And hears it roar beneath.
+
+HAMLET.
+It waves me still.
+Go on, I’ll follow thee.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+You shall not go, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Hold off your hands.
+
+HORATIO.
+Be rul’d; you shall not go.
+
+HAMLET.
+My fate cries out,
+And makes each petty artery in this body
+As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.
+
+[_Ghost beckons._]
+
+Still am I call’d. Unhand me, gentlemen.
+
+[_Breaking free from them._]
+
+By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me.
+I say, away!—Go on, I’ll follow thee.
+
+[_Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet._]
+
+HORATIO.
+He waxes desperate with imagination.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Let’s follow; ’tis not fit thus to obey him.
+
+HORATIO.
+Have after. To what issue will this come?
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
+
+HORATIO.
+Heaven will direct it.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Nay, let’s follow him.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE V. A more remote part of the Castle.
+
+Enter Ghost and Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak, I’ll go no further.
+
+GHOST.
+Mark me.
+
+HAMLET.
+I will.
+
+GHOST.
+My hour is almost come,
+When I to sulph’rous and tormenting flames
+Must render up myself.
+
+HAMLET.
+Alas, poor ghost!
+
+GHOST.
+Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
+To what I shall unfold.
+
+HAMLET.
+Speak, I am bound to hear.
+
+GHOST.
+So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.
+
+HAMLET.
+What?
+
+GHOST.
+I am thy father’s spirit,
+Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night,
+And for the day confin’d to fast in fires,
+Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
+Are burnt and purg’d away. But that I am forbid
+To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
+I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
+Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood,
+Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
+Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
+And each particular hair to stand on end
+Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
+But this eternal blazon must not be
+To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
+If thou didst ever thy dear father love—
+
+HAMLET.
+O God!
+
+GHOST.
+Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
+
+HAMLET.
+Murder!
+
+GHOST.
+Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
+But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
+
+HAMLET.
+Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift
+As meditation or the thoughts of love
+May sweep to my revenge.
+
+GHOST.
+I find thee apt;
+And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
+That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
+Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear.
+’Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
+A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
+Is by a forged process of my death
+Rankly abus’d; but know, thou noble youth,
+The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
+Now wears his crown.
+
+HAMLET.
+O my prophetic soul!
+Mine uncle!
+
+GHOST.
+Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
+With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,—
+O wicked wit, and gifts, that have the power
+So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust
+The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
+O Hamlet, what a falling off was there,
+From me, whose love was of that dignity
+That it went hand in hand even with the vow
+I made to her in marriage; and to decline
+Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
+To those of mine. But virtue, as it never will be mov’d,
+Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven;
+So lust, though to a radiant angel link’d,
+Will sate itself in a celestial bed
+And prey on garbage.
+But soft! methinks I scent the morning air;
+Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,
+My custom always of the afternoon,
+Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole
+With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,
+And in the porches of my ears did pour
+The leperous distilment, whose effect
+Holds such an enmity with blood of man
+That swift as quicksilver it courses through
+The natural gates and alleys of the body;
+And with a sudden vigour it doth posset
+And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
+The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine;
+And a most instant tetter bark’d about,
+Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust
+All my smooth body.
+Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand,
+Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatch’d:
+Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
+Unhous’led, disappointed, unanel’d;
+No reckoning made, but sent to my account
+With all my imperfections on my head.
+O horrible! O horrible! most horrible!
+If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;
+Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
+A couch for luxury and damned incest.
+But howsoever thou pursu’st this act,
+Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
+Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven,
+And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
+To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!
+The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
+And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
+Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+HAMLET.
+O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
+And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, my heart;
+And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
+But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee?
+Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
+In this distracted globe. Remember thee?
+Yea, from the table of my memory
+I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,
+All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
+That youth and observation copied there;
+And thy commandment all alone shall live
+Within the book and volume of my brain,
+Unmix’d with baser matter. Yes, by heaven!
+O most pernicious woman!
+O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!
+My tables. Meet it is I set it down,
+That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!
+At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
+
+[_Writing._]
+
+So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;
+It is ‘Adieu, adieu, remember me.’
+I have sworn’t.
+
+HORATIO and MARCELLUS.
+[_Within._] My lord, my lord.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+[_Within._] Lord Hamlet.
+
+HORATIO.
+[_Within._] Heaven secure him.
+
+HAMLET.
+So be it!
+
+MARCELLUS.
+[_Within._] Illo, ho, ho, my lord!
+
+HAMLET.
+Hillo, ho, ho, boy! Come, bird, come.
+
+Enter Horatio and Marcellus.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+How is’t, my noble lord?
+
+HORATIO.
+What news, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+O, wonderful!
+
+HORATIO.
+Good my lord, tell it.
+
+HAMLET.
+No, you’ll reveal it.
+
+HORATIO.
+Not I, my lord, by heaven.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Nor I, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+How say you then, would heart of man once think it?—
+But you’ll be secret?
+
+HORATIO and MARCELLUS.
+Ay, by heaven, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+There’s ne’er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
+But he’s an arrant knave.
+
+HORATIO.
+There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
+To tell us this.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, right; you are i’ the right;
+And so, without more circumstance at all,
+I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:
+You, as your business and desire shall point you,—
+For every man hath business and desire,
+Such as it is;—and for my own poor part,
+Look you, I’ll go pray.
+
+HORATIO.
+These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+I’m sorry they offend you, heartily;
+Yes faith, heartily.
+
+HORATIO.
+There’s no offence, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,
+And much offence too. Touching this vision here,
+It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you.
+For your desire to know what is between us,
+O’ermaster’t as you may. And now, good friends,
+As you are friends, scholars, and soldiers,
+Give me one poor request.
+
+HORATIO.
+What is’t, my lord? We will.
+
+HAMLET.
+Never make known what you have seen tonight.
+
+HORATIO and MARCELLUS.
+My lord, we will not.
+
+HAMLET.
+Nay, but swear’t.
+
+HORATIO.
+In faith, my lord, not I.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+Nor I, my lord, in faith.
+
+HAMLET.
+Upon my sword.
+
+MARCELLUS.
+We have sworn, my lord, already.
+
+HAMLET.
+Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.
+
+GHOST.
+[_Cries under the stage._] Swear.
+
+HAMLET.
+Ha, ha boy, sayst thou so? Art thou there, truepenny?
+Come on, you hear this fellow in the cellarage.
+Consent to swear.
+
+HORATIO.
+Propose the oath, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Never to speak of this that you have seen.
+Swear by my sword.
+
+GHOST.
+[_Beneath._] Swear.
+
+HAMLET.
+_Hic et ubique?_ Then we’ll shift our ground.
+Come hither, gentlemen,
+And lay your hands again upon my sword.
+Never to speak of this that you have heard.
+Swear by my sword.
+
+GHOST.
+[_Beneath._] Swear.
+
+HAMLET.
+Well said, old mole! Canst work i’ th’earth so fast?
+A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.
+
+HORATIO.
+O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.
+
+HAMLET.
+And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
+There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
+Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come,
+Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
+How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself,—
+As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
+To put an antic disposition on—
+That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,
+With arms encumber’d thus, or this head-shake,
+Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,
+As ‘Well, we know’, or ‘We could and if we would’,
+Or ‘If we list to speak’; or ‘There be and if they might’,
+Or such ambiguous giving out, to note
+That you know aught of me:—this not to do.
+So grace and mercy at your most need help you,
+Swear.
+
+GHOST.
+[_Beneath._] Swear.
+
+HAMLET.
+Rest, rest, perturbed spirit. So, gentlemen,
+With all my love I do commend me to you;
+And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
+May do t’express his love and friending to you,
+God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together,
+And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
+The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,
+That ever I was born to set it right.
+Nay, come, let’s go together.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. A room in Polonius’s house.
+
+
+Enter Polonius and Reynaldo.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.
+
+REYNALDO.
+I will, my lord.
+
+POLONIUS.
+You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,
+Before you visit him, to make inquiry
+Of his behaviour.
+
+REYNALDO.
+My lord, I did intend it.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir,
+Enquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;
+And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,
+What company, at what expense; and finding
+By this encompassment and drift of question,
+That they do know my son, come you more nearer
+Than your particular demands will touch it.
+Take you as ’twere some distant knowledge of him,
+As thus, ‘I know his father and his friends,
+And in part him’—do you mark this, Reynaldo?
+
+REYNALDO.
+Ay, very well, my lord.
+
+POLONIUS.
+‘And in part him, but,’ you may say, ‘not well;
+But if’t be he I mean, he’s very wild;
+Addicted so and so;’ and there put on him
+What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank
+As may dishonour him; take heed of that;
+But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips
+As are companions noted and most known
+To youth and liberty.
+
+REYNALDO.
+As gaming, my lord?
+
+POLONIUS.
+Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing,
+Quarrelling, drabbing. You may go so far.
+
+REYNALDO.
+My lord, that would dishonour him.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Faith no, as you may season it in the charge.
+You must not put another scandal on him,
+That he is open to incontinency;
+That’s not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly
+That they may seem the taints of liberty;
+The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
+A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
+Of general assault.
+
+REYNALDO.
+But my good lord—
+
+POLONIUS.
+Wherefore should you do this?
+
+REYNALDO.
+Ay, my lord, I would know that.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Marry, sir, here’s my drift,
+And I believe it is a fetch of warrant.
+You laying these slight sullies on my son,
+As ’twere a thing a little soil’d i’ th’ working,
+Mark you,
+Your party in converse, him you would sound,
+Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
+The youth you breathe of guilty, be assur’d
+He closes with you in this consequence;
+‘Good sir,’ or so; or ‘friend,’ or ‘gentleman’—
+According to the phrase or the addition
+Of man and country.
+
+REYNALDO.
+Very good, my lord.
+
+POLONIUS.
+And then, sir, does he this,—
+He does—What was I about to say?
+By the mass, I was about to say something. Where did I leave?
+
+REYNALDO.
+At ‘closes in the consequence.’
+At ‘friend or so,’ and ‘gentleman.’
+
+POLONIUS.
+At ‘closes in the consequence’ ay, marry!
+He closes with you thus: ‘I know the gentleman,
+I saw him yesterday, or t’other day,
+Or then, or then, with such and such; and, as you say,
+There was he gaming, there o’ertook in’s rouse,
+There falling out at tennis’: or perchance,
+‘I saw him enter such a house of sale’—
+_Videlicet_, a brothel, or so forth. See you now;
+Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;
+And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
+With windlasses, and with assays of bias,
+By indirections find directions out.
+So by my former lecture and advice
+Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?
+
+REYNALDO.
+My lord, I have.
+
+POLONIUS.
+God b’ wi’ you, fare you well.
+
+REYNALDO.
+Good my lord.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Observe his inclination in yourself.
+
+REYNALDO.
+I shall, my lord.
+
+POLONIUS.
+And let him ply his music.
+
+REYNALDO.
+Well, my lord.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Farewell.
+
+[_Exit Reynaldo._]
+
+Enter Ophelia.
+
+How now, Ophelia, what’s the matter?
+
+OPHELIA.
+Alas, my lord, I have been so affrighted.
+
+POLONIUS.
+With what, in the name of God?
+
+OPHELIA.
+My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
+Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac’d,
+No hat upon his head, his stockings foul’d,
+Ungart’red, and down-gyved to his ankle,
+Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,
+And with a look so piteous in purport
+As if he had been loosed out of hell
+To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Mad for thy love?
+
+OPHELIA.
+My lord, I do not know, but truly I do fear it.
+
+POLONIUS.
+What said he?
+
+OPHELIA.
+He took me by the wrist and held me hard;
+Then goes he to the length of all his arm;
+And with his other hand thus o’er his brow,
+He falls to such perusal of my face
+As he would draw it. Long stay’d he so,
+At last,—a little shaking of mine arm,
+And thrice his head thus waving up and down,
+He rais’d a sigh so piteous and profound
+As it did seem to shatter all his bulk
+And end his being. That done, he lets me go,
+And with his head over his shoulder turn’d
+He seem’d to find his way without his eyes,
+For out o’ doors he went without their help,
+And to the last bended their light on me.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Come, go with me. I will go seek the King.
+This is the very ecstasy of love,
+Whose violent property fordoes itself,
+And leads the will to desperate undertakings,
+As oft as any passion under heaven
+That does afflict our natures. I am sorry,—
+What, have you given him any hard words of late?
+
+OPHELIA.
+No, my good lord; but as you did command,
+I did repel his letters and denied
+His access to me.
+
+POLONIUS.
+That hath made him mad.
+I am sorry that with better heed and judgement
+I had not quoted him. I fear’d he did but trifle,
+And meant to wreck thee. But beshrew my jealousy!
+It seems it is as proper to our age
+To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
+As it is common for the younger sort
+To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King.
+This must be known, which, being kept close, might move
+More grief to hide than hate to utter love.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE II. A room in the Castle.
+
+Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Attendants.
+
+KING.
+Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+Moreover that we much did long to see you,
+The need we have to use you did provoke
+Our hasty sending. Something have you heard
+Of Hamlet’s transformation; so I call it,
+Since nor th’exterior nor the inward man
+Resembles that it was. What it should be,
+More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him
+So much from th’understanding of himself,
+I cannot dream of. I entreat you both
+That, being of so young days brought up with him,
+And since so neighbour’d to his youth and humour,
+That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
+Some little time, so by your companies
+To draw him on to pleasures and to gather,
+So much as from occasion you may glean,
+Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus
+That, open’d, lies within our remedy.
+
+QUEEN.
+Good gentlemen, he hath much talk’d of you,
+And sure I am, two men there are not living
+To whom he more adheres. If it will please you
+To show us so much gentry and good will
+As to expend your time with us awhile,
+For the supply and profit of our hope,
+Your visitation shall receive such thanks
+As fits a king’s remembrance.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Both your majesties
+Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
+Put your dread pleasures more into command
+Than to entreaty.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+We both obey,
+And here give up ourselves, in the full bent,
+To lay our service freely at your feet
+To be commanded.
+
+KING.
+Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.
+
+QUEEN.
+Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz.
+And I beseech you instantly to visit
+My too much changed son. Go, some of you,
+And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Heavens make our presence and our practices
+Pleasant and helpful to him.
+
+QUEEN.
+Ay, amen.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and some Attendants._]
+
+Enter Polonius.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Th’ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
+Are joyfully return’d.
+
+KING.
+Thou still hast been the father of good news.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Have I, my lord? Assure you, my good liege,
+I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,
+Both to my God and to my gracious King:
+And I do think,—or else this brain of mine
+Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
+As it hath us’d to do—that I have found
+The very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy.
+
+KING.
+O speak of that, that do I long to hear.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Give first admittance to th’ambassadors;
+My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.
+
+KING.
+Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
+
+[_Exit Polonius._]
+
+He tells me, my sweet queen, that he hath found
+The head and source of all your son’s distemper.
+
+QUEEN.
+I doubt it is no other but the main,
+His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.
+
+KING.
+Well, we shall sift him.
+
+Enter Polonius with Voltemand and Cornelius.
+
+Welcome, my good friends!
+Say, Voltemand, what from our brother Norway?
+
+VOLTEMAND.
+Most fair return of greetings and desires.
+Upon our first, he sent out to suppress
+His nephew’s levies, which to him appear’d
+To be a preparation ’gainst the Polack;
+But better look’d into, he truly found
+It was against your Highness; whereat griev’d,
+That so his sickness, age, and impotence
+Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests
+On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys,
+Receives rebuke from Norway; and in fine,
+Makes vow before his uncle never more
+To give th’assay of arms against your Majesty.
+Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,
+Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee,
+And his commission to employ those soldiers
+So levied as before, against the Polack:
+With an entreaty, herein further shown,
+[_Gives a paper._]
+That it might please you to give quiet pass
+Through your dominions for this enterprise,
+On such regards of safety and allowance
+As therein are set down.
+
+KING.
+It likes us well;
+And at our more consider’d time we’ll read,
+Answer, and think upon this business.
+Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour.
+Go to your rest, at night we’ll feast together:.
+Most welcome home.
+
+[_Exeunt Voltemand and Cornelius._]
+
+POLONIUS.
+This business is well ended.
+My liege and madam, to expostulate
+What majesty should be, what duty is,
+Why day is day, night night, and time is time
+Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
+Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
+And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
+I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.
+Mad call I it; for to define true madness,
+What is’t but to be nothing else but mad?
+But let that go.
+
+QUEEN.
+More matter, with less art.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
+That he is mad, ’tis true: ’tis true ’tis pity;
+And pity ’tis ’tis true. A foolish figure,
+But farewell it, for I will use no art.
+Mad let us grant him then. And now remains
+That we find out the cause of this effect,
+Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
+For this effect defective comes by cause.
+Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend,
+I have a daughter—have whilst she is mine—
+Who in her duty and obedience, mark,
+Hath given me this. Now gather, and surmise.
+[_Reads._]
+_To the celestial, and my soul’s idol, the most beautified Ophelia_—
+That’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase; ‘beautified’ is a vile
+phrase: but you shall hear.
+[_Reads._]
+_these; in her excellent white bosom, these, &c._
+
+QUEEN.
+Came this from Hamlet to her?
+
+POLONIUS.
+Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful.
+[_Reads._]
+  _Doubt thou the stars are fire,
+     Doubt that the sun doth move,
+   Doubt truth to be a liar,
+     But never doubt I love.
+O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon my
+groans. But that I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.
+  Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is to him,
+     HAMLET._
+This in obedience hath my daughter show’d me;
+And more above, hath his solicitings,
+As they fell out by time, by means, and place,
+All given to mine ear.
+
+KING.
+But how hath she receiv’d his love?
+
+POLONIUS.
+What do you think of me?
+
+KING.
+As of a man faithful and honourable.
+
+POLONIUS.
+I would fain prove so. But what might you think,
+When I had seen this hot love on the wing,
+As I perceiv’d it, I must tell you that,
+Before my daughter told me, what might you,
+Or my dear Majesty your queen here, think,
+If I had play’d the desk or table-book,
+Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,
+Or look’d upon this love with idle sight,
+What might you think? No, I went round to work,
+And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
+‘Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star.
+This must not be.’ And then I precepts gave her,
+That she should lock herself from his resort,
+Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
+Which done, she took the fruits of my advice,
+And he, repulsed,—a short tale to make—
+Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
+Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
+Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,
+Into the madness wherein now he raves,
+And all we wail for.
+
+KING.
+Do you think ’tis this?
+
+QUEEN.
+It may be, very likely.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Hath there been such a time, I’d fain know that,
+That I have positively said ‘’Tis so,’
+When it prov’d otherwise?
+
+KING.
+Not that I know.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Take this from this, if this be otherwise.
+[_Points to his head and shoulder._]
+If circumstances lead me, I will find
+Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
+Within the centre.
+
+KING.
+How may we try it further?
+
+POLONIUS.
+You know sometimes he walks four hours together
+Here in the lobby.
+
+QUEEN.
+So he does indeed.
+
+POLONIUS.
+At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him.
+Be you and I behind an arras then,
+Mark the encounter. If he love her not,
+And be not from his reason fall’n thereon,
+Let me be no assistant for a state,
+But keep a farm and carters.
+
+KING.
+We will try it.
+
+Enter Hamlet, reading.
+
+QUEEN.
+But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Away, I do beseech you, both away
+I’ll board him presently. O, give me leave.
+
+[_Exeunt King, Queen and Attendants._]
+
+How does my good Lord Hamlet?
+
+HAMLET.
+Well, God-a-mercy.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Do you know me, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Not I, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Then I would you were so honest a man.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Honest, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay sir, to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out
+of ten thousand.
+
+POLONIUS.
+That’s very true, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing
+carrion,—
+Have you a daughter?
+
+POLONIUS.
+I have, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Let her not walk i’ th’ sun. Conception is a blessing, but not as your
+daughter may conceive. Friend, look to’t.
+
+POLONIUS.
+How say you by that? [_Aside._] Still harping on my daughter. Yet he
+knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger. He is far gone, far
+gone. And truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very
+near this. I’ll speak to him again.—What do you read, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Words, words, words.
+
+POLONIUS.
+What is the matter, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Between who?
+
+POLONIUS.
+I mean the matter that you read, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Slanders, sir. For the satirical slave says here that old men have grey
+beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes purging thick amber
+and plum-tree gum; and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together
+with most weak hams. All which, sir, though I most powerfully and
+potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down.
+For you yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could
+go backward.
+
+POLONIUS.
+[_Aside._] Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.—
+Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Into my grave?
+
+POLONIUS.
+Indeed, that is out o’ the air. [_Aside._] How pregnant sometimes his
+replies are! A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and
+sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him and
+suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter.
+My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
+
+HAMLET.
+You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part
+withal, except my life, except my life, except my life.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Fare you well, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+These tedious old fools.
+
+Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+
+POLONIUS.
+You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+[_To Polonius._] God save you, sir.
+
+[_Exit Polonius._]
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+My honoured lord!
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+My most dear lord!
+
+HAMLET.
+My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah,
+Rosencrantz. Good lads, how do ye both?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+As the indifferent children of the earth.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Happy in that we are not over-happy;
+On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.
+
+HAMLET.
+Nor the soles of her shoe?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Neither, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours?
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Faith, her privates we.
+
+HAMLET.
+In the secret parts of Fortune? O, most true; she is a strumpet. What’s
+the news?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+None, my lord, but that the world’s grown honest.
+
+HAMLET.
+Then is doomsday near. But your news is not true. Let me question more
+in particular. What have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of
+Fortune, that she sends you to prison hither?
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Prison, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Denmark’s a prison.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Then is the world one.
+
+HAMLET.
+A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons,
+Denmark being one o’ th’ worst.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+We think not so, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, then ’tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad but
+thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Why, then your ambition makes it one; ’tis too narrow for your mind.
+
+HAMLET.
+O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of
+infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the
+ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
+
+HAMLET.
+A dream itself is but a shadow.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is
+but a shadow’s shadow.
+
+HAMLET.
+Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretch’d heroes
+the beggars’ shadows. Shall we to th’ court? For, by my fay, I cannot
+reason.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.
+We’ll wait upon you.
+
+HAMLET.
+No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest of my servants; for,
+to speak to you like an honest man, I am most dreadfully attended. But,
+in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+To visit you, my lord, no other occasion.
+
+HAMLET.
+Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you. And sure,
+dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent
+for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal
+justly with me. Come, come; nay, speak.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+What should we say, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, anything. But to the purpose. You were sent for; and there is a
+kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft
+enough to colour. I know the good King and Queen have sent for you.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+To what end, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by the rights of our
+fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our
+ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a better proposer could
+charge you withal, be even and direct with me, whether you were sent
+for or no.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+[_To Guildenstern._] What say you?
+
+HAMLET.
+[_Aside._] Nay, then I have an eye of you. If you love me, hold not
+off.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+My lord, we were sent for.
+
+HAMLET.
+I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery,
+and your secrecy to the King and Queen moult no feather. I have of
+late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom
+of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that
+this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this
+most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging
+firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it
+appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of
+vapours. What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite
+in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable; in action
+how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god: the beauty of the
+world, the paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this
+quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither,
+though by your smiling you seem to say so.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why did you laugh then, when I said ‘Man delights not me’?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what Lenten entertainment
+the players shall receive from you. We coted them on the way, and
+hither are they coming to offer you service.
+
+HAMLET.
+He that plays the king shall be welcome,—his Majesty shall have tribute
+of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover
+shall not sigh gratis, the humorous man shall end his part in peace;
+the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o’ th’ sere;
+and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt
+for’t. What players are they?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Even those you were wont to take such delight in—the tragedians of the
+city.
+
+HAMLET.
+How chances it they travel? Their residence, both in reputation and
+profit, was better both ways.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation.
+
+HAMLET.
+Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was in the city? Are
+they so followed?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+No, indeed, they are not.
+
+HAMLET.
+How comes it? Do they grow rusty?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace; but there is, sir, an
+aerie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question,
+and are most tyrannically clapped for’t. These are now the fashion, and
+so berattle the common stages—so they call them—that many wearing
+rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.
+
+HAMLET.
+What, are they children? Who maintains ’em? How are they escoted? Will
+they pursue the quality no longer than they can sing? Will they not say
+afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common players—as it is
+most like, if their means are no better—their writers do them wrong to
+make them exclaim against their own succession?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and the nation holds it
+no sin to tarre them to controversy. There was for a while, no money
+bid for argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs in the
+question.
+
+HAMLET.
+Is’t possible?
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+O, there has been much throwing about of brains.
+
+HAMLET.
+Do the boys carry it away?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Ay, that they do, my lord. Hercules and his load too.
+
+HAMLET.
+It is not very strange; for my uncle is King of Denmark, and those that
+would make mouths at him while my father lived, give twenty, forty,
+fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little. ’Sblood,
+there is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find
+it out.
+
+[_Flourish of trumpets within._]
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+There are the players.
+
+HAMLET.
+Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, come. The
+appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. Let me comply with you
+in this garb, lest my extent to the players, which I tell you must show
+fairly outward, should more appear like entertainment than yours. You
+are welcome. But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+In what, my dear lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a
+hawk from a handsaw.
+
+Enter Polonius.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Well be with you, gentlemen.
+
+HAMLET.
+Hark you, Guildenstern, and you too, at each ear a hearer. That great
+baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Happily he’s the second time come to them; for they say an old man is
+twice a child.
+
+HAMLET.
+I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players. Mark it.—You say
+right, sir: for a Monday morning ’twas so indeed.
+
+POLONIUS.
+My lord, I have news to tell you.
+
+HAMLET.
+My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome—
+
+POLONIUS.
+The actors are come hither, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Buzz, buzz.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Upon my honour.
+
+HAMLET.
+Then came each actor on his ass—
+
+POLONIUS.
+The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history,
+pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical,
+tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem
+unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light, for the
+law of writ and the liberty. These are the only men.
+
+HAMLET.
+O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!
+
+POLONIUS.
+What treasure had he, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Why—
+   ’One fair daughter, and no more,
+   The which he loved passing well.’
+
+POLONIUS.
+[_Aside._] Still on my daughter.
+
+HAMLET.
+Am I not i’ th’ right, old Jephthah?
+
+POLONIUS.
+If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing
+well.
+
+HAMLET.
+Nay, that follows not.
+
+POLONIUS.
+What follows then, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Why,
+   As by lot, God wot,
+and then, you know,
+   It came to pass, as most like it was.
+The first row of the pious chanson will show you more. For look where
+my abridgement comes.
+
+Enter four or five Players.
+
+You are welcome, masters, welcome all. I am glad to see thee well.
+Welcome, good friends. O, my old friend! Thy face is valanc’d since I
+saw thee last. Com’st thou to beard me in Denmark? What, my young lady
+and mistress! By’r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I
+saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Pray God your voice, like a
+piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the ring. Masters, you
+are all welcome. We’ll e’en to’t like French falconers, fly at anything
+we see. We’ll have a speech straight. Come, give us a taste of your
+quality. Come, a passionate speech.
+
+FIRST PLAYER.
+What speech, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted, or if it
+was, not above once, for the play, I remember, pleased not the million,
+’twas caviare to the general. But it was—as I received it, and others,
+whose judgements in such matters cried in the top of mine—an excellent
+play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty as
+cunning. I remember one said there were no sallets in the lines to make
+the matter savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might indite the
+author of affectation, but called it an honest method, as wholesome as
+sweet, and by very much more handsome than fine. One speech in it, I
+chiefly loved. ’Twas Aeneas’ tale to Dido, and thereabout of it
+especially where he speaks of Priam’s slaughter. If it live in your
+memory, begin at this line, let me see, let me see:
+   _The rugged Pyrrhus, like th’ Hyrcanian beast,—_
+It is not so: it begins with Pyrrhus—
+   _The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,
+   Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
+   When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
+   Hath now this dread and black complexion smear’d
+   With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot
+   Now is he total gules, horridly trick’d
+   With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
+   Bak’d and impasted with the parching streets,
+   That lend a tyrannous and a damned light
+   To their vile murders. Roasted in wrath and fire,
+   And thus o’ersized with coagulate gore,
+   With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
+   Old grandsire Priam seeks._
+So, proceed you.
+
+POLONIUS.
+’Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and good discretion.
+
+FIRST PLAYER.
+   _Anon he finds him,
+   Striking too short at Greeks. His antique sword,
+   Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,
+   Repugnant to command. Unequal match’d,
+   Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;
+   But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
+   Th’unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,
+   Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top
+   Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash
+   Takes prisoner Pyrrhus’ ear. For lo, his sword,
+   Which was declining on the milky head
+   Of reverend Priam, seem’d i’ th’air to stick.
+   So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,
+   And like a neutral to his will and matter,
+   Did nothing.
+   But as we often see against some storm,
+   A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,
+   The bold winds speechless, and the orb below
+   As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
+   Doth rend the region; so after Pyrrhus’ pause,
+   Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work,
+   And never did the Cyclops’ hammers fall
+   On Mars’s armour, forg’d for proof eterne,
+   With less remorse than Pyrrhus’ bleeding sword
+   Now falls on Priam.
+   Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
+   In general synod, take away her power;
+   Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
+   And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,
+   As low as to the fiends._
+
+POLONIUS.
+This is too long.
+
+HAMLET.
+It shall to the barber’s, with your beard.—Prithee say on.
+He’s for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps.
+Say on; come to Hecuba.
+
+FIRST PLAYER.
+   _But who, O who, had seen the mobled queen,—_
+
+HAMLET.
+‘The mobled queen’?
+
+POLONIUS.
+That’s good! ‘Mobled queen’ is good.
+
+FIRST PLAYER.
+   _Run barefoot up and down, threat’ning the flames
+   With bisson rheum. A clout upon that head
+   Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
+   About her lank and all o’erteemed loins,
+   A blanket, in th’alarm of fear caught up—
+   Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep’d,
+   ’Gainst Fortune’s state would treason have pronounc’d.
+   But if the gods themselves did see her then,
+   When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
+   In mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs,
+   The instant burst of clamour that she made,—
+   Unless things mortal move them not at all,—
+   Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven,
+   And passion in the gods._
+
+POLONIUS.
+Look, where he has not turn’d his colour, and has tears in’s eyes. Pray
+you, no more.
+
+HAMLET.
+’Tis well. I’ll have thee speak out the rest of this soon.—Good my
+lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be
+well used; for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time.
+After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill
+report while you live.
+
+POLONIUS.
+My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
+
+HAMLET.
+God’s bodikin, man, much better. Use every man after his desert, and who
+should ’scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The
+less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Come, sirs.
+
+HAMLET.
+Follow him, friends. We’ll hear a play tomorrow.
+
+[_Exeunt Polonius with all the Players but the First._]
+
+Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play _The Murder of Gonzago_?
+
+FIRST PLAYER.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+We’ll ha’t tomorrow night. You could for a need study a speech of some
+dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in’t, could
+you not?
+
+FIRST PLAYER.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Very well. Follow that lord, and look you mock him not.
+
+[_Exit First Player._]
+
+[_To Rosencrantz and Guildenstern_] My good friends, I’ll leave you
+till night. You are welcome to Elsinore.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Good my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._]
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, so, God b’ wi’ ye. Now I am alone.
+O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
+Is it not monstrous that this player here,
+But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
+Could force his soul so to his own conceit
+That from her working all his visage wan’d;
+Tears in his eyes, distraction in’s aspect,
+A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
+With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing!
+For Hecuba?
+What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
+That he should weep for her? What would he do,
+Had he the motive and the cue for passion
+That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
+And cleave the general ear with horrid speech;
+Make mad the guilty, and appal the free,
+Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed,
+The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,
+A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak
+Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
+And can say nothing. No, not for a king
+Upon whose property and most dear life
+A damn’d defeat was made. Am I a coward?
+Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across?
+Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?
+Tweaks me by the nose, gives me the lie i’ th’ throat
+As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?
+Ha! ’Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be
+But I am pigeon-liver’d, and lack gall
+To make oppression bitter, or ere this
+I should have fatted all the region kites
+With this slave’s offal. Bloody, bawdy villain!
+Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
+Oh vengeance!
+Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
+That I, the son of a dear father murder’d,
+Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
+Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words
+And fall a-cursing like a very drab,
+A scullion! Fie upon’t! Foh!
+About, my brain! I have heard
+That guilty creatures sitting at a play,
+Have by the very cunning of the scene,
+Been struck so to the soul that presently
+They have proclaim’d their malefactions.
+For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
+With most miraculous organ. I’ll have these players
+Play something like the murder of my father
+Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks;
+I’ll tent him to the quick. If he but blench,
+I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
+May be the devil, and the devil hath power
+T’assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps
+Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
+As he is very potent with such spirits,
+Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds
+More relative than this. The play’s the thing
+Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. A room in the Castle.
+
+
+Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+
+KING.
+And can you by no drift of circumstance
+Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
+Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
+With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+He does confess he feels himself distracted,
+But from what cause he will by no means speak.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
+But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
+When we would bring him on to some confession
+Of his true state.
+
+QUEEN.
+Did he receive you well?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Most like a gentleman.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+But with much forcing of his disposition.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Niggard of question, but of our demands,
+Most free in his reply.
+
+QUEEN.
+Did you assay him to any pastime?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Madam, it so fell out that certain players
+We o’er-raught on the way. Of these we told him,
+And there did seem in him a kind of joy
+To hear of it. They are about the court,
+And, as I think, they have already order
+This night to play before him.
+
+POLONIUS.
+’Tis most true;
+And he beseech’d me to entreat your Majesties
+To hear and see the matter.
+
+KING.
+With all my heart; and it doth much content me
+To hear him so inclin’d.
+Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
+And drive his purpose on to these delights.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+We shall, my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._]
+
+KING.
+Sweet Gertrude, leave us too,
+For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
+That he, as ’twere by accident, may here
+Affront Ophelia.
+Her father and myself, lawful espials,
+Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,
+We may of their encounter frankly judge,
+And gather by him, as he is behav’d,
+If’t be th’affliction of his love or no
+That thus he suffers for.
+
+QUEEN.
+I shall obey you.
+And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
+That your good beauties be the happy cause
+Of Hamlet’s wildness: so shall I hope your virtues
+Will bring him to his wonted way again,
+To both your honours.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Madam, I wish it may.
+
+[_Exit Queen._]
+
+POLONIUS.
+Ophelia, walk you here.—Gracious, so please you,
+We will bestow ourselves.—[_To Ophelia._] Read on this book,
+That show of such an exercise may colour
+Your loneliness.—We are oft to blame in this,
+’Tis too much prov’d, that with devotion’s visage
+And pious action we do sugar o’er
+The devil himself.
+
+KING.
+[_Aside._] O ’tis too true!
+How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
+The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art,
+Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
+Than is my deed to my most painted word.
+O heavy burden!
+
+POLONIUS.
+I hear him coming. Let’s withdraw, my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt King and Polonius._]
+
+Enter Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+To be, or not to be, that is the question:
+Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
+The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
+Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
+And by opposing end them? To die—to sleep,
+No more; and by a sleep to say we end
+The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
+That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation
+Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep.
+To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
+For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
+When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
+Must give us pause. There’s the respect
+That makes calamity of so long life.
+For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
+The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
+The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
+The insolence of office, and the spurns
+That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
+When he himself might his quietus make
+With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,
+To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
+But that the dread of something after death,
+The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
+No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
+And makes us rather bear those ills we have
+Than fly to others that we know not of?
+Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
+And thus the native hue of resolution
+Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
+And enterprises of great pith and moment,
+With this regard their currents turn awry
+And lose the name of action. Soft you now,
+The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
+Be all my sins remember’d.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Good my lord,
+How does your honour for this many a day?
+
+HAMLET.
+I humbly thank you; well, well, well.
+
+OPHELIA.
+My lord, I have remembrances of yours
+That I have longed long to re-deliver.
+I pray you, now receive them.
+
+HAMLET.
+No, not I.
+I never gave you aught.
+
+OPHELIA.
+My honour’d lord, you know right well you did,
+And with them words of so sweet breath compos’d
+As made the things more rich; their perfume lost,
+Take these again; for to the noble mind
+Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
+There, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Ha, ha! Are you honest?
+
+OPHELIA.
+My lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Are you fair?
+
+OPHELIA.
+What means your lordship?
+
+HAMLET.
+That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse
+to your beauty.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from
+what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty
+into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives
+it proof. I did love you once.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
+
+HAMLET.
+You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old
+stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not.
+
+OPHELIA.
+I was the more deceived.
+
+HAMLET.
+Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am
+myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things
+that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud,
+revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have
+thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act
+them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and
+heaven? We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us. Go thy ways to a
+nunnery. Where’s your father?
+
+OPHELIA.
+At home, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but
+in’s own house. Farewell.
+
+OPHELIA.
+O help him, you sweet heavens!
+
+HAMLET.
+If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou
+as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get
+thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a
+fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To
+a nunnery, go; and quickly too. Farewell.
+
+OPHELIA.
+O heavenly powers, restore him!
+
+HAMLET.
+I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one
+face, and you make yourselves another. You jig, you amble, and you
+lisp, and nickname God’s creatures, and make your wantonness your
+ignorance. Go to, I’ll no more on’t, it hath made me mad. I say, we
+will have no more marriages. Those that are married already, all but
+one, shall live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+OPHELIA.
+O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
+The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword,
+Th’expectancy and rose of the fair state,
+The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
+Th’observ’d of all observers, quite, quite down!
+And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
+That suck’d the honey of his music vows,
+Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
+Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh,
+That unmatch’d form and feature of blown youth
+Blasted with ecstasy. O woe is me,
+T’have seen what I have seen, see what I see.
+
+Enter King and Polonius.
+
+KING.
+Love? His affections do not that way tend,
+Nor what he spake, though it lack’d form a little,
+Was not like madness. There’s something in his soul
+O’er which his melancholy sits on brood,
+And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
+Will be some danger, which for to prevent,
+I have in quick determination
+Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England
+For the demand of our neglected tribute:
+Haply the seas and countries different,
+With variable objects, shall expel
+This something settled matter in his heart,
+Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
+From fashion of himself. What think you on’t?
+
+POLONIUS.
+It shall do well. But yet do I believe
+The origin and commencement of his grief
+Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia?
+You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said,
+We heard it all. My lord, do as you please,
+But if you hold it fit, after the play,
+Let his queen mother all alone entreat him
+To show his grief, let her be round with him,
+And I’ll be plac’d, so please you, in the ear
+Of all their conference. If she find him not,
+To England send him; or confine him where
+Your wisdom best shall think.
+
+KING.
+It shall be so.
+Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE II. A hall in the Castle.
+
+Enter Hamlet and certain Players.
+
+HAMLET.
+Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on
+the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as
+lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much
+with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent,
+tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and
+beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the
+soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to
+tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for
+the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and
+noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant. It
+out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it.
+
+FIRST PLAYER.
+I warrant your honour.
+
+HAMLET.
+Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor.
+Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special
+observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything
+so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the
+first and now, was and is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature;
+to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age
+and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come
+tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the
+judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance
+o’erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have
+seen play—and heard others praise, and that highly—not to speak it
+profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait
+of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have
+thought some of Nature’s journeymen had made men, and not made them
+well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
+
+FIRST PLAYER.
+I hope we have reform’d that indifferently with us, sir.
+
+HAMLET.
+O reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no
+more than is set down for them. For there be of them that will
+themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh
+too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then
+to be considered. That’s villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition
+in the fool that uses it. Go make you ready.
+
+[_Exeunt Players._]
+
+Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+
+How now, my lord?
+Will the King hear this piece of work?
+
+POLONIUS.
+And the Queen too, and that presently.
+
+HAMLET.
+Bid the players make haste.
+
+[_Exit Polonius._]
+
+Will you two help to hasten them?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.
+We will, my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._]
+
+HAMLET.
+What ho, Horatio!
+
+Enter Horatio.
+
+HORATIO.
+Here, sweet lord, at your service.
+
+HAMLET.
+Horatio, thou art e’en as just a man
+As e’er my conversation cop’d withal.
+
+HORATIO.
+O my dear lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Nay, do not think I flatter;
+For what advancement may I hope from thee,
+That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits
+To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter’d?
+No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
+And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
+Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?
+Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,
+And could of men distinguish, her election
+Hath seal’d thee for herself. For thou hast been
+As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing,
+A man that Fortune’s buffets and rewards
+Hast ta’en with equal thanks. And blessed are those
+Whose blood and judgement are so well co-mingled
+That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger
+To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
+That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him
+In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart,
+As I do thee. Something too much of this.
+There is a play tonight before the King.
+One scene of it comes near the circumstance
+Which I have told thee, of my father’s death.
+I prithee, when thou see’st that act a-foot,
+Even with the very comment of thy soul
+Observe mine uncle. If his occulted guilt
+Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
+It is a damned ghost that we have seen;
+And my imaginations are as foul
+As Vulcan’s stithy. Give him heedful note;
+For I mine eyes will rivet to his face;
+And after we will both our judgements join
+In censure of his seeming.
+
+HORATIO.
+Well, my lord.
+If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,
+And ’scape detecting, I will pay the theft.
+
+HAMLET.
+They are coming to the play. I must be idle.
+Get you a place.
+
+Danish march. A flourish. Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia,
+Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and others.
+
+KING.
+How fares our cousin Hamlet?
+
+HAMLET.
+Excellent, i’ faith; of the chameleon’s dish: I eat the air,
+promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.
+
+KING.
+I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words are not mine.
+
+HAMLET.
+No, nor mine now. [_To Polonius._] My lord, you play’d once i’
+th’university, you say?
+
+POLONIUS.
+That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor.
+
+HAMLET.
+What did you enact?
+
+POLONIUS.
+I did enact Julius Caesar. I was kill’d i’ th’ Capitol. Brutus killed
+me.
+
+HAMLET.
+It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. Be the
+players ready?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience.
+
+QUEEN.
+Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.
+
+HAMLET.
+No, good mother, here’s metal more attractive.
+
+POLONIUS.
+[_To the King._] O ho! do you mark that?
+
+HAMLET.
+Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
+
+[_Lying down at Ophelia’s feet._]
+
+OPHELIA.
+No, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+I mean, my head upon your lap?
+
+OPHELIA.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Do you think I meant country matters?
+
+OPHELIA.
+I think nothing, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.
+
+OPHELIA.
+What is, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Nothing.
+
+OPHELIA.
+You are merry, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Who, I?
+
+OPHELIA.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+O God, your only jig-maker! What should a man do but be merry? For look
+you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within’s two
+hours.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Nay, ’tis twice two months, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I’ll have a suit of
+sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then
+there’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year. But
+by’r lady, he must build churches then; or else shall he suffer not
+thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is ‘For, O, for O, the
+hobby-horse is forgot!’
+
+Trumpets sound. The dumb show enters.
+
+_Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing him and he
+her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation unto him. He takes her
+up, and declines his head upon her neck. Lays him down upon a bank of
+flowers. She, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow,
+takes off his crown, kisses it, pours poison in the King’s ears, and
+exits. The Queen returns, finds the King dead, and makes passionate
+action. The Poisoner with some three or four Mutes, comes in again,
+seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The Poisoner
+woos the Queen with gifts. She seems loth and unwilling awhile, but in
+the end accepts his love._
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+OPHELIA.
+What means this, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Belike this show imports the argument of the play.
+
+Enter Prologue.
+
+HAMLET.
+We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot keep counsel; they’ll
+tell all.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Will they tell us what this show meant?
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, or any show that you’ll show him. Be not you ashamed to show, he’ll
+not shame to tell you what it means.
+
+OPHELIA.
+You are naught, you are naught: I’ll mark the play.
+
+PROLOGUE.
+   _For us, and for our tragedy,
+   Here stooping to your clemency,
+   We beg your hearing patiently._
+
+HAMLET.
+Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
+
+OPHELIA.
+’Tis brief, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+As woman’s love.
+
+Enter a King and a Queen.
+
+PLAYER KING.
+Full thirty times hath Phoebus’ cart gone round
+Neptune’s salt wash and Tellus’ orbed ground,
+And thirty dozen moons with borrow’d sheen
+About the world have times twelve thirties been,
+Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands
+Unite commutual in most sacred bands.
+
+PLAYER QUEEN.
+So many journeys may the sun and moon
+Make us again count o’er ere love be done.
+But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,
+So far from cheer and from your former state,
+That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
+Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:
+For women’s fear and love holds quantity,
+In neither aught, or in extremity.
+Now what my love is, proof hath made you know,
+And as my love is siz’d, my fear is so.
+Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
+Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
+
+PLAYER KING.
+Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too:
+My operant powers their functions leave to do:
+And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,
+Honour’d, belov’d, and haply one as kind
+For husband shalt thou—
+
+PLAYER QUEEN.
+O confound the rest.
+Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
+In second husband let me be accurst!
+None wed the second but who kill’d the first.
+
+HAMLET.
+[_Aside._] Wormwood, wormwood.
+
+PLAYER QUEEN.
+The instances that second marriage move
+Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
+A second time I kill my husband dead,
+When second husband kisses me in bed.
+
+PLAYER KING.
+I do believe you think what now you speak;
+But what we do determine, oft we break.
+Purpose is but the slave to memory,
+Of violent birth, but poor validity:
+Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,
+But fall unshaken when they mellow be.
+Most necessary ’tis that we forget
+To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.
+What to ourselves in passion we propose,
+The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
+The violence of either grief or joy
+Their own enactures with themselves destroy.
+Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
+Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
+This world is not for aye; nor ’tis not strange
+That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
+For ’tis a question left us yet to prove,
+Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
+The great man down, you mark his favourite flies,
+The poor advanc’d makes friends of enemies;
+And hitherto doth love on fortune tend:
+For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
+And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
+Directly seasons him his enemy.
+But orderly to end where I begun,
+Our wills and fates do so contrary run
+That our devices still are overthrown.
+Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
+So think thou wilt no second husband wed,
+But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
+
+PLAYER QUEEN.
+Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light,
+Sport and repose lock from me day and night,
+To desperation turn my trust and hope,
+An anchor’s cheer in prison be my scope,
+Each opposite that blanks the face of joy,
+Meet what I would have well, and it destroy!
+Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
+If, once a widow, ever I be wife.
+
+HAMLET.
+[_To Ophelia._] If she should break it now.
+
+PLAYER KING.
+’Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile.
+My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
+The tedious day with sleep.
+[_Sleeps._]
+
+PLAYER QUEEN.
+Sleep rock thy brain,
+And never come mischance between us twain.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+HAMLET.
+Madam, how like you this play?
+
+QUEEN.
+The lady protests too much, methinks.
+
+HAMLET.
+O, but she’ll keep her word.
+
+KING.
+Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in’t?
+
+HAMLET.
+No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i’ th’ world.
+
+KING.
+What do you call the play?
+
+HAMLET.
+_The Mousetrap._ Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a
+murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the Duke’s name, his wife Baptista:
+you shall see anon; ’tis a knavish piece of work: but what o’ that?
+Your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the
+gall’d jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
+
+Enter Lucianus.
+
+This is one Lucianus, nephew to the King.
+
+OPHELIA.
+You are a good chorus, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the puppets
+dallying.
+
+OPHELIA.
+You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
+
+HAMLET.
+It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Still better, and worse.
+
+HAMLET.
+So you mistake your husbands.—Begin, murderer. Pox, leave thy damnable
+faces, and begin. Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.
+
+LUCIANUS.
+Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing,
+Confederate season, else no creature seeing;
+Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,
+With Hecate’s ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,
+Thy natural magic and dire property
+On wholesome life usurp immediately.
+
+[_Pours the poison into the sleeper’s ears._]
+
+HAMLET.
+He poisons him i’ th’garden for’s estate. His name’s Gonzago. The story
+is extant, and written in very choice Italian. You shall see anon how
+the murderer gets the love of Gonzago’s wife.
+
+OPHELIA.
+The King rises.
+
+HAMLET.
+What, frighted with false fire?
+
+QUEEN.
+How fares my lord?
+
+POLONIUS.
+Give o’er the play.
+
+KING.
+Give me some light. Away.
+
+All.
+Lights, lights, lights.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio._]
+
+HAMLET.
+   Why, let the strucken deer go weep,
+     The hart ungalled play;
+   For some must watch, while some must sleep,
+     So runs the world away.
+Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers, if the rest of my
+fortunes turn Turk with me; with two Provincial roses on my razed
+shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?
+
+HORATIO.
+Half a share.
+
+HAMLET.
+A whole one, I.
+   For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
+     This realm dismantled was
+   Of Jove himself, and now reigns here
+     A very, very—pajock.
+
+HORATIO.
+You might have rhymed.
+
+HAMLET.
+O good Horatio, I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound. Didst
+perceive?
+
+HORATIO.
+Very well, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Upon the talk of the poisoning?
+
+HORATIO.
+I did very well note him.
+
+HAMLET.
+Ah, ha! Come, some music. Come, the recorders.
+   For if the king like not the comedy,
+   Why then, belike he likes it not, perdie.
+Come, some music.
+
+Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.
+
+HAMLET.
+Sir, a whole history.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+The King, sir—
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, sir, what of him?
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Is in his retirement, marvellous distempered.
+
+HAMLET.
+With drink, sir?
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+No, my lord; rather with choler.
+
+HAMLET.
+Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to the
+doctor, for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him
+into far more choler.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start not so
+wildly from my affair.
+
+HAMLET.
+I am tame, sir, pronounce.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+The Queen your mother, in most great affliction of spirit, hath sent me
+to you.
+
+HAMLET.
+You are welcome.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right breed. If it shall
+please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do your mother’s
+commandment; if not, your pardon and my return shall be the end of my
+business.
+
+HAMLET.
+Sir, I cannot.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+What, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Make you a wholesome answer. My wit’s diseased. But, sir, such answer
+as I can make, you shall command; or rather, as you say, my mother.
+Therefore no more, but to the matter. My mother, you say,—
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Then thus she says: your behaviour hath struck her into amazement and
+admiration.
+
+HAMLET.
+O wonderful son, that can so stonish a mother! But is there no sequel
+at the heels of this mother’s admiration?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed.
+
+HAMLET.
+We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have you any further
+trade with us?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+My lord, you once did love me.
+
+HAMLET.
+And so I do still, by these pickers and stealers.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the
+door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend.
+
+HAMLET.
+Sir, I lack advancement.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+How can that be, when you have the voice of the King himself for your
+succession in Denmark?
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, sir, but while the grass grows—the proverb is something musty.
+
+Re-enter the Players with recorders.
+
+O, the recorders. Let me see one.—To withdraw with you, why do you go
+about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil?
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly.
+
+HAMLET.
+I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe?
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+My lord, I cannot.
+
+HAMLET.
+I pray you.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+Believe me, I cannot.
+
+HAMLET.
+I do beseech you.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+I know no touch of it, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+’Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your finger and
+thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most
+eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony. I have not the
+skill.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play
+upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart
+of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my
+compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little
+organ, yet cannot you make it speak. ’Sblood, do you think I am easier
+to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though
+you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
+
+Enter Polonius.
+
+God bless you, sir.
+
+POLONIUS.
+My lord, the Queen would speak with you, and presently.
+
+HAMLET.
+Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
+
+POLONIUS.
+By the mass, and ’tis like a camel indeed.
+
+HAMLET.
+Methinks it is like a weasel.
+
+POLONIUS.
+It is backed like a weasel.
+
+HAMLET.
+Or like a whale.
+
+POLONIUS.
+Very like a whale.
+
+HAMLET.
+Then will I come to my mother by and by.—They fool me to the top of my
+bent.—I will come by and by.
+
+POLONIUS.
+I will say so.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+HAMLET.
+By and by is easily said. Leave me, friends.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Hamlet._]
+
+’Tis now the very witching time of night,
+When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
+Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood,
+And do such bitter business as the day
+Would quake to look on. Soft now, to my mother.
+O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever
+The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:
+Let me be cruel, not unnatural.
+I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
+My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.
+How in my words somever she be shent,
+To give them seals never, my soul, consent.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ SCENE III. A room in the Castle.
+
+Enter King, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+
+KING.
+I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
+To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you,
+I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
+And he to England shall along with you.
+The terms of our estate may not endure
+Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow
+Out of his lunacies.
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+We will ourselves provide.
+Most holy and religious fear it is
+To keep those many many bodies safe
+That live and feed upon your Majesty.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+The single and peculiar life is bound
+With all the strength and armour of the mind,
+To keep itself from ’noyance; but much more
+That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest
+The lives of many. The cease of majesty
+Dies not alone; but like a gulf doth draw
+What’s near it with it. It is a massy wheel
+Fix’d on the summit of the highest mount,
+To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
+Are mortis’d and adjoin’d; which when it falls,
+Each small annexment, petty consequence,
+Attends the boist’rous ruin. Never alone
+Did the King sigh, but with a general groan.
+
+KING.
+Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;
+For we will fetters put upon this fear,
+Which now goes too free-footed.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.
+We will haste us.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._]
+
+Enter Polonius.
+
+POLONIUS.
+My lord, he’s going to his mother’s closet.
+Behind the arras I’ll convey myself
+To hear the process. I’ll warrant she’ll tax him home,
+And as you said, and wisely was it said,
+’Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,
+Since nature makes them partial, should o’erhear
+The speech of vantage. Fare you well, my liege,
+I’ll call upon you ere you go to bed,
+And tell you what I know.
+
+KING.
+Thanks, dear my lord.
+
+[_Exit Polonius._]
+
+O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
+It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,—
+A brother’s murder! Pray can I not,
+Though inclination be as sharp as will:
+My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
+And, like a man to double business bound,
+I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
+And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
+Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood,
+Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
+To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
+But to confront the visage of offence?
+And what’s in prayer but this twofold force,
+To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
+Or pardon’d being down? Then I’ll look up.
+My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer
+Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!
+That cannot be; since I am still possess’d
+Of those effects for which I did the murder,—
+My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
+May one be pardon’d and retain th’offence?
+In the corrupted currents of this world
+Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
+And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself
+Buys out the law. But ’tis not so above;
+There is no shuffling, there the action lies
+In his true nature, and we ourselves compell’d
+Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
+To give in evidence. What then? What rests?
+Try what repentance can. What can it not?
+Yet what can it, when one cannot repent?
+O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
+O limed soul, that struggling to be free,
+Art more engag’d! Help, angels! Make assay:
+Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel,
+Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
+All may be well.
+
+[_Retires and kneels._]
+
+Enter Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+Now might I do it pat, now he is praying.
+And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven;
+And so am I reveng’d. That would be scann’d:
+A villain kills my father, and for that
+I, his sole son, do this same villain send
+To heaven. O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
+He took my father grossly, full of bread,
+With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
+And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?
+But in our circumstance and course of thought,
+’Tis heavy with him. And am I then reveng’d,
+To take him in the purging of his soul,
+When he is fit and season’d for his passage? No.
+Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent:
+When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage,
+Or in th’incestuous pleasure of his bed,
+At gaming, swearing; or about some act
+That has no relish of salvation in’t,
+Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
+And that his soul may be as damn’d and black
+As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays.
+This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+The King rises and advances.
+
+KING.
+My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
+Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ SCENE IV. Another room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Queen and Polonius.
+
+POLONIUS.
+He will come straight. Look you lay home to him,
+Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
+And that your Grace hath screen’d and stood between
+Much heat and him. I’ll silence me e’en here.
+Pray you be round with him.
+
+HAMLET.
+[_Within._] Mother, mother, mother.
+
+QUEEN.
+I’ll warrant you, Fear me not.
+Withdraw, I hear him coming.
+
+[_Polonius goes behind the arras._]
+
+Enter Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+Now, mother, what’s the matter?
+
+QUEEN.
+Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
+
+HAMLET.
+Mother, you have my father much offended.
+
+QUEEN.
+Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
+
+HAMLET.
+Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
+
+QUEEN.
+Why, how now, Hamlet?
+
+HAMLET.
+What’s the matter now?
+
+QUEEN.
+Have you forgot me?
+
+HAMLET.
+No, by the rood, not so.
+You are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife,
+And, would it were not so. You are my mother.
+
+QUEEN.
+Nay, then I’ll set those to you that can speak.
+
+HAMLET.
+Come, come, and sit you down, you shall not budge.
+You go not till I set you up a glass
+Where you may see the inmost part of you.
+
+QUEEN.
+What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me?
+Help, help, ho!
+
+POLONIUS.
+[_Behind._] What, ho! help, help, help!
+
+HAMLET.
+How now? A rat? [_Draws._]
+Dead for a ducat, dead!
+
+[_Makes a pass through the arras._]
+
+POLONIUS.
+[_Behind._] O, I am slain!
+
+[_Falls and dies._]
+
+QUEEN.
+O me, what hast thou done?
+
+HAMLET.
+Nay, I know not. Is it the King?
+
+[_Draws forth Polonius._]
+
+QUEEN.
+O what a rash and bloody deed is this!
+
+HAMLET.
+A bloody deed. Almost as bad, good mother,
+As kill a king and marry with his brother.
+
+QUEEN.
+As kill a king?
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, lady, ’twas my word.—
+[_To Polonius._] Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
+I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune,
+Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger.—
+Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit you down,
+And let me wring your heart, for so I shall,
+If it be made of penetrable stuff;
+If damned custom have not braz’d it so,
+That it is proof and bulwark against sense.
+
+QUEEN.
+What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue
+In noise so rude against me?
+
+HAMLET.
+Such an act
+That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
+Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
+From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
+And sets a blister there. Makes marriage vows
+As false as dicers’ oaths. O such a deed
+As from the body of contraction plucks
+The very soul, and sweet religion makes
+A rhapsody of words. Heaven’s face doth glow,
+Yea this solidity and compound mass,
+With tristful visage, as against the doom,
+Is thought-sick at the act.
+
+QUEEN.
+Ay me, what act,
+That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?
+
+HAMLET.
+Look here upon this picture, and on this,
+The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
+See what a grace was seated on this brow,
+Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself,
+An eye like Mars, to threaten and command,
+A station like the herald Mercury
+New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill:
+A combination and a form indeed,
+Where every god did seem to set his seal,
+To give the world assurance of a man.
+This was your husband. Look you now what follows.
+Here is your husband, like a mildew’d ear
+Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
+Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
+And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?
+You cannot call it love; for at your age
+The hey-day in the blood is tame, it’s humble,
+And waits upon the judgement: and what judgement
+Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have,
+Else could you not have motion; but sure that sense
+Is apoplex’d, for madness would not err
+Nor sense to ecstacy was ne’er so thrall’d
+But it reserv’d some quantity of choice
+To serve in such a difference. What devil was’t
+That thus hath cozen’d you at hoodman-blind?
+Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
+Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
+Or but a sickly part of one true sense
+Could not so mope. O shame! where is thy blush?
+Rebellious hell,
+If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones,
+To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
+And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame
+When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
+Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
+And reason panders will.
+
+QUEEN.
+O Hamlet, speak no more.
+Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul,
+And there I see such black and grained spots
+As will not leave their tinct.
+
+HAMLET.
+Nay, but to live
+In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
+Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love
+Over the nasty sty.
+
+QUEEN.
+O speak to me no more;
+These words like daggers enter in mine ears;
+No more, sweet Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+A murderer and a villain;
+A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
+Of your precedent lord. A vice of kings,
+A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
+That from a shelf the precious diadem stole
+And put it in his pocket!
+
+QUEEN.
+No more.
+
+HAMLET.
+A king of shreds and patches!—
+
+Enter Ghost.
+
+Save me and hover o’er me with your wings,
+You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?
+
+QUEEN.
+Alas, he’s mad.
+
+HAMLET.
+Do you not come your tardy son to chide,
+That, laps’d in time and passion, lets go by
+The important acting of your dread command?
+O say!
+
+GHOST.
+Do not forget. This visitation
+Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
+But look, amazement on thy mother sits.
+O step between her and her fighting soul.
+Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
+Speak to her, Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+How is it with you, lady?
+
+QUEEN.
+Alas, how is’t with you,
+That you do bend your eye on vacancy,
+And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
+Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep,
+And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,
+Your bedded hairs, like life in excrements,
+Start up and stand an end. O gentle son,
+Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
+Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?
+
+HAMLET.
+On him, on him! Look you how pale he glares,
+His form and cause conjoin’d, preaching to stones,
+Would make them capable.—Do not look upon me,
+Lest with this piteous action you convert
+My stern effects. Then what I have to do
+Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood.
+
+QUEEN.
+To whom do you speak this?
+
+HAMLET.
+Do you see nothing there?
+
+QUEEN.
+Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.
+
+HAMLET.
+Nor did you nothing hear?
+
+QUEEN.
+No, nothing but ourselves.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, look you there! look how it steals away!
+My father, in his habit as he liv’d!
+Look where he goes even now out at the portal.
+
+[_Exit Ghost._]
+
+QUEEN.
+This is the very coinage of your brain.
+This bodiless creation ecstasy
+Is very cunning in.
+
+HAMLET.
+Ecstasy!
+My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time,
+And makes as healthful music. It is not madness
+That I have utter’d. Bring me to the test,
+And I the matter will re-word; which madness
+Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
+Lay not that flattering unction to your soul
+That not your trespass, but my madness speaks.
+It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
+Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
+Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven,
+Repent what’s past, avoid what is to come;
+And do not spread the compost on the weeds,
+To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;
+For in the fatness of these pursy times
+Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
+Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
+
+QUEEN.
+O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
+
+HAMLET.
+O throw away the worser part of it,
+And live the purer with the other half.
+Good night. But go not to mine uncle’s bed.
+Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
+That monster custom, who all sense doth eat,
+Of habits evil, is angel yet in this,
+That to the use of actions fair and good
+He likewise gives a frock or livery
+That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight,
+And that shall lend a kind of easiness
+To the next abstinence. The next more easy;
+For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
+And either curb the devil, or throw him out
+With wondrous potency. Once more, good night,
+And when you are desirous to be bles’d,
+I’ll blessing beg of you. For this same lord
+[_Pointing to Polonius._]
+I do repent; but heaven hath pleas’d it so,
+To punish me with this, and this with me,
+That I must be their scourge and minister.
+I will bestow him, and will answer well
+The death I gave him. So again, good night.
+I must be cruel, only to be kind:
+Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
+One word more, good lady.
+
+QUEEN.
+What shall I do?
+
+HAMLET.
+Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:
+Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed,
+Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse,
+And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,
+Or paddling in your neck with his damn’d fingers,
+Make you to ravel all this matter out,
+That I essentially am not in madness,
+But mad in craft. ’Twere good you let him know,
+For who that’s but a queen, fair, sober, wise,
+Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,
+Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so?
+No, in despite of sense and secrecy,
+Unpeg the basket on the house’s top,
+Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape,
+To try conclusions, in the basket creep
+And break your own neck down.
+
+QUEEN.
+Be thou assur’d, if words be made of breath,
+And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
+What thou hast said to me.
+
+HAMLET.
+I must to England, you know that?
+
+QUEEN.
+Alack,
+I had forgot. ’Tis so concluded on.
+
+HAMLET.
+There’s letters seal’d: and my two schoolfellows,
+Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d,—
+They bear the mandate, they must sweep my way
+And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
+For ’tis the sport to have the enginer
+Hoist with his own petard, and ’t shall go hard
+But I will delve one yard below their mines
+And blow them at the moon. O, ’tis most sweet,
+When in one line two crafts directly meet.
+This man shall set me packing.
+I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room.
+Mother, good night. Indeed, this counsellor
+Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
+Who was in life a foolish prating knave.
+Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.
+Good night, mother.
+
+[_Exit Hamlet dragging out Polonius._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. A room in the Castle.
+
+
+Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+
+KING.
+There’s matter in these sighs. These profound heaves
+You must translate; ’tis fit we understand them.
+Where is your son?
+
+QUEEN.
+Bestow this place on us a little while.
+
+[_To Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who go out._]
+
+Ah, my good lord, what have I seen tonight!
+
+KING.
+What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?
+
+QUEEN.
+Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend
+Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit
+Behind the arras hearing something stir,
+Whips out his rapier, cries ‘A rat, a rat!’
+And in this brainish apprehension kills
+The unseen good old man.
+
+KING.
+O heavy deed!
+It had been so with us, had we been there.
+His liberty is full of threats to all;
+To you yourself, to us, to everyone.
+Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer’d?
+It will be laid to us, whose providence
+Should have kept short, restrain’d, and out of haunt
+This mad young man. But so much was our love
+We would not understand what was most fit,
+But like the owner of a foul disease,
+To keep it from divulging, let it feed
+Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone?
+
+QUEEN.
+To draw apart the body he hath kill’d,
+O’er whom his very madness, like some ore
+Among a mineral of metals base,
+Shows itself pure. He weeps for what is done.
+
+KING.
+O Gertrude, come away!
+The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
+But we will ship him hence, and this vile deed
+We must with all our majesty and skill
+Both countenance and excuse.—Ho, Guildenstern!
+
+Re-enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+
+Friends both, go join you with some further aid:
+Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
+And from his mother’s closet hath he dragg’d him.
+Go seek him out, speak fair, and bring the body
+Into the chapel. I pray you haste in this.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._]
+
+Come, Gertrude, we’ll call up our wisest friends,
+And let them know both what we mean to do
+And what’s untimely done, so haply slander,
+Whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter,
+As level as the cannon to his blank,
+Transports his poison’d shot, may miss our name,
+And hit the woundless air. O, come away!
+My soul is full of discord and dismay.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE II. Another room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+Safely stowed.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.
+[_Within._] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!
+
+HAMLET.
+What noise? Who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come.
+
+Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
+
+HAMLET.
+Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Tell us where ’tis, that we may take it thence,
+And bear it to the chapel.
+
+HAMLET.
+Do not believe it.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Believe what?
+
+HAMLET.
+That I can keep your counsel, and not mine own. Besides, to be demanded
+of a sponge—what replication should be made by the son of a king?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, sir; that soaks up the King’s countenance, his rewards, his
+authorities. But such officers do the King best service in the end: he
+keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be
+last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but
+squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+I understand you not, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+My lord, you must tell us where the body is and go with us to the King.
+
+HAMLET.
+The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body. The King
+is a thing—
+
+GUILDENSTERN.
+A thing, my lord!
+
+HAMLET.
+Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE III. Another room in the Castle.
+
+Enter King, attended.
+
+KING.
+I have sent to seek him and to find the body.
+How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
+Yet must not we put the strong law on him:
+He’s lov’d of the distracted multitude,
+Who like not in their judgement, but their eyes;
+And where ’tis so, th’offender’s scourge is weigh’d,
+But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,
+This sudden sending him away must seem
+Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown
+By desperate appliance are reliev’d,
+Or not at all.
+
+Enter Rosencrantz.
+
+How now? What hath befall’n?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Where the dead body is bestow’d, my lord,
+We cannot get from him.
+
+KING.
+But where is he?
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Without, my lord, guarded, to know your pleasure.
+
+KING.
+Bring him before us.
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Ho, Guildenstern! Bring in my lord.
+
+Enter Hamlet and Guildenstern.
+
+KING.
+Now, Hamlet, where’s Polonius?
+
+HAMLET.
+At supper.
+
+KING.
+At supper? Where?
+
+HAMLET.
+Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of
+politic worms are e’en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet.
+We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.
+Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service,—two dishes,
+but to one table. That’s the end.
+
+KING.
+Alas, alas!
+
+HAMLET.
+A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the
+fish that hath fed of that worm.
+
+KING.
+What dost thou mean by this?
+
+HAMLET.
+Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts
+of a beggar.
+
+KING.
+Where is Polonius?
+
+HAMLET.
+In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there,
+seek him i’ th’other place yourself. But indeed, if you find him not
+within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the
+lobby.
+
+KING.
+[_To some Attendants._] Go seek him there.
+
+HAMLET.
+He will stay till you come.
+
+[_Exeunt Attendants._]
+
+KING.
+Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,—
+Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve
+For that which thou hast done,—must send thee hence
+With fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself;
+The bark is ready, and the wind at help,
+Th’associates tend, and everything is bent
+For England.
+
+HAMLET.
+For England?
+
+KING.
+Ay, Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+Good.
+
+KING.
+So is it, if thou knew’st our purposes.
+
+HAMLET.
+I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for England! Farewell, dear
+mother.
+
+KING.
+Thy loving father, Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+My mother. Father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is one
+flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING.
+Follow him at foot. Tempt him with speed aboard;
+Delay it not; I’ll have him hence tonight.
+Away, for everything is seal’d and done
+That else leans on th’affair. Pray you make haste.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern._]
+
+And England, if my love thou hold’st at aught,—
+As my great power thereof may give thee sense,
+Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
+After the Danish sword, and thy free awe
+Pays homage to us,—thou mayst not coldly set
+Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
+By letters conjuring to that effect,
+The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England;
+For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
+And thou must cure me. Till I know ’tis done,
+Howe’er my haps, my joys were ne’er begun.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ SCENE IV. A plain in Denmark.
+
+Enter Fortinbras and Forces marching.
+
+FORTINBRAS.
+Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king.
+Tell him that by his license, Fortinbras
+Craves the conveyance of a promis’d march
+Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.
+If that his Majesty would aught with us,
+We shall express our duty in his eye;
+And let him know so.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+I will do’t, my lord.
+
+FORTINBRAS.
+Go softly on.
+
+[_Exeunt all but the Captain._]
+
+Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern &c.
+
+HAMLET.
+Good sir, whose powers are these?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+They are of Norway, sir.
+
+HAMLET.
+How purpos’d, sir, I pray you?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Against some part of Poland.
+
+HAMLET.
+Who commands them, sir?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.
+
+HAMLET.
+Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
+Or for some frontier?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Truly to speak, and with no addition,
+We go to gain a little patch of ground
+That hath in it no profit but the name.
+To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
+Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
+A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, then the Polack never will defend it.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Yes, it is already garrison’d.
+
+HAMLET.
+Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
+Will not debate the question of this straw!
+This is th’imposthume of much wealth and peace,
+That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
+Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+God b’ wi’ you, sir.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ROSENCRANTZ.
+Will’t please you go, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+I’ll be with you straight. Go a little before.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Hamlet._]
+
+How all occasions do inform against me,
+And spur my dull revenge. What is a man
+If his chief good and market of his time
+Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
+Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
+Looking before and after, gave us not
+That capability and godlike reason
+To fust in us unus’d. Now whether it be
+Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
+Of thinking too precisely on th’event,—
+A thought which, quarter’d, hath but one part wisdom
+And ever three parts coward,—I do not know
+Why yet I live to say this thing’s to do,
+Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means
+To do’t. Examples gross as earth exhort me,
+Witness this army of such mass and charge,
+Led by a delicate and tender prince,
+Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff’d,
+Makes mouths at the invisible event,
+Exposing what is mortal and unsure
+To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
+Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
+Is not to stir without great argument,
+But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
+When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then,
+That have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d,
+Excitements of my reason and my blood,
+And let all sleep, while to my shame I see
+The imminent death of twenty thousand men
+That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
+Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
+Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
+Which is not tomb enough and continent
+To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
+My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ SCENE V. Elsinore. A room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Queen, Horatio and a Gentleman.
+
+QUEEN.
+I will not speak with her.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+She is importunate, indeed distract.
+Her mood will needs be pitied.
+
+QUEEN.
+What would she have?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+She speaks much of her father; says she hears
+There’s tricks i’ th’ world, and hems, and beats her heart,
+Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt,
+That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,
+Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
+The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
+And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts,
+Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures yield them,
+Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
+Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.
+’Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew
+Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
+
+QUEEN.
+Let her come in.
+
+[_Exit Gentleman._]
+
+To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is,
+Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
+So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
+It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
+
+Enter Ophelia.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark?
+
+QUEEN.
+How now, Ophelia?
+
+OPHELIA.
+[_Sings._]
+   How should I your true love know
+     From another one?
+   By his cockle hat and staff
+     And his sandal shoon.
+
+QUEEN.
+Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?
+
+OPHELIA.
+Say you? Nay, pray you mark.
+[_Sings._]
+   He is dead and gone, lady,
+     He is dead and gone,
+   At his head a grass green turf,
+     At his heels a stone.
+
+QUEEN.
+Nay, but Ophelia—
+
+OPHELIA.
+Pray you mark.
+[_Sings._]
+   White his shroud as the mountain snow.
+
+Enter King.
+
+QUEEN.
+Alas, look here, my lord!
+
+OPHELIA.
+[_Sings._]
+     Larded all with sweet flowers;
+   Which bewept to the grave did not go
+     With true-love showers.
+
+KING.
+How do you, pretty lady?
+
+OPHELIA.
+Well, God dild you! They say the owl was a baker’s daughter. Lord, we
+know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at your table!
+
+KING.
+Conceit upon her father.
+
+OPHELIA.
+Pray you, let’s have no words of this; but when they ask you what it
+means, say you this:
+[_Sings._]
+   Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day,
+     All in the morning betime,
+   And I a maid at your window,
+     To be your Valentine.
+
+   Then up he rose and donn’d his clothes,
+     And dupp’d the chamber door,
+   Let in the maid, that out a maid
+     Never departed more.
+
+KING.
+Pretty Ophelia!
+
+OPHELIA.
+Indeed la, without an oath, I’ll make an end on’t.
+[_Sings._]
+   By Gis and by Saint Charity,
+     Alack, and fie for shame!
+   Young men will do’t if they come to’t;
+     By Cock, they are to blame.
+
+   Quoth she, before you tumbled me,
+     You promis’d me to wed.
+   So would I ha’ done, by yonder sun,
+     An thou hadst not come to my bed.
+
+KING.
+How long hath she been thus?
+
+OPHELIA.
+I hope all will be well. We must be patient. But I cannot choose but
+weep, to think they would lay him i’ th’ cold ground. My brother shall
+know of it. And so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my coach!
+Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING.
+Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.
+
+[_Exit Horatio._]
+
+O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs
+All from her father’s death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,
+When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
+But in battalions. First, her father slain;
+Next, your son gone; and he most violent author
+Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
+Thick, and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
+For good Polonius’ death; and we have done but greenly
+In hugger-mugger to inter him. Poor Ophelia
+Divided from herself and her fair judgement,
+Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts.
+Last, and as much containing as all these,
+Her brother is in secret come from France,
+Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
+And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
+With pestilent speeches of his father’s death,
+Wherein necessity, of matter beggar’d,
+Will nothing stick our person to arraign
+In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,
+Like to a murdering piece, in many places
+Gives me superfluous death.
+
+[_A noise within._]
+
+QUEEN.
+Alack, what noise is this?
+
+KING.
+Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.
+
+Enter a Gentleman.
+
+What is the matter?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Save yourself, my lord.
+The ocean, overpeering of his list,
+Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
+Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
+O’erbears your offices. The rabble call him lord,
+And, as the world were now but to begin,
+Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
+The ratifiers and props of every word,
+They cry ‘Choose we! Laertes shall be king!’
+Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds,
+‘Laertes shall be king, Laertes king.’
+
+QUEEN.
+How cheerfully on the false trail they cry.
+O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs.
+
+[_A noise within._]
+
+KING.
+The doors are broke.
+
+Enter Laertes, armed; Danes following.
+
+LAERTES.
+Where is this king?—Sirs, stand you all without.
+
+Danes.
+No, let’s come in.
+
+LAERTES.
+I pray you, give me leave.
+
+DANES.
+We will, we will.
+
+[_They retire without the door._]
+
+LAERTES.
+I thank you. Keep the door. O thou vile king,
+Give me my father.
+
+QUEEN.
+Calmly, good Laertes.
+
+LAERTES.
+That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard;
+Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot
+Even here between the chaste unsmirched brow
+Of my true mother.
+
+KING.
+What is the cause, Laertes,
+That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?—
+Let him go, Gertrude. Do not fear our person.
+There’s such divinity doth hedge a king,
+That treason can but peep to what it would,
+Acts little of his will.—Tell me, Laertes,
+Why thou art thus incens’d.—Let him go, Gertrude:—
+Speak, man.
+
+LAERTES.
+Where is my father?
+
+KING.
+Dead.
+
+QUEEN.
+But not by him.
+
+KING.
+Let him demand his fill.
+
+LAERTES.
+How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with.
+To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
+Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
+I dare damnation. To this point I stand,
+That both the worlds, I give to negligence,
+Let come what comes; only I’ll be reveng’d
+Most throughly for my father.
+
+KING.
+Who shall stay you?
+
+LAERTES.
+My will, not all the world.
+And for my means, I’ll husband them so well,
+They shall go far with little.
+
+KING.
+Good Laertes,
+If you desire to know the certainty
+Of your dear father’s death, is’t writ in your revenge
+That, sweepstake, you will draw both friend and foe,
+Winner and loser?
+
+LAERTES.
+None but his enemies.
+
+KING.
+Will you know them then?
+
+LAERTES.
+To his good friends thus wide I’ll ope my arms;
+And, like the kind life-rendering pelican,
+Repast them with my blood.
+
+KING.
+Why, now you speak
+Like a good child and a true gentleman.
+That I am guiltless of your father’s death,
+And am most sensibly in grief for it,
+It shall as level to your judgement ’pear
+As day does to your eye.
+
+DANES.
+[_Within._] Let her come in.
+
+LAERTES.
+How now! What noise is that?
+
+Re-enter Ophelia, fantastically dressed with straws and flowers.
+
+O heat, dry up my brains. Tears seven times salt,
+Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye.
+By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,
+Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!
+Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
+O heavens, is’t possible a young maid’s wits
+Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?
+Nature is fine in love, and where ’tis fine,
+It sends some precious instance of itself
+After the thing it loves.
+
+OPHELIA.
+[_Sings._]
+   They bore him barefac’d on the bier,
+   Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny
+   And on his grave rain’d many a tear.—
+   Fare you well, my dove!
+
+LAERTES.
+Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,
+It could not move thus.
+
+OPHELIA.
+You must sing ‘Down a-down, and you call him a-down-a.’ O, how the
+wheel becomes it! It is the false steward that stole his master’s
+daughter.
+
+LAERTES.
+This nothing’s more than matter.
+
+OPHELIA.
+There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray love, remember. And
+there is pansies, that’s for thoughts.
+
+LAERTES.
+A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.
+
+OPHELIA.
+There’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue for you; and here’s
+some for me. We may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O you must wear
+your rue with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would give you some
+violets, but they wither’d all when my father died. They say he made a
+good end.
+[_Sings._]
+   For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
+
+LAERTES.
+Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself
+She turns to favour and to prettiness.
+
+OPHELIA.
+[_Sings._]
+   And will he not come again?
+   And will he not come again?
+     No, no, he is dead,
+     Go to thy death-bed,
+   He never will come again.
+
+   His beard was as white as snow,
+   All flaxen was his poll.
+     He is gone, he is gone,
+     And we cast away moan.
+   God ha’ mercy on his soul.
+
+And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God b’ wi’ ye.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+LAERTES.
+Do you see this, O God?
+
+KING.
+Laertes, I must commune with your grief,
+Or you deny me right. Go but apart,
+Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will,
+And they shall hear and judge ’twixt you and me.
+If by direct or by collateral hand
+They find us touch’d, we will our kingdom give,
+Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours
+To you in satisfaction; but if not,
+Be you content to lend your patience to us,
+And we shall jointly labour with your soul
+To give it due content.
+
+LAERTES.
+Let this be so;
+His means of death, his obscure burial,—
+No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o’er his bones,
+No noble rite, nor formal ostentation,—
+Cry to be heard, as ’twere from heaven to earth,
+That I must call’t in question.
+
+KING.
+So you shall.
+And where th’offence is let the great axe fall.
+I pray you go with me.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE VI. Another room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Horatio and a Servant.
+
+HORATIO.
+What are they that would speak with me?
+
+SERVANT.
+Sailors, sir. They say they have letters for you.
+
+HORATIO.
+Let them come in.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+I do not know from what part of the world
+I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.
+
+Enter Sailors.
+
+FIRST SAILOR.
+God bless you, sir.
+
+HORATIO.
+Let him bless thee too.
+
+FIRST SAILOR.
+He shall, sir, and’t please him. There’s a letter for you, sir. It
+comes from th’ambassador that was bound for England; if your name be
+Horatio, as I am let to know it is.
+
+HORATIO.
+[_Reads._] ‘Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked this, give these
+fellows some means to the King. They have letters for him. Ere we were
+two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us
+chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled
+valour, and in the grapple I boarded them. On the instant they got
+clear of our ship, so I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt
+with me like thieves of mercy. But they knew what they did; I am to do
+a good turn for them. Let the King have the letters I have sent, and
+repair thou to me with as much haste as thou wouldst fly death. I have
+words to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb; yet are they much too
+light for the bore of the matter. These good fellows will bring thee
+where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England:
+of them I have much to tell thee. Farewell.
+     He that thou knowest thine,
+     HAMLET.’
+
+Come, I will give you way for these your letters,
+And do’t the speedier, that you may direct me
+To him from whom you brought them.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE VII. Another room in the Castle.
+
+Enter King and Laertes.
+
+KING.
+Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,
+And you must put me in your heart for friend,
+Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,
+That he which hath your noble father slain
+Pursu’d my life.
+
+LAERTES.
+It well appears. But tell me
+Why you proceeded not against these feats,
+So crimeful and so capital in nature,
+As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
+You mainly were stirr’d up.
+
+KING.
+O, for two special reasons,
+Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew’d,
+But yet to me they are strong. The Queen his mother
+Lives almost by his looks; and for myself,—
+My virtue or my plague, be it either which,—
+She’s so conjunctive to my life and soul,
+That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
+I could not but by her. The other motive,
+Why to a public count I might not go,
+Is the great love the general gender bear him,
+Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
+Would like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
+Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,
+Too slightly timber’d for so loud a wind,
+Would have reverted to my bow again,
+And not where I had aim’d them.
+
+LAERTES.
+And so have I a noble father lost,
+A sister driven into desperate terms,
+Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
+Stood challenger on mount of all the age
+For her perfections. But my revenge will come.
+
+KING.
+Break not your sleeps for that. You must not think
+That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
+That we can let our beard be shook with danger,
+And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more.
+I lov’d your father, and we love ourself,
+And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine—
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+How now? What news?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Letters, my lord, from Hamlet.
+This to your Majesty; this to the Queen.
+
+KING.
+From Hamlet! Who brought them?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not.
+They were given me by Claudio. He receiv’d them
+Of him that brought them.
+
+KING.
+Laertes, you shall hear them.
+Leave us.
+
+[_Exit Messenger._]
+
+[_Reads._] ‘High and mighty, you shall know I am set naked on your
+kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes. When I
+shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, recount the occasions of my
+sudden and more strange return.
+     HAMLET.’
+
+What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
+Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
+
+LAERTES.
+Know you the hand?
+
+KING.
+’Tis Hamlet’s character. ‘Naked!’
+And in a postscript here he says ‘alone.’
+Can you advise me?
+
+LAERTES.
+I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come,
+It warms the very sickness in my heart
+That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
+‘Thus diest thou.’
+
+KING.
+If it be so, Laertes,—
+As how should it be so? How otherwise?—
+Will you be rul’d by me?
+
+LAERTES.
+Ay, my lord;
+So you will not o’errule me to a peace.
+
+KING.
+To thine own peace. If he be now return’d,
+As checking at his voyage, and that he means
+No more to undertake it, I will work him
+To an exploit, now ripe in my device,
+Under the which he shall not choose but fall;
+And for his death no wind shall breathe,
+But even his mother shall uncharge the practice
+And call it accident.
+
+LAERTES.
+My lord, I will be rul’d;
+The rather if you could devise it so
+That I might be the organ.
+
+KING.
+It falls right.
+You have been talk’d of since your travel much,
+And that in Hamlet’s hearing, for a quality
+Wherein they say you shine. Your sum of parts
+Did not together pluck such envy from him
+As did that one, and that, in my regard,
+Of the unworthiest siege.
+
+LAERTES.
+What part is that, my lord?
+
+KING.
+A very riband in the cap of youth,
+Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes
+The light and careless livery that it wears
+Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
+Importing health and graveness. Two months since
+Here was a gentleman of Normandy,—
+I’ve seen myself, and serv’d against, the French,
+And they can well on horseback, but this gallant
+Had witchcraft in’t. He grew unto his seat,
+And to such wondrous doing brought his horse,
+As had he been incorps’d and demi-natur’d
+With the brave beast. So far he topp’d my thought
+That I in forgery of shapes and tricks,
+Come short of what he did.
+
+LAERTES.
+A Norman was’t?
+
+KING.
+A Norman.
+
+LAERTES.
+Upon my life, Lamord.
+
+KING.
+The very same.
+
+LAERTES.
+I know him well. He is the brooch indeed
+And gem of all the nation.
+
+KING.
+He made confession of you,
+And gave you such a masterly report
+For art and exercise in your defence,
+And for your rapier most especially,
+That he cried out ’twould be a sight indeed
+If one could match you. The scrimers of their nation
+He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
+If you oppos’d them. Sir, this report of his
+Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
+That he could nothing do but wish and beg
+Your sudden coming o’er to play with him.
+Now, out of this,—
+
+LAERTES.
+What out of this, my lord?
+
+KING.
+Laertes, was your father dear to you?
+Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
+A face without a heart?
+
+LAERTES.
+Why ask you this?
+
+KING.
+Not that I think you did not love your father,
+But that I know love is begun by time,
+And that I see, in passages of proof,
+Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
+There lives within the very flame of love
+A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
+And nothing is at a like goodness still,
+For goodness, growing to a pleurisy,
+Dies in his own too much. That we would do,
+We should do when we would; for this ‘would’ changes,
+And hath abatements and delays as many
+As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
+And then this ‘should’ is like a spendthrift sigh
+That hurts by easing. But to the quick o’ th’ulcer:
+Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake
+To show yourself your father’s son in deed,
+More than in words?
+
+LAERTES.
+To cut his throat i’ th’ church.
+
+KING.
+No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;
+Revenge should have no bounds. But good Laertes,
+Will you do this, keep close within your chamber.
+Hamlet return’d shall know you are come home:
+We’ll put on those shall praise your excellence,
+And set a double varnish on the fame
+The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together
+And wager on your heads. He, being remiss,
+Most generous, and free from all contriving,
+Will not peruse the foils; so that with ease,
+Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
+A sword unbated, and in a pass of practice,
+Requite him for your father.
+
+LAERTES.
+I will do’t.
+And for that purpose I’ll anoint my sword.
+I bought an unction of a mountebank
+So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
+Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
+Collected from all simples that have virtue
+Under the moon, can save the thing from death
+This is but scratch’d withal. I’ll touch my point
+With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly,
+It may be death.
+
+KING.
+Let’s further think of this,
+Weigh what convenience both of time and means
+May fit us to our shape. If this should fail,
+And that our drift look through our bad performance.
+’Twere better not assay’d. Therefore this project
+Should have a back or second, that might hold
+If this did blast in proof. Soft, let me see.
+We’ll make a solemn wager on your cunnings,—
+I ha’t! When in your motion you are hot and dry,
+As make your bouts more violent to that end,
+And that he calls for drink, I’ll have prepar’d him
+A chalice for the nonce; whereon but sipping,
+If he by chance escape your venom’d stuck,
+Our purpose may hold there.
+
+Enter Queen.
+
+How now, sweet Queen?
+
+QUEEN.
+One woe doth tread upon another’s heel,
+So fast they follow. Your sister’s drown’d, Laertes.
+
+LAERTES.
+Drown’d! O, where?
+
+QUEEN.
+There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
+That shows his hoary leaves in the glassy stream.
+There with fantastic garlands did she make
+Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
+That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
+But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them.
+There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
+Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
+When down her weedy trophies and herself
+Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
+And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up,
+Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
+As one incapable of her own distress,
+Or like a creature native and indued
+Unto that element. But long it could not be
+Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
+Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
+To muddy death.
+
+LAERTES.
+Alas, then she is drown’d?
+
+QUEEN.
+Drown’d, drown’d.
+
+LAERTES.
+Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
+And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet
+It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
+Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,
+The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord,
+I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,
+But that this folly douts it.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING.
+Let’s follow, Gertrude;
+How much I had to do to calm his rage!
+Now fear I this will give it start again;
+Therefore let’s follow.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. A churchyard.
+
+
+Enter two Clowns with spades, &c.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she wilfully seeks her
+own salvation?
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+I tell thee she is, and therefore make her grave straight. The crowner
+hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence?
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Why, ’tis found so.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+It must be _se offendendo_, it cannot be else. For here lies the point:
+if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act: and an act hath three
+branches. It is to act, to do, and to perform: argal, she drowned
+herself wittingly.
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,—
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Give me leave. Here lies the water; good. Here stands the man; good. If
+the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he
+goes,—mark you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, he
+drowns not himself. Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death
+shortens not his own life.
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+But is this law?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Ay, marry, is’t, crowner’s quest law.
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Will you ha’ the truth on’t? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she
+should have been buried out o’ Christian burial.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Why, there thou say’st. And the more pity that great folk should have
+countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their
+even Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but
+gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they hold up Adam’s profession.
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Was he a gentleman?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+He was the first that ever bore arms.
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Why, he had none.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? The
+Scripture says Adam digg’d. Could he dig without arms? I’ll put another
+question to thee. If thou answerest me not to the purpose, confess
+thyself—
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Go to.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright,
+or the carpenter?
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+I like thy wit well in good faith, the gallows does well. But how does
+it well? It does well to those that do ill. Now, thou dost ill to say
+the gallows is built stronger than the church; argal, the gallows may
+do well to thee. To’t again, come.
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Marry, now I can tell.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+To’t.
+
+SECOND CLOWN.
+Mass, I cannot tell.
+
+Enter Hamlet and Horatio, at a distance.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his
+pace with beating; and when you are asked this question next, say ‘a
+grave-maker’. The houses he makes last till doomsday. Go, get thee to
+Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of liquor.
+
+[_Exit Second Clown._]
+
+[_Digs and sings._]
+
+   In youth when I did love, did love,
+     Methought it was very sweet;
+   To contract, O, the time for, a, my behove,
+     O methought there was nothing meet.
+
+HAMLET.
+Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at
+grave-making?
+
+HORATIO.
+Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.
+
+HAMLET.
+’Tis e’en so; the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+[_Sings._]
+   But age with his stealing steps
+     Hath claw’d me in his clutch,
+   And hath shipp’d me into the land,
+     As if I had never been such.
+
+[_Throws up a skull._]
+
+HAMLET.
+That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once. How the knave jowls
+it to th’ ground, as if ’twere Cain’s jawbone, that did the first
+murder! This might be the pate of a politician which this ass now
+o’er-offices, one that would circumvent God, might it not?
+
+HORATIO.
+It might, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Or of a courtier, which could say ‘Good morrow, sweet lord! How dost
+thou, good lord?’ This might be my lord such-a-one, that praised my
+lord such-a-one’s horse when he meant to beg it, might it not?
+
+HORATIO.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, e’en so: and now my Lady Worm’s; chapless, and knocked about the
+mazard with a sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, an we had the
+trick to see’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play
+at loggets with ’em? Mine ache to think on’t.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+[_Sings._]
+   A pickaxe and a spade, a spade,
+     For and a shrouding-sheet;
+   O, a pit of clay for to be made
+     For such a guest is meet.
+
+[_Throws up another skull._]
+
+HAMLET.
+There’s another. Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be
+his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?
+Why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce
+with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?
+Hum. This fellow might be in’s time a great buyer of land, with his
+statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his
+recoveries. Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his
+recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will his vouchers
+vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the
+length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his
+lands will scarcely lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself
+have no more, ha?
+
+HORATIO.
+Not a jot more, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Is not parchment made of sheep-skins?
+
+HORATIO.
+Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too.
+
+HAMLET.
+They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that. I will
+speak to this fellow.—Whose grave’s this, sir?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Mine, sir.
+[_Sings._]
+   O, a pit of clay for to be made
+     For such a guest is meet.
+
+HAMLET.
+I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in’t.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+You lie out on’t, sir, and therefore ’tis not yours.
+For my part, I do not lie in’t, yet it is mine.
+
+HAMLET.
+Thou dost lie in’t, to be in’t and say it is thine. ’Tis for the dead,
+not for the quick; therefore thou liest.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+’Tis a quick lie, sir; ’t will away again from me to you.
+
+HAMLET.
+What man dost thou dig it for?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+For no man, sir.
+
+HAMLET.
+What woman then?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+For none neither.
+
+HAMLET.
+Who is to be buried in’t?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she’s dead.
+
+HAMLET.
+How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or equivocation
+will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note
+of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so
+near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.—How long hast thou
+been a grave-maker?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Of all the days i’ th’ year, I came to’t that day that our last King
+Hamlet o’ercame Fortinbras.
+
+HAMLET.
+How long is that since?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day
+that young Hamlet was born,—he that is mad, and sent into England.
+
+HAMLET.
+Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Why, because he was mad; he shall recover his wits there; or if he do
+not, it’s no great matter there.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+’Twill not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he.
+
+HAMLET.
+How came he mad?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Very strangely, they say.
+
+HAMLET.
+How strangely?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Faith, e’en with losing his wits.
+
+HAMLET.
+Upon what ground?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Why, here in Denmark. I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty
+years.
+
+HAMLET.
+How long will a man lie i’ th’earth ere he rot?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Faith, if he be not rotten before he die,—as we have many pocky corses
+nowadays that will scarce hold the laying in,—he will last you some
+eight year or nine year. A tanner will last you nine year.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why he more than another?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+Why, sir, his hide is so tann’d with his trade that he will keep out
+water a great while. And your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson
+dead body. Here’s a skull now; this skull hath lain in the earth
+three-and-twenty years.
+
+HAMLET.
+Whose was it?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+A whoreson, mad fellow’s it was. Whose do you think it was?
+
+HAMLET.
+Nay, I know not.
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! A pour’d a flagon of Rhenish on my
+head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick’s skull, the King’s jester.
+
+HAMLET.
+This?
+
+FIRST CLOWN.
+E’en that.
+
+HAMLET.
+Let me see. [_Takes the skull._] Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him,
+Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath
+borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my
+imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I
+have kiss’d I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols?
+your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table
+on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chop-fallen?
+Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch
+thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that.—Prithee,
+Horatio, tell me one thing.
+
+HORATIO.
+What’s that, my lord?
+
+HAMLET.
+Dost thou think Alexander looked o’ this fashion i’ th’earth?
+
+HORATIO.
+E’en so.
+
+HAMLET.
+And smelt so? Pah!
+
+[_Throws down the skull._]
+
+HORATIO.
+E’en so, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace
+the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
+
+HORATIO.
+’Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.
+
+HAMLET.
+No, faith, not a jot. But to follow him thither with modesty enough,
+and likelihood to lead it; as thus. Alexander died, Alexander was
+buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we
+make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not
+stop a beer-barrel?
+Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay,
+Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
+O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
+Should patch a wall t’expel the winter’s flaw.
+But soft! but soft! aside! Here comes the King.
+
+Enter priests, &c, in procession; the corpse of Ophelia, Laertes and
+Mourners following; King, Queen, their Trains, &c.
+
+The Queen, the courtiers. Who is that they follow?
+And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
+The corse they follow did with desperate hand
+Fordo it own life. ’Twas of some estate.
+Couch we awhile and mark.
+
+[_Retiring with Horatio._]
+
+LAERTES.
+What ceremony else?
+
+HAMLET.
+That is Laertes, a very noble youth. Mark.
+
+LAERTES.
+What ceremony else?
+
+PRIEST.
+Her obsequies have been as far enlarg’d
+As we have warranties. Her death was doubtful;
+And but that great command o’ersways the order,
+She should in ground unsanctified have lodg’d
+Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayers,
+Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her.
+Yet here she is allowed her virgin rites,
+Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
+Of bell and burial.
+
+LAERTES.
+Must there no more be done?
+
+PRIEST.
+No more be done.
+We should profane the service of the dead
+To sing sage requiem and such rest to her
+As to peace-parted souls.
+
+LAERTES.
+Lay her i’ th’earth,
+And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
+May violets spring. I tell thee, churlish priest,
+A minist’ring angel shall my sister be
+When thou liest howling.
+
+HAMLET.
+What, the fair Ophelia?
+
+QUEEN.
+[_Scattering flowers._] Sweets to the sweet. Farewell.
+I hop’d thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife;
+I thought thy bride-bed to have deck’d, sweet maid,
+And not have strew’d thy grave.
+
+LAERTES.
+O, treble woe
+Fall ten times treble on that cursed head
+Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
+Depriv’d thee of. Hold off the earth a while,
+Till I have caught her once more in mine arms.
+[_Leaps into the grave._]
+Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,
+Till of this flat a mountain you have made,
+To o’ertop old Pelion or the skyish head
+Of blue Olympus.
+
+HAMLET.
+[_Advancing._]
+What is he whose grief
+Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow
+Conjures the wand’ring stars, and makes them stand
+Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,
+Hamlet the Dane.
+[_Leaps into the grave._]
+
+LAERTES.
+[_Grappling with him._] The devil take thy soul!
+
+HAMLET.
+Thou pray’st not well.
+I prithee take thy fingers from my throat;
+For though I am not splenative and rash,
+Yet have I in me something dangerous,
+Which let thy wiseness fear. Away thy hand!
+
+KING.
+Pluck them asunder.
+
+QUEEN.
+Hamlet! Hamlet!
+
+All.
+Gentlemen!
+
+HORATIO.
+Good my lord, be quiet.
+
+[_The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave._]
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, I will fight with him upon this theme
+Until my eyelids will no longer wag.
+
+QUEEN.
+O my son, what theme?
+
+HAMLET.
+I lov’d Ophelia; forty thousand brothers
+Could not, with all their quantity of love,
+Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
+
+KING.
+O, he is mad, Laertes.
+
+QUEEN.
+For love of God forbear him!
+
+HAMLET.
+’Swounds, show me what thou’lt do:
+Woul’t weep? woul’t fight? woul’t fast? woul’t tear thyself?
+Woul’t drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?
+I’ll do’t. Dost thou come here to whine?
+To outface me with leaping in her grave?
+Be buried quick with her, and so will I.
+And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
+Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
+Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
+Make Ossa like a wart. Nay, an thou’lt mouth,
+I’ll rant as well as thou.
+
+QUEEN.
+This is mere madness:
+And thus awhile the fit will work on him;
+Anon, as patient as the female dove,
+When that her golden couplets are disclos’d,
+His silence will sit drooping.
+
+HAMLET.
+Hear you, sir;
+What is the reason that you use me thus?
+I lov’d you ever. But it is no matter.
+Let Hercules himself do what he may,
+The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING.
+I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him.
+
+[_Exit Horatio._]
+
+[_To Laertes_]
+Strengthen your patience in our last night’s speech;
+We’ll put the matter to the present push.—
+Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.
+This grave shall have a living monument.
+An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
+Till then in patience our proceeding be.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+ SCENE II. A hall in the Castle.
+
+Enter Hamlet and Horatio.
+
+HAMLET.
+So much for this, sir. Now let me see the other;
+You do remember all the circumstance?
+
+HORATIO.
+Remember it, my lord!
+
+HAMLET.
+Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
+That would not let me sleep. Methought I lay
+Worse than the mutinies in the bilboes. Rashly,
+And prais’d be rashness for it,—let us know,
+Our indiscretion sometime serves us well,
+When our deep plots do pall; and that should teach us
+There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
+Rough-hew them how we will.
+
+HORATIO.
+That is most certain.
+
+HAMLET.
+Up from my cabin,
+My sea-gown scarf’d about me, in the dark
+Grop’d I to find out them; had my desire,
+Finger’d their packet, and in fine, withdrew
+To mine own room again, making so bold,
+My fears forgetting manners, to unseal
+Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,
+Oh royal knavery! an exact command,
+Larded with many several sorts of reasons,
+Importing Denmark’s health, and England’s too,
+With ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,
+That on the supervise, no leisure bated,
+No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,
+My head should be struck off.
+
+HORATIO.
+Is’t possible?
+
+HAMLET.
+Here’s the commission, read it at more leisure.
+But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?
+
+HORATIO.
+I beseech you.
+
+HAMLET.
+Being thus benetted round with villanies,—
+Or I could make a prologue to my brains,
+They had begun the play,—I sat me down,
+Devis’d a new commission, wrote it fair:
+I once did hold it, as our statists do,
+A baseness to write fair, and labour’d much
+How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
+It did me yeoman’s service. Wilt thou know
+The effect of what I wrote?
+
+HORATIO.
+Ay, good my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+An earnest conjuration from the King,
+As England was his faithful tributary,
+As love between them like the palm might flourish,
+As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
+And stand a comma ’tween their amities,
+And many such-like ‘as’es of great charge,
+That on the view and know of these contents,
+Without debatement further, more or less,
+He should the bearers put to sudden death,
+Not shriving-time allow’d.
+
+HORATIO.
+How was this seal’d?
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
+I had my father’s signet in my purse,
+Which was the model of that Danish seal:
+Folded the writ up in the form of the other,
+Subscrib’d it: gave’t th’impression; plac’d it safely,
+The changeling never known. Now, the next day
+Was our sea-fight, and what to this was sequent
+Thou know’st already.
+
+HORATIO.
+So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to’t.
+
+HAMLET.
+Why, man, they did make love to this employment.
+They are not near my conscience; their defeat
+Does by their own insinuation grow.
+’Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
+Between the pass and fell incensed points
+Of mighty opposites.
+
+HORATIO.
+Why, what a king is this!
+
+HAMLET.
+Does it not, thinks’t thee, stand me now upon,—
+He that hath kill’d my king, and whor’d my mother,
+Popp’d in between th’election and my hopes,
+Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
+And with such cozenage—is’t not perfect conscience
+To quit him with this arm? And is’t not to be damn’d
+To let this canker of our nature come
+In further evil?
+
+HORATIO.
+It must be shortly known to him from England
+What is the issue of the business there.
+
+HAMLET.
+It will be short. The interim is mine;
+And a man’s life’s no more than to say ‘One’.
+But I am very sorry, good Horatio,
+That to Laertes I forgot myself;
+For by the image of my cause I see
+The portraiture of his. I’ll court his favours.
+But sure the bravery of his grief did put me
+Into a tow’ring passion.
+
+HORATIO.
+Peace, who comes here?
+
+Enter Osric.
+
+OSRIC.
+Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
+
+HAMLET.
+I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this waterfly?
+
+HORATIO.
+No, my good lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+Thy state is the more gracious; for ’tis a vice to know him. He hath
+much land, and fertile; let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib
+shall stand at the king’s mess; ’tis a chough; but, as I say, spacious
+in the possession of dirt.
+
+OSRIC.
+Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart a thing
+to you from his Majesty.
+
+HAMLET.
+I will receive it with all diligence of spirit. Put your bonnet to his
+right use; ’tis for the head.
+
+OSRIC.
+I thank your lordship, ’tis very hot.
+
+HAMLET.
+No, believe me, ’tis very cold, the wind is northerly.
+
+OSRIC.
+It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.
+
+HAMLET.
+Methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion.
+
+OSRIC.
+Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,—as ’twere—I cannot tell how.
+But, my lord, his Majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a
+great wager on your head. Sir, this is the matter,—
+
+HAMLET.
+I beseech you, remember,—
+
+[_Hamlet moves him to put on his hat._]
+
+OSRIC.
+Nay, in good faith; for mine ease, in good faith. Sir, here is newly
+come to court Laertes; believe me, an absolute gentleman, full of most
+excellent differences, of very soft society and great showing. Indeed,
+to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or calendar of gentry; for
+you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see.
+
+HAMLET.
+Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you, though I know, to
+divide him inventorially would dizzy th’arithmetic of memory, and yet
+but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the verity of
+extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of
+such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable
+is his mirror and who else would trace him his umbrage, nothing more.
+
+OSRIC.
+Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
+
+HAMLET.
+The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer
+breath?
+
+OSRIC.
+Sir?
+
+HORATIO.
+Is’t not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do’t, sir,
+really.
+
+HAMLET.
+What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
+
+OSRIC.
+Of Laertes?
+
+HORATIO.
+His purse is empty already, all’s golden words are spent.
+
+HAMLET.
+Of him, sir.
+
+OSRIC.
+I know you are not ignorant,—
+
+HAMLET.
+I would you did, sir; yet in faith if you did, it would not much
+approve me. Well, sir?
+
+OSRIC.
+You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is,—
+
+HAMLET.
+I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence;
+but to know a man well were to know himself.
+
+OSRIC.
+I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation laid on him, by them
+in his meed he’s unfellowed.
+
+HAMLET.
+What’s his weapon?
+
+OSRIC.
+Rapier and dagger.
+
+HAMLET.
+That’s two of his weapons. But well.
+
+OSRIC.
+The King, sir, hath wager’d with him six Barbary horses, against the
+which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards,
+with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so. Three of the carriages,
+in faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most
+delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit.
+
+HAMLET.
+What call you the carriages?
+
+HORATIO.
+I knew you must be edified by the margin ere you had done.
+
+OSRIC.
+The carriages, sir, are the hangers.
+
+HAMLET.
+The phrase would be more german to the matter if we could carry cannon
+by our sides. I would it might be hangers till then. But on. Six
+Barbary horses against six French swords, their assigns, and three
+liberal conceited carriages: that’s the French bet against the Danish.
+Why is this all imponed, as you call it?
+
+OSRIC.
+The King, sir, hath laid that in a dozen passes between you and him, he
+shall not exceed you three hits. He hath laid on twelve for nine. And
+it would come to immediate trial if your lordship would vouchsafe the
+answer.
+
+HAMLET.
+How if I answer no?
+
+OSRIC.
+I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.
+
+HAMLET.
+Sir, I will walk here in the hall. If it please his Majesty, it is the
+breathing time of day with me. Let the foils be brought, the gentleman
+willing, and the King hold his purpose, I will win for him if I can; if
+not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
+
+OSRIC.
+Shall I re-deliver you e’en so?
+
+HAMLET.
+To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will.
+
+OSRIC.
+I commend my duty to your lordship.
+
+HAMLET.
+Yours, yours.
+
+[_Exit Osric._]
+
+He does well to commend it himself, there are no tongues else for’s
+turn.
+
+HORATIO.
+This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
+
+HAMLET.
+He did comply with his dug before he suck’d it. Thus has he,—and many
+more of the same bevy that I know the drossy age dotes on,— only got
+the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of yeasty
+collection, which carries them through and through the most fanned and
+winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are
+out.
+
+Enter a Lord.
+
+LORD.
+My lord, his Majesty commended him to you by young Osric, who brings
+back to him that you attend him in the hall. He sends to know if your
+pleasure hold to play with Laertes or that you will take longer time.
+
+HAMLET.
+I am constant to my purposes, they follow the King’s pleasure. If his
+fitness speaks, mine is ready. Now or whensoever, provided I be so able
+as now.
+
+LORD.
+The King and Queen and all are coming down.
+
+HAMLET.
+In happy time.
+
+LORD.
+The Queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to Laertes
+before you fall to play.
+
+HAMLET.
+She well instructs me.
+
+[_Exit Lord._]
+
+HORATIO.
+You will lose this wager, my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+I do not think so. Since he went into France, I have been in continual
+practice. I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill
+all’s here about my heart: but it is no matter.
+
+HORATIO.
+Nay, good my lord.
+
+HAMLET.
+It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving as would
+perhaps trouble a woman.
+
+HORATIO.
+If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall their repair
+hither, and say you are not fit.
+
+HAMLET.
+Not a whit, we defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of
+a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it
+will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
+Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes?
+
+Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Lords, Osric and Attendants with foils &c.
+
+KING.
+Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.
+
+[_The King puts Laertes’s hand into Hamlet’s._]
+
+HAMLET.
+Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong;
+But pardon’t as you are a gentleman.
+This presence knows, and you must needs have heard,
+How I am punish’d with sore distraction.
+What I have done
+That might your nature, honour, and exception
+Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
+Was’t Hamlet wrong’d Laertes? Never Hamlet.
+If Hamlet from himself be ta’en away,
+And when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes,
+Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
+Who does it, then? His madness. If’t be so,
+Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong’d;
+His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy.
+Sir, in this audience,
+Let my disclaiming from a purpos’d evil
+Free me so far in your most generous thoughts
+That I have shot my arrow o’er the house
+And hurt my brother.
+
+LAERTES.
+I am satisfied in nature,
+Whose motive in this case should stir me most
+To my revenge. But in my terms of honour
+I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement
+Till by some elder masters of known honour
+I have a voice and precedent of peace
+To keep my name ungor’d. But till that time
+I do receive your offer’d love like love,
+And will not wrong it.
+
+HAMLET.
+I embrace it freely,
+And will this brother’s wager frankly play.—
+Give us the foils; come on.
+
+LAERTES.
+Come, one for me.
+
+HAMLET.
+I’ll be your foil, Laertes; in mine ignorance
+Your skill shall like a star i’ th’ darkest night,
+Stick fiery off indeed.
+
+LAERTES.
+You mock me, sir.
+
+HAMLET.
+No, by this hand.
+
+KING.
+Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,
+You know the wager?
+
+HAMLET.
+Very well, my lord.
+Your Grace has laid the odds o’ the weaker side.
+
+KING.
+I do not fear it. I have seen you both;
+But since he is better’d, we have therefore odds.
+
+LAERTES.
+This is too heavy. Let me see another.
+
+HAMLET.
+This likes me well. These foils have all a length?
+
+[_They prepare to play._]
+
+OSRIC.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+KING.
+Set me the stoups of wine upon that table.
+If Hamlet give the first or second hit,
+Or quit in answer of the third exchange,
+Let all the battlements their ordnance fire;
+The King shall drink to Hamlet’s better breath,
+And in the cup an union shall he throw
+Richer than that which four successive kings
+In Denmark’s crown have worn. Give me the cups;
+And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
+The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
+The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,
+‘Now the King drinks to Hamlet.’ Come, begin.
+And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.
+
+HAMLET.
+Come on, sir.
+
+LAERTES.
+Come, my lord.
+
+[_They play._]
+
+HAMLET.
+One.
+
+LAERTES.
+No.
+
+HAMLET.
+Judgement.
+
+OSRIC.
+A hit, a very palpable hit.
+
+LAERTES.
+Well; again.
+
+KING.
+Stay, give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;
+Here’s to thy health.
+
+[_Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within._]
+
+Give him the cup.
+
+HAMLET.
+I’ll play this bout first; set it by awhile.
+
+[_They play._]
+
+Come. Another hit; what say you?
+
+LAERTES.
+A touch, a touch, I do confess.
+
+KING.
+Our son shall win.
+
+QUEEN.
+He’s fat, and scant of breath.
+Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows.
+The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.
+
+HAMLET.
+Good madam.
+
+KING.
+Gertrude, do not drink.
+
+QUEEN.
+I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me.
+
+KING.
+[_Aside._] It is the poison’d cup; it is too late.
+
+HAMLET.
+I dare not drink yet, madam. By and by.
+
+QUEEN.
+Come, let me wipe thy face.
+
+LAERTES.
+My lord, I’ll hit him now.
+
+KING.
+I do not think’t.
+
+LAERTES.
+[_Aside._] And yet ’tis almost ’gainst my conscience.
+
+HAMLET.
+Come for the third, Laertes. You do but dally.
+I pray you pass with your best violence.
+I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
+
+LAERTES.
+Say you so? Come on.
+
+[_They play._]
+
+OSRIC.
+Nothing neither way.
+
+LAERTES.
+Have at you now.
+
+[_Laertes wounds Hamlet; then, in scuffling, they change rapiers, and
+Hamlet wounds Laertes._]
+
+KING.
+Part them; they are incens’d.
+
+HAMLET.
+Nay, come again!
+
+[_The Queen falls._]
+
+OSRIC.
+Look to the Queen there, ho!
+
+HORATIO.
+They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?
+
+OSRIC.
+How is’t, Laertes?
+
+LAERTES.
+Why, as a woodcock to my own springe, Osric.
+I am justly kill’d with mine own treachery.
+
+HAMLET.
+How does the Queen?
+
+KING.
+She swoons to see them bleed.
+
+QUEEN.
+No, no, the drink, the drink! O my dear Hamlet!
+The drink, the drink! I am poison’d.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+HAMLET.
+O villany! Ho! Let the door be lock’d:
+Treachery! Seek it out.
+
+[_Laertes falls._]
+
+LAERTES.
+It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain.
+No medicine in the world can do thee good.
+In thee there is not half an hour of life;
+The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
+Unbated and envenom’d. The foul practice
+Hath turn’d itself on me. Lo, here I lie,
+Never to rise again. Thy mother’s poison’d.
+I can no more. The King, the King’s to blame.
+
+HAMLET.
+The point envenom’d too!
+Then, venom, to thy work.
+
+[_Stabs the King._]
+
+OSRIC and LORDS.
+Treason! treason!
+
+KING.
+O yet defend me, friends. I am but hurt.
+
+HAMLET.
+Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,
+Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?
+Follow my mother.
+
+[_King dies._]
+
+LAERTES.
+He is justly serv’d.
+It is a poison temper’d by himself.
+Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.
+Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee,
+Nor thine on me.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+HAMLET.
+Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.
+I am dead, Horatio. Wretched Queen, adieu.
+You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
+That are but mutes or audience to this act,
+Had I but time,—as this fell sergeant, death,
+Is strict in his arrest,—O, I could tell you,—
+But let it be. Horatio, I am dead,
+Thou liv’st; report me and my cause aright
+To the unsatisfied.
+
+HORATIO.
+Never believe it.
+I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.
+Here’s yet some liquor left.
+
+HAMLET.
+As th’art a man,
+Give me the cup. Let go; by Heaven, I’ll have’t.
+O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
+Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me.
+If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
+Absent thee from felicity awhile,
+And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
+To tell my story.
+
+[_March afar off, and shot within._]
+
+What warlike noise is this?
+
+OSRIC.
+Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,
+To the ambassadors of England gives
+This warlike volley.
+
+HAMLET.
+O, I die, Horatio.
+The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit:
+I cannot live to hear the news from England,
+But I do prophesy th’election lights
+On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.
+So tell him, with the occurrents more and less,
+Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+HORATIO.
+Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
+And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
+Why does the drum come hither?
+
+[_March within._]
+
+Enter Fortinbras, the English Ambassadors and others.
+
+FORTINBRAS.
+Where is this sight?
+
+HORATIO.
+What is it you would see?
+If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.
+
+FORTINBRAS.
+This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,
+What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
+That thou so many princes at a shot
+So bloodily hast struck?
+
+FIRST AMBASSADOR.
+The sight is dismal;
+And our affairs from England come too late.
+The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
+To tell him his commandment is fulfill’d,
+That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
+Where should we have our thanks?
+
+HORATIO.
+Not from his mouth,
+Had it th’ability of life to thank you.
+He never gave commandment for their death.
+But since, so jump upon this bloody question,
+You from the Polack wars, and you from England
+Are here arriv’d, give order that these bodies
+High on a stage be placed to the view,
+And let me speak to th’ yet unknowing world
+How these things came about. So shall you hear
+Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts,
+Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters,
+Of deaths put on by cunning and forc’d cause,
+And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
+Fall’n on the inventors’ heads. All this can I
+Truly deliver.
+
+FORTINBRAS.
+Let us haste to hear it,
+And call the noblest to the audience.
+For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune.
+I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
+Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
+
+HORATIO.
+Of that I shall have also cause to speak,
+And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more.
+But let this same be presently perform’d,
+Even while men’s minds are wild, lest more mischance
+On plots and errors happen.
+
+FORTINBRAS.
+Let four captains
+Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
+For he was likely, had he been put on,
+To have prov’d most royally; and for his passage,
+The soldiers’ music and the rites of war
+Speak loudly for him.
+Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this
+Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
+Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
+
+[_A dead march._]
+
+[_Exeunt, bearing off the bodies, after which a peal of ordnance is
+shot off._]
+
+
+
+
+THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. London. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene II. The same. An Apartment of Prince Henry’s.
+Scene III. The Same. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. Rochester. An Inn-Yard.
+Scene II. The Road by Gads-hill.
+Scene III. Warkworth. A Room in the Castle.
+Scene IV. Eastcheap. A Room in the Boar’s Head Tavern.
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. Bangor. A Room in the Archdeacon’s House.
+Scene II. London. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene III. Eastcheap. A Room in the Boar’s Head Tavern.
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury.
+Scene II. A public Road near Coventry.
+Scene III. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury.
+Scene IV. York. A Room in the Archbishop’s Palace.
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. The King’s Camp near Shrewsbury.
+Scene II. The Rebel Camp.
+Scene III. Plain between the Camps.
+Scene IV. Another Part of the Field.
+Scene V. Another Part of the Field.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING HENRY the Fourth.
+HENRY, PRINCE of Wales, son to the King.
+Prince John of LANCASTER, son to the King.
+Earl of WESTMORELAND.
+Sir Walter BLUNT.
+Thomas Percy, Earl of WORCESTER.
+Henry Percy, Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Henry Percy, surnamed HOTSPUR, his son.
+Edmund MORTIMER, Earl of March.
+Scroop, ARCHBISHOP of York.
+SIR MICHAEL, a friend to the archbishop of York.
+Archibald, Earl of DOUGLAS.
+Owen GLENDOWER.
+Sir Richard VERNON.
+Sir John FALSTAFF.
+POINS.
+GADSHILL.
+PETO.
+BARDOLPH.
+LADY PERCY, Wife to Hotspur.
+Lady Mortimer, Daughter to Glendower.
+Mrs. Quickly, Hostess in Eastcheap.
+Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, Carriers,
+Ostler, Messengers, Servant, Travellers and Attendants.
+
+SCENE. England and Wales.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+
+SCENE I. London. A Room in the Palace.
+
+Enter the King, Lord John of Lancaster, Earl of Westmoreland with
+others.
+
+KING.
+So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
+Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
+And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
+To be commenced in strands afar remote.
+No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
+Shall daub her lips with her own children’s blood,
+No more shall trenching war channel her fields,
+Nor bruise her flow’rets with the armed hoofs
+Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,
+Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
+All of one nature, of one substance bred,
+Did lately meet in the intestine shock
+And furious close of civil butchery,
+Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,
+March all one way, and be no more opposed
+Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies.
+The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
+No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,
+As far as to the sepulchre of Christ—
+Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
+We are impressed and engaged to fight—
+Forthwith a power of English shall we levy,
+Whose arms were molded in their mothers’ womb
+To chase these pagans in those holy fields
+Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
+Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed
+For our advantage on the bitter cross.
+But this our purpose now is twelve month old,
+And bootless ’tis to tell you we will go;
+Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear
+Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,
+What yesternight our Council did decree
+In forwarding this dear expedience.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+My liege, this haste was hot in question,
+And many limits of the charge set down
+But yesternight, when all athwart there came
+A post from Wales loaden with heavy news,
+Whose worst was that the noble Mortimer,
+Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
+Against the irregular and wild Glendower,
+Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
+A thousand of his people butchered,
+Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,
+Such beastly shameless transformation,
+By those Welshwomen done, as may not be
+Without much shame retold or spoken of.
+
+KING.
+It seems then that the tidings of this broil
+Brake off our business for the Holy Land.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+This, matched with other did, my gracious lord,
+For more uneven and unwelcome news
+Came from the North, and thus it did import:
+On Holy-rood day the gallant Hotspur there,
+Young Harry Percy, and brave Archibald,
+That ever-valiant and approved Scot,
+At Holmedon met, where they did spend
+A sad and bloody hour;
+As by discharge of their artillery,
+And shape of likelihood, the news was told;
+For he that brought them, in the very heat
+And pride of their contention did take horse,
+Uncertain of the issue any way.
+
+KING.
+Here is a dear and true-industrious friend,
+Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse,
+Stained with the variation of each soil
+Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;
+And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
+The Earl of Douglas is discomfited;
+Ten thousand bold Scots, two-and-twenty knights,
+Balked in their own blood, did Sir Walter see
+On Holmedon’s plains; of prisoners Hotspur took
+Mordake, Earl of Fife and eldest son
+To beaten Douglas, and the Earl of Athol,
+Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith.
+And is not this an honourable spoil,
+A gallant prize? Ha, cousin, is it not?
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+In faith, it is a conquest for a prince to boast of.
+
+KING.
+Yea, there thou mak’st me sad, and mak’st me sin
+In envy that my Lord Northumberland
+Should be the father to so blest a son,
+A son who is the theme of honour’s tongue,
+Amongst a grove the very straightest plant,
+Who is sweet Fortune’s minion and her pride;
+Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him,
+See riot and dishonour stain the brow
+Of my young Harry. O, that it could be proved
+That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged
+In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,
+And called mine Percy, his Plantagenet!
+Then would I have his Harry, and he mine:
+But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,
+Of this young Percy’s pride? The prisoners,
+Which he in this adventure hath surprised
+To his own use he keeps, and sends me word
+I shall have none but Mordake, Earl of Fife.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+This is his uncle’s teaching, this is Worcester,
+Malevolent to you in all aspects,
+Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up
+The crest of youth against your dignity.
+
+KING.
+But I have sent for him to answer this;
+And for this cause awhile we must neglect
+Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.
+Cousin, on Wednesday next our Council we
+Will hold at Windsor, so inform the lords:
+But come yourself with speed to us again,
+For more is to be said and to be done
+Than out of anger can be uttered.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+I will, my liege.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. An Apartment of Prince Henry’s.
+
+Enter Prince Henry and Sir John Falstaff.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
+
+PRINCE.
+Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee
+after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast
+forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a
+devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups
+of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials
+the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot
+wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be
+so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Indeed, you come near me now, Hal, for we that take purses go by the
+moon and the seven stars, and not by Phœbus, he, that wand’ring knight
+so fair. And I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as God save thy
+Grace—Majesty I should say, for grace thou wilt have none—
+
+PRINCE.
+What, none?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to be prologue to an egg and
+butter.
+
+PRINCE.
+Well, how then? Come, roundly, roundly.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Marry then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires
+of the night’s body be called thieves of the day’s beauty: let us be
+Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon; and let
+men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by
+our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we
+steal.
+
+PRINCE.
+Thou sayest well, and it holds well too, for the fortune of us that are
+the moon’s men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the
+sea is, by the moon. As for proof now: a purse of gold most resolutely
+snatched on Monday night, and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday
+morning, got with swearing “Lay by” and spent with crying “Bring in”;
+now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder, and by and by in as
+high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+By the Lord, thou say’st true, lad. And is not my hostess of the tavern
+a most sweet wench?
+
+PRINCE.
+As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And is not a buff
+jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+How now, how now, mad wag? What, in thy quips and thy quiddities? What
+a plague have I to do with a buff jerkin?
+
+PRINCE.
+Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many a time and oft.
+
+PRINCE.
+Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No, I’ll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.
+
+PRINCE.
+Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would stretch, and where it would
+not, I have used my credit.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent that thou art heir
+apparent—But I prithee sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in
+England when thou art king? And resolution thus fubbed as it is with
+the rusty curb of old father Antic the law? Do not thou, when thou art
+king, hang a thief.
+
+PRINCE.
+No, thou shalt.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I’ll be a brave judge.
+
+PRINCE.
+Thou judgest false already, I mean thou shalt have the hanging of the
+thieves, and so become a rare hangman.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my humour, as well as
+waiting in the court, I can tell you.
+
+PRINCE.
+For obtaining of suits?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman hath no lean wardrobe.
+’Sblood, I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear.
+
+PRINCE.
+Or an old lion, or a lover’s lute.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.
+
+PRINCE.
+What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of Moor-ditch?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Thou hast the most unsavoury similes, and art indeed the most
+comparative, rascalliest, sweet young prince. But, Hal, I prithee
+trouble me no more with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a
+commodity of good names were to be bought. An old lord of the Council
+rated me the other day in the street about you, sir, but I marked him
+not, and yet he talked very wisely, but I regarded him not, and yet he
+talked wisely, and in the street too.
+
+PRINCE.
+Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards
+it.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a
+saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me, Hal, God forgive thee for it.
+Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should
+speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. I must give over
+this life, and I will give it over. By the Lord, an I do not, I am a
+villain. I’ll be damned for never a king’s son in Christendom.
+
+PRINCE.
+Where shall we take a purse tomorrow, Jack?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Zounds, where thou wilt, lad, I’ll make one. An I do not, call me
+villain and baffle me.
+
+PRINCE.
+I see a good amendment of life in thee, from praying to purse-taking.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Why, Hal, ’tis my vocation, Hal, ’tis no sin for a man to labour in his
+vocation.
+
+Enter Poins.
+
+Poins!—Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a match. O, if men were
+to be saved by merit, what hole in hell were hot enough for him? This
+is the most omnipotent villain that ever cried “Stand!” to a true man.
+
+PRINCE.
+Good morrow, Ned.
+
+POINS.
+Good morrow, sweet Hal.—What says Monsieur Remorse? What says Sir John
+Sack-and-sugar? Jack, how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul,
+that thou soldest him on Good Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a
+cold capon’s leg?
+
+PRINCE.
+Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have his bargain, for he
+was never yet a breaker of proverbs. He will give the devil his due.
+
+POINS.
+Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil.
+
+PRINCE.
+Else he had been damned for cozening the devil.
+
+POINS.
+But, my lads, my lads, tomorrow morning, by four o’clock early at Gad’s
+Hill, there are pilgrims going to Canterbury with rich offerings, and
+traders riding to London with fat purses. I have visards for you all;
+you have horses for yourselves. Gadshill lies tonight in Rochester. I
+have bespoke supper tomorrow night in Eastcheap. We may do it as secure
+as sleep. If you will go, I will stuff your purses full of crowns. If
+you will not, tarry at home and be hanged.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hear ye, Yedward, if I tarry at home and go not, I’ll hang you for
+going.
+
+POINS.
+You will, chops?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hal, wilt thou make one?
+
+PRINCE.
+Who, I rob? I a thief? Not I, by my faith.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+There’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee, nor thou
+cam’st not of the blood royal, if thou darest not stand for ten
+shillings.
+
+PRINCE.
+Well then, once in my days I’ll be a madcap.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Why, that’s well said.
+
+PRINCE.
+Well, come what will, I’ll tarry at home.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+By the Lord, I’ll be a traitor then, when thou art king.
+
+PRINCE.
+I care not.
+
+POINS.
+Sir John, I prithee, leave the Prince and me alone. I will lay him down
+such reasons for this adventure, that he shall go.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion, and him the ears of
+profiting, that what thou speakest may move, and what he hears may be
+believed, that the true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false
+thief, for the poor abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell, you
+shall find me in Eastcheap.
+
+PRINCE.
+Farewell, thou latter spring! Farewell, All-hallown summer!
+
+[_Exit Falstaff._]
+
+POINS.
+Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us tomorrow. I have a jest to
+execute that I cannot manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and
+Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. Yourself and
+I will not be there. And when they have the booty, if you and I do not
+rob them, cut this head off from my shoulders.
+
+PRINCE.
+But how shall we part with them in setting forth?
+
+POINS.
+Why, we will set forth before or after them, and appoint them a place
+of meeting, wherein it is at our pleasure to fail; and then will they
+adventure upon the exploit themselves, which they shall have no sooner
+achieved but we’ll set upon them.
+
+PRINCE.
+Yea, but ’tis like that they will know us by our horses, by our habits,
+and by every other appointment, to be ourselves.
+
+POINS.
+Tut, our horses they shall not see, I’ll tie them in the wood; our
+visards we will change after we leave them; and, sirrah, I have cases
+of buckram for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.
+
+PRINCE.
+Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for us.
+
+POINS.
+Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true-bred cowards as ever
+turned back; and for the third, if he fight longer than he sees reason,
+I’ll forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be the
+incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we
+meet at supper: how thirty at least he fought with, what wards, what
+blows, what extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this lives
+the jest.
+
+PRINCE.
+Well, I’ll go with thee. Provide us all things necessary and meet me
+tomorrow night in Eastcheap; there I’ll sup. Farewell.
+
+POINS.
+Farewell, my lord.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PRINCE.
+I know you all, and will awhile uphold
+The unyok’d humour of your idleness.
+Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
+Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
+To smother up his beauty from the world,
+That, when he please again to be himself,
+Being wanted, he may be more wonder’d at,
+By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
+Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
+If all the year were playing holidays,
+To sport would be as tedious as to work;
+But, when they seldom come, they wish’d-for come,
+And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
+So when this loose behaviour I throw off,
+And pay the debt I never promised,
+By how much better than my word I am,
+By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
+And, like bright metal on a sullen ground,
+My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
+Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
+Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
+I’ll so offend, to make offence a skill,
+Redeeming time, when men think least I will.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. The Same. A Room in the Palace.
+
+Enter King Henry, Northumberland, Worcester, Hotspur, Sir Walter Blunt
+and others.
+
+KING.
+My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
+Unapt to stir at these indignities,
+And you have found me, for accordingly
+You tread upon my patience: but be sure
+I will from henceforth rather be myself,
+Mighty and to be fear’d, than my condition,
+Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,
+And therefore lost that title of respect
+Which the proud soul ne’er pays but to the proud.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves
+The scourge of greatness to be used on it,
+And that same greatness too which our own hands
+Have holp to make so portly.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+My lord,—
+
+KING.
+Worcester, get thee gone, for I do see
+Danger and disobedience in thine eye:
+O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,
+And majesty might never yet endure
+The moody frontier of a servant brow.
+You have good leave to leave us. When we need
+Your use and counsel, we shall send for you.
+
+[_Exit Worcester._]
+
+[_To Northumberland._]
+
+You were about to speak.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Yea, my good lord.
+Those prisoners in your Highness’ name demanded,
+Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,
+Were, as he says, not with such strength denied
+As is deliver’d to your Majesty.
+Either envy, therefore, or misprision
+Is guilty of this fault, and not my son.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+My liege, I did deny no prisoners.
+But I remember, when the fight was done,
+When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
+Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
+Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dress’d,
+Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reap’d
+Show’d like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
+He was perfumed like a milliner,
+And ’twixt his finger and his thumb he held
+A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
+He gave his nose, and took’t away again,
+Who therewith angry, when it next came there,
+Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk’d.
+And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
+He call’d them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
+To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
+Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
+With many holiday and lady terms
+He question’d me, amongst the rest demanded
+My prisoners in your Majesty’s behalf.
+I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,
+Out of my grief and my impatience
+To be so pester’d with a popinjay,
+Answer’d neglectingly, I know not what,
+He should, or he should not; for he made me mad
+To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet,
+And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
+Of guns and drums and wounds, God save the mark!
+And telling me the sovereignest thing on Earth
+Was parmacety for an inward bruise,
+And that it was great pity, so it was,
+This villainous saltpetre should be digg’d
+Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
+Which many a good tall fellow had destroy’d
+So cowardly, and but for these vile guns,
+He would himself have been a soldier.
+This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
+I answered indirectly, as I said,
+And I beseech you, let not his report
+Come current for an accusation
+Betwixt my love and your high Majesty.
+
+BLUNT.
+The circumstance consider’d, good my lord,
+Whatever Harry Percy then had said
+To such a person, and in such a place,
+At such a time, with all the rest retold,
+May reasonably die, and never rise
+To do him wrong, or any way impeach
+What then he said, so he unsay it now.
+
+KING.
+Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,
+But with proviso and exception,
+That we at our own charge shall ransom straight
+His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer,
+Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray’d
+The lives of those that he did lead to fight
+Against that great magician, damn’d Glendower,
+Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March
+Hath lately married. Shall our coffers then
+Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?
+Shall we buy treason and indent with fears
+When they have lost and forfeited themselves?
+No, on the barren mountains let him starve;
+For I shall never hold that man my friend
+Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
+To ransom home revolted Mortimer.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Revolted Mortimer!
+He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,
+But by the chance of war. To prove that true
+Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,
+Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took,
+When on the gentle Severn’s sedgy bank,
+In single opposition hand to hand,
+He did confound the best part of an hour
+In changing hardiment with great Glendower.
+Three times they breathed, and three times did they drink,
+Upon agreement, of swift Severn’s flood,
+Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks,
+Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,
+And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank
+Blood-stained with these valiant combatants.
+Never did bare and rotten policy
+Colour her working with such deadly wounds,
+Nor never could the noble Mortimer
+Receive so many, and all willingly.
+Then let not him be slander’d with revolt.
+
+KING.
+Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him,
+He never did encounter with Glendower.
+I tell thee, he durst as well have met the devil alone
+As Owen Glendower for an enemy.
+Art not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth
+Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer.
+Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,
+Or you shall hear in such a kind from me
+As will displease you.—My Lord Northumberland,
+We license your departure with your son.—
+Send us your prisoners, or you’ll hear of it.
+
+[_Exit King Henry, Blunt and train._]
+
+HOTSPUR.
+An if the devil come and roar for them,
+I will not send them. I will after straight
+And tell him so, for I will ease my heart,
+Albeit I make a hazard of my head.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+What, drunk with choler? Stay, and pause awhile.
+Here comes your uncle.
+
+Enter Worcester.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Speak of Mortimer?
+Zounds, I will speak of him, and let my soul
+Want mercy if I do not join with him.
+Yea, on his part I’ll empty all these veins,
+And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,
+But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer
+As high in the air as this unthankful King,
+As this ingrate and canker’d Bolingbroke.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+[_To Worcester._]
+Brother, the King hath made your nephew mad.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Who struck this heat up after I was gone?
+
+HOTSPUR.
+He will forsooth have all my prisoners,
+And when I urged the ransom once again
+Of my wife’s brother, then his cheek look’d pale,
+And on my face he turn’d an eye of death,
+Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.
+
+WORCESTER.
+I cannot blame him. Was not he proclaim’d
+By Richard that dead is, the next of blood?
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+He was; I heard the proclamation.
+And then it was when the unhappy King—
+Whose wrongs in us God pardon!—did set forth
+Upon his Irish expedition;
+From whence he, intercepted, did return
+To be deposed, and shortly murdered.
+
+WORCESTER.
+And for whose death we in the world’s wide mouth
+Live scandalized and foully spoken of.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+But soft, I pray you, did King Richard then
+Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer
+Heir to the crown?
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+He did; myself did hear it.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin King,
+That wish’d him on the barren mountains starve.
+But shall it be that you that set the crown
+Upon the head of this forgetful man,
+And for his sake wear the detested blot
+Of murderous subornation—shall it be,
+That you a world of curses undergo,
+Being the agents, or base second means,
+The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?
+O, pardon me, that I descend so low,
+To show the line and the predicament
+Wherein you range under this subtle King.
+Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,
+Or fill up chronicles in time to come,
+That men of your nobility and power
+Did gage them both in an unjust behalf
+(As both of you, God pardon it, have done)
+To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
+And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
+And shall it in more shame be further spoken,
+That you are fool’d, discarded, and shook off
+By him for whom these shames ye underwent?
+No, yet time serves wherein you may redeem
+Your banish’d honours, and restore yourselves
+Into the good thoughts of the world again:
+Revenge the jeering and disdain’d contempt
+Of this proud King, who studies day and night
+To answer all the debt he owes to you
+Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
+Therefore, I say—
+
+WORCESTER.
+Peace, cousin, say no more.
+And now I will unclasp a secret book,
+And to your quick-conceiving discontents
+I’ll read you matter deep and dangerous,
+As full of peril and adventurous spirit
+As to o’er-walk a current roaring loud
+On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+If we fall in, good night, or sink or swim!
+Send danger from the east unto the west,
+So honour cross it from the north to south,
+And let them grapple. O, the blood more stirs
+To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Imagination of some great exploit
+Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
+To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
+Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
+Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
+And pluck up drowned honour by the locks,
+So he that doth redeem her thence might wear
+Without corrival all her dignities.
+But out upon this half-faced fellowship!
+
+WORCESTER.
+He apprehends a world of figures here,
+But not the form of what he should attend.—
+Good cousin, give me audience for a while.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I cry you mercy.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Those same noble Scots
+That are your prisoners—
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I’ll keep them all;
+By God, he shall not have a Scot of them,
+No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not.
+I’ll keep them, by this hand!
+
+WORCESTER.
+You start away,
+And lend no ear unto my purposes:
+Those prisoners you shall keep—
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Nay, I will: that’s flat.
+He said he would not ransom Mortimer,
+Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer,
+But I will find him when he lies asleep,
+And in his ear I’ll holla “Mortimer!”
+Nay, I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak
+Nothing but “Mortimer”, and give it him,
+To keep his anger still in motion.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Hear you, cousin, a word.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+All studies here I solemnly defy,
+Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke:
+And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales,
+But that I think his father loves him not,
+And would be glad he met with some mischance—
+I would have him poison’d with a pot of ale.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Farewell, kinsman. I will talk to you
+When you are better temper’d to attend.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
+Art thou to break into this woman’s mood,
+Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Why, look you, I am whipp’d and scourged with rods,
+Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear
+Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
+In Richard’s time—what do you call the place?
+A plague upon’t! It is in Gloucestershire.
+’Twas where the madcap Duke his uncle kept,
+His uncle York, where I first bow’d my knee
+Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke,
+’Sblood, when you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+At Berkeley castle.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+You say true.
+Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
+This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!
+“Look, when his infant fortune came to age,”
+And, “Gentle Harry Percy,” and “kind cousin.”
+O, the devil take such cozeners!—God forgive me!
+Good uncle, tell your tale. I have done.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Nay, if you have not, to it again,
+We will stay your leisure.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I have done, i’faith.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Then once more to your Scottish prisoners;
+Deliver them up without their ransom straight,
+And make the Douglas’ son your only mean
+For powers in Scotland, which, for divers reasons
+Which I shall send you written, be assured
+Will easily be granted.—[_To Northumberland._] You, my lord,
+Your son in Scotland being thus employ’d,
+Shall secretly into the bosom creep
+Of that same noble prelate well beloved,
+The Archbishop.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Of York, is it not?
+
+WORCESTER.
+True, who bears hard
+His brother’s death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.
+I speak not this in estimation,
+As what I think might be, but what I know
+Is ruminated, plotted, and set down,
+And only stays but to behold the face
+Of that occasion that shall bring it on.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I smell it. Upon my life it will do well.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Before the game is afoot thou still let’st slip.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot;
+And then the power of Scotland and of York
+To join with Mortimer, ha?
+
+WORCESTER.
+And so they shall.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+In faith, it is exceedingly well aim’d.
+
+WORCESTER.
+And ’tis no little reason bids us speed,
+To save our heads by raising of a head;
+For, bear ourselves as even as we can,
+The King will always think him in our debt,
+And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,
+Till he hath found a time to pay us home:
+And see already how he doth begin
+To make us strangers to his looks of love.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+He does, he does, we’ll be revenged on him.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Cousin, farewell. No further go in this
+Than I by letters shall direct your course.
+When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,
+I’ll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer,
+Where you and Douglas, and our powers at once,
+As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,
+To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,
+Which now we hold at much uncertainty.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Farewell, good brother; we shall thrive, I trust.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Uncle, adieu. O, let the hours be short,
+Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+
+SCENE I. Rochester. An Inn-Yard.
+
+Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand.
+
+FIRST CARRIER.
+Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I’ll be hang’d. Charles’ wain
+is over the new chimney, and yet our horse not pack’d.—What, ostler!
+
+OSTLER.
+[_within._] Anon, anon.
+
+FIRST CARRIER.
+I prithee, Tom, beat Cut’s saddle, put a few flocks in the point; poor
+jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess.
+
+Enter another Carrier.
+
+SECOND CARRIER.
+Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to
+give poor jades the bots. This house is turned upside down since Robin
+ostler died.
+
+FIRST CARRIER.
+Poor fellow never joyed since the price of oats rose, it was the death
+of him.
+
+SECOND CARRIER.
+I think this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas.
+I am stung like a tench.
+
+FIRST CARRIER.
+Like a tench! By the Mass, there is ne’er a king christen could be
+better bit than I have been since the first cock.
+
+SECOND CARRIER.
+Why, they will allow us ne’er a jordan, and then we leak in your
+chimney, and your chamber-lye breeds fleas like a loach.
+
+FIRST CARRIER.
+What, ostler! Come away and be hanged, come away.
+
+SECOND CARRIER.
+I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be delivered as
+far as Charing Cross.
+
+FIRST CARRIER.
+God’s body! The turkeys in my pannier are quite starved.—What, ostler!
+A plague on thee! Hast thou never an eye in thy head? Canst not hear?
+An ’twere not as good deed as drink to break the pate on thee, I am a
+very villain. Come, and be hanged. Hast no faith in thee?
+
+Enter Gadshill.
+
+GADSHILL.
+Good morrow, carriers. What’s o’clock?
+
+FIRST CARRIER.
+I think it be two o’clock.
+
+GADSHILL.
+I prithee, lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding in the stable.
+
+FIRST CARRIER.
+Nay, by God, soft! I know a trick worth two of that, i’faith.
+
+GADSHILL.
+I pray thee, lend me thine.
+
+SECOND CARRIER.
+Ay, when? Canst tell? “Lend me thy lantern,” quoth he! Marry, I’ll see
+thee hanged first.
+
+GADSHILL.
+Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?
+
+SECOND CARRIER.
+Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant thee. Come, neighbour
+Mugs, we’ll call up the gentlemen. They will along with company, for
+they have great charge.
+
+[_Exeunt Carriers._]
+
+GADSHILL.
+What, ho! Chamberlain!
+
+Enter Chamberlain.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+At hand, quoth pick-purse.
+
+GADSHILL.
+That’s even as fair as “at hand, quoth the chamberlain,” for thou
+variest no more from picking of purses than giving direction doth from
+labouring; thou layest the plot how.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that I told you
+yesternight: there’s a franklin in the Wild of Kent hath brought three
+hundred marks with him in gold. I heard him tell it to one of his
+company last night at supper; a kind of auditor, one that hath
+abundance of charge too, God knows what. They are up already, and call
+for eggs and butter. They will away presently.
+
+GADSHILL.
+Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas’ clerks, I’ll give thee
+this neck.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+No, I’ll none of it. I pray thee, keep that for the hangman, for I know
+thou worshippest Saint Nicholas as truly as a man of falsehood may.
+
+GADSHILL.
+What talkest thou to me of the hangman? If I hang, I’ll make a fat pair
+of gallows; for, if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou
+knowest he is no starveling. Tut, there are other Troyans that thou
+dream’st not of, the which for sport sake are content to do the
+profession some grace, that would, if matters should be looked into,
+for their own credit sake make all whole. I am joined with no
+foot-land-rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers, none of these mad
+mustachio purple-hued malt-worms, but with nobility and tranquillity,
+burgomasters and great oneyers, such as can hold in, such as will
+strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner than drink, and drink sooner
+than pray: and yet, zounds, I lie, for they pray continually to their
+saint the commonwealth, or rather not pray to her, but prey on her, for
+they ride up and down on her, and make her their boots.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+What, the commonwealth their boots? Will she hold out water in foul
+way?
+
+GADSHILL.
+She will, she will; justice hath liquored her. We steal as in a castle,
+cock-sure; we have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night than to
+fern-seed for your walking invisible.
+
+GADSHILL.
+Give me thy hand. Thou shalt have a share in our purchase, as I am a
+true man.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false thief.
+
+GADSHILL.
+Go to; _homo_ is a common name to all men. Bid the ostler bring my
+gelding out of the stable. Farewell, you muddy knave.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The Road by Gads-hill.
+
+Enter Prince Henry and Poins; Bardolph and Peto at some distance.
+
+POINS.
+Come, shelter, shelter! I have removed Falstaff’s horse, and he frets
+like a gummed velvet.
+
+PRINCE.
+Stand close.
+
+[_They retire._]
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!
+
+PRINCE.
+[_Coming forward._]
+Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! What a brawling dost thou keep!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Where’s Poins, Hal?
+
+PRINCE.
+He is walked up to the top of the hill. I’ll go seek him.
+
+[_Retires._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I am accursed to rob in that thief’s company. The rascal hath removed
+my horse and tied him I know not where. If I travel but four foot by
+the square further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but
+to die a fair death for all this, if I ’scape hanging for killing that
+rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two-and-twenty
+years, and yet I am bewitched with the rogue’s company. If the rascal
+have not given me medicines to make me love him, I’ll be hanged. It
+could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins! Hal! A plague upon
+you both! Bardolph! Peto! I’ll starve ere I’ll rob a foot further. An
+’twere not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man, and to leave
+these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth.
+Eight yards of uneven ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me,
+and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough. A plague upon it
+when thieves cannot be true one to another! [_They whistle._] Whew! A
+plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you rogues, give me my horse and
+be hanged!
+
+PRINCE.
+[_Coming forward._] Peace, you fat guts, lie down, lay thine ear close
+to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travellers.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down? ’Sblood, I’ll not
+bear my own flesh so far afoot again for all the coin in thy father’s
+exchequer. What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
+
+PRINCE.
+Thou liest, thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse, good king’s son.
+
+PRINCE.
+Out, ye rogue! Shall I be your ostler?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters! If I be ta’en, I’ll
+peach for this. An I have not ballads made on you all, and sung to
+filthy tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison—when a jest is so forward,
+and afoot too! I hate it.
+
+Enter Gadshill.
+
+GADSHILL.
+Stand!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+So I do, against my will.
+
+POINS.
+O, ’tis our setter. I know his voice.
+
+Comes forward with Bardolph and Peto.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+What news?
+
+GADSHILL.
+Case ye, case ye, on with your visards. There’s money of the King’s
+coming down the hill, ’tis going to the King’s exchequer.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You lie, ye rogue, ’tis going to the King’s tavern.
+
+GADSHILL.
+There’s enough to make us all.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+To be hanged.
+
+PRINCE.
+Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane. Ned Poins and I
+will walk lower; if they ’scape from your encounter, then they light on
+us.
+
+PETO.
+How many be there of them?
+
+GADSHILL.
+Some eight or ten.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Zounds, will they not rob us?
+
+PRINCE.
+What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather, but yet no coward,
+Hal.
+
+PRINCE.
+Well, we leave that to the proof.
+
+POINS.
+Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge. When thou need’st him,
+there thou shalt find him. Farewell, and stand fast.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.
+
+PRINCE.
+[_aside to Poins._] Ned, where are our disguises?
+
+POINS.
+[_aside to Prince Henry._] Here, hard by. Stand close.
+
+[_Exeunt Prince and Poins._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I. Every man to his
+business.
+
+Enter the Travellers.
+
+FIRST TRAVELLER.
+Come, neighbour, the boy shall lead our horses down the hill; we’ll
+walk afoot awhile and ease our legs.
+
+THIEVES.
+Stand!
+
+SECOND TRAVELLER.
+Jesu bless us!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Strike, down with them, cut the villains’ throats! Ah, whoreson
+caterpillars, bacon-fed knaves, they hate us youth. Down with them,
+fleece them!
+
+FIRST TRAVELLER.
+O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye fat chuffs, I would
+your store were here! On, bacons, on! What, ye knaves! young men must
+live. You are grandjurors, are ye? We’ll jure ye, faith.
+
+[_Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt_]
+
+Enter Prince Henry and Poins in buckram suits.
+
+PRINCE.
+The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou and I rob the
+thieves, and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week,
+laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.
+
+POINS.
+Stand close, I hear them coming.
+
+[_They retire._]
+
+Enter the Thieves again.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse before day. An the
+Prince and Poins be not two arrant cowards, there’s no equity stirring.
+There’s no more valour in that Poins than in a wild duck.
+
+[_As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon them._]
+
+PRINCE.
+Your money!
+
+POINS.
+Villains!
+
+[_Falstaff after a blow or two, and the others run away, leaving the
+booty behind them._]
+
+PRINCE.
+Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse.
+The thieves are all scatter’d, and possess’d with fear
+So strongly that they dare not meet each other;
+Each takes his fellow for an officer.
+Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,
+And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
+Were’t not for laughing, I should pity him.
+
+POINS.
+How the fat rogue roared!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Warkworth. A Room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Hotspur, reading a letter.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+“But, for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented to be
+there, in respect of the love I bear your house.” He could be
+contented; why is he not, then? In respect of the love he bears our
+house—he shows in this, he loves his own barn better than he loves our
+house. Let me see some more. “The purpose you undertake is
+dangerous”—Why, that’s certain. ’Tis dangerous to take a cold, to
+sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle,
+danger, we pluck this flower, safety. “The purpose you undertake is
+dangerous, the friends you have named uncertain, the time itself
+unsorted, and your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so
+great an opposition.” Say you so, say you so? I say unto you again, you
+are a shallow, cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is this!
+By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid, our friends true
+and constant: a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an
+excellent plot, very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is
+this! Why, my Lord of York commends the plot and the general course of
+the action. Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I could brain him
+with his lady’s fan. Is there not my father, my uncle, and myself? Lord
+Edmund Mortimer, my Lord of York, and Owen Glendower? Is there not
+besides the Douglas? Have I not all their letters to meet me in arms by
+the ninth of the next month, and are they not some of them set forward
+already? What a pagan rascal is this, an infidel! Ha! You shall see
+now, in very sincerity of fear and cold heart, will he to the King, and
+lay open all our proceedings. O, I could divide myself, and go to
+buffets, for moving such a dish of skim milk with so honourable an
+action! Hang him, let him tell the King, we are prepared. I will set
+forward tonight.—
+
+Enter Lady Percy.
+
+How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+O my good lord, why are you thus alone?
+For what offence have I this fortnight been
+A banish’d woman from my Harry’s bed?
+Tell me, sweet lord, what is’t that takes from thee
+Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?
+Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
+And start so often when thou sit’st alone?
+Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks,
+And given my treasures and my rights of thee
+To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?
+In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch’d,
+And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars,
+Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed,
+Cry “Courage! To the field!” And thou hast talk’d
+Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
+Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,
+Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,
+Of prisoners’ ransom, and of soldiers slain,
+And all the currents of a heady fight.
+Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,
+And thus hath so bestirr’d thee in thy sleep,
+That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
+Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream,
+And in thy face strange motions have appear’d,
+Such as we see when men restrain their breath
+On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?
+Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,
+And I must know it, else he loves me not.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+What, ho!
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+Is Gilliams with the packet gone?
+
+SERVANT.
+He is, my lord, an hour ago.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?
+
+SERVANT.
+One horse, my lord, he brought even now.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+What horse? A roan, a crop-ear, is it not?
+
+SERVANT.
+It is, my lord.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+That roan shall be my throne.
+Well, I will back him straight. O Esperance!
+Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+LADY PERCY.
+But hear you, my lord.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+What say’st thou, my lady?
+
+LADY PERCY.
+What is it carries you away?
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Why, my horse, my love, my horse.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Out, you mad-headed ape!
+A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
+As you are toss’d with. In faith,
+I’ll know your business, Harry, that I will.
+I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir
+About his title, and hath sent for you
+To line his enterprise. But if you go—
+
+HOTSPUR.
+So far afoot, I shall be weary, love.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Come, come, you paraquito, answer me
+Directly unto this question that I ask.
+In faith, I’ll break thy little finger, Harry,
+If thou wilt not tell me all things true.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Away,
+Away, you trifler! Love, I love thee not,
+I care not for thee, Kate. This is no world
+To play with mammets and to tilt with lips.
+We must have bloody noses and crack’d crowns,
+And pass them current too.—Gods me, my horse!—
+What say’st thou, Kate? What wouldst thou have with me?
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Do you not love me? Do you not indeed?
+Well, do not, then, for since you love me not,
+I will not love myself. Do you not love me?
+Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Come, wilt thou see me ride?
+And when I am a-horseback I will swear
+I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate,
+I must not have you henceforth question me
+Whither I go, nor reason whereabout.
+Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,
+This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.
+I know you wise, but yet no farther wise
+Than Harry Percy’s wife; constant you are,
+But yet a woman; and for secrecy,
+No lady closer, for I well believe
+Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;
+And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+How? So far?
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate,
+Whither I go, thither shall you go too.
+Today will I set forth, tomorrow you.
+Will this content you, Kate?
+
+LADY PERCY.
+It must, of force.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Eastcheap. A Room in the Boar’s Head Tavern.
+
+Enter Prince Henry.
+
+PRINCE.
+Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and lend me thy hand to laugh
+a little.
+
+Enter Poins.
+
+POINS.
+Where hast been, Hal?
+
+PRINCE.
+With three or four loggerheads amongst three or fourscore hogsheads. I
+have sounded the very base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn
+brother to a leash of drawers, and can call them all by their Christian
+names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis. They take it already upon their
+salvation, that though I be but Prince of Wales, yet I am the king of
+courtesy, and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack, like Falstaff, but a
+Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy,—by the Lord, so they call
+me—and when I am King of England, I shall command all the good lads in
+Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, “dyeing scarlet,” and when you
+breathe in your watering, they cry “Hem!” and bid you “Play it off!” To
+conclude, I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour, that I
+can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life. I tell
+thee, Ned, thou hast lost much honour that thou wert not with me in
+this action; but, sweet Ned—to sweeten which name of Ned, I give thee
+this pennyworth of sugar, clapped even now into my hand by an
+underskinker, one that never spake other English in his life than
+“Eight shillings and sixpence,” and “You are welcome,” with this shrill
+addition, “Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint of bastard in the Half-moon,”
+or so. But, Ned, to drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee,
+do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what
+end he gave me the sugar, and do thou never leave calling “Francis,”
+that his tale to me may be nothing but “Anon.” Step aside, and I’ll
+show thee a precedent.
+
+[_Exit Poins._]
+
+POINS.
+[_Within_] Francis!
+
+PRINCE.
+Thou art perfect.
+
+POINS.
+[_Within_] Francis!
+
+Enter Francis.
+
+FRANCIS.
+Anon, anon, sir.—Look down into the Pomegarnet, Ralph.
+
+PRINCE.
+Come hither, Francis.
+
+FRANCIS.
+My lord?
+
+PRINCE.
+How long hast thou to serve, Francis?
+
+FRANCIS.
+Forsooth, five years, and as much as to—
+
+POINS.
+[_within._] Francis!
+
+FRANCIS.
+Anon, anon, sir.
+
+PRINCE.
+Five year! By’r Lady, a long lease for the clinking of pewter! But,
+Francis, darest thou be so valiant as to play the coward with thy
+indenture, and show it a fair pair of heels, and run from it?
+
+FRANCIS.
+O Lord, sir, I’ll be sworn upon all the books in England, I could find
+in my heart—
+
+POINS.
+[_within._] Francis!
+
+FRANCIS.
+Anon, sir.
+
+PRINCE.
+How old art thou, Francis?
+
+FRANCIS.
+Let me see, about Michaelmas next I shall be—
+
+POINS.
+[_within._] Francis!
+
+FRANCIS.
+Anon, sir.—Pray, stay a little, my lord.
+
+PRINCE.
+Nay, but hark you, Francis, for the sugar thou gavest me, ’twas a
+pennyworth, was’t not?
+
+FRANCIS.
+O Lord, I would it had been two!
+
+PRINCE.
+I will give thee for it a thousand pound. Ask me when thou wilt, and
+thou shalt have it.
+
+POINS.
+[_within._] Francis!
+
+FRANCIS.
+Anon, anon.
+
+PRINCE.
+Anon, Francis? No, Francis, but tomorrow, Francis; or, Francis, a
+Thursday; or indeed, Francis, when thou wilt. But, Francis,—
+
+FRANCIS.
+My lord?
+
+PRINCE.
+Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, not-pated,
+agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch—
+
+FRANCIS.
+O Lord, sir, who do you mean?
+
+PRINCE.
+Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink, for look you,
+Francis, your white canvas doublet will sully. In Barbary, sir, it
+cannot come to so much.
+
+FRANCIS.
+What, sir?
+
+POINS.
+[_within._] Francis!
+
+PRINCE.
+Away, you rogue! Dost thou not hear them call?
+
+[_Here they both call him; the Drawer stands amazed, not knowing which
+way to go._]
+
+Enter Vintner.
+
+VINTNER.
+What, stand’st thou still, and hear’st such a calling? Look to the
+guests within.
+
+[_Exit Francis._]
+
+My lord, old Sir John with half-a-dozen more are at the door. Shall I
+let them in?
+
+PRINCE.
+Let them alone awhile, and then open the door.
+
+[_Exit Vintner._]
+
+Poins!
+
+Enter Poins.
+
+POINS.
+Anon, anon, sir.
+
+PRINCE.
+Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at the door; shall we
+be merry?
+
+POINS.
+As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye, what cunning match have you
+made with this jest of the drawer? Come, what’s the issue?
+
+PRINCE.
+I am now of all humours that have showed themselves humours since the
+old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve
+o’clock at midnight.
+
+Enter Francis.
+
+What’s o’clock, Francis?
+
+FRANCIS.
+Anon, anon, sir.
+
+[_Exit Francis._]
+
+PRINCE.
+That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a parrot, and yet
+the son of a woman! His industry is upstairs and downstairs; his
+eloquence the parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy’s mind, the
+Hotspur of the north, he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots
+at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, “Fie upon this
+quiet life! I want work.” “O my sweet Harry,” says she, “how many hast
+thou killed today?” “Give my roan horse a drench,” says he; and
+answers, “Some fourteen,” an hour after; “a trifle, a trifle.” I
+prithee, call in Falstaff. I’ll play Percy, and that damned brawn shall
+play Dame Mortimer his wife. _Rivo!_ says the drunkard. Call in Ribs,
+call in Tallow.
+
+Enter Falstaff, Gadshill, Bardolph and Peto; followed by Francis with
+wine.
+
+POINS.
+Welcome, Jack. Where hast thou been?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! Marry, and amen!
+Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I lead this life long, I’ll sew
+nether-stocks, and mend them and foot them too. A plague of all
+cowards! Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant?
+
+[_Drinks._]
+
+PRINCE.
+Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter (pitiful-hearted
+Titan!), that melted at the sweet tale of the sun’s? If thou didst,
+then behold that compound.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You rogue, here’s lime in this sack too: there is nothing but roguery
+to be found in villainous man, yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack
+with lime in it. A villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack. Die when
+thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the
+Earth, then am I a shotten herring. There lives not three good men
+unhanged in England, and one of them is fat, and grows old, God help
+the while, a bad world, I say. I would I were a weaver; I could sing
+psalms or anything. A plague of all cowards, I say still.
+
+PRINCE.
+How now, wool-sack, what mutter you?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A king’s son! If I do not beat thee out of thy kingdom with a dagger of
+lath, and drive all thy subjects afore thee like a flock of wild-geese,
+I’ll never wear hair on my face more. You, Prince of Wales!
+
+PRINCE.
+Why, you whoreson round man, what’s the matter?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Are not you a coward? Answer me to that—and Poins there?
+
+POINS.
+Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by the Lord, I’ll stab
+thee.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I call thee coward? I’ll see thee damned ere I call thee coward, but I
+would give a thousand pound I could run as fast as thou canst. You are
+straight enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your back. Call
+you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! Give me
+them that will face me.—Give me a cup of sack. I am a rogue if I drunk
+today.
+
+PRINCE.
+O villain! Thy lips are scarce wiped since thou drunk’st last.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+All is one for that. A plague of all cowards, still say I.
+
+[_Drinks._]
+
+PRINCE.
+What’s the matter?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What’s the matter? There be four of us here have ta’en a thousand pound
+this day morning.
+
+PRINCE.
+Where is it, Jack, where is it?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Where is it? Taken from us it is: a hundred upon poor four of us.
+
+PRINCE.
+What, a hundred, man?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I am a rogue if I were not at half-sword with a dozen of them two hours
+together. I have ’scaped by miracle. I am eight times thrust through
+the doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through and through,
+my sword hacked like a handsaw. _Ecce signum!_ I never dealt better
+since I was a man: all would not do. A plague of all cowards! Let them
+speak. If they speak more or less than truth, they are villains, and
+the sons of darkness.
+
+PRINCE.
+Speak, sirs, how was it?
+
+GADSHILL.
+We four set upon some dozen.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Sixteen at least, my lord.
+
+GADSHILL.
+And bound them.
+
+PETO.
+No, no, they were not bound.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You rogue, they were bound, every man of them, or I am a Jew else, an
+Ebrew Jew.
+
+GADSHILL.
+As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh men set upon us.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+And unbound the rest, and then come in the other.
+
+PRINCE.
+What, fought you with them all?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+All? I know not what you call all, but if I fought not with fifty of
+them I am a bunch of radish. If there were not two or three and fifty
+upon poor old Jack, then am I no two-legged creature.
+
+PRINCE.
+Pray God you have not murdered some of them.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Nay, that’s past praying for. I have peppered two of them. Two I am
+sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal,
+if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou knowest my
+old ward. Here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram
+let drive at me.
+
+PRINCE.
+What, four? Thou saidst but two even now.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Four, Hal, I told thee four.
+
+POINS.
+Ay, ay, he said four.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more
+ado, but took all their seven points in my target, thus.
+
+PRINCE.
+Seven? Why, there were but four even now.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+In buckram?
+
+POINS.
+Ay, four, in buckram suits.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.
+
+PRINCE.
+[_aside to Poins._] Prithee let him alone, we shall have more anon.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Dost thou hear me, Hal?
+
+PRINCE.
+Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine in buckram that I
+told thee of—
+
+PRINCE.
+So, two more already.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Their points being broken—
+
+POINS.
+Down fell their hose.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Began to give me ground; but I followed me close, came in foot and
+hand, and with a thought seven of the eleven I paid.
+
+PRINCE.
+O monstrous! Eleven buckram men grown out of two!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+But as the devil would have it, three misbegotten knaves in Kendal
+green came at my back and let drive at me, for it was so dark, Hal,
+that thou couldst not see thy hand.
+
+PRINCE.
+These lies are like the father that begets them, gross as a mountain,
+open, palpable. Why, thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool,
+thou whoreson, obscene greasy tallow-catch—
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What, art thou mad? Art thou mad? Is not the truth the truth?
+
+PRINCE.
+Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal green, when it was so
+dark thou couldst not see thy hand? Come, tell us your reason. What
+sayest thou to this?
+
+POINS.
+Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What, upon compulsion? Zounds, an I were at the strappado, or all the
+racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a
+reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I
+would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
+
+PRINCE.
+I’ll be no longer guilty of this sin. This sanguine coward, this
+bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh—
+
+FALSTAFF.
+’Sblood, you starveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, you
+bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish—O, for breath to utter what is like thee!
+You tailor’s-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck—
+
+PRINCE.
+Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again, and when thou hast tired
+thyself in base comparisons, hear me speak but this.
+
+POINS.
+Mark, Jack.
+
+PRINCE.
+We two saw you four set on four, and bound them and were masters of
+their wealth. Mark now how a plain tale shall put you down. Then did we
+two set on you four, and, with a word, outfaced you from your prize,
+and have it, yea, and can show it you here in the house. And, Falstaff,
+you carried your guts away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and
+roared for mercy, and still ran and roared, as ever I heard bull-calf.
+What a slave art thou to hack thy sword as thou hast done, and then say
+it was in fight! What trick, what device, what starting-hole canst thou
+now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
+
+POINS.
+Come, let’s hear, Jack, what trick hast thou now?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear you, my
+masters, was it for me to kill the heir-apparent? Should I turn upon
+the true prince? Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but
+beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a
+great matter. I was now a coward on instinct. I shall think the better
+of myself, and thee, during my life—I for a valiant lion, and thou for
+a true prince. But, by the Lord, lads, I am glad you have the
+money.—Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch tonight, pray tomorrow.
+Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship
+come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore?
+
+PRINCE.
+Content; and the argument shall be thy running away.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!
+
+Enter the Hostess.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O Jesu, my lord the Prince—
+
+PRINCE.
+How now, my lady the hostess! What say’st thou to me?
+
+HOSTESS.
+Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak
+with you: he says he comes from your father.
+
+PRINCE.
+Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and send him back again
+to my mother.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What manner of man is he?
+
+HOSTESS.
+An old man.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall I give him his
+answer?
+
+PRINCE.
+Prithee do, Jack.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Faith, and I’ll send him packing.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PRINCE.
+Now, sirs: by’r Lady, you fought fair, so did you, Peto. So did you,
+Bardolph. You are lions, too, you ran away upon instinct, you will not
+touch the true prince, no, fie!
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Faith, I ran when I saw others run.
+
+PRINCE.
+Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff’s sword so hacked?
+
+PETO.
+Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he would swear truth out of
+England but he would make you believe it was done in fight, and
+persuaded us to do the like.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to make them bleed, and
+then to beslubber our garments with it, and swear it was the blood of
+true men. I did that I did not this seven year before: I blushed to
+hear his monstrous devices.
+
+PRINCE.
+O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago, and wert
+taken with the manner, and ever since thou hast blushed extempore. Thou
+hadst fire and sword on thy side, and yet thou ran’st away. What
+instinct hadst thou for it?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+My lord, do you see these meteors? Do you behold these exhalations?
+
+PRINCE.
+I do.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+What think you they portend?
+
+PRINCE.
+Hot livers and cold purses.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.
+
+PRINCE.
+No, if rightly taken, halter.
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone. How now, my sweet creature
+of bombast? How long is’t ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My own knee? When I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle’s
+talon in the waist. I could have crept into any alderman’s thumb-ring:
+a plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.
+There’s villanous news abroad: here was Sir John Bracy from your
+father; you must to the court in the morning. That same mad fellow of
+the north, Percy, and he of Wales that gave Amamon the bastinado, and
+made Lucifer cuckold, and swore the devil his true liegeman upon the
+cross of a Welsh hook—what a plague call you him?
+
+POINS.
+O, Glendower.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-law Mortimer, and old
+Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot of Scots, Douglas, that runs
+a-horseback up a hill perpendicular—
+
+PRINCE.
+He that rides at high speed, and with his pistol kills a sparrow
+flying.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You have hit it.
+
+PRINCE.
+So did he never the sparrow.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, that rascal hath good metal in him, he will not run.
+
+PRINCE.
+Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so for running!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A-horseback, ye cuckoo, but afoot he will not budge a foot.
+
+PRINCE.
+Yes, Jack, upon instinct.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too, and one Mordake, and
+a thousand blue-caps more. Worcester is stolen away tonight; thy
+father’s beard is turned white with the news. You may buy land now as
+cheap as stinking mackerel.
+
+PRINCE.
+Why then, it is like if there come a hot June, and this civil buffeting
+hold, we shall buy maidenheads as they buy hobnails, by the hundreds.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+By the mass, lad, thou sayest true. It is like we shall have good
+trading that way. But tell me, Hal, art not thou horrible afeard? Thou
+being heir-apparent, could the world pick thee out three such enemies
+again as that fiend Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil
+Glendower? Art thou not horribly afraid? Doth not thy blood thrill at
+it?
+
+PRINCE.
+Not a whit, i’faith. I lack some of thy instinct.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, thou wilt be horribly chid tomorrow when thou comest to thy
+father. If thou love me practise an answer.
+
+PRINCE.
+Do thou stand for my father and examine me upon the particulars of my
+life.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Shall I? Content! This chair shall be my state, this dagger my sceptre,
+and this cushion my crown.
+
+PRINCE.
+Thy state is taken for a joint-stool, thy golden sceptre for a leaden
+dagger, and thy precious rich crown for a pitiful bald crown.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee, now shalt thou be
+moved. Give me a cup of sack to make my eyes look red, that it may be
+thought I have wept, for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in
+King Cambyses’ vein.
+
+PRINCE.
+Well, here is my leg.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i faith!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Weep not, sweet Queen, for trickling tears are vain.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O, the Father, how he holds his countenance!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+For God’s sake, lords, convey my tristful Queen,
+For tears do stop the floodgates of her eyes.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry players as ever I see!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain.—Harry, I do not only
+marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied.
+For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it
+grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears. That thou
+art my son I have partly thy mother’s word, partly my own opinion, but
+chiefly a villainous trick of thine eye, and a foolish hanging of thy
+nether lip, that doth warrant me. If then thou be son to me, here lies
+the point: why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall the
+blessed sun of heaven prove a micher, and eat blackberries? A question
+not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take
+purses? A question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry, which thou
+hast often heard of, and it is known to many in our land by the name of
+pitch. This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth
+the company thou keepest. For, Harry, now I do not speak to thee in
+drink, but in tears; not in pleasure, but in passion; not in words
+only, but in woes also. And yet there is a virtuous man whom I have
+often noted in thy company, but I know not his name.
+
+PRINCE.
+What manner of man, an it like your Majesty?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A goodly portly man, i’faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a
+pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some
+fifty, or, by’r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me,
+his name is Falstaff. If that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth
+me; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be
+known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then peremptorily I speak
+it, there is virtue in that Falstaff; him keep with, the rest banish.
+And tell me now, thou naughty varlet, tell me where hast thou been this
+month?
+
+PRINCE.
+Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me, and I’ll play my
+father.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Depose me? If thou dost it half so gravely, so majestically, both in
+word and matter, hang me up by the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a
+poulter’s hare.
+
+PRINCE.
+Well, here I am set.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+And here I stand. Judge, my masters.
+
+PRINCE.
+Now, Harry, whence come you?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My noble lord, from Eastcheap.
+
+PRINCE.
+The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+’Sblood, my lord, they are false.—Nay, I’ll tickle ye for a young
+prince, i’faith.
+
+PRINCE.
+Swearest thou, ungracious boy? Henceforth ne’er look on me. Thou art
+violently carried away from grace. There is a devil haunts thee in the
+likeness of an old fat man. A tun of man is thy companion. Why dost
+thou converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of
+beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of
+sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with
+the pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey iniquity, that
+father ruffian, that vanity in years? Wherein is he good, but to taste
+sack and drink it? Wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon and
+eat it? Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villany?
+Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I would your Grace would take me with you. Whom means your Grace?
+
+PRINCE.
+That villainous abominable misleader of youth, Falstaff, that old
+white-bearded Satan.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My lord, the man I know.
+
+PRINCE.
+I know thou dost.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+But to say I know more harm in him than in myself were to say more than
+I know. That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness
+it. But that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I
+utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to
+be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.
+If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.
+No, my good lord, banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins, but for
+sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant
+Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is old Jack
+Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry’s company, banish not him thy
+Harry’s company. Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
+
+PRINCE.
+I do, I will.
+
+[_A knocking heard._]
+
+[_Exeunt Hostess, Francis and Bardolph._]
+
+Enter Bardolph, running.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+O, my lord, my lord, the sheriff with a most monstrous watch is at the
+door.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Out, ye rogue! Play out the play. I have much to say in the behalf of
+that Falstaff.
+
+Enter the Hostess, hastily.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O Jesu, my lord, my lord—
+
+PRINCE.
+Heigh, heigh, the devil rides upon a fiddlestick. What’s the matter?
+
+HOSTESS.
+The sheriff and all the watch are at the door. They are come to search
+the house. Shall I let them in?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Dost thou hear, Hal? Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit:
+thou art essentially made without seeming so.
+
+PRINCE.
+And thou a natural coward without instinct.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I deny your major. If you will deny the sheriff, so; if not, let him
+enter. If I become not a cart as well as another man, a plague on my
+bringing up! I hope I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as
+another.
+
+PRINCE.
+Go hide thee behind the arras. The rest walk up above. Now, my masters,
+for a true face and good conscience.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Both which I have had, but their date is out, and therefore I’ll hide
+me.
+
+PRINCE.
+Call in the sheriff.
+
+[_Exeunt all but the Prince and Peto._]
+
+Enter Sheriff and the Carrier.
+
+Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?
+
+SHERIFF.
+First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry
+Hath followed certain men unto this house.
+
+PRINCE.
+What men?
+
+SHERIFF.
+One of them is well known, my gracious lord,
+A gross fat man.
+
+CARRIER.
+As fat as butter.
+
+PRINCE.
+The man I do assure you is not here,
+For I myself at this time have employ’d him.
+And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee,
+That I will by tomorrow dinner-time,
+Send him to answer thee, or any man,
+For anything he shall be charged withal.
+And so let me entreat you leave the house.
+
+SHERIFF.
+I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen
+Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.
+
+PRINCE.
+It may be so. If he have robb’d these men,
+He shall be answerable; and so, farewell.
+
+SHERIFF.
+Good night, my noble lord.
+
+PRINCE.
+I think it is good morrow, is it not?
+
+SHERIFF.
+Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o’clock.
+
+[_Exit Sheriff with the Carrier._]
+
+PRINCE.
+This oily rascal is known as well as Paul’s. Go, call him forth.
+
+PETO.
+Falstaff!—Fast asleep behind the arras, and snorting like a horse.
+
+PRINCE.
+Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets.
+
+[_He searcheth his pocket, and findeth certain papers._]
+
+What hast thou found?
+
+PETO.
+Nothing but papers, my lord.
+
+PRINCE.
+Let’s see what they be. Read them.
+
+PETO.
+[_reads_]
+Item, a capon, . . . . . . . . . . . 2s. 2d.
+Item, sauce, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4d.
+Item, sack, two gallons, . . . 5s. 8d.
+Item, anchovies and sack after supper, 2s. 6d.
+Item, bread, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ob.
+
+PRINCE.
+O monstrous! But one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal
+of sack! What there is else, keep close. We’ll read it at more
+advantage. There let him sleep till day. I’ll to the court in the
+morning. We must all to the wars, and thy place shall be honourable.
+I’ll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot, and I know his death will
+be a march of twelve score. The money shall be paid back again with
+advantage. Be with me betimes in the morning; and so, good morrow,
+Peto.
+
+PETO.
+Good morrow, good my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+
+SCENE I. Bangor. A Room in the Archdeacon’s House.
+
+Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Mortimer and Glendower.
+
+MORTIMER.
+These promises are fair, the parties sure,
+And our induction full of prosperous hope.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Lord Mortimer and cousin Glendower,
+Will you sit down? And uncle Worcester,
+A plague upon it! I have forgot the map.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+No, here it is.
+Sit, cousin Percy, sit, good cousin Hotspur;
+For by that name as oft as Lancaster doth speak of you
+His cheek looks pale, and with a rising sigh
+He wisheth you in heaven.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+And you in hell,
+As oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+I cannot blame him. At my nativity
+The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
+Of burning cressets, and at my birth
+The frame and huge foundation of the Earth
+Shaked like a coward.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Why, so it would have done
+At the same season, if your mother’s cat
+Had but kitten’d, though yourself had never been born.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+I say the Earth did shake when I was born.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+And I say the Earth was not of my mind,
+If you suppose as fearing you it shook.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+The heavens were all on fire, the Earth did tremble.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+O, then th’ Earth shook to see the heavens on fire,
+And not in fear of your nativity.
+Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
+In strange eruptions; oft the teeming Earth
+Is with a kind of colic pinch’d and vex’d
+By the imprisoning of unruly wind
+Within her womb, which for enlargement striving,
+Shakes the old beldam Earth, and topples down
+Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth
+Our grandam Earth, having this distemp’rature,
+In passion shook.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Cousin, of many men
+I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave
+To tell you once again that at my birth
+The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
+The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
+Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.
+These signs have mark’d me extraordinary,
+And all the courses of my life do show
+I am not in the roll of common men.
+Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea
+That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
+Which calls me pupil or hath read to me?
+And bring him out that is but woman’s son
+Can trace me in the tedious ways of art,
+And hold me pace in deep experiments.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I think there is no man speaks better Welsh.
+I’ll to dinner.
+
+MORTIMER.
+Peace, cousin Percy, you will make him mad.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Why, so can I, or so can any man,
+But will they come when you do call for them?
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
+By telling truth; tell truth, and shame the devil.
+If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
+And I’ll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
+O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil!
+
+MORTIMER.
+Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
+Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye
+And sandy-bottom’d Severn have I sent him
+Bootless home and weather-beaten back.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Home without boots, and in foul weather too!
+How ’scapes he agues, in the devil’s name!
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Come, here’s the map, shall we divide our right
+According to our threefold order ta’en?
+
+MORTIMER.
+The archdeacon hath divided it
+Into three limits very equally:
+England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,
+By south and east is to my part assign’d:
+All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,
+And all the fertile land within that bound,
+To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you
+The remnant northward lying off from Trent.
+And our indentures tripartite are drawn,
+Which being sealed interchangeably,
+A business that this night may execute,
+Tomorrow, cousin Percy, you and I,
+And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth
+To meet your father and the Scottish power,
+As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
+My father Glendower is not ready yet,
+Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
+[_To Glendower._] Within that space you may have drawn together
+Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+A shorter time shall send me to you, lords,
+And in my conduct shall your ladies come,
+From whom you now must steal, and take no leave,
+For there will be a world of water shed
+Upon the parting of your wives and you.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,
+In quantity equals not one of yours.
+See how this river comes me cranking in,
+And cuts me from the best of all my land
+A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
+I’ll have the current in this place dammed up,
+And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
+In a new channel, fair and evenly.
+It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
+To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Not wind? It shall, it must. You see it doth.
+
+MORTIMER.
+Yea, but mark how he bears his course, and runs me up
+With like advantage on the other side,
+Gelding the opposed continent as much
+As on the other side it takes from you.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Yea, but a little charge will trench him here,
+And on this north side win this cape of land,
+And then he runs straight and even.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I’ll have it so, a little charge will do it.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+I’ll not have it altered.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Will not you?
+
+GLENDOWER.
+No, nor you shall not.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Who shall say me nay?
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Why, that will I.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+I can speak English, lord, as well as you,
+For I was train’d up in the English Court,
+Where being but young I framed to the harp
+Many an English ditty lovely well,
+And gave the tongue a helpful ornament—
+A virtue that was never seen in you.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Marry, and I am glad of it with all my heart.
+I had rather be a kitten, and cry “mew”
+Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;
+I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn’d,
+Or a dry wheel grate on the axletree,
+And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
+Nothing so much as mincing poetry.
+’Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Come, you shall have Trent turn’d.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I do not care. I’ll give thrice so much land
+To any well-deserving friend;
+But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,
+I’ll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
+Are the indentures drawn? Shall we be gone?
+
+GLENDOWER.
+The moon shines fair, you may away by night.
+I’ll haste the writer, and withal
+Break with your wives of your departure hence.
+I am afraid my daughter will run mad,
+So much she doteth on her Mortimer.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+MORTIMER.
+Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father!
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I cannot choose. Sometimes he angers me
+With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant,
+Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,
+And of a dragon and a finless fish,
+A clip-wing’d griffin and a moulten raven,
+A couching lion and a ramping cat,
+And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
+As puts me from my faith. I tell you what—
+He held me last night at least nine hours
+In reckoning up the several devils’ names
+That were his lackeys: I cried “Hum,” and “Well, go to,”
+But mark’d him not a word. O, he is as tedious
+As a tired horse, a railing wife,
+Worse than a smoky house. I had rather live
+With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
+Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
+In any summer house in Christendom.
+
+MORTIMER.
+In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,
+Exceedingly well read, and profited
+In strange concealments, valiant as a lion,
+And wondrous affable, and as bountiful
+As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?
+He holds your temper in a high respect
+And curbs himself even of his natural scope
+When you come cross his humour, faith, he does.
+I warrant you that man is not alive
+Might so have tempted him as you have done
+Without the taste of danger and reproof:
+But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.
+
+WORCESTER.
+In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame,
+And since your coming hither have done enough
+To put him quite besides his patience.
+You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault.
+Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood—
+And that’s the dearest grace it renders you—
+Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,
+Defect of manners, want of government,
+Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain,
+The least of which haunting a nobleman
+Loseth men’s hearts and leaves behind a stain
+Upon the beauty of all parts besides,
+Beguiling them of commendation.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Well, I am school’d. Good manners be your speed!
+Here come our wives, and let us take our leave.
+
+Enter Glendower with Lady Mortimer and Lady Percy.
+
+MORTIMER.
+This is the deadly spite that angers me,
+My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+My daughter weeps, she’ll not part with you,
+She’ll be a soldier too, she’ll to the wars.
+
+MORTIMER.
+Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy
+Shall follow in your conduct speedily.
+
+[_Glendower speaks to Lady Mortimer in Welsh, and she answers him in
+the same._]
+
+GLENDOWER.
+She is desperate here, a peevish self-willed harlotry,
+One that no persuasion can do good upon.
+
+[_Lady Mortimer speaks to Mortimer in Welsh._]
+
+MORTIMER.
+I understand thy looks, that pretty Welsh
+Which thou pourest down from these swelling heavens
+I am too perfect in, and but for shame
+In such a parley should I answer thee.
+
+[_Lady Mortimer speaks to him again in Welsh._]
+
+I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,
+And that’s a feeling disputation,
+But I will never be a truant, love,
+Till I have learnt thy language; for thy tongue
+Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn’d,
+Sung by a fair queen in a summer’s bower,
+With ravishing division, to her lute.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad.
+
+[_Lady Mortimer speaks to Mortimer again in Welsh._]
+
+MORTIMER.
+O, I am ignorance itself in this!
+
+GLENDOWER.
+She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down,
+And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
+And she will sing the song that pleaseth you,
+And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
+Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
+Making such difference ’twixt wake and sleep
+As is the difference betwixt day and night,
+The hour before the heavenly-harness’d team
+Begins his golden progress in the east.
+
+MORTIMER.
+With all my heart I’ll sit and hear her sing,
+By that time will our book, I think, be drawn.
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Do so, and those musicians that shall play to you
+Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
+And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down.
+Come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Go, ye giddy goose.
+
+[_The music plays._]
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh,
+And ’tis no marvel he’s so humorous.
+By’r Lady, he’s a good musician.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Then should you be nothing but musical,
+For you are altogether governed by humours.
+Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Wouldst thou have thy head broken?
+
+HOTSPUR.
+No.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Then be still.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Neither; ’tis a woman’s fault.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Now God help thee!
+
+HOTSPUR.
+To the Welsh lady’s bed.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+What’s that?
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Peace, she sings.
+
+[_Here the lady sings a Welsh song._]
+
+Come, Kate, I’ll have your song too.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+Not mine, in good sooth.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker’s wife!
+“Not you, in good sooth,” and “As true as I live,” and “As God shall
+mend me,” and “As sure as day”
+And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths
+As if thou never walk’dst further than Finsbury.
+Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
+A good mouth-filling oath, and leave “In sooth,”
+And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,
+To velvet-guards and Sunday citizens.
+Come, sing.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+I will not sing.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+’Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast-teacher. An the
+indentures be drawn, I’ll away within these two hours; and so come in
+when ye will.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+GLENDOWER.
+Come, come, Lord Mortimer, you are as slow
+As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.
+By this our book is drawn. We’ll but seal,
+And then to horse immediately.
+
+MORTIMER.
+With all my heart.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. London. A Room in the Palace.
+
+Enter King Henry, Prince Henry and Lords.
+
+KING.
+Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I
+Must have some private conference: but be near at hand,
+For we shall presently have need of you.
+
+[_Exeunt Lords._]
+
+I know not whether God will have it so
+For some displeasing service I have done,
+That, in His secret doom, out of my blood
+He’ll breed revengement and a scourge for me;
+But thou dost in thy passages of life
+Make me believe that thou art only mark’d
+For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
+To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,
+Could such inordinate and low desires,
+Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,
+Such barren pleasures, rude society,
+As thou art match’d withal, and grafted to,
+Accompany the greatness of thy blood,
+And hold their level with thy princely heart?
+
+PRINCE.
+So please your Majesty, I would I could
+Quit all offences with as clear excuse
+As well as I am doubtless I can purge
+Myself of many I am charged withal.
+Yet such extenuation let me beg
+As, in reproof of many tales devised,
+By smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers,
+Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,
+I may for some things true, wherein my youth
+Hath faulty wander’d and irregular,
+Find pardon on my true submission.
+
+KING.
+God pardon thee! Yet let me wonder, Harry,
+At thy affections, which do hold a wing
+Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
+Thy place in Council thou hast rudely lost,
+Which by thy younger brother is supplied,
+And art almost an alien to the hearts
+Of all the court and princes of my blood.
+The hope and expectation of thy time
+Is ruin’d, and the soul of every man
+Prophetically do forethink thy fall.
+Had I so lavish of my presence been,
+So common-hackney’d in the eyes of men,
+So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
+Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
+Had still kept loyal to possession,
+And left me in reputeless banishment,
+A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
+By being seldom seen, I could not stir
+But like a comet I was wonder’d at,
+That men would tell their children, “This is he.”
+Others would say, “Where, which is Bolingbroke?”
+And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,
+And dress’d myself in such humility
+That I did pluck allegiance from men’s hearts,
+Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,
+Even in the presence of the crowned King.
+Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
+My presence, like a robe pontifical,
+Ne’er seen but wonder’d at, and so my state,
+Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast,
+And won by rareness such solemnity.
+The skipping King, he ambled up and down
+With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
+Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state,
+Mingled his royalty, with cap’ring fools,
+Had his great name profaned with their scorns,
+And gave his countenance, against his name,
+To laugh at gibing boys, and stand the push
+Of every beardless vain comparative;
+Grew a companion to the common streets,
+Enfeoff’d himself to popularity,
+That, being daily swallow’d by men’s eyes,
+They surfeited with honey, and began
+To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
+More than a little is by much too much.
+So, when he had occasion to be seen,
+He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
+Heard, not regarded; seen, but with such eyes
+As, sick and blunted with community,
+Afford no extraordinary gaze,
+Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
+When it shines seldom in admiring eyes,
+But rather drowsed and hung their eyelids down,
+Slept in his face, and render’d such aspect
+As cloudy men use to their adversaries,
+Being with his presence glutted, gorged, and full.
+And in that very line, Harry, standest thou,
+For thou hast lost thy princely privilege
+With vile participation. Not an eye
+But is a-weary of thy common sight,
+Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more,
+Which now doth that I would not have it do,
+Make blind itself with foolish tenderness.
+
+PRINCE.
+I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,
+Be more myself.
+
+KING.
+For all the world
+As thou art to this hour was Richard then
+When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,
+And even as I was then is Percy now.
+Now, by my sceptre, and my soul to boot,
+He hath more worthy interest to the state
+Than thou, the shadow of succession.
+For of no right, nor colour like to right,
+He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,
+Turns head against the lion’s armed jaws,
+And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
+Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on
+To bloody battles and to bruising arms.
+What never-dying honour hath he got
+Against renowned Douglas! whose high deeds,
+Whose hot incursions and great name in arms,
+Holds from all soldiers chief majority
+And military title capital
+Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ.
+Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathing clothes,
+This infant warrior, in his enterprises
+Discomfited great Douglas, ta’en him once,
+Enlarged him, and made a friend of him,
+To fill the mouth of deep defiance up,
+And shake the peace and safety of our throne.
+And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,
+The Archbishop’s Grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,
+Capitulate against us and are up.
+But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?
+Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,
+Which art my nearest and dearest enemy?
+Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,
+Base inclination, and the start of spleen,
+To fight against me under Percy’s pay,
+To dog his heels, and curtsy at his frowns,
+To show how much thou art degenerate.
+
+PRINCE.
+Do not think so, you shall not find it so.
+And God forgive them that so much have sway’d
+Your Majesty’s good thoughts away from me!
+I will redeem all this on Percy’s head,
+And, in the closing of some glorious day,
+Be bold to tell you that I am your son,
+When I will wear a garment all of blood,
+And stain my favours in a bloody mask,
+Which, wash’d away, shall scour my shame with it.
+And that shall be the day, whene’er it lights,
+That this same child of honour and renown,
+This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,
+And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.
+For every honour sitting on his helm,
+Would they were multitudes, and on my head
+My shames redoubled! For the time will come,
+That I shall make this northern youth exchange
+His glorious deeds for my indignities.
+Percy is but my factor, good my lord,
+To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf,
+And I will call him to so strict account
+That he shall render every glory up,
+Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
+Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
+This in the name of God I promise here,
+The which if He be pleased I shall perform,
+I do beseech your Majesty may salve
+The long-grown wounds of my intemperance.
+If not, the end of life cancels all bands,
+And I will die a hundred thousand deaths
+Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.
+
+KING.
+A hundred thousand rebels die in this.
+Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.
+
+Enter Sir Walter Blunt.
+
+How now, good Blunt? Thy looks are full of speed.
+
+BLUNT.
+So hath the business that I come to speak of.
+Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word
+That Douglas and the English rebels met
+The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury.
+A mighty and a fearful head they are,
+If promises be kept on every hand,
+As ever offer’d foul play in a state.
+
+KING.
+The Earl of Westmoreland set forth today,
+With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster,
+For this advertisement is five days old.
+On Wednesday next you, Harry, shall set forward,
+On Thursday we ourselves will march.
+Our meeting is Bridgenorth. And, Harry, you
+Shall march through Gloustershire; by which account,
+Our business valued, some twelve days hence
+Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.
+Our hands are full of business. Let’s away,
+Advantage feeds him fat while men delay.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Eastcheap. A Room in the Boar’s Head Tavern.
+
+Enter Falstaff and Bardolph.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? Do I not
+bate? Do I not dwindle? Why, my skin hangs about me like an old lady’s
+loose gown. I am withered like an old apple-john. Well, I’ll repent,
+and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart
+shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. An I have not
+forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a
+brewer’s horse. The inside of a church! Company, villainous company,
+hath been the spoil of me.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot live long.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Why, there is it. Come, sing me a song, make me merry. I was as
+virtuously given as a gentleman need to be, virtuous enough; swore
+little; diced not above seven times—a week; went to a bawdy house not
+above once in a quarter—in an hour; paid money that I borrowed—three or
+four times; lived well and in good compass; and now I live out of all
+order, out of all compass.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must needs be out of all
+compass, out of all reasonable compass, Sir John.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Do thou amend thy face, and I’ll amend my life. Thou art our admiral,
+thou bearest the lantern in the poop, but ’tis in the nose of thee.
+Thou art the Knight of the Burning Lamp.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No, I’ll be sworn, I make as good use of it as many a man doth of a
+death’s-head or a _memento mori_. I never see thy face but I think upon
+hell-fire, and Dives that lived in purple, for there he is in his
+robes, burning, burning. If thou wert any way given to virtue, I would
+swear by thy face. My oath should be, “By this fire, that’s God’s
+angel.” But thou art altogether given over; and wert indeed, but for
+the light in thy face, the son of utter darkness. When thou ran’st up
+Gad’s Hill in the night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou
+hadst been an _ignis fatuus_ or a ball of wildfire, there’s no purchase
+in money. O, thou art a perpetual triumph, an everlasting
+bonfire-light! Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and
+torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern: but
+the sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good
+cheap at the dearest chandler’s in Europe. I have maintained that
+salamander of yours with fire any time this two-and-thirty years, God
+reward me for it!
+
+BARDOLPH.
+’Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heartburnt.
+
+Enter the Hostess.
+
+How now, Dame Partlet the hen, have you enquired yet who picked my
+pocket?
+
+HOSTESS.
+Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John, do you think I keep thieves
+in my house? I have searched, I have enquired, so has my husband, man
+by man, boy by boy, servant by servant. The tithe of a hair was never
+lost in my house before.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ye lie, hostess. Bardolph was shaved and lost many a hair, and I’ll be
+sworn my pocket was picked. Go to, you are a woman, go.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Who, I? No; I defy thee: God’s light, I was never called so in mine own
+house before.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Go to, I know you well enough.
+
+HOSTESS.
+No, Sir John, you do not know me, Sir John. I know you, Sir John, you
+owe me money, Sir John, and now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it.
+I bought you a dozen of shirts to your back.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away to bakers’ wives; and
+they have made bolters of them.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight shillings an ell. You owe
+money here besides, Sir John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money
+lent you, four-and-twenty pound.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+He had his part of it, let him pay.
+
+HOSTESS.
+He? Alas, he is poor, he hath nothing.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+How? Poor? Look upon his face. What call you rich? Let them coin his
+nose, let them coin his cheeks. I’ll not pay a denier. What, will you
+make a younker of me? Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I
+shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring of my
+grandfather’s worth forty mark.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O Jesu, I have heard the Prince tell him, I know not how oft, that that
+ring was copper.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+How? The Prince is a Jack, a sneak-up. ’Sblood, an he were here, I
+would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.
+
+Enter Prince Henry with Peto, marching. Falstaff meets him, playing on
+his truncheon like a fife.
+
+How now, lad? Is the wind in that door, i’faith? Must we all march?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.
+
+HOSTESS.
+My lord, I pray you, hear me.
+
+PRINCE.
+What say’st thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy husband? I love him
+well; he is an honest man.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Good my lord, hear me.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.
+
+PRINCE.
+What say’st thou, Jack?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+The other night I fell asleep here, behind the arras, and had my pocket
+picked. This house is turned bawdy-house; they pick pockets.
+
+PRINCE.
+What didst thou lose, Jack?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Wilt thou believe me, Hal, three or four bonds of forty pound apiece
+and a seal-ring of my grandfather’s.
+
+PRINCE.
+A trifle, some eightpenny matter.
+
+HOSTESS.
+So I told him, my lord, and I said I heard your Grace say so. And, my
+lord, he speaks most vilely of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is,
+and said he would cudgel you.
+
+PRINCE.
+What! he did not?
+
+HOSTESS.
+There’s neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune, nor no more truth
+in thee than in a drawn fox; and, for woman-hood, Maid Marian may be
+the deputy’s wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing, go.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Say, what thing, what thing?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What thing? Why, a thing to thank God on.
+
+HOSTESS.
+I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou shouldst know it! I am an
+honest man’s wife, and, setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave
+to call me so.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say otherwise.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What beast? Why, an otter.
+
+PRINCE.
+An otter, Sir John? Why an otter?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Why, she’s neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not where to have her.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Thou art an unjust man in saying so, thou or any man knows where to
+have me, thou knave, thou.
+
+PRINCE.
+Thou say’st true, hostess, and he slanders thee most grossly.
+
+HOSTESS.
+So he doth you, my lord, and said this other day you ought him a
+thousand pound.
+
+PRINCE.
+Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+
+
+A thousand pound, Hal? A million. Thy love is worth a million; thou
+owest me thy love.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Nay, my lord, he call’d you Jack, and said he would cudgel you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Did I, Bardolph?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Indeed, Sir John, you said so.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Yea, if he said my ring was copper.
+
+PRINCE.
+I say ’tis copper. Darest thou be as good as thy word now?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I dare, but as thou art
+prince, I fear thee as I fear the roaring of the lion’s whelp.
+
+PRINCE.
+And why not as the lion?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+The King himself is to be feared as the lion. Dost thou think I’ll fear
+thee as I fear thy father? Nay, an I do, I pray God my girdle break.
+
+PRINCE.
+O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about thy knees! But, sirrah,
+there’s no room for faith, truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine;
+it is all filled up with midriff. Charge an honest woman with picking
+thy pocket! Why, thou whoreson, impudent, embossed rascal, if there
+were anything in thy pocket but tavern reckonings, memorandums of bawdy
+houses, and one poor pennyworth of sugar-candy to make thee
+long-winded, if thy pocket were enriched with any other injuries but
+these, I am a villain. And yet you will stand to it, you will not
+pocket up wrong. Art thou not ashamed!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Dost thou hear, Hal? Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell,
+and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy? Thou
+seest I have more flesh than another man and therefore more frailty.
+You confess, then, you picked my pocket?
+
+PRINCE.
+It appears so by the story.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hostess, I forgive thee. Go make ready breakfast, love thy husband,
+look to thy servants, cherish thy guests. Thou shalt find me tractable
+to any honest reason. Thou seest I am pacified still. Nay, prithee, be
+gone.
+
+[_Exit Hostess._]
+
+Now, Hal, to the news at court. For the robbery, lad, how is that
+answered?
+
+PRINCE.
+O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to thee. The money is paid
+back again.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+O, I do not like that paying back, ’tis a double labour.
+
+PRINCE.
+I am good friends with my father, and may do anything.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost, and do it with unwashed
+hands too.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Do, my lord.
+
+PRINCE.
+I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find one that can steal
+well? O, for a fine thief, of the age of two-and-twenty or thereabouts!
+I am heinously unprovided. Well, God be thanked for these rebels; they
+offend none but the virtuous. I laud them, I praise them.
+
+PRINCE.
+Bardolph!
+
+BARDOLPH.
+My lord?
+
+PRINCE.
+Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster,
+To my brother John; this to my Lord of Westmoreland.
+
+[_Exit Bardolph._]
+
+Go, Peto, to horse, to horse, for thou and I
+Have thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner-time.
+
+[_Exit Peto._]
+
+Jack, meet me tomorrow in the Temple hall
+At two o’clock in the afternoon;
+There shalt thou know thy charge, and there receive
+Money and order for their furniture.
+The land is burning, Percy stands on high,
+And either we or they must lower lie.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Rare words! Brave world!—Hostess, my breakfast, come.—
+O, I could wish this tavern were my drum.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+
+SCENE I. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury.
+
+Enter Hotspur, Worcester and Douglas.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Well said, my noble Scot. If speaking truth
+In this fine age were not thought flattery,
+Such attribution should the Douglas have
+As not a soldier of this season’s stamp
+Should go so general current through the world.
+By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy
+The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
+In my heart’s love hath no man than yourself.
+Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Thou art the king of honour.
+No man so potent breathes upon the ground
+But I will beard him.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Do so, and ’tis well.
+
+Enter a Messenger with letters.
+
+What letters hast thou there? I can but thank you.
+
+MESSENGER.
+These letters come from your father.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Letters from him! Why comes he not himself?
+
+MESSENGER.
+He cannot come, my lord, he is grievous sick.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Zounds, how has he the leisure to be sick
+In such a justling time? Who leads his power?
+Under whose government come they along?
+
+MESSENGER.
+His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord.
+
+WORCESTER.
+I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?
+
+MESSENGER.
+He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth,
+And at the time of my departure thence
+He was much fear’d by his physicians.
+
+WORCESTER.
+I would the state of time had first been whole
+Ere he by sickness had been visited.
+His health was never better worth than now.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Sick now? Droop now? This sickness doth infect
+The very life-blood of our enterprise;
+’Tis catching hither, even to our camp.
+He writes me here, that inward sickness—
+And that his friends by deputation could not
+So soon be drawn, nor did he think it meet
+To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
+On any soul removed but on his own.
+Yet doth he give us bold advertisement
+That with our small conjunction we should on,
+To see how fortune is disposed to us;
+For, as he writes, there is no quailing now,
+Because the King is certainly possess’d
+Of all our purposes. What say you to it?
+
+WORCESTER.
+Your father’s sickness is a maim to us.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+A perilous gash, a very limb lopp’d off—
+And yet, in faith, it is not! His present want
+Seems more than we shall find it. Were it good
+To set the exact wealth of all our states
+All at one cast? To set so rich a main
+On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
+It were not good, for therein should we read
+The very bottom and the soul of hope,
+The very list, the very utmost bound
+Of all our fortunes.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Faith, and so we should, where now remains
+A sweet reversion. We may boldly spend
+Upon the hope of what is to come in.
+A comfort of retirement lives in this.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+A rendezvous, a home to fly unto,
+If that the devil and mischance look big
+Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.
+
+WORCESTER.
+But yet I would your father had been here.
+The quality and hair of our attempt
+Brooks no division. It will be thought
+By some that know not why he is away,
+That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike
+Of our proceedings, kept the Earl from hence.
+And think how such an apprehension
+May turn the tide of fearful faction,
+And breed a kind of question in our cause.
+For well you know we of the off’ring side
+Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,
+And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
+The eye of reason may pry in upon us.
+This absence of your father’s draws a curtain
+That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
+Before not dreamt of.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+You strain too far.
+I rather of his absence make this use:
+It lends a lustre and more great opinion,
+A larger dare to our great enterprise,
+Than if the Earl were here; for men must think
+If we without his help can make a head
+To push against the kingdom, with his help
+We shall o’erturn it topsy-turvy down.
+Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+As heart can think. There is not such a word
+Spoke in Scotland as this term of fear.
+
+Enter Sir Richard Vernon.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+My cousin Vernon! Welcome, by my soul.
+
+VERNON.
+Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.
+The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,
+Is marching hitherwards, with him Prince John.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+No harm, what more?
+
+VERNON.
+And further, I have learn’d
+The King himself in person is set forth,
+Or hitherwards intended speedily,
+With strong and mighty preparation.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,
+The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,
+And his comrades, that daffed the world aside
+And bid it pass?
+
+VERNON.
+All furnish’d, all in arms;
+All plumed like estridges that with the wind
+Bated like eagles having lately bathed,
+Glittering in golden coats, like images,
+As full of spirit as the month of May,
+And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
+Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
+I saw young Harry with his beaver on,
+His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm’d,
+Rise from the ground like feather’d Mercury,
+And vaulted with such ease into his seat
+As if an angel dropp’d down from the clouds,
+To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
+And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+No more, no more! Worse than the sun in March,
+This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come!
+They come like sacrifices in their trim,
+And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
+All hot and bleeding will we offer them.
+The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit
+Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire
+To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh,
+And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,
+Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt
+Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales.
+Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,
+Meet and ne’er part till one drop down a corse.
+O, that Glendower were come!
+
+VERNON.
+There is more news.
+I learn’d in Worcester, as I rode along,
+He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+That’s the worst tidings that I hear of yet.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+What may the King’s whole battle reach unto?
+
+VERNON.
+To thirty thousand.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Forty let it be.
+My father and Glendower being both away,
+The powers of us may serve so great a day.
+Come, let us take a muster speedily.
+Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Talk not of dying. I am out of fear
+Of death or death’s hand for this one half year.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A public Road near Coventry.
+
+Enter Falstaff and Bardolph.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a bottle of sack. Our
+soldiers shall march through; we’ll to Sutton Co’fil’ tonight.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Will you give me money, captain?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Lay out, lay out.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+This bottle makes an angel.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+An if it do, take it for thy labour. An if it make twenty, take them
+all, I’ll answer the coinage. Bid my lieutenant Peto meet me at town’s
+end.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+I will, captain: farewell.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet. I have
+misused the King’s press damnably. I have got, in exchange of a hundred
+and fifty soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds. I press me none but
+good householders, yeomen’s sons, inquire me out contracted bachelors,
+such as had been asked twice on the banns, such a commodity of warm
+slaves as had as lief hear the devil as a drum, such as fear the report
+of a caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild duck. I pressed me
+none but such toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no bigger
+than pins’ heads, and they have bought out their services; and now my
+whole charge consists of ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of
+companies—slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the
+glutton’s dogs licked his sores; and such as indeed were never
+soldiers, but discarded unjust servingmen, younger sons to younger
+brothers, revolted tapsters, and ostlers trade-fallen; the cankers of a
+calm world and a long peace, ten times more dishonourable-ragged than
+an old fazed ancient; and such have I to fill up the rooms of them that
+have bought out their services, that you would think that I had a
+hundred and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from swine-keeping,
+from eating draff and husks. A mad fellow met me on the way, and told
+me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye
+hath seen such scarecrows. I’ll not march through Coventry with them,
+that’s flat. Nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs as if
+they had gyves on, for indeed I had the most of them out of prison.
+There’s not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is
+two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a
+herald’s coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say the truth, stolen
+from my host at Saint Albans, or the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry.
+But that’s all one; they’ll find linen enough on every hedge.
+
+Enter Prince Henry and the Lord of Westmoreland.
+
+PRINCE.
+How now, blown Jack? How now, quilt?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What, Hal! How now, mad wag? What a devil dost thou in Warwickshire? My
+good Lord of Westmoreland, I cry you mercy. I thought your honour had
+already been at Shrewsbury.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Faith, Sir John, ’tis more than time that I were there, and you too,
+but my powers are there already. The King, I can tell you, looks for us
+all. We must away all night.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Tut, never fear me. I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
+
+PRINCE.
+I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath already made thee
+butter. But tell me, Jack, whose fellows are these that come after?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Mine, Hal, mine.
+
+PRINCE.
+I did never see such pitiful rascals.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Tut, tut, good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder,
+they’ll fill a pit as well as better. Tush, man, mortal men, mortal
+men.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor and bare, too
+beggarly.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had that; and for their
+bareness, I am sure they never learned that of me.
+
+PRINCE.
+No, I’ll be sworn, unless you call three fingers on the ribs bare. But,
+sirrah, make haste. Percy is already in the field.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What, is the King encamped?
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+He is, Sir John. I fear we shall stay too long.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well,
+To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast
+Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury.
+
+Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Douglas and Vernon.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+We’ll fight with him tonight.
+
+WORCESTER.
+It may not be.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+You give him then advantage.
+
+VERNON.
+Not a whit.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Why say you so? Looks he not for supply?
+
+VERNON.
+So do we.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+His is certain, ours is doubtful.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Good cousin, be advised, stir not tonight.
+
+VERNON.
+Do not, my lord.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+You do not counsel well.
+You speak it out of fear and cold heart.
+
+VERNON.
+Do me no slander, Douglas; by my life,
+And I dare well maintain it with my life,
+If well-respected honour bid me on,
+I hold as little counsel with weak fear
+As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives.
+Let it be seen tomorrow in the battle
+Which of us fears.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Yea, or tonight.
+
+VERNON.
+Content.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Tonight, say I.
+
+VERNON.
+Come, come, it may not be. I wonder much,
+Being men of such great leading as you are,
+That you foresee not what impediments
+Drag back our expedition. Certain horse
+Of my cousin Vernon’s are not yet come up.
+Your uncle Worcester’s horse came but today,
+And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
+Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,
+That not a horse is half the half himself.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+So are the horses of the enemy
+In general, journey-bated and brought low.
+The better part of ours are full of rest.
+
+WORCESTER.
+The number of the King exceedeth ours.
+For God’s sake, cousin, stay till all come in.
+
+[_The trumpet sounds a parley._]
+
+Enter Sir Walter Blunt.
+
+BLUNT.
+I come with gracious offers from the King,
+If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt, and would to God
+You were of our determination!
+Some of us love you well, and even those some
+Envy your great deservings and good name,
+Because you are not of our quality,
+But stand against us like an enemy.
+
+BLUNT.
+And God defend but still I should stand so,
+So long as out of limit and true rule
+You stand against anointed majesty.
+But to my charge. The King hath sent to know
+The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
+You conjure from the breast of civil peace
+Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land
+Audacious cruelty. If that the King
+Have any way your good deserts forgot,
+Which he confesseth to be manifold,
+He bids you name your griefs, and with all speed
+You shall have your desires with interest
+And pardon absolute for yourself and these
+Herein misled by your suggestion.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+The King is kind, and well we know the King
+Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.
+My father and my uncle and myself
+Did give him that same royalty he wears,
+And when he was not six-and-twenty strong,
+Sick in the world’s regard, wretched and low,
+A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,
+My father gave him welcome to the shore:
+And when he heard him swear and vow to God
+He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,
+To sue his livery, and beg his peace
+With tears of innocence and terms of zeal,
+My father, in kind heart and pity moved,
+Swore him assistance, and performed it too.
+Now, when the lords and barons of the realm
+Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
+The more and less came in with cap and knee,
+Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
+Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,
+Laid gifts before him, proffer’d him their oaths,
+Give him their heirs as pages, follow’d him
+Even at the heels in golden multitudes.
+He presently, as greatness knows itself,
+Steps me a little higher than his vow
+Made to my father while his blood was poor
+Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;
+And now forsooth takes on him to reform
+Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
+That lie too heavy on the commonwealth;
+Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
+Over his country’s wrongs; and by this face,
+This seeming brow of justice, did he win
+The hearts of all that he did angle for;
+Proceeded further—cut me off the heads
+Of all the favourites that the absent King
+In deputation left behind him here
+When he was personal in the Irish war.
+
+BLUNT.
+Tut, I came not to hear this.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Then to the point.
+In short time after, he deposed the King,
+Soon after that deprived him of his life,
+And, in the neck of that, task’d the whole state.
+To make that worse, suffer’d his kinsman March
+(Who is, if every owner were well placed,
+Indeed his king) to be engaged in Wales,
+There without ransom to lie forfeited;
+Disgraced me in my happy victories,
+Sought to entrap me by intelligence,
+Rated mine uncle from the Council-board,
+In rage dismiss’d my father from the court,
+Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,
+And in conclusion drove us to seek out
+This head of safety, and withal to pry
+Into his title, the which now we find
+Too indirect for long continuance.
+
+BLUNT.
+Shall I return this answer to the King?
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Not so, Sir Walter. We’ll withdraw awhile.
+Go to the King, and let there be impawn’d
+Some surety for a safe return again,
+And in the morning early shall my uncle
+Bring him our purposes. And so, farewell.
+
+BLUNT.
+I would you would accept of grace and love.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+And maybe so we shall.
+
+BLUNT.
+Pray God you do.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. York. A Room in the Archbishop’s Palace.
+
+Enter the Archbishop of York and Sir Michael.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief
+With winged haste to the Lord Marshal,
+This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest
+To whom they are directed. If you knew
+How much they do import, you would make haste.
+
+SIR MICHAEL.
+My good lord,
+I guess their tenour.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Like enough you do.
+Tomorrow, good Sir Michael, is a day
+Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
+Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,
+As I am truly given to understand,
+The King with mighty and quick-raised power
+Meets with Lord Harry. And, I fear, Sir Michael,
+What with the sickness of Northumberland,
+Whose power was in the first proportion,
+And what with Owen Glendower’s absence thence,
+Who with them was a rated sinew too,
+And comes not in, o’er-rul’d by prophecies,
+I fear the power of Percy is too weak
+To wage an instant trial with the King.
+
+SIR MICHAEL.
+Why, my good lord, you need not fear,
+There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+No, Mortimer is not there.
+
+SIR MICHAEL.
+But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,
+And there is my Lord of Worcester, and a head
+Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+And so there is. But yet the King hath drawn
+The special head of all the land together:
+The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
+The noble Westmoreland, and warlike Blunt,
+And many more corrivals and dear men
+Of estimation and command in arms.
+
+SIR MICHAEL.
+Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+I hope no less, yet needful ’tis to fear;
+And to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed.
+For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the King
+Dismiss his power he means to visit us,
+For he hath heard of our confederacy,
+And ’tis but wisdom to make strong against him.
+Therefore make haste. I must go write again
+To other friends; and so, farewell, Sir Michael.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+
+SCENE I. The King’s Camp near Shrewsbury.
+
+Enter King Henry, Prince Henry, Lancaster, Sir Walter Blunt and Sir
+John Falstaff.
+
+KING.
+How bloodily the sun begins to peer
+Above yon bulky hill! The day looks pale
+At his distemp’rature.
+
+PRINCE.
+The southern wind
+Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,
+And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
+Foretells a tempest and a blust’ring day.
+
+KING.
+Then with the losers let it sympathize,
+For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
+
+[_The trumpet sounds_.]
+
+Enter Worcester and Vernon.
+
+How, now, my Lord of Worcester! ’Tis not well
+That you and I should meet upon such terms
+As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,
+And made us doff our easy robes of peace,
+To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
+This is not well, my lord, this is not well.
+What say you to it? Will you again unknit
+This churlish knot of all-abhorred war,
+And move in that obedient orb again
+Where you did give a fair and natural light,
+And be no more an exhaled meteor,
+A prodigy of fear, and a portent
+Of broached mischief to the unborn times?
+
+WORCESTER.
+Hear me, my liege:
+For mine own part, I could be well content
+To entertain the lag end of my life
+With quiet hours. For I do protest
+I have not sought the day of this dislike.
+
+KING.
+You have not sought it? How comes it, then?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
+
+PRINCE.
+Peace, chewet, peace!
+
+WORCESTER.
+It pleased your Majesty to turn your looks
+Of favour from myself and all our house;
+And yet I must remember you, my lord,
+We were the first and dearest of your friends.
+For you my staff of office did I break
+In Richard’s time, and posted day and night
+To meet you on the way, and kiss your hand,
+When yet you were in place and in account
+Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.
+It was myself, my brother, and his son,
+That brought you home, and boldly did outdare
+The dangers of the time. You swore to us,
+And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,
+That you did nothing purpose ’gainst the state,
+Nor claim no further than your new-fall’n right,
+The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster.
+To this we swore our aid. But in short space
+It rain’d down fortune show’ring on your head,
+And such a flood of greatness fell on you,
+What with our help, what with the absent King,
+What with the injuries of a wanton time,
+The seeming sufferances that you had borne,
+And the contrarious winds that held the King
+So long in his unlucky Irish wars
+That all in England did repute him dead:
+And from this swarm of fair advantages
+You took occasion to be quickly woo’d
+To gripe the general sway into your hand,
+Forgot your oath to us at Doncaster;
+And, being fed by us, you used us so
+As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo’s bird,
+Useth the sparrow—did oppress our nest,
+Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
+That even our love durst not come near your sight
+For fear of swallowing; but with nimble wing
+We were enforced, for safety sake to fly
+Out of your sight, and raise this present head,
+Whereby we stand opposed by such means
+As you yourself have forged against yourself,
+By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,
+And violation of all faith and troth
+Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.
+
+KING.
+These things, indeed, you have articulate,
+Proclaim’d at market crosses, read in churches,
+To face the garment of rebellion
+With some fine colour that may please the eye
+Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,
+Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
+Of hurlyburly innovation.
+And never yet did insurrection want
+Such water-colours to impaint his cause,
+Nor moody beggars starving for a time
+Of pellmell havoc and confusion.
+
+PRINCE.
+In both your armies there is many a soul
+Shall pay full dearly for this encounter
+If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew,
+The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world
+In praise of Henry Percy. By my hopes,
+This present enterprise set off his head,
+I do not think a braver gentleman,
+More active-valiant or more valiant-young,
+More daring or more bold, is now alive
+To grace this latter age with noble deeds.
+For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
+I have a truant been to chivalry,
+And so I hear he doth account me too.
+Yet this before my father’s Majesty—
+I am content that he shall take the odds
+Of his great name and estimation,
+And will, to save the blood on either side,
+Try fortune with him in a single fight.
+
+KING.
+And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,
+Albeit considerations infinite
+Do make against it.—No, good Worcester, no.
+We love our people well, even those we love
+That are misled upon your cousin’s part,
+And, will they take the offer of our grace,
+Both he, and they, and you, yea, every man
+Shall be my friend again, and I’ll be his.
+So tell your cousin, and then bring me word
+What he will do. But if he will not yield,
+Rebuke and dread correction wait on us,
+And they shall do their office. So, be gone;
+We will not now be troubled with reply.
+We offer fair, take it advisedly.
+
+[_Exit Worcester with Vernon._]
+
+PRINCE.
+It will not be accepted, on my life.
+The Douglas and the Hotspur both together
+Are confident against the world in arms.
+
+KING.
+Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
+For on their answer, will we set on them,
+And God befriend us as our cause is just!
+
+[_Exeunt the King, Blunt and Prince John._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and bestride me, so; ’tis a
+point of friendship.
+
+PRINCE.
+Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship.
+Say thy prayers, and farewell.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I would ’twere bedtime, Hal, and all well.
+
+PRINCE.
+Why, thou owest God a death.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+’Tis not due yet, I would be loth to pay Him before His day. What need
+I be so forward with Him that calls not on me? Well, ’tis no matter,
+honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come
+on? How then? Can honor set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away
+the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No.
+What is honour? A word. What is in that word, “honour”? What is that
+“honour”? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o’
+Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth be hear it? No. ’Tis insensible,
+then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why?
+Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it. Honour is a
+mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The Rebel Camp.
+
+Enter Worcester and Vernon.
+
+WORCESTER.
+O no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,
+The liberal and kind offer of the King.
+
+VERNON.
+’Twere best he did.
+
+WORCESTER.
+Then are we all undone.
+It is not possible, it cannot be,
+The King should keep his word in loving us;
+He will suspect us still, and find a time
+To punish this offence in other faults.
+Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes,
+For treason is but trusted like the fox,
+Who, ne’er so tame, so cherish’d and lock’d up,
+Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
+Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
+Interpretation will misquote our looks,
+And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,
+The better cherish’d still the nearer death.
+My nephew’s trespass may be well forgot,
+It hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,
+And an adopted name of privilege—
+A hare-brain’d Hotspur, govern’d by a spleen.
+All his offences live upon my head
+And on his father’s. We did train him on,
+And, his corruption being ta’en from us,
+We as the spring of all shall pay for all.
+Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know
+In any case the offer of the King.
+
+VERNON.
+Deliver what you will, I’ll say ’tis so.
+Here comes your cousin.
+
+Enter Hotspur and Douglas; Officers and Soldiers behind.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+My uncle is return’d.
+Deliver up my Lord of Westmoreland.
+Uncle, what news?
+
+WORCESTER.
+The King will bid you battle presently.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Defy him by the Lord Of Westmoreland.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Marry, I shall, and very willingly.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+WORCESTER.
+There is no seeming mercy in the King.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Did you beg any? God forbid!
+
+WORCESTER.
+I told him gently of our grievances,
+Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus,
+By now forswearing that he is forsworn.
+He calls us rebels, traitors, and will scourge
+With haughty arms this hateful name in us.
+
+Enter Douglas.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Arm, gentlemen; to arms! For I have thrown
+A brave defiance in King Henry’s teeth,
+And Westmoreland, that was engaged, did bear it,
+Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.
+
+WORCESTER.
+The Prince of Wales stepp’d forth before the King,
+And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,
+And that no man might draw short breath today
+But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,
+How show’d his tasking? Seem’d it in contempt?
+
+VERNON.
+No, by my soul. I never in my life
+Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
+Unless a brother should a brother dare
+To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
+He gave you all the duties of a man,
+Trimm’d up your praises with a princely tongue,
+Spoke your deservings like a chronicle,
+Making you ever better than his praise
+By still dispraising praise valued with you,
+And, which became him like a prince indeed,
+He made a blushing cital of himself,
+And chid his truant youth with such a grace
+As if he master’d there a double spirit
+Of teaching and of learning instantly.
+There did he pause: but let me tell the world,
+If he outlive the envy of this day,
+England did never owe so sweet a hope
+So much misconstrued in his wantonness.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Cousin, I think thou art enamoured
+Upon his follies. Never did I hear
+Of any prince so wild a liberty.
+But be he as he will, yet once ere night
+I will embrace him with a soldier’s arm,
+That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
+Arm, arm with speed! And, fellows, soldiers, friends,
+Better consider what you have to do
+Than I that have not well the gift of tongue
+Can lift your blood up with persuasion.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, here are letters for you.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I cannot read them now.—
+O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
+To spend that shortness basely were too long
+If life did ride upon a dial’s point,
+Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
+And if we live, we live to tread on kings;
+If die, brave death, when princes die with us!
+Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair
+When the intent of bearing them is just.
+
+Enter another Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, prepare. The King comes on apace.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I thank him that he cuts me from my tale,
+For I profess not talking. Only this:
+Let each man do his best. And here draw I
+A sword whose temper I intend to stain
+With the best blood that I can meet withal
+In the adventure of this perilous day.
+Now, Esperance! Percy! And set on.
+Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
+And by that music let us all embrace,
+For, Heaven to Earth, some of us never shall
+A second time do such a courtesy.
+
+[_The trumpets sound. They embrace, and exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Plain between the Camps.
+
+The King enters with his power. Alarum to the battle. Then enter
+Douglas and Sir Walter Blunt.
+
+BLUNT.
+What is thy name that in the battle thus
+Thou crossest me? What honour dost thou seek
+Upon my head?
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Know then my name is Douglas,
+And I do haunt thee in the battle thus
+Because some tell me that thou art a king.
+
+BLUNT.
+They tell thee true.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+The Lord of Stafford dear today hath bought
+Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,
+This sword hath ended him. So shall it thee,
+Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.
+
+BLUNT.
+I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot,
+And thou shalt find a king that will revenge
+Lord Stafford’s death.
+
+[_They fight, and Blunt is slain._]
+
+Enter Hotspur.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,
+I never had triumphed upon a Scot.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+All’s done, all’s won; here breathless lies the King.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Where?
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Here.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+This, Douglas? No, I know this face full well.
+A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt,
+Semblably furnish’d like the King himself.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes!
+A borrow’d title hast thou bought too dear.
+Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?
+
+HOTSPUR.
+The King hath many marching in his coats.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats;
+I’ll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,
+Until I meet the King.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Up, and away!
+Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Alarums. Enter Falstaff solus.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Though I could scape shot-free at London, I fear the shot here. Here’s
+no scoring but upon the pate.—Soft! who are you? Sir Walter Blunt.
+There’s honour for you. Here’s no vanity. I am as hot as molten lead,
+and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me, I need no more weight than
+mine own bowels. I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered.
+There’s not three of my hundred and fifty left alive, and they are for
+the town’s end, to beg during life. But who comes here?
+
+Enter Prince Henry.
+
+PRINCE.
+What, stand’st thou idle here? Lend me thy sword.
+Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
+Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,
+Whose deaths are yet unrevenged. I prithee
+Lend me thy sword.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+O Hal, I prithee give me leave to breathe awhile. Turk Gregory never
+did such deeds in arms as I have done this day. I have paid Percy, I
+have made him sure.
+
+PRINCE.
+He is indeed, and living to kill thee.
+I prithee, lend me thy sword.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou gett’st not my sword; but
+take my pistol, if thou wilt.
+
+PRINCE.
+Give it me. What, is it in the case?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ay, Hal, ’tis hot, ’tis hot. There’s that will sack a city.
+
+[_The Prince draws out a bottle of sack._]
+
+PRINCE.
+What, is it a time to jest and dally now?
+
+[_Throws it at him, and exit._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, if Percy be alive, I’ll pierce him. If he do come in my way, so;
+if he do not, if I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of
+me. I like not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life,
+which if I can save, so: if not, honour comes unlooked for, and there’s
+an end.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another Part of the Field.
+
+Alarums. Excursions. Enter King Henry, Prince Henry, Lancaster and
+Westmoreland.
+
+KING.
+I prithee, Harry, withdraw thyself, thou bleedest too much.
+Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.
+
+PRINCE.
+I do beseech your Majesty, make up,
+Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
+
+KING.
+I will do so. My Lord of Westmoreland,
+Lead him to his tent.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Come, my lord, I’ll lead you to your tent.
+
+PRINCE.
+Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help,
+And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
+The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,
+Where stain’d nobility lies trodden on,
+And rebels’ arms triumph in massacres!
+
+LANCASTER.
+We breathe too long. Come, cousin Westmoreland,
+Our duty this way lies. For God’s sake, come.
+
+[_Exeunt Lancaster and Westmoreland._]
+
+PRINCE.
+By Heaven, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster,
+I did not think thee lord of such a spirit.
+Before, I loved thee as a brother, John,
+But now I do respect thee as my soul.
+
+KING.
+I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
+With lustier maintenance than I did look for
+Of such an ungrown warrior.
+
+PRINCE.
+O, this boy
+Lends mettle to us all!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Douglas.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+Another king! They grow like Hydra’s heads.
+I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
+That wear those colours on them. What art thou
+That counterfeit’st the person of a king?
+
+KING.
+The King himself, who, Douglas, grieves at heart
+So many of his shadows thou hast met,
+And not the very King. I have two boys
+Seek Percy and thyself about the field,
+But, seeing thou fall’st on me so luckily,
+I will assay thee, and defend thyself.
+
+DOUGLAS.
+I fear thou art another counterfeit,
+And yet, in faith, thou bearest thee like a king.
+But mine I am sure thou art, whoe’er thou be,
+And thus I win thee.
+
+They fight; the King being in danger, enter Prince Henry.
+
+PRINCE.
+Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like
+Never to hold it up again! The spirits
+Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt are in my arms.
+It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,
+Who never promiseth but he means to pay.
+
+[_They fight. Douglas flies._]
+
+Cheerly, my lord. How fares your Grace?
+Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent,
+And so hath Clifton. I’ll to Clifton straight.
+
+KING.
+Stay and breathe awhile.
+Thou hast redeem’d thy lost opinion,
+And show’d thou mak’st some tender of my life,
+In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
+
+PRINCE.
+O God, they did me too much injury
+That ever said I hearken’d for your death.
+If it were so, I might have let alone
+The insulting hand of Douglas over you,
+Which would have been as speedy in your end
+As all the poisonous potions in the world,
+And saved the treacherous labour of your son.
+
+KING.
+Make up to Clifton. I’ll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Hotspur.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.
+
+PRINCE.
+Thou speak’st as if I would deny my name.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+My name is Harry Percy.
+
+PRINCE.
+Why then I see
+A very valiant rebel of the name.
+I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
+To share with me in glory any more.
+Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
+Nor can one England brook a double reign,
+Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come
+To end the one of us, and would to God
+Thy name in arms were now as great as mine!
+
+PRINCE.
+I’ll make it greater ere I part from thee,
+And all the budding honours on thy crest
+I’ll crop to make a garland for my head.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+I can no longer brook thy vanities.
+
+[_They fight._]
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well said, Hal! To it, Hal! Nay, you shall find no boy’s play here, I
+can tell you.
+
+Enter Douglas. He fights with Falstaff, who falls down as if he were
+dead, and exit Douglas. The Prince kills Hotspur.
+
+HOTSPUR.
+O Harry, thou hast robb’d me of my youth!
+I better brook the loss of brittle life
+Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;
+They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh.
+But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time’s fool,
+And time, that takes survey of all the world,
+Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,
+But that the earthy and cold hand of death
+Lies on my tongue. No, Percy, thou art dust,
+And food for—
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+PRINCE.
+For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart!
+Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
+When that this body did contain a spirit,
+A kingdom for it was too small a bound;
+But now two paces of the vilest earth
+Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead
+Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
+If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
+I should not make so dear a show of zeal.
+But let my favours hide thy mangled face;
+And even in thy behalf I’ll thank myself
+For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
+Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!
+Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
+But not remember’d in thy epitaph!
+
+[_Sees Falstaff on the ground._]
+
+What, old acquaintance, could not all this flesh
+Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell!
+I could have better spared a better man.
+O, I should have a heavy miss of thee
+If I were much in love with vanity.
+Death hath not struck so fat a deer today,
+Though many dearer, in this bloody fray.
+Embowell’d will I see thee by and by,
+Till then in blood by noble Percy lie.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Falstaff rises up.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Embowell’d! If thou embowel me today, I’ll give you leave to powder me
+and eat me too tomorrow. ’Sblood, ’twas time to counterfeit, or that
+hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I
+am no counterfeit. To die, is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the
+counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit
+dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true
+and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valour is
+discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. Zounds, I am
+afraid of this gunpowder Percy, though he be dead. How if he should
+counterfeit too, and rise? By my faith, I am afraid he would prove the
+better counterfeit. Therefore I’ll make him sure, yea, and I’ll swear I
+killed him. Why may not he rise as well as I? Nothing confutes me but
+eyes, and nobody sees me. Therefore, sirrah, with a new wound in your
+thigh, come you along with me.
+
+[_Takes Hotspur on his back._]
+
+Enter Prince Henry and Lancaster.
+
+PRINCE.
+Come, brother John, full bravely hast thou flesh’d
+Thy maiden sword.
+
+LANCASTER.
+But soft, whom have we here?
+Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?
+
+PRINCE.
+I did; I saw him dead,
+Breathless and bleeding on the ground.—Art thou alive?
+Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
+I prithee, speak, we will not trust our eyes
+Without our ears. Thou art not what thou seem’st.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No, that’s certain, I am not a double man. But if I be not Jack
+Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy! [_Throwing the body down._]
+If your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the next
+Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you.
+
+PRINCE.
+Why, Percy I kill’d myself, and saw thee dead.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I
+was down and out of breath, and so was he, but we rose both at an
+instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be
+believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour bear the sin
+upon their own heads. I’ll take it upon my death, I gave him this wound
+in the thigh. If the man were alive, and would deny it, zounds, I would
+make him eat a piece of my sword.
+
+LANCASTER.
+This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.
+
+PRINCE.
+This is the strangest fellow, brother John.—
+Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back.
+For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
+I’ll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
+
+[_A retreat is sounded._]
+
+The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.
+Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,
+To see what friends are living, who are dead.
+
+[_Exeunt Prince Henry and Lancaster._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I’ll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward
+him! If I do grow great, I’ll grow less, for I’ll purge, and leave
+sack, and live cleanly as a nobleman should do.
+
+[_Exit, bearing off the body._]
+
+SCENE V. Another Part of the Field.
+
+The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry, Prince Henry, Lancaster,
+Westmoreland and others, with Worcester and Vernon prisoners.
+
+KING.
+Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
+Ill-spirited Worcester, did not we send grace,
+Pardon, and terms of love to all of you?
+And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?
+Misuse the tenour of thy kinsman’s trust?
+Three knights upon our party slain today,
+A noble earl, and many a creature else,
+Had been alive this hour,
+If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne
+Betwixt our armies true intelligence.
+
+WORCESTER.
+What I have done my safety urged me to;
+And I embrace this fortune patiently,
+Since not to be avoided it falls on me.
+
+KING.
+Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too.
+Other offenders we will pause upon.
+
+[_Exeunt Worcester and Vernon, guarded._]
+
+How goes the field?
+
+PRINCE.
+The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw
+The fortune of the day quite turn’d from him,
+The noble Percy slain, and all his men
+Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest,
+And, falling from a hill, he was so bruised
+That the pursuers took him. At my tent
+The Douglas is, and I beseech your Grace
+I may dispose of him.
+
+KING.
+With all my heart.
+
+PRINCE.
+Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you
+This honourable bounty shall belong.
+Go to the Douglas and deliver him
+Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free.
+His valours shown upon our crests today
+Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,
+Even in the bosom of our adversaries.
+
+LANCASTER.
+I thank your Grace for this high courtesy,
+Which I shall give away immediately.
+
+KING.
+Then this remains, that we divide our power.
+You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland,
+Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed
+To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,
+Who, as we hear, are busily in arms.
+Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
+To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.
+Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
+Meeting the check of such another day,
+And since this business so fair is done,
+Let us not leave till all our own be won.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ INDUCTION
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. The same.
+ Scene II. London. A street.
+ Scene III. York. The Archbishop’s palace.
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. London. A street.
+ Scene II. London. Another street.
+ Scene III. Warkworth. Before the castle.
+ Scene IV. The Boar’s head Tavern in Eastcheap.
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. Westminster. The palace.
+ Scene II. Gloucestershire. Before Justice Shallow’s house.
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest.
+ Scene II. Another part of the forest.
+ Scene III. Another part of the forest.
+ Scene IV. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber.
+ Scene V. Another chamber.
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Gloucestershire. Shallow’s house.
+ Scene II. Westminster. The palace.
+ Scene III. Gloucestershire. Shallow’s orchard.
+ Scene IV. London. A street.
+ Scene V. A public place near Westminster Abbey.
+
+ EPILOGUE
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+RUMOUR, the Presenter.
+KING HENRY the Fourth.
+HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, afterwards King Henry the Fifth.
+THOMAS, DUKE OF CLARENCE.
+PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER.
+PRINCE HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER.
+EARL OF WARWICK.
+EARL OF WESTMORELAND.
+EARL OF SURREY.
+GOWER.
+HARCOURT.
+SIR JOHN BLUNT.
+Lord CHIEF JUSTICE of the King’s Bench.
+A SERVANT of the Chief Justice.
+Henry Percy, Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Scroop, ARCHBISHOP of York.
+Lord MOWBRAY.
+Lord HASTINGS.
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+SIR JOHN COLEVILLE.
+TRAVERS and MORTON, retainers of Northumberland.
+SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.
+His Page.
+BARDOLPH.
+PISTOL.
+POINS.
+PETO.
+SHALLOW and SILENCE, country justices.
+DAVY, Servant to Shallow.
+MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, and BULLCALF, recruits.
+FANG and SNARE, sheriff’s officers.
+
+LADY NORTHUMBERLAND.
+LADY PERCY.
+MISTRESS QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap.
+DOLL TEARSHEET.
+
+Lords and Attendants; Porter, Drawers, Musicians, Beadles, Grooms, etc.
+
+A Dancer, speaker of the epilogue.
+
+SCENE: England.
+
+
+
+
+INDUCTION
+
+
+Warkworth. Before the castle.
+
+Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues.
+
+RUMOUR.
+Open your ears; for which of you will stop
+The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
+I, from the orient to the drooping west,
+Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
+The acts commenced on this ball of earth.
+Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
+The which in every language I pronounce,
+Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
+I speak of peace, while covert enmity
+Under the smile of safety wounds the world.
+And who but Rumour, who but only I,
+Make fearful musters and prepared defence,
+Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,
+Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,
+And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
+Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,
+And of so easy and so plain a stop
+That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
+The still-discordant wav’ring multitude,
+Can play upon it. But what need I thus
+My well-known body to anatomize
+Among my household? Why is Rumour here?
+I run before King Harry’s victory,
+Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury
+Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,
+Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
+Even with the rebels’ blood. But what mean I
+To speak so true at first? My office is
+To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
+Under the wrath of noble Hotspur’s sword,
+And that the King before the Douglas’ rage
+Stoop’d his anointed head as low as death.
+This have I rumour’d through the peasant towns
+Between that royal field of Shrewsbury
+And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,
+Where Hotspur’s father, old Northumberland,
+Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on,
+And not a man of them brings other news
+Than they have learnt of me. From Rumour’s tongues
+They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. The same.
+
+Enter Lord Bardolph.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+Who keeps the gate here, ho?
+
+The Porter opens the gate.
+
+Where is the Earl?
+
+PORTER.
+What shall I say you are?
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+Tell thou the Earl
+That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here.
+
+PORTER.
+His lordship is walk’d forth into the orchard.
+Please it your honour knock but at the gate,
+And he himself will answer.
+
+Enter Northumberland.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+Here comes the Earl.
+
+ [_Exit Porter._]
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+What news, Lord Bardolph? Every minute now
+Should be the father of some stratagem.
+The times are wild; contention, like a horse
+Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose
+And bears down all before him.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+Noble earl,
+I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Good, an God will!
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+As good as heart can wish.
+The King is almost wounded to the death;
+And, in the fortune of my lord your son,
+Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts
+Kill’d by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John
+And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field;
+And Harry Monmouth’s brawn, the hulk Sir John,
+Is prisoner to your son. O, such a day,
+So fought, so follow’d and so fairly won,
+Came not till now to dignify the times
+Since Caesar’s fortunes!
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+How is this derived?
+Saw you the field? Came you from Shrewsbury?
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+I spake with one, my lord, that came from thence,
+A gentleman well bred and of good name,
+That freely render’d me these news for true.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Here comes my servant Travers, whom I sent
+On Tuesday last to listen after news.
+
+Enter Travers.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+My lord, I over-rode him on the way,
+And he is furnish’d with no certainties
+More than he haply may retail from me.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you?
+
+TRAVERS.
+My lord, Sir John Umfrevile turn’d me back
+With joyful tidings, and, being better horsed,
+Out-rode me. After him came spurring hard
+A gentleman, almost forspent with speed,
+That stopp’d by me to breathe his bloodied horse.
+He ask’d the way to Chester, and of him
+I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.
+He told me that rebellion had bad luck
+And that young Harry Percy’s spur was cold.
+With that he gave his able horse the head,
+And bending forward struck his armed heels
+Against the panting sides of his poor jade
+Up to the rowel-head, and starting so
+He seem’d in running to devour the way,
+Staying no longer question.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Ha? Again:
+Said he young Harry Percy’s spur was cold?
+Of Hotspur, Coldspur? That rebellion
+Had met ill luck?
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+My lord, I’ll tell you what:
+If my young lord your son have not the day,
+Upon mine honour, for a silken point
+I’ll give my barony, never talk of it.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Why should that gentleman that rode by Travers
+Give then such instances of loss?
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+Who, he?
+He was some hilding fellow that had stolen
+The horse he rode on, and, upon my life,
+Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news.
+
+Enter Morton.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Yea, this man’s brow, like to a title-leaf,
+Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.
+So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood
+Hath left a witness’d usurpation.
+Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury?
+
+MORTON.
+I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord,
+Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask
+To fright our party.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+How doth my son and brother?
+Thou tremblest, and the whiteness in thy cheek
+Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
+Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
+So dull, so dread in look, so woe-begone,
+Drew Priam’s curtain in the dead of night,
+And would have told him half his Troy was burnt;
+But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue,
+And I my Percy’s death ere thou report’st it.
+This thou wouldst say: “Your son did thus and thus;
+Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas”
+Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds:
+But in the end, to stop my ear indeed,
+Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,
+Ending with “Brother, son, and all are dead.”
+
+MORTON.
+Douglas is living, and your brother, yet;
+But, for my lord your son—
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Why, he is dead.
+See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
+He that but fears the thing he would not know
+Hath by instinct knowledge from others’ eyes
+That what he fear’d is chanced. Yet speak, Morton;
+Tell thou an earl his divination lies,
+And I will take it as a sweet disgrace
+And make thee rich for doing me such wrong.
+
+MORTON.
+You are too great to be by me gainsaid,
+Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Yet, for all this, say not that Percy’s dead.
+I see a strange confession in thine eye.
+Thou shakest thy head and hold’st it fear or sin
+To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so.
+The tongue offends not that reports his death;
+And he doth sin that doth belie the dead,
+Not he which says the dead is not alive.
+Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
+Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
+Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
+Remember’d tolling a departing friend.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead.
+
+MORTON.
+I am sorry I should force you to believe
+That which I would to God I had not seen;
+But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state,
+Rend’ring faint quittance, wearied and outbreathed,
+To Harry Monmouth, whose swift wrath beat down
+The never-daunted Percy to the earth,
+From whence with life he never more sprung up.
+In few, his death, whose spirit lent a fire
+Even to the dullest peasant in his camp,
+Being bruited once, took fire and heat away
+From the best-temper’d courage in his troops;
+For from his metal was his party steel’d,
+Which once in him abated, all the rest
+Turn’d on themselves, like dull and heavy lead.
+And as the thing that’s heavy in itself
+Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed,
+So did our men, heavy in Hotspur’s loss,
+Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear
+That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim
+Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety,
+Fly from the field. Then was that noble Worcester
+Too soon ta’en prisoner; and that furious Scot,
+The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword
+Had three times slain th’ appearance of the King,
+Gan vail his stomach and did grace the shame
+Of those that turn’d their backs, and in his flight,
+Stumbling in fear, was took. The sum of all
+Is that the King hath won, and hath sent out
+A speedy power to encounter you, my lord,
+Under the conduct of young Lancaster
+And Westmoreland. This is the news at full.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+For this I shall have time enough to mourn.
+In poison there is physic; and these news,
+Having been well, that would have made me sick,
+Being sick, have in some measure made me well.
+And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken’d joints,
+Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,
+Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire
+Out of his keeper’s arms, even so my limbs,
+Weaken’d with grief, being now enraged with grief,
+Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice crutch!
+A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel
+Must glove this hand. And hence, thou sickly coif!
+Thou art a guard too wanton for the head
+Which princes, flesh’d with conquest, aim to hit.
+Now bind my brows with iron, and approach
+The ragged’st hour that time and spite dare bring
+To frown upon th’ enraged Northumberland!
+Let heaven kiss earth! Now let not Nature’s hand
+Keep the wild flood confined! Let order die!
+And let this world no longer be a stage
+To feed contention in a lingering act;
+But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
+Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set
+On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,
+And darkness be the burier of the dead!
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord.
+
+MORTON.
+Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.
+The lives of all your loving complices
+Lean on your health; the which, if you give o’er
+To stormy passion, must perforce decay.
+You cast th’ event of war, my noble lord,
+And summ’d the account of chance, before you said
+“Let us make head.” It was your presurmise
+That in the dole of blows your son might drop.
+You knew he walk’d o’er perils, on an edge,
+More likely to fall in than to get o’er.
+You were advised his flesh was capable
+Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit
+Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged.
+Yet did you say “Go forth;” and none of this,
+Though strongly apprehended, could restrain
+The stiff-borne action. What hath then befall’n,
+Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth,
+More than that being which was like to be?
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+We all that are engaged to this loss
+Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas
+That if we wrought out life ’twas ten to one;
+And yet we ventured, for the gain proposed
+Choked the respect of likely peril fear’d;
+And since we are o’erset, venture again.
+Come, we will put forth, body and goods.
+
+MORTON.
+’Tis more than time. And, my most noble lord,
+I hear for certain, and dare speak the truth:
+The gentle Archbishop of York is up
+With well-appointed powers. He is a man
+Who with a double surety binds his followers.
+My lord your son had only but the corpse,
+But shadows and the shows of men, to fight;
+For that same word, “rebellion” did divide
+The action of their bodies from their souls,
+And they did fight with queasiness, constrain’d,
+As men drink potions, that their weapons only
+Seem’d on our side; but, for their spirits and souls,
+This word, “rebellion,” it had froze them up,
+As fish are in a pond. But now the bishop
+Turns insurrection to religion.
+Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts,
+He’s follow’d both with body and with mind,
+And doth enlarge his rising with the blood
+Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones;
+Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause;
+Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land,
+Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke;
+And more and less do flock to follow him.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+I knew of this before; but, to speak truth,
+This present grief had wiped it from my mind.
+Go in with me, and counsel every man
+The aptest way for safety and revenge.
+Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed.
+Never so few, and never yet more need.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. London. A street.
+
+Enter Falstaff, with his Page bearing his sword and buckler.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water?
+
+PAGE.
+He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy water; but, for the
+party that owed it, he might have moe diseases than he knew for.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The brain of this
+foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends
+to laughter more than I invent, or is invented on me. I am not only
+witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk
+before thee like a sow that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If
+the Prince put thee into my service for any other reason than to set me
+off, why then I have no judgement. Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art
+fitter to be worn in my cap than to wait at my heels. I was never
+manned with an agate till now, but I will inset you neither in gold nor
+silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master,
+for a jewel,—the juvenal, the Prince your master, whose chin is not yet
+fledge. I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he
+shall get one off his cheek; and yet he will not stick to say his face
+is a face-royal. God may finish it when He will, ’tis not a hair amiss
+yet. He may keep it still at a face-royal, for a barber shall never
+earn sixpence out of it. And yet he’ll be crowing as if he had writ man
+ever since his father was a bachelor. He may keep his own grace, but
+he’s almost out of mine, I can assure him. What said Master Dommelton
+about the satin for my short cloak and my slops?
+
+PAGE.
+He said, sir, you should procure him better assurance than Bardolph. He
+would not take his band and yours, he liked not the security.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let him be damned like the glutton! Pray God his tongue be hotter! A
+whoreson Achitophel! A rascally yea-forsooth knave, to bear a gentleman
+in hand, and then stand upon security! The whoreson smooth-pates do now
+wear nothing but high shoes and bunches of keys at their girdles; and
+if a man is through with them in honest taking up, then they must stand
+upon security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth as
+offer to stop it with security. I looked he should have sent me two and
+twenty yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he sends me
+“security”. Well, he may sleep in security, for he hath the horn of
+abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through it; and yet
+cannot he see, though he have his own lanthorn to light him. Where’s
+Bardolph?
+
+PAGE.
+He’s gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I bought him in Paul’s, and he’ll buy me a horse in Smithfield. An I
+could get me but a wife in the stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived.
+
+Enter the Lord Chief Justice and Servant.
+
+PAGE.
+Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the Prince for striking him
+about Bardolph.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Wait close, I will not see him.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+What’s he that goes there?
+
+SERVANT.
+Falstaff, an ’t please your lordship.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+He that was in question for the robbery?
+
+SERVANT.
+He, my lord; but he hath since done good service at Shrewsbury, and, as
+I hear, is now going with some charge to the Lord John of Lancaster.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+What, to York? Call him back again.
+
+SERVANT.
+Sir John Falstaff!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Boy, tell him I am deaf.
+
+PAGE.
+You must speak louder, my master is deaf.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I am sure he is, to the hearing of anything good.
+Go pluck him by the elbow, I must speak with him.
+
+SERVANT.
+Sir John!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What! A young knave, and begging! Is there not wars? Is there not
+employment? Doth not the King lack subjects? Do not the rebels need
+soldiers? Though it be a shame to be on any side but one, it is worse
+shame to beg than to be on the worst side, were it worse than the name
+of rebellion can tell how to make it.
+
+SERVANT.
+You mistake me, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Why, sir, did I say you were an honest man? Setting my knighthood and
+my soldiership aside, I had lied in my throat if I had said so.
+
+SERVANT.
+I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and your soldiership aside,
+and give me leave to tell you, you lie in your throat, if you say I am
+any other than an honest man.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I give thee leave to tell me so? I lay aside that which grows to me? If
+thou get’st any leave of me, hang me; if thou tak’st leave, thou wert
+better be hanged. You hunt counter. Hence! Avaunt!
+
+SERVANT.
+Sir, my lord would speak with you.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Sir John Falstaff, a word with you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My good lord! God give your lordship good time of day. I am glad to see
+your lordship abroad. I heard say your lordship was sick. I hope your
+lordship goes abroad by advice. Your lordship, though not clean past
+your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the
+saltness of time; and I most humbly beseech your lordship to have a
+reverend care of your health.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Sir John, I sent for you before your expedition to Shrewsbury.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+An ’t please your lordship, I hear his Majesty is returned with some
+discomfort from Wales.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I talk not of his Majesty. You would not come when I sent for you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+And I hear, moreover, his Highness is fallen into this same whoreson
+apoplexy.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Well, God mend him! I pray you let me speak with you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an ’t please your
+lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+What tell you me of it? Be it as it is.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+It hath it original from much grief, from study and perturbation of the
+brain. I have read the cause of his effects in Galen. It is a kind of
+deafness.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I think you are fallen into the disease, for you hear not what I say to
+you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Very well, my lord, very well. Rather, an ’t please you, it is the
+disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled
+withal.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+To punish you by the heels would amend the attention of your ears, and
+I care not if I do become your physician.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. Your lordship may
+minister the potion of imprisonment to me in respect of poverty; but
+how I should be your patient to follow your prescriptions, the wise may
+make some dram of a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I sent for you, when there were matters against you for your life, to
+come speak with me.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+As I was then advised by my learned counsel in the laws of this
+land-service, I did not come.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live in great infamy.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+He that buckles himself in my belt cannot live in less.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I would it were otherwise, I would my means were greater and my waist
+slenderer.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+You have misled the youthful prince.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+The young prince hath misled me. I am the fellow with the great belly,
+and he my dog.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed wound. Your day’s service at
+Shrewsbury hath a little gilded over your night’s exploit on Gad’s
+Hill. You may thank th’ unquiet time for your quiet o’er-posting that
+action.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My lord!
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+But since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+To wake a wolf is as bad as smell a fox.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+What! You are as a candle, the better part burnt out.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow. If I did say of wax, my growth
+would approve the truth.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+There is not a white hair in your face but should have his effect of
+gravity.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+You follow the young prince up and down, like his ill angel.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Not so, my lord, your ill angel is light, but I hope he that looks upon
+me will take me without weighing. And yet in some respects, I grant, I
+cannot go. I cannot tell. Virtue is of so little regard in these
+costermongers’ times that true valour is turned bearherd; pregnancy is
+made a tapster, and hath his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings. All
+the other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes
+them, are not worth a gooseberry. You that are old consider not the
+capacities of us that are young; you do measure the heat of our livers
+with the bitterness of your galls, and we that are in the vaward of our
+youth, I must confess, are wags too.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down
+old with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye, a dry
+hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing
+belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double,
+your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? And
+will you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a
+white head and something a round belly. For my voice, I have lost it
+with halloing and singing of anthems. To approve my youth further, I
+will not. The truth is, I am only old in judgement and understanding;
+and he that will caper with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me
+the money, and have at him! For the box of the ear that the Prince gave
+you, he gave it like a rude prince, and you took it like a sensible
+lord. I have checked him for it, and the young lion repents. Marry, not
+in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Well, God send the Prince a better companion!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+God send the companion a better prince! I cannot rid my hands of him.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Well, the King hath severed you and Prince Harry. I hear you are going
+with Lord John of Lancaster against the Archbishop and the Earl of
+Northumberland.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Yea, I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But look you pray, all you
+that kiss my lady Peace at home, that our armies join not in a hot day;
+for, by the Lord, I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean not to
+sweat extraordinarily. If it be a hot day, and I brandish anything but
+a bottle, I would I might never spit white again. There is not a
+dangerous action can peep out his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I
+cannot last ever. But it was alway yet the trick of our English nation,
+if they have a good thing, to make it too common. If ye will needs say
+I am an old man, you should give me rest. I would to God my name were
+not so terrible to the enemy as it is. I were better to be eaten to
+death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Well, be honest, be honest, and God bless your expedition!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound to furnish me forth?
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Not a penny, not a penny; you are too impatient to bear crosses. Fare
+you well: commend me to my cousin Westmoreland.
+
+ [_Exeunt Chief Justice and Servant._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A man can no more separate
+age and covetousness than he can part young limbs and lechery: but the
+gout galls the one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the
+degrees prevent my curses. Boy!
+
+PAGE.
+Sir?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What money is in my purse?
+
+PAGE.
+Seven groats and two pence.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse. Borrowing
+only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. Go bear
+this letter to my Lord of Lancaster; this to the Prince; this to the
+Earl of Westmoreland; and this to old Mistress Ursula, whom I have
+weekly sworn to marry since I perceived the first white hair of my
+chin. About it. You know where to find me. [_Exit Page_.] A pox of this
+gout! or a gout of this pox! for the one or the other plays the rogue
+with my great toe. ’Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my
+colour, and my pension shall seem the more reasonable. A good wit will
+make use of anything. I will turn diseases to commodity.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. York. The Archbishop’s palace.
+
+Enter the Archbishop, the Lords Hastings, Mowbray and Bardolph.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Thus have you heard our cause and known our means,
+And, my most noble friends, I pray you all
+Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes.
+And first, Lord Marshal, what say you to it?
+
+MOWBRAY.
+I well allow the occasion of our arms,
+But gladly would be better satisfied
+How in our means we should advance ourselves
+To look with forehead bold and big enough
+Upon the power and puissance of the King.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Our present musters grow upon the file
+To five and twenty thousand men of choice;
+And our supplies live largely in the hope
+Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns
+With an incensed fire of injuries.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+The question then, Lord Hastings, standeth thus:
+Whether our present five and twenty thousand
+May hold up head without Northumberland.
+
+HASTINGS.
+With him we may.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+Yea, marry, there’s the point:
+But if without him we be thought too feeble,
+My judgement is, we should not step too far
+Till we had his assistance by the hand;
+For in a theme so bloody-faced as this
+Conjecture, expectation, and surmise
+Of aids incertain should not be admitted.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+’Tis very true, Lord Bardolph, for indeed
+It was young Hotspur’s case at Shrewsbury.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope,
+Eating the air on promise of supply,
+Flatt’ring himself in project of a power
+Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts,
+And so, with great imagination
+Proper to madmen, led his powers to death
+And winking leap’d into destruction.
+
+HASTINGS.
+But, by your leave, it never yet did hurt
+To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+Yes, if this present quality of war—
+Indeed the instant action, a cause on foot—
+Lives so in hope, as in an early spring
+We see th’ appearing buds; which to prove fruit
+Hope gives not so much warrant as despair
+That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build,
+We first survey the plot, then draw the model,
+And when we see the figure of the house,
+Then we must rate the cost of the erection,
+Which if we find outweighs ability,
+What do we then but draw anew the model
+In fewer offices, or at least desist
+To build at all? Much more, in this great work,
+Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down
+And set another up, should we survey
+The plot of situation and the model,
+Consent upon a sure foundation,
+Question surveyors, know our own estate,
+How able such a work to undergo,
+To weigh against his opposite; or else
+We fortify in paper and in figures,
+Using the names of men instead of men,
+Like one that draws the model of a house
+Beyond his power to build it, who, half through,
+Gives o’er and leaves his part-created cost
+A naked subject to the weeping clouds
+And waste for churlish winter’s tyranny.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,
+Should be still-born, and that we now possess’d
+The utmost man of expectation,
+I think we are a body strong enough,
+Even as we are, to equal with the King.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+What, is the King but five and twenty thousand?
+
+HASTINGS.
+To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph;
+For his divisions, as the times do brawl,
+Are in three heads: one power against the French,
+And one against Glendower; perforce a third
+Must take up us. So is the unfirm king
+In three divided, and his coffers sound
+With hollow poverty and emptiness.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+That he should draw his several strengths together
+And come against us in full puissance
+Need not be dreaded.
+
+HASTINGS.
+If he should do so,
+He leaves his back unarm’d, the French and Welsh
+Baying him at the heels: never fear that.
+
+LORD BARDOLPH.
+Who is it like should lead his forces hither?
+
+HASTINGS.
+The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland;
+Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth;
+But who is substituted ’gainst the French
+I have no certain notice.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Let us on,
+And publish the occasion of our arms.
+The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;
+Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.
+An habitation giddy and unsure
+Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
+O thou fond many, with what loud applause
+Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke,
+Before he was what thou wouldst have him be!
+And being now trimm’d in thine own desires,
+Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him
+That thou provok’st thyself to cast him up.
+So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
+Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;
+And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,
+And howl’st to find it. What trust is in these times?
+They that, when Richard lived, would have him die
+Are now become enamour’d on his grave.
+Thou that threw’st dust upon his goodly head
+When through proud London he came sighing on
+After th’ admired heels of Bolingbroke,
+Criest now “O earth, yield us that king again,
+And take thou this!” O thoughts of men accursed!
+Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Shall we go draw our numbers, and set on?
+
+HASTINGS.
+We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. London. A street.
+
+Enter Hostess with two Officers, Fang and Snare, following.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Master Fang, have you entered the action?
+
+FANG.
+It is entered.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Where’s your yeoman? Is ’t a lusty yeoman? Will he stand to ’t?
+
+FANG.
+Sirrah, where’s Snare?
+
+HOSTESS.
+O Lord, ay! Good Master Snare.
+
+SNARE.
+Here, here.
+
+FANG.
+Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Yea, good Master Snare, I have entered him and all.
+
+SNARE.
+It may chance cost some of our lives, for he will stab.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Alas the day, take heed of him. He stabbed me in mine own house, and
+that most beastly, in good faith. He cares not what mischief he does,
+if his weapon be out, he will foin like any devil. He will spare
+neither man, woman, nor child.
+
+FANG.
+If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
+
+HOSTESS.
+No, nor I neither. I’ll be at your elbow.
+
+FANG.
+An I but fist him once, an he come but within my vice,—
+
+HOSTESS.
+I am undone by his going, I warrant you, he’s an infinitive thing upon
+my score. Good Master Fang, hold him sure. Good Master Snare, let him
+not ’scape. He comes continuantly to Pie Corner—saving your manhoods—to
+buy a saddle, and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber’s Head in
+Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth’s the silkman. I pray you, since my
+exion is entered, and my case so openly known to the world, let him be
+brought in to his answer. A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone
+woman to bear, and I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have been
+fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fubbed off, from this day to that day,
+that it is a shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in such
+dealing, unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast, to bear
+every knave’s wrong. Yonder he comes, and that arrant malmsey-nose
+knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your offices, do your offices, Master
+Fang and Master Snare, do me, do me, do me your offices.
+
+Enter Falstaff, Bardolph and Page.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+How now, whose mare’s dead? What’s the matter?
+
+FANG.
+Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Away, varlets! Draw, Bardolph! Cut me off the villain’s head. Throw the
+quean in the channel.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Throw me in the channel? I’ll throw thee in the channel. Wilt thou,
+wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue? Murder, murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle
+villain, wilt thou kill God’s officers and the King’s? Ah, thou
+honeyseed rogue, thou art a honeyseed, a man-queller, and a
+woman-queller.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Keep them off, Bardolph.
+
+FANG.
+A rescue! A rescue!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Good people, bring a rescue or two. Thou wo’t, wo’t thou? Thou wo’t,
+wo’t ta? Do, do, thou rogue! Do, thou hempseed!
+
+PAGE.
+Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your
+catastrophe.
+
+Enter the Lord Chief Justice and his men.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you stand to me.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+How now, Sir John? What are you brawling here?
+Doth this become your place, your time and business?
+You should have been well on your way to York.
+Stand from him, fellow. Wherefore hang’st thou upon him?
+
+HOSTESS.
+O my most worshipful lord, an’t please your Grace, I am a poor widow of
+Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+For what sum?
+
+HOSTESS.
+It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all, all I have. He hath
+eaten me out of house and home. He hath put all my substance into that
+fat belly of his: but I will have some of it out again, or I will ride
+thee o’ nights like the mare.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I think I am as like to ride the mare if I have any vantage of ground
+to get up.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+How comes this, Sir John? Fie! what man of good temper would endure
+this tempest of exclamation? Are you not ashamed to enforce a poor
+widow to so rough a course to come by her own?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What is the gross sum that I owe thee?
+
+HOSTESS.
+Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the money too. Thou
+didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin
+chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in
+Wheeson week, when the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a
+singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing
+thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny
+it? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher’s wife, come in then and call
+me gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar, telling us
+she had a good dish of prawns, whereby thou didst desire to eat some,
+whereby I told thee they were ill for green wound? And didst thou not,
+when she was gone downstairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity
+with such poor people, saying that ere long they should call me madam?
+And didst thou not kiss me, and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings? I
+put thee now to thy book-oath. Deny it, if thou canst.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says up and down the town
+that her eldest son is like you. She hath been in good case, and the
+truth is, poverty hath distracted her. But for these foolish officers,
+I beseech you I may have redress against them.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching
+the true cause the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the
+throng of words that come with such more than impudent sauciness from
+you, can thrust me from a level consideration. You have, as it appears
+to me, practised upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made
+her serve your uses both in purse and in person.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Yea, in truth, my lord.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Pray thee, peace. Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villany
+you have done with her. The one you may do with sterling money, and the
+other with current repentance.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply. You call
+honourable boldness impudent sauciness; if a man will make curtsy and
+say nothing, he is virtuous. No, my lord, my humble duty remembered, I
+will not be your suitor. I say to you, I do desire deliverance from
+these officers, being upon hasty employment in the King’s affairs.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+You speak as having power to do wrong; but answer in th’ effect of your
+reputation, and satisfy the poor woman.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come hither, hostess.
+
+Enter Gower.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Now, Master Gower, what news?
+
+GOWER.
+The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
+Are near at hand: the rest the paper tells.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+As I am a gentleman.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Faith, you said so before.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+As I am a gentleman. Come, no more words of it.
+
+HOSTESS.
+By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain to pawn both my
+plate and the tapestry of my dining-chambers.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking. And for thy walls, a pretty
+slight drollery, or the story of the Prodigal, or the German hunting in
+waterwork, is worth a thousand of these bed-hangers and these
+fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound, if thou canst. Come, an
+’twere not for thy humours, there’s not a better wench in England. Go,
+wash thy face, and draw the action. Come, thou must not be in this
+humour with me; dost not know me? Come, come, I know thou wast set on
+to this.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles. I’ faith, I am loath
+to pawn my plate, so God save me, la!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let it alone, I’ll make other shift: you’ll be a fool still.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I hope you’ll come to
+supper. You’ll pay me all together?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Will I live? [_To Bardolph_.] Go, with her, with her. Hook on, hook on.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No more words, let’s have her.
+
+ [_Exeunt Hostess, Fang, Snare, Bardolph and Page._]
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I have heard better news.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What’s the news, my lord?
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Where lay the King tonight?
+
+GOWER.
+At Basingstoke, my lord.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I hope, my lord, all’s well. What is the news, my lord?
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Come all his forces back?
+
+GOWER.
+No, fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse
+Are march’d up to my Lord of Lancaster,
+Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Comes the King back from Wales, my noble lord?
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+You shall have letters of me presently.
+Come, go along with me, good Master Gower.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My lord!
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+What’s the matter?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?
+
+GOWER.
+I must wait upon my good lord here, I thank you, good Sir John.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to take soldiers up
+in counties as you go.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool that taught them me.
+This is the right fencing grace, my lord; tap for tap, and so part
+fair.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Now the Lord lighten thee, thou art a great fool.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. London. Another street.
+
+Enter Prince Henry and Poins.
+
+PRINCE.
+Before God, I am exceeding weary.
+
+POINS.
+Is ’t come to that? I had thought weariness durst not have attached one
+of so high blood.
+
+PRINCE.
+Faith, it does me, though it discolours the complexion of my greatness
+to acknowledge it. Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?
+
+POINS.
+Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as to remember so weak a
+composition.
+
+PRINCE.
+Belike then my appetite was not princely got, for, by my troth, I do
+now remember the poor creature small beer. But indeed, these humble
+considerations make me out of love with my greatness. What a disgrace
+is it to me to remember thy name! or to know thy face tomorrow! or to
+take note how many pair of silk stockings thou hast—viz. these, and
+those that were thy peach-coloured ones! or to bear the inventory of
+thy shirts, as, one for superfluity, and another for use! But that the
+tennis-court keeper knows better than I, for it is a low ebb of linen
+with thee when thou keepest not racket there; as thou hast not done a
+great while, because the rest of thy low countries have made a shift to
+eat up thy holland. And God knows whether those that bawl out of the
+ruins of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom: but the midwives say the
+children are not in the fault; whereupon the world increases, and
+kindreds are mightily strengthened.
+
+POINS.
+How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard, you should talk so
+idly! Tell me, how many good young princes would do so, their fathers
+being so sick as yours at this time is?
+
+PRINCE.
+Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?
+
+POINS.
+Yes, faith, and let it be an excellent good thing.
+
+PRINCE.
+It shall serve among wits of no higher breeding than thine.
+
+POINS.
+Go to, I stand the push of your one thing that you will tell.
+
+PRINCE.
+Marry, I tell thee it is not meet that I should be sad, now my father
+is sick; albeit I could tell to thee, as to one it pleases me, for
+fault of a better, to call my friend, I could be sad, and sad indeed
+too.
+
+POINS.
+Very hardly upon such a subject.
+
+PRINCE.
+By this hand, thou thinkest me as far in the devil’s book as thou and
+Falstaff for obduracy and persistency. Let the end try the man. But I
+tell thee, my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so sick; and
+keeping such vile company as thou art hath in reason taken from me all
+ostentation of sorrow.
+
+POINS.
+The reason?
+
+PRINCE.
+What wouldst thou think of me if I should weep?
+
+POINS.
+I would think thee a most princely hypocrite.
+
+PRINCE.
+It would be every man’s thought; and thou art a blessed fellow to think
+as every man thinks. Never a man’s thought in the world keeps the
+roadway better than thine: every man would think me an hypocrite
+indeed. And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so?
+
+POINS.
+Why, because you have been so lewd and so much engraffed to Falstaff.
+
+PRINCE.
+And to thee.
+
+POINS.
+By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it with mine own ears.
+The worst that they can say of me is that I am a second brother, and
+that I am a proper fellow of my hands; and those two things, I confess,
+I cannot help. By the mass, here comes Bardolph.
+
+Enter Bardolph and Page.
+
+PRINCE.
+And the boy that I gave Falstaff. He had him from me Christian, and
+look if the fat villain have not transformed him ape.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+God save your Grace!
+
+PRINCE.
+And yours, most noble Bardolph!
+
+POINS.
+Come, you virtuous ass, you bashful fool, must you be blushing?
+Wherefore blush you now? What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become! Is
+’t such a matter to get a pottle-pot’s maidenhead?
+
+PAGE.
+He calls me e’en now, my lord, through a red lattice, and I could
+discern no part of his face from the window. At last I spied his eyes,
+and methought he had made two holes in the ale-wife’s new petticoat and
+so peeped through.
+
+PRINCE.
+Has not the boy profited?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!
+
+PAGE.
+Away, you rascally Althaea’s dream, away!
+
+PRINCE.
+Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?
+
+PAGE.
+Marry, my lord, Althaea dreamt she was delivered of a firebrand; and
+therefore I call him her dream.
+
+PRINCE.
+A crown’s worth of good interpretation. There ’tis, boy.
+
+POINS.
+O, that this blossom could be kept from cankers! Well, there is
+sixpence to preserve thee.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+An you do not make him be hanged among you, the gallows shall have
+wrong.
+
+PRINCE.
+And how doth thy master, Bardolph?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Well, my lord. He heard of your Grace’s coming to town. There’s a
+letter for you.
+
+POINS.
+Delivered with good respect. And how doth the martlemas, your master?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+In bodily health, sir.
+
+POINS.
+Marry, the immortal part needs a physician, but that moves not him.
+Though that be sick, it dies not.
+
+PRINCE.
+I do allow this wen to be as familiar with me as my dog, and he holds
+his place, for look you how he writes.
+
+POINS.
+[_Reads_.] “John Falstaff, knight,” Every man must know that, as oft as
+he has occasion to name himself: even like those that are kin to the
+King, for they never prick their finger but they say, “There’s some of
+the King’s blood spilt.” “How comes that?” says he that takes upon him
+not to conceive. The answer is as ready as a borrower’s cap, “I am the
+King’s poor cousin, sir.”
+
+PRINCE.
+Nay, they will be kin to us, or they will fetch it from Japhet. But to
+the letter: “Sir John Falstaff, knight, to the son of the King, nearest
+his father, Harry Prince of Wales, greeting.”
+
+POINS.
+Why, this is a certificate.
+
+PRINCE.
+Peace! “I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity.”
+
+POINS.
+He sure means brevity in breath, short-winded.
+
+PRINCE.
+“I commend me to thee, I commend thee, and I leave thee. Be not too
+familiar with Poins, for he misuses thy favours so much that he swears
+thou art to marry his sister Nell. Repent at idle times as thou mayst,
+and so, farewell.
+Thine by yea and no, which is as much as to say, as thou usest him—Jack
+Falstaff with my familiars, John with my brothers and sisters, and Sir
+John with all Europe.”
+
+POINS.
+My lord, I’ll steep this letter in sack and make him eat it.
+
+PRINCE.
+That’s to make him eat twenty of his words. But do you use me thus,
+Ned? Must I marry your sister?
+
+POINS.
+God send the wench no worse fortune! But I never said so.
+
+PRINCE.
+Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise
+sit in the clouds and mock us. Is your master here in London?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Yea, my lord.
+
+PRINCE.
+Where sups he? Doth the old boar feed in the old frank?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap.
+
+PRINCE.
+What company?
+
+PAGE.
+Ephesians, my lord, of the old church.
+
+PRINCE.
+Sup any women with him?
+
+PAGE.
+None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly and Mistress Doll Tearsheet.
+
+PRINCE.
+What pagan may that be?
+
+PAGE.
+A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kinswoman of my master’s.
+
+PRINCE.
+Even such kin as the parish heifers are to the town bull. Shall we
+steal upon them, Ned, at supper?
+
+POINS.
+I am your shadow, my lord, I’ll follow you.
+
+PRINCE.
+Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph, no word to your master that I am yet
+come to town. There’s for your silence.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+I have no tongue, sir.
+
+PAGE.
+And for mine, sir, I will govern it.
+
+PRINCE.
+Fare you well; go.
+
+ [_Exeunt Bardolph and Page._]
+
+This Doll Tearsheet should be some road.
+
+POINS.
+I warrant you, as common as the way between Saint Albans and London.
+
+PRINCE.
+How might we see Falstaff bestow himself tonight in his true colours,
+and not ourselves be seen?
+
+POINS.
+Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait upon him at his table
+as drawers.
+
+PRINCE.
+From a god to a bull? A heavy descension! It was Jove’s case. From a
+prince to a ’prentice? A low transformation that shall be mine, for in
+everything the purpose must weigh with the folly. Follow me, Ned.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Warkworth. Before the castle.
+
+Enter Northumberland, Lady Northumberland and Lady Percy.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+I pray thee, loving wife, and gentle daughter,
+Give even way unto my rough affairs;
+Put not you on the visage of the times
+And be like them to Percy troublesome.
+
+LADY NORTHUMBERLAND.
+I have given over, I will speak no more.
+Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn,
+And, but my going, nothing can redeem it.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+O yet, for God’s sake, go not to these wars!
+The time was, father, that you broke your word,
+When you were more endear’d to it than now;
+When your own Percy, when my heart’s dear Harry,
+Threw many a northward look to see his father
+Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.
+Who then persuaded you to stay at home?
+There were two honours lost, yours and your son’s.
+For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!
+For his, it stuck upon him as the sun
+In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light
+Did all the chivalry of England move
+To do brave acts. He was indeed the glass
+Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
+He had no legs that practis’d not his gait;
+And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,
+Became the accents of the valiant;
+For those who could speak low and tardily
+Would turn their own perfection to abuse,
+To seem like him. So that in speech, in gait,
+In diet, in affections of delight,
+In military rules, humours of blood,
+He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
+That fashion’d others. And him—O wondrous him!
+O miracle of men!—him did you leave,
+Second to none, unseconded by you,
+To look upon the hideous god of war
+In disadvantage, to abide a field
+Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur’s name
+Did seem defensible: so you left him.
+Never, O never, do his ghost the wrong
+To hold your honour more precise and nice
+With others than with him! Let them alone.
+The Marshal and the Archbishop are strong:
+Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,
+Today might I, hanging on Hotspur’s neck,
+Have talk’d of Monmouth’s grave.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Beshrew your heart,
+Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me
+With new lamenting ancient oversights.
+But I must go and meet with danger there,
+Or it will seek me in another place,
+And find me worse provided.
+
+LADY NORTHUMBERLAND.
+O, fly to Scotland,
+Till that the nobles and the armed commons
+Have of their puissance made a little taste.
+
+LADY PERCY.
+If they get ground and vantage of the King,
+Then join you with them like a rib of steel,
+To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves,
+First let them try themselves. So did your son;
+He was so suffer’d. So came I a widow,
+And never shall have length of life enough
+To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes,
+That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven
+For recordation to my noble husband.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Come, come, go in with me. ’Tis with my mind
+As with the tide swell’d up unto his height,
+That makes a still-stand, running neither way.
+Fain would I go to meet the Archbishop,
+But many thousand reasons hold me back.
+I will resolve for Scotland. There am I,
+Till time and vantage crave my company.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. The Boar’s head Tavern in Eastcheap.
+
+Enter two Drawers.
+
+FIRST DRAWER.
+What the devil hast thou brought there—applejohns? Thou knowest Sir
+John cannot endure an applejohn.
+
+SECOND DRAWER.
+Mass, thou sayest true. The Prince once set a dish of applejohns before
+him, and told him there were five more Sir Johns, and, putting off his
+hat, said “I will now take my leave of these six dry, round, old,
+withered knights.” It angered him to the heart. But he hath forgot
+that.
+
+FIRST DRAWER.
+Why then, cover, and set them down, and see if thou canst find out
+Sneak’s noise. Mistress Tearsheet would fain hear some music. Dispatch.
+The room where they supped is too hot, they’ll come in straight.
+
+SECOND DRAWER.
+Sirrah, here will be the Prince and Master Poins anon, and they will
+put on two of our jerkins and aprons, and Sir John must not know of it.
+Bardolph hath brought word.
+
+FIRST DRAWER.
+By the mass, here will be old utis. It will be an excellent stratagem.
+
+SECOND DRAWER.
+I’ll see if I can find out Sneak.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+Enter Hostess and Doll Tearsheet.
+
+HOSTESS.
+I’ faith, sweetheart, methinks now you are in an excellent good
+temperality. Your pulsidge beats as extraordinarily as heart would
+desire, and your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good
+truth, la! But, i’ faith, you have drunk too much canaries, and that’s
+a marvellous searching wine, and it perfumes the blood ere one can say
+“What’s this?” How do you now?
+
+DOLL.
+Better than I was. Hem!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Why, that’s well said. A good heart’s worth gold. Lo, here comes Sir
+John.
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+[_Singing_.] “When Arthur first in court”—Empty the jordan.
+[_Exit First Drawer_.]—[_Singing_.] “And was a worthy king.”
+How now, Mistress Doll!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Sick of a calm, yea, good faith.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+So is all her sect; an they be once in a calm, they are sick.
+
+DOLL.
+A pox damn you, you muddy rascal, is that all the comfort you give me?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll.
+
+DOLL.
+I make them? Gluttony and diseases make them; I make them not.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help to make the diseases,
+Doll: we catch of you, Doll. We catch of you; grant that, my poor
+virtue, grant that.
+
+DOLL.
+Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+“Your brooches, pearls, and ouches:”—for to serve bravely is to come
+halting off, you know; to come off the breach with his pike bent
+bravely, and to surgery bravely; to venture upon the charged chambers
+bravely—
+
+DOLL.
+Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang yourself!
+
+HOSTESS.
+By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never meet but you fall
+to some discord. You are both, i’ good truth, as rheumatic as two dry
+toasts. You cannot one bear with another’s confirmities. What the
+good-year! One must bear, and that must be you. You are the weaker
+vessel, as as they say, the emptier vessel.
+
+DOLL.
+Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full hogshead? There’s a whole
+merchant’s venture of Bourdeaux stuff in him; you have not seen a hulk
+better stuffed in the hold. Come, I’ll be friends with thee, Jack. Thou
+art going to the wars, and whether I shall ever see thee again or no,
+there is nobody cares.
+
+Enter First Drawer.
+
+FIRST DRAWER.
+Sir, Ancient Pistol’s below, and would speak with you.
+
+DOLL.
+Hang him, swaggering rascal! Let him not come hither: it is the
+foul-mouthed’st rogue in England.
+
+HOSTESS.
+If he swagger, let him not come here. No, by my faith, I must live
+among my neighbours. I’ll no swaggerers. I am in good name and fame
+with the very best. Shut the door, there comes no swaggerers here. I
+have not lived all this while to have swaggering now. Shut the door, I
+pray you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Dost thou hear, hostess?
+
+HOSTESS.
+Pray ye pacify yourself, Sir John. There comes no swaggerers here.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Dost thou hear? It is mine ancient.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne’er tell me. And our ancient swaggerer comes
+not in my doors. I was before Master Tisick, the debuty t’other day,
+and, as he said to me,—’twas no longer ago than Wednesday last, i’ good
+faith,—“Neighbour Quickly,” says he—Master Dumb, our minister, was by
+then—“Neighbour Quickly,” says he, “receive those that are civil, for,”
+said he “you are in an ill name.” Now he said so, I can tell whereupon.
+“For,” says he, “you are an honest woman, and well thought on.
+Therefore take heed what guests you receive. Receive,” says he, “no
+swaggering companions.” There comes none here. You would bless you to
+hear what he said. No, I’ll no swaggerers.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+He’s no swaggerer, hostess; a tame cheater, i’ faith, you may stroke
+him as gently as a puppy greyhound. He’ll not swagger with a Barbary
+hen, if her feathers turn back in any show of resistance. Call him up,
+drawer.
+
+ [_Exit First Drawer._]
+
+HOSTESS.
+Cheater, call you him? I will bar no honest man my house, nor no
+cheater, but I do not love swaggering, by my troth, I am the worse when
+one says “swagger.” Feel, masters, how I shake; look you, I warrant
+you.
+
+DOLL.
+So you do, hostess.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Do I? Yea, in very truth, do I, an ’twere an aspen leaf. I cannot abide
+swaggerers.
+
+Enter Pistol, Bardolph and Page.
+
+PISTOL.
+God save you, Sir John!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge you with a cup of sack.
+Do you discharge upon mine hostess.
+
+PISTOL.
+I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two bullets.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+She is pistol-proof, sir; you shall not hardly offend her.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Come, I’ll drink no proofs nor no bullets. I’ll drink no more than will
+do me good, for no man’s pleasure, I.
+
+PISTOL.
+Then to you, Mistress Dorothy! I will charge you.
+
+DOLL.
+Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy companion. What, you poor, base,
+rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate! Away, you mouldy rogue, away! I am
+meat for your master.
+
+PISTOL.
+I know you, Mistress Dorothy.
+
+DOLL.
+Away, you cut-purse rascal, you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I’ll
+thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps an you play the saucy cuttle with
+me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal, you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!
+Since when, I pray you, sir? God’s light, with two points on your
+shoulder? Much!
+
+PISTOL.
+God let me not live, but I will murder your ruff for this.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No more, Pistol! I would not have you go off here. Discharge yourself
+of our company, Pistol.
+
+HOSTESS.
+No, good Captain Pistol, not here, sweet captain.
+
+DOLL.
+Captain! Thou abominable damned cheater, art thou not ashamed to be
+called captain? An captains were of my mind, they would truncheon you
+out, for taking their names upon you before you have earned them. You a
+captain? You slave, for what? For tearing a poor whore’s ruff in a
+bawdy-house? He a captain! Hang him, rogue, he lives upon mouldy stewed
+prunes and dried cakes. A captain? God’s light, these villains will
+make the word as odious as the word “occupy,” which was an excellent
+good word before it was ill sorted. Therefore captains had need look
+to’t.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Pray thee go down, good ancient.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll.
+
+PISTOL.
+Not I. I tell thee what, Corporal Bardolph, I could tear her. I’ll be
+revenged of her.
+
+PAGE.
+Pray thee go down.
+
+PISTOL.
+I’ll see her damned first to Pluto’s damned lake, by this hand, to th’
+infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile also. Hold hook and line,
+say I. Down, down, dogs! Down, faitors! Have we not Hiren here?
+
+HOSTESS.
+Good Captain Peesel, be quiet, ’tis very late, i’ faith. I beseek you
+now, aggravate your choler.
+
+PISTOL.
+These be good humours, indeed! Shall packhorses
+And hollow pamper’d jades of Asia,
+Which cannot go but thirty mile a day,
+Compare with Caesars and with Cannibals,
+And Trojant Greeks? Nay, rather damn them with
+King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar.
+Shall we fall foul for toys?
+
+HOSTESS.
+By my troth, captain, these are very bitter words.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Be gone, good ancient. This will grow to a brawl anon.
+
+PISTOL.
+Die men like dogs! Give crowns like pins! Have we not Hiren here?
+
+HOSTESS.
+O’ my word, captain, there’s none such here. What the good-year, do you
+think I would deny her? For God’s sake, be quiet.
+
+PISTOL.
+Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis.
+Come, give ’s some sack.
+_Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento._
+Fear we broadsides? No, let the fiend give fire.
+Give me some sack; and, sweetheart, lie thou there.
+
+ [_Laying down his sword._]
+
+Come we to full points here? And are etceteras nothings?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Pistol, I would be quiet.
+
+PISTOL.
+Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf. What! we have seen the seven stars.
+
+DOLL.
+For God’s sake, thrust him downstairs. I cannot endure such a fustian
+rascal.
+
+PISTOL.
+Thrust him downstairs? Know we not Galloway nags?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat shilling. Nay, an he do
+nothing but speak nothing, he shall be nothing here.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Come, get you downstairs.
+
+PISTOL.
+What! shall we have incision? Shall we imbrue?
+
+ [_Snatching up his sword._]
+
+Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!
+Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds
+Untwind the Sisters Three! Come, Atropos, I say!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Here’s goodly stuff toward!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Give me my rapier, boy.
+
+DOLL.
+I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not draw.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Get you downstairs.
+
+ [_Drawing, and driving Pistol out._]
+
+HOSTESS.
+Here’s a goodly tumult! I’ll forswear keeping house, afore I’ll be in
+these tirrits and frights. So, murder, I warrant now. Alas, alas, put
+up your naked weapons, put up your naked weapons.
+
+ [_Exeunt Bardolph and Pistol._]
+
+DOLL.
+I pray thee, Jack, be quiet. The rascal’s gone. Ah, you whoreson little
+valiant villain, you!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Are you not hurt i’ th’ groin? Methought he made a shrewd thrust at
+your belly.
+
+Enter Bardolph.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Have you turned him out o’ doors?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Yea, sir. The rascal’s drunk. You have hurt him, sir, i’ th’ shoulder.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A rascal, to brave me!
+
+DOLL.
+Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas, poor ape, how thou sweat’st!
+Come, let me wipe thy face. Come on, you whoreson chops. Ah, rogue! i’
+faith, I love thee. Thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy, worth five
+of Agamemnon, and ten times better than the Nine Worthies. Ah, villain!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in a blanket.
+
+DOLL.
+Do, an thou darest for thy heart. An thou dost, I’ll canvass thee
+between a pair of sheets.
+
+Enter Music.
+
+PAGE.
+The music is come, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let them play. Play, sirs. Sit on my knee, Doll. A rascal bragging
+slave! The rogue fled from me like quicksilver.
+
+DOLL.
+I’ faith, and thou followedst him like a church. Thou whoreson little
+tidy Bartholomew boar-pig, when wilt thou leave fighting a-days and
+foining a-nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?
+
+Enter, behind, Prince Henry and Poins, disguised as drawers.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Peace, good Doll, do not speak like a death’s-head; do not bid me
+remember mine end.
+
+DOLL.
+Sirrah, what humour ’s the Prince of?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A good shallow young fellow; he would have made a good pantler; he
+would ha’ chipped bread well.
+
+DOLL.
+They say Poins has a good wit.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+He a good wit? Hang him, baboon! His wit’s as thick as Tewksbury
+mustard; there’s no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
+
+DOLL.
+Why does the Prince love him so, then?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Because their legs are both of a bigness, and he plays at quoits well,
+and eats conger and fennel, and drinks off candles’ ends for
+flap-dragons, and rides the wild mare with the boys, and jumps upon
+joint stools, and swears with a good grace, and wears his boots very
+smooth like unto the sign of the Leg, and breeds no bate with telling
+of discreet stories, and such other gambol faculties he has that show a
+weak mind and an able body, for the which the Prince admits him: for
+the Prince himself is such another. The weight of a hair will turn the
+scales between their avoirdupois.
+
+PRINCE.
+Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off?
+
+POINS.
+Let’s beat him before his whore.
+
+PRINCE.
+Look whe’er the withered elder hath not his poll clawed like a parrot.
+
+POINS.
+Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Kiss me, Doll.
+
+PRINCE.
+Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction! What says th’ almanac to
+that?
+
+POINS.
+And look whether the fiery Trigon, his man, be not lisping to his
+master’s old tables, his note-book, his counsel-keeper.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Thou dost give me flattering busses.
+
+DOLL.
+By my troth, I kiss thee with a most constant heart.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I am old, I am old.
+
+DOLL.
+I love thee better than I love e’er a scurvy young boy of them all.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive money o’ Thursday;
+shalt have a cap tomorrow. A merry song! Come, it grows late, we’ll to
+bed. Thou’lt forget me when I am gone.
+
+DOLL.
+By my troth, thou’lt set me a-weeping an thou sayest so. Prove that
+ever I dress myself handsome till thy return. Well, hearken a’ th’ end.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Some sack, Francis.
+
+PRINCE & POINS.
+Anon, anon, sir.
+
+ [_Coming forward._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ha! A bastard son of the King’s? And art thou not Poins his brother?
+
+PRINCE.
+Why, thou globe of sinful continents, what a life dost thou lead!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+A better than thou. I am a gentleman, thou art a drawer.
+
+PRINCE.
+Very true, sir, and I come to draw you out by the ears.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O, the Lord preserve thy Grace! By my troth, welcome to London. Now,
+the Lord bless that sweet face of thine! O Jesu, are you come from
+Wales?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Thou whoreson mad compound of majesty, by this light flesh and corrupt
+blood, thou art welcome.
+
+DOLL.
+How? You fat fool, I scorn you.
+
+POINS.
+My lord, he will drive you out of your revenge and turn all to a
+merriment, if you take not the heat.
+
+PRINCE.
+You whoreson candle-mine, you, how vilely did you speak of me even now
+before this honest, virtuous, civil gentlewoman!
+
+HOSTESS.
+God’s blessing of your good heart! and so she is, by my troth.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Didst thou hear me?
+
+PRINCE.
+Yea, and you knew me, as you did when you ran away by Gad’s Hill. You
+knew I was at your back, and spoke it on purpose to try my patience.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No, no, no, not so; I did not think thou wast within hearing.
+
+PRINCE.
+I shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse, and then I know how
+to handle you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No abuse, Hal, o’ mine honour, no abuse.
+
+PRINCE.
+Not to dispraise me, and call me pantler and bread-chipper and I know
+not what?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No abuse, Hal.
+
+POINS.
+No abuse?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No abuse, Ned, i’ th’ world, honest Ned, none. I dispraised him before
+the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with thee; in which
+doing, I have done the part of a careful friend and a true subject, and
+thy father is to give me thanks for it. No abuse, Hal; none, Ned, none;
+no, faith, boys, none.
+
+PRINCE.
+See now whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee wrong
+this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us. Is she of the wicked? Is
+thine hostess here of the wicked? Or is thy boy of the wicked? Or
+honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his nose, of the wicked?
+
+POINS.
+Answer, thou dead elm, answer.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph irrecoverable, and his face is
+Lucifer’s privy-kitchen, where he doth nothing but roast malt-worms.
+For the boy, there is a good angel about him, but the devil outbids him
+too.
+
+PRINCE.
+For the women?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+For one of them, she’s in hell already, and burns poor souls. For th’
+other, I owe her money, and whether she be damned for that I know not.
+
+HOSTESS.
+No, I warrant you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No, I think thou art not, I think thou art quit for that. Marry, there
+is another indictment upon thee, for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy
+house, contrary to the law, for the which I think thou wilt howl.
+
+HOSTESS.
+All victuallers do so. What’s a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?
+
+PRINCE.
+You, gentlewoman.
+
+DOLL.
+What says your Grace?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+His grace says that which his flesh rebels against.
+
+ [Peto _knocks at door._]
+
+HOSTESS.
+Who knocks so loud at door? Look to th’ door there, Francis.
+
+Enter Peto.
+
+PRINCE.
+Peto, how now, what news?
+
+PETO.
+The King your father is at Westminster,
+And there are twenty weak and wearied posts
+Come from the north: and as I came along,
+I met and overtook a dozen captains,
+Bareheaded, sweating, knocking at the taverns,
+And asking everyone for Sir John Falstaff.
+
+PRINCE.
+By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame,
+So idly to profane the precious time,
+When tempest of commotion, like the south
+Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt
+And drop upon our bare unarmed heads.
+Give me my sword and cloak. Falstaff, good night.
+
+ [_Exeunt Prince, Poins, Peto and Bardolph._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night, and we must hence and
+leave it unpicked.
+[_Knocking within_.] More knocking at the door?
+
+Enter Bardolph.
+
+How now, what’s the matter?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+You must away to court, sir, presently.
+A dozen captains stay at door for you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+[_To the Page_.] Pay the musicians, sirrah. Farewell, hostess;
+farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches, how men of merit are sought
+after. The undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is called on.
+Farewell, good wenches. If I be not sent away post, I will see you
+again ere I go.
+
+DOLL.
+I cannot speak; if my heart be not ready to burst—well, sweet Jack,
+have a care of thyself.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Farewell, farewell.
+
+ [_Exeunt Falstaff and Bardolph._]
+
+HOSTESS.
+Well, fare thee well. I have known thee these twenty-nine years, come
+peascod-time; but an honester and truer-hearted man—well, fare thee
+well.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+[_Within_.] Mistress Tearsheet!
+
+HOSTESS.
+What’s the matter?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+[_Within_.] Bid Mistress Tearsheet come to my master.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O, run, Doll, run; run, good Doll; come. She comes blubbered. Yea, will
+you come, Doll?
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Westminster. The palace.
+
+Enter the King in his nightgown, with a Page.
+
+KING.
+Go call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick;
+But, ere they come, bid them o’er-read these letters
+And well consider of them. Make good speed.
+
+ [_Exit Page._]
+
+How many thousands of my poorest subjects
+Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,
+Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
+That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
+And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
+Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
+Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
+And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
+Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
+Under the canopies of costly state,
+And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody?
+O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
+In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch
+A watch-case or a common ’larum-bell?
+Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
+Seal up the ship-boy’s eyes, and rock his brains
+In cradle of the rude imperious surge
+And in the visitation of the winds,
+Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
+Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them
+With deafing clamour in the slippery clouds,
+That with the hurly death itself awakes?
+Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
+To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
+And in the calmest and most stillest night,
+With all appliances and means to boot,
+Deny it to a King? Then happy low, lie down!
+Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
+
+Enter Warwick and Surrey.
+
+WARWICK.
+Many good morrows to your Majesty!
+
+KING.
+Is it good morrow, lords?
+
+WARWICK.
+’Tis one o’clock, and past.
+
+KING.
+Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords.
+Have you read o’er the letters that I sent you?
+
+WARWICK.
+We have, my liege.
+
+KING.
+Then you perceive the body of our kingdom
+How foul it is, what rank diseases grow,
+And with what danger, near the heart of it.
+
+WARWICK.
+It is but as a body yet distemper’d,
+Which to his former strength may be restored
+With good advice and little medicine.
+My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool’d.
+
+KING.
+O God, that one might read the book of fate,
+And see the revolution of the times
+Make mountains level, and the continent,
+Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
+Into the sea, and other times to see
+The beachy girdle of the ocean
+Too wide for Neptune’s hips; how chance’s mocks
+And changes fill the cup of alteration
+With divers liquors! O, if this were seen,
+The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
+What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
+Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
+’Tis not ten years gone
+Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends,
+Did feast together, and in two years after
+Were they at wars. It is but eight years since
+This Percy was the man nearest my soul,
+Who like a brother toil’d in my affairs
+And laid his love and life under my foot,
+Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard
+Gave him defiance. But which of you was by—
+[_To Warwick_.] You, cousin Nevil, as I may remember—
+When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears,
+Then check’d and rated by Northumberland,
+Did speak these words, now proved a prophecy?
+“Northumberland, thou ladder by the which
+My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne”
+Though then, God knows, I had no such intent,
+But that necessity so bow’d the state
+That I and greatness were compell’d to kiss—
+“The time shall come,” thus did he follow it,
+“The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head,
+Shall break into corruption”—so went on,
+Foretelling this same time’s condition
+And the division of our amity.
+
+WARWICK.
+There is a history in all men’s lives
+Figuring the natures of the times deceased;
+The which observed, a man may prophesy,
+With a near aim, of the main chance of things
+As yet not come to life, who in their seeds
+And weak beginning lie intreasured.
+Such things become the hatch and brood of time;
+And by the necessary form of this
+King Richard might create a perfect guess
+That great Northumberland, then false to him,
+Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness,
+Which should not find a ground to root upon,
+Unless on you.
+
+KING.
+Are these things then necessities?
+Then let us meet them like necessities;
+And that same word even now cries out on us.
+They say the bishop and Northumberland
+Are fifty thousand strong.
+
+WARWICK.
+It cannot be, my lord.
+Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
+The numbers of the feared. Please it your Grace
+To go to bed. Upon my soul, my lord,
+The powers that you already have sent forth
+Shall bring this prize in very easily.
+To comfort you the more, I have received
+A certain instance that Glendower is dead.
+Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill,
+And these unseason’d hours perforce must add
+Unto your sickness.
+
+KING.
+I will take your counsel.
+And were these inward wars once out of hand,
+We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Gloucestershire. Before Justice Shallow’s house.
+
+Enter Shallow and Silence, meeting; Mouldy, Shadow, Wart, Feeble,
+Bullcalf, a Servant or two with them.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Come on, come on, come on. Give me your hand, sir, give me your hand,
+sir. An early stirrer, by the rood! And how doth my good cousin
+Silence?
+
+SILENCE.
+Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? And your fairest daughter and
+mine, my god-daughter Ellen?
+
+SILENCE.
+Alas, a black ousel, cousin Shallow!
+
+SHALLOW.
+By yea and no, sir, I dare say my cousin William is become a good
+scholar. He is at Oxford still, is he not?
+
+SILENCE.
+Indeed, sir, to my cost.
+
+SHALLOW.
+He must, then, to the Inns o’ Court shortly. I was once of Clement’s
+Inn, where I think they will talk of mad Shallow yet.
+
+SILENCE.
+You were called “lusty Shallow” then, cousin.
+
+SHALLOW.
+By the mass, I was called anything, and I would have done anything
+indeed too, and roundly too. There was I, and little John Doit of
+Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will
+Squele, a Cotswold man. You had not four such swinge-bucklers in all
+the Inns o’ Court again. And I may say to you, we knew where the
+bona-robas were and had the best of them all at commandment. Then was
+Jack Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and page to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of
+Norfolk.
+
+SILENCE.
+This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither anon about soldiers?
+
+SHALLOW.
+The same Sir John, the very same. I see him break Scoggin’s head at the
+court gate, when he was a crack not thus high; and the very same day
+did I fight with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray’s Inn.
+Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my
+old acquaintance are dead!
+
+SILENCE.
+We shall all follow, cousin.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Certain, ’tis certain, very sure, very sure. Death, as the Psalmist
+saith, is certain to all, all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at
+Stamford fair?
+
+SILENCE.
+By my troth, I was not there.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Death is certain. Is old Double of your town living yet?
+
+SILENCE.
+Dead, sir.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Jesu, Jesu, dead! He drew a good bow, and dead! He shot a fine shoot.
+John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head. Dead!
+He would have clapped i’ th’ clout at twelve score, and carried you a
+forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, that it would have
+done a man’s heart good to see. How a score of ewes now?
+
+SILENCE.
+Thereafter as they be; a score of good ewes may be worth ten pounds.
+
+SHALLOW.
+And is old Double dead?
+
+SILENCE.
+Here come two of Sir John Falstaff’s men, as I think.
+
+Enter Bardolph and one with him.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Good morrow, honest gentlemen.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+I beseech you, which is Justice Shallow?
+
+SHALLOW.
+I am Robert Shallow, sir, a poor esquire of this county, and one of the
+King’s justices of the peace. What is your good pleasure with me?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+My captain, sir, commends him to you, my captain, Sir John Falstaff, a
+tall gentleman, by heaven, and a most gallant leader.
+
+SHALLOW.
+He greets me well, sir. I knew him a good backsword man. How doth the
+good knight? May I ask how my lady his wife doth?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Sir, pardon. A soldier is better accommodated than with a wife.
+
+SHALLOW.
+It is well said, in faith, sir, and it is well said indeed too. “Better
+accommodated!” It is good, yea indeed, is it. Good phrases are surely,
+and ever were, very commendable. “Accommodated.” It comes of
+_accommodo_. Very good, a good phrase.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Pardon, sir, I have heard the word—phrase call you it? By this day, I
+know not the phrase, but I will maintain the word with my sword to be a
+soldier-like word, and a word of exceeding good command, by heaven.
+Accommodated, that is when a man is, as they say, accommodated, or when
+a man is being whereby he may be thought to be accommodated; which is
+an excellent thing.
+
+SHALLOW.
+It is very just.
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+Look, here comes good Sir John. Give me your good hand, give me your
+worship’s good hand. By my troth, you like well and bear your years
+very well. Welcome, good Sir John.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I am glad to see you well, good Master Robert Shallow. Master Surecard,
+as I think?
+
+SHALLOW.
+No, Sir John, it is my cousin Silence, in commission with me.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Good Master Silence, it well befits you should be of the peace.
+
+SILENCE.
+Your good worship is welcome.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Fie, this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you provided me here half a
+dozen sufficient men?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let me see them, I beseech you.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Where’s the roll? Where’s the roll? Where’s the roll? Let me see, let
+me see, let me see. So, so, so, so, so, so, so. Yea, marry, sir: Ralph
+Mouldy! Let them appear as I call; let them do so, let them do so. Let
+me see; where is Mouldy?
+
+MOULDY.
+Here, an it please you.
+
+SHALLOW.
+What think you, Sir John? A good-limbed fellow, young, strong, and of
+good friends.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Is thy name Mouldy?
+
+MOULDY.
+Yea, an’t please you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+’Tis the more time thou wert used.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ha, ha, ha! most excellent, i’ faith! Things that are mouldy lack use.
+Very singular good, in faith, well said, Sir John, very well said.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Prick him.
+
+MOULDY.
+I was pricked well enough before, an you could have let me alone. My
+old dame will be undone now for one to do her husbandry and her
+drudgery. You need not to have pricked me, there are other men fitter
+to go out than I.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Go to. Peace, Mouldy; you shall go. Mouldy, it is time you were spent.
+
+MOULDY.
+Spent?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Peace, fellow, peace. Stand aside. Know you where you are? For
+th’other, Sir John. Let me see: Simon Shadow!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Yea, marry, let me have him to sit under. He’s like to be a cold
+soldier.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Where’s Shadow?
+
+SHADOW.
+Here, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Shadow, whose son art thou?
+
+SHADOW.
+My mother’s son, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Thy mother’s son! Like enough, and thy father’s shadow. So the son of
+the female is the shadow of the male. It is often so indeed, but much
+of the father’s substance!
+
+SHALLOW.
+Do you like him, Sir John?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Shadow will serve for summer. Prick him, for we have a number of
+shadows to fill up the muster-book.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Thomas Wart!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Where’s he?
+
+WART.
+Here, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Is thy name Wart?
+
+WART.
+Yea, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Thou art a very ragged wart.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Shall I prick him, Sir John?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+It were superfluous, for his apparel is built upon his back, and the
+whole frame stands upon pins. Prick him no more.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ha, ha, ha! You can do it, sir, you can do it. I commend you well.
+Francis Feeble!
+
+FEEBLE.
+Here, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What trade art thou, Feeble?
+
+FEEBLE.
+A woman’s tailor, sir.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Shall I prick him, sir?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You may; but if he had been a man’s tailor, he’d ha’ pricked you. Wilt
+thou make as many holes in an enemy’s battle as thou hast done in a
+woman’s petticoat?
+
+FEEBLE.
+I will do my good will, sir, you can have no more.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well said, good woman’s tailor! Well said, courageous Feeble! Thou wilt
+be as valiant as the wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the
+woman’s tailor: well, Master Shallow, deep, Master Shallow.
+
+FEEBLE.
+I would Wart might have gone, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I would thou wert a man’s tailor, that thou mightst mend him and make
+him fit to go. I cannot put him to a private soldier that is the leader
+of so many thousands. Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble.
+
+FEEBLE.
+It shall suffice, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. Who is next?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Peter Bullcalf o’ th’ green!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Yea, marry, let’s see Bullcalf.
+
+BULLCALF.
+Here, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick me Bullcalf till he roar again.
+
+BULLCALF.
+O Lord! good my lord captain—
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What, dost thou roar before thou art pricked?
+
+BULLCALF.
+O Lord, sir, I am a diseased man.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What disease hast thou?
+
+BULLCALF.
+A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir, which I caught with ringing in the
+King’s affairs upon his coronation day, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown; we will have away thy cold,
+and I will take such order that thy friends shall ring for thee. Is
+here all?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Here is two more called than your number; you must have but four here,
+sir; and so, I pray you, go in with me to dinner.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot tarry dinner. I am glad to
+see you, by my troth, Master Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in
+Saint George’s Field?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No more of that, good Master Shallow, no more of that.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ha, ’twas a merry night. And is Jane Nightwork alive?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+She lives, Master Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+She never could away with me.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Never, never; she would always say she could not abide Master Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+By the mass, I could anger her to th’ heart. She was then a bona-roba.
+Doth she hold her own well?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Old, old, Master Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Nay, she must be old, she cannot choose but be old, certain she’s old,
+and had Robin Nightwork by old Nightwork before I came to Clement’s
+Inn.
+
+SILENCE.
+That’s fifty-five year ago.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that this knight and I
+have seen! Ha, Sir John, said I well?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith, Sir John, we have.
+Our watchword was “Hem boys!” Come, let’s to dinner; come, let’s to
+dinner. Jesus, the days that we have seen! Come, come.
+
+ [_Exeunt Falstaff, Shallow and Silence._]
+
+BULLCALF.
+Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand my friend; and here’s four Harry
+ten shillings in French crowns for you. In very truth, sir, I had as
+lief be hanged, sir, as go. And yet, for mine own part, sir, I do not
+care; but rather because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a
+desire to stay with my friends; else, sir, I did not care, for mine own
+part, so much.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Go to, stand aside.
+
+MOULDY.
+And, good Master Corporal Captain, for my old dame’s sake, stand my
+friend. She has nobody to do anything about her when I am gone, and she
+is old, and cannot help herself. You shall have forty, sir.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Go to, stand aside.
+
+FEEBLE.
+By my troth, I care not. A man can die but once. We owe God a death.
+I’ll ne’er bear a base mind. An ’t be my destiny, so; an ’t be not, so.
+No man’s too good to serve’s prince, and let it go which way it will,
+he that dies this year is quit for the next.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Well said, th’art a good fellow.
+
+FEEBLE.
+Faith, I’ll bear no base mind.
+
+Enter Falstaff and the Justices.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come, sir, which men shall I have?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Four of which you please.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Sir, a word with you. I have three pound to free Mouldy and Bullcalf.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Go to, well.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Come, Sir John, which four will you have?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Do you choose for me.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Marry, then, Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, and Shadow.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Mouldy and Bullcalf: for you, Mouldy, stay at home till you are past
+service; and for your part, Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it. I
+will none of you.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself wrong. They are your likeliest men,
+and I would have you served with the best.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose a man? Care I for the
+limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give
+me the spirit, Master Shallow. Here’s Wart. You see what a ragged
+appearance it is. He shall charge you and discharge you with the motion
+of a pewterer’s hammer, come off and on swifter than he that gibbets on
+the brewer’s bucket. And this same half-faced fellow, Shadow; give me
+this man. He presents no mark to the enemy. The foeman may with as
+great aim level at the edge of a penknife. And for a retreat, how
+swiftly will this Feeble, the woman’s tailor, run off! O, give me the
+spare men, and spare me the great ones. Put me a caliver into Wart’s
+hand, Bardolph.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Hold, Wart. Traverse. Thas, thas, thas.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come, manage me your caliver. So, very well, go to, very good,
+exceeding good. O, give me always a little, lean, old, chopt, bald
+shot. Well said, i’ faith, Wart. Th’art a good scab. Hold, there’s a
+tester for thee.
+
+SHALLOW.
+He is not his craft’s master, he doth not do it right. I remember at
+Mile-End Green, when I lay at Clement’s Inn—I was then Sir Dagonet in
+Arthur’s show—there was a little quiver fellow, and he would manage you
+his piece thus. And he would about and about, and come you in and come
+you in. “Rah, tah, tah,” would he say. “Bounce” would he say; and away
+again would he go, and again would he come. I shall ne’er see such a
+fellow.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+These fellows will do well. Master Shallow. God keep you, Master
+Silence: I will not use many words with you. Fare you well, gentlemen
+both. I thank you. I must a dozen mile tonight. Bardolph, give the
+soldiers coats.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Sir John, the Lord bless you! God prosper your affairs! God send us
+peace! At your return, visit our house, let our old acquaintance be
+renewed. Peradventure I will with ye to the court.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Fore God, I would you would, Master Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Go to, I have spoke at a word. God keep you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Fare you well, gentle gentlemen. [_Exeunt Justices_.] On, Bardolph,
+lead the men away. [_Exeunt Bardolph, recruits, &c._] As I return, I
+will fetch off these justices. I do see the bottom of Justice Shallow.
+Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! This same
+starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of
+his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull Street, and every
+third word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk’s tribute. I do
+remember him at Clement’s Inn, like a man made after supper of a
+cheese-paring. When he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a
+forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.
+He was so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight were
+invincible. He was the very genius of famine, yet lecherous as a
+monkey, and the whores called him mandrake. He came ever in the
+rearward of the fashion, and sung those tunes to the overscutched
+huswives that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his
+fancies or his good-nights. And now is this Vice’s dagger become a
+squire, and talks as familiarly of John a Gaunt as if he had been sworn
+brother to him, and I’ll be sworn he ne’er saw him but once in the
+tilt-yard, and then he burst his head for crowding among the marshal’s
+men. I saw it and told John a Gaunt he beat his own name, for you might
+have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a
+treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court. And now has he land and
+beefs. Well, I’ll be acquainted with him if I return, and ’t shall go
+hard but I’ll make him a philosopher’s two stones to me. If the young
+dace be a bait for the old pike, I see no reason in the law of nature
+but I may snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest.
+
+Enter the Archbishop of York, Mowbray, Hastings and others.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+What is this forest call’d?
+
+HASTINGS.
+’Tis Gaultree Forest, an ’t shall please your Grace.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Here stand, my lords, and send discoverers forth
+To know the numbers of our enemies.
+
+HASTINGS.
+We have sent forth already.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+’Tis well done.
+My friends and brethren in these great affairs,
+I must acquaint you that I have received
+New-dated letters from Northumberland,
+Their cold intent, tenor, and substance, thus:
+Here doth he wish his person, with such powers
+As might hold sortance with his quality,
+The which he could not levy; whereupon
+He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes,
+To Scotland, and concludes in hearty prayers
+That your attempts may overlive the hazard
+And fearful meeting of their opposite.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
+And dash themselves to pieces.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Now, what news?
+
+MESSENGER.
+West of this forest, scarcely off a mile,
+In goodly form comes on the enemy,
+And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number
+Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+The just proportion that we gave them out.
+Let us sway on and face them in the field.
+
+Enter Westmoreland.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
+
+MOWBRAY.
+I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Health and fair greeting from our general,
+The prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace,
+What doth concern your coming.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Then, my lord,
+Unto your Grace do I in chief address
+The substance of my speech. If that rebellion
+Came like itself, in base and abject routs,
+Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags,
+And countenanced by boys and beggary;
+I say, if damn’d commotion so appear’d
+In his true, native, and most proper shape,
+You, reverend father, and these noble lords
+Had not been here to dress the ugly form
+Of base and bloody insurrection
+With your fair honours. You, Lord Archbishop,
+Whose see is by a civil peace maintain’d,
+Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch’d,
+Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor’d,
+Whose white investments figure innocence,
+The dove and very blessed spirit of peace,
+Wherefore you do so ill translate yourself
+Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace,
+Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war;
+Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,
+Your pens to lances and your tongue divine
+To a loud trumpet and a point of war?
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Wherefore do I this? So the question stands.
+Briefly to this end: we are all diseased,
+And with our surfeiting and wanton hours
+Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
+And we must bleed for it; of which disease
+Our late King Richard, being infected, died.
+But, my most noble Lord of Westmoreland,
+I take not on me here as a physician,
+Nor do I as an enemy to peace
+Troop in the throngs of military men,
+But rather show awhile like fearful war
+To diet rank minds sick of happiness,
+And purge th’ obstructions which begin to stop
+Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly.
+I have in equal balance justly weigh’d
+What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,
+And find our griefs heavier than our offences.
+We see which way the stream of time doth run,
+And are enforced from our most quiet there
+By the rough torrent of occasion,
+And have the summary of all our griefs,
+When time shall serve, to show in articles;
+Which long ere this we offer’d to the King
+And might by no suit gain our audience.
+When we are wrong’d and would unfold our griefs,
+We are denied access unto his person
+Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
+The dangers of the days but newly gone,
+Whose memory is written on the earth
+With yet-appearing blood, and the examples
+Of every minute’s instance, present now,
+Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms,
+Not to break peace or any branch of it,
+But to establish here a peace indeed,
+Concurring both in name and quality.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Whenever yet was your appeal denied?
+Wherein have you been galled by the King?
+What peer hath been suborn’d to grate on you,
+That you should seal this lawless bloody book
+Of forged rebellion with a seal divine
+And consecrate commotion’s bitter edge?
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+My brother general, the commonwealth,
+To brother born an household cruelty,
+I make my quarrel in particular.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+There is no need of any such redress,
+Or if there were, it not belongs to you.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Why not to him in part, and to us all
+That feel the bruises of the days before,
+And suffer the condition of these times
+To lay a heavy and unequal hand
+Upon our honours?
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+O, my good Lord Mowbray,
+Construe the times to their necessities,
+And you shall say indeed, it is the time,
+And not the King, that doth you injuries.
+Yet for your part, it not appears to me
+Either from the King or in the present time
+That you should have an inch of any ground
+To build a grief on. Were you not restored
+To all the Duke of Norfolk’s signories,
+Your noble and right well rememb’red father’s?
+
+MOWBRAY.
+What thing, in honour, had my father lost,
+That need to be revived and breathed in me?
+The King that loved him, as the state stood then,
+Was force perforce compell’d to banish him,
+And then that Henry Bolingbroke and he,
+Being mounted and both roused in their seats,
+Their neighing coursers daring of the spur,
+Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,
+Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel,
+And the loud trumpet blowing them together,
+Then, then, when there was nothing could have stay’d
+My father from the breast of Bolingbroke,
+O, when the King did throw his warder down,
+His own life hung upon the staff he threw;
+Then threw he down himself and all their lives
+That by indictment and by dint of sword
+Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know not what.
+The Earl of Hereford was reputed then
+In England the most valiant gentleman.
+Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled?
+But if your father had been victor there,
+He ne’er had borne it out of Coventry;
+For all the country in a general voice
+Cried hate upon him; and all their prayers and love
+Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on
+And bless’d and graced, indeed more than the King.
+But this is mere digression from my purpose.
+Here come I from our princely general
+To know your griefs, to tell you from his Grace
+That he will give you audience; and wherein
+It shall appear that your demands are just,
+You shall enjoy them, everything set off
+That might so much as think you enemies.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+But he hath forc’d us to compel this offer,
+And it proceeds from policy, not love.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Mowbray, you overween to take it so;
+This offer comes from mercy, not from fear.
+For, lo, within a ken our army lies,
+Upon mine honour, all too confident
+To give admittance to a thought of fear.
+Our battle is more full of names than yours,
+Our men more perfect in the use of arms,
+Our armour all as strong, our cause the best;
+Then reason will our hearts should be as good.
+Say you not then our offer is compell’d.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Well, by my will we shall admit no parley.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+That argues but the shame of your offence:
+A rotten case abides no handling.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Hath the Prince John a full commission,
+In very ample virtue of his father,
+To hear and absolutely to determine
+Of what conditions we shall stand upon?
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+That is intended in the general’s name:
+I muse you make so slight a question.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Then take, my Lord of Westmoreland, this schedule,
+For this contains our general grievances.
+Each several article herein redress’d,
+All members of our cause, both here and hence,
+That are insinew’d to this action,
+Acquitted by a true substantial form
+And present execution of our wills
+To us and to our purposes confined,
+We come within our awful banks again
+And knit our powers to the arm of peace.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+This will I show the general. Please you, lords,
+In sight of both our battles we may meet,
+And either end in peace, which God so frame!
+Or to the place of difference call the swords
+Which must decide it.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+My lord, we will do so.
+
+ [_Exit Westmoreland._]
+
+MOWBRAY.
+There is a thing within my bosom tells me
+That no conditions of our peace can stand.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Fear you not that: if we can make our peace
+Upon such large terms and so absolute
+As our conditions shall consist upon,
+Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Yea, but our valuation shall be such
+That every slight and false-derived cause,
+Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason,
+Shall to the King taste of this action;
+That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love,
+We shall be winnow’d with so rough a wind
+That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff
+And good from bad find no partition.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+No, no, my lord. Note this; the King is weary
+Of dainty and such picking grievances;
+For he hath found to end one doubt by death
+Revives two greater in the heirs of life;
+And therefore will he wipe his tables clean
+And keep no tell-tale to his memory
+That may repeat and history his loss
+To new remembrance. For full well he knows
+He cannot so precisely weed this land
+As his misdoubts present occasion.
+His foes are so enrooted with his friends
+That, plucking to unfix an enemy,
+He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.
+So that this land, like an offensive wife
+That hath enraged him on to offer strokes,
+As he is striking, holds his infant up
+And hangs resolved correction in the arm
+That was uprear’d to execution.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods
+On late offenders, that he now doth lack
+The very instruments of chastisement;
+So that his power, like to a fangless lion,
+May offer, but not hold.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+’Tis very true,
+And therefore be assured, my good Lord Marshal,
+If we do now make our atonement well,
+Our peace will, like a broken limb united,
+Grow stronger for the breaking.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Be it so.
+Here is return’d my Lord of Westmoreland.
+
+Enter Westmoreland.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+The prince is here at hand. Pleaseth your lordship
+To meet his Grace just distance ’tween our armies.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Your Grace of York, in God’s name then set forward.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Before, and greet his Grace. My lord, we come.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Another part of the forest.
+
+Enter, from one side, Mowbray, attended; afterwards, the Archbishop,
+Hastings, and others; from the other side, Prince John of Lancaster,
+and Westmoreland; Officers, and others with them.
+
+LANCASTER.
+You are well encounter’d here, my cousin Mowbray.
+Good day to you, gentle Lord Archbishop;
+And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all.
+My Lord of York, it better show’d with you
+When that your flock, assembled by the bell,
+Encircled you to hear with reverence
+Your exposition on the holy text
+Than now to see you here an iron man,
+Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum,
+Turning the word to sword, and life to death.
+That man that sits within a monarch’s heart,
+And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,
+Would he abuse the countenance of the king,
+Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach
+In shadow of such greatness! With you, Lord Bishop,
+It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken
+How deep you were within the books of God,
+To us the speaker in his parliament,
+To us th’ imagined voice of God himself,
+The very opener and intelligencer
+Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven,
+And our dull workings? O, who shall believe
+But you misuse the reverence of your place,
+Employ the countenance and grace of heaven
+As a false favourite doth his prince’s name,
+In deeds dishonourable? You have ta’en up,
+Under the counterfeited zeal of God,
+The subjects of his substitute, my father,
+And both against the peace of heaven and him
+Have here up-swarm’d them.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Good my Lord of Lancaster,
+I am not here against your father’s peace;
+But, as I told my Lord of Westmoreland,
+The time misorder’d doth, in common sense,
+Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form
+To hold our safety up. I sent your Grace
+The parcels and particulars of our grief,
+The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,
+Whereon this Hydra son of war is born,
+Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm’d asleep
+With grant of our most just and right desires,
+And true obedience, of this madness cured,
+Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+If not, we ready are to try our fortunes
+To the last man.
+
+HASTINGS.
+And though we here fall down,
+We have supplies to second our attempt:
+If they miscarry, theirs shall second them;
+And so success of mischief shall be born,
+And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up
+Whiles England shall have generation.
+
+LANCASTER.
+You are too shallow, Hastings, much too shallow,
+To sound the bottom of the after-times.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Pleaseth your Grace to answer them directly
+How far forth you do like their articles.
+
+LANCASTER.
+I like them all, and do allow them well,
+And swear here, by the honour of my blood,
+My father’s purposes have been mistook,
+And some about him have too lavishly
+Wrested his meaning and authority.
+My lord, these griefs shall be with speed redress’d;
+Upon my soul, they shall. If this may please you,
+Discharge your powers unto their several counties,
+As we will ours; and here between the armies
+Let’s drink together friendly and embrace,
+That all their eyes may bear those tokens home
+Of our restored love and amity.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+I take your princely word for these redresses.
+
+LANCASTER.
+I give it you, and will maintain my word;
+And thereupon I drink unto your Grace.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Go, captain, and deliver to the army
+This news of peace. Let them have pay, and part.
+I know it will please them. Hie thee, captain.
+
+ [_Exit Officer._]
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+I pledge your Grace; and if you knew what pains
+I have bestow’d to breed this present peace,
+You would drink freely; but my love to ye
+Shall show itself more openly hereafter.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+I do not doubt you.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+I am glad of it.
+Health to my lord and gentle cousin, Mowbray.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+You wish me health in very happy season,
+For I am on the sudden something ill.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Against ill chances men are ever merry,
+But heaviness foreruns the good event.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Therefore be merry, coz, since sudden sorrow
+Serves to say thus, “Some good thing comes tomorrow.”
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+So much the worse, if your own rule be true.
+
+ [_Shouts within._]
+
+LANCASTER.
+The word of peace is render’d. Hark how they shout!
+
+MOWBRAY.
+This had been cheerful after victory.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
+For then both parties nobly are subdued,
+And neither party loser.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Go, my lord.
+And let our army be discharged too.
+
+ [_Exit Westmoreland._]
+
+And, good my lord, so please you, let our trains
+March by us, that we may peruse the men
+We should have coped withal.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Go, good Lord Hastings,
+And, ere they be dismiss’d, let them march by.
+
+ [_Exit Hastings._]
+
+LANCASTER.
+I trust, lords, we shall lie tonight together.
+
+Enter Westmoreland.
+
+Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still?
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+The leaders, having charge from you to stand,
+Will not go off until they hear you speak.
+
+LANCASTER.
+They know their duties.
+
+Enter Hastings.
+
+HASTINGS.
+My lord, our army is dispersed already.
+Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses
+East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up,
+Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Good tidings, my Lord Hastings; for the which
+I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason;
+And you, Lord Archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray,
+Of capital treason I attach you both.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Is this proceeding just and honourable?
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Is your assembly so?
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Will you thus break your faith?
+
+LANCASTER.
+I pawn’d thee none.
+I promised you redress of these same grievances
+Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour,
+I will perform with a most Christian care.
+But for you, rebels, look to taste the due
+Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours.
+Most shallowly did you these arms commence,
+Fondly brought here and foolishly sent hence.
+Strike up our drums, pursue the scattr’d stray:
+God, and not we, hath safely fought today.
+Some guard these traitors to the block of death,
+Treason’s true bed and yielder-up of breath.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another part of the forest.
+
+Alarum. Excursions. Enter Falstaff and Colevile, meeting.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What’s your name, sir? Of what condition are you, and of what place, I
+pray?
+
+COLEVILE.
+I am a knight, sir, and my name is Colevile of the Dale.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, then, Colevile is your name, a knight is your degree, and your
+place the Dale. Colevile shall be still your name, a traitor your
+degree, and the dungeon your place, a place deep enough; so shall you
+be still Colevile of the Dale.
+
+COLEVILE.
+Are not you Sir John Falstaff?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+As good a man as he, sir, whoe’er I am. Do ye yield, sir, or shall I
+sweat for you? If I do sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers, and
+they weep for thy death. Therefore rouse up fear and trembling, and do
+observance to my mercy.
+
+COLEVILE.
+I think you are Sir John Falstaff, and in that thought yield me.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of mine, and not a
+tongue of them all speaks any other word but my name. An I had but a
+belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in
+Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Here comes our general.
+
+Enter Prince John of Lancaster, Westmoreland, Blunt, and others.
+
+LANCASTER.
+The heat is past; follow no further now.
+Call in the powers, good cousin Westmoreland.
+
+ [_Exit Westmoreland._]
+
+Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while?
+When everything is ended, then you come.
+These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,
+One time or other break some gallows’ back.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be thus. I never knew yet but
+rebuke and check was the reward of valour. Do you think me a swallow,
+an arrow, or a bullet? Have I, in my poor and old motion, the
+expedition of thought? I have speeded hither with the very extremest
+inch of possibility; I have foundered nine score and odd posts; and
+here, travel-tainted as I am, have in my pure and immaculate valour,
+taken Sir John Colevile of the Dale, a most furious knight and valorous
+enemy. But what of that? He saw me, and yielded; that I may justly say,
+with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, “I came, saw, and overcame.”
+
+LANCASTER.
+It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I know not. Here he is, and here I yield him. And I beseech your Grace,
+let it be booked with the rest of this day’s deeds, or, by the Lord, I
+will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the
+top on’t, Colevile kissing my foot: to the which course if I be
+enforced, if you do not all show like gilt twopences to me, and I in
+the clear sky of fame o’ershine you as much as the full moon doth the
+cinders of the element, which show like pins’ heads to her, believe not
+the word of the noble. Therefore let me have right, and let desert
+mount.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Thine’s too heavy to mount.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let it shine, then.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Thine’s too thick to shine.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let it do something, my good lord, that may do me good, and call it
+what you will.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Is thy name Colevile?
+
+COLEVILE.
+It is, my lord.
+
+LANCASTER.
+A famous rebel art thou, Colevile.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+And a famous true subject took him.
+
+COLEVILE.
+I am, my lord, but as my betters are
+That led me hither. Had they been ruled by me,
+You should have won them dearer than you have.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I know not how they sold themselves, but thou, like a kind fellow,
+gavest thyself away gratis, and I thank thee for thee.
+
+Enter Westmoreland.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Now, have you left pursuit?
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Retreat is made and execution stay’d.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Send Colevile with his confederates
+To York, to present execution.
+Blunt, lead him hence, and see you guard him sure.
+
+ [_Exeunt Blunt and others with Colevile._]
+
+And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords.
+I hear the King my father is sore sick.
+Our news shall go before us to his Majesty,
+Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him,
+And we with sober speed will follow you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My lord, I beseech you give me leave to go through Gloucestershire,
+and, when you come to court, stand my good lord, pray, in your good
+report.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Fare you well, Falstaff. I, in my condition,
+Shall better speak of you than you deserve.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Falstaff._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I would you had but the wit, ’twere better than your dukedom. Good
+faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me, nor a man
+cannot make him laugh; but that’s no marvel, he drinks no wine. There’s
+never none of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth
+so over-cool their blood, and making many fish meals, that they fall
+into a kind of male green-sickness; and then, when they marry, they get
+wenches. They are generally fools and cowards, which some of us should
+be too, but for inflammation. A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold
+operation in it. It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the
+foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes it
+apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable
+shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the
+birth, becomes excellent wit. The second property of your excellent
+sherris is the warming of the blood, which, before cold and settled,
+left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and
+cowardice. But the sherris warms it and makes it course from the
+inwards to the parts’ extremes. It illumineth the face, which as a
+beacon gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to
+arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me
+all to their captain, the heart, who, great and puffed up with this
+retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour comes of sherris. So
+that skill in the weapon is nothing without sack, for that sets it
+a-work; and learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till sack
+commences it and sets it in act and use. Hereof comes it that Prince
+Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his
+father he hath, like lean, sterile and bare land, manured, husbanded
+and tilled with excellent endeavour of drinking good and good store of
+fertile sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a
+thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be
+to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
+
+Enter Bardolph.
+
+How now, Bardolph?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+The army is discharged all and gone.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let them go. I’ll through Gloucestershire, and there will I visit
+Master Robert Shallow, Esquire. I have him already tempering between my
+finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber.
+
+Enter the King, Warwick, Thomas Duke of Clarence and Humphrey Duke of
+Gloucester and others.
+
+KING.
+Now, lords, if God doth give successful end
+To this debate that bleedeth at our doors,
+We will our youth lead on to higher fields
+And draw no swords but what are sanctified.
+Our navy is address’d, our power collected,
+Our substitutes in absence well invested,
+And everything lies level to our wish.
+Only we want a little personal strength;
+And pause us till these rebels now afoot
+Come underneath the yoke of government.
+
+WARWICK.
+Both which we doubt not but your Majesty
+Shall soon enjoy.
+
+KING.
+Humphrey, my son of Gloucester,
+Where is the Prince your brother?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I think he’s gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor.
+
+KING.
+And how accompanied?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I do not know, my lord.
+
+KING.
+Is not his brother Thomas of Clarence with him?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+No, my good lord, he is in presence here.
+
+CLARENCE.
+What would my lord and father?
+
+KING.
+Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence.
+How chance thou art not with the Prince thy brother?
+He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas.
+Thou hast a better place in his affection
+Than all thy brothers. Cherish it, my boy,
+And noble offices thou mayst effect
+Of mediation, after I am dead,
+Between his greatness and thy other brethren.
+Therefore omit him not, blunt not his love,
+Nor lose the good advantage of his grace
+By seeming cold or careless of his will;
+For he is gracious, if he be observed,
+He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
+Open as day for melting charity:
+Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he’s flint,
+As humorous as winter, and as sudden
+As flaws congealed in the spring of day.
+His temper therefore must be well observed.
+Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
+When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth;
+But, being moody, give him time and scope,
+Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
+Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Thomas,
+And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends,
+A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,
+That the united vessel of their blood,
+Mingled with venom of suggestion—
+As, force perforce, the age will pour it in—
+Shall never leak, though it do work as strong
+As aconitum or rash gunpowder.
+
+CLARENCE.
+I shall observe him with all care and love.
+
+KING.
+Why art thou not at Windsor with him, Thomas?
+
+CLARENCE.
+He is not there today; he dines in London.
+
+KING.
+And how accompanied? Canst thou tell that?
+
+CLARENCE.
+With Poins, and other his continual followers.
+
+KING.
+Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds,
+And he, the noble image of my youth,
+Is overspread with them; therefore my grief
+Stretches itself beyond the hour of death.
+The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape
+In forms imaginary th’ unguided days
+And rotten times that you shall look upon
+When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
+For when his headstrong riot hath no curb,
+When rage and hot blood are his counsellors,
+When means and lavish manners meet together,
+O, with what wings shall his affections fly
+Towards fronting peril and opposed decay!
+
+WARWICK.
+My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite.
+The prince but studies his companions
+Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,
+’Tis needful that the most immodest word
+Be looked upon and learned; which once attained,
+Your Highness knows, comes to no further use
+But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms,
+The Prince will, in the perfectness of time,
+Cast off his followers, and their memory
+Shall as a pattern or a measure live,
+By which his Grace must mete the lives of other,
+Turning past evils to advantages.
+
+KING.
+’Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb
+In the dead carrion.
+
+Enter Westmoreland.
+
+Who’s here? Westmoreland?
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Health to my sovereign, and new happiness
+Added to that that I am to deliver!
+Prince John your son doth kiss your Grace’s hand.
+Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings and all
+Are brought to the correction of your law.
+There is not now a rebel’s sword unsheathed,
+But Peace puts forth her olive everywhere.
+The manner how this action hath been borne
+Here at more leisure may your Highness read,
+With every course in his particular.
+
+KING.
+O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird,
+Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
+The lifting up of day.
+
+Enter Harcourt.
+
+Look, here’s more news.
+
+HARCOURT.
+From enemies heaven keep your Majesty;
+And when they stand against you, may they fall
+As those that I am come to tell you of!
+The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph,
+With a great power of English and of Scots,
+Are by the shrieve of Yorkshire overthrown.
+The manner and true order of the fight
+This packet, please it you, contains at large.
+
+KING.
+And wherefore should these good news make me sick?
+Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
+But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
+She either gives a stomach and no food—
+Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast
+And takes away the stomach—such are the rich,
+That have abundance and enjoy it not.
+I should rejoice now at this happy news,
+And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy.
+O me! Come near me, now I am much ill.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Comfort, your Majesty!
+
+CLARENCE.
+O my royal father!
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up.
+
+WARWICK.
+Be patient, princes; you do know these fits
+Are with his Highness very ordinary.
+Stand from him, give him air; he’ll straight be well.
+
+CLARENCE.
+No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs.
+Th’ incessant care and labour of his mind
+Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
+So thin that life looks through and will break out.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+The people fear me, for they do observe
+Unfather’d heirs and loathly births of nature.
+The seasons change their manners, as the year
+Had found some months asleep and leap’d them over.
+
+CLARENCE.
+The river hath thrice flow’d, no ebb between,
+And the old folk, time’s doting chronicles,
+Say it did so a little time before
+That our great-grandsire, Edward, sick’d and died.
+
+WARWICK.
+Speak lower, princes, for the King recovers.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+This apoplexy will certain be his end.
+
+KING.
+I pray you take me up, and bear me hence
+Into some other chamber: softly, pray.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another chamber.
+
+The King lying on a bed. Clarence, Gloucester, Warwick and others in
+attendance.
+
+KING.
+Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends,
+Unless some dull and favourable hand
+Will whisper music to my weary spirit.
+
+WARWICK.
+Call for the music in the other room.
+
+KING.
+Set me the crown upon my pillow here.
+
+CLARENCE.
+His eye is hollow, and he changes much.
+
+WARWICK.
+Less noise, less noise!
+
+Enter Prince Henry.
+
+PRINCE.
+Who saw the Duke of Clarence?
+
+CLARENCE.
+I am here, brother, full of heaviness.
+
+PRINCE.
+How now, rain within doors, and none abroad?
+How doth the King?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Exceeding ill.
+
+PRINCE.
+Heard he the good news yet? Tell it him.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He alt’red much upon the hearing it.
+
+PRINCE.
+If he be sick with joy, he’ll recover without physic.
+
+WARWICK.
+Not so much noise, my lords. Sweet prince, speak low;
+The King your father is disposed to sleep.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Let us withdraw into the other room.
+
+WARWICK.
+Will’t please your Grace to go along with us?
+
+PRINCE.
+No, I will sit and watch here by the King.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but the Prince._]
+
+Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,
+Being so troublesome a bedfellow?
+O polish’d perturbation! golden care!
+That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide
+To many a watchful night! Sleep with it now;
+Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet
+As he whose brow with homely biggen bound
+Snores out the watch of night. O majesty!
+When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit
+Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,
+That scald’st with safety. By his gates of breath
+There lies a downy feather which stirs not:
+Did he suspire, that light and weightless down
+Perforce must move. My gracious lord, my father!
+This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
+That from this golden rigol hath divorced
+So many English kings. Thy due from me
+Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood,
+Which nature, love, and filial tenderness,
+Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously.
+My due from thee is this imperial crown,
+Which, as immediate from thy place and blood,
+Derives itself to me. Lo, where it sits,
+Which God shall guard; and put the world’s whole strength
+Into one giant arm, it shall not force
+This lineal honour from me. This from thee
+Will I to mine leave, as ’tis left to me.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING.
+Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence!
+
+Enter Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence and the rest.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Doth the King call?
+
+WARWICK.
+What would your Majesty? How fares your Grace?
+
+KING.
+Why did you leave me here alone, my lords?
+
+CLARENCE.
+We left the Prince my brother here, my liege,
+Who undertook to sit and watch by you.
+
+KING.
+The Prince of Wales! Where is he? Let me see him.
+He is not here.
+
+WARWICK.
+This door is open, he is gone this way.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He came not through the chamber where we stay’d.
+
+KING.
+Where is the crown? Who took it from my pillow?
+
+WARWICK.
+When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here.
+
+KING.
+The Prince hath ta’en it hence. Go seek him out.
+Is he so hasty that he doth suppose
+My sleep my death?
+Find him, my Lord of Warwick, chide him hither.
+
+ [_Exit Warwick._]
+
+This part of his conjoins with my disease,
+And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are,
+How quickly nature falls into revolt
+When gold becomes her object!
+For this the foolish over-careful fathers
+Have broke their sleep with thoughts,
+Their brains with care, their bones with industry;
+For this they have engrossed and piled up
+The canker’d heaps of strange-achieved gold;
+For this they have been thoughtful to invest
+Their sons with arts and martial exercises;
+When, like the bee, tolling from every flower
+The virtuous sweets,
+Our thighs pack’d with wax, our mouths with honey,
+We bring it to the hive; and like the bees,
+Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste
+Yields his engrossments to the ending father.
+
+Enter Warwick.
+
+Now where is he that will not stay so long
+Till his friend sickness hath determin’d me?
+
+WARWICK.
+My lord, I found the Prince in the next room,
+Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks,
+With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow
+That tyranny, which never quaff’d but blood,
+Would, by beholding him, have wash’d his knife
+With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.
+
+KING.
+But wherefore did he take away the crown?
+
+Enter Prince Henry.
+
+Lo where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry.
+Depart the chamber, leave us here alone.
+
+ [_Exeunt Warwick and the rest._]
+
+PRINCE.
+I never thought to hear you speak again.
+
+KING.
+Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
+I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
+Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair
+That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours
+Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth!
+Thou seek’st the greatness that will overwhelm thee.
+Stay but a little, for my cloud of dignity
+Is held from falling with so weak a wind
+That it will quickly drop. My day is dim.
+Thou hast stolen that which after some few hours
+Were thine without offence, and at my death
+Thou hast seal’d up my expectation.
+Thy life did manifest thou loved’st me not,
+And thou wilt have me die assured of it.
+Thou hid’st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts
+Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart,
+To stab at half an hour of my life.
+What, canst thou not forbear me half an hour?
+Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself,
+And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear
+That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.
+Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse
+Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head,
+Only compound me with forgotten dust.
+Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.
+Pluck down my officers, break my decrees;
+For now a time is come to mock at form.
+Harry the Fifth is crown’d. Up, vanity!
+Down, royal state! All you sage counsellors, hence!
+And to the English court assemble now,
+From every region, apes of idleness!
+Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum.
+Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
+Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit
+The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
+Be happy, he will trouble you no more.
+England shall double gild his treble guilt,
+England shall give him office, honour, might,
+For the fifth Harry from curb’d license plucks
+The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog
+Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.
+O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows!
+When that my care could not withhold thy riots,
+What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?
+O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,
+Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!
+
+PRINCE.
+O, pardon me, my liege! But for my tears,
+The moist impediments unto my speech,
+I had forestall’d this dear and deep rebuke
+Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard
+The course of it so far. There is your crown;
+And He that wears the crown immortally
+Long guard it yours! If I affect it more
+Than as your honour and as your renown,
+Let me no more from this obedience rise,
+Which my most inward true and duteous spirit
+Teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending.
+God witness with me, when I here came in,
+And found no course of breath within your Majesty,
+How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign,
+O, let me in my present wildness die
+And never live to show th’ incredulous world
+The noble change that I have purposed!
+Coming to look on you, thinking you dead,
+And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,
+I spake unto this crown as having sense,
+And thus upbraided it: “The care on thee depending
+Hath fed upon the body of my father;
+Therefore thou best of gold art worst of gold.
+Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,
+Preserving life in med’cine potable;
+But thou, most fine, most honour’d, most renown’d,
+Hast eat thy bearer up.” Thus, my most royal liege,
+Accusing it, I put it on my head,
+To try with it, as with an enemy
+That had before my face murder’d my father,
+The quarrel of a true inheritor.
+But if it did infect my blood with joy,
+Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride,
+If any rebel or vain spirit of mine
+Did with the least affection of a welcome
+Give entertainment to the might of it,
+Let God for ever keep it from my head
+And make me as the poorest vassal is
+That doth with awe and terror kneel to it!
+
+KING.
+O my son,
+God put it in thy mind to take it hence,
+That thou mightst win the more thy father’s love,
+Pleading so wisely in excuse of it!
+Come hither, Harry, sit thou by my bed,
+And hear, I think, the very latest counsel
+That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son,
+By what by-paths and indirect crook’d ways
+I met this crown, and I myself know well
+How troublesome it sat upon my head.
+To thee it shall descend with better quiet,
+Better opinion, better confirmation,
+For all the soil of the achievement goes
+With me into the earth. It seem’d in me
+But as an honour snatch’d with boisterous hand,
+And I had many living to upbraid
+My gain of it by their assistances,
+Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed,
+Wounding supposed peace. All these bold fears
+Thou seest with peril I have answered;
+For all my reign hath been but as a scene
+Acting that argument. And now my death
+Changes the mood, for what in me was purchased,
+Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort;
+So thou the garland wear’st successively.
+Yet though thou stand’st more sure than I could do,
+Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green;
+And all my friends, which thou must make thy friends,
+Have but their stings and teeth newly ta’en out;
+By whose fell working I was first advanced
+And by whose power I well might lodge a fear
+To be again displaced; which to avoid,
+I cut them off, and had a purpose now
+To lead out many to the Holy Land,
+Lest rest and lying still might make them look
+Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,
+Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
+With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out,
+May waste the memory of the former days.
+More would I, but my lungs are wasted so
+That strength of speech is utterly denied me.
+How I came by the crown, O God, forgive,
+And grant it may with thee in true peace live!
+
+PRINCE.
+My gracious liege,
+You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;
+Then plain and right must my possession be,
+Which I with more than with a common pain
+’Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain.
+
+Enter Lord John of Lancaster and others.
+
+KING.
+Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Health, peace, and happiness to my royal father!
+
+KING.
+Thou bring’st me happiness and peace, son John,
+But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown
+From this bare wither’d trunk. Upon thy sight
+My worldly business makes a period.
+Where is my Lord of Warwick?
+
+PRINCE.
+My Lord of Warwick!
+
+Enter Warwick and others.
+
+KING.
+Doth any name particular belong
+Unto the lodging where I first did swoon?
+
+WARWICK.
+’Tis call’d Jerusalem, my noble lord.
+
+KING.
+Laud be to God! Even there my life must end.
+It hath been prophesied to me many years,
+I should not die but in Jerusalem,
+Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land.
+But bear me to that chamber; there I’ll lie;
+In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Gloucestershire. Shallow’s house.
+
+Enter Shallow, Falstaff, Bardolph and Page.
+
+SHALLOW.
+By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away tonight.
+What, Davy, I say!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+I will not excuse you, you shall not be excused. Excuses shall not be
+admitted, there is no excuse shall serve, you shall not be excused.
+Why, Davy!
+
+Enter Davy.
+
+DAVY.
+Here, sir.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, Davy, let me see, Davy, let me see.
+Yea, marry, William cook, bid him come hither. Sir John, you shall not
+be excused.
+
+DAVY.
+Marry, sir, thus: those precepts cannot be served; and again, sir—shall
+we sow the hade land with wheat?
+
+SHALLOW.
+With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook, are there no young pigeons?
+
+DAVY.
+Yes, sir. Here is now the smith’s note for shoeing and plough-irons.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not be excused.
+
+DAVY.
+Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be had. And, sir, do you
+mean to stop any of William’s wages, about the sack he lost the other
+day at Hinckley fair?
+
+SHALLOW.
+He shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of short-legged hens,
+a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William
+cook.
+
+DAVY.
+Doth the man of war stay all night, sir?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Yea, Davy, I will use him well: a friend i’ th’ court is better than a
+penny in purse. Use his men well, Davy, for they are arrant knaves, and
+will backbite.
+
+DAVY.
+No worse than they are backbitten, sir, for they have marvellous foul
+linen.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Well conceited, Davy. About thy business, Davy.
+
+DAVY.
+I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of Woncot against
+Clement Perkes o’ th’ hill.
+
+SHALLOW.
+There is many complaints, Davy, against that Visor. That Visor is an
+arrant knave, on my knowledge.
+
+DAVY.
+I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir, but yet, God forbid, sir,
+but a knave should have some countenance at his friend’s request. An
+honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I
+have served your worship truly, sir, this eight years; and if I cannot
+once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I
+have but a very little credit with your worship. The knave is mine
+honest friend, sir; therefore I beseech your worship let him be
+countenanced.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look about, Davy.
+
+ [_Exit Davy._]
+
+Where are you, Sir John? Come, come, come, off with your boots.
+Give me your hand, Master Bardolph.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+I am glad to see your worship.
+
+SHALLOW.
+I thank thee with all my heart, kind Master Bardolph; and welcome, my
+tall fellow [_to the Page_]. Come, Sir John.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I’ll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow.
+
+ [_Exit Shallow._]
+
+Bardolph, look to our horses.
+
+ [_Exeunt Bardolph and Page._]
+
+If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four dozen of such
+bearded hermits’ staves as Master Shallow. It is a wonderful thing to
+see the semblable coherence of his men’s spirits and his. They, by
+observing of him, do bear themselves like foolish justices: he, by
+conversing with them, is turned into a justice-like serving-man. Their
+spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society
+that they flock together in consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had
+a suit to Master Shallow, I would humour his men with the imputation of
+being near their master: if to his men, I would curry with Master
+Shallow that no man could better command his servants. It is certain
+that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take
+diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
+I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in
+continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions, which is four
+terms, or two actions, and he shall laugh without intervallums. O, it
+is much that a lie with a slight oath and a jest with a sad brow will
+do with a fellow that never had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall
+see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!
+
+SHALLOW.
+[_Within_.] Sir John!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I come, Master Shallow, I come, Master Shallow.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Westminster. The palace.
+
+Enter Warwick and the Lord Chief Justice, meeting.
+
+WARWICK.
+How now, my Lord Chief Justice, whither away?
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+How doth the King?
+
+WARWICK.
+Exceeding well. His cares are now all ended.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I hope, not dead.
+
+WARWICK.
+He’s walk’d the way of nature,
+And to our purposes he lives no more.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I would his Majesty had call’d me with him.
+The service that I truly did his life
+Hath left me open to all injuries.
+
+WARWICK.
+Indeed I think the young King loves you not.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I know he doth not, and do arm myself
+To welcome the condition of the time,
+Which cannot look more hideously upon me
+Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.
+
+Enter Lancaster, Clarence, Gloucester and others.
+
+WARWICK.
+Here comes the heavy issue of dead Harry.
+O that the living Harry had the temper
+Of he the worst of these three gentlemen!
+How many nobles then should hold their places,
+That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+O God, I fear all will be overturn’d.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.
+
+GLOUCESTER & CLARENCE.
+Good morrow, cousin.
+
+LANCASTER.
+We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
+
+WARWICK.
+We do remember, but our argument
+Is all too heavy to admit much talk.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy!
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;
+And I dare swear you borrow not that face
+Of seeming sorrow; it is sure your own.
+
+LANCASTER.
+Though no man be assured what grace to find,
+You stand in coldest expectation.
+I am the sorrier; would ’twere otherwise.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair,
+Which swims against your stream of quality.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Sweet Princes, what I did I did in honour,
+Led by th’ impartial conduct of my soul;
+And never shall you see that I will beg
+A ragged and forestall’d remission.
+If truth and upright innocency fail me,
+I’ll to the King my master that is dead,
+And tell him who hath sent me after him.
+
+WARWICK.
+Here comes the Prince.
+
+Enter King Henry the Fifth, attended.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Good morrow, and God save your Majesty!
+
+KING.
+This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,
+Sits not so easy on me as you think.
+Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear.
+This is the English, not the Turkish court;
+Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
+But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
+For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
+Sorrow so royally in you appears
+That I will deeply put the fashion on
+And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad;
+But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
+Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
+For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,
+I’ll be your father and your brother too;
+Let me but bear your love, I’ll bear your cares.
+Yet weep that Harry’s dead, and so will I;
+But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears
+By number into hours of happiness.
+
+PRINCES.
+We hope no otherwise from your Majesty.
+
+KING.
+You all look strangely on me. And you most;
+You are, I think, assured I love you not.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
+Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
+
+KING.
+No?
+How might a prince of my great hopes forget
+So great indignities you laid upon me?
+What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
+Th’ immediate heir of England? Was this easy?
+May this be wash’d in Lethe and forgotten?
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I then did use the person of your father;
+The image of his power lay then in me;
+And in the administration of his law,
+Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
+Your Highness pleased to forget my place,
+The majesty and power of law and justice,
+The image of the King whom I presented,
+And struck me in my very seat of judgement;
+Whereon, as an offender to your father,
+I gave bold way to my authority
+And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
+Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
+To have a son set your decrees at nought?
+To pluck down justice from your awful bench?
+To trip the course of law and blunt the sword
+That guards the peace and safety of your person?
+Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image,
+And mock your workings in a second body?
+Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
+Be now the father and propose a son,
+Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
+See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
+Behold yourself so by a son disdain’d,
+And then imagine me taking your part
+And in your power soft silencing your son.
+After this cold considerance, sentence me;
+And, as you are a king, speak in your state
+What I have done that misbecame my place,
+My person, or my liege’s sovereignty.
+
+KING.
+You are right, justice, and you weigh this well.
+Therefore still bear the balance and the sword.
+And I do wish your honours may increase
+Till you do live to see a son of mine
+Offend you and obey you, as I did.
+So shall I live to speak my father’s words:
+“Happy am I, that have a man so bold
+That dares do justice on my proper son;
+And not less happy, having such a son
+That would deliver up his greatness so
+Into the hands of justice.” You did commit me,
+For which I do commit into your hand
+Th’ unstained sword that you have used to bear,
+With this remembrance: that you use the same
+With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
+As you have done ’gainst me. There is my hand.
+You shall be as a father to my youth,
+My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
+And I will stoop and humble my intents
+To your well-practised wise directions.
+And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you,
+My father is gone wild into his grave,
+For in his tomb lie my affections;
+And with his spirit sadly I survive
+To mock the expectation of the world,
+To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
+Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
+After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
+Hath proudly flow’d in vanity till now.
+Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,
+Where it shall mingle with the state of floods,
+And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
+Now call we our high court of parliament,
+And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel
+That the great body of our state may go
+In equal rank with the best-govern’d nation;
+That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
+As things acquainted and familiar to us;
+In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.
+Our coronation done, we will accite,
+As I before remember’d, all our state:
+And, God consigning to my good intents,
+No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,
+God shorten Harry’s happy life one day!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Gloucestershire. Shallow’s orchard.
+
+Enter Falstaff, Shallow, Silence, Davy, Bardolph and the Page.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an arbour, we will eat a last
+year’s pippin of mine own graffing, with a dish of caraways, and so
+forth. Come, cousin Silence. And then to bed.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling, and a rich.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all, Sir John. Marry, good
+air. Spread, Davy, spread, Davy. Well said, Davy.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your serving-man and your
+husband.
+
+SHALLOW.
+A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet, Sir John. By the
+mass, I have drunk too much sack at supper. A good varlet. Now sit
+down, now sit down. Come, cousin.
+
+SILENCE.
+Ah, sirrah! quoth-a, we shall [_Singing._]
+
+    _Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer,
+    And praise God for the merry year,
+    When flesh is cheap and females dear,
+    And lusty lads roam here and there
+    So merrily,
+    And ever among so merrily._
+
+FALSTAFF.
+There’s a merry heart! Good Master Silence, I’ll give you a health for
+that anon.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy.
+
+DAVY.
+Sweet sir, sit. I’ll be with you anon. Most sweet sir, sit. Master
+page, good master page, sit. Proface! What you want in meat, we’ll have
+in drink, but you must bear; the heart’s all.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SHALLOW.
+Be merry, Master Bardolph, and, my little soldier there, be merry.
+
+SILENCE.
+[_Singing._]
+
+    _Be merry, be merry, my wife has all,
+    For women are shrews, both short and tall.
+    ’Tis merry in hall when beards wag all,
+    And welcome merry Shrove-tide.
+    Be merry, be merry._
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I did not think Master Silence had been a man of this mettle.
+
+SILENCE.
+Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere now.
+
+Enter Davy.
+
+DAVY.
+[_To Bardolph_.] There’s a dish of leather-coats for you.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Davy!
+
+DAVY.
+Your worship? I’ll be with you straight.
+[_To Bardolph_] A cup of wine, sir?
+
+SILENCE.
+[_Singing._]
+
+    _A cup of wine that’s brisk and fine,
+    And drink unto thee, leman mine,
+    And a merry heart lives long-a._
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well said, Master Silence.
+
+SILENCE.
+An we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet o’ th’ night.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Health and long life to you, Master Silence.
+
+SILENCE.
+[_Singing._]
+
+    _Fill the cup, and let it come,
+    I’ll pledge you a mile to th’ bottom._
+
+SHALLOW.
+Honest Bardolph, welcome! If thou want’st anything and wilt not call,
+beshrew thy heart. Welcome, my little tiny thief, [_to the Page_] and
+welcome indeed too. I’ll drink to Master Bardolph, and to all the
+cabileros about London.
+
+DAVY.
+I hope to see London once ere I die.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+An I might see you there, Davy,—
+
+SHALLOW.
+By the mass, you’ll crack a quart together, ha! will you not, Master
+Bardolph?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot.
+
+SHALLOW.
+By God’s liggens, I thank thee. The knave will stick by thee, I can
+assure thee that. He will not out, he. ’Tis true bred.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+And I’ll stick by him, sir.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing! Be merry.
+
+ [_Knocking within._]
+
+Look who’s at door there, ho! Who knocks?
+
+ [_Exit Davy._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+[_To Silence, seeing him take off a bumper_.] Why, now you have done me
+right.
+
+SILENCE.
+[_Singing._]
+
+    _Do me right,
+    And dub me knight:
+    Samingo._
+
+Is’t not so?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+’Tis so.
+
+SILENCE.
+Is’t so? Why then, say an old man can do somewhat.
+
+Enter Davy.
+
+DAVY.
+An’t please your worship, there’s one Pistol come from the court with
+news.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+From the court? Let him come in.
+
+Enter Pistol.
+
+How now, Pistol?
+
+PISTOL.
+Sir John, God save you!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
+
+PISTOL.
+Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. Sweet knight, thou art now
+one of the greatest men in this realm.
+
+SILENCE.
+By’r lady, I think he be, but goodman Puff of Barson.
+
+PISTOL.
+Puff!
+Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base!
+Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,
+And helter-skelter have I rode to thee,
+And tidings do I bring and lucky joys,
+And golden times, and happy news of price.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.
+
+PISTOL.
+A foutre for the world and worldlings base!
+I speak of Africa and golden joys.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?
+Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.
+
+SILENCE.
+[_Singing_.] _And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John._
+
+PISTOL.
+Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?
+And shall good news be baffled?
+Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies’ lap.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding.
+
+PISTOL.
+Why then, lament therefor.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Give me pardon, sir. If, sir, you come with news from the court, I take
+it there’s but two ways, either to utter them, or conceal them. I am,
+sir, under the King, in some authority.
+
+PISTOL.
+Under which king, Besonian? Speak, or die.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Under King Harry.
+
+PISTOL.
+Harry the Fourth, or Fifth?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Harry the Fourth.
+
+PISTOL.
+A foutre for thine office!
+Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is King;
+Harry the Fifth’s the man. I speak the truth.
+When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me, like
+The bragging Spaniard.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What, is the old King dead?
+
+PISTOL.
+As nail in door. The things I speak are just.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Away, Bardolph, saddle my horse. Master Robert Shallow, choose what
+office thou wilt in the land, ’tis thine. Pistol, I will double-charge
+thee with dignities.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+O joyful day!
+I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.
+
+PISTOL.
+What! I do bring good news.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Carry Master Silence to bed. Master Shallow, my Lord Shallow, be what
+thou wilt; I am Fortune’s steward! Get on thy boots, we’ll ride all
+night. O sweet Pistol! Away, Bardolph!
+
+ [_Exit Bardolph._]
+
+Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and withal devise something to do
+thyself good. Boot, boot, Master Shallow. I know the young King is sick
+for me. Let us take any man’s horses. The laws of England are at my
+commandment. Blessed are they that have been my friends, and woe to my
+Lord Chief Justice!
+
+PISTOL.
+Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also!
+“Where is the life that late I led?” say they:
+Why, here it is; welcome these pleasant days!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. A street.
+
+Enter Beadles, dragging in Hostess Quickly and Doll Tearsheet.
+
+HOSTESS.
+No, thou arrant knave. I would to God that I might die, that I might
+have thee hanged. Thou hast drawn my shoulder out of joint.
+
+FIRST BEADLE.
+The constables have delivered her over to me, and she shall have
+whipping-cheer enough, I warrant her. There hath been a man or two
+lately killed about her.
+
+DOLL.
+Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie! Come on, I’ll tell thee what, thou damned
+tripe-visaged rascal, an the child I now go with do miscarry, thou wert
+better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O the Lord, that Sir John were come! He would make this a bloody day to
+somebody. But I pray God the fruit of her womb miscarry!
+
+FIRST BEADLE.
+If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again; you have but eleven
+now. Come, I charge you both go with me, for the man is dead that you
+and Pistol beat amongst you.
+
+DOLL.
+I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as
+soundly swinged for this, you bluebottle rogue, you filthy famished
+correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles.
+
+FIRST BEADLE.
+Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.
+
+HOSTESS.
+O God, that right should thus overcome might! Well, of sufferance comes
+ease.
+
+DOLL.
+Come, you rogue, come, bring me to a justice.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Ay, come, you starved bloodhound.
+
+DOLL.
+Goodman death, goodman bones!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Thou atomy, thou!
+
+DOLL.
+Come, you thin thing, come, you rascal!
+
+FIRST BEADLE.
+Very well.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. A public place near Westminster Abbey.
+
+Enter two Grooms, strewing rushes.
+
+FIRST GROOM.
+More rushes, more rushes.
+
+SECOND GROOM.
+The trumpets have sounded twice.
+
+FIRST GROOM.
+’Twill be two o’clock ere they come from the coronation. Dispatch,
+dispatch.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+Trumpets sound, and the King and his train pass over the stage. Enter
+Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph and Page.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow. I will make the King do you
+grace. I will leer upon him as he comes by, and do but mark the
+countenance that he will give me.
+
+PISTOL.
+God bless thy lungs, good knight!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come here, Pistol, stand behind me. O, if I had had time to have made
+new liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of
+you. But ’tis no matter, this poor show doth better. This doth infer
+the zeal I had to see him.
+
+SHALLOW.
+It doth so.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+It shows my earnestness of affection—
+
+SHALLOW.
+It doth so.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My devotion—
+
+SHALLOW.
+It doth, it doth, it doth.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+As it were, to ride day and night, and not to deliberate, not to
+remember, not to have patience to shift me—
+
+SHALLOW.
+It is best, certain.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with desire to see him,
+thinking of nothing else, putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if
+there were nothing else to be done but to see him.
+
+PISTOL.
+’Tis _semper idem_, for _obsque hoc nihil est;_ ’tis all in every part.
+
+SHALLOW.
+’Tis so, indeed.
+
+PISTOL.
+My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,
+And make thee rage.
+Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,
+Is in base durance and contagious prison,
+Haled thither
+By most mechanical and dirty hand.
+Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto’s snake,
+For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I will deliver her.
+
+ [_Shouts within. The trumpets sound._]
+
+PISTOL.
+There roar’d the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.
+
+Enter the King and his train, the Lord Chief Justice among them.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+God save thy Grace, King Hal, my royal Hal!
+
+PISTOL.
+The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+God save thee, my sweet boy!
+
+KING.
+My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Have you your wits? Know you what ’tis you speak?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My King! My Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!
+
+KING.
+I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
+How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester!
+I have long dreamt of such a kind of man,
+So surfeit-swell’d, so old, and so profane;
+But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
+Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
+Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
+For thee thrice wider than for other men.
+Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
+Presume not that I am the thing I was;
+For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
+That I have turn’d away my former self;
+So will I those that kept me company.
+When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
+Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
+The tutor and the feeder of my riots.
+Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,
+As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
+Not to come near our person by ten mile.
+For competence of life I will allow you,
+That lack of means enforce you not to evils.
+And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
+We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
+Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,
+To see perform’d the tenor of our word.
+Set on.
+
+ [_Exeunt King with his train._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pounds.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Yea, marry, Sir John, which I beseech you to let me have home with me.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this; I shall
+be sent for in private to him. Look you, he must seem thus to the
+world. Fear not your advancements; I will be the man yet that shall
+make you great.
+
+SHALLOW.
+I cannot perceive how, unless you give me your doublet and stuff me out
+with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of
+my thousand.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that you heard was but a
+colour.
+
+SHALLOW.
+A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Fear no colours. Go with me to dinner. Come, Lieutenant Pistol; come,
+Bardolph. I shall be sent for soon at night.
+
+Enter the Lord Chief Justice and Prince John, Officers with them.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
+Take all his company along with him.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My lord, my lord,—
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+I cannot now speak. I will hear you soon.
+Take them away.
+
+PISTOL.
+_Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta._
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Prince John and the Lord Chief Justice._]
+
+LANCASTER.
+I like this fair proceeding of the King’s.
+He hath intent his wonted followers
+Shall all be very well provided for,
+But all are banish’d till their conversations
+Appear more wise and modest to the world.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+And so they are.
+
+LANCASTER.
+The King hath call’d his parliament, my lord.
+
+CHIEF JUSTICE.
+He hath.
+
+LANCASTER.
+I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
+We bear our civil swords and native fire
+As far as France. I heard a bird so sing,
+Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the King.
+Come, will you hence?
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+EPILOGUE.
+
+
+First my fear; then my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is your
+displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons. If
+you look for a good speech now, you undo me, for what I have to say is
+of mine own making; and what indeed I should say will, I doubt, prove
+mine own marring. But to the purpose, and so to the venture. Be it
+known to you, as it is very well, I was lately here in the end of a
+displeasing play, to pray your patience for it and to promise you a
+better. I meant indeed to pay you with this; which, if like an ill
+venture it come unluckily home, I break, and you, my gentle creditors,
+lose. Here I promised you I would be, and here I commit my body to your
+mercies. Bate me some, and I will pay you some, and, as most debtors
+do, promise you infinitely.
+
+If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will you command me to
+use my legs? And yet that were but light payment, to dance out of your
+debt. But a good conscience will make any possible satisfaction, and so
+would I. All the gentlewomen here have forgiven me; if the gentlemen
+will not, then the gentlemen do not agree with the gentlewomen, which
+was never seen before in such an assembly.
+
+One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloyed with fat
+meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it,
+and make you merry with fair Katharine of France; where, for anything I
+know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already he be killed with
+your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the
+man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will bid you good
+night.
+
+
+
+
+THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Prologue.
+Scene I. London. An ante-chamber in the King’s palace.
+Scene II. The same. The presence chamber.
+
+ACT II
+Chorus.
+Scene I. London. A street.
+Scene II. Southampton. A council-chamber.
+Scene III. London. Before a tavern.
+Scene IV. France. The King’s palace.
+
+ACT III
+Chorus.
+Scene I. France. Before Harfleur.
+Scene II. The same.
+Scene III. Before the gates.
+Scene IV. The French King’s palace.
+Scene V. The same.
+Scene VI. The English camp in Picardy.
+Scene VII. The French camp, near Agincourt.
+
+ACT IV
+Chorus.
+Scene I. The English camp at Agincourt.
+Scene II. The French camp.
+Scene III. The English camp.
+Scene IV. The field of battle.
+Scene V. Another part of the field.
+Scene VI. Another part of the field.
+Scene VII. Another part of the field.
+Scene VIII. Before King Henry’s pavilion.
+
+ACT V
+Chorus.
+Scene I. France. The English camp.
+Scene II. France. A royal palace.
+Epilogue.
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING HENRY V.
+DUKE OF CLARENCE, brother to the King.
+DUKE OF BEDFORD, brother to the King.
+DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, brother to the King.
+DUKE OF EXETER, uncle to the King.
+DUKE OF YORK, cousin to the King.
+EARL OF SALISBURY.
+EARL OF HUNTINGDON.
+EARL OF WESTMORLAND.
+EARL OF WARWICK.
+ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
+BISHOP OF ELY.
+EARL OF CAMBRIDGE.
+LORD SCROOP.
+SIR THOMAS GREY.
+SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, officer in King Henry’s army.
+GOWER, officer in King Henry’s army.
+FLUELLEN, officer in King Henry’s army.
+MACMORRIS, officer in King Henry’s army.
+JAMY, officer in King Henry’s army.
+BATES, soldier in the same.
+COURT, soldier in the same.
+WILLIAMS, soldier in the same.
+PISTOL.
+NYM.
+BARDOLPH.
+BOY.
+A Herald.
+
+CHARLES VI, king of France.
+LEWIS, the Dauphin.
+DUKE OF BERRY.
+DUKE OF BRITTANY.
+DUKE OF BURGUNDY.
+DUKE OF ORLEANS.
+DUKE OF BOURBON.
+The Constable of France.
+RAMBURES, French Lord.
+GRANDPRÉ, French Lord.
+Governor of Harfleur
+MONTJOY, a French herald.
+Ambassadors to the King of England.
+
+ISABEL, queen of France.
+KATHARINE, daughter to Charles and Isabel.
+ALICE, a lady attending on her.
+HOSTESS of a tavern in Eastcheap, formerly Mistress Nell Quickly, and
+now married to Pistol.
+
+CHORUS.
+
+Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and
+Attendants.
+
+SCENE: England; afterwards France.
+
+
+
+
+PROLOGUE.
+
+ Enter Chorus.
+
+CHORUS.
+O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
+The brightest heaven of invention,
+A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
+And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
+Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
+Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels,
+Leash’d in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire
+Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,
+The flat unraised spirits that hath dar’d
+On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
+So great an object. Can this cockpit hold
+The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram
+Within this wooden O the very casques
+That did affright the air at Agincourt?
+O pardon! since a crooked figure may
+Attest in little place a million,
+And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
+On your imaginary forces work.
+Suppose within the girdle of these walls
+Are now confin’d two mighty monarchies,
+Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
+The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder;
+Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.
+Into a thousand parts divide one man,
+And make imaginary puissance.
+Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them
+Printing their proud hoofs i’ th’ receiving earth.
+For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
+Carry them here and there, jumping o’er times,
+Turning the accomplishment of many years
+Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
+Admit me Chorus to this history;
+Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
+Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. London. An ante-chamber in the King’s palace.
+
+
+ Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+My lord, I’ll tell you, that self bill is urg’d
+Which in the eleventh year of the last king’s reign
+Was like, and had indeed against us passed
+But that the scambling and unquiet time
+Did push it out of farther question.
+
+ELY.
+But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?
+
+CANTERBURY.
+It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
+We lose the better half of our possession:
+For all the temporal lands, which men devout
+By testament have given to the Church,
+Would they strip from us; being valu’d thus:
+As much as would maintain, to the King’s honour,
+Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
+Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
+And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
+Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil,
+A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
+And to the coffers of the King beside,
+A thousand pounds by th’ year. Thus runs the bill.
+
+ELY.
+This would drink deep.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+’Twould drink the cup and all.
+
+ELY.
+But what prevention?
+
+CANTERBURY.
+The King is full of grace and fair regard.
+
+ELY.
+And a true lover of the holy Church.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+The courses of his youth promis’d it not.
+The breath no sooner left his father’s body
+But that his wildness, mortified in him,
+Seemed to die too; yea, at that very moment
+Consideration like an angel came
+And whipped th’ offending Adam out of him,
+Leaving his body as a paradise
+T’ envelope and contain celestial spirits.
+Never was such a sudden scholar made,
+Never came reformation in a flood
+With such a heady currance scouring faults,
+Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness
+So soon did lose his seat, and all at once,
+As in this king.
+
+ELY.
+We are blessed in the change.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+Hear him but reason in divinity
+And, all-admiring, with an inward wish
+You would desire the King were made a prelate;
+Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
+You would say it hath been all in all his study;
+List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
+A fearful battle rendered you in music;
+Turn him to any cause of policy,
+The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
+Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,
+The air, a chartered libertine, is still,
+And the mute wonder lurketh in men’s ears
+To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences;
+So that the art and practic part of life
+Must be the mistress to this theoric:
+Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it,
+Since his addiction was to courses vain,
+His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow,
+His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports,
+And never noted in him any study,
+Any retirement, any sequestration
+From open haunts and popularity.
+
+ELY.
+The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,
+And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
+Neighboured by fruit of baser quality;
+And so the Prince obscured his contemplation
+Under the veil of wildness, which, no doubt,
+Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
+Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+It must be so, for miracles are ceased,
+And therefore we must needs admit the means
+How things are perfected.
+
+ELY.
+But, my good lord,
+How now for mitigation of this bill
+Urged by the Commons? Doth his Majesty
+Incline to it, or no?
+
+CANTERBURY.
+He seems indifferent,
+Or rather swaying more upon our part
+Than cherishing th’ exhibitors against us;
+For I have made an offer to his Majesty,
+Upon our spiritual convocation
+And in regard of causes now in hand,
+Which I have opened to his Grace at large,
+As touching France, to give a greater sum
+Than ever at one time the clergy yet
+Did to his predecessors part withal.
+
+ELY.
+How did this offer seem received, my lord?
+
+CANTERBURY.
+With good acceptance of his Majesty;
+Save that there was not time enough to hear,
+As I perceived his Grace would fain have done,
+The severals and unhidden passages
+Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms,
+And generally to the crown and seat of France,
+Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.
+
+ELY.
+What was th’ impediment that broke this off?
+
+CANTERBURY.
+The French ambassador upon that instant
+Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come
+To give him hearing. Is it four o’clock?
+
+ELY.
+It is.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+Then go we in, to know his embassy,
+Which I could with a ready guess declare
+Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.
+
+ELY.
+I’ll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. The presence chamber.
+
+ Enter King Henry, Gloucester, Bedford, Clarence, Warwick, Westmorland,
+ Exeter and Attendants.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
+
+EXETER.
+Not here in presence.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Send for him, good uncle.
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+Shall we call in th’ ambassador, my liege?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Not yet, my cousin. We would be resolved,
+Before we hear him, of some things of weight
+That task our thoughts concerning us and France.
+
+ Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+God and his angels guard your sacred throne
+And make you long become it!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Sure, we thank you.
+My learned lord, we pray you to proceed
+And justly and religiously unfold
+Why the law Salic that they have in France
+Or should or should not bar us in our claim.
+And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
+That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,
+Or nicely charge your understanding soul
+With opening titles miscreate, whose right
+Suits not in native colours with the truth;
+For God doth know how many now in health
+Shall drop their blood in approbation
+Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
+Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,
+How you awake our sleeping sword of war.
+We charge you in the name of God, take heed;
+For never two such kingdoms did contend
+Without much fall of blood, whose guiltless drops
+Are every one a woe, a sore complaint
+’Gainst him whose wrongs gives edge unto the swords
+That makes such waste in brief mortality.
+Under this conjuration speak, my lord,
+For we will hear, note, and believe in heart
+That what you speak is in your conscience washed
+As pure as sin with baptism.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
+That owe yourselves, your lives, and services
+To this imperial throne. There is no bar
+To make against your Highness’ claim to France
+But this, which they produce from Pharamond:
+_In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant_,
+“No woman shall succeed in Salic land;”
+Which Salic land the French unjustly gloze
+To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
+The founder of this law and female bar.
+Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
+That the land Salic is in Germany,
+Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
+Where Charles the Great, having subdu’d the Saxons,
+There left behind and settled certain French;
+Who, holding in disdain the German women
+For some dishonest manners of their life,
+Establish’d then this law, to wit, no female
+Should be inheritrix in Salic land;
+Which Salic, as I said, ’twixt Elbe and Sala,
+Is at this day in Germany call’d Meissen.
+Then doth it well appear the Salic law
+Was not devised for the realm of France;
+Nor did the French possess the Salic land
+Until four hundred one and twenty years
+After defunction of King Pharamond,
+Idly suppos’d the founder of this law,
+Who died within the year of our redemption
+Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great
+Subdu’d the Saxons, and did seat the French
+Beyond the river Sala, in the year
+Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,
+King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,
+Did, as heir general, being descended
+Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,
+Make claim and title to the crown of France.
+Hugh Capet also, who usurp’d the crown
+Of Charles the Duke of Lorraine, sole heir male
+Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,
+To find his title with some shows of truth,
+Though, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,
+Convey’d himself as the heir to the Lady Lingare,
+Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
+To Lewis the Emperor, and Lewis the son
+Of Charles the Great. Also, King Lewis the Tenth,
+Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
+Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
+Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
+That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,
+Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,
+Daughter to Charles, the foresaid Duke of Lorraine;
+By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great
+Was re-united to the crown of France.
+So that, as clear as is the summer’s sun,
+King Pepin’s title and Hugh Capet’s claim,
+King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear
+To hold in right and title of the female.
+So do the kings of France unto this day,
+Howbeit they would hold up this Salic law
+To bar your Highness claiming from the female,
+And rather choose to hide them in a net
+Than amply to imbar their crooked titles
+Usurp’d from you and your progenitors.
+
+KING HENRY.
+May I with right and conscience make this claim?
+
+CANTERBURY.
+The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
+For in the Book of Numbers is it writ,
+“When the man dies, let the inheritance
+Descend unto the daughter.” Gracious lord,
+Stand for your own! Unwind your bloody flag!
+Look back into your mighty ancestors!
+Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire’s tomb,
+From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,
+And your great-uncle’s, Edward the Black Prince,
+Who on the French ground play’d a tragedy,
+Making defeat on the full power of France,
+Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
+Stood smiling to behold his lion’s whelp
+Forage in blood of French nobility.
+O noble English, that could entertain
+With half their forces the full pride of France
+And let another half stand laughing by,
+All out of work and cold for action!
+
+ELY.
+Awake remembrance of these valiant dead,
+And with your puissant arm renew their feats.
+You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;
+The blood and courage that renowned them
+Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege
+Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
+Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
+
+EXETER.
+Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
+Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
+As did the former lions of your blood.
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+They know your Grace hath cause and means and might;
+So hath your Highness. Never King of England
+Had nobles richer, and more loyal subjects,
+Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England
+And lie pavilion’d in the fields of France.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
+With blood and sword and fire to win your right;
+In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
+Will raise your Highness such a mighty sum
+As never did the clergy at one time
+Bring in to any of your ancestors.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We must not only arm to invade the French,
+But lay down our proportions to defend
+Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
+With all advantages.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+They of those marches, gracious sovereign,
+Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
+Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,
+But fear the main intendment of the Scot,
+Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;
+For you shall read that my great-grandfather
+Never went with his forces into France
+But that the Scot on his unfurnish’d kingdom
+Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,
+With ample and brim fullness of his force,
+Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,
+Girdling with grievous siege castles and towns;
+That England, being empty of defence,
+Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+She hath been then more fear’d than harm’d, my liege;
+For hear her but exampl’d by herself:
+When all her chivalry hath been in France,
+And she a mourning widow of her nobles,
+She hath herself not only well defended
+But taken and impounded as a stray
+The King of Scots; whom she did send to France
+To fill King Edward’s fame with prisoner kings,
+And make her chronicle as rich with praise
+As is the ooze and bottom of the sea
+With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries.
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+But there’s a saying very old and true,
+“If that you will France win,
+Then with Scotland first begin.”
+For once the eagle England being in prey,
+To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
+Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,
+Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,
+To tear and havoc more than she can eat.
+
+EXETER.
+It follows then the cat must stay at home;
+Yet that is but a crush’d necessity,
+Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,
+And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
+While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,
+The advised head defends itself at home;
+For government, though high and low and lower,
+Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,
+Congreeing in a full and natural close,
+Like music.
+
+CANTERBURY.
+Therefore doth heaven divide
+The state of man in divers functions,
+Setting endeavour in continual motion,
+To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
+Obedience; for so work the honey-bees,
+Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
+The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
+They have a king and officers of sorts,
+Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,
+Others like merchants, venture trade abroad,
+Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
+Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds,
+Which pillage they with merry march bring home
+To the tent-royal of their emperor;
+Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
+The singing masons building roofs of gold,
+The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
+The poor mechanic porters crowding in
+Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
+The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
+Delivering o’er to executors pale
+The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,
+That many things, having full reference
+To one consent, may work contrariously.
+As many arrows, loosed several ways,
+Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;
+As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;
+As many lines close in the dial’s centre;
+So many a thousand actions, once afoot,
+End in one purpose, and be all well borne
+Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege!
+Divide your happy England into four,
+Whereof take you one quarter into France,
+And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
+If we, with thrice such powers left at home,
+Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,
+Let us be worried and our nation lose
+The name of hardiness and policy.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.
+
+ [_Exeunt some Attendants._]
+
+Now are we well resolv’d; and, by God’s help,
+And yours, the noble sinews of our power,
+France being ours, we’ll bend it to our awe,
+Or break it all to pieces. Or there we’ll sit,
+Ruling in large and ample empery
+O’er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,
+Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
+Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
+Either our history shall with full mouth
+Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
+Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
+Not worshipp’d with a waxen epitaph.
+
+ Enter Ambassadors of France.
+
+Now are we well prepar’d to know the pleasure
+Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear
+Your greeting is from him, not from the King.
+
+FIRST AMBASSADOR.
+May’t please your Majesty to give us leave
+Freely to render what we have in charge,
+Or shall we sparingly show you far off
+The Dauphin’s meaning and our embassy?
+
+KING HENRY.
+We are no tyrant, but a Christian king,
+Unto whose grace our passion is as subject
+As is our wretches fett’red in our prisons;
+Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
+Tell us the Dauphin’s mind.
+
+AMBASSADOR.
+Thus, then, in few.
+Your Highness, lately sending into France,
+Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
+Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
+In answer of which claim, the prince our master
+Says that you savour too much of your youth,
+And bids you be advis’d there’s nought in France
+That can be with a nimble galliard won.
+You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
+He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
+This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,
+Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
+Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What treasure, uncle?
+
+EXETER.
+Tennis-balls, my liege.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us.
+His present and your pains we thank you for.
+When we have match’d our rackets to these balls,
+We will, in France, by God’s grace, play a set
+Shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard.
+Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
+That all the courts of France will be disturb’d
+With chaces. And we understand him well,
+How he comes o’er us with our wilder days,
+Not measuring what use we made of them.
+We never valu’d this poor seat of England;
+And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
+To barbarous licence; as ’tis ever common
+That men are merriest when they are from home.
+But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,
+Be like a king, and show my sail of greatness
+When I do rouse me in my throne of France.
+For that I have laid by my majesty
+And plodded like a man for working days,
+But I will rise there with so full a glory
+That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
+Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
+And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
+Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones, and his soul
+Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
+That shall fly with them; for many a thousand widows
+Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands,
+Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;
+And some are yet ungotten and unborn
+That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin’s scorn.
+But this lies all within the will of God,
+To whom I do appeal; and in whose name
+Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on
+To venge me as I may, and to put forth
+My rightful hand in a well-hallow’d cause.
+So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin
+His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
+When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.—
+Convey them with safe conduct.—Fare you well.
+
+ [_Exeunt Ambassadors._]
+
+EXETER.
+This was a merry message.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We hope to make the sender blush at it.
+Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
+That may give furtherance to our expedition;
+For we have now no thought in us but France,
+Save those to God, that run before our business.
+Therefore, let our proportions for these wars
+Be soon collected, and all things thought upon
+That may with reasonable swiftness add
+More feathers to our wings; for, God before,
+We’ll chide this Dauphin at his father’s door.
+Therefore let every man now task his thought,
+That this fair action may on foot be brought.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+
+ Flourish. Enter Chorus.
+
+CHORUS.
+Now all the youth of England are on fire,
+And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies.
+Now thrive the armourers, and honour’s thought
+Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
+They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,
+Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
+With winged heels, as English Mercuries.
+For now sits Expectation in the air,
+And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
+With crowns imperial, crowns, and coronets,
+Promis’d to Harry and his followers.
+The French, advis’d by good intelligence
+Of this most dreadful preparation,
+Shake in their fear, and with pale policy
+Seek to divert the English purposes.
+O England! model to thy inward greatness,
+Like little body with a mighty heart,
+What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,
+Were all thy children kind and natural!
+But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
+A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills
+With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,
+One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second,
+Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third,
+Sir Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland,
+Have, for the gilt of France,—O guilt indeed!—
+Confirm’d conspiracy with fearful France;
+And by their hands this grace of kings must die,
+If hell and treason hold their promises,
+Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
+Linger your patience on, and we’ll digest
+The abuse of distance, force a play.
+The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;
+The King is set from London; and the scene
+Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton.
+There is the playhouse now, there must you sit;
+And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
+And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
+To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,
+We’ll not offend one stomach with our play.
+But, till the King come forth, and not till then,
+Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE I. London. A street.
+
+ Enter Corporal Nym and Lieutenant Bardolph.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Well met, Corporal Nym.
+
+NYM.
+Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?
+
+NYM.
+For my part, I care not. I say little; but when time shall serve, there
+shall be smiles; but that shall be as it may. I dare not fight, but I
+will wink and hold out mine iron. It is a simple one, but what though?
+It will toast cheese, and it will endure cold as another man’s sword
+will; and there’s an end.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends; and we’ll be all three
+sworn brothers to France. Let it be so, good Corporal Nym.
+
+NYM.
+Faith, I will live so long as I may, that’s the certain of it; and when
+I cannot live any longer, I will do as I may. That is my rest, that is
+the rendezvous of it.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell Quickly; and
+certainly she did you wrong, for you were troth-plight to her.
+
+NYM.
+I cannot tell. Things must be as they may. Men may sleep, and they may
+have their throats about them at that time; and some say knives have
+edges. It must be as it may. Though patience be a tired mare, yet she
+will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot tell.
+
+ Enter Pistol and Hostess.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife. Good Corporal, be patient here.
+How now, mine host Pistol!
+
+PISTOL.
+Base tike, call’st thou me host?
+Now, by this hand, I swear I scorn the term;
+Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.
+
+HOSTESS.
+No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and board a dozen or
+fourteen gentlewomen that live honestly by the prick of their needles,
+but it will be thought we keep a bawdy house straight. [_Nym and Pistol
+draw._] O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! We shall see wilful
+adultery and murder committed.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Good Lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here.
+
+NYM.
+Pish!
+
+PISTOL.
+Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear’d cur of Iceland!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword.
+
+NYM.
+Will you shog off? I would have you _solus_.
+
+PISTOL.
+_Solus_, egregious dog! O viper vile!
+The _solus_ in thy most mervailous face;
+The _solus_ in thy teeth, and in thy throat,
+And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,
+And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
+I do retort the _solus_ in thy bowels;
+For I can take, and Pistol’s cock is up,
+And flashing fire will follow.
+
+NYM.
+I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an humour to knock you
+indifferently well. If you grow foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you
+with my rapier, as I may, in fair terms. If you would walk off, I would
+prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may; and that’s the
+humour of it.
+
+PISTOL.
+O braggart vile and damned furious wight!
+The grave doth gape, and doting death is near,
+Therefore exhale.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Hear me, hear me what I say. He that strikes the first stroke I’ll run
+him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier.
+
+ [_Draws._]
+
+PISTOL.
+An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate.
+Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give.
+Thy spirits are most tall.
+
+NYM.
+I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair terms: that is the
+humour of it.
+
+PISTOL.
+“Couple a gorge!”
+That is the word. I thee defy again.
+O hound of Crete, think’st thou my spouse to get?
+No! to the spital go,
+And from the powdering tub of infamy
+Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid’s kind,
+Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse.
+I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly
+For the only she; and _pauca_, there’s enough.
+Go to.
+
+ Enter the Boy.
+
+BOY.
+Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and you, hostess. He is
+very sick, and would to bed. Good Bardolph, put thy face between his
+sheets, and do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he’s very ill.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Away, you rogue!
+
+HOSTESS.
+By my troth, he’ll yield the crow a pudding one of these days.
+The King has kill’d his heart.
+Good husband, come home presently.
+
+ [_Exeunt Hostess and Boy._]
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to France together; why the
+devil should we keep knives to cut one another’s throats?
+
+PISTOL.
+Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on!
+
+NYM.
+You’ll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?
+
+PISTOL.
+Base is the slave that pays.
+
+NYM.
+That now I will have: that’s the humour of it.
+
+PISTOL.
+As manhood shall compound. Push home.
+
+ [_They draw._]
+
+BARDOLPH.
+By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I’ll kill him; by this
+sword, I will.
+
+PISTOL.
+Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Corporal Nym, and thou wilt be friends, be friends; an thou wilt not,
+why, then, be enemies with me too. Prithee, put up.
+
+NYM.
+I shall have my eight shillings I won from you at betting?
+
+PISTOL.
+A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
+And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
+And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.
+I’ll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me.
+Is not this just? For I shall sutler be
+Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.
+Give me thy hand.
+
+NYM.
+I shall have my noble?
+
+PISTOL.
+In cash most justly paid.
+
+NYM.
+Well, then, that’s the humour of’t.
+
+ Enter Hostess.
+
+HOSTESS.
+As ever you come of women, come in quickly to Sir John.
+Ah, poor heart! he is so shak’d of a burning quotidian tertian,
+that it is most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to him.
+
+NYM.
+The King hath run bad humours on the knight; that’s the even of it.
+
+PISTOL.
+Nym, thou hast spoke the right.
+His heart is fracted and corroborate.
+
+NYM.
+The King is a good king; but it must be as it may; he passes some
+humours and careers.
+
+PISTOL.
+Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins, we will live.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Southampton. A council-chamber.
+
+ Enter Exeter, Bedford and Westmorland.
+
+BEDFORD.
+’Fore God, his Grace is bold, to trust these traitors.
+
+EXETER.
+They shall be apprehended by and by.
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
+As if allegiance in their bosoms sat
+Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
+
+BEDFORD.
+The King hath note of all that they intend,
+By interception which they dream not of.
+
+EXETER.
+Nay, but the man that was his bed-fellow,
+Whom he hath dull’d and cloy’d with gracious favours,
+That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
+His sovereign’s life to death and treachery.
+
+ Trumpets sound. Enter King Henry, Scroop, Cambridge and Grey.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
+My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,
+And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts.
+Think you not that the powers we bear with us
+Will cut their passage through the force of France,
+Doing the execution and the act
+For which we have in head assembled them?
+
+SCROOP.
+No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I doubt not that, since we are well persuaded
+We carry not a heart with us from hence
+That grows not in a fair consent with ours,
+Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
+Success and conquest to attend on us.
+
+CAMBRIDGE.
+Never was monarch better fear’d and lov’d
+Than is your Majesty. There’s not, I think, a subject
+That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
+Under the sweet shade of your government.
+
+GREY.
+True; those that were your father’s enemies
+Have steep’d their galls in honey, and do serve you
+With hearts create of duty and of zeal.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We therefore have great cause of thankfulness,
+And shall forget the office of our hand
+Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
+According to the weight and worthiness.
+
+SCROOP.
+So service shall with steeled sinews toil,
+And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
+To do your Grace incessant services.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,
+Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
+That rail’d against our person. We consider
+It was excess of wine that set him on,
+And on his more advice we pardon him.
+
+SCROOP.
+That’s mercy, but too much security.
+Let him be punish’d, sovereign, lest example
+Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O, let us yet be merciful.
+
+CAMBRIDGE.
+So may your Highness, and yet punish too.
+
+GREY.
+Sir,
+You show great mercy if you give him life
+After the taste of much correction.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Alas, your too much love and care of me
+Are heavy orisons ’gainst this poor wretch!
+If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
+Shall not be wink’d at, how shall we stretch our eye
+When capital crimes, chew’d, swallow’d, and digested,
+Appear before us? We’ll yet enlarge that man,
+Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey, in their dear care
+And tender preservation of our person,
+Would have him punish’d. And now to our French causes.
+Who are the late commissioners?
+
+CAMBRIDGE.
+I one, my lord.
+Your Highness bade me ask for it today.
+
+SCROOP.
+So did you me, my liege.
+
+GREY.
+And I, my royal sovereign.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;
+There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,
+Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours.
+Read them, and know I know your worthiness.
+My Lord of Westmorland, and uncle Exeter,
+We will aboard tonight.—Why, how now, gentlemen!
+What see you in those papers that you lose
+So much complexion?—Look ye, how they change!
+Their cheeks are paper.—Why, what read you there,
+That have so cowarded and chas’d your blood
+Out of appearance?
+
+CAMBRIDGE.
+I do confess my fault,
+And do submit me to your Highness’ mercy.
+
+GREY, SCROOP.
+To which we all appeal.
+
+KING HENRY.
+The mercy that was quick in us but late,
+By your own counsel is suppress’d and kill’d.
+You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy,
+For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
+As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.
+See you, my princes and my noble peers,
+These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,
+You know how apt our love was to accord
+To furnish him with an appertinents
+Belonging to his honour; and this man
+Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspir’d
+And sworn unto the practices of France
+To kill us here in Hampton; to the which
+This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
+Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O
+What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,
+Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature!
+Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,
+That knew’st the very bottom of my soul,
+That almost mightst have coin’d me into gold,
+Wouldst thou have practis’d on me for thy use,—
+May it be possible that foreign hire
+Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
+That might annoy my finger? ’Tis so strange,
+That, though the truth of it stands off as gross
+As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.
+Treason and murder ever kept together,
+As two yoke-devils sworn to either’s purpose,
+Working so grossly in a natural cause
+That admiration did not whoop at them;
+But thou, ’gainst all proportion, didst bring in
+Wonder to wait on treason and on murder;
+And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
+That wrought upon thee so preposterously
+Hath got the voice in hell for excellence;
+And other devils that suggest by treasons
+Do botch and bungle up damnation
+With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch’d
+From glist’ring semblances of piety.
+But he that temper’d thee bade thee stand up,
+Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,
+Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
+If that same demon that hath gull’d thee thus
+Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,
+He might return to vasty Tartar back,
+And tell the legions, “I can never win
+A soul so easy as that Englishman’s.”
+O, how hast thou with jealousy infected
+The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?
+Why, so didst thou. Seem they grave and learned?
+Why, so didst thou. Come they of noble family?
+Why, so didst thou. Seem they religious?
+Why, so didst thou. Or are they spare in diet,
+Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,
+Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
+Garnish’d and deck’d in modest complement,
+Not working with the eye without the ear,
+And but in purged judgement trusting neither?
+Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
+And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot
+To mark the full-fraught man and best indued
+With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;
+For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
+Another fall of man. Their faults are open.
+Arrest them to the answer of the law;
+And God acquit them of their practices!
+
+EXETER.
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard Earl of
+Cambridge.
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry Lord Scroop of
+Masham.
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of
+Northumberland.
+
+SCROOP.
+Our purposes God justly hath discover’d,
+And I repent my fault more than my death,
+Which I beseech your Highness to forgive,
+Although my body pay the price of it.
+
+CAMBRIDGE.
+For me, the gold of France did not seduce,
+Although I did admit it as a motive
+The sooner to effect what I intended.
+But God be thanked for prevention,
+Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
+Beseeching God and you to pardon me.
+
+GREY.
+Never did faithful subject more rejoice
+At the discovery of most dangerous treason
+Than I do at this hour joy o’er myself,
+Prevented from a damned enterprise.
+My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
+
+KING HENRY.
+God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.
+You have conspir’d against our royal person,
+Join’d with an enemy proclaim’d, and from his coffers
+Received the golden earnest of our death;
+Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
+His princes and his peers to servitude,
+His subjects to oppression and contempt,
+And his whole kingdom into desolation.
+Touching our person seek we no revenge;
+But we our kingdom’s safety must so tender,
+Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws
+We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
+Poor miserable wretches, to your death,
+The taste whereof God of his mercy give
+You patience to endure, and true repentance
+Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.
+
+ [_Exeunt Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, guarded._]
+
+Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof
+Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
+We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
+Since God so graciously hath brought to light
+This dangerous treason lurking in our way
+To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now
+But every rub is smoothed on our way.
+Then forth, dear countrymen! Let us deliver
+Our puissance into the hand of God,
+Putting it straight in expedition.
+Cheerly to sea! The signs of war advance!
+No king of England, if not king of France!
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. London. Before a tavern.
+
+ Enter Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Boy and Hostess.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Prithee, honey, sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.
+
+PISTOL.
+No; for my manly heart doth yearn.
+Bardolph, be blithe; Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins;
+Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,
+And we must yearn therefore.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Would I were with him, wheresome’er he is, either in heaven or in hell!
+
+HOSTESS.
+Nay, sure, he’s not in hell. He’s in Arthur’s bosom, if ever man went
+to Arthur’s bosom. ’A made a finer end and went away an it had been any
+christom child. ’A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the
+turning o’ the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and
+play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers’ ends, I knew there was
+but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and ’a babbled of
+green fields. “How now, Sir John!” quoth I; “what, man! be o’ good
+cheer.” So ’a cried out, “God, God, God!” three or four times. Now I,
+to comfort him, bid him ’a should not think of God; I hop’d there was
+no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So ’a bade me
+lay more clothes on his feet. I put my hand into the bed and felt them,
+and they were as cold as any stone. Then I felt to his knees, and so
+upward and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
+
+NYM.
+They say he cried out of sack.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Ay, that ’a did.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+And of women.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Nay, that ’a did not.
+
+BOY.
+Yes, that ’a did; and said they were devils incarnate.
+
+HOSTESS.
+’A could never abide carnation; ’twas a colour he never liked.
+
+BOY.
+’A said once, the devil would have him about women.
+
+HOSTESS.
+’A did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then he was rheumatic,
+and talk’d of the whore of Babylon.
+
+BOY.
+Do you not remember, ’a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph’s nose, and ’a
+said it was a black soul burning in hell-fire?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Well, the fuel is gone that maintain’d that fire. That’s all the riches
+I got in his service.
+
+NYM.
+Shall we shog? The King will be gone from Southampton.
+
+PISTOL.
+Come, let’s away. My love, give me thy lips.
+Look to my chattels and my movables.
+Let senses rule; the word is “Pitch and Pay.”
+Trust none;
+For oaths are straws, men’s faiths are wafer-cakes
+And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck;
+Therefore, _Caveto_ be thy counsellor.
+Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,
+Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,
+To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
+
+BOY.
+And that’s but unwholesome food, they say.
+
+PISTOL.
+Touch her soft mouth, and march.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Farewell, hostess.
+
+ [_Kissing her._]
+
+NYM.
+I cannot kiss; that is the humour of it; but, adieu.
+
+PISTOL.
+Let housewifery appear. Keep close, I thee command.
+
+HOSTESS.
+Farewell; adieu.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. France. The King’s palace.
+
+ Flourish. Enter the French King, the Dauphin, the Dukes of Berry and
+ Brittany, the Constable and others.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Thus comes the English with full power upon us,
+And more than carefully it us concerns
+To answer royally in our defences.
+Therefore the Dukes of Berry and of Brittany,
+Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,
+And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,
+To line and new repair our towns of war
+With men of courage and with means defendant;
+For England his approaches makes as fierce
+As waters to the sucking of a gulf.
+It fits us then to be as provident
+As fears may teach us out of late examples
+Left by the fatal and neglected English
+Upon our fields.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+My most redoubted father,
+It is most meet we arm us ’gainst the foe;
+For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,
+Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,
+But that defences, musters, preparations,
+Should be maintain’d, assembled, and collected,
+As were a war in expectation.
+Therefore, I say, ’tis meet we all go forth
+To view the sick and feeble parts of France.
+And let us do it with no show of fear;
+No, with no more than if we heard that England
+Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance;
+For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d,
+Her sceptre so fantastically borne
+By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
+That fear attends her not.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+O peace, Prince Dauphin!
+You are too much mistaken in this king.
+Question your Grace the late ambassadors
+With what great state he heard their embassy,
+How well supplied with noble counsellors,
+How modest in exception, and withal
+How terrible in constant resolution,
+And you shall find his vanities forespent
+Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
+Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
+As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
+That shall first spring and be most delicate.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Well, ’tis not so, my Lord High Constable;
+But though we think it so, it is no matter.
+In cases of defence ’tis best to weigh
+The enemy more mighty than he seems,
+So the proportions of defence are fill’d;
+Which, of a weak and niggardly projection,
+Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
+A little cloth.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Think we King Harry strong;
+And, Princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
+The kindred of him hath been flesh’d upon us;
+And he is bred out of that bloody strain
+That haunted us in our familiar paths.
+Witness our too much memorable shame
+When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
+And all our princes captiv’d by the hand
+Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;
+Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,
+Up in the air, crown’d with the golden sun,
+Saw his heroical seed, and smil’d to see him,
+Mangle the work of nature and deface
+The patterns that by God and by French fathers
+Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
+Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
+The native mightiness and fate of him.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Ambassadors from Harry King of England
+Do crave admittance to your Majesty.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+We’ll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.
+
+ [_Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords._]
+
+You see this chase is hotly follow’d, friends.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Turn head and stop pursuit; for coward dogs
+Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
+Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
+Take up the English short, and let them know
+Of what a monarchy you are the head.
+Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
+As self-neglecting.
+
+ Enter Exeter.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+From our brother of England?
+
+EXETER.
+From him; and thus he greets your Majesty:
+He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
+That you divest yourself, and lay apart
+The borrowed glories that by gift of heaven,
+By law of nature and of nations, ’longs
+To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown
+And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
+By custom and the ordinance of times
+Unto the crown of France. That you may know
+’Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim
+Pick’d from the worm-holes of long-vanish’d days,
+Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak’d,
+He sends you this most memorable line,
+In every branch truly demonstrative;
+Willing you overlook this pedigree;
+And when you find him evenly deriv’d
+From his most fam’d of famous ancestors,
+Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
+Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
+From him, the native and true challenger.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Or else what follows?
+
+EXETER.
+Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
+Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it.
+Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
+In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,
+That, if requiring fail, he will compel;
+And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,
+Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
+On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
+Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head
+Turning the widows’ tears, the orphans’ cries,
+The dead men’s blood, the pining maidens’ groans,
+For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers,
+That shall be swallowed in this controversy.
+This is his claim, his threat’ning, and my message;
+Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
+To whom expressly I bring greeting too.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+For us, we will consider of this further.
+Tomorrow shall you bear our full intent
+Back to our brother of England.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+For the Dauphin,
+I stand here for him. What to him from England?
+
+EXETER.
+Scorn and defiance. Slight regard, contempt,
+And anything that may not misbecome
+The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
+Thus says my king: an if your father’s Highness
+Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
+Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his Majesty,
+He’ll call you to so hot an answer of it
+That caves and womby vaultages of France
+Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
+In second accent of his ordinance.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Say, if my father render fair return,
+It is against my will; for I desire
+Nothing but odds with England. To that end,
+As matching to his youth and vanity,
+I did present him with the Paris balls.
+
+EXETER.
+He’ll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,
+Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe;
+And, be assur’d, you’ll find a difference,
+As we his subjects have in wonder found,
+Between the promise of his greener days
+And these he masters now. Now he weighs time
+Even to the utmost grain. That you shall read
+In your own losses, if he stay in France.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Tomorrow shall you know our mind at full.
+
+ [_Flourish._]
+
+EXETER.
+Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king
+Come here himself to question our delay;
+For he is footed in this land already.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+You shall be soon dispatch’d with fair conditions.
+A night is but small breath and little pause
+To answer matters of this consequence.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+
+ Flourish. Enter Chorus.
+
+CHORUS.
+Thus with imagin’d wing our swift scene flies,
+In motion of no less celerity
+Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
+The well-appointed king at Hampton pier
+Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet
+With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning.
+Play with your fancies; and in them behold
+Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
+Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
+To sounds confus’d; behold the threaden sails,
+Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
+Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea,
+Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think
+You stand upon the rivage and behold
+A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
+For so appears this fleet majestical,
+Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow!
+Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
+And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
+Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women,
+Either past or not arriv’d to pith and puissance.
+For who is he, whose chin is but enrich’d
+With one appearing hair, that will not follow
+These cull’d and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
+Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;
+Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
+With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
+Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back,
+Tells Harry that the King doth offer him
+Katharine his daughter, and with her, to dowry,
+Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
+The offer likes not; and the nimble gunner
+With linstock now the devilish cannon touches,
+
+ [_Alarum, and chambers go off._]
+
+And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
+And eke out our performance with your mind.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE I. France. Before Harfleur.
+
+ Alarum. Enter King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, Gloucester and Soldiers,
+ with scaling-ladders.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
+Or close the wall up with our English dead.
+In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
+As modest stillness and humility;
+But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
+Then imitate the action of the tiger;
+Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
+Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
+Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
+Let it pry through the portage of the head
+Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
+As fearfully as does a galled rock
+O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
+Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
+Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
+Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
+To his full height. On, on, you noblest English,
+Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
+Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
+Have in these parts from morn till even fought,
+And sheath’d their swords for lack of argument.
+Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
+That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
+Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
+And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen,
+Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
+The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
+That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not;
+For there is none of you so mean and base,
+That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
+I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
+Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot!
+Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
+Cry, “God for Harry! England and Saint George!”
+
+ [_Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off._]
+
+SCENE II. The same.
+
+ Enter Nym, Bardolph, Pistol and Boy.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+On, on, on, on, on! To the breach, to the breach!
+
+NYM.
+Pray thee, corporal, stay. The knocks are too hot; and, for mine own
+part, I have not a case of lives. The humour of it is too hot; that is
+the very plain-song of it.
+
+PISTOL.
+The plain-song is most just, for humours do abound.
+Knocks go and come; God’s vassals drop and die;
+    And sword and shield,
+    In bloody field,
+    Doth win immortal fame.
+
+BOY.
+Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give all my fame for a
+pot of ale and safety.
+
+PISTOL.
+And I.
+    If wishes would prevail with me,
+    My purpose should not fail with me,
+    But thither would I hie.
+
+BOY.
+    As duly,
+    But not as truly,
+    As bird doth sing on bough.
+
+ Enter Fluellen.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Up to the breach, you dogs! Avaunt, you cullions!
+
+ [_Driving them forward._]
+
+PISTOL.
+Be merciful, great Duke, to men of mould.
+Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,
+Abate thy rage, great Duke!
+Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!
+
+NYM.
+These be good humours! Your honour wins bad humours.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Boy._]
+
+BOY.
+As young as I am, I have observ’d these three swashers. I am boy to
+them all three; but all they three, though they would serve me, could
+not be man to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to a man.
+For Bardolph, he is white-liver’d and red-fac’d; by the means whereof
+’a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue
+and a quiet sword; by the means whereof ’a breaks words, and keeps
+whole weapons. For Nym, he hath heard that men of few words are the
+best men; and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest ’a should be
+thought a coward. But his few bad words are match’d with as few good
+deeds; for ’a never broke any man’s head but his own, and that was
+against a post when he was drunk. They will steal anything, and call it
+purchase. Bardolph stole a lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold
+it for three half-pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn brothers in
+filching, and in Calais they stole a fire-shovel. I knew by that piece
+of service the men would carry coals. They would have me as familiar
+with men’s pockets as their gloves or their handkerchers; which makes
+much against my manhood, if I should take from another’s pocket to put
+into mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave them,
+and seek some better service. Their villainy goes against my weak
+stomach, and therefore I must cast it up.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Gower and Fluellen.
+
+GOWER.
+Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the mines.
+The Duke of Gloucester would speak with you.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+To the mines! Tell you the Duke, it is not so good to come to the
+mines; for, look you, the mines is not according to the disciplines of
+the war. The concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look you, the
+athversary, you may discuss unto the Duke, look you, is digt himself
+four yard under the countermines. By Cheshu, I think ’a will plow up
+all, if there is not better directions.
+
+GOWER.
+The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the siege is given, is
+altogether directed by an Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i’ faith.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?
+
+GOWER.
+I think it be.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world. I will verify as much in his
+beard. He has no more directions in the true disciplines of the wars,
+look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.
+
+ Enter Macmorris and Captain Jamy.
+
+GOWER.
+Here ’a comes; and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous gentleman, that is certain; and
+of great expedition and knowledge in the anchient wars, upon my
+particular knowledge of his directions. By Cheshu, he will maintain his
+argument as well as any military man in the world, in the disciplines
+of the pristine wars of the Romans.
+
+JAMY.
+I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+God-den to your worship, good Captain James.
+
+GOWER.
+How now, Captain Macmorris! have you quit the mines?
+Have the pioneers given o’er?
+
+MACMORRIS.
+By Chrish, la! ’tish ill done! The work ish give over, the trompet
+sound the retreat. By my hand I swear, and my father’s soul, the work
+ish ill done; it ish give over. I would have blowed up the town, so
+Chrish save me, la! in an hour. O, ’tish ill done, ’tish ill done; by
+my hand, ’tish ill done!
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, will you voutsafe me, look you, a
+few disputations with you, as partly touching or concerning the
+disciplines of the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument, look
+you, and friendly communication; partly to satisfy my opinion, and
+partly for the satisfaction, look you, of my mind, as touching the
+direction of the military discipline; that is the point.
+
+JAMY.
+It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath: and I sall quit you
+with gud leve, as I may pick occasion; that sall I, marry.
+
+MACMORRIS.
+It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me. The day is hot, and the
+weather, and the wars, and the King, and the Dukes. It is no time to
+discourse. The town is beseech’d, and the trumpet call us to the
+breach, and we talk, and, be Chrish, do nothing. ’Tis shame for us all.
+So God sa’ me, ’tis shame to stand still; it is shame, by my hand; and
+there is throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there ish nothing
+done, so Chrish sa’ me, la!
+
+JAMY.
+By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves to slomber, I’ll
+de gud service, or I’ll lig i’ the grund for it; ay, or go to death;
+and I’ll pay’t as valorously as I may, that sall I suerly do, that is
+the breff and the long. Marry, I wad full fain heard some question
+’tween you tway.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your correction, there is
+not many of your nation—
+
+MACMORRIS.
+Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain, and a bastard, and a
+knave, and a rascal? What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is meant, Captain
+Macmorris, peradventure I shall think you do not use me with that
+affability as in discretion you ought to use me, look you, being as
+good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of war, and in the
+derivation of my birth, and in other particularities.
+
+MACMORRIS.
+I do not know you so good a man as myself. So Chrish save me,
+I will cut off your head.
+
+GOWER.
+Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.
+
+JAMY.
+Ah! that’s a foul fault.
+
+ [_A parley sounded._]
+
+GOWER.
+The town sounds a parley.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Captain Macmorris, when there is more better opportunity to be
+required, look you, I will be so bold as to tell you I know the
+disciplines of war; and there is an end.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Before the gates.
+
+ The Governor and some citizens on the walls; the English forces below.
+ Enter King Henry and his train.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How yet resolves the governor of the town?
+This is the latest parle we will admit;
+Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves,
+Or like to men proud of destruction
+Defy us to our worst; for, as I am a soldier,
+A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
+If I begin the battery once again,
+I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
+Till in her ashes she lie buried.
+The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
+And the flesh’d soldier, rough and hard of heart,
+In liberty of bloody hand shall range
+With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
+Your fresh fair virgins and your flow’ring infants.
+What is it then to me, if impious War,
+Array’d in flames like to the prince of fiends,
+Do with his smirch’d complexion all fell feats
+Enlink’d to waste and desolation?
+What is’t to me, when you yourselves are cause,
+If your pure maidens fall into the hand
+Of hot and forcing violation?
+What rein can hold licentious wickedness
+When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
+We may as bootless spend our vain command
+Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
+As send precepts to the leviathan
+To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
+Take pity of your town and of your people,
+Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command,
+Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
+O’erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
+Of heady murder, spoil, and villainy.
+If not, why, in a moment look to see
+The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
+Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
+Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
+And their most reverend heads dash’d to the walls;
+Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
+Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confus’d
+Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
+At Herod’s bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
+What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid,
+Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy’d?
+
+GOVERNOR.
+Our expectation hath this day an end.
+The Dauphin, whom of succours we entreated,
+Returns us that his powers are yet not ready
+To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great King,
+We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
+Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;
+For we no longer are defensible.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,
+Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,
+And fortify it strongly ’gainst the French.
+Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,
+The winter coming on, and sickness growing
+Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.
+Tonight in Harfleur will we be your guest;
+Tomorrow for the march are we addrest.
+
+ Flourish. The King and his train enter the town.
+
+SCENE IV. The French King’s palace.
+
+ Enter Katharine and Alice, an old Gentlewoman.
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Alice, tu as été en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le langage._
+
+ALICE.
+_Un peu, madame._
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Je te prie, m’enseignez; il faut que j’apprenne à parler.
+Comment appelez-vous la main en anglais?_
+
+ALICE.
+_La main? Elle est appelée_ de hand.
+
+KATHARINE.
+De hand. _Et les doigts?_
+
+ALICE.
+_Les doigts? Ma foi, j’oublie les doigts; mais je me souviendrai. Les
+doigts? Je pense qu’ils sont appelés_ de fingres; _oui_, de fingres.
+
+KATHARINE.
+_La main_, de hand; _les doigts_, de fingres. _Je pense que je suis le
+bon écolier; j’ai gagné deux mots d’anglais vitement. Comment
+appelez-vous les ongles?_
+
+ALICE.
+_Les ongles? Nous les appelons_ de nails.
+
+KATHARINE.
+De nails. _Écoutez; dites-moi, si je parle bien:_ de hand, de fingres,
+_et_ de nails.
+
+ALICE.
+_C’est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon anglais._
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Dites-moi l’anglais pour le bras._
+
+ALICE.
+De arm, _madame._
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Et le coude?_
+
+ALICE.
+D’elbow.
+
+KATHARINE.
+D’elbow. _Je m’en fais la répétition de tous les mots que vous m’avez
+appris dès à présent._
+
+ALICE.
+_Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense._
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Excusez-moi, Alice. Écoutez:_ d’hand, de fingres, de nails, d’arm, de
+bilbow.
+
+ALICE.
+D’elbow, _madame._
+
+KATHARINE.
+_O Seigneur Dieu, je m’en oublie!_ D’elbow.
+_Comment appelez-vous le col?_
+
+ALICE.
+De nick, _madame._
+
+KATHARINE.
+De nick. _Et le menton?_
+
+ALICE.
+De chin.
+
+KATHARINE.
+De sin. _Le col_, de nick; _le menton_, de sin.
+
+ALICE.
+_Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en vérité, vous prononcez les mots aussi
+droit que les natifs d’Angleterre._
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Je ne doute point d’apprendre, par la grâce de Dieu, et en peu de
+temps._
+
+ALICE.
+_N’avez-vous pas déjà oublié ce que je vous ai enseigné?_
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Non, je réciterai à vous promptement:_ d’hand, de fingres, de mails,—
+
+ALICE.
+De nails, _madame._
+
+KATHARINE.
+De nails, de arm, de ilbow.
+
+ALICE.
+_Sauf votre honneur_, de elbow.
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Ainsi dis-je_, d’elbow, de nick, _et_ de sin. _Comment appelez-vous le
+pied et la robe?_
+
+ALICE.
+De foot, _madame; et_ de coun.
+
+KATHARINE.
+De foot _et_ de coun! _O Seigneur Dieu! ils sont les mots de son
+mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et non pour les dames
+d’honneur d’user. Je ne voudrais prononcer ces mots devant les
+seigneurs de France pour tout le monde. Foh!_ le foot _et_ le coun!
+_Néanmoins, je réciterai une autre fois ma leçon ensemble:_ d’hand, de
+fingres, de nails, d’arm, d’elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.
+
+ALICE.
+_Excellent, madame!_
+
+KATHARINE.
+_C’est assez pour une fois. Allons-nous à dîner._
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. The same.
+
+ Enter the King of France, the Dauphin, the Duke of Bourbon, the
+ Constable of France and others.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+’Tis certain he hath pass’d the river Somme.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
+Let us not live in France; let us quit all
+And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+_O Dieu vivant_! shall a few sprays of us,
+The emptying of our fathers’ luxury,
+Our scions put in wild and savage stock,
+Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,
+And overlook their grafters?
+
+BOURBON.
+Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!
+_Mort de ma vie_, if they march along
+Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,
+To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm
+In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+_Dieu de batailles_, where have they this mettle?
+Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull,
+On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,
+Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
+A drench for sur-rein’d jades, their barley-broth,
+Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?
+And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,
+Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,
+Let us not hang like roping icicles
+Upon our houses’ thatch, whiles a more frosty people
+Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!
+Poor we may call them in their native lords.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+By faith and honour,
+Our madams mock at us, and plainly say
+Our mettle is bred out, and they will give
+Their bodies to the lust of English youth
+To new-store France with bastard warriors.
+
+BOURBON.
+They bid us to the English dancing-schools,
+And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos;
+Saying our grace is only in our heels,
+And that we are most lofty runaways.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Where is Montjoy the herald? Speed him hence.
+Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.
+Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged
+More sharper than your swords, hie to the field!
+Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France;
+You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berry,
+Alençon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;
+Jacques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,
+Beaumont, Grandpré, Roussi, and Fauconbridge,
+Foix, Lestrale, Boucicault, and Charolois;
+High dukes, great princes, barons, lords, and knights,
+For your great seats now quit you of great shames.
+Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
+With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur.
+Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow
+Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat
+The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon.
+Go down upon him, you have power enough,
+And in a captive chariot into Rouen
+Bring him our prisoner.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+This becomes the great.
+Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
+His soldiers sick and famish’d in their march;
+For I am sure, when he shall see our army,
+He’ll drop his heart into the sink of fear
+And for achievement offer us his ransom.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Therefore, Lord Constable, haste on Montjoy,
+And let him say to England that we send
+To know what willing ransom he will give.
+Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Not so, I do beseech your Majesty.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Be patient, for you shall remain with us.
+Now forth, Lord Constable and princes all,
+And quickly bring us word of England’s fall.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. The English camp in Picardy.
+
+ Enter Gower and Fluellen, meeting.
+
+GOWER.
+How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+I assure you, there is very excellent services committed at the bridge.
+
+GOWER.
+Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a man that I
+love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my life,
+and my living, and my uttermost power. He is not—God be praised and
+blessed!—any hurt in the world; but keeps the bridge most valiantly,
+with excellent discipline. There is an anchient lieutenant there at the
+pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as valiant a man as Mark
+Antony; and he is a man of no estimation in the world, but I did see
+him do as gallant service.
+
+GOWER.
+What do you call him?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+He is call’d Anchient Pistol.
+
+GOWER.
+I know him not.
+
+ Enter Pistol.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Here is the man.
+
+PISTOL.
+Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours.
+The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Ay, I praise God; and I have merited some love at his hands.
+
+PISTOL.
+Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
+And of buxom valour, hath by cruel fate
+And giddy Fortune’s furious fickle wheel,
+That goddess blind,
+That stands upon the rolling restless stone—
+
+FLUELLEN.
+By your patience, Anchient Pistol. Fortune is painted blind, with a
+muffler afore his eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind; and
+she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the moral
+of it, that she is turning, and inconstant, and mutability, and
+variation; and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,
+which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. In good truth, the poet makes a most
+excellent description of it. Fortune is an excellent moral.
+
+PISTOL.
+Fortune is Bardolph’s foe, and frowns on him;
+For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must ’a be,—
+A damned death!
+Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,
+And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.
+But Exeter hath given the doom of death
+For pax of little price.
+Therefore, go speak; the Duke will hear thy voice;
+And let not Bardolph’s vital thread be cut
+With edge of penny cord and vile reproach.
+Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Anchient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.
+
+PISTOL.
+Why then, rejoice therefore.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Certainly, anchient, it is not a thing to rejoice at; for if, look you,
+he were my brother, I would desire the Duke to use his good pleasure,
+and put him to execution; for discipline ought to be used.
+
+PISTOL.
+Die and be damn’d! and _fico_ for thy friendship!
+
+FLUELLEN.
+It is well.
+
+PISTOL.
+The fig of Spain.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Very good.
+
+GOWER.
+Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal. I remember him now; a bawd,
+a cutpurse.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+I’ll assure you, ’a uttered as prave words at the pridge as you shall
+see in a summer’s day. But it is very well; what he has spoke to me,
+that is well, I warrant you, when time is serve.
+
+GOWER.
+Why, ’t is a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then goes to the wars,
+to grace himself at his return into London under the form of a soldier.
+And such fellows are perfect in the great commanders’ names; and they
+will learn you by rote where services were done; at such and such a
+sconce, at such a breach, at such a convoy; who came off bravely, who
+was shot, who disgrac’d, what terms the enemy stood on; and this they
+con perfectly in the phrase of war, which they trick up with new-tuned
+oaths: and what a beard of the general’s cut and a horrid suit of the
+camp will do among foaming bottles and ale-wash’d wits, is wonderful to
+be thought on. But you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or
+else you may be marvellously mistook.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do perceive he is not the man that he
+would gladly make show to the world he is. If I find a hole in his
+coat, I will tell him my mind. [_Drum heard._] Hark you, the King is
+coming, and I must speak with him from the pridge.
+
+ Drum and colours. Enter King Henry, Gloucester and his poor soldiers.
+
+God bless your Majesty!
+
+KING HENRY.
+How now, Fluellen! cam’st thou from the bridge?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Ay, so please your Majesty. The Duke of Exeter has very gallantly
+maintain’d the pridge. The French is gone off, look you; and there is
+gallant and most prave passages. Marry, th’ athversary was have
+possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to retire, and the Duke of
+Exeter is master of the pridge. I can tell your Majesty, the Duke is a
+prave man.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What men have you lost, Fluellen?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+The perdition of the athversary hath been very great, reasonable great.
+Marry, for my part, I think the Duke hath lost never a man, but one
+that is like to be executed for robbing a church, one Bardolph, if your
+Majesty know the man. His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs,
+and flames o’ fire; and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like a
+coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is
+executed, and his fire’s out.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We would have all such offenders so cut off; and we give express
+charge, that in our marches through the country, there be nothing
+compell’d from the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the
+French upbraided or abused in disdainful language; for when lenity and
+cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
+
+ Tucket. Enter Montjoy.
+
+MONTJOY.
+You know me by my habit.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Well then I know thee. What shall I know of thee?
+
+MONTJOY.
+My master’s mind.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Unfold it.
+
+MONTJOY.
+Thus says my King: Say thou to Harry of England: Though we seem’d dead,
+we did but sleep; advantage is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him
+we could have rebuk’d him at Harfleur, but that we thought not good to
+bruise an injury till it were full ripe. Now we speak upon our cue, and
+our voice is imperial. England shall repent his folly, see his
+weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid him therefore consider of his
+ransom; which must proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we
+have lost, the disgrace we have digested; which in weight to re-answer,
+his pettishness would bow under. For our losses, his exchequer is too
+poor; for the effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too
+faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own person, kneeling at our
+feet, but a weak and worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance; and
+tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his followers, whose
+condemnation is pronounc’d. So far my King and master; so much my
+office.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What is thy name? I know thy quality.
+
+MONTJOY.
+Montjoy.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,
+And tell thy King I do not seek him now,
+But could be willing to march on to Calais
+Without impeachment; for, to say the sooth,
+Though ’tis no wisdom to confess so much
+Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,
+My people are with sickness much enfeebled,
+My numbers lessen’d, and those few I have
+Almost no better than so many French;
+Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
+I thought upon one pair of English legs
+Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,
+That I do brag thus! This your air of France
+Hath blown that vice in me. I must repent.
+Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;
+My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,
+My army but a weak and sickly guard;
+Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,
+Though France himself and such another neighbour
+Stand in our way. There’s for thy labour, Montjoy.
+Go, bid thy master well advise himself.
+If we may pass, we will; if we be hind’red,
+We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
+Discolour; and so, Montjoy, fare you well.
+The sum of all our answer is but this:
+We would not seek a battle, as we are;
+Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it.
+So tell your master.
+
+MONTJOY.
+I shall deliver so. Thanks to your Highness.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I hope they will not come upon us now.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We are in God’s hands, brother, not in theirs.
+March to the bridge; it now draws toward night.
+Beyond the river we’ll encamp ourselves,
+And on tomorrow bid them march away.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. The French camp, near Agincourt.
+
+ Enter the Constable of France, the Lord Rambures, Orleans, Dauphin
+ with others.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Tut! I have the best armour of the world.
+Would it were day!
+
+ORLEANS.
+You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+It is the best horse of Europe.
+
+ORLEANS.
+Will it never be morning?
+
+DAUPHIN.
+My Lord of Orleans, and my Lord High Constable, you talk of horse and
+armour?
+
+ORLEANS.
+You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+What a long night is this! I will not change my horse with any that
+treads but on four pasterns. Ch’ha! He bounds from the earth, as if his
+entrails were hairs; _le cheval volant_, the Pegasus, _qui a les
+narines de feu!_ When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trots the
+air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is
+more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
+
+ORLEANS.
+He’s of the colour of the nutmeg.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for Perseus. He is pure
+air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in
+him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him. He is
+indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the bidding of a
+monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.
+
+ORLEANS.
+No more, cousin.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, from the rising of the lark to
+the lodging of the lamb, vary deserved praise on my palfrey. It is a
+theme as fluent as the sea; turn the sands into eloquent tongues, and
+my horse is argument for them all. ’Tis a subject for a sovereign to
+reason on, and for a sovereign’s sovereign to ride on; and for the
+world, familiar to us and unknown, to lay apart their particular
+functions and wonder at him. I once writ a sonnet in his praise and
+began thus: “Wonder of nature,”—
+
+ORLEANS.
+I have heard a sonnet begin so to one’s mistress.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Then did they imitate that which I compos’d to my courser, for my horse
+is my mistress.
+
+ORLEANS.
+Your mistress bears well.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Me well; which is the prescript praise and perfection of a good and
+particular mistress.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly shook your back.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+So perhaps did yours.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Mine was not bridled.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode, like a kern of
+Ireland, your French hose off, and in your strait strossers.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+You have good judgment in horsemanship.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Be warn’d by me, then; they that ride so and ride not warily, fall into
+foul bogs. I had rather have my horse to my mistress.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+I had as lief have my mistress a jade.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+I tell thee, Constable, my mistress wears his own hair.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow to my mistress.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+“_Le chien est retourné à son propre vomissement, et la truie lavée au
+bourbier_.” Thou mak’st use of anything.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any such proverb so
+little kin to the purpose.
+
+RAMBURES.
+My Lord Constable, the armour that I saw in your tent tonight, are
+those stars or suns upon it?
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Stars, my lord.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Some of them will fall tomorrow, I hope.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+And yet my sky shall not want.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and ’twere more honour
+some were away.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Even as your horse bears your praises; who would trot as well, were
+some of your brags dismounted.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will it never be day? I
+will trot tomorrow a mile, and my way shall be paved with English
+faces.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+I will not say so, for fear I should be fac’d out of my way. But I
+would it were morning; for I would fain be about the ears of the
+English.
+
+RAMBURES.
+Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?
+
+CONSTABLE.
+You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+’Tis midnight; I’ll go arm myself.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ORLEANS.
+The Dauphin longs for morning.
+
+RAMBURES.
+He longs to eat the English.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+I think he will eat all he kills.
+
+ORLEANS.
+By the white hand of my lady, he’s a gallant prince.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Swear by her foot that she may tread out the oath.
+
+ORLEANS.
+He is simply the most active gentleman of France.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.
+
+ORLEANS.
+He never did harm, that I heard of.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Nor will do none tomorrow. He will keep that good name still.
+
+ORLEANS.
+I know him to be valiant.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+I was told that by one that knows him better than you.
+
+ORLEANS.
+What’s he?
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Marry, he told me so himself; and he said he car’d not who knew it.
+
+ORLEANS.
+He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+By my faith, sir, but it is; never anybody saw it but his lackey. ’Tis
+a hooded valour; and when it appears, it will bate.
+
+ORLEANS.
+“Ill will never said well.”
+
+CONSTABLE.
+I will cap that proverb with “There is flattery in friendship.”
+
+ORLEANS.
+And I will take up that with “Give the devil his due.”
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Well plac’d. There stands your friend for the devil; have at the very
+eye of that proverb with “A pox of the devil.”
+
+ORLEANS.
+You are the better at proverbs, by how much “A fool’s bolt is soon
+shot.”
+
+CONSTABLE.
+You have shot over.
+
+ORLEANS.
+’Tis not the first time you were overshot.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My Lord High Constable, the English lie within fifteen hundred paces of
+your tents.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Who hath measur’d the ground?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The Lord Grandpré.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+A valiant and most expert gentleman. Would it were day! Alas, poor
+Harry of England, he longs not for the dawning as we do.
+
+ORLEANS.
+What a wretched and peevish fellow is this King of England, to mope
+with his fat-brain’d followers so far out of his knowledge!
+
+CONSTABLE.
+If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.
+
+ORLEANS.
+That they lack; for if their heads had any intellectual armour, they
+could never wear such heavy head-pieces.
+
+RAMBURES.
+That island of England breeds very valiant creatures. Their mastiffs
+are of unmatchable courage.
+
+ORLEANS.
+Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear and
+have their heads crush’d like rotten apples! You may as well say,
+that’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the mastiffs in robustious
+and rough coming on, leaving their wits with their wives; and then,
+give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like
+wolves and fight like devils.
+
+ORLEANS.
+Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Then shall we find tomorrow they have only stomachs to eat and none to
+fight. Now is it time to arm. Come, shall we about it?
+
+ORLEANS.
+It is now two o’clock; but, let me see, by ten
+We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+
+ Enter Chorus.
+
+CHORUS.
+Now entertain conjecture of a time
+When creeping murmur and the poring dark
+Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
+From camp to camp through the foul womb of night
+The hum of either army stilly sounds,
+That the fix’d sentinels almost receive
+The secret whispers of each other’s watch;
+Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
+Each battle sees the other’s umber’d face;
+Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
+Piercing the night’s dull ear; and from the tents
+The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
+With busy hammers closing rivets up,
+Give dreadful note of preparation.
+The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,
+And the third hour of drowsy morning name.
+Proud of their numbers and secure in soul,
+The confident and over-lusty French
+Do the low-rated English play at dice;
+And chide the cripple tardy-gaited Night
+Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
+So tediously away. The poor condemned English,
+Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
+Sit patiently and inly ruminate
+The morning’s danger; and their gesture sad,
+Investing lank-lean cheeks and war-worn coats,
+Presented them unto the gazing moon
+So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold
+The royal captain of this ruin’d band
+Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
+Let him cry, “Praise and glory on his head!”
+For forth he goes and visits all his host,
+Bids them good morrow with a modest smile,
+And calls them brothers, friends, and countrymen.
+Upon his royal face there is no note
+How dread an army hath enrounded him;
+Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
+Unto the weary and all-watched night,
+But freshly looks, and over-bears attaint
+With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;
+That every wretch, pining and pale before,
+Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks.
+A largess universal like the sun
+His liberal eye doth give to everyone,
+Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all
+Behold, as may unworthiness define,
+A little touch of Harry in the night.
+And so our scene must to the battle fly,
+Where—O for pity!—we shall much disgrace
+With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
+Right ill-dispos’d in brawl ridiculous,
+The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see,
+Minding true things by what their mock’ries be.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE I. The English camp at Agincourt.
+
+ Enter King Henry, Bedford and Gloucester.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Gloucester, ’tis true that we are in great danger;
+The greater therefore should our courage be.
+Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!
+There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
+Would men observingly distil it out;
+For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
+Which is both healthful and good husbandry.
+Besides, they are our outward consciences,
+And preachers to us all, admonishing
+That we should dress us fairly for our end.
+Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
+And make a moral of the devil himself.
+
+ Enter Erpingham.
+
+Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
+A good soft pillow for that good white head
+Were better than a churlish turf of France.
+
+ERPINGHAM.
+Not so, my liege; this lodging likes me better,
+Since I may say, “Now lie I like a king.”
+
+KING HENRY.
+’Tis good for men to love their present pains
+Upon example; so the spirit is eased;
+And when the mind is quick’ned, out of doubt,
+The organs, though defunct and dead before,
+Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,
+With casted slough and fresh legerity.
+Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,
+Commend me to the princes in our camp;
+Do my good morrow to them, and anon
+Desire them all to my pavilion.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+We shall, my liege.
+
+ERPINGHAM.
+Shall I attend your Grace?
+
+KING HENRY.
+No, my good knight;
+Go with my brothers to my lords of England.
+I and my bosom must debate a while,
+And then I would no other company.
+
+ERPINGHAM.
+The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry!
+
+ [_Exeunt all but King._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak’st cheerfully.
+
+ Enter Pistol.
+
+PISTOL.
+_Qui vous là?_
+
+KING HENRY.
+A friend.
+
+PISTOL.
+Discuss unto me; art thou officer?
+Or art thou base, common, and popular?
+
+KING HENRY.
+I am a gentleman of a company.
+
+PISTOL.
+Trail’st thou the puissant pike?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Even so. What are you?
+
+PISTOL.
+As good a gentleman as the Emperor.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then you are a better than the King.
+
+PISTOL.
+The King’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
+A lad of life, an imp of fame;
+Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
+I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string
+I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Harry le Roy.
+
+PISTOL.
+Le Roy! a Cornish name. Art thou of Cornish crew?
+
+KING HENRY.
+No, I am a Welshman.
+
+PISTOL.
+Know’st thou Fluellen?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Yes.
+
+PISTOL.
+Tell him I’ll knock his leek about his pate
+Upon Saint Davy’s day.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day, lest he knock that
+about yours.
+
+PISTOL.
+Art thou his friend?
+
+KING HENRY.
+And his kinsman too.
+
+PISTOL.
+The _fico_ for thee, then!
+
+KING HENRY.
+I thank you. God be with you!
+
+PISTOL.
+My name is Pistol call’d.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+It sorts well with your fierceness.
+
+ Enter Fluellen and Gower.
+
+GOWER.
+Captain Fluellen!
+
+FLUELLEN.
+So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is the greatest
+admiration in the universal world, when the true and anchient
+prerogatifes and laws of the wars is not kept. If you would take the
+pains but to examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, I
+warrant you, that there is no tiddle taddle nor pibble pabble in
+Pompey’s camp. I warrant you, you shall find the ceremonies of the
+wars, and the cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety of it,
+and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.
+
+GOWER.
+Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it meet,
+think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass and a fool and a
+prating coxcomb? In your own conscience, now?
+
+GOWER.
+I will speak lower.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+I pray you and beseech you that you will.
+
+ [_Exeunt Gower and Fluellen._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Though it appear a little out of fashion,
+There is much care and valour in this Welshman.
+
+ Enter three soldiers, John Bates, Alexander Court and Michael
+ Williams.
+
+COURT.
+Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which breaks yonder?
+
+BATES.
+I think it be; but we have no great cause to desire the approach of
+day.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think we shall never see
+the end of it. Who goes there?
+
+KING HENRY.
+A friend.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Under what captain serve you?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+A good old commander and a most kind gentleman. I pray you, what thinks
+he of our estate?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Even as men wreck’d upon a sand, that look to be wash’d off the next
+tide.
+
+BATES.
+He hath not told his thought to the King?
+
+KING HENRY.
+No; nor it is not meet he should. For though I speak it to you, I think
+the King is but a man as I am. The violet smells to him as it doth to
+me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but
+human conditions. His ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears
+but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet,
+when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. Therefore, when he sees
+reason of fears as we do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same
+relish as ours are; yet, in reason, no man should possess him with any
+appearance of fear, lest he, by showing it, should dishearten his army.
+
+BATES.
+He may show what outward courage he will; but I believe, as cold a
+night as ’tis, he could wish himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I
+would he were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.
+
+KING HENRY.
+By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the King: I think he would
+not wish himself anywhere but where he is.
+
+BATES.
+Then I would he were here alone; so should he be sure to be ransomed,
+and a many poor men’s lives saved.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here alone, howsoever
+you speak this to feel other men’s minds. Methinks I could not die
+anywhere so contented as in the King’s company, his cause being just
+and his quarrel honourable.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+That’s more than we know.
+
+BATES.
+Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know enough, if we know
+we are the King’s subjects. If his cause be wrong, our obedience to the
+King wipes the crime of it out of us.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning
+to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopp’d off in a
+battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, “We died at
+such a place”; some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon
+their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some
+upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that
+die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when
+blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be
+a black matter for the King that led them to it; who to disobey were
+against all proportion of subjection.
+
+KING HENRY.
+So, if a son that is by his father sent about merchandise do sinfully
+miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness, by your rule,
+should be imposed upon his father that sent him; or if a servant, under
+his master’s command transporting a sum of money, be assailed by
+robbers and die in many irreconcil’d iniquities, you may call the
+business of the master the author of the servant’s damnation. But this
+is not so. The King is not bound to answer the particular endings of
+his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of his servant; for
+they purpose not their death, when they purpose their services.
+Besides, there is no king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come
+to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all unspotted
+soldiers. Some peradventure have on them the guilt of premeditated and
+contrived murder; some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of
+perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored
+the gentle bosom of Peace with pillage and robbery. Now, if these men
+have defeated the law and outrun native punishment, though they can
+outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God. War is his beadle,
+war is his vengeance; so that here men are punish’d for before-breach
+of the King’s laws in now the King’s quarrel. Where they feared the
+death, they have borne life away; and where they would be safe, they
+perish. Then if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of
+their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the
+which they are now visited. Every subject’s duty is the King’s; but
+every subject’s soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the
+wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his
+conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the
+time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him
+that escapes, it were not sin to think that, making God so free an
+offer, He let him outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach
+others how they should prepare.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+’Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon his own head, the
+King is not to answer for it.
+
+BATES.
+I do not desire he should answer for me; and yet I determine to fight
+lustily for him.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I myself heard the King say he would not be ransom’d.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully; but when our throats are
+cut, he may be ransom’d, and we ne’er the wiser.
+
+KING HENRY.
+If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+You pay him then. That’s a perilous shot out of an elder-gun, that a
+poor and a private displeasure can do against a monarch! You may as
+well go about to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a
+peacock’s feather. You’ll never trust his word after! Come, ’tis a
+foolish saying.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Your reproof is something too round. I should be angry with you, if the
+time were convenient.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Let it be a quarrel between us if you live.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I embrace it.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+How shall I know thee again?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my bonnet; then, if
+ever thou dar’st acknowledge it, I will make it my quarrel.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Here’s my glove; give me another of thine.
+
+KING HENRY.
+There.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+This will I also wear in my cap. If ever thou come to me and say, after
+tomorrow, “This is my glove,” by this hand I will take thee a box on
+the ear.
+
+KING HENRY.
+If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Thou dar’st as well be hang’d.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Well, I will do it, though I take thee in the King’s company.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Keep thy word; fare thee well.
+
+BATES.
+Be friends, you English fools, be friends. We have French quarrels
+enough, if you could tell how to reckon.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to one they will beat
+us, for they bear them on their shoulders; but it is no English treason
+to cut French crowns, and tomorrow the King himself will be a clipper.
+
+ [_Exeunt soldiers._]
+
+ Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls,
+Our debts, our careful wives,
+Our children, and our sins lay on the King!
+We must bear all. O hard condition,
+Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath
+Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel
+But his own wringing! What infinite heart’s ease
+Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!
+And what have kings, that privates have not too,
+Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
+And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony?
+What kind of god art thou, that suffer’st more
+Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
+What are thy rents? What are thy comings in?
+O Ceremony, show me but thy worth!
+What is thy soul of adoration?
+Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
+Creating awe and fear in other men?
+Wherein thou art less happy being fear’d
+Than they in fearing.
+What drink’st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
+But poison’d flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
+And bid thy Ceremony give thee cure!
+Think’st thou the fiery fever will go out
+With titles blown from adulation?
+Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
+Canst thou, when thou command’st the beggar’s knee,
+Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,
+That play’st so subtly with a king’s repose;
+I am a king that find thee, and I know
+’Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
+The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
+The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
+The farced title running ’fore the King,
+The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
+That beats upon the high shore of this world,
+No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous Ceremony,—
+Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
+Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
+Who with a body fill’d and vacant mind
+Gets him to rest, cramm’d with distressful bread,
+Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,
+But, like a lackey, from the rise to set
+Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night
+Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,
+Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,
+And follows so the ever-running year,
+With profitable labour, to his grave:
+And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,
+Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
+Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.
+The slave, a member of the country’s peace,
+Enjoys it, but in gross brain little wots
+What watch the King keeps to maintain the peace,
+Whose hours the peasant best advantages.
+
+ Enter Erpingham.
+
+ERPINGHAM.
+My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
+Seek through your camp to find you.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Good old knight,
+Collect them all together at my tent.
+I’ll be before thee.
+
+ERPINGHAM.
+I shall do’t, my lord.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts.
+Possess them not with fear. Take from them now
+The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
+Pluck their hearts from them. Not today, O Lord,
+O, not today, think not upon the fault
+My father made in compassing the crown!
+I Richard’s body have interred new,
+And on it have bestow’d more contrite tears
+Than from it issued forced drops of blood.
+Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,
+Who twice a day their wither’d hands hold up
+Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built
+Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests
+Sing still for Richard’s soul. More will I do;
+Though all that I can do is nothing worth,
+Since that my penitence comes after all,
+Imploring pardon.
+
+ Enter Gloucester.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+My liege!
+
+KING HENRY.
+My brother Gloucester’s voice? Ay;
+I know thy errand, I will go with thee.
+The day, my friends, and all things stay for me.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The French camp.
+
+ Enter the Dauphin, Orleans, Rambures and others.
+
+ORLEANS.
+The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!
+
+DAUPHIN.
+_Monte à cheval!_ My horse, _varlet! laquais_, ha!
+
+ORLEANS.
+O brave spirit!
+
+DAUPHIN.
+_Via, les eaux et terre!_
+
+ORLEANS.
+_Rien puis? L’air et feu?_
+
+DAUPHIN.
+_Cieux_, cousin Orleans.
+
+ Enter Constable.
+
+Now, my Lord Constable!
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Mount them, and make incision in their hides,
+That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
+And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!
+
+RAMBURES.
+What, will you have them weep our horses’ blood?
+How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+The English are embattl’d, you French peers.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!
+Do but behold yon poor and starved band,
+And your fair show shall suck away their souls,
+Leaving them but the shales and husks of men.
+There is not work enough for all our hands;
+Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
+To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,
+That our French gallants shall today draw out,
+And sheathe for lack of sport. Let us but blow on them,
+The vapour of our valour will o’erturn them.
+’Tis positive ’gainst all exceptions, lords,
+That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,
+Who in unnecessary action swarm
+About our squares of battle, were enough
+To purge this field of such a hilding foe,
+Though we upon this mountain’s basis by
+Took stand for idle speculation,
+But that our honours must not. What’s to say?
+A very little little let us do,
+And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound
+The tucket sonance and the note to mount;
+For our approach shall so much dare the field
+That England shall crouch down in fear and yield.
+
+ Enter Grandpré.
+
+GRANDPRÉ.
+Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
+Yond island carrions, desperate of their bones,
+Ill-favouredly become the morning field.
+Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,
+And our air shakes them passing scornfully.
+Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar’d host,
+And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps;
+The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks
+With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades
+Lob down their heads, drooping the hides and hips,
+The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes,
+And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
+Lies foul with chew’d grass, still, and motionless;
+And their executors, the knavish crows,
+Fly o’er them, all impatient for their hour.
+Description cannot suit itself in words
+To demonstrate the life of such a battle,
+In life so lifeless as it shows itself.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits
+And give their fasting horses provender,
+And after fight with them?
+
+CONSTABLE.
+I stay but for my guard; on to the field!
+I will the banner from a trumpet take,
+And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!
+The sun is high, and we outwear the day.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The English camp.
+
+ Enter Gloucester, Bedford, Exeter, Erpingham, with all his host:
+ Salisbury and Westmorland.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Where is the King?
+
+BEDFORD.
+The King himself is rode to view their battle.
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+Of fighting men they have full three-score thousand.
+
+EXETER.
+There’s five to one; besides, they all are fresh.
+
+SALISBURY.
+God’s arm strike with us! ’tis a fearful odds.
+God be wi’ you, princes all; I’ll to my charge.
+If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
+Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,
+My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,
+And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!
+
+BEDFORD.
+Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
+
+EXETER.
+Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly today!
+And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,
+For thou art fram’d of the firm truth of valour.
+
+ [_Exit Salisbury._]
+
+BEDFORD.
+He is as full of valour as of kindness,
+Princely in both.
+
+ Enter the King.
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+O that we now had here
+But one ten thousand of those men in England
+That do no work today!
+
+KING.
+What’s he that wishes so?
+My cousin Westmorland? No, my fair cousin.
+If we are mark’d to die, we are enough
+To do our country loss; and if to live,
+The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
+God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
+By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
+Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
+It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
+Such outward things dwell not in my desires;
+But if it be a sin to covet honour,
+I am the most offending soul alive.
+No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
+God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
+As one man more, methinks, would share from me
+For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
+Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host,
+That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
+Let him depart. His passport shall be made,
+And crowns for convoy put into his purse.
+We would not die in that man’s company
+That fears his fellowship to die with us.
+This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
+He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
+Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
+And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
+He that shall live this day, and see old age,
+Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
+And say, “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
+Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
+And say, “These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.”
+Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
+But he’ll remember with advantages
+What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
+Familiar in his mouth as household words,
+Harry the King, Bedford, and Exeter,
+Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
+Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
+This story shall the good man teach his son;
+And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
+From this day to the ending of the world,
+But we in it shall be remembered,
+We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
+For he today that sheds his blood with me
+Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
+This day shall gentle his condition;
+And gentlemen in England now abed
+Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
+And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
+That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
+
+ Enter Salisbury.
+
+SALISBURY.
+My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed.
+The French are bravely in their battles set,
+And will with all expedience charge on us.
+
+KING HENRY.
+All things are ready, if our minds be so.
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+Perish the man whose mind is backward now!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+God’s will! my liege, would you and I alone,
+Without more help, could fight this royal battle!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, now thou hast unwish’d five thousand men,
+Which likes me better than to wish us one.
+You know your places. God be with you all!
+
+ Tucket. Enter Montjoy.
+
+MONTJOY.
+Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
+If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,
+Before thy most assured overthrow;
+For certainly thou art so near the gulf,
+Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,
+The Constable desires thee thou wilt mind
+Thy followers of repentance; that their souls
+May make a peaceful and a sweet retire
+From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies
+Must lie and fester.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Who hath sent thee now?
+
+MONTJOY.
+The Constable of France.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I pray thee, bear my former answer back:
+Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.
+Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?
+The man that once did sell the lion’s skin
+While the beast liv’d, was kill’d with hunting him.
+A many of our bodies shall no doubt
+Find native graves, upon the which, I trust,
+Shall witness live in brass of this day’s work;
+And those that leave their valiant bones in France,
+Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,
+They shall be fam’d; for there the sun shall greet them,
+And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;
+Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,
+The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
+Mark then abounding valour in our English,
+That being dead, like to the bullet’s grazing,
+Break out into a second course of mischief,
+Killing in relapse of mortality.
+Let me speak proudly: tell the Constable
+We are but warriors for the working-day.
+Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch’d
+With rainy marching in the painful field;
+There’s not a piece of feather in our host—
+Good argument, I hope, we will not fly—
+And time hath worn us into slovenry;
+But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;
+And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night
+They’ll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck
+The gay new coats o’er the French soldiers’ heads
+And turn them out of service. If they do this—
+As, if God please, they shall,—my ransom then
+Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour.
+Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald.
+They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;
+Which if they have as I will leave ’em them,
+Shall yield them little, tell the Constable.
+
+MONTJOY.
+I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well;
+Thou never shalt hear herald any more.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+I fear thou’lt once more come again for ransom.
+
+ Enter York.
+
+YORK.
+My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg
+The leading of the vaward.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away;
+And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The field of battle.
+
+ Alarum. Excursions. Enter Pistol, French Soldier and Boy.
+
+PISTOL.
+Yield, cur!
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_Je pense que vous êtes le gentilhomme de bonne qualité._
+
+PISTOL.
+_Qualité? Caleno custore me!_
+Art thou a gentleman?
+What is thy name? Discuss.
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_O Seigneur Dieu!_
+
+PISTOL.
+O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman.
+Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark:
+O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
+Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
+Egregious ransom.
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_O, prenez miséricorde! Ayez pitié de moi!_
+
+PISTOL.
+Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys,
+Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
+In drops of crimson blood.
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_Est-il impossible d’échapper la force de ton bras?_
+
+PISTOL.
+Brass, cur!
+Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
+Offer’st me brass?
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_O pardonnez-moi!_
+
+PISTOL.
+Say’st thou me so? Is that a ton of moys?
+Come hither, boy; ask me this slave in French
+What is his name.
+
+BOY.
+_Écoutez. Comment êtes-vous appelé?_
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_Monsieur le Fer._
+
+BOY.
+He says his name is Master Fer.
+
+PISTOL.
+Master Fer! I’ll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.
+Discuss the same in French unto him.
+
+BOY.
+I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
+
+PISTOL.
+Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_Que dit-il, monsieur?_
+
+BOY.
+_Il me commande à vous dire que vous faites vous prêt, car ce soldat
+ici est disposé tout à cette heure de couper votre gorge._
+
+PISTOL.
+Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,
+Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;
+Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_O, je vous supplie, pour l’amour de Dieu, me pardonner! Je suis le
+gentilhomme de bonne maison; gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux
+cents écus._
+
+PISTOL.
+What are his words?
+
+BOY.
+He prays you to save his life. He is a gentleman of a good house; and
+for his ransom he will give you two hundred crowns.
+
+PISTOL.
+Tell him my fury shall abate, and I
+The crowns will take.
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_Petit monsieur, que dit-il?_
+
+BOY.
+_Encore qu’il est contre son jurement de pardonner aucun prisonnier;
+néanmoins, pour les écus que vous lui avez promis, il est content à
+vous donner la liberté, le franchisement._
+
+FRENCH SOLDIER.
+_Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remerciements; et je m’estime
+heureux que je suis tombé entre les mains d’un chevalier, je pense, le
+plus brave, vaillant, et très distingué seigneur d’Angleterre._
+
+PISTOL.
+Expound unto me, boy.
+
+BOY.
+He gives you upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and he esteems himself
+happy that he hath fallen into the hands of one, as he thinks, the most
+brave, valorous, and thrice-worthy _seigneur_ of England.
+
+PISTOL.
+As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.
+Follow me!
+
+BOY.
+_Suivez-vous le grand capitaine._
+
+ [_Exeunt Pistol and French Soldier._]
+
+I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the
+saying is true, “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.” Bardolph
+and Nym had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i’ the old
+play, that everyone may pare his nails with a wooden dagger; and they
+are both hang’d; and so would this be, if he durst steal anything
+adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys with the luggage of our
+camp. The French might have a good prey of us, if he knew of it; for
+there is none to guard it but boys.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the field.
+
+ Enter Constable, Orleans, Bourbon, Dauphin and Rambures.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+_O diable!_
+
+ORLEANS.
+_O Seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!_
+
+DAUPHIN.
+_Mort de ma vie!_ all is confounded, all!
+Reproach and everlasting shame
+Sits mocking in our plumes.
+
+ [_A short alarum._]
+
+_O méchante Fortune!_ Do not run away.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Why, all our ranks are broke.
+
+DAUPHIN.
+O perdurable shame! Let’s stab ourselves,
+Be these the wretches that we play’d at dice for?
+
+ORLEANS.
+Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
+
+BOURBON.
+Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
+Let’s die in honour! Once more back again!
+And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
+Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,
+Like a base pandar, hold the chamber door
+Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
+His fairest daughter is contaminated.
+
+CONSTABLE.
+Disorder, that hath spoil’d us, friend us now!
+Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
+
+ORLEANS.
+We are enough yet living in the field
+To smother up the English in our throngs,
+If any order might be thought upon.
+
+BOURBON.
+The devil take order now! I’ll to the throng.
+Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Another part of the field.
+
+ Alarum. Enter King Henry and his train, with prisoners.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen.
+But all’s not done; yet keep the French the field.
+
+EXETER.
+The Duke of York commends him to your Majesty.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Lives he, good uncle? Thrice within this hour
+I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting.
+From helmet to the spur all blood he was.
+
+EXETER.
+In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,
+Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,
+Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,
+The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.
+Suffolk first died; and York, all haggled over,
+Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped,
+And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes
+That bloodily did yawn upon his face.
+He cries aloud, “Tarry, my cousin Suffolk!
+My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;
+Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,
+As in this glorious and well-foughten field
+We kept together in our chivalry.”
+Upon these words I came and cheer’d him up.
+He smil’d me in the face, raught me his hand,
+And, with a feeble gripe, says, “Dear my lord,
+Commend my service to my sovereign.”
+So did he turn and over Suffolk’s neck
+He threw his wounded arm and kiss’d his lips;
+And so espous’d to death, with blood he seal’d
+A testament of noble-ending love.
+The pretty and sweet manner of it forc’d
+Those waters from me which I would have stopp’d;
+But I had not so much of man in me,
+And all my mother came into mine eyes
+And gave me up to tears.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I blame you not;
+For, hearing this, I must perforce compound
+With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.
+
+ [_Alarum._]
+
+But hark! what new alarum is this same?
+The French have reinforc’d their scatter’d men.
+Then every soldier kill his prisoners;
+Give the word through.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. Another part of the field.
+
+ Enter Fluellen and Gower.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Kill the poys and the luggage! ’Tis expressly against the law of arms.
+’Tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offer’t; in
+your conscience, now, is it not?
+
+GOWER.
+’Tis certain there’s not a boy left alive; and the cowardly rascals
+that ran from the battle ha’ done this slaughter. Besides, they have
+burned and carried away all that was in the King’s tent; wherefore the
+King, most worthily, hath caus’d every soldier to cut his prisoner’s
+throat. O, ’tis a gallant king!
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town’s
+name where Alexander the Pig was born?
+
+GOWER.
+Alexander the Great.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Why, I pray you, is not pig great? The pig, or the great, or the
+mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save
+the phrase is a little variations.
+
+GOWER.
+I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon. His father was called
+Philip of Macedon, as I take it.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, Captain,
+if you look in the maps of the ’orld, I warrant you sall find, in the
+comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look
+you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also
+moreover a river at Monmouth; it is call’d Wye at Monmouth; but it is
+out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but ’tis all one,
+’tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in
+both. If you mark Alexander’s life well, Harry of Monmouth’s life is
+come after it indifferent well; for there is figures in all things.
+Alexander, God knows, and you know, in his rages, and his furies, and
+his wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his displeasures, and
+his indignations, and also being a little intoxicates in his prains,
+did, in his ales and his angers, look you, kill his best friend,
+Cleitus.
+
+GOWER.
+Our King is not like him in that. He never kill’d any of his friends.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+It is not well done, mark you now, to take the tales out of my mouth,
+ere it is made and finished. I speak but in the figures and comparisons
+of it. As Alexander kill’d his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and
+his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good
+judgements, turn’d away the fat knight with the great belly doublet. He
+was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks; I have forgot
+his name.
+
+GOWER.
+Sir John Falstaff.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+That is he. I’ll tell you there is good men porn at Monmouth.
+
+GOWER.
+Here comes his Majesty.
+
+ Alarum. Enter King Henry and forces; Warwick, Gloucester, Exeter with
+ prisoners. Flourish.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I was not angry since I came to France
+Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
+Ride thou unto the horsemen on yond hill.
+If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
+Or void the field; they do offend our sight.
+If they’ll do neither, we will come to them,
+And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
+Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
+Besides, we’ll cut the throats of those we have,
+And not a man of them that we shall take
+Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.
+
+ Enter Montjoy.
+
+EXETER.
+Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+His eyes are humbler than they us’d to be.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How now! what means this, herald? Know’st thou not
+That I have fin’d these bones of mine for ransom?
+Com’st thou again for ransom?
+
+MONTJOY.
+No, great King;
+I come to thee for charitable license,
+That we may wander o’er this bloody field
+To book our dead, and then to bury them;
+To sort our nobles from our common men.
+For many of our princes—woe the while!—
+Lie drown’d and soak’d in mercenary blood;
+So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
+In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds
+Fret fetlock deep in gore, and with wild rage
+Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
+Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great King,
+To view the field in safety, and dispose
+Of their dead bodies!
+
+KING HENRY.
+I tell thee truly, herald,
+I know not if the day be ours or no;
+For yet a many of your horsemen peer
+And gallop o’er the field.
+
+MONTJOY.
+The day is yours.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
+What is this castle call’d that stands hard by?
+
+MONTJOY.
+They call it Agincourt.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
+Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your Majesty, and your
+great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the
+chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
+
+KING HENRY.
+They did, Fluellen.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Your Majesty says very true. If your Majesties is rememb’red of it, the
+Welshmen did good service in garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks
+in their Monmouth caps; which, your Majesty know, to this hour is an
+honourable badge of the service; and I do believe your Majesty takes no
+scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I wear it for a memorable honour;
+For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+All the water in Wye cannot wash your Majesty’s Welsh plood out of your
+pody, I can tell you that. Got pless it and preserve it, as long as it
+pleases His grace, and His majesty too!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Thanks, good my countryman.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+By Jeshu, I am your Majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it. I
+will confess it to all the ’orld. I need not be asham’d of your
+Majesty, praised be God, so long as your Majesty is an honest man.
+
+KING HENRY.
+God keep me so!
+
+ Enter Williams.
+
+Our heralds go with him;
+Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
+On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.
+
+ [_Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy._]
+
+EXETER.
+Soldier, you must come to the King.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?
+
+WILLIAMS.
+An’t please your Majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight
+withal, if he be alive.
+
+KING HENRY.
+An Englishman?
+
+WILLIAMS.
+An’t please your Majesty, a rascal that swagger’d with me last night;
+who, if alive and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to
+take him a box o’ the ear; or if I can see my glove in his cap, which
+he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive, I will strike it
+out soundly.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What think you, Captain Fluellen, is it fit this soldier keep his oath?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+He is a craven and a villain else, an’t please your Majesty, in my
+conscience.
+
+KING HENRY.
+It may be his enemy is a gentlemen of great sort, quite from the answer
+of his degree.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifier and
+Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your Grace, that he keep his
+vow and his oath. If he be perjur’d, see you now, his reputation is as
+arrant a villain and a Jacksauce, as ever his black shoe trod upon
+God’s ground and His earth, in my conscience, la!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet’st the fellow.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+So I will, my liege, as I live.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Who serv’st thou under?
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Under Captain Gower, my liege.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and literatured in the
+wars.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Call him hither to me, soldier.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+I will, my liege.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and stick it in thy cap.
+When Alençon and myself were down together, I pluck’d this glove from
+his helm. If any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon, and an
+enemy to our person. If thou encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou
+dost me love.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Your Grace does me as great honours as can be desir’d in the hearts of
+his subjects. I would fain see the man, that has but two legs, that
+shall find himself aggrief’d at this glove; that is all. But I would
+fain see it once, an please God of His grace that I might see.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Know’st thou Gower?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+He is my dear friend, an please you.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+I will fetch him.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,
+Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.
+The glove which I have given him for a favour
+May haply purchase him a box o’ the ear.
+It is the soldier’s; I by bargain should
+Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick.
+If that the soldier strike him, as I judge
+By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,
+Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
+For I do know Fluellen valiant
+And, touch’d with choler, hot as gunpowder,
+And quickly will return an injury.
+Follow, and see there be no harm between them.
+Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VIII. Before King Henry’s pavilion.
+
+ Enter Gower and Williams.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+I warrant it is to knight you, Captain.
+
+ Enter Fluellen.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+God’s will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you now, come apace to
+the King. There is more good toward you peradventure than is in your
+knowledge to dream of.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Sir, know you this glove?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Know the glove! I know the glove is a glove.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+I know this; and thus I challenge it.
+
+ [_Strikes him._]
+
+FLUELLEN.
+’Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in
+France, or in England!
+
+GOWER.
+How now, sir! you villain!
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Do you think I’ll be forsworn?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Stand away, Captain Gower. I will give treason his payment into plows,
+I warrant you.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+I am no traitor.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+That’s a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his Majesty’s name,
+apprehend him; he’s a friend of the Duke Alençon’s.
+
+ Enter Warwick and Gloucester.
+
+WARWICK.
+How now, how now! what’s the matter?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+My lord of Warwick, here is—praised be God for it!—a most contagious
+treason come to light, look you, as you shall desire in a summer’s day.
+Here is his Majesty.
+
+ Enter King Henry and Exeter.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How now! what’s the matter?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look your Grace, has
+struck the glove which your Majesty is take out of the helmet of
+Alençon.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of it; and he that I
+gave it to in change promis’d to wear it in his cap. I promis’d to
+strike him, if he did. I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I
+have been as good as my word.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Your Majesty hear now, saving your Majesty’s manhood, what an arrant,
+rascally, beggarly, lousy knave it is. I hope your Majesty is pear me
+testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that this is the glove of
+Alençon that your Majesty is give me; in your conscience, now?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Give me thy glove, soldier. Look, here is the fellow of it.
+’Twas I, indeed, thou promisedst to strike;
+And thou hast given me most bitter terms.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+An it please your Majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any
+martial law in the world.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How canst thou make me satisfaction?
+
+WILLIAMS.
+All offences, my lord, come from the heart. Never came any from mine
+that might offend your Majesty.
+
+KING HENRY.
+It was ourself thou didst abuse.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+Your Majesty came not like yourself. You appear’d to me but as a common
+man; witness the night, your garments, your lowliness; and what your
+Highness suffer’d under that shape, I beseech you take it for your own
+fault and not mine; for had you been as I took you for, I made no
+offence; therefore, I beseech your Highness, pardon me.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
+And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;
+And wear it for an honour in thy cap
+Till I do challenge it. Give him his crowns;
+And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in his belly.
+Hold, there is twelve pence for you; and I pray you to serve God, and
+keep you out of prawls, and prabbles, and quarrels, and dissensions,
+and, I warrant you, it is the better for you.
+
+WILLIAMS.
+I will none of your money.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+It is with a good will; I can tell you, it will serve you to mend your
+shoes. Come, wherefore should you be so pashful? Your shoes is not so
+good. ’Tis a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.
+
+ Enter an English Herald.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Now, herald, are the dead numb’red?
+
+HERALD.
+Here is the number of the slaught’red French.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
+
+EXETER.
+Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the King;
+John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Boucicault:
+Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,
+Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.
+
+KING HENRY.
+This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
+That in the field lie slain; of princes, in this number,
+And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
+One hundred twenty-six; added to these,
+Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
+Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,
+Five hundred were but yesterday dubb’d knights;
+So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
+There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;
+The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,
+And gentlemen of blood and quality.
+The names of those their nobles that lie dead:
+Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France;
+Jacques of Chatillon, Admiral of France;
+The master of the Crossbows, Lord Rambures;
+Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dauphin,
+John, Duke of Alençon, Anthony, Duke of Brabant,
+The brother to the Duke of Burgundy,
+And Edward, Duke of Bar; of lusty earls,
+Grandpré and Roussi, Fauconbridge and Foix,
+Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.
+Here was a royal fellowship of death!
+Where is the number of our English dead?
+
+ [_Herald gives him another paper._]
+
+Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
+Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire;
+None else of name; and of all other men
+But five and twenty.—O God, thy arm was here;
+And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
+Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,
+But in plain shock and even play of battle,
+Was ever known so great and little loss
+On one part and on the other? Take it, God,
+For it is none but thine!
+
+EXETER.
+’Tis wonderful!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Come, go we in procession to the village;
+And be it death proclaimed through our host
+To boast of this or take that praise from God
+Which is His only.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Is it not lawful, an please your Majesty, to tell how many is kill’d?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Yes, Captain; but with this acknowledgment,
+That God fought for us.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Yes, my conscience, He did us great good.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Do we all holy rites.
+Let there be sung _Non nobis_ and _Te Deum_,
+The dead with charity enclos’d in clay,
+And then to Calais; and to England then,
+Where ne’er from France arriv’d more happy men.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+
+ Enter Chorus.
+
+CHORUS.
+Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
+That I may prompt them; and of such as have,
+I humbly pray them to admit the excuse
+Of time, of numbers, and due course of things,
+Which cannot in their huge and proper life
+Be here presented. Now we bear the King
+Toward Calais; grant him there; there seen,
+Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
+Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
+Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,
+Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth’d sea,
+Which like a mighty whiffler ’fore the King
+Seems to prepare his way. So let him land,
+And solemnly see him set on to London.
+So swift a pace hath thought that even now
+You may imagine him upon Blackheath,
+Where that his lords desire him to have borne
+His bruised helmet and his bended sword
+Before him through the city. He forbids it,
+Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride;
+Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent
+Quite from himself to God. But now behold,
+In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
+How London doth pour out her citizens!
+The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,
+Like to the senators of th’ antique Rome,
+With the plebeians swarming at their heels,
+Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in;
+As, by a lower but loving likelihood,
+Were now the general of our gracious empress,
+As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,
+Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,
+How many would the peaceful city quit,
+To welcome him! Much more, and much more cause,
+Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;
+As yet the lamentation of the French
+Invites the King of England’s stay at home,
+The Emperor’s coming in behalf of France,
+To order peace between them;—and omit
+All the occurrences, whatever chanc’d,
+Till Harry’s back-return again to France.
+There must we bring him; and myself have play’d
+The interim, by rememb’ring you ’tis past.
+Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance
+After your thoughts, straight back again to France.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE I. France. The English camp.
+
+ Enter Fluellen and Gower.
+
+GOWER.
+Nay, that’s right; but why wear you your leek today?
+Saint Davy’s day is past.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. I will
+tell you ass my friend, Captain Gower. The rascally, scald, beggarly,
+lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and yourself and all the world
+know to be no petter than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is
+come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and bid me
+eat my leek. It was in a place where I could not breed no contention
+with him; but I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see him
+once again, and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires.
+
+ Enter Pistol.
+
+GOWER.
+Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+’Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks. God pless you,
+Anchient Pistol! you scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you!
+
+PISTOL.
+Ha! art thou bedlam? Dost thou thirst, base Trojan,
+To have me fold up Parca’s fatal web?
+Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+I peseech you heartily, scurfy, lousy knave, at my desires, and my
+requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek. Because, look
+you, you do not love it, nor your affections and your appetites and
+your digestions does not agree with it, I would desire you to eat it.
+
+PISTOL.
+Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+There is one goat for you. [_Strikes him._] Will you be so good, scald
+knave, as eat it?
+
+PISTOL.
+Base Trojan, thou shalt die.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+You say very true, scald knave, when God’s will is. I will desire you
+to live in the mean time, and eat your victuals. Come, there is sauce
+for it. [_Strikes him._] You call’d me yesterday mountain-squire; but I
+will make you today a squire of low degree. I pray you, fall to; if you
+can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.
+
+GOWER.
+Enough, captain; you have astonish’d him.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his
+pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it is good for your green wound and
+your ploody coxcomb.
+
+PISTOL.
+Must I bite?
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question too, and
+ambiguities.
+
+PISTOL.
+By this leek, I will most horribly revenge. I eat and eat, I swear—
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Eat, I pray you. Will you have some more sauce to your leek? There is
+not enough leek to swear by.
+
+PISTOL.
+Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Much good do you, scald knave, heartily. Nay, pray you, throw none
+away; the skin is good for your broken coxcomb. When you take occasions
+to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at ’em; that is all.
+
+PISTOL.
+Good.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Ay, leeks is good. Hold you, there is a groat to heal your pate.
+
+PISTOL.
+Me a groat!
+
+FLUELLEN.
+Yes, verily and in truth you shall take it; or I have another leek in
+my pocket, which you shall eat.
+
+PISTOL.
+I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.
+
+FLUELLEN.
+If I owe you anything I will pay you in cudgels. You shall be a
+woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but cudgels. God be wi’ you, and keep
+you, and heal your pate.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PISTOL.
+All hell shall stir for this.
+
+GOWER.
+Go, go; you are a couterfeit cowardly knave. Will you mock at an
+ancient tradition, begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a
+memorable trophy of predeceased valour, and dare not avouch in your
+deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and galling at this
+gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could not speak
+English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English
+cudgel. You find it otherwise; and henceforth let a Welsh correction
+teach you a good English condition. Fare ye well.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PISTOL.
+Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?
+News have I, that my Doll is dead i’ the spital
+Of malady of France;
+And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.
+Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs
+Honour is cudgell’d. Well, bawd I’ll turn,
+And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.
+To England will I steal, and there I’ll steal;
+And patches will I get unto these cudgell’d scars,
+And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. France. A royal palace.
+
+ Enter at one door, King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, Warwick, Gloucester,
+ Westmorland, Clarence, Huntingdon and other Lords. At another, Queen
+ Isabel, the French King, the Princess Katharine, Alice, and other
+ Ladies; the Duke of Burgundy and other French.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!
+Unto our brother France, and to our sister,
+Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes
+To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;
+And, as a branch and member of this royalty,
+By whom this great assembly is contriv’d,
+We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;
+And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Right joyous are we to behold your face,
+Most worthy brother England; fairly met!
+So are you, princes English, every one.
+
+QUEEN ISABEL.
+So happy be the issue, brother England,
+Of this good day and of this gracious meeting
+As we are now glad to behold your eyes;
+Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them
+Against the French that met them in their bent
+The fatal balls of murdering basilisks.
+The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
+Have lost their quality; and that this day
+Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
+
+KING HENRY.
+To cry amen to that, thus we appear.
+
+QUEEN ISABEL.
+You English princes all, I do salute you.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+My duty to you both, on equal love,
+Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour’d,
+With all my wits, my pains, and strong endeavours,
+To bring your most imperial Majesties
+Unto this bar and royal interview,
+Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.
+Since then my office hath so far prevail’d
+That, face to face and royal eye to eye,
+You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me
+If I demand, before this royal view,
+What rub or what impediment there is,
+Why that the naked, poor, and mangled Peace,
+Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births,
+Should not in this best garden of the world,
+Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
+Alas, she hath from France too long been chas’d,
+And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,
+Corrupting in it own fertility.
+Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,
+Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach’d,
+Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,
+Put forth disorder’d twigs; her fallow leas
+The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory,
+Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts
+That should deracinate such savagery;
+The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth
+The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,
+Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
+Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems
+But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
+Losing both beauty and utility;
+And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges,
+Defective in their natures, grow to wildness.
+Even so our houses and ourselves and children
+Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
+The sciences that should become our country;
+But grow like savages,—as soldiers will
+That nothing do but meditate on blood,—
+To swearing and stern looks, diffus’d attire,
+And everything that seems unnatural.
+Which to reduce into our former favour
+You are assembled; and my speech entreats
+That I may know the let, why gentle Peace
+Should not expel these inconveniences
+And bless us with her former qualities.
+
+KING HENRY.
+If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
+Whose want gives growth to the imperfections
+Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
+With full accord to all our just demands;
+Whose tenours and particular effects
+You have enschedul’d briefly in your hands.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+The King hath heard them; to the which as yet
+There is no answer made.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Well, then, the peace,
+Which you before so urg’d, lies in his answer.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+I have but with a cursorary eye
+O’erglanc’d the articles. Pleaseth your Grace
+To appoint some of your council presently
+To sit with us once more, with better heed
+To re-survey them, we will suddenly
+Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,
+And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,
+Warwick, and Huntington, go with the King;
+And take with you free power to ratify,
+Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
+Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
+Anything in or out of our demands,
+And we’ll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,
+Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
+
+QUEEN ISABEL.
+Our gracious brother, I will go with them.
+Haply a woman’s voice may do some good,
+When articles too nicely urg’d be stood on.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
+She is our capital demand, compris’d
+Within the fore-rank of our articles.
+
+QUEEN ISABEL.
+She hath good leave.
+
+ [_Exeunt all except Henry, Katharine and Alice._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Fair Katharine, and most fair,
+Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
+Such as will enter at a lady’s ear
+And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
+
+KATHARINE.
+Your Majesty shall mock me; I cannot speak your England.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with your French heart, I
+will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English tongue.
+Do you like me, Kate?
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Pardonnez-moi_, I cannot tell wat is “like me.”
+
+KING HENRY.
+An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Que dit-il? Que je suis semblable à les anges?_
+
+ALICE.
+_Oui, vraiment, sauf votre Grâce, ainsi dit-il._
+
+KING HENRY.
+I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to affirm it.
+
+KATHARINE.
+_O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de tromperies._
+
+KING HENRY.
+What says she, fair one? That the tongues of men are full of deceits?
+
+ALICE.
+_Oui_, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits: dat is de
+Princess.
+
+KING HENRY.
+The Princess is the better Englishwoman. I’ faith, Kate, my wooing is
+fit for thy understanding. I am glad thou canst speak no better
+English; for if thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king
+that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my crown. I know no
+ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, “I love you”; then if
+you urge me farther than to say, “Do you in faith?” I wear out my suit.
+Give me your answer; i’ faith, do; and so clap hands and a bargain. How
+say you, lady?
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Sauf votre honneur_, me understand well.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Marry, if you would put me to verses, or to dance for your sake, Kate,
+why you undid me; for the one, I have neither words nor measure, and
+for the other I have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable measure
+in strength. If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by vaulting into my
+saddle with my armour on my back, under the correction of bragging be
+it spoken, I should quickly leap into a wife. Or if I might buffet for
+my love, or bound my horse for her favours, I could lay on like a
+butcher and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God, Kate,
+I cannot look greenly, nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning
+in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never use till urg’d,
+nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a fellow of this temper,
+Kate, whose face is not worth sunburning, that never looks in his glass
+for love of anything he sees there, let thine eye be thy cook. I speak
+to thee plain soldier. If thou canst love me for this, take me; if not,
+to say to thee that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the
+Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou liv’st, dear Kate, take a
+fellow of plain and uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee
+right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places; for these
+fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves into ladies’
+favours, they do always reason themselves out again. What! a speaker is
+but a prater: a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight
+back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl’d pate will grow
+bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow; but a good
+heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or rather the sun and not the
+moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course
+truly. If thou would have such a one, take me; and take me, take a
+soldier; take a soldier, take a king. And what say’st thou then to my
+love? Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Is it possible dat I should love de enemy of France?
+
+KING HENRY.
+No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France, Kate; but,
+in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I love France
+so well that I will not part with a village of it, I will have it all
+mine; and, Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is
+France and you are mine.
+
+KATHARINE.
+I cannot tell wat is dat.
+
+KING HENRY.
+No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am sure will hang upon my
+tongue like a new-married wife about her husband’s neck, hardly to be
+shook off. _Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand vous avez le
+possession de moi_,—let me see, what then? Saint Denis be my
+speed!—_donc votre est France, et vous êtes mienne._ It is as easy for
+me, Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much more French. I
+shall never move thee in French, unless it be to laugh at me.
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Sauf votre honneur, le français que vous parlez, il est meilleur que
+l’anglais lequel je parle._
+
+KING HENRY.
+No, faith, is’t not, Kate; but thy speaking of my tongue, and I thine,
+most truly-falsely, must needs be granted to be much at one. But, Kate,
+dost thou understand thus much English: canst thou love me?
+
+KATHARINE.
+I cannot tell.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I’ll ask them. Come, I know thou
+lovest me; and at night, when you come into your closet, you’ll
+question this gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to her
+dispraise those parts in me that you love with your heart. But, good
+Kate, mock me mercifully; the rather, gentle princess, because I love
+thee cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a saving faith
+within me tells me thou shalt, I get thee with scambling, and thou must
+therefore needs prove a good soldier-breeder. Shall not thou and I,
+between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half
+English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the
+beard? Shall we not? What say’st thou, my fair flower-de-luce?
+
+KATHARINE.
+I do not know dat.
+
+KING HENRY.
+No; ’tis hereafter to know, but now to promise. Do but now promise,
+Kate, you will endeavour for your French part of such a boy; and for my
+English moiety, take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer you,
+_la plus belle Katherine du monde, mon très cher et divin déesse?_
+
+KATHARINE.
+Your Majestee ’ave _fausse_ French enough to deceive de most _sage
+demoiselle_ dat is _en France_.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in true English, I love
+thee, Kate; by which honour I dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my
+blood begins to flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor and
+untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew my father’s ambition! He
+was thinking of civil wars when he got me; therefore was I created with
+a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when I come to woo
+ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better
+I shall appear. My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of
+beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast
+me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and
+better; and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you have me?
+Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of your heart with the
+looks of an empress; take me by the hand, and say, Harry of England, I
+am thine; which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine ear withal, but I
+will tell thee aloud, England is thine, Ireland is thine, France is
+thine, and Henry Plantagenet is thine; who, though I speak it before
+his face, if he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the
+best king of good fellows. Come, your answer in broken music; for thy
+voice is music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of all,
+Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken English. Wilt thou have me?
+
+KATHARINE.
+Dat is as it shall please _le roi mon père_.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall please him, Kate.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Den it sall also content me.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Upon that I kiss your hand, and call you my queen.
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez! Ma foi, je ne veux point que
+vous abaissiez votre grandeur en baisant la main d’une—Notre
+Seigneur!—indigne serviteur. Excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon
+très-puissant seigneur._
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
+
+KATHARINE.
+_Les dames et demoiselles pour être baisées devant leurs noces, il
+n’est pas la coutume de France._
+
+KING HENRY.
+Madame my interpreter, what says she?
+
+ALICE.
+Dat it is not be de fashion _pour les_ ladies of France,—I cannot tell
+wat is _baiser en_ Anglish.
+
+KING HENRY.
+To kiss.
+
+ALICE.
+Your Majestee _entend_ bettre _que moi_.
+
+KING HENRY.
+It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss before they are
+married, would she say?
+
+ALICE.
+_Oui, vraiment._
+
+KING HENRY.
+O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot
+be confined within the weak list of a country’s fashion. We are the
+makers of manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places stops
+the mouth of all find-faults, as I will do yours, for upholding the
+nice fashion of your country in denying me a kiss; therefore, patiently
+and yielding. [_Kissing her._] You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate;
+there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of
+the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England
+than a general petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.
+
+ Enter the French Power and the English Lords.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+God save your Majesty! My royal cousin, teach you our princess English?
+
+KING HENRY.
+I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how perfectly I love her; and
+that is good English.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Is she not apt?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not smooth; so that,
+having neither the voice nor the heart of flattery about me, I cannot
+so conjure up the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in his
+true likeness.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you for that. If you
+would conjure in her, you must make a circle; if conjure up Love in her
+in his true likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you blame her
+then, being a maid yet ros’d over with the virgin crimson of modesty,
+if she deny the appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing
+self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid to consign to.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+They are then excus’d, my lord, when they see not what they do.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will teach her to know
+my meaning; for maids, well summer’d and warm kept, are like flies at
+Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their eyes; and then they
+will endure handling, which before would not abide looking on.
+
+KING HENRY.
+This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer; and so I shall catch
+the fly, your cousin, in the latter end, and she must be blind too.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+As love is, my lord, before it loves.
+
+KING HENRY.
+It is so; and you may, some of you, thank love for my blindness, who
+cannot see many a fair French city for one fair French maid that stands
+in my way.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities turn’d into a
+maid; for they are all girdled with maiden walls that no war hath
+entered.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Shall Kate be my wife?
+
+FRENCH KING.
+So please you.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I am content, so the maiden cities you talk of may wait on her; so the
+maid that stood in the way for my wish shall show me the way to my
+will.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+We have consented to all terms of reason.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Is’t so, my lords of England?
+
+WESTMORLAND.
+The king hath granted every article;
+His daughter first, and then in sequel all,
+According to their firm proposed natures.
+
+EXETER.
+Only he hath not yet subscribed this: where your Majesty demands, that
+the King of France, having any occasion to write for matter of grant,
+shall name your Highness in this form and with this addition, in
+French, _Notre très-cher fils Henri, Roi d’Angleterre, Héritier de
+France_; and thus in Latin, _Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus,
+rex Angliae et haeres Franciae._
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Nor this I have not, brother, so denied
+But our request shall make me let it pass.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,
+Let that one article rank with the rest;
+And thereupon give me your daughter.
+
+FRENCH KING.
+Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
+Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms
+Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
+With envy of each other’s happiness,
+May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
+Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
+In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
+His bleeding sword ’twixt England and fair France.
+
+LORDS.
+Amen!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Now, welcome, Kate; and bear me witness all,
+That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen.
+
+ [_Flourish._]
+
+QUEEN ISABEL.
+God, the best maker of all marriages,
+Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!
+As man and wife, being two, are one in love,
+So be there ’twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,
+That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,
+Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,
+Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,
+To make divorce of their incorporate league;
+That English may as French, French Englishmen,
+Receive each other. God speak this Amen!
+
+ALL.
+Amen!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Prepare we for our marriage; on which day,
+My Lord of Burgundy, we’ll take your oath,
+And all the peers’, for surety of our leagues,
+Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;
+And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!
+
+ [_Sennet. Exeunt._]
+
+EPILOGUE.
+
+ Enter Chorus.
+
+CHORUS.
+Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
+Our bending author hath pursu’d the story,
+In little room confining mighty men,
+Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
+Small time, but in that small most greatly lived
+This star of England. Fortune made his sword,
+By which the world’s best garden he achieved,
+And of it left his son imperial lord.
+Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown’d King
+Of France and England, did this king succeed;
+Whose state so many had the managing,
+That they lost France and made his England bleed:
+Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake,
+In your fair minds let this acceptance take.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Westminster Abbey
+ Scene II. France. Before Orleans
+ Scene III. London. Before the Tower
+ Scene IV. Orleans
+ Scene V. Before Orleans
+ Scene VI. Orleans
+
+ ACT II
+ SCENE I. Before Orleans
+ SCENE II. Orleans. Within the town
+ SCENE III. Auvergne. The Countess’s castle
+ SCENE IV. London. The Temple Garden
+ SCENE V. The Tower of London
+
+ ACT III
+ SCENE I. London. The Parliament House
+ SCENE II. France. Before Rouen
+ SCENE III. The plains near Rouen
+ SCENE IV. Paris. The Palace
+
+ ACT IV
+ SCENE I. Paris. The Palace
+ SCENE II. Before Bordeaux
+ SCENE III. Plains in Gascony
+ SCENE IV. Other plains in Gascony
+ SCENE V. The English camp near Bordeaux
+ SCENE VI. A field of battle
+ SCENE VII. Another part of the field
+
+ ACT V
+ SCENE I. London. The Palace
+ SCENE II. France. Plains in Anjou
+ SCENE III. Before Angiers
+ SCENE IV. Camp of the Duke of York in Anjou
+ SCENE V. London. The royal palace
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING HENRY the Sixth
+DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, uncle to the King, and Protector
+DUKE OF BEDFORD, uncle to the King, and Regent of France
+DUKE OF EXETER, (Thomas Beaufort), great-uncle to the King
+BISHOP OF WINCHESTER (Henry Beaufort), great-uncle to the King,
+afterwards Cardinal
+DUKE OF SOMERSET (John Beaufort)
+RICHARD PLANTAGENET, son of Richard, late Earl of Cambridge, afterwards
+Duke of York
+EARL OF WARWICK
+EARL OF SALISBURY
+EARL OF SUFFOLK
+LORD TALBOT, afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury
+JOHN TALBOT, his son
+Edmund MORTIMER, Earl of March
+SIR JOHN FASTOLF
+SIR WILLIAM LUCY
+SIR WILLIAM GLANSDALE
+SIR THOMAS GARGRAVE
+MAYOR of London
+WOODVILLE, Lieutenant of the Tower
+VERNON, of the White-Rose or York faction
+BASSET, of the Red-Rose or Lancaster faction
+A LAWYER
+Mortimer’s JAILERS
+
+CHARLES, Dauphin, and afterwards King of France
+REIGNIER, Duke of Anjou, and titular King of Naples
+DUKE OF BURGUNDY
+DUKE OF ALENÇON
+BASTARD OF ORLEANS
+Governor of Paris
+MASTER GUNNER of Orleans and BOY, his son
+General of the French forces in Bordeaux
+A French Sergeant.
+A Porter
+An old Shepherd, father to Joan la Pucelle
+
+MARGARET, daughter to Reignier, afterwards married to King Henry
+COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE
+JOAN LA PUCELLE, commonly called Joan of Arc
+
+Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers,
+and Attendants.
+
+Fiends appearing to Joan la Pucelle
+
+SCENE: Partly in England and partly in France
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Westminster Abbey.
+
+
+Dead March. Enter the funeral of King Henry the Fifth, attended on by
+the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke of Gloucester,
+Protector; the Duke of Exeter, the Earl of Warwick, the Bishop of
+Winchester, the Duke of Somerset with Heralds, &c.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
+Comets, importing change of times and states,
+Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,
+And with them scourge the bad revolting stars
+That have consented unto Henry’s death:
+King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!
+England ne’er lost a king of so much worth.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+England ne’er had a king until his time.
+Virtue he had, deserving to command;
+His brandish’d sword did blind men with his beams;
+His arms spread wider than a dragon’s wings;
+His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
+More dazzled and drove back his enemies
+Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces.
+What should I say? His deeds exceed all speech.
+He ne’er lift up his hand but conquered.
+
+EXETER.
+We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
+Henry is dead and never shall revive.
+Upon a wooden coffin we attend,
+And Death’s dishonourable victory
+We with our stately presence glorify,
+Like captives bound to a triumphant car.
+What! Shall we curse the planets of mishap
+That plotted thus our glory’s overthrow?
+Or shall we think the subtle-witted French
+Conjurers and sorcerers, that, afraid of him,
+By magic verses have contriv’d his end?
+
+WINCHESTER.
+He was a king bless’d of the King of kings;
+Unto the French the dreadful judgement-day
+So dreadful will not be as was his sight.
+The battles of the Lord of Hosts he fought:
+The Church’s prayers made him so prosperous.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+The Church! Where is it? Had not churchmen pray’d,
+His thread of life had not so soon decay’d.
+None do you like but an effeminate prince,
+Whom like a school-boy you may overawe.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Gloucester, whate’er we like, thou art Protector,
+And lookest to command the Prince and realm.
+Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe
+More than God or religious churchmen may.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Name not religion, for thou lov’st the flesh,
+And ne’er throughout the year to church thou go’st,
+Except it be to pray against thy foes.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace;
+Let’s to the altar; heralds, wait on us.
+Instead of gold, we’ll offer up our arms,
+Since arms avail not, now that Henry’s dead.
+Posterity, await for wretched years,
+When at their mothers’ moist eyes babes shall suck,
+Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,
+And none but women left to wail the dead.
+Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:
+Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils,
+Combat with adverse planets in the heavens.
+A far more glorious star thy soul will make
+Than Julius Caesar or bright—
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My honourable lords, health to you all!
+Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,
+Of loss, of slaughter, and discomfiture:
+Guienne, Champaigne, Rheims, Rouen, Orleans,
+Paris, Guysors, Poictiers, are all quite lost.
+
+BEDFORD.
+What say’st thou, man, before dead Henry’s corse?
+Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns
+Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Is Paris lost? Is Rouen yielded up?
+If Henry were recall’d to life again,
+These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.
+
+EXETER.
+How were they lost? What treachery was us’d?
+
+MESSENGER.
+No treachery, but want of men and money.
+Amongst the soldiers this is muttered:
+That here you maintain several factions
+And whilst a field should be dispatch’d and fought,
+You are disputing of your generals.
+One would have lingering wars with little cost;
+Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;
+A third thinks, without expense at all,
+By guileful fair words peace may be obtain’d.
+Awake, awake, English nobility!
+Let not sloth dim your honours new-begot.
+Cropp’d are the flower-de-luces in your arms;
+Of England’s coat one half is cut away.
+
+[_He exits._]
+
+EXETER.
+Were our tears wanting to this funeral,
+These tidings would call forth their flowing tides.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Me they concern; Regent I am of France.
+Give me my steeled coat. I’ll fight for France.
+Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!
+Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,
+To weep their intermissive miseries.
+
+Enter to them another Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance.
+France is revolted from the English quite,
+Except some petty towns of no import.
+The Dauphin Charles is crowned king in Rheims;
+The Bastard of Orleans with him is join’d;
+Reignier, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;
+The Duke of Alençon flieth to his side.
+
+[_He exits._]
+
+EXETER.
+The Dauphin crowned king! All fly to him!
+O, whither shall we fly from this reproach?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+We will not fly but to our enemies’ throats.
+Bedford, if thou be slack, I’ll fight it out.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Gloucester, why doubt’st thou of my forwardness?
+An army have I muster’d in my thoughts,
+Wherewith already France is overrun.
+
+Enter another Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My gracious lords, to add to your laments,
+Wherewith you now bedew King Henry’s hearse,
+I must inform you of a dismal fight
+Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+What! Wherein Talbot overcame, is’t so?
+
+MESSENGER.
+O no, wherein Lord Talbot was o’erthrown.
+The circumstance I’ll tell you more at large.
+The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,
+Retiring from the siege of Orleans,
+Having full scarce six thousand in his troop,
+By three and twenty thousand of the French
+Was round encompassed and set upon.
+No leisure had he to enrank his men;
+He wanted pikes to set before his archers;
+Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck’d out of hedges
+They pitched in the ground confusedly
+To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
+More than three hours the fight continued;
+Where valiant Talbot, above human thought,
+Enacted wonders with his sword and lance.
+Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;
+Here, there, and everywhere, enrag’d he slew.
+The French exclaim’d the devil was in arms;
+All the whole army stood agaz’d on him.
+His soldiers, spying his undaunted spirit,
+“A Talbot! a Talbot!” cried out amain,
+And rush’d into the bowels of the battle.
+Here had the conquest fully been seal’d up
+If Sir John Fastolf had not play’d the coward.
+He, being in the vaward, plac’d behind
+With purpose to relieve and follow them,
+Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
+Hence grew the general wrack and massacre.
+Enclosed were they with their enemies.
+A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin’s grace,
+Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back,
+Whom all France, with their chief assembled strength,
+Durst not presume to look once in the face.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Is Talbot slain? Then I will slay myself,
+For living idly here, in pomp and ease,
+Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,
+Unto his dastard foemen is betray’d.
+
+MESSENGER.
+O no, he lives, but is took prisoner,
+And Lord Scales with him, and Lord Hungerford;
+Most of the rest slaughter’d or took likewise.
+
+BEDFORD.
+His ransom there is none but I shall pay.
+I’ll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne;
+His crown shall be the ransom of my friend;
+Four of their lords I’ll change for one of ours.
+Farewell, my masters; to my task will I;
+Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make
+To keep our great Saint George’s feast withal.
+Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,
+Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.
+
+MESSENGER.
+So you had need; for Orleans is besieg’d
+The English army is grown weak and faint;
+The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply
+And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,
+Since they, so few, watch such a multitude.
+
+[_He exits._]
+
+EXETER.
+Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn,
+Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,
+Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.
+
+BEDFORD.
+I do remember it, and here take my leave
+To go about my preparation.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I’ll to the Tower with all the haste I can
+To view th’ artillery and munition;
+And then I will proclaim young Henry king.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+EXETER.
+To Eltham will I, where the young King is,
+Being ordain’d his special governor;
+And for his safety there I’ll best devise.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Each hath his place and function to attend.
+I am left out; for me nothing remains.
+But long I will not be Jack out of office.
+The King from Eltham I intend to steal,
+And sit at chiefest stern of public weal.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. France. Before Orleans
+
+Sound a Flourish. Enter  Charles, Alençon and Reignier, marching with
+Drum and Soldiers.
+
+CHARLES.
+Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens
+So in the earth, to this day is not known.
+Late did he shine upon the English side;
+Now we are victors; upon us he smiles.
+What towns of any moment but we have?
+At pleasure here we lie near Orleans,
+Otherwhiles the famish’d English, like pale ghosts,
+Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.
+
+ALENÇON.
+They want their porridge and their fat bull beeves.
+Either they must be dieted like mules
+And have their provender tied to their mouths,
+Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Let’s raise the siege. Why live we idly here?
+Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear.
+Remaineth none but mad-brain’d Salisbury,
+And he may well in fretting spend his gall;
+Nor men nor money hath he to make war.
+
+CHARLES.
+Sound, sound alarum! We will rush on them.
+Now for the honour of the forlorn French!
+Him I forgive my death that killeth me
+When he sees me go back one foot or fly.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Here alarum; they are beaten back by the English, with great loss.
+Re-enter Charles, Alençon and Reignier.
+
+CHARLES.
+Who ever saw the like? What men have I!
+Dogs, cowards, dastards! I would ne’er have fled
+But that they left me ’midst my enemies.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Salisbury is a desperate homicide;
+He fighteth as one weary of his life.
+The other lords, like lions wanting food,
+Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Froissart, a countryman of ours, records,
+England all Olivers and Rowlands bred
+During the time Edward the Third did reign.
+More truly now may this be verified;
+For none but Samsons and Goliases
+It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten!
+Lean raw-bon’d rascals! Who would e’er suppose
+They had such courage and audacity?
+
+CHARLES.
+Let’s leave this town; for they are hare-brain’d slaves,
+And hunger will enforce them to be more eager.
+Of old I know them; rather with their teeth
+The walls they’ll tear down than forsake the siege.
+
+REIGNIER.
+I think by some odd gimmers or device
+Their arms are set like clocks, still to strike on;
+Else ne’er could they hold out so as they do.
+By my consent, we’ll even let them alone.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Be it so.
+
+Enter the Bastard of Orleans.
+
+BASTARD.
+Where’s the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.
+
+CHARLES.
+Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us.
+
+BASTARD.
+Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appall’d.
+Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?
+Be not dismay’d, for succour is at hand.
+A holy maid hither with me I bring,
+Which, by a vision sent to her from heaven
+Ordained is to raise this tedious siege
+And drive the English forth the bounds of France.
+The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,
+Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome.
+What’s past and what’s to come she can descry.
+Speak, shall I call her in? Believe my words,
+For they are certain and unfallible.
+
+CHARLES.
+Go, call her in.
+
+[_Exit Bastard._]
+
+But first, to try her skill,
+Reignier, stand thou as Dauphin in my place;
+Question her proudly; let thy looks be stern.
+By this means shall we sound what skill she hath.
+
+Re-enter the Bastard of Orleans, with Joan la Pucelle.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Fair maid, is ’t thou wilt do these wondrous feats?
+
+PUCELLE.
+Reignier is ’t thou that thinkest to beguile me?
+Where is the Dauphin? Come, come from behind;
+I know thee well, though never seen before.
+Be not amazed, there’s nothing hid from me.
+In private will I talk with thee apart.
+Stand back, you lords, and give us leave awhile.
+
+REIGNIER.
+She takes upon her bravely at first dash.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd’s daughter,
+My wit untrain’d in any kind of art.
+Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased
+To shine on my contemptible estate.
+Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,
+And to sun’s parching heat display’d my cheeks,
+God’s mother deigned to appear to me,
+And in a vision full of majesty
+Will’d me to leave my base vocation
+And free my country from calamity.
+Her aid she promised and assured success.
+In complete glory she reveal’d herself;
+And, whereas I was black and swart before,
+With those clear rays which she infused on me
+That beauty am I blest with which you may see.
+Ask me what question thou canst possible,
+And I will answer unpremeditated.
+My courage try by combat, if thou dar’st,
+And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.
+Resolve on this; thou shalt be fortunate
+If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.
+
+CHARLES.
+Thou hast astonish’d me with thy high terms.
+Only this proof I’ll of thy valour make:
+In single combat thou shalt buckle with me,
+And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;
+Otherwise I renounce all confidence.
+
+PUCELLE.
+I am prepared. Here is my keen-edg’d sword,
+Deck’d with five flower-de-luces on each side,
+The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine’s churchyard,
+Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.
+
+CHARLES.
+Then come, o’ God’s name; I fear no woman.
+
+PUCELLE.
+And while I live, I’ll ne’er fly from a man.
+
+[_Here they fight, and Joan la Pucelle overcomes._]
+
+CHARLES.
+Stay, stay thy hands; thou art an Amazon,
+And fightest with the sword of Deborah.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Christ’s Mother helps me, else I were too weak.
+
+CHARLES.
+Whoe’er helps thee, ’tis thou that must help me.
+Impatiently I burn with thy desire;
+My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.
+Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so,
+Let me thy servant and not sovereign be.
+’Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.
+
+PUCELLE.
+I must not yield to any rites of love,
+For my profession’s sacred from above.
+When I have chased all thy foes from hence,
+Then will I think upon a recompense.
+
+CHARLES.
+Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.
+
+REIGNIER.
+My lord, methinks, is very long in talk.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock;
+Else ne’er could he so long protract his speech.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?
+
+ALENÇON.
+He may mean more than we poor men do know.
+These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
+
+REIGNIER.
+My lord, where are you? What devise you on?
+Shall we give over Orleans, or no?
+
+PUCELLE.
+Why, no, I say. Distrustful recreants!
+Fight till the last gasp; I will be your guard.
+
+CHARLES.
+What she says I’ll confirm. We’ll fight it out.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Assign’d am I to be the English scourge.
+This night the siege assuredly I’ll raise.
+Expect Saint Martin’s summer, halcyon’s days,
+Since I have entered into these wars.
+Glory is like a circle in the water,
+Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
+Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
+With Henry’s death the English circle ends;
+Dispersed are the glories it included.
+Now am I like that proud insulting ship
+Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once.
+
+CHARLES.
+Was Mahomet inspired with a dove?
+Thou with an eagle art inspired then.
+Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
+Nor yet Saint Philip’s daughters, were like thee.
+Bright star of Venus, fall’n down on the earth,
+How may I reverently worship thee enough?
+
+ALENÇON.
+Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours;
+Drive them from Orleans and be immortalized.
+
+CHARLES.
+Presently we’ll try. Come, let’s away about it.
+No prophet will I trust if she prove false.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. London. Before the Tower.
+
+Enter the Duke of Gloucester with his Servingmen in blue coats.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I am come to survey the Tower this day.
+Since Henry’s death, I fear, there is conveyance.
+Where be these warders that they wait not here?
+Open the gates; ’tis Gloucester that calls.
+
+FIRST WARDER.
+[_Within_.] Who’s there that knocks so imperiously?
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.
+
+SECOND WARDER.
+[_Within_.] Whoe’er he be, you may not be let in.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Villains, answer you so the Lord Protector?
+
+FIRST WARDER.
+[_Within_.] The Lord protect him, so we answer him.
+We do no otherwise than we are will’d.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Who willed you? Or whose will stands but mine?
+There’s none Protector of the realm but I.
+Break up the gates, I’ll be your warrantize.
+Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?
+
+[_Gloucester’s men rush at the Tower gates, and Woodville, the
+Lieutenant, speaks within._]
+
+WOODVILLE.
+What noise is this? What traitors have we here?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?
+Open the gates; here’s Gloucester that would enter.
+
+WOODVILLE.
+Have patience, noble Duke; I may not open;
+The Cardinal of Winchester forbids.
+From him I have express commandment
+That thou nor none of thine shall be let in.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Faint-hearted Woodville, prizest him ’fore me?
+Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate
+Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne’er could brook?
+Thou art no friend to God or to the King.
+Open the gates, or I’ll shut thee out shortly.
+
+SERVINGMEN.
+Open the gates unto the Lord Protector,
+Or we’ll burst them open, if that you come not quickly.
+
+Enter to the Protector at the Tower gates Winchester and his men in
+tawny coats.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+How now, ambitious Humphrey! What means this?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Peel’d priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?
+
+WINCHESTER.
+I do, thou most usurping proditor,
+And not Protector, of the King or realm.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,
+Thou that contrived’st to murder our dead lord;
+Thou that giv’st whores indulgences to sin:
+I’ll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal’s hat,
+If thou proceed in this thy insolence.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Nay, stand thou back; I will not budge a foot.
+This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
+To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I will not slay thee, but I’ll drive thee back.
+Thy scarlet robes, as a child’s bearing-cloth,
+I’ll use to carry thee out of this place.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Do what thou dar’st, I beard thee to thy face.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What, am I dared and bearded to my face?
+Draw, men, for all this privileged place.
+Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard;
+I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly.
+Under my feet I’ll stamp thy cardinal’s hat;
+In spite of Pope or dignities of church,
+Here by the cheeks I’ll drag thee up and down.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the Pope.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Winchester goose, I cry, “a rope, a rope!”
+Now beat them hence; why do you let them stay?
+Thee I’ll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep’s array.
+Out, tawny coats! Out, scarlet hypocrite!
+
+Here Gloucester’s men beat out the Cardinal’s men, and enter in the
+hurly-burly the Mayor of London and his Officers.
+
+MAYOR.
+Fie, lords, that you, being supreme magistrates,
+Thus contumeliously should break the peace!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Peace, Mayor! Thou know’st little of my wrongs.
+Here’s Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king,
+Hath here distrain’d the Tower to his use.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Here’s Gloucester, a foe to citizens,
+One that still motions war and never peace,
+O’ercharging your free purses with large fines;
+That seeks to overthrow religion,
+Because he is Protector of the realm,
+And would have armour here out of the Tower,
+To crown himself king and suppress the Prince.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I will not answer thee with words, but blows.
+
+[_Here they skirmish again._]
+
+MAYOR.
+Nought rests for me in this tumultuous strife
+But to make open proclamation.
+Come, officer, as loud as e’er thou canst, cry.
+
+OFFICER.
+All manner of men assembled here in arms this day against God’s peace
+and the King’s, we charge and command you, in his Highness’ name, to
+repair to your several dwelling-places; and not to wear, handle, or use
+any sword, weapon, or dagger, henceforward, upon pain of death.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Cardinal, I’ll be no breaker of the law;
+But we shall meet and break our minds at large.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Gloucester, we will meet, to thy cost, be sure;
+Thy heart-blood I will have for this day’s work.
+
+MAYOR.
+I’ll call for clubs, if you will not away.
+This Cardinal’s more haughty than the devil.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Mayor, farewell. Thou dost but what thou mayst.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head,
+For I intend to have it ere long.
+
+[_Exeunt, severally, Gloucester and Winchester with their Servingmen._]
+
+MAYOR.
+See the coast clear’d, and then we will depart.
+Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
+I myself fight not once in forty year.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Orleans.
+
+Enter, on the walls, a Master Gunner and his Boy.
+
+MASTER GUNNER.
+Sirrah, thou know’st how Orleans is besieged,
+And how the English have the suburbs won.
+
+BOY.
+Father, I know; and oft have shot at them,
+Howe’er unfortunate I miss’d my aim.
+
+MASTER GUNNER.
+But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me.
+Chief master-gunner am I of this town;
+Something I must do to procure me grace.
+The Prince’s espials have informed me
+How the English, in the suburbs close intrench’d,
+Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
+In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
+And thence discover how with most advantage
+They may vex us with shot or with assault.
+To intercept this inconvenience,
+A piece of ordnance ’gainst it I have placed
+And even these three days have I watch’d,
+If I could see them.
+Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.
+If thou spy’st any, run and bring me word;
+And thou shalt find me at the Governor’s.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BOY.
+Father, I warrant you; take you no care;
+I’ll never trouble you if I may spy them.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter, on the turrets, Salisbury and Talbot, Sir William Glansdale, Sir
+Thomas Gargrave and others.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Talbot, my life, my joy, again return’d!
+How wert thou handled, being prisoner?
+Or by what means got’st thou to be releas’d?
+Discourse, I prithee, on this turret’s top.
+
+TALBOT.
+The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner
+Call’d the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;
+For him was I exchanged and ransomed.
+But with a baser man of arms by far
+Once in contempt they would have barter’d me,
+Which I disdaining scorn’d, and craved death
+Rather than I would be so vile-esteem’d.
+In fine, redeem’d I was as I desired.
+But O, the treacherous Fastolf wounds my heart,
+Whom with my bare fists I would execute
+If I now had him brought into my power.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Yet tell’st thou not how thou wert entertain’d.
+
+TALBOT.
+With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.
+In open market-place produced they me
+To be a public spectacle to all.
+Here, said they, is the terror of the French,
+The scarecrow that affrights our children so.
+Then broke I from the officers that led me,
+And with my nails digg’d stones out of the ground
+To hurl at the beholders of my shame.
+My grisly countenance made others fly;
+None durst come near for fear of sudden death.
+In iron walls they deem’d me not secure;
+So great fear of my name ’mongst them were spread
+That they supposed I could rend bars of steel
+And spurn in pieces posts of adamant.
+Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,
+That walk’d about me every minute while;
+And if I did but stir out of my bed,
+Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.
+
+Enter the Boy with a linstock.
+
+SALISBURY.
+I grieve to hear what torments you endured,
+But we will be revenged sufficiently.
+Now it is supper-time in Orleans.
+Here, through this grate, I count each one
+And view the Frenchmen how they fortify.
+Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee.
+Sir Thomas Gargrave and Sir William Glansdale,
+Let me have your express opinions
+Where is best place to make our battery next.
+
+GARGRAVE.
+I think, at the north gate, for there stand lords.
+
+GLANSDALE.
+And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge.
+
+TALBOT.
+For aught I see, this city must be famish’d,
+Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.
+
+Here they shoot, and Salisbury and Gargrave fall down.
+
+SALISBURY.
+O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners!
+
+GARGRAVE.
+O Lord, have mercy on me, woeful man!
+
+TALBOT.
+What chance is this that suddenly hath cross’d us?
+Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak!
+How far’st thou, mirror of all martial men?
+One of thy eyes and thy cheek’s side struck off!
+Accursed tower, accursed fatal hand
+That hath contrived this woeful tragedy!
+In thirteen battles Salisbury o’ercame;
+Henry the Fifth he first train’d to the wars;
+Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,
+His sword did ne’er leave striking in the field.
+Yet liv’st thou, Salisbury? Though thy speech doth fail,
+One eye thou hast to look to heaven for grace.
+The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.
+Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,
+If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!
+Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?
+Speak unto Talbot; nay, look up to him.
+Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it.
+
+[_Exeunt some with the body of Gargrave._]
+
+Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort,
+Thou shalt not die whiles—
+He beckons with his hand and smiles on me,
+As who should say “When I am dead and gone,
+Remember to avenge me on the French.”
+Plantagenet, I will; and, like thee, Nero,
+Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn.
+Wretched shall France be only in thy name.
+
+[_Here an alarum, and it thunders and lightens._]
+
+What stir is this? What tumult’s in the heavens?
+Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, my lord, the French have gather’d head.
+The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join’d,
+A holy prophetess new risen up,
+Is come with a great power to raise the siege.
+
+[_Here Salisbury lifteth himself up and groans._]
+
+TALBOT.
+Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan;
+It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.
+Frenchmen, I’ll be a Salisbury to you.
+Pucelle or puzel, dolphin or dogfish,
+Your hearts I’ll stamp out with my horse’s heels
+And make a quagmire of your mingled brains.
+Convey we Salisbury into his tent,
+And then we’ll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare.
+
+[_Alarum. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Before Orleans.
+
+Here an alarum again, and Talbot pursueth the Dauphin and driveth him;
+then enter Joan la Pucelle, driving Englishmen before her, and exit
+after them. Then re-enter Talbot.
+
+TALBOT.
+Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?
+Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them.
+A woman clad in armour chaseth them.
+
+Enter La Pucelle.
+
+Here, here she comes. I’ll have a bout with thee;
+Devil or devil’s dam, I’ll conjure thee.
+Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch,
+And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv’st.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Come, come, ’tis only I that must disgrace thee.
+
+[_Here they fight._]
+
+TALBOT.
+Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?
+My breast I’ll burst with straining of my courage,
+And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder,
+But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet.
+
+[_They fight again._]
+
+PUCELLE.
+Talbot, farewell; thy hour is not yet come.
+I must go victual Orleans forthwith.
+
+[_A short alarum. Then enter the town with soldiers._]
+
+O’ertake me, if thou canst. I scorn thy strength.
+Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men;
+Help Salisbury to make his testament.
+This day is ours, as many more shall be.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+TALBOT.
+My thoughts are whirled like a potter’s wheel;
+I know not where I am, nor what I do.
+A witch by fear, not force, like Hannibal,
+Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists.
+So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench
+Are from their hives and houses driven away.
+They call’d us for our fierceness, English dogs;
+Now like to whelps we crying run away.
+
+[_A short alarum._]
+
+Hark, countrymen, either renew the fight,
+Or tear the lions out of England’s coat;
+Renounce your soil, give sheep in lions’ stead.
+Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,
+Or horse or oxen from the leopard,
+As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves.
+
+[_Alarum. Here another skirmish._]
+
+It will not be! Retire into your trenches.
+You all consented unto Salisbury’s death,
+For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.
+Pucelle is enter’d into Orleans,
+In spite of us or aught that we could do.
+O, would I were to die with Salisbury!
+The shame hereof will make me hide my head.
+
+[_Exit Talbot. Alarum; retreat._]
+
+SCENE VI. Orleans.
+
+Flourish. Enter on the walls La Pucelle, Charles, Reignier, Alençon and
+Soldiers.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Advance our waving colours on the walls;
+Rescued is Orleans from the English.
+Thus Joan la Pucelle hath perform’d her word.
+
+CHARLES.
+Divinest creature, Astraea’s daughter,
+How shall I honour thee for this success?
+Thy promises are like Adonis’ gardens
+That one day bloom’d and fruitful were the next.
+France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!
+Recover’d is the town of Orleans.
+More blessed hap did ne’er befall our state.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Why ring not bells aloud throughout the town?
+Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires
+And feast and banquet in the open streets
+To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.
+
+ALENÇON.
+All France will be replete with mirth and joy
+When they shall hear how we have play’d the men.
+
+CHARLES.
+’Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won;
+For which I will divide my crown with her,
+And all the priests and friars in my realm
+Shall in procession sing her endless praise.
+A statelier pyramis to her I’ll rear
+Than Rhodope’s of Memphis ever was;
+In memory of her when she is dead,
+Her ashes, in an urn more precious
+Than the rich-jewel’d coffer of Darius,
+Transported shall be at high festivals
+Before the kings and queens of France.
+No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,
+But Joan la Pucelle shall be France’s saint.
+Come in, and let us banquet royally
+After this golden day of victory.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Before Orleans.
+
+
+Enter a Sergeant of a band, with two Sentinels.
+
+SERGEANT.
+Sirs, take your places and be vigilant.
+If any noise or soldier you perceive
+Near to the walls, by some apparent sign
+Let us have knowledge at the court of guard.
+
+FIRST SENTINEL.
+Sergeant, you shall.
+
+[_Exit Sergeant._]
+
+Thus are poor servitors,
+When others sleep upon their quiet beds,
+Constrain’d to watch in darkness, rain, and cold.
+
+Enter Talbot, Bedford, Burgundy, and forces, with scaling-ladders.
+
+TALBOT.
+Lord Regent, and redoubted Burgundy,
+By whose approach the regions of Artois,
+Walloon and Picardy are friends to us,
+This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,
+Having all day caroused and banqueted.
+Embrace we then this opportunity,
+As fitting best to quittance their deceit
+Contriv’d by art and baleful sorcery.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Coward of France, how much he wrongs his fame,
+Despairing of his own arm’s fortitude,
+To join with witches and the help of hell!
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Traitors have never other company.
+But what’s that Pucelle whom they term so pure?
+
+TALBOT.
+A maid, they say.
+
+BEDFORD.
+A maid! And be so martial!
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Pray God she prove not masculine ere long,
+If underneath the standard of the French
+She carry armour as she hath begun.
+
+TALBOT.
+Well, let them practice and converse with spirits.
+God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
+Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Ascend, brave Talbot; we will follow thee.
+
+TALBOT.
+Not all together. Better far, I guess,
+That we do make our entrance several ways,
+That if it chance the one of us do fail,
+The other yet may rise against their force.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Agreed. I’ll to yond corner.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+And I to this.
+
+TALBOT.
+And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave.
+Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right
+Of English Henry, shall this night appear
+How much in duty I am bound to both.
+
+SENTINEL.
+Arm! Arm! The enemy doth make assault!
+
+[_Cry: “St George,” “A Talbot!”_]
+
+The French leap over the walls in their shirts. Enter several ways the 
+Bastard of Orleans, Alençon and Reignier, half ready and half unready.
+
+ALENÇON.
+How now, my lords? What, all unready so?
+
+BASTARD.
+Unready! Ay, and glad we ’scap’d so well.
+
+REIGNIER.
+’Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,
+Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Of all exploits since first I follow’d arms
+Ne’er heard I of a warlike enterprise
+More venturous or desperate than this.
+
+BASTARD.
+I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.
+
+REIGNIER.
+If not of hell, the heavens, sure, favour him.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Here cometh Charles. I marvel how he sped.
+
+Enter Charles and La Pucelle.
+
+BASTARD.
+Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.
+
+CHARLES.
+Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?
+Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
+Make us partakers of a little gain,
+That now our loss might be ten times so much?
+
+PUCELLE.
+Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend?
+At all times will you have my power alike?
+Sleeping or waking, must I still prevail,
+Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?
+Improvident soldiers, had your watch been good,
+This sudden mischief never could have fall’n.
+
+CHARLES.
+Duke of Alençon, this was your default,
+That, being captain of the watch tonight,
+Did look no better to that weighty charge.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Had all your quarters been as safely kept
+As that whereof I had the government,
+We had not been thus shamefully surprised.
+
+BASTARD.
+Mine was secure.
+
+REIGNIER.
+And so was mine, my lord.
+
+CHARLES.
+And for myself, most part of all this night,
+Within her quarter and mine own precinct
+I was employ’d in passing to and fro
+About relieving of the sentinels.
+Then how or which way should they first break in?
+
+PUCELLE.
+Question, my lords, no further of the case,
+How or which way; ’tis sure they found some place
+But weakly guarded, where the breach was made.
+And now there rests no other shift but this:
+To gather our soldiers, scattered and dispersed,
+And lay new platforms to endamage them.
+
+Alarum. Enter an  English Soldier, crying “A Talbot! A Talbot!” They
+fly, leaving their clothes behind.
+
+SOLDIER.
+I’ll be so bold to take what they have left.
+The cry of “Talbot” serves me for a sword;
+For I have loaden me with many spoils,
+Using no other weapon but his name.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Orleans. Within the town.
+
+Enter Talbot, Bedford, Burgundy, a Captain and others.
+
+BEDFORD.
+The day begins to break, and night is fled,
+Whose pitchy mantle over-veil’d the earth.
+Here sound retreat and cease our hot pursuit.
+
+[_Retreat sounded._]
+
+TALBOT.
+Bring forth the body of old Salisbury,
+And here advance it in the market-place,
+The middle centre of this cursed town.
+
+Dead March. Enter with the body of Salisbury.
+
+Now have I paid my vow unto his soul;
+For every drop of blood was drawn from him
+There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight.
+And that hereafter ages may behold
+What ruin happen’d in revenge of him,
+Within their chiefest temple I’ll erect
+A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interr’d;
+Upon the which, that everyone may read,
+Shall be engraved the sack of Orleans,
+The treacherous manner of his mournful death
+And what a terror he had been to France.
+
+[_Exit Funeral._]
+
+But, lords, in all our bloody massacre,
+I muse we met not with the Dauphin’s grace,
+His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,
+Nor any of his false confederates.
+
+BEDFORD.
+’Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,
+Rous’d on the sudden from their drowsy beds,
+They did amongst the troops of armed men
+Leap o’er the walls for refuge in the field.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Myself, as far as I could well discern
+For smoke and dusky vapors of the night,
+Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,
+When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
+Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves
+That could not live asunder day or night.
+After that things are set in order here,
+We’ll follow them with all the power we have.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+All hail, my lords! Which of this princely train
+Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts
+So much applauded through the realm of France?
+
+TALBOT.
+Here is the Talbot. Who would speak with him?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,
+With modesty admiring thy renown,
+By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe
+To visit her poor castle where she lies,
+That she may boast she hath beheld the man
+Whose glory fills the world with loud report.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Is it even so? Nay, then I see our wars
+Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,
+When ladies crave to be encounter’d with.
+You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit.
+
+TALBOT.
+Ne’er trust me then; for when a world of men
+Could not prevail with all their oratory,
+Yet hath a woman’s kindness over-ruled.
+And therefore tell her I return great thanks,
+And in submission will attend on her.
+Will not your honours bear me company?
+
+BEDFORD.
+No, truly, it is more than manners will;
+And I have heard it said, unbidden guests
+Are often welcomest when they are gone.
+
+TALBOT.
+Well then, alone, since there’s no remedy,
+I mean to prove this lady’s courtesy.
+Come hither, Captain. [_Whispers_.] You perceive my mind?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+I do, my lord, and mean accordingly.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Auvergne. The Countess’s castle.
+
+Enter the Countess and her Porter.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Porter, remember what I gave in charge;
+And when you have done so, bring the keys to me.
+
+PORTER.
+Madam, I will.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+COUNTESS.
+The plot is laid. If all things fall out right,
+I shall as famous be by this exploit
+As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus’ death.
+Great is the rumour of this dreadful knight,
+And his achievements of no less account.
+Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,
+To give their censure of these rare reports.
+
+Enter Messenger and Talbot.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam, according as your ladyship desired,
+By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come.
+
+COUNTESS.
+And he is welcome. What, is this the man?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam, it is.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Is this the scourge of France?
+Is this the Talbot, so much fear’d abroad
+That with his name the mothers still their babes?
+I see report is fabulous and false.
+I thought I should have seen some Hercules,
+A second Hector, for his grim aspect,
+And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.
+Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf!
+It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
+Should strike such terror to his enemies.
+
+TALBOT.
+Madam, I have been bold to trouble you;
+But since your ladyship is not at leisure,
+I’ll sort some other time to visit you.
+
+COUNTESS.
+What means he now? Go ask him whither he goes.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Stay, my Lord Talbot, for my lady craves
+To know the cause of your abrupt departure.
+
+TALBOT.
+Marry, for that she’s in a wrong belief,
+I go to certify her Talbot’s here.
+
+Enter Porter with keys.
+
+COUNTESS.
+If thou be he, then art thou prisoner.
+
+TALBOT.
+Prisoner! To whom?
+
+COUNTESS.
+To me, blood-thirsty lord;
+And for that cause I train’d thee to my house.
+Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,
+For in my gallery thy picture hangs.
+But now the substance shall endure the like,
+And I will chain these legs and arms of thine,
+That hast by tyranny these many years
+Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
+And sent our sons and husbands captivate.
+
+TALBOT.
+Ha, ha, ha!
+
+COUNTESS.
+Laughest thou, wretch? Thy mirth shall turn to moan.
+
+TALBOT.
+I laugh to see your ladyship so fond
+To think that you have aught but Talbot’s shadow
+Whereon to practice your severity.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Why, art not thou the man?
+
+TALBOT.
+I am indeed.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Then have I substance too.
+
+TALBOT.
+No, no, I am but shadow of myself.
+You are deceived, my substance is not here;
+For what you see is but the smallest part
+And least proportion of humanity.
+I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,
+It is of such a spacious lofty pitch
+Your roof were not sufficient to contain ’t.
+
+COUNTESS.
+This is a riddling merchant for the nonce;
+He will be here, and yet he is not here.
+How can these contrarieties agree?
+
+TALBOT.
+That will I show you presently.
+
+Winds his horn. Drums strike up; a peal of ordnance. Enter Soldiers.
+
+How say you, madam? Are you now persuaded
+That Talbot is but shadow of himself?
+These are his substance, sinews, arms and strength,
+With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,
+Razeth your cities and subverts your towns,
+And in a moment makes them desolate.
+
+COUNTESS.
+Victorious Talbot, pardon my abuse.
+I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited,
+And more than may be gather’d by thy shape.
+Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath,
+For I am sorry that with reverence
+I did not entertain thee as thou art.
+
+TALBOT.
+Be not dismay’d, fair lady, nor misconster
+The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake
+The outward composition of his body.
+What you have done hath not offended me;
+Nor other satisfaction do I crave
+But only, with your patience, that we may
+Taste of your wine and see what cates you have,
+For soldiers’ stomachs always serve them well.
+
+COUNTESS.
+With all my heart, and think me honoured
+To feast so great a warrior in my house.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. The Temple Garden.
+
+Enter the Earls of Somerset, Suffolk, and Warwick; Richard Plantagenet,
+Vernon and another Lawyer.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence?
+Dare no man answer in a case of truth?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Within the Temple Hall we were too loud;
+The garden here is more convenient.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Then say at once if I maintain’d the truth;
+Or else was wrangling Somerset in th’ error?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Faith, I have been a truant in the law
+And never yet could frame my will to it;
+And therefore frame the law unto my will.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Judge you, my Lord of Warwick, then, between us.
+
+WARWICK.
+Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
+Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
+Between two blades, which bears the better temper;
+Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
+Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;
+I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;
+But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
+Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance!
+The truth appears so naked on my side
+That any purblind eye may find it out.
+
+SOMERSET.
+And on my side it is so well apparell’d,
+So clear, so shining and so evident,
+That it will glimmer through a blind man’s eye.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak,
+In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts:
+Let him that is a true-born gentleman
+And stands upon the honour of his birth,
+If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
+From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
+But dare maintain the party of the truth,
+Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
+
+WARWICK.
+I love no colours, and without all colour
+Of base insinuating flattery
+I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I pluck this red rose with young Somerset,
+And say withal I think he held the right.
+
+VERNON.
+Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more
+Till you conclude that he upon whose side
+The fewest roses are cropp’d from the tree
+Shall yield the other in the right opinion.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Good Master Vernon, it is well objected:
+If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+And I.
+
+VERNON.
+Then for the truth and plainness of the case,
+I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,
+Giving my verdict on the white rose side.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,
+Lest, bleeding, you do paint the white rose red,
+And fall on my side so against your will.
+
+VERNON.
+If I, my lord, for my opinion bleed,
+Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt
+And keep me on the side where still I am.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Well, well, come on, who else?
+
+LAWYER.
+Unless my study and my books be false,
+
+[_To Somerset._]
+
+The argument you held was wrong in law;
+In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Now, Somerset, where is your argument?
+
+SOMERSET.
+Here in my scabbard, meditating that
+Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses;
+For pale they look with fear, as witnessing
+The truth on our side.
+
+SOMERSET.
+No, Plantagenet,
+’Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks
+Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,
+And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
+
+SOMERSET.
+Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth;
+Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Well, I’ll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,
+That shall maintain what I have said is true,
+Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,
+I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I’ll turn my part thereof into thy throat.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Away, away, good William de la Pole!
+We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.
+
+WARWICK.
+Now, by God’s will, thou wrong’st him, Somerset;
+His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,
+Third son to the third Edward King of England.
+Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+He bears him on the place’s privilege,
+Or durst not for his craven heart, say thus.
+
+SOMERSET.
+By Him that made me, I’ll maintain my words
+On any plot of ground in Christendom.
+Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,
+For treason executed in our late king’s days?
+And, by his treason, stand’st not thou attainted,
+Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?
+His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood;
+And, till thou be restored, thou art a yeoman.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+My father was attached, not attainted,
+Condemn’d to die for treason, but no traitor;
+And that I’ll prove on better men than Somerset,
+Were growing time once ripen’d to my will.
+For your partaker Pole and you yourself,
+I’ll note you in my book of memory,
+To scourge you for this apprehension.
+Look to it well, and say you are well warn’d.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still;
+And know us by these colours for thy foes,
+For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,
+As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,
+Will I for ever and my faction wear,
+Until it wither with me to my grave,
+Or flourish to the height of my degree.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Go forward, and be chok’d with thy ambition!
+And so farewell until I meet thee next.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SOMERSET.
+Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, ambitious Richard.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+How I am braved and must perforce endure it!
+
+WARWICK.
+This blot that they object against your house
+Shall be wiped out in the next parliament
+Call’d for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester;
+And if thou be not then created York,
+I will not live to be accounted Warwick.
+Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,
+Against proud Somerset and William Pole,
+Will I upon thy party wear this rose.
+And here I prophesy: this brawl today,
+Grown to this faction in the Temple Garden,
+Shall send between the Red Rose and the White
+A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,
+That you on my behalf would pluck a flower.
+
+VERNON.
+In your behalf still will I wear the same.
+
+LAWYER.
+And so will I.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Thanks, gentlemen.
+Come, let us four to dinner. I dare say
+This quarrel will drink blood another day.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. The Tower of London.
+
+Enter Mortimer, brought in a chair, and Jailers.
+
+MORTIMER.
+Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,
+Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.
+Even like a man new haled from the rack,
+So fare my limbs with long imprisonment;
+And these gray locks, the pursuivants of death,
+Nestor-like aged in an age of care,
+Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer.
+These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,
+Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;
+Weak shoulders, overborne with burdening grief,
+And pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine
+That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
+Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb,
+Unable to support this lump of clay,
+Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,
+As witting I no other comfort have.
+But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?
+
+FIRST JAILER.
+Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come.
+We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber,
+And answer was return’d that he will come.
+
+MORTIMER.
+Enough. My soul shall then be satisfied.
+Poor gentleman, his wrong doth equal mine.
+Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign,
+Before whose glory I was great in arms,
+This loathsome sequestration have I had;
+And even since then hath Richard been obscured,
+Deprived of honour and inheritance.
+But now the arbitrator of despairs,
+Just Death, kind umpire of men’s miseries,
+With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence.
+I would his troubles likewise were expired,
+That so he might recover what was lost.
+
+Enter Richard Plantagenet.
+
+FIRST JAILER.
+My lord, your loving nephew now is come.
+
+MORTIMER.
+Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used,
+Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes.
+
+MORTIMER.
+Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck
+And in his bosom spend my latter gasp.
+O, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,
+That I may kindly give one fainting kiss.
+And now declare, sweet stem from York’s great stock,
+Why didst thou say of late thou wert despised?
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+First, lean thine aged back against mine arm,
+And, in that ease, I’ll tell thee my disease.
+This day, in argument upon a case,
+Some words there grew ’twixt Somerset and me;
+Among which terms he used his lavish tongue
+And did upbraid me with my father’s death;
+Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,
+Else with the like I had requited him.
+Therefore, good uncle, for my father’s sake,
+In honour of a true Plantagenet,
+And for alliance’ sake, declare the cause
+My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.
+
+MORTIMER.
+That cause, fair nephew, that imprison’d me
+And hath detain’d me all my flowering youth
+Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,
+Was cursed instrument of his decease.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Discover more at large what cause that was,
+For I am ignorant and cannot guess.
+
+MORTIMER.
+I will, if that my fading breath permit
+And death approach not ere my tale be done.
+Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this king,
+Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward’s son,
+The first-begotten and the lawful heir
+Of Edward king, the third of that descent;
+During whose reign the Percies of the north,
+Finding his usurpation most unjust,
+Endeavour’d my advancement to the throne.
+The reason moved these warlike lords to this
+Was, for that—young King Richard thus removed,
+Leaving no heir begotten of his body—
+I was the next by birth and parentage;
+For by my mother I derived am
+From Lionel Duke of Clarence, third son
+To King Edward the Third; whereas he
+From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,
+Being but fourth of that heroic line.
+But mark: as in this haughty great attempt
+They labored to plant the rightful heir,
+I lost my liberty and they their lives.
+Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,
+Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,
+Thy father, Earl of Cambridge then, derived
+From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,
+Marrying my sister that thy mother was,
+Again, in pity of my hard distress.
+Levied an army, weening to redeem
+And have install’d me in the diadem.
+But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl
+And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,
+In whom the title rested, were suppress’d.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Of which, my lord, your honour is the last.
+
+MORTIMER.
+True; and thou seest that I no issue have,
+And that my fainting words do warrant death.
+Thou art my heir; the rest I wish thee gather.
+But yet be wary in thy studious care.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Thy grave admonishments prevail with me.
+But yet methinks, my father’s execution
+Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.
+
+MORTIMER.
+With silence, nephew, be thou politic;
+Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,
+And like a mountain, not to be removed.
+But now thy uncle is removing hence,
+As princes do their courts when they are cloy’d
+With long continuance in a settled place.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+O uncle, would some part of my young years
+Might but redeem the passage of your age!
+
+MORTIMER.
+Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth
+Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
+Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good;
+Only give order for my funeral.
+And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes,
+And prosperous be thy life in peace and war!
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul!
+In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage,
+And like a hermit overpass’d thy days.
+Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast;
+And what I do imagine, let that rest.
+Keepers, convey him hence; and I myself
+Will see his burial better than his life.
+
+[_Exeunt Jailers, bearing out the body of Mortimer._]
+
+Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,
+Choked with ambition of the meaner sort.
+And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,
+Which Somerset hath offer’d to my house,
+I doubt not but with honour to redress;
+And therefore haste I to the Parliament,
+Either to be restored to my blood,
+Or make mine ill th’ advantage of my good.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. London. The Parliament House.
+
+
+Flourish. Enter King, Exeter, Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester,
+Richard Plantagenet, Warwick, and Somerset, Suffolk, and others.
+Gloucester offers to put up a bill. Winchester snatches it, tears it.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Com’st thou with deep premeditated lines,
+With written pamphlets studiously devised,
+Humphrey of Gloucester? If thou canst accuse
+Or aught intend’st to lay unto my charge,
+Do it without invention, suddenly;
+As I with sudden and extemporal speech
+Purpose to answer what thou canst object.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Presumptuous priest, this place commands my patience,
+Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour’d me.
+Think not, although in writing I preferr’d
+The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
+That therefore I have forged, or am not able
+Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen.
+No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness,
+Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks,
+As very infants prattle of thy pride.
+Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
+Froward by nature, enemy to peace;
+Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems
+A man of thy profession and degree;
+And for thy treachery, what’s more manifest,
+In that thou laid’st a trap to take my life,
+As well at London Bridge as at the Tower?
+Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts are sifted,
+The King, thy sovereign, is not quite exempt
+From envious malice of thy swelling heart.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Gloucester, I do defy thee. Lords, vouchsafe
+To give me hearing what I shall reply.
+If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse,
+As he will have me, how am I so poor?
+Or how haps it I seek not to advance
+Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?
+And for dissension, who preferreth peace
+More than I do, except I be provoked?
+No, my good lords, it is not that offends;
+It is not that that hath incensed the Duke.
+It is because no one should sway but he,
+No one but he should be about the King;
+And that engenders thunder in his breast
+And makes him roar these accusations forth.
+But he shall know I am as good—
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+As good!
+Thou bastard of my grandfather!
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Ay, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,
+But one imperious in another’s throne?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Am I not Protector, saucy priest?
+
+WINCHESTER.
+And am not I a prelate of the church?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps,
+And useth it to patronage his theft.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Unreverent Gloucester!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Thou art reverend
+Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Rome shall remedy this.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Roam thither, then.
+
+WARWICK.
+My lord, it were your duty to forbear.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Ay, so the bishop be not overborne.
+Methinks my lord should be religious,
+And know the office that belongs to such.
+
+WARWICK.
+Methinks his lordship should be humbler;
+It fitteth not a prelate so to plead.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Yes, when his holy state is touch’d so near.
+
+WARWICK.
+State holy or unhallow’d, what of that?
+Is not his Grace Protector to the King?
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+[_Aside_.] Plantagenet, I see, must hold his tongue,
+Lest it be said, “Speak, sirrah, when you should;
+Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords?”
+Else would I have a fling at Winchester.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,
+The special watchmen of our English weal,
+I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,
+To join your hearts in love and amity.
+O, what a scandal is it to our crown
+That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
+Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
+Civil dissension is a viperous worm
+That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
+
+[_A noise within, “Down with the tawny-coats!”._]
+
+What tumult’s this?
+
+WARWICK.
+An uproar, I dare warrant,
+Begun through malice of the Bishop’s men.
+
+[_A noise again, “Stones! stones!”_]
+
+Enter Mayor.
+
+MAYOR.
+O, my good lords, and virtuous Henry,
+Pity the city of London, pity us!
+The Bishop and the Duke of Gloucester’s men,
+Forbidden late to carry any weapon,
+Have fill’d their pockets full of pebble stones
+And, banding themselves in contrary parts,
+Do pelt so fast at one another’s pate
+That many have their giddy brains knock’d out;
+Our windows are broke down in every street,
+And we for fear compell’d to shut our shops.
+
+Enter Servingmen in skirmish with bloody pates.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
+To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace.
+Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Nay, if we be forbidden stones, we’ll fall to it with our teeth.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+Do what ye dare, we are as resolute.
+
+[_Skirmish again._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+You of my household, leave this peevish broil,
+And set this unaccustom’d fight aside.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+My lord, we know your Grace to be a man
+Just and upright, and, for your royal birth,
+Inferior to none but to his Majesty;
+And ere that we will suffer such a prince,
+So kind a father of the commonweal,
+To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,
+We and our wives and children all will fight
+And have our bodies slaughter’d by thy foes.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Ay, and the very parings of our nails
+Shall pitch a field when we are dead.
+
+[_Begin again._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Stay, stay, I say!
+And if you love me, as you say you do,
+Let me persuade you to forbear awhile.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O, how this discord doth afflict my soul!
+Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold
+My sighs and tears, and will not once relent?
+Who should be pitiful, if you be not?
+Or who should study to prefer a peace
+If holy churchmen take delight in broils?
+
+WARWICK.
+Yield, my Lord Protector; yield, Winchester;
+Except you mean with obstinate repulse
+To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.
+You see what mischief and what murder too,
+Hath been enacted through your enmity;
+Then be at peace, except ye thirst for blood.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+He shall submit, or I will never yield.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Compassion on the King commands me stoop,
+Or I would see his heart out, ere the priest
+Should ever get that privilege of me.
+
+WARWICK.
+Behold, my Lord of Winchester, the Duke
+Hath banish’d moody discontented fury,
+As by his smoothed brows it doth appear.
+Why look you still so stern and tragical?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach
+That malice was a great and grievous sin;
+And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
+But prove a chief offender in the same?
+
+WARWICK.
+Sweet King! The bishop hath a kindly gird.
+For shame, my Lord of Winchester, relent!
+What, shall a child instruct you what to do?
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee;
+Love for thy love and hand for hand I give.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+[_Aside_.] Ay, but, I fear me, with a hollow heart.—
+See here, my friends and loving countrymen,
+This token serveth for a flag of truce
+Betwixt ourselves and all our followers,
+So help me God, as I dissemble not!
+
+WINCHESTER.
+[_Aside_.] So help me God, as I intend it not!
+
+KING HENRY.
+O loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,
+How joyful am I made by this contract!
+Away, my masters, trouble us no more,
+But join in friendship, as your lords have done.
+
+FIRST SERVINGMAN.
+Content. I’ll to the surgeon’s.
+
+SECOND SERVINGMAN.
+And so will I.
+
+THIRD SERVINGMAN.
+And I will see what physic the tavern affords.
+
+[_Exeunt Servingmen, Mayor, &c._]
+
+WARWICK.
+Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,
+Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet
+We do exhibit to your Majesty.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Well urged, my Lord of Warwick. For, sweet prince,
+An if your Grace mark every circumstance,
+You have great reason to do Richard right,
+Especially for those occasions
+At Eltham Place I told your Majesty.
+
+KING HENRY.
+And those occasions, uncle, were of force;
+Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is
+That Richard be restored to his blood.
+
+WARWICK.
+Let Richard be restored to his blood;
+So shall his father’s wrongs be recompensed.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.
+
+KING HENRY.
+If Richard will be true, not that alone
+But all the whole inheritance I give
+That doth belong unto the house of York,
+From whence you spring by lineal descent.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+Thy humble servant vows obedience
+And humble service till the point of death.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Stoop then and set your knee against my foot;
+And in reguerdon of that duty done
+I girt thee with the valiant sword of York.
+Rise, Richard, like a true Plantagenet,
+And rise created princely Duke of York.
+
+PLANTAGENET.
+And so thrive Richard as thy foes may fall!
+And as my duty springs, so perish they
+That grudge one thought against your Majesty!
+
+ALL.
+Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke of York!
+
+SOMERSET.
+[_Aside_.] Perish, base prince, ignoble Duke of York!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Now will it best avail your Majesty
+To cross the seas and to be crown’d in France.
+The presence of a king engenders love
+Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
+As it disanimates his enemies.
+
+KING HENRY.
+When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes;
+For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Your ships already are in readiness.
+
+[_Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but Exeter._]
+
+EXETER.
+Ay, we may march in England or in France,
+Not seeing what is likely to ensue.
+This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
+Burns under feigned ashes of forged love,
+And will at last break out into a flame;
+As festered members rot but by degree
+Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
+So will this base and envious discord breed.
+And now I fear that fatal prophecy
+Which in the time of Henry named the Fifth
+Was in the mouth of every sucking babe:
+That Henry born at Monmouth should win all,
+And Henry born at Windsor lose all,
+Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
+His days may finish ere that hapless time.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. France. Before Rouen.
+
+Enter La Pucelle with four Soldiers with sacks upon their backs.
+
+PUCELLE.
+These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,
+Through which our policy must make a breach.
+Take heed, be wary how you place your words;
+Talk like the vulgar sort of market men
+That come to gather money for their corn.
+If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,
+And that we find the slothful watch but weak,
+I’ll by a sign give notice to our friends,
+That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
+And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;
+Therefore we’ll knock. [_Knocks._]
+
+WATCH.
+[_Within_.] _Qui est la?_
+
+PUCELLE.
+_Paysans, la pauvres gens de France:_
+Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.
+
+WATCH.
+Enter, go in; the market bell is rung.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Now, Rouen, I’ll shake thy bulwarks to the ground.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Enter Charles, the Bastard of Orleans, Alençon, Reignier and forces.
+
+CHARLES.
+Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem,
+And once again we’ll sleep secure in Rouen.
+
+BASTARD.
+Here enter’d Pucelle and her practisants;
+Now she is there, how will she specify
+Here is the best and safest passage in?
+
+REIGNIER.
+By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower,
+Which, once discern’d, shows that her meaning is:
+No way to that, for weakness, which she enter’d.
+
+Enter La Pucelle, on the top, thrusting out a torch burning.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Behold, this is the happy wedding torch
+That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,
+But burning fatal to the Talbonites.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BASTARD.
+See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend;
+The burning torch, in yonder turret stands.
+
+CHARLES.
+Now shine it like a comet of revenge,
+A prophet to the fall of all our foes!
+
+REIGNIER.
+Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends;
+Enter and cry, “The Dauphin!” presently,
+And then do execution on the watch.
+
+[_Alarum. Exeunt._]
+
+An alarum. Enter Talbot in an excursion.
+
+TALBOT.
+France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears,
+If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
+Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,
+Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,
+That hardly we escaped the pride of France.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+An alarum. Excursions. Bedford, brought in sick in a chair. Enter
+Talbot and Burgundy without: within, La Pucelle, Charles, Bastard,
+Alençon, and Reignier on the walls.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Good morrow, gallants! Want ye corn for bread?
+I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
+Before he’ll buy again at such a rate.
+’Twas full of darnel. Do you like the taste?
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtezan!
+I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own,
+And make thee curse the harvest of that corn.
+
+CHARLES.
+Your Grace may starve, perhaps, before that time.
+
+BEDFORD.
+O, let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason!
+
+PUCELLE.
+What will you do, good graybeard? Break a lance
+And run a tilt at Death within a chair?
+
+TALBOT.
+Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
+Encompass’d with thy lustful paramours,
+Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
+And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
+Damsel, I’ll have a bout with you again,
+Or else let Talbot perish with this shame.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Are ye so hot? Yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace;
+If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow.
+
+[_The English whisper together in council._]
+
+God speed the Parliament! Who shall be the Speaker?
+
+TALBOT.
+Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?
+
+PUCELLE.
+Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,
+To try if that our own be ours or no.
+
+TALBOT.
+I speak not to that railing Hecate,
+But unto thee, Alençon, and the rest;
+Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?
+
+ALENÇON.
+Seignieur, no.
+
+TALBOT.
+Seignieur, hang! Base muleteers of France!
+Like peasant foot-boys do they keep the walls,
+And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Away, captains! Let’s get us from the walls,
+For Talbot means no goodness by his looks.
+Goodbye, my lord; we came but to tell you
+That we are here.
+
+[_Exeunt from the walls._]
+
+TALBOT.
+And there will we be too, ere it be long,
+Or else reproach be Talbot’s greatest fame!
+Vow, Burgundy, by honour of thy house,
+Prick’d on by public wrongs sustain’d in France,
+Either to get the town again or die.
+And I, as sure as English Henry lives,
+And as his father here was conqueror,
+As sure as in this late-betrayed town
+Great Coeur-de-lion’s heart was buried,
+So sure I swear to get the town or die.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+My vows are equal partners with thy vows.
+
+TALBOT.
+But, ere we go, regard this dying prince,
+The valiant Duke of Bedford. Come, my lord,
+We will bestow you in some better place,
+Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me.
+Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen,
+And will be partner of your weal or woe.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Not to be gone from hence; for once I read
+That stout Pendragon in his litter sick
+Came to the field and vanquished his foes.
+Methinks I should revive the soldiers’ hearts,
+Because I ever found them as myself.
+
+TALBOT.
+Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!
+Then be it so. Heavens keep old Bedford safe!
+And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,
+But gather we our forces out of hand
+And set upon our boasting enemy.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Bedford and Attendants._]
+
+An alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir John Fastolf and a Captain.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Whither away, Sir John Fastolf, in such haste?
+
+FASTOLF.
+Whither away? To save myself by flight.
+We are like to have the overthrow again.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+What! Will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?
+
+FASTOLF.
+Ay,
+All the Talbots in the world, to save my life.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Cowardly knight, ill fortune follow thee!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Retreat. Excursions. La Pucelle, Alençon and Charles fly.
+
+BEDFORD.
+Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,
+For I have seen our enemies’ overthrow.
+What is the trust or strength of foolish man?
+They that of late were daring with their scoffs
+Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves.
+
+[_Bedford dies, and is carried in by two in his chair._]
+
+An alarum. Enter Talbot, Burgundy and the rest.
+
+TALBOT.
+Lost, and recover’d in a day again!
+This is a double honour, Burgundy.
+Yet heavens have glory for this victory!
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
+Enshrines thee in his heart, and there erects
+Thy noble deeds as valour’s monuments.
+
+TALBOT.
+Thanks, gentle Duke. But where is Pucelle now?
+I think her old familiar is asleep.
+Now where’s the Bastard’s braves, and Charles his gleeks?
+What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief
+That such a valiant company are fled.
+Now will we take some order in the town,
+Placing therein some expert officers,
+And then depart to Paris to the King,
+For there young Henry with his nobles lie.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy.
+
+TALBOT.
+But yet, before we go, let’s not forget
+The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,
+But see his exequies fulfill’d in Rouen.
+A braver soldier never couched lance,
+A gentler heart did never sway in court;
+But kings and mightiest potentates must die,
+For that’s the end of human misery.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The plains near Rouen.
+
+Enter Charles, the Bastard of Orleans, Alençon, La Pucelle and forces.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
+Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered.
+Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
+For things that are not to be remedied.
+Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while
+And like a peacock sweep along his tail;
+We’ll pull his plumes and take away his train,
+If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.
+
+CHARLES.
+We have been guided by thee hitherto,
+And of thy cunning had no diffidence.
+One sudden foil shall never breed distrust
+
+BASTARD.
+Search out thy wit for secret policies,
+And we will make thee famous through the world.
+
+ALENÇON.
+We’ll set thy statue in some holy place,
+And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint.
+Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:
+By fair persuasions mix’d with sugar’d words
+We will entice the Duke of Burgundy
+To leave the Talbot and to follow us.
+
+CHARLES.
+Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that,
+France were no place for Henry’s warriors;
+Nor should that nation boast it so with us,
+But be extirped from our provinces.
+
+ALENÇON.
+For ever should they be expulsed from France,
+And not have title of an earldom here.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Your honours shall perceive how I will work
+To bring this matter to the wished end.
+
+[_Drum sounds afar off._]
+
+Hark! By the sound of drum you may perceive
+Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward.
+
+[_Here sound an English march._]
+
+There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,
+And all the troops of English after him.
+
+[_French march._]
+
+Now in the rearward comes the Duke and his.
+Fortune in favour makes him lag behind.
+Summon a parley; we will talk with him.
+
+[_Trumpets sound a parley._]
+
+CHARLES.
+A parley with the Duke of Burgundy!
+
+Enter Burgundy.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?
+
+PUCELLE.
+The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+What say’st thou, Charles? for I am marching hence.
+
+CHARLES.
+Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France,
+Stay, let thy humble handmaid speak to thee.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Look on thy country, look on fertile France,
+And see the cities and the towns defaced
+By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.
+As looks the mother on her lowly babe
+When death doth close his tender dying eyes,
+See, see the pining malady of France;
+Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,
+Which thou thyself hast given her woeful breast.
+O, turn thy edged sword another way;
+Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.
+One drop of blood drawn from thy country’s bosom
+Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore.
+Return thee therefore with a flood of tears,
+And wash away thy country’s stained spots.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Either she hath bewitch’d me with her words,
+Or nature makes me suddenly relent.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,
+Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.
+Who join’st thou with but with a lordly nation
+That will not trust thee but for profit’s sake?
+When Talbot hath set footing once in France,
+And fashion’d thee that instrument of ill,
+Who then but English Henry will be lord,
+And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?
+Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof:
+Was not the Duke of Orleans thy foe?
+And was he not in England prisoner?
+But when they heard he was thine enemy,
+They set him free without his ransom paid,
+In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.
+See then, thou fight’st against thy countrymen,
+And join’st with them will be thy slaughtermen.
+Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord;
+Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+I am vanquished; these haughty words of hers
+Have batter’d me like roaring cannon-shot,
+And made me almost yield upon my knees.
+Forgive me, country, and sweet countrymen!
+And, lords, accept this hearty kind embrace.
+My forces and my power of men are yours.
+So, farewell, Talbot; I’ll no longer trust thee.
+
+PUCELLE.
+[_Aside_.] Done like a Frenchman: turn and turn again.
+
+CHARLES.
+Welcome, brave Duke! Thy friendship makes us fresh.
+
+BASTARD.
+And doth beget new courage in our breasts.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Pucelle hath bravely play’d her part in this,
+And doth deserve a coronet of gold.
+
+CHARLES.
+Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,
+And seek how we may prejudice the foe.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Paris. The Palace.
+
+Enter the King, Gloucester, Bishop of Winchester, Exeter, York, Warwick
+and Vernon; Suffolk, Somerset, Basset and others. To them, with his
+soldiers, Talbot.
+
+TALBOT.
+My gracious Prince, and honourable peers,
+Hearing of your arrival in this realm,
+I have awhile given truce unto my wars
+To do my duty to my sovereign;
+In sign whereof, this arm, that hath reclaim’d
+To your obedience fifty fortresses,
+Twelve cities and seven walled towns of strength,
+Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,
+Lets fall his sword before your Highness’ feet,
+And with submissive loyalty of heart
+Ascribes the glory of his conquest got
+First to my God, and next unto your Grace. [_Kneels_.]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,
+That hath so long been resident in France?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Yes, if it please your Majesty, my liege.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord!
+When I was young, as yet I am not old,
+I do remember how my father said
+A stouter champion never handled sword.
+Long since we were resolved of your truth,
+Your faithful service, and your toil in war;
+Yet never have you tasted our reward,
+Or been reguerdon’d with so much as thanks.
+Because till now we never saw your face.
+Therefore, stand up; and for these good deserts
+We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;
+And in our coronation take your place.
+
+[_Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but Vernon and Basset._]
+
+VERNON.
+Now, sir, to you that were so hot at sea,
+Disgracing of these colours that I wear
+In honour of my noble Lord of York,
+Dar’st thou maintain the former words thou spak’st?
+
+BASSET.
+Yes, sir, as well as you dare patronage
+The envious barking of your saucy tongue
+Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.
+
+VERNON.
+Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.
+
+BASSET.
+Why, what is he? As good a man as York.
+
+VERNON.
+Hark ye; not so: in witness, take ye that.
+
+[_Strikes him._]
+
+BASSET.
+Villain, thou knowest the law of arms is such
+That whoso draws a sword, ’tis present death,
+Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.
+But I’ll unto his Majesty, and crave
+I may have liberty to venge this wrong;
+When thou shalt see I’ll meet thee to thy cost.
+
+VERNON.
+Well, miscreant, I’ll be there as soon as you;
+And, after, meet you sooner than you would.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Paris. The Palace.
+
+
+Enter the King, Gloucester, Bishop of Winchester, Talbot, Exeter, York,
+and Warwick; Suffolk, Somerset, the Governor of Paris, and others.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Lord bishop, set the crown upon his head.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+God save King Henry, of that name the Sixth!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Now, Governor of Paris, take your oath,
+That you elect no other king but him;
+Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,
+And none your foes but such as shall pretend
+Malicious practices against his state:
+This shall ye do, so help you righteous God!
+
+Enter Sir John Fastolf.
+
+FASTOLF.
+My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais,
+To haste unto your coronation,
+A letter was deliver’d to my hands,
+Writ to your Grace from th’ Duke of Burgundy.
+
+TALBOT.
+Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!
+I vow’d, base knight, when I did meet thee next,
+To tear the Garter from thy craven’s leg, [_Plucking it off_.]
+Which I have done, because unworthily
+Thou wast installed in that high degree.
+Pardon me, princely Henry, and the rest.
+This dastard, at the battle of Patay,
+When but in all I was six thousand strong
+And that the French were almost ten to one,
+Before we met or that a stroke was given,
+Like to a trusty squire did run away;
+In which assault we lost twelve hundred men;
+Myself and divers gentlemen beside
+Were there surprised and taken prisoners.
+Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss,
+Or whether that such cowards ought to wear
+This ornament of knighthood, yea or no?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+To say the truth, this fact was infamous
+And ill beseeming any common man,
+Much more a knight, a captain, and a leader.
+
+TALBOT.
+When first this Order was ordain’d, my lords,
+Knights of the Garter were of noble birth,
+Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,
+Such as were grown to credit by the wars;
+Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress,
+But always resolute in most extremes.
+He then that is not furnish’d in this sort
+Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,
+Profaning this most honourable Order,
+And should, if I were worthy to be judge,
+Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain
+That doth presume to boast of gentle blood.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Stain to thy countrymen, thou hear’st thy doom!
+Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight;
+Henceforth we banish thee on pain of death.
+
+[_Exit Fastolf._]
+
+And now, my Lord Protector, view the letter
+Sent from our uncle, Duke of Burgundy.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What means his Grace, that he hath changed his style?
+No more but, plain and bluntly, “To the King”!
+Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?
+Or doth this churlish superscription
+Pretend some alteration in good will?
+What’s here? [_Reads_] “I have, upon especial cause,
+Moved with compassion of my country’s wrack,
+Together with the pitiful complaints
+Of such as your oppression feeds upon,
+Forsaken your pernicious faction
+And join’d with Charles, the rightful King of France.”
+O monstrous treachery! Can this be so,
+That in alliance, amity, and oaths,
+There should be found such false dissembling guile?
+
+KING HENRY.
+What! Doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Is that the worst this letter doth contain?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him
+And give him chastisement for this abuse.
+How say you, my lord, are you not content?
+
+TALBOT.
+Content, my liege! Yes, but that I am prevented,
+I should have begg’d I might have been employ’d.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then gather strength and march unto him straight;
+Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason,
+And what offence it is to flout his friends.
+
+TALBOT.
+I go, my lord, in heart desiring still
+You may behold confusion of your foes.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Vernon and Basset.
+
+VERNON.
+Grant me the combat, gracious sovereign.
+
+BASSET.
+And me, my lord, grant me the combat too.
+
+YORK.
+This is my servant; hear him, noble prince.
+
+SOMERSET.
+And this is mine, sweet Henry, favour him.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Be patient, lords, and give them leave to speak.
+Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim,
+And wherefore crave you combat, or with whom?
+
+VERNON.
+With him, my lord, for he hath done me wrong.
+
+BASSET.
+And I with him, for he hath done me wrong.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What is that wrong whereof you both complain?
+First let me know, and then I’ll answer you.
+
+BASSET.
+Crossing the sea from England into France,
+This fellow here, with envious carping tongue,
+Upbraided me about the rose I wear,
+Saying the sanguine colour of the leaves
+Did represent my master’s blushing cheeks
+When stubbornly he did repugn the truth
+About a certain question in the law
+Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him;
+With other vile and ignominious terms.
+In confutation of which rude reproach,
+And in defence of my lord’s worthiness,
+I crave the benefit of law of arms.
+
+VERNON.
+And that is my petition, noble lord;
+For though he seem with forged quaint conceit
+To set a gloss upon his bold intent,
+Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him,
+And he first took exceptions at this badge,
+Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower
+Bewray’d the faintness of my master’s heart.
+
+YORK.
+Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?
+
+SOMERSET.
+Your private grudge, my Lord of York, will out,
+Though ne’er so cunningly you smother it.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,
+When for so slight and frivolous a cause
+Such factious emulations shall arise!
+Good cousins both, of York and Somerset,
+Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.
+
+YORK.
+Let this dissension first be tried by fight,
+And then your Highness shall command a peace.
+
+SOMERSET.
+The quarrel toucheth none but us alone;
+Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
+
+YORK.
+There is my pledge; accept it, Somerset.
+
+VERNON.
+Nay, let it rest where it began at first.
+
+BASSET.
+Confirm it so, mine honourable lord.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Confirm it so! Confounded be your strife!
+And perish ye, with your audacious prate!
+Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed
+With this immodest clamorous outrage
+To trouble and disturb the King and us?
+And you, my lords, methinks you do not well
+To bear with their perverse objections,
+Much less to take occasion from their mouths
+To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.
+Let me persuade you take a better course.
+
+EXETER.
+It grieves his Highness. Good my lords, be friends.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Come hither, you that would be combatants:
+Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,
+Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.
+And you, my lords, remember where we are:
+In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation;
+If they perceive dissension in our looks,
+And that within ourselves we disagree,
+How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
+To willful disobedience, and rebel!
+Beside, what infamy will there arise
+When foreign princes shall be certified
+That for a toy, a thing of no regard,
+King Henry’s peers and chief nobility
+Destroy’d themselves and lost the realm of France!
+O, think upon the conquest of my father,
+My tender years, and let us not forgo
+That for a trifle that was bought with blood!
+Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.
+I see no reason if I wear this rose,
+
+[_Putting on a red rose._]
+
+That anyone should therefore be suspicious
+I more incline to Somerset than York.
+Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both.
+As well they may upbraid me with my crown
+Because, forsooth, the King of Scots is crown’d.
+But your discretions better can persuade
+Than I am able to instruct or teach;
+And therefore, as we hither came in peace,
+So let us still continue peace and love.
+Cousin of York, we institute your Grace
+To be our Regent in these parts of France;
+And, good my Lord of Somerset, unite
+Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot;
+And like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,
+Go cheerfully together and digest
+Your angry choler on your enemies.
+Ourself, my Lord Protector, and the rest
+After some respite will return to Calais;
+From thence to England, where I hope ere long
+To be presented, by your victories,
+With Charles, Alençon, and that traitorous rout.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt all but York, Warwick, Exeter and Vernon._]
+
+WARWICK.
+My Lord of York, I promise you the King
+Prettily, methought, did play the orator.
+
+YORK.
+And so he did; but yet I like it not,
+In that he wears the badge of Somerset.
+
+WARWICK.
+Tush, that was but his fancy; blame him not;
+I dare presume, sweet prince, he thought no harm.
+
+YORK.
+An if I wist he did—but let it rest;
+Other affairs must now be managed.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Exeter._]
+
+EXETER.
+Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;
+For, had the passions of thy heart burst out,
+I fear we should have seen decipher’d there
+More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,
+Than yet can be imagined or supposed.
+But howsoe’er, no simple man that sees
+This jarring discord of nobility,
+This shouldering of each other in the court,
+This factious bandying of their favourites,
+But sees it doth presage some ill event.
+’Tis much when scepters are in children’s hands;
+But more when envy breeds unkind division:
+There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Before Bordeaux.
+
+Enter Talbot with trump and drum.
+
+TALBOT.
+Go to the gates of Bordeaux, trumpeter.
+Summon their general unto the wall.
+
+Trumpet sounds. Enter  General and others aloft.
+
+English John Talbot, captains, calls you forth,
+Servant in arms to Harry King of England;
+And thus he would: Open your city gates,
+Be humble to us, call my sovereign yours,
+And do him homage as obedient subjects,
+And I’ll withdraw me and my bloody power.
+But if you frown upon this proffer’d peace,
+You tempt the fury of my three attendants,
+Lean Famine, quartering Steel, and climbing Fire,
+Who in a moment even with the earth
+Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers,
+If you forsake the offer of their love.
+
+GENERAL.
+Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,
+Our nation’s terror and their bloody scourge!
+The period of thy tyranny approacheth.
+On us thou canst not enter but by death;
+For, I protest, we are well fortified
+And strong enough to issue out and fight.
+If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,
+Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
+On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch’d
+To wall thee from the liberty of flight;
+And no way canst thou turn thee for redress
+But Death doth front thee with apparent spoil,
+And pale Destruction meets thee in the face.
+Ten thousand French have ta’en the sacrament
+To rive their dangerous artillery
+Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.
+Lo, there thou stand’st, a breathing valiant man
+Of an invincible unconquer’d spirit.
+This is the latest glory of thy praise
+That I, thy enemy, due thee withal;
+For ere the glass, that now begins to run,
+Finish the process of his sandy hour,
+These eyes, that see thee now well coloured,
+Shall see thee wither’d, bloody, pale, and dead.
+
+[_Drum afar off._]
+
+Hark, hark, the Dauphin’s drum, a warning bell,
+Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul,
+And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.
+
+[_Exeunt General, etc._]
+
+TALBOT.
+He fables not; I hear the enemy.
+Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings.
+O, negligent and heedless discipline!
+How are we park’d and bounded in a pale,
+A little herd of England’s timorous deer,
+Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
+If we be English deer, be then in blood;
+Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch,
+But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,
+Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel
+And make the cowards stand aloof at bay.
+Sell every man his life as dear as mine,
+And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.
+God and Saint George, Talbot and England’s right,
+Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Plains in Gascony.
+
+Enter a Messenger that meets York. Enter York with trumpet and many
+soldiers
+
+YORK.
+Are not the speedy scouts return’d again
+That dogg’d the mighty army of the Dauphin?
+
+MESSENGER.
+They are return’d, my lord, and give it out
+That he is march’d to Bordeaux with his power,
+To fight with Talbot. As he march’d along,
+By your espials were discovered
+Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,
+Which join’d with him and made their march for Bordeaux.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+YORK.
+A plague upon that villain Somerset
+That thus delays my promised supply
+Of horsemen that were levied for this siege!
+Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,
+And I am louted by a traitor villain
+And cannot help the noble chevalier.
+God comfort him in this necessity!
+If he miscarry, farewell wars in France.
+
+Enter Sir William Lucy.
+
+LUCY.
+Thou princely leader of our English strength,
+Never so needful on the earth of France,
+Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,
+Who now is girdled with a waist of iron,
+And hemm’d about with grim destruction.
+To Bordeaux, warlike Duke! To Bordeaux, York!
+Else farewell, Talbot, France, and England’s honour.
+
+YORK.
+O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart
+Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot’s place!
+So should we save a valiant gentleman
+By forfeiting a traitor and a coward.
+Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep
+That thus we die while remiss traitors sleep.
+
+LUCY.
+O, send some succour to the distress’d lord!
+
+YORK.
+He dies, we lose; I break my warlike word;
+We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get,
+All long of this vile traitor Somerset.
+
+LUCY.
+Then God take mercy on brave Talbot’s soul,
+And on his son young John, who two hours since
+I met in travel toward his warlike father.
+This seven years did not Talbot see his son;
+And now they meet where both their lives are done.
+
+YORK.
+Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have
+To bid his young son welcome to his grave?
+Away! Vexation almost stops my breath,
+That sunder’d friends greet in the hour of death.
+Lucy, farewell. No more my fortune can
+But curse the cause I cannot aid the man.
+Maine, Blois, Poictiers, and Tours, are won away,
+Long all of Somerset and his delay.
+
+[_Exit, with his soldiers._]
+
+LUCY.
+Thus, while the vulture of sedition
+Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,
+Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
+The conquest of our scarce-cold conqueror,
+That ever-living man of memory,
+Henry the Fifth. Whiles they each other cross,
+Lives, honours, lands, and all hurry to loss.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Other plains in Gascony.
+
+Enter Somerset with his army; a Captain of Talbot’s with him.
+
+SOMERSET.
+It is too late; I cannot send them now.
+This expedition was by York and Talbot
+Too rashly plotted. All our general force
+Might with a sally of the very town
+Be buckled with. The over-daring Talbot
+Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
+By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure.
+York set him on to fight and die in shame
+That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me
+Set from our o’er-match’d forces forth for aid.
+
+Enter Sir William Lucy.
+
+SOMERSET.
+How now, Sir William, whither were you sent?
+
+LUCY.
+Whither, my lord? From bought and sold Lord Talbot,
+Who, ring’d about with bold adversity,
+Cries out for noble York and Somerset
+To beat assailing Death from his weak legions;
+And whiles the honourable captain there
+Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs,
+And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue,
+You, his false hopes, the trust of England’s honour,
+Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.
+Let not your private discord keep away
+The levied succours that should lend him aid,
+While he, renowned noble gentleman,
+Yield up his life unto a world of odds.
+Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy,
+Alençon, Reignier, compass him about,
+And Talbot perisheth by your default.
+
+SOMERSET.
+York set him on; York should have sent him aid.
+
+LUCY.
+And York as fast upon your Grace exclaims,
+Swearing that you withhold his levied host
+Collected for this expedition.
+
+SOMERSET.
+York lies; he might have sent and had the horse.
+I owe him little duty, and less love,
+And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.
+
+LUCY.
+The fraud of England, not the force of France,
+Hath now entrapp’d the noble-minded Talbot.
+Never to England shall he bear his life,
+But dies betray’d to fortune by your strife.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight.
+Within six hours they will be at his aid.
+
+LUCY.
+Too late comes rescue; he is ta’en or slain,
+For fly he could not if he would have fled;
+And fly would Talbot never, though he might.
+
+SOMERSET.
+If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!
+
+LUCY.
+His fame lives in the world, his shame in you.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. The English camp near Bordeaux.
+
+Enter Talbot and John his son.
+
+TALBOT.
+O young John Talbot, I did send for thee
+To tutor thee in stratagems of war,
+That Talbot’s name might be in thee revived
+When sapless age and weak unable limbs
+Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.
+But—O malignant and ill-boding stars!—
+Now thou art come unto a feast of death,
+A terrible and unavoided danger.
+Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse,
+And I’ll direct thee how thou shalt escape
+By sudden flight. Come, dally not, be gone.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+Is my name Talbot? And am I your son?
+And shall I fly? O, if you love my mother,
+Dishonour not her honourable name,
+To make a bastard and a slave of me!
+The world will say, he is not Talbot’s blood,
+That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.
+
+TALBOT.
+Fly, to revenge my death if I be slain.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+He that flies so will ne’er return again.
+
+TALBOT.
+If we both stay, we both are sure to die.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+Then let me stay and, father, do you fly.
+Your loss is great, so your regard should be;
+My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.
+Upon my death the French can little boast;
+In yours they will, in you all hopes are lost.
+Flight cannot stain the honour you have won;
+But mine it will, that no exploit have done.
+You fled for vantage, everyone will swear;
+But if I bow, they’ll say it was for fear.
+There is no hope that ever I will stay
+If the first hour I shrink and run away.
+Here on my knee I beg mortality,
+Rather than life preserved with infamy.
+
+TALBOT.
+Shall all thy mother’s hopes lie in one tomb?
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+Ay, rather than I’ll shame my mother’s womb.
+
+TALBOT.
+Upon my blessing, I command thee go.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.
+
+TALBOT.
+Part of thy father may be saved in thee.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+No part of him but will be shame in me.
+
+TALBOT.
+Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+Yes, your renowned name; shall flight abuse it?
+
+TALBOT.
+Thy father’s charge shall clear thee from that stain.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+You cannot witness for me, being slain.
+If death be so apparent, then both fly.
+
+TALBOT.
+And leave my followers here to fight and die?
+My age was never tainted with such shame.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?
+No more can I be sever’d from your side
+Than can yourself yourself in twain divide.
+Stay, go, do what you will, the like do I;
+For live I will not, if my father die.
+
+TALBOT.
+Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,
+Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.
+Come, side by side together live and die,
+And soul with soul from France to heaven fly.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. A field of battle.
+
+Alarum. Excursions, wherein Talbot’s son is hemmed about, and Talbot
+rescues him.
+
+TALBOT.
+Saint George and victory! Fight, soldiers, fight!
+The Regent hath with Talbot broke his word,
+And left us to the rage of France his sword.
+Where is John Talbot? Pause, and take thy breath;
+I gave thee life and rescued thee from death.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+O, twice my father, twice am I thy son!
+The life thou gav’st me first was lost and done,
+Till with thy warlike sword, despite of fate,
+To my determined time thou gav’st new date.
+
+TALBOT.
+When from the Dauphin’s crest thy sword struck fire,
+It warm’d thy father’s heart with proud desire
+Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,
+Quicken’d with youthful spleen and warlike rage,
+Beat down Alençon, Orleans, Burgundy,
+And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee.
+The ireful Bastard Orleans, that drew blood
+From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood
+Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,
+And, interchanging blows, I quickly shed
+Some of his bastard blood, and in disgrace
+Bespoke him thus: “Contaminated, base,
+And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,
+Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine,
+Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy.”
+Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,
+Came in strong rescue. Speak, thy father’s care,
+Art thou not weary, John? How dost thou fare?
+Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,
+Now thou art seal’d the son of chivalry?
+Fly, to revenge my death when I am dead;
+The help of one stands me in little stead.
+O, too much folly is it, well I wot,
+To hazard all our lives in one small boat!
+If I today die not with Frenchmen’s rage,
+Tomorrow I shall die with mickle age.
+By me they nothing gain an if I stay;
+’Tis but the short’ning of my life one day.
+In thee thy mother dies, our household’s name,
+My death’s revenge, thy youth, and England’s fame.
+All these and more we hazard by thy stay;
+All these are saved if thou wilt fly away.
+
+JOHN TALBOT.
+The sword of Orleans hath not made me smart;
+These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart.
+On that advantage, bought with such a shame,
+To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,
+Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly,
+The coward horse that bears me fall and die!
+And like me to the peasant boys of France,
+To be shame’s scorn and subject of mischance!
+Surely, by all the glory you have won,
+An if I fly, I am not Talbot’s son.
+Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot;
+If son to Talbot, die at Talbot’s foot.
+
+TALBOT.
+Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete,
+Thou Icarus; thy life to me is sweet.
+If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father’s side,
+And, commendable proved, let’s die in pride.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. Another part of the field.
+
+Alarum. Excursions. Enter old Talbot led by a Servant.
+
+TALBOT.
+Where is my other life? Mine own is gone.
+O, where’s young Talbot? Where is valiant John?
+Triumphant Death, smear’d with captivity,
+Young Talbot’s valour makes me smile at thee.
+When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,
+His bloody sword he brandish’d over me,
+And like a hungry lion did commence
+Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience;
+But when my angry guardant stood alone,
+Tendering my ruin and assail’d of none,
+Dizzy-ey’d fury and great rage of heart
+Suddenly made him from my side to start
+Into the clustering battle of the French;
+And in that sea of blood my boy did drench
+His over-mounting spirit; and there died
+My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride.
+
+SERVANT.
+O my dear lord, lo where your son is borne!
+
+Enter soldiers, with the body of young Talbot.
+
+TALBOT.
+Thou antic Death, which laugh’st us here to scorn,
+Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,
+Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
+Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,
+In thy despite shall scape mortality.
+O thou whose wounds become hard-favour’d Death,
+Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath!
+Brave Death by speaking, whether he will or no;
+Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe.
+Poor boy, he smiles, methinks, as who should say,
+Had Death been French, then Death had died today.
+Come, come, and lay him in his father’s arms;
+My spirit can no longer bear these harms.
+Soldiers, adieu! I have what I would have,
+Now my old arms are young John Talbot’s grave.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+Enter Charles, Alençon, Burgundy, Bastard, La Pucelle and forces.
+
+CHARLES.
+Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,
+We should have found a bloody day of this.
+
+BASTARD.
+How the young whelp of Talbot’s, raging-wood,
+Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen’s blood!
+
+PUCELLE.
+Once I encounter’d him, and thus I said:
+“Thou maiden youth, be vanquish’d by a maid.”
+But with a proud majestical high scorn
+He answer’d thus: “Young Talbot was not born
+To be the pillage of a giglot wench.”
+So, rushing in the bowels of the French,
+He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Doubtless he would have made a noble knight.
+See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
+Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.
+
+BASTARD.
+Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,
+Whose life was England’s glory, Gallia’s wonder.
+
+CHARLES.
+O, no, forbear! For that which we have fled
+During the life, let us not wrong it dead.
+
+Enter Sir William Lucy and a French Herald.
+
+LUCY.
+Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin’s tent,
+To know who hath obtain’d the glory of the day.
+
+CHARLES.
+On what submissive message art thou sent?
+
+LUCY.
+Submission, Dauphin! ’Tis a mere French word.
+We English warriors wot not what it means.
+I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta’en,
+And to survey the bodies of the dead.
+
+CHARLES.
+For prisoners ask’st thou? Hell our prison is.
+But tell me whom thou seek’st.
+
+LUCY.
+But where’s the great Alcides of the field,
+Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
+Created for his rare success in arms
+Great Earl of Washford, Waterford, and Valence,
+Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield,
+Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,
+Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,
+The thrice victorious Lord of Falconbridge,
+Knight of the noble Order of Saint George,
+Worthy Saint Michael, and the Golden Fleece,
+Great Marshal to Henry the Sixth
+Of all his wars within the realm of France?
+
+PUCELLE.
+Here’s a silly stately style indeed!
+The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath,
+Writes not so tedious a style as this.
+Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles
+Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.
+
+LUCY.
+Is Talbot slain, the Frenchman’s only scourge,
+Your kingdom’s terror and black Nemesis?
+O, were mine eye-balls into bullets turn’d,
+That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!
+O, that I could but call these dead to life!
+It were enough to fright the realm of France.
+Were but his picture left amongst you here,
+It would amaze the proudest of you all.
+Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence
+And give them burial as beseems their worth.
+
+PUCELLE.
+I think this upstart is old Talbot’s ghost,
+He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.
+For God’s sake, let him have them; to keep them here,
+They would but stink and putrify the air.
+
+CHARLES.
+Go, take their bodies hence.
+
+LUCY.
+I’ll bear them hence;
+But from their ashes shall be rear’d
+A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.
+
+CHARLES.
+So we be rid of them, do with them what thou wilt.
+And now to Paris in this conquering vein.
+All will be ours, now bloody Talbot’s slain.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. London. The Palace.
+
+
+Sennet. Enter King, Gloucester and Exeter.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Have you perused the letters from the Pope,
+The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I have, my lord; and their intent is this:
+They humbly sue unto your Excellence
+To have a godly peace concluded of
+Between the realms of England and of France.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How doth your Grace affect their motion?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Well, my good lord, and as the only means
+To stop effusion of our Christian blood
+And stablish quietness on every side.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ay, marry, uncle, for I always thought
+It was both impious and unnatural
+That such immanity and bloody strife
+Should reign among professors of one faith.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect
+And surer bind this knot of amity,
+The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
+A man of great authority in France,
+Proffers his only daughter to your Grace
+In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Marriage, uncle! Alas, my years are young!
+And fitter is my study and my books
+Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
+Yet call th’ ambassadors; and, as you please,
+So let them have their answers every one.
+I shall be well content with any choice
+Tends to God’s glory and my country’s weal.
+
+Enter Winchester in Cardinal’s habit, a  Legate and two Ambassadors.
+
+EXETER.
+What, is my Lord of Winchester install’d
+And call’d unto a cardinal’s degree?
+Then I perceive that will be verified
+Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy:
+“If once he come to be a cardinal,
+He’ll make his cap co-equal with the crown.”
+
+KING HENRY.
+My Lords Ambassadors, your several suits
+Have been consider’d and debated on.
+Your purpose is both good and reasonable;
+And therefore are we certainly resolved
+To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
+Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean
+Shall be transported presently to France.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+And for the proffer of my lord your master,
+I have inform’d his Highness so at large,
+As liking of the lady’s virtuous gifts,
+Her beauty and the value of her dower,
+He doth intend she shall be England’s Queen.
+
+KING HENRY.
+In argument and proof of which contract,
+Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.
+And so, my Lord Protector, see them guarded
+And safely brought to Dover; where inshipp’d,
+Commit them to the fortune of the sea.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Winchester and Legate._]
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Stay my lord legate; you shall first receive
+The sum of money which I promised
+Should be deliver’d to his Holiness
+For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
+
+LEGATE.
+I will attend upon your lordship’s leisure.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+[_Aside_.] Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
+Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
+Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
+That neither in birth or for authority,
+The Bishop will be overborne by thee.
+I’ll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
+Or sack this country with a mutiny.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. France. Plains in Anjou.
+
+Enter Charles, Burgundy, Alençon, Bastard, Reignier, La Pucelle and
+forces.
+
+CHARLES.
+These news, my lords, may cheer our drooping spirits:
+’Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt
+And turn again unto the warlike French.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,
+And keep not back your powers in dalliance.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Peace be amongst them, if they turn to us;
+Else ruin combat with their palaces!
+
+Enter Scout.
+
+SCOUT.
+Success unto our valiant general,
+And happiness to his accomplices!
+
+CHARLES.
+What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.
+
+SCOUT.
+The English army, that divided was
+Into two parties, is now conjoin’d in one,
+And means to give you battle presently.
+
+CHARLES.
+Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is;
+But we will presently provide for them.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there.
+Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.
+Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine;
+Let Henry fret and all the world repine.
+
+CHARLES.
+Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Before Angiers.
+
+Alarum. Excursions. Enter La Pucelle.
+
+PUCELLE.
+The Regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly.
+Now help, ye charming spells and periapts;
+And ye choice spirits that admonish me,
+And give me signs of future accidents. [_Thunder_]
+You speedy helpers, that are substitutes
+Under the lordly monarch of the north,
+Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
+
+Enter Fiends.
+
+This speed and quick appearance argues proof
+Of your accustom’d diligence to me.
+Now, ye familiar spirits that are cull’d
+Out of the powerful regions under earth,
+Help me this once, that France may get the field.
+
+[_They walk and speak not._]
+
+O, hold me not with silence over-long!
+Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,
+I’ll lop a member off and give it you
+In earnest of a further benefit,
+So you do condescend to help me now.
+
+[_They hang their heads._]
+
+No hope to have redress? My body shall
+Pay recompense if you will grant my suit.
+
+[_They shake their heads._]
+
+Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
+Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?
+Then take my soul; my body, soul and all,
+Before that England give the French the foil.
+
+[_They depart._]
+
+See, they forsake me. Now the time is come
+That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest
+And let her head fall into England’s lap.
+My ancient incantations are too weak,
+And hell too strong for me to buckle with.
+Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Excursions. Burgundy and York fight hand to hand. The French fly.  La
+Pucelle is taken.
+
+YORK.
+Damsel of France, I think I have you fast.
+Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms,
+And try if they can gain your liberty.
+A goodly prize, fit for the devil’s grace!
+See, how the ugly witch doth bend her brows,
+As if with Circe she would change my shape!
+
+PUCELLE.
+Chang’d to a worser shape thou canst not be.
+
+YORK.
+O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man;
+No shape but his can please your dainty eye.
+
+PUCELLE.
+A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee!
+And may ye both be suddenly surprised
+By bloody hands, in sleeping on your beds!
+
+YORK.
+Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy tongue!
+
+PUCELLE.
+I prithee, give me leave to curse awhile.
+
+YORK.
+Curse, miscreant, when thou com’st to the stake.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Alarum. Enter Suffolk with Margaret in his hand.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner.
+
+[_Gazes on her._]
+
+O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly!
+For I will touch thee but with reverent hands,
+I kiss these fingers for eternal peace,
+And lay them gently on thy tender side.
+Who art thou? Say, that I may honour thee.
+
+MARGARET.
+Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,
+The King of Naples, whosoe’er thou art.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call’d.
+Be not offended, nature’s miracle,
+Thou art allotted to be ta’en by me.
+So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,
+Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings.
+Yet, if this servile usage once offend,
+Go and be free again as Suffolk’s friend.
+
+[_She is going._]
+
+O, stay! I have no power to let her pass;
+My hand would free her, but my heart says no.
+As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,
+Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
+So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.
+Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak.
+I’ll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.
+Fie, de la Pole, disable not thyself;
+Hast not a tongue? Is she not here?
+Wilt thou be daunted at a woman’s sight?
+Ay, beauty’s princely majesty is such
+Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
+
+MARGARET.
+Say, Earl of Suffolk, if thy name be so,
+What ransom must I pay before I pass?
+For I perceive I am thy prisoner.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit,
+Before thou make a trial of her love?
+
+MARGARET.
+Why speak’st thou not? What ransom must I pay?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+She’s beautiful, and therefore to be woo’d;
+She is a woman, therefore to be won.
+
+MARGARET.
+Wilt thou accept of ransom, yea, or no?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Fond man, remember that thou hast a wife;
+Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?
+
+MARGARET.
+I were best leave him, for he will not hear.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+There all is marr’d; there lies a cooling card.
+
+MARGARET.
+He talks at random; sure, the man is mad.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+And yet a dispensation may be had.
+
+MARGARET.
+And yet I would that you would answer me.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I’ll win this Lady Margaret. For whom?
+Why, for my king. Tush, that’s a wooden thing!
+
+MARGARET.
+He talks of wood. It is some carpenter.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Yet so my fancy may be satisfied,
+And peace established between these realms.
+But there remains a scruple in that too;
+For though her father be the King of Naples,
+Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,
+And our nobility will scorn the match.
+
+MARGARET.
+Hear ye, captain, are you not at leisure?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+It shall be so, disdain they ne’er so much.
+Henry is youthful and will quickly yield.
+Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
+
+MARGARET.
+What though I be enthrall’d? He seems a knight,
+And will not any way dishonour me.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.
+
+MARGARET.
+Perhaps I shall be rescued by the French;
+And then I need not crave his courtesy.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Sweet madam, give me hearing in a cause.
+
+MARGARET.
+Tush, women have been captivate ere now.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Lady, wherefore talk you so?
+
+MARGARET.
+I cry you mercy, ’tis but _quid_ for _quo_.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose
+Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?
+
+MARGARET.
+To be a queen in bondage is more vile
+Than is a slave in base servility;
+For princes should be free.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+And so shall you,
+If happy England’s royal king be free.
+
+MARGARET.
+Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I’ll undertake to make thee Henry’s queen,
+To put a golden scepter in thy hand
+And set a precious crown upon thy head,
+If thou wilt condescend to be my—
+
+MARGARET.
+What?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+His love.
+
+MARGARET.
+I am unworthy to be Henry’s wife.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+No, gentle madam, I unworthy am
+To woo so fair a dame to be his wife,
+And have no portion in the choice myself.
+How say you, madam, are ye so content?
+
+MARGARET.
+An if my father please, I am content.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Then call our captains and our colours forth.
+And, madam, at your father’s castle walls
+We’ll crave a parley, to confer with him.
+
+A parley sounded. Enter Reignier on the walls.
+
+See, Reignier, see, thy daughter prisoner!
+
+REIGNIER.
+To whom?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+To me.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Suffolk, what remedy?
+I am a soldier, and unapt to weep
+Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord:
+Consent, and for thy honour give consent,
+Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king,
+Whom I with pain have woo’d and won thereto;
+And this her easy-held imprisonment
+Hath gain’d thy daughter princely liberty.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Fair Margaret knows
+That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Upon thy princely warrant, I descend
+To give thee answer of thy just demand.
+
+[_Exit from the walls._]
+
+SUFFOLK.
+And here I will expect thy coming.
+
+Trumpets sound. Enter Reignier, below.
+
+REIGNIER.
+Welcome, brave earl, into our territories.
+Command in Anjou what your honour pleases.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Thanks, Reignier, happy for so sweet a child,
+Fit to be made companion with a king.
+What answer makes your Grace unto my suit?
+
+REIGNIER.
+Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
+To be the princely bride of such a lord,
+Upon condition I may quietly
+Enjoy mine own, the country Maine and Anjou,
+Free from oppression or the stroke of war,
+My daughter shall be Henry’s, if he please.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+That is her ransom; I deliver her;
+And those two counties I will undertake
+Your Grace shall well and quietly enjoy.
+
+REIGNIER.
+And I again, in Henry’s royal name,
+As deputy unto that gracious king,
+Give thee her hand for sign of plighted faith.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Reignier of France, I give thee kingly thanks,
+Because this is in traffic of a king.
+[_Aside_.] And yet, methinks, I could be well content
+To be mine own attorney in this case.
+I’ll over then to England with this news,
+And make this marriage to be solemnized.
+So, farewell, Reignier; set this diamond safe
+In golden palaces, as it becomes.
+
+REIGNIER.
+I do embrace thee as I would embrace
+The Christian prince, King Henry, were he here.
+
+MARGARET.
+Farewell, my lord; good wishes, praise, and prayers
+Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret. [_Going_].
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Farewell, sweet madam; but hark you, Margaret,
+No princely commendations to my king?
+
+MARGARET.
+Such commendations as becomes a maid,
+A virgin and his servant, say to him.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Words sweetly placed and modestly directed.
+But, madam, I must trouble you again:
+No loving token to his Majesty?
+
+MARGARET.
+Yes, my good lord; a pure unspotted heart,
+Never yet taint with love, I send the King.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+And this withal. [_Kisses her_.]
+
+MARGARET.
+That for thyself. I will not so presume
+To send such peevish tokens to a king.
+
+[_Exeunt Reignier and Margaret._]
+
+SUFFOLK.
+O, wert thou for myself! But, Suffolk, stay;
+Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth.
+There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk.
+Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise.
+Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,
+And natural graces that extinguish art;
+Repeat their semblance often on the seas,
+That, when thou com’st to kneel at Henry’s feet,
+Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Camp of the Duke of York in Anjou.
+
+Enter York, Warwick and others.
+
+YORK.
+Bring forth that sorceress condemn’d to burn.
+
+Enter La Pucelle, guarded, and a Shepherd.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Ah, Joan, this kills thy father’s heart outright!
+Have I sought every country far and near,
+And, now it is my chance to find thee out,
+Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?
+Ah, Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I’ll die with thee!
+
+PUCELLE.
+Decrepit miser, base ignoble wretch!
+I am descended of a gentler blood.
+Thou art no father nor no friend of mine.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Out, out! My lords, as please you, ’tis not so;
+I did beget her, all the parish knows.
+Her mother liveth yet, can testify
+She was the first fruit of my bachelorship.
+
+WARWICK.
+Graceless, wilt thou deny thy parentage?
+
+YORK.
+This argues what her kind of life hath been,
+Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle!
+God knows thou art a collop of my flesh;
+And for thy sake have I shed many a tear.
+Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Peasant, avaunt! You have suborn’d this man
+Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+’Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest
+The morn that I was wedded to her mother.
+Kneel down and take my blessing, good my girl.
+Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time
+Of thy nativity! I would the milk
+Thy mother gave thee when thou suck’dst her breast
+Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!
+Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field,
+I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee!
+Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?
+O, burn her, burn her! Hanging is too good.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+YORK.
+Take her away, for she hath lived too long,
+To fill the world with vicious qualities.
+
+PUCELLE.
+First, let me tell you whom you have condemn’d:
+Not one begotten of a shepherd swain,
+But issued from the progeny of kings;
+Virtuous and holy, chosen from above,
+By inspiration of celestial grace,
+To work exceeding miracles on earth.
+I never had to do with wicked spirits.
+But you, that are polluted with your lusts,
+Stain’d with the guiltless blood of innocents,
+Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices,
+Because you want the grace that others have,
+You judge it straight a thing impossible
+To compass wonders but by help of devils.
+No, misconceived! Joan of Arc hath been
+A virgin from her tender infancy,
+Chaste and immaculate in very thought;
+Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effused,
+Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven.
+
+YORK.
+Ay, ay; away with her to execution!
+
+WARWICK.
+And hark ye, sirs; because she is a maid,
+Spare for no faggots, let there be enow.
+Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,
+That so her torture may be shortened.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?
+Then, Joan, discover thine infirmity,
+That warranteth by law to be thy privilege:
+I am with child, ye bloody homicides.
+Murder not then the fruit within my womb,
+Although ye hale me to a violent death.
+
+YORK.
+Now heaven forfend! The holy maid with child?
+
+WARWICK.
+The greatest miracle that e’er ye wrought!
+Is all your strict preciseness come to this?
+
+YORK.
+She and the Dauphin have been juggling.
+I did imagine what would be her refuge.
+
+WARWICK.
+Well, go to; we’ll have no bastards live,
+Especially since Charles must father it.
+
+PUCELLE.
+You are deceived; my child is none of his.
+It was Alençon that enjoy’d my love.
+
+YORK.
+Alençon, that notorious Machiavel!
+It dies and if it had a thousand lives.
+
+PUCELLE.
+O, give me leave, I have deluded you.
+’Twas neither Charles nor yet the Duke I named,
+But Reignier, King of Naples, that prevail’d.
+
+WARWICK.
+A married man! That’s most intolerable.
+
+YORK.
+Why, here’s a girl! I think she knows not well—
+There were so many—whom she may accuse.
+
+WARWICK.
+It’s sign she hath been liberal and free.
+
+YORK.
+And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure!
+Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee.
+Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.
+
+PUCELLE.
+Then lead me hence, with whom I leave my curse:
+May never glorious sun reflex his beams
+Upon the country where you make abode;
+But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
+Environ you, till mischief and despair
+Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!
+
+[_Exit, guarded._]
+
+YORK.
+Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes,
+Thou foul accursed minister of hell!
+
+Enter Bishop of Winchester as Cardinal, attended.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Lord Regent, I do greet your Excellence
+With letters of commission from the King.
+For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,
+Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,
+Have earnestly implored a general peace
+Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French;
+And here at hand the Dauphin and his train
+Approacheth to confer about some matter.
+
+YORK.
+Is all our travail turn’d to this effect?
+After the slaughter of so many peers,
+So many captains, gentlemen and soldiers,
+That in this quarrel have been overthrown
+And sold their bodies for their country’s benefit,
+Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?
+Have we not lost most part of all the towns,
+By treason, falsehood, and by treachery,
+Our great progenitors had conquered?
+O, Warwick, Warwick! I foresee with grief
+The utter loss of all the realm of France.
+
+WARWICK.
+Be patient, York; if we conclude a peace,
+It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
+As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.
+
+Enter Charles, Alençon, Bastard, Reignier and others.
+
+CHARLES.
+Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed
+That peaceful truce shall be proclaim’d in France,
+We come to be informed by yourselves
+What the conditions of that league must be.
+
+YORK.
+Speak, Winchester, for boiling choler chokes
+The hollow passage of my poison’d voice
+By sight of these our baleful enemies.
+
+WINCHESTER.
+Charles, and the rest, it is enacted thus:
+That, in regard King Henry gives consent,
+Of mere compassion and of lenity,
+To ease your country of distressful war,
+And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,
+You shall become true liegemen to his crown.
+And, Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear
+To pay him tribute and submit thyself,
+Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,
+And still enjoy the regal dignity.
+
+ALENÇON.
+Must he be then as shadow of himself?
+Adorn his temples with a coronet,
+And yet, in substance and authority,
+Retain but privilege of a private man?
+This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
+
+CHARLES.
+’Tis known already that I am possess’d
+With more than half the Gallian territories,
+And therein reverenced for their lawful king.
+Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquish’d,
+Detract so much from that prerogative
+As to be call’d but viceroy of the whole?
+No, lord ambassador, I’ll rather keep
+That which I have than, coveting for more,
+Be cast from possibility of all.
+
+YORK.
+Insulting Charles! Hast thou by secret means
+Used intercession to obtain a league,
+And, now the matter grows to compromise,
+Stand’st thou aloof upon comparison?
+Either accept the title thou usurp’st,
+Of benefit proceeding from our king
+And not of any challenge of desert,
+Or we will plague thee with incessant wars.
+
+REIGNIER.
+My lord, you do not well in obstinacy
+To cavil in the course of this contract.
+If once it be neglected, ten to one
+We shall not find like opportunity.
+
+ALENÇON.
+To say the truth, it is your policy
+To save your subjects from such massacre
+And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
+By our proceeding in hostility;
+And therefore take this compact of a truce,
+Although you break it when your pleasure serves.
+
+WARWICK.
+How say’st thou, Charles? Shall our condition stand?
+
+CHARLES.
+It shall; only reserv’d you claim no interest
+In any of our towns of garrison.
+
+YORK.
+Then swear allegiance to his Majesty,
+As thou art knight, never to disobey
+Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,
+Thou, nor thy nobles, to the crown of England.
+
+[_Charles and the rest give tokens of fealty._]
+
+So, now dismiss your army when ye please;
+Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still,
+For here we entertain a solemn peace.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. London. The royal palace.
+
+Enter Suffolk in conference with the King, Gloucester and Exeter.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Your wondrous rare description, noble earl,
+Of beauteous Margaret hath astonish’d me.
+Her virtues graced with external gifts
+Do breed love’s settled passions in my heart,
+And like as rigor of tempestuous gusts
+Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,
+So am I driven by breath of her renown
+Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive
+Where I may have fruition of her love.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale
+Is but a preface of her worthy praise;
+The chief perfections of that lovely dame,
+Had I sufficient skill to utter them,
+Would make a volume of enticing lines,
+Able to ravish any dull conceit;
+And, which is more, she is not so divine,
+So full replete with choice of all delights,
+But with as humble lowliness of mind
+She is content to be at your command;
+Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,
+To love and honour Henry as her lord.
+
+KING HENRY.
+And otherwise will Henry ne’er presume.
+Therefore, my Lord Protector, give consent
+That Margaret may be England’s royal queen.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+So should I give consent to flatter sin.
+You know, my lord, your Highness is betroth’d
+Unto another lady of esteem.
+How shall we then dispense with that contract,
+And not deface your honour with reproach?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths;
+Or one that, at a triumph having vow’d
+To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists
+By reason of his adversary’s odds.
+A poor earl’s daughter is unequal odds,
+And therefore may be broke without offence.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?
+Her father is no better than an earl,
+Although in glorious titles he excel.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Yes, my lord, her father is a king,
+The King of Naples and Jerusalem;
+And of such great authority in France
+As his alliance will confirm our peace,
+And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,
+Because he is near kinsman unto Charles.
+
+EXETER.
+Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,
+Where Reignier sooner will receive than give.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+A dower, my lords? Disgrace not so your king,
+That he should be so abject, base, and poor,
+To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
+Henry is able to enrich his queen,
+And not to seek a queen to make him rich;
+So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,
+As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse.
+Marriage is a matter of more worth
+Than to be dealt in by attorneyship;
+Not whom we will, but whom his Grace affects,
+Must be companion of his nuptial bed.
+And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,
+Most of all these reasons bindeth us
+In our opinions she should be preferr’d.
+For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
+An age of discord and continual strife?
+Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
+And is a pattern of celestial peace.
+Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,
+But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?
+Her peerless feature, joined with her birth,
+Approves her fit for none but for a king;
+Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,
+More than in women commonly is seen,
+Will answer our hope in issue of a king;
+For Henry, son unto a conqueror,
+Is likely to beget more conquerors,
+If with a lady of so high resolve
+As is fair Margaret he be link’d in love.
+Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me
+That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Whether it be through force of your report,
+My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that
+My tender youth was never yet attaint
+With any passion of inflaming love,
+I cannot tell; but this I am assured,
+I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,
+Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
+As I am sick with working of my thoughts.
+Take therefore shipping; post, my lord, to France;
+Agree to any covenants, and procure
+That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
+To cross the seas to England and be crown’d
+King Henry’s faithful and anointed queen.
+For your expenses and sufficient charge,
+Among the people gather up a tenth.
+Be gone, I say; for till you do return,
+I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
+And you, good uncle, banish all offence.
+If you do censure me by what you were,
+Not what you are, I know it will excuse
+This sudden execution of my will.
+And so conduct me where, from company,
+I may revolve and ruminate my grief.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.
+
+[_Exeunt Gloucester and Exeter._]
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Thus Suffolk hath prevail’d; and thus he goes,
+As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
+With hope to find the like event in love,
+But prosper better than the Troyan did.
+Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the King;
+But I will rule both her, the King, and realm.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. London. The palace
+ Scene II. The Duke of Gloucester’s House
+ Scene III. London. The palace
+ Scene IV. Gloucester’s Garden
+
+ ACT II
+ SCENE I. Saint Albans
+ SCENE II. London. The Duke of York’s Garden
+ SCENE III. A Hall of Justice
+ SCENE IV. A Street
+
+ ACT III
+ SCENE I. The Abbey at Bury St. Edmund’s
+ SCENE II. Bury St. Edmund’s. A Room of State
+ SCENE III. A Bedchamber
+
+ ACT IV
+ SCENE I. The Coast of Kent
+ SCENE II. Blackheath
+ SCENE III. Another part of Blackheath
+ SCENE IV. London. The Palace
+ SCENE V. London. The Tower
+ SCENE VI. London. Cannon Street
+ SCENE VII. London. Smithfield
+ SCENE VIII. Southwark
+ SCENE IX. Kenilworth Castle
+ SCENE X. Kent. Iden’s Garden
+
+ ACT V
+ SCENE I. Fields between Dartford and Blackheath
+ SCENE II. Saint Albans
+ SCENE III. Fields near Saint Albans
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING HENRY THE SIXTH
+MARGARET, Queen to King Henry
+Humphrey, Duke of GLOUCESTER, his uncle
+ELEANOR, Duchess of Gloucester
+CARDINAL Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King
+
+DUKE OF SOMERSET
+DUKE OF SUFFOLK
+DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
+LORD CLIFFORD
+YOUNG CLIFFORD, his son
+VAUX
+
+Richard Plantagenet, Duke of YORK
+EDWARD and RICHARD, his sons
+EARL OF SALISBURY
+EARL OF WARWICK
+
+THOMAS HORNER, an armourer
+PETER THUMP, his man
+JOHN HUME, a priest
+JOHN SOUTHWELL, a priest
+Margery JOURDAIN, a witch
+ROGER BOLINGBROKE, a conjurer
+SIMPCOX, an impostor
+Wife to Simpcox
+Mayor of Saint Albans
+SIR JOHN STANLEY
+Two Murderers
+A LIEUTENANT
+MASTER
+Master’s-Mate
+Walter WHITMORE
+Two Gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk
+
+Jack CADE, a rebel
+George BEVIS
+John HOLLAND
+DICK the butcher
+SMITH the weaver
+MICHAEL, etc., followers of Cade
+CLERK of Chartham
+SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD
+WILLIAM STAFFORD, his brother
+LORD SCALES
+LORD SAYE
+MATTHEW GOUGH
+Alexander IDEN, a Kentish gentleman
+
+Lords, Ladies, and Attendants, Petitioners, Aldermen, a Herald, a
+Beadle, Sheriff, and Officers, Citizens, Prentices, Falconers, Guards,
+Soldiers, Messengers, &c.
+
+A Spirit
+
+SCENE: England.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. London. The palace
+
+
+Flourish of trumpets, then hautboys. Enter the King, Gloucester,
+Salisbury, Warwick, and Cardinal Beaufort on the one side; the Queen,
+Suffolk, York, Somerset and Buckingham on the other.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+As by your high imperial Majesty
+I had in charge at my depart for France,
+As procurator to your excellence,
+To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,
+So, in the famous ancient city Tours,
+In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,
+The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne, and Alençon,
+Seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops,
+I have performed my task and was espoused,
+And humbly now upon my bended knee,
+In sight of England and her lordly peers,
+Deliver up my title in the Queen
+To your most gracious hands, that are the substance
+Of that great shadow I did represent:
+The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,
+The fairest queen that ever king received.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Suffolk, arise.—Welcome, Queen Margaret.
+I can express no kinder sign of love
+Than this kind kiss.—O Lord, that lends me life,
+Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
+For Thou hast given me in this beauteous face
+A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
+If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Great King of England and my gracious lord,
+The mutual conference that my mind hath had
+By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,
+In courtly company or at my beads,
+With you, mine alderliefest sovereign,
+Makes me the bolder to salute my King
+With ruder terms, such as my wit affords
+And overjoy of heart doth minister.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Her sight did ravish, but her grace in speech,
+Her words yclad with wisdom’s majesty,
+Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys,
+Such is the fulness of my heart’s content.
+Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my love.
+
+ALL.
+[_Kneeling_.] Long live Queen Margaret, England’s happiness!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+We thank you all.
+
+[_Flourish._]
+
+SUFFOLK.
+My Lord Protector, so it please your grace,
+Here are the articles of contracted peace
+Between our sovereign and the French king Charles,
+For eighteen months concluded by consent.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+[_Reads_.] Imprimis, _it is agreed between the French king Charles and
+William de la Pole, Marquess of Suffolk, ambassador for Henry, King of
+England, that the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret, daughter
+unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia, and Jerusalem, and crown her
+Queen of England ere the thirtieth of May next ensuing._ Item, _that
+the duchy of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released and
+delivered to the King her father_—
+
+[_Lets the paper fall._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Uncle, how now?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Pardon me, gracious lord.
+Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
+And dimmed mine eyes, that I can read no further.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Uncle of Winchester, I pray read on.
+
+CARDINAL.
+[_Reads_.] Item, _it is further agreed between them, that the duchies
+of Anjou and Maine shall be released and delivered to the King her
+father, and she sent over of the King of England’s own proper cost and
+charges, without having any dowry._
+
+KING HENRY.
+They please us well.—Lord Marquess, kneel down.
+We here create thee the first Duke of Suffolk,
+And girt thee with the sword.—Cousin of York,
+We here discharge your grace from being regent
+I’ th’ parts of France, till term of eighteen months
+Be full expired.—Thanks, uncle Winchester,
+Gloucester, York, Buckingham, Somerset,
+Salisbury, and Warwick;
+We thank you all for this great favour done
+In entertainment to my princely Queen.
+Come, let us in, and with all speed provide
+To see her coronation be performed.
+
+[_Exeunt King, Queen and Suffolk._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,
+To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief,
+Your grief, the common grief of all the land.
+What! Did my brother Henry spend his youth,
+His valour, coin, and people, in the wars?
+Did he so often lodge in open field,
+In winter’s cold and summer’s parching heat,
+To conquer France, his true inheritance?
+And did my brother Bedford toil his wits
+To keep by policy what Henry got?
+Have you yourselves, Somerset, Buckingham,
+Brave York, Salisbury, and victorious Warwick,
+Received deep scars in France and Normandy?
+Or hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself,
+With all the learned council of the realm,
+Studied so long, sat in the council house
+Early and late, debating to and fro
+How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe,
+And had his highness in his infancy
+Crowned in Paris in despite of foes?
+And shall these labours and these honours die?
+Shall Henry’s conquest, Bedford’s vigilance,
+Your deeds of war, and all our counsel die?
+O peers of England, shameful is this league!
+Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame,
+Blotting your names from books of memory,
+Razing the characters of your renown,
+Defacing monuments of conquered France,
+Undoing all, as all had never been!
+
+CARDINAL.
+Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,
+This peroration with such circumstance?
+For France, ’tis ours; and we will keep it still.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ay, uncle, we will keep it if we can,
+But now it is impossible we should.
+Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,
+Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Maine
+Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style
+Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Now, by the death of Him that died for all,
+These counties were the keys of Normandy!
+But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son?
+
+WARWICK.
+For grief that they are past recovery;
+For, were there hope to conquer them again,
+My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.
+Anjou and Maine! Myself did win them both,
+Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer;
+And are the cities that I got with wounds
+Delivered up again with peaceful words?
+_Mort Dieu!_
+
+YORK.
+For Suffolk’s duke, may he be suffocate,
+That dims the honour of this warlike isle!
+France should have torn and rent my very heart
+Before I would have yielded to this league.
+I never read but England’s kings have had
+Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives;
+And our King Henry gives away his own,
+To match with her that brings no vantages.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+A proper jest, and never heard before,
+That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth
+For costs and charges in transporting her!
+She should have staid in France, and starved in France,
+Before—
+
+CARDINAL.
+My Lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot.
+It was the pleasure of my lord the King.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+My Lord of Winchester, I know your mind.
+’Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,
+But ’tis my presence that doth trouble ye.
+Rancour will out. Proud prelate, in thy face
+I see thy fury. If I longer stay,
+We shall begin our ancient bickerings.—
+Lordings, farewell; and say, when I am gone,
+I prophesied France will be lost ere long.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+CARDINAL.
+So, there goes our Protector in a rage.
+’Tis known to you he is mine enemy,
+Nay, more, an enemy unto you all,
+And no great friend, I fear me, to the King.
+Consider, lords, he is the next of blood
+And heir apparent to the English crown.
+Had Henry got an empire by his marriage,
+And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west,
+There’s reason he should be displeased at it.
+Look to it, lords. Let not his smoothing words
+Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect.
+What though the common people favour him,
+Calling him “Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester,”
+Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice,
+“Jesu maintain your royal excellence!”
+With “God preserve the good Duke Humphrey!”
+I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss,
+He will be found a dangerous Protector.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Why should he, then, protect our sovereign,
+He being of age to govern of himself?
+Cousin of Somerset, join you with me,
+And all together, with the Duke of Suffolk,
+We’ll quickly hoist Duke Humphrey from his seat.
+
+CARDINAL.
+This weighty business will not brook delay;
+I’ll to the Duke of Suffolk presently.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SOMERSET.
+Cousin of Buckingham, though Humphrey’s pride
+And greatness of his place be grief to us,
+Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal;
+His insolence is more intolerable
+Than all the princes’ in the land beside.
+If Gloucester be displaced, he’ll be Protector.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Or thou or I, Somerset, will be Protector,
+Despite Duke Humphrey or the Cardinal.
+
+[_Exeunt Buckingham and Somerset._]
+
+SALISBURY.
+Pride went before; 	Ambition follows him.
+While these do labour for their own preferment,
+Behoves it us to labour for the realm.
+I never saw but Humphrey Duke of Gloucester,
+Did bear him like a noble gentleman.
+Oft have I seen the haughty Cardinal,
+More like a soldier than a man o’ th’ church,
+As stout and proud as he were lord of all,
+Swear like a ruffian and demean himself
+Unlike the ruler of a commonweal.—
+Warwick my son, the comfort of my age,
+Thy deeds, thy plainness, and thy housekeeping,
+Hath won the greatest favour of the commons,
+Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey.—
+And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland,
+In bringing them to civil discipline,
+Thy late exploits done in the heart of France,
+When thou wert regent for our sovereign,
+Have made thee feared and honoured of the people.
+Join we together for the public good,
+In what we can to bridle and suppress
+The pride of Suffolk and the Cardinal,
+With Somerset’s and Buckingham’s ambition;
+And, as we may, cherish Duke Humphrey’s deeds
+While they do tend the profit of the land.
+
+WARWICK.
+So God help Warwick, as he loves the land
+And common profit of his country!
+
+YORK.
+And so says York, [_Aside_.] for he hath greatest cause.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Then let’s make haste away and look unto the main.
+
+WARWICK.
+Unto the main! O father, Maine is lost,
+That Maine which by main force Warwick did win,
+And would have kept so long as breath did last!
+Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant Maine,
+Which I will win from France, or else be slain.
+
+[_Exeunt Warwick and Salisbury._]
+
+YORK.
+Anjou and Maine are given to the French;
+Paris is lost; the state of Normandy
+Stands on a tickle point now they are gone.
+Suffolk concluded on the articles,
+The peers agreed, and Henry was well pleased
+To change two dukedoms for a duke’s fair daughter.
+I cannot blame them all. What is’t to them?
+’Tis thine they give away, and not their own.
+Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage,
+And purchase friends, and give to courtesans,
+Still revelling like lords till all be gone;
+Whileas the silly owner of the goods
+Weeps over them, and wrings his hapless hands,
+And shakes his head, and trembling stands aloof,
+While all is shared and all is borne away,
+Ready to starve and dare not touch his own.
+So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue,
+While his own lands are bargained for and sold.
+Methinks the realms of England, France, and Ireland
+Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood
+As did the fatal brand Althaea burnt
+Unto the prince’s heart of Calydon.
+Anjou and Maine both given unto the French!
+Cold news for me, for I had hope of France,
+Even as I have of fertile England’s soil.
+A day will come when York shall claim his own;
+And therefore I will take the Nevilles’ parts,
+And make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey,
+And when I spy advantage, claim the crown,
+For that’s the golden mark I seek to hit.
+Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right,
+Nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist,
+Nor wear the diadem upon his head,
+Whose church-like humours fits not for a crown.
+Then, York, be still awhile till time do serve.
+Watch thou and wake when others be asleep,
+To pry into the secrets of the state;
+Till Henry, surfeiting in joys of love
+With his new bride and England’s dear-bought Queen,
+And Humphrey with the peers be fallen at jars.
+Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose,
+With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed,
+And in my standard bear the arms of York,
+To grapple with the house of Lancaster;
+And force perforce I’ll make him yield the crown,
+Whose bookish rule hath pulled fair England down.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The Duke of Gloucester’s House
+
+Enter Duke Humphrey of Gloucester and his wife Eleanor.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Why droops my lord, like over-ripened corn
+Hanging the head at Ceres’ plenteous load?
+Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows,
+As frowning at the favours of the world?
+Why are thine eyes fixed to the sullen earth,
+Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight?
+What seest thou there? King Henry’s diadem,
+Enchased with all the honours of the world?
+If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face,
+Until thy head be circled with the same.
+Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
+What, is’t too short? I’ll lengthen it with mine;
+And, having both together heaved it up,
+We’ll both together lift our heads to heaven,
+And never more abase our sight so low
+As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,
+Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.
+And may that hour when I imagine ill
+Against my King and nephew, virtuous Henry,
+Be my last breathing in this mortal world!
+My troublous dreams this night doth make me sad.
+
+ELEANOR.
+What dreamed my lord? Tell me, and I’ll requite it
+With sweet rehearsal of my morning’s dream.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court,
+Was broke in twain; by whom I have forgot,
+But, as I think, it was by th’ Cardinal,
+And on the pieces of the broken wand
+Were placed the heads of Edmund, Duke of Somerset
+And William de la Pole, first Duke of Suffolk.
+This was my dream; what it doth bode, God knows.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Tut, this was nothing but an argument
+That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester’s grove
+Shall lose his head for his presumption.
+But list to me, my Humphrey, my sweet Duke:
+Methought I sat in seat of majesty
+In the cathedral church of Westminster
+And in that chair where kings and queens are crowned,
+Where Henry and Dame Margaret kneeled to me
+And on my head did set the diadem.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright.
+Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtured Eleanor,
+Art thou not second woman in the realm,
+And the Protector’s wife, beloved of him?
+Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command,
+Above the reach or compass of thy thought?
+And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
+To tumble down thy husband and thyself
+From top of honour to disgrace’s feet?
+Away from me, and let me hear no more!
+
+ELEANOR.
+What, what, my lord! Are you so choleric
+With Eleanor for telling but her dream?
+Next time I’ll keep my dreams unto myself,
+And not be checked.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Nay, be not angry, I am pleased again.
+
+Enter Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My Lord Protector, ’tis his highness’ pleasure
+You do prepare to ride unto Saint Albans,
+Whereas the King and Queen do mean to hawk.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I go. Come, Nell, thou wilt ride with us?
+
+ELEANOR.
+Yes, my good lord, I’ll follow presently.
+
+[_Exeunt Gloucester and Messenger._]
+
+Follow I must; I cannot go before
+While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind.
+Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,
+I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks
+And smooth my way upon their headless necks;
+And, being a woman, I will not be slack
+To play my part in Fortune’s pageant.—
+Where are you there? Sir John! Nay, fear not, man,
+We are alone; here’s none but thee and I.
+
+Enter Hume.
+
+HUME.
+Jesus preserve your royal majesty!
+
+ELEANOR.
+What sayst thou? Majesty! I am but grace.
+
+HUME.
+But, by the grace of God, and Hume’s advice,
+Your grace’s title shall be multiplied.
+
+ELEANOR.
+What sayst thou, man? Hast thou as yet conferred
+With Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch,
+With Roger Bolingbroke, the conjurer?
+And will they undertake to do me good?
+
+HUME.
+This they have promised, to show your highness
+A spirit raised from depth of underground,
+That shall make answer to such questions
+As by your Grace shall be propounded him.
+
+ELEANOR.
+It is enough, I’ll think upon the questions.
+When from Saint Albans we do make return,
+We’ll see these things effected to the full.
+Here, Hume, take this reward; make merry, man,
+With thy confederates in this weighty cause.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+HUME.
+Hume must make merry with the Duchess’ gold.
+Marry, and shall. But, how now, Sir John Hume!
+Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum;
+The business asketh silent secrecy.
+Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch;
+Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.
+Yet have I gold flies from another coast.
+I dare not say, from the rich cardinal
+And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,
+Yet I do find it so. For, to be plain,
+They, knowing Dame Eleanor’s aspiring humour,
+Have hired me to undermine the Duchess
+And buzz these conjurations in her brain.
+They say “A crafty knave does need no broker”,
+Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal’s broker.
+Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near
+To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.
+Well, so its stands; and thus, I fear, at last
+Hume’s knavery will be the Duchess’ wrack,
+And her attainture will be Humphrey’s fall.
+Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. London. The palace
+
+Enter Peter and Petitioners.
+
+1 PETITIONER.
+My masters, let’s stand close. My Lord Protector will come this way by
+and by, and then we may deliver our supplications in the quill.
+
+2 PETITIONER.
+Marry, the Lord protect him, for he’s a good man! Jesu bless him!
+
+Enter Suffolk and Queen.
+
+1 PETITIONER.
+Here he comes, methinks, and the Queen with him. I’ll be the first,
+sure.
+
+2 PETITIONER.
+Come back, fool! This is the Duke of Suffolk and not my Lord Protector.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+How now, fellow; wouldst anything with me?
+
+1 PETITIONER.
+I pray, my lord, pardon me, I took ye for my Lord Protector.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Reading_.] “To my Lord Protector.” Are your supplications to his
+lordship? Let me see them. What is thine?
+
+1 PETITIONER.
+Mine is, an ’t please your grace, against John Goodman, my Lord
+Cardinal’s man, for keeping my house and lands, and wife and all, from
+me.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Thy wife too! That’s some wrong, indeed.—What’s yours?—What’s here!
+[_Reads_.] _Against the Duke of Suffolk for enclosing the commons of
+Melford._ How now, sir knave!
+
+2 PETITIONER.
+Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.
+
+PETER.
+[_Giving his petition_.] Against my master, Thomas Horner, for saying
+that the Duke of York was rightful heir to the crown.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+What sayst thou? Did the Duke of York say he was rightful heir to the
+crown?
+
+PETER.
+That my master was? No, forsooth, my master said that he was, and that
+the King was an usurper.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Who is there?
+
+Enter Servant.
+
+Take this fellow in, and send for his master with a pursuivant
+presently.—We’ll hear more of your matter before the King.
+
+[_Exit Servant with Peter._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+And as for you, that love to be protected
+Under the wings of our Protector’s grace,
+Begin your suits anew, and sue to him.
+
+[_Tears the supplications._]
+
+Away, base cullions!—Suffolk, let them go.
+
+ALL.
+Come, let’s be gone.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+My Lord of Suffolk, say, is this the guise,
+Is this the fashion in the court of England?
+Is this the government of Britain’s isle,
+And this the royalty of Albion’s king?
+What, shall King Henry be a pupil still
+Under the surly Gloucester’s governance?
+Am I a queen in title and in style,
+And must be made a subject to a duke?
+I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours
+Thou ran’st atilt in honour of my love
+And stol’st away the ladies’ hearts of France,
+I thought King Henry had resembled thee
+In courage, courtship, and proportion.
+But all his mind is bent to holiness,
+To number Ave-Maries on his beads.
+His champions are the prophets and apostles,
+His weapons holy saws of sacred writ,
+His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
+Are brazen images of canonized saints.
+I would the college of the cardinals
+Would choose him pope and carry him to Rome
+And set the triple crown upon his head!
+That were a state fit for his holiness.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Madam, be patient. As I was cause
+Your highness came to England, so will I
+In England work your grace’s full content.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Beside the haughty Protector, have we Beaufort
+The imperious churchman, Somerset, Buckingham,
+And grumbling York; and not the least of these
+But can do more in England than the King.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+And he of these that can do most of all
+Cannot do more in England than the Nevilles;
+Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Not all these lords do vex me half so much
+As that proud dame, the Lord Protector’s wife.
+She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies,
+More like an empress than Duke Humphrey’s wife.
+Strangers in court do take her for the Queen.
+She bears a duke’s revenues on her back,
+And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
+Shall I not live to be avenged on her?
+Contemptuous base-born callet as she is,
+She vaunted ’mongst her minions t’ other day
+The very train of her worst wearing gown
+Was better worth than all my father’s lands
+Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Madam, myself have limed a bush for her
+And placed a quire of such enticing birds
+That she will light to listen to the lays
+And never mount to trouble you again.
+So let her rest; and, madam, list to me,
+For I am bold to counsel you in this:
+Although we fancy not the Cardinal,
+Yet must we join with him and with the lords
+Till we have brought Duke Humphrey in disgrace.
+As for the Duke of York, this late complaint
+Will make but little for his benefit.
+So, one by one, we’ll weed them all at last,
+And you yourself shall steer the happy helm.
+
+Sound a sennet. Enter the King, Gloucester, Cardinal Beaufort,
+Somerset, Buckingham, Salisbury, York, Warwick and the Duchess of
+Gloucester.
+
+KING HENRY.
+For my part, noble lords, I care not which;
+Or Somerset or York, all’s one to me.
+
+YORK.
+If York have ill demeaned himself in France,
+Then let him be denied the regentship.
+
+SOMERSET.
+If Somerset be unworthy of the place,
+Let York be regent; I will yield to him.
+
+WARWICK.
+Whether your Grace be worthy, yea or no,
+Dispute not that; York is the worthier.
+
+CARDINAL.
+Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak.
+
+WARWICK.
+The Cardinal’s not my better in the field.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+All in this presence are thy betters, Warwick.
+
+WARWICK.
+Warwick may live to be the best of all.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Peace, son!—And show some reason, Buckingham,
+Why Somerset should be preferred in this.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Because the King, forsooth, will have it so.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Madam, the King is old enough himself
+To give his censure. These are no women’s matters.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+If he be old enough, what needs your grace
+To be Protector of his excellence?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Madam, I am Protector of the realm,
+And at his pleasure will resign my place.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Resign it then, and leave thine insolence.
+Since thou wert king—as who is king but thou?—
+The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack,
+The Dauphin hath prevailed beyond the seas,
+And all the peers and nobles of the realm
+Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty.
+
+CARDINAL.
+The commons hast thou racked; the clergy’s bags
+Are lank and lean with thy extortions.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife’s attire
+Have cost a mass of public treasury.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Thy cruelty in execution
+Upon offenders hath exceeded law,
+And left thee to the mercy of the law.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Thy sale of offices and towns in France,
+If they were known, as the suspect is great,
+Would make thee quickly hop without thy head.
+
+[_Exit Gloucester. The Queen drops her fan._]
+
+Give me my fan. What minion! Can ye not?
+
+[_She gives the Duchess a box on the ear._]
+
+I cry your mercy, madam; was it you?
+
+ELEANOR.
+Was’t I! Yea, I it was, proud Frenchwoman.
+Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
+I’d set my ten commandments in your face.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Sweet aunt, be quiet; ’twas against her will.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Against her will! Good King, look to ’t in time;
+She’ll hamper thee and dandle thee like a baby.
+Though in this place most master wear no breeches,
+She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unrevenged.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Lord Cardinal, I will follow Eleanor,
+And listen after Humphrey, how he proceeds.
+She’s tickled now; her fume needs no spurs,
+She’ll gallop far enough to her destruction.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Gloucester.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Now, lords, my choler being overblown
+With walking once about the quadrangle,
+I come to talk of commonwealth affairs.
+As for your spiteful false objections,
+Prove them, and I lie open to the law;
+But God in mercy so deal with my soul
+As I in duty love my king and country!
+But, to the matter that we have in hand:
+I say, my sovereign, York is meetest man
+To be your regent in the realm of France.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Before we make election, give me leave
+To show some reason, of no little force,
+That York is most unmeet of any man.
+
+YORK.
+I’ll tell thee, Suffolk, why I am unmeet:
+First, for I cannot flatter thee in pride;
+Next, if I be appointed for the place,
+My Lord of Somerset will keep me here
+Without discharge, money, or furniture,
+Till France be won into the Dauphin’s hands.
+Last time, I danced attendance on his will
+Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost.
+
+WARWICK.
+That can I witness, and a fouler fact
+Did never traitor in the land commit.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Peace, headstrong Warwick!
+
+WARWICK.
+Image of pride, why should I hold my peace?
+
+Enter Horner the armourer and his man Peter, guarded.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Because here is a man accused of treason.
+Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself!
+
+YORK.
+Doth anyone accuse York for a traitor?
+
+KING HENRY.
+What mean’st thou, Suffolk? Tell me, what are these?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Please it your majesty, this is the man
+That doth accuse his master of high treason.
+His words were these: that Richard, Duke of York
+Was rightful heir unto the English crown,
+And that your majesty was an usurper.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Say, man, were these thy words?
+
+HORNER.
+An ’t shall please your majesty, I never said nor thought any such
+matter. God is my witness, I am falsely accused by the villain.
+
+PETER.
+By these ten bones, my lords, he did speak them to me in the garret one
+night as we were scouring my Lord of York’s armour.
+
+YORK.
+Base dunghill villain and mechanical,
+I’ll have thy head for this thy traitor’s speech!—
+I do beseech your royal majesty,
+Let him have all the rigour of the law.
+
+HORNER.
+Alas, my lord, hang me if ever I spake the words. My accuser is my
+prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he
+did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. I have good witness of
+this, therefore I beseech your majesty, do not cast away an honest man
+for a villain’s accusation.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Uncle, what shall we say to this in law?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+This doom, my lord, if I may judge:
+Let Somerset be regent o’er the French,
+Because in York this breeds suspicion;
+And let these have a day appointed them
+For single combat in convenient place,
+For he hath witness of his servant’s malice.
+This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey’s doom.
+
+SOMERSET.
+I humbly thank your royal Majesty.
+
+HORNER.
+And I accept the combat willingly.
+
+PETER.
+Alas, my lord, I cannot fight; for God’s sake, pity my case! The spite
+of man prevaileth against me. O Lord, have mercy upon me! I shall never
+be able to fight a blow. O Lord, my heart!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Sirrah, or you must fight or else be hanged.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Away with them to prison; and the day
+Of combat shall be the last of the next month.
+Come, Somerset, we’ll see thee sent away.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Gloucester’s Garden
+
+Enter the Witch Margery Jourdain, the two Priests, Hume, Southwell and
+Bolingbroke.
+
+HUME.
+Come, my masters. The duchess, I tell you, expects performance of your
+promises.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Master Hume, we are therefore provided. Will her ladyship behold and
+hear our exorcisms?
+
+HUME.
+Ay, what else? Fear you not her courage.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+I have heard her reported to be a woman of an invincible spirit. But it
+shall be convenient, Master Hume, that you be by her aloft while we be
+busy below; and so, I pray you go, in God’s name, and leave us.
+
+[_Exit Hume._]
+
+Mother Jourdain, be you prostrate and grovel on the earth. John
+Southwell, read you; and let us to our work.
+
+Enter Duchess aloft, Hume following.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Well said, my masters; and welcome all. To this gear, the sooner the
+better.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Patience, good lady; wizards know their times.
+Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
+The time of night when Troy was set on fire,
+The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,
+And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves;
+That time best fits the work we have in hand.
+Madam, sit you and fear not. Whom we raise
+We will make fast within a hallowed verge.
+
+[_Here they do the ceremonies belonging, and make the circle;
+Bolingbroke or Southwell reads_ “Conjuro te”, _etc. It thunders and
+lightens terribly; then the Spirit riseth._]
+
+SPIRIT.
+_Adsum_.
+
+M. JOURDAIN.
+Asnath,
+By the eternal God, whose name and power
+Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask;
+For till thou speak thou shalt not pass from hence.
+
+SPIRIT.
+Ask what thou wilt. That I had said and done!
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+[_Reads_.] _First of the King: what shall of him become?_
+
+SPIRIT.
+The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose,
+But him outlive and die a violent death.
+
+[_As the Spirit speaks, Southwell writes the answer._]
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+[_Reads_.] _What fates await the Duke of Suffolk?_
+
+SPIRIT.
+By water shall he die and take his end.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+[_Reads_.] _What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?_
+
+SPIRIT.
+Let him shun castles.
+Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
+Than where castles mounted stand.
+Have done, for more I hardly can endure.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Descend to darkness and the burning lake!
+False fiend, avoid!
+
+[_Thunder and lightning. Exit Spirit._]
+
+Enter the Duke of York and the Duke of Buckingham with their Guard, and
+Sir Humphrey Stafford, and break in.
+
+YORK.
+Lay hands upon these traitors and their trash.
+Beldam, I think we watched you at an inch.
+What, madam, are you there? The King and commonweal
+Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains.
+My Lord Protector will, I doubt it not,
+See you well guerdoned for these good deserts.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Not half so bad as thine to England’s king,
+Injurious duke, that threatest where’s no cause.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+True, madam, none at all. What call you this?
+Away with them! Let them be clapped up close
+And kept asunder.—You, madam, shall with us.—
+Stafford, take her to thee.
+
+[_Exit Stafford._]
+
+[_Exeunt above, Duchess and Hume, guarded._]
+
+We’ll see your trinkets here all forthcoming.
+All, away!
+
+[_Exeunt guard with  Jourdain, Southwell, Bolingbroke, etc._]
+
+YORK.
+Lord Buckingham, methinks you watched her well.
+A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon!
+Now, pray, my lord, let’s see the devil’s writ.
+What have we here?
+[_Reads_.] _The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.
+But him outlive and die a violent death._
+Why, this is just
+_Aio te, Aeacida, Romanos vincere posse._
+Well, to the rest:
+_Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk?
+By water shall he die and take his end.
+What shall betide the Duke of Somerset?
+Let him shun castles;
+Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
+Than where castles mounted stand._
+Come, come, my lords, these oracles
+Are hardly attained, and hardly understood.
+The King is now in progress towards Saint Albans,
+With him the husband of this lovely lady.
+Thither go these news as fast as horse can carry them.
+A sorry breakfast for my Lord Protector.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Your Grace shall give me leave, my Lord of York,
+To be the post, in hope of his reward.
+
+YORK.
+At your pleasure, my good lord.
+
+[_Exit Buckingham._]
+
+Who’s within there, ho!
+
+Enter a Servingman.
+
+Invite my Lords of Salisbury and Warwick
+To sup with me tomorrow night. Away!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Saint Albans
+
+
+Enter the King, Queen, Gloucester, Cardinal and Suffolk with Falconers
+hallooing.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook
+I saw not better sport these seven years’ day;
+Yet, by your leave, the wind was very high,
+And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out.
+
+KING HENRY.
+But what a point, my lord, your falcon made,
+And what a pitch she flew above the rest!
+To see how God in all His creatures works!
+Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+No marvel, an it like your majesty,
+My Lord Protector’s hawks do tower so well;
+They know their master loves to be aloft,
+And bears his thoughts above his falcon’s pitch.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+My lord, ’tis but a base ignoble mind
+That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
+
+CARDINAL.
+I thought as much. He would be above the clouds.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ay, my Lord Cardinal, how think you by that?
+Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven?
+
+KING HENRY.
+The treasury of everlasting joy.
+
+CARDINAL.
+Thy heaven is on earth; thine eyes and thoughts
+Beat on a crown, the treasure of thy heart,
+Pernicious Protector, dangerous peer,
+That smooth’st it so with king and commonweal!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What, cardinal, is your priesthood grown peremptory?
+_Tantaene animis coelestibus irae?_
+Churchmen so hot? Good uncle, hide such malice.
+With such holiness can you do it?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+No malice, sir; no more than well becomes
+So good a quarrel and so bad a peer.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+As who, my lord?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Why, as you, my lord,
+An ’t like your lordly Lord Protectorship.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Why, Suffolk, England knows thine insolence.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+And thy ambition, Gloucester.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I prithee, peace, good queen,
+And whet not on these furious peers;
+For blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
+
+CARDINAL.
+Let me be blessed for the peace I make
+Against this proud Protector, with my sword!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+[_Aside to Cardinal_.] Faith, holy uncle, would ’twere come to that!
+
+CARDINAL.
+[_Aside to Gloucester_.] Marry, when thou dar’st.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+[_Aside to Cardinal_.] Make up no factious numbers for the matter,
+In thine own person answer thy abuse.
+
+CARDINAL.
+[_Aside to Gloucester_.] Ay, where thou dar’st not peep; an if thou
+dar’st,
+This evening, on the east side of the grove.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How now, my lords?
+
+CARDINAL.
+Believe me, cousin Gloucester,
+Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly,
+We had had more sport.—[_Aside to Gloucester_.]
+Come with thy two-hand sword.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+True, uncle.
+[_Aside to Cardinal_.] Are ye advised? The east side of the grove?
+
+CARDINAL.
+[_Aside to Gloucester_.] I am with you.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, how now, uncle Gloucester?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Talking of hawking; nothing else, my lord.
+[_Aside to Cardinal_.] Now, by God’s mother, priest,
+I’ll shave your crown for this,
+Or all my fence shall fail.
+
+CARDINAL.
+[_Aside to Gloucester_.] _Medice, teipsum._—
+Protector, see to ’t well, protect yourself.
+
+KING HENRY.
+The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords.
+How irksome is this music to my heart!
+When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
+I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
+
+Enter a Townsman of Saint Albans, crying, “A miracle!”
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What means this noise?
+Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim?
+
+TOWNSMAN.
+A miracle! A miracle!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Come to the King, and tell him what miracle.
+
+TOWNSMAN.
+Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban’s shrine,
+Within this half hour, hath received his sight,
+A man that ne’er saw in his life before.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Now, God be praised, that to believing souls
+Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!
+
+Enter the Mayor of Saint Albans and his brethren, bearing Simpcox
+between two in a chair, Simpcox’s Wife following.
+
+CARDINAL.
+Here comes the townsmen on procession,
+To present your highness with the man.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Great is his comfort in this earthly vale,
+Although by his sight his sin be multiplied.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Stand by, my masters. Bring him near the King.
+His highness’ pleasure is to talk with him.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Good fellow, tell us here the circumstance,
+That we for thee may glorify the Lord.
+What, hast thou been long blind and now restored?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Born blind, an ’t please your grace.
+
+WIFE.
+Ay, indeed, was he.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+What woman is this?
+
+WIFE.
+His wife, an ’t like your worship.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Hadst thou been his mother, thou couldst have better told.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Where wert thou born?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+At Berwick in the north, an ’t like your grace.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Poor soul, God’s goodness hath been great to thee.
+Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
+But still remember what the Lord hath done.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Tell me, good fellow, cam’st thou here by chance,
+Or of devotion, to this holy shrine?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+God knows, of pure devotion; being called
+A hundred times and oftener, in my sleep,
+By good Saint Alban, who said “Simpcox, come,
+Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee.”
+
+WIFE.
+Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft
+Myself have heard a voice to call him so.
+
+CARDINAL.
+What, art thou lame?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Ay, God Almighty help me!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+How cam’st thou so?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+A fall off of a tree.
+
+WIFE.
+A plum-tree, master.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+How long hast thou been blind?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+O, born so, master.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What, and wouldst climb a tree?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+But that in all my life, when I was a youth.
+
+WIFE.
+Too true; and bought his climbing very dear.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Mass, thou lov’dst plums well, that wouldst venture so.
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Alas, good master, my wife desired some damsons,
+And made me climb, with danger of my life.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+A subtle knave! But yet it shall not serve.—
+Let me see thine eyes. Wink now. Now open them.
+In my opinion yet thou seest not well.
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and Saint Alban.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Sayst thou me so? What colour is this cloak of?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Red, master, red as blood.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Why, that’s well said. What colour is my gown of?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Black, forsooth, coal-black as jet.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, then, thou know’st what colour jet is of?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+And yet, I think, jet did he never see.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+But cloaks and gowns before this day, a many.
+
+WIFE.
+Never before this day in all his life.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Tell me, sirrah, what’s my name?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Alas, master, I know not.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What’s his name?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+I know not.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Nor his?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+No, indeed, master.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What’s thine own name?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Sander Simpcox, an if it please you, master.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Then, Sander, sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom. If thou
+hadst been born blind, thou mightst as well have known all our names as
+thus to name the several colours we do wear. Sight may distinguish of
+colours; but suddenly to nominate them all, it is impossible.—My lords,
+Saint Alban here hath done a miracle; and would ye not think his
+cunning to be great that could restore this cripple to his legs again?
+
+SIMPCOX.
+O master, that you could!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+My masters of Saint Albans, have you not beadles in your town, and
+things called whips?
+
+MAYOR.
+Yes, my lord, if it please your grace.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Then send for one presently.
+
+MAYOR.
+Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight.
+
+[_Exit a Townsman._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Now fetch me a stool hither by and by.—Now, sirrah, if you mean to save
+yourself from whipping, leap me over this stool and run away.
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Alas, master, I am not able to stand alone.
+You go about to torture me in vain.
+
+Enter a Beadle with whips.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Well, sir, we must have you find your legs.
+Sirrah beadle, whip him till he leap over that same stool.
+
+BEADLE.
+I will, my lord.—Come on, sirrah; off with your doublet quickly.
+
+SIMPCOX.
+Alas, master, what shall I do? I am not able to stand.
+
+[_After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leaps over the stool and runs
+away; and they follow and cry, “A miracle!”_]
+
+KING HENRY.
+O God, seest Thou this, and bearest so long?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+It made me laugh to see the villain run.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Follow the knave, and take this drab away.
+
+WIFE.
+Alas, sir, we did it for pure need.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Let them be whipped through every market town
+Till they come to Berwick, from whence they came.
+
+[_Exeunt Wife, Beadle, Mayor, etc._]
+
+CARDINAL.
+Duke Humphrey has done a miracle today.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+True, made the lame to leap and fly away.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+But you have done more miracles than I.
+You made in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly.
+
+Enter Buckingham.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What tidings with our cousin Buckingham?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold.
+A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent,
+Under the countenance and confederacy
+Of Lady Eleanor, the Protector’s wife,
+The ringleader and head of all this rout,
+Have practised dangerously against your state,
+Dealing with witches and with conjurers,
+Whom we have apprehended in the fact,
+Raising up wicked spirits from under ground,
+Demanding of King Henry’s life and death,
+And other of your highness’ Privy Council,
+As more at large your Grace shall understand.
+
+CARDINAL.
+[_Aside to Gloucester_.] And so, my Lord Protector, by this means
+Your lady is forthcoming yet at London.
+This news, I think, hath turned your weapon’s edge;
+’Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart.
+Sorrow and grief have vanquished all my powers,
+And, vanquished as I am, I yield to thee,
+Or to the meanest groom.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones,
+Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest,
+And look thyself be faultless, thou wert best.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Madam, for myself, to heaven I do appeal
+How I have loved my king and commonweal;
+And, for my wife, I know not how it stands.
+Sorry I am to hear what I have heard.
+Noble she is; but if she have forgot
+Honour and virtue, and conversed with such
+As like to pitch defile nobility,
+I banish her my bed and company
+And give her as a prey to law and shame
+That hath dishonoured Gloucester’s honest name.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Well, for this night we will repose us here;
+Tomorrow toward London back again,
+To look into this business thoroughly,
+And call these foul offenders to their answers,
+And poise the cause in Justice’ equal scales,
+Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. London. The Duke of York’s Garden
+
+Enter York, Salisbury and Warwick.
+
+YORK.
+Now, my good Lords of Salisbury and Warwick,
+Our simple supper ended, give me leave
+In this close walk to satisfy myself
+In craving your opinion of my title,
+Which is infallible, to England’s crown.
+
+SALISBURY.
+My lord, I long to hear it at full.
+
+WARWICK.
+Sweet York, begin; and if thy claim be good,
+The Nevilles are thy subjects to command.
+
+YORK.
+Then thus:
+Edward the Third, my lords, had seven sons:
+The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales;
+The second, William of Hatfield; and the third,
+Lionel, Duke of Clarence; next to whom
+Was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster;
+The fifth was Edmund Langley, Duke of York;
+The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester;
+William of Windsor was the seventh and last.
+Edward the Black Prince died before his father
+And left behind him Richard, his only son,
+Who after Edward the Third’s death reigned as king,
+Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster,
+The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt,
+Crowned by the name of Henry the Fourth,
+Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king,
+Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came,
+And him to Pomfret; where, as all you know,
+Harmless Richard was murdered traitorously.
+
+WARWICK.
+Father, the Duke hath told the truth;
+Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown.
+
+YORK.
+Which now they hold by force and not by right;
+For Richard, the first son’s heir, being dead,
+The issue of the next son should have reigned.
+
+SALISBURY.
+But William of Hatfield died without an heir.
+
+YORK.
+The third son, Duke of Clarence, from whose line
+I claim the crown, had issue, Philippa, a daughter,
+Who married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.
+Edmund had issue, Roger, Earl of March;
+Roger had issue, Edmund, Anne, and Eleanor.
+
+SALISBURY.
+This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke,
+As I have read, laid claim unto the crown
+And, but for Owen Glendower, had been king,
+Who kept him in captivity till he died.
+But to the rest.
+
+YORK.
+His eldest sister, Anne,
+My mother, being heir unto the crown,
+Married Richard Earl of Cambridge, who was son
+To Edmund Langley, Edward the Third’s fifth son.
+By her I claim the kingdom; she was heir
+To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son
+Of Edmund Mortimer, who married Philippa,
+Sole daughter unto Lionel, Duke of Clarence.
+So, if the issue of the elder son
+Succeed before the younger, I am king.
+
+WARWICK.
+What plain proceeding is more plain than this?
+Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt,
+The fourth son; York claims it from the third.
+Till Lionel’s issue fails, his should not reign;
+It fails not yet, but flourishes in thee
+And in thy sons, fair slips of such a stock.
+Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together,
+And in this private plot be we the first
+That shall salute our rightful sovereign
+With honour of his birthright to the crown.
+
+BOTH.
+Long live our sovereign Richard, England’s king!
+
+YORK.
+We thank you, lords. But I am not your king
+Till I be crowned, and that my sword be stained
+With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster;
+And that’s not suddenly to be performed,
+But with advice and silent secrecy.
+Do you as I do in these dangerous days—
+Wink at the Duke of Suffolk’s insolence,
+At Beaufort’s pride, at Somerset’s ambition,
+At Buckingham, and all the crew of them,
+Till they have snared the shepherd of the flock,
+That virtuous prince, the good Duke Humphrey.
+’Tis that they seek; and they, in seeking that,
+Shall find their deaths, if York can prophesy.
+
+SALISBURY.
+My lord, break we off; we know your mind at full.
+
+WARWICK.
+My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick
+Shall one day make the Duke of York a king.
+
+YORK.
+And, Neville, this I do assure myself:
+Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick
+The greatest man in England but the king.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A Hall of Justice
+
+Sound trumpets. Enter the King, the Queen, Gloucester, York, Suffolk
+and Salisbury; the Duchess of Gloucester, Margery Jourdain, Southwell,
+Hume and Bolingbroke under guard.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Stand forth, Dame Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester’s wife.
+In sight of God and us, your guilt is great;
+Receive the sentence of the law for sins
+Such as by God’s book are adjudged to death.
+You four, from hence to prison back again;
+From thence unto the place of execution.
+The witch in Smithfield shall be burnt to ashes,
+And you three shall be strangled on the gallows.
+You, madam, for you are more nobly born,
+Despoiled of your honour in your life,
+Shall, after three days’ open penance done,
+Live in your country here in banishment,
+With Sir John Stanley in the Isle of Man.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Welcome is banishment; welcome were my death.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Eleanor, the law, thou seest, hath judged thee.
+I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
+
+[_Exeunt Duchess and the other prisoners, guarded._]
+
+Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
+Ah, Humphrey, this dishonour in thine age
+Will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground!—
+I beseech your majesty, give me leave to go;
+Sorrow would solace, and mine age would ease.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Stay, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester. Ere thou go,
+Give up thy staff. Henry will to himself
+Protector be; and God shall be my hope,
+My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet.
+And go in peace, Humphrey, no less beloved
+Than when thou wert Protector to thy king.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+I see no reason why a king of years
+Should be to be protected like a child.
+God and King Henry govern England’s realm!
+Give up your staff, sir, and the King his realm.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+My staff? Here, noble Henry, is my staff.
+As willingly do I the same resign
+As e’er thy father Henry made it mine;
+And even as willingly at thy feet I leave it
+As others would ambitiously receive it.
+Farewell, good King. When I am dead and gone,
+May honourable peace attend thy throne.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Why, now is Henry King and Margaret Queen,
+And Humphrey Duke of Gloucester scarce himself,
+That bears so shrewd a maim. Two pulls at once;
+His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.
+This staff of honour raught, there let it stand
+Where it best fits to be, in Henry’s hand.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays;
+Thus Eleanor’s pride dies in her youngest days.
+
+YORK.
+Lords, let him go.—Please it your majesty,
+This is the day appointed for the combat,
+And ready are the appellant and defendant,
+The armourer and his man, to enter the lists,
+So please your highness to behold the fight.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ay, good my lord; for purposely therefore
+Left I the court to see this quarrel tried.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I’ God’s name, see the lists and all things fit.
+Here let them end it, and God defend the right!
+
+YORK.
+I never saw a fellow worse bested,
+Or more afraid to fight, than is the appellant,
+The servant of his armourer, my lords.
+
+Enter at one door Horner the armourer, and his Neighbours, drinking to
+him so much that he is drunk; and he enters with a drum before him and
+his staff with a sandbag fastened to it; and at the other door Peter,
+his man, with a drum and sandbag, and Prentices  drinking to him.
+
+1 NEIGHBOUR.
+Here, neighbour Horner, I drink to you in a cup of sack; and fear not,
+neighbour, you shall do well enough.
+
+2 NEIGHBOUR.
+And here, neighbour, here’s a cup of charneco.
+
+3 NEIGHBOUR.
+And here’s a pot of good double beer, neighbour. Drink, and fear not
+your man.
+
+HORNER.
+Let it come, i’ faith, and I’ll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
+
+1 PRENTICE.
+Here, Peter, I drink to thee, and be not afraid.
+
+2 PRENTICE.
+Be merry, Peter, and fear not thy master. Fight for credit of the
+prentices.
+
+PETER.
+I thank you all. Drink, and pray for me, I pray you, for I think I have
+taken my last draught in this world. Here, Robin, an if I die, I give
+thee my apron; and, Will, thou shalt have my hammer; and here, Tom,
+take all the money that I have. O Lord bless me! I pray God, for I am
+never able to deal with my master, he hath learnt so much fence
+already.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Come, leave your drinking and fall to blows.
+Sirrah, what’s thy name?
+
+PETER.
+Peter, forsooth.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Peter? What more?
+
+PETER.
+Thump.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Thump! Then see thou thump thy master well.
+
+HORNER.
+Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my man’s instigation, to
+prove him a knave and myself an honest man; and touching the Duke of
+York, I will take my death I never meant him any ill, nor the King, nor
+the Queen; and therefore, Peter, have at thee with a downright blow!
+
+YORK.
+Dispatch! This knave’s tongue begins to double.
+Sound, trumpets. Alarum to the combatants!
+
+[_They fight, and Peter strikes him down._]
+
+HORNER.
+Hold, Peter, hold! I confess, I confess treason.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+YORK.
+Take away his weapon.—Fellow, thank God and the good wine in thy
+master’s way.
+
+PETER.
+O God, have I overcome mine enemies in this presence? O Peter, thou
+hast prevailed in right!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Go, take hence that traitor from our sight,
+For by his death we do perceive his guilt.
+And God in justice hath revealed to us
+The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,
+Which he had thought to have murdered wrongfully.
+Come, fellow, follow us for thy reward.
+
+[_Sound a flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A Street
+
+Enter Gloucester and his Servingmen in mourning cloaks.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud,
+And after summer evermore succeeds
+Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold;
+So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
+Sirs, what’s o’clock?
+
+SERVINGMEN.
+Ten, my lord.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ten is the hour that was appointed me
+To watch the coming of my punished duchess.
+Uneath may she endure the flinty streets,
+To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.
+Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook
+The abject people gazing on thy face
+With envious looks, laughing at thy shame,
+That erst did follow thy proud chariot wheels
+When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets.
+But, soft! I think she comes; and I’ll prepare
+My tear-stained eyes to see her miseries.
+
+Enter the Duchess of Gloucester in a white sheet, and a taper burning
+in her hand; with Sir John Stanley, the Sheriff, and Officers.
+
+SERVINGMEN.
+So please your Grace, we’ll take her from the sheriff.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+No, stir not for your lives; let her pass by.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Come you, my lord, to see my open shame?
+Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze!
+See how the giddy multitude do point,
+And nod their heads, and throw their eyes on thee.
+Ah, Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks,
+And, in thy closet pent up, rue my shame,
+And ban thine enemies, both mine and thine!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Be patient, gentle Nell, forget this grief.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself!
+For whilst I think I am thy married wife
+And thou a prince, Protector of this land,
+Methinks I should not thus be led along,
+Mailed up in shame, with papers on my back,
+And followed with a rabble that rejoice
+To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.
+The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,
+And when I start, the envious people laugh
+And bid me be advised how I tread.
+Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?
+Trowest thou that e’er I’ll look upon the world,
+Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?
+No, dark shall be my light and night my day;
+To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.
+Sometimes I’ll say, I am Duke Humphrey’s wife,
+And he a prince and ruler of the land;
+Yet so he ruled and such a prince he was
+As he stood by whilst I, his forlorn duchess,
+Was made a wonder and a pointing-stock
+To every idle rascal follower.
+But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,
+Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death
+Hang over thee, as, sure, it shortly will.
+For Suffolk, he that can do all in all
+With her that hateth thee and hates us all,
+And York and impious Beaufort, that false priest,
+Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings;
+And fly thou how thou canst, they’ll tangle thee.
+But fear not thou until thy foot be snared,
+Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ah, Nell, forbear! Thou aimest all awry.
+I must offend before I be attainted;
+And had I twenty times so many foes,
+And each of them had twenty times their power,
+All these could not procure me any scathe
+So long as I am loyal, true, and crimeless.
+Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach?
+Why, yet thy scandal were not wiped away,
+But I in danger for the breach of law.
+Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell.
+I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience;
+These few days’ wonder will be quickly worn.
+
+Enter a Herald.
+
+HERALD.
+I summon your grace to his majesty’s parliament,
+Holden at Bury the first of this next month.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+And my consent ne’er asked herein before?
+This is close dealing. Well, I will be there.
+
+[_Exit Herald._]
+
+My Nell, I take my leave; and, master sheriff,
+Let not her penance exceed the King’s commission.
+
+SHERIFF.
+An ’t please your grace, here my commission stays,
+And Sir John Stanley is appointed now
+To take her with him to the Isle of Man.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?
+
+STANLEY.
+So am I given in charge, may ’t please your grace.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Entreat her not the worse in that I pray
+You use her well. The world may laugh again,
+And I may live to do you kindness if
+You do it her. And so, Sir John, farewell.
+
+ELEANOR.
+What, gone, my lord, and bid me not farewell?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Witness my tears, I cannot stay to speak.
+
+[_Exeunt Gloucester and Servingmen._]
+
+ELEANOR.
+Art thou gone too? All comfort go with thee,
+For none abides with me; my joy is death;
+Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard,
+Because I wished this world’s eternity.
+Stanley, I prithee, go, and take me hence,
+I care not whither, for I beg no favour,
+Only convey me where thou art commanded.
+
+STANLEY.
+Why, madam, that is to the Isle of Man,
+There to be used according to your state.
+
+ELEANOR.
+That’s bad enough, for I am but reproach;
+And shall I then be used reproachfully?
+
+STANLEY.
+Like to a duchess, and Duke Humphrey’s lady;
+According to that state you shall be used.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Sheriff, farewell, and better than I fare,
+Although thou hast been conduct of my shame.
+
+SHERIFF.
+It is my office; and, madam, pardon me.
+
+ELEANOR.
+Ay, ay, farewell; thy office is discharged.
+Come, Stanley, shall we go?
+
+STANLEY.
+Madam, your penance done, throw off this sheet,
+And go we to attire you for our journey.
+
+ELEANOR.
+My shame will not be shifted with my sheet,
+No, it will hang upon my richest robes
+And show itself, attire me how I can.
+Go, lead the way, I long to see my prison.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. The Abbey at Bury St. Edmund’s
+
+
+Sound a sennet. Enter the King, the Queen, Cardinal Beaufort, Suffolk,
+York, Buckingham, Salisbury and Warwick to the Parliament.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I muse my Lord of Gloucester is not come.
+’Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,
+Whate’er occasion keeps him from us now.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Can you not see, or will ye not observe
+The strangeness of his altered countenance?
+With what a majesty he bears himself,
+How insolent of late he is become,
+How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself?
+We know the time since he was mild and affable;
+And if we did but glance a far-off look,
+Immediately he was upon his knee,
+That all the court admired him for submission.
+But meet him now, and be it in the morn
+When everyone will give the time of day,
+He knits his brow and shows an angry eye
+And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee,
+Disdaining duty that to us belongs.
+Small curs are not regarded when they grin,
+But great men tremble when the lion roars;
+And Humphrey is no little man in England.
+First note that he is near you in descent,
+And should you fall, he is the next will mount.
+Me seemeth then it is no policy,
+Respecting what a rancorous mind he bears
+And his advantage following your decease,
+That he should come about your royal person
+Or be admitted to your Highness’ Council.
+By flattery hath he won the commons’ hearts;
+And when he please to make commotion,
+’Tis to be feared they all will follow him.
+Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
+Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden
+And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
+The reverent care I bear unto my lord
+Made me collect these dangers in the Duke.
+If it be fond, can it a woman’s fear;
+Which fear if better reasons can supplant,
+I will subscribe and say I wronged the Duke.
+My Lord of Suffolk, Buckingham, and York,
+Reprove my allegation if you can,
+Or else conclude my words effectual.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Well hath your highness seen into this Duke;
+And, had I first been put to speak my mind,
+I think I should have told your grace’s tale.
+The Duchess by his subornation,
+Upon my life, began her devilish practices;
+Or, if he were not privy to those faults,
+Yet, by reputing of his high descent,
+As next the King he was successive heir,
+And such high vaunts of his nobility—
+Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick Duchess
+By wicked means to frame our sovereign’s fall.
+Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
+And in his simple show he harbours treason.
+The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
+No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man
+Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.
+
+CARDINAL.
+Did he not, contrary to form of law,
+Devise strange deaths for small offences done?
+
+YORK.
+And did he not, in his protectorship,
+Levy great sums of money through the realm
+For soldiers’ pay in France, and never sent it?
+By means whereof the towns each day revolted.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Tut, these are petty faults to faults unknown,
+Which time will bring to light in smooth Duke Humphrey.
+
+KING HENRY.
+My lords, at once: the care you have of us
+To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot
+Is worthy praise; but, shall I speak my conscience,
+Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent
+From meaning treason to our royal person
+As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove.
+The Duke is virtuous, mild, and too well given
+To dream on evil or to work my downfall.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ah, what’s more dangerous than this fond affiance?
+Seems he a dove? His feathers are but borrowed,
+For he’s disposed as the hateful raven.
+Is he a lamb? His skin is surely lent him,
+For he’s inclined as is the ravenous wolves.
+Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?
+Take heed, my lord; the welfare of us all
+Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man.
+
+Enter Somerset.
+
+SOMERSET.
+All health unto my gracious sovereign!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Welcome, Lord Somerset. What news from France?
+
+SOMERSET.
+That all your interest in those territories
+Is utterly bereft you; all is lost.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Cold news, Lord Somerset; but God’s will be done.
+
+YORK.
+[_Aside_.] Cold news for me, for I had hope of France
+As firmly as I hope for fertile England.
+Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud,
+And caterpillars eat my leaves away;
+But I will remedy this gear ere long,
+Or sell my title for a glorious grave.
+
+Enter Gloucester.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+All happiness unto my lord the King!
+Pardon, my liege, that I have staid so long.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Nay, Gloucester, know that thou art come too soon,
+Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art.
+I do arrest thee of high treason here.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Well, Suffolk, thou shalt not see me blush,
+Nor change my countenance for this arrest.
+A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.
+The purest spring is not so free from mud
+As I am clear from treason to my sovereign.
+Who can accuse me? Wherein am I guilty?
+
+YORK.
+’Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes of France,
+And, being Protector, stayed the soldiers’ pay,
+By means whereof his highness hath lost France.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Is it but thought so? What are they that think it?
+I never robbed the soldiers of their pay,
+Nor ever had one penny bribe from France.
+So help me God, as I have watched the night,
+Ay, night by night, in studying good for England!
+That doit that e’er I wrested from the King,
+Or any groat I hoarded to my use,
+Be brought against me at my trial day!
+No, many a pound of mine own proper store,
+Because I would not tax the needy commons,
+Have I dispursed to the garrisons
+And never asked for restitution.
+
+CARDINAL.
+It serves you well, my lord, to say so much.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I say no more than truth, so help me God!
+
+YORK.
+In your protectorship you did devise
+Strange tortures for offenders never heard of,
+That England was defamed by tyranny.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Why, ’tis well known that, whiles I was Protector,
+Pity was all the fault that was in me;
+For I should melt at an offender’s tears,
+And lowly words were ransom for their fault.
+Unless it were a bloody murderer,
+Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers,
+I never gave them condign punishment.
+Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured
+Above the felon or what trespass else.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+My lord, these faults are easy, quickly answered;
+But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge
+Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself.
+I do arrest you in his highness’ name,
+And here commit you to my Lord Cardinal
+To keep until your further time of trial.
+
+KING HENRY.
+My Lord of Gloucester, ’tis my special hope
+That you will clear yourself from all suspense.
+My conscience tells me you are innocent.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous.
+Virtue is choked with foul ambition,
+And charity chased hence by rancour’s hand;
+Foul subornation is predominant,
+And equity exiled your highness’ land.
+I know their complot is to have my life;
+And if my death might make this island happy
+And prove the period of their tyranny,
+I would expend it with all willingness.
+But mine is made the prologue to their play;
+For thousands more, that yet suspect no peril,
+Will not conclude their plotted tragedy.
+Beaufort’s red sparkling eyes blab his heart’s malice,
+And Suffolk’s cloudy brow his stormy hate;
+Sharp Buckingham unburdens with his tongue
+The envious load that lies upon his heart;
+And dogged York, that reaches at the moon,
+Whose overweening arm I have plucked back,
+By false accuse doth level at my life.
+And you, my sovereign lady, with the rest,
+Causeless have laid disgraces on my head
+And with your best endeavour have stirred up
+My liefest liege to be mine enemy.
+Ay, all of you have laid your heads together—
+Myself had notice of your conventicles—
+And all to make away my guiltless life.
+I shall not want false witness to condemn me,
+Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt.
+The ancient proverb will be well effected:
+“A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.”
+
+CARDINAL.
+My liege, his railing is intolerable.
+If those that care to keep your royal person
+From treason’s secret knife and traitor’s rage
+Be thus upbraided, chid, and rated at,
+And the offender granted scope of speech,
+’Twill make them cool in zeal unto your grace.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here
+With ignominious words, though clerkly couched,
+As if she had suborned some to swear
+False allegations to o’erthrow his state?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+But I can give the loser leave to chide.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Far truer spoke than meant. I lose, indeed.
+Beshrew the winners, for they played me false!
+And well such losers may have leave to speak.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+He’ll wrest the sense and hold us here all day.
+Lord Cardinal, he is your prisoner.
+
+CARDINAL.
+Sirs, take away the Duke, and guard him sure.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ah, thus King Henry throws away his crutch
+Before his legs be firm to bear his body.
+Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,
+And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
+Ah, that my fear were false; ah, that it were!
+For, good King Henry, thy decay I fear.
+
+[_Exit Gloucester, guarded._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+My lords, what to your wisdoms seemeth best
+Do, or undo, as if ourself were here.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+What, will your highness leave the parliament?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ay, Margaret; my heart is drowned with grief,
+Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes,
+My body round engirt with misery;
+For what’s more miserable than discontent?
+Ah, uncle Humphrey, in thy face I see
+The map of honour, truth, and loyalty;
+And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come
+That e’er I proved thee false or feared thy faith.
+What louring star now envies thy estate
+That these great lords and Margaret our Queen
+Do seek subversion of thy harmless life?
+Thou never didst them wrong nor no man wrong.
+And as the butcher takes away the calf
+And binds the wretch and beats it when it strains,
+Bearing it to the bloody slaughterhouse,
+Even so remorseless have they borne him hence;
+And as the dam runs lowing up and down,
+Looking the way her harmless young one went,
+And can do naught but wail her darling’s loss,
+Even so myself bewails good Gloucester’s case
+With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimmed eyes
+Look after him, and cannot do him good,
+So mighty are his vowed enemies.
+His fortunes I will weep and ’twixt each groan
+Say “Who’s a traitor? Gloucester he is none.”
+
+[_Exeunt all but Queen, Cardinal Beaufort, Suffolk and York; Somerset
+remains apart._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun’s hot beams.
+Henry my lord is cold in great affairs,
+Too full of foolish pity; and Gloucester’s show
+Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile
+With sorrow snares relenting passengers,
+Or as the snake, rolled in a flowering bank,
+With shining checkered slough, doth sting a child
+That for the beauty thinks it excellent.
+Believe me, lords, were none more wise than I—
+And yet herein I judge mine own wit good—
+This Gloucester should be quickly rid the world,
+To rid us from the fear we have of him.
+
+CARDINAL.
+That he should die is worthy policy,
+But yet we want a colour for his death.
+’Tis meet he be condemned by course of law.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+But, in my mind, that were no policy.
+The King will labour still to save his life,
+The commons haply rise to save his life,
+And yet we have but trivial argument,
+More than mistrust, that shows him worthy death.
+
+YORK.
+So that, by this, you would not have him die.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Ah, York, no man alive so fain as I!
+
+YORK.
+’Tis York that hath more reason for his death.
+But, my Lord Cardinal, and you, my Lord of Suffolk,
+Say as you think, and speak it from your souls:
+Were ’t not all one an empty eagle were set
+To guard the chicken from a hungry kite,
+As place Duke Humphrey for the King’s Protector?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+So the poor chicken should be sure of death.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Madam, ’tis true; and were ’t not madness then
+To make the fox surveyor of the fold,
+Who being accused a crafty murderer,
+His guilt should be but idly posted over
+Because his purpose is not executed?
+No, let him die in that he is a fox,
+By nature proved an enemy to the flock,
+Before his chaps be stained with crimson blood,
+As Humphrey, proved by reasons, to my liege.
+And do not stand on quillets how to slay him;
+Be it by gins, by snares, by subtlety,
+Sleeping or waking, ’tis no matter how,
+So he be dead; for that is good deceit
+Which mates him first that first intends deceit.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Thrice-noble Suffolk, ’tis resolutely spoke.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Not resolute, except so much were done,
+For things are often spoke and seldom meant;
+But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,
+Seeing the deed is meritorious,
+And to preserve my sovereign from his foe,
+Say but the word, and I will be his priest.
+
+CARDINAL.
+But I would have him dead, my Lord of Suffolk,
+Ere you can take due orders for a priest.
+Say you consent and censure well the deed,
+And I’ll provide his executioner.
+I tender so the safety of my liege.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Here is my hand, the deed is worthy doing.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+And so say I.
+
+YORK.
+And I. And now we three have spoke it,
+It skills not greatly who impugns our doom.
+
+Enter a Post.
+
+POST.
+Great lords, from Ireland am I come amain
+To signify that rebels there are up
+And put the Englishmen unto the sword.
+Send succours, lords, and stop the rage betime,
+Before the wound do grow uncurable;
+For, being green, there is great hope of help.
+
+CARDINAL.
+A breach that craves a quick expedient stop!
+What counsel give you in this weighty cause?
+
+YORK.
+That Somerset be sent as regent thither.
+’Tis meet that lucky ruler be employed;
+Witness the fortune he hath had in France.
+
+SOMERSET.
+If York, with all his far-fet policy,
+Had been the regent there instead of me,
+He never would have stayed in France so long.
+
+YORK.
+No, not to lose it all as thou hast done.
+I rather would have lost my life betimes
+Than bring a burden of dishonour home
+By staying there so long till all were lost.
+Show me one scar charactered on thy skin;
+Men’s flesh preserved so whole do seldom win.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Nay then, this spark will prove a raging fire
+If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with.
+No more, good York. Sweet Somerset, be still.
+Thy fortune, York, hadst thou been regent there,
+Might happily have proved far worse than his.
+
+YORK.
+What, worse than naught? Nay, then a shame take all!
+
+SOMERSET.
+And, in the number, thee that wishest shame!
+
+CARDINAL.
+My Lord of York, try what your fortune is.
+Th’ uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms
+And temper clay with blood of Englishmen.
+To Ireland will you lead a band of men,
+Collected choicely, from each county some,
+And try your hap against the Irishmen?
+
+YORK.
+I will, my lord, so please his majesty.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Why, our authority is his consent,
+And what we do establish he confirms.
+Then, noble York, take thou this task in hand.
+
+YORK.
+I am content. Provide me soldiers, lords,
+Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+A charge, Lord York, that I will see performed.
+But now return we to the false Duke Humphrey.
+
+CARDINAL.
+No more of him; for I will deal with him
+That henceforth he shall trouble us no more.
+And so break off; the day is almost spent.
+Lord Suffolk, you and I must talk of that event.
+
+YORK.
+My Lord of Suffolk, within fourteen days
+At Bristol I expect my soldiers;
+For there I’ll ship them all for Ireland.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I’ll see it truly done, my Lord of York.
+
+[_Exeunt all but York._]
+
+YORK.
+Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts,
+And change misdoubt to resolution.
+Be that thou hop’st to be, or what thou art
+Resign to death; it is not worth th’ enjoying.
+Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man
+And find no harbour in a royal heart.
+Faster than springtime showers comes thought on thought,
+And not a thought but thinks on dignity.
+My brain, more busy than the labouring spider
+Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
+Well, nobles, well, ’tis politicly done,
+To send me packing with an host of men;
+I fear me you but warm the starved snake,
+Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts.
+’Twas men I lacked, and you will give them me;
+I take it kindly, yet be well assured
+You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.
+Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band,
+I will stir up in England some black storm
+Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell;
+And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage
+Until the golden circuit on my head,
+Like to the glorious sun’s transparent beams,
+Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
+And for a minister of my intent,
+I have seduced a headstrong Kentishman,
+John Cade of Ashford,
+To make commotion, as full well he can,
+Under the title of John Mortimer.
+In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade
+Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,
+And fought so long till that his thighs with darts
+Were almost like a sharp-quilled porpentine;
+And in the end being rescued, I have seen
+Him caper upright like a wild Morisco,
+Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.
+Full often, like a shag-haired crafty kern,
+Hath he conversed with the enemy,
+And undiscovered come to me again
+And given me notice of their villainies.
+This devil here shall be my substitute;
+For that John Mortimer, which now is dead,
+In face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble.
+By this I shall perceive the commons’ mind,
+How they affect the house and claim of York.
+Say he be taken, racked, and tortured,
+I know no pain they can inflict upon him
+Will make him say I moved him to those arms.
+Say that he thrive, as ’tis great like he will,
+Why then from Ireland come I with my strength
+And reap the harvest which that rascal sowed.
+For Humphrey being dead, as he shall be,
+And Henry put apart, the next for me.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Bury St. Edmund’s. A Room of State
+
+Enter two or three Murderers running over the stage, from the murder of
+Duke Humphrey.
+
+1 MURDERER.
+Run to my Lord of Suffolk; let him know
+We have dispatched the Duke as he commanded.
+
+2 MURDERER.
+O that it were to do! What have we done?
+Didst ever hear a man so penitent?
+
+Enter Suffolk.
+
+1 MURDERER.
+Here comes my lord.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Now, sirs, have you dispatched this thing?
+
+1 MURDERER.
+Ay, my good lord, he’s dead.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Why, that’s well said. Go, get you to my house;
+I will reward you for this venturous deed.
+The King and all the peers are here at hand.
+Have you laid fair the bed? Is all things well,
+According as I gave directions?
+
+1 MURDERER.
+’Tis, my good lord.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Away, be gone!
+
+[_Exeunt Murderers._]
+
+Sound trumpets. Enter the King, the Queen, Cardinal Beaufort, Somerset
+with attendants.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Go, call our uncle to our presence straight;
+Say we intend to try his grace today
+If he be guilty, as ’tis published.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I’ll call him presently, my noble lord.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all,
+Proceed no straiter ’gainst our uncle Gloucester
+Than from true evidence of good esteem
+He be approved in practice culpable.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+God forbid any malice should prevail
+That faultless may condemn a nobleman!
+Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!
+
+KING HENRY.
+I thank thee, Meg; these words content me much.
+
+Enter Suffolk.
+
+How now? Why look’st thou pale? Why tremblest thou?
+Where is our uncle? What’s the matter, Suffolk?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Dead in his bed, my lord; Gloucester is dead.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Marry, God forfend!
+
+CARDINAL.
+God’s secret judgment! I did dream tonight
+The Duke was dumb and could not speak a word.
+
+[_The King swoons._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+How fares my lord? Help, lords! the King is dead.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Rear up his body; wring him by the nose.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Run, go, help, help! O Henry, ope thine eyes!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+He doth revive again. Madam, be patient.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O heavenly God!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+How fares my gracious lord?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Comfort, my sovereign! Gracious Henry, comfort!
+
+KING HENRY.
+What, doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?
+Came he right now to sing a raven’s note,
+Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers,
+And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,
+By crying comfort from a hollow breast,
+Can chase away the first-conceived sound?
+Hide not thy poison with such sugared words;
+Lay not thy hands on me. Forbear, I say!
+Their touch affrights me as a serpent’s sting.
+Thou baleful messenger, out of my sight!
+Upon thy eyeballs murderous tyranny
+Sits in grim majesty to fright the world.
+Look not upon me, for thine eyes are wounding.
+Yet do not go away; come, basilisk,
+And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight.
+For in the shade of death I shall find joy,
+In life but double death, now Gloucester’s dead.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolk thus?
+Although the Duke was enemy to him,
+Yet he most Christian-like laments his death.
+And for myself, foe as he was to me,
+Might liquid tears or heart-offending groans
+Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,
+I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,
+Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs,
+And all to have the noble Duke alive.
+What know I how the world may deem of me?
+For it is known we were but hollow friends.
+It may be judged I made the Duke away;
+So shall my name with slander’s tongue be wounded
+And princes’ courts be filled with my reproach.
+This get I by his death. Ay me, unhappy!
+To be a queen, and crowned with infamy!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ah, woe is me for Gloucester, wretched man!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Be woe for me, more wretched than he is.
+What, dost thou turn away and hide thy face?
+I am no loathsome leper. Look on me.
+What, art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?
+Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn Queen.
+Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester’s tomb?
+Why, then, Dame Margaret was ne’er thy joy.
+Erect his statue and worship it,
+And make my image but an alehouse sign.
+Was I for this nigh wracked upon the sea
+And twice by awkward wind from England’s bank
+Drove back again unto my native clime?
+What boded this, but well forewarning wind
+Did seem to say “Seek not a scorpion’s nest,
+Nor set no footing on this unkind shore?”
+What did I then, but cursed the gentle gusts
+And he that loosed them forth their brazen caves
+And bid them blow towards England’s blessed shore
+Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock?
+Yet Aeolus would not be a murderer,
+But left that hateful office unto thee.
+The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me,
+Knowing that thou wouldst have me drowned on shore
+With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness.
+The splitting rocks cowered in the sinking sands
+And would not dash me with their ragged sides,
+Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they,
+Might in thy palace perish Margaret.
+As far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs,
+When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,
+I stood upon the hatches in the storm,
+And when the dusky sky began to rob
+My earnest-gaping sight of thy land’s view,
+I took a costly jewel from my neck—
+A heart it was, bound in with diamonds—
+And threw it towards thy land. The sea received it,
+And so I wished thy body might my heart.
+And even with this I lost fair England’s view,
+And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart,
+And called them blind and dusky spectacles,
+For losing ken of Albion’s wished coast.
+How often have I tempted Suffolk’s tongue,
+The agent of thy foul inconstancy,
+To sit and witch me, as Ascanius did
+When he to madding Dido would unfold
+His father’s acts commenced in burning Troy!
+Am I not witched like her? Or thou not false like him?
+Ay me, I can no more! Die, Margaret,
+For Henry weeps that thou dost live so long.
+
+Noise within. Enter Warwick, Salisbury and many Commons.
+
+WARWICK.
+It is reported, mighty sovereign,
+That good Duke Humphrey traitorously is murdered
+By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort’s means.
+The commons, like an angry hive of bees
+That want their leader, scatter up and down
+And care not who they sting in his revenge.
+Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny,
+Until they hear the order of his death.
+
+KING HENRY.
+That he is dead, good Warwick, ’tis too true;
+But how he died God knows, not Henry.
+Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse,
+And comment then upon his sudden death.
+
+WARWICK.
+That shall I do, my liege.—Stay, Salisbury,
+With the rude multitude till I return.
+
+[_Warwick exits through one door; Salisbury and Commons exit through
+another._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts,
+My thoughts that labour to persuade my soul
+Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey’s life.
+If my suspect be false, forgive me, God,
+For judgment only doth belong to Thee.
+Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips
+With twenty thousand kisses, and to drain
+Upon his face an ocean of salt tears,
+To tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk,
+And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling;
+But all in vain are these mean obsequies.
+And to survey his dead and earthy image,
+What were it but to make my sorrow greater?
+
+Enter Warwick and others, bearing Gloucester’s body on a bed.
+
+WARWICK.
+Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.
+
+KING HENRY.
+That is to see how deep my grave is made,
+For with his soul fled all my worldly solace;
+For seeing him, I see my life in death.
+
+WARWICK.
+As surely as my soul intends to live
+With that dread King that took our state upon Him
+To free us from His Father’s wrathful curse,
+I do believe that violent hands were laid
+Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!
+What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?
+
+WARWICK.
+See how the blood is settled in his face.
+Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,
+Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless,
+Being all descended to the labouring heart,
+Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,
+Attracts the same for aidance ’gainst the enemy,
+Which with the heart there cools and ne’er returneth
+To blush and beautify the cheek again.
+But see, his face is black and full of blood,
+His eyeballs further out than when he lived,
+Staring full ghastly like a strangled man;
+His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling,
+His hands abroad displayed, as one that grasped
+And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.
+Look, on the sheets his hair, you see, is sticking;
+His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged,
+Like to the summer’s corn by tempest lodged.
+It cannot be but he was murdered here;
+The least of all these signs were probable.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Why, Warwick, who should do the Duke to death?
+Myself and Beaufort had him in protection,
+And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers.
+
+WARWICK.
+But both of you were vowed Duke Humphrey’s foes,
+And you, forsooth, had the good Duke to keep.
+’Tis like you would not feast him like a friend,
+And ’tis well seen he found an enemy.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Then you, belike, suspect these noblemen
+As guilty of Duke Humphrey’s timeless death.
+
+WARWICK.
+Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh
+And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,
+But will suspect ’twas he that made the slaughter?
+Who finds the partridge in the puttock’s nest
+But may imagine how the bird was dead,
+Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?
+Even so suspicious is this tragedy.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where’s your knife?
+Is Beaufort termed a kite? Where are his talons?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men,
+But here’s a vengeful sword, rusted with ease,
+That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart
+That slanders me with murder’s crimson badge.
+Say, if thou dar’st, proud Lord of Warwickshire,
+That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey’s death.
+
+[_Exeunt Cardinal, Somerset and others._]
+
+WARWICK.
+What dares not Warwick, if false Suffolk dare him?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+He dares not calm his contumelious spirit,
+Nor cease to be an arrogant controller,
+Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times.
+
+WARWICK.
+Madam, be still, with reverence may I say;
+For every word you speak in his behalf
+Is slander to your royal dignity.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour!
+If ever lady wronged her lord so much,
+Thy mother took into her blameful bed
+Some stern untutored churl, and noble stock
+Was graft with crab-tree slip, whose fruit thou art,
+And never of the Nevilles’ noble race.
+
+WARWICK.
+But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee
+And I should rob the deathsman of his fee,
+Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames,
+And that my sovereign’s presence makes me mild,
+I would, false murderous coward, on thy knee
+Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech
+And say it was thy mother that thou meant’st,
+That thou thyself wast born in bastardy;
+And after all this fearful homage done,
+Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell,
+Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Thou shalt be waking while I shed thy blood,
+If from this presence thou dar’st go with me.
+
+WARWICK.
+Away even now, or I will drag thee hence.
+Unworthy though thou art, I’ll cope with thee
+And do some service to Duke Humphrey’s ghost.
+
+[_Exeunt Suffolk and Warwick._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?
+Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
+And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
+Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
+
+[_A noise within._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+What noise is this?
+
+Enter Suffolk and Warwick with their weapons drawn.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, how now, lords? Your wrathful weapons drawn
+Here in our presence? Dare you be so bold?
+Why, what tumultuous clamour have we here?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+The traitorous Warwick with the men of Bury
+Set all upon me, mighty sovereign.
+
+Enter Salisbury.
+
+SALISBURY.
+[_To the Commons, entering_.]
+Sirs, stand apart; the King shall know your mind.—
+Dread lord, the commons send you word by me,
+Unless Lord Suffolk straight be done to death,
+Or banished fair England’s territories,
+They will by violence tear him from your palace
+And torture him with grievous lingering death.
+They say, by him the good Duke Humphrey died;
+They say, in him they fear your highness’ death;
+And mere instinct of love and loyalty,
+Free from a stubborn opposite intent,
+As being thought to contradict your liking,
+Makes them thus forward in his banishment.
+They say, in care of your most royal person,
+That if your highness should intend to sleep
+And charge that no man should disturb your rest,
+In pain of your dislike or pain of death,
+Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict,
+Were there a serpent seen, with forked tongue,
+That slyly glided towards your majesty,
+It were but necessary you were waked,
+Lest, being suffered in that harmful slumber,
+The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal.
+And therefore do they cry, though you forbid,
+That they will guard you, whe’er you will or no,
+From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is,
+With whose envenomed and fatal sting
+Your loving uncle, twenty times his worth,
+They say, is shamefully bereft of life.
+
+COMMONS.
+[_Within_.] An answer from the King, my Lord of Salisbury!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+’Tis like the commons, rude unpolished hinds,
+Could send such message to their sovereign.
+But you, my lord, were glad to be employed,
+To show how quaint an orator you are.
+But all the honour Salisbury hath won
+Is that he was the lord ambassador
+Sent from a sort of tinkers to the King.
+
+COMMONS.
+[_Within_.] An answer from the King, or we will all break in!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Go, Salisbury, and tell them all from me,
+I thank them for their tender loving care;
+And had I not been cited so by them,
+Yet did I purpose as they do entreat.
+For, sure, my thoughts do hourly prophesy
+Mischance unto my state by Suffolk’s means.
+And therefore, by His majesty I swear,
+Whose far unworthy deputy I am,
+He shall not breathe infection in this air
+But three days longer, on the pain of death.
+
+[_Exit Salisbury._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+O Henry, let me plead for gentle Suffolk!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ungentle Queen, to call him gentle Suffolk!
+No more, I say; if thou dost plead for him,
+Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath.
+Had I but said, I would have kept my word;
+But when I swear, it is irrevocable.
+If, after three days’ space, thou here be’st found
+On any ground that I am ruler of,
+The world shall not be ransom for thy life.
+Come, Warwick, come, good Warwick, go with me;
+I have great matters to impart to thee.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Queen and Suffolk._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Mischance and sorrow go along with you!
+Heart’s discontent and sour affliction
+Be playfellows to keep you company!
+There’s two of you; the devil make a third!
+And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Cease, gentle Queen, these execrations,
+And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!
+Has thou not spirit to curse thine enemies?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+A plague upon them! Wherefore should I curse them?
+Could curses kill, as doth the mandrake’s groan,
+I would invent as bitter searching terms,
+As curst, as harsh and horrible to hear,
+Delivered strongly through my fixed teeth,
+With full as many signs of deadly hate,
+As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave.
+My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words;
+Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint;
+Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract;
+Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban;
+And even now my burdened heart would break
+Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!
+Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!
+Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress-trees!
+Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks;
+Their softest touch as smart as lizards’ stings!
+Their music frightful as the serpent’s hiss,
+And boding screech-owls make the consort full!
+All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell—
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Enough, sweet Suffolk; thou torment’st thyself,
+And these dread curses, like the sun ’gainst glass,
+Or like an overcharged gun, recoil
+And turns the force of them upon thyself.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?
+Now, by the ground that I am banished from,
+Well could I curse away a winter’s night,
+Though standing naked on a mountain top
+Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
+And think it but a minute spent in sport.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+O, let me entreat thee cease. Give me thy hand,
+That I may dew it with my mournful tears;
+Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place
+To wash away my woeful monuments.
+O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand,
+That thou mightst think upon these by the seal,
+Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee!
+So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief;
+’Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by,
+As one that surfeits thinking on a want.
+I will repeal thee, or, be well assured,
+Adventure to be banished myself;
+And banished I am, if but from thee.
+Go; speak not to me, even now be gone!
+O, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemned
+Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves,
+Loather a hundred times to part than die.
+Yet now farewell, and farewell life with thee.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished,
+Once by the King, and three times thrice by thee.
+’Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence.
+A wilderness is populous enough,
+So Suffolk had thy heavenly company;
+For where thou art, there is the world itself,
+With every several pleasure in the world;
+And where thou art not, desolation.
+I can no more. Live thou to joy thy life,
+Myself no joy in nought but that thou liv’st.
+
+Enter Vaux.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Whither goes Vaux so fast? What news, I prithee?
+
+VAUX.
+To signify unto his majesty
+That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death;
+For suddenly a grievous sickness took him,
+That makes him gasp and stare and catch the air,
+Blaspheming God and cursing men on earth.
+Sometime he talks as if Duke Humphrey’s ghost
+Were by his side; sometime he calls the King
+And whispers to his pillow, as to him,
+The secrets of his overcharged soul.
+And I am sent to tell his majesty
+That even now he cries aloud for him.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Go tell this heavy message to the King.
+
+[_Exit Vaux._]
+
+Ay me! What is this world? What news are these!
+But wherefore grieve I at an hour’s poor loss,
+Omitting Suffolk’s exile, my soul’s treasure?
+Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee,
+And with the southern clouds contend in tears,
+Theirs for the earth’s increase, mine for my sorrows’?
+Now get thee hence. The King, thou know’st, is coming;
+If thou be found by me thou art but dead.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+If I depart from thee, I cannot live;
+And in thy sight to die, what were it else
+But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap?
+Here could I breathe my soul into the air,
+As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe
+Dying with mother’s dug between its lips;
+Where, from thy sight, I should be raging mad
+And cry out for thee to close up mine eyes,
+To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth.
+So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul,
+Or I should breathe it so into thy body,
+And then it lived in sweet Elysium.
+To die by thee were but to die in jest;
+From thee to die were torture more than death.
+O, let me stay, befall what may befall!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Away! Though parting be a fretful corrosive,
+It is applied to a deathful wound.
+To France, sweet Suffolk! Let me hear from thee,
+For whereso’er thou art in this world’s globe
+I’ll have an Iris that shall find thee out.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I go.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+And take my heart with thee.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+A jewel, locked into the woefull’st cask
+That ever did contain a thing of worth.
+Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we.
+This way fall I to death.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+This way for me.
+
+[_Exeunt severally._]
+
+SCENE III. A Bedchamber
+
+Enter the King, Salisbury and Warwick, to the Cardinal in bed.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How fares my lord? Speak, Beaufort, to thy sovereign.
+
+CARDINAL.
+If thou be’st Death, I’ll give thee England’s treasure,
+Enough to purchase such another island,
+So thou wilt let me live and feel no pain.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ah, what a sign it is of evil life
+Where death’s approach is seen so terrible!
+
+WARWICK.
+Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee.
+
+CARDINAL.
+Bring me unto my trial when you will.
+Died he not in his bed? Where should he die?
+Can I make men live, whe’er they will or no?
+O, torture me no more! I will confess.
+Alive again? Then show me where he is.
+I’ll give a thousand pound to look upon him.
+He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded them.
+Comb down his hair; look, look, it stands upright,
+Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul.
+Give me some drink, and bid the apothecary
+Bring the strong poison that I bought of him.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O Thou eternal mover of the heavens,
+Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!
+O, beat away the busy meddling fiend
+That lays strong siege unto this wretch’s soul,
+And from his bosom purge this black despair!
+
+WARWICK.
+See how the pangs of death do make him grin!
+
+SALISBURY.
+Disturb him not; let him pass peaceably.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Peace to his soul, if God’s good pleasure be!
+Lord Cardinal, if thou think’st on heaven’s bliss,
+Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope.
+He dies and makes no sign. O God, forgive him!
+
+WARWICK.
+So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
+Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close,
+And let us all to meditation.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. The Coast of Kent
+
+
+Alarum. Fight at sea. Ordnance goes off. Enter a Lieutenant, Suffolk,
+disguised, a prisoner. The Master, a Master’s Mate, Walter Whitmore,
+and prisoners.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
+Is crept into the bosom of the sea;
+And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades
+That drag the tragic melancholy night,
+Who, with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings
+Clip dead men’s graves and from their misty jaws
+Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air.
+Therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize;
+For, whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs,
+Here shall they make their ransom on the sand,
+Or with their blood stain this discoloured shore.
+Master, this prisoner freely give I thee,
+And thou that art his mate, make boot of this;
+The other, Walter Whitmore, is thy share.
+
+1 GENTLEMAN.
+What is my ransom, master? Let me know.
+
+MASTER.
+A thousand crowns, or else lay down your head.
+
+MATE.
+And so much shall you give, or off goes yours.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+What, think you much to pay two thousand crowns,
+And bear the name and port of gentlemen?
+Cut both the villains’ throats—for die you shall.
+The lives of those which we have lost in fight
+Be counterpoised with such a petty sum!
+
+1 GENTLEMAN.
+I’ll give it, sir, and therefore spare my life.
+
+2 GENTLEMAN.
+And so will I, and write home for it straight.
+
+WHITMORE.
+[_To Suffolk_.] I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard,
+And therefore to revenge it shalt thou die;
+And so should these, if I might have my will.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Be not so rash; take ransom, let him live.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Look on my George; I am a gentleman.
+Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid.
+
+WHITMORE.
+And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore.
+How now! Why starts thou? What, doth death affright?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death.
+A cunning man did calculate my birth
+And told me that by water I should die.
+Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded;
+Thy name is Gaultier, being rightly sounded.
+
+WHITMORE.
+Gaultier or Walter, which it is, I care not.
+Never yet did base dishonour blur our name
+But with our sword we wiped away the blot.
+Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge,
+Broke be my sword, my arms torn and defaced,
+And I proclaimed a coward through the world!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Stay, Whitmore, for thy prisoner is a prince,
+The Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole.
+
+WHITMORE.
+The Duke of Suffolk, muffled up in rags?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Ay, but these rags are no part of the Duke.
+Jove sometime went disguised, and why not I?
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+But Jove was never slain, as thou shalt be.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Obscure and lowly swain, King Henry’s blood,
+The honourable blood of Lancaster,
+Must not be shed by such a jaded groom.
+Hast thou not kissed thy hand and held my stirrup?
+Bareheaded plodded by my foot-cloth mule,
+And thought thee happy when I shook my head?
+How often hast thou waited at my cup,
+Fed from my trencher, kneeled down at the board,
+When I have feasted with Queen Margaret?
+Remember it, and let it make thee crestfallen,
+Ay, and allay thus thy abortive pride.
+How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood
+And duly waited for my coming forth?
+This hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf,
+And therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue.
+
+WHITMORE.
+Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain?
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+First let my words stab him, as he hath me.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Base slave, thy words are blunt, and so art thou.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Convey him hence, and on our longboat’s side
+Strike off his head.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Thou dar’st not, for thy own.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Yes, poll!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Pole!
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Pool! Sir Pool! Lord!
+Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt
+Troubles the silver spring where England drinks;
+Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth
+For swallowing the treasure of the realm.
+Thy lips that kissed the Queen shall sweep the ground;
+And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey’s death
+Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain,
+Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again.
+And wedded be thou to the hags of hell,
+For daring to affy a mighty lord
+Unto the daughter of a worthless king,
+Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem.
+By devilish policy art thou grown great
+And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged
+With gobbets of thy mother’s bleeding heart.
+By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France,
+The false revolting Normans thorough thee
+Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy
+Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts,
+And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home.
+The princely Warwick, and the Nevilles all,
+Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain,
+As hating thee are rising up in arms.
+And now the house of York, thrust from the crown
+By shameful murder of a guiltless king
+And lofty, proud, encroaching tyranny,
+Burns with revenging fire, whose hopeful colours
+Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine,
+Under the which is writ “_Invitis nubibus_.”
+The commons here in Kent are up in arms;
+And, to conclude, reproach and beggary
+Is crept into the palace of our King,
+And all by thee.—Away! Convey him hence.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder
+Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges!
+Small things make base men proud. This villain here,
+Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more
+Than Bargulus the strong Illyrian pirate.
+Drones suck not eagles’ blood but rob beehives.
+It is impossible that I should die
+By such a lowly vassal as thyself.
+Thy words move rage and not remorse in me.
+I go of message from the Queen to France;
+I charge thee waft me safely ’cross the Channel.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Walter.
+
+WHITMORE.
+Come, Suffolk, I must waft thee to thy death.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+_Pene gelidus timor occupat artus_.
+It is thee I fear.
+
+WHITMORE.
+Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee.
+What, are ye daunted now? Now will ye stoop?
+
+1 GENTLEMAN.
+My gracious lord, entreat him, speak him fair.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Suffolk’s imperial tongue is stern and rough,
+Used to command, untaught to plead for favour.
+Far be it we should honour such as these
+With humble suit. No, rather let my head
+Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any
+Save to the God of heaven and to my King;
+And sooner dance upon a bloody pole
+Than stand uncovered to the vulgar groom.
+True nobility is exempt from fear;
+More can I bear than you dare execute.
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Hale him away, and let him talk no more.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Come, soldiers, show what cruelty ye can,
+That this my death may never be forgot!
+Great men oft die by vile Bezonians.
+A Roman sworder and banditto slave
+Murdered sweet Tully; Brutus’ bastard hand
+Stabbed Julius Caesar; savage islanders
+Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates.
+
+[_Exeunt Whitmore and others with Suffolk._]
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+And as for these whose ransom we have set,
+It is our pleasure one of them depart.
+Therefore come you with us, and let him go.
+
+[_Exeunt all but the 1 Gentleman._]
+
+Enter Whitmore with Suffolk’s body and head.
+
+WHITMORE.
+There let his head and lifeless body lie,
+Until the Queen his mistress bury it.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+1 GENTLEMAN.
+O barbarous and bloody spectacle!
+His body will I bear unto the King.
+If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;
+So will the Queen, that living held him dear.
+
+[_Exit with the body._]
+
+SCENE II. Blackheath
+
+Enter George Bevis and John Holland.
+
+BEVIS.
+Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath; they have been up
+these two days.
+
+HOLLAND.
+They have the more need to sleep now, then.
+
+BEVIS.
+I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth,
+and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
+
+HOLLAND.
+So he had need, for ’tis threadbare. Well, I say it was never merry
+world in England since gentlemen came up.
+
+BEVIS.
+O miserable age! Virtue is not regarded in handicraftsmen.
+
+HOLLAND.
+The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons.
+
+BEVIS.
+Nay, more, the King’s Council are no good workmen.
+
+HOLLAND.
+True; and yet it is said, “Labour in thy vocation,” which is as much to
+say as, “Let the magistrates be labouring men;” and therefore should we
+be magistrates.
+
+BEVIS.
+Thou hast hit it; for there’s no better sign of a brave mind than a
+hard hand.
+
+HOLLAND.
+I see them! I see them! There’s Best’s son, the tanner of Wingham.
+
+BEVIS.
+He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make dog’s leather of.
+
+HOLLAND.
+And Dick the butcher.
+
+BEVIS.
+Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity’s throat cut like a
+calf.
+
+HOLLAND.
+And Smith the weaver.
+
+BEVIS.
+Argo, their thread of life is spun.
+
+HOLLAND.
+Come, come, let’s fall in with them.
+
+Drum. Enter Cade, Dick the Butcher, Smith the Weaver and a  Sawyer with
+infinite numbers carrying long staves.
+
+CADE.
+We, John Cade, so termed of our supposed father—
+
+DICK.
+[_Aside_.] Or rather, of stealing a cade of herrings.
+
+CADE.
+For our enemies shall fall before us, inspired with the spirit of
+putting down kings and princes. Command silence.
+
+DICK.
+Silence!
+
+CADE.
+My father was a Mortimer—
+
+DICK.
+[_Aside_.] He was an honest man and a good bricklayer.
+
+CADE.
+My mother a Plantagenet—
+
+DICK.
+[_Aside_.] I knew her well; she was a midwife.
+
+CADE.
+My wife descended of the Lacies—
+
+DICK.
+[_Aside_.] She was indeed a pedler’s daughter, and sold many laces.
+
+SMITH.
+[_Aside_.] But now of late, not able to travel with her furred pack,
+she washes bucks here at home.
+
+CADE.
+Therefore am I of an honourable house.
+
+DICK.
+[_Aside_.] Ay, by my faith, the field is honourable; and there was he
+born, under a hedge, for his father had never a house but the cage.
+
+CADE.
+Valiant I am.
+
+SMITH.
+[_Aside_.] He must needs; for beggary is valiant.
+
+CADE.
+I am able to endure much.
+
+DICK.
+[_Aside_.] No question of that; for I have seen him whipped three
+market-days together.
+
+CADE.
+I fear neither sword nor fire.
+
+SMITH.
+[_Aside_.] He need not fear the sword, for his coat is of proof.
+
+DICK.
+[_Aside_.] But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i’
+th’ hand for stealing of sheep.
+
+CADE.
+Be brave, then, for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There
+shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the
+three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to
+drink small beer. All the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside
+shall my palfrey go to grass. And when I am king, as king I will be—
+
+ALL.
+God save your majesty!
+
+CADE.
+I thank you, good people.—There shall be no money; all shall eat and
+drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they
+may agree like brothers and worship me their lord.
+
+DICK.
+The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
+
+CADE.
+Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the
+skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment; that parchment,
+being scribbled o’er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I
+say ’tis the bee’s wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was
+never mine own man since. How now? Who’s there?
+
+Enter some, bringing in the Clerk of Chartham.
+
+SMITH.
+The clerk of Chartham. He can write and read and cast account.
+
+CADE.
+O, monstrous!
+
+SMITH.
+We took him setting of boys’ copies.
+
+CADE.
+Here’s a villain!
+
+SMITH.
+H’as a book in his pocket with red letters in ’t.
+
+CADE.
+Nay, then, he is a conjurer.
+
+DICK.
+Nay, he can make obligations and write court-hand.
+
+CADE.
+I am sorry for ’t. The man is a proper man, of mine honour; unless I
+find him guilty, he shall not die.—Come hither, sirrah, I must examine
+thee. What is thy name?
+
+CLERK.
+Emmanuel.
+
+DICK.
+They use to write it on the top of letters. ’Twill go hard with you.
+
+CADE.
+Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? Or hast thou a mark to
+thyself, like a honest, plain-dealing man?
+
+CLERK.
+Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up that I can write my
+name.
+
+ALL.
+He hath confessed. Away with him! He’s a villain and a traitor.
+
+CADE.
+Away with him, I say! Hang him with his pen and inkhorn about his neck.
+
+[_Exit one with the Clerk._]
+
+Enter Michael.
+
+MICHAEL.
+Where’s our general?
+
+CADE.
+Here I am, thou particular fellow.
+
+MICHAEL.
+Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother are hard by, with
+the King’s forces.
+
+CADE.
+Stand, villain, stand, or I’ll fell thee down. He shall be encountered
+with a man as good as himself. He is but a knight, is he?
+
+MICHAEL.
+No.
+
+CADE.
+To equal him, I will make myself a knight presently.
+[_Kneels_.] Rise up Sir John Mortimer.
+[_Rises_.] Now have at him!
+
+Enter Sir Humphrey Stafford and his Brother with Drum and soldiers.
+
+STAFFORD.
+Rebellious hinds, the filth and scum of Kent,
+Marked for the gallows, lay your weapons down;
+Home to your cottages, forsake this groom.
+The King is merciful, if you revolt.
+
+BROTHER.
+But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,
+If you go forward. Therefore yield, or die.
+
+CADE.
+As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
+It is to you, good people, that I speak,
+Over whom, in time to come, I hope to reign,
+For I am rightful heir unto the crown.
+
+STAFFORD.
+Villain, thy father was a plasterer,
+And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?
+
+CADE.
+And Adam was a gardener.
+
+BROTHER.
+And what of that?
+
+CADE.
+Marry, this: Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March,
+Married the Duke of Clarence’ daughter, did he not?
+
+STAFFORD.
+Ay, sir.
+
+CADE.
+By her he had two children at one birth.
+
+BROTHER.
+That’s false.
+
+CADE.
+Ay, there’s the question; but I say ’tis true.
+The elder of them, being put to nurse,
+Was by a beggar-woman stolen away,
+And, ignorant of his birth and parentage,
+Became a bricklayer when he came to age.
+His son am I; deny it if you can.
+
+DICK.
+Nay, ’tis too true; therefore he shall be King.
+
+SMITH.
+Sir, he made a chimney in my father’s house, and the bricks are alive
+at this day to testify it; therefore deny it not.
+
+STAFFORD.
+And will you credit this base drudge’s words,
+That speaks he knows not what?
+
+ALL.
+Ay, marry, will we; therefore get ye gone.
+
+BROTHER.
+Jack Cade, the Duke of York hath taught you this.
+
+CADE.
+[_Aside_.] He lies, for I invented it myself.—Go to, sirrah, tell the
+King from me that, for his father’s sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose
+time boys went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content he shall
+reign, but I’ll be Protector over him.
+
+DICK.
+And furthermore, we’ll have the Lord Saye’s head for selling the
+dukedom of Maine.
+
+CADE.
+And good reason, for thereby is England mained and fain to go with a
+staff, but that my puissance holds it up. Fellow kings, I tell you that
+that Lord Saye hath gelded the commonwealth and made it an eunuch; and
+more than that, he can speak French, and therefore he is a traitor.
+
+STAFFORD.
+O gross and miserable ignorance!
+
+CADE.
+Nay, answer if you can. The Frenchmen are our enemies; go to, then, I
+ask but this: can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good
+counsellor, or no?
+
+ALL.
+No, no, and therefore we’ll have his head.
+
+BROTHER.
+Well, seeing gentle words will not prevail,
+Assail them with the army of the King.
+
+STAFFORD.
+Herald, away, and throughout every town
+Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade;
+That those which fly before the battle ends
+May, even in their wives’ and children’s sight,
+Be hanged up for example at their doors.
+And you that be the King’s friends, follow me.
+
+[_Exeunt the two Staffords and soldiers._]
+
+CADE.
+And you that love the commons follow me.
+Now show yourselves men; ’tis for liberty.
+We will not leave one lord, one gentleman;
+Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon,
+For they are thrifty honest men and such
+As would, but that they dare not, take our parts.
+
+DICK.
+They are all in order and march toward us.
+
+CADE.
+But then are we in order when we are most out of order. Come, march
+forward.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another part of Blackheath
+
+[Alarums to the fight, wherein both the Staffords are slain. Enter Cade
+and the rest.
+
+CADE.
+Where’s Dick, the butcher of Ashford?
+
+DICK.
+Here, sir.
+
+CADE.
+They fell before thee like sheep and oxen, and thou behaved’st thyself
+as if thou hadst been in thine own slaughterhouse. Therefore thus will
+I reward thee: the Lent shall be as long again as it is, and thou shalt
+have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking one.
+
+DICK.
+I desire no more.
+
+CADE.
+And, to speak truth, thou deservest no less. This monument of the
+victory will I bear. [_putting on Sir Humphrey’s brigandine_] And the
+bodies shall be dragged at my horse heels till I do come to London,
+where we will have the Mayor’s sword borne before us.
+
+DICK.
+If we mean to thrive and do good, break open the gaols and let out the
+prisoners.
+
+CADE.
+Fear not that, I warrant thee. Come, let’s march towards London.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. The Palace
+
+Enter the King with a supplication, and the Queen with Suffolk’s head,
+the Duke of Buckingham and the Lord Saye.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside_.] Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
+And makes it fearful and degenerate;
+Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.
+But who can cease to weep and look on this?
+Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast;
+But where’s the body that I should embrace?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+What answer makes your grace to the rebels’ supplication?
+
+KING HENRY.
+I’ll send some holy bishop to entreat,
+For God forbid so many simple souls
+Should perish by the sword! And I myself,
+Rather than bloody war shall cut them short,
+Will parley with Jack Cade their general.
+But stay, I’ll read it over once again.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside_.] Ah, barbarous villains! Hath this lovely face
+Ruled, like a wandering planet, over me,
+And could it not enforce them to relent
+That were unworthy to behold the same?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Lord Saye, Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head.
+
+SAYE.
+Ay, but I hope your highness shall have his.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How now, madam?
+Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolk’s death?
+I fear me, love, if that I had been dead,
+Thou wouldst not have mourned so much for me.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+No, my love, I should not mourn, but die for thee.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How now, what news? Why com’st thou in such haste?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The rebels are in Southwark; fly, my lord!
+Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer,
+Descended from the Duke of Clarence’ house,
+And calls your grace usurper openly,
+And vows to crown himself in Westminster.
+His army is a ragged multitude
+Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless.
+Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother’s death
+Hath given them heart and courage to proceed.
+All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen,
+They call false caterpillars, and intend their death.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O graceless men! They know not what they do.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My gracious lord, retire to Killingworth
+Until a power be raised to put them down.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ah, were the Duke of Suffolk now alive,
+These Kentish rebels would be soon appeased!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Lord Saye, the traitors hate thee;
+Therefore away with us to Killingworth.
+
+SAYE.
+So might your grace’s person be in danger.
+The sight of me is odious in their eyes;
+And therefore in this city will I stay
+And live alone as secret as I may.
+
+Enter another Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Jack Cade hath gotten London Bridge;
+The citizens fly and forsake their houses.
+The rascal people, thirsting after prey,
+Join with the traitor, and they jointly swear
+To spoil the city and your royal court.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Then linger not, my lord; away, take horse!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Come, Margaret. God, our hope, will succour us.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside_.] My hope is gone, now Suffolk is deceased.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Farewell, my lord. Trust not the Kentish rebels.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Trust nobody, for fear you be betrayed.
+
+SAYE.
+The trust I have is in mine innocence,
+And therefore am I bold and resolute.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. London. The Tower
+
+Enter Lord Scales upon the Tower, walking. Then enter two or three
+Citizens below.
+
+SCALES.
+How now? Is Jack Cade slain?
+
+1 CITIZEN.
+No, my lord, nor likely to be slain; for they have won the Bridge,
+killing all those that withstand them. The Lord Mayor craves aid of
+your honour from the Tower to defend the city from the rebels.
+
+SCALES.
+Such aid as I can spare you shall command,
+But I am troubled here with them myself;
+The rebels have assayed to win the Tower.
+But get you to Smithfield and gather head,
+And thither I will send you Matthew Gough.
+Fight for your king, your country, and your lives!
+And so farewell, for I must hence again.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. London. Cannon Street
+
+Enter Jack Cade and the rest, and strikes his staff on London Stone.
+
+CADE.
+Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting upon London Stone,
+I charge and command that, of the city’s cost, the Pissing Conduit run
+nothing but claret wine this first year of our reign. And now
+henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls me other than Lord
+Mortimer.
+
+Enter a Soldier, running.
+
+SOLDIER.
+Jack Cade! Jack Cade!
+
+CADE.
+Knock him down there.
+
+[_They kill him._]
+
+DICK.
+If this fellow be wise, he’ll never call ye Jack Cade more. I think he
+hath a very fair warning. My lord, there’s an army gathered together in
+Smithfield.
+
+CADE.
+Come then, let’s go fight with them. But first, go and set London
+Bridge on fire; and, if you can, burn down the Tower too. Come, let’s
+away.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. London. Smithfield
+
+Alarums. Matthew Gough is slain, and all the rest. Then enter Jack Cade
+with his company.
+
+CADE.
+So, sirs. Now go some and pull down the Savoy; others to th’ Inns of
+Court; down with them all.
+
+DICK.
+I have a suit unto your lordship.
+
+CADE.
+Be it a lordship, thou shalt have it for that word.
+
+DICK.
+Only that the laws of England may come out of your mouth.
+
+HOLLAND.
+[_Aside_.] Mass, ’twill be sore law, then; for he was thrust in the
+mouth with a spear, and ’tis not whole yet.
+
+SMITH.
+[_Aside_.] Nay, John, it will be stinking law, for his breath stinks
+with eating toasted cheese.
+
+CADE.
+I have thought upon it, it shall be so. Away, burn all the records of
+the realm. My mouth shall be the parliament of England.
+
+HOLLAND.
+[_Aside_.] Then we are like to have biting statutes, unless his teeth
+be pulled out.
+
+CADE.
+And henceforward all things shall be in common.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, a prize, a prize! Here’s the Lord Saye, which sold the towns
+in France; he that made us pay one-and-twenty fifteens, and one
+shilling to the pound, the last subsidy.
+
+Enter George Bevis with the Lord Saye.
+
+CADE.
+Well, he shall be beheaded for it ten times. Ah, thou say, thou serge,
+nay, thou buckram lord! Now art thou within point-blank of our
+jurisdiction regal. What canst thou answer to my majesty for giving up
+of Normandy unto Mounsieur Basimecu, the Dauphin of France? Be it known
+unto thee by these presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I
+am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such filth as thou art.
+Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in
+erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no
+other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to
+be used, and, contrary to the King, his crown, and dignity, thou hast
+built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men
+about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable
+words as no Christian ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed
+justices of peace, to call poor men before them about matters they were
+not able to answer. Moreover, thou hast put them in prison, and because
+they could not read, thou hast hanged them, when indeed only for that
+cause they have been most worthy to live. Thou dost ride on a
+foot-cloth, dost thou not?
+
+SAYE.
+What of that?
+
+CADE.
+Marry, thou ought’st not to let thy horse wear a cloak when honester
+men than thou go in their hose and doublets.
+
+DICK.
+And work in their shirt too; as myself, for example, that am a butcher.
+
+SAYE.
+You men of Kent—
+
+DICK.
+What say you of Kent?
+
+SAYE.
+Nothing but this; ’tis _bona terra, mala gens_.
+
+CADE.
+Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin.
+
+SAYE.
+Hear me but speak, and bear me where you will.
+Kent, in the Commentaries Caesar writ,
+Is termed the civil’st place of all this isle.
+Sweet is the country, because full of riches;
+The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy;
+Which makes me hope you are not void of pity.
+I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy,
+Yet to recover them would lose my life.
+Justice with favour have I always done;
+Prayers and tears have moved me, gifts could never.
+When have I aught exacted at your hands
+Kent to maintain the King, the realm, and you?
+Large gifts have I bestowed on learned clerks,
+Because my book preferred me to the King.
+And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
+Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven,
+Unless you be possessed with devilish spirits,
+You cannot but forbear to murder me.
+This tongue hath parleyed unto foreign kings
+For your behoof—
+
+CADE.
+Tut, when struck’st thou one blow in the field?
+
+SAYE.
+Great men have reaching hands; oft have I struck
+Those that I never saw, and struck them dead.
+
+GEORGE.
+O monstrous coward! What, to come behind folks?
+
+SAYE.
+These cheeks are pale for watching for your good.
+
+CADE.
+Give him a box o’ th’ ear, and that will make ’em red again.
+
+SAYE.
+Long sitting to determine poor men’s causes
+Hath made me full of sickness and diseases.
+
+CADE.
+Ye shall have a hempen caudle then, and the help of hatchet.
+
+DICK.
+Why dost thou quiver, man?
+
+SAYE.
+The palsy, and not fear, provokes me.
+
+CADE.
+Nay, he nods at us, as who should say, “I’ll be even with you.” I’ll
+see if his head will stand steadier on a pole or no. Take him away, and
+behead him.
+
+SAYE.
+Tell me, wherein have I offended most?
+Have I affected wealth or honour? Speak.
+Are my chests filled up with extorted gold?
+Is my apparel sumptuous to behold?
+Whom have I injured, that ye seek my death?
+These hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding,
+This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts.
+O, let me live!
+
+CADE.
+[_Aside_.] I feel remorse in myself with his words, but I’ll bridle it.
+He shall die, an it be but for pleading so well for his life. Away with
+him! He has a familiar under his tongue; he speaks not i’ God’s name.
+Go, take him away, I say, and strike off his head presently; and then
+break into his son-in-law’s house, Sir James Cromer, and strike off his
+head, and bring them both upon two poles hither.
+
+ALL.
+It shall be done.
+
+SAYE.
+Ah, countrymen, if when you make your prayers,
+God should be so obdurate as yourselves,
+How would it fare with your departed souls?
+And therefore yet relent, and save my life.
+
+CADE.
+Away with him! And do as I command ye.
+
+[_Exeunt some with Lord Saye._]
+
+The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head on his shoulders
+unless he pay me tribute; there shall not a maid be married but she
+shall pay to me her maidenhead ere they have it. Men shall hold of me
+_in capite;_ and we charge and command that their wives be as free as
+heart can wish or tongue can tell.
+
+DICK.
+My lord, when shall we go to Cheapside and take up commodities upon our
+bills?
+
+CADE.
+Marry, presently.
+
+ALL.
+O, brave!
+
+Enter one with the heads.
+
+CADE.
+But is not this braver? Let them kiss one another, for they loved well
+when they were alive. Now part them again, lest they consult about the
+giving up of some more towns in France. Soldiers, defer the spoil of
+the city until night; for with these borne before us instead of maces
+will we ride through the streets, and at every corner have them kiss.
+Away!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VIII. Southwark
+
+Alarum and retreat. Enter Cade and all his rabblement.
+
+CADE.
+Up Fish Street! Down Saint Magnus’ Corner! Kill and knock down! Throw
+them into Thames! [_Sound a parley_.] What noise is this I hear? Dare
+any be so bold to sound retreat or parley when I command them kill?
+
+Enter Buckingham and old Clifford attended.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Ay, here they be that dare and will disturb thee.
+Know, Cade, we come ambassadors from the King
+Unto the commons, whom thou hast misled,
+And here pronounce free pardon to them all
+That will forsake thee and go home in peace.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+What say ye, countrymen? Will ye relent
+And yield to mercy whilst ’tis offered you,
+Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?
+Who loves the King and will embrace his pardon,
+Fling up his cap, and say “God save his Majesty!”
+Who hateth him and honours not his father,
+Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,
+Shake he his weapon at us and pass by.
+
+ALL.
+God save the King! God save the King!
+
+CADE.
+What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave? And you, base peasants,
+do ye believe him? Will you needs be hanged with your pardons about
+your necks? Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates, that
+you should leave me at the White Hart in Southwark? I thought ye would
+never have given out these arms till you had recovered your ancient
+freedom; but you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in
+slavery to the nobility. Let them break your backs with burdens, take
+your houses over your heads, ravish your wives and daughters before
+your faces. For me, I will make shift for one, and so God’s curse light
+upon you all!
+
+ALL.
+We’ll follow Cade! We’ll follow Cade!
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth,
+That thus you do exclaim you’ll go with him?
+Will he conduct you through the heart of France
+And make the meanest of you earls and dukes?
+Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to,
+Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil,
+Unless by robbing of your friends and us.
+Were ’t not a shame that whilst you live at jar
+The fearful French, whom you late vanquished,
+Should make a start o’er seas and vanquish you?
+Methinks already in this civil broil
+I see them lording it in London streets,
+Crying “_Villiago!_” unto all they meet.
+Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry
+Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman’s mercy.
+To France, to France, and get what you have lost!
+Spare England, for it is your native coast.
+Henry hath money, you are strong and manly;
+God on our side, doubt not of victory.
+
+ALL.
+A Clifford! A Clifford! We’ll follow the King and Clifford.
+
+CADE.
+Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude? The
+name of Henry the Fifth hales them to an hundred mischiefs and makes
+them leave me desolate. I see them lay their heads together to surprise
+me. My sword make way for me, for here is no staying.—In despite of the
+devils and hell, have through the very middest of you! And heavens and
+honour be witness that no want of resolution in me, but only my
+followers’ base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my
+heels.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+What, is he fled? Go some, and follow him;
+And he that brings his head unto the King
+Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward.
+
+[_Exeunt some of them._]
+
+Follow me, soldiers; we’ll devise a mean
+To reconcile you all unto the King.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IX. Kenilworth Castle
+
+Sound trumpets. Enter King, Queen and Somerset on the terrace, aloft.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Was ever king that joyed an earthly throne
+And could command no more content than I?
+No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
+But I was made a king at nine months old.
+Was never subject longed to be a king
+As I do long and wish to be a subject.
+
+Enter Buckingham and old Clifford.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Health and glad tidings to your majesty!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, Buckingham, is the traitor Cade surprised?
+Or is he but retired to make him strong?
+
+Enter below multitudes with halters about their necks.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+He is fled, my lord, and all his powers do yield,
+And humbly thus, with halters on their necks,
+Expect your highness’ doom of life or death.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates
+To entertain my vows of thanks and praise!
+Soldiers, this day have you redeemed your lives
+And showed how well you love your prince and country.
+Continue still in this so good a mind,
+And Henry, though he be infortunate,
+Assure yourselves, will never be unkind.
+And so, with thanks and pardon to you all,
+I do dismiss you to your several countries.
+
+ALL.
+God save the King! God save the King!
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Please it your grace to be advertised
+The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland,
+And with a puissant and a mighty power
+Of gallowglasses and stout kerns
+Is marching hitherward in proud array,
+And still proclaimeth, as he comes along,
+His arms are only to remove from thee
+The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms a traitor.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Thus stands my state, ’twixt Cade and York distressed,
+Like to a ship that, having scaped a tempest,
+Is straightway calmed and boarded with a pirate.
+But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed,
+And now is York in arms to second him.
+I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,
+And ask him what’s the reason of these arms.
+Tell him I’ll send Duke Edmund to the Tower.—
+And, Somerset, we will commit thee thither,
+Until his army be dismissed from him.
+
+SOMERSET.
+My lord, I’ll yield myself to prison willingly,
+Or unto death, to do my country good.
+
+KING HENRY.
+In any case, be not too rough in terms,
+For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I will, my lord, and doubt not so to deal
+As all things shall redound unto your good.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Come, wife, let’s in, and learn to govern better;
+For yet may England curse my wretched reign.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE X. Kent. Iden’s Garden
+
+Enter Cade.
+
+CADE.
+Fie on ambitions! Fie on myself, that have a sword and yet am ready to
+famish! These five days have I hid me in these woods and durst not peep
+out, for all the country is laid for me; but now am I so hungry that if
+I might have a lease of my life for a thousand years, I could stay no
+longer. Wherefore, o’er a brick wall have I climbed into this garden,
+to see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another while, which is not
+amiss to cool a man’s stomach this hot weather. And I think this word
+“sallet” was born to do me good; for many a time, but for a sallet, my
+brain-pan had been cleft with a brown bill; and many a time, when I
+have been dry and bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a
+quart pot to drink in; and now the word “sallet” must serve me to feed
+on.
+
+Enter Iden and his men.
+
+IDEN.
+Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court
+And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?
+This small inheritance my father left me
+Contenteth me, and worth a monarchy.
+I seek not to wax great by others’ waning,
+Or gather wealth, I care not with what envy;
+Sufficeth that I have maintains my state
+And sends the poor well pleased from my gate.
+
+CADE.
+Here’s the lord of the soil come to seize me for a stray, for entering
+his fee-simple without leave.—Ah, villain, thou wilt betray me and get
+a thousand crowns of the King by carrying my head to him; but I’ll make
+thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my sword like a great pin,
+ere thou and I part.
+
+IDEN.
+Why, rude companion, whatsoe’er thou be,
+I know thee not; why, then, should I betray thee?
+Is ’t not enough to break into my garden
+And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds,
+Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner,
+But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms?
+
+CADE.
+Brave thee? Ay, by the best blood that ever was broached, and beard
+thee too. Look on me well: I have eat no meat these five days, yet come
+thou and thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead as a
+doornail, I pray God I may never eat grass more.
+
+IDEN.
+Nay, it shall ne’er be said, while England stands,
+That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent,
+Took odds to combat a poor famished man.
+Oppose thy steadfast-gazing eyes to mine,
+See if thou canst outface me with thy looks.
+Set limb to limb and thou art far the lesser;
+Thy hand is but a finger to my fist,
+Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon.
+My foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast;
+And if mine arm be heaved in the air,
+Thy grave is digged already in the earth.
+As for words, whose greatness answers words,
+Let this my sword report what speech forbears.
+
+CADE.
+By my valour, the most complete champion that ever I heard! Steel, if
+thou turn the edge, or cut not out the burly-boned clown in chines of
+beef ere thou sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou mayst
+be turned to hobnails.
+
+[_Here they fight and Cade falls._]
+
+O, I am slain! Famine and no other hath slain me. Let ten thousand
+devils come against me, and give me but the ten meals I have lost, and
+I’d defy them all. Wither, garden; and be henceforth a burying place to
+all that do dwell in this house, because the unconquered soul of Cade
+is fled.
+
+IDEN.
+Is’t Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor?
+Sword, I will hallow thee for this thy deed,
+And hang thee o’er my tomb when I am dead.
+Ne’er shall this blood be wiped from thy point,
+But thou shalt wear it as a herald’s coat
+To emblaze the honour that thy master got.
+
+CADE.
+Iden, farewell, and be proud of thy victory. Tell Kent from me she hath
+lost her best man, and exhort all the world to be cowards; for I, that
+never feared any, am vanquished by famine, not by valour.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+IDEN.
+How much thou wrong’st me, heaven be my judge.
+Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee!
+And as I thrust thy body in with my sword,
+So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell.
+Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels
+Unto a dunghill, which shall be thy grave,
+And there cut off thy most ungracious head,
+Which I will bear in triumph to the King,
+Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Fields between Dartford and Blackheath
+
+
+Enter York and his army of Irish, with drum and colours.
+
+YORK.
+From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right
+And pluck the crown from feeble Henry’s head.
+Ring, bells, aloud; burn, bonfires, clear and bright,
+To entertain great England’s lawful king.
+Ah, _sancta majestas_, who would not buy thee dear?
+Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
+This hand was made to handle nought but gold.
+I cannot give due action to my words
+Except a sword or sceptre balance it.
+A sceptre shall it have, have I a soul,
+On which I’ll toss the fleur-de-luce of France.
+
+Enter Buckingham.
+
+Whom have we here? Buckingham, to disturb me?
+The King hath sent him, sure. I must dissemble.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+York, if thou meanest well, I greet thee well.
+
+YORK.
+Humphrey of Buckingham, I accept thy greeting.
+Art thou a messenger, or come of pleasure?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+A messenger from Henry, our dread liege,
+To know the reason of these arms in peace;
+Or why thou, being a subject as I am,
+Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn,
+Should raise so great a power without his leave,
+Or dare to bring thy force so near the court.
+
+YORK.
+[_Aside_.] Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great.
+O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint,
+I am so angry at these abject terms;
+And now, like Ajax Telamonius,
+On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury.
+I am far better born than is the King,
+More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts.
+But I must make fair weather yet awhile,
+Till Henry be more weak and I more strong.—
+Buckingham, I prithee, pardon me,
+That I have given no answer all this while;
+My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.
+The cause why I have brought this army hither
+Is to remove proud Somerset from the King,
+Seditious to his grace and to the state.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+That is too much presumption on thy part;
+But if thy arms be to no other end,
+The King hath yielded unto thy demand:
+The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.
+
+YORK.
+Upon thine honour, is he prisoner?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Upon mine honour, he is prisoner.
+
+YORK.
+Then, Buckingham, I do dismiss my powers.
+Soldiers, I thank you all; disperse yourselves;
+Meet me tomorrow in Saint George’s field,
+You shall have pay and everything you wish.
+
+[_Exeunt Soldiers._]
+
+And let my sovereign, virtuous Henry,
+Command my eldest son, nay, all my sons,
+As pledges of my fealty and love,
+I’ll send them all as willing as I live.
+Lands, goods, horse, armour, anything I have
+Is his to use, so Somerset may die.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+York, I commend this kind submission.
+We twain will go into his highness’ tent.
+
+Enter King and Attendants.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Buckingham, doth York intend no harm to us
+That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm?
+
+YORK.
+In all submission and humility
+York doth present himself unto your highness.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Then what intends these forces thou dost bring?
+
+YORK.
+To heave the traitor Somerset from hence
+And fight against that monstrous rebel Cade,
+Who since I heard to be discomfited.
+
+Enter Iden with Cade’s head.
+
+IDEN.
+If one so rude and of so mean condition
+May pass into the presence of a king,
+Lo, I present your grace a traitor’s head,
+The head of Cade, whom I in combat slew.
+
+KING HENRY.
+The head of Cade! Great God, how just art Thou!
+O, let me view his visage, being dead,
+That living wrought me such exceeding trouble.
+Tell me, my friend, art thou the man that slew him?
+
+IDEN.
+I was, an ’t like your majesty.
+
+KING HENRY.
+How art thou called? And what is thy degree?
+
+IDEN.
+Alexander Iden, that’s my name;
+A poor esquire of Kent, that loves his King.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+So please it you, my lord, ’twere not amiss
+He were created knight for his good service.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Iden, kneel down. [_He kneels_.] Rise up a knight.
+We give thee for reward a thousand marks,
+And will that thou henceforth attend on us.
+
+IDEN.
+May Iden live to merit such a bounty,
+And never live but true unto his liege!
+
+[_Rises._]
+
+Enter Queen and Somerset.
+
+KING HENRY.
+See, Buckingham, Somerset comes with the Queen.
+Go, bid her hide him quickly from the Duke.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+For thousand Yorks he shall not hide his head,
+But boldly stand and front him to his face.
+
+YORK.
+How now? Is Somerset at liberty?
+Then, York, unloose thy long-imprisoned thoughts,
+And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.
+Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?
+False king, why hast thou broken faith with me,
+Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?
+“King” did I call thee? No, thou art not king,
+Not fit to govern and rule multitudes,
+Which dar’st not, no, nor canst not rule a traitor.
+That head of thine doth not become a crown;
+Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer’s staff,
+And not to grace an awful princely sceptre.
+That gold must round engirt these brows of mine,
+Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles’ spear,
+Is able with the change to kill and cure.
+Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up
+And with the same to act controlling laws.
+Give place! By heaven, thou shalt rule no more
+O’er him whom heaven created for thy ruler.
+
+SOMERSET.
+O monstrous traitor! I arrest thee, York,
+Of capital treason ’gainst the King and crown.
+Obey, audacious traitor, kneel for grace.
+
+YORK.
+Wouldst have me kneel? First let me ask of these
+If they can brook I bow a knee to man.
+Sirrah, call in my sons to be my bail.
+
+[_Exit Attendant._]
+
+I know, ere they will have me go to ward,
+They’ll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain,
+To say if that the bastard boys of York
+Shall be the surety for their traitor father.
+
+[_Exit Buckingham._]
+
+YORK.
+O blood-bespotted Neapolitan,
+Outcast of Naples, England’s bloody scourge!
+The sons of York, thy betters in their birth,
+Shall be their father’s bail; and bane to those
+That for my surety will refuse the boys!
+
+Enter Edward and Richard.
+
+See where they come; I’ll warrant they’ll make it good.
+
+Enter old Clifford and his Son.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+And here comes Clifford to deny their bail.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Health and all happiness to my lord the King.
+
+[_Rises._]
+
+YORK.
+I thank thee, Clifford. Say, what news with thee?
+Nay, do not fright us with an angry look.
+We are thy sovereign, Clifford, kneel again.
+For thy mistaking so, we pardon thee.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+This is my king, York, I do not mistake;
+But thou mistakes me much to think I do.
+To Bedlam with him! Is the man grown mad?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ay, Clifford; a bedlam and ambitious humour
+Makes him oppose himself against his king.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+He is a traitor; let him to the Tower,
+And chop away that factious pate of his.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+He is arrested, but will not obey;
+His sons, he says, shall give their words for him.
+
+YORK.
+Will you not, sons?
+
+EDWARD.
+Ay, noble father, if our words will serve.
+
+RICHARD.
+And if words will not, then our weapons shall.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Why, what a brood of traitors have we here!
+
+YORK.
+Look in a glass, and call thy image so.
+I am thy king, and thou a false-heart traitor.
+Call hither to the stake my two brave bears,
+That with the very shaking of their chains
+They may astonish these fell-lurking curs.
+Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me.
+
+Enter the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Are these thy bears? We’ll bait thy bears to death
+And manacle the bearherd in their chains,
+If thou dar’st bring them to the baiting-place.
+
+RICHARD.
+Oft have I seen a hot o’erweening cur
+Run back and bite because he was withheld,
+Who, being suffered with the bear’s fell paw,
+Hath clapped his tail between his legs and cried;
+And such a piece of service will you do
+If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump,
+As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!
+
+YORK.
+Nay, we shall heat you thoroughly anon.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, Warwick, hath thy knee forgot to bow?
+Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair,
+Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!
+What, wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian,
+And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles?
+O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty?
+If it be banished from the frosty head,
+Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?
+Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war,
+And shame thine honourable age with blood?
+Why art thou old, and want’st experience?
+Or wherefore dost abuse it, if thou hast it?
+For shame, in duty bend thy knee to me
+That bows unto the grave with mickle age.
+
+SALISBURY.
+My lord, I have considered with myself
+The title of this most renowned duke,
+And in my conscience do repute his grace
+The rightful heir to England’s royal seat.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me?
+
+SALISBURY.
+I have.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath?
+
+SALISBURY.
+It is great sin to swear unto a sin,
+But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
+Who can be bound by any solemn vow
+To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,
+To force a spotless virgin’s chastity,
+To reave the orphan of his patrimony,
+To wring the widow from her customed right,
+And have no other reason for this wrong
+But that he was bound by a solemn oath?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+A subtle traitor needs no sophister.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Call Buckingham, and bid him arm himself.
+
+YORK.
+Call Buckingham, and all the friends thou hast,
+I am resolved for death or dignity.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+The first I warrant thee, if dreams prove true.
+
+WARWICK.
+You were best to go to bed and dream again,
+To keep thee from the tempest of the field.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+I am resolved to bear a greater storm
+Than any thou canst conjure up today;
+And that I’ll write upon thy burgonet,
+Might I but know thee by thy household badge.
+
+WARWICK.
+Now, by my father’s badge, old Neville’s crest,
+The rampant bear chained to the ragged staff,
+This day I’ll wear aloft my burgonet,
+As on a mountain top the cedar shows
+That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm,
+Even to affright thee with the view thereof.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+And from thy burgonet I’ll rend thy bear
+And tread it under foot with all contempt,
+Despite the bearherd that protects the bear.
+
+YOUNG CLIFFORD.
+And so to arms, victorious father,
+To quell the rebels and their complices.
+
+RICHARD.
+Fie, charity, for shame! Speak not in spite,
+For you shall sup with Jesu Christ tonight.
+
+YOUNG CLIFFORD.
+Foul stigmatic, that’s more than thou canst tell.
+
+RICHARD.
+If not in heaven, you’ll surely sup in hell.
+
+[_Exeunt severally._]
+
+SCENE II. Saint Albans
+
+The sign of the Castle Inn is displayed. Alarums to the battle. Enter
+Warwick.
+
+WARWICK.
+Clifford of Cumberland, ’tis Warwick calls;
+An if thou dost not hide thee from the bear,
+Now, when the angry trumpet sounds alarum
+And dead men’s cries do fill the empty air,
+Clifford, I say, come forth and fight with me!
+Proud northern lord, Clifford of Cumberland,
+Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms.
+
+Enter York.
+
+How now, my noble lord? What, all afoot?
+
+YORK.
+The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed,
+But match to match I have encountered him
+And made a prey for carrion kites and crows
+Even of the bonny beast he loved so well.
+
+Enter old Clifford.
+
+WARWICK.
+Of one or both of us the time is come.
+
+YORK.
+Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
+For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
+
+WARWICK.
+Then, nobly, York; ’tis for a crown thou fight’st.
+As I intend, Clifford, to thrive today,
+It grieves my soul to leave thee unassailed.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+CLIFFORD.
+What seest thou in me, York? Why dost thou pause?
+
+YORK.
+With thy brave bearing should I be in love,
+But that thou art so fast mine enemy.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem,
+But that ’tis shown ignobly and in treason.
+
+YORK.
+So let it help me now against thy sword
+As I in justice and true right express it!
+
+CLIFFORD.
+My soul and body on the action both!
+
+YORK.
+A dreadful lay! Address thee instantly.
+
+[_They fight and Clifford falls._]
+
+CLIFFORD.
+_La fin couronne les oeuvres._
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+YORK.
+Thus war hath given thee peace, for thou art still.
+Peace with his soul, heaven, if it be thy will!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter young Clifford.
+
+YOUNG CLIFFORD.
+Shame and confusion! All is on the rout,
+Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds
+Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell,
+Whom angry heavens do make their minister,
+Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
+Hot coals of vengeance! Let no soldier fly.
+He that is truly dedicate to war
+Hath no self-love; nor he that loves himself
+Hath not essentially but by circumstance,
+The name of valour. [_Sees his dead father_.] O, let the vile world end
+And the premised flames of the last day
+Knit earth and heaven together!
+Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,
+Particularities and petty sounds
+To cease! Wast thou ordained, dear father,
+To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve
+The silver livery of advised age,
+And, in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus
+To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight
+My heart is turned to stone, and while ’tis mine
+It shall be stony. York not our old men spares;
+No more will I their babes; tears virginal
+Shall be to me even as the dew to fire,
+And beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims,
+Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax.
+Henceforth I will not have to do with pity.
+Meet I an infant of the house of York,
+Into as many gobbets will I cut it
+As wild Medea young Absyrtus did.
+In cruelty will I seek out my fame.
+
+[_He takes him up on his back._]
+
+Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford’s house;
+As did Aeneas old Anchises bear,
+So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders;
+But then Aeneas bare a living load,
+Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine.
+
+[_Exit, bearing off his father._]
+
+Enter Richard and Somerset to fight. Somerset is killed.
+
+RICHARD.
+So, lie thou there;
+For underneath an alehouse’ paltry sign,
+The Castle in Saint Albans, Somerset
+Hath made the wizard famous in his death.
+Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still!
+Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Fight. Excursions. Enter King, Queen and others.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Away, my lord! You are slow, for shame, away!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Can we outrun the heavens? Good Margaret, stay.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+What are you made of? You’ll nor fight nor fly.
+Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence
+To give the enemy way, and to secure us
+By what we can, which can no more but fly.
+
+[_Alarum afar off._]
+
+If you be ta’en, we then should see the bottom
+Of all our fortunes; but if we haply scape,
+As well we may, if not through your neglect,
+We shall to London get, where you are loved
+And where this breach now in our fortunes made
+May readily be stopped.
+
+Enter young Clifford.
+
+YOUNG CLIFFORD.
+But that my heart’s on future mischief set,
+I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly;
+But fly you must; uncurable discomfit
+Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.
+Away, for your relief! And we will live
+To see their day and them our fortune give.
+Away, my lord, away!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Fields near Saint Albans
+
+Alarum. Retreat. Enter York, Richard, Warwick and Soldiers with drum
+and colours.
+
+YORK.
+Of Salisbury, who can report of him,
+That winter lion, who in rage forgets
+Aged contusions and all brush of time,
+And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,
+Repairs him with occasion? This happy day
+Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,
+If Salisbury be lost.
+
+RICHARD.
+My noble father,
+Three times today I holp him to his horse,
+Three times bestrid him; thrice I led him off,
+Persuaded him from any further act;
+But still, where danger was, still there I met him,
+And like rich hangings in a homely house,
+So was his will in his old feeble body.
+But, noble as he is, look where he comes.
+
+Enter Salisbury.
+
+Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought today.
+
+SALISBURY.
+By th’ mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard.
+God knows how long it is I have to live,
+And it hath pleased him that three times today
+You have defended me from imminent death.
+Well, lords, we have not got that which we have;
+’Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,
+Being opposites of such repairing nature.
+
+YORK.
+I know our safety is to follow them;
+For, as I hear, the King is fled to London
+To call a present court of parliament.
+Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.
+What says Lord Warwick? Shall we after them?
+
+WARWICK.
+After them? Nay, before them, if we can.
+Now, by my hand, lords, ’twas a glorious day.
+Saint Albans battle won by famous York
+Shall be eternized in all age to come.
+Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all;
+And more such days as these to us befall!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. London. The Parliament House
+ Scene II. Sandal Castle
+ Scene III. Plains near Sandal Castle
+ Scene IV. The Same
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. A plain near Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire
+ Scene II. Before York
+ Scene III. A field of battle between Towton and Saxton, in Yorkshire
+ Scene IV. Another Part of the Field
+ Scene V. Another Part of the Field
+ Scene VI. Another Part of the Field
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. A Forest in the North of England
+ Scene II. The Palace
+ Scene III. France. The King’s Palace
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. London. The Palace
+ Scene II. A Plain in Warwickshire
+ Scene III. Edward’s Camp near Warwick
+ Scene IV. London. The Palace
+ Scene V. A park near Middleham Castle in Yorkshire
+ Scene VI. London. The Tower
+ Scene VII. Before York
+ Scene VIII. London. The Palace
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Coventry
+ Scene II. A Field of Battle near Barnet
+ Scene III. Another Part of the Field
+ Scene IV. Plains near Tewkesbury
+ Scene V. Another part of the Field
+ Scene VI. London. The Tower
+ Scene VII. London. The Palace
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING HENRY the Sixth
+QUEEN MARGARET
+PRINCE EDWARD, Prince of Wales, his son
+DUKE OF SOMERSET
+DUKE OF EXETER
+EARL OF OXFORD
+EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND
+EARL OF WESTMORELAND
+LORD CLIFFORD
+RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York
+EDWARD, Earl of March, afterwards King Edward IV., his son
+GEORGE, afterwards Duke of Clarence, his son
+RICHARD, afterwards Duke of Gloucester, his son
+EDMUND, Earl of Rutland, his son
+DUKE OF NORFOLK
+MARQUESS OF MONTAGUE
+EARL OF WARWICK
+EARL OF PEMBROKE
+LORD HASTINGS
+LORD STAFFORD
+SIR JOHN MORTIMER, uncle to the Duke of York
+SIR HUGH MORTIMER, uncle to the Duke of York
+LADY GREY, afterwards Queen Elizabeth to Edward IV
+EARL RIVERS, brother to Lady Grey
+HENRY, Earl of Richmond, a youth
+SIR WILLIAM STANLEY
+SIR JOHN MONTGOMERY
+SIR JOHN SOMERVILLE
+KING LEWIS the Eleventh, King of France
+BONA, sister to the French Queen
+Tutor to Rutland
+Mayor of York
+Lieutenant of the Tower
+A Nobleman
+Two Keepers
+A Huntsman
+A Son that has killed his father
+A Father that has killed his son
+
+Soldiers, Attendants, Messengers, Watchmen, etc.
+
+SCENE: England and France
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. London. The Parliament House
+
+
+Alarum. Enter Duke of York, Edward, Richard, Norfolk, Montague, Warwick
+and Soldiers, all wearing the white rose.
+
+WARWICK.
+I wonder how the King escaped our hands.
+
+YORK.
+While we pursued the horsemen of the north,
+He slyly stole away and left his men;
+Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland,
+Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat,
+Cheered up the drooping army; and himself,
+Lord Clifford, and Lord Stafford, all abreast,
+Charged our main battle’s front, and breaking in,
+Were by the swords of common soldiers slain.
+
+EDWARD.
+Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham,
+Is either slain or wounded dangerous;
+I cleft his beaver with a downright blow.
+That this is true, father, behold his blood.
+
+[_Showing his bloody sword._]
+
+MONTAGUE.
+And, brother, here’s the Earl of Wiltshire’s blood,
+
+[_To York, showing his._]
+
+Whom I encountered as the battles joined.
+
+RICHARD.
+Speak thou for me, and tell them what I did.
+
+[_Throwing down the Duke of Somerset’s head._]
+
+YORK.
+Richard hath best deserved of all my sons.
+But is your Grace dead, my Lord of Somerset?
+
+NORFOLK.
+Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt!
+
+RICHARD.
+Thus do I hope to shake King Henry’s head.
+
+WARWICK.
+And so do I. Victorious Prince of York,
+Before I see thee seated in that throne
+Which now the house of Lancaster usurps,
+I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close.
+This is the palace of the fearful king,
+And this the regal seat. Possess it, York,
+For this is thine, and not King Henry’s heirs’.
+
+YORK.
+Assist me, then, sweet Warwick, and I will;
+For hither we have broken in by force.
+
+NORFOLK.
+We’ll all assist you; he that flies shall die.
+
+YORK.
+Thanks, gentle Norfolk. Stay by me, my lords;
+And, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night.
+
+WARWICK.
+And when the King comes, offer him no violence,
+Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce.
+
+[_They retire._]
+
+YORK.
+The Queen this day here holds her parliament,
+But little thinks we shall be of her council.
+By words or blows here let us win our right.
+
+RICHARD.
+Armed as we are, let’s stay within this house.
+
+WARWICK.
+The bloody parliament shall this be called,
+Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king,
+And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice
+Hath made us bywords to our enemies.
+
+YORK.
+Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute.
+I mean to take possession of my right.
+
+WARWICK.
+Neither the King, nor he that loves him best,
+The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,
+Dares stir a wing if Warwick shake his bells.
+I’ll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares.
+Resolve thee, Richard; claim the English crown.
+
+[_Warwick leads York to the throne, who seats himself._]
+
+Flourish. Enter King Henry, Clifford, Northumberland, Westmoreland,
+Exeter and the rest, all wearing the red rose.
+
+KING HENRY.
+My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,
+Even in the chair of state! Belike he means,
+Backed by the power of Warwick, that false peer,
+To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.
+Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father,
+And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vowed revenge
+On him, his sons, his favourites, and his friends.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+If I be not, heavens be revenged on me!
+
+CLIFFORD.
+The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+What, shall we suffer this? Let’s pluck him down.
+My heart for anger burns. I cannot brook it.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmoreland.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Patience is for poltroons, such as he.
+He durst not sit there had your father lived.
+My gracious lord, here in the parliament
+Let us assail the family of York.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Well hast thou spoken, cousin. Be it so.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ah, know you not the city favours them,
+And they have troops of soldiers at their beck?
+
+EXETER.
+But when the Duke is slain, they’ll quickly fly.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Far be the thought of this from Henry’s heart,
+To make a shambles of the Parliament House!
+Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words, and threats
+Shall be the war that Henry means to use.
+
+[_They advance to the Duke._]
+
+Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne,
+And kneel for grace and mercy at my feet;
+I am thy sovereign.
+
+YORK.
+I am thine.
+
+EXETER.
+For shame, come down. He made thee Duke of York.
+
+YORK.
+’Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was.
+
+EXETER.
+Thy father was a traitor to the crown.
+
+WARWICK.
+Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown
+In following this usurping Henry.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Whom should he follow but his natural king?
+
+WARWICK.
+True, Clifford, that’s Richard, Duke of York.
+
+KING HENRY.
+And shall I stand, and thou sit in my throne?
+
+YORK.
+It must and shall be so. Content thyself.
+
+WARWICK.
+Be Duke of Lancaster. Let him be king.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+He is both King and Duke of Lancaster;
+And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain.
+
+WARWICK.
+And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget
+That we are those which chased you from the field
+And slew your fathers, and with colours spread
+Marched through the city to the palace gates.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief;
+And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Plantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,
+Thy kinsmen, and thy friends, I’ll have more lives
+Than drops of blood were in my father’s veins.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Urge it no more; lest that, instead of words,
+I send thee, Warwick, such a messenger
+As shall revenge his death before I stir.
+
+WARWICK.
+Poor Clifford, how I scorn his worthless threats!
+
+YORK.
+Will you we show our title to the crown?
+If not, our swords shall plead it in the field.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown?
+Thy father was, as thou art, Duke of York;
+Thy grandfather, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March.
+I am the son of Henry the Fifth,
+Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop,
+And seized upon their towns and provinces.
+
+WARWICK.
+Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all.
+
+KING HENRY.
+The Lord Protector lost it, and not I.
+When I was crowned I was but nine months old.
+
+RICHARD.
+You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose.
+Father, tear the crown from the usurper’s head.
+
+EDWARD.
+Sweet father, do so; set it on your head.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Good brother, as thou lov’st and honourest arms,
+Let’s fight it out and not stand cavilling thus.
+
+RICHARD.
+Sound drums and trumpets, and the King will fly.
+
+YORK.
+Sons, peace!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Peace thou, and give King Henry leave to speak.
+
+WARWICK.
+Plantagenet shall speak first. Hear him, lords,
+And be you silent and attentive too,
+For he that interrupts him shall not live.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Think’st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,
+Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?
+No. First shall war unpeople this my realm;
+Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,
+And now in England, to our heart’s great sorrow,
+Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?
+My title’s good, and better far than his.
+
+WARWICK.
+Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown.
+
+YORK.
+’Twas by rebellion against his king.
+
+KING HENRY.
+[_Aside_.] I know not what to say; my title’s weak.
+Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir?
+
+YORK.
+What then?
+
+KING HENRY.
+An if he may, then am I lawful king;
+For Richard, in the view of many lords,
+Resigned the crown to Henry the Fourth,
+Whose heir my father was, and I am his.
+
+YORK.
+He rose against him, being his sovereign,
+And made him to resign his crown perforce.
+
+WARWICK.
+Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrained,
+Think you ’twere prejudicial to his crown?
+
+EXETER.
+No, for he could not so resign his crown
+But that the next heir should succeed and reign.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Art thou against us, Duke of Exeter?
+
+EXETER.
+His is the right, and therefore pardon me.
+
+YORK.
+Why whisper you, my lords, and answer not?
+
+EXETER.
+My conscience tells me he is lawful king.
+
+KING HENRY.
+[_Aside_.] All will revolt from me and turn to him.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Plantagenet, for all the claim thou lay’st,
+Think not that Henry shall be so deposed.
+
+WARWICK.
+Deposed he shall be, in despite of all.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Thou art deceived. ’Tis not thy southern power,
+Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent,
+Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud,
+Can set the Duke up in despite of me.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+King Henry, be thy title right or wrong,
+Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence.
+May that ground gape and swallow me alive,
+Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father!
+
+KING HENRY.
+O Clifford, how thy words revive my heart!
+
+YORK.
+Henry of Lancaster, resign thy crown.
+What mutter you, or what conspire you, lords?
+
+WARWICK.
+Do right unto this princely Duke of York,
+Or I will fill the house with armed men,
+And over the chair of state where now he sits,
+Write up his title with usurping blood.
+
+[_He stamps with his foot, and the Soldiers show themselves._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+My Lord of Warwick, hear but one word:
+Let me for this my lifetime reign as king.
+
+YORK.
+Confirm the crown to me, and to mine heirs,
+And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou liv’st.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I am content. Richard Plantagenet,
+Enjoy the kingdom after my decease.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+What wrong is this unto the Prince your son!
+
+WARWICK.
+What good is this to England and himself!
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Base, fearful, and despairing Henry!
+
+CLIFFORD.
+How hast thou injured both thyself and us!
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+I cannot stay to hear these articles.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Nor I.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Come, cousin, let us tell the Queen these news.
+
+WESTMORELAND.
+Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate king,
+In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Be thou a prey unto the house of York,
+And die in bands for this unmanly deed!
+
+CLIFFORD.
+In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome,
+Or live in peace abandoned and despised!
+
+[_Exeunt Westmoreland, Northumberland and Clifford._]
+
+WARWICK.
+Turn this way, Henry, and regard them not.
+
+EXETER.
+They seek revenge, and therefore will not yield.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ah, Exeter!
+
+WARWICK.
+Why should you sigh, my lord?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Not for myself, Lord Warwick, but my son,
+Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit.
+But be it as it may, [_To York._] I here entail
+The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever;
+Conditionally, that here thou take an oath
+To cease this civil war, and whilst I live,
+To honour me as thy king and sovereign,
+And neither by treason nor hostility
+To seek to put me down and reign thyself.
+
+YORK.
+This oath I willingly take and will perform.
+
+[_Coming from the throne._]
+
+WARWICK.
+Long live King Henry! Plantagenet, embrace him.
+
+KING HENRY.
+And long live thou, and these thy forward sons!
+
+YORK.
+Now York and Lancaster are reconciled.
+
+EXETER.
+Accursed be he that seeks to make them foes!
+
+Sennet. Here they come down.
+
+YORK.
+Farewell, my gracious lord. I’ll to my castle.
+
+WARWICK.
+And I’ll keep London with my soldiers.
+
+NORFOLK.
+And I to Norfolk with my followers.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+And I unto the sea from whence I came.
+
+[_Exeunt York and his Sons, Warwick, Norfolk, Montague and their
+Soldiers._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+And I with grief and sorrow to the court.
+
+Enter Queen Margaret and the Prince of Wales.
+
+EXETER.
+Here comes the Queen, whose looks bewray her anger.
+I’ll steal away.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Exeter, so will I.
+
+[_Going._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Nay, go not from me; I will follow thee.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Be patient, gentle Queen, and I will stay.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Who can be patient in such extremes?
+Ah, wretched man, would I had died a maid,
+And never seen thee, never borne thee son,
+Seeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father.
+Hath he deserved to lose his birthright thus?
+Hadst thou but loved him half so well as I,
+Or felt that pain which I did for him once,
+Or nourished him as I did with my blood,
+Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there,
+Rather than have made that savage duke thine heir
+And disinherited thine only son.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+Father, you cannot disinherit me.
+If you be king, why should not I succeed?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Pardon me, Margaret; pardon me, sweet son.
+The Earl of Warwick and the Duke enforced me.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Enforced thee! Art thou King, and wilt be forced?
+I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch,
+Thou hast undone thyself, thy son, and me,
+And given unto the house of York such head
+As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance.
+To entail him and his heirs unto the crown,
+What is it but to make thy sepulchre
+And creep into it far before thy time?
+Warwick is Chancellor and the lord of Calais;
+Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas;
+The Duke is made Protector of the realm;
+And yet shalt thou be safe? Such safety finds
+The trembling lamb environed with wolves.
+Had I been there, which am a silly woman,
+The soldiers should have tossed me on their pikes
+Before I would have granted to that act.
+But thou prefer’st thy life before thine honour.
+And seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself
+Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,
+Until that act of parliament be repealed
+Whereby my son is disinherited.
+The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours
+Will follow mine if once they see them spread;
+And spread they shall be, to thy foul disgrace
+And utter ruin of the house of York.
+Thus do I leave thee. Come, son, let’s away:
+Our army is ready; come, we’ll after them.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Stay, gentle Margaret, and hear me speak.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Thou hast spoke too much already. Get thee gone.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Gentle son Edward, thou wilt stay with me?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ay, to be murdered by his enemies.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+When I return with victory from the field
+I’ll see your Grace. Till then I’ll follow her.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Come, son, away; we may not linger thus.
+
+[_Exeunt Queen Margaret and the Prince._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Poor queen! How love to me and to her son
+Hath made her break out into terms of rage!
+Revenged may she be on that hateful Duke,
+Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire,
+Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle
+Tire on the flesh of me and of my son.
+The loss of those three lords torments my heart.
+I’ll write unto them and entreat them fair.
+Come, cousin, you shall be the messenger.
+
+EXETER.
+And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Sandal Castle
+
+Enter Edward, Richard and Montague.
+
+RICHARD.
+Brother, though I be youngest, give me leave.
+
+EDWARD.
+No, I can better play the orator.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+But I have reasons strong and forcible.
+
+Enter the Duke of York.
+
+YORK.
+Why, how now, sons and brother, at a strife?
+What is your quarrel? How began it first?
+
+EDWARD.
+No quarrel, but a slight contention.
+
+YORK.
+About what?
+
+RICHARD.
+About that which concerns your Grace and us:
+The crown of England, father, which is yours.
+
+YORK.
+Mine, boy? Not till King Henry be dead.
+
+RICHARD.
+Your right depends not on his life or death.
+
+EDWARD.
+Now you are heir, therefore enjoy it now.
+By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe,
+It will outrun you, father, in the end.
+
+YORK.
+I took an oath that he should quietly reign.
+
+EDWARD.
+But for a kingdom any oath may be broken.
+I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year.
+
+RICHARD.
+No; God forbid your Grace should be forsworn.
+
+YORK.
+I shall be, if I claim by open war.
+
+RICHARD.
+I’ll prove the contrary if you’ll hear me speak.
+
+YORK.
+Thou canst not, son; it is impossible.
+
+RICHARD.
+An oath is of no moment, being not took
+Before a true and lawful magistrate
+That hath authority over him that swears.
+Henry had none, but did usurp the place;
+Then, seeing ’twas he that made you to depose,
+Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.
+Therefore, to arms! And, father, do but think
+How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown,
+Within whose circuit is Elysium
+And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.
+Why do we linger thus? I cannot rest
+Until the white rose that I wear be dyed
+Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry’s heart.
+
+YORK.
+Richard, enough; I will be king, or die.
+Brother, thou shalt to London presently,
+And whet on Warwick to this enterprise.
+Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk
+And tell him privily of our intent.
+You, Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham,
+With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise.
+In them I trust; for they are soldiers,
+Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.
+While you are thus employed, what resteth more
+But that I seek occasion how to rise,
+And yet the King not privy to my drift,
+Nor any of the house of Lancaster?
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+But stay. What news? Why com’st thou in such post?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The Queen, with all the northern earls and lords
+Intend here to besiege you in your castle.
+She is hard by with twenty thousand men;
+And therefore fortify your hold, my lord.
+
+YORK.
+Ay, with my sword. What, think’st thou that we fear them?
+Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me;
+My brother Montague shall post to London.
+Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,
+Whom we have left protectors of the King,
+With powerful policy strengthen themselves,
+And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Brother, I go; I’ll win them, fear it not.
+And thus most humbly I do take my leave.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer.
+
+YORK.
+Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer, mine uncles,
+You are come to Sandal in a happy hour;
+The army of the Queen mean to besiege us.
+
+SIR JOHN.
+She shall not need; we’ll meet her in the field.
+
+YORK.
+What, with five thousand men?
+
+RICHARD.
+Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need.
+A woman’s general; what should we fear?
+
+[_A march afar off._]
+
+EDWARD.
+I hear their drums. Let’s set our men in order,
+And issue forth and bid them battle straight.
+
+YORK.
+Five men to twenty! Though the odds be great,
+I doubt not, uncle, of our victory.
+Many a battle have I won in France
+Whenas the enemy hath been ten to one.
+Why should I not now have the like success?
+
+[_Alarum. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Plains near Sandal Castle
+
+Alarums. Enter Rutland and his Tutor.
+
+RUTLAND.
+Ah, whither shall I fly to scape their hands?
+Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes.
+
+Enter Clifford and Soldiers.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Chaplain, away! Thy priesthood saves thy life.
+As for the brat of this accursed duke
+Whose father slew my father, he shall die.
+
+TUTOR.
+And I, my lord, will bear him company.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Soldiers, away with him!
+
+TUTOR.
+Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child,
+Lest thou be hated both of God and man.
+
+[_Exit, dragged off by Soldiers._]
+
+CLIFFORD.
+How now? Is he dead already? Or is it fear
+That makes him close his eyes? I’ll open them.
+
+RUTLAND.
+So looks the pent-up lion o’er the wretch
+That trembles under his devouring paws;
+And so he walks, insulting o’er his prey,
+And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder.
+Ah, gentle Clifford, kill me with thy sword,
+And not with such a cruel threat’ning look.
+Sweet Clifford, hear me speak before I die.
+I am too mean a subject for thy wrath;
+Be thou revenged on men, and let me live.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+In vain thou speak’st, poor boy; my father’s blood
+Hath stopped the passage where thy words should enter.
+
+RUTLAND.
+Then let my father’s blood open it again;
+He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Had I thy brethren here, their lives and thine
+Were not revenge sufficient for me.
+No, if I digged up thy forefathers’ graves
+And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,
+It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
+The sight of any of the house of York
+Is as a fury to torment my soul;
+And till I root out their accursed line
+And leave not one alive, I live in hell.
+Therefore—
+
+[_Lifting his hand._]
+
+RUTLAND.
+O, let me pray before I take my death!
+To thee I pray; sweet Clifford, pity me!
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Such pity as my rapier’s point affords.
+
+RUTLAND.
+I never did thee harm; why wilt thou slay me?
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Thy father hath.
+
+RUTLAND.
+But ’twas ere I was born.
+Thou hast one son; for his sake pity me,
+Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just,
+He be as miserably slain as I.
+Ah, let me live in prison all my days,
+And when I give occasion of offence
+Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+No cause? Thy father slew my father; therefore die.
+
+[_Clifford stabs him._]
+
+RUTLAND.
+_Di faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae!_
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Plantagenet! I come, Plantagenet!
+And this thy son’s blood cleaving to my blade
+Shall rust upon my weapon till thy blood,
+Congealed with this, do make me wipe off both.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. The Same
+
+Alarum. Enter Richard, Duke of York.
+
+YORK.
+The army of the Queen hath got the field.
+My uncles both are slain in rescuing me;
+And all my followers to the eager foe
+Turn back and fly like ships before the wind,
+Or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolves.
+My sons, God knows what hath bechanced them;
+But this I know, they have demeaned themselves
+Like men born to renown by life or death.
+Three times did Richard make a lane to me,
+And thrice cried “Courage, father, fight it out!”
+And full as oft came Edward to my side
+With purple falchion painted to the hilt
+In blood of those that had encountered him;
+And when the hardiest warriors did retire,
+Richard cried “Charge, and give no foot of ground!”
+And cried “A crown, or else a glorious tomb!
+A sceptre, or an earthly sepulchre!”
+With this we charged again; but, out, alas!
+We budged again, as I have seen a swan
+With bootless labour swim against the tide
+And spend her strength with over-matching waves.
+
+[_A short alarum within._]
+
+Ah, hark, the fatal followers do pursue,
+And I am faint and cannot fly their fury;
+And were I strong, I would not shun their fury.
+The sands are numbered that makes up my life;
+Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
+
+Enter Queen Margaret, Clifford, Northumberland, the young Prince Edward
+and Soldiers.
+
+Come, bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland,
+I dare your quenchless fury to more rage.
+I am your butt, and I abide your shot.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Yield to our mercy, proud Plantagenet.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm
+With downright payment showed unto my father.
+Now Phaëthon hath tumbled from his car,
+And made an evening at the noontide prick.
+
+YORK.
+My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth
+A bird that will revenge upon you all;
+And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,
+Scorning whate’er you can afflict me with.
+Why come you not? What, multitudes, and fear?
+
+CLIFFORD.
+So cowards fight when they can fly no further;
+So doves do peck the falcon’s piercing talons;
+So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
+Breathe out invectives ’gainst the officers.
+
+YORK.
+O Clifford, but bethink thee once again,
+And in thy thought o’errun my former time;
+And, if thou canst for blushing, view this face,
+And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice
+Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+I will not bandy with thee word for word,
+But buckle with thee blows twice two for one.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Hold, valiant Clifford; for a thousand causes
+I would prolong awhile the traitor’s life.
+Wrath makes him deaf; speak thou, Northumberland.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Hold, Clifford, do not honour him so much
+To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart.
+What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,
+For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,
+When he might spurn him with his foot away?
+It is war’s prize to take all vantages,
+And ten to one is no impeach of valour.
+
+[_They lay hands on York, who struggles._]
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+So doth the cony struggle in the net.
+
+[_York is taken prisoner._]
+
+YORK.
+So triumph thieves upon their conquered booty;
+So true men yield, with robbers so o’ermatched.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+What would your Grace have done unto him now?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland,
+Come, make him stand upon this molehill here,
+That raught at mountains with outstretched arms,
+Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.
+What, was it you that would be England’s king?
+Was ’t you that revelled in our parliament
+And made a preachment of your high descent?
+Where are your mess of sons to back you now,
+The wanton Edward and the lusty George?
+And where’s that valiant crook-back prodigy,
+Dicky your boy, that with his grumbling voice
+Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies?
+Or, with the rest, where is your darling Rutland?
+Look, York, I stained this napkin with the blood
+That valiant Clifford with his rapier’s point
+Made issue from the bosom of the boy;
+And if thine eyes can water for his death,
+I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal.
+Alas, poor York, but that I hate thee deadly
+I should lament thy miserable state.
+I prithee grieve to make me merry, York;
+Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.
+What, hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails
+That not a tear can fall for Rutland’s death?
+Why art thou patient, man? Thou shouldst be mad;
+And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.
+Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.
+Thou would’st be fee’d, I see, to make me sport;
+York cannot speak unless he wear a crown.
+A crown for York! And, lords, bow low to him.
+Hold you his hands whilst I do set it on.
+
+[_Putting a paper crown on his head._]
+
+Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king.
+Ay, this is he that took King Henry’s chair,
+And this is he was his adopted heir.
+But how is it that great Plantagenet
+Is crowned so soon and broke his solemn oath?
+As I bethink me, you should not be king
+Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.
+And will you pale your head in Henry’s glory,
+And rob his temples of the diadem,
+Now in his life, against your holy oath?
+O, ’tis a fault too too unpardonable.
+Off with the crown, and, with the crown, his head;
+And whilst we breathe, take time to do him dead.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+That is my office, for my father’s sake.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Nay, stay; let’s hear the orisons he makes.
+
+YORK.
+She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,
+Whose tongue more poisons than the adder’s tooth!
+How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex
+To triumph like an Amazonian trull
+Upon their woes whom Fortune captivates!
+But that thy face is vizard-like, unchanging,
+Made impudent with use of evil deeds,
+I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush.
+To tell thee whence thou cam’st, of whom derived,
+Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.
+Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,
+Of both the Sicils, and Jerusalem,
+Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.
+Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?
+It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen;
+Unless the adage must be verified,
+That beggars mounted run their horse to death.
+’Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;
+But God he knows thy share thereof is small.
+’Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;
+The contrary doth make thee wondered at.
+’Tis government that makes them seem divine;
+The want thereof makes thee abominable.
+Thou art as opposite to every good
+As the Antipodes are unto us,
+Or as the south to the Septentrion.
+O tiger’s heart wrapped in a woman’s hide!
+How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child,
+To bid the father wipe his eyes withal,
+And yet be seen to bear a woman’s face?
+Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible;
+Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
+Bid’st thou me rage? Why, now thou hast thy wish:
+Wouldst have me weep? Why, now thou hast thy will;
+For raging wind blows up incessant showers,
+And when the rage allays, the rain begins.
+These tears are my sweet Rutland’s obsequies,
+And every drop cries vengeance for his death
+’Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false Frenchwoman.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so
+That hardly can I check my eyes from tears.
+
+YORK.
+That face of his the hungry cannibals
+Would not have touched, would not have stained with blood;
+But you are more inhuman, more inexorable,
+O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania.
+See, ruthless queen, a hapless father’s tears.
+This cloth thou dipped’st in blood of my sweet boy,
+And I with tears do wash the blood away.
+Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this;
+And if thou tell’st the heavy story right,
+Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears;
+Yea, even my foes will shed fast-falling tears
+And say “Alas, it was a piteous deed.”
+There, take the crown, and with the crown my curse;
+And in thy need such comfort come to thee
+As now I reap at thy too cruel hand!
+Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world,
+My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads!
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin,
+I should not for my life but weep with him,
+To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+What, weeping-ripe, my Lord Northumberland?
+Think but upon the wrong he did us all,
+And that will quickly dry thy melting tears.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Here’s for my oath, here’s for my father’s death.
+
+[_Stabbing him._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+And here’s to right our gentle-hearted king.
+
+[_Stabbing him._]
+
+YORK.
+Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God!
+My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Off with his head, and set it on York gates;
+So York may overlook the town of York.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. A plain near Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire
+
+
+A march. Enter Edward and Richard and their power.
+
+EDWARD.
+I wonder how our princely father scaped,
+Or whether he be scaped away or no
+From Clifford’s and Northumberland’s pursuit.
+Had he been ta’en, we should have heard the news;
+Had he been slain, we should have heard the news;
+Or had he scaped, methinks we should have heard
+The happy tidings of his good escape.
+How fares my brother? Why is he so sad?
+
+RICHARD.
+I cannot joy until I be resolved
+Where our right valiant father is become.
+I saw him in the battle range about,
+And watched him how he singled Clifford forth.
+Methought he bore him in the thickest troop
+As doth a lion in a herd of neat;
+Or as a bear, encompassed round with dogs,
+Who having pinched a few and made them cry,
+The rest stand all aloof and bark at him.
+So fared our father with his enemies;
+So fled his enemies my warlike father.
+Methinks ’tis pride enough to be his son.
+See how the morning opes her golden gates
+And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.
+How well resembles it the prime of youth,
+Trimmed like a younker prancing to his love!
+
+EDWARD.
+Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?
+
+RICHARD.
+Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun;
+Not separated with the racking clouds,
+But severed in a pale clear-shining sky.
+See, see, they join, embrace, and seem to kiss,
+As if they vowed some league inviolable.
+Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.
+In this the heaven figures some event.
+
+EDWARD.
+’Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of.
+I think it cites us, brother, to the field,
+That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet,
+Each one already blazing by our meeds,
+Should notwithstanding join our lights together,
+And overshine the earth, as this the world.
+Whate’er it bodes, henceforward will I bear
+Upon my target three fair shining suns.
+
+RICHARD.
+Nay, bear three daughters: by your leave I speak it,
+You love the breeder better than the male.
+
+Enter a Messenger, blowing.
+
+But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell
+Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Ah, one that was a woeful looker-on
+When as the noble Duke of York was slain,
+Your princely father and my loving lord.
+
+EDWARD.
+O, speak no more, for I have heard too much!
+
+RICHARD.
+Say how he died, for I will hear it all.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Environed he was with many foes,
+And stood against them as the hope of Troy
+Against the Greeks that would have entered Troy.
+But Hercules himself must yield to odds;
+And many strokes, though with a little axe,
+Hews down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
+By many hands your father was subdued,
+But only slaughtered by the ireful arm
+Of unrelenting Clifford and the Queen,
+Who crowned the gracious duke in high despite,
+Laughed in his face; and when with grief he wept,
+The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks
+A napkin steeped in the harmless blood
+Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain.
+And after many scorns, many foul taunts,
+They took his head, and on the gates of York
+They set the same; and there it doth remain,
+The saddest spectacle that e’er I viewed.
+
+EDWARD.
+Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon,
+Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay.
+O Clifford, boisterous Clifford, thou hast slain
+The flower of Europe for his chivalry;
+And treacherously hast thou vanquished him,
+For hand to hand he would have vanquished thee.
+Now my soul’s palace is become a prison.
+Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body
+Might in the ground be closed up in rest!
+For never henceforth shall I joy again;
+Never, O, never, shall I see more joy!
+
+RICHARD.
+I cannot weep, for all my body’s moisture
+Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart;
+Nor can my tongue unload my heart’s great burthen,
+For selfsame wind that I should speak withal
+Is kindling coals that fires all my breast
+And burns me up with flames that tears would quench.
+To weep is to make less the depth of grief:
+Tears, then, for babes; blows and revenge for me!
+Richard, I bear thy name; I’ll venge thy death,
+Or die renowned by attempting it.
+
+EDWARD.
+His name that valiant duke hath left with thee;
+His dukedom and his chair with me is left.
+
+RICHARD.
+Nay, if thou be that princely eagle’s bird,
+Show thy descent by gazing ’gainst the sun;
+For chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say,
+Either that is thine, or else thou wert not his.
+
+March. Enter Warwick, Marquess Montague and their army.
+
+WARWICK.
+How now, fair lords! What fare? What news abroad?
+
+RICHARD.
+Great Lord of Warwick, if we should recount
+Our baleful news, and at each word’s deliverance
+Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told,
+The words would add more anguish than the wounds.
+O valiant lord, the Duke of York is slain!
+
+EDWARD.
+O, Warwick, Warwick, that Plantagenet
+Which held thee dearly as his soul’s redemption
+Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death.
+
+WARWICK.
+Ten days ago I drowned these news in tears,
+And now, to add more measure to your woes,
+I come to tell you things sith then befall’n.
+After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought,
+Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp,
+Tidings, as swiftly as the posts could run,
+Were brought me of your loss and his depart.
+I, then in London, keeper of the King,
+Mustered my soldiers, gathered flocks of friends,
+And very well appointed, as I thought,
+Marched toward Saint Albans to intercept the Queen,
+Bearing the King in my behalf along;
+For by my scouts I was advertised
+That she was coming with a full intent
+To dash our late decree in Parliament
+Touching King Henry’s oath and your succession.
+Short tale to make, we at Saint Albans met,
+Our battles joined, and both sides fiercely fought.
+But, whether ’twas the coldness of the King,
+Who looked full gently on his warlike Queen,
+That robbed my soldiers of their heated spleen,
+Or whether ’twas report of her success;
+Or more than common fear of Clifford’s rigour,
+Who thunders to his captives blood and death,
+I cannot judge; but, to conclude with truth,
+Their weapons like to lightning came and went;
+Our soldiers’, like the night-owl’s lazy flight,
+Or like an idle thresher with a flail,
+Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends.
+I cheered them up with justice of our cause,
+With promise of high pay and great rewards,
+But all in vain; they had no heart to fight,
+And we in them no hope to win the day;
+So that we fled: the King unto the Queen;
+Lord George your brother, Norfolk, and myself,
+In haste, post-haste, are come to join with you;
+For in the Marches here we heard you were,
+Making another head to fight again.
+
+EDWARD.
+Where is the Duke of Norfolk, gentle Warwick?
+And when came George from Burgundy to England?
+
+WARWICK.
+Some six miles off the Duke is with the soldiers;
+And for your brother, he was lately sent
+From your kind aunt, Duchess of Burgundy,
+With aid of soldiers to this needful war.
+
+RICHARD.
+’Twas odds, belike, when valiant Warwick fled.
+Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit,
+But ne’er till now his scandal of retire.
+
+WARWICK.
+Nor now my scandal, Richard, dost thou hear;
+For thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine
+Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry’s head
+And wring the awful sceptre from his fist,
+Were he as famous and as bold in war
+As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.
+
+RICHARD.
+I know it well, Lord Warwick; blame me not.
+’Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak.
+But in this troublous time what’s to be done?
+Shall we go throw away our coats of steel
+And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns,
+Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads?
+Or shall we on the helmets of our foes
+Tell our devotion with revengeful arms?
+If for the last, say ay, and to it, lords.
+
+WARWICK.
+Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out,
+And therefore comes my brother Montague.
+Attend me, lords. The proud insulting Queen,
+With Clifford and the haught Northumberland,
+And of their feather many moe proud birds,
+Have wrought the easy-melting King like wax.
+He swore consent to your succession,
+His oath enrolled in the Parliament;
+And now to London all the crew are gone,
+To frustrate both his oath and what beside
+May make against the house of Lancaster.
+Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong.
+Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself,
+With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March,
+Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure,
+Will but amount to five and twenty thousand,
+Why, _via_, to London will we march amain,
+And once again bestride our foaming steeds,
+And once again cry “Charge upon our foes!”
+But never once again turn back and fly.
+
+RICHARD.
+Ay, now methinks I hear great Warwick speak.
+Ne’er may he live to see a sunshine day
+That cries “Retire,” if Warwick bid him stay.
+
+EDWARD.
+Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean;
+And when thou fail’st—as God forbid the hour!—
+Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!
+
+WARWICK.
+No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York.
+The next degree is England’s royal throne;
+For King of England shalt thou be proclaimed
+In every borough as we pass along,
+And he that throws not up his cap for joy
+Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head.
+King Edward, valiant Richard, Montague,
+Stay we no longer dreaming of renown,
+But sound the trumpets and about our task.
+
+RICHARD.
+Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,
+As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,
+I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.
+
+EDWARD.
+Then strike up, drums! God and Saint George for us!
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+WARWICK.
+How now, what news?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me,
+The Queen is coming with a puissant host,
+And craves your company for speedy counsel.
+
+WARWICK.
+Why then it sorts; brave warriors, let’s away.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Before York
+
+Flourish. Enter King Henry, Queen Margaret, the Prince of Wales,
+Clifford and Northumberland with drums and trumpets.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Welcome, my lord, to this brave town of York.
+Yonder’s the head of that arch-enemy
+That sought to be encompassed with your crown.
+Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wrack!
+To see this sight, it irks my very soul.
+Withhold revenge, dear God! ’Tis not my fault,
+Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+My gracious liege, this too much lenity
+And harmful pity must be laid aside.
+To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?
+Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
+Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?
+Not his that spoils her young before her face.
+Who scapes the lurking serpent’s mortal sting?
+Not he that sets his foot upon her back.
+The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on,
+And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
+Ambitious York did level at thy crown,
+Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows.
+He, but a duke, would have his son a king,
+And raise his issue like a loving sire;
+Thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,
+Didst yield consent to disinherit him,
+Which argued thee a most unloving father.
+Unreasonable creatures feed their young;
+And though man’s face be fearful to their eyes,
+Yet, in protection of their tender ones,
+Who hath not seen them, even with those wings
+Which sometime they have used with fearful flight,
+Make war with him that climbed unto their nest,
+Offering their own lives in their young’s defence?
+For shame, my liege, make them your precedent.
+Were it not pity that this goodly boy
+Should lose his birthright by his father’s fault,
+And long hereafter say unto his child,
+“What my great-grandfather and grandsire got,
+My careless father fondly gave away?”
+Ah, what a shame were this! Look on the boy,
+And let his manly face, which promiseth
+Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart
+To hold thine own and leave thine own with him.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Full well hath Clifford played the orator,
+Inferring arguments of mighty force.
+But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear
+That things ill got had ever bad success?
+And happy always was it for that son
+Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?
+I’ll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind,
+And would my father had left me no more;
+For all the rest is held at such a rate
+As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep
+Than in possession any jot of pleasure.
+Ah, cousin York, would thy best friends did know
+How it doth grieve me that thy head is here!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh,
+And this soft courage makes your followers faint.
+You promised knighthood to our forward son.
+Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.—
+Edward, kneel down.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Edward Plantagenet, arise a knight;
+And learn this lesson: draw thy sword in right.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+My gracious father, by your kingly leave,
+I’ll draw it as apparent to the crown,
+And in that quarrel use it to the death.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Royal commanders, be in readiness;
+For with a band of thirty thousand men
+Comes Warwick, backing of the Duke of York,
+And in the towns, as they do march along,
+Proclaims him king, and many fly to him.
+Darraign your battle, for they are at hand.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+I would your highness would depart the field.
+The Queen hath best success when you are absent.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, that’s my fortune too; therefore I’ll stay.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Be it with resolution then to fight.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+My royal father, cheer these noble lords,
+And hearten those that fight in your defence.
+Unsheathe your sword, good father; cry “Saint George!”
+
+March. Enter Edward, George, Richard, Warwick, Norfolk, Montague and
+Soldiers.
+
+EDWARD.
+Now, perjured Henry, wilt thou kneel for grace
+And set thy diadem upon my head,
+Or bide the mortal fortune of the field?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Go rate thy minions, proud insulting boy!
+Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms
+Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king?
+
+EDWARD.
+I am his king, and he should bow his knee.
+I was adopted heir by his consent.
+Since when, his oath is broke; for, as I hear,
+You that are king, though he do wear the crown,
+Have caused him by new act of Parliament
+To blot out me and put his own son in.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+And reason too:
+Who should succeed the father but the son?
+
+RICHARD.
+Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak!
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Ay, crook-back; here I stand, to answer thee,
+Or any he, the proudest of thy sort.
+
+RICHARD.
+’Twas you that killed young Rutland, was it not?
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Ay, and old York, and yet not satisfied.
+
+RICHARD.
+For God’s sake, lords, give signal to the fight.
+
+WARWICK.
+What sayst thou, Henry, wilt thou yield the crown?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Why, how now, long-tongued Warwick, dare you speak?
+When you and I met at Saint Albans last,
+Your legs did better service than your hands.
+
+WARWICK.
+Then ’twas my turn to fly, and now ’tis thine.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+You said so much before, and yet you fled.
+
+WARWICK.
+’Twas not your valour, Clifford, drove me thence.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+No, nor your manhood that durst make you stay.
+
+RICHARD.
+Northumberland, I hold thee reverently.
+Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain
+The execution of my big-swoln heart
+Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+I slew thy father; call’st thou him a child?
+
+RICHARD.
+Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward,
+As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland,
+But ere sunset I’ll make thee curse the deed.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Have done with words, my lords, and hear me speak.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Defy them then, or else hold close thy lips.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
+I am a king, and privileged to speak.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+My liege, the wound that bred this meeting here
+Cannot be cured by words; therefore be still.
+
+RICHARD.
+Then, executioner, unsheathe thy sword.
+By Him that made us all, I am resolved
+That Clifford’s manhood lies upon his tongue.
+
+EDWARD.
+Say, Henry, shall I have my right, or no?
+A thousand men have broke their fasts today
+That ne’er shall dine unless thou yield the crown.
+
+WARWICK.
+If thou deny, their blood upon thy head;
+For York in justice puts his armour on.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+If that be right which Warwick says is right,
+There is no wrong, but everything is right.
+
+RICHARD.
+Whoever got thee, there thy mother stands;
+For well I wot thou hast thy mother’s tongue.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam,
+But like a foul misshapen stigmatic,
+Marked by the Destinies to be avoided,
+As venom toads or lizards’ dreadful stings.
+
+RICHARD.
+Iron of Naples, hid with English gilt,
+Whose father bears the title of a king,
+As if a channel should be called the sea,
+Sham’st thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,
+To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart?
+
+EDWARD.
+A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns
+To make this shameless callet know herself.
+Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou,
+Although thy husband may be Menelaus;
+And ne’er was Agamemnon’s brother wronged
+By that false woman as this king by thee.
+His father revelled in the heart of France,
+And tamed the King, and made the Dauphin stoop;
+And had he matched according to his state,
+He might have kept that glory to this day;
+But when he took a beggar to his bed
+And graced thy poor sire with his bridal day,
+Even then that sunshine brewed a shower for him
+That washed his father’s fortunes forth of France
+And heaped sedition on his crown at home.
+For what hath broached this tumult but thy pride?
+Hadst thou been meek, our title still had slept;
+And we, in pity of the gentle king,
+Had slipped our claim until another age.
+
+GEORGE.
+But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring,
+And that thy summer bred us no increase,
+We set the axe to thy usurping root;
+And though the edge hath something hit ourselves,
+Yet know thou, since we have begun to strike,
+We’ll never leave till we have hewn thee down
+Or bathed thy growing with our heated bloods.
+
+EDWARD.
+And in this resolution I defy thee;
+Not willing any longer conference,
+Since thou deniest the gentle King to speak.
+Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave;
+And either victory or else a grave!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Stay, Edward.
+
+EDWARD.
+No, wrangling woman, we’ll no longer stay.
+These words will cost ten thousand lives this day.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A field of battle between Towton and Saxton, in Yorkshire
+
+Alarums. Excursions. Enter Warwick.
+
+WARWICK.
+Forspent with toil, as runners with a race,
+I lay me down a little while to breathe;
+For strokes received, and many blows repaid,
+Have robbed my strong-knit sinews of their strength,
+And spite of spite, needs must I rest awhile.
+
+Enter Edward, running.
+
+EDWARD.
+Smile, gentle heaven, or strike, ungentle death;
+For this world frowns and Edward’s sun is clouded.
+
+WARWICK.
+How now, my lord, what hap? What hope of good?
+
+Enter George.
+
+GEORGE.
+Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair;
+Our ranks are broke and ruin follows us.
+What counsel give you? Whither shall we fly?
+
+EDWARD.
+Bootless is flight, they follow us with wings;
+And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit.
+
+Enter Richard.
+
+RICHARD.
+Ah, Warwick, why hast thou withdrawn thyself?
+Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk,
+Broached with the steely point of Clifford’s lance;
+And in the very pangs of death he cried,
+Like to a dismal clangor heard from far,
+“Warwick, revenge! Brother, revenge my death!”
+So, underneath the belly of their steeds,
+That stained their fetlocks in his smoking blood,
+The noble gentleman gave up the ghost.
+
+WARWICK.
+Then let the earth be drunken with our blood;
+I’ll kill my horse because I will not fly.
+Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,
+Wailing our losses whiles the foe doth rage,
+And look upon, as if the tragedy
+Were played in jest by counterfeiting actors?
+Here on my knee I vow to God above
+I’ll never pause again, never stand still,
+Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine,
+Or Fortune given me measure of revenge.
+
+EDWARD.
+O Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine,
+And in this vow do chain my soul to thine!
+And, ere my knee rise from the earth’s cold face,
+I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to Thee,
+Thou setter up and plucker down of kings,
+Beseeching Thee, if with Thy will it stands
+That to my foes this body must be prey,
+Yet that Thy brazen gates of heaven may ope,
+And give sweet passage to my sinful soul.
+Now, lords, take leave until we meet again,
+Where’er it be, in heaven or in earth.
+
+RICHARD.
+Brother, give me thy hand; and, gentle Warwick,
+Let me embrace thee in my weary arms.
+I, that did never weep, now melt with woe
+That winter should cut off our spring-time so.
+
+WARWICK.
+Away, away! Once more, sweet lords, farewell.
+
+GEORGE.
+Yet let us all together to our troops,
+And give them leave to fly that will not stay,
+And call them pillars that will stand to us;
+And if we thrive, promise them such rewards
+As victors wear at the Olympian games.
+This may plant courage in their quailing breasts,
+For yet is hope of life and victory.
+Forslow no longer; make we hence amain.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another Part of the Field
+
+Excursions. Enter Richard and Clifford.
+
+RICHARD.
+Now, Clifford, I have singled thee alone.
+Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York,
+And this for Rutland; both bound to revenge,
+Wert thou environed with a brazen wall.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone.
+This is the hand that stabbed thy father York,
+And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland;
+And here’s the heart that triumphs in their death
+And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother
+To execute the like upon thyself;
+And so have at thee!
+
+They fight. Warwick comes; Clifford flies.
+
+RICHARD.
+Nay, Warwick, single out some other chase;
+For I myself will hunt this wolf to death.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another Part of the Field
+
+Enter King Henry.
+
+KING HENRY.
+This battle fares like to the morning’s war,
+When dying clouds contend with growing light,
+What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
+Can neither call it perfect day nor night.
+Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea
+Forced by the tide to combat with the wind;
+Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea
+Forced to retire by fury of the wind.
+Sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind;
+Now one the better, then another best,
+Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,
+Yet neither conqueror nor conquered.
+So is the equal poise of this fell war.
+Here on this molehill will I sit me down.
+To whom God will, there be the victory!
+For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too,
+Have chid me from the battle, swearing both
+They prosper best of all when I am thence.
+Would I were dead, if God’s good will were so;
+For what is in this world but grief and woe?
+O God! Methinks it were a happy life
+To be no better than a homely swain;
+To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
+To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
+Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
+How many make the hour full complete,
+How many hours brings about the day,
+How many days will finish up the year,
+How many years a mortal man may live.
+When this is known, then to divide the times:
+So many hours must I tend my flock;
+So many hours must I take my rest;
+So many hours must I contemplate;
+So many hours must I sport myself;
+So many days my ewes have been with young;
+So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean;
+So many years ere I shall shear the fleece.
+So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
+Passed over to the end they were created,
+Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
+Ah, what a life were this! How sweet, how lovely!
+Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
+To shepherds looking on their silly sheep
+Than doth a rich embroidered canopy
+To kings that fear their subjects’ treachery?
+O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth.
+And to conclude, the shepherd’s homely curds,
+His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle,
+His wonted sleep under a fresh tree’s shade,
+All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,
+Is far beyond a prince’s delicates—
+His viands sparkling in a golden cup,
+His body couched in a curious bed,
+When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him.
+
+Alarum. Enter a Son that hath killed his father, bringing in the dead
+body.
+
+SON.
+Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
+This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,
+May be possessed with some store of crowns;
+And I, that haply take them from him now,
+May yet ere night yield both my life and them
+To some man else, as this dead man doth me.
+Who’s this? O God! It is my father’s face,
+Whom in this conflict I unwares have killed.
+O heavy times, begetting such events!
+From London by the King was I pressed forth;
+My father, being the Earl of Warwick’s man,
+Came on the part of York, pressed by his master;
+And I, who at his hands received my life,
+Have by my hands of life bereaved him.
+Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did;
+And pardon, father, for I knew not thee.
+My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks,
+And no more words till they have flowed their fill.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O piteous spectacle! O bloody times!
+Whiles lions war and battle for their dens,
+Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.
+Weep, wretched man, I’ll aid thee tear for tear;
+And let our hearts and eyes, like civil war,
+Be blind with tears and break o’ercharged with grief.
+
+Enter a Father who has killed his son, with the body in his arms.
+
+FATHER.
+Thou that so stoutly hath resisted me,
+Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold,
+For I have bought it with an hundred blows.
+But let me see: is this our foeman’s face?
+Ah, no, no, no; it is mine only son!
+Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,
+Throw up thine eye! See, see what showers arise,
+Blown with the windy tempest of my heart
+Upon thy wounds, that kill mine eye and heart!
+O, pity, God, this miserable age!
+What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
+Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural,
+This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!
+O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,
+And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!
+
+KING HENRY.
+Woe above woe, grief more than common grief!
+O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds!
+O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity!
+The red rose and the white are on his face,
+The fatal colours of our striving houses;
+The one his purple blood right well resembles,
+The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth.
+Wither one rose, and let the other flourish!
+If you contend, a thousand lives must wither.
+
+SON.
+How will my mother for a father’s death
+Take on with me and ne’er be satisfied!
+
+FATHER.
+How will my wife for slaughter of my son
+Shed seas of tears and ne’er be satisfied!
+
+KING HENRY.
+How will the country for these woeful chances
+Misthink the King and not be satisfied!
+
+SON.
+Was ever son so rued a father’s death?
+
+FATHER.
+Was ever father so bemoaned his son?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Was ever king so grieved for subjects’ woe?
+Much is your sorrow, mine ten times so much.
+
+SON.
+I’ll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.
+
+[_Exit with the body._]
+
+FATHER.
+These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;
+My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,
+For from my heart thine image ne’er shall go.
+My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;
+And so obsequious will thy father be,
+Even for the loss of thee, having no more,
+As Priam was for all his valiant sons.
+I’ll bear thee hence; and let them fight that will,
+For I have murdered where I should not kill.
+
+[_Exit with the body._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care,
+Here sits a king more woeful than you are.
+
+Alarums. Excursions. Enter Queen Margaret, Prince of Wales and Exeter.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+Fly, father, fly, for all your friends are fled,
+And Warwick rages like a chafed bull.
+Away, for death doth hold us in pursuit.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Mount you, my lord; towards Berwick post amain.
+Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds
+Having the fearful flying hare in sight,
+With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath,
+And bloody steel grasped in their ireful hands,
+Are at our backs; and therefore hence amain.
+
+EXETER.
+Away, for vengeance comes along with them.
+Nay, stay not to expostulate; make speed,
+Or else come after; I’ll away before.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Nay, take me with thee, good sweet Exeter;
+Not that I fear to stay, but love to go
+Whither the Queen intends. Forward; away!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Another Part of the Field
+
+A loud alarum. Enter Clifford, wounded.
+
+CLIFFORD.
+Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
+Which whiles it lasted gave King Henry light.
+O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow
+More than my body’s parting with my soul!
+My love and fear glued many friends to thee;
+And, now I fall, thy tough commixtures melts,
+Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York.
+The common people swarm like summer flies;
+And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?
+And who shines now but Henry’s enemies?
+O Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent
+That Phaëthon should check thy fiery steeds,
+Thy burning car never had scorched the earth!
+And, Henry, hadst thou swayed as kings should do,
+Or as thy father and his father did,
+Giving no ground unto the house of York,
+They never then had sprung like summer flies;
+I, and ten thousand in this luckless realm
+Had left no mourning widows for our death,
+And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace.
+For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air?
+And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?
+Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds;
+No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight.
+The foe is merciless and will not pity,
+For at their hands I have deserved no pity.
+The air hath got into my deadly wounds,
+And much effuse of blood doth make me faint.
+Come, York and Richard, Warwick, and the rest;
+I stabbed your fathers’ bosoms, split my breast.
+
+[_He faints._]
+
+Alarum and retreat. Enter Edward, George, Richard, Montague, Warwick
+and Soldiers.
+
+EDWARD.
+Now breathe we, lords. Good fortune bids us pause
+And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.
+Some troops pursue the bloody-minded Queen
+That led calm Henry, though he were a king,
+As doth a sail, filled with a fretting gust,
+Command an argosy to stem the waves.
+But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them?
+
+WARWICK.
+No, ’tis impossible he should escape;
+For, though before his face I speak the words,
+Your brother Richard marked him for the grave,
+And whereso’er he is, he’s surely dead.
+
+[_Clifford groans and dies._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave?
+A deadly groan, like life and death’s departing.
+
+EDWARD.
+See who it is; and, now the battle’s ended,
+If friend or foe, let him be gently used.
+
+RICHARD.
+Revoke that doom of mercy, for ’tis Clifford,
+Who, not contented that he lopped the branch
+In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth,
+But set his murdering knife unto the root
+From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring,
+I mean our princely father, Duke of York.
+
+WARWICK.
+From off the gates of York fetch down the head,
+Your father’s head, which Clifford placed there;
+Instead whereof let this supply the room.
+Measure for measure must be answered.
+
+EDWARD.
+Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house,
+That nothing sung but death to us and ours;
+Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound,
+And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak.
+
+[_Soldiers bring the body forward._]
+
+WARWICK.
+I think his understanding is bereft.
+Speak, Clifford, dost thou know who speaks to thee?
+Dark cloudy death o’ershades his beams of life,
+And he nor sees nor hears us, what we say.
+
+RICHARD.
+O, would he did, and so, perhaps, he doth!
+’Tis but his policy to counterfeit,
+Because he would avoid such bitter taunts
+Which in the time of death he gave our father.
+
+GEORGE.
+If so thou think’st, vex him with eager words.
+
+RICHARD.
+Clifford, ask mercy, and obtain no grace.
+
+EDWARD.
+Clifford, repent in bootless penitence.
+
+WARWICK.
+Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults.
+
+GEORGE.
+While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.
+
+RICHARD.
+Thou didst love York, and I am son to York.
+
+EDWARD.
+Thou pitied’st Rutland, I will pity thee.
+
+GEORGE.
+Where’s Captain Margaret to fence you now?
+
+WARWICK.
+They mock thee, Clifford; swear as thou wast wont.
+
+RICHARD.
+What, not an oath? Nay then, the world goes hard
+When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath.
+I know by that he’s dead; and, by my soul,
+If this right hand would buy but two hours’ life,
+That I in all despite might rail at him,
+This hand should chop it off, and with the issuing blood
+Stifle the villain whose unstaunched thirst
+York and young Rutland could not satisfy.
+
+WARWICK.
+Ay, but he’s dead. Off with the traitor’s head,
+And rear it in the place your father’s stands.
+And now to London with triumphant march,
+There to be crowned England’s royal king;
+From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France,
+And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen.
+So shalt thou sinew both these lands together,
+And, having France thy friend, thou shalt not dread
+The scattered foe that hopes to rise again;
+For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt,
+Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears.
+First will I see the coronation,
+And then to Brittany I’ll cross the sea
+To effect this marriage, so it please my lord.
+
+EDWARD.
+Even as thou wilt, sweet Warwick, let it be;
+For in thy shoulder do I build my seat,
+And never will I undertake the thing
+Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting.
+Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester;
+And George, of Clarence. Warwick, as ourself,
+Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best.
+
+RICHARD.
+Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester,
+For Gloucester’s dukedom is too ominous.
+
+WARWICK.
+Tut, that’s a foolish observation.
+Richard, be Duke of Gloucester. Now to London,
+To see these honours in possession.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. A Forest in the North of England
+
+
+Enter two Keepers with crossbows in their hands.
+
+1 KEEPER.
+Under this thick-grown brake we’ll shroud ourselves,
+For through this laund anon the deer will come;
+And in this covert will we make our stand,
+Culling the principal of all the deer.
+
+2 KEEPER.
+I’ll stay above the hill, so both may shoot.
+
+1 KEEPER.
+That cannot be; the noise of thy crossbow
+Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
+Here stand we both, and aim we at the best;
+And, for the time shall not seem tedious,
+I’ll tell thee what befell me on a day
+In this self place where now we mean to stand.
+
+2 KEEPER.
+Here comes a man; let’s stay till he be past.
+
+Enter King Henry, disguised, with a prayer-book.
+
+KING HENRY.
+From Scotland am I stolen, even of pure love,
+To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.
+No, Harry, Harry, ’tis no land of thine;
+Thy place is filled, thy sceptre wrung from thee,
+Thy balm washed off wherewith thou wast anointed.
+No bending knee will call thee Caesar now,
+No humble suitors press to speak for right,
+No, not a man comes for redress of thee;
+For how can I help them and not myself?
+
+1 KEEPER.
+Ay, here’s a deer whose skin’s a keeper’s fee.
+This is the quondam king; let’s seize upon him.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,
+For wise men say it is the wisest course.
+
+2 KEEPER.
+Why linger we? Let us lay hands upon him.
+
+1 KEEPER.
+Forbear awhile; we’ll hear a little more.
+
+KING HENRY.
+My queen and son are gone to France for aid;
+And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick
+Is thither gone to crave the French King’s sister
+To wife for Edward. If this news be true,
+Poor queen and son, your labour is but lost,
+For Warwick is a subtle orator,
+And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words.
+By this account, then, Margaret may win him,
+For she’s a woman to be pitied much.
+Her sighs will make a batt’ry in his breast,
+Her tears will pierce into a marble heart;
+The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn,
+And Nero will be tainted with remorse
+To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears.
+Ay, but she’s come to beg, Warwick to give;
+She on his left side craving aid for Henry;
+He on his right asking a wife for Edward.
+She weeps and says her Henry is deposed;
+He smiles and says his Edward is installed;
+That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more;
+Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,
+Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,
+And in conclusion wins the King from her
+With promise of his sister, and what else,
+To strengthen and support King Edward’s place.
+O Margaret, thus ’twill be; and thou, poor soul,
+Art then forsaken, as thou went’st forlorn.
+
+2 KEEPER.
+Say, what art thou, that talk’st of kings and queens?
+
+KING HENRY.
+More than I seem, and less than I was born to:
+A man at least, for less I should not be;
+And men may talk of kings, and why not I?
+
+2 KEEPER.
+Ay, but thou talk’st as if thou wert a king.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, so I am, in mind; and that’s enough.
+
+2 KEEPER.
+But, if thou be a king, where is thy crown?
+
+KING HENRY.
+My crown is in my heart, not on my head;
+Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
+Not to be seen. My crown is called content;
+A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
+
+2 KEEPER.
+Well, if you be a king crowned with content,
+Your crown content and you must be contented
+To go along with us; for, as we think,
+You are the king King Edward hath deposed;
+And we his subjects, sworn in all allegiance,
+Will apprehend you as his enemy.
+
+KING HENRY.
+But did you never swear, and break an oath?
+
+2 KEEPER.
+No, never such an oath; nor will not now.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Where did you dwell when I was King of England?
+
+2 KEEPER.
+Here in this country, where we now remain.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I was anointed king at nine months old;
+My father and my grandfather were kings,
+And you were sworn true subjects unto me.
+And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?
+
+1 KEEPER.
+No, for we were subjects but while you were king.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Why, am I dead? Do I not breathe a man?
+Ah, simple men, you know not what you swear.
+Look, as I blow this feather from my face,
+And as the air blows it to me again,
+Obeying with my wind when I do blow,
+And yielding to another when it blows,
+Commanded always by the greater gust,
+Such is the lightness of you common men.
+But do not break your oaths; for of that sin
+My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty.
+Go where you will, the King shall be commanded;
+And be you kings; command, and I’ll obey.
+
+1 KEEPER.
+We are true subjects to the King, King Edward.
+
+KING HENRY.
+So would you be again to Henry
+If he were seated as King Edward is.
+
+1 KEEPER.
+We charge you, in God’s name and the King’s
+To go with us unto the officers.
+
+KING HENRY.
+In God’s name, lead; your king’s name be obeyed,
+And what God will, that let your king perform;
+And what he will, I humbly yield unto.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The Palace
+
+Enter King Edward, Richard (Duke of Gloucester), George (Duke of
+Clarence) and Lady Grey.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Brother of Gloucester, at Saint Albans field
+This lady’s husband, Sir John Grey, was slain,
+His land then seized on by the conqueror.
+Her suit is now to repossess those lands,
+Which we in justice cannot well deny,
+Because in quarrel of the house of York
+The worthy gentleman did lose his life.
+
+RICHARD.
+Your Highness shall do well to grant her suit;
+It were dishonour to deny it her.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+It were no less; but yet I’ll make a pause.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] Yea, is it so?
+I see the lady hath a thing to grant
+Before the King will grant her humble suit.
+
+GEORGE.
+[_Aside to Richard_.] He knows the game; how true he keeps the wind!
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] Silence!
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Widow, we will consider of your suit,
+And come some other time to know our mind.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay.
+May it please your Highness to resolve me now,
+And what your pleasure is shall satisfy me.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] Ay, widow? Then I’ll warrant you all your lands,
+An if what pleases him shall pleasure you.
+Fight closer, or, good faith, you’ll catch a blow.
+
+GEORGE.
+[_Aside to Richard_.] I fear her not, unless she chance to fall.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] God forbid that, for he’ll take vantages.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+How many children hast thou, widow? Tell me.
+
+GEORGE.
+[_Aside to Richard_.] I think he means to beg a child of her.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] Nay, whip me then; he’ll rather give her two.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Three, my most gracious lord.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] You shall have four if you’ll be ruled by him.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+’Twere pity they should lose their father’s lands.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Lords, give us leave; I’ll try this widow’s wit.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] Ay, good leave have you; for you will have leave
+Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch.
+
+[_Richard and George stand aside._]
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?
+
+LADY GREY.
+Ay, full as dearly as I love myself.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+And would you not do much to do them good?
+
+LADY GREY.
+To do them good I would sustain some harm.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Then get your husband’s lands to do them good.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Therefore I came unto your majesty.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+I’ll tell you how these lands are to be got.
+
+LADY GREY.
+So shall you bind me to your Highness’ service.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+What service wilt thou do me if I give them?
+
+LADY GREY.
+What you command that rests in me to do.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+But you will take exceptions to my boon.
+
+LADY GREY.
+No, gracious lord, except I cannot do it.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Ay, but thou canst do what I mean to ask.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Why, then, I will do what your Grace commands.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] He plies her hard; and much rain wears the marble.
+
+GEORGE.
+[_Aside to Richard_.] As red as fire! Nay, then her wax must melt.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Why stops my lord? Shall I not hear my task?
+
+KING EDWARD.
+An easy task; ’tis but to love a king.
+
+LADY GREY.
+That’s soon performed, because I am a subject.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Why, then, thy husband’s lands I freely give thee.
+
+LADY GREY.
+I take my leave with many thousand thanks.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] The match is made; she seals it with a curtsy.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+But stay thee; ’tis the fruits of love I mean.
+
+LADY GREY.
+The fruits of love I mean, my loving liege.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Ay, but, I fear me, in another sense.
+What love, thinkst thou, I sue so much to get?
+
+LADY GREY.
+My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers;
+That love which virtue begs, and virtue grants.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+No, by my troth, I did not mean such love.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Why, then, you mean not as I thought you did.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+But now you partly may perceive my mind.
+
+LADY GREY.
+My mind will never grant what I perceive
+Your Highness aims at, if I aim aright.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
+
+LADY GREY.
+To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Why, then thou shalt not have thy husband’s lands.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Why, then mine honesty shall be my dower,
+For by that loss I will not purchase them.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Therein thou wrong’st thy children mightily.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Herein your Highness wrongs both them and me.
+But, mighty lord, this merry inclination
+Accords not with the sadness of my suit.
+Please you dismiss me either with ay or no.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Ay, if thou wilt say ay to my request;
+No, if thou dost say no to my demand.
+
+LADY GREY.
+Then no, my lord. My suit is at an end.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] The widow likes him not, she knits her brows.
+
+GEORGE.
+[_Aside to Richard_.] He is the bluntest wooer in Christendom.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+[_Aside_.] Her looks doth argue her replete with modesty;
+Her words doth show her wit incomparable;
+All her perfections challenge sovereignty.
+One way or other, she is for a king,
+And she shall be my love, or else my queen.—
+Say that King Edward take thee for his queen?
+
+LADY GREY.
+’Tis better said than done, my gracious lord.
+I am a subject fit to jest withal,
+But far unfit to be a sovereign.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Sweet widow, by my state I swear to thee,
+I speak no more than what my soul intends;
+And that is to enjoy thee for my love.
+
+LADY GREY.
+And that is more than I will yield unto.
+I know I am too mean to be your queen,
+And yet too good to be your concubine.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+You cavil, widow; I did mean my queen.
+
+LADY GREY.
+’Twill grieve your Grace my sons should call you father.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+No more than when my daughters call thee mother.
+Thou art a widow, and thou hast some children;
+And, by God’s mother, I, being but a bachelor,
+Have other some. Why, ’tis a happy thing
+To be the father unto many sons.
+Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside to George_.] The ghostly father now hath done his shrift.
+
+GEORGE.
+[_Aside to Richard_.] When he was made a shriver, ’twas for shift.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Brothers, you muse what chat we two have had.
+
+Richard and George come forward.
+
+RICHARD.
+The widow likes it not, for she looks very sad.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+You’d think it strange if I should marry her.
+
+GEORGE.
+To whom, my lord?
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Why, Clarence, to myself.
+
+RICHARD.
+That would be ten days’ wonder at the least.
+
+GEORGE.
+That’s a day longer than a wonder lasts.
+
+RICHARD.
+By so much is the wonder in extremes.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Well, jest on, brothers. I can tell you both
+Her suit is granted for her husband’s lands.
+
+Enter a Nobleman.
+
+NOBLEMAN.
+My gracious lord, Henry your foe is taken,
+And brought your prisoner to your palace gate.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+See that he be conveyed unto the Tower.
+And go we, brothers, to the man that took him,
+To question of his apprehension.
+Widow, go you along. Lords, use her honourably.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Richard._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Ay, Edward will use women honourably.
+Would he were wasted, marrow, bones, and all,
+That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring,
+To cross me from the golden time I look for!
+And yet, between my soul’s desire and me—
+The lustful Edward’s title buried—
+Is Clarence, Henry, and his son young Edward,
+And all the unlooked-for issue of their bodies,
+To take their rooms ere I can place myself.
+A cold premeditation for my purpose!
+Why then I do but dream on sovereignty;
+Like one that stands upon a promontory
+And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,
+Wishing his foot were equal with his eye,
+And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,
+Saying he’ll lade it dry to have his way.
+So do I wish the crown, being so far off,
+And so I chide the means that keeps me from it;
+And so I say I’ll cut the causes off,
+Flattering me with impossibilities.
+My eye’s too quick, my heart o’erweens too much,
+Unless my hand and strength could equal them.
+Well, say there is no kingdom then for Richard,
+What other pleasure can the world afford?
+I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap,
+And deck my body in gay ornaments,
+And ’witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
+O miserable thought, and more unlikely
+Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns.
+Why, Love forswore me in my mother’s womb,
+And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,
+She did corrupt frail Nature with some bribe
+To shrink mine arm up like a withered shrub;
+To make an envious mountain on my back,
+Where sits Deformity to mock my body;
+To shape my legs of an unequal size;
+To disproportion me in every part,
+Like to a chaos, or an unlicked bear-whelp
+That carries no impression like the dam.
+And am I then a man to be beloved?
+O monstrous fault to harbour such a thought!
+Then, since this earth affords no joy to me
+But to command, to check, to o’erbear such
+As are of better person than myself,
+I’ll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,
+And, whiles I live, t’ account this world but hell
+Until my misshaped trunk that bear this head
+Be round impaled with a glorious crown.
+And yet I know not how to get the crown,
+For many lives stand between me and home;
+And I, like one lost in a thorny wood,
+That rents the thorns, and is rent with the thorns,
+Seeking a way, and straying from the way,
+Not knowing how to find the open air,
+But toiling desperately to find it out,
+Torment myself to catch the English crown.
+And from that torment I will free myself,
+Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
+Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile,
+And cry “Content!” to that which grieves my heart,
+And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
+And frame my face to all occasions.
+I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall,
+I’ll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
+I’ll play the orator as well as Nestor,
+Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could,
+And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
+I can add colours to the chameleon,
+Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
+And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
+Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
+Tut, were it farther off, I’ll pluck it down.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. France. The King’s Palace
+
+Flourish. Enter Lewis, the French King, his sister the Lady Bona, his
+Admiral called Bourbon, Prince Edward, Queen Margaret, and the Earl of
+Oxford. Lewis sits, and riseth up again.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Fair Queen of England, worthy Margaret,
+Sit down with us. It ill befits thy state
+And birth that thou shouldst stand while Lewis doth sit.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+No, mighty King of France. Now Margaret
+Must strike her sail and learn awhile to serve
+Where kings command. I was, I must confess,
+Great Albion’s queen in former golden days;
+But now mischance hath trod my title down
+And with dishonour laid me on the ground,
+Where I must take like seat unto my fortune
+And to my humble seat conform myself.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Why, say, fair queen, whence springs this deep despair?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears
+And stops my tongue, while heart is drowned in cares.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Whate’er it be, be thou still like thyself,
+And sit thee by our side. Yield not thy neck
+
+[_Seats her by him._]
+
+To Fortune’s yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
+Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
+Be plain, Queen Margaret, and tell thy grief;
+It shall be eased if France can yield relief.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts
+And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak.
+Now, therefore, be it known to noble Lewis
+That Henry, sole possessor of my love,
+Is, of a king, become a banished man
+And forced to live in Scotland a forlorn;
+While proud ambitious Edward, Duke of York,
+Usurps the regal title and the seat
+Of England’s true-anointed lawful king.
+This is the cause that I, poor Margaret,
+With this my son, Prince Edward, Henry’s heir,
+Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid;
+And if thou fail us, all our hope is done.
+Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help;
+Our people and our peers are both misled,
+Our treasure seized, our soldiers put to flight,
+And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Renowned queen, with patience calm the storm
+While we bethink a means to break it off.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+The more we stay, the stronger grows our foe.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+The more I stay, the more I’ll succour thee.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+O, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow.
+And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow.
+
+Enter Warwick.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+What’s he approacheth boldly to our presence?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Our Earl of Warwick, Edward’s greatest friend.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Welcome, brave Warwick. What brings thee to France?
+
+[_He descends. Queen Margaret rises._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ay, now begins a second storm to rise,
+For this is he that moves both wind and tide.
+
+WARWICK.
+From worthy Edward, king of Albion,
+My lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend,
+I come, in kindness and unfeigned love,
+First, to do greetings to thy royal person,
+And then to crave a league of amity,
+And lastly, to confirm that amity
+With nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant
+That virtuous Lady Bona, thy fair sister,
+To England’s king in lawful marriage.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside_.] If that go forward, Henry’s hope is done.
+
+WARWICK.
+[_To Bona_.] And, gracious madam, in our king’s behalf,
+I am commanded, with your leave and favour,
+Humbly to kiss your hand, and with my tongue
+To tell the passion of my sovereign’s heart,
+Where fame, late entering at his heedful ears,
+Hath placed thy beauty’s image and thy virtue.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+King Lewis and Lady Bona, hear me speak
+Before you answer Warwick. His demand
+Springs not from Edward’s well-meant honest love,
+But from deceit, bred by necessity;
+For how can tyrants safely govern home
+Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
+To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice,
+That Henry liveth still; but were he dead,
+Yet here Prince Edward stands, King Henry’s son.
+Look therefore, Lewis, that by this league and marriage
+Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour;
+For though usurpers sway the rule awhile,
+Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.
+
+WARWICK.
+Injurious Margaret!
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+And why not Queen?
+
+WARWICK.
+Because thy father Henry did usurp,
+And thou no more art prince than she is queen.
+
+OXFORD.
+Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt,
+Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain;
+And after John of Gaunt, Henry the Fourth,
+Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest;
+And after that wise prince, Henry the Fifth,
+Who by his prowess conquered all France.
+From these our Henry lineally descends.
+
+WARWICK.
+Oxford, how haps it in this smooth discourse
+You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost
+All that which Henry the Fifth had gotten?
+Methinks these peers of France should smile at that.
+But for the rest: you tell a pedigree
+Of threescore and two years, a silly time
+To make prescription for a kingdom’s worth.
+
+OXFORD.
+Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege,
+Whom thou obeyed’st thirty and six years,
+And not bewray thy treason with a blush?
+
+WARWICK.
+Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,
+Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?
+For shame! Leave Henry, and call Edward king.
+
+OXFORD.
+Call him my king by whose injurious doom
+My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere,
+Was done to death? And more than so, my father,
+Even in the downfall of his mellowed years,
+When nature brought him to the door of death?
+No, Warwick, no; while life upholds this arm,
+This arm upholds the house of Lancaster.
+
+WARWICK.
+And I the house of York.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, and Oxford,
+Vouchsafe at our request to stand aside
+While I use further conference with Warwick.
+
+[_They stand aloof._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Heavens grant that Warwick’s words bewitch him not!
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Now, Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience,
+Is Edward your true king? For I were loath
+To link with him that were not lawful chosen.
+
+WARWICK.
+Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+But is he gracious in the people’s eye?
+
+WARWICK.
+The more that Henry was unfortunate.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Then further, all dissembling set aside,
+Tell me for truth the measure of his love
+Unto our sister Bona.
+
+WARWICK.
+Such it seems
+As may beseem a monarch like himself.
+Myself have often heard him say and swear
+That this his love was an eternal plant,
+Whereof the root was fixed in virtue’s ground,
+The leaves and fruit maintained with beauty’s sun,
+Exempt from envy, but not from disdain,
+Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Now, sister, let us hear your firm resolve.
+
+BONA.
+Your grant or your denial shall be mine.
+[_To Warwick_] Yet I confess that often ere this day,
+When I have heard your king’s desert recounted,
+Mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward’s.
+And now forthwith shall articles be drawn
+Touching the jointure that your king must make,
+Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
+Draw near, Queen Margaret, and be a witness
+That Bona shall be wife to the English king.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+To Edward, but not to the English king.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Deceitful Warwick, it was thy device
+By this alliance to make void my suit.
+Before thy coming Lewis was Henry’s friend.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+And still is friend to him and Margaret.
+But if your title to the crown be weak,
+As may appear by Edward’s good success,
+Then ’tis but reason that I be released
+From giving aid which late I promised.
+Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand
+That your estate requires and mine can yield.
+
+WARWICK.
+Henry now lives in Scotland, at his ease,
+Where, having nothing, nothing can he lose.
+And as for you yourself, our quondam queen,
+You have a father able to maintain you,
+And better ’twere you troubled him than France.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick,
+Proud setter up and puller down of kings!
+I will not hence till with my talk and tears,
+Both full of truth, I make King Lewis behold
+Thy sly conveyance and thy lord’s false love;
+For both of you are birds of selfsame feather.
+
+[_Post blowing a horn within._]
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Warwick, this is some post to us or thee.
+
+Enter the Post.
+
+POST.
+My lord ambassador, these letters are for you.
+Sent from your brother, Marquess Montague.
+These from our king unto your Majesty.
+And, madam, these for you, from whom I know not.
+
+[_They all read their letters._]
+
+OXFORD.
+I like it well that our fair Queen and mistress
+Smiles at her news while Warwick frowns at his.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+Nay, mark how Lewis stamps as he were nettled.
+I hope all’s for the best.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Warwick, what are thy news? And yours, fair Queen?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Mine, such as fill my heart with unhoped joys.
+
+WARWICK.
+Mine, full of sorrow and heart’s discontent.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+What, has your king married the Lady Grey,
+And now, to soothe your forgery and his,
+Sends me a paper to persuade me patience?
+Is this th’ alliance that he seeks with France?
+Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+I told your majesty as much before;
+This proveth Edward’s love and Warwick’s honesty.
+
+WARWICK.
+King Lewis, I here protest in sight of heaven,
+And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss,
+That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward’s—
+No more my king, for he dishonours me,
+But most himself, if he could see his shame.
+Did I forget that by the house of York
+My father came untimely to his death?
+Did I let pass th’ abuse done to my niece?
+Did I impale him with the regal crown?
+Did I put Henry from his native right?
+And am I guerdoned at the last with shame?
+Shame on himself, for my desert is honour;
+And to repair my honour lost for him,
+I here renounce him and return to Henry.
+My noble Queen, let former grudges pass,
+And henceforth I am thy true servitor.
+I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona,
+And replant Henry in his former state.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Warwick, these words have turned my hate to love;
+And I forgive and quite forget old faults,
+And joy that thou becom’st King Henry’s friend.
+
+WARWICK.
+So much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend,
+That if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us
+With some few bands of chosen soldiers,
+I’ll undertake to land them on our coast
+And force the tyrant from his seat by war.
+’Tis not his new-made bride shall succour him;
+And as for Clarence, as my letters tell me,
+He’s very likely now to fall from him
+For matching more for wanton lust than honour,
+Or than for strength and safety of our country.
+
+BONA.
+Dear brother, how shall Bona be revenged
+But by thy help to this distressed queen?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Renowned prince, how shall poor Henry live
+Unless thou rescue him from foul despair?
+
+BONA.
+My quarrel and this English queen’s are one.
+
+WARWICK.
+And mine, fair Lady Bona, joins with yours.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+And mine with hers, and thine, and Margaret’s.
+Therefore, at last I firmly am resolved
+You shall have aid.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Let me give humble thanks for all at once.
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Then, England’s messenger, return in post
+And tell false Edward, thy supposed king,
+That Lewis of France is sending over maskers
+To revel it with him and his new bride.
+Thou seest what’s past; go fear thy king withal.
+
+BONA.
+Tell him, in hope he’ll prove a widower shortly,
+I’ll wear the willow garland for his sake.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Tell him my mourning weeds are laid aside,
+And I am ready to put armour on.
+
+WARWICK.
+Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
+And therefore I’ll uncrown him ere ’t be long.
+There’s thy reward; be gone.
+
+[_Exit Post._]
+
+KING LEWIS.
+But, Warwick,
+Thou and Oxford, with five thousand men,
+Shall cross the seas and bid false Edward battle;
+And, as occasion serves, this noble Queen
+And prince shall follow with a fresh supply.
+Yet, ere thou go, but answer me one doubt:
+What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty?
+
+WARWICK.
+This shall assure my constant loyalty:
+That if our Queen and this young prince agree,
+I’ll join mine eldest daughter and my joy
+To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.
+Son Edward, she is fair and virtuous,
+Therefore delay not, give thy hand to Warwick,
+And with thy hand thy faith irrevocable
+That only Warwick’s daughter shall be thine.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+Yes, I accept her, for she well deserves it;
+And here, to pledge my vow, I give my hand.
+
+[_He gives his hand to Warwick._]
+
+KING LEWIS.
+Why stay we now? These soldiers shall be levied,
+And thou, Lord Bourbon, our High Admiral,
+Shall waft them over with our royal fleet.
+I long till Edward fall by war’s mischance
+For mocking marriage with a dame of France.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Warwick._]
+
+WARWICK.
+I came from Edward as ambassador,
+But I return his sworn and mortal foe.
+Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me,
+But dreadful war shall answer his demand.
+Had he none else to make a stale but me?
+Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow.
+I was the chief that raised him to the crown,
+And I’ll be chief to bring him down again:
+Not that I pity Henry’s misery,
+But seek revenge on Edward’s mockery.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. London. The Palace
+
+
+Enter Richard (Duke of Gloucester), George (Duke of Clarence), Somerset
+and Montague.
+
+RICHARD.
+Now tell me, brother Clarence, what think you
+Of this new marriage with the Lady Grey?
+Hath not our brother made a worthy choice?
+
+GEORGE.
+Alas, you know ’tis far from hence to France!
+How could he stay till Warwick made return?
+
+SOMERSET.
+My lords, forbear this talk; here comes the King.
+
+Flourish. Enter King Edward, attended; Lady Grey as Queen Elizabeth;
+Pembroke, Stafford, Hastings and others. Four stand on one side, and
+four on the other.
+
+RICHARD.
+And his well-chosen bride.
+
+GEORGE.
+I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now, brother of Clarence, how like you our choice,
+That you stand pensive as half malcontent?
+
+GEORGE.
+As well as Lewis of France or the Earl of Warwick,
+Which are so weak of courage and in judgment
+That they’ll take no offence at our abuse.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Suppose they take offence without a cause,
+They are but Lewis and Warwick; I am Edward,
+Your King and Warwick’s, and must have my will.
+
+RICHARD.
+And shall have your will, because our King.
+Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?
+
+RICHARD.
+Not I.
+No, God forbid that I should wish them severed
+Whom God hath joined together. Ay, and ’twere pity
+To sunder them that yoke so well together.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,
+Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey
+Should not become my wife and England’s queen.
+And you too, Somerset and Montague,
+Speak freely what you think.
+
+GEORGE.
+Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis
+Becomes your enemy for mocking him
+About the marriage of the Lady Bona.
+
+RICHARD.
+And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,
+Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeased
+By such invention as I can devise?
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Yet to have joined with France in such alliance
+Would more have strengthened this our commonwealth
+’Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Why, knows not Montague that of itself
+England is safe, if true within itself?
+
+MONTAGUE.
+But the safer when ’tis backed with France.
+
+HASTINGS.
+’Tis better using France than trusting France.
+Let us be backed with God and with the seas
+Which He hath giv’n for fence impregnable,
+And with their helps only defend ourselves.
+In them and in ourselves our safety lies.
+
+GEORGE.
+For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves
+To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Ay, what of that? It was my will and grant;
+And for this once my will shall stand for law.
+
+RICHARD.
+And yet, methinks, your Grace hath not done well
+To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales
+Unto the brother of your loving bride.
+She better would have fitted me or Clarence;
+But in your bride you bury brotherhood.
+
+GEORGE.
+Or else you would not have bestowed the heir
+Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife’s son,
+And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Alas, poor Clarence, is it for a wife
+That thou art malcontent? I will provide thee.
+
+GEORGE.
+In choosing for yourself you showed your judgment,
+Which being shallow, you shall give me leave
+To play the broker in mine own behalf;
+And to that end I shortly mind to leave you.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Leave me or tarry, Edward will be king,
+And not be tied unto his brother’s will.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+My lords, before it pleased his Majesty
+To raise my state to title of a queen,
+Do me but right, and you must all confess
+That I was not ignoble of descent,
+And meaner than myself have had like fortune.
+But as this title honours me and mine,
+So your dislikes, to whom I would be pleasing,
+Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns.
+What danger or what sorrow can befall thee
+So long as Edward is thy constant friend
+And their true sovereign, whom they must obey?
+Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,
+Unless they seek for hatred at my hands;
+Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,
+And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside_.] I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.
+
+Enter a Post.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now, messenger, what letters or what news
+From France?
+
+POST.
+My sovereign liege, no letters, and few words,
+But such as I, without your special pardon,
+Dare not relate.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Go to, we pardon thee. Therefore, in brief,
+Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them.
+What answer makes King Lewis unto our letters?
+
+POST.
+At my depart these were his very words:
+“Go tell false Edward, thy supposed king,
+That Lewis of France is sending over maskers
+To revel it with him and his new bride.”
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Is Lewis so brave? Belike he thinks me Henry.
+But what said Lady Bona to my marriage?
+
+POST.
+These were her words, uttered with mild disdain:
+“Tell him, in hope he’ll prove a widower shortly,
+I’ll wear the willow garland for his sake.”
+
+KING EDWARD.
+I blame not her; she could say little less;
+She had the wrong. But what said Henry’s queen?
+For I have heard that she was there in place.
+
+POST.
+“Tell him,” quoth she “my mourning weeds are done,
+And I am ready to put armour on.”
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Belike she minds to play the Amazon.
+But what said Warwick to these injuries?
+
+POST.
+He, more incensed against your Majesty
+Than all the rest, discharged me with these words:
+“Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
+And therefore I’ll uncrown him ere ’t be long.”
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Ha! Durst the traitor breathe out so proud words?
+Well, I will arm me, being thus forewarned.
+They shall have wars and pay for their presumption.
+But say, is Warwick friends with Margaret?
+
+POST.
+Ay, gracious sovereign, they are so linked in friendship
+That young Prince Edward marries Warwick’s daughter.
+
+GEORGE.
+Belike the elder; Clarence will have the younger.
+Now, brother king, farewell, and sit you fast,
+For I will hence to Warwick’s other daughter;
+That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage
+I may not prove inferior to yourself.
+You that love me and Warwick, follow me.
+
+[_Exit George and Somerset follows._]
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside_.] Not I. My thoughts aim at a further matter;
+I stay not for the love of Edward, but the crown.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick!
+Yet am I armed against the worst can happen,
+And haste is needful in this desperate case.
+Pembroke and Stafford, you in our behalf
+Go levy men and make prepare for war;
+They are already, or quickly will be, landed.
+Myself in person will straight follow you.
+
+[_Exeunt Pembroke and Stafford._]
+
+But, ere I go, Hastings and Montague,
+Resolve my doubt. You twain, of all the rest,
+Are near to Warwick by blood and by alliance.
+Tell me if you love Warwick more than me.
+If it be so, then both depart to him.
+I rather wish you foes than hollow friends.
+But if you mind to hold your true obedience,
+Give me assurance with some friendly vow,
+That I may never have you in suspect.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+So God help Montague as he proves true!
+
+HASTINGS.
+And Hastings as he favours Edward’s cause!
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now, brother Richard, will you stand by us?
+
+RICHARD.
+Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand you.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Why, so! Then am I sure of victory.
+Now, therefore, let us hence, and lose no hour
+Till we meet Warwick with his foreign power.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Plain in Warwickshire
+
+Enter Warwick and Oxford in England, with French Soldiers.
+
+WARWICK.
+Trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes well;
+The common people by numbers swarm to us.
+
+Enter George (Duke of Clarence) and Somerset.
+
+But see where Somerset and Clarence comes.
+Speak suddenly, my lords: are we all friends?
+
+GEORGE.
+Fear not that, my lord.
+
+WARWICK.
+Then, gentle Clarence, welcome unto Warwick;
+And welcome, Somerset. I hold it cowardice
+To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
+Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love;
+Else might I think that Clarence, Edward’s brother,
+Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings.
+But welcome, sweet Clarence; my daughter shall be thine.
+And now what rests but, in night’s coverture,
+Thy brother being carelessly encamped,
+His soldiers lurking in the towns about,
+And but attended by a simple guard,
+We may surprise and take him at our pleasure?
+Our scouts have found the adventure very easy;
+That, as Ulysses and stout Diomede
+With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus’ tents,
+And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds,
+So we, well covered with the night’s black mantle,
+At unawares may beat down Edward’s guard,
+And seize himself. I say not, slaughter him,
+For I intend but only to surprise him.
+You that will follow me to this attempt,
+Applaud the name of Henry with your leader.
+
+[_They all cry “Henry!”_]
+
+Why then, let’s on our way in silent sort,
+For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Edward’s Camp near Warwick
+
+Enter three Watchmen to guard the King’s tent.
+
+1 WATCHMAN.
+Come on, my masters, each man take his stand.
+The King by this is set him down to sleep.
+
+2 WATCHMAN.
+What, will he not to bed?
+
+1 WATCHMAN.
+Why, no; for he hath made a solemn vow
+Never to lie and take his natural rest
+Till Warwick or himself be quite suppressed.
+
+2 WATCHMAN.
+Tomorrow, then, belike shall be the day,
+If Warwick be so near as men report.
+
+3 WATCHMAN.
+But say, I pray, what nobleman is that
+That with the King here resteth in his tent?
+
+1 WATCHMAN.
+’Tis the Lord Hastings, the King’s chiefest friend.
+
+3 WATCHMAN.
+O, is it so? But why commands the King
+That his chief followers lodge in towns about him,
+While he himself keeps in the cold field?
+
+2 WATCHMAN.
+’Tis the more honour, because more dangerous.
+
+3 WATCHMAN.
+Ay, but give me worship and quietness;
+I like it better than dangerous honour.
+If Warwick knew in what estate he stands,
+’Tis to be doubted he would waken him.
+
+1 WATCHMAN.
+Unless our halberds did shut up his passage.
+
+2 WATCHMAN.
+Ay, wherefore else guard we his royal tent
+But to defend his person from night-foes?
+
+Enter Warwick, George (Duke of Clarence), Oxford, Somerset and French
+Soldiers, silent all.
+
+WARWICK.
+This is his tent; and see where stand his guard.
+Courage, my masters! Honour now or never!
+But follow me, and Edward shall be ours.
+
+1 WATCHMAN.
+Who goes there?
+
+2 WATCHMAN.
+Stay, or thou diest.
+
+[_Warwick and the rest cry all, “Warwick! Warwick!” and set upon the
+guard, who fly, crying “Arm! Arm!” Warwick  and the rest following
+them._]
+
+The drum playing and trumpet sounding, enter Warwick, Somerset, and the
+rest, bringing the King out in his gown, sitting in a chair. Richard
+(Duke of Gloucester) and Hastings fly over the stage.
+
+SOMERSET.
+What are they that fly there?
+
+WARWICK.
+Richard and Hastings.
+Let them go. Here is the Duke.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+The Duke? Why, Warwick, when we parted,
+Thou call’dst me king?
+
+WARWICK.
+Ay, but the case is altered.
+When you disgraced me in my embassade,
+Then I degraded you from being king,
+And come now to create you Duke of York.
+Alas, how should you govern any kingdom
+That know not how to use ambassadors,
+Nor how to be contented with one wife,
+Nor how to use your brothers brotherly,
+Nor how to study for the people’s welfare,
+Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies?
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Yea, brother of Clarence, art thou here too?
+Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down.
+Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance
+Of thee thyself and all thy complices,
+Edward will always bear himself as king.
+Though Fortune’s malice overthrow my state,
+My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
+
+WARWICK.
+Then for his mind be Edward England’s king;
+
+[_Takes off his crown._]
+
+But Henry now shall wear the English crown
+And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow.
+My lord of Somerset, at my request,
+See that forthwith Duke Edward be conveyed
+Unto my brother, Archbishop of York.
+When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows,
+I’ll follow you and tell what answer
+Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him.
+Now, for a while farewell, good Duke of York.
+
+[_They begin to lead him out forcibly._]
+
+KING EDWARD.
+What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
+It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
+
+[_Exit King Edward, led out; Somerset with him._]
+
+OXFORD.
+What now remains, my lords, for us to do,
+But march to London with our soldiers?
+
+WARWICK.
+Ay, that’s the first thing that we have to do,
+To free King Henry from imprisonment
+And see him seated in the regal throne.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. The Palace
+
+Enter Queen Elizabeth and Rivers.
+
+RIVERS.
+Madam, what makes you in this sudden change?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Why, brother Rivers, are you yet to learn
+What late misfortune is befall’n King Edward?
+
+RIVERS.
+What, loss of some pitched battle against Warwick?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+No, but the loss of his own royal person.
+
+RIVERS.
+Then is my sovereign slain?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,
+Either betrayed by falsehood of his guard
+Or by his foe surprised at unawares;
+And, as I further have to understand,
+Is new committed to the Bishop of York,
+Fell Warwick’s brother and by that our foe.
+
+RIVERS.
+These news, I must confess, are full of grief;
+Yet, gracious madam, bear it as you may.
+Warwick may lose that now hath won the day.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Till then, fair hope must hinder life’s decay;
+And I the rather wean me from despair
+For love of Edward’s offspring in my womb.
+This is it that makes me bridle passion
+And bear with mildness my misfortune’s cross,
+Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear
+And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,
+Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown
+King Edward’s fruit, true heir to th’ English crown.
+
+RIVERS.
+But, madam, where is Warwick then become?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+I am informed that he comes towards London
+To set the crown once more on Henry’s head.
+Guess thou the rest: King Edward’s friends must down.
+But to prevent the tyrant’s violence—
+For trust not him that hath once broken faith—
+I’ll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary
+To save at least the heir of Edward’s right.
+There shall I rest secure from force and fraud.
+Come, therefore, let us fly while we may fly.
+If Warwick take us, we are sure to die.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. A park near Middleham Castle in Yorkshire
+
+Enter Richard (Duke of Gloucester), Lord Hastings, Sir William Stanley
+and others.
+
+RICHARD.
+Now, my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley,
+Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither
+Into this chiefest thicket of the park.
+Thus stands the case: you know our King, my brother,
+Is prisoner to the Bishop here, at whose hands
+He hath good usage and great liberty,
+And often but attended with weak guard,
+Comes hunting this way to disport himself.
+I have advertised him by secret means
+That if about this hour he make this way,
+Under the colour of his usual game,
+He shall here find his friends with horse and men
+To set him free from his captivity.
+
+Enter King Edward and a Huntsman with him.
+
+HUNTSMAN.
+This way, my lord, for this way lies the game.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Nay, this way, man. See where the huntsmen stand.
+Now, brother of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
+Stand you thus close to steal the Bishop’s deer?
+
+RICHARD.
+Brother, the time and case requireth haste;
+Your horse stands ready at the park corner.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+But whither shall we then?
+
+HASTINGS.
+To Lynn, my lord, and shipped from thence to Flanders.
+
+RICHARD.
+Well guessed, believe me, for that was my meaning.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Stanley, I will requite thy forwardness.
+
+RICHARD.
+But wherefore stay we? ’Tis no time to talk.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Huntsman, what sayst thou? Wilt thou go along?
+
+HUNTSMAN.
+Better do so than tarry and be hanged.
+
+RICHARD.
+Come then, away! Let’s ha’ no more ado.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Bishop, farewell; shield thee from Warwick’s frown,
+And pray that I may repossess the crown.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. London. The Tower
+
+Enter King Henry, George (Duke of Clarence), Warwick, Somerset, young
+Richmond, Oxford, Montague, and Lieutenant of the Tower.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Master Lieutenant, now that God and friends
+Have shaken Edward from the regal seat
+And turned my captive state to liberty,
+My fear to hope, my sorrows unto joys,
+At our enlargement what are thy due fees?
+
+LIEUTENANT.
+Subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns;
+But if an humble prayer may prevail,
+I then crave pardon of your Majesty.
+
+KING HENRY.
+For what, lieutenant? For well using me?
+Nay, be thou sure I’ll well requite thy kindness,
+For that it made my imprisonment a pleasure;
+Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds
+Conceive when, after many moody thoughts,
+At last by notes of household harmony
+They quite forget their loss of liberty.
+But, Warwick, after God thou sett’st me free,
+And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee;
+He was the author, thou the instrument.
+Therefore, that I may conquer Fortune’s spite,
+By living low where Fortune cannot hurt me,
+And that the people of this blessed land
+May not be punished with my thwarting stars,
+Warwick, although my head still wear the crown,
+I here resign my government to thee,
+For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds.
+
+WARWICK.
+Your Grace hath still been famed for virtuous,
+And now may seem as wise as virtuous
+By spying and avoiding Fortune’s malice,
+For few men rightly temper with the stars;
+Yet in this one thing let me blame your Grace,
+For choosing me when Clarence is in place.
+
+GEORGE.
+No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway,
+To whom the heavens in thy nativity
+Adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown,
+As likely to be blest in peace and war;
+And therefore I yield thee my free consent.
+
+WARWICK.
+And I choose Clarence only for Protector.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Warwick and Clarence, give me both your hands.
+Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts,
+That no dissension hinder government.
+I make you both Protectors of this land,
+While I myself will lead a private life
+And in devotion spend my latter days,
+To sin’s rebuke and my Creator’s praise.
+
+WARWICK.
+What answers Clarence to his sovereign’s will?
+
+GEORGE.
+That he consents, if Warwick yield consent,
+For on thy fortune I repose myself.
+
+WARWICK.
+Why, then, though loath, yet I must be content.
+We’ll yoke together, like a double shadow
+To Henry’s body, and supply his place;
+I mean, in bearing weight of government,
+While he enjoys the honour and his ease.
+And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful
+Forthwith that Edward be pronounced a traitor
+And all his lands and goods be confiscate.
+
+GEORGE.
+What else? And that succession be determined.
+
+WARWICK.
+Ay, therein Clarence shall not want his part.
+
+KING HENRY.
+But with the first of all your chief affairs
+Let me entreat—for I command no more—
+That Margaret your Queen and my son Edward
+Be sent for to return from France with speed;
+For till I see them here, by doubtful fear
+My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.
+
+GEORGE.
+It shall be done, my sovereign, with all speed.
+
+KING HENRY.
+My Lord of Somerset, what youth is that
+Of whom you seem to have so tender care?
+
+SOMERSET.
+My liege, it is young Henry, Earl of Richmond.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Come hither, England’s hope. If secret powers
+
+[_Lays his hand on his head._]
+
+Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts,
+This pretty lad will prove our country’s bliss.
+His looks are full of peaceful majesty,
+His head by nature framed to wear a crown,
+His hand to wield a sceptre, and himself
+Likely in time to bless a regal throne.
+Make much of him, my lords, for this is he
+Must help you more than you are hurt by me.
+
+Enter a Post.
+
+WARWICK.
+What news, my friend?
+
+POST.
+That Edward is escaped from your brother
+And fled, as he hears since, to Burgundy.
+
+WARWICK.
+Unsavoury news! But how made he escape?
+
+POST.
+He was conveyed by Richard, Duke of Gloucester
+And the Lord Hastings, who attended him
+In secret ambush on the forest side
+And from the Bishop’s huntsmen rescued him,
+For hunting was his daily exercise.
+
+WARWICK.
+My brother was too careless of his charge.
+But let us hence, my sovereign, to provide
+A salve for any sore that may betide.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Somerset, Richmond and Oxford._]
+
+SOMERSET.
+My lord, I like not of this flight of Edward’s,
+For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help,
+And we shall have more wars before ’t be long.
+As Henry’s late presaging prophecy
+Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond,
+So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts
+What may befall him, to his harm and ours.
+Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst,
+Forthwith we’ll send him hence to Brittany
+Till storms be past of civil enmity.
+
+OXFORD.
+Ay, for if Edward repossess the crown,
+’Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down.
+
+SOMERSET.
+It shall be so. He shall to Brittany.
+Come therefore, let’s about it speedily.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. Before York
+
+Flourish. Enter King Edward, Richard (Duke of Gloucester), Hastings and
+Soldiers.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
+Yet thus far Fortune maketh us amends,
+And says that once more I shall interchange
+My waned state for Henry’s regal crown.
+Well have we passed and now repassed the seas,
+And brought desired help from Burgundy.
+What then remains, we being thus arrived
+From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York,
+But that we enter as into our dukedom?
+
+RICHARD.
+The gates made fast! Brother, I like not this;
+For many men that stumble at the threshold
+Are well foretold that danger lurks within.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us.
+By fair or foul means we must enter in,
+For hither will our friends repair to us.
+
+HASTINGS.
+My liege, I’ll knock once more to summon them.
+
+Enter on the walls, the Mayor of York and his Brethren.
+
+MAYOR.
+My lords, we were forewarned of your coming
+And shut the gates for safety of ourselves,
+For now we owe allegiance unto Henry.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+But, master Mayor, if Henry be your king,
+Yet Edward, at the least, is Duke of York.
+
+MAYOR.
+True, my good lord, I know you for no less.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Why, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom,
+As being well content with that alone.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside_.] But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
+He’ll soon find means to make the body follow.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Why, master Mayor, why stand you in a doubt?
+Open the gates; we are King Henry’s friends.
+
+MAYOR.
+Ay, say you so? The gates shall then be opened.
+
+[_He descends._]
+
+RICHARD.
+A wise, stout captain, and soon persuaded.
+
+HASTINGS.
+The good old man would fain that all were well,
+So ’twere not long of him; but, being entered,
+I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade
+Both him and all his brothers unto reason.
+
+Enter the Mayor and two Aldermen below.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+So, master Mayor, these gates must not be shut
+But in the night or in the time of war.
+What, fear not, man, but yield me up the keys;
+
+[_Takes his keys._]
+
+For Edward will defend the town and thee
+And all those friends that deign to follow me.
+
+March. Enter Montgomery with drum and Soldiers.
+
+RICHARD.
+Brother, this is Sir John Montgomery,
+Our trusty friend unless I be deceived.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Welcome, Sir John! But why come you in arms?
+
+MONTGOMERY.
+To help King Edward in his time of storm,
+As every loyal subject ought to do.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Thanks, good Montgomery; but we now forget
+Our title to the crown, and only claim
+Our dukedom till God please to send the rest.
+
+MONTGOMERY.
+Then fare you well, for I will hence again.
+I came to serve a king, and not a duke.
+Drummer, strike up, and let us march away.
+
+[_The drum begins to march._]
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Nay, stay, Sir John, a while, and we’ll debate
+By what safe means the crown may be recovered.
+
+MONTGOMERY.
+What talk you of debating? In few words,
+If you’ll not here proclaim yourself our king,
+I’ll leave you to your fortune and be gone
+To keep them back that come to succour you.
+Why shall we fight if you pretend no title?
+
+RICHARD.
+Why, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points?
+
+KING EDWARD.
+When we grow stronger, then we’ll make our claim.
+Till then ’tis wisdom to conceal our meaning.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Away with scrupulous wit! Now arms must rule.
+
+RICHARD.
+And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
+Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand;
+The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Then be it as you will; for ’tis my right,
+And Henry but usurps the diadem.
+
+MONTGOMERY.
+Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself,
+And now will I be Edward’s champion.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Sound, trumpet; Edward shall be here proclaimed.
+Come, fellow soldier, make thou proclamation.
+
+[_Gives him a paper. Flourish._]
+
+SOLDIER.
+[_Reads_.] _Edward the Fourth, by the Grace of God, King of England and
+France, and Lord of Ireland, etc._
+
+MONTGOMERY.
+And whoso’er gainsays King Edward’s right,
+By this I challenge him to single fight.
+
+[_Throws down his gauntlet._]
+
+ALL.
+Long live Edward the Fourth!
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Thanks, brave Montgomery, and thanks unto you all.
+If Fortune serve me, I’ll requite this kindness.
+Now for this night let’s harbour here in York,
+And when the morning sun shall raise his car
+Above the border of this horizon
+We’ll forward towards Warwick and his mates;
+For well I wot that Henry is no soldier.
+Ah, froward Clarence, how evil it beseems thee
+To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother!
+Yet, as we may, we’ll meet both thee and Warwick.
+Come on, brave soldiers; doubt not of the day,
+And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VIII. London. The Palace
+
+Flourish. Enter King Henry, Warwick, Montague, George (Duke of
+Clarence), Oxford and Exeter.
+
+WARWICK.
+What counsel, lords? Edward from Belgia,
+With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders,
+Hath passed in safety through the Narrow Seas,
+And with his troops doth march amain to London;
+And many giddy people flock to him.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Let’s levy men and beat him back again.
+
+GEORGE.
+A little fire is quickly trodden out,
+Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
+
+WARWICK.
+In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends,
+Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war.
+Those will I muster up; and thou, son Clarence,
+Shalt stir up in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent
+The knights and gentlemen to come with thee.
+Thou, brother Montague, in Buckingham,
+Northampton, and in Leicestershire shalt find
+Men well inclined to hear what thou command’st.
+And thou, brave Oxford, wondrous well beloved,
+In Oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends.
+My sovereign, with the loving citizens,
+Like to his island girt in with the ocean,
+Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs,
+Shall rest in London till we come to him.
+Fair lords, take leave and stand not to reply.
+Farewell, my sovereign.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Farewell, my Hector, and my Troy’s true hope.
+
+GEORGE.
+In sign of truth, I kiss your Highness’ hand.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Well-minded Clarence, be thou fortunate.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Comfort, my lord; and so I take my leave.
+
+OXFORD.
+And thus [_kissing Henry’s hand_] I seal my truth, and bid adieu.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Sweet Oxford, and my loving Montague,
+And all at once, once more a happy farewell.
+
+WARWICK.
+Farewell, sweet lords; let’s meet at Coventry.
+
+[_Exeunt all but King Henry and Exeter._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+Here at the palace will I rest a while.
+Cousin of Exeter, what thinks your lordship?
+Methinks the power that Edward hath in field
+Should not be able to encounter mine.
+
+EXETER.
+The doubt is that he will seduce the rest.
+
+KING HENRY.
+That’s not my fear; my meed hath got me fame.
+I have not stopped mine ears to their demands,
+Nor posted off their suits with slow delays;
+My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,
+My mildness hath allayed their swelling griefs,
+My mercy dried their water-flowing tears.
+I have not been desirous of their wealth
+Nor much oppressed them with great subsidies,
+Nor forward of revenge, though they much erred.
+Then why should they love Edward more than me?
+No, Exeter, these graces challenge grace;
+And when the lion fawns upon the lamb,
+The lamb will never cease to follow him.
+
+[_Shout within “A York! A York!”_]
+
+EXETER.
+Hark, hark, my lord, what shouts are these?
+
+Enter King Edward, Richard (Duke of Gloucester) and Soldiers.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Seize on the shame-faced Henry, bear him hence,
+And once again proclaim us King of England.
+You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow.
+Now stops thy spring; my sea shall suck them dry
+And swell so much the higher by their ebb.
+Hence with him to the Tower. Let him not speak.
+
+[_Exeunt some with King Henry._]
+
+And, lords, towards Coventry bend we our course,
+Where peremptory Warwick now remains.
+The sun shines hot, and, if we use delay,
+Cold biting winter mars our hoped-for hay.
+
+RICHARD.
+Away betimes, before his forces join,
+And take the great-grown traitor unawares.
+Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Coventry
+
+
+Enter, Warwick, the Mayor of Coventry, two Messengers and others, upon
+the walls.
+
+WARWICK.
+Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford?
+How far hence is thy lord, mine honest fellow?
+
+1 MESSENGER.
+By this at Dunsmore, marching hitherward.
+
+WARWICK.
+How far off is our brother Montague?
+Where is the post that came from Montague?
+
+2 MESSENGER.
+By this at Daintry, with a puissant troop.
+
+Enter Sir John Somerville.
+
+WARWICK.
+Say, Somerville, what says my loving son?
+And, by thy guess, how nigh is Clarence now?
+
+SOMERVILLE.
+At Southam I did leave him with his forces
+And do expect him here some two hours hence.
+
+[_Drum heard._]
+
+WARWICK.
+Then Clarence is at hand; I hear his drum.
+
+SOMERVILLE.
+It is not his, my lord; here Southam lies.
+The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick.
+
+WARWICK.
+Who should that be? Belike, unlooked-for friends.
+
+SOMERVILLE.
+They are at hand, and you shall quickly know.
+
+March. Flourish. Enter King Edward, Richard (Duke of Gloucester) and
+Soldiers.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Go, trumpet, to the walls and sound a parle.
+
+RICHARD.
+See how the surly Warwick mans the wall.
+
+WARWICK.
+O, unbid spite! Is sportful Edward come?
+Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced,
+That we could hear no news of his repair?
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates,
+Speak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee?
+Call Edward King and at his hands beg mercy,
+And he shall pardon thee these outrages.
+
+WARWICK.
+Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence,
+Confess who set thee up and plucked thee down,
+Call Warwick patron and be penitent,
+And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York.
+
+RICHARD.
+I thought, at least, he would have said the King;
+Or did he make the jest against his will?
+
+WARWICK.
+Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift?
+
+RICHARD.
+Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give;
+I’ll do thee service for so good a gift.
+
+WARWICK.
+’Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Why, then, ’tis mine, if but by Warwick’s gift.
+
+WARWICK.
+Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight;
+And, weakling, Warwick takes his gift again;
+And Henry is my King, Warwick his subject.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+But Warwick’s king is Edward’s prisoner;
+And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this:
+What is the body when the head is off?
+
+RICHARD.
+Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,
+But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten,
+The king was slily fingered from the deck!
+You left poor Henry at the Bishop’s palace,
+And ten to one you’ll meet him in the Tower.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+’Tis even so; yet you are Warwick still.
+
+RICHARD.
+Come, Warwick, take the time; kneel down, kneel down.
+Nay, when? Strike now, or else the iron cools.
+
+WARWICK.
+I had rather chop this hand off at a blow
+And with the other fling it at thy face,
+Than bear so low a sail to strike to thee.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Sail how thou canst, have wind and tide thy friend,
+This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair,
+Shall, whiles thy head is warm and new cut off,
+Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood:
+“Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more.”
+
+Enter Oxford with drum and colours.
+
+WARWICK.
+O cheerful colours! See where Oxford comes!
+
+OXFORD.
+Oxford, Oxford, for Lancaster!
+
+[_He and his forces enter the city._]
+
+RICHARD.
+The gates are open; let us enter too.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+So other foes may set upon our backs.
+Stand we in good array, for they no doubt
+Will issue out again and bid us battle;
+If not, the city being but of small defence,
+We’ll quietly rouse the traitors in the same.
+
+WARWICK.
+O, welcome, Oxford, for we want thy help.
+
+Enter Montague with drum and colours.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Montague, Montague, for Lancaster!
+
+[_He and his forces enter the city._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason
+Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+The harder matched, the greater victory.
+My mind presageth happy gain and conquest.
+
+Enter Somerset with drum and colours.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Somerset, Somerset, for Lancaster!
+
+[_He and his forces enter the city._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Two of thy name, both Dukes of Somerset,
+Have sold their lives unto the House of York;
+And thou shalt be the third if this sword hold.
+
+Enter George (Duke of Clarence) with drum and colours.
+
+WARWICK.
+And lo, where George of Clarence sweeps along,
+Of force enough to bid his brother battle;
+With whom an upright zeal to right prevails
+More than the nature of a brother’s love.
+
+[_Richard and George whisper._]
+
+Come, Clarence, come; thou wilt if Warwick call.
+
+GEORGE.
+Father of Warwick, know you what this means?
+
+[_Taking the red rose from his hat and throws the rose at Warwick._]
+
+Look here, I throw my infamy at thee.
+I will not ruinate my father’s house,
+Who gave his blood to lime the stones together,
+And set up Lancaster. Why, trowest thou, Warwick,
+That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural,
+To bend the fatal instruments of war
+Against his brother and his lawful King?
+Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath.
+To keep that oath were more impiety
+Than Jephthah’s when he sacrificed his daughter.
+I am so sorry for my trespass made
+That, to deserve well at my brother’s hands,
+I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe,
+With resolution, whereso’er I meet thee—
+As I will meet thee if thou stir abroad—
+To plague thee for thy foul misleading me.
+And so, proud-hearted Warwick, I defy thee,
+And to my brother turn my blushing cheeks.
+Pardon me, Edward, I will make amends.
+And, Richard, do not frown upon my faults,
+For I will henceforth be no more unconstant.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now, welcome more, and ten times more beloved,
+Than if thou never hadst deserved our hate.
+
+RICHARD.
+Welcome, good Clarence; this is brother-like.
+
+WARWICK.
+O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!
+
+KING EDWARD.
+What, Warwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight?
+Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears?
+
+WARWICK.
+Alas! I am not cooped here for defence!
+I will away towards Barnet presently
+And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou dar’st.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Yes, Warwick, Edward dares, and leads the way.
+Lords, to the field! Saint George and victory!
+
+[_Exeunt. March. Warwick and his company follows._]
+
+SCENE II. A Field of Battle near Barnet
+
+Alarum and excursions. Enter King Edward bringing forth Warwick
+wounded.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+So, lie thou there. Die thou, and die our fear,
+For Warwick was a bug that feared us all.
+Now, Montague, sit fast; I seek for thee,
+That Warwick’s bones may keep thine company.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+WARWICK.
+Ah, who is nigh? Come to me, friend or foe,
+And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick?
+Why ask I that? My mangled body shows,
+My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows
+That I must yield my body to the earth
+And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe.
+Thus yields the cedar to the axe’s edge,
+Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,
+Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,
+Whose top branch overpeered Jove’s spreading tree,
+And kept low shrubs from winter’s pow’rful wind.
+These eyes, that now are dimmed with death’s black veil,
+Have been as piercing as the midday sun,
+To search the secret treasons of the world;
+The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood,
+Were likened oft to kingly sepulchres,
+For who lived King but I could dig his grave?
+And who durst smile when Warwick bent his brow?
+Lo, now my glory smeared in dust and blood!
+My parks, my walks, my manors that I had,
+Even now forsake me; and of all my lands
+Is nothing left me but my body’s length.
+Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
+And live we how we can, yet die we must.
+
+Enter Oxford and Somerset.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Ah, Warwick, Warwick, wert thou as we are,
+We might recover all our loss again.
+The Queen from France hath brought a puissant power;
+Even now we heard the news. Ah, couldst thou fly!
+
+WARWICK.
+Why, then I would not fly. Ah, Montague!
+If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand
+And with thy lips keep in my soul awhile.
+Thou lov’st me not; for, brother, if thou didst,
+Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood
+That glues my lips and will not let me speak.
+Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Ah, Warwick, Montague hath breathed his last,
+And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,
+And said “Commend me to my valiant brother.”
+And more he would have said, and more he spoke,
+Which sounded like a cannon in a vault,
+That mought not be distinguished; but at last
+I well might hear, delivered with a groan,
+“O farewell, Warwick!”
+
+WARWICK.
+Sweet rest his soul! Fly, lords, and save yourselves,
+For Warwick bids you all farewell, to meet in heaven.
+
+[_He dies._]
+
+OXFORD.
+Away, away, to meet the Queen’s great power!
+
+[_Here they bear away his body. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another Part of the Field
+
+Flourish. Enter King Edward in triumph, with Richard, George and the
+rest.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
+And we are graced with wreaths of victory.
+But in the midst of this bright-shining day,
+I spy a black, suspicious, threat’ning cloud
+That will encounter with our glorious sun
+Ere he attain his easeful western bed.
+I mean, my lords, those powers that the Queen
+Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast
+And, as we hear, march on to fight with us.
+
+GEORGE.
+A little gale will soon disperse that cloud
+And blow it to the source from whence it came;
+Thy very beams will dry those vapours up,
+For every cloud engenders not a storm.
+
+RICHARD.
+The Queen is valued thirty thousand strong,
+And Somerset, with Oxford, fled to her.
+If she have time to breathe, be well assured
+Her faction will be full as strong as ours.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+We are advertised by our loving friends
+That they do hold their course toward Tewkesbury.
+We, having now the best at Barnet field,
+Will thither straight, for willingness rids way;
+And, as we march, our strength will be augmented
+In every county as we go along.
+Strike up the drum! cry “Courage!” and away.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Plains near Tewkesbury
+
+Flourish. March. Enter Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, Somerset, Oxford
+and Soldiers.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Great lords, wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss,
+But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
+What though the mast be now blown overboard,
+The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost,
+And half our sailors swallowed in the flood?
+Yet lives our pilot still. Is ’t meet that he
+Should leave the helm and, like a fearful lad,
+With tearful eyes add water to the sea
+And give more strength to that which hath too much,
+Whiles in his moan the ship splits on the rock,
+Which industry and courage might have saved?
+Ah, what a shame, ah, what a fault were this!
+Say Warwick was our anchor; what of that?
+And Montague our topmast; what of him?
+Our slaughtered friends the tackles; what of these?
+Why, is not Oxford here another anchor?
+And Somerset another goodly mast?
+The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?
+And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I
+For once allowed the skilful pilot’s charge?
+We will not from the helm to sit and weep,
+But keep our course, though the rough wind say no,
+From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wrack.
+As good to chide the waves as speak them fair.
+And what is Edward but a ruthless sea?
+What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit?
+And Richard but a ragged fatal rock?
+All these the enemies to our poor bark?
+Say you can swim: alas, ’tis but a while!
+Tread on the sand: why, there you quickly sink;
+Bestride the rock: the tide will wash you off,
+Or else you famish; that’s a threefold death.
+This speak I, lords, to let you understand,
+If case some one of you would fly from us,
+That there’s no hoped-for mercy with the brothers
+More than with ruthless waves, with sands, and rocks.
+Why, courage then! What cannot be avoided
+’Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit
+Should, if a coward heard her speak these words,
+Infuse his breast with magnanimity
+And make him, naked, foil a man at arms.
+I speak not this as doubting any here;
+For did I but suspect a fearful man,
+He should have leave to go away betimes,
+Lest in our need he might infect another
+And make him of the like spirit to himself.
+If any such be here, as God forbid!
+Let him depart before we need his help.
+
+OXFORD.
+Women and children of so high a courage,
+And warriors faint! Why, ’twere perpetual shame.
+O, brave young Prince, thy famous grandfather
+Doth live again in thee. Long mayst thou live
+To bear his image and renew his glories!
+
+SOMERSET.
+And he that will not fight for such a hope,
+Go home to bed and, like the owl by day,
+If he arise, be mocked and wondered at.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Thanks, gentle Somerset. Sweet Oxford, thanks.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Prepare you, lords, for Edward is at hand
+Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.
+
+OXFORD.
+I thought no less. It is his policy
+To haste thus fast, to find us unprovided.
+
+SOMERSET.
+But he’s deceived; we are in readiness.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+This cheers my heart, to see your forwardness.
+
+OXFORD.
+Here pitch our battle; hence we will not budge.
+
+Flourish and march. Enter King Edward, Richard, George and Soldiers.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood
+Which by the heaven’s assistance and your strength
+Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night.
+I need not add more fuel to your fire,
+For, well I wot, ye blaze to burn them out.
+Give signal to the fight, and to it, lords!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Lords, knights, and gentlemen, what I should say
+My tears gainsay; for every word I speak
+Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
+Therefore, no more but this: Henry, your sovereign,
+Is prisoner to the foe, his state usurped,
+His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain,
+His statutes cancelled, and his treasure spent;
+And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil.
+You fight in justice. Then, in God’s name, lords,
+Be valiant and give signal to the fight.
+
+[_Alarum, retreat, excursions. Exeunt both armies_]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the Field
+
+Flourish. Enter King Edward, Richard, George and Soldiers; with Queen
+Margaret, Oxford and Somerset as prisoners.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now here a period of tumultuous broils.
+Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight.
+For Somerset, off with his guilty head.
+Go, bear them hence; I will not hear them speak.
+
+OXFORD.
+For my part, I’ll not trouble thee with words.
+
+SOMERSET.
+Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune.
+
+[_Exeunt Oxford and Somerset, guarded._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+So part we sadly in this troublous world,
+To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Is proclamation made that who finds Edward
+Shall have a high reward, and he his life?
+
+RICHARD.
+It is, and lo where youthful Edward comes.
+
+Enter soldiers with Prince Edward.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Bring forth the gallant; let us hear him speak.
+What, can so young a man begin to prick?
+Edward, what satisfaction canst thou make
+For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects,
+And all the trouble thou hast turned me to?
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+Speak like a subject, proud, ambitious York.
+Suppose that I am now my father’s mouth;
+Resign thy chair, and where I stand kneel thou,
+Whilst I propose the selfsame words to thee
+Which, traitor, thou wouldst have me answer to.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ah, thy father had been so resolved!
+
+RICHARD.
+That you might still have worn the petticoat
+And ne’er have stol’n the breech from Lancaster.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+Let Aesop fable in a winter’s night;
+His currish riddle sorts not with this place.
+
+RICHARD.
+By heaven, brat, I’ll plague you for that word.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ay, thou wast born to be a plague to men.
+
+RICHARD.
+For God’s sake, take away this captive scold.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+Nay, take away this scolding crookback rather.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue.
+
+GEORGE.
+Untutored lad, thou art too malapert.
+
+PRINCE EDWARD.
+I know my duty; you are all undutiful.
+Lascivious Edward, and thou perjured George,
+And thou misshapen Dick, I tell ye all
+I am your better, traitors as ye are,
+And thou usurp’st my father’s right and mine.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Take that, the likeness of this railer here.
+
+[_Stabs him._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Sprawl’st thou? Take that to end thy agony.
+
+[_Stabs him._]
+
+GEORGE.
+And there’s for twitting me with perjury.
+
+[_Stabs him._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+O, kill me too!
+
+RICHARD.
+Marry, and shall.
+
+[_Offers to kill her._]
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Hold, Richard, hold; for we have done too much.
+
+RICHARD.
+Why should she live to fill the world with words?
+
+KING EDWARD.
+What, doth she swoon? Use means for her recovery.
+
+RICHARD.
+Clarence, excuse me to the King my brother.
+I’ll hence to London on a serious matter.
+Ere ye come there, be sure to hear some news.
+
+GEORGE.
+What? What?
+
+RICHARD.
+The Tower, the Tower!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+O Ned, sweet Ned, speak to thy mother, boy.
+Canst thou not speak? O traitors, murderers!
+They that stabbed Caesar shed no blood at all,
+Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame,
+If this foul deed were by to equal it.
+He was a man; this, in respect, a child,
+And men ne’er spend their fury on a child.
+What’s worse than murderer, that I may name it?
+No, no, my heart will burst an if I speak;
+And I will speak, that so my heart may burst.
+Butchers and villains, bloody cannibals!
+How sweet a plant have you untimely cropped!
+You have no children, butchers; if you had,
+The thought of them would have stirred up remorse.
+But if you ever chance to have a child,
+Look in his youth to have him so cut off
+As, deathsmen, you have rid this sweet young prince!
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Away with her; go bear her hence perforce.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Nay, never bear me hence, dispatch me here.
+Here sheathe thy sword; I’ll pardon thee my death.
+What, wilt thou not? Then, Clarence, do it thou.
+
+GEORGE.
+By heaven, I will not do thee so much ease.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Good Clarence, do; sweet Clarence, do thou do it.
+
+GEORGE.
+Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Ay, but thou usest to forswear thyself.
+’Twas sin before, but now ’tis charity.
+What, wilt thou not? Where is that devil’s butcher, Richard,
+Hard-favoured Richard? Richard, where art thou?
+Thou art not here. Murder is thy alms-deed;
+Petitioners for blood thou ne’er putt’st back.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Away, I say! I charge ye, bear her hence.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+So come to you and yours as to this prince!
+
+[_She is taken out._]
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Where’s Richard gone?
+
+GEORGE.
+To London all in post, and, as I guess,
+To make a bloody supper in the Tower.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+He’s sudden if a thing comes in his head.
+Now march we hence. Discharge the common sort
+With pay and thanks, and let’s away to London
+And see our gentle Queen how well she fares.
+By this, I hope, she hath a son for me.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. London. The Tower
+
+Enter King Henry and Richard, with the Lieutenant on the walls.
+
+RICHARD.
+Good day, my lord. What, at your book so hard?
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ay, my good lord—my lord, I should say rather.
+’Tis sin to flatter; “good” was little better:
+“Good Gloucester” and “good devil” were alike,
+And both preposterous; therefore, not “good lord”.
+
+RICHARD.
+Sirrah, leave us to ourselves; we must confer.
+
+[_Exit Lieutenant._]
+
+KING HENRY.
+So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf;
+So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece,
+And next his throat unto the butcher’s knife.
+What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?
+
+RICHARD.
+Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
+The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
+
+KING HENRY.
+The bird that hath been limed in a bush
+With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush;
+And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,
+Have now the fatal object in my eye
+Where my poor young was limed, was caught, and killed.
+
+RICHARD.
+Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete
+That taught his son the office of a fowl!
+And yet, for all his wings, the fool was drowned.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I, Daedalus; my poor boy, Icarus;
+Thy father, Minos, that denied our course;
+The sun that seared the wings of my sweet boy,
+Thy brother Edward; and thyself, the sea
+Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life.
+Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!
+My breast can better brook thy dagger’s point
+Than can my ears that tragic history.
+But wherefore dost thou come? Is ’t for my life?
+
+RICHARD.
+Think’st thou I am an executioner?
+
+KING HENRY.
+A persecutor I am sure thou art.
+If murdering innocents be executing,
+Why, then thou art an executioner.
+
+RICHARD.
+Thy son I killed for his presumption.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Hadst thou been killed when first thou didst presume,
+Thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine.
+And thus I prophesy: that many a thousand
+Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear,
+And many an old man’s sigh, and many a widow’s,
+And many an orphan’s water-standing eye,
+Men for their sons’, wives for their husbands’,
+Orphans for their parents’ timeless death,
+Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born.
+The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil sign;
+The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time;
+Dogs howled, and hideous tempest shook down trees;
+The raven rooked her on the chimney’s top,
+And chatt’ring pies in dismal discord sung;
+Thy mother felt more than a mother’s pain,
+And yet brought forth less than a mother’s hope,
+To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,
+Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
+Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
+To signify thou cam’st to bite the world;
+And, if the rest be true which I have heard,
+Thou cam’st—
+
+RICHARD.
+I’ll hear no more. Die, prophet, in thy speech.
+
+[_Stabs him._]
+
+For this, amongst the rest, was I ordained.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Ay, and for much more slaughter after this.
+O God, forgive my sins, and pardon thee!
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+RICHARD.
+What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster
+Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted.
+See how my sword weeps for the poor King’s death.
+O, may such purple tears be always shed
+From those that wish the downfall of our house!
+If any spark of life be yet remaining,
+Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither—
+
+[_Stabs him again._]
+
+I that have neither pity, love, nor fear.
+Indeed, ’tis true that Henry told me of,
+For I have often heard my mother say
+I came into the world with my legs forward.
+Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste
+And seek their ruin that usurped our right?
+The midwife wondered, and the women cried
+“O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!”
+And so I was, which plainly signified
+That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog.
+Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,
+Let hell make crooked my mind to answer it.
+I have no brother, I am like no brother;
+And this word “love,” which greybeards call divine,
+Be resident in men like one another,
+And not in me. I am myself alone.
+Clarence, beware; thou keep’st me from the light,
+But I will sort a pitchy day for thee;
+For I will buzz abroad such prophecies
+That Edward shall be fearful of his life;
+And then, to purge his fear, I’ll be thy death.
+King Henry and the Prince his son are gone;
+Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,
+Counting myself but bad till I be best.
+I’ll throw thy body in another room,
+And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom.
+
+[_Exit with the body._]
+
+SCENE VII. London. The Palace
+
+Flourish. Enter King Edward, Queen Elizabeth, George, Richard,
+Hastings, Nurse, carrying infant Prince Edward, and Attendants.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Once more we sit in England’s royal throne,
+Repurchased with the blood of enemies.
+What valiant foemen, like to autumn’s corn,
+Have we mowed down in tops of all their pride!
+Three Dukes of Somerset, threefold renowned
+For hardy and undoubted champions;
+Two Cliffords, as the father and the son;
+And two Northumberlands; two braver men
+Ne’er spurred their coursers at the trumpet’s sound;
+With them the two brave bears, Warwick and Montague,
+That in their chains fettered the kingly lion
+And made the forest tremble when they roared.
+Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat
+And made our footstool of security.
+Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy.
+Young Ned, for thee thine uncles and myself
+Have in our armours watched the winter’s night,
+Went all afoot in summer’s scalding heat,
+That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace;
+And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside_.] I’ll blast his harvest, if your head were laid;
+For yet I am not looked on in the world.
+This shoulder was ordained so thick to heave,
+And heave it shall some weight or break my back.
+Work thou the way, and that shall execute.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Clarence and Gloucester, love my lovely Queen;
+And kiss your princely nephew, brothers both.
+
+GEORGE.
+The duty that I owe unto your Majesty
+I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks.
+
+RICHARD.
+And, that I love the tree from whence thou sprang’st,
+Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit.
+[_Aside_.] To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master
+And cried “All hail!” when as he meant all harm.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now am I seated as my soul delights,
+Having my country’s peace and brothers’ loves.
+
+GEORGE.
+What will your Grace have done with Margaret?
+Reignier, her father, to the King of France
+Hath pawned the Sicils and Jerusalem,
+And hither have they sent it for her ransom.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Away with her and waft her hence to France.
+And now what rests but that we spend the time
+With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,
+Such as befits the pleasure of the court?
+Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell, sour annoy!
+For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+KING HENRY THE EIGHTH
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Prologue.
+ Scene I. London. An ante-chamber in the palace
+ Scene II. The same. The council-chamber
+ Scene III. An ante-chamber in the palace
+ Scene IV. A Hall in York Place
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. Westminster. A street
+ Scene II. An ante-chamber in the palace
+ Scene III. An ante-chamber of the Queen’s apartments
+ Scene IV. A hall in Blackfriars
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. London. The Queen’s apartments
+ Scene II. Ante-chamber to the King’s apartment
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. A street in Westminster
+ Scene II. Kimbolton
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. A gallery in the palace
+ Scene II. Lobby before the council-chamber
+ Scene III. The palace yard
+ Scene IV. The palace
+ Epilogue
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING HENRY THE EIGHTH
+
+DUKE OF NORFOLK
+DUKE OF SUFFOLK
+
+CARDINAL WOLSEY
+SECRETARIES to Wolsey
+CROMWELL, servant to Wolsey
+CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
+GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester
+PAGE to Gardiner
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced
+GRIFFITH, gentleman usher to Queen Katherine
+PATIENCE, woman to Queen Katherine
+Queen’s GENTLEMAN USHER
+CAPUTIUS, Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V
+
+DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
+LORD ABERGAVENNY, Buckingham’s son-in-law
+EARL OF SURREY, Buckingham’s son-in-law
+SIR NICHOLAS VAUX
+SURVEYOR to the Duke of Buckingham
+BRANDON
+SERGEANT-at-Arms
+Three Gentlemen
+
+ANNE BULLEN, her Maid of Honour, afterwards Queen
+An OLD LADY, friend to Anne Bullen
+LORD CHAMBERLAIN
+LORD SANDYS (called also SIR WILLIAM SANDYS)
+SIR THOMAS LOVELL
+SIR HENRY GUILDFORD
+
+BISHOP OF LINCOLN
+CRANMER, archbishop of Canterbury
+LORD CHANCELLOR
+GARTER King-of-Arms
+SIR ANTHONY DENNY
+DOCTOR BUTTS, physician to the King
+Door-KEEPER of the Council-chamber
+PORTER, and his Man
+A CRIER
+PROLOGUE
+EPILOGUE
+
+Spirits, Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women attending
+upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants
+
+SCENE: London; Westminster; Kimbolton
+
+
+
+
+Enter Prologue.
+
+
+THE PROLOGUE.
+I come no more to make you laugh. Things now
+That bear a weighty and a serious brow,
+Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe,
+Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow,
+We now present. Those that can pity, here
+May, if they think it well, let fall a tear;
+The subject will deserve it. Such as give
+Their money out of hope they may believe
+May here find truth too. Those that come to see
+Only a show or two, and so agree
+The play may pass, if they be still and willing,
+I’ll undertake may see away their shilling
+Richly in two short hours. Only they
+That come to hear a merry bawdy play,
+A noise of targets, or to see a fellow
+In a long motley coat guarded with yellow,
+Will be deceived. For, gentle hearers, know
+To rank our chosen truth with such a show
+As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting
+Our own brains and the opinion that we bring
+To make that only true we now intend,
+Will leave us never an understanding friend.
+Therefore, for goodness’ sake, and as you are known
+The first and happiest hearers of the town,
+Be sad, as we would make ye. Think ye see
+The very persons of our noble story
+As they were living; think you see them great,
+And followed with the general throng and sweat
+Of thousand friends; then, in a moment, see
+How soon this mightiness meets misery;
+And if you can be merry then, I’ll say
+A man may weep upon his wedding day.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. London. An ante-chamber in the palace.
+
+
+Enter the Duke of Norfolk at one door; at the other, the Duke of
+Buckingham and the Lord Abergavenny.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Good morrow, and well met. How have ye done
+Since last we saw in France?
+
+
+NORFOLK.
+I thank your Grace,
+Healthful, and ever since a fresh admirer
+Of what I saw there.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+An untimely ague
+Stayed me a prisoner in my chamber when
+Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,
+Met in the vale of Andren.
+
+NORFOLK.
+’Twixt Guynes and Arde.
+I was then present, saw them salute on horseback,
+Beheld them when they lighted, how they clung
+In their embracement, as they grew together—
+Which had they, what four throned ones could have weighed
+Such a compounded one?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+All the whole time
+I was my chamber’s prisoner.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Then you lost
+The view of earthly glory. Men might say,
+Till this time pomp was single, but now married
+To one above itself. Each following day
+Became the next day’s master, till the last
+Made former wonders its. Today the French,
+All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods,
+Shone down the English; and tomorrow, they
+Made Britain India: every man that stood
+Showed like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were
+As cherubins, all gilt. The madams too,
+Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear
+The pride upon them, that their very labour
+Was to them as a painting. Now this masque
+Was cried incomparable; and th’ ensuing night
+Made it a fool and beggar. The two kings,
+Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst,
+As presence did present them: him in eye,
+Still him in praise; and being present both,
+’Twas said they saw but one, and no discerner
+Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns—
+For so they phrase ’em—by their heralds challenged
+The noble spirits to arms, they did perform
+Beyond thought’s compass, that former fabulous story,
+Being now seen possible enough, got credit,
+That Bevis was believed.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+O, you go far.
+
+NORFOLK.
+As I belong to worship and affect
+In honour honesty, the tract of everything
+Would by a good discourser lose some life,
+Which action’s self was tongue to. All was royal;
+To the disposing of it nought rebelled;
+Order gave each thing view; the office did
+Distinctly his full function.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Who did guide,
+I mean, who set the body and the limbs
+Of this great sport together, as you guess?
+
+NORFOLK.
+One, certes, that promises no element
+In such a business.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I pray you who, my lord?
+
+NORFOLK.
+All this was ordered by the good discretion
+Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+The devil speed him! No man’s pie is freed
+From his ambitious finger. What had he
+To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
+That such a keech can with his very bulk
+Take up the rays o’ th’ beneficial sun
+And keep it from the earth.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Surely, sir,
+There’s in him stuff that puts him to these ends;
+For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace
+Chalks successors their way, nor called upon
+For high feats done to th’ crown; neither allied
+To eminent assistants, but spider-like,
+Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note
+The force of his own merit makes his way
+A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys
+A place next to the King.
+
+ABERGAVENNY.
+I cannot tell
+What heaven hath given him—let some graver eye
+Pierce into that—but I can see his pride
+Peep through each part of him. Whence has he that?
+If not from hell, the devil is a niggard,
+Or has given all before, and he begins
+A new hell in himself.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Why the devil,
+Upon this French going-out, took he upon him,
+Without the privity o’ th’ King, t’ appoint
+Who should attend on him? He makes up the file
+Of all the gentry, for the most part such
+To whom as great a charge as little honour
+He meant to lay upon; and his own letter,
+The honourable board of council out,
+Must fetch him in he papers.
+
+ABERGAVENNY.
+I do know
+Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have
+By this so sickened their estates that never
+They shall abound as formerly.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+O, many
+Have broke their backs with laying manors on ’em
+For this great journey. What did this vanity
+But minister communication of
+A most poor issue?
+
+NORFOLK.
+Grievingly I think
+The peace between the French and us not values
+The cost that did conclude it.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Every man,
+After the hideous storm that followed, was
+A thing inspired and, not consulting, broke
+Into a general prophecy, that this tempest,
+Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded
+The sudden breach on’t.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Which is budded out,
+For France hath flawed the league, and hath attached
+Our merchants’ goods at Bordeaux.
+
+ABERGAVENNY.
+Is it therefore
+Th’ ambassador is silenced?
+
+NORFOLK.
+Marry, is’t.
+
+ABERGAVENNY.
+A proper title of a peace, and purchased
+At a superfluous rate!
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Why, all this business
+Our reverend Cardinal carried.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Like it your Grace,
+The state takes notice of the private difference
+Betwixt you and the Cardinal. I advise you—
+And take it from a heart that wishes towards you
+Honour and plenteous safety—that you read
+The Cardinal’s malice and his potency
+Together; to consider further that
+What his high hatred would effect wants not
+A minister in his power. You know his nature,
+That he’s revengeful, and I know his sword
+Hath a sharp edge; it’s long, and ’t may be said
+It reaches far, and where ’twill not extend,
+Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel;
+You’ll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock
+That I advise your shunning.
+
+Enter Cardinal Wolsey, the purse borne before him, certain of the Guard
+and two Secretaries with papers. The Cardinal in his passage fixeth his
+eye on Buckingham, and Buckingham on him, both full of disdain.
+
+WOLSEY.
+The Duke of Buckingham’s surveyor, ha?
+Where’s his examination?
+
+SECRETARY.
+Here, so please you.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Is he in person ready?
+
+SECRETARY.
+Ay, please your Grace.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Well, we shall then know more, and Buckingham
+Shall lessen this big look.
+
+[_Exeunt Cardinal Wolsey and his train._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+This butcher’s cur is venom-mouthed, and I
+Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best
+Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar’s book
+Outworths a noble’s blood.
+
+NORFOLK.
+What, are you chafed?
+Ask God for temp’rance. That’s the appliance only
+Which your disease requires.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I read in ’s looks
+Matter against me, and his eye reviled
+Me as his abject object. At this instant
+He bores me with some trick. He’s gone to th’ King.
+I’ll follow, and outstare him.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Stay, my lord,
+And let your reason with your choler question
+What ’tis you go about. To climb steep hills
+Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like
+A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
+Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
+Can advise me like you; be to yourself
+As you would to your friend.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I’ll to the King,
+And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
+This Ipswich fellow’s insolence, or proclaim
+There’s difference in no persons.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Be advised.
+Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
+That it do singe yourself. We may outrun
+By violent swiftness that which we run at,
+And lose by over-running. Know you not,
+The fire that mounts the liquor till ’t run o’er,
+In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised.
+I say again, there is no English soul
+More stronger to direct you than yourself,
+If with the sap of reason you would quench,
+Or but allay the fire of passion.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Sir,
+I am thankful to you, and I’ll go along
+By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow—
+Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
+From sincere motions—by intelligence,
+And proofs as clear as founts in July when
+We see each grain of gravel, I do know
+To be corrupt and treasonous.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Say not “treasonous.”
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+To th’ King I’ll say’t, and make my vouch as strong
+As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox,
+Or wolf, or both—for he is equal ravenous
+As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
+As able to perform’t, his mind and place
+Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally—
+Only to show his pomp as well in France
+As here at home, suggests the King our master
+To this last costly treaty, th’ interview,
+That swallowed so much treasure, and like a glass
+Did break i’ th’ rinsing.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Faith, and so it did.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Pray give me favour, sir. This cunning Cardinal
+The articles o’ th’ combination drew
+As himself pleased; and they were ratified
+As he cried “Thus let be,” to as much end
+As give a crutch to the dead. But our Count-Cardinal
+Has done this, and ’tis well, for worthy Wolsey,
+Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows—
+Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
+To the old dam treason—Charles the Emperor,
+Under pretence to see the Queen his aunt—
+For ’twas indeed his colour, but he came
+To whisper Wolsey—here makes visitation.
+His fears were that the interview betwixt
+England and France might through their amity
+Breed him some prejudice, for from this league
+Peeped harms that menaced him. He privily
+Deals with our Cardinal, and, as I trow—
+Which I do well, for I am sure the Emperor
+Paid ere he promised, whereby his suit was granted
+Ere it was asked. But when the way was made
+And paved with gold, the Emperor thus desired
+That he would please to alter the King’s course
+And break the foresaid peace. Let the King know,
+As soon he shall by me, that thus the Cardinal
+Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases
+And for his own advantage.
+
+NORFOLK.
+I am sorry
+To hear this of him, and could wish he were
+Something mistaken in’t.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+No, not a syllable.
+I do pronounce him in that very shape
+He shall appear in proof.
+
+Enter Brandon, a Sergeant-at-arms before him, and two or three of the
+Guard.
+
+BRANDON.
+Your office, sergeant: execute it.
+
+SERGEANT.
+Sir,
+My lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl
+Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I
+Arrest thee of high treason, in the name
+Of our most sovereign King.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Lo you, my lord,
+The net has fall’n upon me. I shall perish
+Under device and practice.
+
+BRANDON.
+I am sorry
+To see you ta’en from liberty, to look on
+The business present. ’Tis his Highness’ pleasure
+You shall to th’ Tower.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+It will help nothing
+To plead mine innocence, for that dye is on me
+Which makes my whit’st part black. The will of heaven
+Be done in this and all things. I obey.
+O my Lord Abergavenny, fare you well.
+
+BRANDON.
+Nay, he must bear you company.
+[_To Abergavenny_.] The King
+Is pleased you shall to th’ Tower, till you know
+How he determines further.
+
+ABERGAVENNY.
+As the Duke said,
+The will of heaven be done, and the King’s pleasure
+By me obeyed.
+
+BRANDON.
+Here is warrant from
+The King t’ attach Lord Montague, and the bodies
+Of the Duke’s confessor, John de la Car,
+One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor—
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+So, so;
+These are the limbs o’ th’ plot. No more, I hope?
+
+BRANDON.
+A monk o’ th’ Chartreux.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+O, Nicholas Hopkins?
+
+BRANDON.
+He.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My surveyor is false. The o’er-great Cardinal
+Hath showed him gold. My life is spanned already.
+I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
+Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
+By dark’ning my clear sun. My lord, farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. The council-chamber.
+
+Cornets. Enter King Henry, leaning on the Cardinal’s shoulder, the
+Nobles, and Sir Thomas Lovell; the Cardinal places himself under the
+King’s feet on his right side.
+
+KING.
+My life itself, and the best heart of it,
+Thanks you for this great care. I stood i’ th’ level
+Of a full-charged confederacy, and give thanks
+To you that choked it. Let be called before us
+That gentleman of Buckingham’s; in person
+I’ll hear his confessions justify,
+And point by point the treasons of his master
+He shall again relate.
+
+A noise within crying “Room for the Queen!” Enter  Queen Katherine,
+ushered by the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Suffolk. She kneels. The
+King riseth from his state, takes her up and kisses her.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Nay, we must longer kneel; I am a suitor.
+
+KING.
+Arise, and take place by us.
+
+[_He placeth her by him._]
+
+Half your suit
+Never name to us; you have half our power;
+The other moiety ere you ask is given.
+Repeat your will and take it.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Thank your Majesty.
+That you would love yourself, and in that love
+Not unconsidered leave your honour nor
+The dignity of your office, is the point
+Of my petition.
+
+KING.
+Lady mine, proceed.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+I am solicited, not by a few,
+And those of true condition, that your subjects
+Are in great grievance. There have been commissions
+Sent down among ’em which hath flawed the heart
+Of all their loyalties; wherein, although,
+My good Lord Cardinal, they vent reproaches
+Most bitterly on you as putter-on
+Of these exactions, yet the King our master,
+Whose honour heaven shield from soil, even he escapes not
+Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks
+The sides of loyalty, and almost appears
+In loud rebellion.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Not “almost appears,”
+It doth appear; for, upon these taxations,
+The clothiers all, not able to maintain
+The many to them longing, have put off
+The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
+Unfit for other life, compelled by hunger
+And lack of other means, in desperate manner
+Daring the event to th’ teeth, are all in uproar,
+And danger serves among them.
+
+KING.
+Taxation?
+Wherein? And what taxation? My Lord Cardinal,
+You that are blamed for it alike with us,
+Know you of this taxation?
+
+WOLSEY.
+Please you, sir,
+I know but of a single part in aught
+Pertains to th’ state, and front but in that file
+Where others tell steps with me.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+No, my lord?
+You know no more than others? But you frame
+Things that are known alike, which are not wholesome
+To those which would not know them, and yet must
+Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions
+Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are
+Most pestilent to the hearing, and to bear ’em,
+The back is sacrifice to the load. They say
+They are devised by you, or else you suffer
+Too hard an exclamation.
+
+KING.
+Still exaction!
+The nature of it? In what kind, let’s know,
+Is this exaction?
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+I am much too venturous
+In tempting of your patience, but am boldened
+Under your promised pardon. The subjects’ grief
+Comes through commissions, which compels from each
+The sixth part of his substance, to be levied
+Without delay; and the pretence for this
+Is named your wars in France. This makes bold mouths.
+Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
+Allegiance in them. Their curses now
+Live where their prayers did; and it’s come to pass
+This tractable obedience is a slave
+To each incensed will. I would your Highness
+Would give it quick consideration, for
+There is no primer business.
+
+KING.
+By my life,
+This is against our pleasure.
+
+WOLSEY.
+And for me,
+I have no further gone in this than by
+A single voice, and that not passed me but
+By learned approbation of the judges. If I am
+Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know
+My faculties nor person, yet will be
+The chronicles of my doing, let me say
+’Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
+That virtue must go through. We must not stint
+Our necessary actions in the fear
+To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
+As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
+That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
+Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,
+By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
+Not ours or not allowed; what worst, as oft,
+Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
+For our best act. If we shall stand still
+In fear our motion will be mocked or carped at,
+We should take root here where we sit,
+Or sit state-statues only.
+
+KING.
+Things done well,
+And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
+Things done without example, in their issue
+Are to be feared. Have you a precedent
+Of this commission? I believe, not any.
+We must not rend our subjects from our laws
+And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?
+A trembling contribution! Why, we take
+From every tree lop, bark, and part o’ t’ timber,
+And though we leave it with a root, thus hacked,
+The air will drink the sap. To every county
+Where this is questioned send our letters with
+Free pardon to each man that has denied
+The force of this commission. Pray, look to’t;
+I put it to your care.
+
+WOLSEY.
+[_Aside to his Secretary_.] A word with you.
+Let there be letters writ to every shire
+Of the King’s grace and pardon. The grieved commons
+Hardly conceive of me. Let it be noised
+That through our intercession this revokement
+And pardon comes. I shall anon advise you
+Further in the proceeding.
+
+[_Exit Secretary._]
+
+Enter Surveyor.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
+Is run in your displeasure.
+
+KING.
+It grieves many.
+The gentleman is learned and a most rare speaker;
+To nature none more bound; his training such
+That he may furnish and instruct great teachers
+And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see,
+When these so noble benefits shall prove
+Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,
+They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly
+Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,
+Who was enrolled ’mongst wonders, and when we,
+Almost with ravished list’ning, could not find
+His hour of speech a minute—he, my lady,
+Hath into monstrous habits put the graces
+That once were his, and is become as black
+As if besmeared in hell. Sit by us. You shall hear—
+This was his gentleman in trust—of him
+Things to strike honour sad. Bid him recount
+The fore-recited practices, whereof
+We cannot feel too little, hear too much.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Stand forth, and with bold spirit relate what you,
+Most like a careful subject, have collected
+Out of the Duke of Buckingham.
+
+KING.
+Speak freely.
+
+SURVEYOR.
+First, it was usual with him—every day
+It would infect his speech—that if the King
+Should without issue die, he’ll carry it so
+To make the sceptre his. These very words
+I’ve heard him utter to his son-in-law,
+Lord Abergavenny; to whom by oath he menaced
+Revenge upon the Cardinal.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Please your Highness, note
+This dangerous conception in this point,
+Not friended by his wish to your high person
+His will is most malignant, and it stretches
+Beyond you to your friends.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+My learned Lord Cardinal,
+Deliver all with charity.
+
+KING.
+Speak on.
+How grounded he his title to the crown?
+Upon our fail? To this point hast thou heard him
+At any time speak aught?
+
+SURVEYOR.
+He was brought to this
+By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Henton.
+
+KING.
+What was that Henton?
+
+SURVEYOR.
+Sir, a Chartreux friar,
+His confessor, who fed him every minute
+With words of sovereignty.
+
+KING.
+How know’st thou this?
+
+SURVEYOR.
+Not long before your Highness sped to France,
+The Duke being at the Rose, within the parish
+Saint Laurence Poultney, did of me demand
+What was the speech among the Londoners
+Concerning the French journey. I replied,
+Men fear the French would prove perfidious,
+To the King’s danger. Presently the Duke
+Said ’twas the fear indeed, and that he doubted
+’Twould prove the verity of certain words
+Spoke by a holy monk, “that oft,” says he,
+“Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit
+John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour
+To hear from him a matter of some moment;
+Whom after under the confession’s seal
+He solemnly had sworn that what he spoke
+My chaplain to no creature living but
+To me should utter, with demure confidence
+This pausingly ensued: ‘Neither the King nor’s heirs,
+Tell you the Duke—shall prosper. Bid him strive
+To gain the love o’ th’ commonalty. The Duke
+Shall govern England.’”
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+If I know you well,
+You were the Duke’s surveyor, and lost your office
+On the complaint o’ th’ tenants. Take good heed
+You charge not in your spleen a noble person
+And spoil your nobler soul. I say, take heed—
+Yes, heartily beseech you.
+
+KING.
+Let him on.
+Go forward.
+
+SURVEYOR.
+On my soul, I’ll speak but truth.
+I told my lord the Duke, by th’ devil’s illusions
+The monk might be deceived, and that ’twas dangerous
+For him to ruminate on this so far until
+It forged him some design, which, being believed,
+It was much like to do. He answered, “Tush,
+It can do me no damage,” adding further
+That had the King in his last sickness failed,
+The Cardinal’s and Sir Thomas Lovell’s heads
+Should have gone off.
+
+KING.
+Ha! What, so rank? Ah ha!
+There’s mischief in this man. Canst thou say further?
+
+SURVEYOR.
+I can, my liege.
+
+KING.
+Proceed.
+
+SURVEYOR.
+Being at Greenwich,
+After your Highness had reproved the Duke
+About Sir William Bulmer—
+
+KING.
+I remember
+Of such a time, being my sworn servant,
+The Duke retained him his. But on. What hence?
+
+SURVEYOR.
+“If,” quoth he, “I for this had been committed,”
+As to the Tower, I thought, “I would have played
+The part my father meant to act upon
+Th’ usurper Richard who, being at Salisbury,
+Made suit to come in ’s presence; which if granted,
+As he made semblance of his duty, would
+Have put his knife into him.”
+
+KING.
+A giant traitor!
+
+WOLSEY.
+Now, madam, may his Highness live in freedom,
+And this man out of prison?
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+God mend all.
+
+KING.
+There’s something more would out of thee. What sayst?
+
+SURVEYOR.
+After “the Duke his father,” with “the knife,”
+He stretched him, and with one hand on his dagger,
+Another spread on ’s breast, mounting his eyes,
+He did discharge a horrible oath, whose tenour
+Was, were he evil used, he would outgo
+His father by as much as a performance
+Does an irresolute purpose.
+
+KING.
+There’s his period,
+To sheathe his knife in us. He is attached.
+Call him to present trial. If he may
+Find mercy in the law, ’tis his; if none,
+Let him not seek ’t of us. By day and night,
+He’s traitor to th’ height!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. An ante-chamber in the palace.
+
+Enter Lord Chamberlain  and Lord Sandys.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Is’t possible the spells of France should juggle
+Men into such strange mysteries?
+
+SANDYS.
+New customs,
+Though they be never so ridiculous—
+Nay, let ’em be unmanly—yet are followed.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+As far as I see, all the good our English
+Have got by the late voyage is but merely
+A fit or two o’ th’ face; but they are shrewd ones,
+For when they hold ’em, you would swear directly
+Their very noses had been counsellors
+To Pepin or Clotharius, they keep state so.
+
+SANDYS.
+They have all new legs, and lame ones. One would take it,
+That never saw ’em pace before, the spavin
+Or springhalt reigned among ’em.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Death! My lord,
+Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to’t,
+That, sure, they’ve worn out Christendom.
+
+Enter Sir Thomas Lovell.
+
+How now?
+What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?
+
+LOVELL.
+Faith, my lord,
+I hear of none but the new proclamation
+That’s clapped upon the court gate.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+What is’t for?
+
+LOVELL.
+The reformation of our travelled gallants
+That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+I’m glad ’tis there. Now I would pray our monsieurs
+To think an English courtier may be wise
+And never see the Louvre.
+
+LOVELL.
+They must either,
+For so run the conditions, leave those remnants
+Of fool and feather that they got in France,
+With all their honourable points of ignorance
+Pertaining thereunto, as fights and fireworks,
+Abusing better men than they can be
+Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean
+The faith they have in tennis and tall stockings,
+Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel,
+And understand again like honest men,
+Or pack to their old playfellows. There, I take it,
+They may, _cum privilegio, oui_ away
+The lag end of their lewdness and be laughed at.
+
+SANDYS.
+’Tis time to give ’em physic, their diseases
+Are grown so catching.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+What a loss our ladies
+Will have of these trim vanities!
+
+LOVELL.
+Ay, marry,
+There will be woe indeed, lords. The sly whoresons
+Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies.
+A French song and a fiddle has no fellow.
+
+SANDYS.
+The devil fiddle ’em! I am glad they are going,
+For sure, there’s no converting of ’em. Now
+An honest country lord, as I am, beaten
+A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong
+And have an hour of hearing, and, by ’r Lady,
+Held current music too.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Well said, Lord Sandys.
+Your colt’s tooth is not cast yet.
+
+SANDYS.
+No, my lord,
+Nor shall not while I have a stump.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Sir Thomas,
+Whither were you a-going?
+
+LOVELL.
+To the Cardinal’s.
+Your lordship is a guest too.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+O, ’tis true.
+This night he makes a supper, and a great one,
+To many lords and ladies. There will be
+The beauty of this kingdom, I’ll assure you.
+
+LOVELL.
+That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,
+A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us.
+His dews fall everywhere.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+No doubt he’s noble;
+He had a black mouth that said other of him.
+
+SANDYS.
+He may, my lord; has wherewithal. In him
+Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine.
+Men of his way should be most liberal;
+They are set here for examples.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+True, they are so,
+But few now give so great ones. My barge stays.
+Your lordship shall along. Come, good Sir Thomas,
+We shall be late else, which I would not be,
+For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford,
+This night to be comptrollers.
+
+SANDYS.
+I am your lordship’s.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A Hall in York Place.
+
+Hautboys. A small table under a state for the Cardinal, a longer table
+for the guests. Then enter Anne Bullen and divers other Ladies and
+Gentlemen as guests, at one door. At another door enter Sir Henry
+Guildford.
+
+GUILDFORD.
+Ladies, a general welcome from his Grace
+Salutes ye all. This night he dedicates
+To fair content and you. None here, he hopes,
+In all this noble bevy has brought with her
+One care abroad. He would have all as merry
+As, first, good company, good wine, good welcome
+Can make good people.
+
+Enter Lord Chamberlain, Lord Sandys and Sir Thomas Lovell.
+
+O, my lord, you’re tardy.
+The very thought of this fair company
+Clapped wings to me.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+You are young, Sir Harry Guildford.
+
+SANDYS.
+Sir Thomas Lovell, had the Cardinal
+But half my lay thoughts in him, some of these
+Should find a running banquet ere they rested,
+I think would better please ’em. By my life,
+They are a sweet society of fair ones.
+
+LOVELL.
+O, that your lordship were but now confessor
+To one or two of these!
+
+SANDYS.
+I would I were.
+They should find easy penance.
+
+LOVELL.
+Faith, how easy?
+
+SANDYS.
+As easy as a down bed would afford it.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Sweet ladies, will it please you sit? Sir Harry,
+Place you that side; I’ll take the charge of this.
+His Grace is ent’ring. Nay, you must not freeze;
+Two women placed together makes cold weather.
+My Lord Sandys, you are one will keep ’em waking.
+Pray, sit between these ladies.
+
+SANDYS.
+By my faith,
+And thank your lordship. By your leave, sweet ladies.
+If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
+I had it from my father.
+
+ANNE.
+Was he mad, sir?
+
+SANDYS.
+O, very mad, exceeding mad in love too;
+But he would bite none. Just as I do now,
+He would kiss you twenty with a breath.
+
+[_Kisses her._]
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Well said, my lord.
+So, now you’re fairly seated. gentlemen,
+The penance lies on you if these fair ladies
+Pass away frowning.
+
+SANDYS.
+For my little cure,
+Let me alone.
+
+Hautboys. Enter Cardinal Wolsey and takes his state.
+
+WOLSEY.
+You’re welcome, my fair guests. That noble lady
+Or gentleman that is not freely merry
+Is not my friend. This, to confirm my welcome;
+And to you all, good health.
+
+[_Drinks._]
+
+SANDYS.
+Your Grace is noble.
+Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks
+And save me so much talking.
+
+WOLSEY.
+My Lord Sandys,
+I am beholding to you. Cheer your neighbours.
+Ladies, you are not merry. Gentlemen,
+Whose fault is this?
+
+SANDYS.
+The red wine first must rise
+In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have ’em
+Talk us to silence.
+
+ANNE.
+You are a merry gamester,
+My Lord Sandys.
+
+SANDYS.
+Yes, if I make my play.
+Here’s to your ladyship; and pledge it, madam,
+For ’tis to such a thing—
+
+ANNE.
+You cannot show me.
+
+SANDYS.
+I told your Grace they would talk anon.
+
+[_Drum and trumpet. Chambers discharged._]
+
+WOLSEY.
+What’s that?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Look out there, some of ye.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+WOLSEY.
+What warlike voice,
+And to what end, is this? Nay, ladies, fear not.
+By all the laws of war you’re privileged.
+
+Enter Servant.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+How now, what is’t?
+
+SERVANT.
+A noble troop of strangers,
+For so they seem. They’ve left their barge and landed,
+And hither make, as great ambassadors
+From foreign princes.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Good Lord Chamberlain,
+Go, give ’em welcome—you can speak the French tongue—
+And pray receive ’em nobly, and conduct ’em
+Into our presence, where this heaven of beauty
+Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him.
+
+[_Exit Chamberlain, attended. All rise, and tables removed._]
+
+You have now a broken banquet, but we’ll mend it.
+A good digestion to you all; and once more
+I shower a welcome on ye. Welcome all!
+
+Hautboys. Enter King and others as masquers, habited like shepherds,
+ushered by the Lord Chamberlain. They pass directly before the Cardinal
+and gracefully salute him.
+
+A noble company! What are their pleasures?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Because they speak no English, thus they prayed
+To tell your Grace: that having heard by fame
+Of this so noble and so fair assembly
+This night to meet here, they could do no less,
+Out of the great respect they bear to beauty,
+But leave their flocks and, under your fair conduct,
+Crave leave to view these ladies and entreat
+An hour of revels with ’em.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Say, Lord Chamberlain,
+They have done my poor house grace; for which I pay ’em
+A thousand thanks and pray ’em take their pleasures.
+
+[_The masquers choose ladies. The King chooses Anne Bullen._]
+
+KING.
+The fairest hand I ever touched! O beauty,
+Till now I never knew thee.
+
+[_Music. Dance._]
+
+WOLSEY.
+My lord!
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Your Grace?
+
+WOLSEY.
+Pray tell ’em thus much from me:
+There should be one amongst ’em, by his person
+More worthy this place than myself, to whom,
+If I but knew him, with my love and duty
+I would surrender it.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+I will, my lord.
+
+[_Whispers with the Masquers._]
+
+WOLSEY.
+What say they?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Such a one they all confess
+There is indeed, which they would have your Grace
+Find out, and he will take it.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Let me see, then.
+By all your good leaves, gentlemen; here I’ll make
+My royal choice.
+
+KING.
+[_Unmasking_.] Ye have found him, Cardinal.
+You hold a fair assembly; you do well, lord.
+You are a churchman, or I’ll tell you, Cardinal,
+I should judge now unhappily.
+
+WOLSEY.
+I am glad
+Your Grace is grown so pleasant.
+
+KING.
+My Lord Chamberlain,
+Prithee come hither. What fair lady’s that?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+An’t please your Grace, Sir Thomas Bullen’s daughter,
+The Viscount Rochford, one of her Highness’ women.
+
+KING.
+By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart,
+I were unmannerly to take you out
+And not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen!
+Let it go round.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready
+I’ th’ privy chamber?
+
+LOVELL.
+Yes, my lord.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Your Grace,
+I fear, with dancing is a little heated.
+
+KING.
+I fear, too much.
+
+WOLSEY.
+There’s fresher air, my lord,
+In the next chamber.
+
+KING.
+Lead in your ladies, every one. Sweet partner,
+I must not yet forsake you. Let’s be merry,
+Good my Lord Cardinal, I have half a dozen healths
+To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure
+To lead ’em once again, and then let’s dream
+Who’s best in favour. Let the music knock it.
+
+[_Exeunt with trumpets._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Westminster. A street.
+
+
+Enter two Gentlemen at several doors.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Whither away so fast?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+O, God save ye.
+Even to the Hall, to hear what shall become
+Of the great Duke of Buckingham.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I’ll save you
+That labour, sir. All’s now done but the ceremony
+Of bringing back the prisoner.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Were you there?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Yes, indeed, was I.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Pray speak what has happened.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+You may guess quickly what.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Is he found guilty?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Yes, truly is he, and condemned upon’t.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I am sorry for’t.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+So are a number more.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+But pray, how passed it?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I’ll tell you in a little. The great Duke
+Came to the bar, where to his accusations
+He pleaded still not guilty and alleged
+Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
+The King’s attorney on the contrary
+Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions
+Of divers witnesses, which the Duke desired
+To have brought _viva voce_ to his face;
+At which appeared against him his surveyor,
+Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor, and John Car,
+Confessor to him, with that devil monk,
+Hopkins, that made this mischief.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+That was he
+That fed him with his prophecies?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+The same.
+All these accused him strongly, which he fain
+Would have flung from him, but, indeed he could not.
+And so his peers, upon this evidence,
+Have found him guilty of high treason. Much
+He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all
+Was either pitied in him or forgotten.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+After all this, how did he bear himself?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+When he was brought again to th’ bar to hear
+His knell rung out, his judgement, he was stirred
+With such an agony, he sweat extremely
+And something spoke in choler, ill and hasty.
+But he fell to himself again, and sweetly
+In all the rest showed a most noble patience.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I do not think he fears death.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Sure he does not;
+He never was so womanish. The cause
+He may a little grieve at.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Certainly
+The Cardinal is the end of this.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis likely,
+By all conjectures: first, Kildare’s attainder,
+Then deputy of Ireland, who removed,
+Earl Surrey was sent thither, and in haste too,
+Lest he should help his father.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+That trick of state
+Was a deep envious one.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+At his return
+No doubt he will requite it. This is noted,
+And generally, whoever the King favours,
+The Cardinal instantly will find employment,
+And far enough from court too.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+All the commons
+Hate him perniciously and, o’ my conscience,
+Wish him ten fathom deep. This duke as much
+They love and dote on, call him bounteous Buckingham,
+The mirror of all courtesy.
+
+Enter Buckingham from his arraignment. Tipstaves before him, the axe
+with the edge towards him, Halberds on each side, accompanied with Sir
+Thomas Lovell, Sir Nicholas Vaux, Sir William Sandys and common people.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Stay there, sir,
+And see the noble ruined man you speak of.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Let’s stand close and behold him.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+All good people,
+You that thus far have come to pity me,
+Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.
+I have this day received a traitor’s judgement,
+And by that name must die; yet heaven bear witness,
+And if I have a conscience, let it sink me,
+Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful!
+The law I bear no malice for my death;
+’T has done, upon the premises, but justice.
+But those that sought it I could wish more Christians.
+Be what they will, I heartily forgive ’em.
+Yet let ’em look they glory not in mischief,
+Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
+For then my guiltless blood must cry against ’em.
+For further life in this world I ne’er hope,
+Nor will I sue, although the King have mercies
+More than I dare make faults. You few that loved me
+And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham,
+His noble friends and fellows, whom to leave
+Is only bitter to him, only dying,
+Go with me like good angels to my end,
+And as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
+Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
+And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, i’ God’s name.
+
+LOVELL.
+I do beseech your Grace, for charity,
+If ever any malice in your heart
+Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you
+As I would be forgiven. I forgive all.
+There cannot be those numberless offences
+’Gainst me that I cannot take peace with. No black envy
+Shall mark my grave. Commend me to his Grace,
+And if he speak of Buckingham, pray tell him
+You met him half in heaven. My vows and prayers
+Yet are the King’s and, till my soul forsake,
+Shall cry for blessings on him. May he live
+Longer than I have time to tell his years;
+Ever beloved and loving may his rule be;
+And when old Time shall lead him to his end,
+Goodness and he fill up one monument!
+
+LOVELL.
+To th’ waterside I must conduct your Grace,
+Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,
+Who undertakes you to your end.
+
+VAUX.
+Prepare there!
+The Duke is coming. See the barge be ready,
+And fit it with such furniture as suits
+The greatness of his person.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Nay, Sir Nicholas,
+Let it alone. My state now will but mock me.
+When I came hither, I was Lord High Constable
+And Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun.
+Yet I am richer than my base accusers,
+That never knew what truth meant. I now seal it,
+And with that blood will make ’em one day groan for’t.
+My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,
+Who first raised head against usurping Richard,
+Flying for succour to his servant Banister,
+Being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed,
+And, without trial, fell. God’s peace be with him.
+Henry the Seventh succeeding, truly pitying
+My father’s loss, like a most royal prince,
+Restored me to my honours and out of ruins
+Made my name once more noble. Now his son,
+Henry the Eighth, life, honour, name, and all
+That made me happy at one stroke has taken
+For ever from the world. I had my trial,
+And must needs say a noble one, which makes me
+A little happier than my wretched father.
+Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both
+Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most—
+A most unnatural and faithless service.
+Heaven has an end in all; yet, you that hear me,
+This from a dying man receive as certain:
+Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
+Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends
+And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
+The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
+Like water from ye, never found again
+But where they mean to sink ye. All good people,
+Pray for me. I must now forsake ye. The last hour
+Of my long weary life is come upon me.
+Farewell. And when you would say something that is sad,
+Speak how I fell. I have done; and God forgive me.
+
+[_Exeunt Duke and train._]
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+O, this is full of pity. Sir, it calls,
+I fear, too many curses on their heads
+That were the authors.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+If the Duke be guiltless,
+’Tis full of woe. Yet I can give you inkling
+Of an ensuing evil, if it fall,
+Greater than this.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Good angels keep it from us!
+What may it be? You do not doubt my faith, sir?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+This secret is so weighty, ’twill require
+A strong faith to conceal it.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Let me have it.
+I do not talk much.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I am confident;
+You shall, sir. Did you not of late days hear
+A buzzing of a separation
+Between the King and Katherine?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Yes, but it held not;
+For when the King once heard it, out of anger
+He sent command to the Lord Mayor straight
+To stop the rumour and allay those tongues
+That durst disperse it.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+But that slander, sir,
+Is found a truth now, for it grows again
+Fresher than e’er it was, and held for certain
+The King will venture at it. Either the Cardinal,
+Or some about him near, have, out of malice
+To the good Queen, possessed him with a scruple
+That will undo her. To confirm this too,
+Cardinal Campeius is arrived, and lately,
+As all think, for this business.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis the Cardinal;
+And merely to revenge him on the Emperor
+For not bestowing on him at his asking,
+The archbishopric of Toledo this is purposed.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I think you have hit the mark. But is’t not cruel
+That she should feel the smart of this? The Cardinal
+Will have his will, and she must fall.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis woeful.
+We are too open here to argue this.
+Let’s think in private more.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. An ante-chamber in the palace.
+
+Enter Lord Chamberlain, reading this letter.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+_My lord, the horses your lordship sent for, with all the care had I
+saw well chosen, ridden, and furnished. They were young and handsome,
+and of the best breed in the north. When they were ready to set out for
+London, a man of my Lord Cardinal’s, by commission and main power, took
+’em from me, with this reason: his master would be served before a
+subject, if not before the King; which stopped our mouths, sir._
+I fear he will indeed. Well, let him have them.
+He will have all, I think.
+
+Enter to the Lord Chamberlain, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Well met, my Lord Chamberlain.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Good day to both your Graces.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+How is the King employed?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+I left him private,
+Full of sad thoughts and troubles.
+
+NORFOLK.
+What’s the cause?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+It seems the marriage with his brother’s wife
+Has crept too near his conscience.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+No, his conscience
+Has crept too near another lady.
+
+NORFOLK.
+’Tis so.
+This is the Cardinal’s doing, the king-cardinal.
+That blind priest, like the eldest son of Fortune,
+Turns what he list. The King will know him one day.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Pray God he do! He’ll never know himself else.
+
+NORFOLK.
+How holily he works in all his business,
+And with what zeal! For, now he has cracked the league
+Between us and the Emperor, the Queen’s great nephew,
+He dives into the King’s soul and there scatters
+Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,
+Fears and despairs—and all these for his marriage.
+And out of all these to restore the King,
+He counsels a divorce, a loss of her
+That like a jewel has hung twenty years
+About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;
+Of her that loves him with that excellence
+That angels love good men with; even of her
+That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,
+Will bless the King. And is not this course pious?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Heaven keep me from such counsel! ’Tis most true:
+These news are everywhere, every tongue speaks ’em,
+And every true heart weeps for’t. All that dare
+Look into these affairs see this main end,
+The French king’s sister. Heaven will one day open
+The King’s eyes, that so long have slept upon
+This bold bad man.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+And free us from his slavery.
+
+NORFOLK.
+We had need pray,
+And heartily, for our deliverance,
+Or this imperious man will work us all
+From princes into pages. All men’s honours
+Lie like one lump before him, to be fashioned
+Into what pitch he please.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+For me, my lords,
+I love him not, nor fear him; there’s my creed.
+As I am made without him, so I’ll stand,
+If the King please. His curses and his blessings
+Touch me alike, they’re breath I not believe in.
+I knew him, and I know him; so I leave him
+To him that made him proud, the Pope.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Let’s in,
+And with some other business put the King
+From these sad thoughts that work too much upon him.
+My lord, you’ll bear us company?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Excuse me;
+The King has sent me otherwhere. Besides,
+You’ll find a most unfit time to disturb him.
+Health to your lordships.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Thanks, my good Lord Chamberlain.
+
+[_Exit Lord Chamberlain, and the King draws the curtain and sits
+reading pensively._]
+
+SUFFOLK.
+How sad he looks! Sure, he is much afflicted.
+
+KING.
+Who’s there? Ha?
+
+NORFOLK.
+Pray God he be not angry.
+
+KING.
+Who’s there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves
+Into my private meditations?
+Who am I? Ha?
+
+NORFOLK.
+A gracious king that pardons all offences
+Malice ne’er meant. Our breach of duty this way
+Is business of estate, in which we come
+To know your royal pleasure.
+
+KING.
+Ye are too bold.
+Go to; I’ll make ye know your times of business.
+Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha?
+
+Enter Wolsey and Campeius with a commission.
+
+Who’s there? My good Lord Cardinal? O my Wolsey,
+The quiet of my wounded conscience,
+Thou art a cure fit for a king. [_To Campeius_.] You’re welcome,
+Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom;
+Use us and it. [_To Wolsey_.] My good lord, have great care
+I be not found a talker.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Sir, you cannot.
+I would your Grace would give us but an hour
+Of private conference.
+
+KING.
+[_To Norfolk and Suffolk_.] We are busy. Go.
+
+NORFOLK.
+[A_side to Suffolk_.] This priest has no pride in him?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+[_Aside to Norfolk_.] Not to speak of.
+I would not be so sick, though, for his place.
+But this cannot continue.
+
+NORFOLK.
+[_Aside to Suffolk_.] If it do,
+I’ll venture one have-at-him.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+[_Aside to Norfolk_.] I another.
+
+[_Exeunt Norfolk and Suffolk._]
+
+WOLSEY.
+Your Grace has given a precedent of wisdom
+Above all princes in committing freely
+Your scruple to the voice of Christendom.
+Who can be angry now? What envy reach you?
+The Spaniard, tied by blood and favour to her,
+Must now confess, if they have any goodness,
+The trial just and noble. All the clerks—
+I mean the learned ones in Christian kingdoms—
+Have their free voices. Rome, the nurse of judgement,
+Invited by your noble self, hath sent
+One general tongue unto us, this good man,
+This just and learned priest, Cardinal Campeius,
+Whom once more I present unto your Highness.
+
+KING.
+And once more in mine arms I bid him welcome,
+And thank the holy conclave for their loves.
+They have sent me such a man I would have wished for.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+Your Grace must needs deserve all strangers’ loves,
+You are so noble. To your Highness’ hand
+I tender my commission, by whose virtue,
+The court of Rome commanding, you, my Lord
+Cardinal of York, are joined with me their servant
+In the unpartial judging of this business.
+
+KING.
+Two equal men. The Queen shall be acquainted
+Forthwith for what you come. Where’s Gardiner?
+
+WOLSEY.
+I know your Majesty has always loved her
+So dear in heart not to deny her that
+A woman of less place might ask by law:
+Scholars allowed freely to argue for her.
+
+KING.
+Ay, and the best she shall have, and my favour
+To him that does best. God forbid else. Cardinal,
+Prithee call Gardiner to me, my new secretary.
+I find him a fit fellow.
+
+Enter Gardiner.
+
+WOLSEY.
+[_Aside to Gardiner_.]
+Give me your hand. Much joy and favour to you;
+You are the King’s now.
+
+GARDINER.
+[_Aside to Wolsey_.] But to be commanded
+For ever by your Grace, whose hand has raised me.
+
+KING.
+Come hither, Gardiner.
+
+[_The King and Gardiner walk and whisper._]
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+My lord of York, was not one Doctor Pace
+In this man’s place before him?
+
+WOLSEY.
+Yes, he was.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+Was he not held a learned man?
+
+WOLSEY.
+Yes, surely.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+Believe me, there’s an ill opinion spread, then
+Even of yourself, Lord Cardinal.
+
+WOLSEY.
+How? Of me?
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+They will not stick to say you envied him
+And fearing he would rise—he was so virtuous—
+Kept him a foreign man still, which so grieved him
+That he ran mad and died.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Heav’n’s peace be with him!
+That’s Christian care enough. For living murmurers
+There’s places of rebuke. He was a fool,
+For he would needs be virtuous. That good fellow,
+If I command him, follows my appointment.
+I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother:
+We live not to be griped by meaner persons.
+
+KING.
+Deliver this with modesty to th’ Queen.
+
+[_Exit Gardiner._]
+
+The most convenient place that I can think of
+For such receipt of learning is Blackfriars.
+There ye shall meet about this weighty business.
+My Wolsey, see it furnished. O, my lord,
+Would it not grieve an able man to leave
+So sweet a bedfellow? But, conscience, conscience!
+O, ’tis a tender place, and I must leave her.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. An ante-chamber of the Queen’s apartments.
+
+Enter Anne Bullen and an Old Lady.
+
+ANNE.
+Not for that neither. Here’s the pang that pinches:
+His Highness having lived so long with her, and she
+So good a lady that no tongue could ever
+Pronounce dishonour of her—by my life,
+She never knew harm-doing—O, now, after
+So many courses of the sun enthroned,
+Still growing in a majesty and pomp, the which
+To leave a thousandfold more bitter than
+’Tis sweet at first t’ acquire—after this process,
+To give her the avaunt, it is a pity
+Would move a monster.
+
+OLD LADY.
+Hearts of most hard temper
+Melt and lament for her.
+
+ANNE.
+O, God’s will! Much better
+She ne’er had known pomp; though’t be temporal,
+Yet if that quarrel, Fortune, do divorce
+It from the bearer, ’tis a sufferance panging
+As soul and body’s severing.
+
+OLD LADY.
+Alas, poor lady,
+She’s a stranger now again.
+
+ANNE.
+So much the more
+Must pity drop upon her. Verily,
+I swear, ’tis better to be lowly born
+And range with humble livers in content
+Than to be perked up in a glist’ring grief,
+And wear a golden sorrow.
+
+OLD LADY.
+Our content
+Is our best having.
+
+ANNE.
+By my troth and maidenhead,
+I would not be a queen.
+
+OLD LADY.
+Beshrew me, I would,
+And venture maidenhead for’t; and so would you,
+For all this spice of your hypocrisy.
+You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,
+Have too a woman’s heart, which ever yet
+Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty;
+Which, to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts,
+Saving your mincing, the capacity
+Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive,
+If you might please to stretch it.
+
+ANNE.
+Nay, good troth.
+
+OLD LADY.
+Yes, troth and troth. You would not be a queen?
+
+ANNE.
+No, not for all the riches under heaven.
+
+OLD LADY.
+’Tis strange. A threepence bowed would hire me,
+Old as I am, to queen it. But I pray you,
+What think you of a duchess? Have you limbs
+To bear that load of title?
+
+ANNE.
+No, in truth.
+
+OLD LADY.
+Then you are weakly made. Pluck off a little.
+I would not be a young count in your way
+For more than blushing comes to. If your back
+Cannot vouchsafe this burden, ’tis too weak
+Ever to get a boy.
+
+ANNE.
+How you do talk!
+I swear again I would not be a queen
+For all the world.
+
+OLD LADY.
+In faith, for little England
+You’d venture an emballing. I myself
+Would for Caernarfonshire, although there longed
+No more to th’ crown but that. Lo, who comes here?
+
+Enter Lord Chamberlain.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Good morrow, ladies. What were’t worth to know
+The secret of your conference?
+
+ANNE.
+My good lord,
+Not your demand; it values not your asking.
+Our mistress’ sorrows we were pitying.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+It was a gentle business, and becoming
+The action of good women. There is hope
+All will be well.
+
+ANNE.
+Now, I pray God, amen!
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+You bear a gentle mind, and heavenly blessings
+Follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady,
+Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note’s
+Ta’en of your many virtues, the King’s Majesty
+Commends his good opinion of you, and
+Does purpose honour to you no less flowing
+Than Marchioness of Pembroke, to which title
+A thousand pound a year annual support
+Out of his grace he adds.
+
+ANNE.
+I do not know
+What kind of my obedience I should tender.
+More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
+Are not words duly hallowed, nor my wishes
+More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
+Are all I can return. Beseech your lordship,
+Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience,
+As from a blushing handmaid, to his Highness,
+Whose health and royalty I pray for.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Lady,
+I shall not fail t’ approve the fair conceit
+The King hath of you. [_Aside_.] I have perused her well.
+Beauty and honour in her are so mingled
+That they have caught the King; and who knows yet
+But from this lady may proceed a gem
+To lighten all this isle? I’ll to the King,
+And say I spoke with you.
+
+ANNE.
+My honoured lord.
+
+[_Exit Lord Chamberlain._]
+
+OLD LADY.
+Why, this it is: see, see!
+I have been begging sixteen years in court,
+Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could
+Come pat betwixt too early and too late
+For any suit of pounds; and you, O fate!
+A very fresh fish here—fie, fie, fie upon
+This compelled fortune!—have your mouth filled up
+Before you open it.
+
+ANNE.
+This is strange to me.
+
+OLD LADY.
+How tastes it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no.
+There was a lady once—’tis an old story—
+That would not be a queen, that would she not,
+For all the mud in Egypt. Have you heard it?
+
+ANNE.
+Come, you are pleasant.
+
+OLD LADY.
+With your theme, I could
+O’ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke?
+A thousand pounds a year for pure respect?
+No other obligation? By my life,
+That promises more thousands; honour’s train
+Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time
+I know your back will bear a duchess. Say,
+Are you not stronger than you were?
+
+ANNE.
+Good lady,
+Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,
+And leave me out on’t. Would I had no being
+If this salute my blood a jot. It faints me
+To think what follows.
+The Queen is comfortless, and we forgetful
+In our long absence. Pray do not deliver
+What here you’ve heard to her.
+
+OLD LADY.
+What do you think me?
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A hall in Blackfriars.
+
+Trumpets, sennet, and cornets. Enter two Vergers, with short silver
+wands; next them, two Scribes, in the habit of doctors; after them, the
+Archbishop of Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincoln, Ely,
+Rochester, and Saint Asaph; next them, with some small distance,
+follows a Gentleman bearing the purse with the great seal, and a
+cardinal’s hat; then two Priests, bearing each a silver cross; then a
+Gentleman Usher bare-headed, accompanied with a Sergeant-at-arms
+bearing a silver mace; then two Gentlemen, bearing two great silver
+pillars; after them, side by side, the two Cardinals; two Noblemen with
+the sword and mace. The King takes place under the cloth of state. The
+two Cardinals sit under him as judges. The Queen takes place some
+distance from the King. The Bishops place themselves on each side the
+court, in manner of consistory; below them the Scribes. The Lords sit
+next the Bishops. The rest of the Attendants stand in convenient order
+about the stage.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Whilst our commission from Rome is read,
+Let silence be commanded.
+
+KING.
+What’s the need?
+It hath already publicly been read,
+And on all sides th’ authority allowed;
+You may then spare that time.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Be’t so. Proceed.
+
+SCRIBE.
+Say, “Henry King of England, come into the court.”
+
+CRIER.
+Henry King of England, come into the court.
+
+KING.
+Here.
+
+SCRIBE.
+Say, “Katherine Queen of England, come into the court.”
+
+CRIER.
+Katherine Queen of England, come into the court.
+
+[_The Queen makes no answer, rises out of her chair, goes about the
+court, comes to the King, and kneels at his feet; then speaks._]
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Sir, I desire you do me right and justice,
+And to bestow your pity on me; for
+I am a most poor woman and a stranger,
+Born out of your dominions, having here
+No judge indifferent nor no more assurance
+Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,
+In what have I offended you? What cause
+Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure
+That thus you should proceed to put me off
+And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness
+I have been to you a true and humble wife,
+At all times to your will conformable,
+Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,
+Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry
+As I saw it inclined. When was the hour
+I ever contradicted your desire,
+Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends
+Have I not strove to love, although I knew
+He were mine enemy? What friend of mine
+That had to him derived your anger did I
+Continue in my liking? Nay, gave notice
+He was from thence discharged? Sir, call to mind
+That I have been your wife in this obedience
+Upward of twenty years, and have been blessed
+With many children by you. If, in the course
+And process of this time, you can report,
+And prove it too, against mine honour aught,
+My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty
+Against your sacred person, in God’s name,
+Turn me away and let the foul’st contempt
+Shut door upon me, and so give me up
+To the sharp’st kind of justice. Please you, sir,
+The King your father was reputed for
+A prince most prudent, of an excellent
+And unmatched wit and judgement. Ferdinand,
+My father, King of Spain, was reckoned one
+The wisest prince that there had reigned by many
+A year before. It is not to be questioned
+That they had gathered a wise council to them
+Of every realm, that did debate this business,
+Who deemed our marriage lawful. Wherefore I humbly
+Beseech you, sir, to spare me till I may
+Be by my friends in Spain advised, whose counsel
+I will implore. If not, i’ th’ name of God,
+Your pleasure be fulfilled.
+
+WOLSEY.
+You have here, lady,
+And of your choice, these reverend fathers, men
+Of singular integrity and learning,
+Yea, the elect o’ th’ land, who are assembled
+To plead your cause. It shall be therefore bootless
+That longer you desire the court, as well
+For your own quiet as to rectify
+What is unsettled in the King.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+His Grace
+Hath spoken well and justly. Therefore, madam,
+It’s fit this royal session do proceed,
+And that without delay their arguments
+Be now produced and heard.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Lord Cardinal,
+To you I speak.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Your pleasure, madam.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Sir,
+I am about to weep; but, thinking that
+We are a queen, or long have dreamed so, certain
+The daughter of a king, my drops of tears
+I’ll turn to sparks of fire.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Be patient yet.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+I will, when you are humble; nay, before,
+Or God will punish me. I do believe,
+Induced by potent circumstances, that
+You are mine enemy, and make my challenge
+You shall not be my judge; for it is you
+Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me,
+Which God’s dew quench! Therefore I say again,
+I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
+Refuse you for my judge, whom, yet once more,
+I hold my most malicious foe and think not
+At all a friend to truth.
+
+WOLSEY.
+I do profess
+You speak not like yourself, who ever yet
+Have stood to charity and displayed th’ effects
+Of disposition gentle and of wisdom
+O’ertopping woman’s power. Madam, you do me wrong.
+I have no spleen against you, nor injustice
+For you or any. How far I have proceeded,
+Or how far further shall, is warranted
+By a commission from the Consistory,
+Yea, the whole Consistory of Rome. You charge me
+That I have “blown this coal”. I do deny it.
+The King is present. If it be known to him
+That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,
+And worthily, my falsehood, yea, as much
+As you have done my truth. If he know
+That I am free of your report, he knows
+I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him
+It lies to cure me, and the cure is to
+Remove these thoughts from you, the which before
+His Highness shall speak in, I do beseech
+You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking
+And to say so no more.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+My lord, my lord,
+I am a simple woman, much too weak
+T’ oppose your cunning. You’re meek and humble-mouthed;
+You sign your place and calling, in full seeming,
+With meekness and humility; but your heart
+Is crammed with arrogancy, spleen, and pride.
+You have, by fortune and his Highness’ favours,
+Gone slightly o’er low steps, and now are mounted
+Where powers are your retainers, and your words,
+Domestics to you, serve your will as ’t please
+Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you,
+You tender more your person’s honour than
+Your high profession spiritual; that again
+I do refuse you for my judge; and here,
+Before you all, appeal unto the Pope,
+To bring my whole cause ’fore his Holiness,
+And to be judged by him.
+
+[_She curtsies to the King and offers to depart._]
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+The Queen is obstinate,
+Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and
+Disdainful to be tried by’t. ’Tis not well.
+She’s going away.
+
+KING.
+Call her again.
+
+CRIER.
+Katherine, Queen of England, come into the court.
+
+GENTLEMAN USHER.
+Madam, you are called back.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+What need you note it? Pray you keep your way.
+When you are called, return. Now, the Lord help!
+They vex me past my patience. Pray you, pass on.
+I will not tarry; no, nor ever more
+Upon this business my appearance make
+In any of their courts.
+
+[_Exeunt Queen and her Attendants._]
+
+KING.
+Go thy ways, Kate.
+That man i’ th’ world who shall report he has
+A better wife, let him in naught be trusted,
+For speaking false in that. Thou art, alone—
+If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,
+Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,
+Obeying in commanding, and thy parts
+Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out—
+The queen of earthly queens. She’s noble born,
+And like her true nobility she has
+Carried herself towards me.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Most gracious sir,
+In humblest manner I require your Highness
+That it shall please you to declare, in hearing
+Of all these ears—for where I am robbed and bound,
+There must I be unloosed, although not there
+At once and fully satisfied—whether ever I
+Did broach this business to your Highness, or
+Laid any scruple in your way which might
+Induce you to the question on’t? or ever
+Have to you, but with thanks to God for such
+A royal lady, spake one the least word that might
+Be to the prejudice of her present state,
+Or touch of her good person?
+
+KING.
+My Lord Cardinal,
+I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,
+I free you from’t. You are not to be taught
+That you have many enemies that know not
+Why they are so, but, like to village curs,
+Bark when their fellows do. By some of these
+The Queen is put in anger. You’re excused.
+But will you be more justified? You ever
+Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired
+It to be stirred, but oft have hindered, oft,
+The passages made toward it. On my honour,
+I speak my good Lord Cardinal to this point
+And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to’t,
+I will be bold with time and your attention.
+Then mark th’ inducement. Thus it came; give heed to’t:
+My conscience first received a tenderness,
+Scruple, and prick on certain speeches uttered
+By th’ Bishop of Bayonne, then French ambassador,
+Who had been hither sent on the debating
+A marriage ’twixt the Duke of Orleans and
+Our daughter Mary. I’ th’ progress of this business,
+Ere a determinate resolution, he,
+I mean the Bishop, did require a respite,
+Wherein he might the King his lord advertise
+Whether our daughter were legitimate,
+Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,
+Sometimes our brother’s wife. This respite shook
+The bosom of my conscience, entered me,
+Yea, with a splitting power, and made to tremble
+The region of my breast; which forced such way
+That many mazed considerings did throng
+And pressed in with this caution. First, methought
+I stood not in the smile of heaven, who had
+Commanded nature that my lady’s womb,
+If it conceived a male child by me, should
+Do no more offices of life to’t than
+The grave does to th’ dead; for her male issue
+Or died where they were made, or shortly after
+This world had aired them. Hence I took a thought
+This was a judgement on me, that my kingdom,
+Well worthy the best heir o’ th’ world, should not
+Be gladded in’t by me. Then follows that
+I weighed the danger which my realms stood in
+By this my issue’s fail, and that gave to me
+Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in
+The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer
+Toward this remedy whereupon we are
+Now present here together. That’s to say,
+I meant to rectify my conscience, which
+I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,
+By all the reverend fathers of the land
+And doctors learned. First I began in private
+With you, my Lord of Lincoln. You remember
+How under my oppression I did reek
+When I first moved you.
+
+LINCOLN.
+Very well, my liege.
+
+KING.
+I have spoke long. Be pleased yourself to say
+How far you satisfied me.
+
+LINCOLN.
+So please your Highness,
+The question did at first so stagger me,
+Bearing a state of mighty moment in’t
+And consequence of dread, that I committed
+The daring’st counsel which I had to doubt
+And did entreat your Highness to this course
+Which you are running here.
+
+KING.
+I then moved you,
+My Lord of Canterbury, and got your leave
+To make this present summons. Unsolicited
+I left no reverend person in this court,
+But by particular consent proceeded
+Under your hands and seals. Therefore go on,
+For no dislike i’ th’ world against the person
+Of the good queen, but the sharp thorny points
+Of my alleged reasons, drives this forward.
+Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life
+And kingly dignity, we are contented
+To wear our mortal state to come with her,
+Katherine, our Queen, before the primest creature
+That’s paragoned o’ th’ world.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+So please your Highness,
+The Queen being absent, ’tis a needful fitness
+That we adjourn this court till further day.
+Meanwhile must be an earnest motion
+Made to the Queen to call back her appeal
+She intends unto his Holiness.
+
+KING.
+[_Aside_.] I may perceive
+These cardinals trifle with me. I abhor
+This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
+My learned and well-beloved servant, Cranmer,
+Prithee return. With thy approach, I know,
+My comfort comes along.—Break up the court!
+I say, set on.
+
+[_Exeunt in manner as they entered._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. London. The Queen’s apartments.
+
+
+Enter Queen and her Women, as at work.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Take thy lute, wench. My soul grows sad with troubles.
+Sing, and disperse ’em, if thou canst. Leave working.
+
+WOMAN
+[_sings song._]
+
+Orpheus with his lute made trees
+And the mountain tops that freeze
+    Bow themselves when he did sing.
+To his music plants and flowers
+Ever sprung, as sun and showers
+    There had made a lasting spring.
+
+
+Everything that heard him play,
+Even the billows of the sea,
+    Hung their heads and then lay by.
+In sweet music is such art,
+Killing care and grief of heart
+    Fall asleep or, hearing, die.
+
+Enter a Gentleman.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+How now?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+An’t please your Grace, the two great Cardinals
+Wait in the presence.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Would they speak with me?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+They willed me say so, madam.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Pray their Graces
+To come near.
+
+[_Exit Gentleman._]
+
+What can be their business
+With me, a poor weak woman, fallen from favour?
+I do not like their coming. Now I think on’t,
+They should be good men, their affairs as righteous.
+But all hoods make not monks.
+
+Enter the two Cardinals, Wolsey and Campeius.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Peace to your Highness.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Your Graces find me here part of housewife;
+I would be all, against the worst may happen.
+What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords?
+
+WOLSEY.
+May it please you, noble madam, to withdraw
+Into your private chamber, we shall give you
+The full cause of our coming.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Speak it here.
+There’s nothing I have done yet, o’ my conscience,
+Deserves a corner. Would all other women
+Could speak this with as free a soul as I do!
+My lords, I care not, so much I am happy
+Above a number, if my actions
+Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw ’em,
+Envy and base opinion set against ’em,
+I know my life so even. If your business
+Seek me out, and that way I am wife in,
+Out with it boldly. Truth loves open dealing.
+
+WOLSEY.
+_Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina serenissima_—
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+O, good my lord, no Latin.
+I am not such a truant since my coming
+As not to know the language I have lived in.
+A strange tongue makes my cause more strange, suspicious.
+Pray speak in English. Here are some will thank you,
+If you speak truth, for their poor mistress’ sake.
+Believe me, she has had much wrong. Lord Cardinal,
+The willing’st sin I ever yet committed
+May be absolved in English.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Noble lady,
+I am sorry my integrity should breed—
+And service to his Majesty and you—
+So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant.
+We come not by the way of accusation,
+To taint that honour every good tongue blesses,
+Nor to betray you any way to sorrow—
+You have too much, good lady—but to know
+How you stand minded in the weighty difference
+Between the King and you, and to deliver,
+Like free and honest men, our just opinions
+And comforts to your cause.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+Most honoured madam,
+My Lord of York, out of his noble nature,
+Zeal, and obedience he still bore your Grace,
+Forgetting, like a good man, your late censure
+Both of his truth and him—which was too far—
+Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,
+His service and his counsel.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+[_Aside_.] To betray me.
+My lords, I thank you both for your good wills.
+Ye speak like honest men; pray God ye prove so.
+But how to make ye suddenly an answer
+In such a point of weight, so near mine honour—
+More near my life, I fear—with my weak wit,
+And to such men of gravity and learning,
+In truth I know not. I was set at work
+Among my maids, full little, God knows, looking
+Either for such men or such business.
+For her sake that I have been—for I feel
+The last fit of my greatness—good your Graces,
+Let me have time and counsel for my cause.
+Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears;
+Your hopes and friends are infinite.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+In England
+But little for my profit. Can you think, lords,
+That any Englishman dare give me counsel?
+Or be a known friend, ’gainst his Highness’ pleasure,
+Though he be grown so desperate to be honest,
+And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends,
+They that much weigh out my afflictions,
+They that my trust must grow to, live not here.
+They are, as all my other comforts, far hence
+In mine own country, lords.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+I would your Grace
+Would leave your griefs and take my counsel.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+How, sir?
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+Put your main cause into the King’s protection.
+He’s loving and most gracious. ’Twill be much
+Both for your honour better and your cause,
+For if the trial of the law o’ertake ye,
+You’ll part away disgraced.
+
+WOLSEY.
+He tells you rightly.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Ye tell me what ye wish for both: my ruin.
+Is this your Christian counsel? Out upon ye!
+Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
+That no king can corrupt.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+Your rage mistakes us.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+The more shame for ye! Holy men I thought ye,
+Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues;
+But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye.
+Mend ’em, for shame, my lords. Is this your comfort,
+The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,
+A woman lost among ye, laughed at, scorned?
+I will not wish ye half my miseries;
+I have more charity. But say I warned ye.
+Take heed, for heaven’s sake, take heed, lest at once
+The burden of my sorrows fall upon ye.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Madam, this is a mere distraction.
+You turn the good we offer into envy.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Ye turn me into nothing. Woe upon ye
+And all such false professors! Would you have me—
+If you have any justice, any pity,
+If ye be anything but churchmen’s habits—
+Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?
+Alas, ’has banished me his bed already,
+His love, too, long ago. I am old, my lords,
+And all the fellowship I hold now with him
+Is only my obedience. What can happen
+To me above this wretchedness? All your studies
+Make me a curse like this.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+Your fears are worse.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Have I lived thus long—let me speak myself,
+Since virtue finds no friends—a wife, a true one—
+A woman, I dare say without vainglory,
+Never yet branded with suspicion—
+Have I with all my full affections
+Still met the King, loved him next heav’n, obeyed him,
+Been, out of fondness, superstitious to him,
+Almost forgot my prayers to content him,
+And am I thus rewarded? ’Tis not well, lords.
+Bring me a constant woman to her husband,
+One that ne’er dreamed a joy beyond his pleasure,
+And to that woman, when she has done most,
+Yet will I add an honour: a great patience.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Madam, you wander from the good we aim at.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty
+To give up willingly that noble title
+Your master wed me to. Nothing but death
+Shall e’er divorce my dignities.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Pray hear me.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Would I had never trod this English earth
+Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!
+Ye have angels’ faces, but heaven knows your hearts.
+What will become of me now, wretched lady?
+I am the most unhappy woman living.
+[_To her Women_.] Alas, poor wenches, where are now your fortunes?
+Shipwrecked upon a kingdom where no pity,
+No friends, no hope, no kindred weep for me,
+Almost no grave allowed me, like the lily
+That once was mistress of the field and flourished,
+I’ll hang my head and perish.
+
+WOLSEY.
+If your Grace
+Could but be brought to know our ends are honest,
+You’d feel more comfort. Why should we, good lady,
+Upon what cause, wrong you? Alas, our places,
+The way of our profession, is against it.
+We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow ’em.
+For goodness’ sake, consider what you do,
+How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly
+Grow from the King’s acquaintance, by this carriage.
+The hearts of princes kiss obedience,
+So much they love it, but to stubborn spirits
+They swell and grow as terrible as storms.
+I know you have a gentle, noble temper,
+A soul as even as a calm. Pray think us
+Those we profess: peacemakers, friends, and servants.
+
+CAMPEIUS.
+Madam, you’ll find it so. You wrong your virtues
+With these weak women’s fears. A noble spirit,
+As yours was put into you, ever casts
+Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The King loves you;
+Beware you lose it not. For us, if you please
+To trust us in your business, we are ready
+To use our utmost studies in your service.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Do what ye will, my lords, and pray forgive me
+If I have used myself unmannerly.
+You know I am a woman, lacking wit
+To make a seemly answer to such persons.
+Pray do my service to his Majesty.
+He has my heart yet, and shall have my prayers
+While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,
+Bestow your counsels on me. She now begs
+That little thought, when she set footing here,
+She should have bought her dignities so dear.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Ante-chamber to the King’s apartment.
+
+Enter the Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Suffolk, Lord Surrey and Lord
+Chamberlain.
+
+NORFOLK.
+If you will now unite in your complaints
+And force them with a constancy, the Cardinal
+Cannot stand under them. If you omit
+The offer of this time, I cannot promise
+But that you shall sustain more new disgraces
+With these you bear already.
+
+SURREY.
+I am joyful
+To meet the least occasion that may give me
+Remembrance of my father-in-law the Duke,
+To be revenged on him.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Which of the peers
+Have uncontemned gone by him, or at least
+Strangely neglected? When did he regard
+The stamp of nobleness in any person
+Out of himself?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+My lords, you speak your pleasures.
+What he deserves of you and me I know;
+What we can do to him—though now the time
+Gives way to us—I much fear. If you cannot
+Bar his access to th’ King, never attempt
+Anything on him, for he hath a witchcraft
+Over the King in ’s tongue.
+
+NORFOLK.
+O, fear him not.
+His spell in that is out. The King hath found
+Matter against him that for ever mars
+The honey of his language. No, he’s settled,
+Not to come off, in his displeasure.
+
+SURREY.
+Sir,
+I should be glad to hear such news as this
+Once every hour.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Believe it, this is true.
+In the divorce his contrary proceedings
+Are all unfolded, wherein he appears
+As I would wish mine enemy.
+
+SURREY.
+How came
+His practices to light?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Most strangely.
+
+SURREY.
+O, how, how?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+The Cardinal’s letters to the Pope miscarried,
+And came to th’ eye o’ the King, wherein was read
+How that the Cardinal did entreat his Holiness
+To stay the judgement o’ th’ divorce; for if
+It did take place, “I do” quoth he “perceive
+My king is tangled in affection to
+A creature of the Queen’s, Lady Anne Bullen.”
+
+SURREY.
+Has the King this?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Believe it.
+
+SURREY.
+Will this work?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+The King in this perceives him how he coasts
+And hedges his own way. But in this point
+All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic
+After his patient’s death. The King already
+Hath married the fair lady.
+
+SURREY.
+Would he had!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+May you be happy in your wish, my lord,
+For I profess you have it.
+
+SURREY.
+Now, all my joy
+Trace the conjunction!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+My amen to’t!
+
+NORFOLK.
+All men’s.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+There’s order given for her coronation.
+Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left
+To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,
+She is a gallant creature, and complete
+In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her
+Will fall some blessing to this land which shall
+In it be memorized.
+
+SURREY.
+But will the King
+Digest this letter of the Cardinal’s?
+The Lord forbid!
+
+NORFOLK.
+Marry, amen!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+No, no.
+There be more wasps that buzz about his nose
+Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius
+Is stolen away to Rome; hath ta’en no leave;
+Has left the cause o’ th’ King unhandled, and
+Is posted, as the agent of our Cardinal,
+To second all his plot. I do assure you
+The King cried “Ha!” at this.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Now, God incense him,
+And let him cry “Ha!” louder.
+
+NORFOLK.
+But, my lord,
+When returns Cranmer?
+
+SUFFOLK.
+He is returned in his opinions, which
+Have satisfied the King for his divorce,
+Together with all famous colleges
+Almost in Christendom. Shortly, I believe,
+His second marriage shall be published, and
+Her coronation. Katherine no more
+Shall be called Queen, but Princess Dowager
+And widow to Prince Arthur.
+
+NORFOLK.
+This same Cranmer’s
+A worthy fellow, and hath ta’en much pain
+In the King’s business.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+He has, and we shall see him
+For it an archbishop.
+
+NORFOLK.
+So I hear.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+’Tis so.
+
+Enter Wolsey and Cromwell.
+
+The Cardinal!
+
+NORFOLK.
+Observe, observe; he’s moody.
+
+WOLSEY.
+The packet, Cromwell,
+Gave’t you the King?
+
+CROMWELL.
+To his own hand, in ’s bedchamber.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Looked he o’ th’ inside of the paper?
+
+CROMWELL.
+Presently
+He did unseal them, and the first he viewed,
+He did it with a serious mind; a heed
+Was in his countenance. You he bade
+Attend him here this morning.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Is he ready
+To come abroad?
+
+CROMWELL.
+I think by this he is.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Leave me a while.
+
+[_Exit Cromwell._]
+
+[_Aside_.] It shall be to the Duchess of Alençon,
+The French king’s sister; he shall marry her.
+Anne Bullen? No; I’ll no Anne Bullens for him.
+There’s more in’t than fair visage. Bullen?
+No, we’ll no Bullens. Speedily I wish
+To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke!
+
+NORFOLK.
+He’s discontented.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Maybe he hears the King
+Does whet his anger to him.
+
+SURREY.
+Sharp enough,
+Lord, for thy justice!
+
+WOLSEY.
+[_Aside_.] The late queen’s gentlewoman, a knight’s daughter,
+To be her mistress’ mistress? The Queen’s Queen?
+This candle burns not clear. ’Tis I must snuff it;
+Then out it goes. What though I know her virtuous
+And well deserving? Yet I know her for
+A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to
+Our cause, that she should lie i’ th’ bosom of
+Our hard-ruled King. Again, there is sprung up
+An heretic, an arch-one, Cranmer, one
+Hath crawled into the favour of the King
+And is his oracle.
+
+NORFOLK.
+He is vexed at something.
+
+Enter King, reading a schedule, and Lovell.
+
+SURREY.
+I would ’twere something that would fret the string,
+The master-cord on ’s heart.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+The King, the King!
+
+KING.
+What piles of wealth hath he accumulated
+To his own portion! And what expense by th’ hour
+Seems to flow from him! How, i’ th’ name of thrift
+Does he rake this together? Now, my lords,
+Saw you the Cardinal?
+
+NORFOLK.
+My lord, we have
+Stood here observing him. Some strange commotion
+Is in his brain. He bites his lip, and starts,
+Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
+Then lays his finger on his temple; straight
+Springs out into fast gait; then stops again,
+Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts
+His eye against the moon. In most strange postures
+We have seen him set himself.
+
+KING.
+It may well be
+There is a mutiny in ’s mind. This morning
+Papers of state he sent me to peruse,
+As I required; and wot you what I found
+There—on my conscience, put unwittingly?
+Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing
+The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,
+Rich stuffs and ornaments of household, which
+I find at such proud rate that it outspeaks
+Possession of a subject.
+
+NORFOLK.
+It’s heaven’s will!
+Some spirit put this paper in the packet
+To bless your eye withal.
+
+KING.
+If we did think
+His contemplation were above the earth
+And fixed on spiritual object, he should still
+Dwell in his musings, but I am afraid
+His thinkings are below the moon, not worth
+His serious considering.
+
+[_King takes his seat; whispers Lovell, who goes to the Cardinal._]
+
+WOLSEY.
+Heaven forgive me!
+Ever God bless your Highness.
+
+KING.
+Good my lord,
+You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory
+Of your best graces in your mind, the which
+You were now running o’er. You have scarce time
+To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span
+To keep your earthly audit. Sure, in that
+I deem you an ill husband, and am glad
+To have you therein my companion.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Sir,
+For holy offices I have a time; a time
+To think upon the part of business which
+I bear i’ th’ state; and Nature does require
+Her times of preservation, which perforce
+I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
+Must give my tendance to.
+
+KING.
+You have said well.
+
+WOLSEY.
+And ever may your Highness yoke together,
+As I will lend you cause, my doing well
+With my well saying.
+
+KING.
+’Tis well said again,
+And ’tis a kind of good deed to say well.
+And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you;
+He said he did, and with his deed did crown
+His word upon you. Since I had my office,
+I have kept you next my heart, have not alone
+Employed you where high profits might come home,
+But pared my present havings to bestow
+My bounties upon you.
+
+WOLSEY.
+[_Aside_.] What should this mean?
+
+SURREY.
+[_Aside_.] The Lord increase this business!
+
+KING.
+Have I not made you
+The prime man of the state? I pray you tell me,
+If what I now pronounce you have found true,
+And, if you may confess it, say withal
+If you are bound to us or no. What say you?
+
+WOLSEY.
+My sovereign, I confess your royal graces,
+Showered on me daily, have been more than could
+My studied purposes requite, which went
+Beyond all man’s endeavours. My endeavours
+Have ever come too short of my desires,
+Yet filed with my abilities. Mine own ends
+Have been mine so that evermore they pointed
+To th’ good of your most sacred person and
+The profit of the state. For your great graces
+Heaped upon me, poor undeserver, I
+Can nothing render but allegiant thanks,
+My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty,
+Which ever has and ever shall be growing,
+Till death, that winter, kill it.
+
+KING.
+Fairly answered.
+A loyal and obedient subject is
+Therein illustrated. The honour of it
+Does pay the act of it, as i’ th’ contrary,
+The foulness is the punishment. I presume
+That, as my hand has opened bounty to you,
+My heart dropped love, my power rained honour, more
+On you than any, so your hand and heart,
+Your brain, and every function of your power,
+Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,
+As ’twere in love’s particular, be more
+To me, your friend, than any.
+
+WOLSEY.
+I do profess
+That for your Highness’ good I ever laboured
+More than mine own, that am, have, and will be.
+Though all the world should crack their duty to you
+And throw it from their soul, though perils did
+Abound as thick as thought could make ’em, and
+Appear in forms more horrid—yet my duty,
+As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
+Should the approach of this wild river break,
+And stand unshaken yours.
+
+KING.
+’Tis nobly spoken.
+Take notice, lords: he has a loyal breast,
+For you have seen him open’t.
+
+[_Giving him papers._]
+
+Read o’er this,
+And after, this; and then to breakfast with
+What appetite you have.
+
+[_Exit King, frowning upon the Cardinal; the nobles throng after him,
+smiling and whispering._]
+
+WOLSEY.
+What should this mean?
+What sudden anger’s this? How have I reaped it?
+He parted frowning from me, as if ruin
+Leaped from his eyes. So looks the chafed lion
+Upon the daring huntsman that has galled him,
+Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper—
+I fear, the story of his anger. ’Tis so.
+This paper has undone me. ’Tis th’ account
+Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together
+For mine own ends—indeed, to gain the popedom
+And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence,
+Fit for a fool to fall by! What cross devil
+Made me put this main secret in the packet
+I sent the King? Is there no way to cure this?
+No new device to beat this from his brains?
+I know ’twill stir him strongly; yet I know
+A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune,
+Will bring me off again. What’s this? “To th’ Pope”?
+The letter, as I live, with all the business
+I writ to ’s Holiness. Nay then, farewell!
+I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
+And from that full meridian of my glory
+I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
+Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
+And no man see me more.
+
+Enter to Wolsey, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Earl of Surrey,
+and the Lord Chamberlain.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Hear the King’s pleasure, Cardinal, who commands you
+To render up the great seal presently
+Into our hands, and to confine yourself
+To Asher House, my Lord of Winchester’s,
+Till you hear further from his Highness.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Stay.
+Where’s your commission, lords? Words cannot carry
+Authority so weighty.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Who dares cross ’em,
+Bearing the King’s will from his mouth expressly?
+
+WOLSEY.
+Till I find more than will or words to do it—
+I mean your malice—know, officious lords,
+I dare and must deny it. Now I feel
+Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, envy!
+How eagerly ye follow my disgraces,
+As if it fed ye, and how sleek and wanton
+Ye appear in everything may bring my ruin!
+Follow your envious courses, men of malice;
+You have Christian warrant for ’em, and no doubt
+In time will find their fit rewards. That seal
+You ask with such a violence, the King,
+Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me;
+Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours,
+During my life; and, to confirm his goodness,
+Tied it by letters-patents. Now, who’ll take it?
+
+SURREY.
+The King that gave it.
+
+WOLSEY.
+It must be himself, then.
+
+SURREY.
+Thou art a proud traitor, priest.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Proud lord, thou liest.
+Within these forty hours Surrey durst better
+Have burnt that tongue than said so.
+
+SURREY.
+Thy ambition,
+Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land
+Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law.
+The heads of all thy brother cardinals,
+With thee and all thy best parts bound together,
+Weighed not a hair of his. Plague of your policy!
+You sent me Deputy for Ireland,
+Far from his succour, from the King, from all
+That might have mercy on the fault thou gav’st him,
+Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity,
+Absolved him with an axe.
+
+WOLSEY.
+This, and all else
+This talking lord can lay upon my credit,
+I answer is most false. The Duke by law
+Found his deserts. How innocent I was
+From any private malice in his end,
+His noble jury and foul cause can witness.
+If I loved many words, lord, I should tell you
+You have as little honesty as honour,
+That in the way of loyalty and truth
+Toward the King, my ever royal master,
+Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,
+And all that love his follies.
+
+SURREY.
+By my soul,
+Your long coat, priest, protects you; thou shouldst feel
+My sword i’ th’ lifeblood of thee else. My lords,
+Can ye endure to hear this arrogance?
+And from this fellow? If we live thus tamely,
+To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
+Farewell, nobility. Let his Grace go forward
+And dare us with his cap, like larks.
+
+WOLSEY.
+All goodness
+Is poison to thy stomach.
+
+SURREY.
+Yes, that goodness
+Of gleaning all the land’s wealth into one,
+Into your own hands, Cardinal, by extortion;
+The goodness of your intercepted packets
+You writ to the Pope against the King. Your goodness,
+Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.
+My Lord of Norfolk, as you are truly noble,
+As you respect the common good, the state
+Of our despised nobility, our issues,
+Who, if he live, will scarce be gentlemen,
+Produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles
+Collected from his life. I’ll startle you
+Worse than the sacring bell when the brown wench
+Lay kissing in your arms, Lord Cardinal.
+
+WOLSEY.
+How much, methinks, I could despise this man,
+But that I am bound in charity against it!
+
+NORFOLK.
+Those articles, my lord, are in the King’s hand;
+But thus much, they are foul ones.
+
+WOLSEY.
+So much fairer
+And spotless shall mine innocence arise
+When the King knows my truth.
+
+SURREY.
+This cannot save you.
+I thank my memory I yet remember
+Some of these articles, and out they shall.
+Now, if you can blush and cry “Guilty,” Cardinal,
+You’ll show a little honesty.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Speak on, sir;
+I dare your worst objections. If I blush,
+It is to see a nobleman want manners.
+
+SURREY.
+I had rather want those than my head. Have at you!
+First, that without the King’s assent or knowledge,
+You wrought to be a legate, by which power
+You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Then, that in all you writ to Rome, or else
+To foreign princes, “_ego et rex meus_”
+Was still inscribed, in which you brought the King
+To be your servant.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Then, that without the knowledge
+Either of King or Council, when you went
+Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold
+To carry into Flanders the great seal.
+
+SURREY.
+Item, you sent a large commission
+To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude,
+Without the King’s will or the state’s allowance,
+A league between his Highness and Ferrara.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+That out of mere ambition you have caused
+Your holy hat to be stamped on the King’s coin.
+
+SURREY.
+Then, that you have sent innumerable substance—
+By what means got, I leave to your own conscience—
+To furnish Rome and to prepare the ways
+You have for dignities, to the mere undoing
+Of all the kingdom. Many more there are,
+Which, since they are of you, and odious,
+I will not taint my mouth with.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+O my lord,
+Press not a falling man too far! ’Tis virtue.
+His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
+Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him
+So little of his great self.
+
+SURREY.
+I forgive him.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Lord Cardinal, the King’s further pleasure is,
+Because all those things you have done of late
+By your power legative within this kingdom
+Fall into th’ compass of a _praemunire_,
+That therefore such a writ be sued against you
+To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,
+Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be
+Out of the King’s protection. This is my charge.
+
+NORFOLK.
+And so we’ll leave you to your meditations
+How to live better. For your stubborn answer
+About the giving back the great seal to us,
+The King shall know it and, no doubt, shall thank you.
+So fare you well, my little good Lord Cardinal.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Wolsey._]
+
+WOLSEY.
+So farewell to the little good you bear me.
+Farewell? A long farewell to all my greatness!
+This is the state of man: today he puts forth
+The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow blossoms,
+And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
+The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
+And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
+His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
+And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,
+Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
+This many summers in a sea of glory,
+But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride
+At length broke under me and now has left me,
+Weary and old with service, to the mercy
+Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
+Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye!
+I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched
+Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favours!
+There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
+That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
+More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
+And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
+Never to hope again.
+
+Enter Cromwell, standing amazed.
+
+Why, how now, Cromwell?
+
+CROMWELL.
+I have no power to speak, sir.
+
+WOLSEY.
+What, amazed
+At my misfortunes? Can thy spirit wonder
+A great man should decline? Nay, an you weep,
+I am fallen indeed.
+
+CROMWELL.
+How does your Grace?
+
+WOLSEY.
+Why, well.
+Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell.
+I know myself now, and I feel within me
+A peace above all earthly dignities,
+A still and quiet conscience. The King has cured me,
+I humbly thank his Grace, and from these shoulders,
+These ruined pillars, out of pity, taken
+A load would sink a navy: too much honour.
+O, ’tis a burden, Cromwell, ’tis a burden
+Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.
+
+CROMWELL.
+I am glad your Grace has made that right use of it.
+
+WOLSEY.
+I hope I have. I am able now, methinks,
+Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,
+To endure more miseries and greater far
+Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.
+What news abroad?
+
+CROMWELL.
+The heaviest and the worst
+Is your displeasure with the King.
+
+WOLSEY.
+God bless him.
+
+CROMWELL.
+The next is that Sir Thomas More is chosen
+Lord Chancellor in your place.
+
+WOLSEY.
+That’s somewhat sudden.
+But he’s a learned man. May he continue
+Long in his Highness’ favour, and do justice
+For truth’s sake and his conscience, that his bones,
+When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,
+May have a tomb of orphans’ tears wept on him.
+What more?
+
+CROMWELL.
+That Cranmer is returned with welcome,
+Installed Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
+
+WOLSEY.
+That’s news indeed.
+
+CROMWELL.
+Last, that the Lady Anne,
+Whom the King hath in secrecy long married,
+This day was viewed in open as his Queen,
+Going to chapel, and the voice is now
+Only about her coronation.
+
+WOLSEY.
+There was the weight that pulled me down.
+O Cromwell,
+The King has gone beyond me. All my glories
+In that one woman I have lost for ever.
+No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,
+Or gild again the noble troops that waited
+Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell.
+I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now
+To be thy lord and master. Seek the King;
+That sun, I pray, may never set! I have told him
+What and how true thou art. He will advance thee;
+Some little memory of me will stir him—
+I know his noble nature—not to let
+Thy hopeful service perish too. Good Cromwell,
+Neglect him not; make use now, and provide
+For thine own future safety.
+
+CROMWELL.
+O my lord,
+Must I then leave you? Must I needs forgo
+So good, so noble, and so true a master?
+Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,
+With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.
+The King shall have my service, but my prayers
+For ever and for ever shall be yours.
+
+WOLSEY.
+Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear
+In all my miseries, but thou hast forced me,
+Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman.
+Let’s dry our eyes, and thus far hear me, Cromwell,
+And when I am forgotten, as I shall be,
+And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention
+Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee;
+Say Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory
+And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour,
+Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in,
+A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it.
+Mark but my fall and that that ruined me.
+Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition!
+By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then,
+The image of his maker, hope to win by it?
+Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee.
+Corruption wins not more than honesty.
+Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace
+To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not.
+Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s,
+Thy God’s, and truth’s. Then if thou fall’st, O Cromwell,
+Thou fall’st a blessed martyr!
+Serve the King. And, prithee, lead me in.
+There take an inventory of all I have.
+To the last penny; ’tis the King’s. My robe
+And my integrity to heaven is all
+I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell,
+Had I but served my God with half the zeal
+I served my king, He would not in mine age
+Have left me naked to mine enemies.
+
+CROMWELL.
+Good sir, have patience.
+
+WOLSEY.
+So I have. Farewell,
+The hopes of court! My hopes in heaven do dwell.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. A street in Westminster.
+
+
+Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+You’re well met once again.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+So are you.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+You come to take your stand here and behold
+The Lady Anne pass from her coronation?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis all my business. At our last encounter,
+The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis very true. But that time offered sorrow,
+This, general joy.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis well. The citizens,
+I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds,
+As, let ’em have their rights, they are ever forward
+In celebration of this day with shows,
+Pageants, and sights of honour.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Never greater,
+Nor, I’ll assure you, better taken, sir.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+May I be bold to ask what that contains,
+That paper in your hand?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Yes, ’tis the list
+Of those that claim their offices this day
+By custom of the coronation.
+The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims
+To be High Steward; next, the Duke of Norfolk,
+He to be Earl Marshal. You may read the rest.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I thank you, sir. Had I not known those customs,
+I should have been beholding to your paper.
+But I beseech you, what’s become of Katherine,
+The Princess Dowager? How goes her business?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+That I can tell you too. The Archbishop
+Of Canterbury, accompanied with other
+Learned and reverend fathers of his order,
+Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off
+From Ampthill where the Princess lay; to which
+She was often cited by them, but appeared not;
+And, to be short, for not appearance and
+The King’s late scruple, by the main assent
+Of all these learned men she was divorced,
+And the late marriage made of none effect;
+Since which she was removed to Kimbolton,
+Where she remains now sick.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Alas, good lady!
+
+[_Trumpets._]
+
+The trumpets sound. Stand close. The Queen is coming.
+
+_The order of the coronation_.
+
+
+_1. A lively flourish of trumpets.
+2. Then, two Judges.
+3. Lord Chancellor, with purse and mace before him.
+4. Choristers, singing. Music.
+5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then Garter, in his coat of arms,
+and on his head he wore a gilt copper crown.
+6. Marquess Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold, on his head a
+demi-coronal of gold. With him, the Earl of Surrey, bearing the rod of
+silver with the dove, crowned with an earl’s coronet. Collars of S’s.
+7. Duke of Suffolk, in his robe of estate, his coronet on his head,
+bearing a long white wand, as High Steward. With him, the Duke of
+Norfolk, with the rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head. Collars of
+S’s.
+8. A canopy, borne by four of the Cinque Ports; under it, the Queen in
+her robe, in her hair, richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each side
+her, the Bishops of London and Winchester.
+9. The old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of gold wrought with
+flowers, bearing the Queen’s train.
+10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain circlets of gold without
+flowers._
+
+[_Exeunt, first passing over the stage in order and state, and then a
+great flourish of trumpets._]
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+A royal train, believe me. These I know.
+Who’s that that bears the sceptre?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Marquess Dorset,
+And that the Earl of Surrey with the rod.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+A bold brave gentleman. That should be
+The Duke of Suffolk.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis the same: High Steward.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+And that my Lord of Norfolk?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Yes.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+[_Sees the Queen_.] Heaven bless thee!
+Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on.
+Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.
+Our King has all the Indies in his arms,
+And more, and richer, when he strains that lady.
+I cannot blame his conscience.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+They that bear
+The cloth of honour over her are four barons
+Of the Cinque Ports.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Those men are happy, and so are all are near her.
+I take it she that carries up the train
+Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+It is, and all the rest are countesses.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+And sometimes falling ones.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+No more of that.
+
+[_Exit the last of the procession._]
+
+Enter a third Gentleman.
+
+God save you, sir. Where have you been broiling?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Among the crowds i’ th’ Abbey, where a finger
+Could not be wedged in more. I am stifled
+With the mere rankness of their joy.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+You saw
+The ceremony?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+That I did.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+How was it?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Well worth the seeing.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Good sir, speak it to us.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+As well as I am able. The rich stream
+Of lords and ladies, having brought the Queen
+To a prepared place in the choir, fell off
+A distance from her, while her Grace sat down
+To rest a while, some half an hour or so,
+In a rich chair of state, opposing freely
+The beauty of her person to the people.
+Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman
+That ever lay by man, which when the people
+Had the full view of, such a noise arose
+As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,
+As loud and to as many tunes. Hats, cloaks,
+Doublets, I think, flew up, and had their faces
+Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy
+I never saw before. Great-bellied women
+That had not half a week to go, like rams
+In the old time of war, would shake the press
+And make ’em reel before ’em. No man living
+Could say “This is my wife” there, all were woven
+So strangely in one piece.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+But what followed?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+At length her Grace rose, and with modest paces
+Came to the altar, where she kneeled and saintlike
+Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly;
+Then rose again and bowed her to the people,
+When by the Archbishop of Canterbury
+She had all the royal makings of a queen,
+As holy oil, Edward Confessor’s crown,
+The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems
+Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir,
+With all the choicest music of the kingdom,
+Together sung _Te Deum_. So she parted,
+And with the same full state paced back again
+To York Place, where the feast is held.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Sir,
+You must no more call it “York Place”, that’s past;
+For since the Cardinal fell, that title’s lost.
+’Tis now the King’s, and called “Whitehall”.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+I know it,
+But ’tis so lately altered that the old name
+Is fresh about me.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+What two reverend bishops
+Were those that went on each side of the Queen?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Stokesley and Gardiner, the one of Winchester,
+Newly preferred from the King’s secretary;
+The other, London.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+He of Winchester
+Is held no great good lover of the Archbishop’s,
+The virtuous Cranmer.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+All the land knows that.
+However, yet there is no great breach. When it comes,
+Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Who may that be, I pray you?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Thomas Cromwell,
+A man in much esteem with th’ King, and truly
+A worthy friend. The King has made him
+Master o’ th’ Jewel House,
+And one already of the Privy Council.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+He will deserve more.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Yes, without all doubt.
+Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way,
+Which is to th’ court, and there ye shall be my guests,
+Something I can command. As I walk thither,
+I’ll tell ye more.
+
+BOTH.
+You may command us, sir.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Kimbolton.
+
+Enter Katherine Dowager, sick, led between Griffith, her gentleman
+usher, and Patience, her woman.
+
+GRIFFITH.
+How does your Grace?
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+O Griffith, sick to death.
+My legs like loaden branches bow to th’ earth,
+Willing to leave their burden. Reach a chair.
+
+[_She sits._]
+
+So. Now, methinks, I feel a little ease.
+Didst thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou ledst me,
+That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey,
+Was dead?
+
+GRIFFITH.
+Yes, madam, but I think your Grace,
+Out of the pain you suffered, gave no ear to’t.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died.
+If well, he stepped before me happily
+For my example.
+
+GRIFFITH.
+Well, the voice goes, madam.
+For after the stout Earl Northumberland
+Arrested him at York and brought him forward,
+As a man sorely tainted, to his answer,
+He fell sick suddenly and grew so ill
+He could not sit his mule.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Alas, poor man!
+
+GRIFFITH.
+At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester,
+Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
+With all his covent, honourably received him;
+To whom he gave these words: “O father abbot,
+An old man, broken with the storms of state,
+Is come to lay his weary bones among ye.
+Give him a little earth for charity.”
+So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
+Pursued him still; and three nights after this,
+About the hour of eight, which he himself
+Foretold should be his last, full of repentance,
+Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,
+He gave his honours to the world again,
+His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+So may he rest. His faults lie gently on him!
+Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,
+And yet with charity. He was a man
+Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking
+Himself with princes; one that by suggestion
+Tied all the kingdom. Simony was fair-play.
+His own opinion was his law. I’ th’ presence
+He would say untruths, and be ever double
+Both in his words and meaning. He was never,
+But where he meant to ruin, pitiful.
+His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
+But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
+Of his own body he was ill, and gave
+The clergy ill example.
+
+GRIFFITH.
+Noble madam,
+Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues
+We write in water. May it please your Highness
+To hear me speak his good now?
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Yes, good Griffith;
+I were malicious else.
+
+GRIFFITH.
+This Cardinal,
+Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly
+Was fashioned to much honour. From his cradle
+He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,
+Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
+Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
+But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
+And though he were unsatisfied in getting,
+Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam,
+He was most princely. Ever witness for him
+Those twins of learning that he raised in you,
+Ipswich and Oxford, one of which fell with him,
+Unwilling to outlive the good that did it;
+The other, though unfinished, yet so famous,
+So excellent in art, and still so rising,
+That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.
+His overthrow heaped happiness upon him,
+For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
+And found the blessedness of being little.
+And, to add greater honours to his age
+Than man could give him, he died fearing God.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+After my death I wish no other herald,
+No other speaker of my living actions,
+To keep mine honour from corruption
+But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
+Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me,
+With thy religious truth and modesty,
+Now in his ashes honour. Peace be with him!
+Patience, be near me still, and set me lower:
+I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,
+Cause the musicians play me that sad note
+I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating
+On that celestial harmony I go to.
+
+[_Sad and solemn music._]
+
+GRIFFITH.
+She is asleep. Good wench, let’s sit down quiet,
+For fear we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience.
+
+_The vision._
+
+
+Enter, solemnly tripping one after another, six Personages, clad in
+white robes, wearing on their heads garlands of bays, and golden
+vizards on their faces, branches of bays or palm in their hands. They
+first congee unto her, then dance; and, at certain changes, the first
+two hold a spare garland over her head, at which the other four make
+reverent curtsies. Then the two that held the garland deliver the same
+to the other next two, who observe the same order in their changes and
+holding the garland over her head; which done, they deliver the same
+garland to the last two, who likewise observe the same order. At which,
+as it were by inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs of rejoicing
+and holdeth up her hands to heaven. And so in their dancing, vanish,
+carrying the garland with them. The music continues.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Spirits of peace, where are ye? Are ye all gone,
+And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?
+
+GRIFFITH.
+Madam, we are here.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+It is not you I call for.
+Saw ye none enter since I slept?
+
+GRIFFITH.
+None, madam.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+No? Saw you not, even now, a blessed troop
+Invite me to a banquet, whose bright faces
+Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?
+They promised me eternal happiness
+And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel
+I am not worthy yet to wear. I shall, assuredly.
+
+GRIFFITH.
+I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams
+Possess your fancy.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Bid the music leave,
+They are harsh and heavy to me.
+
+[_Music ceases._]
+
+PATIENCE.
+Do you note
+How much her Grace is altered on the sudden?
+How long her face is drawn? How pale she looks,
+And of an earthly cold? Mark her eyes.
+
+GRIFFITH.
+She is going, wench. Pray, pray.
+
+PATIENCE.
+Heaven comfort her!
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+An’t like your Grace—
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+You are a saucy fellow.
+Deserve we no more reverence?
+
+GRIFFITH.
+You are to blame,
+Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness,
+To use so rude behaviour. Go to, kneel.
+
+MESSENGER.
+I humbly do entreat your Highness’ pardon.
+My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying
+A gentleman sent from the King to see you.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Admit him entrance, Griffith. But this fellow
+Let me ne’er see again.
+
+[_Exit Messenger._]
+
+Enter Lord Caputius.
+
+If my sight fail not,
+You should be lord ambassador from the Emperor,
+My royal nephew, and your name Caputius.
+
+CAPUTIUS.
+Madam, the same. Your servant.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+O my lord,
+The times and titles now are altered strangely
+With me since first you knew me. But I pray you,
+What is your pleasure with me?
+
+CAPUTIUS.
+Noble lady,
+First, mine own service to your Grace; the next,
+The King’s request that I would visit you,
+Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me
+Sends you his princely commendations,
+And heartily entreats you take good comfort.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+O my good lord, that comfort comes too late;
+’Tis like a pardon after execution.
+That gentle physic given in time had cured me,
+But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
+How does his Highness?
+
+CAPUTIUS.
+Madam, in good health.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+So may he ever do, and ever flourish,
+When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name
+Banished the kingdom. Patience, is that letter
+I caused you write yet sent away?
+
+PATIENCE.
+No, madam.
+
+[_Giving it to Katherine._]
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+Sir, I most humbly pray you to deliver
+This to my lord the King.
+
+CAPUTIUS.
+Most willing, madam.
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+In which I have commended to his goodness
+The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter—
+The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!—
+Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding—
+She is young and of a noble modest nature;
+I hope she will deserve well—and a little
+To love her for her mother’s sake that loved him,
+Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition
+Is that his noble Grace would have some pity
+Upon my wretched women, that so long
+Have followed both my fortunes faithfully;
+Of which there is not one, I dare avow—
+And now I should not lie—but will deserve,
+For virtue and true beauty of the soul,
+For honesty and decent carriage,
+A right good husband. Let him be a noble;
+And sure those men are happy that shall have ’em.
+The last is for my men—they are the poorest,
+But poverty could never draw ’em from me—
+That they may have their wages duly paid ’em,
+And something over to remember me by.
+If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life
+And able means, we had not parted thus.
+These are the whole contents, and, good my lord,
+By that you love the dearest in this world,
+As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,
+Stand these poor people’s friend, and urge the King
+To do me this last right.
+
+CAPUTIUS.
+By heaven, I will,
+Or let me lose the fashion of a man!
+
+QUEEN KATHERINE.
+I thank you, honest lord. Remember me
+In all humility unto his Highness.
+Say his long trouble now is passing
+Out of this world. Tell him in death I blessed him,
+For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell,
+My lord. Griffith, farewell. Nay, Patience,
+You must not leave me yet. I must to bed;
+Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench,
+Let me be used with honour. Strew me over
+With maiden flowers, that all the world may know
+I was a chaste wife to my grave. Embalm me,
+Then lay me forth. Although unqueened, yet like
+A queen and daughter to a king inter me.
+I can no more.
+
+[_Exeunt leading Katherine._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. A gallery in the palace.
+
+
+Enter Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a torch before him,
+met by Sir Thomas Lovell.
+
+GARDINER.
+It’s one o’clock, boy, is’t not?
+
+PAGE.
+It hath struck.
+
+GARDINER.
+These should be hours for necessities,
+Not for delights; times to repair our nature
+With comforting repose, and not for us
+To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas!
+Whither so late?
+
+LOVELL.
+Came you from the King, my lord?
+
+GARDINER.
+I did, Sir Thomas, and left him at primero
+With the Duke of Suffolk.
+
+LOVELL.
+I must to him too,
+Before he go to bed. I’ll take my leave.
+
+GARDINER.
+Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell. What’s the matter?
+It seems you are in haste. An if there be
+No great offence belongs to’t, give your friend
+Some touch of your late business. Affairs that walk,
+As they say spirits do, at midnight have
+In them a wilder nature than the business
+That seeks despatch by day.
+
+LOVELL.
+My lord, I love you,
+And durst commend a secret to your ear
+Much weightier than this work. The Queen’s in labour—
+They say in great extremity, and feared
+She’ll with the labour end.
+
+GARDINER.
+The fruit she goes with
+I pray for heartily, that it may find
+Good time, and live; but for the stock, Sir Thomas,
+I wish it grubbed up now.
+
+LOVELL.
+Methinks I could
+Cry the amen, and yet my conscience says
+She’s a good creature and, sweet lady, does
+Deserve our better wishes.
+
+GARDINER.
+But, sir, sir,
+Hear me, Sir Thomas. You’re a gentleman
+Of mine own way. I know you wise, religious;
+And let me tell you, it will ne’er be well,
+’Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take’t of me,
+Till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she
+Sleep in their graves.
+
+LOVELL.
+Now, sir, you speak of two
+The most remarked i’ th’ kingdom. As for Cromwell,
+Beside that of the Jewel House, is made Master
+O’ th’ Rolls, and the King’s secretary; further, sir,
+Stands in the gap and trade of more preferments,
+With which the time will load him. Th’ Archbishop
+Is the King’s hand and tongue, and who dare speak
+One syllable against him?
+
+GARDINER.
+Yes, yes, Sir Thomas,
+There are that dare, and I myself have ventured
+To speak my mind of him. And indeed this day,
+Sir—I may tell it you, I think—I have
+Incensed the lords o’ th’ Council, that he is—
+For so I know he is, they know he is—
+A most arch heretic, a pestilence
+That does infect the land; with which they, moved,
+Have broken with the King, who hath so far
+Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace
+And princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs
+Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded
+Tomorrow morning to the Council board
+He be convented. He’s a rank weed, Sir Thomas,
+And we must root him out. From your affairs
+I hinder you too long. Good night, Sir Thomas.
+
+LOVELL.
+Many good nights, my lord. I rest your servant.
+
+[_Exeunt Gardiner and Page._]
+
+Enter King and Suffolk.
+
+KING.
+Charles, I will play no more tonight.
+My mind’s not on’t; you are too hard for me.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Sir, I did never win of you before.
+
+KING.
+But little, Charles,
+Nor shall not, when my fancy’s on my play.
+Now, Lovell, from the Queen what is the news?
+
+LOVELL.
+I could not personally deliver to her
+What you commanded me, but by her woman
+I sent your message, who returned her thanks
+In the great’st humbleness, and desired your Highness
+Most heartily to pray for her.
+
+KING.
+What sayst thou, ha?
+To pray for her? What, is she crying out?
+
+LOVELL.
+So said her woman, and that her suff’rance made
+Almost each pang a death.
+
+KING.
+Alas, good lady!
+
+SUFFOLK.
+God safely quit her of her burden, and
+With gentle travail, to the gladding of
+Your Highness with an heir!
+
+KING.
+’Tis midnight, Charles.
+Prithee, to bed, and in thy prayers remember
+Th’ estate of my poor Queen. Leave me alone,
+For I must think of that which company
+Will not be friendly to.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+I wish your Highness
+A quiet night, and my good mistress will
+Remember in my prayers.
+
+KING.
+Charles, good night.
+
+[_Exit Suffolk._]
+
+Enter Sir Anthony Denny.
+
+Well, sir, what follows?
+
+DENNY.
+Sir, I have brought my lord the Archbishop,
+As you commanded me.
+
+KING.
+Ha! Canterbury?
+
+DENNY.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+KING.
+’Tis true. Where is he, Denny?
+
+DENNY.
+He attends your Highness’ pleasure.
+
+KING.
+Bring him to us.
+
+[_Exit Denny._]
+
+LOVELL.
+[_Aside_.] This is about that which the Bishop spake.
+I am happily come hither.
+
+Enter Cranmer and Denny.
+
+KING.
+Avoid the gallery. [_Lovell seems to stay_.]
+Ha! I have said. Be gone.
+What!
+
+[_Exeunt Lovell and Denny._]
+
+CRANMER.
+[_Aside_.] I am fearful. Wherefore frowns he thus?
+’Tis his aspect of terror. All’s not well.
+
+KING.
+How now, my lord? You do desire to know
+Wherefore I sent for you.
+
+CRANMER.
+[_Kneeling_.] It is my duty
+T’ attend your Highness’ pleasure.
+
+KING.
+Pray you, arise,
+My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury.
+Come, you and I must walk a turn together.
+I have news to tell you. Come, come, give me your hand.
+Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak,
+And am right sorry to repeat what follows.
+I have, and most unwillingly, of late
+Heard many grievous—I do say, my lord,
+Grievous—complaints of you, which, being considered,
+Have moved us and our Council that you shall
+This morning come before us, where I know,
+You cannot with such freedom purge yourself
+But that, till further trial in those charges
+Which will require your answer, you must take
+Your patience to you and be well contented
+To make your house our Tower. You a brother of us,
+It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness
+Would come against you.
+
+CRANMER.
+[_Kneeling_.] I humbly thank your Highness,
+And am right glad to catch this good occasion
+Most throughly to be winnowed, where my chaff
+And corn shall fly asunder. For I know
+There’s none stands under more calumnious tongues
+Than I myself, poor man.
+
+KING.
+Stand up, good Canterbury!
+Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
+In us, thy friend. Give me thy hand. Stand up.
+Prithee, let’s walk. Now, by my halidom,
+What manner of man are you? My lord, I looked
+You would have given me your petition that
+I should have ta’en some pains to bring together
+Yourself and your accusers and to have heard you
+Without endurance, further.
+
+CRANMER.
+Most dread liege,
+The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
+If they shall fail, I with mine enemies
+Will triumph o’er my person, which I weigh not,
+Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing
+What can be said against me.
+
+KING.
+Know you not
+How your state stands i’ th’ world, with the whole world?
+Your enemies are many, and not small; their practices
+Must bear the same proportion, and not ever
+The justice and the truth o’ th’ question carries
+The due o’ th’ verdict with it. At what ease
+Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
+To swear against you? Such things have been done.
+You are potently opposed, and with a malice
+Of as great size. Ween you of better luck,
+I mean in perjured witness, than your master,
+Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived
+Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to.
+You take a precipice for no leap of danger,
+And woo your own destruction.
+
+CRANMER.
+God and your Majesty
+Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
+The trap is laid for me.
+
+KING.
+Be of good cheer.
+They shall no more prevail than we give way to.
+Keep comfort to you, and this morning see
+You do appear before them. If they shall chance,
+In charging you with matters, to commit you,
+The best persuasions to the contrary
+Fail not to use, and with what vehemency
+Th’ occasion shall instruct you. If entreaties
+Will render you no remedy, this ring
+Deliver them, and your appeal to us
+There make before them. Look, the good man weeps!
+He’s honest, on mine honour. God’s blest mother,
+I swear he is true-hearted, and a soul
+None better in my kingdom.—Get you gone,
+And do as I have bid you.
+
+[_Exit Cranmer._]
+
+He has strangled
+His language in his tears.
+
+LOVELL.
+[_Within_.] Come back! What mean you?
+
+Enter Old Lady; Lovell follows.
+
+OLD LADY.
+I’ll not come back. The tidings that I bring
+Will make my boldness manners. Now, good angels
+Fly o’er thy royal head and shade thy person
+Under their blessed wings!
+
+KING.
+Now by thy looks
+I guess thy message. Is the Queen delivered?
+Say “Ay, and of a boy”.
+
+OLD LADY.
+Ay, ay, my liege,
+And of a lovely boy. The God of heaven
+Both now and ever bless her! ’Tis a girl
+Promises boys hereafter. Sir, your Queen
+Desires your visitation, and to be
+Acquainted with this stranger. ’Tis as like you
+As cherry is to cherry.
+
+KING.
+Lovell.
+
+LOVELL.
+Sir?
+
+KING.
+Give her an hundred marks. I’ll to the Queen.
+
+[_Exit King._]
+
+OLD LADY.
+An hundred marks? By this light, I’ll ha’ more.
+An ordinary groom is for such payment.
+I will have more or scold it out of him.
+Said I for this the girl was like to him?
+I’ll have more, or else unsay’t. And now,
+While ’tis hot, I’ll put it to the issue.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Lobby before the council-chamber.
+
+Enter Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.
+
+CRANMER.
+I hope I am not too late, and yet the gentleman
+That was sent to me from the Council prayed me
+To make great haste. All fast? What means this? Ho!
+Who waits there?
+
+Enter Keeper.
+
+Sure you know me?
+
+KEEPER.
+Yes, my lord,
+But yet I cannot help you.
+
+CRANMER.
+Why?
+
+KEEPER.
+Your Grace must wait till you be called for.
+
+Enter  Doctor Butts.
+
+CRANMER.
+So.
+
+BUTTS.
+[_Aside_.] This is a piece of malice. I am glad
+I came this way so happily. The King
+Shall understand it presently.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+CRANMER.
+[_Aside_.] ’Tis Butts,
+The King’s physician. As he passed along,
+How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
+Pray heaven he sound not my disgrace. For certain,
+This is of purpose laid by some that hate me—
+God turn their hearts! I never sought their malice—
+To quench mine honour. They would shame to make me
+Wait else at door, a fellow councillor,
+’Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures
+Must be fulfilled, and I attend with patience.
+
+Enter the King and Butts at a window above.
+
+BUTTS.
+I’ll show your Grace the strangest sight.
+
+KING.
+What’s that, Butts?
+
+BUTTS.
+I think your Highness saw this many a day.
+
+KING.
+Body o’ me, where is it?
+
+BUTTS.
+There, my lord:
+The high promotion of his Grace of Canterbury,
+Who holds his state at door, ’mongst pursuivants,
+Pages, and footboys.
+
+KING.
+Ha! ’Tis he, indeed.
+Is this the honour they do one another?
+’Tis well there’s one above ’em yet. I had thought
+They had parted so much honesty among ’em—
+At least good manners—as not thus to suffer
+A man of his place, and so near our favour,
+To dance attendance on their lordships’ pleasures,
+And at the door too, like a post with packets.
+By holy Mary, Butts, there’s knavery!
+Let ’em alone, and draw the curtain close.
+We shall hear more anon.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+A council table brought in with chairs and stools and placed under the
+state. Enter Lord Chancellor, places himself at the upper end of the
+table on the left hand, a seat being left void above him, as for
+Canterbury’s seat. Duke of Suffolk, Duke of Norfolk, Surrey, Lord
+Chamberlain, Gardiner seat themselves in order on each side; Cromwell
+at lower end, as secretary.
+
+CHANCELLOR.
+Speak to the business, master secretary.
+Why are we met in council?
+
+CROMWELL.
+Please your honours,
+The chief cause concerns his Grace of Canterbury.
+
+GARDINER.
+Has he had knowledge of it?
+
+CROMWELL.
+Yes.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Who waits there?
+
+KEEPER.
+Without, my noble lords?
+
+GARDINER.
+Yes.
+
+KEEPER.
+My lord Archbishop,
+And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures.
+
+CHANCELLOR.
+Let him come in.
+
+KEEPER.
+Your Grace may enter now.
+
+Cranmer approaches the council table.
+
+CHANCELLOR.
+My good lord Archbishop, I’m very sorry
+To sit here at this present and behold
+That chair stand empty. But we all are men,
+In our own natures frail, and capable
+Of our flesh—few are angels—out of which frailty
+And want of wisdom, you that best should teach us,
+Have misdemeaned yourself, and not a little,
+Toward the King first, then his laws, in filling
+The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains’—
+For so we are informed—with new opinions,
+Divers and dangerous, which are heresies
+And, not reformed, may prove pernicious.
+
+GARDINER.
+Which reformation must be sudden too,
+My noble lords; for those that tame wild horses
+Pace ’em not in their hands to make ’em gentle,
+But stop their mouth with stubborn bits and spur ’em
+Till they obey the manage. If we suffer,
+Out of our easiness and childish pity
+To one man’s honour, this contagious sickness,
+Farewell, all physic. And what follows then?
+Commotions, uproars, with a general taint
+Of the whole state, as of late days our neighbours,
+The upper Germany, can dearly witness,
+Yet freshly pitied in our memories.
+
+CRANMER.
+My good lords, hitherto in all the progress
+Both of my life and office, I have laboured,
+And with no little study, that my teaching
+And the strong course of my authority
+Might go one way, and safely; and the end
+Was ever to do well. Nor is there living—
+I speak it with a single heart, my lords—
+A man that more detests, more stirs against,
+Both in his private conscience and his place,
+Defacers of a public peace than I do.
+Pray heaven the King may never find a heart
+With less allegiance in it! Men that make
+Envy and crooked malice nourishment
+Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lordships
+That, in this case of justice, my accusers,
+Be what they will, may stand forth face to face
+And freely urge against me.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+Nay, my lord,
+That cannot be. You are a councillor,
+And by that virtue no man dare accuse you.
+
+GARDINER.
+My lord, because we have business of more moment,
+We will be short with you. ’Tis his Highness’ pleasure
+And our consent, for better trial of you,
+From hence you be committed to the Tower,
+Where, being but a private man again,
+You shall know many dare accuse you boldly—
+More than, I fear, you are provided for.
+
+CRANMER.
+Ah, my good Lord of Winchester, I thank you.
+You are always my good friend. If your will pass,
+I shall both find your lordship judge and juror,
+You are so merciful. I see your end:
+’Tis my undoing. Love and meekness, lord,
+Become a churchman better than ambition.
+Win straying souls with modesty again;
+Cast none away. That I shall clear myself,
+Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,
+I make as little doubt as you do conscience
+In doing daily wrongs. I could say more,
+But reverence to your calling makes me modest.
+
+GARDINER.
+My lord, my lord, you are a sectary,
+That’s the plain truth. Your painted gloss discovers,
+To men that understand you, words and weakness.
+
+CROMWELL.
+My Lord of Winchester, you are a little,
+By your good favour, too sharp. Men so noble,
+However faulty, yet should find respect
+For what they have been. ’Tis a cruelty
+To load a falling man.
+
+GARDINER.
+Good master secretary,
+I cry your honour mercy: you may worst
+Of all this table say so.
+
+CROMWELL.
+Why, my lord?
+
+GARDINER.
+Do not I know you for a favourer
+Of this new sect? Ye are not sound.
+
+CROMWELL.
+Not sound?
+
+GARDINER.
+Not sound, I say.
+
+CROMWELL.
+Would you were half so honest!
+Men’s prayers then would seek you, not their fears.
+
+GARDINER.
+I shall remember this bold language.
+
+CROMWELL.
+Do.
+Remember your bold life too.
+
+CHANCELLOR.
+This is too much.
+Forbear, for shame, my lords.
+
+GARDINER.
+I have done.
+
+CROMWELL.
+And I.
+
+CHANCELLOR.
+Then thus for you, my lord: it stands agreed,
+I take it, by all voices, that forthwith
+You be conveyed to th’ Tower a prisoner,
+There to remain till the King’s further pleasure
+Be known unto us. Are you all agreed, lords?
+
+ALL.
+We are.
+
+CRANMER.
+Is there no other way of mercy
+But I must needs to th’ Tower, my lords?
+
+GARDINER.
+What other
+Would you expect? You are strangely troublesome.
+Let some o’ th’ guard be ready there.
+
+Enter the guard.
+
+CRANMER.
+For me?
+Must I go like a traitor thither?
+
+GARDINER.
+Receive him,
+And see him safe i’ th’ Tower.
+
+CRANMER.
+Stay, good my lords,
+I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords.
+By virtue of that ring, I take my cause
+Out of the gripes of cruel men and give it
+To a most noble judge, the King my master.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+This is the King’s ring.
+
+SURREY.
+’Tis no counterfeit.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+’Tis the right ring, by heaven! I told ye all,
+When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling,
+’Twould fall upon ourselves.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Do you think, my lords,
+The King will suffer but the little finger
+Of this man to be vexed?
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+’Tis now too certain.
+How much more is his life in value with him?
+Would I were fairly out on’t!
+
+CROMWELL.
+My mind gave me,
+In seeking tales and informations
+Against this man, whose honesty the devil
+And his disciples only envy at,
+Ye blew the fire that burns ye. Now have at ye!
+
+Enter King, frowning on them; takes his seat.
+
+GARDINER.
+Dread sovereign, how much are we bound to heaven
+In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince,
+Not only good and wise, but most religious;
+One that, in all obedience, makes the Church
+The chief aim of his honour and, to strengthen
+That holy duty out of dear respect,
+His royal self in judgement comes to hear
+The cause betwixt her and this great offender.
+
+KING.
+You were ever good at sudden commendations,
+Bishop of Winchester. But know I come not
+To hear such flattery now, and in my presence
+They are too thin and bare to hide offences.
+To me you cannot reach, you play the spaniel,
+And think with wagging of your tongue to win me;
+But whatsoe’er thou tak’st me for, I’m sure
+Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.
+[_To Cranmer_.] Good man, sit down. Now let me see the proudest
+He, that dares most, but wag his finger at thee.
+By all that’s holy, he had better starve
+Than but once think this place becomes thee not.
+
+SURREY.
+May it please your Grace—
+
+KING.
+No, sir, it does not please me.
+I had thought I had had men of some understanding
+And wisdom of my Council, but I find none.
+Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,
+This good man—few of you deserve that title—
+This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy
+At chamber door? And one as great as you are?
+Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission
+Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye
+Power as he was a councillor to try him,
+Not as a groom. There’s some of ye, I see,
+More out of malice than integrity,
+Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean,
+Which ye shall never have while I live.
+
+CHANCELLOR.
+Thus far,
+My most dread sovereign, may it like your Grace
+To let my tongue excuse all. What was purposed
+Concerning his imprisonment was rather,
+If there be faith in men, meant for his trial
+And fair purgation to the world than malice,
+I’m sure, in me.
+
+KING.
+Well, well, my lords, respect him.
+Take him, and use him well; he’s worthy of it.
+I will say thus much for him: if a prince
+May be beholding to a subject, I
+Am, for his love and service, so to him.
+Make me no more ado, but all embrace him.
+Be friends, for shame, my lords! My Lord of Canterbury,
+I have a suit which you must not deny me:
+That is, a fair young maid that yet wants baptism.
+You must be godfather and answer for her.
+
+CRANMER.
+The greatest monarch now alive may glory
+In such an honour. How may I deserve it,
+That am a poor and humble subject to you?
+
+KING.
+Come, come, my lord, you’d spare your spoons. You shall have two noble
+partners with you: the old Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Marquess Dorset.
+Will these please you?
+Once more, my Lord of Winchester, I charge you,
+Embrace and love this man.
+
+GARDINER.
+With a true heart
+And brother-love I do it.
+
+CRANMER.
+And let heaven
+Witness how dear I hold this confirmation.
+
+KING.
+Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart.
+The common voice, I see, is verified
+Of thee, which says thus: “Do my Lord of Canterbury
+A shrewd turn, and he is your friend for ever.”
+Come, lords, we trifle time away. I long
+To have this young one made a Christian.
+As I have made ye one, lords, one remain.
+So I grow stronger, you more honour gain.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The palace yard.
+
+Noise and tumult within. Enter Porter and his Man.
+
+PORTER.
+You’ll leave your noise anon, ye rascals. Do you take the court for
+Parish Garden? Ye rude slaves, leave your gaping.
+
+ONE.
+[_Within_.] Good master porter, I belong to th’ larder.
+
+PORTER.
+Belong to th’ gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue! Is this a place to roar
+in? Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves, and strong ones. These are but
+switches to ’em. I’ll scratch your heads. You must be seeing
+christenings? Do you look for ale and cakes here, you rude rascals?
+
+PORTER’S MAN.
+Pray, sir, be patient. ’Tis as much impossible—
+Unless we sweep ’em from the door with cannons—
+To scatter ’em as ’tis to make ’em sleep
+On May-day morning, which will never be.
+We may as well push against Paul’s as stir ’em.
+
+PORTER.
+How got they in, and be hanged?
+
+PORTER’S MAN.
+Alas, I know not. How gets the tide in?
+As much as one sound cudgel of four foot—
+You see the poor remainder—could distribute,
+I made no spare, sir.
+
+PORTER.
+You did nothing, sir.
+
+PORTER’S MAN.
+I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand,
+To mow ’em down before me; but if I spared any
+That had a head to hit, either young or old,
+He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker,
+Let me ne’er hope to see a chine again—
+And that I would not for a cow, God save her!
+
+ONE.
+[_Within_.] Do you hear, master porter?
+
+PORTER.
+I shall be with you presently, good master puppy.—
+Keep the door close, sirrah.
+
+PORTER’S MAN.
+What would you have me do?
+
+PORTER.
+What should you do, but knock ’em down by th’ dozens? Is this
+Moorfields to muster in? Or have we some strange Indian with the great
+tool come to court, the women so besiege us? Bless me, what a fry of
+fornication is at door! On my Christian conscience, this one
+christening will beget a thousand; here will be father, godfather, and
+all together.
+
+PORTER’S MAN.
+The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a fellow somewhat near the
+door—he should be a brazier by his face, for, o’ my conscience, twenty
+of the dog-days now reign in’s nose. All that stand about him are under
+the line; they need no other penance. That fire-drake did I hit three
+times on the head, and three times was his nose discharged against me.
+He stands there, like a mortar-piece, to blow us. There was a
+haberdasher’s wife of small wit near him that railed upon me till her
+pinked porringer fell off her head for kindling such a combustion in
+the state. I missed the meteor once and hit that woman, who cried out
+“Clubs!” when I might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her
+succour, which were the hope o’ th’ Strand, where she was quartered.
+They fell on; I made good my place; at length they came to th’
+broomstaff to me; I defied ’em still, when suddenly a file of boys
+behind ’em, loose shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles that I was
+fain to draw mine honour in and let ’em win the work. The devil was
+amongst ’em, I think, surely.
+
+PORTER.
+These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse and fight for bitten
+apples, that no audience but the tribulation of Tower Hill or the limbs
+of Limehouse, their dear brothers, are able to endure. I have some of
+’em in _Limbo Patrum_, and there they are like to dance these three
+days, besides the running banquet of two beadles that is to come.
+
+Enter Lord Chamberlain.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+Mercy o’ me, what a multitude are here!
+They grow still too. From all parts they are coming,
+As if we kept a fair here! Where are these porters,
+These lazy knaves? You’ve made a fine hand, fellows!
+There’s a trim rabble let in. Are all these
+Your faithful friends o’ th’ suburbs? We shall have
+Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies,
+When they pass back from the christening.
+
+PORTER.
+An’t please your honour,
+We are but men; and what so many may do,
+Not being torn a-pieces, we have done.
+An army cannot rule ’em.
+
+CHAMBERLAIN.
+As I live,
+If the King blame me for’t, I’ll lay ye all
+By th’ heels, and suddenly, and on your heads
+Clap round fines for neglect. You’re lazy knaves,
+And here ye lie baiting of bombards, when
+Ye should do service. Hark, the trumpets sound!
+They’re come already from the christening.
+Go break among the press, and find a way out
+To let the troops pass fairly, or I’ll find
+A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months.
+
+PORTER.
+Make way there for the Princess!
+
+PORTER’S MAN.
+You great fellow,
+Stand close up, or I’ll make your head ache.
+
+PORTER.
+You i’ th’ camlet, get up o’ th’ rail!
+I’ll peck you o’er the pales else.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The palace.
+
+Enter Trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord Mayor, Garter,
+Cranmer, Duke of Norfolk with his marshal’s staff, Duke of Suffolk, two
+Noblemen bearing great standing bowls for the christening gifts; then
+four Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the Duchess of Norfolk,
+godmother, bearing the child richly habited in a mantle, etc., train
+borne by a Lady; then follows the Marchioness Dorset, the other
+godmother, and Ladies. The troop pass once about the stage, and Garter
+speaks.
+
+GARTER.
+Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous life, long and ever
+happy, to the high and mighty Princess of England, Elizabeth.
+
+Flourish. Enter King and Guard.
+
+CRANMER.
+[_Kneeling_.] And to your royal Grace and the good Queen,
+My noble partners and myself thus pray
+All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady
+Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy
+May hourly fall upon ye!
+
+KING.
+Thank you, good lord Archbishop.
+What is her name?
+
+CRANMER.
+Elizabeth.
+
+KING.
+Stand up, lord.
+
+[_The King kisses the child._]
+
+With this kiss take my blessing: God protect thee,
+Into whose hand I give thy life.
+
+CRANMER.
+Amen.
+
+KING.
+My noble gossips, you’ve have been too prodigal.
+I thank ye heartily; so shall this lady,
+When she has so much English.
+
+CRANMER.
+Let me speak, sir,
+For heaven now bids me; and the words I utter
+Let none think flattery, for they’ll find ’em truth.
+This royal infant—heaven still move about her!—
+Though in her cradle, yet now promises
+Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings,
+Which time shall bring to ripeness. She shall be—
+But few now living can behold that goodness—
+A pattern to all princes living with her
+And all that shall succeed. Saba was never
+More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
+Than this pure soul shall be. All princely graces
+That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,
+With all the virtues that attend the good,
+Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her;
+Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her.
+She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her;
+Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
+And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her.
+In her days every man shall eat in safety
+Under his own vine what he plants, and sing
+The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
+God shall be truly known, and those about her
+From her shall read the perfect ways of honour
+And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
+Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when
+The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
+Her ashes new create another heir
+As great in admiration as herself,
+So shall she leave her blessedness to one,
+When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness,
+Who from the sacred ashes of her honour
+Shall star-like rise as great in fame as she was
+And so stand fixed. Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror,
+That were the servants to this chosen infant,
+Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him.
+Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
+His honour and the greatness of his name
+Shall be, and make new nations. He shall flourish,
+And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches
+To all the plains about him. Our children’s children
+Shall see this and bless heaven.
+
+KING.
+Thou speakest wonders.
+
+CRANMER.
+She shall be to the happiness of England
+An aged princess; many days shall see her,
+And yet no day without a deed to crown it.
+Would I had known no more! But she must die,
+She must, the saints must have her; yet a virgin,
+A most unspotted lily, shall she pass to the ground,
+And all the world shall mourn her.
+
+KING.
+O lord Archbishop,
+Thou hast made me now a man. Never before
+This happy child did I get anything.
+This oracle of comfort has so pleased me
+That when I am in heaven I shall desire
+To see what this child does and praise my Maker.
+I thank ye all. To you, my good Lord Mayor,
+And you, good brethren, I am much beholding.
+I have received much honour by your presence,
+And ye shall find me thankful. Lead the way, lords.
+Ye must all see the Queen, and she must thank ye;
+She will be sick else. This day, no man think
+’Has business at his house, for all shall stay.
+This little one shall make it holiday.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Epilogue
+
+Enter Epilogue.
+
+EPILOGUE.
+’Tis ten to one this play can never please
+All that are here. Some come to take their ease,
+And sleep an act or two—but those, we fear,
+We’ve frighted with our trumpets; so, ’tis clear,
+They’ll say ’tis naught—others, to hear the city
+Abused extremely and to cry “That’s witty!”—
+Which we have not done neither—that I fear
+All the expected good we’re like to hear
+For this play at this time is only in
+The merciful construction of good women,
+For such a one we showed ’em. If they smile
+And say ’twill do, I know within a while
+All the best men are ours; for ’tis ill hap
+If they hold when their ladies bid ’em clap.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Northampton. A Room of State in the Palace.
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. France. Before the walls of Angiers.
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. France. The French King’s tent.
+ Scene II. The same. Plains near Angiers
+ Scene III. The same.
+ Scene IV. The same. The French King’s tent.
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. Northampton. A Room in the Castle.
+ Scene II. The same. A Room of State in the Palace.
+ Scene III. The same. Before the castle.
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Northampton. A Room in the Palace.
+ Scene II. Near Saint Edmundsbury. The French Camp.
+ Scene III. The same. The Field of Battle.
+ Scene IV. The same. Another part of the same.
+ Scene V. The same. The French camp.
+ Scene VI. An open place in the neighborhood of Swinstead Abbey.
+ Scene VII. The orchard of Swinstead Abbey.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING JOHN.
+PRINCE HENRY, son to King John; afterwards KING HENRY III.
+ARTHUR, Duke of Brittany, nephew to King John.
+EARL OF PEMBROKE.
+EARL OF ESSEX.
+EARL OF SALISBURY.
+ROBERT BIGOT, Earl of Norfolk.
+HUBERT DE BURGH, Chamberlain to the King.
+ROBERT FAULCONBRIDGE, son to Sir Robert Faulconbridge.
+The BASTARD, PHILIP FAULCONBRIDGE, his half-brother, bastard son to
+King Richard I.
+JAMES GURNEY, servant to Lady Faulconbridge.
+PETER OF POMFRET, a prophet
+
+KING PHILIP II., King of France.
+LOUIS, the Dauphin; son to King Philip II.
+DUKE OF AUSTRIA, also called Limoges.
+MELUN, a French lord.
+CHATILLION, Ambassador from France to King John.
+CARDINAL PANDULPH, the Pope’s legate.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR, Mother to King John and Widow of King Henry II.
+CONSTANCE, Mother to Arthur.
+BLANCHE OF SPAIN, Daughter to Alphonso, King of Castile, and Niece to
+King John.
+LADY FAULCONBRIDGE, Mother to the Bastard and Robert Faulconbridge.
+
+Lords, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers,
+Executioners, Messengers and other Attendants.
+
+SCENE: Sometimes in England, and sometimes in France.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+
+SCENE I. Northampton. A Room of State in the Palace.
+
+Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, Pembroke, Essex, Salisbury and others
+with Chatillion.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Now, say, Chatillion, what would France with us?
+
+CHATILLION.
+Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France
+In my behaviour to the majesty,
+The borrow’d majesty, of England here.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+A strange beginning: “borrow’d majesty”!
+
+KING JOHN.
+Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.
+
+CHATILLION.
+Philip of France, in right and true behalf
+Of thy deceased brother Geoffrey’s son,
+Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim
+To this fair island and the territories,
+To Ireland, Poitiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
+Desiring thee to lay aside the sword
+Which sways usurpingly these several titles,
+And put the same into young Arthur’s hand,
+Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.
+
+KING JOHN.
+What follows if we disallow of this?
+
+CHATILLION.
+The proud control of fierce and bloody war,
+To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Here have we war for war and blood for blood,
+Controlment for controlment: so answer France.
+
+CHATILLION.
+Then take my king’s defiance from my mouth,
+The farthest limit of my embassy.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace.
+Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France,
+For ere thou canst report, I will be there,
+The thunder of my cannon shall be heard.
+So, hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath
+And sullen presage of your own decay.—
+An honourable conduct let him have.
+Pembroke, look to ’t. Farewell, Chatillion.
+
+[_Exeunt Chatillion and Pembroke._]
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+What now, my son! Have I not ever said
+How that ambitious Constance would not cease
+Till she had kindled France and all the world
+Upon the right and party of her son?
+This might have been prevented and made whole
+With very easy arguments of love,
+Which now the manage of two kingdoms must
+With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Our strong possession and our right for us.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Your strong possession much more than your right,
+Or else it must go wrong with you and me:
+So much my conscience whispers in your ear,
+Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear.
+
+Enter a Sheriff, who whispers to Essex.
+
+ESSEX.
+My liege, here is the strangest controversy,
+Come from the country to be judg’d by you,
+That e’er I heard. Shall I produce the men?
+
+KING JOHN.
+Let them approach.
+
+[_Exit Sheriff._]
+
+Our abbeys and our priories shall pay
+This expedition’s charge.
+
+Enter Robert Faulconbridge and Philip, his Bastard brother.
+
+What men are you?
+
+BASTARD.
+Your faithful subject I, a gentleman
+Born in Northamptonshire, and eldest son,
+As I suppose, to Robert Faulconbridge,
+A soldier by the honour-giving hand
+Of Cœur-de-lion knighted in the field.
+
+KING JOHN.
+What art thou?
+
+ROBERT.
+The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?
+You came not of one mother then, it seems.
+
+BASTARD.
+Most certain of one mother, mighty king;
+That is well known; and, as I think, one father.
+But for the certain knowledge of that truth
+I put you o’er to heaven and to my mother.
+Of that I doubt, as all men’s children may.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Out on thee, rude man! Thou dost shame thy mother
+And wound her honour with this diffidence.
+
+BASTARD.
+I, madam? No, I have no reason for it;
+That is my brother’s plea, and none of mine;
+The which if he can prove, he pops me out
+At least from fair five hundred pound a year.
+Heaven guard my mother’s honour and my land!
+
+KING JOHN.
+A good blunt fellow. Why, being younger born,
+Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?
+
+BASTARD.
+I know not why, except to get the land.
+But once he slander’d me with bastardy.
+But whe’er I be as true begot or no,
+That still I lay upon my mother’s head;
+But that I am as well begot, my liege—
+Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!—
+Compare our faces and be judge yourself.
+If old Sir Robert did beget us both
+And were our father, and this son like him,
+O old Sir Robert, father, on my knee
+I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!
+
+KING JOHN.
+Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here!
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+He hath a trick of Cœur-de-lion’s face;
+The accent of his tongue affecteth him.
+Do you not read some tokens of my son
+In the large composition of this man?
+
+KING JOHN.
+Mine eye hath well examined his parts
+And finds them perfect Richard. Sirrah, speak,
+What doth move you to claim your brother’s land?
+
+BASTARD.
+Because he hath a half-face, like my father.
+With half that face would he have all my land:
+A half-fac’d groat five hundred pound a year!
+
+ROBERT.
+My gracious liege, when that my father liv’d,
+Your brother did employ my father much—
+
+BASTARD.
+Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land.
+Your tale must be how he employ’d my mother.
+
+ROBERT.
+And once dispatch’d him in an embassy
+To Germany, there with the emperor
+To treat of high affairs touching that time.
+Th’ advantage of his absence took the King
+And in the meantime sojourn’d at my father’s;
+Where how he did prevail I shame to speak;
+But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores
+Between my father and my mother lay,
+As I have heard my father speak himself,
+When this same lusty gentleman was got.
+Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath’d
+His lands to me, and took it, on his death
+That this my mother’s son was none of his;
+And if he were, he came into the world
+Full fourteen weeks before the course of time.
+Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,
+My father’s land, as was my father’s will.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Sirrah, your brother is legitimate;
+Your father’s wife did after wedlock bear him,
+And if she did play false, the fault was hers;
+Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands
+That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,
+Who, as you say, took pains to get this son,
+Had of your father claim’d this son for his?
+In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept
+This calf, bred from his cow, from all the world;
+In sooth, he might; then, if he were my brother’s,
+My brother might not claim him; nor your father,
+Being none of his, refuse him. This concludes;
+My mother’s son did get your father’s heir;
+Your father’s heir must have your father’s land.
+
+ROBERT.
+Shall then my father’s will be of no force
+To dispossess that child which is not his?
+
+BASTARD.
+Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,
+Than was his will to get me, as I think.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Whether hadst thou rather be: a Faulconbridge
+And like thy brother, to enjoy thy land,
+Or the reputed son of Cœur-de-lion,
+Lord of thy presence and no land besides?
+
+BASTARD.
+Madam, and if my brother had my shape
+And I had his, Sir Robert’s his, like him;
+And if my legs were two such riding-rods,
+My arms such eel-skins stuff’d, my face so thin
+That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose
+Lest men should say “Look where three-farthings goes!”
+And, to his shape, were heir to all this land,
+Would I might never stir from off this place,
+I would give it every foot to have this face.
+I would not be Sir Nob in any case.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+I like thee well. Wilt thou forsake thy fortune,
+Bequeath thy land to him, and follow me?
+I am a soldier and now bound to France.
+
+BASTARD.
+Brother, take you my land, I’ll take my chance.
+Your face hath got five hundred pound a year,
+Yet sell your face for five pence and ’tis dear.
+Madam, I’ll follow you unto the death.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Nay, I would have you go before me thither.
+
+BASTARD.
+Our country manners give our betters way.
+
+KING JOHN.
+What is thy name?
+
+BASTARD.
+Philip, my liege, so is my name begun;
+Philip, good old Sir Robert’s wife’s eldest son.
+
+KING JOHN.
+From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bearest.
+Kneel thou down Philip, but rise more great,
+Arise Sir Richard and Plantagenet.
+
+BASTARD.
+Brother by th’ mother’s side, give me your hand.
+My father gave me honour, yours gave land.
+Now blessed be the hour, by night or day,
+When I was got, Sir Robert was away!
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+The very spirit of Plantagenet!
+I am thy grandam, Richard; call me so.
+
+BASTARD.
+Madam, by chance but not by truth; what though?
+Something about, a little from the right,
+In at the window, or else o’er the hatch.
+Who dares not stir by day must walk by night,
+And have is have, however men do catch.
+Near or far off, well won is still well shot,
+And I am I, howe’er I was begot.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Go, Faulconbridge; now hast thou thy desire.
+A landless knight makes thee a landed squire.
+Come, madam, and come, Richard, we must speed
+For France, for France, for it is more than need.
+
+BASTARD.
+Brother, adieu, good fortune come to thee!
+For thou wast got i’ th’ way of honesty.
+
+[_Exeunt all but the Bastard._]
+
+A foot of honour better than I was,
+But many a many foot of land the worse.
+Well, now can I make any Joan a lady.
+“Good den, Sir Richard!” “God-a-mercy, fellow!”
+And if his name be George, I’ll call him Peter;
+For new-made honour doth forget men’s names:
+’Tis too respective and too sociable
+For your conversion. Now your traveller,
+He and his toothpick at my worship’s mess,
+And when my knightly stomach is suffic’d,
+Why then I suck my teeth and catechize
+My picked man of countries: “My dear sir,”
+Thus leaning on mine elbow I begin,
+“I shall beseech you”—that is Question now;
+And then comes Answer like an absey book:
+“O sir,” says Answer “at your best command;
+At your employment; at your service, sir.”
+“No, sir,” says Question, “I, sweet sir, at yours.”
+And so, ere Answer knows what Question would,
+Saving in dialogue of compliment,
+And talking of the Alps and Apennines,
+The Pyrenean and the river Po,
+It draws toward supper in conclusion so.
+But this is worshipful society,
+And fits the mounting spirit like myself;
+For he is but a bastard to the time
+That doth not smack of observation,
+And so am I, whether I smack or no;
+And not alone in habit and device,
+Exterior form, outward accoutrement,
+But from the inward motion to deliver
+Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age’s tooth,
+Which, though I will not practise to deceive,
+Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn;
+For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising.
+But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?
+What woman-post is this? Hath she no husband
+That will take pains to blow a horn before her?
+
+Enter Lady Faulconbridge and James Gurney.
+
+O me, ’tis my mother!—How now, good lady?
+What brings you here to court so hastily?
+
+LADY FAULCONBRIDGE.
+Where is that slave, thy brother? Where is he
+That holds in chase mine honour up and down?
+
+BASTARD.
+My brother Robert, old Sir Robert’s son?
+Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man?
+Is it Sir Robert’s son that you seek so?
+
+LADY FAULCONBRIDGE.
+Sir Robert’s son! Ay, thou unreverend boy,
+Sir Robert’s son. Why scorn’st thou at Sir Robert?
+He is Sir Robert’s son, and so art thou.
+
+BASTARD.
+James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave awhile?
+
+GURNEY.
+Good leave, good Philip.
+
+BASTARD.
+Philip?—sparrow!—James,
+There’s toys abroad. Anon I’ll tell thee more.
+
+[_Exit Gurney._]
+
+Madam, I was not old Sir Robert’s son.
+Sir Robert might have eat his part in me
+Upon Good Friday, and ne’er broke his fast.
+Sir Robert could do well—marry, to confess—
+Could … get me. Sir Robert could not do it.
+We know his handiwork. Therefore, good mother,
+To whom am I beholding for these limbs?
+Sir Robert never holp to make this leg.
+
+LADY FAULCONBRIDGE.
+Hast thou conspired with thy brother too,
+That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour?
+What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave?
+
+BASTARD.
+Knight, knight, good mother, Basilisco-like.
+What! I am dubb’d! I have it on my shoulder.
+But, mother, I am not Sir Robert’s son.
+I have disclaim’d Sir Robert and my land;
+Legitimation, name, and all is gone.
+Then, good my mother, let me know my father—
+Some proper man, I hope. Who was it, mother?
+
+LADY FAULCONBRIDGE.
+Hast thou denied thyself a Faulconbridge?
+
+BASTARD.
+As faithfully as I deny the devil.
+
+LADY FAULCONBRIDGE.
+King Richard Cœur-de-lion was thy father.
+By long and vehement suit I was seduc’d
+To make room for him in my husband’s bed.
+Heaven lay not my transgression to my charge!
+Thou art the issue of my dear offence,
+Which was so strongly urg’d, past my defence.
+
+BASTARD.
+Now, by this light, were I to get again,
+Madam, I would not wish a better father.
+Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
+And so doth yours. Your fault was not your folly.
+Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
+Subjected tribute to commanding love,
+Against whose fury and unmatched force
+The aweless lion could not wage the fight,
+Nor keep his princely heart from Richard’s hand.
+He that perforce robs lions of their hearts
+May easily win a woman’s. Ay, my mother,
+With all my heart I thank thee for my father!
+Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well
+When I was got, I’ll send his soul to hell.
+Come, lady, I will show thee to my kin;
+And they shall say when Richard me begot,
+If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin.
+Who says it was, he lies. I say ’twas not.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+
+SCENE I. France. Before the walls of Angiers.
+
+Enter, on one side, the  Archduke of Austria and Forces; on the other,
+Philip King of France, Louis, Constance, Arthur and Forces.
+
+LOUIS.
+Before Angiers well met, brave Austria.
+Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood,
+Richard, that robb’d the lion of his heart
+And fought the holy wars in Palestine,
+By this brave duke came early to his grave.
+And, for amends to his posterity,
+At our importance hither is he come
+To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf,
+And to rebuke the usurpation
+Of thy unnatural uncle, English John.
+Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither.
+
+ARTHUR.
+God shall forgive you Cœur-de-lion’s death
+The rather that you give his offspring life,
+Shadowing their right under your wings of war.
+I give you welcome with a powerless hand,
+But with a heart full of unstained love.
+Welcome before the gates of Angiers, duke.
+
+LOUIS.
+A noble boy. Who would not do thee right?
+
+AUSTRIA.
+Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss,
+As seal to this indenture of my love:
+That to my home I will no more return,
+Till Angiers and the right thou hast in France,
+Together with that pale, that white-fac’d shore,
+Whose foot spurns back the ocean’s roaring tides
+And coops from other lands her islanders,
+Even till that England, hedg’d in with the main,
+That water-walled bulwark, still secure
+And confident from foreign purposes,
+Even till that utmost corner of the west
+Salute thee for her king; till then, fair boy,
+Will I not think of home, but follow arms.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+O, take his mother’s thanks, a widow’s thanks,
+Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength
+To make a more requital to your love!
+
+AUSTRIA.
+The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords
+In such a just and charitable war.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Well then, to work; our cannon shall be bent
+Against the brows of this resisting town.
+Call for our chiefest men of discipline,
+To cull the plots of best advantages.
+We’ll lay before this town our royal bones,
+Wade to the market-place in Frenchmen’s blood,
+But we will make it subject to this boy.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Stay for an answer to your embassy,
+Lest unadvis’d you stain your swords with blood.
+My Lord Chatillion may from England bring
+That right in peace which here we urge in war,
+And then we shall repent each drop of blood
+That hot rash haste so indirectly shed.
+
+Enter Chatillion.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+A wonder, lady! Lo, upon thy wish,
+Our messenger Chatillion is arriv’d.
+What England says, say briefly, gentle lord;
+We coldly pause for thee; Chatillion, speak.
+
+CHATILLION.
+Then turn your forces from this paltry siege
+And stir them up against a mightier task.
+England, impatient of your just demands,
+Hath put himself in arms. The adverse winds,
+Whose leisure I have stay’d, have given him time
+To land his legions all as soon as I;
+His marches are expedient to this town,
+His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
+With him along is come the mother-queen,
+An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife;
+With her her niece, the Lady Blanche of Spain;
+With them a bastard of the King’s deceas’d.
+And all th’ unsettled humours of the land;
+Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
+With ladies’ faces and fierce dragons’ spleens,
+Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
+Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
+To make a hazard of new fortunes here.
+In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits
+Than now the English bottoms have waft o’er
+Did never float upon the swelling tide
+To do offence and scathe in Christendom.
+
+[_Drums beat within._]
+
+The interruption of their churlish drums
+Cuts off more circumstance. They are at hand,
+To parley or to fight, therefore prepare.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+How much unlook’d-for is this expedition!
+
+AUSTRIA.
+By how much unexpected, by so much
+We must awake endeavour for defence,
+For courage mounteth with occasion.
+Let them be welcome, then; we are prepar’d.
+
+Enter King John, Eleanor, Blanche, the Bastard, Pembroke, Lords and
+Forces.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Peace be to France, if France in peace permit
+Our just and lineal entrance to our own;
+If not, bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven,
+Whiles we, God’s wrathful agent, do correct
+Their proud contempt that beats his peace to heaven.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Peace be to England, if that war return
+From France to England, there to live in peace.
+England we love; and for that England’s sake
+With burden of our armour here we sweat.
+This toil of ours should be a work of thine;
+But thou from loving England art so far
+That thou hast underwrought his lawful king,
+Cut off the sequence of posterity,
+Outfaced infant state, and done a rape
+Upon the maiden virtue of the crown.
+Look here upon thy brother Geoffrey’s face;
+These eyes, these brows, were moulded out of his:
+This little abstract doth contain that large
+Which died in Geoffrey, and the hand of time
+Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume.
+That Geoffrey was thy elder brother born,
+And this his son; England was Geoffrey’s right,
+And this is Geoffrey’s. In the name of God,
+How comes it then that thou art call’d a king,
+When living blood doth in these temples beat,
+Which owe the crown that thou o’ermasterest?
+
+KING JOHN.
+From whom hast thou this great commission, France,
+To draw my answer from thy articles?
+
+KING PHILIP.
+From that supernal judge that stirs good thoughts
+In any breast of strong authority,
+To look into the blots and stains of right.
+That judge hath made me guardian to this boy,
+Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong
+And by whose help I mean to chastise it.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Alack, thou dost usurp authority.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Excuse it is to beat usurping down.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Who is it thou dost call usurper, France?
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Let me make answer: thy usurping son.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Out, insolent! Thy bastard shall be king,
+That thou mayst be a queen, and check the world!
+
+CONSTANCE.
+My bed was ever to thy son as true
+As thine was to thy husband; and this boy
+Liker in feature to his father Geoffrey
+Than thou and John in manners; being as like
+As rain to water, or devil to his dam.
+My boy a bastard! By my soul, I think
+His father never was so true begot:
+It cannot be, and if thou wert his mother.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+There’s a good mother, boy, that blots thy father.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+There’s a good grandam, boy, that would blot thee.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+Peace!
+
+BASTARD.
+Hear the crier!
+
+AUSTRIA.
+What the devil art thou?
+
+BASTARD.
+One that will play the devil, sir, with you,
+An he may catch your hide and you alone.
+You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,
+Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard.
+I’ll smoke your skin-coat an I catch you right;
+Sirrah, look to ’t; i’ faith I will, i’ faith.
+
+BLANCHE.
+O, well did he become that lion’s robe
+That did disrobe the lion of that robe!
+
+BASTARD.
+It lies as sightly on the back of him
+As great Alcides’ shows upon an ass.
+But, ass, I’ll take that burden from your back,
+Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
+With this abundance of superfluous breath?
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Louis, determine what we shall do straight.
+
+LOUIS.
+Women and fools, break off your conference.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+King John, this is the very sum of all:
+England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
+In right of Arthur do I claim of thee.
+Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?
+
+KING JOHN.
+My life as soon: I do defy thee, France.
+Arthur of Brittany, yield thee to my hand;
+And out of my dear love I’ll give thee more
+Than e’er the coward hand of France can win.
+Submit thee, boy.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Come to thy grandam, child.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Do, child, go to it grandam, child.
+Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will
+Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig.
+There’s a good grandam.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Good my mother, peace!
+I would that I were low laid in my grave.
+I am not worth this coil that’s made for me.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Now, shame upon you, whe’er she does or no!
+His grandam’s wrongs, and not his mother’s shames,
+Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,
+Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee.
+Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be brib’d
+To do him justice, and revenge on you.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth!
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth!
+Call not me slanderer. Thou and thine usurp
+The dominations, royalties, and rights
+Of this oppressed boy. This is thy eldest son’s son,
+Infortunate in nothing but in thee.
+Thy sins are visited in this poor child;
+The canon of the law is laid on him,
+Being but the second generation
+Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Bedlam, have done.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+I have but this to say,
+That he is not only plagued for her sin,
+But God hath made her sin and her the plague
+On this removed issue, plagued for her
+And with her plague; her sin his injury
+Her injury the beadle to her sin,
+All punish’d in the person of this child,
+And all for her. A plague upon her!
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Thou unadvised scold, I can produce
+A will that bars the title of thy son.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Ay, who doubts that? A will, a wicked will;
+A woman’s will; a cankered grandam’s will!
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Peace, lady! Pause, or be more temperate.
+It ill beseems this presence to cry aim
+To these ill-tuned repetitions.—
+Some trumpet summon hither to the walls
+These men of Angiers. Let us hear them speak
+Whose title they admit, Arthur’s or John’s.
+
+Trumpet sounds. Enter Citizens upon the walls.
+
+CITIZEN.
+Who is it that hath warn’d us to the walls?
+
+KING PHILIP.
+’Tis France, for England.
+
+KING JOHN.
+England for itself.
+You men of Angiers, and my loving subjects—
+
+KING PHILIP.
+You loving men of Angiers, Arthur’s subjects,
+Our trumpet call’d you to this gentle parle—
+
+KING JOHN.
+For our advantage; therefore hear us first.
+These flags of France, that are advanced here
+Before the eye and prospect of your town,
+Have hither march’d to your endamagement.
+The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,
+And ready mounted are they to spit forth
+Their iron indignation ’gainst your walls.
+All preparation for a bloody siege
+And merciless proceeding by these French
+Confronts your city’s eyes, your winking gates;
+And, but for our approach, those sleeping stones,
+That as a waist doth girdle you about,
+By the compulsion of their ordinance
+By this time from their fixed beds of lime
+Had been dishabited, and wide havoc made
+For bloody power to rush upon your peace.
+But on the sight of us your lawful king,
+Who painfully with much expedient march
+Have brought a countercheck before your gates,
+To save unscratch’d your city’s threatened cheeks,
+Behold, the French, amaz’d, vouchsafe a parle;
+And now, instead of bullets wrapp’d in fire,
+To make a shaking fever in your walls,
+They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke,
+To make a faithless error in your ears,
+Which trust accordingly, kind citizens,
+And let us in, your king, whose labour’d spirits
+Forwearied in this action of swift speed,
+Craves harbourage within your city walls.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+When I have said, make answer to us both.
+Lo, in this right hand, whose protection
+Is most divinely vow’d upon the right
+Of him it holds, stands young Plantagenet,
+Son to the elder brother of this man,
+And king o’er him and all that he enjoys.
+For this down-trodden equity we tread
+In warlike march these greens before your town,
+Being no further enemy to you
+Than the constraint of hospitable zeal
+In the relief of this oppressed child
+Religiously provokes. Be pleased then
+To pay that duty which you truly owe
+To him that owes it, namely, this young prince,
+And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear,
+Save in aspect, hath all offence seal’d up;
+Our cannons’ malice vainly shall be spent
+Against th’ invulnerable clouds of heaven;
+And with a blessed and unvex’d retire,
+With unhack’d swords and helmets all unbruis’d,
+We will bear home that lusty blood again
+Which here we came to spout against your town,
+And leave your children, wives, and you, in peace.
+But if you fondly pass our proffer’d offer,
+’Tis not the roundure of your old-fac’d walls
+Can hide you from our messengers of war,
+Though all these English, and their discipline
+Were harbour’d in their rude circumference.
+Then, tell us, shall your city call us lord
+In that behalf which we have challeng’d it?
+Or shall we give the signal to our rage
+And stalk in blood to our possession?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+In brief, we are the King of England’s subjects.
+For him, and in his right, we hold this town.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Acknowledge then the King, and let me in.
+
+CITIZEN.
+That can we not; but he that proves the King,
+To him will we prove loyal. Till that time
+Have we ramm’d up our gates against the world.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Doth not the crown of England prove the King?
+And if not that, I bring you witnesses,
+Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England’s breed—
+
+BASTARD.
+Bastards and else.
+
+KING JOHN.
+To verify our title with their lives.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+As many and as well-born bloods as those—
+
+BASTARD.
+Some bastards too.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Stand in his face to contradict his claim.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Till you compound whose right is worthiest,
+We for the worthiest hold the right from both.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Then God forgive the sin of all those souls
+That to their everlasting residence,
+Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet,
+In dreadful trial of our kingdom’s king!
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Amen, Amen!—Mount, chevaliers! To arms!
+
+BASTARD.
+Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e’er since
+Sits on ’s horseback at mine hostess’ door,
+Teach us some fence! [_To Austria_.] Sirrah, were I at home,
+At your den, sirrah, with your lioness,
+I would set an ox-head to your lion’s hide,
+And make a monster of you.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+Peace! No more.
+
+BASTARD.
+O, tremble, for you hear the lion roar.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Up higher to the plain; where we’ll set forth
+In best appointment all our regiments.
+
+BASTARD.
+Speed, then, to take advantage of the field.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+It shall be so; and at the other hill
+Command the rest to stand. God and our right!
+
+[_Exeunt severally._]
+
+Here, after excursions, enter a Herald of France with Trumpets, to the
+gates.
+
+FRENCH HERALD.
+You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,
+And let young Arthur, Duke of Brittany, in,
+Who by the hand of France this day hath made
+Much work for tears in many an English mother,
+Whose sons lie scatter’d on the bleeding ground.
+Many a widow’s husband grovelling lies,
+Coldly embracing the discolour’d earth;
+And victory, with little loss, doth play
+Upon the dancing banners of the French,
+Who are at hand, triumphantly display’d,
+To enter conquerors, and to proclaim
+Arthur of Brittany England’s king and yours.
+
+Enter English Herald with Trumpet.
+
+ENGLISH HERALD.
+Rejoice, you men of Angiers, ring your bells:
+King John, your king and England’s, doth approach,
+Commander of this hot malicious day.
+Their armours, that march’d hence so silver-bright,
+Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen’s blood;
+There stuck no plume in any English crest
+That is removed by a staff of France,
+Our colours do return in those same hands
+That did display them when we first march’d forth;
+And, like a jolly troop of huntsmen, come
+Our lusty English, all with purpled hands,
+Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes:
+Open your gates and give the victors way.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Heralds, from off our towers, we might behold,
+From first to last, the onset and retire
+Of both your armies; whose equality
+By our best eyes cannot be censured:
+Blood hath bought blood, and blows have answer’d blows;
+Strength match’d with strength, and power confronted power:
+Both are alike, and both alike we like.
+One must prove greatest: while they weigh so even,
+We hold our town for neither, yet for both.
+
+Enter on one side King John, Eleanor, Blanche, the Bastard and Forces;
+on the other, King Philip, Louis, Austria and Forces.
+
+KING JOHN.
+France, hast thou yet more blood to cast away?
+Say, shall the current of our right run on,
+Whose passage, vex’d with thy impediment,
+Shall leave his native channel, and o’erswell
+With course disturb’d even thy confining shores,
+Unless thou let his silver water keep
+A peaceful progress to the ocean?
+
+KING PHILIP.
+England, thou hast not sav’d one drop of blood
+In this hot trial, more than we of France;
+Rather, lost more. And by this hand I swear,
+That sways the earth this climate overlooks,
+Before we will lay down our just-borne arms,
+We’ll put thee down, ’gainst whom these arms we bear,
+Or add a royal number to the dead,
+Gracing the scroll that tells of this war’s loss
+With slaughter coupled to the name of kings.
+
+BASTARD.
+Ha, majesty! How high thy glory towers
+When the rich blood of kings is set on fire!
+O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel;
+The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs;
+And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men,
+In undetermin’d differences of kings.
+Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus?
+Cry havoc, kings! Back to the stained field,
+You equal potents, fiery-kindled spirits!
+Then let confusion of one part confirm
+The other’s peace. Till then, blows, blood, and death!
+
+KING JOHN.
+Whose party do the townsmen yet admit?
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Speak, citizens, for England; who’s your king?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+The King of England, when we know the king.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Know him in us, that here hold up his right.
+
+KING JOHN.
+In us, that are our own great deputy,
+And bear possession of our person here,
+Lord of our presence, Angiers, and of you.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+A greater power than we denies all this;
+And till it be undoubted, we do lock
+Our former scruple in our strong-barr’d gates:
+Kings of our fear, until our fears, resolv’d,
+Be by some certain king purg’d and depos’d.
+
+BASTARD.
+By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings,
+And stand securely on their battlements
+As in a theatre, whence they gape and point
+At your industrious scenes and acts of death.
+Your royal presences be rul’d by me:
+Do like the mutines of Jerusalem,
+Be friends awhile, and both conjointly bend
+Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town:
+By east and west let France and England mount
+Their battering cannon charged to the mouths,
+Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl’d down
+The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city:
+I’d play incessantly upon these jades,
+Even till unfenced desolation
+Leave them as naked as the vulgar air.
+That done, dissever your united strengths,
+And part your mingled colours once again;
+Turn face to face, and bloody point to point;
+Then, in a moment, Fortune shall cull forth
+Out of one side her happy minion,
+To whom in favour she shall give the day,
+And kiss him with a glorious victory.
+How like you this wild counsel, mighty states?
+Smacks it not something of the policy?
+
+KING JOHN.
+Now, by the sky that hangs above our heads,
+I like it well. France, shall we knit our powers
+And lay this Angiers even with the ground;
+Then after fight who shall be king of it?
+
+BASTARD.
+An if thou hast the mettle of a king,
+Being wrong’d as we are by this peevish town,
+Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,
+As we will ours, against these saucy walls;
+And when that we have dash’d them to the ground,
+Why then defy each other, and pell-mell,
+Make work upon ourselves, for heaven or hell.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Let it be so. Say, where will you assault?
+
+KING JOHN.
+We from the west will send destruction
+Into this city’s bosom.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+I from the north.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Our thunder from the south
+Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town.
+
+BASTARD.
+O prudent discipline! From north to south,
+Austria and France shoot in each other’s mouth:
+I’ll stir them to it.—Come, away, away!
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Hear us, great kings: vouchsafe awhile to stay,
+And I shall show you peace and fair-fac’d league;
+Win you this city without stroke or wound;
+Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds
+That here come sacrifices for the field:
+Persever not, but hear me, mighty kings.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Speak on with favour; we are bent to hear.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanche,
+Is niece to England. Look upon the years
+Of Louis the Dauphin and that lovely maid.
+If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,
+Where should he find it fairer than in Blanche?
+If zealous love should go in search of virtue,
+Where should he find it purer than in Blanche?
+If love ambitious sought a match of birth,
+Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanche?
+Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth,
+Is the young Dauphin every way complete.
+If not complete of, say he is not she;
+And she again wants nothing, to name want,
+If want it be not that she is not he:
+He is the half part of a blessed man,
+Left to be finished by such a she;
+And she a fair divided excellence,
+Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
+O, two such silver currents, when they join
+Do glorify the banks that bound them in;
+And two such shores to two such streams made one,
+Two such controlling bounds shall you be, kings,
+To these two princes, if you marry them.
+This union shall do more than battery can
+To our fast-closed gates; for at this match,
+With swifter spleen than powder can enforce,
+The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope,
+And give you entrance. But without this match,
+The sea enraged is not half so deaf,
+Lions more confident, mountains and rocks
+More free from motion; no, not Death himself
+In mortal fury half so peremptory
+As we to keep this city.
+
+BASTARD.
+Here’s a stay
+That shakes the rotten carcass of old Death
+Out of his rags! Here’s a large mouth indeed,
+That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas;
+Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
+As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!
+What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?
+He speaks plain cannon, fire, and smoke, and bounce;
+He gives the bastinado with his tongue;
+Our ears are cudgell’d; not a word of his
+But buffets better than a fist of France.
+Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words
+Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Son, list to this conjunction, make this match.
+Give with our niece a dowry large enough,
+For by this knot thou shalt so surely tie
+Thy now unsur’d assurance to the crown,
+That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe
+The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit.
+I see a yielding in the looks of France;
+Mark how they whisper. Urge them while their souls
+Are capable of this ambition,
+Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath
+Of soft petitions, pity, and remorse,
+Cool and congeal again to what it was.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Why answer not the double majesties
+This friendly treaty of our threaten’d town?
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Speak England first, that hath been forward first
+To speak unto this city. What say you?
+
+KING JOHN.
+If that the Dauphin there, thy princely son,
+Can in this book of beauty read “I love,”
+Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen.
+For Anjou, and fair Touraine, Maine, Poitiers,
+And all that we upon this side the sea—
+Except this city now by us besieg’d—
+Find liable to our crown and dignity,
+Shall gild her bridal bed, and make her rich
+In titles, honours, and promotions,
+As she in beauty, education, blood,
+Holds hand with any princess of the world.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+What say’st thou, boy? Look in the lady’s face.
+
+LOUIS.
+I do, my lord, and in her eye I find
+A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,
+The shadow of myself form’d in her eye;
+Which, being but the shadow of your son,
+Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow.
+I do protest I never lov’d myself
+Till now infixed I beheld myself
+Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.
+
+[_Whispers with Blanche._]
+
+BASTARD.
+[_Aside_.] Drawn in the flattering table of her eye!
+Hang’d in the frowning wrinkle of her brow,
+And quarter’d in her heart! He doth espy
+Himself love’s traitor. This is pity now,
+That, hang’d and drawn and quarter’d, there should be
+In such a love so vile a lout as he.
+
+BLANCHE.
+My uncle’s will in this respect is mine.
+If he see aught in you that makes him like,
+That anything he sees, which moves his liking
+I can with ease translate it to my will;
+Or if you will, to speak more properly,
+I will enforce it eas’ly to my love.
+Further I will not flatter you, my lord,
+That all I see in you is worthy love,
+Than this: that nothing do I see in you,
+Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge,
+That I can find should merit any hate.
+
+KING JOHN.
+What say these young ones? What say you, my niece?
+
+BLANCHE.
+That she is bound in honour still to do
+What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Speak then, Prince Dauphin. Can you love this lady?
+
+LOUIS.
+Nay, ask me if I can refrain from love;
+For I do love her most unfeignedly.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Then do I give Volquessen, Touraine, Maine,
+Poitiers, and Anjou, these five provinces,
+With her to thee; and this addition more,
+Full thirty thousand marks of English coin.—
+Philip of France, if thou be pleas’d withal,
+Command thy son and daughter to join hands.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+It likes us well.—Young princes, close your hands.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+And your lips too; for I am well assur’d
+That I did so when I was first assur’d.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Now, citizens of Angiers, ope your gates,
+Let in that amity which you have made;
+For at Saint Mary’s chapel presently
+The rites of marriage shall be solemniz’d.
+Is not the Lady Constance in this troop?
+I know she is not, for this match made up
+Her presence would have interrupted much.
+Where is she and her son? Tell me, who knows.
+
+LOUIS.
+She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+And, by my faith, this league that we have made
+Will give her sadness very little cure.—
+Brother of England, how may we content
+This widow lady? In her right we came;
+Which we, God knows, have turn’d another way,
+To our own vantage.
+
+KING JOHN.
+We will heal up all;
+For we’ll create young Arthur Duke of Brittany,
+And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town
+We make him lord of. Call the Lady Constance.
+Some speedy messenger bid her repair
+To our solemnity. I trust we shall,
+If not fill up the measure of her will,
+Yet in some measure satisfy her so
+That we shall stop her exclamation.
+Go we, as well as haste will suffer us,
+To this unlook’d-for, unprepared pomp.
+
+[_Exeunt all but the Bastard. The Citizens retire from the walls._]
+
+BASTARD.
+Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!
+John, to stop Arthur’s title in the whole,
+Hath willingly departed with a part;
+And France, whose armour conscience buckled on,
+Whom zeal and charity brought to the field
+As God’s own soldier, rounded in the ear
+With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil,
+That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith,
+That daily break-vow, he that wins of all,
+Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids,
+Who having no external thing to lose
+But the word “maid,” cheats the poor maid of that,
+That smooth-fac’d gentleman, tickling commodity,
+Commodity, the bias of the world,
+The world, who of itself is peised well,
+Made to run even upon even ground,
+Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias,
+This sway of motion, this commodity,
+Makes it take head from all indifferency,
+From all direction, purpose, course, intent.
+And this same bias, this commodity,
+This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word,
+Clapp’d on the outward eye of fickle France,
+Hath drawn him from his own determin’d aid,
+From a resolv’d and honourable war,
+To a most base and vile-concluded peace.
+And why rail I on this commodity?
+But for because he hath not woo’d me yet.
+Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
+When his fair angels would salute my palm;
+But for my hand, as unattempted yet,
+Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.
+Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
+And say there is no sin but to be rich;
+And being rich, my virtue then shall be
+To say there is no vice but beggary.
+Since kings break faith upon commodity,
+Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+
+SCENE I. France. The French King’s tent.
+
+Enter Constance, Arthur and Salisbury.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Gone to be married? Gone to swear a peace?
+False blood to false blood join’d? Gone to be friends?
+Shall Louis have Blanche, and Blanche those provinces?
+It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard;
+Be well advis’d, tell o’er thy tale again.
+It cannot be; thou dost but say ’tis so.
+I trust I may not trust thee, for thy word
+Is but the vain breath of a common man.
+Believe me, I do not believe thee, man.
+I have a king’s oath to the contrary.
+Thou shalt be punish’d for thus frighting me,
+For I am sick and capable of fears,
+Oppress’d with wrongs, and therefore full of fears,
+A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,
+A woman, naturally born to fears,
+And though thou now confess thou didst but jest,
+With my vex’d spirits I cannot take a truce,
+But they will quake and tremble all this day.
+What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?
+Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?
+What means that hand upon that breast of thine?
+Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum,
+Like a proud river peering o’er his bounds?
+Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words?
+Then speak again—not all thy former tale,
+But this one word, whether thy tale be true.
+
+SALISBURY.
+As true as I believe you think them false
+That give you cause to prove my saying true.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,
+Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die,
+And let belief and life encounter so
+As doth the fury of two desperate men
+Which in the very meeting fall and die.
+Louis marry Blanche? O boy, then where art thou?
+France friend with England? What becomes of me?
+Fellow, be gone. I cannot brook thy sight.
+This news hath made thee a most ugly man.
+
+SALISBURY.
+What other harm have I, good lady, done,
+But spoke the harm that is by others done?
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Which harm within itself so heinous is,
+As it makes harmful all that speak of it.
+
+ARTHUR.
+I do beseech you, madam, be content.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+If thou, that bid’st me be content, wert grim,
+Ugly, and sland’rous to thy mother’s womb,
+Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains,
+Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
+Patch’d with foul moles and eye-offending marks,
+I would not care, I then would be content,
+For then I should not love thee; no, nor thou
+Become thy great birth, nor deserve a crown.
+But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
+Nature and Fortune join’d to make thee great.
+Of Nature’s gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
+And with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,
+She is corrupted, chang’d, and won from thee;
+She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,
+And with her golden hand hath pluck’d on France
+To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,
+And made his majesty the bawd to theirs.
+France is a bawd to Fortune and King John,
+That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John!
+Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forsworn?
+Envenom him with words, or get thee gone,
+And leave those woes alone which I alone
+Am bound to underbear.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Pardon me, madam,
+I may not go without you to the Kings.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will not go with thee.
+I will instruct my sorrows to be proud,
+For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
+To me and to the state of my great grief
+Let kings assemble; for my grief’s so great
+That no supporter but the huge firm earth
+Can hold it up. Here I and sorrows sit;
+Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
+
+[_Seats herself on the ground._]
+
+Enter King John, King Philip, Louis, Blanche, Eleanor, Bastard, Austria
+and attendants.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+’Tis true, fair daughter; and this blessed day
+Ever in France shall be kept festival.
+To solemnize this day the glorious sun
+Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
+Turning with splendour of his precious eye
+The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold.
+The yearly course that brings this day about
+Shall never see it but a holy day.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+[_Rising_.] A wicked day, and not a holy day!
+What hath this day deserv’d? What hath it done
+That it in golden letters should be set
+Among the high tides in the calendar?
+Nay, rather turn this day out of the week,
+This day of shame, oppression, perjury.
+Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child
+Pray that their burdens may not fall this day,
+Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross’d.
+But on this day let seamen fear no wrack;
+No bargains break that are not this day made;
+This day, all things begun come to ill end,
+Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change!
+
+KING PHILIP.
+By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause
+To curse the fair proceedings of this day.
+Have I not pawn’d to you my majesty?
+
+CONSTANCE.
+You have beguil’d me with a counterfeit
+Resembling majesty, which, being touch’d and tried,
+Proves valueless. You are forsworn, forsworn.
+You came in arms to spill mine enemies’ blood,
+But now in arms you strengthen it with yours.
+The grappling vigour and rough frown of war
+Is cold in amity and painted peace,
+And our oppression hath made up this league.
+Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjur’d kings!
+A widow cries; be husband to me, heavens!
+Let not the hours of this ungodly day
+Wear out the day in peace; but, ere sunset,
+Set armed discord ’twixt these perjur’d kings!
+Hear me, O, hear me!
+
+AUSTRIA.
+Lady Constance, peace!
+
+CONSTANCE.
+War! war! no peace! Peace is to me a war.
+O Limoges, O Austria, thou dost shame
+That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
+Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
+Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
+Thou Fortune’s champion that dost never fight
+But when her humorous ladyship is by
+To teach thee safety! Thou art perjur’d too,
+And sooth’st up greatness. What a fool art thou,
+A ramping fool, to brag, and stamp, and swear
+Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,
+Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side?
+Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
+Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength?
+And dost thou now fall over to my foes?
+Thou wear a lion’s hide! Doff it for shame,
+And hang a calf’s-skin on those recreant limbs.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+O that a man should speak those words to me!
+
+BASTARD.
+And hang a calf’s-skin on those recreant limbs.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+Thou dar’st not say so, villain, for thy life.
+
+BASTARD.
+And hang a calf’s-skin on those recreant limbs.
+
+KING JOHN.
+We like not this. Thou dost forget thyself.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Here comes the holy legate of the Pope.
+
+Enter Pandulph.
+
+PANDULPH.
+Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven!
+To thee, King John, my holy errand is.
+I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal,
+And from Pope Innocent the legate here,
+Do in his name religiously demand
+Why thou against the church, our holy mother,
+So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce
+Keep Stephen Langton, chosen Archbishop
+Of Canterbury, from that holy see.
+This, in our foresaid holy father’s name,
+Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.
+
+KING JOHN.
+What earthy name to interrogatories
+Can task the free breath of a sacred king?
+Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name
+So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous,
+To charge me to an answer, as the pope.
+Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England
+Add thus much more, that no Italian priest
+Shall tithe or toll in our dominions;
+But as we under God are supreme head,
+So, under Him, that great supremacy,
+Where we do reign, we will alone uphold
+Without th’ assistance of a mortal hand.
+So tell the pope, all reverence set apart
+To him and his usurp’d authority.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Brother of England, you blaspheme in this.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Though you and all the kings of Christendom
+Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,
+Dreading the curse that money may buy out;
+And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,
+Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,
+Who in that sale sells pardon from himself;
+Though you and all the rest, so grossly led,
+This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish,
+Yet I alone, alone do me oppose
+Against the pope, and count his friends my foes.
+
+PANDULPH.
+Then, by the lawful power that I have,
+Thou shalt stand curs’d and excommunicate;
+And blessed shall he be that doth revolt
+From his allegiance to an heretic;
+And meritorious shall that hand be call’d,
+Canonized and worshipp’d as a saint,
+That takes away by any secret course
+Thy hateful life.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+O, lawful let it be
+That I have room with Rome to curse awhile!
+Good father Cardinal, cry thou amen
+To my keen curses; for without my wrong
+There is no tongue hath power to curse him right.
+
+PANDULPH.
+There’s law and warrant, lady, for my curse.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+And for mine too. When law can do no right,
+Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
+Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,
+For he that holds his kingdom holds the law;
+Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong,
+How can the law forbid my tongue to curse?
+
+PANDULPH.
+Philip of France, on peril of a curse,
+Let go the hand of that arch-heretic,
+And raise the power of France upon his head,
+Unless he do submit himself to Rome.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Look’st thou pale, France? Do not let go thy hand.
+
+CONSTANCE
+Look to that, devil, lest that France repent
+And by disjoining hands, hell lose a soul.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+King Philip, listen to the cardinal.
+
+BASTARD.
+And hang a calf’s-skin on his recreant limbs.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs,
+Because—
+
+BASTARD.
+Your breeches best may carry them.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Philip, what say’st thou to the cardinal?
+
+CONSTANCE.
+What should he say, but as the cardinal?
+
+LOUIS.
+Bethink you, father; for the difference
+Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,
+Or the light loss of England for a friend.
+Forgo the easier.
+
+BLANCHE.
+That’s the curse of Rome.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+O Louis, stand fast! The devil tempts thee here
+In likeness of a new untrimmed bride.
+
+BLANCHE.
+The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,
+But from her need.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+O, if thou grant my need,
+Which only lives but by the death of faith,
+That need must needs infer this principle:
+That faith would live again by death of need.
+O then tread down my need, and faith mounts up;
+Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!
+
+KING JOHN.
+The King is mov’d, and answers not to this.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+O, be remov’d from him, and answer well!
+
+AUSTRIA.
+Do so, King Philip; hang no more in doubt.
+
+BASTARD.
+Hang nothing but a calf’s-skin, most sweet lout.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+I am perplex’d, and know not what to say.
+
+PANDULPH.
+What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,
+If thou stand excommunicate and curs’d?
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Good reverend father, make my person yours,
+And tell me how you would bestow yourself.
+This royal hand and mine are newly knit,
+And the conjunction of our inward souls
+Married in league, coupled and link’d together
+With all religious strength of sacred vows;
+The latest breath that gave the sound of words
+Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love
+Between our kingdoms and our royal selves;
+And even before this truce, but new before,
+No longer than we well could wash our hands
+To clap this royal bargain up of peace,
+Heaven knows, they were besmear’d and overstain’d
+With slaughter’s pencil, where revenge did paint
+The fearful difference of incensed kings.
+And shall these hands, so lately purg’d of blood,
+So newly join’d in love, so strong in both,
+Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?
+Play fast and loose with faith? So jest with heaven,
+Make such unconstant children of ourselves,
+As now again to snatch our palm from palm,
+Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage-bed
+Of smiling peace to march a bloody host,
+And make a riot on the gentle brow
+Of true sincerity? O, holy sir,
+My reverend father, let it not be so!
+Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose
+Some gentle order, and then we shall be blest
+To do your pleasure and continue friends.
+
+PANDULPH.
+All form is formless, order orderless,
+Save what is opposite to England’s love.
+Therefore to arms! Be champion of our church,
+Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,
+A mother’s curse, on her revolting son.
+France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
+A chafed lion by the mortal paw,
+A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
+Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith.
+
+PANDULPH.
+So mak’st thou faith an enemy to faith,
+And like a civil war sett’st oath to oath,
+Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow
+First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform’d,
+That is, to be the champion of our church.
+What since thou swor’st is sworn against thyself
+And may not be performed by thyself,
+For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss
+Is not amiss when it is truly done;
+And being not done, where doing tends to ill,
+The truth is then most done not doing it.
+The better act of purposes mistook
+Is to mistake again; though indirect,
+Yet indirection thereby grows direct,
+And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire
+Within the scorched veins of one new-burn’d.
+It is religion that doth make vows kept,
+But thou hast sworn against religion
+By what thou swear’st against the thing thou swear’st,
+And mak’st an oath the surety for thy truth
+Against an oath. The truth thou art unsure
+To swear, swears only not to be forsworn,
+Else what a mockery should it be to swear?
+But thou dost swear only to be forsworn,
+And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost swear.
+Therefore thy latter vows against thy first
+Is in thyself rebellion to thyself;
+And better conquest never canst thou make
+Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts
+Against these giddy loose suggestions,
+Upon which better part our prayers come in,
+If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know
+The peril of our curses light on thee,
+So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off,
+But in despair die under the black weight.
+
+AUSTRIA.
+Rebellion, flat rebellion!
+
+BASTARD.
+Will’t not be?
+Will not a calf’s-skin stop that mouth of thine?
+
+LOUIS.
+Father, to arms!
+
+BLANCHE.
+Upon thy wedding-day?
+Against the blood that thou hast married?
+What, shall our feast be kept with slaughter’d men?
+Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,
+Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp?
+O husband, hear me! Ay, alack, how new
+Is “husband” in my mouth! Even for that name,
+Which till this time my tongue did ne’er pronounce,
+Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms
+Against mine uncle.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+O, upon my knee,
+Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee,
+Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom
+Forethought by heaven!
+
+BLANCHE.
+Now shall I see thy love. What motive may
+Be stronger with thee than the name of wife?
+
+CONSTANCE.
+That which upholdeth him that thee upholds,
+His honour. O, thine honour, Louis, thine honour!
+
+LOUIS.
+I muse your majesty doth seem so cold,
+When such profound respects do pull you on.
+
+PANDULPH.
+I will denounce a curse upon his head.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+O fair return of banish’d majesty!
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+O foul revolt of French inconstancy!
+
+KING JOHN.
+France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour.
+
+BASTARD.
+Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,
+Is it as he will? Well, then, France shall rue.
+
+BLANCHE.
+The sun’s o’ercast with blood. Fair day, adieu!
+Which is the side that I must go withal?
+I am with both, each army hath a hand;
+And in their rage, I having hold of both,
+They whirl asunder and dismember me.
+Husband, I cannot pray that thou mayst win;
+Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose;
+Father, I may not wish the fortune thine;
+Grandam, I will not wish thy wishes thrive.
+Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose;
+Assured loss before the match be play’d.
+
+LOUIS.
+Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
+
+BLANCHE.
+There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Cousin, go draw our puissance together.
+
+[_Exit Bastard._]
+
+France, I am burn’d up with inflaming wrath;
+A rage whose heat hath this condition,
+That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,
+The blood, and dearest-valu’d blood, of France.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Thy rage shall burn thee up, and thou shalt turn
+To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that fire.
+Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.
+
+KING JOHN.
+No more than he that threats. To arms let’s hie!
+
+[_Exeunt severally._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. Plains near Angiers
+
+Alarums. Excursions. Enter the Bastard with Austria’s head.
+
+BASTARD.
+Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot;
+Some airy devil hovers in the sky
+And pours down mischief. Austria’s head lie there,
+While Philip breathes.
+
+Enter King John, Arthur and Hubert.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Hubert, keep this boy.—Philip, make up.
+My mother is assailed in our tent,
+And ta’en, I fear.
+
+BASTARD.
+My lord, I rescu’d her;
+Her highness is in safety, fear you not.
+But on, my liege; for very little pains
+Will bring this labour to an happy end.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same.
+
+Alarums, Excursions, Retreat. Enter King John, Eleanor, Arthur, the
+Bastard, Hubert and Lords.
+
+KING JOHN.
+[_To Eleanor_] So shall it be; your grace shall stay behind
+So strongly guarded.
+[_To Arthur_] Cousin, look not sad.
+Thy grandam loves thee, and thy uncle will
+As dear be to thee as thy father was.
+
+ARTHUR.
+O, this will make my mother die with grief!
+
+KING JOHN.
+[_To the Bastard_] Cousin, away for England! Haste before,
+And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags
+Of hoarding abbots; imprison’d angels
+Set at liberty. The fat ribs of peace
+Must by the hungry now be fed upon.
+Use our commission in his utmost force.
+
+BASTARD.
+Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back
+When gold and silver becks me to come on.
+I leave your highness. Grandam, I will pray,
+If ever I remember to be holy,
+For your fair safety; so, I kiss your hand.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Farewell, gentle cousin.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Coz, farewell.
+
+[_Exit Bastard._]
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+Come hither, little kinsman; hark, a word.
+
+[_She takes Arthur aside._]
+
+KING JOHN.
+Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert,
+We owe thee much! Within this wall of flesh
+There is a soul counts thee her creditor,
+And with advantage means to pay thy love.
+And, my good friend, thy voluntary oath
+Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished.
+Give me thy hand. I had a thing to say,
+But I will fit it with some better tune.
+By heaven, Hubert, I am almost asham’d
+To say what good respect I have of thee.
+
+HUBERT.
+I am much bounden to your majesty.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet,
+But thou shalt have; and creep time ne’er so slow,
+Yet it shall come for me to do thee good.
+I had a thing to say, but let it go.
+The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day,
+Attended with the pleasures of the world,
+Is all too wanton and too full of gauds
+To give me audience. If the midnight bell
+Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth,
+Sound on into the drowsy race of night;
+If this same were a churchyard where we stand,
+And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs;
+Or if that surly spirit, melancholy,
+Had bak’d thy blood and made it heavy, thick,
+Which else runs tickling up and down the veins,
+Making that idiot, laughter, keep men’s eyes
+And strain their cheeks to idle merriment,
+A passion hateful to my purposes;
+Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes,
+Hear me without thine ears, and make reply
+Without a tongue, using conceit alone,
+Without eyes, ears, and harmful sound of words;
+Then, in despite of brooded watchful day,
+I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts.
+But, ah, I will not! Yet I love thee well;
+And, by my troth, I think thou lov’st me well.
+
+HUBERT.
+So well that what you bid me undertake,
+Though that my death were adjunct to my act,
+By heaven, I would do it.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Do not I know thou wouldst?
+Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye
+On yon young boy. I’ll tell thee what, my friend,
+He is a very serpent in my way;
+And wheresoe’er this foot of mine doth tread,
+He lies before me. Dost thou understand me?
+Thou art his keeper.
+
+HUBERT.
+And I’ll keep him so
+That he shall not offend your majesty.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Death.
+
+HUBERT.
+My lord?
+
+KING JOHN.
+A grave.
+
+HUBERT.
+He shall not live.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Enough.
+I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee.
+Well, I’ll not say what I intend for thee.
+Remember. Madam, fare you well.
+I’ll send those powers o’er to your majesty.
+
+QUEEN ELEANOR.
+My blessing go with thee!
+
+KING JOHN.
+For England, cousin, go.
+Hubert shall be your man, attend on you
+With all true duty. On toward Calais, ho!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same. The French King’s tent.
+
+Enter King Philip, Louis, Pandulph and Attendants.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+So, by a roaring tempest on the flood
+A whole armado of convicted sail
+Is scattered and disjoin’d from fellowship.
+
+PANDULPH.
+Courage and comfort! All shall yet go well.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+What can go well, when we have run so ill.
+Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost?
+Arthur ta’en prisoner? Divers dear friends slain?
+And bloody England into England gone,
+O’erbearing interruption, spite of France?
+
+LOUIS.
+What he hath won, that hath he fortified.
+So hot a speed with such advice dispos’d,
+Such temperate order in so fierce a cause,
+Doth want example. Who hath read or heard
+Of any kindred action like to this?
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Well could I bear that England had this praise,
+So we could find some pattern of our shame.
+
+Enter Constance.
+
+Look who comes here! A grave unto a soul;
+Holding th’ eternal spirit, against her will,
+In the vile prison of afflicted breath.
+I prithee, lady, go away with me.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Lo, now, now see the issue of your peace!
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Patience, good lady! Comfort, gentle Constance!
+
+CONSTANCE.
+No, I defy all counsel, all redress,
+But that which ends all counsel, true redress,
+Death, death, O amiable, lovely death!
+Thou odoriferous stench, sound rottenness!
+Arise forth from the couch of lasting night,
+Thou hate and terror to prosperity,
+And I will kiss thy detestable bones
+And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows,
+And ring these fingers with thy household worms,
+And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust,
+And be a carrion monster like thyself.
+Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smil’st,
+And buss thee as thy wife. Misery’s love,
+O, come to me!
+
+KING PHILIP.
+O fair affliction, peace!
+
+CONSTANCE.
+No, no, I will not, having breath to cry.
+O, that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth!
+Then with a passion would I shake the world;
+And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
+Which cannot hear a lady’s feeble voice,
+Which scorns a modern invocation.
+
+PANDULPH.
+Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Thou art not holy to belie me so.
+I am not mad. This hair I tear is mine;
+My name is Constance; I was Geoffrey’s wife;
+Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost.
+I am not mad; I would to heaven I were!
+For then ’tis like I should forget myself.
+O, if I could, what grief should I forget!
+Preach some philosophy to make me mad,
+And thou shalt be canoniz’d, cardinal;
+For, being not mad but sensible of grief,
+My reasonable part produces reason
+How I may be deliver’d of these woes,
+And teaches me to kill or hang myself.
+If I were mad, I should forget my son,
+Or madly think a babe of clouts were he.
+I am not mad; too well, too well I feel
+The different plague of each calamity.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Bind up those tresses. O, what love I note
+In the fair multitude of those her hairs!
+Where but by a chance a silver drop hath fall’n,
+Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends
+Do glue themselves in sociable grief,
+Like true, inseparable, faithful loves,
+Sticking together in calamity.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+To England, if you will.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+Bind up your hairs.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Yes, that I will; and wherefore will I do it?
+I tore them from their bonds and cried aloud,
+“O that these hands could so redeem my son,
+As they have given these hairs their liberty!”
+But now I envy at their liberty,
+And will again commit them to their bonds,
+Because my poor child is a prisoner.
+And, father cardinal, I have heard you say
+That we shall see and know our friends in heaven.
+If that be true, I shall see my boy again;
+For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,
+To him that did but yesterday suspire,
+There was not such a gracious creature born.
+But now will canker sorrow eat my bud
+And chase the native beauty from his cheek,
+And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
+As dim and meagre as an ague’s fit,
+And so he’ll die; and, rising so again,
+When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
+I shall not know him. Therefore never, never
+Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.
+
+PANDULPH.
+You hold too heinous a respect of grief.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+He talks to me that never had a son.
+
+KING PHILIP.
+You are as fond of grief as of your child.
+
+CONSTANCE.
+Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
+Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
+Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
+Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
+Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
+Then have I reason to be fond of grief?
+Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I,
+I could give better comfort than you do.
+I will not keep this form upon my head,
+
+[_She unbinds her hair._]
+
+When there is such disorder in my wit.
+O Lord! My boy, my Arthur, my fair son!
+My life, my joy, my food, my all the world!
+My widow-comfort, and my sorrows’ cure!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING PHILIP.
+I fear some outrage, and I’ll follow her.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+LOUIS.
+There’s nothing in this world can make me joy.
+Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
+Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;
+And bitter shame hath spoil’d the sweet world’s taste,
+That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
+
+PANDULPH.
+Before the curing of a strong disease,
+Even in the instant of repair and health,
+The fit is strongest; evils that take leave
+On their departure most of all show evil.
+What have you lost by losing of this day?
+
+LOUIS.
+All days of glory, joy, and happiness.
+
+PANDULPH.
+If you had won it, certainly you had.
+No, no; when Fortune means to men most good,
+She looks upon them with a threat’ning eye.
+’Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost
+In this which he accounts so clearly won.
+Are not you griev’d that Arthur is his prisoner?
+
+LOUIS.
+As heartily as he is glad he hath him.
+
+PANDULPH.
+Your mind is all as youthful as your blood.
+Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit;
+For even the breath of what I mean to speak
+Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub,
+Out of the path which shall directly lead
+Thy foot to England’s throne; and therefore mark.
+John hath seiz’d Arthur; and it cannot be
+That, whiles warm life plays in that infant’s veins,
+The misplac’d John should entertain an hour,
+One minute, nay, one quiet breath of rest.
+A sceptre snatch’d with an unruly hand
+Must be boisterously maintain’d as gain’d.
+And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place
+Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
+That John may stand, then, Arthur needs must fall.
+So be it, for it cannot be but so.
+
+LOUIS.
+But what shall I gain by young Arthur’s fall?
+
+PANDULPH.
+You, in the right of Lady Blanche your wife,
+May then make all the claim that Arthur did.
+
+LOUIS.
+And lose it, life and all, as Arthur did.
+
+PANDULPH.
+How green you are and fresh in this old world!
+John lays you plots; the times conspire with you;
+For he that steeps his safety in true blood
+Shall find but bloody safety and untrue.
+This act so evilly borne shall cool the hearts
+Of all his people, and freeze up their zeal,
+That none so small advantage shall step forth
+To check his reign, but they will cherish it;
+No natural exhalation in the sky,
+No scope of nature, no distemper’d day,
+No common wind, no customed event,
+But they will pluck away his natural cause
+And call them meteors, prodigies, and signs,
+Abortives, presages, and tongues of heaven,
+Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John.
+
+LOUIS.
+Maybe he will not touch young Arthur’s life,
+But hold himself safe in his prisonment.
+
+PANDULPH.
+O, sir, when he shall hear of your approach,
+If that young Arthur be not gone already,
+Even at that news he dies; and then the hearts
+Of all his people shall revolt from him,
+And kiss the lips of unacquainted change,
+And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath
+Out of the bloody fingers’ ends of John.
+Methinks I see this hurly all on foot;
+And, O, what better matter breeds for you
+Than I have nam’d! The bastard Faulconbridge
+Is now in England ransacking the church,
+Offending charity. If but a dozen French
+Were there in arms, they would be as a call
+To train ten thousand English to their side,
+Or as a little snow, tumbled about,
+Anon becomes a mountain. O noble Dauphin,
+Go with me to the King. ’Tis wonderful
+What may be wrought out of their discontent,
+Now that their souls are topful of offence.
+For England go. I will whet on the King.
+
+LOUIS.
+Strong reasons makes strong actions. Let us go.
+If you say ay, the King will not say no.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+
+SCENE I. Northampton. A Room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Hubert and two Executioners.
+
+HUBERT.
+Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand
+Within the arras. When I strike my foot
+Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth
+And bind the boy which you shall find with me
+Fast to the chair. Be heedful. Hence, and watch.
+
+FIRST EXECUTIONER.
+I hope your warrant will bear out the deed.
+
+HUBERT.
+Uncleanly scruples! Fear not you; look to’t.
+
+[_Exeunt Executioners._]
+
+Young lad, come forth; I have to say with you.
+
+Enter Arthur.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Good morrow, Hubert.
+
+HUBERT.
+Good morrow, little prince.
+
+ARTHUR.
+As little prince, having so great a title
+To be more prince, as may be. You are sad.
+
+HUBERT.
+Indeed, I have been merrier.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Mercy on me!
+Methinks nobody should be sad but I.
+Yet, I remember, when I was in France,
+Young gentlemen would be as sad as night,
+Only for wantonness. By my christendom,
+So I were out of prison, and kept sheep,
+I should be as merry as the day is long;
+And so I would be here, but that I doubt
+My uncle practises more harm to me.
+He is afraid of me, and I of him.
+Is it my fault that I was Geoffrey’s son?
+No, indeed, is’t not; and I would to heaven
+I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert.
+
+HUBERT.
+[_Aside_.] If I talk to him, with his innocent prate
+He will awake my mercy, which lies dead.
+Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Are you sick, Hubert? You look pale today.
+In sooth, I would you were a little sick,
+That I might sit all night and watch with you.
+I warrant I love you more than you do me.
+
+HUBERT.
+[_Aside_.] His words do take possession of my bosom.
+Read here, young Arthur.
+
+[_Showing a paper._]
+
+[_Aside_.] How now, foolish rheum!
+Turning dispiteous torture out of door!
+I must be brief, lest resolution drop
+Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.—
+Can you not read it? Is it not fair writ?
+
+ARTHUR.
+Too fairly, Hubert, for so foul effect.
+Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?
+
+HUBERT.
+Young boy, I must.
+
+ARTHUR.
+And will you?
+
+HUBERT.
+And I will.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
+I knit my handkercher about your brows,
+The best I had, a princess wrought it me,
+And I did never ask it you again;
+And with my hand at midnight held your head,
+And, like the watchful minutes to the hour,
+Still and anon cheer’d up the heavy time,
+Saying ’What lack you?” and “Where lies your grief?”
+Or “What good love may I perform for you?”
+Many a poor man’s son would have lien still
+And ne’er have spoke a loving word to you;
+But you at your sick service had a prince.
+Nay, you may think my love was crafty love,
+And call it cunning. Do, an if you will.
+If heaven be pleas’d that you must use me ill,
+Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes?
+These eyes that never did nor never shall
+So much as frown on you?
+
+HUBERT.
+I have sworn to do it.
+And with hot irons must I burn them out.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Ah, none but in this iron age would do it!
+The iron of itself, though heat red-hot,
+Approaching near these eyes would drink my tears
+And quench his fiery indignation
+Even in the matter of mine innocence;
+Nay, after that, consume away in rust,
+But for containing fire to harm mine eye.
+Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer’d iron?
+An if an angel should have come to me
+And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes,
+I would not have believ’d him. No tongue but Hubert’s.
+
+HUBERT.
+[_Stamps_.] Come forth.
+
+Enter Executioners with cords, irons, &c.
+
+Do as I bid you do.
+
+ARTHUR.
+O, save me, Hubert, save me! My eyes are out
+Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men.
+
+HUBERT.
+Give me the iron, I say, and bind him here.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Alas, what need you be so boist’rous-rough?
+I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still.
+For heaven sake, Hubert, let me not be bound!
+Nay, hear me, Hubert! Drive these men away,
+And I will sit as quiet as a lamb;
+I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word,
+Nor look upon the iron angerly.
+Thrust but these men away, and I’ll forgive you,
+Whatever torment you do put me to.
+
+HUBERT.
+Go, stand within; let me alone with him.
+
+FIRST EXECUTIONER.
+I am best pleas’d to be from such a deed.
+
+[_Exeunt Executioners._]
+
+ARTHUR.
+Alas, I then have chid away my friend!
+He hath a stern look but a gentle heart.
+Let him come back, that his compassion may
+Give life to yours.
+
+HUBERT.
+Come, boy, prepare yourself.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Is there no remedy?
+
+HUBERT.
+None, but to lose your eyes.
+
+ARTHUR.
+O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours,
+A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
+Any annoyance in that precious sense!
+Then, feeling what small things are boisterous there,
+Your vile intent must needs seem horrible.
+
+HUBERT.
+Is this your promise? Go to, hold your tongue.
+
+ARTHUR.
+Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues
+Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes.
+Let me not hold my tongue. Let me not, Hubert,
+Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue,
+So I may keep mine eyes. O, spare mine eyes,
+Though to no use but still to look on you!
+Lo, by my troth, the instrument is cold
+And would not harm me.
+
+HUBERT.
+I can heat it, boy.
+
+ARTHUR.
+No, in good sooth; the fire is dead with grief,
+Being create for comfort, to be us’d
+In undeserv’d extremes. See else yourself.
+There is no malice in this burning coal;
+The breath of heaven hath blown his spirit out
+And strew’d repentant ashes on his head.
+
+HUBERT.
+But with my breath I can revive it, boy.
+
+ARTHUR.
+An if you do, you will but make it blush
+And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert.
+Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes;
+And, like a dog that is compell’d to fight,
+Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.
+All things that you should use to do me wrong
+Deny their office. Only you do lack
+That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,
+Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses.
+
+HUBERT.
+Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eye
+For all the treasure that thine uncle owes.
+Yet I am sworn, and I did purpose, boy,
+With this same very iron to burn them out.
+
+ARTHUR.
+O, now you look like Hubert! All this while
+You were disguised.
+
+HUBERT.
+Peace; no more. Adieu.
+Your uncle must not know but you are dead.
+I’ll fill these dogged spies with false reports.
+And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure
+That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world,
+Will not offend thee.
+
+ARTHUR.
+O heaven! I thank you, Hubert.
+
+HUBERT.
+Silence; no more. Go closely in with me.
+Much danger do I undergo for thee.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A Room of State in the Palace.
+
+Enter King John, crowned, Pembroke, Salisbury and other Lords. The King
+takes his State.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Here once again we sit, once again crown’d,
+And look’d upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+This “once again,” but that your highness pleas’d,
+Was once superfluous. You were crown’d before,
+And that high royalty was ne’er pluck’d off,
+The faiths of men ne’er stained with revolt;
+Fresh expectation troubled not the land
+With any long’d-for change or better state.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp,
+To guard a title that was rich before,
+To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
+To throw a perfume on the violet,
+To smooth the ice, or add another hue
+Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
+To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
+Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+But that your royal pleasure must be done,
+This act is as an ancient tale new told,
+And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
+Being urged at a time unseasonable.
+
+SALISBURY.
+In this the antique and well-noted face
+Of plain old form is much disfigured;
+And, like a shifted wind unto a sail,
+It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about,
+Startles and frights consideration,
+Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected,
+For putting on so new a fashion’d robe.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+When workmen strive to do better than well,
+They do confound their skill in covetousness;
+And oftentimes excusing of a fault
+Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,
+As patches set upon a little breach
+Discredit more in hiding of the fault
+Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.
+
+SALISBURY.
+To this effect, before you were new-crown’d,
+We breath’d our counsel; but it pleas’d your highness
+To overbear it, and we are all well pleas’d,
+Since all and every part of what we would
+Doth make a stand at what your highness will.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Some reasons of this double coronation
+I have possess’d you with, and think them strong;
+And more, more strong, when lesser is my fear,
+I shall indue you with. Meantime but ask
+What you would have reform’d that is not well,
+And well shall you perceive how willingly
+I will both hear and grant you your requests.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+Then I, as one that am the tongue of these,
+To sound the purposes of all their hearts,
+Both for myself and them, but, chief of all,
+Your safety, for the which myself and them
+Bend their best studies, heartily request
+Th’ enfranchisement of Arthur, whose restraint
+Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent
+To break into this dangerous argument:
+If what in rest you have in right you hold,
+Why then your fears, which, as they say, attend
+The steps of wrong, should move you to mew up
+Your tender kinsman, and to choke his days
+With barbarous ignorance, and deny his youth
+The rich advantage of good exercise?
+That the time’s enemies may not have this
+To grace occasions, let it be our suit
+That you have bid us ask his liberty;
+Which for our goods we do no further ask
+Than whereupon our weal, on you depending,
+Counts it your weal he have his liberty.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Let it be so. I do commit his youth
+To your direction.
+
+Enter Hubert.
+
+Hubert, what news with you?
+
+[_Taking him apart._]
+
+PEMBROKE.
+This is the man should do the bloody deed.
+He show’d his warrant to a friend of mine.
+The image of a wicked heinous fault
+Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his
+Doth show the mood of a much troubled breast;
+And I do fearfully believe ’tis done
+What we so fear’d he had a charge to do.
+
+SALISBURY.
+The colour of the King doth come and go
+Between his purpose and his conscience,
+Like heralds ’twixt two dreadful battles set.
+His passion is so ripe it needs must break.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence
+The foul corruption of a sweet child’s death.
+
+KING JOHN.
+We cannot hold mortality’s strong hand.
+Good lords, although my will to give is living,
+The suit which you demand is gone and dead.
+He tells us Arthur is deceas’d tonight.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Indeed, we fear’d his sickness was past cure.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+Indeed, we heard how near his death he was,
+Before the child himself felt he was sick.
+This must be answer’d either here or hence.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?
+Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
+Have I commandment on the pulse of life?
+
+SALISBURY.
+It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame
+That greatness should so grossly offer it.
+So thrive it in your game, and so, farewell.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+Stay yet, Lord Salisbury. I’ll go with thee
+And find th’ inheritance of this poor child,
+His little kingdom of a forced grave.
+That blood which ow’d the breadth of all this isle
+Three foot of it doth hold. Bad world the while!
+This must not be thus borne; this will break out
+To all our sorrows, and ere long, I doubt.
+
+[_Exeunt Lords._]
+
+KING JOHN.
+They burn in indignation. I repent.
+There is no sure foundation set on blood,
+No certain life achiev’d by others’ death.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+A fearful eye thou hast. Where is that blood
+That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks?
+So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
+Pour down thy weather: how goes all in France?
+
+MESSENGER.
+From France to England. Never such a power
+For any foreign preparation
+Was levied in the body of a land.
+The copy of your speed is learn’d by them;
+For when you should be told they do prepare,
+The tidings comes that they are all arriv’d.
+
+KING JOHN.
+O, where hath our intelligence been drunk?
+Where hath it slept? Where is my mother’s care,
+That such an army could be drawn in France,
+And she not hear of it?
+
+MESSENGER.
+My liege, her ear
+Is stopp’d with dust. The first of April died
+Your noble mother; and as I hear, my lord,
+The Lady Constance in a frenzy died
+Three days before. But this from rumour’s tongue
+I idly heard; if true or false I know not.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion!
+O, make a league with me, till I have pleas’d
+My discontented peers! What! Mother dead?
+How wildly then walks my estate in France!
+Under whose conduct came those powers of France
+That thou for truth giv’st out are landed here?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Under the Dauphin.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Thou hast made me giddy
+With these in tidings.
+
+Enter the Bastard and Peter of Pomfret.
+
+Now, what says the world
+To your proceedings? Do not seek to stuff
+My head with more ill news, for it is full.
+
+BASTARD.
+But if you be afeard to hear the worst,
+Then let the worst, unheard, fall on your head.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Bear with me, cousin, for I was amaz’d
+Under the tide, but now I breathe again
+Aloft the flood, and can give audience
+To any tongue, speak it of what it will.
+
+BASTARD.
+How I have sped among the clergymen
+The sums I have collected shall express.
+But as I travaill’d hither through the land,
+I find the people strangely fantasied;
+Possess’d with rumours, full of idle dreams,
+Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
+And here’s a prophet that I brought with me
+From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found
+With many hundreds treading on his heels;
+To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes,
+That, ere the next Ascension-day at noon,
+Your highness should deliver up your crown.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so?
+
+PETER OF POMFRET.
+Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Hubert, away with him; imprison him.
+And on that day at noon, whereon he says
+I shall yield up my crown, let him be hang’d.
+Deliver him to safety, and return,
+For I must use thee.
+
+[_Exit Hubert with Peter._]
+
+O my gentle cousin,
+Hear’st thou the news abroad, who are arriv’d?
+
+BASTARD.
+The French, my lord. Men’s mouths are full of it.
+Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury,
+With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,
+And others more, going to seek the grave
+Of Arthur, whom they say is kill’d tonight
+On your suggestion.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Gentle kinsman, go
+And thrust thyself into their companies.
+I have a way to will their loves again.
+Bring them before me.
+
+BASTARD.
+I will seek them out.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Nay, but make haste, the better foot before!
+O, let me have no subject enemies
+When adverse foreigners affright my towns
+With dreadful pomp of stout invasion!
+Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels,
+And fly like thought from them to me again.
+
+BASTARD.
+The spirit of the time shall teach me speed.
+
+[_Exit Bastard._]
+
+KING JOHN.
+Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman!
+Go after him; for he perhaps shall need
+Some messenger betwixt me and the peers;
+And be thou he.
+
+MESSENGER.
+With all my heart, my liege.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING JOHN.
+My mother dead!
+
+Enter Hubert.
+
+HUBERT.
+My lord, they say five moons were seen tonight—
+Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about
+The other four in wondrous motion.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Five moons!
+
+HUBERT.
+Old men and beldams in the streets
+Do prophesy upon it dangerously.
+Young Arthur’s death is common in their mouths.
+And when they talk of him, they shake their heads
+And whisper one another in the ear;
+And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer’s wrist,
+Whilst he that hears makes fearful action
+With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.
+I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
+The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,
+With open mouth swallowing a tailor’s news;
+Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,
+Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste
+Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,
+Told of a many thousand warlike French
+That were embattailed and rank’d in Kent.
+Another lean unwash’d artificer
+Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur’s death.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Why seek’st thou to possess me with these fears?
+Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur’s death?
+Thy hand hath murder’d him. I had a mighty cause
+To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him.
+
+HUBERT.
+No had, my lord! Why, did you not provoke me?
+
+KING JOHN.
+It is the curse of kings to be attended
+By slaves that take their humours for a warrant
+To break within the bloody house of life,
+And, on the winking of authority
+To understand a law, to know the meaning
+Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns
+More upon humour than advis’d respect.
+
+HUBERT.
+Here is your hand and seal for what I did.
+
+KING JOHN.
+O, when the last account ’twixt heaven and earth
+Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal
+Witness against us to damnation!
+How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
+Make deeds ill done! Hadst not thou been by,
+A fellow by the hand of nature mark’d,
+Quoted and sign’d to do a deed of shame,
+This murder had not come into my mind.
+But taking note of thy abhorr’d aspect,
+Finding thee fit for bloody villainy,
+Apt, liable to be employ’d in danger,
+I faintly broke with thee of Arthur’s death;
+And thou, to be endeared to a king,
+Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.
+
+HUBERT.
+My lord—
+
+KING JOHN.
+Hadst thou but shook thy head or made pause
+When I spake darkly what I purpos’d,
+Or turn’d an eye of doubt upon my face,
+As bid me tell my tale in express words,
+Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off,
+And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me.
+But thou didst understand me by my signs
+And didst in signs again parley with sin;
+Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent,
+And consequently thy rude hand to act
+The deed which both our tongues held vile to name.
+Out of my sight, and never see me more!
+My nobles leave me, and my state is brav’d,
+Even at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers.
+Nay, in the body of the fleshly land,
+This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath,
+Hostility and civil tumult reigns
+Between my conscience and my cousin’s death.
+
+HUBERT.
+Arm you against your other enemies,
+I’ll make a peace between your soul and you.
+Young Arthur is alive. This hand of mine
+Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand,
+Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.
+Within this bosom never enter’d yet
+The dreadful motion of a murderous thought;
+And you have slander’d nature in my form,
+Which, howsoever rude exteriorly,
+Is yet the cover of a fairer mind
+Than to be butcher of an innocent child.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers,
+Throw this report on their incensed rage,
+And make them tame to their obedience!
+Forgive the comment that my passion made
+Upon thy feature; for my rage was blind,
+And foul imaginary eyes of blood
+Presented thee more hideous than thou art.
+O, answer not, but to my closet bring
+The angry lords with all expedient haste.
+I conjure thee but slowly; run more fast.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. Before the castle.
+
+Enter Arthur on the walls.
+
+ARTHUR.
+The wall is high, and yet will I leap down.
+Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!
+There’s few or none do know me, If they did,
+This ship-boy’s semblance hath disguis’d me quite.
+I am afraid; and yet I’ll venture it.
+If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
+I’ll find a thousand shifts to get away.
+As good to die and go, as die and stay.
+
+[_Leaps down._]
+
+O me, my uncle’s spirit is in these stones.
+Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+Enter Pembroke, Salisbury and Bigot.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Lords, I will meet him at Saint Edmundsbury;
+It is our safety, and we must embrace
+This gentle offer of the perilous time.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+Who brought that letter from the cardinal?
+
+SALISBURY.
+The Count Melun, a noble lord of France,
+Whose private with me of the Dauphin’s love
+Is much more general than these lines import.
+
+BIGOT.
+Tomorrow morning let us meet him then.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Or rather then set forward; for ’twill be
+Two long days’ journey, lords, or ere we meet.
+
+Enter the Bastard.
+
+BASTARD.
+Once more today well met, distemper’d lords!
+The King by me requests your presence straight.
+
+SALISBURY.
+The King hath dispossess’d himself of us.
+We will not line his thin bestained cloak
+With our pure honours, nor attend the foot
+That leaves the print of blood where’er it walks.
+Return and tell him so. We know the worst.
+
+BASTARD.
+Whate’er you think, good words, I think, were best.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now.
+
+BASTARD.
+But there is little reason in your grief;
+Therefore ’twere reason you had manners now.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege.
+
+BASTARD.
+’Tis true, to hurt his master, no man’s else.
+
+SALISBURY.
+This is the prison. What is he lies here?
+
+[_Seeing Arthur._]
+
+PEMBROKE.
+O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
+The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Murder, as hating what himself hath done,
+Doth lay it open to urge on revenge.
+
+BIGOT.
+Or, when he doom’d this beauty to a grave,
+Found it too precious-princely for a grave.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Sir Richard, what think you? Have you beheld,
+Or have you read or heard, or could you think,
+Or do you almost think, although you see,
+That you do see? Could thought, without this object,
+Form such another? This is the very top,
+The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest,
+Of murder’s arms. This is the bloodiest shame,
+The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
+That ever wall-ey’d wrath or staring rage
+Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+All murders past do stand excus’d in this.
+And this, so sole and so unmatchable,
+Shall give a holiness, a purity,
+To the yet unbegotten sin of times;
+And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest,
+Exampled by this heinous spectacle.
+
+BASTARD.
+It is a damned and a bloody work;
+The graceless action of a heavy hand,
+If that it be the work of any hand.
+
+SALISBURY.
+If that it be the work of any hand?
+We had a kind of light what would ensue.
+It is the shameful work of Hubert’s hand,
+The practice and the purpose of the King,
+From whose obedience I forbid my soul,
+Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life,
+And breathing to his breathless excellence
+The incense of a vow, a holy vow,
+Never to taste the pleasures of the world,
+Never to be infected with delight,
+Nor conversant with ease and idleness,
+Till I have set a glory to this hand,
+By giving it the worship of revenge.
+
+PEMBROKE and BIGOT.
+Our souls religiously confirm thy words.
+
+Enter Hubert.
+
+HUBERT.
+Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you.
+Arthur doth live; the King hath sent for you.
+
+SALISBURY.
+O, he is bold and blushes not at death.
+Avaunt, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!
+
+HUBERT.
+I am no villain.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Must I rob the law?
+
+[_Drawing his sword._]
+
+BASTARD.
+Your sword is bright, sir; put it up again.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Not till I sheathe it in a murderer’s skin.
+
+HUBERT.
+Stand back, Lord Salisbury, stand back, I say;
+By heaven, I think my sword’s as sharp as yours.
+I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,
+Nor tempt the danger of my true defence;
+Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget
+Your worth, your greatness, and nobility.
+
+BIGOT.
+Out, dunghill! Dar’st thou brave a nobleman?
+
+HUBERT.
+Not for my life. But yet I dare defend
+My innocent life against an emperor.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Thou art a murderer.
+
+HUBERT.
+Do not prove me so.
+Yet I am none. Whose tongue soe’er speaks false,
+Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+Cut him to pieces.
+
+BASTARD.
+Keep the peace, I say.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Stand by, or I shall gall you, Faulconbridge.
+
+BASTARD.
+Thou wert better gall the devil, Salisbury.
+If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,
+Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,
+I’ll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime,
+Or I’ll so maul you and your toasting-iron
+That you shall think the devil is come from hell.
+
+BIGOT.
+What wilt thou do, renowned Faulconbridge?
+Second a villain and a murderer?
+
+HUBERT.
+Lord Bigot, I am none.
+
+BIGOT.
+Who kill’d this prince?
+
+HUBERT.
+’Tis not an hour since I left him well.
+I honour’d him, I lov’d him, and will weep
+My date of life out for his sweet life’s loss.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
+For villainy is not without such rheum;
+And he, long traded in it, makes it seem
+Like rivers of remorse and innocency.
+Away with me, all you whose souls abhor
+Th’ uncleanly savours of a slaughterhouse;
+For I am stifled with this smell of sin.
+
+BIGOT.
+Away toward Bury, to the Dauphin there!
+
+PEMBROKE.
+There tell the King he may inquire us out.
+
+[_Exeunt Lords._]
+
+BASTARD.
+Here’s a good world! Knew you of this fair work?
+Beyond the infinite and boundless reach
+Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,
+Art thou damn’d, Hubert.
+
+HUBERT.
+Do but hear me, sir.
+
+BASTARD.
+Ha! I’ll tell thee what;
+Thou’rt damn’d as black—nay, nothing is so black;
+Thou art more deep damn’d than Prince Lucifer.
+There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell
+As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child.
+
+HUBERT.
+Upon my soul—
+
+BASTARD.
+If thou didst but consent
+To this most cruel act, do but despair;
+And if thou want’st a cord, the smallest thread
+That ever spider twisted from her womb
+Will serve to strangle thee; a rush will be a beam
+To hang thee on; or wouldst thou drown thyself,
+Put but a little water in a spoon
+And it shall be as all the ocean,
+Enough to stifle such a villain up.
+I do suspect thee very grievously.
+
+HUBERT.
+If I in act, consent, or sin of thought,
+Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
+Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,
+Let hell want pains enough to torture me!
+I left him well.
+
+BASTARD.
+Go, bear him in thine arms.
+I am amaz’d, methinks, and lose my way
+Among the thorns and dangers of this world.
+How easy dost thou take all England up!
+From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
+The life, the right, and truth of all this realm
+Is fled to heaven; and England now is left
+To tug and scamble, and to part by th’ teeth
+The unow’d interest of proud-swelling state.
+Now for the bare-pick’d bone of majesty
+Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest
+And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace.
+Now powers from home and discontents at home
+Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits,
+As doth a raven on a sick-fall’n beast,
+The imminent decay of wrested pomp.
+Now happy he whose cloak and cincture can
+Hold out this tempest. Bear away that child,
+And follow me with speed. I’ll to the King.
+A thousand businesses are brief in hand,
+And heaven itself doth frown upon the land.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+
+SCENE I. Northampton. A Room in the Palace.
+
+Enter King John, Pandulph with the crown, and Attendants.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Thus have I yielded up into your hand
+The circle of my glory.
+
+PANDULPH.
+[_Giving King John the crown._]
+Take again
+From this my hand, as holding of the pope,
+Your sovereign greatness and authority.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Now keep your holy word. Go meet the French,
+And from his holiness use all your power
+To stop their marches ’fore we are inflam’d.
+Our discontented counties do revolt;
+Our people quarrel with obedience,
+Swearing allegiance and the love of soul
+To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.
+This inundation of mistemper’d humour
+Rests by you only to be qualified.
+Then pause not; for the present time’s so sick
+That present med’cine must be minist’red
+Or overthrow incurable ensues.
+
+PANDULPH.
+It was my breath that blew this tempest up,
+Upon your stubborn usage of the pope;
+But since you are a gentle convertite,
+My tongue shall hush again this storm of war
+And make fair weather in your blust’ring land.
+On this Ascension-day, remember well,
+Upon your oath of service to the pope,
+Go I to make the French lay down their arms.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING JOHN.
+Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet
+Say that before Ascension-day at noon
+My crown I should give off? Even so I have.
+I did suppose it should be on constraint;
+But, heaven be thank’d, it is but voluntary.
+
+Enter the Bastard.
+
+BASTARD.
+All Kent hath yielded. Nothing there holds out
+But Dover Castle. London hath receiv’d,
+Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers.
+Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone
+To offer service to your enemy;
+And wild amazement hurries up and down
+The little number of your doubtful friends.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Would not my lords return to me again
+After they heard young Arthur was alive?
+
+BASTARD.
+They found him dead and cast into the streets,
+An empty casket, where the jewel of life
+By some damn’d hand was robb’d and ta’en away.
+
+KING JOHN.
+That villain Hubert told me he did live.
+
+BASTARD.
+So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew.
+But wherefore do you droop? Why look you sad?
+Be great in act, as you have been in thought;
+Let not the world see fear and sad distrust
+Govern the motion of a kingly eye.
+Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
+Threaten the threat’ner, and outface the brow
+Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes,
+That borrow their behaviours from the great,
+Grow great by your example and put on
+The dauntless spirit of resolution.
+Away, and glister like the god of war
+When he intendeth to become the field.
+Show boldness and aspiring confidence.
+What, shall they seek the lion in his den,
+And fright him there? And make him tremble there?
+O, let it not be said! Forage, and run
+To meet displeasure farther from the doors,
+And grapple with him ere he come so nigh.
+
+KING JOHN.
+The legate of the pope hath been with me,
+And I have made a happy peace with him;
+And he hath promis’d to dismiss the powers
+Led by the Dauphin.
+
+BASTARD.
+O inglorious league!
+Shall we, upon the footing of our land,
+Send fair-play orders and make compromise,
+Insinuation, parley, and base truce
+To arms invasive? Shall a beardless boy,
+A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
+And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
+Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
+And find no check? Let us, my liege, to arms!
+Perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace;
+Or if he do, let it at least be said
+They saw we had a purpose of defence.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Have thou the ordering of this present time.
+
+BASTARD.
+Away, then, with good courage! Yet, I know
+Our party may well meet a prouder foe.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Near Saint Edmundsbury. The French Camp.
+
+Enter, in arms, Louis, Salisbury, Melun, Pembroke, Bigot and soldiers.
+
+LOUIS.
+My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,
+And keep it safe for our remembrance.
+Return the precedent to these lords again;
+That, having our fair order written down,
+Both they and we, perusing o’er these notes,
+May know wherefore we took the sacrament,
+And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Upon our sides it never shall be broken.
+And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear
+A voluntary zeal and an unurg’d faith
+To your proceedings; yet believe me, prince,
+I am not glad that such a sore of time
+Should seek a plaster by contemn’d revolt,
+And heal the inveterate canker of one wound
+By making many. O, it grieves my soul
+That I must draw this metal from my side
+To be a widow-maker! O, and there
+Where honourable rescue and defence
+Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!
+But such is the infection of the time,
+That, for the health and physic of our right,
+We cannot deal but with the very hand
+Of stern injustice and confused wrong.
+And is’t not pity, O my grieved friends,
+That we, the sons and children of this isle,
+Were born to see so sad an hour as this;
+Wherein we step after a stranger, march
+Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up
+Her enemies’ ranks? I must withdraw and weep
+Upon the spot of this enforced cause,
+To grace the gentry of a land remote,
+And follow unacquainted colours here.
+What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove!
+That Neptune’s arms, who clippeth thee about,
+Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself
+And grapple thee unto a pagan shore,
+Where these two Christian armies might combine
+The blood of malice in a vein of league,
+And not to spend it so unneighbourly!
+
+LOUIS.
+A noble temper dost thou show in this;
+And great affections wrestling in thy bosom
+Doth make an earthquake of nobility.
+O, what a noble combat hast thou fought
+Between compulsion and a brave respect!
+Let me wipe off this honourable dew
+That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks.
+My heart hath melted at a lady’s tears,
+Being an ordinary inundation;
+But this effusion of such manly drops,
+This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul,
+Startles mine eyes and makes me more amaz’d
+Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven
+Figur’d quite o’er with burning meteors.
+Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury,
+And with a great heart heave away this storm.
+Commend these waters to those baby eyes
+That never saw the giant world enrag’d,
+Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,
+Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.
+Come, come; for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep
+Into the purse of rich prosperity
+As Louis himself.—So, nobles, shall you all,
+That knit your sinews to the strength of mine.
+And even there, methinks, an angel spake.
+
+Enter Pandulph.
+
+Look, where the holy legate comes apace,
+To give us warrant from the hand of heaven,
+And on our actions set the name of right
+With holy breath.
+
+PANDULPH.
+Hail, noble prince of France!
+The next is this: King John hath reconcil’d
+Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in,
+That so stood out against the holy church,
+The great metropolis and see of Rome.
+Therefore thy threat’ning colours now wind up,
+And tame the savage spirit of wild war,
+That, like a lion foster’d up at hand,
+It may lie gently at the foot of peace
+And be no further harmful than in show.
+
+LOUIS.
+Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back.
+I am too high-born to be propertied,
+To be a secondary at control,
+Or useful serving-man and instrument
+To any sovereign state throughout the world.
+Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
+Between this chastis’d kingdom and myself,
+And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
+And now ’tis far too huge to be blown out
+With that same weak wind which enkindled it.
+You taught me how to know the face of right,
+Acquainted me with interest to this land,
+Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart;
+And come ye now to tell me John hath made
+His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?
+I, by the honour of my marriage-bed,
+After young Arthur, claim this land for mine;
+And, now it is half-conquer’d, must I back
+Because that John hath made his peace with Rome?
+Am I Rome’s slave? What penny hath Rome borne,
+What men provided, what munition sent,
+To underprop this action? Is’t not I
+That undergo this charge? Who else but I,
+And such as to my claim are liable,
+Sweat in this business and maintain this war?
+Have I not heard these islanders shout out
+_Vive le Roi!_ as I have bank’d their towns?
+Have I not here the best cards for the game
+To win this easy match play’d for a crown?
+And shall I now give o’er the yielded set?
+No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said.
+
+PANDULPH.
+You look but on the outside of this work.
+
+LOUIS.
+Outside or inside, I will not return
+Till my attempt so much be glorified
+As to my ample hope was promised
+Before I drew this gallant head of war,
+And cull’d these fiery spirits from the world,
+To outlook conquest and to win renown
+Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
+
+[_Trumpet sounds._]
+
+What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?
+
+Enter the Bastard, attended.
+
+BASTARD.
+According to the fair play of the world,
+Let me have audience; I am sent to speak,
+My holy lord of Milan, from the King
+I come to learn how you have dealt for him;
+And, as you answer, I do know the scope
+And warrant limited unto my tongue.
+
+PANDULPH.
+The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,
+And will not temporize with my entreaties;
+He flatly says he’ll not lay down his arms.
+
+BASTARD.
+By all the blood that ever fury breath’d,
+The youth says well. Now hear our English king,
+For thus his royalty doth speak in me:
+He is prepar’d, and reason too he should.
+This apish and unmannerly approach,
+This harness’d masque and unadvised revel,
+This unhair’d sauciness and boyish troops,
+The King doth smile at; and is well prepar’d
+To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms,
+From out the circle of his territories.
+That hand which had the strength, even at your door,
+To cudgel you and make you take the hatch,
+To dive like buckets in concealed wells,
+To crouch in litter of your stable planks,
+To lie like pawns lock’d up in chests and trunks,
+To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out
+In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake
+Even at the crying of your nation’s crow,
+Thinking this voice an armed Englishman;
+Shall that victorious hand be feebled here
+That in your chambers gave you chastisement?
+No! Know the gallant monarch is in arms
+And like an eagle o’er his aery towers
+To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.—
+And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts,
+You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb
+Of your dear mother England, blush for shame!
+For your own ladies and pale-visag’d maids
+Like Amazons come tripping after drums,
+Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,
+Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts
+To fierce and bloody inclination.
+
+LOUIS.
+There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace;
+We grant thou canst outscold us. Fare thee well;
+We hold our time too precious to be spent
+With such a brabbler.
+
+PANDULPH.
+Give me leave to speak.
+
+BASTARD.
+No, I will speak.
+
+LOUIS.
+We will attend to neither.
+Strike up the drums; and let the tongue of war,
+Plead for our interest and our being here.
+
+BASTARD.
+Indeed, your drums, being beaten, will cry out;
+And so shall you, being beaten. Do but start
+And echo with the clamour of thy drum,
+And even at hand a drum is ready brac’d
+That shall reverberate all as loud as thine.
+Sound but another, and another shall,
+As loud as thine, rattle the welkin’s ear
+And mock the deep-mouth’d thunder. For at hand,
+Not trusting to this halting legate here,
+Whom he hath us’d rather for sport than need,
+Is warlike John; and in his forehead sits
+A bare-ribb’d death, whose office is this day
+To feast upon whole thousands of the French.
+
+LOUIS.
+Strike up our drums, to find this danger out.
+
+BASTARD.
+And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. The Field of Battle.
+
+Alarums. Enter King John and Hubert.
+
+KING JOHN.
+How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.
+
+HUBERT.
+Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?
+
+KING JOHN.
+This fever that hath troubled me so long
+Lies heavy on me. O, my heart is sick!
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,
+Desires your majesty to leave the field
+And send him word by me which way you go.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Be of good comfort; for the great supply
+That was expected by the Dauphin here
+Are wrack’d three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.
+This news was brought to Richard but even now.
+The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Ay me, this tyrant fever burns me up
+And will not let me welcome this good news.
+Set on toward Swinstead. To my litter straight.
+Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same. Another part of the same.
+
+Enter Salisbury, Pembroke and Bigot.
+
+SALISBURY.
+I did not think the King so stor’d with friends.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+Up once again; put spirit in the French.
+If they miscarry, we miscarry too.
+
+SALISBURY.
+That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge,
+In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+They say King John, sore sick, hath left the field.
+
+Enter Melun wounded, and led by Soldiers.
+
+MELUN.
+Lead me to the revolts of England here.
+
+SALISBURY.
+When we were happy we had other names.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+It is the Count Melun.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Wounded to death.
+
+MELUN.
+Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold;
+Unthread the rude eye of rebellion
+And welcome home again discarded faith.
+Seek out King John and fall before his feet;
+For if the French be lords of this loud day,
+He means to recompense the pains you take
+By cutting off your heads. Thus hath he sworn,
+And I with him, and many more with me,
+Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury;
+Even on that altar where we swore to you
+Dear amity and everlasting love.
+
+SALISBURY.
+May this be possible? May this be true?
+
+MELUN.
+Have I not hideous death within my view,
+Retaining but a quantity of life,
+Which bleeds away even as a form of wax
+Resolveth from his figure ’gainst the fire?
+What in the world should make me now deceive,
+Since I must lose the use of all deceit?
+Why should I then be false, since it is true
+That I must die here and live hence by truth?
+I say again, if Louis do win the day,
+He is forsworn if e’er those eyes of yours
+Behold another day break in the east.
+But even this night, whose black contagious breath
+Already smokes about the burning crest
+Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun,
+Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire,
+Paying the fine of rated treachery
+Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives,
+If Louis by your assistance win the day.
+Commend me to one Hubert, with your king;
+The love of him, and this respect besides,
+For that my grandsire was an Englishman,
+Awakes my conscience to confess all this.
+In lieu whereof, I pray you, bear me hence
+From forth the noise and rumour of the field,
+Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts
+In peace, and part this body and my soul
+With contemplation and devout desires.
+
+SALISBURY.
+We do believe thee, and beshrew my soul
+But I do love the favour and the form
+Of this most fair occasion, by the which
+We will untread the steps of damned flight,
+And like a bated and retired flood,
+Leaving our rankness and irregular course,
+Stoop low within those bounds we have o’erlook’d,
+And calmly run on in obedience
+Even to our ocean, to our great King John.
+My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence;
+For I do see the cruel pangs of death
+Right in thine eye.—Away, my friends! New flight,
+And happy newness, that intends old right.
+
+[_Exeunt, leading off Melun._]
+
+SCENE V. The same. The French camp.
+
+Enter Louis and his train.
+
+LOUIS.
+The sun of heaven, methought, was loath to set,
+But stay’d, and made the western welkin blush,
+When the English measure backward their own ground
+In faint retire. O, bravely came we off,
+When with a volley of our needless shot,
+After such bloody toil, we bid good night,
+And wound our tott’ring colours clearly up,
+Last in the field, and almost lords of it!
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Where is my prince, the Dauphin?
+
+LOUIS.
+Here. What news?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The Count Melun is slain; the English lords
+By his persuasion are again fall’n off,
+And your supply, which you have wish’d so long,
+Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands.
+
+LOUIS.
+Ah, foul shrewd news! Beshrew thy very heart!
+I did not think to be so sad tonight
+As this hath made me. Who was he that said
+King John did fly an hour or two before
+The stumbling night did part our weary powers?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord.
+
+LOUIS.
+Well, keep good quarter and good care tonight.
+The day shall not be up so soon as I,
+To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. An open place in the neighborhood of Swinstead Abbey.
+
+Enter the Bastard and Hubert, meeting.
+
+HUBERT.
+Who’s there? Speak, ho! Speak quickly, or I shoot.
+
+BASTARD.
+A friend. What art thou?
+
+HUBERT.
+Of the part of England.
+
+BASTARD.
+Whither dost thou go?
+
+HUBERT.
+What’s that to thee? Why may I not demand
+Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?
+
+BASTARD.
+Hubert, I think.
+
+HUBERT.
+Thou hast a perfect thought.
+I will, upon all hazards, well believe
+Thou art my friend, that know’st my tongue so well.
+Who art thou?
+
+BASTARD.
+Who thou wilt. And if thou please,
+Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think
+I come one way of the Plantagenets.
+
+HUBERT.
+Unkind remembrance! Thou and eyeless night
+Have done me shame. Brave soldier, pardon me,
+That any accent breaking from thy tongue
+Should ’scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.
+
+BASTARD.
+Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad?
+
+HUBERT.
+Why, here walk I in the black brow of night,
+To find you out.
+
+BASTARD.
+Brief, then; and what’s the news?
+
+HUBERT.
+O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
+Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
+
+BASTARD.
+Show me the very wound of this ill news.
+I am no woman, I’ll not swoon at it.
+
+HUBERT.
+The King, I fear, is poison’d by a monk.
+I left him almost speechless, and broke out
+To acquaint you with this evil, that you might
+The better arm you to the sudden time,
+Than if you had at leisure known of this.
+
+BASTARD.
+How did he take it? Who did taste to him?
+
+HUBERT.
+A monk, I tell you, a resolved villain,
+Whose bowels suddenly burst out. The King
+Yet speaks, and peradventure may recover.
+
+BASTARD.
+Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?
+
+HUBERT.
+Why, know you not? The lords are all come back,
+And brought Prince Henry in their company;
+At whose request the King hath pardon’d them,
+And they are all about his majesty.
+
+BASTARD.
+Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,
+And tempt us not to bear above our power!
+I’ll tell thee, Hubert, half my power this night,
+Passing these flats, are taken by the tide;
+These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;
+Myself, well mounted, hardly have escap’d.
+Away, before. Conduct me to the King;
+I doubt he will be dead or ere I come.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. The orchard of Swinstead Abbey.
+
+Enter Prince Henry, Salisbury and Bigot.
+
+PRINCE HENRY.
+It is too late. The life of all his blood
+Is touch’d corruptibly, and his pure brain,
+Which some suppose the soul’s frail dwelling-house,
+Doth, by the idle comments that it makes,
+Foretell the ending of mortality.
+
+Enter Pembroke.
+
+PEMBROKE.
+His Highness yet doth speak, and holds belief
+That, being brought into the open air,
+It would allay the burning quality
+Of that fell poison which assaileth him.
+
+PRINCE HENRY.
+Let him be brought into the orchard here.
+Doth he still rage?
+
+[_Exit Bigot._]
+
+PEMBROKE.
+He is more patient
+Than when you left him; even now he sung.
+
+PRINCE HENRY.
+O vanity of sickness! Fierce extremes
+In their continuance will not feel themselves.
+Death, having prey’d upon the outward parts,
+Leaves them invisible, and his siege is now
+Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds
+With many legions of strange fantasies,
+Which, in their throng and press to that last hold,
+Confound themselves. ’Tis strange that death should sing.
+I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
+Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death
+And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
+His soul and body to their lasting rest.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Be of good comfort, prince; for you are born
+To set a form upon that indigest
+Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude.
+
+Enter Bigot and Attendants, who bring in King John in a chair.
+
+KING JOHN.
+Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow-room
+It would not out at windows nor at doors.
+There is so hot a summer in my bosom
+That all my bowels crumble up to dust.
+I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen
+Upon a parchment, and against this fire
+Do I shrink up.
+
+PRINCE HENRY.
+How fares your majesty?
+
+KING JOHN.
+Poison’d, ill fare; dead, forsook, cast off,
+And none of you will bid the winter come
+To thrust his icy fingers in my maw,
+Nor let my kingdom’s rivers take their course
+Through my burn’d bosom, nor entreat the north
+To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips
+And comfort me with cold. I do not ask you much,
+I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait,
+And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
+
+PRINCE HENRY.
+O, that there were some virtue in my tears
+That might relieve you!
+
+KING JOHN.
+The salt in them is hot.
+Within me is a hell; and there the poison
+Is, as a fiend, confin’d to tyrannize
+On unreprievable condemned blood.
+
+Enter the Bastard.
+
+BASTARD.
+O, I am scalded with my violent motion
+And spleen of speed to see your majesty!
+
+KING JOHN.
+O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye.
+The tackle of my heart is crack’d and burn’d,
+And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail
+Are turned to one thread, one little hair.
+My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
+Which holds but till thy news be uttered;
+And then all this thou seest is but a clod
+And module of confounded royalty.
+
+BASTARD.
+The Dauphin is preparing hitherward,
+Where God He knows how we shall answer him;
+For in a night the best part of my power,
+As I upon advantage did remove,
+Were in the Washes all unwarily
+Devoured by the unexpected flood.
+
+[_The King dies._]
+
+SALISBURY.
+You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.
+My liege! My lord!—But now a king, now thus.
+
+PRINCE HENRY.
+Even so must I run on, and even so stop.
+What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,
+When this was now a king, and now is clay?
+
+BASTARD.
+Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind
+To do the office for thee of revenge,
+And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven,
+As it on earth hath been thy servant still.
+Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres,
+Where be your powers? Show now your mended faiths,
+And instantly return with me again,
+To push destruction and perpetual shame
+Out of the weak door of our fainting land.
+Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought;
+The Dauphin rages at our very heels.
+
+SALISBURY.
+It seems you know not, then, so much as we.
+The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest,
+Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin,
+And brings from him such offers of our peace
+As we with honour and respect may take,
+With purpose presently to leave this war.
+
+BASTARD.
+He will the rather do it when he sees
+Ourselves well sinewed to our defence.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Nay, ’tis in a manner done already,
+For many carriages he hath dispatch’d
+To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel
+To the disposing of the cardinal,
+With whom yourself, myself, and other lords,
+If you think meet, this afternoon will post
+To consummate this business happily.
+
+BASTARD.
+Let it be so. And you, my noble prince,
+With other princes that may best be spar’d,
+Shall wait upon your father’s funeral.
+
+PRINCE HENRY.
+At Worcester must his body be interr’d;
+For so he will’d it.
+
+BASTARD.
+Thither shall it, then,
+And happily may your sweet self put on
+The lineal state and glory of the land!
+To whom, with all submission, on my knee,
+I do bequeath my faithful services
+And true subjection everlastingly.
+
+SALISBURY.
+And the like tender of our love we make,
+To rest without a spot for evermore.
+
+PRINCE HENRY.
+I have a kind soul that would give you thanks
+And knows not how to do it but with tears.
+
+BASTARD.
+O, let us pay the time but needful woe,
+Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.
+This England never did, nor never shall,
+Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
+But when it first did help to wound itself.
+Now these her princes are come home again,
+Come the three corners of the world in arms
+And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
+If England to itself do rest but true.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Rome. A street
+ Scene II. The same. A public place
+ Scene III. The same. A street
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard
+ Scene II. A room in Caesar’s palace
+ Scene III. A street near the Capitol
+ Scene IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting
+ Scene II. The same. The Forum
+ Scene III. The same. A street
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. A room in Antony’s house
+ Scene II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis
+ Scene III. Within the tent of Brutus
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. The plains of Philippi
+ Scene II. The same. The field of battle
+ Scene III. Another part of the field
+ Scene IV. Another part of the field
+ Scene V. Another part of the field
+
+
+
+
+ Dramatis Personæ
+
+
+JULIUS CAESAR
+OCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir after his death.
+MARCUS ANTONIUS,    ”    ”     ”
+M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS,   ”    ”     ”
+CICERO, PUBLIUS, POPILIUS LENA, Senators.
+MARCUS BRUTUS, Conspirator against Caesar.
+CASSIUS, ”    ”     ”
+CASCA,   ”    ”     ”
+TREBONIUS,     ”    ”     ”
+LIGARIUS,”    ”     ”
+DECIUS BRUTUS, ”    ”     ”
+METELLUS CIMBER,     ”    ”     ”
+CINNA,   ”    ”     ”
+FLAVIUS, tribune
+MARULLUS, tribune
+ARTEMIDORUS, a Sophist of Cnidos.
+A Soothsayer
+CINNA, a poet.
+Another Poet.
+LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, young CATO, and VOLUMNIUS, Friends to
+Brutus and Cassius.
+VARRO, CLITUS, CLAUDIUS, STRATO, LUCIUS, DARDANIUS, Servants to Brutus
+PINDARUS, Servant to Cassius
+
+CALPHURNIA, wife to Caesar
+PORTIA, wife to Brutus
+
+The Ghost of Caesar
+
+Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and Servants.
+
+SCENE: Rome, the conspirators’ camp near Sardis, and the plains of
+Philippi.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Rome. A street.
+
+
+Enter Flavius, Marullus and a throng of Citizens.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home.
+Is this a holiday? What, know you not,
+Being mechanical, you ought not walk
+Upon a labouring day without the sign
+Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?
+
+CARPENTER.
+Why, sir, a carpenter.
+
+MARULLUS.
+Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
+What dost thou with thy best apparel on?
+You, sir, what trade are you?
+
+COBBLER.
+Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a
+cobbler.
+
+MARULLUS.
+But what trade art thou? Answer me directly.
+
+COBBLER.
+A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience, which is
+indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
+
+MARULLUS.
+What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade?
+
+COBBLER.
+Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me; yet, if you be out, sir, I
+can mend you.
+
+MARULLUS.
+What mean’st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow!
+
+COBBLER.
+Why, sir, cobble you.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Thou art a cobbler, art thou?
+
+COBBLER.
+Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl; I meddle with no
+tradesman’s matters, nor women’s matters, but withal I am indeed, sir,
+a surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger, I recover them.
+As proper men as ever trod upon neat’s leather have gone upon my
+handiwork.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+But wherefore art not in thy shop today?
+Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?
+
+COBBLER.
+Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work. But
+indeed, sir, we make holiday to see Caesar, and to rejoice in his
+triumph.
+
+MARULLUS.
+Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
+What tributaries follow him to Rome,
+To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?
+You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
+O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
+Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
+Have you climb’d up to walls and battlements,
+To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops,
+Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
+The livelong day with patient expectation,
+To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.
+And when you saw his chariot but appear,
+Have you not made an universal shout,
+That Tiber trembled underneath her banks
+To hear the replication of your sounds
+Made in her concave shores?
+And do you now put on your best attire?
+And do you now cull out a holiday?
+And do you now strew flowers in his way,
+That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood?
+Be gone!
+Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
+Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
+That needs must light on this ingratitude.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault
+Assemble all the poor men of your sort,
+Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears
+Into the channel, till the lowest stream
+Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
+
+[_Exeunt Citizens._]
+
+See whether their basest metal be not mov’d;
+They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.
+Go you down that way towards the Capitol;
+This way will I. Disrobe the images,
+If you do find them deck’d with ceremonies.
+
+MARULLUS.
+May we do so?
+You know it is the feast of Lupercal.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+It is no matter; let no images
+Be hung with Caesar’s trophies. I’ll about
+And drive away the vulgar from the streets;
+So do you too, where you perceive them thick.
+These growing feathers pluck’d from Caesar’s wing
+Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
+Who else would soar above the view of men,
+And keep us all in servile fearfulness.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A public place.
+
+Enter, in procession, with music, Caesar; Antony, for the course;
+Calphurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius and Casca; a great
+crowd following, among them a Soothsayer.
+
+CAESAR.
+Calphurnia.
+
+CASCA.
+Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.
+
+[_Music ceases._]
+
+CAESAR.
+Calphurnia.
+
+CALPHURNIA.
+Here, my lord.
+
+CAESAR.
+Stand you directly in Antonius’ way,
+When he doth run his course. Antonius.
+
+ANTONY.
+Caesar, my lord?
+
+CAESAR.
+Forget not in your speed, Antonius,
+To touch Calphurnia; for our elders say,
+The barren, touched in this holy chase,
+Shake off their sterile curse.
+
+ANTONY.
+I shall remember.
+When Caesar says “Do this,” it is perform’d.
+
+CAESAR.
+Set on; and leave no ceremony out.
+
+[_Music._]
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Caesar!
+
+CAESAR.
+Ha! Who calls?
+
+CASCA.
+Bid every noise be still; peace yet again!
+
+[_Music ceases._]
+
+CAESAR.
+Who is it in the press that calls on me?
+I hear a tongue shriller than all the music,
+Cry “Caesar”! Speak. Caesar is turn’d to hear.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Beware the Ides of March.
+
+CAESAR.
+What man is that?
+
+BRUTUS.
+A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March.
+
+CAESAR.
+Set him before me; let me see his face.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
+
+CAESAR.
+What say’st thou to me now? Speak once again.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Beware the Ides of March.
+
+CAESAR.
+He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass.
+
+[_Sennet. Exeunt all but Brutus and Cassius._]
+
+CASSIUS.
+Will you go see the order of the course?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Not I.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I pray you, do.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
+Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
+Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
+I’ll leave you.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
+I have not from your eyes that gentleness
+And show of love as I was wont to have.
+You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
+Over your friend that loves you.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Cassius,
+Be not deceived: if I have veil’d my look,
+I turn the trouble of my countenance
+Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
+Of late with passions of some difference,
+Conceptions only proper to myself,
+Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;
+But let not therefore my good friends be grieved
+(Among which number, Cassius, be you one)
+Nor construe any further my neglect,
+Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
+Forgets the shows of love to other men.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;
+By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
+Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
+Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
+
+BRUTUS.
+No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself
+But by reflection, by some other thing.
+
+CASSIUS.
+’Tis just:
+And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
+That you have no such mirrors as will turn
+Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
+That you might see your shadow. I have heard
+Where many of the best respect in Rome,
+(Except immortal Caesar) speaking of Brutus,
+And groaning underneath this age’s yoke,
+Have wish’d that noble Brutus had his eyes.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
+That you would have me seek into myself
+For that which is not in me?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear;
+And since you know you cannot see yourself
+So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
+Will modestly discover to yourself
+That of yourself which you yet know not of.
+And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:
+Were I a common laugher, or did use
+To stale with ordinary oaths my love
+To every new protester; if you know
+That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard,
+And after scandal them; or if you know
+That I profess myself in banqueting,
+To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.
+
+[_Flourish and shout._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+What means this shouting? I do fear the people
+Choose Caesar for their king.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Ay, do you fear it?
+Then must I think you would not have it so.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well,
+But wherefore do you hold me here so long?
+What is it that you would impart to me?
+If it be aught toward the general good,
+Set honour in one eye and death i’ the other,
+And I will look on both indifferently;
+For let the gods so speed me as I love
+The name of honour more than I fear death.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,
+As well as I do know your outward favour.
+Well, honour is the subject of my story.
+I cannot tell what you and other men
+Think of this life; but, for my single self,
+I had as lief not be as live to be
+In awe of such a thing as I myself.
+I was born free as Caesar; so were you;
+We both have fed as well, and we can both
+Endure the winter’s cold as well as he:
+For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
+The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
+Caesar said to me, “Dar’st thou, Cassius, now
+Leap in with me into this angry flood,
+And swim to yonder point?” Upon the word,
+Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,
+And bade him follow: so indeed he did.
+The torrent roar’d, and we did buffet it
+With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
+And stemming it with hearts of controversy.
+But ere we could arrive the point propos’d,
+Caesar cried, “Help me, Cassius, or I sink!”
+I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
+Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
+The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
+Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
+Is now become a god; and Cassius is
+A wretched creature, and must bend his body,
+If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
+He had a fever when he was in Spain,
+And when the fit was on him I did mark
+How he did shake: ’tis true, this god did shake:
+His coward lips did from their colour fly,
+And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
+Did lose his lustre. I did hear him groan:
+Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans
+Mark him, and write his speeches in their books,
+Alas, it cried, “Give me some drink, Titinius,”
+As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me,
+A man of such a feeble temper should
+So get the start of the majestic world,
+And bear the palm alone.
+
+[_Shout. Flourish._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+Another general shout?
+I do believe that these applauses are
+For some new honours that are heap’d on Caesar.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
+Like a Colossus, and we petty men
+Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
+To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
+Men at some time are masters of their fates:
+The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
+But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
+“Brutus” and “Caesar”: what should be in that “Caesar”?
+Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
+Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
+Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
+Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with ’em,
+“Brutus” will start a spirit as soon as “Caesar.”
+Now in the names of all the gods at once,
+Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
+That he is grown so great? Age, thou art sham’d!
+Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
+When went there by an age since the great flood,
+But it was fam’d with more than with one man?
+When could they say, till now, that talk’d of Rome,
+That her wide walls encompass’d but one man?
+Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough,
+When there is in it but one only man.
+O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
+There was a Brutus once that would have brook’d
+Th’ eternal devil to keep his state in Rome,
+As easily as a king!
+
+BRUTUS.
+That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;
+What you would work me to, I have some aim:
+How I have thought of this, and of these times,
+I shall recount hereafter. For this present,
+I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
+Be any further mov’d. What you have said,
+I will consider; what you have to say
+I will with patience hear; and find a time
+Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
+Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
+Brutus had rather be a villager
+Than to repute himself a son of Rome
+Under these hard conditions as this time
+Is like to lay upon us.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I am glad that my weak words
+Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.
+
+Enter Caesar and his Train.
+
+BRUTUS.
+The games are done, and Caesar is returning.
+
+CASSIUS.
+As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve,
+And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
+What hath proceeded worthy note today.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,
+The angry spot doth glow on Caesar’s brow,
+And all the rest look like a chidden train:
+Calphurnia’s cheek is pale; and Cicero
+Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
+As we have seen him in the Capitol,
+Being cross’d in conference by some senators.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Casca will tell us what the matter is.
+
+CAESAR.
+Antonius.
+
+ANTONY.
+Caesar?
+
+CAESAR.
+Let me have men about me that are fat,
+Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights:
+Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
+He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
+
+ANTONY.
+Fear him not, Caesar; he’s not dangerous;
+He is a noble Roman and well given.
+
+CAESAR.
+Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:
+Yet if my name were liable to fear,
+I do not know the man I should avoid
+So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much,
+He is a great observer, and he looks
+Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays,
+As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music.
+Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort
+As if he mock’d himself and scorn’d his spirit
+That could be mov’d to smile at anything.
+Such men as he be never at heart’s ease
+Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
+And therefore are they very dangerous.
+I rather tell thee what is to be fear’d
+Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.
+Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,
+And tell me truly what thou think’st of him.
+
+[_Exeunt Caesar and his Train. Casca stays._]
+
+CASCA.
+You pull’d me by the cloak; would you speak with me?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Ay, Casca, tell us what hath chanc’d today,
+That Caesar looks so sad.
+
+CASCA.
+Why, you were with him, were you not?
+
+BRUTUS.
+I should not then ask Casca what had chanc’d.
+
+CASCA.
+Why, there was a crown offer’d him; and being offer’d him, he put it by
+with the back of his hand, thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.
+
+BRUTUS.
+What was the second noise for?
+
+CASCA.
+Why, for that too.
+
+CASSIUS.
+They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?
+
+CASCA.
+Why, for that too.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Was the crown offer’d him thrice?
+
+CASCA.
+Ay, marry, was’t, and he put it by thrice, every time gentler than
+other; and at every putting-by mine honest neighbours shouted.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Who offer’d him the crown?
+
+CASCA.
+Why, Antony.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.
+
+CASCA.
+I can as well be hang’d, as tell the manner of it: it was mere foolery;
+I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown; yet ’twas not a
+crown neither, ’twas one of these coronets; and, as I told you, he put
+it by once: but, for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had
+it. Then he offered it to him again: then he put it by again: but, to
+my thinking, he was very loath to lay his fingers off it. And then he
+offered it the third time; he put it the third time by; and still, as
+he refus’d it, the rabblement hooted, and clapp’d their chopt hands,
+and threw up their sweaty night-caps, and uttered such a deal of
+stinking breath because Caesar refus’d the crown, that it had, almost,
+choked Caesar, for he swooned, and fell down at it. And for mine own
+part, I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the
+bad air.
+
+CASSIUS.
+But, soft! I pray you. What, did Caesar swoon?
+
+CASCA.
+He fell down in the market-place, and foam’d at mouth, and was
+speechless.
+
+BRUTUS.
+’Tis very like: he hath the falling-sickness.
+
+CASSIUS.
+No, Caesar hath it not; but you, and I,
+And honest Casca, we have the falling-sickness.
+
+CASCA.
+I know not what you mean by that; but I am sure Caesar fell down. If
+the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he
+pleased and displeased them, as they use to do the players in the
+theatre, I am no true man.
+
+BRUTUS.
+What said he when he came unto himself?
+
+CASCA.
+Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad
+he refused the crown, he pluck’d me ope his doublet, and offer’d them
+his throat to cut. And I had been a man of any occupation, if I would
+not have taken him at a word, I would I might go to hell among the
+rogues. And so he fell. When he came to himself again, he said, if he
+had done or said anything amiss, he desir’d their worships to think it
+was his infirmity. Three or four wenches where I stood cried, “Alas,
+good soul!” and forgave him with all their hearts. But there’s no heed
+to be taken of them: if Caesar had stabb’d their mothers, they would
+have done no less.
+
+BRUTUS.
+And, after that, he came thus sad away?
+
+CASCA.
+Ay.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Did Cicero say anything?
+
+CASCA.
+Ay, he spoke Greek.
+
+CASSIUS.
+To what effect?
+
+CASCA.
+Nay, and I tell you that, I’ll ne’er look you i’ the face again. But
+those that understood him smil’d at one another and shook their heads;
+but for mine own part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more news
+too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs off Caesar’s images, are
+put to silence. Fare you well. There was more foolery yet, if I could
+remember it.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Will you sup with me tonight, Casca?
+
+CASCA.
+No, I am promis’d forth.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Will you dine with me tomorrow?
+
+CASCA.
+Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner worth the
+eating.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Good. I will expect you.
+
+CASCA.
+Do so; farewell both.
+
+[_Exit Casca._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!
+He was quick mettle when he went to school.
+
+CASSIUS.
+So is he now in execution
+Of any bold or noble enterprise,
+However he puts on this tardy form.
+This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
+Which gives men stomach to digest his words
+With better appetite.
+
+BRUTUS.
+And so it is. For this time I will leave you:
+Tomorrow, if you please to speak with me,
+I will come home to you; or, if you will,
+Come home to me, and I will wait for you.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I will do so: till then, think of the world.
+
+[_Exit Brutus._]
+
+Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see,
+Thy honourable metal may be wrought
+From that it is dispos’d: therefore ’tis meet
+That noble minds keep ever with their likes;
+For who so firm that cannot be seduc’d?
+Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus.
+If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius,
+He should not humour me. I will this night,
+In several hands, in at his windows throw,
+As if they came from several citizens,
+Writings, all tending to the great opinion
+That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely
+Caesar’s ambition shall be glanced at.
+And after this, let Caesar seat him sure,
+For we will shake him, or worse days endure.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A street.
+
+Thunder and lightning. Enter, from opposite sides, Casca with his sword
+drawn, and Cicero.
+
+CICERO.
+Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?
+Why are you breathless, and why stare you so?
+
+CASCA.
+Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth
+Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,
+I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds
+Have riv’d the knotty oaks; and I have seen
+Th’ ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,
+To be exalted with the threatening clouds:
+But never till tonight, never till now,
+Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
+Either there is a civil strife in heaven,
+Or else the world too saucy with the gods,
+Incenses them to send destruction.
+
+CICERO.
+Why, saw you anything more wonderful?
+
+CASCA.
+A common slave, you’d know him well by sight,
+Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
+Like twenty torches join’d, and yet his hand,
+Not sensible of fire remain’d unscorch’d.
+Besides, I ha’ not since put up my sword,
+Against the Capitol I met a lion,
+Who glared upon me, and went surly by,
+Without annoying me. And there were drawn
+Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
+Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw
+Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets.
+And yesterday the bird of night did sit,
+Even at noonday upon the marketplace,
+Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies
+Do so conjointly meet, let not men say,
+“These are their reasons; they are natural”;
+For I believe, they are portentous things
+Unto the climate that they point upon.
+
+CICERO.
+Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time.
+But men may construe things after their fashion,
+Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
+Comes Caesar to the Capitol tomorrow?
+
+CASCA.
+He doth, for he did bid Antonius
+Send word to you he would be there tomorrow.
+
+CICERO.
+Goodnight then, Casca: this disturbed sky
+Is not to walk in.
+
+CASCA.
+Farewell, Cicero.
+
+[_Exit Cicero._]
+
+Enter Cassius.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Who’s there?
+
+CASCA.
+A Roman.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Casca, by your voice.
+
+CASCA.
+Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this!
+
+CASSIUS.
+A very pleasing night to honest men.
+
+CASCA.
+Who ever knew the heavens menace so?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Those that have known the earth so full of faults.
+For my part, I have walk’d about the streets,
+Submitting me unto the perilous night;
+And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,
+Have bar’d my bosom to the thunder-stone;
+And when the cross blue lightning seem’d to open
+The breast of heaven, I did present myself
+Even in the aim and very flash of it.
+
+CASCA.
+But wherefore did you so much tempt the Heavens?
+It is the part of men to fear and tremble,
+When the most mighty gods by tokens send
+Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.
+
+CASSIUS.
+You are dull, Casca; and those sparks of life
+That should be in a Roman you do want,
+Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze,
+And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder,
+To see the strange impatience of the Heavens:
+But if you would consider the true cause
+Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,
+Why birds and beasts, from quality and kind;
+Why old men, fools, and children calculate,
+Why all these things change from their ordinance,
+Their natures, and pre-formed faculties,
+To monstrous quality; why, you shall find
+That Heaven hath infus’d them with these spirits,
+To make them instruments of fear and warning
+Unto some monstrous state.
+Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man
+Most like this dreadful night,
+That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars,
+As doth the lion in the Capitol;
+A man no mightier than thyself, or me,
+In personal action; yet prodigious grown,
+And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.
+
+CASCA.
+’Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Let it be who it is: for Romans now
+Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors;
+But, woe the while! our fathers’ minds are dead,
+And we are govern’d with our mothers’ spirits;
+Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.
+
+CASCA.
+Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow
+Mean to establish Caesar as a king;
+And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,
+In every place, save here in Italy.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I know where I will wear this dagger then;
+Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:
+Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;
+Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat.
+Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
+Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
+Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
+But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
+Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
+If I know this, know all the world besides,
+That part of tyranny that I do bear
+I can shake off at pleasure.
+
+[_Thunder still._]
+
+CASCA.
+So can I:
+So every bondman in his own hand bears
+The power to cancel his captivity.
+
+CASSIUS.
+And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?
+Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,
+But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:
+He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.
+Those that with haste will make a mighty fire
+Begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome,
+What rubbish, and what offal, when it serves
+For the base matter to illuminate
+So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,
+Where hast thou led me? I, perhaps, speak this
+Before a willing bondman: then I know
+My answer must be made; but I am arm’d,
+And dangers are to me indifferent.
+
+CASCA.
+You speak to Casca, and to such a man
+That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand:
+Be factious for redress of all these griefs,
+And I will set this foot of mine as far
+As who goes farthest.
+
+CASSIUS.
+There’s a bargain made.
+Now know you, Casca, I have mov’d already
+Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans
+To undergo with me an enterprise
+Of honourable-dangerous consequence;
+And I do know by this, they stay for me
+In Pompey’s Porch: for now, this fearful night,
+There is no stir or walking in the streets;
+And the complexion of the element
+In favour’s like the work we have in hand,
+Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.
+
+Enter Cinna.
+
+CASCA.
+Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.
+
+CASSIUS.
+’Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;
+He is a friend. Cinna, where haste you so?
+
+CINNA.
+To find out you. Who’s that? Metellus Cimber?
+
+CASSIUS.
+No, it is Casca, one incorporate
+To our attempts. Am I not stay’d for, Cinna?
+
+CINNA.
+I am glad on’t. What a fearful night is this!
+There’s two or three of us have seen strange sights.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Am I not stay’d for? tell me.
+
+CINNA.
+Yes, you are. O Cassius, if you could
+But win the noble Brutus to our party—
+
+CASSIUS.
+Be you content. Good Cinna, take this paper,
+And look you lay it in the praetor’s chair,
+Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this
+In at his window; set this up with wax
+Upon old Brutus’ statue: all this done,
+Repair to Pompey’s Porch, where you shall find us.
+Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?
+
+CINNA.
+All but Metellus Cimber, and he’s gone
+To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,
+And so bestow these papers as you bade me.
+
+CASSIUS.
+That done, repair to Pompey’s theatre.
+
+[_Exit Cinna._]
+
+Come, Casca, you and I will yet, ere day,
+See Brutus at his house: three parts of him
+Is ours already, and the man entire
+Upon the next encounter, yields him ours.
+
+CASCA.
+O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts!
+And that which would appear offence in us,
+His countenance, like richest alchemy,
+Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Him, and his worth, and our great need of him,
+You have right well conceited. Let us go,
+For it is after midnight; and ere day,
+We will awake him, and be sure of him.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard.
+
+
+Enter Brutus.
+
+BRUTUS.
+What, Lucius, ho!
+I cannot, by the progress of the stars,
+Give guess how near to day.—Lucius, I say!
+I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.
+When, Lucius, when? Awake, I say! What, Lucius!
+
+Enter Lucius.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Call’d you, my lord?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Get me a taper in my study, Lucius:
+When it is lighted, come and call me here.
+
+LUCIUS.
+I will, my lord.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+It must be by his death: and for my part,
+I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
+But for the general. He would be crown’d:
+How that might change his nature, there’s the question.
+It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,
+And that craves wary walking. Crown him?—that;
+And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,
+That at his will he may do danger with.
+Th’ abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins
+Remorse from power; and, to speak truth of Caesar,
+I have not known when his affections sway’d
+More than his reason. But ’tis a common proof,
+That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
+Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
+But when he once attains the upmost round,
+He then unto the ladder turns his back,
+Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
+By which he did ascend. So Caesar may;
+Then lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrel
+Will bear no colour for the thing he is,
+Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented,
+Would run to these and these extremities:
+And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg
+Which hatch’d, would, as his kind grow mischievous;
+And kill him in the shell.
+
+Enter Lucius.
+
+LUCIUS.
+The taper burneth in your closet, sir.
+Searching the window for a flint, I found
+This paper, thus seal’d up, and I am sure
+It did not lie there when I went to bed.
+
+[_Gives him the letter._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+Get you to bed again; it is not day.
+Is not tomorrow, boy, the Ides of March?
+
+LUCIUS.
+I know not, sir.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Look in the calendar, and bring me word.
+
+LUCIUS.
+I will, sir.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+The exhalations, whizzing in the air
+Give so much light that I may read by them.
+
+[_Opens the letter and reads._]
+
+_Brutus, thou sleep’st: awake and see thyself.
+Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress!_
+“Brutus, thou sleep’st: awake!”
+Such instigations have been often dropp’d
+Where I have took them up.
+“Shall Rome, &c.” Thus must I piece it out:
+Shall Rome stand under one man’s awe? What, Rome?
+My ancestors did from the streets of Rome
+The Tarquin drive, when he was call’d a king.
+“Speak, strike, redress!” Am I entreated
+To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise,
+If the redress will follow, thou receivest
+Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus.
+
+Enter Lucius.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Sir, March is wasted fifteen days.
+
+[_Knock within._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+’Tis good. Go to the gate, somebody knocks.
+
+[_Exit Lucius._]
+
+Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,
+I have not slept.
+Between the acting of a dreadful thing
+And the first motion, all the interim is
+Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
+The genius and the mortal instruments
+Are then in council; and the state of man,
+Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
+The nature of an insurrection.
+
+Enter Lucius.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Sir, ’tis your brother Cassius at the door,
+Who doth desire to see you.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Is he alone?
+
+LUCIUS.
+No, sir, there are moe with him.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Do you know them?
+
+LUCIUS.
+No, sir, their hats are pluck’d about their ears,
+And half their faces buried in their cloaks,
+That by no means I may discover them
+By any mark of favour.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Let ’em enter.
+
+[_Exit Lucius._]
+
+They are the faction. O conspiracy,
+Sham’st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,
+When evils are most free? O, then, by day
+Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
+To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;
+Hide it in smiles and affability:
+For if thou path, thy native semblance on,
+Not Erebus itself were dim enough
+To hide thee from prevention.
+
+Enter Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus Cimber and Trebonius.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I think we are too bold upon your rest:
+Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you?
+
+BRUTUS.
+I have been up this hour, awake all night.
+Know I these men that come along with you?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Yes, every man of them; and no man here
+But honours you; and everyone doth wish
+You had but that opinion of yourself
+Which every noble Roman bears of you.
+This is Trebonius.
+
+BRUTUS.
+He is welcome hither.
+
+CASSIUS.
+This Decius Brutus.
+
+BRUTUS.
+He is welcome too.
+
+CASSIUS.
+This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber.
+
+BRUTUS.
+They are all welcome.
+What watchful cares do interpose themselves
+Betwixt your eyes and night?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Shall I entreat a word?
+
+[_They whisper._]
+
+DECIUS.
+Here lies the east: doth not the day break here?
+
+CASCA.
+No.
+
+CINNA.
+O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon grey lines
+That fret the clouds are messengers of day.
+
+CASCA.
+You shall confess that you are both deceiv’d.
+Here, as I point my sword, the Sun arises;
+Which is a great way growing on the South,
+Weighing the youthful season of the year.
+Some two months hence, up higher toward the North
+He first presents his fire; and the high East
+Stands, as the Capitol, directly here.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Give me your hands all over, one by one.
+
+CASSIUS.
+And let us swear our resolution.
+
+BRUTUS.
+No, not an oath. If not the face of men,
+The sufferance of our souls, the time’s abuse—
+If these be motives weak, break off betimes,
+And every man hence to his idle bed.
+So let high-sighted tyranny range on,
+Till each man drop by lottery. But if these,
+As I am sure they do, bear fire enough
+To kindle cowards, and to steel with valour
+The melting spirits of women; then, countrymen,
+What need we any spur but our own cause
+To prick us to redress? what other bond
+Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word,
+And will not palter? and what other oath
+Than honesty to honesty engag’d,
+That this shall be, or we will fall for it?
+Swear priests and cowards, and men cautelous,
+Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls
+That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear
+Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain
+The even virtue of our enterprise,
+Nor th’ insuppressive mettle of our spirits,
+To think that or our cause or our performance
+Did need an oath; when every drop of blood
+That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,
+Is guilty of a several bastardy,
+If he do break the smallest particle
+Of any promise that hath pass’d from him.
+
+CASSIUS.
+But what of Cicero? Shall we sound him?
+I think he will stand very strong with us.
+
+CASCA.
+Let us not leave him out.
+
+CINNA.
+No, by no means.
+
+METELLUS.
+O, let us have him, for his silver hairs
+Will purchase us a good opinion,
+And buy men’s voices to commend our deeds.
+It shall be said, his judgement rul’d our hands;
+Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,
+But all be buried in his gravity.
+
+BRUTUS.
+O, name him not; let us not break with him;
+For he will never follow anything
+That other men begin.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Then leave him out.
+
+CASCA.
+Indeed, he is not fit.
+
+DECIUS.
+Shall no man else be touch’d but only Caesar?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Decius, well urg’d. I think it is not meet,
+Mark Antony, so well belov’d of Caesar,
+Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him
+A shrewd contriver; and you know, his means,
+If he improve them, may well stretch so far
+As to annoy us all; which to prevent,
+Let Antony and Caesar fall together.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
+To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs,
+Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards;
+For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.
+Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
+We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,
+And in the spirit of men there is no blood.
+O, that we then could come by Caesar’s spirit,
+And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,
+Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,
+Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
+Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
+Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.
+And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,
+Stir up their servants to an act of rage,
+And after seem to chide ’em. This shall mark
+Our purpose necessary, and not envious;
+Which so appearing to the common eyes,
+We shall be call’d purgers, not murderers.
+And for Mark Antony, think not of him;
+For he can do no more than Caesar’s arm
+When Caesar’s head is off.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Yet I fear him;
+For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar—
+
+BRUTUS.
+Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:
+If he love Caesar, all that he can do
+Is to himself; take thought and die for Caesar.
+And that were much he should; for he is given
+To sports, to wildness, and much company.
+
+TREBONIUS.
+There is no fear in him; let him not die;
+For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter.
+
+[_Clock strikes._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+Peace! count the clock.
+
+CASSIUS.
+The clock hath stricken three.
+
+TREBONIUS.
+’Tis time to part.
+
+CASSIUS.
+But it is doubtful yet
+Whether Caesar will come forth today or no;
+For he is superstitious grown of late,
+Quite from the main opinion he held once
+Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.
+It may be these apparent prodigies,
+The unaccustom’d terror of this night,
+And the persuasion of his augurers,
+May hold him from the Capitol today.
+
+DECIUS.
+Never fear that: if he be so resolved,
+I can o’ersway him, for he loves to hear
+That unicorns may be betray’d with trees,
+And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
+Lions with toils, and men with flatterers.
+But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
+He says he does, being then most flattered.
+Let me work;
+For I can give his humour the true bent,
+And I will bring him to the Capitol.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.
+
+BRUTUS.
+By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?
+
+CINNA.
+Be that the uttermost; and fail not then.
+
+METELLUS.
+Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,
+Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey;
+I wonder none of you have thought of him.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Now, good Metellus, go along by him:
+He loves me well, and I have given him reason;
+Send him but hither, and I’ll fashion him.
+
+CASSIUS.
+The morning comes upon’s. We’ll leave you, Brutus.
+And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember
+What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily;
+Let not our looks put on our purposes,
+But bear it as our Roman actors do,
+With untired spirits and formal constancy.
+And so, good morrow to you everyone.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Brutus._]
+
+Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;
+Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:
+Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,
+Which busy care draws in the brains of men;
+Therefore thou sleep’st so sound.
+
+Enter Portia.
+
+PORTIA.
+Brutus, my lord.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Portia, what mean you? Wherefore rise you now?
+It is not for your health thus to commit
+Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.
+
+PORTIA.
+Nor for yours neither. Y’ have ungently, Brutus,
+Stole from my bed; and yesternight at supper,
+You suddenly arose, and walk’d about,
+Musing and sighing, with your arms across;
+And when I ask’d you what the matter was,
+You star’d upon me with ungentle looks.
+I urg’d you further; then you scratch’d your head,
+And too impatiently stamp’d with your foot;
+Yet I insisted, yet you answer’d not,
+But with an angry wafture of your hand
+Gave sign for me to leave you. So I did,
+Fearing to strengthen that impatience
+Which seem’d too much enkindled; and withal
+Hoping it was but an effect of humour,
+Which sometime hath his hour with every man.
+It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep;
+And could it work so much upon your shape
+As it hath much prevail’d on your condition,
+I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,
+Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I am not well in health, and that is all.
+
+PORTIA.
+Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,
+He would embrace the means to come by it.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed.
+
+PORTIA.
+Is Brutus sick, and is it physical
+To walk unbraced and suck up the humours
+Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,
+And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
+To dare the vile contagion of the night,
+And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
+To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus;
+You have some sick offence within your mind,
+Which, by the right and virtue of my place,
+I ought to know of: and, upon my knees,
+I charm you, by my once commended beauty,
+By all your vows of love, and that great vow
+Which did incorporate and make us one,
+That you unfold to me, your self, your half,
+Why you are heavy, and what men tonight
+Have had resort to you; for here have been
+Some six or seven, who did hide their faces
+Even from darkness.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Kneel not, gentle Portia.
+
+PORTIA.
+I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus.
+Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,
+Is it excepted I should know no secrets
+That appertain to you? Am I your self
+But, as it were, in sort or limitation,
+To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
+And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs
+Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
+Portia is Brutus’ harlot, not his wife.
+
+BRUTUS.
+You are my true and honourable wife,
+As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
+That visit my sad heart.
+
+PORTIA.
+If this were true, then should I know this secret.
+I grant I am a woman; but withal
+A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife;
+I grant I am a woman; but withal
+A woman well reputed, Cato’s daughter.
+Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
+Being so father’d and so husbanded?
+Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose ’em.
+I have made strong proof of my constancy,
+Giving myself a voluntary wound
+Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience
+And not my husband’s secrets?
+
+BRUTUS.
+O ye gods,
+Render me worthy of this noble wife!
+
+[_Knock._]
+
+Hark, hark, one knocks. Portia, go in awhile;
+And by and by thy bosom shall partake
+The secrets of my heart.
+All my engagements I will construe to thee,
+All the charactery of my sad brows.
+Leave me with haste.
+
+[_Exit Portia._]
+
+Enter Lucius with Ligarius.
+
+Lucius, who’s that knocks?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Here is a sick man that would speak with you.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of.
+Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius, how?
+
+LIGARIUS.
+Vouchsafe good-morrow from a feeble tongue.
+
+BRUTUS.
+O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,
+To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick!
+
+LIGARIUS.
+I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand
+Any exploit worthy the name of honour.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,
+Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.
+
+LIGARIUS.
+By all the gods that Romans bow before,
+I here discard my sickness. Soul of Rome!
+Brave son, derived from honourable loins!
+Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjur’d up
+My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,
+And I will strive with things impossible,
+Yea, get the better of them. What’s to do?
+
+BRUTUS.
+A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
+
+LIGARIUS.
+But are not some whole that we must make sick?
+
+BRUTUS.
+That must we also. What it is, my Caius,
+I shall unfold to thee, as we are going,
+To whom it must be done.
+
+LIGARIUS.
+Set on your foot,
+And with a heart new-fir’d I follow you,
+To do I know not what; but it sufficeth
+That Brutus leads me on.
+
+[_Thunder._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+Follow me then.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A room in Caesar’s palace.
+
+Thunder and lightning. Enter Caesar, in his nightgown.
+
+CAESAR.
+Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight:
+Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out,
+“Help, ho! They murder Caesar!” Who’s within?
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+My lord?
+
+CAESAR.
+Go bid the priests do present sacrifice,
+And bring me their opinions of success.
+
+SERVANT.
+I will, my lord.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Calphurnia.
+
+CALPHURNIA.
+What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth?
+You shall not stir out of your house today.
+
+CAESAR.
+Caesar shall forth. The things that threaten’d me
+Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see
+The face of Caesar, they are vanished.
+
+CALPHURNIA.
+Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
+Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
+Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
+Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
+A lioness hath whelped in the streets,
+And graves have yawn’d, and yielded up their dead;
+Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds
+In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
+Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;
+The noise of battle hurtled in the air,
+Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
+And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
+O Caesar, these things are beyond all use,
+And I do fear them!
+
+CAESAR.
+What can be avoided
+Whose end is purpos’d by the mighty gods?
+Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
+Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
+
+CALPHURNIA.
+When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
+The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
+
+CAESAR.
+Cowards die many times before their deaths;
+The valiant never taste of death but once.
+Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
+It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
+Seeing that death, a necessary end,
+Will come when it will come.
+
+Enter Servant.
+
+What say the augurers?
+
+SERVANT.
+They would not have you to stir forth today.
+Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,
+They could not find a heart within the beast.
+
+CAESAR.
+The gods do this in shame of cowardice:
+Caesar should be a beast without a heart
+If he should stay at home today for fear.
+No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well
+That Caesar is more dangerous than he.
+We are two lions litter’d in one day,
+And I the elder and more terrible,
+And Caesar shall go forth.
+
+CALPHURNIA.
+Alas, my lord,
+Your wisdom is consum’d in confidence.
+Do not go forth today: call it my fear
+That keeps you in the house, and not your own.
+We’ll send Mark Antony to the Senate-house,
+And he shall say you are not well today.
+Let me upon my knee prevail in this.
+
+CAESAR.
+Mark Antony shall say I am not well,
+And for thy humour, I will stay at home.
+
+Enter Decius.
+
+Here’s Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.
+
+DECIUS.
+Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar.
+I come to fetch you to the Senate-house.
+
+CAESAR.
+And you are come in very happy time
+To bear my greeting to the Senators,
+And tell them that I will not come today.
+Cannot, is false; and that I dare not, falser:
+I will not come today. Tell them so, Decius.
+
+CALPHURNIA.
+Say he is sick.
+
+CAESAR.
+Shall Caesar send a lie?
+Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,
+To be afeard to tell grey-beards the truth?
+Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.
+
+DECIUS.
+Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,
+Lest I be laugh’d at when I tell them so.
+
+CAESAR.
+The cause is in my will; I will not come.
+That is enough to satisfy the Senate.
+But for your private satisfaction,
+Because I love you, I will let you know:
+Calphurnia here, my wife, stays me at home.
+She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,
+Which like a fountain with an hundred spouts
+Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans
+Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it.
+And these does she apply for warnings and portents
+And evils imminent; and on her knee
+Hath begg’d that I will stay at home today.
+
+DECIUS.
+This dream is all amiss interpreted:
+It was a vision fair and fortunate.
+Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,
+In which so many smiling Romans bath’d,
+Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck
+Reviving blood, and that great men shall press
+For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance.
+This by Calphurnia’s dream is signified.
+
+CAESAR.
+And this way have you well expounded it.
+
+DECIUS.
+I have, when you have heard what I can say;
+And know it now. The Senate have concluded
+To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.
+If you shall send them word you will not come,
+Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock
+Apt to be render’d, for someone to say,
+“Break up the Senate till another time,
+When Caesar’s wife shall meet with better dreams.”
+If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper
+“Lo, Caesar is afraid”?
+Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love
+To your proceeding bids me tell you this,
+And reason to my love is liable.
+
+CAESAR.
+How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia!
+I am ashamed I did yield to them.
+Give me my robe, for I will go.
+
+Enter Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, Trebonius, Cinna and Publius.
+
+And look where Publius is come to fetch me.
+
+PUBLIUS.
+Good morrow, Caesar.
+
+CAESAR.
+Welcome, Publius.
+What, Brutus, are you stirr’d so early too?
+Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,
+Caesar was ne’er so much your enemy
+As that same ague which hath made you lean.
+What is’t o’clock?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Caesar, ’tis strucken eight.
+
+CAESAR.
+I thank you for your pains and courtesy.
+
+Enter Antony.
+
+See! Antony, that revels long a-nights,
+Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.
+
+ANTONY.
+So to most noble Caesar.
+
+CAESAR.
+Bid them prepare within.
+I am to blame to be thus waited for.
+Now, Cinna; now, Metellus; what, Trebonius!
+I have an hour’s talk in store for you:
+Remember that you call on me today;
+Be near me, that I may remember you.
+
+TREBONIUS.
+Caesar, I will. [_Aside._] and so near will I be,
+That your best friends shall wish I had been further.
+
+CAESAR.
+Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;
+And we, like friends, will straightway go together.
+
+BRUTUS.
+[_Aside._] That every like is not the same, O Caesar,
+The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A street near the Capitol.
+
+Enter Artemidorus, reading a paper.
+
+ARTEMIDORUS.
+_“Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca;
+have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus Cimber;
+Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast wrong’d Caius Ligarius. There
+is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. If
+thou be’st not immortal, look about you: security gives way to
+conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee!
+Thy lover, Artemidorus.”_ Here will I stand till Caesar pass along, And
+as a suitor will I give him this. My heart laments that virtue cannot
+live Out of the teeth of emulation. If thou read this, O Caesar, thou
+mayest live; If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
+
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus.
+
+Enter Portia and Lucius.
+
+PORTIA.
+I pr’ythee, boy, run to the Senate-house;
+Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone.
+Why dost thou stay?
+
+LUCIUS.
+To know my errand, madam.
+
+PORTIA.
+I would have had thee there and here again,
+Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.
+[_Aside._] O constancy, be strong upon my side,
+Set a huge mountain ’tween my heart and tongue!
+I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might.
+How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
+Art thou here yet?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Madam, what should I do?
+Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?
+And so return to you, and nothing else?
+
+PORTIA.
+Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,
+For he went sickly forth: and take good note
+What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.
+Hark, boy, what noise is that?
+
+LUCIUS.
+I hear none, madam.
+
+PORTIA.
+Pr’ythee, listen well.
+I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,
+And the wind brings it from the Capitol.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.
+
+Enter the Soothsayer.
+
+PORTIA.
+Come hither, fellow:
+Which way hast thou been?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+At mine own house, good lady.
+
+PORTIA.
+What is’t o’clock?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+About the ninth hour, lady.
+
+PORTIA.
+Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Madam, not yet. I go to take my stand,
+To see him pass on to the Capitol.
+
+PORTIA.
+Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+That I have, lady, if it will please Caesar
+To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,
+I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
+
+PORTIA.
+Why, know’st thou any harm’s intended towards him?
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.
+Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow.
+The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,
+Of Senators, of Praetors, common suitors,
+Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:
+I’ll get me to a place more void, and there
+Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PORTIA.
+I must go in.
+[_Aside._] Ay me, how weak a thing
+The heart of woman is! O Brutus,
+The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!
+Sure, the boy heard me. Brutus hath a suit
+That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.
+Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;
+Say I am merry; come to me again,
+And bring me word what he doth say to thee.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting.
+
+
+A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol. Flourish. Enter
+Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, Cinna,
+Antony, Lepidus, Artemidorus, Publius, Popilius and the Soothsayer.
+
+CAESAR.
+The Ides of March are come.
+
+SOOTHSAYER.
+Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
+
+ARTEMIDORUS.
+Hail, Caesar! Read this schedule.
+
+DECIUS.
+Trebonius doth desire you to o’er-read,
+At your best leisure, this his humble suit.
+
+ARTEMIDORUS.
+O Caesar, read mine first; for mine’s a suit
+That touches Caesar nearer. Read it, great Caesar.
+
+CAESAR.
+What touches us ourself shall be last serv’d.
+
+ARTEMIDORUS.
+Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly.
+
+CAESAR.
+What, is the fellow mad?
+
+PUBLIUS.
+Sirrah, give place.
+
+CASSIUS.
+What, urge you your petitions in the street?
+Come to the Capitol.
+
+Caesar enters the Capitol, the rest following. All the Senators rise.
+
+POPILIUS.
+I wish your enterprise today may thrive.
+
+CASSIUS.
+What enterprise, Popilius?
+
+POPILIUS.
+Fare you well.
+
+[_Advances to Caesar._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+What said Popilius Lena?
+
+CASSIUS.
+He wish’d today our enterprise might thrive.
+I fear our purpose is discovered.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Look how he makes to Caesar: mark him.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.
+Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,
+Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,
+For I will slay myself.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Cassius, be constant:
+Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;
+For look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Trebonius knows his time, for look you, Brutus,
+He draws Mark Antony out of the way.
+
+[_Exeunt Antony and Trebonius. Caesar and the Senators take their
+seats._]
+
+DECIUS.
+Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,
+And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.
+
+BRUTUS.
+He is address’d; press near and second him.
+
+CINNA.
+Casca, you are the first that rears your hand.
+
+CAESAR.
+Are we all ready? What is now amiss
+That Caesar and his Senate must redress?
+
+METELLUS.
+Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,
+Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat
+An humble heart.
+
+[_Kneeling._]
+
+CAESAR.
+I must prevent thee, Cimber.
+These couchings and these lowly courtesies
+Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
+And turn pre-ordinance and first decree
+Into the law of children. Be not fond,
+To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood
+That will be thaw’d from the true quality
+With that which melteth fools; I mean sweet words,
+Low-crooked curtsies, and base spaniel fawning.
+Thy brother by decree is banished:
+If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him,
+I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
+Know, Caesar dost not wrong, nor without cause
+Will he be satisfied.
+
+METELLUS.
+Is there no voice more worthy than my own,
+To sound more sweetly in great Caesar’s ear
+For the repealing of my banish’d brother?
+
+BRUTUS.
+I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;
+Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may
+Have an immediate freedom of repeal.
+
+CAESAR.
+What, Brutus?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon:
+As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,
+To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.
+
+CAESAR.
+I could be well mov’d, if I were as you;
+If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:
+But I am constant as the northern star,
+Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
+There is no fellow in the firmament.
+The skies are painted with unnumber’d sparks,
+They are all fire, and every one doth shine;
+But there’s but one in all doth hold his place.
+So in the world; ’tis furnish’d well with men,
+And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
+Yet in the number I do know but one
+That unassailable holds on his rank,
+Unshak’d of motion: and that I am he,
+Let me a little show it, even in this,
+That I was constant Cimber should be banish’d,
+And constant do remain to keep him so.
+
+CINNA.
+O Caesar,—
+
+CAESAR.
+Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus?
+
+DECIUS.
+Great Caesar,—
+
+CAESAR.
+Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?
+
+CASCA.
+Speak, hands, for me!
+
+[_Casca stabs Caesar in the neck. Caesar catches hold of his arm. He is
+then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by Marcus
+Brutus._]
+
+CAESAR.
+_Et tu, Brute?_—Then fall, Caesar!
+
+[_Dies. The Senators and People retire in confusion._]
+
+CINNA.
+Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
+Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Some to the common pulpits and cry out,
+“Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
+
+BRUTUS.
+People and Senators, be not affrighted.
+Fly not; stand still; ambition’s debt is paid.
+
+CASCA.
+Go to the pulpit, Brutus.
+
+DECIUS.
+And Cassius too.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Where’s Publius?
+
+CINNA.
+Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.
+
+METELLUS.
+Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar’s
+Should chance—
+
+BRUTUS.
+Talk not of standing. Publius, good cheer!
+There is no harm intended to your person,
+Nor to no Roman else. So tell them, Publius.
+
+CASSIUS.
+And leave us, Publius; lest that the people
+Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Do so; and let no man abide this deed
+But we the doers.
+
+Enter Trebonius.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Where’s Antony?
+
+TREBONIUS.
+Fled to his house amaz’d.
+Men, wives, and children stare, cry out, and run,
+As it were doomsday.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Fates, we will know your pleasures.
+That we shall die, we know; ’tis but the time
+And drawing days out, that men stand upon.
+
+CASCA.
+Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life
+Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Grant that, and then is death a benefit:
+So are we Caesar’s friends, that have abridg’d
+His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,
+And let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood
+Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:
+Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,
+And waving our red weapons o’er our heads,
+Let’s all cry, “Peace, freedom, and liberty!”
+
+CASSIUS.
+Stoop then, and wash. How many ages hence
+Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
+In States unborn, and accents yet unknown!
+
+BRUTUS.
+How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,
+That now on Pompey’s basis lies along,
+No worthier than the dust!
+
+CASSIUS.
+So oft as that shall be,
+So often shall the knot of us be call’d
+The men that gave their country liberty.
+
+DECIUS.
+What, shall we forth?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Ay, every man away.
+Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels
+With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Soft, who comes here? A friend of Antony’s.
+
+SERVANT.
+Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel;
+Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down;
+And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say:
+Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;
+Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving;
+Say I love Brutus and I honour him;
+Say I fear’d Caesar, honour’d him, and lov’d him.
+If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony
+May safely come to him, and be resolv’d
+How Caesar hath deserv’d to lie in death,
+Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead
+So well as Brutus living; but will follow
+The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus
+Thorough the hazards of this untrod state,
+With all true faith. So says my master Antony.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman;
+I never thought him worse.
+Tell him, so please him come unto this place,
+He shall be satisfied and, by my honour,
+Depart untouch’d.
+
+SERVANT.
+I’ll fetch him presently.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+I know that we shall have him well to friend.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I wish we may: but yet have I a mind
+That fears him much; and my misgiving still
+Falls shrewdly to the purpose.
+
+Enter Antony.
+
+BRUTUS.
+But here comes Antony. Welcome, Mark Antony.
+
+ANTONY.
+O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low?
+Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
+Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.
+I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,
+Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:
+If I myself, there is no hour so fit
+As Caesar’s death’s hour; nor no instrument
+Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich
+With the most noble blood of all this world.
+I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,
+Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,
+Fulfill your pleasure. Live a thousand years,
+I shall not find myself so apt to die.
+No place will please me so, no means of death,
+As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,
+The choice and master spirits of this age.
+
+BRUTUS.
+O Antony, beg not your death of us.
+Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,
+As by our hands and this our present act
+You see we do; yet see you but our hands
+And this the bleeding business they have done.
+Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;
+And pity to the general wrong of Rome—
+As fire drives out fire, so pity pity—
+Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,
+To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony;
+Our arms in strength of malice, and our hearts
+Of brothers’ temper, do receive you in
+With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Your voice shall be as strong as any man’s
+In the disposing of new dignities.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Only be patient till we have appeas’d
+The multitude, beside themselves with fear,
+And then we will deliver you the cause
+Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,
+Have thus proceeded.
+
+ANTONY.
+I doubt not of your wisdom.
+Let each man render me his bloody hand.
+First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;
+Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand.
+Now, Decius Brutus, yours; now yours, Metellus;
+Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours;
+Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
+Gentlemen all—alas, what shall I say?
+My credit now stands on such slippery ground,
+That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
+Either a coward or a flatterer.
+That I did love thee, Caesar, O, ’tis true:
+If then thy spirit look upon us now,
+Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,
+To see thy Antony making his peace,
+Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,
+Most noble, in the presence of thy corse?
+Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,
+Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,
+It would become me better than to close
+In terms of friendship with thine enemies.
+Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay’d, brave hart;
+Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,
+Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.
+O world, thou wast the forest to this hart;
+And this indeed, O world, the heart of thee.
+How like a deer strucken by many princes,
+Dost thou here lie!
+
+CASSIUS.
+Mark Antony,—
+
+ANTONY.
+Pardon me, Caius Cassius:
+The enemies of Caesar shall say this;
+Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I blame you not for praising Caesar so;
+But what compact mean you to have with us?
+Will you be prick’d in number of our friends,
+Or shall we on, and not depend on you?
+
+ANTONY.
+Therefore I took your hands; but was indeed
+Sway’d from the point, by looking down on Caesar.
+Friends am I with you all, and love you all,
+Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons
+Why, and wherein, Caesar was dangerous.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Or else were this a savage spectacle.
+Our reasons are so full of good regard
+That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,
+You should be satisfied.
+
+ANTONY.
+That’s all I seek,
+And am moreover suitor that I may
+Produce his body to the market-place;
+And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,
+Speak in the order of his funeral.
+
+BRUTUS.
+You shall, Mark Antony.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Brutus, a word with you.
+[_Aside to Brutus._] You know not what you do. Do not consent
+That Antony speak in his funeral.
+Know you how much the people may be mov’d
+By that which he will utter?
+
+BRUTUS.
+[_Aside to Cassius._] By your pardon:
+I will myself into the pulpit first,
+And show the reason of our Caesar’s death.
+What Antony shall speak, I will protest
+He speaks by leave and by permission;
+And that we are contented Caesar shall
+Have all true rights and lawful ceremonies.
+It shall advantage more than do us wrong.
+
+CASSIUS.
+[_Aside to Brutus._] I know not what may fall; I like it not.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar’s body.
+You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,
+But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,
+And say you do’t by our permission;
+Else shall you not have any hand at all
+About his funeral. And you shall speak
+In the same pulpit whereto I am going,
+After my speech is ended.
+
+ANTONY.
+Be it so;
+I do desire no more.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Prepare the body, then, and follow us.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Antony._]
+
+ANTONY.
+O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
+That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.
+Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
+That ever lived in the tide of times.
+Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
+Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,
+Which, like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips
+To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue,
+A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
+Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
+Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
+Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
+And dreadful objects so familiar,
+That mothers shall but smile when they behold
+Their infants quartered with the hands of war;
+All pity chok’d with custom of fell deeds:
+And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
+With Ate by his side come hot from Hell,
+Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
+Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war,
+That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
+With carrion men, groaning for burial.
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?
+
+SERVANT.
+I do, Mark Antony.
+
+ANTONY.
+Caesar did write for him to come to Rome.
+
+SERVANT.
+He did receive his letters, and is coming,
+And bid me say to you by word of mouth,—
+[_Seeing the body._] O Caesar!
+
+ANTONY.
+Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep.
+Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes,
+Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,
+Began to water. Is thy master coming?
+
+SERVANT.
+He lies tonight within seven leagues of Rome.
+
+ANTONY.
+Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanc’d.
+Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,
+No Rome of safety for Octavius yet.
+Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet stay awhile;
+Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse
+Into the market-place: there shall I try,
+In my oration, how the people take
+The cruel issue of these bloody men;
+According to the which thou shalt discourse
+To young Octavius of the state of things.
+Lend me your hand.
+
+[_Exeunt with Caesar’s body._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. The Forum.
+
+Enter Brutus and goes into the pulpit, and Cassius, with a throng of
+Citizens.
+
+CITIZENS.
+We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.
+Cassius, go you into the other street
+And part the numbers.
+Those that will hear me speak, let ’em stay here;
+Those that will follow Cassius, go with him;
+And public reasons shall be rendered
+Of Caesar’s death.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+I will hear Brutus speak.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons,
+When severally we hear them rendered.
+
+[_Exit Cassius, with some of the Citizens. Brutus goes into the
+rostrum._]
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Be patient till the last.
+Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause; and be silent,
+that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine
+honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your
+senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this
+assembly, any dear friend of Caesar’s, to him I say that Brutus’ love
+to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus
+rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less,
+but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die
+all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar
+loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he
+was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There
+is tears, for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and
+death, for his ambition. Who is here so base, that would be a bondman?
+If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would
+not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so
+vile, that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I
+offended. I pause for a reply.
+
+CITIZENS.
+None, Brutus, none.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Then none have I offended. I have done no more to Caesar than you shall
+do to Brutus. The question of his death is enroll’d in the Capitol, his
+glory not extenuated, wherein he was worthy; nor his offences enforc’d,
+for which he suffered death.
+
+Enter Antony and others, with Caesar’s body.
+
+Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony, who, though he had no hand
+in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the
+commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this I depart, that, as I
+slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for
+myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
+
+CITIZENS.
+Live, Brutus! live, live!
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Bring him with triumph home unto his house.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Give him a statue with his ancestors.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Let him be Caesar.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+Caesar’s better parts
+Shall be crown’d in Brutus.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+We’ll bring him to his house with shouts and clamours.
+
+BRUTUS.
+My countrymen,—
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Peace! Silence! Brutus speaks.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Peace, ho!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Good countrymen, let me depart alone,
+And, for my sake, stay here with Antony.
+Do grace to Caesar’s corpse, and grace his speech
+Tending to Caesar’s glories, which Mark Antony,
+By our permission, is allow’d to make.
+I do entreat you, not a man depart,
+Save I alone, till Antony have spoke.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Let him go up into the public chair.
+We’ll hear him. Noble Antony, go up.
+
+ANTONY.
+For Brutus’ sake, I am beholding to you.
+
+[_Goes up._]
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+What does he say of Brutus?
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+He says, for Brutus’ sake
+He finds himself beholding to us all.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+’Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here!
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+This Caesar was a tyrant.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Nay, that’s certain.
+We are blest that Rome is rid of him.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.
+
+ANTONY.
+You gentle Romans,—
+
+CITIZENS.
+Peace, ho! let us hear him.
+
+ANTONY.
+Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
+I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
+The evil that men do lives after them,
+The good is oft interred with their bones;
+So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
+Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
+If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
+And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
+Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
+For Brutus is an honourable man,
+So are they all, all honourable men,
+Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
+He was my friend, faithful and just to me;
+But Brutus says he was ambitious,
+And Brutus is an honourable man.
+He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
+Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
+Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
+When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
+Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
+Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
+And Brutus is an honourable man.
+You all did see that on the Lupercal
+I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
+Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
+Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
+And sure he is an honourable man.
+I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
+But here I am to speak what I do know.
+You all did love him once, not without cause;
+What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
+O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
+And men have lost their reason. Bear with me.
+My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
+And I must pause till it come back to me.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+If thou consider rightly of the matter,
+Caesar has had great wrong.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Has he, masters?
+I fear there will a worse come in his place.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+Mark’d ye his words? He would not take the crown;
+Therefore ’tis certain he was not ambitious.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+If it be found so, some will dear abide it.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Poor soul, his eyes are red as fire with weeping.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+There’s not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+Now mark him; he begins again to speak.
+
+ANTONY.
+But yesterday the word of Caesar might
+Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
+And none so poor to do him reverence.
+O masters! If I were dispos’d to stir
+Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
+I should do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong,
+Who, you all know, are honourable men.
+I will not do them wrong; I rather choose
+To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
+Than I will wrong such honourable men.
+But here’s a parchment with the seal of Caesar,
+I found it in his closet; ’tis his will:
+Let but the commons hear this testament,
+Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,
+And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds,
+And dip their napkins in his sacred blood;
+Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
+And, dying, mention it within their wills,
+Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
+Unto their issue.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+We’ll hear the will. Read it, Mark Antony.
+
+CITIZENS.
+The will, the will! We will hear Caesar’s will.
+
+ANTONY.
+Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it.
+It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.
+You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
+And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
+It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
+’Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;
+For if you should, O, what would come of it?
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+Read the will! We’ll hear it, Antony;
+You shall read us the will, Caesar’s will!
+
+ANTONY.
+Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile?
+I have o’ershot myself to tell you of it.
+I fear I wrong the honourable men
+Whose daggers have stabb’d Caesar; I do fear it.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+They were traitors. Honourable men!
+
+CITIZENS.
+The will! The testament!
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+They were villains, murderers. The will! Read the will!
+
+ANTONY.
+You will compel me then to read the will?
+Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,
+And let me show you him that made the will.
+Shall I descend? and will you give me leave?
+
+CITIZENS.
+Come down.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Descend.
+
+[_He comes down._]
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+You shall have leave.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+A ring! Stand round.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Room for Antony, most noble Antony!
+
+ANTONY.
+Nay, press not so upon me; stand far off.
+
+CITIZENS.
+Stand back; room! bear back.
+
+ANTONY.
+If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
+You all do know this mantle. I remember
+The first time ever Caesar put it on;
+’Twas on a Summer’s evening, in his tent,
+That day he overcame the Nervii.
+Look, in this place ran Cassius’ dagger through:
+See what a rent the envious Casca made:
+Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb’d;
+And as he pluck’d his cursed steel away,
+Mark how the blood of Caesar follow’d it,
+As rushing out of doors, to be resolv’d
+If Brutus so unkindly knock’d, or no;
+For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel.
+Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar lov’d him.
+This was the most unkindest cut of all;
+For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
+Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,
+Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;
+And in his mantle muffling up his face,
+Even at the base of Pompey’s statue
+Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
+O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
+Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
+Whilst bloody treason flourish’d over us.
+O, now you weep; and I perceive you feel
+The dint of pity. These are gracious drops.
+Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold
+Our Caesar’s vesture wounded? Look you here,
+Here is himself, marr’d, as you see, with traitors.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+O piteous spectacle!
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+O noble Caesar!
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+O woeful day!
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+O traitors, villains!
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+O most bloody sight!
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+We will be revenged.
+
+CITIZENS.
+Revenge,—about,—seek,—burn,—fire,—kill,—slay,—let not a traitor live!
+
+ANTONY.
+Stay, countrymen.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Peace there! Hear the noble Antony.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+We’ll hear him, we’ll follow him, we’ll die with him.
+
+ANTONY.
+Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
+To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
+They that have done this deed are honourable.
+What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
+That made them do it. They’re wise and honourable,
+And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.
+I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.
+I am no orator, as Brutus is;
+But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,
+That love my friend; and that they know full well
+That gave me public leave to speak of him.
+For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
+Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
+To stir men’s blood. I only speak right on.
+I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
+Show you sweet Caesar’s wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
+And bid them speak for me. But were I Brutus,
+And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
+Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue
+In every wound of Caesar, that should move
+The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
+
+CITIZENS.
+We’ll mutiny.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+We’ll burn the house of Brutus.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Away, then! come, seek the conspirators.
+
+ANTONY.
+Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak.
+
+CITIZENS.
+Peace, ho! Hear Antony; most noble Antony.
+
+ANTONY.
+Why, friends, you go to do you know not what.
+Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?
+Alas, you know not; I must tell you then.
+You have forgot the will I told you of.
+
+CITIZENS.
+Most true; the will!—let’s stay, and hear the will.
+
+ANTONY.
+Here is the will, and under Caesar’s seal.
+To every Roman citizen he gives,
+To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Most noble Caesar! We’ll revenge his death.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+O, royal Caesar!
+
+ANTONY.
+Hear me with patience.
+
+CITIZENS.
+Peace, ho!
+
+ANTONY.
+Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,
+His private arbors, and new-planted orchards,
+On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,
+And to your heirs forever; common pleasures,
+To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
+Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Never, never. Come, away, away!
+We’ll burn his body in the holy place,
+And with the brands fire the traitors’ houses.
+Take up the body.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Go, fetch fire.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Pluck down benches.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+Pluck down forms, windows, anything.
+
+[_Exeunt Citizens, with the body._]
+
+ANTONY.
+Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,
+Take thou what course thou wilt!
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+How now, fellow?
+
+SERVANT.
+Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.
+
+ANTONY.
+Where is he?
+
+SERVANT.
+He and Lepidus are at Caesar’s house.
+
+ANTONY.
+And thither will I straight to visit him.
+He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,
+And in this mood will give us anything.
+
+SERVANT.
+I heard him say Brutus and Cassius
+Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.
+
+ANTONY.
+Belike they had some notice of the people,
+How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A street.
+
+Enter Cinna, the poet, and after him the citizens.
+
+CINNA.
+I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar,
+And things unluckily charge my fantasy.
+I have no will to wander forth of doors,
+Yet something leads me forth.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+What is your name?
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Whither are you going?
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Where do you dwell?
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+Are you a married man or a bachelor?
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Answer every man directly.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Ay, and briefly.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+Ay, and wisely.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Ay, and truly, you were best.
+
+CINNA.
+What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I dwell? Am I a married
+man or a bachelor? Then, to answer every man directly and briefly,
+wisely and truly. Wisely I say I am a bachelor.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+That’s as much as to say they are fools that marry; you’ll bear me a
+bang for that, I fear. Proceed, directly.
+
+CINNA.
+Directly, I am going to Caesar’s funeral.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+As a friend, or an enemy?
+
+CINNA.
+As a friend.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+That matter is answered directly.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+For your dwelling, briefly.
+
+CINNA.
+Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Your name, sir, truly.
+
+CINNA.
+Truly, my name is Cinna.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Tear him to pieces! He’s a conspirator.
+
+CINNA.
+I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
+
+CINNA.
+I am not Cinna the conspirator.
+
+FOURTH CITIZEN.
+It is no matter, his name’s Cinna; pluck but his name out of his heart,
+and turn him going.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Tear him, tear him! Come; brands, ho! firebrands. To Brutus’, to
+Cassius’; burn all. Some to Decius’ house, and some to Casca’s, some to
+Ligarius’. Away, go!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Rome. A room in Antony’s house.
+
+
+Enter Antony, Octavius and Lepidus, seated at a table.
+
+ANTONY.
+These many then shall die; their names are prick’d.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?
+
+LEPIDUS.
+I do consent,—
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Prick him down, Antony.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+Upon condition Publius shall not live,
+Who is your sister’s son, Mark Antony.
+
+ANTONY.
+He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
+But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar’s house;
+Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine
+How to cut off some charge in legacies.
+
+LEPIDUS.
+What, shall I find you here?
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Or here, or at the Capitol.
+
+[_Exit Lepidus._]
+
+ANTONY.
+This is a slight unmeritable man,
+Meet to be sent on errands. Is it fit,
+The three-fold world divided, he should stand
+One of the three to share it?
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+So you thought him,
+And took his voice who should be prick’d to die
+In our black sentence and proscription.
+
+ANTONY.
+Octavius, I have seen more days than you;
+And though we lay these honours on this man,
+To ease ourselves of divers sland’rous loads,
+He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,
+To groan and sweat under the business,
+Either led or driven, as we point the way;
+And having brought our treasure where we will,
+Then take we down his load, and turn him off,
+Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,
+And graze in commons.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+You may do your will;
+But he’s a tried and valiant soldier.
+
+ANTONY.
+So is my horse, Octavius; and for that
+I do appoint him store of provender.
+It is a creature that I teach to fight,
+To wind, to stop, to run directly on,
+His corporal motion govern’d by my spirit.
+And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so:
+He must be taught, and train’d, and bid go forth:
+A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds
+On objects, arts, and imitations,
+Which, out of use and stal’d by other men,
+Begin his fashion. Do not talk of him
+But as a property. And now, Octavius,
+Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius
+Are levying powers; we must straight make head.
+Therefore let our alliance be combin’d,
+Our best friends made, our means stretch’d;
+And let us presently go sit in council,
+How covert matters may be best disclos’d,
+And open perils surest answered.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Let us do so: for we are at the stake,
+And bay’d about with many enemies;
+And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,
+Millions of mischiefs.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis.
+
+Drum. Enter Brutus, Lucilius, Titinius and Soldiers; Pindarus meeting
+them; Lucius at some distance.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Stand, ho!
+
+LUCILIUS.
+Give the word, ho! and stand.
+
+BRUTUS.
+What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near?
+
+LUCILIUS.
+He is at hand, and Pindarus is come
+To do you salutation from his master.
+
+[_Pindarus gives a letter to Brutus._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,
+In his own change, or by ill officers,
+Hath given me some worthy cause to wish
+Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand,
+I shall be satisfied.
+
+PINDARUS.
+I do not doubt
+But that my noble master will appear
+Such as he is, full of regard and honour.
+
+BRUTUS.
+He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius;
+How he received you, let me be resolv’d.
+
+LUCILIUS.
+With courtesy and with respect enough,
+But not with such familiar instances,
+Nor with such free and friendly conference,
+As he hath us’d of old.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Thou hast describ’d
+A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucilius,
+When love begins to sicken and decay
+It useth an enforced ceremony.
+There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;
+But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
+Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;
+
+[_Low march within._]
+
+But when they should endure the bloody spur,
+They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades
+Sink in the trial. Comes his army on?
+
+LUCILIUS.
+They meant this night in Sardis to be quarter’d;
+The greater part, the horse in general,
+Are come with Cassius.
+
+Enter Cassius and Soldiers.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Hark! he is arriv’d.
+March gently on to meet him.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Stand, ho!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Stand, ho! Speak the word along.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Stand!
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Stand!
+
+THIRD SOLDIER.
+Stand!
+
+CASSIUS.
+Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Judge me, you gods; wrong I mine enemies?
+And if not so, how should I wrong a brother?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs;
+And when you do them—
+
+BRUTUS.
+Cassius, be content.
+Speak your griefs softly, I do know you well.
+Before the eyes of both our armies here,
+Which should perceive nothing but love from us,
+Let us not wrangle. Bid them move away;
+Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,
+And I will give you audience.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Pindarus,
+Bid our commanders lead their charges off
+A little from this ground.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man
+Come to our tent till we have done our conference.
+Lucius and Titinius, guard our door.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Within the tent of Brutus.
+
+Enter Brutus and Cassius.
+
+CASSIUS.
+That you have wrong’d me doth appear in this:
+You have condemn’d and noted Lucius Pella
+For taking bribes here of the Sardians;
+Wherein my letters, praying on his side
+Because I knew the man, were slighted off.
+
+BRUTUS.
+You wrong’d yourself to write in such a case.
+
+CASSIUS.
+In such a time as this it is not meet
+That every nice offence should bear his comment.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
+Are much condemn’d to have an itching palm,
+To sell and mart your offices for gold
+To undeservers.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I an itching palm!
+You know that you are Brutus that speak this,
+Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.
+
+BRUTUS.
+The name of Cassius honours this corruption,
+And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Chastisement!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Remember March, the Ides of March remember:
+Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake?
+What villain touch’d his body, that did stab,
+And not for justice? What! Shall one of us,
+That struck the foremost man of all this world
+But for supporting robbers, shall we now
+Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
+And sell the mighty space of our large honours
+For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
+I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
+Than such a Roman.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Brutus, bait not me,
+I’ll not endure it. You forget yourself,
+To hedge me in. I am a soldier, I,
+Older in practice, abler than yourself
+To make conditions.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Go to; you are not, Cassius.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I am.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I say you are not.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Urge me no more, I shall forget myself;
+Have mind upon your health, tempt me no farther.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Away, slight man!
+
+CASSIUS.
+Is’t possible?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Hear me, for I will speak.
+Must I give way and room to your rash choler?
+Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?
+
+CASSIUS.
+O ye gods, ye gods! Must I endure all this?
+
+BRUTUS.
+All this? ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;
+Go show your slaves how choleric you are,
+And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?
+Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch
+Under your testy humour? By the gods,
+You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
+Though it do split you; for, from this day forth,
+I’ll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,
+When you are waspish.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Is it come to this?
+
+BRUTUS.
+You say you are a better soldier:
+Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,
+And it shall please me well. For mine own part,
+I shall be glad to learn of noble men.
+
+CASSIUS.
+You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus.
+I said, an elder soldier, not a better:
+Did I say better?
+
+BRUTUS.
+If you did, I care not.
+
+CASSIUS.
+When Caesar liv’d, he durst not thus have mov’d me.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I durst not?
+
+BRUTUS.
+No.
+
+CASSIUS.
+What? durst not tempt him?
+
+BRUTUS.
+For your life you durst not.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Do not presume too much upon my love.
+I may do that I shall be sorry for.
+
+BRUTUS.
+You have done that you should be sorry for.
+There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
+For I am arm’d so strong in honesty,
+That they pass by me as the idle wind,
+Which I respect not. I did send to you
+For certain sums of gold, which you denied me;
+For I can raise no money by vile means:
+By Heaven, I had rather coin my heart,
+And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring
+From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash
+By any indirection. I did send
+To you for gold to pay my legions,
+Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
+Should I have answer’d Caius Cassius so?
+When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,
+To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
+Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts,
+Dash him to pieces!
+
+CASSIUS.
+I denied you not.
+
+BRUTUS.
+You did.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I did not. He was but a fool
+That brought my answer back. Brutus hath riv’d my heart.
+A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities;
+But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I do not, till you practise them on me.
+
+CASSIUS.
+You love me not.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I do not like your faults.
+
+CASSIUS.
+A friendly eye could never see such faults.
+
+BRUTUS.
+A flatterer’s would not, though they do appear
+As huge as high Olympus.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
+Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,
+For Cassius is a-weary of the world:
+Hated by one he loves; brav’d by his brother;
+Check’d like a bondman; all his faults observ’d,
+Set in a note-book, learn’d and conn’d by rote,
+To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep
+My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,
+And here my naked breast; within, a heart
+Dearer than Plutus’ mine, richer than gold:
+If that thou be’st a Roman, take it forth.
+I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart:
+Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know,
+When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better
+Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Sheathe your dagger.
+Be angry when you will, it shall have scope;
+Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour.
+O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb
+That carries anger as the flint bears fire,
+Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
+And straight is cold again.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Hath Cassius liv’d
+To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus,
+When grief and blood ill-temper’d vexeth him?
+
+BRUTUS.
+When I spoke that, I was ill-temper’d too.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.
+
+BRUTUS.
+And my heart too.
+
+CASSIUS.
+O Brutus!
+
+BRUTUS.
+What’s the matter?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Have not you love enough to bear with me,
+When that rash humour which my mother gave me
+Makes me forgetful?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Yes, Cassius; and from henceforth,
+When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,
+He’ll think your mother chides, and leave you so.
+
+Enter Poet, followed by Lucilius, Titinius and Lucius.
+
+POET.
+[_Within._] Let me go in to see the generals,
+There is some grudge between ’em; ’tis not meet
+They be alone.
+
+LUCILIUS.
+[_Within._] You shall not come to them.
+
+POET.
+[_Within._] Nothing but death shall stay me.
+
+CASSIUS.
+How now! What’s the matter?
+
+POET.
+For shame, you generals! What do you mean?
+Love, and be friends, as two such men should be;
+For I have seen more years, I’m sure, than ye.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Ha, ha! How vilely doth this cynic rhyme!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Get you hence, sirrah. Saucy fellow, hence!
+
+CASSIUS.
+Bear with him, Brutus; ’tis his fashion.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I’ll know his humour when he knows his time.
+What should the wars do with these jigging fools?
+Companion, hence!
+
+CASSIUS.
+Away, away, be gone!
+
+[_Exit Poet._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders
+Prepare to lodge their companies tonight.
+
+CASSIUS.
+And come yourselves and bring Messala with you
+Immediately to us.
+
+[_Exeunt Lucilius and Titinius._]
+
+BRUTUS.
+Lucius, a bowl of wine.
+
+[_Exit Lucius._]
+
+CASSIUS.
+I did not think you could have been so angry.
+
+BRUTUS.
+O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Of your philosophy you make no use,
+If you give place to accidental evils.
+
+BRUTUS.
+No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Ha? Portia?
+
+BRUTUS.
+She is dead.
+
+CASSIUS.
+How ’scap’d I killing, when I cross’d you so?
+O insupportable and touching loss!
+Upon what sickness?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Impatient of my absence,
+And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
+Have made themselves so strong; for with her death
+That tidings came. With this she fell distract,
+And, her attendants absent, swallow’d fire.
+
+CASSIUS.
+And died so?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Even so.
+
+CASSIUS.
+O ye immortal gods!
+
+Enter Lucius, with wine and a taper.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.
+In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
+
+[_Drinks._]
+
+CASSIUS.
+My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.
+Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup.
+I cannot drink too much of Brutus’ love.
+
+[_Drinks._]
+
+[_Exit Lucius._]
+
+Enter Titinius and Messala.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Come in, Titinius!
+Welcome, good Messala.
+Now sit we close about this taper here,
+And call in question our necessities.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Portia, art thou gone?
+
+BRUTUS.
+No more, I pray you.
+Messala, I have here received letters,
+That young Octavius and Mark Antony
+Come down upon us with a mighty power,
+Bending their expedition toward Philippi.
+
+MESSALA.
+Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.
+
+BRUTUS.
+With what addition?
+
+MESSALA.
+That by proscription and bills of outlawry
+Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus
+Have put to death an hundred Senators.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Therein our letters do not well agree.
+Mine speak of seventy Senators that died
+By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Cicero one!
+
+MESSALA.
+Cicero is dead,
+And by that order of proscription.
+Had you your letters from your wife, my lord?
+
+BRUTUS.
+No, Messala.
+
+MESSALA.
+Nor nothing in your letters writ of her?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Nothing, Messala.
+
+MESSALA.
+That, methinks, is strange.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why ask you? Hear you aught of her in yours?
+
+MESSALA.
+No, my lord.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Now as you are a Roman, tell me true.
+
+MESSALA.
+Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell,
+For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala.
+With meditating that she must die once,
+I have the patience to endure it now.
+
+MESSALA.
+Even so great men great losses should endure.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I have as much of this in art as you,
+But yet my nature could not bear it so.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Well, to our work alive. What do you think
+Of marching to Philippi presently?
+
+CASSIUS.
+I do not think it good.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Your reason?
+
+CASSIUS.
+This it is:
+’Tis better that the enemy seek us;
+So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
+Doing himself offence, whilst we, lying still,
+Are full of rest, defence, and nimbleness.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Good reasons must of force give place to better.
+The people ’twixt Philippi and this ground
+Do stand but in a forced affection;
+For they have grudg’d us contribution.
+The enemy, marching along by them,
+By them shall make a fuller number up,
+Come on refresh’d, new-added, and encourag’d;
+From which advantage shall we cut him off
+If at Philippi we do face him there,
+These people at our back.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Hear me, good brother.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Under your pardon. You must note besides,
+That we have tried the utmost of our friends,
+Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe.
+The enemy increaseth every day;
+We, at the height, are ready to decline.
+There is a tide in the affairs of men,
+Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
+Omitted, all the voyage of their life
+Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
+On such a full sea are we now afloat,
+And we must take the current when it serves,
+Or lose our ventures.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Then, with your will, go on:
+We’ll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi.
+
+BRUTUS.
+The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
+And nature must obey necessity,
+Which we will niggard with a little rest.
+There is no more to say?
+
+CASSIUS.
+No more. Good night:
+Early tomorrow will we rise, and hence.
+
+Enter Lucius.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Lucius! My gown.
+
+[_Exit Lucius._]
+
+Farewell now, good Messala.
+Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius,
+Good night, and good repose.
+
+CASSIUS.
+O my dear brother!
+This was an ill beginning of the night.
+Never come such division ’tween our souls!
+Let it not, Brutus.
+
+Enter Lucius with the gown.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Everything is well.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Good night, my lord.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Good night, good brother.
+
+TITINIUS and MESSALA.
+Good night, Lord Brutus.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Farewell, everyone.
+
+[_Exeunt Cassius, Titinius and Messala._]
+
+Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Here in the tent.
+
+BRUTUS.
+What, thou speak’st drowsily?
+Poor knave, I blame thee not, thou art o’er-watch’d.
+Call Claudius and some other of my men;
+I’ll have them sleep on cushions in my tent.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Varro and Claudius!
+
+Enter Varro and Claudius.
+
+VARRO.
+Calls my lord?
+
+BRUTUS.
+I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep;
+It may be I shall raise you by-and-by
+On business to my brother Cassius.
+
+VARRO.
+So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I will not have it so; lie down, good sirs,
+It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.
+Look, Lucius, here’s the book I sought for so;
+I put it in the pocket of my gown.
+
+[_Servants lie down._]
+
+LUCIUS.
+I was sure your lordship did not give it me.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful.
+Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile,
+And touch thy instrument a strain or two?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ay, my lord, an’t please you.
+
+BRUTUS.
+It does, my boy.
+I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing.
+
+LUCIUS.
+It is my duty, sir.
+
+BRUTUS.
+I should not urge thy duty past thy might;
+I know young bloods look for a time of rest.
+
+LUCIUS.
+I have slept, my lord, already.
+
+BRUTUS.
+It was well done, and thou shalt sleep again;
+I will not hold thee long. If I do live,
+I will be good to thee.
+
+[_Lucius plays and sings till he falls asleep._]
+
+This is a sleepy tune. O murd’rous slumber,
+Layest thou thy leaden mace upon my boy,
+That plays thee music? Gentle knave, good night;
+I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee.
+If thou dost nod, thou break’st thy instrument;
+I’ll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night.
+Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn’d down
+Where I left reading? Here it is, I think.
+
+Enter the Ghost of Caesar.
+
+How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?
+I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
+That shapes this monstrous apparition.
+It comes upon me. Art thou anything?
+Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
+That mak’st my blood cold and my hair to stare?
+Speak to me what thou art.
+
+GHOST.
+Thy evil spirit, Brutus.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why com’st thou?
+
+GHOST.
+To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Well; then I shall see thee again?
+
+GHOST.
+Ay, at Philippi.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why, I will see thee at Philippi then.
+
+[_Ghost vanishes._]
+
+Now I have taken heart, thou vanishest.
+Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.
+Boy! Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! Claudius!
+
+LUCIUS.
+The strings, my lord, are false.
+
+BRUTUS.
+He thinks he still is at his instrument.
+Lucius, awake!
+
+LUCIUS.
+My lord?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out?
+
+LUCIUS.
+My lord, I do not know that I did cry.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Yes, that thou didst. Didst thou see anything?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Nothing, my lord.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius!
+Fellow thou, awake!
+
+VARRO.
+My lord?
+
+CLAUDIUS.
+My lord?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep?
+
+VARRO. CLAUDIUS.
+Did we, my lord?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Ay. Saw you anything?
+
+VARRO.
+No, my lord, I saw nothing.
+
+CLAUDIUS.
+Nor I, my lord.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Go and commend me to my brother Cassius;
+Bid him set on his powers betimes before,
+And we will follow.
+
+VARRO. CLAUDIUS.
+It shall be done, my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. The plains of Philippi.
+
+
+Enter Octavius, Antony and their Army.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Now, Antony, our hopes are answered.
+You said the enemy would not come down,
+But keep the hills and upper regions.
+It proves not so; their battles are at hand,
+They mean to warn us at Philippi here,
+Answering before we do demand of them.
+
+ANTONY.
+Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know
+Wherefore they do it. They could be content
+To visit other places, and come down
+With fearful bravery, thinking by this face
+To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;
+But ’tis not so.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Prepare you, generals.
+The enemy comes on in gallant show;
+Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,
+And something to be done immediately.
+
+ANTONY.
+Octavius, lead your battle softly on
+Upon the left hand of the even field.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Upon the right hand I. Keep thou the left.
+
+ANTONY.
+Why do you cross me in this exigent?
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+I do not cross you; but I will do so.
+
+[_March._]
+
+Drum. Enter Brutus, Cassius and their Army; Lucilius, Titinius, Messala
+and others.
+
+BRUTUS.
+They stand, and would have parley.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Stand fast, Titinius; we must out and talk.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle?
+
+ANTONY.
+No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge.
+Make forth; the generals would have some words.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Stir not until the signal.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Words before blows: is it so, countrymen?
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Not that we love words better, as you do.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.
+
+ANTONY.
+In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words;
+Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart,
+Crying, “Long live! Hail, Caesar!”
+
+CASSIUS.
+Antony,
+The posture of your blows are yet unknown;
+But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
+And leave them honeyless.
+
+ANTONY.
+Not stingless too.
+
+BRUTUS.
+O yes, and soundless too,
+For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony,
+And very wisely threat before you sting.
+
+ANTONY.
+Villains, you did not so when your vile daggers
+Hack’d one another in the sides of Caesar:
+You show’d your teeth like apes, and fawn’d like hounds,
+And bow’d like bondmen, kissing Caesar’s feet;
+Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind
+Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers!
+
+CASSIUS.
+Flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank yourself.
+This tongue had not offended so today,
+If Cassius might have rul’d.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Come, come, the cause. If arguing makes us sweat,
+The proof of it will turn to redder drops.
+Look, I draw a sword against conspirators.
+When think you that the sword goes up again?
+Never, till Caesar’s three and thirty wounds
+Be well aveng’d; or till another Caesar
+Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors’ hands,
+Unless thou bring’st them with thee.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+So I hope.
+I was not born to die on Brutus’ sword.
+
+BRUTUS.
+O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,
+Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable.
+
+CASSIUS.
+A peevish school-boy, worthless of such honour,
+Join’d with a masker and a reveller.
+
+ANTONY.
+Old Cassius still!
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Come, Antony; away!
+Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth.
+If you dare fight today, come to the field;
+If not, when you have stomachs.
+
+[_Exeunt Octavius, Antony and their Army._]
+
+CASSIUS.
+Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
+The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Ho, Lucilius! Hark, a word with you.
+
+LUCILIUS.
+My lord?
+
+[_Brutus and Lucilius talk apart._]
+
+CASSIUS.
+Messala.
+
+MESSALA.
+What says my General?
+
+CASSIUS.
+Messala,
+This is my birth-day; as this very day
+Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala:
+Be thou my witness that against my will
+As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set
+Upon one battle all our liberties.
+You know that I held Epicurus strong,
+And his opinion. Now I change my mind,
+And partly credit things that do presage.
+Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign
+Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch’d,
+Gorging and feeding from our soldiers’ hands,
+Who to Philippi here consorted us.
+This morning are they fled away and gone,
+And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites
+Fly o’er our heads, and downward look on us,
+As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem
+A canopy most fatal, under which
+Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.
+
+MESSALA.
+Believe not so.
+
+CASSIUS.
+I but believe it partly,
+For I am fresh of spirit, and resolv’d
+To meet all perils very constantly.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Even so, Lucilius.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Now, most noble Brutus,
+The gods today stand friendly, that we may,
+Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age!
+But, since the affairs of men rest still incertain,
+Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.
+If we do lose this battle, then is this
+The very last time we shall speak together:
+What are you then determined to do?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Even by the rule of that philosophy
+By which I did blame Cato for the death
+Which he did give himself, I know not how,
+But I do find it cowardly and vile,
+For fear of what might fall, so to prevent
+The time of life, arming myself with patience
+To stay the providence of some high powers
+That govern us below.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Then, if we lose this battle,
+You are contented to be led in triumph
+Thorough the streets of Rome?
+
+BRUTUS.
+No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman,
+That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome;
+He bears too great a mind. But this same day
+Must end that work the Ides of March begun;
+And whether we shall meet again I know not.
+Therefore our everlasting farewell take.
+For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius.
+If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
+If not, why then this parting was well made.
+
+CASSIUS.
+For ever and for ever farewell, Brutus.
+If we do meet again, we’ll smile indeed;
+If not, ’tis true this parting was well made.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why then, lead on. O, that a man might know
+The end of this day’s business ere it come!
+But it sufficeth that the day will end,
+And then the end is known. Come, ho! away!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. The field of battle.
+
+Alarum. Enter Brutus and Messala.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills
+Unto the legions on the other side.
+
+[_Loud alarum._]
+
+Let them set on at once; for I perceive
+But cold demeanor in Octavius’ wing,
+And sudden push gives them the overthrow.
+Ride, ride, Messala; let them all come down.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another part of the field.
+
+Alarum. Enter Cassius and Titinius.
+
+CASSIUS.
+O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly!
+Myself have to mine own turn’d enemy:
+This ensign here of mine was turning back;
+I slew the coward, and did take it from him.
+
+TITINIUS.
+O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early,
+Who, having some advantage on Octavius,
+Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil,
+Whilst we by Antony are all enclos’d.
+
+Enter Pindarus.
+
+PINDARUS.
+Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;
+Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord.
+Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off.
+
+CASSIUS.
+This hill is far enough. Look, look, Titinius;
+Are those my tents where I perceive the fire?
+
+TITINIUS.
+They are, my lord.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Titinius, if thou lovest me,
+Mount thou my horse and hide thy spurs in him,
+Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops
+And here again, that I may rest assur’d
+Whether yond troops are friend or enemy.
+
+TITINIUS.
+I will be here again, even with a thought.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+CASSIUS.
+Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill,
+My sight was ever thick. Regard Titinius,
+And tell me what thou notest about the field.
+
+[_Pindarus goes up._]
+
+This day I breathed first. Time is come round,
+And where I did begin, there shall I end.
+My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news?
+
+PINDARUS.
+[_Above._] O my lord!
+
+CASSIUS.
+What news?
+
+PINDARUS.
+[_Above._] Titinius is enclosed round about
+With horsemen, that make to him on the spur,
+Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.
+Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too.
+He’s ta’en!
+
+[_Shout._]
+
+And, hark! they shout for joy.
+
+CASSIUS.
+Come down; behold no more.
+O, coward that I am, to live so long,
+To see my best friend ta’en before my face!
+
+[_Pindarus descends._]
+
+Come hither, sirrah.
+In Parthia did I take thee prisoner;
+And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,
+That whatsoever I did bid thee do,
+Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath.
+Now be a freeman; and with this good sword,
+That ran through Caesar’s bowels, search this bosom.
+Stand not to answer. Here, take thou the hilts;
+And when my face is cover’d, as ’tis now,
+Guide thou the sword.—Caesar, thou art reveng’d,
+Even with the sword that kill’d thee.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+PINDARUS.
+So, I am free, yet would not so have been,
+Durst I have done my will. O Cassius!
+Far from this country Pindarus shall run,
+Where never Roman shall take note of him.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Titinius with Messala.
+
+MESSALA.
+It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius
+Is overthrown by noble Brutus’ power,
+As Cassius’ legions are by Antony.
+
+TITINIUS.
+These tidings would well comfort Cassius.
+
+MESSALA.
+Where did you leave him?
+
+TITINIUS.
+All disconsolate,
+With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.
+
+MESSALA.
+Is not that he that lies upon the ground?
+
+TITINIUS.
+He lies not like the living. O my heart!
+
+MESSALA.
+Is not that he?
+
+TITINIUS.
+No, this was he, Messala,
+But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,
+As in thy red rays thou dost sink to night,
+So in his red blood Cassius’ day is set.
+The sun of Rome is set. Our day is gone;
+Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done.
+Mistrust of my success hath done this deed.
+
+MESSALA.
+Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
+O hateful Error, Melancholy’s child!
+Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
+The things that are not? O Error, soon conceiv’d,
+Thou never com’st unto a happy birth,
+But kill’st the mother that engender’d thee!
+
+TITINIUS.
+What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus?
+
+MESSALA.
+Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet
+The noble Brutus, thrusting this report
+Into his ears. I may say thrusting it;
+For piercing steel and darts envenomed
+Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus
+As tidings of this sight.
+
+TITINIUS.
+Hie you, Messala,
+And I will seek for Pindarus the while.
+
+[_Exit Messala._]
+
+Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?
+Did I not meet thy friends? And did not they
+Put on my brows this wreath of victory,
+And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?
+Alas, thou hast misconstrued everything!
+But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow;
+Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I
+Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,
+And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.
+By your leave, gods. This is a Roman’s part.
+Come, Cassius’ sword, and find Titinius’ heart.
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+Alarum. Enter Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Strato, Volumnius and
+Lucilius.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie?
+
+MESSALA.
+Lo, yonder, and Titinius mourning it.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Titinius’ face is upward.
+
+CATO.
+He is slain.
+
+BRUTUS.
+O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!
+Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
+In our own proper entrails.
+
+[_Low alarums._]
+
+CATO.
+Brave Titinius!
+Look whether he have not crown’d dead Cassius!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Are yet two Romans living such as these?
+The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
+It is impossible that ever Rome
+Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears
+To this dead man than you shall see me pay.
+I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.
+Come therefore, and to Thassos send his body.
+His funerals shall not be in our camp,
+Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come;
+And come, young Cato; let us to the field.
+Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on.
+’Tis three o’clock; and Romans, yet ere night
+We shall try fortune in a second fight.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another part of the field.
+
+Alarum. Enter fighting soldiers of both armies; then Brutus, Messala,
+young Cato, Lucilius, Flavius and others.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads!
+
+CATO.
+What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?
+I will proclaim my name about the field.
+I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
+A foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend.
+I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
+
+[_Charges the enemy._]
+
+LUCILIUS.
+And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I;
+Brutus, my country’s friend; know me for Brutus!
+
+[_Exit, charging the enemy. Cato is overpowered, and falls._]
+
+LUCILIUS.
+O young and noble Cato, art thou down?
+Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius,
+And mayst be honour’d, being Cato’s son.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+Yield, or thou diest.
+
+LUCILIUS.
+Only I yield to die:
+There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;
+
+[_Offering money_]
+
+Kill Brutus, and be honour’d in his death.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+We must not. A noble prisoner!
+
+SECOND SOLDIER.
+Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta’en.
+
+FIRST SOLDIER.
+I’ll tell the news. Here comes the General.
+
+Enter Antony.
+
+Brutus is ta’en, Brutus is ta’en, my lord.
+
+ANTONY.
+Where is he?
+
+LUCILIUS.
+Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough.
+I dare assure thee that no enemy
+Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus.
+The gods defend him from so great a shame!
+When you do find him, or alive or dead,
+He will be found like Brutus, like himself.
+
+ANTONY.
+This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,
+A prize no less in worth. Keep this man safe,
+Give him all kindness. I had rather have
+Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,
+And see whether Brutus be alive or dead;
+And bring us word unto Octavius’ tent
+How everything is chanc’d.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the field.
+
+Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato and Volumnius.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock.
+
+CLITUS.
+Statilius show’d the torch-light; but, my lord,
+He came not back: he is or ta’en or slain.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Sit thee down, Clitus. Slaying is the word;
+It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus.
+
+[_Whispering._]
+
+CLITUS.
+What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Peace then, no words.
+
+CLITUS.
+I’ll rather kill myself.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Hark thee, Dardanius.
+
+[_Whispers him._]
+
+DARDANIUS.
+Shall I do such a deed?
+
+CLITUS.
+O Dardanius!
+
+DARDANIUS.
+O Clitus!
+
+CLITUS.
+What ill request did Brutus make to thee?
+
+DARDANIUS.
+To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates.
+
+CLITUS.
+Now is that noble vessel full of grief,
+That it runs over even at his eyes.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Come hither, good Volumnius; list a word.
+
+VOLUMNIUS.
+What says my lord?
+
+BRUTUS.
+Why, this, Volumnius:
+The ghost of Caesar hath appear’d to me
+Two several times by night; at Sardis once,
+And this last night here in Philippi fields.
+I know my hour is come.
+
+VOLUMNIUS.
+Not so, my lord.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Nay I am sure it is, Volumnius.
+Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes;
+Our enemies have beat us to the pit.
+
+[_Low alarums._]
+
+It is more worthy to leap in ourselves
+Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,
+Thou know’st that we two went to school together;
+Even for that our love of old, I pr’ythee
+Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it.
+
+VOLUMNIUS.
+That’s not an office for a friend, my lord.
+
+[_Alarums still._]
+
+CLITUS.
+Fly, fly, my lord! there is no tarrying here.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius.
+Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep;
+Farewell to thee too, Strato.—Countrymen,
+My heart doth joy, that yet in all my life
+I found no man but he was true to me.
+I shall have glory by this losing day
+More than Octavius and Mark Antony
+By this vile conquest shall attain unto.
+So fare you well at once; for Brutus’ tongue
+Hath almost ended his life’s history.
+Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,
+That have but labour’d to attain this hour.
+
+[_Alarums. Cry within, “Fly, fly, fly!”._]
+
+CLITUS.
+Fly, my lord, fly!
+
+BRUTUS.
+Hence! I will follow.
+
+[_Exeunt Clitus, Dardanius and Volumnius._]
+
+I pr’ythee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord.
+Thou art a fellow of a good respect;
+Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it.
+Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face,
+While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?
+
+STRATO.
+Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord.
+
+BRUTUS.
+Farewell, good Strato.—Caesar, now be still:
+I kill’d not thee with half so good a will.
+
+[_He runs on his sword, and dies._]
+
+Alarum. Retreat. Enter Antony, Octavius, Messala, Lucilius and the
+Army.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+What man is that?
+
+MESSALA.
+My master’s man. Strato, where is thy master?
+
+STRATO.
+Free from the bondage you are in, Messala.
+The conquerors can but make a fire of him;
+For Brutus only overcame himself,
+And no man else hath honour by his death.
+
+LUCILIUS.
+So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,
+That thou hast prov’d Lucilius’ saying true.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+All that serv’d Brutus, I will entertain them.
+Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?
+
+STRATO.
+Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+Do so, good Messala.
+
+MESSALA.
+How died my master, Strato?
+
+STRATO.
+I held the sword, and he did run on it.
+
+MESSALA.
+Octavius, then take him to follow thee,
+That did the latest service to my master.
+
+ANTONY.
+This was the noblest Roman of them all.
+All the conspirators save only he,
+Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
+He only, in a general honest thought
+And common good to all, made one of them.
+His life was gentle, and the elements
+So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up
+And say to all the world, “This was a man!”
+
+OCTAVIUS.
+According to his virtue let us use him
+With all respect and rites of burial.
+Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie,
+Most like a soldier, order’d honourably.
+So call the field to rest, and let’s away,
+To part the glories of this happy day.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. A Room of State in King Lear’s Palace
+Scene II. A Hall in the Earl of Gloucester’s Castle
+Scene III. A Room in the Duke of Albany’s Palace
+Scene IV. A Hall in Albany’s Palace
+Scene V. Court before the Duke of Albany’s Palace
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. A court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester
+Scene II. Before Gloucester’s Castle
+Scene III. The open Country
+Scene IV. Before Gloucester’s Castle
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. A Heath
+Scene II. Another part of the heath
+Scene III. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle
+Scene IV. A part of the Heath with a Hovel
+Scene V. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle
+Scene VI. A Chamber in a Farmhouse adjoining the Castle
+Scene VII. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. The heath
+Scene II. Before the Duke of Albany’s Palace
+Scene III. The French camp near Dover
+Scene IV. The French camp. A Tent
+Scene V. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle
+Scene VI. The country near Dover
+Scene VII. A Tent in the French Camp
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. The Camp of the British Forces near Dover
+Scene II. A field between the two Camps
+Scene III. The British Camp near Dover
+
+
+
+
+ Dramatis Personæ 
+
+LEAR, King of Britain.
+GONERIL, eldest daughter to Lear.
+REGAN, second daughter to Lear.
+CORDELIA, youngest daughter to Lear.
+DUKE of ALBANY, married to Goneril.
+DUKE of CORNWALL, married to Regan.
+KING of FRANCE.
+DUKE of BURGUNDY.
+EARL of GLOUCESTER.
+EDGAR, elder son to Gloucester.
+EDMUND, younger bastard son to Gloucester.
+EARL of KENT.
+FOOL.
+OSWALD, steward to Goneril.
+CURAN, a Courtier.
+OLD MAN, Tenant to Gloucester.
+Physician.
+An Officer employed by Edmund.
+Gentleman, attendant on Cordelia.
+A Herald.
+Servants to Cornwall.
+
+Knights attending on the King, Officers, Messengers, Soldiers and
+Attendants.
+
+SCENE: Britain
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. A Room of State in King Lear’s Palace
+
+
+ Enter Kent, Gloucester and Edmund.
+
+KENT.
+I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+It did always seem so to us; but now, in the division of the kingdom,
+it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for qualities are so
+weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moiety.
+
+KENT.
+Is not this your son, my lord?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have so often
+blush’d to acknowledge him that now I am braz’d to’t.
+
+KENT.
+I cannot conceive you.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Sir, this young fellow’s mother could; whereupon she grew
+round-wombed, and had indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she
+had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?
+
+KENT.
+I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+But I have a son, sir, by order of law, some year elder than
+this, who yet is no dearer in my account: though this knave came
+something saucily to the world before he was sent for, yet was
+his mother fair; there was good sport at his making, and the
+whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this noble gentleman,
+Edmund?
+
+EDMUND.
+No, my lord.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+My Lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my honourable friend.
+
+EDMUND.
+My services to your lordship.
+
+KENT.
+I must love you, and sue to know you better.
+
+EDMUND.
+Sir, I shall study deserving.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He hath been out nine years, and away he shall again. The King
+is coming.
+
+ [_Sennet within._]
+
+ Enter Lear, Cornwall, Albany, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia and Attendants.
+
+LEAR.
+Attend the lords of France and Burgundy,
+Gloucester.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I shall, my lord.
+
+ [_Exeunt Gloucester and Edmund._]
+
+LEAR.
+Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
+Give me the map there. Know that we have divided
+In three our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent
+To shake all cares and business from our age;
+Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
+Unburden’d crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,
+And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
+We have this hour a constant will to publish
+Our daughters’ several dowers, that future strife
+May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,
+Great rivals in our youngest daughter’s love,
+Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
+And here are to be answer’d. Tell me, my daughters,—
+Since now we will divest us both of rule,
+Interest of territory, cares of state,—
+Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
+That we our largest bounty may extend
+Where nature doth with merit challenge.—Goneril,
+Our eldest born, speak first.
+
+GONERIL.
+Sir, I love you more than word can wield the matter;
+Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty;
+Beyond what can be valu’d, rich or rare;
+No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;
+As much as child e’er lov’d, or father found;
+A love that makes breath poor and speech unable;
+Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
+
+CORDELIA.
+[_Aside._] What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.
+
+LEAR.
+Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,
+With shadowy forests and with champains rich’d,
+With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,
+We make thee lady: to thine and Albany’s issue
+Be this perpetual.—What says our second daughter,
+Our dearest Regan, wife of Cornwall? Speak.
+
+REGAN.
+Sir, I am made of the self mettle as my sister,
+And prize me at her worth. In my true heart
+I find she names my very deed of love;
+Only she comes too short, that I profess
+Myself an enemy to all other joys
+Which the most precious square of sense possesses,
+And find I am alone felicitate
+In your dear highness’ love.
+
+CORDELIA.
+[_Aside._] Then poor Cordelia,
+And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love’s
+More ponderous than my tongue.
+
+LEAR.
+To thee and thine hereditary ever
+Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom;
+No less in space, validity, and pleasure
+Than that conferr’d on Goneril.—Now, our joy,
+Although the last and least; to whose young love
+The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
+Strive to be interess’d; what can you say to draw
+A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Nothing, my lord.
+
+LEAR.
+Nothing?
+
+CORDELIA.
+Nothing.
+
+LEAR.
+Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
+My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
+According to my bond; no more nor less.
+
+LEAR.
+How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little,
+Lest you may mar your fortunes.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Good my lord,
+You have begot me, bred me, lov’d me: I
+Return those duties back as are right fit,
+Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
+Why have my sisters husbands if they say
+They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
+That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
+Half my love with him, half my care and duty:
+Sure I shall never marry like my sisters,
+To love my father all.
+
+LEAR.
+But goes thy heart with this?
+
+CORDELIA.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+LEAR.
+So young, and so untender?
+
+CORDELIA.
+So young, my lord, and true.
+
+LEAR.
+Let it be so, thy truth then be thy dower:
+For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,
+The mysteries of Hecate and the night;
+By all the operation of the orbs,
+From whom we do exist and cease to be;
+Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
+Propinquity and property of blood,
+And as a stranger to my heart and me
+Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
+Or he that makes his generation messes
+To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
+Be as well neighbour’d, pitied, and reliev’d,
+As thou my sometime daughter.
+
+KENT.
+Good my liege,—
+
+LEAR.
+Peace, Kent!
+Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
+I lov’d her most, and thought to set my rest
+On her kind nursery. [_To Cordelia._] Hence and avoid my sight!
+So be my grave my peace, as here I give
+Her father’s heart from her! Call France. Who stirs?
+Call Burgundy! Cornwall and Albany,
+With my two daughters’ dowers digest this third:
+Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.
+I do invest you jointly with my power,
+Pre-eminence, and all the large effects
+That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,
+With reservation of an hundred knights,
+By you to be sustain’d, shall our abode
+Make with you by due turn. Only we shall retain
+The name, and all the addition to a king; the sway,
+Revenue, execution of the rest,
+Beloved sons, be yours; which to confirm,
+This coronet part between you.
+ [_Giving the crown._]
+
+KENT.
+Royal Lear,
+Whom I have ever honour’d as my king,
+Lov’d as my father, as my master follow’d,
+As my great patron thought on in my prayers.—
+
+LEAR.
+The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft.
+
+KENT.
+Let it fall rather, though the fork invade
+The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly
+When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old man?
+Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,
+When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour’s bound
+When majesty falls to folly. Reverse thy state;
+And in thy best consideration check
+This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgement,
+Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least;
+Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sounds
+Reverb no hollowness.
+
+LEAR.
+Kent, on thy life, no more.
+
+KENT.
+My life I never held but as a pawn
+To wage against thine enemies; ne’er fear to lose it,
+Thy safety being the motive.
+
+LEAR.
+Out of my sight!
+
+KENT.
+See better, Lear; and let me still remain
+The true blank of thine eye.
+
+LEAR.
+Now, by Apollo,—
+
+KENT.
+Now by Apollo, King,
+Thou swear’st thy gods in vain.
+
+LEAR.
+O vassal! Miscreant!
+
+ [_Laying his hand on his sword._]
+
+ALBANY and CORNWALL.
+Dear sir, forbear!
+
+KENT.
+Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
+Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift,
+Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,
+I’ll tell thee thou dost evil.
+
+LEAR.
+Hear me, recreant! on thine allegiance, hear me!
+Since thou hast sought to make us break our vows,
+Which we durst never yet, and with strain’d pride
+To come betwixt our sentences and our power,
+Which nor our nature, nor our place can bear,
+Our potency made good, take thy reward.
+Five days we do allot thee for provision,
+To shield thee from disasters of the world;
+And on the sixth to turn thy hated back
+Upon our kingdom: if, on the next day following,
+Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions,
+The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,
+This shall not be revok’d.
+
+KENT.
+Fare thee well, King: sith thus thou wilt appear,
+Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
+[_To Cordelia._] The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,
+That justly think’st and hast most rightly said!
+[_To Goneril and Regan._] And your large speeches may your deeds
+approve,
+That good effects may spring from words of love.
+Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;
+He’ll shape his old course in a country new.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Flourish. Re-enter Gloucester, with France, Burgundy and Attendants.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Here’s France and Burgundy, my noble lord.
+
+LEAR.
+My Lord of Burgundy,
+We first address toward you, who with this king
+Hath rivall’d for our daughter: what in the least
+Will you require in present dower with her,
+Or cease your quest of love?
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Most royal majesty,
+I crave no more than hath your highness offer’d,
+Nor will you tender less.
+
+LEAR.
+Right noble Burgundy,
+When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;
+But now her price is fall’n. Sir, there she stands:
+If aught within that little-seeming substance,
+Or all of it, with our displeasure piec’d,
+And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,
+She’s there, and she is yours.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+I know no answer.
+
+LEAR.
+Will you, with those infirmities she owes,
+Unfriended, new adopted to our hate,
+Dower’d with our curse, and stranger’d with our oath,
+Take her or leave her?
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Pardon me, royal sir;
+Election makes not up in such conditions.
+
+LEAR.
+Then leave her, sir; for, by the power that made me,
+I tell you all her wealth. [_To France_] For you, great king,
+I would not from your love make such a stray
+To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you
+T’avert your liking a more worthier way
+Than on a wretch whom nature is asham’d
+Almost t’acknowledge hers.
+
+FRANCE.
+This is most strange,
+That she, who even but now was your best object,
+The argument of your praise, balm of your age,
+The best, the dearest, should in this trice of time
+Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle
+So many folds of favour. Sure her offence
+Must be of such unnatural degree
+That monsters it, or your fore-vouch’d affection
+Fall into taint; which to believe of her
+Must be a faith that reason without miracle
+Should never plant in me.
+
+CORDELIA.
+I yet beseech your majesty,
+If for I want that glib and oily art
+To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend,
+I’ll do’t before I speak,—that you make known
+It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,
+No unchaste action or dishonour’d step,
+That hath depriv’d me of your grace and favour;
+But even for want of that for which I am richer,
+A still soliciting eye, and such a tongue
+As I am glad I have not, though not to have it
+Hath lost me in your liking.
+
+LEAR.
+Better thou hadst
+Not been born than not to have pleas’d me better.
+
+FRANCE.
+Is it but this?—a tardiness in nature
+Which often leaves the history unspoke
+That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,
+What say you to the lady? Love’s not love
+When it is mingled with regards that stands
+Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?
+She is herself a dowry.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+Royal King,
+Give but that portion which yourself propos’d,
+And here I take Cordelia by the hand,
+Duchess of Burgundy.
+
+LEAR.
+Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm.
+
+BURGUNDY.
+I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father
+That you must lose a husband.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Peace be with Burgundy!
+Since that respects of fortunes are his love,
+I shall not be his wife.
+
+FRANCE.
+Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;
+Most choice forsaken; and most lov’d, despis’d!
+Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:
+Be it lawful, I take up what’s cast away.
+Gods, gods! ’Tis strange that from their cold’st neglect
+My love should kindle to inflam’d respect.
+Thy dowerless daughter, King, thrown to my chance,
+Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:
+Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy
+Can buy this unpriz’d precious maid of me.
+Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:
+Thou losest here, a better where to find.
+
+LEAR.
+Thou hast her, France: let her be thine; for we
+Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
+That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
+Without our grace, our love, our benison.
+Come, noble Burgundy.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt Lear, Burgundy, Cornwall, Albany, Gloucester and
+ Attendants._]
+
+FRANCE.
+Bid farewell to your sisters.
+
+CORDELIA.
+The jewels of our father, with wash’d eyes
+Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are;
+And like a sister am most loath to call
+Your faults as they are nam’d. Love well our father:
+To your professed bosoms I commit him:
+But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,
+I would prefer him to a better place.
+So farewell to you both.
+
+REGAN.
+Prescribe not us our duties.
+
+GONERIL.
+Let your study
+Be to content your lord, who hath receiv’d you
+At fortune’s alms. You have obedience scanted,
+And well are worth the want that you have wanted.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
+Who covers faults, at last shame derides.
+Well may you prosper.
+
+FRANCE.
+Come, my fair Cordelia.
+
+ [_Exeunt France and Cordelia._]
+
+GONERIL.
+Sister, it is not little I have to say of what most nearly
+appertains to us both. I think our father will hence tonight.
+
+REGAN.
+That’s most certain, and with you; next month with us.
+
+GONERIL.
+You see how full of changes his age is; the observation we
+have made of it hath not been little: he always loved our
+sister most; and with what poor judgement he hath now cast her
+off appears too grossly.
+
+REGAN.
+’Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly
+known himself.
+
+GONERIL.
+The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then must
+we look from his age to receive not alone the imperfections of
+long-engrafted condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness
+that infirm and choleric years bring with them.
+
+REGAN.
+Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as this of Kent’s
+banishment.
+
+GONERIL.
+There is further compliment of leave-taking between France and
+him. Pray you let us hit together: if our father carry authority
+with such disposition as he bears, this last surrender of his
+will but offend us.
+
+REGAN.
+We shall further think of it.
+
+GONERIL.
+We must do something, and i’ th’ heat.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Hall in the Earl of Gloucester’s Castle
+
+ Enter Edmund with a
+letter.
+
+EDMUND.
+Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
+My services are bound. Wherefore should I
+Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
+The curiosity of nations to deprive me?
+For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
+Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base?
+When my dimensions are as well compact,
+My mind as generous, and my shape as true
+As honest madam’s issue? Why brand they us
+With base? With baseness? bastardy? Base, base?
+Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
+More composition and fierce quality
+Than doth within a dull stale tired bed
+Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops
+Got ’tween asleep and wake? Well then,
+Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
+Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund
+As to the legitimate: fine word: legitimate!
+Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
+And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
+Shall top the legitimate. I grow, I prosper.
+Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
+
+ Enter Gloucester.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Kent banish’d thus! and France in choler parted!
+And the King gone tonight! Prescrib’d his pow’r!
+Confin’d to exhibition! All this done
+Upon the gad!—Edmund, how now! What news?
+
+EDMUND.
+So please your lordship, none.
+
+ [_Putting up the letter._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
+
+EDMUND.
+I know no news, my lord.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What paper were you reading?
+
+EDMUND.
+Nothing, my lord.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+No? What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket? The
+quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let’s see. Come,
+if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.
+
+EDMUND.
+I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter from my brother that I
+have not all o’er-read; and for so much as I have perus’d, I find it
+not fit for your o’er-looking.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Give me the letter, sir.
+
+EDMUND.
+I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The contents, as in
+part I understand them, are to blame.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Let’s see, let’s see!
+
+EDMUND.
+I hope, for my brother’s justification, he wrote this but as an
+essay, or taste of my virtue.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+[_Reads._] ‘This policy and reverence of age makes the world
+bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us
+till our oldness cannot relish them. I begin to find an idle
+and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways
+not as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to me, that
+of this I may speak more. If our father would sleep till I
+waked him, you should enjoy half his revenue for ever, and live
+the beloved of your brother EDGAR.’
+Hum! Conspiracy? ‘Sleep till I wake him, you should enjoy half
+his revenue.’—My son Edgar! Had he a hand to write this? A heart
+and brain to breed it in? When came this to you? Who brought it?
+
+EDMUND.
+It was not brought me, my lord, there’s the cunning of it. I
+found it thrown in at the casement of my closet.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+You know the character to be your brother’s?
+
+EDMUND.
+If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear it were his; but
+in respect of that, I would fain think it were not.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+It is his.
+
+EDMUND.
+It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is not in the
+contents.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Has he never before sounded you in this business?
+
+EDMUND.
+Never, my lord. But I have heard him oft maintain it to be fit
+that, sons at perfect age, and fathers declined, the father
+should be as ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter! Abhorred
+villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! worse than
+brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; I’ll apprehend him. Abominable
+villain, Where is he?
+
+EDMUND.
+I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please you to suspend
+your indignation against my brother till you can derive from him
+better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain course;
+where, if you violently proceed against him, mistaking his
+purpose, it would make a great gap in your own honour, and shake
+in pieces the heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life
+for him, that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your
+honour, and to no other pretence of danger.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Think you so?
+
+EDMUND.
+If your honour judge it meet, I will place you where you shall hear us
+confer of this, and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction,
+and that without any further delay than this very evening.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He cannot be such a monster.
+
+EDMUND.
+Nor is not, sure.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him. Heaven
+and earth! Edmund, seek him out; wind me into him, I pray you:
+frame the business after your own wisdom. I would unstate myself
+to be in a due resolution.
+
+EDMUND.
+I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall
+find means, and acquaint you withal.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us:
+though the wisdom of Nature can reason it thus and thus, yet
+nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools,
+friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in
+countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked
+’twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the
+prediction; there’s son against father: the King falls from
+bias of nature; there’s father against child. We have seen the
+best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
+ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves. Find out
+this villain, Edmund; it shall lose thee nothing; do it
+carefully.—And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his
+offence, honesty! ’Tis strange.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+EDMUND.
+This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are
+sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we
+make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as
+if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion;
+knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance;
+drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of
+planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine
+thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his
+goatish disposition to the charge of a star. My father compounded
+with my mother under the dragon’s tail, and my nativity was under
+Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I
+should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the
+firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
+
+ Enter Edgar.
+
+Pat! he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue
+is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o’Bedlam.—O,
+these eclipses do portend these divisions! Fa, sol, la, mi.
+
+EDGAR.
+How now, brother Edmund, what serious contemplation are you in?
+
+EDMUND.
+I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day,
+what should follow these eclipses.
+
+EDGAR.
+Do you busy yourself with that?
+
+EDMUND.
+I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of
+unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth,
+dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and
+maledictions against King and nobles; needless diffidences,
+banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches,
+and I know not what.
+
+EDGAR.
+How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
+
+EDMUND.
+Come, come! when saw you my father last?
+
+EDGAR.
+The night gone by.
+
+EDMUND.
+Spake you with him?
+
+EDGAR.
+Ay, two hours together.
+
+EDMUND.
+Parted you in good terms? Found you no displeasure in him, by word
+nor countenance?
+
+EDGAR.
+None at all.
+
+EDMUND.
+Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended him: and at my
+entreaty forbear his presence until some little time hath
+qualified the heat of his displeasure; which at this instant so
+rageth in him that with the mischief of your person it would
+scarcely allay.
+
+EDGAR.
+Some villain hath done me wrong.
+
+EDMUND.
+That’s my fear. I pray you have a continent forbearance till the
+speed of his rage goes slower; and, as I say, retire with me to
+my lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to hear my lord
+speak: pray ye, go; there’s my key. If you do stir abroad, go
+armed.
+
+EDGAR.
+Armed, brother?
+
+EDMUND.
+Brother, I advise you to the best; I am no honest man
+if there be any good meaning toward you: I have told you what I
+have seen and heard. But faintly; nothing like the image and
+horror of it: pray you, away!
+
+EDGAR.
+Shall I hear from you anon?
+
+EDMUND.
+I do serve you in this business.
+
+ [_Exit Edgar._]
+
+A credulous father! and a brother noble,
+Whose nature is so far from doing harms
+That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty
+My practices ride easy! I see the business.
+Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
+All with me’s meet that I can fashion fit.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A Room in the Duke of Albany’s Palace
+
+ Enter Goneril and Oswald.
+
+GONERIL.
+Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?
+
+OSWALD.
+Ay, madam.
+
+GONERIL.
+By day and night, he wrongs me; every hour
+He flashes into one gross crime or other,
+That sets us all at odds; I’ll not endure it:
+His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
+On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,
+I will not speak with him; say I am sick.
+If you come slack of former services,
+You shall do well; the fault of it I’ll answer.
+
+ [_Horns within._]
+
+OSWALD.
+He’s coming, madam; I hear him.
+
+GONERIL.
+Put on what weary negligence you please,
+You and your fellows; I’d have it come to question:
+If he distaste it, let him to our sister,
+Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,
+Not to be overruled. Idle old man,
+That still would manage those authorities
+That he hath given away! Now, by my life,
+Old fools are babes again; and must be us’d
+With checks as flatteries, when they are seen abus’d.
+Remember what I have said.
+
+OSWALD.
+Very well, madam.
+
+GONERIL.
+And let his knights have colder looks among you;
+What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so;
+I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,
+That I may speak. I’ll write straight to my sister
+To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A Hall in Albany’s Palace
+
+ Enter Kent, disguised.
+
+KENT.
+If but as well I other accents borrow,
+That can my speech defuse, my good intent
+May carry through itself to that full issue
+For which I rais’d my likeness. Now, banish’d Kent,
+If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn’d,
+So may it come, thy master, whom thou lov’st,
+Shall find thee full of labours.
+
+ Horns within. Enter King
+Lear, Knights and Attendants.
+
+LEAR.
+Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+How now! what art thou?
+
+KENT.
+A man, sir.
+
+LEAR.
+What dost thou profess? What wouldst thou with us?
+
+KENT.
+I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that
+will put me in trust; to love him that is honest; to converse
+with him that is wise and says little; to fear judgement; to fight
+when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
+
+LEAR.
+What art thou?
+
+KENT.
+A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the King.
+
+LEAR.
+If thou be’st as poor for a subject as he’s for a king, thou art
+poor enough. What wouldst thou?
+
+KENT.
+Service.
+
+LEAR.
+Who wouldst thou serve?
+
+KENT.
+You.
+
+LEAR.
+Dost thou know me, fellow?
+
+KENT.
+No, sir; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain
+call master.
+
+LEAR.
+What’s that?
+
+KENT.
+Authority.
+
+LEAR.
+What services canst thou do?
+
+KENT.
+I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious tale in
+telling it and deliver a plain message bluntly. That which
+ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of
+me is diligence.
+
+LEAR.
+How old art thou?
+
+KENT.
+Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing; nor so old to
+dote on her for anything: I have years on my back forty-eight.
+
+LEAR.
+Follow me; thou shalt serve me. If I like thee no worse after dinner, I
+will not part from thee yet. Dinner, ho, dinner! Where’s my knave? my
+fool? Go you and call my fool hither.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+ Enter Oswald.
+
+You, you, sirrah, where’s my daughter?
+
+OSWALD.
+So please you,—
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LEAR.
+What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.
+
+ [_Exit a Knight._]
+
+Where’s my fool? Ho, I think the world’s asleep.
+
+ Re-enter Knight.
+
+How now! where’s that mongrel?
+
+KNIGHT.
+He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.
+
+LEAR.
+Why came not the slave back to me when I called him?
+
+KNIGHT.
+Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would not.
+
+LEAR.
+He would not?
+
+KNIGHT.
+My lord, I know not what the matter is; but to my judgement your
+highness is not entertained with that ceremonious affection as
+you were wont; there’s a great abatement of kindness appears as
+well in the general dependants as in the Duke himself also, and
+your daughter.
+
+LEAR.
+Ha! say’st thou so?
+
+KNIGHT.
+I beseech you pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken; for my duty
+cannot be silent when I think your highness wronged.
+
+LEAR.
+Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception: I have perceived
+a most faint neglect of late; which I have rather blamed as mine
+own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence and purpose of
+unkindness: I will look further into’t. But where’s my fool? I
+have not seen him this two days.
+
+KNIGHT.
+Since my young lady’s going into France, sir, the fool hath much
+pined away.
+
+LEAR.
+No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you and tell my
+daughter I would speak with her.
+
+ [_Exit Attendant._]
+
+Go you, call hither my fool.
+
+ [_Exit another Attendant._]
+
+ Re-enter Oswald.
+
+O, you, sir, you, come you hither, sir: who am I, sir?
+
+OSWALD.
+My lady’s father.
+
+LEAR.
+My lady’s father! my lord’s knave: you whoreson dog! you slave! you
+cur!
+
+OSWALD.
+I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your pardon.
+
+LEAR.
+Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?
+
+ [_Striking him._]
+
+OSWALD.
+I’ll not be struck, my lord.
+
+KENT.
+Nor tripp’d neither, you base football player.
+
+ [_Tripping up his heels._]
+
+LEAR.
+I thank thee, fellow. Thou serv’st me, and I’ll love thee.
+
+KENT.
+Come, sir, arise, away! I’ll teach you differences: away, away! If you
+will measure your lubber’s length again, tarry; but away! go to; have
+you wisdom? So.
+
+ [_Pushes Oswald out._]
+
+LEAR.
+Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee: there’s earnest of thy service.
+
+ [_Giving Kent money._]
+
+ Enter Fool.
+
+FOOL.
+Let me hire him too; here’s my coxcomb.
+
+ [_Giving Kent his cap._]
+
+LEAR.
+How now, my pretty knave, how dost thou?
+
+FOOL.
+Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.
+
+KENT.
+Why, fool?
+
+FOOL.
+Why, for taking one’s part that’s out of favour. Nay, an thou
+canst not smile as the wind sits, thou’lt catch cold shortly:
+there, take my coxcomb: why, this fellow has banish’d two on’s
+daughters, and did the third a blessing against his will; if
+thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb. How now,
+nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!
+
+LEAR.
+Why, my boy?
+
+FOOL.
+If I gave them all my living, I’d keep my coxcombs myself. There’s
+mine; beg another of thy daughters.
+
+LEAR.
+Take heed, sirrah, the whip.
+
+FOOL.
+Truth’s a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when
+the Lady Brach may stand by the fire and stink.
+
+LEAR.
+A pestilent gall to me!
+
+FOOL.
+Sirrah, I’ll teach thee a speech.
+
+LEAR.
+Do.
+
+FOOL.
+Mark it, nuncle:
+    Have more than thou showest,
+    Speak less than thou knowest,
+    Lend less than thou owest,
+    Ride more than thou goest,
+    Learn more than thou trowest,
+    Set less than thou throwest;
+    Leave thy drink and thy whore,
+    And keep in-a-door,
+    And thou shalt have more
+    Than two tens to a score.
+
+KENT.
+This is nothing, fool.
+
+FOOL.
+Then ’tis like the breath of an unfee’d lawyer, you gave me
+nothing for’t. Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?
+
+LEAR.
+Why, no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing.
+
+FOOL.
+[_to Kent._] Prithee tell him, so much the rent of his land
+comes to: he will not believe a fool.
+
+LEAR.
+A bitter fool.
+
+FOOL.
+Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a bitter fool and
+a sweet one?
+
+LEAR.
+No, lad; teach me.
+
+FOOL.
+   That lord that counsell’d thee
+     To give away thy land,
+   Come place him here by me,
+     Do thou for him stand.
+   The sweet and bitter fool
+     Will presently appear;
+   The one in motley here,
+     The other found out there.
+
+LEAR.
+Dost thou call me fool, boy?
+
+FOOL.
+All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born
+with.
+
+KENT.
+This is not altogether fool, my lord.
+
+FOOL.
+No, faith; lords and great men will not let me; if I had a
+monopoly out, they would have part on’t and ladies too, they
+will not let me have all the fool to myself; they’ll be
+snatching. Nuncle, give me an egg, and I’ll give thee two
+crowns.
+
+LEAR.
+What two crowns shall they be?
+
+FOOL.
+Why, after I have cut the egg i’ the middle and eat up the
+meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy crown i’
+the middle and gav’st away both parts, thou bor’st thine ass on
+thy back o’er the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown
+when thou gav’st thy golden one away. If I speak like myself in
+this, let him be whipped that first finds it so.
+[_Singing._]
+   Fools had ne’er less grace in a year;
+     For wise men are grown foppish,
+   And know not how their wits to wear,
+     Their manners are so apish.
+
+LEAR.
+When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?
+
+FOOL.
+I have used it, nuncle, e’er since thou mad’st thy daughters thy
+mothers; for when thou gav’st them the rod, and put’st down thine
+own breeches,
+[_Singing._]
+   Then they for sudden joy did weep,
+     And I for sorrow sung,
+   That such a king should play bo-peep,
+     And go the fools among.
+Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to
+lie; I would fain learn to lie.
+
+LEAR.
+An you lie, sirrah, we’ll have you whipped.
+
+FOOL.
+I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are: they’ll have me
+whipped for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipped for lying;
+and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be
+any kind o’thing than a fool: and yet I would not be thee,
+nuncle: thou hast pared thy wit o’both sides, and left nothing
+i’ the middle: here comes one o’ the parings.
+
+ Enter Goneril.
+
+LEAR.
+How now, daughter? What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you
+are too much of late i’ the frown.
+
+FOOL.
+Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for
+her frowning. Now thou art an O without a figure: I am better
+than thou art now. I am a fool, thou art nothing. [_To Goneril._]
+Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue. So your face bids me, though
+you say nothing. Mum, mum,
+     He that keeps nor crust nor crum,
+     Weary of all, shall want some.
+[_Pointing to Lear_.] That’s a shealed peascod.
+
+GONERIL.
+Not only, sir, this your all-licens’d fool,
+But other of your insolent retinue
+Do hourly carp and quarrel; breaking forth
+In rank and not-to-be-endured riots. Sir,
+I had thought, by making this well known unto you,
+To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful,
+By what yourself too late have spoke and done,
+That you protect this course, and put it on
+By your allowance; which if you should, the fault
+Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,
+Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,
+Might in their working do you that offence
+Which else were shame, that then necessity
+Will call discreet proceeding.
+
+FOOL.
+For you know, nuncle,
+   The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long
+   That it’s had it head bit off by it young.
+So out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
+
+LEAR.
+Are you our daughter?
+
+GONERIL.
+Come, sir,
+I would you would make use of that good wisdom,
+Whereof I know you are fraught; and put away
+These dispositions, which of late transform you
+From what you rightly are.
+
+FOOL.
+May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I
+love thee!
+
+LEAR.
+Doth any here know me? This is not Lear;
+Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?
+Either his notion weakens, his discernings
+Are lethargied. Ha! waking? ’Tis not so!
+Who is it that can tell me who I am?
+
+FOOL.
+Lear’s shadow.
+
+LEAR.
+I would learn that; for by the marks of sovereignty, knowledge and
+reason, I should be false persuaded I had daughters.
+
+FOOL.
+Which they will make an obedient father.
+
+LEAR.
+Your name, fair gentlewoman?
+
+GONERIL.
+This admiration, sir, is much o’ the favour
+Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you
+To understand my purposes aright:
+As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
+Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
+Men so disorder’d, so debosh’d and bold
+That this our court, infected with their manners,
+Shows like a riotous inn. Epicurism and lust
+Makes it more like a tavern or a brothel
+Than a grac’d palace. The shame itself doth speak
+For instant remedy. Be, then, desir’d
+By her that else will take the thing she begs
+A little to disquantity your train;
+And the remainder that shall still depend,
+To be such men as may besort your age,
+Which know themselves, and you.
+
+LEAR.
+Darkness and devils!
+Saddle my horses; call my train together.
+Degenerate bastard! I’ll not trouble thee:
+Yet have I left a daughter.
+
+GONERIL.
+You strike my people; and your disorder’d rabble
+Make servants of their betters.
+
+ Enter Albany.
+
+LEAR.
+Woe that too late repents!—
+[_To Albany._] O, sir, are you come?
+Is it your will? Speak, sir.—Prepare my horses.
+Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
+More hideous when thou show’st thee in a child
+Than the sea-monster!
+
+ALBANY.
+Pray, sir, be patient.
+
+LEAR.
+[_to Goneril._] Detested kite, thou liest.
+My train are men of choice and rarest parts,
+That all particulars of duty know;
+And in the most exact regard support
+The worships of their name. O most small fault,
+How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!
+Which, like an engine, wrench’d my frame of nature
+From the fix’d place; drew from my heart all love,
+And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!
+[_Striking his head._] Beat at this gate that let thy folly in
+And thy dear judgement out! Go, go, my people.
+
+ALBANY.
+My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant
+Of what hath moved you.
+
+LEAR.
+It may be so, my lord.
+Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!
+Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend
+To make this creature fruitful!
+Into her womb convey sterility!
+Dry up in her the organs of increase;
+And from her derogate body never spring
+A babe to honour her! If she must teem,
+Create her child of spleen, that it may live
+And be a thwart disnatur’d torment to her!
+Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;
+With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;
+Turn all her mother’s pains and benefits
+To laughter and contempt; that she may feel
+How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
+To have a thankless child! Away, away!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ALBANY.
+Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
+
+GONERIL.
+Never afflict yourself to know more of it;
+But let his disposition have that scope
+That dotage gives it.
+
+ Re-enter Lear.
+
+LEAR.
+What, fifty of my followers at a clap?
+Within a fortnight?
+
+ALBANY.
+What’s the matter, sir?
+
+LEAR.
+I’ll tell thee. [_To Goneril._] Life and death! I am
+asham’d
+That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;
+That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,
+Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!
+Th’untented woundings of a father’s curse
+Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,
+Beweep this cause again, I’ll pluck ye out,
+And cast you with the waters that you lose
+To temper clay. Ha! Let it be so.
+I have another daughter,
+Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:
+When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails
+She’ll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find
+That I’ll resume the shape which thou dost think
+I have cast off for ever.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lear, Kent and Attendants._]
+
+GONERIL.
+Do you mark that?
+
+ALBANY.
+I cannot be so partial, Goneril,
+To the great love I bear you,—
+
+GONERIL.
+Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho!
+[_To the Fool._] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.
+
+FOOL.
+Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry and take the fool with thee.
+   A fox when one has caught her,
+   And such a daughter,
+   Should sure to the slaughter,
+   If my cap would buy a halter;
+   So the fool follows after.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+GONERIL.
+This man hath had good counsel.—A hundred knights!
+’Tis politic and safe to let him keep
+At point a hundred knights: yes, that on every dream,
+Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,
+He may enguard his dotage with their powers,
+And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say!
+
+ALBANY.
+Well, you may fear too far.
+
+GONERIL.
+Safer than trust too far:
+Let me still take away the harms I fear,
+Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.
+What he hath utter’d I have writ my sister:
+If she sustain him and his hundred knights,
+When I have show’d th’unfitness,—
+
+ Re-enter Oswald.
+
+How now, Oswald!
+What, have you writ that letter to my sister?
+
+OSWALD.
+Ay, madam.
+
+GONERIL.
+Take you some company, and away to horse:
+Inform her full of my particular fear;
+And thereto add such reasons of your own
+As may compact it more. Get you gone;
+And hasten your return.
+
+ [_Exit Oswald._]
+
+No, no, my lord!
+This milky gentleness and course of yours,
+Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,
+You are much more attask’d for want of wisdom
+Than prais’d for harmful mildness.
+
+ALBANY.
+How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell:
+Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
+
+GONERIL.
+Nay then,—
+
+ALBANY.
+Well, well; the event.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Court before the Duke of Albany’s Palace
+
+ Enter Lear, Kent and Fool.
+
+LEAR.
+Go you before to Gloucester with these letters: acquaint my
+daughter no further with anything you know than comes from her
+demand out of the letter. If your diligence be not speedy, I
+shall be there afore you.
+
+KENT.
+I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered your letter.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FOOL.
+If a man’s brains were in’s heels, were’t not in danger of
+kibes?
+
+LEAR.
+Ay, boy.
+
+FOOL.
+Then I prithee be merry; thy wit shall not go slipshod.
+
+LEAR.
+Ha, ha, ha!
+
+FOOL.
+Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly, for though
+she’s as like this as a crab’s like an apple, yet I can tell
+what I can tell.
+
+LEAR.
+What canst tell, boy?
+
+FOOL.
+She’ll taste as like this as a crab does to a crab. Thou
+canst tell why one’s nose stands i’the middle on’s face?
+
+LEAR.
+No.
+
+FOOL.
+Why, to keep one’s eyes of either side’s nose, that what a man
+cannot smell out, he may spy into.
+
+LEAR.
+I did her wrong.
+
+FOOL.
+Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?
+
+LEAR.
+No.
+
+FOOL.
+Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house.
+
+LEAR.
+Why?
+
+FOOL.
+Why, to put’s head in; not to give it away to his daughters, and
+leave his horns without a case.
+
+LEAR.
+I will forget my nature. So kind a father! Be my horses ready?
+
+FOOL.
+Thy asses are gone about ’em. The reason why the seven stars are
+no more than seven is a pretty reason.
+
+LEAR.
+Because they are not eight?
+
+FOOL.
+Yes indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.
+
+LEAR.
+To tak’t again perforce!—Monster ingratitude!
+
+FOOL.
+If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I’d have thee beaten for being
+old before thy time.
+
+LEAR.
+How’s that?
+
+FOOL.
+Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
+
+LEAR.
+O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
+Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
+
+ Enter Gentleman.
+
+How now? are the horses ready?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Ready, my lord.
+
+LEAR.
+Come, boy.
+
+FOOL.
+She that’s a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
+Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. A court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester
+
+
+ Enter Edmund and Curan, meeting.
+
+EDMUND.
+Save thee, Curan.
+
+CURAN.
+And you, sir. I have been with your father, and given him
+notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his Duchess will be
+here with him this night.
+
+EDMUND.
+How comes that?
+
+CURAN.
+Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad; I mean the
+whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?
+
+EDMUND.
+Not I: pray you, what are they?
+
+CURAN.
+Have you heard of no likely wars toward, ’twixt the two dukes
+of Cornwall and Albany?
+
+EDMUND.
+Not a word.
+
+CURAN.
+You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+EDMUND.
+The Duke be here tonight? The better! best!
+This weaves itself perforce into my business.
+My father hath set guard to take my brother;
+And I have one thing, of a queasy question,
+Which I must act. Briefness and fortune work!
+Brother, a word, descend, brother, I say!
+
+ Enter Edgar.
+
+My father watches: O sir, fly this place;
+Intelligence is given where you are hid;
+You have now the good advantage of the night.
+Have you not spoken ’gainst the Duke of Cornwall?
+He’s coming hither; now, i’ the night, i’ the haste,
+And Regan with him: have you nothing said
+Upon his party ’gainst the Duke of Albany?
+Advise yourself.
+
+EDGAR.
+I am sure on’t, not a word.
+
+EDMUND.
+I hear my father coming:—pardon me;
+In cunning I must draw my sword upon you:
+Draw: seem to defend yourself: now quit you well.
+Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here!
+Fly, brother. Torches, torches!—So farewell.
+
+ [_Exit Edgar._]
+
+Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion
+Of my more fierce endeavour: [_Wounds his arm._]
+I have seen drunkards
+Do more than this in sport. Father, father!
+Stop, stop! No help?
+
+ Enter Gloucester and
+Servants with torches.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Now, Edmund, where’s the villain?
+
+EDMUND.
+Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
+Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
+To stand auspicious mistress.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+But where is he?
+
+EDMUND.
+Look, sir, I bleed.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Where is the villain, Edmund?
+
+EDMUND.
+Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could,—
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Pursue him, ho! Go after.
+
+ [_Exeunt Servants._]
+
+—By no means what?
+
+EDMUND.
+Persuade me to the murder of your lordship;
+But that I told him the revenging gods
+’Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;
+Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond
+The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine,
+Seeing how loathly opposite I stood
+To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion
+With his prepared sword, he charges home
+My unprovided body, latch’d mine arm;
+But when he saw my best alarum’d spirits,
+Bold in the quarrel’s right, rous’d to th’encounter,
+Or whether gasted by the noise I made,
+Full suddenly he fled.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Let him fly far;
+Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;
+And found—dispatch’d. The noble Duke my master,
+My worthy arch and patron, comes tonight:
+By his authority I will proclaim it,
+That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,
+Bringing the murderous coward to the stake;
+He that conceals him, death.
+
+EDMUND.
+When I dissuaded him from his intent,
+And found him pight to do it, with curst speech
+I threaten’d to discover him: he replied,
+‘Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,
+If I would stand against thee, would the reposal
+Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee
+Make thy words faith’d? No: what I should deny
+As this I would; ay, though thou didst produce
+My very character, I’d turn it all
+To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice:
+And thou must make a dullard of the world,
+If they not thought the profits of my death
+Were very pregnant and potential spurs
+To make thee seek it.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O strange and fast’ned villain!
+Would he deny his letter, said he? I never got him.
+
+ [_Tucket within._]
+
+Hark, the Duke’s trumpets! I know not why he comes.
+All ports I’ll bar; the villain shall not scape;
+The Duke must grant me that: besides, his picture
+I will send far and near, that all the kingdom
+May have due note of him; and of my land,
+Loyal and natural boy, I’ll work the means
+To make thee capable.
+
+ Enter Cornwall, Regan and
+Attendants.
+
+CORNWALL.
+How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,
+Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.
+
+REGAN.
+If it be true, all vengeance comes too short
+Which can pursue th’offender. How dost, my lord?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O madam, my old heart is crack’d, it’s crack’d!
+
+REGAN.
+What, did my father’s godson seek your life?
+He whom my father nam’d? your Edgar?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O lady, lady, shame would have it hid!
+
+REGAN.
+Was he not companion with the riotous knights
+That tend upon my father?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I know not, madam; ’tis too bad, too bad.
+
+EDMUND.
+Yes, madam, he was of that consort.
+
+REGAN.
+No marvel then though he were ill affected:
+’Tis they have put him on the old man’s death,
+To have the expense and waste of his revenues.
+I have this present evening from my sister
+Been well inform’d of them; and with such cautions
+That if they come to sojourn at my house,
+I’ll not be there.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Nor I, assure thee, Regan.
+Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father
+A childlike office.
+
+EDMUND.
+It was my duty, sir.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He did bewray his practice; and receiv’d
+This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Is he pursued?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+CORNWALL.
+If he be taken, he shall never more
+Be fear’d of doing harm: make your own purpose,
+How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,
+Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant
+So much commend itself, you shall be ours:
+Natures of such deep trust we shall much need;
+You we first seize on.
+
+EDMUND.
+I shall serve you, sir, truly, however else.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+For him I thank your grace.
+
+CORNWALL.
+You know not why we came to visit you?
+
+REGAN.
+Thus out of season, threading dark-ey’d night:
+Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,
+Wherein we must have use of your advice.
+Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,
+Of differences, which I best thought it fit
+To answer from our home; the several messengers
+From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,
+Lay comforts to your bosom; and bestow
+Your needful counsel to our business,
+Which craves the instant use.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I serve you, madam:
+Your graces are right welcome.
+
+ [_Exeunt. Flourish._]
+
+SCENE II. Before Gloucester’s Castle
+
+ Enter Kent and Oswald,
+severally.
+
+OSWALD.
+Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?
+
+KENT.
+Ay.
+
+OSWALD.
+Where may we set our horses?
+
+KENT.
+I’ the mire.
+
+OSWALD.
+Prithee, if thou lov’st me, tell me.
+
+KENT.
+I love thee not.
+
+OSWALD.
+Why then, I care not for thee.
+
+KENT.
+If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.
+
+OSWALD.
+Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.
+
+KENT.
+Fellow, I know thee.
+
+OSWALD.
+What dost thou know me for?
+
+KENT.
+A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
+shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
+worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson,
+glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue;
+one trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of
+good service, and art nothing but the composition of a
+knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel
+bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou
+deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
+
+OSWALD.
+Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one that’s
+neither known of thee nor knows thee?
+
+KENT.
+What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest me! Is
+it two days ago since I tripped up thy heels and beat thee before
+the King? Draw, you rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon
+shines; I’ll make a sop o’ the moonshine of you: draw, you
+whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw!
+
+ [_Drawing his sword._]
+
+OSWALD.
+Away! I have nothing to do with thee.
+
+KENT.
+Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the King; and
+take vanity the puppet’s part against the royalty of her father:
+draw, you rogue, or I’ll so carbonado your shanks:—draw, you rascal;
+come your ways!
+
+OSWALD.
+Help, ho! murder! help!
+
+KENT.
+Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat slave, strike!
+
+ [_Beating him._]
+
+OSWALD.
+Help, ho! murder! murder!
+
+ Enter Edmund, Cornwall, Regan,
+Gloucester and Servants.
+
+EDMUND.
+How now! What’s the matter? Part!
+
+KENT.
+With you, goodman boy, if you please: come, I’ll flesh ye; come
+on, young master.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Weapons! arms! What’s the matter here?
+
+CORNWALL.
+Keep peace, upon your lives, he dies that strikes again. What is the
+matter?
+
+REGAN.
+The messengers from our sister and the King.
+
+CORNWALL.
+What is your difference? Speak.
+
+OSWALD.
+I am scarce in breath, my lord.
+
+KENT.
+No marvel, you have so bestirr’d your valour. You cowardly
+rascal, nature disclaims in thee; a tailor made thee.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?
+
+KENT.
+Ay, a tailor, sir: a stonecutter or a painter could not have
+made him so ill, though he had been but two years at the trade.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?
+
+OSWALD.
+This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared at suit of his grey
+beard,—
+
+KENT.
+Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you’ll
+give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and
+daub the walls of a jakes with him. Spare my grey beard, you wagtail?
+
+CORNWALL.
+Peace, sirrah!
+You beastly knave, know you no reverence?
+
+KENT.
+Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Why art thou angry?
+
+KENT.
+That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
+Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,
+Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain
+Which are too intrince t’unloose; smooth every passion
+That in the natures of their lords rebel;
+Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;
+Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
+With every gale and vary of their masters,
+Knowing naught, like dogs, but following.
+A plague upon your epileptic visage!
+Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?
+Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,
+I’d drive ye cackling home to Camelot.
+
+CORNWALL.
+What, art thou mad, old fellow?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+How fell you out? Say that.
+
+KENT.
+No contraries hold more antipathy
+Than I and such a knave.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?
+
+KENT.
+His countenance likes me not.
+
+CORNWALL.
+No more perchance does mine, or his, or hers.
+
+KENT.
+Sir, ’tis my occupation to be plain:
+I have seen better faces in my time
+Than stands on any shoulder that I see
+Before me at this instant.
+
+CORNWALL.
+This is some fellow
+Who, having been prais’d for bluntness, doth affect
+A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb
+Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,
+An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!
+An they will take it, so; if not, he’s plain.
+These kind of knaves I know which in this plainness
+Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends
+Than twenty silly-ducking observants
+That stretch their duties nicely.
+
+KENT.
+Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity,
+Under th’allowance of your great aspect,
+Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
+On flickering Phoebus’ front,—
+
+CORNWALL.
+What mean’st by this?
+
+KENT.
+To go out of my dialect, which you discommend so much. I know,
+sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain accent
+was a plain knave; which, for my part, I will not be, though I
+should win your displeasure to entreat me to’t.
+
+CORNWALL.
+What was the offence you gave him?
+
+OSWALD.
+I never gave him any:
+It pleas’d the King his master very late
+To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;
+When he, compact, and flattering his displeasure,
+Tripp’d me behind; being down, insulted, rail’d
+And put upon him such a deal of man,
+That worthied him, got praises of the King
+For him attempting who was self-subdu’d;
+And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,
+Drew on me here again.
+
+KENT.
+None of these rogues and cowards
+But Ajax is their fool.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Fetch forth the stocks!
+You stubborn ancient knave, you reverent braggart,
+We’ll teach you.
+
+KENT.
+Sir, I am too old to learn:
+Call not your stocks for me: I serve the King;
+On whose employment I was sent to you:
+You shall do small respect, show too bold malice
+Against the grace and person of my master,
+Stocking his messenger.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Fetch forth the stocks!
+As I have life and honour, there shall he sit till noon.
+
+REGAN.
+Till noon! Till night, my lord; and all night too!
+
+KENT.
+Why, madam, if I were your father’s dog,
+You should not use me so.
+
+REGAN.
+Sir, being his knave, I will.
+
+ [_Stocks brought out._]
+
+CORNWALL.
+This is a fellow of the selfsame colour
+Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Let me beseech your grace not to do so:
+His fault is much, and the good King his master
+Will check him for’t: your purpos’d low correction
+Is such as basest and contemned’st wretches
+For pilferings and most common trespasses,
+Are punish’d with. The King must take it ill
+That he, so slightly valued in his messenger,
+Should have him thus restrained.
+
+CORNWALL.
+I’ll answer that.
+
+REGAN.
+My sister may receive it much more worse,
+To have her gentleman abus’d, assaulted,
+For following her affairs. Put in his legs.
+
+ [_Kent is put in the
+stocks._]
+
+CORNWALL.
+Come, my good lord, away.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Gloucester and Kent._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I am sorry for thee, friend; ’tis the Duke’s pleasure,
+Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
+Will not be rubb’d nor stopp’d; I’ll entreat for thee.
+
+KENT.
+Pray do not, sir: I have watch’d, and travell’d hard;
+Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I’ll whistle.
+A good man’s fortune may grow out at heels:
+Give you good morrow!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+The Duke’s to blame in this: ’twill be ill taken.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KENT.
+Good King, that must approve the common saw,
+Thou out of heaven’s benediction com’st
+To the warm sun.
+Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,
+That by thy comfortable beams I may
+Peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles
+But misery. I know ’tis from Cordelia,
+Who hath most fortunately been inform’d
+Of my obscured course. And shall find time
+From this enormous state, seeking to give
+Losses their remedies. All weary and o’erwatch’d,
+Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
+This shameful lodging.
+Fortune, good night: smile once more, turn thy wheel!
+
+ [_He sleeps._]
+
+SCENE III. The open Country
+
+ Enter Edgar.
+
+EDGAR.
+I heard myself proclaim’d,
+And by the happy hollow of a tree
+Escap’d the hunt. No port is free, no place
+That guard and most unusual vigilance
+Does not attend my taking. While I may scape
+I will preserve myself: and am bethought
+To take the basest and most poorest shape
+That ever penury in contempt of man,
+Brought near to beast: my face I’ll grime with filth,
+Blanket my loins; elf all my hair in knots,
+And with presented nakedness outface
+The winds and persecutions of the sky.
+The country gives me proof and precedent
+Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
+Strike in their numb’d and mortified bare arms
+Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;
+And with this horrible object, from low farms,
+Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills,
+Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
+Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom,
+That’s something yet: Edgar I nothing am.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Before Gloucester’s Castle; Kent in the stocks
+
+ Enter Lear, Fool and Gentleman.
+
+LEAR.
+’Tis strange that they should so depart from home,
+And not send back my messenger.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+As I learn’d,
+The night before there was no purpose in them
+Of this remove.
+
+KENT.
+Hail to thee, noble master!
+
+LEAR.
+Ha! Mak’st thou this shame thy pastime?
+
+KENT.
+No, my lord.
+
+FOOL.
+Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied by the
+heads; dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the loins, and
+men by the legs: when a man is overlusty at legs, then he
+wears wooden nether-stocks.
+
+LEAR.
+What’s he that hath so much thy place mistook
+To set thee here?
+
+KENT.
+It is both he and she,
+Your son and daughter.
+
+LEAR.
+No.
+
+KENT.
+Yes.
+
+LEAR.
+No, I say.
+
+KENT.
+I say, yea.
+
+LEAR.
+No, no; they would not.
+
+KENT.
+Yes, they have.
+
+LEAR.
+By Jupiter, I swear no.
+
+KENT.
+By Juno, I swear ay.
+
+LEAR.
+They durst not do’t.
+They could not, would not do’t; ’tis worse than murder,
+To do upon respect such violent outrage:
+Resolve me, with all modest haste, which way
+Thou mightst deserve or they impose this usage,
+Coming from us.
+
+KENT.
+My lord, when at their home
+I did commend your highness’ letters to them,
+Ere I was risen from the place that show’d
+My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,
+Stew’d in his haste, half breathless, panting forth
+From Goneril his mistress salutations;
+Deliver’d letters, spite of intermission,
+Which presently they read; on those contents,
+They summon’d up their meiny, straight took horse;
+Commanded me to follow and attend
+The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:
+And meeting here the other messenger,
+Whose welcome I perceiv’d had poison’d mine,
+Being the very fellow which of late
+Display’d so saucily against your highness,
+Having more man than wit about me, drew;
+He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
+Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
+The shame which here it suffers.
+
+FOOL.
+Winter’s not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
+  Fathers that wear rags
+    Do make their children blind,
+  But fathers that bear bags
+    Shall see their children kind.
+  Fortune, that arrant whore,
+  Ne’er turns the key to th’ poor.
+But for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy
+daughters as thou canst tell in a year.
+
+LEAR.
+O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!
+_Hysterica passio_, down, thou climbing sorrow,
+Thy element’s below! Where is this daughter?
+
+KENT.
+With the earl, sir, here within.
+
+LEAR.
+Follow me not; stay here.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Made you no more offence but what you speak of?
+
+KENT.
+None.
+How chance the King comes with so small a number?
+
+FOOL.
+An thou hadst been set i’ the stocks for that question,
+thou hadst well deserved it.
+
+KENT.
+Why, fool?
+
+FOOL.
+We’ll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there’s no
+labouring i’the winter. All that follow their noses are led by
+their eyes but blind men; and there’s not a nose among twenty
+but can smell him that’s stinking. Let go thy hold when a great
+wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following
+it; but the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee after.
+When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I
+would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
+          That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
+             And follows but for form,
+          Will pack when it begins to rain,
+             And leave thee in the storm.
+          But I will tarry; the fool will stay,
+             And let the wise man fly:
+          The knave turns fool that runs away;
+             The fool no knave perdy.
+    
+
+KENT.
+Where learn’d you this, fool?
+
+FOOL.
+Not i’ the stocks, fool.
+
+ Enter Lear and Gloucester.
+
+LEAR.
+Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?
+They have travell’d all the night? Mere fetches;
+The images of revolt and flying off.
+Fetch me a better answer.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+My dear lord,
+You know the fiery quality of the Duke;
+How unremovable and fix’d he is
+In his own course.
+
+LEAR.
+Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!
+Fiery? What quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,
+I’d speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Well, my good lord, I have inform’d them so.
+
+LEAR.
+Inform’d them! Dost thou understand me, man?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+LEAR.
+The King would speak with Cornwall; the dear father
+Would with his daughter speak, commands, tends, service,
+Are they inform’d of this? My breath and blood!
+Fiery? The fiery Duke, tell the hot Duke that—
+No, but not yet: maybe he is not well:
+Infirmity doth still neglect all office
+Whereto our health is bound: we are not ourselves
+When nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind
+To suffer with the body: I’ll forbear;
+And am fallen out with my more headier will,
+To take the indispos’d and sickly fit
+For the sound man. [_Looking on Kent._]
+Death on my state! Wherefore
+Should he sit here? This act persuades me
+That this remotion of the Duke and her
+Is practice only. Give me my servant forth.
+Go tell the Duke and’s wife I’d speak with them,
+Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,
+Or at their chamber door I’ll beat the drum
+Till it cry sleep to death.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I would have all well betwixt you.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LEAR.
+O me, my heart, my rising heart! But down!
+
+FOOL.
+Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put ’em
+i’ the paste alive; she knapped ’em o’ the coxcombs
+with a stick and cried ‘Down, wantons, down!’ ’Twas
+her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse buttered his hay.
+
+ Enter Cornwall, Regan,
+Gloucester and Servants.
+
+LEAR.
+Good morrow to you both.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Hail to your grace!
+
+ [_Kent here set at liberty._]
+
+REGAN.
+I am glad to see your highness.
+
+LEAR.
+Regan, I think you are; I know what reason
+I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,
+I would divorce me from thy mother’s tomb,
+Sepulchring an adultress. [_To Kent_] O, are you free?
+Some other time for that.—Beloved Regan,
+Thy sister’s naught: O Regan, she hath tied
+Sharp-tooth’d unkindness, like a vulture, here.
+
+ [_Points to his heart._]
+
+I can scarce speak to thee; thou’lt not believe
+With how deprav’d a quality—O Regan!
+
+REGAN.
+I pray you, sir, take patience. I have hope
+You less know how to value her desert
+Than she to scant her duty.
+
+LEAR.
+Say, how is that?
+
+REGAN.
+I cannot think my sister in the least
+Would fail her obligation. If, sir, perchance
+She have restrain’d the riots of your followers,
+’Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,
+As clears her from all blame.
+
+LEAR.
+My curses on her.
+
+REGAN.
+O, sir, you are old;
+Nature in you stands on the very verge
+Of her confine: you should be rul’d and led
+By some discretion, that discerns your state
+Better than you yourself. Therefore I pray you,
+That to our sister you do make return;
+Say you have wrong’d her, sir.
+
+LEAR.
+Ask her forgiveness?
+Do you but mark how this becomes the house?
+‘Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;
+[_Kneeling._]
+Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg
+That you’ll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.’
+
+REGAN.
+Good sir, no more! These are unsightly tricks:
+Return you to my sister.
+
+LEAR.
+[_Rising._] Never, Regan:
+She hath abated me of half my train;
+Look’d black upon me; struck me with her tongue,
+Most serpent-like, upon the very heart.
+All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall
+On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
+You taking airs, with lameness!
+
+CORNWALL.
+Fie, sir, fie!
+
+LEAR.
+You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames
+Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,
+You fen-suck’d fogs, drawn by the powerful sun,
+To fall and blast her pride!
+
+REGAN.
+O the blest gods!
+So will you wish on me when the rash mood is on.
+
+LEAR.
+No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse.
+Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give
+Thee o’er to harshness. Her eyes are fierce; but thine
+Do comfort, and not burn. ’Tis not in thee
+To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,
+To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
+And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt
+Against my coming in. Thou better know’st
+The offices of nature, bond of childhood,
+Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;
+Thy half o’ the kingdom hast thou not forgot,
+Wherein I thee endow’d.
+
+REGAN.
+Good sir, to the purpose.
+
+LEAR.
+Who put my man i’ the stocks?
+
+ [_Tucket within._]
+
+CORNWALL.
+What trumpet’s that?
+
+REGAN.
+I know’t, my sister’s: this approves her letter,
+That she would soon be here.
+
+ Enter Oswald.
+
+Is your lady come?
+
+LEAR.
+This is a slave, whose easy borrowed pride
+Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.
+Out, varlet, from my sight!
+
+CORNWALL.
+What means your grace?
+
+LEAR.
+Who stock’d my servant? Regan, I have good hope
+Thou didst not know on’t. Who comes here? O heavens!
+
+ Enter Goneril.
+
+If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
+Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,
+Make it your cause; send down, and take my part!
+[_To Goneril._] Art not asham’d to look upon this beard?
+O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?
+
+GONERIL.
+Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?
+All’s not offence that indiscretion finds
+And dotage terms so.
+
+LEAR.
+O sides, you are too tough!
+Will you yet hold? How came my man i’ the stocks?
+
+CORNWALL.
+I set him there, sir: but his own disorders
+Deserv’d much less advancement.
+
+LEAR.
+You? Did you?
+
+REGAN.
+I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
+If, till the expiration of your month,
+You will return and sojourn with my sister,
+Dismissing half your train, come then to me:
+I am now from home, and out of that provision
+Which shall be needful for your entertainment.
+
+LEAR.
+Return to her, and fifty men dismiss’d?
+No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
+To wage against the enmity o’ the air;
+To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,
+Necessity’s sharp pinch! Return with her?
+Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took
+Our youngest born, I could as well be brought
+To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg
+To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
+Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
+To this detested groom.
+
+ [_Pointing to Oswald._]
+
+GONERIL.
+At your choice, sir.
+
+LEAR.
+I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:
+I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
+We’ll no more meet, no more see one another.
+But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;
+Or rather a disease that’s in my flesh,
+Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil,
+A plague sore, or embossed carbuncle
+In my corrupted blood. But I’ll not chide thee;
+Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:
+I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,
+Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:
+Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:
+I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,
+I and my hundred knights.
+
+REGAN.
+Not altogether so,
+I look’d not for you yet, nor am provided
+For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;
+For those that mingle reason with your passion
+Must be content to think you old, and so—
+But she knows what she does.
+
+LEAR.
+Is this well spoken?
+
+REGAN.
+I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?
+Is it not well? What should you need of more?
+Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger
+Speak ’gainst so great a number? How in one house
+Should many people, under two commands,
+Hold amity? ’Tis hard; almost impossible.
+
+GONERIL.
+Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance
+From those that she calls servants, or from mine?
+
+REGAN.
+Why not, my lord? If then they chanc’d to slack ye,
+We could control them. If you will come to me,—
+For now I spy a danger,—I entreat you
+To bring but five-and-twenty: to no more
+Will I give place or notice.
+
+LEAR.
+I gave you all,—
+
+REGAN.
+And in good time you gave it.
+
+LEAR.
+Made you my guardians, my depositaries;
+But kept a reservation to be followed
+With such a number. What, must I come to you
+With five-and-twenty, Regan, said you so?
+
+REGAN.
+And speak’t again my lord; no more with me.
+
+LEAR.
+Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour’d
+When others are more wicked; not being the worst
+Stands in some rank of praise.
+[_To Goneril._] I’ll go with thee:
+Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty,
+And thou art twice her love.
+
+GONERIL.
+Hear me, my lord:
+What need you five-and-twenty? Ten? Or five?
+To follow in a house where twice so many
+Have a command to tend you?
+
+REGAN.
+What need one?
+
+LEAR.
+O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
+Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
+Allow not nature more than nature needs,
+Man’s life is cheap as beast’s. Thou art a lady;
+If only to go warm were gorgeous,
+Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st
+Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,—
+You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
+You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
+As full of grief as age; wretched in both!
+If it be you that stirs these daughters’ hearts
+Against their father, fool me not so much
+To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
+And let not women’s weapons, water-drops,
+Stain my man’s cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,
+I will have such revenges on you both
+That all the world shall,—I will do such things,—
+What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
+The terrors of the earth. You think I’ll weep;
+No, I’ll not weep:— [_Storm and tempest._]
+I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
+Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
+Or ere I’ll weep.—O fool, I shall go mad!
+
+ [_Exeunt Lear, Gloucester, Kent and Fool._]
+
+CORNWALL.
+Let us withdraw; ’twill be a storm.
+
+REGAN.
+This house is little: the old man and his people
+Cannot be well bestow’d.
+
+GONERIL.
+’Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest
+And must needs taste his folly.
+
+REGAN.
+For his particular, I’ll receive him gladly,
+But not one follower.
+
+GONERIL.
+So am I purpos’d.
+Where is my lord of Gloucester?
+
+ Enter Gloucester.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Followed the old man forth, he is return’d.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+The King is in high rage.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Whither is he going?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.
+
+CORNWALL.
+’Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.
+
+GONERIL.
+My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Alack, the night comes on, and the high winds
+Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
+There’s scarce a bush.
+
+REGAN.
+O, sir, to wilful men
+The injuries that they themselves procure
+Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors.
+He is attended with a desperate train,
+And what they may incense him to, being apt
+To have his ear abus’d, wisdom bids fear.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Shut up your doors, my lord; ’tis a wild night.
+My Regan counsels well: come out o’ the storm.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. A Heath
+
+
+ A storm with thunder and lightning. Enter Kent and a Gentleman,
+severally.
+
+KENT.
+Who’s there, besides foul weather?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+One minded like the weather, most unquietly.
+
+KENT.
+I know you. Where’s the King?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Contending with the fretful elements;
+Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,
+Or swell the curled waters ’bove the main,
+That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,
+Which the impetuous blasts with eyeless rage,
+Catch in their fury and make nothing of;
+Strives in his little world of man to outscorn
+The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.
+This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
+The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
+Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,
+And bids what will take all.
+
+KENT.
+But who is with him?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+None but the fool, who labours to out-jest
+His heart-struck injuries.
+
+KENT.
+Sir, I do know you;
+And dare, upon the warrant of my note
+Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,
+Although as yet the face of it be cover’d
+With mutual cunning, ’twixt Albany and Cornwall;
+Who have, as who have not, that their great stars
+Throne’d and set high; servants, who seem no less,
+Which are to France the spies and speculations
+Intelligent of our state. What hath been seen,
+Either in snuffs and packings of the Dukes;
+Or the hard rein which both of them have borne
+Against the old kind King; or something deeper,
+Whereof, perchance, these are but furnishings;—
+But, true it is, from France there comes a power
+Into this scatter’d kingdom; who already,
+Wise in our negligence, have secret feet
+In some of our best ports, and are at point
+To show their open banner.—Now to you:
+If on my credit you dare build so far
+To make your speed to Dover, you shall find
+Some that will thank you making just report
+Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
+The King hath cause to plain.
+I am a gentleman of blood and breeding;
+And from some knowledge and assurance
+Offer this office to you.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+I will talk further with you.
+
+KENT.
+No, do not.
+For confirmation that I am much more
+Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take
+What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,
+As fear not but you shall, show her this ring;
+And she will tell you who your fellow is
+That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!
+I will go seek the King.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Give me your hand: have you no more to say?
+
+KENT.
+Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet:
+That, when we have found the King, in which your pain
+That way, I’ll this; he that first lights on him
+Holla the other.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Another part of the heath
+
+ Storm continues. Enter Lear
+and Fool.
+
+LEAR.
+Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!
+You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
+Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
+You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
+Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
+Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
+Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
+Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once,
+That make ingrateful man!
+
+FOOL.
+O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this
+rain-water out o’ door. Good nuncle, in; and ask thy daughters
+blessing: here’s a night pities neither wise men nor fools.
+
+LEAR.
+Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
+Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters;
+I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
+I never gave you kingdom, call’d you children;
+You owe me no subscription: then let fall
+Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand your slave,
+A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man:
+But yet I call you servile ministers,
+That will with two pernicious daughters join
+Your high-engender’d battles ’gainst a head
+So old and white as this! O! O! ’tis foul!
+
+FOOL.
+He that has a house to put’s head in has a good head-piece.
+   The codpiece that will house
+     Before the head has any,
+   The head and he shall louse:
+     So beggars marry many.
+   The man that makes his toe
+     What he his heart should make
+   Shall of a corn cry woe,
+     And turn his sleep to wake.
+For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
+
+LEAR.
+No, I will be the pattern of all patience;
+I will say nothing.
+
+ Enter Kent.
+
+KENT.
+Who’s there?
+
+FOOL.
+Marry, here’s grace and a codpiece; that’s a wise man and a
+fool.
+
+KENT.
+Alas, sir, are you here? Things that love night
+Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies
+Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,
+And make them keep their caves. Since I was man,
+Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
+Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never
+Remember to have heard. Man’s nature cannot carry
+Th’affliction, nor the fear.
+
+LEAR.
+Let the great gods,
+That keep this dreadful pudder o’er our heads,
+Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,
+That hast within thee undivulged crimes
+Unwhipp’d of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand;
+Thou perjur’d, and thou simular of virtue
+That art incestuous. Caitiff, to pieces shake
+That under covert and convenient seeming
+Hast practis’d on man’s life: close pent-up guilts,
+Rive your concealing continents, and cry
+These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
+More sinn’d against than sinning.
+
+KENT.
+Alack, bareheaded!
+Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;
+Some friendship will it lend you ’gainst the tempest:
+Repose you there, whilst I to this hard house,—
+More harder than the stones whereof ’tis rais’d;
+Which even but now, demanding after you,
+Denied me to come in,—return, and force
+Their scanted courtesy.
+
+LEAR.
+My wits begin to turn.
+Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold?
+I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?
+The art of our necessities is strange,
+That can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.
+Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart
+That’s sorry yet for thee.
+
+FOOL.
+[_Singing._]
+   He that has and a little tiny wit,
+     With heigh-ho, the wind and the rain,
+   Must make content with his fortunes fit,
+     Though the rain it raineth every day.
+
+LEAR.
+True, boy. Come, bring us to this hovel.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lear and Kent._]
+
+FOOL.
+This is a brave night to cool a courtezan. I’ll speak a prophecy
+ere I go:
+   When priests are more in word than matter;
+   When brewers mar their malt with water;
+   When nobles are their tailors’ tutors;
+   No heretics burn’d, but wenches’ suitors;
+   When every case in law is right;
+   No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;
+   When slanders do not live in tongues;
+   Nor cut-purses come not to throngs;
+   When usurers tell their gold i’ the field;
+   And bawds and whores do churches build,
+   Then shall the realm of Albion
+   Come to great confusion:
+   Then comes the time, who lives to see’t,
+   That going shall be us’d with feet.
+This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle
+
+ Enter Gloucester and Edmund.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing. When I
+desired their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the
+use of mine own house; charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure,
+neither to speak of him, entreat for him, or any way sustain him.
+
+EDMUND.
+Most savage and unnatural!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Go to; say you nothing. There is division between the Dukes,
+and a worse matter than that: I have received a letter this
+night;—’tis dangerous to be spoken;—I have locked the letter
+in my closet: these injuries the King now bears will be revenged
+home; there’s part of a power already footed: we must incline to
+the King. I will look him, and privily relieve him: go you and
+maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity be not of him
+perceived: if he ask for me, I am ill, and gone to bed. If I
+die for it, as no less is threatened me, the King my old master
+must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward, Edmund;
+pray you be careful.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+EDMUND.
+This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the Duke
+Instantly know; and of that letter too.
+This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
+That which my father loses, no less than all:
+The younger rises when the old doth fall.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. A part of the Heath with a Hovel
+
+ Storm continues. Enter Lear,
+Kent and Fool.
+
+KENT.
+Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:
+The tyranny of the open night’s too rough
+For nature to endure.
+
+LEAR.
+Let me alone.
+
+KENT.
+Good my lord, enter here.
+
+LEAR.
+Wilt break my heart?
+
+KENT.
+I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.
+
+LEAR.
+Thou think’st ’tis much that this contentious storm
+Invades us to the skin: so ’tis to thee,
+But where the greater malady is fix’d,
+The lesser is scarce felt. Thou’dst shun a bear;
+But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,
+Thou’dst meet the bear i’ the mouth. When the mind’s
+free,
+The body’s delicate: the tempest in my mind
+Doth from my senses take all feeling else
+Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!
+Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
+For lifting food to’t? But I will punish home;
+No, I will weep no more. In such a night
+To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure:
+In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!
+Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,
+O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;
+No more of that.
+
+KENT.
+Good my lord, enter here.
+
+LEAR.
+Prithee go in thyself; seek thine own ease:
+This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
+On things would hurt me more. But I’ll go in.
+[_To the Fool._] In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,
+Nay, get thee in. I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep.
+
+ [_Fool goes in._]
+
+Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,
+That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
+How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
+Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you
+From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en
+Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
+Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
+That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
+And show the heavens more just.
+
+EDGAR.
+[_Within._] Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom!
+
+ [_The Fool runs out from the hovel._]
+
+FOOL.
+Come not in here, nuncle, here’s a spirit.
+Help me, help me!
+
+KENT.
+Give me thy hand. Who’s there?
+
+FOOL.
+A spirit, a spirit: he says his name’s poor Tom.
+
+KENT.
+What art thou that dost grumble there i’ the straw?
+Come forth.
+
+ Enter Edgar, disguised as a
+madman.
+
+EDGAR.
+Away! the foul fiend follows me! Through the sharp hawthorn blows the
+cold wind. Humh! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.
+
+LEAR.
+Didst thou give all to thy two daughters?
+And art thou come to this?
+
+EDGAR.
+Who gives anything to poor Tom? Whom the foul fiend hath led
+through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o’er
+bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow and
+halters in his pew, set ratsbane by his porridge; made him proud
+of heart, to ride on a bay trotting horse over four-inched
+bridges, to course his own shadow for a traitor. Bless thy five
+wits! 	Tom’s a-cold. O, do, de, do, de, do, de. Bless thee from
+whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some charity,
+whom the foul fiend vexes. There could I have him now, and
+there,—and there again, and there.
+
+ [_Storm continues._]
+
+LEAR.
+What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
+Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give ’em all?
+
+FOOL.
+Nay, he reserv’d a blanket, else we had been all shamed.
+
+LEAR.
+Now all the plagues that in the pendulous air
+Hang fated o’er men’s faults light on thy daughters!
+
+KENT.
+He hath no daughters, sir.
+
+LEAR.
+Death, traitor! nothing could have subdu’d nature
+To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.
+Is it the fashion that discarded fathers
+Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
+Judicious punishment! ’twas this flesh begot
+Those pelican daughters.
+
+EDGAR.
+   Pillicock sat on Pillicock hill,
+     Alow, alow, loo loo!
+
+FOOL.
+This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
+
+EDGAR.
+Take heed o’ th’ foul fiend: obey thy parents; keep thy word
+justly; swear not; commit not with man’s sworn spouse; set not
+thy sweet-heart on proud array. Tom’s a-cold.
+
+LEAR.
+What hast thou been?
+
+EDGAR.
+A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that curled my hair;
+wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of my mistress’ heart, and
+did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake
+words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven. One that
+slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it. Wine loved
+I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman out-paramour’d the Turk.
+False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox
+in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.
+Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray
+thy poor heart to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand
+out of plackets, thy pen from lender’s book, and defy the foul
+fiend. Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind: says
+suum, mun, nonny. Dolphin my boy, boy, sessa! let him trot by.
+
+ [_Storm still continues._]
+
+LEAR.
+Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered
+body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider
+him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no
+wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here’s three on’s are
+sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more
+but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you
+lendings! Come, unbutton here.
+
+ [_Tears off his clothes._]
+
+FOOL.
+Prithee, nuncle, be contented; ’tis a naughty night to swim
+in. Now a little fire in a wild field were like an old lecher’s
+heart, a small spark, all the rest on’s body cold. Look, here
+comes a walking fire.
+
+EDGAR.
+This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks
+till the first cock; he gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and
+makes the harelip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the poor creature
+of earth.
+   Swithold footed thrice the old;
+   He met the nightmare, and her nine-fold;
+     Bid her alight and her troth plight,
+   And aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!
+
+KENT.
+How fares your grace?
+
+ Enter Gloucester with a
+torch.
+
+LEAR.
+What’s he?
+
+KENT.
+Who’s there? What is’t you seek?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What are you there? Your names?
+
+EDGAR.
+Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the
+wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the
+foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat
+and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool;
+who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stocked, punished,
+and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts
+to his body,
+     Horse to ride, and weapon to wear.
+     But mice and rats and such small deer,
+     Have been Tom’s food for seven long year.
+Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What, hath your grace no better company?
+
+EDGAR.
+The prince of darkness is a gentleman:
+Modo he’s call’d, and Mahu.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Our flesh and blood, my lord, is grown so vile
+That it doth hate what gets it.
+
+EDGAR.
+Poor Tom’s a-cold.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer
+T’obey in all your daughters’ hard commands;
+Though their injunction be to bar my doors,
+And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,
+Yet have I ventur’d to come seek you out,
+And bring you where both fire and food is ready.
+
+LEAR.
+First let me talk with this philosopher.
+What is the cause of thunder?
+
+KENT.
+Good my lord, take his offer; go into the house.
+
+LEAR.
+I’ll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
+What is your study?
+
+EDGAR.
+How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin.
+
+LEAR.
+Let me ask you one word in private.
+
+KENT.
+Importune him once more to go, my lord;
+His wits begin t’unsettle.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Canst thou blame him?
+His daughters seek his death. Ah, that good Kent!
+He said it would be thus, poor banish’d man!
+Thou sayest the King grows mad; I’ll tell thee, friend,
+I am almost mad myself. I had a son,
+Now outlaw’d from my blood; he sought my life
+But lately, very late: I lov’d him, friend,
+No father his son dearer: true to tell thee,
+
+ [_Storm continues._]
+
+The grief hath craz’d my wits. What a night’s this!
+I do beseech your grace.
+
+LEAR.
+O, cry you mercy, sir.
+Noble philosopher, your company.
+
+EDGAR.
+Tom’s a-cold.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+In, fellow, there, into the hovel; keep thee warm.
+
+LEAR.
+Come, let’s in all.
+
+KENT.
+This way, my lord.
+
+LEAR.
+With him;
+I will keep still with my philosopher.
+
+KENT.
+Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Take him you on.
+
+KENT.
+Sirrah, come on; go along with us.
+
+LEAR.
+Come, good Athenian.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+No words, no words, hush.
+
+EDGAR.
+   Child Rowland to the dark tower came,
+   His word was still—Fie, foh, and fum,
+   I smell the blood of a British man.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle
+
+ Enter Cornwall and Edmund.
+
+CORNWALL.
+I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
+
+EDMUND.
+How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to
+loyalty, something fears me to think of.
+
+CORNWALL.
+I now perceive it was not altogether your brother’s evil
+disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set
+a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.
+
+EDMUND.
+How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be just! This
+is the letter he spoke of, which approves him an intelligent
+party to the advantages of France. O heavens! that this treason
+were not; or not I the detector!
+
+CORNWALL.
+Go with me to the Duchess.
+
+EDMUND.
+If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty business
+in hand.
+
+CORNWALL.
+True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester. Seek out
+where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension.
+
+EDMUND.
+[_Aside._] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff his
+suspicion more fully. I will persever in my course of loyalty,
+though the conflict be sore between that and my blood.
+
+CORNWALL.
+I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a dearer father
+in my love.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. A Chamber in a Farmhouse adjoining the Castle
+
+ Enter Gloucester, Lear, Kent,
+Fool and Edgar.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Here is better than the open air; take it thankfully. I will
+piece out the comfort with what addition I can: I will not be
+long from you.
+
+KENT.
+All the power of his wits have given way to his impatience:—
+the gods reward your kindness!
+
+ [_Exit Gloucester._]
+
+EDGAR.
+Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake
+of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend.
+
+FOOL.
+Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a
+yeoman.
+
+LEAR.
+A king, a king!
+
+FOOL.
+No, he’s a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son; for he’s a mad
+yeoman that sees his son a gentleman before him.
+
+LEAR.
+To have a thousand with red burning spits
+Come hissing in upon ’em.
+
+EDGAR.
+The foul fiend bites my back.
+
+FOOL.
+He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health,
+a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.
+
+LEAR.
+It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.
+[_To Edgar._] Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer;
+[_To the Fool._] Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she-foxes!—
+
+EDGAR.
+Look, where he stands and glares! Want’st thou eyes at trial, madam?
+  Come o’er the bourn, Bessy, to me.
+
+FOOL.
+   Her boat hath a leak,
+   And she must not speak
+   Why she dares not come over to thee.
+
+EDGAR.
+The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale.
+Hoppedance cries in Tom’s belly for two white herring. Croak not, black
+angel; I have no food for thee.
+
+KENT.
+How do you, sir? Stand you not so amaz’d;
+Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?
+
+LEAR.
+I’ll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence.
+[_To Edgar._] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place.
+[_To the Fool._] And thou, his yokefellow of equity,
+Bench by his side. [_To Kent._] You are o’ the commission,
+Sit you too.
+
+EDGAR.
+   Let us deal justly.
+   Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?
+     Thy sheep be in the corn;
+   And for one blast of thy minikin mouth
+     Thy sheep shall take no harm.
+Purr! the cat is grey.
+
+LEAR.
+Arraign her first; ’tis Goneril. I here take my oath before
+this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor King her father.
+
+FOOL.
+Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?
+
+LEAR.
+She cannot deny it.
+
+FOOL.
+Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.
+
+LEAR.
+And here’s another, whose warp’d looks proclaim
+What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!
+Arms, arms! sword! fire! Corruption in the place!
+False justicer, why hast thou let her ’scape?
+
+EDGAR.
+Bless thy five wits!
+
+KENT.
+O pity! Sir, where is the patience now
+That you so oft have boasted to retain?
+
+EDGAR.
+[_Aside._] My tears begin to take his part so much
+They mar my counterfeiting.
+
+LEAR.
+The little dogs and all,
+Trey, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.
+
+EDGAR.
+Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!
+   Be thy mouth or black or white,
+   Tooth that poisons if it bite;
+   Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,
+   Hound or spaniel, brach or him,
+   Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,
+   Tom will make them weep and wail;
+   For, with throwing thus my head,
+   Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.
+Do, de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and fairs and market towns.
+Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.
+
+LEAR.
+Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds about her
+heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard
+hearts? [_To Edgar._] You, sir, I entertain you for one of my
+hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. You’ll
+say they are Persian; but let them be changed.
+
+KENT.
+Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.
+
+LEAR.
+Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains.
+So, so. We’ll go to supper i’ the morning.
+
+FOOL.
+And I’ll go to bed at noon.
+
+ Enter Gloucester.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Come hither, friend;
+Where is the King my master?
+
+KENT.
+Here, sir; but trouble him not, his wits are gone.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms;
+I have o’erheard a plot of death upon him;
+There is a litter ready; lay him in’t
+And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet
+Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master;
+If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,
+With thine, and all that offer to defend him,
+Stand in assured loss. Take up, take up;
+And follow me, that will to some provision
+Give thee quick conduct.
+
+KENT.
+Oppressed nature sleeps.
+This rest might yet have balm’d thy broken sinews,
+Which, if convenience will not allow,
+Stand in hard cure. Come, help to bear thy master;
+[_To the Fool._] Thou must not stay behind.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Come, come, away!
+
+ [_Exeunt Kent, Gloucester and the Fool bearing off Lear._]
+
+EDGAR.
+When we our betters see bearing our woes,
+We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
+Who alone suffers, suffers most i’ the mind,
+Leaving free things and happy shows behind:
+But then the mind much sufferance doth o’erskip
+When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
+How light and portable my pain seems now,
+When that which makes me bend makes the King bow;
+He childed as I fathered! Tom, away!
+Mark the high noises; and thyself bewray,
+When false opinion, whose wrong thoughts defile thee,
+In thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee.
+What will hap more tonight, safe ’scape the King!
+Lurk, lurk.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VII. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle
+
+ Enter Cornwall, Regan, Goneril,
+Edmund and Servants.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Post speedily to my lord your husband, show him this letter: the army
+of France is landed. Seek out the traitor Gloucester.
+
+ [_Exeunt some of the Servants._]
+
+REGAN.
+Hang him instantly.
+
+GONERIL.
+Pluck out his eyes.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our sister
+company: the revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous
+father are not fit for your beholding. Advise the Duke where you
+are going, to a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the
+like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us.
+Farewell, dear sister, farewell, my lord of Gloucester.
+
+ Enter Oswald.
+
+How now! Where’s the King?
+
+OSWALD.
+My lord of Gloucester hath convey’d him hence:
+Some five or six and thirty of his knights,
+Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;
+Who, with some other of the lord’s dependants,
+Are gone with him toward Dover: where they boast
+To have well-armed friends.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Get horses for your mistress.
+
+GONERIL.
+Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Edmund, farewell.
+
+ [_Exeunt Goneril, Edmund and Oswald._]
+
+Go seek the traitor Gloucester,
+Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.
+
+ [_Exeunt other Servants._]
+
+Though well we may not pass upon his life
+Without the form of justice, yet our power
+Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men
+May blame, but not control. Who’s there? The traitor?
+
+ Enter Gloucester
+and Servants.
+
+REGAN.
+Ingrateful fox! ’tis he.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Bind fast his corky arms.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What mean your graces?
+Good my friends, consider you are my guests.
+Do me no foul play, friends.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Bind him, I say.
+
+ [_Servants bind him._]
+
+REGAN.
+Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Unmerciful lady as you are, I’m none.
+
+CORNWALL.
+To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find—
+
+ [_Regan plucks his beard._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+By the kind gods, ’tis most ignobly done
+To pluck me by the beard.
+
+REGAN.
+So white, and such a traitor!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Naughty lady,
+These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin
+Will quicken, and accuse thee. I am your host:
+With robber’s hands my hospitable favours
+You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?
+
+CORNWALL.
+Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?
+
+REGAN.
+Be simple answer’d, for we know the truth.
+
+CORNWALL.
+And what confederacy have you with the traitors,
+Late footed in the kingdom?
+
+REGAN.
+To whose hands have you sent the lunatic King?
+Speak.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I have a letter guessingly set down,
+Which came from one that’s of a neutral heart,
+And not from one oppos’d.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Cunning.
+
+REGAN.
+And false.
+
+CORNWALL.
+Where hast thou sent the King?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+To Dover.
+
+REGAN.
+Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charg’d at peril,—
+
+CORNWALL.
+Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.
+
+REGAN.
+Wherefore to Dover, sir?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Because I would not see thy cruel nails
+Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister
+In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.
+The sea, with such a storm as his bare head
+In hell-black night endur’d, would have buoy’d up,
+And quench’d the stelled fires;
+Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.
+If wolves had at thy gate howl’d that stern time,
+Thou shouldst have said, ‘Good porter, turn the key.’
+All cruels else subscrib’d: but I shall see
+The winged vengeance overtake such children.
+
+CORNWALL.
+See’t shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair.
+Upon these eyes of thine I’ll set my foot.
+
+ [_Gloucester is held down in his chair, while Cornwall plucks out one
+ of his eyes and sets his foot on it._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He that will think to live till he be old,
+Give me some help!—O cruel! O you gods!
+
+REGAN.
+One side will mock another; the other too!
+
+CORNWALL.
+If you see vengeance—
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Hold your hand, my lord:
+I have serv’d you ever since I was a child;
+But better service have I never done you
+Than now to bid you hold.
+
+REGAN.
+How now, you dog!
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+If you did wear a beard upon your chin,
+I’d shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?
+
+CORNWALL.
+My villain?
+
+ [_Draws, and runs at him._]
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.
+
+ [_Draws. They fight. Cornwall is wounded._]
+
+REGAN.
+[_To another servant._] Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus?
+
+ [_Snatches a sword, comes behind, and stabs him._]
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left
+To see some mischief on him. O!
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+CORNWALL.
+Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!
+Where is thy lustre now?
+
+ [_Tears out Gloucester’s other eye and throws it on the ground._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+All dark and comfortless. Where’s my son Edmund?
+Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature
+To quit this horrid act.
+
+REGAN.
+Out, treacherous villain!
+Thou call’st on him that hates thee: it was he
+That made the overture of thy treasons to us;
+Who is too good to pity thee.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O my follies! Then Edgar was abus’d.
+Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!
+
+REGAN.
+Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell
+His way to Dover. How is’t, my lord? How look you?
+
+CORNWALL.
+I have receiv’d a hurt: follow me, lady.
+Turn out that eyeless villain. Throw this slave
+Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:
+Untimely comes this hurt: give me your arm.
+
+ [_Exit Cornwall, led by Regan; Servants unbind Gloucester and lead
+ him out._]
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+I’ll never care what wickedness I do,
+If this man come to good.
+
+THIRD SERVANT.
+If she live long,
+And in the end meet the old course of death,
+Women will all turn monsters.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+Let’s follow the old Earl, and get the bedlam
+To lead him where he would: his roguish madness
+Allows itself to anything.
+
+THIRD SERVANT.
+Go thou: I’ll fetch some flax and whites of eggs
+To apply to his bleeding face. Now heaven help him!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. The heath
+
+
+ Enter Edgar.
+
+EDGAR.
+Yet better thus, and known to be contemn’d,
+Than still contemn’d and flatter’d. To be worst,
+The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,
+Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:
+The lamentable change is from the best;
+The worst returns to laughter. Welcome then,
+Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace;
+The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst
+Owes nothing to thy blasts.
+
+ Enter Gloucester, led by an
+Old Man.
+
+But who comes here? My father, poorly led?
+World, world, O world!
+But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
+Life would not yield to age.
+
+OLD MAN.
+O my good lord, I have been your tenant, and your father’s tenant
+these fourscore years.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Away, get thee away; good friend, be gone.
+Thy comforts can do me no good at all;
+Thee they may hurt.
+
+OLD MAN.
+You cannot see your way.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;
+I stumbled when I saw. Full oft ’tis seen
+Our means secure us, and our mere defects
+Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar,
+The food of thy abused father’s wrath!
+Might I but live to see thee in my touch,
+I’d say I had eyes again!
+
+OLD MAN.
+How now! Who’s there?
+
+EDGAR.
+[_Aside._] O gods! Who is’t can say ‘I am at the
+worst’?
+I am worse than e’er I was.
+
+OLD MAN.
+’Tis poor mad Tom.
+
+EDGAR.
+[_Aside._] And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
+So long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’
+
+OLD MAN.
+Fellow, where goest?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Is it a beggar-man?
+
+OLD MAN.
+Madman, and beggar too.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+He has some reason, else he could not beg.
+I’ the last night’s storm I such a fellow saw;
+Which made me think a man a worm. My son
+Came then into my mind, and yet my mind
+Was then scarce friends with him.
+I have heard more since.
+As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,
+They kill us for their sport.
+
+EDGAR.
+[_Aside._] How should this be?
+Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
+Angering itself and others. Bless thee, master!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Is that the naked fellow?
+
+OLD MAN.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Then prithee get thee away. If for my sake
+Thou wilt o’ertake us hence a mile or twain,
+I’ the way toward Dover, do it for ancient love,
+And bring some covering for this naked soul,
+Which I’ll entreat to lead me.
+
+OLD MAN.
+Alack, sir, he is mad.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+’Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.
+Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure;
+Above the rest, be gone.
+
+OLD MAN.
+I’ll bring him the best ’parel that I have,
+Come on’t what will.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Sirrah naked fellow.
+
+EDGAR.
+Poor Tom’s a-cold.
+[_Aside._] I cannot daub it further.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Come hither, fellow.
+
+EDGAR.
+[_Aside._] And yet I must. Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Know’st thou the way to Dover?
+
+EDGAR.
+Both stile and gate, horseway and footpath. Poor Tom hath been
+scared out of his good wits. Bless thee, good man’s son, from
+the foul fiend! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of
+lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of darkness; Mahu, of
+stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and
+mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting women. So,
+bless thee, master!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven’s plagues
+Have humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched
+Makes thee the happier. Heavens deal so still!
+Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,
+That slaves your ordinance, that will not see
+Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly;
+So distribution should undo excess,
+And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?
+
+EDGAR.
+Ay, master.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+There is a cliff, whose high and bending head
+Looks fearfully in the confined deep:
+Bring me but to the very brim of it,
+And I’ll repair the misery thou dost bear
+With something rich about me: from that place
+I shall no leading need.
+
+EDGAR.
+Give me thy arm:
+Poor Tom shall lead thee.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Before the Duke of Albany’s Palace
+
+ Enter Goneril, Edmund;
+Oswald meeting them.
+
+GONERIL.
+Welcome, my lord. I marvel our mild husband
+Not met us on the way. Now, where’s your master?
+
+OSWALD.
+Madam, within; but never man so chang’d.
+I told him of the army that was landed;
+He smil’d at it: I told him you were coming;
+His answer was, ‘The worse.’ Of Gloucester’s treachery
+And of the loyal service of his son
+When I inform’d him, then he call’d me sot,
+And told me I had turn’d the wrong side out.
+What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;
+What like, offensive.
+
+GONERIL.
+[_To Edmund._] Then shall you go no further.
+It is the cowish terror of his spirit,
+That dares not undertake. He’ll not feel wrongs
+Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way
+May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother;
+Hasten his musters and conduct his powers.
+I must change names at home, and give the distaff
+Into my husband’s hands. This trusty servant
+Shall pass between us. Ere long you are like to hear,
+If you dare venture in your own behalf,
+A mistress’s command. [_Giving a favour._]
+Wear this; spare speech;
+Decline your head. This kiss, if it durst speak,
+Would stretch thy spirits up into the air.
+Conceive, and fare thee well.
+
+EDMUND.
+Yours in the ranks of death.
+
+ [_Exit Edmund._]
+
+GONERIL.
+My most dear Gloucester.
+O, the difference of man and man!
+To thee a woman’s services are due;
+My fool usurps my body.
+
+OSWALD.
+Madam, here comes my lord.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Albany.
+
+GONERIL.
+I have been worth the whistle.
+
+ALBANY.
+O Goneril!
+You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
+Blows in your face! I fear your disposition;
+That nature which contemns its origin
+Cannot be bordered certain in itself.
+She that herself will sliver and disbranch
+From her material sap, perforce must wither
+And come to deadly use.
+
+GONERIL.
+No more; the text is foolish.
+
+ALBANY.
+Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
+Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?
+Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform’d?
+A father, and a gracious aged man,
+Whose reverence even the head-lugg’d bear would lick,
+Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded.
+Could my good brother suffer you to do it?
+A man, a prince, by him so benefitted!
+If that the heavens do not their visible spirits
+Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,
+It will come,
+Humanity must perforce prey on itself,
+Like monsters of the deep.
+
+GONERIL.
+Milk-liver’d man!
+That bear’st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
+Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
+Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know’st
+Fools do those villains pity who are punish’d
+Ere they have done their mischief. Where’s thy drum?
+France spreads his banners in our noiseless land;
+With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
+Whilst thou, a moral fool, sitt’st still, and criest
+‘Alack, why does he so?’
+
+ALBANY.
+See thyself, devil!
+Proper deformity seems not in the fiend
+So horrid as in woman.
+
+GONERIL.
+O vain fool!
+
+ALBANY.
+Thou changed and self-cover’d thing, for shame!
+Be-monster not thy feature! Were’t my fitness
+To let these hands obey my blood,
+They are apt enough to dislocate and tear
+Thy flesh and bones. Howe’er thou art a fiend,
+A woman’s shape doth shield thee.
+
+GONERIL.
+Marry, your manhood, mew!
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+ALBANY.
+What news?
+
+MESSENGER.
+O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall’s dead;
+Slain by his servant, going to put out
+The other eye of Gloucester.
+
+ALBANY.
+Gloucester’s eyes!
+
+MESSENGER.
+A servant that he bred, thrill’d with remorse,
+Oppos’d against the act, bending his sword
+To his great master; who, thereat enrag’d,
+Flew on him, and amongst them fell’d him dead;
+But not without that harmful stroke which since
+Hath pluck’d him after.
+
+ALBANY.
+This shows you are above,
+You justicers, that these our nether crimes
+So speedily can venge! But, O poor Gloucester!
+Lost he his other eye?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Both, both, my lord.
+This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer;
+’Tis from your sister.
+
+GONERIL.
+[_Aside._] One way I like this well;
+But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,
+May all the building in my fancy pluck
+Upon my hateful life. Another way
+The news is not so tart. I’ll read, and answer.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ALBANY.
+Where was his son when they did take his eyes?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Come with my lady hither.
+
+ALBANY.
+He is not here.
+
+MESSENGER.
+No, my good lord; I met him back again.
+
+ALBANY.
+Knows he the wickedness?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Ay, my good lord. ’Twas he inform’d against him;
+And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment
+Might have the freer course.
+
+ALBANY.
+Gloucester, I live
+To thank thee for the love thou show’dst the King,
+And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend,
+Tell me what more thou know’st.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The French camp near Dover
+
+ Enter Kent and a Gentleman.
+
+KENT.
+Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back, know you no
+reason?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Something he left imperfect in the state, which since his coming
+forth is thought of, which imports to the kingdom so much fear
+and danger that his personal return was most required and
+necessary.
+
+KENT.
+Who hath he left behind him general?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+The Mareschal of France, Monsieur La Far.
+
+KENT.
+Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Ay, sir; she took them, read them in my presence;
+And now and then an ample tear trill’d down
+Her delicate cheek. It seem’d she was a queen
+Over her passion; who, most rebel-like,
+Sought to be king o’er her.
+
+KENT.
+O, then it mov’d her.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove
+Who should express her goodliest. You have seen
+Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears
+Were like a better day. Those happy smilets
+That play’d on her ripe lip seem’d not to know
+What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence
+As pearls from diamonds dropp’d. In brief,
+Sorrow would be a rarity most belov’d,
+If all could so become it.
+
+KENT.
+Made she no verbal question?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Faith, once or twice she heav’d the name of ‘father’
+Pantingly forth, as if it press’d her heart;
+Cried ‘Sisters, sisters! Shame of ladies! sisters!
+Kent! father! sisters! What, i’ the storm? i’ the night?
+Let pity not be believ’d!’ There she shook
+The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
+And clamour master’d her: then away she started
+To deal with grief alone.
+
+KENT.
+It is the stars,
+The stars above us govern our conditions;
+Else one self mate and make could not beget
+Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+No.
+
+KENT.
+Was this before the King return’d?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+No, since.
+
+KENT.
+Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear’s i’ the town;
+Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers
+What we are come about, and by no means
+Will yield to see his daughter.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Why, good sir?
+
+KENT.
+A sovereign shame so elbows him. His own unkindness,
+That stripp’d her from his benediction, turn’d her
+To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights
+To his dog-hearted daughters, these things sting
+His mind so venomously that burning shame
+Detains him from Cordelia.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Alack, poor gentleman!
+
+KENT.
+Of Albany’s and Cornwall’s powers you heard not?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis so; they are afoot.
+
+KENT.
+Well, sir, I’ll bring you to our master Lear
+And leave you to attend him. Some dear cause
+Will in concealment wrap me up awhile;
+When I am known aright, you shall not grieve
+Lending me this acquaintance.
+I pray you, go along with me.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The French camp. A Tent
+
+ Enter with drum and colours, Cordelia, Physician
+and Soldiers.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Alack, ’tis he: why, he was met even now
+As mad as the vex’d sea; singing aloud;
+Crown’d with rank fumiter and furrow weeds,
+With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
+Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
+In our sustaining corn. A century send forth;
+Search every acre in the high-grown field,
+And bring him to our eye.
+
+ [_Exit an Officer._]
+
+What can man’s wisdom
+In the restoring his bereaved sense,
+He that helps him take all my outward worth.
+
+PHYSICIAN.
+There is means, madam:
+Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
+The which he lacks; that to provoke in him
+Are many simples operative, whose power
+Will close the eye of anguish.
+
+CORDELIA.
+All bless’d secrets,
+All you unpublish’d virtues of the earth,
+Spring with my tears! Be aidant and remediate
+In the good man’s distress! Seek, seek for him;
+Lest his ungovern’d rage dissolve the life
+That wants the means to lead it.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+News, madam;
+The British powers are marching hitherward.
+
+CORDELIA.
+’Tis known before. Our preparation stands
+In expectation of them. O dear father,
+It is thy business that I go about;
+Therefore great France
+My mourning and important tears hath pitied.
+No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
+But love, dear love, and our ag’d father’s right:
+Soon may I hear and see him!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. A Room in Gloucester’s Castle
+
+ Enter Regan and Oswald.
+
+REGAN.
+But are my brother’s powers set forth?
+
+OSWALD.
+Ay, madam.
+
+REGAN.
+Himself in person there?
+
+OSWALD.
+Madam, with much ado.
+Your sister is the better soldier.
+
+REGAN.
+Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?
+
+OSWALD.
+No, madam.
+
+REGAN.
+What might import my sister’s letter to him?
+
+OSWALD.
+I know not, lady.
+
+REGAN.
+Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.
+It was great ignorance, Gloucester’s eyes being out,
+To let him live. Where he arrives he moves
+All hearts against us. Edmund, I think, is gone
+In pity of his misery, to dispatch
+His nighted life; moreover to descry
+The strength o’ th’enemy.
+
+OSWALD.
+I must needs after him, madam, with my letter.
+
+REGAN.
+Our troops set forth tomorrow; stay with us;
+The ways are dangerous.
+
+OSWALD.
+I may not, madam:
+My lady charg’d my duty in this business.
+
+REGAN.
+Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you
+Transport her purposes by word? Belike,
+Somethings, I know not what, I’ll love thee much.
+Let me unseal the letter.
+
+OSWALD.
+Madam, I had rather—
+
+REGAN.
+I know your lady does not love her husband;
+I am sure of that; and at her late being here
+She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks
+To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom.
+
+OSWALD.
+I, madam?
+
+REGAN.
+I speak in understanding; y’are, I know’t:
+Therefore I do advise you take this note:
+My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk’d,
+And more convenient is he for my hand
+Than for your lady’s. You may gather more.
+If you do find him, pray you give him this;
+And when your mistress hears thus much from you,
+I pray desire her call her wisdom to her.
+So, fare you well.
+If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
+Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
+
+OSWALD.
+Would I could meet him, madam! I should show
+What party I do follow.
+
+REGAN.
+Fare thee well.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. The country near Dover
+
+ Enter Gloucester, and Edgar  dressed like a peasant.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+When shall I come to the top of that same hill?
+
+EDGAR.
+You do climb up it now. Look how we labour.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Methinks the ground is even.
+
+EDGAR.
+Horrible steep.
+Hark, do you hear the sea?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+No, truly.
+
+EDGAR.
+Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect
+By your eyes’ anguish.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+So may it be indeed.
+Methinks thy voice is alter’d; and thou speak’st
+In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
+
+EDGAR.
+Y’are much deceiv’d: in nothing am I chang’d
+But in my garments.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Methinks you’re better spoken.
+
+EDGAR.
+Come on, sir; here’s the place. Stand still. How fearful
+And dizzy ’tis to cast one’s eyes so low!
+The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
+Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
+Hangs one that gathers samphire—dreadful trade!
+Methinks he seems no bigger than his head.
+The fishermen that walk upon the beach
+Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark,
+Diminish’d to her cock; her cock a buoy
+Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge
+That on th’unnumber’d idle pebble chafes
+Cannot be heard so high. I’ll look no more;
+Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight
+Topple down headlong.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Set me where you stand.
+
+EDGAR.
+Give me your hand.
+You are now within a foot of th’extreme verge.
+For all beneath the moon would I not leap upright.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Let go my hand.
+Here, friend, ’s another purse; in it a jewel
+Well worth a poor man’s taking. Fairies and gods
+Prosper it with thee! Go thou further off;
+Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.
+
+EDGAR.
+Now fare ye well, good sir.
+
+ [_Seems to go._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+With all my heart.
+
+EDGAR.
+[_Aside._] Why I do trifle thus with his despair
+Is done to cure it.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O you mighty gods!
+This world I do renounce, and in your sights,
+Shake patiently my great affliction off:
+If I could bear it longer, and not fall
+To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,
+My snuff and loathed part of nature should
+Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him!
+Now, fellow, fare thee well.
+
+EDGAR.
+Gone, sir, farewell.
+
+ [_Gloucester leaps, and falls along_]
+
+And yet I know not how conceit may rob
+The treasury of life when life itself
+Yields to the theft. Had he been where he thought,
+By this had thought been past. Alive or dead?
+Ho you, sir! friend! Hear you, sir? speak!
+Thus might he pass indeed: yet he revives.
+What are you, sir?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Away, and let me die.
+
+EDGAR.
+Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,
+So many fathom down precipitating,
+Thou’dst shiver’d like an egg: but thou dost breathe;
+Hast heavy substance; bleed’st not; speak’st; art sound.
+Ten masts at each make not the altitude
+Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
+Thy life is a miracle. Speak yet again.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+But have I fall’n, or no?
+
+EDGAR.
+From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.
+Look up a-height, the shrill-gorg’d lark so far
+Cannot be seen or heard. Do but look up.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Alack, I have no eyes.
+Is wretchedness depriv’d that benefit
+To end itself by death? ’Twas yet some comfort
+When misery could beguile the tyrant’s rage
+And frustrate his proud will.
+
+EDGAR.
+Give me your arm.
+Up, so. How is’t? Feel you your legs? You stand.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Too well, too well.
+
+EDGAR.
+This is above all strangeness.
+Upon the crown o’ the cliff what thing was that
+Which parted from you?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+A poor unfortunate beggar.
+
+EDGAR.
+As I stood here below, methought his eyes
+Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,
+Horns whelk’d and waved like the enraged sea.
+It was some fiend. Therefore, thou happy father,
+Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours
+Of men’s impossibilities, have preserv’d thee.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I do remember now: henceforth I’ll bear
+Affliction till it do cry out itself
+‘Enough, enough,’ and die. That thing you speak of,
+I took it for a man; often ’twould say,
+‘The fiend, the fiend’; he led me to that place.
+
+EDGAR.
+Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?
+
+ Enter Lear, fantastically
+dressed up with flowers.
+
+The safer sense will ne’er accommodate
+His master thus.
+
+LEAR.
+No, they cannot touch me for coining. I am the King himself.
+
+EDGAR.
+O thou side-piercing sight!
+
+LEAR.
+Nature’s above art in that respect. There’s your press money.
+That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper: draw me a clothier’s
+yard. Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace, this piece of toasted cheese
+will do’t. There’s my gauntlet; I’ll prove it on a giant.
+Bring up the brown bills. O, well flown, bird! i’ the clout, i’
+the clout. Hewgh! Give the word.
+
+EDGAR.
+Sweet marjoram.
+
+LEAR.
+Pass.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I know that voice.
+
+LEAR.
+Ha! Goneril with a white beard! They flattered me like a dog; and told
+me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones were there. To say
+‘ay’ and ‘no’ to everything I said ‘ay’
+and ‘no’ to was no good divinity. When the rain came to wet
+me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder would not
+peace at my bidding; there I found ’em, there I smelt ’em out.
+Go to, they are not men o’ their words: they told me I was everything;
+’tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+The trick of that voice I do well remember:
+Is’t not the King?
+
+LEAR.
+Ay, every inch a king.
+When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.
+I pardon that man’s life. What was thy cause?
+Adultery? Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:
+The wren goes to’t, and the small gilded fly
+Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive;
+For Gloucester’s bastard son was kinder to his father
+Than my daughters got ’tween the lawful sheets.
+To’t, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.
+Behold yond simp’ring dame,
+Whose face between her forks presages snow;
+That minces virtue, and does shake the head
+To hear of pleasure’s name.
+The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to’t with a more riotous
+appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, though women all
+above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, beneath is all the
+fiend’s; there’s hell, there’s darkness, there is the sulphurous pit;
+burning, scalding, stench,
+consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good
+apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. There’s money for thee.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O, let me kiss that hand!
+
+LEAR.
+Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+O ruin’d piece of nature, this great world
+Shall so wear out to naught. Dost thou know me?
+
+LEAR.
+I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny at me?
+No, do thy worst, blind Cupid; I’ll not love.
+Read thou this challenge; mark but the penning of it.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Were all the letters suns, I could not see one.
+
+EDGAR.
+I would not take this from report,
+It is, and my heart breaks at it.
+
+LEAR.
+Read.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What, with the case of eyes?
+
+LEAR.
+O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your head, nor no money
+in your purse? Your eyes are in a heavy case, your purse in a
+light, yet you see how this world goes.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+I see it feelingly.
+
+LEAR.
+What, art mad? A man may see how the world goes with no eyes.
+Look with thine ears. See how yon justice rails upon yon simple
+thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which
+is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer’s
+dog bark at a beggar?
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Ay, sir.
+
+LEAR.
+And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold
+the great image of authority: a dog’s obeyed in office.
+Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
+Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;
+Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind
+For which thou whipp’st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.
+Through tatter’d clothes great vices do appear;
+Robes and furr’d gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
+And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
+Arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw does pierce it.
+None does offend, none, I say none; I’ll able ’em;
+Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
+To seal the accuser’s lips. Get thee glass eyes,
+And like a scurvy politician, seem
+To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now:
+Pull off my boots: harder, harder, so.
+
+EDGAR.
+O, matter and impertinency mix’d!
+Reason in madness!
+
+LEAR.
+If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.
+I know thee well enough, thy name is Gloucester.
+Thou must be patient; we came crying hither:
+Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air
+We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Alack, alack the day!
+
+LEAR.
+When we are born, we cry that we are come
+To this great stage of fools. This a good block:
+It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
+A troop of horse with felt. I’ll put’t in proof
+And when I have stol’n upon these son-in-laws,
+Then kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!
+
+ Enter a Gentleman with
+Attendants.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+O, here he is: lay hand upon him. Sir,
+Your most dear daughter—
+
+LEAR.
+No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even
+The natural fool of fortune. Use me well;
+You shall have ransom. Let me have surgeons;
+I am cut to the brains.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+You shall have anything.
+
+LEAR.
+No seconds? All myself?
+Why, this would make a man a man of salt,
+To use his eyes for garden water-pots,
+Ay, and for laying autumn’s dust.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Good sir.
+
+LEAR.
+I will die bravely, like a smug bridegroom.
+What! I will be jovial. Come, come,
+I am a king, my masters, know you that.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+You are a royal one, and we obey you.
+
+LEAR.
+Then there’s life in’t. Come, and you get it,
+You shall get it by running. Sa, sa, sa, sa!
+
+ [_Exit running. Attendants follow._]
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,
+Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter
+Who redeems nature from the general curse
+Which twain have brought her to.
+
+EDGAR.
+Hail, gentle sir.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Sir, speed you. What’s your will?
+
+EDGAR.
+Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Most sure and vulgar.
+Everyone hears that, which can distinguish sound.
+
+EDGAR.
+But, by your favour,
+How near’s the other army?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Near and on speedy foot; the main descry
+Stands on the hourly thought.
+
+EDGAR.
+I thank you sir, that’s all.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Though that the queen on special cause is here,
+Her army is mov’d on.
+
+EDGAR.
+I thank you, sir.
+
+ [_Exit Gentleman._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me;
+Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
+To die before you please.
+
+EDGAR.
+Well pray you, father.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Now, good sir, what are you?
+
+EDGAR.
+A most poor man, made tame to fortune’s blows;
+Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
+Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand,
+I’ll lead you to some biding.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Hearty thanks:
+The bounty and the benison of heaven
+To boot, and boot.
+
+ Enter Oswald.
+
+OSWALD.
+A proclaim’d prize! Most happy!
+That eyeless head of thine was first fram’d flesh
+To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,
+Briefly thyself remember. The sword is out
+That must destroy thee.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Now let thy friendly hand
+Put strength enough to’t.
+
+ [_Edgar interposes._]
+
+OSWALD.
+Wherefore, bold peasant,
+Dar’st thou support a publish’d traitor? Hence;
+Lest that th’infection of his fortune take
+Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.
+
+EDGAR.
+Chill not let go, zir, without vurther ’casion.
+
+OSWALD.
+Let go, slave, or thou diest!
+
+EDGAR.
+Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volke pass. An chud ha’
+bin zwaggered out of my life, ’twould not ha’ bin zo long
+as ’tis by a vortnight. Nay, come not near th’old man; keep
+out, che vor ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be the
+harder: chill be plain with you.
+
+OSWALD.
+Out, dunghill!
+
+EDGAR.
+Chill pick your teeth, zir. Come! No matter vor your foins.
+
+ [_They fight, and Edgar knocks him down._]
+
+OSWALD.
+Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
+If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body;
+And give the letters which thou find’st about me
+To Edmund, Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out
+Upon the British party. O, untimely death!
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+EDGAR.
+I know thee well. A serviceable villain,
+As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
+As badness would desire.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+What, is he dead?
+
+EDGAR.
+Sit you down, father; rest you.
+Let’s see these pockets; the letters that he speaks of
+May be my friends. He’s dead; I am only sorry
+He had no other deathsman. Let us see:
+Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not.
+To know our enemies’ minds, we rip their hearts,
+Their papers is more lawful.
+[_Reads._] ‘Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have many
+opportunities to cut him off: if your will want not, time and place
+will be fruitfully offered. There is nothing done if he return the
+conqueror: then am I the prisoner, and his bed my gaol; from the
+loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply the place for your
+labour. ‘Your (wife, so I would say) affectionate servant, ‘Goneril.’
+O indistinguish’d space of woman’s will!
+A plot upon her virtuous husband’s life,
+And the exchange my brother! Here in the sands
+Thee I’ll rake up, the post unsanctified
+Of murderous lechers: and in the mature time,
+With this ungracious paper strike the sight
+Of the death-practis’d Duke: for him ’tis well
+That of thy death and business I can tell.
+
+ [_Exit Edgar, dragging out the body._]
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+The King is mad: how stiff is my vile sense,
+That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling
+Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract:
+So should my thoughts be sever’d from my griefs,
+And woes by wrong imaginations lose
+The knowledge of themselves.
+
+ [_A drum afar off._]
+
+EDGAR.
+Give me your hand.
+Far off methinks I hear the beaten drum.
+Come, father, I’ll bestow you with a friend.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. A Tent in the French Camp
+
+Lear on a bed, asleep, soft
+music playing; Physician, Gentleman and others
+attending.
+
+ Enter Cordelia and Kent.
+
+CORDELIA.
+O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work
+To match thy goodness? My life will be too short,
+And every measure fail me.
+
+KENT.
+To be acknowledg’d, madam, is o’erpaid.
+All my reports go with the modest truth;
+Nor more, nor clipp’d, but so.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Be better suited,
+These weeds are memories of those worser hours:
+I prithee put them off.
+
+KENT.
+Pardon, dear madam;
+Yet to be known shortens my made intent.
+My boon I make it that you know me not
+Till time and I think meet.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Then be’t so, my good lord. [_To the Physician._] How does the King?
+
+PHYSICIAN.
+Madam, sleeps still.
+
+CORDELIA.
+O you kind gods,
+Cure this great breach in his abused nature!
+The untun’d and jarring senses, O, wind up
+Of this child-changed father.
+
+PHYSICIAN.
+So please your majesty
+That we may wake the King: he hath slept long.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Be govern’d by your knowledge, and proceed
+I’ the sway of your own will. Is he array’d?
+
+PHYSICIAN.
+Ay, madam. In the heaviness of sleep
+We put fresh garments on him.
+Be by, good madam, when we do awake him;
+I doubt not of his temperance.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Very well.
+
+PHYSICIAN.
+Please you draw near. Louder the music there!
+
+CORDELIA.
+O my dear father! Restoration hang
+Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss
+Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
+Have in thy reverence made!
+
+KENT.
+Kind and dear princess!
+
+CORDELIA.
+Had you not been their father, these white flakes
+Did challenge pity of them. Was this a face
+To be oppos’d against the warring winds?
+To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
+In the most terrible and nimble stroke
+Of quick cross lightning? to watch, poor perdu!
+With this thin helm? Mine enemy’s dog,
+Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
+Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father,
+To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn
+In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!
+’Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once
+Had not concluded all. He wakes; speak to him.
+
+PHYSICIAN.
+Madam, do you; ’tis fittest.
+
+CORDELIA.
+How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty?
+
+LEAR.
+You do me wrong to take me out o’ the grave.
+Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
+Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
+Do scald like molten lead.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Sir, do you know me?
+
+LEAR.
+You are a spirit, I know: when did you die?
+
+CORDELIA.
+Still, still, far wide!
+
+PHYSICIAN.
+He’s scarce awake: let him alone awhile.
+
+LEAR.
+Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight?
+I am mightily abus’d. I should e’en die with pity,
+To see another thus. I know not what to say.
+I will not swear these are my hands: let’s see;
+I feel this pin prick. Would I were assur’d
+Of my condition!
+
+CORDELIA.
+O, look upon me, sir,
+And hold your hands in benediction o’er me.
+No, sir, you must not kneel.
+
+LEAR.
+Pray, do not mock me:
+I am a very foolish fond old man,
+Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
+And to deal plainly,
+I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
+Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
+Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant
+What place this is; and all the skill I have
+Remembers not these garments; nor I know not
+Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;
+For, as I am a man, I think this lady
+To be my child Cordelia.
+
+CORDELIA.
+And so I am. I am.
+
+LEAR.
+Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray weep not:
+If you have poison for me, I will drink it.
+I know you do not love me; for your sisters
+Have, as I do remember, done me wrong.
+You have some cause, they have not.
+
+CORDELIA.
+No cause, no cause.
+
+LEAR.
+Am I in France?
+
+KENT.
+In your own kingdom, sir.
+
+LEAR.
+Do not abuse me.
+
+PHYSICIAN.
+Be comforted, good madam, the great rage,
+You see, is kill’d in him: and yet it is danger
+To make him even o’er the time he has lost.
+Desire him to go in; trouble him no more
+Till further settling.
+
+CORDELIA.
+Will’t please your highness walk?
+
+LEAR.
+You must bear with me:
+Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lear, Cordelia, Physician and Attendants._]
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain?
+
+KENT.
+Most certain, sir.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Who is conductor of his people?
+
+KENT.
+As ’tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+They say Edgar, his banished son, is with the Earl of Kent
+in Germany.
+
+KENT.
+Report is changeable. ’Tis time to look about; the powers of
+the kingdom approach apace.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+The arbitrement is like to be bloody.
+Fare you well, sir.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KENT.
+My point and period will be throughly wrought,
+Or well or ill, as this day’s battle’s fought.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. The Camp of the British Forces near Dover
+
+
+ Enter, with drum and colours Edmund, Regan, Officers, Soldiers and
+ others.
+
+EDMUND.
+Know of the Duke if his last purpose hold,
+Or whether since he is advis’d by aught
+To change the course, he’s full of alteration
+And self-reproving, bring his constant pleasure.
+
+ [_To an Officer, who goes out._]
+
+REGAN.
+Our sister’s man is certainly miscarried.
+
+EDMUND.
+’Tis to be doubted, madam.
+
+REGAN.
+Now, sweet lord,
+You know the goodness I intend upon you:
+Tell me but truly, but then speak the truth,
+Do you not love my sister?
+
+EDMUND.
+In honour’d love.
+
+REGAN.
+But have you never found my brother’s way
+To the forfended place?
+
+EDMUND.
+That thought abuses you.
+
+REGAN.
+I am doubtful that you have been conjunct
+And bosom’d with her, as far as we call hers.
+
+EDMUND.
+No, by mine honour, madam.
+
+REGAN.
+I never shall endure her, dear my lord,
+Be not familiar with her.
+
+EDMUND.
+Fear not,
+She and the Duke her husband!
+
+ Enter with drum and colours Albany, Goneril and Soldiers.
+
+GONERIL.
+[_Aside._] I had rather lose the battle than that sister
+Should loosen him and me.
+
+ALBANY.
+Our very loving sister, well be-met.
+Sir, this I heard: the King is come to his daughter,
+With others whom the rigour of our state
+Forc’d to cry out. Where I could not be honest,
+I never yet was valiant. For this business,
+It toucheth us as France invades our land,
+Not bolds the King, with others whom I fear
+Most just and heavy causes make oppose.
+
+EDMUND.
+Sir, you speak nobly.
+
+REGAN.
+Why is this reason’d?
+
+GONERIL.
+Combine together ’gainst the enemy;
+For these domestic and particular broils
+Are not the question here.
+
+ALBANY.
+Let’s, then, determine with the ancient of war
+On our proceeding.
+
+EDMUND.
+I shall attend you presently at your tent.
+
+REGAN.
+Sister, you’ll go with us?
+
+GONERIL.
+No.
+
+REGAN.
+’Tis most convenient; pray you, go with us.
+
+GONERIL.
+[_Aside_.] O, ho, I know the riddle. I will go.
+
+ [_Exeunt Edmund, Regan, Goneril, Officers, Soldiers and Attendants._]
+
+ As they are going out, enter Edgar disguised.
+
+EDGAR.
+If e’er your grace had speech with man so poor,
+Hear me one word.
+
+ALBANY.
+I’ll overtake you. Speak.
+
+EDGAR.
+Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.
+If you have victory, let the trumpet sound
+For him that brought it: wretched though I seem,
+I can produce a champion that will prove
+What is avouched there. If you miscarry,
+Your business of the world hath so an end,
+And machination ceases. Fortune love you!
+
+ALBANY.
+Stay till I have read the letter.
+
+EDGAR.
+I was forbid it.
+When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,
+And I’ll appear again.
+
+ALBANY.
+Why, fare thee well. I will o’erlook thy paper.
+
+ [_Exit Edgar._]
+
+ Enter Edmund.
+
+EDMUND.
+The enemy’s in view; draw up your powers.
+Here is the guess of their true strength and forces
+By diligent discovery; but your haste
+Is now urg’d on you.
+
+ALBANY.
+We will greet the time.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+EDMUND.
+To both these sisters have I sworn my love;
+Each jealous of the other, as the stung
+Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?
+Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoy’d,
+If both remain alive. To take the widow
+Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;
+And hardly shall I carry out my side,
+Her husband being alive. Now, then, we’ll use
+His countenance for the battle; which being done,
+Let her who would be rid of him devise
+His speedy taking off. As for the mercy
+Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,
+The battle done, and they within our power,
+Shall never see his pardon: for my state
+Stands on me to defend, not to debate.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. A field between the two Camps
+
+ Alarum within. Enter with drum and colours, Lear, Cordelia and their
+ Forces, and exeunt.
+
+ Enter Edgar and Gloucester.
+
+EDGAR.
+Here, father, take the shadow of this tree
+For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:
+If ever I return to you again,
+I’ll bring you comfort.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+Grace go with you, sir!
+
+ [_Exit Edgar._]
+
+ Alarum and retreat within. Enter Edgar.
+
+EDGAR.
+Away, old man, give me thy hand, away!
+King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta’en:
+Give me thy hand; come on!
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+No further, sir; a man may rot even here.
+
+EDGAR.
+What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
+Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
+Ripeness is all. Come on.
+
+GLOUCESTER.
+And that’s true too.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The British Camp near Dover
+
+ Enter in conquest with drum and colours, Edmund, Lear and Cordelia
+as prisoners; Officers, Soldiers, &c.
+
+EDMUND.
+Some officers take them away: good guard
+Until their greater pleasures first be known
+That are to censure them.
+
+CORDELIA.
+We are not the first
+Who with best meaning have incurr’d the worst.
+For thee, oppressed King, I am cast down;
+Myself could else out-frown false fortune’s frown.
+Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
+
+LEAR.
+No, no, no, no. Come, let’s away to prison:
+We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage:
+When thou dost ask me blessing I’ll kneel down
+And ask of thee forgiveness. So we’ll live,
+And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
+At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
+Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too,
+Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out;
+And take upon’s the mystery of things,
+As if we were God’s spies. And we’ll wear out,
+In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones
+That ebb and flow by the moon.
+
+EDMUND.
+Take them away.
+
+LEAR.
+Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
+The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?
+He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,
+And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes;
+The good years shall devour them, flesh and fell,
+Ere they shall make us weep!
+We’ll see ’em starve first: come.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lear and Cordelia, guarded._]
+
+EDMUND.
+Come hither, captain, hark.
+Take thou this note [_giving a paper_]; go follow them to prison.
+One step I have advanc’d thee; if thou dost
+As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way
+To noble fortunes: know thou this, that men
+Are as the time is; to be tender-minded
+Does not become a sword. Thy great employment
+Will not bear question; either say thou’lt do’t,
+Or thrive by other means.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+I’ll do’t, my lord.
+
+EDMUND.
+About it; and write happy when thou hast done.
+Mark, I say, instantly; and carry it so
+As I have set it down.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
+If it be man’s work, I’ll do’t.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Flourish. Enter Albany, Goneril,
+Regan, Officers and Attendants.
+
+ALBANY.
+Sir, you have show’d today your valiant strain,
+And fortune led you well: you have the captives
+Who were the opposites of this day’s strife:
+I do require them of you, so to use them
+As we shall find their merits and our safety
+May equally determine.
+
+EDMUND.
+Sir, I thought it fit
+To send the old and miserable King
+To some retention and appointed guard;
+Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,
+To pluck the common bosom on his side,
+And turn our impress’d lances in our eyes
+Which do command them. With him I sent the queen;
+My reason all the same; and they are ready
+Tomorrow, or at further space, to appear
+Where you shall hold your session. At this time
+We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend;
+And the best quarrels in the heat are curs’d
+By those that feel their sharpness.
+The question of Cordelia and her father
+Requires a fitter place.
+
+ALBANY.
+Sir, by your patience,
+I hold you but a subject of this war,
+Not as a brother.
+
+REGAN.
+That’s as we list to grace him.
+Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded
+Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers;
+Bore the commission of my place and person;
+The which immediacy may well stand up
+And call itself your brother.
+
+GONERIL.
+Not so hot:
+In his own grace he doth exalt himself,
+More than in your addition.
+
+REGAN.
+In my rights,
+By me invested, he compeers the best.
+
+ALBANY.
+That were the most, if he should husband you.
+
+REGAN.
+Jesters do oft prove prophets.
+
+GONERIL.
+Holla, holla!
+That eye that told you so look’d but asquint.
+
+REGAN.
+Lady, I am not well; else I should answer
+From a full-flowing stomach. General,
+Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony;
+Dispose of them, of me; the walls are thine:
+Witness the world that I create thee here
+My lord and master.
+
+GONERIL.
+Mean you to enjoy him?
+
+ALBANY.
+The let-alone lies not in your good will.
+
+EDMUND.
+Nor in thine, lord.
+
+ALBANY.
+Half-blooded fellow, yes.
+
+REGAN.
+[_To Edmund._] Let the drum strike, and prove my title thine.
+
+ALBANY.
+Stay yet; hear reason: Edmund, I arrest thee
+On capital treason; and, in thine arrest,
+This gilded serpent. [_pointing to Goneril._]
+For your claim, fair sister,
+I bar it in the interest of my wife;
+’Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord,
+And I her husband contradict your bans.
+If you will marry, make your loves to me,
+My lady is bespoke.
+
+GONERIL.
+An interlude!
+
+ALBANY.
+Thou art arm’d, Gloucester. Let the trumpet sound:
+If none appear to prove upon thy person
+Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,
+There is my pledge. [_Throwing down a glove._]
+I’ll make it on thy heart,
+Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less
+Than I have here proclaim’d thee.
+
+REGAN.
+Sick, O, sick!
+
+GONERIL.
+[_Aside._] If not, I’ll ne’er trust medicine.
+
+EDMUND.
+There’s my exchange. [_Throwing down a glove._]
+What in the world he is
+That names me traitor, villain-like he lies.
+Call by thy trumpet: he that dares approach,
+On him, on you, who not? I will maintain
+My truth and honour firmly.
+
+ALBANY.
+A herald, ho!
+
+ Enter a Herald.
+
+Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers,
+All levied in my name, have in my name
+Took their discharge.
+
+REGAN.
+My sickness grows upon me.
+
+ALBANY.
+She is not well. Convey her to my tent.
+
+ [_Exit Regan, led._]
+
+Come hither, herald. Let the trumpet sound
+And read out this.
+
+OFFICER.
+Sound, trumpet!
+
+ [_A trumpet sounds._]
+
+HERALD.
+[_Reads._] ‘If any man of quality or degree within the lists of
+the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed Earl of Gloucester,
+that he is a manifold traitor, let him appear by the third sound
+of the trumpet. He is bold in his defence.’
+
+EDMUND.
+Sound!
+
+ [_First trumpet._]
+
+HERALD.
+Again!
+
+ [_Second trumpet._]
+
+HERALD.
+Again!
+
+ Third trumpet. Trumpet answers within. Enter Edgar, armed, preceded by
+ a trumpet.
+
+ALBANY.
+Ask him his purposes, why he appears
+Upon this call o’ the trumpet.
+
+HERALD.
+What are you?
+Your name, your quality? and why you answer
+This present summons?
+
+EDGAR.
+Know my name is lost;
+By treason’s tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.
+Yet am I noble as the adversary
+I come to cope.
+
+ALBANY.
+Which is that adversary?
+
+EDGAR.
+What’s he that speaks for Edmund, Earl of Gloucester?
+
+EDMUND.
+Himself, what say’st thou to him?
+
+EDGAR.
+Draw thy sword,
+That if my speech offend a noble heart,
+Thy arm may do thee justice: here is mine.
+Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,
+My oath, and my profession: I protest,
+Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,
+Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,
+Thy valour and thy heart, thou art a traitor;
+False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;
+Conspirant ’gainst this high illustrious prince;
+And, from the extremest upward of thy head
+To the descent and dust beneath thy foot,
+A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou ‘No,’
+This sword, this arm, and my best spirits are bent
+To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,
+Thou liest.
+
+EDMUND.
+In wisdom I should ask thy name;
+But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,
+And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,
+What safe and nicely I might well delay
+By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
+Back do I toss those treasons to thy head,
+With the hell-hated lie o’erwhelm thy heart;
+Which for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise,
+This sword of mine shall give them instant way,
+Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak!
+
+ [_Alarums. They fight. Edmund falls._]
+
+ALBANY.
+Save him, save him!
+
+GONERIL.
+This is mere practice, Gloucester:
+By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer
+An unknown opposite; thou art not vanquish’d,
+But cozen’d and beguil’d.
+
+ALBANY.
+Shut your mouth, dame,
+Or with this paper shall I stop it. Hold, sir;
+Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil.
+No tearing, lady; I perceive you know it.
+
+ [_Gives the letter to Edmund._]
+
+GONERIL.
+Say if I do, the laws are mine, not thine:
+Who can arraign me for’t?
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ALBANY.
+Most monstrous! O!
+Know’st thou this paper?
+
+EDMUND.
+Ask me not what I know.
+
+ALBANY.
+[_To an Officer, who goes out._] Go after her; she’s desperate;
+govern her.
+
+EDMUND.
+What you have charg’d me with, that have I done;
+And more, much more; the time will bring it out.
+’Tis past, and so am I. But what art thou
+That hast this fortune on me? If thou’rt noble,
+I do forgive thee.
+
+EDGAR.
+Let’s exchange charity.
+I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund;
+If more, the more thou hast wrong’d me.
+My name is Edgar and thy father’s son.
+The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
+Make instruments to plague us:
+The dark and vicious place where thee he got
+Cost him his eyes.
+
+EDMUND.
+Thou hast spoken right, ’tis true;
+The wheel is come full circle; I am here.
+
+ALBANY.
+Methought thy very gait did prophesy
+A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
+Let sorrow split my heart if ever I
+Did hate thee or thy father.
+
+EDGAR.
+Worthy prince, I know’t.
+
+ALBANY.
+Where have you hid yourself?
+How have you known the miseries of your father?
+
+EDGAR.
+By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;
+And when ’tis told, O that my heart would burst!
+The bloody proclamation to escape
+That follow’d me so near,—O, our lives’ sweetness!
+That with the pain of death we’d hourly die
+Rather than die at once!—taught me to shift
+Into a madman’s rags; t’assume a semblance
+That very dogs disdain’d; and in this habit
+Met I my father with his bleeding rings,
+Their precious stones new lost; became his guide,
+Led him, begg’d for him, sav’d him from despair;
+Never,—O fault!—reveal’d myself unto him
+Until some half hour past, when I was arm’d;
+Not sure, though hoping of this good success,
+I ask’d his blessing, and from first to last
+Told him my pilgrimage. But his flaw’d heart,
+Alack, too weak the conflict to support!
+’Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
+Burst smilingly.
+
+EDMUND.
+This speech of yours hath mov’d me,
+And shall perchance do good, but speak you on;
+You look as you had something more to say.
+
+ALBANY.
+If there be more, more woeful, hold it in;
+For I am almost ready to dissolve,
+Hearing of this.
+
+EDGAR.
+This would have seem’d a period
+To such as love not sorrow; but another,
+To amplify too much, would make much more,
+And top extremity.
+Whilst I was big in clamour, came there a man
+Who, having seen me in my worst estate,
+Shunn’d my abhorr’d society; but then finding
+Who ’twas that so endur’d, with his strong arms
+He fastened on my neck, and bellow’d out
+As he’d burst heaven; threw him on my father;
+Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him
+That ever ear receiv’d, which in recounting
+His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life
+Began to crack. Twice then the trumpets sounded,
+And there I left him tranc’d.
+
+ALBANY.
+But who was this?
+
+EDGAR.
+Kent, sir, the banish’d Kent; who in disguise
+Follow’d his enemy king and did him service
+Improper for a slave.
+
+ Enter a Gentleman hastily,
+with a bloody knife.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Help, help! O, help!
+
+EDGAR.
+What kind of help?
+
+ALBANY.
+Speak, man.
+
+EDGAR.
+What means this bloody knife?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis hot, it smokes;
+It came even from the heart of—O! she’s dead!
+
+ALBANY.
+Who dead? Speak, man.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Your lady, sir, your lady; and her sister
+By her is poisoned; she hath confesses it.
+
+EDMUND.
+I was contracted to them both, all three
+Now marry in an instant.
+
+EDGAR.
+Here comes Kent.
+
+ Enter Kent.
+
+ALBANY.
+Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead.
+This judgement of the heavens that makes us tremble
+Touches us not with pity. O, is this he?
+The time will not allow the compliment
+Which very manners urges.
+
+KENT.
+I am come
+To bid my King and master aye good night:
+Is he not here?
+
+ALBANY.
+Great thing of us forgot!
+Speak, Edmund, where’s the King? and where’s Cordelia?
+
+ The bodies of Goneril and
+Regan are brought in.
+
+Seest thou this object, Kent?
+
+KENT.
+Alack, why thus?
+
+EDMUND.
+Yet Edmund was belov’d.
+The one the other poisoned for my sake,
+And after slew herself.
+
+ALBANY.
+Even so. Cover their faces.
+
+EDMUND.
+I pant for life. Some good I mean to do,
+Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,
+Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ
+Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia;
+Nay, send in time.
+
+ALBANY.
+Run, run, O, run!
+
+EDGAR.
+To who, my lord? Who has the office? Send
+Thy token of reprieve.
+
+EDMUND.
+Well thought on: take my sword,
+Give it the captain.
+
+EDGAR.
+Haste thee for thy life.
+
+ [_Exit Edgar._]
+
+EDMUND.
+He hath commission from thy wife and me
+To hang Cordelia in the prison, and
+To lay the blame upon her own despair,
+That she fordid herself.
+
+ALBANY.
+The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile.
+
+ [_Edmund is borne off._]
+
+ Enter Lear with Cordelia dead in his arms; Edgar,
+Officer and others following.
+
+LEAR.
+Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stone.
+Had I your tongues and eyes, I’ld use them so
+That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone for ever!
+I know when one is dead, and when one lives;
+She’s dead as earth. Lend me a looking glass;
+If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
+Why, then she lives.
+
+KENT.
+Is this the promis’d end?
+
+EDGAR.
+Or image of that horror?
+
+ALBANY.
+Fall, and cease!
+
+LEAR.
+This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so,
+It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
+That ever I have felt.
+
+KENT.
+O, my good master! [_Kneeling._]
+
+LEAR.
+Prithee, away!
+
+EDGAR.
+’Tis noble Kent, your friend.
+
+LEAR.
+A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!
+I might have sav’d her; now she’s gone for ever!
+Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!
+What is’t thou say’st? Her voice was ever soft,
+Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
+I kill’d the slave that was a-hanging thee.
+
+OFFICER.
+’Tis true, my lords, he did.
+
+LEAR.
+Did I not, fellow?
+I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion
+I would have made them skip. I am old now,
+And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?
+Mine eyes are not o’ the best, I’ll tell you straight.
+
+KENT.
+If Fortune brag of two she lov’d and hated,
+One of them we behold.
+
+LEAR.
+This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
+
+KENT.
+The same,
+Your servant Kent. Where is your servant Caius?
+
+LEAR.
+He’s a good fellow, I can tell you that;
+He’ll strike, and quickly too:. He’s dead and rotten.
+
+KENT.
+No, my good lord; I am the very man.
+
+LEAR.
+I’ll see that straight.
+
+KENT.
+That from your first of difference and decay
+Have follow’d your sad steps.
+
+LEAR.
+You are welcome hither.
+
+KENT.
+Nor no man else. All’s cheerless, dark and deadly.
+Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves,
+And desperately are dead.
+
+LEAR.
+Ay, so I think.
+
+ALBANY.
+He knows not what he says; and vain is it
+That we present us to him.
+
+EDGAR.
+Very bootless.
+
+ Enter an Officer.
+
+OFFICER.
+Edmund is dead, my lord.
+
+ALBANY.
+That’s but a trifle here.
+You lords and noble friends, know our intent.
+What comfort to this great decay may come
+Shall be applied. For us, we will resign,
+During the life of this old majesty,
+To him our absolute power;
+[_to Edgar and Kent_] you to your rights;
+With boot and such addition as your honours
+Have more than merited. All friends shall taste
+The wages of their virtue and all foes
+The cup of their deservings. O, see, see!
+
+LEAR.
+And my poor fool is hang’d! No, no, no life!
+Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
+And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more,
+Never, never, never, never, never!
+Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir.
+Do you see this? Look on her: look, her lips,
+Look there, look there!
+
+ [_He dies._]
+
+EDGAR.
+He faints! My lord, my lord!
+
+KENT.
+Break, heart; I prithee break!
+
+EDGAR.
+Look up, my lord.
+
+KENT.
+Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! He hates him
+That would upon the rack of this rough world
+Stretch him out longer.
+
+EDGAR.
+He is gone indeed.
+
+KENT.
+The wonder is, he hath endur’d so long:
+He but usurp’d his life.
+
+ALBANY.
+Bear them from hence. Our present business
+Is general woe. [_To Edgar and Kent._] Friends of my soul, you twain,
+Rule in this realm and the gor’d state sustain.
+
+KENT.
+I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;
+My master calls me, I must not say no.
+
+EDGAR.
+The weight of this sad time we must obey;
+Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
+The oldest hath borne most; we that are young
+Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
+
+ [_Exeunt with a dead march._]
+
+
+
+
+LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park
+ Scene II. The park
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park. A pavilion and tents at a distance
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park
+ Scene II. The same
+ Scene III. The same
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park
+ Scene II. The same. Before the Princess’s pavilion
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING of Navarre, also known as Ferdinand
+
+BEROWNE, Lord attending on the King
+LONGAVILLE, Lord attending on the King
+DUMAINE, Lord attending on the King
+
+The PRINCESS of France
+
+ROSALINE, Lady attending on the Princess
+MARIA, Lady attending on the Princess
+KATHARINE, Lady attending on the Princess
+BOYET, Lord attending on the Princess
+
+Don Adriano de ARMADO, a fantastical Spaniard
+MOTH, Page to Armado
+JAQUENETTA, a country wench
+COSTARD, a Clown
+DULL, a Constable
+HOLOFERNES, a Schoolmaster
+Sir NATHANIEL, a Curate
+A FORESTER
+MARCADÉ, a messenger from France
+
+Lords, Blackamoors, Officers and Others, Attendants on the King and
+Princess.
+
+SCENE: Navarre
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. The King of Navarre’s park
+
+
+Enter Ferdinand, King of Navarre, Berowne, Longaville and Dumaine.
+
+KING.
+Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
+Live registered upon our brazen tombs,
+And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
+When, spite of cormorant devouring time,
+Th’ endeavour of this present breath may buy
+That honour which shall bate his scythe’s keen edge,
+And make us heirs of all eternity.
+Therefore, brave conquerors, for so you are
+That war against your own affections
+And the huge army of the world’s desires,
+Our late edict shall strongly stand in force.
+Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;
+Our court shall be a little academe,
+Still and contemplative in living art.
+You three, Berowne, Dumaine and Longaville,
+Have sworn for three years’ term to live with me,
+My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes
+That are recorded in this schedule here.
+Your oaths are passed, and now subscribe your names,
+That his own hand may strike his honour down
+That violates the smallest branch herein.
+If you are armed to do as sworn to do,
+Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+I am resolved. ’Tis but a three years’ fast.
+The mind shall banquet, though the body pine.
+Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits
+Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
+
+[_He signs._]
+
+DUMAINE.
+My loving lord, Dumaine is mortified.
+The grosser manner of these world’s delights
+He throws upon the gross world’s baser slaves.
+To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die,
+With all these living in philosophy.
+
+[_He signs._]
+
+BEROWNE.
+I can but say their protestation over.
+So much, dear liege, I have already sworn,
+That is, to live and study here three years.
+But there are other strict observances:
+As not to see a woman in that term,
+Which I hope well is not enrolled there;
+And one day in a week to touch no food,
+And but one meal on every day beside,
+The which I hope is not enrolled there;
+And then to sleep but three hours in the night,
+And not be seen to wink of all the day,
+When I was wont to think no harm all night,
+And make a dark night too of half the day,
+Which I hope well is not enrolled there.
+O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep,
+Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep.
+
+KING.
+Your oath is passed to pass away from these.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Let me say no, my liege, an if you please.
+I only swore to study with your Grace
+And stay here in your court for three years’ space.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+You swore to that, Berowne, and to the rest.
+
+BEROWNE.
+By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.
+What is the end of study, let me know?
+
+KING.
+Why, that to know which else we should not know.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?
+
+KING.
+Ay, that is study’s god-like recompense.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Come on, then, I will swear to study so,
+To know the thing I am forbid to know:
+As thus, to study where I well may dine,
+    When I to feast expressly am forbid;
+Or study where to meet some mistress fine,
+    When mistresses from common sense are hid;
+Or, having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath,
+Study to break it, and not break my troth.
+If study’s gain be thus, and this be so,
+Study knows that which yet it doth not know.
+Swear me to this, and I will ne’er say no.
+
+KING.
+These be the stops that hinder study quite,
+And train our intellects to vain delight.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
+Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:
+As painfully to pore upon a book
+    To seek the light of truth, while truth the while
+Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.
+    Light seeking light doth light of light beguile;
+So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,
+Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
+Study me how to please the eye indeed
+    By fixing it upon a fairer eye,
+Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed,
+    And give him light that it was blinded by.
+Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun,
+    That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks;
+Small have continual plodders ever won,
+    Save base authority from others’ books.
+These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lights,
+    That give a name to every fixed star,
+Have no more profit of their shining nights
+    Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
+Too much to know is to know naught but fame,
+And every godfather can give a name.
+
+KING.
+How well he’s read, to reason against reading.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+He weeds the corn, and still lets grow the weeding.
+
+BEROWNE.
+The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.
+
+DUMAINE.
+How follows that?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Fit in his place and time.
+
+DUMAINE.
+In reason nothing.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Something then in rhyme.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost
+That bites the first-born infants of the spring.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Well, say I am. Why should proud summer boast
+Before the birds have any cause to sing?
+Why should I joy in any abortive birth?
+At Christmas I no more desire a rose
+Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows,
+But like of each thing that in season grows.
+So you, to study now it is too late,
+Climb o’er the house to unlock the little gate.
+
+KING.
+Well, sit you out. Go home, Berowne. Adieu.
+
+BEROWNE.
+No, my good lord, I have sworn to stay with you,
+And though I have for barbarism spoke more
+    Than for that angel knowledge you can say,
+Yet confident I’ll keep what I have sworn
+    And bide the penance of each three years’ day.
+Give me the paper, let me read the same,
+And to the strictest decrees I’ll write my name.
+
+KING.
+How well this yielding rescues thee from shame.
+
+BEROWNE.
+[_Reads_.] _Item, That no woman shall come within a mile of my court._
+Hath this been proclaimed?
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Four days ago.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Let’s see the penalty. [_Reads_.] _On pain of losing her tongue._ Who
+devised this penalty?
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Marry, that did I.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Sweet lord, and why?
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+To fright them hence with that dread penalty.
+
+BEROWNE.
+A dangerous law against gentility.
+[_Reads_.] _Item, If any man be seen to talk with a woman within the
+term of three years, he shall endure such public shame as the rest of
+the court can possibly devise._
+This article, my liege, yourself must break,
+    For well you know here comes in embassy
+The French King’s daughter, with yourself to speak—
+    A mild of grace and complete majesty—
+About surrender up of Aquitaine
+    To her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father.
+Therefore this article is made in vain,
+    Or vainly comes th’ admired Princess hither.
+
+KING.
+What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot.
+
+BEROWNE.
+So study evermore is overshot.
+While it doth study to have what it would,
+It doth forget to do the thing it should;
+And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
+’Tis won as towns with fire: so won, so lost.
+
+KING.
+We must of force dispense with this decree.
+She must lie here on mere necessity.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Necessity will make us all forsworn
+Three thousand times within this three years’ space;
+For every man with his affects is born,
+Not by might mastered, but by special grace.
+If I break faith, this word shall speak for me:
+I am forsworn on mere necessity.
+So to the laws at large I write my name,
+And he that breaks them in the least degree
+Stands in attainder of eternal shame.
+Suggestions are to other as to me;
+But I believe, although I seem so loath,
+I am the last that will last keep his oath.
+
+[_He signs._]
+
+But is there no quick recreation granted?
+
+KING.
+Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted
+With a refined traveller of Spain,
+A man in all the world’s new fashion planted,
+That hath a mint of phrases in his brain;
+One who the music of his own vain tongue
+Doth ravish like enchanting harmony,
+A man of complements, whom right and wrong
+Have chose as umpire of their mutiny.
+This child of fancy, that Armado hight,
+For interim to our studies shall relate
+In high-born words the worth of many a knight
+From tawny Spain lost in the world’s debate.
+How you delight, my lords, I know not, I,
+But I protest I love to hear him lie,
+And I will use him for my minstrelsy.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Armado is a most illustrious wight,
+A man of fire-new words, fashion’s own knight.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Costard the swain and he shall be our sport,
+And so to study three years is but short.
+
+Enter Dull, a Constable, with a letter, and Costard.
+
+DULL.
+Which is the Duke’s own person?
+
+BEROWNE.
+This, fellow. What wouldst?
+
+DULL.
+I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his Grace’s farborough. But
+I would see his own person in flesh and blood.
+
+BEROWNE.
+This is he.
+
+DULL.
+Signior Arm… Arm… commends you. There’s villainy abroad. This letter
+will tell you more.
+
+COSTARD.
+Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me.
+
+KING.
+A letter from the magnificent Armado.
+
+BEROWNE.
+How long soever the matter, I hope in God for high words.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+A high hope for a low heaven. God grant us patience!
+
+BEROWNE.
+To hear, or forbear laughing?
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately, or to forbear both.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to climb in the
+merriness.
+
+COSTARD.
+The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta. The manner of it
+is, I was taken with the manner.
+
+BEROWNE.
+In what manner?
+
+COSTARD.
+In manner and form following, sir, all those three. I was seen with her
+in the manor-house, sitting with her upon the form, and taken following
+her into the park, which, put together, is “in manner and form
+following”. Now, sir, for the manner. It is the manner of a man to
+speak to a woman. For the form—in some form.
+
+BEROWNE.
+For the “following”, sir?
+
+COSTARD.
+As it shall follow in my correction, and God defend the right!
+
+KING.
+Will you hear this letter with attention?
+
+BEROWNE.
+As we would hear an oracle.
+
+COSTARD.
+Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh.
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _Great deputy, the welkin’s vicegerent and sole dominator of
+Navarre, my soul’s earth’s god and body’s fostering patron—_
+
+COSTARD.
+Not a word of Costard yet.
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _So it is—_
+
+COSTARD.
+It may be so; but if he say it is so, he is, in telling true, but so.
+
+KING.
+Peace!
+
+COSTARD.
+Be to me, and every man that dares not fight.
+
+KING.
+No words!
+
+COSTARD.
+Of other men’s secrets, I beseech you.
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _So it is, besieged with sable-coloured melancholy, I did
+commend the black-oppressing humour to the most wholesome physic of thy
+health-giving air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk. The
+time when? About the sixth hour, when beasts most graze, birds best
+peck, and men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. So
+much for the time when. Now for the ground which? Which, I mean, I
+walked upon. It is ycleped thy park. Then for the place, where? Where,
+I mean, I did encounter that obscene and most preposterous event that
+draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which here thou
+viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest. But to the place where? It
+standeth north-north-east and by east from the west corner of thy
+curious-knotted garden. There did I see that low-spirited swain, that
+base minnow of thy mirth—_
+
+COSTARD.
+Me?
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _That unlettered small-knowing soul—_
+
+COSTARD.
+Me?
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _That shallow vassal—_
+
+COSTARD.
+Still me?
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _Which, as I remember, hight Costard—_
+
+COSTARD.
+O me!
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _Sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established
+proclaimed edict and continent canon, which with, O, with—but with this
+I passion to say wherewith—_
+
+COSTARD.
+With a wench.
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _With a child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy
+more sweet understanding, a woman. Him, I, as my ever-esteemed duty
+pricks me on, have sent to thee, to receive the meed of punishment, by
+thy sweet Grace’s officer, Antony Dull, a man of good repute, carriage,
+bearing, and estimation._
+
+DULL.
+Me, an’t shall please you; I am Antony Dull.
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] _For Jaquenetta, so is the weaker vessel called which I
+apprehended with the aforesaid swain, I keep her as a vessel of thy
+law’s fury, and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring her to
+trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted and heartburning heat of
+duty,
+                    Don Adriano de Armado._
+
+BEROWNE.
+This is not so well as I looked for, but the best that ever I heard.
+
+KING.
+Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say you to this?
+
+COSTARD.
+Sir, I confess the wench.
+
+KING.
+Did you hear the proclamation?
+
+COSTARD.
+I do confess much of the hearing it, but little of the marking of it.
+
+KING.
+It was proclaimed a year’s imprisonment to be taken with a wench.
+
+COSTARD.
+I was taken with none, sir. I was taken with a damsel.
+
+KING.
+Well, it was proclaimed “damsel”.
+
+COSTARD.
+This was no damsel neither, sir; she was a virgin.
+
+KING.
+It is so varied too, for it was proclaimed “virgin”.
+
+COSTARD.
+If it were, I deny her virginity. I was taken with a maid.
+
+KING.
+This maid will not serve your turn, sir.
+
+COSTARD.
+This maid will serve my turn, sir.
+
+KING.
+Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast a week with bran
+and water.
+
+COSTARD.
+I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge.
+
+KING.
+And Don Armado shall be your keeper.
+My Lord Berowne, see him delivered o’er;
+And go we, lords, to put in practice that
+Which each to other hath so strongly sworn.
+
+[_Exeunt King, Longaville and Dumaine._]
+
+BEROWNE.
+I’ll lay my head to any good man’s hat
+These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn.
+Sirrah, come on.
+
+COSTARD.
+I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is I was taken with
+Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true girl. And therefore welcome the
+sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till
+then, sit thee down, sorrow.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The park
+
+Enter Armado and Moth, his Page.
+
+ARMADO.
+Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy?
+
+MOTH.
+A great sign, sir, that he will look sad.
+
+ARMADO.
+Why, sadness is one and the selfsame thing, dear imp.
+
+MOTH.
+No, no, O Lord, sir, no.
+
+ARMADO.
+How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenal?
+
+MOTH.
+By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough signior.
+
+ARMADO.
+Why tough signior? Why tough signior?
+
+MOTH.
+Why tender juvenal? Why tender juvenal?
+
+ARMADO.
+I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to
+thy young days, which we may nominate tender.
+
+MOTH.
+And I, tough signior, as an appertinent title to your old time, which
+we may name tough.
+
+ARMADO.
+Pretty and apt.
+
+MOTH.
+How mean you, sir? I pretty and my saying apt, or I apt, and my saying
+pretty?
+
+ARMADO.
+Thou pretty, because little.
+
+MOTH.
+Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt?
+
+ARMADO.
+And therefore apt, because quick.
+
+MOTH.
+Speak you this in my praise, master?
+
+ARMADO.
+In thy condign praise.
+
+MOTH.
+I will praise an eel with the same praise.
+
+ARMADO.
+What, that an eel is ingenious?
+
+MOTH.
+That an eel is quick.
+
+ARMADO.
+I do say thou art quick in answers. Thou heat’st my blood.
+
+MOTH.
+I am answered, sir.
+
+ARMADO.
+I love not to be crossed.
+
+MOTH.
+[_Aside_.] He speaks the mere contrary; crosses love not him.
+
+ARMADO.
+I have promised to study three years with the Duke.
+
+MOTH.
+You may do it in an hour, sir.
+
+ARMADO.
+Impossible.
+
+MOTH.
+How many is one thrice told?
+
+ARMADO.
+I am ill at reckoning. It fitteth the spirit of a tapster.
+
+MOTH.
+You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir.
+
+ARMADO.
+I confess both. They are both the varnish of a complete man.
+
+MOTH.
+Then I am sure you know how much the gross sum of deuce-ace amounts to.
+
+ARMADO.
+It doth amount to one more than two.
+
+MOTH.
+Which the base vulgar do call three.
+
+ARMADO.
+True.
+
+MOTH.
+Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here’s three studied ere
+ye’ll thrice wink. And how easy it is to put “years” to the word
+“three”, and study three years in two words, the dancing horse will
+tell you.
+
+ARMADO.
+A most fine figure!
+
+MOTH.
+[_Aside_.] To prove you a cipher.
+
+ARMADO.
+I will hereupon confess I am in love; and as it is base for a soldier
+to love, so am I in love with a base wench. If drawing my sword against
+the humour of affection would deliver me from the reprobate thought of
+it, I would take desire prisoner, and ransom him to any French courtier
+for a new-devised curtsy. I think scorn to sigh; methinks I should
+outswear Cupid. Comfort me, boy. What great men have been in love?
+
+MOTH.
+Hercules, master.
+
+ARMADO.
+Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy, name more; and, sweet my
+child, let them be men of good repute and carriage.
+
+MOTH.
+Samson, master. He was a man of good carriage, great carriage, for he
+carried the town gates on his back like a porter, and he was in love.
+
+ARMADO.
+O well-knit Samson, strong-jointed Samson! I do excel thee in my rapier
+as much as thou didst me in carrying gates. I am in love too. Who was
+Samson’s love, my dear Moth?
+
+MOTH.
+A woman, master.
+
+ARMADO.
+Of what complexion?
+
+MOTH.
+Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of the four.
+
+ARMADO.
+Tell me precisely of what complexion.
+
+MOTH.
+Of the sea-water green, sir.
+
+ARMADO.
+Is that one of the four complexions?
+
+MOTH.
+As I have read, sir; and the best of them too.
+
+ARMADO.
+Green indeed is the colour of lovers. But to have a love of that
+colour, methinks Samson had small reason for it. He surely affected her
+for her wit.
+
+MOTH.
+It was so, sir, for she had a green wit.
+
+ARMADO.
+My love is most immaculate white and red.
+
+MOTH.
+Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under such colours.
+
+ARMADO.
+Define, define, well-educated infant.
+
+MOTH.
+My father’s wit and my mother’s tongue assist me!
+
+ARMADO.
+Sweet invocation of a child, most pretty, and pathetical!
+
+MOTH.
+  If she be made of white and red,
+     Her faults will ne’er be known;
+  For blushing cheeks by faults are bred,
+     And fears by pale white shown.
+  Then if she fear, or be to blame,
+     By this you shall not know,
+  For still her cheeks possess the same
+     Which native she doth owe.
+A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of white and red.
+
+ARMADO.
+Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?
+
+MOTH.
+The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since, but I
+think now ’tis not to be found; or if it were, it would neither serve
+for the writing nor the tune.
+
+ARMADO.
+I will have that subject newly writ o’er, that I may example my
+digression by some mighty precedent. Boy, I do love that country girl
+that I took in the park with the rational hind Costard. She deserves
+well.
+
+MOTH.
+[_Aside_.] To be whipped: and yet a better love than my master.
+
+ARMADO.
+Sing, boy. My spirit grows heavy in love.
+
+MOTH.
+And that’s great marvel, loving a light wench.
+
+ARMADO.
+I say, sing.
+
+MOTH.
+Forbear till this company be past.
+
+Enter Costard the Clown, Dull the Constable and Jaquenetta a Wench.
+
+DULL.
+Sir, the Duke’s pleasure is that you keep Costard safe; and you must
+suffer him to take no delight, nor no penance, but he must fast three
+days a week. For this damsel, I must keep her at the park. She is
+allowed for the dey-woman. Fare you well.
+
+ARMADO.
+I do betray myself with blushing.—Maid.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+Man.
+
+ARMADO.
+I will visit thee at the lodge.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+That’s hereby.
+
+ARMADO.
+I know where it is situate.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+Lord, how wise you are!
+
+ARMADO.
+I will tell thee wonders.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+With that face?
+
+ARMADO.
+I love thee.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+So I heard you say.
+
+ARMADO.
+And so, farewell.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+Fair weather after you!
+
+DULL.
+Come, Jaquenetta, away.
+
+[_Exeunt Dull and Jaquenetta._]
+
+ARMADO.
+Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou be pardoned.
+
+COSTARD.
+Well, sir, I hope when I do it I shall do it on a full stomach.
+
+ARMADO.
+Thou shalt be heavily punished.
+
+COSTARD.
+I am more bound to you than your fellows, for they are but lightly
+rewarded.
+
+ARMADO.
+Take away this villain. Shut him up.
+
+MOTH.
+Come, you transgressing slave, away!
+
+COSTARD.
+Let me not be pent up, sir. I will fast being loose.
+
+MOTH.
+No, sir, that were fast and loose. Thou shalt to prison.
+
+COSTARD.
+Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation that I have seen,
+some shall see.
+
+MOTH.
+What shall some see?
+
+COSTARD.
+Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon. It is not for
+prisoners to be too silent in their words, and therefore I will say
+nothing. I thank God I have as little patience as another man, and
+therefore I can be quiet.
+
+[_Exeunt Moth and Costard._]
+
+ARMADO.
+I do affect the very ground, which is base, where her shoe, which is
+baser, guided by her foot, which is basest, doth tread. I shall be
+forsworn, which is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And how
+can that be true love which is falsely attempted? Love is a familiar;
+Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so
+tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced,
+and he had a very good wit. Cupid’s butt-shaft is too hard for
+Hercules’ club, and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard’s rapier.
+The first and second cause will not serve my turn; the _passado_ he
+respects not, the _duello_ he regards not. His disgrace is to be called
+boy, but his glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour; rust, rapier; be
+still, drum, for your manager is in love. Yea, he loveth. Assist me,
+some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet.
+Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. The King of Navarre’s park. A pavilion and tents at a distance
+
+
+Enter the Princess of France, with three attending Ladies: Rosaline,
+Maria, Katharine and three Lords: Boyet, and two others.
+
+BOYET.
+Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits.
+Consider who the King your father sends,
+To whom he sends, and what’s his embassy.
+Yourself, held precious in the world’s esteem,
+To parley with the sole inheritor
+Of all perfections that a man may owe,
+Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight
+Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen.
+Be now as prodigal of all dear grace
+As Nature was in making graces dear
+When she did starve the general world beside
+And prodigally gave them all to you.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
+Needs not the painted flourish of your praise.
+Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
+Not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues.
+I am less proud to hear you tell my worth
+Than you much willing to be counted wise
+In spending your wit in the praise of mine.
+But now to task the tasker: good Boyet,
+You are not ignorant, all-telling fame
+Doth noise abroad Navarre hath made a vow,
+Till painful study shall outwear three years,
+No woman may approach his silent court.
+Therefore to’s seemeth it a needful course,
+Before we enter his forbidden gates,
+To know his pleasure; and in that behalf,
+Bold of your worthiness, we single you
+As our best-moving fair solicitor.
+Tell him the daughter of the King of France,
+On serious business craving quick dispatch,
+Importunes personal conference with his Grace.
+Haste, signify so much, while we attend,
+Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.
+
+BOYET.
+Proud of employment, willingly I go.
+
+PRINCESS.
+All pride is willing pride, and yours is so.
+
+[_Exit Boyet._]
+
+Who are the votaries, my loving lords,
+That are vow-fellows with this virtuous Duke?
+
+LORD.
+Lord Longaville is one.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Know you the man?
+
+MARIA.
+I know him, madam. At a marriage feast
+Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir
+Of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized
+In Normandy, saw I this Longaville.
+A man of sovereign parts, he is esteemed,
+Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms.
+Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.
+The only soil of his fair virtue’s gloss,
+If virtue’s gloss will stain with any soil,
+Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will,
+Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills
+It should none spare that come within his power.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Some merry mocking lord, belike. Is’t so?
+
+MARIA.
+They say so most that most his humours know.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow.
+Who are the rest?
+
+KATHARINE.
+The young Dumaine, a well-accomplished youth,
+Of all that virtue love for virtue loved;
+Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill,
+For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,
+And shape to win grace though he had no wit.
+I saw him at the Duke Alençon’s once;
+And much too little of that good I saw
+Is my report to his great worthiness.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Another of these students at that time
+Was there with him, if I have heard a truth.
+Berowne they call him, but a merrier man,
+Within the limit of becoming mirth,
+I never spent an hour’s talk withal.
+His eye begets occasion for his wit,
+For every object that the one doth catch
+The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,
+Which his fair tongue, conceit’s expositor,
+Delivers in such apt and gracious words
+That aged ears play truant at his tales,
+And younger hearings are quite ravished,
+So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
+
+PRINCESS.
+God bless my ladies! Are they all in love,
+That every one her own hath garnished
+With such bedecking ornaments of praise?
+
+LORD.
+Here comes Boyet.
+
+Enter Boyet.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Now, what admittance, lord?
+
+BOYET.
+Navarre had notice of your fair approach,
+And he and his competitors in oath
+Were all addressed to meet you, gentle lady,
+Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learned:
+He rather means to lodge you in the field,
+Like one that comes here to besiege his court,
+Than seek a dispensation for his oath,
+To let you enter his unpeopled house.
+
+Enter King of Navarre, Longaville, Dumaine, Berowne and Attendants.
+
+Here comes Navarre.
+
+KING.
+Fair Princess, welcome to the court of Navarre.
+
+PRINCESS.
+“Fair” I give you back again, and “welcome” I have not yet. The roof of
+this court is too high to be yours, and welcome to the wide fields too
+base to be mine.
+
+KING.
+You shall be welcome, madam, to my court.
+
+PRINCESS.
+I will be welcome then. Conduct me thither.
+
+KING.
+Hear me, dear lady. I have sworn an oath.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Our Lady help my lord! He’ll be forsworn.
+
+KING.
+Not for the world, fair madam, by my will.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Why, will shall break it; will, and nothing else.
+
+KING.
+Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,
+Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
+I hear your Grace hath sworn out housekeeping.
+’Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
+And sin to break it.
+But pardon me, I am too sudden bold.
+To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
+Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
+And suddenly resolve me in my suit.
+
+[_She gives him a paper._]
+
+KING.
+Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.
+
+PRINCESS.
+You will the sooner that I were away,
+For you’ll prove perjured if you make me stay.
+
+[_The King reads the paper._]
+
+BEROWNE.
+[_To Rosaline_.] Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
+
+BEROWNE.
+I know you did.
+
+ROSALINE.
+How needless was it then
+To ask the question!
+
+BEROWNE.
+You must not be so quick.
+
+ROSALINE.
+’Tis long of you that spur me with such questions.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Your wit’s too hot, it speeds too fast, ’twill tire.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Not till it leave the rider in the mire.
+
+BEROWNE.
+What time o’ day?
+
+ROSALINE.
+The hour that fools should ask.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Now fair befall your mask.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Fair fall the face it covers.
+
+BEROWNE.
+And send you many lovers!
+
+ROSALINE.
+Amen, so you be none.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Nay, then will I be gone.
+
+KING.
+Madam, your father here doth intimate
+The payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
+Being but the one half of an entire sum
+Disbursed by my father in his wars.
+But say that he or we, as neither have,
+Received that sum, yet there remains unpaid
+A hundred thousand more, in surety of the which
+One part of Aquitaine is bound to us,
+Although not valued to the money’s worth.
+If then the King your father will restore
+But that one half which is unsatisfied,
+We will give up our right in Aquitaine,
+And hold fair friendship with his majesty.
+But that, it seems, he little purposeth;
+For here he doth demand to have repaid
+A hundred thousand crowns, and not demands,
+On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
+To have his title live in Aquitaine,
+Which we much rather had depart withal,
+And have the money by our father lent,
+Than Aquitaine, so gelded as it is.
+Dear Princess, were not his requests so far
+From reason’s yielding, your fair self should make
+A yielding ’gainst some reason in my breast,
+And go well satisfied to France again.
+
+PRINCESS.
+You do the King my father too much wrong,
+And wrong the reputation of your name,
+In so unseeming to confess receipt
+Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.
+
+KING.
+I do protest I never heard of it;
+And, if you prove it, I’ll repay it back
+Or yield up Aquitaine.
+
+PRINCESS.
+We arrest your word.
+Boyet, you can produce acquittances
+For such a sum from special officers
+Of Charles his father.
+
+KING.
+Satisfy me so.
+
+BOYET.
+So please your Grace, the packet is not come
+Where that and other specialties are bound.
+Tomorrow you shall have a sight of them.
+
+KING.
+It shall suffice me; at which interview
+All liberal reason I will yield unto.
+Meantime receive such welcome at my hand
+As honour, without breach of honour, may
+Make tender of to thy true worthiness.
+You may not come, fair Princess, in my gates,
+But here without you shall be so received
+As you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart,
+Though so denied fair harbour in my house.
+Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell.
+Tomorrow shall we visit you again.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Sweet health and fair desires consort your Grace.
+
+KING.
+Thy own wish wish I thee in every place.
+
+[_Exeunt the King, Longaville and Dumaine._]
+
+BEROWNE.
+Lady, I will commend you to mine own heart.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Pray you, do my commendations; I would be glad to see it.
+
+BEROWNE.
+I would you heard it groan.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Is the fool sick?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Sick at the heart.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Alack, let it blood.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Would that do it good?
+
+ROSALINE.
+My physic says “ay”.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Will you prick’t with your eye?
+
+ROSALINE.
+_Non point_, with my knife.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Now, God save thy life.
+
+ROSALINE.
+And yours from long living.
+
+BEROWNE.
+I cannot stay thanksgiving.
+
+[_He exits._]
+
+Enter Dumaine.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Sir, I pray you, a word. What lady is that same?
+
+BOYET.
+The heir of Alençon, Katharine her name.
+
+DUMAINE.
+A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well.
+
+[_He exits._]
+
+Enter Longaville.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+I beseech you a word. What is she in the white?
+
+BOYET.
+A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Perchance light in the light. I desire her name.
+
+BOYET.
+She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Pray you, sir, whose daughter?
+
+BOYET.
+Her mother’s, I have heard.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+God’s blessing on your beard!
+
+BOYET.
+Good sir, be not offended.
+She is an heir of Falconbridge.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Nay, my choler is ended.
+She is a most sweet lady.
+
+BOYET.
+Not unlike, sir; that may be.
+
+[_Exit Longaville._]
+
+Enter Berowne.
+
+BEROWNE.
+What’s her name in the cap?
+
+BOYET.
+Rosaline, by good hap.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Is she wedded or no?
+
+BOYET.
+To her will, sir, or so.
+
+BEROWNE.
+You are welcome, sir. Adieu.
+
+BOYET.
+Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.
+
+[_Exit Berowne._]
+
+MARIA.
+That last is Berowne, the merry madcap lord.
+Not a word with him but a jest.
+
+BOYET.
+And every jest but a word.
+
+PRINCESS.
+It was well done of you to take him at his word.
+
+BOYET.
+I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Two hot sheeps, marry!
+
+BOYET.
+And wherefore not ships?
+No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.
+
+KATHARINE.
+You sheep and I pasture. Shall that finish the jest?
+
+BOYET.
+So you grant pasture for me.
+
+[_He tries to kiss her._]
+
+KATHARINE.
+Not so, gentle beast.
+My lips are no common, though several they be.
+
+BOYET.
+Belonging to whom?
+
+KATHARINE.
+To my fortunes and me.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.
+This civil war of wits were much better used
+On Navarre and his bookmen, for here ’tis abused.
+
+BOYET.
+If my observation, which very seldom lies,
+By the heart’s still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,
+Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.
+
+PRINCESS.
+With what?
+
+BOYET.
+With that which we lovers entitle “affected”.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Your reason.
+
+BOYET.
+Why, all his behaviours did make their retire
+To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire.
+His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed,
+Proud with his form, in his eye pride expressed.
+His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,
+Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be;
+All senses to that sense did make their repair,
+To feel only looking on fairest of fair.
+Methought all his senses were locked in his eye,
+As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;
+Who, tend’ring their own worth from where they were glassed,
+Did point you to buy them, along as you passed.
+His face’s own margent did quote such amazes
+That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes.
+I’ll give you Aquitaine, and all that is his,
+An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Come, to our pavilion. Boyet is disposed.
+
+BOYET.
+But to speak that in words which his eye hath disclosed.
+I only have made a mouth of his eye
+By adding a tongue which I know will not lie.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Thou art an old love-monger, and speakest skilfully.
+
+MARIA.
+He is Cupid’s grandfather, and learns news of him.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Then was Venus like her mother; for her father is but grim.
+
+BOYET.
+Do you hear, my mad wenches?
+
+MARIA.
+No.
+
+BOYET.
+What, then, do you see?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Ay, our way to be gone.
+
+BOYET.
+You are too hard for me.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. The King of Navarre’s park
+
+
+Enter Armado the Braggart and Moth his Boy.
+
+ARMADO.
+Warble, child, make passionate my sense of hearing.
+
+MOTH.
+[_Singing_.]
+Concolinel.
+
+ARMADO.
+Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years, take this key, give enlargement to
+the swain, bring him festinately hither. I must employ him in a letter
+to my love.
+
+MOTH.
+Master, will you win your love with a French brawl?
+
+ARMADO.
+How meanest thou? Brawling in French?
+
+MOTH.
+No, my complete master; but to jig off a tune at the tongue’s end,
+canary to it with your feet, humour it with turning up your eyelids,
+sigh a note and sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you
+swallowed love with singing love, sometime through the nose, as if you
+snuffed up love by smelling love; with your hat penthouse-like o’er the
+shop of your eyes, with your arms crossed on your thin-belly doublet
+like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in your pocket like a man after
+the old painting; and keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and
+away. These are compliments, these are humours; these betray nice
+wenches that would be betrayed without these; and make them men of
+note—do you note me?—that most are affected to these.
+
+ARMADO.
+How hast thou purchased this experience?
+
+MOTH.
+By my penny of observation.
+
+ARMADO.
+But O—but O—
+
+MOTH.
+“The hobby-horse is forgot.”
+
+ARMADO.
+Call’st thou my love “hobby-horse”?
+
+MOTH.
+No, master. The hobby-horse is but a colt, and your love perhaps a
+hackney. But have you forgot your love?
+
+ARMADO.
+Almost I had.
+
+MOTH.
+Negligent student! Learn her by heart.
+
+ARMADO.
+By heart and in heart, boy.
+
+MOTH.
+And out of heart, master. All those three I will prove.
+
+ARMADO.
+What wilt thou prove?
+
+MOTH.
+A man, if I live; and this, “by, in, and without,” upon the instant:
+“by” heart you love her, because your heart cannot come by her; “in”
+heart you love her, because your heart is in love with her; and “out”
+of heart you love her, being out of heart that you cannot enjoy her.
+
+ARMADO.
+I am all these three.
+
+MOTH.
+And three times as much more, and yet nothing at all.
+
+ARMADO.
+Fetch hither the swain. He must carry me a letter.
+
+MOTH.
+A message well sympathized: a horse to be ambassador for an ass.
+
+ARMADO.
+Ha, ha, what sayest thou?
+
+MOTH.
+Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, for he is very
+slow-gaited. But I go.
+
+ARMADO.
+The way is but short. Away!
+
+MOTH.
+As swift as lead, sir.
+
+ARMADO.
+The meaning, pretty ingenious?
+Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?
+
+MOTH.
+_Minime_, honest master; or rather, master, no.
+
+ARMADO.
+I say lead is slow.
+
+MOTH.
+You are too swift, sir, to say so.
+Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?
+
+ARMADO.
+Sweet smoke of rhetoric!
+He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that’s he.
+I shoot thee at the swain.
+
+MOTH.
+Thump then, and I flee.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ARMADO.
+A most acute juvenal, voluble and free of grace!
+By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face.
+Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.
+My herald is returned.
+
+Enter Moth and Costard.
+
+MOTH.
+A wonder, master! Here’s a costard broken in a shin.
+
+ARMADO.
+Some enigma, some riddle. Come, thy _l’envoi_ begin.
+
+COSTARD.
+No egma, no riddle, no _l’envoi_, no salve in the mail, sir. O, sir,
+plantain, a plain plantain! No _l’envoi_, no _l’envoi_, no salve, sir,
+but a plantain.
+
+ARMADO.
+By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly thought, my spleen; the
+heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling. O, pardon me, my
+stars! Doth the inconsiderate take _salve_ for _l’envoi_, and the word
+_l’envoi_ for a _salve?_
+
+MOTH.
+Do the wise think them other? Is not _l’envoi_ a _salve?_
+
+ARMADO.
+No, page; it is an epilogue or discourse to make plain
+Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain.
+I will example it:
+    The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee
+    Were still at odds, being but three.
+There’s the moral. Now the _l’envoi_.
+
+MOTH.
+I will add the _l’envoi_. Say the moral again.
+
+ARMADO.
+    The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee
+    Were still at odds, being but three.
+
+MOTH.
+    Until the goose came out of door,
+    And stayed the odds by adding four.
+Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with my _l’envoi_.
+    The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee
+    Were still at odds, being but three.
+
+ARMADO.
+    Until the goose came out of door,
+    Staying the odds by adding four.
+
+MOTH.
+A good _l’envoi_, ending in the goose. Would you desire more?
+
+COSTARD.
+The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that’s flat.
+Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat.
+To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.
+Let me see: a fat _l’envoi_—ay, that’s a fat goose.
+
+ARMADO.
+Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?
+
+MOTH.
+By saying that a costard was broken in a shin.
+Then called you for the _l’envoi_.
+
+COSTARD.
+True, and I for a plantain. Thus came your argument in. Then the boy’s
+fat _l’envoi_, the goose that you bought; and he ended the market.
+
+ARMADO.
+But tell me, how was there a costard broken in a shin?
+
+MOTH.
+I will tell you sensibly.
+
+COSTARD.
+Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth. I will speak that _l’envoi_.
+    I, Costard, running out, that was safely within,
+    Fell over the threshold and broke my shin.
+
+ARMADO.
+We will talk no more of this matter.
+
+COSTARD.
+Till there be more matter in the shin.
+
+ARMADO.
+Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
+
+COSTARD.
+O, marry me to one Frances! I smell some _l’envoi_, some goose, in
+this.
+
+ARMADO.
+By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy
+person. Thou wert immured, restrained, captivated, bound.
+
+COSTARD.
+True, true; and now you will be my purgation, and let me loose.
+
+ARMADO.
+I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance, and, in lieu thereof,
+impose on thee nothing but this: [_Giving him a letter_.] bear this
+significant to the country maid Jaquenetta. [_Giving money_.] There is
+remuneration for the best ward of mine honour is rewarding my
+dependents. Moth, follow.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+MOTH.
+Like the sequel, I. Signior Costard, adieu.
+
+[_Exit Moth._]
+
+COSTARD.
+My sweet ounce of man’s flesh, my incony Jew!
+Now will I look to his remuneration. “Remuneration”! O, that’s the
+Latin word for three farthings. Three farthings—_remuneration_. “What’s
+the price of this inkle?” “One penny.” “No, I’ll give you a
+remuneration.” Why, it carries it! _Remuneration_. Why, it is a fairer
+name than French crown. I will never buy and sell out of this word.
+
+Enter Berowne.
+
+BEROWNE.
+My good knave Costard, exceedingly well met.
+
+COSTARD.
+Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man buy for a
+remuneration?
+
+BEROWNE.
+What is a remuneration?
+
+COSTARD.
+Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk.
+
+COSTARD.
+I thank your worship. God be wi’ you.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Stay, slave. I must employ thee.
+As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave,
+Do one thing for me that I shall entreat.
+
+COSTARD.
+When would you have it done, sir?
+
+BEROWNE.
+This afternoon.
+
+COSTARD.
+Well, I will do it, sir. Fare you well.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Thou knowest not what it is.
+
+COSTARD.
+I shall know, sir, when I have done it.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Why, villain, thou must know first.
+
+COSTARD.
+I will come to your worship tomorrow morning.
+
+BEROWNE.
+It must be done this afternoon. Hark, slave, it is but this:
+The Princess comes to hunt here in the park,
+And in her train there is a gentle lady;
+When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
+And Rosaline they call her. Ask for her
+And to her white hand see thou do commend
+This sealed-up counsel.
+
+[_Gives him money._]
+
+There’s thy guerdon. Go.
+
+COSTARD.
+Gardon, O sweet gardon! Better than remuneration, a ’levenpence
+farthing better. Most sweet gardon! I will do it, sir, in print.
+Gardon! Remuneration!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BEROWNE.
+And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love’s whip,
+A very beadle to a humorous sigh,
+A critic, nay, a night-watch constable,
+A domineering pedant o’er the boy,
+Than whom no mortal so magnificent!
+This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,
+This Signior Junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid,
+Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
+Th’ anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
+Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,
+Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,
+Sole imperator, and great general
+Of trotting paritors—O my little heart!
+And I to be a corporal of his field
+And wear his colours like a tumbler’s hoop!
+What? I love, I sue, I seek a wife?
+A woman, that is like a German clock,
+Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,
+And never going aright, being a watch,
+But being watched that it may still go right!
+Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all;
+And, among three, to love the worst of all,
+A whitely wanton with a velvet brow,
+With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes;
+Ay, and, by heaven, one that will do the deed
+Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard.
+And I to sigh for her, to watch for her,
+To pray for her! Go to, it is a plague
+That Cupid will impose for my neglect
+Of his almighty dreadful little might.
+Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan.
+Some men must love my lady, and some Joan.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. The King of Navarre’s park
+
+
+Enter the Princess, a Forester, Rosaline, Maria, Katharine, Boyet and
+other Lords.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Was that the King that spurred his horse so hard
+Against the steep uprising of the hill?
+
+BOYET.
+I know not, but I think it was not he.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Whoe’er he was, he showed a mounting mind.
+Well, lords, today we shall have our dispatch;
+On Saturday we will return to France.
+Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush
+That we must stand and play the murderer in?
+
+FORESTER.
+Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice,
+A stand where you may make “the fairest shoot”.
+
+PRINCESS.
+I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot,
+And thereupon thou speak’st the fairest shoot.
+
+FORESTER.
+Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so.
+
+PRINCESS.
+What, what? First praise me, and again say no?
+O short-lived pride! Not fair? Alack for woe!
+
+FORESTER.
+Yes, madam, fair.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Nay, never paint me now.
+Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow.
+Here, good my glass, take this for telling true:
+
+[_She gives him money._]
+
+Fair payment for foul words is more than due.
+
+FORESTER.
+Nothing but fair is that which you inherit.
+
+PRINCESS.
+See, see, my beauty will be saved by merit.
+O heresy in fair, fit for these days!
+A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
+But come, the bow. Now mercy goes to kill,
+And shooting well is then accounted ill.
+Thus will I save my credit in the shoot:
+Not wounding, pity would not let me do’t;
+If wounding, then it was to show my skill,
+That more for praise than purpose meant to kill.
+And out of question so it is sometimes,
+Glory grows guilty of detested crimes,
+When, for fame’s sake, for praise, an outward part,
+We bend to that the working of the heart;
+As I for praise alone now seek to spill
+The poor deer’s blood, that my heart means no ill.
+
+BOYET.
+Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty
+Only for praise’ sake, when they strive to be
+Lords o’er their lords?
+
+PRINCESS.
+Only for praise; and praise we may afford
+To any lady that subdues a lord.
+
+Enter Costard.
+
+BOYET.
+Here comes a member of the commonwealth.
+
+COSTARD.
+God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady?
+
+PRINCESS.
+Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads.
+
+COSTARD.
+Which is the greatest lady, the highest?
+
+PRINCESS.
+The thickest and the tallest.
+
+COSTARD.
+The thickest and the tallest. It is so, truth is truth.
+An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit,
+One o’ these maids’ girdles for your waist should be fit.
+Are not you the chief woman? You are the thickest here.
+
+PRINCESS.
+What’s your will, sir? What’s your will?
+
+COSTARD.
+I have a letter from Monsieur Berowne to one Lady Rosaline.
+
+PRINCESS.
+O, thy letter, thy letter! He’s a good friend of mine.
+Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve.
+Break up this capon.
+
+BOYET.
+I am bound to serve.
+This letter is mistook; it importeth none here.
+It is writ to Jaquenetta.
+
+PRINCESS.
+We will read it, I swear.
+Break the neck of the wax, and everyone give ear.
+
+BOYET.
+[_Reads_.] _By heaven, that thou art fair is most infallible; true that
+thou art beauteous; truth itself that thou art lovely. More fairer than
+fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have
+commiseration on thy heroical vassal. The magnanimous and most
+illustrate King Cophetua set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate
+beggar Zenelophon, and he it was that might rightly say,_ “Veni, vidi,
+vici,” _which to annothanize in the vulgar—O base and obscure
+vulgar!_—videlicet, _He came, see, and overcame. He came, one; see,
+two; overcame, three. Who came? The King. Why did he come? To see. Why
+did he see? To overcome. To whom came he? To the beggar. What saw he?
+The beggar. Who overcame he? The beggar. The conclusion is victory. On
+whose side? The King’s. The captive is enriched. On whose side? The
+beggar’s. The catastrophe is a nuptial. On whose side? The King’s? No,
+on both in one, or one in both. I am the King, for so stands the
+comparison; thou the beggar, for so witnesseth thy lowliness. Shall I
+command thy love? I may. Shall I enforce thy love? I could. Shall I
+entreat thy love? I will. What shalt thou exchange for rags? Robes. For
+tittles? Titles. For thyself? Me. Thus expecting thy reply, I profane
+my lips on thy foot, my eyes on thy picture, and my heart on thy every
+part.
+          Thine in the dearest design of industry,
+                    Don Adriano de Armado.
+
+Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar
+    ’Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey.
+Submissive fall his princely feet before,
+    And he from forage will incline to play.
+But if thou strive, poor soul, what are thou then?
+Food for his rage, repasture for his den._
+
+PRINCESS.
+What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?
+What vane? What weathercock? Did you ever hear better?
+
+BOYET.
+I am much deceived but I remember the style.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Else your memory is bad, going o’er it erewhile.
+
+BOYET.
+This Armado is a Spaniard that keeps here in court,
+A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport
+To the Prince and his book-mates.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Thou, fellow, a word.
+Who gave thee this letter?
+
+COSTARD.
+I told you: my lord.
+
+PRINCESS.
+To whom shouldst thou give it?
+
+COSTARD.
+From my lord to my lady.
+
+PRINCESS.
+From which lord to which lady?
+
+COSTARD.
+From my Lord Berowne, a good master of mine,
+To a lady of France that he called Rosaline.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away.
+Here, sweet, put up this: ’twill be thine another day.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Boyet, Rosaline, Maria and Costard._]
+
+BOYET.
+Who is the shooter? Who is the shooter?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Shall I teach you to know?
+
+BOYET.
+Ay, my continent of beauty.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Why, she that bears the bow.
+Finely put off!
+
+BOYET.
+My lady goes to kill horns, but if thou marry,
+Hang me by the neck if horns that year miscarry.
+Finely put on!
+
+ROSALINE.
+Well, then, I am the shooter.
+
+BOYET.
+And who is your deer?
+
+ROSALINE.
+If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near.
+Finely put on indeed!
+
+MARIA.
+You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes at the brow.
+
+BOYET.
+But she herself is hit lower. Have I hit her now?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Shall I come upon thee with an old saying, that was a man when King
+Pepin of France was a little boy, as touching the hit it?
+
+BOYET.
+So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a woman when Queen
+Guinevere of Britain was a little wench, as touching the hit it.
+
+ROSALINE.
+    Thou canst not hit it, hit it, hit it,
+    Thou canst not hit it, my good man.
+
+BOYET.
+    An I cannot, cannot, cannot,
+    An I cannot, another can.
+
+[_Exeunt Rosaline._]
+
+COSTARD.
+By my troth, most pleasant. How both did fit it!
+
+MARIA.
+A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it.
+
+BOYET.
+A mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!
+Let the mark have a prick in’t, to mete at, if it may be.
+
+MARIA.
+Wide o’ the bow hand! I’ faith, your hand is out.
+
+COSTARD.
+Indeed, a’ must shoot nearer, or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.
+
+BOYET.
+An if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.
+
+COSTARD.
+Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.
+
+MARIA.
+Come, come, you talk greasily, your lips grow foul.
+
+COSTARD.
+She’s too hard for you at pricks, sir. Challenge her to bowl.
+
+BOYET.
+I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.
+
+[_Exeunt Boyet and Maria._]
+
+COSTARD.
+By my soul, a swain, a most simple clown!
+Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!
+O’ my troth, most sweet jests, most incony vulgar wit,
+When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it were, so fit.
+Armado, o’ the one side, O, a most dainty man!
+To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!
+To see him kiss his hand and how most sweetly he will swear!
+And his page o’ t’other side, that handful of wit!
+Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit.
+
+[_Shout within._]
+
+Sola, sola!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The same
+
+Enter Dull, Holofernes, the Pedant and Nathaniel.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Very reverend sport, truly, and done in the testimony of a good
+conscience.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+The deer was, as you know, _sanguis_, in blood, ripe as the pomewater,
+who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of _caelo_, the sky, the
+welkin, the heaven, and anon falleth like a crab on the face of
+_terra_, the soil, the land, the earth.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly varied, like a
+scholar at the least. But, sir, I assure ye it was a buck of the first
+head.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Sir Nathaniel, _haud credo_.
+
+DULL.
+’Twas not a “auld grey doe”, ’twas a pricket.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Most barbarous intimation! Yet a kind of insinuation, as it were, _in
+via_, in way, of explication; _facere_, as it were, replication, or
+rather, _ostentare_, to show, as it were, his inclination, after his
+undressed, unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,
+unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to insert again my _haud
+credo_ for a deer.
+
+DULL.
+I said the deer was not a “auld grey doe”, ’twas a pricket.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Twice-sod simplicity, _bis coctus!_
+O, thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred of a book.
+He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.
+His intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible
+in the duller parts.
+And such barren plants are set before us that we thankful should be—
+Which we of taste and feeling are—for those parts that do fructify in
+us more than he.
+For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,
+So, were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school.
+But, _omne bene_, say I, being of an old father’s mind;
+Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
+
+DULL.
+You two are bookmen. Can you tell me by your wit
+What was a month old at Cain’s birth, that’s not five weeks old as yet?
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Dictynna, goodman Dull. Dictynna, goodman Dull.
+
+DULL.
+What is Dictynna?
+
+NATHANIEL.
+A title to Phoebe, to Luna, to the moon.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,
+And raught not to five weeks when he came to five-score.
+Th’ allusion holds in the exchange.
+
+DULL.
+’Tis true, indeed. The collusion holds in the exchange.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+God comfort thy capacity! I say, th’ allusion holds in the exchange.
+
+DULL.
+And I say the pollution holds in the exchange, for the moon is never
+but a month old; and I say beside that ’twas a pricket that the
+Princess killed.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the
+deer? And, to humour the ignorant, call I the deer the Princess killed
+a pricket.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+_Perge_, good Master Holofernes, _perge_, so it shall please you to
+abrogate scurrility.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+I will something affect the letter; for it argues facility.
+The preyful Princess pierced and pricked a pretty pleasing pricket;
+Some say a sore; but not a sore till now made sore with shooting.
+The dogs did yell, put “l” to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket;
+Or pricket sore, or else sorel, the people fall a-hooting.
+If sore be sore, then “L” to “sore” makes fifty sores o’ sorel.
+Of one sore I an hundred make, by adding but one more “L”.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+A rare talent!
+
+DULL.
+[_Aside_.] If a talent be a claw, look how he claws him with a talent.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant
+spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions,
+motions, revolutions. These are begot in the ventricle of memory,
+nourished in the womb of _pia mater_, and delivered upon the mellowing
+of occasion. But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I
+am thankful for it.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Sir, I praise the Lord for you, and so may my parishioners, for their
+sons are well tutored by you, and their daughters profit very greatly
+under you. You are a good member of the commonwealth.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Mehercle!_ If their sons be ingenious, they shall want no instruction;
+if their daughters be capable, I will put it to them. But, _vir sapit
+qui pauca loquitur_. A soul feminine saluteth us.
+
+Enter Jaquenetta and Costard.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+God give you good morrow, Master Person.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Master Person, _quasi_ pierce one. And if one should be pierced, which
+is the one?
+
+COSTARD.
+Marry, Master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Of piercing a hogshead! A good lustre or conceit in a turf of earth;
+fire enough for a flint, pearl enough for a swine. ’Tis pretty; it is
+well.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+Good Master Parson, be so good as read me this letter. It was given me
+by Costard, and sent me from Don Armado. I beseech you read it.
+
+[_Giving a letter to Nathaniel._]
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Fauste precor, gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra Ruminat_—
+and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan, I may speak of thee as the
+traveller doth of Venice:
+    _Venetia, Venetia,
+    Chi non ti vede, non ti pretia._
+Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! Who understandeth thee not, loves thee not.
+[_He sings_.]
+    Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa.
+Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? Or rather as Horace says in
+his—What, my soul, verses?
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Ay, sir, and very learned.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse,
+    _Lege, domine_.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+[_Reads_.]
+_If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?
+    Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vowed.
+Though to myself forsworn, to thee I’ll faithful prove.
+    Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers bowed.
+Study his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes,
+    Where all those pleasures live that art would comprehend.
+If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice.
+    Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,
+All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;
+    Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire.
+Thy eye Jove’s lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,
+    Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.
+Celestial as thou art, O, pardon love this wrong,
+That sings heaven’s praise with such an earthly tongue._
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+You find not the apostrophus, and so miss the accent. Let me supervise
+the canzonet. [_He takes the letter_.] Here are only numbers ratified,
+but, for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, _caret_.
+Ovidius Naso was the man. And why indeed “Naso,” but for smelling out
+the odoriferous flowers of fancy, the jerks of invention? _Imitari_ is
+nothing: so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper, the tired
+horse his rider. But, damosella virgin, was this directed to you?
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+Ay, sir, from one Monsieur Berowne, one of the strange queen’s lords.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+I will overglance the superscript: _To the snow-white hand of the most
+beauteous Lady Rosaline._ I will look again on the intellect of the
+letter, for the nomination of the party writing to the person written
+unto: _Your Ladyship’s in all desired employment, Berowne._ Sir
+Nathaniel, this Berowne is one of the votaries with the King, and here
+he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger queen’s, which
+accidentally, or by the way of progression, hath miscarried. Trip and
+go, my sweet, deliver this paper into the royal hand of the King. It
+may concern much. Stay not thy compliment. I forgive thy duty. Adieu.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life.
+
+COSTARD.
+Have with thee, my girl.
+
+[_Exeunt Costard and Jaquenetta._]
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Sir, you have done this in the fear of God, very religiously; and, as a
+certain Father saith—
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Sir, tell not me of the Father, I do fear colourable colours. But to
+return to the verses: did they please you, Sir Nathaniel?
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Marvellous well for the pen.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+I do dine today at the father’s of a certain pupil of mine, where if,
+before repast, it shall please you to gratify the table with a grace, I
+will, on my privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid child or
+pupil, undertake your _ben venuto;_ where I will prove those verses to
+be very unlearned, neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention. I
+beseech your society.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+And thank you too; for society, saith the text, is the happiness of
+life.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+And certes, the text most infallibly concludes it. [_To Dull_.] Sir, I
+do invite you too. You shall not say me nay. _Pauca verba_. Away! The
+gentles are at their game, and we will to our recreation.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same
+
+Enter Berowne with a paper in his hand, alone.
+
+BEROWNE.
+The King, he is hunting the deer; I am coursing myself. They have
+pitched a toil; I am toiling in a pitch, pitch that defiles. Defile! A
+foul word! Well, set thee down, sorrow, for so they say the fool said,
+and so say I, and I the fool. Well proved, wit! By the Lord, this love
+is as mad as Ajax. It kills sheep, it kills me, I a sheep. Well proved
+again, o’ my side! I will not love; if I do, hang me! I’ faith, I will
+not. O, but her eye! By this light, but for her eye, I would not love
+her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing in the world but lie,
+and lie in my throat. By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to
+rhyme, and to be melancholy. And here is part of my rhyme, and here my
+melancholy. Well, she hath one o’ my sonnets already. The clown bore
+it, the fool sent it, and the lady hath it. Sweet clown, sweeter fool,
+sweetest lady! By the world, I would not care a pin if the other three
+were in. Here comes one with a paper. God give him grace to groan!
+
+[_He stands aside._]
+
+Enter the King with a paper.
+
+KING.
+Ay me!
+
+BEROWNE.
+[_Aside_.] Shot, by heaven! Proceed, sweet Cupid, thou hast thumped him
+with thy birdbolt under the left pap. In faith, secrets!
+
+KING.
+[_Reads_.] [_So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not
+    To those fresh morning drops upon the rose,
+As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote
+    The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows.
+Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright
+    Through the transparent bosom of the deep
+As doth thy face, through tears of mine give light.
+    Thou shin’st in every tear that I do weep.
+No drop but as a coach doth carry thee;
+    So ridest thou triumphing in my woe.
+Do but behold the tears that swell in me,
+    And they thy glory through my grief will show.
+But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep
+My tears for glasses, and still make me weep.
+O queen of queens, how far dost thou excel
+No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell._
+How shall she know my griefs? I’ll drop the paper.
+Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here?
+
+[_Steps aside._]
+
+What, Longaville, and reading! Listen, ear.
+
+Enter Longaville with a paper.
+
+BEROWNE.
+[_Aside_.] Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear!
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Ay me! I am forsworn.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers.
+
+KING.
+In love, I hope. Sweet fellowship in shame.
+
+BEROWNE.
+One drunkard loves another of the name.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Am I the first that have been perjured so?
+
+BEROWNE.
+I could put thee in comfort: not by two that I know.
+Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,
+The shape of love’s Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move.
+O sweet Maria, empress of my love,
+These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.
+
+BEROWNE.
+O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid’s hose.
+Disfigure not his shop.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+This same shall go.
+
+[_He reads the sonnet._]
+
+_Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
+    ’Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,
+Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
+    Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
+A woman I forswore, but I will prove,
+    Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee.
+My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;
+    Thy grace being gained, cures all disgrace in me.
+Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is.
+    Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,
+Exhal’st this vapour-vow; in thee it is.
+    If broken then, it is no fault of mine;
+If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
+To lose an oath to win a paradise?_
+
+BEROWNE.
+This is the liver vein, which makes flesh a deity,
+A green goose a goddess. Pure, pure idolatry.
+God amend us, God amend! We are much out o’ th’ way.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+By whom shall I send this?—Company! Stay.
+
+[_He steps aside._]
+
+Enter Dumaine with a paper.
+
+BEROWNE.
+All hid, all hid, an old infant play.
+Like a demigod here sit I in the sky,
+And wretched fools’ secrets heedfully o’er-eye.
+More sacks to the mill. O heavens, I have my wish.
+Dumaine transformed! Four woodcocks in a dish!
+
+DUMAINE.
+O most divine Kate!
+
+BEROWNE.
+O most profane coxcomb!
+
+DUMAINE.
+By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye!
+
+BEROWNE.
+By earth, she is but corporal. There you lie.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Her amber hairs for foul hath amber quoted.
+
+BEROWNE.
+An amber-coloured raven was well noted.
+
+DUMAINE.
+As upright as the cedar.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Stoop, I say.
+Her shoulder is with child.
+
+DUMAINE.
+As fair as day.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Ay, as some days, but then no sun must shine.
+
+DUMAINE.
+O, that I had my wish!
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+And I had mine!
+
+KING.
+And I mine too, good Lord!
+
+BEROWNE.
+Amen, so I had mine. Is not that a good word?
+
+DUMAINE.
+I would forget her; but a fever she
+Reigns in my blood, and will remembered be.
+
+BEROWNE.
+A fever in your blood? Why, then incision
+Would let her out in saucers. Sweet misprision!
+
+DUMAINE.
+Once more I’ll read the ode that I have writ.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Once more I’ll mark how love can vary wit.
+
+DUMAINE.
+[_Dumaine reads his sonnet_.]
+    _On a day—alack the day!—
+    Love, whose month is ever May,
+    Spied a blossom passing fair
+    Playing in the wanton air.
+    Through the velvet leaves the wind,
+    All unseen, can passage find;
+    That the lover, sick to death,
+    Wished himself the heaven’s breath.
+    “Air,” quoth he, “thy cheeks may blow;
+    Air, would I might triumph so!”
+    But, alack, my hand is sworn
+    Ne’er to pluck thee from thy thorn.
+    Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,
+    Youth so apt to pluck a sweet.
+    Do not call it sin in me,
+    That I am forsworn for thee;
+    Thou for whom Jove would swear
+    Juno but an Ethiope were,
+    And deny himself for Jove,
+    Turning mortal for thy love._
+This will I send, and something else more plain,
+That shall express my true love’s fasting pain.
+O, would the King, Berowne and Longaville
+Were lovers too! Ill, to example ill,
+Would from my forehead wipe a perjured note,
+For none offend where all alike do dote.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+[_Comes forward_.] Dumaine, thy love is far from charity,
+That in love’s grief desir’st society.
+You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,
+To be o’erheard and taken napping so.
+
+KING.
+[_Comes forward_.] Come, sir, you blush. As his, your case is such.
+You chide at him, offending twice as much.
+You do not love Maria? Longaville
+Did never sonnet for her sake compile,
+Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart
+His loving bosom to keep down his heart.
+I have been closely shrouded in this bush,
+And marked you both, and for you both did blush.
+I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion,
+Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion.
+“Ay, me!” says one. “O Jove!” the other cries.
+One, her hairs were gold; crystal the other’s eyes.
+[_To Longaville_.] You would for paradise break faith and troth;
+[_To Dumaine_.] And Jove, for your love would infringe an oath.
+What will Berowne say when that he shall hear
+Faith infringed which such zeal did swear?
+How will he scorn, how will he spend his wit!
+How will he triumph, leap, and laugh at it!
+For all the wealth that ever I did see,
+I would not have him know so much by me.
+
+BEROWNE.
+[_Comes forward_.]
+Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.
+Ah, good my liege, I pray thee pardon me.
+Good heart, what grace hast thou thus to reprove
+These worms for loving, that art most in love?
+Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears
+There is no certain princess that appears.
+You’ll not be perjured, ’tis a hateful thing:
+Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting!
+But are you not ashamed? Nay, are you not,
+All three of you, to be thus much o’ershot?
+You found his mote, the King your mote did see;
+But I a beam do find in each of three.
+O, what a scene of foolery have I seen,
+Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow, and of teen!
+O me, with what strict patience have I sat,
+To see a king transformed to a gnat!
+To see great Hercules whipping a gig,
+And profound Solomon to tune a jig,
+And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys,
+And critic Timon laugh at idle toys.
+Where lies thy grief, O, tell me, good Dumaine?
+And, gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain?
+And where my liege’s? All about the breast?
+A caudle, ho!
+
+KING.
+Too bitter is thy jest.
+Are we betrayed thus to thy over-view?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Not you to me, but I betrayed by you.
+I that am honest, I that hold it sin
+To break the vow I am engaged in.
+I am betrayed by keeping company
+With men like you, men of inconstancy.
+When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme?
+Or groan for Joan? Or spend a minute’s time
+In pruning me? When shall you hear that I
+Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye,
+A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist,
+A leg, a limb—
+
+KING.
+Soft! Whither away so fast?
+A true man, or a thief, that gallops so?
+
+BEROWNE.
+I post from love. Good lover, let me go.
+
+Enter Jaquenetta, with a letter, and Costard.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+God bless the King!
+
+KING.
+What present hast thou there?
+
+COSTARD.
+Some certain treason.
+
+KING.
+What makes treason here?
+
+COSTARD.
+Nay, it makes nothing, sir.
+
+KING.
+If it mar nothing neither,
+The treason and you go in peace away together.
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+I beseech your Grace, let this letter be read.
+Our person misdoubts it; ’twas treason, he said.
+
+KING.
+Berowne, read it over.
+
+[_Berowne reads the letter._]
+
+Where hadst thou it?
+
+JAQUENETTA.
+Of Costard.
+
+KING.
+Where hadst thou it?
+
+COSTARD.
+Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio.
+
+[_Berowne tears the letter._]
+
+KING.
+How now, what is in you? Why dost thou tear it?
+
+BEROWNE.
+A toy, my liege, a toy. Your Grace needs not fear it.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+It did move him to passion, and therefore let’s hear it.
+
+DUMAINE.
+[_Picking up the pieces_.]
+It is Berowne’s writing, and here is his name.
+
+BEROWNE.
+[_To Costard_.] Ah, you whoreson loggerhead, you were born to do me
+shame.
+Guilty, my lord, guilty. I confess, I confess.
+
+KING.
+What?
+
+BEROWNE.
+That you three fools lacked me fool to make up the mess.
+He, he, and you—and you, my liege—and I
+Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die.
+O, dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Now the number is even.
+
+BEROWNE.
+True, true, we are four.
+Will these turtles be gone?
+
+KING.
+Hence, sirs, away!
+
+COSTARD.
+Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.
+
+[_Exeunt Costard and Jaquenetta._]
+
+BEROWNE.
+Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace!
+    As true we are as flesh and blood can be.
+The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face;
+    Young blood doth not obey an old decree.
+We cannot cross the cause why we were born;
+Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn.
+
+KING.
+What, did these rent lines show some love of thine?
+
+BEROWNE.
+“Did they?” quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline
+That, like a rude and savage man of Ind,
+At the first op’ning of the gorgeous east,
+Bows not his vassal head and, strucken blind,
+Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?
+What peremptory eagle-sighted eye
+Dares look upon the heaven of her brow
+That is not blinded by her majesty?
+
+KING.
+What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now?
+My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon;
+She, an attending star, scarce seen a light.
+
+BEROWNE.
+My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Berowne.
+O, but for my love, day would turn to night!
+Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
+Do meet as at a fair in her fair cheek,
+Where several worthies make one dignity,
+Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
+Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues—
+Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not.
+To things of sale a seller’s praise belongs.
+She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot.
+A withered hermit, five-score winters worn,
+Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye.
+Beauty doth varnish age, as if new born,
+And gives the crutch the cradle’s infancy.
+O, ’tis the sun that maketh all things shine!
+
+KING.
+By heaven, thy love is black as ebony.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Is ebony like her? O word divine!
+A wife of such wood were felicity.
+O, who can give an oath? Where is a book?
+That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack
+If that she learn not of her eye to look.
+No face is fair that is not full so black.
+
+KING.
+O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,
+The hue of dungeons and the school of night;
+And beauty’s crest becomes the heavens well.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
+O, if in black my lady’s brows be decked,
+It mourns that painting and usurping hair
+Should ravish doters with a false aspect;
+And therefore is she born to make black fair.
+Her favour turns the fashion of the days,
+For native blood is counted painting now;
+And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise,
+Paints itself black, to imitate her brow.
+
+DUMAINE.
+To look like her are chimney-sweepers black.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+And since her time are colliers counted bright.
+
+KING.
+And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Your mistresses dare never come in rain,
+For fear their colours should be washed away.
+
+KING.
+’Twere good yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain,
+I’ll find a fairer face not washed today.
+
+BEROWNE.
+I’ll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here.
+
+KING.
+No devil will fright thee then so much as she.
+
+DUMAINE.
+I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+[_Showing his shoe_.]
+Look, here’s thy love, my foot and her face see.
+
+BEROWNE.
+O, if the streets were paved with thine eyes,
+Her feet were much too dainty for such tread.
+
+DUMAINE.
+O vile! Then, as she goes, what upward lies
+The street should see as she walked over head.
+
+KING.
+But what of this? Are we not all in love?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Nothing so sure, and thereby all forsworn.
+
+KING.
+Then leave this chat, and, good Berowne, now prove
+Our loving lawful, and our faith not torn.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Ay, marry, there; some flattery for this evil.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+O, some authority how to proceed.
+Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Some salve for perjury.
+
+BEROWNE.
+O, ’tis more than need.
+Have at you, then, affection’s men-at-arms.
+Consider what you first did swear unto:
+To fast, to study, and to see no woman—
+Flat treason ’gainst the kingly state of youth.
+Say, can you fast? Your stomachs are too young,
+And abstinence engenders maladies.
+O, we have made a vow to study, lords,
+And in that vow we have forsworn our books;
+For when would you, my liege, or you, or you,
+In leaden contemplation have found out
+Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
+Of beauty’s tutors have enriched you with?
+Other slow arts entirely keep the brain,
+And therefore, finding barren practisers,
+Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil;
+But love, first learned in a lady’s eyes,
+Lives not alone immured in the brain,
+But with the motion of all elements
+Courses as swift as thought in every power,
+And gives to every power a double power,
+Above their functions and their offices.
+It adds a precious seeing to the eye.
+A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
+A lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound,
+When the suspicious head of theft is stopped.
+Love’s feeling is more soft and sensible
+Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.
+Love’s tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste.
+For valour, is not Love a Hercules,
+Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?
+Subtle as Sphinx, as sweet and musical
+As bright Apollo’s lute, strung with his hair.
+And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
+Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.
+Never durst poet touch a pen to write
+Until his ink were tempered with Love’s sighs.
+O, then his lines would ravish savage ears
+And plant in tyrants mild humility.
+From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive.
+They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
+They are the books, the arts, the academes,
+That show, contain, and nourish, all the world;
+Else none at all in aught proves excellent.
+Then fools you were these women to forswear,
+Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.
+For wisdom’s sake, a word that all men love,
+Or for love’s sake, a word that loves all men,
+Or for men’s sake, the authors of these women,
+Or women’s sake, by whom we men are men,
+Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
+Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
+It is religion to be thus forsworn,
+For charity itself fulfils the law,
+And who can sever love from charity?
+
+KING.
+Saint Cupid, then, and, soldiers, to the field!
+
+BEROWNE.
+Advance your standards, and upon them, lords!
+Pell-mell, down with them! But be first advised
+In conflict that you get the sun of them.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Now to plain dealing. Lay these glozes by.
+Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?
+
+KING.
+And win them too. Therefore let us devise
+Some entertainment for them in their tents.
+
+BEROWNE.
+First, from the park let us conduct them thither.
+Then homeward every man attach the hand
+Of his fair mistress. In the afternoon
+We will with some strange pastime solace them,
+Such as the shortness of the time can shape;
+For revels, dances, masques, and merry hours
+Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.
+
+KING.
+Away, away! No time shall be omitted
+That will betime and may by us be fitted.
+
+BEROWNE.
+_Allons! allons!_ Sowed cockle reaped no corn,
+And justice always whirls in equal measure.
+Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn;
+If so, our copper buys no better treasure.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. The King of Navarre’s park
+
+
+Enter Holofernes, Sir Nathaniel and Dull.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Satis quod sufficit._
+
+NATHANIEL.
+I praise God for you, sir. Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and
+sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection,
+audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange
+without heresy. I did converse this _quondam_ day with a companion of
+the King’s, who is intituled, nominated, or called, Don Adriano de
+Armado.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Novi hominem tanquam te._ His humour is lofty, his discourse
+peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical
+and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too
+picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate,
+as I may call it.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+A most singular and choice epithet.
+
+[_Draws out his table-book._]
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
+argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and
+point-devise companions, such rackers of orthography, as to speak
+“dout” _sine_ “b”, when he should say “doubt”, “det” when he should
+pronounce “debt”—_d, e, b, t_, not _d, e, t_. He clepeth a calf “cauf”,
+half “hauf”; neighbour _vocatur_ “nebour”, neigh abbreviated “ne”. This
+is abhominable, which he would call “abominable”. It insinuateth me of
+insanie. _Ne intelligis, domine?_ To make frantic, lunatic.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+_Laus Deo, bone intelligo._
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Bone? Bone_ for _bene?_ Priscian a little scratched; ’twill serve.
+
+Enter Armado, Moth and Costard.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+_Videsne quis venit?_
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Video, et gaudeo._
+
+ARMADO.
+_Chirrah!_
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Quare_ “chirrah”, not “sirrah”?
+
+ARMADO.
+Men of peace, well encountered.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Most military sir, salutation.
+
+MOTH.
+[_Aside to Costard_.] They have been at a great feast of languages and
+stolen the scraps.
+
+COSTARD.
+O, they have lived long on the almsbasket of words. I marvel thy master
+hath not eaten thee for a word, for thou art not so long by the head as
+_honorificabilitudinitatibus_. Thou art easier swallowed than a
+flap-dragon.
+
+MOTH.
+Peace! The peal begins.
+
+ARMADO.
+[_To Holofernes_.] Monsieur, are you not lettered?
+
+MOTH.
+Yes, yes, he teaches boys the hornbook. What is _a, b_, spelt backward
+with the horn on his head?
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Ba, pueritia_, with a horn added.
+
+MOTH.
+_Ba_, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Quis, quis_, thou consonant?
+
+MOTH.
+The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or the fifth, if I.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+I will repeat them: _a, e, i_—
+
+MOTH.
+The sheep. The other two concludes it: _o, u_.
+
+ARMADO.
+Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet touch, a quick
+venue of wit! Snip, snap, quick and home! It rejoiceth my intellect.
+True wit!
+
+MOTH.
+Offered by a child to an old man—which is wit-old.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+What is the figure? What is the figure?
+
+MOTH.
+Horns.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Thou disputes like an infant. Go whip thy gig.
+
+MOTH.
+Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about your infamy _unum
+cita_. A gig of a cuckold’s horn.
+
+COSTARD.
+An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy
+gingerbread. Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master,
+thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O, an the
+heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my bastard, what a joyful
+father wouldst thou make me! Go to, thou hast it _ad dunghill_, at the
+fingers’ ends, as they say.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+O, I smell false Latin! _Dunghill_ for _unguem_.
+
+ARMADO.
+Arts-man, preambulate. We will be singuled from the barbarous. Do you
+not educate youth at the charge-house on the top of the mountain?
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Or _mons_, the hill.
+
+ARMADO.
+At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+I do, _sans question_.
+
+ARMADO.
+Sir, it is the King’s most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate
+the Princess at her pavilion in the posteriors of this day, which the
+rude multitude call the afternoon.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is liable, congruent, and
+measurable for the afternoon. The word is well culled, chose, sweet,
+and apt, I do assure you, sir, I do assure.
+
+ARMADO.
+Sir, the King is a noble gentleman, and my familiar, I do assure ye,
+very good friend. For what is inward between us, let it pass. I do
+beseech thee, remember thy courtesy; I beseech thee, apparel thy head.
+And among other importunate and most serious designs, and of great
+import indeed, too—but let that pass. For I must tell thee it will
+please his Grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder
+and with his royal finger thus dally with my excrement, with my
+mustachio. But, sweet heart, let that pass. By the world, I recount no
+fable! Some certain special honours it pleaseth his greatness to impart
+to Armado, a soldier, a man of travel, that hath seen the world. But
+let that pass. The very all of all is—but, sweet heart, I do implore
+secrecy—that the King would have me present the Princess, sweet chuck,
+with some delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or
+firework. Now, understanding that the curate and your sweet self are
+good at such eruptions and sudden breaking-out of mirth, as it were, I
+have acquainted you withal, to the end to crave your assistance.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies. Sir Nathaniel, as
+concerning some entertainment of time, some show in the posterior of
+this day, to be rendered by our assistance, the King’s command, and
+this most gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, before the
+Princess, I say, none so fit as to present the Nine Worthies.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Where will you find men worthy enough to present them?
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Joshua, yourself; myself; and this gallant gentleman, Judas Maccabaeus.
+This swain, because of his great limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the
+Great; the page, Hercules.
+
+ARMADO.
+Pardon, sir; error. He is not quantity enough for that Worthy’s thumb;
+he is not so big as the end of his club.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Shall I have audience? He shall present Hercules in minority. His enter
+and exit shall be strangling a snake; and I will have an apology for
+that purpose.
+
+MOTH.
+An excellent device! So, if any of the audience hiss, you may cry “Well
+done, Hercules, now thou crushest the snake!” That is the way to make
+an offence gracious, though few have the grace to do it.
+
+ARMADO.
+For the rest of the Worthies?
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+I will play three myself.
+
+MOTH.
+Thrice-worthy gentleman!
+
+ARMADO.
+Shall I tell you a thing?
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+We attend.
+
+ARMADO.
+We will have, if this fadge not, an antic. I beseech you, follow.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Via_, goodman Dull! Thou has spoken no word all this while.
+
+DULL.
+Nor understood none neither, sir.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Allons!_ we will employ thee.
+
+DULL.
+I’ll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play on the tabor to the
+Worthies, and let them dance the hay.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. Before the Princess’s pavilion
+
+Enter the Princess, Rosaline, Katharine and Maria.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,
+If fairings come thus plentifully in.
+A lady walled about with diamonds!
+Look you what I have from the loving King.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Madam, came nothing else along with that?
+
+PRINCESS.
+Nothing but this? Yes, as much love in rhyme
+As would be crammed up in a sheet of paper
+Writ o’ both sides the leaf, margent and all,
+That he was fain to seal on Cupid’s name.
+
+ROSALINE.
+That was the way to make his godhead wax,
+For he hath been five thousand years a boy.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too.
+
+ROSALINE.
+You’ll ne’er be friends with him. He killed your sister.
+
+KATHARINE.
+He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy;
+And so she died. Had she been light, like you,
+Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
+She might ha’ been a grandam ere she died.
+And so may you, for a light heart lives long.
+
+ROSALINE.
+What’s your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
+
+KATHARINE.
+A light condition in a beauty dark.
+
+ROSALINE.
+We need more light to find your meaning out.
+
+KATHARINE.
+You’ll mar the light by taking it in snuff;
+Therefore I’ll darkly end the argument.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Look what you do, you do it still i’ th’ dark.
+
+KATHARINE.
+So do not you, for you are a light wench.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Indeed, I weigh not you, and therefore light.
+
+KATHARINE.
+You weigh me not? O, that’s you care not for me.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Great reason, for past cure is still past care.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Well bandied both; a set of wit well played.
+But, Rosaline, you have a favour too.
+Who sent it? And what is it?
+
+ROSALINE.
+I would you knew.
+An if my face were but as fair as yours,
+My favour were as great. Be witness this.
+Nay, I have verses too, I thank Berowne;
+The numbers true, and, were the numbering too,
+I were the fairest goddess on the ground.
+I am compared to twenty thousand fairs.
+O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Anything like?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Much in the letters, nothing in the praise.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Beauteous as ink: a good conclusion.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Fair as a text B in a copy-book.
+
+ROSALINE.
+’Ware pencils, how! Let me not die your debtor,
+My red dominical, my golden letter.
+O, that your face were not so full of O’s!
+
+PRINCESS.
+A pox of that jest! And beshrew all shrews.
+But, Katharine, what was sent to you from fair Dumaine?
+
+KATHARINE.
+Madam, this glove.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Did he not send you twain?
+
+KATHARINE.
+Yes, madam, and moreover,
+Some thousand verses of a faithful lover.
+A huge translation of hypocrisy,
+Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.
+
+MARIA.
+This, and these pearls, to me sent Longaville.
+The letter is too long by half a mile.
+
+PRINCESS.
+I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart
+The chain were longer and the letter short?
+
+MARIA.
+Ay, or I would these hands might never part.
+
+PRINCESS.
+We are wise girls to mock our lovers so.
+
+ROSALINE.
+They are worse fools to purchase mocking so.
+That same Berowne I’ll torture ere I go.
+O that I knew he were but in by th’ week!
+How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek,
+And wait the season, and observe the times,
+And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes,
+And shape his service wholly to my hests,
+And make him proud to make me proud that jests!
+So pair-taunt-like would I o’ersway his state,
+That he should be my fool, and I his fate.
+
+PRINCESS.
+None are so surely caught, when they are catched,
+As wit turned fool. Folly, in wisdom hatched,
+Hath wisdom’s warrant and the help of school
+And wit’s own grace to grace a learned fool.
+
+ROSALINE.
+The blood of youth burns not with such excess
+As gravity’s revolt to wantonness.
+
+MARIA.
+Folly in fools bears not so strong a note
+As fool’ry in the wise when wit doth dote,
+Since all the power thereof it doth apply
+To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.
+
+Enter Boyet.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face.
+
+BOYET.
+O, I am stabbed with laughter! Where’s her Grace?
+
+PRINCESS.
+Thy news, Boyet?
+
+BOYET.
+Prepare, madam, prepare!
+Arm, wenches, arm! Encounters mounted are
+Against your peace. Love doth approach disguised,
+Armed in arguments. You’ll be surprised.
+Muster your wits, stand in your own defence,
+Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they
+That charge their breath against us? Say, scout, say.
+
+BOYET.
+Under the cool shade of a sycamore
+I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour,
+When, lo, to interrupt my purposed rest,
+Toward that shade I might behold addressed
+The King and his companions. Warily
+I stole into a neighbour thicket by,
+And overheard what you shall overhear:
+That, by and by, disguised they will be here.
+Their herald is a pretty knavish page
+That well by heart hath conned his embassage.
+Action and accent did they teach him there:
+“Thus must thou speak,” and “thus thy body bear.”
+And ever and anon they made a doubt
+Presence majestical would put him out;
+“For,” quoth the King, “an angel shalt thou see;
+Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously.”
+The boy replied “An angel is not evil;
+I should have feared her had she been a devil.”
+With that all laughed and clapped him on the shoulder,
+Making the bold wag by their praises bolder.
+One rubbed his elbow thus, and fleered, and swore
+A better speech was never spoke before.
+Another with his finger and his thumb
+Cried “_Via_, we will do ’t, come what will come.”
+The third he capered, and cried “All goes well!”
+The fourth turned on the toe, and down he fell.
+With that they all did tumble on the ground,
+With such a zealous laughter, so profound,
+That in this spleen ridiculous appears,
+To check their folly, passion’s solemn tears.
+
+PRINCESS.
+But what, but what, come they to visit us?
+
+BOYET.
+They do, they do, and are apparelled thus,
+Like Muscovites, or Russians, as I guess.
+Their purpose is to parley, court, and dance,
+And every one his love-feat will advance
+Unto his several mistress, which they’ll know
+By favours several which they did bestow.
+
+PRINCESS.
+And will they so? The gallants shall be tasked;
+For, ladies, we will every one be masked,
+And not a man of them shall have the grace,
+Despite of suit, to see a lady’s face.
+Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear,
+And then the King will court thee for his dear.
+Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine,
+So shall Berowne take me for Rosaline.
+And change you favours too; so shall your loves
+Woo contrary, deceived by these removes.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Come on, then, wear the favours most in sight.
+
+KATHARINE.
+But in this changing, what is your intent?
+
+PRINCESS.
+The effect of my intent is to cross theirs.
+They do it but in mocking merriment,
+And mock for mock is only my intent.
+Their several counsels they unbosom shall
+To loves mistook, and so be mocked withal
+Upon the next occasion that we meet,
+With visages displayed to talk and greet.
+
+ROSALINE.
+But shall we dance, if they desire us to’t?
+
+PRINCESS.
+No, to the death we will not move a foot,
+Nor to their penned speech render we no grace,
+But while ’tis spoke each turn away her face.
+
+BOYET.
+Why, that contempt will kill the speaker’s heart,
+And quite divorce his memory from his part.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Therefore I do it, and I make no doubt
+The rest will ne’er come in, if he be out.
+There’s no such sport as sport by sport o’erthrown,
+To make theirs ours and ours none but our own.
+So shall we stay, mocking intended game,
+And they, well mocked, depart away with shame.
+
+[_Sound trumpet, within._]
+
+BOYET.
+The trumpet sounds. Be masked; the maskers come.
+
+[_The Ladies mask._]
+
+Enter Blackamoors with music, Moth, with a speech, the King, Berowne,
+Longaville and Dumaine disguised.
+
+MOTH.
+_All hail, the richest beauties on the earth!_
+
+BOYET.
+Beauties no richer than rich taffeta.
+
+MOTH.
+_A holy parcel of the fairest dames_
+
+[_The Ladies turn their backs to him._]
+
+_That ever turned their_—backs—_to mortal views!_
+
+BEROWNE.
+_Their eyes_, villain, _their eyes._
+
+MOTH.
+_That ever turned their eyes to mortal views.
+Out_—
+
+BOYET.
+True; out indeed.
+
+MOTH.
+_Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe
+Not to behold_—
+
+BEROWNE.
+_Once to behold_, rogue!
+
+MOTH.
+_Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes—
+With your sun-beamed eyes_—
+
+BOYET.
+They will not answer to that epithet.
+You were best call it “daughter-beamed eyes”.
+
+MOTH.
+They do not mark me, and that brings me out.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Is this your perfectness? Be gone, you rogue!
+
+[_Exit Moth._]
+
+ROSALINE.
+What would these strangers? Know their minds, Boyet.
+If they do speak our language, ’tis our will
+That some plain man recount their purposes.
+Know what they would.
+
+BOYET.
+What would you with the Princess?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
+
+ROSALINE.
+What would they, say they?
+
+BOYET.
+Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Why, that they have, and bid them so be gone.
+
+BOYET.
+She says you have it, and you may be gone.
+
+KING.
+Say to her we have measured many miles
+To tread a measure with her on this grass.
+
+BOYET.
+They say that they have measured many a mile
+To tread a measure with you on this grass.
+
+ROSALINE.
+It is not so. Ask them how many inches
+Is in one mile? If they have measured many,
+The measure then of one is easily told.
+
+BOYET.
+If to come hither you have measured miles,
+And many miles, the Princess bids you tell
+How many inches doth fill up one mile.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Tell her we measure them by weary steps.
+
+BOYET.
+She hears herself.
+
+ROSALINE.
+How many weary steps
+Of many weary miles you have o’ergone
+Are numbered in the travel of one mile?
+
+BEROWNE.
+We number nothing that we spend for you.
+Our duty is so rich, so infinite,
+That we may do it still without account.
+Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,
+That we, like savages, may worship it.
+
+ROSALINE.
+My face is but a moon, and clouded too.
+
+KING.
+Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do!
+Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine,
+Those clouds removed, upon our watery eyne.
+
+ROSALINE.
+O vain petitioner! Beg a greater matter!
+Thou now requests but moonshine in the water.
+
+KING.
+Then in our measure do but vouchsafe one change.
+Thou bidd’st me beg; this begging is not strange.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it soon.
+
+[_Music plays._]
+
+Not yet? No dance! Thus change I like the moon.
+
+KING.
+Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged?
+
+ROSALINE.
+You took the moon at full, but now she’s changed.
+
+KING.
+Yet still she is the moon, and I the man.
+The music plays, vouchsafe some motion to it.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Our ears vouchsafe it.
+
+KING.
+But your legs should do it.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Since you are strangers and come here by chance,
+We’ll not be nice. Take hands. We will not dance.
+
+KING.
+Why take we hands then?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Only to part friends.
+Curtsy, sweet hearts, and so the measure ends.
+
+KING.
+More measure of this measure! Be not nice.
+
+ROSALINE.
+We can afford no more at such a price.
+
+KING.
+Price you yourselves? What buys your company?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Your absence only.
+
+KING.
+That can never be.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Then cannot we be bought. And so adieu—
+Twice to your visor, and half once to you!
+
+KING.
+If you deny to dance, let’s hold more chat.
+
+ROSALINE.
+In private then.
+
+KING.
+I am best pleased with that.
+
+[_They converse apart._]
+
+BEROWNE.
+White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Honey, and milk, and sugar: there is three.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Nay, then, two treys, an if you grow so nice,
+Metheglin, wort, and malmsey. Well run, dice!
+There’s half a dozen sweets.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Seventh sweet, adieu.
+Since you can cog, I’ll play no more with you.
+
+BEROWNE.
+One word in secret.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Let it not be sweet.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Thou griev’st my gall.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Gall! Bitter.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Therefore meet.
+
+[_They converse apart._]
+
+DUMAINE.
+Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?
+
+MARIA.
+Name it.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Fair lady—
+
+MARIA.
+Say you so? Fair lord!
+Take that for your “fair lady”.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Please it you,
+As much in private, and I’ll bid adieu.
+
+[_They converse apart._]
+
+KATHARINE.
+What, was your visor made without a tongue?
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+I know the reason, lady, why you ask.
+
+KATHARINE.
+O, for your reason! Quickly, sir, I long.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+You have a double tongue within your mask,
+And would afford my speechless visor half.
+
+KATHARINE.
+“Veal”, quoth the Dutchman. Is not veal a calf?
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+A calf, fair lady?
+
+KATHARINE.
+No, a fair lord calf.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Let’s part the word.
+
+KATHARINE.
+No, I’ll not be your half.
+Take all and wean it; it may prove an ox.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Look how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks.
+Will you give horns, chaste lady? Do not so.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Then die a calf before your horns do grow.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+One word in private with you ere I die.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Bleat softly, then; the butcher hears you cry.
+
+[_They converse apart._]
+
+BOYET.
+The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
+    As is the razor’s edge invisible,
+Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen;
+    Above the sense of sense, so sensible
+Seemeth their conference. Their conceits have wings
+Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Not one word more, my maids; break off, break off.
+
+BEROWNE.
+By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!
+
+KING.
+Farewell, mad wenches. You have simple wits.
+
+[_Exeunt King, Lords and Blackamoors._]
+
+PRINCESS.
+Twenty adieus, my frozen Muscovites.
+Are these the breed of wits so wondered at?
+
+BOYET.
+Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puffed out.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat.
+
+PRINCESS.
+O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout!
+Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight?
+Or ever but in vizors show their faces?
+This pert Berowne was out of countenance quite.
+
+ROSALINE.
+They were all in lamentable cases.
+The King was weeping-ripe for a good word.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Berowne did swear himself out of all suit.
+
+MARIA.
+Dumaine was at my service, and his sword.
+“_Non point_,” quoth I; my servant straight was mute.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Lord Longaville said I came o’er his heart;
+And trow you what he called me?
+
+PRINCESS.
+Qualm, perhaps.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Yes, in good faith.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Go, sickness as thou art!
+
+ROSALINE.
+Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.
+But will you hear? The King is my love sworn.
+
+PRINCESS.
+And quick Berowne hath plighted faith to me.
+
+KATHARINE.
+And Longaville was for my service born.
+
+MARIA.
+Dumaine is mine as sure as bark on tree.
+
+BOYET.
+Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear.
+Immediately they will again be here
+In their own shapes, for it can never be
+They will digest this harsh indignity.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Will they return?
+
+BOYET.
+They will, they will, God knows,
+And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows.
+Therefore, change favours and, when they repair,
+Blow like sweet roses in this summer air.
+
+PRINCESS.
+How “blow”? How “blow”? Speak to be understood.
+
+BOYET.
+Fair ladies masked are roses in their bud.
+Dismasked, their damask sweet commixture shown,
+Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do
+If they return in their own shapes to woo?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Good madam, if by me you’ll be advised,
+Let’s mock them still, as well known as disguised.
+Let us complain to them what fools were here,
+Disguised like Muscovites in shapeless gear;
+And wonder what they were, and to what end
+Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penned,
+And their rough carriage so ridiculous,
+Should be presented at our tent to us.
+
+BOYET.
+Ladies, withdraw. The gallants are at hand.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Whip to our tents, as roes run o’er the land.
+
+[_Exeunt Princess, Rosaline, Katharine and Maria._]
+
+Enter the King, Berowne, Longaville and Dumaine as themselves.
+
+KING.
+Fair sir, God save you. Where’s the Princess?
+
+BOYET.
+Gone to her tent. Please it your Majesty
+Command me any service to her thither?
+
+KING.
+That she vouchsafe me audience for one word.
+
+BOYET.
+I will; and so will she, I know, my lord.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BEROWNE.
+This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas
+And utters it again when God doth please.
+He is wit’s pedlar, and retails his wares
+At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs;
+And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know,
+Have not the grace to grace it with such show.
+This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve.
+Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve.
+He can carve too, and lisp. Why, this is he
+That kissed his hand away in courtesy.
+This is the ape of form, Monsieur the Nice,
+That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice
+In honourable terms. Nay, he can sing
+A mean most meanly; and in ushering
+Mend him who can. The ladies call him sweet.
+The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet.
+This is the flower that smiles on everyone,
+To show his teeth as white as whale’s bone;
+And consciences that will not die in debt
+Pay him the due of “honey-tongued Boyet”.
+
+KING.
+A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart,
+That put Armado’s page out of his part!
+
+Enter the Princess, Rosaline, Maria, Katharine with Boyet.
+
+BEROWNE.
+See where it comes! Behaviour, what wert thou
+Till this man showed thee, and what art thou now?
+
+KING.
+All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day.
+
+PRINCESS.
+“Fair” in “all hail” is foul, as I conceive.
+
+KING.
+Construe my speeches better, if you may.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Then wish me better. I will give you leave.
+
+KING.
+We came to visit you, and purpose now
+To lead you to our court. Vouchsafe it then.
+
+PRINCESS.
+This field shall hold me, and so hold your vow.
+Nor God nor I delights in perjured men.
+
+KING.
+Rebuke me not for that which you provoke.
+The virtue of your eye must break my oath.
+
+PRINCESS.
+You nickname virtue: “vice” you should have spoke;
+For virtue’s office never breaks men’s troth.
+Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure
+As the unsullied lily, I protest,
+A world of torments though I should endure,
+I would not yield to be your house’s guest,
+So much I hate a breaking cause to be
+Of heavenly oaths, vowed with integrity.
+
+KING.
+O, you have lived in desolation here,
+Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Not so, my lord. It is not so, I swear.
+We have had pastimes here and pleasant game.
+A mess of Russians left us but of late.
+
+KING.
+How, madam? Russians?
+
+PRINCESS.
+Ay, in truth, my lord.
+Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Madam, speak true. It is not so, my lord.
+My lady, to the manner of the days,
+In courtesy gives undeserving praise.
+We four indeed confronted were with four
+In Russian habit. Here they stayed an hour
+And talked apace; and in that hour, my lord,
+They did not bless us with one happy word.
+I dare not call them fools; but this I think,
+When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.
+
+BEROWNE.
+This jest is dry to me. My gentle sweet,
+Your wit makes wise things foolish. When we greet,
+With eyes’ best seeing, heaven’s fiery eye,
+By light we lose light. Your capacity
+Is of that nature that to your huge store
+Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor.
+
+ROSALINE.
+This proves you wise and rich, for in my eye—
+
+BEROWNE.
+I am a fool, and full of poverty.
+
+ROSALINE.
+But that you take what doth to you belong,
+It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue.
+
+BEROWNE.
+O, I am yours, and all that I possess.
+
+ROSALINE.
+All the fool mine?
+
+BEROWNE.
+I cannot give you less.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Which of the visors was it that you wore?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Where, when, what visor? Why demand you this?
+
+ROSALINE.
+There, then, that visor; that superfluous case
+That hid the worse and showed the better face.
+
+KING.
+We are descried. They’ll mock us now downright.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Let us confess and turn it to a jest.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Amazed, my lord? Why looks your Highness sad?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Help! Hold his brows! He’ll swoon. Why look you pale?
+Seasick, I think, coming from Muscovy.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury.
+Can any face of brass hold longer out?
+Here stand I, lady; dart thy skill at me.
+Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout,
+Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance,
+Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit,
+And I will wish thee never more to dance,
+Nor never more in Russian habit wait.
+O, never will I trust to speeches penned,
+Nor to the motion of a school-boy’s tongue,
+Nor never come in visor to my friend,
+Nor woo in rhyme like a blind harper’s song.
+Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
+Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
+Figures pedantical: these summer flies
+Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
+I do forswear them, and I here protest,
+By this white glove—how white the hand, God knows!—
+Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed
+In russet yeas and honest kersey noes.
+And, to begin: wench, so God help me, law,
+My love to thee is sound, _sans_ crack or flaw.
+
+ROSALINE.
+_Sans_ “_sans_,” I pray you.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Yet I have a trick
+Of the old rage. Bear with me, I am sick;
+I’ll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see:
+Write “Lord have mercy on us” on those three.
+They are infected; in their hearts it lies;
+They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes.
+These lords are visited. You are not free,
+For the Lord’s tokens on you do I see.
+
+PRINCESS.
+No, they are free that gave these tokens to us.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Our states are forfeit. Seek not to undo us.
+
+ROSALINE.
+It is not so. For how can this be true,
+That you stand forfeit, being those that sue?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Peace! for I will not have to do with you.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Nor shall not, if I do as I intend.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Speak for yourselves. My wit is at an end.
+
+KING.
+Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression
+Some fair excuse.
+
+PRINCESS.
+The fairest is confession.
+Were not you here but even now, disguised?
+
+KING.
+Madam, I was.
+
+PRINCESS.
+And were you well advised?
+
+KING.
+I was, fair madam.
+
+PRINCESS.
+When you then were here,
+What did you whisper in your lady’s ear?
+
+KING.
+That more than all the world I did respect her.
+
+PRINCESS.
+When she shall challenge this, you will reject her.
+
+KING.
+Upon mine honour, no.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Peace, peace, forbear!
+Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.
+
+KING.
+Despise me when I break this oath of mine.
+
+PRINCESS.
+I will; and therefore keep it. Rosaline,
+What did the Russian whisper in your ear?
+
+ROSALINE.
+Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear
+As precious eyesight, and did value me
+Above this world; adding thereto, moreover,
+That he would wed me, or else die my lover.
+
+PRINCESS.
+God give thee joy of him! The noble lord
+Most honourably doth uphold his word.
+
+KING.
+What mean you, madam? By my life, my troth,
+I never swore this lady such an oath.
+
+ROSALINE.
+By heaven, you did! And to confirm it plain,
+You gave me this. But take it, sir, again.
+
+KING.
+My faith and this the Princess I did give.
+I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Pardon me, sir, this jewel did she wear,
+And Lord Berowne, I thank him, is my dear.
+What, will you have me, or your pearl again?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Neither of either; I remit both twain.
+I see the trick on’t. Here was a consent,
+Knowing aforehand of our merriment,
+To dash it like a Christmas comedy.
+Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany,
+Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,
+That smiles his cheek in years and knows the trick
+To make my lady laugh when she’s disposed,
+Told our intents before; which once disclosed,
+The ladies did change favours, and then we,
+Following the signs, wooed but the sign of she.
+Now, to our perjury to add more terror,
+We are again forsworn in will and error.
+Much upon this ’tis. [_To Boyet_.] And might not you
+Forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue?
+Do not you know my lady’s foot by th’ squier,
+And laugh upon the apple of her eye?
+And stand between her back, sir, and the fire,
+Holding a trencher, jesting merrily?
+You put our page out. Go, you are allowed;
+Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud.
+You leer upon me, do you? There’s an eye
+Wounds like a leaden sword.
+
+BOYET.
+Full merrily
+Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Lo, he is tilting straight! Peace! I have done.
+
+Enter Costard.
+
+Welcome, pure wit! Thou part’st a fair fray.
+
+COSTARD.
+O Lord, sir, they would know
+Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no.
+
+BEROWNE.
+What, are there but three?
+
+COSTARD.
+No, sir; but it is vara fine,
+For every one pursents three.
+
+BEROWNE.
+And three times thrice is nine.
+
+COSTARD.
+Not so, sir, under correction, sir, I hope it is not so.
+You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure you, sir; we know what we know.
+I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir—
+
+BEROWNE.
+Is not nine?
+
+COSTARD.
+Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.
+
+BEROWNE.
+By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.
+
+COSTARD.
+O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living by reckoning, sir.
+
+BEROWNE.
+How much is it?
+
+COSTARD.
+O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors, sir, will show
+whereuntil it doth amount. For mine own part, I am, as they say, but to
+parfect one man in one poor man—Pompion the Great, sir.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Art thou one of the Worthies?
+
+COSTARD.
+It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompey the Great. For mine own
+part, I know not the degree of the Worthy, but I am to stand for him.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Go bid them prepare.
+
+COSTARD.
+We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take some care.
+
+[_Exit Costard._]
+
+KING.
+Berowne, they will shame us. Let them not approach.
+
+BEROWNE.
+We are shame-proof, my lord, and ’tis some policy
+To have one show worse than the King’s and his company.
+
+KING.
+I say they shall not come.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Nay, my good lord, let me o’errule you now.
+That sport best pleases that doth least know how,
+Where zeal strives to content, and the contents
+Die in the zeal of that which it presents;
+Their form confounded makes most form in mirth,
+When great things labouring perish in their birth.
+
+BEROWNE.
+A right description of our sport, my lord.
+
+Enter Armado, the Braggart.
+
+ARMADO.
+Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal sweet breath as will
+utter a brace of words.
+
+[_Armado and King talk apart._]
+
+PRINCESS.
+Doth this man serve God?
+
+BEROWNE.
+Why ask you?
+
+PRINCESS.
+He speaks not like a man of God his making.
+
+ARMADO.
+That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for, I protest, the
+schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical; too, too vain, too, too vain.
+But we will put it, as they say, to _fortuna de la guerra_. I wish you
+the peace of mind, most royal couplement!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING.
+Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He presents Hector of
+Troy; the swain, Pompey the Great; the parish curate, Alexander;
+Armado’s page, Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus.
+_And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive,
+These four will change habits and present the other five._
+
+BEROWNE.
+There is five in the first show.
+
+KING.
+You are deceived. ’Tis not so.
+
+BEROWNE.
+The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy.
+Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again
+Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.
+
+KING.
+The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain.
+
+Enter Costard as Pompey.
+
+COSTARD.
+_I Pompey am_—
+
+BEROWNE.
+You lie, you are not he.
+
+COSTARD.
+_I Pompey am_—
+
+BOYET.
+With leopard’s head on knee.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Well said, old mocker. I must needs be friends with thee.
+
+COSTARD.
+_I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed the Big._
+
+DUMAINE.
+The “Great”.
+
+COSTARD.
+It is “Great”, sir; _Pompey surnamed the Great,
+That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make my foe to sweat.
+And travelling along this coast, I here am come by chance,
+And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France._
+If your ladyship would say, “Thanks, Pompey”, I had done.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Great thanks, great Pompey.
+
+COSTARD.
+’Tis not so much worth; but I hope I was perfect. I made a little fault
+in “Great”.
+
+BEROWNE.
+My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy.
+
+Enter Nathaniel, the Curate, for Alexander.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+_When in the world I lived, I was the world’s commander;
+By east, west, north, and south, I spread my conquering might.
+My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander._
+
+BOYET.
+Your nose says, no, you are not; for it stands to right.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Your nose smells “no” in this, most tender-smelling knight.
+
+PRINCESS.
+The conqueror is dismayed. Proceed, good Alexander.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+_When in the world I lived, I was the world’s commander_—
+
+BOYET.
+Most true; ’tis right. You were so, Alisander.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Pompey the Great—
+
+COSTARD.
+Your servant, and Costard.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander.
+
+COSTARD.
+[_To Sir Nathaniel_.] O sir, you have overthrown Alisander the
+Conqueror. You will be scraped out of the painted cloth for this. Your
+lion, that holds his pole-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given
+to Ajax. He will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror, and afeard to speak?
+Run away for shame, Alisander. [_Nathaniel retires_.] There, an’t shall
+please you, a foolish mild man; an honest man, look you, and soon
+dashed. He is a marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good
+bowler; but for Alisander, alas you see how ’tis—a little o’erparted.
+But there are Worthies a-coming will speak their mind in some other
+sort.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Stand aside, good Pompey.
+
+Enter Holofernes, the Pedant, as Judas, and Moth, the Boy, as Hercules.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Great Hercules is presented by this imp,
+Whose club killed Cerberus, that three-headed_ canus,
+_And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp,
+Thus did he strangle serpents in his_ manus.
+Quoniam _he seemeth in minority_,
+Ergo _I come with this apology._
+Keep some state in thy exit, and vanish.
+
+[_Moth retires._]
+
+_Judas I am._—
+
+DUMAINE.
+A Judas!
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Not Iscariot, sir.
+_Judas I am, ycleped Maccabaeus._
+
+DUMAINE.
+Judas Maccabaeus clipped is plain Judas.
+
+BEROWNE.
+A kissing traitor. How art thou proved Judas?
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+_Judas I am_—
+
+DUMAINE.
+The more shame for you, Judas.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+What mean you, sir?
+
+BOYET.
+To make Judas hang himself.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+Begin, sir; you are my elder.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Well followed. Judas was hanged on an elder.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+I will not be put out of countenance.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Because thou hast no face.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+What is this?
+
+BOYET.
+A cittern-head.
+
+DUMAINE.
+The head of a bodkin.
+
+BEROWNE.
+A death’s face in a ring.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.
+
+BOYET.
+The pommel of Caesar’s falchion.
+
+DUMAINE.
+The carved-bone face on a flask.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Saint George’s half-cheek in a brooch.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Ay, and in a brooch of lead.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer.
+And now forward, for we have put thee in countenance.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+You have put me out of countenance.
+
+BEROWNE.
+False. We have given thee faces.
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+But you have outfaced them all.
+
+BEROWNE.
+An thou wert a lion, we would do so.
+
+BOYET.
+Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.
+And so adieu, sweet Jude. Nay, why dost thou stay?
+
+DUMAINE.
+For the latter end of his name.
+
+BEROWNE.
+For the ass to the Jude? Give it him. Jud-as, away!
+
+HOLOFERNES.
+This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.
+
+BOYET.
+A light for Monsieur Judas! It grows dark; he may stumble.
+
+[_Exit Holofernes._]
+
+PRINCESS.
+Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited!
+
+Enter Armado, the Braggart, as Hector.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Hide thy head, Achilles. Here comes Hector in arms.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Though my mocks come home by me, I will now be merry.
+
+KING.
+Hector was but a Trojan in respect of this.
+
+BOYET.
+But is this Hector?
+
+DUMAINE.
+I think Hector was not so clean-timbered.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+His leg is too big for Hector’s.
+
+DUMAINE.
+More calf, certain.
+
+BOYET.
+No, he is best endued in the small.
+
+BEROWNE.
+This cannot be Hector.
+
+DUMAINE.
+He’s a god or a painter, for he makes faces.
+
+ARMADO.
+_The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,
+Gave Hector a gift_—
+
+DUMAINE.
+A gilt nutmeg.
+
+BEROWNE.
+A lemon.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+Stuck with cloves.
+
+DUMAINE.
+No, cloven.
+
+ARMADO.
+Peace!
+_The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,
+    Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion;
+A man so breathed that certain he would fight, yea,
+    From morn till night, out of his pavilion.
+I am that flower_—
+
+DUMAINE.
+That mint.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+That columbine.
+
+ARMADO.
+Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+I must rather give it the rein, for it runs against Hector.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Ay, and Hector’s a greyhound.
+
+ARMADO.
+The sweet war-man is dead and rotten. Sweet chucks, beat not the bones
+of the buried. When he breathed, he was a man. But I will forward with
+my device. [_To the Princess_.] Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense
+of hearing.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Speak, brave Hector; we are much delighted.
+
+ARMADO.
+I do adore thy sweet Grace’s slipper.
+
+BOYET.
+Loves her by the foot.
+
+DUMAINE.
+He may not by the yard.
+
+ARMADO.
+_This Hector far surmounted Hannibal.
+The party is gone_—
+
+COSTARD.
+Fellow Hector, she is gone; she is two months on her way.
+
+ARMADO.
+What meanest thou?
+
+COSTARD.
+Faith, unless you play the honest Trojan, the poor wench is cast away.
+She’s quick; the child brags in her belly already. ’Tis yours.
+
+ARMADO.
+Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? Thou shalt die.
+
+COSTARD.
+Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta that is quick by him, and
+hanged for Pompey that is dead by him.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Most rare Pompey!
+
+BOYET.
+Renowned Pompey!
+
+BEROWNE.
+Greater than  “Great”! Great, great, great Pompey! Pompey the Huge!
+
+DUMAINE.
+Hector trembles.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! Stir them on, stir them on!
+
+DUMAINE.
+Hector will challenge him.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Ay, if he have no more man’s blood in his belly than will sup a flea.
+
+ARMADO.
+By the north pole, I do challenge thee.
+
+COSTARD.
+I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man. I’ll slash, I’ll do
+it by the sword. I bepray you, let me borrow my arms again.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Room for the incensed Worthies!
+
+COSTARD.
+I’ll do it in my shirt.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Most resolute Pompey!
+
+MOTH.
+Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you not see Pompey is
+uncasing for the combat? What mean you? You will lose your reputation.
+
+ARMADO.
+Gentlemen and soldiers, pardon me. I will not combat in my shirt.
+
+DUMAINE.
+You may not deny it. Pompey hath made the challenge.
+
+ARMADO.
+Sweet bloods, I both may and will.
+
+BEROWNE.
+What reason have you for ’t?
+
+ARMADO.
+The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. I go woolward for penance.
+
+BOYET.
+True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of linen; since when,
+I’ll be sworn, he wore none but a dishclout of Jaquenetta’s, and that
+he wears next his heart for a favour.
+
+Enter a Messenger, Monsieur Marcadé.
+
+MARCADÉ.
+God save you, madam.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Welcome, Marcadé,
+But that thou interruptest our merriment.
+
+MARCADÉ.
+I am sorry, madam, for the news I bring
+Is heavy in my tongue. The King your father—
+
+PRINCESS.
+Dead, for my life!
+
+MARCADÉ.
+Even so. My tale is told.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Worthies away! The scene begins to cloud.
+
+ARMADO.
+For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have seen the day of wrong
+through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a
+soldier.
+
+[_Exeunt Worthies._]
+
+KING.
+How fares your Majesty?
+
+PRINCESS.
+Boyet, prepare. I will away tonight.
+
+KING.
+Madam, not so. I do beseech you stay.
+
+PRINCESS.
+Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords,
+For all your fair endeavours, and entreat,
+Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe
+In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide
+The liberal opposition of our spirits,
+If over-boldly we have borne ourselves
+In the converse of breath; your gentleness
+Was guilty of it. Farewell, worthy lord!
+A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
+Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks
+For my great suit so easily obtained.
+
+KING.
+The extreme parts of time extremely forms
+All causes to the purpose of his speed,
+And often at his very loose decides
+That which long process could not arbitrate.
+And though the mourning brow of progeny
+Forbid the smiling courtesy of love
+The holy suit which fain it would convince,
+Yet, since love’s argument was first on foot,
+Let not the cloud of sorrow jostle it
+From what it purposed; since to wail friends lost
+Is not by much so wholesome-profitable
+As to rejoice at friends but newly found.
+
+PRINCESS.
+I understand you not. My griefs are double.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief;
+And by these badges understand the King.
+For your fair sakes have we neglected time,
+Played foul play with our oaths. Your beauty, ladies,
+Hath much deformed us, fashioning our humours
+Even to the opposed end of our intents;
+And what in us hath seemed ridiculous—
+As love is full of unbefitting strains,
+All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
+Formed by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
+Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
+Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
+To every varied object in his glance;
+Which parti-coated presence of loose love
+Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes,
+Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities,
+Those heavenly eyes that look into these faults
+Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,
+Our love being yours, the error that love makes
+Is likewise yours. We to ourselves prove false
+By being once false for ever to be true
+To those that make us both—fair ladies, you.
+And even that falsehood, in itself a sin,
+Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.
+
+PRINCESS.
+We have received your letters, full of love;
+Your favours, the ambassadors of love;
+And in our maiden council rated them
+At courtship, pleasant jest, and courtesy,
+As bombast and as lining to the time.
+But more devout than this in our respects
+Have we not been; and therefore met your loves
+In their own fashion, like a merriment.
+
+DUMAINE.
+Our letters, madam, showed much more than jest.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+So did our looks.
+
+ROSALINE.
+We did not quote them so.
+
+KING.
+Now, at the latest minute of the hour,
+Grant us your loves.
+
+PRINCESS.
+A time, methinks, too short
+To make a world-without-end bargain in.
+No, no, my lord, your Grace is perjured much,
+Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this:
+If for my love—as there is no such cause—
+You will do aught, this shall you do for me:
+Your oath I will not trust, but go with speed
+To some forlorn and naked hermitage,
+Remote from all the pleasures of the world,
+There stay until the twelve celestial signs
+Have brought about the annual reckoning.
+If this austere insociable life
+Change not your offer made in heat of blood;
+If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds,
+Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,
+But that it bear this trial, and last love;
+Then, at the expiration of the year,
+Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,
+And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine,
+I will be thine. And, till that instance, shut
+My woeful self up in a mournful house,
+Raining the tears of lamentation
+For the remembrance of my father’s death.
+If this thou do deny, let our hands part,
+Neither entitled in the other’s heart.
+
+KING.
+If this, or more than this, I would deny,
+    To flatter up these powers of mine with rest,
+The sudden hand of death close up mine eye!
+    Hence hermit, then. My heart is in thy breast.
+
+[_They converse apart_]
+
+DUMAINE.
+And what to me, my love? But what to me?
+A wife?
+
+KATHARINE.
+A beard, fair health, and honesty;
+With threefold love I wish you all these three.
+
+DUMAINE.
+O, shall I say, “I thank you, gentle wife”?
+
+KATHARINE.
+No so, my lord. A twelvemonth and a day
+I’ll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say.
+Come when the King doth to my lady come;
+Then, if I have much love, I’ll give you some.
+
+DUMAINE.
+I’ll serve thee true and faithfully till then.
+
+KATHARINE.
+Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.
+
+[_They converse apart_]
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+What says Maria?
+
+MARIA.
+At the twelvemonth’s end
+I’ll change my black gown for a faithful friend.
+
+LONGAVILLE.
+I’ll stay with patience, but the time is long.
+
+MARIA.
+The liker you; few taller are so young.
+
+[_They converse apart_]
+
+BEROWNE.
+Studies my lady? Mistress, look on me.
+Behold the window of my heart, mine eye,
+What humble suit attends thy answer there.
+Impose some service on me for thy love.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Berowne,
+Before I saw you; and the world’s large tongue
+Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,
+Full of comparisons and wounding flouts,
+Which you on all estates will execute
+That lie within the mercy of your wit.
+To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain,
+And therewithal to win me, if you please,
+Without the which I am not to be won,
+You shall this twelvemonth term from day to day
+Visit the speechless sick, and still converse
+With groaning wretches; and your task shall be,
+With all the fierce endeavour of your wit
+To enforce the pained impotent to smile.
+
+BEROWNE.
+To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
+It cannot be, it is impossible.
+Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
+
+ROSALINE.
+Why, that’s the way to choke a gibing spirit,
+Whose influence is begot of that loose grace
+Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools.
+A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
+Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
+Of him that makes it. Then, if sickly ears,
+Deafed with the clamours of their own dear groans,
+Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,
+And I will have you and that fault withal;
+But if they will not, throw away that spirit,
+And I shall find you empty of that fault,
+Right joyful of your reformation.
+
+BEROWNE.
+A twelvemonth? Well, befall what will befall,
+I’ll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital.
+
+PRINCESS.
+[_To the King_.] Ay, sweet my lord, and so I take my leave.
+
+KING.
+No, madam, we will bring you on your way.
+
+BEROWNE.
+Our wooing doth not end like an old play.
+Jack hath not Jill. These ladies’ courtesy
+Might well have made our sport a comedy.
+
+KING.
+Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,
+And then ’twill end.
+
+BEROWNE.
+That’s too long for a play.
+
+Enter Armado, the Braggart.
+
+ARMADO.
+Sweet Majesty, vouchsafe me—
+
+PRINCESS.
+Was not that Hector?
+
+DUMAINE.
+The worthy knight of Troy.
+
+ARMADO.
+I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am a votary; I have
+vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the plough for her sweet love three year.
+But, most esteemed Greatness, will you hear the dialogue that the two
+learned men have compiled in praise of the owl and the cuckoo? It
+should have followed in the end of our show.
+
+KING.
+Call them forth quickly; we will do so.
+
+ARMADO.
+Holla! Approach.
+
+Enter all.
+
+This side is _Hiems_, Winter; this _Ver_, the Spring; the one
+maintained by the owl, th’ other by the cuckoo. _Ver_, begin.
+
+The Song
+
+SPRING.
+When daisies pied and violets blue
+    And lady-smocks all silver-white
+And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
+    Do paint the meadows with delight,
+The cuckoo then on every tree
+Mocks married men; for thus sings he:
+         “Cuckoo!
+Cuckoo, cuckoo!” O, word of fear,
+Unpleasing to a married ear.
+
+When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,
+    And merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks,
+When turtles tread, and rooks and daws,
+    And maidens bleach their summer smocks,
+The cuckoo then, on every tree,
+Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
+         “Cuckoo!
+Cuckoo, cuckoo!” O, word of fear,
+Unpleasing to a married ear.
+
+WINTER.
+When icicles hang by the wall,
+    And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
+And Tom bears logs into the hall,
+    And milk comes frozen home in pail,
+When blood is nipped, and ways be foul,
+  Then nightly sings the staring owl:
+“Tu-whit, Tu-whoo!” A merry note,
+While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
+
+When all aloud the wind doth blow,
+    And coughing drowns the parson’s saw,
+And birds sit brooding in the snow,
+    And Marian’s nose looks red and raw,
+When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
+Then nightly sings the staring owl:
+“Tu-whit, Tu-whoo!” A merry note,
+While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
+
+ARMADO.
+The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.
+You that way, we this way.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. An open Place.
+Scene II. A Camp near Forres.
+Scene III. A heath.
+Scene IV. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene V. Inverness. A Room in Macbeth’s Castle.
+Scene VI. The same. Before the Castle.
+Scene VII. The same. A Lobby in the Castle.
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. Inverness. Court within the Castle.
+Scene II. The same.
+Scene III. The same.
+Scene IV. The same. Without the Castle.
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene II. The same. Another Room in the Palace.
+Scene III. The same. A Park or Lawn, with a gate leading to the Palace.
+Scene IV. The same. A Room of state in the Palace.
+Scene V. The heath.
+Scene VI. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling.
+Scene II. Fife. A Room in Macduff’s Castle.
+Scene III. England. Before the King’s Palace.
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
+Scene II. The Country near Dunsinane.
+Scene III. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
+Scene IV. Country near Dunsinane: a Wood in view.
+Scene V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.
+Scene VI. The same. A Plain before the Castle.
+Scene VII. The same. Another part of the Plain.
+Scene VIII. The same. Another part of the field.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+DUNCAN, King of Scotland.
+MALCOLM, his Son.
+DONALBAIN, his Son.
+MACBETH, General in the King’s Army.
+BANQUO, General in the King’s Army.
+MACDUFF, Nobleman of Scotland.
+LENNOX, Nobleman of Scotland.
+ROSS, Nobleman of Scotland.
+MENTEITH, Nobleman of Scotland.
+ANGUS, Nobleman of Scotland.
+CAITHNESS, Nobleman of Scotland.
+FLEANCE, Son to Banquo.
+SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, General of the English Forces.
+YOUNG SIWARD, his Son.
+SEYTON, an Officer attending on Macbeth.
+BOY, Son to Macduff.
+An English Doctor.
+A Scottish Doctor.
+A Soldier.
+A Porter.
+An Old Man.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth.
+HECATE, and three Witches.
+
+Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants and
+Messengers.
+
+The Ghost of Banquo and several other Apparitions.
+
+SCENE: In the end of the Fourth Act, in England; through the rest of
+the Play, in Scotland; and chiefly at Macbeth’s Castle.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. An open Place.
+
+
+ Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+When shall we three meet again?
+In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+When the hurlyburly’s done,
+When the battle’s lost and won.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+That will be ere the set of sun.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Where the place?
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Upon the heath.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+There to meet with Macbeth.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+I come, Graymalkin!
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Paddock calls.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+Anon.
+
+ALL.
+Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
+Hover through the fog and filthy air.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Camp near Forres.
+
+ Alarum within. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, with
+ Attendants, meeting a bleeding Captain.
+
+DUNCAN.
+What bloody man is that? He can report,
+As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
+The newest state.
+
+MALCOLM.
+This is the sergeant
+Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought
+’Gainst my captivity.—Hail, brave friend!
+Say to the King the knowledge of the broil
+As thou didst leave it.
+
+SOLDIER.
+Doubtful it stood;
+As two spent swimmers that do cling together
+And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald
+(Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
+The multiplying villainies of nature
+Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles
+Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;
+And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
+Show’d like a rebel’s whore. But all’s too weak;
+For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name),
+Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish’d steel,
+Which smok’d with bloody execution,
+Like Valour’s minion, carv’d out his passage,
+Till he fac’d the slave;
+Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
+Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops,
+And fix’d his head upon our battlements.
+
+DUNCAN.
+O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!
+
+SOLDIER.
+As whence the sun ’gins his reflection
+Shipwracking storms and direful thunders break,
+So from that spring, whence comfort seem’d to come
+Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark:
+No sooner justice had, with valour arm’d,
+Compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
+But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage,
+With furbish’d arms and new supplies of men,
+Began a fresh assault.
+
+DUNCAN.
+Dismay’d not this
+Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
+
+SOLDIER.
+Yes;
+As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
+If I say sooth, I must report they were
+As cannons overcharg’d with double cracks;
+So they
+Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
+Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
+Or memorize another Golgotha,
+I cannot tell—
+But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.
+
+DUNCAN.
+So well thy words become thee as thy wounds:
+They smack of honour both.—Go, get him surgeons.
+
+ [_Exit Captain, attended._]
+
+ Enter Ross and Angus.
+
+Who comes here?
+
+MALCOLM.
+The worthy Thane of Ross.
+
+LENNOX.
+What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
+That seems to speak things strange.
+
+ROSS.
+God save the King!
+
+DUNCAN.
+Whence cam’st thou, worthy thane?
+
+ROSS.
+From Fife, great King,
+Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
+And fan our people cold.
+Norway himself, with terrible numbers,
+Assisted by that most disloyal traitor,
+The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
+Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapp’d in proof,
+Confronted him with self-comparisons,
+Point against point, rebellious arm ’gainst arm,
+Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
+The victory fell on us.
+
+DUNCAN.
+Great happiness!
+
+ROSS.
+That now
+Sweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition;
+Nor would we deign him burial of his men
+Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s Inch
+Ten thousand dollars to our general use.
+
+DUNCAN.
+No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive
+Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death,
+And with his former title greet Macbeth.
+
+ROSS.
+I’ll see it done.
+
+DUNCAN.
+What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A heath.
+
+ Thunder. Enter the three Witches.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Where hast thou been, sister?
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Killing swine.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+Sister, where thou?
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap,
+And mounch’d, and mounch’d, and mounch’d. “Give me,” quoth I.
+“Aroint thee, witch!” the rump-fed ronyon cries.
+Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ th’ _Tiger:_
+But in a sieve I’ll thither sail,
+And, like a rat without a tail,
+I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do.
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+I’ll give thee a wind.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Th’art kind.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+And I another.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+I myself have all the other,
+And the very ports they blow,
+All the quarters that they know
+I’ the shipman’s card.
+I will drain him dry as hay:
+Sleep shall neither night nor day
+Hang upon his pent-house lid;
+He shall live a man forbid.
+Weary sev’n-nights nine times nine,
+Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine:
+Though his bark cannot be lost,
+Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
+Look what I have.
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Show me, show me.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Here I have a pilot’s thumb,
+Wrack’d as homeward he did come.
+
+ [_Drum within._]
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+A drum, a drum!
+Macbeth doth come.
+
+ALL.
+The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,
+Posters of the sea and land,
+Thus do go about, about:
+Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,
+And thrice again, to make up nine.
+Peace!—the charm’s wound up.
+
+ Enter Macbeth and Banquo.
+
+MACBETH.
+So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
+
+BANQUO.
+How far is’t call’d to Forres?—What are these,
+So wither’d, and so wild in their attire,
+That look not like the inhabitants o’ th’ earth,
+And yet are on’t?—Live you? or are you aught
+That man may question? You seem to understand me,
+By each at once her choppy finger laying
+Upon her skinny lips. You should be women,
+And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
+That you are so.
+
+MACBETH.
+Speak, if you can;—what are you?
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter!
+
+BANQUO.
+Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear
+Things that do sound so fair?—I’ th’ name of truth,
+Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
+Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
+You greet with present grace and great prediction
+Of noble having and of royal hope,
+That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not.
+If you can look into the seeds of time,
+And say which grain will grow, and which will not,
+Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
+Your favours nor your hate.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Hail!
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Hail!
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+Hail!
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Not so happy, yet much happier.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
+So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!
+
+MACBETH.
+Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
+By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis;
+But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives,
+A prosperous gentleman; and to be king
+Stands not within the prospect of belief,
+No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
+You owe this strange intelligence? or why
+Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
+With such prophetic greeting?—Speak, I charge you.
+
+ [_Witches vanish._]
+
+BANQUO.
+The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
+And these are of them. Whither are they vanish’d?
+
+MACBETH.
+Into the air; and what seem’d corporal,
+Melted as breath into the wind.
+Would they had stay’d!
+
+BANQUO.
+Were such things here as we do speak about?
+Or have we eaten on the insane root
+That takes the reason prisoner?
+
+MACBETH.
+Your children shall be kings.
+
+BANQUO.
+You shall be king.
+
+MACBETH.
+And Thane of Cawdor too; went it not so?
+
+BANQUO.
+To the selfsame tune and words. Who’s here?
+
+ Enter Ross and Angus.
+
+ROSS.
+The King hath happily receiv’d, Macbeth,
+The news of thy success, and when he reads
+Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight,
+His wonders and his praises do contend
+Which should be thine or his: silenc’d with that,
+In viewing o’er the rest o’ th’ selfsame day,
+He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,
+Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
+Strange images of death. As thick as tale
+Came post with post; and everyone did bear
+Thy praises in his kingdom’s great defence,
+And pour’d them down before him.
+
+ANGUS.
+We are sent
+To give thee from our royal master thanks;
+Only to herald thee into his sight,
+Not pay thee.
+
+ROSS.
+And, for an earnest of a greater honour,
+He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor:
+In which addition, hail, most worthy thane,
+For it is thine.
+
+BANQUO.
+What, can the devil speak true?
+
+MACBETH.
+The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me
+In borrow’d robes?
+
+ANGUS.
+Who was the Thane lives yet,
+But under heavy judgement bears that life
+Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combin’d
+With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
+With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
+He labour’d in his country’s wrack, I know not;
+But treasons capital, confess’d and prov’d,
+Have overthrown him.
+
+MACBETH.
+[_Aside._] Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
+The greatest is behind. [_To Ross and Angus._] Thanks for your pains.
+[_To Banquo._] Do you not hope your children shall be kings,
+When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me
+Promis’d no less to them?
+
+BANQUO.
+That, trusted home,
+Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
+Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But ’tis strange:
+And oftentimes to win us to our harm,
+The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
+Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
+In deepest consequence.—
+Cousins, a word, I pray you.
+
+MACBETH.
+[_Aside._] Two truths are told,
+As happy prologues to the swelling act
+Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.—
+[_Aside._] This supernatural soliciting
+Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill,
+Why hath it given me earnest of success,
+Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor:
+If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
+Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair,
+And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
+Against the use of nature? Present fears
+Are less than horrible imaginings.
+My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
+Shakes so my single state of man
+That function is smother’d in surmise,
+And nothing is but what is not.
+
+BANQUO.
+Look, how our partner’s rapt.
+
+MACBETH.
+[_Aside._] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me
+Without my stir.
+
+BANQUO.
+New honours come upon him,
+Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould
+But with the aid of use.
+
+MACBETH.
+[_Aside._] Come what come may,
+Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
+
+BANQUO.
+Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
+
+MACBETH.
+Give me your favour. My dull brain was wrought
+With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains
+Are register’d where every day I turn
+The leaf to read them.—Let us toward the King.—
+Think upon what hath chanc’d; and at more time,
+The interim having weigh’d it, let us speak
+Our free hearts each to other.
+
+BANQUO.
+Very gladly.
+
+MACBETH.
+Till then, enough.—Come, friends.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Flourish. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox and Attendants.
+
+DUNCAN.
+Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
+Those in commission yet return’d?
+
+MALCOLM.
+My liege,
+They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
+With one that saw him die, who did report,
+That very frankly he confess’d his treasons,
+Implor’d your Highness’ pardon, and set forth
+A deep repentance. Nothing in his life
+Became him like the leaving it; he died
+As one that had been studied in his death,
+To throw away the dearest thing he ow’d
+As ’twere a careless trifle.
+
+DUNCAN.
+There’s no art
+To find the mind’s construction in the face:
+He was a gentleman on whom I built
+An absolute trust.
+
+ Enter Macbeth, Banquo, Ross and Angus.
+
+O worthiest cousin!
+The sin of my ingratitude even now
+Was heavy on me. Thou art so far before,
+That swiftest wing of recompense is slow
+To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserv’d;
+That the proportion both of thanks and payment
+Might have been mine! only I have left to say,
+More is thy due than more than all can pay.
+
+MACBETH.
+The service and the loyalty I owe,
+In doing it, pays itself. Your Highness’ part
+Is to receive our duties: and our duties
+Are to your throne and state, children and servants;
+Which do but what they should, by doing everything
+Safe toward your love and honour.
+
+DUNCAN.
+Welcome hither:
+I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
+To make thee full of growing.—Noble Banquo,
+That hast no less deserv’d, nor must be known
+No less to have done so, let me infold thee
+And hold thee to my heart.
+
+BANQUO.
+There if I grow,
+The harvest is your own.
+
+DUNCAN.
+My plenteous joys,
+Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
+In drops of sorrow.—Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
+And you whose places are the nearest, know,
+We will establish our estate upon
+Our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter
+The Prince of Cumberland: which honour must
+Not unaccompanied invest him only,
+But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
+On all deservers.—From hence to Inverness,
+And bind us further to you.
+
+MACBETH.
+The rest is labour, which is not us’d for you:
+I’ll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful
+The hearing of my wife with your approach;
+So, humbly take my leave.
+
+DUNCAN.
+My worthy Cawdor!
+
+MACBETH.
+[_Aside._] The Prince of Cumberland!—That is a step
+On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,
+For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
+Let not light see my black and deep desires.
+The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be,
+Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+DUNCAN.
+True, worthy Banquo! He is full so valiant;
+And in his commendations I am fed.
+It is a banquet to me. Let’s after him,
+Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:
+It is a peerless kinsman.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Inverness. A Room in Macbeth’s Castle.
+
+ Enter Lady Macbeth, reading a letter.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+“They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the
+perfect’st report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I
+burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air,
+into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
+missives from the King, who all-hailed me, ‘Thane of Cawdor’; by which
+title, before, these Weird Sisters saluted me, and referred me to the
+coming on of time, with ‘Hail, king that shalt be!’ This have I thought
+good to deliver thee (my dearest partner of greatness) that thou
+might’st not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what
+greatness is promis’d thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.”
+
+Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
+What thou art promis’d. Yet do I fear thy nature;
+It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
+To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great;
+Art not without ambition, but without
+The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,
+That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
+And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou’dst have, great Glamis,
+That which cries, “Thus thou must do,” if thou have it;
+And that which rather thou dost fear to do,
+Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither,
+That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,
+And chastise with the valour of my tongue
+All that impedes thee from the golden round,
+Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
+To have thee crown’d withal.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+What is your tidings?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The King comes here tonight.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Thou’rt mad to say it.
+Is not thy master with him? who, were’t so,
+Would have inform’d for preparation.
+
+MESSENGER.
+So please you, it is true. Our thane is coming.
+One of my fellows had the speed of him,
+Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more
+Than would make up his message.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Give him tending.
+He brings great news.
+
+ [_Exit Messenger._]
+
+The raven himself is hoarse
+That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
+Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
+That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
+And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
+Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood,
+Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse,
+That no compunctious visitings of nature
+Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
+Th’ effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
+And take my milk for gall, your murd’ring ministers,
+Wherever in your sightless substances
+You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night,
+And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell
+That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
+Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
+To cry, “Hold, hold!”
+
+ Enter Macbeth.
+
+Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor!
+Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!
+Thy letters have transported me beyond
+This ignorant present, and I feel now
+The future in the instant.
+
+MACBETH.
+My dearest love,
+Duncan comes here tonight.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+And when goes hence?
+
+MACBETH.
+Tomorrow, as he purposes.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+O, never
+Shall sun that morrow see!
+Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
+May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
+Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
+Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
+But be the serpent under’t. He that’s coming
+Must be provided for; and you shall put
+This night’s great business into my dispatch;
+Which shall to all our nights and days to come
+Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
+
+MACBETH.
+We will speak further.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Only look up clear;
+To alter favour ever is to fear.
+Leave all the rest to me.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. The same. Before the Castle.
+
+ Hautboys. Servants of Macbeth attending.
+
+ Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Ross, Angus
+ and Attendants.
+
+DUNCAN.
+This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air
+Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
+Unto our gentle senses.
+
+BANQUO.
+This guest of summer,
+The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
+By his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breath
+Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
+Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
+hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle.
+Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ’d
+The air is delicate.
+
+ Enter Lady Macbeth.
+
+DUNCAN.
+See, see, our honour’d hostess!—
+The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
+Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
+How you shall bid God ’ild us for your pains,
+And thank us for your trouble.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+All our service,
+In every point twice done, and then done double,
+Were poor and single business to contend
+Against those honours deep and broad wherewith
+Your Majesty loads our house: for those of old,
+And the late dignities heap’d up to them,
+We rest your hermits.
+
+DUNCAN.
+Where’s the Thane of Cawdor?
+We cours’d him at the heels, and had a purpose
+To be his purveyor: but he rides well;
+And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him
+To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,
+We are your guest tonight.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Your servants ever
+Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt,
+To make their audit at your Highness’ pleasure,
+Still to return your own.
+
+DUNCAN.
+Give me your hand;
+Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,
+And shall continue our graces towards him.
+By your leave, hostess.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. The same. A Lobby in the Castle.
+
+ Hautboys and torches. Enter, and pass over, a Sewer and divers
+ Servants with dishes and service. Then enter Macbeth.
+
+MACBETH.
+If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
+It were done quickly. If th’ assassination
+Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
+With his surcease success; that but this blow
+Might be the be-all and the end-all—here,
+But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
+We’d jump the life to come. But in these cases
+We still have judgement here; that we but teach
+Bloody instructions, which being taught, return
+To plague th’ inventor. This even-handed justice
+Commends th’ ingredience of our poison’d chalice
+To our own lips. He’s here in double trust:
+First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
+Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
+Who should against his murderer shut the door,
+Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
+Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
+So clear in his great office, that his virtues
+Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
+The deep damnation of his taking-off;
+And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
+Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubin, hors’d
+Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
+Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
+That tears shall drown the wind.—I have no spur
+To prick the sides of my intent, but only
+Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
+And falls on th’ other—
+
+ Enter Lady Macbeth.
+
+How now! what news?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+He has almost supp’d. Why have you left the chamber?
+
+MACBETH.
+Hath he ask’d for me?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Know you not he has?
+
+MACBETH.
+We will proceed no further in this business:
+He hath honour’d me of late; and I have bought
+Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
+Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
+Not cast aside so soon.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Was the hope drunk
+Wherein you dress’d yourself? Hath it slept since?
+And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
+At what it did so freely? From this time
+Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
+To be the same in thine own act and valour
+As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
+Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life,
+And live a coward in thine own esteem,
+Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,”
+Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage?
+
+MACBETH.
+Pr’ythee, peace!
+I dare do all that may become a man;
+Who dares do more is none.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+What beast was’t, then,
+That made you break this enterprise to me?
+When you durst do it, then you were a man;
+And, to be more than what you were, you would
+Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
+Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:
+They have made themselves, and that their fitness now
+Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
+How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:
+I would, while it was smiling in my face,
+Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums
+And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
+Have done to this.
+
+MACBETH.
+If we should fail?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+We fail?
+But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
+And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep
+(Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journey
+Soundly invite him), his two chamberlains
+Will I with wine and wassail so convince
+That memory, the warder of the brain,
+Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
+A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep
+Their drenched natures lie as in a death,
+What cannot you and I perform upon
+Th’ unguarded Duncan? what not put upon
+His spongy officers; who shall bear the guilt
+Of our great quell?
+
+MACBETH.
+Bring forth men-children only;
+For thy undaunted mettle should compose
+Nothing but males. Will it not be receiv’d,
+When we have mark’d with blood those sleepy two
+Of his own chamber, and us’d their very daggers,
+That they have done’t?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Who dares receive it other,
+As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
+Upon his death?
+
+MACBETH.
+I am settled, and bend up
+Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
+Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
+False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Inverness. Court within the Castle.
+
+ Enter Banquo and Fleance with a torch before him.
+
+BANQUO.
+How goes the night, boy?
+
+FLEANCE.
+The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
+
+BANQUO.
+And she goes down at twelve.
+
+FLEANCE.
+I take’t, ’tis later, sir.
+
+BANQUO.
+Hold, take my sword.—There’s husbandry in heaven;
+Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.
+A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
+And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers,
+Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
+Gives way to in repose!
+
+ Enter Macbeth and a Servant with a torch.
+
+Give me my sword.—Who’s there?
+
+MACBETH.
+A friend.
+
+BANQUO.
+What, sir, not yet at rest? The King’s abed:
+He hath been in unusual pleasure and
+Sent forth great largess to your offices.
+This diamond he greets your wife withal,
+By the name of most kind hostess, and shut up
+In measureless content.
+
+MACBETH.
+Being unprepar’d,
+Our will became the servant to defect,
+Which else should free have wrought.
+
+BANQUO.
+All’s well.
+I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters:
+To you they have show’d some truth.
+
+MACBETH.
+I think not of them:
+Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
+We would spend it in some words upon that business,
+If you would grant the time.
+
+BANQUO.
+At your kind’st leisure.
+
+MACBETH.
+If you shall cleave to my consent, when ’tis,
+It shall make honour for you.
+
+BANQUO.
+So I lose none
+In seeking to augment it, but still keep
+My bosom franchis’d, and allegiance clear,
+I shall be counsell’d.
+
+MACBETH.
+Good repose the while!
+
+BANQUO.
+Thanks, sir: the like to you.
+
+ [_Exeunt Banquo and Fleance._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
+She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+Is this a dagger which I see before me,
+The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:—
+I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
+Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
+To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
+A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
+Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
+I see thee yet, in form as palpable
+As this which now I draw.
+Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going;
+And such an instrument I was to use.
+Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses,
+Or else worth all the rest: I see thee still;
+And on thy blade and dudgeon, gouts of blood,
+Which was not so before.—There’s no such thing.
+It is the bloody business which informs
+Thus to mine eyes.—Now o’er the one half-world
+Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
+The curtain’d sleep. Witchcraft celebrates
+Pale Hecate’s off’rings; and wither’d murder,
+Alarum’d by his sentinel, the wolf,
+Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
+With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design
+Moves like a ghost.—Thou sure and firm-set earth,
+Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
+Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
+And take the present horror from the time,
+Which now suits with it.—Whiles I threat, he lives.
+Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
+
+ [_A bell rings._]
+
+I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.
+Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
+That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The same.
+
+ Enter Lady Macbeth.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold:
+What hath quench’d them hath given me fire.—Hark!—Peace!
+It was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman,
+Which gives the stern’st good night. He is about it.
+The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms
+Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg’d their possets,
+That death and nature do contend about them,
+Whether they live or die.
+
+MACBETH.
+[_Within._] Who’s there?—what, ho!
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Alack! I am afraid they have awak’d,
+And ’tis not done. Th’ attempt and not the deed
+Confounds us.—Hark!—I laid their daggers ready;
+He could not miss ’em.—Had he not resembled
+My father as he slept, I had done’t.—My husband!
+
+ Enter Macbeth.
+
+MACBETH.
+I have done the deed.—Didst thou not hear a noise?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
+Did not you speak?
+
+MACBETH.
+When?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Now.
+
+MACBETH.
+As I descended?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Ay.
+
+MACBETH.
+Hark!—Who lies i’ th’ second chamber?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Donalbain.
+
+MACBETH.
+This is a sorry sight.
+
+ [_Looking on his hands._]
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
+
+MACBETH.
+There’s one did laugh in’s sleep, and one cried, “Murder!”
+That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them.
+But they did say their prayers, and address’d them
+Again to sleep.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+There are two lodg’d together.
+
+MACBETH.
+One cried, “God bless us!” and, “Amen,” the other,
+As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands.
+List’ning their fear, I could not say “Amen,”
+When they did say, “God bless us.”
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Consider it not so deeply.
+
+MACBETH.
+But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen”?
+I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”
+Stuck in my throat.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+These deeds must not be thought
+After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
+
+MACBETH.
+Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more!
+Macbeth does murder sleep,”—the innocent sleep;
+Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,
+The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
+Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
+Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+What do you mean?
+
+MACBETH.
+Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house:
+“Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor
+Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more!”
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
+You do unbend your noble strength to think
+So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
+And wash this filthy witness from your hand.—
+Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
+They must lie there: go carry them, and smear
+The sleepy grooms with blood.
+
+MACBETH.
+I’ll go no more:
+I am afraid to think what I have done;
+Look on’t again I dare not.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Infirm of purpose!
+Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
+Are but as pictures. ’Tis the eye of childhood
+That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
+I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal,
+For it must seem their guilt.
+
+ [_Exit. Knocking within._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Whence is that knocking?
+How is’t with me, when every noise appals me?
+What hands are here? Ha, they pluck out mine eyes!
+Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
+Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
+The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
+Making the green one red.
+
+ Enter Lady Macbeth.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+My hands are of your color, but I shame
+To wear a heart so white. [_Knocking within._] I hear knocking
+At the south entry:—retire we to our chamber.
+A little water clears us of this deed:
+How easy is it then! Your constancy
+Hath left you unattended.—[_Knocking within._] Hark, more knocking.
+Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us
+And show us to be watchers. Be not lost
+So poorly in your thoughts.
+
+MACBETH.
+To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself. [_Knocking within._]
+Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same.
+
+ Enter a Porter. Knocking within.
+
+PORTER.
+Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell gate, he should
+have old turning the key. [_Knocking._] Knock, knock, knock. Who’s
+there, i’ th’ name of Belzebub? Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on
+the expectation of plenty: come in time; have napkins enow about you;
+here you’ll sweat for’t. [_Knocking._] Knock, knock! Who’s there, i’
+th’ other devil’s name? Faith, here’s an equivocator, that could swear
+in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough
+for God’s sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come in,
+equivocator. [_Knocking._] Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there? Faith,
+here’s an English tailor come hither, for stealing out of a French
+hose: come in, tailor; here you may roast your goose. [_Knocking._]
+Knock, knock. Never at quiet! What are you?—But this place is too cold
+for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in
+some of all professions, that go the primrose way to th’ everlasting
+bonfire. [_Knocking._] Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.
+
+ [_Opens the gate._]
+
+ Enter Macduff and Lennox.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,
+That you do lie so late?
+
+PORTER.
+Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock; and drink, sir, is
+a great provoker of three things.
+
+MACDUFF.
+What three things does drink especially provoke?
+
+PORTER.
+Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes
+and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the
+performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with
+lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes
+him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
+not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and giving him
+the lie, leaves him.
+
+MACDUFF.
+I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.
+
+PORTER.
+That it did, sir, i’ the very throat on me; but I requited him for his
+lie; and (I think) being too strong for him, though he took up my legs
+sometime, yet I made a shift to cast him.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Is thy master stirring?
+
+ Enter Macbeth.
+
+Our knocking has awak’d him; here he comes.
+
+LENNOX.
+Good morrow, noble sir!
+
+MACBETH.
+Good morrow, both!
+
+MACDUFF.
+Is the King stirring, worthy thane?
+
+MACBETH.
+Not yet.
+
+MACDUFF.
+He did command me to call timely on him.
+I have almost slipp’d the hour.
+
+MACBETH.
+I’ll bring you to him.
+
+MACDUFF.
+I know this is a joyful trouble to you;
+But yet ’tis one.
+
+MACBETH.
+The labour we delight in physics pain.
+This is the door.
+
+MACDUFF.
+I’ll make so bold to call.
+For ’tis my limited service.
+
+ [_Exit Macduff._]
+
+LENNOX.
+Goes the King hence today?
+
+MACBETH.
+He does. He did appoint so.
+
+LENNOX.
+The night has been unruly: where we lay,
+Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,
+Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death,
+And prophesying, with accents terrible,
+Of dire combustion and confus’d events,
+New hatch’d to the woeful time. The obscure bird
+Clamour’d the live-long night. Some say the earth
+Was feverous, and did shake.
+
+MACBETH.
+’Twas a rough night.
+
+LENNOX.
+My young remembrance cannot parallel
+A fellow to it.
+
+ Enter Macduff.
+
+MACDUFF.
+O horror, horror, horror!
+Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!
+
+MACBETH, LENNOX.
+What’s the matter?
+
+MACDUFF.
+Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
+Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
+The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence
+The life o’ th’ building.
+
+MACBETH.
+What is’t you say? the life?
+
+LENNOX.
+Mean you his majesty?
+
+MACDUFF.
+Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
+With a new Gorgon. Do not bid me speak.
+See, and then speak yourselves.
+
+ [_Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox._]
+
+Awake, awake!—
+Ring the alarum bell.—Murder and treason!
+Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!
+Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,
+And look on death itself! Up, up, and see
+The great doom’s image. Malcolm! Banquo!
+As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites
+To countenance this horror!
+
+ [_Alarum-bell rings._]
+
+ Enter Lady Macbeth.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+What’s the business,
+That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
+The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!
+
+MACDUFF.
+O gentle lady,
+’Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:
+The repetition, in a woman’s ear,
+Would murder as it fell.
+
+ Enter Banquo.
+
+O Banquo, Banquo!
+Our royal master’s murder’d!
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Woe, alas!
+What, in our house?
+
+BANQUO.
+Too cruel anywhere.—
+Dear Duff, I pr’ythee, contradict thyself,
+And say it is not so.
+
+ Enter Macbeth and Lennox with Ross.
+
+MACBETH.
+Had I but died an hour before this chance,
+I had liv’d a blessed time; for, from this instant
+There’s nothing serious in mortality.
+All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;
+The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
+Is left this vault to brag of.
+
+ Enter Malcolm and Donalbain.
+
+DONALBAIN.
+What is amiss?
+
+MACBETH.
+You are, and do not know’t:
+The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
+Is stopp’d; the very source of it is stopp’d.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Your royal father’s murder’d.
+
+MALCOLM.
+O, by whom?
+
+LENNOX.
+Those of his chamber, as it seem’d, had done’t:
+Their hands and faces were all badg’d with blood;
+So were their daggers, which, unwip’d, we found
+Upon their pillows. They star’d, and were distracted;
+No man’s life was to be trusted with them.
+
+MACBETH.
+O, yet I do repent me of my fury,
+That I did kill them.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Wherefore did you so?
+
+MACBETH.
+Who can be wise, amaz’d, temperate, and furious,
+Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:
+Th’ expedition of my violent love
+Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,
+His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood;
+And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature
+For ruin’s wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,
+Steep’d in the colours of their trade, their daggers
+Unmannerly breech’d with gore. Who could refrain,
+That had a heart to love, and in that heart
+Courage to make’s love known?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Help me hence, ho!
+
+MACDUFF.
+Look to the lady.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Why do we hold our tongues,
+That most may claim this argument for ours?
+
+DONALBAIN.
+What should be spoken here, where our fate,
+Hid in an auger hole, may rush, and seize us?
+Let’s away. Our tears are not yet brew’d.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Nor our strong sorrow
+Upon the foot of motion.
+
+BANQUO.
+Look to the lady:—
+
+ [_Lady Macbeth is carried out._]
+
+And when we have our naked frailties hid,
+That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
+And question this most bloody piece of work
+To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:
+In the great hand of God I stand; and thence
+Against the undivulg’d pretence I fight
+Of treasonous malice.
+
+MACDUFF.
+And so do I.
+
+ALL.
+So all.
+
+MACBETH.
+Let’s briefly put on manly readiness,
+And meet i’ th’ hall together.
+
+ALL.
+Well contented.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain._]
+
+MALCOLM.
+What will you do? Let’s not consort with them:
+To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
+Which the false man does easy. I’ll to England.
+
+DONALBAIN.
+To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune
+Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are,
+There’s daggers in men’s smiles: the near in blood,
+The nearer bloody.
+
+MALCOLM.
+This murderous shaft that’s shot
+Hath not yet lighted; and our safest way
+Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse;
+And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
+But shift away. There’s warrant in that theft
+Which steals itself, when there’s no mercy left.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same. Without the Castle.
+
+ Enter Ross and an Old Man.
+
+OLD MAN.
+Threescore and ten I can remember well,
+Within the volume of which time I have seen
+Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
+Hath trifled former knowings.
+
+ROSS.
+Ha, good father,
+Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man’s act,
+Threatens his bloody stage: by the clock ’tis day,
+And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.
+Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame,
+That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
+When living light should kiss it?
+
+OLD MAN.
+’Tis unnatural,
+Even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last,
+A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
+Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.
+
+ROSS.
+And Duncan’s horses (a thing most strange and certain)
+Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
+Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,
+Contending ’gainst obedience, as they would make
+War with mankind.
+
+OLD MAN.
+’Tis said they eat each other.
+
+ROSS.
+They did so; to the amazement of mine eyes,
+That look’d upon’t.
+Here comes the good Macduff.
+
+ Enter Macduff.
+
+How goes the world, sir, now?
+
+MACDUFF.
+Why, see you not?
+
+ROSS.
+Is’t known who did this more than bloody deed?
+
+MACDUFF.
+Those that Macbeth hath slain.
+
+ROSS.
+Alas, the day!
+What good could they pretend?
+
+MACDUFF.
+They were suborn’d.
+Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons,
+Are stol’n away and fled; which puts upon them
+Suspicion of the deed.
+
+ROSS.
+’Gainst nature still:
+Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up
+Thine own life’s means!—Then ’tis most like
+The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
+
+MACDUFF.
+He is already nam’d; and gone to Scone
+To be invested.
+
+ROSS.
+Where is Duncan’s body?
+
+MACDUFF.
+Carried to Colmekill,
+The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,
+And guardian of their bones.
+
+ROSS.
+Will you to Scone?
+
+MACDUFF.
+No, cousin, I’ll to Fife.
+
+ROSS.
+Well, I will thither.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Well, may you see things well done there. Adieu!
+Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
+
+ROSS.
+Farewell, father.
+
+OLD MAN.
+God’s benison go with you; and with those
+That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Banquo.
+
+BANQUO.
+Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
+As the Weird Women promis’d; and, I fear,
+Thou play’dst most foully for’t; yet it was said
+It should not stand in thy posterity;
+But that myself should be the root and father
+Of many kings. If there come truth from them
+(As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine)
+Why, by the verities on thee made good,
+May they not be my oracles as well,
+And set me up in hope? But hush; no more.
+
+ Sennet sounded. Enter Macbeth as King, Lady Macbeth as Queen; Lennox,
+ Ross, Lords, and Attendants.
+
+MACBETH.
+Here’s our chief guest.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+If he had been forgotten,
+It had been as a gap in our great feast,
+And all-thing unbecoming.
+
+MACBETH.
+Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir,
+And I’ll request your presence.
+
+BANQUO.
+Let your Highness
+Command upon me, to the which my duties
+Are with a most indissoluble tie
+For ever knit.
+
+MACBETH.
+Ride you this afternoon?
+
+BANQUO.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+MACBETH.
+We should have else desir’d your good advice
+(Which still hath been both grave and prosperous)
+In this day’s council; but we’ll take tomorrow.
+Is’t far you ride?
+
+BANQUO.
+As far, my lord, as will fill up the time
+’Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,
+I must become a borrower of the night,
+For a dark hour or twain.
+
+MACBETH.
+Fail not our feast.
+
+BANQUO.
+My lord, I will not.
+
+MACBETH.
+We hear our bloody cousins are bestow’d
+In England and in Ireland; not confessing
+Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers
+With strange invention. But of that tomorrow,
+When therewithal we shall have cause of state
+Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,
+Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?
+
+BANQUO.
+Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon’s.
+
+MACBETH.
+I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;
+And so I do commend you to their backs.
+Farewell.—
+
+ [_Exit Banquo._]
+
+Let every man be master of his time
+Till seven at night; to make society
+The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself
+Till supper time alone: while then, God be with you.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lady Macbeth, Lords, &c._]
+
+Sirrah, a word with you. Attend those men
+Our pleasure?
+
+SERVANT.
+They are, my lord, without the palace gate.
+
+MACBETH.
+Bring them before us.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+To be thus is nothing,
+But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo
+Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature
+Reigns that which would be fear’d: ’tis much he dares;
+And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
+He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
+To act in safety. There is none but he
+Whose being I do fear: and under him
+My genius is rebuk’d; as, it is said,
+Mark Antony’s was by Caesar. He chid the sisters
+When first they put the name of king upon me,
+And bade them speak to him; then, prophet-like,
+They hail’d him father to a line of kings:
+Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown,
+And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
+Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand,
+No son of mine succeeding. If’t be so,
+For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind;
+For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d;
+Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
+Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
+Given to the common enemy of man,
+To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
+Rather than so, come, fate, into the list,
+And champion me to th’ utterance!—Who’s there?—
+
+ Enter Servant with two Murderers.
+
+Now go to the door, and stay there till we call.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+Was it not yesterday we spoke together?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+It was, so please your Highness.
+
+MACBETH.
+Well then, now
+Have you consider’d of my speeches? Know
+That it was he, in the times past, which held you
+So under fortune, which you thought had been
+Our innocent self? This I made good to you
+In our last conference, pass’d in probation with you
+How you were borne in hand, how cross’d, the instruments,
+Who wrought with them, and all things else that might
+To half a soul and to a notion craz’d
+Say, “Thus did Banquo.”
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+You made it known to us.
+
+MACBETH.
+I did so; and went further, which is now
+Our point of second meeting. Do you find
+Your patience so predominant in your nature,
+That you can let this go? Are you so gospell’d,
+To pray for this good man and for his issue,
+Whose heavy hand hath bow’d you to the grave,
+And beggar’d yours forever?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+We are men, my liege.
+
+MACBETH.
+Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
+As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
+Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept
+All by the name of dogs: the valu’d file
+Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
+The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
+According to the gift which bounteous nature
+Hath in him clos’d; whereby he does receive
+Particular addition, from the bill
+That writes them all alike: and so of men.
+Now, if you have a station in the file,
+Not i’ th’ worst rank of manhood, say’t;
+And I will put that business in your bosoms,
+Whose execution takes your enemy off,
+Grapples you to the heart and love of us,
+Who wear our health but sickly in his life,
+Which in his death were perfect.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+I am one, my liege,
+Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
+Hath so incens’d that I am reckless what
+I do to spite the world.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+And I another,
+So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune,
+That I would set my life on any chance,
+To mend it or be rid on’t.
+
+MACBETH.
+Both of you
+Know Banquo was your enemy.
+
+BOTH MURDERERS.
+True, my lord.
+
+MACBETH.
+So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,
+That every minute of his being thrusts
+Against my near’st of life; and though I could
+With barefac’d power sweep him from my sight,
+And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,
+For certain friends that are both his and mine,
+Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall
+Who I myself struck down: and thence it is
+That I to your assistance do make love,
+Masking the business from the common eye
+For sundry weighty reasons.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+We shall, my lord,
+Perform what you command us.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Though our lives—
+
+MACBETH.
+Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most,
+I will advise you where to plant yourselves,
+Acquaint you with the perfect spy o’ th’ time,
+The moment on’t; for’t must be done tonight
+And something from the palace; always thought
+That I require a clearness. And with him
+(To leave no rubs nor botches in the work)
+Fleance his son, that keeps him company,
+Whose absence is no less material to me
+Than is his father’s, must embrace the fate
+Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart.
+I’ll come to you anon.
+
+BOTH MURDERERS.
+We are resolv’d, my lord.
+
+MACBETH.
+I’ll call upon you straight: abide within.
+
+ [_Exeunt Murderers._]
+
+It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight,
+If it find heaven, must find it out tonight.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. Another Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Lady Macbeth and a Servant.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Is Banquo gone from court?
+
+SERVANT.
+Ay, madam, but returns again tonight.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Say to the King, I would attend his leisure
+For a few words.
+
+SERVANT.
+Madam, I will.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Naught’s had, all’s spent,
+Where our desire is got without content:
+’Tis safer to be that which we destroy,
+Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
+
+ Enter Macbeth.
+
+How now, my lord, why do you keep alone,
+Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
+Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
+With them they think on? Things without all remedy
+Should be without regard: what’s done is done.
+
+MACBETH.
+We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it.
+She’ll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice
+Remains in danger of her former tooth.
+But let the frame of things disjoint,
+Both the worlds suffer,
+Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
+In the affliction of these terrible dreams
+That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead,
+Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
+Than on the torture of the mind to lie
+In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;
+After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well;
+Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
+Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
+Can touch him further.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Come on,
+Gently my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks;
+Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight.
+
+MACBETH.
+So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you.
+Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;
+Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:
+Unsafe the while, that we
+Must lave our honours in these flattering streams,
+And make our faces vizards to our hearts,
+Disguising what they are.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+You must leave this.
+
+MACBETH.
+O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
+Thou know’st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+But in them nature’s copy’s not eterne.
+
+MACBETH.
+There’s comfort yet; they are assailable.
+Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown
+His cloister’d flight, ere to black Hecate’s summons
+The shard-born beetle, with his drowsy hums,
+Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done
+A deed of dreadful note.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+What’s to be done?
+
+MACBETH.
+Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
+Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,
+Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
+And with thy bloody and invisible hand
+Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
+Which keeps me pale!—Light thickens; and the crow
+Makes wing to th’ rooky wood.
+Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
+Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
+Thou marvell’st at my words: but hold thee still;
+Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
+So, pr’ythee, go with me.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A Park or Lawn, with a gate leading to the Palace.
+
+ Enter three Murderers.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+But who did bid thee join with us?
+
+THIRD MURDERER.
+Macbeth.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+He needs not our mistrust; since he delivers
+Our offices and what we have to do
+To the direction just.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Then stand with us.
+The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
+Now spurs the lated traveller apace,
+To gain the timely inn; and near approaches
+The subject of our watch.
+
+THIRD MURDERER.
+Hark! I hear horses.
+
+BANQUO.
+[_Within._] Give us a light there, ho!
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Then ’tis he; the rest
+That are within the note of expectation
+Already are i’ th’ court.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+His horses go about.
+
+THIRD MURDERER.
+Almost a mile; but he does usually,
+So all men do, from hence to the palace gate
+Make it their walk.
+
+ Enter Banquo and Fleance with a torch.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+A light, a light!
+
+THIRD MURDERER.
+’Tis he.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Stand to’t.
+
+BANQUO.
+It will be rain tonight.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Let it come down.
+
+ [_Assaults Banquo._]
+
+BANQUO.
+O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
+Thou mayst revenge—O slave!
+
+ [_Dies. Fleance escapes._]
+
+THIRD MURDERER.
+Who did strike out the light?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Was’t not the way?
+
+THIRD MURDERER.
+There’s but one down: the son is fled.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+We have lost best half of our affair.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Well, let’s away, and say how much is done.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same. A Room of state in the Palace.
+
+ A banquet prepared. Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox, Lords
+ and Attendants.
+
+MACBETH.
+You know your own degrees, sit down. At first
+And last the hearty welcome.
+
+LORDS.
+Thanks to your Majesty.
+
+MACBETH.
+Ourself will mingle with society,
+And play the humble host.
+Our hostess keeps her state; but, in best time,
+We will require her welcome.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;
+For my heart speaks they are welcome.
+
+ Enter first Murderer to the door.
+
+MACBETH.
+See, they encounter thee with their hearts’ thanks.
+Both sides are even: here I’ll sit i’ th’ midst.
+
+Be large in mirth; anon we’ll drink a measure
+The table round. There’s blood upon thy face.
+
+MURDERER.
+’Tis Banquo’s then.
+
+MACBETH.
+’Tis better thee without than he within.
+Is he dispatch’d?
+
+MURDERER.
+My lord, his throat is cut. That I did for him.
+
+MACBETH.
+Thou art the best o’ th’ cut-throats;
+Yet he’s good that did the like for Fleance:
+If thou didst it, thou art the nonpareil.
+
+MURDERER.
+Most royal sir,
+Fleance is ’scap’d.
+
+MACBETH.
+Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect;
+Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
+As broad and general as the casing air:
+But now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in
+To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo’s safe?
+
+MURDERER.
+Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides,
+With twenty trenched gashes on his head;
+The least a death to nature.
+
+MACBETH.
+Thanks for that.
+There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled
+Hath nature that in time will venom breed,
+No teeth for th’ present.—Get thee gone; tomorrow
+We’ll hear, ourselves, again.
+
+ [_Exit Murderer._]
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+My royal lord,
+You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold
+That is not often vouch’d, while ’tis a-making,
+’Tis given with welcome. To feed were best at home;
+From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
+Meeting were bare without it.
+
+ The Ghost of Banquo rises, and sits in Macbeth’s place.
+
+MACBETH.
+Sweet remembrancer!—
+Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
+And health on both!
+
+LENNOX.
+May’t please your Highness sit.
+
+MACBETH.
+Here had we now our country’s honour roof’d,
+Were the grac’d person of our Banquo present;
+Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
+Than pity for mischance!
+
+ROSS.
+His absence, sir,
+Lays blame upon his promise. Please’t your Highness
+To grace us with your royal company?
+
+MACBETH.
+The table’s full.
+
+LENNOX.
+Here is a place reserv’d, sir.
+
+MACBETH.
+Where?
+
+LENNOX.
+Here, my good lord. What is’t that moves your Highness?
+
+MACBETH.
+Which of you have done this?
+
+LORDS.
+What, my good lord?
+
+MACBETH.
+Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake
+Thy gory locks at me.
+
+ROSS.
+Gentlemen, rise; his Highness is not well.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus,
+And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;
+The fit is momentary; upon a thought
+He will again be well. If much you note him,
+You shall offend him, and extend his passion.
+Feed, and regard him not.—Are you a man?
+
+MACBETH.
+Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that
+Which might appal the devil.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+O proper stuff!
+This is the very painting of your fear:
+This is the air-drawn dagger which you said,
+Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws, and starts
+(Impostors to true fear), would well become
+A woman’s story at a winter’s fire,
+Authoris’d by her grandam. Shame itself!
+Why do you make such faces? When all’s done,
+You look but on a stool.
+
+MACBETH.
+Pr’ythee, see there!
+Behold! look! lo! how say you?
+Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.—
+If charnel houses and our graves must send
+Those that we bury back, our monuments
+Shall be the maws of kites.
+
+ [_Ghost disappears._]
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+What, quite unmann’d in folly?
+
+MACBETH.
+If I stand here, I saw him.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Fie, for shame!
+
+MACBETH.
+Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ th’ olden time,
+Ere humane statute purg’d the gentle weal;
+Ay, and since too, murders have been perform’d
+Too terrible for the ear: the time has been,
+That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
+And there an end; but now they rise again,
+With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
+And push us from our stools. This is more strange
+Than such a murder is.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+My worthy lord,
+Your noble friends do lack you.
+
+MACBETH.
+I do forget.—
+Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends.
+I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing
+To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;
+Then I’ll sit down.—Give me some wine, fill full.—
+I drink to the general joy o’ th’ whole table,
+And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss:
+Would he were here.
+
+ Ghost rises again.
+
+To all, and him, we thirst,
+And all to all.
+
+LORDS.
+Our duties, and the pledge.
+
+MACBETH.
+Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
+Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;
+Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
+Which thou dost glare with!
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Think of this, good peers,
+But as a thing of custom: ’tis no other,
+Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
+
+MACBETH.
+What man dare, I dare:
+Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
+The arm’d rhinoceros, or th’ Hyrcan tiger;
+Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
+Shall never tremble: or be alive again,
+And dare me to the desert with thy sword;
+If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
+The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!
+Unreal mock’ry, hence!
+
+ [_Ghost disappears._]
+
+Why, so;—being gone,
+I am a man again.—Pray you, sit still.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting
+With most admir’d disorder.
+
+MACBETH.
+Can such things be,
+And overcome us like a summer’s cloud,
+Without our special wonder? You make me strange
+Even to the disposition that I owe,
+When now I think you can behold such sights,
+And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
+When mine are blanch’d with fear.
+
+ROSS.
+What sights, my lord?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;
+Question enrages him. At once, good night:—
+Stand not upon the order of your going,
+But go at once.
+
+LENNOX.
+Good night; and better health
+Attend his Majesty!
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+A kind good night to all!
+
+ [_Exeunt all Lords and Attendants._]
+
+MACBETH.
+It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood.
+Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak;
+Augurs, and understood relations, have
+By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth
+The secret’st man of blood.—What is the night?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Almost at odds with morning, which is which.
+
+MACBETH.
+How say’st thou, that Macduff denies his person
+At our great bidding?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Did you send to him, sir?
+
+MACBETH.
+I hear it by the way; but I will send.
+There’s not a one of them but in his house
+I keep a servant fee’d. I will tomorrow
+(And betimes I will) to the Weird Sisters:
+More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,
+By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,
+All causes shall give way: I am in blood
+Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
+Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
+Strange things I have in head, that will to hand,
+Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
+
+MACBETH.
+Come, we’ll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse
+Is the initiate fear that wants hard use.
+We are yet but young in deed.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. The heath.
+
+ Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting Hecate.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Why, how now, Hecate? you look angerly.
+
+HECATE.
+Have I not reason, beldams as you are,
+Saucy and overbold? How did you dare
+To trade and traffic with Macbeth
+In riddles and affairs of death;
+And I, the mistress of your charms,
+The close contriver of all harms,
+Was never call’d to bear my part,
+Or show the glory of our art?
+And, which is worse, all you have done
+Hath been but for a wayward son,
+Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do,
+Loves for his own ends, not for you.
+But make amends now: get you gone,
+And at the pit of Acheron
+Meet me i’ th’ morning: thither he
+Will come to know his destiny.
+Your vessels and your spells provide,
+Your charms, and everything beside.
+I am for th’ air; this night I’ll spend
+Unto a dismal and a fatal end.
+Great business must be wrought ere noon.
+Upon the corner of the moon
+There hangs a vap’rous drop profound;
+I’ll catch it ere it come to ground:
+And that, distill’d by magic sleights,
+Shall raise such artificial sprites,
+As, by the strength of their illusion,
+Shall draw him on to his confusion.
+He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
+His hopes ’bove wisdom, grace, and fear.
+And you all know, security
+Is mortals’ chiefest enemy.
+
+ [_Music and song within, “Come away, come away” &c._]
+
+Hark! I am call’d; my little spirit, see,
+Sits in a foggy cloud and stays for me.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Come, let’s make haste; she’ll soon be back again.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Lennox and another Lord.
+
+LENNOX.
+My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,
+Which can interpret farther: only, I say,
+Thing’s have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan
+Was pitied of Macbeth:—marry, he was dead:—
+And the right valiant Banquo walk’d too late;
+Whom, you may say, if’t please you, Fleance kill’d,
+For Fleance fled. Men must not walk too late.
+Who cannot want the thought, how monstrous
+It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain
+To kill their gracious father? damned fact!
+How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight,
+In pious rage, the two delinquents tear
+That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?
+Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;
+For ’twould have anger’d any heart alive,
+To hear the men deny’t. So that, I say,
+He has borne all things well: and I do think,
+That had he Duncan’s sons under his key
+(As, and’t please heaven, he shall not) they should find
+What ’twere to kill a father; so should Fleance.
+But, peace!—for from broad words, and ’cause he fail’d
+His presence at the tyrant’s feast, I hear,
+Macduff lives in disgrace. Sir, can you tell
+Where he bestows himself?
+
+LORD.
+The son of Duncan,
+From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth,
+Lives in the English court and is receiv’d
+Of the most pious Edward with such grace
+That the malevolence of fortune nothing
+Takes from his high respect. Thither Macduff
+Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid
+To wake Northumberland, and warlike Siward
+That, by the help of these (with Him above
+To ratify the work), we may again
+Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights;
+Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,
+Do faithful homage, and receive free honours,
+All which we pine for now. And this report
+Hath so exasperate the King that he
+Prepares for some attempt of war.
+
+LENNOX.
+Sent he to Macduff?
+
+LORD.
+He did: and with an absolute “Sir, not I,”
+The cloudy messenger turns me his back,
+And hums, as who should say, “You’ll rue the time
+That clogs me with this answer.”
+
+LENNOX.
+And that well might
+Advise him to a caution, t’ hold what distance
+His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel
+Fly to the court of England, and unfold
+His message ere he come, that a swift blessing
+May soon return to this our suffering country
+Under a hand accurs’d!
+
+LORD.
+I’ll send my prayers with him.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling.
+
+ Thunder. Enter the three Witches.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whin’d.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+Harpier cries:—’Tis time, ’tis time.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Round about the cauldron go;
+In the poison’d entrails throw.—
+Toad, that under cold stone
+Days and nights has thirty-one
+Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
+Boil thou first i’ th’ charmed pot!
+
+ALL.
+Double, double, toil and trouble;
+Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble.
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Fillet of a fenny snake,
+In the cauldron boil and bake;
+Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
+Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
+Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
+Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,
+For a charm of powerful trouble,
+Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
+
+ALL.
+Double, double, toil and trouble;
+Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
+Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf
+Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,
+Root of hemlock digg’d i’ th’ dark,
+Liver of blaspheming Jew,
+Gall of goat, and slips of yew
+Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse,
+Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips,
+Finger of birth-strangled babe
+Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,
+Make the gruel thick and slab:
+Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,
+For th’ ingredients of our cauldron.
+
+ALL.
+Double, double, toil and trouble;
+Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble.
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Cool it with a baboon’s blood.
+Then the charm is firm and good.
+
+ Enter Hecate.
+
+HECATE.
+O, well done! I commend your pains,
+And everyone shall share i’ th’ gains.
+And now about the cauldron sing,
+Like elves and fairies in a ring,
+Enchanting all that you put in.
+
+ [_Music and a song: “Black Spirits,” &c._]
+
+ [_Exit Hecate._]
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+By the pricking of my thumbs,
+Something wicked this way comes.
+Open, locks,
+Whoever knocks!
+
+ Enter Macbeth.
+
+MACBETH.
+How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
+What is’t you do?
+
+ALL.
+A deed without a name.
+
+MACBETH.
+I conjure you, by that which you profess,
+(Howe’er you come to know it) answer me:
+Though you untie the winds, and let them fight
+Against the churches; though the yesty waves
+Confound and swallow navigation up;
+Though bladed corn be lodg’d, and trees blown down;
+Though castles topple on their warders’ heads;
+Though palaces and pyramids do slope
+Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
+Of nature’s germens tumble all together,
+Even till destruction sicken, answer me
+To what I ask you.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Speak.
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Demand.
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+We’ll answer.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Say, if thou’dst rather hear it from our mouths,
+Or from our masters?
+
+MACBETH.
+Call ’em, let me see ’em.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Pour in sow’s blood, that hath eaten
+Her nine farrow; grease that’s sweaten
+From the murderer’s gibbet throw
+Into the flame.
+
+ALL.
+Come, high or low;
+Thyself and office deftly show!
+
+ [_Thunder. An Apparition of an armed Head rises._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Tell me, thou unknown power,—
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+He knows thy thought:
+Hear his speech, but say thou naught.
+
+APPARITION.
+Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff;
+Beware the Thane of Fife.—Dismiss me.—Enough.
+
+ [_Descends._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Whate’er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks;
+Thou hast harp’d my fear aright.—But one word more.
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+He will not be commanded. Here’s another,
+More potent than the first.
+
+ [_Thunder. An Apparition of a bloody Child rises._]
+
+APPARITION.
+Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
+
+MACBETH.
+Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.
+
+APPARITION.
+Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
+The power of man, for none of woman born
+Shall harm Macbeth.
+
+ [_Descends._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?
+But yet I’ll make assurance double sure,
+And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live;
+That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
+And sleep in spite of thunder.
+
+ [_Thunder. An Apparition of a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand,
+ rises._]
+
+What is this,
+That rises like the issue of a king,
+And wears upon his baby brow the round
+And top of sovereignty?
+
+ALL.
+Listen, but speak not to’t.
+
+APPARITION.
+Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
+Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:
+Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be, until
+Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
+Shall come against him.
+
+ [_Descends._]
+
+MACBETH.
+That will never be:
+Who can impress the forest; bid the tree
+Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements, good!
+Rebellious head, rise never till the wood
+Of Birnam rise, and our high-plac’d Macbeth
+Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath
+To time and mortal custom.—Yet my heart
+Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art
+Can tell so much, shall Banquo’s issue ever
+Reign in this kingdom?
+
+ALL.
+Seek to know no more.
+
+MACBETH.
+I will be satisfied: deny me this,
+And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know.
+Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?
+
+ [_Hautboys._]
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Show!
+
+SECOND WITCH.
+Show!
+
+THIRD WITCH.
+Show!
+
+ALL.
+Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;
+Come like shadows, so depart!
+
+ [_A show of eight kings appear, and pass over in order, the last with
+ a glass in his hand; Banquo following._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Thou are too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!
+Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs:—and thy hair,
+Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.
+A third is like the former.—Filthy hags!
+Why do you show me this?—A fourth!—Start, eyes!
+What, will the line stretch out to th’ crack of doom?
+Another yet!—A seventh!—I’ll see no more:—
+And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass
+Which shows me many more; and some I see
+That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry.
+Horrible sight!—Now I see ’tis true;
+For the blood-bolter’d Banquo smiles upon me,
+And points at them for his.—What! is this so?
+
+FIRST WITCH.
+Ay, sir, all this is so:—but why
+Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?—
+Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,
+And show the best of our delights.
+I’ll charm the air to give a sound,
+While you perform your antic round;
+That this great king may kindly say,
+Our duties did his welcome pay.
+
+ [_Music. The Witches dance, and vanish._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Where are they? Gone?—Let this pernicious hour
+Stand aye accursed in the calendar!—
+Come in, without there!
+
+ Enter Lennox.
+
+LENNOX.
+What’s your Grace’s will?
+
+MACBETH.
+Saw you the Weird Sisters?
+
+LENNOX.
+No, my lord.
+
+MACBETH.
+Came they not by you?
+
+LENNOX.
+No, indeed, my lord.
+
+MACBETH.
+Infected be the air whereon they ride;
+And damn’d all those that trust them!—I did hear
+The galloping of horse: who was’t came by?
+
+LENNOX.
+’Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word
+Macduff is fled to England.
+
+MACBETH.
+Fled to England!
+
+LENNOX.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+MACBETH.
+Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits:
+The flighty purpose never is o’ertook
+Unless the deed go with it. From this moment
+The very firstlings of my heart shall be
+The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
+To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:
+The castle of Macduff I will surprise;
+Seize upon Fife; give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword
+His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
+That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;
+This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool:
+But no more sights!—Where are these gentlemen?
+Come, bring me where they are.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Fife. A Room in Macduff’s Castle.
+
+ Enter Lady Macduff her Son and Ross.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+What had he done, to make him fly the land?
+
+ROSS.
+You must have patience, madam.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+He had none:
+His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
+Our fears do make us traitors.
+
+ROSS.
+You know not
+Whether it was his wisdom or his fear.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes,
+His mansion, and his titles, in a place
+From whence himself does fly? He loves us not:
+He wants the natural touch; for the poor wren,
+The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
+Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
+All is the fear, and nothing is the love;
+As little is the wisdom, where the flight
+So runs against all reason.
+
+ROSS.
+My dearest coz,
+I pray you, school yourself: but, for your husband,
+He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows
+The fits o’ th’ season. I dare not speak much further:
+But cruel are the times, when we are traitors,
+And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour
+From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
+But float upon a wild and violent sea
+Each way and move—I take my leave of you:
+Shall not be long but I’ll be here again.
+Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
+To what they were before.—My pretty cousin,
+Blessing upon you!
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Father’d he is, and yet he’s fatherless.
+
+ROSS.
+I am so much a fool, should I stay longer,
+It would be my disgrace and your discomfort:
+I take my leave at once.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Sirrah, your father’s dead.
+And what will you do now? How will you live?
+
+SON.
+As birds do, mother.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+What, with worms and flies?
+
+SON.
+With what I get, I mean; and so do they.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Poor bird! thou’dst never fear the net nor lime,
+The pit-fall nor the gin.
+
+SON.
+Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for.
+My father is not dead, for all your saying.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Yes, he is dead: how wilt thou do for a father?
+
+SON.
+Nay, how will you do for a husband?
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.
+
+SON.
+Then you’ll buy ’em to sell again.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Thou speak’st with all thy wit;
+And yet, i’ faith, with wit enough for thee.
+
+SON.
+Was my father a traitor, mother?
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Ay, that he was.
+
+SON.
+What is a traitor?
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Why, one that swears and lies.
+
+SON.
+And be all traitors that do so?
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged.
+
+SON.
+And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Every one.
+
+SON.
+Who must hang them?
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Why, the honest men.
+
+SON.
+Then the liars and swearers are fools: for there are liars and swearers
+enow to beat the honest men and hang up them.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Now, God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a father?
+
+SON.
+If he were dead, you’ld weep for him: if you would not, it were a good
+sign that I should quickly have a new father.
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Poor prattler, how thou talk’st!
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known,
+Though in your state of honour I am perfect.
+I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:
+If you will take a homely man’s advice,
+Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.
+To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage;
+To do worse to you were fell cruelty,
+Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you!
+I dare abide no longer.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+Whither should I fly?
+I have done no harm. But I remember now
+I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
+Is often laudable; to do good sometime
+Accounted dangerous folly:  why then, alas,
+Do I put up that womanly defence,
+To say I have done no harm? What are these faces?
+
+ Enter Murderers.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Where is your husband?
+
+LADY MACDUFF.
+I hope, in no place so unsanctified
+Where such as thou mayst find him.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+He’s a traitor.
+
+SON.
+Thou liest, thou shag-ear’d villain!
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+What, you egg!
+
+ [_Stabbing him._]
+
+Young fry of treachery!
+
+SON.
+He has kill’d me, mother:
+Run away, I pray you!
+
+ [_Dies. Exit Lady Macduff, crying “Murder!” and pursued by the
+ Murderers._]
+
+SCENE III. England. Before the King’s Palace.
+
+ Enter Malcolm and Macduff.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Let us seek out some desolate shade and there
+Weep our sad bosoms empty.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Let us rather
+Hold fast the mortal sword, and, like good men,
+Bestride our down-fall’n birthdom. Each new morn
+New widows howl, new orphans cry; new sorrows
+Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds
+As if it felt with Scotland, and yell’d out
+Like syllable of dolour.
+
+MALCOLM.
+What I believe, I’ll wail;
+What know, believe; and what I can redress,
+As I shall find the time to friend, I will.
+What you have spoke, it may be so, perchance.
+This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
+Was once thought honest: you have loved him well;
+He hath not touch’d you yet. I am young; but something
+You may deserve of him through me; and wisdom
+To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
+To appease an angry god.
+
+MACDUFF.
+I am not treacherous.
+
+MALCOLM.
+But Macbeth is.
+A good and virtuous nature may recoil
+In an imperial charge. But I shall crave your pardon.
+That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose.
+Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell:
+Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
+Yet grace must still look so.
+
+MACDUFF.
+I have lost my hopes.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Perchance even there where I did find my doubts.
+Why in that rawness left you wife and child,
+Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,
+Without leave-taking?—I pray you,
+Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,
+But mine own safeties. You may be rightly just,
+Whatever I shall think.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Bleed, bleed, poor country!
+Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
+For goodness dare not check thee! wear thou thy wrongs;
+The title is affeer’d.—Fare thee well, lord:
+I would not be the villain that thou think’st
+For the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp
+And the rich East to boot.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Be not offended:
+I speak not as in absolute fear of you.
+I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
+It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
+Is added to her wounds. I think, withal,
+There would be hands uplifted in my right;
+And here, from gracious England, have I offer
+Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,
+When I shall tread upon the tyrant’s head,
+Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
+Shall have more vices than it had before,
+More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever,
+By him that shall succeed.
+
+MACDUFF.
+What should he be?
+
+MALCOLM.
+It is myself I mean; in whom I know
+All the particulars of vice so grafted
+That, when they shall be open’d, black Macbeth
+Will seem as pure as snow; and the poor state
+Esteem him as a lamb, being compar’d
+With my confineless harms.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Not in the legions
+Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d
+In evils to top Macbeth.
+
+MALCOLM.
+I grant him bloody,
+Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
+Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
+That has a name: but there’s no bottom, none,
+In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters,
+Your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up
+The cistern of my lust; and my desire
+All continent impediments would o’erbear,
+That did oppose my will: better Macbeth
+Than such an one to reign.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Boundless intemperance
+In nature is a tyranny; it hath been
+Th’ untimely emptying of the happy throne,
+And fall of many kings. But fear not yet
+To take upon you what is yours: you may
+Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,
+And yet seem cold—the time you may so hoodwink.
+We have willing dames enough; there cannot be
+That vulture in you, to devour so many
+As will to greatness dedicate themselves,
+Finding it so inclin’d.
+
+MALCOLM.
+With this there grows
+In my most ill-compos’d affection such
+A staunchless avarice, that, were I king,
+I should cut off the nobles for their lands;
+Desire his jewels, and this other’s house:
+And my more-having would be as a sauce
+To make me hunger more; that I should forge
+Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
+Destroying them for wealth.
+
+MACDUFF.
+This avarice
+Sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root
+Than summer-seeming lust; and it hath been
+The sword of our slain kings: yet do not fear;
+Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will,
+Of your mere own. All these are portable,
+With other graces weigh’d.
+
+MALCOLM.
+But I have none: the king-becoming graces,
+As justice, verity, temp’rance, stableness,
+Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
+Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
+I have no relish of them; but abound
+In the division of each several crime,
+Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should
+Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
+Uproar the universal peace, confound
+All unity on earth.
+
+MACDUFF.
+O Scotland, Scotland!
+
+MALCOLM.
+If such a one be fit to govern, speak:
+I am as I have spoken.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Fit to govern?
+No, not to live.—O nation miserable,
+With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter’d,
+When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
+Since that the truest issue of thy throne
+By his own interdiction stands accus’d,
+And does blaspheme his breed? Thy royal father
+Was a most sainted king. The queen that bore thee,
+Oft’ner upon her knees than on her feet,
+Died every day she lived. Fare thee well!
+These evils thou repeat’st upon thyself
+Have banish’d me from Scotland.—O my breast,
+Thy hope ends here!
+
+MALCOLM.
+Macduff, this noble passion,
+Child of integrity, hath from my soul
+Wiped the black scruples, reconcil’d my thoughts
+To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth
+By many of these trains hath sought to win me
+Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me
+From over-credulous haste: but God above
+Deal between thee and me! for even now
+I put myself to thy direction, and
+Unspeak mine own detraction; here abjure
+The taints and blames I laid upon myself,
+For strangers to my nature. I am yet
+Unknown to woman; never was forsworn;
+Scarcely have coveted what was mine own;
+At no time broke my faith; would not betray
+The devil to his fellow; and delight
+No less in truth than life: my first false speaking
+Was this upon myself. What I am truly,
+Is thine and my poor country’s to command:
+Whither, indeed, before thy here-approach,
+Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,
+Already at a point, was setting forth.
+Now we’ll together, and the chance of goodness
+Be like our warranted quarrel. Why are you silent?
+
+MACDUFF.
+Such welcome and unwelcome things at once
+’Tis hard to reconcile.
+
+ Enter a Doctor.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Well; more anon.—Comes the King forth, I pray you?
+
+DOCTOR.
+Ay, sir. There are a crew of wretched souls
+That stay his cure: their malady convinces
+The great assay of art; but at his touch,
+Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand,
+They presently amend.
+
+MALCOLM.
+I thank you, doctor.
+
+ [_Exit Doctor._]
+
+MACDUFF.
+What’s the disease he means?
+
+MALCOLM.
+’Tis call’d the evil:
+A most miraculous work in this good king;
+Which often, since my here-remain in England,
+I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,
+Himself best knows, but strangely-visited people,
+All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,
+The mere despair of surgery, he cures;
+Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,
+Put on with holy prayers: and ’tis spoken,
+To the succeeding royalty he leaves
+The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,
+He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy;
+And sundry blessings hang about his throne,
+That speak him full of grace.
+
+ Enter Ross.
+
+MACDUFF.
+See, who comes here?
+
+MALCOLM.
+My countryman; but yet I know him not.
+
+MACDUFF.
+My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither.
+
+MALCOLM.
+I know him now. Good God, betimes remove
+The means that makes us strangers!
+
+ROSS.
+Sir, amen.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Stands Scotland where it did?
+
+ROSS.
+Alas, poor country,
+Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot
+Be call’d our mother, but our grave, where nothing,
+But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;
+Where sighs, and groans, and shrieks, that rent the air,
+Are made, not mark’d; where violent sorrow seems
+A modern ecstasy. The dead man’s knell
+Is there scarce ask’d for who; and good men’s lives
+Expire before the flowers in their caps,
+Dying or ere they sicken.
+
+MACDUFF.
+O, relation
+Too nice, and yet too true!
+
+MALCOLM.
+What’s the newest grief?
+
+ROSS.
+That of an hour’s age doth hiss the speaker;
+Each minute teems a new one.
+
+MACDUFF.
+How does my wife?
+
+ROSS.
+Why, well.
+
+MACDUFF.
+And all my children?
+
+ROSS.
+Well too.
+
+MACDUFF.
+The tyrant has not batter’d at their peace?
+
+ROSS.
+No; they were well at peace when I did leave ’em.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Be not a niggard of your speech: how goes’t?
+
+ROSS.
+When I came hither to transport the tidings,
+Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour
+Of many worthy fellows that were out;
+Which was to my belief witness’d the rather,
+For that I saw the tyrant’s power afoot.
+Now is the time of help. Your eye in Scotland
+Would create soldiers, make our women fight,
+To doff their dire distresses.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Be’t their comfort
+We are coming thither. Gracious England hath
+Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;
+An older and a better soldier none
+That Christendom gives out.
+
+ROSS.
+Would I could answer
+This comfort with the like! But I have words
+That would be howl’d out in the desert air,
+Where hearing should not latch them.
+
+MACDUFF.
+What concern they?
+The general cause? or is it a fee-grief
+Due to some single breast?
+
+ROSS.
+No mind that’s honest
+But in it shares some woe, though the main part
+Pertains to you alone.
+
+MACDUFF.
+If it be mine,
+Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it.
+
+ROSS.
+Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,
+Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
+That ever yet they heard.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Humh! I guess at it.
+
+ROSS.
+Your castle is surpris’d; your wife and babes
+Savagely slaughter’d. To relate the manner
+Were, on the quarry of these murder’d deer,
+To add the death of you.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Merciful heaven!—
+What, man! ne’er pull your hat upon your brows.
+Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak
+Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
+
+MACDUFF.
+My children too?
+
+ROSS.
+Wife, children, servants, all
+That could be found.
+
+MACDUFF.
+And I must be from thence!
+My wife kill’d too?
+
+ROSS.
+I have said.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Be comforted:
+Let’s make us med’cines of our great revenge,
+To cure this deadly grief.
+
+MACDUFF.
+He has no children.—All my pretty ones?
+Did you say all?—O hell-kite!—All?
+What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
+At one fell swoop?
+
+MALCOLM.
+Dispute it like a man.
+
+MACDUFF.
+I shall do so;
+But I must also feel it as a man:
+I cannot but remember such things were,
+That were most precious to me.—Did heaven look on,
+And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,
+They were all struck for thee! Naught that I am,
+Not for their own demerits, but for mine,
+Fell slaughter on their souls: heaven rest them now!
+
+MALCOLM.
+Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief
+Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.
+
+MACDUFF.
+O, I could play the woman with mine eyes,
+And braggart with my tongue!—But, gentle heavens,
+Cut short all intermission; front to front,
+Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;
+Within my sword’s length set him; if he ’scape,
+Heaven forgive him too!
+
+MALCOLM.
+This tune goes manly.
+Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;
+Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth
+Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
+Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may;
+The night is long that never finds the day.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
+
+ Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman.
+
+DOCTOR.
+I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no truth in your
+report. When was it she last walked?
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+Since his Majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her
+bed, throw her nightgown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper,
+fold it, write upon’t, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to
+bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep.
+
+DOCTOR.
+A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of
+sleep, and do the effects of watching. In this slumbery agitation,
+besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time,
+have you heard her say?
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+That, sir, which I will not report after her.
+
+DOCTOR.
+You may to me; and ’tis most meet you should.
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+Neither to you nor anyone; having no witness to confirm my speech.
+
+ Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper.
+
+Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise; and, upon my life, fast
+asleep. Observe her; stand close.
+
+DOCTOR.
+How came she by that light?
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+Why, it stood by her: she has light by her continually; ’tis her
+command.
+
+DOCTOR.
+You see, her eyes are open.
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+Ay, but their sense are shut.
+
+DOCTOR.
+What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands.
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I
+have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Yet here’s a spot.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my
+remembrance the more strongly.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two. Why, then ’tis time to do’t.
+Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
+fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who
+would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
+
+DOCTOR.
+Do you mark that?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?—What, will these hands
+ne’er be clean? No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that: you mar all
+with this starting.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: heaven knows what
+she has known.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will
+not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!
+
+DOCTOR.
+What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole
+body.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Well, well, well.
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+Pray God it be, sir.
+
+DOCTOR.
+This disease is beyond my practice: yet I have known those which have
+walked in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds.
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale. I tell you
+yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Even so?
+
+LADY MACBETH.
+To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come,
+give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to
+bed.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+DOCTOR.
+Will she go now to bed?
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+Directly.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Foul whisp’rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds
+Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
+To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
+More needs she the divine than the physician.—
+God, God, forgive us all! Look after her;
+Remove from her the means of all annoyance,
+And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night:
+My mind she has mated, and amaz’d my sight.
+I think, but dare not speak.
+
+GENTLEWOMAN.
+Good night, good doctor.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The Country near Dunsinane.
+
+ Enter, with drum and colours Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox and
+ Soldiers.
+
+MENTEITH.
+The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,
+His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff.
+Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes
+Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm
+Excite the mortified man.
+
+ANGUS.
+Near Birnam wood
+Shall we well meet them. That way are they coming.
+
+CAITHNESS.
+Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?
+
+LENNOX.
+For certain, sir, he is not. I have a file
+Of all the gentry: there is Siward’s son
+And many unrough youths, that even now
+Protest their first of manhood.
+
+MENTEITH.
+What does the tyrant?
+
+CAITHNESS.
+Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies.
+Some say he’s mad; others, that lesser hate him,
+Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,
+He cannot buckle his distemper’d cause
+Within the belt of rule.
+
+ANGUS.
+Now does he feel
+His secret murders sticking on his hands;
+Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;
+Those he commands move only in command,
+Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
+Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
+Upon a dwarfish thief.
+
+MENTEITH.
+Who, then, shall blame
+His pester’d senses to recoil and start,
+When all that is within him does condemn
+Itself for being there?
+
+CAITHNESS.
+Well, march we on,
+To give obedience where ’tis truly ow’d:
+Meet we the med’cine of the sickly weal;
+And with him pour we, in our country’s purge,
+Each drop of us.
+
+LENNOX.
+Or so much as it needs
+To dew the sovereign flower, and drown the weeds.
+Make we our march towards Birnam.
+
+ [_Exeunt, marching._]
+
+SCENE III. Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle.
+
+ Enter Macbeth, Doctor and Attendants.
+
+MACBETH.
+Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
+Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane
+I cannot taint with fear. What’s the boy Malcolm?
+Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
+All mortal consequences have pronounc’d me thus:
+“Fear not, Macbeth; no man that’s born of woman
+Shall e’er have power upon thee.”—Then fly, false thanes,
+And mingle with the English epicures:
+The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,
+Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
+
+ Enter a Servant.
+
+The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac’d loon!
+Where gott’st thou that goose look?
+
+SERVANT.
+There is ten thousand—
+
+MACBETH.
+Geese, villain?
+
+SERVANT.
+Soldiers, sir.
+
+MACBETH.
+Go prick thy face and over-red thy fear,
+Thou lily-liver’d boy. What soldiers, patch?
+Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine
+Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?
+
+SERVANT.
+The English force, so please you.
+
+MACBETH.
+Take thy face hence.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+Seyton!—I am sick at heart,
+When I behold—Seyton, I say!—This push
+Will cheer me ever or disseat me now.
+I have liv’d long enough: my way of life
+Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf;
+And that which should accompany old age,
+As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
+I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
+Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
+Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
+Seyton!—
+
+ Enter Seyton.
+
+SEYTON.
+What’s your gracious pleasure?
+
+MACBETH.
+What news more?
+
+SEYTON.
+All is confirm’d, my lord, which was reported.
+
+MACBETH.
+I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d.
+Give me my armour.
+
+SEYTON.
+’Tis not needed yet.
+
+MACBETH.
+I’ll put it on.
+Send out more horses, skirr the country round;
+Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.—
+How does your patient, doctor?
+
+DOCTOR.
+Not so sick, my lord,
+As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies,
+That keep her from her rest.
+
+MACBETH.
+Cure her of that:
+Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d,
+Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
+Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
+And with some sweet oblivious antidote
+Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff
+Which weighs upon the heart?
+
+DOCTOR.
+Therein the patient
+Must minister to himself.
+
+MACBETH.
+Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it.
+Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff:
+Seyton, send out.—Doctor, the Thanes fly from me.—
+Come, sir, despatch.—If thou couldst, doctor, cast
+The water of my land, find her disease,
+And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
+I would applaud thee to the very echo,
+That should applaud again.—Pull’t off, I say.—
+What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug,
+Would scour these English hence? Hear’st thou of them?
+
+DOCTOR.
+Ay, my good lord. Your royal preparation
+Makes us hear something.
+
+MACBETH.
+Bring it after me.—
+I will not be afraid of death and bane,
+Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.
+
+ [_Exeunt all except Doctor._]
+
+DOCTOR.
+Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,
+Profit again should hardly draw me here.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Country near Dunsinane: a Wood in view.
+
+ Enter, with drum and colours Malcolm, old Siward and his Son, Macduff,
+ Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross and Soldiers, marching.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
+That chambers will be safe.
+
+MENTEITH.
+We doubt it nothing.
+
+SIWARD.
+What wood is this before us?
+
+MENTEITH.
+The wood of Birnam.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Let every soldier hew him down a bough,
+And bear’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow
+The numbers of our host, and make discovery
+Err in report of us.
+
+SOLDIERS.
+It shall be done.
+
+SIWARD.
+We learn no other but the confident tyrant
+Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
+Our setting down before’t.
+
+MALCOLM.
+’Tis his main hope;
+For where there is advantage to be given,
+Both more and less have given him the revolt,
+And none serve with him but constrained things,
+Whose hearts are absent too.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Let our just censures
+Attend the true event, and put we on
+Industrious soldiership.
+
+SIWARD.
+The time approaches,
+That will with due decision make us know
+What we shall say we have, and what we owe.
+Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
+But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;
+Towards which advance the war.
+
+ [_Exeunt, marching._]
+
+SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.
+
+ Enter with drum and colours, Macbeth, Seyton and Soldiers.
+
+MACBETH.
+Hang out our banners on the outward walls;
+The cry is still, “They come!” Our castle’s strength
+Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie
+Till famine and the ague eat them up.
+Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours,
+We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
+And beat them backward home.
+
+ [_A cry of women within._]
+
+What is that noise?
+
+SEYTON.
+It is the cry of women, my good lord.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+MACBETH.
+I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
+The time has been, my senses would have cool’d
+To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
+Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
+As life were in’t. I have supp’d full with horrors;
+Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
+Cannot once start me.
+
+ Enter Seyton.
+
+Wherefore was that cry?
+
+SEYTON.
+The Queen, my lord, is dead.
+
+MACBETH.
+She should have died hereafter.
+There would have been a time for such a word.
+Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
+Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
+To the last syllable of recorded time;
+And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
+The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
+Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
+That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
+And then is heard no more: it is a tale
+Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
+Signifying nothing.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+Thou com’st to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Gracious my lord,
+I should report that which I say I saw,
+But know not how to do’t.
+
+MACBETH.
+Well, say, sir.
+
+MESSENGER.
+As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
+I look’d toward Birnam, and anon, methought,
+The wood began to move.
+
+MACBETH.
+Liar, and slave!
+
+MESSENGER.
+Let me endure your wrath, if’t be not so.
+Within this three mile may you see it coming;
+I say, a moving grove.
+
+MACBETH.
+If thou speak’st false,
+Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
+Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,
+I care not if thou dost for me as much.—
+I pull in resolution; and begin
+To doubt th’ equivocation of the fiend,
+That lies like truth. “Fear not, till Birnam wood
+Do come to Dunsinane;” and now a wood
+Comes toward Dunsinane.—Arm, arm, and out!—
+If this which he avouches does appear,
+There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
+I ’gin to be aweary of the sun,
+And wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now undone.—
+Ring the alarum bell!—Blow, wind! come, wrack!
+At least we’ll die with harness on our back.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. The same. A Plain before the Castle.
+
+ Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Macduff and their
+ Army, with boughs.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Now near enough. Your leafy screens throw down,
+And show like those you are.—You, worthy uncle,
+Shall with my cousin, your right noble son,
+Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we
+Shall take upon’s what else remains to do,
+According to our order.
+
+SIWARD.
+Fare you well.—
+Do we but find the tyrant’s power tonight,
+Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
+Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. The same. Another part of the Plain.
+
+ Alarums. Enter Macbeth.
+
+MACBETH.
+They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly,
+But, bear-like I must fight the course.—What’s he
+That was not born of woman? Such a one
+Am I to fear, or none.
+
+ Enter young Siward.
+
+YOUNG SIWARD.
+What is thy name?
+
+MACBETH.
+Thou’lt be afraid to hear it.
+
+YOUNG SIWARD.
+No; though thou call’st thyself a hotter name
+Than any is in hell.
+
+MACBETH.
+My name’s Macbeth.
+
+YOUNG SIWARD.
+The devil himself could not pronounce a title
+More hateful to mine ear.
+
+MACBETH.
+No, nor more fearful.
+
+YOUNG SIWARD.
+Thou liest, abhorred tyrant. With my sword
+I’ll prove the lie thou speak’st.
+
+ [_They fight, and young Siward is slain._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Thou wast born of woman.
+But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,
+Brandish’d by man that’s of a woman born.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Alarums. Enter Macduff.
+
+MACDUFF.
+That way the noise is.—Tyrant, show thy face!
+If thou be’st slain and with no stroke of mine,
+My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.
+I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
+Are hired to bear their staves. Either thou, Macbeth,
+Or else my sword, with an unbatter’d edge,
+I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;
+By this great clatter, one of greatest note
+Seems bruited. Let me find him, Fortune!
+And more I beg not.
+
+ [_Exit. Alarums._]
+
+ Enter Malcolm and old Siward.
+
+SIWARD.
+This way, my lord;—the castle’s gently render’d:
+The tyrant’s people on both sides do fight;
+The noble thanes do bravely in the war,
+The day almost itself professes yours,
+And little is to do.
+
+MALCOLM.
+We have met with foes
+That strike beside us.
+
+SIWARD.
+Enter, sir, the castle.
+
+ [_Exeunt. Alarums._]
+
+SCENE VIII. The same. Another part of the field.
+
+ Enter Macbeth.
+
+MACBETH.
+Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
+On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes
+Do better upon them.
+
+ Enter Macduff.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Turn, hell-hound, turn!
+
+MACBETH.
+Of all men else I have avoided thee:
+But get thee back; my soul is too much charg’d
+With blood of thine already.
+
+MACDUFF.
+I have no words;
+My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain
+Than terms can give thee out!
+
+ [_They fight._]
+
+MACBETH.
+Thou losest labour:
+As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
+With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed:
+Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
+I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
+To one of woman born.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Despair thy charm;
+And let the angel whom thou still hast serv’d
+Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
+Untimely ripp’d.
+
+MACBETH.
+Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
+For it hath cow’d my better part of man!
+And be these juggling fiends no more believ’d,
+That palter with us in a double sense;
+That keep the word of promise to our ear,
+And break it to our hope!—I’ll not fight with thee.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Then yield thee, coward,
+And live to be the show and gaze o’ th’ time.
+We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
+Painted upon a pole, and underwrit,
+“Here may you see the tyrant.”
+
+MACBETH.
+I will not yield,
+To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet,
+And to be baited with the rabble’s curse.
+Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
+And thou oppos’d, being of no woman born,
+Yet I will try the last. Before my body
+I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff;
+And damn’d be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”
+
+ [_Exeunt fighting. Alarums._]
+
+ Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward,
+ Ross, Thanes and Soldiers.
+
+MALCOLM.
+I would the friends we miss were safe arriv’d.
+
+SIWARD.
+Some must go off; and yet, by these I see,
+So great a day as this is cheaply bought.
+
+MALCOLM.
+Macduff is missing, and your noble son.
+
+ROSS.
+Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier’s debt:
+He only liv’d but till he was a man;
+The which no sooner had his prowess confirm’d
+In the unshrinking station where he fought,
+But like a man he died.
+
+SIWARD.
+Then he is dead?
+
+ROSS.
+Ay, and brought off the field. Your cause of sorrow
+Must not be measur’d by his worth, for then
+It hath no end.
+
+SIWARD.
+Had he his hurts before?
+
+ROSS.
+Ay, on the front.
+
+SIWARD.
+Why then, God’s soldier be he!
+Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
+I would not wish them to a fairer death:
+And so his knell is knoll’d.
+
+MALCOLM.
+He’s worth more sorrow,
+And that I’ll spend for him.
+
+SIWARD.
+He’s worth no more.
+They say he parted well and paid his score:
+And so, God be with him!—Here comes newer comfort.
+
+ Enter Macduff with Macbeth’s head.
+
+MACDUFF.
+Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold, where stands
+Th’ usurper’s cursed head: the time is free.
+I see thee compass’d with thy kingdom’s pearl,
+That speak my salutation in their minds;
+Whose voices I desire aloud with mine,—
+Hail, King of Scotland!
+
+ALL.
+Hail, King of Scotland!
+
+ [_Flourish._]
+
+MALCOLM.
+We shall not spend a large expense of time
+Before we reckon with your several loves,
+And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
+Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
+In such an honour nam’d. What’s more to do,
+Which would be planted newly with the time,—
+As calling home our exil’d friends abroad,
+That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
+Producing forth the cruel ministers
+Of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen,
+Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands
+Took off her life;—this, and what needful else
+That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
+We will perform in measure, time, and place.
+So thanks to all at once, and to each one,
+Whom we invite to see us crown’d at Scone.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+
+MEASURE FOR MEASURE
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. An apartment in the Duke’s palace
+ Scene II. A street
+ Scene III. A monastery
+ Scene IV. A nunnery
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. A hall in Angelo’s house
+ Scene II. Another room in the same
+ Scene III. A room in a prison
+ Scene IV. A room in Angelo’s house
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. A room in the prison
+ Scene II. The street before the prisons
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. A room in Mariana’s house
+ Scene II. A room in the prison
+ Scene III. Another room in the same
+ Scene IV. A room in Angelo’s house
+ Scene V. Fields without the town
+ Scene VI. Street near the city gate
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. A public place near the city gate
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+Vincentio, DUKE of Vienna
+ESCALUS, an ancient Lord
+PROVOST
+ELBOW, a simple constable
+ABHORSON, an executioner
+A JUSTICE
+VARRIUS, a Gentleman, Servant to the Duke
+
+ANGELO, Deputy to the Duke
+MARIANA, betrothed to Angelo
+BOY, singer
+SERVANT, to Angelo
+MESSENGER, from Angelo
+
+ISABELLA, Sister to Claudio
+FRANCISCA, a nun
+
+CLAUDIO, a young Gentleman
+JULIET, betrothed to Claudio
+LUCIO, a fantastic
+Two GENTLEMEN
+
+FRIAR THOMAS
+FRIAR PETER
+
+Mistress Overdone, a BAWD
+POMPEY, Servant to Mistress Overdone
+FROTH, a foolish gentleman
+BARNARDINE, a dissolute prisoner
+
+Lords, Officers, Servants, Citizens and Attendants
+
+SCENE: Vienna
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. An apartment in the Duke’s palace.
+
+
+Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords and Attendants.
+
+DUKE.
+Escalus.
+
+ESCALUS.
+My lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Of government the properties to unfold
+Would seem in me t’ affect speech and discourse,
+Since I am put to know that your own science
+Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice
+My strength can give you. Then no more remains
+But that, to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,
+And let them work. The nature of our people,
+Our city’s institutions, and the terms
+For common justice, you’re as pregnant in
+As art and practice hath enriched any
+That we remember. There is our commission,
+From which we would not have you warp.—Call hither,
+I say, bid come before us, Angelo.
+
+[_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+What figure of us think you he will bear?
+For you must know we have with special soul
+Elected him our absence to supply;
+Lent him our terror, drest him with our love,
+And given his deputation all the organs
+Of our own power. What think you of it?
+
+ESCALUS.
+If any in Vienna be of worth
+To undergo such ample grace and honour,
+It is Lord Angelo.
+
+Enter Angelo.
+
+DUKE.
+Look where he comes.
+
+ANGELO.
+Always obedient to your Grace’s will,
+I come to know your pleasure.
+
+DUKE.
+Angelo,
+There is a kind of character in thy life
+That to th’ observer doth thy history
+Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings
+Are not thine own so proper as to waste
+Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
+Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
+Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
+Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike
+As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched
+But to fine issues; nor nature never lends
+The smallest scruple of her excellence
+But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
+Herself the glory of a creditor,
+Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech
+To one that can my part in him advertise.
+Hold, therefore, Angelo.
+In our remove be thou at full ourself.
+Mortality and mercy in Vienna
+Live in thy tongue and heart. Old Escalus,
+Though first in question, is thy secondary.
+Take thy commission.
+
+ANGELO.
+Now, good my lord,
+Let there be some more test made of my metal,
+Before so noble and so great a figure
+Be stamped upon it.
+
+DUKE.
+No more evasion.
+We have with a leavened and prepared choice
+Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours.
+Our haste from hence is of so quick condition
+That it prefers itself, and leaves unquestioned
+Matters of needful value. We shall write to you,
+As time and our concernings shall importune,
+How it goes with us; and do look to know
+What doth befall you here. So, fare you well.
+To th’ hopeful execution do I leave you
+Of your commissions.
+
+ANGELO.
+Yet give leave, my lord,
+That we may bring you something on the way.
+
+DUKE.
+My haste may not admit it;
+Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do
+With any scruple. Your scope is as mine own,
+So to enforce or qualify the laws
+As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand;
+I’ll privily away. I love the people,
+But do not like to stage me to their eyes.
+Though it do well, I do not relish well
+Their loud applause and _Aves_ vehement;
+Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
+That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.
+
+ANGELO.
+The heavens give safety to your purposes!
+
+ESCALUS.
+Lead forth and bring you back in happiness.
+
+DUKE.
+I thank you. Fare you well.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ESCALUS.
+I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
+To have free speech with you; and it concerns me
+To look into the bottom of my place.
+A power I have, but of what strength and nature
+I am not yet instructed.
+
+ANGELO.
+’Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,
+And we may soon our satisfaction have
+Touching that point.
+
+ESCALUS.
+I’ll wait upon your honour.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A street.
+
+Enter Lucio and two other Gentlemen.
+
+LUCIO.
+If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the
+King of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the King.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of Hungary’s!
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Amen.
+
+LUCIO.
+Thou conclud’st like the sanctimonious pirate that went to sea with the
+ten commandments, but scraped one out of the table.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+“Thou shalt not steal”?
+
+LUCIO.
+Ay, that he razed.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Why, ’twas a commandment to command the captain and all the rest from
+their functions! They put forth to steal. There’s not a soldier of us
+all that, in the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition well
+that prays for peace.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I never heard any soldier dislike it.
+
+LUCIO.
+I believe thee; for I think thou never wast where grace was said.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+No? A dozen times at least.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+What? In metre?
+
+LUCIO.
+In any proportion or in any language.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I think, or in any religion.
+
+LUCIO.
+Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all controversy; as, for
+example, thou thyself art a wicked villain, despite of all grace.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Well, there went but a pair of shears between us.
+
+LUCIO.
+I grant, as there may between the lists and the velvet. Thou art the
+list.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+And thou the velvet. Thou art good velvet; thou’rt a three-piled piece,
+I warrant thee. I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be
+piled, as thou art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly
+now?
+
+LUCIO.
+I think thou dost, and indeed, with most painful feeling of thy speech.
+I will, out of thine own confession, learn to begin thy health; but,
+whilst I live, forget to drink after thee.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I think I have done myself wrong, have I not?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free.
+
+Enter Mistress Overdone, a Bawd.
+
+LUCIO.
+Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes! I have purchased as many
+diseases under her roof as come to—
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+To what, I pray?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Judge.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+To three thousand dolours a year.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Ay, and more.
+
+LUCIO.
+A French crown more.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Thou art always figuring diseases in me, but thou art full of error; I
+am sound.
+
+LUCIO.
+Nay, not, as one would say, healthy, but so sound as things that are
+hollow. Thy bones are hollow. Impiety has made a feast of thee.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+How now, which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?
+
+BAWD.
+Well, well! There’s one yonder arrested and carried to prison was worth
+five thousand of you all.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Who’s that, I pray thee?
+
+BAWD.
+Marry, sir, that’s Claudio, Signior Claudio.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Claudio to prison? ’Tis not so.
+
+BAWD.
+Nay, but I know ’tis so. I saw him arrested, saw him carried away; and,
+which is more, within these three days his head to be chopped off.
+
+LUCIO.
+But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so. Art thou sure of
+this?
+
+BAWD.
+I am too sure of it. And it is for getting Madam Julietta with child.
+
+LUCIO.
+Believe me, this may be. He promised to meet me two hours since, and he
+was ever precise in promise-keeping.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Besides, you know, it draws something near to the speech we had to such
+a purpose.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+But most of all agreeing with the proclamation.
+
+LUCIO.
+Away! Let’s go learn the truth of it.
+
+[_Exeunt Lucio and Gentlemen._]
+
+BAWD.
+Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows,
+and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk.
+
+Enter Pompey.
+
+How now? What’s the news with you?
+
+POMPEY.
+Yonder man is carried to prison.
+
+BAWD.
+Well, what has he done?
+
+POMPEY.
+A woman.
+
+BAWD.
+But what’s his offence?
+
+POMPEY.
+Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.
+
+BAWD.
+What? Is there a maid with child by him?
+
+POMPEY.
+No, but there’s a woman with maid by him. You have not heard of the
+proclamation, have you?
+
+BAWD.
+What proclamation, man?
+
+POMPEY.
+All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down.
+
+BAWD.
+And what shall become of those in the city?
+
+POMPEY.
+They shall stand for seed. They had gone down too, but that a wise
+burgher put in for them.
+
+BAWD.
+But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be pulled down?
+
+POMPEY.
+To the ground, mistress.
+
+BAWD.
+Why, here’s a change indeed in the commonwealth! What shall become of
+me?
+
+POMPEY.
+Come, fear not you. Good counsellors lack no clients. Though you change
+your place, you need not change your trade. I’ll be your tapster still.
+Courage, there will be pity taken on you. You that have worn your eyes
+almost out in the service, you will be considered.
+
+Enter Provost, Claudio, Juliet and Officers.
+
+BAWD.
+What’s to do here, Thomas Tapster? Let’s withdraw.
+
+POMPEY.
+Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the Provost to prison. And there’s
+Madam Juliet.
+
+[_Exeunt Bawd and Pompey._]
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?
+Bear me to prison, where I am committed.
+
+PROVOST.
+I do it not in evil disposition,
+But from Lord Angelo by special charge.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Thus can the demi-god Authority
+Make us pay down for our offence by weight.
+The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will;
+On whom it will not, so; yet still ’tis just.
+
+Enter Lucio and two Gentlemen.
+
+LUCIO.
+Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty.
+As surfeit is the father of much fast,
+So every scope by the immoderate use
+Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,
+Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,
+A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die.
+
+LUCIO.
+If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of
+my creditors; and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery
+of freedom as the morality of imprisonment. What’s thy offence,
+Claudio?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+What but to speak of would offend again.
+
+LUCIO.
+What, is’t murder?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+No.
+
+LUCIO.
+Lechery?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Call it so.
+
+PROVOST.
+Away, sir; you must go.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+One word, good friend.—Lucio, a word with you.
+
+LUCIO.
+A hundred, if they’ll do you any good. Is lechery so looked after?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract
+I got possession of Julietta’s bed.
+You know the lady; she is fast my wife,
+Save that we do the denunciation lack
+Of outward order. This we came not to
+Only for propagation of a dower
+Remaining in the coffer of her friends,
+From whom we thought it meet to hide our love
+Till time had made them for us. But it chances
+The stealth of our most mutual entertainment
+With character too gross is writ on Juliet.
+
+LUCIO.
+With child, perhaps?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Unhappily, even so.
+And the new deputy now for the Duke—
+Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,
+Or whether that the body public be
+A horse whereon the governor doth ride,
+Who, newly in the seat, that it may know
+He can command, lets it straight feel the spur;
+Whether the tyranny be in his place,
+Or in his eminence that fills it up,
+I stagger in—but this new governor
+Awakes me all the enrolled penalties
+Which have, like unscoured armour, hung by th’ wall
+So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round,
+And none of them been worn; and for a name
+Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
+Freshly on me. ’Tis surely for a name.
+
+LUCIO.
+I warrant it is. And thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders that a
+milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off. Send after the Duke, and
+appeal to him.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I have done so, but he’s not to be found.
+I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:
+This day my sister should the cloister enter,
+And there receive her approbation.
+Acquaint her with the danger of my state;
+Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends
+To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him.
+I have great hope in that. For in her youth
+There is a prone and speechless dialect
+Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous art
+When she will play with reason and discourse,
+And well she can persuade.
+
+LUCIO.
+I pray she may, as well for the encouragement of the like, which else
+would stand under grievous imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life,
+who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of
+tick-tack. I’ll to her.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I thank you, good friend Lucio.
+
+LUCIO.
+Within two hours.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Come, officer, away.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A monastery.
+
+Enter Duke and Friar Thomas.
+
+DUKE.
+No, holy father, throw away that thought;
+Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
+Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee
+To give me secret harbour hath a purpose
+More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
+Of burning youth.
+
+FRIAR THOMAS.
+May your Grace speak of it?
+
+DUKE.
+My holy sir, none better knows than you
+How I have ever loved the life removed,
+And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
+Where youth, and cost, a witless bravery keeps.
+I have delivered to Lord Angelo,
+A man of stricture and firm abstinence,
+My absolute power and place here in Vienna,
+And he supposes me travelled to Poland;
+For so I have strewed it in the common ear,
+And so it is received. Now, pious sir,
+You will demand of me why I do this?
+
+FRIAR THOMAS.
+Gladly, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+We have strict statutes and most biting laws,
+The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,
+Which for this fourteen years we have let slip,
+Even like an o’ergrown lion in a cave
+That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,
+Having bound up the threat’ning twigs of birch,
+Only to stick it in their children’s sight
+For terror, not to use, in time the rod
+Becomes more mocked than feared: so our decrees,
+Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead,
+And liberty plucks justice by the nose,
+The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
+Goes all decorum.
+
+FRIAR THOMAS.
+It rested in your Grace
+To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased;
+And it in you more dreadful would have seemed
+Than in Lord Angelo.
+
+DUKE.
+I do fear, too dreadful.
+Sith ’twas my fault to give the people scope,
+’Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
+For what I bid them do; for we bid this be done
+When evil deeds have their permissive pass
+And not the punishment. Therefore, indeed, my father,
+I have on Angelo imposed the office;
+Who may in th’ ambush of my name strike home,
+And yet my nature never in the fight
+To do in slander. And to behold his sway,
+I will, as ’twere a brother of your order,
+Visit both prince and people. Therefore, I prithee,
+Supply me with the habit, and instruct me
+How I may formally in person bear
+Like a true friar. Moe reasons for this action
+At our more leisure shall I render you;
+Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise;
+Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses
+That his blood flows or that his appetite
+Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see,
+If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A nunnery.
+
+Enter Isabella and Francisca, a Nun.
+
+ISABELLA.
+And have you nuns no farther privileges?
+
+FRANCISCA.
+Are not these large enough?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Yes, truly; I speak not as desiring more,
+But rather wishing a more strict restraint
+Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.
+
+LUCIO.
+[_Within_.] Ho! Peace be in this place!
+
+ISABELLA.
+Who’s that which calls?
+
+FRANCISCA.
+It is a man’s voice. Gentle Isabella,
+Turn you the key, and know his business of him;
+You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn.
+When you have vowed, you must not speak with men
+But in the presence of the prioress;
+Then, if you speak, you must not show your face;
+Or if you show your face, you must not speak.
+He calls again. I pray you answer him.
+
+[_Exit Francisca._]
+
+ISABELLA.
+Peace and prosperity! Who is’t that calls?
+
+Enter Lucio.
+
+LUCIO.
+Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses
+Proclaim you are no less. Can you so stead me
+As bring me to the sight of Isabella,
+A novice of this place, and the fair sister
+To her unhappy brother Claudio?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Why “her unhappy brother”? let me ask,
+The rather for I now must make you know
+I am that Isabella, and his sister.
+
+LUCIO.
+Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you.
+Not to be weary with you, he’s in prison.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Woe me! For what?
+
+LUCIO.
+For that which, if myself might be his judge,
+He should receive his punishment in thanks:
+He hath got his friend with child.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Sir, make me not your story.
+
+LUCIO.
+’Tis true.
+I would not, though ’tis my familiar sin
+With maids to seem the lapwing, and to jest,
+Tongue far from heart, play with all virgins so.
+I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted
+By your renouncement an immortal spirit,
+And to be talked with in sincerity,
+As with a saint.
+
+ISABELLA.
+You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.
+
+LUCIO.
+Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, ’tis thus:
+Your brother and his lover have embraced;
+As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
+That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
+To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
+Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Someone with child by him? My cousin Juliet?
+
+LUCIO.
+Is she your cousin?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Adoptedly, as school-maids change their names
+By vain though apt affection.
+
+LUCIO.
+She it is.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, let him marry her!
+
+LUCIO.
+This is the point.
+The Duke is very strangely gone from hence;
+Bore many gentlemen, myself being one,
+In hand, and hope of action; but we do learn,
+By those that know the very nerves of state,
+His givings-out were of an infinite distance
+From his true-meant design. Upon his place,
+And with full line of his authority,
+Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood
+Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
+The wanton stings and motions of the sense;
+But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
+With profits of the mind, study and fast.
+He, to give fear to use and liberty,
+Which have for long run by the hideous law
+As mice by lions, hath picked out an act,
+Under whose heavy sense your brother’s life
+Falls into forfeit. He arrests him on it,
+And follows close the rigour of the statute
+To make him an example. All hope is gone,
+Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer
+To soften Angelo. And that’s my pith of business
+’Twixt you and your poor brother.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Doth he so
+Seek his life?
+
+LUCIO.
+Has censured him already;
+And, as I hear, the Provost hath a warrant
+For’s execution.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Alas, what poor ability’s in me
+To do him good?
+
+LUCIO.
+Assay the power you have.
+
+ISABELLA.
+My power? Alas, I doubt.
+
+LUCIO.
+Our doubts are traitors,
+And make us lose the good we oft might win
+By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,
+And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,
+Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,
+All their petitions are as freely theirs
+As they themselves would owe them.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I’ll see what I can do.
+
+LUCIO.
+But speedily.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I will about it straight;
+No longer staying but to give the Mother
+Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you.
+Commend me to my brother. Soon at night
+I’ll send him certain word of my success.
+
+LUCIO.
+I take my leave of you.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Good sir, adieu.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. A hall in Angelo’s house.
+
+
+Enter Angelo, Escalus, Servants, and a Justice.
+
+ANGELO.
+We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
+Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
+And let it keep one shape till custom make it
+Their perch, and not their terror.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Ay, but yet
+Let us be keen, and rather cut a little
+Than fall and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman,
+Whom I would save, had a most noble father.
+Let but your honour know,
+Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,
+That, in the working of your own affections,
+Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing,
+Or that the resolute acting of your blood
+Could have attained th’ effect of your own purpose,
+Whether you had not sometime in your life
+Erred in this point which now you censure him,
+And pulled the law upon you.
+
+ANGELO.
+’Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
+Another thing to fall. I not deny
+The jury passing on the prisoner’s life
+May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
+Guiltier than him they try. What’s open made to justice,
+That justice seizes. What knows the laws
+That thieves do pass on thieves? ’Tis very pregnant,
+The jewel that we find, we stoop and take ’t,
+Because we see it; but what we do not see,
+We tread upon, and never think of it.
+You may not so extenuate his offence
+For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,
+When I that censure him do so offend,
+Let mine own judgement pattern out my death,
+And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.
+
+Enter Provost.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Be it as your wisdom will.
+
+ANGELO.
+Where is the Provost?
+
+PROVOST.
+Here, if it like your honour.
+
+ANGELO.
+See that Claudio
+Be executed by nine tomorrow morning.
+Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared,
+For that’s the utmost of his pilgrimage.
+
+[_Exit Provost._]
+
+ESCALUS.
+Well, heaven forgive him; and forgive us all.
+Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
+Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none,
+And some condemned for a fault alone.
+
+Enter Elbow and Officers with Froth and Pompey.
+
+ELBOW.
+Come, bring them away. If these be good people in a commonweal that do
+nothing but use their abuses in common houses, I know no law. Bring
+them away.
+
+ANGELO.
+How now, sir, what’s your name? And what’s the matter?
+
+ELBOW.
+If it please your honour, I am the poor Duke’s constable, and my name
+is Elbow. I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your
+good honour two notorious benefactors.
+
+ANGELO.
+Benefactors? Well, what benefactors are they? Are they not malefactors?
+
+ELBOW.
+If it please your honour, I know not well what they are, but precise
+villains they are, that I am sure of, and void of all profanation in
+the world that good Christians ought to have.
+
+ESCALUS.
+This comes off well. Here’s a wise officer.
+
+ANGELO.
+Go to. What quality are they of? Elbow is your name? Why dost thou not
+speak, Elbow?
+
+POMPEY.
+He cannot, sir. He’s out at elbow.
+
+ANGELO.
+What are you, sir?
+
+ELBOW.
+He, sir? A tapster, sir; parcel bawd; one that serves a bad woman;
+whose house, sir, was, as they say, plucked down in the suburbs; and
+now she professes a hot-house, which, I think is a very ill house too.
+
+ESCALUS.
+How know you that?
+
+ELBOW.
+My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour—
+
+ESCALUS.
+How? Thy wife?
+
+ELBOW.
+Ay, sir, whom I thank heaven is an honest woman—
+
+ESCALUS.
+Dost thou detest her therefore?
+
+ELBOW.
+I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as she, that this house,
+if it be not a bawd’s house, it is pity of her life, for it is a
+naughty house.
+
+ESCALUS.
+How dost thou know that, constable?
+
+ELBOW.
+Marry, sir, by my wife, who, if she had been a woman cardinally given,
+might have been accused in fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness
+there.
+
+ESCALUS.
+By the woman’s means?
+
+ELBOW.
+Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone’s means; but as she spit in his face, so
+she defied him.
+
+POMPEY.
+Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so.
+
+ELBOW.
+Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable man, prove it.
+
+ESCALUS.
+[_To Angelo_.] Do you hear how he misplaces?
+
+POMPEY.
+Sir, she came in great with child; and longing, saving your honour’s
+reverence, for stewed prunes; sir, we had but two in the house, which
+at that very distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit dish, a dish of
+some threepence; your honours have seen such dishes; they are not china
+dishes, but very good dishes—
+
+ESCALUS.
+Go to, go to. No matter for the dish, sir.
+
+POMPEY.
+No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in the right. But to the
+point. As I say, this Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and
+being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for prunes; and having but
+two in the dish, as I said, Master Froth here, this very man, having
+eaten the rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very
+honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could not give you
+threepence again—
+
+FROTH.
+No, indeed.
+
+POMPEY.
+Very well. You being then, if you be remembered, cracking the stones of
+the foresaid prunes—
+
+FROTH.
+Ay, so I did indeed.
+
+POMPEY.
+Why, very well. I telling you then, if you be remembered, that such a
+one and such a one were past cure of the thing you wot of, unless they
+kept very good diet, as I told you—
+
+FROTH.
+All this is true.
+
+POMPEY.
+Why, very well then—
+
+ESCALUS.
+Come, you are a tedious fool. To the purpose. What was done to Elbow’s
+wife that he hath cause to complain of? Come me to what was done to
+her.
+
+POMPEY.
+Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet.
+
+ESCALUS.
+No, sir, nor I mean it not.
+
+POMPEY.
+Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour’s leave. And I beseech
+you, look into Master Froth here, sir, a man of fourscore pound a year;
+whose father died at Hallowmas—was’t not at Hallowmas, Master Froth?
+
+FROTH.
+All-hallond Eve.
+
+POMPEY.
+Why, very well. I hope here be truths. He, sir, sitting, as I say, in a
+lower chair, sir—’twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have
+a delight to sit, have you not?
+
+FROTH.
+I have so, because it is an open room, and good for winter.
+
+POMPEY.
+Why, very well then. I hope here be truths.
+
+ANGELO.
+This will last out a night in Russia
+When nights are longest there. I’ll take my leave,
+And leave you to the hearing of the cause;
+Hoping you’ll find good cause to whip them all.
+
+ESCALUS.
+I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship.
+
+[_Exit Angelo._]
+
+Now, sir, come on. What was done to Elbow’s wife, once more?
+
+POMPEY.
+Once, sir? There was nothing done to her once.
+
+ELBOW.
+I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife.
+
+POMPEY.
+I beseech your honour, ask me.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Well, sir, what did this gentleman to her?
+
+POMPEY.
+I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman’s face. Good Master Froth,
+look upon his honour; ’tis for a good purpose.—Doth your honour mark
+his face?
+
+ESCALUS.
+Ay, sir, very well.
+
+POMPEY.
+Nay, I beseech you, mark it well.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Well, I do so.
+
+POMPEY.
+Doth your honour see any harm in his face?
+
+ESCALUS.
+Why, no.
+
+POMPEY.
+I’ll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.
+Good, then, if his face be the worst thing about him, how could Master
+Froth do the constable’s wife any harm? I would know that of your
+honour.
+
+ESCALUS.
+He’s in the right. Constable. What say you to it?
+
+ELBOW.
+First, an it like you, the house is a respected house; next, this is a
+respected fellow; and his mistress is a respected woman.
+
+POMPEY.
+By this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected person than any of us
+all.
+
+ELBOW.
+Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet! The time is yet to come
+that she was ever respected with man, woman, or child.
+
+POMPEY.
+Sir, she was respected with him before he married with her.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Which is the wiser here, Justice or Iniquity? Is this true?
+
+ELBOW.
+O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked Hannibal! I respected with
+her before I was married to her? If ever I was respected with her, or
+she with me, let not your worship think me the poor Duke’s officer.
+Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or I’ll have mine action of battery
+on thee.
+
+ESCALUS.
+If he took you a box o’ th’ ear, you might have your action of slander
+too.
+
+ELBOW.
+Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is’t your worship’s
+pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff?
+
+ESCALUS.
+Truly, officer, because he hath some offences in him that thou wouldst
+discover if thou couldst, let him continue in his courses till thou
+know’st what they are.
+
+ELBOW.
+Marry, I thank your worship for it.—Thou seest, thou wicked varlet,
+now, what’s come upon thee. Thou art to continue now, thou varlet, thou
+art to continue.
+
+ESCALUS.
+[_To Froth_.] Where were you born, friend?
+
+FROTH.
+Here in Vienna, sir.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Are you of fourscore pounds a year?
+
+FROTH.
+Yes, an’t please you, sir.
+
+ESCALUS.
+So. [_To Pompey_.] What trade are you of, sir?
+
+POMPEY.
+A tapster, a poor widow’s tapster.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Your mistress’ name?
+
+POMPEY.
+Mistress Overdone.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Hath she had any more than one husband?
+
+POMPEY.
+Nine, sir; Overdone by the last.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Nine?—Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master Froth, I would not have
+you acquainted with tapsters; they will draw you, Master Froth, and you
+will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no more of you.
+
+FROTH.
+I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never come into any room in
+a taphouse but I am drawn in.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Well, no more of it, Master Froth. Farewell.
+
+[_Exit Froth._]
+
+Come you hither to me, Master tapster. What’s your name, Master
+tapster?
+
+POMPEY.
+Pompey.
+
+ESCALUS.
+What else?
+
+POMPEY.
+Bum, sir.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you; so that, in the
+beastliest sense, you are Pompey the great. Pompey, you are partly a
+bawd, Pompey, howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you not?
+Come, tell me true, it shall be the better for you.
+
+POMPEY.
+Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.
+
+ESCALUS.
+How would you live, Pompey? By being a bawd? What do you think of the
+trade, Pompey? Is it a lawful trade?
+
+POMPEY.
+If the law would allow it, sir.
+
+ESCALUS.
+But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it shall not be allowed in
+Vienna.
+
+POMPEY.
+Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?
+
+ESCALUS.
+No, Pompey.
+
+POMPEY.
+Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to’t then. If your worship
+will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not to fear the
+bawds.
+
+ESCALUS.
+There is pretty orders beginning, I can tell you. It is but heading and
+hanging.
+
+POMPEY.
+If you head and hang all that offend that way but for ten year
+together, you’ll be glad to give out a commission for more heads. If
+this law hold in Vienna ten year, I’ll rent the fairest house in it
+after threepence a bay. If you live to see this come to pass, say
+Pompey told you so.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of your prophecy, hark you: I
+advise you, let me not find you before me again upon any complaint
+whatsoever; no, not for dwelling where you do. If I do, Pompey, I shall
+beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd Caesar to you. In plain
+dealing, Pompey, I shall have you whipped. So for this time, Pompey,
+fare you well.
+
+POMPEY.
+I thank your worship for your good counsel. [_Aside_.] But I shall
+follow it as the flesh and fortune shall better determine.
+Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade;
+The valiant heart’s not whipped out of his trade.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ESCALUS.
+Come hither to me, Master Elbow. Come hither, Master Constable. How
+long have you been in this place of constable?
+
+ELBOW.
+Seven year and a half, sir.
+
+ESCALUS.
+I thought, by the readiness in the office, you had continued in it
+sometime. You say seven years together?
+
+ELBOW.
+And a half, sir.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Alas, it hath been great pains to you. They do you wrong to put you so
+oft upon’t. Are there not men in your ward sufficient to serve it?
+
+ELBOW.
+Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters. As they are chosen, they
+are glad to choose me for them; I do it for some piece of money, and go
+through with all.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven, the most
+sufficient of your parish.
+
+ELBOW.
+To your worship’s house, sir?
+
+ESCALUS.
+To my house. Fare you well.
+
+[_Exit Elbow._]
+
+What’s o’clock, think you?
+
+JUSTICE.
+Eleven, sir.
+
+ESCALUS.
+I pray you home to dinner with me.
+
+JUSTICE.
+I humbly thank you.
+
+ESCALUS.
+It grieves me for the death of Claudio,
+But there’s no remedy.
+
+JUSTICE.
+Lord Angelo is severe.
+
+ESCALUS.
+It is but needful.
+Mercy is not itself that oft looks so;
+Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
+But yet, Poor Claudio! There’s no remedy.
+Come, sir.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Another room in the same.
+
+Enter Provost and a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+He’s hearing of a cause. He will come straight.
+I’ll tell him of you.
+
+PROVOST.
+Pray you do.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+I’ll know
+His pleasure, may be he will relent. Alas,
+He hath but as offended in a dream;
+All sects, all ages, smack of this vice, and he
+To die for ’t!
+
+Enter Angelo.
+
+ANGELO.
+Now, what’s the matter, Provost?
+
+PROVOST.
+Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?
+
+ANGELO.
+Did not I tell thee yea? Hadst thou not order?
+Why dost thou ask again?
+
+PROVOST.
+Lest I might be too rash.
+Under your good correction, I have seen
+When, after execution, judgement hath
+Repented o’er his doom.
+
+ANGELO.
+Go to; let that be mine.
+Do you your office, or give up your place,
+And you shall well be spared.
+
+PROVOST.
+I crave your honour’s pardon.
+What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?
+She’s very near her hour.
+
+ANGELO.
+Dispose of her
+To some more fitter place; and that with speed.
+
+Enter Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+Here is the sister of the man condemned
+Desires access to you.
+
+ANGELO.
+Hath he a sister?
+
+PROVOST.
+Ay, my good lord, a very virtuous maid,
+And to be shortly of a sisterhood,
+If not already.
+
+ANGELO.
+Well, let her be admitted.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+See you the fornicatress be removed;
+Let her have needful but not lavish means;
+There shall be order for it.
+
+Enter Lucio and Isabella.
+
+PROVOST.
+[_Offering to retire_.] Save your honour!
+
+ANGELO.
+Stay a little while. [_To Isabella_.] You are welcome. What’s your
+will?
+
+ISABELLA.
+I am a woeful suitor to your honour,
+Please but your honour hear me.
+
+ANGELO.
+Well, what’s your suit?
+
+ISABELLA.
+There is a vice that most I do abhor,
+And most desire should meet the blow of justice;
+For which I would not plead, but that I must;
+For which I must not plead, but that I am
+At war ’twixt will and will not.
+
+ANGELO.
+Well, the matter?
+
+ISABELLA.
+I have a brother is condemned to die;
+I do beseech you, let it be his fault,
+And not my brother.
+
+PROVOST.
+Heaven give thee moving graces.
+
+ANGELO.
+Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
+Why, every fault’s condemned ere it be done.
+Mine were the very cipher of a function
+To find the faults whose fine stands in record,
+And let go by the actor.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O just but severe law!
+I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour!
+
+[_Going._]
+
+LUCIO.
+[_To Isabella_.] Give’t not o’er so. To him again, entreat him,
+Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown;
+You are too cold. If you should need a pin,
+You could not with more tame a tongue desire it.
+To him, I say.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Must he needs die?
+
+ANGELO.
+Maiden, no remedy.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Yes, I do think that you might pardon him,
+And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.
+
+ANGELO.
+I will not do’t.
+
+ISABELLA.
+But can you if you would?
+
+ANGELO.
+Look, what I will not, that I cannot do.
+
+ISABELLA.
+But might you do’t, and do the world no wrong,
+If so your heart were touched with that remorse
+As mine is to him?
+
+ANGELO.
+He’s sentenced, ’tis too late.
+
+LUCIO.
+[_To Isabella_.] You are too cold.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Too late? Why, no. I that do speak a word
+May call it back again. Well, believe this:
+No ceremony that to great ones longs,
+Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
+The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe,
+Become them with one half so good a grace
+As mercy does.
+If he had been as you, and you as he,
+You would have slipped like him, but he like you
+Would not have been so stern.
+
+ANGELO.
+Pray you be gone.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I would to heaven I had your potency,
+And you were Isabel! Should it then be thus?
+No; I would tell what ’twere to be a judge
+And what a prisoner.
+
+LUCIO.
+[_Aside_.] Ay, touch him; there’s the vein.
+
+ANGELO.
+Your brother is a forfeit of the law,
+And you but waste your words.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Alas, alas!
+Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once,
+And He that might the vantage best have took
+Found out the remedy. How would you be
+If He, which is the top of judgement, should
+But judge you as you are? O, think on that,
+And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
+Like man new made.
+
+ANGELO.
+Be you content, fair maid.
+It is the law, not I, condemns your brother.
+Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,
+It should be thus with him. He must die tomorrow.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Tomorrow? O, that’s sudden! Spare him, spare him!
+He’s not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens
+We kill the fowl of season. Shall we serve heaven
+With less respect than we do minister
+To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you.
+Who is it that hath died for this offence?
+There’s many have committed it.
+
+LUCIO.
+Ay, well said.
+
+ANGELO.
+The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
+Those many had not dared to do that evil
+If the first that did th’ edict infringe
+Had answered for his deed. Now ’tis awake,
+Takes note of what is done, and, like a prophet,
+Looks in a glass that shows what future evils,
+Either now, or by remissness new conceived,
+And so in progress to be hatched and born,
+Are now to have no successive degrees,
+But, where they live, to end.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Yet show some pity.
+
+ANGELO.
+I show it most of all when I show justice;
+For then I pity those I do not know,
+Which a dismissed offence would after gall,
+And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
+Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
+Your brother dies tomorrow; be content.
+
+ISABELLA.
+So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
+And he that suffers. O, it is excellent
+To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
+To use it like a giant.
+
+LUCIO.
+That’s well said.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Could great men thunder
+As Jove himself does, Jove would ne’er be quiet,
+For every pelting petty officer
+Would use his heaven for thunder.
+Nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven,
+Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
+Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak,
+Than the soft myrtle. But man, proud man,
+Dressed in a little brief authority,
+Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,
+His glassy essence, like an angry ape
+Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
+As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
+Would all themselves laugh mortal.
+
+LUCIO.
+O, to him, to him, wench! He will relent;
+He’s coming. I perceive ’t.
+
+PROVOST.
+Pray heaven she win him.
+
+ISABELLA.
+We cannot weigh our brother with ourself.
+Great men may jest with saints; ’tis wit in them,
+But in the less, foul profanation.
+
+LUCIO.
+Thou’rt i’ th’ right, girl; more o’ that.
+
+ISABELLA.
+That in the captain’s but a choleric word
+Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
+
+LUCIO.
+Art advised o’ that? More on’t.
+
+ANGELO.
+Why do you put these sayings upon me?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Because authority, though it err like others,
+Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself
+That skins the vice o’ th’ top. Go to your bosom,
+Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
+That’s like my brother’s fault. If it confess
+A natural guiltiness such as is his,
+Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
+Against my brother’s life.
+
+ANGELO.
+She speaks, and ’tis such sense
+That my sense breeds with it. [_Going_.]
+Fare you well.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Gentle my lord, turn back.
+
+ANGELO.
+I will bethink me. Come again tomorrow.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Hark how I’ll bribe you. Good my lord, turn back.
+
+ANGELO.
+How? Bribe me?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.
+
+LUCIO.
+You had marred all else.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,
+Or stones, whose rates are either rich or poor
+As fancy values them, but with true prayers,
+That shall be up at heaven and enter there
+Ere sunrise, prayers from preserved souls,
+From fasting maids, whose minds are dedicate
+To nothing temporal.
+
+ANGELO.
+Well; come to me tomorrow.
+
+LUCIO.
+[_Aside to Isabella_.] Go to, ’tis well; away.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Heaven keep your honour safe.
+
+ANGELO.
+[_Aside_.] Amen.
+For I am that way going to temptation,
+Where prayers cross.
+
+ISABELLA.
+At what hour tomorrow
+Shall I attend your lordship?
+
+ANGELO.
+At any time ’fore noon.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Save your honour.
+
+[_Exeunt Isabella, Lucio and Provost._]
+
+ANGELO.
+From thee, even from thy virtue!
+What’s this? What’s this? Is this her fault or mine?
+The tempter or the tempted, who sins most, ha?
+Not she; nor doth she tempt; but it is I
+That, lying by the violet in the sun,
+Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,
+Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be
+That modesty may more betray our sense
+Than woman’s lightness? Having waste ground enough,
+Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
+And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie!
+What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?
+Dost thou desire her foully for those things
+That make her good? O, let her brother live.
+Thieves for their robbery have authority
+When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her,
+That I desire to hear her speak again
+And feast upon her eyes? What is’t I dream on?
+O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
+With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous
+Is that temptation that doth goad us on
+To sin in loving virtue. Never could the strumpet
+With all her double vigour, art, and nature,
+Once stir my temper, but this virtuous maid
+Subdues me quite. Ever till now
+When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A room in a prison.
+
+Enter Duke disguised as a Friar, and Provost.
+
+DUKE.
+Hail to you, Provost, so I think you are.
+
+PROVOST.
+I am the Provost. What’s your will, good friar?
+
+DUKE.
+Bound by my charity and my blessed order,
+I come to visit the afflicted spirits
+Here in the prison. Do me the common right
+To let me see them, and to make me know
+The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
+To them accordingly.
+
+PROVOST.
+I would do more than that, if more were needful.
+
+Enter Juliet.
+
+Look, here comes one, a gentlewoman of mine,
+Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
+Hath blistered her report. She is with child,
+And he that got it, sentenced: a young man
+More fit to do another such offence
+Than die for this.
+
+DUKE.
+When must he die?
+
+PROVOST.
+As I do think, tomorrow.
+[_To Juliet_.] I have provided for you; stay a while
+And you shall be conducted.
+
+DUKE.
+Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
+
+JULIET.
+I do; and bear the shame most patiently.
+
+DUKE.
+I’ll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
+And try your penitence, if it be sound
+Or hollowly put on.
+
+JULIET.
+I’ll gladly learn.
+
+DUKE.
+Love you the man that wronged you?
+
+JULIET.
+Yes, as I love the woman that wronged him.
+
+DUKE.
+So then it seems your most offenceful act
+Was mutually committed?
+
+JULIET.
+Mutually.
+
+DUKE.
+Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
+
+JULIET.
+I do confess it, and repent it, father.
+
+DUKE.
+’Tis meet so, daughter; but lest you do repent
+As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
+Which sorrow is always toward ourselves, not heaven,
+Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
+But as we stand in fear—
+
+JULIET.
+I do repent me as it is an evil,
+And take the shame with joy.
+
+DUKE.
+There rest.
+Your partner, as I hear, must die tomorrow,
+And I am going with instruction to him.
+Grace go with you! _Benedicite!_
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+JULIET.
+Must die tomorrow? O, injurious love
+That respites me a life, whose very comfort
+Is still a dying horror!
+
+PROVOST.
+’Tis pity of him.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A room in Angelo’s house.
+
+Enter Angelo.
+
+ANGELO.
+When I would pray and think, I think and pray
+To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words,
+Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,
+Anchors on Isabel. Heaven in my mouth,
+As if I did but only chew his name,
+And in my heart the strong and swelling evil
+Of my conception. The state whereon I studied
+Is, like a good thing being often read,
+Grown sere and tedious; yea, my gravity,
+Wherein—let no man hear me—I take pride,
+Could I with boot change for an idle plume
+Which the air beats for vain. O place, O form,
+How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
+Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls
+To thy false seeming! Blood, thou art blood.
+Let’s write good angel on the devil’s horn.
+’Tis not the devil’s crest.
+
+[_Knock within._]
+
+How now, who’s there?
+
+Enter Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.
+
+ANGELO.
+Teach her the way.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+O heavens,
+Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,
+Making both it unable for itself
+And dispossessing all my other parts
+Of necessary fitness?
+So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons,
+Come all to help him, and so stop the air
+By which he should revive. And even so
+The general subject to a well-wished king
+Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness
+Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love
+Must needs appear offence.
+
+Enter Isabella.
+
+How now, fair maid?
+
+ISABELLA.
+I am come to know your pleasure.
+
+ANGELO.
+That you might know it, would much better please me
+Than to demand what ’tis. Your brother cannot live.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Even so. Heaven keep your honour.
+
+ANGELO.
+Yet may he live a while. And, it may be,
+As long as you or I. Yet he must die.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Under your sentence?
+
+ANGELO.
+Yea.
+
+ISABELLA.
+When, I beseech you? That in his reprieve,
+Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted
+That his soul sicken not.
+
+ANGELO.
+Ha! Fie, these filthy vices! It were as good
+To pardon him that hath from nature stolen
+A man already made, as to remit
+Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven’s image
+In stamps that are forbid. ’Tis all as easy
+Falsely to take away a life true made
+As to put metal in restrained means
+To make a false one.
+
+ISABELLA.
+’Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth.
+
+ANGELO.
+Say you so? Then I shall pose you quickly.
+Which had you rather, that the most just law
+Now took your brother’s life; or, to redeem him,
+Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
+As she that he hath stained?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Sir, believe this:
+I had rather give my body than my soul.
+
+ANGELO.
+I talk not of your soul. Our compelled sins
+Stand more for number than for accompt.
+
+ISABELLA.
+How say you?
+
+ANGELO.
+Nay, I’ll not warrant that, for I can speak
+Against the thing I say. Answer to this:
+I, now the voice of the recorded law,
+Pronounce a sentence on your brother’s life.
+Might there not be a charity in sin
+To save this brother’s life?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Please you to do’t,
+I’ll take it as a peril to my soul;
+It is no sin at all, but charity.
+
+ANGELO.
+Pleased you to do’t at peril of your soul,
+Were equal poise of sin and charity.
+
+ISABELLA.
+That I do beg his life, if it be sin,
+Heaven let me bear it. You granting of my suit,
+If that be sin, I’ll make it my morn prayer
+To have it added to the faults of mine,
+And nothing of your answer.
+
+ANGELO.
+Nay, but hear me.
+Your sense pursues not mine. Either you are ignorant,
+Or seem so, crafty; and that’s not good.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,
+But graciously to know I am no better.
+
+ANGELO.
+Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright
+When it doth tax itself, as these black masks
+Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
+Than beauty could, displayed. But mark me;
+To be received plain, I’ll speak more gross.
+Your brother is to die.
+
+ISABELLA.
+So.
+
+ANGELO.
+And his offence is so, as it appears,
+Accountant to the law upon that pain.
+
+ISABELLA.
+True.
+
+ANGELO.
+Admit no other way to save his life—
+As I subscribe not that, nor any other,
+But, in the loss of question, that you, his sister,
+Finding yourself desired of such a person
+Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,
+Could fetch your brother from the manacles
+Of the all-binding law; and that there were
+No earthly mean to save him but that either
+You must lay down the treasures of your body
+To this supposed, or else to let him suffer,
+What would you do?
+
+ISABELLA.
+As much for my poor brother as myself.
+That is, were I under the terms of death,
+Th’ impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies,
+And strip myself to death as to a bed
+That longing have been sick for, ere I’d yield
+My body up to shame.
+
+ANGELO.
+Then must your brother die.
+
+ISABELLA.
+And ’twere the cheaper way.
+Better it were a brother died at once
+Than that a sister, by redeeming him,
+Should die for ever.
+
+ANGELO.
+Were not you then as cruel as the sentence
+That you have slandered so?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Ignominy in ransom and free pardon
+Are of two houses. Lawful mercy
+Is nothing kin to foul redemption.
+
+ANGELO.
+You seemed of late to make the law a tyrant,
+And rather proved the sliding of your brother
+A merriment than a vice.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, pardon me, my lord. It oft falls out,
+To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.
+I something do excuse the thing I hate
+For his advantage that I dearly love.
+
+ANGELO.
+We are all frail.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Else let my brother die,
+If not a feodary but only he
+Owe and succeed by weakness.
+
+ANGELO.
+Nay, women are frail too.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves,
+Which are as easy broke as they make forms.
+Women?—Help, heaven! Men their creation mar
+In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail;
+For we are soft as our complexions are,
+And credulous to false prints.
+
+ANGELO.
+I think it well.
+And from this testimony of your own sex,
+Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger
+Than faults may shake our frames, let me be bold.
+I do arrest your words. Be that you are,
+That is, a woman. If you be more, you’re none.
+If you be one, as you are well expressed
+By all external warrants, show it now
+By putting on the destined livery.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I have no tongue but one. Gentle my lord,
+Let me intreat you speak the former language.
+
+ANGELO.
+Plainly conceive, I love you.
+
+ISABELLA.
+My brother did love Juliet,
+And you tell me that he shall die for ’t.
+
+ANGELO.
+He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I know your virtue hath a license in’t,
+Which seems a little fouler than it is,
+To pluck on others.
+
+ANGELO.
+Believe me, on mine honour,
+My words express my purpose.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Ha! Little honour to be much believed,
+And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming!
+I will proclaim thee, Angelo, look for’t.
+Sign me a present pardon for my brother
+Or with an outstretched throat I’ll tell the world aloud
+What man thou art.
+
+ANGELO.
+Who will believe thee, Isabel?
+My unsoiled name, th’ austereness of my life,
+My vouch against you, and my place i’ th’ state
+Will so your accusation overweigh
+That you shall stifle in your own report,
+And smell of calumny. I have begun,
+And now I give my sensual race the rein.
+Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite;
+Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes
+That banish what they sue for. Redeem thy brother
+By yielding up thy body to my will;
+Or else he must not only die the death,
+But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
+To ling’ring sufferance. Answer me tomorrow,
+Or, by the affection that now guides me most,
+I’ll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,
+Say what you can, my false o’erweighs your true.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ISABELLA.
+To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
+Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,
+That bear in them one and the self-same tongue
+Either of condemnation or approof,
+Bidding the law make curtsy to their will,
+Hooking both right and wrong to th’ appetite,
+To follow as it draws! I’ll to my brother.
+Though he hath fall’n by prompture of the blood,
+Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour
+That, had he twenty heads to tender down
+On twenty bloody blocks, he’d yield them up
+Before his sister should her body stoop
+To such abhorred pollution.
+Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die.
+More than our brother is our chastity.
+I’ll tell him yet of Angelo’s request,
+And fit his mind to death, for his soul’s rest.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. A room in the prison.
+
+
+Enter Duke, Claudio and Provost.
+
+DUKE.
+So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+The miserable have no other medicine
+But only hope.
+I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.
+
+DUKE.
+Be absolute for death. Either death or life
+Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:
+If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
+That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art,
+Servile to all the skyey influences
+That dost this habitation where thou keep’st
+Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death’s fool;
+For him thou labour’st by thy flight to shun,
+And yet runn’st toward him still. Thou art not noble;
+For all th’ accommodations that thou bear’st
+Are nursed by baseness. Thou’rt by no means valiant;
+For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
+Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep,
+And that thou oft provok’st, yet grossly fear’st
+Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself;
+For thou exists on many a thousand grains
+That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not;
+For what thou hast not, still thou striv’st to get,
+And what thou hast, forget’st. Thou art not certain;
+For thy complexion shifts to strange effects
+After the moon. If thou art rich, thou’rt poor;
+For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
+Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey,
+And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none;
+For thine own bowels which do call thee sire,
+The mere effusion of thy proper loins,
+Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum
+For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age,
+But as it were an after-dinner’s sleep
+Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth
+Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms
+Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,
+Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty
+To make thy riches pleasant. What’s yet in this
+That bears the name of life? Yet in this life
+Lie hid more thousand deaths; yet death we fear,
+That makes these odds all even.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I humbly thank you.
+To sue to live, I find I seek to die,
+And seeking death, find life. Let it come on.
+
+ISABELLA.
+[_Within_.] What ho! Peace here; grace and good company!
+
+PROVOST.
+Who’s there? Come in. The wish deserves a welcome.
+
+DUKE.
+Dear sir, ere long I’ll visit you again.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Most holy sir, I thank you.
+
+Enter Isabella.
+
+ISABELLA.
+My business is a word or two with Claudio.
+
+PROVOST.
+And very welcome. Look, signior, here’s your sister.
+
+DUKE.
+Provost, a word with you.
+
+PROVOST.
+As many as you please.
+
+DUKE.
+Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed.
+
+[_Exeunt Duke and Provost._]
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Now, sister, what’s the comfort?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Why,
+As all comforts are, most good, most good indeed.
+Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven,
+Intends you for his swift ambassador,
+Where you shall be an everlasting leiger.
+Therefore your best appointment make with speed;
+Tomorrow you set on.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Is there no remedy?
+
+ISABELLA.
+None, but such remedy as, to save a head,
+To cleave a heart in twain.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+But is there any?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Yes, brother, you may live.
+There is a devilish mercy in the judge,
+If you’ll implore it, that will free your life,
+But fetter you till death.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Perpetual durance?
+
+ISABELLA.
+Ay, just; perpetual durance; a restraint,
+Though all the world’s vastidity you had,
+To a determined scope.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+But in what nature?
+
+ISABELLA.
+In such a one as, you consenting to’t,
+Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear,
+And leave you naked.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Let me know the point.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, I do fear thee, Claudio, and I quake,
+Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,
+And six or seven winters more respect
+Than a perpetual honour. Dar’st thou die?
+The sense of death is most in apprehension;
+And the poor beetle that we tread upon
+In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
+As when a giant dies.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Why give you me this shame?
+Think you I can a resolution fetch
+From flowery tenderness? If I must die,
+I will encounter darkness as a bride
+And hug it in mine arms.
+
+ISABELLA.
+There spake my brother! There my father’s grave
+Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die.
+Thou art too noble to conserve a life
+In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,
+Whose settled visage and deliberate word
+Nips youth i’ th’ head, and follies doth enew
+As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil.
+His filth within being cast, he would appear
+A pond as deep as hell.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+The precise Angelo?
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, ’tis the cunning livery of hell
+The damned’st body to invest and cover
+In precise guards! Dost thou think, Claudio,
+If I would yield him my virginity
+Thou mightst be freed?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O heavens, it cannot be.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Yes, he would give it thee, from this rank offence,
+So to offend him still. This night’s the time
+That I should do what I abhor to name,
+Or else thou diest tomorrow.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Thou shalt not do’t.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, were it but my life,
+I’d throw it down for your deliverance
+As frankly as a pin.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Thanks, dear Isabel.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Yes. Has he affections in him
+That thus can make him bite the law by th’ nose
+When he would force it? Sure it is no sin;
+Or of the deadly seven it is the least.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Which is the least?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If it were damnable, he being so wise,
+Why would he for the momentary trick
+Be perdurably fined? O Isabel!
+
+ISABELLA.
+What says my brother?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Death is a fearful thing.
+
+ISABELLA.
+And shamed life a hateful.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
+To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;
+This sensible warm motion to become
+A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
+To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
+In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice;
+To be imprisoned in the viewless winds
+And blown with restless violence round about
+The pendent world; or to be worse than worst
+Of those that lawless and incertain thought
+Imagine howling—’tis too horrible.
+The weariest and most loathed worldly life
+That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
+Can lay on nature is a paradise
+To what we fear of death.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Alas, alas!
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Sweet sister, let me live.
+What sin you do to save a brother’s life,
+Nature dispenses with the deed so far
+That it becomes a virtue.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, you beast!
+O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
+Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
+Is’t not a kind of incest to take life
+From thine own sister’s shame? What should I think?
+Heaven shield my mother played my father fair,
+For such a warped slip of wilderness
+Ne’er issued from his blood. Take my defiance,
+Die, perish! Might but my bending down
+Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed.
+I’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,
+No word to save thee.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Nay, hear me, Isabel.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O fie, fie, fie!
+Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
+Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd.
+’Tis best that thou diest quickly.
+
+[_Going._]
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O, hear me, Isabella.
+
+Enter Duke as a Friar.
+
+DUKE.
+Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word.
+
+ISABELLA.
+What is your will?
+
+DUKE.
+Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and by have some
+speech with you. The satisfaction I would require is likewise your own
+benefit.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I have no superfluous leisure, my stay must be stolen out of other
+affairs, but I will attend you a while.
+
+DUKE.
+[_To Claudio aside_.] Son, I have overheard what hath passed between
+you and your sister. Angelo had never the purpose to corrupt her; only
+he hath made an assay of her virtue, to practise his judgement with the
+disposition of natures. She, having the truth of honour in her, hath
+made him that gracious denial which he is most glad to receive. I am
+confessor to Angelo, and I know this to be true; therefore prepare
+yourself to death. Do not satisfy your resolution with hopes that are
+fallible. Tomorrow you must die; go to your knees and make ready.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love with life that I will
+sue to be rid of it.
+
+DUKE.
+Hold you there. Farewell.
+
+[_Exit Claudio._]
+
+Enter Provost.
+
+Provost, a word with you.
+
+PROVOST.
+What’s your will, father?
+
+DUKE.
+That, now you are come, you will be gone. Leave me a while with the
+maid; my mind promises with my habit no loss shall touch her by my
+company.
+
+PROVOST.
+In good time.
+
+[_Exit Provost._]
+
+DUKE.
+The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. The goodness that
+is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the
+soul of your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever fair. The
+assault that Angelo hath made to you, fortune hath conveyed to my
+understanding; and, but that frailty hath examples for his falling, I
+should wonder at Angelo. How will you do to content this substitute,
+and to save your brother?
+
+ISABELLA.
+I am now going to resolve him. I had rather my brother die by the law
+than my son should be unlawfully born. But, O, how much is the good
+Duke deceived in Angelo! If ever he return, and I can speak to him, I
+will open my lips in vain, or discover his government.
+
+DUKE.
+That shall not be much amiss. Yet, as the matter now stands, he will
+avoid your accusation: he made trial of you only. Therefore fasten your
+ear on my advisings, to the love I have in doing good, a remedy
+presents itself. I do make myself believe that you may most
+uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit; redeem your
+brother from the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious person;
+and much please the absent Duke, if peradventure he shall ever return
+to have hearing of this business.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that
+appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.
+
+DUKE.
+Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have you not heard speak of
+Mariana, the sister of Frederick, the great soldier who miscarried at
+sea?
+
+ISABELLA.
+I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name.
+
+DUKE.
+She should this Angelo have married, was affianced to her oath, and the
+nuptial appointed. Between which time of the contract and limit of the
+solemnity, her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea, having in that
+perished vessel the dowry of his sister. But mark how heavily this
+befell to the poor gentlewoman. There she lost a noble and renowned
+brother, in his love toward her ever most kind and natural; with him,
+the portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry; with both,
+her combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Can this be so? Did Angelo so leave her?
+
+DUKE.
+Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them with his comfort,
+swallowed his vows whole, pretending in her discoveries of dishonour;
+in few, bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet wears for
+his sake; and he, a marble to her tears, is washed with them, but
+relents not.
+
+ISABELLA.
+What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid from the world!
+What corruption in this life, that it will let this man live! But how
+out of this can she avail?
+
+DUKE.
+It is a rupture that you may easily heal, and the cure of it not only
+saves your brother, but keeps you from dishonour in doing it.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Show me how, good father.
+
+DUKE.
+This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance of her first
+affection. His unjust unkindness, that in all reason should have
+quenched her love, hath, like an impediment in the current, made it
+more violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo; answer his requiring with a
+plausible obedience; agree with his demands to the point. Only refer
+yourself to this advantage: first, that your stay with him may not be
+long; that the time may have all shadow and silence in it; and the
+place answer to convenience. This being granted in course, and now
+follows all. We shall advise this wronged maid to stead up your
+appointment, go in your place. If the encounter acknowledge itself
+hereafter, it may compel him to her recompense; and here, by this, is
+your brother saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana advantaged,
+and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid will I frame and make fit for
+his attempt. If you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness
+of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof. What think you of it?
+
+ISABELLA.
+The image of it gives me content already, and I trust it will grow to a
+most prosperous perfection.
+
+DUKE.
+It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily to Angelo; if for
+this night he entreat you to his bed, give him promise of satisfaction.
+I will presently to Saint Luke’s; there at the moated grange resides
+this dejected Mariana. At that place call upon me; and dispatch with
+Angelo, that it may be quickly.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father.
+
+[_Exit Isabella._]
+
+SCENE II. The street before the prison.
+
+Enter Elbow, Pompey and Officers.
+
+ELBOW.
+Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will needs buy and sell
+men and women like beasts, we shall have all the world drink brown and
+white bastard.
+
+DUKE.
+O heavens, what stuff is here?
+
+POMPEY.
+’Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the merriest was put
+down, and the worser allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him
+warm; and furred with fox on lambskins too, to signify that craft,
+being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.
+
+ELBOW.
+Come your way, sir.—Bless you, good father friar.
+
+DUKE.
+And you, good brother father. What offence hath this man made you, sir?
+
+ELBOW.
+Marry, sir, he hath offended the law; and, sir, we take him to be a
+thief too, sir; for we have found upon him, sir, a strange picklock,
+which we have sent to the deputy.
+
+DUKE.
+Fie, sirrah, a bawd, a wicked bawd;
+The evil that thou causest to be done,
+That is thy means to live. Do thou but think
+What ’tis to cram a maw or clothe a back
+From such a filthy vice. Say to thyself,
+From their abominable and beastly touches
+I drink, I eat, array myself, and live.
+Canst thou believe thy living is a life,
+So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend.
+
+POMPEY.
+Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir. But yet, sir, I would prove—
+
+DUKE.
+Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,
+Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer.
+Correction and instruction must both work
+Ere this rude beast will profit.
+
+ELBOW.
+He must before the deputy, sir; he has given him warning. The deputy
+cannot abide a whoremaster. If he be a whoremonger and comes before
+him, he were as good go a mile on his errand.
+
+DUKE.
+That we were all, as some would seem to be,
+Free from our faults, as faults from seeming, free!
+
+ELBOW.
+His neck will come to your waist—a cord, sir.
+
+Enter Lucio.
+
+POMPEY.
+I spy comfort, I cry bail! Here’s a gentleman, and a friend of mine.
+
+LUCIO.
+How now, noble Pompey? What, at the wheels of Caesar? Art thou led in
+triumph? What, is there none of Pygmalion’s images, newly made woman,
+to be had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and extracting it
+clutched? What reply, ha? What say’st thou to this tune, matter, and
+method? Is’t not drowned i’ th’ last rain, ha? What say’st thou, trot?
+Is the world as it was, man? Which is the way? Is it sad and few words?
+Or how? The trick of it?
+
+DUKE.
+Still thus, and thus; still worse!
+
+LUCIO.
+How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress? Procures she still, ha?
+
+POMPEY.
+Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and she is herself in the
+tub.
+
+LUCIO.
+Why, ’tis good. It is the right of it. It must be so. Ever your fresh
+whore and your powdered bawd; an unshunned consequence; it must be so.
+Art going to prison, Pompey?
+
+POMPEY.
+Yes, faith, sir.
+
+LUCIO.
+Why, ’tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell. Go, say I sent thee thither. For
+debt, Pompey? Or how?
+
+ELBOW.
+For being a bawd, for being a bawd.
+
+LUCIO.
+Well, then, imprison him. If imprisonment be the due of a bawd, why,
+’tis his right. Bawd is he doubtless, and of antiquity, too. Bawd born.
+Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison, Pompey. You will turn
+good husband now, Pompey; you will keep the house.
+
+POMPEY.
+I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail.
+
+LUCIO.
+No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear. I will pray,
+Pompey, to increase your bondage. If you take it not patiently, why,
+your mettle is the more. Adieu, trusty Pompey.—Bless you, friar.
+
+DUKE.
+And you.
+
+LUCIO.
+Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?
+
+ELBOW.
+Come your ways, sir, come.
+
+POMPEY.
+You will not bail me then, sir?
+
+LUCIO.
+Then, Pompey, nor now.—What news abroad, friar? What news?
+
+ELBOW.
+Come your ways, sir, come.
+
+LUCIO.
+Go to kennel, Pompey, go.
+
+[_Exeunt Elbow, Pompey and Officers._]
+
+What news, friar, of the Duke?
+
+DUKE.
+I know none. Can you tell me of any?
+
+LUCIO.
+Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other some, he is in Rome.
+But where is he, think you?
+
+DUKE.
+I know not where, but wheresoever, I wish him well.
+
+LUCIO.
+It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from the state and usurp
+the beggary he was never born to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his
+absence. He puts transgression to’t.
+
+DUKE.
+He does well in’t.
+
+LUCIO.
+A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him. Something too
+crabbed that way, friar.
+
+DUKE.
+It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.
+
+LUCIO.
+Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is well allied;
+but it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and
+drinking be put down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and
+woman after this downright way of creation. Is it true, think you?
+
+DUKE.
+How should he be made, then?
+
+LUCIO.
+Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he was begot between two
+stockfishes. But it is certain that when he makes water, his urine is
+congealed ice; that I know to be true. And he is a motion ungenerative;
+that’s infallible.
+
+DUKE.
+You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.
+
+LUCIO.
+Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the rebellion of a
+codpiece to take away the life of a man! Would the Duke that is absent
+have done this? Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a
+hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a thousand. He had
+some feeling of the sport; he knew the service, and that instructed him
+to mercy.
+
+DUKE.
+I never heard the absent Duke much detected for women; he was not
+inclined that way.
+
+LUCIO.
+O, sir, you are deceived.
+
+DUKE.
+’Tis not possible.
+
+LUCIO.
+Who, not the Duke? Yes, your beggar of fifty; and his use was to put a
+ducat in her clack-dish. The Duke had crotchets in him. He would be
+drunk too, that let me inform you.
+
+DUKE.
+You do him wrong, surely.
+
+LUCIO.
+Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the Duke; and I believe I
+know the cause of his withdrawing.
+
+DUKE.
+What, I prithee, might be the cause?
+
+LUCIO.
+No, pardon. ’Tis a secret must be locked within the teeth and the lips.
+But this I can let you understand: the greater file of the subject held
+the Duke to be wise.
+
+DUKE.
+Wise? Why, no question but he was.
+
+LUCIO.
+A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.
+
+DUKE.
+Either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking. The very stream of his
+life, and the business he hath helmed, must upon a warranted need give
+him a better proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own
+bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the envious a scholar, a
+statesman, and a soldier. Therefore you speak unskilfully. Or, if your
+knowledge be more, it is much darkened in your malice.
+
+LUCIO.
+Sir, I know him, and I love him.
+
+DUKE.
+Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with dearer love.
+
+LUCIO.
+Come, sir, I know what I know.
+
+DUKE.
+I can hardly believe that, since you know not what you speak. But, if
+ever the Duke return, as our prayers are he may, let me desire you to
+make your answer before him. If it be honest you have spoke, you have
+courage to maintain it. I am bound to call upon you, and I pray you
+your name?
+
+LUCIO.
+Sir, my name is Lucio, well known to the Duke.
+
+DUKE.
+He shall know you better, sir, if I may live to report you.
+
+LUCIO.
+I fear you not.
+
+DUKE.
+O, you hope the Duke will return no more; or you imagine me too
+unhurtful an opposite. But indeed, I can do you little harm. You’ll
+forswear this again.
+
+LUCIO.
+I’ll be hanged first! Thou art deceived in me, friar. But no more of
+this. Canst thou tell if Claudio die tomorrow or no?
+
+DUKE.
+Why should he die, sir?
+
+LUCIO.
+Why? For filling a bottle with a tun-dish. I would the Duke we talk of
+were returned again. This ungenitured agent will unpeople the province
+with continency. Sparrows must not build in his house-eaves because
+they are lecherous. The Duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered.
+He would never bring them to light. Would he were returned! Marry, this
+Claudio is condemned for untrussing. Farewell, good friar, I prithee
+pray for me. The Duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on
+Fridays. He’s now past it; yet, and, I say to thee, he would mouth with
+a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic. Say that I said so.
+Farewell.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+DUKE.
+No might nor greatness in mortality
+Can censure ’scape. Back-wounding calumny
+The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
+Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
+But who comes here?
+
+Enter Escalus, Provost and Officers with Mistress Overdone, a Bawd.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Go, away with her to prison.
+
+BAWD.
+Good my lord, be good to me. Your honour is accounted a merciful man,
+good my lord.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in the same kind? This
+would make mercy swear and play the tyrant.
+
+PROVOST.
+A bawd of eleven years’ continuance, may it please your honour.
+
+BAWD.
+My lord, this is one Lucio’s information against me. Mistress Kate
+Keepdown was with child by him in the Duke’s time; he promised her
+marriage. His child is a year and a quarter old come Philip and Jacob.
+I have kept it myself; and see how he goes about to abuse me.
+
+ESCALUS.
+That fellow is a fellow of much license. Let him be called before us.
+Away with her to prison. Go to, no more words.
+
+[_Exeunt Officers with Bawd._]
+
+Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered; Claudio must die
+tomorrow. Let him be furnished with divines, and have all charitable
+preparation. If my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be so with
+him.
+
+PROVOST.
+So please you, this friar hath been with him, and advised him for th’
+entertainment of death.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Good even, good father.
+
+DUKE.
+Bliss and goodness on you!
+
+ESCALUS.
+Of whence are you?
+
+DUKE.
+Not of this country, though my chance is now
+To use it for my time. I am a brother
+Of gracious order, late come from the See
+In special business from his Holiness.
+
+ESCALUS.
+What news abroad i’ th’ world?
+
+DUKE.
+None, but that there is so great a fever on goodness that the
+dissolution of it must cure it. Novelty is only in request, and as it
+is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course as it is virtuous to
+be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce truth enough alive to
+make societies secure; but security enough to make fellowships
+accursed. Much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This news
+is old enough, yet it is every day’s news. I pray you, sir, of what
+disposition was the Duke?
+
+ESCALUS.
+One that, above all other strifes, contended especially to know
+himself.
+
+DUKE.
+What pleasure was he given to?
+
+ESCALUS.
+Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at anything which
+professed to make him rejoice. A gentleman of all temperance. But leave
+we him to his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous, and let
+me desire to know how you find Claudio prepared. I am made to
+understand that you have lent him visitation.
+
+DUKE.
+He professes to have received no sinister measure from his judge, but
+most willingly humbles himself to the determination of justice. Yet had
+he framed to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many deceiving
+promises of life, which I, by my good leisure, have discredited to him,
+and now he is resolved to die.
+
+ESCALUS.
+You have paid the heavens your function, and the prisoner the very debt
+of your calling. I have laboured for the poor gentleman to the
+extremest shore of my modesty, but my brother justice have I found so
+severe that he hath forced me to tell him he is indeed Justice.
+
+DUKE.
+If his own life answer the straitness of his proceeding, it shall
+become him well; wherein if he chance to fail, he hath sentenced
+himself.
+
+ESCALUS.
+I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well.
+
+DUKE.
+Peace be with you.
+
+[_Exeunt Escalus and Provost._]
+
+He who the sword of heaven will bear
+Should be as holy as severe,
+Pattern in himself to know,
+Grace to stand, and virtue go;
+More nor less to others paying
+Than by self-offences weighing.
+Shame to him whose cruel striking
+Kills for faults of his own liking!
+Twice treble shame on Angelo,
+To weed my vice, and let his grow!
+O, what may man within him hide,
+Though angel on the outward side!
+How may likeness, made in crimes,
+Make practice on the times,
+To draw with idle spiders’ strings
+Most ponderous and substantial things!
+Craft against vice I must apply.
+With Angelo tonight shall lie
+His old betrothed but despised.
+So disguise shall, by th’ disguised,
+Pay with falsehood false exacting,
+And perform an old contracting.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. A room in Mariana’s house.
+
+
+Enter Mariana and a Boy singing.
+
+                SONG
+_  Take, O take those lips away,
+      That so sweetly were forsworn,
+  And those eyes, the break of day,
+      Lights that do mislead the morn.
+  But my kisses bring again,
+                Bring again;
+  Seals of love, but sealed in vain,
+                Sealed in vain._
+
+Enter Duke as a Friar.
+
+MARIANA.
+Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away;
+Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
+Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
+
+[_Exit Boy._]
+
+I cry you mercy, sir, and well could wish
+You had not found me here so musical.
+Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
+My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
+
+DUKE.
+’Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
+To make bad good and good provoke to harm.
+I pray you tell me, hath anybody inquired for me here today? Much upon
+this time have I promised here to meet.
+
+MARIANA.
+You have not been inquired after. I have sat here all day.
+
+Enter Isabella.
+
+DUKE.
+I do constantly believe you. The time is come even now. I shall crave
+your forbearance a little. Maybe I will call upon you anon for some
+advantage to yourself.
+
+MARIANA.
+I am always bound to you.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+DUKE.
+Very well met, and welcome.
+What is the news from this good deputy?
+
+ISABELLA.
+He hath a garden circummured with brick,
+Whose western side is with a vineyard backed;
+And to that vineyard is a planched gate
+That makes his opening with this bigger key.
+This other doth command a little door
+Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
+There have I made my promise, upon the
+Heavy middle of the night to call on him.
+
+DUKE.
+But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
+
+ISABELLA.
+I have ta’en a due and wary note upon’t;
+With whispering and most guilty diligence,
+In action all of precept, he did show me
+The way twice o’er.
+
+DUKE.
+Are there no other tokens
+Between you ’greed concerning her observance?
+
+ISABELLA.
+No, none, but only a repair i’ th’ dark,
+And that I have possessed him my most stay
+Can be but brief, for I have made him know
+I have a servant comes with me along,
+That stays upon me; whose persuasion is
+I come about my brother.
+
+DUKE.
+’Tis well borne up.
+I have not yet made known to Mariana
+A word of this.—What ho, within! Come forth.
+
+Enter Mariana.
+
+I pray you be acquainted with this maid;
+She comes to do you good.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I do desire the like.
+
+DUKE.
+Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
+
+MARIANA.
+Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.
+
+DUKE.
+Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
+Who hath a story ready for your ear.
+I shall attend your leisure; but make haste.
+The vaporous night approaches.
+
+MARIANA.
+Will’t please you walk aside?
+
+[_Exeunt Mariana and Isabella._]
+
+DUKE.
+O place and greatness, millions of false eyes
+Are stuck upon thee; volumes of report
+Run with these false, and most contrarious quest
+Upon thy doings; thousand escapes of wit
+Make thee the father of their idle dream
+And rack thee in their fancies.
+
+Enter Mariana and Isabella.
+
+Welcome; how agreed?
+
+ISABELLA.
+She’ll take the enterprise upon her, father,
+If you advise it.
+
+DUKE.
+It is not my consent,
+But my entreaty too.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Little have you to say
+When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
+“Remember now my brother.”
+
+MARIANA.
+Fear me not.
+
+DUKE.
+Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
+He is your husband on a pre-contract.
+To bring you thus together ’tis no sin,
+Sith that the justice of your title to him
+Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go;
+Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tithe’s to sow.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A room in the prison.
+
+Enter Provost and Pompey.
+
+PROVOST.
+Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man’s head?
+
+POMPEY.
+If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a married man, he’s
+his wife’s head, and I can never cut off a woman’s head.
+
+PROVOST.
+Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer.
+Tomorrow morning are to die Claudio and Barnardine. Here is in our
+prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper; if you
+will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves;
+if not, you shall have your full time of imprisonment, and your
+deliverance with an unpitied whipping; for you have been a notorious
+bawd.
+
+POMPEY.
+Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind, but yet I will be
+content to be a lawful hangman. I would be glad to receive some
+instruction from my fellow-partner.
+
+PROVOST.
+What ho, Abhorson! Where’s Abhorson, there?
+
+Enter Abhorson.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Do you call, sir?
+
+PROVOST.
+Sirrah, here’s a fellow will help you tomorrow in your execution. If
+you think it meet, compound with him by the year, and let him abide
+here with you; if not, use him for the present, and dismiss him. He
+cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.
+
+ABHORSON.
+A bawd, sir? Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery.
+
+PROVOST.
+Go to, sir; you weigh equally. A feather will turn the scale.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+POMPEY.
+Pray, sir, by your good favour—for surely, sir, a good favour you have,
+but that you have a hanging look—do you call, sir, your occupation a
+mystery?
+
+ABHORSON.
+Ay, sir, a mystery.
+
+POMPEY.
+Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores, sir,
+being members of my occupation, using painting, do prove my occupation
+a mystery. But what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should be
+hanged, I cannot imagine.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Sir, it is a mystery.
+
+POMPEY.
+Proof.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Every true man’s apparel fits your thief. If it be too little for your
+thief, your true man thinks it big enough; if it be too big for your
+thief, your thief thinks it little enough. So every true man’s apparel
+fits your thief.
+
+Enter Provost.
+
+PROVOST.
+Are you agreed?
+
+POMPEY.
+Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is a more penitent
+trade than your bawd. He doth oftener ask forgiveness.
+
+PROVOST.
+You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe tomorrow four o’clock.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Come on, bawd. I will instruct thee in my trade. Follow.
+
+POMPEY.
+I do desire to learn, sir; and I hope, if you have occasion to use me
+for your own turn, you shall find me yare. For truly, sir, for your
+kindness I owe you a good turn.
+
+PROVOST.
+Call hither Barnardine and Claudio.
+
+[_Exeunt Abhorson and Pompey._]
+
+Th’ one has my pity; not a jot the other,
+Being a murderer, though he were my brother.
+
+Enter Claudio.
+
+Look, here’s the warrant, Claudio, for thy death.
+’Tis now dead midnight, and by eight tomorrow
+Thou must be made immortal. Where’s Barnardine?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+As fast locked up in sleep as guiltless labour
+When it lies starkly in the traveller’s bones.
+He will not wake.
+
+PROVOST.
+Who can do good on him?
+Well, go, prepare yourself. [_Knocking within_.] But hark, what noise?
+Heaven give your spirits comfort!
+
+[_Exit Claudio. Knock within._]
+
+By and by!—
+I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
+For the most gentle Claudio.
+
+Enter Duke.
+
+Welcome, father.
+
+DUKE.
+The best and wholesom’st spirits of the night
+Envelop you, good Provost! Who called here of late?
+
+PROVOST.
+None, since the curfew rung.
+
+DUKE.
+Not Isabel?
+
+PROVOST.
+No.
+
+DUKE.
+They will then, ere’t be long.
+
+PROVOST.
+What comfort is for Claudio?
+
+DUKE.
+There’s some in hope.
+
+PROVOST.
+It is a bitter deputy.
+
+DUKE.
+Not so, not so. His life is paralleled
+Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
+He doth with holy abstinence subdue
+That in himself which he spurs on his power
+To qualify in others. Were he mealed with that
+Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous;
+But this being so, he’s just.
+
+[_Knocking within. Provost goes to the door._]
+
+Now are they come.
+This is a gentle provost. Seldom when
+The steeled gaoler is the friend of men.
+
+[_Knocking within_.]
+
+How now? What noise? That spirit’s possessed with haste
+That wounds th’ unsisting postern with these strokes.
+
+Provost returns.
+
+PROVOST.
+There he must stay until the officer
+Arise to let him in. He is called up.
+
+DUKE.
+Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
+But he must die tomorrow?
+
+PROVOST.
+None, sir, none.
+
+DUKE.
+As near the dawning, Provost, as it is,
+You shall hear more ere morning.
+
+PROVOST.
+Happily
+You something know, yet I believe there comes
+No countermand. No such example have we.
+Besides, upon the very siege of justice
+Lord Angelo hath to the public ear
+Professed the contrary.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+This is his Lordship’s man.
+
+DUKE.
+And here comes Claudio’s pardon.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord hath sent you this note, and by me this further charge: that
+you swerve not from the smallest article of it, neither in time,
+matter, or other circumstance. Good morrow; for, as I take it, it is
+almost day.
+
+PROVOST.
+I shall obey him.
+
+[_Exit Messenger._]
+
+DUKE.
+[_Aside_.] This is his pardon, purchased by such sin
+For which the pardoner himself is in.
+Hence hath offence his quick celerity,
+When it is borne in high authority.
+When vice makes mercy, mercy’s so extended
+That for the fault’s love is th’ offender friended.
+Now, sir, what news?
+
+PROVOST.
+I told you: Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss in mine office,
+awakens me with this unwonted putting-on; methinks strangely, for he
+hath not used it before.
+
+DUKE.
+Pray you, let’s hear.
+
+PROVOST.
+[_Reads_.] _Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let Claudio be
+executed by four of the clock, and in the afternoon, Barnardine. For my
+better satisfaction, let me have Claudio’s head sent me by five. Let
+this be duly performed, with a thought that more depends on it than we
+must yet deliver. Thus fail not to do your office, as you will answer
+it at your peril._
+What say you to this, sir?
+
+DUKE.
+What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in th’ afternoon?
+
+PROVOST.
+A Bohemian born, but here nursed up and bred; one that is a prisoner
+nine years old.
+
+DUKE.
+How came it that the absent Duke had not either delivered him to his
+liberty, or executed him? I have heard it was ever his manner to do so.
+
+PROVOST.
+His friends still wrought reprieves for him; and indeed, his fact till
+now in the government of Lord Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.
+
+DUKE.
+It is now apparent?
+
+PROVOST.
+Most manifest, and not denied by himself.
+
+DUKE.
+Hath he borne himself penitently in prison? How seems he to be touched?
+
+PROVOST.
+A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep;
+careless, reckless, and fearless of what’s past, present, or to come;
+insensible of mortality and desperately mortal.
+
+DUKE.
+He wants advice.
+
+PROVOST.
+He will hear none. He hath evermore had the liberty of the prison; give
+him leave to escape hence, he would not. Drunk many times a day, if not
+many days entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him, as if to carry
+him to execution, and showed him a seeming warrant for it. It hath not
+moved him at all.
+
+DUKE.
+More of him anon. There is written in your brow, Provost, honesty and
+constancy; if I read it not truly, my ancient skill beguiles me. But in
+the boldness of my cunning I will lay myself in hazard. Claudio, whom
+here you have warrant to execute, is no greater forfeit to the law than
+Angelo who hath sentenced him. To make you understand this in a
+manifested effect, I crave but four days’ respite, for the which you
+are to do me both a present and a dangerous courtesy.
+
+PROVOST.
+Pray, sir, in what?
+
+DUKE.
+In the delaying death.
+
+PROVOST.
+Alack, how may I do it? Having the hour limited, and an express
+command, under penalty, to deliver his head in the view of Angelo? I
+may make my case as Claudio’s, to cross this in the smallest.
+
+DUKE.
+By the vow of mine order, I warrant you, if my instructions may be your
+guide. Let this Barnardine be this morning executed, and his head borne
+to Angelo.
+
+PROVOST.
+Angelo hath seen them both, and will discover the favour.
+
+DUKE.
+O, death’s a great disguiser, and you may add to it. Shave the head and
+tie the beard, and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared
+before his death. You know the course is common. If anything fall to
+you upon this, more than thanks and good fortune, by the saint whom I
+profess, I will plead against it with my life.
+
+PROVOST.
+Pardon me, good father; it is against my oath.
+
+DUKE.
+Were you sworn to the Duke, or to the Deputy?
+
+PROVOST.
+To him and to his substitutes.
+
+DUKE.
+You will think you have made no offence if the Duke avouch the justice
+of your dealing?
+
+PROVOST.
+But what likelihood is in that?
+
+DUKE.
+Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see you fearful, that
+neither my coat, integrity, nor persuasion, can with ease attempt you,
+I will go further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you. Look
+you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the Duke. You know the
+character, I doubt not, and the signet is not strange to you.
+
+PROVOST.
+I know them both.
+
+DUKE.
+The contents of this is the return of the Duke; you shall anon
+over-read it at your pleasure, where you shall find within these two
+days he will be here. This is a thing that Angelo knows not; for he
+this very day receives letters of strange tenour, perchance of the
+Duke’s death, perchance entering into some monastery; but, by chance,
+nothing of what is writ. Look, th’ unfolding star calls up the
+shepherd. Put not yourself into amazement how these things should be.
+All difficulties are but easy when they are known. Call your
+executioner, and off with Barnardine’s head. I will give him a present
+shrift, and advise him for a better place. Yet you are amazed; but this
+shall absolutely resolve you. Come away; it is almost clear dawn.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another room in the same.
+
+Enter Pompey.
+
+POMPEY.
+I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession. One
+would think it were Mistress Overdone’s own house, for here be many of
+her old customers. First, here’s young Master Rash; he’s in for a
+commodity of brown paper and old ginger, nine score and seventeen
+pounds; of which he made five marks ready money. Marry, then ginger was
+not much in request, for the old women were all dead. Then is there
+here one Master Caper, at the suit of Master Three-pile the mercer, for
+some four suits of peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a
+beggar. Then have we here young Dizie, and young Master Deep-vow, and
+Master Copperspur, and Master Starve-lackey, the rapier and dagger man,
+and young Drop-heir that killed lusty Pudding, and Master Forthright
+the tilter, and brave Master Shoe-tie the great traveller, and wild
+Half-can that stabbed Pots, and I think forty more, all great doers in
+our trade, and are now “for the Lord’s sake.”
+
+Enter Abhorson.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither.
+
+POMPEY.
+Master Barnardine! You must rise and be hanged, Master Barnardine.
+
+ABHORSON.
+What ho, Barnardine!
+
+BARNARDINE.
+[_Within_.] A pox o’ your throats! Who makes that noise there? What are
+you?
+
+POMPEY.
+Your friends, sir; the hangman. You must be so good, sir, to rise and
+be put to death.
+
+BARNARDINE.
+[_Within_.] Away, you rogue, away; I am sleepy.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too.
+
+POMPEY.
+Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are executed, and sleep
+afterwards.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Go in to him, and fetch him out.
+
+POMPEY.
+He is coming, sir, he is coming. I hear his straw rustle.
+
+Enter Barnardine.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?
+
+POMPEY.
+Very ready, sir.
+
+BARNARDINE.
+How now, Abhorson? What’s the news with you?
+
+ABHORSON.
+Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your prayers; for, look
+you, the warrant’s come.
+
+BARNARDINE.
+You rogue, I have been drinking all night; I am not fitted for’t.
+
+POMPEY.
+O, the better, sir; for he that drinks all night and is hanged betimes
+in the morning may sleep the sounder all the next day.
+
+Enter Duke.
+
+ABHORSON.
+Look you, sir, here comes your ghostly father. Do we jest now, think
+you?
+
+DUKE.
+Sir, induced by my charity, and hearing how hastily you are to depart,
+I am come to advise you, comfort you, and pray with you.
+
+BARNARDINE.
+Friar, not I. I have been drinking hard all night, and I will have more
+time to prepare me, or they shall beat out my brains with billets. I
+will not consent to die this day, that’s certain.
+
+DUKE.
+O, sir, you must; and therefore I beseech you
+Look forward on the journey you shall go.
+
+BARNARDINE.
+I swear I will not die today for any man’s persuasion.
+
+DUKE.
+But hear you—
+
+BARNARDINE.
+Not a word. If you have anything to say to me, come to my ward, for
+thence will not I today.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+DUKE.
+Unfit to live or die. O gravel heart!
+After him, fellows; bring him to the block.
+
+[_Exeunt Abhorson and Pompey._]
+
+Enter Provost.
+
+PROVOST.
+Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner?
+
+DUKE.
+A creature unprepared, unmeet for death;
+And to transport him in the mind he is
+Were damnable.
+
+PROVOST.
+Here in the prison, father,
+There died this morning of a cruel fever
+One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate,
+A man of Claudio’s years; his beard and head
+Just of his colour. What if we do omit
+This reprobate till he were well inclined,
+And satisfy the Deputy with the visage
+Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?
+
+DUKE.
+O, ’tis an accident that heaven provides!
+Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on
+Prefixed by Angelo. See this be done,
+And sent according to command, whiles I
+Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die.
+
+PROVOST.
+This shall be done, good father, presently.
+But Barnardine must die this afternoon;
+And how shall we continue Claudio,
+To save me from the danger that might come
+If he were known alive?
+
+DUKE.
+Let this be done:
+Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio.
+Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting
+To yonder generation, you shall find
+Your safety manifested.
+
+PROVOST.
+I am your free dependant.
+
+DUKE.
+Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo.
+
+[_Exit Provost._]
+
+Now will I write letters to Angelo,
+The Provost, he shall bear them, whose contents
+Shall witness to him I am near at home;
+And that by great injunctions I am bound
+To enter publicly. Him I’ll desire
+To meet me at the consecrated fount,
+A league below the city; and from thence,
+By cold gradation and well-balanced form.
+We shall proceed with Angelo.
+
+Enter Provost.
+
+PROVOST.
+Here is the head; I’ll carry it myself.
+
+DUKE.
+Convenient is it. Make a swift return;
+For I would commune with you of such things
+That want no ear but yours.
+
+PROVOST.
+I’ll make all speed.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ISABELLA.
+[_Within_.] Peace, ho, be here!
+
+DUKE.
+The tongue of Isabel. She’s come to know
+If yet her brother’s pardon be come hither.
+But I will keep her ignorant of her good,
+To make her heavenly comforts of despair
+When it is least expected.
+
+Enter Isabella.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Ho, by your leave!
+
+DUKE.
+Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.
+
+ISABELLA.
+The better, given me by so holy a man.
+Hath yet the Deputy sent my brother’s pardon?
+
+DUKE.
+He hath released him, Isabel, from the world.
+His head is off, and sent to Angelo.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Nay, but it is not so.
+
+DUKE.
+It is no other.
+Show your wisdom, daughter, in your close patience.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!
+
+DUKE.
+You shall not be admitted to his sight.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Unhappy Claudio! Wretched Isabel!
+Injurious world! Most damned Angelo!
+
+DUKE.
+This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot.
+Forbear it, therefore; give your cause to heaven.
+Mark what I say, which you shall find
+By every syllable a faithful verity.
+The Duke comes home tomorrow;—nay, dry your eyes.
+One of our convent, and his confessor,
+Gives me this instance. Already he hath carried
+Notice to Escalus and Angelo,
+Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,
+There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom
+In that good path that I would wish it go,
+And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,
+Grace of the Duke, revenges to your heart,
+And general honour.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I am directed by you.
+
+DUKE.
+This letter, then, to Friar Peter give;
+’Tis that he sent me of the Duke’s return.
+Say, by this token, I desire his company
+At Mariana’s house tonight. Her cause and yours
+I’ll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you
+Before the Duke; and to the head of Angelo
+Accuse him home and home. For my poor self,
+I am combined by a sacred vow,
+And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter.
+Command these fretting waters from your eyes
+With a light heart; trust not my holy order,
+If I pervert your course.—Who’s here?
+
+Enter Lucio.
+
+LUCIO.
+Good even. Friar, where is the Provost?
+
+DUKE.
+Not within, sir.
+
+LUCIO.
+O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see thine eyes so red.
+Thou must be patient. I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran. I
+dare not for my head fill my belly. One fruitful meal would set me
+to’t. But they say the Duke will be here tomorrow. By my troth, Isabel,
+I loved thy brother. If the old fantastical duke of dark corners had
+been at home, he had lived.
+
+[_Exit Isabella._]
+
+DUKE.
+Sir, the Duke is marvellous little beholding to your reports; but the
+best is, he lives not in them.
+
+LUCIO.
+Friar, thou knowest not the Duke so well as I do. He’s a better woodman
+than thou tak’st him for.
+
+DUKE.
+Well, you’ll answer this one day. Fare ye well.
+
+LUCIO.
+Nay, tarry, I’ll go along with thee. I can tell thee pretty tales of
+the Duke.
+
+DUKE.
+You have told me too many of him already, sir, if they be true; if not
+true, none were enough.
+
+LUCIO.
+I was once before him for getting a wench with child.
+
+DUKE.
+Did you such a thing?
+
+LUCIO.
+Yes, marry, did I; but I was fain to forswear it. They would else have
+married me to the rotten medlar.
+
+DUKE.
+Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest you well.
+
+LUCIO.
+By my troth, I’ll go with thee to the lane’s end. If bawdy talk offend
+you, we’ll have very little of it. Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I
+shall stick.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A room in Angelo’s house.
+
+Enter Angelo and Escalus.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.
+
+ANGELO.
+In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions show much like to
+madness; pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted. And why meet him at the
+gates and redeliver our authorities there?
+
+ESCALUS.
+I guess not.
+
+ANGELO.
+And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering, that if
+any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in
+the street?
+
+ESCALUS.
+He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of complaints, and to
+deliver us from devices hereafter, which shall then have no power to
+stand against us.
+
+ANGELO.
+Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed.
+Betimes i’ th’ morn I’ll call you at your house.
+Give notice to such men of sort and suit
+As are to meet him.
+
+ESCALUS.
+I shall, sir. Fare you well.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+ANGELO.
+Good night.
+This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant
+And dull to all proceedings. A deflowered maid;
+And by an eminent body that enforced
+The law against it! But that her tender shame
+Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,
+How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no,
+For my authority bears so credent bulk
+That no particular scandal once can touch
+But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,
+Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
+Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge
+By so receiving a dishonoured life
+With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived.
+Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
+Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. Fields without the town.
+
+Enter Duke, in his own habit, and Friar Peter.
+
+DUKE.
+These letters at fit time deliver me.
+The Provost knows our purpose and our plot.
+The matter being afoot, keep your instruction
+And hold you ever to our special drift,
+Though sometimes you do blench from this to that
+As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius’ house,
+And tell him where I stay. Give the like notice
+To Valencius, Rowland, and to Crassus,
+And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate.
+But send me Flavius first.
+
+FRIAR PETER.
+It shall be speeded well.
+
+[_Exit Friar Peter._]
+
+Enter Varrius.
+
+DUKE.
+I thank thee, Varrius, thou hast made good haste.
+Come, we will walk. There’s other of our friends
+Will greet us here anon. My gentle Varrius.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Street near the city gate.
+
+Enter Isabella and Mariana.
+
+ISABELLA.
+To speak so indirectly I am loath;
+I would say the truth, but to accuse him so
+That is your part; yet I am advised to do it,
+He says, to veil full purpose.
+
+MARIANA.
+Be ruled by him.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure
+He speak against me on the adverse side,
+I should not think it strange, for ’tis a physic
+That’s bitter to sweet end.
+
+MARIANA.
+I would Friar Peter—
+
+Enter Friar Peter.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, peace, the friar is come.
+
+FRIAR PETER.
+Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
+Where you may have such vantage on the Duke
+He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded.
+The generous and gravest citizens
+Have hent the gates, and very near upon
+The Duke is entering. Therefore hence, away.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. A public place near the city gate.
+
+
+Enter at several doors Duke, Varrius, Lords; Angelo, Escalus, Lucio,
+Provost, Officers and Citizens.
+
+DUKE.
+My very worthy cousin, fairly met.
+Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.
+
+ANGELO and ESCALUS.
+Happy return be to your royal grace!
+
+DUKE.
+Many and hearty thankings to you both.
+We have made inquiry of you, and we hear
+Such goodness of your justice that our soul
+Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,
+Forerunning more requital.
+
+ANGELO.
+You make my bonds still greater.
+
+DUKE.
+O, your desert speaks loud, and I should wrong it
+To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
+When it deserves with characters of brass
+A forted residence ’gainst the tooth of time
+And rasure of oblivion. Give me your hand
+And let the subject see, to make them know
+That outward courtesies would fain proclaim
+Favours that keep within.—Come, Escalus,
+You must walk by us on our other hand.
+And good supporters are you.
+
+Enter Friar Peter and Isabella.
+
+FRIAR PETER.
+Now is your time. Speak loud, and kneel before him.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Justice, O royal Duke! Vail your regard
+Upon a wronged—I would fain have said, a maid.
+O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye
+By throwing it on any other object
+Till you have heard me in my true complaint,
+And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!
+
+DUKE.
+Relate your wrongs. In what? By whom? Be brief.
+Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice.
+Reveal yourself to him.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O worthy Duke,
+You bid me seek redemption of the devil.
+Hear me yourself, for that which I must speak
+Must either punish me, not being believed,
+Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, here!
+
+ANGELO.
+My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm.
+She hath been a suitor to me for her brother,
+Cut off by course of justice.
+
+ISABELLA.
+By course of justice!
+
+ANGELO.
+And she will speak most bitterly and strange.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Most strange, but yet most truly will I speak.
+That Angelo’s forsworn, is it not strange?
+That Angelo’s a murderer, is’t not strange?
+That Angelo is an adulterous thief,
+An hypocrite, a virgin-violator,
+Is it not strange and strange?
+
+DUKE.
+Nay, it is ten times strange.
+
+ISABELLA.
+It is not truer he is Angelo
+Than this is all as true as it is strange.
+Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth
+To th’ end of reckoning.
+
+DUKE.
+Away with her. Poor soul,
+She speaks this in th’ infirmity of sense.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O Prince, I conjure thee, as thou believ’st
+There is another comfort than this world,
+That thou neglect me not with that opinion
+That I am touched with madness. Make not impossible
+That which but seems unlike. ’Tis not impossible
+But one, the wicked’st caitiff on the ground,
+May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute,
+As Angelo; even so may Angelo,
+In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,
+Be an arch-villain. Believe it, royal Prince,
+If he be less, he’s nothing; but he’s more,
+Had I more name for badness.
+
+DUKE.
+By mine honesty,
+If she be mad, as I believe no other,
+Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
+Such a dependency of thing on thing,
+As e’er I heard in madness.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O gracious Duke,
+Harp not on that; nor do not banish reason
+For inequality; but let your reason serve
+To make the truth appear where it seems hid,
+And hide the false seems true.
+
+DUKE.
+Many that are not mad
+Have, sure, more lack of reason. What would you say?
+
+ISABELLA.
+I am the sister of one Claudio,
+Condemned upon the act of fornication
+To lose his head; condemned by Angelo.
+I, in probation of a sisterhood,
+Was sent to by my brother; one Lucio
+As then the messenger.
+
+LUCIO.
+That’s I, an’t like your Grace.
+I came to her from Claudio and desired her
+To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo
+For her poor brother’s pardon.
+
+ISABELLA.
+That’s he, indeed.
+
+DUKE.
+You were not bid to speak.
+
+LUCIO.
+No, my good lord,
+Nor wished to hold my peace.
+
+DUKE.
+I wish you now, then;
+Pray you take note of it; and when you have
+A business for yourself, pray heaven you then
+Be perfect.
+
+LUCIO.
+I warrant your honour.
+
+DUKE.
+The warrant’s for yourself. Take heed to it.
+
+ISABELLA.
+This gentleman told somewhat of my tale.
+
+LUCIO.
+Right.
+
+DUKE.
+It may be right, but you are i’ the wrong
+To speak before your time.—Proceed.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I went
+To this pernicious caitiff deputy.
+
+DUKE.
+That’s somewhat madly spoken.
+
+ISABELLA.
+Pardon it;
+The phrase is to the matter.
+
+DUKE.
+Mended again. The matter; proceed.
+
+ISABELLA.
+In brief, to set the needless process by:
+How I persuaded, how I prayed and kneeled,
+How he refelled me, and how I replied—
+For this was of much length—the vile conclusion
+I now begin with grief and shame to utter.
+He would not, but by gift of my chaste body
+To his concupiscible intemperate lust,
+Release my brother; and after much debatement,
+My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,
+And I did yield to him. But the next morn betimes,
+His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant
+For my poor brother’s head.
+
+DUKE.
+This is most likely!
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, that it were as like as it is true!
+
+DUKE.
+By heaven, fond wretch, thou know’st not what thou speak’st,
+Or else thou art suborned against his honour
+In hateful practice. First, his integrity
+Stands without blemish; next, it imports no reason
+That with such vehemency he should pursue
+Faults proper to himself. If he had so offended,
+He would have weighed thy brother by himself,
+And not have cut him off. Someone hath set you on.
+Confess the truth, and say by whose advice
+Thou cam’st here to complain.
+
+ISABELLA.
+And is this all?
+Then, O you blessed ministers above,
+Keep me in patience, and with ripened time
+Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up
+In countenance! Heaven shield your Grace from woe,
+As I, thus wronged, hence unbelieved go.
+
+DUKE.
+I know you’d fain be gone. An officer!
+To prison with her! Shall we thus permit
+A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall
+On him so near us? This needs must be a practice.
+Who knew of your intent and coming hither?
+
+ISABELLA.
+One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.
+
+[_Exeunt Officer with Isabella._]
+
+DUKE.
+A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?
+
+LUCIO.
+My lord, I know him. ’Tis a meddling friar.
+I do not like the man. Had he been lay, my lord,
+For certain words he spake against your Grace
+In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.
+
+DUKE.
+Words against me? This’s a good friar, belike.
+And to set on this wretched woman here
+Against our substitute! Let this friar be found.
+
+LUCIO.
+But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,
+I saw them at the prison. A saucy friar,
+A very scurvy fellow.
+
+FRIAR PETER.
+Blessed be your royal Grace!
+I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard
+Your royal ear abused. First hath this woman
+Most wrongfully accused your substitute,
+Who is as free from touch or soil with her
+As she from one ungot.
+
+DUKE.
+We did believe no less.
+Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?
+
+FRIAR PETER.
+I know him for a man divine and holy,
+Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,
+As he’s reported by this gentleman;
+And, on my trust, a man that never yet
+Did, as he vouches, misreport your Grace.
+
+LUCIO.
+My lord, most villainously; believe it.
+
+FRIAR PETER.
+Well, he in time may come to clear himself;
+But at this instant he is sick, my lord,
+Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request,
+Being come to knowledge that there was complaint
+Intended ’gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither
+To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know
+Is true and false; and what he with his oath
+And all probation will make up full clear
+Whensoever he’s convented. First, for this woman,
+To justify this worthy nobleman,
+So vulgarly and personally accused,
+Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes,
+Till she herself confess it.
+
+DUKE.
+Good friar, let’s hear it.
+Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?
+O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
+Give us some seats.—Come, cousin Angelo,
+In this I’ll be impartial. Be you judge
+Of your own cause.
+
+Enter Mariana, veiled.
+
+Is this the witness, friar?
+First let her show her face, and after speak.
+
+MARIANA.
+Pardon, my lord; I will not show my face
+Until my husband bid me.
+
+DUKE.
+What, are you married?
+
+MARIANA.
+No, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Are you a maid?
+
+MARIANA.
+No, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+A widow, then?
+
+MARIANA.
+Neither, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Why, you are nothing then, neither maid, widow, nor wife?
+
+LUCIO.
+My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow,
+nor wife.
+
+DUKE.
+Silence that fellow. I would he had some cause to prattle for himself.
+
+LUCIO.
+Well, my lord.
+
+MARIANA.
+My lord, I do confess I ne’er was married,
+And I confess besides, I am no maid.
+I have known my husband; yet my husband
+Knows not that ever he knew me.
+
+LUCIO.
+He was drunk, then, my lord; it can be no better.
+
+DUKE.
+For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too.
+
+LUCIO.
+Well, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+This is no witness for Lord Angelo.
+
+MARIANA.
+Now I come to’t, my lord.
+She that accuses him of fornication
+In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,
+And charges him, my lord, with such a time
+When I’ll depose I had him in mine arms
+With all th’ effect of love.
+
+ANGELO.
+Charges she more than me?
+
+MARIANA.
+Not that I know.
+
+DUKE.
+No? You say your husband.
+
+MARIANA.
+Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,
+Who thinks he knows that he ne’er knew my body,
+But knows, he thinks, that he knows Isabel’s.
+
+ANGELO.
+This is a strange abuse. Let’s see thy face.
+
+MARIANA.
+My husband bids me; now I will unmask. [_Unveiling_.]
+This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,
+Which once thou swor’st was worth the looking on.
+This is the hand which, with a vowed contract,
+Was fast belocked in thine. This is the body
+That took away the match from Isabel
+And did supply thee at thy garden-house
+In her imagined person.
+
+DUKE.
+Know you this woman?
+
+LUCIO.
+Carnally, she says.
+
+DUKE.
+Sirrah, no more.
+
+LUCIO.
+Enough, my lord.
+
+ANGELO.
+My lord, I must confess I know this woman;
+And five years since there was some speech of marriage
+Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off,
+Partly for that her promised proportions
+Came short of composition; but in chief
+For that her reputation was disvalued
+In levity. Since which time of five years
+I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,
+Upon my faith and honour.
+
+MARIANA.
+Noble Prince,
+As there comes light from heaven and words from breath,
+As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,
+I am affianced this man’s wife as strongly
+As words could make up vows. And, my good lord,
+But Tuesday night last gone, in’s garden-house,
+He knew me as a wife. As this is true,
+Let me in safety raise me from my knees,
+Or else for ever be confixed here,
+A marble monument!
+
+ANGELO.
+I did but smile till now.
+Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice.
+My patience here is touched. I do perceive
+These poor informal women are no more
+But instruments of some more mightier member
+That sets them on. Let me have way, my lord,
+To find this practice out.
+
+DUKE.
+Ay, with my heart;
+And punish them to your height of pleasure.
+Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman,
+Compact with her that’s gone, think’st thou thy oaths,
+Though they would swear down each particular saint,
+Were testimonies against his worth and credit,
+That’s sealed in approbation? You, Lord Escalus,
+Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains
+To find out this abuse, whence ’tis derived.
+There is another friar that set them on;
+Let him be sent for.
+
+FRIAR PETER.
+Would he were here, my lord; for he indeed
+Hath set the women on to this complaint.
+Your Provost knows the place where he abides,
+And he may fetch him.
+
+DUKE.
+Go, do it instantly.
+
+[_Exit Provost._]
+
+And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,
+Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,
+Do with your injuries as seems you best
+In any chastisement. I for a while
+Will leave you; but stir not you till you have
+Well determined upon these slanderers.
+
+ESCALUS.
+My lord, we’ll do it throughly.
+
+[_Exit Duke._]
+
+Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar Lodowick to be a
+dishonest person?
+
+LUCIO.
+_Cucullus non facit monachum_, honest in nothing but in his clothes,
+and one that hath spoke most villainous speeches of the Duke.
+
+ESCALUS.
+We shall entreat you to abide here till he come, and enforce them
+against him. We shall find this friar a notable fellow.
+
+LUCIO.
+As any in Vienna, on my word.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Call that same Isabel here once again. I would speak with her.
+
+[_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you shall see how I’ll
+handle her.
+
+LUCIO.
+Not better than he, by her own report.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Say you?
+
+LUCIO.
+Marry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately, she would sooner
+confess; perchance, publicly, she’ll be ashamed.
+
+Enter at several doors Duke as a friar, Provost and Isabella with
+Officers.
+
+ESCALUS.
+I will go darkly to work with her.
+
+LUCIO.
+That’s the way; for women are light at midnight.
+
+ESCALUS.
+[_To Isabella_.] Come on, mistress, here’s a gentlewoman denies all
+that you have said.
+
+LUCIO.
+My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of, here with the Provost.
+
+ESCALUS.
+In very good time. Speak not you to him till we call upon you.
+
+LUCIO.
+Mum.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Come, sir, did you set these women on to slander Lord Angelo? They have
+confessed you did.
+
+DUKE.
+’Tis false.
+
+ESCALUS.
+How! Know you where you are?
+
+DUKE.
+Respect to your great place; and let the devil
+Be sometime honoured for his burning throne.
+Where is the Duke? ’Tis he should hear me speak.
+
+ESCALUS.
+The Duke’s in us; and we will hear you speak.
+Look you speak justly.
+
+DUKE.
+Boldly, at least. But, O, poor souls,
+Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox,
+Good night to your redress! Is the Duke gone?
+Then is your cause gone too. The Duke’s unjust
+Thus to retort your manifest appeal,
+And put your trial in the villain’s mouth
+Which here you come to accuse.
+
+LUCIO.
+This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Why, thou unreverend and unhallowed friar,
+Is’t not enough thou hast suborned these women
+To accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth,
+And in the witness of his proper ear,
+To call him villain? And then to glance from him
+To th’ Duke himself, to tax him with injustice?
+Take him hence! To th’ rack with him! We’ll touse you
+Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.
+What! Unjust?
+
+DUKE.
+Be not so hot. The Duke
+Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
+Dare rack his own. His subject am I not,
+Nor here provincial. My business in this state
+Made me a looker-on here in Vienna,
+Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble
+Till it o’errun the stew. Laws for all faults,
+But faults so countenanced that the strong statutes
+Stand like the forfeits in a barber’s shop,
+As much in mock as mark.
+
+ESCALUS.
+Slander to the state! Away with him to prison!
+
+ANGELO.
+What can you vouch against him, Signior Lucio?
+Is this the man that you did tell us of?
+
+LUCIO.
+’Tis he, my lord. Come hither, goodman Baldpate.
+Do you know me?
+
+DUKE.
+I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice. I met you at the
+prison, in the absence of the Duke.
+
+LUCIO.
+O did you so? And do you remember what you said of the Duke?
+
+DUKE.
+Most notedly, sir.
+
+LUCIO.
+Do you so, sir? And was the Duke a fleshmonger, a fool, and a coward,
+as you then reported him to be?
+
+DUKE.
+You must, sir, change persons with me ere you make that my report. You
+indeed spoke so of him, and much more, much worse.
+
+LUCIO.
+O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the nose for thy
+speeches?
+
+DUKE.
+I protest I love the Duke as I love myself.
+
+ANGELO.
+Hark how the villain would close now, after his treasonable abuses!
+
+ESCALUS.
+Such a fellow is not to be talked withal. Away with him to prison!
+Where is the provost? Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon
+him. Let him speak no more. Away with those giglets too, and with the
+other confederate companion!
+
+[_The Provost lays hands on the Duke._]
+
+DUKE.
+Stay, sir, stay a while.
+
+ANGELO.
+What, resists he? Help him, Lucio.
+
+LUCIO.
+Come, sir, come, sir, come, sir. Foh, sir! Why, you bald-pated lying
+rascal! You must be hooded, must you? Show your knave’s visage, with a
+pox to you! Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour! Will’t
+not off?
+
+[_Pulls off the friar’s hood and discovers the Duke._]
+
+DUKE.
+Thou art the first knave that e’er mad’st a duke.
+First, Provost, let me bail these gentle three.
+[_To Lucio_.] Sneak not away, sir, for the friar and you
+Must have a word anon.—Lay hold on him.
+
+LUCIO.
+This may prove worse than hanging.
+
+DUKE.
+[_To Escalus_.] What you have spoke I pardon. Sit you down.
+We’ll borrow place of him. [_To Angelo_.] Sir, by your leave.
+Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence,
+That yet can do thee office? If thou hast,
+Rely upon it till my tale be heard,
+And hold no longer out.
+
+ANGELO.
+O my dread lord,
+I should be guiltier than my guiltiness
+To think I can be undiscernible,
+When I perceive your Grace, like power divine,
+Hath looked upon my passes. Then, good Prince,
+No longer session hold upon my shame,
+But let my trial be mine own confession.
+Immediate sentence then, and sequent death
+Is all the grace I beg.
+
+DUKE.
+Come hither, Mariana.
+Say, wast thou e’er contracted to this woman?
+
+ANGELO.
+I was, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Go, take her hence and marry her instantly.
+Do you the office, friar; which consummate,
+Return him here again.—Go with him, Provost.
+
+[_Exeunt Angelo, Mariana, Friar Peter and Provost._]
+
+ESCALUS.
+My lord, I am more amazed at his dishonour
+Than at the strangeness of it.
+
+DUKE.
+Come hither, Isabel.
+Your friar is now your prince. As I was then
+Advertising and holy to your business,
+Not changing heart with habit, I am still
+Attorneyed at your service.
+
+ISABELLA.
+O, give me pardon,
+That I, your vassal, have employed and pained
+Your unknown sovereignty.
+
+DUKE.
+You are pardoned, Isabel.
+And now, dear maid, be you as free to us.
+Your brother’s death, I know, sits at your heart,
+And you may marvel why I obscured myself,
+Labouring to save his life, and would not rather
+Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
+Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid,
+It was the swift celerity of his death,
+Which I did think with slower foot came on,
+That brained my purpose. But peace be with him.
+That life is better life, past fearing death,
+Than that which lives to fear. Make it your comfort,
+So happy is your brother.
+
+ISABELLA.
+I do, my lord.
+
+Enter Angelo, Mariana, Friar Peter and Provost.
+
+DUKE.
+For this new-married man approaching here,
+Whose salt imagination yet hath wronged
+Your well-defended honour, you must pardon
+For Mariana’s sake. But as he adjudged your brother,
+Being criminal in double violation
+Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach
+Thereon dependent, for your brother’s life,
+The very mercy of the law cries out
+Most audible, even from his proper tongue,
+“An Angelo for Claudio, death for death.”
+Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
+Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure.
+Then, Angelo, thy fault’s thus manifested,
+Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage.
+We do condemn thee to the very block
+Where Claudio stooped to death, and with like haste.
+Away with him.
+
+MARIANA.
+O my most gracious lord,
+I hope you will not mock me with a husband.
+
+DUKE.
+It is your husband mocked you with a husband.
+Consenting to the safeguard of your honour,
+I thought your marriage fit. Else imputation,
+For that he knew you, might reproach your life,
+And choke your good to come. For his possessions,
+Although by confiscation they are ours,
+We do instate and widow you with all
+To buy you a better husband.
+
+MARIANA.
+O my dear lord,
+I crave no other, nor no better man.
+
+DUKE.
+Never crave him; we are definitive.
+
+MARIANA.
+[_Kneeling_.] Gentle my liege—
+
+DUKE.
+You do but lose your labour.
+Away with him to death. [_To Lucio_.] Now, sir, to you.
+
+MARIANA.
+O my good lord.—Sweet Isabel, take my part;
+Lend me your knees, and all my life to come
+I’ll lend you all my life to do you service.
+
+DUKE.
+Against all sense you do importune her.
+Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact,
+Her brother’s ghost his paved bed would break,
+And take her hence in horror.
+
+MARIANA.
+Isabel,
+Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me;
+Hold up your hands, say nothing. I’ll speak all.
+They say best men are moulded out of faults,
+And, for the most, become much more the better
+For being a little bad. So may my husband.
+O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?
+
+DUKE.
+He dies for Claudio’s death.
+
+ISABELLA.
+[_Kneeling_.] Most bounteous sir,
+Look, if it please you, on this man condemned
+As if my brother lived. I partly think
+A due sincerity governed his deeds
+Till he did look on me. Since it is so,
+Let him not die. My brother had but justice,
+In that he did the thing for which he died.
+For Angelo,
+His act did not o’ertake his bad intent,
+And must be buried but as an intent
+That perished by the way. Thoughts are no subjects;
+Intents but merely thoughts.
+
+MARIANA.
+Merely, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Your suit’s unprofitable. Stand up, I say.
+I have bethought me of another fault.
+Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded
+At an unusual hour?
+
+PROVOST.
+It was commanded so.
+
+DUKE.
+Had you a special warrant for the deed?
+
+PROVOST.
+No, my good lord, it was by private message.
+
+DUKE.
+For which I do discharge you of your office.
+Give up your keys.
+
+PROVOST.
+Pardon me, noble lord.
+I thought it was a fault, but knew it not;
+Yet did repent me after more advice.
+For testimony whereof, one in the prison
+That should by private order else have died,
+I have reserved alive.
+
+DUKE.
+What’s he?
+
+PROVOST.
+His name is Barnardine.
+
+DUKE.
+I would thou hadst done so by Claudio.
+Go fetch him hither, let me look upon him.
+
+[_Exit Provost._]
+
+ESCALUS.
+I am sorry one so learned and so wise
+As you, Lord Angelo, have still appeared,
+Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood
+And lack of tempered judgement afterward.
+
+ANGELO.
+I am sorry that such sorrow I procure,
+And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
+That I crave death more willingly than mercy;
+’Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it.
+
+Enter Provost with Barnardine, Claudio (muffled) and Juliet.
+
+DUKE.
+Which is that Barnardine?
+
+PROVOST.
+This, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+There was a friar told me of this man.
+Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul
+That apprehends no further than this world,
+And squar’st thy life according. Thou’rt condemned;
+But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all,
+And pray thee take this mercy to provide
+For better times to come. Friar, advise him;
+I leave him to your hand.—What muffled fellow’s that?
+
+PROVOST.
+This is another prisoner that I saved,
+Who should have died when Claudio lost his head;
+As like almost to Claudio as himself.
+
+[_Unmuffles Claudio._]
+
+DUKE.
+[_To Isabella_.] If he be like your brother, for his sake
+Is he pardoned; and for your lovely sake,
+Give me your hand and say you will be mine.
+He is my brother too. But fitter time for that.
+By this Lord Angelo perceives he’s safe;
+Methinks I see a quick’ning in his eye.
+Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well.
+Look that you love your wife, her worth worth yours.
+I find an apt remission in myself.
+And yet here’s one in place I cannot pardon.
+[_To Lucio_.] You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,
+One all of luxury, an ass, a madman.
+Wherein have I so deserved of you
+That you extol me thus?
+
+LUCIO.
+Faith, my lord, I spoke it but according to the trick. If you will hang
+me for it, you may, but I had rather it would please you I might be
+whipped.
+
+DUKE.
+Whipped first, sir, and hanged after.
+Proclaim it, Provost, round about the city,
+If any woman wronged by this lewd fellow,
+As I have heard him swear himself there’s one
+Whom he begot with child—let her appear,
+And he shall marry her. The nuptial finished,
+Let him be whipped and hanged.
+
+LUCIO.
+I beseech your Highness, do not marry me to a whore. Your highness said
+even now I made you a duke; good my lord, do not recompense me in
+making me a cuckold.
+
+DUKE.
+Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her.
+Thy slanders I forgive, and therewithal
+Remit thy other forfeits.—Take him to prison,
+And see our pleasure herein executed.
+
+LUCIO.
+Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death, whipping, and hanging.
+
+DUKE.
+Slandering a prince deserves it.
+
+[_Exeunt Officers with Lucio._]
+
+She, Claudio, that you wronged, look you restore.
+Joy to you, Mariana! Love her, Angelo.
+I have confessed her, and I know her virtue.
+Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness;
+There’s more behind that is more gratulate.
+Thanks, Provost, for thy care and secrecy;
+We shall employ thee in a worthier place.
+Forgive him, Angelo, that brought you home
+The head of Ragozine for Claudio’s.
+Th’ offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel,
+I have a motion much imports your good;
+Whereto if you’ll a willing ear incline,
+What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
+So, bring us to our palace, where we’ll show
+What’s yet behind that’s meet you all should know.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. Venice. A street.
+Scene II. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+Scene III. Venice. A public place.
+
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+Scene II. Venice. A street.
+Scene III. The same. A room in Shylock’s house.
+Scene IV. The same. A street.
+Scene V. The same. Before Shylock’s house.
+Scene VI. The same.
+Scene VII. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+Scene VIII. Venice. A street.
+Scene IX. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. Venice. A street.
+Scene II. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+Scene III. Venice. A street.
+Scene IV. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+Scene V. The same. A garden.
+
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. Venice. A court of justice.
+Scene II. The same. A street.
+
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. Belmont. The avenue to Portia’s house.
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+THE DUKE OF VENICE
+THE PRINCE OF MOROCCO, suitor to Portia
+THE PRINCE OF ARRAGON, suitor to Portia
+ANTONIO, a merchant of Venice
+BASSANIO, his friend, suitor to Portia
+GRATIANO, friend to Antonio and Bassanio
+SOLANIO, friend to Antonio and Bassanio
+SALARINO, friend to Antonio and Bassanio
+LORENZO, in love with Jessica
+SHYLOCK, a rich Jew
+TUBAL, a Jew, his friend
+LAUNCELET GOBBO, a clown, servant to Shylock
+OLD GOBBO, father to Launcelet
+LEONARDO, servant to Bassanio
+BALTHAZAR, servant to Portia
+STEPHANO, servant to Portia
+SALERIO, a messenger from Venice
+
+PORTIA, a rich heiress
+NERISSA, her waiting-woman
+JESSICA, daughter to Shylock
+
+Magnificoes of Venice, Officers of the Court of Justice, a Gaoler,
+Servants and other Attendants
+
+SCENE: Partly at Venice, and partly at Belmont, the seat of Portia on
+the Continent
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Venice. A street.
+
+ Enter Antonio, Salarino and Solanio.
+
+ANTONIO.
+In sooth I know not why I am so sad,
+It wearies me, you say it wearies you;
+But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
+What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born,
+I am to learn.
+And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
+That I have much ado to know myself.
+
+SALARINO.
+Your mind is tossing on the ocean,
+There where your argosies, with portly sail
+Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
+Or as it were the pageants of the sea,
+Do overpeer the petty traffickers
+That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
+As they fly by them with their woven wings.
+
+SOLANIO.
+Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,
+The better part of my affections would
+Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still
+Plucking the grass to know where sits the wind,
+Peering in maps for ports, and piers and roads;
+And every object that might make me fear
+Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt
+Would make me sad.
+
+SALARINO.
+My wind cooling my broth
+Would blow me to an ague when I thought
+What harm a wind too great might do at sea.
+I should not see the sandy hour-glass run
+But I should think of shallows and of flats,
+And see my wealthy Andrew dock’d in sand,
+Vailing her high top lower than her ribs
+To kiss her burial. Should I go to church
+And see the holy edifice of stone
+And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,
+Which, touching but my gentle vessel’s side,
+Would scatter all her spices on the stream,
+Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,
+And, in a word, but even now worth this,
+And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought
+To think on this, and shall I lack the thought
+That such a thing bechanc’d would make me sad?
+But tell not me, I know Antonio
+Is sad to think upon his merchandise.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Believe me, no. I thank my fortune for it,
+My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
+Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate
+Upon the fortune of this present year.
+Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.
+
+SALARINO.
+Why then you are in love.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Fie, fie!
+
+SALARINO.
+Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad
+Because you are not merry; and ’twere as easy
+For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry
+Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,
+Nature hath fram’d strange fellows in her time:
+Some that will evermore peep through their eyes,
+And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper.
+And other of such vinegar aspect
+That they’ll not show their teeth in way of smile
+Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
+
+ Enter Bassanio, Lorenzo and Gratiano.
+
+SOLANIO.
+Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,
+Gratiano, and Lorenzo. Fare ye well.
+We leave you now with better company.
+
+SALARINO.
+I would have stay’d till I had made you merry,
+If worthier friends had not prevented me.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Your worth is very dear in my regard.
+I take it your own business calls on you,
+And you embrace th’ occasion to depart.
+
+SALARINO.
+Good morrow, my good lords.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? Say, when?
+You grow exceeding strange. Must it be so?
+
+SALARINO.
+We’ll make our leisures to attend on yours.
+
+ [_Exeunt Salarino and Solanio._]
+
+LORENZO.
+My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,
+We two will leave you, but at dinner-time
+I pray you have in mind where we must meet.
+
+BASSANIO.
+I will not fail you.
+
+GRATIANO.
+You look not well, Signior Antonio,
+You have too much respect upon the world.
+They lose it that do buy it with much care.
+Believe me, you are marvellously chang’d.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
+A stage, where every man must play a part,
+And mine a sad one.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Let me play the fool,
+With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
+And let my liver rather heat with wine
+Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
+Why should a man whose blood is warm within
+Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
+Sleep when he wakes? And creep into the jaundice
+By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio,
+(I love thee, and ’tis my love that speaks):
+There are a sort of men whose visages
+Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
+And do a wilful stillness entertain,
+With purpose to be dress’d in an opinion
+Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
+As who should say, “I am Sir Oracle,
+And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.”
+O my Antonio, I do know of these
+That therefore only are reputed wise
+For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,
+If they should speak, would almost damn those ears
+Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.
+I’ll tell thee more of this another time.
+But fish not with this melancholy bait
+For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
+Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well a while.
+I’ll end my exhortation after dinner.
+
+LORENZO.
+Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time.
+I must be one of these same dumb wise men,
+For Gratiano never lets me speak.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Well, keep me company but two years moe,
+Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Fare you well. I’ll grow a talker for this gear.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Thanks, i’ faith, for silence is only commendable
+In a neat’s tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.
+
+ [_Exeunt Gratiano and Lorenzo._]
+
+ANTONIO.
+Is that anything now?
+
+BASSANIO.
+Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all
+Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of
+chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them
+they are not worth the search.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Well, tell me now what lady is the same
+To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,
+That you today promis’d to tell me of?
+
+BASSANIO.
+’Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
+How much I have disabled mine estate
+By something showing a more swelling port
+Than my faint means would grant continuance.
+Nor do I now make moan to be abridg’d
+From such a noble rate, but my chief care
+Is to come fairly off from the great debts
+Wherein my time, something too prodigal,
+Hath left me gag’d. To you, Antonio,
+I owe the most in money and in love,
+And from your love I have a warranty
+To unburden all my plots and purposes
+How to get clear of all the debts I owe.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;
+And if it stand, as you yourself still do,
+Within the eye of honour, be assur’d
+My purse, my person, my extremest means
+Lie all unlock’d to your occasions.
+
+BASSANIO.
+In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
+I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
+The self-same way, with more advised watch
+To find the other forth; and by adventuring both
+I oft found both. I urge this childhood proof
+Because what follows is pure innocence.
+I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,
+That which I owe is lost. But if you please
+To shoot another arrow that self way
+Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
+As I will watch the aim, or to find both,
+Or bring your latter hazard back again,
+And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
+
+ANTONIO.
+You know me well, and herein spend but time
+To wind about my love with circumstance;
+And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
+In making question of my uttermost
+Than if you had made waste of all I have.
+Then do but say to me what I should do
+That in your knowledge may by me be done,
+And I am prest unto it. Therefore, speak.
+
+BASSANIO.
+In Belmont is a lady richly left,
+And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
+Of wondrous virtues. Sometimes from her eyes
+I did receive fair speechless messages:
+Her name is Portia, nothing undervalu’d
+To Cato’s daughter, Brutus’ Portia.
+Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
+For the four winds blow in from every coast
+Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks
+Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
+Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos’ strond,
+And many Jasons come in quest of her.
+O my Antonio, had I but the means
+To hold a rival place with one of them,
+I have a mind presages me such thrift
+That I should questionless be fortunate.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Thou know’st that all my fortunes are at sea;
+Neither have I money nor commodity
+To raise a present sum, therefore go forth
+Try what my credit can in Venice do;
+That shall be rack’d even to the uttermost,
+To furnish thee to Belmont to fair Portia.
+Go presently inquire, and so will I,
+Where money is, and I no question make
+To have it of my trust or for my sake.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+
+ Enter Portia with her waiting-woman Nerissa.
+
+PORTIA.
+By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.
+
+NERISSA.
+You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance
+as your good fortunes are. And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick
+that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no
+mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity come
+sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
+
+PORTIA.
+Good sentences, and well pronounc’d.
+
+NERISSA.
+They would be better if well followed.
+
+PORTIA.
+If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been
+churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine
+that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were
+good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own
+teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper
+leaps o’er a cold decree; such a hare is madness the youth, to skip
+o’er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not
+in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word “choose”! I may
+neither choose who I would nor refuse who I dislike, so is the will of
+a living daughter curb’d by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,
+Nerissa, that I cannot choose one, nor refuse none?
+
+NERISSA.
+Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good
+inspirations. Therefore the lott’ry that he hath devised in these three
+chests of gold, silver, and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning
+chooses you, will no doubt never be chosen by any rightly but one who
+you shall rightly love. But what warmth is there in your affection
+towards any of these princely suitors that are already come?
+
+PORTIA.
+I pray thee over-name them, and as thou namest them, I will describe
+them, and according to my description level at my affection.
+
+NERISSA.
+First, there is the Neapolitan prince.
+
+PORTIA.
+Ay, that’s a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse,
+and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts that he can
+shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his mother play’d false with
+a smith.
+
+NERISSA.
+Then is there the County Palatine.
+
+PORTIA.
+He doth nothing but frown, as who should say “And you will not have me,
+choose.” He hears merry tales and smiles not. I fear he will prove the
+weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly
+sadness in his youth. I had rather be married to a death’s-head with a
+bone in his mouth than to either of these. God defend me from these
+two!
+
+NERISSA.
+How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?
+
+PORTIA.
+God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. In truth, I know it
+is a sin to be a mocker, but he! why, he hath a horse better than the
+Neapolitan’s, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine.
+He is every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls straight
+a-cap’ring. He will fence with his own shadow. If I should marry him, I
+should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me, I would forgive
+him, for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him.
+
+NERISSA.
+What say you then to Falconbridge, the young baron of England?
+
+PORTIA.
+You know I say nothing to him, for he understands not me, nor I him: he
+hath neither Latin, French, nor Italian, and you will come into the
+court and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English. He is a
+proper man’s picture; but alas, who can converse with a dumb-show? How
+oddly he is suited! I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round
+hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behaviour everywhere.
+
+NERISSA.
+What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?
+
+PORTIA.
+That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he borrowed a box of the
+ear of the Englishman, and swore he would pay him again when he was
+able. I think the Frenchman became his surety, and seal’d under for
+another.
+
+NERISSA.
+How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony’s nephew?
+
+PORTIA.
+Very vilely in the morning when he is sober, and most vilely in the
+afternoon when he is drunk: when he is best, he is a little worse than
+a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. And the
+worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
+
+NERISSA.
+If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should
+refuse to perform your father’s will, if you should refuse to accept
+him.
+
+PORTIA.
+Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee set a deep glass of
+Rhenish wine on the contrary casket, for if the devil be within and
+that temptation without, I know he will choose it. I will do anything,
+Nerissa, ere I will be married to a sponge.
+
+NERISSA.
+You need not fear, lady, the having any of these lords. They have
+acquainted me with their determinations, which is indeed to return to
+their home, and to trouble you with no more suit, unless you may be won
+by some other sort than your father’s imposition, depending on the
+caskets.
+
+PORTIA.
+If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana,
+unless I be obtained by the manner of my father’s will. I am glad this
+parcel of wooers are so reasonable, for there is not one among them but
+I dote on his very absence. And I pray God grant them a fair departure.
+
+NERISSA.
+Do you not remember, lady, in your father’s time, a Venetian, a scholar
+and a soldier, that came hither in company of the Marquis of
+Montferrat?
+
+PORTIA.
+Yes, yes, it was Bassanio, as I think, so was he call’d.
+
+NERISSA.
+True, madam. He, of all the men that ever my foolish eyes look’d upon,
+was the best deserving a fair lady.
+
+PORTIA.
+I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of thy praise.
+
+ Enter a Servingman.
+
+How now! what news?
+
+SERVINGMAN.
+The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take their leave. And there
+is a forerunner come from a fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings
+word the Prince his master will be here tonight.
+
+PORTIA.
+If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I can bid the
+other four farewell, I should be glad of his approach. If he have the
+condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he
+should shrive me than wive me. Come, Nerissa. Sirrah, go before. Whiles
+we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Venice. A public place.
+
+ Enter Bassanio with Shylock the Jew.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Three thousand ducats, well.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Ay, sir, for three months.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+For three months, well.
+
+BASSANIO.
+For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Antonio shall become bound, well.
+
+BASSANIO.
+May you stead me? Will you pleasure me? Shall I know your answer?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Three thousand ducats for three months, and Antonio bound.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Your answer to that.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Antonio is a good man.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Ho, no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a good man is to have
+you understand me that he is sufficient. Yet his means are in
+supposition: he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the
+Indies. I understand, moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a third at
+Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures he hath squandered
+abroad. But ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats
+and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves—I mean pirates—and then
+there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. The man is,
+notwithstanding, sufficient. Three thousand ducats. I think I may take
+his bond.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Be assured you may.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I will be assured I may. And that I may be assured, I will bethink me.
+May I speak with Antonio?
+
+BASSANIO.
+If it please you to dine with us.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the
+Nazarite, conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you,
+talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with
+you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? Who is
+he comes here?
+
+ Enter Antonio.
+
+BASSANIO.
+This is Signior Antonio.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+[_Aside._] How like a fawning publican he looks!
+I hate him for he is a Christian,
+But more for that in low simplicity
+He lends out money gratis, and brings down
+The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
+If I can catch him once upon the hip,
+I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
+He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,
+Even there where merchants most do congregate,
+On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,
+Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe
+If I forgive him!
+
+BASSANIO.
+Shylock, do you hear?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I am debating of my present store,
+And by the near guess of my memory
+I cannot instantly raise up the gross
+Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?
+Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,
+Will furnish me. But soft! how many months
+Do you desire? [_To Antonio._] Rest you fair, good signior,
+Your worship was the last man in our mouths.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Shylock, albeit I neither lend nor borrow
+By taking nor by giving of excess,
+Yet to supply the ripe wants of my friend,
+I’ll break a custom. [_To Bassanio._] Is he yet possess’d
+How much ye would?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.
+
+ANTONIO.
+And for three months.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I had forgot, three months, you told me so.
+Well then, your bond. And let me see, but hear you,
+Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow
+Upon advantage.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I do never use it.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+When Jacob graz’d his uncle Laban’s sheep,—
+This Jacob from our holy Abram was
+As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,
+The third possessor; ay, he was the third.
+
+ANTONIO.
+And what of him? Did he take interest?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+No, not take interest, not, as you would say,
+Directly interest; mark what Jacob did.
+When Laban and himself were compromis’d
+That all the eanlings which were streak’d and pied
+Should fall as Jacob’s hire, the ewes being rank
+In end of autumn turned to the rams,
+And when the work of generation was
+Between these woolly breeders in the act,
+The skilful shepherd pill’d me certain wands,
+And in the doing of the deed of kind,
+He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,
+Who then conceiving did in eaning time
+Fall parti-colour’d lambs, and those were Jacob’s.
+This was a way to thrive, and he was blest;
+And thrift is blessing if men steal it not.
+
+ANTONIO.
+This was a venture, sir, that Jacob serv’d for,
+A thing not in his power to bring to pass,
+But sway’d and fashion’d by the hand of heaven.
+Was this inserted to make interest good?
+Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast.
+But note me, signior.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Mark you this, Bassanio,
+The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
+An evil soul producing holy witness
+Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
+A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
+O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Three thousand ducats, ’tis a good round sum.
+Three months from twelve, then let me see the rate.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
+In the Rialto you have rated me
+About my moneys and my usances.
+Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
+(For suff’rance is the badge of all our tribe.)
+You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
+And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine,
+And all for use of that which is mine own.
+Well then, it now appears you need my help.
+Go to, then, you come to me, and you say
+“Shylock, we would have moneys.” You say so:
+You that did void your rheum upon my beard,
+And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
+Over your threshold, moneys is your suit.
+What should I say to you? Should I not say
+“Hath a dog money? Is it possible
+A cur can lend three thousand ducats?” Or
+Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key,
+With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness,
+Say this:
+“Fair sir, you spet on me on Wednesday last;
+You spurn’d me such a day; another time
+You call’d me dog; and for these courtesies
+I’ll lend you thus much moneys”?
+
+ANTONIO.
+I am as like to call thee so again,
+To spet on thee again, to spurn thee too.
+If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
+As to thy friends, for when did friendship take
+A breed for barren metal of his friend?
+But lend it rather to thine enemy,
+Who if he break, thou mayst with better face
+Exact the penalty.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Why, look you how you storm!
+I would be friends with you, and have your love,
+Forget the shames that you have stain’d me with,
+Supply your present wants, and take no doit
+Of usance for my moneys, and you’ll not hear me,
+This is kind I offer.
+
+BASSANIO.
+This were kindness.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+This kindness will I show.
+Go with me to a notary, seal me there
+Your single bond; and in a merry sport,
+If you repay me not on such a day,
+In such a place, such sum or sums as are
+Express’d in the condition, let the forfeit
+Be nominated for an equal pound
+Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
+In what part of your body pleaseth me.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Content, in faith, I’ll seal to such a bond,
+And say there is much kindness in the Jew.
+
+BASSANIO.
+You shall not seal to such a bond for me,
+I’ll rather dwell in my necessity.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Why, fear not, man, I will not forfeit it,
+Within these two months, that’s a month before
+This bond expires, I do expect return
+Of thrice three times the value of this bond.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+O father Abram, what these Christians are,
+Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
+The thoughts of others. Pray you, tell me this,
+If he should break his day, what should I gain
+By the exaction of the forfeiture?
+A pound of man’s flesh, taken from a man,
+Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
+As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say,
+To buy his favour, I extend this friendship.
+If he will take it, so. If not, adieu,
+And for my love I pray you wrong me not.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Yes, Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Then meet me forthwith at the notary’s,
+Give him direction for this merry bond,
+And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
+See to my house left in the fearful guard
+Of an unthrifty knave, and presently
+I’ll be with you.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Hie thee, gentle Jew.
+
+ [_Exit Shylock._]
+
+This Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
+
+BASSANIO.
+I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Come on; in this there can be no dismay;
+My ships come home a month before the day.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+
+ Flourish of cornets. Enter the Prince of Morocco, a tawny Moor all in
+ white, and three or four followers accordingly, with Portia, Nerissa
+ and their train.
+
+PRINCE OF MOROCCO.
+Mislike me not for my complexion,
+The shadowed livery of the burnish’d sun,
+To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred.
+Bring me the fairest creature northward born,
+Where Phœbus’ fire scarce thaws the icicles,
+And let us make incision for your love
+To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.
+I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine
+Hath fear’d the valiant; by my love I swear
+The best-regarded virgins of our clime
+Have lov’d it too. I would not change this hue,
+Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.
+
+PORTIA.
+In terms of choice I am not solely led
+By nice direction of a maiden’s eyes;
+Besides, the lott’ry of my destiny
+Bars me the right of voluntary choosing.
+But if my father had not scanted me
+And hedg’d me by his wit to yield myself
+His wife who wins me by that means I told you,
+Yourself, renowned Prince, then stood as fair
+As any comer I have look’d on yet
+For my affection.
+
+PRINCE OF MOROCCO.
+Even for that I thank you.
+Therefore I pray you lead me to the caskets
+To try my fortune. By this scimitar
+That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince,
+That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
+I would o’erstare the sternest eyes that look,
+Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,
+Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
+Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
+To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!
+If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
+Which is the better man, the greater throw
+May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:
+So is Alcides beaten by his rage,
+And so may I, blind Fortune leading me,
+Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
+And die with grieving.
+
+PORTIA.
+You must take your chance,
+And either not attempt to choose at all,
+Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong
+Never to speak to lady afterward
+In way of marriage. Therefore be advis’d.
+
+PRINCE OF MOROCCO.
+Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance.
+
+PORTIA.
+First, forward to the temple. After dinner
+Your hazard shall be made.
+
+PRINCE OF MOROCCO.
+Good fortune then,
+To make me blest or cursed’st among men!
+
+ [_Cornets. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Venice. A street.
+
+ Enter Launcelet Gobbo, the clown, alone.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master.
+The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me, saying to me “Gobbo,
+Launcelet Gobbo, good Launcelet” or “good Gobbo,” or “good Launcelet
+Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away.” My conscience says
+“No; take heed, honest Launcelet, take heed, honest Gobbo” or, as
+aforesaid, “honest Launcelet Gobbo, do not run, scorn running with thy
+heels.” Well, the most courageous fiend bids me pack. “Fia!” says the
+fiend, “away!” says the fiend. “For the heavens, rouse up a brave
+mind,” says the fiend, “and run.” Well, my conscience, hanging about
+the neck of my heart, says very wisely to me “My honest friend
+Launcelet, being an honest man’s son”—or rather an honest woman’s son,
+for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a
+kind of taste;—well, my conscience says “Launcelet, budge not.”
+“Budge,” says the fiend. “Budge not,” says my conscience. “Conscience,”
+say I, “you counsel well.” “Fiend,” say I, “you counsel well.” To be
+ruled by my conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master, who, (God
+bless the mark) is a kind of devil; and, to run away from the Jew, I
+should be ruled by the fiend, who (saving your reverence) is the devil
+himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnation, and, in my
+conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to
+counsel me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more friendly
+counsel. I will run, fiend, my heels are at your commandment, I will
+run.
+
+ Enter Old Gobbo with a basket.
+
+GOBBO.
+Master young man, you, I pray you; which is the way to Master Jew’s?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+[_Aside._] O heavens, this is my true-begotten father, who being more
+than sand-blind, high-gravel blind, knows me not. I will try confusions
+with him.
+
+GOBBO.
+Master young gentleman, I pray you, which is the way to Master Jew’s?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but at the next turning
+of all on your left; marry, at the very next turning, turn of no hand,
+but turn down indirectly to the Jew’s house.
+
+GOBBO.
+Be God’s sonties, ’twill be a hard way to hit. Can you tell me whether
+one Launcelet, that dwells with him, dwell with him or no?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Talk you of young Master Launcelet? [_Aside._] Mark me now, now will I
+raise the waters. Talk you of young Master Launcelet?
+
+GOBBO.
+No master, sir, but a poor man’s son, his father, though I say’t, is an
+honest exceeding poor man, and, God be thanked, well to live.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Well, let his father be what he will, we talk of young Master
+Launcelet.
+
+GOBBO.
+Your worship’s friend, and Launcelet, sir.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+But I pray you, _ergo_, old man, _ergo_, I beseech you, talk you of
+young Master Launcelet?
+
+GOBBO.
+Of Launcelet, an’t please your mastership.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+_Ergo_, Master Launcelet. Talk not of Master Launcelet, father, for the
+young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies, and such odd
+sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed
+deceased, or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven.
+
+GOBBO.
+Marry, God forbid! The boy was the very staff of my age, my very prop.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+[_Aside._] Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post, a staff or a prop?
+Do you know me, father?
+
+GOBBO.
+Alack the day! I know you not, young gentleman, but I pray you tell me,
+is my boy, God rest his soul, alive or dead?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Do you not know me, father?
+
+GOBBO.
+Alack, sir, I am sand-blind, I know you not.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it
+is a wise father that knows his own child. Well, old man, I will tell
+you news of your son. Give me your blessing, truth will come to light,
+murder cannot be hid long, a man’s son may, but in the end truth will
+out.
+
+GOBBO.
+Pray you, sir, stand up, I am sure you are not Launcelet my boy.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Pray you, let’s have no more fooling about it, but give me your
+blessing. I am Launcelet, your boy that was, your son that is, your
+child that shall be.
+
+GOBBO.
+I cannot think you are my son.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+I know not what I shall think of that; but I am Launcelet, the Jew’s
+man, and I am sure Margery your wife is my mother.
+
+GOBBO.
+Her name is Margery, indeed. I’ll be sworn if thou be Launcelet, thou
+art mine own flesh and blood. Lord worshipped might he be, what a beard
+hast thou got! Thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my
+fill-horse has on his tail.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+It should seem, then, that Dobbin’s tail grows backward. I am sure he
+had more hair on his tail than I have on my face when I last saw him.
+
+GOBBO.
+Lord, how art thou changed! How dost thou and thy master agree? I have
+brought him a present. How ’gree you now?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Well, well. But for mine own part, as I have set up my rest to run
+away, so I will not rest till I have run some ground. My master’s a
+very Jew. Give him a present! Give him a halter. I am famished in his
+service. You may tell every finger I have with my ribs. Father, I am
+glad you are come, give me your present to one Master Bassanio, who
+indeed gives rare new liveries. If I serve not him, I will run as far
+as God has any ground. O rare fortune, here comes the man! To him,
+father; for I am a Jew, if I serve the Jew any longer.
+
+ Enter Bassanio with Leonardo and a follower or two.
+
+BASSANIO.
+You may do so, but let it be so hasted that supper be ready at the
+farthest by five of the clock. See these letters delivered, put the
+liveries to making, and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.
+
+ [_Exit a Servant._]
+
+LAUNCELET.
+To him, father.
+
+GOBBO.
+God bless your worship!
+
+BASSANIO.
+Gramercy, wouldst thou aught with me?
+
+GOBBO.
+Here’s my son, sir, a poor boy.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew’s man, that would, sir, as my
+father shall specify.
+
+GOBBO.
+He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Indeed the short and the long is, I serve the Jew, and have a desire,
+as my father shall specify.
+
+GOBBO.
+His master and he (saving your worship’s reverence) are scarce
+cater-cousins.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew, having done me wrong, doth
+cause me, as my father, being I hope an old man, shall frutify unto
+you.
+
+GOBBO.
+I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon your worship, and
+my suit is—
+
+LAUNCELET.
+In very brief, the suit is impertinent to myself, as your worship shall
+know by this honest old man, and though I say it, though old man, yet
+poor man, my father.
+
+BASSANIO.
+One speak for both. What would you?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Serve you, sir.
+
+GOBBO.
+That is the very defect of the matter, sir.
+
+BASSANIO.
+I know thee well; thou hast obtain’d thy suit.
+Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,
+And hath preferr’d thee, if it be preferment
+To leave a rich Jew’s service to become
+The follower of so poor a gentleman.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+The old proverb is very well parted between my master Shylock and you,
+sir: you have “the grace of God”, sir, and he hath “enough”.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Thou speak’st it well. Go, father, with thy son.
+Take leave of thy old master, and inquire
+My lodging out. [_To a Servant._] Give him a livery
+More guarded than his fellows’; see it done.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Father, in. I cannot get a service, no! I have ne’er a tongue in my
+head! [_Looking on his palm._] Well, if any man in Italy have a fairer
+table which doth offer to swear upon a book, I shall have good fortune;
+go to, here’s a simple line of life. Here’s a small trifle of wives,
+alas, fifteen wives is nothing; eleven widows and nine maids is a
+simple coming-in for one man. And then to scape drowning thrice, and to
+be in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed; here are simple
+’scapes. Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.
+Father, come; I’ll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling.
+
+ [_Exeunt Launcelet and Old Gobbo._]
+
+BASSANIO.
+I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this.
+These things being bought and orderly bestow’d,
+Return in haste, for I do feast tonight
+My best esteem’d acquaintance; hie thee, go.
+
+LEONARDO.
+My best endeavours shall be done herein.
+
+ Enter Gratiano.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Where’s your master?
+
+LEONARDO.
+Yonder, sir, he walks.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+GRATIANO.
+Signior Bassanio!
+
+BASSANIO.
+Gratiano!
+
+GRATIANO.
+I have suit to you.
+
+BASSANIO.
+You have obtain’d it.
+
+GRATIANO.
+You must not deny me, I must go with you to Belmont.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Why, then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano,
+Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice,
+Parts that become thee happily enough,
+And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;
+But where thou art not known, why there they show
+Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain
+To allay with some cold drops of modesty
+Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behaviour
+I be misconst’red in the place I go to,
+And lose my hopes.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Signior Bassanio, hear me.
+If I do not put on a sober habit,
+Talk with respect, and swear but now and then,
+Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,
+Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes
+Thus with my hat, and sigh, and say “amen”;
+Use all the observance of civility
+Like one well studied in a sad ostent
+To please his grandam, never trust me more.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Well, we shall see your bearing.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Nay, but I bar tonight, you shall not gauge me
+By what we do tonight.
+
+BASSANIO.
+No, that were pity.
+I would entreat you rather to put on
+Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends
+That purpose merriment. But fare you well,
+I have some business.
+
+GRATIANO.
+And I must to Lorenzo and the rest,
+But we will visit you at supper-time.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A room in Shylock’s house.
+
+ Enter Jessica and Launcelet.
+
+JESSICA.
+I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so.
+Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,
+Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.
+But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee,
+And, Launcelet, soon at supper shalt thou see
+Lorenzo, who is thy new master’s guest.
+Give him this letter, do it secretly.
+And so farewell. I would not have my father
+See me in talk with thee.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue, most beautiful pagan, most sweet Jew!
+If a Christian do not play the knave and get thee, I am much deceived.
+But, adieu! These foolish drops do something drown my manly spirit.
+Adieu!
+
+JESSICA.
+Farewell, good Launcelet.
+
+ [_Exit Launcelet._]
+
+Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
+To be ashamed to be my father’s child!
+But though I am a daughter to his blood,
+I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,
+If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
+Become a Christian and thy loving wife.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same. A street.
+
+ Enter Gratiano, Lorenzo, Salarino and Solanio.
+
+LORENZO.
+Nay, we will slink away in supper-time,
+Disguise us at my lodging, and return
+All in an hour.
+
+GRATIANO.
+We have not made good preparation.
+
+SALARINO.
+We have not spoke us yet of torch-bearers.
+
+SOLANIO.
+’Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order’d,
+And better in my mind not undertook.
+
+LORENZO.
+’Tis now but four o’clock, we have two hours
+To furnish us.
+
+ Enter Launcelet with a letter.
+
+Friend Launcelet, what’s the news?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+And it shall please you to break up this, it shall seem to signify.
+
+LORENZO.
+I know the hand, in faith ’tis a fair hand,
+And whiter than the paper it writ on
+Is the fair hand that writ.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Love news, in faith.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+By your leave, sir.
+
+LORENZO.
+Whither goest thou?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Marry, sir, to bid my old master the Jew to sup tonight with my new
+master the Christian.
+
+LORENZO.
+Hold here, take this. Tell gentle Jessica
+I will not fail her, speak it privately.
+Go, gentlemen,
+
+ [_Exit Launcelet._]
+
+Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?
+I am provided of a torch-bearer.
+
+SALARINO.
+Ay, marry, I’ll be gone about it straight.
+
+SOLANIO.
+And so will I.
+
+LORENZO.
+Meet me and Gratiano
+At Gratiano’s lodging some hour hence.
+
+SALARINO.
+’Tis good we do so.
+
+ [_Exeunt Salarino and Solanio._]
+
+GRATIANO.
+Was not that letter from fair Jessica?
+
+LORENZO.
+I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed
+How I shall take her from her father’s house,
+What gold and jewels she is furnish’d with,
+What page’s suit she hath in readiness.
+If e’er the Jew her father come to heaven,
+It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake;
+And never dare misfortune cross her foot,
+Unless she do it under this excuse,
+That she is issue to a faithless Jew.
+Come, go with me, peruse this as thou goest;
+Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. The same. Before Shylock’s house.
+
+ Enter Shylock the Jew and Launcelet his man that was the clown.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,
+The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio.—
+What, Jessica!—Thou shalt not gormandize
+As thou hast done with me;—What, Jessica!—
+And sleep, and snore, and rend apparel out.
+Why, Jessica, I say!
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Why, Jessica!
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Your worship was wont to tell me I could do nothing without bidding.
+
+ Enter Jessica.
+
+JESSICA.
+Call you? What is your will?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I am bid forth to supper, Jessica.
+There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?
+I am not bid for love, they flatter me.
+But yet I’ll go in hate, to feed upon
+The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,
+Look to my house. I am right loath to go;
+There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
+For I did dream of money-bags tonight.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+I beseech you, sir, go. My young master doth expect your reproach.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+So do I his.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+And they have conspired together. I will not say you shall see a
+masque, but if you do, then it was not for nothing that my nose fell
+a-bleeding on Black Monday last at six o’clock i’ th’ morning, falling
+out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four year in th’ afternoon.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica,
+Lock up my doors, and when you hear the drum
+And the vile squealing of the wry-neck’d fife,
+Clamber not you up to the casements then,
+Nor thrust your head into the public street
+To gaze on Christian fools with varnish’d faces,
+But stop my house’s ears, I mean my casements.
+Let not the sound of shallow fopp’ry enter
+My sober house. By Jacob’s staff I swear
+I have no mind of feasting forth tonight.
+But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah.
+Say I will come.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+I will go before, sir.
+Mistress, look out at window for all this.
+    There will come a Christian by
+    Will be worth a Jewess’ eye.
+
+ [_Exit Launcelet._]
+
+SHYLOCK.
+What says that fool of Hagar’s offspring, ha?
+
+JESSICA.
+His words were “Farewell, mistress,” nothing else.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
+Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
+More than the wild-cat. Drones hive not with me,
+Therefore I part with him, and part with him
+To one that I would have him help to waste
+His borrowed purse. Well, Jessica, go in.
+Perhaps I will return immediately:
+Do as I bid you, shut doors after you,
+“Fast bind, fast find.”
+A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+JESSICA.
+Farewell, and if my fortune be not crost,
+I have a father, you a daughter, lost.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VI. The same.
+
+ Enter the masquers, Gratiano and Salarino.
+
+GRATIANO.
+This is the penthouse under which Lorenzo
+Desired us to make stand.
+
+SALARINO.
+His hour is almost past.
+
+GRATIANO.
+And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,
+For lovers ever run before the clock.
+
+SALARINO.
+O ten times faster Venus’ pigeons fly
+To seal love’s bonds new-made than they are wont
+To keep obliged faith unforfeited!
+
+GRATIANO.
+That ever holds: who riseth from a feast
+With that keen appetite that he sits down?
+Where is the horse that doth untread again
+His tedious measures with the unbated fire
+That he did pace them first? All things that are,
+Are with more spirit chased than enjoy’d.
+How like a younger or a prodigal
+The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
+Hugg’d and embraced by the strumpet wind!
+How like the prodigal doth she return
+With over-weather’d ribs and ragged sails,
+Lean, rent, and beggar’d by the strumpet wind!
+
+ Enter Lorenzo.
+
+SALARINO.
+Here comes Lorenzo, more of this hereafter.
+
+LORENZO.
+Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode.
+Not I but my affairs have made you wait.
+When you shall please to play the thieves for wives,
+I’ll watch as long for you then. Approach.
+Here dwells my father Jew. Ho! who’s within?
+
+ Enter Jessica above, in boy’s clothes.
+
+JESSICA.
+Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,
+Albeit I’ll swear that I do know your tongue.
+
+LORENZO.
+Lorenzo, and thy love.
+
+JESSICA.
+Lorenzo certain, and my love indeed,
+For who love I so much? And now who knows
+But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?
+
+LORENZO.
+Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art.
+
+JESSICA.
+Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.
+I am glad ’tis night, you do not look on me,
+For I am much asham’d of my exchange.
+But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
+The pretty follies that themselves commit,
+For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
+To see me thus transformed to a boy.
+
+LORENZO.
+Descend, for you must be my torch-bearer.
+
+JESSICA.
+What! must I hold a candle to my shames?
+They in themselves, good sooth, are too too light.
+Why, ’tis an office of discovery, love,
+And I should be obscur’d.
+
+LORENZO.
+So are you, sweet,
+Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
+But come at once,
+For the close night doth play the runaway,
+And we are stay’d for at Bassanio’s feast.
+
+JESSICA.
+I will make fast the doors, and gild myself
+With some moe ducats, and be with you straight.
+
+ [_Exit above._]
+
+GRATIANO.
+Now, by my hood, a gentle, and no Jew.
+
+LORENZO.
+Beshrew me but I love her heartily,
+For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
+And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,
+And true she is, as she hath prov’d herself.
+And therefore, like herself, wise, fair, and true,
+Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
+
+ Enter Jessica.
+
+What, art thou come? On, gentlemen, away!
+Our masquing mates by this time for us stay.
+
+ [_Exit with Jessica and Salarino._]
+
+ Enter Antonio.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Who’s there?
+
+GRATIANO.
+Signior Antonio!
+
+ANTONIO.
+Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?
+’Tis nine o’clock, our friends all stay for you.
+No masque tonight, the wind is come about;
+Bassanio presently will go aboard.
+I have sent twenty out to seek for you.
+
+GRATIANO.
+I am glad on’t. I desire no more delight
+Than to be under sail and gone tonight.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VII. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+
+ Flourish of cornets. Enter Portia with the Prince of Morocco and both
+ their trains.
+
+PORTIA.
+Go, draw aside the curtains and discover
+The several caskets to this noble prince.
+Now make your choice.
+
+PRINCE OF MOROCCO.
+The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,
+“Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”
+The second, silver, which this promise carries,
+“Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.”
+This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,
+“Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.”
+How shall I know if I do choose the right?
+
+PORTIA.
+The one of them contains my picture, prince.
+If you choose that, then I am yours withal.
+
+PRINCE OF MOROCCO.
+Some god direct my judgment! Let me see.
+I will survey the inscriptions back again.
+What says this leaden casket?
+“Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.”
+Must give, for what? For lead? Hazard for lead!
+This casket threatens; men that hazard all
+Do it in hope of fair advantages:
+A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross,
+I’ll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
+What says the silver with her virgin hue?
+“Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.”
+As much as he deserves! Pause there, Morocco,
+And weigh thy value with an even hand.
+If thou be’st rated by thy estimation
+Thou dost deserve enough, and yet enough
+May not extend so far as to the lady.
+And yet to be afeard of my deserving
+Were but a weak disabling of myself.
+As much as I deserve! Why, that’s the lady:
+I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,
+In graces, and in qualities of breeding;
+But more than these, in love I do deserve.
+What if I stray’d no farther, but chose here?
+Let’s see once more this saying grav’d in gold:
+“Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”
+Why, that’s the lady, all the world desires her.
+From the four corners of the earth they come
+To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing saint.
+The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds
+Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now
+For princes to come view fair Portia.
+The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head
+Spets in the face of heaven, is no bar
+To stop the foreign spirits, but they come
+As o’er a brook to see fair Portia.
+One of these three contains her heavenly picture.
+Is’t like that lead contains her? ’Twere damnation
+To think so base a thought. It were too gross
+To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
+Or shall I think in silver she’s immur’d
+Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?
+O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem
+Was set in worse than gold. They have in England
+A coin that bears the figure of an angel
+Stamped in gold; but that’s insculp’d upon;
+But here an angel in a golden bed
+Lies all within. Deliver me the key.
+Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may.
+
+PORTIA.
+There, take it, prince, and if my form lie there,
+Then I am yours.
+
+ [_He unlocks the golden casket._]
+
+PRINCE OF MOROCCO.
+O hell! what have we here?
+A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
+There is a written scroll. I’ll read the writing.
+
+     _All that glisters is not gold,
+     Often have you heard that told.
+     Many a man his life hath sold
+     But my outside to behold.
+     Gilded tombs do worms infold.
+     Had you been as wise as bold,
+     Young in limbs, in judgment old,
+     Your answer had not been inscroll’d,
+     Fare you well, your suit is cold._
+
+   Cold indeed and labour lost,
+   Then farewell heat, and welcome frost.
+Portia, adieu! I have too griev’d a heart
+To take a tedious leave. Thus losers part.
+
+ [_Exit with his train. Flourish of cornets._]
+
+PORTIA.
+A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go.
+Let all of his complexion choose me so.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VIII. Venice. A street.
+
+ Enter Salarino and Solanio.
+
+SALARINO.
+Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail;
+With him is Gratiano gone along;
+And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.
+
+SOLANIO.
+The villain Jew with outcries rais’d the Duke,
+Who went with him to search Bassanio’s ship.
+
+SALARINO.
+He came too late, the ship was under sail;
+But there the Duke was given to understand
+That in a gondola were seen together
+Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
+Besides, Antonio certified the Duke
+They were not with Bassanio in his ship.
+
+SOLANIO.
+I never heard a passion so confus’d,
+So strange, outrageous, and so variable
+As the dog Jew did utter in the streets.
+“My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
+Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
+Justice! the law! my ducats and my daughter!
+A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
+Of double ducats, stol’n from me by my daughter!
+And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
+Stol’n by my daughter! Justice! find the girl,
+She hath the stones upon her and the ducats.”
+
+SALARINO.
+Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,
+Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.
+
+SOLANIO.
+Let good Antonio look he keep his day
+Or he shall pay for this.
+
+SALARINO.
+Marry, well rememb’red.
+I reason’d with a Frenchman yesterday,
+Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
+The French and English, there miscarried
+A vessel of our country richly fraught.
+I thought upon Antonio when he told me,
+And wish’d in silence that it were not his.
+
+SOLANIO.
+You were best to tell Antonio what you hear,
+Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.
+
+SALARINO.
+A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.
+I saw Bassanio and Antonio part,
+Bassanio told him he would make some speed
+Of his return. He answered “Do not so,
+Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
+But stay the very riping of the time,
+And for the Jew’s bond which he hath of me,
+Let it not enter in your mind of love:
+Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
+To courtship, and such fair ostents of love
+As shall conveniently become you there.”
+And even there, his eye being big with tears,
+Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,
+And with affection wondrous sensible
+He wrung Bassanio’s hand, and so they parted.
+
+SOLANIO.
+I think he only loves the world for him.
+I pray thee, let us go and find him out
+And quicken his embraced heaviness
+With some delight or other.
+
+SALARINO.
+Do we so.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IX. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+
+ Enter Nerissa and a Servitor.
+
+NERISSA.
+Quick, quick, I pray thee, draw the curtain straight.
+The Prince of Arragon hath ta’en his oath,
+And comes to his election presently.
+
+ Flourish of cornets. Enter the Prince of Arragon, his train, and
+ Portia.
+
+PORTIA.
+Behold, there stand the caskets, noble Prince,
+If you choose that wherein I am contain’d,
+Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemniz’d.
+But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,
+You must be gone from hence immediately.
+
+ARRAGON.
+I am enjoin’d by oath to observe three things:
+First, never to unfold to anyone
+Which casket ’twas I chose; next, if I fail
+Of the right casket, never in my life
+To woo a maid in way of marriage;
+Lastly,
+If I do fail in fortune of my choice,
+Immediately to leave you and be gone.
+
+PORTIA.
+To these injunctions everyone doth swear
+That comes to hazard for my worthless self.
+
+ARRAGON.
+And so have I address’d me. Fortune now
+To my heart’s hope! Gold, silver, and base lead.
+“Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.”
+You shall look fairer ere I give or hazard.
+What says the golden chest? Ha! let me see:
+“Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”
+What many men desire! that “many” may be meant
+By the fool multitude, that choose by show,
+Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,
+Which pries not to th’ interior, but like the martlet
+Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
+Even in the force and road of casualty.
+I will not choose what many men desire,
+Because I will not jump with common spirits
+And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
+Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house,
+Tell me once more what title thou dost bear.
+“Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.”
+And well said too; for who shall go about
+To cozen fortune, and be honourable
+Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume
+To wear an undeserved dignity.
+O that estates, degrees, and offices
+Were not deriv’d corruptly, and that clear honour
+Were purchas’d by the merit of the wearer!
+How many then should cover that stand bare?
+How many be commanded that command?
+How much low peasantry would then be gleaned
+From the true seed of honour? And how much honour
+Pick’d from the chaff and ruin of the times,
+To be new varnish’d? Well, but to my choice.
+“Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.”
+I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,
+And instantly unlock my fortunes here.
+
+ [_He opens the silver casket._]
+
+PORTIA.
+Too long a pause for that which you find there.
+
+ARRAGON.
+What’s here? The portrait of a blinking idiot
+Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.
+How much unlike art thou to Portia!
+How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!
+“Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.”
+Did I deserve no more than a fool’s head?
+Is that my prize? Are my deserts no better?
+
+PORTIA.
+To offend and judge are distinct offices,
+And of opposed natures.
+
+ARRAGON.
+What is here?
+
+     _The fire seven times tried this;
+     Seven times tried that judgment is
+     That did never choose amiss.
+     Some there be that shadows kiss;
+     Such have but a shadow’s bliss.
+     There be fools alive, I wis,
+     Silver’d o’er, and so was this.
+     Take what wife you will to bed,
+     I will ever be your head:
+     So be gone; you are sped._
+
+Still more fool I shall appear
+By the time I linger here.
+With one fool’s head I came to woo,
+But I go away with two.
+Sweet, adieu! I’ll keep my oath,
+Patiently to bear my wroth.
+
+ [_Exit Arragon with his train._]
+
+PORTIA.
+Thus hath the candle sing’d the moth.
+O, these deliberate fools! When they do choose,
+They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.
+
+NERISSA.
+The ancient saying is no heresy:
+Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
+
+PORTIA.
+Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Where is my lady?
+
+PORTIA.
+Here. What would my lord?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Madam, there is alighted at your gate
+A young Venetian, one that comes before
+To signify th’ approaching of his lord,
+From whom he bringeth sensible regreets;
+To wit (besides commends and courteous breath)
+Gifts of rich value; yet I have not seen
+So likely an ambassador of love.
+A day in April never came so sweet,
+To show how costly summer was at hand,
+As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.
+
+PORTIA.
+No more, I pray thee. I am half afeard
+Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,
+Thou spend’st such high-day wit in praising him.
+Come, come, Nerissa, for I long to see
+Quick Cupid’s post that comes so mannerly.
+
+NERISSA.
+Bassanio, Lord Love, if thy will it be!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Venice. A street.
+
+ Enter Solanio and Salarino.
+
+SOLANIO.
+Now, what news on the Rialto?
+
+SALARINO.
+Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich
+lading wrack’d on the narrow seas; the Goodwins, I think they call the
+place, a very dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many a
+tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip Report be an honest
+woman of her word.
+
+SOLANIO.
+I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or
+made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband.
+But it is true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain
+highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the honest Antonio,—O that I
+had a title good enough to keep his name company!—
+
+SALARINO.
+Come, the full stop.
+
+SOLANIO.
+Ha, what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath lost a ship.
+
+SALARINO.
+I would it might prove the end of his losses.
+
+SOLANIO.
+Let me say “amen” betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he
+comes in the likeness of a Jew.
+
+ Enter Shylock.
+
+How now, Shylock, what news among the merchants?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+You knew, none so well, none so well as you, of my daughter’s flight.
+
+SALARINO.
+That’s certain, I, for my part, knew the tailor that made the wings she
+flew withal.
+
+SOLANIO.
+And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was fledged; and then it
+is the complexion of them all to leave the dam.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+She is damn’d for it.
+
+SALARINO.
+That’s certain, if the devil may be her judge.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+My own flesh and blood to rebel!
+
+SOLANIO.
+Out upon it, old carrion! Rebels it at these years?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I say my daughter is my flesh and my blood.
+
+SALARINO.
+There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet
+and ivory, more between your bloods than there is between red wine and
+Rhenish. But tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any loss at
+sea or no?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+There I have another bad match, a bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce
+show his head on the Rialto, a beggar that used to come so smug upon
+the mart; let him look to his bond. He was wont to call me usurer; let
+him look to his bond: he was wont to lend money for a Christian cur’sy;
+let him look to his bond.
+
+SALARINO.
+Why, I am sure if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh! What’s that
+good for?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my
+revenge. He hath disgrac’d me and hind’red me half a million, laugh’d
+at my losses, mock’d at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
+bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. And what’s his
+reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,
+dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt
+with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same
+means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian
+is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not
+laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we
+not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in
+that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a
+Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian
+example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it
+shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
+
+ Enter a man from Antonio.
+
+SERVANT.
+Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to speak with
+you both.
+
+SALARINO.
+We have been up and down to seek him.
+
+ Enter Tubal.
+
+SOLANIO.
+Here comes another of the tribe; a third cannot be match’d, unless the
+devil himself turn Jew.
+
+ [_Exeunt Solanio, Salarino and the Servant._]
+
+SHYLOCK.
+How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? Hast thou found my daughter?
+
+TUBAL.
+I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Why there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand
+ducats in Frankfort! The curse never fell upon our nation till now, I
+never felt it till now. Two thousand ducats in that, and other
+precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot,
+and the jewels in her ear; would she were hearsed at my foot, and the
+ducats in her coffin. No news of them? Why so? And I know not what’s
+spent in the search. Why, thou—loss upon loss! The thief gone with so
+much, and so much to find the thief, and no satisfaction, no revenge,
+nor no ill luck stirring but what lights o’ my shoulders, no sighs but
+o’ my breathing, no tears but o’ my shedding.
+
+TUBAL.
+Yes, other men have ill luck too. Antonio, as I heard in Genoa—
+
+SHYLOCK.
+What, what, what? Ill luck, ill luck?
+
+TUBAL.
+—hath an argosy cast away coming from Tripolis.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I thank God! I thank God! Is it true, is it true?
+
+TUBAL.
+I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wrack.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I thank thee, good Tubal. Good news, good news! Ha, ha, heard in Genoa?
+
+TUBAL.
+Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night, fourscore ducats.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Thou stick’st a dagger in me. I shall never see my gold again.
+Fourscore ducats at a sitting! Fourscore ducats!
+
+TUBAL.
+There came divers of Antonio’s creditors in my company to Venice that
+swear he cannot choose but break.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I am very glad of it. I’ll plague him, I’ll torture him. I am glad of
+it.
+
+TUBAL.
+One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter for a monkey.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise, I had it
+of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a
+wilderness of monkeys.
+
+TUBAL.
+But Antonio is certainly undone.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Nay, that’s true, that’s very true. Go, Tubal, fee me an officer;
+bespeak him a fortnight before. I will have the heart of him if he
+forfeit, for were he out of Venice I can make what merchandise I will.
+Go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue. Go, good Tubal, at our
+synagogue, Tubal.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+
+ Enter Bassanio, Portia, Gratiano, Nerissa and all their trains.
+
+PORTIA.
+I pray you tarry, pause a day or two
+Before you hazard, for in choosing wrong
+I lose your company; therefore forbear a while.
+There’s something tells me (but it is not love)
+I would not lose you, and you know yourself
+Hate counsels not in such a quality.
+But lest you should not understand me well,—
+And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,—
+I would detain you here some month or two
+Before you venture for me. I could teach you
+How to choose right, but then I am forsworn.
+So will I never be. So may you miss me.
+But if you do, you’ll make me wish a sin,
+That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
+They have o’erlook’d me and divided me.
+One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
+Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
+And so all yours. O these naughty times
+Puts bars between the owners and their rights!
+And so though yours, not yours. Prove it so,
+Let Fortune go to hell for it, not I.
+I speak too long, but ’tis to peise the time,
+To eche it, and to draw it out in length,
+To stay you from election.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Let me choose,
+For as I am, I live upon the rack.
+
+PORTIA.
+Upon the rack, Bassanio! Then confess
+What treason there is mingled with your love.
+
+BASSANIO.
+None but that ugly treason of mistrust,
+Which makes me fear th’ enjoying of my love.
+There may as well be amity and life
+’Tween snow and fire as treason and my love.
+
+PORTIA.
+Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack
+Where men enforced do speak anything.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Promise me life, and I’ll confess the truth.
+
+PORTIA.
+Well then, confess and live.
+
+BASSANIO.
+“Confess and love”
+Had been the very sum of my confession:
+O happy torment, when my torturer
+Doth teach me answers for deliverance!
+But let me to my fortune and the caskets.
+
+PORTIA.
+Away, then! I am lock’d in one of them.
+If you do love me, you will find me out.
+Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.
+Let music sound while he doth make his choice.
+Then if he lose he makes a swan-like end,
+Fading in music. That the comparison
+May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream
+And wat’ry death-bed for him. He may win,
+And what is music then? Then music is
+Even as the flourish when true subjects bow
+To a new-crowned monarch. Such it is
+As are those dulcet sounds in break of day
+That creep into the dreaming bridegroom’s ear
+And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,
+With no less presence, but with much more love
+Than young Alcides when he did redeem
+The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
+To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice;
+The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,
+With bleared visages come forth to view
+The issue of th’ exploit. Go, Hercules!
+Live thou, I live. With much much more dismay
+I view the fight than thou that mak’st the fray.
+
+ A song, whilst Bassanio comments on the caskets to himself.
+
+     _Tell me where is fancy bred,
+     Or in the heart or in the head?
+     How begot, how nourished?
+        Reply, reply.
+     It is engend’red in the eyes,
+     With gazing fed, and fancy dies
+     In the cradle where it lies.
+        Let us all ring fancy’s knell:
+        I’ll begin it.—Ding, dong, bell._
+
+ALL.
+     _Ding, dong, bell._
+
+BASSANIO.
+So may the outward shows be least themselves.
+The world is still deceiv’d with ornament.
+In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
+But, being season’d with a gracious voice,
+Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
+What damned error but some sober brow
+Will bless it, and approve it with a text,
+Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
+There is no vice so simple but assumes
+Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
+How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
+As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
+The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
+Who inward search’d, have livers white as milk,
+And these assume but valour’s excrement
+To render them redoubted. Look on beauty,
+And you shall see ’tis purchas’d by the weight,
+Which therein works a miracle in nature,
+Making them lightest that wear most of it:
+So are those crisped snaky golden locks
+Which make such wanton gambols with the wind
+Upon supposed fairness, often known
+To be the dowry of a second head,
+The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
+Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
+To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
+Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
+The seeming truth which cunning times put on
+To entrap the wisest. Therefore thou gaudy gold,
+Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee,
+Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge
+’Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,
+Which rather threaten’st than dost promise aught,
+Thy palenness moves me more than eloquence,
+And here choose I, joy be the consequence!
+
+PORTIA.
+[_Aside._] How all the other passions fleet to air,
+As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embrac’d despair,
+And shudd’ring fear, and green-ey’d jealousy.
+O love, be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,
+In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess!
+I feel too much thy blessing, make it less,
+For fear I surfeit.
+
+BASSANIO.
+What find I here? [_Opening the leaden casket_.]
+Fair Portia’s counterfeit! What demi-god
+Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes?
+Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,
+Seem they in motion? Here are sever’d lips,
+Parted with sugar breath, so sweet a bar
+Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs
+The painter plays the spider, and hath woven
+A golden mesh t’entrap the hearts of men
+Faster than gnats in cobwebs. But her eyes!—
+How could he see to do them? Having made one,
+Methinks it should have power to steal both his
+And leave itself unfurnish’d. Yet look how far
+The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow
+In underprizing it, so far this shadow
+Doth limp behind the substance. Here’s the scroll,
+The continent and summary of my fortune.
+
+     _You that choose not by the view
+     Chance as fair and choose as true!
+     Since this fortune falls to you,
+     Be content and seek no new.
+     If you be well pleas’d with this,
+     And hold your fortune for your bliss,
+     Turn to where your lady is,
+     And claim her with a loving kiss._
+
+A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave, [_Kissing her_.]
+I come by note to give and to receive.
+Like one of two contending in a prize
+That thinks he hath done well in people’s eyes,
+Hearing applause and universal shout,
+Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt
+Whether those peals of praise be his or no,
+So, thrice-fair lady, stand I even so,
+As doubtful whether what I see be true,
+Until confirm’d, sign’d, ratified by you.
+
+PORTIA.
+You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,
+Such as I am; though for myself alone
+I would not be ambitious in my wish
+To wish myself much better, yet for you
+I would be trebled twenty times myself,
+A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times
+More rich,
+That only to stand high in your account,
+I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends,
+Exceed account. But the full sum of me
+Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,
+Is an unlesson’d girl, unschool’d, unpractis’d;
+Happy in this, she is not yet so old
+But she may learn; happier than this,
+She is not bred so dull but she can learn;
+Happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit
+Commits itself to yours to be directed,
+As from her lord, her governor, her king.
+Myself, and what is mine, to you and yours
+Is now converted. But now I was the lord
+Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,
+Queen o’er myself; and even now, but now,
+This house, these servants, and this same myself
+Are yours,—my lord’s. I give them with this ring,
+Which when you part from, lose, or give away,
+Let it presage the ruin of your love,
+And be my vantage to exclaim on you.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
+Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
+And there is such confusion in my powers
+As after some oration fairly spoke
+By a beloved prince, there doth appear
+Among the buzzing pleased multitude,
+Where every something being blent together,
+Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy
+Express’d and not express’d. But when this ring
+Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence.
+O then be bold to say Bassanio’s dead!
+
+NERISSA.
+My lord and lady, it is now our time,
+That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,
+To cry, good joy. Good joy, my lord and lady!
+
+GRATIANO.
+My Lord Bassanio, and my gentle lady,
+I wish you all the joy that you can wish;
+For I am sure you can wish none from me.
+And when your honours mean to solemnize
+The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you
+Even at that time I may be married too.
+
+BASSANIO.
+With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.
+
+GRATIANO.
+I thank your lordship, you have got me one.
+My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:
+You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid.
+You lov’d, I lov’d; for intermission
+No more pertains to me, my lord, than you.
+Your fortune stood upon the caskets there,
+And so did mine too, as the matter falls.
+For wooing here until I sweat again,
+And swearing till my very roof was dry
+With oaths of love, at last, (if promise last)
+I got a promise of this fair one here
+To have her love, provided that your fortune
+Achiev’d her mistress.
+
+PORTIA.
+Is this true, Nerissa?
+
+NERISSA.
+Madam, it is, so you stand pleas’d withal.
+
+BASSANIO.
+And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?
+
+GRATIANO.
+Yes, faith, my lord.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Our feast shall be much honoured in your marriage.
+
+GRATIANO.
+We’ll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.
+
+NERISSA.
+What! and stake down?
+
+GRATIANO.
+No, we shall ne’er win at that sport and stake down.
+But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel?
+What, and my old Venetian friend, Salerio!
+
+ Enter Lorenzo, Jessica and Salerio.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither,
+If that the youth of my new int’rest here
+Have power to bid you welcome. By your leave,
+I bid my very friends and countrymen,
+Sweet Portia, welcome.
+
+PORTIA.
+So do I, my lord,
+They are entirely welcome.
+
+LORENZO.
+I thank your honour. For my part, my lord,
+My purpose was not to have seen you here,
+But meeting with Salerio by the way,
+He did entreat me, past all saying nay,
+To come with him along.
+
+SALERIO.
+I did, my lord,
+And I have reason for it. Signior Antonio
+Commends him to you.
+
+ [_Gives Bassanio a letter._]
+
+BASSANIO.
+Ere I ope his letter,
+I pray you tell me how my good friend doth.
+
+SALERIO.
+Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind,
+Nor well, unless in mind. His letter there
+Will show you his estate.
+
+ [_Bassanio opens the letter._]
+
+GRATIANO.
+Nerissa, cheer yond stranger, bid her welcome.
+Your hand, Salerio. What’s the news from Venice?
+How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?
+I know he will be glad of our success.
+We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.
+
+SALERIO.
+I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost.
+
+PORTIA.
+There are some shrewd contents in yond same paper
+That steals the colour from Bassanio’s cheek.
+Some dear friend dead, else nothing in the world
+Could turn so much the constitution
+Of any constant man. What, worse and worse?
+With leave, Bassanio, I am half yourself,
+And I must freely have the half of anything
+That this same paper brings you.
+
+BASSANIO.
+O sweet Portia,
+Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
+That ever blotted paper. Gentle lady,
+When I did first impart my love to you,
+I freely told you all the wealth I had
+Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman.
+And then I told you true. And yet, dear lady,
+Rating myself at nothing, you shall see
+How much I was a braggart. When I told you
+My state was nothing, I should then have told you
+That I was worse than nothing; for indeed
+I have engag’d myself to a dear friend,
+Engag’d my friend to his mere enemy,
+To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady,
+The paper as the body of my friend,
+And every word in it a gaping wound
+Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?
+Hath all his ventures fail’d? What, not one hit?
+From Tripolis, from Mexico, and England,
+From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
+And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch
+Of merchant-marring rocks?
+
+SALERIO.
+Not one, my lord.
+Besides, it should appear, that if he had
+The present money to discharge the Jew,
+He would not take it. Never did I know
+A creature that did bear the shape of man
+So keen and greedy to confound a man.
+He plies the Duke at morning and at night,
+And doth impeach the freedom of the state
+If they deny him justice. Twenty merchants,
+The Duke himself, and the magnificoes
+Of greatest port have all persuaded with him,
+But none can drive him from the envious plea
+Of forfeiture, of justice, and his bond.
+
+JESSICA.
+When I was with him, I have heard him swear
+To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,
+That he would rather have Antonio’s flesh
+Than twenty times the value of the sum
+That he did owe him. And I know, my lord,
+If law, authority, and power deny not,
+It will go hard with poor Antonio.
+
+PORTIA.
+Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble?
+
+BASSANIO.
+The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,
+The best condition’d and unwearied spirit
+In doing courtesies, and one in whom
+The ancient Roman honour more appears
+Than any that draws breath in Italy.
+
+PORTIA.
+What sum owes he the Jew?
+
+BASSANIO.
+For me three thousand ducats.
+
+PORTIA.
+What, no more?
+Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond.
+Double six thousand, and then treble that,
+Before a friend of this description
+Shall lose a hair through Bassanio’s fault.
+First go with me to church and call me wife,
+And then away to Venice to your friend.
+For never shall you lie by Portia’s side
+With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold
+To pay the petty debt twenty times over.
+When it is paid, bring your true friend along.
+My maid Nerissa and myself meantime,
+Will live as maids and widows. Come, away!
+For you shall hence upon your wedding day.
+Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer;
+Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.
+But let me hear the letter of your friend.
+
+BASSANIO.
+_Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all miscarried, my creditors grow cruel,
+my estate is very low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit, and since in
+paying it, it is impossible I should live, all debts are clear’d
+between you and I, if I might but see you at my death. Notwithstanding,
+use your pleasure. If your love do not persuade you to come, let not my
+letter._
+
+PORTIA.
+O love, dispatch all business and be gone!
+
+BASSANIO.
+Since I have your good leave to go away,
+I will make haste; but, till I come again,
+No bed shall e’er be guilty of my stay,
+Nor rest be interposer ’twixt us twain.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Venice. A street.
+
+ Enter Shylock, Salarino, Antonio and Gaoler.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Gaoler, look to him. Tell not me of mercy.
+This is the fool that lent out money gratis.
+Gaoler, look to him.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Hear me yet, good Shylock.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I’ll have my bond, speak not against my bond.
+I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.
+Thou call’dst me dog before thou hadst a cause,
+But since I am a dog, beware my fangs;
+The Duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,
+Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond
+To come abroad with him at his request.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I pray thee hear me speak.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I’ll have my bond. I will not hear thee speak.
+I’ll have my bond, and therefore speak no more.
+I’ll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,
+To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
+To Christian intercessors. Follow not,
+I’ll have no speaking, I will have my bond.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SALARINO.
+It is the most impenetrable cur
+That ever kept with men.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Let him alone.
+I’ll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
+He seeks my life, his reason well I know:
+I oft deliver’d from his forfeitures
+Many that have at times made moan to me.
+Therefore he hates me.
+
+SALARINO.
+I am sure the Duke
+Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.
+
+ANTONIO.
+The Duke cannot deny the course of law,
+For the commodity that strangers have
+With us in Venice, if it be denied,
+’Twill much impeach the justice of the state,
+Since that the trade and profit of the city
+Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go.
+These griefs and losses have so bated me
+That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh
+Tomorrow to my bloody creditor.
+Well, gaoler, on, pray God Bassanio come
+To see me pay his debt, and then I care not.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
+
+ Enter Portia, Nerissa, Lorenzo, Jessica and Balthazar.
+
+LORENZO.
+Madam, although I speak it in your presence,
+You have a noble and a true conceit
+Of godlike amity, which appears most strongly
+In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
+But if you knew to whom you show this honour,
+How true a gentleman you send relief,
+How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
+I know you would be prouder of the work
+Than customary bounty can enforce you.
+
+PORTIA.
+I never did repent for doing good,
+Nor shall not now; for in companions
+That do converse and waste the time together,
+Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,
+There must be needs a like proportion
+Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit;
+Which makes me think that this Antonio,
+Being the bosom lover of my lord,
+Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
+How little is the cost I have bestowed
+In purchasing the semblance of my soul
+From out the state of hellish cruelty!
+This comes too near the praising of myself;
+Therefore no more of it. Hear other things.
+Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
+The husbandry and manage of my house
+Until my lord’s return. For mine own part,
+I have toward heaven breath’d a secret vow
+To live in prayer and contemplation,
+Only attended by Nerissa here,
+Until her husband and my lord’s return.
+There is a monastery two miles off,
+And there we will abide. I do desire you
+Not to deny this imposition,
+The which my love and some necessity
+Now lays upon you.
+
+LORENZO.
+Madam, with all my heart
+I shall obey you in all fair commands.
+
+PORTIA.
+My people do already know my mind,
+And will acknowledge you and Jessica
+In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
+So fare you well till we shall meet again.
+
+LORENZO.
+Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!
+
+JESSICA.
+I wish your ladyship all heart’s content.
+
+PORTIA.
+I thank you for your wish, and am well pleas’d
+To wish it back on you. Fare you well, Jessica.
+
+ [_Exeunt Jessica and Lorenzo._]
+
+Now, Balthazar,
+As I have ever found thee honest-true,
+So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,
+And use thou all th’ endeavour of a man
+In speed to Padua, see thou render this
+Into my cousin’s hands, Doctor Bellario;
+And look what notes and garments he doth give thee,
+Bring them, I pray thee, with imagin’d speed
+Unto the traject, to the common ferry
+Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
+But get thee gone. I shall be there before thee.
+
+BALTHAZAR.
+Madam, I go with all convenient speed.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PORTIA.
+Come on, Nerissa, I have work in hand
+That you yet know not of; we’ll see our husbands
+Before they think of us.
+
+NERISSA.
+Shall they see us?
+
+PORTIA.
+They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit
+That they shall think we are accomplished
+With that we lack. I’ll hold thee any wager,
+When we are both accoutered like young men,
+I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
+And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
+And speak between the change of man and boy
+With a reed voice; and turn two mincing steps
+Into a manly stride; and speak of frays
+Like a fine bragging youth; and tell quaint lies
+How honourable ladies sought my love,
+Which I denying, they fell sick and died;
+I could not do withal. Then I’ll repent,
+And wish for all that, that I had not kill’d them.
+And twenty of these puny lies I’ll tell,
+That men shall swear I have discontinued school
+About a twelvemonth. I have within my mind
+A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,
+Which I will practise.
+
+NERISSA.
+Why, shall we turn to men?
+
+PORTIA.
+Fie, what a question’s that,
+If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
+But come, I’ll tell thee all my whole device
+When I am in my coach, which stays for us
+At the park gate; and therefore haste away,
+For we must measure twenty miles today.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. The same. A garden.
+
+ Enter Launcelet and Jessica.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon
+the children, therefore, I promise you, I fear you. I was always plain
+with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be
+of good cheer, for truly I think you are damn’d. There is but one hope
+in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope
+neither.
+
+JESSICA.
+And what hope is that, I pray thee?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you not, that you are
+not the Jew’s daughter.
+
+JESSICA.
+That were a kind of bastard hope indeed; so the sins of my mother
+should be visited upon me.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Truly then I fear you are damn’d both by father and mother; thus when I
+shun Scylla your father, I fall into Charybdis your mother. Well, you
+are gone both ways.
+
+JESSICA.
+I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a Christian.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Truly the more to blame he, we were Christians enow before, e’en as
+many as could well live one by another. This making of Christians will
+raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not
+shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
+
+ Enter Lorenzo.
+
+JESSICA.
+I’ll tell my husband, Launcelet, what you say. Here he comes.
+
+LORENZO.
+I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelet, if you thus get my wife
+into corners!
+
+JESSICA.
+Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Launcelet and I are out. He tells
+me flatly there’s no mercy for me in heaven, because I am a Jew’s
+daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for
+in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.
+
+LORENZO.
+I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than you can the getting
+up of the negro’s belly! The Moor is with child by you, Launcelet.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+It is much that the Moor should be more than reason; but if she be less
+than an honest woman, she is indeed more than I took her for.
+
+LORENZO.
+How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit
+will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none
+only but parrots. Go in, sirrah; bid them prepare for dinner.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+That is done, sir, they have all stomachs.
+
+LORENZO.
+Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! Then bid them prepare dinner.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+That is done too, sir, only “cover” is the word.
+
+LORENZO.
+Will you cover, then, sir?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Not so, sir, neither. I know my duty.
+
+LORENZO.
+Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou show the whole wealth of
+thy wit in an instant? I pray thee understand a plain man in his plain
+meaning: go to thy fellows, bid them cover the table, serve in the
+meat, and we will come in to dinner.
+
+LAUNCELET.
+For the table, sir, it shall be served in; for the meat, sir, it shall
+be covered; for your coming in to dinner, sir, why, let it be as
+humours and conceits shall govern.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LORENZO.
+O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
+The fool hath planted in his memory
+An army of good words, and I do know
+A many fools that stand in better place,
+Garnish’d like him, that for a tricksy word
+Defy the matter. How cheer’st thou, Jessica?
+And now, good sweet, say thy opinion,
+How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio’s wife?
+
+JESSICA.
+Past all expressing. It is very meet
+The Lord Bassanio live an upright life,
+For having such a blessing in his lady,
+He finds the joys of heaven here on earth,
+And if on earth he do not merit it,
+In reason he should never come to heaven.
+Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match,
+And on the wager lay two earthly women,
+And Portia one, there must be something else
+Pawn’d with the other, for the poor rude world
+Hath not her fellow.
+
+LORENZO.
+Even such a husband
+Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
+
+JESSICA.
+Nay, but ask my opinion too of that.
+
+LORENZO.
+I will anon. First let us go to dinner.
+
+JESSICA.
+Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
+
+LORENZO.
+No pray thee, let it serve for table-talk.
+Then howsome’er thou speak’st, ’mong other things
+I shall digest it.
+
+JESSICA.
+Well, I’ll set you forth.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Venice. A court of justice.
+
+ Enter the Duke, the Magnificoes, Antonio, Bassanio, Gratiano, Salerio
+ and others.
+
+DUKE.
+What, is Antonio here?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Ready, so please your Grace.
+
+DUKE.
+I am sorry for thee, thou art come to answer
+A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,
+Uncapable of pity, void and empty
+From any dram of mercy.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I have heard
+Your Grace hath ta’en great pains to qualify
+His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate,
+And that no lawful means can carry me
+Out of his envy’s reach, I do oppose
+My patience to his fury, and am arm’d
+To suffer with a quietness of spirit
+The very tyranny and rage of his.
+
+DUKE.
+Go one and call the Jew into the court.
+
+SALARINO.
+He is ready at the door. He comes, my lord.
+
+ Enter Shylock.
+
+DUKE.
+Make room, and let him stand before our face.
+Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,
+That thou but leadest this fashion of thy malice
+To the last hour of act, and then, ’tis thought,
+Thou’lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange
+Than is thy strange apparent cruelty;
+And where thou now exacts the penalty,
+Which is a pound of this poor merchant’s flesh,
+Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,
+But, touch’d with human gentleness and love,
+Forgive a moiety of the principal,
+Glancing an eye of pity on his losses
+That have of late so huddled on his back,
+Enow to press a royal merchant down,
+And pluck commiseration of his state
+From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,
+From stubborn Turks and Tartars never train’d
+To offices of tender courtesy.
+We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I have possess’d your Grace of what I purpose,
+And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
+To have the due and forfeit of my bond.
+If you deny it, let the danger light
+Upon your charter and your city’s freedom!
+You’ll ask me why I rather choose to have
+A weight of carrion flesh than to receive
+Three thousand ducats. I’ll not answer that,
+But say it is my humour. Is it answer’d?
+What if my house be troubled with a rat,
+And I be pleas’d to give ten thousand ducats
+To have it ban’d? What, are you answer’d yet?
+Some men there are love not a gaping pig;
+Some that are mad if they behold a cat;
+And others, when the bagpipe sings i’ the nose,
+Cannot contain their urine; for affection
+Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood
+Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer:
+As there is no firm reason to be render’d
+Why he cannot abide a gaping pig,
+Why he a harmless necessary cat,
+Why he a woollen bagpipe, but of force
+Must yield to such inevitable shame
+As to offend, himself being offended,
+So can I give no reason, nor I will not,
+More than a lodg’d hate and a certain loathing
+I bear Antonio, that I follow thus
+A losing suit against him. Are you answered?
+
+BASSANIO.
+This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,
+To excuse the current of thy cruelty.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Do all men kill the things they do not love?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Hates any man the thing he would not kill?
+
+BASSANIO.
+Every offence is not a hate at first.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
+
+ANTONIO.
+I pray you, think you question with the Jew.
+You may as well go stand upon the beach
+And bid the main flood bate his usual height;
+You may as well use question with the wolf,
+Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;
+You may as well forbid the mountain pines
+To wag their high tops and to make no noise
+When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;
+You may as well do anything most hard
+As seek to soften that—than which what’s harder?—
+His Jewish heart. Therefore, I do beseech you,
+Make no moe offers, use no farther means,
+But with all brief and plain conveniency.
+Let me have judgment, and the Jew his will.
+
+BASSANIO.
+For thy three thousand ducats here is six.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+If every ducat in six thousand ducats
+Were in six parts, and every part a ducat,
+I would not draw them, I would have my bond.
+
+DUKE.
+How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend’ring none?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?
+You have among you many a purchas’d slave,
+Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,
+You use in abject and in slavish parts,
+Because you bought them. Shall I say to you
+“Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
+Why sweat they under burdens? Let their beds
+Be made as soft as yours, and let their palates
+Be season’d with such viands”? You will answer
+“The slaves are ours.” So do I answer you:
+The pound of flesh which I demand of him
+Is dearly bought; ’tis mine and I will have it.
+If you deny me, fie upon your law!
+There is no force in the decrees of Venice.
+I stand for judgment. Answer; shall I have it?
+
+DUKE.
+Upon my power I may dismiss this court,
+Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,
+Whom I have sent for to determine this,
+Come here today.
+
+SALARINO.
+My lord, here stays without
+A messenger with letters from the doctor,
+New come from Padua.
+
+DUKE.
+Bring us the letters. Call the messenger.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Good cheer, Antonio! What, man, courage yet!
+The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones, and all,
+Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I am a tainted wether of the flock,
+Meetest for death, the weakest kind of fruit
+Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me.
+You cannot better be employ’d, Bassanio,
+Than to live still, and write mine epitaph.
+
+ Enter Nerissa dressed like a lawyer’s clerk.
+
+DUKE.
+Came you from Padua, from Bellario?
+
+NERISSA.
+From both, my lord. Bellario greets your Grace.
+
+ [_Presents a letter._]
+
+BASSANIO.
+Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
+Thou mak’st thy knife keen. But no metal can,
+No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keenness
+Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.
+
+GRATIANO.
+O, be thou damn’d, inexecrable dog!
+And for thy life let justice be accus’d;
+Thou almost mak’st me waver in my faith,
+To hold opinion with Pythagoras
+That souls of animals infuse themselves
+Into the trunks of men. Thy currish spirit
+Govern’d a wolf who, hang’d for human slaughter,
+Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
+And whilst thou layest in thy unhallowed dam,
+Infus’d itself in thee; for thy desires
+Are wolfish, bloody, starv’d and ravenous.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,
+Thou but offend’st thy lungs to speak so loud.
+Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall
+To cureless ruin. I stand here for law.
+
+DUKE.
+This letter from Bellario doth commend
+A young and learned doctor to our court.
+Where is he?
+
+NERISSA.
+He attendeth here hard by,
+To know your answer, whether you’ll admit him.
+
+DUKE OF VENICE.
+With all my heart: some three or four of you
+Go give him courteous conduct to this place.
+Meantime, the court shall hear Bellario’s letter.
+
+[_Reads._] _Your Grace shall understand that at the receipt of your
+letter I am very sick, but in the instant that your messenger came, in
+loving visitation was with me a young doctor of Rome. His name is
+Balthazar. I acquainted him with the cause in controversy between the
+Jew and Antonio the merchant. We turn’d o’er many books together. He is
+furnished with my opinion, which, bettered with his own learning (the
+greatness whereof I cannot enough commend), comes with him at my
+importunity to fill up your Grace’s request in my stead. I beseech you
+let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend
+estimation, for I never knew so young a body with so old a head. I
+leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better publish
+his commendation._
+
+You hear the learn’d Bellario what he writes,
+And here, I take it, is the doctor come.
+
+ Enter Portia dressed like a doctor of laws.
+
+Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario?
+
+PORTIA.
+I did, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+You are welcome. Take your place.
+Are you acquainted with the difference
+That holds this present question in the court?
+
+PORTIA.
+I am informed throughly of the cause.
+Which is the merchant here? And which the Jew?
+
+DUKE.
+Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.
+
+PORTIA.
+Is your name Shylock?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Shylock is my name.
+
+PORTIA.
+Of a strange nature is the suit you follow,
+Yet in such rule that the Venetian law
+Cannot impugn you as you do proceed.
+[_To Antonio_.] You stand within his danger, do you not?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Ay, so he says.
+
+PORTIA.
+Do you confess the bond?
+
+ANTONIO.
+I do.
+
+PORTIA.
+Then must the Jew be merciful.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.
+
+PORTIA.
+The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
+It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
+Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest,
+It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
+’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
+The throned monarch better than his crown.
+His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
+The attribute to awe and majesty,
+Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
+But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
+It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
+It is an attribute to God himself;
+And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
+When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
+Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
+That in the course of justice none of us
+Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy,
+And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
+The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
+To mitigate the justice of thy plea,
+Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
+Must needs give sentence ’gainst the merchant there.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,
+The penalty and forfeit of my bond.
+
+PORTIA.
+Is he not able to discharge the money?
+
+BASSANIO.
+Yes, here I tender it for him in the court,
+Yea, twice the sum, if that will not suffice,
+I will be bound to pay it ten times o’er
+On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart.
+If this will not suffice, it must appear
+That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,
+Wrest once the law to your authority.
+To do a great right, do a little wrong,
+And curb this cruel devil of his will.
+
+PORTIA.
+It must not be, there is no power in Venice
+Can alter a decree established;
+’Twill be recorded for a precedent,
+And many an error by the same example
+Will rush into the state. It cannot be.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+A Daniel come to judgment! Yea, a Daniel!
+O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!
+
+PORTIA.
+I pray you let me look upon the bond.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Here ’tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.
+
+PORTIA.
+Shylock, there’s thrice thy money offered thee.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+An oath, an oath! I have an oath in heaven.
+Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
+No, not for Venice.
+
+PORTIA.
+Why, this bond is forfeit,
+And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
+A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
+Nearest the merchant’s heart. Be merciful,
+Take thrice thy money; bid me tear the bond.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+When it is paid according to the tenour.
+It doth appear you are a worthy judge;
+You know the law; your exposition
+Hath been most sound. I charge you by the law,
+Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,
+Proceed to judgment. By my soul I swear
+There is no power in the tongue of man
+To alter me. I stay here on my bond.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Most heartily I do beseech the court
+To give the judgment.
+
+PORTIA.
+Why then, thus it is:
+You must prepare your bosom for his knife.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+O noble judge! O excellent young man!
+
+PORTIA.
+For the intent and purpose of the law
+Hath full relation to the penalty,
+Which here appeareth due upon the bond.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+’Tis very true. O wise and upright judge,
+How much more elder art thou than thy looks!
+
+PORTIA.
+Therefore lay bare your bosom.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Ay, his breast
+So says the bond, doth it not, noble judge?
+“Nearest his heart”: those are the very words.
+
+PORTIA.
+It is so. Are there balance here to weigh
+The flesh?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I have them ready.
+
+PORTIA.
+Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,
+To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Is it so nominated in the bond?
+
+PORTIA.
+It is not so express’d, but what of that?
+’Twere good you do so much for charity.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I cannot find it; ’tis not in the bond.
+
+PORTIA.
+You, merchant, have you anything to say?
+
+ANTONIO.
+But little. I am arm’d and well prepar’d.
+Give me your hand, Bassanio. Fare you well,
+Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you,
+For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
+Than is her custom: it is still her use
+To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
+To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
+An age of poverty, from which ling’ring penance
+Of such misery doth she cut me off.
+Commend me to your honourable wife,
+Tell her the process of Antonio’s end,
+Say how I lov’d you, speak me fair in death.
+And when the tale is told, bid her be judge
+Whether Bassanio had not once a love.
+Repent but you that you shall lose your friend
+And he repents not that he pays your debt.
+For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,
+I’ll pay it instantly with all my heart.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Antonio, I am married to a wife
+Which is as dear to me as life itself,
+But life itself, my wife, and all the world,
+Are not with me esteem’d above thy life.
+I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all
+Here to this devil, to deliver you.
+
+PORTIA.
+Your wife would give you little thanks for that
+If she were by to hear you make the offer.
+
+GRATIANO.
+I have a wife who I protest I love.
+I would she were in heaven, so she could
+Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.
+
+NERISSA.
+’Tis well you offer it behind her back,
+The wish would make else an unquiet house.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+These be the Christian husbands! I have a daughter—
+Would any of the stock of Barabbas
+Had been her husband, rather than a Christian!
+We trifle time, I pray thee, pursue sentence.
+
+PORTIA.
+A pound of that same merchant’s flesh is thine,
+The court awards it and the law doth give it.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Most rightful judge!
+
+PORTIA.
+And you must cut this flesh from off his breast.
+The law allows it and the court awards it.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare.
+
+PORTIA.
+Tarry a little, there is something else.
+This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood.
+The words expressly are “a pound of flesh”:
+Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh,
+But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
+One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
+Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate
+Unto the state of Venice.
+
+GRATIANO.
+O upright judge! Mark, Jew. O learned judge!
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Is that the law?
+
+PORTIA.
+Thyself shalt see the act.
+For, as thou urgest justice, be assur’d
+Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir’st.
+
+GRATIANO.
+O learned judge! Mark, Jew, a learned judge!
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I take this offer then. Pay the bond thrice
+And let the Christian go.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Here is the money.
+
+PORTIA.
+Soft!
+The Jew shall have all justice. Soft! no haste!
+He shall have nothing but the penalty.
+
+GRATIANO.
+O Jew, an upright judge, a learned judge!
+
+PORTIA.
+Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
+Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more,
+But just a pound of flesh: if thou tak’st more
+Or less than a just pound, be it but so much
+As makes it light or heavy in the substance,
+Or the division of the twentieth part
+Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn
+But in the estimation of a hair,
+Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate.
+
+GRATIANO.
+A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
+Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.
+
+PORTIA.
+Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Give me my principal, and let me go.
+
+BASSANIO.
+I have it ready for thee. Here it is.
+
+PORTIA.
+He hath refus’d it in the open court,
+He shall have merely justice and his bond.
+
+GRATIANO.
+A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel!
+I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Shall I not have barely my principal?
+
+PORTIA.
+Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture
+To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Why, then the devil give him good of it!
+I’ll stay no longer question.
+
+PORTIA.
+Tarry, Jew.
+The law hath yet another hold on you.
+It is enacted in the laws of Venice,
+If it be proved against an alien
+That by direct or indirect attempts
+He seek the life of any citizen,
+The party ’gainst the which he doth contrive
+Shall seize one half his goods; the other half
+Comes to the privy coffer of the state,
+And the offender’s life lies in the mercy
+Of the Duke only, ’gainst all other voice.
+In which predicament I say thou stand’st;
+For it appears by manifest proceeding
+That indirectly, and directly too,
+Thou hast contrived against the very life
+Of the defendant; and thou hast incurr’d
+The danger formerly by me rehears’d.
+Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the Duke.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself,
+And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,
+Thou hast not left the value of a cord;
+Therefore thou must be hang’d at the state’s charge.
+
+DUKE.
+That thou shalt see the difference of our spirit,
+I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.
+For half thy wealth, it is Antonio’s;
+The other half comes to the general state,
+Which humbleness may drive unto a fine.
+
+PORTIA.
+Ay, for the state, not for Antonio.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that.
+You take my house when you do take the prop
+That doth sustain my house; you take my life
+When you do take the means whereby I live.
+
+PORTIA.
+What mercy can you render him, Antonio?
+
+GRATIANO.
+A halter gratis, nothing else, for God’s sake!
+
+ANTONIO.
+So please my lord the Duke and all the court
+To quit the fine for one half of his goods,
+I am content, so he will let me have
+The other half in use, to render it
+Upon his death unto the gentleman
+That lately stole his daughter.
+Two things provided more, that for this favour,
+He presently become a Christian;
+The other, that he do record a gift,
+Here in the court, of all he dies possess’d
+Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.
+
+DUKE.
+He shall do this, or else I do recant
+The pardon that I late pronounced here.
+
+PORTIA.
+Art thou contented, Jew? What dost thou say?
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I am content.
+
+PORTIA.
+Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
+
+SHYLOCK.
+I pray you give me leave to go from hence;
+I am not well; send the deed after me
+And I will sign it.
+
+DUKE.
+Get thee gone, but do it.
+
+GRATIANO.
+In christ’ning shalt thou have two god-fathers.
+Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,
+To bring thee to the gallows, not to the font.
+
+ [_Exit Shylock._]
+
+DUKE.
+Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner.
+
+PORTIA.
+I humbly do desire your Grace of pardon,
+I must away this night toward Padua,
+And it is meet I presently set forth.
+
+DUKE.
+I am sorry that your leisure serves you not.
+Antonio, gratify this gentleman,
+For in my mind you are much bound to him.
+
+ [_Exeunt Duke and his train._]
+
+BASSANIO.
+Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend
+Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted
+Of grievous penalties, in lieu whereof,
+Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew
+We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
+
+ANTONIO.
+And stand indebted, over and above
+In love and service to you evermore.
+
+PORTIA.
+He is well paid that is well satisfied,
+And I delivering you, am satisfied,
+And therein do account myself well paid,
+My mind was never yet more mercenary.
+I pray you know me when we meet again,
+I wish you well, and so I take my leave.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further.
+Take some remembrance of us as a tribute,
+Not as fee. Grant me two things, I pray you,
+Not to deny me, and to pardon me.
+
+PORTIA.
+You press me far, and therefore I will yield.
+[_To Antonio_.] Give me your gloves, I’ll wear them for your sake.
+[_To Bassanio_.] And, for your love, I’ll take this ring from you.
+Do not draw back your hand; I’ll take no more,
+And you in love shall not deny me this.
+
+BASSANIO.
+This ring, good sir? Alas, it is a trifle,
+I will not shame myself to give you this.
+
+PORTIA.
+I will have nothing else but only this,
+And now methinks I have a mind to it.
+
+BASSANIO.
+There’s more depends on this than on the value.
+The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,
+And find it out by proclamation,
+Only for this I pray you pardon me.
+
+PORTIA.
+I see, sir, you are liberal in offers.
+You taught me first to beg, and now methinks
+You teach me how a beggar should be answer’d.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife,
+And when she put it on, she made me vow
+That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it.
+
+PORTIA.
+That ’scuse serves many men to save their gifts.
+And if your wife be not a mad-woman,
+And know how well I have deserv’d this ring,
+She would not hold out enemy for ever
+For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!
+
+ [_Exeunt Portia and Nerissa._]
+
+ANTONIO.
+My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring.
+Let his deservings and my love withal
+Be valued ’gainst your wife’s commandment.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him;
+Give him the ring, and bring him if thou canst
+Unto Antonio’s house. Away, make haste.
+
+ [_Exit Gratiano._]
+
+Come, you and I will thither presently,
+And in the morning early will we both
+Fly toward Belmont. Come, Antonio.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A street.
+
+ Enter Portia and Nerissa.
+
+PORTIA.
+Inquire the Jew’s house out, give him this deed,
+And let him sign it, we’ll away tonight,
+And be a day before our husbands home.
+This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.
+
+ Enter Gratiano.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Fair sir, you are well o’erta’en.
+My Lord Bassanio upon more advice,
+Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
+Your company at dinner.
+
+PORTIA.
+That cannot be;
+His ring I do accept most thankfully,
+And so I pray you tell him. Furthermore,
+I pray you show my youth old Shylock’s house.
+
+GRATIANO.
+That will I do.
+
+NERISSA.
+Sir, I would speak with you.
+[_Aside to Portia_.]
+I’ll see if I can get my husband’s ring,
+Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.
+
+PORTIA.
+[_To Nerissa_.] Thou mayst, I warrant. We shall have old swearing
+That they did give the rings away to men;
+But we’ll outface them, and outswear them too.
+Away! make haste! Thou know’st where I will tarry.
+
+NERISSA.
+Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Belmont. The avenue to Portia’s house.
+
+ Enter Lorenzo and Jessica.
+
+LORENZO.
+The moon shines bright. In such a night as this,
+When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees,
+And they did make no noise, in such a night,
+Troilus methinks mounted the Trojan walls,
+And sigh’d his soul toward the Grecian tents
+Where Cressid lay that night.
+
+JESSICA.
+In such a night
+Did Thisbe fearfully o’ertrip the dew,
+And saw the lion’s shadow ere himself,
+And ran dismay’d away.
+
+LORENZO.
+In such a night
+Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
+Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love
+To come again to Carthage.
+
+JESSICA.
+In such a night
+Medea gathered the enchanted herbs
+That did renew old Æson.
+
+LORENZO.
+In such a night
+Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew,
+And with an unthrift love did run from Venice
+As far as Belmont.
+
+JESSICA.
+In such a night
+Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,
+Stealing her soul with many vows of faith,
+And ne’er a true one.
+
+LORENZO.
+In such a night
+Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,
+Slander her love, and he forgave it her.
+
+JESSICA.
+I would out-night you did no body come;
+But hark, I hear the footing of a man.
+
+ Enter Stephano.
+
+LORENZO.
+Who comes so fast in silence of the night?
+
+STEPHANO.
+A friend.
+
+LORENZO.
+A friend! What friend? Your name, I pray you, friend?
+
+STEPHANO.
+Stephano is my name, and I bring word
+My mistress will before the break of day
+Be here at Belmont. She doth stray about
+By holy crosses where she kneels and prays
+For happy wedlock hours.
+
+LORENZO.
+Who comes with her?
+
+STEPHANO.
+None but a holy hermit and her maid.
+I pray you is my master yet return’d?
+
+LORENZO.
+He is not, nor we have not heard from him.
+But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,
+And ceremoniously let us prepare
+Some welcome for the mistress of the house.
+
+ Enter Launcelet.
+
+LAUNCELET. Sola, sola! wo ha, ho! sola, sola!
+
+LORENZO.
+Who calls?
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Sola! Did you see Master Lorenzo? Master Lorenzo! Sola, sola!
+
+LORENZO.
+Leave holloaing, man. Here!
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Sola! Where, where?
+
+LORENZO.
+Here!
+
+LAUNCELET.
+Tell him there’s a post come from my master with his horn full of good
+news. My master will be here ere morning.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LORENZO.
+Sweet soul, let’s in, and there expect their coming.
+And yet no matter; why should we go in?
+My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,
+Within the house, your mistress is at hand,
+And bring your music forth into the air.
+
+ [_Exit Stephano._]
+
+How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
+Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
+Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night
+Become the touches of sweet harmony.
+Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
+Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold.
+There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
+But in his motion like an angel sings,
+Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
+Such harmony is in immortal souls,
+But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
+Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
+
+ Enter Musicians.
+
+Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn.
+With sweetest touches pierce your mistress’ ear,
+And draw her home with music.
+
+ [_Music._]
+
+JESSICA.
+I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
+
+LORENZO.
+The reason is, your spirits are attentive.
+For do but note a wild and wanton herd
+Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
+Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
+Which is the hot condition of their blood,
+If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,
+Or any air of music touch their ears,
+You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,
+Their savage eyes turn’d to a modest gaze
+By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
+Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods,
+Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage,
+But music for the time doth change his nature.
+The man that hath no music in himself,
+Nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds,
+Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
+The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
+And his affections dark as Erebus.
+Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.
+
+ Enter Portia and Nerissa.
+
+PORTIA.
+That light we see is burning in my hall.
+How far that little candle throws his beams!
+So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
+
+NERISSA.
+When the moon shone we did not see the candle.
+
+PORTIA.
+So doth the greater glory dim the less.
+A substitute shines brightly as a king
+Until a king be by, and then his state
+Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
+Into the main of waters. Music! hark!
+
+NERISSA.
+It is your music, madam, of the house.
+
+PORTIA.
+Nothing is good, I see, without respect.
+Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.
+
+NERISSA.
+Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.
+
+PORTIA.
+The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
+When neither is attended; and I think
+The nightingale, if she should sing by day
+When every goose is cackling, would be thought
+No better a musician than the wren.
+How many things by season season’d are
+To their right praise and true perfection!
+Peace! How the moon sleeps with Endymion,
+And would not be awak’d!
+
+ [_Music ceases._]
+
+LORENZO.
+That is the voice,
+Or I am much deceiv’d, of Portia.
+
+PORTIA.
+He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,
+By the bad voice.
+
+LORENZO.
+Dear lady, welcome home.
+
+PORTIA.
+We have been praying for our husbands’ welfare,
+Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.
+Are they return’d?
+
+LORENZO.
+Madam, they are not yet;
+But there is come a messenger before
+To signify their coming.
+
+PORTIA.
+Go in, Nerissa.
+Give order to my servants, that they take
+No note at all of our being absent hence,
+Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.
+
+ [_A tucket sounds._]
+
+LORENZO.
+Your husband is at hand, I hear his trumpet.
+We are no tell-tales, madam, fear you not.
+
+PORTIA.
+This night methinks is but the daylight sick,
+It looks a little paler. ’Tis a day
+Such as the day is when the sun is hid.
+
+ Enter Bassanio, Antonio, Gratiano and their Followers.
+
+BASSANIO.
+We should hold day with the Antipodes,
+If you would walk in absence of the sun.
+
+PORTIA.
+Let me give light, but let me not be light,
+For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,
+And never be Bassanio so for me.
+But God sort all! You are welcome home, my lord.
+
+BASSANIO.
+I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend.
+This is the man, this is Antonio,
+To whom I am so infinitely bound.
+
+PORTIA.
+You should in all sense be much bound to him,
+For, as I hear, he was much bound for you.
+
+ANTONIO.
+No more than I am well acquitted of.
+
+PORTIA.
+Sir, you are very welcome to our house.
+It must appear in other ways than words,
+Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
+
+GRATIANO.
+[_To Nerissa_.] By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong,
+In faith, I gave it to the judge’s clerk.
+Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,
+Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.
+
+PORTIA.
+A quarrel, ho, already! What’s the matter?
+
+GRATIANO.
+About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
+That she did give me, whose posy was
+For all the world like cutlers’ poetry
+Upon a knife, “Love me, and leave me not.”
+
+NERISSA.
+What talk you of the posy, or the value?
+You swore to me when I did give it you,
+That you would wear it till your hour of death,
+And that it should lie with you in your grave.
+Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,
+You should have been respective and have kept it.
+Gave it a judge’s clerk! No, God’s my judge,
+The clerk will ne’er wear hair on’s face that had it.
+
+GRATIANO.
+He will, and if he live to be a man.
+
+NERISSA.
+Ay, if a woman live to be a man.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,
+A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,
+No higher than thyself, the judge’s clerk,
+A prating boy that begg’d it as a fee,
+I could not for my heart deny it him.
+
+PORTIA.
+You were to blame,—I must be plain with you,—
+To part so slightly with your wife’s first gift,
+A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger,
+And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.
+I gave my love a ring, and made him swear
+Never to part with it, and here he stands.
+I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it
+Nor pluck it from his finger for the wealth
+That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,
+You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief,
+An ’twere to me I should be mad at it.
+
+BASSANIO.
+[_Aside._] Why, I were best to cut my left hand off,
+And swear I lost the ring defending it.
+
+GRATIANO.
+My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away
+Unto the judge that begg’d it, and indeed
+Deserv’d it too. And then the boy, his clerk,
+That took some pains in writing, he begg’d mine,
+And neither man nor master would take aught
+But the two rings.
+
+PORTIA.
+What ring gave you, my lord?
+Not that, I hope, which you receiv’d of me.
+
+BASSANIO.
+If I could add a lie unto a fault,
+I would deny it, but you see my finger
+Hath not the ring upon it, it is gone.
+
+PORTIA.
+Even so void is your false heart of truth.
+By heaven, I will ne’er come in your bed
+Until I see the ring.
+
+NERISSA.
+Nor I in yours
+Till I again see mine!
+
+BASSANIO.
+Sweet Portia,
+If you did know to whom I gave the ring,
+If you did know for whom I gave the ring,
+And would conceive for what I gave the ring,
+And how unwillingly I left the ring,
+When nought would be accepted but the ring,
+You would abate the strength of your displeasure.
+
+PORTIA.
+If you had known the virtue of the ring,
+Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,
+Or your own honour to contain the ring,
+You would not then have parted with the ring.
+What man is there so much unreasonable,
+If you had pleas’d to have defended it
+With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty
+To urge the thing held as a ceremony?
+Nerissa teaches me what to believe:
+I’ll die for’t but some woman had the ring.
+
+BASSANIO.
+No, by my honour, madam, by my soul,
+No woman had it, but a civil doctor,
+Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me,
+And begg’d the ring, the which I did deny him,
+And suffer’d him to go displeas’d away,
+Even he that had held up the very life
+Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?
+I was enforc’d to send it after him.
+I was beset with shame and courtesy.
+My honour would not let ingratitude
+So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady;
+For by these blessed candles of the night,
+Had you been there, I think you would have begg’d
+The ring of me to give the worthy doctor.
+
+PORTIA.
+Let not that doctor e’er come near my house,
+Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
+And that which you did swear to keep for me,
+I will become as liberal as you,
+I’ll not deny him anything I have,
+No, not my body, nor my husband’s bed.
+Know him I shall, I am well sure of it.
+Lie not a night from home. Watch me like Argus,
+If you do not, if I be left alone,
+Now by mine honour which is yet mine own,
+I’ll have that doctor for mine bedfellow.
+
+NERISSA.
+And I his clerk. Therefore be well advis’d
+How you do leave me to mine own protection.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Well, do you so. Let not me take him then,
+For if I do, I’ll mar the young clerk’s pen.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I am th’ unhappy subject of these quarrels.
+
+PORTIA.
+Sir, grieve not you. You are welcome notwithstanding.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong,
+And in the hearing of these many friends
+I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,
+Wherein I see myself—
+
+PORTIA.
+Mark you but that!
+In both my eyes he doubly sees himself,
+In each eye one. Swear by your double self,
+And there’s an oath of credit.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Nay, but hear me.
+Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear
+I never more will break an oath with thee.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I once did lend my body for his wealth,
+Which but for him that had your husband’s ring
+Had quite miscarried. I dare be bound again,
+My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord
+Will never more break faith advisedly.
+
+PORTIA.
+Then you shall be his surety. Give him this,
+And bid him keep it better than the other.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Here, Lord Bassanio, swear to keep this ring.
+
+BASSANIO.
+By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!
+
+PORTIA.
+I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio,
+For by this ring, the doctor lay with me.
+
+NERISSA.
+And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano,
+For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor’s clerk,
+In lieu of this, last night did lie with me.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Why, this is like the mending of highways
+In summer, where the ways are fair enough.
+What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserv’d it?
+
+PORTIA.
+Speak not so grossly. You are all amaz’d.
+Here is a letter; read it at your leisure.
+It comes from Padua from Bellario.
+There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,
+Nerissa there, her clerk. Lorenzo here
+Shall witness I set forth as soon as you,
+And even but now return’d. I have not yet
+Enter’d my house. Antonio, you are welcome,
+And I have better news in store for you
+Than you expect: unseal this letter soon.
+There you shall find three of your argosies
+Are richly come to harbour suddenly.
+You shall not know by what strange accident
+I chanced on this letter.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I am dumb.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Were you the doctor, and I knew you not?
+
+GRATIANO.
+Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?
+
+NERISSA.
+Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,
+Unless he live until he be a man.
+
+BASSANIO.
+Sweet doctor, you shall be my bedfellow.
+When I am absent, then lie with my wife.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;
+For here I read for certain that my ships
+Are safely come to road.
+
+PORTIA.
+How now, Lorenzo!
+My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.
+
+NERISSA.
+Ay, and I’ll give them him without a fee.
+There do I give to you and Jessica,
+From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift,
+After his death, of all he dies possess’d of.
+
+LORENZO.
+Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way
+Of starved people.
+
+PORTIA.
+It is almost morning,
+And yet I am sure you are not satisfied
+Of these events at full. Let us go in,
+And charge us there upon inter’gatories,
+And we will answer all things faithfully.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Let it be so. The first inter’gatory
+That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,
+Whether till the next night she had rather stay,
+Or go to bed now, being two hours to day.
+But were the day come, I should wish it dark
+Till I were couching with the doctor’s clerk.
+Well, while I live, I’ll fear no other thing
+So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Windsor. Before Page’s house
+ Scene II. The same
+ Scene III. A room in the Garter Inn
+ Scene IV. A room in Doctor Caius’s house
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. Before Page’s house
+ Scene II. A room in the Garter Inn
+ Scene III. A field near Windsor
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. A field near Frogmore
+ Scene II. A street in Windsor
+ Scene III. A room in Ford’s house
+ Scene IV. A room in Page’s house
+ Scene V. A room in the Garter Inn
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. The street
+ Scene II. A room in Ford’s house
+ Scene III. A room in the Garter Inn
+ Scene IV. A room in Ford’s house
+ Scene V. A room in the Garter Inn
+ Scene VI. Another room in the Garter Inn
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. A room in the Garter Inn
+ Scene II. Windsor Park
+ Scene III. The street in Windsor
+ Scene IV. Windsor Park
+ Scene V. Another part of the Park
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+HOST of the Garter Inn
+SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
+ROBIN, page to Falstaff
+BARDOLPH, follower of Falstaff
+PISTOL, follower of Falstaff
+NYM, follower of Falstaff
+
+Robert SHALLOW, a country justice
+Abraham SLENDER, cousin to Shallow
+Peter SIMPLE, servant to Slender
+FENTON, a young gentleman
+
+George PAGE, a Gentleman dwelling at Windsor
+MISTRESS PAGE, his wife
+MISTRESS ANNE PAGE, her daughter, in love with Fenton
+WILLIAM PAGE, a boy, son to Page
+
+Frank FORD, a Gentleman dwelling at Windsor
+MISTRESS FORD, his wife
+JOHN, Servant to Ford
+ROBERT, Servant to Ford
+
+SIR HUGH EVANS, a Welsh parson
+DOCTOR CAIUS, a French physician
+MISTRESS QUICKLY, servant to Doctor Caius
+John RUGBY, servant to Doctor Caius
+
+SERVANTS to Page, &c.
+
+SCENE: Windsor and the neighbourhood
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Windsor. Before Page’s house
+
+
+Enter Justice Shallow, Slender and Sir Hugh Evans.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Sir Hugh, persuade me not. I will make a Star Chamber matter of it. If
+he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow,
+esquire.
+
+SLENDER.
+In the county of Gloucester, Justice of Peace and Coram.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ay, cousin Slender, and Custalorum.
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, and Ratolorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson, who writes
+himself “Armigero” in any bill, warrant, quittance, or
+obligation—“Armigero.”
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ay, that I do, and have done any time these three hundred years.
+
+SLENDER.
+All his successors, gone before him hath done’t; and all his ancestors
+that come after him may. They may give the dozen white luces in their
+coat.
+
+SHALLOW.
+It is an old coat.
+
+EVANS.
+The dozen white louses do become an old coat well. It agrees well,
+passant. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
+
+SHALLOW.
+The luce is the fresh fish. The salt fish is an old coat.
+
+SLENDER.
+I may quarter, coz.
+
+SHALLOW.
+You may, by marrying.
+
+EVANS.
+It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Not a whit.
+
+EVANS.
+Yes, py’r Lady. If he has a quarter of your coat, there is but three
+skirts for yourself, in my simple conjectures. But that is all one. If
+Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the
+Church, and will be glad to do my benevolence to make atonements and
+compremises between you.
+
+SHALLOW.
+The Council shall hear it; it is a riot.
+
+EVANS.
+It is not meet the Council hear a riot. There is no fear of Got in a
+riot. The Council, look you, shall desire to hear the fear of Got, and
+not to hear a riot. Take your vizaments in that.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ha! O’ my life, if I were young again, the sword should end it.
+
+EVANS.
+It is petter that friends is the sword, and end it; and there is also
+another device in my prain, which peradventure prings goot discretions
+with it. There is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master George Page,
+which is pretty virginity.
+
+SLENDER.
+Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman?
+
+EVANS.
+It is that fery person for all the ’orld, as just as you will desire,
+and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her
+grandsire upon his death’s-bed—Got deliver to a joyful
+resurrections!—give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years old.
+It were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire
+a marriage between Master Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?
+
+EVANS.
+Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny.
+
+SHALLOW.
+I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts.
+
+EVANS.
+Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is goot gifts.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is Falstaff there?
+
+EVANS.
+Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do despise one that is
+false, or as I despise one that is not true. The knight Sir John is
+there, and I beseech you be ruled by your well-willers. I will peat the
+door for Master Page.
+
+[_Knocks._]
+
+What, ho! Got pless your house here!
+
+PAGE.
+[_Within_.] Who’s there?
+
+EVANS.
+Here is Got’s plessing, and your friend, and Justice Shallow, and here
+young Master Slender, that peradventures shall tell you another tale,
+if matters grow to your likings.
+
+Enter Page.
+
+PAGE.
+I am glad to see your worships well. I thank you for my venison, Master
+Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Master Page, I am glad to see you, much good do it your good heart! I
+wished your venison better; it was ill killed. How doth good Mistress
+Page? And I thank you always with my heart, la, with my heart.
+
+PAGE.
+Sir, I thank you.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do.
+
+PAGE.
+I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.
+
+SLENDER.
+How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard say he was outrun on
+Cotsall.
+
+PAGE.
+It could not be judged, sir.
+
+SLENDER.
+You’ll not confess, you’ll not confess.
+
+SHALLOW.
+That he will not. ’Tis your fault; ’tis your fault. ’Tis a good dog.
+
+PAGE.
+A cur, sir.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Sir, he’s a good dog, and a fair dog, can there be more said? He is
+good, and fair. Is Sir John Falstaff here?
+
+PAGE.
+Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good office between you.
+
+EVANS.
+It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.
+
+SHALLOW.
+He hath wronged me, Master Page.
+
+PAGE.
+Sir, he doth in some sort confess it.
+
+SHALLOW.
+If it be confessed, it is not redressed. Is not that so, Master Page?
+He hath wronged me, indeed he hath, at a word, he hath. Believe me.
+Robert Shallow, esquire, saith he is wronged.
+
+PAGE.
+Here comes Sir John.
+
+Enter Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Nym and Pistol.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Now, Master Shallow, you’ll complain of me to the King?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and broke open my
+lodge.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+But not kissed your keeper’s daughter!
+
+SHALLOW.
+Tut, a pin! This shall be answered.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I will answer it straight: I have done all this. That is now answered.
+
+SHALLOW.
+The Council shall know this.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+’Twere better for you if it were known in counsel: you’ll be laughed
+at.
+
+EVANS.
+_Pauca verba_, Sir John; goot worts.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Good worts? Good cabbage!—Slender, I broke your head. What matter have
+you against me?
+
+SLENDER.
+Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you, and against your
+cony-catching rascals, Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol. They carried me to
+the tavern and made me drunk, and afterwards picked my pocket.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+You Banbury cheese!
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, it is no matter.
+
+PISTOL.
+How now, Mephostophilus?
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, it is no matter.
+
+NYM.
+Slice, I say! _Pauca, pauca_, slice, that’s my humour.
+
+SLENDER.
+Where’s Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?
+
+EVANS.
+Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand; there is three umpires in
+this matter, as I understand: that is, Master Page, _fidelicet_ Master
+Page; and there is myself, _fidelicet_ myself; and the three party is,
+lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter.
+
+PAGE.
+We three to hear it and end it between them.
+
+EVANS.
+Fery goot. I will make a prief of it in my notebook, and we will
+afterwards ’ork upon the cause with as great discreetly as we can.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Pistol!
+
+PISTOL.
+He hears with ears.
+
+EVANS.
+The tevil and his tam! What phrase is this, “He hears with ear”? Why,
+it is affectations.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Pistol, did you pick Master Slender’s purse?
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might never come in mine own
+great chamber again else! Of seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two
+Edward shovel-boards that cost me two shilling and two pence a-piece of
+Yed Miller, by these gloves.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Is this true, Pistol?
+
+EVANS.
+No, it is false, if it is a pick-purse.
+
+PISTOL.
+Ha, thou mountain-foreigner!—Sir John and master mine,
+I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.—
+Word of denial in thy _labras_ here!
+Word of denial! Froth and scum, thou liest.
+
+SLENDER.
+[_Points at Nym_.] By these gloves, then, ’twas he.
+
+NYM.
+Be avised, sir, and pass good humours. I will say “marry trap with
+you”, if you run the nuthook’s humour on me. That is the very note of
+it.
+
+SLENDER.
+By this hat, then, he in the red face had it. For though I cannot
+remember what I did when you made me drunk, yet I am not altogether an
+ass.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What say you, Scarlet and John?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Why, sir, for my part, I say the gentleman had drunk himself out of his
+five sentences.
+
+EVANS.
+It is his “five senses”. Fie, what the ignorance is!
+
+BARDOLPH.
+And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered; and so conclusions
+passed the careers.
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but ’tis no matter. I’ll ne’er be
+drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for
+this trick. If I be drunk, I’ll be drunk with those that have the fear
+of God, and not with drunken knaves.
+
+EVANS.
+So Got ’udge me, that is a virtuous mind.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it.
+
+Enter Mistress Ford, Mistress Page and her daughter Anne Page with
+wine.
+
+PAGE
+Nay, daughter, carry the wine in, we’ll drink within.
+
+[_Exit Anne Page._]
+
+SLENDER
+O heaven, this is Mistress Anne Page.
+
+PAGE.
+How now, Mistress Ford?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met. By your leave, good
+mistress.
+
+[_Kisses her._]
+
+PAGE.
+Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a hot venison pasty to
+dinner. Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Slender._]
+
+SLENDER.
+I had rather than forty shillings I had my book of _Songs and Sonnets_
+here.
+
+Enter Simple.
+
+How now, Simple, where have you been? I must wait on myself, must I?
+You have not the _Book of Riddles_ about you, have you?
+
+SIMPLE.
+_Book of Riddles?_ Why, did you not lend it to Alice Shortcake upon
+Allhallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas?
+
+Enter Shallow and Sir Hugh Evans.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Come, coz; come, coz, we stay for you. A word with you, coz. Marry,
+this, coz: there is, as ’twere, a tender, a kind of tender, made afar
+off by Sir Hugh here. Do you understand me?
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable. If it be so, I shall do that
+that is reason.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Nay, but understand me.
+
+SLENDER.
+So I do, sir.
+
+EVANS.
+Give ear to his motions, Master Slender. I will description the matter
+to you, if you be capacity of it.
+
+SLENDER.
+Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says. I pray you pardon me, he’s a
+Justice of Peace in his country, simple though I stand here.
+
+EVANS.
+But that is not the question. The question is concerning your marriage.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ay, there’s the point, sir.
+
+EVANS.
+Marry, is it; the very point of it—to Mistress Anne Page.
+
+SLENDER.
+Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any reasonable demands.
+
+EVANS.
+But can you affection the ’oman? Let us command to know that of your
+mouth, or of your lips; for divers philosophers hold that the lips is
+parcel of the mouth. Therefore, precisely, can you carry your good will
+to the maid?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?
+
+SLENDER.
+I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that would do reason.
+
+EVANS.
+Nay, Got’s lords and his ladies! You must speak possitable, if you can
+carry her your desires towards her.
+
+SHALLOW.
+That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?
+
+SLENDER.
+I will do a greater thing than that, upon your request, cousin, in any
+reason.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz. What I do is to pleasure you,
+coz. Can you love the maid?
+
+SLENDER.
+I will marry her, sir, at your request. But if there be no great love
+in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance,
+when we are married and have more occasion to know one another. I hope
+upon familiarity will grow more contempt. But if you say “Marry her,” I
+will marry her. That I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.
+
+EVANS.
+It is a fery discretion answer, save the fall is in the ’ord
+“dissolutely.” The ’ort is, according to our meaning, “resolutely.” His
+meaning is good.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Ay, I think my cousin meant well.
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!
+
+SHALLOW.
+Here comes fair Mistress Anne.
+
+Enter Anne Page.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Here comes fair Mistress Anne.—Would I were young for your sake,
+Mistress Anne.
+
+ANNE.
+The dinner is on the table, my father desires your worships’ company.
+
+SHALLOW.
+I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.
+
+EVANS.
+’Od’s plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.
+
+[_Exeunt Shallow and Sir Hugh Evans._]
+
+ANNE
+Will’t please your worship to come in, sir?
+
+SLENDER.
+No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.
+
+ANNE.
+The dinner attends you, sir.
+
+SLENDER.
+I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. [_To Simple_.] Go, sirrah,
+for all you are my man, go wait upon my cousin Shallow.
+
+[_Exit Simple._]
+
+A Justice of Peace sometime may be beholding to his friend for a man. I
+keep but three men and a boy yet, till my mother be dead. But what
+though? Yet I live like a poor gentleman born.
+
+ANNE.
+I may not go in without your worship. They will not sit till you come.
+
+SLENDER.
+I’ faith, I’ll eat nothing. I thank you as much as though I did.
+
+ANNE.
+I pray you, sir, walk in.
+
+SLENDER.
+I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my shin th’ other day
+with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence—three veneys
+for a dish of stewed prunes—and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell
+of hot meat since. Why do your dogs bark so? Be there bears i’ the
+town?
+
+ANNE.
+I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of.
+
+SLENDER.
+I love the sport well, but I shall as soon quarrel at it as any man in
+England. You are afraid, if you see the bear loose, are you not?
+
+ANNE.
+Ay, indeed, sir.
+
+SLENDER.
+That’s meat and drink to me now. I have seen Sackerson loose twenty
+times, and have taken him by the chain. But, I warrant you, the women
+have so cried and shrieked at it that it passed. But women, indeed,
+cannot abide ’em; they are very ill-favoured rough things.
+
+Enter Page.
+
+PAGE
+Come, gentle Master Slender, come. We stay for you.
+
+SLENDER.
+I’ll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.
+
+PAGE.
+By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! Come, come.
+
+SLENDER.
+Nay, pray you lead the way.
+
+PAGE.
+Come on, sir.
+
+SLENDER.
+Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.
+
+ANNE.
+Not I, sir; pray you keep on.
+
+SLENDER.
+Truly, I will not go first; truly, la! I will not do you that wrong.
+
+ANNE.
+I pray you, sir.
+
+SLENDER.
+I’ll rather be unmannerly than troublesome. You do yourself wrong,
+indeed, la!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same
+
+Enter Sir Hugh Evans and Simple.
+
+EVANS.
+Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius’ house which is the way. And
+there dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse,
+or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer and his
+wringer.
+
+SIMPLE.
+Well, sir.
+
+EVANS.
+Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter. For it is a ’oman that
+altogether’s acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page; and the letter is to
+desire and require her to solicit your master’s desires to Mistress
+Anne Page. I pray you be gone. I will make an end of my dinner; there’s
+pippins and cheese to come.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A room in the Garter Inn
+
+Enter Falstaff, Host, Bardolph, Nym, Pistol and Robin.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Mine host of the Garter!
+
+HOST.
+What says my bully rook? Speak scholarly and wisely.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers.
+
+HOST.
+Discard, bully Hercules; cashier. Let them wag; trot, trot.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I sit at ten pounds a week.
+
+HOST.
+Thou’rt an emperor—Caesar, Keiser, and Pheazar. I will entertain
+Bardolph. He shall draw, he shall tap. Said I well, bully Hector?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Do so, good mine host.
+
+HOST.
+I have spoke, let him follow.—Let me see thee froth and lime. I am at a
+word, follow.
+
+[_Exit Host._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade. An old cloak makes a
+new jerkin; a withered servingman a fresh tapster. Go, adieu.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+It is a life that I have desired. I will thrive.
+
+PISTOL.
+O base Hungarian wight, wilt thou the spigot wield?
+
+[_Exit Bardolph._]
+
+NYM
+He was gotten in drink. Is not the humour conceited?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox. His thefts were too open.
+His filching was like an unskilful singer, he kept not time.
+
+NYM.
+The good humour is to steal at a minute’s rest.
+
+PISTOL.
+“Convey,” the wise it call. “Steal?” Foh! A _fico_ for the phrase!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels.
+
+PISTOL.
+Why, then, let kibes ensue.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+There is no remedy, I must cony-catch, I must shift.
+
+PISTOL.
+Young ravens must have food.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Which of you know Ford of this town?
+
+PISTOL.
+I ken the wight, he is of substance good.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about.
+
+PISTOL.
+Two yards, and more.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No quips now, Pistol. Indeed, I am in the waist two yards about, but I
+am now about no waste; I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make
+love to Ford’s wife. I spy entertainment in her. She discourses, she
+carves, she gives the leer of invitation. I can construe the action of
+her familiar style; and the hardest voice of her behaviour, to be
+Englished rightly, is “I am Sir John Falstaff’s.”
+
+PISTOL.
+He hath studied her will and translated her will—out of honesty into
+English.
+
+NYM.
+The anchor is deep. Will that humour pass?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her husband’s purse. He
+hath a legion of angels.
+
+PISTOL.
+As many devils entertain, and “To her, boy,” say I.
+
+NYM.
+The humour rises; it is good. Humour me the angels.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I have writ me here a letter to her; and here another to Page’s wife,
+who even now gave me good eyes too, examined my parts with most
+judicious oeillades. Sometimes the beam of her view gilded my foot,
+sometimes my portly belly.
+
+PISTOL.
+Then did the sun on dunghill shine.
+
+NYM.
+I thank thee for that humour.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+O, she did so course o’er my exteriors with such a greedy intention
+that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a
+burning-glass. Here’s another letter to her. She bears the purse too;
+she is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will be cheaters to
+them both, and they shall be exchequers to me; they shall be my East
+and West Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go, bear thou this
+letter to Mistress Page;—and thou this to Mistress Ford. We will
+thrive, lads, we will thrive.
+
+PISTOL.
+Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,
+And by my side wear steel? Then Lucifer take all!
+
+NYM.
+I will run no base humour. Here, take the humour-letter. I will keep
+the ’haviour of reputation.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+[_To Robin_.] Hold, sirrah, bear you these letters tightly;
+Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.—
+Rogues, hence, avaunt! Vanish like hailstones, go!
+Trudge, plod away o’ th’ hoof, seek shelter, pack!
+Falstaff will learn the humour of this age:
+French thrift, you rogues—myself and skirted page.
+
+[_Exeunt Falstaff and Robin._]
+
+PISTOL
+Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds,
+And high and low beguile the rich and poor.
+Tester I’ll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,
+Base Phrygian Turk!
+
+NYM.
+I have operations in my head which be humours of revenge.
+
+PISTOL.
+Wilt thou revenge?
+
+NYM.
+By welkin and her star!
+
+PISTOL.
+With wit or steel?
+
+NYM.
+With both the humours, I.
+I will discuss the humour of this love to Ford.
+
+PISTOL.
+And I to Page shall eke unfold
+How Falstaff, varlet vile,
+His dove will prove, his gold will hold,
+And his soft couch defile.
+
+NYM.
+My humour shall not cool. I will incense Ford to deal with poison, I
+will possess him with yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous.
+That is my true humour.
+
+PISTOL.
+Thou art the Mars of malcontents. I second thee. Troop on.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A room in Doctor Caius’s house
+
+Enter Mistress Quickly and Simple.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+What, John Rugby!
+
+Enter Rugby.
+
+I pray thee go to the casement, and see if you can see my master,
+Master Doctor Caius, coming. If he do, i’ faith, and find anybody in
+the house, here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s
+English.
+
+RUGBY.
+I’ll go watch.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Go; and we’ll have a posset for’t soon at night, in faith, at the
+latter end of a sea-coal fire.
+
+[_Exit Rugby._]
+
+An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant shall come in house
+withal; and, I warrant you, no tell-tale nor no breed-bate. His worst
+fault is that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish that way,
+but nobody but has his fault. But let that pass. Peter Simple you say
+your name is?
+
+SIMPLE.
+Ay, for fault of a better.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+And Master Slender’s your master?
+
+SIMPLE.
+Ay, forsooth.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Does he not wear a great round beard, like a glover’s paring-knife?
+
+SIMPLE.
+No, forsooth, he hath but a little wee face, with a little yellow
+beard, a Cain-coloured beard.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+A softly-sprighted man, is he not?
+
+SIMPLE.
+Ay, forsooth. But he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between
+this and his head. He hath fought with a warrener.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+How say you? O, I should remember him. Does he not hold up his head, as
+it were, and strut in his gait?
+
+SIMPLE.
+Yes, indeed, does he.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell Master Parson Evans
+I will do what I can for your master. Anne is a good girl, and I wish—
+
+Enter Rugby.
+
+RUGBY
+Out, alas! Here comes my master.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man, go into this
+closet. He will not stay long.
+
+[_Simple steps into the closet._]
+
+What, John Rugby! John! What, John, I say! Go, John, go inquire for my
+master. I doubt he be not well, that he comes not home.
+
+[_Exit Rugby._]
+
+[_Sings_.] _And down, down, adown-a, etc._
+
+Enter Doctor Caius.
+
+CAIUS
+Vat is you sing? I do not like dese toys. Pray you, go and vetch me in
+my closet _une boîtine verte_, a box, a green-a box. Do intend vat I
+speak? A green-a box.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Ay, forsooth, I’ll fetch it you.
+[_Aside_.] I am glad he went not in himself. If he had found the young
+man, he would have been horn-mad.
+
+CAIUS.
+_Fe, fe, fe fe! Ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je m’en vais à la cour—la
+grande affaire._
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Is it this, sir?
+
+CAIUS.
+_Oui, mette-le au mon_ pocket. _Dépêche_, quickly—Vere is dat knave
+Rugby?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+What, John Rugby, John!
+
+Enter Rugby.
+
+RUGBY
+Here, sir.
+
+CAIUS.
+You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Come, take-a your rapier,
+and come after my heel to the court.
+
+RUGBY.
+’Tis ready, sir, here in the porch.
+
+CAIUS.
+By my trot, I tarry too long. ’Od’s me! _Qu’ay j’oublié?_ Dere is some
+simples in my closet dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Ay me, he’ll find the young man there, and be mad!
+
+CAIUS.
+_O diable, diable!_ Vat is in my closet? Villainy! _Larron!_ [_Pulling
+Simple out_.] Rugby, my rapier!
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Good master, be content.
+
+CAIUS.
+Wherefore shall I be content-a?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+The young man is an honest man.
+
+CAIUS.
+What shall de honest man do in my closet? Dere is no honest man dat
+shall come in my closet.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth of it. He came of
+an errand to me from Parson Hugh.
+
+CAIUS.
+Vell?
+
+SIMPLE.
+Ay, forsooth, to desire her to—
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Peace, I pray you.
+
+CAIUS.
+Peace-a your tongue!—Speak-a your tale.
+
+SIMPLE.
+To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to speak a good word to
+Mistress Anne Page for my master in the way of marriage.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+This is all, indeed, la! But I’ll ne’er put my finger in the fire, and
+need not.
+
+CAIUS.
+Sir Hugh send-a you?—Rugby, _baille_ me some paper.—Tarry you a
+little-a while.
+
+[_Writes._]
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+[_Aside to Simple_.] I am glad he is so quiet. If he had been throughly
+moved, you should have heard him so loud and so melancholy. But
+notwithstanding, man, I’ll do you your master what good I can; and the
+very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my master—I may call him my
+master, look you, for I keep his house, and I wash, wring, brew, bake,
+scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself—
+
+SIMPLE.
+[_Aside to Mistress Quickly_.] ’Tis a great charge to come under one
+body’s hand.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+[_Aside to Simple_.] Are you avised o’ that? You shall find it a great
+charge, and to be up early and down late; but notwithstanding—to tell
+you in your ear, I would have no words of it—my master himself is in
+love with Mistress Anne Page; but notwithstanding that, I know Anne’s
+mind. That’s neither here nor there.
+
+CAIUS.
+You jack’nape, give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh. By gar, it is a
+shallenge. I will cut his troat in de park, and I will teach a scurvy
+jackanape priest to meddle or make. You may be gone, it is not good you
+tarry here.—By gar, I will cut all his two stones. By gar, he shall not
+have a stone to throw at his dog.
+
+[_Exit Simple._]
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Alas, he speaks but for his friend.
+
+CAIUS.
+It is no matter-a ver dat. Do not you tell-a me dat I shall have Anne
+Page for myself? By gar, I vill kill de Jack priest; and I have
+appointed mine host of de Jarteer to measure our weapon. By gar, I will
+myself have Anne Page.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We must give folks
+leave to prate. What, the good-year!
+
+CAIUS.
+Rugby, come to the court with me. [_To Mistress Quickly_.] By gar, if I
+have not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my door.—Follow my
+heels, Rugby.
+
+[_Exeunt Caius and Rugby._]
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+You shall have An—fool’s head of your own. No, I know Anne’s mind for
+that. Never a woman in Windsor knows more of Anne’s mind than I do, nor
+can do more than I do with her, I thank heaven.
+
+FENTON.
+[_Within_.] Who’s within there, ho?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Who’s there, I trow? Come near the house, I pray you.
+
+Enter Fenton.
+
+FENTON
+How now, good woman? How dost thou?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+The better, that it pleases your good worship to ask.
+
+FENTON.
+What news? How does pretty Mistress Anne?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and gentle; and one that
+is your friend, I can tell you that by the way, I praise heaven for it.
+
+FENTON.
+Shall I do any good, think’st thou? Shall I not lose my suit?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Troth, sir, all is in His hands above. But notwithstanding, Master
+Fenton, I’ll be sworn on a book she loves you. Have not your worship a
+wart above your eye?
+
+FENTON.
+Yes, marry, have I; what of that?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Well, thereby hangs a tale. Good faith, it is such another Nan! But, I
+detest, an honest maid as ever broke bread. We had an hour’s talk of
+that wart. I shall never laugh but in that maid’s company. But, indeed,
+she is given too much to allicholy and musing. But for you—well, go to.
+
+FENTON.
+Well, I shall see her today. Hold, there’s money for thee. Let me have
+thy voice in my behalf. If thou seest her before me, commend me.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Will I? I’ faith, that we will! And I will tell your worship more of
+the wart the next time we have confidence, and of other wooers.
+
+FENTON.
+Well, farewell, I am in great haste now.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Farewell to your worship.
+
+[_Exit Fenton._]
+
+Truly, an honest gentleman—but Anne loves him not, for I know Anne’s
+mind as well as another does. Out upon ’t, what have I forgot?
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Before Page’s house
+
+
+Enter Mistress Page reading a letter.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and
+am I now a subject for them? Let me see.
+[_Reads_.] _Ask me no reason why I love you, for though Love use Reason
+for his precisian, he admits him not for his counsellor. You are not
+young, no more am I. Go to, then, there’s sympathy. You are merry, so
+am I. Ha, ha, then there’s more sympathy. You love sack, and so do I.
+Would you desire better sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,
+at the least, if the love of soldier can suffice, that I love thee. I
+will not say, pity me—’tis not a soldier-like phrase—but I say love me.
+By me,
+        Thine own true knight,
+        By day or night,
+        Or any kind of light,
+        With all his might,
+        For thee to fight,
+        John Falstaff._
+What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked, wicked world! One that is
+well-nigh worn to pieces with age, to show himself a young gallant!
+What an unweighed behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard picked—with the
+devil’s name!—out of my conversation, that he dares in this manner
+assay me? Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What should I say
+to him? I was then frugal of my mirth. Heaven forgive me! Why, I’ll
+exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men. How shall
+I be revenged on him? For revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are
+made of puddings.
+
+Enter Mistress Ford.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Mistress Page! Trust me, I was going to your house.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+And, trust me, I was coming to you. You look very ill.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Nay, I’ll ne’er believe that. I have to show to the contrary.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Faith, but you do, in my mind.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Well, I do, then. Yet I say I could show you to the contrary. O,
+Mistress Page, give me some counsel.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+What’s the matter, woman?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, I could come to such
+honour!
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Hang the trifle, woman; take the honour. What is it? Dispense with
+trifles. What is it?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so, I could be
+knighted.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+What? Thou liest! Sir Alice Ford! These knights will hack, and so thou
+shouldst not alter the article of thy gentry.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+We burn daylight. Here, read, read. Perceive how I might be knighted. I
+shall think the worse of fat men as long as I have an eye to make
+difference of men’s liking. And yet he would not swear; praised women’s
+modesty; and gave such orderly and well-behaved reproof to all
+uncomeliness that I would have sworn his disposition would have gone to
+the truth of his words. But they do no more adhere and keep place
+together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of “Greensleeves.” What
+tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his
+belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged on him? I think the
+best way were to entertain him with hope, till the wicked fire of lust
+have melted him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and Ford differs! To thy
+great comfort in this mystery of ill opinions, here’s the twin brother
+of thy letter. But let thine inherit first, for I protest mine never
+shall. I warrant he hath a thousand of these letters, writ with blank
+space for different names—sure, more, and these are of the second
+edition. He will print them, out of doubt; for he cares not what he
+puts into the press, when he would put us two. I had rather be a
+giantess and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you twenty
+lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Why, this is the very same—the very hand, the very words. What doth he
+think of us?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Nay, I know not. It makes me almost ready to wrangle with mine own
+honesty. I’ll entertain myself like one that I am not acquainted
+withal; for, sure, unless he know some strain in me that I know not
+myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+“Boarding” call you it? I’ll be sure to keep him above deck.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+So will I. If he come under my hatches, I’ll never to sea again. Let’s
+be revenged on him. Let’s appoint him a meeting, give him a show of
+comfort in his suit, and lead him on with a fine-baited delay, till he
+hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Nay, I will consent to act any villainy against him that may not sully
+the chariness of our honesty. O, that my husband saw this letter! It
+would give eternal food to his jealousy.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Why, look where he comes; and my good man too. He’s as far from
+jealousy as I am from giving him cause, and that, I hope, is an
+unmeasurable distance.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+You are the happier woman.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Let’s consult together against this greasy knight. Come hither.
+
+[_They retire._]
+
+Enter Ford with Pistol, and Page with Nym.
+
+FORD
+Well, I hope it be not so.
+
+PISTOL.
+Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs.
+Sir John affects thy wife.
+
+FORD.
+Why, sir, my wife is not young.
+
+PISTOL.
+He woos both high and low, both rich and poor,
+Both young and old, one with another, Ford.
+He loves the gallimaufry. Ford, perpend.
+
+FORD.
+Love my wife?
+
+PISTOL.
+With liver burning hot.
+Prevent, or go thou like Sir Actaeon he,
+With Ringwood at thy heels.
+O, odious is the name!
+
+FORD.
+What name, sir?
+
+PISTOL.
+The horn, I say. Farewell.
+Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night.
+Take heed, ere summer comes, or cuckoo birds do sing.—
+Away, Sir Corporal Nym.—Believe it, Page, he speaks sense.
+
+[_Exit Pistol._]
+
+FORD
+[_Aside_.] I will be patient. I will find out this.
+
+NYM.
+[_To Page_.] And this is true, I like not the humour of lying. He hath
+wronged me in some humours. I should have borne the humoured letter to
+her; but I have a sword, and it shall bite upon my necessity. He loves
+your wife; there’s the short and the long. My name is Corporal Nym. I
+speak, and I avouch ’tis true. My name is Nym, and Falstaff loves your
+wife. Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese. Adieu.
+
+[_Exit Nym._]
+
+PAGE
+[_Aside_.] “The humour of it,” quoth ’a! Here’s a fellow frights
+English out of his wits.
+
+FORD.
+[_Aside_.] I will seek out Falstaff.
+
+PAGE.
+[_Aside_.] I never heard such a drawling, affecting rogue.
+
+FORD.
+[_Aside_.] If I do find it—well.
+
+PAGE.
+[_Aside_.] I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest o’ the
+town commended him for a true man.
+
+FORD.
+[_Aside_.] ’Twas a good sensible fellow—well.
+
+Mistress Page and Mistress Ford come forward.
+
+PAGE.
+How now, Meg?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Whither go you, George? Hark you.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+How now, sweet Frank, why art thou melancholy?
+
+FORD.
+I melancholy? I am not melancholy. Get you home, go.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.—Will you go, Mistress
+Page?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Have with you. You’ll come to dinner, George?
+[_Aside to Mistress Ford_.] Look who comes yonder. She shall be our
+messenger to this paltry knight.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+[_Aside to Mistress Page_.] Trust me, I thought on her. She’ll fit it.
+
+Enter Mistress Quickly.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+You are come to see my daughter Anne?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Ay, forsooth. And, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Go in with us and see. We’d have an hour’s talk with you.
+
+[_Exeunt Mistress Page, Mistress Ford and Mistress Quickly._]
+
+PAGE
+How now, Master Ford?
+
+FORD.
+You heard what this knave told me, did you not?
+
+PAGE.
+Yes, and you heard what the other told me?
+
+FORD.
+Do you think there is truth in them?
+
+PAGE.
+Hang ’em, slaves! I do not think the knight would offer it, but these
+that accuse him in his intent towards our wives are a yoke of his
+discarded men, very rogues, now they be out of service.
+
+FORD.
+Were they his men?
+
+PAGE.
+Marry, were they.
+
+FORD.
+I like it never the better for that. Does he lie at the Garter?
+
+PAGE.
+Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend this voyage toward my wife, I
+would turn her loose to him; and what he gets more of her than sharp
+words, let it lie on my head.
+
+FORD.
+I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath to turn them together.
+A man may be too confident. I would have nothing lie on my head. I
+cannot be thus satisfied.
+
+Enter Host.
+
+PAGE.
+Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes. There is either liquor
+in his pate or money in his purse when he looks so merrily.—How now,
+mine host?
+
+HOST.
+How now, bully rook? Thou’rt a gentleman.—Cavaliero Justice, I say!
+
+Enter Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+I follow, mine host, I follow.—Good even and twenty, good Master Page.
+Master Page, will you go with us? We have sport in hand.
+
+HOST.
+Tell him, Cavaliero Justice; tell him, bully rook.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh the Welsh priest and
+Caius the French doctor.
+
+FORD.
+Good mine host o’ the Garter, a word with you.
+
+HOST.
+What say’st thou, my bully rook?
+
+[_Ford and the Host talk apart._]
+
+SHALLOW
+[_To Page_.] Will you go with us to behold it? My merry host hath had
+the measuring of their weapons, and, I think, hath appointed them
+contrary places; for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester. Hark,
+I will tell you what our sport shall be.
+
+[_Shallow and Page talk apart. Ford and the Host come forward._]
+
+HOST
+Hast thou no suit against my knight, my guest cavaliero?
+
+FORD.
+None, I protest. But I’ll give you a pottle of burnt sack to give me
+recourse to him, and tell him my name is Brook, only for a jest.
+
+HOST.
+My hand, bully. Thou shalt have egress and regress—said I well?—and thy
+name shall be Brook. It is a merry knight. Will you go, myn-heers?
+
+SHALLOW.
+Have with you, mine host.
+
+PAGE.
+I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in his rapier.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Tut, sir, I could have told you more. In these times you stand on
+distance—your passes, stoccadoes, and I know not what. ’Tis the heart,
+Master Page; ’tis here, ’tis here. I have seen the time, with my long
+sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats.
+
+HOST.
+Here, boys, here, here! Shall we wag?
+
+PAGE.
+Have with you. I had rather hear them scold than fight.
+
+[_Exeunt Host, Shallow and Page._]
+
+FORD
+Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife’s
+frailty, yet I cannot put off my opinion so easily. She was in his
+company at Page’s house, and what they made there I know not. Well, I
+will look further into ’t, and I have a disguise to sound Falstaff. If
+I find her honest, I lose not my labour. If she be otherwise, ’tis
+labour well bestowed.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. A room in the Garter Inn
+
+Enter Falstaff and Pistol.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I will not lend thee a penny.
+
+PISTOL.
+Why then, the world’s mine oyster,
+Which I with sword will open.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to
+pawn; I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you
+and your coach-fellow Nym, or else you had looked through the grate
+like a gemini of baboons. I am damned in hell for swearing to gentlemen
+my friends you were good soldiers and tall fellows. And when Mistress
+Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took ’t upon mine honour thou
+hadst it not.
+
+PISTOL.
+Didst not thou share? Hadst thou not fifteen pence?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Reason, you rogue, reason. Think’st thou I’ll endanger my soul gratis?
+At a word, hang no more about me, I am no gibbet for you. Go—a short
+knife and a throng—to your manor of Pickt-hatch, go. You’ll not bear a
+letter for me, you rogue? You stand upon your honour! Why, thou
+unconfinable baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the terms of
+my honour precise. Ay, ay, I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God
+on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to
+shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, rogue, will ensconce your
+rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your
+bold beating oaths, under the shelter of your honour! You will not do
+it! You!
+
+PISTOL.
+I do relent. What wouldst thou more of man?
+
+Enter Robin.
+
+ROBIN
+Sir, here’s a woman would speak with you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let her approach.
+
+Enter Mistress Quickly.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Give your worship good morrow.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Good morrow, goodwife.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Not so, an’t please your worship.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Good maid, then.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+I’ll be sworn, as my mother was, the first hour I was born.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I do believe the swearer. What with me?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Two thousand, fair woman; and I’ll vouchsafe thee the hearing.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+There is one Mistress Ford, sir—I pray, come a little nearer this ways.
+I myself dwell with Master Doctor Caius.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, on; Mistress Ford, you say—
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Your worship says very true. I pray your worship come a little nearer
+this ways.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I warrant thee, nobody hears. Mine own people, mine own people.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Are they so? God bless them, and make them His servants!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, Mistress Ford, what of her?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Why, sir, she’s a good creature. Lord, Lord, your worship’s a wanton!
+Well, heaven forgive you, and all of us, I pray!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Mistress Ford, come, Mistress Ford.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Marry, this is the short and the long of it: you have brought her into
+such a canaries as ’tis wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when
+the court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her to such a
+canary. Yet there has been knights, and lords, and gentlemen, with
+their coaches, I warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter,
+gift after gift, smelling so sweetly, all musk, and so rushling, I
+warrant you, in silk and gold, and in such alligant terms, and in such
+wine and sugar of the best and the fairest, that would have won any
+woman’s heart; and I warrant you, they could never get an eye-wink of
+her. I had myself twenty angels given me this morning, but I defy all
+angels in any such sort, as they say, but in the way of honesty. And, I
+warrant you, they could never get her so much as sip on a cup with the
+proudest of them all. And yet there has been earls—nay, which is more,
+pensioners—but, I warrant you, all is one with her.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+But what says she to me? Be brief, my good she-Mercury.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Marry, she hath received your letter, for the which she thanks you a
+thousand times; and she gives you to notify that her husband will be
+absence from his house between ten and eleven.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ten and eleven?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the picture, she says, that
+you wot of. Master Ford, her husband, will be from home. Alas, the
+sweet woman leads an ill life with him. He’s a very jealousy man; she
+leads a very frampold life with him, good heart.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ten and eleven. Woman, commend me to her; I will not fail her.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Why, you say well. But I have another messenger to your worship.
+Mistress Page hath her hearty commendations to you too; and let me tell
+you in your ear, she’s as fartuous a civil modest wife, and one, I tell
+you, that will not miss you morning nor evening prayer, as any is in
+Windsor, whoe’er be the other; and she bade me tell your worship that
+her husband is seldom from home, but she hopes there will come a time.
+I never knew a woman so dote upon a man. Surely I think you have
+charms, la! Yes, in truth.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Not I, I assure thee. Setting the attraction of my good parts aside, I
+have no other charms.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Blessing on your heart for ’t!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford’s wife and Page’s wife
+acquainted each other how they love me?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+That were a jest indeed! They have not so little grace, I hope. That
+were a trick indeed! But Mistress Page would desire you to send her
+your little page, of all loves. Her husband has a marvellous infection
+to the little page; and, truly, Master Page is an honest man. Never a
+wife in Windsor leads a better life than she does. Do what she will,
+say what she will, take all, pay all, go to bed when she list, rise
+when she list, all is as she will, and truly she deserves it, for if
+there be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must send her your
+page, no remedy.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Why, I will.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Nay, but do so then, and, look you, he may come and go between you
+both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another’s
+mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for ’tis not good
+that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have
+discretion, as they say, and know the world.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Fare thee well, commend me to them both. There’s my purse; I am yet thy
+debtor. Boy, go along with this woman.—This news distracts me.
+
+[_Exeunt Mistress Quickly and Robin._]
+
+PISTOL.
+This punk is one of Cupid’s carriers;
+Clap on more sails, pursue; up with your fights;
+Give fire! She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!
+
+[_Exit Pistol._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Sayst thou so, old Jack? Go thy ways, I’ll make more of thy old body
+than I have done. Will they yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the
+expense of so much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I thank thee. Let
+them say ’tis grossly done; so it be fairly done, no matter.
+
+Enter Bardolph with a cup of sack.
+
+BARDOLPH
+Sir John, there’s one Master Brook below would fain speak with you and
+be acquainted with you, and hath sent your worship a morning’s draught
+of sack.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Brook is his name?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Ay, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Call him in.
+
+[_Exit Bardolph._]
+
+Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o’erflow such liquor. Ah, ha,
+Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, have I encompassed you? Go to, _via!_
+
+Enter Bardolph with Ford disguised as Brook.
+
+FORD
+God bless you, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+And you, sir. Would you speak with me?
+
+FORD.
+I make bold to press with so little preparation upon you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You’re welcome. What’s your will?—Give us leave, drawer.
+
+[_Exit Bardolph._]
+
+FORD
+Sir, I am a gentleman that have spent much. My name is Brook.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you.
+
+FORD.
+Good Sir John, I sue for yours; not to charge you, for I must let you
+understand I think myself in better plight for a lender than you are,
+the which hath something emboldened me to this unseasoned intrusion;
+for they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.
+
+FORD.
+Troth, and I have a bag of money here troubles me. If you will help to
+bear it, Sir John, take all, or half, for easing me of the carriage.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Sir, I know not how I may deserve to be your porter.
+
+FORD.
+I will tell you, sir, if you will give me the hearing.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Speak, good Master Brook. I shall be glad to be your servant.
+
+FORD.
+Sir, I hear you are a scholar—I will be brief with you—and you have
+been a man long known to me, though I had never so good means as desire
+to make myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a thing to you,
+wherein I must very much lay open mine own imperfection. But, good Sir
+John, as you have one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded,
+turn another into the register of your own, that I may pass with a
+reproof the easier, sith you yourself know how easy it is to be such an
+offender.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Very well, sir, proceed.
+
+FORD.
+There is a gentlewoman in this town, her husband’s name is Ford.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, sir.
+
+FORD.
+I have long loved her, and, I protest to you, bestowed much on her,
+followed her with a doting observance, engrossed opportunities to meet
+her, fee’d every slight occasion that could but niggardly give me sight
+of her, not only bought many presents to give her, but have given
+largely to many to know what she would have given. Briefly, I have
+pursued her as love hath pursued me, which hath been on the wing of all
+occasions. But whatsoever I have merited, either in my mind or in my
+means, meed, I am sure, I have received none, unless experience be a
+jewel. That I have purchased at an infinite rate, and that hath taught
+me to say this:
+Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues,
+Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands?
+
+FORD.
+Never.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Have you importuned her to such a purpose?
+
+FORD.
+Never.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Of what quality was your love, then?
+
+FORD.
+Like a fair house built on another man’s ground, so that I have lost my
+edifice by mistaking the place where I erected it.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+To what purpose have you unfolded this to me?
+
+FORD.
+When I have told you that, I have told you all. Some say that though
+she appear honest to me, yet in other places she enlargeth her mirth so
+far that there is shrewd construction made of her. Now, Sir John, here
+is the heart of my purpose: you are a gentleman of excellent breeding,
+admirable discourse, of great admittance, authentic in your place and
+person, generally allowed for your many warlike, courtlike, and learned
+preparations.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+O, sir!
+
+FORD.
+Believe it, for you know it. There is money. Spend it, spend it; spend
+more; spend all I have; only give me so much of your time in exchange
+of it as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford’s wife.
+Use your art of wooing, win her to consent to you. If any man may, you
+may as soon as any.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Would it apply well to the vehemency of your affection that I should
+win what you would enjoy? Methinks you prescribe to yourself very
+preposterously.
+
+FORD.
+O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on the excellency of her
+honour that the folly of my soul dares not present itself; she is too
+bright to be looked against. Now, could I come to her with any
+detection in my hand, my desires had instance and argument to commend
+themselves. I could drive her then from the ward of her purity, her
+reputation, her marriage vow, and a thousand other her defences, which
+now are too too strongly embattled against me. What say you to’t, Sir
+John?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money; next, give me
+your hand; and last, as I am a gentleman, you shall, if you will, enjoy
+Ford’s wife.
+
+FORD.
+O good sir!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I say you shall.
+
+FORD.
+Want no money, Sir John; you shall want none.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you shall want none. I shall be
+with her, I may tell you, by her own appointment; even as you came in
+to me, her assistant or go-between parted from me. I say I shall be
+with her between ten and eleven, for at that time the jealous rascally
+knave her husband will be forth. Come you to me at night. You shall
+know how I speed.
+
+FORD.
+I am blessed in your acquaintance. Do you know Ford, sir?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hang him, poor cuckoldly knave! I know him not. Yet I wrong him to call
+him poor. They say the jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money, for
+the which his wife seems to me well-favoured. I will use her as the key
+of the cuckoldly rogue’s coffer, and there’s my harvest-home.
+
+FORD.
+I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid him if you saw him.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will stare him out of his
+wits, I will awe him with my cudgel; it shall hang like a meteor o’er
+the cuckold’s horns. Master Brook, thou shalt know I will predominate
+over the peasant, and thou shalt lie with his wife. Come to me soon at
+night. Ford’s a knave, and I will aggravate his style. Thou, Master
+Brook, shalt know him for knave and cuckold. Come to me soon at night.
+
+[_Exit Falstaff._]
+
+FORD.
+What a damned epicurean rascal is this! My heart is ready to crack with
+impatience. Who says this is improvident jealousy? My wife hath sent to
+him, the hour is fixed, the match is made. Would any man have thought
+this? See the hell of having a false woman: my bed shall be abused, my
+coffers ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive
+this villanous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms,
+and by him that does me this wrong. Terms, names! Amaimon sounds well;
+Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils’ additions, the
+names of fiends. But cuckold? Wittol? Cuckold? The devil himself hath
+not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass; he will trust his wife,
+he will not be jealous. I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter,
+Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae
+bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with
+herself. Then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises; and what
+they think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their
+hearts but they will effect. God be praised for my jealousy! Eleven
+o’clock the hour. I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on
+Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it. Better three hours too
+soon than a minute too late. Fie, fie, fie! Cuckold, cuckold, cuckold!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A field near Windsor
+
+Enter Doctor Caius and Rugby.
+
+CAIUS.
+Jack Rugby!
+
+RUGBY.
+Sir?
+
+CAIUS.
+Vat is de clock, Jack?
+
+RUGBY.
+’Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come. He has pray his Pible
+well dat he is no come. By gar, Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he
+be come.
+
+RUGBY.
+He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill him if he came.
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him. Take your rapier,
+Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him.
+
+RUGBY.
+Alas, sir, I cannot fence.
+
+CAIUS.
+Villainy, take your rapier.
+
+RUGBY.
+Forbear; here’s company.
+
+Enter Page, Shallow, Slender and Host.
+
+HOST
+God bless thee, bully doctor!
+
+SHALLOW.
+God save you, Master Doctor Caius!
+
+PAGE.
+Now, good Master Doctor!
+
+SLENDER.
+Give you good morrow, sir.
+
+CAIUS.
+Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?
+
+HOST.
+To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee
+here, to see thee there; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy
+reverse, thy distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? Is he
+dead, my Francisco? Ha, bully? What says my Aesculapius, my Galen, my
+heart of elder, ha? Is he dead, bully stale? Is he dead?
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, he is de coward Jack-priest of de vorld. He is not show his
+face.
+
+HOST.
+Thou art a Castalion King Urinal Hector of Greece, my boy!
+
+CAIUS.
+I pray you, bear witness that me have stay six or seven, two, tree
+hours for him, and he is no come.
+
+SHALLOW.
+He is the wiser man, Master doctor. He is a curer of souls, and you a
+curer of bodies. If you should fight, you go against the hair of your
+professions. Is it not true, Master Page?
+
+PAGE.
+Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great fighter, though now a
+man of peace.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old, and of the peace, if I see
+a sword out, my finger itches to make one. Though we are justices and
+doctors and churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our youth in
+us. We are the sons of women, Master Page.
+
+PAGE.
+’Tis true, Master Shallow.
+
+SHALLOW.
+It will be found so, Master Page.—Master Doctor Caius, I come to fetch
+you home. I am sworn of the peace. You have showed yourself a wise
+physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise and patient
+churchman. You must go with me, Master Doctor.
+
+HOST.
+Pardon, guest justice.—A word, Monsieur Mockwater.
+
+CAIUS.
+Mockvater? Vat is dat?
+
+HOST.
+Mockwater, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, then I have as much mockvater as de Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog
+priest! By gar, me vill cut his ears.
+
+HOST.
+He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.
+
+CAIUS.
+Clapper-de-claw? Vat is dat?
+
+HOST.
+That is, he will make thee amends.
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me, for, by gar, me vill
+have it.
+
+HOST.
+And I will provoke him to’t, or let him wag.
+
+CAIUS.
+Me tank you for dat.
+
+HOST.
+And, moreover, bully—but first, Master guest, and Master Page, and eke
+Cavaliero Slender, go you through the town to Frogmore.
+
+PAGE
+[_Aside to Host_.] Sir Hugh is there, is he?
+
+HOST.
+[_Aside to Page_.] He is there. See what humour he is in; and I will
+bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?
+
+SHALLOW.
+[_Aside to Host_.] We will do it.
+
+PAGE, SHALLOW and SLENDER
+Adieu, good Master Doctor.
+
+[_Exeunt Page, Shallow and Slender._]
+
+CAIUS
+By gar, me vill kill de priest, for he speak for a jackanape to Anne
+Page.
+
+HOST.
+Let him die. Sheathe thy impatience; throw cold water on thy choler. Go
+about the fields with me through Frogmore. I will bring thee where
+Mistress Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting, and thou shalt woo
+her. Cried game! Said I well?
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, me tank you for dat. By gar, I love you; and I shall procure-a
+you de good guest: de earl, de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my
+patients.
+
+HOST.
+For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne Page. Said I well?
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, ’tis good; vell said.
+
+HOST.
+Let us wag, then.
+
+CAIUS.
+Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. A field near Frogmore
+
+
+Enter Sir Hugh Evans and Simple.
+
+EVANS.
+I pray you now, good Master Slender’s servingman, and friend Simple by
+your name, which way have you looked for Master Caius, that calls
+himself doctor of physic?
+
+SIMPLE.
+Marry, sir, the Petty-ward, the Park-ward, every way; old Windsor way,
+and every way but the town way.
+
+EVANS.
+I most fehemently desire you, you will also look that way.
+
+SIMPLE.
+I will, Sir.
+
+[_Exit Simple._]
+
+EVANS
+Pless my soul, how full of cholers I am, and trempling of mind! I shall
+be glad if he have deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog his
+urinals about his knave’s costard when I have good opportunities for
+the ’ork. Pless my soul!
+
+[_Sings._]
+
+_To shallow rivers, to whose falls
+Melodious birds sings madrigals.
+There will we make our peds of roses
+And a thousand fragrant posies.
+To shallow_—
+
+Mercy on me, I have a great dispositions to cry.
+
+[_Sings._]
+
+_Melodious birds sing madrigals—
+Whenas I sat in Pabylon—
+And a thousand vagram posies.
+To shallow rivers, to whose falls
+Melodious birds sing madrigals._
+
+Enter Simple.
+
+SIMPLE
+Yonder he is, coming this way, Sir Hugh.
+
+EVANS.
+He’s welcome.
+
+[_Sings._] _To shallow rivers, to whose falls—_
+Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?
+
+SIMPLE.
+No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master Shallow, and another
+gentleman, from Frogmore, over the stile, this way.
+
+EVANS.
+Pray you, give me my gown—or else keep it in your arms.
+
+Enter Page, Shallow and Slender.
+
+SHALLOW
+How now, Master Parson? Good morrow, good Sir Hugh. Keep a gamester
+from the dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful.
+
+SLENDER.
+[_Aside_.] Ah, sweet Anne Page!
+
+PAGE.
+God save you, good Sir Hugh!
+
+EVANS.
+God pless you from his mercy sake, all of you!
+
+SHALLOW.
+What, the sword and the word? Do you study them both, Master Parson?
+
+PAGE.
+And youthful still—in your doublet and hose, this raw rheumatic day?
+
+EVANS.
+There is reasons and causes for it.
+
+PAGE.
+We are come to you to do a good office, Master Parson.
+
+EVANS.
+Fery well; what is it?
+
+PAGE.
+Yonder is a most reverend gentleman who, belike having received wrong
+by some person, is at most odds with his own gravity and patience that
+ever you saw.
+
+SHALLOW.
+I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never heard a man of his
+place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own respect.
+
+EVANS.
+What is he?
+
+PAGE.
+I think you know him: Master Doctor Caius, the renowned French
+physician.
+
+EVANS.
+Got’s will and His passion of my heart! I had as lief you would tell me
+of a mess of porridge.
+
+PAGE.
+Why?
+
+EVANS.
+He has no more knowledge in Hibbocrates and Galen, and he is a knave
+besides, a cowardly knave as you would desires to be acquainted withal.
+
+PAGE.
+I warrant you, he’s the man should fight with him.
+
+SLENDER.
+[_Aside_.] O, sweet Anne Page!
+
+SHALLOW.
+It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder. Here comes Doctor
+Caius.
+
+Enter Host, Caius and Rugby.
+
+PAGE
+Nay, good Master Parson, keep in your weapon.
+
+SHALLOW.
+So do you, good Master Doctor.
+
+HOST.
+Disarm them, and let them question. Let them keep their limbs whole and
+hack our English.
+
+CAIUS.
+I pray you, let-a me speak a word with your ear. Verefore will you not
+meet-a me?
+
+EVANS.
+[_Aside to Caius_.] Pray you, use your patience. In good time.
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape.
+
+EVANS.
+[_Aside to Caius_.] Pray you, let us not be laughing stocks to other
+men’s humours. I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other
+make you amends.
+[_Aloud_.] By Jeshu, I will knog your urinal about your knave’s
+cogscomb.
+
+CAIUS.
+_Diable!_ Jack Rugby, mine Host de Jarteer, have I not stay for him to
+kill him? Have I not, at de place I did appoint?
+
+EVANS.
+As I am a Christians soul, now look you, this is the place appointed.
+I’ll be judgment by mine host of the Garter.
+
+HOST.
+Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh, soul-curer and
+body-curer!
+
+CAIUS.
+Ay, dat is very good; excellent.
+
+HOST.
+Peace, I say! Hear mine host of the Garter. Am I politic? Am I subtle?
+Am I a Machiavel? Shall I lose my doctor? No, he gives me the potions
+and the motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir Hugh? No, he
+gives me the proverbs and the no-verbs. [_To Caius_.] Give me thy hand,
+terrestrial; so. [_To Evans_.] Give me thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of
+art, I have deceived you both. I have directed you to wrong places.
+Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole, and let burnt sack be the
+issue. Come, lay their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace,
+follow, follow, follow.
+
+[_Exit Host._]
+
+SHALLOW.
+Afore God, a mad host! Follow, gentlemen, follow.
+
+SLENDER.
+[_Aside_.] O, sweet Anne Page!
+
+[_Exeunt Shallow, Slender and Page._]
+
+CAIUS
+Ha, do I perceive dat? Have you make-a de sot of us, ha, ha?
+
+EVANS.
+This is well, he has made us his vlouting-stog. I desire you that we
+may be friends, and let us knog our prains together to be revenge on
+this same scall, scurvy, cogging companion, the host of the Garter.
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, with all my heart. He promise to bring me where is Anne Page;
+by gar, he deceive me too.
+
+EVANS.
+Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you follow.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A street in Windsor
+
+Enter Mistress Page following Robin.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Nay, keep your way, little gallant. You were wont to be a follower, but
+now you are a leader. Whether had you rather, lead mine eyes, or eye
+your master’s heels?
+
+ROBIN.
+I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man than follow him like a
+dwarf.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+O, you are a flattering boy! Now I see you’ll be a courtier.
+
+Enter Ford.
+
+FORD
+Well met, Mistress Page. Whither go you?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home?
+
+FORD.
+Ay, and as idle as she may hang together, for want of company. I think
+if your husbands were dead you two would marry.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Be sure of that—two other husbands.
+
+FORD.
+Where had you this pretty weathercock?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of. What
+do you call your knight’s name, sirrah?
+
+ROBIN.
+Sir John Falstaff.
+
+FORD.
+Sir John Falstaff!
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+He, he; I can never hit on’s name. There is such a league between my
+good man and he! Is your wife at home indeed?
+
+FORD.
+Indeed she is.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+By your leave, sir, I am sick till I see her.
+
+[_Exeunt Mistress Page and Robin._]
+
+FORD
+Has Page any brains? Hath he any eyes? Hath he any thinking? Sure, they
+sleep; he hath no use of them. Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty
+mile as easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve score. He pieces
+out his wife’s inclination, he gives her folly motion and advantage.
+And now she’s going to my wife, and Falstaff’s boy with her. A man may
+hear this shower sing in the wind. And Falstaff’s boy with her! Good
+plots they are laid, and our revolted wives share damnation together.
+Well, I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck the borrowed veil of
+modesty from the so-seeming Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a
+secure and wilful Actaeon, and to these violent proceedings all my
+neighbours shall cry aim. [_Clock strikes_.] The clock gives me my cue,
+and my assurance bids me search. There I shall find Falstaff. I shall
+be rather praised for this than mocked, for it is as positive as the
+earth is firm that Falstaff is there. I will go.
+
+Enter Page, Shallow, Slender, Host, Sir Hugh Evans, Caius and Rugby.
+
+SHALLOW, PAGE, etc.
+Well met, Master Ford.
+
+FORD.
+Trust me, a good knot. I have good cheer at home, and I pray you all go
+with me.
+
+SHALLOW.
+I must excuse myself, Master Ford.
+
+SLENDER.
+And so must I, sir; we have appointed to dine with Mistress Anne, and I
+would not break with her for more money than I’ll speak of.
+
+SHALLOW.
+We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and my cousin Slender,
+and this day we shall have our answer.
+
+SLENDER.
+I hope I have your good will, father Page.
+
+PAGE.
+You have, Master Slender, I stand wholly for you.—But my wife, Master
+doctor, is for you altogether.
+
+CAIUS.
+Ay, be-gar; and de maid is love-a me! My nursh-a Quickly tell me so
+mush.
+
+HOST.
+What say you to young Master Fenton? He capers, he dances, he has eyes
+of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
+He will carry ’t, he will carry ’t. ’Tis in his buttons he will carry
+’t.
+
+PAGE.
+Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is of no having. He
+kept company with the wild Prince and Poins. He is of too high a
+region, he knows too much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes
+with the finger of my substance. If he take her, let him take her
+simply. The wealth I have waits on my consent, and my consent goes not
+that way.
+
+FORD.
+I beseech you, heartily, some of you go home with me to dinner. Besides
+your cheer, you shall have sport: I will show you a monster. Master
+Doctor, you shall go; so shall you, Master Page, and you, Sir Hugh.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Well, fare you well. We shall have the freer wooing at Master Page’s.
+
+[_Exeunt Shallow and Slender._]
+
+CAIUS
+Go home, John Rugby; I come anon.
+
+[_Exit Rugby._]
+
+HOST
+Farewell, my hearts. I will to my honest knight Falstaff, and drink
+canary with him.
+
+[_Exit Host._]
+
+FORD
+[_Aside_.] I think I shall drink in pipe-wine first with him; I’ll make
+him dance.—Will you go, gentles?
+
+ALL.
+Have with you to see this monster.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A room in Ford’s house
+
+Enter Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+What, John! What, Robert!
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Quickly, quickly! Is the buck-basket—
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I warrant.—What, Robin, I say!
+
+Enter John and Robert with a great buck-basket.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Come, come, come.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Here, set it down.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Give your men the charge; we must be brief.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in
+the brew-house; and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and, without
+any pause or staggering, take this basket on your shoulders. That done,
+trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in
+Datchet Mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames
+side.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+You will do it?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I ha’ told them over and over, they lack no direction.—Be gone, and
+come when you are called.
+
+[_Exeunt John and Robert._]
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Here comes little Robin.
+
+Enter Robin.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+How now, my eyas-musket, what news with you?
+
+ROBIN.
+My Master, Sir John, is come in at your back door, Mistress Ford, and
+requests your company.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us?
+
+ROBIN.
+Ay, I’ll be sworn. My master knows not of your being here, and hath
+threatened to put me into everlasting liberty if I tell you of it; for
+he swears he’ll turn me away.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Thou’rt a good boy, this secrecy of thine shall be a tailor to thee,
+and shall make thee a new doublet and hose. I’ll go hide me.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Do so.—Go tell thy master I am alone.
+
+[_Exit Robin._]
+
+Mistress Page, remember you your cue.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+I warrant thee. If I do not act it, hiss me.
+
+[_Exit Mistress Page._]
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Go to, then. We’ll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery
+pumpion; we’ll teach him to know turtles from jays.
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+“Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel?” Why, now let me die, for I
+have lived long enough. This is the period of my ambition. O this
+blessed hour!
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+O, sweet Sir John!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate, Mistress Ford. Now shall I
+sin in my wish: I would thy husband were dead. I’ll speak it before the
+best lord: I would make thee my lady.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I your lady, Sir John? Alas, I should be a pitiful lady.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Let the court of France show me such another. I see how thine eye would
+emulate the diamond. Thou hast the right arched beauty of the brow that
+becomes the ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of Venetian
+admittance.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+A plain kerchief, Sir John. My brows become nothing else, nor that well
+neither.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+By the Lord, thou art a traitor to say so. Thou wouldst make an
+absolute courtier, and the firm fixture of thy foot would give an
+excellent motion to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale. I see what
+thou wert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature thy friend. Come, thou
+canst not hide it.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Believe me, there’s no such thing in me.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What made me love thee? Let that persuade thee there’s something
+extraordinary in thee. Come, I cannot cog and say thou art this and
+that, like a many of these lisping hawthorn buds that come like women
+in men’s apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simple-time. I cannot.
+But I love thee, none but thee; and thou deservest it.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Do not betray me, sir; I fear you love Mistress Page.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the Counter gate, which is
+as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Well, heaven knows how I love you, and you shall one day find it.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Keep in that mind, I’ll deserve it.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not be in that mind.
+
+Enter Robin.
+
+ROBIN.
+Mistress Ford, Mistress Ford, here’s Mistress Page at the door,
+sweating and blowing and looking wildly, and would needs speak with you
+presently.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+She shall not see me; I will ensconce me behind the arras.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Pray you, do so; she’s a very tattling woman.
+
+[_Falstaff hides himself behind the arras._]
+
+Enter Mistress Page.
+
+What’s the matter? How now?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You’re shamed, you’re overthrown,
+you’re undone for ever!
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+What’s the matter, good Mistress Page?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+O well-a-day, Mistress Ford, having an honest man to your husband, to
+give him such cause of suspicion!
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+What cause of suspicion?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+What cause of suspicion? Out upon you! How am I mistook in you!
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Why, alas, what’s the matter?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Your husband’s coming hither, woman, with all the officers in Windsor,
+to search for a gentleman that he says is here now in the house, by
+your consent, to take an ill advantage of his absence. You are undone.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+’Tis not so, I hope.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man here! But ’tis most
+certain your husband’s coming, with half Windsor at his heels, to
+search for such a one. I come before to tell you. If you know yourself
+clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you have a friend here, convey,
+convey him out. Be not amazed, call all your senses to you; defend your
+reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+What shall I do? There is a gentleman, my dear friend; and I fear not
+mine own shame as much as his peril. I had rather than a thousand pound
+he were out of the house.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+For shame! Never stand “you had rather” and “you had rather”. Your
+husband’s here at hand. Bethink you of some conveyance. In the house
+you cannot hide him. O, how have you deceived me! Look, here is a
+basket. If he be of any reasonable stature, he may creep in here; and
+throw foul linen upon him, as if it were going to bucking. Or—it is
+whiting-time—send him by your two men to Datchet Mead.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+He’s too big to go in there. What shall I do?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+[_Comes out of hiding_.] Let me see ’t, let me see ’t! O, let me see
+’t! I’ll in, I’ll in. Follow your friend’s counsel. I’ll in.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+What, Sir John Falstaff? Are these your letters, knight?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I love thee, and none but thee. Help me away. Let me creep in here.
+I’ll never—
+
+[_He goes into the basket; they cover him with dirty clothes._]
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Help to cover your master, boy.—Call your men, Mistress Ford.—You
+dissembling knight!
+
+[_Exit Robin._]
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+What, John! Robert! John!
+
+Enter John and Robert.
+
+Go, take up these clothes here, quickly. Where’s the cowl-staff? Look
+how you drumble! Carry them to the laundress in Datchet Mead; quickly,
+come.
+
+Enter Ford, Page, Caius and Sir Hugh Evans.
+
+FORD.
+Pray you come near. If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at
+me, then let me be your jest; I deserve it.—How now? Whither bear you
+this?
+
+JOHN and ROBERT.
+To the laundress, forsooth.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Why, what have you to do whither they bear it? You were best meddle
+with buck-washing!
+
+FORD.
+Buck? I would I could wash myself of the buck! Buck, buck, buck! Ay,
+buck! I warrant you, buck, and of the season too, it shall appear.
+
+[_Exeunt John and Robert with the basket._]
+
+Gentlemen, I have dreamed tonight; I’ll tell you my dream. Here, here,
+here be my keys. Ascend my chambers, search, seek, find out. I’ll
+warrant we’ll unkennel the fox. Let me stop this way first. [_Locks the
+door_.] So, now uncape.
+
+PAGE.
+Good Master Ford, be contented: you wrong yourself too much.
+
+FORD.
+True, Master Page.—Up, gentlemen, you shall see sport anon. Follow me,
+gentlemen.
+
+[_Exit Ford._]
+
+EVANS
+This is fery fantastical humours and jealousies.
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, ’tis no the fashion of France; it is not jealous in France.
+
+PAGE.
+Nay, follow him, gentlemen; see the issue of his search.
+
+[_Exeunt Page, Evans and Caius._]
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Is there not a double excellency in this?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I know not which pleases me better, that my husband is deceived, or Sir
+John.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I am half afraid he will have need of washing, so throwing him into the
+water will do him a benefit.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would all of the same strain were in the
+same distress.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I think my husband hath some special suspicion of Falstaff’s being
+here, for I never saw him so gross in his jealousy till now.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+I will lay a plot to try that, and we will yet have more tricks with
+Falstaff. His dissolute disease will scarce obey this medicine.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Shall we send that foolish carrion Mistress Quickly to him, and excuse
+his throwing into the water, and give him another hope, to betray him
+to another punishment?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+We will do it. Let him be sent for tomorrow eight o’clock to have
+amends.
+
+Enter Ford, Page, Caius and Sir Hugh Evans.
+
+FORD
+I cannot find him. Maybe the knave bragged of that he could not
+compass.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+[_Aside to Mistress Ford_.] Heard you that?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+You use me well, Master Ford, do you?
+
+FORD.
+Ay, I do so.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Heaven make you better than your thoughts!
+
+FORD.
+Amen!
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+You do yourself mighty wrong, Master Ford.
+
+FORD.
+Ay, ay; I must bear it.
+
+EVANS.
+If there be anypody in the house, and in the chambers, and in the
+coffers, and in the presses, heaven forgive my sins at the day of
+judgment!
+
+CAIUS.
+Be gar, nor I too; there is nobodies.
+
+PAGE.
+Fie, fie, Master Ford, are you not ashamed? What spirit, what devil
+suggests this imagination? I would not ha’ your distemper in this kind
+for the wealth of Windsor Castle.
+
+FORD.
+’Tis my fault, Master Page. I suffer for it.
+
+EVANS.
+You suffer for a pad conscience. Your wife is as honest a ’omans as I
+will desires among five thousand, and five hundred too.
+
+CAIUS.
+By gar, I see ’tis an honest woman.
+
+FORD.
+Well, I promised you a dinner. Come, come, walk in the park. I pray you
+pardon me; I will hereafter make known to you why I have done this.
+Come, wife, come, Mistress Page, I pray you pardon me. Pray heartily,
+pardon me.
+
+PAGE.
+Let’s go in, gentlemen; but, trust me, we’ll mock him. I do invite you
+tomorrow morning to my house to breakfast; after, we’ll a-birding
+together; I have a fine hawk for the bush. Shall it be so?
+
+FORD.
+Anything.
+
+EVANS.
+If there is one, I shall make two in the company.
+
+CAIUS.
+If there be one or two, I shall make-a the turd.
+
+FORD.
+Pray you go, Master Page.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Evans and Caius._]
+
+EVANS.
+I pray you now, remembrance tomorrow on the lousy knave, mine host.
+
+CAIUS.
+Dat is good, by gar, with all my heart.
+
+EVANS.
+A lousy knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A room in Page’s house
+
+Enter Fenton and Anne Page.
+
+FENTON.
+I see I cannot get thy father’s love;
+Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.
+
+ANNE.
+Alas, how then?
+
+FENTON.
+Why, thou must be thyself.
+He doth object I am too great of birth,
+And that my state being galled with my expense,
+I seek to heal it only by his wealth.
+Besides these, other bars he lays before me:
+My riots past, my wild societies—
+And tells me ’tis a thing impossible
+I should love thee but as a property.
+
+ANNE.
+Maybe he tells you true.
+
+FENTON.
+No, heaven so speed me in my time to come!
+Albeit I will confess thy father’s wealth
+Was the first motive that I wooed thee, Anne,
+Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value
+Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags.
+And ’tis the very riches of thyself
+That now I aim at.
+
+ANNE.
+Gentle Master Fenton,
+Yet seek my father’s love, still seek it, sir.
+If opportunity and humblest suit
+Cannot attain it, why then—hark you hither.
+
+[_They talk apart._]
+
+Enter Shallow, Slender and Mistress Quickly.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Break their talk, Mistress Quickly. My kinsman shall speak for himself.
+
+SLENDER.
+I’ll make a shaft or a bolt on ’t. ’Slid, ’tis but venturing.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Be not dismayed.
+
+SLENDER.
+No, she shall not dismay me. I care not for that, but that I am afeard.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Hark ye, Master Slender would speak a word with you.
+
+ANNE.
+I come to him.
+[_Aside_.] This is my father’s choice.
+O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults
+Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you, a word with you.
+
+[_They talk aside._]
+
+SHALLOW.
+[_To Slender_.] She’s coming; to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father!
+
+SLENDER.
+I had a father, Mistress Anne; my uncle can tell you good jests of
+him.—Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress Anne the jest how my father stole
+two geese out of a pen, good uncle.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you.
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, that I do, as well as I love any woman in Gloucestershire.
+
+SHALLOW.
+He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the degree of a squire.
+
+SHALLOW.
+He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.
+
+ANNE.
+Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Marry, I thank you for it, I thank you for that good comfort.—She calls
+you, coz; I’ll leave you.
+
+ANNE.
+Now, Master Slender.
+
+SLENDER.
+Now, good Mistress Anne.
+
+ANNE.
+What is your will?
+
+SLENDER.
+My will? ’Od’s heartlings, that’s a pretty jest indeed! I ne’er made my
+will yet, I thank heaven. I am not such a sickly creature, I give
+heaven praise.
+
+ANNE.
+I mean, Master Slender, what would you with me?
+
+SLENDER.
+Truly, for mine own part I would little or nothing with you. Your
+father and my uncle hath made motions. If it be my luck, so; if not,
+happy man be his dole. They can tell you how things go better than I
+can. You may ask your father. Here he comes.
+
+Enter Page and Mistress Page.
+
+PAGE
+Now, Master Slender.—Love him, daughter Anne.—
+Why, how now? What does Master Fenton here?
+You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
+I told you, sir, my daughter is disposed of.
+
+FENTON.
+Nay, Master Page, be not impatient.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Good Master Fenton, come not to my child.
+
+PAGE.
+She is no match for you.
+
+FENTON.
+Sir, will you hear me?
+
+PAGE.
+No, good Master Fenton.—
+Come, Master Shallow; come, son Slender, in.—
+Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton.
+
+[_Exeunt Page, Shallow and Slender._]
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Speak to Mistress Page.
+
+FENTON.
+Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter
+In such a righteous fashion as I do,
+Perforce, against all checks, rebukes, and manners,
+I must advance the colours of my love
+And not retire. Let me have your good will.
+
+ANNE.
+Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+I mean it not; I seek you a better husband.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+That’s my master, Master Doctor.
+
+ANNE.
+Alas, I had rather be set quick i’ th’ earth,
+And bowled to death with turnips.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Come, trouble not yourself, good Master Fenton,
+I will not be your friend, nor enemy.
+My daughter will I question how she loves you,
+And as I find her, so am I affected.
+Till then, farewell, sir. She must needs go in;
+Her father will be angry.
+
+FENTON.
+Farewell, gentle mistress. Farewell, Nan.
+
+[_Exeunt Mistress Page and Anne._]
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+This is my doing now. “Nay,” said I, “will you cast away your child on
+a fool, and a physician? Look on Master Fenton.” This is my doing.
+
+FENTON.
+I thank thee; and I pray thee, once tonight
+Give my sweet Nan this ring. There’s for thy pains.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Now Heaven send thee good fortune!
+
+[_Exit Fenton._]
+
+A kind heart he hath. A woman would run through fire and water for such
+a kind heart. But yet I would my master had Mistress Anne, or I would
+Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master Fenton had her. I
+will do what I can for them all three, for so I have promised and I’ll
+be as good as my word—but speciously for Master Fenton. Well, I must of
+another errand to Sir John Falstaff from my two mistresses. What a
+beast am I to slack it!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. A room in the Garter Inn
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Bardolph, I say!
+
+Enter Bardolph.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Here, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in ’t.
+
+[_Exit Bardolph._]
+
+Have I lived to be carried in a basket like a barrow of butcher’s
+offal, and to be thrown in the Thames? Well, if I be served such
+another trick, I’ll have my brains ta’en out and buttered, and give
+them to a dog for a New Year’s gift. ’Sblood, the rogues slighted me
+into the river with as little remorse as they would have drowned a
+blind bitch’s puppies, fifteen i’ the litter; and you may know by my
+size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the bottom were as
+deep as hell, I should down. I had been drowned, but that the shore was
+shelvy and shallow—a death that I abhor, for the water swells a man,
+and what a thing should I have been when I had been swelled! I should
+have been a mountain of mummy.
+
+Enter Bardolph with sack.
+
+BARDOLPH
+Here’s Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come, let me pour in some sack to the Thames water, for my belly’s as
+cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills to cool the reins. Call
+her in.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Come in, woman.
+
+Enter Mistress Quickly.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+By your leave, I cry you mercy. Give your worship good morrow.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Take away these chalices. Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+With eggs, sir?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Simple of itself. I’ll no pullet sperm in my brewage.
+
+[_Exit Bardolph._]
+
+How now?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress Ford.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Mistress Ford? I have had ford enough. I was thrown into the ford, I
+have my belly full of ford.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Alas the day, good heart, that was not her fault. She does so take on
+with her men; they mistook their erection.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman’s promise.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see
+it. Her husband goes this morning a-birding; she desires you once more
+to come to her, between eight and nine. I must carry her word quickly.
+She’ll make you amends, I warrant you.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, I will visit her. Tell her so, and bid her think what a man is.
+Let her consider his frailty, and then judge of my merit.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+I will tell her.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Do so. Between nine and ten, sayst thou?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Eight and nine, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, be gone. I will not miss her.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Peace be with you, sir.
+
+[_Exit Mistress Quickly._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me word to stay within. I
+like his money well. O, here he comes.
+
+Enter Ford disguised.
+
+FORD
+God bless you, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Now, Master Brook, you come to know what hath passed between me and
+Ford’s wife?
+
+FORD.
+That indeed, Sir John, is my business.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Master Brook, I will not lie to you. I was at her house the hour she
+appointed me.
+
+FORD.
+And how sped you, sir?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Very ill-favouredly, Master Brook.
+
+FORD.
+How so, sir? Did she change her determination?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No. Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto her husband, Master Brook,
+dwelling in a continual ’larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of
+our encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, and, as it
+were, spoke the prologue of our comedy; and at his heels a rabble of
+his companions, thither provoked and instigated by his distemper, and,
+forsooth, to search his house for his wife’s love.
+
+FORD.
+What, while you were there?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+While I was there.
+
+FORD.
+And did he search for you, and could not find you?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page,
+gives intelligence of Ford’s approach; and, in her invention and Ford’s
+wife’s distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
+
+FORD.
+A buck-basket!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+By the Lord, a buck-basket! Rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks,
+socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was
+the rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
+
+FORD.
+And how long lay you there?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have suffered to bring this
+woman to evil for your good. Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple
+of Ford’s knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their mistress to
+carry me in the name of foul clothes to Datchet Lane. They took me on
+their shoulders, met the jealous knave their master in the door, who
+asked them once or twice what they had in their basket. I quaked for
+fear lest the lunatic knave would have searched it; but Fate, ordaining
+he should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well, on went he for a search,
+and away went I for foul clothes. But mark the sequel, Master Brook. I
+suffered the pangs of three several deaths: first, an intolerable
+fright to be detected with a jealous rotten bell-wether; next, to be
+compassed like a good bilbo in the circumference of a peck, hilt to
+point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in, like a strong
+distillation, with stinking clothes that fretted in their own grease.
+Think of that, a man of my kidney, think of that—that am as subject to
+heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution and thaw. It was a
+miracle to ’scape suffocation. And in the height of this bath, when I
+was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown
+into the Thames and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a
+horseshoe! Think of that—hissing hot—think of that, Master Brook.
+
+FORD.
+In good sadness, sir, I am sorry that for my sake you have suffered all
+this. My suit, then, is desperate. You’ll undertake her no more?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have been into Thames,
+ere I will leave her thus. Her husband is this morning gone a-birding;
+I have received from her another embassy of meeting. ’Twixt eight and
+nine is the hour, Master Brook.
+
+FORD.
+’Tis past eight already, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Is it? I will then address me to my appointment. Come to me at your
+convenient leisure, and you shall know how I speed; and the conclusion
+shall be crowned with your enjoying her. Adieu. You shall have her,
+Master Brook. Master Brook, you shall cuckold Ford.
+
+[_Exit Falstaff._]
+
+FORD
+Hum! Ha! Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep? Master Ford,
+awake; awake, Master Ford! There’s a hole made in your best coat,
+Master Ford. This ’tis to be married; this ’tis to have linen and
+buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself what I am. I will now take
+the lecher. He is at my house. He cannot scape me. ’Tis impossible he
+should. He cannot creep into a half-penny purse, nor into a pepperbox.
+But, lest the devil that guides him should aid him, I will search
+impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid, yet to be what I
+would not shall not make me tame. If I have horns to make one mad, let
+the proverb go with me: I’ll be horn-mad.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. The street
+
+
+Enter Mistress Page, Mistress Quickly and William.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Is he at Master Ford’s already, think’st thou?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Sure he is by this; or will be presently. But truly he is very
+courageous mad about his throwing into the water. Mistress Ford desires
+you to come suddenly.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+I’ll be with her by and by. I’ll but bring my young man here to school.
+Look where his master comes; ’tis a playing day, I see.
+
+Enter Sir Hugh Evans.
+
+How now, Sir Hugh, no school today?
+
+EVANS.
+No, Master Slender is let the boys leave to play.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Blessing of his heart!
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in the world at his
+book. I pray you ask him some questions in his accidence.
+
+EVANS.
+Come hither, William. Hold up your head, come.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Come on, sirrah. Hold up your head. Answer your master, be not afraid.
+
+EVANS.
+William, how many numbers is in nouns?
+
+WILLIAM.
+Two.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Truly, I thought there had been one number more, because they say
+“’Od’s nouns.”
+
+EVANS.
+Peace your tattlings! What is “fair,” William?
+
+WILLIAM.
+_Pulcher_.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Polecats? There are fairer things than polecats, sure.
+
+EVANS.
+You are a very simplicity ’oman; I pray you, peace.—What is _lapis_,
+William?
+
+WILLIAM.
+A stone.
+
+EVANS.
+And what is “a stone,” William?
+
+WILLIAM.
+A pebble.
+
+EVANS.
+No, it is _lapis_. I pray you remember in your prain.
+
+WILLIAM.
+_Lapis_.
+
+EVANS.
+That is a good William. What is he, William, that does lend articles?
+
+WILLIAM.
+Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus declined:
+_singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc_.
+
+EVANS.
+_Nominativo, hig, haeg, hog_, pray you, mark: _genitivo, huius_. Well,
+what is your accusative case?
+
+WILLIAM.
+_Accusativo, hinc_.
+
+EVANS.
+I pray you, have your remembrance, child. _Accusativo, hung, hang,
+hog_.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+“Hang-hog” is Latin for bacon, I warrant you.
+
+EVANS.
+Leave your prabbles, ’oman.—What is the focative case, William?
+
+WILLIAM.
+O—_vocativo_—O—
+
+EVANS.
+Remember, William; focative is _caret_.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+And that’s a good root.
+
+EVANS.
+’Oman, forbear.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Peace.
+
+EVANS.
+What is your genitive case plural, William?
+
+WILLIAM.
+Genitive case?
+
+EVANS.
+Ay.
+
+WILLIAM.
+Genitive: _horum, harum, horum_.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Vengeance of Jenny’s case, fie on her! Never name her, child, if she be
+a whore.
+
+EVANS.
+For shame, ’oman.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+You do ill to teach the child such words.—He teaches him to hick and to
+hack, which they’ll do fast enough of themselves; and to call “whore
+’m”!—Fie upon you!
+
+EVANS.
+’Oman, art thou lunatics? Hast thou no understandings for thy cases,
+and the numbers of the genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures
+as I would desires.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+[_To Quickly_.] Prithee, hold thy peace.
+
+EVANS.
+Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns.
+
+WILLIAM.
+Forsooth, I have forgot.
+
+EVANS.
+It is _qui, quae, quod_. If you forget your _quis_, your _quaes_, and
+your _quods_, you must be preeches. Go your ways and play, go.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+He is a better scholar than I thought he was.
+
+EVANS.
+He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Adieu, good Sir Hugh.
+
+[_Exit Sir Hugh Evans._]
+
+Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A room in Ford’s house
+
+Enter Falstaff and Mistress Ford.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my sufferance. I see you are
+obsequious in your love, and I profess requital to a hair’s breadth,
+not only, Mistress Ford, in the simple office of love, but in all the
+accoutrement, compliment, and ceremony of it. But are you sure of your
+husband now?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+He’s a-birding, sweet Sir John.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+[_Within_.] What ho, gossip Ford, what ho!
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Step into the chamber, Sir John.
+
+[_Exit Falstaff._]
+
+Enter Mistress Page.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+How now, sweetheart, who’s at home besides yourself?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Why, none but mine own people.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Indeed?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+No, certainly.
+[_Aside to her_.] Speak louder.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Truly, I am so glad you have nobody here.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Why?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again. He so takes on
+yonder with my husband, so rails against all married mankind, so curses
+all Eve’s daughters, of what complexion soever, and so buffets himself
+on the forehead, crying “Peer out, peer out!” that any madness I ever
+yet beheld seemed but tameness, civility, and patience, to this his
+distemper he is in now. I am glad the fat knight is not here.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Why, does he talk of him?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Of none but him, and swears he was carried out, the last time he
+searched for him, in a basket; protests to my husband he is now here;
+and hath drawn him and the rest of their company from their sport, to
+make another experiment of his suspicion. But I am glad the knight is
+not here. Now he shall see his own foolery.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+How near is he, Mistress Page?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Hard by, at street end. He will be here anon.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I am undone! The knight is here.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Why, then, you are utterly shamed, and he’s but a dead man. What a
+woman are you! Away with him, away with him! Better shame than murder.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Which way should he go? How should I bestow him? Shall I put him into
+the basket again?
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+No, I’ll come no more i’ the basket. May I not go out ere he come?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Alas, three of Master Ford’s brothers watch the door with pistols, that
+none shall issue out, otherwise you might slip away ere he came. But
+what make you here?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What shall I do? I’ll creep up into the chimney.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+There they always use to discharge their birding-pieces.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Creep into the kiln-hole.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Where is it?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+He will seek there, on my word. Neither press, coffer, chest, trunk,
+well, vault, but he hath an abstract for the remembrance of such
+places, and goes to them by his note. There is no hiding you in the
+house.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I’ll go out then.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+If you go out in your own semblance, you die, Sir John—unless you go
+out disguised.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+How might we disguise him?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Alas the day, I know not. There is no woman’s gown big enough for him;
+otherwise he might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so
+escape.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Good hearts, devise something. Any extremity rather than a mischief.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+My maid’s aunt, the fat woman of Brentford, has a gown above.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+On my word, it will serve him. She’s as big as he is. And there’s her
+thrummed hat, and her muffler too.—Run up, Sir John.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Go, go, sweet Sir John. Mistress Page and I will look some linen for
+your head.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Quick, quick! We’ll come dress you straight; put on the gown the while.
+
+[_Exit Falstaff._]
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I would my husband would meet him in this shape. He cannot abide the
+old woman of Brentford; he swears she’s a witch, forbade her my house,
+and hath threatened to beat her.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Heaven guide him to thy husband’s cudgel and the devil guide his cudgel
+afterwards!
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+But is my husband coming?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Ay, in good sadness is he, and talks of the basket too, howsoever he
+hath had intelligence.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+We’ll try that; for I’ll appoint my men to carry the basket again, to
+meet him at the door with it as they did last time.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Nay, but he’ll be here presently. Let’s go dress him like the witch of
+Brentford.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I’ll first direct my men what they shall do with the basket. Go up,
+I’ll bring linen for him straight.
+
+[_Exit Mistress Ford._]
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Hang him, dishonest varlet! We cannot misuse him enough.
+We’ll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
+Wives may be merry and yet honest too.
+We do not act that often jest and laugh;
+’Tis old but true: “Still swine eats all the draff.”
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Mistress Ford with John and Robert.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders. Your master is hard
+at door; if he bid you set it down, obey him. Quickly, dispatch.
+
+[_Exit Mistress Ford._]
+
+JOHN.
+Come, come, take it up.
+
+ROBERT.
+Pray heaven it be not full of knight again.
+
+JOHN.
+I hope not, I had lief as bear so much lead.
+
+Enter Ford, Page, Shallow, Caius and Sir Hugh Evans.
+
+FORD
+Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any way then to unfool
+me again?—Set down the basket, villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in
+a basket! O you panderly rascals! There’s a knot, a gin, a pack, a
+conspiracy against me. Now shall the devil be shamed.—What, wife, I
+say! Come, come forth! Behold what honest clothes you send forth to
+bleaching!
+
+PAGE.
+Why, this passes, Master Ford! You are not to go loose any longer; you
+must be pinioned.
+
+EVANS.
+Why, this is lunatics, this is mad as a mad dog.
+
+SHALLOW.
+Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well, indeed.
+
+FORD.
+So say I too, sir.
+
+Enter Mistress Ford.
+
+Come hither, Mistress Ford—Mistress Ford, the honest woman, the modest
+wife, the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband!
+I suspect without cause, mistress, do I?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Heaven be my witness you do, if you suspect me in any dishonesty.
+
+FORD.
+Well said, brazen-face, hold it out.—Come forth, sirrah.
+
+[_Pulls clothes out of the basket._]
+
+PAGE.
+This passes.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Are you not ashamed? Let the clothes alone.
+
+FORD.
+I shall find you anon.
+
+EVANS.
+’Tis unreasonable. Will you take up your wife’s clothes? Come, away.
+
+FORD.
+Empty the basket, I say.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Why, man, why?
+
+FORD.
+Master Page, as I am a man, there was one conveyed out of my house
+yesterday in this basket. Why may not he be there again? In my house I
+am sure he is. My intelligence is true, my jealousy is
+reasonable.—Pluck me out all the linen.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+If you find a man there, he shall die a flea’s death.
+
+PAGE.
+Here’s no man.
+
+SHALLOW.
+By my fidelity, this is not well, Master Ford, this wrongs you.
+
+EVANS.
+Master Ford, you must pray, and not follow the imaginations of your own
+heart. This is jealousies.
+
+FORD.
+Well, he’s not here I seek for.
+
+PAGE.
+No, nor nowhere else but in your brain.
+
+FORD
+Help to search my house this one time. If I find not what I seek, show
+no colour for my extremity, let me for ever be your table-sport. Let
+them say of me “As jealous as Ford, that searched a hollow walnut for
+his wife’s leman.” Satisfy me once more, once more search with me.
+
+[_Exeunt John and Robert with the basket._]
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+What, ho, Mistress Page! Come you and the old woman down; my husband
+will come into the chamber.
+
+FORD.
+Old woman? What old woman’s that?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Why, it is my maid’s aunt of Brentford.
+
+FORD.
+A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not forbid her my
+house? She comes of errands, does she? We are simple men; we do not
+know what’s brought to pass under the profession of fortune-telling.
+She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this
+is, beyond our element. We know nothing.—Come down, you witch, you hag,
+you! Come down, I say!
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Nay, good sweet husband!—Good gentlemen, let him not strike the old
+woman.
+
+Enter Falstaff disguised as an old woman, led by Mistress Page.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Come, Mother Prat; come, give me your hand.
+
+FORD.
+I’ll prat her. [_Beats him_.] Out of my door, you witch, you rag, you
+baggage, you polecat, you runnion! Out, out! I’ll conjure you, I’ll
+fortune-tell you.
+
+[_Exit Falstaff._]
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Are you not ashamed? I think you have killed the poor woman.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Nay, he will do it. ’Tis a goodly credit for you.
+
+FORD.
+Hang her, witch!
+
+EVANS.
+By yea and no, I think the ’oman is a witch indeed. I like not when a
+’oman has a great peard. I spy a great peard under her muffler.
+
+FORD.
+Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you follow, see but the issue of
+my jealousy. If I cry out thus upon no trail, never trust me when I
+open again.
+
+PAGE.
+Let’s obey his humour a little further. Come, gentlemen.
+
+[_Exeunt Ford, Page, Caius, Evans and Shallow._]
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Trust me, he beat him most pitifully.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Nay, by th’ mass, that he did not; he beat him most unpitifully,
+methought.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+I’ll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o’er the altar. It hath done
+meritorious service.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+What think you? May we, with the warrant of womanhood and the witness
+of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+The spirit of wantonness is sure scared out of him. If the devil have
+him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think,
+in the way of waste, attempt us again.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Yes, by all means, if it be but to scrape the figures out of your
+husband’s brains. If they can find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous
+fat knight shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be the
+ministers.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+I’ll warrant they’ll have him publicly shamed, and methinks there would
+be no period to the jest should he not be publicly shamed.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Come, to the forge with it, then shape it. I would not have things
+cool.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A room in the Garter Inn
+
+Enter Host and Bardolph.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your horses. The Duke himself
+will be tomorrow at court, and they are going to meet him.
+
+HOST.
+What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear not of him in the
+court. Let me speak with the gentlemen. They speak English?
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Ay, sir. I’ll call them to you.
+
+HOST.
+They shall have my horses, but I’ll make them pay, I’ll sauce them.
+They have had my house a week at command; I have turned away my other
+guests. They must come off, I’ll sauce them. Come.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A room in Ford’s house
+
+Enter Page, Ford, Mistress Page, Mistress Ford and Sir Hugh Evans.
+
+EVANS.
+’Tis one of the best discretions of a ’oman as ever I did look upon.
+
+PAGE.
+And did he send you both these letters at an instant?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Within a quarter of an hour.
+
+FORD.
+Pardon me, wife. Henceforth, do what thou wilt.
+I rather will suspect the sun with cold
+Than thee with wantonness. Now doth thy honour stand,
+In him that was of late an heretic,
+As firm as faith.
+
+PAGE.
+’Tis well, ’tis well, no more.
+Be not as extreme in submission as in offence.
+But let our plot go forward. Let our wives
+Yet once again, to make us public sport,
+Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,
+Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.
+
+FORD.
+There is no better way than that they spoke of.
+
+PAGE.
+How? To send him word they’ll meet him in the park at midnight? Fie,
+fie, he’ll never come.
+
+EVANS.
+You say he has been thrown in the rivers, and has been grievously
+peaten as an old ’oman. Methinks there should be terrors in him, that
+he should not come. Methinks his flesh is punished; he shall have no
+desires.
+
+PAGE.
+So think I too.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Devise but how you’ll use him when he comes,
+And let us two devise to bring him thither.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,
+Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest,
+Doth all the winter time, at still midnight,
+Walk round about an oak, with great ragged horns,
+And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle,
+And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain
+In a most hideous and dreadful manner.
+You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know
+The superstitious idle-headed eld
+Received and did deliver to our age,
+This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth.
+
+PAGE.
+Why, yet there want not many that do fear
+In deep of night to walk by this Herne’s oak.
+But what of this?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Marry, this is our device,
+That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us,
+Disguised like Herne, with huge horns on his head.
+
+PAGE.
+Well, let it not be doubted but he’ll come,
+And in this shape; when you have brought him thither,
+What shall be done with him? What is your plot?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+That likewise have we thought upon, and thus:
+Nan Page my daughter, and my little son,
+And three or four more of their growth, we’ll dress
+Like urchins, oafs and fairies, green and white,
+With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads
+And rattles in their hands. Upon a sudden,
+As Falstaff, she, and I are newly met,
+Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once
+With some diffused song; upon their sight
+We two in great amazedness will fly.
+Then let them all encircle him about,
+And fairy-like, to pinch the unclean knight,
+And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,
+In their so sacred paths he dares to tread
+In shape profane.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+And till he tell the truth,
+Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound
+And burn him with their tapers.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+The truth being known,
+We’ll all present ourselves, dis-horn the spirit,
+And mock him home to Windsor.
+
+FORD.
+The children must
+Be practised well to this, or they’ll ne’er do ’t.
+
+EVANS.
+I will teach the children their behaviours, and I will be like a
+jackanapes also, to burn the knight with my taber.
+
+FORD.
+That will be excellent. I’ll go buy them vizards.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,
+Finely attired in a robe of white.
+
+PAGE.
+That silk will I go buy.
+[_Aside_.] And in that time
+Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away,
+And marry her at Eton.—Go, send to Falstaff straight.
+
+FORD.
+Nay, I’ll to him again in name of Brook.
+He’ll tell me all his purpose. Sure, he’ll come.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Fear not you that. Go, get us properties
+And tricking for our fairies.
+
+EVANS.
+Let us about it. It is admirable pleasures and fery honest knaveries.
+
+[_Exeunt Page, Ford and Evans._]
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Go, Mistress Ford.
+Send quickly to Sir John to know his mind.
+
+[_Exit Mistress Ford._]
+
+I’ll to the Doctor. He hath my good will,
+And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.
+That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot,
+And he my husband best of all affects.
+The Doctor is well moneyed, and his friends
+Potent at court. He, none but he, shall have her,
+Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. A room in the Garter Inn
+
+Enter Host and Simple.
+
+HOST.
+What wouldst thou have, boor? What, thick-skin? Speak, breathe,
+discuss; brief, short, quick, snap.
+
+SIMPLE.
+Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff from Master Slender.
+
+HOST.
+There’s his chamber, his house, his castle, his standing-bed and
+truckle-bed. ’Tis painted about with the story of the Prodigal, fresh
+and new. Go, knock and call. He’ll speak like an Anthropophaginian unto
+thee. Knock, I say.
+
+SIMPLE.
+There’s an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his chamber. I’ll be so
+bold as stay, sir, till she come down. I come to speak with her,
+indeed.
+
+HOST.
+Ha? A fat woman? The knight may be robbed. I’ll call.—Bully knight!
+Bully Sir John! Speak from thy lungs military. Art thou there? It is
+thine host, thine Ephesian, calls.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+[_Above_.] How now, mine host?
+
+HOST.
+Here’s a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of thy fat woman. Let
+her descend, bully, let her descend. My chambers are honourable. Fie!
+Privacy? Fie!
+
+Enter Falstaff.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with me, but she’s
+gone.
+
+SIMPLE.
+Pray you, sir, was’t not the wise woman of Brentford?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ay, marry was it, mussel-shell. What would you with her?
+
+SIMPLE.
+My master, sir, my Master Slender, sent to her, seeing her go through
+the streets, to know, sir, whether one Nym, sir, that beguiled him of a
+chain, had the chain or no.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I spake with the old woman about it.
+
+SIMPLE.
+And what says she, I pray, sir?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Marry, she says that the very same man that beguiled Master Slender of
+his chain cozened him of it.
+
+SIMPLE.
+I would I could have spoken with the woman herself. I had other things
+to have spoken with her too, from him.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What are they? Let us know.
+
+HOST.
+Ay, come. Quick.
+
+SIMPLE.
+I may not conceal them, sir.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Conceal them, or thou diest.
+
+SIMPLE.
+Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne Page, to know if it
+were my master’s fortune to have her or no.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+’Tis, ’tis his fortune.
+
+SIMPLE.
+What sir?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+To have her, or no. Go, say the woman told me so.
+
+SIMPLE.
+May I be bold to say so, sir?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ay, sir; like who more bold?
+
+SIMPLE.
+I thank your worship; I shall make my master glad with these tidings.
+
+[_Exit Simple._]
+
+HOST
+Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was there a wise woman
+with thee?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Ay, that there was, mine host; one that hath taught me more wit than
+ever I learned before in my life; and I paid nothing for it neither,
+but was paid for my learning.
+
+Enter Bardolph.
+
+BARDOLPH
+Out, alas, sir, cozenage, mere cozenage!
+
+HOST.
+Where be my horses? Speak well of them, varletto.
+
+BARDOLPH.
+Run away, with the cozeners. For so soon as I came beyond Eton, they
+threw me off from behind one of them, in a slough of mire, and set
+spurs and away, like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.
+
+HOST.
+They are gone but to meet the Duke, villain, do not say they be fled.
+Germans are honest men.
+
+Enter Sir Hugh Evans.
+
+EVANS
+Where is mine host?
+
+HOST.
+What is the matter, sir?
+
+EVANS.
+Have a care of your entertainments. There is a friend of mine come to
+town tells me there is three cozen-Germans that has cozened all the
+hosts of Readings, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and money. I
+tell you for good will, look you. You are wise, and full of gibes and
+vlouting-stocks, and ’tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare
+you well.
+
+[_Exit Evans._]
+
+Enter Doctor Caius.
+
+CAIUS.
+Vere is mine host de Jarteer?
+
+HOST.
+Here, Master Doctor, in perplexity and doubtful dilemma.
+
+CAIUS.
+I cannot tell vat is dat, but it is tell-a me dat you make grand
+preparation for a Duke de Jamany. By my trot, dere is no duke that the
+court is know to come. I tell you for good will. Adieu.
+
+[_Exit Doctor Caius._]
+
+HOST
+Hue and cry, villain, go!—Assist me, knight, I am undone.—Fly, run, hue
+and cry, villain, I am undone!
+
+[_Exeunt Host and Bardolph._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I would all the world might be cozened, for I have been cozened and
+beaten too. If it should come to the ear of the court how I have been
+transformed, and how my transformation hath been washed and cudgelled,
+they would melt me out of my fat drop by drop, and liquor fishermen’s
+boots with me. I warrant they would whip me with their fine wits till I
+were as crestfallen as a dried pear. I never prospered since I forswore
+myself at primero. Well, if my wind were but long enough, I would
+repent.
+
+Enter Mistress Quickly.
+
+Now, whence come you?
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+From the two parties, forsooth.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+The devil take one party and his dam the other, and so they shall be
+both bestowed. I have suffered more for their sakes, more than the
+villainous inconstancy of man’s disposition is able to bear.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+And have not they suffered? Yes, I warrant, speciously one of them.
+Mistress Ford, good heart, is beaten black and blue, that you cannot
+see a white spot about her.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What tellst thou me of black and blue? I was beaten myself into all the
+colours of the rainbow, and was like to be apprehended for the witch of
+Brentford. But that my admirable dexterity of wit, my counterfeiting
+the action of an old woman, delivered me, the knave constable had set
+me i’ the stocks, i’ the common stocks, for a witch.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber, you shall hear how things
+go, and, I warrant, to your content. Here is a letter will say
+somewhat. Good hearts, what ado here is to bring you together! Sure,
+one of you does not serve heaven well, that you are so crossed.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Come up into my chamber.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Another room in the Garter Inn
+
+Enter Fenton and Host.
+
+HOST.
+Master Fenton, talk not to me. My mind is heavy. I will give over all.
+
+FENTON.
+Yet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose,
+And, as I am a gentleman, I’ll give thee
+A hundred pound in gold more than your loss.
+
+HOST.
+I will hear you, Master Fenton, and I will, at the least, keep your
+counsel.
+
+FENTON.
+From time to time I have acquainted you
+With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page,
+Who mutually hath answered my affection,
+So far forth as herself might be her chooser,
+Even to my wish. I have a letter from her
+Of such contents as you will wonder at,
+The mirth whereof so larded with my matter
+That neither singly can be manifested
+Without the show of both, wherein fat Falstaff
+Hath a great scene; the image of the jest
+I’ll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host:
+Tonight at Herne’s oak, just ’twixt twelve and one,
+Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen—
+The purpose why is here—in which disguise,
+While other jests are something rank on foot,
+Her father hath commanded her to slip
+Away with Slender, and with him at Eton
+Immediately to marry. She hath consented. Now, sir,
+Her mother, even strong against that match
+And firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed
+That he shall likewise shuffle her away,
+While other sports are tasking of their minds,
+And at the dean’ry, where a priest attends,
+Straight marry her. To this her mother’s plot
+She, seemingly obedient, likewise hath
+Made promise to the doctor. Now thus it rests:
+Her father means she shall be all in white
+And in that habit, when Slender sees his time
+To take her by the hand and bid her go,
+She shall go with him. Her mother hath intended
+The better to denote her to the doctor,
+For they must all be masked and vizarded—
+That quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed,
+With ribbons pendant flaring ’bout her head;
+And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,
+To pinch her by the hand, and on that token
+The maid hath given consent to go with him.
+
+HOST.
+Which means she to deceive, father or mother?
+
+FENTON.
+Both, my good host, to go along with me.
+And here it rests, that you’ll procure the vicar
+To stay for me at church, ’twixt twelve and one,
+And, in the lawful name of marrying,
+To give our hearts united ceremony.
+
+HOST.
+Well, husband your device; I’ll to the vicar.
+Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest.
+
+FENTON.
+So shall I evermore be bound to thee;
+Besides, I’ll make a present recompense.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. A room in the Garter Inn
+
+
+Enter Falstaff and Mistress Quickly.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Prithee, no more prattling. Go. I’ll hold. This is the third time; I
+hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away, go! They say there is
+divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+I’ll provide you a chain, and I’ll do what I can to get you a pair of
+horns.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Away, I say; time wears. Hold up your head, and mince.
+
+[_Exit Mistress Quickly._]
+
+Enter Ford.
+
+How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight
+or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you
+shall see wonders.
+
+FORD.
+Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me you had appointed?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor old man, but I
+came from her, Master Brook, like a poor old woman. That same knave
+Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master
+Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you he beat me
+grievously, in the shape of a woman; for in the shape of man, Master
+Brook, I fear not Goliath with a weaver’s beam, because I know also
+life is a shuttle. I am in haste. Go along with me; I’ll tell you all,
+Master Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipped top, I
+knew not what ’twas to be beaten till lately. Follow me, I’ll tell you
+strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged,
+and I will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow. Strange things in
+hand, Master Brook! Follow.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Windsor Park
+
+Enter Page, Shallow and Slender.
+
+PAGE.
+Come, come. We’ll couch i’ the castle ditch till we see the light of
+our fairies. Remember, son Slender, my daughter—
+
+SLENDER.
+Ay, forsooth. I have spoke with her, and we have a nay-word how to know
+one another. I come to her in white and cry “mum”; she cries “budget”;
+and by that we know one another.
+
+SHALLOW.
+That’s good too. But what needs either your “mum” or her “budget”? The
+white will decipher her well enough. It hath struck ten o’clock.
+
+PAGE.
+The night is dark. Light and spirits will become it well. Heaven
+prosper our sport! No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know
+him by his horns. Let’s away; follow me.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The street in Windsor
+
+Enter Mistress Page, Mistress Ford and Doctor Caius.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Master Doctor, my daughter is in green. When you see your time, take
+her by the hand, away with her to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly.
+Go before into the park. We two must go together.
+
+CAIUS.
+I know vat I have to do. Adieu.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Fare you well, sir.
+
+[_Exit Caius._]
+
+My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff as he will
+chafe at the doctor’s marrying my daughter. But ’tis no matter. Better
+a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Where is Nan now, and her troop of fairies, and the Welsh devil Hugh?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne’s oak, with obscured
+lights, which, at the very instant of Falstaff’s and our meeting, they
+will at once display to the night.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+That cannot choose but amaze him.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be amazed, he will every
+way be mocked.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+We’ll betray him finely.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Against such lewdsters and their lechery,
+Those that betray them do no treachery.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Windsor Park
+
+Enter Sir Hugh Evans disguised, and children as Fairies.
+
+EVANS.
+Trib, trib, fairies. Come, and remember your parts. Be pold, I pray
+you, follow me into the pit, and when I give the watch-’ords, do as I
+pid you. Come, come; trib, trib.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the Park
+
+Enter Falstaff wearing a buck’s head.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+The Windsor bell hath struck twelve, the minute draws on. Now the
+hot-blooded gods assist me! Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy
+Europa; love set on thy horns. O powerful love, that in some respects,
+makes a beast a man, in some other a man a beast! You were also,
+Jupiter, a swan for the love of Leda. O omnipotent love, how near the
+god drew to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in the form
+of a beast; O Jove, a beastly fault! And then another fault in the
+semblance of a fowl; think on’t, Jove, a foul fault! When gods have hot
+backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag, and
+the fattest, I think, i’ the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or
+who can blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? My doe?
+
+Enter Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Sir John? Art thou there, my deer, my male deer?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain potatoes, let it thunder
+to the tune of “Greensleeves”, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes;
+let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
+
+[_He embraces her._]
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Mistress Page is come with me, sweetheart.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Divide me like a bribed buck, each a haunch. I will keep my sides to
+myself, my shoulders for the fellow of this walk, and my horns I
+bequeath your husbands. Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the
+hunter? Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes restitution.
+As I am a true spirit, welcome!
+
+[_A noise of horns within._]
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Alas, what noise?
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Heaven forgive our sins!
+
+FALSTAFF.
+What should this be?
+
+MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE.
+Away, away!
+
+[_They run off._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that’s in me
+should set hell on fire; he would never else cross me thus.
+
+Enter Mistress Quickly as the Queen of Fairies, Sir Hugh Evans as a
+Satyr, Pistol as Hobgoblin, Anne Page and children as Fairies, carrying
+tapers.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
+You moonshine revellers and shades of night,
+You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
+Attend your office and your quality.
+Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes.
+
+PISTOL.
+Elves, list your names; silence, you airy toys!
+Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap,
+Where fires thou find’st unraked and hearths unswept,
+There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
+Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+They are fairies, he that speaks to them shall die.
+I’ll wink and couch. No man their works must eye.
+
+[_Lies down upon his face._]
+
+EVANS
+Where’s Bead? Go you, and where you find a maid
+That ere she sleep has thrice her prayers said,
+Rein up the organs of her fantasy;
+Sleep she as sound as careless infancy.
+But those as sleep and think not on their sins,
+Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and shins.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+About, about!
+Search Windsor castle, elves, within and out.
+Strew good luck, oafs, on every sacred room,
+That it may stand till the perpetual doom
+In state as wholesome as in state ’tis fit,
+Worthy the owner and the owner it.
+The several chairs of order look you scour
+With juice of balm and every precious flower.
+Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,
+With loyal blazon, evermore be blest!
+And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,
+Like to the Garter’s compass, in a ring.
+Th’ expressure that it bears, green let it be,
+More fertile-fresh than all the field to see;
+And _Honi soit qui mal y pense_ write
+In em’rald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white,
+Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
+Buckled below fair knighthood’s bending knee.
+Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
+Away, disperse! But till ’tis one o’clock,
+Our dance of custom round about the oak
+Of Herne the hunter let us not forget.
+
+EVANS.
+Pray you, lock hand in hand, yourselves in order set;
+And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be,
+To guide our measure round about the tree.
+But stay, I smell a man of middle earth.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he transform me to a
+piece of cheese!
+
+PISTOL.
+Vile worm, thou wast o’erlooked even in thy birth.
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+With trial-fire touch me his finger-end.
+If he be chaste, the flame will back descend
+And turn him to no pain; but if he start,
+It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
+
+PISTOL.
+A trial, come.
+
+EVANS.
+Come, will this wood take fire?
+
+[_They put the tapers to his fingers, and he starts._]
+
+FALSTAFF.
+O, o, o!
+
+MISTRESS QUICKLY.
+Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!
+About him, fairies, sing a scornful rhyme,
+And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.
+
+SONG.
+Fie on sinful fantasy!
+Fie on lust and luxury!
+Lust is but a bloody fire,
+Kindled with unchaste desire,
+Fed in heart, whose flames aspire,
+As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
+Pinch him, fairies, mutually;
+Pinch him for his villainy.
+Pinch him and burn him and turn him about,
+Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
+
+[_During the song they pinch him, and Doctor Caius comes one way and
+steals away a boy in green; and Slender another way takes a boy in
+white; Fenton comes in and steals away Anne Page. A noise of hunting is
+heard within and all the fairies run away. Falstaff pulls off his
+buck’s head, and rises up._]
+
+Enter Page, Ford, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford.
+
+PAGE.
+Nay, do not fly. I think we have watched you now.
+Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher.—
+Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives?
+See you these, husband?
+
+[_She points to the horns._]
+
+Do not these fair yokes
+Become the forest better than the town?
+
+FORD.
+Now, sir, who’s a cuckold now? Master Brook, Falstaff’s a knave, a
+cuckoldly knave. Here are his horns, Master Brook. And, Master Brook,
+he hath enjoyed nothing of Ford’s but his buck-basket, his cudgel, and
+twenty pounds of money, which must be paid to Master Brook. His horses
+are arrested for it, Master Brook.
+
+MISTRESS FORD.
+Sir John, we have had ill luck, we could never meet. I will never take
+you for my love again, but I will always count you my deer.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.
+
+FORD.
+Ay, and an ox too. Both the proofs are extant.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+And these are not fairies? I was three or four times in the thought
+they were not fairies; and yet the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden
+surprise of my powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a
+received belief, in despite of the teeth of all rhyme and reason, that
+they were fairies. See now how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent when ’tis
+upon ill employment!
+
+EVANS.
+Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your desires, and fairies will
+not pinse you.
+
+FORD.
+Well said, fairy Hugh.
+
+EVANS.
+And leave you your jealousies too, I pray you.
+
+FORD.
+I will never mistrust my wife again, till thou art able to woo her in
+good English.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Have I laid my brain in the sun, and dried it, that it wants matter to
+prevent so gross o’erreaching as this? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat
+too? Shall I have a cox-comb of frieze? ’Tis time I were choked with a
+piece of toasted cheese.
+
+EVANS.
+Seese is not good to give putter. Your belly is all putter.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+“Seese” and “putter”? Have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that
+makes fritters of English? This is enough to be the decay of lust and
+late-walking through the realm.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Why, Sir John, do you think, though we would have thrust virtue out of
+our hearts by the head and shoulders, and have given ourselves without
+scruple to hell, that ever the devil could have made you our delight?
+
+FORD.
+What, a hodge-pudding? A bag of flax?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+A puffed man?
+
+PAGE.
+Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails?
+
+FORD.
+And one that is as slanderous as Satan?
+
+PAGE.
+And as poor as Job?
+
+FORD.
+And as wicked as his wife?
+
+EVANS.
+And given to fornications, and to taverns, and sack, and wine, and
+metheglins, and to drinkings and swearings and starings, pribbles and
+prabbles?
+
+FALSTAFF.
+Well, I am your theme. You have the start of me. I am dejected, I am
+not able to answer the Welsh flannel. Ignorance itself is a plummet
+o’er me. Use me as you will.
+
+FORD.
+Marry, sir, we’ll bring you to Windsor to one Master Brook, that you
+have cozened of money, to whom you should have been a pander. Over and
+above that you have suffered, I think to repay that money will be a
+biting affliction.
+
+PAGE.
+Yet be cheerful, knight. Thou shalt eat a posset tonight at my house,
+where I will desire thee to laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee.
+Tell her Master Slender hath married her daughter.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+[_Aside_.] Doctors doubt that. If Anne Page be my daughter, she is, by
+this, Doctor Caius’ wife.
+
+Enter Slender.
+
+SLENDER
+Whoa, ho, ho, father Page!
+
+PAGE.
+Son, how now! How now, son, have you dispatched?
+
+SLENDER.
+Dispatched? I’ll make the best in Gloucestershire know on’t. Would I
+were hanged, la, else!
+
+PAGE.
+Of what, son?
+
+SLENDER.
+I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page, and she’s a great
+lubberly boy. If it had not been i’ the church, I would have swinged
+him, or he should have swinged me. If I did not think it had been Anne
+Page, would I might never stir! And ’tis a postmaster’s boy.
+
+PAGE.
+Upon my life, then, you took the wrong.
+
+SLENDER.
+What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took a boy for a girl.
+If I had been married to him, for all he was in woman’s apparel, I
+would not have had him.
+
+PAGE.
+Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how you should know my
+daughter by her garments?
+
+SLENDER.
+I went to her in white and cried “mum”, and she cried “budget”, as Anne
+and I had appointed, and yet it was not Anne, but a postmaster’s boy.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Good George, be not angry. I knew of your purpose, turned my daughter
+into green, and indeed she is now with the doctor at the deanery, and
+there married.
+
+Enter Doctor Caius.
+
+CAIUS
+Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened, I ha’ married _un garçon_,
+a boy; _un paysan_, by gar, a boy. It is not Anne Page. By gar, I am
+cozened.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Why, did you take her in green?
+
+CAIUS.
+Ay, by gar, and ’tis a boy. By gar, I’ll raise all Windsor.
+
+FORD
+This is strange. Who hath got the right Anne?
+
+Enter Fenton and Anne Page.
+
+PAGE.
+My heart misgives me. Here comes Master Fenton.—How now, Master Fenton!
+
+ANNE.
+Pardon, good father. Good my mother, pardon.
+
+PAGE.
+Now, mistress, how chance you went not with Master Slender?
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Why went you not with Master Doctor, maid?
+
+FENTON.
+You do amaze her. Hear the truth of it.
+You would have married her most shamefully,
+Where there was no proportion held in love.
+The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,
+Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us.
+Th’ offence is holy that she hath committed,
+And this deceit loses the name of craft,
+Of disobedience, or unduteous title,
+Since therein she doth evitate and shun
+A thousand irreligious cursed hours,
+Which forced marriage would have brought upon her.
+
+FORD.
+Stand not amazed, here is no remedy.
+In love, the heavens themselves do guide the state.
+Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+I am glad, though you have ta’en a special stand to strike at me, that
+your arrow hath glanced.
+
+PAGE.
+Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee joy!
+What cannot be eschewed must be embraced.
+
+FALSTAFF.
+When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased.
+
+MISTRESS PAGE.
+Well, I will muse no further.—Master Fenton,
+Heaven give you many, many merry days!
+Good husband, let us every one go home,
+And laugh this sport o’er by a country fire,
+Sir John and all.
+
+FORD.
+Let it be so, Sir John,
+To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word,
+For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I.
+Athens. A room in the Palace of Theseus
+Scene II.
+The Same. A Room in a Cottage
+
+ACT II
+Scene I.
+A wood near Athens
+Scene II.
+Another part of the wood
+
+ACT III
+Scene I.
+The Wood.
+Scene II.
+Another part of the wood
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I.
+The Wood
+Scene II.
+Athens. A Room in Quince’s House
+
+ACT V
+Scene I.
+Athens. An Apartment in the Palace of Theseus
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+
+THESEUS, Duke of Athens
+HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, bethrothed to Theseus
+EGEUS, Father to Hermia
+HERMIA, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander
+HELENA, in love with Demetrius
+LYSANDER, in love with Hermia
+DEMETRIUS, in love with Hermia
+PHILOSTRATE, Master of the Revels to Theseus
+
+QUINCE, the Carpenter
+SNUG, the Joiner
+BOTTOM, the Weaver
+FLUTE, the Bellows-mender
+SNOUT, the Tinker
+STARVELING, the Tailor
+
+OBERON, King of the Fairies
+TITANIA, Queen of the Fairies
+PUCK, or ROBIN GOODFELLOW, a Fairy
+PEASEBLOSSOM, Fairy
+COBWEB, Fairy
+MOTH, Fairy
+MUSTARDSEED, Fairy
+
+PYRAMUS, THISBE, WALL, MOONSHINE, LION; Characters in the Interlude
+performed by the Clowns
+
+Other Fairies attending their King and Queen
+Attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta
+
+SCENE: Athens, and a wood not far from it
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Athens. A room in the Palace of Theseus
+
+
+ Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate and Attendants.
+
+THESEUS.
+Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
+Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
+Another moon; but oh, methinks, how slow
+This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,
+Like to a step-dame or a dowager,
+Long withering out a young man’s revenue.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
+Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
+And then the moon, like to a silver bow
+New bent in heaven, shall behold the night
+Of our solemnities.
+
+THESEUS.
+Go, Philostrate,
+Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
+Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
+Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
+The pale companion is not for our pomp.
+
+ [_Exit Philostrate._]
+
+Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword,
+And won thy love doing thee injuries;
+But I will wed thee in another key,
+With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling.
+
+ Enter Egeus, Hermia, Lysander and Demetrius.
+
+EGEUS.
+Happy be Theseus, our renownèd Duke!
+
+THESEUS.
+Thanks, good Egeus. What’s the news with thee?
+
+EGEUS.
+Full of vexation come I, with complaint
+Against my child, my daughter Hermia.
+Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,
+This man hath my consent to marry her.
+Stand forth, Lysander. And, my gracious Duke,
+This man hath bewitch’d the bosom of my child.
+Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,
+And interchang’d love-tokens with my child.
+Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,
+With feigning voice, verses of feigning love;
+And stol’n the impression of her fantasy
+With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits,
+Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats (messengers
+Of strong prevailment in unharden’d youth)
+With cunning hast thou filch’d my daughter’s heart,
+Turn’d her obedience (which is due to me)
+To stubborn harshness. And, my gracious Duke,
+Be it so she will not here before your grace
+Consent to marry with Demetrius,
+I beg the ancient privilege of Athens:
+As she is mine I may dispose of her;
+Which shall be either to this gentleman
+Or to her death, according to our law
+Immediately provided in that case.
+
+THESEUS.
+What say you, Hermia? Be advis’d, fair maid.
+To you your father should be as a god;
+One that compos’d your beauties, yea, and one
+To whom you are but as a form in wax
+By him imprinted, and within his power
+To leave the figure, or disfigure it.
+Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
+
+HERMIA.
+So is Lysander.
+
+THESEUS.
+In himself he is.
+But in this kind, wanting your father’s voice,
+The other must be held the worthier.
+
+HERMIA.
+I would my father look’d but with my eyes.
+
+THESEUS.
+Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
+
+HERMIA.
+I do entreat your Grace to pardon me.
+I know not by what power I am made bold,
+Nor how it may concern my modesty
+In such a presence here to plead my thoughts:
+But I beseech your Grace that I may know
+The worst that may befall me in this case,
+If I refuse to wed Demetrius.
+
+THESEUS.
+Either to die the death, or to abjure
+For ever the society of men.
+Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires,
+Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
+Whether, if you yield not to your father’s choice,
+You can endure the livery of a nun,
+For aye to be in shady cloister mew’d,
+To live a barren sister all your life,
+Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
+Thrice-blessèd they that master so their blood
+To undergo such maiden pilgrimage,
+But earthlier happy is the rose distill’d
+Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
+Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
+
+HERMIA.
+So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,
+Ere I will yield my virgin patent up
+Unto his lordship, whose unwishèd yoke
+My soul consents not to give sovereignty.
+
+THESEUS.
+Take time to pause; and by the next new moon
+The sealing-day betwixt my love and me
+For everlasting bond of fellowship,
+Upon that day either prepare to die
+For disobedience to your father’s will,
+Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
+Or on Diana’s altar to protest
+For aye austerity and single life.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Relent, sweet Hermia; and, Lysander, yield
+Thy crazèd title to my certain right.
+
+LYSANDER.
+You have her father’s love, Demetrius.
+Let me have Hermia’s. Do you marry him.
+
+EGEUS.
+Scornful Lysander, true, he hath my love;
+And what is mine my love shall render him;
+And she is mine, and all my right of her
+I do estate unto Demetrius.
+
+LYSANDER.
+I am, my lord, as well deriv’d as he,
+As well possess’d; my love is more than his;
+My fortunes every way as fairly rank’d,
+If not with vantage, as Demetrius’;
+And, which is more than all these boasts can be,
+I am belov’d of beauteous Hermia.
+Why should not I then prosecute my right?
+Demetrius, I’ll avouch it to his head,
+Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena,
+And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,
+Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,
+Upon this spotted and inconstant man.
+
+THESEUS.
+I must confess that I have heard so much,
+And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;
+But, being over-full of self-affairs,
+My mind did lose it.—But, Demetrius, come,
+And come, Egeus; you shall go with me.
+I have some private schooling for you both.—
+For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
+To fit your fancies to your father’s will,
+Or else the law of Athens yields you up
+(Which by no means we may extenuate)
+To death, or to a vow of single life.
+Come, my Hippolyta. What cheer, my love?
+Demetrius and Egeus, go along;
+I must employ you in some business
+Against our nuptial, and confer with you
+Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.
+
+EGEUS.
+With duty and desire we follow you.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Lysander and Hermia._]
+
+LYSANDER.
+How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale?
+How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
+
+HERMIA.
+Belike for want of rain, which I could well
+Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Ay me! For aught that I could ever read,
+Could ever hear by tale or history,
+The course of true love never did run smooth.
+But either it was different in blood—
+
+HERMIA.
+O cross! Too high to be enthrall’d to low.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Or else misgraffèd in respect of years—
+
+HERMIA.
+O spite! Too old to be engag’d to young.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Or else it stood upon the choice of friends—
+
+HERMIA.
+O hell! to choose love by another’s eyes!
+
+LYSANDER.
+Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
+War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
+Making it momentany as a sound,
+Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
+Brief as the lightning in the collied night
+That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
+And, ere a man hath power to say, ‘Behold!’
+The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
+So quick bright things come to confusion.
+
+HERMIA.
+If then true lovers have ever cross’d,
+It stands as an edict in destiny.
+Then let us teach our trial patience,
+Because it is a customary cross,
+As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
+Wishes and tears, poor fancy’s followers.
+
+LYSANDER.
+A good persuasion; therefore, hear me, Hermia.
+I have a widow aunt, a dowager
+Of great revenue, and she hath no child.
+From Athens is her house remote seven leagues,
+And she respects me as her only son.
+There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee,
+And to that place the sharp Athenian law
+Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,
+Steal forth thy father’s house tomorrow night;
+And in the wood, a league without the town
+(Where I did meet thee once with Helena
+To do observance to a morn of May),
+There will I stay for thee.
+
+HERMIA.
+My good Lysander!
+I swear to thee by Cupid’s strongest bow,
+By his best arrow with the golden head,
+By the simplicity of Venus’ doves,
+By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,
+And by that fire which burn’d the Carthage queen
+When the false Trojan under sail was seen,
+By all the vows that ever men have broke
+(In number more than ever women spoke),
+In that same place thou hast appointed me,
+Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena.
+
+ Enter Helena.
+
+HERMIA.
+God speed fair Helena! Whither away?
+
+HELENA.
+Call you me fair? That fair again unsay.
+Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!
+Your eyes are lode-stars and your tongue’s sweet air
+More tuneable than lark to shepherd’s ear,
+When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
+Sickness is catching. O were favour so,
+Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go.
+My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
+My tongue should catch your tongue’s sweet melody.
+Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
+The rest I’d give to be to you translated.
+O, teach me how you look, and with what art
+You sway the motion of Demetrius’ heart!
+
+HERMIA.
+I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.
+
+HELENA.
+O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!
+
+HERMIA.
+I give him curses, yet he gives me love.
+
+HELENA.
+O that my prayers could such affection move!
+
+HERMIA.
+The more I hate, the more he follows me.
+
+HELENA.
+The more I love, the more he hateth me.
+
+HERMIA.
+His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.
+
+HELENA.
+None but your beauty; would that fault were mine!
+
+HERMIA.
+Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;
+Lysander and myself will fly this place.
+Before the time I did Lysander see,
+Seem’d Athens as a paradise to me.
+O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
+That he hath turn’d a heaven into hell!
+
+LYSANDER.
+Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:
+Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
+Her silver visage in the watery glass,
+Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass
+(A time that lovers’ flights doth still conceal),
+Through Athens’ gates have we devis’d to steal.
+
+HERMIA.
+And in the wood where often you and I
+Upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie,
+Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
+There my Lysander and myself shall meet,
+And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,
+To seek new friends and stranger companies.
+Farewell, sweet playfellow. Pray thou for us,
+And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!
+Keep word, Lysander. We must starve our sight
+From lovers’ food, till morrow deep midnight.
+
+LYSANDER.
+I will, my Hermia.
+
+ [_Exit Hermia._]
+
+Helena, adieu.
+As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!
+
+ [_Exit Lysander._]
+
+HELENA.
+How happy some o’er other some can be!
+Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
+But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;
+He will not know what all but he do know.
+And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,
+So I, admiring of his qualities.
+Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
+Love can transpose to form and dignity.
+Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
+And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
+Nor hath love’s mind of any judgment taste.
+Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste.
+And therefore is love said to be a child,
+Because in choice he is so oft beguil’d.
+As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
+So the boy Love is perjur’d everywhere.
+For, ere Demetrius look’d on Hermia’s eyne,
+He hail’d down oaths that he was only mine;
+And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
+So he dissolv’d, and showers of oaths did melt.
+I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight.
+Then to the wood will he tomorrow night
+Pursue her; and for this intelligence
+If I have thanks, it is a dear expense.
+But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
+To have his sight thither and back again.
+
+ [_Exit Helena._]
+
+
+SCENE II. The Same. A Room in a Cottage
+
+ Enter Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout  and Starveling.
+
+QUINCE.
+Is all our company here?
+
+BOTTOM.
+You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the
+scrip.
+
+QUINCE.
+Here is the scroll of every man’s name, which is thought fit through
+all Athens, to play in our interlude before the Duke and Duchess, on
+his wedding-day at night.
+
+BOTTOM.
+First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats on; then read the
+names of the actors; and so grow to a point.
+
+QUINCE.
+Marry, our play is _The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of
+Pyramus and Thisbe_.
+
+BOTTOM.
+A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. Now, good Peter
+Quince, call forth your actors by the scroll. Masters, spread
+yourselves.
+
+QUINCE.
+Answer, as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.
+
+QUINCE.
+You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
+
+BOTTOM.
+What is Pyramus—a lover, or a tyrant?
+
+QUINCE.
+A lover, that kills himself most gallantly for love.
+
+BOTTOM.
+That will ask some tears in the true performing of it. If I do it, let
+the audience look to their eyes. I will move storms; I will condole in
+some measure. To the rest—yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could
+play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.
+
+    The raging rocks
+    And shivering shocks
+    Shall break the locks
+           Of prison gates,
+    And Phibbus’ car
+    Shall shine from far,
+    And make and mar
+           The foolish Fates.
+
+This was lofty. Now name the rest of the players. This is Ercles’ vein,
+a tyrant’s vein; a lover is more condoling.
+
+QUINCE.
+Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.
+
+FLUTE.
+Here, Peter Quince.
+
+QUINCE.
+Flute, you must take Thisbe on you.
+
+FLUTE.
+What is Thisbe? A wandering knight?
+
+QUINCE.
+It is the lady that Pyramus must love.
+
+FLUTE.
+Nay, faith, let not me play a woman. I have a beard coming.
+
+QUINCE.
+That’s all one. You shall play it in a mask, and you may speak as small
+as you will.
+
+BOTTOM.
+And I may hide my face, let me play Thisbe too. I’ll speak in a
+monstrous little voice; ‘Thisne, Thisne!’—‘Ah, Pyramus, my lover dear!
+thy Thisbe dear! and lady dear!’
+
+QUINCE.
+No, no, you must play Pyramus; and, Flute, you Thisbe.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Well, proceed.
+
+QUINCE.
+Robin Starveling, the tailor.
+
+STARVELING.
+Here, Peter Quince.
+
+QUINCE.
+Robin Starveling, you must play Thisbe’s mother.
+Tom Snout, the tinker.
+
+SNOUT
+Here, Peter Quince.
+
+QUINCE.
+You, Pyramus’ father; myself, Thisbe’s father;
+Snug, the joiner, you, the lion’s part. And, I hope here is a play
+fitted.
+
+SNUG
+Have you the lion’s part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I
+am slow of study.
+
+QUINCE.
+You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will do any man’s heart
+good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the Duke say ‘Let him
+roar again, let him roar again.’
+
+QUINCE.
+If you should do it too terribly, you would fright the Duchess and the
+ladies, that they would shriek; and that were enough to hang us all.
+
+ALL
+That would hang us every mother’s son.
+
+BOTTOM.
+I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their
+wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us. But I will
+aggravate my voice so, that I will roar you as gently as any sucking
+dove; I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale.
+
+QUINCE.
+You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a
+proper man as one shall see in a summer’s day; a most lovely
+gentleman-like man. Therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best to play it in?
+
+QUINCE.
+Why, what you will.
+
+BOTTOM.
+I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard, your
+orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your
+French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow.
+
+QUINCE.
+Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play
+bare-faced. But, masters, here are your parts, and I am to entreat you,
+request you, and desire you, to con them by tomorrow night; and meet me
+in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will
+we rehearse, for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogg’d with
+company, and our devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of
+properties, such as our play wants. I pray you fail me not.
+
+BOTTOM.
+We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and
+courageously. Take pains, be perfect; adieu.
+
+QUINCE.
+At the Duke’s oak we meet.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Enough. Hold, or cut bow-strings.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. A wood near Athens
+
+
+ Enter a Fairy at one door, and Puck at another.
+
+PUCK.
+How now, spirit! Whither wander you?
+
+FAIRY
+    Over hill, over dale,
+        Thorough bush, thorough brier,
+    Over park, over pale,
+        Thorough flood, thorough fire,
+    I do wander everywhere,
+    Swifter than the moon’s sphere;
+    And I serve the Fairy Queen,
+    To dew her orbs upon the green.
+    The cowslips tall her pensioners be,
+    In their gold coats spots you see;
+    Those be rubies, fairy favours,
+    In those freckles live their savours.
+I must go seek some dew-drops here,
+And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.
+Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I’ll be gone.
+Our Queen and all her elves come here anon.
+
+PUCK.
+The King doth keep his revels here tonight;
+Take heed the Queen come not within his sight,
+For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,
+Because that she, as her attendant, hath
+A lovely boy, stol’n from an Indian king;
+She never had so sweet a changeling.
+And jealous Oberon would have the child
+Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild:
+But she perforce withholds the lovèd boy,
+Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her joy.
+And now they never meet in grove or green,
+By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,
+But they do square; that all their elves for fear
+Creep into acorn cups, and hide them there.
+
+FAIRY
+Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
+Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
+Call’d Robin Goodfellow. Are not you he
+That frights the maidens of the villagery,
+Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern,
+And bootless make the breathless housewife churn,
+And sometime make the drink to bear no barm,
+Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
+Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck,
+You do their work, and they shall have good luck.
+Are not you he?
+
+PUCK.
+Thou speak’st aright;
+I am that merry wanderer of the night.
+I jest to Oberon, and make him smile,
+When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
+Neighing in likeness of a filly foal;
+And sometime lurk I in a gossip’s bowl
+In very likeness of a roasted crab,
+And, when she drinks, against her lips I bob,
+And on her withered dewlap pour the ale.
+The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
+Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
+Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
+And ‘tailor’ cries, and falls into a cough;
+And then the whole quire hold their hips and loffe
+And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear
+A merrier hour was never wasted there.
+But room, fairy. Here comes Oberon.
+
+FAIRY
+And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!
+
+ Enter Oberon at one door, with his Train, and Titania at another, with
+ hers.
+
+OBERON.
+Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
+
+TITANIA.
+What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence;
+I have forsworn his bed and company.
+
+OBERON.
+Tarry, rash wanton; am not I thy lord?
+
+TITANIA.
+Then I must be thy lady; but I know
+When thou hast stol’n away from fairyland,
+And in the shape of Corin sat all day
+Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love
+To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,
+Come from the farthest steep of India,
+But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
+Your buskin’d mistress and your warrior love,
+To Theseus must be wedded; and you come
+To give their bed joy and prosperity?
+
+OBERON.
+How canst thou thus, for shame, Titania,
+Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,
+Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?
+Didst not thou lead him through the glimmering night
+From Perigenia, whom he ravished?
+And make him with fair Aegles break his faith,
+With Ariadne and Antiopa?
+
+TITANIA.
+These are the forgeries of jealousy:
+And never, since the middle summer’s spring,
+Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
+By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook,
+Or on the beachèd margent of the sea,
+To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
+But with thy brawls thou hast disturb’d our sport.
+Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
+As in revenge, have suck’d up from the sea
+Contagious fogs; which, falling in the land,
+Hath every pelting river made so proud
+That they have overborne their continents.
+The ox hath therefore stretch’d his yoke in vain,
+The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn
+Hath rotted ere his youth attain’d a beard.
+The fold stands empty in the drownèd field,
+And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;
+The nine-men’s-morris is fill’d up with mud,
+And the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
+For lack of tread, are undistinguishable.
+The human mortals want their winter here.
+No night is now with hymn or carol blest.
+Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
+Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
+That rheumatic diseases do abound.
+And thorough this distemperature we see
+The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
+Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose;
+And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown
+An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
+Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
+The childing autumn, angry winter, change
+Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world,
+By their increase, now knows not which is which.
+And this same progeny of evils comes
+From our debate, from our dissension;
+We are their parents and original.
+
+OBERON.
+Do you amend it, then. It lies in you.
+Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
+I do but beg a little changeling boy
+To be my henchman.
+
+TITANIA.
+Set your heart at rest;
+The fairyland buys not the child of me.
+His mother was a vot’ress of my order,
+And in the spicèd Indian air, by night,
+Full often hath she gossip’d by my side;
+And sat with me on Neptune’s yellow sands,
+Marking th’ embarkèd traders on the flood,
+When we have laugh’d to see the sails conceive,
+And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
+Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait
+Following (her womb then rich with my young squire),
+Would imitate, and sail upon the land,
+To fetch me trifles, and return again,
+As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.
+But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;
+And for her sake do I rear up her boy,
+And for her sake I will not part with him.
+
+OBERON.
+How long within this wood intend you stay?
+
+TITANIA.
+Perchance till after Theseus’ wedding-day.
+If you will patiently dance in our round,
+And see our moonlight revels, go with us;
+If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.
+
+OBERON.
+Give me that boy and I will go with thee.
+
+TITANIA.
+Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away.
+We shall chide downright if I longer stay.
+
+ [_Exit Titania with her Train._]
+
+OBERON.
+Well, go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove
+Till I torment thee for this injury.—
+My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb’rest
+Since once I sat upon a promontory,
+And heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back
+Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
+That the rude sea grew civil at her song
+And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
+To hear the sea-maid’s music.
+
+PUCK.
+I remember.
+
+OBERON.
+That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not),
+Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
+Cupid all arm’d: a certain aim he took
+At a fair vestal, thronèd by the west,
+And loos’d his love-shaft smartly from his bow
+As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.
+But I might see young Cupid’s fiery shaft
+Quench’d in the chaste beams of the watery moon;
+And the imperial votress passed on,
+In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
+Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
+It fell upon a little western flower,
+Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound,
+And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
+Fetch me that flower, the herb I showed thee once:
+The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
+Will make or man or woman madly dote
+Upon the next live creature that it sees.
+Fetch me this herb, and be thou here again
+Ere the leviathan can swim a league.
+
+PUCK.
+I’ll put a girdle round about the earth
+In forty minutes.
+
+ [_Exit Puck._]
+
+OBERON.
+Having once this juice,
+I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep,
+And drop the liquor of it in her eyes:
+The next thing then she waking looks upon
+(Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,
+On meddling monkey, or on busy ape)
+She shall pursue it with the soul of love.
+And ere I take this charm from off her sight
+(As I can take it with another herb)
+I’ll make her render up her page to me.
+But who comes here? I am invisible;
+And I will overhear their conference.
+
+ Enter Demetrius, Helena following him.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
+Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
+The one I’ll slay, the other slayeth me.
+Thou told’st me they were stol’n into this wood,
+And here am I, and wode within this wood
+Because I cannot meet with Hermia.
+Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.
+
+HELENA.
+You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant,
+But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
+Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw,
+And I shall have no power to follow you.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?
+Or rather do I not in plainest truth
+Tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you?
+
+HELENA.
+And even for that do I love you the more.
+I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
+The more you beat me, I will fawn on you.
+Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
+Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
+Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
+What worser place can I beg in your love,
+(And yet a place of high respect with me)
+Than to be usèd as you use your dog?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;
+For I am sick when I do look on thee.
+
+HELENA.
+And I am sick when I look not on you.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+You do impeach your modesty too much
+To leave the city and commit yourself
+Into the hands of one that loves you not,
+To trust the opportunity of night
+And the ill counsel of a desert place,
+With the rich worth of your virginity.
+
+HELENA.
+Your virtue is my privilege: for that
+It is not night when I do see your face,
+Therefore I think I am not in the night;
+Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
+For you, in my respect, are all the world.
+Then how can it be said I am alone
+When all the world is here to look on me?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,
+And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.
+
+HELENA.
+The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
+Run when you will, the story shall be chang’d;
+Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
+The dove pursues the griffin, the mild hind
+Makes speed to catch the tiger. Bootless speed,
+When cowardice pursues and valour flies!
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I will not stay thy questions. Let me go,
+Or if thou follow me, do not believe
+But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.
+
+HELENA.
+Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
+You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!
+Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex.
+We cannot fight for love as men may do.
+We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.
+
+ [_Exit Demetrius._]
+
+I’ll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell,
+To die upon the hand I love so well.
+
+ [_Exit Helena._]
+
+OBERON.
+Fare thee well, nymph. Ere he do leave this grove,
+Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love.
+
+ Enter Puck.
+
+Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.
+
+PUCK.
+Ay, there it is.
+
+OBERON.
+I pray thee give it me.
+I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
+Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
+Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
+With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
+There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
+Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
+And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
+Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.
+And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes,
+And make her full of hateful fantasies.
+Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:
+A sweet Athenian lady is in love
+With a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes;
+But do it when the next thing he espies
+May be the lady. Thou shalt know the man
+By the Athenian garments he hath on.
+Effect it with some care, that he may prove
+More fond on her than she upon her love:
+And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.
+
+PUCK.
+Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+SCENE II. Another part of the wood
+
+ Enter Titania with her Train.
+
+TITANIA.
+Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;
+Then for the third part of a minute, hence;
+Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds;
+Some war with reremice for their leathern wings,
+To make my small elves coats; and some keep back
+The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders
+At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;
+Then to your offices, and let me rest.
+
+Fairies sing.
+
+FIRST FAIRY.
+    You spotted snakes with double tongue,
+       Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
+    Newts and blind-worms do no wrong,
+       Come not near our Fairy Queen:
+
+CHORUS.
+    Philomel, with melody,
+    Sing in our sweet lullaby:
+Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby.
+    Never harm, nor spell, nor charm,
+    Come our lovely lady nigh;
+    So good night, with lullaby.
+
+FIRST FAIRY.
+    Weaving spiders, come not here;
+       Hence, you long-legg’d spinners, hence.
+    Beetles black, approach not near;
+       Worm nor snail do no offence.
+
+CHORUS.
+    Philomel with melody, &c.
+
+SECOND FAIRY.
+Hence away! Now all is well.
+One aloof stand sentinel.
+
+ [_Exeunt Fairies. Titania sleeps._]
+
+ Enter Oberon.
+
+OBERON.
+What thou seest when thou dost wake,
+
+ [_Squeezes the flower on  Titania’s eyelids._]
+
+Do it for thy true love take;
+Love and languish for his sake.
+Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
+Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
+In thy eye that shall appear
+When thou wak’st, it is thy dear.
+Wake when some vile thing is near.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Lysander and Hermia.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Fair love, you faint with wand’ring in the wood.
+And, to speak troth, I have forgot our way.
+We’ll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,
+And tarry for the comfort of the day.
+
+HERMIA.
+Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed,
+For I upon this bank will rest my head.
+
+LYSANDER.
+One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;
+One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth.
+
+HERMIA.
+Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,
+Lie further off yet, do not lie so near.
+
+LYSANDER.
+O take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
+Love takes the meaning in love’s conference.
+I mean that my heart unto yours is knit,
+So that but one heart we can make of it:
+Two bosoms interchainèd with an oath,
+So then two bosoms and a single troth.
+Then by your side no bed-room me deny;
+For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.
+
+HERMIA.
+Lysander riddles very prettily.
+Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,
+If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied!
+But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy
+Lie further off, in human modesty,
+Such separation as may well be said
+Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,
+So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend:
+Thy love ne’er alter till thy sweet life end!
+
+LYSANDER.
+Amen, amen, to that fair prayer say I;
+And then end life when I end loyalty!
+Here is my bed. Sleep give thee all his rest!
+
+HERMIA.
+With half that wish the wisher’s eyes be pressed!
+
+ [_They sleep._]
+
+ Enter Puck.
+
+PUCK.
+Through the forest have I gone,
+But Athenian found I none,
+On whose eyes I might approve
+This flower’s force in stirring love.
+Night and silence! Who is here?
+Weeds of Athens he doth wear:
+This is he, my master said,
+Despisèd the Athenian maid;
+And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
+On the dank and dirty ground.
+Pretty soul, she durst not lie
+Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
+Churl, upon thy eyes I throw
+All the power this charm doth owe;
+When thou wak’st let love forbid
+Sleep his seat on thy eyelid.
+So awake when I am gone;
+For I must now to Oberon.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Demetrius and Helena, running.
+
+HELENA.
+Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.
+
+HELENA.
+O, wilt thou darkling leave me? Do not so.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Stay, on thy peril; I alone will go.
+
+ [_Exit Demetrius._]
+
+HELENA.
+O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!
+The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.
+Happy is Hermia, wheresoe’er she lies,
+For she hath blessèd and attractive eyes.
+How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears.
+If so, my eyes are oftener wash’d than hers.
+No, no, I am as ugly as a bear,
+For beasts that meet me run away for fear:
+Therefore no marvel though Demetrius
+Do, as a monster, fly my presence thus.
+What wicked and dissembling glass of mine
+Made me compare with Hermia’s sphery eyne?
+But who is here? Lysander, on the ground!
+Dead or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.
+Lysander, if you live, good sir, awake.
+
+LYSANDER.
+[_Waking._] And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake.
+Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,
+That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.
+Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word
+Is that vile name to perish on my sword!
+
+HELENA.
+Do not say so, Lysander, say not so.
+What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?
+Yet Hermia still loves you. Then be content.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Content with Hermia? No, I do repent
+The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
+Not Hermia, but Helena I love.
+Who will not change a raven for a dove?
+The will of man is by his reason sway’d,
+And reason says you are the worthier maid.
+Things growing are not ripe until their season;
+So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;
+And touching now the point of human skill,
+Reason becomes the marshal to my will,
+And leads me to your eyes, where I o’erlook
+Love’s stories, written in love’s richest book.
+
+HELENA.
+Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
+When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
+Is’t not enough, is’t not enough, young man,
+That I did never, no, nor never can
+Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius’ eye,
+But you must flout my insufficiency?
+Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,
+In such disdainful manner me to woo.
+But fare you well; perforce I must confess,
+I thought you lord of more true gentleness.
+O, that a lady of one man refus’d,
+Should of another therefore be abus’d!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LYSANDER.
+She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there,
+And never mayst thou come Lysander near!
+For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things
+The deepest loathing to the stomach brings;
+Or as the heresies that men do leave
+Are hated most of those they did deceive;
+So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,
+Of all be hated, but the most of me!
+And, all my powers, address your love and might
+To honour Helen, and to be her knight!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+HERMIA.
+[_Starting._] Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best
+To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!
+Ay me, for pity! What a dream was here!
+Lysander, look how I do quake with fear.
+Methought a serpent eat my heart away,
+And you sat smiling at his cruel prey.
+Lysander! What, removed? Lysander! lord!
+What, out of hearing? Gone? No sound, no word?
+Alack, where are you? Speak, and if you hear;
+Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.
+No? Then I well perceive you are not nigh.
+Either death or you I’ll find immediately.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. The Wood.
+
+
+ The Queen of Fairies still lying asleep.
+
+ Enter Bottom, Quince, Snout, Starveling, Snug and Flute.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Are we all met?
+
+QUINCE.
+Pat, pat; and here’s a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal.
+This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn brake our
+tiring-house; and we will do it in action, as we will do it before the
+Duke.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Peter Quince?
+
+QUINCE.
+What sayest thou, bully Bottom?
+
+BOTTOM.
+There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe that will never
+please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the
+ladies cannot abide. How answer you that?
+
+SNOUT
+By’r lakin, a parlous fear.
+
+STARVELING.
+I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Not a whit; I have a device to make all well. Write me a prologue, and
+let the prologue seem to say we will do no harm with our swords, and
+that Pyramus is not killed indeed; and for the more better assurance,
+tell them that I Pyramus am not Pyramus but Bottom the weaver. This
+will put them out of fear.
+
+QUINCE.
+Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be written in eight
+and six.
+
+BOTTOM.
+No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.
+
+SNOUT
+Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?
+
+STARVELING.
+I fear it, I promise you.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves, to bring in (God shield
+us!) a lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. For there is not a
+more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to look to
+it.
+
+SNOUT
+Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must be seen through the
+lion’s neck; and he himself must speak through, saying thus, or to the
+same defect: ‘Ladies,’ or, ‘Fair ladies, I would wish you,’ or, ‘I
+would request you,’ or, ’I would entreat you, not to fear, not to
+tremble: my life for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it
+were pity of my life. No, I am no such thing; I am a man as other men
+are’: and there, indeed, let him name his name, and tell them plainly
+he is Snug the joiner.
+
+QUINCE.
+Well, it shall be so. But there is two hard things: that is, to bring
+the moonlight into a chamber, for you know, Pyramus and Thisbe meet by
+moonlight.
+
+SNOUT
+Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?
+
+BOTTOM.
+A calendar, a calendar! Look in the almanack; find out moonshine, find
+out moonshine.
+
+QUINCE.
+Yes, it doth shine that night.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Why, then may you leave a casement of the great chamber window, where
+we play, open; and the moon may shine in at the casement.
+
+QUINCE.
+Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern, and
+say he comes to disfigure or to present the person of Moonshine. Then
+there is another thing: we must have a wall in the great chamber; for
+Pyramus and Thisbe, says the story, did talk through the chink of a
+wall.
+
+SNOUT
+You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?
+
+BOTTOM.
+Some man or other must present Wall. And let him have some plaster, or
+some loam, or some rough-cast about him, to signify wall; and let him
+hold his fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisbe
+whisper.
+
+QUINCE.
+If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down, every mother’s son,
+and rehearse your parts. Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your
+speech, enter into that brake; and so everyone according to his cue.
+
+ Enter Puck behind.
+
+PUCK.
+What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here,
+So near the cradle of the Fairy Queen?
+What, a play toward? I’ll be an auditor;
+An actor too perhaps, if I see cause.
+
+QUINCE.
+Speak, Pyramus.—Thisbe, stand forth.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+_Thisbe, the flowers of odious savours sweet_
+
+QUINCE.
+Odours, odours.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+_. . . odours savours sweet.
+So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisbe dear.
+But hark, a voice! Stay thou but here awhile,
+And by and by I will to thee appear._
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PUCK.
+A stranger Pyramus than e’er played here!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+THISBE.
+Must I speak now?
+
+QUINCE.
+Ay, marry, must you, For you must understand he goes but to see a noise
+that he heard, and is to come again.
+
+THISBE.
+_Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,
+Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,
+Most brisky juvenal, and eke most lovely Jew,
+As true as truest horse, that yet would never tire,
+I’ll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny’s tomb._
+
+QUINCE.
+Ninus’ tomb, man! Why, you must not speak that yet. That you answer to
+Pyramus. You speak all your part at once, cues, and all.—Pyramus enter!
+Your cue is past; it is ‘never tire.’
+
+THISBE.
+O, _As true as truest horse, that yet would never tire._
+
+ Enter Puck and Bottom with an ass’s head.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+_If I were fair, Thisbe, I were only thine._
+
+QUINCE.
+O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. Pray, masters, fly, masters!
+Help!
+
+ [_Exeunt Clowns._]
+
+PUCK.
+I’ll follow you. I’ll lead you about a round,
+   Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier;
+Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound,
+   A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;
+And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
+Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BOTTOM.
+Why do they run away? This is a knavery of them to make me afeard.
+
+ Enter Snout.
+
+SNOUT
+O Bottom, thou art changed! What do I see on thee?
+
+BOTTOM.
+What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own, do you?
+
+ [_Exit Snout._]
+
+ Enter Quince.
+
+QUINCE.
+Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! Thou art translated.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BOTTOM.
+I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me, to fright me, if
+they could. But I will not stir from this place, do what they can. I
+will walk up and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear I am
+not afraid.
+[_Sings._]
+       The ousel cock, so black of hue,
+          With orange-tawny bill,
+       The throstle with his note so true,
+          The wren with little quill.
+
+TITANIA.
+[_Waking._] What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
+
+BOTTOM.
+[_Sings._]
+       The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,
+          The plain-song cuckoo gray,
+       Whose note full many a man doth mark,
+          And dares not answer nay.
+for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish a bird? Who would give
+a bird the lie, though he cry ‘cuckoo’ never so?
+
+TITANIA.
+I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.
+Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note.
+So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape;
+And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me,
+On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet, to
+say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
+The more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them
+friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.
+
+TITANIA.
+Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Not so, neither; but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I
+have enough to serve mine own turn.
+
+TITANIA.
+Out of this wood do not desire to go.
+Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.
+I am a spirit of no common rate.
+The summer still doth tend upon my state;
+And I do love thee: therefore, go with me.
+I’ll give thee fairies to attend on thee;
+And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,
+And sing, while thou on pressèd flowers dost sleep.
+And I will purge thy mortal grossness so
+That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.—
+Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!
+
+ Enter four Fairies.
+
+PEASEBLOSSOM.
+Ready.
+
+
+COBWEB.
+And I.
+
+
+MOTH.
+And I.
+
+
+MUSTARDSEED.
+And I.
+
+
+ALL.
+Where shall we go?
+
+TITANIA.
+Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;
+Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;
+Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,
+With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;
+The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,
+And for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs,
+And light them at the fiery glow-worm’s eyes,
+To have my love to bed and to arise;
+And pluck the wings from painted butterflies,
+To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
+Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
+
+
+PEASEBLOSSOM.
+Hail, mortal!
+
+
+COBWEB.
+Hail!
+
+
+MOTH.
+Hail!
+
+
+MUSTARDSEED.
+Hail!
+
+BOTTOM.
+I cry your worships mercy, heartily.—I beseech your worship’s name.
+
+COBWEB.
+Cobweb.
+
+BOTTOM.
+I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master Cobweb. If I cut
+my finger, I shall make bold with you.—Your name, honest gentleman?
+
+PEASEBLOSSOM.
+Peaseblossom.
+
+BOTTOM.
+I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your mother, and to Master
+Peascod, your father. Good Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of
+more acquaintance too.—Your name, I beseech you, sir?
+
+MUSTARDSEED.
+Mustardseed.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well. That same cowardly
+giant-like ox-beef hath devoured many a gentleman of your house. I
+promise you, your kindred hath made my eyes water ere now. I desire you
+of more acquaintance, good Master Mustardseed.
+
+TITANIA.
+Come, wait upon him; lead him to my bower.
+   The moon, methinks, looks with a watery eye,
+And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,
+   Lamenting some enforced chastity.
+Tie up my love’s tongue, bring him silently.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+SCENE II. Another part of the wood
+
+ Enter Oberon.
+
+OBERON.
+I wonder if Titania be awak’d;
+Then, what it was that next came in her eye,
+Which she must dote on in extremity.
+
+ Enter Puck.
+
+Here comes my messenger. How now, mad spirit?
+What night-rule now about this haunted grove?
+
+PUCK.
+My mistress with a monster is in love.
+Near to her close and consecrated bower,
+While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
+A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
+That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
+Were met together to rehearse a play
+Intended for great Theseus’ nuptial day.
+The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort
+Who Pyramus presented in their sport,
+Forsook his scene and enter’d in a brake.
+When I did him at this advantage take,
+An ass’s nole I fixed on his head.
+Anon, his Thisbe must be answerèd,
+And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
+As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
+Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
+Rising and cawing at the gun’s report,
+Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,
+So at his sight away his fellows fly,
+And at our stamp, here o’er and o’er one falls;
+He murder cries, and help from Athens calls.
+Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears, thus strong,
+Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
+For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
+Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.
+I led them on in this distracted fear,
+And left sweet Pyramus translated there.
+When in that moment, so it came to pass,
+Titania wak’d, and straightway lov’d an ass.
+
+OBERON.
+This falls out better than I could devise.
+But hast thou yet latch’d the Athenian’s eyes
+With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?
+
+PUCK.
+I took him sleeping—that is finish’d too—
+And the Athenian woman by his side,
+That, when he wak’d, of force she must be ey’d.
+
+ Enter Demetrius and Hermia.
+
+OBERON.
+Stand close. This is the same Athenian.
+
+PUCK.
+This is the woman, but not this the man.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+O why rebuke you him that loves you so?
+Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
+
+HERMIA.
+Now I but chide, but I should use thee worse,
+For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse.
+If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,
+Being o’er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,
+And kill me too.
+The sun was not so true unto the day
+As he to me. Would he have stol’n away
+From sleeping Hermia? I’ll believe as soon
+This whole earth may be bor’d, and that the moon
+May through the centre creep and so displease
+Her brother’s noontide with th’ Antipodes.
+It cannot be but thou hast murder’d him.
+So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+So should the murder’d look, and so should I,
+Pierc’d through the heart with your stern cruelty.
+Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,
+As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.
+
+HERMIA.
+What’s this to my Lysander? Where is he?
+Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.
+
+HERMIA.
+Out, dog! Out, cur! Thou driv’st me past the bounds
+Of maiden’s patience. Hast thou slain him, then?
+Henceforth be never number’d among men!
+O once tell true; tell true, even for my sake!
+Durst thou have look’d upon him, being awake,
+And hast thou kill’d him sleeping? O brave touch!
+Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?
+An adder did it; for with doubler tongue
+Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+You spend your passion on a mispris’d mood:
+I am not guilty of Lysander’s blood;
+Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.
+
+HERMIA.
+I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+And if I could, what should I get therefore?
+
+HERMIA.
+A privilege never to see me more.
+And from thy hated presence part I so:
+See me no more, whether he be dead or no.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+There is no following her in this fierce vein.
+Here, therefore, for a while I will remain.
+So sorrow’s heaviness doth heavier grow
+For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe;
+Which now in some slight measure it will pay,
+If for his tender here I make some stay.
+
+ [_Lies down._]
+
+OBERON.
+What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite,
+And laid the love-juice on some true-love’s sight.
+Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
+Some true love turn’d, and not a false turn’d true.
+
+PUCK.
+Then fate o’er-rules, that, one man holding troth,
+A million fail, confounding oath on oath.
+
+OBERON.
+About the wood go swifter than the wind,
+And Helena of Athens look thou find.
+All fancy-sick she is, and pale of cheer
+With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.
+By some illusion see thou bring her here;
+I’ll charm his eyes against she do appear.
+
+PUCK.
+I go, I go; look how I go,
+Swifter than arrow from the Tartar’s bow.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+OBERON.
+    Flower of this purple dye,
+    Hit with Cupid’s archery,
+    Sink in apple of his eye.
+    When his love he doth espy,
+    Let her shine as gloriously
+    As the Venus of the sky.—
+    When thou wak’st, if she be by,
+    Beg of her for remedy.
+
+ Enter Puck.
+
+PUCK.
+    Captain of our fairy band,
+    Helena is here at hand,
+    And the youth mistook by me,
+    Pleading for a lover’s fee.
+    Shall we their fond pageant see?
+    Lord, what fools these mortals be!
+
+OBERON.
+    Stand aside. The noise they make
+    Will cause Demetrius to awake.
+
+PUCK.
+    Then will two at once woo one.
+    That must needs be sport alone;
+    And those things do best please me
+    That befall prepost’rously.
+
+ Enter Lysander and Helena.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
+Scorn and derision never come in tears.
+Look when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,
+In their nativity all truth appears.
+How can these things in me seem scorn to you,
+Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?
+
+HELENA.
+You do advance your cunning more and more.
+When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!
+These vows are Hermia’s: will you give her o’er?
+Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:
+Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
+Will even weigh; and both as light as tales.
+
+LYSANDER.
+I had no judgment when to her I swore.
+
+HELENA.
+Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o’er.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+[_Waking._] O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
+To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
+Crystal is muddy. O how ripe in show
+Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
+That pure congealèd white, high Taurus’ snow,
+Fann’d with the eastern wind, turns to a crow
+When thou hold’st up thy hand. O, let me kiss
+This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!
+
+HELENA.
+O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
+To set against me for your merriment.
+If you were civil, and knew courtesy,
+You would not do me thus much injury.
+Can you not hate me, as I know you do,
+But you must join in souls to mock me too?
+If you were men, as men you are in show,
+You would not use a gentle lady so;
+To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,
+When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.
+You both are rivals, and love Hermia;
+And now both rivals, to mock Helena.
+A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,
+To conjure tears up in a poor maid’s eyes
+With your derision! None of noble sort
+Would so offend a virgin, and extort
+A poor soul’s patience, all to make you sport.
+
+LYSANDER.
+You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so,
+For you love Hermia; this you know I know.
+And here, with all good will, with all my heart,
+In Hermia’s love I yield you up my part;
+And yours of Helena to me bequeath,
+Whom I do love and will do till my death.
+
+HELENA.
+Never did mockers waste more idle breath.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Lysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none.
+If e’er I lov’d her, all that love is gone.
+My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn’d;
+And now to Helen is it home return’d,
+There to remain.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Helen, it is not so.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,
+Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear.
+Look where thy love comes; yonder is thy dear.
+
+ Enter Hermia.
+
+HERMIA.
+Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
+The ear more quick of apprehension makes;
+Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,
+It pays the hearing double recompense.
+Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;
+Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound.
+But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?
+
+LYSANDER.
+Why should he stay whom love doth press to go?
+
+HERMIA.
+What love could press Lysander from my side?
+
+LYSANDER.
+Lysander’s love, that would not let him bide,
+Fair Helena, who more engilds the night
+Than all yon fiery oes and eyes of light.
+Why seek’st thou me? Could not this make thee know
+The hate I bare thee made me leave thee so?
+
+HERMIA.
+You speak not as you think; it cannot be.
+
+HELENA.
+Lo, she is one of this confederacy!
+Now I perceive they have conjoin’d all three
+To fashion this false sport in spite of me.
+Injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid!
+Have you conspir’d, have you with these contriv’d,
+To bait me with this foul derision?
+Is all the counsel that we two have shar’d,
+The sisters’ vows, the hours that we have spent,
+When we have chid the hasty-footed time
+For parting us—O, is all forgot?
+All school-days’ friendship, childhood innocence?
+We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,
+Have with our needles created both one flower,
+Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
+Both warbling of one song, both in one key,
+As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds,
+Had been incorporate. So we grew together,
+Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
+But yet a union in partition,
+Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
+So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
+Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
+Due but to one, and crownèd with one crest.
+And will you rent our ancient love asunder,
+To join with men in scorning your poor friend?
+It is not friendly, ’tis not maidenly.
+Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,
+Though I alone do feel the injury.
+
+HERMIA.
+I am amazèd at your passionate words:
+I scorn you not; it seems that you scorn me.
+
+HELENA.
+Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,
+To follow me, and praise my eyes and face?
+And made your other love, Demetrius,
+Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,
+To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,
+Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this
+To her he hates? And wherefore doth Lysander
+Deny your love, so rich within his soul,
+And tender me, forsooth, affection,
+But by your setting on, by your consent?
+What though I be not so in grace as you,
+So hung upon with love, so fortunate,
+But miserable most, to love unlov’d?
+This you should pity rather than despise.
+
+HERMIA.
+I understand not what you mean by this.
+
+HELENA.
+Ay, do. Persever, counterfeit sad looks,
+Make mouths upon me when I turn my back,
+Wink each at other; hold the sweet jest up.
+This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled.
+If you have any pity, grace, or manners,
+You would not make me such an argument.
+But fare ye well. ’Tis partly my own fault,
+Which death, or absence, soon shall remedy.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Stay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse;
+My love, my life, my soul, fair Helena!
+
+HELENA.
+O excellent!
+
+HERMIA.
+Sweet, do not scorn her so.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+If she cannot entreat, I can compel.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Thou canst compel no more than she entreat;
+Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.
+Helen, I love thee, by my life I do;
+I swear by that which I will lose for thee
+To prove him false that says I love thee not.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I say I love thee more than he can do.
+
+LYSANDER.
+If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Quick, come.
+
+HERMIA.
+Lysander, whereto tends all this?
+
+LYSANDER.
+Away, you Ethiope!
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+No, no. He will
+Seem to break loose. Take on as you would follow,
+But yet come not. You are a tame man, go!
+
+LYSANDER.
+Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose,
+Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.
+
+HERMIA.
+Why are you grown so rude? What change is this,
+Sweet love?
+
+LYSANDER.
+Thy love? Out, tawny Tartar, out!
+Out, loathèd medicine! O hated potion, hence!
+
+HERMIA.
+Do you not jest?
+
+HELENA.
+Yes, sooth, and so do you.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I would I had your bond; for I perceive
+A weak bond holds you; I’ll not trust your word.
+
+LYSANDER.
+What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?
+Although I hate her, I’ll not harm her so.
+
+HERMIA.
+What, can you do me greater harm than hate?
+Hate me? Wherefore? O me! what news, my love?
+Am not I Hermia? Are not you Lysander?
+I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
+Since night you lov’d me; yet since night you left me.
+Why then, you left me—O, the gods forbid!—
+In earnest, shall I say?
+
+LYSANDER.
+Ay, by my life;
+And never did desire to see thee more.
+Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;
+Be certain, nothing truer; ’tis no jest
+That I do hate thee and love Helena.
+
+HERMIA.
+O me! You juggler! You cankerblossom!
+You thief of love! What! have you come by night
+And stol’n my love’s heart from him?
+
+HELENA.
+Fine, i’ faith!
+Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
+No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear
+Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?
+Fie, fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
+
+HERMIA.
+Puppet! Why so? Ay, that way goes the game.
+Now I perceive that she hath made compare
+Between our statures; she hath urg’d her height;
+And with her personage, her tall personage,
+Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail’d with him.
+And are you grown so high in his esteem
+Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
+How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak,
+How low am I? I am not yet so low
+But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.
+
+HELENA.
+I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,
+Let her not hurt me. I was never curst;
+I have no gift at all in shrewishness;
+I am a right maid for my cowardice;
+Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,
+Because she is something lower than myself,
+That I can match her.
+
+HERMIA.
+Lower! Hark, again.
+
+HELENA.
+Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.
+I evermore did love you, Hermia,
+Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong’d you,
+Save that, in love unto Demetrius,
+I told him of your stealth unto this wood.
+He follow’d you; for love I follow’d him;
+But he hath chid me hence, and threaten’d me
+To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:
+And now, so you will let me quiet go,
+To Athens will I bear my folly back,
+And follow you no further. Let me go:
+You see how simple and how fond I am.
+
+HERMIA.
+Why, get you gone. Who is’t that hinders you?
+
+HELENA.
+A foolish heart that I leave here behind.
+
+HERMIA.
+What! with Lysander?
+
+HELENA.
+With Demetrius.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.
+
+HELENA.
+O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd.
+She was a vixen when she went to school,
+And though she be but little, she is fierce.
+
+HERMIA.
+Little again! Nothing but low and little?
+Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?
+Let me come to her.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Get you gone, you dwarf;
+You minimus, of hind’ring knot-grass made;
+You bead, you acorn.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+You are too officious
+In her behalf that scorns your services.
+Let her alone. Speak not of Helena;
+Take not her part; for if thou dost intend
+Never so little show of love to her,
+Thou shalt aby it.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Now she holds me not.
+Now follow, if thou dar’st, to try whose right,
+Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Follow! Nay, I’ll go with thee, cheek by jole.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lysander and Demetrius._]
+
+HERMIA.
+You, mistress, all this coil is long of you.
+Nay, go not back.
+
+HELENA.
+I will not trust you, I,
+Nor longer stay in your curst company.
+Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray.
+My legs are longer though, to run away.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+HERMIA.
+I am amaz’d, and know not what to say.
+
+ [_Exit, pursuing Helena._]
+
+OBERON.
+This is thy negligence: still thou mistak’st,
+Or else commit’st thy knaveries willfully.
+
+PUCK.
+Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.
+Did not you tell me I should know the man
+By the Athenian garments he had on?
+And so far blameless proves my enterprise
+That I have ’nointed an Athenian’s eyes:
+And so far am I glad it so did sort,
+As this their jangling I esteem a sport.
+
+OBERON.
+Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight.
+Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;
+The starry welkin cover thou anon
+With drooping fog, as black as Acheron,
+And lead these testy rivals so astray
+As one come not within another’s way.
+Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,
+Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;
+And sometime rail thou like Demetrius.
+And from each other look thou lead them thus,
+Till o’er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep
+With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep.
+Then crush this herb into Lysander’s eye,
+Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,
+To take from thence all error with his might
+And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.
+When they next wake, all this derision
+Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision;
+And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,
+With league whose date till death shall never end.
+Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,
+I’ll to my queen, and beg her Indian boy;
+And then I will her charmèd eye release
+From monster’s view, and all things shall be peace.
+
+PUCK.
+My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,
+For night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast;
+And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger,
+At whose approach, ghosts wandering here and there
+Troop home to churchyards. Damnèd spirits all,
+That in cross-ways and floods have burial,
+Already to their wormy beds are gone;
+For fear lest day should look their shames upon,
+They wilfully themselves exile from light,
+And must for aye consort with black-brow’d night.
+
+OBERON.
+But we are spirits of another sort:
+I with the morning’s love have oft made sport;
+And, like a forester, the groves may tread
+Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,
+Opening on Neptune with fair blessèd beams,
+Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams.
+But, notwithstanding, haste, make no delay.
+We may effect this business yet ere day.
+
+ [_Exit Oberon._]
+
+PUCK.
+    Up and down, up and down,
+    I will lead them up and down.
+    I am fear’d in field and town.
+    Goblin, lead them up and down.
+Here comes one.
+
+ Enter Lysander.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Where art thou, proud Demetrius? Speak thou now.
+
+PUCK.
+Here, villain, drawn and ready. Where art thou?
+
+LYSANDER.
+I will be with thee straight.
+
+PUCK.
+Follow me then to plainer ground.
+
+ [_Exit Lysander as following the voice._]
+
+ Enter Demetrius.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Lysander, speak again.
+Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?
+Speak. In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?
+
+PUCK.
+Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,
+Telling the bushes that thou look’st for wars,
+And wilt not come? Come, recreant, come, thou child!
+I’ll whip thee with a rod. He is defil’d
+That draws a sword on thee.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Yea, art thou there?
+
+PUCK.
+Follow my voice; we’ll try no manhood here.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+ Enter Lysander.
+
+LYSANDER.
+He goes before me, and still dares me on;
+When I come where he calls, then he is gone.
+The villain is much lighter-heel’d than I:
+I follow’d fast, but faster he did fly,
+That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
+And here will rest me.  Come, thou gentle day!
+[_Lies down._] For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
+I’ll find Demetrius, and revenge this spite.
+
+ [_Sleeps._]
+
+ Enter Puck and Demetrius.
+
+PUCK.
+Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why com’st thou not?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Abide me, if thou dar’st; for well I wot
+Thou runn’st before me, shifting every place,
+And dar’st not stand, nor look me in the face.
+Where art thou?
+
+PUCK.
+Come hither; I am here.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Nay, then, thou mock’st me. Thou shalt buy this dear
+If ever I thy face by daylight see:
+Now go thy way. Faintness constraineth me
+To measure out my length on this cold bed.
+By day’s approach look to be visited.
+
+ [_Lies down and sleeps._]
+
+ Enter Helena.
+
+HELENA.
+O weary night, O long and tedious night,
+    Abate thy hours! Shine, comforts, from the east,
+That I may back to Athens by daylight,
+    From these that my poor company detest.
+And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow’s eye,
+Steal me awhile from mine own company.
+
+ [_Sleeps._]
+
+PUCK.
+    Yet but three? Come one more.
+    Two of both kinds makes up four.
+    Here she comes, curst and sad.
+    Cupid is a knavish lad
+    Thus to make poor females mad.
+
+ Enter Hermia.
+
+HERMIA.
+Never so weary, never so in woe,
+   Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers,
+I can no further crawl, no further go;
+   My legs can keep no pace with my desires.
+Here will I rest me till the break of day.
+Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!
+
+ [_Lies down._]
+
+PUCK.
+         On the ground
+         Sleep sound.
+         I’ll apply
+         To your eye,
+       Gentle lover, remedy.
+
+ [_Squeezing the juice on Lysander’s eye._]
+
+         When thou wak’st,
+         Thou tak’st
+         True delight
+         In the sight
+       Of thy former lady’s eye.
+       And the country proverb known,
+       That every man should take his own,
+       In your waking shall be shown:
+         Jack shall have Jill;
+         Nought shall go ill;
+The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
+
+ [_Exit Puck._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. The Wood
+
+
+ Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia still asleep.
+
+ Enter Titania and Bottom; Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed and
+ other Fairies attending; Oberon behind, unseen.
+
+TITANIA.
+Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
+   While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
+And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
+   And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Where’s Peaseblossom?
+
+PEASEBLOSSOM.
+Ready.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Scratch my head, Peaseblossom. Where’s Monsieur Cobweb?
+
+COBWEB.
+Ready.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Monsieur Cobweb; good monsieur, get you your weapons in your hand and
+kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good
+monsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the
+action, monsieur; and, good monsieur, have a care the honey-bag break
+not; I would be loath to have you overflown with a honey-bag, signior.
+Where’s Monsieur Mustardseed?
+
+MUSTARDSEED.
+Ready.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Give me your neaf, Monsieur Mustardseed. Pray you, leave your courtesy,
+good monsieur.
+
+MUSTARDSEED.
+What’s your will?
+
+BOTTOM.
+Nothing, good monsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb to scratch. I must
+to the barber’s, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the
+face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must
+scratch.
+
+TITANIA.
+What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love?
+
+BOTTOM.
+I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let us have the tongs and the
+bones.
+
+
+TITANIA.
+Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Truly, a peck of provender; I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks
+I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no
+fellow.
+
+TITANIA.
+I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
+The squirrel’s hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.
+
+BOTTOM.
+I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas. But, I pray you, let
+none of your people stir me; I have an exposition of sleep come upon
+me.
+
+TITANIA.
+Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
+Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away.
+So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
+Gently entwist, the female ivy so
+Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
+O, how I love thee! How I dote on thee!
+
+ [_They sleep._]
+
+ Oberon advances. Enter Puck.
+
+OBERON.
+Welcome, good Robin. Seest thou this sweet sight?
+Her dotage now I do begin to pity.
+For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
+Seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool,
+I did upbraid her and fall out with her:
+For she his hairy temples then had rounded
+With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;
+And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
+Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,
+Stood now within the pretty flouriets’ eyes,
+Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
+When I had at my pleasure taunted her,
+And she in mild terms begg’d my patience,
+I then did ask of her her changeling child;
+Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent
+To bear him to my bower in fairyland.
+And now I have the boy, I will undo
+This hateful imperfection of her eyes.
+And, gentle Puck, take this transformèd scalp
+From off the head of this Athenian swain,
+That he awaking when the other do,
+May all to Athens back again repair,
+And think no more of this night’s accidents
+But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
+But first I will release the Fairy Queen.
+
+ [_Touching her eyes with an herb._]
+
+    Be as thou wast wont to be;
+    See as thou was wont to see.
+    Dian’s bud o’er Cupid’s flower
+    Hath such force and blessed power.
+Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet queen.
+
+TITANIA.
+My Oberon, what visions have I seen!
+Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.
+
+OBERON.
+There lies your love.
+
+TITANIA.
+How came these things to pass?
+O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!
+
+OBERON.
+Silence awhile.—Robin, take off this head.
+Titania, music call; and strike more dead
+Than common sleep, of all these five the sense.
+
+TITANIA.
+Music, ho, music, such as charmeth sleep.
+
+PUCK.
+Now when thou wak’st, with thine own fool’s eyes peep.
+
+OBERON.
+Sound, music.
+
+ [_Still music._]
+
+Come, my queen, take hands with me,
+And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.
+Now thou and I are new in amity,
+And will tomorrow midnight solemnly
+Dance in Duke Theseus’ house triumphantly,
+And bless it to all fair prosperity:
+There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
+Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.
+
+PUCK.
+    Fairy king, attend and mark.
+    I do hear the morning lark.
+
+OBERON.
+    Then, my queen, in silence sad,
+    Trip we after night’s shade.
+    We the globe can compass soon,
+    Swifter than the wand’ring moon.
+
+TITANIA.
+    Come, my lord, and in our flight,
+    Tell me how it came this night
+    That I sleeping here was found
+    With these mortals on the ground.
+
+ [_Exeunt. Horns sound within._]
+
+ Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus and Train.
+
+THESEUS.
+Go, one of you, find out the forester;
+For now our observation is perform’d;
+And since we have the vaward of the day,
+My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
+Uncouple in the western valley; let them go.
+Dispatch I say, and find the forester.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+We will, fair queen, up to the mountain’s top,
+And mark the musical confusion
+Of hounds and echo in conjunction.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
+When in a wood of Crete they bay’d the bear
+With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear
+Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves,
+The skies, the fountains, every region near
+Seem’d all one mutual cry. I never heard
+So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
+
+THESEUS.
+My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
+So flew’d, so sanded; and their heads are hung
+With ears that sweep away the morning dew;
+Crook-knee’d and dewlap’d like Thessalian bulls;
+Slow in pursuit, but match’d in mouth like bells,
+Each under each. A cry more tuneable
+Was never holla’d to, nor cheer’d with horn,
+In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly.
+Judge when you hear.—But, soft, what nymphs are these?
+
+EGEUS.
+My lord, this is my daughter here asleep,
+And this Lysander; this Demetrius is;
+This Helena, old Nedar’s Helena:
+I wonder of their being here together.
+
+THESEUS.
+No doubt they rose up early to observe
+The rite of May; and, hearing our intent,
+Came here in grace of our solemnity.
+But speak, Egeus; is not this the day
+That Hermia should give answer of her choice?
+
+EGEUS.
+It is, my lord.
+
+THESEUS.
+Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns.
+
+ Horns, and shout within. Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia and Helena wake
+ and start up.
+
+Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past.
+Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?
+
+LYSANDER.
+Pardon, my lord.
+
+ He and the rest kneel to  Theseus.
+
+THESEUS.
+I pray you all, stand up.
+I know you two are rival enemies.
+How comes this gentle concord in the world,
+That hatred is so far from jealousy
+To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?
+
+LYSANDER.
+My lord, I shall reply amazedly,
+Half sleep, half waking; but as yet, I swear,
+I cannot truly say how I came here.
+But, as I think (for truly would I speak)
+And now I do bethink me, so it is:
+I came with Hermia hither. Our intent
+Was to be gone from Athens, where we might be
+Without the peril of the Athenian law.
+
+EGEUS.
+Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough.
+I beg the law, the law upon his head.
+They would have stol’n away, they would, Demetrius,
+Thereby to have defeated you and me:
+You of your wife, and me of my consent,
+Of my consent that she should be your wife.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,
+Of this their purpose hither to this wood;
+And I in fury hither follow’d them,
+Fair Helena in fancy following me.
+But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,
+(But by some power it is) my love to Hermia,
+Melted as the snow, seems to me now
+As the remembrance of an idle gaud
+Which in my childhood I did dote upon;
+And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,
+The object and the pleasure of mine eye,
+Is only Helena. To her, my lord,
+Was I betroth’d ere I saw Hermia.
+But like a sickness did I loathe this food.
+But, as in health, come to my natural taste,
+Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,
+And will for evermore be true to it.
+
+THESEUS.
+Fair lovers, you are fortunately met.
+Of this discourse we more will hear anon.
+Egeus, I will overbear your will;
+For in the temple, by and by with us,
+These couples shall eternally be knit.
+And, for the morning now is something worn,
+Our purpos’d hunting shall be set aside.
+Away with us to Athens. Three and three,
+We’ll hold a feast in great solemnity.
+Come, Hippolyta.
+
+ [_Exeunt Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus and Train._]
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+These things seem small and undistinguishable,
+Like far-off mountains turnèd into clouds.
+
+HERMIA.
+Methinks I see these things with parted eye,
+When everything seems double.
+
+HELENA.
+So methinks.
+And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
+Mine own, and not mine own.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Are you sure
+That we are awake? It seems to me
+That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
+The Duke was here, and bid us follow him?
+
+HERMIA.
+Yea, and my father.
+
+HELENA.
+And Hippolyta.
+
+LYSANDER.
+And he did bid us follow to the temple.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Why, then, we are awake: let’s follow him,
+And by the way let us recount our dreams.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+BOTTOM.
+[_Waking._] When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. My next is
+‘Most fair Pyramus.’ Heigh-ho! Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender!
+Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God’s my life! Stol’n hence, and left me
+asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit
+of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to
+expound this dream. Methought I was—there is no man can tell what.
+Methought I was, and methought I had—but man is but a patched fool if
+he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not
+heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste,
+his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I
+will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be
+called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it
+in the latter end of a play, before the Duke. Peradventure, to make it
+the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+SCENE II. Athens. A Room in Quince’s House
+
+ Enter Quince, Flute, Snout and Starveling.
+
+QUINCE.
+Have you sent to Bottom’s house? Is he come home yet?
+
+STARVELING.
+He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported.
+
+FLUTE.
+If he come not, then the play is marred. It goes not forward, doth it?
+
+QUINCE.
+It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge
+Pyramus but he.
+
+FLUTE.
+No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens.
+
+QUINCE.
+Yea, and the best person too, and he is a very paramour for a sweet
+voice.
+
+
+FLUTE.
+You must say paragon. A paramour is, God bless us, a thing of naught.
+
+ Enter Snug.
+
+SNUG
+Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple, and there is two or three
+lords and ladies more married. If our sport had gone forward, we had
+all been made men.
+
+FLUTE.
+O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life;
+he could not have ’scaped sixpence a day. An the Duke had not given him
+sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I’ll be hanged. He would have
+deserved it: sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing.
+
+ Enter Bottom.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Where are these lads? Where are these hearts?
+
+QUINCE.
+Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
+
+BOTTOM.
+Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not what; for if I tell
+you, I am not true Athenian. I will tell you everything, right as it
+fell out.
+
+QUINCE.
+Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
+
+BOTTOM.
+Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that the Duke hath
+dined. Get your apparel together, good strings to your beards, new
+ribbons to your pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look
+o’er his part. For the short and the long is, our play is preferred. In
+any case, let Thisbe have clean linen; and let not him that plays the
+lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion’s claws. And
+most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlick, for we are to utter sweet
+breath; and I do not doubt but to hear them say it is a sweet comedy.
+No more words. Away! Go, away!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Athens. An Apartment in the Palace of Theseus
+
+
+ Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, Lords and Attendants.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+’Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of.
+
+THESEUS.
+More strange than true. I never may believe
+These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
+Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
+Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
+More than cool reason ever comprehends.
+The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
+Are of imagination all compact:
+One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;
+That is the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
+Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt:
+The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
+Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
+And as imagination bodies forth
+The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
+Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
+A local habitation and a name.
+Such tricks hath strong imagination,
+That if it would but apprehend some joy,
+It comprehends some bringer of that joy.
+Or in the night, imagining some fear,
+How easy is a bush supposed a bear?
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+But all the story of the night told over,
+And all their minds transfigur’d so together,
+More witnesseth than fancy’s images,
+And grows to something of great constancy;
+But, howsoever, strange and admirable.
+
+ Enter lovers: Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and Helena.
+
+THESEUS.
+Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.
+Joy, gentle friends, joy and fresh days of love
+Accompany your hearts!
+
+LYSANDER.
+More than to us
+Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed!
+
+THESEUS.
+Come now; what masques, what dances shall we have,
+To wear away this long age of three hours
+Between our after-supper and bed-time?
+Where is our usual manager of mirth?
+What revels are in hand? Is there no play
+To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
+Call Philostrate.
+
+PHILOSTRATE.
+Here, mighty Theseus.
+
+THESEUS.
+Say, what abridgment have you for this evening?
+What masque? What music? How shall we beguile
+The lazy time, if not with some delight?
+
+PHILOSTRATE.
+There is a brief how many sports are ripe.
+Make choice of which your Highness will see first.
+
+ [_Giving a paper._]
+
+THESEUS.
+[_Reads_] ‘The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung
+By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.’
+We’ll none of that. That have I told my love
+In glory of my kinsman Hercules.
+‘The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,
+Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage?’
+That is an old device, and it was play’d
+When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.
+‘The thrice three Muses mourning for the death
+Of learning, late deceas’d in beggary.’
+That is some satire, keen and critical,
+Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.
+‘A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
+And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.’
+Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?
+That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
+How shall we find the concord of this discord?
+
+PHILOSTRATE.
+A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
+Which is as brief as I have known a play;
+But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
+Which makes it tedious. For in all the play
+There is not one word apt, one player fitted.
+And tragical, my noble lord, it is.
+For Pyramus therein doth kill himself,
+Which, when I saw rehears’d, I must confess,
+Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears
+The passion of loud laughter never shed.
+
+THESEUS.
+What are they that do play it?
+
+PHILOSTRATE.
+Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,
+Which never labour’d in their minds till now;
+And now have toil’d their unbreath’d memories
+With this same play against your nuptial.
+
+THESEUS.
+And we will hear it.
+
+PHILOSTRATE.
+No, my noble lord,
+It is not for you: I have heard it over,
+And it is nothing, nothing in the world;
+Unless you can find sport in their intents,
+Extremely stretch’d and conn’d with cruel pain
+To do you service.
+
+THESEUS.
+I will hear that play;
+For never anything can be amiss
+When simpleness and duty tender it.
+Go, bring them in: and take your places, ladies.
+
+ [_Exit Philostrate._]
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+I love not to see wretchedness o’ercharged,
+And duty in his service perishing.
+
+THESEUS.
+Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+He says they can do nothing in this kind.
+
+THESEUS.
+The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.
+Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:
+And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect
+Takes it in might, not merit.
+Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
+To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
+Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
+Make periods in the midst of sentences,
+Throttle their practis’d accent in their fears,
+And, in conclusion, dumbly have broke off,
+Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,
+Out of this silence yet I pick’d a welcome;
+And in the modesty of fearful duty
+I read as much as from the rattling tongue
+Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
+Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
+In least speak most to my capacity.
+
+ Enter Philostrate.
+
+PHILOSTRATE.
+So please your grace, the Prologue is address’d.
+
+THESEUS.
+Let him approach.
+
+ Flourish of trumpets. Enter the Prologue.
+
+PROLOGUE
+If we offend, it is with our good will.
+That you should think, we come not to offend,
+But with good will.  To show our simple skill,
+That is the true beginning of our end.
+Consider then, we come but in despite.
+We do not come, as minding to content you,
+Our true intent is.  All for your delight
+We are not here.  That you should here repent you,
+The actors are at hand, and, by their show,
+You shall know all that you are like to know.
+
+THESEUS.
+This fellow doth not stand upon points.
+
+LYSANDER.
+He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows not the stop. A
+good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Indeed he hath played on this prologue like a child on a recorder; a
+sound, but not in government.
+
+THESEUS.
+His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all
+disordered. Who is next?
+
+ Enter Pyramus and Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine and Lion as in dumb show.
+
+PROLOGUE
+Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;
+But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.
+This man is Pyramus, if you would know;
+This beauteous lady Thisbe is certain.
+This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present
+Wall, that vile wall which did these lovers sunder;
+And through Wall’s chink, poor souls, they are content
+To whisper, at the which let no man wonder.
+This man, with lantern, dog, and bush of thorn,
+Presenteth Moonshine, for, if you will know,
+By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
+To meet at Ninus’ tomb, there, there to woo.
+This grisly beast (which Lion hight by name)
+The trusty Thisbe, coming first by night,
+Did scare away, or rather did affright;
+And as she fled, her mantle she did fall;
+Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
+Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth, and tall,
+And finds his trusty Thisbe’s mantle slain;
+Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
+He bravely broach’d his boiling bloody breast;
+And Thisbe, tarrying in mulberry shade,
+His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,
+Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain,
+At large discourse while here they do remain.
+
+ [_Exeunt Prologue, Pyramus, Thisbe, Lion and Moonshine._]
+
+THESEUS.
+I wonder if the lion be to speak.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+No wonder, my lord. One lion may, when many asses do.
+
+WALL.
+In this same interlude it doth befall
+That I, one Snout by name, present a wall:
+And such a wall as I would have you think
+That had in it a crannied hole or chink,
+Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe,
+Did whisper often very secretly.
+This loam, this rough-cast, and this stone, doth show
+That I am that same wall; the truth is so:
+And this the cranny is, right and sinister,
+Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.
+
+THESEUS.
+Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord.
+
+THESEUS.
+Pyramus draws near the wall; silence.
+
+ Enter Pyramus.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+O grim-look’d night! O night with hue so black!
+O night, which ever art when day is not!
+O night, O night, alack, alack, alack,
+I fear my Thisbe’s promise is forgot!
+And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall,
+That stand’st between her father’s ground and mine;
+Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,
+Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
+
+ [_Wall holds up his fingers._]
+
+Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!
+But what see I? No Thisbe do I see.
+O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss,
+Curs’d be thy stones for thus deceiving me!
+
+THESEUS.
+The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+No, in truth, sir, he should not. ‘Deceiving me’ is Thisbe’s cue: she
+is to enter now, and I am to spy her through the wall. You shall see it
+will fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.
+
+ Enter Thisbe.
+
+THISBE.
+O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,
+For parting my fair Pyramus and me.
+My cherry lips have often kiss’d thy stones,
+Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+I see a voice; now will I to the chink,
+To spy an I can hear my Thisbe’s face.
+Thisbe?
+
+THISBE.
+My love thou art, my love I think.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover’s grace;
+And like Limander am I trusty still.
+
+THISBE.
+And I like Helen, till the fates me kill.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.
+
+THISBE.
+As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall.
+
+THISBE.
+I kiss the wall’s hole, not your lips at all.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+Wilt thou at Ninny’s tomb meet me straightway?
+
+THISBE.
+’Tide life, ’tide death, I come without delay.
+
+WALL.
+Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
+And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
+
+ [_Exeunt Wall, Pyramus and Thisbe._]
+
+THESEUS.
+Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to hear without warning.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
+
+THESEUS.
+The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if
+imagination amend them.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.
+
+THESEUS.
+If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves, they may pass
+for excellent men. Here come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.
+
+ Enter Lion and Moonshine.
+
+LION.
+You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear
+The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,
+May now, perchance, both quake and tremble here,
+When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.
+Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am
+A lion fell, nor else no lion’s dam;
+For if I should as lion come in strife
+Into this place, ’twere pity on my life.
+
+THESEUS.
+A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+The very best at a beast, my lord, that e’er I saw.
+
+LYSANDER.
+This lion is a very fox for his valour.
+
+THESEUS.
+True; and a goose for his discretion.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Not so, my lord, for his valour cannot carry his discretion, and the
+fox carries the goose.
+
+THESEUS.
+His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour; for the goose
+carries not the fox. It is well; leave it to his discretion, and let us
+listen to the moon.
+
+MOONSHINE.
+This lanthorn doth the hornèd moon present.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+He should have worn the horns on his head.
+
+THESEUS.
+He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible within the
+circumference.
+
+MOONSHINE.
+This lanthorn doth the hornèd moon present;
+Myself the man i’ the moon do seem to be.
+
+THESEUS.
+This is the greatest error of all the rest; the man should be put into
+the lantern. How is it else the man i’ the moon?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+He dares not come there for the candle, for you see, it is already in
+snuff.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+I am aweary of this moon. Would he would change!
+
+THESEUS.
+It appears by his small light of discretion that he is in the wane; but
+yet, in courtesy, in all reason, we must stay the time.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Proceed, Moon.
+
+MOON.
+All that I have to say, is to tell you that the lantern is the moon; I
+the man i’ the moon; this thorn-bush my thorn-bush; and this dog my
+dog.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Why, all these should be in the lantern, for all these are in the moon.
+But silence; here comes Thisbe.
+
+ Enter Thisbe.
+
+THISBE.
+This is old Ninny’s tomb. Where is my love?
+
+LION.
+Oh!
+
+ [_The Lion roars, Thisbe runs off._]
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Well roared, Lion.
+
+THESEUS.
+Well run, Thisbe.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a good grace.
+
+ [_The Lion tears Thisbe’s mantle, and exit._]
+
+THESEUS.
+Well moused, Lion.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+And then came Pyramus.
+
+LYSANDER.
+And so the lion vanished.
+
+ Enter Pyramus.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams;
+I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;
+For, by thy gracious golden, glittering gleams,
+I trust to take of truest Thisbe sight.
+             But stay! O spite!
+             But mark, poor knight,
+         What dreadful dole is here!
+             Eyes, do you see?
+             How can it be?
+         O dainty duck! O dear!
+             Thy mantle good,
+             What, stained with blood?
+         Approach, ye Furies fell!
+             O Fates, come, come;
+             Cut thread and thrum;
+         Quail, rush, conclude, and quell!
+
+THESEUS.
+This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a
+man look sad.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.
+
+PYRAMUS.
+O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame,
+Since lion vile hath here deflower’d my dear?
+Which is—no, no—which was the fairest dame
+That liv’d, that lov’d, that lik’d, that look’d with cheer.
+             Come, tears, confound!
+             Out, sword, and wound
+         The pap of Pyramus;
+             Ay, that left pap,
+             Where heart doth hop:
+         Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
+             Now am I dead,
+             Now am I fled;
+         My soul is in the sky.
+             Tongue, lose thy light!
+             Moon, take thy flight!
+         Now die, die, die, die, die.
+
+ [_Dies. Exit Moonshine._]
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+No die, but an ace, for him; for he is but one.
+
+LYSANDER.
+Less than an ace, man; for he is dead, he is nothing.
+
+THESEUS.
+With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover and prove an ass.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes back and finds her
+lover?
+
+
+THESEUS.
+She will find him by starlight.
+
+ Enter Thisbe.
+
+Here she comes, and her passion ends the play.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Methinks she should not use a long one for such a Pyramus. I hope she
+will be brief.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+A mote will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which Thisbe, is the
+better: he for a man, God warrant us; she for a woman, God bless us!
+
+LYSANDER.
+She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+And thus she means, _videlicet_—
+
+THISBE.
+             Asleep, my love?
+             What, dead, my dove?
+         O Pyramus, arise,
+             Speak, speak. Quite dumb?
+             Dead, dead? A tomb
+         Must cover thy sweet eyes.
+             These lily lips,
+             This cherry nose,
+         These yellow cowslip cheeks,
+             Are gone, are gone!
+             Lovers, make moan;
+         His eyes were green as leeks.
+             O Sisters Three,
+             Come, come to me,
+         With hands as pale as milk;
+             Lay them in gore,
+             Since you have shore
+         With shears his thread of silk.
+             Tongue, not a word:
+             Come, trusty sword,
+         Come, blade, my breast imbrue;
+             And farewell, friends.
+             Thus Thisbe ends.
+         Adieu, adieu, adieu.
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+THESEUS.
+Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Ay, and Wall too.
+
+BOTTOM.
+No, I assure you; the wall is down that parted their fathers. Will it
+please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between
+two of our company?
+
+THESEUS.
+No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse;
+for when the players are all dead there need none to be blamed. Marry,
+if he that writ it had played Pyramus, and hanged himself in Thisbe’s
+garter, it would have been a fine tragedy; and so it is, truly; and
+very notably discharged. But come, your Bergomask; let your epilogue
+alone.
+
+ [_Here a dance of Clowns._]
+
+The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
+Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost fairy time.
+I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn
+As much as we this night have overwatch’d.
+This palpable-gross play hath well beguil’d
+The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.
+A fortnight hold we this solemnity
+In nightly revels and new jollity.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+ Enter Puck.
+
+PUCK.
+   Now the hungry lion roars,
+      And the wolf behowls the moon;
+   Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
+      All with weary task fordone.
+   Now the wasted brands do glow,
+      Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,
+   Puts the wretch that lies in woe
+      In remembrance of a shroud.
+   Now it is the time of night
+      That the graves, all gaping wide,
+   Every one lets forth his sprite,
+      In the church-way paths to glide.
+   And we fairies, that do run
+      By the triple Hecate’s team
+   From the presence of the sun,
+      Following darkness like a dream,
+   Now are frolic; not a mouse
+      Shall disturb this hallow’d house.
+   I am sent with broom before,
+      To sweep the dust behind the door.
+
+ Enter Oberon and Titania with their Train.
+
+OBERON.
+   Through the house give glimmering light,
+        By the dead and drowsy fire.
+   Every elf and fairy sprite
+        Hop as light as bird from brier,
+   And this ditty after me,
+   Sing and dance it trippingly.
+
+TITANIA.
+   First rehearse your song by rote,
+        To each word a warbling note;
+   Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
+   Will we sing, and bless this place.
+
+ [_Song and Dance._]
+
+OBERON.
+   Now, until the break of day,
+   Through this house each fairy stray.
+   To the best bride-bed will we,
+   Which by us shall blessèd be;
+   And the issue there create
+   Ever shall be fortunate.
+   So shall all the couples three
+   Ever true in loving be;
+   And the blots of Nature’s hand
+   Shall not in their issue stand:
+   Never mole, hare-lip, nor scar,
+   Nor mark prodigious, such as are
+   Despised in nativity,
+   Shall upon their children be.
+   With this field-dew consecrate,
+   Every fairy take his gait,
+   And each several chamber bless,
+   Through this palace, with sweet peace;
+   And the owner of it blest.
+   Ever shall it in safety rest,
+   Trip away. Make no stay;
+   Meet me all by break of day.
+
+ [_Exeunt Oberon, Titania and Train._]
+
+PUCK.
+   If we shadows have offended,
+   Think but this, and all is mended,
+   That you have but slumber’d here
+   While these visions did appear.
+   And this weak and idle theme,
+   No more yielding but a dream,
+   Gentles, do not reprehend.
+   If you pardon, we will mend.
+   And, as I am an honest Puck,
+   If we have unearnèd luck
+   Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,
+   We will make amends ere long;
+   Else the Puck a liar call.
+   So, good night unto you all.
+   Give me your hands, if we be friends,
+   And Robin shall restore amends.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+
+Scene I.
+Before Leonato’s House.
+
+Scene II.
+A room in Leonato’s house.
+
+Scene III.
+Another room in Leonato’s house.
+
+ACT II
+
+Scene I.
+A hall in Leonato’s house.
+
+Scene II.
+Another room in Leonato’s house.
+
+Scene III.
+Leonato’s Garden.
+
+ACT III
+
+Scene I.
+Leonato’s Garden.
+
+Scene II.
+A Room in Leonato’s House.
+
+Scene III.
+A Street.
+
+Scene IV.
+A Room in Leonato’s House.
+
+Scene V.
+Another Room in Leonato’s House.
+
+ACT IV
+
+Scene I.
+The Inside of a Church.
+
+Scene II.
+A Prison.
+
+ACT V
+
+Scene I.
+Before Leonato’s House.
+
+Scene II.
+Leonato’s Garden.
+
+Scene III.
+The Inside of a Church.
+
+Scene IV.
+A Room in Leonato’s House.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+DON PEDRO, Prince of Arragon.
+DON JOHN, his bastard Brother.
+CLAUDIO, a young Lord of Florence.
+BENEDICK, a young Lord of Padua.
+LEONATO, Governor of Messina.
+ANTONIO, his Brother.
+BALTHASAR, Servant to Don Pedro.
+BORACHIO, follower of Don John.
+CONRADE, follower of Don John.
+DOGBERRY, a Constable.
+VERGES, a Headborough.
+FRIAR FRANCIS.
+A Sexton.
+A Boy.
+
+HERO, Daughter to Leonato.
+BEATRICE, Niece to Leonato.
+MARGARET, Waiting gentlewoman attending on Hero.
+URSULA, Waiting gentlewoman attending on Hero.
+
+Messengers, Watch, Attendants, &c.
+
+SCENE. Messina.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Before Leonato’s House.
+
+
+Enter Leonato, Hero, Beatrice and others,
+with a Messenger.
+
+LEONATO.
+I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night
+to Messina.
+
+MESSENGER.
+He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him.
+
+LEONATO.
+How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?
+
+MESSENGER.
+But few of any sort, and none of name.
+
+LEONATO.
+A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full
+numbers. I find here that Don Pedro hath bestowed much honour on a
+young Florentine called Claudio.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Much deserved on his part, and equally remembered by Don Pedro.
+He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure
+of a lamb the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better bettered expectation
+than you must expect of me to tell you how.
+
+LEONATO.
+He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it.
+
+MESSENGER.
+I have already delivered him letters, and there appears much
+joy in him; even so much that joy could not show itself modest enough
+without a badge of bitterness.
+
+LEONATO.
+Did he break out into tears?
+
+MESSENGER.
+In great measure.
+
+LEONATO.
+A kind overflow of kindness. There are no faces truer than those
+that are so washed; how much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at
+weeping!
+
+BEATRICE.
+I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no?
+
+MESSENGER.
+I know none of that name, lady: there was none such in the army
+of any sort.
+
+LEONATO.
+What is he that you ask for, niece?
+
+HERO.
+My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.
+
+MESSENGER.
+O! he is returned, and as pleasant as ever he was.
+
+BEATRICE.
+He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged Cupid at the
+flight; and my uncle’s fool, reading the challenge, subscribed for
+Cupid, and challenged him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
+killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? for, indeed,
+I promised to eat all of his killing.
+
+LEONATO.
+Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much; but he’ll
+be meet with you, I doubt it not.
+
+MESSENGER.
+He hath done good service, lady, in these wars.
+
+BEATRICE.
+You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it; he is a very
+valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.
+
+MESSENGER.
+And a good soldier too, lady.
+
+BEATRICE.
+And a good soldier to a lady; but what is he to a lord?
+
+MESSENGER.
+A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all honourable
+virtues.
+
+BEATRICE.
+It is so indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man; but for the
+stuffing,—well, we are all mortal.
+
+LEONATO.
+You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a kind of merry war
+betwixt Signior Benedick and her; they never meet but there’s a
+skirmish of wit between them.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict four of his
+five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one! so
+that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a
+difference between himself and his horse; for it is all the wealth that he
+hath left to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his companion now? He
+hath every month a new sworn brother.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Is’t possible?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as the fashion of
+his hat; it ever changes with the next block.
+
+MESSENGER.
+I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
+
+BEATRICE.
+No; and he were, I would burn my study. But I pray you, who is
+his companion? Is there no young squarer now that will make a voyage with
+him to the devil?
+
+MESSENGER.
+He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio.
+
+BEATRICE.
+O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he is sooner
+caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad. God help the
+noble Claudio! If he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand
+pound ere he be cured.
+
+MESSENGER.
+I will hold friends with you, lady.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Do, good friend.
+
+LEONATO.
+You will never run mad, niece.
+
+BEATRICE.
+No, not till a hot January.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Don Pedro is approached.
+
+Enter Don Pedro, Don John, Claudio, Benedick,
+Balthasar and Others.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your trouble: the
+fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
+
+LEONATO.
+Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your Grace, for
+trouble being gone, comfort should remain; but when you depart from me,
+sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this is
+your daughter.
+
+LEONATO.
+Her mother hath many times told me so.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?
+
+LEONATO.
+Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this what you are,
+being a man. Truly the lady fathers herself. Be happy, lady, for you are
+like an honourable father.
+
+BENEDICK.
+If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not have his head on
+her shoulders for all Messina, as like him as she is.
+
+BEATRICE.
+I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick:
+nobody marks you.
+
+BENEDICK.
+What! my dear Lady Disdain, are you yet living?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Is it possible Disdain should die while she hath such meet food
+to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if
+you come in her presence.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all
+ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had
+not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none.
+
+BEATRICE.
+A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled
+with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your
+humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear
+he loves me.
+
+BENEDICK.
+God keep your Ladyship still in that mind; so some gentleman or
+other shall scape a predestinate scratched face.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Scratching could not make it worse, and ’twere such a face
+as yours were.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
+
+BEATRICE.
+A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a
+continuer. But keep your way, i’ God’s name; I have done.
+
+BEATRICE.
+You always end with a jade’s trick: I know you of old.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+That is the sum of all, Leonato: Signior Claudio, and Signior
+Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath invited you all. I tell him we shall
+stay here at the least a month, and he heartly prays some occasion may
+detain us longer: I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his
+heart.
+
+LEONATO.
+If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn. [To
+Don John] Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to
+the Prince your brother, I owe you all duty.
+
+DON JOHN.
+I thank you: I am not of many words, but I thank you.
+
+LEONATO.
+Please it your Grace lead on?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Your hand, Leonato; we will go together.
+
+[Exeunt all but Benedick and Claudio.]
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?
+
+BENEDICK.
+I noted her not; but I looked on her.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Is she not a modest young lady?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for my simple
+true judgment; or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a
+professed tyrant to their sex?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Why, i’ faith, methinks she’s too low for a high
+praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for a great praise;
+only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is,
+she were unhandsome, and being no other but as she is, I do not like her.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me truly how thou
+likest her.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Would you buy her, that you enquire after her?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Can the world buy such a jewel?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this with a sad
+brow, or do you play the flouting Jack, to tell us Cupid is a good
+hare-finder, and Vulcan a rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man
+take you, to go in the song?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such matter: there’s
+her cousin and she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in
+beauty as the first of May doth the last of December. But I hope you have
+no intent to turn husband, have you?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn to the contrary,
+if Hero would be my wife.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Is’t come to this, in faith? Hath not the world one
+man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall I never see a bachelor
+of threescore again? Go to, i’ faith; and thou wilt needs thrust thy
+neck into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away Sundays.
+
+Re-enter Don Pedro.
+
+Look! Don Pedro is returned to seek you.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+What secret hath held you here, that you followed not to
+Leonato’s?
+
+BENEDICK.
+I would your Grace would constrain me to tell.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I charge thee on thy allegiance.
+
+BENEDICK.
+You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb man; I would
+have you think so; but on my allegiance mark you this, on my allegiance:
+he is in love. With who? now that is your Grace’s part. Mark how
+short his answer is: with Hero, Leonato’s short daughter.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If this were so, so were it uttered.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Like the old tale, my lord: ‘it is not so, nor
+’twas not so; but indeed, God forbid it should be so.’
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it should be otherwise.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+By my troth, I speak my thought.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.
+
+BENEDICK.
+And by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+That I love her, I feel.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+That she is worthy, I know.
+
+BENEDICK.
+That I neither feel how she should be loved, nor know how she
+should be worthy, is the opinion that fire cannot melt out of me: I will
+die in it at the stake.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And never could maintain his part but in the force of his will.
+
+BENEDICK.
+That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up,
+I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a recheat
+winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all
+women shall pardon me. Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust
+any, I will do myself the right to trust none; and the fine is,—for the
+which I may go the finer,—I will live a bachelor.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.
+
+BENEDICK.
+With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord; not with
+love: prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again
+with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker’s pen and hang
+me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a
+notable argument.
+
+BENEDICK.
+If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he
+that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Well, as time shall try: ‘In time the savage bull
+doth bear the yoke.’
+
+BENEDICK.
+The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it,
+pluck off the bull’s horns and set them in my forehead; and let me
+be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write, ‘Here is
+good horse to hire,’ let them signify under my sign ‘Here you
+may see Benedick the married man.’
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou
+wilt quake for this shortly.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I look for an earthquake too then.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Well, you will temporize with the hours. In the meantime,
+good Signior Benedick, repair to Leonato’s: commend me to him
+and tell him I will not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made
+great preparation.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so
+I commit you—
+
+CLAUDIO.
+To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—
+
+DON PEDRO.
+The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your discourse is sometime
+guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither:
+ere you flout old ends any further, examine your conscience: and so I
+leave you.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+CLAUDIO.
+My liege, your Highness now may do me good.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,
+And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
+Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Hath Leonato any son, my lord?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+No child but Hero; she’s his only heir.
+Dost thou affect her, Claudio?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O! my lord,
+When you went onward on this ended action,
+I looked upon her with a soldier’s eye,
+That lik’d, but had a rougher task in hand
+Than to drive liking to the name of love;
+But now I am return’d, and that war-thoughts
+Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
+Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
+All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
+Saying, I lik’d her ere I went to wars.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Thou wilt be like a lover presently,
+And tire the hearer with a book of words.
+If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
+And I will break with her, and with her father,
+And thou shalt have her. Was’t not to this end
+That thou began’st to twist so fine a story?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+How sweetly you do minister to love,
+That know love’s grief by his complexion!
+But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
+I would have salv’d it with a longer treatise.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
+The fairest grant is the necessity.
+Look, what will serve is fit: ’tis once, thou lov’st,
+And I will fit thee with the remedy.
+I know we shall have revelling tonight:
+I will assume thy part in some disguise,
+And tell fair Hero I am Claudio;
+And in her bosom I’ll unclasp my heart,
+And take her hearing prisoner with the force
+And strong encounter of my amorous tale:
+Then after to her father will I break;
+And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
+In practice let us put it presently.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+SCENE II. A room in Leonato’s house.
+
+Enter Leonato and Antonio,
+meeting.
+
+LEONATO.
+How now, brother? Where is my cousin your son? Hath he provided
+this music?
+
+ANTONIO.
+He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell you strange
+news that you yet dreamt not of.
+
+LEONATO.
+Are they good?
+
+ANTONIO.
+As the event stamps them: but they have a good cover; they show
+well outward. The Prince and Count Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached
+alley in my orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine: the Prince
+discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece your daughter and meant to
+acknowledge it this night in a dance; and if he found her accordant, he
+meant to take the present time by the top and instantly break with you of
+it.
+
+LEONATO.
+ Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
+
+ANTONIO.
+A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and question him yourself.
+
+LEONATO.
+No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself: but I
+will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the better prepared for
+an answer, if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.
+
+[Several persons cross the stage.]
+
+Cousins, you know what you have to do. O! I cry you mercy, friend; go you
+with me, and I will use your skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy
+time.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+SCENE III. Another room in Leonato’s house.
+
+Enter Don John and Conrade.
+
+CONRADE.
+What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out of measure sad?
+
+DON JOHN.
+There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the
+sadness is without limit.
+
+CONRADE.
+You should hear reason.
+
+DON JOHN.
+And when I have heard it, what blessings brings it?
+
+CONRADE.
+If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance.
+
+DON JOHN.
+I wonder that thou (being as thou say’st thou art, born
+under Saturn) goest about to apply a moral medicine to a mortifying
+mischief. I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and
+smile at no man’s jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no
+man’s leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man’s
+business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.
+
+CONRADE.
+Yea; but you must not make the full show of this till you may do
+it without controlment. You have of late stood out against your brother,
+and he hath ta’en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible
+you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself:
+it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.
+
+DON JOHN.
+I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace;
+and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a
+carriage to rob love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to be a
+flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing
+villain. I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog;
+therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I
+would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime,
+let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.
+
+CONRADE.
+ Can you make no use of your discontent?
+
+DON JOHN.
+ I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who comes here?
+
+Enter Borachio.
+
+What news, Borachio?
+
+BORACHIO.
+I came yonder from a great supper: the Prince your brother is
+royally entertained by Leonato; and I can give you intelligence of an
+intended marriage.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he for
+a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Marry, it is your brother’s right hand.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Who? the most exquisite Claudio?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Even he.
+
+DON JOHN.
+A proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks he?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.
+
+DON JOHN.
+A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a musty room,
+comes me the Prince and Claudio, hand in hand, in sad conference: I whipt
+me behind the arras, and there heard it agreed upon that the Prince should
+woo Hero for himself, and having obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Come, come; let us thither: this may prove food to my
+displeasure. That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow: if I
+can cross him any way, I bless myself every way. You are both sure, and
+will assist me?
+
+CONRADE.
+ To the death, my lord.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the greater that I am
+subdued. Would the cook were of my mind! Shall we go to prove what’s
+to be done?
+
+BORACHIO.
+We’ll wait upon your Lordship.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. A hall in Leonato’s house.
+
+
+Enter Leonato, Antonio, Hero, Beatrice and
+others.
+
+LEONATO.
+Was not Count John here at supper?
+
+ANTONIO.
+I saw him not.
+
+BEATRICE.
+How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am
+heart-burned an hour after.
+
+HERO.
+He is of a very melancholy disposition.
+
+BEATRICE.
+He were an excellent man that were made just in the mid-way
+between him and Benedick: the one is too like an image, and says nothing;
+and the other too like my lady’s eldest son, evermore tattling.
+
+LEONATO.
+Then half Signior Benedick’s tongue in Count John’s
+mouth, and half Count John’s melancholy in Signior Benedick’s
+face—
+
+BEATRICE.
+With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money enough in his
+purse, such a man would win any woman in the world if a’ could get
+her good will.
+
+LEONATO.
+By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou
+be so shrewd of thy tongue.
+
+ANTONIO.
+In faith, she’s too curst.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God’s sending
+that way; for it is said, ‘God sends a curst cow short horns;’
+but to a cow too curst he sends none.
+
+LEONATO.
+So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Just, if he send me no husband; for the which blessing I am at
+him upon my knees every morning and evening. Lord! I could not endure a
+husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.
+
+LEONATO.
+You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
+
+BEATRICE.
+What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel and make him
+my waiting gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he
+that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is
+not for me; and he that is less than a man, I am not for him: therefore I
+will even take sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his apes
+into hell.
+
+LEONATO.
+Well then, go you into hell?
+
+BEATRICE.
+No; but to the gate; and there will the Devil meet me, like an
+old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say, ‘Get you to heaven,
+Beatrice, get you to heaven; here’s no place for you maids.’ So
+deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens: he shows me
+where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
+
+ANTONIO.
+[To Hero.] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled by your father.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy,
+and say, ‘Father, as it please you:’— but yet for all
+that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another
+curtsy, and say, ‘Father, as it please me.’
+
+LEONATO.
+Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it
+not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust? to
+make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll
+none: Adam’s sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to
+match in my kindred.
+
+LEONATO.
+Daughter, remember what I told you: if the Prince do solicit you
+in that kind, you know your answer.
+
+BEATRICE.
+The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be not wooed in
+good time: if the Prince be too important, tell him there is measure in
+everything, and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero: wooing,
+wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace:
+the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as
+fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and
+ancientry; and then comes Repentance, and with his bad legs, falls into
+the cinquepace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
+
+LEONATO.
+Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.
+
+BEATRICE.
+I have a good eye, uncle: I can see a church by daylight.
+
+LEONATO.
+The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.
+
+Enter Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick, Balthasar, Don
+John, Borachio, Margaret, Ursula and Others, masked.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Lady, will you walk about with your friend?
+
+HERO.
+So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing, I am yours for
+the walk; and especially when I walk away.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+With me in your company?
+
+HERO.
+I may say so, when I please.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+And when please you to say so?
+
+HERO.
+When I like your favour; for God defend the lute should be like the case!
+
+DON PEDRO.
+My visor is Philemon’s roof; within the house is Jove.
+
+HERO.
+Why, then, your visor should be thatch’d.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Speak low, if you speak love.
+
+[Takes her aside.]
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Well, I would you did like me.
+
+MARGARET.
+So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many ill qualities.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Which is one?
+
+MARGARET.
+I say my prayers aloud.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+I love you the better; the hearers may cry Amen.
+
+MARGARET.
+God match me with a good dancer!
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Amen.
+
+MARGARET.
+And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done! Answer, clerk.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+No more words: the clerk is answered.
+
+URSULA.
+I know you well enough: you are Signior Antonio.
+
+ANTONIO.
+At a word, I am not.
+
+URSULA.
+I know you by the waggling of your head.
+
+ANTONIO.
+To tell you true, I counterfeit him.
+
+URSULA.
+You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were the very
+man. Here’s his dry hand up and down: you are he, you are he.
+
+ANTONIO.
+At a word, I am not.
+
+URSULA.
+Come, come; do you think I do not know you by your excellent
+wit? Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum, you are he: graces will
+appear, and there’s an end.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Will you not tell me who told you so?
+
+BENEDICK.
+No, you shall pardon me.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Nor will you not tell me who you are?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Not now.
+
+BEATRICE.
+That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit out of
+the ‘Hundred Merry Tales.’ Well, this was Signior
+Benedick that said so.
+
+BENEDICK.
+What’s he?
+
+BEATRICE.
+I am sure you know him well enough.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Not I, believe me.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Did he never make you laugh?
+
+BENEDICK.
+I pray you, what is he?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Why, he is the Prince’s jester: a very dull fool; only his
+gift is in devising impossible slanders: none but libertines delight in
+him; and the commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy; for he
+both pleases men and angers them, and then they laugh at him and beat him.
+I am sure he is in the fleet: I would he had boarded me!
+
+BENEDICK.
+When I know the gentleman, I’ll tell him what you say.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Do, do: he’ll but break a comparison or two on me; which,
+peradventure not marked or not laughed at, strikes him into melancholy;
+and then there’s a partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no
+supper that night. [Music within.] We must follow the leaders.
+
+BENEDICK.
+In every good thing.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at the next turning.
+
+[Dance. Then exeunt all but Don John, Borachio
+and Claudio.]
+
+DON JOHN.
+Sure my brother is amorous on Hero, and hath withdrawn her
+father to break with him about it. The ladies follow her and but one visor
+remains.
+
+BORACHIO.
+And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Are you not Signior Benedick?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+You know me well; I am he.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Signior, you are very near my brother in his love: he is
+enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him from her; she is no equal for
+his birth: you may do the part of an honest man in it.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+How know you he loves her?
+
+DON JOHN.
+I heard him swear his affection.
+
+BORACHIO.
+So did I too; and he swore he would marry her tonight.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Come, let us to the banquet.
+
+[Exeunt Don John and Borachio.]
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Thus answer I in name of Benedick,
+But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
+’Tis certain so; the Prince wooss for himself.
+Friendship is constant in all other things
+Save in the office and affairs of love:
+Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
+Let every eye negotiate for itself
+And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
+Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
+This is an accident of hourly proof,
+Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!
+
+Re-enter Benedick.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Count Claudio?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Yea, the same.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Come, will you go with me?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Whither?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Even to the next willow, about your own business, Count. What
+fashion will you wear the garland of? About your neck, like a usurer’s
+chain? or under your arm, like a lieutenant’s scarf? You must wear
+it one way, for the Prince hath got your Hero.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I wish him joy of her.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Why, that’s spoken like an honest drovier: so they sell bullocks.
+But did you think the Prince would have served you thus?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I pray you, leave me.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Ho! now you strike like the blind man: ’twas the boy that
+stole your meat, and you’ll beat the post.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If it will not be, I’ll leave you.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+BENEDICK.
+Alas! poor hurt fowl. Now will he creep into sedges. But, that
+my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not know me! The Prince’s fool!
+Ha! it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am
+apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it is the base though bitter
+disposition of Beatrice that puts the world into her person, and so gives
+me out. Well, I’ll be revenged as I may.
+
+Re-enter Don Pedro.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Now, signior, where’s the Count? Did you see him?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame. I found him
+here as melancholy as a lodge in a warren. I told him, and I think I told
+him true, that your Grace had got the good will of this young lady; and I
+offered him my company to a willow tree, either to make him a garland, as
+being forsaken, or to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+To be whipped! What’s his fault?
+
+BENEDICK.
+The flat transgression of a school-boy, who, being overjoy’d
+with finding a bird’s nest, shows it his companion, and he steals
+it.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The transgression is in the stealer.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made, and the garland
+too; for the garland he might have worn himself, and the rod he might have
+bestowed on you, who, as I take it, have stolen his bird’s nest.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to the owner.
+
+BENEDICK.
+If their singing answer your saying, by my faith, you say honestly.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the gentleman that
+danced with her told her she is much wronged by you.
+
+BENEDICK.
+O! she misused me past the endurance of a block: an oak but with
+one green leaf on it would have answered her: my very visor began to
+assume life and scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been
+myself, that I was the Prince’s jester, that I was duller than a
+great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon
+me, that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me.
+She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible
+as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to
+the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all
+that Adam had left him before he transgressed: she would have made
+Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire
+too. Come, talk not of her; you shall find her the infernal Ate in good
+apparel. I would to God some scholar would conjure her, for certainly,
+while she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary; and
+people sin upon purpose because they would go thither; so indeed, all
+disquiet, horror and perturbation follow her.
+
+Re-enter Claudio, Beatrice, Hero and Leonato.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Look! here she comes.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Will your Grace command me any service to the world’s end?
+I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise
+to send me on; I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch
+of Asia; bring you the length of Prester John’s foot; fetch you a
+hair off the Great Cham’s beard; do you any embassage to the
+Pygmies, rather than hold three words’ conference with this harpy.
+You have no employment for me?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+None, but to desire your good company.
+
+BENEDICK.
+O God, sir, here’s a dish I love not: I cannot endure my Lady Tongue.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for
+it, a double heart for a single one: marry, once before he won it of me
+with false dice, therefore your Grace may well say I have lost it.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.
+
+BEATRICE.
+So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the
+mother of fools. I have brought Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Why, how now, Count! wherefore are you sad?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Not sad, my lord.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+How then? Sick?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Neither, my lord.
+
+BEATRICE.
+The Count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well; but
+civil Count, civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I’ faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true; though, I’ll
+be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed
+in thy name, and fair Hero is won; I have broke with her father, and, his
+good will obtained; name the day of marriage, and God give thee joy!
+
+LEONATO.
+Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my fortunes: his
+Grace hath made the match, and all grace say Amen to it!
+
+BEATRICE.
+Speak, Count, ’tis your cue.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy,
+if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away
+myself for you and dote upon the exchange.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth with a kiss,
+and let not him speak neither.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the windy
+side of care. My cousin tells him in his ear that he is in her heart.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And so she doth, cousin.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes everyone to the world but I,
+and I am sunburnt. I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.
+
+BEATRICE.
+I would rather have one of your father’s getting. Hath
+your Grace ne’er a brother like you? Your father got excellent
+husbands, if a maid could come by them.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Will you have me, lady?
+
+BEATRICE.
+No, my lord, unless I might have another for working days:
+your Grace is too costly to wear every day. But, I beseech your
+Grace, pardon me; I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you;
+for out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
+
+BEATRICE.
+No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star
+danced, and under that was I born. Cousins, God give you joy!
+
+LEONATO.
+Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?
+
+BEATRICE.
+I cry you mercy, uncle. By your Grace’s pardon.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+DON PEDRO.
+By my troth, a pleasant spirited lady.
+
+LEONATO.
+There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord:
+she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then, for I have
+heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked
+herself with laughing.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.
+
+LEONATO.
+O! by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+She were an excellent wife for Benedick.
+
+LEONATO.
+O Lord! my lord, if they were but a week married, they would talk
+themselves mad.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Tomorrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
+
+LEONATO.
+Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night;
+and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant
+thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us. I will in the interim
+undertake one of Hercules’ labours, which is, to bring Signior
+Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection the one with
+the other. I would fain have it a match; and I doubt not but to fashion
+it, if you three will but minister such assistance as I shall give you
+direction.
+
+LEONATO.
+My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten nights’
+watchings.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And I, my lord.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+And you too, gentle Hero?
+
+HERO.
+I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my cousin to a good
+husband.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that I know. Thus
+far can I praise him; he is of a noble strain, of approved valour, and
+confirmed honesty. I will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she
+shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your two helps, will so
+practise on Benedick that, in despite of his quick wit and his queasy
+stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this, Cupid is
+no longer an archer: his glory shall be ours, for we are the only
+love-gods. Go in with me, and I will tell you my drift.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+SCENE II. Another room in Leonato’s house.
+
+Enter Don John and Borachio.
+
+DON JOHN.
+It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the daughter of Leonato.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me: I
+am sick in displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes athwart his affection
+ranges evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no dishonesty shall
+appear in me.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Show me briefly how.
+
+BORACHIO.
+I think I told your lordship, a year since, how much I am in the
+favour of Margaret, the waiting gentlewoman to Hero.
+
+DON JOHN.
+I remember.
+
+BORACHIO.
+I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night, appoint her to
+look out at her lady’s chamber window.
+
+DON JOHN.
+ What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?
+
+BORACHIO.
+The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to the Prince
+your brother; spare not to tell him, that he hath wronged his honour in
+marrying the renowned Claudio,—whose estimation do you mightily hold
+up,—to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.
+
+DON JOHN.
+What proof shall I make of that?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Proof enough to misuse the Prince, to vex Claudio, to undo Hero,
+and kill Leonato. Look you for any other issue?
+
+DON JOHN.
+Only to despite them, I will endeavour anything.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Go then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and the Count
+Claudio alone: tell them that you know that Hero loves me; intend a kind
+of zeal both to the Prince and Claudio, as—in love of your brother’s
+honour, who hath made this match, and his friend’s reputation, who
+is thus like to be cozened with the semblance of a maid,—that you have
+discovered thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial: offer them
+instances, which shall bear no less likelihood than to see me at her
+chamber window, hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me Claudio;
+and bring them to see this the very night before the intended wedding: for
+in the meantime I will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be absent;
+and there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero’s disloyalty, that
+jealousy shall be called assurance, and all the preparation overthrown.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put it in practice. Be
+cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning shall not shame me.
+
+DON JOHN.
+I will presently go learn their day of marriage.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+SCENE III. Leonato’s Garden.
+
+Enter Benedick.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Boy!
+
+Enter a Boy.
+
+BOY.
+Signior?
+
+BENEDICK.
+In my chamber window lies a book; bring it hither to me in the orchard.
+
+BOY.
+I am here already, sir.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again.
+
+[Exit Boy.]
+
+I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when
+he dedicates his behaviours to love, will, after he hath laughed at such
+shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling
+in love: and such a man is Claudio. I have known, when there was no music
+with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he rather hear the tabor
+and the pipe: I have known when he would have walked ten mile afoot to see
+a good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion
+of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an
+honest man and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his words are
+a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes. May I be so
+converted, and see with these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not
+be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I’ll take my
+oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such
+a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well;
+another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one
+woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that’s certain;
+wise, or I’ll none; virtuous, or I’ll never cheapen her; fair,
+or I’ll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not
+I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair
+shall be of what colour it please God. Ha! the Prince and Monsieur Love! I
+will hide me in the arbour.
+
+[Withdraws.]
+
+Enter Don Pedro, Leonato and Claudio, followed by Balthasar
+and Musicians.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Come, shall we hear this music?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,
+As hush’d on purpose to grace harmony!
+
+DON PEDRO.
+See you where Benedick hath hid himself?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O! very well, my lord: the music ended,
+We’ll fit the kid-fox with a penny-worth.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Come, Balthasar, we’ll hear that song again.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+O! good my lord, tax not so bad a voice
+To slander music any more than once.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+It is the witness still of excellency,
+To put a strange face on his own perfection.
+I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;
+Since many a wooer doth commence his suit
+To her he thinks not worthy; yet he wooes;
+Yet will he swear he loves.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Nay, pray thee come;
+Or if thou wilt hold longer argument,
+Do it in notes.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Note this before my notes;
+There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Why these are very crotchets that he speaks;
+Notes, notes, forsooth, and nothing!
+
+[Music.]
+
+BENEDICK.
+Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it not strange
+that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? Well,
+a horn for my money, when all’s done.
+
+BALTHASAR [sings.]
+    Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
+     Men were deceivers ever;
+    One foot in sea, and one on shore,
+     To one thing constant never.
+  Then sigh not so, but let them go,
+ And be you blithe and bonny,
+   Converting all your sounds of woe
+Into Hey nonny, nonny.
+
+   Sing no more ditties, sing no mo
+Of dumps so dull and heavy;
+   The fraud of men was ever so,
+Since summer first was leavy.
+ Then sigh not so, but let them go,
+And be you blithe and bonny,
+     Converting all your sounds of woe
+  Into Hey nonny, nonny.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+By my troth, a good song.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+And an ill singer, my lord.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.
+
+BENEDICK.
+[Aside] And he had been a dog that should have howled
+thus, they would have hanged him; and I pray God his bad voice bode no
+mischief. I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could
+have come after it.
+
+DON PEDRO. Yea, marry; dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee, get us
+some excellent music, for tomorrow night we would have it at the
+Lady Hero’s chamber window.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+ The best I can, my lord.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+ Do so: farewell.
+
+[Exeunt Balthasar and Musicians.]
+
+Come hither, Leonato: what was it you told me of today, that your niece
+Beatrice was in love with Signior Benedick?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O! ay:—[Aside to Don Pedro] Stalk on, stalk on;
+the fowl sits. I did never think that lady would have loved any man.
+
+LEONATO.
+No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she should so
+dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in all outward behaviours
+seemed ever to abhor.
+
+BENEDICK.
+[Aside] Is’t possible? Sits the wind in that corner?
+
+LEONATO.
+By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think of it but that
+she loves him with an enraged affection: it is past the infinite of
+thought.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Maybe she doth but counterfeit.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Faith, like enough.
+
+LEONATO.
+O God! counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of passion came
+so near the life of passion as she discovers it.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Why, what effects of passion shows she?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+ [Aside] Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.
+
+LEONATO.
+What effects, my lord? She will sit you; [To Claudio] You
+heard my daughter tell you how.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+She did, indeed.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+How, how, I pray you? You amaze me: I would have thought her
+spirit had been invincible against all assaults of affection.
+
+LEONATO.
+I would have sworn it had, my lord; especially against Benedick.
+
+BENEDICK.
+[Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the
+white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such
+reverence.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+[Aside] He hath ta’en the infection: hold it
+up.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?
+
+LEONATO.
+No; and swears she never will: that’s her torment.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+’Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: ‘Shall I,’
+says she, ‘that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him
+that I love him?’
+
+LEONATO.
+This says she now when she is beginning to write to him; for she’ll
+be up twenty times a night, and there will she sit in her smock till she
+have writ a sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a pretty jest your
+daughter told us of.
+
+LEONATO.
+O! when she had writ it, and was reading it over, she found
+Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+That.
+
+LEONATO.
+O! she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence; railed at
+herself, that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew
+would flout her: ‘I measure him,’ says she, ‘by my own
+spirit; for I should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I love him,
+I should.’
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs, beats her heart,
+tears her hair, prays, curses; ‘O sweet Benedick! God give me
+patience!’
+
+LEONATO.
+She doth indeed; my daughter says so; and the ecstasy hath so
+much overborne her, that my daughter is sometimes afeard she will do a
+desperate outrage to herself. It is very true.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+It were good that Benedick knew of it by some other, if she
+will not discover it.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+To what end? he would make but a sport of it and torment the poor
+lady worse.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+And he should, it were an alms to hang him. She’s an
+excellent sweet lady, and, out of all suspicion, she is virtuous.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And she is exceeding wise.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+In everything but in loving Benedick.
+
+LEONATO.
+O! my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender a body,
+we have ten proofs to one that blood hath the victory. I am sorry for
+her, as I have just cause, being her uncle and her guardian.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I would she had bestowed this dotage on me; I would have daffed
+all other respects and made her half myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of
+it, and hear what he will say.
+
+LEONATO.
+Were it good, think you?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she will die if he
+love her not, and she will die ere she make her love known, and she will
+die if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed
+crossness.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+She doth well: if she should make tender of her love, ’tis
+very possible he’ll scorn it; for the man,—as you know all,—hath a
+contemptible spirit.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+He is a very proper man.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+He hath indeed a good outward happiness.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+’Fore God, and in my mind, very wise.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And I take him to be valiant.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of quarrels you
+may say he is wise; for either he avoids them with great discretion, or
+undertakes them with a most Christian-like fear.
+
+LEONATO.
+If he do fear God, a’ must necessarily keep peace: if he
+break the peace, he ought to enter into a quarrel with fear and trembling.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+And so will he do; for the man doth fear God, howsoever it
+seems not in him by some large jests he will make. Well, I am sorry for
+your niece. Shall we go seek Benedick and tell him of her love?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with good counsel.
+
+LEONATO.
+Nay, that’s impossible: she may wear her heart out first.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter: let it cool
+the while. I love Benedick well, and I could wish he would modestly
+examine himself, to see how much he is unworthy so good a lady.
+
+LEONATO.
+My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+[Aside] If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never
+trust my expectation.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+[Aside] Let there be the same net spread for her; and
+that must your daughter and her gentlewoman carry. The sport will be,
+when they hold one an opinion of another’s dotage, and no such
+matter: that’s the scene that I would see, which will be merely a
+dumb show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner.
+
+[Exeunt Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonato.]
+
+BENEDICK.
+[Advancing from the arbour.] This can be no trick: the
+conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of this from Hero. They
+seem to pity the lady: it seems her affections have their full bent. Love
+me? why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured: they say I will
+bear myself proudly, if I perceive the love come from her; they say too
+that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never
+think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy are they that hear their
+detractions, and can put them to mending. They say the lady is fair:
+’tis a truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous: ’tis so,
+I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving me: by my troth, it is no
+addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be
+horribly in love with her. I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants
+of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage; but
+doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he
+cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper
+bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No; the
+world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think
+I should live till I were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day! she’s
+a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in her.
+
+Enter Beatrice.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
+
+BEATRICE.
+I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to
+thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come.
+
+BENEDICK.
+You take pleasure then in the message?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife’s point,
+and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach, signior: fare you well.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+BENEDICK.
+Ha! ‘Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to
+dinner,’ there’s a double meaning in that. ‘I took no
+more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me,’ that’s
+as much as to say, Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If
+I do not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not love her, I am a
+Jew. I will go get her picture.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Leonato’s Garden.
+
+
+Enter Hero, Margaret and Ursula.
+
+HERO.
+Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour;
+There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
+Proposing with the Prince and Claudio:
+Whisper her ear, and tell her, I and Ursala
+Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse
+Is all of her; say that thou overheard’st us,
+And bid her steal into the pleached bower,
+Where honey-suckles, ripen’d by the sun,
+Forbid the sun to enter; like favourites,
+Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
+Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her,
+To listen our propose. This is thy office;
+Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.
+
+MARGARET.
+I’ll make her come, I warrant you, presently.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+HERO.
+Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,
+As we do trace this alley up and down,
+Our talk must only be of Benedick:
+When I do name him, let it be thy part
+To praise him more than ever man did merit.
+My talk to thee must be how Benedick
+Is sick in love with Beatrice: of this matter
+Is little Cupid’s crafty arrow made,
+That only wounds by hearsay.
+
+Enter Beatrice behind.
+
+Now begin;
+For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs
+Close by the ground, to hear our conference.
+
+URSULA.
+The pleasant’st angling is to see the fish
+Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
+And greedily devour the treacherous bait:
+So angle we for Beatrice; who even now
+Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
+Fear you not my part of the dialogue.
+
+HERO.
+Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing
+Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.
+
+[They advance to the bower.]
+
+No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
+I know her spirits are as coy and wild
+As haggards of the rock.
+
+URSULA.
+But are you sure
+That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?
+
+HERO.
+So says the Prince, and my new-trothed lord.
+
+URSULA.
+And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?
+
+HERO.
+They did entreat me to acquaint her of it;
+But I persuaded them, if they lov’d Benedick,
+To wish him wrestle with affection,
+And never to let Beatrice know of it.
+
+URSULA.
+Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman
+Deserve as full as fortunate a bed
+As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?
+
+HERO.
+O god of love! I know he doth deserve
+As much as may be yielded to a man;
+But Nature never fram’d a woman’s heart
+Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice;
+Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
+Misprising what they look on, and her wit
+Values itself so highly, that to her
+All matter else seems weak. She cannot love,
+Nor take no shape nor project of affection,
+She is so self-endear’d.
+
+URSULA.
+Sure I think so;
+And therefore certainly it were not good
+She knew his love, lest she make sport at it.
+
+HERO.
+Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,
+How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featur’d,
+But she would spell him backward: if fair-fac’d,
+She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;
+If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antick,
+Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;
+If low, an agate very vilely cut;
+If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;
+If silent, why, a block moved with none.
+So turns she every man the wrong side out,
+And never gives to truth and virtue that
+Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.
+
+URSULA.
+Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.
+
+HERO.
+No; not to be so odd, and from all fashions,
+As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable.
+But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,
+She would mock me into air: O! she would laugh me
+Out of myself, press me to death with wit.
+Therefore let Benedick, like cover’d fire,
+Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:
+It were a better death than die with mocks,
+Which is as bad as die with tickling.
+
+URSULA.
+Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say.
+
+HERO.
+No; rather I will go to Benedick,
+And counsel him to fight against his passion.
+And, truly, I’ll devise some honest slanders
+To stain my cousin with. One doth not know
+How much an ill word may empoison liking.
+
+URSULA.
+O! do not do your cousin such a wrong.
+She cannot be so much without true judgment,—
+Having so swift and excellent a wit
+As she is priz’d to have,—as to refuse
+So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick.
+
+HERO.
+He is the only man of Italy,
+Always excepted my dear Claudio.
+
+URSULA.
+I pray you, be not angry with me, madam,
+Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick,
+For shape, for bearing, argument and valour,
+Goes foremost in report through Italy.
+
+HERO.
+Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.
+
+URSULA.
+His excellence did earn it, ere he had it.
+When are you married, madam?
+
+HERO.
+Why, every day, tomorrow. Come, go in:
+I’ll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel
+Which is the best to furnish me tomorrow.
+
+URSULA.
+She’s lim’d, I warrant you,
+We have caught her, madam.
+
+HERO.
+If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
+Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
+
+[Exeunt Hero and Ursula.]
+
+BEATRICE.
+[Advancing.] What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
+Stand I condemn’d for pride and scorn so much?
+Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!
+No glory lives behind the back of such.
+And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,
+Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:
+If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee
+To bind our loves up in a holy band;
+For others say thou dost deserve, and I
+Believe it better than reportingly.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+SCENE II. A Room in Leonato’s House.
+
+Enter Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick and Leonato.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and then go I toward Arragon.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I’ll bring you thither, my lord, if you’ll
+vouchsafe me.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new gloss of your
+marriage, as to show a child his new coat and forbid him to wear it. I
+will only be bold with Benedick for his company; for, from the crown of
+his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth; he hath twice or thrice
+cut Cupid’s bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him.
+He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for
+what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Gallants, I am not as I have been.
+
+LEONATO.
+So say I: methinks you are sadder.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I hope he be in love.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Hang him, truant! there’s no true drop of blood in him
+to be truly touched with love. If he be sad, he wants money.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I have the tooth-ache.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Draw it.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Hang it.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+What! sigh for the tooth-ache?
+
+LEONATO.
+Where is but a humour or a worm?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Yet say I, he is in love.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be a fancy
+that he hath to strange disguises; as to be a Dutchman today, a Frenchman
+tomorrow; or in the shape of two countries at once, as a German from the
+waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no doublet.
+Unless he have a fancy to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no
+fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old
+signs: a’ brushes his hat a mornings; what should that bode?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Hath any man seen him at the barber’s?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+No, but the barber’s man hath been seen with him; and the
+old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis balls.
+
+LEONATO.
+Indeed he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Nay, a’ rubs himself with civet: can you smell him out by that?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+That’s as much as to say the sweet youth’s in love.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+The greatest note of it is his melancholy.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And when was he wont to wash his face?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear what they say of him.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into a
+lute-string, and now governed by stops.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him. Conclude, conclude he is in love.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Nay, but I know who loves him.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+She shall be buried with her face upwards.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Yet is this no charm for the tooth-ache. Old signior, walk aside
+with me: I have studied eight or nine wise words to speak to you, which
+these hobby-horses must not hear.
+
+[Exeunt Benedick and Leonato.]
+
+DON PEDRO.
+For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+’Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this played
+their parts with Beatrice, and then the two bears will not bite one
+another when they meet.
+
+Enter Don John.
+
+DON JOHN.
+My lord and brother, God save you!
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Good den, brother.
+
+DON JOHN.
+If your leisure served, I would speak with you.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+In private?
+
+DON JOHN.
+If it please you; yet Count Claudio may hear, for what I would
+speak of concerns him.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+What’s the matter?
+
+DON JOHN.
+[To Claudio.] Means your lordship to be married tomorrow?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+You know he does.
+
+DON JOHN.
+I know not that, when he knows what I know.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.
+
+DON JOHN.
+You may think I love you not: let that appear hereafter, and aim
+better at me by that I now will manifest. For my brother, I think he holds
+you well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect your ensuing
+marriage; surely suit ill-spent and labour ill bestowed!
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Why, what’s the matter?
+
+DON JOHN.
+I came hither to tell you; and circumstances shortened,—for she
+has been too long a talking of,—the lady is disloyal.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Who, Hero?
+
+DON JOHN.
+Even she: Leonato’s Hero, your Hero, every man’s Hero.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Disloyal?
+
+DON JOHN.
+The word’s too good to paint out her wickedness; I could
+say, she were worse: think you of a worse title, and I will fit her to it.
+Wonder not till further warrant: go but with me tonight, you shall see
+her chamber window entered, even the night before her wedding-day: if you
+love her then, tomorrow wed her; but it would better fit your honour to
+change your mind.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+May this be so?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I will not think it.
+
+DON JOHN.
+If you dare not trust that you see, confess not that you know.
+If you will follow me, I will show you enough; and when you have seen more
+and heard more, proceed accordingly.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If I see anything tonight why I should not marry her tomorrow,
+in the congregation, where I should wed, there will I shame her.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join with thee
+to disgrace her.
+
+DON JOHN.
+I will disparage her no farther till you are my witnesses: bear
+it coldly but till midnight, and let the issue show itself.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+O day untowardly turned!
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O mischief strangely thwarting!
+
+DON JOHN.
+O plague right well prevented! So will you say when you have seen
+the sequel.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+Scene III. A Street.
+
+Enter Dogberry and Verges,
+with the Watch.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Are you good men and true?
+
+VERGES.
+Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation, body and soul.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if they should
+have any allegiance in them, being chosen for the Prince’s watch.
+
+VERGES.
+Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+First, who think you the most desartless man to be constable?
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Hugh Oatcake, sir, or George Seacoal; for they can write and read.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Come hither, neighbour Seacoal. God hath blessed you with a good
+name: to be a well-favoured man is the gift of Fortune; but to write and
+read comes by Nature.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Both which, Master Constable,—
+
+DOGBERRY.
+You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well, for your favour,
+sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it; and for your writing
+and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You are
+thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the
+watch; therefore bear you the lanthorn. This is your charge: you shall
+comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid any man stand, in the Prince’s
+name.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+How, if a’ will not stand?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and presently
+call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
+
+VERGES.
+If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none of the Prince’s
+subjects.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+True, and they are to meddle with none but the Prince’s
+subjects. You shall also make no noise in the streets: for, for the
+watch to babble and to talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+We will rather sleep than talk: we know what belongs to a watch.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman, for I
+cannot see how sleeping should offend; only have a care that your bills be
+not stolen. Well, you are to call at all the alehouses, and bid those that
+are drunk get them to bed.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+How if they will not?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Why then, let them alone till they are sober: if they make you
+not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them
+for.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Well, sir.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue of your
+office, to be no true man; and, for such kind of men, the less you meddle
+or make with them, why, the more is for your honesty.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay hands on him?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they that touch
+pitch will be defiled. The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a
+thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your
+company.
+
+VERGES.
+You have been always called a merciful man, partner.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who
+hath any honesty in him.
+
+VERGES.
+If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call to the nurse
+and bid her still it.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Why then, depart in peace, and let the child wake her with
+crying; for the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes, will never
+answer a calf when he bleats.
+
+VERGES.
+’Tis very true.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+This is the end of the charge. You constable, are to present the
+Prince’s own person: if you meet the Prince in the night, you may
+stay him.
+
+VERGES.
+Nay, by’r lady, that I think, a’ cannot.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Five shillings to one on’t, with any man that knows the
+statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without the Prince be willing; for,
+indeed, the watch ought to offend no man, and it is an offence to stay a
+man against his will.
+
+VERGES.
+By’r lady, I think it be so.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Ha, ah, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be any matter of
+weight chances, call up me: keep your fellows’ counsels and your
+own, and good night. Come, neighbour.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here upon
+the church bench till two, and then all to bed.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you, watch about
+Signior Leonato’s door; for the wedding being there tomorrow,
+there is a great coil tonight. Adieu; be vigitant, I beseech
+you.
+
+[Exeunt Dogberry and Verges.]
+
+Enter Borachio and Conrade.
+
+BORACHIO.
+What, Conrade!
+
+WATCH.
+[Aside] Peace! stir not.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Conrade, I say!
+
+CONRADE.
+Here, man. I am at thy elbow.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there would a scab follow.
+
+CONRADE.
+I will owe thee an answer for that; and now forward with thy tale.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Stand thee close then under this penthouse, for it drizzles
+rain, and I will, like a true drunkard, utter all to thee.
+
+WATCH.
+[Aside] Some treason, masters; yet stand close.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Therefore know, I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.
+
+CONRADE.
+Is it possible that any villainy should be so dear?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any villainy should
+be so rich; for when rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may
+make what price they will.
+
+CONRADE.
+I wonder at it.
+
+BORACHIO.
+That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that the fashion
+of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is nothing to a man.
+
+CONRADE.
+Yes, it is apparel.
+
+BORACHIO.
+I mean, the fashion.
+
+CONRADE.
+Yes, the fashion is the fashion.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Tush! I may as well say the fool’s the fool. But seest
+thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
+
+WATCH.
+[Aside] I know that Deformed; a’ has been a vile thief
+this seven years; a’ goes up and down like a gentleman: I remember
+his name.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Didst thou not hear somebody?
+
+CONRADE.
+No: ’twas the vane on the house.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is?
+how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and
+five-and-thirty? sometime fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in
+the reechy painting; sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old
+church window; sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched
+worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
+
+CONRADE.
+All this I see, and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel
+than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that
+thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Not so neither; but know, that I have tonight wooed Margaret,
+the Lady Hero’s gentlewoman, by the name of Hero: she leans me out
+at her mistress’ chamber window, bids me a thousand times good
+night,—I tell this tale vilely:—I should first tell thee how the Prince,
+Claudio, and my master, planted and placed and possessed by my master Don
+John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.
+
+CONRADE.
+And thought they Margaret was Hero?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Two of them did, the Prince and Claudio; but the devil my
+master, knew she was Margaret; and partly by his oaths, which first
+possessed them, partly by the dark night, which did deceive them, but
+chiefly by my villainy, which did confirm any slander that Don John had
+made, away went Claudio enraged; swore he would meet her, as he was
+appointed, next morning at the temple, and there, before the whole
+congregation, shame her with what he saw o’er night, and send her
+home again without a husband.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+We charge you in the Prince’s name, stand!
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Call up the right Master Constable. We have here recovered
+the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the
+commonwealth.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+And one Deformed is one of them: I know him, a’ wears a lock.
+
+CONRADE.
+Masters, masters!
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+You’ll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.
+
+CONRADE.
+Masters,—
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us.
+
+BORACHIO.
+We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken up of these
+men’s bills.
+
+CONRADE.
+A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we’ll obey you.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+Scene IV. A Room in Leonato’s House.
+
+Enter Hero, Margaret and Ursula.
+
+HERO.
+Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire her to rise.
+
+URSULA.
+I will, lady.
+
+HERO.
+And bid her come hither.
+
+URSULA.
+Well.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+MARGARET.
+Troth, I think your other rebato were better.
+
+HERO.
+No, pray thee, good Meg, I’ll wear this.
+
+MARGARET.
+By my troth’s not so good; and I warrant your cousin will say so.
+
+HERO.
+My cousin’s a fool, and thou art another: I’ll
+wear none but this.
+
+MARGARET.
+I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair were a thought
+browner; and your gown’s a most rare fashion, i’ faith. I saw the
+Duchess of Milan’s gown that they praise so.
+
+HERO.
+O! that exceeds, they say.
+
+MARGARET.
+By my troth ’s but a night-gown in respect of yours: cloth o’ gold, and
+cuts, and laced with silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side
+sleeves, and skirts round, underborne with a bluish tinsel; but for a
+fine, quaint, graceful, and excellent fashion, yours is worth ten on’t.
+
+HERO.
+God give me joy to wear it! for my heart is exceeding heavy.
+
+MARGARET.
+’Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man.
+
+HERO.
+Fie upon thee! art not ashamed?
+
+MARGARET.
+Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not marriage honourable in a
+beggar? Is not your lord honourable without marriage? I think you would
+have me say, saving your reverence, ‘a husband:’ an bad thinking do not
+wrest true speaking, I’ll offend nobody. Is there any harm in ‘the
+heavier for a husband’? None, I think, and it be the right husband and
+the right wife; otherwise ’tis light, and not heavy: ask my Lady
+Beatrice else; here she comes.
+
+Enter Beatrice.
+
+HERO.
+Good morrow, coz.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Good morrow, sweet Hero.
+
+HERO.
+Why, how now? do you speak in the sick tune?
+
+BEATRICE.
+I am out of all other tune, methinks.
+
+MARGARET.
+Clap’s into ‘Light o’ love’; that goes
+without a burden: do you sing it, and I’ll dance it.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Ye, light o’ love with your heels! then, if your husband
+have stables enough, you’ll see he shall lack no barnes.
+
+MARGARET.
+O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels.
+
+BEATRICE.
+’Tis almost five o’clock, cousin; ’tis time
+you were ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill. Heigh-ho!
+
+MARGARET.
+For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?
+
+BEATRICE.
+For the letter that begins them all, H.
+
+MARGARET.
+Well, and you be not turned Turk, there’s no more
+sailing by the star.
+
+BEATRICE.
+What means the fool, trow?
+
+MARGARET.
+Nothing I; but God send everyone their heart’s desire!
+
+HERO.
+These gloves the Count sent me; they are an excellent perfume.
+
+BEATRICE.
+I am stuffed, cousin, I cannot smell.
+
+MARGARET.
+A maid, and stuffed! there’s goodly catching of cold.
+
+BEATRICE.
+O, God help me! God help me! how long have you professed
+apprehension?
+
+MARGARET.
+Ever since you left it. Doth not my wit become me rarely!
+
+BEATRICE.
+It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your cap. By
+my troth, I am sick.
+
+MARGARET.
+Get you some of this distilled Carduus benedictus, and lay it to
+your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm.
+
+HERO.
+There thou prick’st her with a thistle.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Benedictus! why benedictus? you have some moral in this
+benedictus.
+
+MARGARET.
+Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning; I meant, plain
+holy thistle. You may think, perchance, that I think you are in love: nay,
+by’r Lady, I am not such a fool to think what I list; nor I list not
+to think what I can; nor, indeed, I cannot think, if I would think my
+heart out of thinking, that you are in love, or that you will be in love,
+or that you can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and now is he
+become a man: he swore he would never marry; and yet now, in despite of
+his heart, he eats his meat without grudging: and how you may be
+converted, I know not; but methinks you look with your eyes as other women
+do.
+
+BEATRICE.
+What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?
+
+MARGARET.
+Not a false gallop.
+
+Re-enter Ursula.
+
+URSULA.
+Madam, withdraw: the Prince, the Count, Signior Benedick, Don
+John, and all the gallants of the town are come to fetch you to church.
+
+HERO.
+Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+Scene V. Another Room in Leonato’s House.
+
+Enter Leonato and Dogberry
+and Verges.
+
+LEONATO.
+What would you with me, honest neighbour?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you, that decerns
+you nearly.
+
+LEONATO.
+Brief, I pray you; for you see it is a busy time with me.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Marry, this it is, sir.
+
+VERGES.
+Yes, in truth it is, sir.
+
+LEONATO.
+What is it, my good friends?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the matter: an old man,
+sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, God help, I would desire they were;
+but, in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.
+
+VERGES.
+Yes, I thank God, I am as honest as any man living, that is an old
+man and no honester than I.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbour Verges.
+
+LEONATO.
+Neighbours, you are tedious.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor Duke’s
+officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I
+could find in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
+
+LEONATO.
+All thy tediousness on me! ah?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Yea, and ’twere a thousand pound more than ’tis;
+for I hear as good exclamation on your worship, as of any man in the
+city, and though I be but a poor man, I am glad to hear it.
+
+VERGES.
+And so am I.
+
+LEONATO.
+I would fain know what you have to say.
+
+VERGES.
+Marry, sir, our watch tonight, excepting your worship’s
+presence, ha’ ta’en a couple of as arrant knaves as any in
+Messina.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+A good old man, sir; he will be talking; as they say, ‘when
+the age is in, the wit is out.’ God help us! it is a world to see!
+Well said, i’ faith, neighbour Verges: well, God’s a good man;
+and two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest soul, i’
+faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever broke bread; but God is to be
+worshipped: all men are not alike; alas! good neighbour.
+
+LEONATO.
+Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Gifts that God gives.
+
+LEONATO.
+I must leave you.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two
+aspicious persons, and we would have them this morning examined before
+your worship.
+
+LEONATO.
+Take their examination yourself, and bring it me: I am now in
+great haste, as may appear unto you.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+It shall be suffigance.
+
+LEONATO.
+Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to her husband.
+
+LEONATO.
+I’ll wait upon them: I am ready.
+
+[Exeunt Leonato and Messenger.]
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Go, good partner, go get you to Francis Seacoal; bid him bring
+his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we are now to examination these men.
+
+VERGES.
+And we must do it wisely.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+We will spare for no wit, I warrant you; here’s that shall
+drive some of them to a non-come: only get the learned writer to set down
+our excommunication, and meet me at the gaol.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. The Inside of a Church.
+
+
+Enter Don Pedro, Don John, Leonato, Friar Francis,
+Claudio, Benedick, Hero, Beatrice &c.
+
+LEONATO.
+Come, Friar Francis, be brief: only to the plain form of
+marriage, and you shall recount their particular duties afterwards.
+
+FRIAR.
+You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+No.
+
+LEONATO.
+To be married to her, friar; you come to marry her.
+
+FRIAR.
+Lady, you come hither to be married to this Count?
+
+HERO.
+I do.
+
+FRIAR.
+If either of you know any inward impediment, why you should not be
+conjoined, I charge you, on your souls, to utter it.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Know you any, Hero?
+
+HERO.
+None, my lord.
+
+FRIAR.
+Know you any, Count?
+
+LEONATO.
+I dare make his answer; none.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O! what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not
+knowing what they do!
+
+BENEDICK.
+How now! Interjections? Why then, some be of laughing, as ah!
+ha! he!
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Stand thee by, Friar. Father, by your leave:
+Will you with free and unconstrained soul
+Give me this maid, your daughter?
+
+LEONATO.
+As freely, son, as God did give her me.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And what have I to give you back whose worth
+May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Nothing, unless you render her again.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Sweet Prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
+There, Leonato, take her back again:
+Give not this rotten orange to your friend;
+She’s but the sign and semblance of her honour.
+Behold! how like a maid she blushes here.
+O! what authority and show of truth
+Can cunning sin cover itself withal.
+Comes not that blood as modest evidence
+To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,
+All you that see her, that she were a maid,
+By these exterior shows? But she is none:
+She knows the heat of a luxurious bed;
+Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
+
+LEONATO.
+What do you mean, my lord?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Not to be married,
+Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.
+
+LEONATO.
+Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof,
+Have vanquish’d the resistance of her youth,
+And made defeat of her virginity,—
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I know what you would say: if I have known her,
+You will say she did embrace me as a husband,
+And so extenuate the forehand sin: No, Leonato,
+I never tempted her with word too large;
+But as a brother to his sister show’d
+Bashful sincerity and comely love.
+
+HERO.
+And seem’d I ever otherwise to you?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it:
+You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
+As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;
+But you are more intemperate in your blood
+Than Venus, or those pamper’d animals
+That rage in savage sensuality.
+
+HERO.
+Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?
+
+LEONATO.
+Sweet Prince, why speak not you?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+What should I speak?
+I stand dishonour’d, that have gone about
+To link my dear friend to a common stale.
+
+LEONATO.
+Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?
+
+DON JOHN.
+Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.
+
+BENEDICK.
+This looks not like a nuptial.
+
+HERO.
+True! O God!
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Leonato, stand I here?
+Is this the Prince? Is this the Prince’s brother?
+Is this face Hero’s? Are our eyes our own?
+
+LEONATO.
+All this is so; but what of this, my lord?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Let me but move one question to your daughter,
+And by that fatherly and kindly power
+That you have in her, bid her answer truly.
+
+LEONATO.
+I charge thee do so, as thou art my child.
+
+HERO.
+O, God defend me! how am I beset!
+What kind of catechizing call you this?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+To make you answer truly to your name.
+
+HERO.
+Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name
+With any just reproach?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Marry, that can Hero:
+Hero itself can blot out Hero’s virtue.
+What man was he talk’d with you yesternight
+Out at your window, betwixt twelve and one?
+Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.
+
+HERO.
+I talk’d with no man at that hour, my lord.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Why, then are you no maiden.
+Leonato, I am sorry you must hear: upon my honour,
+Myself, my brother, and this grieved Count,
+Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night,
+Talk with a ruffian at her chamber window;
+Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,
+Confess’d the vile encounters they have had
+A thousand times in secret.
+
+DON JOHN.
+Fie, fie! they are not to be nam’d, my lord,
+Not to be spoke of;
+There is not chastity enough in language
+Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,
+I am sorry for thy much misgovernment.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O Hero! what a Hero hadst thou been,
+If half thy outward graces had been plac’d
+About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!
+But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,
+Thou pure impiety, and impious purity!
+For thee I’ll lock up all the gates of love,
+And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,
+To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
+And never shall it more be gracious.
+
+LEONATO.
+Hath no man’s dagger here a point for me?
+
+[Hero swoons.]
+
+BEATRICE.
+Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down?
+
+DON JOHN.
+Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,
+Smother her spirits up.
+
+[Exeunt Don Pedro, Don John and Claudio.]
+
+BENEDICK.
+How doth the lady?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Dead, I think! Help, uncle! Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! Signior
+Benedick! Friar!
+
+LEONATO.
+O Fate! take not away thy heavy hand:
+Death is the fairest cover for her shame
+That may be wish’d for.
+
+BEATRICE.
+How now, cousin Hero?
+
+FRIAR.
+Have comfort, lady.
+
+LEONATO.
+Dost thou look up?
+
+FRIAR.
+Yea; wherefore should she not?
+
+LEONATO.
+Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing
+Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny
+The story that is printed in her blood?
+Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes;
+For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,
+Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,
+Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches,
+Strike at thy life. Griev’d I, I had but one?
+Chid I for that at frugal Nature’s frame?
+O! one too much by thee. Why had I one?
+Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?
+Why had I not with charitable hand
+Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates,
+Who smirched thus, and mir’d with infamy,
+I might have said, ‘No part of it is mine;
+This shame derives itself from unknown loins?’
+But mine, and mine I lov’d, and mine I prais’d,
+And mine that I was proud on, mine so much
+That I myself was to myself not mine,
+Valuing of her; why, she—O! she is fallen
+Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
+Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
+And salt too little which may season give
+To her foul tainted flesh.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Sir, sir, be patient.
+For my part, I am so attir’d in wonder,
+I know not what to say.
+
+BEATRICE.
+O! on my soul, my cousin is belied!
+
+BENEDICK.
+Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?
+
+BEATRICE.
+No, truly, not; although, until last night,
+I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.
+
+LEONATO.
+Confirm’d, confirm’d! O! that is stronger made,
+Which was before barr’d up with ribs of iron.
+Would the two princes lie? and Claudio lie,
+Who lov’d her so, that, speaking of her foulness,
+Wash’d it with tears? Hence from her! let her die.
+
+FRIAR.
+Hear me a little;
+For I have only been silent so long,
+And given way unto this course of fortune,
+By noting of the lady: I have mark’d
+A thousand blushing apparitions
+To start into her face; a thousand innocent shames
+In angel whiteness bear away those blushes;
+And in her eye there hath appear’d a fire,
+To burn the errors that these princes hold
+Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool;
+Trust not my reading nor my observations,
+Which with experimental seal doth warrant
+The tenure of my book; trust not my age,
+My reverence, calling, nor divinity,
+If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
+Under some biting error.
+
+LEONATO.
+Friar, it cannot be.
+Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left
+Is that she will not add to her damnation
+A sin of perjury: she not denies it.
+Why seek’st thou then to cover with excuse
+That which appears in proper nakedness?
+
+FRIAR.
+Lady, what man is he you are accus’d of?
+
+HERO.
+They know that do accuse me, I know none;
+If I know more of any man alive
+Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,
+Let all my sins lack mercy! O, my father!
+Prove you that any man with me convers’d
+At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight
+Maintain’d the change of words with any creature,
+Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.
+
+FRIAR.
+There is some strange misprision in the princes.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Two of them have the very bent of honour;
+And if their wisdoms be misled in this,
+The practice of it lives in John the bastard,
+Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
+
+LEONATO.
+I know not. If they speak but truth of her,
+These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour,
+The proudest of them shall well hear of it.
+Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
+Nor age so eat up my invention,
+Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
+Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
+But they shall find, awak’d in such a kind,
+Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
+Ability in means and choice of friends,
+To quit me of them throughly.
+
+FRIAR.
+Pause awhile,
+And let my counsel sway you in this case.
+Your daughter here the princes left for dead;
+Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
+And publish it that she is dead indeed:
+Maintain a mourning ostentation;
+And on your family’s old monument
+Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
+That appertain unto a burial.
+
+LEONATO.
+What shall become of this? What will this do?
+
+FRIAR.
+Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf
+Change slander to remorse; that is some good.
+But not for that dream I on this strange course,
+But on this travail look for greater birth.
+She dying, as it must be so maintain’d,
+Upon the instant that she was accus’d,
+Shall be lamented, pitied and excus’d
+Of every hearer; for it so falls out
+That what we have we prize not to the worth
+Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack’d and lost,
+Why, then we rack the value, then we find
+The virtue that possession would not show us
+Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio:
+When he shall hear she died upon his words,
+The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
+Into his study of imagination,
+And every lovely organ of her life
+Shall come apparell’d in more precious habit,
+More moving, delicate, and full of life
+Into the eye and prospect of his soul,
+Than when she liv’d indeed: then shall he mourn,—
+If ever love had interest in his liver,—
+And wish he had not so accused her,
+No, though he thought his accusation true.
+Let this be so, and doubt not but success
+Will fashion the event in better shape
+Than I can lay it down in likelihood.
+But if all aim but this be levell’d false,
+The supposition of the lady’s death
+Will quench the wonder of her infamy:
+And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,—
+As best befits her wounded reputation,—
+In some reclusive and religious life,
+Out of all eyes, tongues, minds, and injuries.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you:
+And though you know my inwardness and love
+Is very much unto the Prince and Claudio,
+Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this
+As secretly and justly as your soul
+Should with your body.
+
+LEONATO.
+Being that I flow in grief,
+The smallest twine may lead me.
+
+FRIAR.
+’Tis well consented: presently away;
+For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.
+Come, lady, die to live: this wedding day
+Perhaps is but prolong’d: have patience and endure.
+
+[Exeunt Friar, Hero and Leonato.]
+
+BENEDICK.
+Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Yea, and I will weep a while longer.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I will not desire that.
+
+BEATRICE.
+You have no reason; I do it freely.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Ah! how much might the man deserve of me that would right her.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Is there any way to show such friendship?
+
+BEATRICE.
+A very even way, but no such friend.
+
+BENEDICK.
+May a man do it?
+
+BEATRICE.
+It is a man’s office, but not yours.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
+
+BEATRICE.
+As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for
+me to say I loved nothing so well as you; but believe me not, and yet
+I lie not; I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my
+cousin.
+
+BENEDICK.
+By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Do not swear by it, and eat it.
+
+BENEDICK.
+I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make him eat it
+that says I love not you.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Will you not eat your word?
+
+BENEDICK.
+With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest I love thee.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Why then, God forgive me!
+
+BENEDICK.
+What offence, sweet Beatrice?
+
+BEATRICE.
+You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to protest I loved you.
+
+BENEDICK.
+And do it with all thy heart.
+
+BEATRICE.
+I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Come, bid me do anything for thee.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Kill Claudio.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Ha! not for the wide world.
+
+BEATRICE.
+You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
+
+BEATRICE.
+I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in you: nay, I
+pray you, let me go.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Beatrice,—
+
+BEATRICE.
+In faith, I will go.
+
+BENEDICK.
+We’ll be friends first.
+
+BEATRICE.
+You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Is Claudio thine enemy?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Is he not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered,
+scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O! that I were a man. What! bear her in
+hand until they come to take hands, and then, with public accusation,
+uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,—O God, that I were a man! I would
+eat his heart in the market-place.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Hear me, Beatrice,—
+
+BEATRICE.
+Talk with a man out at a window! a proper saying!
+
+BENEDICK.
+Nay, but Beatrice,—
+
+BEATRICE.
+Sweet Hero! she is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Beat—
+
+BEATRICE.
+Princes and Counties! Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly
+Count Comfect; a sweet gallant, surely! O! that I were a man for his sake,
+or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted
+into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue,
+and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie
+and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a
+woman with grieving.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Yea, as sure is I have a thought or a soul.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Enough! I am engaged, I will challenge him. I will kiss your
+hand, and so leave you. By this hand, Claudio shall render me a dear
+account. As you hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your cousin: I
+must say she is dead; and so, farewell.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+Scene II. A Prison.
+
+Enter Dogberry, Verges, and Sexton, in gowns; and the Watch, with Conrade and
+Borachio.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Is our whole dissembly appeared?
+
+VERGES.
+O! a stool and a cushion for the sexton.
+
+SEXTON.
+Which be the malefactors?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Marry, that am I and my partner.
+
+VERGES.
+Nay, that’s certain: we have the exhibition to examine.
+
+SEXTON.
+But which are the offenders that are to be examined? let them come
+before Master Constable.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your name, friend?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Borachio.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Pray write down Borachio. Yours, sirrah?
+
+CONRADE.
+I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Write down Master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do you serve God?
+
+BOTH.
+Yea, sir, we hope.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Write down that they hope they serve God: and write God first;
+for God defend but God should go before such villains! Masters, it is
+proved already that you are little better than false knaves, and it will
+go near to be thought so shortly. How answer you for yourselves?
+
+CONRADE.
+Marry, sir, we say we are none.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you; but I will go
+about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a word in your ear: sir, I
+say to you, it is thought you are false knaves.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Sir, I say to you we are none.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Well, stand aside. Fore God, they are both in a tale. Have you
+writ down, that they are none?
+
+SEXTON.
+Master Constable, you go not the way to examine: you must call
+forth the watch that are their accusers.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Yea, marry, that’s the eftest way. Let the watch come forth.
+Masters, I charge you, in the Prince’s name, accuse these men.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+This man said, sir, that Don John, the Prince’s
+brother, was a villain.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat perjury, to
+call a Prince’s brother villain.
+
+BORACHIO.
+Master Constable,—
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look, I promise thee.
+
+SEXTON.
+What heard you him say else?
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of Don John
+for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Flat burglary as ever was committed.
+
+VERGES.
+Yea, by the mass, that it is.
+
+SEXTON.
+What else, fellow?
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+And that Count Claudio did mean, upon his words, to disgrace
+Hero before the whole assembly, and not marry her.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption
+for this.
+
+SEXTON.
+What else?
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+This is all.
+
+SEXTON.
+And this is more, masters, than you can deny. Prince John is this
+morning secretly stolen away: Hero was in this manner accused, in this
+manner refused, and, upon the grief of this, suddenly died. Master
+Constable, let these men be bound, and brought to Leonato’s: I will
+go before and show him their examination.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Come, let them be opinioned.
+
+VERGES.
+Let them be in the hands—
+
+CONRADE.
+Off, coxcomb!
+
+DOGBERRY.
+God’s my life! where’s the sexton? let him write
+down the Prince’s officer coxcomb. Come, bind them. Thou naughty
+varlet!
+
+CONRADE.
+Away! you are an ass; you are an ass.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years?
+O that he were here to write me down an ass! but, masters, remember that I
+am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
+No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as shall be proved upon thee by
+good witness. I am a wise fellow; and, which is more, an officer; and,
+which is more, a householder; and, which is more, as pretty a piece of
+flesh as any in Messina; and one that knows the law, go to; and a rich
+fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath had losses; and one that hath
+two gowns, and everything handsome about him. Bring him away. O that I had
+been writ down an ass!
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Before Leonato’s House.
+
+
+Enter Leonato and Antonio.
+
+ANTONIO.
+If you go on thus, you will kill yourself
+And ’tis not wisdom thus to second grief
+Against yourself.
+
+LEONATO.
+I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
+Which falls into mine ears as profitless
+As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;
+Nor let no comforter delight mine ear
+But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine:
+Bring me a father that so lov’d his child,
+Whose joy of her is overwhelm’d like mine,
+And bid him speak of patience;
+Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine,
+And let it answer every strain for strain,
+As thus for thus and such a grief for such,
+In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:
+If such a one will smile, and stroke his beard;
+Bid sorrow wag, cry ‘hem’ when he should groan,
+Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk
+With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,
+And I of him will gather patience.
+But there is no such man; for, brother, men
+Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
+Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
+Their counsel turns to passion, which before
+Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
+Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
+Charm ache with air and agony with words.
+No, no; ’tis all men’s office to speak patience
+To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
+But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency
+To be so moral when he shall endure
+The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:
+My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Therein do men from children nothing differ.
+
+LEONATO.
+I pray thee peace! I will be flesh and blood;
+For there was never yet philosopher
+That could endure the toothache patiently,
+However they have writ the style of gods
+And made a push at chance and sufferance.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself;
+Make those that do offend you suffer too.
+
+LEONATO.
+There thou speak’st reason: nay, I will do so.
+My soul doth tell me Hero is belied;
+And that shall Claudio know; so shall the Prince,
+And all of them that thus dishonour her.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Here comes the Prince and Claudio hastily.
+
+Enter Don Pedro and Claudio.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Good den, good den.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Good day to both of you.
+
+LEONATO.
+Hear you, my lords,—
+
+DON PEDRO.
+We have some haste, Leonato.
+
+LEONATO.
+Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord:
+Are you so hasty now?—well, all is one.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.
+
+ANTONIO.
+If he could right himself with quarrelling,
+Some of us would lie low.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Who wrongs him?
+
+LEONATO.
+Marry, thou dost wrong me; thou dissembler, thou.
+Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword;
+I fear thee not.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Marry, beshrew my hand,
+If it should give your age such cause of fear.
+In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.
+
+LEONATO.
+Tush, tush, man! never fleer and jest at me:
+I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
+As, under privilege of age, to brag
+What I have done being young, or what would do,
+Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,
+Thou hast so wrong’d mine innocent child and me
+That I am forc’d to lay my reverence by,
+And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,
+Do challenge thee to trial of a man.
+I say thou hast belied mine innocent child:
+Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
+And she lies buried with her ancestors;
+O! in a tomb where never scandal slept,
+Save this of hers, fram’d by thy villainy!
+
+CLAUDIO.
+My villainy?
+
+LEONATO.
+Thine, Claudio; thine, I say.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+You say not right, old man.
+
+LEONATO.
+My lord, my lord,
+ I’ll prove it on his body, if he dare,
+Despite his nice fence and his active practice,
+His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Away! I will not have to do with you.
+
+LEONATO.
+Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill’d my child;
+If thou kill’st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.
+
+ANTONIO.
+He shall kill two of us, and men indeed:
+But that’s no matter; let him kill one first:
+Win me and wear me; let him answer me.
+Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me.
+Sir boy, I’ll whip you from your foining fence;
+Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.
+
+LEONATO.
+Brother,—
+
+ANTONIO.
+Content yourself. God knows I lov’d my niece;
+And she is dead, slander’d to death by villains,
+That dare as well answer a man indeed
+As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.
+Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!
+
+LEONATO.
+Brother Anthony,—
+
+ANTONIO.
+Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,
+And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,
+Scambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,
+That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,
+Go antickly, show outward hideousness,
+And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
+How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
+And this is all!
+
+LEONATO.
+But, brother Anthony,—
+
+ANTONIO.
+Come, ’tis no matter:
+Do not you meddle, let me deal in this.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.
+My heart is sorry for your daughter’s death;
+But, on my honour, she was charg’d with nothing
+But what was true and very full of proof.
+
+LEONATO.
+My lord, my lord—
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I will not hear you.
+
+LEONATO.
+No? Come, brother, away. I will be heard.—
+
+ANTONIO.
+And shall, or some of us will smart for it.
+
+[Exeunt Leonato and Antonio.]
+
+Enter Benedick.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+See, see; here comes the man we went to seek.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Now, signior, what news?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Good day, my lord.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part almost a fray.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+We had like to have had our two noses snapped off with two old
+men without teeth.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Leonato and his brother. What think’st thou? Had we
+fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.
+
+BENEDICK.
+In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came to seek you both.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are high-proof
+melancholy, and would fain have it beaten away. Wilt thou use thy wit?
+
+BENEDICK.
+It is in my scabbard; shall I draw it?
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Never any did so, though very many have been beside their wit. I
+will bid thee draw, as we do the minstrels; draw, to pleasure us.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou sick, or angry?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat, thou hast
+mettle enough in thee to kill care.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you charge it
+against me. I pray you choose another subject.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Nay then, give him another staff: this last was broke cross.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+By this light, he changes more and more: I think he be angry indeed.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Shall I speak a word in your ear?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+God bless me from a challenge!
+
+BENEDICK.
+[Aside to Claudio.] You are a villain, I jest not: I will
+make it good how you dare, with what you dare, and when you dare. Do me
+right, or I will protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet lady, and
+her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me hear from you.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Well I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+What, a feast, a feast?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I’ faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf’s-head
+and a capon, the which if I do not carve most curiously, say my knife’s
+naught. Shall I not find a woodcock too?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+I’ll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the
+other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit. ‘True,’ says
+she, ‘a fine little one.’ ‘No,’ said I,
+‘a great wit.’ ‘Right,’ said she, ‘a
+great gross one.’ ‘Nay,’ said I, ‘a good wit.’
+‘Just,’ said she, ‘it hurts nobody.’ ‘Nay,’
+said I, ‘the gentleman is wise.’ ‘Certain,’
+said she, ‘a wise gentleman.’ ‘Nay,’ said I,
+‘he hath the tongues.’ ‘That I believe’ said
+she, ‘for he swore a thing to me on Monday night, which he
+forswore on Tuesday morning: there’s a double tongue; there’s
+two tongues.’ Thus did she, an hour together, trans-shape thy
+particular virtues; yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou wast
+the properest man in Italy.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+For the which she wept heartily and said she cared not.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Yea, that she did; but yet, for all that, an if she did not
+hate him deadly, she would love him dearly. The old man’s daughter
+told us all.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+All, all; and moreover, God saw him when he was hid in the garden.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+But when shall we set the savage bull’s horns on the
+sensible Benedick’s head?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Yea, and text underneath, ‘Here dwells Benedick the
+married man!’
+
+BENEDICK.
+Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave you now to
+your gossip-like humour; you break jests as braggarts do their blades,
+which, God be thanked, hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank
+you: I must discontinue your company. Your brother the bastard is fled
+from Messina: you have, among you, killed a sweet and innocent lady. For
+my Lord Lack-beard there, he and I shall meet; and till then, peace be
+with him.
+
+[Exit.]
+
+DON PEDRO.
+He is in earnest.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+In most profound earnest; and, I’ll warrant you, for
+the love of Beatrice.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+And hath challenged thee?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Most sincerely.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose
+and leaves off his wit!
+
+CLAUDIO.
+He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape a doctor to such
+a man.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+But, soft you; let me be: pluck up, my heart, and be sad! Did
+he not say my brother was fled?
+
+Enter Dogberry, Verges,  and the Watch, with
+Conrade and Borachio.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she shall ne’er
+weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, an you be a cursing hypocrite
+once, you must be looked to.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+How now! two of my brother’s men bound! Borachio, one!
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Hearken after their offence, my lord.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Officers, what offence have these men done?
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they
+have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly,
+they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to
+conclude, they are lying knaves.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I ask thee what’s
+their offence; sixth and lastly, why they are committed; and, to conclude,
+what you lay to their charge?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Rightly reasoned, and in his own division; and, by my troth,
+there’s one meaning well suited.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus bound to
+your answer? This learned constable is too cunning to be understood.
+What’s your offence?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Sweet Prince, let me go no farther to mine answer: do you hear
+me, and let this Count kill me. I have deceived even your very eyes: what
+your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to
+light; who, in the night overheard me confessing to this man how Don John
+your brother incensed me to slander the Lady Hero; how you were brought
+into the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero’s garments; how
+you disgraced her, when you should marry her. My villainy they have upon
+record; which I had rather seal with my death than repeat over to my
+shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my master’s false accusation;
+and, briefly, I desire nothing but the reward of a villain.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I have drunk poison whiles he utter’d it.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+But did my brother set thee on to this?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Yea; and paid me richly for the practice of it.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+He is compos’d and fram’d of treachery:
+And fled he is upon this villainy.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear
+In the rare semblance that I lov’d it first.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our sexton hath
+reformed Signior Leonato of the matter. And masters, do not forget to
+specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.
+
+VERGES.
+Here, here comes Master Signior Leonato, and the sexton too.
+
+Re-enter Leonato, Antonio and the Sexton.
+
+LEONATO.
+Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes,
+That, when I note another man like him,
+I may avoid him. Which of these is he?
+
+BORACHIO.
+If you would know your wronger, look on me.
+
+LEONATO.
+Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill’d
+Mine innocent child?
+
+BORACHIO.
+Yea, even I alone.
+
+LEONATO.
+No, not so, villain; thou beliest thyself:
+Here stand a pair of honourable men;
+A third is fled, that had a hand in it.
+I thank you, princes, for my daughter’s death:
+Record it with your high and worthy deeds.
+’Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I know not how to pray your patience;
+Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself;
+Impose me to what penance your invention
+Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn’d I not
+But in mistaking.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+By my soul, nor I:
+And yet, to satisfy this good old man,
+I would bend under any heavy weight
+That he’ll enjoin me to.
+
+LEONATO.
+I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;
+That were impossible; but, I pray you both,
+Possess the people in Messina here
+How innocent she died; and if your love
+Can labour aught in sad invention,
+Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb,
+And sing it to her bones: sing it tonight.
+Tomorrow morning come you to my house,
+And since you could not be my son-in-law,
+Be yet my nephew. My brother hath a daughter,
+Almost the copy of my child that’s dead,
+And she alone is heir to both of us:
+Give her the right you should have given her cousin,
+And so dies my revenge.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+O noble sir,
+Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!
+I do embrace your offer; and dispose
+For henceforth of poor Claudio.
+
+LEONATO.
+Tomorrow then I will expect your coming;
+Tonight I take my leave. This naughty man
+Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,
+Who, I believe, was pack’d in all this wrong,
+Hir’d to it by your brother.
+
+BORACHIO.
+No, by my soul she was not;
+Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me;
+But always hath been just and virtuous
+In anything that I do know by her.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Moreover, sir,—which, indeed, is not under white and black,—
+this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass: I beseech you, let it
+be remembered in his punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of
+one Deformed: they say he wears a key in his ear and a lock hanging by it,
+and borrows money in God’s name, the which he hath used so long and
+never paid, that now men grow hard-hearted, and will lend nothing for God’s
+sake. Pray you, examine him upon that point.
+
+LEONATO.
+I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+Your worship speaks like a most thankful and reverent
+youth, and I praise God for you.
+
+LEONATO.
+There’s for thy pains.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+God save the foundation!
+
+LEONATO.
+Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee.
+
+DOGBERRY.
+I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I beseech your
+worship to correct yourself, for the example of others. God keep your
+worship! I wish your worship well; God restore you to health! I humbly
+give you leave to depart, and if a merry meeting may be wished, God
+prohibit it! Come, neighbour.
+
+[Exeunt Dogberry and Verges.]
+
+LEONATO.
+Until tomorrow morning, lords, farewell.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Farewell, my lords: we look for you tomorrow.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+We will not fail.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Tonight I’ll mourn with Hero.
+
+[Exeunt Don Pedro and Claudio.]
+
+LEONATO.
+[To the Watch.] Bring you these fellows on. We’ll talk with
+Margaret,
+How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+SCENE II. Leonato’s Garden.
+
+Enter Benedick and Margaret,
+meeting.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at my hands by
+helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
+
+MARGARET.
+Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?
+
+BENEDICK.
+In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living shall come over
+it; for, in most comely truth, thou deservest it.
+
+MARGARET.
+To have no man come over me! why, shall I always keep below stairs?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound’s mouth; it catches.
+
+MARGARET.
+And yours as blunt as the fencer’s foils, which hit, but hurt not.
+
+BENEDICK.
+A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a woman: and so, I
+pray thee, call Beatrice. I give thee the bucklers.
+
+MARGARET.
+Give us the swords, we have bucklers of our own.
+
+BENEDICK.
+If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the pikes with a
+vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids.
+
+MARGARET.
+Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs.
+
+BENEDICK.
+And therefore will come.
+
+[Exit Margaret.]
+
+    The god of love,
+     That sits above,
+   And knows me, and knows me,
+How pitiful I deserve,—
+
+I mean, in singing: but in loving, Leander the good swimmer, Troilus the
+first employer of panders, and a whole book full of these quondam
+carpet-mongers, whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank
+verse, why, they were never so truly turned over and over as my poor self
+in love. Marry, I cannot show it in rime; I have tried: I can find out no
+rime to ‘lady’ but ‘baby’, an innocent rime; for
+‘scorn,’ ‘horn’, a hard rime; for ‘school’,
+‘fool’, a babbling rime; very ominous endings: no, I was not
+born under a riming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
+
+Enter Beatrice.
+
+Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Yea, signior; and depart when you bid me.
+
+BENEDICK.
+O, stay but till then!
+
+BEATRICE.
+‘Then’ is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere I
+go, let me go with that I came for; which is, with knowing what hath
+passed between you and Claudio.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath,
+and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense, so forcible
+is thy wit. But I must tell thee plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge,
+and either I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward.
+And, I pray thee now, tell me, for which of my bad parts didst thou first
+fall in love with me?
+
+BEATRICE.
+For them all together; which maintained so politic a state
+of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with
+them. But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me?
+
+BENEDICK.
+‘Suffer love,’ a good epithet! I do suffer love
+indeed, for I love thee against my will.
+
+BEATRICE.
+In spite of your heart, I think. Alas, poor heart! If you spite
+it for my sake, I will spite it for yours; for I will never love that
+which my friend hates.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
+
+BEATRICE.
+It appears not in this confession: there’s not one wise
+man among twenty that will praise himself.
+
+BENEDICK.
+An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in the time of
+good neighbours. If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he
+dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the
+widow weeps.
+
+BEATRICE.
+ And how long is that think you?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in rheum:
+therefore is it most expedient for the wise,—if Don Worm, his conscience,
+find no impediment to the contrary,—to be the trumpet of his own virtues,
+as I am to myself. So much for praising myself, who, I myself will bear
+witness, is praiseworthy. And now tell me, how doth your cousin?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Very ill.
+
+BENEDICK.
+And how do you?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Very ill too.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Serve God, love me, and mend. There will I leave you too, for
+here comes one in haste.
+
+Enter Ursula.
+
+URSULA.
+Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder’s old coil at
+home: it is proved, my Lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the Prince and
+Claudio mightily abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is fled
+and gone. Will you come presently?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Will you go hear this news, signior?
+
+BENEDICK.
+I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
+eyes; and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+SCENE III. The Inside of a Church.
+
+Enter Don Pedro, Claudio and Attendants,
+with music and tapers.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Is this the monument of Leonato?
+
+A LORD.
+It is, my lord.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+[Reads from a scroll.]
+
+Epitaph.
+
+  Done to death by slanderous tongues
+     Was the Hero that here lies:
+    Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
+ Gives her fame which never dies.
+So the life that died with shame
+ Lives in death with glorious fame.
+
+Hang thou there upon the tomb,
+
+Praising her when I am dumb.
+Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.
+
+Song.
+
+ Pardon, goddess of the night,
+   Those that slew thy virgin knight;
+    For the which, with songs of woe,
+     Round about her tomb they go.
+   Midnight, assist our moan;
+    Help us to sigh and groan,
+  Heavily, heavily:
+Graves, yawn and yield your dead,
+ Till death be uttered,
+  Heavily, heavily.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Now, unto thy bones good night!
+Yearly will I do this rite.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Good morrow, masters: put your torches out.
+The wolves have prey’d; and look, the gentle day,
+Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about
+Dapples the drowsy East with spots of grey.
+Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Good morrow, masters: each his several way.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
+And then to Leonato’s we will go.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And Hymen now with luckier issue speed’s,
+Than this for whom we rend’red up this woe!
+
+[Exeunt.]
+
+SCENE IV. A Room in Leonato’s House.
+
+Enter Leonato, Antonio, Benedick, Beatrice,
+Margaret, Ursula, Friar Francis and Hero.
+
+FRIAR.
+Did I not tell you she was innocent?
+
+LEONATO.
+So are the Prince and Claudio, who accus’d her
+Upon the error that you heard debated:
+But Margaret was in some fault for this,
+Although against her will, as it appears
+In the true course of all the question.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.
+
+BENEDICK.
+And so am I, being else by faith enforc’d
+To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
+
+LEONATO.
+Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all,
+Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
+And when I send for you, come hither mask’d:
+The Prince and Claudio promis’d by this hour
+To visit me.
+
+[Exeunt Ladies.]
+
+You know your office, brother;
+You must be father to your brother’s daughter,
+And give her to young Claudio.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Which I will do with confirm’d countenance.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
+
+FRIAR.
+To do what, signior?
+
+BENEDICK.
+To bind me, or undo me; one of them.
+Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,
+Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
+
+LEONATO.
+That eye my daughter lent her. ’Tis most true.
+
+BENEDICK.
+And I do with an eye of love requite her.
+
+LEONATO.
+The sight whereof I think, you had from me,
+From Claudio, and the Prince. But what’s your will?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:
+But, for my will, my will is your good will
+May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin’d
+In the state of honourable marriage:
+In which, good friar, I shall desire your help.
+
+LEONATO.
+My heart is with your liking.
+
+FRIAR.
+And my help. Here comes the Prince and Claudio.
+
+Enter Don Pedro and Claudio,
+with Attendants.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Good morrow to this fair assembly.
+
+LEONATO.
+Good morrow, Prince; good morrow, Claudio:
+We here attend you. Are you yet determin’d
+Today to marry with my brother’s daughter?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I’ll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.
+
+LEONATO.
+Call her forth, brother: here’s the friar ready.
+
+[Exit Antonio.]
+
+DON PEDRO.
+Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter,
+That you have such a February face,
+So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
+Tush! fear not, man, we’ll tip thy horns with gold,
+And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,
+As once Europa did at lusty Jove,
+When he would play the noble beast in love.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low:
+And some such strange bull leap’d your father’s cow,
+And got a calf in that same noble feat,
+Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings.
+
+Re-enter Antonio, with the ladies masked.
+
+Which is the lady I must seize upon?
+
+ANTONIO.
+This same is she, and I do give you her.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Why then, she’s mine. Sweet, let me see your face.
+
+LEONATO.
+No, that you shall not, till you take her hand
+Before this friar, and swear to marry her.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Give me your hand: before this holy friar,
+I am your husband, if you like of me.
+
+HERO.
+And when I liv’d, I was your other wife:
+[Unmasking.] And when you lov’d, you were my other husband.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+Another Hero!
+
+HERO.
+Nothing certainer:
+One Hero died defil’d, but I do live,
+And surely as I live, I am a maid.
+
+DON PEDRO.
+The former Hero! Hero that is dead!
+
+LEONATO.
+She died, my lord, but whiles her slander liv’d.
+
+FRIAR.
+All this amazement can I qualify:
+When after that the holy rites are ended,
+I’ll tell you largely of fair Hero’s death:
+Meantime, let wonder seem familiar,
+And to the chapel let us presently.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?
+
+BEATRICE.
+[Unmasking.] I answer to that name. What is your will?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Do not you love me?
+
+BEATRICE.
+Why, no; no more than reason.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Why, then, your uncle and the Prince and Claudio
+Have been deceived; for they swore you did.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Do not you love me?
+
+BENEDICK.
+Troth, no; no more than reason.
+
+BEATRICE.
+Why, then my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula,
+Are much deceiv’d; for they did swear you did.
+
+BENEDICK.
+They swore that you were almost sick for me.
+
+BEATRICE.
+They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.
+
+BENEDICK.
+’Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
+
+BEATRICE.
+No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
+
+LEONATO.
+Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+And I’ll be sworn upon ’t that he loves her;
+For here’s a paper written in his hand,
+A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
+Fashion’d to Beatrice.
+
+HERO.
+And here’s another,
+Writ in my cousin’s hand, stolen from her pocket,
+Containing her affection unto Benedick.
+
+BENEDICK.
+A miracle! here’s our own hands against our hearts. Come,
+I will have thee; but, by this light, I take thee for pity.
+
+BEATRICE.
+I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield upon great
+persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a
+consumption.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Peace! I will stop your mouth. [Kisses her.]
+
+DON PEDRO.
+How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?
+
+BENEDICK.
+I’ll tell thee what, Prince; a college of witcrackers cannot flout me
+out of my humour. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
+No; if man will be beaten with brains, a’ shall wear nothing handsome
+about him. In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing
+to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never
+flout at me for what I have said against it, for man is a giddy thing,
+and this is my conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to have
+beaten thee; but, in that thou art like to be my kinsman, live
+unbruised, and love my cousin.
+
+CLAUDIO.
+I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, that I might
+have cudgelled thee out of thy single life, to make thee a double-dealer;
+which, out of question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look exceeding
+narrowly to thee.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Come, come, we are friends. Let’s have a dance ere we are
+married, that we may lighten our own hearts and our wives’ heels.
+
+LEONATO.
+We’ll have dancing afterward.
+
+BENEDICK.
+First, of my word; therefore play, music! Prince, thou art sad;
+get thee a wife, get thee a wife: there is no staff more reverent than one
+tipped with horn.
+
+Enter Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, your brother John is ta’en in flight,
+And brought with armed men back to Messina.
+
+BENEDICK.
+Think not on him till tomorrow: I’ll devise thee
+brave punishments for him. Strike up, pipers!
+
+[Dance. Exeunt.]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Venice. A street
+ Scene II. Venice. Another street
+ Scene III. Venice. A council chamber
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. A seaport in Cyprus. A Platform
+ Scene II. A street
+ Scene III. A Hall in the Castle
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. Cyprus. Before the Castle
+ Scene II. Cyprus. A Room in the Castle
+ Scene III. Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle
+ Scene IV. Cyprus. Before the Castle
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. Cyprus. Before the Castle
+ Scene II. Cyprus. A Room in the Castle
+ Scene III. Cyprus. Another Room in the Castle
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Cyprus. A Street
+ Scene II. Cyprus. A Bedchamber in the castle
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+DUKE OF VENICE
+BRABANTIO, a Senator of Venice and Desdemona’s father
+Other Senators
+GRATIANO, Brother to Brabantio
+LODOVICO, Kinsman to Brabantio
+OTHELLO, a noble Moor in the service of Venice
+CASSIO, his Lieutenant
+IAGO, his Ancient
+MONTANO, Othello’s predecessor in the government of Cyprus
+RODERIGO, a Venetian Gentleman
+CLOWN, Servant to Othello
+
+DESDEMONA, Daughter to Brabantio and Wife to Othello
+EMILIA, Wife to Iago
+BIANCA, Mistress to Cassio
+
+Officers, Gentlemen, Messenger, Musicians, Herald, Sailor, Attendants,
+&c.
+
+SCENE: The First Act in Venice; during the rest of the Play at a
+Seaport in Cyprus.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Venice. A street.
+
+
+Enter Roderigo and Iago.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Tush, never tell me, I take it much unkindly
+That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse,
+As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.
+
+IAGO.
+’Sblood, but you will not hear me.
+If ever I did dream of such a matter,
+Abhor me.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Thou told’st me, thou didst hold him in thy hate.
+
+IAGO.
+Despise me if I do not. Three great ones of the city,
+In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
+Off-capp’d to him; and by the faith of man,
+I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.
+But he, as loving his own pride and purposes,
+Evades them, with a bombast circumstance,
+Horribly stuff’d with epithets of war:
+And in conclusion,
+Nonsuits my mediators: for “Certes,” says he,
+“I have already chose my officer.”
+And what was he?
+Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
+One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
+A fellow almost damn’d in a fair wife,
+That never set a squadron in the field,
+Nor the division of a battle knows
+More than a spinster, unless the bookish theoric,
+Wherein the toged consuls can propose
+As masterly as he: mere prattle without practice
+Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election,
+And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
+At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds,
+Christian and heathen, must be belee’d and calm’d
+By debitor and creditor, this counter-caster,
+He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
+And I, God bless the mark, his Moorship’s ancient.
+
+RODERIGO.
+By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.
+
+IAGO.
+Why, there’s no remedy. ’Tis the curse of service,
+Preferment goes by letter and affection,
+And not by old gradation, where each second
+Stood heir to the first. Now sir, be judge yourself
+Whether I in any just term am affin’d
+To love the Moor.
+
+RODERIGO.
+I would not follow him, then.
+
+IAGO.
+O, sir, content you.
+I follow him to serve my turn upon him:
+We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
+Cannot be truly follow’d. You shall mark
+Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave
+That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
+Wears out his time, much like his master’s ass,
+For nought but provender, and when he’s old, cashier’d.
+Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are
+Who, trimm’d in forms, and visages of duty,
+Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,
+And throwing but shows of service on their lords,
+Do well thrive by them, and when they have lin’d their coats,
+Do themselves homage. These fellows have some soul,
+And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,
+It is as sure as you are Roderigo,
+Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:
+In following him, I follow but myself.
+Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
+But seeming so for my peculiar end.
+For when my outward action doth demonstrate
+The native act and figure of my heart
+In complement extern, ’tis not long after
+But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
+For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
+
+RODERIGO.
+What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe,
+If he can carry’t thus!
+
+IAGO.
+Call up her father,
+Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight,
+Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,
+And though he in a fertile climate dwell,
+Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,
+Yet throw such changes of vexation on’t,
+As it may lose some color.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Here is her father’s house, I’ll call aloud.
+
+IAGO.
+Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell
+As when, by night and negligence, the fire
+Is spied in populous cities.
+
+RODERIGO.
+What ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!
+
+IAGO.
+Awake! what ho, Brabantio! Thieves, thieves!
+Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!
+Thieves, thieves!
+
+Brabantio appears above at a window.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+What is the reason of this terrible summons?
+What is the matter there?
+
+RODERIGO.
+Signior, is all your family within?
+
+IAGO.
+Are your doors locked?
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Why, wherefore ask you this?
+
+IAGO.
+Zounds, sir, you’re robb’d, for shame put on your gown,
+Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;
+Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
+Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise,
+Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
+Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:
+Arise, I say.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+What, have you lost your wits?
+
+RODERIGO.
+Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Not I. What are you?
+
+RODERIGO.
+My name is Roderigo.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+The worser welcome.
+I have charg’d thee not to haunt about my doors;
+In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
+My daughter is not for thee; and now in madness,
+Being full of supper and distempering draughts,
+Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come
+To start my quiet.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Sir, sir, sir,—
+
+BRABANTIO.
+But thou must needs be sure
+My spirit and my place have in them power
+To make this bitter to thee.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Patience, good sir.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+What tell’st thou me of robbing?
+This is Venice. My house is not a grange.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Most grave Brabantio,
+In simple and pure soul I come to you.
+
+IAGO.
+Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil
+bid you. Because we come to do you service, and you think we are
+ruffians, you’ll have your daughter cover’d with a Barbary horse;
+you’ll have your nephews neigh to you; you’ll have coursers for cousins
+and gennets for germans.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+What profane wretch art thou?
+
+IAGO.
+I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are
+now making the beast with two backs.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Thou art a villain.
+
+IAGO.
+You are a senator.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+This thou shalt answer. I know thee, Roderigo.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you,
+If ’t be your pleasure, and most wise consent,
+(As partly I find it is) that your fair daughter,
+At this odd-even and dull watch o’ the night,
+Transported with no worse nor better guard,
+But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,
+To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor:
+If this be known to you, and your allowance,
+We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs.
+But if you know not this, my manners tell me,
+We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe
+That from the sense of all civility,
+I thus would play and trifle with your reverence.
+Your daughter (if you have not given her leave)
+I say again, hath made a gross revolt,
+Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes
+In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
+Of here and everywhere. Straight satisfy yourself:
+If she be in her chamber or your house,
+Let loose on me the justice of the state
+For thus deluding you.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Strike on the tinder, ho!
+Give me a taper! Call up all my people!
+This accident is not unlike my dream,
+Belief of it oppresses me already.
+Light, I say, light!
+
+[_Exit from above._]
+
+IAGO.
+Farewell; for I must leave you:
+It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place
+To be produc’d, as if I stay I shall,
+Against the Moor. For I do know the state,
+However this may gall him with some check,
+Cannot with safety cast him, for he’s embark’d
+With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,
+Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,
+Another of his fathom they have none
+To lead their business. In which regard,
+Though I do hate him as I do hell pains,
+Yet, for necessity of present life,
+I must show out a flag and sign of love,
+Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,
+Lead to the Sagittary the raised search,
+And there will I be with him. So, farewell.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Brabantio with Servants and torches.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+It is too true an evil. Gone she is,
+And what’s to come of my despised time,
+Is naught but bitterness. Now Roderigo,
+Where didst thou see her? (O unhappy girl!)
+With the Moor, say’st thou? (Who would be a father!)
+How didst thou know ’twas she? (O, she deceives me
+Past thought.) What said she to you? Get more tapers,
+Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?
+
+RODERIGO.
+Truly I think they are.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!
+Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds
+By what you see them act. Is there not charms
+By which the property of youth and maidhood
+May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,
+Of some such thing?
+
+RODERIGO.
+Yes, sir, I have indeed.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!
+Some one way, some another. Do you know
+Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?
+
+RODERIGO.
+I think I can discover him, if you please
+To get good guard, and go along with me.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Pray you lead on. At every house I’ll call,
+I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!
+And raise some special officers of night.
+On, good Roderigo. I will deserve your pains.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Venice. Another street.
+
+Enter Othello, Iago and Attendants with torches.
+
+IAGO.
+Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
+Yet do I hold it very stuff o’ the conscience
+To do no contriv’d murder; I lack iniquity
+Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times
+I had thought to have yerk’d him here under the ribs.
+
+OTHELLO.
+’Tis better as it is.
+
+IAGO.
+Nay, but he prated,
+And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
+Against your honour,
+That with the little godliness I have,
+I did full hard forbear him. But I pray you, sir,
+Are you fast married? Be assur’d of this,
+That the magnifico is much belov’d
+And hath in his effect a voice potential
+As double as the duke’s; he will divorce you,
+Or put upon you what restraint and grievance
+The law (with all his might to enforce it on)
+Will give him cable.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Let him do his spite;
+My services, which I have done the signiory,
+Shall out-tongue his complaints. ’Tis yet to know,—
+Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,
+I shall promulgate,—I fetch my life and being
+From men of royal siege. And my demerits
+May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune
+As this that I have reach’d. For know, Iago,
+But that I love the gentle Desdemona,
+I would not my unhoused free condition
+Put into circumscription and confine
+For the sea’s worth. But look, what lights come yond?
+
+IAGO.
+Those are the raised father and his friends:
+You were best go in.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Not I; I must be found.
+My parts, my title, and my perfect soul
+Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?
+
+IAGO.
+By Janus, I think no.
+
+Enter Cassio and Officers with torches.
+
+OTHELLO.
+The servants of the duke and my lieutenant.
+The goodness of the night upon you, friends!
+What is the news?
+
+CASSIO.
+The duke does greet you, general,
+And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance
+Even on the instant.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What is the matter, think you?
+
+CASSIO.
+Something from Cyprus, as I may divine.
+It is a business of some heat. The galleys
+Have sent a dozen sequent messengers
+This very night at one another’s heels;
+And many of the consuls, rais’d and met,
+Are at the duke’s already. You have been hotly call’d for,
+When, being not at your lodging to be found,
+The senate hath sent about three several quests
+To search you out.
+
+OTHELLO.
+’Tis well I am found by you.
+I will but spend a word here in the house,
+And go with you.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+CASSIO.
+Ancient, what makes he here?
+
+IAGO.
+Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carrack:
+If it prove lawful prize, he’s made forever.
+
+CASSIO.
+I do not understand.
+
+IAGO.
+He’s married.
+
+CASSIO.
+To who?
+
+Enter Othello.
+
+IAGO.
+Marry to—Come, captain, will you go?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Have with you.
+
+CASSIO.
+Here comes another troop to seek for you.
+
+Enter Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers with torches and weapons.
+
+IAGO.
+It is Brabantio. General, be advis’d,
+He comes to bad intent.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Holla, stand there!
+
+RODERIGO.
+Signior, it is the Moor.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Down with him, thief!
+
+[_They draw on both sides._]
+
+IAGO.
+You, Roderigo! Come, sir, I am for you.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
+Good signior, you shall more command with years
+Than with your weapons.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow’d my daughter?
+Damn’d as thou art, thou hast enchanted her,
+For I’ll refer me to all things of sense,
+(If she in chains of magic were not bound)
+Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy,
+So opposite to marriage, that she shunn’d
+The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,
+Would ever have, to incur a general mock,
+Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
+Of such a thing as thou—to fear, not to delight.
+Judge me the world, if ’tis not gross in sense,
+That thou hast practis’d on her with foul charms,
+Abus’d her delicate youth with drugs or minerals
+That weakens motion. I’ll have’t disputed on;
+’Tis probable, and palpable to thinking.
+I therefore apprehend and do attach thee
+For an abuser of the world, a practiser
+Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.—
+Lay hold upon him, if he do resist,
+Subdue him at his peril.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Hold your hands,
+Both you of my inclining and the rest:
+Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
+Without a prompter. Where will you that I go
+To answer this your charge?
+
+BRABANTIO.
+To prison, till fit time
+Of law and course of direct session
+Call thee to answer.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What if I do obey?
+How may the duke be therewith satisfied,
+Whose messengers are here about my side,
+Upon some present business of the state,
+To bring me to him?
+
+OFFICER.
+’Tis true, most worthy signior,
+The duke’s in council, and your noble self,
+I am sure is sent for.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+How? The duke in council?
+In this time of the night? Bring him away;
+Mine’s not an idle cause. The duke himself,
+Or any of my brothers of the state,
+Cannot but feel this wrong as ’twere their own.
+For if such actions may have passage free,
+Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Venice. A council chamber.
+
+The Duke and Senators sitting at a table; Officers attending.
+
+DUKE.
+There is no composition in these news
+That gives them credit.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Indeed, they are disproportion’d;
+My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.
+
+DUKE.
+And mine a hundred and forty.
+
+SECOND SENATOR
+And mine two hundred:
+But though they jump not on a just account,
+(As in these cases, where the aim reports,
+’Tis oft with difference,) yet do they all confirm
+A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.
+
+DUKE.
+Nay, it is possible enough to judgement:
+I do not so secure me in the error,
+But the main article I do approve
+In fearful sense.
+
+SAILOR.
+[_Within._] What, ho! what, ho! what, ho!
+
+OFFICER.
+A messenger from the galleys.
+
+Enter Sailor.
+
+DUKE.
+Now,—what’s the business?
+
+SAILOR.
+The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes,
+So was I bid report here to the state
+By Signior Angelo.
+
+DUKE.
+How say you by this change?
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+This cannot be
+By no assay of reason. ’Tis a pageant
+To keep us in false gaze. When we consider
+The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk;
+And let ourselves again but understand
+That, as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,
+So may he with more facile question bear it,
+For that it stands not in such warlike brace,
+But altogether lacks the abilities
+That Rhodes is dress’d in. If we make thought of this,
+We must not think the Turk is so unskilful
+To leave that latest which concerns him first,
+Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,
+To wake and wage a danger profitless.
+
+DUKE.
+Nay, in all confidence, he’s not for Rhodes.
+
+OFFICER.
+Here is more news.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,
+Steering with due course toward the isle of Rhodes,
+Have there injointed them with an after fleet.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Of thirty sail, and now they do re-stem
+Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance
+Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,
+Your trusty and most valiant servitor,
+With his free duty recommends you thus,
+And prays you to believe him.
+
+DUKE.
+’Tis certain, then, for Cyprus.
+Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+He’s now in Florence.
+
+DUKE.
+Write from us to him; post-post-haste dispatch.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.
+
+Enter Brabantio, Othello, Iago, Roderigo and Officers.
+
+DUKE.
+Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you
+Against the general enemy Ottoman.
+[_To Brabantio._] I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior,
+We lack’d your counsel and your help tonight.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me.
+Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business
+Hath rais’d me from my bed, nor doth the general care
+Take hold on me; for my particular grief
+Is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature
+That it engluts and swallows other sorrows,
+And it is still itself.
+
+DUKE.
+Why, what’s the matter?
+
+BRABANTIO.
+My daughter! O, my daughter!
+
+DUKE and SENATORS.
+Dead?
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Ay, to me.
+She is abused, stol’n from me, and corrupted
+By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks;
+For nature so preposterously to err,
+Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,
+Sans witchcraft could not.
+
+DUKE.
+Whoe’er he be, that in this foul proceeding,
+Hath thus beguil’d your daughter of herself,
+And you of her, the bloody book of law
+You shall yourself read in the bitter letter,
+After your own sense, yea, though our proper son
+Stood in your action.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Humbly I thank your grace.
+Here is the man, this Moor, whom now it seems
+Your special mandate for the state affairs
+Hath hither brought.
+
+ALL.
+We are very sorry for ’t.
+
+DUKE.
+[_To Othello._] What, in your own part, can you say to this?
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Nothing, but this is so.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
+My very noble and approv’d good masters:
+That I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter,
+It is most true; true, I have married her.
+The very head and front of my offending
+Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,
+And little bless’d with the soft phrase of peace;
+For since these arms of mine had seven years’ pith,
+Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us’d
+Their dearest action in the tented field,
+And little of this great world can I speak,
+More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,
+And therefore little shall I grace my cause
+In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
+I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver
+Of my whole course of love: what drugs, what charms,
+What conjuration, and what mighty magic,
+(For such proceeding I am charged withal)
+I won his daughter.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+A maiden never bold:
+Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion
+Blush’d at herself; and she, in spite of nature,
+Of years, of country, credit, everything,
+To fall in love with what she fear’d to look on!
+It is judgement maim’d and most imperfect
+That will confess perfection so could err
+Against all rules of nature, and must be driven
+To find out practices of cunning hell,
+Why this should be. I therefore vouch again,
+That with some mixtures powerful o’er the blood,
+Or with some dram conjur’d to this effect,
+He wrought upon her.
+
+DUKE.
+To vouch this is no proof;
+Without more wider and more overt test
+Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods
+Of modern seeming do prefer against him.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+But, Othello, speak:
+Did you by indirect and forced courses
+Subdue and poison this young maid’s affections?
+Or came it by request, and such fair question
+As soul to soul affordeth?
+
+OTHELLO.
+I do beseech you,
+Send for the lady to the Sagittary,
+And let her speak of me before her father.
+If you do find me foul in her report,
+The trust, the office I do hold of you,
+Not only take away, but let your sentence
+Even fall upon my life.
+
+DUKE.
+Fetch Desdemona hither.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ancient, conduct them, you best know the place.
+
+[_Exeunt Iago and Attendants._]
+
+And till she come, as truly as to heaven
+I do confess the vices of my blood,
+So justly to your grave ears I’ll present
+How I did thrive in this fair lady’s love,
+And she in mine.
+
+DUKE.
+Say it, Othello.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Her father lov’d me, oft invited me,
+Still question’d me the story of my life,
+From year to year—the battles, sieges, fortunes,
+That I have pass’d.
+I ran it through, even from my boyish days
+To the very moment that he bade me tell it,
+Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
+Of moving accidents by flood and field;
+Of hair-breadth scapes i’ th’ imminent deadly breach;
+Of being taken by the insolent foe,
+And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence,
+And portance in my traveler’s history,
+Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
+Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven,
+It was my hint to speak,—such was the process;
+And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
+The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
+Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
+Would Desdemona seriously incline.
+But still the house affairs would draw her thence,
+Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,
+She’d come again, and with a greedy ear
+Devour up my discourse; which I observing,
+Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
+To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
+That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
+Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
+But not intentively. I did consent,
+And often did beguile her of her tears,
+When I did speak of some distressful stroke
+That my youth suffer’d. My story being done,
+She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.
+She swore, in faith, ’twas strange, ’twas passing strange;
+’Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful.
+She wish’d she had not heard it, yet she wish’d
+That heaven had made her such a man: she thank’d me,
+And bade me, if I had a friend that lov’d her,
+I should but teach him how to tell my story,
+And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
+She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d,
+And I lov’d her that she did pity them.
+This only is the witchcraft I have us’d.
+Here comes the lady. Let her witness it.
+
+Enter  Desdemona, Iago and Attendants.
+
+DUKE.
+I think this tale would win my daughter too.
+Good Brabantio,
+Take up this mangled matter at the best.
+Men do their broken weapons rather use
+Than their bare hands.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+I pray you hear her speak.
+If she confess that she was half the wooer,
+Destruction on my head, if my bad blame
+Light on the man!—Come hither, gentle mistress:
+Do you perceive in all this noble company
+Where most you owe obedience?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My noble father,
+I do perceive here a divided duty:
+To you I am bound for life and education.
+My life and education both do learn me
+How to respect you. You are the lord of duty,
+I am hitherto your daughter: but here’s my husband.
+And so much duty as my mother show’d
+To you, preferring you before her father,
+So much I challenge that I may profess
+Due to the Moor my lord.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+God be with you! I have done.
+Please it your grace, on to the state affairs.
+I had rather to adopt a child than get it.—
+Come hither, Moor:
+I here do give thee that with all my heart
+Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart
+I would keep from thee.—For your sake, jewel,
+I am glad at soul I have no other child,
+For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
+To hang clogs on them.—I have done, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence,
+Which as a grise or step may help these lovers
+Into your favour.
+When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
+By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
+To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
+Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
+What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
+Patience her injury a mockery makes.
+The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief;
+He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile,
+We lose it not so long as we can smile;
+He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears
+But the free comfort which from thence he hears;
+But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow
+That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.
+These sentences to sugar or to gall,
+Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:
+But words are words; I never yet did hear
+That the bruis’d heart was pierced through the ear.
+I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state.
+
+DUKE.
+The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus. Othello, the
+fortitude of the place is best known to you. And though we have there a
+substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign
+mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must
+therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with
+this more stubborn and boisterous expedition.
+
+OTHELLO.
+The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
+Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
+My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnize
+A natural and prompt alacrity
+I find in hardness, and do undertake
+This present wars against the Ottomites.
+Most humbly, therefore, bending to your state,
+I crave fit disposition for my wife,
+Due reference of place and exhibition,
+With such accommodation and besort
+As levels with her breeding.
+
+DUKE.
+If you please,
+Be’t at her father’s.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+I’ll not have it so.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Nor I.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Nor I. I would not there reside,
+To put my father in impatient thoughts,
+By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,
+To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear,
+And let me find a charter in your voice
+T’ assist my simpleness.
+
+DUKE.
+What would you, Desdemona?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+That I did love the Moor to live with him,
+My downright violence and storm of fortunes
+May trumpet to the world: my heart’s subdued
+Even to the very quality of my lord.
+I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
+And to his honours and his valiant parts
+Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
+So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,
+A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
+The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
+And I a heavy interim shall support
+By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Let her have your voice.
+Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not
+To please the palate of my appetite,
+Nor to comply with heat, the young affects
+In me defunct, and proper satisfaction,
+But to be free and bounteous to her mind.
+And heaven defend your good souls that you think
+I will your serious and great business scant
+For she is with me. No, when light-wing’d toys
+Of feather’d Cupid seel with wanton dullness
+My speculative and offic’d instruments,
+That my disports corrupt and taint my business,
+Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,
+And all indign and base adversities
+Make head against my estimation.
+
+DUKE.
+Be it as you shall privately determine,
+Either for her stay or going. The affair cries haste,
+And speed must answer it.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+You must away tonight.
+
+OTHELLO.
+With all my heart.
+
+DUKE.
+At nine i’ the morning here we’ll meet again.
+Othello, leave some officer behind,
+And he shall our commission bring to you,
+With such things else of quality and respect
+As doth import you.
+
+OTHELLO.
+So please your grace, my ancient,
+A man he is of honesty and trust,
+To his conveyance I assign my wife,
+With what else needful your good grace shall think
+To be sent after me.
+
+DUKE.
+Let it be so.
+Good night to everyone. [_To Brabantio._] And, noble signior,
+If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
+Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well.
+
+BRABANTIO.
+Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:
+She has deceiv’d her father, and may thee.
+
+[_Exeunt Duke, Senators, Officers, &c._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,
+My Desdemona must I leave to thee.
+I prithee, let thy wife attend on her,
+And bring them after in the best advantage.—
+Come, Desdemona, I have but an hour
+Of love, of worldly matters, and direction,
+To spend with thee. We must obey the time.
+
+[_Exeunt Othello and Desdemona._]
+
+RODERIGO.
+Iago—
+
+IAGO.
+What sayst thou, noble heart?
+
+RODERIGO.
+What will I do, thinkest thou?
+
+IAGO.
+Why, go to bed and sleep.
+
+RODERIGO.
+I will incontinently drown myself.
+
+IAGO.
+If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why, thou silly gentleman!
+
+RODERIGO.
+It is silliness to live, when to live is torment; and then have we a
+prescription to die when death is our physician.
+
+IAGO.
+O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years,
+and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never
+found man that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say I would drown
+myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I would change my humanity with a
+baboon.
+
+RODERIGO.
+What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so fond, but it is not
+in my virtue to amend it.
+
+IAGO.
+Virtue! a fig! ’Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies
+are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. So that if we will
+plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it
+with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it
+sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and
+corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our
+lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
+blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous
+conclusions. But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
+stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to
+be a sect, or scion.
+
+RODERIGO.
+It cannot be.
+
+IAGO.
+It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will. Come, be
+a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies. I have professed me
+thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of
+perdurable toughness; I could never better stead thee than now. Put
+money in thy purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with an
+usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse. It cannot be that
+Desdemona should long continue her love to the Moor,—put money in thy
+purse,—nor he his to her. It was a violent commencement, and thou shalt
+see an answerable sequestration—put but money in thy purse. These Moors
+are changeable in their wills. Fill thy purse with money. The food that
+to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as acerb
+as the coloquintida. She must change for youth. When she is sated with
+his body, she will find the error of her choice. She must have change,
+she must. Therefore put money in thy purse. If thou wilt needs damn
+thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money
+thou canst. If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian
+and a supersubtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits and all the
+tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of
+drowning thyself! It is clean out of the way: seek thou rather to be
+hanged in compassing thy joy than to be drowned and go without her.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Wilt thou be fast to my hopes if I depend on the issue?
+
+IAGO.
+Thou art sure of me. Go, make money. I have told thee often, and I
+retell thee again and again, I hate the Moor. My cause is hearted;
+thine hath no less reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against
+him: if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a
+sport. There are many events in the womb of time which will be
+delivered. Traverse, go, provide thy money. We will have more of this
+tomorrow. Adieu.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Where shall we meet i’ the morning?
+
+IAGO.
+At my lodging.
+
+RODERIGO.
+I’ll be with thee betimes.
+
+IAGO.
+Go to, farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo?
+
+RODERIGO.
+What say you?
+
+IAGO.
+No more of drowning, do you hear?
+
+RODERIGO.
+I am changed. I’ll sell all my land.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+IAGO.
+Thus do I ever make my fool my purse.
+For I mine own gain’d knowledge should profane
+If I would time expend with such a snipe
+But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor,
+And it is thought abroad that ’twixt my sheets
+He has done my office. I know not if ’t be true,
+But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
+Will do as if for surety. He holds me well,
+The better shall my purpose work on him.
+Cassio’s a proper man. Let me see now,
+To get his place, and to plume up my will
+In double knavery. How, how? Let’s see.
+After some time, to abuse Othello’s ear
+That he is too familiar with his wife.
+He hath a person and a smooth dispose,
+To be suspected, fram’d to make women false.
+The Moor is of a free and open nature
+That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
+And will as tenderly be led by the nose
+As asses are.
+I have’t. It is engender’d. Hell and night
+Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. A seaport in Cyprus. A Platform.
+
+
+Enter Montano and two Gentlemen.
+
+MONTANO.
+What from the cape can you discern at sea?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Nothing at all, it is a high-wrought flood.
+I cannot ’twixt the heaven and the main
+Descry a sail.
+
+MONTANO.
+Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land.
+A fuller blast ne’er shook our battlements.
+If it hath ruffian’d so upon the sea,
+What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
+Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+A segregation of the Turkish fleet.
+For do but stand upon the foaming shore,
+The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds,
+The wind-shak’d surge, with high and monstrous main,
+Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
+And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole;
+I never did like molestation view
+On the enchafed flood.
+
+MONTANO.
+If that the Turkish fleet
+Be not enshelter’d, and embay’d, they are drown’d.
+It is impossible to bear it out.
+
+Enter a third Gentleman.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+News, lads! Our wars are done.
+The desperate tempest hath so bang’d the Turks
+That their designment halts. A noble ship of Venice
+Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance
+On most part of their fleet.
+
+MONTANO.
+How? Is this true?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+The ship is here put in,
+A Veronessa; Michael Cassio,
+Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
+Is come on shore; the Moor himself at sea,
+And is in full commission here for Cyprus.
+
+MONTANO.
+I am glad on’t. ’Tis a worthy governor.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort
+Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,
+And prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted
+With foul and violent tempest.
+
+MONTANO.
+Pray heavens he be;
+For I have serv’d him, and the man commands
+Like a full soldier. Let’s to the sea-side, ho!
+As well to see the vessel that’s come in
+As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,
+Even till we make the main and the aerial blue
+An indistinct regard.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Come, let’s do so;
+For every minute is expectancy
+Of more arrivance.
+
+Enter Cassio.
+
+CASSIO.
+Thanks you, the valiant of this warlike isle,
+That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens
+Give him defence against the elements,
+For I have lost him on a dangerous sea.
+
+MONTANO.
+Is he well shipp’d?
+
+CASSIO.
+His bark is stoutly timber’d, and his pilot
+Of very expert and approv’d allowance;
+Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,
+Stand in bold cure.
+
+[_Within._] A sail, a sail, a sail!
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+CASSIO.
+What noise?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The town is empty; on the brow o’ the sea
+Stand ranks of people, and they cry “A sail!”
+
+CASSIO.
+My hopes do shape him for the governor.
+
+[_A shot._]
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+They do discharge their shot of courtesy.
+Our friends at least.
+
+CASSIO.
+I pray you, sir, go forth,
+And give us truth who ’tis that is arriv’d.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I shall.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+MONTANO.
+But, good lieutenant, is your general wiv’d?
+
+CASSIO.
+Most fortunately: he hath achiev’d a maid
+That paragons description and wild fame,
+One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,
+And in the essential vesture of creation
+Does tire the ingener.
+
+Enter second Gentleman.
+
+How now? Who has put in?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis one Iago, ancient to the general.
+
+CASSIO.
+He has had most favourable and happy speed:
+Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,
+The gutter’d rocks, and congregated sands,
+Traitors ensteep’d to clog the guiltless keel,
+As having sense of beauty, do omit
+Their mortal natures, letting go safely by
+The divine Desdemona.
+
+MONTANO.
+What is she?
+
+CASSIO.
+She that I spake of, our great captain’s captain,
+Left in the conduct of the bold Iago;
+Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
+A se’nnight’s speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,
+And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath,
+That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,
+Make love’s quick pants in Desdemona’s arms,
+Give renew’d fire to our extincted spirits,
+And bring all Cyprus comfort!
+
+Enter Desdemona, Iago, Roderigo, and Emilia.
+
+O, behold,
+The riches of the ship is come on shore!
+Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees.
+Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,
+Before, behind thee, and on every hand,
+Enwheel thee round!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I thank you, valiant Cassio.
+What tidings can you tell me of my lord?
+
+CASSIO.
+He is not yet arrived, nor know I aught
+But that he’s well, and will be shortly here.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O, but I fear—How lost you company?
+
+[_Within._] A sail, a sail!
+
+CASSIO.
+The great contention of the sea and skies
+Parted our fellowship. But, hark! a sail.
+
+[_Guns within._]
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+They give their greeting to the citadel.
+This likewise is a friend.
+
+CASSIO.
+See for the news.
+
+[_Exit Gentleman._]
+
+Good ancient, you are welcome. [_To Emilia._] Welcome, mistress.
+Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,
+That I extend my manners; ’tis my breeding
+That gives me this bold show of courtesy.
+
+[_Kissing her._]
+
+IAGO.
+Sir, would she give you so much of her lips
+As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,
+You would have enough.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Alas, she has no speech.
+
+IAGO.
+In faith, too much.
+I find it still when I have list to sleep.
+Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,
+She puts her tongue a little in her heart,
+And chides with thinking.
+
+EMILIA.
+You have little cause to say so.
+
+IAGO.
+Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,
+Bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens,
+Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
+Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O, fie upon thee, slanderer!
+
+IAGO.
+Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk.
+You rise to play, and go to bed to work.
+
+EMILIA.
+You shall not write my praise.
+
+IAGO.
+No, let me not.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst praise me?
+
+IAGO.
+O gentle lady, do not put me to’t,
+For I am nothing if not critical.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Come on, assay.—There’s one gone to the harbour?
+
+IAGO.
+Ay, madam.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I am not merry, but I do beguile
+The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.—
+Come, how wouldst thou praise me?
+
+IAGO.
+I am about it, but indeed, my invention
+Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frieze,
+It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours,
+And thus she is deliver’d.
+If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
+The one’s for use, the other useth it.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Well prais’d! How if she be black and witty?
+
+IAGO.
+If she be black, and thereto have a wit,
+She’ll find a white that shall her blackness fit.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Worse and worse.
+
+EMILIA.
+How if fair and foolish?
+
+IAGO.
+She never yet was foolish that was fair,
+For even her folly help’d her to an heir.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i’ the alehouse. What
+miserable praise hast thou for her that’s foul and foolish?
+
+IAGO.
+There’s none so foul and foolish thereunto,
+But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O heavy ignorance! Thou praisest the worst best. But what praise
+couldst thou bestow on a deserving woman indeed, one that in the
+authority of her merit did justly put on the vouch of very malice
+itself?
+
+IAGO.
+She that was ever fair and never proud,
+Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,
+Never lack’d gold and yet went never gay,
+Fled from her wish, and yet said, “Now I may”;
+She that, being anger’d, her revenge being nigh,
+Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly;
+She that in wisdom never was so frail
+To change the cod’s head for the salmon’s tail;
+She that could think and ne’er disclose her mind,
+See suitors following and not look behind;
+She was a wight, if ever such wight were—
+
+DESDEMONA.
+To do what?
+
+IAGO.
+To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O most lame and impotent conclusion!—Do not learn of him, Emilia,
+though he be thy husband.—How say you, Cassio? is he not a most profane
+and liberal counsellor?
+
+CASSIO.
+He speaks home, madam. You may relish him more in the soldier than in
+the scholar.
+
+IAGO.
+[_Aside._] He takes her by the palm. Ay, well said, whisper. With as
+little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile
+upon her, do. I will gyve thee in thine own courtship. You say true,
+’tis so, indeed. If such tricks as these strip you out of your
+lieutenantry, it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers
+so oft, which now again you are most apt to play the sir in. Very good;
+well kissed, an excellent courtesy! ’Tis so, indeed. Yet again your
+fingers to your lips? Would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!
+
+[_Trumpets within._]
+
+The Moor! I know his trumpet.
+
+CASSIO.
+’Tis truly so.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Let’s meet him, and receive him.
+
+CASSIO.
+Lo, where he comes!
+
+Enter Othello and Attendants.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O my fair warrior!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My dear Othello!
+
+OTHELLO.
+It gives me wonder great as my content
+To see you here before me. O my soul’s joy!
+If after every tempest come such calms,
+May the winds blow till they have waken’d death!
+And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas
+Olympus-high, and duck again as low
+As hell’s from heaven! If it were now to die,
+’Twere now to be most happy, for I fear
+My soul hath her content so absolute
+That not another comfort like to this
+Succeeds in unknown fate.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+The heavens forbid
+But that our loves and comforts should increase
+Even as our days do grow!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Amen to that, sweet powers!
+I cannot speak enough of this content.
+It stops me here; it is too much of joy:
+And this, and this, the greatest discords be [_They kiss._]
+That e’er our hearts shall make!
+
+IAGO.
+[_Aside._] O, you are well tun’d now,
+But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,
+As honest as I am.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Come, let us to the castle.—
+News, friends, our wars are done, the Turks are drown’d.
+How does my old acquaintance of this isle?
+Honey, you shall be well desir’d in Cyprus;
+I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,
+I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
+In mine own comforts.—I prithee, good Iago,
+Go to the bay and disembark my coffers.
+Bring thou the master to the citadel;
+He is a good one, and his worthiness
+Does challenge much respect.—Come, Desdemona,
+Once more well met at Cyprus.
+
+[_Exeunt Othello, Desdemona and Attendants._]
+
+IAGO.
+Do thou meet me presently at the harbour. Come hither. If thou be’st
+valiant—as, they say, base men being in love have then a nobility in
+their natures more than is native to them—list me. The lieutenant
+tonight watches on the court of guard: first, I must tell thee this:
+Desdemona is directly in love with him.
+
+RODERIGO.
+With him? Why, ’tis not possible.
+
+IAGO.
+Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed. Mark me with what
+violence she first loved the Moor, but for bragging, and telling her
+fantastical lies. And will she love him still for prating? Let not thy
+discreet heart think it. Her eye must be fed. And what delight shall
+she have to look on the devil? When the blood is made dull with the act
+of sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to give satiety a
+fresh appetite, loveliness in favour, sympathy in years, manners, and
+beauties; all which the Moor is defective in: now, for want of these
+required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will find itself abused,
+begin to heave the gorge, disrelish and abhor the Moor, very nature
+will instruct her in it, and compel her to some second choice. Now sir,
+this granted (as it is a most pregnant and unforced position) who
+stands so eminently in the degree of this fortune as Cassio does? a
+knave very voluble; no further conscionable than in putting on the mere
+form of civil and humane seeming, for the better compassing of his salt
+and most hidden loose affection? Why, none, why, none! A slipper and
+subtle knave, a finder out of occasions; that has an eye can stamp and
+counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never present itself: a
+devilish knave! Besides, the knave is handsome, young, and hath all
+those requisites in him that folly and green minds look after. A
+pestilent complete knave, and the woman hath found him already.
+
+RODERIGO.
+I cannot believe that in her, she is full of most blessed condition.
+
+IAGO.
+Blest fig’s end! the wine she drinks is made of grapes: if she had been
+blessed, she would never have loved the Moor. Blessed pudding! Didst
+thou not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? Didst not mark that?
+
+RODERIGO.
+Yes, that I did. But that was but courtesy.
+
+IAGO.
+Lechery, by this hand. An index and obscure prologue to the history of
+lust and foul thoughts. They met so near with their lips that their
+breaths embrac’d together. Villainous thoughts, Roderigo! When these
+mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes the master and main
+exercise, the incorporate conclusion. Pish! But, sir, be you ruled by
+me. I have brought you from Venice. Watch you tonight. For the command,
+I’ll lay’t upon you. Cassio knows you not. I’ll not be far from you. Do
+you find some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking too loud, or
+tainting his discipline, or from what other course you please, which
+the time shall more favourably minister.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Well.
+
+IAGO.
+Sir, he is rash, and very sudden in choler, and haply with his
+truncheon may strike at you: provoke him that he may, for even out of
+that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny, whose qualification shall
+come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. So
+shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by the means I shall
+then have to prefer them, and the impediment most profitably removed,
+without the which there were no expectation of our prosperity.
+
+RODERIGO.
+I will do this, if I can bring it to any opportunity.
+
+IAGO.
+I warrant thee. Meet me by and by at the citadel: I must fetch his
+necessaries ashore. Farewell.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Adieu.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+IAGO.
+That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it;
+That she loves him, ’tis apt, and of great credit:
+The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,
+Is of a constant, loving, noble nature;
+And, I dare think, he’ll prove to Desdemona
+A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too,
+Not out of absolute lust (though peradventure
+I stand accountant for as great a sin)
+But partly led to diet my revenge,
+For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
+Hath leap’d into my seat. The thought whereof
+Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards,
+And nothing can or shall content my soul
+Till I am even’d with him, wife for wife,
+Or, failing so, yet that I put the Moor
+At least into a jealousy so strong
+That judgement cannot cure. Which thing to do,
+If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash
+For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,
+I’ll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,
+Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb
+(For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too)
+Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me
+For making him egregiously an ass
+And practicing upon his peace and quiet
+Even to madness. ’Tis here, but yet confus’d.
+Knavery’s plain face is never seen till us’d.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. A street.
+
+Enter Othello’s Herald with a proclamation.
+
+HERALD.
+It is Othello’s pleasure, our noble and valiant general, that upon
+certain tidings now arrived, importing the mere perdition of the
+Turkish fleet, every man put himself into triumph: some to dance, some
+to make bonfires, each man to what sport and revels his addition leads
+him. For besides these beneficial news, it is the celebration of his
+nuptial. So much was his pleasure should be proclaimed. All offices are
+open, and there is full liberty of feasting from this present hour of
+five till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the isle of Cyprus
+and our noble general Othello!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A Hall in the Castle.
+
+Enter Othello, Desdemona, Cassio and Attendants.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Good Michael, look you to the guard tonight.
+Let’s teach ourselves that honourable stop,
+Not to outsport discretion.
+
+CASSIO.
+Iago hath direction what to do.
+But notwithstanding with my personal eye
+Will I look to’t.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Iago is most honest.
+Michael, good night. Tomorrow with your earliest
+Let me have speech with you. [_To Desdemona._] Come, my dear love,
+The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue;
+That profit’s yet to come ’tween me and you.—
+Good night.
+
+[_Exeunt Othello, Desdemona and Attendants._]
+
+Enter Iago.
+
+CASSIO.
+Welcome, Iago. We must to the watch.
+
+IAGO.
+Not this hour, lieutenant. ’Tis not yet ten o’ th’ clock. Our general
+cast us thus early for the love of his Desdemona; who let us not
+therefore blame: he hath not yet made wanton the night with her; and
+she is sport for Jove.
+
+CASSIO.
+She’s a most exquisite lady.
+
+IAGO.
+And, I’ll warrant her, full of game.
+
+CASSIO.
+Indeed, she is a most fresh and delicate creature.
+
+IAGO.
+What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley to provocation.
+
+CASSIO.
+An inviting eye, and yet methinks right modest.
+
+IAGO.
+And when she speaks, is it not an alarm to love?
+
+CASSIO.
+She is indeed perfection.
+
+IAGO.
+Well, happiness to their sheets! Come, lieutenant, I have a stoup of
+wine; and here without are a brace of Cyprus gallants that would fain
+have a measure to the health of black Othello.
+
+CASSIO.
+Not tonight, good Iago. I have very poor and unhappy brains for
+drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of
+entertainment.
+
+IAGO.
+O, they are our friends; but one cup: I’ll drink for you.
+
+CASSIO.
+I have drunk but one cup tonight, and that was craftily qualified too,
+and behold, what innovation it makes here: I am unfortunate in the
+infirmity, and dare not task my weakness with any more.
+
+IAGO.
+What, man! ’Tis a night of revels. The gallants desire it.
+
+CASSIO.
+Where are they?
+
+IAGO.
+Here at the door. I pray you, call them in.
+
+CASSIO.
+I’ll do’t; but it dislikes me.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+IAGO.
+If I can fasten but one cup upon him,
+With that which he hath drunk tonight already,
+He’ll be as full of quarrel and offence
+As my young mistress’ dog. Now my sick fool Roderigo,
+Whom love hath turn’d almost the wrong side out,
+To Desdemona hath tonight carous’d
+Potations pottle-deep; and he’s to watch:
+Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,
+That hold their honours in a wary distance,
+The very elements of this warlike isle,
+Have I tonight fluster’d with flowing cups,
+And they watch too. Now, ’mongst this flock of drunkards,
+Am I to put our Cassio in some action
+That may offend the isle. But here they come:
+If consequence do but approve my dream,
+My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.
+
+Enter Cassio, Montano and Gentlemen; followed by Servant with wine.
+
+CASSIO.
+’Fore God, they have given me a rouse already.
+
+MONTANO.
+Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am a soldier.
+
+IAGO.
+Some wine, ho!
+[_Sings._]
+
+    _And let me the cannikin clink, clink,
+    And let me the cannikin clink, clink:
+        A soldier’s a man,
+        O, man’s life’s but a span,
+    Why then let a soldier drink._
+
+Some wine, boys!
+
+CASSIO.
+’Fore God, an excellent song.
+
+IAGO.
+I learned it in England, where indeed they are most potent in potting:
+your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander,—drink, ho!—are
+nothing to your English.
+
+CASSIO.
+Is your Englishman so expert in his drinking?
+
+IAGO.
+Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk; he sweats not
+to overthrow your Almain; he gives your Hollander a vomit ere the next
+pottle can be filled.
+
+CASSIO.
+To the health of our general!
+
+MONTANO.
+I am for it, lieutenant; and I’ll do you justice.
+
+IAGO.
+O sweet England!
+
+[_Sings._]
+
+    _King Stephen was a worthy peer,
+        His breeches cost him but a crown;
+    He held them sixpence all too dear,
+        With that he call’d the tailor lown.
+    He was a wight of high renown,
+        And thou art but of low degree:
+    ’Tis pride that pulls the country down,
+        Then take thine auld cloak about thee._
+
+Some wine, ho!
+
+CASSIO.
+’Fore God, this is a more exquisite song than the other.
+
+IAGO.
+Will you hear ’t again?
+
+CASSIO.
+No, for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that does those things.
+Well, God’s above all, and there be souls must be saved, and there be
+souls must not be saved.
+
+IAGO.
+It’s true, good lieutenant.
+
+CASSIO.
+For mine own part, no offence to the general, nor any man of quality, I
+hope to be saved.
+
+IAGO.
+And so do I too, lieutenant.
+
+CASSIO.
+Ay, but, by your leave, not before me; the lieutenant is to be saved
+before the ancient. Let’s have no more of this; let’s to our affairs.
+Forgive us our sins! Gentlemen, let’s look to our business. Do not
+think, gentlemen, I am drunk. This is my ancient, this is my right
+hand, and this is my left. I am not drunk now. I can stand well enough,
+and I speak well enough.
+
+ALL.
+Excellent well.
+
+CASSIO.
+Why, very well then. You must not think, then, that I am drunk.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+MONTANO.
+To the platform, masters. Come, let’s set the watch.
+
+IAGO.
+You see this fellow that is gone before,
+He is a soldier fit to stand by Cæsar
+And give direction: and do but see his vice,
+’Tis to his virtue a just equinox,
+The one as long as th’ other. ’Tis pity of him.
+I fear the trust Othello puts him in,
+On some odd time of his infirmity,
+Will shake this island.
+
+MONTANO.
+But is he often thus?
+
+IAGO.
+’Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep:
+He’ll watch the horologe a double set
+If drink rock not his cradle.
+
+MONTANO.
+It were well
+The general were put in mind of it.
+Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature
+Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,
+And looks not on his evils: is not this true?
+
+Enter Roderigo.
+
+IAGO.
+[_Aside to him._] How now, Roderigo?
+I pray you, after the lieutenant; go.
+
+[_Exit Roderigo._]
+
+MONTANO.
+And ’tis great pity that the noble Moor
+Should hazard such a place as his own second
+With one of an ingraft infirmity:
+It were an honest action to say so
+To the Moor.
+
+IAGO.
+Not I, for this fair island.
+I do love Cassio well and would do much
+To cure him of this evil. But, hark! What noise?
+
+[_Cry within_: “Help! help!”]
+
+Enter Cassio, driving in Roderigo.
+
+CASSIO.
+Zounds, you rogue, you rascal!
+
+MONTANO.
+What’s the matter, lieutenant?
+
+CASSIO.
+A knave teach me my duty! I’ll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Beat me?
+
+CASSIO.
+Dost thou prate, rogue?
+
+[_Striking Roderigo._]
+
+MONTANO.
+Nay, good lieutenant;
+I pray you, sir, hold your hand.
+
+CASSIO.
+Let me go, sir,
+Or I’ll knock you o’er the mazard.
+
+MONTANO.
+Come, come, you’re drunk.
+
+CASSIO.
+Drunk?
+
+[_They fight._]
+
+IAGO.
+[_Aside to Roderigo._] Away, I say! Go out and cry a mutiny.
+
+[_Exit Roderigo._]
+
+Nay, good lieutenant, God’s will, gentlemen.
+Help, ho!—Lieutenant,—sir,—Montano,—sir:—
+Help, masters! Here’s a goodly watch indeed!
+
+[_A bell rings._]
+
+Who’s that which rings the bell?—Diablo, ho!
+The town will rise. God’s will, lieutenant, hold,
+You will be sham’d forever.
+
+Enter Othello and Attendants.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What is the matter here?
+
+MONTANO.
+Zounds, I bleed still, I am hurt to the death.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Hold, for your lives!
+
+IAGO.
+Hold, ho! lieutenant,—sir,—Montano,—gentlemen,—
+Have you forgot all place of sense and duty?
+Hold! The general speaks to you; hold, hold, for shame!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Why, how now, ho! From whence ariseth this?
+Are we turn’d Turks, and to ourselves do that
+Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?
+For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:
+He that stirs next to carve for his own rage
+Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.
+Silence that dreadful bell, it frights the isle
+From her propriety. What is the matter, masters?
+Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving,
+Speak, who began this? On thy love, I charge thee.
+
+IAGO.
+I do not know. Friends all but now, even now,
+In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom
+Devesting them for bed; and then, but now,
+As if some planet had unwitted men,
+Swords out, and tilting one at other’s breast,
+In opposition bloody. I cannot speak
+Any beginning to this peevish odds;
+And would in action glorious I had lost
+Those legs that brought me to a part of it!
+
+OTHELLO.
+How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?
+
+CASSIO.
+I pray you, pardon me; I cannot speak.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil.
+The gravity and stillness of your youth
+The world hath noted, and your name is great
+In mouths of wisest censure: what’s the matter,
+That you unlace your reputation thus,
+And spend your rich opinion for the name
+Of a night-brawler? Give me answer to it.
+
+MONTANO.
+Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger.
+Your officer, Iago, can inform you,
+While I spare speech, which something now offends me,
+Of all that I do know; nor know I aught
+By me that’s said or done amiss this night,
+Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,
+And to defend ourselves it be a sin
+When violence assails us.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Now, by heaven,
+My blood begins my safer guides to rule,
+And passion, having my best judgement collied,
+Assays to lead the way. Zounds, if I stir,
+Or do but lift this arm, the best of you
+Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know
+How this foul rout began, who set it on,
+And he that is approv’d in this offence,
+Though he had twinn’d with me, both at a birth,
+Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,
+Yet wild, the people’s hearts brimful of fear,
+To manage private and domestic quarrel,
+In night, and on the court and guard of safety?
+’Tis monstrous. Iago, who began’t?
+
+MONTANO.
+If partially affin’d, or leagu’d in office,
+Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,
+Thou art no soldier.
+
+IAGO.
+Touch me not so near.
+I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth
+Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio.
+Yet I persuade myself, to speak the truth
+Shall nothing wrong him. Thus it is, general:
+Montano and myself being in speech,
+There comes a fellow crying out for help,
+And Cassio following him with determin’d sword,
+To execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman
+Steps in to Cassio and entreats his pause.
+Myself the crying fellow did pursue,
+Lest by his clamour (as it so fell out)
+The town might fall in fright: he, swift of foot,
+Outran my purpose: and I return’d the rather
+For that I heard the clink and fall of swords,
+And Cassio high in oath, which till tonight
+I ne’er might say before. When I came back,
+(For this was brief) I found them close together,
+At blow and thrust, even as again they were
+When you yourself did part them.
+More of this matter cannot I report.
+But men are men; the best sometimes forget;
+Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,
+As men in rage strike those that wish them best,
+Yet surely Cassio, I believe, receiv’d
+From him that fled some strange indignity,
+Which patience could not pass.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I know, Iago,
+Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,
+Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee,
+But never more be officer of mine.
+
+Enter Desdemona, attended.
+
+Look, if my gentle love be not rais’d up!
+I’ll make thee an example.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+What’s the matter?
+
+OTHELLO.
+All’s well now, sweeting; come away to bed.
+Sir, for your hurts, myself will be your surgeon.
+Lead him off.
+
+
+[_Montano is led off._]
+
+Iago, look with care about the town,
+And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted.
+Come, Desdemona: ’tis the soldiers’ life
+To have their balmy slumbers wak’d with strife.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Iago and Cassio._]
+
+IAGO.
+What, are you hurt, lieutenant?
+
+CASSIO.
+Ay, past all surgery.
+
+IAGO.
+Marry, Heaven forbid!
+
+CASSIO.
+Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I
+have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My
+reputation, Iago, my reputation!
+
+IAGO.
+As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound;
+there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle
+and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without
+deserving. You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute
+yourself such a loser. What, man, there are ways to recover the general
+again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy
+than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to
+affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he’s yours.
+
+CASSIO.
+I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander
+with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and
+speak parrot? and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse fustian with
+one’s own shadow? O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name
+to be known by, let us call thee devil!
+
+IAGO.
+What was he that you followed with your sword? What had he done to you?
+
+CASSIO.
+I know not.
+
+IAGO.
+Is’t possible?
+
+CASSIO.
+I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but
+nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths
+to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel,
+and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
+
+IAGO.
+Why, but you are now well enough: how came you thus recovered?
+
+CASSIO.
+It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath.
+One unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.
+
+IAGO.
+Come, you are too severe a moraler. As the time, the place, and the
+condition of this country stands, I could heartily wish this had not
+befallen; but since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.
+
+CASSIO.
+I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me I am a drunkard!
+Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To
+be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O
+strange! Every inordinate cup is unbless’d, and the ingredient is a
+devil.
+
+IAGO.
+Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.
+Exclaim no more against it. And, good lieutenant, I think you think I
+love you.
+
+CASSIO.
+I have well approved it, sir.—I drunk!
+
+IAGO.
+You, or any man living, may be drunk at a time, man. I’ll tell you what
+you shall do. Our general’s wife is now the general; I may say so in
+this respect, for that he hath devoted and given up himself to the
+contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and graces. Confess
+yourself freely to her. Importune her help to put you in your place
+again. She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition,
+she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is
+requested. This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to
+splinter, and, my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of
+your love shall grow stronger than it was before.
+
+CASSIO.
+You advise me well.
+
+IAGO.
+I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.
+
+CASSIO.
+I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I will beseech the
+virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me; I am desperate of my fortunes
+if they check me here.
+
+IAGO.
+You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant, I must to the watch.
+
+CASSIO.
+Good night, honest Iago.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+IAGO.
+And what’s he then, that says I play the villain?
+When this advice is free I give and honest,
+Probal to thinking, and indeed the course
+To win the Moor again? For ’tis most easy
+The inclining Desdemona to subdue
+In any honest suit. She’s fram’d as fruitful
+As the free elements. And then for her
+To win the Moor, were’t to renounce his baptism,
+All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,
+His soul is so enfetter’d to her love
+That she may make, unmake, do what she list,
+Even as her appetite shall play the god
+With his weak function. How am I then, a villain
+To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,
+Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!
+When devils will the blackest sins put on,
+They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
+As I do now: for whiles this honest fool
+Plies Desdemona to repair his fortune,
+And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
+I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear,
+That she repeals him for her body’s lust;
+And by how much she strives to do him good,
+She shall undo her credit with the Moor.
+So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
+And out of her own goodness make the net
+That shall enmesh them all.
+
+Enter Roderigo.
+
+How now, Roderigo?
+
+RODERIGO.
+I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound that hunts, but one
+that fills up the cry. My money is almost spent, I have been tonight
+exceedingly well cudgelled; and I think the issue will be, I shall have
+so much experience for my pains, and so, with no money at all and a
+little more wit, return again to Venice.
+
+IAGO.
+How poor are they that have not patience!
+What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
+Thou know’st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft,
+And wit depends on dilatory time.
+Does’t not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee,
+And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier’d Cassio;
+Though other things grow fair against the sun,
+Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.
+Content thyself awhile. By the mass, ’tis morning;
+Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
+Retire thee; go where thou art billeted.
+Away, I say, thou shalt know more hereafter.
+Nay, get thee gone.
+
+[_Exit Roderigo._]
+
+Two things are to be done,
+My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress.
+I’ll set her on;
+Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,
+And bring him jump when he may Cassio find
+Soliciting his wife. Ay, that’s the way.
+Dull not device by coldness and delay.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Cyprus. Before the Castle.
+
+
+Enter Cassio and some Musicians.
+
+CASSIO.
+Masters, play here, I will content your pains,
+Something that’s brief; and bid “Good morrow, general.”
+
+[_Music._]
+
+Enter Clown.
+
+CLOWN.
+Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i’
+the nose thus?
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+How, sir, how?
+
+CLOWN.
+Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Ay, marry, are they, sir.
+
+CLOWN.
+O, thereby hangs a tail.
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Whereby hangs a tale, sir?
+
+CLOWN.
+Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I know. But, masters, here’s
+money for you: and the general so likes your music, that he desires
+you, for love’s sake, to make no more noise with it.
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Well, sir, we will not.
+
+CLOWN.
+If you have any music that may not be heard, to’t again. But, as they
+say, to hear music the general does not greatly care.
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+We have none such, sir.
+
+CLOWN.
+Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I’ll away. Go, vanish into air,
+away!
+
+[_Exeunt Musicians._]
+
+CASSIO.
+Dost thou hear, mine honest friend?
+
+CLOWN.
+No, I hear not your honest friend. I hear you.
+
+CASSIO.
+Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There’s a poor piece of gold for thee:
+if the gentlewoman that attends the general’s wife be stirring, tell
+her there’s one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech. Wilt
+thou do this?
+
+CLOWN.
+She is stirring, sir; if she will stir hither, I shall seem to notify
+unto her.
+
+CASSIO.
+Do, good my friend.
+
+[_Exit Clown._]
+
+Enter Iago.
+
+In happy time, Iago.
+
+IAGO.
+You have not been a-bed, then?
+
+CASSIO.
+Why, no. The day had broke
+Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,
+To send in to your wife. My suit to her
+Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona
+Procure me some access.
+
+IAGO.
+I’ll send her to you presently,
+And I’ll devise a mean to draw the Moor
+Out of the way, that your converse and business
+May be more free.
+
+CASSIO.
+I humbly thank you for’t.
+
+[_Exit Iago._]
+
+I never knew
+A Florentine more kind and honest.
+
+Enter Emilia.
+
+EMILIA.
+Good morrow, good lieutenant; I am sorry
+For your displeasure, but all will sure be well.
+The general and his wife are talking of it,
+And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies
+That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus
+And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom
+He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you
+And needs no other suitor but his likings
+To take the safest occasion by the front
+To bring you in again.
+
+CASSIO.
+Yet, I beseech you,
+If you think fit, or that it may be done,
+Give me advantage of some brief discourse
+With Desdemona alone.
+
+EMILIA.
+Pray you, come in.
+I will bestow you where you shall have time
+To speak your bosom freely.
+
+CASSIO.
+I am much bound to you.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Cyprus. A Room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Othello, Iago and Gentlemen.
+
+OTHELLO.
+These letters give, Iago, to the pilot,
+And by him do my duties to the senate.
+That done, I will be walking on the works,
+Repair there to me.
+
+IAGO.
+Well, my good lord, I’ll do’t.
+
+OTHELLO.
+This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see’t?
+
+GENTLEMEN.
+We’ll wait upon your lordship.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle.
+
+Enter Desdemona, Cassio and Emilia.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
+All my abilities in thy behalf.
+
+EMILIA.
+Good madam, do. I warrant it grieves my husband
+As if the cause were his.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O, that’s an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,
+But I will have my lord and you again
+As friendly as you were.
+
+CASSIO.
+Bounteous madam,
+Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
+He’s never anything but your true servant.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I know’t. I thank you. You do love my lord.
+You have known him long; and be you well assur’d
+He shall in strangeness stand no farther off
+Than in a politic distance.
+
+CASSIO.
+Ay, but, lady,
+That policy may either last so long,
+Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,
+Or breed itself so out of circumstance,
+That, I being absent, and my place supplied,
+My general will forget my love and service.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Do not doubt that. Before Emilia here
+I give thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee,
+If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it
+To the last article. My lord shall never rest,
+I’ll watch him tame, and talk him out of patience;
+His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;
+I’ll intermingle everything he does
+With Cassio’s suit. Therefore be merry, Cassio,
+For thy solicitor shall rather die
+Than give thy cause away.
+
+Enter Othello and Iago.
+
+EMILIA.
+Madam, here comes my lord.
+
+CASSIO.
+Madam, I’ll take my leave.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why, stay, and hear me speak.
+
+CASSIO.
+Madam, not now. I am very ill at ease,
+Unfit for mine own purposes.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Well, do your discretion.
+
+[_Exit Cassio._]
+
+IAGO.
+Ha, I like not that.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What dost thou say?
+
+IAGO.
+Nothing, my lord; or if—I know not what.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?
+
+IAGO.
+Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it,
+That he would steal away so guilty-like,
+Seeing you coming.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I do believe ’twas he.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+How now, my lord?
+I have been talking with a suitor here,
+A man that languishes in your displeasure.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Who is’t you mean?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,
+If I have any grace or power to move you,
+His present reconciliation take;
+For if he be not one that truly loves you,
+That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,
+I have no judgement in an honest face.
+I prithee call him back.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Went he hence now?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Ay, sooth; so humbled
+That he hath left part of his grief with me
+To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Not now, sweet Desdemon, some other time.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+But shall’t be shortly?
+
+OTHELLO.
+The sooner, sweet, for you.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Shall’t be tonight at supper?
+
+OTHELLO.
+No, not tonight.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Tomorrow dinner then?
+
+OTHELLO.
+I shall not dine at home;
+I meet the captains at the citadel.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why then tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn,
+On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn.
+I prithee name the time, but let it not
+Exceed three days. In faith, he’s penitent;
+And yet his trespass, in our common reason,
+(Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
+Out of their best) is not almost a fault
+To incur a private check. When shall he come?
+Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
+What you would ask me, that I should deny,
+Or stand so mammering on. What? Michael Cassio,
+That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,
+When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,
+Hath ta’en your part, to have so much to do
+To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Prithee no more. Let him come when he will;
+I will deny thee nothing.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why, this is not a boon;
+’Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,
+Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,
+Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit
+To your own person: nay, when I have a suit
+Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,
+It shall be full of poise and difficult weight,
+And fearful to be granted.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I will deny thee nothing.
+Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
+To leave me but a little to myself.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Shall I deny you? No, farewell, my lord.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Farewell, my Desdemona. I’ll come to thee straight.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you.
+Whate’er you be, I am obedient.
+
+[_Exit with Emilia._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
+But I do love thee! And when I love thee not,
+Chaos is come again.
+
+IAGO.
+My noble lord,—
+
+OTHELLO.
+What dost thou say, Iago?
+
+IAGO.
+Did Michael Cassio, when you woo’d my lady,
+Know of your love?
+
+OTHELLO.
+He did, from first to last. Why dost thou ask?
+
+IAGO.
+But for a satisfaction of my thought.
+No further harm.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Why of thy thought, Iago?
+
+IAGO.
+I did not think he had been acquainted with her.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O yes, and went between us very oft.
+
+IAGO.
+Indeed?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Indeed? Ay, indeed. Discern’st thou aught in that?
+Is he not honest?
+
+IAGO.
+Honest, my lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Honest? ay, honest.
+
+IAGO.
+My lord, for aught I know.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What dost thou think?
+
+IAGO.
+Think, my lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Think, my lord? By heaven, he echoes me,
+As if there were some monster in his thought
+Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something.
+I heard thee say even now, thou lik’st not that,
+When Cassio left my wife. What didst not like?
+And when I told thee he was of my counsel
+In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, “Indeed?”
+And didst contract and purse thy brow together,
+As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
+Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,
+Show me thy thought.
+
+IAGO.
+My lord, you know I love you.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I think thou dost;
+And for I know thou’rt full of love and honesty
+And weigh’st thy words before thou giv’st them breath,
+Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:
+For such things in a false disloyal knave
+Are tricks of custom; but in a man that’s just,
+They’re close dilations, working from the heart,
+That passion cannot rule.
+
+IAGO.
+For Michael Cassio,
+I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I think so too.
+
+IAGO.
+Men should be what they seem;
+Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Certain, men should be what they seem.
+
+IAGO.
+Why then, I think Cassio’s an honest man.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Nay, yet there’s more in this:
+I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,
+As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
+The worst of words.
+
+IAGO.
+Good my lord, pardon me.
+Though I am bound to every act of duty,
+I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.
+Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false:
+As where’s that palace whereinto foul things
+Sometimes intrude not? Who has a breast so pure
+But some uncleanly apprehensions
+Keep leets and law-days, and in session sit
+With meditations lawful?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
+If thou but think’st him wrong’d and mak’st his ear
+A stranger to thy thoughts.
+
+IAGO.
+I do beseech you,
+Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,
+As, I confess, it is my nature’s plague
+To spy into abuses, and of my jealousy
+Shapes faults that are not,—that your wisdom
+From one that so imperfectly conceits,
+Would take no notice; nor build yourself a trouble
+Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
+It were not for your quiet nor your good,
+Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,
+To let you know my thoughts.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What dost thou mean?
+
+IAGO.
+Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
+Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
+Who steals my purse steals trash. ’Tis something, nothing;
+’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands.
+But he that filches from me my good name
+Robs me of that which not enriches him
+And makes me poor indeed.
+
+OTHELLO.
+By heaven, I’ll know thy thoughts.
+
+IAGO.
+You cannot, if my heart were in your hand,
+Nor shall not, whilst ’tis in my custody.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ha?
+
+IAGO.
+O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
+It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock
+The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss
+Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
+But O, what damned minutes tells he o’er
+Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
+
+OTHELLO.
+O misery!
+
+IAGO.
+Poor and content is rich, and rich enough;
+But riches fineless is as poor as winter
+To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
+Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
+From jealousy!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Why, why is this?
+Think’st thou I’d make a life of jealousy,
+To follow still the changes of the moon
+With fresh suspicions? No. To be once in doubt
+Is once to be resolv’d: exchange me for a goat
+When I shall turn the business of my soul
+To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,
+Matching thy inference. ’Tis not to make me jealous,
+To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
+Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
+Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:
+Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
+The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt,
+For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago,
+I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
+And on the proof, there is no more but this:
+Away at once with love or jealousy!
+
+IAGO.
+I am glad of it, for now I shall have reason
+To show the love and duty that I bear you
+With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,
+Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.
+Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;
+Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure.
+I would not have your free and noble nature,
+Out of self-bounty, be abus’d. Look to’t.
+I know our country disposition well;
+In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
+They dare not show their husbands. Their best conscience
+Is not to leave undone, but keep unknown.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Dost thou say so?
+
+IAGO.
+She did deceive her father, marrying you;
+And when she seem’d to shake and fear your looks,
+She loved them most.
+
+OTHELLO.
+And so she did.
+
+IAGO.
+Why, go to then.
+She that so young could give out such a seeming,
+To seal her father’s eyes up close as oak,
+He thought ’twas witchcraft. But I am much to blame.
+I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
+For too much loving you.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I am bound to thee for ever.
+
+IAGO.
+I see this hath a little dash’d your spirits.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Not a jot, not a jot.
+
+IAGO.
+Trust me, I fear it has.
+I hope you will consider what is spoke
+Comes from my love. But I do see you’re mov’d.
+I am to pray you not to strain my speech
+To grosser issues nor to larger reach
+Than to suspicion.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I will not.
+
+IAGO.
+Should you do so, my lord,
+My speech should fall into such vile success
+Which my thoughts aim’d not. Cassio’s my worthy friend.
+My lord, I see you’re mov’d.
+
+OTHELLO.
+No, not much mov’d.
+I do not think but Desdemona’s honest.
+
+IAGO.
+Long live she so! And long live you to think so!
+
+OTHELLO.
+And yet, how nature erring from itself—
+
+IAGO.
+Ay, there’s the point. As, to be bold with you,
+Not to affect many proposed matches,
+Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,
+Whereto we see in all things nature tends;
+Foh! One may smell in such a will most rank,
+Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
+But pardon me: I do not in position
+Distinctly speak of her, though I may fear
+Her will, recoiling to her better judgement,
+May fall to match you with her country forms,
+And happily repent.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Farewell, farewell:
+If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;
+Set on thy wife to observe. Leave me, Iago.
+
+IAGO.
+[_Going._] My lord, I take my leave.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless
+Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.
+
+IAGO.
+[_Returning._] My lord, I would I might entreat your honour
+To scan this thing no further. Leave it to time:
+Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,
+For sure he fills it up with great ability,
+Yet if you please to hold him off awhile,
+You shall by that perceive him and his means.
+Note if your lady strain his entertainment
+With any strong or vehement importunity,
+Much will be seen in that. In the meantime,
+Let me be thought too busy in my fears
+(As worthy cause I have to fear I am)
+And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Fear not my government.
+
+IAGO.
+I once more take my leave.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+This fellow’s of exceeding honesty,
+And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,
+Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,
+Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,
+I’d whistle her off, and let her down the wind
+To prey at fortune. Haply, for I am black,
+And have not those soft parts of conversation
+That chamberers have, or for I am declin’d
+Into the vale of years,—yet that’s not much—
+She’s gone, I am abus’d, and my relief
+Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,
+That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
+And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,
+And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
+Than keep a corner in the thing I love
+For others’ uses. Yet, ’tis the plague of great ones,
+Prerogativ’d are they less than the base,
+’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:
+Even then this forked plague is fated to us
+When we do quicken. Desdemona comes.
+If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!
+I’ll not believe’t.
+
+Enter Desdemona and Emilia.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+How now, my dear Othello?
+Your dinner, and the generous islanders
+By you invited, do attend your presence.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I am to blame.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why do you speak so faintly?
+Are you not well?
+
+OTHELLO.
+I have a pain upon my forehead here.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Faith, that’s with watching, ’twill away again;
+Let me but bind it hard, within this hour
+It will be well.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Your napkin is too little;
+
+[_He puts the handkerchief from him, and she drops it._]
+
+Let it alone. Come, I’ll go in with you.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I am very sorry that you are not well.
+
+[_Exeunt Othello and Desdemona._]
+
+EMILIA.
+I am glad I have found this napkin;
+This was her first remembrance from the Moor.
+My wayward husband hath a hundred times
+Woo’d me to steal it. But she so loves the token,
+For he conjur’d her she should ever keep it,
+That she reserves it evermore about her
+To kiss and talk to. I’ll have the work ta’en out,
+And give’t Iago. What he will do with it
+Heaven knows, not I,
+I nothing but to please his fantasy.
+
+Enter Iago.
+
+IAGO.
+How now? What do you here alone?
+
+EMILIA.
+Do not you chide. I have a thing for you.
+
+IAGO.
+A thing for me? It is a common thing—
+
+EMILIA.
+Ha?
+
+IAGO.
+To have a foolish wife.
+
+EMILIA.
+O, is that all? What will you give me now
+For that same handkerchief?
+
+IAGO.
+What handkerchief?
+
+EMILIA.
+What handkerchief?
+Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona,
+That which so often you did bid me steal.
+
+IAGO.
+Hast stol’n it from her?
+
+EMILIA.
+No, faith, she let it drop by negligence,
+And, to the advantage, I being here, took ’t up.
+Look, here it is.
+
+IAGO.
+A good wench, give it me.
+
+EMILIA.
+What will you do with’t, that you have been so earnest
+To have me filch it?
+
+IAGO.
+[_Snatching it._] Why, what’s that to you?
+
+EMILIA.
+If it be not for some purpose of import,
+Give ’t me again. Poor lady, she’ll run mad
+When she shall lack it.
+
+IAGO.
+Be not acknown on’t, I have use for it.
+Go, leave me.
+
+[_Exit Emilia._]
+
+I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin,
+And let him find it. Trifles light as air
+Are to the jealous confirmations strong
+As proofs of holy writ. This may do something.
+The Moor already changes with my poison:
+Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons,
+Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
+But with a little act upon the blood
+Burn like the mines of sulphur. I did say so.
+
+Enter Othello.
+
+Look, where he comes. Not poppy, nor mandragora,
+Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
+Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
+Which thou ow’dst yesterday.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ha! ha! false to me?
+
+IAGO.
+Why, how now, general? No more of that.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Avaunt! be gone! Thou hast set me on the rack.
+I swear ’tis better to be much abus’d
+Than but to know’t a little.
+
+IAGO.
+How now, my lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+What sense had I of her stol’n hours of lust?
+I saw’t not, thought it not, it harm’d not me.
+I slept the next night well, was free and merry;
+I found not Cassio’s kisses on her lips.
+He that is robb’d, not wanting what is stol’n,
+Let him not know’t, and he’s not robb’d at all.
+
+IAGO.
+I am sorry to hear this.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I had been happy if the general camp,
+Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,
+So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever
+Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!
+Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars
+That make ambition virtue! O, farewell,
+Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
+The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
+The royal banner, and all quality,
+Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
+And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
+The immortal Jove’s dread clamours counterfeit,
+Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone!
+
+IAGO.
+Is’t possible, my lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore;
+Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof,
+Or, by the worth of man’s eternal soul,
+Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
+Than answer my wak’d wrath.
+
+IAGO.
+Is’t come to this?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Make me to see’t, or at the least so prove it,
+That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
+To hang a doubt on, or woe upon thy life!
+
+IAGO.
+My noble lord,—
+
+OTHELLO.
+If thou dost slander her and torture me,
+Never pray more. Abandon all remorse;
+On horror’s head horrors accumulate;
+Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amaz’d;
+For nothing canst thou to damnation add
+Greater than that.
+
+IAGO.
+O grace! O heaven defend me!
+Are you a man? Have you a soul or sense?
+God be wi’ you. Take mine office.—O wretched fool,
+That liv’st to make thine honesty a vice!
+O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
+To be direct and honest is not safe.
+I thank you for this profit, and from hence
+I’ll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Nay, stay. Thou shouldst be honest.
+
+IAGO.
+I should be wise; for honesty’s a fool,
+And loses that it works for.
+
+OTHELLO.
+By the world,
+I think my wife be honest, and think she is not.
+I think that thou art just, and think thou art not.
+I’ll have some proof: her name, that was as fresh
+As Dian’s visage, is now begrim’d and black
+As mine own face. If there be cords or knives,
+Poison or fire, or suffocating streams,
+I’ll not endure ’t. Would I were satisfied!
+
+IAGO.
+I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion.
+I do repent me that I put it to you.
+You would be satisfied?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Would? Nay, I will.
+
+IAGO.
+And may; but how? How satisfied, my lord?
+Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on,
+Behold her topp’d?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Death and damnation! O!
+
+IAGO.
+It were a tedious difficulty, I think,
+To bring them to that prospect. Damn them then,
+If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster
+More than their own! What then? How then?
+What shall I say? Where’s satisfaction?
+It is impossible you should see this,
+Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
+As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
+As ignorance made drunk. But yet I say,
+If imputation and strong circumstances,
+Which lead directly to the door of truth,
+Will give you satisfaction, you may have’t.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Give me a living reason she’s disloyal.
+
+IAGO.
+I do not like the office,
+But sith I am enter’d in this cause so far,
+Prick’d to ’t by foolish honesty and love,
+I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately,
+And being troubled with a raging tooth,
+I could not sleep.
+There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
+That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
+One of this kind is Cassio:
+In sleep I heard him say, “Sweet Desdemona,
+Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;”
+And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,
+Cry “O sweet creature!” and then kiss me hard,
+As if he pluck’d up kisses by the roots,
+That grew upon my lips, then laid his leg
+Over my thigh, and sigh’d and kiss’d, and then
+Cried “Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!”
+
+OTHELLO.
+O monstrous! monstrous!
+
+IAGO.
+Nay, this was but his dream.
+
+OTHELLO.
+But this denoted a foregone conclusion.
+’Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.
+
+IAGO.
+And this may help to thicken other proofs
+That do demonstrate thinly.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I’ll tear her all to pieces.
+
+IAGO.
+Nay, but be wise. Yet we see nothing done,
+She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,
+Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
+Spotted with strawberries in your wife’s hand?
+
+OTHELLO.
+I gave her such a one, ’twas my first gift.
+
+IAGO.
+I know not that: but such a handkerchief
+(I am sure it was your wife’s) did I today
+See Cassio wipe his beard with.
+
+OTHELLO.
+If it be that,—
+
+IAGO.
+If it be that, or any that was hers,
+It speaks against her with the other proofs.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!
+One is too poor, too weak for my revenge!
+Now do I see ’tis true. Look here, Iago;
+All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.
+’Tis gone.
+Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow hell!
+Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
+To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
+For ’tis of aspics’ tongues!
+
+IAGO.
+Yet be content.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O, blood, Iago, blood!
+
+IAGO.
+Patience, I say. Your mind perhaps may change.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic Sea,
+Whose icy current and compulsive course
+Ne’er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
+To the Propontic and the Hellespont;
+Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace
+Shall ne’er look back, ne’er ebb to humble love,
+Till that a capable and wide revenge
+Swallow them up. Now by yond marble heaven,
+In the due reverence of a sacred vow [_Kneels._]
+I here engage my words.
+
+IAGO.
+Do not rise yet. [_Kneels._]
+Witness, you ever-burning lights above,
+You elements that clip us round about,
+Witness that here Iago doth give up
+The execution of his wit, hands, heart,
+To wrong’d Othello’s service! Let him command,
+And to obey shall be in me remorse,
+What bloody business ever.
+
+[_They rise._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+I greet thy love,
+Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
+And will upon the instant put thee to ’t.
+Within these three days let me hear thee say
+That Cassio’s not alive.
+
+IAGO.
+My friend is dead. ’Tis done at your request.
+But let her live.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her, damn her!
+Come, go with me apart, I will withdraw
+To furnish me with some swift means of death
+For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.
+
+IAGO.
+I am your own for ever.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Cyprus. Before the Castle.
+
+Enter Desdemona, Emilia and Clown.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?
+
+CLOWN.
+I dare not say he lies anywhere.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why, man?
+
+CLOWN.
+He’s a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies is stabbing.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Go to. Where lodges he?
+
+CLOWN.
+To tell you where he lodges is to tell you where I lie.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Can anything be made of this?
+
+CLOWN.
+I know not where he lodges; and for me to devise a lodging, and say he
+lies here, or he lies there, were to lie in mine own throat.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Can you inquire him out, and be edified by report?
+
+CLOWN.
+I will catechize the world for him, that is, make questions and by them
+answer.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Seek him, bid him come hither. Tell him I have moved my lord on his
+behalf, and hope all will be well.
+
+CLOWN.
+To do this is within the compass of man’s wit, and therefore I will
+attempt the doing it.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?
+
+EMILIA.
+I know not, madam.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse
+Full of crusadoes. And but my noble Moor
+Is true of mind and made of no such baseness
+As jealous creatures are, it were enough
+To put him to ill thinking.
+
+EMILIA.
+Is he not jealous?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Who, he? I think the sun where he was born
+Drew all such humours from him.
+
+EMILIA.
+Look, where he comes.
+
+Enter Othello.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I will not leave him now till Cassio
+Be call’d to him. How is’t with you, my lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Well, my good lady. [_Aside._] O, hardness to dissemble!
+How do you, Desdemona?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Well, my good lord.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+It yet hath felt no age nor known no sorrow.
+
+OTHELLO.
+This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart.
+Hot, hot, and moist. This hand of yours requires
+A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,
+Much castigation, exercise devout;
+For here’s a young and sweating devil here
+That commonly rebels. ’Tis a good hand,
+A frank one.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+You may indeed say so,
+For ’twas that hand that gave away my heart.
+
+OTHELLO.
+A liberal hand. The hearts of old gave hands,
+But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What promise, chuck?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
+Lend me thy handkerchief.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Here, my lord.
+
+OTHELLO.
+That which I gave you.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I have it not about me.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Not?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+No, faith, my lord.
+
+OTHELLO.
+That is a fault. That handkerchief
+Did an Egyptian to my mother give.
+She was a charmer, and could almost read
+The thoughts of people. She told her, while she kept it,
+’Twould make her amiable and subdue my father
+Entirely to her love. But if she lost it,
+Or made a gift of it, my father’s eye
+Should hold her loathed, and his spirits should hunt
+After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me,
+And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,
+To give it her. I did so; and take heed on’t,
+Make it a darling like your precious eye.
+To lose’t or give’t away were such perdition
+As nothing else could match.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Is’t possible?
+
+OTHELLO.
+’Tis true. There’s magic in the web of it.
+A sibyl, that had number’d in the world
+The sun to course two hundred compasses,
+In her prophetic fury sew’d the work;
+The worms were hallow’d that did breed the silk,
+And it was dyed in mummy, which the skillful
+Conserv’d of maiden’s hearts.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Indeed? Is’t true?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Most veritable, therefore look to ’t well.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Then would to God that I had never seen ’t!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ha? wherefore?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why do you speak so startingly and rash?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Is’t lost? is’t gone? speak, is it out of the way?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Heaven bless us!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Say you?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+It is not lost, but what and if it were?
+
+OTHELLO.
+How?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I say it is not lost.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Fetch’t, let me see ’t.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now.
+This is a trick to put me from my suit.
+Pray you, let Cassio be receiv’d again.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Fetch me the handkerchief! My mind misgives.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Come, come.
+You’ll never meet a more sufficient man.
+
+OTHELLO.
+The handkerchief!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I pray, talk me of Cassio.
+
+OTHELLO.
+The handkerchief!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+A man that all his time
+Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,
+Shar’d dangers with you,—
+
+OTHELLO.
+The handkerchief!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+In sooth, you are to blame.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Away!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+EMILIA.
+Is not this man jealous?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I ne’er saw this before.
+Sure there’s some wonder in this handkerchief,
+I am most unhappy in the loss of it.
+
+EMILIA.
+’Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
+They are all but stomachs and we all but food;
+They eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
+They belch us.
+
+Enter Cassio and Iago.
+
+Look you, Cassio and my husband.
+
+IAGO.
+There is no other way; ’tis she must do ’t,
+And, lo, the happiness! Go and importune her.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+How now, good Cassio, what’s the news with you?
+
+CASSIO.
+Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you
+That by your virtuous means I may again
+Exist, and be a member of his love,
+Whom I, with all the office of my heart,
+Entirely honour. I would not be delay’d.
+If my offence be of such mortal kind
+That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,
+Nor purpos’d merit in futurity,
+Can ransom me into his love again,
+But to know so must be my benefit;
+So shall I clothe me in a forc’d content,
+And shut myself up in some other course
+To fortune’s alms.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio,
+My advocation is not now in tune;
+My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him
+Were he in favour as in humour alter’d.
+So help me every spirit sanctified,
+As I have spoken for you all my best,
+And stood within the blank of his displeasure
+For my free speech! You must awhile be patient.
+What I can do I will; and more I will
+Than for myself I dare. Let that suffice you.
+
+IAGO.
+Is my lord angry?
+
+EMILIA.
+He went hence but now,
+And certainly in strange unquietness.
+
+IAGO.
+Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon,
+When it hath blown his ranks into the air
+And, like the devil, from his very arm
+Puff’d his own brother, and can he be angry?
+Something of moment then. I will go meet him.
+There’s matter in’t indeed if he be angry.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I prithee do so.
+
+[_Exit Iago._]
+
+Something sure of state,
+Either from Venice, or some unhatch’d practice
+Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,
+Hath puddled his clear spirit, and in such cases
+Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things,
+Though great ones are their object. ’Tis even so.
+For let our finger ache, and it indues
+Our other healthful members even to that sense
+Of pain. Nay, we must think men are not gods,
+Nor of them look for such observancy
+As fits the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,
+I was (unhandsome warrior as I am)
+Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;
+But now I find I had suborn’d the witness,
+And he’s indicted falsely.
+
+EMILIA.
+Pray heaven it be state matters, as you think,
+And no conception nor no jealous toy
+Concerning you.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Alas the day, I never gave him cause!
+
+EMILIA.
+But jealous souls will not be answer’d so;
+They are not ever jealous for the cause,
+But jealous for they are jealous: ’tis a monster
+Begot upon itself, born on itself.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Heaven keep that monster from Othello’s mind!
+
+EMILIA.
+Lady, amen.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I will go seek him. Cassio, walk hereabout:
+If I do find him fit, I’ll move your suit,
+And seek to effect it to my uttermost.
+
+CASSIO.
+I humbly thank your ladyship.
+
+[_Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia._]
+
+Enter Bianca.
+
+BIANCA.
+Save you, friend Cassio!
+
+CASSIO.
+What make you from home?
+How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?
+I’ faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.
+
+BIANCA.
+And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.
+What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights?
+Eight score eight hours, and lovers’ absent hours,
+More tedious than the dial eight score times?
+O weary reckoning!
+
+CASSIO.
+Pardon me, Bianca.
+I have this while with leaden thoughts been press’d,
+But I shall in a more continuate time
+Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,
+
+[_Giving her Desdemona’s handkerchief._]
+
+Take me this work out.
+
+BIANCA.
+O Cassio, whence came this?
+This is some token from a newer friend.
+To the felt absence now I feel a cause.
+Is’t come to this? Well, well.
+
+CASSIO.
+Go to, woman!
+Throw your vile guesses in the devil’s teeth,
+From whence you have them. You are jealous now
+That this is from some mistress, some remembrance.
+No, in good troth, Bianca.
+
+BIANCA.
+Why, whose is it?
+
+CASSIO.
+I know not neither. I found it in my chamber.
+I like the work well. Ere it be demanded,
+As like enough it will, I’d have it copied.
+Take it, and do ’t, and leave me for this time.
+
+BIANCA.
+Leave you, wherefore?
+
+CASSIO.
+I do attend here on the general,
+And think it no addition, nor my wish,
+To have him see me woman’d.
+
+BIANCA.
+Why, I pray you?
+
+CASSIO.
+Not that I love you not.
+
+BIANCA.
+But that you do not love me.
+I pray you bring me on the way a little,
+And say if I shall see you soon at night.
+
+CASSIO.
+’Tis but a little way that I can bring you,
+For I attend here. But I’ll see you soon.
+
+BIANCA.
+’Tis very good; I must be circumstanc’d.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Cyprus. Before the Castle.
+
+
+Enter Othello and Iago.
+
+IAGO.
+Will you think so?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Think so, Iago?
+
+IAGO.
+What,
+To kiss in private?
+
+OTHELLO.
+An unauthoriz’d kiss.
+
+IAGO.
+Or to be naked with her friend in bed
+An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm?
+It is hypocrisy against the devil:
+They that mean virtuously and yet do so,
+The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.
+
+IAGO.
+So they do nothing, ’tis a venial slip.
+But if I give my wife a handkerchief—
+
+OTHELLO.
+What then?
+
+IAGO.
+Why then, ’tis hers, my lord, and being hers,
+She may, I think, bestow’t on any man.
+
+OTHELLO.
+She is protectress of her honour too.
+May she give that?
+
+IAGO.
+Her honour is an essence that’s not seen;
+They have it very oft that have it not:
+But for the handkerchief—
+
+OTHELLO.
+By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.
+Thou said’st (O, it comes o’er my memory,
+As doth the raven o’er the infected house,
+Boding to all) he had my handkerchief.
+
+IAGO.
+Ay, what of that?
+
+OTHELLO.
+That’s not so good now.
+
+IAGO.
+What
+If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?
+Or heard him say (as knaves be such abroad,
+Who having, by their own importunate suit,
+Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,
+Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose
+But they must blab.)
+
+OTHELLO.
+Hath he said anything?
+
+IAGO.
+He hath, my lord, but be you well assur’d,
+No more than he’ll unswear.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What hath he said?
+
+IAGO.
+Faith, that he did—I know not what he did.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What? What?
+
+IAGO.
+Lie.
+
+OTHELLO.
+With her?
+
+IAGO.
+With her, on her, what you will.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Lie with her! lie on her!—We say lie on her when they belie her.—Lie
+with her! that’s fulsome. Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief! To
+confess, and be hanged for his labour. First, to be hanged, and then to
+confess. I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such
+shadowing passion without some instruction. It is not words that shake
+me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips. Is’t
+possible?—Confess?—handkerchief?—O devil!—
+
+[_Falls in a trance._]
+
+IAGO.
+Work on,
+My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
+And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
+All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord!
+My lord, I say! Othello!
+
+Enter Cassio.
+
+How now, Cassio!
+
+CASSIO.
+What’s the matter?
+
+IAGO.
+My lord is fallen into an epilepsy.
+This is his second fit. He had one yesterday.
+
+CASSIO.
+Rub him about the temples.
+
+IAGO.
+No, forbear;
+The lethargy must have his quiet course.
+If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by
+Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs:
+Do you withdraw yourself a little while,
+He will recover straight. When he is gone,
+I would on great occasion speak with you.
+
+[_Exit Cassio._]
+
+How is it, general? Have you not hurt your head?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Dost thou mock me?
+
+IAGO.
+I mock you? No, by heaven.
+Would you would bear your fortune like a man!
+
+OTHELLO.
+A horned man’s a monster and a beast.
+
+IAGO.
+There’s many a beast, then, in a populous city,
+And many a civil monster.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Did he confess it?
+
+IAGO.
+Good sir, be a man.
+Think every bearded fellow that’s but yok’d
+May draw with you. There’s millions now alive
+That nightly lie in those unproper beds
+Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.
+O, ’tis the spite of hell, the fiend’s arch-mock,
+To lip a wanton in a secure couch,
+And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know,
+And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O, thou art wise, ’tis certain.
+
+IAGO.
+Stand you awhile apart,
+Confine yourself but in a patient list.
+Whilst you were here o’erwhelmed with your grief,
+(A passion most unsuiting such a man)
+Cassio came hither. I shifted him away,
+And laid good ’scuse upon your ecstasy,
+Bade him anon return, and here speak with me,
+The which he promis’d. Do but encave yourself,
+And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,
+That dwell in every region of his face;
+For I will make him tell the tale anew,
+Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when
+He hath, and is again to cope your wife:
+I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience,
+Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,
+And nothing of a man.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Dost thou hear, Iago?
+I will be found most cunning in my patience;
+But,—dost thou hear?—most bloody.
+
+IAGO.
+That’s not amiss.
+But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?
+
+[_Othello withdraws._]
+
+Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
+A housewife that by selling her desires
+Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature
+That dotes on Cassio, (as ’tis the strumpet’s plague
+To beguile many and be beguil’d by one.)
+He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
+From the excess of laughter. Here he comes.
+
+Enter Cassio.
+
+As he shall smile Othello shall go mad,
+And his unbookish jealousy must construe
+Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures, and light behaviour
+Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?
+
+CASSIO.
+The worser that you give me the addition
+Whose want even kills me.
+
+IAGO.
+Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on’t.
+[_Speaking lower._] Now, if this suit lay in Bianca’s power,
+How quickly should you speed!
+
+CASSIO.
+Alas, poor caitiff!
+
+OTHELLO.
+[_Aside._] Look how he laughs already!
+
+IAGO.
+I never knew a woman love man so.
+
+CASSIO.
+Alas, poor rogue! I think, i’ faith, she loves me.
+
+OTHELLO.
+[_Aside._] Now he denies it faintly and laughs it out.
+
+IAGO.
+Do you hear, Cassio?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Now he importunes him
+To tell it o’er. Go to, well said, well said.
+
+IAGO.
+She gives it out that you shall marry her.
+Do you intend it?
+
+CASSIO.
+Ha, ha, ha!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Do you triumph, Roman? Do you triumph?
+
+CASSIO.
+I marry her? What? A customer? I prithee, bear some charity to my wit,
+do not think it so unwholesome. Ha, ha, ha!
+
+OTHELLO.
+So, so, so, so. They laugh that wins.
+
+IAGO.
+Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.
+
+CASSIO.
+Prithee say true.
+
+IAGO.
+I am a very villain else.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Have you scored me? Well.
+
+CASSIO.
+This is the monkey’s own giving out. She is persuaded I will marry her,
+out of her own love and flattery, not out of my promise.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Iago beckons me. Now he begins the story.
+
+CASSIO.
+She was here even now. She haunts me in every place. I was the other
+day talking on the sea-bank with certain Venetians, and thither comes
+the bauble, and falls thus about my neck.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Crying, “O dear Cassio!” as it were: his gesture imports it.
+
+CASSIO.
+So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so hales and pulls me. Ha, ha,
+ha!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber. O, I see that nose of
+yours, but not that dog I shall throw it to.
+
+CASSIO.
+Well, I must leave her company.
+
+IAGO.
+Before me! look where she comes.
+
+Enter Bianca.
+
+CASSIO.
+’Tis such another fitchew! Marry, a perfum’d one.
+What do you mean by this haunting of me?
+
+BIANCA.
+Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you mean by that same
+handkerchief you gave me even now? I was a fine fool to take it. I must
+take out the work? A likely piece of work, that you should find it in
+your chamber and not know who left it there! This is some minx’s token,
+and I must take out the work? There, give it your hobby-horse.
+Wheresoever you had it, I’ll take out no work on’t.
+
+CASSIO.
+How now, my sweet Bianca? How now, how now?
+
+OTHELLO.
+By heaven, that should be my handkerchief!
+
+BIANCA.
+If you’ll come to supper tonight, you may. If you will not, come when
+you are next prepared for.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+IAGO.
+After her, after her.
+
+CASSIO.
+Faith, I must; she’ll rail in the street else.
+
+IAGO.
+Will you sup there?
+
+CASSIO.
+Faith, I intend so.
+
+IAGO.
+Well, I may chance to see you, for I would very fain speak with you.
+
+CASSIO.
+Prithee come, will you?
+
+IAGO.
+Go to; say no more.
+
+[_Exit Cassio._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+[_Coming forward._] How shall I murder him, Iago?
+
+IAGO.
+Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?
+
+OTHELLO.
+O Iago!
+
+IAGO.
+And did you see the handkerchief?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Was that mine?
+
+IAGO.
+Yours, by this hand: and to see how he prizes the foolish woman your
+wife! she gave it him, and he hath given it his whore.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I would have him nine years a-killing. A fine woman, a fair woman, a
+sweet woman!
+
+IAGO.
+Nay, you must forget that.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned tonight, for she shall not
+live. No, my heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my
+hand. O, the world hath not a sweeter creature. She might lie by an
+emperor’s side, and command him tasks.
+
+IAGO.
+Nay, that’s not your way.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Hang her, I do but say what she is. So delicate with her needle, an
+admirable musician! O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! Of
+so high and plenteous wit and invention!
+
+IAGO.
+She’s the worse for all this.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O, a thousand, a thousand times: and then of so gentle a condition!
+
+IAGO.
+Ay, too gentle.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Nay, that’s certain. But yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of
+it, Iago!
+
+IAGO.
+If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend, for if
+it touch not you, it comes near nobody.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I will chop her into messes. Cuckold me!
+
+IAGO.
+O, ’tis foul in her.
+
+OTHELLO.
+With mine officer!
+
+IAGO.
+That’s fouler.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Get me some poison, Iago; this night. I’ll not expostulate with her,
+lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again. This night, Iago.
+
+IAGO.
+Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath
+contaminated.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Good, good. The justice of it pleases. Very good.
+
+IAGO.
+And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker. You shall hear more by
+midnight.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Excellent good. [_A trumpet within._] What trumpet is that same?
+
+Enter Lodovico, Desdemona and Attendant.
+
+IAGO.
+Something from Venice, sure. ’Tis Lodovico
+Come from the duke. See, your wife is with him.
+
+LODOVICO.
+Save you, worthy general!
+
+OTHELLO.
+With all my heart, sir.
+
+LODOVICO.
+The duke and senators of Venice greet you.
+
+[_Gives him a packet._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.
+
+[_Opens the packet and reads._]
+
+DESDEMONA.
+And what’s the news, good cousin Lodovico?
+
+IAGO.
+I am very glad to see you, signior.
+Welcome to Cyprus.
+
+LODOVICO.
+I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?
+
+IAGO.
+Lives, sir.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Cousin, there’s fall’n between him and my lord
+An unkind breach, but you shall make all well.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Are you sure of that?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+[_Reads._] “This fail you not to do, as you will—”
+
+LODOVICO.
+He did not call; he’s busy in the paper.
+Is there division ’twixt my lord and Cassio?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+A most unhappy one. I would do much
+To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Fire and brimstone!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Are you wise?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+What, is he angry?
+
+LODOVICO.
+May be the letter mov’d him;
+For, as I think, they do command him home,
+Deputing Cassio in his government.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Trust me, I am glad on’t.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Indeed!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+I am glad to see you mad.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Why, sweet Othello?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Devil!
+
+[_Striking her._]
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I have not deserv’d this.
+
+LODOVICO.
+My lord, this would not be believ’d in Venice,
+Though I should swear I saw’t: ’tis very much.
+Make her amends. She weeps.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O devil, devil!
+If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears,
+Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
+Out of my sight!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I will not stay to offend you.
+
+[_Going._]
+
+LODOVICO.
+Truly, an obedient lady.
+I do beseech your lordship, call her back.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Mistress!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+What would you with her, sir?
+
+LODOVICO.
+Who, I, my lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay, you did wish that I would make her turn.
+Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
+And turn again. And she can weep, sir, weep;
+And she’s obedient, as you say, obedient,
+Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.
+Concerning this, sir,—O well-painted passion!
+I am commanded home.—Get you away;
+I’ll send for you anon.—Sir, I obey the mandate,
+And will return to Venice.—Hence, avaunt!
+
+[_Exit Desdemona._]
+
+Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight,
+I do entreat that we may sup together.
+You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus. Goats and monkeys!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+LODOVICO.
+Is this the noble Moor, whom our full senate
+Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature
+Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
+The shot of accident nor dart of chance
+Could neither graze nor pierce?
+
+IAGO.
+He is much chang’d.
+
+LODOVICO.
+Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?
+
+IAGO.
+He’s that he is. I may not breathe my censure
+What he might be. If what he might he is not,
+I would to heaven he were!
+
+LODOVICO.
+What, strike his wife?
+
+IAGO.
+Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew
+That stroke would prove the worst!
+
+LODOVICO.
+Is it his use?
+Or did the letters work upon his blood,
+And new-create this fault?
+
+IAGO.
+Alas, alas!
+It is not honesty in me to speak
+What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,
+And his own courses will denote him so
+That I may save my speech: do but go after,
+And mark how he continues.
+
+LODOVICO.
+I am sorry that I am deceiv’d in him.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Cyprus. A Room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Othello and Emilia.
+
+OTHELLO.
+You have seen nothing, then?
+
+EMILIA.
+Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.
+
+EMILIA.
+But then I saw no harm, and then I heard
+Each syllable that breath made up between them.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What, did they never whisper?
+
+EMILIA.
+Never, my lord.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Nor send you out o’ the way?
+
+EMILIA.
+Never.
+
+OTHELLO.
+To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?
+
+EMILIA.
+Never, my lord.
+
+OTHELLO.
+That’s strange.
+
+EMILIA.
+I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
+Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,
+Remove your thought, it doth abuse your bosom.
+If any wretch have put this in your head,
+Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse,
+For if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
+There’s no man happy. The purest of their wives
+Is foul as slander.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Bid her come hither. Go.
+
+[_Exit Emilia._]
+
+She says enough. Yet she’s a simple bawd
+That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,
+A closet lock and key of villainous secrets.
+And yet she’ll kneel and pray. I have seen her do ’t.
+
+Enter Desdemona and Emilia.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My lord, what is your will?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Pray, chuck, come hither.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+What is your pleasure?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Let me see your eyes.
+Look in my face.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+What horrible fancy’s this?
+
+OTHELLO.
+[_To Emilia._] Some of your function, mistress,
+Leave procreants alone, and shut the door.
+Cough, or cry hem, if anybody come.
+Your mystery, your mystery. Nay, dispatch.
+
+[_Exit Emilia._]
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?
+I understand a fury in your words,
+But not the words.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Why, what art thou?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Your wife, my lord, your true and loyal wife.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Come, swear it, damn thyself,
+Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves
+Should fear to seize thee. Therefore be double-damn’d.
+Swear thou art honest.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Heaven doth truly know it.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+To whom, my lord? With whom? How am I false?
+
+OTHELLO.
+O Desdemona, away! away! away!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Alas the heavy day, why do you weep?
+Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?
+If haply you my father do suspect
+An instrument of this your calling back,
+Lay not your blame on me. If you have lost him,
+Why, I have lost him too.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Had it pleas’d heaven
+To try me with affliction, had they rain’d
+All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head,
+Steep’d me in poverty to the very lips,
+Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,
+I should have found in some place of my soul
+A drop of patience. But, alas, to make me
+A fixed figure for the time of scorn
+To point his slow unmoving finger at.
+Yet could I bear that too, well, very well:
+But there, where I have garner’d up my heart,
+Where either I must live or bear no life,
+The fountain from the which my current runs,
+Or else dries up, to be discarded thence,
+Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
+To knot and gender in!—turn thy complexion there,
+Patience, thou young and rose-lipp’d cherubin,
+Ay, there, look grim as hell!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,
+That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,
+Who art so lovely fair, and smell’st so sweet,
+That the sense aches at thee,
+Would thou hadst ne’er been born!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
+Made to write “whore” upon? What committed?
+Committed! O thou public commoner!
+I should make very forges of my cheeks,
+That would to cinders burn up modesty,
+Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!
+Heaven stops the nose at it, and the moon winks;
+The bawdy wind, that kisses all it meets,
+Is hush’d within the hollow mine of earth,
+And will not hear it. What committed!
+Impudent strumpet!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+By heaven, you do me wrong.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Are not you a strumpet?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+No, as I am a Christian:
+If to preserve this vessel for my lord
+From any other foul unlawful touch
+Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.
+
+OTHELLO.
+What, not a whore?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+No, as I shall be sav’d.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Is’t possible?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O, heaven forgive us!
+
+OTHELLO.
+I cry you mercy then.
+I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
+That married with Othello.—You, mistress,
+
+Enter Emilia.
+
+That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
+And keeps the gate of hell. You, you, ay, you!
+We have done our course; there’s money for your pains.
+I pray you turn the key, and keep our counsel.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+EMILIA.
+Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
+How do you, madam? How do you, my good lady?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Faith, half asleep.
+
+EMILIA.
+Good madam, what’s the matter with my lord?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+With who?
+
+EMILIA.
+Why, with my lord, madam.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Who is thy lord?
+
+EMILIA.
+He that is yours, sweet lady.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I have none. Do not talk to me, Emilia,
+I cannot weep, nor answer have I none
+But what should go by water. Prithee, tonight
+Lay on my bed my wedding sheets, remember,
+And call thy husband hither.
+
+EMILIA.
+Here’s a change indeed!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+DESDEMONA.
+’Tis meet I should be us’d so, very meet.
+How have I been behav’d, that he might stick
+The small’st opinion on my least misuse?
+
+Enter Iago and Emilia.
+
+IAGO.
+What is your pleasure, madam? How is’t with you?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes
+Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
+He might have chid me so, for, in good faith,
+I am a child to chiding.
+
+IAGO.
+What’s the matter, lady?
+
+EMILIA.
+Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhor’d her,
+Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
+As true hearts cannot bear.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Am I that name, Iago?
+
+IAGO.
+What name, fair lady?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Such as she says my lord did say I was.
+
+EMILIA.
+He call’d her whore: a beggar in his drink
+Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.
+
+IAGO.
+Why did he so?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I do not know. I am sure I am none such.
+
+IAGO.
+Do not weep, do not weep: alas the day!
+
+EMILIA.
+Hath she forsook so many noble matches,
+Her father, and her country, and her friends,
+To be call’d whore? would it not make one weep?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+It is my wretched fortune.
+
+IAGO.
+Beshrew him for’t!
+How comes this trick upon him?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Nay, heaven doth know.
+
+EMILIA.
+I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain,
+Some busy and insinuating rogue,
+Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
+Have not devis’d this slander. I’ll be hang’d else.
+
+IAGO.
+Fie, there is no such man. It is impossible.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+If any such there be, heaven pardon him!
+
+EMILIA.
+A halter pardon him, and hell gnaw his bones!
+Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?
+What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?
+The Moor’s abused by some most villainous knave,
+Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
+O heaven, that such companions thou’dst unfold,
+And put in every honest hand a whip
+To lash the rascals naked through the world
+Even from the east to the west!
+
+IAGO.
+Speak within door.
+
+EMILIA.
+O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was
+That turn’d your wit the seamy side without,
+And made you to suspect me with the Moor.
+
+IAGO.
+You are a fool. Go to.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Alas, Iago,
+What shall I do to win my lord again?
+Good friend, go to him. For by this light of heaven,
+I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel.
+If e’er my will did trespass ’gainst his love,
+Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,
+Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,
+Delighted them in any other form,
+Or that I do not yet, and ever did,
+And ever will, (though he do shake me off
+To beggarly divorcement) love him dearly,
+Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;
+And his unkindness may defeat my life,
+But never taint my love. I cannot say “whore,”
+It does abhor me now I speak the word;
+To do the act that might the addition earn
+Not the world’s mass of vanity could make me.
+
+IAGO.
+I pray you, be content. ’Tis but his humour.
+The business of the state does him offence,
+And he does chide with you.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+If ’twere no other,—
+
+IAGO.
+’Tis but so, I warrant.
+
+[_Trumpets within._]
+
+Hark, how these instruments summon to supper.
+The messengers of Venice stay the meat.
+Go in, and weep not. All things shall be well.
+
+[_Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia._]
+
+Enter Roderigo.
+
+How now, Roderigo?
+
+RODERIGO.
+I do not find that thou dealest justly with me.
+
+IAGO.
+What in the contrary?
+
+RODERIGO.
+Every day thou daffest me with some device, Iago, and rather, as it
+seems to me now, keepest from me all conveniency than suppliest me with
+the least advantage of hope. I will indeed no longer endure it. Nor am
+I yet persuaded to put up in peace what already I have foolishly
+suffered.
+
+IAGO.
+Will you hear me, Roderigo?
+
+RODERIGO.
+Faith, I have heard too much, for your words and performances are no
+kin together.
+
+IAGO.
+You charge me most unjustly.
+
+RODERIGO.
+With naught but truth. I have wasted myself out of my means. The jewels
+you have had from me to deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted
+a votarist: you have told me she hath received them, and returned me
+expectations and comforts of sudden respect and acquaintance, but I
+find none.
+
+IAGO.
+Well, go to, very well.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Very well, go to, I cannot go to, man, nor ’tis not very well. Nay, I
+say ’tis very scurvy, and begin to find myself fopped in it.
+
+IAGO.
+Very well.
+
+RODERIGO.
+I tell you ’tis not very well. I will make myself known to Desdemona.
+If she will return me my jewels, I will give over my suit and repent my
+unlawful solicitation. If not, assure yourself I will seek satisfaction
+of you.
+
+IAGO.
+You have said now.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing.
+
+IAGO.
+Why, now I see there’s mettle in thee, and even from this instant do
+build on thee a better opinion than ever before. Give me thy hand,
+Roderigo. Thou hast taken against me a most just exception, but yet I
+protest, I have dealt most directly in thy affair.
+
+RODERIGO.
+It hath not appeared.
+
+IAGO.
+I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and your suspicion is not without
+wit and judgement. But, Roderigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed,
+which I have greater reason to believe now than ever,—I mean purpose,
+courage, and valour,—this night show it. If thou the next night
+following enjoy not Desdemona, take me from this world with treachery
+and devise engines for my life.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Well, what is it? Is it within reason and compass?
+
+IAGO.
+Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice to depute Cassio in
+Othello’s place.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Is that true? Why then Othello and Desdemona return again to Venice.
+
+IAGO.
+O, no; he goes into Mauritania, and takes away with him the fair
+Desdemona, unless his abode be lingered here by some accident: wherein
+none can be so determinate as the removing of Cassio.
+
+RODERIGO.
+How do you mean “removing” of him?
+
+IAGO.
+Why, by making him uncapable of Othello’s place: knocking out his
+brains.
+
+RODERIGO.
+And that you would have me to do?
+
+IAGO.
+Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right. He sups tonight with
+a harlotry, and thither will I go to him. He knows not yet of his
+honourable fortune. If you will watch his going thence, which I will
+fashion to fall out between twelve and one, you may take him at your
+pleasure: I will be near to second your attempt, and he shall fall
+between us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with me. I will
+show you such a necessity in his death that you shall think yourself
+bound to put it on him. It is now high supper-time, and the night grows
+to waste. About it.
+
+RODERIGO.
+I will hear further reason for this.
+
+IAGO.
+And you shall be satisfied.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Cyprus. Another Room in the Castle.
+
+Enter Othello, Lodovico, Desdemona, Emilia and Attendants.
+
+LODOVICO.
+I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O, pardon me; ’twill do me good to walk.
+
+LODOVICO.
+Madam, good night. I humbly thank your ladyship.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Your honour is most welcome.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Will you walk, sir?—
+O, Desdemona,—
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Get you to bed on th’ instant, I will be return’d forthwith. Dismiss
+your attendant there. Look ’t be done.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I will, my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt Othello, Lodovico and Attendants._]
+
+EMILIA.
+How goes it now? He looks gentler than he did.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+He says he will return incontinent,
+He hath commanded me to go to bed,
+And bade me to dismiss you.
+
+EMILIA.
+Dismiss me?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+It was his bidding. Therefore, good Emilia,
+Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu.
+We must not now displease him.
+
+EMILIA.
+I would you had never seen him!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+So would not I. My love doth so approve him,
+That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns,—
+Prithee, unpin me,—have grace and favour in them.
+
+EMILIA.
+I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+All’s one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds!
+If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me
+In one of those same sheets.
+
+EMILIA.
+Come, come, you talk.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+My mother had a maid call’d Barbary,
+She was in love, and he she lov’d prov’d mad
+And did forsake her. She had a song of “willow”,
+An old thing ’twas, but it express’d her fortune,
+And she died singing it. That song tonight
+Will not go from my mind. I have much to do
+But to go hang my head all at one side
+And sing it like poor Barbary. Prithee dispatch.
+
+EMILIA.
+Shall I go fetch your night-gown?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+No, unpin me here.
+This Lodovico is a proper man.
+
+EMILIA.
+A very handsome man.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+He speaks well.
+
+EMILIA.
+I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a
+touch of his nether lip.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+[_Singing._]
+    _The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
+        Sing all a green willow.
+    Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
+        Sing willow, willow, willow.
+    The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur’d her moans,
+        Sing willow, willow, willow;
+    Her salt tears fell from her, and soften’d the stones;—_
+
+Lay by these:—
+
+[_Sings._]
+        _Sing willow, willow, willow._
+
+Prithee hie thee. He’ll come anon.
+
+[_Sings._]
+    _Sing all a green willow must be my garland.
+Let nobody blame him, his scorn I approve,—_
+
+Nay, that’s not next. Hark! who is’t that knocks?
+
+EMILIA.
+It’s the wind.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+[_Sings._]
+    _I call’d my love false love; but what said he then?
+        Sing willow, willow, willow:
+    If I court mo women, you’ll couch with mo men._
+
+So get thee gone; good night. Mine eyes do itch;
+Doth that bode weeping?
+
+EMILIA.
+’Tis neither here nor there.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!
+Dost thou in conscience think,—tell me, Emilia,—
+That there be women do abuse their husbands
+In such gross kind?
+
+EMILIA.
+There be some such, no question.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
+
+EMILIA.
+Why, would not you?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+No, by this heavenly light!
+
+EMILIA.
+Nor I neither by this heavenly light,
+I might do’t as well i’ the dark.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
+
+EMILIA.
+The world’s a huge thing. It is a great price
+For a small vice.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+In troth, I think thou wouldst not.
+
+EMILIA.
+In troth, I think I should, and undo’t when I had done. Marry, I would
+not do such a thing for a joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for
+gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty exhibition; but, for the
+whole world—why, who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a
+monarch? I should venture purgatory for ’t.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong for the whole world.
+
+EMILIA.
+Why, the wrong is but a wrong i’ the world; and having the world for
+your labour, ’tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make
+it right.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I do not think there is any such woman.
+
+EMILIA.
+Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would store the world they
+played for.
+But I do think it is their husbands’ faults
+If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,
+And pour our treasures into foreign laps;
+Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
+Throwing restraint upon us. Or say they strike us,
+Or scant our former having in despite.
+Why, we have galls; and though we have some grace,
+Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
+Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell
+And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
+As husbands have. What is it that they do
+When they change us for others? Is it sport?
+I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
+I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
+It is so too. And have not we affections,
+Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
+Then let them use us well: else let them know,
+The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Good night, good night. Heaven me such usage send,
+Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Cyprus. A Street.
+
+
+Enter Iago and Roderigo.
+
+IAGO.
+Here, stand behind this bulk. Straight will he come.
+Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home.
+Quick, quick, fear nothing; I’ll be at thy elbow.
+It makes us, or it mars us, think on that,
+And fix most firm thy resolution.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Be near at hand, I may miscarry in ’t.
+
+IAGO.
+Here, at thy hand. Be bold, and take thy stand.
+
+[_Retires to a little distance._]
+
+RODERIGO.
+I have no great devotion to the deed;
+And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons.
+’Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword; he dies.
+
+[_Goes to his stand._]
+
+IAGO.
+I have rubb’d this young quat almost to the sense,
+And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,
+Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
+Every way makes my gain. Live Roderigo,
+He calls me to a restitution large
+Of gold and jewels that I bobb’d from him,
+As gifts to Desdemona.
+It must not be. If Cassio do remain,
+He hath a daily beauty in his life
+That makes me ugly. And besides, the Moor
+May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril.
+No, he must die. But so, I hear him coming.
+
+Enter Cassio.
+
+RODERIGO.
+I know his gait; ’tis he. Villain, thou diest!
+
+[_Rushes out, and makes a pass at Cassio._]
+
+CASSIO.
+That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,
+But that my coat is better than thou know’st.
+I will make proof of thine.
+
+[_Draws, and wounds Roderigo._]
+
+RODERIGO.
+O, I am slain!
+
+[_Iago rushes from his post, cuts Cassio behind in the leg, and exit._]
+
+CASSIO.
+I am maim’d forever. Help, ho! murder, murder!
+
+[_Falls._]
+
+Enter Othello.
+
+OTHELLO.
+The voice of Cassio. Iago keeps his word.
+
+RODERIGO.
+O, villain that I am!
+
+OTHELLO.
+It is even so.
+
+CASSIO.
+O, help, ho! light! a surgeon!
+
+OTHELLO.
+’Tis he. O brave Iago, honest and just,
+That hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong!
+Thou teachest me,—minion, your dear lies dead,
+And your unbless’d fate hies. Strumpet, I come!
+Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;
+Thy bed, lust-stain’d, shall with lust’s blood be spotted.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Lodovico and Gratiano.
+
+CASSIO.
+What, ho! No watch? No passage? murder, murder!
+
+GRATIANO.
+’Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.
+
+CASSIO.
+O, help!
+
+LODOVICO.
+Hark!
+
+RODERIGO.
+O wretched villain!
+
+LODOVICO.
+Two or three groan. It is a heavy night.
+These may be counterfeits. Let’s think’t unsafe
+To come in to the cry without more help.
+
+RODERIGO.
+Nobody come? Then shall I bleed to death.
+
+Enter Iago with a light.
+
+LODOVICO.
+Hark!
+
+GRATIANO.
+Here’s one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.
+
+IAGO.
+Who’s there? Whose noise is this that cries on murder?
+
+LODOVICO.
+We do not know.
+
+IAGO.
+Did not you hear a cry?
+
+CASSIO.
+Here, here! for heaven’s sake, help me!
+
+IAGO.
+What’s the matter?
+
+GRATIANO.
+This is Othello’s ancient, as I take it.
+
+LODOVICO.
+The same indeed, a very valiant fellow.
+
+IAGO.
+What are you here that cry so grievously?
+
+CASSIO.
+Iago? O, I am spoil’d, undone by villains!
+Give me some help.
+
+IAGO.
+O me, lieutenant! What villains have done this?
+
+CASSIO.
+I think that one of them is hereabout,
+And cannot make away.
+
+IAGO.
+O treacherous villains!
+[_To Lodovico and Gratiano._] What are you there?
+Come in and give some help.
+
+RODERIGO.
+O, help me here!
+
+CASSIO.
+That’s one of them.
+
+IAGO.
+O murderous slave! O villain!
+
+[_Stabs Roderigo._]
+
+RODERIGO.
+O damn’d Iago! O inhuman dog!
+
+IAGO.
+Kill men i’ the dark! Where be these bloody thieves?
+How silent is this town! Ho! murder! murder!
+What may you be? Are you of good or evil?
+
+LODOVICO.
+As you shall prove us, praise us.
+
+IAGO.
+Signior Lodovico?
+
+LODOVICO.
+He, sir.
+
+IAGO.
+I cry you mercy. Here’s Cassio hurt by villains.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Cassio!
+
+IAGO.
+How is’t, brother?
+
+CASSIO.
+My leg is cut in two.
+
+IAGO.
+Marry, heaven forbid!
+Light, gentlemen, I’ll bind it with my shirt.
+
+Enter Bianca.
+
+BIANCA.
+What is the matter, ho? Who is’t that cried?
+
+IAGO.
+Who is’t that cried?
+
+BIANCA.
+O my dear Cassio, my sweet Cassio! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
+
+IAGO.
+O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
+Who they should be that have thus mangled you?
+
+CASSIO.
+No.
+
+GRATIANO.
+I am sorry to find you thus; I have been to seek you.
+
+IAGO.
+Lend me a garter. So.—O, for a chair,
+To bear him easily hence!
+
+BIANCA.
+Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
+
+IAGO.
+Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
+To be a party in this injury.
+Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come;
+Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?
+Alas, my friend and my dear countryman
+Roderigo? No. Yes, sure; O heaven! Roderigo.
+
+GRATIANO.
+What, of Venice?
+
+IAGO.
+Even he, sir. Did you know him?
+
+GRATIANO.
+Know him? Ay.
+
+IAGO.
+Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon.
+These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,
+That so neglected you.
+
+GRATIANO.
+I am glad to see you.
+
+IAGO.
+How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!
+
+GRATIANO.
+Roderigo!
+
+IAGO.
+He, he, ’tis he.
+
+[_A chair brought in._]
+
+O, that’s well said; the chair.
+Some good man bear him carefully from hence,
+I’ll fetch the general’s surgeon. [_To Bianca_] For you, mistress,
+Save you your labour. He that lies slain here, Cassio,
+Was my dear friend. What malice was between you?
+
+CASSIO.
+None in the world. Nor do I know the man.
+
+IAGO.
+[_To Bianca._] What, look you pale?—O, bear him out o’ the air.
+
+[_Cassio and Roderigo are borne off._]
+
+Stay you, good gentlemen.—Look you pale, mistress?
+Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?
+Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.
+Behold her well. I pray you, look upon her.
+Do you see, gentlemen? Nay, guiltiness will speak
+Though tongues were out of use.
+
+Enter Emilia.
+
+EMILIA.
+’Las, what’s the matter? What’s the matter, husband?
+
+IAGO.
+Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
+By Roderigo, and fellows that are ’scap’d.
+He’s almost slain, and Roderigo dead.
+
+EMILIA.
+Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!
+
+IAGO.
+This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
+Go know of Cassio where he supp’d tonight.
+What, do you shake at that?
+
+BIANCA.
+He supp’d at my house, but I therefore shake not.
+
+IAGO.
+O, did he so? I charge you go with me.
+
+EMILIA.
+Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!
+
+BIANCA.
+I am no strumpet, but of life as honest
+As you that thus abuse me.
+
+EMILIA.
+As I? Foh! fie upon thee!
+
+IAGO.
+Kind gentlemen, let’s go see poor Cassio dress’d.
+Come, mistress, you must tell’s another tale.
+Emilia, run you to the citadel,
+And tell my lord and lady what hath happ’d.
+Will you go on afore? [_Aside._] This is the night
+That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Cyprus. A Bedchamber in the castle.
+
+Desdemona in bed asleep; a light burning.
+
+Enter Othello.
+
+OTHELLO.
+It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,
+Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!
+It is the cause. Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
+Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
+And smooth as monumental alabaster.
+Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men.
+Put out the light, and then put out the light:
+If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
+I can again thy former light restore,
+Should I repent me. But once put out thy light,
+Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature,
+I know not where is that Promethean heat
+That can thy light relume. When I have pluck’d thy rose,
+I cannot give it vital growth again,
+It must needs wither. I’ll smell it on the tree.
+
+[_Kissing her._]
+
+O, balmy breath, that dost almost persuade
+Justice to break her sword! One more, one more.
+Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,
+And love thee after. One more, and this the last.
+So sweet was ne’er so fatal. I must weep,
+But they are cruel tears. This sorrow’s heavenly,
+It strikes where it doth love. She wakes.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Who’s there? Othello?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay, Desdemona.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Will you come to bed, my lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Have you pray’d tonight, Desdemona?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+OTHELLO.
+If you bethink yourself of any crime
+Unreconcil’d as yet to heaven and grace,
+Solicit for it straight.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Alack, my lord, what may you mean by that?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Well, do it, and be brief, I will walk by.
+I would not kill thy unprepared spirit,
+No, heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Talk you of killing?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay, I do.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Then heaven have mercy on me!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Amen, with all my heart!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Hum!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+And yet I fear you, for you are fatal then
+When your eyes roll so: why I should fear I know not,
+Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Think on thy sins.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+They are loves I bear to you.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay, and for that thou diest.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+That death’s unnatural that kills for loving.
+Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
+Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
+These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,
+They do not point on me.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Peace, and be still!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+I will so. What’s the matter?
+
+OTHELLO.
+That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee,
+Thou gav’st to Cassio.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+No, by my life and soul!
+Send for the man and ask him.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Sweet soul, take heed, take heed of perjury,
+Thou’rt on thy death-bed.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Ay, but not yet to die.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Yes, presently:
+Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin.
+For to deny each article with oath
+Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
+That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Then, Lord have mercy on me!
+
+OTHELLO.
+I say, amen.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+And have you mercy too! I never did
+Offend you in my life,	 never lov’d Cassio
+But with such general warranty of heaven
+As I might love. I never gave him token.
+
+OTHELLO.
+By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in ’s hand.
+O perjur’d woman, thou dost stone my heart,
+And mak’st me call what I intend to do
+A murder, which I thought a sacrifice.
+I saw the handkerchief.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+He found it then.
+I never gave it him. Send for him hither.
+Let him confess a truth.
+
+OTHELLO.
+He hath confess’d.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+What, my lord?
+
+OTHELLO.
+That he hath us’d thee.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+How? Unlawfully?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+He will not say so.
+
+OTHELLO.
+No, his mouth is stopp’d.
+Honest Iago hath ta’en order for ’t.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O, my fear interprets! What, is he dead?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
+Had stomach for them all.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Alas, he is betray’d, and I undone!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Out, strumpet! Weep’st thou for him to my face?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Down, strumpet!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Nay, if you strive,—
+
+DESDEMONA.
+But half an hour!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Being done, there is no pause.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+But while I say one prayer!
+
+OTHELLO.
+It is too late.
+
+[_Smothers her._]
+
+EMILIA.
+[_Within._] My lord, my lord! what, ho! my lord, my lord!
+
+OTHELLO.
+What noise is this? Not dead? Not yet quite dead?
+I that am cruel am yet merciful,
+I would not have thee linger in thy pain.
+So, so.
+
+EMILIA.
+[_Within._] What, ho! my lord, my lord!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Who’s there?
+
+EMILIA.
+[_Within._] O, good my lord, I would speak a word with you!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Yes. ’Tis Emilia, by and by. She’s dead.
+’Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio’s death;
+The noise was high.—Ha! no more moving?
+Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were’t good?
+I think she stirs again; no. What’s best to do?
+If she come in, she’ll sure speak to my wife.
+My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.
+O, insupportable! O heavy hour!
+Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
+Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe
+Should yawn at alteration.
+
+EMILIA.
+[_Within._] I do beseech you
+That I may speak with you, O, good my lord!
+
+OTHELLO.
+I had forgot thee: O, come in, Emilia.
+Soft, by and by; let me the curtains draw.
+Where art thou?
+
+[_Unlocks the door._]
+
+Enter Emilia.
+
+What’s the matter with thee now?
+
+EMILIA.
+O, my good lord, yonder’s foul murders done!
+
+OTHELLO.
+What, now?
+
+EMILIA.
+But now, my lord.
+
+OTHELLO.
+It is the very error of the moon,
+She comes more nearer earth than she was wont
+And makes men mad.
+
+EMILIA.
+Cassio, my lord, hath kill’d a young Venetian
+Call’d Roderigo.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Roderigo kill’d?
+And Cassio kill’d?
+
+EMILIA.
+No, Cassio is not kill’d.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Not Cassio kill’d! Then murder’s out of tune,
+And sweet revenge grows harsh.
+
+DESDEMONA.
+O, falsely, falsely murder’d!
+
+EMILIA.
+Alas, what cry is that?
+
+OTHELLO.
+That? What?
+
+EMILIA.
+Out, and alas! That was my lady’s voice.
+Help! help, ho! help! O lady, speak again,
+Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!
+
+DESDEMONA.
+A guiltless death I die.
+
+EMILIA.
+O, who hath done this deed?
+
+DESDEMONA.
+Nobody; I myself. Farewell.
+Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell!
+
+[_She dies._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+Why, how should she be murder’d?
+
+EMILIA.
+Alas, who knows?
+
+OTHELLO.
+You heard her say herself, it was not I.
+
+EMILIA.
+She said so. I must needs report the truth.
+
+OTHELLO.
+She’s like a liar, gone to burning hell.
+’Twas I that kill’d her.
+
+EMILIA.
+O, the more angel she,
+And you the blacker devil!
+
+OTHELLO.
+She turn’d to folly, and she was a whore.
+
+EMILIA.
+Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil.
+
+OTHELLO.
+She was false as water.
+
+EMILIA.
+Thou art rash as fire, to say
+That she was false: O, she was heavenly true!
+
+OTHELLO.
+Cassio did top her; ask thy husband else.
+O, I were damn’d beneath all depth in hell,
+But that I did proceed upon just grounds
+To this extremity. Thy husband knew it all.
+
+EMILIA.
+My husband?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Thy husband.
+
+EMILIA.
+That she was false to wedlock?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay, with Cassio. Nay, had she been true,
+If heaven would make me such another world
+Of one entire and perfect chrysolite,
+I’d not have sold her for it.
+
+EMILIA.
+My husband?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay, ’twas he that told me first.
+An honest man he is, and hates the slime
+That sticks on filthy deeds.
+
+EMILIA.
+My husband?
+
+OTHELLO.
+What needs this iterance, woman? I say thy husband.
+
+EMILIA.
+O mistress, villainy hath made mocks with love!
+My husband say that she was false?
+
+OTHELLO.
+He, woman;
+I say thy husband: dost understand the word?
+My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago.
+
+EMILIA.
+If he say so, may his pernicious soul
+Rot half a grain a day! he lies to the heart.
+She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ha!
+
+EMILIA.
+Do thy worst:
+This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven
+Than thou wast worthy her.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Peace, you were best.
+
+EMILIA.
+Thou hast not half that power to do me harm
+As I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt!
+As ignorant as dirt! Thou hast done a deed
+(I care not for thy sword) I’ll make thee known,
+Though I lost twenty lives. Help! help, ho! help!
+The Moor hath kill’d my mistress! Murder, murder!
+
+Enter Montano, Gratiano and Iago.
+
+MONTANO.
+What is the matter? How now, general?
+
+EMILIA.
+O, are you come, Iago? You have done well,
+That men must lay their murders on your neck.
+
+GRATIANO.
+What is the matter?
+
+EMILIA.
+Disprove this villain, if thou be’st a man.
+He says thou told’st him that his wife was false.
+I know thou didst not, thou’rt not such a villain.
+Speak, for my heart is full.
+
+IAGO.
+I told him what I thought, and told no more
+Than what he found himself was apt and true.
+
+EMILIA.
+But did you ever tell him she was false?
+
+IAGO.
+I did.
+
+EMILIA.
+You told a lie, an odious, damned lie;
+Upon my soul, a lie; a wicked lie.
+She false with Cassio? Did you say with Cassio?
+
+IAGO.
+With Cassio, mistress. Go to, charm your tongue.
+
+EMILIA.
+I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak.
+My mistress here lies murder’d in her bed.
+
+ALL.
+O heavens forfend!
+
+EMILIA.
+And your reports have set the murder on.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Nay, stare not, masters, it is true indeed.
+
+GRATIANO.
+’Tis a strange truth.
+
+MONTANO.
+O monstrous act!
+
+EMILIA.
+Villany, villany, villany!
+I think upon’t, I think I smell’t; O villany!
+I thought so then. I’ll kill myself for grief.
+O villany, villany!
+
+IAGO.
+What, are you mad? I charge you, get you home.
+
+EMILIA.
+Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak.
+’Tis proper I obey him, but not now.
+Perchance, Iago, I will ne’er go home.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O! O! O!
+
+[_Hanging over his wife._]
+
+EMILIA.
+Nay, lay thee down and roar;
+For thou hast kill’d the sweetest innocent
+That e’er did lift up eye.
+
+OTHELLO.
+[_Rising._] O, she was foul!
+I scarce did know you, uncle, there lies your niece,
+Whose breath indeed these hands have newly stopp’d.
+I know this act shows horrible and grim.
+
+GRATIANO.
+Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father’s dead.
+Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
+Shore his old thread in twain: did he live now,
+This sight would make him do a desperate turn,
+Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
+And fall to reprobance.
+
+OTHELLO.
+’Tis pitiful. But yet Iago knows
+That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
+A thousand times committed; Cassio confess’d it,
+And she did gratify his amorous works
+With that recognizance and pledge of love
+Which I first gave her; I saw it in his hand.
+It was a handkerchief, an antique token
+My father gave my mother.
+
+EMILIA.
+O heaven! O heavenly powers!
+
+IAGO.
+Come, hold your peace.
+
+EMILIA.
+’Twill out, ’twill out. I peace?
+No, I will speak as liberal as the north.
+Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
+All, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak.
+
+IAGO.
+Be wise, and get you home.
+
+EMILIA.
+I will not.
+
+[_Iago offers to stab his wife._]
+
+GRATIANO.
+Fie!
+Your sword upon a woman?
+
+EMILIA.
+O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak’st of
+I found by fortune and did give my husband;
+For often with a solemn earnestness,
+More than indeed belong’d to such a trifle,
+He begg’d of me to steal it.
+
+IAGO.
+Villanous whore!
+
+EMILIA.
+She give it Cassio! no, alas, I found it,
+And I did give’t my husband.
+
+IAGO.
+Filth, thou liest!
+
+EMILIA.
+By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.
+O murderous coxcomb! What should such a fool
+Do with so good a wife?
+
+OTHELLO
+Are there not stones in heaven
+But what serve for thunder? Precious villain!
+
+[_Iago stabs Emilia and then runs out._]
+
+GRATIANO.
+The woman falls. Sure, he hath kill’d his wife.
+
+EMILIA.
+Ay, ay. O, lay me by my mistress’ side.
+
+GRATIANO.
+He’s gone, but his wife’s kill’d.
+
+MONTANO.
+’Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,
+Which I have here recover’d from the Moor.
+Come, guard the door without, let him not pass,
+But kill him rather. I’ll after that same villain,
+For ’tis a damned slave.
+
+[_Exit Montano and Gratiano._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+I am not valiant neither,
+But every puny whipster gets my sword.
+But why should honour outlive honesty?
+Let it go all.
+
+EMILIA.
+What did thy song bode, lady?
+Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan,
+And die in music.
+[_Sings._] _Willow, willow, willow._
+Moor, she was chaste. She lov’d thee, cruel Moor,
+So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;
+So speaking as I think, I die, I die.
+
+[_She dies._]
+
+OTHELLO.
+I have another weapon in this chamber,
+It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook’s temper.
+O, here it is. Uncle, I must come forth.
+
+GRATIANO.
+[_Within._] If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear;
+Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Look in upon me then, and speak with me,
+Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee.
+
+Enter Gratiano.
+
+GRATIANO.
+What is the matter?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Behold, I have a weapon.
+A better never did itself sustain
+Upon a soldier’s thigh: I have seen the day
+That with this little arm and this good sword
+I have made my way through more impediments
+Than twenty times your stop. But, O vain boast!
+Who can control his fate? ’Tis not so now.
+Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon’d.
+Here is my journey’s end, here is my butt,
+And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
+Do you go back dismay’d? ’Tis a lost fear.
+Man but a rush against Othello’s breast,
+And he retires. Where should Othello go?
+Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr’d wench,
+Pale as thy smock, when we shall meet at compt,
+This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
+And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!
+Even like thy chastity.
+O cursed, cursed slave! Whip me, ye devils,
+From the possession of this heavenly sight!
+Blow me about in winds, roast me in sulphur,
+Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!
+O Desdemon! Dead, Desdemon! dead! Oh, oh!
+
+Enter Lodovico, Montano, Cassio carried in a chair, and Officers with
+Iago prisoner.
+
+LODOVICO.
+Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?
+
+OTHELLO.
+That’s he that was Othello. Here I am.
+
+LODOVICO.
+Where is that viper? Bring the villain forth.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I look down towards his feet; but that’s a fable.
+If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee.
+
+[_Wounds Iago._]
+
+LODOVICO.
+Wrench his sword from him.
+
+IAGO.
+I bleed, sir, but not kill’d.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I am not sorry neither. I’d have thee live,
+For in my sense ’tis happiness to die.
+
+LODOVICO.
+O thou Othello, that wert once so good,
+Fall’n in the practice of a damned slave,
+What shall be said to thee?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Why, anything;
+An honourable murderer, if you will.
+For naught did I in hate, but all in honour.
+
+LODOVICO.
+This wretch hath part confess’d his villany.
+Did you and he consent in Cassio’s death?
+
+OTHELLO.
+Ay.
+
+CASSIO.
+Dear general, I never gave you cause.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.
+Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil
+Why he hath thus ensnar’d my soul and body?
+
+IAGO.
+Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.
+From this time forth I never will speak word.
+
+LODOVICO.
+What, not to pray?
+
+GRATIANO.
+Torments will ope your lips.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Well, thou dost best.
+
+LODOVICO.
+Sir, you shall understand what hath befall’n,
+Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter
+Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo,
+And here another. The one of them imports
+The death of Cassio, to be undertook
+By Roderigo.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O villain!
+
+CASSIO.
+Most heathenish and most gross!
+
+LODOVICO.
+Now here’s another discontented paper,
+Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,
+Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain,
+But that, belike, Iago in the interim
+Came in and satisfied him.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O the pernicious caitiff!
+How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief
+That was my wife’s?
+
+CASSIO.
+I found it in my chamber.
+And he himself confess’d but even now,
+That there he dropp’d it for a special purpose
+Which wrought to his desire.
+
+OTHELLO.
+O fool! fool! fool!
+
+CASSIO.
+There is besides in Roderigo’s letter,
+How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
+Brave me upon the watch, whereon it came
+That I was cast. And even but now he spake,
+After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,
+Iago set him on.
+
+LODOVICO.
+You must forsake this room, and go with us.
+Your power and your command is taken off,
+And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,
+If there be any cunning cruelty
+That can torment him much and hold him long,
+It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,
+Till that the nature of your fault be known
+To the Venetian state. Come, bring away.
+
+OTHELLO.
+Soft you; a word or two before you go.
+I have done the state some service, and they know’t.
+No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
+When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
+Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
+Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
+Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;
+Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,
+Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand,
+Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away
+Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdu’d eyes,
+Albeit unused to the melting mood,
+Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
+Their medicinal gum. Set you down this.
+And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
+Where a malignant and a turban’d Turk
+Beat a Venetian and traduc’d the state,
+I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
+And smote him, thus.
+
+[_Stabs himself._]
+
+LODOVICO.
+O bloody period!
+
+GRATIANO.
+All that’s spoke is marr’d.
+
+OTHELLO.
+I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee. No way but this,
+Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
+
+[_Falling upon Desdemona._]
+
+CASSIO.
+This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon,
+For he was great of heart.
+
+LODOVICO.
+[_To Iago._] O Spartan dog,
+More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea,
+Look on the tragic loading of this bed.
+This is thy work. The object poisons sight,
+Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,
+And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
+For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,
+Remains the censure of this hellish villain.
+The time, the place, the torture, O, enforce it!
+Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
+This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+
+ACT I
+Chorus. Before the palace of Antioch
+Scene I. Antioch. A room in the palace
+Scene II. Tyre. A room in the palace
+Scene III. Tyre. An ante-chamber in the Palace
+Scene IV. Tarsus. A room in the Governor’s house
+
+ACT II
+Chorus. Chorus
+Scene I. Pentapolis. An open place by the seaside
+Scene II. The same. A public way, or platform leading to the lists
+Scene III. The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared
+Scene IV. Tyre. A room in the Governor’s house
+Scene V. Pentapolis. A room in the palace
+
+ACT III
+Chorus. Chorus
+Scene I. On shipboard
+Scene II. Ephesus. A room in Cerimon’s house
+Scene III. Tarsus. A room in Cleon’s house
+Scene IV. Ephesus. A room in Cerimon’s house
+
+ACT IV
+Chorus. Chorus
+Scene I. Tarsus. An open place near the seashore
+Scene II. Mytilene. A room in a brothel
+Scene III. Tarsus. A room in Cleon’s house
+Scene IV. Before the monument of Marina at Tarsus
+Scene V. Mytilene. A street before the brothel
+Scene VI. The same. A room in the brothel
+
+ACT V
+Chorus. Chorus
+Scene I. On board Pericles’ ship, off Mytilene
+Scene II. Before the temple of Diana at Ephesus
+Scene III. The temple of Diana at Ephesus
+
+
+
+
+ Dramatis Personæ
+
+ANTIOCHUS, king of Antioch.
+PERICLES, prince of Tyre.
+HELICANUS, ESCANES, two lords of Tyre.
+SIMONIDES, king of Pentapolis.
+CLEON, governor of Tarsus.
+LYSIMACHUS, governor of Mytilene.
+CERIMON, a lord of Ephesus.
+THALIARD, a lord of Antioch.
+PHILEMON, servant to Cerimon.
+LEONINE, servant to Dionyza.
+Marshal.
+A Pandar.
+BOULT, his servant.
+The Daughter of Antiochus.
+DIONYZA, wife to Cleon.
+THAISA, daughter to Simonides.
+MARINA, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa.
+LYCHORIDA, nurse to Marina.
+A Bawd.
+Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers.
+DIANA.
+GOWER, as Chorus.
+
+SCENE: Dispersedly in various countries.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+
+ Enter Gower.
+
+ Before the palace of Antioch.
+
+To sing a song that old was sung,
+From ashes ancient Gower is come;
+Assuming man’s infirmities,
+To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
+It hath been sung at festivals,
+On ember-eves and holy-ales;
+And lords and ladies in their lives
+Have read it for restoratives:
+The purchase is to make men glorious,
+_Et bonum quo antiquius eo melius._
+If you, born in these latter times,
+When wit’s more ripe, accept my rhymes,
+And that to hear an old man sing
+May to your wishes pleasure bring,
+I life would wish, and that I might
+Waste it for you, like taper-light.
+This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great
+Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat;
+The fairest in all Syria.
+I tell you what mine authors say:
+This king unto him took a fere,
+Who died and left a female heir,
+So buxom, blithe, and full of face,
+As heaven had lent her all his grace;
+With whom the father liking took,
+And her to incest did provoke.
+Bad child; worse father! to entice his own
+To evil should be done by none:
+But custom what they did begin
+Was with long use account’d no sin.
+The beauty of this sinful dame
+Made many princes thither frame,
+To seek her as a bedfellow,
+In marriage pleasures playfellow:
+Which to prevent he made a law,
+To keep her still, and men in awe,
+That whoso ask’d her for his wife,
+His riddle told not, lost his life:
+So for her many a wight did die,
+As yon grim looks do testify.
+What now ensues, to the judgement your eye
+I give, my cause who best can justify.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+SCENE I. Antioch. A room in the palace.
+
+ Enter Antiochus, Prince Pericles and followers.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received
+The danger of the task you undertake.
+
+PERICLES.
+I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul
+Emboldened with the glory of her praise,
+Think death no hazard in this enterprise.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Music! Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,
+For the embracements even of Jove himself;
+At whose conception, till Lucina reigned,
+Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence,
+The senate house of planets all did sit,
+To knit in her their best perfections.
+
+ Music. Enter the Daughter of Antiochus.
+
+PERICLES.
+See where she comes, apparell’d like the spring,
+Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king
+Of every virtue gives renown to men!
+Her face the book of praises, where is read
+Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence
+Sorrow were ever razed, and testy wrath
+Could never be her mild companion.
+You gods that made me man, and sway in love,
+That have inflamed desire in my breast
+To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,
+Or die in the adventure, be my helps,
+As I am son and servant to your will,
+To compass such a boundless happiness!
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Prince Pericles,—
+
+PERICLES.
+That would be son to great Antiochus.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
+With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch’d;
+For death-like dragons here affright thee hard:
+Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view
+Her countless glory, which desert must gain;
+And which, without desert, because thine eye
+Presumes to reach, all the whole heap must die.
+Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself,
+Drawn by report, adventurous by desire,
+Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale,
+That without covering, save yon field of stars,
+Here they stand Martyrs, slain in Cupid’s wars;
+And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist
+For going on death’s net, whom none resist.
+
+PERICLES.
+Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught
+My frail mortality to know itself,
+And by those fearful objects to prepare
+This body, like to them, to what I must;
+For death remember’d should be like a mirror,
+Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.
+I’ll make my will then, and, as sick men do
+Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe,
+Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did;
+So I bequeath a happy peace to you
+And all good men, as every prince should do;
+My riches to the earth from whence they came;
+[_To the daughter of Antiochus._] But my unspotted fire of love to you.
+Thus ready for the way of life or death,
+I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Scorning advice, read the conclusion, then:
+Which read and not expounded, ’tis decreed,
+As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Of all ’ssayed yet, mayst thou prove prosperous!
+Of all ’ssayed yet, I wish thee happiness!
+
+PERICLES
+Like a bold champion, I assume the lists,
+Nor ask advice of any other thought
+But faithfulness and courage.
+
+ [_He reads the riddle._]
+
+     _I am no viper, yet I feed
+     On mother’s flesh which did me breed.
+     I sought a husband, in which labour
+     I found that kindness in a father:
+     He’s father, son, and husband mild;
+     I mother, wife, and yet his child.
+     How they may be, and yet in two,
+     As you will live resolve it you._
+
+Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers
+That give heaven countless eyes to view men’s acts,
+Why cloud they not their sights perpetually,
+If this be true, which makes me pale to read it?
+Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,
+
+ [_Takes hold of the hand of the Princess._]
+
+Were not this glorious casket stored with ill:
+But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt;
+For he’s no man on whom perfections wait
+That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate,
+You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings;
+Who, finger’d to make man his lawful music,
+Would draw heaven down, and all the gods to hearken;
+But being play’d upon before your time,
+Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime.
+Good sooth, I care not for you.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life,
+For that’s an article within our law,
+As dangerous as the rest. Your time’s expired:
+Either expound now, or receive your sentence.
+
+PERICLES.
+Great king,
+Few love to hear the sins they love to act;
+’Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it.
+Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
+He’s more secure to keep it shut than shown:
+For vice repeated is like the wandering wind,
+Blows dust in others’ eyes, to spread itself;
+And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
+The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear.
+To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts
+Copp’d hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng’d
+By man’s oppression; and the poor worm doth die for’t.
+Kind are earth’s gods; in vice their law’s their will;
+And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?
+It is enough you know; and it is fit,
+What being more known grows worse, to smother it.
+All love the womb that their first bred,
+Then give my tongue like leave to love my head.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+[_Aside_] Heaven, that I had thy head! He has found the meaning:
+But I will gloze with him.—Young prince of Tyre.
+Though by the tenour of our strict edict,
+Your exposition misinterpreting,
+We might proceed to cancel of your days;
+Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree
+As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:
+Forty days longer we do respite you;
+If by which time our secret be undone,
+This mercy shows we’ll joy in such a son:
+And until then your entertain shall be
+As doth befit our honour and your worth.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Pericles._]
+
+PERICLES.
+How courtesy would seem to cover sin,
+When what is done is like an hypocrite,
+The which is good in nothing but in sight!
+If it be true that I interpret false,
+Then were it certain you were not so bad
+As with foul incest to abuse your soul;
+Where now you’re both a father and a son,
+By your untimely claspings with your child,
+Which pleasures fits a husband, not a father;
+And she an eater of her mother’s flesh,
+By the defiling of her parent’s bed;
+And both like serpents are, who though they feed
+On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.
+Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men
+Blush not in actions blacker than the night,
+Will ’schew no course to keep them from the light.
+One sin, I know, another doth provoke;
+Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke:
+Poison and treason are the hands of sin,
+Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame:
+Then, lest my life be cropp’d to keep you clear,
+By flight I’ll shun the danger which I fear.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Re-enter Antiochus.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+He hath found the meaning,
+For which we mean to have his head.
+He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,
+Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin
+In such a loathed manner;
+And therefore instantly this prince must die;
+For by his fall my honour must keep high.
+Who attends us there?
+
+ Enter Thaliard.
+
+THALIARD.
+Doth your highness call?
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Thaliard, you are of our chamber,
+And our mind partakes her private actions
+To your secrecy; and for your faithfulness
+We will advance you. Thaliard,
+Behold, here’s poison, and here’s gold;
+We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:
+It fits thee not to ask the reason why,
+Because we bid it. Say, is it done?
+
+THALIARD.
+My lord, ’tis done.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Enough.
+
+ Enter a Messenger.
+
+Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, Prince Pericles is fled.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+As thou wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot
+From a well-experienced archer hits the mark
+His eye doth level at, so thou ne’er return
+Unless thou say ‘Prince Pericles is dead.’
+
+THALIARD.
+My lord, if I can get him within my pistol’s length, I’ll make him sure
+enough: so, farewell to your highness.
+
+ANTIOCHUS.
+Thaliard! adieu!
+
+ [_Exit Thaliard._]
+
+Till Pericles be dead,
+My heart can lend no succour to my head.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+SCENE II. Tyre. A room in the palace.
+
+ Enter Pericles with his Lords.
+
+PERICLES.
+[_To Lords without._] Let none disturb us.—Why should this change of
+thoughts,
+The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,
+Be my so used a guest as not an hour
+In the day’s glorious walk or peaceful night,
+The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet?
+Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them,
+And danger, which I fear’d, is at Antioch,
+Whose arm seems far too short to hit me here:
+Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits,
+Nor yet the other’s distance comfort me.
+Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,
+That have their first conception by misdread,
+Have after-nourishment and life by care;
+And what was first but fear what might be done,
+Grows elder now and cares it be not done.
+And so with me: the great Antiochus,
+’Gainst whom I am too little to contend,
+Since he’s so great can make his will his act,
+Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence;
+Nor boots it me to say I honour him.
+If he suspect I may dishonour him:
+And what may make him blush in being known,
+He’ll stop the course by which it might be known;
+With hostile forces he’ll o’erspread the land,
+And with the ostent of war will look so huge,
+Amazement shall drive courage from the state;
+Our men be vanquish’d ere they do resist,
+And subjects punish’d that ne’er thought offence:
+Which care of them, not pity of myself,
+Who am no more but as the tops of trees,
+Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,
+Makes both my body pine and soul to languish,
+And punish that before that he would punish.
+
+ Enter Helicanus with other Lords.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast!
+
+SECOND LORD.
+And keep your mind, till you return to us,
+Peaceful and comfortable!
+
+HELICANUS.
+Peace, peace, and give experience tongue.
+They do abuse the king that flatter him:
+For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
+The thing the which is flatter’d, but a spark,
+To which that spark gives heat and stronger glowing:
+Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,
+Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.
+When Signior Sooth here does proclaim peace,
+He flatters you, makes war upon your life.
+Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please;
+I cannot be much lower than my knees.
+
+PERICLES.
+All leave us else, but let your cares o’erlook
+What shipping and what lading’s in our haven,
+And then return to us.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lords._]
+
+Helicanus, thou
+Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks?
+
+HELICANUS.
+An angry brow, dread lord.
+
+PERICLES.
+If there be such a dart in princes’ frowns,
+How durst thy tongue move anger to our face?
+
+HELICANUS.
+How dares the plants look up to heaven, from whence
+They have their nourishment?
+
+PERICLES.
+Thou know’st I have power
+To take thy life from thee.
+
+HELICANUS. [_Kneeling._]
+I have ground the axe myself;
+Do but you strike the blow.
+
+PERICLES.
+Rise, prithee, rise.
+Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
+I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
+That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid!
+Fit counsellor and servant for a prince,
+Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant,
+What wouldst thou have me do?
+
+HELICANUS.
+To bear with patience
+Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself.
+
+PERICLES.
+Thou speak’st like a physician, Helicanus,
+That ministers a potion unto me
+That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself.
+Attend me, then: I went to Antioch,
+Where, as thou know’st, against the face of death,
+I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty,
+From whence an issue I might propagate,
+Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects.
+Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder;
+The rest—hark in thine ear—as black as incest,
+Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father
+Seem’d not to strike, but smooth: but thou know’st this,
+’Tis time to fear when tyrants seems to kiss.
+Which fear so grew in me I hither fled,
+Under the covering of a careful night,
+Who seem’d my good protector; and, being here,
+Bethought me what was past, what might succeed.
+I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants’ fears
+Decrease not, but grow faster than the years:
+And should he doubt, as no doubt he doth,
+That I should open to the listening air
+How many worthy princes’ bloods were shed,
+To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,
+To lop that doubt, he’ll fill this land with arms,
+And make pretence of wrong that I have done him;
+When all, for mine, if I may call offence,
+Must feel war’s blow, who spares not innocence:
+Which love to all, of which thyself art one,
+Who now reprovest me for it,—
+
+HELICANUS.
+Alas, sir!
+
+PERICLES.
+Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks,
+Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts
+How I might stop this tempest ere it came;
+And finding little comfort to relieve them,
+I thought it princely charity to grieve them.
+
+HELICANUS.
+Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak,
+Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear,
+And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant,
+Who either by public war or private treason
+Will take away your life.
+Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,
+Till that his rage and anger be forgot,
+Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life.
+Your rule direct to any; if to me,
+Day serves not light more faithful than I’ll be.
+
+PERICLES.
+I do not doubt thy faith;
+But should he wrong my liberties in my absence?
+
+HELCANUS.
+We’ll mingle our bloods together in the earth,
+From whence we had our being and our birth.
+
+PERICLES.
+Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus
+Intend my travel, where I’ll hear from thee;
+And by whose letters I’ll dispose myself.
+The care I had and have of subjects’ good
+On thee I lay, whose wisdom’s strength can bear it.
+I’ll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath:
+Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:
+But in our orbs we’ll live so round and safe,
+That time of both this truth shall ne’er convince,
+Thou show’dst a subject’s shine, I a true prince.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE III. Tyre. An ante-chamber in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Thaliard.
+
+THALIARD.
+So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I kill King Pericles;
+and if I do it not, I am sure to be hanged at home: ’tis dangerous.
+Well, I perceive he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that,
+being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired he might know none
+of his secrets: now do I see he had some reason for’t; for if a king
+bid a man be a villain, he’s bound by the indenture of his oath to be
+one. Husht, here come the lords of Tyre.
+
+ Enter Helicanus and Escanes with other Lords of Tyre.
+
+HELICANUS.
+You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre,
+Further to question me of your king’s departure:
+His seal’d commission, left in trust with me,
+Doth speak sufficiently he’s gone to travel.
+
+THALIARD.
+[_Aside._] How? the king gone?
+
+HELICANUS.
+If further yet you will be satisfied,
+Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves,
+He would depart, I’ll give some light unto you.
+Being at Antioch—
+
+THALIARD.
+[_Aside._] What from Antioch?
+
+HELICANUS.
+Royal Antiochus—on what cause I know not
+Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so:
+And doubting lest that he had err’d or sinn’d,
+To show his sorrow, he’d correct himself;
+So puts himself unto the shipman’s toil,
+With whom each minute threatens life or death.
+
+THALIARD.
+[_Aside._] Well, I perceive
+I shall not be hang’d now, although I would;
+But since he’s gone, the king’s seas must please
+He ’scaped the land, to perish at the sea.
+I’ll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre!
+
+HELICANUS.
+Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome.
+
+THALIARD.
+From him I come
+With message unto princely Pericles;
+But since my landing I have understood
+Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels,
+My message must return from whence it came.
+
+HELICANUS.
+We have no reason to desire it,
+Commended to our master, not to us:
+Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,
+As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE IV. Tarsus. A room in the Governor’s house.
+
+ Enter Cleon, the governor of Tarsus, with Dionyza and others.
+
+CLEON.
+My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,
+And by relating tales of others’ griefs,
+See if ’twill teach us to forget our own?
+
+DIONYZA.
+That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;
+For who digs hills because they do aspire
+Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.
+O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are;
+Here they’re but felt, and seen with mischief’s eyes,
+But like to groves, being topp’d, they higher rise.
+
+CLEON.
+O Dionyza,
+Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it,
+Or can conceal his hunger till he famish?
+Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep
+Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep,
+Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder;
+That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want,
+They may awake their helps to comfort them.
+I’ll then discourse our woes, felt several years,
+And wanting breath to speak, help me with tears.
+
+DIONYZA.
+I’ll do my best, sir.
+
+CLEON.
+This Tarsus, o’er which I have the government,
+A city on whom plenty held full hand,
+For riches strew’d herself even in the streets;
+Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss’d the clouds,
+And strangers ne’er beheld but wonder’d at;
+Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn’d,
+Like one another’s glass to trim them by:
+Their tables were stored full to glad the sight,
+And not so much to feed on as delight;
+All poverty was scorn’d, and pride so great,
+The name of help grew odious to repeat.
+
+DIONYZA.
+O, ’tis too true.
+
+CLEON.
+But see what heaven can do! By this our change,
+These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air,
+Were all too little to content and please,
+Although they gave their creatures in abundance,
+As houses are defiled for want of use,
+They are now starved for want of exercise:
+Those palates who, not yet two summers younger,
+Must have inventions to delight the taste,
+Would now be glad of bread and beg for it:
+Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes,
+Thought nought too curious, are ready now
+To eat those little darlings whom they loved.
+So sharp are hunger’s teeth, that man and wife
+Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life:
+Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping;
+Here many sink, yet those which see them fall
+Have scarce strength left to give them burial.
+Is not this true?
+
+DIONYZA.
+Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.
+
+CLEON.
+O, let those cities that of plenty’s cup
+And her prosperities so largely taste,
+With their superflous riots, hear these tears!
+The misery of Tarsus may be theirs.
+
+ Enter a Lord.
+
+LORD.
+Where’s the lord governor?
+
+CLEON.
+Here.
+Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring’st in haste,
+For comfort is too far for us to expect.
+
+LORD.
+We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore,
+A portly sail of ships make hitherward.
+
+CLEON.
+I thought as much.
+One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
+That may succeed as his inheritor;
+And so in ours: some neighbouring nation,
+Taking advantage of our misery,
+That stuff’d the hollow vessels with their power,
+To beat us down, the which are down already;
+And make a conquest of unhappy me,
+Whereas no glory’s got to overcome.
+
+LORD.
+That’s the least fear; for, by the semblance
+Of their white flags display’d, they bring us peace,
+And come to us as favourers, not as foes.
+
+CLEON.
+Thou speak’st like him’s untutor’d to repeat:
+Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
+But bring they what they will and what they can,
+What need we fear?
+The ground’s the lowest, and we are half way there.
+Go tell their general we attend him here,
+To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,
+And what he craves.
+
+LORD.
+I go, my lord.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CLEON.
+Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist;
+If wars, we are unable to resist.
+
+ Enter Pericles with Attendants.
+
+PERICLES.
+Lord governor, for so we hear you are,
+Let not our ships and number of our men
+Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes.
+We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,
+And seen the desolation of your streets:
+Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,
+But to relieve them of their heavy load;
+And these our ships, you happily may think
+Are like the Trojan horse was stuff’d within
+With bloody veins, expecting overthrow,
+Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,
+And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.
+
+ALL.
+The gods of Greece protect you!
+And we’ll pray for you.
+
+PERICLES.
+Arise, I pray you, rise:
+We do not look for reverence, but for love,
+And harbourage for ourself, our ships and men.
+
+CLEON.
+The which when any shall not gratify,
+Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,
+Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,
+The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils!
+Till when,—the which I hope shall ne’er be seen,—
+Your grace is welcome to our town and us.
+
+PERICLES.
+Which welcome we’ll accept; feast here awhile,
+Until our stars that frown lend us a smile.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+
+ Enter Gower.
+
+GOWER.
+Here have you seen a mighty king
+His child, iwis, to incest bring;
+A better prince and benign lord,
+That will prove awful both in deed and word.
+Be quiet then as men should be,
+Till he hath pass’d necessity.
+I’ll show you those in troubles reign,
+Losing a mite, a mountain gain.
+The good in conversation,
+To whom I give my benison,
+Is still at Tarsus, where each man
+Thinks all is writ he speken can;
+And to remember what he does,
+Build his statue to make him glorious:
+But tidings to the contrary
+Are brought your eyes; what need speak I?
+
+ Dumb-show. Enter at one door Pericles talking with Cleon; all the
+ train with them. Enter at another door a Gentleman with a letter to
+ Pericles; Pericles shows the letter to Cleon; gives the Messenger a
+ reward, and knights him. Exit Pericles at one door, and Cleon at
+ another.
+
+Good Helicane, that stay’d at home.
+Not to eat honey like a drone
+From others’ labours; for though he strive
+To killen bad, keep good alive;
+And to fulfil his prince’ desire,
+Sends word of all that haps in Tyre:
+How Thaliard came full bent with sin
+And had intent to murder him;
+And that in Tarsus was not best
+Longer for him to make his rest.
+He, doing so, put forth to seas,
+Where when men been, there’s seldom ease;
+For now the wind begins to blow;
+Thunder above and deeps below
+Make such unquiet, that the ship
+Should house him safe is wreck’d and split;
+And he, good prince, having all lost,
+By waves from coast to coast is tost:
+All perishen of man, of pelf,
+Ne aught escapen but himself;
+Till Fortune, tired with doing bad,
+Threw him ashore, to give him glad:
+And here he comes. What shall be next,
+Pardon old Gower,—this longs the text.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+SCENE I. Pentapolis. An open place by the seaside.
+
+ Enter Pericles, wet.
+
+PERICLES.
+Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!
+Wind, rain, and thunder, remember earthly man
+Is but a substance that must yield to you;
+And I, as fits my nature, do obey you:
+Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks,
+Wash’d me from shore to shore, and left me breath
+Nothing to think on but ensuing death:
+Let it suffice the greatness of your powers
+To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes;
+And having thrown him from your watery grave,
+Here to have death in peace is all he’ll crave.
+
+ Enter three Fishermen.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+What, ho, Pilch!
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+Ha, come and bring away the nets!
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+What, Patch-breech, I say!
+
+THIRD FISHERMAN.
+What say you, master?
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Look how thou stirrest now! Come away, or I’ll fetch thee with a
+wanion.
+
+THIRD FISHERMAN.
+Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that were cast away before
+us even now.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what pitiful cries they
+made to us to help them, when, well-a-day, we could scarce help
+ourselves.
+
+THIRD FISHERMAN.
+Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpus how he bounced
+and tumbled? They say they’re half fish, half flesh: a plague on them,
+they ne’er come but I look to be washed. Master, I marvel how the
+fishes live in the sea.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can
+compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and
+tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all
+at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on o’ the land, who never leave
+gaping till they swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells and
+all.
+
+PERICLES.
+[_Aside._] A pretty moral.
+
+THIRD FISHERMAN.
+But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have been that day in
+the belfry.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+Why, man?
+
+THIRD FISHERMAN.
+Because he should have swallowed me too; and when I had been in his
+belly, I would have kept such a jangling of the bells, that he should
+never have left, till he cast bells, steeple, church and parish up
+again. But if the good King Simonides were of my mind,—
+
+PERICLES.
+[_Aside._] Simonides?
+
+THIRD FISHERMAN.
+We would purge the land of these drones, that rob the bee of her honey.
+
+PERICLES.
+[_Aside._] How from the finny subject of the sea
+These fishers tell the infirmities of men;
+And from their watery empire recollect
+All that may men approve or men detect!
+Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+Honest! good fellow, what’s that? If it be a day fits you, search out
+of the calendar, and nobody look after it.
+
+PERICLES.
+May see the sea hath cast upon your coast.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our way!
+
+PERICLES.
+A man whom both the waters and the wind,
+In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball
+For them to play upon, entreats you pity him;
+He asks of you, that never used to beg.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+No, friend, cannot you beg? Here’s them in our country of Greece gets
+more with begging than we can do with working.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+Canst thou catch any fishes, then?
+
+PERICLES.
+I never practised it.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here’s nothing to be got
+now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for’t.
+
+PERICLES.
+What I have been I have forgot to know;
+But what I am, want teaches me to think on:
+A man throng’d up with cold: my veins are chill,
+And have no more of life than may suffice
+To give my tongue that heat to ask your help;
+Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,
+For that I am a man, pray see me buried.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid’t, and I have a gown here; come, put it
+on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt
+go home, and we’ll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and
+moreo’er puddings and flap-jacks, and thou shalt be welcome.
+
+PERICLES.
+I thank you, sir.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg?
+
+PERICLES.
+I did but crave.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+But crave! Then I’ll turn craver too, and so I shall ’scape whipping.
+
+PERICLES.
+Why, are your beggars whipped, then?
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your beggars were whipped, I
+would wish no better office than to be beadle. But, master, I’ll go
+draw up the net.
+
+ [_Exit with Third Fisherman._]
+
+PERICLES.
+[_Aside._] How well this honest mirth becomes their labour!
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are?
+
+PERICLES.
+Not well.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Why, I’ll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and our King, the good
+Simonides.
+
+PERICLES.
+The good Simonides, do you call him?
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Ay, sir; and he deserves so to be called for his peaceable reign and
+good government.
+
+PERICLES.
+He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects the name of good
+government. How far is his court distant from this shore?
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Marry sir, half a day’s journey: and I’ll tell you, he hath a fair
+daughter, and tomorrow is her birth-day; and there are princes and
+knights come from all parts of the world to joust and tourney for her
+love.
+
+PERICLES.
+Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish to make one there.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man cannot get, he may
+lawfully deal for—his wife’s soul.
+
+ Re-enter Second and Third Fishermen, drawing up a net.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+Help, master, help! here’s a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man’s
+right in the law; ’twill hardly come out. Ha! bots on’t, ’tis come at
+last, and ’tis turned to a rusty armour.
+
+PERICLES.
+An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it.
+Thanks, Fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses,
+Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself,
+And though it was mine own, part of my heritage,
+Which my dead father did bequeath to me,
+With this strict charge, even as he left his life.
+‘Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield
+’Twixt me and death;’—and pointed to this brace;—
+‘For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity—
+The which the gods protect thee from!—may defend thee.’
+It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it;
+Till the rough seas, that spares not any man,
+Took it in rage, though calm’d have given’t again:
+I thank thee for’t: my shipwreck now’s no ill,
+Since I have here my father gave in his will.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+What mean you sir?
+
+PERICLES.
+To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth,
+For it was sometime target to a king;
+I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly,
+And for his sake I wish the having of it;
+And that you’d guide me to your sovereign court,
+Where with it I may appear a gentleman;
+And if that ever my low fortune’s better,
+I’ll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?
+
+PERICLES.
+I’ll show the virtue I have borne in arms.
+
+FIRST FISHERMAN.
+Why, d’ye take it, and the gods give thee good on’t!
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+Ay, but hark you, my friend; ’twas we that made up this garment through
+the rough seams of the waters: there are certain condolements, certain
+vails. I hope, sir, if you thrive, you’ll remember from whence you had
+them.
+
+PERICLES.
+Believe’t I will.
+By your furtherance I am clothed in steel;
+And spite of all the rapture of the sea,
+This jewel holds his building on my arm:
+Unto thy value I will mount myself
+Upon a courser, whose delightful steps
+Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.
+Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided
+Of a pair of bases.
+
+SECOND FISHERMAN.
+We’ll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to make thee a pair;
+and I’ll bring thee to the court myself.
+
+PERICLES.
+Then honour be but a goal to my will,
+This day I’ll rise, or else add ill to ill.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE II. The same. A public way, or platform leading to the lists. A
+pavilion by the side of it for the reception of the King, Princess,
+Lords, etc.
+
+ Enter Simonides, Thaisa, Lords and Attendants.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Are the knights ready to begin the triumph?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+They are, my liege;
+And stay your coming to present themselves.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,
+In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,
+Sits here, like beauty’s child, whom Nature gat
+For men to see, and seeing wonder at.
+
+ [_Exit a Lord._]
+
+THAISA.
+It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express
+My commendations great, whose merit’s less.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+It’s fit it should be so; for princes are
+A model, which heaven makes like to itself:
+As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
+So princes their renowns if not respected.
+’Tis now your honour, daughter, to entertain
+The labour of each knight in his device.
+
+THAISA.
+Which, to preserve mine honour, I’ll perform.
+
+ The first Knight passes by, and his Squire presents his shield to
+ Thaisa.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Who is the first that doth prefer himself?
+
+THAISA.
+A knight of Sparta, my renowned father;
+And the device he bears upon his shield
+Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun:
+The word, _Lux tua vita mihi._
+
+SIMONIDES.
+He loves you well that holds his life of you.
+
+ The second Knight passes by, and his Squire presents his shield to
+ Thaisa.
+
+Who is the second that presents himself?
+
+THAISA.
+A prince of Macedon, my royal father;
+And the device he bears upon his shield
+Is an arm’d knight that’s conquer’d by a lady;
+The motto thus, in Spanish, _Piu por dulzura que por forza._
+
+ The third Knight passes by, and his Squire presents his shield to
+ Thaisa.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+And what’s the third?
+
+THAISA.
+The third of Antioch;
+And his device, a wreath of chivalry;
+The word, _Me pompae provexit apex._
+
+ The fourth Knight passes by, and his Squire presents his shield to
+ Thaisa.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+What is the fourth?
+
+THAISA.
+A burning torch that’s turned upside down;
+The word, _Quod me alit me extinguit._
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,
+Which can as well inflame as it can kill.
+
+ The fifth Knight passes by, and his Squire presents his shield to
+ Thaisa.
+
+THAISA.
+The fifth, an hand environed with clouds,
+Holding out gold that’s by the touchstone tried;
+The motto thus, _Sic spectanda fides._
+
+ The sixth Knight, Pericles, passes in rusty armour with bases, and
+ unaccompanied. He presents his device directly to Thaisa.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+And what’s the sixth and last, the which the knight himself
+With such a graceful courtesy deliver’d?
+
+THAISA.
+He seems to be a stranger; but his present is
+A wither’d branch, that’s only green at top;
+The motto, _In hac spe vivo._
+
+SIMONIDES.
+A pretty moral;
+From the dejected state wherein he is,
+He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+He had need mean better than his outward show
+Can any way speak in his just commend;
+For by his rusty outside he appears
+To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+He well may be a stranger, for he comes
+To an honour’d triumph strangely furnished.
+
+THIRD LORD.
+And on set purpose let his armour rust
+Until this day, to scour it in the dust.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Opinion’s but a fool, that makes us scan
+The outward habit by the inward man.
+But stay, the knights are coming.
+We will withdraw into the gallery.
+
+ [_Exeunt. Great shouts within, and all cry_ ‘The mean Knight!’]
+
+
+
+SCENE III. The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared.
+
+ Enter Simonides, Thaisa, Lords, Attendants and Knights, from tilting.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Knights,
+To say you’re welcome were superfluous.
+To place upon the volume of your deeds,
+As in a title-page, your worth in arms,
+Were more than you expect, or more than’s fit,
+Since every worth in show commends itself.
+Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast:
+You are princes and my guests.
+
+THAISA.
+But you, my knight and guest;
+To whom this wreath of victory I give,
+And crown you king of this day’s happiness.
+
+PERICLES.
+’Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Call it by what you will, the day is yours;
+And here, I hope, is none that envies it.
+In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,
+To make some good, but others to exceed;
+And you are her labour’d scholar. Come queen of the feast,—
+For, daughter, so you are,—here take your place:
+Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace.
+
+KNIGHTS.
+We are honour’d much by good Simonides.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Your presence glads our days; honour we love;
+For who hates honour hates the gods above.
+
+MARSHALL.
+Sir, yonder is your place.
+
+PERICLES.
+Some other is more fit.
+
+FIRST KNIGHT.
+Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen
+Have neither in our hearts nor outward eyes
+Envied the great, nor shall the low despise.
+
+PERICLES.
+You are right courteous knights.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Sit, sir, sit.
+By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts,
+These cates resist me, he but thought upon.
+
+THAISA.
+By Juno, that is queen of marriage,
+All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury,
+Wishing him my meat. Sure, he’s a gallant gentleman.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+He’s but a country gentleman;
+Has done no more than other knights have done;
+Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass.
+
+THAISA.
+To me he seems like diamond to glass.
+
+PERICLES.
+Yon king’s to me like to my father’s picture,
+Which tells me in that glory once he was;
+Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne,
+And he the sun, for them to reverence;
+None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights,
+Did vail their crowns to his supremacy:
+Where now his son’s like a glow-worm in the night,
+The which hath fire in darkness, none in light:
+Whereby I see that time’s the king of men,
+He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
+And gives them what he will, not what they crave.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+What, are you merry, knights?
+
+KNIGHTS.
+Who can be other in this royal presence?
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Here, with a cup that’s stored unto the brim,—
+As you do love, fill to your mistress’ lips,—
+We drink this health to you.
+
+KNIGHTS.
+We thank your grace.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Yet pause awhile. Yon knight doth sit too melancholy,
+As if the entertainment in our court
+Had not a show might countervail his worth.
+Note it not you, Thaisa?
+
+THAISA.
+What is’t to me, my father?
+
+SIMONIDES.
+O attend, my daughter:
+Princes in this should live like gods above,
+Who freely give to everyone that comes to honour them:
+And princes not doing so are like to gnats,
+Which make a sound, but kill’d are wonder’d at.
+Therefore to make his entrance more sweet,
+Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him.
+
+THAISA.
+Alas, my father, it befits not me
+Unto a stranger knight to be so bold:
+He may my proffer take for an offence,
+Since men take women’s gifts for impudence.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+How? Do as I bid you, or you’ll move me else.
+
+THAISA.
+[_Aside._] Now, by the gods, he could not please me better.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,
+Of whence he is, his name and parentage.
+
+THAISA.
+The king my father, sir, has drunk to you.
+
+PERICLES.
+I thank him.
+
+THAISA.
+Wishing it so much blood unto your life.
+
+PERICLES.
+I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely.
+
+THAISA.
+And further he desires to know of you,
+Of whence you are, your name and parentage.
+
+PERICLES.
+A gentleman of Tyre; my name, Pericles;
+My education been in arts and arms;
+Who, looking for adventures in the world,
+Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men,
+And after shipwreck driven upon this shore.
+
+THAISA.
+He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles,
+A gentleman of Tyre,
+Who only by misfortune of the seas
+Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,
+And will awake him from his melancholy.
+Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,
+And waste the time, which looks for other revels.
+Even in your armours, as you are address’d,
+Will well become a soldier’s dance.
+I will not have excuse, with saying this,
+‘Loud music is too harsh for ladies’ heads’
+Since they love men in arms as well as beds.
+
+ [_The Knights dance._]
+
+So, this was well ask’d, ’twas so well perform’d.
+Come, sir; here is a lady which wants breathing too:
+And I have heard you knights of Tyre
+Are excellent in making ladies trip;
+And that their measures are as excellent.
+
+PERICLES.
+In those that practise them they are, my lord.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+O, that’s as much as you would be denied
+Of your fair courtesy.
+
+ [_The Knights and Ladies dance._]
+
+Unclasp, unclasp:
+Thanks gentlemen, to all; all have done well.
+[_To Pericles._] But you the best. Pages and lights to conduct
+These knights unto their several lodgings.
+[_To Pericles._] Yours, sir, we have given order to be next our own.
+
+PERICLES.
+I am at your grace’s pleasure.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Princes, it is too late to talk of love;
+And that’s the mark I know you level at:
+Therefore each one betake him to his rest;
+Tomorrow all for speeding do their best.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE IV. Tyre. A room in the Governor’s house.
+
+ Enter Helicanus and Escanes.
+
+HELICANUS.
+No, Escanes, know this of me,
+Antiochus from incest lived not free:
+For which the most high gods not minding longer
+To withhold the vengeance that they had in store
+Due to this heinous capital offence,
+Even in the height and pride of all his glory,
+When he was seated in a chariot
+Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him,
+A fire from heaven came and shrivell’d up
+Their bodies, even to loathing, for they so stunk,
+That all those eyes adored them ere their fall
+Scorn now their hand should give them burial.
+
+ESCANES.
+’Twas very strange
+
+HELICANUS.
+And yet but justice; for though this king were great;
+His greatness was no guard to bar heaven’s shaft,
+But sin had his reward.
+
+ESCANES.
+’Tis very true.
+
+ Enter two or three Lords.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+See, not a man in private conference
+Or council has respect with him but he.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+It shall no longer grieve without reproof.
+
+THIRD LORD.
+And cursed be he that will not second it.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Follow me, then. Lord Helicane, a word.
+
+HELICANUS.
+With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Know that our griefs are risen to the top,
+And now at length they overflow their banks.
+
+HELICANUS.
+Your griefs! for what? Wrong not your prince you love.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane;
+But if the prince do live, let us salute him.
+Or know what ground’s made happy by his breath.
+If in the world he live, we’ll seek him out;
+If in his grave he rest, we’ll find him there.
+We’ll be resolved he lives to govern us,
+Or dead, give’s cause to mourn his funeral,
+And leave us to our free election.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Whose death’s indeed the strongest in our censure:
+And knowing this kingdom is without a head,—
+Like goodly buildings left without a roof
+Soon fall to ruin,—your noble self,
+That best know how to rule and how to reign,
+We thus submit unto,—our sovereign.
+
+ALL.
+Live, noble Helicane!
+
+HELICANUS.
+For honour’s cause, forbear your suffrages:
+If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear.
+Take I your wish, I leap into the seas,
+Where’s hourly trouble for a minute’s ease.
+A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you
+To forbear the absence of your king;
+If in which time expired, he not return,
+I shall with aged patience bear your yoke.
+But if I cannot win you to this love,
+Go search like nobles, like noble subjects,
+And in your search spend your adventurous worth;
+Whom if you find, and win unto return,
+You shall like diamonds sit about his crown.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+To wisdom he’s a fool that will not yield;
+And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us,
+We with our travels will endeavour us.
+
+HELICANUS.
+Then you love us, we you, and we’ll clasp hands:
+When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE V. Pentapolis. A room in the palace.
+
+ Enter Simonides reading a letter at one door; the Knights meet him.
+
+FIRST KNIGHT.
+Good morrow to the good Simonides.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,
+That for this twelvemonth she’ll not undertake
+A married life.
+Her reason to herself is only known,
+Which yet from her by no means can I get.
+
+SECOND KNIGHT.
+May we not get access to her, my lord?
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Faith, by no means; she hath so strictly tied
+Her to her chamber, that ’tis impossible.
+One twelve moons more she’ll wear Diana’s livery;
+This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow’d,
+And on her virgin honour will not break it.
+
+THIRD KNIGHT.
+Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves.
+
+ [_Exeunt Knights._]
+
+SIMONIDES.
+So, they are well dispatch’d; now to my daughter’s letter:
+She tells me here, she’ll wed the stranger knight,
+Or never more to view nor day nor light.
+’Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine;
+I like that well: nay, how absolute she’s in’t,
+Not minding whether I dislike or no!
+Well, I do commend her choice;
+And will no longer have it be delay’d.
+Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it.
+
+ Enter Pericles.
+
+PERICLES.
+All fortune to the good Simonides!
+
+SIMONIDES.
+To you as much. Sir, I am beholding to you
+For your sweet music this last night: I do
+Protest my ears were never better fed
+With such delightful pleasing harmony.
+
+PERICLES.
+It is your grace’s pleasure to commend;
+Not my desert.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Sir, you are music’s master.
+
+PERICLES.
+The worst of all her scholars, my good lord.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Let me ask you one thing:
+What do you think of my daughter, sir?
+
+PERICLES.
+A most virtuous princess.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+And she is fair too, is she not?
+
+PERICLES.
+As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;
+Ay, so well, that you must be her master,
+And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it.
+
+PERICLES.
+I am unworthy for her schoolmaster.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+She thinks not so; peruse this writing else.
+
+PERICLES.
+[_Aside._] What’s here? A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre!
+’Tis the king’s subtlety to have my life.
+O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,
+A stranger and distressed gentleman,
+That never aim’d so high to love your daughter,
+But bent all offices to honour her.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Thou hast bewitch’d my daughter,
+And thou art a villain.
+
+PERICLES.
+By the gods, I have not:
+Never did thought of mine levy offence;
+Nor never did my actions yet commence
+A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Traitor, thou liest.
+
+PERICLES.
+Traitor?
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Ay, traitor.
+
+PERICLES.
+Even in his throat—unless it be the king—
+That calls me traitor, I return the lie.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+[_Aside._] Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage.
+
+PERICLES.
+My actions are as noble as my thoughts,
+That never relish’d of a base descent.
+I came unto your court for honour’s cause,
+And not to be a rebel to her state;
+And he that otherwise accounts of me,
+This sword shall prove he’s honour’s enemy.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+No?
+Here comes my daughter, she can witness it.
+
+ Enter Thaisa.
+
+PERICLES.
+Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,
+Resolve your angry father, if my tongue
+Did e’er solicit, or my hand subscribe
+To any syllable that made love to you.
+
+THAISA.
+Why, sir, say if you had,
+Who takes offence at that would make me glad?
+
+SIMONIDES.
+Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?
+[_Aside._] I am glad on’t with all my heart.—
+I’ll tame you; I’ll bring you in subjection.
+Will you, not having my consent,
+Bestow your love and your affections
+Upon a stranger? [_Aside._] Who, for aught I know
+May be, nor can I think the contrary,
+As great in blood as I myself.—
+Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame
+Your will to mine, and you, sir, hear you,
+Either be ruled by me, or I will make you—
+Man and wife. Nay, come, your hands,
+And lips must seal it too: and being join’d,
+I’ll thus your hopes destroy; and for further grief,
+God give you joy! What, are you both pleased?
+
+THAISA.
+Yes, if you love me, sir.
+
+PERICLES.
+Even as my life my blood that fosters it.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+What, are you both agreed?
+
+BOTH.
+Yes, if’t please your majesty.
+
+SIMONIDES.
+It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;
+And then with what haste you can, get you to bed.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+
+ Enter Gower.
+
+GOWER.
+Now sleep yslaked hath the rouse;
+No din but snores about the house,
+Made louder by the o’erfed breast
+Of this most pompous marriage feast.
+The cat, with eyne of burning coal,
+Now couches fore the mouse’s hole;
+And crickets sing at the oven’s mouth,
+Are the blither for their drouth.
+Hymen hath brought the bride to bed,
+Where, by the loss of maidenhead,
+A babe is moulded. Be attent,
+And time that is so briefly spent
+With your fine fancies quaintly eche:
+What’s dumb in show I’ll plain with speech.
+
+ Dumb-show. Enter, Pericles and Simonides at one door with Attendants;
+ a Messenger meets them, kneels, and gives Pericles a letter: Pericles
+ shows it Simonides; the Lords kneel to him. Then enter Thaisa with
+ child, with Lychorida, a nurse. The King shows her the letter; she
+ rejoices: she and Pericles take leave of her father, and depart, with
+ Lychorida and their Attendants. Then exeunt Simonides and the rest.
+
+By many a dern and painful perch
+Of Pericles the careful search,
+By the four opposing coigns
+Which the world together joins,
+Is made with all due diligence
+That horse and sail and high expense
+Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre,
+Fame answering the most strange enquire,
+To th’ court of King Simonides
+Are letters brought, the tenour these:
+Antiochus and his daughter dead;
+The men of Tyrus on the head
+Of Helicanus would set on
+The crown of Tyre, but he will none:
+The mutiny he there hastes t’oppress;
+Says to ’em, if King Pericles
+Come not home in twice six moons,
+He, obedient to their dooms,
+Will take the crown. The sum of this,
+Brought hither to Pentapolis
+Y-ravished the regions round,
+And everyone with claps can sound,
+‘Our heir apparent is a king!
+Who dreamt, who thought of such a thing?’
+Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre:
+His queen with child makes her desire—
+Which who shall cross?—along to go:
+Omit we all their dole and woe:
+Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,
+And so to sea. Their vessel shakes
+On Neptune’s billow; half the flood
+Hath their keel cut: but fortune’s mood
+Varies again; the grisled north
+Disgorges such a tempest forth,
+That, as a duck for life that dives,
+So up and down the poor ship drives:
+The lady shrieks, and well-a-near
+Does fall in travail with her fear:
+And what ensues in this fell storm
+Shall for itself itself perform.
+I nill relate, action may
+Conveniently the rest convey;
+Which might not what by me is told.
+In your imagination hold
+This stage the ship, upon whose deck
+The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+SCENE I.
+
+ Enter Pericles, on shipboard.
+
+PERICLES.
+Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,
+Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou that hast
+Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,
+Having call’d them from the deep! O, still
+Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench
+Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida,
+How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously;
+Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman’s whistle
+Is as a whisper in the ears of death,
+Unheard. Lychorida! - Lucina, O!
+Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle
+To those that cry by night, convey thy deity
+Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs
+Of my queen’s travails! Now, Lychorida!
+
+ Enter Lychorida with an infant.
+
+LYCHORIDA.
+Here is a thing too young for such a place,
+Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I
+Am like to do: take in your arms this piece
+Of your dead queen.
+
+PERICLES.
+How? how, Lychorida?
+
+LYCHORIDA.
+Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm.
+Here’s all that is left living of your queen,
+A little daughter: for the sake of it,
+Be manly, and take comfort.
+
+PERICLES.
+O you gods!
+Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,
+And snatch them straight away? We here below
+Recall not what we give, and therein may
+Vie honour with you.
+
+LYCHORIDA.
+Patience, good sir.
+Even for this charge.
+
+PERICLES.
+Now, mild may be thy life!
+For a more blustrous birth had never babe:
+Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for
+Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world
+That ever was prince’s child. Happy what follows!
+Thou hast as chiding a nativity
+As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make,
+To herald thee from the womb.
+Even at the first thy loss is more than can
+Thy portage quit, with all thou canst find here,
+Now, the good gods throw their best eyes upon’t!
+
+ Enter two Sailors
+
+FIRST SAILOR.
+What courage, sir? God save you!
+
+PERICLES.
+Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw;
+It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love
+Of this poor infant, this fresh new sea-farer,
+I would it would be quiet.
+
+FIRST SAILOR.
+Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou? Blow, and split
+thyself.
+
+SECOND SAILOR.
+But sea-room, and the brine and cloudy billow kiss the moon, I care
+not.
+
+FIRST SAILOR.
+Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high, the wind is loud
+and will not lie till the ship be cleared of the dead.
+
+PERICLES.
+That’s your superstition.
+
+FIRST SAILOR.
+Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it has been still observed; and we are
+strong in custom. Therefore briefly yield her; for she must overboard
+straight.
+
+PERICLES.
+As you think meet. Most wretched queen!
+
+LYCHORIDA.
+Here she lies, sir.
+
+PERICLES.
+A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear;
+No light, no fire: th’unfriendly elements
+Forgot thee utterly; nor have I time
+To give thee hallow’d to thy grave, but straight
+Must cast thee, scarcely coffin’d, in the ooze;
+Where, for a monument upon thy bones,
+And e’er-remaining lamps, the belching whale
+And humming water must o’erwhelm thy corpse,
+Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida.
+Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,
+My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander
+Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe
+Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say
+A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman.
+
+ [_Exit Lychorida._]
+
+SECOND SAILOR.
+Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked and bitumed ready.
+
+PERICLES.
+I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?
+
+SECOND SAILOR.
+We are near Tarsus.
+
+PERICLES.
+Thither, gentle mariner,
+Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it?
+
+SECOND SAILOR.
+By break of day, if the wind cease.
+
+PERICLES.
+O, make for Tarsus!
+There will I visit Cleon, for the babe
+Cannot hold out to Tyrus. There I’ll leave it
+At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner:
+I’ll bring the body presently.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE II. Ephesus. A room in Cerimon’s house.
+
+ Enter Cerimon, with a Servant, and some Persons who have been
+ shipwrecked.
+
+CERIMON.
+Philemon, ho!
+
+ Enter Philemon.
+
+PHILEMON.
+Doth my lord call?
+
+CERIMON.
+Get fire and meat for these poor men:
+’T has been a turbulent and stormy night.
+
+SERVANT.
+I have been in many; but such a night as this,
+Till now, I ne’er endured.
+
+CERIMON.
+Your master will be dead ere you return;
+There’s nothing can be minister’d to nature
+That can recover him. [_To Philemon._] Give this to the ’pothecary,
+And tell me how it works.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Cerimon._]
+
+ Enter two Gentlemen.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Good morrow.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Good morrow to your lordship.
+
+CERIMON.
+Gentlemen, why do you stir so early?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Sir, our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,
+Shook as the earth did quake;
+The very principals did seem to rend,
+And all to topple: pure surprise and fear
+Made me to quit the house.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+That is the cause we trouble you so early;
+’Tis not our husbandry.
+
+CERIMON.
+O, you say well.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+But I much marvel that your lordship, having
+Rich tire about you, should at these early hours
+Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
+’Tis most strange,
+Nature should be so conversant with pain.
+Being thereto not compell’d.
+
+CERIMON.
+I hold it ever,
+Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
+Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs
+May the two latter darken and expend;
+But immortality attends the former,
+Making a man a god. ’Tis known, I ever
+Have studied physic, through which secret art,
+By turning o’er authorities, I have,
+Together with my practice, made familiar
+To me and to my aid the blest infusions
+That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones;
+And I can speak of the disturbances
+That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me
+A more content in course of true delight
+Than to be thirsty after tottering honour,
+Or tie my pleasure up in silken bags,
+To please the fool and death.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Your honour has through Ephesus pour’d forth
+Your charity, and hundreds call themselves
+Your creatures, who by you have been restored:
+And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even
+Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon
+Such strong renown as time shall never—
+
+ Enter two or three Servants with a chest.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+So, lift there.
+
+CERIMON.
+What’s that?
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Sir, even now
+Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest:
+’Tis of some wreck.
+
+CERIMON.
+Set’t down, let’s look upon’t.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis like a coffin, sir.
+
+CERIMON.
+Whate’er it be,
+’Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight:
+If the sea’s stomach be o’ercharged with gold,
+’Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+’Tis so, my lord.
+
+CERIMON.
+How close ’tis caulk’d and bitumed!
+Did the sea cast it up?
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+I never saw so huge a billow, sir,
+As toss’d it upon shore.
+
+CERIMON.
+Wrench it open;
+Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+A delicate odour.
+
+CERIMON.
+As ever hit my nostril. So up with it.
+O you most potent gods! what’s here? a corpse!
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Most strange!
+
+CERIMON.
+Shrouded in cloth of state; balm’d and entreasured
+With full bags of spices! A passport too!
+Apollo, perfect me in the characters!
+
+ [_Reads from a scroll._]
+
+     _Here I give to understand,
+     If e’er this coffin drives a-land,
+     I, King Pericles, have lost
+     This queen, worth all our mundane cost.
+     Who finds her, give her burying;
+     She was the daughter of a king:
+     Besides this treasure for a fee,
+     The gods requite his charity._
+If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart
+That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Most likely, sir.
+
+CERIMON.
+Nay, certainly tonight;
+For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough
+That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within
+Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet.
+
+ [_Exit a Servant._]
+
+Death may usurp on nature many hours,
+And yet the fire of life kindle again
+The o’erpress’d spirits. I heard of an Egyptian
+That had nine hours lain dead,
+Who was by good appliance recovered.
+
+ Re-enter a Servant with napkins and fire.
+
+Well said, well said; the fire and cloths.
+The rough and woeful music that we have,
+Cause it to sound, beseech you
+The viol once more: how thou stirr’st, thou block!
+The music there!—I pray you, give her air.
+Gentlemen, this queen will live.
+Nature awakes; a warmth breathes out of her.
+She hath not been entranced above five hours.
+See how she ’gins to blow into life’s flower again!
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+The heavens, through you, increase our wonder
+And sets up your fame for ever.
+
+CERIMON.
+She is alive; behold, her eyelids,
+Cases to those heavenly jewels which Pericles hath lost,
+Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;
+The diamonds of a most praised water doth appear,
+To make the world twice rich. Live, and make us weep
+To hear your fate, fair creature, rare as you seem to be.
+
+ [_She moves._]
+
+THAISA.
+O dear Diana,
+Where am I? Where’s my lord? What world is this?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Is not this strange?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Most rare.
+
+CERIMON.
+Hush, my gentle neighbours!
+Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her.
+Get linen: now this matter must be look’d to,
+For her relapse is mortal. Come, come;
+And Aesculapius guide us!
+
+ [_Exeunt, carrying her away._]
+
+
+
+SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in Cleon’s house.
+
+ Enter Pericles, Cleon, Dionyza and Lychorida with Marina in her arms.
+
+PERICLES.
+Most honour’d Cleon, I must needs be gone;
+My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands
+In a litigious peace. You and your lady,
+Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods
+Make up the rest upon you!
+
+CLEON.
+Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally,
+Yet glance full wanderingly on us.
+
+DIONYZA.
+O, your sweet queen!
+That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither,
+To have bless’d mine eyes with her!
+
+PERICLES.
+We cannot but obey
+The powers above us. Could I rage and roar
+As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end
+Must be as ’tis. My gentle babe Marina,
+Whom, for she was born at sea, I have named so,
+Here I charge your charity withal,
+Leaving her the infant of your care;
+Beseeching you to give her princely training,
+That she may be manner’d as she is born.
+
+CLEON.
+Fear not, my lord, but think
+Your grace, that fed my country with your corn,
+For which the people’s prayers still fall upon you,
+Must in your child be thought on. If neglection
+Should therein make me vile, the common body,
+By you relieved, would force me to my duty:
+But if to that my nature need a spur,
+The gods revenge it upon me and mine,
+To the end of generation!
+
+PERICLES.
+I believe you;
+Your honour and your goodness teach me to’t,
+Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,
+By bright Diana, whom we honour, all
+Unscissored shall this hair of mine remain,
+Though I show ill in’t. So I take my leave.
+Good madam, make me blessed in your care
+In bringing up my child.
+
+DIONYZA.
+I have one myself,
+Who shall not be more dear to my respect
+Than yours, my lord.
+
+PERICLES.
+Madam, my thanks and prayers.
+
+CLEON.
+We’ll bring your grace e’en to the edge o’the shore,
+Then give you up to the mask’d Neptune and
+The gentlest winds of heaven.
+
+PERICLES.
+I will embrace your offer. Come, dearest madam.
+O, no tears, Lychorida, no tears.
+Look to your little mistress, on whose grace
+You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE IV. Ephesus. A room in Cerimon’s house.
+
+ Enter Cerimon and Thaisa.
+
+CERIMON.
+Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,
+Lay with you in your coffer, which are
+At your command. Know you the character?
+
+THAISA.
+It is my lord’s.
+That I was shipp’d at sea, I well remember,
+Even on my groaning time; but whether there
+Deliver’d, by the holy gods,
+I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,
+My wedded lord, I ne’er shall see again,
+A vestal livery will I take me to,
+And never more have joy.
+
+CERIMON.
+Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,
+Diana’s temple is not distant far,
+Where you may abide till your date expire.
+Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine
+Shall there attend you.
+
+THAISA.
+My recompense is thanks, that’s all;
+Yet my good will is great, though the gift small.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+
+ Enter Gower.
+
+GOWER.
+Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre,
+Welcomed and settled to his own desire.
+His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,
+Unto Diana there a votaress.
+Now to Marina bend your mind,
+Whom our fast-growing scene must find
+At Tarsus, and by Cleon train’d
+In music’s letters; who hath gain’d
+Of education all the grace,
+Which makes her both the heart and place
+Of general wonder. But, alack,
+That monster envy, oft the wrack
+Of earned praise, Marina’s life
+Seeks to take off by treason’s knife,
+And in this kind our Cleon hath
+One daughter, and a full grown wench
+Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid
+Hight Philoten: and it is said
+For certain in our story, she
+Would ever with Marina be.
+Be’t when she weaved the sleided silk
+With fingers long, small, white as milk;
+Or when she would with sharp needle wound,
+The cambric, which she made more sound
+By hurting it; or when to th’ lute
+She sung, and made the night-bird mute
+That still records with moan; or when
+She would with rich and constant pen
+Vail to her mistress Dian; still
+This Philoten contends in skill
+With absolute Marina: so
+The dove of Paphos might with the crow
+Vie feathers white. Marina gets
+All praises, which are paid as debts,
+And not as given. This so darks
+In Philoten all graceful marks,
+That Cleon’s wife, with envy rare,
+A present murderer does prepare
+For good Marina, that her daughter
+Might stand peerless by this slaughter.
+The sooner her vile thoughts to stead,
+Lychorida, our nurse, is dead:
+And cursed Dionyza hath
+The pregnant instrument of wrath
+Prest for this blow. The unborn event
+I do commend to your content:
+Only I carry winged time
+Post on the lame feet of my rhyme;
+Which never could I so convey,
+Unless your thoughts went on my way.
+Dionyza does appear,
+With Leonine, a murderer.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+Scene I. Tarsus. An open place near the seashore.
+
+ Enter Dionyza with Leonine.
+
+DIONYZA.
+Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do’t:
+’Tis but a blow, which never shall be known.
+Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon,
+To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,
+Which is but cold, inflaming love i’ thy bosom,
+Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which
+Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be
+A soldier to thy purpose.
+
+LEONINE.
+I will do’t; but yet she is a goodly creature.
+
+DIONYZA.
+The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here she comes weeping for
+her only mistress’ death. Thou art resolved?
+
+LEONINE.
+I am resolved.
+
+ Enter Marina with a basket of flowers.
+
+MARINA.
+No, I will rob Tellus of her weed
+To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues,
+The purple violets, and marigolds,
+Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave,
+While summer days do last. Ay me! poor maid,
+Born in a tempest, when my mother died,
+This world to me is like a lasting storm,
+Whirring me from my friends.
+
+DIONYZA.
+How now, Marina! why do you keep alone?
+How chance my daughter is not with you?
+Do not consume your blood with sorrowing;
+Have you a nurse of me? Lord, how your favour’s
+Changed with this unprofitable woe!
+Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it.
+Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there,
+And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.
+Come, Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her.
+
+MARINA.
+No, I pray you;
+I’ll not bereave you of your servant.
+
+DIONYZA.
+Come, come;
+I love the king your father, and yourself,
+With more than foreign heart. We every day
+Expect him here: when he shall come and find
+Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,
+He will repent the breadth of his great voyage;
+Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken
+No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,
+Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve
+That excellent complexion, which did steal
+The eyes of young and old. Care not for me;
+I can go home alone.
+
+MARINA.
+Well, I will go;
+But yet I have no desire to it.
+
+DIONYZA.
+Come, come, I know ’tis good for you.
+Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least:
+Remember what I have said.
+
+LEONINE.
+I warrant you, madam.
+
+DIONYZA.
+I’ll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while:
+Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood:
+What! I must have a care of you.
+
+MARINA.
+My thanks, sweet madam.
+
+ [_Exit Dionyza._]
+
+Is this wind westerly that blows?
+
+LEONINE.
+South-west.
+
+MARINA.
+When I was born the wind was north.
+
+LEONINE.
+Was’t so?
+
+MARINA.
+My father, as nurse said, did never fear,
+But cried ‘Good seamen!’ to the sailors,
+Galling his kingly hands, haling ropes;
+And clasping to the mast, endured a sea
+That almost burst the deck.
+
+LEONINE.
+When was this?
+
+MARINA.
+When I was born:
+Never was waves nor wind more violent;
+And from the ladder tackle washes off
+A canvas-climber. ‘Ha!’ says one, ‘wolt out?’
+And with a dropping industry they skip
+From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and
+The master calls and trebles their confusion.
+
+LEONINE.
+Come, say your prayers.
+
+MARINA.
+What mean you?
+
+LEONINE.
+If you require a little space for prayer,
+I grant it: pray; but be not tedious,
+For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn
+To do my work with haste.
+
+MARINA.
+Why will you kill me?
+
+LEONINE.
+To satisfy my lady.
+
+MARINA.
+Why would she have me kill’d now?
+As I can remember, by my troth,
+I never did her hurt in all my life:
+I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn
+To any living creature: believe me, la,
+I never kill’d a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
+I trod upon a worm against my will,
+But I wept for it. How have I offended,
+Wherein my death might yield her any profit,
+Or my life imply her any danger?
+
+LEONINE.
+My commission
+Is not to reason of the deed, but do it.
+
+MARINA.
+You will not do’t for all the world, I hope.
+You are well favour’d, and your looks foreshow
+You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,
+When you caught hurt in parting two that fought:
+Good sooth, it show’d well in you: do so now:
+Your lady seeks my life; come you between,
+And save poor me, the weaker.
+
+LEONINE.
+I am sworn,
+And will dispatch.
+
+ [_He seizes her._]
+
+ Enter Pirates.
+
+FIRST PIRATE.
+Hold, villain!
+
+ [_Leonine runs away._]
+
+SECOND PIRATE.
+A prize! a prize!
+
+THIRD PIRATE.
+Half part, mates, half part,
+Come, let’s have her aboard suddenly.
+
+ [_Exeunt Pirates with Marina._]
+
+ Re-enter Leonine.
+
+LEONINE.
+These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes;
+And they have seized Marina. Let her go:
+There’s no hope she will return. I’ll swear she’s dead
+And thrown into the sea. But I’ll see further:
+Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,
+Not carry her aboard. If she remain,
+Whom they have ravish’d must by me be slain.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+Scene II. Mytilene. A room in a brothel.
+
+ Enter Pandar, Bawd and Boult.
+
+PANDAR.
+Boult!
+
+BOULT.
+Sir?
+
+PANDAR.
+Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of gallants. We lost too
+much money this mart by being too wenchless.
+
+BAWD.
+We were never so much out of creatures. We have but poor three, and
+they can do no more than they can do; and they with continual action
+are even as good as rotten.
+
+PANDAR.
+Therefore let’s have fresh ones, whate’er we pay for them. If there be
+not a conscience to be used in every trade, we shall never prosper.
+
+BAWD.
+Thou sayest true: ’tis not our bringing up of poor bastards,—as, I
+think, I have brought up some eleven—
+
+BOULT.
+Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again. But shall I search the
+market?
+
+BAWD.
+What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind will blow it to
+pieces, they are so pitifully sodden.
+
+PANDAR.
+Thou sayest true; they’re too unwholesome, o’ conscience. The poor
+Transylvanian is dead, that lay with the little baggage.
+
+BOULT.
+Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat for worms. But I’ll
+go search the market.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PANDAR.
+Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a proportion to live
+quietly, and so give over.
+
+BAWD.
+Why to give over, I pray you? Is it a shame to get when we are old?
+
+PANDAR.
+O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, nor the commodity wages
+not with the danger: therefore, if in our youths we could pick up some
+pretty estate, ’twere not amiss to keep our door hatched. Besides, the
+sore terms we stand upon with the gods will be strong with us for
+giving over.
+
+BAWD.
+Come, others sorts offend as well as we.
+
+PANDAR.
+As well as we! ay, and better too; we offend worse. Neither is our
+profession any trade; it’s no calling. But here comes Boult.
+
+ Re-enter Boult, with the Pirates and Marina.
+
+BOULT
+[_To Pirates._] Come your ways. My masters, you say she’s a virgin?
+
+FIRST PIRATE.
+O sir, we doubt it not.
+
+BOULT.
+Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see: if you like her,
+so; if not, I have lost my earnest.
+
+BAWD.
+Boult, has she any qualities?
+
+BOULT.
+She has a good face, speaks well and has excellent good clothes:
+there’s no farther necessity of qualities can make her be refused.
+
+BAWD.
+What is her price, Boult?
+
+BOULT.
+I cannot be baited one doit of a thousand pieces.
+
+PANDAR.
+Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your money presently. Wife,
+take her in; instruct her what she has to do, that she may not be raw
+in her entertainment.
+
+ [_Exeunt Pandar and Pirates._]
+
+BAWD.
+Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her hair, complexion,
+height, her age, with warrant of her virginity; and cry ‘He that will
+give most shall have her first.’ Such a maidenhead were no cheap thing,
+if men were as they have been. Get this done as I command you.
+
+BOULT.
+Performance shall follow.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+MARINA.
+Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!
+He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates,
+Not enough barbarous, had not o’erboard thrown me
+For to seek my mother!
+
+BAWD.
+Why lament you, pretty one?
+
+MARINA.
+That I am pretty.
+
+BAWD.
+Come, the gods have done their part in you.
+
+MARINA.
+I accuse them not.
+
+BAWD.
+You are light into my hands, where you are like to live.
+
+MARINA.
+The more my fault
+To scape his hands where I was like to die.
+
+BAWD.
+Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.
+
+MARINA.
+No.
+
+BAWD.
+Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all fashions: you shall
+fare well; you shall have the difference of all complexions. What! do
+you stop your ears?
+
+MARINA.
+Are you a woman?
+
+BAWD.
+What would you have me be, an I be not a woman?
+
+MARINA.
+An honest woman, or not a woman.
+
+BAWD.
+Marry, whip the gosling: I think I shall have something to do with you.
+Come, you’re a young foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have
+you.
+
+MARINA.
+The gods defend me!
+
+BAWD.
+If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men must comfort you,
+men must feed you, men stir you up. Boult’s returned.
+
+ Re-enter Boult.
+
+Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?
+
+BOULT.
+I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs; I have drawn her
+picture with my voice.
+
+BAWD.
+And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the inclination of the
+people, especially of the younger sort?
+
+BOULT.
+Faith, they listened to me as they would have hearkened to their
+father’s testament. There was a Spaniard’s mouth so watered, that he
+went to bed to her very description.
+
+BAWD.
+We shall have him here tomorrow with his best ruff on.
+
+BOULT.
+Tonight, tonight. But, mistress, do you know the French knight that
+cowers i’ the hams?
+
+BAWD.
+Who, Monsieur Veroles?
+
+BOULT.
+Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the proclamation; but he made a
+groan at it, and swore he would see her tomorrow.
+
+BAWD.
+Well, well, as for him, he brought his disease hither: here he does but
+repair it. I know he will come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in
+the sun.
+
+BOULT.
+Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we should lodge them with
+this sign.
+
+ [_To Marina._] Pray you, come hither awhile. You have fortunes coming
+ upon you. Mark me: you must seem to do that fearfully which you commit
+ willingly, despise profit where you have most gain. To weep that you
+ live as ye do makes pity in your lovers: seldom but that pity begets
+ you a good opinion, and that opinion a mere profit.
+
+MARINA.
+I understand you not.
+
+BOULT.
+O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these blushes of hers must
+be quenched with some present practice.
+
+BAWD.
+Thou sayest true, i’faith so they must; for your bride goes to that
+with shame which is her way to go with warrant.
+
+BOULT.
+Faith, some do and some do not. But, mistress, if I have bargained for
+the joint,—
+
+BAWD.
+Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.
+
+BOULT.
+I may so.
+
+BAWD. Who should deny it? Come young one, I like the manner of your
+garments well.
+
+BOULT.
+Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet.
+
+BAWD.
+Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a sojourner we have;
+you’ll lose nothing by custom. When nature framed this piece, she meant
+thee a good turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou hast
+the harvest out of thine own report.
+
+BOULT.
+I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake the beds of eels as
+my giving out her beauty stirs up the lewdly inclined. I’ll bring home
+some tonight.
+
+BAWD.
+Come your ways; follow me.
+
+MARINA.
+If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,
+Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.
+Diana, aid my purpose!
+
+BAWD.
+What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us?
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in Cleon’s house.
+
+ Enter Cleon and Dionyza.
+
+DIONYZA.
+Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?
+
+CLEON.
+O, Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter
+The sun and moon ne’er look’d upon!
+
+DIONYZA.
+I think you’ll turn a child again.
+
+CLEON.
+Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,
+I’d give it to undo the deed. A lady,
+Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess
+To equal any single crown o’ the earth
+I’ the justice of compare! O villain Leonine!
+Whom thou hast poison’d too:
+If thou hadst drunk to him, ’t had been a kindness
+Becoming well thy face. What canst thou say
+When noble Pericles shall demand his child?
+
+DIONYZA.
+That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates,
+To foster it, nor ever to preserve.
+She died at night; I’ll say so. Who can cross it?
+Unless you play the pious innocent,
+And for an honest attribute cry out
+‘She died by foul play.’
+
+CLEON.
+O, go to. Well, well,
+Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods
+Do like this worst.
+
+DIONYZA.
+Be one of those that thinks
+The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence,
+And open this to Pericles. I do shame
+To think of what a noble strain you are,
+And of how coward a spirit.
+
+CLEON.
+To such proceeding
+Whoever but his approbation added,
+Though not his prime consent, he did not flow
+From honourable courses.
+
+DIONYZA.
+Be it so, then:
+Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead,
+Nor none can know, Leonine being gone.
+She did distain my child, and stood between
+Her and her fortunes: none would look on her,
+But cast their gazes on Marina’s face;
+Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin
+Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through;
+And though you call my course unnatural,
+You not your child well loving, yet I find
+It greets me as an enterprise of kindness
+Perform’d to your sole daughter.
+
+CLEON.
+Heavens forgive it!
+
+DIONYZA.
+And as for Pericles, what should he say?
+We wept after her hearse, and yet we mourn.
+Her monument is almost finish’d, and her epitaphs
+In glittering golden characters express
+A general praise to her, and care in us
+At whose expense ’tis done.
+
+CLEON.
+Thou art like the harpy,
+Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel’s face,
+Seize with thine eagle’s talons.
+
+DIONYZA.
+You are like one that superstitiously
+Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies:
+But yet I know you’ll do as I advise.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE IV.
+
+ Enter Gower, before the monument of Marina at Tarsus.
+
+GOWER.
+Thus time we waste, and long leagues make short;
+Sail seas in cockles, have and wish but for’t;
+Making, to take your imagination,
+From bourn to bourn, region to region.
+By you being pardon’d, we commit no crime
+To use one language in each several clime
+Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you
+To learn of me, who stand i’the gaps to teach you,
+The stages of our story. Pericles
+Is now again thwarting the wayward seas
+Attended on by many a lord and knight,
+To see his daughter, all his life’s delight.
+Old Helicanus goes along. Behind
+Is left to govern, if you bear in mind,
+Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late
+Advanced in time to great and high estate.
+Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought
+This king to Tarsus,—think his pilot thought;
+So with his steerage shall your thoughts go on,—
+To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone.
+Like motes and shadows see them move awhile;
+Your ears unto your eyes I’ll reconcile.
+
+ Dumb-show. Enter Pericles at one door with all his train; Cleon and
+ Dionyza at the other. Cleon shows Pericles the tomb; whereat Pericles
+ makes lamentation, puts on sackcloth and in a mighty passion departs.
+ Then exeunt Cleon and Dionyza.
+
+See how belief may suffer by foul show;
+This borrow’d passion stands for true old woe;
+And Pericles, in sorrow all devour’d,
+With sighs shot through; and biggest tears o’ershower’d,
+Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears
+Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs:
+He puts on sackcloth, and to sea he bears
+A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,
+And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit
+The epitaph is for Marina writ
+By wicked Dionyza.
+
+ [_Reads the inscription on Marina’s monument._]
+
+     _The fairest, sweet’st, and best lies here,
+     Who wither’d in her spring of year.
+     She was of Tyrus the King’s daughter,
+     On whom foul death hath made this slaughter;
+     Marina was she call’d; and at her birth,
+     Thetis, being proud, swallow’d some part o’ the earth:
+     Therefore the earth, fearing to be o’erflow’d,
+     Hath Thetis’ birth-child on the heavens bestow’d:
+     Wherefore she does, and swears she’ll never stint,
+     Make raging battery upon shores of flint._
+
+No visor does become black villany
+So well as soft and tender flattery.
+Let Pericles believe his daughter’s dead,
+And bear his courses to be ordered
+By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play
+His daughter’s woe and heavy well-a-day
+In her unholy service. Patience, then,
+And think you now are all in Mytilene.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+SCENE V. Mytilene. A street before the brothel.
+
+ Enter, from the brothel, two Gentlemen.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Did you ever hear the like?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she being once gone.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+But to have divinity preached there! did you ever dream of such a
+thing?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy houses: shall’s go hear the
+vestals sing?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I’ll do anything now that is virtuous; but I am out of the road of
+rutting for ever.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE VI. The same. A room in the brothel.
+
+ Enter Pandar, Bawd and Boult.
+
+PANDAR.
+Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she had ne’er come here.
+
+BAWD.
+Fie, fie upon her! She’s able to freeze the god Priapus, and undo a
+whole generation. We must either get her ravished, or be rid of her.
+When she should do for clients her fitment, and do me the kindness of
+our profession, she has me her quirks, her reasons, her master reasons,
+her prayers, her knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil, if
+he should cheapen a kiss of her.
+
+BOULT.
+Faith, I must ravish her, or she’ll disfurnish us of all our cavaliers,
+and make our swearers priests.
+
+PANDAR.
+Now, the pox upon her green sickness for me!
+
+BAWD.
+Faith, there’s no way to be rid on’t but by the way to the pox.
+Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised.
+
+BOULT.
+We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish baggage would but
+give way to customers.
+
+ Enter Lysimachus.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+How now! How a dozen of virginities?
+
+BAWD.
+Now, the gods to bless your honour!
+
+BOULT.
+I am glad to see your honour in good health.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+You may so; ’tis the better for you that your resorters stand upon
+sound legs. How now? Wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal
+withal, and defy the surgeon?
+
+BAWD.
+We have here one, sir, if she would—but there never came her like in
+Mytilene.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+If she’d do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say.
+
+BAWD.
+Your honour knows what ’tis to say well enough.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Well, call forth, call forth.
+
+BOULT.
+For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall see a rose; and she
+were a rose indeed, if she had but—
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+What, prithee?
+
+BOULT.
+O, sir, I can be modest.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+That dignifies the renown of a bawd no less than it gives a good report
+to a number to be chaste.
+
+ [_Exit Boult._]
+
+BAWD.
+Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never plucked yet, I can
+assure you.
+
+ Re-enter Boult with Marina.
+
+Is she not a fair creature?
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea. Well, there’s for
+you: leave us.
+
+BAWD.
+I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and I’ll have done
+presently.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+I beseech you, do.
+
+BAWD.
+[_To Marina._] First, I would have you note, this is an honourable man.
+
+MARINA.
+I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.
+
+BAWD.
+Next, he’s the governor of this country, and a man whom I am bound to.
+
+MARINA.
+If he govern the country, you are bound to him indeed; but how
+honourable he is in that, I know not.
+
+BAWD. Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will you use him
+kindly? He will line your apron with gold.
+
+MARINA.
+What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Ha’ you done?
+
+BAWD.
+My lord, she’s not paced yet: you must take some pains to work her to
+your manage. Come, we will leave his honour and her together. Go thy
+ways.
+
+ [_Exeunt Bawd, Pandar and Boult._]
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade?
+
+MARINA.
+What trade, sir?
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Why, I cannot name’t but I shall offend.
+
+MARINA.
+I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+How long have you been of this profession?
+
+MARINA.
+E’er since I can remember.
+
+LYSIMACHUS. Did you go to’t so young? Were you a gamester at five or at
+seven?
+
+MARINA.
+Earlier, too, sir, if now I be one.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a creature of sale.
+
+MARINA.
+Do you know this house to be a place of such resort, and will come
+into’t? I hear say you are of honourable parts, and are the governor of
+this place.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?
+
+MARINA.
+Who is my principal?
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots of shame and
+iniquity. O, you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloof
+for more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my
+authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly upon thee. Come,
+bring me to some private place: come, come.
+
+MARINA.
+If you were born to honour, show it now;
+If put upon you, make the judgement good
+That thought you worthy of it.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+How’s this? how’s this? Some more; be sage.
+
+MARINA.
+For me,
+That am a maid, though most ungentle Fortune
+Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came,
+Diseases have been sold dearer than physic,
+O, that the gods
+Would set me free from this unhallow’d place,
+Though they did change me to the meanest bird
+That flies i’ the purer air!
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+I did not think
+Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne’er dream’d thou couldst.
+Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,
+Thy speech had alter’d it. Hold, here’s gold for thee:
+Persever in that clear way thou goest,
+And the gods strengthen thee!
+
+MARINA.
+The good gods preserve you!
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+For me, be you thoughten
+That I came with no ill intent; for to me
+The very doors and windows savour vilely.
+Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and
+I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.
+Hold, here’s more gold for thee.
+A curse upon him, die he like a thief,
+That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost
+Hear from me, it shall be for thy good.
+
+ Re-enter Boult.
+
+BOULT.
+I beseech your honour, one piece for me.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!
+Your house but for this virgin that doth prop it,
+Would sink and overwhelm you. Away!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BOULT.
+How’s this? We must take another course with you. If your peevish
+chastity, which is not worth a breakfast in the cheapest country under
+the cope, shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like a
+spaniel. Come your ways.
+
+MARINA.
+Whither would you have me?
+
+BOULT.
+I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common hangman shall
+execute it. Come your ways. We’ll have no more gentlemen driven away.
+Come your ways, I say.
+
+ Re-enter Bawd.
+
+BAWD.
+How now! what’s the matter?
+
+BOULT.
+Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy words to the Lord
+Lysimachus.
+
+BAWD.
+O, abominable!
+
+BOULT.
+She makes our profession as it were to stink afore the face of the
+gods.
+
+BAWD.
+Marry, hang her up for ever!
+
+BOULT.
+The nobleman would have dealt with her like a nobleman, and she sent
+him away as cold as a snowball; saying his prayers too.
+
+BAWD.
+Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure: crack the glass of her
+virginity, and make the rest malleable.
+
+BOULT.
+An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she is, she shall be
+ploughed.
+
+MARINA.
+Hark, hark, you gods!
+
+BAWD.
+She conjures: away with her! Would she had never come within my doors!
+Marry, hang you! She’s born to undo us. Will you not go the way of
+womankind? Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BOULT.
+Come, mistress; come your way with me.
+
+MARINA.
+Whither wilt thou have me?
+
+BOULT.
+To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.
+
+MARINA.
+Prithee, tell me one thing first.
+
+BOULT.
+Come now, your one thing?
+
+MARINA.
+What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?
+
+BOULT.
+Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress.
+
+MARINA.
+Neither of these are so bad as thou art,
+Since they do better thee in their command.
+Thou hold’st a place, for which the pained’st fiend
+Of hell would not in reputation change:
+Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every
+Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib.
+To the choleric fisting of every rogue
+Thy ear is liable, thy food is such
+As hath been belch’d on by infected lungs.
+
+BOULT.
+What would you have me do? Go to the wars, would you? where a man may
+serve seven years for the loss of a leg, and have not money enough in
+the end to buy him a wooden one?
+
+MARINA.
+Do anything but this thou doest. Empty
+Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth;
+Serve by indenture to the common hangman:
+Any of these ways are yet better than this;
+For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,
+Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods
+Would safely deliver me from this place!
+Here, here’s gold for thee.
+If that thy master would gain by me,
+Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,
+With other virtues, which I’ll keep from boast;
+And I will undertake all these to teach.
+I doubt not but this populous city will
+Yield many scholars.
+
+BOULT.
+But can you teach all this you speak of?
+
+MARINA.
+Prove that I cannot, take me home again,
+And prostitute me to the basest groom
+That doth frequent your house.
+
+BOULT.
+Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can place thee, I will.
+
+MARINA.
+But amongst honest women.
+
+BOULT.
+Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them. But since my master
+and mistress have bought you, there’s no going but by their consent:
+therefore I will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I doubt
+not but I shall find them tractable enough. Come, I’ll do for thee what
+I can; come your ways.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+
+ Enter Gower.
+
+GOWER.
+Marina thus the brothel ’scapes, and chances
+Into an honest house, our story says.
+She sings like one immortal, and she dances
+As goddess-like to her admired lays;
+Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her nee’le composes
+Nature’s own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
+That even her art sisters the natural roses;
+Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry:
+That pupils lacks she none of noble race,
+Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain
+She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place;
+And to her father turn our thoughts again,
+Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost;
+Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived
+Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast
+Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived
+God Neptune’s annual feast to keep: from whence
+Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
+His banners sable, trimm’d with rich expense;
+And to him in his barge with fervour hies.
+In your supposing once more put your sight
+Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark:
+Where what is done in action, more, if might,
+Shall be discover’d; please you, sit and hark.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+SCENE I. On board Pericles’ ship, off Mytilene. A close pavilion on
+deck, with a curtain before it; Pericles within it, reclined on a
+couch. A barge lying beside the Tyrian vessel.
+
+ Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to
+ the barge; to them Helicanus.
+
+TYRIAN SAILOR.
+[_To the Sailor of Mytilene._]
+Where is lord Helicanus? He can resolve you.
+O, here he is.
+Sir, there’s a barge put off from Mytilene,
+And in it is Lysimachus the governor,
+Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?
+
+HELICANUS.
+That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.
+
+TYRIAN SAILOR.
+Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.
+
+ Enter two or three Gentlemen.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Doth your lordship call?
+
+HELICANUS.
+Gentlemen, there is some of worth would come aboard;
+I pray ye, greet them fairly.
+
+ [_The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend and go on board the
+ barge._]
+
+ Enter, from thence, Lysimachus and Lords; with the Gentlemen and the
+ two Sailors.
+
+TYRIAN SAILOR.
+Sir,
+This is the man that can, in aught you would,
+Resolve you.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you!
+
+HELICANUS.
+And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,
+And die as I would do.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+You wish me well.
+Being on shore, honouring of Neptune’s triumphs,
+Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,
+I made to it, to know of whence you are.
+
+HELICANUS.
+First, what is your place?
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+I am the governor of this place you lie before.
+
+HELICANUS.
+Sir, our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;
+A man who for this three months hath not spoken
+To anyone, nor taken sustenance
+But to prorogue his grief.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Upon what ground is his distemperature?
+
+HELICANUS.
+’Twould be too tedious to repeat;
+But the main grief springs from the loss
+Of a beloved daughter and a wife.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+May we not see him?
+
+HELICANUS.
+You may;
+But bootless is your sight: he will not speak
+To any.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Yet let me obtain my wish.
+
+HELICANUS.
+Behold him.
+[_Pericles discovered._]
+This was a goodly person.
+Till the disaster that, one mortal night,
+Drove him to this.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Sir king, all hail! The gods preserve you!
+Hail, royal sir!
+
+HELICANUS.
+It is in vain; he will not speak to you.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Sir, we have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager,
+Would win some words of him.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+’Tis well bethought.
+She questionless with her sweet harmony
+And other chosen attractions, would allure,
+And make a battery through his deafen’d parts,
+Which now are midway stopp’d:
+She is all happy as the fairest of all,
+And, with her fellow maids, is now upon
+The leafy shelter that abuts against
+The island’s side.
+
+ [_Whispers a Lord who goes off in the barge of Lysimachus._]
+
+HELICANUS.
+Sure, all’s effectless; yet nothing we’ll omit
+That bears recovery’s name. But, since your kindness
+We have stretch’d thus far, let us beseech you
+That for our gold we may provision have,
+Wherein we are not destitute for want,
+But weary for the staleness.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+O, sir, a courtesy
+Which if we should deny, the most just gods
+For every graff would send a caterpillar,
+And so inflict our province. Yet once more
+Let me entreat to know at large the cause
+Of your king’s sorrow.
+
+HELICANUS.
+Sit, sir, I will recount it to you:
+But, see, I am prevented.
+
+ Re-enter from the barge, Lord with Marina and a young Lady.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+O, here is the lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one!
+Is’t not a goodly presence?
+
+HELICANUS.
+She’s a gallant lady.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+She’s such a one, that, were I well assured
+Came of a gentle kind and noble stock,
+I’d wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed.
+Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty
+Expect even here, where is a kingly patient:
+If that thy prosperous and artificial feat
+Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,
+Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay
+As thy desires can wish.
+
+MARINA.
+Sir, I will use
+My utmost skill in his recovery, provided
+That none but I and my companion maid
+Be suffer’d to come near him.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Come, let us leave her,
+And the gods make her prosperous!
+
+ [_Marina sings._]
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Mark’d he your music?
+
+MARINA.
+No, nor look’d on us.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+See, she will speak to him.
+
+MARINA.
+Hail, sir! My lord, lend ear.
+
+PERICLES.
+Hum, ha!
+
+MARINA.
+I am a maid,
+My lord, that ne’er before invited eyes,
+But have been gazed on like a comet: she speaks,
+My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief
+Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh’d.
+Though wayward Fortune did malign my state,
+My derivation was from ancestors
+Who stood equivalent with mighty kings:
+But time hath rooted out my parentage,
+And to the world and awkward casualties
+Bound me in servitude.
+[_Aside._] I will desist;
+But there is something glows upon my cheek,
+And whispers in mine ear ‘Go not till he speak.’
+
+PERICLES.
+My fortunes—parentage—good parentage—
+To equal mine!—was it not thus? what say you?
+
+MARINA.
+I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,
+You would not do me violence.
+
+PERICLES.
+I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me.
+You are like something that—what country-woman?
+Here of these shores?
+
+MARINA.
+No, nor of any shores:
+Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am
+No other than I appear.
+
+PERICLES.
+I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.
+My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one
+My daughter might have been: my queen’s square brows;
+Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight;
+As silver-voiced; her eyes as jewel-like
+And cased as richly; in pace another Juno;
+Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry,
+The more she gives them speech. Where do you live?
+
+MARINA.
+Where I am but a stranger: from the deck
+You may discern the place.
+
+PERICLES.
+Where were you bred?
+And how achieved you these endowments, which
+You make more rich to owe?
+
+MARINA.
+If I should tell my history, it would seem
+Like lies disdain’d in the reporting.
+
+PERICLES.
+Prithee, speak:
+Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou look’st
+Modest as Justice, and thou seem’st a palace
+For the crown’d Truth to dwell in: I will believe thee,
+And make my senses credit thy relation
+To points that seem impossible; for thou look’st
+Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?
+Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back—
+Which was when I perceived thee—that thou cam’st
+From good descending?
+
+MARINA.
+So indeed I did.
+
+PERICLES.
+Report thy parentage. I think thou said’st
+Thou hadst been toss’d from wrong to injury,
+And that thou thought’st thy griefs might equal mine,
+If both were open’d.
+
+MARINA.
+Some such thing,
+I said, and said no more but what my thoughts
+Did warrant me was likely.
+
+PERICLES.
+Tell thy story;
+If thine consider’d prove the thousand part
+Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I
+Have suffer’d like a girl: yet thou dost look
+Like Patience gazing on kings’ graves, and smiling
+Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?
+How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?
+Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me.
+
+MARINA.
+My name is Marina.
+
+PERICLES.
+O, I am mock’d,
+And thou by some incensed god sent hither
+To make the world to laugh at me.
+
+MARINA.
+Patience, good sir,
+Or here I’ll cease.
+
+PERICLES.
+Nay, I’ll be patient.
+Thou little know’st how thou dost startle me,
+To call thyself Marina.
+
+MARINA.
+The name
+Was given me by one that had some power,
+My father, and a king.
+
+PERICLES.
+How! a king’s daughter?
+And call’d Marina?
+
+MARINA.
+You said you would believe me;
+But, not to be a troubler of your peace,
+I will end here.
+
+PERICLES.
+But are you flesh and blood?
+Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy?
+Motion! Well; speak on. Where were you born?
+And wherefore call’d Marina?
+
+MARINA.
+Call’d Marina
+For I was born at sea.
+
+PERICLES.
+At sea! What mother?
+
+MARINA.
+My mother was the daughter of a king;
+Who died the minute I was born,
+As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft
+Deliver’d weeping.
+
+PERICLES.
+O, stop there a little! [_Aside._] This is the rarest dream that e’er
+dull sleep
+Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be:
+My daughter, buried. Well, where were you bred?
+I’ll hear you more, to the bottom of your story,
+And never interrupt you.
+
+MARINA.
+You scorn: believe me, ’twere best I did give o’er.
+
+PERICLES.
+I will believe you by the syllable
+Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:
+How came you in these parts? Where were you bred?
+
+MARINA.
+The king my father did in Tarsus leave me;
+Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,
+Did seek to murder me: and having woo’d
+A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do’t,
+A crew of pirates came and rescued me;
+Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir.
+Whither will you have me? Why do you weep? It may be,
+You think me an impostor: no, good faith;
+I am the daughter to King Pericles,
+If good King Pericles be.
+
+PERICLES.
+Ho, Helicanus!
+
+ Enter Helicanus and Lysimachus.
+
+HELICANUS.
+Calls my lord?
+
+PERICLES.
+Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,
+Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst,
+What this maid is, or what is like to be,
+That thus hath made me weep.
+
+HELICANUS.
+I know not,
+But here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene
+Speaks nobly of her.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+She would never tell
+Her parentage; being demanded that,
+She would sit still and weep.
+
+PERICLES.
+O Helicanus, strike me, honour’d sir;
+Give me a gash, put me to present pain;
+Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
+O’erbear the shores of my mortality,
+And drown me with their sweetness.
+[_To Marina_] O, come hither,
+Thou that beget’st him that did thee beget;
+Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,
+And found at sea again! O Helicanus,
+Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud
+As thunder threatens us: this is Marina.
+What was thy mother’s name? tell me but that,
+For truth can never be confirm’d enough,
+Though doubts did ever sleep.
+
+MARINA.
+First, sir, I pray, what is your title?
+
+PERICLES.
+I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now
+My drown’d queen’s name, as in the rest you said
+Thou hast been godlike perfect,
+The heir of kingdoms and another life
+To Pericles thy father.
+
+MARINA.
+Is it no more to be your daughter than
+To say my mother’s name was Thaisa?
+Thaisa was my mother, who did end
+The minute I began.
+
+PERICLES.
+Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child.
+Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus;
+She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,
+By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;
+When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge
+She is thy very princess. Who is this?
+
+HELICANUS.
+Sir, ’tis the governor of Mytilene,
+Who, hearing of your melancholy state,
+Did come to see you.
+
+PERICLES.
+I embrace you.
+Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding.
+O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music?
+Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him
+O’er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,
+How sure you are my daughter. But, what music?
+
+HELICANUS.
+My lord, I hear none.
+
+PERICLES.
+None!
+The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+It is not good to cross him; give him way.
+
+PERICLES.
+Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Music, my lord? I hear.
+
+ [_Music._]
+
+PERICLES.
+Most heavenly music!
+It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber
+Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest.
+
+ [_Sleeps._]
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+A pillow for his head:
+So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends,
+If this but answer to my just belief,
+I’ll well remember you.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Pericles._]
+
+ Diana appears to Pericles as in a vision.
+
+DIANA.
+My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither,
+And do upon mine altar sacrifice.
+There, when my maiden priests are met together,
+Before the people all,
+Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:
+To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter’s, call
+And give them repetition to the life.
+Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe:
+Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!
+Awake and tell thy dream.
+
+ [_Disappears._]
+
+PERICLES.
+Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,
+I will obey thee. Helicanus!
+
+ Re-enter Helicanus, Lysimachus and Marina.
+
+HELICANUS.
+Sir?
+
+PERICLES.
+My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike
+The inhospitable Cleon; but I am
+For other service first: toward Ephesus
+Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I’ll tell thee why.
+[_To Lysimachus._] Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,
+And give you gold for such provision
+As our intents will need?
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Sir, with all my heart,
+And when you come ashore I have another suit.
+
+PERICLES.
+You shall prevail, were it to woo my daughter;
+For it seems you have been noble towards her.
+
+LYSIMACHUS.
+Sir, lend me your arm.
+
+PERICLES.
+Come, my Marina.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+SCENE II.
+
+ Enter Gower before the temple of Diana at Ephesus.
+
+GOWER.
+Now our sands are almost run;
+More a little, and then dumb.
+This, my last boon, give me,
+For such kindness must relieve me,
+That you aptly will suppose
+What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
+What minstrelsy, and pretty din,
+The regent made in Mytilene
+To greet the king. So he thrived,
+That he is promised to be wived
+To fair Marina; but in no wise
+Till he had done his sacrifice,
+As Dian bade: whereto being bound,
+The interim, pray you, all confound.
+In feather’d briefness sails are fill’d,
+And wishes fall out as they’re will’d.
+At Ephesus, the temple see,
+Our king and all his company.
+That he can hither come so soon,
+Is by your fancy’s thankful doom.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+SCENE III. The temple of Diana at Ephesus; Thaisa standing near the
+altar, as high priestess; a number of Virgins on each side; Cerimon and
+other inhabitants of Ephesus attending.
+
+ Enter Pericles with his train; Lysimachus, Helicanus, Marina and a
+ Lady.
+
+PERICLES.
+Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,
+I here confess myself the King of Tyre;
+Who, frighted from my country, did wed
+At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa.
+At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
+A maid child call’d Marina; whom, O goddess,
+Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus
+Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years
+He sought to murder: but her better stars
+Brought her to Mytilene; ’gainst whose shore
+Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,
+Where by her own most clear remembrance, she
+Made known herself my daughter.
+
+THAISA.
+Voice and favour!
+You are, you are—O royal Pericles!
+
+ [_Faints._]
+
+PERICLES.
+What means the nun? She dies! help, gentlemen!
+
+CERIMON.
+Noble sir,
+If you have told Diana’s altar true,
+This is your wife.
+
+PERICLES.
+Reverend appearer, no;
+I threw her overboard with these very arms.
+
+CERIMON.
+Upon this coast, I warrant you.
+
+PERICLES.
+’Tis most certain.
+
+CERIMON.
+Look to the lady; O, she’s but o’er-joy’d.
+Early in blustering morn this lady was
+Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin,
+Found there rich jewels; recover’d her, and placed her
+Here in Diana’s temple.
+
+PERICLES.
+May we see them?
+
+CERIMON.
+Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,
+Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is
+Recovered.
+
+THAISA.
+O, let me look!
+If he be none of mine, my sanctity
+Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
+But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
+Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,
+Like him you are: did you not name a tempest,
+A birth, and death?
+
+PERICLES.
+The voice of dead Thaisa!
+
+THAISA.
+That Thaisa am I, supposed dead
+And drown’d.
+
+PERICLES.
+Immortal Dian!
+
+THAISA.
+Now I know you better,
+When we with tears parted Pentapolis,
+The king my father gave you such a ring.
+
+ [_Shows a ring._]
+
+PERICLES.
+This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness
+Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well,
+That on the touching of her lips I may
+Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried
+A second time within these arms.
+
+MARINA.
+My heart
+Leaps to be gone into my mother’s bosom.
+
+ [_Kneels to Thaisa._]
+
+PERICLES.
+Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa;
+Thy burden at the sea, and call’d Marina
+For she was yielded there.
+
+THAISA.
+Blest, and mine own!
+
+HELICANUS.
+Hail, madam, and my queen!
+
+THAISA.
+I know you not.
+
+PERICLES.
+You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,
+I left behind an ancient substitute:
+Can you remember what I call’d the man?
+I have named him oft.
+
+THAISA.
+’Twas Helicanus then.
+
+PERICLES.
+Still confirmation:
+Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.
+Now do I long to hear how you were found:
+How possibly preserved; and who to thank,
+Besides the gods, for this great miracle.
+
+THAISA.
+Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man,
+Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can
+From first to last resolve you.
+
+PERICLES.
+Reverend sir,
+The gods can have no mortal officer
+More like a god than you. Will you deliver
+How this dead queen relives?
+
+CERIMON.
+I will, my lord.
+Beseech you, first go with me to my house,
+Where shall be shown you all was found with her;
+How she came placed here in the temple;
+No needful thing omitted.
+
+PERICLES.
+Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I
+Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,
+This prince, the fair betrothed of your daughter,
+Shall marry her at Pentapolis.
+And now this ornament
+Makes me look dismal will I clip to form;
+And what this fourteen years no razor touch’d
+To grace thy marriage-day, I’ll beautify.
+
+THAISA.
+Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,
+My father’s dead.
+
+PERICLES.
+Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,
+We’ll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves
+Will in that kingdom spend our following days:
+Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
+Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay
+To hear the rest untold. Sir, lead’s the way.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+ Enter Gower.
+
+GOWER.
+In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
+Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:
+In Pericles, his queen and daughter seen,
+Although assail’d with Fortune fierce and keen,
+Virtue preserved from fell destruction’s blast,
+Led on by heaven, and crown’d with joy at last.
+In Helicanus may you well descry
+A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:
+In reverend Cerimon there well appears
+The worth that learned charity aye wears:
+For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
+Had spread their cursed deed, the honour’d name
+Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,
+That him and his they in his palace burn.
+The gods for murder seemed so content
+To punish, although not done, but meant.
+So on your patience evermore attending,
+New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I.   London. A Room in the palace.
+ Scene II.  The same. A room in the Duke of Lancaster’s palace.
+ Scene III. Open Space, near Coventry. Lists set out, and a Throne. Heralds, &c., attending.
+ Scene IV.  London. A Room in the King’s Castle.
+ 
+ACT II
+ Scene I.   London. An Apartment in Ely House.
+ Scene II.  The Same. A Room in the Castle.
+ Scene III. The Wolds in Gloucestershire.
+ Scene IV.  A camp in Wales.
+ 
+ACT III
+ Scene I.   Bristol. Bolingbroke’s camp.
+ Scene II.  The coast of Wales. A castle in view.
+ Scene III. Wales. Before Flint Castle.
+ Scene IV.  Langley. The Duke of York’s garden.
+ 
+ACT IV
+ Scene I.   Westminster Hall.
+ 
+ACT V
+ Scene I.   London. A street leading to the Tower.
+ Scene II.  The same. A room in the Duke of York’s palace.
+ Scene III. Windsor. A room in the Castle.
+ Scene IV.  Another room in the Castle.
+ Scene V.   Pomfret. The dungeon of the Castle.
+ Scene VI.  Windsor. An Apartment in the Castle.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+KING RICHARD THE SECOND
+JOHN OF GAUNT, Duke of Lancaster - uncle to the King
+EDMUND LANGLEY, Duke of York - uncle to the King
+HENRY, surnamed BOLINGBROKE, Duke of Hereford, son of John of Gaunt,
+afterwards King Henry IV
+DUKE OF AUMERLE, son of the Duke of York
+THOMAS MOWBRAY, Duke of Norfolk
+DUKE OF SURREY
+EARL OF SALISBURY
+LORD BERKELEY
+BUSHY - Servant to King Richard
+BAGOT - Servant to King Richard
+GREEN - Servant to King Richard
+EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND
+HARRY PERCY, surnamed Hotspur, his son
+LORD ROSS
+LORD WILLOUGHBY
+LORD FITZWATER
+BISHOP OF CARLISLE
+ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER
+LORD MARSHAL
+SIR PIERCE OF EXTON
+SIR STEPHEN SCROOP
+Captain of a band of Welshmen
+
+QUEEN TO KING RICHARD
+DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER
+DUCHESS OF YORK
+Lady attending on the Queen
+
+Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Gardeners, Keeper, Messenger,
+Groom, and other Attendants
+
+SCENE: Dispersedly in England and Wales.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. London. A Room in the palace.
+
+
+ Enter King Richard, John of Gaunt, with other Nobles and Attendants.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,
+Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,
+Brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son,
+Here to make good the boist’rous late appeal,
+Which then our leisure would not let us hear,
+Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?
+
+GAUNT.
+I have, my liege.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him
+If he appeal the Duke on ancient malice,
+Or worthily, as a good subject should,
+On some known ground of treachery in him?
+
+GAUNT.
+As near as I could sift him on that argument,
+On some apparent danger seen in him
+Aimed at your Highness, no inveterate malice.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Then call them to our presence. Face to face
+And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear
+The accuser and the accused freely speak.
+High-stomached are they both and full of ire,
+In rage, deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.
+
+Enter Bolingbroke and Mowbray.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Many years of happy days befall
+My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege!
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Each day still better other’s happiness
+Until the heavens, envying earth’s good hap,
+Add an immortal title to your crown!
+
+KING RICHARD.
+We thank you both. Yet one but flatters us,
+As well appeareth by the cause you come,
+Namely, to appeal each other of high treason.
+Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object
+Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+First—heaven be the record to my speech!—
+In the devotion of a subject’s love,
+Tend’ring the precious safety of my prince,
+And free from other misbegotten hate,
+Come I appellant to this princely presence.
+Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee,
+And mark my greeting well; for what I speak
+My body shall make good upon this earth,
+Or my divine soul answer it in heaven.
+Thou art a traitor and a miscreant,
+Too good to be so and too bad to live,
+Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,
+The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.
+Once more, the more to aggravate the note,
+With a foul traitor’s name stuff I thy throat,
+And wish, so please my sovereign, ere I move,
+What my tongue speaks, my right-drawn sword may prove.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal.
+’Tis not the trial of a woman’s war,
+The bitter clamour of two eager tongues,
+Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain;
+The blood is hot that must be cooled for this.
+Yet can I not of such tame patience boast
+As to be hushed and naught at all to say.
+First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me
+From giving reins and spurs to my free speech,
+Which else would post until it had returned
+These terms of treason doubled down his throat.
+Setting aside his high blood’s royalty,
+And let him be no kinsman to my liege,
+I do defy him, and I spit at him,
+Call him a slanderous coward and a villain;
+Which to maintain, I would allow him odds
+And meet him, were I tied to run afoot
+Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,
+Or any other ground inhabitable
+Wherever Englishman durst set his foot.
+Meantime let this defend my loyalty:
+By all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Pale trembling coward, there I throw my gage,
+Disclaiming here the kindred of the King,
+And lay aside my high blood’s royalty,
+Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except.
+If guilty dread have left thee so much strength
+As to take up mine honour’s pawn, then stoop.
+By that and all the rites of knighthood else,
+Will I make good against thee, arm to arm,
+What I have spoke or thou canst worst devise.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+I take it up; and by that sword I swear
+Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,
+I’ll answer thee in any fair degree
+Or chivalrous design of knightly trial.
+And when I mount, alive may I not light
+If I be traitor or unjustly fight!
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray’s charge?
+It must be great that can inherit us
+So much as of a thought of ill in him.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Look what I speak, my life shall prove it true:
+That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles
+In name of lendings for your highness’ soldiers,
+The which he hath detained for lewd employments,
+Like a false traitor and injurious villain.
+Besides I say, and will in battle prove,
+Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge
+That ever was surveyed by English eye,
+That all the treasons for these eighteen years
+Complotted and contrived in this land
+Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
+Further I say, and further will maintain
+Upon his bad life to make all this good,
+That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester’s death,
+Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,
+And consequently, like a traitor coward,
+Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood,
+Which blood, like sacrificing Abel’s, cries
+Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth
+To me for justice and rough chastisement.
+And, by the glorious worth of my descent,
+This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+How high a pitch his resolution soars!
+Thomas of Norfolk, what sayst thou to this?
+
+MOWBRAY.
+O! let my sovereign turn away his face
+And bid his ears a little while be deaf,
+Till I have told this slander of his blood
+How God and good men hate so foul a liar.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears.
+Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom’s heir,
+As he is but my father’s brother’s son,
+Now, by my sceptre’s awe I make a vow
+Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood
+Should nothing privilege him nor partialize
+The unstooping firmness of my upright soul.
+He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou.
+Free speech and fearless I to thee allow.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart,
+Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.
+Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais
+Disbursed I duly to his highness’ soldiers;
+The other part reserved I by consent,
+For that my sovereign liege was in my debt
+Upon remainder of a dear account
+Since last I went to France to fetch his queen.
+Now swallow down that lie. For Gloucester’s death,
+I slew him not, but to my own disgrace
+Neglected my sworn duty in that case.
+For you, my noble Lord of Lancaster,
+The honourable father to my foe,
+Once did I lay an ambush for your life,
+A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul;
+But ere I last received the sacrament
+I did confess it and exactly begged
+Your Grace’s pardon, and I hope I had it.
+This is my fault. As for the rest appealed,
+It issues from the rancour of a villain,
+A recreant and most degenerate traitor,
+Which in myself I boldly will defend,
+And interchangeably hurl down my gage
+Upon this overweening traitor’s foot,
+To prove myself a loyal gentleman
+Even in the best blood chambered in his bosom.
+In haste whereof most heartily I pray
+Your highness to assign our trial day.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me.
+Let’s purge this choler without letting blood.
+This we prescribe, though no physician;
+Deep malice makes too deep incision.
+Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed;
+Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.
+Good uncle, let this end where it begun;
+We’ll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son.
+
+GAUNT.
+To be a make-peace shall become my age.
+Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk’s gage.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+And, Norfolk, throw down his.
+
+GAUNT.
+When, Harry, when?
+Obedience bids I should not bid again.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Norfolk, throw down, we bid; there is no boot.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot.
+My life thou shalt command, but not my shame.
+The one my duty owes; but my fair name,
+Despite of death that lives upon my grave,
+To dark dishonour’s use thou shalt not have.
+I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,
+Pierced to the soul with slander’s venomed spear,
+The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
+Which breathed this poison.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Rage must be withstood.
+Give me his gage. Lions make leopards tame.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Yea, but not change his spots. Take but my shame,
+And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,
+The purest treasure mortal times afford
+Is spotless reputation; that away,
+Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
+A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest
+Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
+Mine honour is my life; both grow in one.
+Take honour from me, and my life is done.
+Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try;
+In that I live, and for that will I die.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Cousin, throw up your gage; do you begin.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+O, God defend my soul from such deep sin!
+Shall I seem crest-fallen in my father’s sight?
+Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height
+Before this outdared dastard? Ere my tongue
+Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong
+Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear
+The slavish motive of recanting fear
+And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace,
+Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray’s face.
+
+ [_Exit Gaunt._]
+
+KING RICHARD.
+We were not born to sue, but to command;
+Which since we cannot do to make you friends,
+Be ready, as your lives shall answer it,
+At Coventry upon Saint Lambert’s day.
+There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
+The swelling difference of your settled hate.
+Since we cannot atone you, we shall see
+Justice design the victor’s chivalry.
+Lord Marshal, command our officers-at-arms
+Be ready to direct these home alarms.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A room in the Duke of Lancaster’s palace.
+
+ Enter John of Gaunt with the Duchess of Gloucester.
+
+GAUNT.
+Alas, the part I had in Woodstock’s blood
+Doth more solicit me than your exclaims
+To stir against the butchers of his life.
+But since correction lieth in those hands
+Which made the fault that we cannot correct,
+Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven,
+Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth,
+Will rain hot vengeance on offenders’ heads.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur?
+Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?
+Edward’s seven sons, whereof thyself art one,
+Were as seven vials of his sacred blood,
+Or seven fair branches springing from one root.
+Some of those seven are dried by nature’s course,
+Some of those branches by the Destinies cut;
+But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester,
+One vial full of Edward’s sacred blood,
+One flourishing branch of his most royal root,
+Is cracked, and all the precious liquor spilt,
+Is hacked down, and his summer leaves all faded,
+By envy’s hand and murder’s bloody axe.
+Ah, Gaunt! his blood was thine! That bed, that womb,
+That metal, that self mould, that fashioned thee
+Made him a man; and though thou livest and breathest,
+Yet art thou slain in him. Thou dost consent
+In some large measure to thy father’s death
+In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,
+Who was the model of thy father’s life.
+Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair.
+In suff’ring thus thy brother to be slaughtered,
+Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life,
+Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee.
+That which in mean men we entitle patience
+Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
+What shall I say? To safeguard thine own life,
+The best way is to venge my Gloucester’s death.
+
+GAUNT.
+God’s is the quarrel; for God’s substitute,
+His deputy anointed in His sight,
+Hath caused his death, the which if wrongfully,
+Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift
+An angry arm against His minister.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Where then, alas! may I complain myself?
+
+GAUNT.
+To God, the widow’s champion and defence.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Why then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt.
+Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold
+Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight.
+O, sit my husband’s wrongs on Hereford’s spear,
+That it may enter butcher Mowbray’s breast!
+Or if misfortune miss the first career,
+Be Mowbray’s sins so heavy in his bosom
+That they may break his foaming courser’s back
+And throw the rider headlong in the lists,
+A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford!
+Farewell, old Gaunt. Thy sometimes brother’s wife
+With her companion, Grief, must end her life.
+
+GAUNT.
+Sister, farewell; I must to Coventry.
+As much good stay with thee as go with me!
+
+DUCHESS.
+Yet one word more. Grief boundeth where it falls,
+Not with the empty hollowness, but weight.
+I take my leave before I have begun,
+For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
+Commend me to thy brother, Edmund York.
+Lo, this is all. Nay, yet depart not so!
+Though this be all, do not so quickly go;
+I shall remember more. Bid him—ah, what?—
+With all good speed at Plashy visit me.
+Alack, and what shall good old York there see
+But empty lodgings and unfurnished walls,
+Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones?
+And what hear there for welcome but my groans?
+Therefore commend me; let him not come there
+To seek out sorrow that dwells everywhere.
+Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die!
+The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Open Space, near Coventry. Lists set out, and a Throne.
+Heralds, &c., attending.
+
+ Enter the Lord Marshal and the Duke of Aumerle.
+
+MARSHAL.
+My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford armed?
+
+AUMERLE.
+Yea, at all points, and longs to enter in.
+
+MARSHAL.
+The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,
+Stays but the summons of the appelant’s trumpet.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Why then, the champions are prepared and stay
+For nothing but his Majesty’s approach.
+
+ Enter King Richard, who takes his seat on his Throne; Gaunt, Bushy,
+ Bagot, Green and others, who take their places. A trumpet is sounded,
+ and answered by another trumpet within. Then enter Mowbray in armour,
+ defendant, preceded by a Herald.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Marshal, demand of yonder champion
+The cause of his arrival here in arms.
+Ask him his name, and orderly proceed
+To swear him in the justice of his cause.
+
+MARSHAL.
+In God’s name and the King’s, say who thou art,
+And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms,
+Against what man thou com’st, and what thy quarrel.
+Speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath,
+As so defend thee heaven and thy valour.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
+Who hither come engaged by my oath—
+Which God defend a knight should violate!—
+Both to defend my loyalty and truth
+To God, my King, and my succeeding issue,
+Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me,
+And, by the grace of God and this mine arm,
+To prove him, in defending of myself,
+A traitor to my God, my king, and me;
+And as I truly fight, defend me heaven.
+
+ [_He takes his seat._]
+
+ Trumpet sounds. Enter Bolingbroke, appellant, in armour, preceded by
+ a Herald.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Marshal, ask yonder knight in arms
+Both who he is and why he cometh hither
+Thus plated in habiliments of war,
+And formally, according to our law,
+Depose him in the justice of his cause.
+
+MARSHAL.
+What is thy name? And wherefore com’st thou hither
+Before King Richard in his royal lists?
+Against whom comest thou? and what’s thy quarrel?
+Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven!
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,
+Am I, who ready here do stand in arms
+To prove by God’s grace and my body’s valour,
+In lists, on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
+That he’s a traitor foul and dangerous,
+To God of heaven, King Richard, and to me.
+And as I truly fight, defend me heaven.
+
+MARSHAL.
+On pain of death, no person be so bold
+Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,
+Except the Marshal and such officers
+Appointed to direct these fair designs.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Lord Marshal, let me kiss my sovereign’s hand
+And bow my knee before his Majesty.
+For Mowbray and myself are like two men
+That vow a long and weary pilgrimage;
+Then let us take a ceremonious leave
+And loving farewell of our several friends.
+
+MARSHAL.
+The appellant in all duty greets your highness
+And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave.
+
+KING RICHARD. [_Descends from his throne_.]
+We will descend and fold him in our arms.
+Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right,
+So be thy fortune in this royal fight.
+Farewell, my blood, which if today thou shed,
+Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+O, let no noble eye profane a tear
+For me, if I be gored with Mowbray’s spear.
+As confident as is the falcon’s flight
+Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.
+My loving lord, I take my leave of you.
+Of you, my noble cousin, Lord Aumerle;
+Not sick, although I have to do with death,
+But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.
+Lo! as at English feasts, so I regreet
+The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.
+O thou, the earthly author of my blood,
+Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,
+Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up
+To reach at victory above my head,
+Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers,
+And with thy blessings steel my lance’s point,
+That it may enter Mowbray’s waxen coat
+And furbish new the name of John o’ Gaunt,
+Even in the lusty haviour of his son.
+
+GAUNT.
+God in thy good cause make thee prosperous.
+Be swift like lightning in the execution,
+And let thy blows, doubly redoubled,
+Fall like amazing thunder on the casque
+Of thy adverse pernicious enemy.
+Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Mine innocence and Saint George to thrive!
+
+ [_He takes his seat._]
+
+MOWBRAY. [_Rising_.]
+However God or fortune cast my lot,
+There lives or dies, true to King Richard’s throne,
+A loyal, just, and upright gentleman.
+Never did captive with a freer heart
+Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace
+His golden uncontrolled enfranchisement,
+More than my dancing soul doth celebrate
+This feast of battle with mine adversary.
+Most mighty liege, and my companion peers,
+Take from my mouth the wish of happy years.
+As gentle and as jocund as to jest
+Go I to fight. Truth hath a quiet breast.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Farewell, my lord. Securely I espy
+Virtue with valour couched in thine eye.
+Order the trial, Marshal, and begin.
+
+ [_The King and the Lords return to their seats._]
+
+MARSHAL.
+Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,
+Receive thy lance; and God defend the right.
+
+BOLINGBROKE. [_Rising_.]
+Strong as a tower in hope, I cry “Amen”!
+
+MARSHAL.
+[_To an officer_.] Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.
+
+FIRST HERALD.
+Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,
+Stands here for God, his sovereign, and himself,
+On pain to be found false and recreant,
+To prove the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,
+A traitor to his God, his King, and him,
+And dares him to set forward to the fight.
+
+SECOND HERALD.
+Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
+On pain to be found false and recreant,
+Both to defend himself and to approve
+Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,
+To God, his sovereign, and to him disloyal,
+Courageously and with a free desire,
+Attending but the signal to begin.
+
+MARSHAL.
+Sound trumpets, and set forward, combatants.
+
+ [_A charge sounded._]
+
+Stay! the King hath thrown his warder down.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,
+And both return back to their chairs again.
+Withdraw with us, and let the trumpets sound
+While we return these dukes what we decree.
+
+ [_A long flourish._]
+
+[_To the Combatants_.] Draw near,
+And list what with our council we have done.
+For that our kingdom’s earth should not be soiled
+With that dear blood which it hath fostered;
+And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
+Of civil wounds ploughed up with neighbours’ swords;
+And for we think the eagle-winged pride
+Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts,
+With rival-hating envy, set on you
+To wake our peace, which in our country’s cradle
+Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep,
+Which so roused up with boist’rous untuned drums,
+With harsh-resounding trumpets’ dreadful bray,
+And grating shock of wrathful iron arms,
+Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace
+And make us wade even in our kindred’s blood:
+Therefore we banish you our territories.
+You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life,
+Till twice five summers have enriched our fields
+Shall not regreet our fair dominions,
+But tread the stranger paths of banishment.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Your will be done. This must my comfort be:
+That sun that warms you here shall shine on me,
+And those his golden beams to you here lent
+Shall point on me and gild my banishment.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,
+Which I with some unwillingness pronounce:
+The sly slow hours shall not determinate
+The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
+The hopeless word of “never to return”
+Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,
+And all unlooked for from your highness’ mouth.
+A dearer merit, not so deep a maim
+As to be cast forth in the common air,
+Have I deserved at your highness’ hands.
+The language I have learnt these forty years,
+My native English, now I must forgo;
+And now my tongue’s use is to me no more
+Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
+Or like a cunning instrument cased up
+Or, being open, put into his hands
+That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
+Within my mouth you have engaoled my tongue,
+Doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips,
+And dull unfeeling, barren ignorance
+Is made my gaoler to attend on me.
+I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
+Too far in years to be a pupil now.
+What is thy sentence, then, but speechless death,
+Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+It boots thee not to be compassionate.
+After our sentence plaining comes too late.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+Then thus I turn me from my country’s light,
+To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.
+
+ [_Retiring._]
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Return again, and take an oath with thee.
+Lay on our royal sword your banished hands.
+Swear by the duty that you owe to God—
+Our part therein we banish with yourselves—
+To keep the oath that we administer:
+You never shall, so help you truth and God,
+Embrace each other’s love in banishment;
+Nor never look upon each other’s face;
+Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile
+This louring tempest of your home-bred hate;
+Nor never by advised purpose meet
+To plot, contrive, or complot any ill
+’Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+I swear.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+And I, to keep all this.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:
+By this time, had the King permitted us,
+One of our souls had wandered in the air,
+Banished this frail sepulchre of our flesh,
+As now our flesh is banished from this land.
+Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm.
+Since thou hast far to go, bear not along
+The clogging burden of a guilty soul.
+
+MOWBRAY.
+No, Bolingbroke. If ever I were traitor,
+My name be blotted from the book of life,
+And I from heaven banished as from hence!
+But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know;
+And all too soon, I fear, the King shall rue.
+Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray;
+Save back to England, all the world’s my way.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes
+I see thy grieved heart. Thy sad aspect
+Hath from the number of his banished years
+Plucked four away. [_To Bolingbroke_.] Six frozen winters spent,
+Return with welcome home from banishment.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+How long a time lies in one little word!
+Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
+End in a word: such is the breath of kings.
+
+GAUNT.
+I thank my liege that in regard of me
+He shortens four years of my son’s exile;
+But little vantage shall I reap thereby,
+For, ere the six years that he hath to spend
+Can change their moons and bring their times about,
+My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light
+Shall be extinct with age and endless night;
+My inch of taper will be burnt and done,
+And blindfold death not let me see my son.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Why, uncle, thou hast many years to live.
+
+GAUNT.
+But not a minute, king, that thou canst give.
+Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
+And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow.
+Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
+But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;
+Thy word is current with him for my death,
+But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Thy son is banished upon good advice,
+Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave.
+Why at our justice seem’st thou then to lour?
+
+GAUNT.
+Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
+You urged me as a judge, but I had rather
+You would have bid me argue like a father.
+O, had it been a stranger, not my child,
+To smooth his fault I should have been more mild.
+A partial slander sought I to avoid,
+And in the sentence my own life destroyed.
+Alas, I looked when some of you should say
+I was too strict to make mine own away;
+But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
+Against my will to do myself this wrong.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Cousin, farewell, and, uncle, bid him so.
+Six years we banish him, and he shall go.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exit King Richard and Train._]
+
+AUMERLE.
+Cousin, farewell. What presence must not know,
+From where you do remain let paper show.
+
+MARSHAL.
+My lord, no leave take I, for I will ride,
+As far as land will let me, by your side.
+
+GAUNT.
+O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,
+That thou return’st no greeting to thy friends?
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+I have too few to take my leave of you,
+When the tongue’s office should be prodigal
+To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.
+
+GAUNT.
+Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Joy absent, grief is present for that time.
+
+GAUNT.
+What is six winters? They are quickly gone.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten.
+
+GAUNT.
+Call it a travel that thou tak’st for pleasure.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+My heart will sigh when I miscall it so,
+Which finds it an enforced pilgrimage.
+
+GAUNT.
+The sullen passage of thy weary steps
+Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set
+The precious jewel of thy home return.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make
+Will but remember me what a deal of world
+I wander from the jewels that I love.
+Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
+To foreign passages, and in the end,
+Having my freedom, boast of nothing else
+But that I was a journeyman to grief?
+
+GAUNT.
+All places that the eye of heaven visits
+Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
+Teach thy necessity to reason thus:
+There is no virtue like necessity.
+Think not the King did banish thee,
+But thou the King. Woe doth the heavier sit
+Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
+Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour,
+And not the King exiled thee; or suppose
+Devouring pestilence hangs in our air,
+And thou art flying to a fresher clime.
+Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
+To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com’st.
+Suppose the singing birds musicians,
+The grass whereon thou tread’st the presence strewed,
+The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
+Than a delightful measure or a dance;
+For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
+The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+O, who can hold a fire in his hand
+By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
+Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
+By bare imagination of a feast?
+Or wallow naked in December snow
+By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat?
+O no, the apprehension of the good
+Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
+Fell sorrow’s tooth doth never rankle more
+Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore.
+
+GAUNT.
+Come, come, my son, I’ll bring thee on thy way.
+Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Then, England’s ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu,
+My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!
+Where’er I wander, boast of this I can,
+Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. A Room in the King’s Castle
+
+ Enter King Richard, Green and Bagot at one door; Aumerle at another.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+We did observe.—Cousin Aumerle,
+How far brought you high Hereford on his way?
+
+AUMERLE.
+I brought high Hereford, if you call him so,
+But to the next highway, and there I left him.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+And say, what store of parting tears were shed?
+
+AUMERLE.
+Faith, none for me, except the northeast wind,
+Which then blew bitterly against our faces,
+Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance
+Did grace our hollow parting with a tear.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What said our cousin when you parted with him?
+
+AUMERLE.
+“Farewell.”
+And, for my heart disdained that my tongue
+Should so profane the word, that taught me craft
+To counterfeit oppression of such grief
+That words seemed buried in my sorrow’s grave.
+Marry, would the word “farewell” have lengthened hours
+And added years to his short banishment,
+He should have had a volume of farewells,
+But since it would not, he had none of me.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+He is our cousin, cousin, but ’tis doubt,
+When time shall call him home from banishment,
+Whether our kinsman come to see his friends.
+Ourself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green,
+Observed his courtship to the common people,
+How he did seem to dive into their hearts
+With humble and familiar courtesy,
+What reverence he did throw away on slaves,
+Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles
+And patient underbearing of his fortune,
+As ’twere to banish their affects with him.
+Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;
+A brace of draymen bid God speed him well,
+And had the tribute of his supple knee,
+With “Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends”,
+As were our England in reversion his,
+And he our subjects’ next degree in hope.
+
+GREEN.
+Well, he is gone, and with him go these thoughts.
+Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,
+Expedient manage must be made, my liege,
+Ere further leisure yield them further means
+For their advantage and your highness’ loss.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+We will ourself in person to this war.
+And, for our coffers, with too great a court
+And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,
+We are enforced to farm our royal realm,
+The revenue whereof shall furnish us
+For our affairs in hand. If that come short,
+Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters
+Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich,
+They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold,
+And send them after to supply our wants;
+For we will make for Ireland presently.
+
+ Enter Bushy.
+
+Bushy, what news?
+
+BUSHY.
+Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, my lord,
+Suddenly taken, and hath sent posthaste
+To entreat your Majesty to visit him.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Where lies he?
+
+BUSHY.
+At Ely House.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Now put it, God, in his physician’s mind
+To help him to his grave immediately!
+The lining of his coffers shall make coats
+To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars.
+Come, gentlemen, let’s all go visit him.
+Pray God we may make haste and come too late!
+
+ALL.
+Amen!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. London. An Apartment in Ely House.
+
+
+Gaunt on a couch; the Duke of York and Others standing by him.
+
+GAUNT.
+Will the King come, that I may breathe my last
+In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?
+
+YORK.
+Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath,
+For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.
+
+GAUNT.
+O, but they say the tongues of dying men
+Enforce attention like deep harmony.
+Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
+For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
+He that no more must say is listened more
+Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose.
+More are men’s ends marked than their lives before.
+The setting sun and music at the close,
+As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
+Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
+Though Richard my life’s counsel would not hear,
+My death’s sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.
+
+YORK.
+No, it is stopped with other flattering sounds,
+As praises, of whose state the wise are fond;
+Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound
+The open ear of youth doth always listen;
+Report of fashions in proud Italy,
+Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation
+Limps after in base imitation.
+Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity—
+So it be new, there’s no respect how vile—
+That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?
+Then all too late comes counsel to be heard,
+Where will doth mutiny with wit’s regard.
+Direct not him whose way himself will choose.
+’Tis breath thou lack’st, and that breath wilt thou lose.
+
+GAUNT.
+Methinks I am a prophet new inspired,
+And thus expiring do foretell of him:
+His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
+For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
+Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
+He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
+With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
+Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
+Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
+This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
+This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
+This other Eden, demi-paradise,
+This fortress built by Nature for herself
+Against infection and the hand of war,
+This happy breed of men, this little world,
+This precious stone set in the silver sea,
+Which serves it in the office of a wall
+Or as a moat defensive to a house,
+Against the envy of less happier lands;
+This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
+This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
+Feared by their breed, and famous by their birth,
+Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
+For Christian service and true chivalry,
+As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
+Of the world’s ransom, blessed Mary’s Son,
+This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
+Dear for her reputation through the world,
+Is now leased out—I die pronouncing it—
+Like to a tenement or pelting farm.
+England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
+Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
+Of wat’ry Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
+With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds
+That England that was wont to conquer others
+Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
+Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
+How happy then were my ensuing death!
+
+ Enter King Richard and Queen; Aumerle, Bushy, Green, Bagot, Ross and
+ Willoughby.
+
+YORK.
+The King is come. Deal mildly with his youth,
+For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.
+
+QUEEN.
+How fares our noble uncle, Lancaster?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What comfort, man? How is’t with aged Gaunt?
+
+GAUNT.
+O, how that name befits my composition!
+Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old.
+Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast,
+And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
+For sleeping England long time have I watched;
+Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt.
+The pleasure that some fathers feed upon
+Is my strict fast—I mean my children’s looks,
+And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt.
+Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,
+Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Can sick men play so nicely with their names?
+
+GAUNT.
+No, misery makes sport to mock itself.
+Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me,
+I mock my name, great king, to flatter thee.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Should dying men flatter with those that live?
+
+GAUNT.
+No, no, men living flatter those that die.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Thou, now a-dying, sayest thou flatterest me.
+
+GAUNT.
+O, no, thou diest, though I the sicker be.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.
+
+GAUNT.
+Now, He that made me knows I see thee ill,
+Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill.
+Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land,
+Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
+And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
+Committ’st thy anointed body to the cure
+Of those physicians that first wounded thee.
+A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
+Whose compass is no bigger than thy head;
+And yet, encaged in so small a verge,
+The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.
+O, had thy grandsire with a prophet’s eye
+Seen how his son’s son should destroy his sons,
+From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,
+Deposing thee before thou wert possessed,
+Which art possessed now to depose thyself.
+Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world,
+It were a shame to let this land by lease;
+But for thy world enjoying but this land,
+Is it not more than shame to shame it so?
+Landlord of England art thou now, not king.
+Thy state of law is bondslave to the law,
+And thou—
+
+KING RICHARD.
+A lunatic lean-witted fool,
+Presuming on an ague’s privilege,
+Darest with thy frozen admonition
+Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood
+With fury from his native residence.
+Now, by my seat’s right royal majesty,
+Wert thou not brother to great Edward’s son,
+This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head
+Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.
+
+GAUNT.
+O! spare me not, my brother Edward’s son,
+For that I was his father Edward’s son.
+That blood already, like the pelican,
+Hast thou tapped out, and drunkenly caroused.
+My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,
+Whom fair befall in heaven ’mongst happy souls!—
+May be a precedent and witness good
+That thou respect’st not spilling Edward’s blood.
+Join with the present sickness that I have,
+And thy unkindness be like crooked age
+To crop at once a too-long withered flower.
+Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
+These words hereafter thy tormentors be!
+Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
+Love they to live that love and honour have.
+
+ [_Exit, borne off by his Attendants._]
+
+KING RICHARD.
+And let them die that age and sullens have,
+For both hast thou, and both become the grave.
+
+YORK.
+I do beseech your Majesty, impute his words
+To wayward sickliness and age in him.
+He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear
+As Harry, Duke of Hereford, were he here.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Right, you say true: as Hereford’s love, so his;
+As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is.
+
+ Enter Northumberland.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your Majesty.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What says he?
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Nay, nothing; all is said.
+His tongue is now a stringless instrument;
+Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent.
+
+YORK.
+Be York the next that must be bankrupt so!
+Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he.
+His time is spent; our pilgrimage must be.
+So much for that. Now for our Irish wars:
+We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,
+Which live like venom where no venom else
+But only they have privilege to live.
+And, for these great affairs do ask some charge,
+Towards our assistance we do seize to us
+The plate, coin, revenues, and moveables
+Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possessed.
+
+YORK.
+How long shall I be patient? Ah, how long
+Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?
+Not Gloucester’s death, nor Hereford’s banishment,
+Nor Gaunt’s rebukes, nor England’s private wrongs,
+Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke
+About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,
+Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,
+Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign’s face.
+I am the last of noble Edward’s sons,
+Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first.
+In war was never lion raged more fierce,
+In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,
+Than was that young and princely gentleman.
+His face thou hast, for even so looked he,
+Accomplished with the number of thy hours;
+But when he frowned, it was against the French
+And not against his friends. His noble hand
+Did win what he did spend, and spent not that
+Which his triumphant father’s hand had won.
+His hands were guilty of no kindred’s blood,
+But bloody with the enemies of his kin.
+O Richard! York is too far gone with grief,
+Or else he never would compare between.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Why, uncle, what’s the matter?
+
+YORK.
+O my liege.
+Pardon me, if you please; if not, I, pleased
+Not to be pardoned, am content withal.
+Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
+The royalties and rights of banished Hereford?
+Is not Gaunt dead? And doth not Hereford live?
+Was not Gaunt just? And is not Harry true?
+Did not the one deserve to have an heir?
+Is not his heir a well-deserving son?
+Take Hereford’s rights away, and take from Time
+His charters and his customary rights;
+Let not tomorrow then ensue today;
+Be not thyself; for how art thou a king
+But by fair sequence and succession?
+Now, afore God—God forbid I say true!—
+If you do wrongfully seize Hereford’s rights,
+Call in the letters patents that he hath
+By his attorneys-general to sue
+His livery, and deny his offered homage,
+You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,
+You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts,
+And prick my tender patience to those thoughts
+Which honour and allegiance cannot think.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Think what you will, we seize into our hands
+His plate, his goods, his money, and his lands.
+
+YORK.
+I’ll not be by the while. My liege, farewell.
+What will ensue hereof there’s none can tell;
+But by bad courses may be understood
+That their events can never fall out good.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight.
+Bid him repair to us to Ely House
+To see this business. Tomorrow next
+We will for Ireland, and ’tis time, I trow.
+And we create, in absence of ourself,
+Our Uncle York Lord Governor of England,
+For he is just, and always loved us well.
+Come on, our queen. Tomorrow must we part;
+Be merry, for our time of stay is short.
+
+ [_Exeunt King, Queen, Bushy, Aumerle, Green and Bagot._]
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead.
+
+ROSS.
+And living too, for now his son is Duke.
+
+WILLOUGHBY.
+Barely in title, not in revenues.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Richly in both, if justice had her right.
+
+ROSS.
+My heart is great, but it must break with silence
+Ere’t be disburdened with a liberal tongue.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Nay, speak thy mind, and let him ne’er speak more
+That speaks thy words again to do thee harm!
+
+WILLOUGHBY.
+Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford?
+If it be so, out with it boldly, man.
+Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.
+
+ROSS.
+No good at all that I can do for him,
+Unless you call it good to pity him,
+Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Now, afore God, ’tis shame such wrongs are borne
+In him, a royal prince, and many moe
+Of noble blood in this declining land.
+The King is not himself, but basely led
+By flatterers; and what they will inform,
+Merely in hate ’gainst any of us all,
+That will the King severely prosecute
+’Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs.
+
+ROSS.
+The commons hath he pilled with grievous taxes,
+And quite lost their hearts. The nobles hath he fined
+For ancient quarrels and quite lost their hearts.
+
+WILLOUGHBY.
+And daily new exactions are devised,
+As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what.
+But what, i’ God’s name, doth become of this?
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Wars hath not wasted it, for warred he hath not,
+But basely yielded upon compromise
+That which his ancestors achieved with blows.
+More hath he spent in peace than they in wars.
+
+ROSS.
+The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm.
+
+WILLOUGHBY.
+The King’s grown bankrupt like a broken man.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him.
+
+ROSS.
+He hath not money for these Irish wars,
+His burdenous taxations notwithstanding,
+But by the robbing of the banished Duke.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+His noble kinsman. Most degenerate king!
+But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,
+Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm;
+We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,
+And yet we strike not, but securely perish.
+
+ROSS.
+We see the very wrack that we must suffer;
+And unavoided is the danger now
+For suffering so the causes of our wrack.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Not so. Even through the hollow eyes of death
+I spy life peering; but I dare not say
+How near the tidings of our comfort is.
+
+WILLOUGHBY.
+Nay, let us share thy thoughts as thou dost ours.
+
+ROSS.
+Be confident to speak, Northumberland.
+We three are but thyself, and, speaking so,
+Thy words are but as thoughts. Therefore be bold.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Then thus: I have from Le Port Blanc, a bay
+In Brittany, received intelligence
+That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,
+That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,
+His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,
+Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir John Ramston,
+Sir John Norbery, Sir Robert Waterton, and Francis Coint,
+All these well furnished by the Duke of Brittany
+With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,
+Are making hither with all due expedience,
+And shortly mean to touch our northern shore.
+Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay
+The first departing of the king for Ireland.
+If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,
+Imp out our drooping country’s broken wing,
+Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown,
+Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre’s gilt,
+And make high majesty look like itself,
+Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh.
+But if you faint, as fearing to do so,
+Stay and be secret, and myself will go.
+
+ROSS.
+To horse, to horse! Urge doubts to them that fear.
+
+WILLOUGHBY.
+Hold out my horse, and I will first be there.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The Same. A Room in the Castle.
+
+ Enter Queen, Bushy and Bagot.
+
+BUSHY.
+Madam, your Majesty is too much sad.
+You promised, when you parted with the King,
+To lay aside life-harming heaviness
+And entertain a cheerful disposition.
+
+QUEEN.
+To please the King I did; to please myself
+I cannot do it. Yet I know no cause
+Why I should welcome such a guest as grief,
+Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest
+As my sweet Richard. Yet again methinks,
+Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb,
+Is coming towards me, and my inward soul
+With nothing trembles. At something it grieves
+More than with parting from my lord the King.
+
+BUSHY.
+Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
+Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;
+For sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears,
+Divides one thing entire to many objects,
+Like perspectives which, rightly gazed upon,
+Show nothing but confusion; eyed awry,
+Distinguish form. So your sweet Majesty,
+Looking awry upon your lord’s departure,
+Find shapes of grief more than himself to wail,
+Which, looked on as it is, is naught but shadows
+Of what it is not. Then, thrice-gracious Queen,
+More than your lord’s departure weep not. More is not seen,
+Or if it be, ’tis with false sorrow’s eye,
+Which for things true weeps things imaginary.
+
+QUEEN.
+It may be so; but yet my inward soul
+Persuades me it is otherwise. Howe’er it be,
+I cannot but be sad—so heavy sad
+As thought, in thinking, on no thought I think,
+Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.
+
+BUSHY.
+’Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady.
+
+QUEEN.
+’Tis nothing less. Conceit is still derived
+From some forefather grief. Mine is not so,
+For nothing hath begot my something grief,
+Or something hath the nothing that I grieve.
+’Tis in reversion that I do possess,
+But what it is, that is not yet known what,
+I cannot name. ’Tis nameless woe, I wot.
+
+ Enter Green.
+
+GREEN.
+God save your majesty! And well met, gentlemen.
+I hope the King is not yet shipped for Ireland.
+
+QUEEN.
+Why hop’st thou so? ’Tis better hope he is,
+For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope.
+Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipped?
+
+GREEN.
+That he, our hope, might have retired his power,
+And driven into despair an enemy’s hope
+Who strongly hath set footing in this land.
+The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself,
+And with uplifted arms is safe arrived
+At Ravenspurgh.
+
+QUEEN.
+Now God in heaven forbid!
+
+GREEN.
+Ah, madam, ’tis too true; and that is worse,
+The Lord Northumberland, his son young Harry Percy,
+The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby,
+With all their powerful friends, are fled to him.
+
+BUSHY.
+Why have you not proclaimed Northumberland
+And all the rest revolted faction traitors?
+
+GREEN.
+We have, whereupon the Earl of Worcester
+Hath broken his staff, resigned his stewardship,
+And all the household servants fled with him
+To Bolingbroke.
+
+QUEEN.
+So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,
+And Bolingbroke my sorrow’s dismal heir.
+Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,
+And I, a gasping new-delivered mother,
+Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow joined.
+
+BUSHY.
+Despair not, madam.
+
+QUEEN.
+Who shall hinder me?
+I will despair and be at enmity
+With cozening hope. He is a flatterer,
+A parasite, a keeper-back of death,
+Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,
+Which false hope lingers in extremity.
+
+ Enter York.
+
+GREEN.
+Here comes the Duke of York.
+
+QUEEN.
+With signs of war about his aged neck.
+O! full of careful business are his looks!
+Uncle, for God’s sake, speak comfortable words.
+
+YORK.
+Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
+Comfort’s in heaven, and we are on the earth,
+Where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and grief.
+Your husband, he is gone to save far off,
+Whilst others come to make him lose at home.
+Here am I left to underprop his land,
+Who, weak with age, cannot support myself.
+Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;
+Now shall he try his friends that flattered him.
+
+ Enter a Servingman.
+
+SERVINGMAN.
+My lord, your son was gone before I came.
+
+YORK.
+He was? Why, so! Go all which way it will!
+The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold
+And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford’s side.
+Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;
+Bid her send me presently a thousand pound.
+Hold, take my ring.
+
+SERVINGMAN.
+My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship:
+Today, as I came by, I called there—
+But I shall grieve you to report the rest.
+
+YORK.
+What is’t, knave?
+
+SERVINGMAN.
+An hour before I came, the Duchess died.
+
+YORK.
+God for his mercy, what a tide of woes
+Comes rushing on this woeful land at once!
+I know not what to do. I would to God,
+So my untruth had not provoked him to it,
+The King had cut off my head with my brother’s.
+What, are there no posts dispatched for Ireland?
+How shall we do for money for these wars?
+Come, sister—cousin, I would say, pray, pardon me.
+Go, fellow, get thee home; provide some carts
+And bring away the armour that is there.
+
+ [_Exit Servingman._]
+
+Gentlemen, will you go muster men?
+If I know how or which way to order these affairs
+Thus disorderly thrust into my hands,
+Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen.
+Th’ one is my sovereign, whom both my oath
+And duty bids defend; th’ other again
+Is my kinsman, whom the King hath wronged,
+Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right.
+Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin,
+I’ll dispose of you. Gentlemen, go muster up your men,
+And meet me presently at Berkeley Castle.
+I should to Plashy too,
+But time will not permit. All is uneven,
+And everything is left at six and seven.
+
+ [_Exeunt York and Queen._]
+
+BUSHY.
+The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,
+But none returns. For us to levy power
+Proportionable to the enemy
+Is all unpossible.
+
+GREEN.
+Besides, our nearness to the King in love
+Is near the hate of those love not the King.
+
+BAGOT.
+And that is the wavering commons, for their love
+Lies in their purses; and whoso empties them,
+By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.
+
+BUSHY.
+Wherein the King stands generally condemned.
+
+BAGOT.
+If judgment lie in them, then so do we,
+Because we ever have been near the King.
+
+GREEN.
+Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol Castle.
+The Earl of Wiltshire is already there.
+
+BUSHY.
+Thither will I with you, for little office
+Will the hateful commons perform for us,
+Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.
+Will you go along with us?
+
+BAGOT.
+No, I will to Ireland to his Majesty.
+Farewell. If heart’s presages be not vain,
+We three here part that ne’er shall meet again.
+
+BUSHY.
+That’s as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke.
+
+GREEN.
+Alas, poor Duke! The task he undertakes
+Is numb’ring sands and drinking oceans dry.
+Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
+Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever.
+
+BUSHY.
+Well, we may meet again.
+
+BAGOT.
+I fear me, never.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The Wolds in Gloucestershire.
+
+ Enter Bolingbroke and Northumberland with Forces.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now?
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Believe me, noble lord,
+I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire.
+These high wild hills and rough uneven ways
+Draws out our miles and makes them wearisome.
+And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
+Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
+But I bethink me what a weary way
+From Ravenspurgh to Cotshall will be found
+In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,
+Which, I protest, hath very much beguiled
+The tediousness and process of my travel.
+But theirs is sweetened with the hope to have
+The present benefit which I possess;
+And hope to joy is little less in joy
+Than hope enjoyed. By this the weary lords
+Shall make their way seem short as mine hath done
+By sight of what I have, your noble company.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Of much less value is my company
+Than your good words. But who comes here?
+
+ Enter Harry Percy.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+It is my son, young Harry Percy,
+Sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever.
+Harry, how fares your uncle?
+
+PERCY.
+I had thought, my lord, to have learned his health of you.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Why, is he not with the Queen?
+
+PERCY.
+No, my good lord. He hath forsook the court,
+Broken his staff of office, and dispersed
+The household of the King.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+What was his reason?
+He was not so resolved when last we spake together.
+
+PERCY.
+Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor.
+But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh
+To offer service to the Duke of Hereford,
+And sent me over by Berkeley to discover
+What power the Duke of York had levied there,
+Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy?
+
+PERCY.
+No, my good lord; for that is not forgot
+Which ne’er I did remember. To my knowledge,
+I never in my life did look on him.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Then learn to know him now. This is the Duke.
+
+PERCY.
+My gracious lord, I tender you my service,
+Such as it is, being tender, raw, and young,
+Which elder days shall ripen and confirm
+To more approved service and desert.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure
+I count myself in nothing else so happy
+As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends;
+And as my fortune ripens with thy love,
+It shall be still thy true love’s recompense.
+My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+How far is it to Berkeley, and what stir
+Keeps good old York there with his men of war?
+
+PERCY.
+There stands the castle by yon tuft of trees,
+Manned with three hundred men, as I have heard.
+And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour,
+None else of name and noble estimate.
+
+ Enter Ross and Willoughby.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby,
+Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues
+A banished traitor. All my treasury
+Is yet but unfelt thanks, which, more enriched,
+Shall be your love and labour’s recompense.
+
+ROSS.
+Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord.
+
+WILLOUGHBY.
+And far surmounts our labour to attain it.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor;
+Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,
+Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?
+
+ Enter Berkeley.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess.
+
+BERKELEY.
+My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+My lord, my answer is—to “Lancaster”,
+And I am come to seek that name in England;
+And I must find that title in your tongue
+Before I make reply to aught you say.
+
+BERKELEY.
+Mistake me not, my lord, ’tis not my meaning
+To rase one title of your honour out.
+To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,
+From the most gracious regent of this land,
+The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on
+To take advantage of the absent time,
+And fright our native peace with self-borne arms.
+
+ Enter York, attended.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+I shall not need transport my words by you.
+Here comes his Grace in person. My noble uncle!
+
+ [_Kneels._]
+
+YORK.
+Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,
+Whose duty is deceivable and false.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+My gracious uncle—
+
+YORK.
+Tut, tut!
+Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
+I am no traitor’s uncle, and that word “grace”
+In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
+Why have those banished and forbidden legs
+Dared once to touch a dust of England’s ground?
+But then more why: why have they dared to march
+So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,
+Frighting her pale-faced villages with war
+And ostentation of despised arms?
+Com’st thou because the anointed king is hence?
+Why, foolish boy, the King is left behind,
+And in my loyal bosom lies his power.
+Were I but now lord of such hot youth
+As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself
+Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,
+From forth the ranks of many thousand French,
+O, then how quickly should this arm of mine,
+Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee
+And minister correction to thy fault!
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+My gracious uncle, let me know my fault.
+On what condition stands it and wherein?
+
+YORK.
+Even in condition of the worst degree,
+In gross rebellion and detested treason.
+Thou art a banished man, and here art come,
+Before the expiration of thy time,
+In braving arms against thy sovereign.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+As I was banished, I was banished Hereford;
+But as I come, I come for Lancaster.
+And, noble uncle, I beseech your Grace
+Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye.
+You are my father, for methinks in you
+I see old Gaunt alive. O then, my father,
+Will you permit that I shall stand condemned
+A wandering vagabond, my rights and royalties
+Plucked from my arms perforce and given away
+To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?
+If that my cousin king be King in England,
+It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster.
+You have a son, Aumerle, my noble cousin.
+Had you first died and he been thus trod down,
+He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father
+To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay.
+I am denied to sue my livery here,
+And yet my letters patents give me leave.
+My father’s goods are all distrained and sold,
+And these, and all, are all amiss employed.
+What would you have me do? I am a subject,
+And challenge law. Attorneys are denied me,
+And therefore personally I lay my claim
+To my inheritance of free descent.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+The noble Duke hath been too much abused.
+
+ROSS.
+It stands your Grace upon to do him right.
+
+WILLOUGHBY.
+Base men by his endowments are made great.
+
+YORK.
+My lords of England, let me tell you this:
+I have had feeling of my cousin’s wrongs
+And laboured all I could to do him right.
+But in this kind to come, in braving arms,
+Be his own carver and cut out his way
+To find out right with wrong, it may not be.
+And you that do abet him in this kind
+Cherish rebellion and are rebels all.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+The noble Duke hath sworn his coming is
+But for his own; and for the right of that
+We all have strongly sworn to give him aid;
+And let him never see joy that breaks that oath!
+
+YORK.
+Well, well, I see the issue of these arms.
+I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,
+Because my power is weak and all ill-left;
+But if I could, by Him that gave me life,
+I would attach you all and make you stoop
+Unto the sovereign mercy of the King.
+But since I cannot, be it known unto you
+I do remain as neuter. So fare you well—
+Unless you please to enter in the castle
+And there repose you for this night.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+An offer, uncle, that we will accept;
+But we must win your Grace to go with us
+To Bristol Castle, which they say is held
+By Bushy, Bagot, and their complices,
+The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
+Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
+
+YORK.
+It may be I will go with you; but yet I’ll pause,
+For I am loath to break our country’s laws.
+Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are.
+Things past redress are now with me past care.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A camp in Wales.
+
+ Enter Earl of Salisbury and a Welsh Captain.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+My Lord of Salisbury, we have stayed ten days
+And hardly kept our countrymen together,
+And yet we hear no tidings from the King.
+Therefore we will disperse ourselves. Farewell.
+
+SALISBURY.
+Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman.
+The King reposeth all his confidence in thee.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+’Tis thought the King is dead. We will not stay.
+The bay trees in our country are all withered,
+And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;
+The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,
+And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change;
+Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap,
+The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
+The other to enjoy by rage and war.
+These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
+Farewell. Our countrymen are gone and fled,
+As well assured Richard their king is dead.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SALISBURY.
+Ah, Richard! With the eyes of heavy mind
+I see thy glory like a shooting star
+Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
+Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,
+Witnessing storms to come, woe, and unrest.
+Thy friends are fled, to wait upon thy foes,
+And crossly to thy good all fortune goes.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Bristol. Bolingbroke’s camp.
+
+
+ Enter Bolingbroke, York, Northumberland, Harry Percy, Willoughby,
+ Ross; Officers behind, with Bushy and Green, prisoners.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Bring forth these men.
+Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls—
+Since presently your souls must part your bodies—
+With too much urging your pernicious lives,
+For ’twere no charity; yet to wash your blood
+From off my hands, here in the view of men
+I will unfold some causes of your deaths:
+You have misled a prince, a royal king,
+A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
+By you unhappied and disfigured clean.
+You have in manner with your sinful hours
+Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
+Broke the possession of a royal bed,
+And stained the beauty of a fair queen’s cheeks
+With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
+Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,
+Near to the King in blood, and near in love
+Till you did make him misinterpret me,
+Have stooped my neck under your injuries
+And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
+Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
+Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
+Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
+From my own windows torn my household coat,
+Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign
+Save men’s opinions and my living blood
+To show the world I am a gentleman.
+This and much more, much more than twice all this,
+Condemns you to the death. See them delivered over
+To execution and the hand of death.
+
+BUSHY.
+More welcome is the stroke of death to me
+Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.
+
+GREEN.
+My comfort is that heaven will take our souls
+And plague injustice with the pains of hell.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatched.
+
+ [_Exeunt Northumberland and Others, with Bushy and Green._]
+
+Uncle, you say the Queen is at your house;
+For God’s sake, fairly let her be entreated.
+Tell her I send to her my kind commends;
+Take special care my greetings be delivered.
+
+YORK.
+A gentleman of mine I have dispatched
+With letters of your love to her at large.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Thanks, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away,
+To fight with Glendower and his complices.
+A while to work, and after holiday.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The coast of Wales. A castle in view.
+
+ Flourish: drums and trumpets. Enter King Richard, the Bishop of
+ Carlisle, Aumerle and soldiers.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Barkloughly Castle call they this at hand?
+
+AUMERLE.
+Yea, my lord. How brooks your Grace the air
+After your late tossing on the breaking seas?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Needs must I like it well. I weep for joy
+To stand upon my kingdom once again.
+Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,
+Though rebels wound thee with their horses’ hoofs.
+As a long-parted mother with her child
+Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,
+So weeping-smiling greet I thee, my earth,
+And do thee favours with my royal hands.
+Feed not thy sovereign’s foe, my gentle earth,
+Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense,
+But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,
+And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way,
+Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet
+Which with usurping steps do trample thee.
+Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies;
+And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower,
+Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder
+Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
+Throw death upon thy sovereign’s enemies.
+Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords.
+This earth shall have a feeling, and these stones
+Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king
+Shall falter under foul rebellion’s arms.
+
+CARLISLE.
+Fear not, my lord. That Power that made you king
+Hath power to keep you king in spite of all.
+The means that heaven yields must be embraced
+And not neglected; else if heaven would,
+And we will not. Heaven’s offer we refuse,
+The proffered means of succour and redress.
+
+AUMERLE.
+He means, my lord, that we are too remiss,
+Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,
+Grows strong and great in substance and in power.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Discomfortable cousin, know’st thou not
+That when the searching eye of heaven is hid
+Behind the globe that lights the lower world,
+Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen
+In murders and in outrage boldly here;
+But when from under this terrestrial ball
+He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines
+And darts his light through every guilty hole,
+Then murders, treasons, and detested sins,
+The cloak of night being plucked from off their backs,
+Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves?
+So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke,
+Who all this while hath revelled in the night
+Whilst we were wand’ring with the Antipodes,
+Shall see us rising in our throne, the east,
+His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
+Not able to endure the sight of day,
+But self-affrighted, tremble at his sin.
+Not all the water in the rough rude sea
+Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;
+The breath of worldly men cannot depose
+The deputy elected by the Lord.
+For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
+To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
+God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
+A glorious angel. Then, if angels fight,
+Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.
+
+ Enter Salisbury.
+
+Welcome, my lord. How far off lies your power?
+
+SALISBURY.
+Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord,
+Than this weak arm. Discomfort guides my tongue
+And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
+One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
+Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
+O, call back yesterday, bid time return,
+And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men!
+Today, today, unhappy day, too late,
+O’erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune, and thy state;
+For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead,
+Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed, and fled.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Comfort, my liege. Why looks your Grace so pale?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+But now, the blood of twenty thousand men
+Did triumph in my face, and they are fled;
+And till so much blood thither come again
+Have I not reason to look pale and dead?
+All souls that will be safe, fly from my side,
+For time hath set a blot upon my pride.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Comfort, my liege. Remember who you are.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+I had forgot myself. Am I not king?
+Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest!
+Is not the King’s name twenty thousand names?
+Arm, arm, my name! A puny subject strikes
+At thy great glory. Look not to the ground,
+Ye favourites of a king. Are we not high?
+High be our thoughts. I know my uncle York
+Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here?
+
+ Enter Sir Stephen Scroop.
+
+SCROOP.
+More health and happiness betide my liege
+Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Mine ear is open and my heart prepared.
+The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.
+Say, is my kingdom lost? Why, ’twas my care,
+And what loss is it to be rid of care?
+Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we?
+Greater he shall not be. If he serve God,
+We’ll serve Him too, and be his fellow so.
+Revolt our subjects? That we cannot mend.
+They break their faith to God as well as us.
+Cry woe, destruction, ruin, loss, decay.
+The worst is death, and death will have his day.
+
+SCROOP.
+Glad am I that your highness is so armed
+To bear the tidings of calamity.
+Like an unseasonable stormy day
+Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores
+As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
+So high above his limits swells the rage
+Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land
+With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.
+Whitebeards have armed their thin and hairless scalps
+Against thy majesty; boys with women’s voices
+Strive to speak big and clap their female joints
+In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown;
+Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
+Of double-fatal yew against thy state;
+Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills
+Against thy seat. Both young and old rebel,
+And all goes worse than I have power to tell.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Too well, too well thou tell’st a tale so ill.
+Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? Where is Bagot?
+What is become of Bushy? Where is Green?
+That they have let the dangerous enemy
+Measure our confines with such peaceful steps?
+If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it.
+I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke.
+
+SCROOP.
+Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+O villains, vipers, damned without redemption!
+Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!
+Snakes, in my heart-blood warmed, that sting my heart!
+Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas!
+Would they make peace? Terrible hell
+Make war upon their spotted souls for this!
+
+SCROOP.
+Sweet love, I see, changing his property,
+Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate.
+Again uncurse their souls. Their peace is made
+With heads, and not with hands. Those whom you curse
+Have felt the worst of death’s destroying wound
+And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Is Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead?
+
+SCROOP.
+Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Where is the Duke my father with his power?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+No matter where. Of comfort no man speak!
+Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs,
+Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes
+Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.
+Let’s choose executors and talk of wills.
+And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
+Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
+Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke’s,
+And nothing can we call our own but death
+And that small model of the barren earth
+Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
+For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
+And tell sad stories of the death of kings—
+How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
+Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
+Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
+All murdered. For within the hollow crown
+That rounds the mortal temples of a king
+Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits,
+Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
+Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
+To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks,
+Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
+As if this flesh which walls about our life
+Were brass impregnable; and, humoured thus,
+Comes at the last, and with a little pin
+Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king!
+Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood
+With solemn reverence. Throw away respect,
+Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty,
+For you have but mistook me all this while.
+I live with bread like you, feel want,
+Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus,
+How can you say to me I am a king?
+
+CARLISLE.
+My lord, wise men ne’er sit and wail their woes,
+But presently prevent the ways to wail.
+To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
+Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe,
+And so your follies fight against yourself.
+Fear and be slain—no worse can come to fight;
+And fight and die is death destroying death,
+Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
+
+AUMERLE.
+My father hath a power. Enquire of him,
+And learn to make a body of a limb.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Thou chid’st me well. Proud Bolingbroke, I come
+To change blows with thee for our day of doom.
+This ague fit of fear is overblown;
+An easy task it is to win our own.
+Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power?
+Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.
+
+SCROOP.
+Men judge by the complexion of the sky
+The state in inclination of the day;
+So may you by my dull and heavy eye.
+My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.
+I play the torturer by small and small
+To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:
+Your uncle York is joined with Bolingbroke,
+And all your northern castles yielded up,
+And all your southern gentlemen in arms
+Upon his party.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Thou hast said enough.
+[_To Aumerle_.] Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth
+Of that sweet way I was in to despair.
+What say you now? What comfort have we now?
+By heaven, I’ll hate him everlastingly
+That bids me be of comfort any more.
+Go to Flint Castle. There I’ll pine away;
+A king, woe’s slave, shall kingly woe obey.
+That power I have, discharge, and let them go
+To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
+For I have none. Let no man speak again
+To alter this, for counsel is but vain.
+
+AUMERLE.
+My liege, one word.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+He does me double wrong
+That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
+Discharge my followers. Let them hence away,
+From Richard’s night to Bolingbroke’s fair day.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Wales. Before Flint Castle.
+
+ Enter, with drum and colours, Bolingbroke and Forces; Northumberland
+ and Others.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+So that by this intelligence we learn
+The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury
+Is gone to meet the King, who lately landed
+With some few private friends upon this coast.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+The news is very fair and good, my lord:
+Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.
+
+YORK.
+It would beseem the Lord Northumberland
+To say “King Richard”. Alack the heavy day
+When such a sacred king should hide his head!
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Your Grace mistakes; only to be brief
+Left I his title out.
+
+YORK.
+The time hath been,
+Would you have been so brief with him, he would
+Have been so brief with you to shorten you,
+For taking so the head, your whole head’s length.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Mistake not, uncle, further than you should.
+
+YORK.
+Take not, good cousin, further than you should,
+Lest you mistake. The heavens are o’er our heads.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself
+Against their will. But who comes here?
+
+ Enter Harry Percy.
+
+Welcome, Harry. What, will not this castle yield?
+
+PERCY.
+The castle royally is manned, my lord,
+Against thy entrance.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Royally!
+Why, it contains no king?
+
+PERCY.
+Yes, my good lord,
+It doth contain a king. King Richard lies
+Within the limits of yon lime and stone,
+And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,
+Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman
+Of holy reverence—who, I cannot learn.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+[_To Northumberland_.] Noble lord,
+Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle;
+Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley
+Into his ruined ears, and thus deliver:
+Henry Bolingbroke
+On both his knees doth kiss King Richard’s hand
+And sends allegiance and true faith of heart
+To his most royal person, hither come
+Even at his feet to lay my arms and power,
+Provided that my banishment repealed
+And lands restored again be freely granted.
+If not, I’ll use the advantage of my power
+And lay the summer’s dust with showers of blood
+Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen—
+The which how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke
+It is such crimson tempest should bedrench
+The fresh green lap of fair King Richard’s land,
+My stooping duty tenderly shall show.
+Go signify as much, while here we march
+Upon the grassy carpet of this plain.
+Let’s march without the noise of threat’ning drum,
+That from this castle’s tottered battlements
+Our fair appointments may be well perused.
+Methinks King Richard and myself should meet
+With no less terror than the elements
+Of fire and water, when their thund’ring shock
+At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.
+Be he the fire, I’ll be the yielding water;
+The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain
+My waters—on the earth, and not on him.
+March on, and mark King Richard how he looks.
+
+ A parley sounded, and answered by a trumpet within. Flourish. Enter on
+ the Walls, the King, the Bishop of Carlisle, Aumerle, Scroop and
+ Salisbury
+
+
+See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,
+As doth the blushing discontented sun
+From out the fiery portal of the east,
+When he perceives the envious clouds are bent
+To dim his glory and to stain the track
+Of his bright passage to the occident.
+
+YORK.
+Yet he looks like a king. Behold, his eye,
+As bright as is the eagle’s, lightens forth
+Controlling majesty. Alack, alack, for woe
+That any harm should stain so fair a show!
+
+KING RICHARD.
+[_To Northumberland._] We are amazed, and thus long have we stood
+To watch the fearful bending of thy knee
+Because we thought ourself thy lawful king.
+And if we be, how dare thy joints forget
+To pay their awful duty to our presence?
+If we be not, show us the hand of God
+That hath dismissed us from our stewardship;
+For well we know no hand of blood and bone
+Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,
+Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.
+And though you think that all, as you have done,
+Have torn their souls by turning them from us,
+And we are barren and bereft of friends,
+Yet know: my master, God omnipotent,
+Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf
+Armies of pestilence, and they shall strike
+Your children yet unborn and unbegot,
+That lift your vassal hands against my head
+And threat the glory of my precious crown.
+Tell Bolingbroke—for yon methinks he stands—
+That every stride he makes upon my land
+Is dangerous treason. He is come to open
+The purple testament of bleeding war;
+But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,
+Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers’ sons
+Shall ill become the flower of England’s face,
+Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace
+To scarlet indignation, and bedew
+Her pastures’ grass with faithful English blood.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+The King of Heaven forbid our lord the King
+Should so with civil and uncivil arms
+Be rushed upon! Thy thrice-noble cousin,
+Harry Bolingbroke, doth humbly kiss thy hand;
+And by the honourable tomb he swears
+That stands upon your royal grandsire’s bones,
+And by the royalties of both your bloods,
+Currents that spring from one most gracious head,
+And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,
+And by the worth and honour of himself,
+Comprising all that may be sworn or said,
+His coming hither hath no further scope
+Than for his lineal royalties, and to beg
+Enfranchisement immediate on his knees;
+Which on thy royal party granted once,
+His glittering arms he will commend to rust,
+His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart
+To faithful service of your Majesty.
+This swears he, as he is a prince and just;
+And as I am a gentleman I credit him.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Northumberland, say, thus the King returns:
+His noble cousin is right welcome hither,
+And all the number of his fair demands
+Shall be accomplished without contradiction.
+With all the gracious utterance thou hast,
+Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends.
+
+ [_Northumberland returns to Bolingbroke._]
+
+[_To Aumerle_.] We do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not,
+To look so poorly and to speak so fair?
+Shall we call back Northumberland and send
+Defiance to the traitor, and so die?
+
+AUMERLE.
+No, good my lord. Let’s fight with gentle words
+Till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+O God, O God, that e’er this tongue of mine
+That laid the sentence of dread banishment
+On yon proud man should take it off again
+With words of sooth! O, that I were as great
+As is my grief, or lesser than my name,
+Or that I could forget what I have been,
+Or not remember what I must be now.
+Swell’st thou, proud heart? I’ll give thee scope to beat,
+Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What must the King do now? Must he submit?
+The King shall do it. Must he be deposed?
+The King shall be contented. Must he lose
+The name of King? I’ God’s name, let it go.
+I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads,
+My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
+My gay apparel for an almsman’s gown,
+My figured goblets for a dish of wood,
+My sceptre for a palmer’s walking-staff,
+My subjects for a pair of carved saints,
+And my large kingdom for a little grave,
+A little, little grave, an obscure grave;
+Or I’ll be buried in the King’s highway,
+Some way of common trade, where subjects’ feet
+May hourly trample on their sovereign’s head;
+For on my heart they tread now whilst I live,
+And, buried once, why not upon my head?
+Aumerle, thou weep’st, my tender-hearted cousin!
+We’ll make foul weather with despised tears;
+Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn
+And make a dearth in this revolting land.
+Or shall we play the wantons with our woes
+And make some pretty match with shedding tears?
+As thus, to drop them still upon one place
+Till they have fretted us a pair of graves
+Within the earth; and, therein laid, there lies
+Two kinsmen digged their graves with weeping eyes.
+Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see
+I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.
+Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,
+What says King Bolingbroke? Will his Majesty
+Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?
+You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+My lord, in the base court he doth attend
+To speak with you. May it please you to come down?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Down, down I come, like glist’ring Phaëthon,
+Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
+In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,
+To come at traitors’ calls, and do them grace.
+In the base court? Come down? Down, court! down, king!
+For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
+
+ [_Exeunt from above._]
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+What says his Majesty?
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Sorrow and grief of heart
+Makes him speak fondly like a frantic man.
+Yet he is come.
+
+ Enter King Richard and his attendants.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Stand all apart,
+And show fair duty to his Majesty. [_Kneeling_.]
+My gracious lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee
+To make the base earth proud with kissing it.
+Me rather had my heart might feel your love
+Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
+Up, cousin, up. Your heart is up, I know,
+Thus high at least, although your knee be low.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+My gracious lord, I come but for mine own.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,
+As my true service shall deserve your love.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Well you deserve. They well deserve to have
+That know the strong’st and surest way to get.
+Uncle, give me your hands. Nay, dry your eyes.
+Tears show their love, but want their remedies.
+Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
+Though you are old enough to be my heir.
+What you will have, I’ll give, and willing too;
+For do we must what force will have us do.
+Set on towards London, cousin, is it so?
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Yea, my good lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Then I must not say no.
+
+ [_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Langley. The Duke of York’s garden.
+
+ Enter the Queen and two Ladies.
+
+QUEEN.
+What sport shall we devise here in this garden
+To drive away the heavy thought of care?
+
+LADY.
+Madam, we’ll play at bowls.
+
+QUEEN.
+’Twill make me think the world is full of rubs
+And that my fortune runs against the bias.
+
+LADY.
+Madam, we’ll dance.
+
+QUEEN.
+My legs can keep no measure in delight
+When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief.
+Therefore no dancing, girl; some other sport.
+
+LADY.
+Madam, we’ll tell tales.
+
+QUEEN.
+Of sorrow or of joy?
+
+LADY.
+Of either, madam.
+
+QUEEN.
+Of neither, girl.
+For if of joy, being altogether wanting,
+It doth remember me the more of sorrow;
+Or if of grief, being altogether had,
+It adds more sorrow to my want of joy.
+For what I have I need not to repeat,
+And what I want it boots not to complain.
+
+LADY.
+Madam, I’ll sing.
+
+QUEEN.
+’Tis well that thou hast cause;
+But thou shouldst please me better wouldst thou weep.
+
+LADY.
+I could weep, madam, would it do you good.
+
+QUEEN.
+And I could sing, would weeping do me good,
+And never borrow any tear of thee.
+But stay, here come the gardeners.
+Let’s step into the shadow of these trees.
+My wretchedness unto a row of pins,
+They will talk of state, for everyone doth so
+Against a change; woe is forerun with woe.
+
+ [_Queen and Ladies retire._]
+
+ Enter a Gardener and two Servants.
+
+GARDENER.
+Go, bind thou up young dangling apricocks,
+Which, like unruly children, make their sire
+Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight.
+Give some supportance to the bending twigs.
+Go thou, and like an executioner
+Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays
+That look too lofty in our commonwealth.
+All must be even in our government.
+You thus employed, I will go root away
+The noisome weeds which without profit suck
+The soil’s fertility from wholesome flowers.
+
+SERVANT.
+Why should we in the compass of a pale
+Keep law and form and due proportion,
+Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,
+When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
+Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
+Her fruit trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined,
+Her knots disordered, and her wholesome herbs
+Swarming with caterpillars?
+
+GARDENER.
+Hold thy peace.
+He that hath suffered this disordered spring
+Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf.
+The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,
+That seemed in eating him to hold him up,
+Are plucked up, root and all, by Bolingbroke—
+I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.
+
+SERVANT.
+What, are they dead?
+
+GARDENER.
+They are. And Bolingbroke
+Hath seized the wasteful King. O, what pity is it
+That he had not so trimmed and dressed his land
+As we this garden! We at time of year
+Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees,
+Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,
+With too much riches it confound itself.
+Had he done so to great and growing men,
+They might have lived to bear and he to taste
+Their fruits of duty. Superfluous branches
+We lop away, that bearing boughs may live.
+Had he done so, himself had home the crown,
+Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.
+
+SERVANT.
+What, think you the King shall be deposed?
+
+GARDENER.
+Depressed he is already, and deposed
+’Tis doubt he will be. Letters came last night
+To a dear friend of the good Duke of York’s
+That tell black tidings.
+
+QUEEN.
+O, I am pressed to death through want of speaking!
+
+ [_Coming forward._]
+
+Thou, old Adam’s likeness, set to dress this garden,
+How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?
+What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee
+To make a second fall of cursed man?
+Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed?
+Dar’st thou, thou little better thing than earth,
+Divine his downfall? Say, where, when, and how,
+Cam’st thou by this ill tidings? Speak, thou wretch!
+
+GARDENER.
+Pardon me, madam. Little joy have I
+To breathe this news; yet what I say is true.
+King Richard, he is in the mighty hold
+Of Bolingbroke. Their fortunes both are weighed.
+In your lord’s scale is nothing but himself,
+And some few vanities that make him light;
+But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,
+Besides himself, are all the English peers,
+And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.
+Post you to London, and you will find it so.
+I speak no more than everyone doth know.
+
+QUEEN.
+Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot,
+Doth not thy embassage belong to me,
+And am I last that knows it? O, thou thinkest
+To serve me last that I may longest keep
+Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go
+To meet at London London’s king in woe.
+What, was I born to this, that my sad look
+Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke?
+Gard’ner, for telling me these news of woe,
+Pray God the plants thou graft’st may never grow!
+
+ [_Exeunt Queen and Ladies._]
+
+GARDENER.
+Poor Queen, so that thy state might be no worse,
+I would my skill were subject to thy curse.
+Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place
+I’ll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace.
+Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen
+In the remembrance of a weeping queen.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Westminster Hall.
+
+
+ The Lords spiritual on the right side of the throne; the Lords
+ temporal on the left; the Commons below. Enter Bolingbroke, Aumerle,
+ Surrey, Northumberland, Harry Percy, Fitzwater, another Lord, the
+ Bishop of Carlisle, the Abbot of Westminster and attendants.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Call forth Bagot.
+
+ Enter Officers with Bagot.
+
+
+Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind,
+What thou dost know of noble Gloucester’s death,
+Who wrought it with the King, and who performed
+The bloody office of his timeless end.
+
+BAGOT.
+Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.
+
+BAGOT.
+My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue
+Scorns to unsay what once it hath delivered.
+In that dead time when Gloucester’s death was plotted,
+I heard you say “Is not my arm of length,
+That reacheth from the restful English Court
+As far as Calais, to mine uncle’s head?”
+Amongst much other talk that very time
+I heard you say that you had rather refuse
+The offer of an hundred thousand crowns
+Than Bolingbroke’s return to England,
+Adding withal, how blest this land would be
+In this your cousin’s death.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Princes and noble lords,
+What answer shall I make to this base man?
+Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars
+On equal terms to give him chastisement?
+Either I must, or have mine honour soiled
+With the attainder of his slanderous lips.
+There is my gage, the manual seal of death
+That marks thee out for hell. I say thou liest,
+And will maintain what thou hast said is false
+In thy heart-blood, though being all too base
+To stain the temper of my knightly sword.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Bagot, forbear. Thou shalt not take it up.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Excepting one, I would he were the best
+In all this presence that hath moved me so.
+
+FITZWATER.
+If that thy valour stand on sympathy,
+There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine.
+By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand’st,
+I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spak’st it,
+That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester’s death.
+If thou deniest it twenty times, thou liest!
+And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,
+Where it was forged, with my rapier’s point.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Thou dar’st not, coward, live to see that day.
+
+FITZWATER.
+Now, by my soul, I would it were this hour.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Fitzwater, thou art damned to hell for this.
+
+HARRY PERCY.
+Aumerle, thou liest. His honour is as true
+In this appeal as thou art an unjust;
+And that thou art so, there I throw my gage,
+To prove it on thee to the extremest point
+Of mortal breathing. Seize it if thou dar’st.
+
+AUMERLE.
+And if I do not, may my hands rot off
+And never brandish more revengeful steel
+Over the glittering helmet of my foe!
+
+ANOTHER LORD.
+I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle,
+And spur thee on with full as many lies
+As may be holloaed in thy treacherous ear
+From sun to sun. There is my honour’s pawn.
+Engage it to the trial if thou dar’st.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Who sets me else? By heaven, I’ll throw at all.
+I have a thousand spirits in one breast
+To answer twenty thousand such as you.
+
+SURREY.
+My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well
+The very time Aumerle and you did talk.
+
+FITZWATER.
+’Tis very true. You were in presence then,
+And you can witness with me this is true.
+
+SURREY.
+As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.
+
+FITZWATER.
+Surrey, thou liest.
+
+SURREY.
+Dishonourable boy!
+That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword
+That it shall render vengeance and revenge
+Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie
+In earth as quiet as thy father’s skull.
+In proof whereof, there is my honour’s pawn.
+Engage it to the trial if thou dar’st.
+
+FITZWATER.
+How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse!
+If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,
+I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness
+And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies,
+And lies, and lies. There is my bond of faith
+To tie thee to my strong correction.
+As I intend to thrive in this new world,
+Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal.
+Besides, I heard the banished Norfolk say
+That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men
+To execute the noble duke at Calais.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Some honest Christian trust me with a gage.
+That Norfolk lies, here do I throw down this,
+If he may be repealed to try his honour.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+These differences shall all rest under gage
+Till Norfolk be repealed. Repealed he shall be,
+And, though mine enemy, restored again
+To all his lands and signories. When he is returned,
+Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial.
+
+CARLISLE.
+That honourable day shall ne’er be seen.
+Many a time hath banished Norfolk fought
+For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,
+Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross
+Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens;
+And, toiled with works of war, retired himself
+To Italy, and there at Venice gave
+His body to that pleasant country’s earth
+And his pure soul unto his captain, Christ,
+Under whose colours he had fought so long.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Why, Bishop, is Norfolk dead?
+
+CARLISLE.
+As surely as I live, my lord.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom
+Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants,
+Your differences shall all rest under gage
+Till we assign you to your days of trial.
+
+ Enter York, attended.
+
+YORK.
+Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee
+From plume-plucked Richard, who with willing soul
+Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields
+To the possession of thy royal hand.
+Ascend his throne, descending now from him,
+And long live Henry, of that name the fourth!
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+In God’s name, I’ll ascend the regal throne.
+
+CARLISLE.
+Marry, God forbid!
+Worst in this royal presence may I speak,
+Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.
+Would God that any in this noble presence
+Were enough noble to be upright judge
+Of noble Richard! Then true noblesse would
+Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.
+What subject can give sentence on his king?
+And who sits here that is not Richard’s subject?
+Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,
+Although apparent guilt be seen in them;
+And shall the figure of God’s majesty,
+His captain, steward, deputy elect,
+Anointed, crowned, planted many years,
+Be judged by subject and inferior breath,
+And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,
+That in a Christian climate souls refined
+Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!
+I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,
+Stirred up by God, thus boldly for his king.
+My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,
+Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford’s king.
+And if you crown him, let me prophesy
+The blood of English shall manure the ground
+And future ages groan for this foul act.
+Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,
+And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
+Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound.
+Disorder, horror, fear, and mutiny
+Shall here inhabit, and this land be called
+The field of Golgotha and dead men’s skulls.
+O, if you raise this house against this house,
+It will the woefullest division prove
+That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
+Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,
+Lest child, child’s children, cry against you, “woe!”
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains,
+Of capital treason we arrest you here.
+My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge
+To keep him safely till his day of trial.
+May it please you, lords, to grant the commons’ suit?
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Fetch hither Richard, that in common view
+He may surrender. So we shall proceed
+Without suspicion.
+
+YORK.
+I will be his conduct.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Lords, you that here are under our arrest,
+Procure your sureties for your days of answer.
+Little are we beholding to your love,
+And little looked for at your helping hands.
+
+ Enter York with King Richard and Officers bearing the Crown, &c.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Alack, why am I sent for to a king
+Before I have shook off the regal thoughts
+Wherewith I reigned? I hardly yet have learned
+To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee.
+Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me
+To this submission. Yet I well remember
+The favours of these men. Were they not mine?
+Did they not sometime cry “All hail!” to me?
+So Judas did to Christ, but He in twelve,
+Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.
+God save the King! Will no man say, “Amen”?
+Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, amen.
+God save the King, although I be not he,
+And yet, Amen, if heaven do think him me.
+To do what service am I sent for hither?
+
+YORK.
+To do that office of thine own good will
+Which tired majesty did make thee offer:
+The resignation of thy state and crown
+To Henry Bolingbroke.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown.
+Here, cousin,
+On this side my hand, and on that side thine.
+Now is this golden crown like a deep well
+That owes two buckets, filling one another,
+The emptier ever dancing in the air,
+The other down, unseen, and full of water.
+That bucket down and full of tears am I,
+Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+I thought you had been willing to resign.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine.
+You may my glories and my state depose,
+But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Part of your cares you give me with your crown.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.
+My care is loss of care, by old care done;
+Your care is gain of care, by new care won.
+The cares I give I have, though given away;
+They ’tend the crown, yet still with me they stay.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Are you contented to resign the crown?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be.
+Therefore no “no”, for I resign to thee.
+Now mark me how I will undo myself:
+I give this heavy weight from off my head,
+And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
+The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;
+With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
+With mine own hands I give away my crown,
+With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
+With mine own breath release all duteous oaths.
+All pomp and majesty I do forswear;
+My manors, rents, revenues, I forgo;
+My acts, decrees, and statutes, I deny.
+God pardon all oaths that are broke to me;
+God keep all vows unbroke are made to thee.
+Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,
+And thou with all pleased that hast all achieved.
+Long mayst thou live in Richard’s seat to sit,
+And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit!
+God save King Henry, unkinged Richard says,
+And send him many years of sunshine days!
+What more remains?
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+[_Offering a paper_.] No more, but that you read
+These accusations, and these grievous crimes
+Committed by your person and your followers
+Against the state and profit of this land;
+That, by confessing them, the souls of men
+May deem that you are worthily deposed.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Must I do so? And must I ravel out
+My weaved-up follies? Gentle Northumberland,
+If thy offences were upon record,
+Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop
+To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst,
+There shouldst thou find one heinous article
+Containing the deposing of a king
+And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,
+Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven.
+Nay, all of you that stand and look upon me
+Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,
+Though some of you, with Pilate, wash your hands,
+Showing an outward pity, yet you Pilates
+Have here delivered me to my sour cross,
+And water cannot wash away your sin.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+My lord, dispatch. Read o’er these articles.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Mine eyes are full of tears; I cannot see:
+And yet salt water blinds them not so much
+But they can see a sort of traitors here.
+Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself,
+I find myself a traitor with the rest;
+For I have given here my soul’s consent
+T’ undeck the pompous body of a king,
+Made glory base and sovereignty a slave,
+Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+My lord—
+
+KING RICHARD.
+No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man,
+Nor no man’s lord! I have no name, no title,
+No, not that name was given me at the font,
+But ’tis usurped. Alack the heavy day!
+That I have worn so many winters out
+And know not now what name to call myself.
+O, that I were a mockery king of snow,
+Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
+To melt myself away in water-drops!
+Good king, great king, and yet not greatly good,
+An if my word be sterling yet in England,
+Let it command a mirror hither straight,
+That it may show me what a face I have,
+Since it is bankrupt of his majesty.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Go, some of you, and fetch a looking-glass.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+Read o’er this paper while the glass doth come.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Fiend, thou torments me ere I come to hell!
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Urge it no more, my Lord Northumberland.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+The commons will not then be satisfied.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+They shall be satisfied. I’ll read enough
+When I do see the very book indeed
+Where all my sins are writ, and that’s myself.
+
+ Re-enter Attendant with glass.
+
+Give me that glass, and therein will I read.
+No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck
+So many blows upon this face of mine
+And made no deeper wounds? O flatt’ring glass,
+Like to my followers in prosperity,
+Thou dost beguile me. Was this face the face
+That every day under his household roof
+Did keep ten thousand men? Was this the face
+That like the sun did make beholders wink?
+Is this the face which faced so many follies,
+That was at last outfaced by Bolingbroke?
+A brittle glory shineth in this face.
+As brittle as the glory is the face!
+
+ [_Dashes the glass against the ground._]
+
+For there it is, cracked in an hundred shivers.
+Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,
+How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+The shadow of your sorrow hath destroyed
+The shadow of your face.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Say that again.
+The shadow of my sorrow? Ha, let’s see.
+’Tis very true, my grief lies all within;
+And these external manner of laments
+Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
+That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
+There lies the substance. And I thank thee, king,
+For thy great bounty, that not only giv’st
+Me cause to wail, but teachest me the way
+How to lament the cause. I’ll beg one boon,
+And then be gone and trouble you no more.
+Shall I obtain it?
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Name it, fair cousin.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+“Fair cousin”? I am greater than a king;
+For when I was a king, my flatterers
+Were then but subjects. Being now a subject,
+I have a king here to my flatterer.
+Being so great, I have no need to beg.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Yet ask.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+And shall I have?
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+You shall.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Then give me leave to go.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Whither?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Whither you will, so I were from your sights.
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+Go, some of you, convey him to the Tower.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+O, good! “Convey”? Conveyers are you all,
+That rise thus nimbly by a true king’s fall.
+
+ [_Exeunt King Richard and Guard._]
+
+BOLINGBROKE.
+On Wednesday next we solemnly set down
+Our coronation. Lords, prepare yourselves.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but the Bishop of Carlisle, the Abbot of Westminster and
+ Aumerle._]
+
+ABBOT.
+A woeful pageant have we here beheld.
+
+CARLISLE.
+The woe’s to come. The children yet unborn
+Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.
+
+AUMERLE.
+You holy clergymen, is there no plot
+To rid the realm of this pernicious blot?
+
+ABBOT.
+My lord,
+Before I freely speak my mind herein,
+You shall not only take the sacrament
+To bury mine intents, but also to effect
+Whatever I shall happen to devise.
+I see your brows are full of discontent,
+Your hearts of sorrow, and your eyes of tears.
+Come home with me to supper. I will lay
+A plot shall show us all a merry day.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. London. A street leading to the Tower.
+
+
+ Enter the Queen and ladies.
+
+QUEEN.
+This way the King will come. This is the way
+To Julius Caesar’s ill-erected tower,
+To whose flint bosom my condemned lord
+Is doomed a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke.
+Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth
+Have any resting for her true king’s queen.
+
+ Enter King Richard and Guard.
+
+But soft, but see, or rather do not see
+My fair rose wither; yet look up, behold,
+That you in pity may dissolve to dew
+And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.
+Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand,
+Thou map of honour, thou King Richard’s tomb,
+And not King Richard! Thou most beauteous inn,
+Why should hard-favoured grief be lodged in thee,
+When triumph is become an alehouse guest?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
+To make my end too sudden. Learn, good soul,
+To think our former state a happy dream,
+From which awaked, the truth of what we are
+Shows us but this. I am sworn brother, sweet,
+To grim Necessity, and he and I
+Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France,
+And cloister thee in some religious house.
+Our holy lives must win a new world’s crown,
+Which our profane hours here have thrown down.
+
+QUEEN.
+What, is my Richard both in shape and mind
+Transformed and weakened! Hath Bolingbroke
+Deposed thine intellect? Hath he been in thy heart?
+The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw
+And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage
+To be o’erpowered; and wilt thou, pupil-like,
+Take the correction mildly, kiss the rod,
+And fawn on rage with base humility,
+Which art a lion and the king of beasts?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+A king of beasts, indeed! If aught but beasts,
+I had been still a happy king of men.
+Good sometimes queen, prepare thee hence for France.
+Think I am dead, and that even here thou tak’st,
+As from my death-bed, thy last living leave.
+In winter’s tedious nights sit by the fire
+With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales
+Of woeful ages long ago betid;
+And ere thou bid good night, to quit their griefs,
+Tell thou the lamentable tale of me,
+And send the hearers weeping to their beds.
+For why, the senseless brands will sympathize
+The heavy accent of thy moving tongue,
+And in compassion weep the fire out;
+And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black,
+For the deposing of a rightful king.
+
+ Enter Northumberland, attended.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed.
+You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.
+And, madam, there is order ta’en for you:
+With all swift speed you must away to France.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal
+The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,
+The time shall not be many hours of age
+More than it is ere foul sin, gathering head,
+Shall break into corruption. Thou shalt think,
+Though he divide the realm and give thee half
+It is too little, helping him to all.
+And he shall think that thou, which knowst the way
+To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,
+Being ne’er so little urged, another way
+To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.
+The love of wicked men converts to fear,
+That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
+To worthy danger and deserved death.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+My guilt be on my head, and there an end.
+Take leave and part, for you must part forthwith.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate
+A twofold marriage, ’twixt my crown and me,
+And then betwixt me and my married wife.
+Let me unkiss the oath ’twixt thee and me;
+And yet not so, for with a kiss ’twas made.
+Part us, Northumberland: I towards the north,
+Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime;
+My wife to France, from whence set forth in pomp,
+She came adorned hither like sweet May,
+Sent back like Hallowmas or short’st of day.
+
+QUEEN.
+And must we be divided? Must we part?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.
+
+QUEEN.
+Banish us both, and send the King with me.
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+That were some love, but little policy.
+
+QUEEN.
+Then whither he goes, thither let me go.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+So two, together weeping, make one woe.
+Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here;
+Better far off than near, be ne’er the near.
+Go, count thy way with sighs, I mine with groans.
+
+QUEEN.
+So longest way shall have the longest moans.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Twice for one step I’ll groan, the way being short,
+And piece the way out with a heavy heart.
+Come, come, in wooing sorrow let’s be brief,
+Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief.
+One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part;
+Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart.
+
+ [_They kiss._]
+
+QUEEN.
+Give me mine own again; ’twere no good part
+To take on me to keep and kill thy heart.
+
+ [_They kiss again._]
+
+So, now I have mine own again, be gone,
+That I may strive to kill it with a groan.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+We make woe wanton with this fond delay:
+Once more, adieu. The rest let sorrow say.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A room in the Duke of York’s palace.
+
+ Enter York and his Duchess.
+
+DUCHESS.
+My Lord, you told me you would tell the rest,
+When weeping made you break the story off
+Of our two cousins’ coming into London.
+
+YORK.
+Where did I leave?
+
+DUCHESS.
+At that sad stop, my lord,
+Where rude misgoverned hands from windows’ tops
+Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard’s head.
+
+YORK.
+Then, as I said, the Duke, great Bolingbroke,
+Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed,
+Which his aspiring rider seemed to know,
+With slow but stately pace kept on his course,
+Whilst all tongues cried “God save thee, Bolingbroke!”
+You would have thought the very windows spake,
+So many greedy looks of young and old
+Through casements darted their desiring eyes
+Upon his visage, and that all the walls
+With painted imagery had said at once
+“Jesu preserve thee! Welcome, Bolingbroke!”
+Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,
+Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed’s neck,
+Bespake them thus, “I thank you, countrymen.”
+And thus still doing, thus he passed along.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Alack, poor Richard! Where rode he the whilst?
+
+YORK.
+As in a theatre the eyes of men
+After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
+Are idly bent on him that enters next,
+Thinking his prattle to be tedious,
+Even so, or with much more contempt, men’s eyes
+Did scowl on gentle Richard. No man cried “God save him!”
+No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home,
+But dust was thrown upon his sacred head,
+Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,
+His face still combating with tears and smiles,
+The badges of his grief and patience,
+That had not God for some strong purpose, steeled
+The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted,
+And barbarism itself have pitied him.
+But heaven hath a hand in these events,
+To whose high will we bound our calm contents.
+To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,
+Whose state and honour I for aye allow.
+
+ Enter Aumerle.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Here comes my son Aumerle.
+
+YORK.
+Aumerle that was;
+But that is lost for being Richard’s friend,
+And, madam, you must call him Rutland now.
+I am in Parliament pledge for his truth
+And lasting fealty to the new-made king.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Welcome, my son. Who are the violets now
+That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?
+
+AUMERLE.
+Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not.
+God knows I had as lief be none as one.
+
+YORK.
+Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,
+Lest you be cropped before you come to prime.
+What news from Oxford? Do these jousts and triumphs hold?
+
+AUMERLE.
+For aught I know, my lord, they do.
+
+YORK.
+You will be there, I know.
+
+AUMERLE.
+If God prevent not, I purpose so.
+
+YORK.
+What seal is that that hangs without thy bosom?
+Yea, look’st thou pale? Let me see the writing.
+
+AUMERLE.
+My lord, ’tis nothing.
+
+YORK.
+No matter, then, who see it.
+I will be satisfied. Let me see the writing.
+
+AUMERLE.
+I do beseech your Grace to pardon me.
+It is a matter of small consequence,
+Which for some reasons I would not have seen.
+
+YORK.
+Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.
+I fear, I fear—
+
+DUCHESS.
+What should you fear?
+’Tis nothing but some bond that he is entered into
+For gay apparel ’gainst the triumph day.
+
+YORK.
+Bound to himself? What doth he with a bond
+That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.
+Boy, let me see the writing.
+
+AUMERLE.
+I do beseech you, pardon me. I may not show it.
+
+YORK.
+I will be satisfied. Let me see it, I say.
+
+ [_Snatches it and reads it._]
+
+Treason, foul treason! Villain! traitor! slave!
+
+DUCHESS.
+What is the matter, my lord?
+
+YORK.
+Ho! who is within there?
+
+ Enter a Servant.
+
+Saddle my horse.
+God for his mercy, what treachery is here!
+
+DUCHESS.
+Why, what is it, my lord?
+
+YORK.
+Give me my boots, I say. Saddle my horse.
+Now, by mine honour, by my life, my troth,
+I will appeach the villain.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+DUCHESS.
+What is the matter?
+
+YORK.
+Peace, foolish woman.
+
+DUCHESS.
+I will not peace. What is the matter, Aumerle?
+
+AUMERLE.
+Good mother, be content. It is no more
+Than my poor life must answer.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Thy life answer?
+
+YORK.
+Bring me my boots. I will unto the King.
+
+ Re-enter Servant with boots.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Strike him, Aumerle! Poor boy, thou art amazed.
+[_To Servant_.]
+Hence, villain! Never more come in my sight.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+YORK.
+Give me my boots, I say.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Why, York, what wilt thou do?
+Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own?
+Have we more sons? Or are we like to have?
+Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?
+And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age
+And rob me of a happy mother’s name?
+Is he not like thee? Is he not thine own?
+
+YORK.
+Thou fond mad woman,
+Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?
+A dozen of them here have ta’en the sacrament
+And interchangeably set down their hands
+To kill the King at Oxford.
+
+DUCHESS.
+He shall be none;
+We’ll keep him here. Then what is that to him?
+
+YORK.
+Away, fond woman! Were he twenty times my son,
+I would appeach him.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Hadst thou groaned for him
+As I have done, thou wouldst be more pitiful.
+But now I know thy mind: thou dost suspect
+That I have been disloyal to thy bed
+And that he is a bastard, not thy son.
+Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that mind.
+He is as like thee as a man may be,
+Not like to me, or any of my kin,
+And yet I love him.
+
+YORK.
+Make way, unruly woman!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+DUCHESS.
+After, Aumerle! Mount thee upon his horse!
+Spur post, and get before him to the King,
+And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee.
+I’ll not be long behind. Though I be old,
+I doubt not but to ride as fast as York.
+And never will I rise up from the ground
+Till Bolingbroke have pardoned thee. Away, be gone!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Windsor. A room in the Castle.
+
+ Enter Bolingbroke as King, Harry Percy and other Lords.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?
+’Tis full three months since I did see him last.
+If any plague hang over us, ’tis he.
+I would to God, my lords, he might be found.
+Inquire at London, ’mongst the taverns there,
+For there, they say, he daily doth frequent
+With unrestrained loose companions,
+Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes
+And beat our watch and rob our passengers,
+While he, young wanton and effeminate boy,
+Takes on the point of honour to support
+So dissolute a crew.
+
+PERCY.
+My lord, some two days since I saw the Prince,
+And told him of those triumphs held at Oxford.
+
+KING HENRY.
+And what said the gallant?
+
+PERCY.
+His answer was he would unto the stews,
+And from the common’st creature pluck a glove
+And wear it as a favour, and with that
+He would unhorse the lustiest challenger.
+
+KING HENRY.
+As dissolute as desperate! Yet through both
+I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years
+May happily bring forth. But who comes here?
+
+ Enter Aumerle.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Where is the King?
+
+KING HENRY.
+What means our cousin that he stares and looks so wildly?
+
+AUMERLE.
+God save your Grace! I do beseech your majesty
+To have some conference with your Grace alone.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Withdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone.
+
+ [_Exeunt Harry Percy and Lords._]
+
+What is the matter with our cousin now?
+
+AUMERLE.
+[_Kneels_.] For ever may my knees grow to the earth,
+My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth,
+Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Intended or committed was this fault?
+If on the first, how heinous e’er it be,
+To win thy after-love I pardon thee.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Then give me leave that I may turn the key,
+That no man enter till my tale be done.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Have thy desire.
+
+ [_Aumerle locks the door._]
+
+YORK.
+[_Within_.] My liege, beware! Look to thyself!
+Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there.
+
+KING HENRY.
+[_Drawing_.] Villain, I’ll make thee safe.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Stay thy revengeful hand. Thou hast no cause to fear.
+
+YORK.
+[_Within_.] Open the door, secure, foolhardy king!
+Shall I for love speak treason to thy face?
+Open the door, or I will break it open.
+
+ [_King Henry  unlocks the door; and afterwards, relocks it._]
+
+ Enter York.
+
+KING HENRY.
+What is the matter, uncle? Speak!
+Recover breath. Tell us how near is danger,
+That we may arm us to encounter it.
+
+YORK.
+Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know
+The treason that my haste forbids me show.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Remember, as thou read’st, thy promise passed.
+I do repent me. Read not my name there;
+My heart is not confederate with my hand.
+
+YORK.
+It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down.
+I tore it from the traitor’s bosom, king.
+Fear, and not love, begets his penitence.
+Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove
+A serpent that will sting thee to the heart.
+
+KING HENRY.
+O heinous, strong, and bold conspiracy!
+O loyal father of a treacherous son!
+Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain
+From whence this stream through muddy passages
+Hath held his current and defiled himself!
+Thy overflow of good converts to bad,
+And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
+This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
+
+YORK.
+So shall my virtue be his vice’s bawd,
+And he shall spend mine honour with his shame,
+As thriftless sons their scraping fathers’ gold.
+Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies,
+Or my shamed life in his dishonour lies.
+Thou kill’st me in his life: giving him breath,
+The traitor lives, the true man’s put to death.
+
+DUCHESS.
+[_Within_.] What ho, my liege! For God’s sake, let me in!
+
+KING HENRY.
+What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry?
+
+DUCHESS.
+[_Within_.] A woman, and thine aunt, great king, ’tis I.
+Speak with me, pity me, open the door!
+A beggar begs that never begged before.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Our scene is altered from a serious thing,
+And now changed to “The Beggar and the King.”
+My dangerous cousin, let your mother in.
+I know she’s come to pray for your foul sin.
+
+ Enter Duchess.
+
+YORK.
+If thou do pardon whosoever pray,
+More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.
+This festered joint cut off, the rest rest sound;
+This let alone will all the rest confound.
+
+DUCHESS.
+O King, believe not this hard-hearted man.
+Love loving not itself none other can.
+
+YORK.
+Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here?
+Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear?
+
+DUCHESS.
+Sweet York, be patient. [_Kneels_.] Hear me, gentle liege.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Rise up, good aunt.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Not yet, I thee beseech.
+For ever will I walk upon my knees
+And never see day that the happy sees,
+Till thou give joy, until thou bid me joy
+By pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy.
+
+AUMERLE.
+Unto my mother’s prayers I bend my knee.
+
+ [_Kneels._]
+
+YORK.
+Against them both, my true joints bended be.
+
+ [_Kneels._]
+
+Ill mayst thou thrive if thou grant any grace!
+
+DUCHESS.
+Pleads he in earnest? Look upon his face.
+His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest;
+His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast.
+He prays but faintly and would be denied;
+We pray with heart and soul and all beside:
+His weary joints would gladly rise, I know;
+Our knees still kneel till to the ground they grow.
+His prayers are full of false hypocrisy;
+Ours of true zeal and deep integrity.
+Our prayers do outpray his; then let them have
+That mercy which true prayer ought to have.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Good aunt, stand up.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Nay, do not say “stand up”.
+Say “pardon” first, and afterwards “stand up”.
+An if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,
+“Pardon” should be the first word of thy speech.
+I never longed to hear a word till now.
+Say “pardon,” king; let pity teach thee how.
+The word is short, but not so short as sweet;
+No word like “pardon” for kings’ mouths so meet.
+
+YORK.
+Speak it in French, King, say “pardonne moy.”
+
+DUCHESS.
+Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy?
+Ah! my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord,
+That sets the word itself against the word!
+Speak “pardon” as ’tis current in our land;
+The chopping French we do not understand.
+Thine eye begins to speak, set thy tongue there,
+Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear,
+That, hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,
+Pity may move thee “pardon” to rehearse.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Good aunt, stand up.
+
+DUCHESS.
+I do not sue to stand.
+Pardon is all the suit I have in hand.
+
+KING HENRY.
+I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
+
+DUCHESS.
+O, happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
+Yet am I sick for fear. Speak it again,
+Twice saying “pardon” doth not pardon twain,
+But makes one pardon strong.
+
+KING HENRY.
+With all my heart
+I pardon him.
+
+DUCHESS.
+A god on earth thou art.
+
+KING HENRY.
+But for our trusty brother-in-law and the Abbot,
+With all the rest of that consorted crew,
+Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels.
+Good uncle, help to order several powers
+To Oxford, or where’er these traitors are;
+They shall not live within this world, I swear,
+But I will have them, if I once know where.
+Uncle, farewell, and cousin, adieu.
+Your mother well hath prayed, and prove you true.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Come, my old son. I pray God make thee new.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another room in the Castle.
+
+ Enter Exton and a Servant.
+
+EXTON.
+Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake:
+“Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?”
+Was it not so?
+
+SERVANT.
+These were his very words.
+
+EXTON.
+“Have I no friend?” quoth he. He spake it twice
+And urged it twice together, did he not?
+
+SERVANT.
+He did.
+
+EXTON.
+And speaking it, he wishtly looked on me,
+As who should say “I would thou wert the man
+That would divorce this terror from my heart”,
+Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let’s go.
+I am the King’s friend, and will rid his foe.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Pomfret. The dungeon of the Castle.
+
+ Enter Richard.
+
+RICHARD.
+I have been studying how I may compare
+This prison where I live unto the world;
+And for because the world is populous
+And here is not a creature but myself,
+I cannot do it. Yet I’ll hammer it out.
+My brain I’ll prove the female to my soul,
+My soul the father, and these two beget
+A generation of still-breeding thoughts,
+And these same thoughts people this little world,
+In humours like the people of this world,
+For no thought is contented. The better sort,
+As thoughts of things divine, are intermixed
+With scruples, and do set the word itself
+Against the word, as thus: “Come, little ones”;
+And then again:
+“It is as hard to come as for a camel
+To thread the postern of a needle’s eye.”
+Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot
+Unlikely wonders: how these vain weak nails
+May tear a passage through the flinty ribs
+Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls,
+And, for they cannot, die in their own pride.
+Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves
+That they are not the first of fortune’s slaves,
+Nor shall not be the last, like silly beggars
+Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame
+That many have and others must sit there;
+And in this thought they find a kind of ease,
+Bearing their own misfortunes on the back
+Of such as have before endured the like.
+Thus play I in one person many people,
+And none contented. Sometimes am I king;
+Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,
+And so I am. Then crushing penury
+Persuades me I was better when a king;
+Then am I kinged again, and by and by
+Think that I am unkinged by Bolingbroke,
+And straight am nothing. But whate’er I be,
+Nor I nor any man that but man is
+With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
+With being nothing.
+Music do I hear? [_Music_.]
+Ha, ha! keep time! How sour sweet music is
+When time is broke and no proportion kept!
+So is it in the music of men’s lives.
+And here have I the daintiness of ear
+To check time broke in a disordered string;
+But for the concord of my state and time
+Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.
+I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
+For now hath time made me his numb’ring clock.
+My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar
+Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,
+Whereto my finger, like a dial’s point,
+Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.
+Now, sir, the sound that tells what hour it is
+Are clamorous groans which strike upon my heart,
+Which is the bell. So sighs and tears and groans
+Show minutes, times, and hours. But my time
+Runs posting on in Bolingbroke’s proud joy,
+While I stand fooling here, his Jack o’ the clock.
+This music mads me! Let it sound no more;
+For though it have holp madmen to their wits,
+In me it seems it will make wise men mad.
+Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me,
+For ’tis a sign of love; and love to Richard
+Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.
+
+ Enter a Groom of the stable.
+
+GROOM.
+Hail, royal Prince!
+
+RICHARD.
+Thanks, noble peer.
+The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
+What art thou, and how comest thou hither
+Where no man never comes but that sad dog
+That brings me food to make misfortune live?
+
+GROOM.
+I was a poor groom of thy stable, king,
+When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,
+With much ado at length have gotten leave
+To look upon my sometimes royal master’s face.
+O, how it erned my heart when I beheld
+In London streets, that coronation day,
+When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,
+That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,
+That horse that I so carefully have dressed.
+
+RICHARD.
+Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,
+How went he under him?
+
+GROOM.
+So proudly as if he disdained the ground.
+
+RICHARD.
+So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!
+That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;
+This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
+Would he not stumble? Would he not fall down,
+Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck
+Of that proud man that did usurp his back?
+Forgiveness, horse! Why do I rail on thee,
+Since thou, created to be awed by man,
+Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse,
+And yet I bear a burden like an ass,
+Spurred, galled and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke.
+
+ Enter Keeper with a dish.
+
+KEEPER. [_To the Groom_.]
+Fellow, give place. Here is no longer stay.
+
+RICHARD.
+If thou love me, ’tis time thou wert away.
+
+GROOM.
+My tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+KEEPER.
+My lord, will’t please you to fall to?
+
+RICHARD.
+Taste of it first as thou art wont to do.
+
+KEEPER.
+My lord, I dare not. Sir Pierce of Exton,
+Who lately came from the King, commands the contrary.
+
+RICHARD.
+The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee!
+Patience is stale, and I am weary of it.
+
+ [_Strikes the Keeper._]
+
+KEEPER.
+Help, help, help!
+
+ Enter Exton and Servants, armed.
+
+RICHARD.
+How now! What means death in this rude assault?
+Villain, thy own hand yields thy death’s instrument.
+
+ [_Snatching a weapon and killing one._]
+
+Go thou and fill another room in hell.
+
+ [_He kills another, then Exton strikes him down._]
+
+That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire
+That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand
+Hath with the King’s blood stained the King’s own land.
+Mount, mount, my soul! Thy seat is up on high,
+Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+EXTON.
+As full of valour as of royal blood!
+Both have I spilled. O, would the deed were good!
+For now the devil that told me I did well
+Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.
+This dead king to the living king I’ll bear.
+Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Windsor. An Apartment in the Castle.
+
+ Flourish. Enter King Henry and York with Lords and Attendants.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear
+Is that the rebels have consumed with fire
+Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire,
+But whether they be ta’en or slain we hear not.
+
+ Enter Northumberland.
+
+Welcome, my lord. What is the news?
+
+NORTHUMBERLAND.
+First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.
+The next news is: I have to London sent
+The heads of Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent.
+The manner of their taking may appear
+At large discoursed in this paper here.
+
+KING HENRY.
+We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains,
+And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.
+
+ Enter Fitzwater.
+
+FITZWATER.
+My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London
+The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,
+Two of the dangerous consorted traitors
+That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot.
+Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.
+
+ Enter Harry Percy with the Bishop of Carlisle.
+
+PERCY.
+The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,
+With clog of conscience and sour melancholy,
+Hath yielded up his body to the grave.
+But here is Carlisle living, to abide
+Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Carlisle, this is your doom:
+Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,
+More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life.
+So as thou liv’st in peace, die free from strife;
+For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,
+High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.
+
+ Enter Exton with attendants, bearing a coffin.
+
+EXTON.
+Great king, within this coffin I present
+Thy buried fear. Herein all breathless lies
+The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,
+Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.
+
+KING HENRY.
+Exton, I thank thee not, for thou hast wrought
+A deed of slander with thy fatal hand
+Upon my head and all this famous land.
+
+EXTON.
+From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.
+
+KING HENRY.
+They love not poison that do poison need,
+Nor do I thee. Though I did wish him dead,
+I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
+The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,
+But neither my good word nor princely favour.
+With Cain go wander thorough shades of night,
+And never show thy head by day nor light.
+Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
+That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
+Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
+And put on sullen black incontinent.
+I’ll make a voyage to the Holy Land
+To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
+March sadly after; grace my mournings here
+In weeping after this untimely bier.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+KING RICHARD THE THIRD
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. London. A street
+ Scene II. London. Another street
+ Scene III. London. A Room in the Palace
+ Scene IV. London. A Room in the Tower
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. London. A Room in the palace
+ Scene II. Another Room in the palace
+ Scene III. London. A street
+ Scene IV. London. A Room in the Palace
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. London. A street
+ Scene II. Before Lord Hastings’ house
+ Scene III. Pomfret. Before the Castle
+ Scene IV. London. A Room in the Tower
+ Scene V. London. The Tower Walls
+ Scene VI. London. A street
+ Scene VII. London. Court of Baynard’s Castle
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. London. Before the Tower
+ Scene II. London. A Room of State in the Palace
+ Scene III. London. Another Room in the Palace
+ Scene IV. London. Before the Palace
+ Scene V. A Room in Lord Stanley’s house
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Salisbury. An open place
+ Scene II. Plain near Tamworth
+ Scene III. Bosworth Field
+ Scene IV. Another part of the Field
+ Scene V. Another part of the Field
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+
+RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, afterwards KING RICHARD III.
+LADY ANNE, widow to Edward, Prince of Wales, son to King Henry VI.;
+afterwards married to the Duke of Gloucester
+
+KING EDWARD THE FOURTH, brother to Richard
+QUEEN ELIZABETH, Queen to King Edward IV.
+Sons to the king:
+EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, afterwards KING EDWARD V.
+RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK
+
+GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE, brother to Edward and Richard
+BOY, son to Clarence
+GIRL, daughter to Clarence
+
+DUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV., Clarence, and Gloucester
+QUEEN MARGARET, widow to King Henry VI.
+DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
+LORD HASTINGS, the Lord Chamberlain
+LORD STANLEY, the Earl of Derby
+EARL RIVERS, brother to Queen Elizabeth
+LORD GREY, son of Queen Elizabeth by her former marriage
+MARQUESS OF DORSET, son of Queen Elizabeth by her former marriage
+SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN
+
+SIR WILLIAM CATESBY
+SIR RICHARD RATCLIFFE
+LORD LOVELL
+DUKE OF NORFOLK
+EARL OF SURREY
+
+HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND, afterwards KING HENRY VII.
+EARL OF OXFORD
+SIR JAMES BLUNT
+SIR WALTER HERBERT
+SIR WILLIAM BRANDON
+CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a priest
+THOMAS ROTHERHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
+CARDINAL BOURCHIER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
+John Morton, BISHOP OF ELY
+SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower
+SIR JAMES TYRREL
+Another Priest
+LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
+SHERIFF OF WILTSHIRE
+
+Lords, and other Attendants; two Gentlemen, a Pursuivant, Scrivener,
+Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Ghosts, Soldiers, &c.
+
+SCENE: England
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. London. A street
+
+
+Enter Richard, Duke of Gloucester, alone.
+
+RICHARD.
+Now is the winter of our discontent
+Made glorious summer by this son of York;
+And all the clouds that loured upon our house
+In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
+Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
+Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
+Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
+Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
+Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
+And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
+To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
+He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber
+To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
+But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
+Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
+I, that am rudely stamped, and want love’s majesty
+To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
+I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
+Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
+Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
+Into this breathing world scarce half made up,
+And that so lamely and unfashionable
+That dogs bark at me as I halt by them—
+Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
+Have no delight to pass away the time,
+Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,
+And descant on mine own deformity.
+And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
+To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
+I am determined to prove a villain,
+And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
+Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
+By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams,
+To set my brother Clarence and the King
+In deadly hate the one against the other;
+And if King Edward be as true and just
+As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
+This day should Clarence closely be mewed up
+About a prophecy which says that “G”
+Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be.
+Dive, thoughts, down to my soul. Here Clarence comes.
+
+Enter Clarence, guarded and Brakenbury.
+
+Brother, good day. What means this armed guard
+That waits upon your Grace?
+
+CLARENCE.
+His Majesty,
+Tend’ring my person’s safety, hath appointed
+This conduct to convey me to the Tower.
+
+RICHARD.
+Upon what cause?
+
+CLARENCE.
+Because my name is George.
+
+RICHARD.
+Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours.
+He should, for that, commit your godfathers.
+O, belike his Majesty hath some intent
+That you should be new-christened in the Tower.
+But what’s the matter, Clarence? May I know?
+
+CLARENCE.
+Yea, Richard, when I know, for I protest
+As yet I do not. But, as I can learn,
+He hearkens after prophecies and dreams,
+And from the cross-row plucks the letter G,
+And says a wizard told him that by “G”
+His issue disinherited should be.
+And for my name of George begins with G,
+It follows in his thought that I am he.
+These, as I learn, and such like toys as these,
+Hath moved his Highness to commit me now.
+
+RICHARD.
+Why, this it is when men are ruled by women.
+’Tis not the King that sends you to the Tower;
+My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, ’tis she
+That tempers him to this extremity.
+Was it not she and that good man of worship,
+Antony Woodville, her brother there,
+That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,
+From whence this present day he is delivered?
+We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.
+
+CLARENCE.
+By heaven, I think there is no man secure
+But the Queen’s kindred, and night-walking heralds
+That trudge betwixt the King and Mistress Shore.
+Heard you not what an humble suppliant
+Lord Hastings was to her for his delivery?
+
+RICHARD.
+Humbly complaining to her deity
+Got my Lord Chamberlain his liberty.
+I’ll tell you what: I think it is our way,
+If we will keep in favour with the King,
+To be her men and wear her livery.
+The jealous o’er-worn widow and herself,
+Since that our brother dubbed them gentlewomen,
+Are mighty gossips in our monarchy.
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+I beseech your Graces both to pardon me.
+His Majesty hath straitly given in charge
+That no man shall have private conference,
+Of what degree soever, with your brother.
+
+RICHARD.
+Even so; an please your worship, Brakenbury,
+You may partake of anything we say.
+We speak no treason, man. We say the King
+Is wise and virtuous, and his noble Queen
+Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous.
+We say that Shore’s wife hath a pretty foot,
+A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
+And that the Queen’s kindred are made gentlefolks.
+How say you, sir? Can you deny all this?
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+With this, my lord, myself have naught to do.
+
+RICHARD.
+Naught to do with Mistress Shore? I tell thee, fellow,
+He that doth naught with her, excepting one,
+Were best to do it secretly alone.
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+What one, my lord?
+
+RICHARD.
+Her husband, knave! Wouldst thou betray me?
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, and withal
+Forbear your conference with the noble Duke.
+
+CLARENCE.
+We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.
+
+RICHARD.
+We are the Queen’s abjects and must obey.
+Brother, farewell. I will unto the King,
+And whatsoe’er you will employ me in,
+Were it to call King Edward’s widow “sister,”
+I will perform it to enfranchise you.
+Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood
+Touches me deeper than you can imagine.
+
+CLARENCE.
+I know it pleaseth neither of us well.
+
+RICHARD.
+Well, your imprisonment shall not be long.
+I will deliver or else lie for you.
+Meantime, have patience.
+
+CLARENCE.
+I must perforce. Farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt Clarence, Brakenbury and guard._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Go tread the path that thou shalt ne’er return.
+Simple, plain Clarence, I do love thee so
+That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
+If heaven will take the present at our hands.
+But who comes here? The new-delivered Hastings?
+
+Enter Lord Hastings.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Good time of day unto my gracious lord.
+
+RICHARD.
+As much unto my good Lord Chamberlain.
+Well are you welcome to the open air.
+How hath your lordship brooked imprisonment?
+
+HASTINGS.
+With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must;
+But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks
+That were the cause of my imprisonment.
+
+RICHARD.
+No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too,
+For they that were your enemies are his,
+And have prevailed as much on him as you.
+
+HASTINGS.
+More pity that the eagles should be mewed,
+Whiles kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
+
+RICHARD.
+What news abroad?
+
+HASTINGS.
+No news so bad abroad as this at home:
+The King is sickly, weak, and melancholy,
+And his physicians fear him mightily.
+
+RICHARD.
+Now, by Saint John, that news is bad indeed.
+O, he hath kept an evil diet long,
+And overmuch consumed his royal person.
+’Tis very grievous to be thought upon.
+Where is he, in his bed?
+
+HASTINGS.
+He is.
+
+RICHARD.
+Go you before, and I will follow you.
+
+[_Exit Hastings._]
+
+He cannot live, I hope, and must not die
+Till George be packed with post-horse up to heaven.
+I’ll in to urge his hatred more to Clarence
+With lies well steeled with weighty arguments;
+And, if I fail not in my deep intent,
+Clarence hath not another day to live;
+Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,
+And leave the world for me to bustle in.
+For then I’ll marry Warwick’s youngest daughter.
+What though I killed her husband and her father?
+The readiest way to make the wench amends
+Is to become her husband and her father;
+The which will I, not all so much for love
+As for another secret close intent,
+By marrying her which I must reach unto.
+But yet I run before my horse to market.
+Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns.
+When they are gone, then must I count my gains.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. London. Another street
+
+Enter the corse of King Henry the Sixth, with Halberds to guard it,
+Lady Anne, being the mourner, Tressel and Berkeley and other Gentlemen.
+
+ANNE.
+Set down, set down your honourable load,
+If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,
+Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
+Th’ untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
+Poor key-cold figure of a holy king,
+Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster.
+Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood,
+Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost
+To hear the lamentations of poor Anne,
+Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughtered son,
+Stabbed by the selfsame hand that made these wounds.
+Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life
+I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.
+O, cursed be the hand that made these holes;
+Cursed the heart that had the heart to do it;
+Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence.
+More direful hap betide that hated wretch
+That makes us wretched by the death of thee
+Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,
+Or any creeping venomed thing that lives.
+If ever he have child, abortive be it,
+Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,
+Whose ugly and unnatural aspect
+May fright the hopeful mother at the view,
+And that be heir to his unhappiness.
+If ever he have wife, let her be made
+More miserable by the death of him
+Than I am made by my young lord and thee.
+Come now towards Chertsey with your holy load,
+Taken from Paul’s to be interred there;
+And still, as you are weary of this weight,
+Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry’s corse.
+
+[_They take up the bier._]
+
+Enter Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
+
+RICHARD.
+Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.
+
+ANNE.
+What black magician conjures up this fiend
+To stop devoted charitable deeds?
+
+RICHARD.
+Villains, set down the corse or, by Saint Paul,
+I’ll make a corse of him that disobeys!
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.
+
+RICHARD.
+Unmannered dog, stand thou, when I command!
+Advance thy halberd higher than my breast,
+Or by Saint Paul I’ll strike thee to my foot
+And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.
+
+[_They set down the bier._]
+
+ANNE.
+What, do you tremble? Are you all afraid?
+Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal,
+And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.
+Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell!
+Thou hadst but power over his mortal body;
+His soul thou canst not have; therefore begone.
+
+RICHARD.
+Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.
+
+ANNE.
+Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not;
+For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
+Filled it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
+If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
+Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.
+O, gentlemen, see, see dead Henry’s wounds
+Open their congealed mouths and bleed afresh!
+Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity,
+For ’tis thy presence that exhales this blood
+From cold and empty veins where no blood dwells.
+Thy deeds, inhuman and unnatural,
+Provokes this deluge most unnatural.
+O God, which this blood mad’st, revenge his death!
+O earth, which this blood drink’st, revenge his death!
+Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead,
+Or earth gape open wide and eat him quick,
+As thou dost swallow up this good King’s blood,
+Which his hell-governed arm hath butchered.
+
+RICHARD.
+Lady, you know no rules of charity,
+Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
+
+ANNE.
+Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man.
+No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
+
+RICHARD.
+But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
+
+ANNE.
+O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!
+
+RICHARD.
+More wonderful when angels are so angry.
+Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
+Of these supposed crimes to give me leave,
+By circumstance, but to acquit myself.
+
+ANNE.
+Vouchsafe, diffused infection of a man,
+Of these known evils but to give me leave,
+By circumstance, to accuse thy cursed self.
+
+RICHARD.
+Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have
+Some patient leisure to excuse myself.
+
+ANNE.
+Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make
+No excuse current but to hang thyself.
+
+RICHARD.
+By such despair I should accuse myself.
+
+ANNE.
+And by despairing shalt thou stand excused
+For doing worthy vengeance on thyself
+That didst unworthy slaughter upon others.
+
+RICHARD.
+Say that I slew them not?
+
+ANNE.
+Then say they were not slain.
+But dead they are, and, devilish slave, by thee.
+
+RICHARD.
+I did not kill your husband.
+
+ANNE.
+Why then he is alive.
+
+RICHARD.
+Nay, he is dead, and slain by Edward’s hand.
+
+ANNE.
+In thy foul throat thou liest. Queen Margaret saw
+Thy murd’rous falchion smoking in his blood,
+The which thou once didst bend against her breast,
+But that thy brothers beat aside the point.
+
+RICHARD.
+I was provoked by her sland’rous tongue,
+That laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.
+
+ANNE.
+Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind,
+That never dream’st on aught but butcheries.
+Didst thou not kill this King?
+
+RICHARD.
+I grant ye.
+
+ANNE.
+Dost grant me, hedgehog? Then, God grant me too
+Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed.
+O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous.
+
+RICHARD.
+The better for the King of Heaven that hath him.
+
+ANNE.
+He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.
+
+RICHARD.
+Let him thank me that holp to send him thither,
+For he was fitter for that place than earth.
+
+ANNE.
+And thou unfit for any place but hell.
+
+RICHARD.
+Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.
+
+ANNE.
+Some dungeon.
+
+RICHARD.
+Your bed-chamber.
+
+ANNE.
+Ill rest betide the chamber where thou liest!
+
+RICHARD.
+So will it, madam, till I lie with you.
+
+ANNE.
+I hope so.
+
+RICHARD.
+I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,
+To leave this keen encounter of our wits,
+And fall something into a slower method:
+Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
+Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
+As blameful as the executioner?
+
+ANNE.
+Thou wast the cause and most accursed effect.
+
+RICHARD.
+Your beauty was the cause of that effect:
+Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep
+To undertake the death of all the world,
+So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
+
+ANNE.
+If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,
+These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.
+
+RICHARD.
+These eyes could not endure that beauty’s wrack;
+You should not blemish it if I stood by.
+As all the world is cheered by the sun,
+So I by that; it is my day, my life.
+
+ANNE.
+Black night o’ershade thy day, and death thy life.
+
+RICHARD.
+Curse not thyself, fair creature; thou art both.
+
+ANNE.
+I would I were, to be revenged on thee.
+
+RICHARD.
+It is a quarrel most unnatural,
+To be revenged on him that loveth thee.
+
+ANNE.
+It is a quarrel just and reasonable,
+To be revenged on him that killed my husband.
+
+RICHARD.
+He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,
+Did it to help thee to a better husband.
+
+ANNE.
+His better doth not breathe upon the earth.
+
+RICHARD.
+He lives that loves thee better than he could.
+
+ANNE.
+Name him.
+
+RICHARD.
+Plantagenet.
+
+ANNE.
+Why, that was he.
+
+RICHARD.
+The selfsame name, but one of better nature.
+
+ANNE.
+Where is he?
+
+RICHARD.
+Here.
+
+[_She spits at him._]
+
+Why dost thou spit at me?
+
+ANNE.
+Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake.
+
+RICHARD.
+Never came poison from so sweet a place.
+
+ANNE.
+Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
+Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
+
+RICHARD.
+Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.
+
+ANNE.
+Would they were basilisks to strike thee dead!
+
+RICHARD.
+I would they were, that I might die at once;
+For now they kill me with a living death.
+Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,
+Shamed their aspects with store of childish drops.
+These eyes, which never shed remorseful tear,
+No, when my father York and Edward wept
+To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made
+When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;
+Nor when thy warlike father, like a child,
+Told the sad story of my father’s death,
+And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,
+That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks
+Like trees bedashed with rain. In that sad time
+My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear;
+And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,
+Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.
+I never sued to friend nor enemy;
+My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word;
+But now thy beauty is proposed my fee,
+My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak.
+
+[_She looks scornfully at him._]
+
+Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made
+For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
+If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,
+Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword,
+Which if thou please to hide in this true breast
+And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,
+I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,
+And humbly beg the death upon my knee,
+
+[_He kneels and lays his breast open; she offers at it with his
+sword._]
+
+Nay, do not pause, for I did kill King Henry—
+But ’twas thy beauty that provoked me.
+Nay, now dispatch; ’twas I that stabbed young Edward—
+But ’twas thy heavenly face that set me on.
+
+[_She falls the sword._]
+
+Take up the sword again, or take up me.
+
+ANNE.
+Arise, dissembler. Though I wish thy death,
+I will not be thy executioner.
+
+RICHARD.
+Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.
+
+ANNE.
+I have already.
+
+RICHARD.
+That was in thy rage.
+Speak it again, and even with the word,
+This hand, which for thy love did kill thy love,
+Shall for thy love kill a far truer love.
+To both their deaths shalt thou be accessary.
+
+ANNE.
+I would I knew thy heart.
+
+RICHARD.
+’Tis figured in my tongue.
+
+ANNE.
+I fear me both are false.
+
+RICHARD.
+Then never was man true.
+
+ANNE.
+Well, well, put up your sword.
+
+RICHARD.
+Say then my peace is made.
+
+ANNE.
+That shalt thou know hereafter.
+
+RICHARD.
+But shall I live in hope?
+
+ANNE.
+All men, I hope, live so.
+
+RICHARD.
+Vouchsafe to wear this ring.
+
+ANNE.
+To take is not to give.
+
+[_He places the ring on her hand._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger;
+Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;
+Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
+And if thy poor devoted servant may
+But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,
+Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.
+
+ANNE.
+What is it?
+
+RICHARD.
+That it may please you leave these sad designs
+To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,
+And presently repair to Crosby Place;
+Where, after I have solemnly interred
+At Chertsey monastery this noble King,
+And wet his grave with my repentant tears,
+I will with all expedient duty see you.
+For divers unknown reasons, I beseech you,
+Grant me this boon.
+
+ANNE.
+With all my heart, and much it joys me too
+To see you are become so penitent.
+Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.
+
+RICHARD.
+Bid me farewell.
+
+ANNE.
+’Tis more than you deserve;
+But since you teach me how to flatter you,
+Imagine I have said farewell already.
+
+[_Exeunt Lady Anne, Tressel and Berkeley._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Sirs, take up the corse.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Towards Chertsey, noble lord?
+
+RICHARD.
+No, to White Friars; there attend my coming.
+
+[_Exeunt Halberds and Gentlemen with corse._]
+
+Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
+Was ever woman in this humour won?
+I’ll have her, but I will not keep her long.
+What, I that killed her husband and his father,
+To take her in her heart’s extremest hate,
+With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
+The bleeding witness of her hatred by,
+Having God, her conscience, and these bars against me,
+And I no friends to back my suit at all,
+But the plain devil and dissembling looks?
+And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!
+Ha!
+Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
+Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
+Stabbed in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
+A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
+Framed in the prodigality of nature,
+Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,
+The spacious world cannot again afford.
+And will she yet abase her eyes on me,
+That cropped the golden prime of this sweet prince,
+And made her widow to a woeful bed?
+On me, whose all not equals Edward’s moiety?
+On me, that halt and am misshapen thus?
+My dukedom to a beggarly denier,
+I do mistake my person all this while!
+Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
+Myself to be a marvellous proper man.
+I’ll be at charges for a looking-glass,
+And entertain a score or two of tailors
+To study fashions to adorn my body.
+Since I am crept in favour with myself,
+I will maintain it with some little cost.
+But first I’ll turn yon fellow in his grave,
+And then return lamenting to my love.
+Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
+That I may see my shadow as I pass.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. London. A Room in the Palace
+
+Enter Queen Elizabeth, the Marquess of Dorset, Lord Rivers and Lord
+Grey.
+
+RIVERS.
+Have patience, madam. There’s no doubt his Majesty
+Will soon recover his accustomed health.
+
+GREY.
+In that you brook it ill, it makes him worse.
+Therefore, for God’s sake, entertain good comfort,
+And cheer his Grace with quick and merry eyes.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+If he were dead, what would betide on me?
+
+GREY.
+No other harm but loss of such a lord.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+The loss of such a lord includes all harms.
+
+GREY.
+The heavens have blessed you with a goodly son
+To be your comforter when he is gone.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Ah, he is young, and his minority
+Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,
+A man that loves not me, nor none of you.
+
+RIVERS.
+Is it concluded he shall be Protector?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+It is determined, not concluded yet;
+But so it must be, if the King miscarry.
+
+Enter Buckingham and Stanley, Earl of Derby.
+
+GREY.
+Here come the Lords of Buckingham and Derby.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Good time of day unto your royal Grace.
+
+STANLEY.
+God make your Majesty joyful as you have been.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby,
+To your good prayer will scarcely say amen.
+Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she’s your wife,
+And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured
+I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
+
+STANLEY.
+I do beseech you, either not believe
+The envious slanders of her false accusers,
+Or if she be accused on true report,
+Bear with her weakness, which I think proceeds
+From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Saw you the King today, my Lord of Derby?
+
+STANLEY.
+But now the Duke of Buckingham and I
+Are come from visiting his Majesty.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+What likelihood of his amendment, lords?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Madam, good hope; his Grace speaks cheerfully.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+God grant him health! Did you confer with him?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Ay, madam; he desires to make atonement
+Between the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,
+And between them and my Lord Chamberlain;
+And sent to warn them to his royal presence.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Would all were well—but that will never be.
+I fear our happiness is at the height.
+
+Enter Richard, Duke of Gloucester and Hastings.
+
+RICHARD.
+They do me wrong, and I will not endure it!
+Who is it that complains unto the King
+That I, forsooth, am stern and love them not?
+By holy Paul, they love his Grace but lightly
+That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.
+Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
+Smile in men’s faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
+Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
+I must be held a rancorous enemy.
+Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
+But thus his simple truth must be abused
+With silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?
+
+GREY.
+To who in all this presence speaks your Grace?
+
+RICHARD.
+To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.
+When have I injured thee? When done thee wrong?
+Or thee? Or thee? Or any of your faction?
+A plague upon you all! His royal Grace,
+Whom God preserve better than you would wish,
+Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing while
+But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
+The King, on his own royal disposition,
+And not provoked by any suitor else,
+Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred
+That in your outward action shows itself
+Against my children, brothers, and myself,
+Makes him to send, that he may learn the ground
+Of your ill will, and thereby to remove it.
+
+RICHARD.
+I cannot tell. The world is grown so bad
+That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
+Since every Jack became a gentleman,
+There’s many a gentle person made a Jack.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Gloucester.
+You envy my advancement, and my friends’.
+God grant we never may have need of you.
+
+RICHARD.
+Meantime, God grants that we have need of you.
+Our brother is imprisoned by your means,
+Myself disgraced, and the nobility
+Held in contempt, while great promotions
+Are daily given to ennoble those
+That scarce some two days since were worth a noble.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+By Him that raised me to this careful height
+From that contented hap which I enjoyed,
+I never did incense his Majesty
+Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been
+An earnest advocate to plead for him.
+My lord, you do me shameful injury
+Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.
+
+RICHARD.
+You may deny that you were not the mean
+Of my Lord Hastings’ late imprisonment.
+
+RIVERS.
+She may, my lord; for—
+
+RICHARD.
+She may, Lord Rivers; why, who knows not so?
+She may do more, sir, than denying that.
+She may help you to many fair preferments,
+And then deny her aiding hand therein,
+And lay those honours on your high desert.
+What may she not? She may, ay, marry, may she—
+
+RIVERS.
+What, marry, may she?
+
+RICHARD.
+What, marry, may she? Marry with a king,
+A bachelor, and a handsome stripling too.
+Iwis your grandam had a worser match.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+My lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne
+Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs.
+By heaven, I will acquaint his Majesty
+Of those gross taunts that oft I have endured.
+I had rather be a country servant-maid
+Than a great queen with this condition,
+To be so baited, scorned, and stormed at.
+
+Enter old Queen Margaret behind.
+
+Small joy have I in being England’s queen.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside._] And lessened be that small, God, I beseech Him!
+Thy honour, state, and seat, is due to me.
+
+RICHARD.
+What, threat you me with telling of the King?
+Tell him, and spare not. Look what I have said
+I will avouch ’t in presence of the King;
+I dare adventure to be sent to th’ Tower.
+’Tis time to speak. My pains are quite forgot.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside._] Out, devil! I do remember them too well:
+Thou killed’st my husband Henry in the Tower,
+And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury.
+
+RICHARD.
+Ere you were queen, ay, or your husband king,
+I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;
+A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,
+A liberal rewarder of his friends.
+To royalize his blood, I spilt mine own.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside._] Ay, and much better blood than his or thine.
+
+RICHARD.
+In all which time, you and your husband Grey
+Were factious for the house of Lancaster.
+And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband
+In Margaret’s battle at Saint Albans slain?
+Let me put in your minds, if you forget,
+What you have been ere this, and what you are;
+Withal, what I have been, and what I am.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside._] A murd’rous villain, and so still thou art.
+
+RICHARD.
+Poor Clarence did forsake his father Warwick,
+Ay, and forswore himself—which Jesu pardon!—
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside._] Which God revenge!
+
+RICHARD.
+To fight on Edward’s party for the crown;
+And for his meed, poor lord, he is mewed up.
+I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward’s,
+Or Edward’s soft and pitiful, like mine.
+I am too childish-foolish for this world.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside._] Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave this world,
+Thou cacodemon! There thy kingdom is.
+
+RIVERS.
+My lord of Gloucester, in those busy days
+Which here you urge to prove us enemies,
+We followed then our lord, our sovereign king.
+So should we you, if you should be our king.
+
+RICHARD.
+If I should be! I had rather be a pedler.
+Far be it from my heart, the thought thereof.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+As little joy, my lord, as you suppose
+You should enjoy, were you this country’s king,
+As little joy you may suppose in me
+That I enjoy, being the Queen thereof.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside._] As little joy enjoys the Queen thereof,
+For I am she, and altogether joyless.
+I can no longer hold me patient.
+
+[_Coming forward._]
+
+Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
+In sharing that which you have pilled from me!
+Which of you trembles not that looks on me?
+If not, that I am Queen, you bow like subjects,
+Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels.
+Ah, gentle villain, do not turn away.
+
+RICHARD.
+Foul wrinkled witch, what mak’st thou in my sight?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+But repetition of what thou hast marred.
+That will I make before I let thee go.
+
+RICHARD.
+Wert thou not banished on pain of death?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+I was, but I do find more pain in banishment
+Than death can yield me here by my abode.
+A husband and a son thou ow’st to me;
+And thou a kingdom; all of you, allegiance.
+This sorrow that I have by right is yours;
+And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.
+
+RICHARD.
+The curse my noble father laid on thee
+When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper,
+And with thy scorns drew’st rivers from his eyes,
+And then to dry them, gav’st the Duke a clout
+Steeped in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland—
+His curses then, from bitterness of soul
+Denounced against thee, are all fall’n upon thee,
+And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+So just is God, to right the innocent.
+
+HASTINGS.
+O, ’twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,
+And the most merciless that e’er was heard of.
+
+RIVERS.
+Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.
+
+DORSET.
+No man but prophesied revenge for it.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+What, were you snarling all before I came,
+Ready to catch each other by the throat,
+And turn you all your hatred now on me?
+Did York’s dread curse prevail so much with heaven
+That Henry’s death, my lovely Edward’s death,
+Their kingdom’s loss, my woeful banishment,
+Should all but answer for that peevish brat?
+Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?
+Why then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!
+Though not by war, by surfeit die your King,
+As ours by murder, to make him a king.
+Edward thy son, that now is Prince of Wales,
+For Edward our son, that was Prince of Wales,
+Die in his youth by like untimely violence.
+Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,
+Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self.
+Long mayst thou live to wail thy children’s death,
+And see another, as I see thee now,
+Decked in thy rights, as thou art stalled in mine;
+Long die thy happy days before thy death,
+And, after many lengthened hours of grief,
+Die neither mother, wife, nor England’s Queen.
+Rivers and Dorset, you were standers-by,
+And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son
+Was stabbed with bloody daggers. God, I pray Him,
+That none of you may live his natural age,
+But by some unlooked accident cut off.
+
+RICHARD.
+Have done thy charm, thou hateful withered hag.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+And leave out thee? Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
+If heaven have any grievous plague in store
+Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
+O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
+And then hurl down their indignation
+On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace.
+The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul;
+Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv’st,
+And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends;
+No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
+Unless it be while some tormenting dream
+Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils.
+Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog,
+Thou that wast sealed in thy nativity
+The slave of nature and the son of hell;
+Thou slander of thy heavy mother’s womb,
+Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins,
+Thou rag of honour, thou detested—
+
+RICHARD.
+Margaret.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Richard!
+
+RICHARD.
+Ha?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+I call thee not.
+
+RICHARD.
+I cry thee mercy then, for I did think
+That thou hadst called me all these bitter names.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Why, so I did, but looked for no reply.
+O, let me make the period to my curse!
+
+RICHARD.
+’Tis done by me, and ends in “Margaret”.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune,
+Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider,
+Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
+Fool, fool; thou whet’st a knife to kill thyself.
+The day will come that thou shalt wish for me
+To help thee curse this poisonous bunch-backed toad.
+
+HASTINGS.
+False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,
+Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Foul shame upon you, you have all moved mine.
+
+RIVERS.
+Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+To serve me well, you all should do me duty:
+Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects.
+O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!
+
+DORSET.
+Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Peace, Master Marquess, you are malapert.
+Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.
+O, that your young nobility could judge
+What ’twere to lose it and be miserable!
+They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
+And if they fall they dash themselves to pieces.
+
+RICHARD.
+Good counsel, marry. Learn it, learn it, Marquess.
+
+DORSET.
+It touches you, my lord, as much as me.
+
+RICHARD.
+Ay, and much more; but I was born so high.
+Our aery buildeth in the cedar’s top,
+And dallies with the wind, and scorns the sun.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+And turns the sun to shade, alas, alas!
+Witness my son, now in the shade of death,
+Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath
+Hath in eternal darkness folded up.
+Your aery buildeth in our aery’s nest.
+O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!
+As it is won with blood, lost be it so.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Peace, peace, for shame, if not for charity.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Urge neither charity nor shame to me.
+Uncharitably with me have you dealt,
+And shamefully my hopes by you are butchered.
+My charity is outrage, life my shame,
+And in that shame still live my sorrow’s rage.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Have done, have done.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+O princely Buckingham, I’ll kiss thy hand
+In sign of league and amity with thee.
+Now fair befall thee and thy noble house!
+Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,
+Nor thou within the compass of my curse.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Nor no one here, for curses never pass
+The lips of those that breathe them in the air.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+I will not think but they ascend the sky,
+And there awake God’s gentle sleeping peace.
+O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!
+Look when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,
+His venom tooth will rankle to the death.
+Have not to do with him; beware of him;
+Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
+And all their ministers attend on him.
+
+RICHARD.
+What doth she say, my lord of Buckingham?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel,
+And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?
+O, but remember this another day,
+When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,
+And say, poor Margaret was a prophetess.
+Live each of you the subjects to his hate,
+And he to yours, and all of you to God’s!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.
+
+RIVERS.
+And so doth mine. I muse why she’s at liberty.
+
+RICHARD.
+I cannot blame her. By God’s holy mother,
+She hath had too much wrong; and I repent
+My part thereof that I have done to her.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+I never did her any, to my knowledge.
+
+RICHARD.
+Yet you have all the vantage of her wrong.
+I was too hot to do somebody good
+That is too cold in thinking of it now.
+Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid;
+He is franked up to fatting for his pains.
+God pardon them that are the cause thereof.
+
+RIVERS.
+A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,
+To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
+
+RICHARD.
+So do I ever—(_Speaks to himself_) being well advised;
+For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.
+
+Enter Catesby.
+
+CATESBY.
+Madam, his Majesty doth call for you,
+And for your Grace, and you, my gracious lords.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Catesby, I come. Lords, will you go with me?
+
+RIVERS.
+We wait upon your Grace.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Richard._]
+
+RICHARD.
+I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
+The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
+I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
+Clarence, whom I indeed have cast in darkness,
+I do beweep to many simple gulls,
+Namely, to Derby, Hastings, Buckingham;
+And tell them ’tis the Queen and her allies
+That stir the King against the Duke my brother.
+Now they believe it, and withal whet me
+To be revenged on Rivers, Dorset, Grey.
+But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture,
+Tell them that God bids us do good for evil;
+And thus I clothe my naked villany
+With odd old ends stol’n forth of Holy Writ,
+And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
+
+Enter two Murderers.
+
+But soft, here come my executioners.
+How now, my hardy, stout, resolved mates;
+Are you now going to dispatch this thing?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+We are, my lord, and come to have the warrant,
+That we may be admitted where he is.
+
+RICHARD.
+Well thought upon; I have it here about me.
+
+[_Gives the warrant._]
+
+When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.
+But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,
+Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;
+For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps
+May move your hearts to pity, if you mark him.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Tut, tut, my lord, we will not stand to prate.
+Talkers are no good doers. Be assured
+We go to use our hands, and not our tongues.
+
+RICHARD.
+Your eyes drop millstones when fools’ eyes fall tears.
+I like you, lads. About your business straight.
+Go, go, dispatch.
+
+BOTH MURDERERS.
+We will, my noble lord.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. A Room in the Tower
+
+Enter Clarence and Keeper.
+
+KEEPER.
+Why looks your Grace so heavily today?
+
+CLARENCE.
+O, I have passed a miserable night,
+So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
+That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
+I would not spend another such a night
+Though ’twere to buy a world of happy days,
+So full of dismal terror was the time!
+
+KEEPER.
+What was your dream, my lord? I pray you tell me.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,
+And was embarked to cross to Burgundy;
+And in my company my brother Gloucester,
+Who from my cabin tempted me to walk
+Upon the hatches. Thence we looked toward England,
+And cited up a thousand heavy times,
+During the wars of York and Lancaster,
+That had befall’n us. As we paced along
+Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,
+Methought that Gloucester stumbled, and in falling,
+Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard
+Into the tumbling billows of the main.
+O Lord, methought what pain it was to drown,
+What dreadful noise of waters in my ears;
+What sights of ugly death within my eyes.
+Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;
+A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;
+Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
+Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
+All scattered in the bottom of the sea.
+Some lay in dead men’s skulls, and in the holes
+Where eyes did once inhabit there were crept—
+As ’twere in scorn of eyes—reflecting gems,
+That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep,
+And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by.
+
+KEEPER.
+Had you such leisure in the time of death
+To gaze upon these secrets of the deep?
+
+CLARENCE.
+Methought I had; and often did I strive
+To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood
+Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forth
+To find the empty, vast, and wand’ring air,
+But smothered it within my panting bulk,
+Who almost burst to belch it in the sea.
+
+KEEPER.
+Awaked you not in this sore agony?
+
+CLARENCE.
+No, no, my dream was lengthened after life.
+O, then began the tempest to my soul.
+I passed, methought, the melancholy flood,
+With that sour ferryman which poets write of,
+Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
+The first that there did greet my stranger-soul
+Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick,
+Who spake aloud, “What scourge for perjury
+Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?”
+And so he vanished. Then came wand’ring by
+A shadow like an angel, with bright hair
+Dabbled in blood; and he shrieked out aloud
+“Clarence is come—false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,
+That stabbed me in the field by Tewksbury!
+Seize on him, Furies! Take him unto torment!”
+With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends
+Environed me, and howled in mine ears
+Such hideous cries that with the very noise
+I trembling waked, and for a season after
+Could not believe but that I was in hell,
+Such terrible impression made my dream.
+
+KEEPER.
+No marvel, lord, though it affrighted you;
+I am afraid, methinks, to hear you tell it.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Ah, Keeper, Keeper, I have done these things,
+That now give evidence against my soul,
+For Edward’s sake, and see how he requites me.
+O God, if my deep prayers cannot appease Thee,
+But Thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,
+Yet execute Thy wrath in me alone;
+O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!
+Keeper, I prithee sit by me awhile.
+My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.
+
+KEEPER.
+I will, my lord; God give your Grace good rest.
+
+[_Clarence reposes himself on a chair._]
+
+Enter Brakenbury the Lieutenant.
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
+Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.
+Princes have but their titles for their glories,
+An outward honour for an inward toil;
+And, for unfelt imaginations,
+They often feel a world of restless cares,
+So that between their titles and low name,
+There’s nothing differs but the outward fame.
+
+Enter the two Murderers.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Ho, who’s here?
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+What wouldst thou, fellow? And how cam’st thou hither?
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs.
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+What, so brief?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+’Tis better, sir, than to be tedious. Let him see our commission, and
+talk no more.
+
+[_Brakenbury reads the commission._]
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+I am in this commanded to deliver
+The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands.
+I will not reason what is meant hereby,
+Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.
+There lies the Duke asleep, and there the keys.
+I’ll to the King and signify to him
+That thus I have resigned to you my charge.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+You may, sir; ’tis a point of wisdom. Fare you well.
+
+[_Exeunt Brakenbury and the Keeper._]
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+What, shall I stab him as he sleeps?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+No. He’ll say ’twas done cowardly, when he wakes.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Why, he shall never wake until the great Judgement Day.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Why, then he’ll say we stabbed him sleeping.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+The urging of that word “judgement” hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+What, art thou afraid?
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Not to kill him, having a warrant, but to be damned for killing him,
+from the which no warrant can defend me.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+I thought thou hadst been resolute.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+So I am—to let him live.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+I’ll back to the Duke of Gloucester and tell him so.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Nay, I prithee stay a little. I hope this passionate humour will
+change. It was wont to hold me but while one tells twenty.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+How dost thou feel thyself now?
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Remember our reward, when the deed’s done.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Zounds, he dies! I had forgot the reward.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Where’s thy conscience now?
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+O, in the Duke of Gloucester’s purse.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+So, when he opens his purse to give us our reward, thy conscience flies
+out.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+’Tis no matter; let it go. There’s few or none will entertain it.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+What if it come to thee again?
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+I’ll not meddle with it; it makes a man coward. A man cannot steal but
+it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it checks him; a man cannot lie
+with his neighbour’s wife but it detects him. ’Tis a blushing
+shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a man’s bosom. It fills a man full
+of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I
+found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and
+cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well
+endeavours to trust to himself and live without it.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Zounds, ’tis even now at my elbow, persuading me not to kill the Duke.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Take the devil in thy mind, and believe him not. He would insinuate
+with thee but to make thee sigh.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+I am strong-framed; he cannot prevail with me.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Spoke like a tall man that respects thy reputation. Come, shall we fall
+to work?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Take him on the costard with the hilts of thy sword, and then throw him
+in the malmsey-butt in the next room.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+O excellent device—and make a sop of him.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Soft, he wakes.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Strike!
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+No, we’ll reason with him.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Where art thou, keeper? Give me a cup of wine.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.
+
+CLARENCE.
+In God’s name, what art thou?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+A man, as you are.
+
+CLARENCE.
+But not as I am, royal.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Nor you as we are, loyal.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+My voice is now the King’s, my looks mine own.
+
+CLARENCE.
+How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!
+Your eyes do menace me; why look you pale?
+Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+To, to, to—
+
+CLARENCE.
+To murder me?
+
+BOTH MURDERERS.
+Ay, ay.
+
+CLARENCE.
+You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,
+And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.
+Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Offended us you have not, but the King.
+
+CLARENCE.
+I shall be reconciled to him again.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Are you drawn forth among a world of men
+To slay the innocent? What is my offence?
+Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?
+What lawful quest have given their verdict up
+Unto the frowning judge? Or who pronounced
+The bitter sentence of poor Clarence’ death?
+Before I be convict by course of law,
+To threaten me with death is most unlawful.
+I charge you, as you hope to have redemption,
+By Christ’s dear blood shed for our grievous sins,
+That you depart, and lay no hands on me.
+The deed you undertake is damnable.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+What we will do, we do upon command.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+And he that hath commanded is our King.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Erroneous vassals! The great King of kings
+Hath in the table of his law commanded
+That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then
+Spurn at His edict and fulfil a man’s?
+Take heed, for He holds vengeance in His hand
+To hurl upon their heads that break His law.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+And that same vengeance doth He hurl on thee
+For false forswearing, and for murder too.
+Thou didst receive the sacrament to fight
+In quarrel of the house of Lancaster.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+And like a traitor to the name of God
+Didst break that vow, and with thy treacherous blade
+Unrippedst the bowels of thy sovereign’s son.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Whom thou wast sworn to cherish and defend.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+How canst thou urge God’s dreadful law to us,
+When thou hast broke it in such dear degree?
+
+CLARENCE.
+Alas, for whose sake did I that ill deed?
+For Edward, for my brother, for his sake.
+He sends you not to murder me for this,
+For in that sin he is as deep as I.
+If God will be avenged for the deed,
+O, know you yet He doth it publicly;
+Take not the quarrel from His powerful arm;
+He needs no indirect or lawless course
+To cut off those that have offended Him.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Who made thee then a bloody minister
+When gallant-springing, brave Plantagenet,
+That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?
+
+CLARENCE.
+My brother’s love, the devil, and my rage.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Thy brother’s love, our duty, and thy faults,
+Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.
+
+CLARENCE.
+If you do love my brother, hate not me.
+I am his brother, and I love him well.
+If you are hired for meed, go back again,
+And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,
+Who shall reward you better for my life
+Than Edward will for tidings of my death.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+You are deceived. Your brother Gloucester hates you.
+
+CLARENCE.
+O no, he loves me, and he holds me dear.
+Go you to him from me.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Ay, so we will.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Tell him when that our princely father York
+Blessed his three sons with his victorious arm,
+And charged us from his soul to love each other,
+He little thought of this divided friendship.
+Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Ay, millstones, as he lessoned us to weep.
+
+CLARENCE.
+O, do not slander him, for he is kind.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Right, as snow in harvest. Come, you deceive yourself.
+’Tis he that sends us to destroy you here.
+
+CLARENCE.
+It cannot be, for he bewept my fortune,
+And hugged me in his arms, and swore with sobs
+That he would labour my delivery.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Why, so he doth, when he delivers you
+From this earth’s thraldom to the joys of heaven.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Have you that holy feeling in your souls
+To counsel me to make my peace with God,
+And are you yet to your own souls so blind
+That you will war with God by murd’ring me?
+O sirs, consider: they that set you on
+To do this deed will hate you for the deed.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+What shall we do?
+
+CLARENCE.
+Relent, and save your souls.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Relent? No, ’tis cowardly and womanish.
+
+CLARENCE.
+Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.
+Which of you—if you were a prince’s son,
+Being pent from liberty, as I am now—
+If two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
+Would not entreat for life? Ay, you would beg,
+Were you in my distress.
+My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks.
+O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
+Come thou on my side, and entreat for me;
+A begging prince what beggar pities not?
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+Look behind you, my lord.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+Take that, and that! [_Stabs him._] If all this will not do,
+I’ll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.
+
+[_Exit with the body._]
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+A bloody deed, and desperately dispatched.
+How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands
+Of this most grievous murder.
+
+Enter First Murderer.
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+How now? What mean’st thou that thou help’st me not?
+By heavens, the Duke shall know how slack you have been.
+
+SECOND MURDERER.
+I would he knew that I had saved his brother.
+Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say,
+For I repent me that the Duke is slain.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FIRST MURDERER.
+So do not I. Go, coward as thou art.
+Well, I’ll go hide the body in some hole
+Till that the Duke give order for his burial.
+And when I have my meed, I will away,
+For this will out, and then I must not stay.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. London. A Room in the palace
+
+
+Enter King Edward, sick, Queen Elizabeth, Dorset, Rivers, Hastings,
+Buckingham, Grey and others.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Why, so. Now have I done a good day’s work.
+You peers, continue this united league.
+I every day expect an embassage
+From my Redeemer, to redeem me hence;
+And more at peace my soul shall part to heaven
+Since I have made my friends at peace on earth.
+Rivers and Hastings, take each other’s hand;
+Dissemble not your hatred. Swear your love.
+
+RIVERS.
+By heaven, my soul is purged from grudging hate,
+And with my hand I seal my true heart’s love.
+
+HASTINGS.
+So thrive I, as I truly swear the like.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Take heed you dally not before your King,
+Lest He that is the supreme King of kings
+Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
+Either of you to be the other’s end.
+
+HASTINGS.
+So prosper I, as I swear perfect love.
+
+RIVERS.
+And I, as I love Hastings with my heart.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Madam, yourself is not exempt from this;
+Nor you, son Dorset; Buckingham, nor you.
+You have been factious one against the other.
+Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand,
+And what you do, do it unfeignedly.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+There, Hastings, I will never more remember
+Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love lord Marquess.
+
+DORSET.
+This interchange of love, I here protest,
+Upon my part shall be inviolable.
+
+HASTINGS.
+And so swear I.
+
+[_They embrace._]
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league
+With thy embracements to my wife’s allies,
+And make me happy in your unity.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate
+Upon your Grace, but with all duteous love
+Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me
+With hate in those where I expect most love.
+When I have most need to employ a friend,
+And most assured that he is a friend,
+Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile
+Be he unto me: this do I beg of God,
+When I am cold in love to you or yours.
+
+[_Embrace._]
+
+KING EDWARD.
+A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,
+Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.
+There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,
+To make the blessed period of this peace.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+And in good time,
+Here comes Sir Ratcliffe and the Duke.
+
+Enter Ratcliffe and Richard.
+
+RICHARD.
+Good morrow to my sovereign King and Queen;
+And, princely peers, a happy time of day.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Happy indeed, as we have spent the day.
+Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity,
+Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate,
+Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
+
+RICHARD.
+A blessed labour, my most sovereign lord,
+Among this princely heap, if any here
+By false intelligence or wrong surmise
+Hold me a foe,
+If I unwittingly, or in my rage,
+Have aught committed that is hardly borne
+By any in this presence, I desire
+To reconcile me to his friendly peace.
+’Tis death to me to be at enmity;
+I hate it, and desire all good men’s love.
+First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,
+Which I will purchase with my duteous service;
+Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,
+If ever any grudge were lodged between us;
+Of you and you, Lord Rivers and of Dorset,
+That all without desert have frowned on me;
+Of you, Lord Woodville and Lord Scales;—of you,
+Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of all.
+I do not know that Englishman alive
+With whom my soul is any jot at odds
+More than the infant that is born tonight.
+I thank my God for my humility.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+A holy day shall this be kept hereafter.
+I would to God all strifes were well compounded.
+My sovereign lord, I do beseech your Highness
+To take our brother Clarence to your grace.
+
+RICHARD.
+Why, madam, have I offered love for this,
+To be so flouted in this royal presence?
+Who knows not that the gentle Duke is dead?
+
+[_They all start._]
+
+You do him injury to scorn his corse.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Who knows not he is dead! Who knows he is?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+All-seeing heaven, what a world is this!
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?
+
+DORSET.
+Ay, my good lord, and no man in the presence
+But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Is Clarence dead? The order was reversed.
+
+RICHARD.
+But he, poor man, by your first order died,
+And that a winged Mercury did bear;
+Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,
+That came too lag to see him buried.
+God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,
+Nearer in bloody thoughts, and not in blood,
+Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,
+And yet go current from suspicion!
+
+Enter Stanley Earl of Derby.
+
+STANLEY.
+A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!
+
+KING EDWARD.
+I prithee, peace. My soul is full of sorrow.
+
+STANLEY.
+I will not rise unless your Highness hear me.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Then say at once what is it thou requests.
+
+STANLEY.
+The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant’s life
+Who slew today a riotous gentleman
+Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.
+
+KING EDWARD.
+Have I a tongue to doom my brother’s death,
+And shall that tongue give pardon to a slave?
+My brother killed no man; his fault was thought,
+And yet his punishment was bitter death.
+Who sued to me for him? Who, in my wrath,
+Kneeled at my feet, and bid me be advised?
+Who spoke of brotherhood? Who spoke of love?
+Who told me how the poor soul did forsake
+The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?
+Who told me, in the field at Tewksbury,
+When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,
+And said, “Dear brother, live, and be a king”?
+Who told me, when we both lay in the field
+Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me
+Even in his garments, and did give himself,
+All thin and naked, to the numb-cold night?
+All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
+Sinfully plucked, and not a man of you
+Had so much grace to put it in my mind.
+But when your carters or your waiting vassals
+Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced
+The precious image of our dear Redeemer,
+You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon,
+And I, unjustly too, must grant it you.
+But for my brother not a man would speak,
+Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself
+For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all
+Have been beholding to him in his life,
+Yet none of you would once beg for his life.
+O God, I fear Thy justice will take hold
+On me, and you, and mine and yours for this!
+Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.
+Ah, poor Clarence!
+
+[_Exeunt some with King and Queen._]
+
+RICHARD.
+This is the fruit of rashness. Marked you not
+How that the guilty kindred of the Queen
+Looked pale when they did hear of Clarence’ death?
+O, they did urge it still unto the King.
+God will revenge it. Come, lords, will you go
+To comfort Edward with our company?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+We wait upon your Grace.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Another Room in the palace
+
+Enter the old Duchess of York with the two Children of Clarence.
+
+BOY.
+Good grandam, tell us, is our father dead?
+
+DUCHESS.
+No, boy.
+
+GIRL.
+Why do you weep so oft, and beat your breast,
+And cry “O Clarence, my unhappy son”?
+
+BOY.
+Why do you look on us, and shake your head,
+And call us orphans, wretches, castaways,
+If that our noble father were alive?
+
+DUCHESS.
+My pretty cousins, you mistake me both.
+I do lament the sickness of the King,
+As loath to lose him, not your father’s death.
+It were lost sorrow to wail one that’s lost.
+
+BOY.
+Then you conclude, my grandam, he is dead.
+The King mine uncle is to blame for it.
+God will revenge it, whom I will importune
+With earnest prayers all to that effect.
+
+GIRL.
+And so will I.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Peace, children, peace. The King doth love you well.
+Incapable and shallow innocents,
+You cannot guess who caused your father’s death.
+
+BOY.
+Grandam, we can, for my good uncle Gloucester
+Told me, the King, provoked to it by the Queen,
+Devised impeachments to imprison him;
+And when my uncle told me so, he wept,
+And pitied me, and kindly kissed my cheek;
+Bade me rely on him as on my father,
+And he would love me dearly as his child.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shape,
+And with a virtuous visard hide deep vice!
+He is my son, ay, and therein my shame;
+Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.
+
+BOY.
+Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?
+
+DUCHESS.
+Ay, boy.
+
+BOY.
+I cannot think it. Hark, what noise is this?
+
+Enter Queen Elizabeth with her hair about her ears, Rivers and Dorset
+after her.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Ah, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,
+To chide my fortune, and torment myself?
+I’ll join with black despair against my soul
+And to myself become an enemy.
+
+DUCHESS.
+What means this scene of rude impatience?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+To make an act of tragic violence.
+Edward, my lord, thy son, our King, is dead.
+Why grow the branches when the root is gone?
+Why wither not the leaves that want their sap?
+If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,
+That our swift-winged souls may catch the King’s
+Or, like obedient subjects, follow him
+To his new kingdom of ne’er-changing night.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow
+As I had title in thy noble husband.
+I have bewept a worthy husband’s death,
+And lived by looking on his images;
+But now two mirrors of his princely semblance
+Are cracked in pieces by malignant death,
+And I, for comfort, have but one false glass,
+That grieves me when I see my shame in him.
+Thou art a widow, yet thou art a mother,
+And hast the comfort of thy children left;
+But death hath snatched my husband from mine arms
+And plucked two crutches from my feeble hands,
+Clarence and Edward. O, what cause have I,
+Thine being but a moiety of my moan,
+To overgo thy woes and drown thy cries.
+
+BOY.
+Ah, aunt, you wept not for our father’s death.
+How can we aid you with our kindred tears?
+
+GIRL.
+Our fatherless distress was left unmoaned.
+Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Give me no help in lamentation.
+I am not barren to bring forth complaints.
+All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
+That I, being governed by the watery moon,
+May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world.
+Ah, for my husband, for my dear Lord Edward!
+
+CHILDREN.
+Ah for our father, for our dear Lord Clarence!
+
+DUCHESS.
+Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+What stay had I but Edward? And he’s gone.
+
+CHILDREN.
+What stay had we but Clarence? And he’s gone.
+
+DUCHESS.
+What stays had I but they? And they are gone.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Was never widow had so dear a loss.
+
+CHILDREN.
+Were never orphans had so dear a loss.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Was never mother had so dear a loss.
+Alas, I am the mother of these griefs.
+Their woes are parcelled, mine is general.
+She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;
+I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she;
+These babes for Clarence weep, and so do I;
+I for an Edward weep, so do not they.
+Alas, you three, on me, threefold distressed,
+Pour all your tears. I am your sorrow’s nurse,
+And I will pamper it with lamentation.
+
+DORSET.
+Comfort, dear mother. God is much displeased
+That you take with unthankfulness His doing.
+In common worldly things ’tis called ungrateful
+With dull unwillingness to repay a debt
+Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;
+Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,
+For it requires the royal debt it lent you.
+
+RIVERS.
+Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,
+Of the young prince your son. Send straight for him;
+Let him be crowned; in him your comfort lives.
+Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward’s grave,
+And plant your joys in living Edward’s throne.
+
+Enter Richard, Buckingham, Stanley Earl of Derby, Hastings and
+Ratcliffe.
+
+RICHARD.
+Sister, have comfort. All of us have cause
+To wail the dimming of our shining star,
+But none can help our harms by wailing them.
+Madam my mother, I do cry you mercy;
+I did not see your Grace. Humbly on my knee
+I crave your blessing.
+
+[_Kneels._]
+
+DUCHESS.
+God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast,
+Love, charity, obedience, and true duty.
+
+RICHARD.
+Amen. [_Aside_.] And make me die a good old man!
+That is the butt end of a mother’s blessing;
+I marvel that her Grace did leave it out.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers
+That bear this heavy mutual load of moan,
+Now cheer each other in each other’s love.
+Though we have spent our harvest of this king,
+We are to reap the harvest of his son.
+The broken rancour of your high-swoll’n hates,
+But lately splintered, knit, and joined together,
+Must gently be preserved, cherished, and kept.
+Me seemeth good that with some little train,
+Forthwith from Ludlow the young Prince be fet
+Hither to London, to be crowned our King.
+
+RIVERS.
+Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Marry, my lord, lest by a multitude
+The new-healed wound of malice should break out,
+Which would be so much the more dangerous
+By how much the estate is green and yet ungoverned.
+Where every horse bears his commanding rein
+And may direct his course as please himself,
+As well the fear of harm as harm apparent,
+In my opinion, ought to be prevented.
+
+RICHARD.
+I hope the King made peace with all of us;
+And the compact is firm and true in me.
+
+RIVERS.
+And so in me, and so, I think, in all.
+Yet since it is but green, it should be put
+To no apparent likelihood of breach,
+Which haply by much company might be urged.
+Therefore I say with noble Buckingham
+That it is meet so few should fetch the Prince.
+
+HASTINGS.
+And so say I.
+
+RICHARD.
+Then be it so, and go we to determine
+Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow.
+Madam, and you, my sister, will you go
+To give your censures in this business?
+
+[_Exeunt all but Buckingham and Richard._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My lord, whoever journeys to the Prince,
+For God’s sake, let not us two stay at home.
+For by the way I’ll sort occasion,
+As index to the story we late talked of,
+To part the Queen’s proud kindred from the Prince.
+
+RICHARD.
+My other self, my counsel’s consistory,
+My oracle, my prophet, my dear cousin,
+I, as a child, will go by thy direction.
+Toward Ludlow then, for we’ll not stay behind.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. London. A street
+
+Enter one Citizen at one door, and Another at the other.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Good morrow, neighbour, whither away so fast?
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+I promise you, I scarcely know myself.
+Hear you the news abroad?
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Yes, that the King is dead.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Ill news, by’r Lady; seldom comes the better.
+I fear, I fear ’twill prove a giddy world.
+
+Enter another Citizen.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Neighbours, God speed.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Give you good morrow, sir.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Doth the news hold of good King Edward’s death?
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Ay, sir, it is too true, God help the while.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+No, no; by God’s good grace, his son shall reign.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Woe to that land that’s governed by a child.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+In him there is a hope of government,
+Which, in his nonage, council under him,
+And, in his full and ripened years, himself,
+No doubt shall then, and till then, govern well.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+So stood the state when Henry the Sixth
+Was crowned in Paris but at nine months old.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot.
+For then this land was famously enriched
+With politic grave counsel; then the King
+Had virtuous uncles to protect his Grace.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Why, so hath this, both by his father and mother.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Better it were they all came by his father,
+Or by his father there were none at all,
+For emulation who shall now be nearest
+Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.
+O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester,
+And the Queen’s sons and brothers haught and proud;
+And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
+This sickly land might solace as before.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Come, come, we fear the worst; all will be well.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
+When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
+When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
+Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.
+All may be well; but, if God sort it so,
+’Tis more than we deserve or I expect.
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Truly, the hearts of men are full of fear.
+You cannot reason almost with a man
+That looks not heavily and full of dread.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+Before the days of change, still is it so.
+By a divine instinct men’s minds mistrust
+Ensuing danger, as by proof we see
+The water swell before a boist’rous storm.
+But leave it all to God. Whither away?
+
+SECOND CITIZEN.
+Marry, we were sent for to the Justices.
+
+THIRD CITIZEN.
+And so was I. I’ll bear you company.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. A Room in the Palace
+
+Enter the Archbishop of York, the young Duke of York, Queen Elizabeth
+and the Duchess of York.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Last night, I hear, they lay at Stony Stratford,
+And at Northampton they do rest tonight.
+Tomorrow or next day they will be here.
+
+DUCHESS.
+I long with all my heart to see the Prince.
+I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+But I hear no; they say my son of York
+Has almost overta’en him in his growth.
+
+YORK.
+Ay, mother, but I would not have it so.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Why, my good cousin? It is good to grow.
+
+YORK.
+Grandam, one night as we did sit at supper,
+My uncle Rivers talked how I did grow
+More than my brother. “Ay,” quoth my uncle Gloucester,
+“Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apace.”
+And since, methinks I would not grow so fast,
+Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
+In him that did object the same to thee!
+He was the wretched’st thing when he was young,
+So long a-growing and so leisurely,
+That if his rule were true, he should be gracious.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+And so no doubt he is, my gracious madam.
+
+DUCHESS.
+I hope he is, but yet let mothers doubt.
+
+YORK.
+Now, by my troth, if I had been remembered,
+I could have given my uncle’s Grace a flout
+To touch his growth nearer than he touched mine.
+
+DUCHESS.
+How, my young York? I prithee let me hear it.
+
+YORK.
+Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast
+That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old.
+’Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.
+Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.
+
+DUCHESS.
+I prithee, pretty York, who told thee this?
+
+YORK.
+Grandam, his nurse.
+
+DUCHESS.
+His nurse? Why she was dead ere thou wast born.
+
+YORK.
+If ’twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+A parlous boy! Go to, you are too shrewd.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Good madam, be not angry with the child.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Pitchers have ears.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+Here comes a messenger. What news?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Such news, my lord, as grieves me to report.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+How doth the Prince?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Well, madam, and in health.
+
+DUCHESS.
+What is thy news?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,
+And, with them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Who hath committed them?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The mighty Dukes, Gloucester and Buckingham.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+For what offence?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The sum of all I can, I have disclosed.
+Why or for what the nobles were committed
+Is all unknown to me, my gracious lord.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Ah me! I see the ruin of my house.
+The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind;
+Insulting tyranny begins to jut
+Upon the innocent and aweless throne.
+Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre;
+I see, as in a map, the end of all.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,
+How many of you have mine eyes beheld?
+My husband lost his life to get the crown,
+And often up and down my sons were tossed
+For me to joy and weep their gain and loss.
+And being seated, and domestic broils
+Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors
+Make war upon themselves, brother to brother,
+Blood to blood, self against self. O, preposterous
+And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen,
+Or let me die, to look on earth no more.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Come, come, my boy. We will to sanctuary.
+Madam, farewell.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Stay, I will go with you.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+You have no cause.
+
+ARCHBISHOP.
+[_To the Queen._] My gracious lady, go,
+And thither bear your treasure and your goods.
+For my part, I’ll resign unto your Grace
+The seal I keep; and so betide to me
+As well I tender you and all of yours.
+Go, I’ll conduct you to the sanctuary.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. London. A street
+
+
+The trumpets sound. Enter young Prince Edward, Richard, Buckingham,
+Cardinal Bourchier, Catesby and others.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Welcome, sweet Prince, to London, to your chamber.
+
+RICHARD.
+Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts’ sovereign.
+The weary way hath made you melancholy.
+
+PRINCE.
+No, uncle, but our crosses on the way
+Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy.
+I want more uncles here to welcome me.
+
+RICHARD.
+Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years
+Hath not yet dived into the world’s deceit,
+Nor more can you distinguish of a man
+Than of his outward show, which, God He knows,
+Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.
+Those uncles which you want were dangerous;
+Your Grace attended to their sugared words
+But looked not on the poison of their hearts.
+God keep you from them, and from such false friends!
+
+PRINCE.
+God keep me from false friends, but they were none.
+
+RICHARD.
+My lord, the Mayor of London comes to greet you.
+
+Enter Lord Mayor with Attendants.
+
+MAYOR.
+God bless your Grace with health and happy days!
+
+PRINCE.
+I thank you, good my lord, and thank you all.
+I thought my mother and my brother York
+Would long ere this have met us on the way.
+Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not
+To tell us whether they will come or no!
+
+Enter Lord Hastings.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+And in good time, here comes the sweating lord.
+
+PRINCE.
+Welcome, my lord. What, will our mother come?
+
+HASTINGS.
+On what occasion God He knows, not I,
+The Queen your mother and your brother York
+Have taken sanctuary. The tender prince
+Would fain have come with me to meet your Grace,
+But by his mother was perforce withheld.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Fie, what an indirect and peevish course
+Is this of hers? Lord cardinal, will your Grace
+Persuade the Queen to send the Duke of York
+Unto his princely brother presently?
+If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,
+And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.
+
+CARDINAL.
+My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory
+Can from his mother win the Duke of York,
+Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate
+To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
+We should infringe the holy privilege
+Of blessed sanctuary! Not for all this land
+Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord,
+Too ceremonious and traditional.
+Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,
+You break not sanctuary in seizing him.
+The benefit thereof is always granted
+To those whose dealings have deserved the place
+And those who have the wit to claim the place.
+This prince hath neither claimed it nor deserved it
+And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it.
+Then taking him from thence that is not there,
+You break no privilege nor charter there.
+Oft have I heard of sanctuary-men,
+But sanctuary children, never till now.
+
+CARDINAL.
+My lord, you shall o’errule my mind for once.
+Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?
+
+HASTINGS.
+I go, my lord.
+
+PRINCE.
+Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.
+
+[_Exeunt Cardinal and Hastings._]
+
+Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,
+Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?
+
+RICHARD.
+Where it seems best unto your royal self.
+If I may counsel you, some day or two
+Your Highness shall repose you at the Tower,
+Then where you please and shall be thought most fit
+For your best health and recreation.
+
+PRINCE.
+I do not like the Tower, of any place.
+Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+He did, my gracious lord, begin that place,
+Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.
+
+PRINCE.
+Is it upon record, or else reported
+Successively from age to age, he built it?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Upon record, my gracious lord.
+
+PRINCE.
+But say, my lord, it were not registered,
+Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
+As ’twere retailed to all posterity,
+Even to the general all-ending day.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside_.] So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
+
+PRINCE.
+What say you, uncle?
+
+RICHARD.
+I say, without characters, fame lives long.
+[_Aside_.] Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity,
+I moralize two meanings in one word.
+
+PRINCE.
+That Julius Caesar was a famous man.
+With what his valour did enrich his wit,
+His wit set down to make his valour live;
+Death makes no conquest of this conqueror,
+For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
+I’ll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+What, my gracious lord?
+
+PRINCE.
+An if I live until I be a man,
+I’ll win our ancient right in France again,
+Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_Aside_.] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.
+
+Enter young Duke of York, Hastings and the Cardinal.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Now, in good time here comes the Duke of York.
+
+PRINCE.
+Richard of York, how fares our loving brother?
+
+YORK.
+Well, my dread lord—so must I call you now.
+
+PRINCE.
+Ay brother, to our grief, as it is yours.
+Too late he died that might have kept that title,
+Which by his death hath lost much majesty.
+
+RICHARD.
+How fares our cousin, noble lord of York?
+
+YORK.
+I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,
+You said that idle weeds are fast in growth.
+The Prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
+
+RICHARD.
+He hath, my lord.
+
+YORK.
+And therefore is he idle?
+
+RICHARD.
+O, my fair cousin, I must not say so.
+
+YORK.
+Then he is more beholding to you than I.
+
+RICHARD.
+He may command me as my sovereign,
+But you have power in me as in a kinsman.
+
+YORK.
+I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.
+
+RICHARD.
+My dagger, little cousin? With all my heart.
+
+PRINCE.
+A beggar, brother?
+
+YORK.
+Of my kind uncle, that I know will give,
+And being but a toy, which is no grief to give.
+
+RICHARD.
+A greater gift than that I’ll give my cousin.
+
+YORK.
+A greater gift? O, that’s the sword to it.
+
+RICHARD.
+Ay, gentle cousin, were it light enough.
+
+YORK.
+O, then I see you will part but with light gifts;
+In weightier things you’ll say a beggar nay.
+
+RICHARD.
+It is too heavy for your Grace to wear.
+
+YORK.
+I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.
+
+RICHARD.
+What, would you have my weapon, little lord?
+
+YORK.
+I would, that I might thank you as you call me.
+
+RICHARD.
+How?
+
+YORK.
+Little.
+
+PRINCE.
+My lord of York will still be cross in talk.
+Uncle, your Grace knows how to bear with him.
+
+YORK.
+You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me.
+Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me.
+Because that I am little, like an ape,
+He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!
+To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,
+He prettily and aptly taunts himself.
+So cunning and so young is wonderful.
+
+RICHARD.
+My lord, wil’t please you pass along?
+Myself and my good cousin Buckingham
+Will to your mother, to entreat of her
+To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.
+
+YORK.
+What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?
+
+PRINCE.
+My Lord Protector needs will have it so.
+
+YORK.
+I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.
+
+RICHARD.
+Why, what should you fear?
+
+YORK.
+Marry, my uncle Clarence’ angry ghost.
+My grandam told me he was murdered there.
+
+PRINCE.
+I fear no uncles dead.
+
+RICHARD.
+Nor none that live, I hope.
+
+PRINCE.
+An if they live, I hope I need not fear.
+But come, my lord. With a heavy heart,
+Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower.
+
+[_A Sennet. Exeunt Prince Edward, York, Hastings, Dorset and all but
+Richard, Buckingham and Catesby._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Think you, my lord, this little prating York
+Was not incensed by his subtle mother
+To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?
+
+RICHARD.
+No doubt, no doubt. O, ’tis a parlous boy,
+Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable.
+He is all the mother’s, from the top to toe.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Well, let them rest. Come hither, Catesby.
+Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend
+As closely to conceal what we impart.
+Thou know’st our reasons urged upon the way.
+What think’st thou? Is it not an easy matter
+To make William Lord Hastings of our mind
+For the instalment of this noble Duke
+In the seat royal of this famous isle?
+
+CATESBY.
+He for his father’s sake so loves the Prince
+That he will not be won to aught against him.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+What think’st thou then of Stanley? Will not he?
+
+CATESBY.
+He will do all in all as Hastings doth.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Well then, no more but this: go, gentle Catesby,
+And, as it were far off, sound thou Lord Hastings
+How he doth stand affected to our purpose,
+And summon him tomorrow to the Tower
+To sit about the coronation.
+If thou dost find him tractable to us,
+Encourage him, and tell him all our reasons.
+If he be leaden, icy, cold, unwilling,
+Be thou so too, and so break off the talk,
+And give us notice of his inclination;
+For we tomorrow hold divided councils,
+Wherein thyself shalt highly be employed.
+
+RICHARD.
+Commend me to Lord William. Tell him, Catesby,
+His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
+Tomorrow are let blood at Pomfret Castle,
+And bid my lord, for joy of this good news,
+Give Mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Good Catesby, go effect this business soundly.
+
+CATESBY.
+My good lords both, with all the heed I can.
+
+RICHARD.
+Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?
+
+CATESBY.
+You shall, my lord.
+
+RICHARD.
+At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both.
+
+[_Exit Catesby._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Now, my lord, what shall we do if we perceive
+Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?
+
+RICHARD.
+Chop off his head, man; somewhat we will do.
+And look when I am king, claim thou of me
+The earldom of Hereford, and all the movables
+Whereof the King my brother was possessed.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I’ll claim that promise at your Grace’s hand.
+
+RICHARD.
+And look to have it yielded with all kindness.
+Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards
+We may digest our complots in some form.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Before Lord Hastings’ house
+
+Enter a Messenger to the door of Hastings.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, my lord!
+
+[_Knocking._]
+
+HASTINGS.
+[_Within_.] Who knocks?
+
+MESSENGER.
+One from the Lord Stanley.
+
+HASTINGS.
+[_Within_.] What is’t o’clock?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Upon the stroke of four.
+
+Enter Hastings.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Cannot my Lord Stanley sleep these tedious nights?
+
+MESSENGER.
+So it appears by that I have to say.
+First, he commends him to your noble self.
+
+HASTINGS.
+What then?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Then certifies your lordship that this night
+He dreamt the boar had razed off his helm.
+Besides, he says there are two councils kept,
+And that may be determined at the one
+Which may make you and him to rue at th’ other.
+Therefore he sends to know your lordship’s pleasure,
+If you will presently take horse with him
+And with all speed post with him toward the north,
+To shun the danger that his soul divines.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Go, fellow, go. Return unto thy lord;
+Bid him not fear the separated council.
+His honour and myself are at the one,
+And at the other is my good friend Catesby,
+Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us
+Whereof I shall not have intelligence.
+Tell him his fears are shallow, without instance.
+And for his dreams, I wonder he’s so simple
+To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers.
+To fly the boar before the boar pursues
+Were to incense the boar to follow us,
+And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
+Go, bid thy master rise and come to me,
+And we will both together to the Tower,
+Where he shall see the boar will use us kindly.
+
+MESSENGER.
+I’ll go, my lord, and tell him what you say.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Catesby.
+
+CATESBY.
+Many good morrows to my noble lord.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Good morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring.
+What news, what news in this our tott’ring state?
+
+CATESBY.
+It is a reeling world indeed, my lord,
+And I believe will never stand upright
+Till Richard wear the garland of the realm.
+
+HASTINGS.
+How, wear the garland? Dost thou mean the crown?
+
+CATESBY.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+HASTINGS.
+I’ll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders
+Before I’ll see the crown so foul misplaced.
+But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?
+
+CATESBY.
+Ay, on my life, and hopes to find you forward
+Upon his party for the gain thereof;
+And thereupon he sends you this good news,
+That this same very day your enemies,
+The kindred of the Queen, must die at Pomfret.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,
+Because they have been still my adversaries.
+But that I’ll give my voice on Richard’s side
+To bar my master’s heirs in true descent,
+God knows I will not do it, to the death.
+
+CATESBY.
+God keep your lordship in that gracious mind.
+
+HASTINGS.
+But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence,
+That they which brought me in my master’s hate,
+I live to look upon their tragedy.
+Well, Catesby, ere a fortnight make me older
+I’ll send some packing that yet think not on’t.
+
+CATESBY.
+’Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,
+When men are unprepared and look not for it.
+
+HASTINGS.
+O monstrous, monstrous! And so falls it out
+With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey; and so ’twill do
+With some men else that think themselves as safe
+As thou and I, who, as thou know’st, are dear
+To princely Richard and to Buckingham.
+
+CATESBY.
+The Princes both make high account of you—
+[_Aside_.] For they account his head upon the Bridge.
+
+HASTINGS.
+I know they do, and I have well deserved it.
+
+Enter Stanley Earl of Derby.
+
+Come on, come on. Where is your boar-spear, man?
+Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?
+
+STANLEY.
+My lord, good morrow; good morrow, Catesby.
+You may jest on, but, by the Holy Rood,
+I do not like these several councils, I.
+
+HASTINGS.
+My lord, I hold my life as dear as you do yours,
+And never in my days, I do protest,
+Was it so precious to me as ’tis now.
+Think you, but that I know our state secure,
+I would be so triumphant as I am?
+
+STANLEY.
+The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,
+Were jocund and supposed their states were sure,
+And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;
+But yet you see how soon the day o’ercast.
+This sudden stab of rancour I misdoubt;
+Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward.
+What, shall we toward the Tower? The day is spent.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Come, come. Have with you. Wot you what, my lord?
+Today the lords you talked of are beheaded.
+
+STANLEY.
+They, for their truth, might better wear their heads
+Than some that have accused them wear their hats.
+But come, my lord, let’s away.
+
+Enter a Pursuivant.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Go on before; I’ll talk with this good fellow.
+
+[_Exeunt Stanley and Catesby._]
+
+How now, sirrah? How goes the world with thee?
+
+PURSUIVANT.
+The better that your lordship please to ask.
+
+HASTINGS.
+I tell thee, man, ’tis better with me now
+Than when thou met’st me last where now we meet.
+Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,
+By the suggestion of the Queen’s allies.
+But now, I tell thee—keep it to thyself—
+This day those enemies are put to death,
+And I in better state than e’er I was.
+
+PURSUIVANT.
+God hold it, to your honour’s good content!
+
+HASTINGS.
+Gramercy, fellow. There, drink that for me.
+
+[_Throws him his purse._]
+
+PURSUIVANT.
+I thank your honour.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter a Priest.
+
+PRIEST.
+Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your honour.
+
+HASTINGS.
+I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.
+I am in your debt for your last exercise.
+Come the next sabbath, and I will content you.
+
+Enter Buckingham.
+
+PRIEST.
+I’ll wait upon your lordship.
+
+[_Exit Priest._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+What, talking with a priest, Lord Chamberlain?
+Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest;
+Your honour hath no shriving work in hand.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Good faith, and when I met this holy man,
+The men you talk of came into my mind.
+What, go you toward the Tower?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I do, my lord, but long I cannot stay there.
+I shall return before your lordship thence.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Nay, like enough, for I stay dinner there.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+[_Aside_.] And supper too, although thou knowest it not.
+Come, will you go?
+
+HASTINGS.
+I’ll wait upon your lordship.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Pomfret. Before the Castle
+
+Enter Sir Richard Ratcliffe, with Halberds, carrying the nobles Rivers,
+Grey and Vaughan to death at Pomfret.
+
+RIVERS.
+Sir Richard Ratcliffe, let me tell thee this:
+Today shalt thou behold a subject die
+For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.
+
+GREY.
+God bless the Prince from all the pack of you!
+A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.
+
+VAUGHAN
+You live that shall cry woe for this hereafter.
+
+RATCLIFFE
+Dispatch. The limit of your lives is out.
+
+RIVERS.
+O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
+Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
+Within the guilty closure of thy walls
+Richard the Second here was hacked to death;
+And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
+We give to thee our guiltless blood to drink.
+
+GREY.
+Now Margaret’s curse is fall’n upon our heads,
+When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and I,
+For standing by when Richard stabbed her son.
+
+RIVERS.
+Then cursed she Richard, then cursed she Buckingham,
+Then cursed she Hastings. O, remember, God,
+To hear her prayer for them, as now for us!
+And for my sister and her princely sons,
+Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
+Which, as thou know’st, unjustly must be spilt.
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Make haste. The hour of death is expiate.
+
+RIVERS.
+Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us here embrace.
+Farewell, until we meet again in heaven.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. A Room in the Tower
+
+Enter Buckingham, Stanley Earl of Derby, Hastings, the Bishop of Ely,
+Norfolk, Ratcliffe, Lovell with others, at a table.
+
+HASTINGS.
+Now, noble peers, the cause why we are met
+Is to determine of the coronation.
+In God’s name speak. When is the royal day?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Is all things ready for that royal time?
+
+STANLEY.
+It is, and wants but nomination.
+
+ELY.
+Tomorrow, then, I judge a happy day.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Who knows the Lord Protector’s mind herein?
+Who is most inward with the noble Duke?
+
+ELY.
+Your Grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+We know each other’s faces; for our hearts,
+He knows no more of mine than I of yours,
+Or I of his, my lord, than you of mine.
+Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.
+
+HASTINGS.
+I thank his Grace, I know he loves me well;
+But for his purpose in the coronation
+I have not sounded him, nor he delivered
+His gracious pleasure any way therein.
+But you, my honourable lords, may name the time,
+And in the Duke’s behalf I’ll give my voice,
+Which I presume he’ll take in gentle part.
+
+Enter Richard.
+
+ELY.
+In happy time, here comes the Duke himself.
+
+RICHARD.
+My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.
+I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
+My absence doth neglect no great design
+Which by my presence might have been concluded.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Had you not come upon your cue, my lord,
+William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part—
+I mean your voice for crowning of the King.
+
+RICHARD.
+Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder.
+His lordship knows me well and loves me well.
+My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn
+I saw good strawberries in your garden there;
+I do beseech you, send for some of them.
+
+ELY.
+Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you.
+
+[_They move aside._]
+
+Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,
+And finds the testy gentleman so hot
+That he will lose his head ere give consent
+His master’s child, as worshipfully he terms it,
+Shall lose the royalty of England’s throne.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Withdraw yourself awhile. I’ll go with you.
+
+[_Exeunt Richard and Buckingham._]
+
+STANLEY.
+We have not yet set down this day of triumph.
+Tomorrow, in my judgement, is too sudden,
+For I myself am not so well provided
+As else I would be, were the day prolonged.
+
+Enter Bishop of Ely.
+
+ELY.
+Where is my lord the Duke of Gloucester?
+I have sent for these strawberries.
+
+HASTINGS.
+His Grace looks cheerfully and smooth this morning.
+There’s some conceit or other likes him well
+When that he bids good morrow with such spirit.
+I think there’s never a man in Christendom
+Can lesser hide his love or hate than he,
+For by his face straight shall you know his heart.
+
+STANLEY.
+What of his heart perceive you in his face
+By any livelihood he showed today?
+
+HASTINGS.
+Marry, that with no man here he is offended,
+For were he, he had shown it in his looks.
+
+Enter Richard and Buckingham.
+
+RICHARD.
+I pray you all, tell me what they deserve
+That do conspire my death with devilish plots
+Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevailed
+Upon my body with their hellish charms?
+
+HASTINGS.
+The tender love I bear your Grace, my lord,
+Makes me most forward in this princely presence
+To doom th’ offenders, whosoe’er they be.
+I say, my lord, they have deserved death.
+
+RICHARD.
+Then be your eyes the witness of their evil.
+Look how I am bewitched! Behold, mine arm
+Is like a blasted sapling withered up!
+And this is Edward’s wife, that monstrous witch,
+Consorted with that harlot, strumpet Shore,
+That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.
+
+HASTINGS.
+If they have done this deed, my noble lord—
+
+RICHARD.
+If? Thou protector of this damned strumpet,
+Talk’st thou to me of “ifs”? Thou art a traitor.
+Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear
+I will not dine until I see the same.
+Lovell and Ratcliffe, look that it be done.
+The rest that love me, rise and follow me.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Lovell and Ratcliffe with the Lord Hastings._]
+
+HASTINGS.
+Woe, woe, for England! Not a whit for me,
+For I, too fond, might have prevented this.
+Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm,
+And I did scorn it and disdain to fly.
+Three times today my foot-cloth horse did stumble,
+And started when he looked upon the Tower,
+As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house.
+O, now I need the priest that spake to me;
+I now repent I told the pursuivant,
+As too triumphing, how mine enemies
+Today at Pomfret bloodily were butchered,
+And I myself secure in grace and favour.
+O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse
+Is lighted on poor Hastings’ wretched head.
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Come, come, dispatch. The Duke would be at dinner:
+Make a short shrift. He longs to see your head.
+
+HASTINGS.
+O momentary grace of mortal men,
+Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
+Who builds his hope in air of your good looks
+Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
+Ready with every nod to tumble down
+Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
+
+LOVELL.
+Come, come, dispatch. ’Tis bootless to exclaim.
+
+HASTINGS.
+O bloody Richard! Miserable England,
+I prophesy the fearfull’st time to thee
+That ever wretched age hath looked upon.
+Come, lead me to the block. Bear him my head.
+They smile at me who shortly shall be dead.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. London. The Tower Walls
+
+Enter Richard and Buckingham in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured.
+
+RICHARD.
+Come, cousin, canst thou quake and change thy colour,
+Murder thy breath in middle of a word,
+And then again begin, and stop again,
+As if thou were distraught and mad with terror?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
+Speak, and look back, and pry on every side,
+Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
+Intending deep suspicion. Ghastly looks
+Are at my service, like enforced smiles,
+And both are ready in their offices,
+At anytime to grace my stratagems.
+But what, is Catesby gone?
+
+RICHARD.
+He is; and, see, he brings the Mayor along.
+
+Enter the Lord Mayor and Catesby.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Lord Mayor—
+
+RICHARD.
+Look to the drawbridge there!
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Hark, a drum.
+
+RICHARD.
+Catesby, o’erlook the walls.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Lord Mayor, the reason we have sent—
+
+RICHARD.
+Look back! Defend thee, here are enemies.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+God and our innocence defend and guard us!
+
+Enter Lovell and Ratcliffe with Hastings’ head.
+
+RICHARD.
+Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliffe and Lovell.
+
+LOVELL.
+Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,
+The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.
+
+RICHARD.
+So dear I loved the man that I must weep.
+I took him for the plainest harmless creature
+That breathed upon the earth a Christian;
+Made him my book, wherein my soul recorded
+The history of all her secret thoughts.
+So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue
+That, his apparent open guilt omitted—
+I mean his conversation with Shore’s wife—
+He lived from all attainder of suspects.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Well, well, he was the covert’st sheltered traitor
+That ever lived.—
+Would you imagine, or almost believe,
+Were’t not that by great preservation
+We live to tell it, that the subtle traitor
+This day had plotted, in the council-house,
+To murder me and my good lord of Gloucester?
+
+MAYOR.
+Had he done so?
+
+RICHARD.
+What, think you we are Turks or Infidels?
+Or that we would, against the form of law,
+Proceed thus rashly in the villain’s death,
+But that the extreme peril of the case,
+The peace of England, and our persons’ safety,
+Enforced us to this execution?
+
+MAYOR.
+Now, fair befall you! He deserved his death,
+And your good Graces both have well proceeded,
+To warn false traitors from the like attempts.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I never looked for better at his hands
+After he once fell in with Mistress Shore.
+Yet had we not determined he should die
+Until your lordship came to see his end
+Which now the loving haste of these our friends,
+Something against our meanings, have prevented,
+Because, my lord, we would have had you heard
+The traitor speak, and timorously confess
+The manner and the purpose of his treasons,
+That you might well have signified the same
+Unto the citizens, who haply may
+Misconster us in him, and wail his death.
+
+MAYOR.
+But, my good lord, your Grace’s word shall serve
+As well as I had seen and heard him speak;
+And do not doubt, right noble princes both,
+But I’ll acquaint our duteous citizens
+With all your just proceedings in this case.
+
+RICHARD.
+And to that end we wished your lordship here,
+T’ avoid the censures of the carping world.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+But since you come too late of our intent,
+Yet witness what you hear we did intend.
+And so, my good Lord Mayor, we bid farewell.
+
+[_Exit Lord Mayor._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.
+The Mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post.
+There, at your meet’st advantage of the time,
+Infer the bastardy of Edward’s children;
+Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen
+Only for saying he would make his son
+Heir to the Crown—meaning indeed his house,
+Which, by the sign thereof, was termed so.
+Moreover, urge his hateful luxury
+And bestial appetite in change of lust,
+Which stretched unto their servants, daughters, wives,
+Even where his raging eye or savage heart,
+Without control, lusted to make a prey.
+Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:
+Tell them, when that my mother went with child
+Of that insatiate Edward, noble York
+My princely father then had wars in France,
+And, by true computation of the time,
+Found that the issue was not his begot;
+Which well appeared in his lineaments,
+Being nothing like the noble Duke, my father.
+Yet touch this sparingly, as ’twere far off;
+Because, my lord, you know my mother lives.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Doubt not, my lord, I’ll play the orator
+As if the golden fee for which I plead
+Were for myself. And so, my lord, adieu.
+
+RICHARD.
+If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard’s Castle,
+Where you shall find me well accompanied
+With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I go; and towards three or four o’clock
+Look for the news that the Guildhall affords.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+RICHARD.
+Go, Lovell, with all speed to Doctor Shaa.
+[_To Ratcliffe_.] Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both
+Meet me within this hour at Baynard’s Castle.
+
+[_Exeunt Ratcliffe and Lovell._]
+
+Now will I go to take some privy order
+To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight,
+And to give order that no manner person
+Have any time recourse unto the Princes.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VI. London. A street
+
+Enter a Scrivener.
+
+SCRIVENER.
+Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings,
+Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed,
+That it may be today read o’er in Paul’s.
+And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
+Eleven hours I have spent to write it over,
+For yesternight by Catesby was it sent me;
+The precedent was full as long a-doing
+And yet within these five hours Hastings lived,
+Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty.
+Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
+That cannot see this palpable device?
+Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
+Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
+When such ill dealing must be seen in thought.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VII. London. Court of Baynard’s Castle
+
+Enter Richard and Buckingham at several doors.
+
+RICHARD.
+How now, how now? What say the citizens?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,
+The citizens are mum, say not a word.
+
+RICHARD.
+Touched you the bastardy of Edward’s children?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,
+And his contract by deputy in France;
+Th’ insatiate greediness of his desire,
+And his enforcement of the city wives;
+His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,
+As being got, your father then in France,
+And his resemblance, being not like the Duke.
+Withal, I did infer your lineaments,
+Being the right idea of your father,
+Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
+Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
+Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
+Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
+Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
+Untouched or slightly handled in discourse.
+And when mine oratory drew toward end,
+I bid them that did love their country’s good
+Cry “God save Richard, England’s royal King!”
+
+RICHARD.
+And did they so?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+No, so God help me, they spake not a word,
+But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,
+Stared each on other, and looked deadly pale.
+Which when I saw, I reprehended them,
+And asked the Mayor what meant this wilful silence.
+His answer was, the people were not used
+To be spoke to but by the Recorder.
+Then he was urged to tell my tale again:
+“Thus saith the Duke, thus hath the Duke inferred”
+But nothing spoke in warrant from himself.
+When he had done, some followers of mine own,
+At lower end of the hall, hurled up their caps,
+And some ten voices cried, “God save King Richard!”
+And thus I took the vantage of those few.
+“Thanks, gentle citizens and friends,” quoth I;
+“This general applause and cheerful shout
+Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard.”
+And even here brake off and came away.
+
+RICHARD.
+What, tongueless blocks were they! Would they not speak?
+Will not the Mayor then and his brethren, come?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+The mayor is here at hand. Intend some fear;
+Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit.
+And look you get a prayer-book in your hand,
+And stand between two churchmen, good my lord,
+For on that ground I’ll make a holy descant.
+And be not easily won to our requests.
+Play the maid’s part: still answer nay, and take it.
+
+RICHARD.
+I go, and if you plead as well for them
+As I can say nay to thee for myself,
+No doubt we bring it to a happy issue.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Go, go, up to the leads, the Lord Mayor knocks.
+
+[_Exit Richard._]
+
+Enter the Lord Mayor and Citizens.
+
+Welcome, my lord. I dance attendance here.
+I think the Duke will not be spoke withal.
+
+Enter Catesby.
+
+Now, Catesby, what says your lord to my request?
+
+CATESBY.
+He doth entreat your Grace, my noble lord,
+To visit him tomorrow or next day.
+He is within, with two right reverend fathers,
+Divinely bent to meditation;
+And in no worldly suits would he be moved
+To draw him from his holy exercise.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Return, good Catesby, to the gracious Duke;
+Tell him myself, the Mayor and aldermen,
+In deep designs, in matter of great moment,
+No less importing than our general good,
+Are come to have some conference with his Grace.
+
+CATESBY.
+I’ll signify so much unto him straight.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Ah ha, my lord, this prince is not an Edward!
+He is not lolling on a lewd love-bed,
+But on his knees at meditation;
+Not dallying with a brace of courtesans,
+But meditating with two deep divines;
+Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,
+But praying, to enrich his watchful soul.
+Happy were England would this virtuous prince
+Take on his Grace the sovereignty thereof.
+But sure I fear we shall not win him to it.
+
+MAYOR.
+Marry, God defend his Grace should say us nay!
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I fear he will. Here Catesby comes again.
+
+Enter Catesby.
+
+Now, Catesby, what says his Grace?
+
+CATESBY.
+He wonders to what end you have assembled
+Such troops of citizens to come to him,
+His Grace not being warned thereof before.
+He fears, my lord, you mean no good to him.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Sorry I am my noble cousin should
+Suspect me that I mean no good to him.
+By heaven, we come to him in perfect love,
+And so once more return and tell his Grace.
+
+[_Exit Catesby._]
+
+When holy and devout religious men
+Are at their beads, ’tis much to draw them thence,
+So sweet is zealous contemplation.
+
+Enter Richard aloft, between two Bishops. Catesby reenters.
+
+MAYOR.
+See where his Grace stands ’tween two clergymen!
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,
+To stay him from the fall of vanity;
+And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,
+True ornaments to know a holy man.
+Famous Plantagenet, most gracious Prince,
+Lend favourable ear to our requests,
+And pardon us the interruption
+Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.
+
+RICHARD.
+My lord, there needs no such apology.
+I do beseech your Grace to pardon me,
+Who, earnest in the service of my God,
+Deferred the visitation of my friends.
+But, leaving this, what is your Grace’s pleasure?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,
+And all good men of this ungoverned isle.
+
+RICHARD.
+I do suspect I have done some offence
+That seems disgracious in the city’s eye,
+And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+You have, my lord. Would it might please your Grace,
+On our entreaties, to amend your fault.
+
+RICHARD.
+Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Know then, it is your fault that you resign
+The supreme seat, the throne majestical,
+The sceptered office of your ancestors,
+Your state of fortune, and your due of birth,
+The lineal glory of your royal house,
+To the corruption of a blemished stock;
+Whiles in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,
+Which here we waken to our country’s good,
+The noble isle doth want her proper limbs;
+Her face defaced with scars of infamy,
+Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,
+And almost shouldered in the swallowing gulf
+Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion;
+Which to recure, we heartily solicit
+Your gracious self to take on you the charge
+And kingly government of this your land,
+Not as Protector, steward, substitute,
+Or lowly factor for another’s gain,
+But as successively, from blood to blood,
+Your right of birth, your empery, your own.
+For this, consorted with the citizens,
+Your very worshipful and loving friends,
+And by their vehement instigation,
+In this just cause come I to move your Grace.
+
+RICHARD.
+I cannot tell if to depart in silence
+Or bitterly to speak in your reproof
+Best fitteth my degree or your condition.
+If not to answer, you might haply think
+Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
+To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
+Which fondly you would here impose on me;
+If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
+So seasoned with your faithful love to me,
+Then, on the other side, I checked my friends.
+Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,
+And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,
+Definitively thus I answer you:
+Your love deserves my thanks, but my desert
+Unmeritable shuns your high request.
+First, if all obstacles were cut away,
+And that my path were even to the crown
+As the ripe revenue and due of birth,
+Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,
+So mighty and so many my defects,
+That I would rather hide me from my greatness,
+Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,
+Than in my greatness covet to be hid,
+And in the vapour of my glory smothered.
+But, God be thanked, there is no need of me,
+And much I need to help you, were there need.
+The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,
+Which, mellowed by the stealing hours of time,
+Will well become the seat of majesty,
+And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.
+On him I lay that you would lay on me,
+The right and fortune of his happy stars,
+Which God defend that I should wring from him.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My lord, this argues conscience in your Grace;
+But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,
+All circumstances well considered.
+You say that Edward is your brother’s son;
+So say we too, but not by Edward’s wife.
+For first was he contract to Lady Lucy
+Your mother lives a witness to his vow,
+And afterward by substitute betrothed
+To Bona, sister to the King of France.
+These both put off, a poor petitioner,
+A care-crazed mother to a many sons,
+A beauty-waning and distressed widow,
+Even in the afternoon of her best days,
+Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye,
+Seduced the pitch and height of his degree
+To base declension and loathed bigamy.
+By her, in his unlawful bed, he got
+This Edward, whom our manners call the Prince.
+More bitterly could I expostulate,
+Save that, for reverence to some alive,
+I give a sparing limit to my tongue.
+Then, good my lord, take to your royal self
+This proffered benefit of dignity,
+If not to bless us and the land withal,
+Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry
+From the corruption of abusing times
+Unto a lineal true-derived course.
+
+MAYOR.
+Do, good my lord. Your citizens entreat you.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Refuse not, mighty lord, this proffered love.
+
+CATESBY.
+O, make them joyful; grant their lawful suit.
+
+RICHARD.
+Alas, why would you heap those cares on me?
+I am unfit for state and majesty.
+I do beseech you, take it not amiss;
+I cannot, nor I will not, yield to you.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+If you refuse it, as in love and zeal
+Loath to depose the child, your brother’s son—
+As well we know your tenderness of heart
+And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,
+Which we have noted in you to your kindred,
+And equally indeed to all estates—
+Yet know, whe’er you accept our suit or no,
+Your brother’s son shall never reign our king,
+But we will plant some other in the throne,
+To the disgrace and downfall of your house.
+And in this resolution here we leave you.
+Come, citizens; zounds, I’ll entreat no more.
+
+[_Exeunt Buckingham, the Mayor and citizens._]
+
+CATESBY.
+Call him again, sweet Prince; accept their suit.
+If you deny them, all the land will rue it.
+
+RICHARD.
+Will you enforce me to a world of cares?
+Call them again. I am not made of stones,
+But penetrable to your kind entreaties,
+Albeit against my conscience and my soul.
+
+Enter Buckingham and the rest.
+
+Cousin of Buckingham, and sage grave men,
+Since you will buckle Fortune on my back,
+To bear her burden, whe’er I will or no,
+I must have patience to endure the load.
+But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach
+Attend the sequel of your imposition,
+Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me
+From all the impure blots and stains thereof,
+For God doth know, and you may partly see,
+How far I am from the desire of this.
+
+MAYOR.
+God bless your Grace! We see it, and will say it.
+
+RICHARD.
+In saying so, you shall but say the truth.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Then I salute you with this royal title:
+Long live King Richard, England’s worthy King!
+
+ALL.
+Amen.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Tomorrow may it please you to be crowned?
+
+RICHARD.
+Even when you please, for you will have it so.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Tomorrow, then, we will attend your Grace;
+And so most joyfully we take our leave.
+
+RICHARD.
+[_To the Bishops_.] Come, let us to our holy work again.
+Farewell, my cousin, farewell, gentle friends.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. London. Before the Tower
+
+
+Enter Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of York and Marquess of Dorset, at
+one door; Anne Duchess of Gloucester with Clarence’s young Daughter at
+another door.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Who meets us here? My niece Plantagenet
+Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?
+Now, for my life, she’s wandering to the Tower,
+On pure heart’s love, to greet the tender Prince.
+Daughter, well met.
+
+ANNE.
+God give your Graces both
+A happy and a joyful time of day.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+As much to you, good sister. Whither away?
+
+ANNE.
+No farther than the Tower, and, as I guess,
+Upon the like devotion as yourselves,
+To gratulate the gentle Princes there.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Kind sister, thanks; we’ll enter all together.
+
+Enter Brakenbury.
+
+And in good time, here the Lieutenant comes.
+Master Lieutenant, pray you, by your leave,
+How doth the Prince and my young son of York?
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+Right well, dear madam. By your patience,
+I may not suffer you to visit them.
+The King hath strictly charged the contrary.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+The King? Who’s that?
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+I mean the Lord Protector.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+The Lord protect him from that kingly title!
+Hath he set bounds between their love and me?
+I am their mother; who shall bar me from them?
+
+DUCHESS.
+I am their father’s mother. I will see them.
+
+ANNE.
+Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother.
+Then bring me to their sights. I’ll bear thy blame,
+And take thy office from thee, on my peril.
+
+BRAKENBURY.
+No, madam, no. I may not leave it so.
+I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Stanley.
+
+STANLEY.
+Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence,
+And I’ll salute your Grace of York as mother
+And reverend looker-on of two fair queens.
+[_To Anne._] Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster,
+There to be crowned Richard’s royal queen.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Ah, cut my lace asunder
+That my pent heart may have some scope to beat,
+Or else I swoon with this dead-killing news!
+
+ANNE.
+Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news!
+
+DORSET.
+Be of good cheer, mother. How fares your Grace?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+O Dorset, speak not to me; get thee gone.
+Death and destruction dog thee at thy heels;
+Thy mother’s name is ominous to children.
+If thou wilt outstrip death, go, cross the seas,
+And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell.
+Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughter-house,
+Lest thou increase the number of the dead,
+And make me die the thrall of Margaret’s curse,
+Nor mother, wife, nor England’s counted Queen.
+
+STANLEY.
+Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam.
+Take all the swift advantage of the hours;
+You shall have letters from me to my son
+In your behalf, to meet you on the way.
+Be not ta’en tardy by unwise delay.
+
+DUCHESS.
+O ill-dispersing wind of misery!
+O my accursed womb, the bed of death!
+A cockatrice hast thou hatched to the world,
+Whose unavoided eye is murderous.
+
+STANLEY.
+Come, madam, come. I in all haste was sent.
+
+ANNE.
+And I with all unwillingness will go.
+O, would to God that the inclusive verge
+Of golden metal that must round my brow
+Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brains.
+Anointed let me be with deadly venom,
+And die ere men can say “God save the Queen.”
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Go, go, poor soul; I envy not thy glory.
+To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm.
+
+ANNE.
+No? Why? When he that is my husband now
+Came to me as I followed Henry’s corse,
+When scarce the blood was well washed from his hands
+Which issued from my other angel husband,
+And that dear saint which then I weeping followed;
+O, when, I say, I looked on Richard’s face,
+This was my wish: “Be thou,” quoth I, “accursed
+For making me, so young, so old a widow;
+And when thou wedd’st, let sorrow haunt thy bed;
+And be thy wife, if any be so mad,
+More miserable by the life of thee
+Than thou hast made me by my dear lord’s death.”
+Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,
+Within so small a time, my woman’s heart
+Grossly grew captive to his honey words,
+And proved the subject of mine own soul’s curse,
+Which hitherto hath held my eyes from rest;
+For never yet one hour in his bed
+Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep,
+But with his timorous dreams was still awaked.
+Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick,
+And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Poor heart, adieu; I pity thy complaining.
+
+ANNE.
+No more than with my soul I mourn for yours.
+
+DORSET.
+Farewell, thou woeful welcomer of glory.
+
+ANNE.
+Adieu, poor soul, that tak’st thy leave of it.
+
+DUCHESS.
+[_To Dorset._] Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee.
+[_To Anne._] Go thou to Richard, and good angels tend thee.
+[_To Queen Elizabeth._] Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess
+thee.
+I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me.
+Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,
+And each hour’s joy wracked with a week of teen.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.
+Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes
+Whom envy hath immured within your walls—
+Rough cradle for such little pretty one,
+Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
+For tender princes, use my babies well.
+So foolish sorrows bids your stones farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. London. A Room of State in the Palace
+
+The trumpets sound a sennet. Enter Richard in pomp, Buckingham,
+Catesby, Ratcliffe, Lovell, a Page and others.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Stand all apart. Cousin of Buckingham!
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My gracious sovereign!
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Give me thy hand.
+
+[_Here he ascendeth the throne. Sound trumpets._]
+
+Thus high, by thy advice
+And thy assistance is King Richard seated.
+But shall we wear these glories for a day,
+Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Still live they, and for ever let them last!
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ah, Buckingham, now do I play the touch,
+To try if thou be current gold indeed.
+Young Edward lives; think now what I would speak.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Say on, my loving lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Why, Buckingham, I say I would be King.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Why, so you are, my thrice-renowned lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ha! Am I King? ’Tis so—but Edward lives.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+True, noble Prince.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+O bitter consequence,
+That Edward still should live “true noble prince!”
+Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull.
+Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead,
+And I would have it suddenly performed.
+What sayst thou now? Speak suddenly, be brief.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Your Grace may do your pleasure.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Tut, tut, thou art all ice; thy kindness freezes.
+Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Give me some little breath, some pause, dear lord,
+Before I positively speak in this.
+I will resolve you herein presently.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+CATESBY.
+[_Aside_.] The King is angry. See, he gnaws his lip.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+[_Aside_.] I will converse with iron-witted fools
+And unrespective boys; none are for me
+That look into me with considerate eyes.
+High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.
+Boy!
+
+PAGE.
+My lord?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Know’st thou not any whom corrupting gold
+Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?
+
+PAGE.
+I know a discontented gentleman
+Whose humble means match not his haughty spirit.
+Gold were as good as twenty orators,
+And will, no doubt, tempt him to anything.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What is his name?
+
+PAGE.
+His name, my lord, is Tyrrel.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+I partly know the man. Go, call him hither, boy.
+
+[_Exit Page._]
+
+[_Aside_.] The deep-revolving witty Buckingham
+No more shall be the neighbour to my counsels.
+Hath he so long held out with me, untired,
+And stops he now for breath? Well, be it so.
+
+Enter Stanley.
+
+How now, Lord Stanley, what’s the news?
+
+STANLEY.
+Know, my loving lord,
+The Marquess Dorset, as I hear, is fled
+To Richmond, in the parts where he abides.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Come hither, Catesby. Rumour it abroad
+That Anne my wife is very grievous sick;
+I will take order for her keeping close.
+Inquire me out some mean poor gentleman,
+Whom I will marry straight to Clarence’ daughter.
+The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.
+Look how thou dream’st! I say again, give out
+That Anne, my Queen, is sick and like to die.
+About it, for it stands me much upon
+To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.
+
+[_Exit Catesby._]
+
+I must be married to my brother’s daughter,
+Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
+Murder her brothers, and then marry her—
+Uncertain way of gain! But I am in
+So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.
+Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
+
+Enter Tyrrel.
+
+Is thy name Tyrrel?
+
+TYRREL.
+James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Art thou indeed?
+
+TYRREL.
+Prove me, my gracious lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Dar’st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?
+
+TYRREL.
+Please you. But I had rather kill two enemies.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Why then thou hast it; two deep enemies,
+Foes to my rest, and my sweet sleep’s disturbers,
+Are they that I would have thee deal upon.
+Tyrell, I mean those bastards in the Tower.
+
+TYRREL.
+Let me have open means to come to them,
+And soon I’ll rid you from the fear of them.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Thou sing’st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel.
+Go, by this token. Rise, and lend thine ear.
+[_Whispers_.] There is no more but so. Say it is done,
+And I will love thee, and prefer thee for it.
+
+TYRREL.
+I will dispatch it straight.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Buckingham.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My lord, I have considered in my mind
+The late request that you did sound me in.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Well, let that rest. Dorset is fled to Richmond.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I hear the news, my lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Stanley, he is your wife’s son. Well, look unto it.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My lord, I claim the gift, my due by promise,
+For which your honour and your faith is pawned:
+Th’ earldom of Hereford, and the movables
+Which you have promised I shall possess.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Stanley, look to your wife. If she convey
+Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+What says your Highness to my just request?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+I do remember me, Henry the Sixth
+Did prophesy that Richmond should be King,
+When Richmond was a little peevish boy.
+A king perhaps—
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My lord—
+
+KING RICHARD.
+How chance the prophet could not at that time
+Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My lord, your promise for the earldom—
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,
+The Mayor in courtesy showed me the castle
+And called it Rougemount, at which name I started,
+Because a bard of Ireland told me once
+I should not live long after I saw Richmond.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+My lord—
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ay, what’s o’clock?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+I am thus bold to put your Grace in mind
+Of what you promised me.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Well, but what’s o’clock?
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Upon the stroke of ten.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Well, let it strike.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Why let it strike?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Because that, like a jack, thou keep’st the stroke
+Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
+I am not in the giving vein today.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Why then, resolve me whether you will or no.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein.
+
+[_Exit followed by all save Buckingham._]
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+And is it thus? Repays he my deep service
+With such contempt? Made I him King for this?
+O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone
+To Brecknock while my fearful head is on!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. London. Another Room in the Palace
+
+Enter Tyrrel.
+
+TYRREL.
+The tyrannous and bloody act is done,
+The most arch deed of piteous massacre
+That ever yet this land was guilty of.
+Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn
+To do this piece of ruthless butchery,
+Albeit they were fleshed villains, bloody dogs,
+Melted with tenderness and mild compassion,
+Wept like two children in their deaths’ sad story.
+“O, thus,” quoth Dighton, “lay the gentle babes;”
+“Thus, thus,” quoth Forrest, “girdling one another
+Within their alabaster innocent arms.
+Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
+And in their summer beauty kissed each other.
+A book of prayers on their pillow lay,
+Which once,” quoth Forrest, “almost changed my mind.
+But, O, the devil—” There the villain stopped;
+When Dighton thus told on: “We smothered
+The most replenished sweet work of nature
+That from the prime creation e’er she framed.”
+Hence both are gone with conscience and remorse
+They could not speak; and so I left them both
+To bear this tidings to the bloody King.
+
+Enter King Richard.
+
+And here he comes. All health, my sovereign lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?
+
+TYRREL.
+If to have done the thing you gave in charge
+Beget your happiness, be happy then,
+For it is done.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+But didst thou see them dead?
+
+TYRREL.
+I did, my lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+And buried, gentle Tyrrel?
+
+TYRREL.
+The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them,
+But where, to say the truth, I do not know.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Come to me, Tyrrel, soon, at after-supper,
+When thou shalt tell the process of their death.
+Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,
+And be inheritor of thy desire.
+Farewell till then.
+
+TYRREL.
+I humbly take my leave.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING RICHARD.
+The son of Clarence have I pent up close;
+His daughter meanly have I matched in marriage;
+The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham’s bosom,
+And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.
+Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims
+At young Elizabeth, my brother’s daughter,
+And by that knot looks proudly on the crown,
+To her go I, a jolly thriving wooer.
+
+Enter Ratcliffe.
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+My lord!
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Good or bad news, that thou com’st in so bluntly?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Bad news, my lord. Morton is fled to Richmond,
+And Buckingham, backed with the hardy Welshmen,
+Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
+Than Buckingham and his rash-levied strength.
+Come, I have learned that fearful commenting
+Is leaden servitor to dull delay;
+Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary;
+Then fiery expedition be my wing,
+Jove’s Mercury, and herald for a king!
+Go, muster men. My counsel is my shield.
+We must be brief when traitors brave the field.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. London. Before the Palace
+
+Enter old Queen Margaret.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+So now prosperity begins to mellow,
+And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
+Here in these confines slily have I lurked
+To watch the waning of mine enemies.
+A dire induction am I witness to,
+And will to France, hoping the consequence
+Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.
+Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret. Who comes here?
+
+[_Retires._]
+
+Enter Duchess of York and Queen Elizabeth.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Ah, my poor Princes! Ah, my tender babes,
+My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!
+If yet your gentle souls fly in the air
+And be not fixed in doom perpetual,
+Hover about me with your airy wings
+And hear your mother’s lamentation.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside_.] Hover about her; say that right for right
+Hath dimmed your infant morn to aged night.
+
+DUCHESS.
+So many miseries have crazed my voice
+That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.
+Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside_.] Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet;
+Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,
+And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?
+When didst Thou sleep when such a deed was done?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+[_Aside_.] When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Dead life, blind sight, poor mortal living ghost,
+Woe’s scene, world’s shame, grave’s due by life usurped,
+Brief abstract and record of tedious days,
+Rest thy unrest on England’s lawful earth,
+[_Sitting_.] Unlawfully made drunk with innocent blood.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Ah, that thou wouldst as soon afford a grave
+As thou canst yield a melancholy seat,
+Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
+[_Sitting_.] Ah, who hath any cause to mourn but we?
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+
+[_Coming forward._]
+
+If ancient sorrow be most reverend,
+Give mine the benefit of seigniory,
+And let my griefs frown on the upper hand.
+If sorrow can admit society,
+
+[_Sitting down with them._]
+
+Tell o’er your woes again by viewing mine.
+I had an Edward, till a Richard killed him;
+I had a husband, till a Richard killed him.
+Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard killed him;
+Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard killed him.
+
+DUCHESS.
+I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him;
+I had a Rutland too; thou holp’st to kill him.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard killed him.
+From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
+A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:
+That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,
+To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood;
+That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,
+That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls;
+That foul defacer of God’s handiwork
+Thy womb let loose to chase us to our graves.
+O upright, just, and true-disposing God,
+How do I thank thee that this carnal cur
+Preys on the issue of his mother’s body,
+And makes her pew-fellow with others’ moan!
+
+DUCHESS.
+O Harry’s wife, triumph not in my woes!
+God witness with me, I have wept for thine.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Bear with me. I am hungry for revenge,
+And now I cloy me with beholding it.
+Thy Edward he is dead, that killed my Edward;
+The other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;
+Young York, he is but boot, because both they
+Matched not the high perfection of my loss.
+Thy Clarence he is dead that stabbed my Edward;
+And the beholders of this frantic play,
+Th’ adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,
+Untimely smothered in their dusky graves.
+Richard yet lives, hell’s black intelligencer,
+Only reserved their factor to buy souls
+And send them thither. But at hand, at hand
+Ensues his piteous and unpitied end.
+Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray,
+To have him suddenly conveyed from hence.
+Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray,
+That I may live to say “The dog is dead.”
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+O, thou didst prophesy the time would come
+That I should wish for thee to help me curse
+That bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+I called thee then, vain flourish of my fortune;
+I called thee then, poor shadow, painted queen,
+The presentation of but what I was,
+The flattering index of a direful pageant;
+One heaved a-high to be hurled down below,
+A mother only mocked with two fair babes;
+A dream of what thou wast; a garish flag,
+To be the aim of every dangerous shot;
+A sign of dignity, a breath, a bubble;
+A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.
+Where is thy husband now? Where be thy brothers?
+Where are thy two sons? Wherein dost thou joy?
+Who sues, and kneels, and says, “God save the Queen?”
+Where be the bending peers that flattered thee?
+Where be the thronging troops that followed thee?
+Decline all this, and see what now thou art:
+For happy wife, a most distressed widow;
+For joyful mother, one that wails the name;
+For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;
+For Queen, a very caitiff crowned with care;
+For she that scorned at me, now scorned of me;
+For she being feared of all, now fearing one;
+For she commanding all, obeyed of none.
+Thus hath the course of justice wheeled about
+And left thee but a very prey to time,
+Having no more but thought of what thou wast
+To torture thee the more, being what thou art.
+Thou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not
+Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?
+Now thy proud neck bears half my burdened yoke,
+From which even here I slip my weary head,
+And leave the burden of it all on thee.
+Farewell, York’s wife, and Queen of sad mischance.
+These English woes shall make me smile in France.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+O thou well skilled in curses, stay awhile,
+And teach me how to curse mine enemies.
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Forbear to sleep the night, and fast the days;
+Compare dead happiness with living woe;
+Think that thy babes were sweeter than they were,
+And he that slew them fouler than he is.
+Bettering thy loss makes the bad-causer worse.
+Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+My words are dull. O, quicken them with thine!
+
+QUEEN MARGARET.
+Thy woes will make them sharp and pierce like mine.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+DUCHESS.
+Why should calamity be full of words?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Windy attorneys to their clients’ woes,
+Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
+Poor breathing orators of miseries,
+Let them have scope, though what they do impart
+Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart.
+
+DUCHESS.
+If so, then be not tongue-tied. Go with me,
+And in the breath of bitter words let’s smother
+My damned son, that thy two sweet sons smothered.
+
+[_A trumpet sounds._]
+
+The trumpet sounds. Be copious in exclaims.
+
+Enter King Richard and his Train, including Catesby, marching.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Who intercepts me in my expedition?
+
+DUCHESS.
+O, she that might have intercepted thee,
+By strangling thee in her accursed womb,
+From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Hid’st thou that forehead with a golden crown
+Where should be branded, if that right were right,
+The slaughter of the Prince that owed that crown,
+And the dire death of my poor sons and brothers?
+Tell me, thou villain-slave, where are my children?
+
+DUCHESS.
+Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence,
+And little Ned Plantagenet his son?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Where is the gentle Rivers, Vaughan, Grey?
+
+DUCHESS.
+Where is kind Hastings?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+A flourish, trumpets! Strike alarum, drums!
+Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women
+Rail on the Lord’s anointed. Strike, I say!
+
+[_Flourish. Alarums._]
+
+Either be patient and entreat me fair,
+Or with the clamorous report of war
+Thus will I drown your exclamations.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Art thou my son?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Then patiently hear my impatience.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Madam, I have a touch of your condition,
+That cannot brook the accent of reproof.
+
+DUCHESS.
+O, let me speak!
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Do then, but I’ll not hear.
+
+DUCHESS.
+I will be mild and gentle in my words.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+And brief, good mother, for I am in haste.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Art thou so hasty? I have stayed for thee,
+God knows, in torment and in agony.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+And came I not at last to comfort you?
+
+DUCHESS.
+No, by the Holy Rood, thou know’st it well
+Thou cam’st on earth to make the earth my hell.
+A grievous burden was thy birth to me;
+Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;
+Thy school-days frightful, desp’rate, wild, and furious;
+Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous;
+Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody,
+More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred.
+What comfortable hour canst thou name
+That ever graced me with thy company?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Faith, none but Humphrey Hower, that called your Grace
+To breakfast once, forth of my company.
+If I be so disgracious in your eye,
+Let me march on and not offend you, madam.
+Strike up the drum.
+
+DUCHESS.
+I prithee, hear me speak.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+You speak too bitterly.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Hear me a word,
+For I shall never speak to thee again.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+So.
+
+DUCHESS.
+Either thou wilt die by God’s just ordinance
+Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,
+Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish
+And never more behold thy face again.
+Therefore take with thee my most grievous curse,
+Which in the day of battle tire thee more
+Than all the complete armour that thou wear’st.
+My prayers on the adverse party fight;
+And there the little souls of Edward’s children
+Whisper the spirits of thine enemies
+And promise them success and victory.
+Bloody thou art; bloody will be thy end.
+Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse
+Abides in me, I say amen to her.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Stay, madam, I must talk a word with you.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+I have no more sons of the royal blood
+For thee to slaughter. For my daughters, Richard,
+They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens,
+And therefore level not to hit their lives.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+You have a daughter called Elizabeth,
+Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+And must she die for this? O, let her live,
+And I’ll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty,
+Slander myself as false to Edward’s bed,
+Throw over her the veil of infamy.
+So she may live unscarred of bleeding slaughter,
+I will confess she was not Edward’s daughter.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Wrong not her birth; she is a royal princess.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+To save her life I’ll say she is not so.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Her life is safest only in her birth.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+And only in that safety died her brothers.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+No, to their lives ill friends were contrary.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+All unavoided is the doom of destiny.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+True, when avoided grace makes destiny.
+My babes were destined to a fairer death,
+If grace had blessed thee with a fairer life.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Cousins, indeed, and by their uncle cozened
+Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life.
+Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,
+Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction.
+No doubt the murd’rous knife was dull and blunt
+Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart,
+To revel in the entrails of my lambs.
+But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,
+My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys
+Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes,
+And I, in such a desp’rate bay of death,
+Like a poor bark of sails and tackling reft,
+Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise
+And dangerous success of bloody wars,
+As I intend more good to you and yours
+Than ever you or yours by me were harmed!
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+What good is covered with the face of heaven,
+To be discovered, that can do me good?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Th’ advancement of your children, gentle lady.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Unto the dignity and height of fortune,
+The high imperial type of this earth’s glory.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Flatter my sorrows with report of it.
+Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,
+Canst thou demise to any child of mine?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Even all I have—ay, and myself and all
+Will I withal endow a child of thine;
+So in the Lethe of thy angry soul
+Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs
+Which thou supposest I have done to thee.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Be brief, lest that the process of thy kindness
+Last longer telling than thy kindness’ date.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+My daughter’s mother thinks it with her soul.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What do you think?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul.
+So from thy soul’s love didst thou love her brothers,
+And from my heart’s love I do thank thee for it.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Be not so hasty to confound my meaning.
+I mean that with my soul I love thy daughter,
+And do intend to make her Queen of England.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Well, then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Even he that makes her Queen. Who else should be?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+What, thou?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Even so. How think you of it?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+How canst thou woo her?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+That would I learn of you,
+As one being best acquainted with her humour.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+And wilt thou learn of me?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Madam, with all my heart.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,
+A pair of bleeding hearts; thereon engrave
+“Edward” and “York.” Then haply will she weep.
+Therefore present to her—as sometimes Margaret
+Did to thy father, steeped in Rutland’s blood—
+A handkerchief, which, say to her, did drain
+The purple sap from her sweet brothers’ body,
+And bid her wipe her weeping eyes withal.
+If this inducement move her not to love,
+Send her a letter of thy noble deeds;
+Tell her thou mad’st away her uncle Clarence,
+Her uncle Rivers, ay, and for her sake
+Mad’st quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+You mock me, madam; this is not the way
+To win your daughter.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+There is no other way,
+Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,
+And not be Richard, that hath done all this.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Say that I did all this for love of her?
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,
+Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Look what is done cannot be now amended.
+Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
+Which after-hours gives leisure to repent.
+If I did take the kingdom from your sons,
+To make amends I’ll give it to your daughter.
+If I have killed the issue of your womb,
+To quicken your increase I will beget
+Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter.
+A grandam’s name is little less in love
+Than is the doting title of a mother;
+They are as children but one step below,
+Even of your mettle, of your very blood;
+Of all one pain, save for a night of groans
+Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.
+Your children were vexation to your youth,
+But mine shall be a comfort to your age.
+The loss you have is but a son being King,
+And by that loss your daughter is made Queen.
+I cannot make you what amends I would;
+Therefore accept such kindness as I can.
+Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul
+Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,
+This fair alliance quickly shall call home
+To high promotions and great dignity.
+The King, that calls your beauteous daughter wife,
+Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother;
+Again shall you be mother to a king,
+And all the ruins of distressful times
+Repaired with double riches of content.
+What, we have many goodly days to see.
+The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
+Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl,
+Advantaging their loan with interest
+Of ten times double gain of happiness.
+Go then, my mother, to thy daughter go.
+Make bold her bashful years with your experience;
+Prepare her ears to hear a wooer’s tale;
+Put in her tender heart th’ aspiring flame
+Of golden sovereignty; acquaint the Princess
+With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys,
+And when this arm of mine hath chastised
+The petty rebel, dull-brained Buckingham,
+Bound with triumphant garlands will I come
+And lead thy daughter to a conqueror’s bed;
+To whom I will retail my conquest won,
+And she shall be sole victoress, Caesar’s Caesar.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+What were I best to say? Her father’s brother
+Would be her lord? Or shall I say her uncle?
+Or he that slew her brothers and her uncles?
+Under what title shall I woo for thee,
+That God, the law, my honour, and her love
+Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Infer fair England’s peace by this alliance.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Which she shall purchase with still-lasting war.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Tell her the King, that may command, entreats.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+That at her hands, which the King’s King forbids.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Say she shall be a high and mighty queen.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+To vail the title, as her mother doth.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Say I will love her everlastingly.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+But how long shall that title “ever” last?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Sweetly in force unto her fair life’s end.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+But how long fairly shall her sweet life last?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+As long as heaven and nature lengthens it.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+As long as hell and Richard likes of it.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Say I, her sovereign, am her subject low.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Be eloquent in my behalf to her.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Then plainly to her tell my loving tale.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+O no, my reasons are too deep and dead—
+Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their graves.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Now, by my George, my Garter, and my crown—
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Profaned, dishonoured, and the third usurped.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+I swear—
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+By nothing, for this is no oath.
+Thy George, profaned, hath lost his lordly honour;
+Thy Garter, blemished, pawned his knightly virtue;
+Thy crown, usurped, disgraced his kingly glory.
+If something thou wouldst swear to be believed,
+Swear then by something that thou hast not wronged.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Now, by the world—
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+’Tis full of thy foul wrongs.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+My father’s death—
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Thy life hath that dishonoured.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Then, by myself—
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Thyself is self-misused.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Why, then, by God—
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+God’s wrong is most of all.
+If thou didst fear to break an oath with Him,
+The unity the King my husband made
+Thou hadst not broken, nor my brothers died.
+If thou hadst feared to break an oath by Him,
+Th’ imperial metal circling now thy head
+Had graced the tender temples of my child,
+And both the Princes had been breathing here,
+Which now, two tender bedfellows for dust,
+Thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms.
+What canst thou swear by now?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+The time to come.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+That thou hast wronged in the time o’erpast;
+For I myself have many tears to wash
+Hereafter time, for time past wronged by thee.
+The children live whose fathers thou hast slaughtered,
+Ungoverned youth, to wail it in their age;
+The parents live whose children thou hast butchered,
+Old barren plants, to wail it with their age.
+Swear not by time to come, for that thou hast
+Misused ere used, by times ill-used o’erpast.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+As I intend to prosper and repent,
+So thrive I in my dangerous affairs
+Of hostile arms! Myself myself confound!
+Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours!
+Day, yield me not thy light, nor, night, thy rest!
+Be opposite all planets of good luck
+To my proceeding if with dear heart’s love,
+Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,
+I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter.
+In her consists my happiness and thine;
+Without her follows to myself and thee,
+Herself, the land, and many a Christian soul,
+Death, desolation, ruin, and decay.
+It cannot be avoided but by this;
+It will not be avoided but by this.
+Therefore, dear mother—I must call you so—
+Be the attorney of my love to her;
+Plead what I will be, not what I have been;
+Not my deserts, but what I will deserve.
+Urge the necessity and state of times,
+And be not peevish found in great designs.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ay, if the devil tempt you to do good.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Shall I forget myself to be myself?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ay, if your self’s remembrance wrong yourself.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Yet thou didst kill my children.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+But in your daughter’s womb I bury them,
+Where, in that nest of spicery, they will breed
+Selves of themselves, to your recomforture.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+And be a happy mother by the deed.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+I go. Write to me very shortly,
+And you shall understand from me her mind.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Bear her my true love’s kiss; and so, farewell.
+
+[_Kissing her. Exit Queen Elizabeth._]
+
+Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!
+
+Enter Ratcliffe.
+
+How now, what news?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Most mighty sovereign, on the western coast
+Rideth a puissant navy; to our shores
+Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends,
+Unarmed, and unresolved to beat them back.
+’Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral;
+And there they hull, expecting but the aid
+Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk.
+Ratcliffe, thyself, or Catesby. Where is he?
+
+CATESBY.
+Here, my good lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Catesby, fly to the Duke.
+
+CATESBY.
+I will my lord, with all convenient haste.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ratcliffe, come hither. Post to Salisbury.
+When thou com’st thither—
+[_To Catesby._] Dull, unmindful villain,
+Why stay’st thou here, and go’st not to the Duke?
+
+CATESBY.
+First, mighty liege, tell me your Highness’ pleasure,
+What from your Grace I shall deliver to him.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+O, true, good Catesby. Bid him levy straight
+The greatest strength and power that he can make,
+And meet me suddenly at Salisbury.
+
+CATESBY.
+I go.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+What, may it please you, shall I do at Salisbury?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Your Highness told me I should post before.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+My mind is changed.
+
+Enter Stanley Earl of Derby.
+
+Stanley, what news with you?
+
+STANLEY.
+None good, my liege, to please you with the hearing;
+Nor none so bad but well may be reported.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Hoyday, a riddle! Neither good nor bad.
+What need’st thou run so many miles about
+When thou mayst tell thy tale the nearest way?
+Once more, what news?
+
+STANLEY.
+Richmond is on the seas.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+There let him sink, and be the seas on him!
+White-livered runagate, what doth he there?
+
+STANLEY.
+I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Well, as you guess?
+
+STANLEY.
+Stirred up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Morton,
+He makes for England, here to claim the crown.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Is the chair empty? Is the sword unswayed?
+Is the King dead? The empire unpossessed?
+What heir of York is there alive but we?
+And who is England’s King but great York’s heir?
+Then tell me, what makes he upon the seas?
+
+STANLEY.
+Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Unless for that he comes to be your liege,
+You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.
+Thou wilt revolt and fly to him, I fear.
+
+STANLEY.
+No, my good lord; therefore mistrust me not.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Where is thy power, then, to beat him back?
+Where be thy tenants and thy followers?
+Are they not now upon the western shore,
+Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships?
+
+STANLEY.
+No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Cold friends to me. What do they in the north,
+When they should serve their sovereign in the west?
+
+STANLEY.
+They have not been commanded, mighty King.
+Pleaseth your Majesty to give me leave,
+I’ll muster up my friends, and meet your Grace
+Where and what time your Majesty shall please.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Ay, ay, thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond.
+But I’ll not trust thee.
+
+STANLEY.
+Most mighty sovereign,
+You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful.
+I never was nor never will be false.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Go then, and muster men, but leave behind
+Your son George Stanley. Look your heart be firm,
+Or else his head’s assurance is but frail.
+
+STANLEY.
+So deal with him as I prove true to you.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,
+As I by friends am well advertised,
+Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate,
+Bishop of Exeter, his elder brother,
+With many more confederates, are in arms.
+
+Enter another Messenger.
+
+SECOND MESSENGER.
+In Kent, my liege, the Guilfords are in arms,
+And every hour more competitors
+Flock to the rebels, and their power grows strong.
+
+Enter another Messenger.
+
+THIRD MESSENGER.
+My lord, the army of great Buckingham—
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Out on you, owls! Nothing but songs of death?
+
+[_He strikes him._]
+
+There, take thou that till thou bring better news.
+
+THIRD MESSENGER.
+The news I have to tell your Majesty
+Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,
+Buckingham’s army is dispersed and scattered,
+And he himself wandered away alone,
+No man knows whither.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+I cry thee mercy.
+There is my purse to cure that blow of thine.
+Hath any well-advised friend proclaimed
+Reward to him that brings the traitor in?
+
+THIRD MESSENGER.
+Such proclamation hath been made, my lord.
+
+Enter another Messenger.
+
+FOURTH MESSENGER.
+Sir Thomas Lovell and Lord Marquess Dorset,
+’Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms.
+But this good comfort bring I to your Highness:
+The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest.
+Richmond, in Dorsetshire, sent out a boat
+Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks
+If they were his assistants, yea or no?—
+Who answered him they came from Buckingham
+Upon his party. He, mistrusting them,
+Hoised sail, and made his course again for Brittany.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+March on, march on, since we are up in arms,
+If not to fight with foreign enemies,
+Yet to beat down these rebels here at home.
+
+Enter Catesby.
+
+CATESBY.
+My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken.
+That is the best news. That the Earl of Richmond
+Is with a mighty power landed at Milford
+Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Away towards Salisbury! While we reason here
+A royal battle might be won and lost.
+Someone take order Buckingham be brought
+To Salisbury; the rest march on with me.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. A Room in Lord Stanley’s house
+
+Enter Stanley Earl of Derby and Sir Christopher Urswick.
+
+STANLEY.
+Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me:
+That in the sty of the most deadly boar
+My son George Stanley is franked up in hold;
+If I revolt, off goes young George’s head;
+The fear of that holds off my present aid.
+So get thee gone. Commend me to thy lord;
+Withal say that the Queen hath heartily consented
+He should espouse Elizabeth her daughter.
+But tell me, where is princely Richmond now?
+
+CHRISTOPHER.
+At Pembroke, or at Ha’rfordwest in Wales.
+
+STANLEY.
+What men of name resort to him?
+
+CHRISTOPHER.
+Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier;
+Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley,
+Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,
+And Rice ap Thomas, with a valiant crew,
+And many other of great name and worth;
+And towards London do they bend their power,
+If by the way they be not fought withal.
+
+STANLEY.
+Well, hie thee to thy lord; I kiss his hand.
+My letter will resolve him of my mind.
+Farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Salisbury. An open place
+
+
+Enter Sheriff and Halberds, with Buckingham, led to execution.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Will not King Richard let me speak with him?
+
+SHERIFF.
+No, my good lord; therefore be patient.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Hastings, and Edward’s children, Grey, and Rivers,
+Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward,
+Vaughan, and all that have miscarried
+By underhand, corrupted foul injustice,
+If that your moody discontented souls
+Do through the clouds behold this present hour,
+Even for revenge mock my destruction.
+This is All-Souls’ day, fellow, is it not?
+
+SHERIFF.
+It is.
+
+BUCKINGHAM.
+Why, then All-Souls’ day is my body’s doomsday.
+This is the day which, in King Edward’s time,
+I wished might fall on me when I was found
+False to his children and his wife’s allies.
+This is the day wherein I wished to fall
+By the false faith of him whom most I trusted.
+This, this All-Souls’ day to my fearful soul
+Is the determined respite of my wrongs.
+That high All-Seer which I dallied with
+Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head
+And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
+Thus doth He force the swords of wicked men
+To turn their own points in their masters’ bosoms.
+Thus Margaret’s curse falls heavy on my neck:
+“When he,” quoth she, “shall split thy heart with sorrow,
+Remember Margaret was a prophetess.”
+Come lead me, officers, to the block of shame;
+Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
+
+[_Exit with Officers._]
+
+SCENE II. Plain near Tamworth
+
+Enter Richmond, Oxford, Blunt, Herbert, and others, with drum and
+colours.
+
+RICHMOND.
+Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,
+Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,
+Thus far into the bowels of the land
+Have we marched on without impediment;
+And here receive we from our father Stanley
+Lines of fair comfort and encouragement.
+The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,
+That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines,
+Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
+In your embowelled bosoms—this foul swine
+Is now even in the centre of this isle,
+Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn.
+From Tamworth thither is but one day’s march.
+In God’s name, cheerly on, courageous friends,
+To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
+By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
+
+OXFORD.
+Every man’s conscience is a thousand men,
+To fight against that guilty homicide.
+
+HERBERT.
+I doubt not but his friends will turn to us.
+
+BLUNT.
+He hath no friends but what are friends for fear,
+Which in his dearest need will fly from him.
+
+RICHMOND.
+All for our vantage. Then in God’s name, march.
+True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings;
+Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Bosworth Field
+
+Enter King Richard in arms, with Norfolk, Ratcliffe  and the Earl of
+Surrey with others.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Here pitch our tent, even here in Bosworth field.
+My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?
+
+SURREY.
+My heart is ten times lighter than my looks.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+My lord of Norfolk.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Here, most gracious liege.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Norfolk, we must have knocks, ha, must we not?
+
+NORFOLK.
+We must both give and take, my loving lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Up with my tent! Here will I lie tonight.
+But where tomorrow? Well, all’s one for that.
+Who hath descried the number of the traitors?
+
+NORFOLK.
+Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Why, our battalia trebles that account.
+Besides, the King’s name is a tower of strength
+Which they upon the adverse faction want.
+Up with the tent! Come, noble gentlemen,
+Let us survey the vantage of the ground.
+Call for some men of sound direction;
+Let’s lack no discipline, make no delay,
+For, lords, tomorrow is a busy day.
+
+[_The tent is now ready. Exeunt._]
+
+Enter Richmond, Sir William Brandon, Oxford, Herbert, Blunt, and others
+who pitch Richmond’s tent.
+
+RICHMOND.
+The weary sun hath made a golden set,
+And by the bright track of his fiery car
+Gives token of a goodly day tomorrow.
+Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard.
+Give me some ink and paper in my tent;
+I’ll draw the form and model of our battle,
+Limit each leader to his several charge,
+And part in just proportion our small power.
+My Lord of Oxford, you, Sir William Brandon,
+And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me.
+The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment.—
+Good Captain Blunt, bear my goodnight to him,
+And by the second hour in the morning
+Desire the Earl to see me in my tent.
+Yet one thing more, good captain, do for me.
+Where is Lord Stanley quartered, do you know?
+
+BLUNT.
+Unless I have mista’en his colours much,
+Which well I am assured I have not done,
+His regiment lies half a mile at least
+South from the mighty power of the King.
+
+RICHMOND.
+If without peril it be possible,
+Sweet Blunt, make some good means to speak with him,
+And give him from me this most needful note.
+
+BLUNT.
+Upon my life, my lord, I’ll undertake it;
+And so God give you quiet rest tonight.
+
+RICHMOND.
+Good night, good Captain Blunt.
+
+[_Exit Blunt._]
+
+Come, gentlemen,
+Let us consult upon tomorrow’s business;
+Into my tent. The dew is raw and cold.
+
+[_Richmond, Brandon Herbert, and  Oxford withdraw into the tent. The
+others exeunt._]
+
+Enter to his tent, King Richard, Ratcliffe, Norfolk and Catesby with
+Soldiers.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What is’t o’clock?
+
+CATESBY.
+It’s supper time, my lord. It’s nine o’clock.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+I will not sup tonight. Give me some ink and paper.
+What, is my beaver easier than it was?
+And all my armour laid into my tent?
+
+CATESBY.
+It is, my liege, and all things are in readiness.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge;
+Use careful watch; choose trusty sentinels.
+
+NORFOLK.
+I go, my lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Stir with the lark tomorrow, gentle Norfolk.
+
+NORFOLK.
+I warrant you, my lord.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Catesby!
+
+CATESBY.
+My lord?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Send out a pursuivant-at-arms
+To Stanley’s regiment. Bid him bring his power
+Before sunrising, lest his son George fall
+Into the blind cave of eternal night.
+
+[_Exit Catesby._]
+
+Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch.
+Saddle white Surrey for the field tomorrow.
+Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.
+Ratcliffe!
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+My lord?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Saw’st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Thomas the Earl of Surrey and himself,
+Much about cockshut time, from troop to troop
+Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine.
+I have not that alacrity of spirit
+Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.
+Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+It is, my lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Bid my guard watch; leave me.
+Ratcliffe, about the mid of night come to my tent
+And help to arm me. Leave me, I say.
+
+[_Exit Ratcliffe. Richard withdraws into his tent; attendant soldiers
+guard it_.]
+
+Enter Stanley Earl of Derby to Richmond in his tent.
+
+STANLEY.
+Fortune and victory sit on thy helm!
+
+RICHMOND.
+All comfort that the dark night can afford
+Be to thy person, noble father-in-law.
+Tell me, how fares our loving mother?
+
+STANLEY.
+I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother,
+Who prays continually for Richmond’s good.
+So much for that. The silent hours steal on,
+And flaky darkness breaks within the east.
+In brief, for so the season bids us be,
+Prepare thy battle early in the morning,
+And put thy fortune to the arbitrement
+Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war.
+I, as I may—that which I would I cannot—
+With best advantage will deceive the time,
+And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms.
+But on thy side I may not be too forward,
+Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George,
+Be executed in his father’s sight.
+Farewell; the leisure and the fearful time
+Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love
+And ample interchange of sweet discourse,
+Which so-long-sundered friends should dwell upon.
+God give us leisure for these rites of love!
+Once more, adieu. Be valiant, and speed well.
+
+RICHMOND.
+Good lords, conduct him to his regiment.
+I’ll strive with troubled thoughts to take a nap,
+Lest leaden slumber peise me down tomorrow
+When I should mount with wings of victory.
+Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen.
+
+[_All but Richmond leave his tent._]
+
+[_Kneels_.] O Thou, whose captain I account myself,
+Look on my forces with a gracious eye;
+Put in their hands Thy bruising irons of wrath,
+That they may crush down with a heavy fall
+Th’ usurping helmets of our adversaries;
+Make us Thy ministers of chastisement,
+That we may praise Thee in the victory.
+To Thee I do commend my watchful soul
+Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.
+Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still!
+
+[_Sleeps._]
+
+Enter the Ghost of young Prince Edward, son to Harry the Sixth.
+
+GHOST OF EDWARD.
+[_To King Richard._] Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow.
+Think how thou stabbed’st me in my prime of youth
+At Tewksbury; despair therefore, and die!
+[_To Richmond._] Be cheerful, Richmond, for the wronged souls
+Of butchered princes fight in thy behalf.
+King Henry’s issue, Richmond, comforts thee.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter the Ghost of Henry the Sixth.
+
+GHOST OF HENRY.
+[_To King Richard._] When I was mortal, my anointed body
+By thee was punched full of deadly holes.
+Think on the Tower and me. Despair, and die;
+Harry the Sixth bids thee despair and die.
+[_To Richmond._] Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror.
+Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be King,
+Doth comfort thee in thy sleep. Live, and flourish!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter the Ghost of Clarence.
+
+GHOST OF CLARENCE.
+[_To King Richard._] Let me sit heavy in thy soul tomorrow,
+I, that was washed to death with fulsome wine,
+Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death.
+Tomorrow in the battle think on me,
+And fall thy edgeless sword. Despair, and die!
+[_To Richmond._] Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster,
+The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee.
+Good angels guard thy battle; live, and flourish.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter the Ghosts of Rivers, Grey and Vaughan.
+
+GHOST OF RIVERS.
+[_To King Richard._] Let me sit heavy in thy soul tomorrow,
+Rivers that died at Pomfret. Despair and die!
+
+GHOST OF GREY.
+[_To King Richard._] Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair!
+
+GHOST OF VAUGHAN.
+[_To King Richard._] Think upon Vaughan, and with guilty fear
+Let fall thy lance. Despair and die!
+
+ALL THREE.
+[_To Richmond._] Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard’s bosom
+Will conquer him. Awake, and win the day.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Enter the Ghost of Hastings.
+
+GHOST OF HASTINGS.
+[_To King Richard._] Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,
+And in a bloody battle end thy days.
+Think on Lord Hastings. Despair and die!
+[_To Richmond._] Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake.
+Arm, fight, and conquer for fair England’s sake.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter the Ghosts of the two young Princes.
+
+GHOSTS OF PRINCES.
+[_To King Richard._] Dream on thy cousins smothered in the Tower.
+Let us be lead within thy bosom, Richard,
+And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death;
+Thy nephews’ souls bid thee despair and die.
+[_To Richmond._] Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy;
+Good angels guard thee from the boar’s annoy.
+Live, and beget a happy race of kings;
+Edward’s unhappy sons do bid thee flourish.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Enter the Ghost of Lady Anne, his wife.
+
+GHOST OF ANNE.
+[_To King Richard._] Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife,
+That never slept a quiet hour with thee,
+Now fills thy sleep with perturbations.
+Tomorrow in the battle think on me,
+And fall thy edgeless sword. Despair and die!
+[_To Richmond._] Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep;
+Dream of success and happy victory.
+Thy adversary’s wife doth pray for thee.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter the Ghost of Buckingham.
+
+GHOST OF BUCKINGHAM.
+[_To King Richard._] The first was I that helped thee to the crown;
+The last was I that felt thy tyranny.
+O, in the battle think on Buckingham,
+And die in terror of thy guiltiness.
+Dream on, dream on of bloody deeds and death.
+Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath.
+[_To Richmond._] I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid,
+But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismayed.
+God and good angels fight on Richmond’s side;
+And Richard fall in height of all his pride.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+[_King Richard starts up out of his dream._]
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!
+Have mercy, Jesu!—Soft! I did but dream.
+O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
+The lights burn blue; it is now dead midnight.
+Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
+What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
+Richard loves Richard, that is, I am I.
+Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am.
+Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why,
+Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?
+Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good
+That I myself have done unto myself?
+O, no, alas, I rather hate myself
+For hateful deeds committed by myself.
+I am a villain. Yet I lie, I am not.
+Fool, of thyself speak well. Fool, do not flatter.
+My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
+And every tongue brings in a several tale,
+And every tale condemns me for a villain.
+Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree;
+Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree;
+All several sins, all used in each degree,
+Throng to the bar, crying all “Guilty, guilty!”
+I shall despair. There is no creature loves me,
+And if I die no soul will pity me.
+And wherefore should they, since that I myself
+Find in myself no pity to myself?
+Methought the souls of all that I had murdered
+Came to my tent, and everyone did threat
+Tomorrow’s vengeance on the head of Richard.
+
+Enter Ratcliffe.
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+My lord!
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Zounds! Who’s there?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Ratcliffe, my lord; ’tis I. The early village cock
+Hath twice done salutation to the morn;
+Your friends are up and buckle on their armour.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+O Ratcliffe, I have dreamed a fearful dream!
+What think’st thou, will our friends prove all true?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+No doubt, my lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+O Ratcliffe, I fear, I fear!
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight
+Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
+Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
+Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.
+’Tis not yet near day. Come, go with me.
+Under our tents I’ll play the eavesdropper,
+To see if any mean to shrink from me.
+
+[_Exeunt Richard and Ratcliffe._]
+
+Enter the Lords to Richmond in his tent.
+
+LORDS.
+Good morrow, Richmond.
+
+RICHMOND.
+Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,
+That you have ta’en a tardy sluggard here.
+
+LORDS.
+How have you slept, my lord?
+
+RICHMOND.
+The sweetest sleep and fairest-boding dreams
+That ever entered in a drowsy head
+Have I since your departure had, my lords.
+Methought their souls whose bodies Richard murdered
+Came to my tent and cried on victory.
+I promise you, my heart is very jocund
+In the remembrance of so fair a dream.
+How far into the morning is it, lords?
+
+LORDS.
+Upon the stroke of four.
+
+RICHMOND.
+Why, then ’tis time to arm and give direction.
+
+His oration to his soldiers.
+
+
+More than I have said, loving countrymen,
+The leisure and enforcement of the time
+Forbids to dwell upon. Yet remember this:
+God, and our good cause, fight upon our side;
+The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,
+Like high-reared bulwarks, stand before our faces.
+Richard except, those whom we fight against
+Had rather have us win than him they follow.
+For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen,
+A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
+One raised in blood, and one in blood established;
+One that made means to come by what he hath,
+And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;
+A base foul stone, made precious by the foil
+Of England’s chair, where he is falsely set;
+One that hath ever been God’s enemy.
+Then, if you fight against God’s enemy,
+God will, in justice, ward you as his soldiers;
+If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,
+You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain;
+If you do fight against your country’s foes,
+Your country’s fat shall pay your pains the hire;
+If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,
+Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors;
+If you do free your children from the sword,
+Your children’s children quits it in your age.
+Then, in the name of God and all these rights,
+Advance your standards, draw your willing swords.
+For me, the ransom of my bold attempt
+Shall be this cold corpse on the earth’s cold face;
+But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt
+The least of you shall share his part thereof.
+Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully!
+God, and Saint George! Richmond and victory!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Enter King Richard, Ratcliffe and Soldiers.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+That he was never trained up in arms.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+He said the truth. And what said Surrey then?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+He smiled, and said, “The better for our purpose.”
+
+KING RICHARD.
+He was in the right, and so indeed it is.
+
+[_The clock striketh._]
+
+Tell the clock there. Give me a calendar.
+Who saw the sun today?
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+Not I, my lord.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Then he disdains to shine, for by the book
+He should have braved the east an hour ago.
+A black day will it be to somebody.
+Ratcliffe!
+
+RATCLIFFE.
+My lord?
+
+KING RICHARD.
+The sun will not be seen today!
+The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.
+I would these dewy tears were from the ground.
+Not shine today? Why, what is that to me
+More than to Richmond? For the selfsame heaven
+That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.
+
+Enter Norfolk.
+
+NORFOLK.
+Arm, arm, my lord. The foe vaunts in the field.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Come, bustle, bustle! Caparison my horse.
+Call up Lord Stanley; bid him bring his power.
+I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
+And thus my battle shall be ordered:
+My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,
+Consisting equally of horse and foot;
+Our archers shall be placed in the midst.
+John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,
+Shall have the leading of this foot and horse.
+They thus directed, we will follow
+In the main battle, whose puissance on either side
+Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
+This, and Saint George to boot! What think’st thou, Norfolk?
+
+NORFOLK.
+A good direction, warlike sovereign.
+
+[_He sheweth him a paper._]
+
+This found I on my tent this morning.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+[_Reads_.] “Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold.
+For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.”
+A thing devised by the enemy.
+Go, gentlemen, every man unto his charge.
+Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
+Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
+Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
+Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
+March on. Join bravely. Let us to it pell-mell,
+If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.
+
+His oration to his army.
+
+What shall I say more than I have inferred?
+Remember whom you are to cope withal,
+A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,
+A scum of Bretons and base lackey peasants,
+Whom their o’er-cloyed country vomits forth
+To desperate adventures and assured destruction.
+You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;
+You having lands, and blessed with beauteous wives,
+They would restrain the one, distain the other.
+And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow,
+Long kept in Brittany at our mother’s cost?
+A milksop, one that never in his life
+Felt so much cold as over-shoes in snow?
+Let’s whip these stragglers o’er the seas again,
+Lash hence these overweening rags of France,
+These famished beggars, weary of their lives,
+Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit,
+For want of means, poor rats, had hanged themselves.
+If we be conquered, let men conquer us,
+And not these bastard Bretons, whom our fathers
+Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped,
+And in record left them the heirs of shame.
+Shall these enjoy our lands? Lie with our wives,
+Ravish our daughters?
+
+[_Drum afar off._]
+
+Hark, I hear their drum.
+Fight, gentlemen of England! Fight, bold yeomen!
+Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
+Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood!
+Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+What says Lord Stanley? Will he bring his power?
+
+MESSENGER.
+My lord, he doth deny to come.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Off with his son George’s head!
+
+NORFOLK.
+My lord, the enemy is past the marsh.
+After the battle let George Stanley die.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+A thousand hearts are great within my bosom.
+Advance our standards! Set upon our foes!
+Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
+Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
+Upon them! Victory sits on our helms.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another part of the Field
+
+Alarum. Excursions. Enter Norfolk and Soldiers; to him Catesby.
+
+CATESBY.
+Rescue, my lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!
+The King enacts more wonders than a man,
+Daring an opposite to every danger.
+His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
+Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
+Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!
+
+[_Exeunt Norfolk and Soldiers._]
+
+Alarum. Enter King Richard.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
+
+CATESBY.
+Withdraw, my lord; I’ll help you to a horse.
+
+KING RICHARD.
+Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
+And I will stand the hazard of the die.
+I think there be six Richmonds in the field;
+Five have I slain today instead of him.
+A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the Field
+
+Alarum. Enter King Richard and Richmond. They fight. Richard is slain.
+Then retreat being sounded. Richmond exits, and Richard’s body is
+carried off. Flourish. Enter Richmond, Stanley Earl of Derby, bearing
+the crown, with other Lords and Soldiers.
+
+RICHMOND.
+God and your arms be praised, victorious friends!
+The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.
+
+STANLEY.
+Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee!
+Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty
+From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
+Have I plucked off, to grace thy brows withal.
+Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.
+
+RICHMOND.
+Great God of heaven, say Amen to all!
+But tell me, is young George Stanley living?
+
+STANLEY.
+He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town,
+Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
+
+RICHMOND.
+What men of name are slain on either side?
+
+STANLEY.
+John, Duke of Norfolk, Walter, Lord Ferrers,
+Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.
+
+RICHMOND.
+Inter their bodies as becomes their births.
+Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
+That in submission will return to us.
+And then, as we have ta’en the sacrament,
+We will unite the white rose and the red.
+Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
+That long have frowned upon their enmity.
+What traitor hears me and says not Amen?
+England hath long been mad, and scarred herself:
+The brother blindly shed the brother’s blood;
+The father rashly slaughtered his own son;
+The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire.
+All this divided York and Lancaster,
+Divided in their dire division.
+O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
+The true succeeders of each royal house,
+By God’s fair ordinance conjoin together,
+And let their heirs, God, if Thy will be so,
+Enrich the time to come with smoothed-faced peace,
+With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days.
+Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
+That would reduce these bloody days again,
+And make poor England weep in streams of blood.
+Let them not live to taste this land’s increase,
+That would with treason wound this fair land’s peace.
+Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again.
+That she may long live here, God say Amen.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+THE PROLOGUE.
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. A public place.
+Scene II. A Street.
+Scene III. Room in Capulet’s House.
+Scene IV. A Street.
+Scene V. A Hall in Capulet’s House.
+
+ACT II
+CHORUS.
+Scene I. An open place adjoining Capulet’s Garden.
+Scene II. Capulet’s Garden.
+Scene III. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
+Scene IV. A Street.
+Scene V. Capulet’s Garden.
+Scene VI. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. A public Place.
+Scene II. A Room in Capulet’s House.
+Scene III. Friar Lawrence’s cell.
+Scene IV. A Room in Capulet’s House.
+Scene V. An open Gallery to Juliet’s Chamber, overlooking the Garden.
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
+Scene II. Hall in Capulet’s House.
+Scene III. Juliet’s Chamber.
+Scene IV. Hall in Capulet’s House.
+Scene V. Juliet’s Chamber; Juliet on the bed.
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. Mantua. A Street.
+Scene II. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
+Scene III. A churchyard; in it a Monument belonging to the Capulets.
+
+
+
+
+ Dramatis Personæ
+
+ESCALUS, Prince of Verona.
+MERCUTIO, kinsman to the Prince, and friend to Romeo.
+PARIS, a young Nobleman, kinsman to the Prince.
+Page to Paris.
+
+MONTAGUE, head of a Veronese family at feud with the Capulets.
+LADY MONTAGUE, wife to Montague.
+ROMEO, son to Montague.
+BENVOLIO, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo.
+ABRAM, servant to Montague.
+BALTHASAR, servant to Romeo.
+
+CAPULET, head of a Veronese family at feud with the Montagues.
+LADY CAPULET, wife to Capulet.
+JULIET, daughter to Capulet.
+TYBALT, nephew to Lady Capulet.
+CAPULET’S COUSIN, an old man.
+NURSE to Juliet.
+PETER, servant to Juliet’s Nurse.
+SAMPSON, servant to Capulet.
+GREGORY, servant to Capulet.
+Servants.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE, a Franciscan.
+FRIAR JOHN, of the same Order.
+An Apothecary.
+CHORUS.
+Three Musicians.
+An Officer.
+Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women, relations to both houses;
+Maskers, Guards, Watchmen and Attendants.
+
+SCENE. During the greater part of the Play in Verona; once, in the
+Fifth Act, at Mantua.
+
+
+
+
+THE PROLOGUE
+
+
+ Enter Chorus.
+
+CHORUS.
+Two households, both alike in dignity,
+In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
+From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
+Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
+From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
+A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
+Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
+Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
+The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
+And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
+Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
+Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
+The which, if you with patient ears attend,
+What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. A public place.
+
+
+ Enter Sampson and Gregory armed with swords and bucklers.
+
+SAMPSON.
+Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals.
+
+GREGORY.
+No, for then we should be colliers.
+
+SAMPSON.
+I mean, if we be in choler, we’ll draw.
+
+GREGORY.
+Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o’ the collar.
+
+SAMPSON.
+I strike quickly, being moved.
+
+GREGORY.
+But thou art not quickly moved to strike.
+
+SAMPSON.
+A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
+
+GREGORY.
+To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: therefore, if thou
+art moved, thou runn’st away.
+
+SAMPSON.
+A dog of that house shall move me to stand.
+I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.
+
+GREGORY.
+That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.
+
+SAMPSON.
+True, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to
+the wall: therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and
+thrust his maids to the wall.
+
+GREGORY.
+The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.
+
+SAMPSON.
+’Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the
+men I will be civil with the maids, I will cut off their heads.
+
+GREGORY.
+The heads of the maids?
+
+SAMPSON.
+Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense
+thou wilt.
+
+GREGORY.
+They must take it in sense that feel it.
+
+SAMPSON.
+Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and ’tis known I am a
+pretty piece of flesh.
+
+GREGORY.
+’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John.
+Draw thy tool; here comes of the house of Montagues.
+
+ Enter Abram and Balthasar.
+
+SAMPSON.
+My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.
+
+GREGORY.
+How? Turn thy back and run?
+
+SAMPSON.
+Fear me not.
+
+GREGORY.
+No, marry; I fear thee!
+
+SAMPSON.
+Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.
+
+GREGORY.
+I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list.
+
+SAMPSON.
+Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to
+them if they bear it.
+
+ABRAM.
+Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
+
+SAMPSON.
+I do bite my thumb, sir.
+
+ABRAM.
+Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
+
+SAMPSON.
+Is the law of our side if I say ay?
+
+GREGORY.
+No.
+
+SAMPSON.
+No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I bite my thumb, sir.
+
+GREGORY.
+Do you quarrel, sir?
+
+ABRAM.
+Quarrel, sir? No, sir.
+
+SAMPSON.
+But if you do, sir, I am for you. I serve as good a man as you.
+
+ABRAM.
+No better.
+
+SAMPSON.
+Well, sir.
+
+ Enter Benvolio.
+
+GREGORY.
+Say better; here comes one of my master’s kinsmen.
+
+SAMPSON.
+Yes, better, sir.
+
+ABRAM.
+You lie.
+
+SAMPSON.
+Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy washing blow.
+
+ [_They fight._]
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Part, fools! put up your swords, you know not what you do.
+
+ [_Beats down their swords._]
+
+ Enter Tybalt.
+
+TYBALT.
+What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
+Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+I do but keep the peace, put up thy sword,
+Or manage it to part these men with me.
+
+TYBALT.
+What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word
+As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
+Have at thee, coward.
+
+ [_They fight._]
+
+ Enter three or four Citizens with clubs.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Clubs, bills and partisans! Strike! Beat them down!
+Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!
+
+ Enter Capulet in his gown, and Lady Capulet.
+
+CAPULET.
+What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword?
+
+CAPULET.
+My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,
+And flourishes his blade in spite of me.
+
+ Enter Montague and his Lady Montague.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Thou villain Capulet! Hold me not, let me go.
+
+LADY MONTAGUE.
+Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
+
+ Enter Prince Escalus, with Attendants.
+
+PRINCE.
+Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
+Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,—
+Will they not hear? What, ho! You men, you beasts,
+That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
+With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
+On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
+Throw your mistemper’d weapons to the ground
+And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
+Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
+By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
+Have thrice disturb’d the quiet of our streets,
+And made Verona’s ancient citizens
+Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
+To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
+Canker’d with peace, to part your canker’d hate.
+If ever you disturb our streets again,
+Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
+For this time all the rest depart away:
+You, Capulet, shall go along with me,
+And Montague, come you this afternoon,
+To know our farther pleasure in this case,
+To old Free-town, our common judgement-place.
+Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.
+
+ [_Exeunt Prince and Attendants; Capulet, Lady Capulet, Tybalt,
+ Citizens and Servants._]
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?
+Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Here were the servants of your adversary
+And yours, close fighting ere I did approach.
+I drew to part them, in the instant came
+The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar’d,
+Which, as he breath’d defiance to my ears,
+He swung about his head, and cut the winds,
+Who nothing hurt withal, hiss’d him in scorn.
+While we were interchanging thrusts and blows
+Came more and more, and fought on part and part,
+Till the Prince came, who parted either part.
+
+LADY MONTAGUE.
+O where is Romeo, saw you him today?
+Right glad I am he was not at this fray.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Madam, an hour before the worshipp’d sun
+Peer’d forth the golden window of the east,
+A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad,
+Where underneath the grove of sycamore
+That westward rooteth from this city side,
+So early walking did I see your son.
+Towards him I made, but he was ware of me,
+And stole into the covert of the wood.
+I, measuring his affections by my own,
+Which then most sought where most might not be found,
+Being one too many by my weary self,
+Pursu’d my humour, not pursuing his,
+And gladly shunn’d who gladly fled from me.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Many a morning hath he there been seen,
+With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,
+Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;
+But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
+Should in the farthest east begin to draw
+The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed,
+Away from light steals home my heavy son,
+And private in his chamber pens himself,
+Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out
+And makes himself an artificial night.
+Black and portentous must this humour prove,
+Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+My noble uncle, do you know the cause?
+
+MONTAGUE.
+I neither know it nor can learn of him.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Have you importun’d him by any means?
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Both by myself and many other friends;
+But he, his own affections’ counsellor,
+Is to himself—I will not say how true—
+But to himself so secret and so close,
+So far from sounding and discovery,
+As is the bud bit with an envious worm
+Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
+Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
+Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow,
+We would as willingly give cure as know.
+
+ Enter Romeo.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+See, where he comes. So please you step aside;
+I’ll know his grievance or be much denied.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+I would thou wert so happy by thy stay
+To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let’s away,
+
+ [_Exeunt Montague and Lady Montague._]
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Good morrow, cousin.
+
+ROMEO.
+Is the day so young?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+But new struck nine.
+
+ROMEO.
+Ay me, sad hours seem long.
+Was that my father that went hence so fast?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?
+
+ROMEO.
+Not having that which, having, makes them short.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+In love?
+
+ROMEO.
+Out.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Of love?
+
+ROMEO.
+Out of her favour where I am in love.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Alas that love so gentle in his view,
+Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.
+
+ROMEO.
+Alas that love, whose view is muffled still,
+Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!
+Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?
+Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
+Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love:
+Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
+O anything, of nothing first create!
+O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
+Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
+Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
+Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
+This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
+Dost thou not laugh?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+No coz, I rather weep.
+
+ROMEO.
+Good heart, at what?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+At thy good heart’s oppression.
+
+ROMEO.
+Why such is love’s transgression.
+Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
+Which thou wilt propagate to have it prest
+With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown
+Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
+Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
+Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
+Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears:
+What is it else? A madness most discreet,
+A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
+Farewell, my coz.
+
+ [_Going._]
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Soft! I will go along:
+And if you leave me so, you do me wrong.
+
+ROMEO.
+Tut! I have lost myself; I am not here.
+This is not Romeo, he’s some other where.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Tell me in sadness who is that you love?
+
+ROMEO.
+What, shall I groan and tell thee?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Groan! Why, no; but sadly tell me who.
+
+ROMEO.
+Bid a sick man in sadness make his will,
+A word ill urg’d to one that is so ill.
+In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+I aim’d so near when I suppos’d you lov’d.
+
+ROMEO.
+A right good markman, and she’s fair I love.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.
+
+ROMEO.
+Well, in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit
+With Cupid’s arrow, she hath Dian’s wit;
+And in strong proof of chastity well arm’d,
+From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharm’d.
+She will not stay the siege of loving terms
+Nor bide th’encounter of assailing eyes,
+Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:
+O she’s rich in beauty, only poor
+That when she dies, with beauty dies her store.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?
+
+ROMEO.
+She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste;
+For beauty starv’d with her severity,
+Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
+She is too fair, too wise; wisely too fair,
+To merit bliss by making me despair.
+She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
+Do I live dead, that live to tell it now.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Be rul’d by me, forget to think of her.
+
+ROMEO.
+O teach me how I should forget to think.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+By giving liberty unto thine eyes;
+Examine other beauties.
+
+ROMEO.
+’Tis the way
+To call hers, exquisite, in question more.
+These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows,
+Being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair;
+He that is strucken blind cannot forget
+The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
+Show me a mistress that is passing fair,
+What doth her beauty serve but as a note
+Where I may read who pass’d that passing fair?
+Farewell, thou canst not teach me to forget.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+I’ll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Street.
+
+ Enter Capulet, Paris and Servant.
+
+CAPULET.
+But Montague is bound as well as I,
+In penalty alike; and ’tis not hard, I think,
+For men so old as we to keep the peace.
+
+PARIS.
+Of honourable reckoning are you both,
+And pity ’tis you liv’d at odds so long.
+But now my lord, what say you to my suit?
+
+CAPULET.
+But saying o’er what I have said before.
+My child is yet a stranger in the world,
+She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;
+Let two more summers wither in their pride
+Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
+
+PARIS.
+Younger than she are happy mothers made.
+
+CAPULET.
+And too soon marr’d are those so early made.
+The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she,
+She is the hopeful lady of my earth:
+But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,
+My will to her consent is but a part;
+And she agree, within her scope of choice
+Lies my consent and fair according voice.
+This night I hold an old accustom’d feast,
+Whereto I have invited many a guest,
+Such as I love, and you among the store,
+One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
+At my poor house look to behold this night
+Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:
+Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
+When well apparell’d April on the heel
+Of limping winter treads, even such delight
+Among fresh female buds shall you this night
+Inherit at my house. Hear all, all see,
+And like her most whose merit most shall be:
+Which, on more view of many, mine, being one,
+May stand in number, though in reckoning none.
+Come, go with me. Go, sirrah, trudge about
+Through fair Verona; find those persons out
+Whose names are written there, [_gives a paper_] and to them say,
+My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.
+
+ [_Exeunt Capulet and Paris._]
+
+SERVANT.
+Find them out whose names are written here! It is written that the
+shoemaker should meddle with his yard and the tailor with his last, the
+fisher with his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to
+find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what
+names the writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned. In good
+time!
+
+ Enter Benvolio and Romeo.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Tut, man, one fire burns out another’s burning,
+One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish;
+Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
+One desperate grief cures with another’s languish:
+Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
+And the rank poison of the old will die.
+
+ROMEO.
+Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+For what, I pray thee?
+
+ROMEO.
+For your broken shin.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Why, Romeo, art thou mad?
+
+ROMEO.
+Not mad, but bound more than a madman is:
+Shut up in prison, kept without my food,
+Whipp’d and tormented and—God-den, good fellow.
+
+SERVANT.
+God gi’ go-den. I pray, sir, can you read?
+
+ROMEO.
+Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.
+
+SERVANT.
+Perhaps you have learned it without book.
+But I pray, can you read anything you see?
+
+ROMEO.
+Ay, If I know the letters and the language.
+
+SERVANT.
+Ye say honestly, rest you merry!
+
+ROMEO.
+Stay, fellow; I can read.
+
+ [_He reads the letter._]
+
+_Signior Martino and his wife and daughters;
+County Anselmo and his beauteous sisters;
+The lady widow of Utruvio;
+Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces;
+Mercutio and his brother Valentine;
+Mine uncle Capulet, his wife, and daughters;
+My fair niece Rosaline and Livia;
+Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt;
+Lucio and the lively Helena. _
+
+
+A fair assembly. [_Gives back the paper_] Whither should they come?
+
+SERVANT.
+Up.
+
+ROMEO.
+Whither to supper?
+
+SERVANT.
+To our house.
+
+ROMEO.
+Whose house?
+
+SERVANT.
+My master’s.
+
+ROMEO.
+Indeed I should have ask’d you that before.
+
+SERVANT.
+Now I’ll tell you without asking. My master is the great rich Capulet,
+and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a
+cup of wine. Rest you merry.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+BENVOLIO.
+At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s
+Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lov’st;
+With all the admired beauties of Verona.
+Go thither and with unattainted eye,
+Compare her face with some that I shall show,
+And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
+
+ROMEO.
+When the devout religion of mine eye
+Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fire;
+And these who, often drown’d, could never die,
+Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars.
+One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
+Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,
+Herself pois’d with herself in either eye:
+But in that crystal scales let there be weigh’d
+Your lady’s love against some other maid
+That I will show you shining at this feast,
+And she shall scant show well that now shows best.
+
+ROMEO.
+I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown,
+But to rejoice in splendour of my own.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Room in Capulet’s House.
+
+ Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me.
+
+NURSE.
+Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,
+I bade her come. What, lamb! What ladybird!
+God forbid! Where’s this girl? What, Juliet!
+
+ Enter Juliet.
+
+JULIET.
+How now, who calls?
+
+NURSE.
+Your mother.
+
+JULIET.
+Madam, I am here. What is your will?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile,
+We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again,
+I have remember’d me, thou’s hear our counsel.
+Thou knowest my daughter’s of a pretty age.
+
+NURSE.
+Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+She’s not fourteen.
+
+NURSE.
+I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth,
+And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four,
+She is not fourteen. How long is it now
+To Lammas-tide?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+A fortnight and odd days.
+
+NURSE.
+Even or odd, of all days in the year,
+Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
+Susan and she,—God rest all Christian souls!—
+Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God;
+She was too good for me. But as I said,
+On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen;
+That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
+’Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
+And she was wean’d,—I never shall forget it—,
+Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
+For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
+Sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall;
+My lord and you were then at Mantua:
+Nay, I do bear a brain. But as I said,
+When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
+Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
+To see it tetchy, and fall out with the dug!
+Shake, quoth the dovehouse: ’twas no need, I trow,
+To bid me trudge.
+And since that time it is eleven years;
+For then she could stand alone; nay, by th’rood
+She could have run and waddled all about;
+For even the day before she broke her brow,
+And then my husband,—God be with his soul!
+A was a merry man,—took up the child:
+‘Yea,’ quoth he, ‘dost thou fall upon thy face?
+Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
+Wilt thou not, Jule?’ and, by my holidame,
+The pretty wretch left crying, and said ‘Ay’.
+To see now how a jest shall come about.
+I warrant, and I should live a thousand years,
+I never should forget it. ‘Wilt thou not, Jule?’ quoth he;
+And, pretty fool, it stinted, and said ‘Ay.’
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Enough of this; I pray thee hold thy peace.
+
+NURSE.
+Yes, madam, yet I cannot choose but laugh,
+To think it should leave crying, and say ‘Ay’;
+And yet I warrant it had upon it brow
+A bump as big as a young cockerel’s stone;
+A perilous knock, and it cried bitterly.
+‘Yea,’ quoth my husband, ‘fall’st upon thy face?
+Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;
+Wilt thou not, Jule?’ it stinted, and said ‘Ay’.
+
+JULIET.
+And stint thou too, I pray thee, Nurse, say I.
+
+NURSE.
+Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace
+Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nurs’d:
+And I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Marry, that marry is the very theme
+I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,
+How stands your disposition to be married?
+
+JULIET.
+It is an honour that I dream not of.
+
+NURSE.
+An honour! Were not I thine only nurse,
+I would say thou hadst suck’d wisdom from thy teat.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Well, think of marriage now: younger than you,
+Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,
+Are made already mothers. By my count
+I was your mother much upon these years
+That you are now a maid. Thus, then, in brief;
+The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.
+
+NURSE.
+A man, young lady! Lady, such a man
+As all the world—why he’s a man of wax.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Verona’s summer hath not such a flower.
+
+NURSE.
+Nay, he’s a flower, in faith a very flower.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+What say you, can you love the gentleman?
+This night you shall behold him at our feast;
+Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face,
+And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen.
+Examine every married lineament,
+And see how one another lends content;
+And what obscur’d in this fair volume lies,
+Find written in the margent of his eyes.
+This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
+To beautify him, only lacks a cover:
+The fish lives in the sea; and ’tis much pride
+For fair without the fair within to hide.
+That book in many’s eyes doth share the glory,
+That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;
+So shall you share all that he doth possess,
+By having him, making yourself no less.
+
+NURSE.
+No less, nay bigger. Women grow by men.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Speak briefly, can you like of Paris’ love?
+
+JULIET.
+I’ll look to like, if looking liking move:
+But no more deep will I endart mine eye
+Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
+
+ Enter a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you called, my young lady
+asked for, the Nurse cursed in the pantry, and everything in extremity.
+I must hence to wait, I beseech you follow straight.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+We follow thee.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+Juliet, the County stays.
+
+NURSE.
+Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A Street.
+
+ Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six Maskers;
+ Torch-bearers and others.
+
+ROMEO.
+What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?
+Or shall we on without apology?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+The date is out of such prolixity:
+We’ll have no Cupid hoodwink’d with a scarf,
+Bearing a Tartar’s painted bow of lath,
+Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;
+Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke
+After the prompter, for our entrance:
+But let them measure us by what they will,
+We’ll measure them a measure, and be gone.
+
+ROMEO.
+Give me a torch, I am not for this ambling;
+Being but heavy I will bear the light.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.
+
+ROMEO.
+Not I, believe me, you have dancing shoes,
+With nimble soles, I have a soul of lead
+So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+You are a lover, borrow Cupid’s wings,
+And soar with them above a common bound.
+
+ROMEO.
+I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
+To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,
+I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe.
+Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+And, to sink in it, should you burden love;
+Too great oppression for a tender thing.
+
+ROMEO.
+Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
+Too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
+Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
+Give me a case to put my visage in: [_Putting on a mask._]
+A visor for a visor. What care I
+What curious eye doth quote deformities?
+Here are the beetle-brows shall blush for me.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in
+But every man betake him to his legs.
+
+ROMEO.
+A torch for me: let wantons, light of heart,
+Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels;
+For I am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase,
+I’ll be a candle-holder and look on,
+The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Tut, dun’s the mouse, the constable’s own word:
+If thou art dun, we’ll draw thee from the mire
+Or save your reverence love, wherein thou stickest
+Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho.
+
+ROMEO.
+Nay, that’s not so.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+I mean sir, in delay
+We waste our lights in vain, light lights by day.
+Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits
+Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
+
+ROMEO.
+And we mean well in going to this mask;
+But ’tis no wit to go.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Why, may one ask?
+
+ROMEO.
+I dreamt a dream tonight.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+And so did I.
+
+ROMEO.
+Well what was yours?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+That dreamers often lie.
+
+ROMEO.
+In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
+She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
+In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
+On the fore-finger of an alderman,
+Drawn with a team of little atomies
+Over men’s noses as they lie asleep:
+Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs;
+The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
+Her traces, of the smallest spider’s web;
+The collars, of the moonshine’s watery beams;
+Her whip of cricket’s bone; the lash, of film;
+Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat,
+Not half so big as a round little worm
+Prick’d from the lazy finger of a maid:
+Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,
+Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
+Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.
+And in this state she gallops night by night
+Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;
+O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
+O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees;
+O’er ladies’ lips, who straight on kisses dream,
+Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
+Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
+Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,
+And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
+And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail,
+Tickling a parson’s nose as a lies asleep,
+Then dreams he of another benefice:
+Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,
+And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
+Of breaches, ambuscados, Spanish blades,
+Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon
+Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes;
+And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two,
+And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
+That plats the manes of horses in the night;
+And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs,
+Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
+This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
+That presses them, and learns them first to bear,
+Making them women of good carriage:
+This is she,—
+
+ROMEO.
+Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace,
+Thou talk’st of nothing.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+True, I talk of dreams,
+Which are the children of an idle brain,
+Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
+Which is as thin of substance as the air,
+And more inconstant than the wind, who woos
+Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
+And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence,
+Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves:
+Supper is done, and we shall come too late.
+
+ROMEO.
+I fear too early: for my mind misgives
+Some consequence yet hanging in the stars,
+Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
+With this night’s revels; and expire the term
+Of a despised life, clos’d in my breast
+By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
+But he that hath the steerage of my course
+Direct my suit. On, lusty gentlemen!
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Strike, drum.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. A Hall in Capulet’s House.
+
+ Musicians waiting. Enter Servants.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Where’s Potpan, that he helps not to take away?
+He shift a trencher! He scrape a trencher!
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+When good manners shall lie all in one or two men’s hands, and they
+unwash’d too, ’tis a foul thing.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Away with the join-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the
+plate. Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and as thou loves me,
+let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. Antony and Potpan!
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+Ay, boy, ready.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+You are looked for and called for, asked for and sought for, in the
+great chamber.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys. Be brisk awhile, and
+the longer liver take all.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+ Enter Capulet, &c. with the Guests and Gentlewomen to the Maskers.
+
+CAPULET.
+Welcome, gentlemen, ladies that have their toes
+Unplagu’d with corns will have a bout with you.
+Ah my mistresses, which of you all
+Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,
+She I’ll swear hath corns. Am I come near ye now?
+Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day
+That I have worn a visor, and could tell
+A whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear,
+Such as would please; ’tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone,
+You are welcome, gentlemen! Come, musicians, play.
+A hall, a hall, give room! And foot it, girls.
+
+ [_Music plays, and they dance._]
+
+More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,
+And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
+Ah sirrah, this unlook’d-for sport comes well.
+Nay sit, nay sit, good cousin Capulet,
+For you and I are past our dancing days;
+How long is’t now since last yourself and I
+Were in a mask?
+
+CAPULET’S COUSIN.
+By’r Lady, thirty years.
+
+CAPULET.
+What, man, ’tis not so much, ’tis not so much:
+’Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio,
+Come Pentecost as quickly as it will,
+Some five and twenty years; and then we mask’d.
+
+CAPULET’S COUSIN.
+’Tis more, ’tis more, his son is elder, sir;
+His son is thirty.
+
+CAPULET.
+Will you tell me that?
+His son was but a ward two years ago.
+
+ROMEO.
+What lady is that, which doth enrich the hand
+Of yonder knight?
+
+SERVANT.
+I know not, sir.
+
+ROMEO.
+O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
+It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
+As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;
+Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
+So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
+As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.
+The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,
+And touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
+Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
+For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
+
+TYBALT.
+This by his voice, should be a Montague.
+Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave
+Come hither, cover’d with an antic face,
+To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
+Now by the stock and honour of my kin,
+To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
+
+CAPULET.
+Why how now, kinsman!
+Wherefore storm you so?
+
+TYBALT.
+Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe;
+A villain that is hither come in spite,
+To scorn at our solemnity this night.
+
+CAPULET.
+Young Romeo, is it?
+
+TYBALT.
+’Tis he, that villain Romeo.
+
+CAPULET.
+Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone,
+A bears him like a portly gentleman;
+And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
+To be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth.
+I would not for the wealth of all the town
+Here in my house do him disparagement.
+Therefore be patient, take no note of him,
+It is my will; the which if thou respect,
+Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
+An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.
+
+TYBALT.
+It fits when such a villain is a guest:
+I’ll not endure him.
+
+CAPULET.
+He shall be endur’d.
+What, goodman boy! I say he shall, go to;
+Am I the master here, or you? Go to.
+You’ll not endure him! God shall mend my soul,
+You’ll make a mutiny among my guests!
+You will set cock-a-hoop, you’ll be the man!
+
+TYBALT.
+Why, uncle, ’tis a shame.
+
+CAPULET.
+Go to, go to!
+You are a saucy boy. Is’t so, indeed?
+This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what.
+You must contrary me! Marry, ’tis time.
+Well said, my hearts!—You are a princox; go:
+Be quiet, or—More light, more light!—For shame!
+I’ll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts.
+
+TYBALT.
+Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
+Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
+I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall,
+Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ROMEO.
+[_To Juliet._] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
+This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
+My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
+To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
+
+JULIET.
+Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
+Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
+For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
+And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
+
+ROMEO.
+Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
+
+JULIET.
+Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
+
+ROMEO.
+O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do:
+They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
+
+JULIET.
+Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
+
+ROMEO.
+Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
+Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg’d.
+[_Kissing her._]
+
+JULIET.
+Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
+
+ROMEO.
+Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg’d!
+Give me my sin again.
+
+JULIET.
+You kiss by the book.
+
+NURSE.
+Madam, your mother craves a word with you.
+
+ROMEO.
+What is her mother?
+
+NURSE.
+Marry, bachelor,
+Her mother is the lady of the house,
+And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.
+I nurs’d her daughter that you talk’d withal.
+I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
+Shall have the chinks.
+
+ROMEO.
+Is she a Capulet?
+O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Away, be gone; the sport is at the best.
+
+ROMEO.
+Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.
+
+CAPULET.
+Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone,
+We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.
+Is it e’en so? Why then, I thank you all;
+I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.
+More torches here! Come on then, let’s to bed.
+Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late,
+I’ll to my rest.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Juliet and Nurse._]
+
+JULIET.
+Come hither, Nurse. What is yond gentleman?
+
+NURSE.
+The son and heir of old Tiberio.
+
+JULIET.
+What’s he that now is going out of door?
+
+NURSE.
+Marry, that I think be young Petruchio.
+
+JULIET.
+What’s he that follows here, that would not dance?
+
+NURSE.
+I know not.
+
+JULIET.
+Go ask his name. If he be married,
+My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
+
+NURSE.
+His name is Romeo, and a Montague,
+The only son of your great enemy.
+
+JULIET.
+My only love sprung from my only hate!
+Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
+Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
+That I must love a loathed enemy.
+
+NURSE.
+What’s this? What’s this?
+
+JULIET.
+A rhyme I learn’d even now
+Of one I danc’d withal.
+
+ [_One calls within, ‘Juliet’._]
+
+NURSE.
+Anon, anon!
+Come let’s away, the strangers all are gone.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+
+ Enter Chorus.
+
+CHORUS.
+Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
+And young affection gapes to be his heir;
+That fair for which love groan’d for and would die,
+With tender Juliet match’d, is now not fair.
+Now Romeo is belov’d, and loves again,
+Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;
+But to his foe suppos’d he must complain,
+And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks:
+Being held a foe, he may not have access
+To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;
+And she as much in love, her means much less
+To meet her new beloved anywhere.
+But passion lends them power, time means, to meet,
+Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE I. An open place adjoining Capulet’s Garden.
+
+ Enter Romeo.
+
+ROMEO.
+Can I go forward when my heart is here?
+Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
+
+ [_He climbs the wall and leaps down within it._]
+
+ Enter Benvolio and Mercutio.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Romeo! My cousin Romeo! Romeo!
+
+MERCUTIO.
+He is wise,
+And on my life hath stol’n him home to bed.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+He ran this way, and leap’d this orchard wall:
+Call, good Mercutio.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Nay, I’ll conjure too.
+Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover!
+Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh,
+Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;
+Cry but ‘Ah me!’ Pronounce but Love and dove;
+Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
+One nickname for her purblind son and heir,
+Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so trim
+When King Cophetua lov’d the beggar-maid.
+He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;
+The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.
+I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes,
+By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
+By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,
+And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
+That in thy likeness thou appear to us.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+This cannot anger him. ’Twould anger him
+To raise a spirit in his mistress’ circle,
+Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
+Till she had laid it, and conjur’d it down;
+That were some spite. My invocation
+Is fair and honest, and, in his mistress’ name,
+I conjure only but to raise up him.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Come, he hath hid himself among these trees
+To be consorted with the humorous night.
+Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
+Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
+And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
+As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.
+O Romeo, that she were, O that she were
+An open-arse and thou a poperin pear!
+Romeo, good night. I’ll to my truckle-bed.
+This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep.
+Come, shall we go?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Go then; for ’tis in vain
+To seek him here that means not to be found.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Capulet’s Garden.
+
+ Enter Romeo.
+
+ROMEO.
+He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
+
+ Juliet appears above at a window.
+
+But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
+It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
+Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon,
+Who is already sick and pale with grief,
+That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
+Be not her maid since she is envious;
+Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
+And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
+It is my lady, O it is my love!
+O, that she knew she were!
+She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
+Her eye discourses, I will answer it.
+I am too bold, ’tis not to me she speaks.
+Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
+Having some business, do entreat her eyes
+To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
+What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
+The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
+As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
+Would through the airy region stream so bright
+That birds would sing and think it were not night.
+See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
+O that I were a glove upon that hand,
+That I might touch that cheek.
+
+JULIET.
+Ay me.
+
+ROMEO.
+She speaks.
+O speak again bright angel, for thou art
+As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,
+As is a winged messenger of heaven
+Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
+Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
+When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds
+And sails upon the bosom of the air.
+
+JULIET.
+O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
+Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
+Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
+And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
+
+ROMEO.
+[_Aside._] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
+
+JULIET.
+’Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
+Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
+What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
+Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
+Belonging to a man. O be some other name.
+What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
+By any other name would smell as sweet;
+So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
+Retain that dear perfection which he owes
+Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
+And for thy name, which is no part of thee,
+Take all myself.
+
+ROMEO.
+I take thee at thy word.
+Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptis’d;
+Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
+
+JULIET.
+What man art thou that, thus bescreen’d in night
+So stumblest on my counsel?
+
+ROMEO.
+By a name
+I know not how to tell thee who I am:
+My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
+Because it is an enemy to thee.
+Had I it written, I would tear the word.
+
+JULIET.
+My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words
+Of thy tongue’s utterance, yet I know the sound.
+Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?
+
+ROMEO.
+Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike.
+
+JULIET.
+How cam’st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
+The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
+And the place death, considering who thou art,
+If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
+
+ROMEO.
+With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,
+For stony limits cannot hold love out,
+And what love can do, that dares love attempt:
+Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.
+
+JULIET.
+If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
+
+ROMEO.
+Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
+Than twenty of their swords. Look thou but sweet,
+And I am proof against their enmity.
+
+JULIET.
+I would not for the world they saw thee here.
+
+ROMEO.
+I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes,
+And but thou love me, let them find me here.
+My life were better ended by their hate
+Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.
+
+JULIET.
+By whose direction found’st thou out this place?
+
+ROMEO.
+By love, that first did prompt me to enquire;
+He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes.
+I am no pilot; yet wert thou as far
+As that vast shore wash’d with the farthest sea,
+I should adventure for such merchandise.
+
+JULIET.
+Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face,
+Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
+For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight.
+Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
+What I have spoke; but farewell compliment.
+Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say Ay,
+And I will take thy word. Yet, if thou swear’st,
+Thou mayst prove false. At lovers’ perjuries,
+They say Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
+If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.
+Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won,
+I’ll frown and be perverse, and say thee nay,
+So thou wilt woo. But else, not for the world.
+In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond;
+And therefore thou mayst think my ’haviour light:
+But trust me, gentleman, I’ll prove more true
+Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
+I should have been more strange, I must confess,
+But that thou overheard’st, ere I was ’ware,
+My true-love passion; therefore pardon me,
+And not impute this yielding to light love,
+Which the dark night hath so discovered.
+
+ROMEO.
+Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow,
+That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops,—
+
+JULIET.
+O swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon,
+That monthly changes in her circled orb,
+Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
+
+ROMEO.
+What shall I swear by?
+
+JULIET.
+Do not swear at all.
+Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
+Which is the god of my idolatry,
+And I’ll believe thee.
+
+ROMEO.
+If my heart’s dear love,—
+
+JULIET.
+Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,
+I have no joy of this contract tonight;
+It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden,
+Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
+Ere one can say “It lightens.” Sweet, good night.
+This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
+May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
+Good night, good night. As sweet repose and rest
+Come to thy heart as that within my breast.
+
+ROMEO.
+O wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
+
+JULIET.
+What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?
+
+ROMEO.
+Th’exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.
+
+JULIET.
+I gave thee mine before thou didst request it;
+And yet I would it were to give again.
+
+ROMEO.
+Would’st thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love?
+
+JULIET.
+But to be frank and give it thee again.
+And yet I wish but for the thing I have;
+My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
+My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
+The more I have, for both are infinite.
+I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu.
+[_Nurse calls within._]
+Anon, good Nurse!—Sweet Montague be true.
+Stay but a little, I will come again.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ROMEO.
+O blessed, blessed night. I am afeard,
+Being in night, all this is but a dream,
+Too flattering sweet to be substantial.
+
+ Enter Juliet above.
+
+JULIET.
+Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.
+If that thy bent of love be honourable,
+Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,
+By one that I’ll procure to come to thee,
+Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,
+And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay
+And follow thee my lord throughout the world.
+
+NURSE.
+[_Within._] Madam.
+
+JULIET.
+I come, anon.— But if thou meanest not well,
+I do beseech thee,—
+
+NURSE.
+[_Within._] Madam.
+
+JULIET.
+By and by I come—
+To cease thy strife and leave me to my grief.
+Tomorrow will I send.
+
+ROMEO.
+So thrive my soul,—
+
+JULIET.
+A thousand times good night.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ROMEO.
+A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.
+Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
+But love from love, towards school with heavy looks.
+
+ [_Retiring slowly._]
+
+ Re-enter Juliet, above.
+
+JULIET.
+Hist! Romeo, hist! O for a falconer’s voice
+To lure this tassel-gentle back again.
+Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud,
+Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
+And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine
+With repetition of my Romeo’s name.
+
+ROMEO.
+It is my soul that calls upon my name.
+How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
+Like softest music to attending ears.
+
+JULIET.
+Romeo.
+
+ROMEO.
+My nyas?
+
+JULIET.
+What o’clock tomorrow
+Shall I send to thee?
+
+ROMEO.
+By the hour of nine.
+
+JULIET.
+I will not fail. ’Tis twenty years till then.
+I have forgot why I did call thee back.
+
+ROMEO.
+Let me stand here till thou remember it.
+
+JULIET.
+I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
+Remembering how I love thy company.
+
+ROMEO.
+And I’ll still stay, to have thee still forget,
+Forgetting any other home but this.
+
+JULIET.
+’Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone,
+And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird,
+That lets it hop a little from her hand,
+Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
+And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
+So loving-jealous of his liberty.
+
+ROMEO.
+I would I were thy bird.
+
+JULIET.
+Sweet, so would I:
+Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
+Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow
+That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ROMEO.
+Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast.
+Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.
+Hence will I to my ghostly Sire’s cell,
+His help to crave and my dear hap to tell.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
+
+ Enter Friar Lawrence with a basket.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night,
+Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light;
+And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels
+From forth day’s pathway, made by Titan’s fiery wheels
+Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
+The day to cheer, and night’s dank dew to dry,
+I must upfill this osier cage of ours
+With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
+The earth that’s nature’s mother, is her tomb;
+What is her burying grave, that is her womb:
+And from her womb children of divers kind
+We sucking on her natural bosom find.
+Many for many virtues excellent,
+None but for some, and yet all different.
+O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
+In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities.
+For naught so vile that on the earth doth live
+But to the earth some special good doth give;
+Nor aught so good but, strain’d from that fair use,
+Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
+Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied,
+And vice sometime’s by action dignified.
+
+ Enter Romeo.
+
+Within the infant rind of this weak flower
+Poison hath residence, and medicine power:
+For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
+Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
+Two such opposed kings encamp them still
+In man as well as herbs,—grace and rude will;
+And where the worser is predominant,
+Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
+
+ROMEO.
+Good morrow, father.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Benedicite!
+What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
+Young son, it argues a distemper’d head
+So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed.
+Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
+And where care lodges sleep will never lie;
+But where unbruised youth with unstuff’d brain
+Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
+Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
+Thou art uprous’d with some distemperature;
+Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
+Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight.
+
+ROMEO.
+That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+God pardon sin. Wast thou with Rosaline?
+
+ROMEO.
+With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No.
+I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+That’s my good son. But where hast thou been then?
+
+ROMEO.
+I’ll tell thee ere thou ask it me again.
+I have been feasting with mine enemy,
+Where on a sudden one hath wounded me
+That’s by me wounded. Both our remedies
+Within thy help and holy physic lies.
+I bear no hatred, blessed man; for lo,
+My intercession likewise steads my foe.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;
+Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
+
+ROMEO.
+Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set
+On the fair daughter of rich Capulet.
+As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;
+And all combin’d, save what thou must combine
+By holy marriage. When, and where, and how
+We met, we woo’d, and made exchange of vow,
+I’ll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,
+That thou consent to marry us today.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here!
+Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,
+So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies
+Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
+Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
+Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
+How much salt water thrown away in waste,
+To season love, that of it doth not taste.
+The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
+Thy old groans yet ring in mine ancient ears.
+Lo here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
+Of an old tear that is not wash’d off yet.
+If ere thou wast thyself, and these woes thine,
+Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline,
+And art thou chang’d? Pronounce this sentence then,
+Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men.
+
+ROMEO.
+Thou chidd’st me oft for loving Rosaline.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.
+
+ROMEO.
+And bad’st me bury love.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Not in a grave
+To lay one in, another out to have.
+
+ROMEO.
+I pray thee chide me not, her I love now
+Doth grace for grace and love for love allow.
+The other did not so.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+O, she knew well
+Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell.
+But come young waverer, come go with me,
+In one respect I’ll thy assistant be;
+For this alliance may so happy prove,
+To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.
+
+ROMEO.
+O let us hence; I stand on sudden haste.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A Street.
+
+ Enter Benvolio and Mercutio.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Where the devil should this Romeo be? Came he not home tonight?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Not to his father’s; I spoke with his man.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, torments him so
+that he will sure run mad.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, hath sent a letter to his father’s
+house.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+A challenge, on my life.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Romeo will answer it.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Any man that can write may answer a letter.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, how he dares, being dared.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Alas poor Romeo, he is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black
+eye; run through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart
+cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft. And is he a man to encounter
+Tybalt?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Why, what is Tybalt?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+More than Prince of cats. O, he’s the courageous captain of
+compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance,
+and proportion. He rests his minim rest, one, two, and the third in
+your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a duellist, a duellist;
+a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and second cause. Ah,
+the immortal passado, the punto reverso, the hay.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+The what?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+The pox of such antic lisping, affecting phantasies; these new tuners
+of accent. By Jesu, a very good blade, a very tall man, a very good
+whore. Why, is not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should
+be thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion-mongers,
+these pardon-me’s, who stand so much on the new form that they cannot
+sit at ease on the old bench? O their bones, their bones!
+
+ Enter Romeo.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo!
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, flesh, how art thou
+fishified! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in. Laura, to
+his lady, was but a kitchen wench,—marry, she had a better love to
+berhyme her: Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gypsy; Helen and Hero hildings
+and harlots; Thisbe a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior
+Romeo, bonjour! There’s a French salutation to your French slop. You
+gave us the counterfeit fairly last night.
+
+ROMEO.
+Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+The slip sir, the slip; can you not conceive?
+
+ROMEO.
+Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great, and in such a case as
+mine a man may strain courtesy.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+That’s as much as to say, such a case as yours constrains a man to bow
+in the hams.
+
+ROMEO.
+Meaning, to curtsy.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Thou hast most kindly hit it.
+
+ROMEO.
+A most courteous exposition.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
+
+ROMEO.
+Pink for flower.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Right.
+
+ROMEO.
+Why, then is my pump well flowered.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Sure wit, follow me this jest now, till thou hast worn out thy pump,
+that when the single sole of it is worn, the jest may remain after the
+wearing, solely singular.
+
+ROMEO.
+O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness!
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint.
+
+ROMEO.
+Swits and spurs, swits and spurs; or I’ll cry a match.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done. For thou hast
+more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits, than I am sure, I have in my
+whole five. Was I with you there for the goose?
+
+ROMEO.
+Thou wast never with me for anything, when thou wast not there for the
+goose.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.
+
+ROMEO.
+Nay, good goose, bite not.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting, it is a most sharp sauce.
+
+ROMEO.
+And is it not then well served in to a sweet goose?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+O here’s a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an
+ell broad.
+
+ROMEO.
+I stretch it out for that word broad, which added to the goose, proves
+thee far and wide a broad goose.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? Now art thou
+sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as
+well as by nature. For this drivelling love is like a great natural,
+that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Stop there, stop there.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short, for I was come to the
+whole depth of my tale, and meant indeed to occupy the argument no
+longer.
+
+ Enter Nurse and Peter.
+
+ROMEO.
+Here’s goodly gear!
+A sail, a sail!
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Two, two; a shirt and a smock.
+
+NURSE.
+Peter!
+
+PETER.
+Anon.
+
+NURSE.
+My fan, Peter.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan’s the fairer face.
+
+NURSE.
+God ye good morrow, gentlemen.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+God ye good-den, fair gentlewoman.
+
+NURSE.
+Is it good-den?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+’Tis no less, I tell ye; for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the
+prick of noon.
+
+NURSE.
+Out upon you! What a man are you?
+
+ROMEO.
+One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to mar.
+
+NURSE.
+By my troth, it is well said; for himself to mar, quoth a? Gentlemen,
+can any of you tell me where I may find the young Romeo?
+
+ROMEO.
+I can tell you: but young Romeo will be older when you have found him
+than he was when you sought him. I am the youngest of that name, for
+fault of a worse.
+
+NURSE.
+You say well.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Yea, is the worst well? Very well took, i’faith; wisely, wisely.
+
+NURSE.
+If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with you.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+She will endite him to some supper.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho!
+
+ROMEO.
+What hast thou found?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something
+stale and hoar ere it be spent.
+[_Sings._]
+    An old hare hoar,
+    And an old hare hoar,
+  Is very good meat in Lent;
+    But a hare that is hoar
+    Is too much for a score
+  When it hoars ere it be spent.
+Romeo, will you come to your father’s? We’ll to dinner thither.
+
+ROMEO.
+I will follow you.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Farewell, ancient lady; farewell, lady, lady, lady.
+
+ [_Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio._]
+
+NURSE.
+I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this that was so full of his
+ropery?
+
+ROMEO.
+A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak
+more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
+
+NURSE.
+And a speak anything against me, I’ll take him down, and a were lustier
+than he is, and twenty such Jacks. And if I cannot, I’ll find those
+that shall. Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am none of
+his skains-mates.—And thou must stand by too and suffer every knave to
+use me at his pleasure!
+
+PETER.
+I saw no man use you at his pleasure; if I had, my weapon should
+quickly have been out. I warrant you, I dare draw as soon as another
+man, if I see occasion in a good quarrel, and the law on my side.
+
+NURSE.
+Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part about me quivers. Scurvy
+knave. Pray you, sir, a word: and as I told you, my young lady bid me
+enquire you out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself. But first
+let me tell ye, if ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as they
+say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as they say; for the
+gentlewoman is young. And therefore, if you should deal double with
+her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and
+very weak dealing.
+
+ROMEO. Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I protest unto
+thee,—
+
+NURSE.
+Good heart, and i’faith I will tell her as much. Lord, Lord, she will
+be a joyful woman.
+
+ROMEO.
+What wilt thou tell her, Nurse? Thou dost not mark me.
+
+NURSE.
+I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, as I take it, is a
+gentlemanlike offer.
+
+ROMEO.
+Bid her devise
+Some means to come to shrift this afternoon,
+And there she shall at Friar Lawrence’ cell
+Be shriv’d and married. Here is for thy pains.
+
+NURSE.
+No truly, sir; not a penny.
+
+ROMEO.
+Go to; I say you shall.
+
+NURSE.
+This afternoon, sir? Well, she shall be there.
+
+ROMEO.
+And stay, good Nurse, behind the abbey wall.
+Within this hour my man shall be with thee,
+And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair,
+Which to the high topgallant of my joy
+Must be my convoy in the secret night.
+Farewell, be trusty, and I’ll quit thy pains;
+Farewell; commend me to thy mistress.
+
+NURSE.
+Now God in heaven bless thee. Hark you, sir.
+
+ROMEO.
+What say’st thou, my dear Nurse?
+
+NURSE.
+Is your man secret? Did you ne’er hear say,
+Two may keep counsel, putting one away?
+
+ROMEO.
+I warrant thee my man’s as true as steel.
+
+NURSE.
+Well, sir, my mistress is the sweetest lady. Lord, Lord! When ’twas a
+little prating thing,—O, there is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that
+would fain lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief see a
+toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her sometimes, and tell her that
+Paris is the properer man, but I’ll warrant you, when I say so, she
+looks as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not rosemary and
+Romeo begin both with a letter?
+
+ROMEO.
+Ay, Nurse; what of that? Both with an R.
+
+NURSE.
+Ah, mocker! That’s the dog’s name. R is for the—no, I know it begins
+with some other letter, and she hath the prettiest sententious of it,
+of you and rosemary, that it would do you good to hear it.
+
+ROMEO.
+Commend me to thy lady.
+
+NURSE.
+Ay, a thousand times. Peter!
+
+ [_Exit Romeo._]
+
+PETER.
+Anon.
+
+NURSE.
+Before and apace.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Capulet’s Garden.
+
+ Enter Juliet.
+
+JULIET.
+The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse,
+In half an hour she promised to return.
+Perchance she cannot meet him. That’s not so.
+O, she is lame. Love’s heralds should be thoughts,
+Which ten times faster glides than the sun’s beams,
+Driving back shadows over lowering hills:
+Therefore do nimble-pinion’d doves draw love,
+And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
+Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
+Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelve
+Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
+Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
+She’d be as swift in motion as a ball;
+My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
+And his to me.
+But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
+Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
+
+ Enter Nurse and Peter.
+
+O God, she comes. O honey Nurse, what news?
+Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.
+
+NURSE.
+Peter, stay at the gate.
+
+ [_Exit Peter._]
+
+JULIET.
+Now, good sweet Nurse,—O Lord, why look’st thou sad?
+Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;
+If good, thou sham’st the music of sweet news
+By playing it to me with so sour a face.
+
+NURSE.
+I am aweary, give me leave awhile;
+Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I had!
+
+JULIET.
+I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:
+Nay come, I pray thee speak; good, good Nurse, speak.
+
+NURSE.
+Jesu, what haste? Can you not stay a while? Do you not see that I am
+out of breath?
+
+JULIET.
+How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
+To say to me that thou art out of breath?
+The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
+Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
+Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that;
+Say either, and I’ll stay the circumstance.
+Let me be satisfied, is’t good or bad?
+
+NURSE.
+Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not how to choose a man.
+Romeo? No, not he. Though his face be better than any man’s, yet his
+leg excels all men’s, and for a hand and a foot, and a body, though
+they be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare. He is not the
+flower of courtesy, but I’ll warrant him as gentle as a lamb. Go thy
+ways, wench, serve God. What, have you dined at home?
+
+JULIET.
+No, no. But all this did I know before.
+What says he of our marriage? What of that?
+
+NURSE.
+Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I!
+It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.
+My back o’ t’other side,—O my back, my back!
+Beshrew your heart for sending me about
+To catch my death with jauncing up and down.
+
+JULIET.
+I’faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.
+Sweet, sweet, sweet Nurse, tell me, what says my love?
+
+NURSE.
+Your love says like an honest gentleman,
+And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome,
+And I warrant a virtuous,—Where is your mother?
+
+JULIET.
+Where is my mother? Why, she is within.
+Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest.
+‘Your love says, like an honest gentleman,
+‘Where is your mother?’
+
+NURSE.
+O God’s lady dear,
+Are you so hot? Marry, come up, I trow.
+Is this the poultice for my aching bones?
+Henceforward do your messages yourself.
+
+JULIET.
+Here’s such a coil. Come, what says Romeo?
+
+NURSE.
+Have you got leave to go to shrift today?
+
+JULIET.
+I have.
+
+NURSE.
+Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’ cell;
+There stays a husband to make you a wife.
+Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,
+They’ll be in scarlet straight at any news.
+Hie you to church. I must another way,
+To fetch a ladder by the which your love
+Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark.
+I am the drudge, and toil in your delight;
+But you shall bear the burden soon at night.
+Go. I’ll to dinner; hie you to the cell.
+
+JULIET.
+Hie to high fortune! Honest Nurse, farewell.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
+
+ Enter Friar Lawrence and Romeo.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+So smile the heavens upon this holy act
+That after-hours with sorrow chide us not.
+
+ROMEO.
+Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can,
+It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
+That one short minute gives me in her sight.
+Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
+Then love-devouring death do what he dare,
+It is enough I may but call her mine.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+These violent delights have violent ends,
+And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,
+Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
+Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
+And in the taste confounds the appetite.
+Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;
+Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
+
+ Enter Juliet.
+
+Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot
+Will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint.
+A lover may bestride the gossamers
+That idles in the wanton summer air
+And yet not fall; so light is vanity.
+
+JULIET.
+Good even to my ghostly confessor.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.
+
+JULIET.
+As much to him, else is his thanks too much.
+
+ROMEO.
+Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
+Be heap’d like mine, and that thy skill be more
+To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
+This neighbour air, and let rich music’s tongue
+Unfold the imagin’d happiness that both
+Receive in either by this dear encounter.
+
+JULIET.
+Conceit more rich in matter than in words,
+Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
+They are but beggars that can count their worth;
+But my true love is grown to such excess,
+I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Come, come with me, and we will make short work,
+For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
+Till holy church incorporate two in one.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. A public Place.
+
+
+ Enter Mercutio, Benvolio, Page and Servants.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire:
+The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,
+And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl,
+For now these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Thou art like one of these fellows that, when he enters the confines of
+a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table, and says ‘God send me no
+need of thee!’ and by the operation of the second cup draws him on the
+drawer, when indeed there is no need.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Am I like such a fellow?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy; and as
+soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+And what to?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Nay, an there were two such, we should have none shortly, for one would
+kill the other. Thou? Why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a
+hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel
+with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou
+hast hazel eyes. What eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?
+Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy
+head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou hast
+quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath
+wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall
+out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? with
+another for tying his new shoes with an old riband? And yet thou wilt
+tutor me from quarrelling!
+
+BENVOLIO.
+And I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee
+simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+The fee simple! O simple!
+
+ Enter Tybalt and others.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+By my head, here comes the Capulets.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+By my heel, I care not.
+
+TYBALT.
+Follow me close, for I will speak to them.
+Gentlemen, good-den: a word with one of you.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something; make it a
+word and a blow.
+
+TYBALT.
+You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, and you will give me
+occasion.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Could you not take some occasion without giving?
+
+TYBALT.
+Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? And thou make minstrels of
+us, look to hear nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick, here’s
+that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort!
+
+BENVOLIO.
+We talk here in the public haunt of men.
+Either withdraw unto some private place,
+And reason coldly of your grievances,
+Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze.
+I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I.
+
+ Enter Romeo.
+
+TYBALT.
+Well, peace be with you, sir, here comes my man.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+But I’ll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery.
+Marry, go before to field, he’ll be your follower;
+Your worship in that sense may call him man.
+
+TYBALT.
+Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford
+No better term than this: Thou art a villain.
+
+ROMEO.
+Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
+Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
+To such a greeting. Villain am I none;
+Therefore farewell; I see thou know’st me not.
+
+TYBALT.
+Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries
+That thou hast done me, therefore turn and draw.
+
+ROMEO.
+I do protest I never injur’d thee,
+But love thee better than thou canst devise
+Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.
+And so good Capulet, which name I tender
+As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!
+[_Draws._] Alla stoccata carries it away.
+Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?
+
+TYBALT.
+What wouldst thou have with me?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives; that I mean to
+make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest
+of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears?
+Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.
+
+TYBALT.
+[_Drawing._] I am for you.
+
+ROMEO.
+Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Come, sir, your passado.
+
+ [_They fight._]
+
+ROMEO.
+Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.
+Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage,
+Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath
+Forbid this bandying in Verona streets.
+Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio!
+
+ [_Exeunt Tybalt with his Partizans._]
+
+MERCUTIO.
+I am hurt.
+A plague o’ both your houses. I am sped.
+Is he gone, and hath nothing?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+What, art thou hurt?
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ’tis enough.
+Where is my page? Go villain, fetch a surgeon.
+
+ [_Exit Page._]
+
+ROMEO.
+Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ’tis
+enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a
+grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ both
+your houses. Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to
+death. A braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of
+arithmetic!—Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your
+arm.
+
+ROMEO.
+I thought all for the best.
+
+MERCUTIO.
+Help me into some house, Benvolio,
+Or I shall faint. A plague o’ both your houses.
+They have made worms’ meat of me.
+I have it, and soundly too. Your houses!
+
+ [_Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio._]
+
+ROMEO.
+This gentleman, the Prince’s near ally,
+My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
+In my behalf; my reputation stain’d
+With Tybalt’s slander,—Tybalt, that an hour
+Hath been my cousin. O sweet Juliet,
+Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
+And in my temper soften’d valour’s steel.
+
+ Re-enter Benvolio.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio’s dead,
+That gallant spirit hath aspir’d the clouds,
+Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
+
+ROMEO.
+This day’s black fate on mo days doth depend;
+This but begins the woe others must end.
+
+ Re-enter Tybalt.
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.
+
+ROMEO.
+Again in triumph, and Mercutio slain?
+Away to heaven respective lenity,
+And fire-ey’d fury be my conduct now!
+Now, Tybalt, take the ‘villain’ back again
+That late thou gav’st me, for Mercutio’s soul
+Is but a little way above our heads,
+Staying for thine to keep him company.
+Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.
+
+TYBALT.
+Thou wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
+Shalt with him hence.
+
+ROMEO.
+This shall determine that.
+
+ [_They fight; Tybalt falls._]
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Romeo, away, be gone!
+The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.
+Stand not amaz’d. The Prince will doom thee death
+If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away!
+
+ROMEO.
+O, I am fortune’s fool!
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Why dost thou stay?
+
+ [_Exit Romeo._]
+
+ Enter Citizens.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Which way ran he that kill’d Mercutio?
+Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+There lies that Tybalt.
+
+FIRST CITIZEN.
+Up, sir, go with me.
+I charge thee in the Prince’s name obey.
+
+ Enter Prince, attended; Montague, Capulet, their Wives and others.
+
+PRINCE.
+Where are the vile beginners of this fray?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+O noble Prince, I can discover all
+The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.
+There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,
+That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child!
+O Prince! O husband! O, the blood is spill’d
+Of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,
+For blood of ours shed blood of Montague.
+O cousin, cousin.
+
+PRINCE.
+Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?
+
+BENVOLIO.
+Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo’s hand did slay;
+Romeo, that spoke him fair, bid him bethink
+How nice the quarrel was, and urg’d withal
+Your high displeasure. All this uttered
+With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow’d
+Could not take truce with the unruly spleen
+Of Tybalt, deaf to peace, but that he tilts
+With piercing steel at bold Mercutio’s breast,
+Who, all as hot, turns deadly point to point,
+And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
+Cold death aside, and with the other sends
+It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity
+Retorts it. Romeo he cries aloud,
+‘Hold, friends! Friends, part!’ and swifter than his tongue,
+His agile arm beats down their fatal points,
+And ’twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm
+An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life
+Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled.
+But by and by comes back to Romeo,
+Who had but newly entertain’d revenge,
+And to’t they go like lightning; for, ere I
+Could draw to part them was stout Tybalt slain;
+And as he fell did Romeo turn and fly.
+This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+He is a kinsman to the Montague.
+Affection makes him false, he speaks not true.
+Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
+And all those twenty could but kill one life.
+I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give;
+Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.
+
+PRINCE.
+Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio.
+Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Not Romeo, Prince, he was Mercutio’s friend;
+His fault concludes but what the law should end,
+The life of Tybalt.
+
+PRINCE.
+And for that offence
+Immediately we do exile him hence.
+I have an interest in your hate’s proceeding,
+My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding.
+But I’ll amerce you with so strong a fine
+That you shall all repent the loss of mine.
+I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;
+Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
+Therefore use none. Let Romeo hence in haste,
+Else, when he is found, that hour is his last.
+Bear hence this body, and attend our will.
+Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Room in Capulet’s House.
+
+ Enter Juliet.
+
+JULIET.
+Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
+Towards Phoebus’ lodging. Such a waggoner
+As Phaeton would whip you to the west
+And bring in cloudy night immediately.
+Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
+That runaway’s eyes may wink, and Romeo
+Leap to these arms, untalk’d of and unseen.
+Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
+By their own beauties: or, if love be blind,
+It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,
+Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,
+And learn me how to lose a winning match,
+Play’d for a pair of stainless maidenhoods.
+Hood my unmann’d blood, bating in my cheeks,
+With thy black mantle, till strange love, grow bold,
+Think true love acted simple modesty.
+Come, night, come Romeo; come, thou day in night;
+For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
+Whiter than new snow upon a raven’s back.
+Come gentle night, come loving black-brow’d night,
+Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,
+Take him and cut him out in little stars,
+And he will make the face of heaven so fine
+That all the world will be in love with night,
+And pay no worship to the garish sun.
+O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
+But not possess’d it; and though I am sold,
+Not yet enjoy’d. So tedious is this day
+As is the night before some festival
+To an impatient child that hath new robes
+And may not wear them. O, here comes my Nurse,
+And she brings news, and every tongue that speaks
+But Romeo’s name speaks heavenly eloquence.
+
+ Enter Nurse, with cords.
+
+Now, Nurse, what news? What hast thou there?
+The cords that Romeo bid thee fetch?
+
+NURSE.
+Ay, ay, the cords.
+
+ [_Throws them down._]
+
+JULIET.
+Ay me, what news? Why dost thou wring thy hands?
+
+NURSE.
+Ah, well-a-day, he’s dead, he’s dead, he’s dead!
+We are undone, lady, we are undone.
+Alack the day, he’s gone, he’s kill’d, he’s dead.
+
+JULIET.
+Can heaven be so envious?
+
+NURSE.
+Romeo can,
+Though heaven cannot. O Romeo, Romeo.
+Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!
+
+JULIET.
+What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus?
+This torture should be roar’d in dismal hell.
+Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but Ay,
+And that bare vowel I shall poison more
+Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.
+I am not I if there be such an I;
+Or those eyes shut that make thee answer Ay.
+If he be slain, say Ay; or if not, No.
+Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.
+
+NURSE.
+I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,
+God save the mark!—here on his manly breast.
+A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;
+Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub’d in blood,
+All in gore-blood. I swounded at the sight.
+
+JULIET.
+O, break, my heart. Poor bankrout, break at once.
+To prison, eyes; ne’er look on liberty.
+Vile earth to earth resign; end motion here,
+And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier.
+
+NURSE.
+O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had.
+O courteous Tybalt, honest gentleman!
+That ever I should live to see thee dead.
+
+JULIET.
+What storm is this that blows so contrary?
+Is Romeo slaughter’d and is Tybalt dead?
+My dearest cousin, and my dearer lord?
+Then dreadful trumpet sound the general doom,
+For who is living, if those two are gone?
+
+NURSE.
+Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished,
+Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished.
+
+JULIET.
+O God! Did Romeo’s hand shed Tybalt’s blood?
+
+NURSE.
+It did, it did; alas the day, it did.
+
+JULIET.
+O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
+Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
+Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical,
+Dove-feather’d raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
+Despised substance of divinest show!
+Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st,
+A damned saint, an honourable villain!
+O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
+When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
+In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
+Was ever book containing such vile matter
+So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
+In such a gorgeous palace.
+
+NURSE.
+There’s no trust,
+No faith, no honesty in men. All perjur’d,
+All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
+Ah, where’s my man? Give me some aqua vitae.
+These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.
+Shame come to Romeo.
+
+JULIET.
+Blister’d be thy tongue
+For such a wish! He was not born to shame.
+Upon his brow shame is asham’d to sit;
+For ’tis a throne where honour may be crown’d
+Sole monarch of the universal earth.
+O, what a beast was I to chide at him!
+
+NURSE.
+Will you speak well of him that kill’d your cousin?
+
+JULIET.
+Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
+Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
+When I thy three-hours’ wife have mangled it?
+But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
+That villain cousin would have kill’d my husband.
+Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring,
+Your tributary drops belong to woe,
+Which you mistaking offer up to joy.
+My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain,
+And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband.
+All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?
+Some word there was, worser than Tybalt’s death,
+That murder’d me. I would forget it fain,
+But O, it presses to my memory
+Like damned guilty deeds to sinners’ minds.
+Tybalt is dead, and Romeo banished.
+That ‘banished,’ that one word ‘banished,’
+Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt’s death
+Was woe enough, if it had ended there.
+Or if sour woe delights in fellowship,
+And needly will be rank’d with other griefs,
+Why follow’d not, when she said Tybalt’s dead,
+Thy father or thy mother, nay or both,
+Which modern lamentation might have mov’d?
+But with a rear-ward following Tybalt’s death,
+‘Romeo is banished’—to speak that word
+Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,
+All slain, all dead. Romeo is banished,
+There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
+In that word’s death, no words can that woe sound.
+Where is my father and my mother, Nurse?
+
+NURSE.
+Weeping and wailing over Tybalt’s corse.
+Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.
+
+JULIET.
+Wash they his wounds with tears. Mine shall be spent,
+When theirs are dry, for Romeo’s banishment.
+Take up those cords. Poor ropes, you are beguil’d,
+Both you and I; for Romeo is exil’d.
+He made you for a highway to my bed,
+But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.
+Come cords, come Nurse, I’ll to my wedding bed,
+And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead.
+
+NURSE.
+Hie to your chamber. I’ll find Romeo
+To comfort you. I wot well where he is.
+Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night.
+I’ll to him, he is hid at Lawrence’ cell.
+
+JULIET.
+O find him, give this ring to my true knight,
+And bid him come to take his last farewell.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Friar Lawrence’s cell.
+
+ Enter Friar Lawrence.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man.
+Affliction is enanmour’d of thy parts
+And thou art wedded to calamity.
+
+ Enter Romeo.
+
+ROMEO.
+Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom?
+What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,
+That I yet know not?
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Too familiar
+Is my dear son with such sour company.
+I bring thee tidings of the Prince’s doom.
+
+ROMEO.
+What less than doomsday is the Prince’s doom?
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+A gentler judgment vanish’d from his lips,
+Not body’s death, but body’s banishment.
+
+ROMEO.
+Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say death;
+For exile hath more terror in his look,
+Much more than death. Do not say banishment.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Hence from Verona art thou banished.
+Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
+
+ROMEO.
+There is no world without Verona walls,
+But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
+Hence banished is banish’d from the world,
+And world’s exile is death. Then banished
+Is death misterm’d. Calling death banished,
+Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden axe,
+And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+O deadly sin, O rude unthankfulness!
+Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince,
+Taking thy part, hath brush’d aside the law,
+And turn’d that black word death to banishment.
+This is dear mercy, and thou see’st it not.
+
+ROMEO.
+’Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here
+Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog,
+And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
+Live here in heaven and may look on her,
+But Romeo may not. More validity,
+More honourable state, more courtship lives
+In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize
+On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand,
+And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
+Who, even in pure and vestal modesty
+Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
+But Romeo may not, he is banished.
+This may flies do, when I from this must fly.
+They are free men but I am banished.
+And say’st thou yet that exile is not death?
+Hadst thou no poison mix’d, no sharp-ground knife,
+No sudden mean of death, though ne’er so mean,
+But banished to kill me? Banished?
+O Friar, the damned use that word in hell.
+Howling attends it. How hast thou the heart,
+Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
+A sin-absolver, and my friend profess’d,
+To mangle me with that word banished?
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Thou fond mad man, hear me speak a little,
+
+ROMEO.
+O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+I’ll give thee armour to keep off that word,
+Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy,
+To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
+
+ROMEO.
+Yet banished? Hang up philosophy.
+Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
+Displant a town, reverse a Prince’s doom,
+It helps not, it prevails not, talk no more.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+O, then I see that mad men have no ears.
+
+ROMEO.
+How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.
+
+ROMEO.
+Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel.
+Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
+An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,
+Doting like me, and like me banished,
+Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,
+And fall upon the ground as I do now,
+Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
+
+ [_Knocking within._]
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Arise; one knocks. Good Romeo, hide thyself.
+
+ROMEO.
+Not I, unless the breath of heartsick groans
+Mist-like infold me from the search of eyes.
+
+ [_Knocking._]
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Hark, how they knock!—Who’s there?—Romeo, arise,
+Thou wilt be taken.—Stay awhile.—Stand up.
+
+ [_Knocking._]
+
+Run to my study.—By-and-by.—God’s will,
+What simpleness is this.—I come, I come.
+
+ [_Knocking._]
+
+Who knocks so hard? Whence come you, what’s your will?
+
+NURSE.
+[_Within._] Let me come in, and you shall know my errand.
+I come from Lady Juliet.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Welcome then.
+
+ Enter Nurse.
+
+NURSE.
+O holy Friar, O, tell me, holy Friar,
+Where is my lady’s lord, where’s Romeo?
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.
+
+NURSE.
+O, he is even in my mistress’ case.
+Just in her case! O woeful sympathy!
+Piteous predicament. Even so lies she,
+Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.
+Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man.
+For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand.
+Why should you fall into so deep an O?
+
+ROMEO.
+Nurse.
+
+NURSE.
+Ah sir, ah sir, death’s the end of all.
+
+ROMEO.
+Spakest thou of Juliet? How is it with her?
+Doth not she think me an old murderer,
+Now I have stain’d the childhood of our joy
+With blood remov’d but little from her own?
+Where is she? And how doth she? And what says
+My conceal’d lady to our cancell’d love?
+
+NURSE.
+O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps;
+And now falls on her bed, and then starts up,
+And Tybalt calls, and then on Romeo cries,
+And then down falls again.
+
+ROMEO.
+As if that name,
+Shot from the deadly level of a gun,
+Did murder her, as that name’s cursed hand
+Murder’d her kinsman. O, tell me, Friar, tell me,
+In what vile part of this anatomy
+Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack
+The hateful mansion.
+
+ [_Drawing his sword._]
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Hold thy desperate hand.
+Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art.
+Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote
+The unreasonable fury of a beast.
+Unseemly woman in a seeming man,
+And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
+Thou hast amaz’d me. By my holy order,
+I thought thy disposition better temper’d.
+Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself?
+And slay thy lady, that in thy life lives,
+By doing damned hate upon thyself?
+Why rail’st thou on thy birth, the heaven and earth?
+Since birth, and heaven and earth, all three do meet
+In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose.
+Fie, fie, thou sham’st thy shape, thy love, thy wit,
+Which, like a usurer, abound’st in all,
+And usest none in that true use indeed
+Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit.
+Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,
+Digressing from the valour of a man;
+Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,
+Killing that love which thou hast vow’d to cherish;
+Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
+Misshapen in the conduct of them both,
+Like powder in a skilless soldier’s flask,
+Is set afire by thine own ignorance,
+And thou dismember’d with thine own defence.
+What, rouse thee, man. Thy Juliet is alive,
+For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead.
+There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,
+But thou slew’st Tybalt; there art thou happy.
+The law that threaten’d death becomes thy friend,
+And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
+A pack of blessings light upon thy back;
+Happiness courts thee in her best array;
+But like a misshaped and sullen wench,
+Thou putt’st up thy Fortune and thy love.
+Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
+Go, get thee to thy love as was decreed,
+Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her.
+But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
+For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;
+Where thou shalt live till we can find a time
+To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
+Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back
+With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
+Than thou went’st forth in lamentation.
+Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady,
+And bid her hasten all the house to bed,
+Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.
+Romeo is coming.
+
+NURSE.
+O Lord, I could have stay’d here all the night
+To hear good counsel. O, what learning is!
+My lord, I’ll tell my lady you will come.
+
+ROMEO.
+Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.
+
+NURSE.
+Here sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir.
+Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ROMEO.
+How well my comfort is reviv’d by this.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Go hence, good night, and here stands all your state:
+Either be gone before the watch be set,
+Or by the break of day disguis’d from hence.
+Sojourn in Mantua. I’ll find out your man,
+And he shall signify from time to time
+Every good hap to you that chances here.
+Give me thy hand; ’tis late; farewell; good night.
+
+ROMEO.
+But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
+It were a grief so brief to part with thee.
+Farewell.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A Room in Capulet’s House.
+
+ Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet and Paris.
+
+CAPULET.
+Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckily
+That we have had no time to move our daughter.
+Look you, she lov’d her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
+And so did I. Well, we were born to die.
+’Tis very late; she’ll not come down tonight.
+I promise you, but for your company,
+I would have been abed an hour ago.
+
+PARIS.
+These times of woe afford no tune to woo.
+Madam, good night. Commend me to your daughter.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+I will, and know her mind early tomorrow;
+Tonight she’s mew’d up to her heaviness.
+
+CAPULET.
+Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
+Of my child’s love. I think she will be rul’d
+In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.
+Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed,
+Acquaint her here of my son Paris’ love,
+And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next,
+But, soft, what day is this?
+
+PARIS.
+Monday, my lord.
+
+CAPULET.
+Monday! Ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,
+A Thursday let it be; a Thursday, tell her,
+She shall be married to this noble earl.
+Will you be ready? Do you like this haste?
+We’ll keep no great ado,—a friend or two,
+For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
+It may be thought we held him carelessly,
+Being our kinsman, if we revel much.
+Therefore we’ll have some half a dozen friends,
+And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?
+
+PARIS.
+My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.
+
+CAPULET.
+Well, get you gone. A Thursday be it then.
+Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,
+Prepare her, wife, against this wedding day.
+Farewell, my lord.—Light to my chamber, ho!
+Afore me, it is so very very late that we
+May call it early by and by. Good night.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. An open Gallery to Juliet’s Chamber, overlooking the Garden.
+
+ Enter Romeo and Juliet.
+
+JULIET.
+Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.
+It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
+That pierc’d the fearful hollow of thine ear;
+Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree.
+Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
+
+ROMEO.
+It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
+No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks
+Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
+Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
+Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
+I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
+
+JULIET.
+Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I.
+It is some meteor that the sun exhales
+To be to thee this night a torchbearer
+And light thee on thy way to Mantua.
+Therefore stay yet, thou need’st not to be gone.
+
+ROMEO.
+Let me be ta’en, let me be put to death,
+I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
+I’ll say yon grey is not the morning’s eye,
+’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow.
+Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat
+The vaulty heaven so high above our heads.
+I have more care to stay than will to go.
+Come, death, and welcome. Juliet wills it so.
+How is’t, my soul? Let’s talk. It is not day.
+
+JULIET.
+It is, it is! Hie hence, be gone, away.
+It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
+Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
+Some say the lark makes sweet division;
+This doth not so, for she divideth us.
+Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes.
+O, now I would they had chang’d voices too,
+Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,
+Hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day.
+O now be gone, more light and light it grows.
+
+ROMEO.
+More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.
+
+ Enter Nurse.
+
+NURSE.
+Madam.
+
+JULIET.
+Nurse?
+
+NURSE.
+Your lady mother is coming to your chamber.
+The day is broke, be wary, look about.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+JULIET.
+Then, window, let day in, and let life out.
+
+ROMEO.
+Farewell, farewell, one kiss, and I’ll descend.
+
+ [_Descends._]
+
+JULIET.
+Art thou gone so? Love, lord, ay husband, friend,
+I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
+For in a minute there are many days.
+O, by this count I shall be much in years
+Ere I again behold my Romeo.
+
+ROMEO.
+Farewell!
+I will omit no opportunity
+That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
+
+JULIET.
+O thinkest thou we shall ever meet again?
+
+ROMEO.
+I doubt it not, and all these woes shall serve
+For sweet discourses in our time to come.
+
+JULIET.
+O God! I have an ill-divining soul!
+Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,
+As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
+Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.
+
+ROMEO.
+And trust me, love, in my eye so do you.
+Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu.
+
+ [_Exit below._]
+
+JULIET.
+O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle,
+If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him
+That is renown’d for faith? Be fickle, Fortune;
+For then, I hope thou wilt not keep him long
+But send him back.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+[_Within._] Ho, daughter, are you up?
+
+JULIET.
+Who is’t that calls? Is it my lady mother?
+Is she not down so late, or up so early?
+What unaccustom’d cause procures her hither?
+
+ Enter Lady Capulet.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Why, how now, Juliet?
+
+JULIET.
+Madam, I am not well.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death?
+What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?
+And if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live.
+Therefore have done: some grief shows much of love,
+But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
+
+JULIET.
+Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend
+Which you weep for.
+
+JULIET.
+Feeling so the loss,
+I cannot choose but ever weep the friend.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his death
+As that the villain lives which slaughter’d him.
+
+JULIET.
+What villain, madam?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+That same villain Romeo.
+
+JULIET.
+Villain and he be many miles asunder.
+God pardon him. I do, with all my heart.
+And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+That is because the traitor murderer lives.
+
+JULIET.
+Ay madam, from the reach of these my hands.
+Would none but I might venge my cousin’s death.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not.
+Then weep no more. I’ll send to one in Mantua,
+Where that same banish’d runagate doth live,
+Shall give him such an unaccustom’d dram
+That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:
+And then I hope thou wilt be satisfied.
+
+JULIET.
+Indeed I never shall be satisfied
+With Romeo till I behold him—dead—
+Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex’d.
+Madam, if you could find out but a man
+To bear a poison, I would temper it,
+That Romeo should upon receipt thereof,
+Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
+To hear him nam’d, and cannot come to him,
+To wreak the love I bore my cousin
+Upon his body that hath slaughter’d him.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Find thou the means, and I’ll find such a man.
+But now I’ll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.
+
+JULIET.
+And joy comes well in such a needy time.
+What are they, I beseech your ladyship?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;
+One who to put thee from thy heaviness,
+Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,
+That thou expects not, nor I look’d not for.
+
+JULIET.
+Madam, in happy time, what day is that?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn
+The gallant, young, and noble gentleman,
+The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church,
+Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.
+
+JULIET.
+Now by Saint Peter’s Church, and Peter too,
+He shall not make me there a joyful bride.
+I wonder at this haste, that I must wed
+Ere he that should be husband comes to woo.
+I pray you tell my lord and father, madam,
+I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear
+It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,
+Rather than Paris. These are news indeed.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Here comes your father, tell him so yourself,
+And see how he will take it at your hands.
+
+ Enter Capulet and Nurse.
+
+CAPULET.
+When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;
+But for the sunset of my brother’s son
+It rains downright.
+How now? A conduit, girl? What, still in tears?
+Evermore showering? In one little body
+Thou counterfeits a bark, a sea, a wind.
+For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
+Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,
+Sailing in this salt flood, the winds, thy sighs,
+Who raging with thy tears and they with them,
+Without a sudden calm will overset
+Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife?
+Have you deliver’d to her our decree?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.
+I would the fool were married to her grave.
+
+CAPULET.
+Soft. Take me with you, take me with you, wife.
+How, will she none? Doth she not give us thanks?
+Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blest,
+Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
+So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?
+
+JULIET.
+Not proud you have, but thankful that you have.
+Proud can I never be of what I hate;
+But thankful even for hate that is meant love.
+
+CAPULET.
+How now, how now, chopp’d logic? What is this?
+Proud, and, I thank you, and I thank you not;
+And yet not proud. Mistress minion you,
+Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,
+But fettle your fine joints ’gainst Thursday next
+To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church,
+Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.
+Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage!
+You tallow-face!
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Fie, fie! What, are you mad?
+
+JULIET.
+Good father, I beseech you on my knees,
+Hear me with patience but to speak a word.
+
+CAPULET.
+Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch!
+I tell thee what,—get thee to church a Thursday,
+Or never after look me in the face.
+Speak not, reply not, do not answer me.
+My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest
+That God had lent us but this only child;
+But now I see this one is one too much,
+And that we have a curse in having her.
+Out on her, hilding.
+
+NURSE.
+God in heaven bless her.
+You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.
+
+CAPULET.
+And why, my lady wisdom? Hold your tongue,
+Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.
+
+NURSE.
+I speak no treason.
+
+CAPULET.
+O God ye good-en!
+
+NURSE.
+May not one speak?
+
+CAPULET.
+Peace, you mumbling fool!
+Utter your gravity o’er a gossip’s bowl,
+For here we need it not.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+You are too hot.
+
+CAPULET.
+God’s bread, it makes me mad!
+Day, night, hour, ride, time, work, play,
+Alone, in company, still my care hath been
+To have her match’d, and having now provided
+A gentleman of noble parentage,
+Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly allied,
+Stuff’d, as they say, with honourable parts,
+Proportion’d as one’s thought would wish a man,
+And then to have a wretched puling fool,
+A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender,
+To answer, ‘I’ll not wed, I cannot love,
+I am too young, I pray you pardon me.’
+But, and you will not wed, I’ll pardon you.
+Graze where you will, you shall not house with me.
+Look to’t, think on’t, I do not use to jest.
+Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise.
+And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend;
+And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,
+For by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,
+Nor what is mine shall never do thee good.
+Trust to’t, bethink you, I’ll not be forsworn.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+JULIET.
+Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
+That sees into the bottom of my grief?
+O sweet my mother, cast me not away,
+Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
+Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
+In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word.
+Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+JULIET.
+O God! O Nurse, how shall this be prevented?
+My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven.
+How shall that faith return again to earth,
+Unless that husband send it me from heaven
+By leaving earth? Comfort me, counsel me.
+Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems
+Upon so soft a subject as myself.
+What say’st thou? Hast thou not a word of joy?
+Some comfort, Nurse.
+
+NURSE.
+Faith, here it is.
+Romeo is banished; and all the world to nothing
+That he dares ne’er come back to challenge you.
+Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth.
+Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
+I think it best you married with the County.
+O, he’s a lovely gentleman.
+Romeo’s a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam,
+Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye
+As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,
+I think you are happy in this second match,
+For it excels your first: or if it did not,
+Your first is dead, or ’twere as good he were,
+As living here and you no use of him.
+
+JULIET.
+Speakest thou from thy heart?
+
+NURSE.
+And from my soul too,
+Or else beshrew them both.
+
+JULIET.
+Amen.
+
+NURSE.
+What?
+
+JULIET.
+Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.
+Go in, and tell my lady I am gone,
+Having displeas’d my father, to Lawrence’ cell,
+To make confession and to be absolv’d.
+
+NURSE.
+Marry, I will; and this is wisely done.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+JULIET.
+Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!
+Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,
+Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
+Which she hath prais’d him with above compare
+So many thousand times? Go, counsellor.
+Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.
+I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy.
+If all else fail, myself have power to die.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
+
+
+ Enter Friar Lawrence and Paris.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+On Thursday, sir? The time is very short.
+
+PARIS.
+My father Capulet will have it so;
+And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+You say you do not know the lady’s mind.
+Uneven is the course; I like it not.
+
+PARIS.
+Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,
+And therefore have I little talk’d of love;
+For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
+Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
+That she do give her sorrow so much sway;
+And in his wisdom, hastes our marriage,
+To stop the inundation of her tears,
+Which, too much minded by herself alone,
+May be put from her by society.
+Now do you know the reason of this haste.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+[_Aside._] I would I knew not why it should be slow’d.—
+Look, sir, here comes the lady toward my cell.
+
+ Enter Juliet.
+
+PARIS.
+Happily met, my lady and my wife!
+
+JULIET.
+That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.
+
+PARIS.
+That may be, must be, love, on Thursday next.
+
+JULIET.
+What must be shall be.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+That’s a certain text.
+
+PARIS.
+Come you to make confession to this father?
+
+JULIET.
+To answer that, I should confess to you.
+
+PARIS.
+Do not deny to him that you love me.
+
+JULIET.
+I will confess to you that I love him.
+
+PARIS.
+So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.
+
+JULIET.
+If I do so, it will be of more price,
+Being spoke behind your back than to your face.
+
+PARIS.
+Poor soul, thy face is much abus’d with tears.
+
+JULIET.
+The tears have got small victory by that;
+For it was bad enough before their spite.
+
+PARIS.
+Thou wrong’st it more than tears with that report.
+
+JULIET.
+That is no slander, sir, which is a truth,
+And what I spake, I spake it to my face.
+
+PARIS.
+Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander’d it.
+
+JULIET.
+It may be so, for it is not mine own.
+Are you at leisure, holy father, now,
+Or shall I come to you at evening mass?
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.—
+My lord, we must entreat the time alone.
+
+PARIS.
+God shield I should disturb devotion!—
+Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye,
+Till then, adieu; and keep this holy kiss.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+JULIET.
+O shut the door, and when thou hast done so,
+Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help!
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+O Juliet, I already know thy grief;
+It strains me past the compass of my wits.
+I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,
+On Thursday next be married to this County.
+
+JULIET.
+Tell me not, Friar, that thou hear’st of this,
+Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it.
+If in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,
+Do thou but call my resolution wise,
+And with this knife I’ll help it presently.
+God join’d my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands;
+And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo’s seal’d,
+Shall be the label to another deed,
+Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
+Turn to another, this shall slay them both.
+Therefore, out of thy long-experienc’d time,
+Give me some present counsel, or behold
+’Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
+Shall play the empire, arbitrating that
+Which the commission of thy years and art
+Could to no issue of true honour bring.
+Be not so long to speak. I long to die,
+If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,
+Which craves as desperate an execution
+As that is desperate which we would prevent.
+If, rather than to marry County Paris
+Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
+Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
+A thing like death to chide away this shame,
+That cop’st with death himself to scape from it.
+And if thou dar’st, I’ll give thee remedy.
+
+JULIET.
+O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
+From off the battlements of yonder tower,
+Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk
+Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears;
+Or hide me nightly in a charnel-house,
+O’er-cover’d quite with dead men’s rattling bones,
+With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls.
+Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
+And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
+Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble,
+And I will do it without fear or doubt,
+To live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Hold then. Go home, be merry, give consent
+To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow;
+Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone,
+Let not thy Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
+Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
+And this distilled liquor drink thou off,
+When presently through all thy veins shall run
+A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse
+Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
+No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest,
+The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
+To paly ashes; thy eyes’ windows fall,
+Like death when he shuts up the day of life.
+Each part depriv’d of supple government,
+Shall stiff and stark and cold appear like death.
+And in this borrow’d likeness of shrunk death
+Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
+And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
+Now when the bridegroom in the morning comes
+To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.
+Then as the manner of our country is,
+In thy best robes, uncover’d, on the bier,
+Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
+Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
+In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,
+Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,
+And hither shall he come, and he and I
+Will watch thy waking, and that very night
+Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
+And this shall free thee from this present shame,
+If no inconstant toy nor womanish fear
+Abate thy valour in the acting it.
+
+JULIET.
+Give me, give me! O tell not me of fear!
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous
+In this resolve. I’ll send a friar with speed
+To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.
+
+JULIET.
+Love give me strength, and strength shall help afford.
+Farewell, dear father.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Hall in Capulet’s House.
+
+ Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse and Servants.
+
+CAPULET.
+So many guests invite as here are writ.
+
+ [_Exit first Servant._]
+
+Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+You shall have none ill, sir; for I’ll try if they can lick their
+fingers.
+
+CAPULET.
+How canst thou try them so?
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+Marry, sir, ’tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers;
+therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me.
+
+CAPULET.
+Go, begone.
+
+ [_Exit second Servant._]
+
+We shall be much unfurnish’d for this time.
+What, is my daughter gone to Friar Lawrence?
+
+NURSE.
+Ay, forsooth.
+
+CAPULET.
+Well, he may chance to do some good on her.
+A peevish self-will’d harlotry it is.
+
+ Enter Juliet.
+
+NURSE.
+See where she comes from shrift with merry look.
+
+CAPULET.
+How now, my headstrong. Where have you been gadding?
+
+JULIET.
+Where I have learnt me to repent the sin
+Of disobedient opposition
+To you and your behests; and am enjoin’d
+By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here,
+To beg your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you.
+Henceforward I am ever rul’d by you.
+
+CAPULET.
+Send for the County, go tell him of this.
+I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning.
+
+JULIET.
+I met the youthful lord at Lawrence’ cell,
+And gave him what becomed love I might,
+Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty.
+
+CAPULET.
+Why, I am glad on’t. This is well. Stand up.
+This is as’t should be. Let me see the County.
+Ay, marry. Go, I say, and fetch him hither.
+Now afore God, this reverend holy Friar,
+All our whole city is much bound to him.
+
+JULIET.
+Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,
+To help me sort such needful ornaments
+As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+No, not till Thursday. There is time enough.
+
+CAPULET.
+Go, Nurse, go with her. We’ll to church tomorrow.
+
+ [_Exeunt Juliet and Nurse._]
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+We shall be short in our provision,
+’Tis now near night.
+
+CAPULET.
+Tush, I will stir about,
+And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife.
+Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her.
+I’ll not to bed tonight, let me alone.
+I’ll play the housewife for this once.—What, ho!—
+They are all forth: well, I will walk myself
+To County Paris, to prepare him up
+Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous light
+Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim’d.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Juliet’s Chamber.
+
+ Enter Juliet and Nurse.
+
+JULIET.
+Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle Nurse,
+I pray thee leave me to myself tonight;
+For I have need of many orisons
+To move the heavens to smile upon my state,
+Which, well thou know’st, is cross and full of sin.
+
+ Enter Lady Capulet.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help?
+
+JULIET.
+No, madam; we have cull’d such necessaries
+As are behoveful for our state tomorrow.
+So please you, let me now be left alone,
+And let the nurse this night sit up with you,
+For I am sure you have your hands full all
+In this so sudden business.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Good night.
+Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse._]
+
+JULIET.
+Farewell. God knows when we shall meet again.
+I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
+That almost freezes up the heat of life.
+I’ll call them back again to comfort me.
+Nurse!—What should she do here?
+My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
+Come, vial.
+What if this mixture do not work at all?
+Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?
+No, No! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there.
+
+ [_Laying down her dagger._]
+
+What if it be a poison, which the Friar
+Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead,
+Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d,
+Because he married me before to Romeo?
+I fear it is. And yet methinks it should not,
+For he hath still been tried a holy man.
+How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
+I wake before the time that Romeo
+Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point!
+Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
+To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
+And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
+Or, if I live, is it not very like,
+The horrible conceit of death and night,
+Together with the terror of the place,
+As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
+Where for this many hundred years the bones
+Of all my buried ancestors are pack’d,
+Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
+Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
+At some hours in the night spirits resort—
+Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
+So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
+And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,
+That living mortals, hearing them, run mad.
+O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
+Environed with all these hideous fears,
+And madly play with my forefathers’ joints?
+And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?
+And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone,
+As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
+O look, methinks I see my cousin’s ghost
+Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body
+Upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay!
+Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here’s drink! I drink to thee.
+
+ [_Throws herself on the bed._]
+
+SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet’s House.
+
+ Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.
+
+NURSE.
+They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
+
+ Enter Capulet.
+
+CAPULET.
+Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crow’d,
+The curfew bell hath rung, ’tis three o’clock.
+Look to the bak’d meats, good Angelica;
+Spare not for cost.
+
+NURSE.
+Go, you cot-quean, go,
+Get you to bed; faith, you’ll be sick tomorrow
+For this night’s watching.
+
+CAPULET.
+No, not a whit. What! I have watch’d ere now
+All night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;
+But I will watch you from such watching now.
+
+ [_Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse._]
+
+CAPULET.
+A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood!
+
+ Enter Servants, with spits, logs and baskets.
+
+Now, fellow, what’s there?
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.
+
+CAPULET.
+Make haste, make haste.
+
+ [_Exit First Servant._]
+
+—Sirrah, fetch drier logs.
+Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+I have a head, sir, that will find out logs
+And never trouble Peter for the matter.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CAPULET.
+Mass and well said; a merry whoreson, ha.
+Thou shalt be loggerhead.—Good faith, ’tis day.
+The County will be here with music straight,
+For so he said he would. I hear him near.
+
+ [_Play music._]
+
+Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say!
+
+ Re-enter Nurse.
+
+Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up.
+I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,
+Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already.
+Make haste I say.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Juliet’s Chamber; Juliet on the bed.
+
+ Enter Nurse.
+
+NURSE.
+Mistress! What, mistress! Juliet! Fast, I warrant her, she.
+Why, lamb, why, lady, fie, you slug-abed!
+Why, love, I say! Madam! Sweetheart! Why, bride!
+What, not a word? You take your pennyworths now.
+Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant,
+The County Paris hath set up his rest
+That you shall rest but little. God forgive me!
+Marry and amen. How sound is she asleep!
+I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam!
+Ay, let the County take you in your bed,
+He’ll fright you up, i’faith. Will it not be?
+What, dress’d, and in your clothes, and down again?
+I must needs wake you. Lady! Lady! Lady!
+Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady’s dead!
+O, well-a-day that ever I was born.
+Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! My lady!
+
+ Enter Lady Capulet.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+What noise is here?
+
+NURSE.
+O lamentable day!
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+What is the matter?
+
+NURSE.
+Look, look! O heavy day!
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+O me, O me! My child, my only life.
+Revive, look up, or I will die with thee.
+Help, help! Call help.
+
+ Enter Capulet.
+
+CAPULET.
+For shame, bring Juliet forth, her lord is come.
+
+NURSE.
+She’s dead, deceas’d, she’s dead; alack the day!
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Alack the day, she’s dead, she’s dead, she’s dead!
+
+CAPULET.
+Ha! Let me see her. Out alas! She’s cold,
+Her blood is settled and her joints are stiff.
+Life and these lips have long been separated.
+Death lies on her like an untimely frost
+Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
+
+NURSE.
+O lamentable day!
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+O woful time!
+
+CAPULET.
+Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail,
+Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.
+
+ Enter Friar Lawrence and Paris with Musicians.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
+
+CAPULET.
+Ready to go, but never to return.
+O son, the night before thy wedding day
+Hath death lain with thy bride. There she lies,
+Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
+Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir;
+My daughter he hath wedded. I will die
+And leave him all; life, living, all is death’s.
+
+PARIS.
+Have I thought long to see this morning’s face,
+And doth it give me such a sight as this?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+Accurs’d, unhappy, wretched, hateful day.
+Most miserable hour that e’er time saw
+In lasting labour of his pilgrimage.
+But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,
+But one thing to rejoice and solace in,
+And cruel death hath catch’d it from my sight.
+
+NURSE.
+O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day.
+Most lamentable day, most woeful day
+That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
+O day, O day, O day, O hateful day.
+Never was seen so black a day as this.
+O woeful day, O woeful day.
+
+PARIS.
+Beguil’d, divorced, wronged, spited, slain.
+Most detestable death, by thee beguil’d,
+By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown.
+O love! O life! Not life, but love in death!
+
+CAPULET.
+Despis’d, distressed, hated, martyr’d, kill’d.
+Uncomfortable time, why cam’st thou now
+To murder, murder our solemnity?
+O child! O child! My soul, and not my child,
+Dead art thou. Alack, my child is dead,
+And with my child my joys are buried.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Peace, ho, for shame. Confusion’s cure lives not
+In these confusions. Heaven and yourself
+Had part in this fair maid, now heaven hath all,
+And all the better is it for the maid.
+Your part in her you could not keep from death,
+But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.
+The most you sought was her promotion,
+For ’twas your heaven she should be advanc’d,
+And weep ye now, seeing she is advanc’d
+Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
+O, in this love, you love your child so ill
+That you run mad, seeing that she is well.
+She’s not well married that lives married long,
+But she’s best married that dies married young.
+Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary
+On this fair corse, and, as the custom is,
+And in her best array bear her to church;
+For though fond nature bids us all lament,
+Yet nature’s tears are reason’s merriment.
+
+CAPULET.
+All things that we ordained festival
+Turn from their office to black funeral:
+Our instruments to melancholy bells,
+Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
+Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
+Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
+And all things change them to the contrary.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Sir, go you in, and, madam, go with him,
+And go, Sir Paris, everyone prepare
+To follow this fair corse unto her grave.
+The heavens do lower upon you for some ill;
+Move them no more by crossing their high will.
+
+ [_Exeunt Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris and Friar._]
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone.
+
+NURSE.
+Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up,
+For well you know this is a pitiful case.
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.
+
+ [_Exit Nurse._]
+
+ Enter Peter.
+
+PETER.
+Musicians, O, musicians, ‘Heart’s ease,’ ‘Heart’s ease’, O, and you
+will have me live, play ‘Heart’s ease.’
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Why ‘Heart’s ease’?
+
+PETER.
+O musicians, because my heart itself plays ‘My heart is full’. O play
+me some merry dump to comfort me.
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Not a dump we, ’tis no time to play now.
+
+PETER.
+You will not then?
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+No.
+
+PETER.
+I will then give it you soundly.
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+What will you give us?
+
+PETER.
+No money, on my faith, but the gleek! I will give you the minstrel.
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Then will I give you the serving-creature.
+
+PETER.
+Then will I lay the serving-creature’s dagger on your pate. I will
+carry no crotchets. I’ll re you, I’ll fa you. Do you note me?
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+And you re us and fa us, you note us.
+
+SECOND MUSICIAN.
+Pray you put up your dagger, and put out your wit.
+
+PETER.
+Then have at you with my wit. I will dry-beat you with an iron wit, and
+put up my iron dagger. Answer me like men.
+    ‘When griping griefs the heart doth wound,
+      And doleful dumps the mind oppress,
+    Then music with her silver sound’—
+Why ‘silver sound’? Why ‘music with her silver sound’? What say you,
+Simon Catling?
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.
+
+PETER.
+Prates. What say you, Hugh Rebeck?
+
+SECOND MUSICIAN.
+I say ‘silver sound’ because musicians sound for silver.
+
+PETER.
+Prates too! What say you, James Soundpost?
+
+THIRD MUSICIAN.
+Faith, I know not what to say.
+
+PETER.
+O, I cry you mercy, you are the singer. I will say for you. It is
+‘music with her silver sound’ because musicians have no gold for
+sounding.
+      ‘Then music with her silver sound
+      With speedy help doth lend redress.’
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FIRST MUSICIAN.
+What a pestilent knave is this same!
+
+SECOND MUSICIAN.
+Hang him, Jack. Come, we’ll in here, tarry for the mourners, and stay
+dinner.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Mantua. A Street.
+
+
+ Enter Romeo.
+
+ROMEO.
+If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep,
+My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
+My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne;
+And all this day an unaccustom’d spirit
+Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
+I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,—
+Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!—
+And breath’d such life with kisses in my lips,
+That I reviv’d, and was an emperor.
+Ah me, how sweet is love itself possess’d,
+When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy.
+
+ Enter Balthasar.
+
+News from Verona! How now, Balthasar?
+Dost thou not bring me letters from the Friar?
+How doth my lady? Is my father well?
+How fares my Juliet? That I ask again;
+For nothing can be ill if she be well.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Then she is well, and nothing can be ill.
+Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument,
+And her immortal part with angels lives.
+I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault,
+And presently took post to tell it you.
+O pardon me for bringing these ill news,
+Since you did leave it for my office, sir.
+
+ROMEO.
+Is it even so? Then I defy you, stars!
+Thou know’st my lodging. Get me ink and paper,
+And hire post-horses. I will hence tonight.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+I do beseech you sir, have patience.
+Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
+Some misadventure.
+
+ROMEO.
+Tush, thou art deceiv’d.
+Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.
+Hast thou no letters to me from the Friar?
+
+BALTHASAR.
+No, my good lord.
+
+ROMEO.
+No matter. Get thee gone,
+And hire those horses. I’ll be with thee straight.
+
+ [_Exit Balthasar._]
+
+Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
+Let’s see for means. O mischief thou art swift
+To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.
+I do remember an apothecary,—
+And hereabouts he dwells,—which late I noted
+In tatter’d weeds, with overwhelming brows,
+Culling of simples, meagre were his looks,
+Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
+And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
+An alligator stuff’d, and other skins
+Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
+A beggarly account of empty boxes,
+Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,
+Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses
+Were thinly scatter’d, to make up a show.
+Noting this penury, to myself I said,
+And if a man did need a poison now,
+Whose sale is present death in Mantua,
+Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.
+O, this same thought did but forerun my need,
+And this same needy man must sell it me.
+As I remember, this should be the house.
+Being holiday, the beggar’s shop is shut.
+What, ho! Apothecary!
+
+ Enter Apothecary.
+
+APOTHECARY.
+Who calls so loud?
+
+ROMEO.
+Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor.
+Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have
+A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
+As will disperse itself through all the veins,
+That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
+And that the trunk may be discharg’d of breath
+As violently as hasty powder fir’d
+Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.
+
+APOTHECARY.
+Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua’s law
+Is death to any he that utters them.
+
+ROMEO.
+Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
+And fear’st to die? Famine is in thy cheeks,
+Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,
+Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back.
+The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law;
+The world affords no law to make thee rich;
+Then be not poor, but break it and take this.
+
+APOTHECARY.
+My poverty, but not my will consents.
+
+ROMEO.
+I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
+
+APOTHECARY.
+Put this in any liquid thing you will
+And drink it off; and, if you had the strength
+Of twenty men, it would despatch you straight.
+
+ROMEO.
+There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
+Doing more murder in this loathsome world
+Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
+I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.
+Farewell, buy food, and get thyself in flesh.
+Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
+To Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Friar Lawrence’s Cell.
+
+ Enter Friar John.
+
+FRIAR JOHN.
+Holy Franciscan Friar! Brother, ho!
+
+ Enter Friar Lawrence.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+This same should be the voice of Friar John.
+Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo?
+Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.
+
+FRIAR JOHN.
+Going to find a barefoot brother out,
+One of our order, to associate me,
+Here in this city visiting the sick,
+And finding him, the searchers of the town,
+Suspecting that we both were in a house
+Where the infectious pestilence did reign,
+Seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth,
+So that my speed to Mantua there was stay’d.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Who bare my letter then to Romeo?
+
+FRIAR JOHN.
+I could not send it,—here it is again,—
+Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
+So fearful were they of infection.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
+The letter was not nice, but full of charge,
+Of dear import, and the neglecting it
+May do much danger. Friar John, go hence,
+Get me an iron crow and bring it straight
+Unto my cell.
+
+FRIAR JOHN.
+Brother, I’ll go and bring it thee.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Now must I to the monument alone.
+Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake.
+She will beshrew me much that Romeo
+Hath had no notice of these accidents;
+But I will write again to Mantua,
+And keep her at my cell till Romeo come.
+Poor living corse, clos’d in a dead man’s tomb.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A churchyard; in it a Monument belonging to the Capulets.
+
+ Enter Paris, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch.
+
+PARIS.
+Give me thy torch, boy. Hence and stand aloof.
+Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.
+Under yond yew tree lay thee all along,
+Holding thy ear close to the hollow ground;
+So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,
+Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
+But thou shalt hear it. Whistle then to me,
+As signal that thou hear’st something approach.
+Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.
+
+PAGE.
+[_Aside._] I am almost afraid to stand alone
+Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.
+
+ [_Retires._]
+
+PARIS.
+Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew.
+O woe, thy canopy is dust and stones,
+Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
+Or wanting that, with tears distill’d by moans.
+The obsequies that I for thee will keep,
+Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
+
+ [_The Page whistles._]
+
+The boy gives warning something doth approach.
+What cursed foot wanders this way tonight,
+To cross my obsequies and true love’s rite?
+What, with a torch! Muffle me, night, awhile.
+
+ [_Retires._]
+
+ Enter Romeo and Balthasar with a torch, mattock, &c.
+
+ROMEO.
+Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
+Hold, take this letter; early in the morning
+See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
+Give me the light; upon thy life I charge thee,
+Whate’er thou hear’st or seest, stand all aloof
+And do not interrupt me in my course.
+Why I descend into this bed of death
+Is partly to behold my lady’s face,
+But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
+A precious ring, a ring that I must use
+In dear employment. Therefore hence, be gone.
+But if thou jealous dost return to pry
+In what I further shall intend to do,
+By heaven I will tear thee joint by joint,
+And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs.
+The time and my intents are savage-wild;
+More fierce and more inexorable far
+Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.
+
+ROMEO.
+So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that.
+Live, and be prosperous, and farewell, good fellow.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+For all this same, I’ll hide me hereabout.
+His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.
+
+ [_Retires_]
+
+ROMEO.
+Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
+Gorg’d with the dearest morsel of the earth,
+Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
+
+ [_Breaking open the door of the monument._]
+
+And in despite, I’ll cram thee with more food.
+
+PARIS.
+This is that banish’d haughty Montague
+That murder’d my love’s cousin,—with which grief,
+It is supposed, the fair creature died,—
+And here is come to do some villainous shame
+To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.
+
+ [_Advances._]
+
+Stop thy unhallow’d toil, vile Montague.
+Can vengeance be pursu’d further than death?
+Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee.
+Obey, and go with me, for thou must die.
+
+ROMEO.
+I must indeed; and therefore came I hither.
+Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man.
+Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone;
+Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
+Put not another sin upon my head
+By urging me to fury. O be gone.
+By heaven I love thee better than myself;
+For I come hither arm’d against myself.
+Stay not, be gone, live, and hereafter say,
+A madman’s mercy bid thee run away.
+
+PARIS.
+I do defy thy conjuration,
+And apprehend thee for a felon here.
+
+ROMEO.
+Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy!
+
+ [_They fight._]
+
+PAGE.
+O lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PARIS.
+O, I am slain! [_Falls._] If thou be merciful,
+Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+ROMEO.
+In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.
+Mercutio’s kinsman, noble County Paris!
+What said my man, when my betossed soul
+Did not attend him as we rode? I think
+He told me Paris should have married Juliet.
+Said he not so? Or did I dream it so?
+Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
+To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
+One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book.
+I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave.
+A grave? O no, a lantern, slaught’red youth,
+For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
+This vault a feasting presence full of light.
+Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr’d.
+
+ [_Laying Paris in the monument._]
+
+How oft when men are at the point of death
+Have they been merry! Which their keepers call
+A lightning before death. O, how may I
+Call this a lightning? O my love, my wife,
+Death that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath,
+Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
+Thou art not conquer’d. Beauty’s ensign yet
+Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
+And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.
+Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
+O, what more favour can I do to thee
+Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
+To sunder his that was thine enemy?
+Forgive me, cousin. Ah, dear Juliet,
+Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
+That unsubstantial death is amorous;
+And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
+Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
+For fear of that I still will stay with thee,
+And never from this palace of dim night
+Depart again. Here, here will I remain
+With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here
+Will I set up my everlasting rest;
+And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
+From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last.
+Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
+The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
+A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
+Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide.
+Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
+The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark.
+Here’s to my love! [_Drinks._] O true apothecary!
+Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
+
+ [_Dies._]
+
+ Enter, at the other end of the Churchyard, Friar Lawrence, with a
+ lantern, crow, and spade.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Saint Francis be my speed. How oft tonight
+Have my old feet stumbled at graves? Who’s there?
+Who is it that consorts, so late, the dead?
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Here’s one, a friend, and one that knows you well.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Bliss be upon you. Tell me, good my friend,
+What torch is yond that vainly lends his light
+To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern,
+It burneth in the Capels’ monument.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+It doth so, holy sir, and there’s my master,
+One that you love.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Who is it?
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Romeo.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+How long hath he been there?
+
+BALTHASAR.
+Full half an hour.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Go with me to the vault.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+I dare not, sir;
+My master knows not but I am gone hence,
+And fearfully did menace me with death
+If I did stay to look on his intents.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Stay then, I’ll go alone. Fear comes upon me.
+O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.
+
+BALTHASAR.
+As I did sleep under this yew tree here,
+I dreamt my master and another fought,
+And that my master slew him.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+Romeo! [_Advances._]
+Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains
+The stony entrance of this sepulchre?
+What mean these masterless and gory swords
+To lie discolour’d by this place of peace?
+
+ [_Enters the monument._]
+
+Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too?
+And steep’d in blood? Ah what an unkind hour
+Is guilty of this lamentable chance?
+The lady stirs.
+
+ [_Juliet wakes and stirs._]
+
+JULIET.
+O comfortable Friar, where is my lord?
+I do remember well where I should be,
+And there I am. Where is my Romeo?
+
+ [_Noise within._]
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
+Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep.
+A greater power than we can contradict
+Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
+Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;
+And Paris too. Come, I’ll dispose of thee
+Among a sisterhood of holy nuns.
+Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.
+Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay.
+
+JULIET.
+Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
+
+ [_Exit Friar Lawrence._]
+
+What’s here? A cup clos’d in my true love’s hand?
+Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.
+O churl. Drink all, and left no friendly drop
+To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.
+Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
+To make me die with a restorative.
+
+ [_Kisses him._]
+
+Thy lips are warm!
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+[_Within._] Lead, boy. Which way?
+
+JULIET.
+Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger.
+
+ [_Snatching Romeo’s dagger._]
+
+This is thy sheath. [_stabs herself_] There rest, and let me die.
+
+ [_Falls on Romeo’s body and dies._]
+
+ Enter Watch with the Page of Paris.
+
+PAGE.
+This is the place. There, where the torch doth burn.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+The ground is bloody. Search about the churchyard.
+Go, some of you, whoe’er you find attach.
+
+ [_Exeunt some of the Watch._]
+
+Pitiful sight! Here lies the County slain,
+And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
+Who here hath lain this two days buried.
+Go tell the Prince; run to the Capulets.
+Raise up the Montagues, some others search.
+
+ [_Exeunt others of the Watch._]
+
+We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,
+But the true ground of all these piteous woes
+We cannot without circumstance descry.
+
+ Re-enter some of the Watch with Balthasar.
+
+SECOND WATCH.
+Here’s Romeo’s man. We found him in the churchyard.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Hold him in safety till the Prince come hither.
+
+ Re-enter others of the Watch with Friar Lawrence.
+
+THIRD WATCH. Here is a Friar that trembles, sighs, and weeps.
+We took this mattock and this spade from him
+As he was coming from this churchyard side.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+A great suspicion. Stay the Friar too.
+
+ Enter the Prince and Attendants.
+
+PRINCE.
+What misadventure is so early up,
+That calls our person from our morning’s rest?
+
+ Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet and others.
+
+CAPULET.
+What should it be that they so shriek abroad?
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+O the people in the street cry Romeo,
+Some Juliet, and some Paris, and all run
+With open outcry toward our monument.
+
+PRINCE.
+What fear is this which startles in our ears?
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain,
+And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before,
+Warm and new kill’d.
+
+PRINCE.
+Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
+
+FIRST WATCH.
+Here is a Friar, and slaughter’d Romeo’s man,
+With instruments upon them fit to open
+These dead men’s tombs.
+
+CAPULET.
+O heaven! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
+This dagger hath mista’en, for lo, his house
+Is empty on the back of Montague,
+And it mis-sheathed in my daughter’s bosom.
+
+LADY CAPULET.
+O me! This sight of death is as a bell
+That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
+
+ Enter Montague and others.
+
+PRINCE.
+Come, Montague, for thou art early up,
+To see thy son and heir more early down.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight.
+Grief of my son’s exile hath stopp’d her breath.
+What further woe conspires against mine age?
+
+PRINCE.
+Look, and thou shalt see.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+O thou untaught! What manners is in this,
+To press before thy father to a grave?
+
+PRINCE.
+Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
+Till we can clear these ambiguities,
+And know their spring, their head, their true descent,
+And then will I be general of your woes,
+And lead you even to death. Meantime forbear,
+And let mischance be slave to patience.
+Bring forth the parties of suspicion.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+I am the greatest, able to do least,
+Yet most suspected, as the time and place
+Doth make against me, of this direful murder.
+And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
+Myself condemned and myself excus’d.
+
+PRINCE.
+Then say at once what thou dost know in this.
+
+FRIAR LAWRENCE.
+I will be brief, for my short date of breath
+Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
+Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
+And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife.
+I married them; and their stol’n marriage day
+Was Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely death
+Banish’d the new-made bridegroom from this city;
+For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pin’d.
+You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
+Betroth’d, and would have married her perforce
+To County Paris. Then comes she to me,
+And with wild looks, bid me devise some means
+To rid her from this second marriage,
+Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
+Then gave I her, so tutored by my art,
+A sleeping potion, which so took effect
+As I intended, for it wrought on her
+The form of death. Meantime I writ to Romeo
+That he should hither come as this dire night
+To help to take her from her borrow’d grave,
+Being the time the potion’s force should cease.
+But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
+Was stay’d by accident; and yesternight
+Return’d my letter back. Then all alone
+At the prefixed hour of her waking
+Came I to take her from her kindred’s vault,
+Meaning to keep her closely at my cell
+Till I conveniently could send to Romeo.
+But when I came, some minute ere the time
+Of her awaking, here untimely lay
+The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
+She wakes; and I entreated her come forth
+And bear this work of heaven with patience.
+But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;
+And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
+But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
+All this I know; and to the marriage
+Her Nurse is privy. And if ought in this
+Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
+Be sacrific’d, some hour before his time,
+Unto the rigour of severest law.
+
+PRINCE.
+We still have known thee for a holy man.
+Where’s Romeo’s man? What can he say to this?
+
+BALTHASAR.
+I brought my master news of Juliet’s death,
+And then in post he came from Mantua
+To this same place, to this same monument.
+This letter he early bid me give his father,
+And threaten’d me with death, going in the vault,
+If I departed not, and left him there.
+
+PRINCE.
+Give me the letter, I will look on it.
+Where is the County’s Page that rais’d the watch?
+Sirrah, what made your master in this place?
+
+PAGE.
+He came with flowers to strew his lady’s grave,
+And bid me stand aloof, and so I did.
+Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb,
+And by and by my master drew on him,
+And then I ran away to call the watch.
+
+PRINCE.
+This letter doth make good the Friar’s words,
+Their course of love, the tidings of her death.
+And here he writes that he did buy a poison
+Of a poor ’pothecary, and therewithal
+Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.
+Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague,
+See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
+That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!
+And I, for winking at your discords too,
+Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punish’d.
+
+CAPULET.
+O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
+This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more
+Can I demand.
+
+MONTAGUE.
+But I can give thee more,
+For I will raise her statue in pure gold,
+That whiles Verona by that name is known,
+There shall no figure at such rate be set
+As that of true and faithful Juliet.
+
+CAPULET.
+As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie,
+Poor sacrifices of our enmity.
+
+PRINCE.
+A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
+The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
+Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
+Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished,
+For never was a story of more woe
+Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+INDUCTION
+ Scene I. Before an alehouse on a heath.
+ Scene II. A bedchamber in the Lord’s house.
+
+ACT I
+ Scene I. Padua. A public place.
+ Scene II. Padua. Before Hortensio’s house.
+
+ACT II
+ Scene I. Padua. A room in Baptista’s house.
+
+ACT III
+ Scene I. Padua. A room in Baptista’s house.
+ Scene II. The same. Before Baptista’s house.
+
+ACT IV
+ Scene I. A hall in Petruchio’s country house.
+ Scene II. Padua. Before Baptista’s house.
+ Scene III. A room in Petruchio’s house.
+ Scene IV. Before Baptista’s house.
+ Scene V. A public road.
+
+ACT V
+ Scene I. Padua. Before Lucentio’s house.
+ Scene II. A room in Lucentio’s house.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+Persons in the Induction
+A LORD
+CHRISTOPHER SLY, a tinker
+HOSTESS
+PAGE
+PLAYERS
+HUNTSMEN
+SERVANTS
+
+BAPTISTA MINOLA, a rich gentleman of Padua
+VINCENTIO, an old gentleman of Pisa
+LUCENTIO, son to Vincentio; in love with Bianca
+PETRUCHIO, a gentleman of Verona; suitor to Katherina
+
+Suitors to Bianca
+GREMIO
+HORTENSIO
+
+Servants to Lucentio
+TRANIO
+BIONDELLO
+
+Servants to Petruchio
+GRUMIO
+CURTIS
+
+PEDANT, set up to personate Vincentio
+
+Daughters to Baptista
+KATHERINA, the shrew
+BIANCA
+
+WIDOW
+
+Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio
+
+SCENE: Sometimes in Padua, and sometimes in Petruchio’s house in the
+country.
+
+
+
+
+INDUCTION
+
+SCENE I. Before an alehouse on a heath.
+
+Enter Hostess and Sly
+
+SLY.
+I’ll pheeze you, in faith.
+
+HOSTESS.
+A pair of stocks, you rogue!
+
+SLY.
+Y’are a baggage; the Slys are no rogues; look in the chronicles: we
+came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore, _paucas pallabris_; let the
+world slide. Sessa!
+
+HOSTESS.
+You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
+
+SLY.
+No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy, go to thy cold bed and warm
+thee.
+
+HOSTESS.
+I know my remedy; I must go fetch the third-borough.
+
+[_Exit_]
+
+SLY.
+Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I’ll answer him by law. I’ll not
+budge an inch, boy: let him come, and kindly.
+
+[_Lies down on the ground, and falls asleep._]
+
+
+Horns winded. Enter a Lord from hunting, with Huntsmen and Servants.
+
+LORD.
+Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds;
+Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss’d,
+And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth’d brach.
+Saw’st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
+At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?
+I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.
+
+FIRST HUNTSMAN.
+Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord;
+He cried upon it at the merest loss,
+And twice today pick’d out the dullest scent;
+Trust me, I take him for the better dog.
+
+LORD.
+Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet,
+I would esteem him worth a dozen such.
+But sup them well, and look unto them all;
+Tomorrow I intend to hunt again.
+
+FIRST HUNTSMAN.
+I will, my lord.
+
+LORD.
+[_Sees Sly_.] What’s here? One dead, or drunk?
+See, doth he breathe?
+
+SECOND HUNTSMAN.
+He breathes, my lord. Were he not warm’d with ale,
+This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.
+
+LORD.
+O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies!
+Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image!
+Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.
+What think you, if he were convey’d to bed,
+Wrapp’d in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,
+A most delicious banquet by his bed,
+And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
+Would not the beggar then forget himself?
+
+FIRST HUNTSMAN.
+Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.
+
+SECOND HUNTSMAN.
+It would seem strange unto him when he wak’d.
+
+LORD.
+Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy.
+Then take him up, and manage well the jest.
+Carry him gently to my fairest chamber,
+And hang it round with all my wanton pictures;
+Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters,
+And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet.
+Procure me music ready when he wakes,
+To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound;
+And if he chance to speak, be ready straight,
+And with a low submissive reverence
+Say ‘What is it your honour will command?’
+Let one attend him with a silver basin
+Full of rose-water and bestrew’d with flowers;
+Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,
+And say ‘Will’t please your lordship cool your hands?’
+Someone be ready with a costly suit,
+And ask him what apparel he will wear;
+Another tell him of his hounds and horse,
+And that his lady mourns at his disease.
+Persuade him that he hath been lunatic;
+And, when he says he is—say that he dreams,
+For he is nothing but a mighty lord.
+This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs;
+It will be pastime passing excellent,
+If it be husbanded with modesty.
+
+FIRST HUNTSMAN.
+My lord, I warrant you we will play our part,
+As he shall think by our true diligence,
+He is no less than what we say he is.
+
+LORD.
+Take him up gently, and to bed with him,
+And each one to his office when he wakes.
+
+[Sly _is borne out. A trumpet sounds._]
+
+Sirrah, go see what trumpet ’tis that sounds.
+
+[_Exit_ Servant.]
+
+Belike some noble gentleman that means,
+Travelling some journey, to repose him here.
+
+
+Re-enter Servant.
+
+How now! who is it?
+
+SERVANT.
+An it please your honour, players
+That offer service to your lordship.
+
+LORD.
+Bid them come near.
+
+
+Enter Players.
+
+Now, fellows, you are welcome.
+
+PLAYERS.
+We thank your honour.
+
+LORD.
+Do you intend to stay with me tonight?
+
+PLAYER.
+So please your lordship to accept our duty.
+
+LORD.
+With all my heart. This fellow I remember
+Since once he play’d a farmer’s eldest son;
+’Twas where you woo’d the gentlewoman so well.
+I have forgot your name; but, sure, that part
+Was aptly fitted and naturally perform’d.
+
+PLAYER.
+I think ’twas Soto that your honour means.
+
+LORD.
+’Tis very true; thou didst it excellent.
+Well, you are come to me in happy time,
+The rather for I have some sport in hand
+Wherein your cunning can assist me much.
+There is a lord will hear you play tonight;
+But I am doubtful of your modesties,
+Lest, over-eying of his odd behaviour,—
+For yet his honour never heard a play,—
+You break into some merry passion
+And so offend him; for I tell you, sirs,
+If you should smile, he grows impatient.
+
+PLAYER.
+Fear not, my lord; we can contain ourselves,
+Were he the veriest antick in the world.
+
+LORD.
+Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery,
+And give them friendly welcome everyone:
+Let them want nothing that my house affords.
+
+[_Exit one with the Players._]
+
+Sirrah, go you to Barthol’mew my page,
+And see him dress’d in all suits like a lady;
+That done, conduct him to the drunkard’s chamber,
+And call him ‘madam,’ do him obeisance.
+Tell him from me—as he will win my love,—
+He bear himself with honourable action,
+Such as he hath observ’d in noble ladies
+Unto their lords, by them accomplished;
+Such duty to the drunkard let him do,
+With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,
+And say ‘What is’t your honour will command,
+Wherein your lady and your humble wife
+May show her duty and make known her love?’
+And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,
+And with declining head into his bosom,
+Bid him shed tears, as being overjoy’d
+To see her noble lord restor’d to health,
+Who for this seven years hath esteemed him
+No better than a poor and loathsome beggar.
+And if the boy have not a woman’s gift
+To rain a shower of commanded tears,
+An onion will do well for such a shift,
+Which, in a napkin being close convey’d,
+Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.
+See this dispatch’d with all the haste thou canst;
+Anon I’ll give thee more instructions.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+I know the boy will well usurp the grace,
+Voice, gait, and action of a gentlewoman;
+I long to hear him call the drunkard husband;
+And how my men will stay themselves from laughter
+When they do homage to this simple peasant.
+I’ll in to counsel them; haply my presence
+May well abate the over-merry spleen,
+Which otherwise would grow into extremes.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A bedchamber in the Lord’s house.
+
+Sly is discovered in a rich nightgown, with Attendants: some with
+apparel, basin, ewer, and other appurtenances; and Lord, dressed like a
+servant.
+
+SLY.
+For God’s sake! a pot of small ale.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Will’t please your lordship drink a cup of sack?
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+Will’t please your honour taste of these conserves?
+
+THIRD SERVANT.
+What raiment will your honour wear today?
+
+SLY.
+I am Christophero Sly; call not me honour nor lordship. I ne’er drank
+sack in my life; and if you give me any conserves, give me conserves of
+beef. Ne’er ask me what raiment I’ll wear, for I have no more doublets
+than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet:
+nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look
+through the over-leather.
+
+LORD.
+Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour!
+O, that a mighty man of such descent,
+Of such possessions, and so high esteem,
+Should be infused with so foul a spirit!
+
+SLY.
+What! would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly’s son of
+Burton-heath; by birth a pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by
+transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker? Ask
+Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not: if she
+say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for
+the lyingest knave in Christendom. What! I am not bestraught. Here’s—
+
+THIRD SERVANT.
+O! this it is that makes your lady mourn.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+O! this is it that makes your servants droop.
+
+LORD.
+Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,
+As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.
+O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth,
+Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment,
+And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.
+Look how thy servants do attend on thee,
+Each in his office ready at thy beck:
+Wilt thou have music? Hark! Apollo plays,
+
+[_Music._]
+
+And twenty caged nightingales do sing:
+Or wilt thou sleep? We’ll have thee to a couch
+Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
+On purpose trimm’d up for Semiramis.
+Say thou wilt walk: we will bestrew the ground:
+Or wilt thou ride? Thy horses shall be trapp’d,
+Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
+Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
+Above the morning lark: or wilt thou hunt?
+Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
+And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift
+As breathed stags; ay, fleeter than the roe.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight
+Adonis painted by a running brook,
+And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
+Which seem to move and wanton with her breath
+Even as the waving sedges play with wind.
+
+LORD.
+We’ll show thee Io as she was a maid
+And how she was beguiled and surpris’d,
+As lively painted as the deed was done.
+
+THIRD SERVANT.
+Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
+Scratching her legs, that one shall swear she bleeds
+And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
+So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
+
+LORD.
+Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord:
+Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
+Than any woman in this waning age.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+And, till the tears that she hath shed for thee
+Like envious floods o’er-run her lovely face,
+She was the fairest creature in the world;
+And yet she is inferior to none.
+
+SLY.
+Am I a lord? and have I such a lady?
+Or do I dream? Or have I dream’d till now?
+I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak;
+I smell sweet savours, and I feel soft things:
+Upon my life, I am a lord indeed;
+And not a tinker, nor Christophero Sly.
+Well, bring our lady hither to our sight;
+And once again, a pot o’ the smallest ale.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+Will’t please your mightiness to wash your hands?
+
+[_Servants present a ewer, basin and napkin._]
+
+O, how we joy to see your wit restor’d!
+O, that once more you knew but what you are!
+These fifteen years you have been in a dream,
+Or, when you wak’d, so wak’d as if you slept.
+
+SLY.
+These fifteen years! by my fay, a goodly nap.
+But did I never speak of all that time?
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+O! yes, my lord, but very idle words;
+For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,
+Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door,
+And rail upon the hostess of the house,
+And say you would present her at the leet,
+Because she brought stone jugs and no seal’d quarts.
+Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.
+
+SLY.
+Ay, the woman’s maid of the house.
+
+THIRD SERVANT.
+Why, sir, you know no house nor no such maid,
+Nor no such men as you have reckon’d up,
+As Stephen Sly, and old John Naps of Greece,
+And Peter Turph, and Henry Pimpernell;
+And twenty more such names and men as these,
+Which never were, nor no man ever saw.
+
+SLY.
+Now, Lord be thanked for my good amends!
+
+ALL.
+Amen.
+
+
+Enter the Page, as a lady, with Attendants.
+
+SLY.
+I thank thee; thou shalt not lose by it.
+
+PAGE.
+How fares my noble lord?
+
+SLY.
+Marry, I fare well; for here is cheer enough.
+Where is my wife?
+
+PAGE.
+Here, noble lord: what is thy will with her?
+
+SLY.
+Are you my wife, and will not call me husband?
+My men should call me lord: I am your goodman.
+
+PAGE.
+My husband and my lord, my lord and husband;
+I am your wife in all obedience.
+
+SLY.
+I know it well. What must I call her?
+
+LORD.
+Madam.
+
+SLY.
+Alice madam, or Joan madam?
+
+LORD.
+Madam, and nothing else; so lords call ladies.
+
+SLY.
+Madam wife, they say that I have dream’d
+And slept above some fifteen year or more.
+
+PAGE.
+Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,
+Being all this time abandon’d from your bed.
+
+SLY.
+’Tis much. Servants, leave me and her alone.
+Madam, undress you, and come now to bed.
+
+PAGE.
+Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you
+To pardon me yet for a night or two;
+Or, if not so, until the sun be set:
+For your physicians have expressly charg’d,
+In peril to incur your former malady,
+That I should yet absent me from your bed:
+I hope this reason stands for my excuse.
+
+SLY.
+Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long; but I would be loath
+to fall into my dreams again: I will therefore tarry in despite of the
+flesh and the blood.
+
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Your honour’s players, hearing your amendment,
+Are come to play a pleasant comedy;
+For so your doctors hold it very meet,
+Seeing too much sadness hath congeal’d your blood,
+And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy:
+Therefore they thought it good you hear a play,
+And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
+Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
+
+SLY.
+Marry, I will; let them play it. Is not a commonty a Christmas gambold
+or a tumbling-trick?
+
+PAGE.
+No, my good lord; it is more pleasing stuff.
+
+SLY.
+What! household stuff?
+
+PAGE.
+It is a kind of history.
+
+SLY.
+Well, we’ll see’t. Come, madam wife, sit by my side and let the world
+slip: we shall ne’er be younger.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Padua. A public place.
+
+
+Flourish. Enter Lucentio and Tranio.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Tranio, since for the great desire I had
+To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
+I am arriv’d for fruitful Lombardy,
+The pleasant garden of great Italy,
+And by my father’s love and leave am arm’d
+With his good will and thy good company,
+My trusty servant well approv’d in all,
+Here let us breathe, and haply institute
+A course of learning and ingenious studies.
+Pisa, renowned for grave citizens,
+Gave me my being and my father first,
+A merchant of great traffic through the world,
+Vincentio, come of the Bentivolii.
+Vincentio’s son, brought up in Florence,
+It shall become to serve all hopes conceiv’d,
+To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds:
+And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study,
+Virtue and that part of philosophy
+Will I apply that treats of happiness
+By virtue specially to be achiev’d.
+Tell me thy mind; for I have Pisa left
+And am to Padua come as he that leaves
+A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep,
+And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.
+
+TRANIO.
+_Mi perdonato_, gentle master mine;
+I am in all affected as yourself;
+Glad that you thus continue your resolve
+To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
+Only, good master, while we do admire
+This virtue and this moral discipline,
+Let’s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray;
+Or so devote to Aristotle’s checks
+As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur’d.
+Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,
+And practise rhetoric in your common talk;
+Music and poesy use to quicken you;
+The mathematics and the metaphysics,
+Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you:
+No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en;
+In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.
+If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,
+We could at once put us in readiness,
+And take a lodging fit to entertain
+Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.
+But stay awhile; what company is this?
+
+TRANIO.
+Master, some show to welcome us to town.
+
+[_Lucentio and Tranio stand aside._]
+
+
+Enter Baptista, Katherina, Bianca, Gremio and Hortensio.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
+For how I firmly am resolv’d you know;
+That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter
+Before I have a husband for the elder.
+If either of you both love Katherina,
+Because I know you well and love you well,
+Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
+
+GREMIO.
+To cart her rather: she’s too rough for me.
+There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?
+
+KATHERINA.
+[_To Baptista_] I pray you, sir, is it your will
+To make a stale of me amongst these mates?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Mates, maid! How mean you that? No mates for you,
+Unless you were of gentler, milder mould.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I’ faith, sir, you shall never need to fear;
+I wis it is not half way to her heart;
+But if it were, doubt not her care should be
+To comb your noddle with a three-legg’d stool,
+And paint your face, and use you like a fool.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+From all such devils, good Lord deliver us!
+
+GREMIO.
+And me, too, good Lord!
+
+TRANIO.
+Husht, master! Here’s some good pastime toward:
+That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+But in the other’s silence do I see
+Maid’s mild behaviour and sobriety.
+Peace, Tranio!
+
+TRANIO.
+Well said, master; mum! and gaze your fill.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Gentlemen, that I may soon make good
+What I have said,—Bianca, get you in:
+And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,
+For I will love thee ne’er the less, my girl.
+
+KATHERINA.
+A pretty peat! it is best put finger in the eye, and she knew why.
+
+BIANCA.
+Sister, content you in my discontent.
+Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe:
+My books and instruments shall be my company,
+On them to look, and practise by myself.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Hark, Tranio! thou mayst hear Minerva speak.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?
+Sorry am I that our good will effects
+Bianca’s grief.
+
+GREMIO.
+Why will you mew her up,
+Signior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,
+And make her bear the penance of her tongue?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Gentlemen, content ye; I am resolv’d.
+Go in, Bianca.
+
+[_Exit Bianca._]
+
+And for I know she taketh most delight
+In music, instruments, and poetry,
+Schoolmasters will I keep within my house
+Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,
+Or, Signior Gremio, you, know any such,
+Prefer them hither; for to cunning men
+I will be very kind, and liberal
+To mine own children in good bringing up;
+And so, farewell. Katherina, you may stay;
+For I have more to commune with Bianca.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+KATHERINA.
+Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not? What! shall I be appointed
+hours, as though, belike, I knew not what to take and what to leave?
+Ha!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+GREMIO.
+You may go to the devil’s dam: your gifts are so good here’s none will
+hold you. Their love is not so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our
+nails together, and fast it fairly out; our cake’s dough on both sides.
+Farewell: yet, for the love I bear my sweet Bianca, if I can by any
+means light on a fit man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will
+wish him to her father.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+So will I, Signior Gremio: but a word, I pray. Though the nature of our
+quarrel yet never brooked parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us
+both,—that we may yet again have access to our fair mistress, and be
+happy rivals in Bianca’s love,—to labour and effect one thing
+specially.
+
+GREMIO.
+What’s that, I pray?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.
+
+GREMIO.
+A husband! a devil.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+I say, a husband.
+
+GREMIO.
+I say, a devil. Thinkest thou, Hortensio, though her father be very
+rich, any man is so very a fool to be married to hell?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Tush, Gremio! Though it pass your patience and mine to endure her loud
+alarums, why, man, there be good fellows in the world, and a man could
+light on them, would take her with all faults, and money enough.
+
+GREMIO.
+I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with this condition: to
+be whipp’d at the high cross every morning.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Faith, as you say, there’s small choice in rotten apples. But come;
+since this bar in law makes us friends, it shall be so far forth
+friendly maintained, till by helping Baptista’s eldest daughter to a
+husband, we set his youngest free for a husband, and then have to’t
+afresh. Sweet Bianca! Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest gets
+the ring. How say you, Signior Gremio?
+
+GREMIO.
+I am agreed; and would I had given him the best horse in Padua to begin
+his wooing, that would thoroughly woo her, wed her, and bed her, and
+rid the house of her. Come on.
+
+[_Exeunt Gremio and Hortensio._]
+
+TRANIO.
+I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible
+That love should of a sudden take such hold?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+O Tranio! till I found it to be true,
+I never thought it possible or likely;
+But see, while idly I stood looking on,
+I found the effect of love in idleness;
+And now in plainness do confess to thee,
+That art to me as secret and as dear
+As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was,
+Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,
+If I achieve not this young modest girl.
+Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst:
+Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.
+
+TRANIO.
+Master, it is no time to chide you now;
+Affection is not rated from the heart:
+If love have touch’d you, nought remains but so:
+_Redime te captum quam queas minimo._
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Gramercies, lad; go forward; this contents;
+The rest will comfort, for thy counsel’s sound.
+
+TRANIO.
+Master, you look’d so longly on the maid.
+Perhaps you mark’d not what’s the pith of all.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+O, yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,
+Such as the daughter of Agenor had,
+That made great Jove to humble him to her hand,
+When with his knees he kiss’d the Cretan strand.
+
+TRANIO.
+Saw you no more? mark’d you not how her sister
+Began to scold and raise up such a storm
+That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move,
+And with her breath she did perfume the air;
+Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.
+
+TRANIO.
+Nay, then, ’tis time to stir him from his trance.
+I pray, awake, sir: if you love the maid,
+Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:
+Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd,
+That till the father rid his hands of her,
+Master, your love must live a maid at home;
+And therefore has he closely mew’d her up,
+Because she will not be annoy’d with suitors.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father’s he!
+But art thou not advis’d he took some care
+To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?
+
+TRANIO.
+Ay, marry, am I, sir, and now ’tis plotted.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I have it, Tranio.
+
+TRANIO.
+Master, for my hand,
+Both our inventions meet and jump in one.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Tell me thine first.
+
+TRANIO.
+You will be schoolmaster,
+And undertake the teaching of the maid:
+That’s your device.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+It is: may it be done?
+
+TRANIO.
+Not possible; for who shall bear your part
+And be in Padua here Vincentio’s son;
+Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends;
+Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+_Basta_, content thee, for I have it full.
+We have not yet been seen in any house,
+Nor can we be distinguish’d by our faces
+For man or master: then it follows thus:
+Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,
+Keep house and port and servants, as I should;
+I will some other be; some Florentine,
+Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.
+’Tis hatch’d, and shall be so: Tranio, at once
+Uncase thee; take my colour’d hat and cloak.
+When Biondello comes, he waits on thee;
+But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.
+
+[_They exchange habits_]
+
+TRANIO.
+So had you need.
+In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,
+And I am tied to be obedient;
+For so your father charg’d me at our parting,
+‘Be serviceable to my son,’ quoth he,
+Although I think ’twas in another sense:
+I am content to be Lucentio,
+Because so well I love Lucentio.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves;
+And let me be a slave, to achieve that maid
+Whose sudden sight hath thrall’d my wounded eye.
+
+
+Enter Biondello.
+
+Here comes the rogue. Sirrah, where have you been?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Where have I been? Nay, how now! where are you?
+Master, has my fellow Tranio stol’n your clothes?
+Or you stol’n his? or both? Pray, what’s the news?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Sirrah, come hither: ’tis no time to jest,
+And therefore frame your manners to the time.
+Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life,
+Puts my apparel and my count’nance on,
+And I for my escape have put on his;
+For in a quarrel since I came ashore
+I kill’d a man, and fear I was descried.
+Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,
+While I make way from hence to save my life.
+You understand me?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+I, sir! Ne’er a whit.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth:
+Tranio is changed to Lucentio.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+The better for him: would I were so too!
+
+TRANIO.
+So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,
+That Lucentio indeed had Baptista’s youngest daughter.
+But, sirrah, not for my sake but your master’s, I advise
+You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies:
+When I am alone, why, then I am Tranio;
+But in all places else your master, Lucentio.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Tranio, let’s go.
+One thing more rests, that thyself execute,
+To make one among these wooers: if thou ask me why,
+Sufficeth my reasons are both good and weighty.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+[_The Presenters above speak._]
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+My lord, you nod; you do not mind the play.
+
+SLY.
+Yes, by Saint Anne, I do. A good matter, surely: comes there any more
+of it?
+
+PAGE.
+My lord, ’tis but begun.
+
+SLY.
+’Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady: would ’twere done!
+
+[_They sit and mark._]
+
+SCENE II. Padua. Before Hortensio’s house.
+
+Enter Petruchio and his man Grumio.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Verona, for a while I take my leave,
+To see my friends in Padua; but of all
+My best beloved and approved friend,
+Hortensio; and I trow this is his house.
+Here, sirrah Grumio, knock, I say.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Knock, sir? Whom should I knock? Is there any man has rebused your
+worship?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Knock you here, sir? Why, sir, what am I, sir, that I should knock you
+here, sir?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Villain, I say, knock me at this gate;
+And rap me well, or I’ll knock your knave’s pate.
+
+GRUMIO.
+My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock you first,
+And then I know after who comes by the worst.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Will it not be?
+Faith, sirrah, and you’ll not knock, I’ll ring it;
+I’ll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.
+
+[_He wrings Grumio by the ears._]
+
+GRUMIO.
+Help, masters, help! my master is mad.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Now, knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!
+
+
+Enter Hortensio.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+How now! what’s the matter? My old friend Grumio! and my good friend
+Petruchio! How do you all at Verona?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Signior Hortensio, come you to part the fray?
+_Con tutto il cuore ben trovato_, may I say.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+_Alla nostra casa ben venuto; molto honorato signor mio Petruchio._
+Rise, Grumio, rise: we will compound this quarrel.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Nay, ’tis no matter, sir, what he ’leges in Latin. If this be not a
+lawful cause for me to leave his service, look you, sir, he bid me
+knock him and rap him soundly, sir: well, was it fit for a servant to
+use his master so; being, perhaps, for aught I see, two-and-thirty, a
+pip out? Whom would to God I had well knock’d at first, then had not
+Grumio come by the worst.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+A senseless villain! Good Hortensio,
+I bade the rascal knock upon your gate,
+And could not get him for my heart to do it.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Knock at the gate! O heavens! Spake you not these words plain: ‘Sirrah
+knock me here, rap me here, knock me well, and knock me soundly’? And
+come you now with ‘knocking at the gate’?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Petruchio, patience; I am Grumio’s pledge;
+Why, this’s a heavy chance ’twixt him and you,
+Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio.
+And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale
+Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Such wind as scatters young men through the world
+To seek their fortunes farther than at home,
+Where small experience grows. But in a few,
+Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me:
+Antonio, my father, is deceas’d,
+And I have thrust myself into this maze,
+Haply to wive and thrive as best I may;
+Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
+And so am come abroad to see the world.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee
+And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour’d wife?
+Thou’dst thank me but a little for my counsel;
+And yet I’ll promise thee she shall be rich,
+And very rich: but th’art too much my friend,
+And I’ll not wish thee to her.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Signior Hortensio, ’twixt such friends as we
+Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know
+One rich enough to be Petruchio’s wife,
+As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,
+Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love,
+As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd
+As Socrates’ Xanthippe or a worse,
+She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
+Affection’s edge in me, were she as rough
+As are the swelling Adriatic seas:
+I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
+If wealthily, then happily in Padua.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his mind is: why, give him
+gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby; or an old trot
+with ne’er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as
+two-and-fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Petruchio, since we are stepp’d thus far in,
+I will continue that I broach’d in jest.
+I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife
+With wealth enough, and young and beauteous;
+Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman:
+Her only fault,—and that is faults enough,—
+Is, that she is intolerable curst,
+And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure,
+That, were my state far worser than it is,
+I would not wed her for a mine of gold.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Hortensio, peace! thou know’st not gold’s effect:
+Tell me her father’s name, and ’tis enough;
+For I will board her, though she chide as loud
+As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Her father is Baptista Minola,
+An affable and courteous gentleman;
+Her name is Katherina Minola,
+Renown’d in Padua for her scolding tongue.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I know her father, though I know not her;
+And he knew my deceased father well.
+I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her;
+And therefore let me be thus bold with you,
+To give you over at this first encounter,
+Unless you will accompany me thither.
+
+GRUMIO.
+I pray you, sir, let him go while the humour lasts. O’ my word, and she
+knew him as well as I do, she would think scolding would do little good
+upon him. She may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so; why,
+that’s nothing; and he begin once, he’ll rail in his rope-tricks. I’ll
+tell you what, sir, and she stand him but a little, he will throw a
+figure in her face, and so disfigure her with it that she shall have no
+more eyes to see withal than a cat. You know him not, sir.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Tarry, Petruchio, I must go with thee,
+For in Baptista’s keep my treasure is:
+He hath the jewel of my life in hold,
+His youngest daughter, beautiful Bianca,
+And her withholds from me and other more,
+Suitors to her and rivals in my love;
+Supposing it a thing impossible,
+For those defects I have before rehears’d,
+That ever Katherina will be woo’d:
+Therefore this order hath Baptista ta’en,
+That none shall have access unto Bianca
+Till Katherine the curst have got a husband.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Katherine the curst!
+A title for a maid of all titles the worst.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace,
+And offer me disguis’d in sober robes,
+To old Baptista as a schoolmaster
+Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca;
+That so I may, by this device at least
+Have leave and leisure to make love to her,
+And unsuspected court her by herself.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Here’s no knavery! See, to beguile the old folks, how the young folks
+lay their heads together!
+
+
+Enter Gremio and Lucentio disguised, with books under his arm.
+
+Master, master, look about you: who goes there, ha?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Peace, Grumio! It is the rival of my love. Petruchio, stand by awhile.
+
+GRUMIO.
+A proper stripling, and an amorous!
+
+GREMIO.
+O! very well; I have perus’d the note.
+Hark you, sir; I’ll have them very fairly bound:
+All books of love, see that at any hand,
+And see you read no other lectures to her.
+You understand me. Over and beside
+Signior Baptista’s liberality,
+I’ll mend it with a largess. Take your papers too,
+And let me have them very well perfum’d;
+For she is sweeter than perfume itself
+To whom they go to. What will you read to her?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Whate’er I read to her, I’ll plead for you,
+As for my patron, stand you so assur’d,
+As firmly as yourself were still in place;
+Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
+Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.
+
+GREMIO.
+O! this learning, what a thing it is.
+
+GRUMIO.
+O! this woodcock, what an ass it is.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Peace, sirrah!
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Grumio, mum! God save you, Signior Gremio!
+
+GREMIO.
+And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.
+Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.
+I promis’d to enquire carefully
+About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca;
+And by good fortune I have lighted well
+On this young man; for learning and behaviour
+Fit for her turn, well read in poetry
+And other books, good ones, I warrant ye.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+’Tis well; and I have met a gentleman
+Hath promis’d me to help me to another,
+A fine musician to instruct our mistress:
+So shall I no whit be behind in duty
+To fair Bianca, so belov’d of me.
+
+GREMIO.
+Belov’d of me, and that my deeds shall prove.
+
+GRUMIO.
+[_Aside._] And that his bags shall prove.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Gremio, ’tis now no time to vent our love:
+Listen to me, and if you speak me fair,
+I’ll tell you news indifferent good for either.
+Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,
+Upon agreement from us to his liking,
+Will undertake to woo curst Katherine;
+Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.
+
+GREMIO.
+So said, so done, is well.
+Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I know she is an irksome brawling scold;
+If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.
+
+GREMIO.
+No, say’st me so, friend? What countryman?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Born in Verona, old Antonio’s son.
+My father dead, my fortune lives for me;
+And I do hope good days and long to see.
+
+GREMIO.
+O sir, such a life, with such a wife, were strange!
+But if you have a stomach, to’t a God’s name;
+You shall have me assisting you in all.
+But will you woo this wild-cat?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Will I live?
+
+GRUMIO.
+Will he woo her? Ay, or I’ll hang her.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why came I hither but to that intent?
+Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
+Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
+Have I not heard the sea, puff’d up with winds,
+Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
+Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
+And heaven’s artillery thunder in the skies?
+Have I not in a pitched battle heard
+Loud ’larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets’ clang?
+And do you tell me of a woman’s tongue,
+That gives not half so great a blow to hear
+As will a chestnut in a farmer’s fire?
+Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
+
+GRUMIO.
+[_Aside_] For he fears none.
+
+GREMIO.
+Hortensio, hark:
+This gentleman is happily arriv’d,
+My mind presumes, for his own good and yours.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+I promis’d we would be contributors,
+And bear his charge of wooing, whatsoe’er.
+
+GREMIO.
+And so we will, provided that he win her.
+
+GRUMIO.
+I would I were as sure of a good dinner.
+
+
+Enter Tranio brave, and Biondello.
+
+TRANIO.
+Gentlemen, God save you! If I may be bold,
+Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way
+To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+He that has the two fair daughters; is’t he you mean?
+
+TRANIO.
+Even he, Biondello!
+
+GREMIO.
+Hark you, sir, you mean not her to—
+
+TRANIO.
+Perhaps him and her, sir; what have you to do?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.
+
+TRANIO.
+I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let’s away.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+[_Aside_]  Well begun, Tranio.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Sir, a word ere you go.
+Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?
+
+TRANIO.
+And if I be, sir, is it any offence?
+
+GREMIO.
+No; if without more words you will get you hence.
+
+TRANIO.
+Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
+For me as for you?
+
+GREMIO.
+But so is not she.
+
+TRANIO.
+For what reason, I beseech you?
+
+GREMIO.
+For this reason, if you’ll know,
+That she’s the choice love of Signior Gremio.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+That she’s the chosen of Signior Hortensio.
+
+TRANIO.
+Softly, my masters! If you be gentlemen,
+Do me this right; hear me with patience.
+Baptista is a noble gentleman,
+To whom my father is not all unknown;
+And were his daughter fairer than she is,
+She may more suitors have, and me for one.
+Fair Leda’s daughter had a thousand wooers;
+Then well one more may fair Bianca have;
+And so she shall: Lucentio shall make one,
+Though Paris came in hope to speed alone.
+
+GREMIO.
+What, this gentleman will out-talk us all.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Sir, give him head; I know he’ll prove a jade.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Hortensio, to what end are all these words?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,
+Did you yet ever see Baptista’s daughter?
+
+TRANIO.
+No, sir, but hear I do that he hath two,
+The one as famous for a scolding tongue
+As is the other for beauteous modesty.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Sir, sir, the first’s for me; let her go by.
+
+GREMIO.
+Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules,
+And let it be more than Alcides’ twelve.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Sir, understand you this of me, in sooth:
+The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for,
+Her father keeps from all access of suitors,
+And will not promise her to any man
+Until the elder sister first be wed;
+The younger then is free, and not before.
+
+TRANIO.
+If it be so, sir, that you are the man
+Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest;
+And if you break the ice, and do this feat,
+Achieve the elder, set the younger free
+For our access, whose hap shall be to have her
+Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive;
+And since you do profess to be a suitor,
+You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
+To whom we all rest generally beholding.
+
+TRANIO.
+Sir, I shall not be slack; in sign whereof,
+Please ye we may contrive this afternoon,
+And quaff carouses to our mistress’ health;
+And do as adversaries do in law,
+Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
+
+GRUMIO, BIONDELLO.
+O excellent motion! Fellows, let’s be gone.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+The motion’s good indeed, and be it so:—
+Petruchio, I shall be your _ben venuto_.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Padua. A room in Baptista’s house.
+
+
+Enter Katherina and Bianca.
+
+BIANCA.
+Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
+To make a bondmaid and a slave of me;
+That I disdain; but for these other gawds,
+Unbind my hands, I’ll pull them off myself,
+Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat;
+Or what you will command me will I do,
+So well I know my duty to my elders.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Of all thy suitors here I charge thee tell
+Whom thou lov’st best: see thou dissemble not.
+
+BIANCA.
+Believe me, sister, of all the men alive
+I never yet beheld that special face
+Which I could fancy more than any other.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Minion, thou liest. Is’t not Hortensio?
+
+BIANCA.
+If you affect him, sister, here I swear
+I’ll plead for you myself but you shall have him.
+
+KATHERINA.
+O! then, belike, you fancy riches more:
+You will have Gremio to keep you fair.
+
+BIANCA.
+Is it for him you do envy me so?
+Nay, then you jest; and now I well perceive
+You have but jested with me all this while:
+I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.
+
+KATHERINA.
+If that be jest, then all the rest was so.
+
+[_Strikes her._]
+
+
+Enter Baptista.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Why, how now, dame! Whence grows this insolence?
+Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl! she weeps.
+Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her.
+For shame, thou hilding of a devilish spirit,
+Why dost thou wrong her that did ne’er wrong thee?
+When did she cross thee with a bitter word?
+
+KATHERINA.
+Her silence flouts me, and I’ll be reveng’d.
+
+[_Flies after Bianca._]
+
+BAPTISTA.
+What! in my sight? Bianca, get thee in.
+
+[_Exit Bianca._]
+
+KATHERINA.
+What! will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see
+She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
+I must dance bare-foot on her wedding-day,
+And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.
+Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep
+Till I can find occasion of revenge.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BAPTISTA.
+ Was ever gentleman thus griev’d as I?
+But who comes here?
+
+
+Enter Gremio, with Lucentio in the habit of a mean man; Petruchio, with
+Hortensio as a musician; and Tranio, with Biondello bearing a lute and
+books.
+
+GREMIO.
+Good morrow, neighbour Baptista.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Good morrow, neighbour Gremio. God save you, gentlemen!
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter
+Call’d Katherina, fair and virtuous?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+I have a daughter, sir, call’d Katherina.
+
+GREMIO.
+You are too blunt: go to it orderly.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+You wrong me, Signior Gremio: give me leave.
+I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,
+That, hearing of her beauty and her wit,
+Her affability and bashful modesty,
+Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour,
+Am bold to show myself a forward guest
+Within your house, to make mine eye the witness
+Of that report which I so oft have heard.
+And, for an entrance to my entertainment,
+I do present you with a man of mine,
+
+[_Presenting Hortensio._]
+
+Cunning in music and the mathematics,
+To instruct her fully in those sciences,
+Whereof I know she is not ignorant.
+Accept of him, or else you do me wrong:
+His name is Licio, born in Mantua.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Y’are welcome, sir, and he for your good sake;
+But for my daughter Katherine, this I know,
+She is not for your turn, the more my grief.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I see you do not mean to part with her;
+Or else you like not of my company.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Mistake me not; I speak but as I find.
+Whence are you, sir? What may I call your name?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Petruchio is my name, Antonio’s son;
+A man well known throughout all Italy.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+I know him well: you are welcome for his sake.
+
+GREMIO.
+Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray,
+Let us, that are poor petitioners, speak too.
+Backare! you are marvellous forward.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+O, pardon me, Signior Gremio; I would fain be doing.
+
+GREMIO.
+I doubt it not, sir; but you will curse your wooing. Neighbour, this is
+a gift very grateful, I am sure of it. To express the like kindness,
+myself, that have been more kindly beholding to you than any, freely
+give unto you this young scholar,
+
+[_Presenting Lucentio._]
+
+that has been long studying at Rheims; as cunning in Greek, Latin, and
+other languages, as the other in music and mathematics. His name is
+Cambio; pray accept his service.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio; welcome, good Cambio. [_To Tranio._]
+But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger. May I be so bold to
+know the cause of your coming?
+
+TRANIO.
+Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own,
+That, being a stranger in this city here,
+Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,
+Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.
+Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me,
+In the preferment of the eldest sister.
+This liberty is all that I request,
+That, upon knowledge of my parentage,
+I may have welcome ’mongst the rest that woo,
+And free access and favour as the rest:
+And, toward the education of your daughters,
+I here bestow a simple instrument,
+And this small packet of Greek and Latin books:
+If you accept them, then their worth is great.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Lucentio is your name, of whence, I pray?
+
+TRANIO.
+Of Pisa, sir; son to Vincentio.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+A mighty man of Pisa: by report
+I know him well: you are very welcome, sir.
+[_To Hortensio_.] Take you the lute,
+[_To Lucentio_.] and you the set of books;
+You shall go see your pupils presently.
+Holla, within!
+
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+Sirrah, lead these gentlemen
+To my daughters, and tell them both
+These are their tutors: bid them use them well.
+
+[_Exeunt Servant with Hortensio, Lucentio and Biondello._]
+
+We will go walk a little in the orchard,
+And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,
+And so I pray you all to think yourselves.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,
+And every day I cannot come to woo.
+You knew my father well, and in him me,
+Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,
+Which I have bettered rather than decreas’d:
+Then tell me, if I get your daughter’s love,
+What dowry shall I have with her to wife?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+After my death, the one half of my lands,
+And in possession twenty thousand crowns.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+And, for that dowry, I’ll assure her of
+Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
+In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
+Let specialities be therefore drawn between us,
+That covenants may be kept on either hand.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Ay, when the special thing is well obtain’d,
+That is, her love; for that is all in all.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, that is nothing; for I tell you, father,
+I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;
+And where two raging fires meet together,
+They do consume the thing that feeds their fury:
+Though little fire grows great with little wind,
+Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all;
+So I to her, and so she yields to me;
+For I am rough and woo not like a babe.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed!
+But be thou arm’d for some unhappy words.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds,
+That shake not though they blow perpetually.
+
+
+Re-enter Hortensio, with his head broke.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+How now, my friend! Why dost thou look so pale?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+What, will my daughter prove a good musician?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+I think she’ll sooner prove a soldier:
+Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me.
+I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
+And bow’d her hand to teach her fingering;
+When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
+‘Frets, call you these?’ quoth she ‘I’ll fume with them’;
+And with that word she struck me on the head,
+And through the instrument my pate made way;
+And there I stood amazed for a while,
+As on a pillory, looking through the lute;
+While she did call me rascal fiddler,
+And twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms,
+As had she studied to misuse me so.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench!
+I love her ten times more than e’er I did:
+O! how I long to have some chat with her!
+
+BAPTISTA.
+[_To Hortensio_.] Well, go with me, and be not so discomfited;
+Proceed in practice with my younger daughter;
+She’s apt to learn, and thankful for good turns.
+Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,
+Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I pray you do.
+
+[_Exeunt Baptista, Gremio, Tranio and Hortensio._]
+
+I will attend her here,
+And woo her with some spirit when she comes.
+Say that she rail; why, then I’ll tell her plain
+She sings as sweetly as a nightingale:
+Say that she frown; I’ll say she looks as clear
+As morning roses newly wash’d with dew:
+Say she be mute, and will not speak a word;
+Then I’ll commend her volubility,
+And say she uttereth piercing eloquence:
+If she do bid me pack, I’ll give her thanks,
+As though she bid me stay by her a week:
+If she deny to wed, I’ll crave the day
+When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.
+But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak.
+
+
+Enter Katherina.
+
+Good morrow, Kate; for that’s your name, I hear.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
+They call me Katherine that do talk of me.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+You lie, in faith, for you are call’d plain Kate,
+And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst;
+But, Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
+Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
+For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,
+Take this of me, Kate of my consolation;
+Hearing thy mildness prais’d in every town,
+Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,—
+Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,—
+Myself am mov’d to woo thee for my wife.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Mov’d! in good time: let him that mov’d you hither
+Remove you hence. I knew you at the first,
+You were a moveable.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, what’s a moveable?
+
+KATHERINA.
+A joint-stool.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Thou hast hit it: come, sit on me.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Asses are made to bear, and so are you.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Women are made to bear, and so are you.
+
+KATHERINA.
+No such jade as bear you, if me you mean.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Alas! good Kate, I will not burden thee;
+For, knowing thee to be but young and light,—
+
+KATHERINA.
+Too light for such a swain as you to catch;
+And yet as heavy as my weight should be.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Should be! should buz!
+
+KATHERINA.
+Well ta’en, and like a buzzard.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+O, slow-wing’d turtle! shall a buzzard take thee?
+
+KATHERINA.
+Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Come, come, you wasp; i’ faith, you are too angry.
+
+KATHERINA.
+If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+My remedy is then to pluck it out.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?
+In his tail.
+
+KATHERINA.
+In his tongue.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Whose tongue?
+
+KATHERINA.
+Yours, if you talk of tales; and so farewell.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+What! with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again,
+Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
+
+KATHERINA.
+That I’ll try.
+
+[_Striking him._]
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I swear I’ll cuff you if you strike again.
+
+KATHERINA.
+So may you lose your arms:
+If you strike me, you are no gentleman;
+And if no gentleman, why then no arms.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+A herald, Kate? O! put me in thy books.
+
+KATHERINA.
+What is your crest? a coxcomb?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.
+
+KATHERINA.
+No cock of mine; you crow too like a craven.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour.
+
+KATHERINA.
+It is my fashion when I see a crab.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, here’s no crab, and therefore look not sour.
+
+KATHERINA.
+There is, there is.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Then show it me.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Had I a glass I would.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+What, you mean my face?
+
+KATHERINA.
+Well aim’d of such a young one.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Yet you are wither’d.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+’Tis with cares.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I care not.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Nay, hear you, Kate: in sooth, you ’scape not so.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I chafe you, if I tarry; let me go.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+No, not a whit; I find you passing gentle.
+’Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen,
+And now I find report a very liar;
+For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
+But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers.
+Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,
+Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will,
+Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk;
+But thou with mildness entertain’st thy wooers;
+With gentle conference, soft and affable.
+Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?
+O sland’rous world! Kate like the hazel-twig
+Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue
+As hazel-nuts, and sweeter than the kernels.
+O! let me see thee walk: thou dost not halt.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Go, fool, and whom thou keep’st command.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Did ever Dian so become a grove
+As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?
+O! be thou Dian, and let her be Kate,
+And then let Kate be chaste, and Dian sportful!
+
+KATHERINA.
+Where did you study all this goodly speech?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+It is extempore, from my mother-wit.
+
+KATHERINA.
+A witty mother! witless else her son.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Am I not wise?
+
+KATHERINA.
+Yes; keep you warm.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherine, in thy bed;
+And therefore, setting all this chat aside,
+Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
+That you shall be my wife your dowry ’greed on;
+And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
+Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn;
+For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,—
+Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well,—
+Thou must be married to no man but me;
+For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,
+And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
+Conformable as other household Kates.
+
+
+Re-enter Baptista, Gremio and Tranio.
+
+
+Here comes your father. Never make denial;
+I must and will have Katherine to my wife.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+How but well, sir? how but well?
+It were impossible I should speed amiss.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Why, how now, daughter Katherine, in your dumps?
+
+KATHERINA.
+Call you me daughter? Now I promise you
+You have show’d a tender fatherly regard
+To wish me wed to one half lunatic,
+A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack,
+That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Father, ’tis thus: yourself and all the world
+That talk’d of her have talk’d amiss of her:
+If she be curst, it is for policy,
+For she’s not froward, but modest as the dove;
+She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
+For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
+And Roman Lucrece for her chastity;
+And to conclude, we have ’greed so well together
+That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I’ll see thee hang’d on Sunday first.
+
+GREMIO.
+Hark, Petruchio; she says she’ll see thee hang’d first.
+
+TRANIO.
+Is this your speeding? Nay, then good-night our part!
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Be patient, gentlemen. I choose her for myself;
+If she and I be pleas’d, what’s that to you?
+’Tis bargain’d ’twixt us twain, being alone,
+That she shall still be curst in company.
+I tell you, ’tis incredible to believe
+How much she loves me: O! the kindest Kate
+She hung about my neck, and kiss on kiss
+She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
+That in a twink she won me to her love.
+O! you are novices: ’tis a world to see,
+How tame, when men and women are alone,
+A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
+Give me thy hand, Kate; I will unto Venice,
+To buy apparel ’gainst the wedding-day.
+Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests;
+I will be sure my Katherine shall be fine.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+I know not what to say; but give me your hands.
+God send you joy, Petruchio! ’Tis a match.
+
+GREMIO, TRANIO.
+Amen, say we; we will be witnesses.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu.
+I will to Venice; Sunday comes apace;
+We will have rings and things, and fine array;
+And kiss me, Kate; we will be married o’ Sunday.
+
+[_Exeunt Petruchio and Katherina, severally._]
+
+GREMIO.
+Was ever match clapp’d up so suddenly?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant’s part,
+And venture madly on a desperate mart.
+
+TRANIO.
+’Twas a commodity lay fretting by you;
+’Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+The gain I seek is, quiet in the match.
+
+GREMIO.
+No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.
+But now, Baptista, to your younger daughter:
+Now is the day we long have looked for;
+I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.
+
+TRANIO.
+And I am one that love Bianca more
+Than words can witness or your thoughts can guess.
+
+GREMIO.
+Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.
+
+TRANIO.
+Greybeard, thy love doth freeze.
+
+GREMIO.
+But thine doth fry.
+Skipper, stand back; ’tis age that nourisheth.
+
+TRANIO.
+But youth in ladies’ eyes that flourisheth.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Content you, gentlemen; I’ll compound this strife:
+’Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both
+That can assure my daughter greatest dower
+Shall have my Bianca’s love.
+Say, Signior Gremio, what can you assure her?
+
+GREMIO.
+First, as you know, my house within the city
+Is richly furnished with plate and gold:
+Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
+My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;
+In ivory coffers I have stuff’d my crowns;
+In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
+Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,
+Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss’d with pearl,
+Valance of Venice gold in needlework;
+Pewter and brass, and all things that belong
+To house or housekeeping: then, at my farm
+I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,
+Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls,
+And all things answerable to this portion.
+Myself am struck in years, I must confess;
+And if I die tomorrow this is hers,
+If whilst I live she will be only mine.
+
+TRANIO.
+That ‘only’ came well in. Sir, list to me:
+I am my father’s heir and only son;
+If I may have your daughter to my wife,
+I’ll leave her houses three or four as good
+Within rich Pisa’s walls as anyone
+Old Signior Gremio has in Padua;
+Besides two thousand ducats by the year
+Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.
+What, have I pinch’d you, Signior Gremio?
+
+GREMIO.
+Two thousand ducats by the year of land!
+My land amounts not to so much in all:
+That she shall have, besides an argosy
+That now is lying in Marseilles’ road.
+What, have I chok’d you with an argosy?
+
+TRANIO.
+Gremio, ’tis known my father hath no less
+Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses,
+And twelve tight galleys; these I will assure her,
+And twice as much, whate’er thou offer’st next.
+
+GREMIO.
+Nay, I have offer’d all; I have no more;
+And she can have no more than all I have;
+If you like me, she shall have me and mine.
+
+TRANIO.
+Why, then the maid is mine from all the world,
+By your firm promise; Gremio is out-vied.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+I must confess your offer is the best;
+And let your father make her the assurance,
+She is your own; else, you must pardon me;
+If you should die before him, where’s her dower?
+
+TRANIO.
+That’s but a cavil; he is old, I young.
+
+GREMIO.
+And may not young men die as well as old?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Well, gentlemen,
+I am thus resolv’d. On Sunday next, you know,
+My daughter Katherine is to be married;
+Now, on the Sunday following, shall Bianca
+Be bride to you, if you make this assurance;
+If not, to Signior Gremio.
+And so I take my leave, and thank you both.
+
+GREMIO.
+Adieu, good neighbour.
+
+[_Exit Baptista._]
+
+Now, I fear thee not:
+Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool
+To give thee all, and in his waning age
+Set foot under thy table. Tut! a toy!
+An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+TRANIO.
+A vengeance on your crafty wither’d hide!
+Yet I have fac’d it with a card of ten.
+’Tis in my head to do my master good:
+I see no reason but suppos’d Lucentio
+Must get a father, call’d suppos’d Vincentio;
+And that’s a wonder: fathers commonly
+Do get their children; but in this case of wooing
+A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Padua. A room in Baptista’s house.
+
+
+Enter Lucentio, Hortensio and Bianca.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir.
+Have you so soon forgot the entertainment
+Her sister Katherine welcome’d you withal?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+But, wrangling pedant, this is
+The patroness of heavenly harmony:
+Then give me leave to have prerogative;
+And when in music we have spent an hour,
+Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Preposterous ass, that never read so far
+To know the cause why music was ordain’d!
+Was it not to refresh the mind of man
+After his studies or his usual pain?
+Then give me leave to read philosophy,
+And while I pause serve in your harmony.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.
+
+BIANCA.
+Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong,
+To strive for that which resteth in my choice.
+I am no breeching scholar in the schools,
+I’ll not be tied to hours nor ’pointed times,
+But learn my lessons as I please myself.
+And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down;
+Take you your instrument, play you the whiles;
+His lecture will be done ere you have tun’d.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+You’ll leave his lecture when I am in tune?
+
+[_Retires._]
+
+LUCENTIO.
+That will be never: tune your instrument.
+
+BIANCA.
+Where left we last?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Here, madam:—
+_Hic ibat Simois; hic est Sigeia tellus;
+Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis._
+
+BIANCA.
+Construe them.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+_Hic ibat_, as I told you before, _Simois_, I am Lucentio, _hic est_,
+son unto Vincentio of Pisa, _Sigeia tellus_, disguised thus to get your
+love, _Hic steterat_, and that Lucentio that comes a-wooing, _Priami_,
+is my man Tranio, _regia_, bearing my port, _celsa senis_, that we
+might beguile the old pantaloon.
+
+HORTENSIO. [_Returning._]
+Madam, my instrument’s in tune.
+
+BIANCA.
+Let’s hear.—
+
+[Hortensio _plays._]
+
+O fie! the treble jars.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Spit in the hole, man, and tune again.
+
+BIANCA.
+Now let me see if I can construe it: _Hic ibat Simois_, I know you not;
+_hic est Sigeia tellus_, I trust you not; _Hic steterat Priami_, take
+heed he hear us not; _regia_, presume not; _celsa senis_, despair not.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Madam, ’tis now in tune.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+All but the base.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+The base is right; ’tis the base knave that jars.
+[_Aside_] How fiery and forward our pedant is!
+Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love:
+Pedascule, I’ll watch you better yet.
+
+BIANCA.
+In time I may believe, yet I mistrust.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Mistrust it not; for sure, Æacides
+Was Ajax, call’d so from his grandfather.
+
+BIANCA.
+I must believe my master; else, I promise you,
+I should be arguing still upon that doubt;
+But let it rest. Now, Licio, to you.
+Good master, take it not unkindly, pray,
+That I have been thus pleasant with you both.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+[_To Lucentio_] You may go walk and give me leave a while;
+My lessons make no music in three parts.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Are you so formal, sir? Well, I must wait,
+[_Aside_] And watch withal; for, but I be deceiv’d,
+Our fine musician groweth amorous.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Madam, before you touch the instrument,
+To learn the order of my fingering,
+I must begin with rudiments of art;
+To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,
+More pleasant, pithy, and effectual,
+Than hath been taught by any of my trade:
+And there it is in writing, fairly drawn.
+
+BIANCA.
+Why, I am past my gamut long ago.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Yet read the gamut of Hortensio.
+
+BIANCA.
+   _Gamut_ I am, the ground of all accord,
+     _A re_, to plead Hortensio’s passion;
+   _B mi_, Bianca, take him for thy lord,
+     _C fa ut_, that loves with all affection:
+   _D sol re_, one clef, two notes have I
+   _E la mi_, show pity or I die.
+Call you this gamut? Tut, I like it not:
+Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice,
+To change true rules for odd inventions.
+
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+Mistress, your father prays you leave your books,
+And help to dress your sister’s chamber up:
+You know tomorrow is the wedding-day.
+
+BIANCA.
+Farewell, sweet masters, both: I must be gone.
+
+[_Exeunt Bianca and Servant._]
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+HORTENSIO.
+But I have cause to pry into this pedant:
+Methinks he looks as though he were in love.
+Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble
+To cast thy wand’ring eyes on every stale,
+Seize thee that list: if once I find thee ranging,
+Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. Before Baptista’s house.
+
+Enter Baptista, Gremio, Tranio, Katherina, Bianca, Lucentio and
+Attendants.
+
+BAPTISTA.  [_To Tranio_.]
+Signior Lucentio, this is the ’pointed day
+That Katherine and Petruchio should be married,
+And yet we hear not of our son-in-law.
+What will be said? What mockery will it be
+To want the bridegroom when the priest attends
+To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!
+What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?
+
+KATHERINA.
+No shame but mine; I must, forsooth, be forc’d
+To give my hand, oppos’d against my heart,
+Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen;
+Who woo’d in haste and means to wed at leisure.
+I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,
+Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviour;
+And to be noted for a merry man,
+He’ll woo a thousand, ’point the day of marriage,
+Make friends, invite, and proclaim the banns;
+Yet never means to wed where he hath woo’d.
+Now must the world point at poor Katherine,
+And say ‘Lo! there is mad Petruchio’s wife,
+If it would please him come and marry her.’
+
+TRANIO.
+Patience, good Katherine, and Baptista too.
+Upon my life, Petruchio means but well,
+Whatever fortune stays him from his word:
+Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;
+Though he be merry, yet withal he’s honest.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Would Katherine had never seen him though!
+
+[_Exit weeping, followed by Bianca and others._]
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Go, girl, I cannot blame thee now to weep,
+For such an injury would vex a very saint;
+Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour.
+
+
+Enter Biondello.
+
+Master, master! News! old news, and such news as you never heard of!
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Is it new and old too? How may that be?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Why, is it not news to hear of Petruchio’s coming?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Is he come?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Why, no, sir.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+What then?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+He is coming.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+When will he be here?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+When he stands where I am and sees you there.
+
+TRANIO.
+But say, what to thine old news?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Why, Petruchio is coming, in a new hat and an old jerkin; a pair of old
+breeches thrice turned; a pair of boots that have been candle-cases,
+one buckled, another laced; an old rusty sword ta’en out of the town
+armoury, with a broken hilt, and chapeless; with two broken points: his
+horse hipped with an old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred;
+besides, possessed with the glanders and like to mose in the chine;
+troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of
+windgalls, sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows, past cure of the
+fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the bots, swayed
+in the back and shoulder-shotten; near-legged before, and with a
+half-checked bit, and a head-stall of sheep’s leather, which, being
+restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now
+repaired with knots; one girth six times pieced, and a woman’s crupper
+of velure, which hath two letters for her name fairly set down in
+studs, and here and there pieced with pack-thread.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Who comes with him?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+O, sir! his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse; with
+a linen stock on one leg and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered
+with a red and blue list; an old hat, and the humour of forty fancies
+prick’d in’t for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparel, and
+not like a Christian footboy or a gentleman’s lackey.
+
+TRANIO.
+’Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion;
+Yet oftentimes he goes but mean-apparell’d.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+I am glad he’s come, howsoe’er he comes.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Why, sir, he comes not.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Didst thou not say he comes?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Who? that Petruchio came?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Ay, that Petruchio came.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+No, sir; I say his horse comes, with him on his back.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Why, that’s all one.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+     Nay, by Saint Jamy,
+     I hold you a penny,
+     A horse and a man
+     Is more than one,
+     And yet not many.
+
+
+Enter Petruchio and Grumio.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Come, where be these gallants? Who is at home?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+You are welcome, sir.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+And yet I come not well.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+And yet you halt not.
+
+TRANIO.
+Not so well apparell’d as I wish you were.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Were it better, I should rush in thus.
+But where is Kate? Where is my lovely bride?
+How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown;
+And wherefore gaze this goodly company,
+As if they saw some wondrous monument,
+Some comet or unusual prodigy?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day:
+First were we sad, fearing you would not come;
+Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
+Fie! doff this habit, shame to your estate,
+An eye-sore to our solemn festival.
+
+TRANIO.
+And tell us what occasion of import
+Hath all so long detain’d you from your wife,
+And sent you hither so unlike yourself?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear;
+Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,
+Though in some part enforced to digress;
+Which at more leisure I will so excuse
+As you shall well be satisfied withal.
+But where is Kate? I stay too long from her;
+The morning wears, ’tis time we were at church.
+
+TRANIO.
+See not your bride in these unreverent robes;
+Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Not I, believe me: thus I’ll visit her.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+But thus, I trust, you will not marry her.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Good sooth, even thus; therefore ha’ done with words;
+To me she’s married, not unto my clothes.
+Could I repair what she will wear in me
+As I can change these poor accoutrements,
+’Twere well for Kate and better for myself.
+But what a fool am I to chat with you
+When I should bid good morrow to my bride,
+And seal the title with a lovely kiss!
+
+[_Exeunt Petruchio, Grumio and Biondello._]
+
+TRANIO.
+He hath some meaning in his mad attire.
+We will persuade him, be it possible,
+To put on better ere he go to church.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+I’ll after him and see the event of this.
+
+[_Exeunt Baptista, Gremio and Attendants._]
+
+TRANIO.
+But, sir, to love concerneth us to add
+Her father’s liking; which to bring to pass,
+As I before imparted to your worship,
+I am to get a man,—whate’er he be
+It skills not much; we’ll fit him to our turn,—
+And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa,
+And make assurance here in Padua,
+Of greater sums than I have promised.
+So shall you quietly enjoy your hope,
+And marry sweet Bianca with consent.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Were it not that my fellow schoolmaster
+Doth watch Bianca’s steps so narrowly,
+’Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage;
+Which once perform’d, let all the world say no,
+I’ll keep mine own despite of all the world.
+
+TRANIO.
+That by degrees we mean to look into,
+And watch our vantage in this business.
+We’ll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio,
+The narrow-prying father, Minola,
+The quaint musician, amorous Licio;
+All for my master’s sake, Lucentio.
+
+
+Re-enter Gremio.
+
+Signior Gremio, came you from the church?
+
+GREMIO.
+As willingly as e’er I came from school.
+
+TRANIO.
+And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?
+
+GREMIO.
+A bridegroom, say you? ’Tis a groom indeed,
+A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.
+
+TRANIO.
+Curster than she? Why, ’tis impossible.
+
+GREMIO.
+Why, he’s a devil, a devil, a very fiend.
+
+TRANIO.
+Why, she’s a devil, a devil, the devil’s dam.
+
+GREMIO.
+Tut! she’s a lamb, a dove, a fool, to him.
+I’ll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest
+Should ask if Katherine should be his wife,
+’Ay, by gogs-wouns’ quoth he, and swore so loud
+That, all amaz’d, the priest let fall the book;
+And as he stoop’d again to take it up,
+The mad-brain’d bridegroom took him such a cuff
+That down fell priest and book, and book and priest:
+‘Now take them up,’ quoth he ‘if any list.’
+
+TRANIO.
+What said the wench, when he rose again?
+
+GREMIO.
+Trembled and shook, for why, he stamp’d and swore
+As if the vicar meant to cozen him.
+But after many ceremonies done,
+He calls for wine: ‘A health!’ quoth he, as if
+He had been abroad, carousing to his mates
+After a storm; quaff’d off the muscadel,
+And threw the sops all in the sexton’s face,
+Having no other reason
+But that his beard grew thin and hungerly
+And seem’d to ask him sops as he was drinking.
+This done, he took the bride about the neck,
+And kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack
+That at the parting all the church did echo.
+And I, seeing this, came thence for very shame;
+And after me, I know, the rout is coming.
+Such a mad marriage never was before.
+Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play.
+
+[_Music plays._]
+
+
+Enter Petruchio, Katherina, Bianca, Baptista, Hortensio, Grumio and
+Train.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains:
+I know you think to dine with me today,
+And have prepar’d great store of wedding cheer
+But so it is, my haste doth call me hence,
+And therefore here I mean to take my leave.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Is’t possible you will away tonight?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I must away today before night come.
+Make it no wonder: if you knew my business,
+You would entreat me rather go than stay.
+And, honest company, I thank you all,
+That have beheld me give away myself
+To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife.
+Dine with my father, drink a health to me.
+For I must hence; and farewell to you all.
+
+TRANIO.
+Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+It may not be.
+
+GREMIO.
+Let me entreat you.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+It cannot be.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Let me entreat you.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I am content.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Are you content to stay?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I am content you shall entreat me stay;
+But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Now, if you love me, stay.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Grumio, my horse!
+
+GRUMIO.
+Ay, sir, they be ready; the oats have eaten the horses.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Nay, then,
+Do what thou canst, I will not go today;
+No, nor tomorrow, not till I please myself.
+The door is open, sir; there lies your way;
+You may be jogging whiles your boots are green;
+For me, I’ll not be gone till I please myself.
+’Tis like you’ll prove a jolly surly groom
+That take it on you at the first so roundly.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+O Kate! content thee: prithee be not angry.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I will be angry: what hast thou to do?
+Father, be quiet; he shall stay my leisure.
+
+GREMIO.
+Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner:
+I see a woman may be made a fool,
+If she had not a spirit to resist.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.
+Obey the bride, you that attend on her;
+Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
+Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,
+Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves:
+But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.
+Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;
+I will be master of what is mine own.
+She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
+My household stuff, my field, my barn,
+My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything;
+And here she stands, touch her whoever dare;
+I’ll bring mine action on the proudest he
+That stops my way in Padua. Grumio,
+Draw forth thy weapon; we are beset with thieves;
+Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.
+Fear not, sweet wench; they shall not touch thee, Kate;
+I’ll buckler thee against a million.
+
+[_Exeunt Petruchio, Katherina and Grumio._]
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet ones.
+
+GREMIO.
+Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing.
+
+TRANIO.
+Of all mad matches, never was the like.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Mistress, what’s your opinion of your sister?
+
+BIANCA.
+That, being mad herself, she’s madly mated.
+
+GREMIO.
+I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants
+For to supply the places at the table,
+You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
+Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom’s place;
+And let Bianca take her sister’s room.
+
+TRANIO.
+Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+She shall, Lucentio. Come, gentlemen, let’s go.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. A hall in Petruchio’s country house.
+
+
+Enter Grumio.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and all foul ways! Was
+ever man so beaten? Was ever man so ray’d? Was ever man so weary? I am
+sent before to make a fire, and they are coming after to warm them.
+Now, were not I a little pot and soon hot, my very lips might freeze to
+my teeth, my tongue to the roof of my mouth, my heart in my belly, ere
+I should come by a fire to thaw me. But I with blowing the fire shall
+warm myself; for, considering the weather, a taller man than I will
+take cold. Holla, ho! Curtis!
+
+
+Enter Curtis.
+
+CURTIS.
+Who is that calls so coldly?
+
+GRUMIO.
+A piece of ice: if thou doubt it, thou mayst slide from my shoulder to
+my heel with no greater a run but my head and my neck. A fire, good
+Curtis.
+
+CURTIS.
+Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?
+
+GRUMIO.
+O, ay! Curtis, ay; and therefore fire, fire; cast on no water.
+
+CURTIS.
+Is she so hot a shrew as she’s reported?
+
+GRUMIO.
+She was, good Curtis, before this frost; but thou knowest winter tames
+man, woman, and beast; for it hath tamed my old master, and my new
+mistress, and myself, fellow Curtis.
+
+CURTIS.
+Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Am I but three inches? Why, thy horn is a foot; and so long am I at the
+least. But wilt thou make a fire, or shall I complain on thee to our
+mistress, whose hand,—she being now at hand,— thou shalt soon feel, to
+thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office?
+
+CURTIS.
+I prithee, good Grumio, tell me, how goes the world?
+
+GRUMIO.
+A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine; and therefore fire. Do
+thy duty, and have thy duty, for my master and mistress are almost
+frozen to death.
+
+CURTIS.
+There’s fire ready; and therefore, good Grumio, the news.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Why, ‘Jack boy! ho, boy!’ and as much news as wilt thou.
+
+CURTIS.
+Come, you are so full of cony-catching.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Why, therefore, fire; for I have caught extreme cold. Where’s the cook?
+Is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the
+servingmen in their new fustian, their white stockings, and every
+officer his wedding-garment on? Be the Jacks fair within, the Jills
+fair without, and carpets laid, and everything in order?
+
+CURTIS.
+All ready; and therefore, I pray thee, news.
+
+GRUMIO.
+First, know my horse is tired; my master and mistress fallen out.
+
+CURTIS.
+How?
+
+GRUMIO.
+Out of their saddles into the dirt; and thereby hangs a tale.
+
+CURTIS.
+Let’s ha’t, good Grumio.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Lend thine ear.
+
+CURTIS.
+Here.
+
+GRUMIO.
+[_Striking him._] There.
+
+CURTIS.
+This ’tis to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.
+
+GRUMIO.
+And therefore ’tis called a sensible tale; and this cuff was but to
+knock at your ear and beseech listening. Now I begin: _Imprimis_, we
+came down a foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress,—
+
+CURTIS.
+Both of one horse?
+
+GRUMIO.
+What’s that to thee?
+
+CURTIS.
+Why, a horse.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have
+heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have
+heard in how miry a place, how she was bemoiled; how he left her with
+the horse upon her; how he beat me because her horse stumbled; how she
+waded through the dirt to pluck him off me: how he swore; how she
+prayed, that never prayed before; how I cried; how the horses ran away;
+how her bridle was burst; how I lost my crupper; with many things of
+worthy memory, which now shall die in oblivion, and thou return
+unexperienced to thy grave.
+
+CURTIS.
+By this reckoning he is more shrew than she.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Ay; and that thou and the proudest of you all shall find when he comes
+home. But what talk I of this? Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas,
+Philip, Walter, Sugarsop, and the rest; let their heads be sleekly
+combed, their blue coats brush’d and their garters of an indifferent
+knit; let them curtsy with their left legs, and not presume to touch a
+hair of my master’s horse-tail till they kiss their hands. Are they all
+ready?
+
+CURTIS.
+They are.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Call them forth.
+
+CURTIS.
+Do you hear? ho! You must meet my master to countenance my mistress.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Why, she hath a face of her own.
+
+CURTIS.
+Who knows not that?
+
+GRUMIO.
+Thou, it seems, that calls for company to countenance her.
+
+CURTIS.
+I call them forth to credit her.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.
+
+
+Enter four or five Servants.
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Welcome home, Grumio!
+
+PHILIP.
+How now, Grumio!
+
+JOSEPH.
+What, Grumio!
+
+NICHOLAS.
+Fellow Grumio!
+
+NATHANIEL.
+How now, old lad!
+
+GRUMIO.
+Welcome, you; how now, you; what, you; fellow, you; and thus much for
+greeting. Now, my spruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat?
+
+NATHANIEL.
+All things is ready. How near is our master?
+
+GRUMIO.
+E’en at hand, alighted by this; and therefore be not,—
+Cock’s passion, silence! I hear my master.
+
+
+Enter Petruchio and Katherina.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Where be these knaves? What! no man at door
+To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse?
+Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?—
+
+ALL SERVANTS.
+Here, here, sir; here, sir.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir!
+You logger-headed and unpolish’d grooms!
+What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?
+Where is the foolish knave I sent before?
+
+GRUMIO.
+Here, sir; as foolish as I was before.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+You peasant swain! you whoreson malt-horse drudge!
+Did I not bid thee meet me in the park,
+And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?
+
+GRUMIO.
+Nathaniel’s coat, sir, was not fully made,
+And Gabriel’s pumps were all unpink’d i’ the heel;
+There was no link to colour Peter’s hat,
+And Walter’s dagger was not come from sheathing;
+There was none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory;
+The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly;
+Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Go, rascals, go and fetch my supper in.
+
+[_Exeunt some of the Servants._]
+
+Where is the life that late I led?
+   Where are those—?  Sit down, Kate, and welcome.
+Food, food, food, food!
+
+
+Re-enter Servants with supper.
+
+Why, when, I say?—Nay, good sweet Kate, be merry.—
+Off with my boots, you rogues! you villains! when?
+   It was the friar of orders grey,
+   As he forth walked on his way:
+Out, you rogue! you pluck my foot awry:
+
+[_Strikes him._]
+
+Take that, and mend the plucking off the other.
+Be merry, Kate. Some water, here; what, ho!
+Where’s my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence
+And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither:
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+One, Kate, that you must kiss and be acquainted with.
+Where are my slippers? Shall I have some water?
+Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily.—
+
+[_Servant lets the ewer fall. Petruchio strikes him._]
+
+You whoreson villain! will you let it fall?
+
+KATHERINA.
+Patience, I pray you; ’twas a fault unwilling.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear’d knave!
+Come, Kate, sit down; I know you have a stomach.
+Will you give thanks, sweet Kate, or else shall I?—
+What’s this? Mutton?
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Ay.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Who brought it?
+
+PETER.
+I.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+’Tis burnt; and so is all the meat.
+What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?
+How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,
+And serve it thus to me that love it not?
+
+[_Throws the meat, etc., at them._]
+
+There, take it to you, trenchers, cups, and all.
+You heedless joltheads and unmanner’d slaves!
+What! do you grumble? I’ll be with you straight.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet;
+The meat was well, if you were so contented.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I tell thee, Kate, ’twas burnt and dried away,
+And I expressly am forbid to touch it;
+For it engenders choler, planteth anger;
+And better ’twere that both of us did fast,
+Since, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric,
+Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh.
+Be patient; tomorrow ’t shall be mended.
+And for this night we’ll fast for company:
+Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber.
+
+[_Exeunt Petruchio, Katherina and Curtis._]
+
+NATHANIEL.
+Peter, didst ever see the like?
+
+PETER.
+He kills her in her own humour.
+
+
+Re-enter Curtis.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Where is he?
+
+CURTIS.
+In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to her;
+And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul,
+Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak,
+And sits as one new risen from a dream.
+Away, away! for he is coming hither.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+Re-enter Petruchio.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Thus have I politicly begun my reign,
+And ’tis my hope to end successfully.
+My falcon now is sharp and passing empty.
+And till she stoop she must not be full-gorg’d,
+For then she never looks upon her lure.
+Another way I have to man my haggard,
+To make her come, and know her keeper’s call,
+That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites
+That bate and beat, and will not be obedient.
+She eat no meat today, nor none shall eat;
+Last night she slept not, nor tonight she shall not;
+As with the meat, some undeserved fault
+I’ll find about the making of the bed;
+And here I’ll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
+This way the coverlet, another way the sheets;
+Ay, and amid this hurly I intend
+That all is done in reverend care of her;
+And, in conclusion, she shall watch all night:
+And if she chance to nod I’ll rail and brawl,
+And with the clamour keep her still awake.
+This is a way to kill a wife with kindness;
+And thus I’ll curb her mad and headstrong humour.
+He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
+Now let him speak; ’tis charity to show.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Padua. Before Baptista’s house.
+
+Enter Tranio and Hortensio.
+
+TRANIO.
+Is ’t possible, friend Licio, that Mistress Bianca
+Doth fancy any other but Lucentio?
+I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said,
+Stand by and mark the manner of his teaching.
+
+[_They stand aside._]
+
+
+Enter Bianca and Lucentio.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Now, mistress, profit you in what you read?
+
+BIANCA.
+What, master, read you? First resolve me that.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I read that I profess, _The Art to Love_.
+
+BIANCA.
+And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
+
+LUCENTIO.
+While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart.
+
+[_They retire._]
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Quick proceeders, marry! Now tell me, I pray,
+You that durst swear that your Mistress Bianca
+Lov’d none in the world so well as Lucentio.
+
+TRANIO.
+O despiteful love! unconstant womankind!
+I tell thee, Licio, this is wonderful.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Mistake no more; I am not Licio.
+Nor a musician as I seem to be;
+But one that scorn to live in this disguise
+For such a one as leaves a gentleman
+And makes a god of such a cullion:
+Know, sir, that I am call’d Hortensio.
+
+TRANIO.
+Signior Hortensio, I have often heard
+Of your entire affection to Bianca;
+And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness,
+I will with you, if you be so contented,
+Forswear Bianca and her love for ever.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+See, how they kiss and court! Signior Lucentio,
+Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow
+Never to woo her more, but do forswear her,
+As one unworthy all the former favours
+That I have fondly flatter’d her withal.
+
+TRANIO.
+And here I take the like unfeigned oath,
+Never to marry with her though she would entreat;
+Fie on her! See how beastly she doth court him!
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Would all the world but he had quite forsworn!
+For me, that I may surely keep mine oath,
+I will be married to a wealthy widow
+Ere three days pass, which hath as long lov’d me
+As I have lov’d this proud disdainful haggard.
+And so farewell, Signior Lucentio.
+Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
+Shall win my love; and so I take my leave,
+In resolution as I swore before.
+
+[_Exit Hortensio. Lucentio and Bianca advance._]
+
+TRANIO.
+Mistress Bianca, bless you with such grace
+As ’longeth to a lover’s blessed case!
+Nay, I have ta’en you napping, gentle love,
+And have forsworn you with Hortensio.
+
+BIANCA.
+Tranio, you jest; but have you both forsworn me?
+
+TRANIO.
+Mistress, we have.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Then we are rid of Licio.
+
+TRANIO.
+I’ faith, he’ll have a lusty widow now,
+That shall be woo’d and wedded in a day.
+
+BIANCA.
+God give him joy!
+
+TRANIO.
+Ay, and he’ll tame her.
+
+BIANCA.
+He says so, Tranio.
+
+TRANIO.
+Faith, he is gone unto the taming-school.
+
+BIANCA.
+The taming-school! What, is there such a place?
+
+TRANIO.
+Ay, mistress; and Petruchio is the master,
+That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,
+To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.
+
+
+Enter Biondello, running.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+O master, master! I have watch’d so long
+That I am dog-weary; but at last I spied
+An ancient angel coming down the hill
+Will serve the turn.
+
+TRANIO.
+What is he, Biondello?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Master, a mercatante or a pedant,
+I know not what; but formal in apparel,
+In gait and countenance surely like a father.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+And what of him, Tranio?
+
+TRANIO.
+If he be credulous and trust my tale,
+I’ll make him glad to seem Vincentio,
+And give assurance to Baptista Minola,
+As if he were the right Vincentio.
+Take in your love, and then let me alone.
+
+[_Exeunt Lucentio and Bianca._]
+
+
+Enter a Pedant.
+
+PEDANT.
+God save you, sir!
+
+TRANIO.
+And you, sir! you are welcome.
+Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?
+
+PEDANT.
+Sir, at the farthest for a week or two;
+But then up farther, and as far as Rome;
+And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.
+
+TRANIO.
+What countryman, I pray?
+
+PEDANT.
+Of Mantua.
+
+TRANIO.
+Of Mantua, sir?  Marry, God forbid,
+And come to Padua, careless of your life!
+
+PEDANT.
+My life, sir! How, I pray? for that goes hard.
+
+TRANIO.
+’Tis death for anyone in Mantua
+To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
+Your ships are stay’d at Venice; and the Duke,—
+For private quarrel ’twixt your Duke and him,—
+Hath publish’d and proclaim’d it openly.
+’Tis marvel, but that you are but newly come
+You might have heard it else proclaim’d about.
+
+PEDANT.
+Alas, sir! it is worse for me than so;
+For I have bills for money by exchange
+From Florence, and must here deliver them.
+
+TRANIO.
+Well, sir, to do you courtesy,
+This will I do, and this I will advise you:
+First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?
+
+PEDANT.
+Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,
+Pisa renowned for grave citizens.
+
+TRANIO.
+Among them know you one Vincentio?
+
+PEDANT.
+I know him not, but I have heard of him,
+A merchant of incomparable wealth.
+
+TRANIO.
+He is my father, sir; and, sooth to say,
+In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+[_Aside._]  As much as an apple doth an oyster, and all one.
+
+TRANIO.
+To save your life in this extremity,
+This favour will I do you for his sake;
+And think it not the worst of all your fortunes
+That you are like to Sir Vincentio.
+His name and credit shall you undertake,
+And in my house you shall be friendly lodg’d;
+Look that you take upon you as you should!
+You understand me, sir; so shall you stay
+Till you have done your business in the city.
+If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it.
+
+PEDANT.
+O, sir, I do; and will repute you ever
+The patron of my life and liberty.
+
+TRANIO.
+Then go with me to make the matter good.
+This, by the way, I let you understand:
+My father is here look’d for every day
+To pass assurance of a dower in marriage
+’Twixt me and one Baptista’s daughter here:
+In all these circumstances I’ll instruct you.
+Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A room in Petruchio’s house.
+
+Enter Katherina and Grumio.
+
+GRUMIO.
+No, no, forsooth; I dare not for my life.
+
+KATHERINA.
+The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.
+What, did he marry me to famish me?
+Beggars that come unto my father’s door
+Upon entreaty have a present alms;
+If not, elsewhere they meet with charity;
+But I, who never knew how to entreat,
+Nor never needed that I should entreat,
+Am starv’d for meat, giddy for lack of sleep;
+With oaths kept waking, and with brawling fed.
+And that which spites me more than all these wants,
+He does it under name of perfect love;
+As who should say, if I should sleep or eat
+’Twere deadly sickness, or else present death.
+I prithee go and get me some repast;
+I care not what, so it be wholesome food.
+
+GRUMIO.
+What say you to a neat’s foot?
+
+KATHERINA.
+’Tis passing good; I prithee let me have it.
+
+GRUMIO.
+I fear it is too choleric a meat.
+How say you to a fat tripe finely broil’d?
+
+KATHERINA.
+I like it well; good Grumio, fetch it me.
+
+GRUMIO.
+I cannot tell; I fear ’tis choleric.
+What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
+
+KATHERINA.
+A dish that I do love to feed upon.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Why then the beef, and let the mustard rest.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Nay, then I will not: you shall have the mustard,
+Or else you get no beef of Grumio.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Then both, or one, or anything thou wilt.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Why then the mustard without the beef.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,
+
+[_Beats him._]
+
+That feed’st me with the very name of meat.
+Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you
+That triumph thus upon my misery!
+Go, get thee gone, I say.
+
+
+Enter Petruchio with a dish of meat; and Hortensio.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Mistress, what cheer?
+
+KATHERINA.
+Faith, as cold as can be.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Pluck up thy spirits; look cheerfully upon me.
+Here, love; thou seest how diligent I am,
+To dress thy meat myself, and bring it thee:
+
+[_Sets the dish on a table._]
+
+I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks.
+What! not a word? Nay, then thou lov’st it not,
+And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
+Here, take away this dish.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I pray you, let it stand.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+The poorest service is repaid with thanks;
+And so shall mine, before you touch the meat.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I thank you, sir.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Signior Petruchio, fie! you are to blame.
+Come, Mistress Kate, I’ll bear you company.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+[_Aside._]  Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me.
+Much good do it unto thy gentle heart!
+Kate, eat apace: and now, my honey love,
+Will we return unto thy father’s house
+And revel it as bravely as the best,
+With silken coats and caps, and golden rings,
+With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;
+With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
+With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
+What! hast thou din’d? The tailor stays thy leisure,
+To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.
+
+
+Enter Tailor.
+
+Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;
+Lay forth the gown.—
+
+
+Enter Haberdasher.
+
+What news with you, sir?
+
+HABERDASHER.
+Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, this was moulded on a porringer;
+A velvet dish: fie, fie! ’tis lewd and filthy:
+Why, ’tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
+A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap:
+Away with it! come, let me have a bigger.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I’ll have no bigger; this doth fit the time,
+And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+When you are gentle, you shall have one too,
+And not till then.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+[_Aside_] That will not be in haste.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak;
+And speak I will. I am no child, no babe.
+Your betters have endur’d me say my mind,
+And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
+My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
+Or else my heart, concealing it, will break;
+And rather than it shall, I will be free
+Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, thou say’st true; it is a paltry cap,
+A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie;
+I love thee well in that thou lik’st it not.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Love me or love me not, I like the cap;
+And it I will have, or I will have none.
+
+[_Exit Haberdasher._]
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Thy gown? Why, ay: come, tailor, let us see’t.
+O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?
+What’s this? A sleeve? ’Tis like a demi-cannon.
+What, up and down, carv’d like an apple tart?
+Here’s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
+Like to a censer in a barber’s shop.
+Why, what i’ devil’s name, tailor, call’st thou this?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+[_Aside_] I see she’s like to have neither cap nor gown.
+
+TAILOR.
+You bid me make it orderly and well,
+According to the fashion and the time.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Marry, and did; but if you be remember’d,
+I did not bid you mar it to the time.
+Go, hop me over every kennel home,
+For you shall hop without my custom, sir.
+I’ll none of it: hence! make your best of it.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I never saw a better fashion’d gown,
+More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable;
+Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, true; he means to make a puppet of thee.
+
+TAILOR.
+She says your worship means to make a puppet of her.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread,
+Thou thimble,
+Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!
+Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou!
+Brav’d in mine own house with a skein of thread!
+Away! thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant,
+Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard
+As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv’st!
+I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr’d her gown.
+
+TAILOR.
+Your worship is deceiv’d: the gown is made
+Just as my master had direction.
+Grumio gave order how it should be done.
+
+GRUMIO.
+I gave him no order; I gave him the stuff.
+
+TAILOR.
+But how did you desire it should be made?
+
+GRUMIO.
+Marry, sir, with needle and thread.
+
+TAILOR.
+But did you not request to have it cut?
+
+GRUMIO.
+Thou hast faced many things.
+
+TAILOR.
+I have.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Face not me. Thou hast braved many men; brave not me: I will neither be
+fac’d nor brav’d. I say unto thee, I bid thy master cut out the gown;
+but I did not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest.
+
+TAILOR.
+Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Read it.
+
+GRUMIO.
+The note lies in ’s throat, if he say I said so.
+
+TAILOR.
+’Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown.’
+
+GRUMIO.
+Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in the skirts of it
+and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread; I said, a gown.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Proceed.
+
+TAILOR.
+‘With a small compassed cape.’
+
+GRUMIO.
+I confess the cape.
+
+TAILOR.
+‘With a trunk sleeve.’
+
+GRUMIO.
+I confess two sleeves.
+
+TAILOR.
+‘The sleeves curiously cut.’
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Ay, there’s the villainy.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Error i’ the bill, sir; error i’ the bill. I commanded the sleeves
+should be cut out, and sew’d up again; and that I’ll prove upon thee,
+though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.
+
+TAILOR.
+This is true that I say; and I had thee in place where thou shouldst
+know it.
+
+GRUMIO.
+I am for thee straight; take thou the bill, give me thy mete-yard, and
+spare not me.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+God-a-mercy, Grumio! Then he shall have no odds.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.
+
+GRUMIO.
+You are i’ the right, sir; ’tis for my mistress.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Go, take it up unto thy master’s use.
+
+GRUMIO.
+Villain, not for thy life! Take up my mistress’ gown for thy master’s
+use!
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, sir, what’s your conceit in that?
+
+GRUMIO.
+O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for.
+Take up my mistress’ gown to his master’s use!
+O fie, fie, fie!
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+[_Aside_]  Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.
+[_To Tailor._] Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+[_Aside to Tailor._] Tailor, I’ll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow;
+Take no unkindness of his hasty words.
+Away, I say! commend me to thy master.
+
+[_Exit Tailor._]
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father’s
+Even in these honest mean habiliments.
+Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor
+For ’tis the mind that makes the body rich;
+And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
+So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
+What, is the jay more precious than the lark
+Because his feathers are more beautiful?
+Or is the adder better than the eel
+Because his painted skin contents the eye?
+O no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse
+For this poor furniture and mean array.
+If thou account’st it shame, lay it on me;
+And therefore frolic; we will hence forthwith,
+To feast and sport us at thy father’s house.
+Go call my men, and let us straight to him;
+And bring our horses unto Long-lane end;
+There will we mount, and thither walk on foot.
+Let’s see; I think ’tis now some seven o’clock,
+And well we may come there by dinner-time.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I dare assure you, sir, ’tis almost two,
+And ’twill be supper-time ere you come there.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+It shall be seven ere I go to horse.
+Look what I speak, or do, or think to do,
+You are still crossing it. Sirs, let ’t alone:
+I will not go today; and ere I do,
+It shall be what o’clock I say it is.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Why, so this gallant will command the sun.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Padua. Before Baptista’s house.
+
+Enter Tranio and the Pedant dressed like Vincentio
+
+TRANIO.
+Sir, this is the house; please it you that I call?
+
+PEDANT.
+Ay, what else? and, but I be deceived,
+Signior Baptista may remember me,
+Near twenty years ago in Genoa,
+Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.
+
+TRANIO.
+’Tis well; and hold your own, in any case,
+With such austerity as ’longeth to a father.
+
+PEDANT.
+I warrant you. But, sir, here comes your boy;
+’Twere good he were school’d.
+
+
+Enter Biondello.
+
+TRANIO.
+Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,
+Now do your duty throughly, I advise you.
+Imagine ’twere the right Vincentio.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Tut! fear not me.
+
+TRANIO.
+But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+I told him that your father was at Venice,
+And that you look’d for him this day in Padua.
+
+TRANIO.
+Th’art a tall fellow; hold thee that to drink.
+Here comes Baptista. Set your countenance, sir.
+
+
+Enter Baptista and Lucentio.
+
+Signior Baptista, you are happily met.
+[_To the Pedant_] Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of;
+I pray you stand good father to me now;
+Give me Bianca for my patrimony.
+
+PEDANT.
+Soft, son!
+Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua
+To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
+Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
+Of love between your daughter and himself:
+And,—for the good report I hear of you,
+And for the love he beareth to your daughter,
+And she to him,—to stay him not too long,
+I am content, in a good father’s care,
+To have him match’d; and, if you please to like
+No worse than I, upon some agreement
+Me shall you find ready and willing
+With one consent to have her so bestow’d;
+For curious I cannot be with you,
+Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Sir, pardon me in what I have to say.
+Your plainness and your shortness please me well.
+Right true it is your son Lucentio here
+Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him,
+Or both dissemble deeply their affections;
+And therefore, if you say no more than this,
+That like a father you will deal with him,
+And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,
+The match is made, and all is done:
+Your son shall have my daughter with consent.
+
+TRANIO.
+I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best
+We be affied, and such assurance ta’en
+As shall with either part’s agreement stand?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Not in my house, Lucentio, for you know
+Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants;
+Besides, old Gremio is hearkening still,
+And happily we might be interrupted.
+
+TRANIO.
+Then at my lodging, and it like you:
+There doth my father lie; and there this night
+We’ll pass the business privately and well.
+Send for your daughter by your servant here;
+My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
+The worst is this, that at so slender warning
+You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+It likes me well. Cambio, hie you home,
+And bid Bianca make her ready straight;
+And, if you will, tell what hath happened:
+Lucentio’s father is arriv’d in Padua,
+And how she’s like to be Lucentio’s wife.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I pray the gods she may, with all my heart!
+
+TRANIO.
+Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.
+Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?
+Welcome! One mess is like to be your cheer;
+Come, sir; we will better it in Pisa.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+I follow you.
+
+[_Exeunt Tranio, Pedant and Baptista._]
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Cambio!
+
+LUCENTIO.
+What say’st thou, Biondello?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Biondello, what of that?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Faith, nothing; but has left me here behind to expound the meaning or
+moral of his signs and tokens.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I pray thee moralize them.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Then thus: Baptista is safe, talking with the deceiving father of a
+deceitful son.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+And what of him?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+And then?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+The old priest at Saint Luke’s church is at your command at all hours.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+And what of all this?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+I cannot tell, except they are busied about a counterfeit assurance.
+Take your assurance of her, _cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum_; to
+the church! take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest
+witnesses. If this be not that you look for, I have more to say, But
+bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day.
+
+[_Going._]
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Hear’st thou, Biondello?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to
+the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit; and so may you, sir; and so
+adieu, sir. My master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke’s to bid
+the priest be ready to come against you come with your appendix.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I may, and will, if she be so contented.
+She will be pleas’d; then wherefore should I doubt?
+Hap what hap may, I’ll roundly go about her;
+It shall go hard if Cambio go without her:
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. A public road.
+
+Enter Petruchio, Katherina, Hortensio and Servants.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Come on, i’ God’s name; once more toward our father’s.
+Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
+
+KATHERINA.
+The moon! The sun; it is not moonlight now.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Now by my mother’s son, and that’s myself,
+It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
+Or ere I journey to your father’s house.
+Go on and fetch our horses back again.
+Evermore cross’d and cross’d; nothing but cross’d!
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Say as he says, or we shall never go.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
+And be it moon, or sun, or what you please;
+And if you please to call it a rush-candle,
+Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I say it is the moon.
+
+KATHERINA.
+I know it is the moon.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Nay, then you lie; it is the blessed sun.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Then, God be bless’d, it is the blessed sun;
+But sun it is not when you say it is not,
+And the moon changes even as your mind.
+What you will have it nam’d, even that it is,
+And so it shall be so for Katherine.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Petruchio, go thy ways; the field is won.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,
+And not unluckily against the bias.
+But, soft! Company is coming here.
+
+
+Enter Vincentio, in a travelling dress.
+
+[_To Vincentio_] Good morrow, gentle mistress; where away?
+Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
+Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?
+Such war of white and red within her cheeks!
+What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty
+As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
+Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
+Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty’s sake.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+A will make the man mad, to make a woman of him.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
+Whither away, or where is thy abode?
+Happy the parents of so fair a child;
+Happier the man whom favourable stars
+Allot thee for his lovely bedfellow.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad:
+This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, wither’d,
+And not a maiden, as thou sayst he is.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,
+That have been so bedazzled with the sun
+That everything I look on seemeth green:
+Now I perceive thou art a reverend father;
+Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Do, good old grandsire, and withal make known
+Which way thou travellest: if along with us,
+We shall be joyful of thy company.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Fair sir, and you my merry mistress,
+That with your strange encounter much amaz’d me,
+My name is called Vincentio; my dwelling Pisa;
+And bound I am to Padua, there to visit
+A son of mine, which long I have not seen.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+What is his name?
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Lucentio, gentle sir.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Happily met; the happier for thy son.
+And now by law, as well as reverend age,
+I may entitle thee my loving father:
+The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,
+Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,
+Nor be not griev’d: she is of good esteem,
+Her dowry wealthy, and of worthy birth;
+Beside, so qualified as may beseem
+The spouse of any noble gentleman.
+Let me embrace with old Vincentio;
+And wander we to see thy honest son,
+Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+But is this true? or is it else your pleasure,
+Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest
+Upon the company you overtake?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+I do assure thee, father, so it is.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Come, go along, and see the truth hereof;
+For our first merriment hath made thee jealous.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Hortensio._]
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart.
+Have to my widow! and if she be froward,
+Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Padua. Before Lucentio’s house.
+
+
+Enter on one side Biondello, Lucentio and Bianca; Gremio walking on
+other side.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is ready.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I fly, Biondello; but they may chance to need thee at home, therefore
+leave us.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Nay, faith, I’ll see the church o’ your back; and then come back to my
+master’s as soon as I can.
+
+[_Exeunt Lucentio, Bianca and Biondello._]
+
+GREMIO.
+I marvel Cambio comes not all this while.
+
+
+Enter Petruchio, Katherina, Vincentio and Attendants.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Sir, here’s the door; this is Lucentio’s house:
+My father’s bears more toward the market-place;
+Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+You shall not choose but drink before you go.
+I think I shall command your welcome here,
+And by all likelihood some cheer is toward.
+
+[_Knocks._]
+
+GREMIO.
+They’re busy within; you were best knock louder.
+
+
+Enter Pedant above, at a window.
+
+PEDANT.
+What’s he that knocks as he would beat down the gate?
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Is Signior Lucentio within, sir?
+
+PEDANT.
+He’s within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two to make merry withal?
+
+PEDANT.
+Keep your hundred pounds to yourself: he shall need none so long as I
+live.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Nay, I told you your son was well beloved in Padua. Do you hear, sir?
+To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior Lucentio that
+his father is come from Pisa, and is here at the door to speak with
+him.
+
+PEDANT.
+Thou liest: his father is come from Padua, and here looking out at the
+window.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Art thou his father?
+
+PEDANT.
+Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+[_To Vincentio_]  Why, how now, gentleman! why, this is flat knavery to
+take upon you another man’s name.
+
+PEDANT.
+Lay hands on the villain: I believe a means to cozen somebody in this
+city under my countenance.
+
+
+Re-enter Biondello.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+I have seen them in the church together: God send ’em good shipping!
+But who is here? Mine old master, Vincentio! Now we are undone and
+brought to nothing.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+[_Seeing Biondello._] Come hither, crack-hemp.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+I hope I may choose, sir.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Come hither, you rogue. What, have you forgot me?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Forgot you! No, sir: I could not forget you, for I never saw you before
+in all my life.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+What, you notorious villain! didst thou never see thy master’s father,
+Vincentio?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+What, my old worshipful old master? Yes, marry, sir; see where he looks
+out of the window.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Is’t so, indeed?
+
+[_He beats Biondello._]
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Help, help, help! here’s a madman will murder me.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PEDANT.
+Help, son! help, Signior Baptista!
+
+[_Exit from the window._]
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Prithee, Kate, let’s stand aside and see the end of this controversy.
+
+[_They retire._]
+
+
+Re-enter Pedant, below; Baptista, Tranio and Servants.
+
+TRANIO.
+Sir, what are you that offer to beat my servant?
+
+VINCENTIO.
+What am I, sir! nay, what are you, sir? O immortal gods! O fine
+villain! A silken doublet, a velvet hose, a scarlet cloak, and a
+copatain hat! O, I am undone! I am undone! While I play the good
+husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at the university.
+
+TRANIO.
+How now! what’s the matter?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+What, is the man lunatic?
+
+TRANIO.
+Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your habit, but your words
+show you a madman. Why, sir, what ’cerns it you if I wear pearl and
+gold? I thank my good father, I am able to maintain it.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Thy father! O villain! he is a sailmaker in Bergamo.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+You mistake, sir; you mistake, sir. Pray, what do you think is his
+name?
+
+VINCENTIO.
+His name! As if I knew not his name! I have brought him up ever since
+he was three years old, and his name is Tranio.
+
+PEDANT.
+Away, away, mad ass! His name is Lucentio; and he is mine only son, and
+heir to the lands of me, Signior Vincentio.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Lucentio! O, he hath murdered his master! Lay hold on him, I charge
+you, in the Duke’s name. O, my son, my son! Tell me, thou villain,
+where is my son, Lucentio?
+
+TRANIO.
+Call forth an officer.
+
+
+Enter one with an Officer.
+
+Carry this mad knave to the gaol. Father Baptista, I charge you see
+that he be forthcoming.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Carry me to the gaol!
+
+GREMIO.
+Stay, officer; he shall not go to prison.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Talk not, Signior Gremio; I say he shall go to prison.
+
+GREMIO.
+Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in this business;
+I dare swear this is the right Vincentio.
+
+PEDANT.
+Swear if thou darest.
+
+GREMIO.
+Nay, I dare not swear it.
+
+TRANIO.
+Then thou wert best say that I am not Lucentio.
+
+GREMIO.
+Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Away with the dotard! to the gaol with him!
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Thus strangers may be haled and abus’d: O monstrous villain!
+
+
+Re-enter Biondello, with Lucentio and Bianca.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+O! we are spoiled; and yonder he is: deny him, forswear him, or else we
+are all undone.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+[_Kneeling._] Pardon, sweet father.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Lives my sweetest son?
+
+[_Biondello, Tranio and Pedant run out._]
+
+BIANCA.
+[_Kneeling._] Pardon, dear father.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+How hast thou offended?
+Where is Lucentio?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Here’s Lucentio,
+Right son to the right Vincentio;
+That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,
+While counterfeit supposes blear’d thine eyne.
+
+GREMIO.
+Here ’s packing, with a witness, to deceive us all!
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Where is that damned villain, Tranio,
+That fac’d and brav’d me in this matter so?
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?
+
+BIANCA.
+Cambio is chang’d into Lucentio.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Love wrought these miracles. Bianca’s love
+Made me exchange my state with Tranio,
+While he did bear my countenance in the town;
+And happily I have arriv’d at the last
+Unto the wished haven of my bliss.
+What Tranio did, myself enforc’d him to;
+Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+I’ll slit the villain’s nose that would have sent me to the gaol.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+[_To Lucentio._] But do you hear, sir? Have you married my daughter
+without asking my good will?
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Fear not, Baptista; we will content you, go to: but I will in, to be
+revenged for this villainy.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BAPTISTA.
+And I to sound the depth of this knavery.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Look not pale, Bianca; thy father will not frown.
+
+[_Exeunt Lucentio and Bianca._]
+
+GREMIO.
+My cake is dough, but I’ll in among the rest;
+Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+Petruchio and Katherina advance.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Husband, let’s follow to see the end of this ado.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+First kiss me, Kate, and we will.
+
+KATHERINA.
+What! in the midst of the street?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+What! art thou ashamed of me?
+
+KATHERINA.
+No, sir; God forbid; but ashamed to kiss.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, then, let’s home again. Come, sirrah, let’s away.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Nay, I will give thee a kiss: now pray thee, love, stay.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate:
+Better once than never, for never too late.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A room in Lucentio’s house.
+
+Enter Baptista, Vincentio, Gremio, the Pedant, Lucentio, Bianca,
+Petruchio, Katherina, Hortensio and Widow. Tranio, Biondello and Grumio
+and Others, attending.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+At last, though long, our jarring notes agree:
+And time it is when raging war is done,
+To smile at ’scapes and perils overblown.
+My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,
+While I with self-same kindness welcome thine.
+Brother Petruchio, sister Katherina,
+And thou, Hortensio, with thy loving widow,
+Feast with the best, and welcome to my house:
+My banquet is to close our stomachs up,
+After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down;
+For now we sit to chat as well as eat.
+
+[_They sit at table._]
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Padua affords this kindness, son Petruchio.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Padua affords nothing but what is kind.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+For both our sakes I would that word were true.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.
+
+WIDOW.
+Then never trust me if I be afeard.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+You are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense:
+I mean Hortensio is afeard of you.
+
+WIDOW.
+He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Roundly replied.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Mistress, how mean you that?
+
+WIDOW.
+Thus I conceive by him.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Conceives by me! How likes Hortensio that?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+My widow says thus she conceives her tale.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Very well mended. Kiss him for that, good widow.
+
+KATHERINA.
+’He that is giddy thinks the world turns round’:
+I pray you tell me what you meant by that.
+
+WIDOW.
+Your husband, being troubled with a shrew,
+Measures my husband’s sorrow by his woe;
+And now you know my meaning.
+
+KATHERINA.
+A very mean meaning.
+
+WIDOW.
+Right, I mean you.
+
+KATHERINA.
+And I am mean, indeed, respecting you.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+To her, Kate!
+
+HORTENSIO.
+To her, widow!
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+A hundred marks, my Kate does put her down.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+That’s my office.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Spoke like an officer: ha’ to thee, lad.
+
+[_Drinks to Hortensio._]
+
+BAPTISTA.
+How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?
+
+GREMIO.
+Believe me, sir, they butt together well.
+
+BIANCA.
+Head and butt! An hasty-witted body
+Would say your head and butt were head and horn.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+Ay, mistress bride, hath that awaken’d you?
+
+BIANCA.
+Ay, but not frighted me; therefore I’ll sleep again.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Nay, that you shall not; since you have begun,
+Have at you for a bitter jest or two.
+
+BIANCA.
+Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush,
+And then pursue me as you draw your bow.
+You are welcome all.
+
+[_Exeunt Bianca, Katherina and Widow._]
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+She hath prevented me. Here, Signior Tranio;
+This bird you aim’d at, though you hit her not:
+Therefore a health to all that shot and miss’d.
+
+TRANIO.
+O, sir! Lucentio slipp’d me like his greyhound,
+Which runs himself, and catches for his master.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+A good swift simile, but something currish.
+
+TRANIO.
+’Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself:
+’Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+O ho, Petruchio! Tranio hits you now.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Confess, confess; hath he not hit you here?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+A has a little gall’d me, I confess;
+And as the jest did glance away from me,
+’Tis ten to one it maim’d you two outright.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,
+I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Well, I say no; and therefore, for assurance,
+Let’s each one send unto his wife,
+And he whose wife is most obedient,
+To come at first when he doth send for her,
+Shall win the wager which we will propose.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Content. What’s the wager?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Twenty crowns.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Twenty crowns!
+I’ll venture so much of my hawk or hound,
+But twenty times so much upon my wife.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+A hundred then.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Content.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+A match! ’tis done.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Who shall begin?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+That will I.
+Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to me.
+
+BIONDELLO.
+I go.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Son, I’ll be your half, Bianca comes.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I’ll have no halves; I’ll bear it all myself.
+
+
+Re-enter Biondello.
+
+How now! what news?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+Sir, my mistress sends you word
+That she is busy and she cannot come.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+How! She’s busy, and she cannot come!
+Is that an answer?
+
+GREMIO.
+Ay, and a kind one too:
+Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I hope better.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife
+To come to me forthwith.
+
+[_Exit Biondello._]
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+O, ho! entreat her!
+Nay, then she must needs come.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+I am afraid, sir,
+Do what you can, yours will not be entreated.
+
+
+Re-enter Biondello.
+
+Now, where’s my wife?
+
+BIONDELLO.
+She says you have some goodly jest in hand:
+She will not come; she bids you come to her.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Worse and worse; she will not come! O vile,
+Intolerable, not to be endur’d!
+Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress,
+Say I command her come to me.
+
+[_Exit Grumio._]
+
+HORTENSIO.
+I know her answer.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+What?
+
+HORTENSIO.
+She will not.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.
+
+
+Re-enter Katherina.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Now, by my holidame, here comes Katherina!
+
+KATHERINA.
+What is your will sir, that you send for me?
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Where is your sister, and Hortensio’s wife?
+
+KATHERINA.
+They sit conferring by the parlour fire.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Go fetch them hither; if they deny to come,
+Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands.
+Away, I say, and bring them hither straight.
+
+[_Exit Katherina._]
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.
+
+HORTENSIO.
+And so it is. I wonder what it bodes.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,
+An awful rule, and right supremacy;
+And, to be short, what not that’s sweet and happy.
+
+BAPTISTA.
+Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
+The wager thou hast won; and I will add
+Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns;
+Another dowry to another daughter,
+For she is chang’d, as she had never been.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Nay, I will win my wager better yet,
+And show more sign of her obedience,
+Her new-built virtue and obedience.
+See where she comes, and brings your froward wives
+As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.
+
+
+Re-enter Katherina with Bianca and Widow.
+
+Katherine, that cap of yours becomes you not:
+Off with that bauble, throw it underfoot.
+
+[_Katherina pulls off her cap and throws it down._]
+
+WIDOW.
+Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh
+Till I be brought to such a silly pass!
+
+BIANCA.
+Fie! what a foolish duty call you this?
+
+LUCENTIO.
+I would your duty were as foolish too;
+The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca,
+Hath cost me a hundred crowns since supper-time!
+
+BIANCA.
+The more fool you for laying on my duty.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Katherine, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women
+What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.
+
+WIDOW.
+Come, come, you’re mocking; we will have no telling.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Come on, I say; and first begin with her.
+
+WIDOW.
+She shall not.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+I say she shall: and first begin with her.
+
+KATHERINA.
+Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow,
+And dart not scornful glances from those eyes
+To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:
+It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
+Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
+And in no sense is meet or amiable.
+A woman mov’d is like a fountain troubled,
+Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
+And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
+Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
+Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
+Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
+And for thy maintenance commits his body
+To painful labour both by sea and land,
+To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
+Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
+And craves no other tribute at thy hands
+But love, fair looks, and true obedience;
+Too little payment for so great a debt.
+Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
+Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
+And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
+And not obedient to his honest will,
+What is she but a foul contending rebel
+And graceless traitor to her loving lord?—
+I am asham’d that women are so simple
+To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
+Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,
+When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
+Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
+Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
+But that our soft conditions and our hearts
+Should well agree with our external parts?
+Come, come, you froward and unable worms!
+My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
+My heart as great, my reason haply more,
+To bandy word for word and frown for frown;
+But now I see our lances are but straws,
+Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
+That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
+Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
+And place your hands below your husband’s foot:
+In token of which duty, if he please,
+My hand is ready; may it do him ease.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+Well, go thy ways, old lad, for thou shalt ha’t.
+
+VINCENTIO.
+’Tis a good hearing when children are toward.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+But a harsh hearing when women are froward.
+
+PETRUCHIO.
+Come, Kate, we’ll to bed.
+We three are married, but you two are sped.
+’Twas I won the wager,
+[_To Lucentio._] though you hit the white;
+And being a winner, God give you good night!
+
+[_Exeunt Petruchio and Katherina._]
+
+HORTENSIO.
+Now go thy ways; thou hast tam’d a curst shrew.
+
+LUCENTIO.
+’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TEMPEST
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning
+heard.
+Scene II. The Island. Before the cell of Prospero.
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. Another part of the island.
+Scene II. Another part of the island.
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. Before Prospero’s cell.
+Scene II. Another part of the island.
+Scene III. Another part of the island.
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. Before Prospero’s cell.
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. Before the cell of Prospero.
+Epilogue.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+ALONSO, King of Naples
+SEBASTIAN, his brother
+PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan
+ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan
+FERDINAND, Son to the King of Naples
+GONZALO, an honest old counsellor
+ADRIAN, Lord
+FRANCISCO, Lord
+CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave
+TRINCULO, a jester
+STEPHANO, a drunken butler
+MASTER OF A SHIP
+BOATSWAIN
+MARINERS
+
+MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero
+
+ARIEL, an airy Spirit
+
+IRIS, presented by Spirits
+CERES, presented by Spirits
+JUNO, presented by Spirits
+NYMPHS, presented by Spirits
+REAPERS, presented by Spirits
+
+Other Spirits attending on Prospero
+
+SCENE: The sea, with a Ship; afterwards an Island.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning
+heard.
+
+
+ Enter a Shipmaster and a Boatswain severally.
+
+MASTER.
+Boatswain!
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+Here, master: what cheer?
+
+MASTER.
+Good! Speak to the mariners: fall to ’t yarely, or we run ourselves
+aground: bestir, bestir.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Mariners.
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare! Take in the
+topsail. Tend to th’ master’s whistle. Blow till thou burst thy wind,
+if room enough.
+
+ Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo and others.
+
+ALONSO.
+Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master?
+Play the men.
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+I pray now, keep below.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Where is the master, boson?
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins: you do
+assist the storm.
+
+GONZALO.
+Nay, good, be patient.
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king?
+To cabin! silence! Trouble us not.
+
+GONZALO.
+Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor: if you can
+command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present,
+we will not hand a rope more. Use your authority: if you cannot, give
+thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin
+for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.—Cheerly, good hearts!—Out
+of our way, I say.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+GONZALO.
+I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning
+mark upon him. His complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good
+Fate, to his hanging! Make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our
+own doth little advantage! If he be not born to be hang’d, our case is
+miserable.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+ Re-enter Boatswain.
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring her to try wi’ th’
+maincourse.
+
+ [_A cry within._]
+
+ A plague upon this howling! They are louder than the weather or our
+ office.
+
+ Enter Sebastian, Antonio and Gonzalo.
+
+Yet again! What do you here? Shall we give o’er, and drown? Have you a
+mind to sink?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+Work you, then.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Hang, cur, hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker! We are less afraid
+to be drowned than thou art.
+
+GONZALO.
+I’ll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were no stronger than a
+nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched wench.
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+Lay her a-hold, a-hold! Set her two courses: off to sea again: lay her
+off.
+
+ Enter Mariners, wet.
+
+MARINERS.
+All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+What, must our mouths be cold?
+
+GONZALO.
+The King and Prince at prayers! Let’s assist them,
+For our case is as theirs.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I am out of patience.
+
+ANTONIO.
+We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards.
+This wide-chapp’d rascal—would thou might’st lie drowning
+The washing of ten tides!
+
+GONZALO.
+He’ll be hang’d yet,
+Though every drop of water swear against it,
+And gape at wid’st to glut him.
+
+_A confused noise within: _“Mercy on us!”—
+“We split, we split!”—“Farewell, my wife and children!”—
+“Farewell, brother!”—“We split, we split, we split!”
+
+ANTONIO.
+Let’s all sink wi’ th’ King.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Let’s take leave of him.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+GONZALO.
+Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
+ground. Long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done! but
+I would fain die a dry death.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The Island. Before the cell of Prospero.
+
+ Enter Prospero and Miranda.
+
+MIRANDA.
+If by your art, my dearest father, you have
+Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
+The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
+But that the sea, mounting to th’ welkin’s cheek,
+Dashes the fire out. O! I have suffered
+With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel,
+Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
+Dash’d all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
+Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish’d.
+Had I been any god of power, I would
+Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere
+It should the good ship so have swallow’d and
+The fraughting souls within her.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Be collected:
+No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
+There’s no harm done.
+
+MIRANDA.
+O, woe the day!
+
+PROSPERO.
+No harm.
+I have done nothing but in care of thee,
+Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
+Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
+Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
+Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
+And thy no greater father.
+
+MIRANDA.
+More to know
+Did never meddle with my thoughts.
+
+PROSPERO.
+’Tis time
+I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,
+And pluck my magic garment from me.—So:
+
+ [_Lays down his mantle._]
+
+Lie there my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
+The direful spectacle of the wrack, which touch’d
+The very virtue of compassion in thee,
+I have with such provision in mine art
+So safely ordered that there is no soul—
+No, not so much perdition as an hair
+Betid to any creature in the vessel
+Which thou heard’st cry, which thou saw’st sink. Sit down;
+For thou must now know farther.
+
+MIRANDA.
+You have often
+Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp’d,
+And left me to a bootless inquisition,
+Concluding “Stay; not yet.”
+
+PROSPERO.
+The hour’s now come,
+The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
+Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember
+A time before we came unto this cell?
+I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
+Out three years old.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Certainly, sir, I can.
+
+PROSPERO.
+By what? By any other house, or person?
+Of anything the image, tell me, that
+Hath kept with thy remembrance.
+
+MIRANDA.
+’Tis far off,
+And rather like a dream than an assurance
+That my remembrance warrants. Had I not
+Four or five women once that tended me?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it
+That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
+In the dark backward and abysm of time?
+If thou rememb’rest aught ere thou cam’st here,
+How thou cam’st here, thou mayst.
+
+MIRANDA.
+But that I do not.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,
+Thy father was the Duke of Milan, and
+A prince of power.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Sir, are not you my father?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
+She said thou wast my daughter. And thy father
+Was Duke of Milan, and his only heir
+And princess, no worse issued.
+
+MIRANDA.
+O, the heavens!
+What foul play had we that we came from thence?
+Or blessed was’t we did?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Both, both, my girl.
+By foul play, as thou say’st, were we heav’d thence;
+But blessedly holp hither.
+
+MIRANDA.
+O, my heart bleeds
+To think o’ th’ teen that I have turn’d you to,
+Which is from my remembrance. Please you, farther.
+
+PROSPERO.
+My brother and thy uncle, call’d Antonio—
+I pray thee, mark me, that a brother should
+Be so perfidious!—he whom next thyself
+Of all the world I lov’d, and to him put
+The manage of my state; as at that time
+Through all the signories it was the first,
+And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed
+In dignity, and for the liberal arts,
+Without a parallel: those being all my study,
+The government I cast upon my brother,
+And to my state grew stranger, being transported
+And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle—
+Dost thou attend me?
+
+MIRANDA.
+Sir, most heedfully.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Being once perfected how to grant suits,
+How to deny them, who t’ advance, and who
+To trash for over-topping, new created
+The creatures that were mine, I say, or chang’d ’em,
+Or else new form’d ’em: having both the key
+Of officer and office, set all hearts i’ th’ state
+To what tune pleas’d his ear: that now he was
+The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
+And suck’d my verdure out on ’t. Thou attend’st not.
+
+MIRANDA.
+O, good sir! I do.
+
+PROSPERO.
+I pray thee, mark me.
+I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
+To closeness and the bettering of my mind
+With that which, but by being so retir’d,
+O’er-priz’d all popular rate, in my false brother
+Awak’d an evil nature; and my trust,
+Like a good parent, did beget of him
+A falsehood in its contrary as great
+As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,
+A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,
+Not only with what my revenue yielded,
+But what my power might else exact, like one
+Who having into truth, by telling of it,
+Made such a sinner of his memory,
+To credit his own lie, he did believe
+He was indeed the Duke; out o’ the substitution,
+And executing th’ outward face of royalty,
+With all prerogative. Hence his ambition growing—
+Dost thou hear?
+
+MIRANDA.
+Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
+
+PROSPERO.
+To have no screen between this part he play’d
+And him he play’d it for, he needs will be
+Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library
+Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
+He thinks me now incapable; confederates,
+So dry he was for sway, wi’ th’ King of Naples
+To give him annual tribute, do him homage,
+Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend
+The dukedom, yet unbow’d—alas, poor Milan!—
+To most ignoble stooping.
+
+MIRANDA.
+O the heavens!
+
+PROSPERO.
+Mark his condition, and the event; then tell me
+If this might be a brother.
+
+MIRANDA.
+I should sin
+To think but nobly of my grandmother:
+Good wombs have borne bad sons.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Now the condition.
+This King of Naples, being an enemy
+To me inveterate, hearkens my brother’s suit;
+Which was, that he, in lieu o’ th’ premises
+Of homage and I know not how much tribute,
+Should presently extirpate me and mine
+Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan,
+With all the honours on my brother: whereon,
+A treacherous army levied, one midnight
+Fated to th’ purpose, did Antonio open
+The gates of Milan; and, i’ th’ dead of darkness,
+The ministers for th’ purpose hurried thence
+Me and thy crying self.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Alack, for pity!
+I, not rememb’ring how I cried out then,
+Will cry it o’er again: it is a hint
+That wrings mine eyes to ’t.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Hear a little further,
+And then I’ll bring thee to the present business
+Which now’s upon us; without the which this story
+Were most impertinent.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Wherefore did they not
+That hour destroy us?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Well demanded, wench:
+My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
+So dear the love my people bore me, nor set
+A mark so bloody on the business; but
+With colours fairer painted their foul ends.
+In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
+Bore us some leagues to sea, where they prepared
+A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigg’d,
+Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
+Instinctively have quit it. There they hoist us,
+To cry to th’ sea, that roar’d to us; to sigh
+To th’ winds, whose pity, sighing back again,
+Did us but loving wrong.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Alack, what trouble
+Was I then to you!
+
+PROSPERO.
+O, a cherubin
+Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile,
+Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
+When I have deck’d the sea with drops full salt,
+Under my burden groan’d: which rais’d in me
+An undergoing stomach, to bear up
+Against what should ensue.
+
+MIRANDA.
+How came we ashore?
+
+PROSPERO.
+By Providence divine.
+Some food we had and some fresh water that
+A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,
+Out of his charity, who being then appointed
+Master of this design, did give us, with
+Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries,
+Which since have steaded much: so, of his gentleness,
+Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me
+From mine own library with volumes that
+I prize above my dukedom.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Would I might
+But ever see that man!
+
+PROSPERO.
+Now I arise.
+Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.
+Here in this island we arriv’d; and here
+Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
+Than other princes can, that have more time
+For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Heavens thank you for ’t! And now, I pray you, sir,
+For still ’tis beating in my mind, your reason
+For raising this sea-storm?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Know thus far forth.
+By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,
+Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies
+Brought to this shore; and by my prescience
+I find my zenith doth depend upon
+A most auspicious star, whose influence
+If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
+Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions;
+Thou art inclin’d to sleep; ’tis a good dulness,
+And give it way. I know thou canst not choose.
+
+ [_Miranda sleeps._]
+
+Come away, servant, come! I am ready now.
+Approach, my Ariel. Come!
+
+ Enter Ariel.
+
+ARIEL.
+All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
+To answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly,
+To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
+On the curl’d clouds, to thy strong bidding task
+Ariel and all his quality.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Hast thou, spirit,
+Perform’d to point the tempest that I bade thee?
+
+ARIEL.
+To every article.
+I boarded the King’s ship; now on the beak,
+Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
+I flam’d amazement; sometime I’d divide,
+And burn in many places; on the topmast,
+The yards, and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,
+Then meet and join. Jove’s lightning, the precursors
+O’ th’ dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary
+And sight-outrunning were not: the fire and cracks
+Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
+Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
+Yea, his dread trident shake.
+
+PROSPERO.
+My brave spirit!
+Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil
+Would not infect his reason?
+
+ARIEL.
+Not a soul
+But felt a fever of the mad, and play’d
+Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
+Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
+Then all afire with me: the King’s son, Ferdinand,
+With hair up-staring—then like reeds, not hair—
+Was the first man that leapt; cried “Hell is empty,
+And all the devils are here.”
+
+PROSPERO.
+Why, that’s my spirit!
+But was not this nigh shore?
+
+ARIEL.
+Close by, my master.
+
+PROSPERO.
+But are they, Ariel, safe?
+
+ARIEL.
+Not a hair perish’d;
+On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
+But fresher than before: and, as thou bad’st me,
+In troops I have dispers’d them ’bout the isle.
+The King’s son have I landed by himself,
+Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
+In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting,
+His arms in this sad knot.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Of the King’s ship
+The mariners, say how thou hast dispos’d,
+And all the rest o’ th’ fleet?
+
+ARIEL.
+Safely in harbour
+Is the King’s ship; in the deep nook, where once
+Thou call’dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
+From the still-vex’d Bermoothes; there she’s hid:
+The mariners all under hatches stowed;
+Who, with a charm join’d to their suff’red labour,
+I have left asleep: and for the rest o’ th’ fleet,
+Which I dispers’d, they all have met again,
+And are upon the Mediterranean flote
+Bound sadly home for Naples,
+Supposing that they saw the King’s ship wrack’d,
+And his great person perish.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Ariel, thy charge
+Exactly is perform’d; but there’s more work.
+What is the time o’ th’ day?
+
+ARIEL.
+Past the mid season.
+
+PROSPERO.
+At least two glasses. The time ’twixt six and now
+Must by us both be spent most preciously.
+
+ARIEL.
+Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,
+Let me remember thee what thou hast promis’d,
+Which is not yet perform’d me.
+
+PROSPERO.
+How now! moody?
+What is’t thou canst demand?
+
+ARIEL.
+My liberty.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Before the time be out? No more!
+
+ARIEL.
+I prithee,
+Remember I have done thee worthy service;
+Told thee no lies, made no mistakings, serv’d
+Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise
+To bate me a full year.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Dost thou forget
+From what a torment I did free thee?
+
+ARIEL.
+No.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thou dost, and think’st it much to tread the ooze
+Of the salt deep,
+To run upon the sharp wind of the north,
+To do me business in the veins o’ th’ earth
+When it is bak’d with frost.
+
+ARIEL.
+I do not, sir.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
+The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
+Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?
+
+ARIEL.
+No, sir.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thou hast. Where was she born? Speak; tell me.
+
+ARIEL.
+Sir, in Argier.
+
+PROSPERO.
+O, was she so? I must
+Once in a month recount what thou hast been,
+Which thou forget’st. This damn’d witch Sycorax,
+For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible
+To enter human hearing, from Argier,
+Thou know’st, was banish’d: for one thing she did
+They would not take her life. Is not this true?
+
+ARIEL.
+Ay, sir.
+
+PROSPERO.
+This blue-ey’d hag was hither brought with child,
+And here was left by th’ sailors. Thou, my slave,
+As thou report’st thyself, wast then her servant;
+And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
+To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands,
+Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
+By help of her more potent ministers,
+And in her most unmitigable rage,
+Into a cloven pine; within which rift
+Imprison’d, thou didst painfully remain
+A dozen years; within which space she died,
+And left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groans
+As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island—
+Save for the son that she did litter here,
+A freckl’d whelp, hag-born—not honour’d with
+A human shape.
+
+ARIEL.
+Yes, Caliban her son.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban,
+Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know’st
+What torment I did find thee in; thy groans
+Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts
+Of ever-angry bears: it was a torment
+To lay upon the damn’d, which Sycorax
+Could not again undo; it was mine art,
+When I arriv’d and heard thee, that made gape
+The pine, and let thee out.
+
+ARIEL.
+I thank thee, master.
+
+PROSPERO.
+If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak
+And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
+Thou hast howl’d away twelve winters.
+
+ARIEL.
+Pardon, master:
+I will be correspondent to command,
+And do my spriting gently.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Do so; and after two days
+I will discharge thee.
+
+ARIEL.
+That’s my noble master!
+What shall I do? Say what? What shall I do?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Go make thyself like a nymph o’ th’ sea. Be subject
+To no sight but thine and mine; invisible
+To every eyeball else. Go, take this shape,
+And hither come in ’t. Go, hence with diligence!
+
+ [_Exit Ariel._]
+
+Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well;
+Awake!
+
+MIRANDA.
+[_Waking._] The strangeness of your story put
+Heaviness in me.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Shake it off. Come on;
+We’ll visit Caliban my slave, who never
+Yields us kind answer.
+
+MIRANDA.
+’Tis a villain, sir,
+I do not love to look on.
+
+PROSPERO.
+But as ’tis,
+We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
+Fetch in our wood; and serves in offices
+That profit us. What ho! slave! Caliban!
+Thou earth, thou! Speak.
+
+CALIBAN.
+[_Within._] There’s wood enough within.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Come forth, I say; there’s other business for thee.
+Come, thou tortoise! when?
+
+ Re-enter Ariel like a water-nymph.
+
+Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
+Hark in thine ear.
+
+ARIEL.
+My lord, it shall be done.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
+Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
+
+ Enter Caliban.
+
+CALIBAN.
+As wicked dew as e’er my mother brush’d
+With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen
+Drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye,
+And blister you all o’er!
+
+PROSPERO.
+For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,
+Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins
+Shall forth at vast of night that they may work
+All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinch’d
+As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
+Than bees that made them.
+
+CALIBAN.
+I must eat my dinner.
+This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother,
+Which thou tak’st from me. When thou cam’st first,
+Thou strok’st me and made much of me; wouldst give me
+Water with berries in ’t; and teach me how
+To name the bigger light, and how the less,
+That burn by day and night: and then I lov’d thee,
+And show’d thee all the qualities o’ th’ isle,
+The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place, and fertile.
+Curs’d be I that did so! All the charms
+Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
+For I am all the subjects that you have,
+Which first was mine own King; and here you sty me
+In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
+The rest o’ th’ island.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thou most lying slave,
+Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have us’d thee,
+Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodg’d thee
+In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
+The honour of my child.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Oh ho! Oh ho! Would ’t had been done!
+Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else
+This isle with Calibans.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Abhorred slave,
+Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
+Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
+Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
+One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
+Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
+A thing most brutish, I endow’d thy purposes
+With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
+Though thou didst learn, had that in ’t which good natures
+Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou
+Deservedly confin’d into this rock,
+Who hadst deserv’d more than a prison.
+
+CALIBAN.
+You taught me language, and my profit on ’t
+Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you,
+For learning me your language!
+
+PROSPERO.
+Hag-seed, hence!
+Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou ’rt best,
+To answer other business. Shrug’st thou, malice?
+If thou neglect’st, or dost unwillingly
+What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps,
+Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar,
+That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
+
+CALIBAN.
+No, pray thee.
+[_Aside._] I must obey. His art is of such power,
+It would control my dam’s god, Setebos,
+And make a vassal of him.
+
+PROSPERO.
+So, slave, hence!
+
+ [_Exit Caliban._]
+
+ Re-enter Ariel, playing and singing; Ferdinand following.
+
+ARIEL’S SONG.
+
+
+_Come unto these yellow sands,
+    And then take hands:
+Curtsied when you have, and kiss’d
+    The wild waves whist.
+Foot it featly here and there,
+    And sweet sprites bear
+The burden. Hark, hark!_
+    Burden dispersedly. _Bow-wow.
+The watch dogs bark._
+    [Burden dispersedly.] _Bow-wow.
+Hark, hark! I hear
+The strain of strutting chanticleer
+    Cry cock-a-diddle-dow._
+
+FERDINAND.
+Where should this music be? i’ th’ air or th’ earth?
+It sounds no more; and sure it waits upon
+Some god o’ th’ island. Sitting on a bank,
+Weeping again the King my father’s wrack,
+This music crept by me upon the waters,
+Allaying both their fury and my passion
+With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it,
+Or it hath drawn me rather,—but ’tis gone.
+No, it begins again.
+
+ARIEL.
+[_Sings._]
+_Full fathom five thy father lies.
+    Of his bones are coral made.
+Those are pearls that were his eyes.
+    Nothing of him that doth fade
+But doth suffer a sea-change
+Into something rich and strange.
+Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:_
+    Burden: _Ding-dong.
+Hark! now I hear them: ding-dong, bell._
+
+FERDINAND.
+The ditty does remember my drown’d father.
+This is no mortal business, nor no sound
+That the earth owes:—I hear it now above me.
+
+PROSPERO.
+The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,
+And say what thou seest yond.
+
+MIRANDA.
+What is’t? a spirit?
+Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
+It carries a brave form. But ’tis a spirit.
+
+PROSPERO.
+No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
+As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest
+Was in the wrack; and, but he’s something stain’d
+With grief,—that’s beauty’s canker,—thou mightst call him
+A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
+And strays about to find ’em.
+
+MIRANDA.
+I might call him
+A thing divine; for nothing natural
+I ever saw so noble.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] It goes on, I see,
+As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I’ll free thee
+Within two days for this.
+
+FERDINAND.
+Most sure, the goddess
+On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe, my prayer
+May know if you remain upon this island;
+And that you will some good instruction give
+How I may bear me here: my prime request,
+Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
+If you be maid or no?
+
+MIRANDA.
+No wonder, sir;
+But certainly a maid.
+
+FERDINAND.
+My language! Heavens!
+I am the best of them that speak this speech,
+Were I but where ’tis spoken.
+
+PROSPERO.
+How! the best?
+What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?
+
+FERDINAND.
+A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
+To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;
+And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,
+Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
+The King my father wrack’d.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Alack, for mercy!
+
+FERDINAND.
+Yes, faith, and all his lords, the Duke of Milan,
+And his brave son being twain.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] The Duke of Milan
+And his more braver daughter could control thee,
+If now ’twere fit to do’t. At the first sight
+They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,
+I’ll set thee free for this. [_To Ferdinand._] A word, good sir.
+I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Why speaks my father so ungently? This
+Is the third man that e’er I saw; the first
+That e’er I sigh’d for. Pity move my father
+To be inclin’d my way!
+
+FERDINAND.
+O! if a virgin,
+And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you
+The Queen of Naples.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Soft, sir; one word more.
+[_Aside._] They are both in either’s powers. But this swift business
+I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
+Make the prize light. [_To Ferdinand._] One word more. I charge thee
+That thou attend me. Thou dost here usurp
+The name thou ow’st not; and hast put thyself
+Upon this island as a spy, to win it
+From me, the lord on ’t.
+
+FERDINAND.
+No, as I am a man.
+
+MIRANDA.
+There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
+If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
+Good things will strive to dwell with ’t.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_To Ferdinand._] Follow me.—
+[_To Miranda._] Speak not you for him; he’s a traitor.
+[_To Ferdinand._] Come;
+I’ll manacle thy neck and feet together:
+Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be
+The fresh-brook mussels, wither’d roots, and husks
+Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.
+
+FERDINAND.
+No;
+I will resist such entertainment till
+Mine enemy has more power.
+
+ [_He draws, and is charmed from moving._]
+
+MIRANDA.
+O dear father!
+Make not too rash a trial of him, for
+He’s gentle, and not fearful.
+
+PROSPERO.
+What! I say,
+My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;
+Who mak’st a show, but dar’st not strike, thy conscience
+Is so possess’d with guilt: come from thy ward,
+For I can here disarm thee with this stick
+And make thy weapon drop.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Beseech you, father!
+
+PROSPERO.
+Hence! Hang not on my garments.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Sir, have pity;
+I’ll be his surety.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Silence! One word more
+Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!
+An advocate for an impostor? hush!
+Thou think’st there is no more such shapes as he,
+Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!
+To th’ most of men this is a Caliban,
+And they to him are angels.
+
+MIRANDA.
+My affections
+Are then most humble; I have no ambition
+To see a goodlier man.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_To Ferdinand._] Come on; obey:
+Thy nerves are in their infancy again,
+And have no vigour in them.
+
+FERDINAND.
+So they are:
+My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.
+My father’s loss, the weakness which I feel,
+The wrack of all my friends, nor this man’s threats,
+To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,
+Might I but through my prison once a day
+Behold this maid: all corners else o’ th’ earth
+Let liberty make use of; space enough
+Have I in such a prison.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] It works. [_To Ferdinand._] Come on.
+Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! [_To Ferdinand._] Follow me.
+[_To Ariel._] Hark what thou else shalt do me.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Be of comfort;
+My father’s of a better nature, sir,
+Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted
+Which now came from him.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thou shalt be as free
+As mountain winds; but then exactly do
+All points of my command.
+
+ARIEL.
+To th’ syllable.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_To Ferdinand._] Come, follow. Speak not for him.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Another part of the island.
+
+
+ Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco and
+ others.
+
+GONZALO.
+Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,
+So have we all, of joy; for our escape
+Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
+Is common; every day, some sailor’s wife,
+The masters of some merchant and the merchant,
+Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,
+I mean our preservation, few in millions
+Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
+Our sorrow with our comfort.
+
+ALONSO.
+Prithee, peace.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+He receives comfort like cold porridge.
+
+ANTONIO.
+The visitor will not give him o’er so.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Look, he’s winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
+
+GONZALO.
+Sir,—
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+One: tell.
+
+GONZALO.
+When every grief is entertain’d that’s offer’d,
+Comes to the entertainer—
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+A dollar.
+
+GONZALO.
+Dolour comes to him, indeed: you have spoken truer than you purposed.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
+
+GONZALO.
+Therefore, my lord,—
+
+ANTONIO.
+Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!
+
+ALONSO.
+I prithee, spare.
+
+GONZALO.
+Well, I have done: but yet—
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+He will be talking.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Which, of he or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to crow?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+The old cock.
+
+ANTONIO.
+The cockerel.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Done. The wager?
+
+ANTONIO.
+A laughter.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+A match!
+
+ADRIAN.
+Though this island seem to be desert,—
+
+ANTONIO.
+Ha, ha, ha!
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+So. You’re paid.
+
+ADRIAN.
+Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible,—
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Yet—
+
+ADRIAN.
+Yet—
+
+ANTONIO.
+He could not miss ’t.
+
+ADRIAN.
+It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Temperance was a delicate wench.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.
+
+ADRIAN.
+The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+As if it had lungs, and rotten ones.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Or, as ’twere perfum’d by a fen.
+
+GONZALO.
+Here is everything advantageous to life.
+
+ANTONIO.
+True; save means to live.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Of that there’s none, or little.
+
+GONZALO.
+How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
+
+ANTONIO.
+The ground indeed is tawny.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+With an eye of green in’t.
+
+ANTONIO.
+He misses not much.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
+
+GONZALO.
+But the rarity of it is,—which is indeed almost beyond credit,—
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+As many vouch’d rarities are.
+
+GONZALO.
+That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold
+notwithstanding their freshness and glosses, being rather new-dyed than
+stained with salt water.
+
+ANTONIO.
+If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say he lies?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report.
+
+GONZALO.
+Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in
+Afric, at the marriage of the King’s fair daughter Claribel to the King
+of Tunis.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+’Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.
+
+ADRIAN.
+Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to their Queen.
+
+GONZALO.
+Not since widow Dido’s time.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Widow! a pox o’ that! How came that widow in? Widow Dido!
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+What if he had said, widower Aeneas too?
+Good Lord, how you take it!
+
+ADRIAN.
+Widow Dido said you? You make me study of that; she was of Carthage,
+not of Tunis.
+
+GONZALO.
+This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.
+
+ADRIAN.
+Carthage?
+
+GONZALO.
+I assure you, Carthage.
+
+ANTONIO.
+His word is more than the miraculous harp.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+He hath rais’d the wall, and houses too.
+
+ANTONIO.
+What impossible matter will he make easy next?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I think he will carry this island home in his pocket, and give it his
+son for an apple.
+
+ANTONIO.
+And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more islands.
+
+ALONSO.
+Ay.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Why, in good time.
+
+GONZALO.
+[_To Alonso._] Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh
+as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now
+Queen.
+
+ANTONIO.
+And the rarest that e’er came there.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.
+
+ANTONIO.
+O! widow Dido; ay, widow Dido.
+
+GONZALO.
+Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore it? I mean, in
+a sort.
+
+ANTONIO.
+That sort was well fish’d for.
+
+GONZALO.
+When I wore it at your daughter’s marriage?
+
+ALONSO.
+You cram these words into mine ears against
+The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
+Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,
+My son is lost; and, in my rate, she too,
+Who is so far from Italy removed,
+I ne’er again shall see her. O thou mine heir
+Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
+Hath made his meal on thee?
+
+FRANCISCO.
+Sir, he may live:
+I saw him beat the surges under him,
+And ride upon their backs. He trod the water,
+Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
+The surge most swoln that met him. His bold head
+’Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oared
+Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
+To th’ shore, that o’er his wave-worn basis bowed,
+As stooping to relieve him. I not doubt
+He came alive to land.
+
+ALONSO.
+No, no, he’s gone.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,
+That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,
+But rather lose her to an African;
+Where she, at least, is banish’d from your eye,
+Who hath cause to wet the grief on ’t.
+
+ALONSO.
+Prithee, peace.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+You were kneel’d to, and importun’d otherwise
+By all of us; and the fair soul herself
+Weigh’d between loathness and obedience at
+Which end o’ th’ beam should bow. We have lost your son,
+I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have
+More widows in them of this business’ making,
+Than we bring men to comfort them.
+The fault’s your own.
+
+ALONSO.
+So is the dear’st o’ th’ loss.
+
+GONZALO.
+My lord Sebastian,
+The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
+And time to speak it in. You rub the sore,
+When you should bring the plaster.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Very well.
+
+ANTONIO.
+And most chirurgeonly.
+
+GONZALO.
+It is foul weather in us all, good sir,
+When you are cloudy.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Foul weather?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Very foul.
+
+GONZALO.
+Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,—
+
+ANTONIO.
+He’d sow ’t with nettle-seed.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Or docks, or mallows.
+
+GONZALO.
+And were the King on’t, what would I do?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+’Scape being drunk for want of wine.
+
+GONZALO.
+I’ th’ commonwealth I would by contraries
+Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
+Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
+Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
+And use of service, none; contract, succession,
+Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
+No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
+No occupation; all men idle, all;
+And women too, but innocent and pure;
+No sovereignty,—
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Yet he would be King on’t.
+
+ANTONIO.
+The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning.
+
+GONZALO.
+All things in common nature should produce
+Without sweat or endeavour; treason, felony,
+Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
+Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
+Of it own kind, all foison, all abundance,
+To feed my innocent people.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+No marrying ’mong his subjects?
+
+ANTONIO.
+None, man; all idle; whores and knaves.
+
+GONZALO.
+I would with such perfection govern, sir,
+T’ excel the Golden Age.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Save his Majesty!
+
+ANTONIO.
+Long live Gonzalo!
+
+GONZALO.
+And,—do you mark me, sir?
+
+ALONSO.
+Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.
+
+GONZALO.
+I do well believe your highness; and did it to minister occasion to
+these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they
+always use to laugh at nothing.
+
+ANTONIO.
+’Twas you we laughed at.
+
+GONZALO.
+Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you. So you may
+continue, and laugh at nothing still.
+
+ANTONIO.
+What a blow was there given!
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+An it had not fallen flat-long.
+
+GONZALO.
+You are gentlemen of brave mettle. You would lift the moon out of her
+sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without changing.
+
+ Enter Ariel, invisible, playing solemn music.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+We would so, and then go a-bat-fowling.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Nay, good my lord, be not angry.
+
+GONZALO.
+No, I warrant you; I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will
+you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Go sleep, and hear us.
+
+ [_All sleep but Alonso, Sebastian and Antonio._]
+
+ALONSO.
+What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
+Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find
+They are inclin’d to do so.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Please you, sir,
+Do not omit the heavy offer of it:
+It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
+It is a comforter.
+
+ANTONIO.
+We two, my lord,
+Will guard your person while you take your rest,
+And watch your safety.
+
+ALONSO.
+Thank you. Wondrous heavy!
+
+ [_Alonso sleeps. Exit Ariel._]
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+What a strange drowsiness possesses them!
+
+ANTONIO.
+It is the quality o’ th’ climate.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Why
+Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not
+Myself dispos’d to sleep.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Nor I. My spirits are nimble.
+They fell together all, as by consent;
+They dropp’d, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,
+Worthy Sebastian? O, what might?—No more.
+And yet methinks I see it in thy face,
+What thou shouldst be. Th’ occasion speaks thee; and
+My strong imagination sees a crown
+Dropping upon thy head.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+What, art thou waking?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Do you not hear me speak?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I do; and surely
+It is a sleepy language, and thou speak’st
+Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?
+This is a strange repose, to be asleep
+With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,
+And yet so fast asleep.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Noble Sebastian,
+Thou let’st thy fortune sleep—die rather; wink’st
+Whiles thou art waking.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Thou dost snore distinctly:
+There’s meaning in thy snores.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I am more serious than my custom; you
+Must be so too, if heed me; which to do
+Trebles thee o’er.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Well, I am standing water.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I’ll teach you how to flow.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Do so: to ebb,
+Hereditary sloth instructs me.
+
+ANTONIO.
+O,
+If you but knew how you the purpose cherish
+Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,
+You more invest it! Ebbing men indeed,
+Most often, do so near the bottom run
+By their own fear or sloth.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Prithee, say on:
+The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
+A matter from thee, and a birth, indeed
+Which throes thee much to yield.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Thus, sir:
+Although this lord of weak remembrance, this
+Who shall be of as little memory
+When he is earth’d, hath here almost persuaded,—
+For he’s a spirit of persuasion, only
+Professes to persuade,—the King his son’s alive,
+’Tis as impossible that he’s undrown’d
+As he that sleeps here swims.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I have no hope
+That he’s undrown’d.
+
+ANTONIO.
+O, out of that “no hope”
+What great hope have you! No hope that way is
+Another way so high a hope, that even
+Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,
+But doubts discovery there. Will you grant with me
+That Ferdinand is drown’d?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+He’s gone.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Then tell me,
+Who’s the next heir of Naples?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Claribel.
+
+ANTONIO.
+She that is Queen of Tunis; she that dwells
+Ten leagues beyond man’s life; she that from Naples
+Can have no note, unless the sun were post—
+The Man i’ th’ Moon’s too slow—till newborn chins
+Be rough and razorable; she that from whom
+We all were sea-swallow’d, though some cast again,
+And by that destiny, to perform an act
+Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come
+In yours and my discharge.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+What stuff is this! How say you?
+’Tis true, my brother’s daughter’s Queen of Tunis;
+So is she heir of Naples; ’twixt which regions
+There is some space.
+
+ANTONIO.
+A space whose ev’ry cubit
+Seems to cry out “How shall that Claribel
+Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,
+And let Sebastian wake.” Say this were death
+That now hath seiz’d them; why, they were no worse
+Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples
+As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate
+As amply and unnecessarily
+As this Gonzalo. I myself could make
+A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore
+The mind that I do! What a sleep were this
+For your advancement! Do you understand me?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Methinks I do.
+
+ANTONIO.
+And how does your content
+Tender your own good fortune?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I remember
+You did supplant your brother Prospero.
+
+ANTONIO.
+True.
+And look how well my garments sit upon me;
+Much feater than before; my brother’s servants
+Were then my fellows; now they are my men.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+But, for your conscience.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Ay, sir; where lies that? If ’twere a kibe,
+’Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not
+This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences
+That stand ’twixt me and Milan, candied be they
+And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,
+No better than the earth he lies upon,
+If he were that which now he’s like, that’s dead;
+Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,
+Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,
+To the perpetual wink for aye might put
+This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who
+Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,
+They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
+They’ll tell the clock to any business that
+We say befits the hour.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Thy case, dear friend,
+Shall be my precedent: as thou got’st Milan,
+I’ll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke
+Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest,
+And I the King shall love thee.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Draw together,
+And when I rear my hand, do you the like,
+To fall it on Gonzalo.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+O, but one word.
+
+ [_They converse apart._]
+
+ Music. Re-enter Ariel, invisible.
+
+ARIEL.
+My master through his art foresees the danger
+That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth—
+For else his project dies—to keep them living.
+
+[_Sings in Gonzalo’s ear._]
+_While you here do snoring lie,
+Open-ey’d conspiracy
+    His time doth take.
+If of life you keep a care,
+Shake off slumber, and beware.
+    Awake! awake!_
+
+ANTONIO.
+Then let us both be sudden.
+
+GONZALO.
+Now, good angels
+Preserve the King!
+
+ [_They wake._]
+
+ALONSO.
+Why, how now! Ho, awake! Why are you drawn?
+Wherefore this ghastly looking?
+
+GONZALO.
+What’s the matter?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Whiles we stood here securing your repose,
+Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing
+Like bulls, or rather lions; did ’t not wake you?
+It struck mine ear most terribly.
+
+ALONSO.
+I heard nothing.
+
+ANTONIO.
+O! ’twas a din to fright a monster’s ear,
+To make an earthquake. Sure, it was the roar
+Of a whole herd of lions.
+
+ALONSO.
+Heard you this, Gonzalo?
+
+GONZALO.
+Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,
+And that a strange one too, which did awake me.
+I shak’d you, sir, and cried; as mine eyes open’d,
+I saw their weapons drawn:—there was a noise,
+That’s verily. ’Tis best we stand upon our guard,
+Or that we quit this place: let’s draw our weapons.
+
+ALONSO.
+Lead off this ground, and let’s make further search
+For my poor son.
+
+GONZALO.
+Heavens keep him from these beasts!
+For he is, sure, i’ th’ island.
+
+ALONSO.
+Lead away.
+
+ [_Exit with the others._]
+
+ARIEL.
+Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:
+So, King, go safely on to seek thy son.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Another part of the island.
+
+ Enter Caliban with a burden of wood. A noise of thunder heard.
+
+CALIBAN.
+All the infections that the sun sucks up
+From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him
+By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me,
+And yet I needs must curse. But they’ll nor pinch,
+Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i’ the mire,
+Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
+Out of my way, unless he bid ’em; but
+For every trifle are they set upon me,
+Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me,
+And after bite me; then like hedgehogs which
+Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount
+Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
+All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues
+Do hiss me into madness.
+
+ Enter Trinculo.
+
+Lo, now, lo!
+Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
+For bringing wood in slowly. I’ll fall flat;
+Perchance he will not mind me.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Here’s neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all, and
+another storm brewing; I hear it sing i’ th’ wind. Yond same black
+cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his
+liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide
+my head: yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls. What have
+we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish;
+a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest
+Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and
+had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a
+piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast
+there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
+beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg’d like a man,
+and his fins like arms! Warm, o’ my troth! I do now let loose my
+opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander, that hath
+lately suffered by thunderbolt. [_Thunder._] Alas, the storm is come
+again! My best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other
+shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I
+will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past.
+
+ Enter Stephano singing; a bottle in his hand.
+
+STEPHANO.
+_I shall no more to sea, to sea,
+Here shall I die ashore—_
+
+This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man’s funeral.
+Well, here’s my comfort.
+
+ [_Drinks._]
+
+_The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I,
+    The gunner, and his mate,
+Lov’d Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery,
+    But none of us car’d for Kate:
+    For she had a tongue with a tang,
+    Would cry to a sailor “Go hang!”
+She lov’d not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
+Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch.
+    Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang._
+
+This is a scurvy tune too: but here’s my comfort.
+
+ [_Drinks._]
+
+CALIBAN.
+Do not torment me: O!
+
+STEPHANO.
+What’s the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon ’s with
+savages and men of Ind? Ha? I have not scap’d drowning, to be afeard
+now of your four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as ever
+went on four legs cannot make him give ground; and it shall be said so
+again, while Stephano breathes at’ nostrils.
+
+CALIBAN.
+The spirit torments me: O!
+
+STEPHANO.
+This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who hath got, as I
+take it, an ague. Where the devil should he learn our language? I will
+give him some relief, if it be but for that. If I can recover him and
+keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he’s a present for any
+emperor that ever trod on neat’s-leather.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Do not torment me, prithee; I’ll bring my wood home faster.
+
+STEPHANO.
+He’s in his fit now, and does not talk after the wisest. He shall taste
+of my bottle: if he have never drunk wine afore, it will go near to
+remove his fit. If I can recover him, and keep him tame, I will not
+take too much for him. He shall pay for him that hath him, and that
+soundly.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon,
+I know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Come on your ways. Open your mouth; here is that which will give
+language to you, cat. Open your mouth. This will shake your shaking, I
+can tell you, and that soundly. [_gives Caliban a drink_] You cannot
+tell who’s your friend: open your chaps again.
+
+TRINCULO.
+I should know that voice: it should be—but he is drowned; and these are
+devils. O, defend me!
+
+STEPHANO.
+Four legs and two voices; a most delicate monster! His forward voice
+now is to speak well of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul
+speeches and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him,
+I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Stephano!
+
+STEPHANO.
+Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! mercy!
+This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I
+have no long spoon.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am
+Trinculo—be not afeared—thy good friend Trinculo.
+
+STEPHANO.
+If thou beest Trinculo, come forth. I’ll pull thee by the lesser legs:
+if any be Trinculo’s legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo
+indeed! How cam’st thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent
+Trinculos?
+
+TRINCULO.
+I took him to be kill’d with a thunderstroke. But art thou not drown’d,
+Stephano? I hope now thou are not drown’d. Is the storm overblown? I
+hid me under the dead moon-calf’s gaberdine for fear of the storm. And
+art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans scap’d!
+
+STEPHANO.
+Prithee, do not turn me about. My stomach is not constant.
+
+CALIBAN.
+[_Aside._] These be fine things, an if they be not sprites.
+That’s a brave god, and bears celestial liquor.
+I will kneel to him.
+
+STEPHANO.
+How didst thou scape? How cam’st thou hither? Swear by  this bottle how
+thou cam’st hither—I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors
+heaved o’erboard, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree
+with mine own hands, since I was cast ashore.
+
+CALIBAN.
+I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the liquor is
+not earthly.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Here. Swear then how thou escapedst.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Swum ashore, man, like a duck: I can swim like a duck, I’ll be sworn.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made
+like a goose.
+
+TRINCULO.
+O Stephano, hast any more of this?
+
+STEPHANO.
+The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by th’ seaside, where my
+wine is hid. How now, moon-calf! How does thine ague?
+
+CALIBAN.
+Hast thou not dropped from heaven?
+
+STEPHANO.
+Out o’ the moon, I do assure thee: I was the Man in the Moon, when time
+was.
+
+CALIBAN.
+I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee. My mistress showed me
+thee, and thy dog, and thy bush.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Come, swear to that. Kiss the book. I will furnish it anon with new
+contents. Swear.
+
+TRINCULO.
+By this good light, this is a very shallow monster. I afeard of him? A
+very weak monster. The Man i’ the Moon! A most poor credulous monster!
+Well drawn, monster, in good sooth!
+
+CALIBAN.
+I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’ the island; and I will kiss thy
+foot. I prithee, be my god.
+
+TRINCULO.
+By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster. When ’s god’s
+asleep, he’ll rob his bottle.
+
+CALIBAN.
+I’ll kiss thy foot. I’ll swear myself thy subject.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Come on, then; down, and swear.
+
+TRINCULO.
+I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster. A most
+scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him,—
+
+STEPHANO.
+Come, kiss.
+
+TRINCULO.
+But that the poor monster’s in drink. An abominable monster!
+
+CALIBAN.
+I’ll show thee the best springs; I’ll pluck thee berries;
+I’ll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough.
+A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
+I’ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
+Thou wondrous man.
+
+TRINCULO.
+A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard!
+
+CALIBAN.
+I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
+And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;
+Show thee a jay’s nest, and instruct thee how
+To snare the nimble marmoset; I’ll bring thee
+To clustering filberts, and sometimes I’ll get thee
+Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
+
+STEPHANO.
+I prithee now, lead the way without any more talking. Trinculo, the
+King and all our company else being drowned, we will inherit here.
+Here, bear my bottle. Fellow Trinculo, we’ll fill him by and by again.
+
+CALIBAN.
+[_Sings drunkenly._] _Farewell, master; farewell, farewell!_
+
+TRINCULO.
+A howling monster, a drunken monster.
+
+CALIBAN.
+_No more dams I’ll make for fish;
+Nor fetch in firing
+At requiring,
+Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish;
+’Ban ’Ban, Cacaliban,
+Has a new master—Get a new man._
+Freedom, high-day! high-day, freedom! freedom,
+high-day, freedom!
+
+STEPHANO.
+O brave monster! lead the way.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Before Prospero’s cell.
+
+
+ Enter Ferdinand bearing a log.
+
+FERDINAND.
+There be some sports are painful, and their labour
+Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
+Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters
+Point to rich ends. This my mean task
+Would be as heavy to me as odious, but
+The mistress which I serve quickens what’s dead,
+And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is
+Ten times more gentle than her father’s crabbed,
+And he’s compos’d of harshness. I must remove
+Some thousands of these logs, and pile them up,
+Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress
+Weeps when she sees me work, and says such baseness
+Had never like executor. I forget:
+But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,
+Most busy, least when I do it.
+
+ Enter Miranda and Prospero behind.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Alas now, pray you,
+Work not so hard: I would the lightning had
+Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin’d to pile!
+Pray, set it down and rest you. When this burns,
+’Twill weep for having wearied you. My father
+Is hard at study; pray, now, rest yourself:
+He’s safe for these three hours.
+
+FERDINAND.
+O most dear mistress,
+The sun will set, before I shall discharge
+What I must strive to do.
+
+MIRANDA.
+If you’ll sit down,
+I’ll bear your logs the while. Pray give me that;
+I’ll carry it to the pile.
+
+FERDINAND.
+No, precious creature;
+I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
+Than you should such dishonour undergo,
+While I sit lazy by.
+
+MIRANDA.
+It would become me
+As well as it does you: and I should do it
+With much more ease; for my good will is to it,
+And yours it is against.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] Poor worm! thou art infected.
+This visitation shows it.
+
+MIRANDA.
+You look wearily.
+
+FERDINAND.
+No, noble mistress; ’tis fresh morning with me
+When you are by at night. I do beseech you—
+Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers—
+What is your name?
+
+MIRANDA.
+Miranda—O my father!
+I have broke your hest to say so.
+
+FERDINAND.
+Admir’d Miranda!
+Indeed, the top of admiration; worth
+What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady
+I have ey’d with best regard, and many a time
+Th’ harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
+Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
+Have I lik’d several women; never any
+With so full soul but some defect in her
+Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow’d,
+And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
+So perfect and so peerless, are created
+Of every creature’s best.
+
+MIRANDA.
+I do not know
+One of my sex; no woman’s face remember,
+Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen
+More that I may call men than you, good friend,
+And my dear father: how features are abroad,
+I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,
+The jewel in my dower, I would not wish
+Any companion in the world but you;
+Nor can imagination form a shape,
+Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle
+Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts
+I therein do forget.
+
+FERDINAND.
+I am, in my condition,
+A prince, Miranda; I do think, a King;
+I would not so!—and would no more endure
+This wooden slavery than to suffer
+The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak:
+The very instant that I saw you, did
+My heart fly to your service; there resides,
+To make me slave to it; and for your sake
+Am I this patient log-man.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Do you love me?
+
+FERDINAND.
+O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound,
+And crown what I profess with kind event,
+If I speak true; if hollowly, invert
+What best is boded me to mischief! I,
+Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world,
+Do love, prize, honour you.
+
+MIRANDA.
+I am a fool
+To weep at what I am glad of.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] Fair encounter
+Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
+On that which breeds between ’em!
+
+FERDINAND.
+Wherefore weep you?
+
+MIRANDA.
+At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer
+What I desire to give; and much less take
+What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;
+And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
+The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
+And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
+I am your wife if you will marry me;
+If not, I’ll die your maid: to be your fellow
+You may deny me; but I’ll be your servant,
+Whether you will or no.
+
+FERDINAND.
+My mistress, dearest;
+And I thus humble ever.
+
+MIRANDA.
+My husband, then?
+
+FERDINAND.
+Ay, with a heart as willing
+As bondage e’er of freedom: here’s my hand.
+
+MIRANDA.
+And mine, with my heart in ’t: and now farewell
+Till half an hour hence.
+
+FERDINAND.
+A thousand thousand!
+
+ [_Exeunt Ferdinand and Miranda severally._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+So glad of this as they, I cannot be,
+Who are surpris’d withal; but my rejoicing
+At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book;
+For yet, ere supper time, must I perform
+Much business appertaining.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Another part of the island.
+
+ Enter Caliban with a bottle, Stephano and Trinculo.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Tell not me:—when the butt is out we will drink water; not a drop
+before: therefore bear up, and board ’em. Servant-monster, drink to me.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Servant-monster! The folly of this island! They say there’s but five
+upon this isle; we are three of them; if th’ other two be brained like
+us, the state totters.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almost set in thy
+head.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Where should they be set else? He were a brave monster indeed, if they
+were set in his tail.
+
+STEPHANO.
+My man-monster hath drown’d his tongue in sack: for my part, the sea
+cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five-and-thirty
+leagues, off and on, by this light. Thou shalt be my lieutenant,
+monster, or my standard.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Your lieutenant, if you list; he’s no standard.
+
+STEPHANO.
+We’ll not run, Monsieur monster.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Nor go neither. But you’ll lie like dogs, and yet say nothing neither.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf.
+
+CALIBAN.
+How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I’ll not serve him, he is
+not valiant.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable.
+Why, thou deboshed fish thou, was there ever man a coward that hath
+drunk so much sack as I today? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being
+but half a fish and half a monster?
+
+CALIBAN.
+Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?
+
+TRINCULO.
+“Lord” quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural!
+
+CALIBAN.
+Lo, lo again! bite him to death, I prithee.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you prove a mutineer, the
+next tree! The poor monster’s my subject, and he shall not suffer
+indignity.
+
+CALIBAN.
+I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleas’d to hearken once again to
+the suit I made to thee?
+
+STEPHANO.
+Marry. will I. Kneel and repeat it. I will stand, and so shall
+Trinculo.
+
+ Enter Ariel, invisible.
+
+CALIBAN.
+As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by
+his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
+
+ARIEL.
+Thou liest.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou;
+I would my valiant master would destroy thee;
+I do not lie.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in his tale, by this hand, I will
+supplant some of your teeth.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Why, I said nothing.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.
+
+CALIBAN.
+I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
+From me he got it. If thy greatness will,
+Revenge it on him,—for I know thou dar’st;
+But this thing dare not,—
+
+STEPHANO.
+That’s most certain.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Thou shalt be lord of it and I’ll serve thee.
+
+STEPHANO.
+How now shall this be compassed? Canst thou bring me to the party?
+
+CALIBAN.
+Yea, yea, my lord: I’ll yield him thee asleep,
+Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head.
+
+ARIEL.
+Thou liest. Thou canst not.
+
+CALIBAN.
+What a pied ninny’s this! Thou scurvy patch!
+I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows,
+And take his bottle from him: when that’s gone
+He shall drink nought but brine; for I’ll not show him
+Where the quick freshes are.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster one word
+further, and by this hand, I’ll turn my mercy out o’ doors, and make a
+stock-fish of thee.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Why, what did I? I did nothing. I’ll go farther off.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Didst thou not say he lied?
+
+ARIEL.
+Thou liest.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Do I so? Take thou that.
+
+ [_Strikes Trinculo._]
+
+As you like this, give me the lie another time.
+
+TRINCULO.
+I did not give the lie. Out o’ your wits and hearing too? A pox o’ your
+bottle! this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on your monster, and
+the devil take your fingers!
+
+CALIBAN.
+Ha, ha, ha!
+
+STEPHANO.
+Now, forward with your tale.—Prithee stand further off.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Beat him enough: after a little time,
+I’ll beat him too.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Stand farther.—Come, proceed.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Why, as I told thee, ’tis a custom with him
+I’ th’ afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,
+Having first seiz’d his books; or with a log
+Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
+Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember
+First to possess his books; for without them
+He’s but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
+One spirit to command: they all do hate him
+As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.
+He has brave utensils,—for so he calls them,—
+Which, when he has a house, he’ll deck withal.
+And that most deeply to consider is
+The beauty of his daughter; he himself
+Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman
+But only Sycorax my dam and she;
+But she as far surpasseth Sycorax
+As great’st does least.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Is it so brave a lass?
+
+CALIBAN.
+Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant,
+And bring thee forth brave brood.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Monster, I will kill this man. His daughter and I will be king and
+queen,—save our graces!—and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys.
+Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo?
+
+TRINCULO.
+Excellent.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but while thou liv’st, keep a
+good tongue in thy head.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Within this half hour will he be asleep.
+Wilt thou destroy him then?
+
+STEPHANO.
+Ay, on mine honour.
+
+ARIEL.
+This will I tell my master.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Thou mak’st me merry. I am full of pleasure.
+Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
+You taught me but while-ere?
+
+STEPHANO.
+At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason. Come on,
+Trinculo, let us sing.
+
+[_Sings._]
+
+_Flout ’em and cout ’em,
+and scout ’em and flout ’em:
+    Thought is free._
+
+CALIBAN.
+That’s not the tune.
+
+ [_Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe._]
+
+STEPHANO.
+What is this same?
+
+TRINCULO.
+This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody.
+
+STEPHANO.
+If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness: if thou beest a
+devil, take ’t as thou list.
+
+TRINCULO.
+O, forgive me my sins!
+
+STEPHANO.
+He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!
+
+CALIBAN.
+Art thou afeard?
+
+STEPHANO.
+No, monster, not I.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
+Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
+Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
+Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
+That, if I then had wak’d after long sleep,
+Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
+The clouds methought would open and show riches
+Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak’d,
+I cried to dream again.
+
+STEPHANO.
+This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for
+nothing.
+
+CALIBAN.
+When Prospero is destroyed.
+
+STEPHANO.
+That shall be by and by: I remember the story.
+
+TRINCULO.
+The sound is going away. Let’s follow it, and after do our work.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Lead, monster: we’ll follow. I would I could see this taborer! he lays
+it on. Wilt come?
+
+TRINCULO.
+I’ll follow, Stephano.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Another part of the island.
+
+Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco, &c.
+
+GONZALO.
+By ’r lakin, I can go no further, sir;
+My old bones ache: here’s a maze trod, indeed,
+Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience,
+I needs must rest me.
+
+ALONSO.
+Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
+Who am myself attach’d with weariness
+To th’ dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
+Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it
+No longer for my flatterer: he is drown’d
+Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks
+Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
+
+ANTONIO.
+[_Aside to Sebastian._] I am right glad that he’s
+so out of hope.
+Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose
+That you resolv’d to effect.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+[_Aside to Antonio._] The next advantage
+Will we take throughly.
+
+ANTONIO.
+[_Aside to Sebastian._] Let it be tonight;
+For, now they are oppress’d with travel, they
+Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
+As when they are fresh.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+[_Aside to Antonio._] I say, tonight: no more.
+
+ Solemn and strange music: and Prospero above, invisible. Enter several
+ strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet: they dance about it with gentle
+ actions of salutation; and inviting the King &c., to eat, they depart.
+
+ALONSO.
+What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
+
+GONZALO.
+Marvellous sweet music!
+
+ALONSO.
+Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+A living drollery. Now I will believe
+That there are unicorns; that in Arabia
+There is one tree, the phoenix’ throne; one phoenix
+At this hour reigning there.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I’ll believe both;
+And what does else want credit, come to me,
+And I’ll be sworn ’tis true: travellers ne’er did lie,
+Though fools at home condemn them.
+
+GONZALO.
+If in Naples
+I should report this now, would they believe me?
+If I should say, I saw such islanders,—
+For, certes, these are people of the island,—
+Who, though, they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
+Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of
+Our human generation you shall find
+Many, nay, almost any.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] Honest lord,
+Thou hast said well; for some of you there present
+Are worse than devils.
+
+ALONSO.
+I cannot too much muse
+Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing—
+Although they want the use of tongue—a kind
+Of excellent dumb discourse.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] Praise in departing.
+
+FRANCISCO.
+They vanish’d strangely.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+No matter, since
+They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.—
+Will’t please you taste of what is here?
+
+ALONSO.
+Not I.
+
+GONZALO.
+Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
+Who would believe that there were mountaineers
+Dewlapp’d like bulls, whose throats had hanging at ’em
+Wallets of flesh? Or that there were such men
+Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find
+Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
+Good warrant of.
+
+ALONSO.
+I will stand to, and feed,
+Although my last, no matter, since I feel
+The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
+Stand to, and do as we.
+
+ Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a Harpy; claps his wings upon
+ the table; and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes.
+
+ARIEL.
+You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
+That hath to instrument this lower world
+And what is in’t,—the never-surfeited sea
+Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island
+Where man doth not inhabit; you ’mongst men
+Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
+And even with such-like valour men hang and drown
+Their proper selves.
+
+ [_Seeing Alonso, Sebastian &c., draw their swords._]
+
+You fools! I and my fellows
+Are ministers of Fate: the elements
+Of whom your swords are temper’d may as well
+Wound the loud winds, or with bemock’d-at stabs
+Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
+One dowle that’s in my plume. My fellow-ministers
+Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
+Your swords are now too massy for your strengths,
+And will not be uplifted. But, remember—
+For that’s my business to you,—that you three
+From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
+Expos’d unto the sea, which hath requit it,
+Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed
+The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
+Incens’d the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
+Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
+They have bereft; and do pronounce, by me
+Ling’ring perdition,—worse than any death
+Can be at once,—shall step by step attend
+You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from—
+Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
+Upon your heads,—is nothing but heart-sorrow,
+And a clear life ensuing.
+
+ [_He vanishes in thunder: then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again,
+ and dance, with mocks and mows, and carry out the table._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] Bravely the figure of this Harpy hast thou
+Perform’d, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring.
+Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
+In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life
+And observation strange, my meaner ministers
+Their several kinds have done. My high charms work,
+And these mine enemies are all knit up
+In their distractions; they now are in my power;
+And in these fits I leave them, while I visit
+Young Ferdinand,—whom they suppose is drown’d,—
+And his and mine lov’d darling.
+
+ [_Exit above._]
+
+GONZALO.
+I’ the name of something holy, sir, why stand you
+In this strange stare?
+
+ALONSO.
+O, it is monstrous! monstrous!
+Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it;
+The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,
+That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc’d
+The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
+Therefore my son i’ th’ ooze is bedded; and
+I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plummet sounded,
+And with him there lie mudded.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+But one fiend at a time,
+I’ll fight their legions o’er.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I’ll be thy second.
+
+ [_Exeunt Sebastian and Antonio._]
+
+GONZALO.
+All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,
+Like poison given to work a great time after,
+Now ’gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
+That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
+And hinder them from what this ecstasy
+May now provoke them to.
+
+ADRIAN.
+Follow, I pray you.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Before Prospero’s cell.
+
+
+ Enter Prospero, Ferdinand and Miranda.
+
+PROSPERO.
+If I have too austerely punish’d you,
+Your compensation makes amends: for I
+Have given you here a third of mine own life,
+Or that for which I live; who once again
+I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
+Were but my trials of thy love, and thou
+Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven,
+I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
+Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
+For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
+And make it halt behind her.
+
+FERDINAND.
+I do believe it
+Against an oracle.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition
+Worthily purchas’d, take my daughter: but
+If thou dost break her virgin knot before
+All sanctimonious ceremonies may
+With full and holy rite be minister’d,
+No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
+To make this contract grow; but barren hate,
+Sour-ey’d disdain, and discord shall bestrew
+The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
+That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
+As Hymen’s lamps shall light you.
+
+FERDINAND.
+As I hope
+For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
+With such love as ’tis now, the murkiest den,
+The most opportune place, the strong’st suggestion
+Our worser genius can, shall never melt
+Mine honour into lust, to take away
+The edge of that day’s celebration,
+When I shall think, or Phoebus’ steeds are founder’d,
+Or Night kept chain’d below.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Fairly spoke:
+Sit, then, and talk with her, she is thine own.
+What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!
+
+ Enter Ariel.
+
+ARIEL.
+What would my potent master? here I am.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
+Did worthily perform; and I must use you
+In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,
+O’er whom I give thee power, here to this place.
+Incite them to quick motion; for I must
+Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
+Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise,
+And they expect it from me.
+
+ARIEL.
+Presently?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Ay, with a twink.
+
+ARIEL.
+Before you can say “Come” and “Go,”
+And breathe twice, and cry “so, so,”
+Each one, tripping on his toe,
+Will be here with mop and mow.
+Do you love me, master? no?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Dearly, my delicate Ariel. Do not approach
+Till thou dost hear me call.
+
+ARIEL.
+Well, I conceive.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+Look thou be true; do not give dalliance
+Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw
+To th’ fire i’ the blood: be more abstemious,
+Or else good night your vow!
+
+FERDINAND.
+I warrant you, sir;
+The white cold virgin snow upon my heart
+Abates the ardour of my liver.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Well.
+Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,
+Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly.
+No tongue! all eyes! be silent.
+
+ [_Soft music._]
+
+ A Masque. Enter Iris.
+
+IRIS.
+Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
+Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and peas;
+Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
+And flat meads thatch’d with stover, them to keep;
+Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
+Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
+To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,
+Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
+Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;
+And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
+Where thou thyself dost air: the Queen o’ th’ sky,
+Whose wat’ry arch and messenger am I,
+Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace,
+Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
+To come and sport; her peacocks fly amain:
+Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.
+
+ Enter Ceres.
+
+CERES.
+Hail, many-colour’d messenger, that ne’er
+Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
+Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
+Diffusest honey drops, refreshing showers;
+And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
+My bosky acres and my unshrubb’d down,
+Rich scarf to my proud earth; why hath thy queen
+Summon’d me hither to this short-grass’d green?
+
+IRIS.
+A contract of true love to celebrate,
+And some donation freely to estate
+On the blest lovers.
+
+CERES.
+Tell me, heavenly bow,
+If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
+Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
+The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
+Her and her blind boy’s scandal’d company
+I have forsworn.
+
+IRIS.
+Of her society
+Be not afraid. I met her deity
+Cutting the clouds towards Paphos, and her son
+Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done
+Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
+Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid
+Till Hymen’s torch be lighted; but in vain.
+Mars’s hot minion is return’d again;
+Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
+Swears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows,
+And be a boy right out.
+
+CERES.
+Highest queen of State,
+Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait.
+
+ Enter Juno.
+
+JUNO.
+How does my bounteous sister? Go with me
+To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be,
+And honour’d in their issue.
+
+ [_They sing._]
+
+JUNO.
+_Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
+Long continuance, and increasing,
+Hourly joys be still upon you!
+Juno sings her blessings on you._
+
+CERES.
+_Earth’s increase, foison plenty,
+Barns and garners never empty;
+Vines with clust’ring bunches growing;
+Plants with goodly burden bowing;
+Spring come to you at the farthest
+In the very end of harvest!
+Scarcity and want shall shun you;
+Ceres’ blessing so is on you._
+
+FERDINAND.
+This is a most majestic vision, and
+Harmonious charmingly. May I be bold
+To think these spirits?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Spirits, which by mine art
+I have from their confines call’d to enact
+My present fancies.
+
+FERDINAND.
+Let me live here ever.
+So rare a wonder’d father and a wise,
+Makes this place Paradise.
+
+ [_Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on employment._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+Sweet now, silence!
+Juno and Ceres whisper seriously,
+There’s something else to do: hush, and be mute,
+Or else our spell is marr’d.
+
+IRIS.
+You nymphs, call’d Naiads, of the windring brooks,
+With your sedg’d crowns and ever-harmless looks,
+Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land
+Answer your summons; Juno does command.
+Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
+A contract of true love. Be not too late.
+
+ Enter certain Nymphs.
+
+You sun-burn’d sicklemen, of August weary,
+Come hither from the furrow, and be merry:
+Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on,
+And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
+In country footing.
+
+ Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join with the Nymphs in
+ a graceful dance; towards the end whereof Prospero starts suddenly,
+ and speaks; after which, to a strange, hollow, and confused noise,
+ they heavily vanish.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside._] I had forgot that foul conspiracy
+Of the beast Caliban and his confederates
+Against my life: the minute of their plot
+Is almost come. [_To the Spirits._] Well done! avoid; no
+more!
+
+FERDINAND.
+This is strange: your father’s in some passion
+That works him strongly.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Never till this day
+Saw I him touch’d with anger so distemper’d.
+
+PROSPERO.
+You do look, my son, in a mov’d sort,
+As if you were dismay’d: be cheerful, sir:
+Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
+As I foretold you, were all spirits and
+Are melted into air, into thin air:
+And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
+The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
+The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
+Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
+And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
+Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
+As dreams are made on, and our little life
+Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex’d:
+Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled.
+Be not disturb’d with my infirmity.
+If you be pleas’d, retire into my cell
+And there repose: a turn or two I’ll walk,
+To still my beating mind.
+
+FERDINAND, MIRANDA.
+We wish your peace.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+Come, with a thought. I thank thee, Ariel. Come!
+
+ Enter Ariel.
+
+ARIEL.
+Thy thoughts I cleave to. What’s thy pleasure?
+
+PROSPERO.
+Spirit,
+We must prepare to meet with Caliban.
+
+ARIEL.
+Ay, my commander. When I presented Ceres,
+I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear’d
+Lest I might anger thee.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?
+
+ARIEL.
+I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;
+So full of valour that they smote the air
+For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
+For kissing of their feet; yet always bending
+Towards their project. Then I beat my tabor;
+At which, like unback’d colts, they prick’d their ears,
+Advanc’d their eyelids, lifted up their noses
+As they smelt music: so I charm’d their ears,
+That calf-like they my lowing follow’d through
+Tooth’d briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,
+Which enter’d their frail shins: at last I left them
+I’ th’ filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,
+There dancing up to th’ chins, that the foul lake
+O’erstunk their feet.
+
+PROSPERO.
+This was well done, my bird.
+Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
+The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither
+For stale to catch these thieves.
+
+ARIEL.
+I go, I go.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
+Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
+Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
+And as with age his body uglier grows,
+So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,
+Even to roaring.
+
+ Re-enter Ariel, loaden with glistering apparel, &c.
+
+Come, hang them on this line.
+
+ Prospero and Ariel remain invisible. Enter Caliban, Stephano and
+ Trinculo all wet.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not
+Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little
+better than played the Jack with us.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great
+indignation.
+
+STEPHANO.
+So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take a displeasure
+against you, look you,—
+
+TRINCULO.
+Thou wert but a lost monster.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Good my lord, give me thy favour still.
+Be patient, for the prize I’ll bring thee to
+Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.
+All’s hush’d as midnight yet.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool!
+
+STEPHANO.
+There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an
+infinite loss.
+
+TRINCULO.
+That’s more to me than my wetting: yet this is your harmless fairy,
+monster.
+
+STEPHANO.
+I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o’er ears for my labour.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Prithee, my King, be quiet. Seest thou here,
+This is the mouth o’ th’ cell: no noise, and enter.
+Do that good mischief which may make this island
+Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,
+For aye thy foot-licker.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
+
+TRINCULO.
+O King Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano!
+Look what a wardrobe here is for thee!
+
+CALIBAN.
+Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.
+
+TRINCULO.
+O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery. O King Stephano!
+
+STEPHANO.
+Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I’ll have that gown.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Thy Grace shall have it.
+
+CALIBAN.
+The dropsy drown this fool! What do you mean
+To dote thus on such luggage? Let’t alone,
+And do the murder first. If he awake,
+From toe to crown he’ll fill our skins with pinches,
+Make us strange stuff.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the
+jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and
+prove a bald jerkin.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Do, do: we steal by line and level, an’t like your Grace.
+
+STEPHANO.
+I thank thee for that jest. Here’s a garment for ’t: wit shall not go
+unrewarded while I am King of this country. “Steal by line and level,”
+is an excellent pass of pate. There’s another garment for ’t.
+
+TRINCULO.
+Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.
+
+CALIBAN.
+I will have none on’t. We shall lose our time,
+And all be turn’d to barnacles, or to apes
+With foreheads villainous low.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this away where my hogshead
+of wine is, or I’ll turn you out of my kingdom. Go to, carry this.
+
+TRINCULO.
+And this.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Ay, and this.
+
+ A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in shape of dogs and
+ hounds, and hunt them about; Prospero and Ariel setting them on.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Hey, Mountain, hey!
+
+ARIEL.
+Silver! there it goes, Silver!
+
+PROSPERO.
+Fury, Fury! There, Tyrant, there! hark, hark!
+
+ [_Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo are driven out._]
+
+Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints
+With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews
+With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them
+Than pard, or cat o’ mountain.
+
+ARIEL.
+Hark, they roar.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour
+Lies at my mercy all mine enemies.
+Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
+Shalt have the air at freedom. For a little
+Follow, and do me service.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Before the cell of Prospero.
+
+
+ Enter Prospero in his magic robes, and Ariel.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Now does my project gather to a head:
+My charms crack not; my spirits obey, and time
+Goes upright with his carriage. How’s the day?
+
+ARIEL.
+On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,
+You said our work should cease.
+
+PROSPERO.
+I did say so,
+When first I rais’d the tempest. Say, my spirit,
+How fares the King and ’s followers?
+
+ARIEL.
+Confin’d together
+In the same fashion as you gave in charge,
+Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,
+In the line grove which weather-fends your cell;
+They cannot budge till your release. The King,
+His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted,
+And the remainder mourning over them,
+Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly
+Him you term’d, sir, “the good old lord, Gonzalo”.
+His tears run down his beard, like winter’s drops
+From eaves of reeds; your charm so strongly works ’em,
+That if you now beheld them, your affections
+Would become tender.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Dost thou think so, spirit?
+
+ARIEL.
+Mine would, sir, were I human.
+
+PROSPERO.
+And mine shall.
+Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
+Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
+One of their kind, that relish all as sharply
+Passion as they, be kindlier mov’d than thou art?
+Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th’ quick,
+Yet with my nobler reason ’gainst my fury
+Do I take part: the rarer action is
+In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
+The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
+Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel.
+My charms I’ll break, their senses I’ll restore,
+And they shall be themselves.
+
+ARIEL.
+I’ll fetch them, sir.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and
+groves;
+And ye that on the sands with printless foot
+Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him
+When he comes back; you demi-puppets that
+By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
+Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime
+Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
+To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,
+Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d
+The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds,
+And ’twixt the green sea and the azur’d vault
+Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
+Have I given fire, and rifted Jove’s stout oak
+With his own bolt; the strong-bas’d promontory
+Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck’d up
+The pine and cedar: graves at my command
+Have wak’d their sleepers, op’d, and let ’em forth
+By my so potent art. But this rough magic
+I here abjure; and, when I have requir’d
+Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,—
+To work mine end upon their senses that
+This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff,
+Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
+And deeper than did ever plummet sound
+I’ll drown my book.
+
+ [_Solemn music._]
+
+ Re-enter Ariel: after him, Alonso with a frantic gesture, attended by
+ Gonzalo, Sebastian and Antonio in like manner, attended by Adrian and
+ Francisco: they all enter the circle which Prospero had made, and
+ there stand charmed; which Prospero observing, speaks.
+
+A solemn air, and the best comforter
+To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains,
+Now useless, boil’d within thy skull! There stand,
+For you are spell-stopp’d.
+Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,
+Mine eyes, e’en sociable to the show of thine,
+Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace;
+And as the morning steals upon the night,
+Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
+Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
+Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo!
+My true preserver, and a loyal sir
+To him thou follow’st, I will pay thy graces
+Home, both in word and deed. Most cruelly
+Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
+Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.
+Thou art pinch’d for ’t now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,
+You, brother mine, that entertain’d ambition,
+Expell’d remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian,—
+Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,
+Would here have kill’d your King; I do forgive thee,
+Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding
+Begins to swell, and the approaching tide
+Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
+That now lie foul and muddy. Not one of them
+That yet looks on me, or would know me. Ariel,
+Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell.
+
+ [_Exit Ariel._]
+
+I will discase me, and myself present
+As I was sometime Milan. Quickly, spirit;
+Thou shalt ere long be free.
+
+ Ariel re-enters, singing, and helps to attire Prospero.
+
+ARIEL
+_Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
+In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
+There I couch when owls do cry.
+On the bat’s back I do fly
+After summer merrily.
+Merrily, merrily shall I live now
+Under the blossom that hangs on the bough._
+
+PROSPERO.
+Why, that’s my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee;
+But yet thou shalt have freedom; so, so, so.
+To the King’s ship, invisible as thou art:
+There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
+Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain
+Being awake, enforce them to this place,
+And presently, I prithee.
+
+ARIEL.
+I drink the air before me, and return
+Or ere your pulse twice beat.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+GONZALO.
+All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
+Inhabits here. Some heavenly power guide us
+Out of this fearful country!
+
+PROSPERO.
+Behold, sir King,
+The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero.
+For more assurance that a living prince
+Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
+And to thee and thy company I bid
+A hearty welcome.
+
+ALONSO.
+Whe’er thou be’st he or no,
+Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
+As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse
+Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,
+Th’ affliction of my mind amends, with which,
+I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,
+An if this be at all, a most strange story.
+Thy dukedom I resign, and do entreat
+Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero
+Be living and be here?
+
+PROSPERO.
+First, noble friend,
+Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot
+Be measur’d or confin’d.
+
+GONZALO.
+Whether this be
+Or be not, I’ll not swear.
+
+PROSPERO.
+You do yet taste
+Some subtleties o’ the isle, that will not let you
+Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all.
+[_Aside to Sebastian and Antonio._] But you, my brace of lords, were I
+so minded,
+I here could pluck his highness’ frown upon you,
+And justify you traitors: at this time
+I will tell no tales.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+[_Aside._] The devil speaks in him.
+
+PROSPERO.
+No.
+For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
+Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
+Thy rankest fault, all of them; and require
+My dukedom of thee, which perforce I know
+Thou must restore.
+
+ALONSO.
+If thou beest Prospero,
+Give us particulars of thy preservation;
+How thou hast met us here, whom three hours since
+Were wrack’d upon this shore; where I have lost,—
+How sharp the point of this remembrance is!—
+My dear son Ferdinand.
+
+PROSPERO.
+I am woe for ’t, sir.
+
+ALONSO.
+Irreparable is the loss, and patience
+Says it is past her cure.
+
+PROSPERO.
+I rather think
+You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace,
+For the like loss I have her sovereign aid,
+And rest myself content.
+
+ALONSO.
+You the like loss!
+
+PROSPERO.
+As great to me, as late; and, supportable
+To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker
+Than you may call to comfort you, for I
+Have lost my daughter.
+
+ALONSO.
+A daughter?
+O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,
+The King and Queen there! That they were, I wish
+Myself were mudded in that oozy bed
+Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?
+
+PROSPERO.
+In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords
+At this encounter do so much admire
+That they devour their reason, and scarce think
+Their eyes do offices of truth, their words
+Are natural breath; but, howsoe’er you have
+Been justled from your senses, know for certain
+That I am Prospero, and that very duke
+Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most strangely
+Upon this shore, where you were wrack’d, was landed
+To be the lord on’t. No more yet of this;
+For ’tis a chronicle of day by day,
+Not a relation for a breakfast nor
+Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir.
+This cell’s my court: here have I few attendants,
+And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.
+My dukedom since you have given me again,
+I will requite you with as good a thing;
+At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye
+As much as me my dukedom.
+
+Here Prospero discovers Ferdinand and Miranda playing at chess.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Sweet lord, you play me false.
+
+FERDINAND.
+No, my dearest love,
+I would not for the world.
+
+MIRANDA.
+Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
+And I would call it fair play.
+
+ALONSO.
+If this prove
+A vision of the island, one dear son
+Shall I twice lose.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+A most high miracle!
+
+FERDINAND.
+Though the seas threaten, they are merciful.
+I have curs’d them without cause.
+
+ [_Kneels to Alonso._]
+
+ALONSO.
+Now all the blessings
+Of a glad father compass thee about!
+Arise, and say how thou cam’st here.
+
+MIRANDA.
+O, wonder!
+How many goodly creatures are there here!
+How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
+That has such people in ’t!
+
+PROSPERO.
+’Tis new to thee.
+
+ALONSO.
+What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play?
+Your eld’st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
+Is she the goddess that hath sever’d us,
+And brought us thus together?
+
+FERDINAND.
+Sir, she is mortal;
+But by immortal Providence she’s mine.
+I chose her when I could not ask my father
+For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
+Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
+Of whom so often I have heard renown,
+But never saw before; of whom I have
+Receiv’d a second life; and second father
+This lady makes him to me.
+
+ALONSO.
+I am hers:
+But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
+Must ask my child forgiveness!
+
+PROSPERO.
+There, sir, stop:
+Let us not burden our remembrances with
+A heaviness that’s gone.
+
+GONZALO.
+I have inly wept,
+Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods,
+And on this couple drop a blessed crown;
+For it is you that have chalk’d forth the way
+Which brought us hither.
+
+ALONSO.
+I say, Amen, Gonzalo!
+
+GONZALO.
+Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
+Should become Kings of Naples? O, rejoice
+Beyond a common joy, and set it down
+With gold on lasting pillars: in one voyage
+Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,
+And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
+Where he himself was lost; Prospero his dukedom
+In a poor isle; and all of us ourselves,
+When no man was his own.
+
+ALONSO.
+[_To Ferdinand and Miranda._] Give me your hands:
+Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
+That doth not wish you joy!
+
+GONZALO.
+Be it so. Amen!
+
+ Re-enter Ariel with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following.
+
+O look, sir, look, sir! Here are more of us.
+I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
+This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
+That swear’st grace o’erboard, not an oath on shore?
+Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+The best news is that we have safely found
+Our King and company. The next, our ship,—
+Which but three glasses since, we gave out split,
+Is tight and yare, and bravely rigg’d as when
+We first put out to sea.
+
+ARIEL.
+[_Aside to Prospero._] Sir, all this service
+Have I done since I went.
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside to Ariel._] My tricksy spirit!
+
+ALONSO.
+These are not natural events; they strengthen
+From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?
+
+BOATSWAIN.
+If I did think, sir, I were well awake,
+I’d strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,
+And,—how, we know not,—all clapp’d under hatches,
+Where, but even now, with strange and several noises
+Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
+And mo diversity of sounds, all horrible,
+We were awak’d; straightway, at liberty:
+Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
+Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master
+Cap’ring to eye her. On a trice, so please you,
+Even in a dream, were we divided from them,
+And were brought moping hither.
+
+ARIEL.
+[_Aside to Prospero._] Was’t well done?
+
+PROSPERO.
+[_Aside to Ariel._] Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.
+
+ALONSO.
+This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod;
+And there is in this business more than nature
+Was ever conduct of: some oracle
+Must rectify our knowledge.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Sir, my liege,
+Do not infest your mind with beating on
+The strangeness of this business. At pick’d leisure,
+Which shall be shortly, single I’ll resolve you,
+Which to you shall seem probable, of every
+These happen’d accidents; till when, be cheerful
+And think of each thing well. [_Aside to Ariel._] Come hither, spirit;
+Set Caliban and his companions free;
+Untie the spell.
+
+ [_Exit Ariel._]
+
+ How fares my gracious sir?
+There are yet missing of your company
+Some few odd lads that you remember not.
+
+ Re-enter Ariel driving in Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo in their
+ stolen apparel.
+
+STEPHANO.
+Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself,
+for all is but fortune.—Coragio! bully-monster, coragio!
+
+TRINCULO.
+If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here’s a goodly sight.
+
+CALIBAN.
+O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed.
+How fine my master is! I am afraid
+He will chastise me.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Ha, ha!
+What things are these, my lord Antonio?
+Will money buy them?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Very like; one of them
+Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.
+
+PROSPERO.
+Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,
+Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,
+His mother was a witch; and one so strong
+That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
+And deal in her command without her power.
+These three have robb’d me; and this demi-devil,
+For he’s a bastard one, had plotted with them
+To take my life. Two of these fellows you
+Must know and own; this thing of darkness I
+Acknowledge mine.
+
+CALIBAN.
+I shall be pinch’d to death.
+
+ALONSO.
+Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+He is drunk now: where had he wine?
+
+ALONSO.
+And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they
+Find this grand liquor that hath gilded ’em?
+How cam’st thou in this pickle?
+
+TRINCULO.
+I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last that, I fear me, will
+never out of my bones. I shall not fear fly-blowing.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Why, how now, Stephano!
+
+STEPHANO.
+O! touch me not. I am not Stephano, but a cramp.
+
+PROSPERO.
+You’d be King o’ the isle, sirrah?
+
+STEPHANO.
+I should have been a sore one, then.
+
+ALONSO.
+This is as strange a thing as e’er I look’d on.
+
+ [_Pointing to Caliban._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+He is as disproportioned in his manners
+As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;
+Take with you your companions. As you look
+To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.
+
+CALIBAN.
+Ay, that I will; and I’ll be wise hereafter,
+And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
+Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
+And worship this dull fool!
+
+PROSPERO.
+Go to; away!
+
+ALONSO.
+Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Or stole it, rather.
+
+ [_Exeunt Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo._]
+
+PROSPERO.
+Sir, I invite your Highness and your train
+To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest
+For this one night; which, part of it, I’ll waste
+With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it
+Go quick away: the story of my life
+And the particular accidents gone by
+Since I came to this isle: and in the morn
+I’ll bring you to your ship, and so to Naples,
+Where I have hope to see the nuptial
+Of these our dear-belov’d solemnized;
+And thence retire me to my Milan, where
+Every third thought shall be my grave.
+
+ALONSO.
+I long
+To hear the story of your life, which must
+Take the ear strangely.
+
+PROSPERO.
+I’ll deliver all;
+And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales,
+And sail so expeditious that shall catch
+Your royal fleet far off. [_Aside to Ariel._] My Ariel,
+chick,
+That is thy charge: then to the elements
+Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+EPILOGUE
+
+PROSPERO.
+Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
+And what strength I have’s mine own,
+Which is most faint. Now ’tis true,
+I must be here confin’d by you,
+Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
+Since I have my dukedom got,
+And pardon’d the deceiver, dwell
+In this bare island by your spell,
+But release me from my bands
+With the help of your good hands.
+Gentle breath of yours my sails
+Must fill, or else my project fails,
+Which was to please. Now I want
+Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
+And my ending is despair,
+Unless I be reliev’d by prayer,
+Which pierces so that it assaults
+Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
+    As you from crimes would pardon’d be,
+    Let your indulgence set me free.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Athens. A hall in Timon’s house
+ Scene II. The Same. A room of state in Timon’s house
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. Athens. A room in a senator’s house
+ Scene II. The same. A hall in Timon’s house
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. Athens. A room in Lucullus’ house
+ Scene II. A public place
+ Scene III. The same. A room in Sempronius’ house
+ Scene IV. A hall in Timon’s house
+ Scene V. The same. The senate house
+ Scene VI. A room of state in Timon’s house
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. Without the walls of Athens
+ Scene II. Athens. A room in Timon’s house
+ Scene III. Woods and caves near the sea-shore
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. The woods. Before Timon’s cave
+ Scene III. The same
+ Scene III. Before the walls of Athens
+ Scene IV. The woods. Timon’s cave, and a rude tomb seen
+ Scene V. Before the walls of Athens
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+TIMON, a noble Athenian
+FLAVIUS, steward to Timon
+FLAMINIUS, servant to Timon
+LUCILIUS, servant to Timon
+SERVILIUS, servant to Timon
+
+APEMANTUS, a churlish philosopher
+ALCIBIADES, an Athenian captain
+PHRYNIA, mistress to Alcibiades
+TIMANDRA, mistress to Alcibiades
+
+LUCIUS, friend of Timon
+LUCULLUS, friend of Timon
+SEMPRONIUS, friend of Timon
+VENTIDIUS, friend of Timon
+
+CAPHIS, servant of Timon’s creditors
+SERVANT of Isidore
+Two SERVANTS of Varro
+TITUS, servant of Timon’s creditors
+HORTENSIUS, servant of Timon’s creditors
+LUCIUS, servant of Timon’s creditors
+PHILOTUS, servant of Timon’s creditors
+
+LORDS and SENATORS of Athens
+Three STRANGERS, one called HOSTILIUS
+An OLD ATHENIAN
+POET
+PAINTER
+JEWELLER
+MERCHANT
+A FOOL
+A PAGE
+
+CUPID and Amazons in the Masque
+
+BANDITTI
+
+Officers, Soldiers, Servants, Thieves, Messengers and Attendants
+
+SCENE. Athens, and the neighbouring woods
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Athens. A hall in Timon’s house
+
+
+Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller and Merchant at several doors.
+
+POET.
+Good day, sir.
+
+PAINTER.
+I am glad you’re well.
+
+POET.
+I have not seen you long. How goes the world?
+
+PAINTER.
+It wears, sir, as it grows.
+
+POET.
+Ay, that’s well known.
+But what particular rarity? What strange,
+Which manifold record not matches? See,
+Magic of bounty, all these spirits thy power
+Hath conjured to attend! I know the merchant.
+
+PAINTER.
+I know them both. Th’ other’s a jeweller.
+
+MERCHANT.
+O, ’tis a worthy lord!
+
+JEWELLER.
+Nay, that’s most fixed.
+
+MERCHANT.
+A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,
+To an untirable and continuate goodness.
+He passes.
+
+JEWELLER.
+I have a jewel here—
+
+MERCHANT.
+O, pray let’s see’t. For the Lord Timon, sir?
+
+JEWELLER.
+If he will touch the estimate. But for that—
+
+POET.
+When we for recompense have praised the vile,
+It stains the glory in that happy verse
+Which aptly sings the good.
+
+MERCHANT.
+[_Looking at the jewel_.]
+’Tis a good form.
+
+JEWELLER.
+And rich. Here is a water, look ye.
+
+PAINTER.
+You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication
+To the great lord.
+
+POET.
+A thing slipped idly from me.
+Our poesy is as a gum which oozes
+From whence ’tis nourished. The fire i’ th’ flint
+Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame
+Provokes itself and, like the current, flies
+Each bound it chases. What have you there?
+
+PAINTER.
+A picture, sir. When comes your book forth?
+
+POET.
+Upon the heels of my presentment, sir.
+Let’s see your piece.
+
+PAINTER.
+’Tis a good piece.
+
+POET.
+So ’tis. This comes off well and excellent.
+
+PAINTER.
+Indifferent.
+
+POET.
+Admirable! How this grace
+Speaks his own standing! What a mental power
+This eye shoots forth! How big imagination
+Moves in this lip! To th’ dumbness of the gesture
+One might interpret.
+
+PAINTER.
+It is a pretty mocking of the life.
+Here is a touch. Is’t good?
+
+POET.
+I’ll say of it,
+It tutors nature. Artificial strife
+Lives in these touches livelier than life.
+
+Enter certain Senators, who pass over the stage.
+
+PAINTER.
+How this lord is followed!
+
+POET.
+The senators of Athens, happy men!
+
+PAINTER.
+Look, more!
+
+POET.
+You see this confluence, this great flood of visitors.
+I have in this rough work shaped out a man
+Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug
+With amplest entertainment. My free drift
+Halts not particularly, but moves itself
+In a wide sea of wax. No levelled malice
+Infects one comma in the course I hold,
+But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
+Leaving no tract behind.
+
+PAINTER.
+How shall I understand you?
+
+POET.
+I will unbolt to you.
+You see how all conditions, how all minds,
+As well of glib and slipp’ry creatures as
+Of grave and austere quality, tender down
+Their services to Lord Timon. His large fortune,
+Upon his good and gracious nature hanging,
+Subdues and properties to his love and tendance
+All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-faced flatterer
+To Apemantus, that few things loves better
+Than to abhor himself; even he drops down
+The knee before him and returns in peace
+Most rich in Timon’s nod.
+
+PAINTER.
+I saw them speak together.
+
+POET.
+Sir, I have upon a high and pleasant hill
+Feigned Fortune to be throned. The base o’ th’ mount
+Is ranked with all deserts, all kind of natures
+That labour on the bosom of this sphere
+To propagate their states. Amongst them all
+Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fixed,
+One do I personate of Lord Timon’s frame,
+Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her,
+Whose present grace to present slaves and servants
+Translates his rivals.
+
+PAINTER.
+’Tis conceived to scope.
+This throne, this Fortune, and this hill, methinks,
+With one man beckoned from the rest below,
+Bowing his head against the steepy mount
+To climb his happiness, would be well expressed
+In our condition.
+
+POET.
+Nay, sir, but hear me on.
+All those which were his fellows but of late,
+Some better than his value, on the moment
+Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance,
+Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,
+Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him
+Drink the free air.
+
+PAINTER.
+Ay, marry, what of these?
+
+POET.
+When Fortune in her shift and change of mood
+Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependants,
+Which laboured after him to the mountain’s top
+Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down,
+Not one accompanying his declining foot.
+
+PAINTER.
+’Tis common.
+A thousand moral paintings I can show
+That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune’s
+More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well
+To show Lord Timon that mean eyes have seen
+The foot above the head.
+
+Trumpets sound. Enter Lord Timon, addressing himself courteously to
+every suitor. He is accompanied by a Messenger; Lucilius and other
+servants follow.
+
+TIMON.
+Imprisoned is he, say you?
+
+MESSENGER.
+Ay, my good lord. Five talents is his debt,
+His means most short, his creditors most strait.
+Your honourable letter he desires
+To those have shut him up, which, failing,
+Periods his comfort.
+
+TIMON.
+Noble Ventidius. Well,
+I am not of that feather to shake off
+My friend when he must need me. I do know him
+A gentleman that well deserves a help,
+Which he shall have. I’ll pay the debt and free him.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Your lordship ever binds him.
+
+TIMON.
+Commend me to him, I will send his ransom;
+And, being enfranchised, bid him come to me.
+’Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
+But to support him after. Fare you well.
+
+MESSENGER.
+All happiness to your honour.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter an Old Athenian.
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+Lord Timon, hear me speak.
+
+TIMON.
+Freely, good father.
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+Thou hast a servant named Lucilius.
+
+TIMON.
+I have so. What of him?
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+Most noble Timon, call the man before thee.
+
+TIMON.
+Attends he here or no? Lucilius!
+
+LUCILIUS.
+Here, at your lordship’s service.
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature,
+By night frequents my house. I am a man
+That from my first have been inclined to thrift,
+And my estate deserves an heir more raised
+Than one which holds a trencher.
+
+TIMON.
+Well, what further?
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+One only daughter have I, no kin else,
+On whom I may confer what I have got.
+The maid is fair, o’ th’ youngest for a bride,
+And I have bred her at my dearest cost
+In qualities of the best. This man of thine
+Attempts her love. I prithee, noble lord,
+Join with me to forbid him her resort;
+Myself have spoke in vain.
+
+TIMON.
+The man is honest.
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+Therefore he will be, Timon.
+His honesty rewards him in itself;
+It must not bear my daughter.
+
+TIMON.
+Does she love him?
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+She is young and apt.
+Our own precedent passions do instruct us
+What levity’s in youth.
+
+TIMON.
+[_To Lucilius_.] Love you the maid?
+
+LUCILIUS.
+Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it.
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+If in her marriage my consent be missing,
+I call the gods to witness, I will choose
+Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world
+And dispossess her all.
+
+TIMON.
+How shall she be endowed,
+If she be mated with an equal husband?
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+Three talents on the present; in future, all.
+
+TIMON.
+This gentleman of mine hath served me long.
+To build his fortune I will strain a little,
+For ’tis a bond in men. Give him thy daughter.
+What you bestow, in him I’ll counterpoise,
+And make him weigh with her.
+
+OLD ATHENIAN.
+Most noble lord,
+Pawn me to this your honour, she is his.
+
+TIMON.
+My hand to thee; mine honour on my promise.
+
+LUCILIUS.
+Humbly I thank your lordship. Never may
+That state or fortune fall into my keeping
+Which is not owed to you.
+
+[_Exeunt Lucilius and Old Athenian._]
+
+POET.
+[_Presenting his poem_.]
+Vouchsafe my labour, and long live your lordship.
+
+TIMON.
+I thank you, you shall hear from me anon.
+Go not away.—What have you there, my friend?
+
+PAINTER.
+A piece of painting, which I do beseech
+Your lordship to accept.
+
+TIMON.
+Painting is welcome.
+The painting is almost the natural man,
+For since dishonour traffics with man’s nature,
+He is but outside; these pencilled figures are
+Even such as they give out. I like your work,
+And you shall find I like it. Wait attendance
+Till you hear further from me.
+
+PAINTER.
+The gods preserve you.
+
+TIMON.
+Well fare you, gentleman. Give me your hand.
+We must needs dine together. Sir, your jewel
+Hath suffered under praise.
+
+JEWELLER.
+What, my lord, dispraise?
+
+TIMON.
+A mere satiety of commendations.
+If I should pay you for ’t as ’tis extolled,
+It would unclew me quite.
+
+JEWELLER.
+My lord, ’tis rated
+As those which sell would give. But you well know
+Things of like value, differing in the owners,
+Are prized by their masters. Believe’t, dear lord,
+You mend the jewel by the wearing it.
+
+TIMON.
+Well mocked.
+
+MERCHANT.
+No, my good lord, he speaks the common tongue,
+Which all men speak with him.
+
+Enter Apemantus.
+
+TIMON.
+Look who comes here. Will you be chid?
+
+JEWELLER.
+We’ll bear, with your lordship.
+
+MERCHANT.
+He’ll spare none.
+
+TIMON.
+Good morrow to thee, gentle Apemantus.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Till I be gentle, stay thou for thy good morrow—
+When thou art Timon’s dog, and these knaves honest.
+
+TIMON.
+Why dost thou call them knaves? Thou know’st them not.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Are they not Athenians?
+
+TIMON.
+Yes.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Then I repent not.
+
+JEWELLER.
+You know me, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Thou know’st I do, I called thee by thy name.
+
+TIMON.
+Thou art proud, Apemantus.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Of nothing so much as that I am not like Timon.
+
+TIMON.
+Whither art going?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+To knock out an honest Athenian’s brains.
+
+TIMON.
+That’s a deed thou’lt die for.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Right, if doing nothing be death by th’ law.
+
+TIMON.
+How lik’st thou this picture, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+The best, for the innocence.
+
+TIMON.
+Wrought he not well that painted it?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+He wrought better that made the painter, and yet he’s but a filthy
+piece of work.
+
+PAINTER.
+You’re a dog.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Thy mother’s of my generation. What’s she, if I be a dog?
+
+TIMON.
+Wilt dine with me, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+No, I eat not lords.
+
+TIMON.
+An thou shouldst, thou’dst anger ladies.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+O, they eat lords. So they come by great bellies.
+
+TIMON.
+That’s a lascivious apprehension.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+So thou apprehend’st it, take it for thy labour.
+
+TIMON.
+How dost thou like this jewel, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Not so well as plain-dealing, which will not cost a man a doit.
+
+TIMON.
+What dost thou think ’tis worth?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Not worth my thinking. How now, poet?
+
+POET.
+How now, philosopher?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Thou liest.
+
+POET.
+Art not one?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Yes.
+
+POET.
+Then I lie not.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Art not a poet?
+
+POET.
+Yes.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Then thou liest. Look in thy last work, where thou hast feigned him a
+worthy fellow.
+
+POET.
+That’s not feigned, he is so.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Yes, he is worthy of thee, and to pay thee for thy labour. He that
+loves to be flattered is worthy o’ th’ flatterer. Heavens, that I were
+a lord!
+
+TIMON.
+What wouldst do then, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+E’en as Apemantus does now, hate a lord with my heart.
+
+TIMON.
+What, thyself?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Ay.
+
+TIMON.
+Wherefore?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+That I had no angry wit to be a lord. Art not thou a merchant?
+
+MERCHANT.
+Ay, Apemantus.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Traffic confound thee, if the gods will not.
+
+MERCHANT.
+If traffic do it, the gods do it.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Traffic’s thy god, and thy god confound thee!
+
+Trumpet sounds. Enter a Messenger.
+
+TIMON.
+What trumpet’s that?
+
+MESSENGER.
+’Tis Alcibiades, and some twenty horse,
+All of companionship.
+
+TIMON.
+Pray entertain them, give them guide to us.
+
+[_Exeunt some Attendants._]
+
+You must needs dine with me. Go not you hence
+Till I have thanked you; when dinner’s done,
+Show me this piece. I am joyful of your sights.
+
+Enter Alcibiades with his company.
+
+Most welcome, sir.
+
+[_They bow to each other._]
+
+APEMANTUS.
+[_Aside_.] So, so, there!
+Aches contract and starve your supple joints!
+That there should be small love amongst these sweet knaves,
+And all this courtesy! The strain of man’s bred out
+Into baboon and monkey.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Sir, you have saved my longing, and I feed
+Most hungerly on your sight.
+
+TIMON.
+Right welcome, sir!
+Ere we depart we’ll share a bounteous time
+In different pleasures. Pray you, let us in.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Apemantus._]
+
+Enter two Lords.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+What time o’ day is’t, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Time to be honest.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+That time serves still.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+The more accursed thou, that still omitt’st it.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Thou art going to Lord Timon’s feast?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Ay, to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Fare thee well, fare thee well.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Why, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Shouldst have kept one to thyself, for I mean to give thee none.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Hang thyself!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+No, I will do nothing at thy bidding. Make thy requests to thy friend.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Away, unpeaceable dog, or I’ll spurn thee hence.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+I will fly, like a dog, the heels o’ th’ ass.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FIRST LORD.
+He’s opposite to humanity. Come, shall we in
+And taste Lord Timon’s bounty? He outgoes
+The very heart of kindness.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+He pours it out; Plutus, the god of gold,
+Is but his steward. No meed but he repays
+Sevenfold above itself, no gift to him
+But breeds the giver a return exceeding
+All use of quittance.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+The noblest mind he carries
+That ever governed man.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Long may he live in fortunes. Shall we in?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I’ll keep you company.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The Same. A room of state in Timon’s house
+
+Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet served in, Flavius and
+others attending; and then enter Lord Timon,  the Senators, the
+Athenian Lords, Alcibiades, and Ventidius, which Timon redeemded from
+prison. Then comes, dropping after all, Apemantus, discontentedly, like
+himself.
+
+VENTIDIUS.
+Most honoured Timon,
+It hath pleased the gods to remember my father’s age
+And call him to long peace.
+He is gone happy and has left me rich.
+Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound
+To your free heart, I do return those talents,
+Doubled with thanks and service, from whose help
+I derived liberty.
+
+TIMON.
+O, by no means,
+Honest Ventidius. You mistake my love.
+I gave it freely ever, and there’s none
+Can truly say he gives if he receives.
+If our betters play at that game, we must not dare
+To imitate them; faults that are rich are fair.
+
+VENTIDIUS.
+A noble spirit!
+
+TIMON.
+Nay, my lords, ceremony was but devised at first
+To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
+Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’tis shown;
+But where there is true friendship there needs none.
+Pray, sit, more welcome are ye to my fortunes
+Than my fortunes to me.
+
+[_They sit._]
+
+FIRST LORD.
+My lord, we always have confessed it.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Ho, ho, confessed it? Hanged it, have you not?
+
+TIMON.
+O Apemantus, you are welcome.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+No,
+You shall not make me welcome.
+I come to have thee thrust me out of doors.
+
+TIMON.
+Fie, thou’rt a churl, ye’ve got a humour there
+Does not become a man; ’tis much to blame.
+They say, my lords, _ira furor brevis est_,
+But yond man is ever angry.
+Go, let him have a table by himself,
+For he does neither affect company,
+Nor is he fit for it indeed.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Let me stay at thine apperil, Timon.
+I come to observe; I give thee warning on’t.
+
+TIMON.
+I take no heed of thee. Thou’rt an Athenian, therefore, welcome. I
+myself would have no power; prithee; let my meat make thee silent.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+I scorn thy meat, ’twould choke me, for I should ne’er flatter thee. O
+you gods, what a number of men eats Timon, and he sees ’em not! It
+grieves me to see so many dip their meat in one man’s blood; and all
+the madness is, he cheers them up too.
+I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.
+Methinks they should invite them without knives.
+Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.
+There’s much example for ’t. The fellow that sits next him, now parts
+bread with him, pledges the breath of him in a divided draft, is the
+readiest man to kill him. ’T has been proved. If I were a huge man, I
+should fear to drink at meals,
+Lest they should spy my wind-pipe’s dangerous notes.
+Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
+
+TIMON.
+My lord, in heart, and let the health go round.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Let it flow this way, my good lord.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Flow this way? A brave fellow! He keeps his tides well. Those healths
+will make thee and thy state look ill, Timon.
+Here’s that which is too weak to be a sinner,
+Honest water, which ne’er left man i’ the mire.
+This and my food are equals, there’s no odds.
+Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods.
+
+_Apemantus’ grace_
+
+
+    Immortal gods, I crave no pelf,
+    I pray for no man but myself.
+    Grant I may never prove so fond
+    To trust man on his oath or bond,
+    Or a harlot for her weeping,
+    Or a dog that seems a-sleeping,
+    Or a keeper with my freedom,
+    Or my friends if I should need ’em.
+        Amen. So fall to’t.
+        Rich men sin, and I eat root.
+
+[_He eats and drinks._]
+
+Much good dich thy good heart, Apemantus!
+
+TIMON.
+Captain Alcibiades, your heart’s in the field now.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+My heart is ever at your service, my lord.
+
+TIMON.
+You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than a dinner of friends.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+So they were bleeding new, my lord, there’s no meat like ’em. I could
+wish my best friend at such a feast.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Would all those flatterers were thine enemies then, that then thou
+mightst kill ’em, and bid me to ’em.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Might we but have that happiness, my lord, that you would once use our
+hearts, whereby we might express some part of our zeals, we should
+think ourselves for ever perfect.
+
+TIMON.
+O, no doubt, my good friends, but the gods themselves have provided
+that I shall have much help from you. How had you been my friends else?
+Why have you that charitable title from thousands, did not you chiefly
+belong to my heart? I have told more of you to myself than you can with
+modesty speak in your own behalf. And thus far I confirm you. O you
+gods, think I, what need we have any friends if we should ne’er have
+need of ’em? They were the most needless creatures living, should we
+ne’er have use for ’em, and would most resemble sweet instruments hung
+up in cases, that keep their sounds to themselves. Why, I have often
+wished myself poorer that I might come nearer to you. We are born to do
+benefits, and what better or properer can we call our own than the
+riches of our friends? O, what a precious comfort ’tis to have so many,
+like brothers, commanding one another’s fortunes. O joy’s e’en made
+away ere’t can be born! Mine eyes cannot hold out water, methinks. To
+forget their faults, I drink to you.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Thou weep’st to make them drink, Timon.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Joy had the like conception in our eyes
+And, at that instant like a babe sprung up.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Ho, ho! I laugh to think that babe a bastard.
+
+THIRD LORD.
+I promise you, my lord, you moved me much.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Much!
+
+[_A tucket sounds._]
+
+TIMON.
+What means that trump?
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+How now?
+
+SERVANT.
+Please you, my lord, there are certain ladies most desirous of
+admittance.
+
+TIMON.
+Ladies? What are their wills?
+
+SERVANT.
+There comes with them a forerunner, my lord, which bears that office,
+to signify their pleasures.
+
+TIMON.
+I pray, let them be admitted.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+Enter Cupid.
+
+CUPID.
+Hail to thee, worthy Timon, and to all
+That of his bounties taste! The five best senses
+Acknowledge thee their patron and come freely
+To gratulate thy plenteous bosom. There
+Taste, touch, all, pleased from thy table rise;
+They only now come but to feast thine eyes.
+
+TIMON.
+They’re welcome all, let ’em have kind admittance.
+Music, make their welcome!
+
+FIRST LORD.
+You see, my lord, how ample you’re beloved.
+
+Music. Enter a masque of Ladies as Amazons, with lutes in their hands,
+dancing and playing.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Hoy-day!
+What a sweep of vanity comes this way.
+They dance? They are madwomen.
+Like madness is the glory of this life,
+As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
+We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves,
+And spend our flatteries to drink those men
+Upon whose age we void it up again
+With poisonous spite and envy.
+Who lives that’s not depraved or depraves?
+Who dies that bears not one spurn to their graves
+Of their friend’s gift?
+I should fear those that dance before me now
+Would one day stamp upon me. ’T has been done.
+Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
+
+[_The Lords rise from table, with much adoring of Timon, and to show
+their loves each singles out an Amazon, and all dance, men with women,
+a lofty strain or two to the hautboys, and cease._]
+
+TIMON.
+You have done our pleasures much grace, fair ladies,
+Set a fair fashion on our entertainment,
+Which was not half so beautiful and kind.
+You have added worth unto ’t and lustre,
+And entertained me with mine own device.
+I am to thank you for ’t.
+
+FIRST LADY.
+My lord, you take us even at the best.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Faith, for the worst is filthy and would not hold taking, I doubt me.
+
+TIMON.
+Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you,
+Please you to dispose yourselves.
+
+ALL LADIES.
+Most thankfully, my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt Cupid and Ladies._]
+
+TIMON.
+Flavius!
+
+FLAVIUS.
+My lord?
+
+TIMON.
+The little casket bring me hither.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Yes, my lord. [_Aside_.] More jewels yet?
+There is no crossing him in ’s humour;
+Else I should tell him well, i’ faith, I should,
+When all’s spent, he’d be crossed then, an he could.
+’Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind,
+That man might ne’er be wretched for his mind.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Where be our men?
+
+SERVANT.
+Here, my lord, in readiness.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+Our horses!
+
+Enter Flavius with the casket.
+
+TIMON.
+O, my friends, I have one word
+To say to you. Look you, my good lord,
+I must entreat you, honour me so much
+As to advance this jewel. Accept it and wear it,
+Kind my lord.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I am so far already in your gifts—
+
+ALL.
+So are we all.
+
+Enter a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+My lord, there are certain nobles of the Senate
+Newly alighted and come to visit you.
+
+TIMON.
+They are fairly welcome.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+FLAVIUS.
+I beseech your honour,
+Vouchsafe me a word. It does concern you near.
+
+TIMON.
+Near? Why then, another time I’ll hear thee.
+I prithee let’s be provided to show them entertainment.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+[_Aside_.] I scarce know how.
+
+Enter another Servant.
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+May it please your honour, Lord Lucius,
+Out of his free love, hath presented to you
+Four milk-white horses, trapped in silver.
+
+TIMON.
+I shall accept them fairly; let the presents
+Be worthily entertained.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+Enter a third Servant.
+
+How now? What news?
+
+THIRD SERVANT.
+Please you, my lord, that honourable gentleman, Lord Lucullus, entreats
+your company tomorrow to hunt with him and has sent your honour two
+brace of greyhounds.
+
+TIMON.
+I’ll hunt with him; and let them be received,
+Not without fair reward.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+FLAVIUS.
+[_Aside_.] What will this come to?
+He commands us to provide, and give great gifts,
+And all out of an empty coffer;
+Nor will he know his purse or yield me this:
+To show him what a beggar his heart is,
+Being of no power to make his wishes good.
+His promises fly so beyond his state
+That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes
+For every word. He is so kind that he now
+Pays interest for ’t; his land’s put to their books.
+Well, would I were gently put out of office
+Before I were forced out.
+Happier is he that has no friend to feed
+Than such that do e’en enemies exceed.
+I bleed inwardly for my lord.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+TIMON.
+You do yourselves much wrong,
+You bate too much of your own merits.
+Here, my lord, a trifle of our love.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+With more than common thanks I will receive it.
+
+THIRD LORD.
+O, he’s the very soul of bounty!
+
+TIMON.
+And now I remember, my lord, you gave good words the other day of a bay
+courser I rode on. ’Tis yours because you liked it.
+
+THIRD LORD.
+O, I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, in that.
+
+TIMON.
+You may take my word, my lord. I know no man
+Can justly praise but what he does affect.
+I weigh my friend’s affection with mine own.
+I’ll tell you true, I’ll call to you.
+
+ALL LORDS.
+O, none so welcome!
+
+TIMON.
+I take all and your several visitations
+So kind to heart, ’tis not enough to give;
+Methinks I could deal kingdoms to my friends,
+And ne’er be weary. Alcibiades,
+Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich.
+It comes in charity to thee, for all thy living
+Is ’mongst the dead, and all the lands thou hast
+Lie in a pitched field.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Ay, defiled land, my lord.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+We are so virtuously bound—
+
+TIMON.
+And so am I to you.
+
+SECOND LORD.
+So infinitely endeared—
+
+TIMON.
+All to you. Lights, more lights!
+
+FIRST LORD.
+The best of happiness, honour, and fortunes keep with you, Lord Timon.
+
+TIMON.
+Ready for his friends.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Apemantus and Timon._]
+
+APEMANTUS.
+What a coil’s here!
+Serving of becks and jutting out of bums!
+I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums
+That are given for ’em. Friendship’s full of dregs.
+Methinks false hearts should never have sound legs.
+Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on curtsies.
+
+TIMON.
+Now, Apemantus, if thou wert not sullen,
+I would be good to thee.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+No, I’ll nothing, for if I should be bribed too, there would be none
+left to rail upon thee, and then thou wouldst sin the faster. Thou
+giv’st so long, Timon, I fear me thou wilt give away thyself in paper
+shortly. What needs these feasts, pomps, and vainglories?
+
+TIMON.
+Nay, an you begin to rail on society once, I am sworn not to give
+regard to you. Farewell, and come with better music.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+APEMANTUS.
+So. Thou wilt not hear me now, thou shalt not then.
+I’ll lock thy heaven from thee.
+O, that men’s ears should be
+To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Athens. A room in a senator’s house
+
+
+Enter a Senator with papers.
+
+SENATOR.
+And late five thousand. To Varro and to Isidore
+He owes nine thousand, besides my former sum,
+Which makes it five-and-twenty. Still in motion
+Of raging waste! It cannot hold; it will not.
+If I want gold, steal but a beggar’s dog
+And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold.
+If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more
+Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon—
+Ask nothing, give it him—it foals me straight,
+And able horses. No porter at his gate,
+But rather one that smiles and still invites
+All that pass by. It cannot hold; no reason
+Can sound his state in safety. Caphis, ho!
+Caphis, I say!
+
+Enter Caphis.
+
+CAPHIS.
+Here, sir, what is your pleasure?
+
+SENATOR.
+Get on your cloak and haste you to Lord Timon.
+Importune him for my moneys; be not ceased
+With slight denial, nor then silenced when
+“Commend me to your master”, and the cap
+Plays in the right hand, thus; but tell him,
+My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn
+Out of mine own, his days and times are past,
+And my reliances on his fracted dates
+Have smit my credit. I love and honour him,
+But must not break my back to heal his finger.
+Immediate are my needs, and my relief
+Must not be tossed and turned to me in words,
+But find supply immediate. Get you gone.
+Put on a most importunate aspect,
+A visage of demand, for I do fear
+When every feather sticks in his own wing,
+Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,
+Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone.
+
+CAPHIS.
+I go, sir.
+
+SENATOR.
+Take the bonds along with you,
+And have the dates in. Come.
+
+CAPHIS.
+I will, sir.
+
+SENATOR.
+Go.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A hall in Timon’s house
+
+Enter Flavius with many bills in his hand.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+No care, no stop, so senseless of expense,
+That he will neither know how to maintain it
+Nor cease his flow of riot. Takes no account
+How things go from him, nor resumes no care
+Of what is to continue. Never mind
+Was to be so unwise, to be so kind.
+What shall be done? He will not hear till feel.
+I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting.
+Fie, fie, fie, fie!
+
+Enter Caphis and the Servants of Isidore and Varro.
+
+CAPHIS.
+Good even, Varro. What, you come for money?
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+Is’t not your business too?
+
+CAPHIS.
+It is. And yours too, Isidore?
+
+ISIDORE’S SERVANT.
+It is so.
+
+CAPHIS.
+Would we were all discharged!
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+I fear it.
+
+CAPHIS.
+Here comes the lord.
+
+Enter Timon and his train with Alcibiades
+
+TIMON.
+So soon as dinner’s done, we’ll forth again,
+My Alcibiades. With me? What is your will?
+
+CAPHIS.
+My lord, here is a note of certain dues.
+
+TIMON.
+Dues? Whence are you?
+
+CAPHIS.
+Of Athens here, my lord.
+
+TIMON.
+Go to my steward.
+
+CAPHIS.
+Please it your lordship, he hath put me off
+To the succession of new days this month.
+My master is awaked by great occasion
+To call upon his own and humbly prays you
+That with your other noble parts you’ll suit
+In giving him his right.
+
+TIMON.
+Mine honest friend,
+I prithee but repair to me next morning.
+
+CAPHIS.
+Nay, good my lord—
+
+TIMON.
+Contain thyself, good friend.
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+One Varro’s servant, my good lord—
+
+ISIDORE’S SERVANT.
+From Isidore. He humbly prays your speedy payment.
+
+CAPHIS.
+If you did know, my lord, my master’s wants—
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+’Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks and past.
+
+ISIDORE’S SERVANT.
+Your steward puts me off, my lord, and I
+Am sent expressly to your lordship.
+
+TIMON.
+Give me breath.
+I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on,
+I’ll wait upon you instantly.
+
+[_Exeunt Alcibiades and Timon’s train._]
+
+[_To Flavius_.] Come hither. Pray you,
+How goes the world, that I am thus encountered
+With clamorous demands of debt, broken bonds,
+And the detention of long-since-due debts
+Against my honour?
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Please you, gentlemen,
+The time is unagreeable to this business.
+Your importunacy cease till after dinner,
+That I may make his lordship understand
+Wherefore you are not paid.
+
+TIMON.
+Do so, my friends.
+See them well entertained.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Pray, draw near.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Apemantus and Fool.
+
+CAPHIS.
+Stay, stay, here comes the fool with Apemantus.
+Let’s ha’ some sport with ’em.
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+Hang him, he’ll abuse us.
+
+ISIDORE’S SERVANT.
+A plague upon him, dog!
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+How dost, fool?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Dost dialogue with thy shadow?
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+I speak not to thee.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+No, ’tis to thyself.
+[_To the Fool_.] Come away.
+
+ISIDORE’S SERVANT.
+[_To Varro’s servant_.] There’s the fool hangs on your back already.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+No, thou stand’st single; thou’rt not on him yet.
+
+CAPHIS.
+Where’s the fool now?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+He last asked the question. Poor rogues and usurers’ men, bawds between
+gold and want.
+
+ALL SERVANTS.
+What are we, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Asses.
+
+ALL SERVANTS.
+Why?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+That you ask me what you are, and do not know yourselves. Speak to ’em,
+fool.
+
+FOOL.
+How do you, gentlemen?
+
+ALL SERVANTS.
+Gramercies, good fool. How does your mistress?
+
+FOOL.
+She’s e’en setting on water to scald such chickens as you are. Would we
+could see you at Corinth!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Good, gramercy.
+
+Enter Page.
+
+FOOL.
+Look you, here comes my mistress’ page.
+
+PAGE.
+[_To the Fool_.] Why, how now, captain? What do you in this wise
+company? How dost thou, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Would I had a rod in my mouth, that I might answer thee profitably.
+
+PAGE.
+Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of these letters. I know
+not which is which.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Canst not read?
+
+PAGE.
+No.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+There will little learning die, then, that day thou art hanged. This is
+to Lord Timon, this to Alcibiades. Go, thou wast born a bastard, and
+thou’lt die a bawd.
+
+PAGE.
+Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a dog’s death. Answer
+not; I am gone.
+
+[_Exit Page._]
+
+APEMANTUS.
+E’en so thou outrunn’st grace. Fool, I will go with you to Lord
+Timon’s.
+
+FOOL.
+Will you leave me there?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+If Timon stay at home.—You three serve three usurers?
+
+ALL SERVANTS.
+Ay, would they served us!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+So would I—as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.
+
+FOOL.
+Are you three usurers’ men?
+
+ALL SERVANTS.
+Ay, fool.
+
+FOOL.
+I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant. My mistress is one,
+and I am her fool. When men come to borrow of your masters, they
+approach sadly and go away merry, but they enter my mistress’s house
+merrily and go away sadly. The reason of this?
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+I could render one.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster and a knave, which
+notwithstanding, thou shalt be no less esteemed.
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+What is a whoremaster, fool?
+
+FOOL.
+A fool in good clothes, and something like thee. ’Tis a spirit;
+sometime ’t appears like a lord, sometime like a lawyer, sometime like
+a philosopher, with two stones more than’s artificial one. He is very
+often like a knight; and generally, in all shapes that man goes up and
+down in from fourscore to thirteen, this spirit walks in.
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+Thou art not altogether a fool.
+
+FOOL.
+Nor thou altogether a wise man. As much foolery as I have, so much wit
+thou lack’st.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+That answer might have become Apemantus.
+
+VARRO’S SERVANT.
+Aside, aside, here comes Lord Timon.
+
+Enter Timon and Flavius.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Come with me, fool, come.
+
+FOOL.
+I do not always follow lover, elder brother, and woman; sometime the
+philosopher.
+
+[_Exeunt Apemantus and Fool._]
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Pray you walk near. I’ll speak with you anon.
+
+[_Exeunt Servants._]
+
+TIMON.
+You make me marvel wherefore ere this time
+Had you not fully laid my state before me,
+That I might so have rated my expense
+As I had leave of means.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+You would not hear me,
+At many leisures I proposed.
+
+TIMON.
+Go to.
+Perchance some single vantages you took
+When my indisposition put you back,
+And that unaptness made your minister
+Thus to excuse yourself.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+O my good lord,
+At many times I brought in my accounts,
+Laid them before you; you would throw them off
+And say you found them in mine honesty.
+When for some trifling present you have bid me
+Return so much, I have shook my head and wept,
+Yea, ’gainst th’ authority of manners, prayed you
+To hold your hand more close. I did endure
+Not seldom nor no slight checks, when I have
+Prompted you in the ebb of your estate
+And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,
+Though you hear now, too late, yet now’s a time.
+The greatest of your having lacks a half
+To pay your present debts.
+
+TIMON.
+Let all my land be sold.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+’Tis all engaged, some forfeited and gone,
+And what remains will hardly stop the mouth
+Of present dues; the future comes apace.
+What shall defend the interim? And at length
+How goes our reckoning?
+
+TIMON.
+To Lacedaemon did my land extend.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+O my good lord, the world is but a word;
+Were it all yours to give it in a breath,
+How quickly were it gone!
+
+TIMON.
+You tell me true.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood,
+Call me before th’ exactest auditors
+And set me on the proof. So the gods bless me,
+When all our offices have been oppressed
+With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept
+With drunken spilth of wine, when every room
+Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,
+I have retired me to a wasteful cock
+And set mine eyes at flow.
+
+TIMON.
+Prithee, no more.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Heavens, have I said, the bounty of this lord!
+How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants
+This night englutted? Who is not Timon’s?
+What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is Lord Timon’s?
+Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon!
+Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,
+The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.
+Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers,
+These flies are couched.
+
+TIMON.
+Come, sermon me no further.
+No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
+Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
+Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack
+To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart.
+If I would broach the vessels of my love
+And try the argument of hearts by borrowing,
+Men and men’s fortunes could I frankly use
+As I can bid thee speak.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Assurance bless your thoughts!
+
+TIMON.
+And in some sort these wants of mine are crowned,
+That I account them blessings. For by these
+Shall I try friends. You shall perceive how you
+Mistake my fortunes. I am wealthy in my friends.
+Within there! Flaminius! Servilius!
+
+Enter Flaminius, Servilius and a third Servant.
+
+SERVANTS.
+My lord, my lord.
+
+TIMON.
+I will dispatch you severally. [_To Servilius_.] You to Lord Lucius;
+[_To Flaminius_.] to Lord Lucullus you, I hunted with his honour today;
+[_To the third Servant_.] you to Sempronius. Commend me to their loves;
+and I am proud, say, that my occasions have found time to use ’em
+toward a supply of money. Let the request be fifty talents.
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+As you have said, my lord.
+
+[_Exeunt Servants._]
+
+FLAVIUS.
+[_Aside_.] Lord Lucius and Lucullus? Humh!
+
+TIMON.
+Go you, sir, to the senators,
+Of whom, even to the state’s best health, I have
+Deserved this hearing, Bid ’em send o’ th’ instant
+A thousand talents to me.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+I have been bold—
+For that I knew it the most general way—
+To them to use your signet and your name,
+But they do shake their heads, and I am here
+No richer in return.
+
+TIMON.
+Is’t true? Can’t be?
+
+FLAVIUS.
+They answer in a joint and corporate voice
+That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot
+Do what they would, are sorry. You are honourable,
+But yet they could have wished—they know not—
+Something hath been amiss—a noble nature
+May catch a wrench—would all were well—’tis pity.
+And so, intending other serious matters,
+After distasteful looks and these hard fractions,
+With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods
+They froze me into silence.
+
+TIMON.
+You gods, reward them!
+Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows
+Have their ingratitude in them hereditary.
+Their blood is caked, ’tis cold, it seldom flows;
+’Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind;
+And nature, as it grows again toward earth,
+Is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.
+Go to Ventidius. Prithee, be not sad,
+Thou art true and honest, ingenuously I speak,
+No blame belongs to thee. Ventidius lately
+Buried his father, by whose death he’s stepped
+Into a great estate. When he was poor,
+Imprisoned and in scarcity of friends,
+I cleared him with five talents. Greet him from me,
+Bid him suppose some good necessity
+Touches his friend, which craves to be remembered
+With those five talents. That had, give’t these fellows
+To whom ’tis instant due. Ne’er speak, or think
+That Timon’s fortunes ’mong his friends can sink.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FLAVIUS.
+I would I could not think it.
+That thought is bounty’s foe;
+Being free itself, it thinks all others so.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Athens. A room in Lucullus’ house
+
+
+Flaminius waiting to speak with Lucullus from his master.
+
+Enter a Servant to him.
+
+SERVANT.
+I have told my lord of you; he is coming down to you.
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+I thank you, sir.
+
+Enter Lucullus.
+
+SERVANT.
+Here’s my lord.
+
+LUCULLUS.
+[_Aside_.] One of Lord Timon’s men? A gift, I warrant. Why, this hits
+right. I dreamt of a silver basin and ewer tonight.—Flaminius, honest
+Flaminius, you are very respectively welcome, sir. Fill me some wine.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+And how does that honourable, complete, free-hearted gentleman of
+Athens, thy very bountiful good lord and master?
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+His health is well, sir.
+
+LUCULLUS.
+I am right glad that his health is well, sir. And what hast thou there
+under thy cloak, pretty Flaminius?
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+Faith, nothing but an empty box, sir, which in my lord’s behalf I come
+to entreat your honour to supply; who, having great and instant
+occasion to use fifty talents, hath sent to your lordship to furnish
+him, nothing doubting your present assistance therein.
+
+LUCULLUS.
+La, la, la, la! Nothing doubting, says he? Alas, good lord! A noble
+gentleman ’tis, if he would not keep so good a house. Many a time and
+often I ha’ dined with him, and told him on’t, and come again to supper
+to him of purpose to have him spend less, and yet he would embrace no
+counsel, take no warning by my coming. Every man has his fault, and
+honesty is his. I ha’ told him on’t, but I could ne’er get him from ’t.
+
+Enter Servant with wine.
+
+SERVANT.
+Please your lordship, here is the wine.
+
+LUCULLUS.
+Flaminius, I have noted thee always wise. Here’s to thee.
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+Your lordship speaks your pleasure.
+
+LUCULLUS.
+I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt spirit, give thee thy
+due, and one that knows what belongs to reason, and canst use the time
+well, if the time use thee well. Good parts in thee. [_To Servant_.]
+Get you gone, sirrah.—
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+Draw nearer, honest Flaminius. Thy lord’s a bountiful gentleman, but
+thou art wise and thou know’st well enough, although thou com’st to me,
+that this is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship
+without security. Here’s three solidares for thee. Good boy, wink at
+me, and say thou saw’st me not. Fare thee well.
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+Is’t possible the world should so much differ,
+And we alive that lived? Fly, damned baseness,
+To him that worships thee.
+
+[_Throws the money back._]
+
+LUCULLUS.
+Ha! Now I see thou art a fool and fit for thy master.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+May these add to the number that may scald thee!
+Let molten coin be thy damnation,
+Thou disease of a friend, and not himself!
+Has friendship such a faint and milky heart
+It turns in less than two nights? O you gods,
+I feel my master’s passion. This slave
+Unto his honour has my lord’s meat in him.
+Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment
+When he is turned to poison?
+O, may diseases only work upon’t,
+And when he’s sick to death, let not that part of nature
+Which my lord paid for be of any power
+To expel sickness, but prolong his hour.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. A public place
+
+Enter Lucius with three Strangers.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Who, the Lord Timon? He is my very good friend and an honourable
+gentleman.
+
+FIRST STRANGER.
+We know him for no less, though we are but strangers to him. But I can
+tell you one thing, my lord, and which I hear from common rumours: now
+Lord Timon’s happy hours are done and past, and his estate shrinks from
+him.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Fie, no, do not believe it; he cannot want for money.
+
+SECOND STRANGER.
+But believe you this, my lord, that, not long ago one of his men was
+with the Lord Lucullus to borrow so many talents, nay, urged extremely
+for’t, and showed what necessity belonged to’t, and yet was denied.
+
+LUCIUS.
+How?
+
+SECOND STRANGER.
+I tell you, denied, my lord.
+
+LUCIUS.
+What a strange case was that! Now, before the gods, I am ashamed on’t.
+Denied that honourable man? There was very little honour showed in’t.
+For my own part, I must needs confess, I have received some small
+kindnesses from him, as money, plate, jewels, and such like trifles,
+nothing comparing to his; yet had he mistook him, and sent to me, I
+should ne’er have denied his occasion so many talents.
+
+Enter Servilius.
+
+SERVILIUS.
+See, by good hap, yonder’s my lord; I have sweat to see his honour.
+[_To Lucius_.] My honoured lord!
+
+LUCIUS.
+Servilius? You are kindly met, sir. Fare thee well. Commend me to thy
+honourable virtuous lord, my very exquisite friend.
+
+SERVILIUS.
+May it please your honour, my lord hath sent—
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ha! What has he sent? I am so much endeared to that lord; he’s ever
+sending. How shall I thank him, thinkest thou? And what has he sent
+now?
+
+SERVILIUS.
+Has only sent his present occasion now, my lord, requesting your
+lordship to supply his instant use with so many talents.
+
+LUCIUS.
+I know his lordship is but merry with me;
+He cannot want fifty-five hundred talents.
+
+SERVILIUS.
+But in the meantime he wants less, my lord.
+If his occasion were not virtuous,
+I should not urge it half so faithfully.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Dost thou speak seriously, Servilius?
+
+SERVILIUS.
+Upon my soul, ’tis true, sir.
+
+LUCIUS.
+What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself against such a good
+time, when I might ha’ shown myself honourable! How unluckily it
+happened that I should purchase the day before for a little part, and
+undo a great deal of honour! Servilius, now before the gods, I am not
+able to do—the more beast, I say—I was sending to use Lord Timon
+myself, these gentlemen can witness; but I would not for the wealth of
+Athens I had done it now. Commend me bountifully to his good lordship,
+and I hope his honour will conceive the fairest of me, because I have
+no power to be kind. And tell him this from me: I count it one of my
+greatest afflictions, say, that I cannot pleasure such an honourable
+gentleman. Good Servilius, will you befriend me so far as to use mine
+own words to him?
+
+SERVILIUS.
+Yes, sir, I shall.
+
+LUCIUS.
+I’ll look you out a good turn, Servilius.
+
+[_Exit Servilius._]
+
+True, as you said, Timon is shrunk indeed,
+And he that’s once denied will hardly speed.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FIRST STRANGER.
+Do you observe this, Hostilius?
+
+SECOND STRANGER.
+Ay, too well.
+
+FIRST STRANGER.
+Why, this is the world’s soul, and just of the same piece
+Is every flatterer’s spirit. Who can call him his friend
+That dips in the same dish? For, in my knowing,
+Timon has been this lord’s father
+And kept his credit with his purse,
+Supported his estate, nay, Timon’s money
+Has paid his men their wages. He ne’er drinks
+But Timon’s silver treads upon his lip,
+And yet—O, see the monstrousness of man
+When he looks out in an ungrateful shape—
+He does deny him, in respect of his,
+What charitable men afford to beggars.
+
+THIRD STRANGER.
+Religion groans at it.
+
+FIRST STRANGER.
+For mine own part,
+I never tasted Timon in my life,
+Nor came any of his bounties over me
+To mark me for his friend. Yet I protest,
+For his right noble mind, illustrious virtue,
+And honourable carriage,
+Had his necessity made use of me,
+I would have put my wealth into donation,
+And the best half should have returned to him,
+So much I love his heart. But I perceive
+Men must learn now with pity to dispense,
+For policy sits above conscience.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A room in Sempronius’ house
+
+Enter a Third Servant  of Timon’s with Sempronius, another of Timon’s
+friends.
+
+SEMPRONIUS.
+Must he needs trouble me in’t? Hum! ’Bove all others?
+He might have tried Lord Lucius or Lucullus;
+And now Ventidius is wealthy too,
+Whom he redeemed from prison. All these
+Owe their estates unto him.
+
+SERVANT.
+My lord,
+They have all been touched and found base metal,
+For they have all denied him.
+
+SEMPRONIUS.
+How? Have they denied him?
+Has Ventidius and Lucullus denied him
+And does he send to me? Three? Humh!
+It shows but little love or judgment in him.
+Must I be his last refuge? His friends, like physicians,
+Thrive, give him over. Must I take th’ cure upon me?
+Has much disgraced me in’t. I’m angry at him,
+That might have known my place. I see no sense for’t
+But his occasions might have wooed me first;
+For, in my conscience, I was the first man
+That e’er received gift from him.
+And does he think so backwardly of me now
+That I’ll requite it last? No.
+So it may prove an argument of laughter
+To th’ rest, and I ’mongst lords be thought a fool.
+I’d rather than the worth of thrice the sum
+Had sent to me first, but for my mind’s sake;
+I’d such a courage to do him good. But now return,
+And with their faint reply this answer join:
+Who bates mine honour shall not know my coin.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SERVANT.
+Excellent! Your lordship’s a goodly villain. The devil knew not what he
+did when he made man politic; he crossed himself by’t, and I cannot
+think but, in the end the villainies of man will set him clear. How
+fairly this lord strives to appear foul! Takes virtuous copies to be
+wicked, like those that under hot ardent zeal would set whole realms on
+fire.
+Of such a nature is his politic love.
+This was my lord’s best hope, now all are fled
+Save only the gods. Now his friends are dead,
+Doors that were ne’er acquainted with their wards
+Many a bounteous year must be employed
+Now to guard sure their master.
+And this is all a liberal course allows,
+Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. A hall in Timon’s house
+
+Enter two of Varro’s Servants meeting Titus and Hortensius and then
+Lucius, all Servants of Timon’s creditors, to wait for his coming out.
+
+FIRST VARRO’S SERVANT.
+Well met, good morrow, Titus and Hortensius.
+
+TITUS.
+The like to you, kind Varro.
+
+HORTENSIUS.
+Lucius!
+What, do we meet together?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ay, and I think
+One business does command us all;
+For mine is money.
+
+TITUS.
+So is theirs and ours.
+
+Enter Philotus.
+
+LUCIUS.
+And, sir, Philotus too!
+
+PHILOTUS.
+Good day at once.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Welcome, good brother.
+What do you think the hour?
+
+PHILOTUS.
+Labouring for nine.
+
+LUCIUS.
+So much?
+
+PHILOTUS.
+Is not my lord seen yet?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Not yet.
+
+PHILOTUS.
+I wonder on’t, he was wont to shine at seven.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ay, but the days are waxed shorter with him.
+You must consider that a prodigal course
+Is like the sun’s, but not like his recoverable.
+I fear ’tis deepest winter in Lord Timon’s purse:
+That is, one may reach deep enough, and yet
+Find little.
+
+PHILOTUS.
+I am of your fear for that.
+
+TITUS.
+I’ll show you how t’ observe a strange event.
+Your lord sends now for money?
+
+HORTENSIUS.
+Most true, he does.
+
+TITUS.
+And he wears jewels now of Timon’s gift,
+For which I wait for money.
+
+HORTENSIUS.
+It is against my heart.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Mark how strange it shows,
+Timon in this should pay more than he owes,
+And e’en as if your lord should wear rich jewels
+And send for money for ’em.
+
+HORTENSIUS.
+I’m weary of this charge, the gods can witness.
+I know my lord hath spent of Timon’s wealth,
+And now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth.
+
+FIRST VARRO’S SERVANT.
+Yes, mine’s three thousand crowns. What’s yours?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Five thousand mine.
+
+FIRST VARRO’S SERVANT.
+’Tis much deep, and it should seem by th’ sum
+Your master’s confidence was above mine,
+Else surely his had equalled.
+
+Enter Flaminius.
+
+TITUS.
+One of Lord Timon’s men.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Flaminius? Sir, a word. Pray, is my lord ready to come forth?
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+No, indeed he is not.
+
+TITUS.
+We attend his lordship; pray, signify so much.
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+I need not tell him that, he knows you are too diligent.
+
+[_Exit Flaminius._]
+
+Enter Flavius in a cloak, muffled.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ha, is not that his steward muffled so?
+He goes away in a cloud. Call him, call him.
+
+TITUS.
+Do you hear, sir?
+
+SECOND VARRO’S SERVANT.
+By your leave, sir.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+What do you ask of me, my friend?
+
+TITUS.
+We wait for certain money here, sir.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Ay,
+If money were as certain as your waiting,
+’Twere sure enough.
+Why then preferred you not your sums and bills
+When your false masters eat of my lord’s meat?
+Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,
+And take down th’ interest into their gluttonous maws.
+You do yourselves but wrong to stir me up,
+Let me pass quietly.
+Believe’t, my lord and I have made an end,
+I have no more to reckon, he to spend.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ay, but this answer will not serve.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+If ’twill not serve, ’tis not so base as you,
+For you serve knaves.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+FIRST VARRO’S SERVANT.
+How? What does his cashiered worship mutter?
+
+SECOND VARRO’S SERVANT.
+No matter what, he’s poor, and that’s revenge enough. Who can speak
+broader than he that has no house to put his head in? Such may rail
+against great buildings.
+
+Enter Servilius.
+
+TITUS.
+O, here’s Servilius; now we shall know some answer.
+
+SERVILIUS.
+If I might beseech you, gentlemen, to repair some other hour, I should
+derive much from’t. For take’t of my soul, my lord leans wondrously to
+discontent. His comfortable temper has forsook him, he’s much out of
+health and keeps his chamber.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Many do keep their chambers are not sick.
+And if it be so far beyond his health,
+Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts
+And make a clear way to the gods.
+
+SERVILIUS.
+Good gods!
+
+TITUS.
+We cannot take this for answer, sir.
+
+FLAMINIUS.
+[_Within_.] Servilius, help! My lord, my lord!
+
+Enter Timon in a rage.
+
+TIMON.
+What, are my doors opposed against my passage?
+Have I been ever free, and must my house
+Be my retentive enemy, my jail?
+The place which I have feasted, does it now,
+Like all mankind, show me an iron heart?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Put in now, Titus.
+
+TITUS.
+My lord, here is my bill.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Here’s mine.
+
+HORTENSIUS.
+And mine, my lord.
+
+BOTH VARRO’S SERVANTS.
+And ours, my lord.
+
+PHILOTUS.
+All our bills.
+
+TIMON.
+Knock me down with ’em! Cleave me to the girdle.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Alas, my lord—
+
+TIMON.
+Cut my heart in sums!
+
+TITUS.
+Mine, fifty talents.
+
+TIMON.
+Tell out my blood.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Five thousand crowns, my lord.
+
+TIMON.
+Five thousand drops pays that. What yours, and yours?
+
+FIRST VARRO’S SERVANT.
+My lord—
+
+SECOND VARRO’S SERVANT.
+My lord—
+
+TIMON.
+Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+HORTENSIUS.
+Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps at their money.
+These debts may well be called desperate ones, for a madman owes ’em.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Enter Timon and Flavius.
+
+TIMON.
+They have e’en put my breath from me, the slaves.
+Creditors? Devils!
+
+FLAVIUS.
+My dear lord—
+
+TIMON.
+What if it should be so?
+
+FLAVIUS.
+My lord—
+
+TIMON.
+I’ll have it so.—My steward!
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Here, my lord.
+
+TIMON.
+So fitly? Go, bid all my friends again,
+Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius, all.
+I’ll once more feast the rascals.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+O my lord,
+You only speak from your distracted soul;
+There is not so much left to furnish out
+A moderate table.
+
+TIMON.
+Be it not in thy care. Go,
+I charge thee, invite them all. Let in the tide
+Of knaves once more. My cook and I’ll provide.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. The same. The senate house
+
+Enter three Senators at one door, Alcibiades meeting them, with
+Attendants.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+My lord, you have my voice to ’t. The fault’s
+Bloody. ’Tis necessary he should die.
+Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Most true, the law shall bruise ’em.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Honour, health, and compassion to the senate!
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Now, captain?
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+I am a humble suitor to your virtues,
+For pity is the virtue of the law,
+And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
+It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy
+Upon a friend of mine, who in hot blood
+Hath stepped into the law, which is past depth
+To those that without heed do plunge into’t.
+He is a man, setting his fate aside,
+Of comely virtues,
+Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice—
+An honour in him which buys out his fault—
+But with a noble fury and fair spirit,
+Seeing his reputation touched to death,
+He did oppose his foe;
+And with such sober and unnoted passion
+He did behave his anger, ere ’twas spent,
+As if he had but proved an argument.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+You undergo too strict a paradox,
+Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.
+Your words have took such pains as if they laboured
+To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling
+Upon the head of valour, which indeed
+Is valour misbegot and came into the world
+When sects and factions were newly born.
+He’s truly valiant that can wisely suffer
+The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs
+His outsides to wear them like his raiment, carelessly,
+And ne’er prefer his injuries to his heart,
+To bring it into danger.
+If wrongs be evils and enforce us kill,
+What folly ’tis to hazard life for ill!
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+My lord—
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+You cannot make gross sins look clear.
+To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+My lords, then, under favour, pardon me
+If I speak like a captain.
+Why do fond men expose themselves to battle
+And not endure all threats? Sleep upon’t,
+And let the foes quietly cut their throats
+Without repugnancy? If there be
+Such valour in the bearing, what make we
+Abroad? Why, then, women are more valiant
+That stay at home, if bearing carry it,
+And the ass more captain than the lion, the felon
+Loaden with irons wiser than the judge,
+If wisdom be in suffering. O my lords,
+As you are great, be pitifully good.
+Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood?
+To kill, I grant, is sin’s extremest gust,
+But in defence, by mercy, ’tis most just.
+To be in anger is impiety,
+But who is man that is not angry?
+Weigh but the crime with this.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+You breathe in vain.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+In vain? His service done
+At Lacedaemon and Byzantium
+Were a sufficient briber for his life.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+What’s that?
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Why, I say, my lords, has done fair service
+And slain in fight many of your enemies.
+How full of valour did he bear himself
+In the last conflict, and made plenteous wounds!
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+He has made too much plenty with ’em.
+He’s a sworn rioter. He has a sin
+That often drowns him and takes his valour prisoner.
+If there were no foes, that were enough
+To overcome him. In that beastly fury,
+He has been known to commit outrages
+And cherish factions. ’Tis inferred to us
+His days are foul and his drink dangerous.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+He dies.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Hard fate! He might have died in war.
+My lords, if not for any parts in him,
+Though his right arm might purchase his own time
+And be in debt to none, yet, more to move you,
+Take my deserts to his and join ’em both.
+And, for I know your reverend ages love
+Security, I’ll pawn my victories, all
+My honour, to you upon his good returns.
+If by this crime he owes the law his life,
+Why, let the war receive’t in valiant gore,
+For law is strict, and war is nothing more.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+We are for law. He dies. Urge it no more,
+On height of our displeasure. Friend or brother,
+He forfeits his own blood that spills another.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Must it be so? It must not be.
+My lords, I do beseech you, know me.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+How?
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Call me to your remembrances.
+
+THIRD SENATOR.
+What?
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+I cannot think but your age has forgot me,
+It could not else be I should prove so base
+To sue and be denied such common grace.
+My wounds ache at you.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Do you dare our anger?
+’Tis in few words, but spacious in effect:
+We banish thee for ever.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Banish me?
+Banish your dotage, banish usury,
+That makes the Senate ugly.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+If, after two days’ shine, Athens contain thee,
+Attend our weightier judgment.
+And, not to swell our spirit,
+He shall be executed presently.
+
+[_Exeunt Senators._]
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Now the gods keep you old enough, that you may live
+Only in bone, that none may look on you!
+I’m worse than mad. I have kept back their foes
+While they have told their money and let out
+Their coin upon large interest, I myself
+Rich only in large hurts. All those for this?
+Is this the balsam that the usuring senate
+Pours into captains’ wounds? Banishment.
+It comes not ill. I hate not to be banished.
+It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury,
+That I may strike at Athens. I’ll cheer up
+My discontented troops and lay for hearts.
+’Tis honour with most lands to be at odds.
+Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VI. A room of state in Timon’s house
+
+Music. Enter divers Friends at several doors.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+The good time of day to you, sir.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+I also wish it to you. I think this honourable lord did but try us this
+other day.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Upon that were my thoughts tiring when we encountered. I hope it is not
+so low with him as he made it seem in the trial of his several friends.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+It should not be, by the persuasion of his new feasting.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+I should think so. He hath sent me an earnest inviting, which many my
+near occasions did urge me to put off; but he hath conjured me beyond
+them, and I must needs appear.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+In like manner was I in debt to my importunate business, but he would
+not hear my excuse. I am sorry, when he sent to borrow of me, that my
+provision was out.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+I am sick of that grief too, as I understand how all things go.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Every man here’s so. What would he have borrowed you?
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+A thousand pieces.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+A thousand pieces!
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+What of you?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+He sent to me, sir—here he comes.
+
+Enter Timon and Attendants.
+
+TIMON.
+With all my heart, gentlemen both! And how fare you?
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Ever at the best, hearing well of your lordship.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.
+
+TIMON.
+[_Aside_.] Nor more willingly leaves winter, such summer birds are men.
+Gentlemen, our dinner will not recompense this long stay. Feast your
+ears with the music awhile, if they will fare so harshly o’ th’
+trumpet’s sound; we shall to’t presently.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+I hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship that I returned you
+an empty messenger.
+
+TIMON.
+O, sir, let it not trouble you.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+My noble lord—
+
+TIMON.
+Ah, my good friend, what cheer?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+My most honourable lord, I am e’en sick of shame that when your
+lordship this other day sent to me I was so unfortunate a beggar.
+
+TIMON.
+Think not on’t, sir.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+If you had sent but two hours before—
+
+TIMON.
+Let it not cumber your better remembrance.
+
+[_The banquet brought in._]
+
+Come, bring in all together.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+All covered dishes!
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Royal cheer, I warrant you.
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+Doubt not that, if money and the season can yield it.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+How do you? What’s the news?
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+Alcibiades is banished. Hear you of it?
+
+FIRST AND SECOND FRIENDS.
+Alcibiades banished?
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+’Tis so, be sure of it.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+How, how?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+I pray you, upon what?
+
+TIMON.
+My worthy friends, will you draw near?
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+I’ll tell you more anon. Here’s a noble feast toward.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+This is the old man still.
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+Will’t hold, will’t hold?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+It does, but time will—and so—
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+I do conceive.
+
+TIMON.
+Each man to his stool with that spur as he would to the lip of his
+mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike. Make not a city feast
+of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place. Sit,
+sit. The gods require our thanks:
+You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your
+own gifts make yourselves praised, but reserve still to give, lest your
+deities be despised. Lend to each man enough, that one need not lend to
+another; for, were your godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake
+the gods. Make the meat be beloved more than the man that gives it. Let
+no assembly of twenty be without a score of villains. If there sit
+twelve women at the table, let a dozen of them be as they are. The rest
+of your foes, O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common
+lag of people, what is amiss in them, you gods, make suitable for
+destruction. For these my present friends, as they are to me nothing,
+so in nothing bless them, and to nothing are they welcome.
+Uncover, dogs, and lap.
+
+[_The dishes  are uncovered and prove to be full of lukewarm water._]
+
+SOME SPEAK.
+What does his lordship mean?
+
+SOME OTHER.
+I know not.
+
+TIMON.
+May you a better feast never behold,
+You knot of mouth-friends! Smoke and lukewarm water
+Is your perfection. This is Timon’s last,
+Who, stuck and spangled with your flatteries,
+Washes it off and sprinkles in your faces
+Your reeking villainy.
+
+[_Throws water in their faces._]
+
+Live loathed, and long,
+Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
+Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
+You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time’s flies,
+Cap-and-knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks!
+Of man and beast the infinite malady
+Crust you quite o’er! [_They stand_.] What, dost thou go?
+Soft! Take thy physic first; thou too, and thou!
+Stay, I will lend thee money, borrow none.
+
+[_He attacks them and forces them out._]
+
+What, all in motion? Henceforth be no feast
+Whereat a villain’s not a welcome guest.
+Burn, house! Sink Athens! Henceforth hated be
+Of Timon man and all humanity!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Timon’s Friends, the Senators with other Lords.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+How now, my lords?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Know you the quality of Lord Timon’s fury?
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+Push! Did you see my cap?
+
+FOURTH FRIEND.
+I have lost my gown.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+He’s but a mad lord, and nought but humours sways him. He gave me a
+jewel th’ other day, and now he has beat it out of my hat. Did you see
+my jewel?
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+Did you see my cap?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Here ’tis.
+
+FOURTH FRIEND.
+Here lies my gown.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Let’s make no stay.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Lord Timon’s mad.
+
+THIRD FRIEND.
+I feel’t upon my bones.
+
+FOURTH FRIEND.
+One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Without the walls of Athens
+
+
+Enter Timon.
+
+TIMON.
+Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall
+That girdles in those wolves, dive in the earth
+And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent!
+Obedience fail in children! Slaves and fools,
+Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench
+And minister in their steads! To general filths
+Convert, o’ th’ instant, green virginity,
+Do’t in your parents’ eyes! Bankrupts, hold fast;
+Rather than render back, out with your knives
+And cut your trusters’ throats! Bound servants, steal!
+Large-handed robbers your grave masters are,
+And pill by law. Maid, to thy master’s bed,
+Thy mistress is o’ th’ brothel. Son of sixteen,
+Pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire,
+With it beat out his brains! Piety and fear,
+Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,
+Domestic awe, night-rest and neighbourhood,
+Instruction, manners, mysteries and trades,
+Degrees, observances, customs and laws,
+Decline to your confounding contraries,
+And let confusion live! Plagues incident to men,
+Your potent and infectious fevers heap
+On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,
+Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt
+As lamely as their manners! Lust and liberty,
+Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth,
+That ’gainst the stream of virtue they may strive
+And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,
+Sow all th’ Athenian bosoms, and their crop
+Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath,
+That their society, as their friendship, may
+Be merely poison! Nothing I’ll bear from thee
+But nakedness, thou detestable town!
+Take thou that too, with multiplying bans!
+Timon will to the woods, where he shall find
+Th’ unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.
+The gods confound—hear me, you good gods all!—
+Th’ Athenians both within and out that wall,
+And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow
+To the whole race of mankind, high and low!
+Amen.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Athens. A room in Timon’s house
+
+Enter Flavius with two or three Servants.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Hear you, Master Steward, where’s our master?
+Are we undone, cast off, nothing remaining?
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Alack, my fellows, what should I say to you?
+Let me be recorded by the righteous gods,
+I am as poor as you.
+
+FIRST SERVANT.
+Such a house broke?
+So noble a master fall’n? All gone, and not
+One friend to take his fortune by the arm
+And go along with him?
+
+SECOND SERVANT.
+As we do turn our backs
+From our companion, thrown into his grave,
+So his familiars to his buried fortunes
+Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,
+Like empty purses picked; and his poor self,
+A dedicated beggar to the air,
+With his disease of all-shunned poverty,
+Walks, like contempt, alone.—More of our fellows.
+
+Enter other Servants.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+All broken implements of a ruined house.
+
+THIRD SERVANT.
+Yet do our hearts wear Timon’s livery.
+That see I by our faces. We are fellows still,
+Serving alike in sorrow. Leaked is our bark,
+And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck,
+Hearing the surges threat. We must all part
+Into this sea of air.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Good fellows all,
+The latest of my wealth I’ll share amongst you.
+Wherever we shall meet, for Timon’s sake
+Let’s yet be fellows. Let’s shake our heads and say,
+As ’twere a knell unto our master’s fortune,
+“We have seen better days.” Let each take some.
+
+[_Offering them money._]
+
+Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more.
+Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.
+
+[_They embrace and part several ways._]
+
+O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!
+Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
+Since riches point to misery and contempt?
+Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live
+But in a dream of friendship,
+To have his pomp and all what state compounds
+But only painted, like his varnished friends?
+Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart,
+Undone by goodness! Strange, unusual blood
+When man’s worst sin is he does too much good!
+Who then dares to be half so kind again?
+For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.
+My dearest lord, blessed to be most accursed,
+Rich only to be wretched, thy great fortunes
+Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas, kind lord,
+He’s flung in rage from this ingrateful seat
+Of monstrous friends;
+Nor has he with him to supply his life,
+Or that which can command it.
+I’ll follow and inquire him out.
+I’ll ever serve his mind with my best will.
+Whilst I have gold, I’ll be his steward still.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. Woods and caves near the sea-shore
+
+Enter Timon in the woods.
+
+TIMON.
+O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth
+Rotten humidity, below thy sister’s orb
+Infect the air! Twinned brothers of one womb,
+Whose procreation, residence and birth
+Scarce is dividant, touch them with several fortunes,
+The greater scorns the lesser. Not nature,
+To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune
+But by contempt of nature.
+Raise me this beggar, and deny’t that lord;
+The senator shall bear contempt hereditary,
+The beggar native honour.
+It is the pasture lards the rother’s sides,
+The want that makes him lean. Who dares, who dares
+In purity of manhood stand upright
+And say, “This man’s a flatterer”? If one be,
+So are they all, for every grece of fortune
+Is smoothed by that below. The learned pate
+Ducks to the golden fool. All’s obliquy.
+There’s nothing level in our cursed natures
+But direct villainy. Therefore be abhorred
+All feasts, societies, and throngs of men!
+His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains.
+Destruction fang mankind! Earth, yield me roots!
+
+[_Digs in the earth._]
+
+Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
+With thy most operant poison! What is here?
+Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?
+No, gods, I am no idle votarist.
+Roots, you clear heavens! Thus much of this will make
+Black white, foul fair, wrong right,
+Base noble, old young, coward valiant.
+Ha, you gods, why this? What this, you gods? Why, this
+Will lug your priests and servants from your sides,
+Pluck stout men’s pillows from below their heads.
+This yellow slave
+Will knit and break religions, bless th’ accursed,
+Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves
+And give them title, knee, and approbation
+With senators on the bench. This is it
+That makes the wappened widow wed again;
+She whom the spittle-house and ulcerous sores
+Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices
+To th’ April day again. Come, damned earth,
+Thou common whore of mankind, that puts odds
+Among the rout of nations, I will make thee
+Do thy right nature.
+
+[_March afar off._]
+
+Ha? A drum? Thou’rt quick,
+But yet I’ll bury thee. Thou’lt go, strong thief,
+When gouty keepers of thee cannot stand.
+Nay, stay thou out for earnest.
+
+[_Keeping some gold._]
+
+Enter Alcibiades with drum and fife, in warlike manner, and Phrynia and
+Timandra.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+What art thou there? Speak.
+
+TIMON.
+A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart
+For showing me again the eyes of man!
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+What is thy name? Is man so hateful to thee
+That art thyself a man?
+
+TIMON.
+I am Misanthropos and hate mankind.
+For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,
+That I might love thee something.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+I know thee well,
+But in thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.
+
+TIMON.
+I know thee too, and more than that I know thee
+I not desire to know. Follow thy drum,
+With man’s blood paint the ground gules, gules.
+Religious canons, civil laws are cruel,
+Then what should war be? This fell whore of thine
+Hath in her more destruction than thy sword,
+For all her cherubin look.
+
+PHRYNIA.
+Thy lips rot off!
+
+TIMON.
+I will not kiss thee, then the rot returns
+To thine own lips again.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+How came the noble Timon to this change?
+
+TIMON.
+As the moon does, by wanting light to give.
+But then renew I could not like the moon;
+There were no suns to borrow of.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Noble Timon,
+What friendship may I do thee?
+
+TIMON.
+None, but to maintain my opinion.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+What is it, Timon?
+
+TIMON.
+Promise me friendship, but perform none. If thou wilt not promise, the
+gods plague thee, for thou art a man. If thou dost perform, confound
+thee, for thou art a man.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+I have heard in some sort of thy miseries.
+
+TIMON.
+Thou saw’st them when I had prosperity.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+I see them now; then was a blessed time.
+
+TIMON.
+As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots.
+
+TIMANDRA.
+Is this th’ Athenian minion whom the world
+Voiced so regardfully?
+
+TIMON.
+Art thou Timandra?
+
+TIMANDRA.
+Yes.
+
+TIMON.
+Be a whore still, they love thee not that use thee;
+Give them diseases, leaving with thee their lust.
+Make use of thy salt hours. Season the slaves
+For tubs and baths, bring down rose-cheeked youth
+To the tub-fast and the diet.
+
+TIMANDRA.
+Hang thee, monster!
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Pardon him, sweet Timandra, for his wits
+Are drowned and lost in his calamities.
+I have but little gold of late, brave Timon,
+The want whereof doth daily make revolt
+In my penurious band. I have heard and grieved
+How cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth,
+Forgetting thy great deeds when neighbour states,
+But for thy sword and fortune, trod upon them—
+
+TIMON.
+I prithee, beat thy drum and get thee gone.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+I am thy friend and pity thee, dear Timon.
+
+TIMON.
+How dost thou pity him whom thou dost trouble?
+I had rather be alone.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Why, fare thee well.
+Here is some gold for thee.
+
+TIMON.
+Keep it, I cannot eat it.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+When I have laid proud Athens on a heap—
+
+TIMON.
+Warr’st thou ’gainst Athens?
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Ay, Timon, and have cause.
+
+TIMON.
+The gods confound them all in thy conquest,
+And thee after, when thou hast conquered!
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Why me, Timon?
+
+TIMON.
+That by killing of villains
+Thou wast born to conquer my country.
+Put up thy gold. Go on, here’s gold, go on.
+Be as a planetary plague when Jove
+Will o’er some high-viced city hang his poison
+In the sick air. Let not thy sword skip one.
+Pity not honoured age for his white beard;
+He is an usurer. Strike me the counterfeit matron;
+It is her habit only that is honest,
+Herself’s a bawd. Let not the virgin’s cheek
+Make soft thy trenchant sword, for those milk paps
+That through the window-bars bore at men’s eyes,
+Are not within the leaf of pity writ,
+But set them down horrible traitors. Spare not the babe,
+Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy;
+Think it a bastard whom the oracle
+Hath doubtfully pronounced thy throat shall cut,
+And mince it sans remorse. Swear against objects;
+Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes,
+Whose proof nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes,
+Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding,
+Shall pierce a jot. There’s gold to pay thy soldiers.
+Make large confusion and, thy fury spent,
+Confounded be thyself! Speak not, be gone.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Hast thou gold yet? I’ll take the gold thou giv’st me,
+Not all thy counsel.
+
+TIMON.
+Dost thou or dost thou not, heaven’s curse upon thee!
+
+PHRYNIA AND TIMANDRA.
+Give us some gold, good Timon.
+Hast thou more?
+
+TIMON.
+Enough to make a whore forswear her trade,
+And to make whores a bawd. Hold up, you sluts,
+Your aprons mountant. You are not oathable,
+Although I know you’ll swear—terribly swear
+Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues
+Th’ immortal gods that hear you. Spare your oaths,
+I’ll trust to your conditions. Be whores still,
+And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you,
+Be strong in whore, allure him, burn him up;
+Let your close fire predominate his smoke,
+And be no turncoats. Yet may your pains six months,
+Be quite contrary. And thatch your poor thin roofs
+With burdens of the dead—some that were hanged,
+No matter; wear them, betray with them. Whore still,
+Paint till a horse may mire upon your face.
+A pox of wrinkles!
+
+PHRYNIA AND TIMANDRA.
+Well, more gold. What then?
+Believe’t that we’ll do anything for gold.
+
+TIMON.
+Consumptions sow
+In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins,
+And mar men’s spurring. Crack the lawyer’s voice,
+That he may never more false title plead
+Nor sound his quillets shrilly. Hoar the flamen,
+That scolds against the quality of flesh
+And not believes himself. Down with the nose,
+Down with it flat, take the bridge quite away
+Of him that, his particular to foresee,
+Smells from the general weal. Make curled-pate ruffians bald,
+And let the unscarred braggarts of the war
+Derive some pain from you. Plague all,
+That your activity may defeat and quell
+The source of all erection. There’s more gold.
+Do you damn others, and let this damn you,
+And ditches grave you all!
+
+PHRYNIA AND TIMANDRA.
+More counsel with more money, bounteous Timon.
+
+TIMON.
+More whore, more mischief first! I have given you earnest.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Strike up the drum towards Athens. Farewell, Timon.
+If I thrive well, I’ll visit thee again.
+
+TIMON.
+If I hope well, I’ll never see thee more.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+I never did thee harm.
+
+TIMON.
+Yes, thou spok’st well of me.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Call’st thou that harm?
+
+TIMON.
+Men daily find it. Get thee away, and take
+Thy beagles with thee.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+We but offend him. Strike.
+
+[_Drum beats. Exeunt all but Timon._]
+
+TIMON.
+That nature, being sick of man’s unkindness,
+Should yet be hungry! [_He digs_.] Common mother, thou,
+Whose womb unmeasurable and infinite breast
+Teems and feeds all; whose selfsame mettle
+Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is puffed,
+Engenders the black toad and adder blue,
+The gilded newt and eyeless venomed worm,
+With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven
+Whereon Hyperion’s quickening fire doth shine:
+Yield him who all thy human sons doth hate,
+From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root!
+Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb,
+Let it no more bring out ingrateful man.
+Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears;
+Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face
+Hath to the marbled mansion all above
+Never presented. O, a root, dear thanks!
+Dry up thy marrows, vines and plough-torn leas,
+Whereof ingrateful man, with liquorish draughts
+And morsels unctuous greases his pure mind,
+That from it all consideration slips—
+
+Enter Apemantus.
+
+More man? Plague, plague!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+I was directed hither. Men report
+Thou dost affect my manners and dost use them.
+
+TIMON.
+’Tis, then, because thou dost not keep a dog
+Whom I would imitate. Consumption catch thee!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+This is in thee a nature but infected,
+A poor unmanly melancholy sprung
+From change of fortune. Why this spade, this place?
+This slave-like habit and these looks of care?
+Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft,
+Hug their diseased perfumes, and have forgot
+That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods
+By putting on the cunning of a carper.
+Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive
+By that which has undone thee. Hinge thy knee
+And let his very breath whom thou’lt observe
+Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain,
+And call it excellent. Thou wast told thus;
+Thou gav’st thine ears, like tapsters that bade welcome,
+To knaves and all approachers. ’Tis most just
+That thou turn rascal; had’st thou wealth again,
+Rascals should have’t. Do not assume my likeness.
+
+TIMON.
+Were I like thee, I’d throw away myself.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Thou hast cast away thyself, being like thyself
+A madman so long, now a fool. What, think’st
+That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain,
+Will put thy shirt on warm? Will these mossed trees,
+That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels
+And skip when thou point’st out? Will the cold brook,
+Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste
+To cure thy o’ernight’s surfeit? Call the creatures
+Whose naked natures live in all the spite
+Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks,
+To the conflicting elements exposed,
+Answer mere nature, bid them flatter thee.
+O, thou shalt find—
+
+TIMON.
+A fool of thee. Depart.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+I love thee better now than e’er I did.
+
+TIMON.
+I hate thee worse.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Why?
+
+TIMON.
+Thou flatter’st misery.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+I flatter not, but say thou art a caitiff.
+
+TIMON.
+Why dost thou seek me out?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+To vex thee.
+
+TIMON.
+Always a villain’s office or a fool’s.
+Dost please thyself in’t?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Ay.
+
+TIMON.
+What, a knave too?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+If thou didst put this sour cold habit on
+To castigate thy pride, ’twere well; but thou
+Dost it enforcedly. Thou’dst courtier be again
+Wert thou not beggar. Willing misery
+Outlives incertain pomp, is crowned before;
+The one is filling still, never complete,
+The other, at high wish. Best state, contentless,
+Hath a distracted and most wretched being,
+Worse than the worst, content.
+Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable.
+
+TIMON.
+Not by his breath that is more miserable.
+Thou art a slave whom Fortune’s tender arm
+With favour never clasped, but bred a dog.
+Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded
+The sweet degrees that this brief world affords
+To such as may the passive drugs of it
+Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself
+In general riot, melted down thy youth
+In different beds of lust and never learned
+The icy precepts of respect, but followed
+The sugared game before thee. But myself—
+Who had the world as my confectionary,
+The mouths, the tongues, the eyes and hearts of men
+At duty, more than I could frame employment,
+That numberless upon me stuck as leaves
+Do on the oak, have with one winter’s brush
+Fell from their boughs and left me open, bare
+For every storm that blows—I to bear this,
+That never knew but better, is some burden.
+Thy nature did commence in sufferance, time
+Hath made thee hard in’t. Why shouldst thou hate men?
+They never flattered thee. What hast thou given?
+If thou wilt curse, thy father, that poor rag,
+Must be thy subject, who in spite put stuff
+To some she-beggar and compounded thee
+Poor rogue hereditary. Hence, be gone!
+If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,
+Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Art thou proud yet?
+
+TIMON.
+Ay, that I am not thee.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+I, that I was no prodigal.
+
+TIMON.
+I, that I am one now.
+Were all the wealth I have shut up in thee,
+I’d give thee leave to hang it. Get thee gone.
+That the whole life of Athens were in this!
+Thus would I eat it.
+
+[_Eats a root._]
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Here, I will mend thy feast.
+
+TIMON.
+First mend my company, take away thyself.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+So I shall mend mine own, by th’ lack of thine.
+
+TIMON.
+’Tis not well mended so, it is but botched.
+If not, I would it were.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+What wouldst thou have to Athens?
+
+TIMON.
+Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thou wilt,
+Tell them there I have gold. Look, so I have.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Here is no use for gold.
+
+TIMON.
+The best and truest,
+For here it sleeps and does no hired harm.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Where liest a-nights, Timon?
+
+TIMON.
+Under that’s above me. Where feed’st thou a-days, Apemantus?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Where my stomach finds meat, or rather where I eat it.
+
+TIMON.
+Would poison were obedient and knew my mind!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Where wouldst thou send it?
+
+TIMON.
+To sauce thy dishes.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the extremity of both
+ends. When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for
+too much curiosity; in thy rags thou know’st none, but art despised for
+the contrary. There’s a medlar for thee. Eat it.
+
+TIMON.
+On what I hate I feed not.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Dost hate a medlar?
+
+TIMON.
+Ay, though it look like thee.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+An thou’dst hated medlars sooner, thou shouldst have loved thyself
+better now. What man didst thou ever know unthrift that was beloved
+after his means?
+
+TIMON.
+Who, without those means thou talk’st of, didst thou ever know beloved?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Myself.
+
+TIMON.
+I understand thee. Thou hadst some means to keep a dog.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+What things in the world canst thou nearest compare to thy flatterers?
+
+TIMON.
+Women nearest; but men—men are the things themselves. What wouldst thou
+do with the world, Apemantus, if it lay in thy power?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men.
+
+TIMON.
+Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of men and remain a
+beast with the beasts?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Ay, Timon.
+
+TIMON.
+A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t’ attain to. If thou
+wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the
+fox would eat thee; if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee
+when peradventure thou wert accused by the ass; if thou wert the ass,
+thy dulness would torment thee, and still thou lived’st but as a
+breakfast to the wolf; if thou wert the wolf, thy greediness would
+afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst hazard thy life for thy dinner.
+Wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and make
+thine own self the conquest of thy fury; wert thou a bear, thou wouldst
+be killed by the horse; wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by
+the leopard; wert thou a leopard, thou wert germane to the lion, and
+the spots of thy kindred were jurors on thy life. All thy safety were
+remotion, and thy defence absence. What beast couldst thou be that were
+not subject to a beast? And what beast art thou already that seest not
+thy loss in transformation!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+If thou couldst please me with speaking to me, thou mightst have hit
+upon it here. The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
+
+TIMON.
+How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out of the city?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Yonder comes a poet and a painter. The plague of company light upon
+thee! I will fear to catch it, and give way. When I know not what else
+to do, I’ll see thee again.
+
+TIMON.
+When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt be welcome. I had
+rather be a beggar’s dog than Apemantus.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.
+
+TIMON.
+Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+A plague on thee! Thou art too bad to curse.
+
+TIMON.
+All villains that do stand by thee are pure.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+There is no leprosy but what thou speak’st.
+
+TIMON.
+If I name thee,
+I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+I would my tongue could rot them off!
+
+TIMON.
+Away, thou issue of a mangy dog!
+Choler does kill me that thou art alive.
+I swoon to see thee.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Would thou wouldst burst!
+
+TIMON.
+Away, thou tedious rogue!
+I am sorry I shall lose a stone by thee.
+
+[_Throws a stone at him._]
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Beast!
+
+TIMON.
+Slave!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Toad!
+
+TIMON.
+Rogue, rogue, rogue!
+I am sick of this false world, and will love nought
+But even the mere necessities upon’t.
+Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave.
+Lie where the light foam of the sea may beat
+Thy gravestone daily. Make thine epitaph,
+That death in me at others’ lives may laugh.
+[_To the gold._] O thou sweet king-killer and dear divorce
+’Twixt natural son and sire; thou bright defiler
+Of Hymen’s purest bed, thou valiant Mars;
+Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate wooer,
+Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
+That lies on Dian’s lap; thou visible god,
+That solder’st close impossibilities
+And mak’st them kiss, that speak’st with every tongue
+To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts,
+Think thy slave man rebels, and by thy virtue
+Set them into confounding odds, that beasts
+May have the world in empire!
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Would ’twere so!
+But not till I am dead. I’ll say thou’st gold;
+Thou wilt be thronged to shortly.
+
+TIMON.
+Thronged to?
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Ay.
+
+TIMON.
+Thy back, I prithee.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+Live and love thy misery.
+
+TIMON.
+Long live so, and so die! I am quit.
+
+APEMANTUS.
+More things like men. Eat, Timon, and abhor them.
+
+[_Exit Apemantus._]
+
+Enter Banditti.
+
+FIRST BANDIT.
+Where should he have this gold? It is some poor fragment, some slender
+ort of his remainder. The mere want of gold and the falling-from of his
+friends drove him into this melancholy.
+
+SECOND BANDIT.
+It is noised he hath a mass of treasure.
+
+THIRD BANDIT.
+Let us make the assay upon him. If he care not for’t, he will supply us
+easily; if he covetously reserve it, how shall’s get it?
+
+SECOND BANDIT.
+True, for he bears it not about him. ’Tis hid.
+
+FIRST BANDIT.
+Is not this he?
+
+BANDITTI.
+Where?
+
+SECOND BANDIT.
+’Tis his description.
+
+THIRD BANDIT.
+He; I know him.
+
+BANDITTI.
+Save thee, Timon!
+
+TIMON.
+Now, thieves?
+
+BANDITTI.
+Soldiers, not thieves.
+
+TIMON.
+Both too, and women’s sons.
+
+BANDITTI.
+We are not thieves, but men that much do want.
+
+TIMON.
+Your greatest want is, you want much of meat.
+Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots,
+Within this mile break forth a hundred springs,
+The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips,
+The bounteous housewife Nature on each bush
+Lays her full mess before you. Want? Why want?
+
+FIRST BANDIT.
+We cannot live on grass, on berries, water,
+As beasts and birds and fishes.
+
+TIMON.
+Nor on the beasts themselves, the birds, and fishes;
+You must eat men. Yet thanks I must you con
+That you are thieves professed, that you work not
+In holier shapes, for there is boundless theft
+In limited professions. Rascal thieves,
+Here’s gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o’ th’ grape
+Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth,
+And so scape hanging. Trust not the physician;
+His antidotes are poison, and he slays
+More than you rob. Take wealth and lives together,
+Do villainy, do, since you protest to do’t,
+Like workmen. I’ll example you with thievery.
+The sun’s a thief and with his great attraction
+Robs the vast sea; the moon’s an arrant thief,
+And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
+The sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
+The moon into salt tears; the earth’s a thief,
+That feeds and breeds by a composture stol’n
+From general excrement. Each thing’s a thief.
+The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power
+Has unchecked theft. Love not yourselves; away!
+Rob one another. There’s more gold. Cut throats,
+All that you meet are thieves. To Athens go,
+Break open shops, nothing can you steal
+But thieves do lose it. Steal no less for this I give you,
+And gold confound you howsoe’er! Amen.
+
+THIRD BANDIT.
+Has almost charmed me from my profession by persuading me to it.
+
+FIRST BANDIT.
+’Tis in the malice of mankind that he thus advises us, not to have us
+thrive in our mystery.
+
+SECOND BANDIT.
+I’ll believe him as an enemy and give over my trade.
+
+FIRST BANDIT.
+Let us first see peace in Athens. There is no time so miserable but a
+man may be true.
+
+[_Exeunt Banditti._]
+
+Enter Flavius.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+O you gods!
+Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord?
+Full of decay and failing? O monument
+And wonder of good deeds evilly bestowed!
+What an alteration of honour has desperate want made!
+What viler thing upon the earth than friends
+Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends!
+How rarely does it meet with this time’s guise,
+When man was wished to love his enemies!
+Grant I may ever love, and rather woo
+Those that would mischief me than those that do!
+He has caught me in his eye. I will present
+My honest grief unto him and as my lord
+Still serve him with my life.—My dearest master!
+
+TIMON.
+Away! What art thou?
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Have you forgot me, sir?
+
+TIMON.
+Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men.
+Then, if thou grant’st thou’rt a man, I have forgot thee.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+An honest poor servant of yours.
+
+TIMON.
+Then I know thee not.
+I never had honest man about me. I; all
+I kept were knaves to serve in meat to villains.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+The gods are witness,
+Ne’er did poor steward wear a truer grief
+For his undone lord than mine eyes for you.
+
+TIMON.
+What, dost thou weep? Come nearer then. I love thee
+Because thou art a woman and disclaim’st
+Flinty mankind, whose eyes do never give
+But thorough lust and laughter. Pity’s sleeping.
+Strange times that weep with laughing, not with weeping!
+
+FLAVIUS.
+I beg of you to know me, good my lord,
+T’ accept my grief, and whilst this poor wealth lasts
+To entertain me as your steward still.
+
+TIMON.
+Had I a steward
+So true, so just, and now so comfortable?
+It almost turns my dangerous nature mild.
+Let me behold thy face. Surely this man
+Was born of woman.
+Forgive my general and exceptless rashness,
+You perpetual sober gods! I do proclaim
+One honest man, mistake me not, but one;
+No more, I pray, and he’s a steward.
+How fain would I have hated all mankind,
+And thou redeem’st thyself. But all, save thee,
+I fell with curses.
+Methinks thou art more honest now than wise,
+For by oppressing and betraying me
+Thou mightst have sooner got another service;
+For many so arrive at second masters
+Upon their first lord’s neck. But tell me true—
+For I must ever doubt, though ne’er so sure—
+Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous,
+A usuring kindness and as rich men deal gifts,
+Expecting in return twenty for one?
+
+FLAVIUS.
+No, my most worthy master, in whose breast
+Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too late.
+You should have feared false times when you did feast,
+Suspect still comes where an estate is least.
+That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love,
+Duty and zeal to your unmatched mind,
+Care of your food and living. And believe it,
+My most honoured lord,
+For any benefit that points to me,
+Either in hope or present, I’d exchange
+For this one wish, that you had power and wealth
+To requite me by making rich yourself.
+
+TIMON.
+Look thee, ’tis so! Thou singly honest man,
+Here, take. The gods out of my misery
+Have sent thee treasure. Go, live rich and happy,
+But thus conditioned: thou shalt build from men;
+Hate all, curse all, show charity to none,
+But let the famished flesh slide from the bone
+Ere thou relieve the beggar; give to dogs
+What thou deniest to men; let prisons swallow ’em,
+Debts wither ’em to nothing; be men like blasted woods,
+And may diseases lick up their false bloods!
+And so farewell and thrive.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+O, let me stay
+And comfort you, my master.
+
+TIMON.
+If thou hat’st curses,
+Stay not. Fly whilst thou’rt blest and free.
+Ne’er see thou man, and let me ne’er see thee.
+
+[_Exeunt severally._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. The woods. Before Timon’s cave
+
+
+Enter Poet and Painter.
+
+PAINTER.
+As I took note of the place, it cannot be far where he abides.
+
+POET.
+What’s to be thought of him? Does the rumour hold for true that he is
+so full of gold?
+
+PAINTER.
+Certain. Alcibiades reports it; Phrynia and Timandra had gold of him.
+He likewise enriched poor straggling soldiers with great quantity. ’Tis
+said he gave unto his steward a mighty sum.
+
+POET.
+Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends?
+
+PAINTER.
+Nothing else. You shall see him a palm in Athens again, and flourish
+with the highest. Therefore ’tis not amiss we tender our loves to him
+in this supposed distress of his. It will show honestly in us and is
+very likely to load our purposes with what they travail for, if it be a
+just and true report that goes of his having.
+
+POET.
+What have you now to present unto him?
+
+PAINTER.
+Nothing at this time but my visitation; only I will promise him an
+excellent piece.
+
+POET.
+I must serve him so too, tell him of an intent that’s coming toward
+him.
+
+PAINTER.
+Good as the best. Promising is the very air o’ th’ time; it opens the
+eyes of expectation. Performance is ever the duller for his act and,
+but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is
+quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable;
+performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great
+sickness in his judgment that makes it.
+
+Enter Timon from his cave.
+
+TIMON.
+[_Aside_.] Excellent workman! Thou canst not paint a man so bad as is
+thyself.
+
+POET.
+I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for him. It must be a
+personating of himself, a satire against the softness of prosperity,
+with a discovery of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and
+opulency.
+
+TIMON.
+[_Aside_.] Must thou needs stand for a villain in thine own work? Wilt
+thou whip thine own faults in other men? Do so, I have gold for thee.
+
+POET.
+Nay, let’s seek him.
+Then do we sin against our own estate
+When we may profit meet and come too late.
+
+PAINTER.
+True.
+When the day serves, before black-cornered night,
+Find what thou want’st by free and offered light.
+Come.
+
+TIMON.
+[_Aside_.] I’ll meet you at the turn. What a god’s gold,
+That he is worshipped in a baser temple
+Than where swine feed!
+’Tis thou that rigg’st the bark and plough’st the foam,
+Settlest admired reverence in a slave.
+To thee be worship, and thy saints for aye
+Be crowned with plagues, that thee alone obey!
+Fit I meet them.
+
+[_He comes forward._]
+
+POET.
+Hail, worthy Timon!
+
+PAINTER.
+Our late noble master!
+
+TIMON.
+Have I once lived to see two honest men?
+
+POET.
+Sir,
+Having often of your open bounty tasted,
+Hearing you were retired, your friends fall’n off,
+Whose thankless natures—O abhorred spirits!
+Not all the whips of heaven are large enough—
+What, to you,
+Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence
+To their whole being? I am rapt and cannot cover
+The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude
+With any size of words.
+
+TIMON.
+Let it go naked. Men may see’t the better.
+You that are honest, by being what you are,
+Make them best seen and known.
+
+PAINTER.
+He and myself
+Have travailed in the great shower of your gifts,
+And sweetly felt it.
+
+TIMON.
+Ay, you are honest men.
+
+PAINTER.
+We are hither come to offer you our service.
+
+TIMON.
+Most honest men! Why, how shall I requite you?
+Can you eat roots and drink cold water? No?
+
+BOTH.
+What we can do we’ll do, to do you service.
+
+TIMON.
+Ye’re honest men. Ye’ve heard that I have gold,
+I am sure you have. Speak truth, you’re honest men.
+
+PAINTER.
+So it is said, my noble lord; but therefore
+Came not my friend nor I.
+
+TIMON.
+Good honest men! [_To Painter_.] Thou draw’st a counterfeit
+Best in all Athens. Thou’rt indeed the best,
+Thou counterfeit’st most lively.
+
+PAINTER.
+So so, my lord.
+
+TIMON.
+E’en so, sir, as I say. [_To the Poet_.] And for thy fiction,
+Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth
+That thou art even natural in thine art.
+But for all this, my honest-natured friends,
+I must needs say you have a little fault.
+Marry, ’tis not monstrous in you, neither wish I
+You take much pains to mend.
+
+BOTH.
+Beseech your honour
+To make it known to us.
+
+TIMON.
+You’ll take it ill.
+
+BOTH.
+Most thankfully, my lord.
+
+TIMON.
+Will you indeed?
+
+BOTH.
+Doubt it not, worthy lord.
+
+TIMON.
+There’s never a one of you but trusts a knave
+That mightily deceives you.
+
+BOTH.
+Do we, my lord?
+
+TIMON.
+Ay, and you hear him cog, see him dissemble,
+Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him,
+Keep in your bosom, yet remain assured
+That he’s a made-up villain.
+
+PAINTER.
+I know not such, my lord.
+
+POET.
+Nor I.
+
+TIMON.
+Look you, I love you well. I’ll give you gold.
+Rid me these villains from your companies,
+Hang them or stab them, drown them in a draught,
+Confound them by some course, and come to me,
+I’ll give you gold enough.
+
+BOTH.
+Name them, my lord, let’s know them.
+
+TIMON.
+You that way, and you this, but two in company.
+Each man apart, all single and alone,
+Yet an arch-villain keeps him company.
+[_To one_.] If where thou art, two villians shall not be,
+Come not near him. [_To the other_.] If thou wouldst not reside
+But where one villain is, then him abandon.
+Hence, pack! There’s gold. You came for gold, ye slaves.
+[_To one_.] You have work for me, there’s payment, hence!
+[_To the other_.] You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
+Out, rascal dogs!
+
+[_Timon drives them out and then retires to his cave_]
+
+SCENE II. The same
+
+Enter Flavius and two Senators.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+It is vain that you would speak with Timon.
+For he is set so only to himself
+That nothing but himself which looks like man
+Is friendly with him.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Bring us to his cave.
+It is our part and promise to th’ Athenians
+To speak with Timon.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+At all times alike
+Men are not still the same: ’twas time and griefs
+That framed him thus. Time, with his fairer hand,
+Offering the fortunes of his former days,
+The former man may make him. Bring us to him
+And chance it as it may.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Here is his cave.
+Peace and content be here! Lord Timon! Timon,
+Look out and speak to friends. The Athenians
+By two of their most reverend senate greet thee.
+Speak to them, noble Timon.
+
+Enter Timon out of his cave.
+
+TIMON.
+Thou sun that comforts, burn! Speak and be hanged!
+For each true word, a blister, and each false
+Be as a cantherizing to the root o’ th’ tongue,
+Consuming it with speaking.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Worthy Timon—
+
+TIMON.
+Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+The senators of Athens greet thee, Timon.
+
+TIMON.
+[_Aside_.] I thank them and would send them back the plague,
+Could I but catch it for them.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+O, forget
+What we are sorry for ourselves in thee.
+The senators with one consent of love
+Entreat thee back to Athens, who have thought
+On special dignities, which vacant lie
+For thy best use and wearing.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+They confess
+Toward thee forgetfulness too general gross,
+Which now the public body, which doth seldom
+Play the recanter, feeling in itself
+A lack of Timon’s aid, hath sense withal
+Of its own fall, restraining aid to Timon,
+And send forth us to make their sorrowed render,
+Together with a recompense more fruitful
+Than their offence can weigh down by the dram,
+Ay, even such heaps and sums of love and wealth,
+As shall to thee blot out what wrongs were theirs,
+And write in thee the figures of their love,
+Ever to read them thine.
+
+TIMON.
+You witch me in it,
+Surprise me to the very brink of tears.
+Lend me a fool’s heart and a woman’s eyes
+And I’ll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Therefore so please thee to return with us,
+And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take
+The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,
+Allowed with absolute power, and thy good name
+Live with authority. So soon we shall drive back
+Of Alcibiades th’ approaches wild,
+Who like a boar too savage doth root up
+His country’s peace.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+And shakes his threatening sword
+Against the walls of Athens.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Therefore, Timon—
+
+TIMON.
+Well, sir, I will. Therefore I will, sir, thus:
+If Alcibiades kill my countrymen,
+Let Alcibiades know this of Timon,
+That Timon cares not. But if he sack fair Athens
+And take our goodly aged men by th’ beards,
+Giving our holy virgins to the stain
+Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brained war,
+Then let him know, and tell him Timon speaks it,
+In pity of our aged and our youth,
+I cannot choose but tell him that I care not;
+And—let him take’t at worst—for their knives care not
+While you have throats to answer. For myself,
+There’s not a whittle in th’ unruly camp
+But I do prize it at my love before
+The reverend’st throat in Athens. So I leave you
+To the protection of the prosperous gods,
+As thieves to keepers.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Stay not, all’s in vain.
+
+TIMON.
+Why, I was writing of my epitaph;
+It will be seen tomorrow. My long sickness
+Of health and living now begins to mend
+And nothing brings me all things. Go, live still,
+Be Alcibiades your plague, you his,
+And last so long enough.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+We speak in vain.
+
+TIMON.
+But yet I love my country and am not
+One that rejoices in the common wrack,
+As common bruit doth put it.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+That’s well spoke.
+
+TIMON.
+Commend me to my loving countrymen.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+These words become your lips as they pass through them.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+And enter in our ears like great triumphers
+In their applauding gates.
+
+TIMON.
+Commend me to them,
+And tell them that to ease them of their griefs,
+Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,
+Their pangs of love, with other incident throes
+That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain
+In life’s uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them;
+I’ll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades’ wrath.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+[_Aside_.] I like this well, he will return again.
+
+TIMON.
+I have a tree which grows here in my close
+That mine own use invites me to cut down,
+And shortly must I fell it. Tell my friends,
+Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree
+From high to low throughout, that whoso please
+To stop affliction, let him take his haste,
+Come hither ere my tree hath felt the axe
+And hang himself. I pray you do my greeting.
+
+FLAVIUS.
+Trouble him no further; thus you still shall find him.
+
+TIMON.
+Come not to me again, but say to Athens
+Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
+Upon the beached verge of the salt flood,
+Who once a day with his embossed froth
+The turbulent surge shall cover; thither come,
+And let my gravestone be your oracle.
+Lips, let sour words go by, and language end:
+What is amiss, plague and infection mend;
+Graves only be men’s works and death their gain,
+Sun, hide thy beams, Timon hath done his reign.
+
+[_Exit Timon into his cave._]
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+His discontents are unremovably
+Coupled to nature.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Our hope in him is dead. Let us return
+And strain what other means is left unto us
+In our dear peril.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+It requires swift foot.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Before the walls of Athens
+
+Enter two other Senators, with a Messenger.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Thou hast painfully discovered. Are his files
+As full as thy report?
+
+MESSENGER.
+I have spoke the least.
+Besides, his expedition promises
+Present approach.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+We stand much hazard if they bring not Timon.
+
+MESSENGER.
+I met a courier, one mine ancient friend,
+Whom, though in general part we were opposed,
+Yet our old love made a particular force
+And made us speak like friends. This man was riding
+From Alcibiades to Timon’s cave
+With letters of entreaty, which imported
+His fellowship i’ th’ cause against your city,
+In part for his sake moved.
+
+Enter the other Senators from Timon.
+
+THIRD SENATOR.
+Here come our brothers.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect.
+The enemy’s drum is heard, and fearful scouring
+Doth choke the air with dust. In, and prepare.
+Ours is the fall, I fear, our foe’s the snare.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The woods. Timon’s cave, and a rude tomb seen
+
+Enter a Soldier in the woods, seeking Timon.
+
+SOLDIER.
+By all description this should be the place.
+Who’s here? Speak, ho! No answer? What is this?
+_Timon is dead, who hath outstretched his span.
+Some beast read this; there does not live a man._
+Dead, sure, and this his grave. What’s on this tomb
+I cannot read. The character I’ll take with wax.
+Our captain hath in every figure skill,
+An aged interpreter, though young in days.
+Before proud Athens he’s set down by this,
+Whose fall the mark of his ambition is.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. Before the walls of Athens
+
+Trumpets sound. Enter Alcibiades with his powers before Athens.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Sound to this coward and lascivious town
+Our terrible approach.
+
+[_A parley sounds._]
+
+The Senators appear upon the walls.
+
+Till now you have gone on and filled the time
+With all licentious measure, making your wills
+The scope of justice. Till now myself and such
+As slept within the shadow of your power
+Have wandered with our traversed arms, and breathed
+Our sufferance vainly. Now the time is flush,
+When crouching marrow, in the bearer strong
+Cries of itself, “No more!” Now breathless wrong
+Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease,
+And pursy insolence shall break his wind
+With fear and horrid flight.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Noble and young,
+When thy first griefs were but a mere conceit,
+Ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear,
+We sent to thee to give thy rages balm,
+To wipe out our ingratitude with loves
+Above their quantity.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+So did we woo
+Transformed Timon to our city’s love
+By humble message and by promised means.
+We were not all unkind, nor all deserve
+The common stroke of war.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+These walls of ours
+Were not erected by their hands from whom
+You have received your griefs; nor are they such
+That these great towers, trophies, and schools should fall
+For private faults in them.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Nor are they living
+Who were the motives that you first went out.
+Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess
+Hath broke their hearts. March, noble lord,
+Into our city with thy banners spread.
+By decimation and a tithed death,
+If thy revenges hunger for that food
+Which nature loathes, take thou the destined tenth,
+And by the hazard of the spotted die
+Let die the spotted.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+All have not offended.
+For those that were, it is not square to take,
+On those that are, revenge. Crimes, like lands,
+Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,
+Bring in thy ranks but leave without thy rage;
+Spare thy Athenian cradle and those kin
+Which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall
+With those that have offended. Like a shepherd
+Approach the fold and cull th’ infected forth,
+But kill not all together.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+What thou wilt,
+Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
+Than hew to ’t with thy sword.
+
+FIRST SENATOR.
+Set but thy foot
+Against our rampired gates and they shall ope,
+So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before
+To say thou’lt enter friendly.
+
+SECOND SENATOR.
+Throw thy glove,
+Or any token of thine honour else,
+That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress
+And not as our confusion, all thy powers
+Shall make their harbour in our town till we
+Have sealed thy full desire.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Then there’s my glove;
+Descend and open your uncharged ports.
+Those enemies of Timon’s and mine own
+Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof
+Fall, and no more. And, to atone your fears
+With my more noble meaning, not a man
+Shall pass his quarter or offend the stream
+Of regular justice in your city’s bounds,
+But shall be remedied to your public laws
+At heaviest answer.
+
+BOTH.
+’Tis most nobly spoken.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+Descend, and keep your words.
+
+[_The Senators descend._]
+
+Enter a Soldier.
+
+SOLDIER.
+My noble general, Timon is dead,
+Entombed upon the very hem o’ th’ sea,
+And on his gravestone this insculpture, which
+With wax I brought away, whose soft impression
+Interprets for my poor ignorance.
+
+ALCIBIADES.
+[_Reads the Epitaph._] _Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul
+bereft.
+Seek not my name. A plague consume you, wicked caitiffs left!
+Here lie I, Timon, who alive all living men did hate.
+Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay not here thy gait._
+These well express in thee thy latter spirits.
+Though thou abhorred’st in us our human griefs,
+Scorned’st our brains’ flow and those our droplets which
+From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit
+Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
+On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead
+Is noble Timon, of whose memory
+Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
+And I will use the olive with my sword,
+Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each
+Prescribe to other, as each other’s leech.
+Let our drums strike.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. Rome. Before the palace
+ Scene II. A Forest near Rome; a Lodge seen at a distance. Horns and cry of hounds heard
+ Scene III. A lonely part of the Forest
+ Scene IV. Another part of the Forest
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. Rome. A street
+ Scene II. Rome. A Room in Titus’s House. A banquet set out
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. Rome. Before Titus’s House
+ Scene II. Rome. A Room in the Palace
+ Scene III. Rome. A public Place
+ Scene IV. Rome. Before the Palace
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Plains near Rome
+ Scene II. Rome. Before Titus’s House
+ Scene III. Rome. A Pavilion in Titus’s Gardens, with tables, &c.
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+SATURNINUS, elder son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards Emperor
+BASSIANUS, brother to Saturninus
+
+TITUS ANDRONICUS, a noble Roman, General against the Goths
+MARCUS ANDRONICUS, Tribune of the People, and brother to Titus
+
+LAVINIA, daughter to Titus Andronicus
+LUCIUS, son to Titus Andronicus
+QUINTUS, son to Titus Andronicus
+MARTIUS, son to Titus Andronicus
+MUTIUS, son to Titus Andronicus
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS, a boy, son to Lucius
+PUBLIUS, son to Marcus the Tribune
+
+SEMPRONIUS, kinsman to Titus
+CAIUS, kinsman to Titus
+VALENTINE, kinsman to Titus
+
+AEMILIUS, a noble Roman
+
+TAMORA, Queen of the Goths
+AARON, a Moor, beloved by Tamora
+ALARBUS, son to Tamora
+DEMETRIUS, son to Tamora
+CHIRON, son to Tamora
+
+A CAPTAIN
+MESSENGER
+A NURSE, and a black child
+CLOWN
+Goths and Romans
+
+Tribunes, Senators, Officers, Soldiers, and Attendants
+
+SCENE: Rome, and the Country near it
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol
+
+
+Enter the Tribunes and Senators aloft. And then enter Saturninus and
+his followers at one door, and Bassianus and his followers at the
+other, with drums and trumpets.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Noble patricians, patrons of my right,
+Defend the justice of my cause with arms;
+And, countrymen, my loving followers,
+Plead my successive title with your swords.
+I am his firstborn son that was the last
+That wore the imperial diadem of Rome;
+Then let my father’s honours live in me,
+Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Romans, friends, followers, favourers of my right,
+If ever Bassianus, Caesar’s son,
+Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,
+Keep then this passage to the Capitol,
+And suffer not dishonour to approach
+The imperial seat, to virtue consecrate,
+To justice, continence, and nobility;
+But let desert in pure election shine,
+And, Romans, fight for freedom in your choice.
+
+Enter Marcus Andronicus aloft, holding the crown.
+
+MARCUS.
+Princes, that strive by factions and by friends
+Ambitiously for rule and empery,
+Know that the people of Rome, for whom we stand
+A special party, have by common voice,
+In election for the Roman empery,
+Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius
+For many good and great deserts to Rome.
+A nobler man, a braver warrior,
+Lives not this day within the city walls.
+He by the senate is accited home
+From weary wars against the barbarous Goths,
+That with his sons, a terror to our foes,
+Hath yoked a nation strong, trained up in arms.
+Ten years are spent since first he undertook
+This cause of Rome, and chastised with arms
+Our enemies’ pride. Five times he hath returned
+Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons
+In coffins from the field.
+And now at last, laden with honour’s spoils,
+Returns the good Andronicus to Rome,
+Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms.
+Let us entreat, by honour of his name
+Whom worthily you would have now succeed,
+And in the Capitol and senate’s right,
+Whom you pretend to honour and adore,
+That you withdraw you and abate your strength,
+Dismiss your followers, and, as suitors should,
+Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+How fair the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts!
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Marcus Andronicus, so I do affy
+In thy uprightness and integrity,
+And so I love and honour thee and thine,
+Thy noble brother Titus and his sons,
+And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all,
+Gracious Lavinia, Rome’s rich ornament,
+That I will here dismiss my loving friends,
+And to my fortunes and the people’s favour
+Commit my cause in balance to be weighed.
+
+[_Exeunt the followers of Bassianus._]
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Friends, that have been thus forward in my right,
+I thank you all and here dismiss you all,
+And to the love and favour of my country
+Commit myself, my person, and the cause.
+
+[_Exeunt the followers of Saturninus._]
+
+Rome, be as just and gracious unto me
+As I am confident and kind to thee.
+Open the gates and let me in.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Tribunes, and me, a poor competitor.
+
+[_Flourish. They go up into the Senate House._]
+
+Enter a Captain.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Romans, make way! The good Andronicus,
+Patron of virtue, Rome’s best champion,
+Successful in the battles that he fights,
+With honour and with fortune is returned
+From where he circumscribed with his sword
+And brought to yoke the enemies of Rome.
+
+Sound drums and trumpets, and then enter two of Titus’ sons, and then
+two men bearing a coffin covered with black; then two other sons; then
+Titus Andronicus; and then Tamora, the Queen of Goths and her sons
+Alarbus, Chiron and Demetrius with Aaron the Moor, and others as many
+as can be, then set down the coffin, and Titus speaks.
+
+TITUS.
+Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!
+Lo, as the bark that hath discharged her fraught
+Returns with precious lading to the bay
+From whence at first she weighed her anchorage,
+Cometh Andronicus, bound with laurel boughs,
+To resalute his country with his tears,
+Tears of true joy for his return to Rome.
+Thou great defender of this Capitol,
+Stand gracious to the rites that we intend.
+Romans, of five-and-twenty valiant sons,
+Half of the number that King Priam had,
+Behold the poor remains, alive and dead.
+These that survive let Rome reward with love;
+These that I bring unto their latest home,
+With burial amongst their ancestors.
+Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword.
+Titus, unkind, and careless of thine own,
+Why suffer’st thou thy sons, unburied yet,
+To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?
+Make way to lay them by their brethren.
+
+[_They open the tomb._]
+
+There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,
+And sleep in peace, slain in your country’s wars.
+O sacred receptacle of my joys,
+Sweet cell of virtue and nobility,
+How many sons hast thou of mine in store,
+That thou wilt never render to me more?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,
+That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile
+_Ad manes fratrum_ sacrifice his flesh
+Before this earthy prison of their bones,
+That so the shadows be not unappeased,
+Nor we disturbed with prodigies on earth.
+
+TITUS.
+I give him you, the noblest that survives,
+The eldest son of this distressed queen.
+
+TAMORA.
+Stay, Roman brethren! Gracious conqueror,
+Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed,
+A mother’s tears in passion for her son.
+And if thy sons were ever dear to thee,
+O, think my son to be as dear to me.
+Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome,
+To beautify thy triumphs and return
+Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke;
+But must my sons be slaughtered in the streets
+For valiant doings in their country’s cause?
+O, if to fight for king and commonweal
+Were piety in thine, it is in these.
+Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood.
+Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?
+Draw near them then in being merciful.
+Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
+Thrice-noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
+
+TITUS.
+Patient yourself, madam, and pardon me.
+These are their brethren whom your Goths beheld
+Alive and dead, and for their brethren slain
+Religiously they ask a sacrifice.
+To this your son is marked, and die he must,
+T’ appease their groaning shadows that are gone.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Away with him, and make a fire straight,
+And with our swords, upon a pile of wood,
+Let’s hew his limbs till they be clean consumed.
+
+[_Exeunt Titus’ sons with Alarbus._]
+
+TAMORA.
+O cruel, irreligious piety!
+
+CHIRON.
+Was never Scythia half so barbarous!
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome.
+Alarbus goes to rest, and we survive
+To tremble under Titus’ threat’ning look.
+Then, madam, stand resolved, but hope withal
+The self-same gods that armed the Queen of Troy
+With opportunity of sharp revenge
+Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent
+May favour Tamora, the queen of Goths,
+(When Goths were Goths and Tamora was queen)
+To quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes.
+
+Enter the sons of Andronicus again with bloody swords.
+
+LUCIUS.
+See, lord and father, how we have performed
+Our Roman rites. Alarbus’ limbs are lopped,
+And entrails feed the sacrificing fire,
+Whose smoke like incense doth perfume the sky.
+Remaineth naught but to inter our brethren,
+And with loud ’larums welcome them to Rome.
+
+TITUS.
+Let it be so; and let Andronicus
+Make this his latest farewell to their souls.
+
+[_Sound trumpets, and lay the coffin in the tomb._]
+
+In peace and honour rest you here, my sons;
+Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest,
+Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.
+Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells,
+Here grow no damned drugs; here are no storms,
+No noise, but silence and eternal sleep.
+In peace and honour rest you here, my sons.
+
+Enter Lavinia.
+
+LAVINIA.
+In peace and honour live Lord Titus long;
+My noble lord and father, live in fame.
+Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears
+I render for my brethren’s obsequies;
+And at thy feet I kneel, with tears of joy
+Shed on this earth for thy return to Rome.
+O, bless me here with thy victorious hand,
+Whose fortunes Rome’s best citizens applaud.
+
+TITUS.
+Kind Rome, that hast thus lovingly reserved
+The cordial of mine age to glad my heart!
+Lavinia, live; outlive thy father’s days,
+And fame’s eternal date, for virtue’s praise.
+
+Enter Marcus Andronicus and Tribunes; re-enter Saturninus, Bassianus
+and others.
+
+MARCUS.
+Long live Lord Titus, my beloved brother,
+Gracious triumpher in the eyes of Rome.
+
+TITUS.
+Thanks, gentle tribune, noble brother Marcus.
+
+MARCUS.
+And welcome, nephews, from successful wars,
+You that survive, and you that sleep in fame.
+Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all,
+That in your country’s service drew your swords;
+But safer triumph is this funeral pomp
+That hath aspired to Solon’s happiness
+And triumphs over chance in honour’s bed.
+Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome,
+Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been,
+Send thee by me, their tribune and their trust,
+This palliament of white and spotless hue,
+And name thee in election for the empire
+With these our late-deceased emperor’s sons.
+Be _candidatus_ then, and put it on,
+And help to set a head on headless Rome.
+
+TITUS.
+A better head her glorious body fits
+Than his that shakes for age and feebleness.
+What, should I don this robe and trouble you?
+Be chosen with proclamations today,
+Tomorrow yield up rule, resign my life,
+And set abroad new business for you all?
+Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years,
+And led my country’s strength successfully,
+And buried one and twenty valiant sons,
+Knighted in field, slain manfully in arms,
+In right and service of their noble country.
+Give me a staff of honour for mine age,
+But not a sceptre to control the world.
+Upright he held it, lords, that held it last.
+
+MARCUS.
+Titus, thou shalt obtain and ask the empery.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou tell?
+
+TITUS.
+Patience, Prince Saturninus.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Romans, do me right.
+Patricians, draw your swords, and sheathe them not
+Till Saturninus be Rome’s emperor.
+Andronicus, would thou were shipped to hell
+Rather than rob me of the people’s hearts!
+
+LUCIUS.
+Proud Saturnine, interrupter of the good
+That noble-minded Titus means to thee!
+
+TITUS.
+Content thee, prince; I will restore to thee
+The people’s hearts, and wean them from themselves.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Andronicus, I do not flatter thee,
+But honour thee, and will do till I die.
+My faction if thou strengthen with thy friends,
+I will most thankful be; and thanks to men
+Of noble minds is honourable meed.
+
+TITUS.
+People of Rome, and people’s tribunes here,
+I ask your voices and your suffrages.
+Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?
+
+TRIBUNES.
+To gratify the good Andronicus,
+And gratulate his safe return to Rome,
+The people will accept whom he admits.
+
+TITUS.
+Tribunes, I thank you; and this suit I make,
+That you create your emperor’s eldest son,
+Lord Saturnine; whose virtues will, I hope,
+Reflect on Rome as Titan’s rays on earth,
+And ripen justice in this commonweal.
+Then, if you will elect by my advice,
+Crown him, and say “Long live our emperor!”
+
+MARCUS.
+With voices and applause of every sort,
+Patricians and plebeians, we create
+Lord Saturninus Rome’s great emperor,
+And say “Long live our Emperor Saturnine!”
+
+[_A long flourish._]
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Titus Andronicus, for thy favours done
+To us in our election this day,
+I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts,
+And will with deeds requite thy gentleness.
+And for an onset, Titus, to advance
+Thy name and honourable family,
+Lavinia will I make my empress,
+Rome’s royal mistress, mistress of my heart,
+And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse.
+Tell me, Andronicus, doth this motion please thee?
+
+TITUS.
+It doth, my worthy lord, and in this match
+I hold me highly honoured of your grace;
+And here in sight of Rome, to Saturnine,
+King and commander of our commonweal,
+The wide world’s emperor, do I consecrate
+My sword, my chariot, and my prisoners;
+Presents well worthy Rome’s imperious lord.
+Receive them then, the tribute that I owe,
+Mine honour’s ensigns humbled at thy feet.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Thanks, noble Titus, father of my life.
+How proud I am of thee and of thy gifts
+Rome shall record, and when I do forget
+The least of these unspeakable deserts,
+Romans, forget your fealty to me.
+
+TITUS.
+[_To Tamora_.] Now, madam, are you prisoner to an emperor;
+To him that for your honour and your state
+Will use you nobly and your followers.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+A goodly lady, trust me, of the hue
+That I would choose, were I to choose anew.
+Clear up, fair queen, that cloudy countenance.
+Though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer,
+Thou com’st not to be made a scorn in Rome.
+Princely shall be thy usage every way.
+Rest on my word, and let not discontent
+Daunt all your hopes. Madam, he comforts you
+Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths.
+Lavinia, you are not displeased with this?
+
+LAVINIA.
+Not I, my lord, sith true nobility
+Warrants these words in princely courtesy.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Thanks, sweet Lavinia. Romans, let us go.
+Ransomless here we set our prisoners free.
+Proclaim our honours, lords, with trump and drum.
+
+[_Flourish. Saturninus and his Guards exit, with Drums and Trumpets.
+Tribunes and Senators exit aloft._]
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Lord Titus, by your leave, this maid is mine.
+
+TITUS.
+How, sir? Are you in earnest then, my lord?
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Ay, noble Titus; and resolved withal
+To do myself this reason and this right.
+
+MARCUS.
+_Suum cuique_ is our Roman justice.
+This prince in justice seizeth but his own.
+
+LUCIUS.
+And that he will and shall, if Lucius live.
+
+TITUS.
+Traitors, avaunt! Where is the emperor’s guard?
+
+Enter Saturninus and his Guards.
+
+Treason, my lord, Lavinia is surprised.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Surprised? By whom?
+
+BASSIANUS.
+By him that justly may
+Bear his betrothed from all the world away.
+
+[_Exeunt Bassianus and Marcus with Lavinia._]
+
+MUTIUS.
+Brothers, help to convey her hence away,
+And with my sword I’ll keep this door safe.
+
+[_Exeunt Lucius, Quintus and Martius._]
+
+TITUS.
+Follow, my lord, and I’ll soon bring her back.
+
+[_Exeunt Saturninus, Tamora, Demetrius, Chiron, Aaron, and Guards._]
+
+MUTIUS.
+My lord, you pass not here.
+
+TITUS.
+What, villain boy,
+Barr’st me my way in Rome?
+
+[_Stabbing Mutius._]
+
+MUTIUS.
+Help, Lucius, help!
+
+[_Dies._]
+
+Re-enter Lucius.
+
+LUCIUS.
+My lord, you are unjust, and more than so,
+In wrongful quarrel you have slain your son.
+
+TITUS.
+Nor thou nor he are any sons of mine;
+My sons would never so dishonour me.
+Traitor, restore Lavinia to the Emperor.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Dead, if you will; but not to be his wife,
+That is another’s lawful promised love.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter aloft the Emperor Saturninus with Tamora and her two sons and
+Aaron the Moor.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+No, Titus, no; the emperor needs her not,
+Nor her, nor thee, nor any of thy stock.
+I’ll trust by leisure him that mocks me once;
+Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons,
+Confederates all thus to dishonour me.
+Was none in Rome to make a stale
+But Saturnine? Full well, Andronicus,
+Agree these deeds with that proud brag of thine
+That said’st I begged the empire at thy hands.
+
+TITUS.
+O monstrous! What reproachful words are these?
+
+SATURNINUS.
+But go thy ways; go, give that changing piece
+To him that flourished for her with his sword.
+A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy;
+One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons,
+To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome.
+
+TITUS.
+These words are razors to my wounded heart.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+And therefore, lovely Tamora, Queen of Goths,
+That like the stately Phœbe ’mongst her nymphs
+Dost overshine the gallant’st dames of Rome,
+If thou be pleased with this my sudden choice,
+Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride,
+And will create thee Empress of Rome.
+Speak, Queen of Goths, dost thou applaud my choice?
+And here I swear by all the Roman gods,
+Sith priest and holy water are so near,
+And tapers burn so bright, and everything
+In readiness for Hymenæus stand,
+I will not re-salute the streets of Rome,
+Or climb my palace, till from forth this place
+I lead espoused my bride along with me.
+
+TAMORA.
+And here in sight of heaven to Rome I swear,
+If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths,
+She will a handmaid be to his desires,
+A loving nurse, a mother to his youth.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Ascend, fair queen, Pantheon. Lords, accompany
+Your noble emperor and his lovely bride,
+Sent by the heavens for Prince Saturnine,
+Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered.
+There shall we consummate our spousal rites.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Titus._]
+
+TITUS.
+I am not bid to wait upon this bride.
+Titus, when wert thou wont to walk alone,
+Dishonoured thus, and challenged of wrongs?
+
+Re-enter Marcus, Lucius, Quintus and Martius.
+
+MARCUS.
+O Titus, see, O, see what thou hast done!
+In a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son.
+
+TITUS.
+No, foolish tribune, no; no son of mine,
+Nor thou, nor these, confederates in the deed
+That hath dishonoured all our family.
+Unworthy brother and unworthy sons!
+
+LUCIUS.
+But let us give him burial, as becomes;
+Give Mutius burial with our brethren.
+
+TITUS.
+Traitors, away! He rests not in this tomb.
+This monument five hundred years hath stood,
+Which I have sumptuously re-edified.
+Here none but soldiers and Rome’s servitors
+Repose in fame; none basely slain in brawls.
+Bury him where you can, he comes not here.
+
+MARCUS.
+My lord, this is impiety in you.
+My nephew Mutius’ deeds do plead for him;
+He must be buried with his brethren.
+
+MARTIUS.
+And shall, or him we will accompany.
+
+TITUS.
+“And shall”? What villain was it spake that word?
+
+QUINTUS.
+He that would vouch it in any place but here.
+
+TITUS.
+What, would you bury him in my despite?
+
+MARCUS.
+No, noble Titus, but entreat of thee
+To pardon Mutius and to bury him.
+
+TITUS.
+Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest,
+And with these boys mine honour thou hast wounded.
+My foes I do repute you every one;
+So trouble me no more, but get you gone.
+
+QUINTUS.
+He is not with himself; let us withdraw.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Not I, till Mutius’ bones be buried.
+
+[_Marcus and the sons of Titus kneel._]
+
+MARCUS.
+Brother, for in that name doth nature plead,—
+
+QUINTUS.
+Father, and in that name doth nature speak,—
+
+TITUS.
+Speak thou no more, if all the rest will speed.
+
+MARCUS.
+Renowned Titus, more than half my soul,—
+
+LUCIUS.
+Dear father, soul and substance of us all,—
+
+MARCUS.
+Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter
+His noble nephew here in virtue’s nest,
+That died in honour and Lavinia’s cause.
+Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous.
+The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax,
+That slew himself; and wise Laertes’ son
+Did graciously plead for his funerals.
+Let not young Mutius, then, that was thy joy,
+Be barred his entrance here.
+
+TITUS.
+Rise, Marcus, rise.
+The dismall’st day is this that e’er I saw,
+To be dishonoured by my sons in Rome!
+Well, bury him, and bury me the next.
+
+[_They put Mutius in the tomb._]
+
+LUCIUS.
+There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy friends,
+Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb.
+
+ALL.
+[_Kneeling_.] No man shed tears for noble Mutius;
+He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause.
+
+MARCUS.
+My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps,
+How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths
+Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome?
+
+TITUS.
+I know not, Marcus, but I know it is.
+Whether by device or no, the heavens can tell.
+Is she not then beholding to the man
+That brought her for this high good turn so far?
+Yes, and will nobly him remunerate.
+
+Flourish. Enter the Emperor Saturninus, Tamora and her two sons, with
+Aaron the Moor. Drums and Trumpets, at one door. Enter at the other
+door Bassianus and Lavinia with others.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+So, Bassianus, you have played your prize.
+God give you joy, sir, of your gallant bride.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+And you of yours, my lord. I say no more,
+Nor wish no less; and so I take my leave.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Traitor, if Rome have law or we have power,
+Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Rape call you it, my lord, to seize my own,
+My true betrothed love, and now my wife?
+But let the laws of Rome determine all;
+Meanwhile am I possessed of that is mine.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+’Tis good, sir. You are very short with us;
+But if we live, we’ll be as sharp with you.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+My lord, what I have done, as best I may,
+Answer I must, and shall do with my life.
+Only thus much I give your grace to know:
+By all the duties that I owe to Rome,
+This noble gentleman, Lord Titus here,
+Is in opinion and in honour wronged,
+That, in the rescue of Lavinia,
+With his own hand did slay his youngest son,
+In zeal to you, and highly moved to wrath
+To be controlled in that he frankly gave.
+Receive him then to favour, Saturnine,
+That hath expressed himself in all his deeds
+A father and a friend to thee and Rome.
+
+TITUS.
+Prince Bassianus, leave to plead my deeds.
+’Tis thou, and those, that have dishonoured me.
+Rome and the righteous heavens be my judge
+How I have loved and honoured Saturnine.
+
+TAMORA.
+My worthy lord, if ever Tamora
+Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine,
+Then hear me speak indifferently for all;
+And at my suit, sweet, pardon what is past.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+What, madam, be dishonoured openly,
+And basely put it up without revenge?
+
+TAMORA.
+Not so, my lord; the gods of Rome forfend
+I should be author to dishonour you!
+But on mine honour dare I undertake
+For good Lord Titus’ innocence in all,
+Whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs.
+Then at my suit look graciously on him;
+Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose,
+Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart.
+[_Aside_.] My lord, be ruled by me, be won at last;
+Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
+You are but newly planted in your throne;
+Lest, then, the people, and patricians too,
+Upon a just survey take Titus’ part,
+And so supplant you for ingratitude,
+Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin,
+Yield at entreats, and then let me alone.
+I’ll find a day to massacre them all,
+And raze their faction and their family,
+The cruel father and his traitorous sons,
+To whom I sued for my dear son’s life;
+And make them know what ’tis to let a queen
+Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
+[_Aloud_.] Come, come, sweet emperor; come, Andronicus;
+Take up this good old man, and cheer the heart
+That dies in tempest of thy angry frown.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Rise, Titus, rise; my empress hath prevailed.
+
+TITUS.
+I thank your majesty and her, my lord.
+These words, these looks, infuse new life in me.
+
+TAMORA.
+Titus, I am incorporate in Rome,
+A Roman now adopted happily,
+And must advise the emperor for his good.
+This day all quarrels die, Andronicus;
+And let it be mine honour, good my lord,
+That I have reconciled your friends and you.
+For you, Prince Bassianus, I have passed
+My word and promise to the emperor
+That you will be more mild and tractable.
+And fear not, lords, and you, Lavinia.
+By my advice, all humbled on your knees,
+You shall ask pardon of his majesty.
+
+LUCIUS.
+We do, and vow to heaven and to his highness
+That what we did was mildly as we might,
+Tend’ring our sister’s honour and our own.
+
+MARCUS.
+That on mine honour here do I protest.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Away, and talk not; trouble us no more.
+
+TAMORA.
+Nay, nay, sweet emperor, we must all be friends.
+The tribune and his nephews kneel for grace;
+I will not be denied. Sweet heart, look back.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Marcus, for thy sake, and thy brother’s here,
+And at my lovely Tamora’s entreats,
+I do remit these young men’s heinous faults.
+Stand up.
+Lavinia, though you left me like a churl,
+I found a friend, and sure as death I swore
+I would not part a bachelor from the priest.
+Come, if the emperor’s court can feast two brides,
+You are my guest, Lavinia, and your friends.
+This day shall be a love-day, Tamora.
+
+TITUS.
+Tomorrow, an it please your majesty
+To hunt the panther and the hart with me,
+With horn and hound we’ll give your grace _bonjour_.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Be it so, Titus, and gramercy too.
+
+[_Sound trumpets. Exeunt all but Aaron._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Rome. Before the palace
+
+
+Aaron alone.
+
+AARON.
+Now climbeth Tamora Olympus’ top,
+Safe out of Fortune’s shot, and sits aloft,
+Secure of thunder’s crack or lightning’s flash,
+Advanced above pale envy’s threat’ning reach.
+As when the golden sun salutes the morn,
+And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,
+Gallops the zodiac in his glistening coach,
+And overlooks the highest-peering hills;
+So Tamora.
+Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait,
+And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown.
+Then, Aaron, arm thy heart and fit thy thoughts
+To mount aloft with thy imperial mistress,
+And mount her pitch, whom thou in triumph long
+Hast prisoner held, fett’red in amorous chains,
+And faster bound to Aaron’s charming eyes
+Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus.
+Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts!
+I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold,
+To wait upon this new-made empress.
+To wait, said I? To wanton with this queen,
+This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph,
+This siren, that will charm Rome’s Saturnine,
+And see his shipwrack and his commonweal’s.
+Holla! What storm is this?
+
+Enter Chiron and Demetrius braving.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Chiron, thy years wants wit, thy wit wants edge
+And manners, to intrude where I am graced,
+And may, for aught thou knowest, affected be.
+
+CHIRON.
+Demetrius, thou dost overween in all,
+And so in this, to bear me down with braves.
+’Tis not the difference of a year or two
+Makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate.
+I am as able and as fit as thou
+To serve and to deserve my mistress’ grace;
+And that my sword upon thee shall approve,
+And plead my passions for Lavinia’s love.
+
+AARON.
+[_Aside_.] Clubs, clubs! These lovers will not keep the peace.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised,
+Gave you a dancing-rapier by your side,
+Are you so desperate grown to threat your friends?
+Go to; have your lath glued within your sheath
+Till you know better how to handle it.
+
+CHIRON.
+Meanwhile, sir, with the little skill I have,
+Full well shalt thou perceive how much I dare.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Ay, boy, grow ye so brave?
+
+[_They draw._]
+
+AARON.
+Why, how now, lords!
+So near the emperor’s palace dare ye draw,
+And maintain such a quarrel openly?
+Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge.
+I would not for a million of gold
+The cause were known to them it most concerns;
+Nor would your noble mother for much more
+Be so dishonoured in the court of Rome.
+For shame, put up.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Not I, till I have sheathed
+My rapier in his bosom, and withal
+Thrust those reproachful speeches down his throat
+That he hath breathed in my dishonour here.
+
+CHIRON.
+For that I am prepared and full resolved,
+Foul-spoken coward, that thund’rest with thy tongue,
+And with thy weapon nothing dar’st perform.
+
+AARON.
+Away, I say!
+Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore,
+This pretty brabble will undo us all.
+Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous
+It is to jet upon a prince’s right?
+What, is Lavinia then become so loose,
+Or Bassianus so degenerate,
+That for her love such quarrels may be broached
+Without controlment, justice, or revenge?
+Young lords, beware! And should the empress know
+This discord’s ground, the music would not please.
+
+CHIRON.
+I care not, I, knew she and all the world.
+I love Lavinia more than all the world.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Youngling, learn thou to make some meaner choice.
+Lavina is thine elder brother’s hope.
+
+AARON.
+Why, are ye mad? Or know ye not in Rome
+How furious and impatient they be,
+And cannot brook competitors in love?
+I tell you, lords, you do but plot your deaths
+By this device.
+
+CHIRON.
+Aaron, a thousand deaths
+Would I propose to achieve her whom I love.
+
+AARON.
+To achieve her! How?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Why makes thou it so strange?
+She is a woman, therefore may be wooed;
+She is a woman, therefore may be won;
+She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.
+What, man, more water glideth by the mill
+Than wots the miller of; and easy it is
+Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know.
+Though Bassianus be the emperor’s brother,
+Better than he have worn Vulcan’s badge.
+
+AARON.
+[_Aside_.] Ay, and as good as Saturninus may.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Then why should he despair that knows to court it
+With words, fair looks, and liberality?
+What, hast not thou full often struck a doe,
+And borne her cleanly by the keeper’s nose?
+
+AARON.
+Why, then, it seems some certain snatch or so
+Would serve your turns.
+
+CHIRON.
+Ay, so the turn were served.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Aaron, thou hast hit it.
+
+AARON.
+Would you had hit it too!
+Then should not we be tired with this ado.
+Why, hark ye, hark ye, and are you such fools
+To square for this? Would it offend you then
+That both should speed?
+
+CHIRON.
+Faith, not me.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Nor me, so I were one.
+
+AARON.
+For shame, be friends, and join for that you jar.
+’Tis policy and stratagem must do
+That you affect; and so must you resolve
+That what you cannot as you would achieve,
+You must perforce accomplish as you may.
+Take this of me: Lucrece was not more chaste
+Than this Lavinia, Bassianus’ love.
+A speedier course than ling’ring languishment
+Must we pursue, and I have found the path.
+My lords, a solemn hunting is in hand;
+There will the lovely Roman ladies troop.
+The forest walks are wide and spacious,
+And many unfrequented plots there are
+Fitted by kind for rape and villainy.
+Single you thither, then, this dainty doe,
+And strike her home by force, if not by words.
+This way, or not at all, stand you in hope.
+Come, come, our empress, with her sacred wit
+To villainy and vengeance consecrate,
+Will we acquaint with all what we intend;
+And she shall file our engines with advice
+That will not suffer you to square yourselves,
+But to your wishes’ height advance you both.
+The emperor’s court is like the house of Fame,
+The palace full of tongues, of eyes and ears;
+The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull.
+There speak and strike, brave boys, and take your turns;
+There serve your lust, shadowed from heaven’s eye,
+And revel in Lavinia’s treasury.
+
+CHIRON.
+Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+_Sit fas aut nefas_, till I find the stream
+To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits,
+_Per Stygia, per manes vehor._
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Forest near Rome; a Lodge seen at a distance. Horns and cry
+of hounds heard
+
+Enter Titus Andronicus and his three sons, and Marcus, making a noise
+with hounds and horns.
+
+TITUS.
+The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,
+The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green.
+Uncouple here, and let us make a bay,
+And wake the emperor and his lovely bride,
+And rouse the prince, and ring a hunter’s peal,
+That all the court may echo with the noise.
+Sons, let it be your charge, as it is ours,
+To attend the emperor’s person carefully.
+I have been troubled in my sleep this night,
+But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
+
+Here a cry of hounds, and wind horns in a peal. Then enter Saturninus,
+Tamora, Bassianus, Lavinia, Chiron, Demetrius, and their Attendants.
+
+Many good morrows to your majesty;
+Madam, to you as many and as good.
+I promised your grace a hunter’s peal.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+And you have rung it lustily, my lords;
+Somewhat too early for new-married ladies.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Lavinia, how say you?
+
+LAVINIA.
+I say no;
+I have been broad awake two hours and more.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Come on then; horse and chariots let us have,
+And to our sport. [_To Tamora_.] Madam, now shall ye see
+Our Roman hunting.
+
+MARCUS.
+I have dogs, my lord,
+Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase,
+And climb the highest promontory top.
+
+TITUS.
+And I have horse will follow where the game
+Makes way, and run like swallows o’er the plain.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound,
+But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A lonely part of the Forest
+
+Enter Aaron, alone, carrying a bag of gold.
+
+AARON.
+He that had wit would think that I had none,
+To bury so much gold under a tree,
+And never after to inherit it.
+Let him that thinks of me so abjectly
+Know that this gold must coin a stratagem,
+Which, cunningly effected, will beget
+A very excellent piece of villainy.
+And so repose, sweet gold, for their unrest
+That have their alms out of the empress’ chest.
+
+[_He hides the bag._]
+
+Enter Tamora alone to the Moor.
+
+TAMORA.
+My lovely Aaron, wherefore look’st thou sad
+When everything doth make a gleeful boast?
+The birds chant melody on every bush,
+The snakes lie rolled in the cheerful sun,
+The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,
+And make a chequered shadow on the ground.
+Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,
+And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,
+Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,
+As if a double hunt were heard at once,
+Let us sit down and mark their yelping noise;
+And after conflict such as was supposed
+The wand’ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,
+When with a happy storm they were surprised,
+And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,
+We may, each wreathed in the other’s arms,
+Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,
+Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
+Be unto us as is a nurse’s song
+Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.
+
+AARON.
+Madam, though Venus govern your desires,
+Saturn is dominator over mine.
+What signifies my deadly-standing eye,
+My silence and my cloudy melancholy,
+My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls
+Even as an adder when she doth unroll
+To do some fatal execution?
+No, madam, these are no venereal signs.
+Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
+Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
+Hark, Tamora, the empress of my soul,
+Which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee,
+This is the day of doom for Bassianus;
+His Philomel must lose her tongue today,
+Thy sons make pillage of her chastity,
+And wash their hands in Bassianus’ blood.
+Seest thou this letter? Take it up, I pray thee,
+And give the king this fatal-plotted scroll.
+Now question me no more; we are espied;
+Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty,
+Which dreads not yet their lives’ destruction.
+
+Enter Bassianus and Lavinia.
+
+TAMORA.
+Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life!
+
+AARON.
+No more, great empress. Bassianus comes.
+Be cross with him; and I’ll go fetch thy sons
+To back thy quarrels, whatsoe’er they be.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Who have we here? Rome’s royal empress,
+Unfurnished of her well-beseeming troop?
+Or is it Dian, habited like her,
+Who hath abandoned her holy groves
+To see the general hunting in this forest?
+
+TAMORA.
+Saucy controller of my private steps!
+Had I the power that some say Dian had,
+Thy temples should be planted presently
+With horns, as was Actaeon’s; and the hounds
+Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,
+Unmannerly intruder as thou art.
+
+LAVINIA.
+Under your patience, gentle empress,
+’Tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning,
+And to be doubted that your Moor and you
+Are singled forth to try experiments.
+Jove shield your husband from his hounds today!
+’Tis pity they should take him for a stag.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+Believe me, queen, your swarthy Cimmerian
+Doth make your honour of his body’s hue,
+Spotted, detested, and abominable.
+Why are you sequestered from all your train,
+Dismounted from your snow-white goodly steed,
+And wandered hither to an obscure plot,
+Accompanied but with a barbarous Moor,
+If foul desire had not conducted you?
+
+LAVINIA.
+And, being intercepted in your sport,
+Great reason that my noble lord be rated
+For sauciness. I pray you, let us hence,
+And let her joy her raven-coloured love;
+This valley fits the purpose passing well.
+
+BASSIANUS.
+The king my brother shall have notice of this.
+
+LAVINIA.
+Ay, for these slips have made him noted long.
+Good king, to be so mightily abused!
+
+TAMORA.
+Why, I have patience to endure all this.
+
+Enter Chiron and Demetrius.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!
+Why doth your highness look so pale and wan?
+
+TAMORA.
+Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
+These two have ticed me hither to this place,
+A barren detested vale you see it is;
+The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,
+Overcome with moss and baleful mistletoe.
+Here never shines the sun, here nothing breeds,
+Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven.
+And when they showed me this abhorred pit,
+They told me, here, at dead time of the night,
+A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes,
+Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins,
+Would make such fearful and confused cries
+As any mortal body hearing it
+Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly.
+No sooner had they told this hellish tale
+But straight they told me they would bind me here
+Unto the body of a dismal yew,
+And leave me to this miserable death.
+And then they called me foul adulteress,
+Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms
+That ever ear did hear to such effect.
+And had you not by wondrous fortune come,
+This vengeance on me had they executed.
+Revenge it, as you love your mother’s life,
+Or be ye not henceforth called my children.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+This is a witness that I am thy son.
+
+[_Stabs Bassianus._]
+
+CHIRON.
+And this for me, struck home to show my strength.
+
+[_Also stabs Bassianus, who dies._]
+
+LAVINIA.
+Ay, come, Semiramis, nay, barbarous Tamora,
+For no name fits thy nature but thy own!
+
+TAMORA.
+Give me thy poniard; you shall know, my boys,
+Your mother’s hand shall right your mother’s wrong.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Stay, madam, here is more belongs to her.
+First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw.
+This minion stood upon her chastity,
+Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty,
+And with that painted hope braves your mightiness;
+And shall she carry this unto her grave?
+
+CHIRON.
+And if she do, I would I were an eunuch.
+Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,
+And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust.
+
+TAMORA.
+But when ye have the honey ye desire,
+Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting.
+
+CHIRON.
+I warrant you, madam, we will make that sure.
+Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy
+That nice-preserved honesty of yours.
+
+LAVINIA.
+O Tamora, thou bearest a woman’s face,—
+
+TAMORA.
+I will not hear her speak; away with her!
+
+LAVINIA.
+Sweet lords, entreat her hear me but a word.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Listen, fair madam: let it be your glory
+To see her tears; but be your heart to them
+As unrelenting flint to drops of rain.
+
+LAVINIA.
+When did the tiger’s young ones teach the dam?
+O, do not learn her wrath; she taught it thee;
+The milk thou suck’st from her did turn to marble;
+Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny.
+Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
+[_To Chiron_.] Do thou entreat her show a woman’s pity.
+
+CHIRON.
+What, wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard?
+
+LAVINIA.
+’Tis true the raven doth not hatch a lark.
+Yet have I heard—O, could I find it now!—
+The lion, moved with pity, did endure
+To have his princely paws pared all away.
+Some say that ravens foster forlorn children,
+The whilst their own birds famish in their nests.
+O, be to me, though thy hard heart say no,
+Nothing so kind, but something pitiful.
+
+TAMORA.
+I know not what it means; away with her!
+
+LAVINIA.
+O, let me teach thee! For my father’s sake,
+That gave thee life when well he might have slain thee,
+Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears.
+
+TAMORA.
+Hadst thou in person ne’er offended me,
+Even for his sake am I pitiless.
+Remember, boys, I poured forth tears in vain
+To save your brother from the sacrifice,
+But fierce Andronicus would not relent.
+Therefore away with her, and use her as you will;
+The worse to her, the better loved of me.
+
+LAVINIA.
+O Tamora, be called a gentle queen,
+And with thine own hands kill me in this place!
+For ’tis not life that I have begged so long;
+Poor I was slain when Bassianus died.
+
+TAMORA.
+What begg’st thou, then? Fond woman, let me go.
+
+LAVINIA.
+’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more
+That womanhood denies my tongue to tell.
+O, keep me from their worse than killing lust,
+And tumble me into some loathsome pit,
+Where never man’s eye may behold my body.
+Do this, and be a charitable murderer.
+
+TAMORA.
+So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee.
+No, let them satisfy their lust on thee.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Away, for thou hast stayed us here too long.
+
+LAVINIA.
+No grace, no womanhood? Ah, beastly creature,
+The blot and enemy to our general name!
+Confusion fall—
+
+CHIRON.
+Nay, then I’ll stop your mouth. Bring thou her husband.
+This is the hole where Aaron bid us hide him.
+
+[_They put Bassianus’s body in the pit and exit, carrying off
+Lavinia._]
+
+TAMORA.
+Farewell, my sons. See that you make her sure.
+Ne’er let my heart know merry cheer indeed
+Till all the Andronici be made away.
+Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor,
+And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Aaron with two of Titus’ sons, Quintus and Martius.
+
+AARON.
+Come on, my lords, the better foot before.
+Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit
+Where I espied the panther fast asleep.
+
+QUINTUS.
+My sight is very dull, whate’er it bodes.
+
+MARTIUS.
+And mine, I promise you. Were it not for shame,
+Well could I leave our sport to sleep awhile.
+
+[_He falls into the pit._]
+
+QUINTUS.
+What, art thou fallen? What subtle hole is this,
+Whose mouth is covered with rude-growing briers,
+Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood
+As fresh as morning dew distilled on flowers?
+A very fatal place it seems to me.
+Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall?
+
+MARTIUS.
+O brother, with the dismall’st object hurt
+That ever eye with sight made heart lament!
+
+AARON.
+[_Aside_.] Now will I fetch the king to find them here,
+That he thereby may have a likely guess
+How these were they that made away his brother.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+MARTIUS.
+Why dost not comfort me, and help me out
+From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole?
+
+QUINTUS.
+I am surprised with an uncouth fear;
+A chilling sweat o’er-runs my trembling joints.
+My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.
+
+MARTIUS.
+To prove thou hast a true-divining heart,
+Aaron and thou look down into this den,
+And see a fearful sight of blood and death.
+
+QUINTUS.
+Aaron is gone, and my compassionate heart
+Will not permit mine eyes once to behold
+The thing whereat it trembles by surmise.
+O, tell me who it is; for ne’er till now
+Was I a child to fear I know not what.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Lord Bassianus lies berayed in blood,
+All on a heap, like to a slaughtered lamb,
+In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit.
+
+QUINTUS.
+If it be dark, how dost thou know ’tis he?
+
+MARTIUS.
+Upon his bloody finger he doth wear
+A precious ring that lightens all the hole,
+Which, like a taper in some monument,
+Doth shine upon the dead man’s earthy cheeks,
+And shows the ragged entrails of the pit.
+So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus
+When he by night lay bathed in maiden blood.
+O brother, help me with thy fainting hand,
+If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath,
+Out of this fell devouring receptacle,
+As hateful as Cocytus’ misty mouth.
+
+QUINTUS.
+Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out,
+Or, wanting strength to do thee so much good,
+I may be plucked into the swallowing womb
+Of this deep pit, poor Bassianus’ grave.
+I have no strength to pluck thee to the brink.
+
+MARTIUS.
+Nor I no strength to climb without thy help.
+
+QUINTUS.
+Thy hand once more; I will not loose again,
+Till thou art here aloft, or I below.
+Thou canst not come to me. I come to thee.
+
+[_Falls in._]
+
+Enter the Emperor Saturninus and Aaron the Moor.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Along with me! I’ll see what hole is here,
+And what he is that now is leapt into it.
+Say, who art thou that lately didst descend
+Into this gaping hollow of the earth?
+
+MARTIUS.
+The unhappy sons of old Andronicus,
+Brought hither in a most unlucky hour,
+To find thy brother Bassianus dead.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+My brother dead! I know thou dost but jest.
+He and his lady both are at the lodge
+Upon the north side of this pleasant chase;
+’Tis not an hour since I left them there.
+
+MARTIUS.
+We know not where you left them all alive;
+But, out, alas, here have we found him dead.
+
+Enter Tamora, Titus Andronicus and Lucius.
+
+TAMORA.
+Where is my lord the king?
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Here, Tamora; though grieved with killing grief.
+
+TAMORA.
+Where is thy brother Bassianus?
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Now to the bottom dost thou search my wound.
+Poor Bassianus here lies murdered.
+
+TAMORA.
+Then all too late I bring this fatal writ,
+The complot of this timeless tragedy;
+And wonder greatly that man’s face can fold
+In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny.
+
+[_She giveth Saturnine a letter._]
+
+SATURNINUS.
+[_Reads_.] _An if we miss to meet him handsomely,
+Sweet huntsman, Bassianus ’tis we mean,
+Do thou so much as dig the grave for him;
+Thou know’st our meaning. Look for thy reward
+Among the nettles at the elder-tree
+Which overshades the mouth of that same pit
+Where we decreed to bury Bassianus.
+Do this, and purchase us thy lasting friends._
+O Tamora, was ever heard the like?
+This is the pit, and this the elder-tree.
+Look, sirs, if you can find the huntsman out
+That should have murdered Bassianus here.
+
+AARON.
+My gracious lord, here is the bag of gold.
+
+[_Showing it._]
+
+SATURNINUS.
+[_To Titus_.] Two of thy whelps, fell curs of bloody kind,
+Have here bereft my brother of his life.
+Sirs, drag them from the pit unto the prison.
+There let them bide until we have devised
+Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them.
+
+TAMORA.
+What, are they in this pit? O wondrous thing!
+How easily murder is discovered!
+
+TITUS.
+High emperor, upon my feeble knee
+I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed,
+That this fell fault of my accursed sons,
+Accursed if the fault be proved in them—
+
+SATURNINUS.
+If it be proved! You see it is apparent.
+Who found this letter? Tamora, was it you?
+
+TAMORA.
+Andronicus himself did take it up.
+
+TITUS.
+I did, my lord, yet let me be their bail;
+For by my fathers’ reverend tomb I vow
+They shall be ready at your highness’ will
+To answer their suspicion with their lives.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Thou shalt not bail them. See thou follow me.
+Some bring the murdered body, some the murderers.
+Let them not speak a word; the guilt is plain;
+For, by my soul, were there worse end than death,
+That end upon them should be executed.
+
+TAMORA.
+Andronicus, I will entreat the king.
+Fear not thy sons; they shall do well enough.
+
+TITUS.
+Come, Lucius, come; stay not to talk with them.
+
+[_Exeunt severally. Attendants bearing the body._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another part of the Forest
+
+Enter the empress’ sons, Demetrius and Chiron with Lavinia, her hands
+cut off, and her tongue cut out, and ravished.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak,
+Who ’twas that cut thy tongue and ravished thee.
+
+CHIRON.
+Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,
+An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+See how with signs and tokens she can scrowl.
+
+CHIRON.
+Go home, call for sweet water, wash thy hands.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash;
+And so let’s leave her to her silent walks.
+
+CHIRON.
+An ’twere my cause, I should go hang myself.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord.
+
+[_Exeunt Chiron and Demetrius._]
+
+Enter Marcus, from hunting.
+
+MARCUS.
+Who is this? My niece, that flies away so fast?
+Cousin, a word; where is your husband?
+If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!
+If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
+That I may slumber an eternal sleep!
+Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands
+Hath lopped and hewed and made thy body bare
+Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments
+Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in,
+And might not gain so great a happiness
+As half thy love? Why dost not speak to me?
+Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,
+Like to a bubbling fountain stirred with wind,
+Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,
+Coming and going with thy honey breath.
+But sure some Tereus hath deflowered thee,
+And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue.
+Ah, now thou turn’st away thy face for shame,
+And notwithstanding all this loss of blood,
+As from a conduit with three issuing spouts,
+Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan’s face
+Blushing to be encountered with a cloud.
+Shall I speak for thee, shall I say ’tis so?
+O, that I knew thy heart, and knew the beast,
+That I might rail at him to ease my mind.
+Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped,
+Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
+Fair Philomela, why she but lost her tongue,
+And in a tedious sampler sewed her mind;
+But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee;
+A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,
+And he hath cut those pretty fingers off
+That could have better sewed than Philomel.
+O, had the monster seen those lily hands
+Tremble like aspen leaves upon a lute,
+And make the silken strings delight to kiss them,
+He would not then have touched them for his life.
+Or had he heard the heavenly harmony
+Which that sweet tongue hath made,
+He would have dropped his knife, and fell asleep,
+As Cerberus at the Thracian poet’s feet.
+Come, let us go, and make thy father blind,
+For such a sight will blind a father’s eye.
+One hour’s storm will drown the fragrant meads;
+What will whole months of tears thy father’s eyes?
+Do not draw back, for we will mourn with thee.
+O, could our mourning ease thy misery!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Rome. A street
+
+
+Enter the Judges and Senators, with Titus’ two sons Quintus and Martius
+bound, passing on the stage to the place of execution, and Titus going
+before, pleading.
+
+TITUS.
+Hear me, grave fathers; noble tribunes, stay!
+For pity of mine age, whose youth was spent
+In dangerous wars whilst you securely slept;
+For all my blood in Rome’s great quarrel shed,
+For all the frosty nights that I have watched,
+And for these bitter tears, which now you see
+Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks,
+Be pitiful to my condemned sons,
+Whose souls are not corrupted as ’tis thought.
+For two and twenty sons I never wept,
+Because they died in honour’s lofty bed.
+
+[_Andronicus lieth down, and the Judges pass by him._]
+
+[_Exeunt with the prisoners as Titus continues speaking._]
+
+For these, tribunes, in the dust I write
+My heart’s deep languor and my soul’s sad tears.
+Let my tears staunch the earth’s dry appetite;
+My sons’ sweet blood will make it shame and blush.
+O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain
+That shall distil from these two ancient urns,
+Than youthful April shall with all his showers.
+In summer’s drought I’ll drop upon thee still;
+In winter with warm tears I’ll melt the snow,
+And keep eternal spring-time on thy face,
+So thou refuse to drink my dear sons’ blood.
+
+Enter Lucius with his weapon drawn.
+
+O reverend tribunes! O gentle aged men!
+Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death;
+And let me say, that never wept before,
+My tears are now prevailing orators.
+
+LUCIUS.
+O noble father, you lament in vain.
+The tribunes hear you not, no man is by;
+And you recount your sorrows to a stone.
+
+TITUS.
+Ah, Lucius, for thy brothers let me plead.
+Grave tribunes, once more I entreat of you—
+
+LUCIUS.
+My gracious lord, no tribune hears you speak.
+
+TITUS.
+Why, ’tis no matter, man. If they did hear,
+They would not mark me; if they did mark,
+They would not pity me, yet plead I must,
+And bootless unto them.
+Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones,
+Who, though they cannot answer my distress,
+Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,
+For that they will not intercept my tale.
+When I do weep, they humbly at my feet
+Receive my tears, and seem to weep with me;
+And were they but attired in grave weeds,
+Rome could afford no tribunes like to these.
+A stone is soft as wax, tribunes more hard than stones;
+A stone is silent, and offendeth not,
+And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.
+But wherefore stand’st thou with thy weapon drawn?
+
+LUCIUS.
+To rescue my two brothers from their death;
+For which attempt the judges have pronounced
+My everlasting doom of banishment.
+
+TITUS.
+O happy man, they have befriended thee.
+Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive
+That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?
+Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey
+But me and mine. How happy art thou then,
+From these devourers to be banished!
+But who comes with our brother Marcus here?
+
+Enter Marcus with Lavinia.
+
+MARCUS.
+Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep;
+Or if not so, thy noble heart to break.
+I bring consuming sorrow to thine age.
+
+TITUS.
+Will it consume me? Let me see it then.
+
+MARCUS.
+This was thy daughter.
+
+TITUS.
+Why, Marcus, so she is.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ay me, this object kills me!
+
+TITUS.
+Faint-hearted boy, arise, and look upon her.
+Speak, Lavinia, what accursed hand
+Hath made thee handless in thy father’s sight?
+What fool hath added water to the sea,
+Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?
+My grief was at the height before thou cam’st,
+And now like Nilus it disdaineth bounds.
+Give me a sword, I’ll chop off my hands too;
+For they have fought for Rome, and all in vain;
+And they have nursed this woe in feeding life;
+In bootless prayer have they been held up,
+And they have served me to effectless use.
+Now all the service I require of them
+Is that the one will help to cut the other.
+’Tis well, Lavinia, that thou hast no hands,
+For hands to do Rome service is but vain.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Speak, gentle sister, who hath martyred thee?
+
+MARCUS.
+O, that delightful engine of her thoughts,
+That blabbed them with such pleasing eloquence,
+Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage,
+Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung
+Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear.
+
+LUCIUS.
+O, say thou for her, who hath done this deed?
+
+MARCUS.
+O, thus I found her straying in the park,
+Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer
+That hath received some unrecuring wound.
+
+TITUS.
+It was my dear, and he that wounded her
+Hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead.
+For now I stand as one upon a rock,
+Environed with a wilderness of sea,
+Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave,
+Expecting ever when some envious surge
+Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
+This way to death my wretched sons are gone;
+Here stands my other son, a banished man,
+And here my brother, weeping at my woes.
+But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn
+Is dear Lavinia, dearer than my soul.
+Had I but seen thy picture in this plight
+It would have madded me. What shall I do
+Now I behold thy lively body so?
+Thou hast no hands to wipe away thy tears,
+Nor tongue to tell me who hath martyred thee.
+Thy husband he is dead, and for his death
+Thy brothers are condemned, and dead by this.
+Look, Marcus! Ah, son Lucius, look on her!
+When I did name her brothers, then fresh tears
+Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew
+Upon a gathered lily almost withered.
+
+MARCUS.
+Perchance she weeps because they killed her husband;
+Perchance because she knows them innocent.
+
+TITUS.
+If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful,
+Because the law hath ta’en revenge on them.
+No, no, they would not do so foul a deed;
+Witness the sorrow that their sister makes.
+Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy lips,
+Or make some sign how I may do thee ease.
+Shall thy good uncle, and thy brother Lucius,
+And thou, and I, sit round about some fountain,
+Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks
+How they are stained, like meadows yet not dry,
+With miry slime left on them by a flood?
+And in the fountain shall we gaze so long
+Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness,
+And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears?
+Or shall we cut away our hands like thine?
+Or shall we bite our tongues, and in dumb shows
+Pass the remainder of our hateful days?
+What shall we do? Let us that have our tongues
+Plot some device of further misery,
+To make us wondered at in time to come.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Sweet father, cease your tears; for at your grief
+See how my wretched sister sobs and weeps.
+
+MARCUS.
+Patience, dear niece. Good Titus, dry thine eyes.
+
+TITUS.
+Ah, Marcus, Marcus! Brother, well I wot
+Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine,
+For thou, poor man, hast drowned it with thine own.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ah, my Lavinia, I will wipe thy cheeks.
+
+TITUS.
+Mark, Marcus, mark! I understand her signs.
+Had she a tongue to speak, now would she say
+That to her brother which I said to thee.
+His napkin, with his true tears all bewet,
+Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks.
+O, what a sympathy of woe is this,
+As far from help as limbo is from bliss.
+
+Enter Aaron the Moor, alone.
+
+AARON.
+Titus Andronicus, my lord the emperor
+Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons,
+Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,
+Or any one of you, chop off your hand
+And send it to the king; he for the same
+Will send thee hither both thy sons alive,
+And that shall be the ransom for their fault.
+
+TITUS.
+O gracious emperor! O gentle Aaron!
+Did ever raven sing so like a lark
+That gives sweet tidings of the sun’s uprise?
+With all my heart I’ll send the emperor my hand.
+Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Stay, father, for that noble hand of thine,
+That hath thrown down so many enemies,
+Shall not be sent. My hand will serve the turn.
+My youth can better spare my blood than you;
+And therefore mine shall save my brothers’ lives.
+
+MARCUS.
+Which of your hands hath not defended Rome,
+And reared aloft the bloody battle-axe,
+Writing destruction on the enemy’s castle?
+O, none of both but are of high desert.
+My hand hath been but idle; let it serve
+To ransom my two nephews from their death;
+Then have I kept it to a worthy end.
+
+AARON.
+Nay, come, agree whose hand shall go along,
+For fear they die before their pardon come.
+
+MARCUS.
+My hand shall go.
+
+LUCIUS.
+By heaven, it shall not go!
+
+TITUS.
+Sirs, strive no more. Such withered herbs as these
+Are meet for plucking up, and therefore mine.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Sweet father, if I shall be thought thy son,
+Let me redeem my brothers both from death.
+
+MARCUS.
+And for our father’s sake and mother’s care,
+Now let me show a brother’s love to thee.
+
+TITUS.
+Agree between you; I will spare my hand.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Then I’ll go fetch an axe.
+
+MARCUS.
+But I will use the axe.
+
+[_Exeunt Lucius and Marcus._]
+
+TITUS.
+Come hither, Aaron; I’ll deceive them both.
+Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine.
+
+AARON.
+[_Aside_.] If that be called deceit, I will be honest,
+And never whilst I live deceive men so.
+But I’ll deceive you in another sort,
+And that you’ll say ere half an hour pass.
+
+[_He cuts off Titus’s hand._]
+
+Enter Lucius and Marcus again.
+
+TITUS.
+Now stay your strife. What shall be is dispatched.
+Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand.
+Tell him it was a hand that warded him
+From thousand dangers, bid him bury it;
+More hath it merited, that let it have.
+As for my sons, say I account of them
+As jewels purchased at an easy price;
+And yet dear too, because I bought mine own.
+
+AARON.
+I go, Andronicus; and for thy hand
+Look by and by to have thy sons with thee.
+[_Aside_.] Their heads, I mean. O, how this villainy
+Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it!
+Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace,
+Aaron will have his soul black like his face.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+TITUS.
+O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven,
+And bow this feeble ruin to the earth.
+If any power pities wretched tears,
+To that I call! [_To Lavinia_.] What, wouldst thou kneel with me?
+Do, then, dear heart; for heaven shall hear our prayers,
+Or with our sighs we’ll breathe the welkin dim,
+And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds
+When they do hug him in their melting bosoms.
+
+MARCUS.
+O brother, speak with possibility,
+And do not break into these deep extremes.
+
+TITUS.
+Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom?
+Then be my passions bottomless with them.
+
+MARCUS.
+But yet let reason govern thy lament.
+
+TITUS.
+If there were reason for these miseries,
+Then into limits could I bind my woes.
+When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o’erflow?
+If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,
+Threatening the welkin with his big-swol’n face?
+And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?
+I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth flow!
+She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.
+Then must my sea be moved with her sighs;
+Then must my earth with her continual tears
+Become a deluge, overflowed and drowned;
+For why my bowels cannot hide her woes,
+But like a drunkard must I vomit them.
+Then give me leave, for losers will have leave
+To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.
+
+Enter a Messenger with two heads and a hand.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Worthy Andronicus, ill art thou repaid
+For that good hand thou sent’st the emperor.
+Here are the heads of thy two noble sons,
+And here’s thy hand, in scorn to thee sent back.
+Thy grief their sports, thy resolution mocked;
+That woe is me to think upon thy woes,
+More than remembrance of my father’s death.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+MARCUS.
+Now let hot Etna cool in Sicily,
+And be my heart an ever-burning hell!
+These miseries are more than may be borne.
+To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal,
+But sorrow flouted at is double death.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Ah, that this sight should make so deep a wound,
+And yet detested life not shrink thereat!
+That ever death should let life bear his name,
+Where life hath no more interest but to breathe!
+
+[_Lavinia kisses Titus._]
+
+MARCUS.
+Alas, poor heart, that kiss is comfortless
+As frozen water to a starved snake.
+
+TITUS.
+When will this fearful slumber have an end?
+
+MARCUS.
+Now farewell, flattery; die, Andronicus;
+Thou dost not slumber. See thy two sons’ heads,
+Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here;
+Thy other banished son with this dear sight
+Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,
+Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
+Ah, now no more will I control thy griefs.
+Rent off thy silver hair, thy other hand
+Gnawing with thy teeth; and be this dismal sight
+The closing up of our most wretched eyes.
+Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?
+
+TITUS.
+Ha, ha, ha!
+
+MARCUS.
+Why dost thou laugh? It fits not with this hour.
+
+TITUS.
+Why, I have not another tear to shed.
+Besides, this sorrow is an enemy,
+And would usurp upon my watery eyes,
+And make them blind with tributary tears.
+Then which way shall I find Revenge’s cave?
+For these two heads do seem to speak to me,
+And threat me I shall never come to bliss
+Till all these mischiefs be returned again
+Even in their throats that have committed them.
+Come, let me see what task I have to do.
+You heavy people, circle me about,
+That I may turn me to each one of you,
+And swear unto my soul to right your wrongs.
+The vow is made. Come, brother, take a head;
+And in this hand the other will I bear.
+And, Lavinia, thou shalt be employed in these arms.
+Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth.
+As for thee, boy, go, get thee from my sight;
+Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.
+Hie to the Goths, and raise an army there.
+And if you love me, as I think you do,
+Let’s kiss and part, for we have much to do.
+
+[_Exeunt Titus, Marcus and Lavinia._]
+
+LUCIUS.
+Farewell, Andronicus, my noble father,
+The woefull’st man that ever lived in Rome.
+Farewell, proud Rome, till Lucius come again;
+He loves his pledges dearer than his life.
+Farewell, Lavinia, my noble sister;
+O, would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!
+But now nor Lucius nor Lavinia lives
+But in oblivion and hateful griefs.
+If Lucius live, he will requite your wrongs,
+And make proud Saturnine and his empress
+Beg at the gates, like Tarquin and his queen.
+Now will I to the Goths, and raise a power
+To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Rome. A Room in Titus’s House. A banquet set out
+
+Enter Titus Andronicus, Marcus, Lavinia and the boy Young Lucius.
+
+TITUS.
+So so; now sit; and look you eat no more
+Than will preserve just so much strength in us
+As will revenge these bitter woes of ours.
+Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot.
+Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands,
+And cannot passionate our tenfold grief
+With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine
+Is left to tyrannize upon my breast;
+Who when my heart, all mad with misery,
+Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh,
+Then thus I thump it down.
+Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs,
+When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating,
+Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still.
+Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans;
+Or get some little knife between thy teeth,
+And just against thy heart make thou a hole,
+That all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall
+May run into that sink, and, soaking in,
+Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears.
+
+MARCUS.
+Fie, brother, fie! Teach her not thus to lay
+Such violent hands upon her tender life.
+
+TITUS.
+How now! Has sorrow made thee dote already?
+Why, Marcus, no man should be mad but I.
+What violent hands can she lay on her life?
+Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands,
+To bid Æneas tell the tale twice o’er
+How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?
+O, handle not the theme, to talk of hands,
+Lest we remember still that we have none.
+Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk,
+As if we should forget we had no hands,
+If Marcus did not name the word of hands!
+Come, let’s fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this.
+Here is no drink! Hark, Marcus, what she says;
+I can interpret all her martyred signs.
+She says she drinks no other drink but tears,
+Brewed with her sorrow, meshed upon her cheeks.
+Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought;
+In thy dumb action will I be as perfect
+As begging hermits in their holy prayers.
+Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven,
+Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign,
+But I of these will wrest an alphabet,
+And by still practice learn to know thy meaning.
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments.
+Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale.
+
+MARCUS.
+Alas, the tender boy, in passion moved,
+Doth weep to see his grandsire’s heaviness.
+
+TITUS.
+Peace, tender sapling; thou art made of tears,
+And tears will quickly melt thy life away.
+
+[_Marcus strikes the dish with a knife._]
+
+What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?
+
+MARCUS.
+At that that I have killed, my lord, a fly.
+
+TITUS.
+Out on thee, murderer! Thou kill’st my heart;
+Mine eyes are cloyed with view of tyranny;
+A deed of death done on the innocent
+Becomes not Titus’ brother. Get thee gone;
+I see thou art not for my company.
+
+MARCUS.
+Alas, my lord, I have but killed a fly.
+
+TITUS.
+“But”? How if that fly had a father and mother?
+How would he hang his slender gilded wings
+And buzz lamenting doings in the air!
+Poor harmless fly,
+That with his pretty buzzing melody,
+Came here to make us merry, and thou hast killed him.
+
+MARCUS.
+Pardon me, sir; ’twas a black ill-favoured fly,
+Like to the empress’ Moor; therefore I killed him.
+
+TITUS.
+O, O, O!
+Then pardon me for reprehending thee,
+For thou hast done a charitable deed.
+Give me thy knife, I will insult on him,
+Flattering myself as if it were the Moor
+Come hither purposely to poison me.
+There’s for thyself, and that’s for Tamora.
+Ah, sirrah!
+Yet, I think, we are not brought so low
+But that between us we can kill a fly
+That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.
+
+MARCUS.
+Alas, poor man, grief has so wrought on him,
+He takes false shadows for true substances.
+
+TITUS.
+Come, take away. Lavinia, go with me.
+I’ll to thy closet, and go read with thee
+Sad stories chanced in the times of old.
+Come, boy, and go with me. Thy sight is young,
+And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Rome. Before Titus’s House
+
+
+Enter Young Lucius and Lavinia running after him, and the boy flies
+from her with his books under his arm. Enter Titus and Marcus.
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+Help, grandsire, help! My aunt Lavinia
+Follows me everywhere, I know not why.
+Good uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes!
+Alas, sweet aunt, I know not what you mean.
+
+MARCUS.
+Stand by me, Lucius. Do not fear thine aunt.
+
+TITUS.
+She loves thee, boy, too well to do thee harm.
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS
+Ay, when my father was in Rome she did.
+
+MARCUS.
+What means my niece Lavinia by these signs?
+
+TITUS.
+Fear her not, Lucius. Somewhat doth she mean.
+See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee.
+Somewhither would she have thee go with her.
+Ah, boy, Cornelia never with more care
+Read to her sons than she hath read to thee
+Sweet poetry and Tully’s _Orator_.
+
+MARCUS.
+Canst thou not guess wherefore she plies thee thus?
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+My lord, I know not, I, nor can I guess,
+Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her;
+For I have heard my grandsire say full oft,
+Extremity of griefs would make men mad;
+And I have read that Hecuba of Troy
+Ran mad for sorrow. That made me to fear,
+Although, my lord, I know my noble aunt
+Loves me as dear as e’er my mother did,
+And would not, but in fury, fright my youth;
+Which made me down to throw my books, and fly,
+Causeless, perhaps. But pardon me, sweet aunt.
+And, madam, if my uncle Marcus go,
+I will most willingly attend your ladyship.
+
+MARCUS.
+Lucius, I will.
+
+[_Lavinia turns over with her stumps the books which Lucius has let
+fall._]
+
+TITUS.
+How now, Lavinia? Marcus, what means this?
+Some book there is that she desires to see.
+Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
+But thou art deeper read and better skilled.
+Come and take choice of all my library,
+And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
+Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.
+Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus?
+
+MARCUS.
+I think she means that there were more than one
+Confederate in the fact. Ay, more there was,
+Or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge.
+
+TITUS.
+Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so?
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+Grandsire, ’tis Ovid’s _Metamorphosis_.
+My mother gave it me.
+
+MARCUS.
+For love of her that’s gone,
+Perhaps, she culled it from among the rest.
+
+TITUS.
+Soft! So busily she turns the leaves!
+Help her! What would she find? Lavinia, shall I read?
+This is the tragic tale of Philomel,
+And treats of Tereus’ treason and his rape;
+And rape, I fear, was root of thy annoy.
+
+MARCUS.
+See, brother, see! Note how she quotes the leaves.
+
+TITUS.
+Lavinia, wert thou thus surprised, sweet girl,
+Ravished and wronged, as Philomela was,
+Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods?
+See, see!
+Ay, such a place there is where we did hunt,—
+O, had we never, never hunted there!—
+Patterned by that the poet here describes,
+By nature made for murders and for rapes.
+
+MARCUS.
+O, why should nature build so foul a den,
+Unless the gods delight in tragedies?
+
+TITUS.
+Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none but friends,
+What Roman lord it was durst do the deed.
+Or slunk not Saturnine, as Tarquin erst,
+That left the camp to sin in Lucrece’ bed?
+
+MARCUS.
+Sit down, sweet niece. Brother, sit down by me.
+Apollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercury,
+Inspire me, that I may this treason find!
+My lord, look here. Look here, Lavinia.
+This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou canst,
+This after me. I have writ my name
+
+[_He writes his name with his staff and guides it with feet and
+mouth._]
+
+Without the help of any hand at all.
+Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift!
+Write thou, good niece, and here display at last
+What God will have discovered for revenge.
+Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,
+That we may know the traitors and the truth!
+
+[_She takes the staff in her mouth, and guides it with her stumps and
+writes._]
+
+O, do ye read, my lord, what she hath writ?
+
+TITUS.
+“_Stuprum_. Chiron. Demetrius.”
+
+MARCUS.
+What, what! The lustful sons of Tamora
+Performers of this heinous bloody deed?
+
+TITUS.
+_Magni Dominator poli,
+Tam lentus audis scelera, tam lentus vides?_
+
+MARCUS.
+O, calm thee, gentle lord, although I know
+There is enough written upon this earth
+To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts
+And arm the minds of infants to exclaims.
+My lord, kneel down with me; Lavinia, kneel;
+And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector’s hope;
+And swear with me, as, with the woeful fere
+And father of that chaste dishonoured dame,
+Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece’ rape,
+That we will prosecute, by good advice
+Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,
+And see their blood, or die with this reproach.
+
+TITUS.
+’Tis sure enough, an you knew how.
+But if you hunt these bear-whelps, then beware;
+The dam will wake, and if she wind you once.
+She’s with the lion deeply still in league,
+And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back,
+And when he sleeps will she do what she list.
+You are a young huntsman, Marcus; let alone;
+And come, I will go get a leaf of brass,
+And with a gad of steel will write these words,
+And lay it by. The angry northern wind
+Will blow these sands like Sibyl’s leaves abroad,
+And where’s our lesson, then? Boy, what say you?
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+I say, my lord, that if I were a man,
+Their mother’s bedchamber should not be safe
+For these base bondmen to the yoke of Rome.
+
+MARCUS.
+Ay, that’s my boy! Thy father hath full oft
+For his ungrateful country done the like.
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+And, uncle, so will I, an if I live.
+
+TITUS.
+Come, go with me into mine armoury.
+Lucius, I’ll fit thee; and withal, my boy,
+Shall carry from me to the empress’ sons
+Presents that I intend to send them both.
+Come, come; thou’lt do my message, wilt thou not?
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire.
+
+TITUS.
+No, boy, not so. I’ll teach thee another course.
+Lavinia, come. Marcus, look to my house.
+Lucius and I’ll go brave it at the court;
+Ay, marry, will we, sir; and we’ll be waited on.
+
+[_Exeunt Titus, Lavinia and Young Lucius._]
+
+MARCUS.
+O heavens, can you hear a good man groan
+And not relent, or not compassion him?
+Marcus, attend him in his ecstasy,
+That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart
+Than foemen’s marks upon his battered shield,
+But yet so just that he will not revenge.
+Revenge ye heavens for old Andronicus!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Rome. A Room in the Palace
+
+Enter Aaron, Chiron and Demetrius at one door, and at the other door
+Young Lucius and another, with a bundle of weapons and verses writ upon
+them.
+
+CHIRON.
+Demetrius, here’s the son of Lucius;
+He hath some message to deliver us.
+
+AARON.
+Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather.
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+My lords, with all the humbleness I may,
+I greet your honours from Andronicus;
+[_Aside_.] And pray the Roman gods confound you both.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Gramercy, lovely Lucius. What’s the news?
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+[_Aside_.] That you are both deciphered, that’s the news,
+For villains marked with rape. [_Aloud_.] May it please you,
+My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me
+The goodliest weapons of his armoury
+To gratify your honourable youth,
+The hope of Rome; for so he bid me say;
+And so I do, and with his gifts present
+Your lordships, that, whenever you have need,
+You may be armed and appointed well.
+And so I leave you both, [_Aside_.] like bloody villains.
+
+[_Exeunt Young Lucius and Attendant._]
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+What’s here? A scroll; and written round about?
+Let’s see:
+[_Reads_.] _Integer vitae, scelerisque purus,
+Non eget Mauri iaculis, nec arcu._
+
+CHIRON.
+O, ’tis a verse in Horace; I know it well.
+I read it in the grammar long ago.
+
+AARON.
+Ay, just; a verse in Horace; right, you have it.
+[_Aside_.] Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!
+Here’s no sound jest! The old man hath found their guilt,
+And sends them weapons wrapped about with lines,
+That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick.
+But were our witty empress well afoot,
+She would applaud Andronicus’ conceit.
+But let her rest in her unrest awhile.—
+And now, young lords, was’t not a happy star
+Led us to Rome, strangers, and more than so,
+Captives, to be advanced to this height?
+It did me good before the palace gate
+To brave the tribune in his brother’s hearing.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+But me more good to see so great a lord
+Basely insinuate and send us gifts.
+
+AARON.
+Had he not reason, Lord Demetrius?
+Did you not use his daughter very friendly?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I would we had a thousand Roman dames
+At such a bay, by turn to serve our lust.
+
+CHIRON.
+A charitable wish, and full of love.
+
+AARON.
+Here lacks but your mother for to say amen.
+
+CHIRON.
+And that would she for twenty thousand more.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Come, let us go and pray to all the gods
+For our beloved mother in her pains.
+
+AARON.
+[_Aside_.] Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.
+
+[_Trumpets sound._]
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Why do the emperor’s trumpets flourish thus?
+
+CHIRON.
+Belike for joy the emperor hath a son.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Soft, who comes here?
+
+Enter Nurse with a blackamoor Child in her arms.
+
+NURSE.
+Good morrow, lords.
+O, tell me, did you see Aaron the Moor?
+
+AARON.
+Well, more or less, or ne’er a whit at all,
+Here Aaron is; and what with Aaron now?
+
+NURSE.
+O gentle Aaron, we are all undone!
+Now help, or woe betide thee evermore!
+
+AARON.
+Why, what a caterwauling dost thou keep!
+What dost thou wrap and fumble in thy arms?
+
+NURSE.
+O, that which I would hide from heaven’s eye,
+Our empress’ shame and stately Rome’s disgrace.
+She is delivered, lords, she is delivered.
+
+AARON.
+To whom?
+
+NURSE.
+I mean, she’s brought a-bed.
+
+AARON.
+Well, God give her good rest! What hath he sent her?
+
+NURSE.
+A devil.
+
+AARON.
+Why, then she is the devil’s dam. A joyful issue.
+
+NURSE.
+A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue.
+Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad
+Amongst the fair-faced breeders of our clime.
+The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy seal,
+And bids thee christen it with thy dagger’s point.
+
+AARON.
+Zounds, ye whore, is black so base a hue?
+Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom sure.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Villain, what hast thou done?
+
+AARON.
+That which thou canst not undo.
+
+CHIRON.
+Thou hast undone our mother.
+
+AARON.
+Villain, I have done thy mother.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+And therein, hellish dog, thou hast undone her.
+Woe to her chance, and damned her loathed choice!
+Accursed the offspring of so foul a fiend!
+
+CHIRON.
+It shall not live.
+
+AARON.
+It shall not die.
+
+NURSE.
+Aaron, it must; the mother wills it so.
+
+AARON.
+What, must it, nurse? Then let no man but I
+Do execution on my flesh and blood.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+I’ll broach the tadpole on my rapier’s point.
+Nurse, give it me; my sword shall soon dispatch it.
+
+AARON.
+Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up.
+
+[_Taking the baby._]
+
+Stay, murderous villains, will you kill your brother?
+Now, by the burning tapers of the sky
+That shone so brightly when this boy was got,
+He dies upon my scimitar’s sharp point
+That touches this my first-born son and heir.
+I tell you, younglings, not Enceladus,
+With all his threatening band of Typhon’s brood,
+Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war,
+Shall seize this prey out of his father’s hands.
+What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!
+Ye white-limed walls, ye alehouse-painted signs!
+Coal-black is better than another hue
+In that it scorns to bear another hue;
+For all the water in the ocean
+Can never turn the swan’s black legs to white,
+Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
+Tell the empress from me, I am of age
+To keep mine own, excuse it how she can.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus?
+
+AARON.
+My mistress is my mistress; this my self;
+The vigour and the picture of my youth.
+This before all the world do I prefer;
+This maugre all the world will I keep safe,
+Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+By this our mother is for ever shamed.
+
+CHIRON.
+Rome will despise her for this foul escape.
+
+NURSE.
+The emperor in his rage will doom her death.
+
+CHIRON.
+I blush to think upon this ignomy.
+
+AARON.
+Why, there’s the privilege your beauty bears.
+Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing
+The close enacts and counsels of thy heart!
+Here’s a young lad framed of another leer.
+Look how the black slave smiles upon the father,
+As who should say “Old lad, I am thine own.”
+He is your brother, lords, sensibly fed
+Of that self blood that first gave life to you;
+And from your womb where you imprisoned were
+He is enfranchised and come to light.
+Nay, he is your brother by the surer side,
+Although my seal be stamped in his face.
+
+NURSE.
+Aaron, what shall I say unto the empress?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Advise thee, Aaron, what is to be done,
+And we will all subscribe to thy advice.
+Save thou the child, so we may all be safe.
+
+AARON.
+Then sit we down, and let us all consult.
+My son and I will have the wind of you.
+Keep there. Now talk at pleasure of your safety.
+
+[_They sit._]
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+How many women saw this child of his?
+
+AARON.
+Why, so, brave lords! When we join in league,
+I am a lamb; but if you brave the Moor,
+The chafed boar, the mountain lioness,
+The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms.
+But say again, how many saw the child?
+
+NURSE.
+Cornelia the midwife and myself,
+And no one else but the delivered empress.
+
+AARON.
+The empress, the midwife, and yourself.
+Two may keep counsel when the third’s away.
+Go to the empress; tell her this I said.
+
+[_He kills her._]
+
+“Wheak, wheak!” So cries a pig prepared to the spit.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+What mean’st thou, Aaron? Wherefore didst thou this?
+
+AARON.
+O Lord, sir, ’tis a deed of policy.
+Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours,
+A long-tongued babbling gossip? No, lords, no.
+And now be it known to you my full intent.
+Not far, one Muliteus lives, my countryman;
+His wife but yesternight was brought to bed.
+His child is like to her, fair as you are.
+Go pack with him, and give the mother gold,
+And tell them both the circumstance of all,
+And how by this their child shall be advanced,
+And be received for the emperor’s heir,
+And substituted in the place of mine,
+To calm this tempest whirling in the court;
+And let the emperor dandle him for his own.
+Hark ye, lords; ye see I have given her physic,
+
+[_Indicating the Nurse._]
+
+And you must needs bestow her funeral;
+The fields are near, and you are gallant grooms.
+This done, see that you take no longer days,
+But send the midwife presently to me.
+The midwife and the nurse well made away,
+Then let the ladies tattle what they please.
+
+CHIRON.
+Aaron, I see thou wilt not trust the air
+With secrets.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+For this care of Tamora,
+Herself and hers are highly bound to thee.
+
+[_Exeunt Demetrius and Chiron, carrying the Nurse’s body._]
+
+AARON.
+Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies,
+There to dispose this treasure in mine arms,
+And secretly to greet the empress’ friends.
+Come on, you thick-lipped slave, I’ll bear you hence;
+For it is you that puts us to our shifts.
+I’ll make you feed on berries and on roots,
+And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat,
+And cabin in a cave, and bring you up
+To be a warrior and command a camp.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. Rome. A public Place
+
+Enter Titus, old Marcus, his son Publius, Young Lucius, and other
+gentlemen with bows, and Titus bears the arrows with letters on the
+ends of them.
+
+TITUS.
+Come, Marcus, come. Kinsmen, this is the way.
+Sir boy, let me see your archery.
+Look ye draw home enough, and ’tis there straight.
+_Terras Astraea reliquit._
+Be you remembered, Marcus, she’s gone, she’s fled.
+Sirs, take you to your tools. You, cousins, shall
+Go sound the ocean and cast your nets;
+Happily you may catch her in the sea;
+Yet there’s as little justice as at land.
+No; Publius and Sempronius, you must do it;
+’Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade,
+And pierce the inmost centre of the earth.
+Then, when you come to Pluto’s region,
+I pray you, deliver him this petition;
+Tell him it is for justice and for aid,
+And that it comes from old Andronicus,
+Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome.
+Ah, Rome! Well, well, I made thee miserable
+What time I threw the people’s suffrages
+On him that thus doth tyrannize o’er me.
+Go, get you gone; and pray be careful all,
+And leave you not a man-of-war unsearched.
+This wicked emperor may have shipped her hence;
+And, kinsmen, then we may go pipe for justice.
+
+MARCUS.
+O Publius, is not this a heavy case,
+To see thy noble uncle thus distract?
+
+PUBLIUS.
+Therefore, my lords, it highly us concerns
+By day and night to attend him carefully,
+And feed his humour kindly as we may,
+Till time beget some careful remedy.
+
+MARCUS.
+Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy,
+But . . . .
+Join with the Goths, and with revengeful war
+Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude,
+And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.
+
+TITUS.
+Publius, how now? How now, my masters?
+What, have you met with her?
+
+PUBLIUS.
+No, my good lord; but Pluto sends you word,
+If you will have Revenge from hell, you shall.
+Marry, for Justice, she is so employed,
+He thinks, with Jove in heaven, or somewhere else,
+So that perforce you must needs stay a time.
+
+TITUS.
+He doth me wrong to feed me with delays.
+I’ll dive into the burning lake below,
+And pull her out of Acheron by the heels.
+Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we,
+No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops’ size;
+But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back,
+Yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear;
+And sith there’s no justice in earth nor hell,
+We will solicit heaven and move the gods
+To send down Justice for to wreak our wrongs.
+Come, to this gear. You are a good archer, Marcus.
+
+[_He gives them the arrows._]
+
+“_Ad Jovem,_” that’s for you; here, “_Ad Apollinem_”;
+“_Ad Martem,_” that’s for myself;
+Here, boy, “to Pallas”; here, “to Mercury”;
+“To Saturn,” Caius, not to Saturnine;
+You were as good to shoot against the wind.
+To it, boy.—Marcus, loose when I bid.—
+Of my word, I have written to effect;
+There’s not a god left unsolicited.
+
+MARCUS.
+Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court.
+We will afflict the emperor in his pride.
+
+TITUS.
+Now, masters, draw. [_They shoot_.] O, well said, Lucius!
+Good boy, in Virgo’s lap! Give it Pallas.
+
+MARCUS.
+My lord, I aim a mile beyond the moon.
+Your letter is with Jupiter by this.
+
+TITUS.
+Ha! ha! Publius, Publius, what hast thou done?
+See, see, thou hast shot off one of Taurus’ horns.
+
+MARCUS.
+This was the sport, my lord; when Publius shot,
+The Bull, being galled, gave Aries such a knock
+That down fell both the Ram’s horns in the court;
+And who should find them but the empress’ villain?
+She laughed, and told the Moor he should not choose
+But give them to his master for a present.
+
+TITUS.
+Why, there it goes. God give his lordship joy!
+
+Enter the Clown with a basket and two pigeons in it.
+
+News, news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come.
+Sirrah, what tidings? Have you any letters?
+Shall I have justice? What says Jupiter?
+
+CLOWN.
+Ho, the gibbet-maker? He says that he hath taken them down again, for
+the man must not be hanged till the next week.
+
+TITUS.
+But what says Jupiter, I ask thee?
+
+CLOWN.
+Alas, sir, I know not Jubiter; I never drank with him in all my life.
+
+TITUS.
+Why, villain, art not thou the carrier?
+
+CLOWN.
+Ay, of my pigeons, sir; nothing else.
+
+TITUS.
+Why, didst thou not come from heaven?
+
+CLOWN.
+From heaven? Alas, sir, I never came there. God forbid I should be so
+bold to press to heaven in my young days. Why, I am going with my
+pigeons to the tribunal plebs, to take up a matter of brawl betwixt my
+uncle and one of the emperal’s men.
+
+MARCUS.
+Why, sir, that is as fit as can be to serve for your oration; and let
+him deliver the pigeons to the emperor from you.
+
+TITUS.
+Tell me, can you deliver an oration to the emperor with a grace?
+
+CLOWN.
+Nay, truly, sir, I could never say grace in all my life.
+
+TITUS.
+Sirrah, come hither. Make no more ado,
+But give your pigeons to the emperor.
+By me thou shalt have justice at his hands.
+Hold, hold; meanwhile here’s money for thy charges.
+Give me pen and ink.
+Sirrah, can you with a grace deliver up a supplication?
+
+CLOWN.
+Ay, sir.
+
+TITUS.
+Then here is a supplication for you. And when you come to him, at the
+first approach you must kneel; then kiss his foot; then deliver up your
+pigeons; and then look for your reward. I’ll be at hand, sir; see you
+do it bravely.
+
+CLOWN.
+I warrant you, sir; let me alone.
+
+TITUS.
+Sirrah, hast thou a knife? Come let me see it.
+Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration;
+For thou hast made it like a humble suppliant.
+And when thou hast given it to the emperor,
+Knock at my door, and tell me what he says.
+
+CLOWN.
+God be with you, sir; I will.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+TITUS.
+Come, Marcus, let us go. Publius, follow me.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Rome. Before the Palace
+
+Enter Emperor Saturninus and Empress Tamora and her two sons Chiron and
+Demetrius, with Attendants. The Emperor brings the arrows in his hand
+that Titus shot at him.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Why, lords, what wrongs are these! Was ever seen
+An emperor in Rome thus overborne,
+Troubled, confronted thus; and, for the extent
+Of legal justice, used in such contempt?
+My lords, you know, as know the mightful gods,
+However these disturbers of our peace
+Buzz in the people’s ears, there naught hath passed
+But even with law against the wilful sons
+Of old Andronicus. And what an if
+His sorrows have so overwhelmed his wits?
+Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks,
+His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness?
+And now he writes to heaven for his redress!
+See, here’s “to Jove,” and this “to Mercury,”
+This “to Apollo,” this to the god of war.
+Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Rome!
+What’s this but libelling against the senate,
+And blazoning our injustice everywhere?
+A goodly humour, is it not, my lords?
+As who would say, in Rome no justice were.
+But if I live, his feigned ecstasies
+Shall be no shelter to these outrages;
+But he and his shall know that justice lives
+In Saturninus’ health; whom, if she sleep,
+He’ll so awake as he in fury shall
+Cut off the proud’st conspirator that lives.
+
+TAMORA.
+My gracious lord, my lovely Saturnine,
+Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts,
+Calm thee, and bear the faults of Titus’ age,
+Th’ effects of sorrow for his valiant sons,
+Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarred his heart;
+And rather comfort his distressed plight
+Than prosecute the meanest or the best
+For these contempts. [_Aside_.] Why, thus it shall become
+High-witted Tamora to gloze with all.
+But, Titus, I have touched thee to the quick;
+Thy life-blood out, if Aaron now be wise,
+Then is all safe, the anchor in the port.
+
+Enter Clown.
+
+How now, good fellow, wouldst thou speak with us?
+
+CLOWN.
+Yes, forsooth, an your mistresship be emperial.
+
+TAMORA.
+Empress I am, but yonder sits the emperor.
+
+CLOWN.
+’Tis he. God and Saint Stephen give you good e’en. I have brought you a
+letter and a couple of pigeons here.
+
+[_Saturninus reads the letter._]
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Go take him away, and hang him presently.
+
+CLOWN.
+How much money must I have?
+
+TAMORA.
+Come, sirrah, you must be hanged.
+
+CLOWN.
+Hanged! by’r Lady, then I have brought up a neck to a fair end.
+
+[_Exit guarded._]
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!
+Shall I endure this monstrous villainy?
+I know from whence this same device proceeds.
+May this be borne as if his traitorous sons,
+That died by law for murder of our brother,
+Have by my means been butchered wrongfully?
+Go, drag the villain hither by the hair;
+Nor age nor honour shall shape privilege.
+For this proud mock I’ll be thy slaughterman,
+Sly frantic wretch, that holp’st to make me great,
+In hope thyself should govern Rome and me.
+
+Enter Aemilius.
+
+What news with thee, Aemilius?
+
+AEMILIUS.
+Arm, my lord! Rome never had more cause.
+The Goths have gathered head, and with a power
+Of high-resolved men, bent to the spoil,
+They hither march amain, under conduct
+Of Lucius, son to old Andronicus;
+Who threats, in course of this revenge, to do
+As much as ever Coriolanus did.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Is warlike Lucius general of the Goths?
+These tidings nip me, and I hang the head
+As flowers with frost, or grass beat down with storms.
+Ay, now begins our sorrows to approach.
+’Tis he the common people love so much;
+Myself hath often overheard them say,
+When I have walked like a private man,
+That Lucius’ banishment was wrongfully,
+And they have wished that Lucius were their emperor.
+
+TAMORA.
+Why should you fear? Is not your city strong?
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Ay, but the citizens favour Lucius,
+And will revolt from me to succour him.
+
+TAMORA.
+King, be thy thoughts imperious like thy name.
+Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?
+The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
+And is not careful what they mean thereby,
+Knowing that with the shadow of his wings
+He can at pleasure stint their melody;
+Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
+Then cheer thy spirit; for know, thou emperor,
+I will enchant the old Andronicus
+With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous,
+Than baits to fish or honey-stalks to sheep,
+Whenas the one is wounded with the bait,
+The other rotted with delicious feed.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+But he will not entreat his son for us.
+
+TAMORA.
+If Tamora entreat him, then he will,
+For I can smooth and fill his aged ears
+With golden promises, that, were his heart
+Almost impregnable, his old ears deaf,
+Yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue.
+[_to Aemilius_] Go thou before, be our ambassador.
+Say that the emperor requests a parley
+Of warlike Lucius, and appoint the meeting
+Even at his father’s house, the old Andronicus.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Aemilius, do this message honourably,
+And if he stand on hostage for his safety,
+Bid him demand what pledge will please him best.
+
+AEMILIUS.
+Your bidding shall I do effectually.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+TAMORA.
+Now will I to that old Andronicus,
+And temper him with all the art I have,
+To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths.
+And now, sweet emperor, be blithe again,
+And bury all thy fear in my devices.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Then go successantly, and plead to him.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Plains near Rome
+
+
+Enter Lucius with an army of Goths, with drums and soldiers.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Approved warriors and my faithful friends,
+I have received letters from great Rome
+Which signifies what hate they bear their emperor
+And how desirous of our sight they are.
+Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,
+Imperious, and impatient of your wrongs;
+And wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
+Let him make treble satisfaction.
+
+FIRST GOTH.
+Brave slip, sprung from the great Andronicus,
+Whose name was once our terror, now our comfort,
+Whose high exploits and honourable deeds
+Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt,
+Be bold in us. We’ll follow where thou lead’st,
+Like stinging bees in hottest summer’s day
+Led by their master to the flowered fields,
+And be avenged on cursed Tamora.
+
+GOTHS.
+And as he saith, so say we all with him.
+
+LUCIUS.
+I humbly thank him, and I thank you all.
+But who comes here, led by a lusty Goth?
+
+Enter a Goth, leading of Aaron with his Child in his arms.
+
+SECOND GOTH.
+Renowned Lucius, from our troops I strayed
+To gaze upon a ruinous monastery;
+And as I earnestly did fix mine eye
+Upon the wasted building, suddenly
+I heard a child cry underneath a wall.
+I made unto the noise, when soon I heard
+The crying babe controlled with this discourse:
+“Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dame!
+Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art,
+Had nature lent thee but thy mother’s look,
+Villain, thou mightst have been an emperor.
+But where the bull and cow are both milk-white,
+They never do beget a coal-black calf.
+Peace, villain, peace!” even thus he rates the babe,
+“For I must bear thee to a trusty Goth,
+Who, when he knows thou art the empress’ babe,
+Will hold thee dearly for thy mother’s sake.”
+With this, my weapon drawn, I rushed upon him,
+Surprised him suddenly, and brought him hither
+To use as you think needful of the man.
+
+LUCIUS.
+O worthy Goth, this is the incarnate devil
+That robbed Andronicus of his good hand;
+This is the pearl that pleased your empress’ eye;
+And here’s the base fruit of her burning lust.
+Say, wall-eyed slave, whither wouldst thou convey
+This growing image of thy fiend-like face?
+Why dost not speak? What, deaf? Not a word?
+A halter, soldiers, hang him on this tree,
+And by his side his fruit of bastardy.
+
+AARON.
+Touch not the boy, he is of royal blood.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Too like the sire for ever being good.
+First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl,
+A sight to vex the father’s soul withal.
+Get me a ladder.
+
+[_A ladder is brought, which Aaron is made to ascend._]
+
+AARON.
+Lucius, save the child;
+And bear it from me to the empress.
+If thou do this, I’ll show thee wondrous things
+That highly may advantage thee to hear.
+If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
+I’ll speak no more but “Vengeance rot you all!”
+
+LUCIUS.
+Say on, and if it please me which thou speak’st,
+Thy child shall live, and I will see it nourished.
+
+AARON.
+And if it please thee? Why, assure thee, Lucius,
+’Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak;
+For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres,
+Acts of black night, abominable deeds,
+Complots of mischief, treason, villainies,
+Ruthful to hear, yet piteously performed.
+And this shall all be buried in my death,
+Unless thou swear to me my child shall live.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Tell on thy mind; I say thy child shall live.
+
+AARON.
+Swear that he shall, and then I will begin.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Who should I swear by? Thou believ’st no god.
+That granted, how canst thou believe an oath?
+
+AARON.
+What if I do not? As indeed I do not;
+Yet, for I know thou art religious,
+And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
+With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
+Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
+Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
+An idiot holds his bauble for a god,
+And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
+To that I’ll urge him. Therefore thou shalt vow
+By that same god, what god soe’er it be
+That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
+To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up;
+Or else I will discover naught to thee.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Even by my god I swear to thee I will.
+
+AARON.
+First know thou, I begot him on the empress.
+
+LUCIUS.
+O most insatiate and luxurious woman!
+
+AARON.
+Tut, Lucius, this was but a deed of charity
+To that which thou shalt hear of me anon.
+’Twas her two sons that murdered Bassianus;
+They cut thy sister’s tongue, and ravished her,
+And cut her hands, and trimmed her as thou sawest.
+
+LUCIUS.
+O detestable villain, call’st thou that trimming?
+
+AARON.
+Why, she was washed, and cut, and trimmed; and ’twas
+Trim sport for them which had the doing of it.
+
+LUCIUS.
+O barbarous beastly villains, like thyself!
+
+AARON.
+Indeed, I was their tutor to instruct them.
+That codding spirit had they from their mother,
+As sure a card as ever won the set;
+That bloody mind I think they learned of me,
+As true a dog as ever fought at head.
+Well, let my deeds be witness of my worth.
+I trained thy brethren to that guileful hole
+Where the dead corpse of Bassianus lay.
+I wrote the letter that thy father found,
+And hid the gold within that letter mentioned,
+Confederate with the queen and her two sons.
+And what not done, that thou hast cause to rue,
+Wherein I had no stroke of mischief in’t?
+I played the cheater for thy father’s hand,
+And, when I had it, drew myself apart,
+And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter.
+I pried me through the crevice of a wall
+When, for his hand, he had his two sons’ heads;
+Beheld his tears, and laughed so heartily
+That both mine eyes were rainy like to his.
+And when I told the empress of this sport,
+She sounded almost at my pleasing tale,
+And for my tidings gave me twenty kisses.
+
+GOTH.
+What, canst thou say all this and never blush?
+
+AARON.
+Ay, like a black dog, as the saying is.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?
+
+AARON.
+Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
+Even now I curse the day, and yet, I think,
+Few come within the compass of my curse,
+Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
+As kill a man, or else devise his death;
+Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it;
+Accuse some innocent, and forswear myself;
+Set deadly enmity between two friends;
+Make poor men’s cattle break their necks;
+Set fire on barns and haystalks in the night,
+And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
+Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves,
+And set them upright at their dear friends’ door,
+Even when their sorrows almost was forgot,
+And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
+Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
+“Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.”
+But I have done a thousand dreadful things
+As willingly as one would kill a fly,
+And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
+But that I cannot do ten thousand more.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Bring down the devil, for he must not die
+So sweet a death as hanging presently.
+
+AARON.
+If there be devils, would I were a devil,
+To live and burn in everlasting fire,
+So I might have your company in hell
+But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
+
+LUCIUS.
+Sirs, stop his mouth, and let him speak no more.
+
+Enter Aemilius.
+
+GOTH.
+My lord, there is a messenger from Rome
+Desires to be admitted to your presence.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Let him come near.
+Welcome, Aemilius. What’s the news from Rome?
+
+AEMILIUS.
+Lord Lucius, and you princes of the Goths,
+The Roman emperor greets you all by me;
+And, for he understands you are in arms,
+He craves a parley at your father’s house,
+Willing you to demand your hostages,
+And they shall be immediately delivered.
+
+FIRST GOTH.
+What says our general?
+
+LUCIUS.
+Aemilius, let the emperor give his pledges
+Unto my father and my uncle Marcus,
+And we will come. March away.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Rome. Before Titus’s House
+
+Enter Tamora and her two sons, disguised.
+
+TAMORA.
+Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment,
+I will encounter with Andronicus,
+And say I am Revenge, sent from below
+To join with him and right his heinous wrongs.
+Knock at his study, where they say he keeps
+To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge;
+Tell him Revenge is come to join with him
+And work confusion on his enemies.
+
+[_They knock._]
+
+Titus above opens his study door.
+
+TITUS.
+Who doth molest my contemplation?
+Is it your trick to make me ope the door,
+That so my sad decrees may fly away
+And all my study be to no effect?
+You are deceived; for what I mean to do
+See here in bloody lines I have set down;
+And what is written shall be executed.
+
+TAMORA.
+Titus, I am come to talk with thee.
+
+TITUS.
+No, not a word; how can I grace my talk,
+Wanting a hand to give it action?
+Thou hast the odds of me; therefore no more.
+
+TAMORA.
+If thou didst know me, thou wouldst talk with me.
+
+TITUS.
+I am not mad; I know thee well enough.
+Witness this wretched stump, witness these crimson lines;
+Witness these trenches made by grief and care;
+Witness the tiring day and heavy night;
+Witness all sorrow that I know thee well
+For our proud empress, mighty Tamora.
+Is not thy coming for my other hand?
+
+TAMORA.
+Know thou, sad man, I am not Tamora;
+She is thy enemy, and I thy friend.
+I am Revenge, sent from th’ infernal kingdom
+To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind
+By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.
+Come down and welcome me to this world’s light;
+Confer with me of murder and of death.
+There’s not a hollow cave or lurking-place,
+No vast obscurity or misty vale,
+Where bloody murder or detested rape
+Can couch for fear but I will find them out,
+And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,
+Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake.
+
+TITUS.
+Art thou Revenge? And art thou sent to me
+To be a torment to mine enemies?
+
+TAMORA.
+I am; therefore come down and welcome me.
+
+TITUS.
+Do me some service ere I come to thee.
+Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands;
+Now give some surance that thou art Revenge:
+Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot wheels,
+And then I’ll come and be thy waggoner,
+And whirl along with thee about the globe.
+Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,
+To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,
+And find out murderers in their guilty caves.
+And when thy car is loaden with their heads,
+I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel
+Trot like a servile footman all day long,
+Even from Hyperion’s rising in the east
+Until his very downfall in the sea.
+And day by day I’ll do this heavy task,
+So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there.
+
+TAMORA.
+These are my ministers, and come with me.
+
+TITUS.
+Are they thy ministers? What are they called?
+
+TAMORA.
+Rapine and Murder; therefore called so
+’Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men.
+
+TITUS.
+Good Lord, how like the empress’ sons they are,
+And you the empress! But we worldly men
+Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes.
+O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee;
+And, if one arm’s embracement will content thee,
+I will embrace thee in it by and by.
+
+[_He exits above._]
+
+TAMORA.
+This closing with him fits his lunacy.
+Whate’er I forge to feed his brain-sick humours,
+Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches,
+For now he firmly takes me for Revenge;
+And, being credulous in this mad thought,
+I’ll make him send for Lucius his son;
+And whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,
+I’ll find some cunning practice out of hand
+To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths,
+Or, at the least, make them his enemies.
+See, here he comes, and I must ply my theme.
+
+Enter Titus.
+
+TITUS.
+Long have I been forlorn, and all for thee.
+Welcome, dread Fury, to my woeful house.
+Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too.
+How like the empress and her sons you are!
+Well are you fitted, had you but a Moor.
+Could not all hell afford you such a devil?
+For well I wot the empress never wags
+But in her company there is a Moor;
+And, would you represent our queen aright,
+It were convenient you had such a devil.
+But welcome as you are. What shall we do?
+
+TAMORA.
+What wouldst thou have us do, Andronicus?
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Show me a murderer, I’ll deal with him.
+
+CHIRON.
+Show me a villain that hath done a rape,
+And I am sent to be revenged on him.
+
+TAMORA.
+Show me a thousand that hath done thee wrong,
+And I will be revenged on them all.
+
+TITUS.
+Look round about the wicked streets of Rome,
+And when thou find’st a man that’s like thyself,
+Good Murder, stab him; he’s a murderer.
+Go thou with him; and when it is thy hap
+To find another that is like to thee,
+Good Rapine, stab him; he is a ravisher.
+Go thou with them; and in the emperor’s court
+There is a queen, attended by a Moor;
+Well shalt thou know her by thine own proportion,
+For up and down she doth resemble thee.
+I pray thee, do on them some violent death;
+They have been violent to me and mine.
+
+TAMORA.
+Well hast thou lessoned us; this shall we do.
+But would it please thee, good Andronicus,
+To send for Lucius, thy thrice-valiant son,
+Who leads towards Rome a band of warlike Goths,
+And bid him come and banquet at thy house?
+When he is here, even at thy solemn feast,
+I will bring in the empress and her sons,
+The emperor himself, and all thy foes,
+And at thy mercy shall they stoop and kneel,
+And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart.
+What says Andronicus to this device?
+
+TITUS.
+Marcus, my brother, ’tis sad Titus calls.
+
+Enter Marcus.
+
+Go, gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius;
+Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths.
+Bid him repair to me and bring with him
+Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths;
+Bid him encamp his soldiers where they are.
+Tell him the emperor and the empress too
+Feast at my house, and he shall feast with them.
+This do thou for my love; and so let him,
+As he regards his aged father’s life.
+
+MARCUS.
+This will I do, and soon return again.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+TAMORA.
+Now will I hence about thy business,
+And take my ministers along with me.
+
+TITUS.
+Nay, nay, let Rape and Murder stay with me,
+Or else I’ll call my brother back again
+And cleave to no revenge but Lucius.
+
+TAMORA.
+[_Aside to them_.] What say you, boys? Will you abide with him,
+Whiles I go tell my lord the emperor
+How I have governed our determined jest?
+Yield to his humour, smooth and speak him fair,
+And tarry with him till I come again.
+
+TITUS.
+[_Aside_.] I knew them all, though they suppose me mad,
+And will o’erreach them in their own devices,
+A pair of cursed hell-hounds and their dam.
+
+DEMETRIUS.
+Madam, depart at pleasure; leave us here.
+
+TAMORA.
+Farewell, Andronicus. Revenge now goes
+To lay a complot to betray thy foes.
+
+TITUS.
+I know thou dost; and, sweet Revenge, farewell.
+
+[_Exit Tamora._]
+
+CHIRON.
+Tell us, old man, how shall we be employed?
+
+TITUS.
+Tut, I have work enough for you to do.
+Publius, come hither, Caius, and Valentine.
+
+Enter Publius and others.
+
+PUBLIUS.
+What is your will?
+
+TITUS.
+Know you these two?
+
+PUBLIUS.
+The empress’ sons, I take them, Chiron, Demetrius.
+
+TITUS.
+Fie, Publius, fie, thou art too much deceived.
+The one is Murder, and Rape is the other’s name;
+And therefore bind them, gentle Publius.
+Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them.
+Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour,
+And now I find it. Therefore bind them sure,
+And stop their mouths if they begin to cry.
+
+[_Exit Titus._]
+
+CHIRON.
+Villains, forbear! We are the empress’ sons.
+
+PUBLIUS.
+And therefore do we what we are commanded.
+Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word.
+Is he sure bound? Look that you bind them fast.
+
+Enter Titus Andronicus with a knife, and Lavinia with a basin.
+
+TITUS.
+Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy foes are bound.
+Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me,
+But let them hear what fearful words I utter.
+O villains, Chiron and Demetrius!
+Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud,
+This goodly summer with your winter mixed.
+You killed her husband, and for that vile fault
+Two of her brothers were condemned to death,
+My hand cut off and made a merry jest,
+Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear
+Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity,
+Inhuman traitors, you constrained and forced.
+What would you say if I should let you speak?
+Villains, for shame you could not beg for grace.
+Hark, wretches, how I mean to martyr you.
+This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,
+Whiles that Lavinia ’tween her stumps doth hold
+The basin that receives your guilty blood.
+You know your mother means to feast with me,
+And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad.
+Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust,
+And with your blood and it I’ll make a paste,
+And of the paste a coffin I will rear,
+And make two pasties of your shameful heads,
+And bid that strumpet, your unhallowed dam,
+Like to the earth swallow her own increase.
+This is the feast that I have bid her to,
+And this the banquet she shall surfeit on;
+For worse than Philomel you used my daughter,
+And worse than Procne I will be revenged.
+And now prepare your throats.—Lavinia, come
+Receive the blood.
+
+[_He cuts their throats._]
+
+And when that they are dead,
+Let me go grind their bones to powder small,
+And with this hateful liquor temper it,
+And in that paste let their vile heads be baked.
+Come, come, be everyone officious
+To make this banquet, which I wish may prove
+More stern and bloody than the Centaurs’ feast.
+So, now bring them in, for I’ll play the cook,
+And see them ready against their mother comes.
+
+[_Exeunt, carrying the dead bodies._]
+
+SCENE III. Rome. A Pavilion in Titus’s Gardens, with tables, &c.
+
+Enter Lucius, Marcus and the Goths, with Aaron, prisoner.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Uncle Marcus, since ’tis my father’s mind
+That I repair to Rome, I am content.
+
+FIRST GOTH.
+And ours with thine, befall what fortune will.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Good uncle, take you in this barbarous Moor,
+This ravenous tiger, this accursed devil;
+Let him receive no sust’nance, fetter him,
+Till he be brought unto the empress’ face
+For testimony of her foul proceedings.
+And see the ambush of our friends be strong;
+I fear the emperor means no good to us.
+
+AARON.
+Some devil whisper curses in my ear,
+And prompt me that my tongue may utter forth
+The venomous malice of my swelling heart!
+
+LUCIUS.
+Away, inhuman dog, unhallowed slave!
+Sirs, help our uncle to convey him in.
+
+[_Sound trumpets._]
+
+The trumpets show the emperor is at hand.
+
+[_Exeunt Goths with Aaron._]
+
+Enter Emperor Saturninus and Empress Tamora with Aemilius, Tribunes and
+others.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+What, hath the firmament more suns than one?
+
+LUCIUS.
+What boots it thee to call thyself a sun?
+
+MARCUS.
+Rome’s emperor, and nephew, break the parle;
+These quarrels must be quietly debated.
+The feast is ready which the careful Titus
+Hath ordained to an honourable end,
+For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome.
+Please you, therefore, draw nigh and take your places.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Marcus, we will.
+
+Trumpets sounding, enter Titus like a cook, placing the dishes, with
+Young Lucius and others, and Lavinia with a veil over her face.
+
+TITUS.
+Welcome, my lord; welcome, dread queen;
+Welcome, ye warlike Goths; welcome, Lucius;
+And welcome all. Although the cheer be poor,
+’Twill fill your stomachs; please you eat of it.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?
+
+TITUS.
+Because I would be sure to have all well
+To entertain your highness and your empress.
+
+TAMORA.
+We are beholden to you, good Andronicus.
+
+TITUS.
+An if your highness knew my heart, you were.
+My lord the emperor, resolve me this:
+Was it well done of rash Virginius
+To slay his daughter with his own right hand,
+Because she was enforced, stained, and deflowered?
+
+SATURNINUS.
+It was, Andronicus.
+
+TITUS.
+Your reason, mighty lord?
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Because the girl should not survive her shame,
+And by her presence still renew his sorrows.
+
+TITUS.
+A reason mighty, strong, and effectual;
+A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant
+For me, most wretched, to perform the like.
+Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee;
+And with thy shame thy father’s sorrow die!
+
+[_He kills Lavinia._]
+
+SATURNINUS.
+What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?
+
+TITUS.
+Killed her for whom my tears have made me blind.
+I am as woeful as Virginius was,
+And have a thousand times more cause than he
+To do this outrage, and it now is done.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+What, was she ravished? Tell who did the deed.
+
+TITUS.
+Will’t please you eat? Will’t please your highness feed?
+
+TAMORA.
+Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?
+
+TITUS.
+Not I; ’twas Chiron and Demetrius.
+They ravished her, and cut away her tongue;
+And they, ’twas they, that did her all this wrong.
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Go fetch them hither to us presently.
+
+TITUS.
+Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
+Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
+Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
+’Tis true, ’tis true; witness my knife’s sharp point.
+
+[_He stabs the Empress._]
+
+SATURNINUS.
+Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed.
+
+[_He kills Titus._]
+
+LUCIUS.
+Can the son’s eye behold his father bleed?
+
+[_He kills Saturninus._]
+
+There’s meed for meed, death for a deadly deed.
+
+[_A great tumult. Lucius, Marcus, and others go aloft to the upper
+stage._]
+
+MARCUS.
+You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,
+By uproar severed, as a flight of fowl
+Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts,
+O, let me teach you how to knit again
+This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
+These broken limbs again into one body;
+Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,
+And she whom mighty kingdoms curtsy to,
+Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,
+Do shameful execution on herself.
+But if my frosty signs and chaps of age,
+Grave witnesses of true experience,
+Cannot induce you to attend my words,
+Speak, Rome’s dear friend, [_to Lucius_] as erst our ancestor,
+When with his solemn tongue he did discourse
+To love-sick Dido’s sad attending ear
+The story of that baleful burning night
+When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam’s Troy.
+Tell us what Sinon hath bewitched our ears,
+Or who hath brought the fatal engine in
+That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound.
+My heart is not compact of flint nor steel,
+Nor can I utter all our bitter grief,
+But floods of tears will drown my oratory
+And break my utterance, even in the time
+When it should move you to attend me most,
+And force you to commiseration.
+Here’s Rome’s young captain, let him tell the tale,
+ While I stand by and weep to hear him speak.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Then, noble auditory, be it known to you
+That Chiron and the damned Demetrius
+Were they that murdered our emperor’s brother;
+And they it were that ravished our sister.
+For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded,
+Our father’s tears despised, and basely cozened
+Of that true hand that fought Rome’s quarrel out
+And sent her enemies unto the grave.
+Lastly, myself unkindly banished,
+The gates shut on me, and turned weeping out,
+To beg relief among Rome’s enemies;
+Who drowned their enmity in my true tears,
+And oped their arms to embrace me as a friend.
+I am the turned-forth, be it known to you,
+That have preserved her welfare in my blood
+And from her bosom took the enemy’s point,
+Sheathing the steel in my advent’rous body.
+Alas, you know I am no vaunter, I;
+My scars can witness, dumb although they are,
+That my report is just and full of truth.
+But soft, methinks I do digress too much,
+Citing my worthless praise. O, pardon me;
+For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.
+
+MARCUS.
+Now is my turn to speak. Behold the child.
+Of this was Tamora delivered,
+The issue of an irreligious Moor,
+Chief architect and plotter of these woes.
+The villain is alive in Titus’ house,
+And as he is to witness, this is true.
+Now judge what cause had Titus to revenge
+These wrongs unspeakable, past patience,
+Or more than any living man could bear.
+Now have you heard the truth. What say you, Romans?
+Have we done aught amiss? Show us wherein,
+And, from the place where you behold us pleading,
+The poor remainder of Andronici
+Will, hand in hand, all headlong hurl ourselves,
+And on the ragged stones beat forth our souls,
+And make a mutual closure of our house.
+Speak, Romans, speak, and if you say we shall,
+Lo, hand in hand, Lucius and I will fall.
+
+AEMILIUS.
+Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome,
+And bring our emperor gently in thy hand,
+Lucius our emperor; for well I know
+The common voice do cry it shall be so.
+
+ROMANS.
+Lucius, all hail, Rome’s royal emperor!
+
+MARCUS.
+Go, go into old Titus’ sorrowful house,
+And hither hale that misbelieving Moor
+To be adjudged some direful slaught’ring death,
+As punishment for his most wicked life.
+
+[_Exeunt Attendants. Lucius and Marcus come down from the upper
+stage._]
+
+ROMANS.
+Lucius, all hail, Rome’s gracious governor!
+
+LUCIUS.
+Thanks, gentle Romans. May I govern so
+To heal Rome’s harms and wipe away her woe!
+But, gentle people, give me aim awhile,
+For nature puts me to a heavy task.
+Stand all aloof; but, uncle, draw you near
+To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk.
+
+[_He kisses Titus._]
+
+O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips.
+These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stained face,
+The last true duties of thy noble son.
+
+MARCUS.
+Tear for tear and loving kiss for kiss
+Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips.
+O, were the sum of these that I should pay
+Countless and infinite, yet would I pay them.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Come hither, boy; come, come, and learn of us
+To melt in showers. Thy grandsire loved thee well.
+Many a time he danced thee on his knee,
+Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow;
+Many a story hath he told to thee,
+And bid thee bear his pretty tales in mind
+And talk of them when he was dead and gone.
+
+MARCUS.
+How many thousand times hath these poor lips,
+When they were living, warmed themselves on thine!
+O, now, sweet boy, give them their latest kiss.
+Bid him farewell; commit him to the grave.
+Do them that kindness, and take leave of them.
+
+YOUNG LUCIUS.
+O grandsire, grandsire, e’en with all my heart
+Would I were dead, so you did live again!
+O Lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping;
+My tears will choke me if I ope my mouth.
+
+Re-enter Attendants with Aaron.
+
+AEMILIUS.
+You sad Andronici, have done with woes.
+Give sentence on the execrable wretch
+That hath been breeder of these dire events.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Set him breast-deep in earth and famish him;
+There let him stand and rave and cry for food.
+If anyone relieves or pities him,
+For the offence he dies. This is our doom.
+Some stay to see him fastened in the earth.
+
+AARON.
+Ah, why should wrath be mute and fury dumb?
+I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
+I should repent the evils I have done.
+Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
+Would I perform, if I might have my will.
+If one good deed in all my life I did,
+I do repent it from my very soul.
+
+LUCIUS.
+Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,
+And give him burial in his father’s grave.
+My father and Lavinia shall forthwith
+Be closed in our household’s monument.
+As for that ravenous tiger, Tamora,
+No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weed,
+No mournful bell shall ring her burial;
+But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey.
+Her life was beastly and devoid of pity;
+And being dead, let birds on her take pity.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+
+Prologue.
+Scene I.
+Troy. Before Priam’s palace.
+Scene II.
+Troy. A street.
+Scene III.
+The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon’s tent.
+
+ACT II
+Scene I.
+The Grecian camp.
+Scene II.
+Troy. Priam’s palace.
+Scene III.
+The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.
+
+ACT III
+Scene I.
+Troy. Priam’s palace.
+Scene II.
+Troy. Pandarus’ orchard.
+Scene III.
+The Greek camp.
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I.
+Troy. A street.
+Scene II.
+Troy. The court of Pandarus’ house.
+Scene III.
+Troy. A street before Pandarus’ house.
+Scene IV.
+Troy. Pandarus’ house.
+Scene V.
+The Grecian camp. Lists set out.
+
+ACT V
+Scene I.
+The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.
+Scene II.
+The Grecian camp. Before Calchas’ tent.
+Scene III.
+Troy. Before Priam’s palace.
+Scene IV.
+The plain between Troy and the Grecian camp.
+Scene V.
+Another part of the plain.
+Scene VI.
+Another part of the plain.
+Scene VII.
+Another part of the plain.
+Scene VIII.
+Another part of the plain.
+Scene IX.
+Another part of the plain.
+Scene X.
+Another part of the plain.
+
+
+
+
+ Dramatis Personæ
+
+PRIAM, King of Troy
+
+His sons:
+HECTOR
+TROILUS
+PARIS
+DEIPHOBUS
+HELENUS
+MARGARELON, a bastard son of Priam
+
+Trojan commanders:
+AENEAS
+ANTENOR
+
+CALCHAS, a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks
+PANDARUS, uncle to Cressida
+AGAMEMNON, the Greek general
+MENELAUS, his brother
+
+Greek commanders:
+ACHILLES
+AJAX
+ULYSSES
+NESTOR
+DIOMEDES
+PATROCLUS
+
+THERSITES, a deformed and scurrilous Greek
+ALEXANDER, servant to Cressida
+SERVANT to Troilus
+SERVANT to Paris
+SERVANT to Diomedes
+HELEN, wife to Menelaus
+ANDROMACHE, wife to Hector
+CASSANDRA, daughter to Priam, a prophetess
+CRESSIDA, daughter to Calchas
+
+Trojan and Greek Soldiers, and Attendants
+
+SCENE: Troy and the Greek camp before it
+
+
+
+
+PROLOGUE
+
+
+In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece
+The princes orgulous, their high blood chaf’d,
+Have to the port of Athens sent their ships
+Fraught with the ministers and instruments
+Of cruel war. Sixty and nine that wore
+Their crownets regal from the Athenian bay
+Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made
+To ransack Troy, within whose strong immures
+The ravish’d Helen, Menelaus’ queen,
+With wanton Paris sleeps—and that’s the quarrel.
+To Tenedos they come,
+And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge
+Their war-like fraughtage. Now on Dardan plains
+The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch
+Their brave pavilions: Priam’s six-gated city,
+Dardan, and Tymbria, Ilias, Chetas, Troien,
+And Antenorides, with massy staples
+And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts,
+Stir up the sons of Troy.
+Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits
+On one and other side, Trojan and Greek,
+Sets all on hazard. And hither am I come
+A prologue arm’d, but not in confidence
+Of author’s pen or actor’s voice, but suited
+In like conditions as our argument,
+To tell you, fair beholders, that our play
+Leaps o’er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,
+Beginning in the middle; starting thence away,
+To what may be digested in a play.
+Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are;
+Now good or bad, ’tis but the chance of war.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Troy. Before Priam’s palace.
+
+
+ Enter Troilus armed, and Pandarus.
+
+TROILUS.
+Call here my varlet; I’ll unarm again.
+Why should I war without the walls of Troy
+That find such cruel battle here within?
+Each Trojan that is master of his heart,
+Let him to field; Troilus, alas! hath none.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Will this gear ne’er be mended?
+
+TROILUS.
+The Greeks are strong, and skilful to their strength,
+Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant;
+But I am weaker than a woman’s tear,
+Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance,
+Less valiant than the virgin in the night,
+And skilless as unpractis’d infancy.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Well, I have told you enough of this; for my part, I’ll not meddle nor
+make no farther. He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry
+the grinding.
+
+TROILUS.
+Have I not tarried?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.
+
+TROILUS.
+Have I not tarried?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.
+
+TROILUS.
+Still have I tarried.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ay, to the leavening; but here’s yet in the word ‘hereafter’ the
+kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the
+baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance burn your
+lips.
+
+TROILUS.
+Patience herself, what goddess e’er she be,
+Doth lesser blench at suff’rance than I do.
+At Priam’s royal table do I sit;
+And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts,
+So, traitor! ‘when she comes’! when she is thence?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Well, she look’d yesternight fairer than ever I saw her look, or any
+woman else.
+
+TROILUS.
+I was about to tell thee: when my heart,
+As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain,
+Lest Hector or my father should perceive me,
+I have, as when the sun doth light a storm,
+Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile.
+But sorrow that is couch’d in seeming gladness
+Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
+
+PANDARUS.
+An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen’s, well, go to, there
+were no more comparison between the women. But, for my part, she is my
+kinswoman; I would not, as they term it, praise her, but I would
+somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did. I will not dispraise
+your sister Cassandra’s wit; but—
+
+TROILUS.
+O Pandarus! I tell thee, Pandarus,
+When I do tell thee there my hopes lie drown’d,
+Reply not in how many fathoms deep
+They lie indrench’d. I tell thee I am mad
+In Cressid’s love. Thou answer’st ‘She is fair’;
+Pour’st in the open ulcer of my heart
+Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,
+Handlest in thy discourse. O! that her hand,
+In whose comparison all whites are ink
+Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure
+The cygnet’s down is harsh, and spirit of sense
+Hard as the palm of ploughman! This thou tell’st me,
+As true thou tell’st me, when I say I love her;
+But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm,
+Thou lay’st in every gash that love hath given me
+The knife that made it.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I speak no more than truth.
+
+TROILUS.
+Thou dost not speak so much.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Faith, I’ll not meddle in’t. Let her be as she is: if she be fair, ’tis
+the better for her; and she be not, she has the mends in her own hands.
+
+TROILUS.
+Good Pandarus! How now, Pandarus!
+
+PANDARUS.
+I have had my labour for my travail, ill thought on of her and ill
+thought on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks for my
+labour.
+
+TROILUS.
+What! art thou angry, Pandarus? What! with me?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Because she’s kin to me, therefore she’s not so fair as Helen. And she
+were not kin to me, she would be as fair on Friday as Helen is on
+Sunday. But what care I? I care not and she were a blackamoor; ’tis all
+one to me.
+
+TROILUS.
+Say I she is not fair?
+
+PANDARUS.
+I do not care whether you do or no. She’s a fool to stay behind her
+father. Let her to the Greeks; and so I’ll tell her the next time I see
+her. For my part, I’ll meddle nor make no more i’ the matter.
+
+TROILUS.
+Pandarus—
+
+PANDARUS.
+Not I.
+
+TROILUS.
+Sweet Pandarus—
+
+PANDARUS.
+Pray you, speak no more to me: I will leave all as I found it, and
+there an end.
+
+ [_Exit Pandarus. An alarum._]
+
+TROILUS.
+Peace, you ungracious clamours! Peace, rude sounds!
+Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
+When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
+I cannot fight upon this argument;
+It is too starv’d a subject for my sword.
+But Pandarus, O gods! how do you plague me!
+I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar;
+And he’s as tetchy to be woo’d to woo
+As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit.
+Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne’s love,
+What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?
+Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl;
+Between our Ilium and where she resides
+Let it be call’d the wild and wandering flood;
+Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
+Our doubtful hope, our convoy, and our bark.
+
+ Alarum. Enter Aeneas.
+
+AENEAS.
+How now, Prince Troilus! Wherefore not afield?
+
+TROILUS.
+Because not there. This woman’s answer sorts,
+For womanish it is to be from thence.
+What news, Aeneas, from the field today?
+
+AENEAS.
+That Paris is returned home, and hurt.
+
+TROILUS.
+By whom, Aeneas?
+
+AENEAS.
+Troilus, by Menelaus.
+
+TROILUS.
+Let Paris bleed: ’tis but a scar to scorn;
+Paris is gor’d with Menelaus’ horn.
+
+ [_Alarum._]
+
+AENEAS.
+Hark what good sport is out of town today!
+
+TROILUS.
+Better at home, if ‘would I might’ were ‘may.’
+But to the sport abroad. Are you bound thither?
+
+AENEAS.
+In all swift haste.
+
+TROILUS.
+Come, go we then together.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Troy. A street.
+
+ Enter Cressida and her man Alexander.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Who were those went by?
+
+ALEXANDER.
+Queen Hecuba and Helen.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+And whither go they?
+
+ALEXANDER.
+Up to the eastern tower,
+Whose height commands as subject all the vale,
+To see the battle. Hector, whose patience
+Is as a virtue fix’d, today was mov’d.
+He chid Andromache, and struck his armourer;
+And, like as there were husbandry in war,
+Before the sun rose he was harness’d light,
+And to the field goes he; where every flower
+Did as a prophet weep what it foresaw
+In Hector’s wrath.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+What was his cause of anger?
+
+ALEXANDER.
+The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks
+A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector;
+They call him Ajax.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Good; and what of him?
+
+ALEXANDER.
+They say he is a very man _per se_
+And stands alone.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.
+
+ALEXANDER.
+This man, lady, hath robb’d many beasts of their particular additions:
+he is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the
+elephant—a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour
+is crush’d into folly, his folly sauced with discretion. There is no
+man hath a virtue that he hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint
+but he carries some stain of it; he is melancholy without cause and
+merry against the hair; he hath the joints of everything; but
+everything so out of joint that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and
+no use, or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+But how should this man, that makes me smile, make Hector angry?
+
+ALEXANDER.
+They say he yesterday cop’d Hector in the battle and struck him down,
+the disdain and shame whereof hath ever since kept Hector fasting and
+waking.
+
+ Enter Pandarus.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Who comes here?
+
+ALEXANDER.
+Madam, your uncle Pandarus.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Hector’s a gallant man.
+
+ALEXANDER.
+As may be in the world, lady.
+
+PANDARUS.
+What’s that? What’s that?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Good morrow, uncle Pandarus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Good morrow, cousin Cressid. What do you talk of?—Good morrow,
+Alexander.—How do you, cousin? When were you at Ilium?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+This morning, uncle.
+
+PANDARUS.
+What were you talking of when I came? Was Hector arm’d and gone ere you
+came to Ilium? Helen was not up, was she?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Hector was gone; but Helen was not up.
+
+PANDARUS.
+E’en so. Hector was stirring early.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+That were we talking of, and of his anger.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Was he angry?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+So he says here.
+
+PANDARUS.
+True, he was so; I know the cause too; he’ll lay about him today, I can
+tell them that. And there’s Troilus will not come far behind him; let
+them take heed of Troilus, I can tell them that too.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+What, is he angry too?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Who, Troilus? Troilus is the better man of the two.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O Jupiter! there’s no comparison.
+
+PANDARUS.
+What, not between Troilus and Hector? Do you know a man if you see him?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Ay, if I ever saw him before and knew him.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Well, I say Troilus is Troilus.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Then you say as I say, for I am sure he is not Hector.
+
+PANDARUS.
+No, nor Hector is not Troilus in some degrees.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+’Tis just to each of them: he is himself.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Himself! Alas, poor Troilus! I would he were!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+So he is.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Condition I had gone barefoot to India.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+He is not Hector.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Himself! no, he’s not himself. Would a’ were himself! Well, the gods
+are above; time must friend or end. Well, Troilus, well! I would my
+heart were in her body! No, Hector is not a better man than Troilus.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Excuse me.
+
+PANDARUS.
+He is elder.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Pardon me, pardon me.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Th’other’s not come to’t; you shall tell me another tale when
+th’other’s come to’t. Hector shall not have his wit this year.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+He shall not need it if he have his own.
+
+ANDARUS.
+Nor his qualities.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+No matter.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Nor his beauty.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+’Twould not become him: his own’s better.
+
+PANDARUS.
+You have no judgement, niece. Helen herself swore th’other day that
+Troilus, for a brown favour, for so ’tis, I must confess—not brown
+neither—
+
+CRESSIDA.
+No, but brown.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+To say the truth, true and not true.
+
+PANDARUS.
+She prais’d his complexion above Paris.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Why, Paris hath colour enough.
+
+PANDARUS.
+So he has.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Then Troilus should have too much. If she prais’d him above, his
+complexion is higher than his; he having colour enough, and the other
+higher, is too flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had as lief
+Helen’s golden tongue had commended Troilus for a copper nose.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I swear to you I think Helen loves him better than Paris.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Then she’s a merry Greek indeed.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Nay, I am sure she does. She came to him th’other day into the
+compass’d window—and you know he has not past three or four hairs on
+his chin—
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Indeed a tapster’s arithmetic may soon bring his particulars therein to
+a total.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Why, he is very young, and yet will he within three pound lift as much
+as his brother Hector.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Is he so young a man and so old a lifter?
+
+PANDARUS.
+But to prove to you that Helen loves him: she came and puts me her
+white hand to his cloven chin—
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Juno have mercy! How came it cloven?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Why, you know, ’tis dimpled. I think his smiling becomes him better
+than any man in all Phrygia.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O, he smiles valiantly!
+
+PANDARUS.
+Does he not?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O yes, an ’twere a cloud in autumn!
+
+PANDARUS.
+Why, go to, then! But to prove to you that Helen loves Troilus—
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Troilus will stand to the proof, if you’ll prove it so.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Troilus! Why, he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would
+eat chickens i’ th’ shell.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I cannot choose but laugh to think how she tickled his chin. Indeed,
+she has a marvell’s white hand, I must needs confess.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Without the rack.
+
+PANDARUS.
+And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Alas, poor chin! Many a wart is richer.
+
+PANDARUS.
+But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laugh’d that her eyes ran
+o’er.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+With millstones.
+
+PANDARUS.
+And Cassandra laugh’d.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+But there was a more temperate fire under the pot of her eyes. Did her
+eyes run o’er too?
+
+PANDARUS.
+And Hector laugh’d.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+At what was all this laughing?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus’ chin.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+And’t had been a green hair I should have laugh’d too.
+
+PANDARUS.
+They laugh’d not so much at the hair as at his pretty answer.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+What was his answer?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Quoth she ‘Here’s but two and fifty hairs on your chin, and one of them
+is white.’
+
+CRESSIDA.
+This is her question.
+
+PANDARUS.
+That’s true; make no question of that. ‘Two and fifty hairs,’ quoth he
+‘and one white. That white hair is my father, and all the rest are his
+sons.’ ‘Jupiter!’ quoth she ‘which of these hairs is Paris my husband?’
+‘The forked one,’ quoth he, ’pluck’t out and give it him.’ But there
+was such laughing! and Helen so blush’d, and Paris so chaf’d; and all
+the rest so laugh’d that it pass’d.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+So let it now; for it has been a great while going by.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Well, cousin, I told you a thing yesterday; think on’t.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+So I do.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I’ll be sworn ’tis true; he will weep you, and ’twere a man born in
+April.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+And I’ll spring up in his tears, an ’twere a nettle against May.
+
+ [_Sound a retreat._]
+
+PANDARUS.
+Hark! they are coming from the field. Shall we stand up here and see
+them as they pass toward Ilium? Good niece, do, sweet niece Cressida.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+At your pleasure.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Here, here, here’s an excellent place; here we may see most bravely.
+I’ll tell you them all by their names as they pass by; but mark Troilus
+above the rest.
+
+ [Aeneas _passes_.]
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Speak not so loud.
+
+PANDARUS.
+That’s Aeneas. Is not that a brave man? He’s one of the flowers of
+Troy, I can tell you. But mark Troilus; you shall see anon.
+
+ [Antenor _passes_.]
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Who’s that?
+
+PANDARUS.
+That’s Antenor. He has a shrewd wit, I can tell you; and he’s a man
+good enough; he’s one o’ th’ soundest judgements in Troy, whosoever,
+and a proper man of person. When comes Troilus? I’ll show you Troilus
+anon. If he see me, you shall see him nod at me.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Will he give you the nod?
+
+PANDARUS.
+You shall see.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+If he do, the rich shall have more.
+
+ [Hector _passes_.]
+
+PANDARUS.
+That’s Hector, that, that, look you, that; there’s a fellow! Go thy
+way, Hector! There’s a brave man, niece. O brave Hector! Look how he
+looks. There’s a countenance! Is’t not a brave man?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O, a brave man!
+
+PANDARUS.
+Is a’ not? It does a man’s heart good. Look you what hacks are on his
+helmet! Look you yonder, do you see? Look you there. There’s no
+jesting; there’s laying on; take’t off who will, as they say. There be
+hacks.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Be those with swords?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Swords! anything, he cares not; and the devil come to him, it’s all
+one. By God’s lid, it does one’s heart good. Yonder comes Paris, yonder
+comes Paris.
+
+ [Paris _passes_.]
+
+Look ye yonder, niece; is’t not a gallant man too, is’t not? Why, this
+is brave now. Who said he came hurt home today? He’s not hurt. Why,
+this will do Helen’s heart good now, ha! Would I could see Troilus now!
+You shall see Troilus anon.
+
+ [Helenus _passes_.]
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Who’s that?
+
+PANDARUS.
+That’s Helenus. I marvel where Troilus is. That’s
+Helenus. I think he went not forth today. That’s Helenus.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Can Helenus fight, uncle?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Helenus! no. Yes, he’ll fight indifferent well. I marvel where Troilus
+is. Hark! do you not hear the people cry ‘Troilus’?—Helenus is a
+priest.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+What sneaking fellow comes yonder?
+
+ [Troilus _passes_.]
+
+PANDARUS.
+Where? yonder? That’s Deiphobus. ’Tis Troilus. There’s a man, niece.
+Hem! Brave Troilus, the prince of chivalry!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Peace, for shame, peace!
+
+PANDARUS.
+Mark him; note him. O brave Troilus! Look well upon him, niece; look
+you how his sword is bloodied, and his helm more hack’d than Hector’s;
+and how he looks, and how he goes! O admirable youth! he never saw
+three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way. Had I a sister were
+a grace or a daughter a goddess, he should take his choice. O admirable
+man! Paris? Paris is dirt to him; and, I warrant, Helen, to change,
+would give an eye to boot.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Here comes more.
+
+ [_Common soldiers pass_.]
+
+PANDARUS.
+Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran! porridge after
+meat! I could live and die in the eyes of Troilus. Ne’er look, ne’er
+look; the eagles are gone. Crows and daws, crows and daws! I had rather
+be such a man as Troilus than Agamemnon and all Greece.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+There is amongst the Greeks Achilles, a better man than Troilus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Achilles? A drayman, a porter, a very camel!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Well, well.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Well, well! Why, have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do you
+know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse,
+manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such
+like, the spice and salt that season a man?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Ay, a minc’d man; and then to be bak’d with no date in the pie, for
+then the man’s date is out.
+
+PANDARUS.
+You are such a woman! A man knows not at what ward you lie.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to defend my wiles; upon
+my secrecy, to defend mine honesty; my mask, to defend my beauty; and
+you, to defend all these; and at all these wards I lie, at a thousand
+watches.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Say one of your watches.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Nay, I’ll watch you for that; and that’s one of the chiefest of them
+too. If I cannot ward what I would not have hit, I can watch you for
+telling how I took the blow; unless it swell past hiding, and then it’s
+past watching.
+
+PANDARUS.
+You are such another!
+
+ Enter Troilus' Boy.
+
+BOY.
+Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Where?
+
+BOY.
+At your own house; there he unarms him.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Good boy, tell him I come. [_Exit_ Boy.] I doubt he be hurt. Fare ye
+well, good niece.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Adieu, uncle.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I will be with you, niece, by and by.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+To bring, uncle.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ay, a token from Troilus.
+
+ [_Exit_ Pandarus.]
+
+CRESSIDA.
+By the same token, you are a bawd.
+Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love’s full sacrifice,
+He offers in another’s enterprise;
+But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see
+Than in the glass of Pandar’s praise may be,
+Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:
+Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
+That she belov’d knows naught that knows not this:
+Men prize the thing ungain’d more than it is.
+That she was never yet that ever knew
+Love got so sweet as when desire did sue;
+Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:
+‘Achievement is command; ungain’d, beseech.’
+Then though my heart’s content firm love doth bear,
+Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+SCENE III. The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon’s tent.
+
+ Sennet. Enter Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Diomedes, Menelaus and
+ others.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Princes,
+What grief hath set these jaundies o’er your cheeks?
+The ample proposition that hope makes
+In all designs begun on earth below
+Fails in the promis’d largeness; checks and disasters
+Grow in the veins of actions highest rear’d,
+As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
+Infects the sound pine, and diverts his grain
+Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
+Nor, princes, is it matter new to us
+That we come short of our suppose so far
+That after seven years’ siege yet Troy walls stand;
+Sith every action that hath gone before,
+Whereof we have record, trial did draw
+Bias and thwart, not answering the aim,
+And that unbodied figure of the thought
+That gave’t surmised shape. Why then, you princes,
+Do you with cheeks abash’d behold our works
+And call them shames, which are, indeed, naught else
+But the protractive trials of great Jove
+To find persistive constancy in men;
+The fineness of which metal is not found
+In fortune’s love? For then the bold and coward,
+The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
+The hard and soft, seem all affin’d and kin.
+But in the wind and tempest of her frown
+Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
+Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
+And what hath mass or matter by itself
+Lies rich in virtue and unmingled.
+
+NESTOR.
+With due observance of thy godlike seat,
+Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply
+Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance
+Lies the true proof of men. The sea being smooth,
+How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
+Upon her patient breast, making their way
+With those of nobler bulk!
+But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
+The gentle Thetis, and anon behold
+The strong-ribb’d bark through liquid mountains cut,
+Bounding between the two moist elements
+Like Perseus’ horse. Where’s then the saucy boat,
+Whose weak untimber’d sides but even now
+Co-rivall’d greatness? Either to harbour fled
+Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so
+Doth valour’s show and valour’s worth divide
+In storms of fortune; for in her ray and brightness
+The herd hath more annoyance by the breeze
+Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind
+Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks,
+And flies fled under shade—why, then the thing of courage,
+As rous’d with rage, with rage doth sympathise,
+And with an accent tun’d in self-same key
+Retorts to chiding fortune.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Agamemnon,
+Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,
+Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit
+In whom the tempers and the minds of all
+Should be shut up—hear what Ulysses speaks.
+Besides th’applause and approbation
+The which, [_To Agamemnon_] most mighty, for thy place and sway,
+[_To Nestor_] And, thou most reverend, for thy stretch’d-out life,
+I give to both your speeches—which were such
+As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece
+Should hold up high in brass; and such again
+As venerable Nestor, hatch’d in silver,
+Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree
+On which heaven rides, knit all the Greekish ears
+To his experienc’d tongue—yet let it please both,
+Thou great, and wise, to hear Ulysses speak.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Speak, Prince of Ithaca; and be’t of less expect
+That matter needless, of importless burden,
+Divide thy lips than we are confident,
+When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws,
+We shall hear music, wit, and oracle.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down,
+And the great Hector’s sword had lack’d a master,
+But for these instances:
+The specialty of rule hath been neglected;
+And look how many Grecian tents do stand
+Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.
+When that the general is not like the hive,
+To whom the foragers shall all repair,
+What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded,
+Th’unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask.
+The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre,
+Observe degree, priority, and place,
+Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
+Office, and custom, in all line of order;
+And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
+In noble eminence enthron’d and spher’d
+Amidst the other, whose med’cinable eye
+Corrects the influence of evil planets,
+And posts, like the commandment of a king,
+Sans check, to good and bad. But when the planets
+In evil mixture to disorder wander,
+What plagues and what portents, what mutiny,
+What raging of the sea, shaking of earth,
+Commotion in the winds! Frights, changes, horrors,
+Divert and crack, rend and deracinate,
+The unity and married calm of states
+Quite from their fixture! O, when degree is shak’d,
+Which is the ladder of all high designs,
+The enterprise is sick! How could communities,
+Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities,
+Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,
+The primogenity and due of birth,
+Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels,
+But by degree stand in authentic place?
+Take but degree away, untune that string,
+And hark what discord follows! Each thing melts
+In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
+Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
+And make a sop of all this solid globe;
+Strength should be lord of imbecility,
+And the rude son should strike his father dead;
+Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong—
+Between whose endless jar justice resides—
+Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
+Then everything includes itself in power,
+Power into will, will into appetite;
+And appetite, an universal wolf,
+So doubly seconded with will and power,
+Must make perforce an universal prey,
+And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,
+This chaos, when degree is suffocate,
+Follows the choking.
+And this neglection of degree it is
+That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose
+It hath to climb. The general’s disdain’d
+By him one step below, he by the next,
+That next by him beneath; so every step,
+Exampl’d by the first pace that is sick
+Of his superior, grows to an envious fever
+Of pale and bloodless emulation.
+And ’tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,
+Not her own sinews. To end a tale of length,
+Troy in our weakness stands, not in her strength.
+
+NESTOR.
+Most wisely hath Ulysses here discover’d
+The fever whereof all our power is sick.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+The nature of the sickness found, Ulysses,
+What is the remedy?
+
+ULYSSES.
+The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns
+The sinew and the forehand of our host,
+Having his ear full of his airy fame,
+Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent
+Lies mocking our designs; with him Patroclus
+Upon a lazy bed the livelong day
+Breaks scurril jests;
+And with ridiculous and awkward action—
+Which, slanderer, he imitation calls—
+He pageants us. Sometime, great Agamemnon,
+Thy topless deputation he puts on;
+And like a strutting player whose conceit
+Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
+To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
+’Twixt his stretch’d footing and the scaffoldage—
+Such to-be-pitied and o’er-wrested seeming
+He acts thy greatness in; and when he speaks
+’Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquar’d,
+Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp’d,
+Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff
+The large Achilles, on his press’d bed lolling,
+From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause;
+Cries ‘Excellent! ’Tis Agamemnon right!
+Now play me Nestor; hem, and stroke thy beard,
+As he being drest to some oration.’
+That’s done—as near as the extremest ends
+Of parallels, as like as Vulcan and his wife;
+Yet god Achilles still cries ‘Excellent!
+’Tis Nestor right. Now play him me, Patroclus,
+Arming to answer in a night alarm.’
+And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age
+Must be the scene of mirth: to cough and spit
+And, with a palsy fumbling on his gorget,
+Shake in and out the rivet. And at this sport
+Sir Valour dies; cries ‘O, enough, Patroclus;
+Or give me ribs of steel! I shall split all
+In pleasure of my spleen.’ And in this fashion
+All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes,
+Severals and generals of grace exact,
+Achievements, plots, orders, preventions,
+Excitements to the field or speech for truce,
+Success or loss, what is or is not, serves
+As stuff for these two to make paradoxes.
+
+NESTOR.
+And in the imitation of these twain—
+Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
+With an imperial voice—many are infect.
+Ajax is grown self-will’d and bears his head
+In such a rein, in full as proud a place
+As broad Achilles; keeps his tent like him;
+Makes factious feasts; rails on our state of war
+Bold as an oracle, and sets Thersites,
+A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint,
+To match us in comparisons with dirt,
+To weaken and discredit our exposure,
+How rank soever rounded in with danger.
+
+ULYSSES.
+They tax our policy and call it cowardice,
+Count wisdom as no member of the war,
+Forestall prescience, and esteem no act
+But that of hand. The still and mental parts
+That do contrive how many hands shall strike
+When fitness calls them on, and know, by measure
+Of their observant toil, the enemies’ weight—
+Why, this hath not a finger’s dignity:
+They call this bed-work, mapp’ry, closet-war;
+So that the ram that batters down the wall,
+For the great swinge and rudeness of his poise,
+They place before his hand that made the engine,
+Or those that with the fineness of their souls
+By reason guide his execution.
+
+NESTOR.
+Let this be granted, and Achilles’ horse
+Makes many Thetis’ sons.
+
+ [_Tucket_.]
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+What trumpet? Look, Menelaus.
+
+MENELAUS.
+From Troy.
+
+ Enter Aeneas.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+What would you fore our tent?
+
+AENEAS.
+Is this great Agamemnon’s tent, I pray you?
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Even this.
+
+AENEAS.
+May one that is a herald and a prince
+Do a fair message to his kingly eyes?
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+With surety stronger than Achilles’ arm
+Fore all the Greekish heads, which with one voice
+Call Agamemnon head and general.
+
+AENEAS.
+Fair leave and large security. How may
+A stranger to those most imperial looks
+Know them from eyes of other mortals?
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+How?
+
+AENEAS.
+Ay;
+I ask, that I might waken reverence,
+And bid the cheek be ready with a blush
+Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
+The youthful Phoebus.
+Which is that god in office, guiding men?
+Which is the high and mighty Agamemnon?
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+This Trojan scorns us, or the men of Troy
+Are ceremonious courtiers.
+
+AENEAS.
+Courtiers as free, as debonair, unarm’d,
+As bending angels; that’s their fame in peace.
+But when they would seem soldiers, they have galls,
+Good arms, strong joints, true swords; and, Jove’s accord,
+Nothing so full of heart. But peace, Aeneas,
+Peace, Trojan; lay thy finger on thy lips.
+The worthiness of praise distains his worth,
+If that the prais’d himself bring the praise forth;
+But what the repining enemy commends,
+That breath fame blows; that praise, sole pure, transcends.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Sir, you of Troy, call you yourself Aeneas?
+
+AENEAS.
+Ay, Greek, that is my name.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+What’s your affairs, I pray you?
+
+AENEAS.
+Sir, pardon; ’tis for Agamemnon’s ears.
+
+AGAMEMNON
+He hears naught privately that comes from Troy.
+
+AENEAS.
+Nor I from Troy come not to whisper with him;
+I bring a trumpet to awake his ear,
+To set his sense on the attentive bent,
+And then to speak.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Speak frankly as the wind;
+It is not Agamemnon’s sleeping hour.
+That thou shalt know, Trojan, he is awake,
+He tells thee so himself.
+
+AENEAS.
+Trumpet, blow loud,
+Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents;
+And every Greek of mettle, let him know
+What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud.
+
+ [_Sound trumpet_.]
+
+We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy
+A prince called Hector—Priam is his father—
+Who in this dull and long-continued truce
+Is resty grown; he bade me take a trumpet
+And to this purpose speak: Kings, princes, lords!
+If there be one among the fair’st of Greece
+That holds his honour higher than his ease,
+That feeds his praise more than he fears his peril,
+That knows his valour and knows not his fear,
+That loves his mistress more than in confession
+With truant vows to her own lips he loves,
+And dare avow her beauty and her worth
+In other arms than hers—to him this challenge.
+Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks,
+Shall make it good or do his best to do it:
+He hath a lady wiser, fairer, truer,
+Than ever Greek did couple in his arms;
+And will tomorrow with his trumpet call
+Mid-way between your tents and walls of Troy
+To rouse a Grecian that is true in love.
+If any come, Hector shall honour him;
+If none, he’ll say in Troy, when he retires,
+The Grecian dames are sunburnt and not worth
+The splinter of a lance. Even so much.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+This shall be told our lovers, Lord Aeneas.
+If none of them have soul in such a kind,
+We left them all at home. But we are soldiers;
+And may that soldier a mere recreant prove
+That means not, hath not, or is not in love.
+If then one is, or hath, or means to be,
+That one meets Hector; if none else, I am he.
+
+NESTOR.
+Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man
+When Hector’s grandsire suck’d. He is old now;
+But if there be not in our Grecian host
+A noble man that hath one spark of fire
+To answer for his love, tell him from me
+I’ll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver,
+And in my vambrace put this wither’d brawns,
+And meeting him, will tell him that my lady
+Was fairer than his grandam, and as chaste
+As may be in the world. His youth in flood,
+I’ll prove this troth with my three drops of blood.
+
+AENEAS.
+Now heavens forfend such scarcity of youth!
+
+ULYSSES.
+Amen.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Fair Lord Aeneas, let me touch your hand;
+To our pavilion shall I lead you, sir.
+Achilles shall have word of this intent;
+So shall each lord of Greece, from tent to tent.
+Yourself shall feast with us before you go,
+And find the welcome of a noble foe.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Ulysses and Nestor_.]
+
+ULYSSES.
+Nestor!
+
+NESTOR.
+What says Ulysses?
+
+ULYSSES.
+I have a young conception in my brain;
+Be you my time to bring it to some shape.
+
+NESTOR.
+What is’t?
+
+ULYSSES.
+This ’tis:
+Blunt wedges rive hard knots. The seeded pride
+That hath to this maturity blown up
+In rank Achilles must or now be cropp’d
+Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil
+To overbulk us all.
+
+NESTOR.
+Well, and how?
+
+ULYSSES.
+This challenge that the gallant Hector sends,
+However it is spread in general name,
+Relates in purpose only to Achilles.
+
+NESTOR.
+True. The purpose is perspicuous even as substance
+Whose grossness little characters sum up;
+And, in the publication, make no strain
+But that Achilles, were his brain as barren
+As banks of Libya—though, Apollo knows,
+’Tis dry enough—will with great speed of judgement,
+Ay, with celerity, find Hector’s purpose
+Pointing on him.
+
+ULYSSES.
+And wake him to the answer, think you?
+
+NESTOR.
+Why, ’tis most meet. Who may you else oppose
+That can from Hector bring those honours off,
+If not Achilles? Though ’t be a sportful combat,
+Yet in this trial much opinion dwells
+For here the Trojans taste our dear’st repute
+With their fin’st palate; and trust to me, Ulysses,
+Our imputation shall be oddly pois’d
+In this vile action; for the success,
+Although particular, shall give a scantling
+Of good or bad unto the general;
+And in such indexes, although small pricks
+To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
+The baby figure of the giant mass
+Of things to come at large. It is suppos’d
+He that meets Hector issues from our choice;
+And choice, being mutual act of all our souls,
+Makes merit her election, and doth boil,
+As ’twere from forth us all, a man distill’d
+Out of our virtues; who miscarrying,
+What heart receives from hence a conquering part,
+To steel a strong opinion to themselves?
+Which entertain’d, limbs are his instruments,
+In no less working than are swords and bows
+Directive by the limbs.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Give pardon to my speech. Therefore ’tis meet
+Achilles meet not Hector. Let us, like merchants,
+First show foul wares, and think perchance they’ll sell;
+If not, the lustre of the better shall exceed
+By showing the worse first. Do not consent
+That ever Hector and Achilles meet;
+For both our honour and our shame in this
+Are dogg’d with two strange followers.
+
+NESTOR.
+I see them not with my old eyes. What are they?
+
+ULYSSES.
+What glory our Achilles shares from Hector,
+Were he not proud, we all should share with him;
+But he already is too insolent;
+And it were better parch in Afric sun
+Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes,
+Should he scape Hector fair. If he were foil’d,
+Why, then we do our main opinion crush
+In taint of our best man. No, make a lott’ry;
+And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw
+The sort to fight with Hector. Among ourselves
+Give him allowance for the better man;
+For that will physic the great Myrmidon,
+Who broils in loud applause, and make him fall
+His crest, that prouder than blue Iris bends.
+If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off,
+We’ll dress him up in voices; if he fail,
+Yet go we under our opinion still
+That we have better men. But, hit or miss,
+Our project’s life this shape of sense assumes—
+Ajax employ’d plucks down Achilles’ plumes.
+
+NESTOR.
+Now, Ulysses, I begin to relish thy advice;
+And I will give a taste thereof forthwith
+To Agamemnon. Go we to him straight.
+Two curs shall tame each other: pride alone
+Must tarre the mastiffs on, as ’twere their bone.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. The Grecian camp.
+
+
+ Enter Ajax and Thersites.
+
+AJAX.
+Thersites!
+
+THERSITES.
+Agamemnon—how if he had boils, full, all over, generally?
+
+AJAX.
+Thersites!
+
+THERSITES.
+And those boils did run—say so. Did not the general run then? Were not
+that a botchy core?
+
+AJAX.
+Dog!
+
+THERSITES.
+Then there would come some matter from him;
+I see none now.
+
+AJAX.
+Thou bitch-wolf’s son, canst thou not hear? Feel, then.
+
+ [_Strikes him_.]
+
+THERSITES.
+The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!
+
+AJAX.
+Speak, then, thou unsalted leaven, speak. I will beat thee into
+handsomeness.
+
+THERSITES.
+I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness; but I think thy horse
+will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book. Thou
+canst strike, canst thou? A red murrain o’ thy jade’s tricks!
+
+AJAX.
+Toadstool, learn me the proclamation.
+
+THERSITES.
+Dost thou think I have no sense, thou strikest me thus?
+
+AJAX.
+The proclamation!
+
+THERSITES.
+Thou art proclaim’d fool, I think.
+
+AJAX.
+Do not, porpentine, do not; my fingers itch.
+
+THERSITES.
+I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had the scratching of
+thee; I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece. When thou art
+forth in the incursions, thou strikest as slow as another.
+
+AJAX.
+I say, the proclamation.
+
+THERSITES.
+Thou grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles; and thou art as full
+of envy at his greatness as Cerberus is at Proserpina’s beauty—ay, that
+thou bark’st at him.
+
+AJAX.
+Mistress Thersites!
+
+THERSITES.
+Thou shouldst strike him.
+
+AJAX.
+Cobloaf!
+
+THERSITES.
+He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks a
+biscuit.
+
+AJAX.
+You whoreson cur!
+
+ [_Strikes him_.]
+
+THERSITES.
+Do, do.
+
+AJAX.
+Thou stool for a witch!
+
+THERSITES.
+Ay, do, do; thou sodden-witted lord! Thou hast no more brain than I
+have in mine elbows; an asinico may tutor thee. You scurvy valiant ass!
+Thou art here but to thrash Trojans, and thou art bought and sold among
+those of any wit like a barbarian slave. If thou use to beat me, I will
+begin at thy heel and tell what thou art by inches, thou thing of no
+bowels, thou!
+
+AJAX.
+You dog!
+
+THERSITES.
+You scurvy lord!
+
+AJAX.
+You cur!
+
+ [_Strikes him_.]
+
+THERSITES.
+Mars his idiot! Do, rudeness; do, camel; do, do.
+
+ Enter Achilles and Patroclus.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Why, how now, Ajax! Wherefore do ye thus?
+How now, Thersites! What’s the matter, man?
+
+THERSITES.
+You see him there, do you?
+
+ACHILLES.
+Ay; what’s the matter?
+
+THERSITES.
+Nay, look upon him.
+
+ACHILLES.
+So I do. What’s the matter?
+
+THERSITES.
+Nay, but regard him well.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Well! why, so I do.
+
+THERSITES.
+But yet you look not well upon him; for whosomever you take him to be,
+he is Ajax.
+
+ACHILLES.
+I know that, fool.
+
+THERSITES.
+Ay, but that fool knows not himself.
+
+AJAX.
+Therefore I beat thee.
+
+THERSITES.
+Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters! His evasions have ears
+thus long. I have bobb’d his brain more than he has beat my bones. I
+will buy nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not worth the
+ninth part of a sparrow. This lord, Achilles—Ajax, who wears his wit in
+his belly and his guts in his head—I’ll tell you what I say of him.
+
+ACHILLES.
+What?
+
+THERSITES.
+I say this Ajax—
+
+ [_Ajax offers to strike him_.]
+
+ACHILLES.
+Nay, good Ajax.
+
+THERSITES.
+Has not so much wit—
+
+ACHILLES.
+Nay, I must hold you.
+
+THERSITES.
+As will stop the eye of Helen’s needle, for whom he comes to fight.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Peace, fool.
+
+THERSITES.
+I would have peace and quietness, but the fool will not— he there; that
+he; look you there.
+
+AJAX.
+O thou damned cur! I shall—
+
+ACHILLES.
+Will you set your wit to a fool’s?
+
+THERSITES.
+No, I warrant you, the fool’s will shame it.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Good words, Thersites.
+
+ACHILLES.
+What’s the quarrel?
+
+AJAX.
+I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenour of the proclamation, and he
+rails upon me.
+
+THERSITES.
+I serve thee not.
+
+AJAX.
+Well, go to, go to.
+
+THERSITES.
+I serve here voluntary.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Your last service was suff’rance; ’twas not voluntary. No man is beaten
+voluntary. Ajax was here the voluntary, and you as under an impress.
+
+THERSITES.
+E’en so; a great deal of your wit too lies in your sinews, or else
+there be liars. Hector shall have a great catch and knock out either of
+your brains: a’ were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.
+
+ACHILLES.
+What, with me too, Thersites?
+
+THERSITES.
+There’s Ulysses and old Nestor—whose wit was mouldy ere your grandsires
+had nails on their toes—yoke you like draught oxen, and make you plough
+up the wars.
+
+ACHILLES.
+What, what?
+
+THERSITES.
+Yes, good sooth. To Achilles, to Ajax, to—
+
+AJAX.
+I shall cut out your tongue.
+
+THERSITES.
+’Tis no matter; I shall speak as much as thou afterwards.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+No more words, Thersites; peace!
+
+THERSITES.
+I will hold my peace when Achilles’ brach bids me, shall I?
+
+ACHILLES.
+There’s for you, Patroclus.
+
+THERSITES.
+I will see you hang’d like clotpoles ere I come any more to your tents.
+I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of
+fools.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+PATROCLUS.
+A good riddance.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Marry, this, sir, is proclaim’d through all our host,
+That Hector, by the fifth hour of the sun,
+Will with a trumpet ’twixt our tents and Troy,
+Tomorrow morning, call some knight to arms
+That hath a stomach; and such a one that dare
+Maintain I know not what; ’tis trash. Farewell.
+
+AJAX.
+Farewell. Who shall answer him?
+
+ACHILLES.
+I know not; ’tis put to lott’ry, otherwise,
+He knew his man.
+
+AJAX.
+O, meaning you? I will go learn more of it.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE II. Troy. Priam’s palace.
+
+ Enter Priam, Hector, Troilus, Paris and Helenus.
+
+PRIAM.
+After so many hours, lives, speeches spent,
+Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks:
+‘Deliver Helen, and all damage else—
+As honour, loss of time, travail, expense,
+Wounds, friends, and what else dear that is consum’d
+In hot digestion of this cormorant war—
+Shall be struck off.’ Hector, what say you to’t?
+
+HECTOR.
+Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I,
+As far as toucheth my particular,
+Yet, dread Priam,
+There is no lady of more softer bowels,
+More spongy to suck in the sense of fear,
+More ready to cry out ‘Who knows what follows?’
+Than Hector is. The wound of peace is surety,
+Surety secure; but modest doubt is call’d
+The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
+To th’ bottom of the worst. Let Helen go.
+Since the first sword was drawn about this question,
+Every tithe soul ’mongst many thousand dismes
+Hath been as dear as Helen—I mean, of ours.
+If we have lost so many tenths of ours
+To guard a thing not ours, nor worth to us,
+Had it our name, the value of one ten,
+What merit’s in that reason which denies
+The yielding of her up?
+
+TROILUS.
+Fie, fie, my brother!
+Weigh you the worth and honour of a king,
+So great as our dread father’s, in a scale
+Of common ounces? Will you with counters sum
+The past-proportion of his infinite,
+And buckle in a waist most fathomless
+With spans and inches so diminutive
+As fears and reasons? Fie, for godly shame!
+
+HELENUS.
+No marvel though you bite so sharp of reasons,
+You are so empty of them. Should not our father
+Bear the great sway of his affairs with reason,
+Because your speech hath none that tells him so?
+
+TROILUS.
+You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest;
+You fur your gloves with reason. Here are your reasons:
+You know an enemy intends you harm;
+You know a sword employ’d is perilous,
+And reason flies the object of all harm.
+Who marvels, then, when Helenus beholds
+A Grecian and his sword, if he do set
+The very wings of reason to his heels
+And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove,
+Or like a star disorb’d? Nay, if we talk of reason,
+Let’s shut our gates and sleep. Manhood and honour
+Should have hare hearts, would they but fat their thoughts
+With this cramm’d reason. Reason and respect
+Make livers pale and lustihood deject.
+
+HECTOR.
+Brother, she is not worth what she doth cost the keeping.
+
+TROILUS.
+What’s aught but as ’tis valued?
+
+HECTOR.
+But value dwells not in particular will:
+It holds his estimate and dignity
+As well wherein ’tis precious of itself
+As in the prizer. ’Tis mad idolatry
+To make the service greater than the god,
+And the will dotes that is attributive
+To what infectiously itself affects,
+Without some image of th’affected merit.
+
+TROILUS.
+I take today a wife, and my election
+Is led on in the conduct of my will;
+My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,
+Two traded pilots ’twixt the dangerous shores
+Of will and judgement: how may I avoid,
+Although my will distaste what it elected,
+The wife I chose? There can be no evasion
+To blench from this and to stand firm by honour.
+We turn not back the silks upon the merchant
+When we have soil’d them; nor the remainder viands
+We do not throw in unrespective sieve,
+Because we now are full. It was thought meet
+Paris should do some vengeance on the Greeks;
+Your breath with full consent bellied his sails;
+The seas and winds, old wranglers, took a truce,
+And did him service. He touch’d the ports desir’d;
+And for an old aunt whom the Greeks held captive
+He brought a Grecian queen, whose youth and freshness
+Wrinkles Apollo’s, and makes stale the morning.
+Why keep we her? The Grecians keep our aunt.
+Is she worth keeping? Why, she is a pearl
+Whose price hath launch’d above a thousand ships,
+And turn’d crown’d kings to merchants.
+If you’ll avouch ’twas wisdom Paris went—
+As you must needs, for you all cried ‘Go, go’—
+If you’ll confess he brought home worthy prize—
+As you must needs, for you all clapp’d your hands,
+And cried ‘Inestimable!’—why do you now
+The issue of your proper wisdoms rate,
+And do a deed that never Fortune did—
+Beggar the estimation which you priz’d
+Richer than sea and land? O theft most base,
+That we have stol’n what we do fear to keep!
+But thieves unworthy of a thing so stol’n
+That in their country did them that disgrace
+We fear to warrant in our native place!
+
+CASSANDRA.
+[_Within_.] Cry, Trojans, cry.
+
+PRIAM.
+What noise, what shriek is this?
+
+TROILUS.
+’Tis our mad sister; I do know her voice.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+[_Within_.] Cry, Trojans.
+
+HECTOR.
+It is Cassandra.
+
+ Enter Cassandra, raving.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+Cry, Trojans, cry. Lend me ten thousand eyes,
+And I will fill them with prophetic tears.
+
+HECTOR.
+Peace, sister, peace.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld,
+Soft infancy, that nothing canst but cry,
+Add to my clamours. Let us pay betimes
+A moiety of that mass of moan to come.
+Cry, Trojans, cry. Practise your eyes with tears.
+Troy must not be, nor goodly Ilion stand;
+Our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all.
+Cry, Trojans, cry, A Helen and a woe!
+Cry, cry. Troy burns, or else let Helen go.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+HECTOR.
+Now, youthful Troilus, do not these high strains
+Of divination in our sister work
+Some touches of remorse? Or is your blood
+So madly hot, that no discourse of reason,
+Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause,
+Can qualify the same?
+
+TROILUS.
+Why, brother Hector,
+We may not think the justness of each act
+Such and no other than event doth form it;
+Nor once deject the courage of our minds
+Because Cassandra’s mad. Her brain-sick raptures
+Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel
+Which hath our several honours all engag’d
+To make it gracious. For my private part,
+I am no more touch’d than all Priam’s sons;
+And Jove forbid there should be done amongst us
+Such things as might offend the weakest spleen
+To fight for and maintain.
+
+PARIS.
+Else might the world convince of levity
+As well my undertakings as your counsels;
+But I attest the gods, your full consent
+Gave wings to my propension, and cut off
+All fears attending on so dire a project.
+For what, alas, can these my single arms?
+What propugnation is in one man’s valour
+To stand the push and enmity of those
+This quarrel would excite? Yet I protest,
+Were I alone to pass the difficulties,
+And had as ample power as I have will,
+Paris should ne’er retract what he hath done,
+Nor faint in the pursuit.
+
+PRIAM.
+Paris, you speak
+Like one besotted on your sweet delights.
+You have the honey still, but these the gall;
+So to be valiant is no praise at all.
+
+PARIS.
+Sir, I propose not merely to myself
+The pleasures such a beauty brings with it;
+But I would have the soil of her fair rape
+Wip’d off in honourable keeping her.
+What treason were it to the ransack’d queen,
+Disgrace to your great worths, and shame to me,
+Now to deliver her possession up
+On terms of base compulsion! Can it be,
+That so degenerate a strain as this
+Should once set footing in your generous bosoms?
+There’s not the meanest spirit on our party
+Without a heart to dare or sword to draw
+When Helen is defended; nor none so noble
+Whose life were ill bestow’d or death unfam’d,
+Where Helen is the subject. Then, I say,
+Well may we fight for her whom we know well
+The world’s large spaces cannot parallel.
+
+HECTOR.
+Paris and Troilus, you have both said well;
+And on the cause and question now in hand
+Have gloz’d, but superficially; not much
+Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought
+Unfit to hear moral philosophy.
+The reasons you allege do more conduce
+To the hot passion of distemp’red blood
+Than to make up a free determination
+’Twixt right and wrong; for pleasure and revenge
+Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
+Of any true decision. Nature craves
+All dues be rend’red to their owners. Now,
+What nearer debt in all humanity
+Than wife is to the husband? If this law
+Of nature be corrupted through affection;
+And that great minds, of partial indulgence
+To their benumbed wills, resist the same;
+There is a law in each well-order’d nation
+To curb those raging appetites that are
+Most disobedient and refractory.
+If Helen, then, be wife to Sparta’s king—
+As it is known she is—these moral laws
+Of nature and of nations speak aloud
+To have her back return’d. Thus to persist
+In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,
+But makes it much more heavy. Hector’s opinion
+Is this, in way of truth. Yet, ne’ertheless,
+My spritely brethren, I propend to you
+In resolution to keep Helen still;
+For ’tis a cause that hath no mean dependence
+Upon our joint and several dignities.
+
+TROILUS.
+Why, there you touch’d the life of our design.
+Were it not glory that we more affected
+Than the performance of our heaving spleens,
+I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood
+Spent more in her defence. But, worthy Hector,
+She is a theme of honour and renown,
+A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds,
+Whose present courage may beat down our foes,
+And fame in time to come canonize us;
+For I presume brave Hector would not lose
+So rich advantage of a promis’d glory
+As smiles upon the forehead of this action
+For the wide world’s revenue.
+
+HECTOR.
+I am yours,
+You valiant offspring of great Priamus.
+I have a roisting challenge sent amongst
+The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks
+Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits.
+I was advertis’d their great general slept,
+Whilst emulation in the army crept.
+This, I presume, will wake him.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE III. The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.
+
+ Enter Thersites, solus.
+
+THERSITES.
+How now, Thersites! What, lost in the labyrinth of thy fury? Shall the
+elephant Ajax carry it thus? He beats me, and I rail at him. O worthy
+satisfaction! Would it were otherwise: that I could beat him, whilst he
+rail’d at me! ‘Sfoot, I’ll learn to conjure and raise devils, but I’ll
+see some issue of my spiteful execrations. Then there’s Achilles, a
+rare engineer! If Troy be not taken till these two undermine it, the
+walls will stand till they fall of themselves. O thou great
+thunder-darter of Olympus, forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods,
+and, Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy caduceus, if ye take
+not that little little less than little wit from them that they have!
+which short-arm’d ignorance itself knows is so abundant scarce, it will
+not in circumvention deliver a fly from a spider without drawing their
+massy irons and cutting the web. After this, the vengeance on the whole
+camp! or, rather, the Neapolitan bone-ache! for that, methinks, is the
+curse depending on those that war for a placket. I have said my
+prayers; and devil Envy say ‘Amen.’ What ho! my Lord Achilles!
+
+ Enter Patroclus.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Who’s there? Thersites! Good Thersites, come in and rail.
+
+THERSITES.
+If I could a’ rememb’red a gilt counterfeit, thou wouldst not have
+slipp’d out of my contemplation; but it is no matter; thyself upon
+thyself! The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in
+great revenue! Heaven bless thee from a tutor, and discipline come not
+near thee! Let thy blood be thy direction till thy death. Then if she
+that lays thee out says thou art a fair corse, I’ll be sworn and sworn
+upon’t she never shrouded any but lazars. Amen. Where’s Achilles?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+What, art thou devout? Wast thou in prayer?
+
+THERSITES.
+Ay, the heavens hear me!
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Amen.
+
+ Enter Achilles.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Who’s there?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Thersites, my lord.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Where, where? O, where? Art thou come? Why, my cheese, my digestion,
+why hast thou not served thyself in to my table so many meals? Come,
+what’s Agamemnon?
+
+THERSITES.
+Thy commander, Achilles. Then tell me, Patroclus, what’s Achilles?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Thy lord, Thersites. Then tell me, I pray thee, what’s Thersites?
+
+THERSITES.
+Thy knower, Patroclus. Then tell me, Patroclus, what art thou?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Thou must tell that knowest.
+
+ACHILLES.
+O, tell, tell,
+
+THERSITES.
+I’ll decline the whole question. Agamemnon commands Achilles; Achilles
+is my lord; I am Patroclus’ knower; and Patroclus is a fool.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+You rascal!
+
+THERSITES.
+Peace, fool! I have not done.
+
+ACHILLES.
+He is a privileg’d man. Proceed, Thersites.
+
+THERSITES.
+Agamemnon is a fool; Achilles is a fool; Thersites is a fool; and, as
+aforesaid, Patroclus is a fool.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Derive this; come.
+
+THERSITES.
+Agamemnon is a fool to offer to command Achilles; Achilles is a fool to
+be commanded of Agamemnon; Thersites is a fool to serve such a fool;
+and this Patroclus is a fool positive.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Why am I a fool?
+
+THERSITES.
+Make that demand of the Creator. It suffices me thou art. Look you, who
+comes here?
+
+ Enter Agamemnon, Ulysses, Nestor, Diomedes, Ajax and Calchas.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Come, Patroclus, I’ll speak with nobody. Come in with me, Thersites.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+THERSITES.
+Here is such patchery, such juggling, and such knavery. All the
+argument is a whore and a cuckold—a good quarrel to draw emulous
+factions and bleed to death upon. Now the dry serpigo on the subject,
+and war and lechery confound all!
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Where is Achilles?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Within his tent; but ill-dispos’d, my lord.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Let it be known to him that we are here.
+He shent our messengers; and we lay by
+Our appertainings, visiting of him.
+Let him be told so; lest, perchance, he think
+We dare not move the question of our place
+Or know not what we are.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+I shall say so to him.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+ULYSSES.
+We saw him at the opening of his tent.
+He is not sick.
+
+AJAX.
+Yes, lion-sick, sick of proud heart. You may call it melancholy, if you
+will favour the man; but, by my head, ’tis pride. But why, why? Let him
+show us a cause. A word, my lord.
+
+ [_Takes Agamemnon aside_.]
+
+NESTOR.
+What moves Ajax thus to bay at him?
+
+ULYSSES.
+Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him.
+
+NESTOR.
+Who, Thersites?
+
+ULYSSES.
+He.
+
+NESTOR.
+Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have lost his argument.
+
+ULYSSES.
+No; you see he is his argument that has his argument, Achilles.
+
+NESTOR.
+All the better; their fraction is more our wish than their faction. But
+it was a strong composure a fool could disunite!
+
+ULYSSES.
+The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
+
+ Re-enter Patroclus.
+
+Here comes Patroclus.
+
+NESTOR.
+No Achilles with him.
+
+ULYSSES.
+The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for
+necessity, not for flexure.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Achilles bids me say he is much sorry
+If any thing more than your sport and pleasure
+Did move your greatness and this noble state
+To call upon him; he hopes it is no other
+But for your health and your digestion sake,
+An after-dinner’s breath.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Hear you, Patroclus.
+We are too well acquainted with these answers;
+But his evasion, wing’d thus swift with scorn,
+Cannot outfly our apprehensions.
+Much attribute he hath, and much the reason
+Why we ascribe it to him. Yet all his virtues,
+Not virtuously on his own part beheld,
+Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss;
+Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,
+Are like to rot untasted. Go and tell him
+We come to speak with him; and you shall not sin
+If you do say we think him over-proud
+And under-honest, in self-assumption greater
+Than in the note of judgement; and worthier than himself
+Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on,
+Disguise the holy strength of their command,
+And underwrite in an observing kind
+His humorous predominance; yea, watch
+His course and time, his ebbs and flows, as if
+The passage and whole stream of this commencement
+Rode on his tide. Go tell him this, and add
+That if he overhold his price so much
+We’ll none of him, but let him, like an engine
+Not portable, lie under this report:
+Bring action hither; this cannot go to war.
+A stirring dwarf we do allowance give
+Before a sleeping giant. Tell him so.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+I shall, and bring his answer presently.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+In second voice we’ll not be satisfied;
+We come to speak with him. Ulysses, enter you.
+
+ [_Exit_ Ulysses.]
+
+AJAX.
+What is he more than another?
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+No more than what he thinks he is.
+
+AJAX.
+Is he so much? Do you not think he thinks himself a better man than I
+am?
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+No question.
+
+AJAX.
+Will you subscribe his thought and say he is?
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+No, noble Ajax; you are as strong, as valiant, as wise, no less noble,
+much more gentle, and altogether more tractable.
+
+AJAX.
+Why should a man be proud? How doth pride grow? I know not what pride
+is.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your virtues the fairer. He that is
+proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own
+chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed
+in the praise.
+
+ Re-enter Ulysses.
+
+AJAX.
+I do hate a proud man as I do hate the engend’ring of toads.
+
+NESTOR.
+[_Aside._] And yet he loves himself: is’t not strange?
+
+ULYSSES.
+Achilles will not to the field tomorrow.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+What’s his excuse?
+
+ULYSSES.
+He doth rely on none;
+But carries on the stream of his dispose,
+Without observance or respect of any,
+In will peculiar and in self-admission.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Why will he not, upon our fair request,
+Untent his person and share th’air with us?
+
+ULYSSES.
+Things small as nothing, for request’s sake only,
+He makes important; possess’d he is with greatness,
+And speaks not to himself but with a pride
+That quarrels at self-breath. Imagin’d worth
+Holds in his blood such swol’n and hot discourse
+That ’twixt his mental and his active parts
+Kingdom’d Achilles in commotion rages,
+And batters down himself. What should I say?
+He is so plaguy proud that the death tokens of it
+Cry ‘No recovery.’
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Let Ajax go to him.
+Dear lord, go you and greet him in his tent.
+’Tis said he holds you well; and will be led
+At your request a little from himself.
+
+ULYSSES.
+O Agamemnon, let it not be so!
+We’ll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes
+When they go from Achilles. Shall the proud lord
+That bastes his arrogance with his own seam
+And never suffers matter of the world
+Enter his thoughts, save such as doth revolve
+And ruminate himself—shall he be worshipp’d
+Of that we hold an idol more than he?
+No, this thrice worthy and right valiant lord
+Shall not so stale his palm, nobly acquir’d,
+Nor, by my will, assubjugate his merit,
+As amply titled as Achilles is,
+By going to Achilles.
+That were to enlard his fat-already pride,
+And add more coals to Cancer when he burns
+With entertaining great Hyperion.
+This lord go to him! Jupiter forbid,
+And say in thunder ‘Achilles go to him.’
+
+NESTOR.
+[_Aside_.] O, this is well! He rubs the vein of him.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+[_Aside_.] And how his silence drinks up this applause!
+
+AJAX.
+If I go to him, with my armed fist I’ll pash him o’er the face.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+O, no, you shall not go.
+
+AJAX.
+An a’ be proud with me I’ll pheeze his pride.
+Let me go to him.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Not for the worth that hangs upon our quarrel.
+
+AJAX.
+A paltry, insolent fellow!
+
+NESTOR.
+[_Aside_.] How he describes himself!
+
+AJAX.
+Can he not be sociable?
+
+ULYSSES.
+[_Aside_.] The raven chides blackness.
+
+AJAX.
+I’ll let his humours blood.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+[_Aside_.] He will be the physician that should be the patient.
+
+AJAX.
+And all men were o’ my mind—
+
+ULYSSES.
+[_Aside_.] Wit would be out of fashion.
+
+AJAX.
+A’ should not bear it so, a’ should eat’s words first.
+Shall pride carry it?
+
+NESTOR.
+[_Aside_.] And ’twould, you’d carry half.
+
+ULYSSES.
+[_Aside_.] A’ would have ten shares.
+
+AJAX.
+I will knead him, I’ll make him supple.
+
+NESTOR.
+[_Aside_.] He’s not yet through warm. Force him with praises; pour in,
+pour in; his ambition is dry.
+
+ULYSSES.
+[_To Agamemnon_.] My lord, you feed too much on this dislike.
+
+NESTOR.
+Our noble general, do not do so.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+You must prepare to fight without Achilles.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Why ’tis this naming of him does him harm.
+Here is a man—but ’tis before his face;
+I will be silent.
+
+NESTOR.
+Wherefore should you so?
+He is not emulous, as Achilles is.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Know the whole world, he is as valiant.
+
+AJAX.
+A whoreson dog, that shall palter with us thus!
+Would he were a Trojan!
+
+NESTOR.
+What a vice were it in Ajax now—
+
+ULYSSES.
+If he were proud.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Or covetous of praise.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Ay, or surly borne.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Or strange, or self-affected.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Thank the heavens, lord, thou art of sweet composure.
+Praise him that gat thee, she that gave thee suck;
+Fam’d be thy tutor, and thy parts of nature
+Thrice fam’d beyond, beyond all erudition;
+But he that disciplin’d thine arms to fight—
+Let Mars divide eternity in twain
+And give him half; and, for thy vigour,
+Bull-bearing Milo his addition yield
+To sinewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom,
+Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines
+Thy spacious and dilated parts. Here’s Nestor,
+Instructed by the antiquary times—
+He must, he is, he cannot but be wise;
+But pardon, father Nestor, were your days
+As green as Ajax’ and your brain so temper’d,
+You should not have the eminence of him,
+But be as Ajax.
+
+AJAX.
+Shall I call you father?
+
+NESTOR.
+Ay, my good son.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Be rul’d by him, Lord Ajax.
+
+ULYSSES.
+There is no tarrying here; the hart Achilles
+Keeps thicket. Please it our great general
+To call together all his state of war;
+Fresh kings are come to Troy. Tomorrow
+We must with all our main of power stand fast;
+And here’s a lord—come knights from east to west
+And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Go we to council. Let Achilles sleep.
+Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Troy. Priam’s palace.
+
+
+ Music sounds within. Enter Pandarus and a Servant.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Friend, you—pray you, a word. Do you not follow the young Lord Paris?
+
+SERVANT.
+Ay, sir, when he goes before me.
+
+PANDARUS.
+You depend upon him, I mean?
+
+SERVANT.
+Sir, I do depend upon the Lord.
+
+PANDARUS.
+You depend upon a notable gentleman; I must needs praise him.
+
+SERVANT.
+The Lord be praised!
+
+PANDARUS.
+You know me, do you not?
+
+SERVANT.
+Faith, sir, superficially.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Friend, know me better: I am the Lord Pandarus.
+
+SERVANT.
+I hope I shall know your honour better.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I do desire it.
+
+SERVANT.
+You are in the state of grace?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Grace? Not so, friend; honour and lordship are my titles. What music is
+this?
+
+SERVANT.
+I do but partly know, sir; it is music in parts.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Know you the musicians?
+
+SERVANT.
+Wholly, sir.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Who play they to?
+
+SERVANT.
+To the hearers, sir.
+
+PANDARUS.
+At whose pleasure, friend?
+
+SERVANT.
+At mine, sir, and theirs that love music.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Command, I mean, friend.
+
+SERVANT.
+Who shall I command, sir?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Friend, we understand not one another: I am too courtly, and thou art
+too cunning. At whose request do these men play?
+
+SERVANT.
+That’s to’t, indeed, sir. Marry, sir, at the request of Paris my lord,
+who is there in person; with him the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of
+beauty, love’s invisible soul—
+
+PANDARUS.
+Who, my cousin, Cressida?
+
+SERVANT.
+No, sir, Helen. Could not you find out that by her attributes?
+
+PANDARUS.
+It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not seen the Lady Cressida. I
+come to speak with Paris from the Prince Troilus; I will make a
+complimental assault upon him, for my business seethes.
+
+SERVANT.
+Sodden business! There’s a stew’d phrase indeed!
+
+ Enter Paris and Helen, attended.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair company! Fair desires, in
+all fair measure, fairly guide them—especially to you, fair queen! Fair
+thoughts be your fair pillow.
+
+HELEN.
+Dear lord, you are full of fair words.
+
+PANDARUS.
+You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen. Fair prince, here is good
+broken music.
+
+PARIS.
+You have broke it, cousin; and by my life, you shall make it whole
+again; you shall piece it out with a piece of your performance.
+
+HELEN.
+He is full of harmony.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Truly, lady, no.
+
+HELEN.
+O, sir—
+
+PANDARUS.
+Rude, in sooth; in good sooth, very rude.
+
+PARIS.
+Well said, my lord. Well, you say so in fits.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I have business to my lord, dear queen. My lord, will you vouchsafe me
+a word?
+
+HELEN.
+Nay, this shall not hedge us out. We’ll hear you sing, certainly—
+
+PANDARUS.
+Well sweet queen, you are pleasant with me. But, marry, thus, my lord:
+my dear lord and most esteemed friend, your brother Troilus—
+
+HELEN.
+My Lord Pandarus, honey-sweet lord—
+
+PANDARUS.
+Go to, sweet queen, go to—commends himself most affectionately to you—
+
+HELEN.
+You shall not bob us out of our melody. If you do, our melancholy upon
+your head!
+
+PANDARUS.
+Sweet queen, sweet queen; that’s a sweet queen, i’ faith.
+
+HELEN.
+And to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Nay, that shall not serve your turn; that shall it not, in truth, la.
+Nay, I care not for such words; no, no.—And, my lord, he desires you
+that, if the King call for him at supper, you will make his excuse.
+
+HELEN.
+My Lord Pandarus!
+
+PANDARUS.
+What says my sweet queen, my very very sweet queen?
+
+PARIS.
+What exploit’s in hand? Where sups he tonight?
+
+HELEN.
+Nay, but, my lord—
+
+PANDARUS.
+What says my sweet queen?—My cousin will fall out with you.
+
+HELEN.
+You must not know where he sups.
+
+PARIS.
+I’ll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida.
+
+PANDARUS.
+No, no, no such matter; you are wide. Come, your disposer is sick.
+
+PARIS.
+Well, I’ll make’s excuse.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida?
+No, your poor disposer’s sick.
+
+PARIS.
+I spy.
+
+PANDARUS.
+You spy! What do you spy?—Come, give me an instrument. Now, sweet
+queen.
+
+HELEN.
+Why, this is kindly done.
+
+PANDARUS.
+My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have, sweet queen.
+
+HELEN.
+She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my Lord Paris.
+
+PANDARUS.
+He? No, she’ll none of him; they two are twain.
+
+HELEN.
+Falling in, after falling out, may make them three.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Come, come. I’ll hear no more of this; I’ll sing you a song now.
+
+HELEN.
+Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord, thou hast a fine
+forehead.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ay, you may, you may.
+
+HELEN.
+Let thy song be love. This love will undo us all. O Cupid, Cupid,
+Cupid!
+
+PANDARUS.
+Love! Ay, that it shall, i’ faith.
+
+PARIS.
+Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love.
+
+PANDARUS.
+In good troth, it begins so.
+
+ [_Sings_.]
+
+
+          _Love, love, nothing but love, still love, still more!
+           For, oh, love’s bow
+            Shoots buck and doe;
+            The shaft confounds
+              Not that it wounds,
+             But tickles still the sore.
+         These lovers cry, O ho, they die!
+               Yet that which seems the wound to kill
+         Doth turn O ho! to ha! ha! he!
+                So dying love lives still.
+         O ho! a while, but ha! ha! ha!
+         O ho! groans out for ha! ha! ha!—hey ho!_
+
+HELEN.
+In love, i’ faith, to the very tip of the nose.
+
+PARIS.
+He eats nothing but doves, love; and that breeds hot blood, and hot
+blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot
+deeds is love.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Is this the generation of love: hot blood, hot thoughts, and hot deeds?
+Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers? Sweet lord, who’s
+a-field today?
+
+PARIS.
+Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy. I
+would fain have arm’d today, but my Nell would not have it so. How
+chance my brother Troilus went not?
+
+HELEN.
+He hangs the lip at something. You know all, Lord Pandarus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Not I, honey-sweet queen. I long to hear how they spend today. You’ll
+remember your brother’s excuse?
+
+PARIS.
+To a hair.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Farewell, sweet queen.
+
+HELEN.
+Commend me to your niece.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I will, sweet queen.
+
+ [_Exit. Sound a retreat_.]
+
+PARIS.
+They’re come from the field. Let us to Priam’s hall
+To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I must woo you
+To help unarm our Hector. His stubborn buckles,
+With these your white enchanting fingers touch’d,
+Shall more obey than to the edge of steel
+Or force of Greekish sinews; you shall do more
+Than all the island kings—disarm great Hector.
+
+HELEN.
+’Twill make us proud to be his servant, Paris;
+Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty
+Gives us more palm in beauty than we have,
+Yea, overshines ourself.
+
+PARIS.
+Sweet, above thought I love thee.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE II. Troy. Pandarus’ orchard.
+
+ Enter Pandarus and Troilus’ Boy, meeting.
+
+PANDARUS.
+How now! Where’s thy master? At my cousin Cressida’s?
+
+BOY.
+No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither.
+
+ Enter Troilus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+O, here he comes. How now, how now?
+
+TROILUS.
+Sirrah, walk off.
+
+ [_Exit_ Boy.]
+
+PANDARUS.
+Have you seen my cousin?
+
+TROILUS.
+No, Pandarus. I stalk about her door
+Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
+Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon,
+And give me swift transportance to these fields
+Where I may wallow in the lily beds
+Propos’d for the deserver! O gentle Pandar,
+from Cupid’s shoulder pluck his painted wings,
+and fly with me to Cressid!
+
+PANDARUS.
+Walk here i’ th’ orchard, I’ll bring her straight.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+TROILUS.
+I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
+Th’imaginary relish is so sweet
+That it enchants my sense; what will it be
+When that the wat’ry palate tastes indeed
+Love’s thrice-repured nectar? Death, I fear me;
+Sounding destruction; or some joy too fine,
+Too subtle-potent, tun’d too sharp in sweetness,
+For the capacity of my ruder powers.
+I fear it much; and I do fear besides
+That I shall lose distinction in my joys;
+As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps
+The enemy flying.
+
+ Re-enter Pandarus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+She’s making her ready, she’ll come straight; you must be witty now.
+She does so blush, and fetches her wind so short, as if she were fray’d
+with a sprite. I’ll fetch her. It is the prettiest villain; she fetches
+her breath as short as a new-ta’en sparrow.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+TROILUS.
+Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom.
+My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse,
+And all my powers do their bestowing lose,
+Like vassalage at unawares encount’ring
+The eye of majesty.
+
+ Re-enter Pandarus with Cressida.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Come, come, what need you blush? Shame’s a baby. Here she is now; swear
+the oaths now to her that you have sworn to me.—What, are you gone
+again? You must be watch’d ere you be made tame, must you? Come your
+ways, come your ways; and you draw backward, we’ll put you i’ th’
+fills. Why do you not speak to her? Come, draw this curtain and let’s
+see your picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend daylight!
+And ’twere dark, you’d close sooner. So, so; rub on, and kiss the
+mistress. How now, a kiss in fee-farm! Build there, carpenter; the air
+is sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere I part you. The
+falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i’ th’ river. Go to, go to.
+
+TROILUS.
+You have bereft me of all words, lady.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Words pay no debts, give her deeds; but she’ll bereave you o’ th’ deeds
+too, if she call your activity in question. What, billing again? Here’s
+‘In witness whereof the parties interchangeably.’ Come in, come in;
+I’ll go get a fire.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Will you walk in, my lord?
+
+TROILUS.
+O Cressid, how often have I wish’d me thus!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Wish’d, my lord! The gods grant—O my lord!
+
+TROILUS.
+What should they grant? What makes this pretty abruption? What too
+curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes.
+
+TROILUS.
+Fears make devils of cherubins; they never see truly.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind
+reason stumbling without fear. To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
+
+TROILUS.
+O, let my lady apprehend no fear! In all Cupid’s pageant there is
+presented no monster.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Nor nothing monstrous neither?
+
+TROILUS.
+Nothing, but our undertakings when we vow to weep seas, live in fire,
+eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking it harder for our mistress to devise
+imposition enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed. This
+is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite, and the
+execution confin’d; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave
+to limit.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet
+reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the
+perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
+They that have the voice of lions and the act of hares, are they not
+monsters?
+
+TROILUS.
+Are there such? Such are not we. Praise us as we are tasted, allow us
+as we prove; our head shall go bare till merit crown it. No perfection
+in reversion shall have a praise in present. We will not name desert
+before his birth; and, being born, his addition shall be humble. Few
+words to fair faith: Troilus shall be such to Cressid as what envy can
+say worst shall be a mock for his truth; and what truth can speak
+truest not truer than Troilus.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Will you walk in, my lord?
+
+ Re-enter Pandarus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+What, blushing still? Have you not done talking yet?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to you.
+
+PANDARUS.
+I thank you for that; if my lord get a boy of you, you’ll give him me.
+Be true to my lord; if he flinch, chide me for it.
+
+TROILUS.
+You know now your hostages: your uncle’s word and my firm faith.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Nay, I’ll give my word for her too: our kindred, though they be long
+ere they are wooed, they are constant being won; they are burs, I can
+tell you; they’ll stick where they are thrown.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Boldness comes to me now and brings me heart.
+Prince Troilus, I have lov’d you night and day
+For many weary months.
+
+TROILUS.
+Why was my Cressid then so hard to win?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Hard to seem won; but I was won, my lord,
+With the first glance that ever—pardon me.
+If I confess much, you will play the tyrant.
+I love you now; but till now not so much
+But I might master it. In faith, I lie;
+My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown
+Too headstrong for their mother. See, we fools!
+Why have I blabb’d? Who shall be true to us,
+When we are so unsecret to ourselves?
+But, though I lov’d you well, I woo’d you not;
+And yet, good faith, I wish’d myself a man,
+Or that we women had men’s privilege
+Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,
+For in this rapture I shall surely speak
+The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,
+Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws
+My very soul of counsel. Stop my mouth.
+
+TROILUS.
+And shall, albeit sweet music issues thence.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Pretty, i’ faith.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+My lord, I do beseech you, pardon me;
+’Twas not my purpose thus to beg a kiss.
+I am asham’d. O heavens! what have I done?
+For this time will I take my leave, my lord.
+
+TROILUS.
+Your leave, sweet Cressid!
+
+PANDARUS.
+Leave! And you take leave till tomorrow morning—
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Pray you, content you.
+
+TROILUS.
+What offends you, lady?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Sir, mine own company.
+
+TROILUS.
+You cannot shun yourself.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Let me go and try.
+I have a kind of self resides with you;
+But an unkind self, that itself will leave
+To be another’s fool. I would be gone.
+Where is my wit? I know not what I speak.
+
+TROILUS.
+Well know they what they speak that speak so wisely.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Perchance, my lord, I show more craft than love;
+And fell so roundly to a large confession
+To angle for your thoughts; but you are wise—
+Or else you love not; for to be wise and love
+Exceeds man’s might; that dwells with gods above.
+
+TROILUS.
+O that I thought it could be in a woman—
+As, if it can, I will presume in you—
+To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love;
+To keep her constancy in plight and youth,
+Outliving beauty’s outward, with a mind
+That doth renew swifter than blood decays!
+Or that persuasion could but thus convince me
+That my integrity and truth to you
+Might be affronted with the match and weight
+Of such a winnowed purity in love.
+How were I then uplifted! But, alas,
+I am as true as truth’s simplicity,
+And simpler than the infancy of truth.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+In that I’ll war with you.
+
+TROILUS.
+O virtuous fight,
+When right with right wars who shall be most right!
+True swains in love shall in the world to come
+Approve their truth by Troilus, when their rhymes,
+Full of protest, of oath, and big compare,
+Want similes, truth tir’d with iteration—
+As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
+As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,
+As iron to adamant, as earth to th’ centre—
+Yet, after all comparisons of truth,
+As truth’s authentic author to be cited,
+‘As true as Troilus’ shall crown up the verse
+And sanctify the numbers.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Prophet may you be!
+If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
+When time is old and hath forgot itself,
+When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
+And blind oblivion swallow’d cities up,
+And mighty states characterless are grated
+To dusty nothing—yet let memory
+From false to false, among false maids in love,
+Upbraid my falsehood when th’ have said ‘As false
+As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth,
+As fox to lamb, or wolf to heifer’s calf,
+Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son’—
+Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,
+‘As false as Cressid.’
+
+PANDARUS.
+Go to, a bargain made; seal it, seal it; I’ll be the witness. Here I
+hold your hand; here my cousin’s. If ever you prove false one to
+another, since I have taken such pains to bring you together, let all
+pitiful goers-between be call’d to the world’s end after my name—call
+them all Pandars; let all constant men be Troiluses, all false women
+Cressids, and all brokers between Pandars. Say ‘Amen.’
+
+TROILUS.
+Amen.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Amen.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber and a bed; which bed, because
+it shall not speak of your pretty encounters, press it to death. Away!
+
+ [_Exeunt Troilus and Cressida_.]
+
+And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here,
+Bed, chamber, pander, to provide this gear!
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+SCENE III. The Greek camp.
+
+ Flourish. Enter Agamemnon, Ulysses, Diomedes, Nestor, Ajax, Menelaus
+ and Calchas.
+
+CALCHAS.
+Now, Princes, for the service I have done,
+Th’advantage of the time prompts me aloud
+To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind
+That, through the sight I bear in things to come,
+I have abandon’d Troy, left my possession,
+Incurr’d a traitor’s name, expos’d myself
+From certain and possess’d conveniences
+To doubtful fortunes, sequest’ring from me all
+That time, acquaintance, custom, and condition,
+Made tame and most familiar to my nature;
+And here, to do you service, am become
+As new into the world, strange, unacquainted—
+I do beseech you, as in way of taste,
+To give me now a little benefit
+Out of those many regist’red in promise,
+Which you say live to come in my behalf.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? Make demand.
+
+CALCHAS.
+You have a Trojan prisoner call’d Antenor,
+Yesterday took; Troy holds him very dear.
+Oft have you—often have you thanks therefore—
+Desir’d my Cressid in right great exchange,
+Whom Troy hath still denied; but this Antenor,
+I know, is such a wrest in their affairs
+That their negotiations all must slack
+Wanting his manage; and they will almost
+Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,
+In change of him. Let him be sent, great Princes,
+And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence
+Shall quite strike off all service I have done
+In most accepted pain.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Let Diomedes bear him,
+And bring us Cressid hither. Calchas shall have
+What he requests of us. Good Diomed,
+Furnish you fairly for this interchange;
+Withal, bring word if Hector will tomorrow
+Be answer’d in his challenge. Ajax is ready.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+This shall I undertake; and ’tis a burden
+Which I am proud to bear.
+
+ [_Exeunt Diomedes and Calchas_.]
+
+ [_Achilles and Patroclus stand in their tent_.]
+
+ULYSSES.
+Achilles stands i’ th’entrance of his tent.
+Please it our general pass strangely by him,
+As if he were forgot; and, Princes all,
+Lay negligent and loose regard upon him.
+I will come last. ’Tis like he’ll question me
+Why such unplausive eyes are bent, why turn’d on him.
+If so, I have derision med’cinable
+To use between your strangeness and his pride,
+Which his own will shall have desire to drink.
+It may do good. Pride hath no other glass
+To show itself but pride; for supple knees
+Feed arrogance and are the proud man’s fees.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+We’ll execute your purpose, and put on
+A form of strangeness as we pass along.
+So do each lord; and either greet him not,
+Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more
+Than if not look’d on. I will lead the way.
+
+ACHILLES.
+What comes the general to speak with me?
+You know my mind. I’ll fight no more ’gainst Troy.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+What says Achilles? Would he aught with us?
+
+NESTOR.
+Would you, my lord, aught with the general?
+
+ACHILLES.
+No.
+
+NESTOR.
+Nothing, my lord.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+The better.
+
+ [_Exeunt Agamemnon and Nestor_.]
+
+ACHILLES.
+Good day, good day.
+
+MENELAUS.
+How do you? How do you?
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+ACHILLES.
+What, does the cuckold scorn me?
+
+AJAX.
+How now, Patroclus?
+
+ACHILLES.
+Good morrow, Ajax.
+
+AJAX.
+Ha?
+
+ACHILLES.
+Good morrow.
+
+AJAX.
+Ay, and good next day too.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+ACHILLES.
+What mean these fellows? Know they not Achilles?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+They pass by strangely. They were us’d to bend,
+To send their smiles before them to Achilles,
+To come as humbly as they us’d to creep
+To holy altars.
+
+ACHILLES.
+What, am I poor of late?
+’Tis certain, greatness, once fall’n out with fortune,
+Must fall out with men too. What the declin’d is,
+He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
+As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies,
+Show not their mealy wings but to the summer;
+And not a man for being simply man
+Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
+That are without him, as place, riches, and favour,
+Prizes of accident, as oft as merit;
+Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,
+The love that lean’d on them as slippery too,
+Doth one pluck down another, and together
+Die in the fall. But ’tis not so with me:
+Fortune and I are friends; I do enjoy
+At ample point all that I did possess
+Save these men’s looks; who do, methinks, find out
+Something not worth in me such rich beholding
+As they have often given. Here is Ulysses.
+I’ll interrupt his reading.
+How now, Ulysses!
+
+ULYSSES.
+Now, great Thetis’ son!
+
+ACHILLES.
+What are you reading?
+
+ULYSSES.
+A strange fellow here
+Writes me that man—how dearly ever parted,
+How much in having, or without or in—
+Cannot make boast to have that which he hath,
+Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflection;
+As when his virtues shining upon others
+Heat them, and they retort that heat again
+To the first giver.
+
+ACHILLES.
+This is not strange, Ulysses.
+The beauty that is borne here in the face
+The bearer knows not, but commends itself
+To others’ eyes; nor doth the eye itself—
+That most pure spirit of sense—behold itself,
+Not going from itself; but eye to eye opposed
+Salutes each other with each other’s form;
+For speculation turns not to itself
+Till it hath travell’d, and is mirror’d there
+Where it may see itself. This is not strange at all.
+
+ULYSSES.
+I do not strain at the position—
+It is familiar—but at the author’s drift;
+Who, in his circumstance, expressly proves
+That no man is the lord of anything,
+Though in and of him there be much consisting,
+Till he communicate his parts to others;
+Nor doth he of himself know them for aught
+Till he behold them formed in the applause
+Where th’are extended; who, like an arch, reverb’rate
+The voice again; or, like a gate of steel
+Fronting the sun, receives and renders back
+His figure and his heat. I was much rapt in this;
+And apprehended here immediately
+Th’unknown Ajax. Heavens, what a man is there!
+A very horse that has he knows not what!
+Nature, what things there are
+Most abject in regard and dear in use!
+What things again most dear in the esteem
+And poor in worth! Now shall we see tomorrow—
+An act that very chance doth throw upon him—
+Ajax renown’d. O heavens, what some men do,
+While some men leave to do!
+How some men creep in skittish Fortune’s hall,
+Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!
+How one man eats into another’s pride,
+While pride is fasting in his wantonness!
+To see these Grecian lords!—why, even already
+They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder,
+As if his foot were on brave Hector’s breast,
+And great Troy shrieking.
+
+ACHILLES.
+I do believe it; for they pass’d by me
+As misers do by beggars, neither gave to me
+Good word nor look. What, are my deeds forgot?
+
+ULYSSES.
+Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
+Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
+A great-siz’d monster of ingratitudes.
+Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour’d
+As fast as they are made, forgot as soon
+As done. Perseverance, dear my lord,
+Keeps honour bright. To have done is to hang
+Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
+In monumental mock’ry. Take the instant way;
+For honour travels in a strait so narrow—
+Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path,
+For emulation hath a thousand sons
+That one by one pursue; if you give way,
+Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,
+Like to an ent’red tide they all rush by
+And leave you hindmost;
+Or, like a gallant horse fall’n in first rank,
+Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,
+O’er-run and trampled on. Then what they do in present,
+Though less than yours in past, must o’ertop yours;
+For Time is like a fashionable host,
+That slightly shakes his parting guest by th’hand;
+And with his arms out-stretch’d, as he would fly,
+Grasps in the comer. The welcome ever smiles,
+And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek
+Remuneration for the thing it was;
+For beauty, wit,
+High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
+Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
+To envious and calumniating Time.
+One touch of nature makes the whole world kin—
+That all with one consent praise new-born gauds,
+Though they are made and moulded of things past,
+And give to dust that is a little gilt
+More laud than gilt o’er-dusted.
+The present eye praises the present object.
+Then marvel not, thou great and complete man,
+That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax,
+Since things in motion sooner catch the eye
+Than what stirs not. The cry went once on thee,
+And still it might, and yet it may again,
+If thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive
+And case thy reputation in thy tent,
+Whose glorious deeds but in these fields of late
+Made emulous missions ’mongst the gods themselves,
+And drave great Mars to faction.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Of this my privacy
+I have strong reasons.
+
+ULYSSES.
+But ’gainst your privacy
+The reasons are more potent and heroical.
+’Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love
+With one of Priam’s daughters.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Ha! known!
+
+ULYSSES.
+Is that a wonder?
+The providence that’s in a watchful state
+Knows almost every grain of Plutus’ gold;
+Finds bottom in th’uncomprehensive deeps;
+Keeps place with thought, and almost, like the gods,
+Do thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.
+There is a mystery—with whom relation
+Durst never meddle—in the soul of state,
+Which hath an operation more divine
+Than breath or pen can give expressure to.
+All the commerce that you have had with Troy
+As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord;
+And better would it fit Achilles much
+To throw down Hector than Polyxena.
+But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home,
+When fame shall in our island sound her trump,
+And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing
+‘Great Hector’s sister did Achilles win;
+But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.’
+Farewell, my lord. I as your lover speak.
+The fool slides o’er the ice that you should break.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+PATROCLUS.
+To this effect, Achilles, have I mov’d you.
+A woman impudent and mannish grown
+Is not more loath’d than an effeminate man
+In time of action. I stand condemn’d for this;
+They think my little stomach to the war
+And your great love to me restrains you thus.
+Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid
+Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold,
+And, like a dew-drop from the lion’s mane,
+Be shook to air.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Shall Ajax fight with Hector?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him.
+
+ACHILLES.
+I see my reputation is at stake;
+My fame is shrewdly gor’d.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+O, then, beware:
+Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves;
+Omission to do what is necessary
+Seals a commission to a blank of danger;
+And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
+Even then when they sit idly in the sun.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Go call Thersites hither, sweet Patroclus.
+I’ll send the fool to Ajax, and desire him
+T’invite the Trojan lords, after the combat,
+To see us here unarm’d. I have a woman’s longing,
+An appetite that I am sick withal,
+To see great Hector in his weeds of peace;
+To talk with him, and to behold his visage,
+Even to my full of view.
+
+ Enter Thersites.
+
+A labour sav’d!
+
+THERSITES.
+A wonder!
+
+ACHILLES.
+What?
+
+THERSITES.
+Ajax goes up and down the field asking for himself.
+
+ACHILLES.
+How so?
+
+THERSITES.
+He must fight singly tomorrow with Hector, and is so prophetically
+proud of an heroical cudgelling that he raves in saying nothing.
+
+ACHILLES.
+How can that be?
+
+THERSITES.
+Why, a’ stalks up and down like a peacock—a stride and a stand;
+ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set
+down her reckoning, bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should
+say ‘There were wit in this head, and ’twould out’; and so there is;
+but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show
+without knocking. The man’s undone for ever; for if Hector break not
+his neck i’ th’ combat, he’ll break’t himself in vainglory. He knows
+not me. I said ‘Good morrow, Ajax’; and he replies ‘Thanks, Agamemnon.’
+What think you of this man that takes me for the general? He’s grown a
+very land fish, languageless, a monster. A plague of opinion! A man may
+wear it on both sides, like leather jerkin.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Thou must be my ambassador to him, Thersites.
+
+THERSITES.
+Who, I? Why, he’ll answer nobody; he professes not answering. Speaking
+is for beggars: he wears his tongue in’s arms. I will put on his
+presence. Let Patroclus make his demands to me, you shall see the
+pageant of Ajax.
+
+ACHILLES.
+To him, Patroclus. Tell him I humbly desire the valiant Ajax to invite
+the most valorous Hector to come unarm’d to my tent; and to procure
+safe conduct for his person of the magnanimous and most illustrious
+six-or-seven-times-honour’d Captain General of the Grecian army,
+Agamemnon. Do this.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Jove bless great Ajax!
+
+THERSITES.
+Hum!
+
+PATROCLUS.
+I come from the worthy Achilles—
+
+THERSITES.
+Ha!
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector to his tent—
+
+THERSITES.
+Hum!
+
+PATROCLUS.
+And to procure safe conduct from Agamemnon.
+
+THERSITES.
+Agamemnon?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Ay, my lord.
+
+THERSITES.
+Ha!
+
+PATROCLUS.
+What you say to’t?
+
+THERSITES.
+God buy you, with all my heart.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Your answer, sir.
+
+THERSITES.
+If tomorrow be a fair day, by eleven of the clock it will go one way or
+other. Howsoever, he shall pay for me ere he has me.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Your answer, sir.
+
+THERSITES.
+Fare ye well, with all my heart.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?
+
+THERSITES.
+No, but out of tune thus. What music will be in him when Hector has
+knock’d out his brains, I know not; but, I am sure, none; unless the
+fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Come, thou shalt bear a letter to him straight.
+
+THERSITES.
+Let me bear another to his horse; for that’s the more capable creature.
+
+ACHILLES.
+My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr’d;
+And I myself see not the bottom of it.
+
+ [_Exeunt Achilles and Patroclus_.]
+
+THERSITES.
+Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an
+ass at it. I had rather be a tick in a sheep than such a valiant
+ignorance.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Troy. A street.
+
+
+ Enter, at one side, Aeneas and servant with a torch; at another Paris,
+ Deiphobus, Antenor, Diomedes the Grecian, and others, with torches.
+
+PARIS.
+See, ho! Who is that there?
+
+DEIPHOBUS.
+It is the Lord Aeneas.
+
+AENEAS.
+Is the Prince there in person?
+Had I so good occasion to lie long
+As you, Prince Paris, nothing but heavenly business
+Should rob my bed-mate of my company.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+That’s my mind too. Good morrow, Lord Aeneas.
+
+PARIS.
+A valiant Greek, Aeneas—take his hand:
+Witness the process of your speech, wherein
+You told how Diomed, a whole week by days,
+Did haunt you in the field.
+
+AENEAS.
+Health to you, valiant sir,
+During all question of the gentle truce;
+But when I meet you arm’d, as black defiance
+As heart can think or courage execute.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+The one and other Diomed embraces.
+Our bloods are now in calm; and so long health!
+But when contention and occasion meet,
+By Jove, I’ll play the hunter for thy life
+With all my force, pursuit, and policy.
+
+AENEAS.
+And thou shalt hunt a lion that will fly
+With his face backward. In humane gentleness,
+Welcome to Troy! Now, by Anchises’ life,
+Welcome indeed! By Venus’ hand I swear
+No man alive can love in such a sort
+The thing he means to kill, more excellently.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+We sympathise. Jove let Aeneas live,
+If to my sword his fate be not the glory,
+A thousand complete courses of the sun!
+But in mine emulous honour let him die
+With every joint a wound, and that tomorrow!
+
+AENEAS.
+We know each other well.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+We do; and long to know each other worse.
+
+PARIS.
+This is the most despiteful gentle greeting,
+The noblest hateful love, that e’er I heard of.
+What business, lord, so early?
+
+AENEAS.
+I was sent for to the King; but why, I know not.
+
+PARIS.
+His purpose meets you: ’twas to bring this Greek
+To Calchas’ house, and there to render him,
+For the enfreed Antenor, the fair Cressid.
+Let’s have your company; or, if you please,
+Haste there before us. I constantly believe—
+Or rather call my thought a certain knowledge—
+My brother Troilus lodges there tonight.
+Rouse him and give him note of our approach,
+With the whole quality wherefore; I fear
+We shall be much unwelcome.
+
+AENEAS.
+That I assure you:
+Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece
+Than Cressid borne from Troy.
+
+PARIS.
+There is no help;
+The bitter disposition of the time
+Will have it so. On, lord; we’ll follow you.
+
+AENEAS.
+Good morrow, all.
+
+ [_Exit with servant_.]
+
+PARIS.
+And tell me, noble Diomed, faith, tell me true,
+Even in the soul of sound good-fellowship,
+Who in your thoughts deserves fair Helen best,
+Myself, or Menelaus?
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Both alike:
+He merits well to have her that doth seek her,
+Not making any scruple of her soilure,
+With such a hell of pain and world of charge;
+And you as well to keep her that defend her,
+Not palating the taste of her dishonour,
+With such a costly loss of wealth and friends.
+He like a puling cuckold would drink up
+The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece;
+You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins
+Are pleas’d to breed out your inheritors.
+Both merits pois’d, each weighs nor less nor more,
+But he as he, the heavier for a whore.
+
+PARIS.
+You are too bitter to your country-woman.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+She’s bitter to her country. Hear me, Paris:
+For every false drop in her bawdy veins
+A Grecian’s life hath sunk; for every scruple
+Of her contaminated carrion weight
+A Trojan hath been slain. Since she could speak,
+She hath not given so many good words breath
+As for her Greeks and Trojans suff’red death.
+
+PARIS.
+Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen do,
+Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy;
+But we in silence hold this virtue well,
+We’ll not commend what we intend to sell.
+Here lies our way.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE II. Troy. The court of Pandarus’ house.
+
+ Enter Troilus and Cressida.
+
+TROILUS.
+Dear, trouble not yourself; the morn is cold.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Then, sweet my lord, I’ll call mine uncle down;
+He shall unbolt the gates.
+
+TROILUS.
+Trouble him not;
+To bed, to bed! Sleep kill those pretty eyes,
+And give as soft attachment to thy senses
+As infants empty of all thought!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Good morrow, then.
+
+TROILUS.
+I prithee now, to bed.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Are you aweary of me?
+
+TROILUS.
+O Cressida! but that the busy day,
+Wak’d by the lark, hath rous’d the ribald crows,
+And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,
+I would not from thee.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Night hath been too brief.
+
+TROILUS.
+Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights she stays
+As tediously as hell, but flies the grasps of love
+With wings more momentary-swift than thought.
+You will catch cold, and curse me.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Prithee tarry.
+You men will never tarry.
+O foolish Cressid! I might have still held off,
+And then you would have tarried. Hark! there’s one up.
+
+PANDARUS.
+[_Within._] What’s all the doors open here?
+
+TROILUS.
+It is your uncle.
+
+ Enter Pandarus.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+A pestilence on him! Now will he be mocking.
+I shall have such a life!
+
+PANDARUS.
+How now, how now! How go maidenheads?
+Here, you maid! Where’s my cousin Cressid?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle.
+You bring me to do, and then you flout me too.
+
+PANDARUS.
+To do what? to do what? Let her say what.
+What have I brought you to do?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Come, come, beshrew your heart! You’ll ne’er be good, nor suffer
+others.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ha, ha! Alas, poor wretch! Ah, poor capocchia! Hast not slept tonight?
+Would he not, a naughty man, let it sleep? A bugbear take him!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Did not I tell you? Would he were knock’d i’ th’ head!
+
+ [_One knocks_.]
+
+Who’s that at door? Good uncle, go and see.
+My lord, come you again into my chamber.
+You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily.
+
+TROILUS.
+Ha! ha!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Come, you are deceiv’d, I think of no such thing.
+
+ [_Knock_.]
+
+How earnestly they knock! Pray you come in:
+I would not for half Troy have you seen here.
+
+ [_Exeunt Troilus and Cressida_.]
+
+PANDARUS.
+Who’s there? What’s the matter? Will you beat down the door? How now?
+What’s the matter?
+
+ Enter Aeneas.
+
+AENEAS.
+Good morrow, lord, good morrow.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Who’s there? My lord Aeneas? By my troth,
+I knew you not. What news with you so early?
+
+AENEAS.
+Is not Prince Troilus here?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Here! What should he do here?
+
+AENEAS.
+Come, he is here, my lord; do not deny him.
+It doth import him much to speak with me.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Is he here, say you? It’s more than I know, I’ll be sworn. For my own
+part, I came in late. What should he do here?
+
+AENEAS.
+Who, nay then! Come, come, you’ll do him wrong ere you are ware; you’ll
+be so true to him to be false to him. Do not you know of him, but yet
+go fetch him hither; go.
+
+ Re-enter Troilus.
+
+TROILUS.
+How now! What’s the matter?
+
+AENEAS.
+My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you,
+My matter is so rash. There is at hand
+Paris your brother, and Deiphobus,
+The Grecian Diomed, and our Antenor
+Deliver’d to us; and for him forthwith,
+Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour,
+We must give up to Diomedes’ hand
+The Lady Cressida.
+
+TROILUS.
+Is it so concluded?
+
+AENEAS.
+By Priam and the general state of Troy.
+They are at hand, and ready to effect it.
+
+TROILUS.
+How my achievements mock me!
+I will go meet them; and, my Lord Aeneas,
+We met by chance; you did not find me here.
+
+AENEAS.
+Good, good, my lord, the secrets of neighbour Pandar
+Have not more gift in taciturnity.
+
+ [_Exeunt Troilus and Aeneas_.]
+
+PANDARUS.
+Is’t possible? No sooner got but lost? The devil take Antenor! The
+young prince will go mad. A plague upon Antenor! I would they had
+broke’s neck.
+
+ Re-enter Cressida.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+How now! What’s the matter? Who was here?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ah, ah!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Why sigh you so profoundly? Where’s my lord? Gone? Tell me, sweet
+uncle, what’s the matter?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Would I were as deep under the earth as I am above!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O the gods! What’s the matter?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Pray thee get thee in. Would thou hadst ne’er been born! I knew thou
+wouldst be his death! O, poor gentleman! A plague upon Antenor!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Good uncle, I beseech you, on my knees I beseech you, what’s the
+matter?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Thou must be gone, wench, thou must be gone; thou art chang’d for
+Antenor; thou must to thy father, and be gone from Troilus. ’Twill be
+his death; ’twill be his bane; he cannot bear it.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O you immortal gods! I will not go.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Thou must.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+I will not, uncle. I have forgot my father;
+I know no touch of consanguinity,
+No kin, no love, no blood, no soul so near me
+As the sweet Troilus. O you gods divine,
+Make Cressid’s name the very crown of falsehood,
+If ever she leave Troilus! Time, force, and death,
+Do to this body what extremes you can,
+But the strong base and building of my love
+Is as the very centre of the earth,
+Drawing all things to it. I’ll go in and weep—
+
+PANDARUS.
+Do, do.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised cheeks,
+Crack my clear voice with sobs and break my heart,
+With sounding ‘Troilus.’ I will not go from Troy.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE III. Troy. A street before Pandarus’ house.
+
+ Enter Paris, Troilus, Aeneas, Deiphobus, Antenor and Diomedes.
+
+PARIS.
+It is great morning; and the hour prefix’d
+For her delivery to this valiant Greek
+Comes fast upon. Good my brother Troilus,
+Tell you the lady what she is to do
+And haste her to the purpose.
+
+TROILUS.
+Walk into her house.
+I’ll bring her to the Grecian presently;
+And to his hand when I deliver her,
+Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus
+A priest, there off’ring to it his own heart.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+PARIS.
+I know what ’tis to love,
+And would, as I shall pity, I could help!
+Please you walk in, my lords?
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE IV. Troy. Pandarus’ house.
+
+ Enter Pandarus and Cressida.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Be moderate, be moderate.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Why tell you me of moderation?
+The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
+And violenteth in a sense as strong
+As that which causeth it. How can I moderate it?
+If I could temporize with my affections
+Or brew it to a weak and colder palate,
+The like allayment could I give my grief.
+My love admits no qualifying dross;
+No more my grief, in such a precious loss.
+
+ Enter Troilus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Here, here, here he comes. Ah, sweet ducks!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+[_Embracing him_.] O Troilus! Troilus!
+
+PANDARUS.
+What a pair of spectacles is here! Let me embrace too. ‘O heart,’ as
+the goodly saying is,—
+
+  O heart, heavy heart,
+  Why sigh’st thou without breaking?
+
+where he answers again
+
+  Because thou canst not ease thy smart
+  By friendship nor by speaking.
+
+There was never a truer rhyme. Let us cast away nothing, for we may
+live to have need of such a verse. We see it, we see it. How now,
+lambs!
+
+TROILUS.
+Cressid, I love thee in so strain’d a purity
+That the bless’d gods, as angry with my fancy,
+More bright in zeal than the devotion which
+Cold lips blow to their deities, take thee from me.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Have the gods envy?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Ay, ay, ay, ay; ’tis too plain a case.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+And is it true that I must go from Troy?
+
+TROILUS.
+A hateful truth.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+What! and from Troilus too?
+
+TROILUS.
+From Troy and Troilus.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Is’t possible?
+
+TROILUS.
+And suddenly; where injury of chance
+Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by
+All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips
+Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents
+Our lock’d embrasures, strangles our dear vows
+Even in the birth of our own labouring breath.
+We two, that with so many thousand sighs
+Did buy each other, must poorly sell ourselves
+With the rude brevity and discharge of one.
+Injurious time now with a robber’s haste
+Crams his rich thiev’ry up, he knows not how.
+As many farewells as be stars in heaven,
+With distinct breath and consign’d kisses to them,
+He fumbles up into a loose adieu,
+And scants us with a single famish’d kiss,
+Distasted with the salt of broken tears.
+
+AENEAS.
+[_Within_.] My lord, is the lady ready?
+
+TROILUS.
+Hark! you are call’d. Some say the Genius
+Cries so to him that instantly must die.
+Bid them have patience; she shall come anon.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Where are my tears? Rain, to lay this wind, or my heart will be blown
+up by my throat!
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+CRESSIDA.
+I must then to the Grecians?
+
+TROILUS.
+No remedy.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+A woeful Cressid ’mongst the merry Greeks!
+When shall we see again?
+
+TROILUS.
+Hear me, my love. Be thou but true of heart.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+I true? How now! What wicked deem is this?
+
+TROILUS.
+Nay, we must use expostulation kindly,
+For it is parting from us.
+I speak not ‘Be thou true’ as fearing thee,
+For I will throw my glove to Death himself
+That there’s no maculation in thy heart;
+But ‘Be thou true’ say I to fashion in
+My sequent protestation: be thou true,
+And I will see thee.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O! you shall be expos’d, my lord, to dangers
+As infinite as imminent! But I’ll be true.
+
+TROILUS.
+And I’ll grow friend with danger. Wear this sleeve.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+And you this glove. When shall I see you?
+
+TROILUS.
+I will corrupt the Grecian sentinels
+To give thee nightly visitation.
+But yet be true.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O heavens! ‘Be true’ again!
+
+TROILUS.
+Hear why I speak it, love.
+The Grecian youths are full of quality;
+They’re loving, well compos’d, with gifts of nature,
+Flowing and swelling o’er with arts and exercise.
+How novelty may move, and parts with person,
+Alas, a kind of godly jealousy,
+Which, I beseech you, call a virtuous sin,
+Makes me afear’d.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O heavens! you love me not!
+
+TROILUS.
+Die I a villain then!
+In this I do not call your faith in question
+So mainly as my merit. I cannot sing,
+Nor heel the high lavolt, nor sweeten talk,
+Nor play at subtle games; fair virtues all,
+To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant;
+But I can tell that in each grace of these
+There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive devil
+That tempts most cunningly. But be not tempted.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Do you think I will?
+
+TROILUS.
+No.
+But something may be done that we will not;
+And sometimes we are devils to ourselves,
+When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
+Presuming on their changeful potency.
+
+AENEAS.
+[_Within_.] Nay, good my lord!
+
+TROILUS.
+Come, kiss; and let us part.
+
+PARIS.
+[_Within_.] Brother Troilus!
+
+TROILUS.
+Good brother, come you hither;
+And bring Aeneas and the Grecian with you.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+My lord, will you be true?
+
+TROILUS.
+Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault!
+Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,
+I with great truth catch mere simplicity;
+Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
+With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
+Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit
+Is plain and true; there’s all the reach of it.
+
+ Enter Aeneas, Paris, Antenor, Deiphobus and Diomedes.
+
+Welcome, Sir Diomed! Here is the lady
+Which for Antenor we deliver you;
+At the port, lord, I’ll give her to thy hand,
+And by the way possess thee what she is.
+Entreat her fair; and, by my soul, fair Greek,
+If e’er thou stand at mercy of my sword,
+Name Cressid, and thy life shall be as safe
+As Priam is in Ilion.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Fair Lady Cressid,
+So please you, save the thanks this prince expects.
+The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek,
+Pleads your fair usage; and to Diomed
+You shall be mistress, and command him wholly.
+
+TROILUS.
+Grecian, thou dost not use me courteously
+To shame the zeal of my petition to thee
+In praising her. I tell thee, lord of Greece,
+She is as far high-soaring o’er thy praises
+As thou unworthy to be call’d her servant.
+I charge thee use her well, even for my charge;
+For, by the dreadful Pluto, if thou dost not,
+Though the great bulk Achilles be thy guard,
+I’ll cut thy throat.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+O, be not mov’d, Prince Troilus.
+Let me be privileg’d by my place and message
+To be a speaker free: when I am hence
+I’ll answer to my lust. And know you, lord,
+I’ll nothing do on charge: to her own worth
+She shall be priz’d. But that you say ‘Be’t so,’
+I speak it in my spirit and honour, ‘No.’
+
+TROILUS.
+Come, to the port. I’ll tell thee, Diomed,
+This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head.
+Lady, give me your hand; and, as we walk,
+To our own selves bend we our needful talk.
+
+ [_Exeunt Troilus, Cressida and Diomedes_.]
+
+ [_Sound trumpet_.]
+
+PARIS.
+Hark! Hector’s trumpet.
+
+AENEAS.
+How have we spent this morning!
+The Prince must think me tardy and remiss,
+That swore to ride before him to the field.
+
+PARIS.
+’Tis Troilus’ fault. Come, come to field with him.
+
+DEIPHOBUS.
+Let us make ready straight.
+
+AENEAS.
+Yea, with a bridegroom’s fresh alacrity
+Let us address to tend on Hector’s heels.
+The glory of our Troy doth this day lie
+On his fair worth and single chivalry.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE V. The Grecian camp. Lists set out.
+
+ Enter Ajax, armed; Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus, Menelaus, Ulysses,
+ Nestor and others.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,
+Anticipating time with starting courage.
+Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,
+Thou dreadful Ajax, that the appalled air
+May pierce the head of the great combatant,
+And hale him hither.
+
+AJAX.
+Thou, trumpet, there’s my purse.
+Now crack thy lungs and split thy brazen pipe;
+Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek
+Out-swell the colic of puff’d Aquilon.
+Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout blood:
+Thou blowest for Hector.
+
+ [_Trumpet sounds_.]
+
+ULYSSES.
+No trumpet answers.
+
+ACHILLES.
+’Tis but early days.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Is not yond Diomed, with Calchas’ daughter?
+
+ULYSSES.
+’Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait:
+He rises on the toe. That spirit of his
+In aspiration lifts him from the earth.
+
+ Enter Diomedes and Cressida.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Is this the Lady Cressid?
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Even she.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Most dearly welcome to the Greeks, sweet lady.
+
+NESTOR.
+Our general doth salute you with a kiss.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Yet is the kindness but particular;
+’Twere better she were kiss’d in general.
+
+NESTOR.
+And very courtly counsel: I’ll begin.
+So much for Nestor.
+
+ACHILLES.
+I’ll take that winter from your lips, fair lady.
+Achilles bids you welcome.
+
+MENELAUS.
+I had good argument for kissing once.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+But that’s no argument for kissing now;
+For thus popp’d Paris in his hardiment,
+And parted thus you and your argument.
+
+ULYSSES.
+O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns!
+For which we lose our heads to gild his horns.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+The first was Menelaus’ kiss; this, mine:
+Patroclus kisses you.
+
+MENELAUS.
+O, this is trim!
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Paris and I kiss evermore for him.
+
+MENELAUS.
+I’ll have my kiss, sir. Lady, by your leave.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+In kissing, do you render or receive?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Both take and give.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+I’ll make my match to live,
+The kiss you take is better than you give;
+Therefore no kiss.
+
+MENELAUS.
+I’ll give you boot; I’ll give you three for one.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+You are an odd man; give even or give none.
+
+MENELAUS.
+An odd man, lady! Every man is odd.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+No, Paris is not; for you know ’tis true
+That you are odd, and he is even with you.
+
+MENELAUS.
+You fillip me o’ th’head.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+No, I’ll be sworn.
+
+ULYSSES.
+It were no match, your nail against his horn.
+May I, sweet lady, beg a kiss of you?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+You may.
+
+ULYSSES.
+I do desire it.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Why, beg then.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Why then, for Venus’ sake give me a kiss
+When Helen is a maid again, and his.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+I am your debtor; claim it when ’tis due.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Never’s my day, and then a kiss of you.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Lady, a word. I’ll bring you to your father.
+
+ [_Exit with_ Cressida.]
+
+NESTOR.
+A woman of quick sense.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Fie, fie upon her!
+There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
+Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
+At every joint and motive of her body.
+O! these encounterers so glib of tongue
+That give a coasting welcome ere it comes,
+And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
+To every tickling reader! Set them down
+For sluttish spoils of opportunity,
+And daughters of the game.
+
+ [_Trumpet within_.]
+
+ALL.
+The Trojans’ trumpet.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Yonder comes the troop.
+
+ Enter Hector, armed; Aeneas, Troilus, Paris, Deiphobus and other
+Trojans, with attendants.
+
+AENEAS.
+Hail, all you state of Greece! What shall be done
+To him that victory commands? Or do you purpose
+A victor shall be known? Will you the knights
+Shall to the edge of all extremity
+Pursue each other, or shall be divided
+By any voice or order of the field?
+Hector bade ask.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Which way would Hector have it?
+
+AENEAS.
+He cares not; he’ll obey conditions.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+’Tis done like Hector.
+
+ACHILLES.
+But securely done,
+A little proudly, and great deal misprising
+The knight oppos’d.
+
+AENEAS.
+If not Achilles, sir,
+What is your name?
+
+ACHILLES.
+If not Achilles, nothing.
+
+AENEAS.
+Therefore Achilles. But whate’er, know this:
+In the extremity of great and little
+Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector;
+The one almost as infinite as all,
+The other blank as nothing. Weigh him well,
+And that which looks like pride is courtesy.
+This Ajax is half made of Hector’s blood;
+In love whereof half Hector stays at home;
+Half heart, half hand, half Hector comes to seek
+This blended knight, half Trojan and half Greek.
+
+ACHILLES.
+A maiden battle then? O! I perceive you.
+
+ Re-enter Diomedes.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Here is Sir Diomed. Go, gentle knight,
+Stand by our Ajax. As you and Lord Aeneas
+Consent upon the order of their fight,
+So be it; either to the uttermost,
+Or else a breath. The combatants being kin
+Half stints their strife before their strokes begin.
+
+Ajax and Hector enter the lists.
+
+ULYSSES.
+They are oppos’d already.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+What Trojan is that same that looks so heavy?
+
+ULYSSES.
+The youngest son of Priam, a true knight;
+Not yet mature, yet matchless; firm of word;
+Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue;
+Not soon provok’d, nor being provok’d soon calm’d;
+His heart and hand both open and both free;
+For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows,
+Yet gives he not till judgement guide his bounty,
+Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath;
+Manly as Hector, but more dangerous;
+For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes
+To tender objects, but he in heat of action
+Is more vindicative than jealous love.
+They call him Troilus, and on him erect
+A second hope as fairly built as Hector.
+Thus says Aeneas, one that knows the youth
+Even to his inches, and, with private soul,
+Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me.
+
+ [_Alarum. Hector and Ajax fight._]
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+They are in action.
+
+NESTOR.
+Now, Ajax, hold thine own!
+
+TROILUS.
+Hector, thou sleep’st; awake thee!
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+His blows are well dispos’d. There, Ajax!
+
+ [_Trumpets cease_.]
+
+DIOMEDES.
+You must no more.
+
+AENEAS.
+Princes, enough, so please you.
+
+AJAX.
+I am not warm yet; let us fight again.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+As Hector pleases.
+
+HECTOR.
+Why, then will I no more.
+Thou art, great lord, my father’s sister’s son,
+A cousin-german to great Priam’s seed;
+The obligation of our blood forbids
+A gory emulation ’twixt us twain:
+Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan so
+That thou could’st say ‘This hand is Grecian all,
+And this is Trojan; the sinews of this leg
+All Greek, and this all Troy; my mother’s blood
+Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister
+Bounds in my father’s; by Jove multipotent,
+Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member
+Wherein my sword had not impressure made
+Of our rank feud; but the just gods gainsay
+That any drop thou borrow’dst from thy mother,
+My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword
+Be drained! Let me embrace thee, Ajax.
+By him that thunders, thou hast lusty arms;
+Hector would have them fall upon him thus.
+Cousin, all honour to thee!
+
+AJAX.
+I thank thee, Hector.
+Thou art too gentle and too free a man.
+I came to kill thee, cousin, and bear hence
+A great addition earned in thy death.
+
+HECTOR.
+Not Neoptolemus so mirable,
+On whose bright crest Fame with her loud’st Oyes
+Cries ‘This is he!’ could promise to himself
+A thought of added honour torn from Hector.
+
+AENEAS.
+There is expectance here from both the sides
+What further you will do.
+
+HECTOR.
+We’ll answer it:
+The issue is embracement. Ajax, farewell.
+
+AJAX.
+If I might in entreaties find success,
+As seld’ I have the chance, I would desire
+My famous cousin to our Grecian tents.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+’Tis Agamemnon’s wish; and great Achilles
+Doth long to see unarm’d the valiant Hector.
+
+HECTOR.
+Aeneas, call my brother Troilus to me,
+And signify this loving interview
+To the expecters of our Trojan part;
+Desire them home. Give me thy hand, my cousin;
+I will go eat with thee, and see your knights.
+
+Agamemnon and the rest of the Greeks come forward.
+
+AJAX.
+Great Agamemnon comes to meet us here.
+
+HECTOR.
+The worthiest of them tell me name by name;
+But for Achilles, my own searching eyes
+Shall find him by his large and portly size.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Worthy all arms! as welcome as to one
+That would be rid of such an enemy.
+But that’s no welcome. Understand more clear,
+What’s past and what’s to come is strew’d with husks
+And formless ruin of oblivion;
+But in this extant moment, faith and troth,
+Strain’d purely from all hollow bias-drawing,
+Bids thee with most divine integrity,
+From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome.
+
+HECTOR.
+I thank thee, most imperious Agamemnon.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+[_To Troilus._] My well-fam’d lord of Troy, no less to you.
+
+MENELAUS.
+Let me confirm my princely brother’s greeting.
+You brace of warlike brothers, welcome hither.
+
+HECTOR.
+Who must we answer?
+
+AENEAS.
+The noble Menelaus.
+
+HECTOR.
+O you, my lord? By Mars his gauntlet, thanks!
+Mock not that I affect the untraded oath;
+Your quondam wife swears still by Venus’ glove.
+She’s well, but bade me not commend her to you.
+
+MENELAUS.
+Name her not now, sir; she’s a deadly theme.
+
+HECTOR.
+O, pardon; I offend.
+
+NESTOR.
+I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft,
+Labouring for destiny, make cruel way
+Through ranks of Greekish youth; and I have seen thee,
+As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed,
+Despising many forfeits and subduements,
+When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i’ th’air,
+Not letting it decline on the declined;
+That I have said to some my standers-by
+‘Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life!’
+And I have seen thee pause and take thy breath,
+When that a ring of Greeks have shrap’d thee in,
+Like an Olympian wrestling. This have I seen;
+But this thy countenance, still lock’d in steel,
+I never saw till now. I knew thy grandsire,
+And once fought with him. He was a soldier good,
+But, by great Mars, the captain of us all,
+Never like thee. O, let an old man embrace thee;
+And, worthy warrior, welcome to our tents.
+
+AENEAS.
+’Tis the old Nestor.
+
+HECTOR.
+Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle,
+That hast so long walk’d hand in hand with time.
+Most reverend Nestor, I am glad to clasp thee.
+
+NESTOR.
+I would my arms could match thee in contention
+As they contend with thee in courtesy.
+
+HECTOR.
+I would they could.
+
+NESTOR.
+Ha!
+By this white beard, I’d fight with thee tomorrow.
+Well, welcome, welcome! I have seen the time.
+
+ULYSSES.
+I wonder now how yonder city stands,
+When we have here her base and pillar by us.
+
+HECTOR.
+I know your favour, Lord Ulysses, well.
+Ah, sir, there’s many a Greek and Trojan dead,
+Since first I saw yourself and Diomed
+In Ilion on your Greekish embassy.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Sir, I foretold you then what would ensue.
+My prophecy is but half his journey yet;
+For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,
+Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
+Must kiss their own feet.
+
+HECTOR.
+I must not believe you.
+There they stand yet; and modestly I think
+The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost
+A drop of Grecian blood. The end crowns all;
+And that old common arbitrator, Time,
+Will one day end it.
+
+ULYSSES.
+So to him we leave it.
+Most gentle and most valiant Hector, welcome.
+After the General, I beseech you next
+To feast with me and see me at my tent.
+
+ACHILLES.
+I shall forestall thee, Lord Ulysses, thou!
+Now, Hector, I have fed mine eyes on thee;
+I have with exact view perus’d thee, Hector,
+And quoted joint by joint.
+
+HECTOR.
+Is this Achilles?
+
+ACHILLES.
+I am Achilles.
+
+HECTOR.
+Stand fair, I pray thee; let me look on thee.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Behold thy fill.
+
+HECTOR.
+Nay, I have done already.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Thou art too brief. I will the second time,
+As I would buy thee, view thee limb by limb.
+
+HECTOR.
+O, like a book of sport thou’lt read me o’er;
+But there’s more in me than thou understand’st.
+Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye?
+
+ACHILLES.
+Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body
+Shall I destroy him? Whether there, or there, or there?
+That I may give the local wound a name,
+And make distinct the very breach whereout
+Hector’s great spirit flew. Answer me, heavens.
+
+HECTOR.
+It would discredit the blest gods, proud man,
+To answer such a question. Stand again.
+Think’st thou to catch my life so pleasantly
+As to prenominate in nice conjecture
+Where thou wilt hit me dead?
+
+ACHILLES.
+I tell thee yea.
+
+HECTOR.
+Wert thou an oracle to tell me so,
+I’d not believe thee. Henceforth guard thee well;
+For I’ll not kill thee there, nor there, nor there;
+But, by the forge that stithied Mars his helm,
+I’ll kill thee everywhere, yea, o’er and o’er.
+You wisest Grecians, pardon me this brag.
+His insolence draws folly from my lips;
+But I’ll endeavour deeds to match these words,
+Or may I never—
+
+AJAX.
+Do not chafe thee, cousin;
+And you, Achilles, let these threats alone
+Till accident or purpose bring you to’t.
+You may have every day enough of Hector,
+If you have stomach. The general state, I fear,
+Can scarce entreat you to be odd with him.
+
+HECTOR.
+I pray you let us see you in the field;
+We have had pelting wars since you refus’d
+The Grecians’ cause.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Dost thou entreat me, Hector?
+Tomorrow do I meet thee, fell as death;
+Tonight all friends.
+
+HECTOR.
+Thy hand upon that match.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;
+There in the full convive we; afterwards,
+As Hector’s leisure and your bounties shall
+Concur together, severally entreat him.
+Beat loud the tambourines, let the trumpets blow,
+That this great soldier may his welcome know.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but Troilus and Ulysses_.]
+
+TROILUS.
+My Lord Ulysses, tell me, I beseech you,
+In what place of the field doth Calchas keep?
+
+ULYSSES.
+At Menelaus’ tent, most princely Troilus.
+There Diomed doth feast with him tonight,
+Who neither looks upon the heaven nor earth,
+But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view
+On the fair Cressid.
+
+TROILUS.
+Shall I, sweet lord, be bound to you so much,
+After we part from Agamemnon’s tent,
+To bring me thither?
+
+ULYSSES.
+You shall command me, sir.
+As gentle tell me of what honour was
+This Cressida in Troy? Had she no lover there
+That wails her absence?
+
+TROILUS.
+O, sir, to such as boasting show their scars
+A mock is due. Will you walk on, my lord?
+She was belov’d, she lov’d; she is, and doth;
+But still sweet love is food for fortune’s tooth.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.
+
+
+ Enter Achilles and Patroclus.
+
+ACHILLES.
+I’ll heat his blood with Greekish wine tonight,
+Which with my scimitar I’ll cool tomorrow.
+Patroclus, let us feast him to the height.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Here comes Thersites.
+
+ Enter Thersites.
+
+ACHILLES.
+How now, thou core of envy!
+Thou crusty batch of nature, what’s the news?
+
+THERSITES.
+Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot worshippers,
+here’s a letter for thee.
+
+ACHILLES.
+From whence, fragment?
+
+THERSITES.
+Why, thou full dish of fool, from Troy.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Who keeps the tent now?
+
+THERSITES.
+The surgeon’s box or the patient’s wound.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Well said, adversity! And what needs these tricks?
+
+THERSITES.
+Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk; thou art said to be
+Achilles’ male varlet.
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Male varlet, you rogue! What’s that?
+
+THERSITES.
+Why, his masculine whore. Now, the rotten diseases of the south, the
+guts-griping ruptures, catarrhs, loads o’ gravel in the back,
+lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing lungs,
+bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas, lime-kilns i’ th’ palm,
+incurable bone-ache, and the rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take
+and take again such preposterous discoveries!
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Why, thou damnable box of envy, thou, what meanest thou to curse thus?
+
+THERSITES.
+Do I curse thee?
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Why, no, you ruinous butt; you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no.
+
+THERSITES.
+No! Why art thou, then, exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of
+sleave silk, thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a
+prodigal’s purse, thou? Ah, how the poor world is  pestered with such
+water-flies, diminutives of nature!
+
+PATROCLUS.
+Out, gall!
+
+THERSITES.
+Finch egg!
+
+ACHILLES.
+My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite
+From my great purpose in tomorrow’s battle.
+Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba,
+A token from her daughter, my fair love,
+Both taxing me and gaging me to keep
+An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it.
+Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay;
+My major vow lies here, this I’ll obey.
+Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent;
+This night in banqueting must all be spent.
+Away, Patroclus!
+
+ [_Exit with_ Patroclus.]
+
+THERSITES.
+With too much blood and too little brain these two may run mad; but, if
+with too much brain and too little blood they do, I’ll be a curer of
+madmen. Here’s Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves
+quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly
+transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive
+statue and oblique memorial of cuckolds, a thrifty shoeing-horn in a
+chain at his brother’s leg, to what form but that he is, should wit
+larded with malice, and malice forced with wit, turn him to? To an ass,
+were nothing: he is both ass and ox. To an ox, were nothing: he is both
+ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchook, a toad, a lizard,
+an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would not care; but to
+be Menelaus, I would conspire against destiny. Ask me not what I would
+be, if I were not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse of a lazar,
+so I were not Menelaus. Hey-day! sprites and fires!
+
+ Enter Hector, Troilus, Ajax, Agamemnon, Ulysses, Nestor, Menelaus and
+ Diomedes with lights.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+We go wrong, we go wrong.
+
+AJAX.
+No, yonder ’tis;
+There, where we see the lights.
+
+HECTOR.
+I trouble you.
+
+AJAX.
+No, not a whit.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Here comes himself to guide you.
+
+ Re-enter Achilles.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Welcome, brave Hector; welcome, Princes all.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+So now, fair Prince of Troy, I bid good night;
+Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.
+
+HECTOR.
+Thanks, and good night to the Greeks’ general.
+
+MENELAUS.
+Good night, my lord.
+
+HECTOR.
+Good night, sweet Lord Menelaus.
+
+THERSITES.
+Sweet draught! ‘Sweet’ quoth a’!
+Sweet sink, sweet sewer!
+
+ACHILLES.
+Good night and welcome, both at once, to those
+That go or tarry.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Good night.
+
+ [_Exeunt Agamemnon and Menelaus_.]
+
+ACHILLES.
+Old Nestor tarries; and you too, Diomed,
+Keep Hector company an hour or two.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+I cannot, lord; I have important business,
+The tide whereof is now. Good night, great Hector.
+
+HECTOR.
+Give me your hand.
+
+ULYSSES.
+[_Aside to Troilus._] Follow his torch; he goes to
+Calchas’ tent; I’ll keep you company.
+
+TROILUS.
+Sweet sir, you honour me.
+
+HECTOR.
+And so, good night.
+
+ [_Exit Diomedes, Ulysses and Troilus following._]
+
+ACHILLES.
+Come, come, enter my tent.
+
+ [_Exeunt all but_ Thersites.]
+
+THERSITES.
+That same Diomed’s a false-hearted rogue, a most unjust knave; I will
+no more trust him when he leers than I will a serpent when he hisses.
+He will spend his mouth and promise, like Brabbler the hound; but when
+he performs, astronomers foretell it: it is prodigious, there will come
+some change; the sun borrows of the moon when Diomed keeps his word. I
+will rather leave to see Hector than not to dog him. They say he keeps
+a Trojan drab, and uses the traitor Calchas’ tent. I’ll after. Nothing
+but lechery! All incontinent varlets!
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+SCENE II. The Grecian camp. Before Calchas’ tent.
+
+ Enter Diomedes.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+What, are you up here, ho! Speak.
+
+CALCHAS.
+[_Within_.] Who calls?
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Diomed. Calchas, I think. Where’s your daughter?
+
+CALCHAS.
+[_Within_.] She comes to you.
+
+ Enter Troilus and Ulysses, at a distance; after them Thersites.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Stand where the torch may not discover us.
+
+ Enter Cressida.
+
+TROILUS.
+Cressid comes forth to him.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+How now, my charge!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Now, my sweet guardian! Hark, a word with you.
+
+ [_Whispers_.]
+
+TROILUS.
+Yea, so familiar?
+
+ULYSSES.
+She will sing any man at first sight.
+
+THERSITES.
+And any man may sing her, if he can take her cliff; she’s noted.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Will you remember?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Remember! Yes.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Nay, but do, then;
+And let your mind be coupled with your words.
+
+TROILUS.
+What should she remember?
+
+ULYSSES.
+List!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly.
+
+THERSITES.
+Roguery!
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Nay, then—
+
+CRESSIDA.
+I’ll tell you what—
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Fo, fo! come, tell a pin; you are a forsworn.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+In faith, I cannot. What would you have me do?
+
+THERSITES.
+A juggling trick, to be secretly open.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+What did you swear you would bestow on me?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath;
+Bid me do anything but that, sweet Greek.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Good night.
+
+TROILUS.
+Hold, patience!
+
+ULYSSES.
+How now, Trojan!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Diomed!
+
+DIOMEDES.
+No, no, good night; I’ll be your fool no more.
+
+TROILUS.
+Thy better must.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Hark! a word in your ear.
+
+TROILUS.
+O plague and madness!
+
+ULYSSES.
+You are moved, Prince; let us depart, I pray,
+Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself
+To wrathful terms. This place is dangerous;
+The time right deadly; I beseech you, go.
+
+TROILUS.
+Behold, I pray you.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Nay, good my lord, go off;
+You flow to great distraction; come, my lord.
+
+TROILUS.
+I pray thee stay.
+
+ULYSSES.
+You have not patience; come.
+
+TROILUS.
+I pray you, stay; by hell and all hell’s torments,
+I will not speak a word.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+And so, good night.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Nay, but you part in anger.
+
+TROILUS.
+Doth that grieve thee? O withered truth!
+
+ULYSSES.
+How now, my lord?
+
+TROILUS.
+By Jove, I will be patient.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Guardian! Why, Greek!
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Fo, fo! adieu! you palter.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+In faith, I do not. Come hither once again.
+
+ULYSSES.
+You shake, my lord, at something; will you go?
+You will break out.
+
+TROILUS.
+She strokes his cheek.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Come, come.
+
+TROILUS.
+Nay, stay; by Jove, I will not speak a word:
+There is between my will and all offences
+A guard of patience. Stay a little while.
+
+THERSITES.
+How the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and potato finger, tickles
+these together! Fry, lechery, fry!
+
+DIOMEDES.
+But will you, then?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+In faith, I will, la; never trust me else.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Give me some token for the surety of it.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+I’ll fetch you one.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+ULYSSES.
+You have sworn patience.
+
+TROILUS.
+Fear me not, my lord;
+I will not be myself, nor have cognition
+Of what I feel. I am all patience.
+
+ Re-enter Cressida.
+
+THERSITES.
+Now the pledge; now, now, now!
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Here, Diomed, keep this sleeve.
+
+TROILUS.
+O beauty! where is thy faith?
+
+ULYSSES.
+My lord!
+
+TROILUS.
+I will be patient; outwardly I will.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+You look upon that sleeve; behold it well.
+He lov’d me—O false wench!—Give’t me again.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Whose was’t?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+It is no matter, now I have’t again.
+I will not meet with you tomorrow night.
+I prithee, Diomed, visit me no more.
+
+THERSITES.
+Now she sharpens. Well said, whetstone.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+I shall have it.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+What, this?
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Ay, that.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+O all you gods! O pretty, pretty pledge!
+Thy master now lies thinking on his bed
+Of thee and me, and sighs, and takes my glove,
+And gives memorial dainty kisses to it,
+As I kiss thee. Nay, do not snatch it from me;
+He that takes that doth take my heart withal.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+I had your heart before; this follows it.
+
+TROILUS.
+I did swear patience.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+You shall not have it, Diomed; faith, you shall not;
+I’ll give you something else.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+I will have this. Whose was it?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+It is no matter.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Come, tell me whose it was.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+’Twas one’s that lov’d me better than you will.
+But, now you have it, take it.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Whose was it?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+By all Diana’s waiting women yond,
+And by herself, I will not tell you whose.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Tomorrow will I wear it on my helm,
+And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it.
+
+TROILUS.
+Wert thou the devil and wor’st it on thy horn,
+It should be challeng’d.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Well, well, ’tis done, ’tis past; and yet it is not;
+I will not keep my word.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Why, then farewell;
+Thou never shalt mock Diomed again.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+You shall not go. One cannot speak a word
+But it straight starts you.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+I do not like this fooling.
+
+THERSITES.
+Nor I, by Pluto; but that that likes not you
+Pleases me best.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+What, shall I come? The hour?
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Ay, come; O Jove! Do come. I shall be plagu’d.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Farewell till then.
+
+CRESSIDA.
+Good night. I prithee come.
+
+ [_Exit_ Diomedes.]
+
+Troilus, farewell! One eye yet looks on thee;
+But with my heart the other eye doth see.
+Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
+The error of our eye directs our mind.
+What error leads must err; O, then conclude,
+Minds sway’d by eyes are full of turpitude.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+THERSITES.
+A proof of strength she could not publish more,
+Unless she said ‘My mind is now turn’d whore.’
+
+ULYSSES.
+All’s done, my lord.
+
+TROILUS.
+It is.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Why stay we, then?
+
+TROILUS.
+To make a recordation to my soul
+Of every syllable that here was spoke.
+But if I tell how these two did co-act,
+Shall I not lie in publishing a truth?
+Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
+An esperance so obstinately strong,
+That doth invert th’attest of eyes and ears;
+As if those organs had deceptious functions
+Created only to calumniate.
+Was Cressid here?
+
+ULYSSES.
+I cannot conjure, Trojan.
+
+TROILUS.
+She was not, sure.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Most sure she was.
+
+TROILUS.
+Why, my negation hath no taste of madness.
+
+ULYSSES.
+Nor mine, my lord. Cressid was here but now.
+
+TROILUS.
+Let it not be believ’d for womanhood.
+Think, we had mothers; do not give advantage
+To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme,
+For depravation, to square the general sex
+By Cressid’s rule. Rather think this not Cressid.
+
+ULYSSES.
+What hath she done, Prince, that can soil our mothers?
+
+TROILUS.
+Nothing at all, unless that this were she.
+
+THERSITES.
+Will he swagger himself out on’s own eyes?
+
+TROILUS.
+This she? No; this is Diomed’s Cressida.
+If beauty have a soul, this is not she;
+If souls guide vows, if vows be sanctimonies,
+If sanctimony be the god’s delight,
+If there be rule in unity itself,
+This was not she. O madness of discourse,
+That cause sets up with and against itself!
+Bi-fold authority! where reason can revolt
+Without perdition, and loss assume all reason
+Without revolt: this is, and is not, Cressid.
+Within my soul there doth conduce a fight
+Of this strange nature, that a thing inseparate
+Divides more wider than the sky and earth;
+And yet the spacious breadth of this division
+Admits no orifice for a point as subtle
+As Ariachne’s broken woof to enter.
+Instance, O instance! strong as Pluto’s gates:
+Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven.
+Instance, O instance! strong as heaven itself:
+The bonds of heaven are slipp’d, dissolv’d, and loos’d;
+And with another knot, five-finger-tied,
+The fractions of her faith, orts of her love,
+The fragments, scraps, the bits, and greasy relics
+Of her o’er-eaten faith, are given to Diomed.
+
+ULYSSES.
+May worthy Troilus be half attach’d
+With that which here his passion doth express?
+
+TROILUS.
+Ay, Greek; and that shall be divulged well
+In characters as red as Mars his heart
+Inflam’d with Venus. Never did young man fancy
+With so eternal and so fix’d a soul.
+Hark, Greek: as much as I do Cressid love,
+So much by weight hate I her Diomed.
+That sleeve is mine that he’ll bear on his helm;
+Were it a casque compos’d by Vulcan’s skill
+My sword should bite it. Not the dreadful spout
+Which shipmen do the hurricano call,
+Constring’d in mass by the almighty sun,
+Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune’s ear
+In his descent than shall my prompted sword
+Falling on Diomed.
+
+THERSITES.
+He’ll tickle it for his concupy.
+
+TROILUS.
+O Cressid! O false Cressid! false, false, false!
+Let all untruths stand by thy stained name,
+And they’ll seem glorious.
+
+ULYSSES.
+O, contain yourself;
+Your passion draws ears hither.
+
+ Enter Aeneas.
+
+AENEAS.
+I have been seeking you this hour, my lord.
+Hector, by this, is arming him in Troy;
+Ajax, your guard, stays to conduct you home.
+
+TROILUS.
+Have with you, Prince. My courteous lord, adieu.
+Fairwell, revolted fair! and, Diomed,
+Stand fast, and wear a castle on thy head.
+
+ULYSSES.
+I’ll bring you to the gates.
+
+TROILUS.
+Accept distracted thanks.
+
+ [_Exeunt Troilus, Aeneas and Ulysses_.]
+
+THERSITES. Would I could meet that rogue Diomed! I would croak like a
+raven; I would bode, I would bode. Patroclus will give me anything for
+the intelligence of this whore; the parrot will not do more for an
+almond than he for a commodious drab. Lechery, lechery! Still wars and
+lechery! Nothing else holds fashion. A burning devil take them!
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+SCENE III. Troy. Before Priam’s palace.
+
+ Enter Hector and Andromache.
+
+ANDROMACHE.
+When was my lord so much ungently temper’d
+To stop his ears against admonishment?
+Unarm, unarm, and do not fight today.
+
+HECTOR.
+You train me to offend you; get you in.
+By all the everlasting gods, I’ll go.
+
+ANDROMACHE.
+My dreams will, sure, prove ominous to the day.
+
+HECTOR.
+No more, I say.
+
+ Enter Cassandra.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+Where is my brother Hector?
+
+ANDROMACHE.
+Here, sister, arm’d, and bloody in intent.
+Consort with me in loud and dear petition,
+Pursue we him on knees; for I have dreamt
+Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night
+Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+O, ’tis true!
+
+HECTOR.
+Ho! bid my trumpet sound.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+No notes of sally, for the heavens, sweet brother!
+
+HECTOR.
+Be gone, I say. The gods have heard me swear.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows;
+They are polluted off’rings, more abhorr’d
+Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
+
+ANDROMACHE.
+O, be persuaded! Do not count it holy
+To hurt by being just. It is as lawful,
+For we would give much, to use violent thefts
+And rob in the behalf of charity.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+It is the purpose that makes strong the vow;
+But vows to every purpose must not hold.
+Unarm, sweet Hector.
+
+HECTOR.
+Hold you still, I say.
+Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate.
+Life every man holds dear; but the dear man
+Holds honour far more precious dear than life.
+
+ Enter Troilus.
+
+How now, young man! Mean’st thou to fight today?
+
+ANDROMACHE.
+Cassandra, call my father to persuade.
+
+ [_Exit_ Cassandra.]
+
+HECTOR.
+No, faith, young Troilus; doff thy harness, youth;
+I am today i’ th’vein of chivalry.
+Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,
+And tempt not yet the brushes of the war.
+Unarm thee, go; and doubt thou not, brave boy,
+I’ll stand today for thee and me and Troy.
+
+TROILUS.
+Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you,
+Which better fits a lion than a man.
+
+HECTOR.
+What vice is that? Good Troilus, chide me for it.
+
+TROILUS.
+When many times the captive Grecian falls,
+Even in the fan and wind of your fair sword,
+You bid them rise and live.
+
+HECTOR.
+O, ’tis fair play!
+
+TROILUS.
+Fool’s play, by heaven, Hector.
+
+HECTOR.
+How now? how now?
+
+TROILUS.
+For th’ love of all the gods,
+Let’s leave the hermit Pity with our mother;
+And when we have our armours buckled on,
+The venom’d vengeance ride upon our swords,
+Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth!
+
+HECTOR.
+Fie, savage, fie!
+
+TROILUS.
+Hector, then ’tis wars.
+
+HECTOR.
+Troilus, I would not have you fight today.
+
+TROILUS.
+Who should withhold me?
+Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars
+Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire;
+Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees,
+Their eyes o’er-galled with recourse of tears;
+Nor you, my brother, with your true sword drawn,
+Oppos’d to hinder me, should stop my way,
+But by my ruin.
+
+ Re-enter Cassandra with Priam.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him fast;
+He is thy crutch; now if thou lose thy stay,
+Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee,
+Fall all together.
+
+PRIAM.
+Come, Hector, come, go back.
+Thy wife hath dreamt; thy mother hath had visions;
+Cassandra doth foresee; and I myself
+Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt
+To tell thee that this day is ominous.
+Therefore, come back.
+
+HECTOR.
+Aeneas is a-field;
+And I do stand engag’d to many Greeks,
+Even in the faith of valour, to appear
+This morning to them.
+
+PRIAM.
+Ay, but thou shalt not go.
+
+HECTOR.
+I must not break my faith.
+You know me dutiful; therefore, dear sir,
+Let me not shame respect; but give me leave
+To take that course by your consent and voice
+Which you do here forbid me, royal Priam.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+O Priam, yield not to him!
+
+ANDROMACHE.
+Do not, dear father.
+
+HECTOR.
+Andromache, I am offended with you.
+Upon the love you bear me, get you in.
+
+ [_Exit_ Andromache.]
+
+TROILUS.
+This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
+Makes all these bodements.
+
+CASSANDRA.
+O, farewell, dear Hector!
+Look how thou diest. Look how thy eye turns pale.
+Look how thy wounds do bleed at many vents.
+Hark how Troy roars; how Hecuba cries out;
+How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth;
+Behold distraction, frenzy, and amazement,
+Like witless antics, one another meet,
+And all cry, ‘Hector! Hector’s dead! O Hector!’
+
+TROILUS.
+Away, away!
+
+CASSANDRA.
+Farewell! yet, soft! Hector, I take my leave.
+Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+HECTOR.
+You are amaz’d, my liege, at her exclaim.
+Go in, and cheer the town; we’ll forth, and fight,
+Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night.
+
+PRIAM.
+Farewell. The gods with safety stand about thee!
+
+ [_Exeunt severally Priam and Hector. Alarums._]
+
+TROILUS.
+They are at it, hark! Proud Diomed, believe,
+I come to lose my arm or win my sleeve.
+
+ Enter Pandarus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+Do you hear, my lord? Do you hear?
+
+TROILUS.
+What now?
+
+PANDARUS.
+Here’s a letter come from yond poor girl.
+
+TROILUS.
+Let me read.
+
+PANDARUS.
+A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick, so troubles me, and the
+foolish fortune of this girl, and what one thing, what another, that I
+shall leave you one o’ these days; and I have a rheum in mine eyes too,
+and such an ache in my bones that unless a man were curs’d I cannot
+tell what to think on’t. What says she there?
+
+TROILUS.
+Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart;
+Th’effect doth operate another way.
+
+ [_Tearing the letter_.]
+
+Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together.
+My love with words and errors still she feeds,
+But edifies another with her deeds.
+
+ [_Exeunt severally_.]
+
+SCENE IV. The plain between Troy and the Grecian camp.
+
+ Alarums. Excursions. Enter Thersites.
+
+THERSITES.
+Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I’ll go look on. That
+dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same scurvy doting
+foolish young knave’s sleeve of Troy there in his helm. I would fain
+see them meet, that that same young Trojan ass that loves the whore
+there might send that Greekish whoremasterly villain with the sleeve
+back to the dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeve-less errand. O’ the
+other side, the policy of those crafty swearing rascals that stale old
+mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses, is not
+prov’d worth a blackberry. They set me up, in policy, that mongrel cur,
+Ajax, against that dog of as bad a kind, Achilles; and now is the cur,
+Ajax prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm today; whereupon
+the Grecians begin to proclaim barbarism, and policy grows into an ill
+opinion.
+
+ Enter Diomedes, Troilus following.
+
+Soft! here comes sleeve, and t’other.
+
+TROILUS.
+Fly not; for shouldst thou take the river Styx, I would swim after.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Thou dost miscall retire.
+I do not fly; but advantageous care
+Withdrew me from the odds of multitude.
+Have at thee!
+
+THERSITES.
+Hold thy whore, Grecian; now for thy whore,
+Trojan! now the sleeve, now the sleeve!
+
+ [_Exeunt Troilus and Diomedes fighting_.]
+
+ Enter Hector.
+
+HECTOR.
+What art thou, Greek? Art thou for Hector’s match?
+Art thou of blood and honour?
+
+THERSITES.
+No, no I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave; a very filthy rogue.
+
+HECTOR.
+I do believe thee. Live.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+THERSITES.
+God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me; but a plague break thy neck for
+frighting me! What’s become of the wenching rogues? I think they have
+swallowed one another. I would laugh at that miracle. Yet, in a sort,
+lechery eats itself. I’ll seek them.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the plain.
+
+ Enter Diomedes and a Servant.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus’ horse;
+Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid.
+Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;
+Tell her I have chastis’d the amorous Trojan,
+And am her knight by proof.
+
+SERVANT.
+I go, my lord.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+ Enter Agamemnon.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas
+Hath beat down Menon; bastard Margarelon
+Hath Doreus prisoner,
+And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,
+Upon the pashed corses of the kings
+Epistrophus and Cedius. Polixenes is slain;
+Amphimacus and Thoas deadly hurt;
+Patroclus ta’en, or slain; and Palamedes
+Sore hurt and bruis’d. The dreadful Sagittary
+Appals our numbers. Haste we, Diomed,
+To reinforcement, or we perish all.
+
+ Enter Nestor.
+
+NESTOR.
+Go, bear Patroclus’ body to Achilles,
+And bid the snail-pac’d Ajax arm for shame.
+There is a thousand Hectors in the field;
+Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
+And there lacks work; anon he’s there afoot,
+And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls
+Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
+And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,
+Fall down before him like the mower’s swath.
+Here, there, and everywhere, he leaves and takes;
+Dexterity so obeying appetite
+That what he will he does, and does so much
+That proof is call’d impossibility.
+
+ Enter Ulysses.
+
+ULYSSES.
+O, courage, courage, courage, Princes! Great Achilles
+Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance.
+Patroclus’ wounds have rous’d his drowsy blood,
+Together with his mangled Myrmidons,
+That noseless, handless, hack’d and chipp’d, come to him,
+Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend
+And foams at mouth, and he is arm’d and at it,
+Roaring for Troilus; who hath done today
+Mad and fantastic execution,
+Engaging and redeeming of himself
+With such a careless force and forceless care
+As if that lust, in very spite of cunning,
+Bade him win all.
+
+ Enter Ajax.
+
+AJAX.
+Troilus! thou coward Troilus!
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Ay, there, there.
+
+NESTOR.
+So, so, we draw together.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+ Enter Achilles.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Where is this Hector?
+Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;
+Know what it is to meet Achilles angry.
+Hector! where’s Hector? I will none but Hector.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE VI. Another part of the plain.
+
+ Enter Ajax.
+
+AJAX.
+Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head.
+
+ Enter Diomedes.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Troilus, I say! Where’s Troilus?
+
+AJAX.
+What wouldst thou?
+
+DIOMEDES.
+I would correct him.
+
+AJAX.
+Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office
+Ere that correction. Troilus, I say! What, Troilus!
+
+ Enter Troilus.
+
+TROILUS.
+O traitor Diomed! Turn thy false face, thou traitor,
+And pay thy life thou owest me for my horse.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+Ha! art thou there?
+
+AJAX.
+I’ll fight with him alone. Stand, Diomed.
+
+DIOMEDES.
+He is my prize. I will not look upon.
+
+TROILUS.
+Come, both, you cogging Greeks; have at you both!
+
+ [_Exeunt fighting_.]
+
+ Enter Hector.
+
+HECTOR.
+Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother!
+
+ Enter Achilles.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Now do I see thee. Ha! have at thee, Hector!
+
+HECTOR.
+Pause, if thou wilt.
+
+ACHILLES.
+I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan.
+Be happy that my arms are out of use;
+My rest and negligence befriend thee now,
+But thou anon shalt hear of me again;
+Till when, go seek thy fortune.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+HECTOR.
+Fare thee well.
+I would have been much more a fresher man,
+Had I expected thee.
+
+ Re-enter Troilus.
+
+How now, my brother!
+
+TROILUS.
+Ajax hath ta’en Aeneas. Shall it be?
+No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven,
+He shall not carry him; I’ll be ta’en too,
+Or bring him off. Fate, hear me what I say:
+I reck not though thou end my life today.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+ Enter one in armour.
+
+HECTOR.
+Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark.
+No? wilt thou not? I like thy armour well;
+I’ll frush it and unlock the rivets all
+But I’ll be master of it. Wilt thou not, beast, abide?
+Why then, fly on; I’ll hunt thee for thy hide.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE VII. Another part of the plain.
+
+ Enter Achilles with Myrmidons.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;
+Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel;
+Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath;
+And when I have the bloody Hector found,
+Empale him with your weapons round about;
+In fellest manner execute your arms.
+Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye.
+It is decreed Hector the great must die.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+ Enter Menelaus and Paris, fighting; then Thersites.
+
+THERSITES.
+The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now, bull! Now, dog! ’Loo,
+Paris, ’loo! now my double-hen’d Spartan! ’loo, Paris, ’loo! The bull
+has the game. ’Ware horns, ho!
+
+ [_Exeunt Paris and Menelaus_.]
+
+ Enter Margarelon.
+
+MARGARELON.
+Turn, slave, and fight.
+
+THERSITES.
+What art thou?
+
+MARGARELON.
+A bastard son of Priam’s.
+
+THERSITES.
+I am a bastard too; I love bastards. I am a bastard begot, bastard
+instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in everything
+illegitimate. One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one
+bastard? Take heed, the quarrel’s most ominous to us: if the son of a
+whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgement. Farewell, bastard.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+MARGARELON.
+The devil take thee, coward!
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+SCENE VIII. Another part of the plain.
+
+ Enter Hector.
+
+HECTOR.
+Most putrified core so fair without,
+Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.
+Now is my day’s work done; I’ll take my breath:
+Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death!
+
+ [_Disarms_.]
+
+ Enter Achilles and Myrmidons.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set,
+How ugly night comes breathing at his heels;
+Even with the vail and dark’ning of the sun,
+To close the day up, Hector’s life is done.
+
+HECTOR.
+I am unarm’d; forego this vantage, Greek.
+
+ACHILLES.
+Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek.
+
+ [_Hector falls_.]
+
+So, Ilion, fall thou next! Now, Troy, sink down;
+Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.
+On, Myrmidons, and cry you all amain
+‘Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain.’
+
+ [_A retreat sounded_.]
+
+Hark! a retire upon our Grecian part.
+
+MYRMIDON.
+The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord.
+
+ACHILLES.
+The dragon wing of night o’erspreads the earth
+And, stickler-like, the armies separates.
+My half-supp’d sword, that frankly would have fed,
+Pleas’d with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed.
+
+ [_Sheathes his sword_.]
+
+Come, tie his body to my horse’s tail;
+Along the field I will the Trojan trail.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE IX. Another part of the plain.
+
+ Sound retreat. Shout. Enter Agamemnon, Ajax, Menelaus, Nestor,
+ Diomedes and the rest, marching.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+Hark! hark! what shout is this?
+
+NESTOR.
+Peace, drums!
+
+SOLDIERS.
+[_Within_.] Achilles! Achilles! Hector’s slain. Achilles!
+
+DIOMEDES.
+The bruit is, Hector’s slain, and by Achilles.
+
+AJAX.
+If it be so, yet bragless let it be;
+Great Hector was as good a man as he.
+
+AGAMEMNON.
+March patiently along. Let one be sent
+To pray Achilles see us at our tent.
+If in his death the gods have us befriended;
+Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended.
+
+ [_Exeunt_.]
+
+SCENE X. Another part of the plain.
+
+ Enter Aeneas, Paris, Antenor and Deiphobus.
+
+AENEAS.
+Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field.
+Never go home; here starve we out the night.
+
+ Enter Troilus.
+
+TROILUS.
+Hector is slain.
+
+ALL.
+Hector! The gods forbid!
+
+TROILUS.
+He’s dead, and at the murderer’s horse’s tail,
+In beastly sort, dragg’d through the shameful field.
+Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed.
+Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy.
+I say at once let your brief plagues be mercy,
+And linger not our sure destructions on.
+
+AENEAS.
+My lord, you do discomfort all the host.
+
+TROILUS.
+You understand me not that tell me so.
+I do not speak of flight, of fear of death,
+But dare all imminence that gods and men
+Address their dangers in. Hector is gone.
+Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba?
+Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call’d
+Go in to Troy, and say there ‘Hector’s dead.’
+There is a word will Priam turn to stone;
+Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives,
+Cold statues of the youth; and, in a word,
+Scare Troy out of itself. But, march away;
+Hector is dead; there is no more to say.
+Stay yet. You vile abominable tents,
+Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains,
+Let Titan rise as early as he dare,
+I’ll through and through you. And, thou great-siz’d coward,
+No space of earth shall sunder our two hates;
+I’ll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still,
+That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy’s thoughts.
+Strike a free march to Troy. With comfort go;
+Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe.
+
+ Enter Pandarus.
+
+PANDARUS.
+But hear you, hear you!
+
+TROILUS.
+Hence, broker-lackey. Ignominy and shame
+Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name!
+
+ [_Exeunt all but_ Pandarus.]
+
+PANDARUS.
+A goodly medicine for my aching bones! O world! world! Thus is the poor
+agent despis’d! O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work,
+and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so lov’d, and the
+performance so loathed? What verse for it? What instance for it? Let me
+see—
+
+  Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing
+  Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;
+  And being once subdu’d in armed trail,
+  Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.
+
+Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted cloths.
+As many as be here of Pandar’s hall,
+Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar’s fall;
+Or, if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,
+Though not for me, yet for your aching bones.
+Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,
+Some two months hence my will shall here be made.
+It should be now, but that my fear is this,
+Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss.
+Till then I’ll sweat and seek about for eases,
+And at that time bequeath you my diseases.
+
+ [_Exit_.]
+
+
+
+
+TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. An Apartment in the Duke’s Palace.
+Scene II. The sea-coast.
+Scene III. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+Scene IV. A Room in the Duke’s Palace.
+Scene V. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. The sea-coast.
+Scene II. A street.
+Scene III. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+Scene IV. A Room in the Duke’s Palace.
+Scene V. Olivia’s garden.
+
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. Olivia’s garden.
+Scene II. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+Scene III. A street.
+Scene IV. Olivia’s garden.
+
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. The Street before Olivia’s House.
+Scene II. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+Scene III. Olivia’s Garden.
+
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. The Street before Olivia’s House.
+
+
+
+
+ Dramatis Personæ
+
+ORSINO, Duke of Illyria.
+VALENTINE, Gentleman attending on the Duke
+CURIO, Gentleman attending on the Duke
+VIOLA, in love with the Duke.
+SEBASTIAN, a young Gentleman, twin brother to Viola.
+A SEA CAPTAIN, friend to Viola
+ANTONIO, a Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian.
+OLIVIA, a rich Countess.
+MARIA, Olivia’s Woman.
+SIR TOBY BELCH, Uncle of Olivia.
+SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK.
+MALVOLIO, Steward to Olivia.
+FABIAN, Servant to Olivia.
+CLOWN, Servant to Olivia.
+PRIEST
+Lords, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants.
+
+SCENE: A City in Illyria; and the Sea-coast near it.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I.
+
+SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke’s Palace.
+
+
+ Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords; Musicians
+ attending.
+
+DUKE.
+If music be the food of love, play on,
+Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,
+The appetite may sicken and so die.
+That strain again, it had a dying fall;
+O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound
+That breathes upon a bank of violets,
+Stealing and giving odour. Enough; no more;
+’Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
+O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou,
+That notwithstanding thy capacity
+Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
+Of what validity and pitch soever,
+But falls into abatement and low price
+Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy,
+That it alone is high fantastical.
+
+CURIO.
+Will you go hunt, my lord?
+
+DUKE.
+What, Curio?
+
+CURIO.
+The hart.
+
+DUKE.
+Why so I do, the noblest that I have.
+O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
+Methought she purg’d the air of pestilence;
+That instant was I turn’d into a hart,
+And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
+E’er since pursue me. How now? what news from her?
+
+ Enter Valentine.
+
+VALENTINE.
+So please my lord, I might not be admitted,
+But from her handmaid do return this answer:
+The element itself, till seven years’ heat,
+Shall not behold her face at ample view;
+But like a cloistress she will veiled walk,
+And water once a day her chamber round
+With eye-offending brine: all this to season
+A brother’s dead love, which she would keep fresh
+And lasting in her sad remembrance.
+
+DUKE.
+O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
+To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
+How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
+Hath kill’d the flock of all affections else
+That live in her; when liver, brain, and heart,
+These sovereign thrones, are all supplied and fill’d
+Her sweet perfections with one self king!
+Away before me to sweet beds of flowers,
+Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The sea-coast.
+
+ Enter Viola, a Captain and Sailors.
+
+VIOLA.
+What country, friends, is this?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+This is Illyria, lady.
+
+VIOLA.
+And what should I do in Illyria?
+My brother he is in Elysium.
+Perchance he is not drown’d. What think you, sailors?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+It is perchance that you yourself were sav’d.
+
+VIOLA.
+O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+True, madam; and to comfort you with chance,
+Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
+When you, and those poor number sav’d with you,
+Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
+Most provident in peril, bind himself,
+(Courage and hope both teaching him the practice)
+To a strong mast that liv’d upon the sea;
+Where, like Arion on the dolphin’s back,
+I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
+So long as I could see.
+
+VIOLA.
+For saying so, there’s gold!
+Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
+Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
+The like of him. Know’st thou this country?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Ay, madam, well, for I was bred and born
+Not three hours’ travel from this very place.
+
+VIOLA.
+Who governs here?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+A noble duke, in nature as in name.
+
+VIOLA.
+What is his name?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Orsino.
+
+VIOLA.
+Orsino! I have heard my father name him.
+He was a bachelor then.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+And so is now, or was so very late;
+For but a month ago I went from hence,
+And then ’twas fresh in murmur, (as, you know,
+What great ones do, the less will prattle of)
+That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
+
+VIOLA.
+What’s she?
+
+CAPTAIN.
+A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
+That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her
+In the protection of his son, her brother,
+Who shortly also died; for whose dear love
+They say, she hath abjur’d the company
+And sight of men.
+
+VIOLA.
+O that I served that lady,
+And might not be delivered to the world,
+Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
+What my estate is.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+That were hard to compass,
+Because she will admit no kind of suit,
+No, not the Duke’s.
+
+VIOLA.
+There is a fair behaviour in thee, Captain;
+And though that nature with a beauteous wall
+Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee
+I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
+With this thy fair and outward character.
+I pray thee, and I’ll pay thee bounteously,
+Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
+For such disguise as haply shall become
+The form of my intent. I’ll serve this duke;
+Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him.
+It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing,
+And speak to him in many sorts of music,
+That will allow me very worth his service.
+What else may hap, to time I will commit;
+Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.
+
+CAPTAIN.
+Be you his eunuch and your mute I’ll be;
+When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.
+
+VIOLA.
+I thank thee. Lead me on.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby and Maria.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus? I
+am sure care’s an enemy to life.
+
+MARIA.
+By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o’ nights; your cousin,
+my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Why, let her except, before excepted.
+
+MARIA.
+Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Confine? I’ll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good
+enough to drink in, and so be these boots too; and they be not, let
+them hang themselves in their own straps.
+
+MARIA.
+That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard my lady talk of it
+yesterday; and of a foolish knight that you brought in one night here
+to be her wooer.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Who? Sir Andrew Aguecheek?
+
+MARIA.
+Ay, he.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+He’s as tall a man as any’s in Illyria.
+
+MARIA.
+What’s that to th’ purpose?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.
+
+MARIA.
+Ay, but he’ll have but a year in all these ducats. He’s a very fool,
+and a prodigal.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Fie, that you’ll say so! he plays o’ the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks
+three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the
+good gifts of nature.
+
+MARIA.
+He hath indeed, almost natural: for, besides that he’s a fool, he’s a
+great quarreller; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay
+the gust he hath in quarrelling, ’tis thought among the prudent he
+would quickly have the gift of a grave.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+By this hand, they are scoundrels and substractors that say so of him.
+Who are they?
+
+MARIA.
+They that add, moreover, he’s drunk nightly in your company.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+With drinking healths to my niece; I’ll drink to her as long as there
+is a passage in my throat, and drink in Illyria. He’s a coward and a
+coystril that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o’ the
+toe like a parish top. What, wench! _Castiliano vulgo:_ for here comes
+Sir Andrew Agueface.
+
+ Enter Sir Andrew.
+
+AGUECHEEK.
+Sir Toby Belch! How now, Sir Toby Belch?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Sweet Sir Andrew!
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Bless you, fair shrew.
+
+MARIA.
+And you too, sir.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+What’s that?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+My niece’s chamber-maid.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance.
+
+MARIA.
+My name is Mary, sir.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Good Mistress Mary Accost,—
+
+SIR TOBY.
+You mistake, knight: accost is front her, board her, woo her, assail
+her.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+By my troth, I would not undertake her in this company. Is that the
+meaning of accost?
+
+MARIA.
+Fare you well, gentlemen.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+And thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst never draw sword
+again.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+And you part so, mistress, I would I might never draw sword again. Fair
+lady, do you think you have fools in hand?
+
+MARIA.
+Sir, I have not you by the hand.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Marry, but you shall have, and here’s my hand.
+
+MARIA.
+Now, sir, thought is free. I pray you, bring your hand to th’ buttery
+bar and let it drink.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Wherefore, sweetheart? What’s your metaphor?
+
+MARIA.
+It’s dry, sir.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Why, I think so; I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But
+what’s your jest?
+
+MARIA.
+A dry jest, sir.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Are you full of them?
+
+MARIA.
+Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers’ ends: marry, now I let go your
+hand, I am barren.
+
+ [_Exit Maria._]
+
+SIR TOBY.
+O knight, thou lack’st a cup of canary: When did I see thee so put
+down?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Never in your life, I think, unless you see canary put me down.
+Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary
+man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm
+to my wit.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+No question.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+And I thought that, I’d forswear it. I’ll ride home tomorrow, Sir Toby.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+_Pourquoy_, my dear knight?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+What is _pourquoy?_ Do, or not do? I would I had bestowed that time in
+the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O, had I
+but followed the arts!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Why, would that have mended my hair?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+But it becomes me well enough, does’t not?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I hope to see a
+huswife take thee between her legs, and spin it off.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Faith, I’ll home tomorrow, Sir Toby; your niece will not be seen, or if
+she be, it’s four to one she’ll none of me; the Count himself here hard
+by woos her.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+She’ll none o’ the Count; she’ll not match above her degree, neither in
+estate, years, nor wit; I have heard her swear’t. Tut, there’s life
+in’t, man.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I’ll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o’ the strangest mind i’ the
+world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Art thou good at these kick-shawses, knight?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the degree of my
+betters; and yet I will not compare with an old man.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Faith, I can cut a caper.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+And I can cut the mutton to’t.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man in
+Illyria.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain
+before ’em? Are they like to take dust, like Mistress Mall’s picture?
+Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a
+coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not so much as make
+water but in a sink-a-pace. What dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide
+virtues in? I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy leg, it
+was formed under the star of a galliard.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Ay, ’tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a dam’d-colour’d
+stock. Shall we set about some revels?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+What shall we do else? Were we not born under Taurus?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Taurus? That’s sides and heart.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee caper. Ha, higher: ha,
+ha, excellent!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A Room in the Duke’s Palace.
+
+ Enter Valentine and Viola in man’s attire.
+
+VALENTINE.
+If the duke continue these favours towards you, Cesario, you are like
+to be much advanced; he hath known you but three days, and already you
+are no stranger.
+
+VIOLA.
+You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question
+the continuance of his love. Is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
+
+VALENTINE.
+No, believe me.
+
+ Enter Duke, Curio and Attendants.
+
+VIOLA.
+I thank you. Here comes the Count.
+
+DUKE.
+Who saw Cesario, ho?
+
+VIOLA.
+On your attendance, my lord, here.
+
+DUKE.
+Stand you awhile aloof.—Cesario,
+Thou know’st no less but all; I have unclasp’d
+To thee the book even of my secret soul.
+Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her,
+Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
+And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow
+Till thou have audience.
+
+VIOLA.
+Sure, my noble lord,
+If she be so abandon’d to her sorrow
+As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
+
+DUKE.
+Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds,
+Rather than make unprofited return.
+
+VIOLA.
+Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
+
+DUKE.
+O then unfold the passion of my love,
+Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith;
+It shall become thee well to act my woes;
+She will attend it better in thy youth,
+Than in a nuncio’s of more grave aspect.
+
+VIOLA.
+I think not so, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Dear lad, believe it;
+For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
+That say thou art a man: Diana’s lip
+Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe
+Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
+And all is semblative a woman’s part.
+I know thy constellation is right apt
+For this affair. Some four or five attend him:
+All, if you will; for I myself am best
+When least in company. Prosper well in this,
+And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
+To call his fortunes thine.
+
+VIOLA.
+I’ll do my best
+To woo your lady. [_Aside._] Yet, a barful strife!
+Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+
+ Enter Maria and Clown.
+
+MARIA.
+Nay; either tell me where thou hast been, or I will not open my lips so
+wide as a bristle may enter, in way of thy excuse: my lady will hang
+thee for thy absence.
+
+CLOWN.
+Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no
+colours.
+
+MARIA.
+Make that good.
+
+CLOWN.
+He shall see none to fear.
+
+MARIA.
+A good lenten answer. I can tell thee where that saying was born, of I
+fear no colours.
+
+CLOWN.
+Where, good Mistress Mary?
+
+MARIA.
+In the wars, and that may you be bold to say in your foolery.
+
+CLOWN.
+Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let
+them use their talents.
+
+MARIA.
+Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or to be turned away;
+is not that as good as a hanging to you?
+
+CLOWN.
+Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and for turning away, let
+summer bear it out.
+
+MARIA.
+You are resolute then?
+
+CLOWN.
+Not so, neither, but I am resolved on two points.
+
+MARIA.
+That if one break, the other will hold; or if both break, your gaskins
+fall.
+
+CLOWN.
+Apt, in good faith, very apt! Well, go thy way; if Sir Toby would leave
+drinking, thou wert as witty a piece of Eve’s flesh as any in Illyria.
+
+MARIA.
+Peace, you rogue, no more o’ that. Here comes my lady: make your excuse
+wisely, you were best.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Olivia with Malvolio.
+
+CLOWN.
+Wit, and’t be thy will, put me into good fooling! Those wits that think
+they have thee, do very oft prove fools; and I that am sure I lack
+thee, may pass for a wise man. For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty
+fool than a foolish wit. God bless thee, lady!
+
+OLIVIA.
+Take the fool away.
+
+CLOWN.
+Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Go to, y’are a dry fool; I’ll no more of you. Besides, you grow
+dishonest.
+
+CLOWN.
+Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give
+the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man
+mend himself, if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let
+the botcher mend him. Anything that’s mended is but patched; virtue
+that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but
+patched with virtue. If that this simple syllogism will serve, so; if
+it will not, what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but calamity, so
+beauty’s a flower. The lady bade take away the fool, therefore, I say
+again, take her away.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Sir, I bade them take away you.
+
+CLOWN.
+Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, _cucullus non facit monachum:_
+that’s as much to say, I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna,
+give me leave to prove you a fool.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Can you do it?
+
+CLOWN.
+Dexteriously, good madonna.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Make your proof.
+
+CLOWN.
+I must catechize you for it, madonna. Good my mouse of virtue, answer
+me.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Well sir, for want of other idleness, I’ll ’bide your proof.
+
+CLOWN.
+Good madonna, why mourn’st thou?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Good fool, for my brother’s death.
+
+CLOWN.
+I think his soul is in hell, madonna.
+
+OLIVIA.
+I know his soul is in heaven, fool.
+
+CLOWN.
+The more fool you, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul being in
+heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.
+
+OLIVIA.
+What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Yes; and shall do, till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that
+decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.
+
+CLOWN.
+God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the better increasing your
+folly! Sir Toby will be sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass
+his word for twopence that you are no fool.
+
+OLIVIA.
+How say you to that, Malvolio?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal; I saw him
+put down the other day with an ordinary fool, that has no more brain
+than a stone. Look you now, he’s out of his guard already; unless you
+laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take
+these wise men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than
+the fools’ zanies.
+
+OLIVIA.
+O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered
+appetite. To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition, is to
+take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon bullets. There is
+no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no
+railing in a known discreet man, though he do nothing but reprove.
+
+CLOWN.
+Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou speak’st well of fools!
+
+ Enter Maria.
+
+MARIA.
+Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much desires to speak
+with you.
+
+OLIVIA.
+From the Count Orsino, is it?
+
+MARIA.
+I know not, madam; ’tis a fair young man, and well attended.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Who of my people hold him in delay?
+
+MARIA.
+Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but madman. Fie on him!
+
+ [_Exit Maria._]
+
+Go you, Malvolio. If it be a suit from the Count, I am sick, or not at
+home. What you will, to dismiss it.
+
+ [_Exit Malvolio._]
+
+Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and people dislike it.
+
+CLOWN.
+Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest son should be a fool:
+whose skull Jove cram with brains, for here he comes, one of thy kin
+has a most weak _pia mater_.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby.
+
+OLIVIA.
+By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+A gentleman.
+
+OLIVIA.
+A gentleman? What gentleman?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+’Tis a gentleman here. A plague o’ these pickle-herrings! How now, sot?
+
+CLOWN.
+Good Sir Toby.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Lechery! I defy lechery. There’s one at the gate.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Ay, marry, what is he?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Let him be the devil an he will, I care not: give me faith, say I.
+Well, it’s all one.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+OLIVIA.
+What’s a drunken man like, fool?
+
+CLOWN.
+Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes
+him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Go thou and seek the coroner, and let him sit o’ my coz; for he’s in
+the third degree of drink; he’s drowned. Go, look after him.
+
+CLOWN.
+He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look to the madman.
+
+ [_Exit Clown._]
+
+ Enter Malvolio.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with you. I told him you
+were sick; he takes on him to understand so much, and therefore comes
+to speak with you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to have a
+foreknowledge of that too, and therefore comes to speak with you. What
+is to be said to him, lady? He’s fortified against any denial.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Tell him, he shall not speak with me.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Has been told so; and he says he’ll stand at your door like a sheriff’s
+post, and be the supporter of a bench, but he’ll speak with you.
+
+OLIVIA.
+What kind o’ man is he?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Why, of mankind.
+
+OLIVIA.
+What manner of man?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Of very ill manner; he’ll speak with you, will you or no.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Of what personage and years is he?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash
+is before ’tis a peascod, or a codling, when ’tis almost an apple. ’Tis
+with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very
+well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly. One would think his
+mother’s milk were scarce out of him.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Let him approach. Call in my gentlewoman.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Gentlewoman, my lady calls.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Maria.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Give me my veil; come, throw it o’er my face.
+We’ll once more hear Orsino’s embassy.
+
+ Enter Viola.
+
+VIOLA.
+The honourable lady of the house, which is she?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Speak to me; I shall answer for her. Your will?
+
+VIOLA.
+Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty,—I pray you, tell me if
+this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her. I would be loath to
+cast away my speech; for besides that it is excellently well penned, I
+have taken great pains to con it. Good beauties, let me sustain no
+scorn; I am very comptible, even to the least sinister usage.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Whence came you, sir?
+
+VIOLA.
+I can say little more than I have studied, and that question’s out of
+my part. Good gentle one, give me modest assurance, if you be the lady
+of the house, that I may proceed in my speech.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Are you a comedian?
+
+VIOLA.
+No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs of malice I swear, I
+am not that I play. Are you the lady of the house?
+
+OLIVIA.
+If I do not usurp myself, I am.
+
+VIOLA.
+Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp yourself; for what is yours
+to bestow is not yours to reserve. But this is from my commission. I
+will on with my speech in your praise, and then show you the heart of
+my message.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Come to what is important in’t: I forgive you the praise.
+
+VIOLA.
+Alas, I took great pains to study it, and ’tis poetical.
+
+OLIVIA.
+It is the more like to be feigned; I pray you keep it in. I heard you
+were saucy at my gates; and allowed your approach, rather to wonder at
+you than to hear you. If you be mad, be gone; if you have reason, be
+brief: ’tis not that time of moon with me to make one in so skipping a
+dialogue.
+
+MARIA.
+Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way.
+
+VIOLA.
+No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little longer. Some mollification
+for your giant, sweet lady. Tell me your mind. I am a messenger.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when the courtesy of it
+is so fearful. Speak your office.
+
+VIOLA.
+It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of war, no taxation of
+homage; I hold the olive in my hand: my words are as full of peace as
+matter.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Yet you began rudely. What are you? What would you?
+
+VIOLA.
+The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I learned from my
+entertainment. What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead:
+to your ears, divinity; to any other’s, profanation.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity.
+
+ [_Exit Maria._]
+
+Now, sir, what is your text?
+
+VIOLA.
+Most sweet lady—
+
+OLIVIA.
+A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it. Where lies your
+text?
+
+VIOLA.
+In Orsino’s bosom.
+
+OLIVIA.
+In his bosom? In what chapter of his bosom?
+
+VIOLA.
+To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.
+
+OLIVIA.
+O, I have read it; it is heresy. Have you no more to say?
+
+VIOLA.
+Good madam, let me see your face.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face? You
+are now out of your text: but we will draw the curtain and show you the
+picture. [_Unveiling._] Look you, sir, such a one I was this present.
+Is’t not well done?
+
+VIOLA.
+Excellently done, if God did all.
+
+OLIVIA.
+’Tis in grain, sir; ’twill endure wind and weather.
+
+VIOLA.
+’Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
+Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
+Lady, you are the cruel’st she alive
+If you will lead these graces to the grave,
+And leave the world no copy.
+
+OLIVIA.
+O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give out divers schedules
+of my beauty. It shall be inventoried and every particle and utensil
+labelled to my will: as, item, two lips indifferent red; item, two grey
+eyes with lids to them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were
+you sent hither to praise me?
+
+VIOLA.
+I see you what you are, you are too proud;
+But, if you were the devil, you are fair.
+My lord and master loves you. O, such love
+Could be but recompens’d though you were crown’d
+The nonpareil of beauty!
+
+OLIVIA.
+How does he love me?
+
+VIOLA.
+With adorations, fertile tears,
+With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Your lord does know my mind, I cannot love him:
+Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
+Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;
+In voices well divulg’d, free, learn’d, and valiant,
+And in dimension and the shape of nature,
+A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him.
+He might have took his answer long ago.
+
+VIOLA.
+If I did love you in my master’s flame,
+With such a suff’ring, such a deadly life,
+In your denial I would find no sense,
+I would not understand it.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Why, what would you?
+
+VIOLA.
+Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
+And call upon my soul within the house;
+Write loyal cantons of contemned love,
+And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
+Hallow your name to the reverberate hills,
+And make the babbling gossip of the air
+Cry out Olivia! O, you should not rest
+Between the elements of air and earth,
+But you should pity me.
+
+OLIVIA.
+You might do much.
+What is your parentage?
+
+VIOLA.
+Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
+I am a gentleman.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Get you to your lord;
+I cannot love him: let him send no more,
+Unless, perchance, you come to me again,
+To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:
+I thank you for your pains: spend this for me.
+
+VIOLA.
+I am no fee’d post, lady; keep your purse;
+My master, not myself, lacks recompense.
+Love make his heart of flint that you shall love,
+And let your fervour like my master’s be
+Plac’d in contempt. Farewell, fair cruelty.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+OLIVIA.
+What is your parentage?
+‘Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
+I am a gentleman.’ I’ll be sworn thou art;
+Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit,
+Do give thee five-fold blazon. Not too fast: soft, soft!
+Unless the master were the man. How now?
+Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
+Methinks I feel this youth’s perfections
+With an invisible and subtle stealth
+To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.
+What ho, Malvolio!
+
+ Enter Malvolio.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Here, madam, at your service.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Run after that same peevish messenger
+The County’s man: he left this ring behind him,
+Would I or not; tell him, I’ll none of it.
+Desire him not to flatter with his lord,
+Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him.
+If that the youth will come this way tomorrow,
+I’ll give him reasons for’t. Hie thee, Malvolio.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Madam, I will.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+OLIVIA.
+I do I know not what, and fear to find
+Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
+Fate, show thy force, ourselves we do not owe.
+What is decreed must be; and be this so!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II.
+
+SCENE I. The sea-coast.
+
+
+ Enter Antonio and Sebastian.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Will you stay no longer? Nor will you not that I go with you?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+By your patience, no; my stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of
+my fate might perhaps distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you
+your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for
+your love, to lay any of them on you.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Let me know of you whither you are bound.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. But I
+perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you will not
+extort from me what I am willing to keep in. Therefore it charges me in
+manners the rather to express myself. You must know of me then,
+Antonio, my name is Sebastian, which I called Roderigo; my father was
+that Sebastian of Messaline whom I know you have heard of. He left
+behind him myself and a sister, both born in an hour. If the heavens
+had been pleased, would we had so ended! But you, sir, altered that,
+for some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was my
+sister drowned.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Alas the day!
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many
+accounted beautiful. But though I could not with such estimable wonder
+overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her, she bore
+a mind that envy could not but call fair. She is drowned already, sir,
+with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with
+more.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.
+
+ANTONIO.
+If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+If you will not undo what you have done, that is, kill him whom you
+have recovered, desire it not. Fare ye well at once; my bosom is full
+of kindness, and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that upon
+the least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of me. I am bound to
+the Count Orsino’s court: farewell.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ANTONIO.
+The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
+I have many enemies in Orsino’s court,
+Else would I very shortly see thee there:
+But come what may, I do adore thee so,
+That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. A street.
+
+ Enter Viola; Malvolio at several doors.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Were you not even now with the Countess Olivia?
+
+VIOLA.
+Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since arrived but hither.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+She returns this ring to you, sir; you might have saved me my pains, to
+have taken it away yourself. She adds, moreover, that you should put
+your lord into a desperate assurance she will none of him. And one
+thing more, that you be never so hardy to come again in his affairs,
+unless it be to report your lord’s taking of this. Receive it so.
+
+VIOLA.
+She took the ring of me: I’ll none of it.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Come sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her will is it should be
+so returned. If it be worth stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if
+not, be it his that finds it.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+VIOLA.
+I left no ring with her; what means this lady?
+Fortune forbid my outside have not charm’d her!
+She made good view of me, indeed, so much,
+That methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
+For she did speak in starts distractedly.
+She loves me, sure, the cunning of her passion
+Invites me in this churlish messenger.
+None of my lord’s ring? Why, he sent her none.
+I am the man; if it be so, as ’tis,
+Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
+Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness
+Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
+How easy is it for the proper false
+In women’s waxen hearts to set their forms!
+Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,
+For such as we are made of, such we be.
+How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly,
+And I, poor monster, fond as much on him,
+And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.
+What will become of this? As I am man,
+My state is desperate for my master’s love;
+As I am woman (now alas the day!)
+What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
+O time, thou must untangle this, not I,
+It is too hard a knot for me t’untie!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Approach, Sir Andrew; not to be abed after midnight, is to be up
+betimes; and _diluculo surgere_, thou know’st.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Nay, by my troth, I know not; but I know to be up late is to be up
+late.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+A false conclusion; I hate it as an unfilled can. To be up after
+midnight, and to go to bed then is early: so that to go to bed after
+midnight is to go to bed betimes. Does not our lives consist of the
+four elements?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Faith, so they say, but I think it rather consists of eating and
+drinking.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Th’art a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.
+Marian, I say! a stoup of wine.
+
+ Enter Clown.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Here comes the fool, i’ faith.
+
+CLOWN.
+How now, my hearts? Did you never see the picture of “we three”?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Welcome, ass. Now let’s have a catch.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I had rather than forty
+shillings I had such a leg, and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool
+has. In sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last night when thou
+spok’st of Pigrogromitus, of the Vapians passing the equinoctial of
+Queubus; ’twas very good, i’ faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy leman.
+Hadst it?
+
+CLOWN.
+I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio’s nose is no whipstock. My
+lady has a white hand, and the Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling, when all is done. Now, a
+song.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come on, there is sixpence for you. Let’s have a song.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+There’s a testril of me too: if one knight give a—
+
+CLOWN.
+Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+A love-song, a love-song.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Ay, ay. I care not for good life.
+
+CLOWN. [_sings._]
+  _O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
+  O stay and hear, your true love’s coming,
+    That can sing both high and low.
+  Trip no further, pretty sweeting.
+  Journeys end in lovers meeting,
+    Every wise man’s son doth know._
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Excellent good, i’ faith.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Good, good.
+
+CLOWN.
+  _What is love? ’Tis not hereafter,
+  Present mirth hath present laughter.
+    What’s to come is still unsure.
+  In delay there lies no plenty,
+  Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
+    Youth’s a stuff will not endure._
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+A contagious breath.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Very sweet and contagious, i’ faith.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. But shall we make the
+welkin dance indeed? Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch that will
+draw three souls out of one weaver? Shall we do that?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+And you love me, let’s do’t: I am dog at a catch.
+
+CLOWN.
+By’r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Most certain. Let our catch be, “Thou knave.”
+
+CLOWN.
+“Hold thy peace, thou knave” knight? I shall be constrain’d in’t to
+call thee knave, knight.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+’Tis not the first time I have constrained one to call me knave. Begin,
+fool; it begins “Hold thy peace.”
+
+CLOWN.
+I shall never begin if I hold my peace.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Good, i’ faith! Come, begin.
+
+ [_Catch sung._]
+
+ Enter Maria.
+
+MARIA.
+What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady have not called up her
+steward Malvolio, and bid him turn you out of doors, never trust me.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+My lady’s a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio’s a Peg-a-Ramsey, and
+[_Sings._] _Three merry men be we._ Am not I consanguineous? Am I not
+of her blood? Tilly-vally! “Lady”! _There dwelt a man in Babylon, Lady,
+Lady._
+
+CLOWN.
+Beshrew me, the knight’s in admirable fooling.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do I too; he does it
+with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+[_Sings._] _O’ the twelfth day of December—_
+
+MARIA.
+For the love o’ God, peace!
+
+ Enter Malvolio.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor
+honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make
+an ale-house of my lady’s house, that ye squeak out your coziers’
+catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect
+of place, persons, nor time, in you?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me tell you that,
+though she harbours you as her kinsman she’s nothing allied to your
+disorders. If you can separate yourself and your misdemeanours, you are
+welcome to the house; if not, and it would please you to take leave of
+her, she is very willing to bid you farewell.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+[_Sings._] _Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone._
+
+MARIA.
+Nay, good Sir Toby.
+
+CLOWN.
+[_Sings._] _His eyes do show his days are almost done._
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Is’t even so?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+[_Sings._] _But I will never die._
+
+CLOWN.
+[_Sings._] _Sir Toby, there you lie._
+
+MALVOLIO.
+This is much credit to you.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+[_Sings._] _Shall I bid him go?_
+
+CLOWN.
+[_Sings._] _What and if you do?_
+
+SIR TOBY.
+[_Sings._] _Shall I bid him go, and spare not?_
+
+CLOWN.
+[_Sings._] _O, no, no, no, no, you dare not._
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Out o’ tune? sir, ye lie. Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think,
+because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
+
+CLOWN.
+Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i’ the mouth too.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Th’art i’ the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with crumbs. A stoup of
+wine, Maria!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady’s favour at anything more than
+contempt, you would not give means for this uncivil rule; she shall
+know of it, by this hand.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+MARIA.
+Go shake your ears.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+’Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man’s a-hungry, to challenge
+him the field, and then to break promise with him and make a fool of
+him.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Do’t, knight. I’ll write thee a challenge; or I’ll deliver thy
+indignation to him by word of mouth.
+
+MARIA.
+Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight. Since the youth of the Count’s
+was today with my lady, she is much out of quiet. For Monsieur
+Malvolio, let me alone with him. If I do not gull him into a nayword,
+and make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie
+straight in my bed. I know I can do it.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Possess us, possess us, tell us something of him.
+
+MARIA.
+Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of Puritan.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+O, if I thought that, I’d beat him like a dog.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+What, for being a Puritan? Thy exquisite reason, dear knight?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I have no exquisite reason for’t, but I have reason good enough.
+
+MARIA.
+The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a
+time-pleaser, an affectioned ass that cons state without book and
+utters it by great swarths; the best persuaded of himself, so crammed
+(as he thinks) with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that
+all that look on him love him. And on that vice in him will my revenge
+find notable cause to work.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+What wilt thou do?
+
+MARIA.
+I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love, wherein by the
+colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the
+expressure of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself
+most feelingly personated. I can write very like my lady your niece; on
+a forgotten matter we can hardly make distinction of our hands.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Excellent! I smell a device.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I have’t in my nose too.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop, that they come from
+my niece, and that she is in love with him.
+
+MARIA.
+My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+And your horse now would make him an ass.
+
+MARIA.
+Ass, I doubt not.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+O ’twill be admirable!
+
+MARIA.
+Sport royal, I warrant you. I know my physic will work with him. I will
+plant you two, and let the fool make a third, where he shall find the
+letter. Observe his construction of it. For this night, to bed, and
+dream on the event. Farewell.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Good night, Penthesilea.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Before me, she’s a good wench.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+She’s a beagle true bred, and one that adores me. What o’ that?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I was adored once too.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Let’s to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for more money.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Send for money, knight; if thou hast her not i’ th’ end, call me cut.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come, come, I’ll go burn some sack, ’tis too late to go to bed now.
+Come, knight, come, knight.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A Room in the Duke’s Palace.
+
+ Enter Duke, Viola, Curio and others.
+
+DUKE.
+Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.
+Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,
+That old and antique song we heard last night;
+Methought it did relieve my passion much,
+More than light airs and recollected terms
+Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times.
+Come, but one verse.
+
+CURIO.
+He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it.
+
+DUKE.
+Who was it?
+
+CURIO.
+Feste, the jester, my lord, a fool that the Lady Olivia’s father took
+much delight in. He is about the house.
+
+DUKE.
+Seek him out, and play the tune the while.
+
+ [_Exit Curio. Music plays._]
+
+Come hither, boy. If ever thou shalt love,
+In the sweet pangs of it remember me:
+For such as I am, all true lovers are,
+Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,
+Save in the constant image of the creature
+That is belov’d. How dost thou like this tune?
+
+VIOLA.
+It gives a very echo to the seat
+Where love is throned.
+
+DUKE.
+Thou dost speak masterly.
+My life upon’t, young though thou art, thine eye
+Hath stayed upon some favour that it loves.
+Hath it not, boy?
+
+VIOLA.
+A little, by your favour.
+
+DUKE.
+What kind of woman is’t?
+
+VIOLA.
+Of your complexion.
+
+DUKE.
+She is not worth thee, then. What years, i’ faith?
+
+VIOLA.
+About your years, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Too old, by heaven! Let still the woman take
+An elder than herself; so wears she to him,
+So sways she level in her husband’s heart.
+For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
+Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
+More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
+Than women’s are.
+
+VIOLA.
+I think it well, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
+Or thy affection cannot hold the bent:
+For women are as roses, whose fair flower
+Being once display’d, doth fall that very hour.
+
+VIOLA.
+And so they are: alas, that they are so;
+To die, even when they to perfection grow!
+
+ Enter Curio and Clown.
+
+DUKE.
+O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.
+Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;
+The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,
+And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones
+Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
+And dallies with the innocence of love
+Like the old age.
+
+CLOWN.
+Are you ready, sir?
+
+DUKE.
+Ay; prithee, sing.
+
+ [_Music._]
+
+ The Clown’s song.
+
+_    Come away, come away, death.
+    And in sad cypress let me be laid.
+    Fly away, fly away, breath;
+    I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
+       My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
+         O, prepare it!
+       My part of death no one so true
+         Did share it._
+
+_    Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
+    On my black coffin let there be strown:
+    Not a friend, not a friend greet
+    My poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown:
+       A thousand thousand sighs to save,
+         Lay me, O, where
+       Sad true lover never find my grave,
+         To weep there._
+
+DUKE.
+There’s for thy pains.
+
+CLOWN.
+No pains, sir; I take pleasure in singing, sir.
+
+DUKE.
+I’ll pay thy pleasure, then.
+
+CLOWN.
+Truly sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another.
+
+DUKE.
+Give me now leave to leave thee.
+
+CLOWN.
+Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of
+changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of
+such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and
+their intent everywhere, for that’s it that always makes a good voyage
+of nothing. Farewell.
+
+ [_Exit Clown._]
+
+DUKE.
+Let all the rest give place.
+
+ [_Exeunt Curio and Attendants._]
+
+Once more, Cesario,
+Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty.
+Tell her my love, more noble than the world,
+Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;
+The parts that fortune hath bestow’d upon her,
+Tell her I hold as giddily as fortune;
+But ’tis that miracle and queen of gems
+That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.
+
+VIOLA.
+But if she cannot love you, sir?
+
+DUKE.
+I cannot be so answer’d.
+
+VIOLA.
+Sooth, but you must.
+Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,
+Hath for your love as great a pang of heart
+As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;
+You tell her so. Must she not then be answer’d?
+
+DUKE.
+There is no woman’s sides
+Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
+As love doth give my heart: no woman’s heart
+So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.
+Alas, their love may be called appetite,
+No motion of the liver, but the palate,
+That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt;
+But mine is all as hungry as the sea,
+And can digest as much. Make no compare
+Between that love a woman can bear me
+And that I owe Olivia.
+
+VIOLA.
+Ay, but I know—
+
+DUKE.
+What dost thou know?
+
+VIOLA.
+Too well what love women to men may owe.
+In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
+My father had a daughter loved a man,
+As it might be perhaps, were I a woman,
+I should your lordship.
+
+DUKE.
+And what’s her history?
+
+VIOLA.
+A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
+But let concealment, like a worm i’ th’ bud,
+Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
+And with a green and yellow melancholy
+She sat like patience on a monument,
+Smiling at grief. Was not this love, indeed?
+We men may say more, swear more, but indeed,
+Our shows are more than will; for still we prove
+Much in our vows, but little in our love.
+
+DUKE.
+But died thy sister of her love, my boy?
+
+VIOLA.
+I am all the daughters of my father’s house,
+And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.
+Sir, shall I to this lady?
+
+DUKE.
+Ay, that’s the theme.
+To her in haste. Give her this jewel; say
+My love can give no place, bide no denay.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Olivia’s garden.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come thy ways, Signior Fabian.
+
+FABIAN.
+Nay, I’ll come. If I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to
+death with melancholy.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly rascally sheep-biter
+come by some notable shame?
+
+FABIAN.
+I would exult, man. You know he brought me out o’ favour with my lady
+about a bear-baiting here.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+To anger him we’ll have the bear again, and we will fool him black and
+blue, shall we not, Sir Andrew?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+And we do not, it is pity of our lives.
+
+ Enter Maria.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Here comes the little villain. How now, my metal of India?
+
+MARIA.
+Get ye all three into the box-tree. Malvolio’s coming down this walk;
+he has been yonder i’ the sun practising behaviour to his own shadow
+this half hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I know this
+letter will make a contemplative idiot of him. Close, in the name of
+jesting! [_The men hide themselves._] Lie thou there; [_Throws down a
+letter_] for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.
+
+ [_Exit Maria._]
+
+ Enter Malvolio.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+’Tis but fortune, all is fortune. Maria once told me she did affect me,
+and I have heard herself come thus near, that should she fancy, it
+should be one of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more
+exalted respect than anyone else that follows her. What should I think
+on’t?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Here’s an overweening rogue!
+
+FABIAN.
+O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him; how he jets
+under his advanced plumes!
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+’Slight, I could so beat the rogue!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Peace, I say.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+To be Count Malvolio.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Ah, rogue!
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Pistol him, pistol him.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Peace, peace.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+There is example for’t. The lady of the Strachy married the yeoman of
+the wardrobe.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Fie on him, Jezebel!
+
+FABIAN.
+O, peace! now he’s deeply in; look how imagination blows him.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Having been three months married to her, sitting in my state—
+
+SIR TOBY.
+O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet gown; having come
+from a day-bed, where I have left Olivia sleeping.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Fire and brimstone!
+
+FABIAN.
+O, peace, peace.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+And then to have the humour of state; and after a demure travel of
+regard, telling them I know my place as I would they should do theirs,
+to ask for my kinsman Toby.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Bolts and shackles!
+
+FABIAN.
+O, peace, peace, peace! Now, now.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make out for him. I frown
+the while, and perchance wind up my watch, or play with some rich
+jewel. Toby approaches; curtsies there to me—
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Shall this fellow live?
+
+FABIAN.
+Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar smile with an
+austere regard of control—
+
+SIR TOBY.
+And does not Toby take you a blow o’ the lips then?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Saying ‘Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on your niece, give me
+this prerogative of speech—’
+
+SIR TOBY.
+What, what?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘You must amend your drunkenness.’
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Out, scab!
+
+FABIAN.
+Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with a foolish knight—’
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+That’s me, I warrant you.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘One Sir Andrew.’
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I knew ’twas I, for many do call me fool.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+[_Taking up the letter._] What employment have we here?
+
+FABIAN.
+Now is the woodcock near the gin.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+O, peace! And the spirit of humours intimate reading aloud to him!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+By my life, this is my lady’s hand: these be her very C’s, her U’s, and
+her T’s, and thus makes she her great P’s. It is in contempt of
+question, her hand.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Her C’s, her U’s, and her T’s. Why that?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+[_Reads._] _To the unknown beloved, this, and my good wishes._ Her very
+phrases! By your leave, wax. Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with
+which she uses to seal: ’tis my lady. To whom should this be?
+
+FABIAN.
+This wins him, liver and all.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+[_Reads._]
+_    Jove knows I love,
+    But who?
+    Lips, do not move,
+    No man must know._
+
+‘No man must know.’ What follows? The numbers alter’d! ‘No man must
+know.’—If this should be thee, Malvolio?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Marry, hang thee, brock!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+_    I may command where I adore,
+    But silence, like a Lucrece knife,
+    With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore;
+    M.O.A.I. doth sway my life._
+
+FABIAN.
+A fustian riddle!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Excellent wench, say I.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘M.O.A.I. doth sway my life.’—Nay, but first let me see, let me see,
+let me see.
+
+FABIAN.
+What dish o’ poison has she dressed him!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+And with what wing the staniel checks at it!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘I may command where I adore.’ Why, she may command me: I serve her,
+she is my lady. Why, this is evident to any formal capacity. There is
+no obstruction in this. And the end—what should that alphabetical
+position portend? If I could make that resemble something in me!
+Softly! ‘M.O.A.I.’—
+
+SIR TOBY.
+O, ay, make up that:—he is now at a cold scent.
+
+FABIAN.
+Sowter will cry upon’t for all this, though it be as rank as a fox.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘M’—Malvolio; ‘M!’ Why, that begins my name!
+
+FABIAN.
+Did not I say he would work it out? The cur is excellent at faults.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘M’—But then there is no consonancy in the sequel; that suffers under
+probation: ‘A’ should follow, but ‘O’ does.
+
+FABIAN.
+And ‘O’ shall end, I hope.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Ay, or I’ll cudgel him, and make him cry ‘O!’
+
+MALVOLIO.
+And then ‘I’ comes behind.
+
+FABIAN.
+Ay, and you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at
+your heels than fortunes before you.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘M.O.A.I.’ This simulation is not as the former: and yet, to crush this
+a little, it would bow to me, for every one of these letters are in my
+name. Soft, here follows prose.
+[_Reads._] _If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am above
+thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve
+greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em. Thy fates open
+their hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them. And, to inure
+thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough and appear
+fresh. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants. Let thy tongue
+tang arguments of state; put thyself into the trick of singularity. She
+thus advises thee that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy
+yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered. I say,
+remember. Go to, thou art made, if thou desir’st to be so. If not, let
+me see thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and not worthy to
+touch Fortune’s fingers. Farewell. She that would alter services with
+thee,
+                    The Fortunate Unhappy._
+
+Daylight and champian discovers not more! This is open. I will be
+proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash
+off gross acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man. I do not
+now fool myself, to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites
+to this, that my lady loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of
+late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered, and in this she
+manifests herself to my love, and with a kind of injunction, drives me
+to these habits of her liking. I thank my stars, I am happy. I will be
+strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the
+swiftness of putting on. Jove and my stars be praised!—Here is yet a
+postscript. [_Reads._] _Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If
+thou entertain’st my love, let it appear in thy smiling; thy smiles
+become thee well. Therefore in my presence still smile, dear my sweet,
+I prithee._ Jove, I thank thee. I will smile, I will do everything that
+thou wilt have me.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FABIAN.
+I will not give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be
+paid from the Sophy.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+I could marry this wench for this device.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+So could I too.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.
+
+ Enter Maria.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Nor I neither.
+
+FABIAN.
+Here comes my noble gull-catcher.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Wilt thou set thy foot o’ my neck?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Or o’ mine either?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bond-slave?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I’ faith, or I either?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it
+leaves him he must run mad.
+
+MARIA.
+Nay, but say true, does it work upon him?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Like aqua-vitae with a midwife.
+
+MARIA.
+If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach
+before my lady: he will come to her in yellow stockings, and ’tis a
+colour she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he
+will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her
+disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot
+but turn him into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow me.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I’ll make one too.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III.
+
+SCENE I. Olivia’s garden.
+
+
+ Enter Viola and Clown with a tabor.
+
+VIOLA.
+Save thee, friend, and thy music. Dost thou live by thy tabor?
+
+CLOWN.
+No, sir, I live by the church.
+
+VIOLA.
+Art thou a churchman?
+
+CLOWN.
+No such matter, sir. I do live by the church, for I do live at my
+house, and my house doth stand by the church.
+
+VIOLA.
+So thou mayst say the king lies by a beggar, if a beggar dwell near
+him; or the church stands by thy tabor, if thy tabor stand by the
+church.
+
+CLOWN.
+You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is but a chev’ril glove
+to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
+
+VIOLA.
+Nay, that’s certain; they that dally nicely with words may quickly make
+them wanton.
+
+CLOWN.
+I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir.
+
+VIOLA.
+Why, man?
+
+CLOWN.
+Why, sir, her name’s a word; and to dally with that word might make my
+sister wanton. But indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds
+disgraced them.
+
+VIOLA.
+Thy reason, man?
+
+CLOWN.
+Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so
+false, I am loath to prove reason with them.
+
+VIOLA.
+I warrant thou art a merry fellow, and car’st for nothing.
+
+CLOWN.
+Not so, sir, I do care for something. But in my conscience, sir, I do
+not care for you. If that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would
+make you invisible.
+
+VIOLA.
+Art not thou the Lady Olivia’s fool?
+
+CLOWN.
+No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly. She will keep no fool,
+sir, till she be married, and fools are as like husbands as pilchards
+are to herrings, the husband’s the bigger. I am indeed not her fool,
+but her corrupter of words.
+
+VIOLA.
+I saw thee late at the Count Orsino’s.
+
+CLOWN.
+Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines
+everywhere. I would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as oft with
+your master as with my mistress. I think I saw your wisdom there.
+
+VIOLA.
+Nay, and thou pass upon me, I’ll no more with thee. Hold, there’s
+expenses for thee.
+
+CLOWN.
+Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!
+
+VIOLA.
+By my troth, I’ll tell thee, I am almost sick for one, though I would
+not have it grow on my chin. Is thy lady within?
+
+CLOWN.
+Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?
+
+VIOLA.
+Yes, being kept together, and put to use.
+
+CLOWN.
+I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this
+Troilus.
+
+VIOLA.
+I understand you, sir; ’tis well begged.
+
+CLOWN.
+The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a beggar: Cressida
+was a beggar. My lady is within, sir. I will conster to them whence you
+come; who you are and what you would are out of my welkin. I might say
+“element”, but the word is overworn.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+VIOLA.
+This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
+And to do that well, craves a kind of wit:
+He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
+The quality of persons, and the time,
+And like the haggard, check at every feather
+That comes before his eye. This is a practice
+As full of labour as a wise man’s art:
+For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit;
+But wise men, folly-fall’n, quite taint their wit.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Save you, gentleman.
+
+VIOLA.
+And you, sir.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+_Dieu vous garde, monsieur._
+
+VIOLA.
+_Et vous aussi; votre serviteur._
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I hope, sir, you are, and I am yours.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Will you encounter the house? My niece is desirous you should enter, if
+your trade be to her.
+
+VIOLA.
+I am bound to your niece, sir, I mean, she is the list of my voyage.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Taste your legs, sir, put them to motion.
+
+VIOLA.
+My legs do better understand me, sir, than I understand what you mean
+by bidding me taste my legs.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+I mean, to go, sir, to enter.
+
+VIOLA.
+I will answer you with gait and entrance: but we are prevented.
+
+ Enter Olivia and Maria.
+
+Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain odours on you!
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+That youth’s a rare courtier. ‘Rain odours,’ well.
+
+VIOLA.
+My matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own most pregnant and
+vouchsafed ear.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+‘Odours,’ ‘pregnant,’ and ‘vouchsafed.’—I’ll get ’em all three ready.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing.
+
+ [_Exeunt Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria._]
+
+Give me your hand, sir.
+
+VIOLA.
+My duty, madam, and most humble service.
+
+OLIVIA.
+What is your name?
+
+VIOLA.
+Cesario is your servant’s name, fair princess.
+
+OLIVIA.
+My servant, sir! ’Twas never merry world,
+Since lowly feigning was call’d compliment:
+Y’are servant to the Count Orsino, youth.
+
+VIOLA.
+And he is yours, and his must needs be yours.
+Your servant’s servant is your servant, madam.
+
+OLIVIA.
+For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,
+Would they were blanks rather than fill’d with me!
+
+VIOLA.
+Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts
+On his behalf.
+
+OLIVIA.
+O, by your leave, I pray you.
+I bade you never speak again of him.
+But would you undertake another suit,
+I had rather hear you to solicit that
+Than music from the spheres.
+
+VIOLA.
+Dear lady—
+
+OLIVIA.
+Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,
+After the last enchantment you did here,
+A ring in chase of you. So did I abuse
+Myself, my servant, and, I fear me, you.
+Under your hard construction must I sit;
+To force that on you in a shameful cunning,
+Which you knew none of yours. What might you think?
+Have you not set mine honour at the stake,
+And baited it with all th’ unmuzzled thoughts
+That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving
+Enough is shown. A cypress, not a bosom,
+Hides my heart: so let me hear you speak.
+
+VIOLA.
+I pity you.
+
+OLIVIA.
+That’s a degree to love.
+
+VIOLA.
+No, not a grize; for ’tis a vulgar proof
+That very oft we pity enemies.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Why then methinks ’tis time to smile again.
+O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
+If one should be a prey, how much the better
+To fall before the lion than the wolf! [_Clock strikes._]
+The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
+Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you.
+And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,
+Your wife is like to reap a proper man.
+There lies your way, due west.
+
+VIOLA.
+Then westward ho!
+Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship!
+You’ll nothing, madam, to my lord by me?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Stay:
+I prithee tell me what thou think’st of me.
+
+VIOLA.
+That you do think you are not what you are.
+
+OLIVIA.
+If I think so, I think the same of you.
+
+VIOLA.
+Then think you right; I am not what I am.
+
+OLIVIA.
+I would you were as I would have you be.
+
+VIOLA.
+Would it be better, madam, than I am?
+I wish it might, for now I am your fool.
+
+OLIVIA.
+O what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
+In the contempt and anger of his lip!
+A murd’rous guilt shows not itself more soon
+Than love that would seem hid. Love’s night is noon.
+Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
+By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything,
+I love thee so, that maugre all thy pride,
+Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
+Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
+For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause;
+But rather reason thus with reason fetter:
+Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
+
+VIOLA.
+By innocence I swear, and by my youth,
+I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,
+And that no woman has; nor never none
+Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.
+And so adieu, good madam; never more
+Will I my master’s tears to you deplore.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Yet come again: for thou perhaps mayst move
+That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+No, faith, I’ll not stay a jot longer.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason.
+
+FABIAN.
+You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the Count’s servingman than
+ever she bestowed upon me; I saw’t i’ th’ orchard.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Did she see thee the while, old boy? Tell me that.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+As plain as I see you now.
+
+FABIAN.
+This was a great argument of love in her toward you.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+’Slight! will you make an ass o’ me?
+
+FABIAN.
+I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of judgment and reason.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+And they have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor.
+
+FABIAN.
+She did show favour to the youth in your sight only to exasperate you,
+to awake your dormouse valour, to put fire in your heart and brimstone
+in your liver. You should then have accosted her, and with some
+excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the
+youth into dumbness. This was looked for at your hand, and this was
+balked: the double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash off, and
+you are now sailed into the north of my lady’s opinion; where you will
+hang like an icicle on Dutchman’s beard, unless you do redeem it by
+some laudable attempt, either of valour or policy.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+And’t be any way, it must be with valour, for policy I hate; I had as
+lief be a Brownist as a politician.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour. Challenge me
+the Count’s youth to fight with him. Hurt him in eleven places; my
+niece shall take note of it, and assure thyself there is no love-broker
+in the world can more prevail in man’s commendation with woman than
+report of valour.
+
+FABIAN.
+There is no way but this, Sir Andrew.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and brief; it is no matter how
+witty, so it be eloquent and full of invention. Taunt him with the
+licence of ink. If thou ‘thou’st’ him some thrice, it shall not be
+amiss, and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the
+sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, set ’em down. Go
+about it. Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a
+goose-pen, no matter. About it.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Where shall I find you?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+We’ll call thee at the cubiculo. Go.
+
+ [_Exit Sir Andrew._]
+
+FABIAN.
+This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand strong, or so.
+
+FABIAN.
+We shall have a rare letter from him; but you’ll not deliver it.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Never trust me then. And by all means stir on the youth to an answer. I
+think oxen and wainropes cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he
+were opened and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the
+foot of a flea, I’ll eat the rest of th’ anatomy.
+
+FABIAN.
+And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no great presage of
+cruelty.
+
+ Enter Maria.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Look where the youngest wren of nine comes.
+
+MARIA.
+If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches,
+follow me. Yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very renegado; for
+there is no Christian that means to be saved by believing rightly can
+ever believe such impossible passages of grossness. He’s in yellow
+stockings.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+And cross-gartered?
+
+MARIA.
+Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i’ th’ church. I
+have dogged him like his murderer. He does obey every point of the
+letter that I dropped to betray him. He does smile his face into more
+lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. You
+have not seen such a thing as ’tis. I  can hardly forbear hurling
+things at him. I know my lady will strike him. If she do, he’ll smile
+and take’t for a great favour.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come, bring us, bring us where he is.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A street.
+
+ Enter Sebastian and Antonio.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I would not by my will have troubled you,
+But since you make your pleasure of your pains,
+I will no further chide you.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I could not stay behind you: my desire,
+More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth;
+And not all love to see you, though so much,
+As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,
+But jealousy what might befall your travel,
+Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,
+Unguided and unfriended, often prove
+Rough and unhospitable. My willing love,
+The rather by these arguments of fear,
+Set forth in your pursuit.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+My kind Antonio,
+I can no other answer make but thanks,
+And thanks, and ever thanks; and oft good turns
+Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.
+But were my worth, as is my conscience, firm,
+You should find better dealing. What’s to do?
+Shall we go see the relics of this town?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Tomorrow, sir; best first go see your lodging.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I am not weary, and ’tis long to night;
+I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes
+With the memorials and the things of fame
+That do renown this city.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Would you’d pardon me.
+I do not without danger walk these streets.
+Once in a sea-fight, ’gainst the Count his galleys,
+I did some service, of such note indeed,
+That were I ta’en here, it would scarce be answer’d.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Belike you slew great number of his people.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Th’ offence is not of such a bloody nature,
+Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
+Might well have given us bloody argument.
+It might have since been answered in repaying
+What we took from them, which for traffic’s sake,
+Most of our city did. Only myself stood out,
+For which, if I be lapsed in this place,
+I shall pay dear.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Do not then walk too open.
+
+ANTONIO.
+It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here’s my purse.
+In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,
+Is best to lodge. I will bespeak our diet
+Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
+With viewing of the town. There shall you have me.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Why I your purse?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Haply your eye shall light upon some toy
+You have desire to purchase; and your store,
+I think, is not for idle markets, sir.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I’ll be your purse-bearer, and leave you for an hour.
+
+ANTONIO.
+To th’ Elephant.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I do remember.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Olivia’s garden.
+
+ Enter Olivia and Maria.
+
+OLIVIA.
+I have sent after him. He says he’ll come;
+How shall I feast him? What bestow of him?
+For youth is bought more oft than begg’d or borrow’d.
+I speak too loud.—
+Where’s Malvolio?—He is sad and civil,
+And suits well for a servant with my fortunes;
+Where is Malvolio?
+
+MARIA.
+He’s coming, madam:
+But in very strange manner. He is sure possessed, madam.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Why, what’s the matter? Does he rave?
+
+MARIA.
+No, madam, he does nothing but smile: your ladyship were best to have
+some guard about you if he come, for sure the man is tainted in ’s
+wits.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Go call him hither. I’m as mad as he,
+If sad and merry madness equal be.
+
+ Enter Malvolio.
+
+How now, Malvolio?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Sweet lady, ho, ho!
+
+OLIVIA.
+Smil’st thou? I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Sad, lady? I could be sad: this does make some obstruction in the
+blood, this cross-gartering. But what of that? If it please the eye of
+one, it is with me as the very true sonnet is: ‘Please one and please
+all.’
+
+OLIVIA.
+Why, how dost thou, man? What is the matter with thee?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It did come to his
+hands, and commands shall be executed. I think we do know the sweet
+Roman hand.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+To bed? Ay, sweetheart, and I’ll come to thee.
+
+OLIVIA.
+God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so, and kiss thy hand so oft?
+
+MARIA.
+How do you, Malvolio?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+At your request? Yes, nightingales answer daws!
+
+MARIA.
+Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘Be not afraid of greatness.’ ’Twas well writ.
+
+OLIVIA.
+What mean’st thou by that, Malvolio?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘Some are born great’—
+
+OLIVIA.
+Ha?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘Some achieve greatness’—
+
+OLIVIA.
+What say’st thou?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘And some have greatness thrust upon them.’
+
+OLIVIA.
+Heaven restore thee!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘Remember who commended thy yellow stockings’—
+
+OLIVIA.
+Thy yellow stockings?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘And wished to see thee cross-gartered.’
+
+OLIVIA.
+Cross-gartered?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘Go to: thou art made, if thou desir’st to be so:’—
+
+OLIVIA.
+Am I made?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+‘If not, let me see thee a servant still.’
+
+OLIVIA.
+Why, this is very midsummer madness.
+
+ Enter Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino’s is returned; I could
+hardly entreat him back. He attends your ladyship’s pleasure.
+
+OLIVIA.
+I’ll come to him.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where’s my cousin Toby? Let
+some of my people have a special care of him; I would not have him
+miscarry for the half of my dowry.
+
+ [_Exeunt Olivia and Maria._]
+
+MALVOLIO.
+O ho, do you come near me now? No worse man than Sir Toby to look to
+me. This concurs directly with the letter: she sends him on purpose,
+that I may appear stubborn to him; for she incites me to that in the
+letter. ‘Cast thy humble slough,’ says she; ‘be opposite with a
+kinsman, surly with servants, let thy tongue tang with arguments of
+state, put thyself into the trick of singularity,’ and consequently,
+sets down the manner how: as, a sad face, a reverend carriage, a slow
+tongue, in the habit of some sir of note, and so forth. I have limed
+her, but it is Jove’s doing, and Jove make me thankful! And when she
+went away now, ‘Let this fellow be looked to;’ ‘Fellow!’ not
+‘Malvolio’, nor after my degree, but ‘fellow’. Why, everything adheres
+together, that no dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no
+obstacle, no incredulous or unsafe circumstance. What can be said?
+Nothing that can be can come between me and the full prospect of my
+hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the doer of this, and he is to be thanked.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby, Fabian and Maria.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all the devils of hell be
+drawn in little, and Legion himself possessed him, yet I’ll speak to
+him.
+
+FABIAN.
+Here he is, here he is. How is’t with you, sir? How is’t with you, man?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Go off, I discard you. Let me enjoy my private. Go off.
+
+MARIA.
+Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! Did not I tell you? Sir
+Toby, my lady prays you to have a care of him.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Ah, ha! does she so?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Go to, go to; peace, peace, we must deal gently with him. Let me alone.
+How do you, Malvolio? How is’t with you? What, man! defy the devil!
+Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Do you know what you say?
+
+MARIA.
+La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes it at heart! Pray
+God he be not bewitched.
+
+FABIAN.
+Carry his water to th’ wise woman.
+
+MARIA.
+Marry, and it shall be done tomorrow morning, if I live. My lady would
+not lose him for more than I’ll say.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+How now, mistress!
+
+MARIA.
+O Lord!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Prithee hold thy peace, this is not the way. Do you not see you move
+him? Let me alone with him.
+
+FABIAN.
+No way but gentleness, gently, gently. The fiend is rough, and will not
+be roughly used.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Why, how now, my bawcock? How dost thou, chuck?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Sir!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Ay, biddy, come with me. What, man, ’tis not for gravity to play at
+cherry-pit with Satan. Hang him, foul collier!
+
+MARIA.
+Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+My prayers, minx?
+
+MARIA.
+No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Go, hang yourselves all! You are idle, shallow things. I am not of your
+element. You shall know more hereafter.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Is’t possible?
+
+FABIAN.
+If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an
+improbable fiction.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man.
+
+MARIA.
+Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint.
+
+FABIAN.
+Why, we shall make him mad indeed.
+
+MARIA.
+The house will be the quieter.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come, we’ll have him in a dark room and bound. My niece is already in
+the belief that he’s mad. We may carry it thus for our pleasure, and
+his penance, till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt us to
+have mercy on him, at which time we will bring the device to the bar,
+and crown thee for a finder of madmen. But see, but see!
+
+ Enter Sir Andrew.
+
+FABIAN.
+More matter for a May morning.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Here’s the challenge, read it. I warrant there’s vinegar and pepper
+in’t.
+
+FABIAN.
+Is’t so saucy?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Ay, is’t, I warrant him. Do but read.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Give me. [_Reads._] _Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy
+fellow._
+
+FABIAN.
+Good, and valiant.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+_Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind, why I do call thee so, for I
+will show thee no reason for’t._
+
+FABIAN.
+A good note, that keeps you from the blow of the law.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+_Thou comest to the Lady Olivia, and in my sight she uses thee kindly:
+but thou liest in thy throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee
+for._
+
+FABIAN.
+Very brief, and to exceeding good sense—less.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+_I will waylay thee going home; where if it be thy chance to kill me—_
+
+FABIAN.
+Good.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+_Thou kill’st me like a rogue and a villain._
+
+FABIAN.
+Still you keep o’ th’ windy side of the law. Good.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+_Fare thee well, and God have mercy upon one of our souls! He may have
+mercy upon mine, but my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy
+friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy,
+                        Andrew Aguecheek._
+If this letter move him not, his legs cannot. I’ll give’t him.
+
+MARIA.
+You may have very fit occasion for’t. He is now in some commerce with
+my lady, and will by and by depart.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Go, Sir Andrew. Scout me for him at the corner of the orchard, like a
+bum-baily. So soon as ever thou seest him, draw, and as thou draw’st,
+swear horrible, for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a
+swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation
+than ever proof itself would have earned him. Away.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Nay, let me alone for swearing.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Now will not I deliver his letter, for the behaviour of the young
+gentleman gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his
+employment between his lord and my niece confirms no less. Therefore
+this letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the
+youth. He will find it comes from a clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver
+his challenge by word of mouth, set upon Aguecheek notable report of
+valour, and drive the gentleman (as I know his youth will aptly receive
+it) into a most hideous opinion of his rage, skill, fury, and
+impetuosity. This will so fright them both that they will kill one
+another by the look, like cockatrices.
+
+ Enter Olivia and Viola.
+
+FABIAN.
+Here he comes with your niece; give them way till he take leave, and
+presently after him.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+I will meditate the while upon some horrid message for a challenge.
+
+ [_Exeunt Sir Toby, Fabian and Maria._]
+
+OLIVIA.
+I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
+And laid mine honour too unchary on’t:
+There’s something in me that reproves my fault:
+But such a headstrong potent fault it is,
+That it but mocks reproof.
+
+VIOLA.
+With the same ’haviour that your passion bears
+Goes on my master’s griefs.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Here, wear this jewel for me, ’tis my picture.
+Refuse it not, it hath no tongue to vex you.
+And I beseech you come again tomorrow.
+What shall you ask of me that I’ll deny,
+That honour sav’d, may upon asking give?
+
+VIOLA.
+Nothing but this, your true love for my master.
+
+OLIVIA.
+How with mine honour may I give him that
+Which I have given to you?
+
+VIOLA.
+I will acquit you.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Well, come again tomorrow. Fare thee well;
+A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Sir Toby and Fabian.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Gentleman, God save thee.
+
+VIOLA.
+And you, sir.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+That defence thou hast, betake thee to’t. Of what nature the wrongs are
+thou hast done him, I know not, but thy intercepter, full of despite,
+bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end. Dismount thy
+tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful,
+and deadly.
+
+VIOLA.
+You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me. My
+remembrance is very free and clear from any image of offence done to
+any man.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+You’ll find it otherwise, I assure you. Therefore, if you hold your
+life at any price, betake you to your guard, for your opposite hath in
+him what youth, strength, skill, and wrath, can furnish man withal.
+
+VIOLA.
+I pray you, sir, what is he?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier, and on carpet
+consideration, but he is a devil in private brawl. Souls and bodies
+hath he divorced three, and his incensement at this moment is so
+implacable that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death and
+sepulchre. Hob, nob is his word; give’t or take’t.
+
+VIOLA.
+I will return again into the house and desire some conduct of the lady.
+I am no fighter. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels
+purposely on others to taste their valour: belike this is a man of that
+quirk.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Sir, no. His indignation derives itself out of a very competent injury;
+therefore, get you on and give him his desire. Back you shall not to
+the house, unless you undertake that with me which with as much safety
+you might answer him. Therefore on, or strip your sword stark naked,
+for meddle you must, that’s certain, or forswear to wear iron about
+you.
+
+VIOLA.
+This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me this courteous
+office, as to know of the knight what my offence to him is. It is
+something of my negligence, nothing of my purpose.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this gentleman till my
+return.
+
+ [_Exit Sir Toby._]
+
+VIOLA.
+Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?
+
+FABIAN.
+I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a mortal
+arbitrement, but nothing of the circumstance more.
+
+VIOLA.
+I beseech you, what manner of man is he?
+
+FABIAN.
+Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by his form, as you are
+like to find him in the proof of his valour. He is indeed, sir, the
+most skilful, bloody, and fatal opposite that you could possibly have
+found in any part of Illyria. Will you walk towards him? I will make
+your peace with him if I can.
+
+VIOLA.
+I shall be much bound to you for’t. I am one that had rather go with
+sir priest than sir knight: I care not who knows so much of my mettle.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+ Enter Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Why, man, he’s a very devil. I have not seen such a firago. I had a
+pass with him, rapier, scabbard, and all, and he gives me the stuck-in
+with such a mortal motion that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he
+pays you as surely as your feet hits the ground they step on. They say
+he has been fencer to the Sophy.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Pox on’t, I’ll not meddle with him.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can scarce hold him yonder.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Plague on’t, an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence,
+I’d have seen him damned ere I’d have challenged him. Let him let the
+matter slip, and I’ll give him my horse, grey Capilet.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+I’ll make the motion. Stand here, make a good show on’t. This shall end
+without the perdition of souls. [_Aside._] Marry, I’ll ride your horse
+as well as I ride you.
+
+ Enter Fabian and Viola.
+
+[_To Fabian._] I have his horse to take up the quarrel. I have
+persuaded him the youth’s a devil.
+
+FABIAN.
+He is as horribly conceited of him, and pants and looks pale, as if a
+bear were at his heels.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+There’s no remedy, sir, he will fight with you for’s oath sake. Marry,
+he hath better bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now
+scarce to be worth talking of. Therefore, draw for the supportance of
+his vow; he protests he will not hurt you.
+
+VIOLA.
+[_Aside._] Pray God defend me! A little thing would make me tell them
+how much I lack of a man.
+
+FABIAN.
+Give ground if you see him furious.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy, the gentleman will for his
+honour’s sake have one bout with you. He cannot by the duello avoid it;
+but he has promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he will not
+hurt you. Come on: to’t.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+[_Draws._] Pray God he keep his oath!
+
+ Enter Antonio.
+
+VIOLA.
+[_Draws._] I do assure you ’tis against my will.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Put up your sword. If this young gentleman
+Have done offence, I take the fault on me.
+If you offend him, I for him defy you.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+You, sir? Why, what are you?
+
+ANTONIO.
+[_Draws._] One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more
+Than you have heard him brag to you he will.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+[_Draws._] Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you.
+
+ Enter Officers.
+
+FABIAN.
+O good Sir Toby, hold! Here come the officers.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+[_To Antonio._] I’ll be with you anon.
+
+VIOLA.
+[_To Sir Andrew._] Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Marry, will I, sir; and for that I promised you, I’ll be as good as my
+word. He will bear you easily, and reins well.
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+This is the man; do thy office.
+
+SECOND OFFICER.
+Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit
+Of Count Orsino.
+
+ANTONIO.
+You do mistake me, sir.
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+No, sir, no jot. I know your favour well,
+Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.—
+Take him away, he knows I know him well.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I must obey. This comes with seeking you;
+But there’s no remedy, I shall answer it.
+What will you do? Now my necessity
+Makes me to ask you for my purse. It grieves me
+Much more for what I cannot do for you,
+Than what befalls myself. You stand amaz’d,
+But be of comfort.
+
+SECOND OFFICER.
+Come, sir, away.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I must entreat of you some of that money.
+
+VIOLA.
+What money, sir?
+For the fair kindness you have show’d me here,
+And part being prompted by your present trouble,
+Out of my lean and low ability
+I’ll lend you something. My having is not much;
+I’ll make division of my present with you.
+Hold, there’s half my coffer.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Will you deny me now?
+Is’t possible that my deserts to you
+Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,
+Lest that it make me so unsound a man
+As to upbraid you with those kindnesses
+That I have done for you.
+
+VIOLA.
+I know of none,
+Nor know I you by voice or any feature.
+I hate ingratitude more in a man
+Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
+Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
+Inhabits our frail blood.
+
+ANTONIO.
+O heavens themselves!
+
+SECOND OFFICER.
+Come, sir, I pray you go.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here
+I snatch’d one half out of the jaws of death,
+Reliev’d him with such sanctity of love;
+And to his image, which methought did promise
+Most venerable worth, did I devotion.
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+What’s that to us? The time goes by. Away!
+
+ANTONIO.
+But O how vile an idol proves this god!
+Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.
+In nature there’s no blemish but the mind;
+None can be call’d deform’d but the unkind.
+Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil
+Are empty trunks, o’erflourished by the devil.
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+The man grows mad, away with him. Come, come, sir.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Lead me on.
+
+ [_Exeunt Officers with Antonio._]
+
+VIOLA.
+Methinks his words do from such passion fly
+That he believes himself; so do not I.
+Prove true, imagination, O prove true,
+That I, dear brother, be now ta’en for you!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian. We’ll whisper o’er a couplet
+or two of most sage saws.
+
+VIOLA.
+He nam’d Sebastian. I my brother know
+Yet living in my glass; even such and so
+In favour was my brother, and he went
+Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,
+For him I imitate. O if it prove,
+Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love!
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SIR TOBY.
+A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than a hare. His
+dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity, and denying
+him; and for his cowardship, ask Fabian.
+
+FABIAN.
+A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+’Slid, I’ll after him again and beat him.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Do, cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+And I do not—
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FABIAN.
+Come, let’s see the event.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+I dare lay any money ’twill be nothing yet.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV.
+
+SCENE I. The Street before Olivia’s House.
+
+
+ Enter Sebastian and Clown.
+
+CLOWN.
+Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow.
+Let me be clear of thee.
+
+CLOWN.
+Well held out, i’ faith! No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to
+you by my lady, to bid you come speak with her; nor your name is not
+Master Cesario; nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so, is
+so.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I prithee vent thy folly somewhere else,
+Thou know’st not me.
+
+CLOWN.
+Vent my folly! He has heard that word of some great man, and now
+applies it to a fool. Vent my folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the
+world, will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness, and
+tell me what I shall vent to my lady. Shall I vent to her that thou art
+coming?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me.
+There’s money for thee; if you tarry longer
+I shall give worse payment.
+
+CLOWN.
+By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men that give fools
+money get themselves a good report—after fourteen years’ purchase.
+
+ Enter Sir Andrew, Sir Toby and Fabian.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Now sir, have I met you again? There’s for you.
+
+ [_Striking Sebastian._]
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Why, there’s for thee, and there, and there.
+Are all the people mad?
+
+ [_Beating Sir Andrew._]
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Hold, sir, or I’ll throw your dagger o’er the house.
+
+CLOWN.
+This will I tell my lady straight. I would not be in some of your coats
+for twopence.
+
+ [_Exit Clown._]
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come on, sir, hold!
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+Nay, let him alone, I’ll go another way to work with him. I’ll have an
+action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria. Though I
+struck him first, yet it’s no matter for that.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Let go thy hand!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young soldier, put up your
+iron: you are well fleshed. Come on.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now?
+If thou dar’st tempt me further, draw thy sword.
+
+ [_Draws._]
+
+SIR TOBY.
+What, what? Nay, then, I must have an ounce or two of this malapert
+blood from you.
+
+ [_Draws._]
+
+ Enter Olivia.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Hold, Toby! On thy life I charge thee hold!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Madam.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,
+Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,
+Where manners ne’er were preach’d! Out of my sight!
+Be not offended, dear Cesario.
+Rudesby, be gone!
+
+ [_Exeunt Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian._]
+
+I prithee, gentle friend,
+Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway
+In this uncivil and unjust extent
+Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,
+And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
+This ruffian hath botch’d up, that thou thereby
+Mayst smile at this. Thou shalt not choose but go.
+Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,
+He started one poor heart of mine, in thee.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+What relish is in this? How runs the stream?
+Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.
+Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
+If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
+
+OLIVIA.
+Nay, come, I prithee. Would thou’dst be ruled by me!
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Madam, I will.
+
+OLIVIA.
+O, say so, and so be!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Room in Olivia’s House.
+
+ Enter Maria and Clown.
+
+MARIA.
+Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; make him believe thou
+art Sir Topas the curate. Do it quickly. I’ll call Sir Toby the whilst.
+
+ [_Exit Maria._]
+
+CLOWN.
+Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in’t, and I would I
+were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall
+enough to become the function well, nor lean enough to be thought a
+good student, but to be said, an honest man and a good housekeeper goes
+as fairly as to say, a careful man and a great scholar. The competitors
+enter.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby and Maria.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Jove bless thee, Master Parson.
+
+CLOWN.
+_Bonos dies_, Sir Toby: for as the old hermit of Prague, that never saw
+pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, ‘That that
+is, is’: so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for what is
+‘that’ but ‘that’? and ‘is’ but ‘is’?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+To him, Sir Topas.
+
+CLOWN.
+What ho, I say! Peace in this prison!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+The knave counterfeits well. A good knave.
+
+Malvolio within.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Who calls there?
+
+CLOWN.
+Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady.
+
+CLOWN.
+Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man? Talkest thou nothing
+but of ladies?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Well said, Master Parson.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged. Good Sir Topas, do not think I
+am mad. They have laid me here in hideous darkness.
+
+CLOWN.
+Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms, for I
+am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with
+courtesy. Say’st thou that house is dark?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+As hell, Sir Topas.
+
+CLOWN.
+Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the
+clerestories toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet
+complainest thou of obstruction?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+I am not mad, Sir Topas. I say to you this house is dark.
+
+CLOWN.
+Madman, thou errest. I say there is no darkness but ignorance, in which
+thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark
+as hell; and I say there was never man thus abused. I am no more mad
+than you are. Make the trial of it in any constant question.
+
+CLOWN.
+What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.
+
+CLOWN.
+What think’st thou of his opinion?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.
+
+CLOWN.
+Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness. Thou shalt hold the
+opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a
+woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Sir Topas, Sir Topas!
+
+SIR TOBY.
+My most exquisite Sir Topas!
+
+CLOWN.
+Nay, I am for all waters.
+
+MARIA.
+Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown. He sees thee
+not.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how thou find’st him. I
+would we were well rid of this knavery. If he may be conveniently
+delivered, I would he were, for I am now so far in offence with my
+niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot.
+Come by and by to my chamber.
+
+ [_Exeunt Sir Toby and Maria._]
+
+CLOWN.
+[_Singing._]
+    _Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,
+    Tell me how thy lady does._
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Fool!
+
+CLOWN.
+    _My lady is unkind, perdy._
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Fool!
+
+CLOWN.
+    _Alas, why is she so?_
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Fool, I say!
+
+CLOWN.
+    _She loves another_—
+Who calls, ha?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a
+candle, and pen, ink, and paper. As I am a gentleman, I will live to be
+thankful to thee for’t.
+
+CLOWN.
+Master Malvolio?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Ay, good fool.
+
+CLOWN.
+Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Fool, there was never man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my
+wits, fool, as thou art.
+
+CLOWN.
+But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in your wits
+than a fool.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness, send ministers to
+me, asses, and do all they can to face me out of my wits.
+
+CLOWN.
+Advise you what you say: the minister is here. [_As Sir Topas_]
+Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore. Endeavour thyself to
+sleep, and leave thy vain bibble-babble.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Sir Topas!
+
+CLOWN.
+[_As Sir Topas_] Maintain no words with him, good fellow. [_As
+himself_] Who, I, sir? not I, sir. God buy you, good Sir Topas. [_As
+Sir Topas_] Marry, amen. [_As himself_] I will sir, I will.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Fool, fool, fool, I say!
+
+CLOWN.
+Alas, sir, be patient. What say you, sir? I am shent for speaking to
+you.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Good fool, help me to some light and some paper. I tell thee I am as
+well in my wits as any man in Illyria.
+
+CLOWN.
+Well-a-day that you were, sir!
+
+MALVOLIO.
+By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper, and light, and convey
+what I will set down to my lady. It shall advantage thee more than ever
+the bearing of letter did.
+
+CLOWN.
+I will help you to’t. But tell me true, are you not mad indeed? or do
+you but counterfeit?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Believe me, I am not. I tell thee true.
+
+CLOWN.
+Nay, I’ll ne’er believe a madman till I see his brains. I will fetch
+you light, and paper, and ink.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Fool, I’ll requite it in the highest degree: I prithee be gone.
+
+CLOWN.
+[_Singing._]
+  _I am gone, sir, and anon, sir,
+    I’ll be with you again,
+  In a trice, like to the old Vice,
+    Your need to sustain;
+  Who with dagger of lath, in his rage and his wrath,
+    Cries ‘ah, ha!’ to the devil:
+  Like a mad lad, ‘Pare thy nails, dad.
+    Adieu, goodman devil.’_
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. Olivia’s Garden.
+
+ Enter Sebastian.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+This is the air; that is the glorious sun,
+This pearl she gave me, I do feel’t and see’t,
+And though ’tis wonder that enwraps me thus,
+Yet ’tis not madness. Where’s Antonio, then?
+I could not find him at the Elephant,
+Yet there he was, and there I found this credit,
+That he did range the town to seek me out.
+His counsel now might do me golden service.
+For though my soul disputes well with my sense
+That this may be some error, but no madness,
+Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
+So far exceed all instance, all discourse,
+That I am ready to distrust mine eyes
+And wrangle with my reason that persuades me
+To any other trust but that I am mad,
+Or else the lady’s mad; yet if ’twere so,
+She could not sway her house, command her followers,
+Take and give back affairs and their dispatch,
+With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing
+As I perceive she does. There’s something in’t
+That is deceivable. But here the lady comes.
+
+ Enter Olivia and a Priest.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,
+Now go with me and with this holy man
+Into the chantry by: there, before him
+And underneath that consecrated roof,
+Plight me the full assurance of your faith,
+That my most jealous and too doubtful soul
+May live at peace. He shall conceal it
+Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,
+What time we will our celebration keep
+According to my birth. What do you say?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I’ll follow this good man, and go with you,
+And having sworn truth, ever will be true.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Then lead the way, good father, and heavens so shine,
+That they may fairly note this act of mine!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V.
+
+SCENE I. The Street before Olivia’s House.
+
+
+ Enter Clown and Fabian.
+
+FABIAN.
+Now, as thou lov’st me, let me see his letter.
+
+CLOWN.
+Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.
+
+FABIAN.
+Anything.
+
+CLOWN.
+Do not desire to see this letter.
+
+FABIAN.
+This is to give a dog, and in recompense desire my dog again.
+
+ Enter Duke, Viola, Curio and Lords.
+
+DUKE.
+Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?
+
+CLOWN.
+Ay, sir, we are some of her trappings.
+
+DUKE.
+I know thee well. How dost thou, my good fellow?
+
+CLOWN.
+Truly, sir, the better for my foes, and the worse for my friends.
+
+DUKE.
+Just the contrary; the better for thy friends.
+
+CLOWN.
+No, sir, the worse.
+
+DUKE.
+How can that be?
+
+CLOWN.
+Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me
+plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge
+of myself, and by my friends I am abused. So that, conclusions to be as
+kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then,
+the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.
+
+DUKE.
+Why, this is excellent.
+
+CLOWN.
+By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be one of my friends.
+
+DUKE.
+Thou shalt not be the worse for me; there’s gold.
+
+CLOWN.
+But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it
+another.
+
+DUKE.
+O, you give me ill counsel.
+
+CLOWN.
+Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, and let your flesh
+and blood obey it.
+
+DUKE.
+Well, I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer: there’s
+another.
+
+CLOWN.
+_Primo, secundo, tertio_, is a good play, and the old saying is, the
+third pays for all; the triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure; or
+the bells of Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind—one, two, three.
+
+DUKE.
+You can fool no more money out of me at this throw. If you will let
+your lady know I am here to speak with her, and bring her along with
+you, it may awake my bounty further.
+
+CLOWN.
+Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come again. I go, sir, but I
+would not have you to think that my desire of having is the sin of
+covetousness: but as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I will
+awake it anon.
+
+ [_Exit Clown._]
+
+ Enter Antonio and Officers.
+
+VIOLA.
+Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.
+
+DUKE.
+That face of his I do remember well.
+Yet when I saw it last it was besmear’d
+As black as Vulcan, in the smoke of war.
+A baubling vessel was he captain of,
+For shallow draught and bulk unprizable,
+With which such scathful grapple did he make
+With the most noble bottom of our fleet,
+That very envy and the tongue of loss
+Cried fame and honour on him. What’s the matter?
+
+FIRST OFFICER.
+Orsino, this is that Antonio
+That took the _Phoenix_ and her fraught from Candy,
+And this is he that did the _Tiger_ board
+When your young nephew Titus lost his leg.
+Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,
+In private brabble did we apprehend him.
+
+VIOLA.
+He did me kindness, sir; drew on my side,
+But in conclusion, put strange speech upon me.
+I know not what ’twas, but distraction.
+
+DUKE.
+Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief,
+What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,
+Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,
+Hast made thine enemies?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Orsino, noble sir,
+Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:
+Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,
+Though, I confess, on base and ground enough,
+Orsino’s enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:
+That most ingrateful boy there by your side
+From the rude sea’s enraged and foamy mouth
+Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was.
+His life I gave him, and did thereto add
+My love, without retention or restraint,
+All his in dedication. For his sake
+Did I expose myself, pure for his love,
+Into the danger of this adverse town;
+Drew to defend him when he was beset;
+Where being apprehended, his false cunning
+(Not meaning to partake with me in danger)
+Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,
+And grew a twenty years’ removed thing
+While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,
+Which I had recommended to his use
+Not half an hour before.
+
+VIOLA.
+How can this be?
+
+DUKE.
+When came he to this town?
+
+ANTONIO.
+Today, my lord; and for three months before,
+No int’rim, not a minute’s vacancy,
+Both day and night did we keep company.
+
+ Enter Olivia and Attendants.
+
+DUKE.
+Here comes the Countess, now heaven walks on earth.
+But for thee, fellow, fellow, thy words are madness.
+Three months this youth hath tended upon me;
+But more of that anon. Take him aside.
+
+OLIVIA.
+What would my lord, but that he may not have,
+Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?
+Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.
+
+VIOLA.
+Madam?
+
+DUKE.
+Gracious Olivia—
+
+OLIVIA.
+What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord—
+
+VIOLA.
+My lord would speak, my duty hushes me.
+
+OLIVIA.
+If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,
+It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear
+As howling after music.
+
+DUKE.
+Still so cruel?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Still so constant, lord.
+
+DUKE.
+What, to perverseness? You uncivil lady,
+To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars
+My soul the faithfull’st off’rings hath breathed out
+That e’er devotion tender’d! What shall I do?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Even what it please my lord that shall become him.
+
+DUKE.
+Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,
+Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,
+Kill what I love?—a savage jealousy
+That sometime savours nobly. But hear me this:
+Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,
+And that I partly know the instrument
+That screws me from my true place in your favour,
+Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still.
+But this your minion, whom I know you love,
+And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,
+Him will I tear out of that cruel eye
+Where he sits crowned in his master’s spite.—
+Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:
+I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,
+To spite a raven’s heart within a dove.
+
+VIOLA.
+And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,
+To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Where goes Cesario?
+
+VIOLA.
+After him I love
+More than I love these eyes, more than my life,
+More, by all mores, than e’er I shall love wife.
+If I do feign, you witnesses above
+Punish my life for tainting of my love.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Ah me, detested! how am I beguil’d!
+
+VIOLA.
+Who does beguile you? Who does do you wrong?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Hast thou forgot thyself? Is it so long?
+Call forth the holy father.
+
+ [_Exit an Attendant._]
+
+DUKE.
+[_To Viola._] Come, away!
+
+OLIVIA.
+Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.
+
+DUKE.
+Husband?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Ay, husband. Can he that deny?
+
+DUKE.
+Her husband, sirrah?
+
+VIOLA.
+No, my lord, not I.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear
+That makes thee strangle thy propriety.
+Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up.
+Be that thou know’st thou art, and then thou art
+As great as that thou fear’st.
+
+ Enter Priest.
+
+O, welcome, father!
+Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence
+Here to unfold—though lately we intended
+To keep in darkness what occasion now
+Reveals before ’tis ripe—what thou dost know
+Hath newly passed between this youth and me.
+
+PRIEST.
+A contract of eternal bond of love,
+Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands,
+Attested by the holy close of lips,
+Strengthen’d by interchangement of your rings,
+And all the ceremony of this compact
+Sealed in my function, by my testimony;
+Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave,
+I have travelled but two hours.
+
+DUKE.
+O thou dissembling cub! What wilt thou be
+When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?
+Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow
+That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?
+Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet
+Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.
+
+VIOLA.
+My lord, I do protest—
+
+OLIVIA.
+O, do not swear.
+Hold little faith, though thou has too much fear.
+
+ Enter Sir Andrew.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently to Sir Toby.
+
+OLIVIA.
+What’s the matter?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+’Has broke my head across, and has given Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too.
+For the love of God, your help! I had rather than forty pound I were at
+home.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Who has done this, Sir Andrew?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+The Count’s gentleman, one Cesario. We took him for a coward, but he’s
+the very devil incardinate.
+
+DUKE.
+My gentleman, Cesario?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+’Od’s lifelings, here he is!—You broke my head for nothing; and that
+that I did, I was set on to do’t by Sir Toby.
+
+VIOLA.
+Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:
+You drew your sword upon me without cause,
+But I bespake you fair and hurt you not.
+
+ Enter Sir Toby, drunk, led by the Clown.
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me. I think you set
+nothing by a bloody coxcomb. Here comes Sir Toby halting, you shall
+hear more: but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you
+othergates than he did.
+
+DUKE.
+How now, gentleman? How is’t with you?
+
+SIR TOBY.
+That’s all one; ’has hurt me, and there’s th’ end on’t. Sot, didst see
+Dick Surgeon, sot?
+
+CLOWN.
+O, he’s drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes were set at eight i’
+th’ morning.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Then he’s a rogue, and a passy measures pavin. I hate a drunken rogue.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Away with him. Who hath made this havoc with them?
+
+SIR ANDREW.
+I’ll help you, Sir Toby, because we’ll be dressed together.
+
+SIR TOBY.
+Will you help? An ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin-faced
+knave, a gull?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Get him to bed, and let his hurt be looked to.
+
+ [_Exeunt Clown, Fabian, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew._]
+
+ Enter Sebastian.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman;
+But had it been the brother of my blood,
+I must have done no less with wit and safety.
+You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that
+I do perceive it hath offended you.
+Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows
+We made each other but so late ago.
+
+DUKE.
+One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!
+A natural perspective, that is, and is not!
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Antonio, O my dear Antonio!
+How have the hours rack’d and tortur’d me
+Since I have lost thee.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Sebastian are you?
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Fear’st thou that, Antonio?
+
+ANTONIO.
+How have you made division of yourself?
+An apple cleft in two is not more twin
+Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Most wonderful!
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+Do I stand there? I never had a brother:
+Nor can there be that deity in my nature
+Of here and everywhere. I had a sister,
+Whom the blind waves and surges have devoured.
+Of charity, what kin are you to me?
+What countryman? What name? What parentage?
+
+VIOLA.
+Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;
+Such a Sebastian was my brother too:
+So went he suited to his watery tomb.
+If spirits can assume both form and suit,
+You come to fright us.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+A spirit I am indeed,
+But am in that dimension grossly clad,
+Which from the womb I did participate.
+Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,
+I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
+And say, ‘Thrice welcome, drowned Viola.’
+
+VIOLA.
+My father had a mole upon his brow.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+And so had mine.
+
+VIOLA.
+And died that day when Viola from her birth
+Had numbered thirteen years.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+O, that record is lively in my soul!
+He finished indeed his mortal act
+That day that made my sister thirteen years.
+
+VIOLA.
+If nothing lets to make us happy both
+But this my masculine usurp’d attire,
+Do not embrace me till each circumstance
+Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump
+That I am Viola; which to confirm,
+I’ll bring you to a captain in this town,
+Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help
+I was preserv’d to serve this noble count.
+All the occurrence of my fortune since
+Hath been between this lady and this lord.
+
+SEBASTIAN.
+[_To Olivia._] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook.
+But nature to her bias drew in that.
+You would have been contracted to a maid;
+Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived:
+You are betroth’d both to a maid and man.
+
+DUKE.
+Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.
+If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
+I shall have share in this most happy wreck.
+[_To Viola._] Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
+Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.
+
+VIOLA.
+And all those sayings will I over-swear,
+And all those swearings keep as true in soul
+As doth that orbed continent the fire
+That severs day from night.
+
+DUKE.
+Give me thy hand,
+And let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds.
+
+VIOLA.
+The captain that did bring me first on shore
+Hath my maid’s garments. He, upon some action,
+Is now in durance, at Malvolio’s suit,
+A gentleman and follower of my lady’s.
+
+OLIVIA.
+He shall enlarge him. Fetch Malvolio hither.
+And yet, alas, now I remember me,
+They say, poor gentleman, he’s much distract.
+
+ Enter Clown, with a letter and Fabian.
+
+A most extracting frenzy of mine own
+From my remembrance clearly banished his.
+How does he, sirrah?
+
+CLOWN.
+Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave’s end as well as a man in
+his case may do. Has here writ a letter to you. I should have given it
+you today morning, but as a madman’s epistles are no gospels, so it
+skills not much when they are delivered.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Open ’t, and read it.
+
+CLOWN.
+Look then to be well edified, when the fool delivers the madman. _By
+the Lord, madam,—_
+
+OLIVIA.
+How now, art thou mad?
+
+CLOWN.
+No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as it
+ought to be, you must allow _vox_.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Prithee, read i’ thy right wits.
+
+CLOWN.
+So I do, madonna. But to read his right wits is to read thus; therefore
+perpend, my princess, and give ear.
+
+OLIVIA.
+[_To Fabian._] Read it you, sirrah.
+
+FABIAN.
+[_Reads._] _By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the world shall know
+it. Though you have put me into darkness and given your drunken cousin
+rule over me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your
+ladyship. I have your own letter that induced me to the semblance I put
+on; with the which I doubt not but to do myself much right or you much
+shame. Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little unthought
+of, and speak out of my injury.
+                        The madly-used Malvolio._
+
+OLIVIA.
+Did he write this?
+
+CLOWN.
+Ay, madam.
+
+DUKE.
+This savours not much of distraction.
+
+OLIVIA.
+See him delivered, Fabian, bring him hither.
+
+ [_Exit Fabian._]
+
+My lord, so please you, these things further thought on,
+To think me as well a sister, as a wife,
+One day shall crown th’ alliance on’t, so please you,
+Here at my house, and at my proper cost.
+
+DUKE.
+Madam, I am most apt t’ embrace your offer.
+[_To Viola._] Your master quits you; and for your service done him,
+So much against the mettle of your sex,
+So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,
+And since you call’d me master for so long,
+Here is my hand; you shall from this time be
+Your master’s mistress.
+
+OLIVIA.
+A sister? You are she.
+
+ Enter Fabian and Malvolio.
+
+DUKE.
+Is this the madman?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Ay, my lord, this same.
+How now, Malvolio?
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Madam, you have done me wrong,
+Notorious wrong.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Have I, Malvolio? No.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+Lady, you have. Pray you peruse that letter.
+You must not now deny it is your hand,
+Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase,
+Or say ’tis not your seal, not your invention:
+You can say none of this. Well, grant it then,
+And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
+Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,
+Bade me come smiling and cross-garter’d to you,
+To put on yellow stockings, and to frown
+Upon Sir Toby, and the lighter people;
+And acting this in an obedient hope,
+Why have you suffer’d me to be imprison’d,
+Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
+And made the most notorious geck and gull
+That e’er invention played on? Tell me why?
+
+OLIVIA.
+Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
+Though I confess, much like the character:
+But out of question, ’tis Maria’s hand.
+And now I do bethink me, it was she
+First told me thou wast mad; then cam’st in smiling,
+And in such forms which here were presuppos’d
+Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content.
+This practice hath most shrewdly pass’d upon thee.
+But when we know the grounds and authors of it,
+Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
+Of thine own cause.
+
+FABIAN.
+Good madam, hear me speak,
+And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come,
+Taint the condition of this present hour,
+Which I have wonder’d at. In hope it shall not,
+Most freely I confess, myself and Toby
+Set this device against Malvolio here,
+Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
+We had conceiv’d against him. Maria writ
+The letter, at Sir Toby’s great importance,
+In recompense whereof he hath married her.
+How with a sportful malice it was follow’d
+May rather pluck on laughter than revenge,
+If that the injuries be justly weigh’d
+That have on both sides passed.
+
+OLIVIA.
+Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!
+
+CLOWN.
+Why, ‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
+greatness thrown upon them.’ I was one, sir, in this interlude, one Sir
+Topas, sir, but that’s all one. ‘By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.’ But
+do you remember? ‘Madam, why laugh you at such a barren rascal? And you
+smile not, he’s gagged’? And thus the whirligig of time brings in his
+revenges.
+
+MALVOLIO.
+I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+OLIVIA.
+He hath been most notoriously abus’d.
+
+DUKE.
+Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace:
+He hath not told us of the captain yet.
+When that is known, and golden time convents,
+A solemn combination shall be made
+Of our dear souls.—Meantime, sweet sister,
+We will not part from hence.—Cesario, come:
+For so you shall be while you are a man;
+But when in other habits you are seen,
+Orsino’s mistress, and his fancy’s queen.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+ Clown sings.
+
+_   When that I was and a little tiny boy,
+     With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
+   A foolish thing was but a toy,
+     For the rain it raineth every day._
+
+_   But when I came to man’s estate,
+     With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
+   ’Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
+     For the rain it raineth every day._
+
+_   But when I came, alas, to wive,
+     With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
+   By swaggering could I never thrive,
+     For the rain it raineth every day._
+
+_   But when I came unto my beds,
+     With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
+   With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
+     For the rain it raineth every day._
+
+_   A great while ago the world begun,
+     With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
+   But that’s all one, our play is done,
+     And we’ll strive to please you every day._
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ Scene I. Verona. An open place
+ Scene II. The same. The garden of Julia’s house
+ Scene III. The same. A room in Antonio’s house
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. Milan. A room in the Duke’s palace
+ Scene II. Verona. A room in Julia’s house
+ Scene III. The same. A street
+ Scene IV. Milan. A room in the Duke’s palace
+ Scene V. The same. A street
+ Scene VI. The same. The Duke’s palace
+ Scene VII. Verona. A room in Julia’s house
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. Milan. An anteroom in the Duke’s palace
+ Scene II. The same. A room in the Duke’s palace
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. A forest between Milan and Verona
+ Scene II. Milan. The court of the Duke’s palace
+ Scene III. The same
+ Scene IV. The same
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Milan. An abbey
+ Scene II. The same. A room in the Duke’s palace
+ Scene III. Frontiers of Mantua. The forest
+ Scene IV. Another part of the forest
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+DUKE OF MILAN, father to Silvia
+VALENTINE, one of the two gentlemen
+PROTEUS, one of the two gentlemen
+ANTONIO, father to Proteus
+THURIO, a foolish rival to Valentine
+EGLAMOUR, agent for Silvia in her escape
+SPEED, a clownish servant to Valentine
+LANCE, the like to Proteus
+PANTINO, servant to Antonio
+HOST, where Julia lodges in Milan
+OUTLAWS, with Valentine
+
+JULIA, a lady of Verona, beloved of Proteus
+SILVIA, beloved of Valentine
+LUCETTA, waiting-woman to Julia
+
+Servants, Musicians
+
+SCENE: Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Verona. An open place
+
+
+Enter Valentine and Proteus.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus.
+Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
+Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
+To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
+I rather would entreat thy company
+To see the wonders of the world abroad
+Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
+Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
+But since thou lov’st, love still, and thrive therein,
+Even as I would when I to love begin.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu.
+Think on thy Proteus when thou haply seest
+Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel.
+Wish me partaker in thy happiness
+When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,
+If ever danger do environ thee,
+Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,
+For I will be thy headsman, Valentine.
+
+VALENTINE.
+And on a love-book pray for my success?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Upon some book I love I’ll pray for thee.
+
+VALENTINE.
+That’s on some shallow story of deep love,
+How young Leander crossed the Hellespont.
+
+PROTEUS.
+That’s a deep story of a deeper love,
+For he was more than over shoes in love.
+
+VALENTINE.
+’Tis true; for you are over boots in love,
+And yet you never swam the Hellespont.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Over the boots? Nay, give me not the boots.
+
+VALENTINE.
+No, I will not, for it boots thee not.
+
+PROTEUS.
+What?
+
+VALENTINE.
+To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans,
+Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment’s mirth
+With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights.
+If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
+If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
+However, but a folly bought with wit,
+Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
+
+PROTEUS.
+So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.
+
+VALENTINE.
+So, by your circumstance, I fear you’ll prove.
+
+PROTEUS.
+’Tis love you cavil at. I am not Love.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Love is your master, for he masters you;
+And he that is so yoked by a fool
+Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud
+The eating canker dwells, so eating love
+Inhabits in the finest wits of all.
+
+VALENTINE.
+And writers say, as the most forward bud
+Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
+Even so by love the young and tender wit
+Is turned to folly, blasting in the bud,
+Losing his verdure even in the prime,
+And all the fair effects of future hopes.
+But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee
+That art a votary to fond desire?
+Once more adieu. My father at the road
+Expects my coming, there to see me shipped.
+
+PROTEUS.
+And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Sweet Proteus, no. Now let us take our leave.
+To Milan let me hear from thee by letters
+Of thy success in love, and what news else
+Betideth here in absence of thy friend;
+And I likewise will visit thee with mine.
+
+PROTEUS.
+All happiness bechance to thee in Milan.
+
+VALENTINE.
+As much to you at home, and so farewell.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+He after honour hunts, I after love.
+He leaves his friends to dignify them more;
+I leave myself, my friends, and all for love.
+Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,
+Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
+War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
+Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
+
+Enter Speed.
+
+SPEED.
+Sir Proteus, ’save you. Saw you my master?
+
+PROTEUS.
+But now he parted hence to embark for Milan.
+
+SPEED.
+Twenty to one, then, he is shipped already,
+And I have played the sheep in losing him.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Indeed a sheep doth very often stray,
+An if the shepherd be a while away.
+
+SPEED.
+You conclude that my master is a shepherd then, and I a sheep?
+
+PROTEUS.
+I do.
+
+SPEED.
+Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.
+
+PROTEUS.
+A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep.
+
+SPEED.
+This proves me still a sheep.
+
+PROTEUS.
+True, and thy master a shepherd.
+
+SPEED.
+Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.
+
+PROTEUS.
+It shall go hard but I’ll prove it by another.
+
+SPEED.
+The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I
+seek my master, and my master seeks not me. Therefore I am no sheep.
+
+PROTEUS.
+The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the shepherd for food follows
+not the sheep. Thou for wages followest thy master; thy master for
+wages follows not thee. Therefore thou art a sheep.
+
+SPEED.
+Such another proof will make me cry “baa”.
+
+PROTEUS.
+But dost thou hear? Gav’st thou my letter to Julia?
+
+SPEED.
+Ay, sir. I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced mutton, and
+she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost mutton, nothing for my labour.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Here’s too small a pasture for such store of muttons.
+
+SPEED.
+If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Nay, in that you are astray; ’twere best pound you.
+
+SPEED.
+Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for carrying your letter.
+
+PROTEUS.
+You mistake; I mean the pound, a pinfold.
+
+SPEED.
+From a pound to a pin? Fold it over and over,
+’Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to your lover.
+
+PROTEUS.
+But what said she?
+
+SPEED.
+[_Nods his head_.] Ay.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Nod—“Ay”. Why, that’s “noddy”.
+
+SPEED.
+You mistook, sir. I say she did nod, and you ask me if she did nod; and
+I say “Ay”.
+
+PROTEUS.
+And that set together is “noddy”.
+
+SPEED.
+Now you have taken the pains to set it together, take it for your
+pains.
+
+PROTEUS.
+No, no, you shall have it for bearing the letter.
+
+SPEED.
+Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Why, sir, how do you bear with me?
+
+SPEED.
+Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly, having nothing but the word
+“noddy” for my pains.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
+
+SPEED.
+And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Come, come, open the matter; in brief, what said she?
+
+SPEED.
+Open your purse, that the money and the matter may be both at once
+delivered.
+
+PROTEUS.
+[_Giving him a coin_.] Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said
+she?
+
+SPEED.
+Truly, sir, I think you’ll hardly win her.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Why? Couldst thou perceive so much from her?
+
+SPEED.
+Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no, not so much as a
+ducat for delivering your letter. And being so hard to me that brought
+your mind, I fear she’ll prove as hard to you in telling your mind.
+Give her no token but stones, for she’s as hard as steel.
+
+PROTEUS.
+What said she, nothing?
+
+SPEED.
+No, not so much as “Take this for thy pains.” To testify your bounty, I
+thank you, you have testerned me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry
+your letters yourself. And so, sir, I’ll commend you to my master.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Go, go, begone, to save your ship from wrack,
+Which cannot perish having thee aboard,
+Being destined to a drier death on shore.
+
+[_Exit Speed._]
+
+
+I must go send some better messenger.
+I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
+Receiving them from such a worthless post.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. The garden of Julia’s house
+
+Enter Julia and Lucetta.
+
+JULIA.
+But say, Lucetta, now we are alone,
+Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully.
+
+JULIA.
+Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
+That every day with parle encounter me,
+In thy opinion which is worthiest love?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Please you, repeat their names, I’ll show my mind
+According to my shallow simple skill.
+
+JULIA.
+What think’st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?
+
+LUCETTA.
+As of a knight well-spoken, neat, and fine;
+But, were I you, he never should be mine.
+
+JULIA.
+What think’st thou of the rich Mercatio?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Well of his wealth; but of himself, so-so.
+
+JULIA.
+What think’st thou of the gentle Proteus?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Lord, Lord, to see what folly reigns in us!
+
+JULIA.
+How now? What means this passion at his name?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Pardon, dear madam, ’tis a passing shame
+That I, unworthy body as I am,
+Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen.
+
+JULIA.
+Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Then thus: of many good I think him best.
+
+JULIA.
+Your reason?
+
+LUCETTA.
+I have no other but a woman’s reason:
+I think him so because I think him so.
+
+JULIA.
+And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Ay, if you thought your love not cast away.
+
+JULIA.
+Why, he of all the rest hath never moved me.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Yet he of all the rest I think best loves ye.
+
+JULIA.
+His little speaking shows his love but small.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.
+
+JULIA.
+They do not love that do not show their love.
+
+LUCETTA.
+O, they love least that let men know their love.
+
+JULIA.
+I would I knew his mind.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Peruse this paper, madam.
+
+[_Gives her a letter._]
+
+JULIA.
+_To Julia_—Say, from whom?
+
+LUCETTA.
+That the contents will show.
+
+JULIA.
+Say, say, who gave it thee?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Sir Valentine’s page, and sent, I think, from Proteus.
+He would have given it you, but I, being in the way,
+Did in your name receive it. Pardon the fault, I pray.
+
+JULIA.
+Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker!
+Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines?
+To whisper and conspire against my youth?
+Now trust me, ’tis an office of great worth,
+And you an officer fit for the place.
+There, take the paper; see it be returned,
+Or else return no more into my sight.
+
+LUCETTA.
+To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
+
+JULIA.
+Will ye be gone?
+
+LUCETTA.
+That you may ruminate.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+JULIA.
+And yet I would I had o’erlooked the letter.
+It were a shame to call her back again
+And pray her to a fault for which I chid her.
+What fool is she, that knows I am a maid
+And would not force the letter to my view,
+Since maids in modesty say “No” to that
+Which they would have the profferer construe “Ay”.
+Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love
+That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse
+And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod!
+How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence,
+When willingly I would have had her here!
+How angerly I taught my brow to frown,
+When inward joy enforced my heart to smile!
+My penance is to call Lucetta back
+And ask remission for my folly past.
+What ho! Lucetta!
+
+Enter Lucetta.
+
+LUCETTA.
+What would your ladyship?
+
+JULIA.
+Is ’t near dinner time?
+
+LUCETTA.
+I would it were,
+That you might kill your stomach on your meat
+And not upon your maid.
+
+[_Drops and picks up the letter._]
+
+JULIA.
+What is’t that you took up so gingerly?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Nothing.
+
+JULIA.
+Why didst thou stoop, then?
+
+LUCETTA.
+To take a paper up that I let fall.
+
+JULIA.
+And is that paper nothing?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Nothing concerning me.
+
+JULIA.
+Then let it lie for those that it concerns.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Madam, it will not lie where it concerns,
+Unless it have a false interpreter.
+
+JULIA.
+Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme.
+
+LUCETTA.
+That I might sing it, madam, to a tune.
+Give me a note. Your ladyship can set—
+
+JULIA.
+As little by such toys as may be possible.
+Best sing it to the tune of “Light o’ Love”.
+
+LUCETTA.
+It is too heavy for so light a tune.
+
+JULIA.
+Heavy? Belike it hath some burden then?
+
+LUCETTA.
+Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it.
+
+JULIA.
+And why not you?
+
+LUCETTA.
+I cannot reach so high.
+
+JULIA.
+Let’s see your song. [_Taking the letter_.]
+How now, minion!
+
+LUCETTA.
+Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out.
+And yet methinks I do not like this tune.
+
+JULIA.
+You do not?
+
+LUCETTA.
+No, madam, it is too sharp.
+
+JULIA.
+You, minion, are too saucy.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Nay, now you are too flat
+And mar the concord with too harsh a descant.
+There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.
+
+JULIA.
+The mean is drowned with your unruly bass.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.
+
+JULIA.
+This babble shall not henceforth trouble me.
+Here is a coil with protestation! [_Tears the letter_.]
+Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie.
+You would be fingering them to anger me.
+
+LUCETTA.
+She makes it strange, but she would be best pleased
+To be so angered with another letter.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+JULIA.
+Nay, would I were so angered with the same!
+O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
+Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
+And kill the bees that yield it with your stings!
+I’ll kiss each several paper for amends.
+Look, here is writ _kind Julia_. Unkind Julia!
+As in revenge of thy ingratitude,
+I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
+Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
+And here is writ _love-wounded Proteus_.
+Poor wounded name, my bosom as a bed
+Shall lodge thee till thy wound be throughly healed;
+And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
+But twice or thrice was _Proteus_ written down.
+Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away
+Till I have found each letter in the letter
+Except mine own name. That some whirlwind bear
+Unto a ragged, fearful, hanging rock,
+And throw it thence into the raging sea.
+Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ:
+_Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
+To the sweet Julia._ That I’ll tear away;
+And yet I will not, sith so prettily
+He couples it to his complaining names.
+Thus will I fold them one upon another.
+Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.
+
+Enter Lucetta.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Madam, dinner is ready, and your father stays.
+
+JULIA.
+Well, let us go.
+
+LUCETTA.
+What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here?
+
+JULIA.
+If you respect them, best to take them up.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Nay, I was taken up for laying them down.
+Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold.
+
+[_Picks up pieces of the letter._]
+
+JULIA.
+I see you have a month’s mind to them.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see;
+I see things too, although you judge I wink.
+
+JULIA.
+Come, come, will’t please you go?
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A room in Antonio’s house
+
+Enter Antonio and Pantino.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Tell me, Pantino, what sad talk was that
+Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?
+
+PANTINO.
+’Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Why, what of him?
+
+PANTINO.
+He wondered that your lordship
+Would suffer him to spend his youth at home
+While other men, of slender reputation,
+Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:
+Some to the wars to try their fortune there;
+Some to discover islands far away;
+Some to the studious universities.
+For any or for all these exercises
+He said that Proteus your son was meet,
+And did request me to importune you
+To let him spend his time no more at home,
+Which would be great impeachment to his age
+In having known no travel in his youth.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Nor need’st thou much importune me to that
+Whereon this month I have been hammering.
+I have considered well his loss of time,
+And how he cannot be a perfect man,
+Not being tried and tutored in the world.
+Experience is by industry achieved
+And perfected by the swift course of time.
+Then tell me whither were I best to send him?
+
+PANTINO.
+I think your lordship is not ignorant
+How his companion, youthful Valentine,
+Attends the Emperor in his royal court.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I know it well.
+
+PANTINO.
+’Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither.
+There shall he practise tilts and tournaments,
+Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen,
+And be in eye of every exercise
+Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.
+
+ANTONIO.
+I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised,
+And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,
+The execution of it shall make known.
+Even with the speediest expedition
+I will dispatch him to the Emperor’s court.
+
+PANTINO.
+Tomorrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso
+With other gentlemen of good esteem
+Are journeying to salute the Emperor
+And to commend their service to his will.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Good company. With them shall Proteus go.
+
+Enter Proteus reading a letter.
+
+And in good time! Now will we break with him.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Sweet love, sweet lines, sweet life!
+Here is her hand, the agent of her heart;
+Here is her oath for love, her honour’s pawn.
+O, that our fathers would applaud our loves
+To seal our happiness with their consents.
+O heavenly Julia!
+
+ANTONIO.
+How now? What letter are you reading there?
+
+PROTEUS.
+May’t please your lordship, ’tis a word or two
+Of commendations sent from Valentine,
+Delivered by a friend that came from him.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Lend me the letter. Let me see what news.
+
+PROTEUS.
+There is no news, my lord, but that he writes
+How happily he lives, how well beloved
+And daily graced by the Emperor,
+Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune.
+
+ANTONIO.
+And how stand you affected to his wish?
+
+PROTEUS.
+As one relying on your lordship’s will,
+And not depending on his friendly wish.
+
+ANTONIO.
+My will is something sorted with his wish.
+Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed,
+For what I will, I will, and there an end.
+I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time
+With Valentinus in the Emperor’s court.
+What maintenance he from his friends receives,
+Like exhibition thou shalt have from me.
+Tomorrow be in readiness to go.
+Excuse it not, for I am peremptory.
+
+PROTEUS.
+My lord, I cannot be so soon provided;
+Please you deliberate a day or two.
+
+ANTONIO.
+Look what thou want’st shall be sent after thee.
+No more of stay. Tomorrow thou must go.
+Come on, Pantino, you shall be employed
+To hasten on his expedition.
+
+[_Exeunt Antonio and Pantino._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+Thus have I shunned the fire for fear of burning
+And drenched me in the sea, where I am drowned.
+I feared to show my father Julia’s letter
+Lest he should take exceptions to my love,
+And with the vantage of mine own excuse
+Hath he excepted most against my love.
+O, how this spring of love resembleth
+The uncertain glory of an April day,
+Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
+And by an by a cloud takes all away.
+
+Enter Pantino.
+
+PANTINO.
+Sir Proteus, your father calls for you.
+He is in haste. Therefore, I pray you, go.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto,
+And yet a thousand times it answers “No”.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Milan. A room in the Duke’s palace
+
+
+Enter Valentine and Speed.
+
+SPEED.
+Sir, your glove.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Not mine. My gloves are on.
+
+SPEED.
+Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Ha? Let me see. Ay, give it me, it’s mine.
+Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!
+Ah, Silvia, Silvia!
+
+SPEED.
+[_Calling_.] Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia!
+
+VALENTINE.
+How now, sirrah?
+
+SPEED.
+She is not within hearing, sir.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why, sir, who bade you call her?
+
+SPEED.
+Your worship, sir, or else I mistook.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Well, you’ll still be too forward.
+
+SPEED.
+And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Go to, sir. Tell me, do you know Madam Silvia?
+
+SPEED.
+She that your worship loves?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why, how know you that I am in love?
+
+SPEED.
+Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir
+Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent; to relish a love-song,
+like a robin redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had the
+pestilence; to sigh, like a schoolboy that had lost his ABC; to weep,
+like a young wench that had buried her grandam; to fast, like one that
+takes diet; to watch, like one that fears robbing; to speak puling,
+like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were wont, when you laughed, to crow
+like a cock; when you walked, to walk like one of the lions; when you
+fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you looked sadly, it was
+for want of money. And now you are metamorphosed with a mistress, that,
+when I look on you, I can hardly think you my master.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Are all these things perceived in me?
+
+SPEED.
+They are all perceived without ye.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Without me? They cannot.
+
+SPEED.
+Without you? Nay, that’s certain, for without you were so simple, none
+else would. But you are so without these follies, that these follies
+are within you, and shine through you like the water in an urinal, that
+not an eye that sees you but is a physician to comment on your malady.
+
+VALENTINE.
+But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?
+
+SPEED.
+She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Hast thou observed that? Even she I mean.
+
+SPEED.
+Why, sir, I know her not.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet know’st her not?
+
+SPEED.
+Is she not hard-favoured, sir?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured.
+
+SPEED.
+Sir, I know that well enough.
+
+VALENTINE.
+What dost thou know?
+
+SPEED.
+That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favoured.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I mean that her beauty is exquisite but her favour infinite.
+
+SPEED.
+That’s because the one is painted, and the other out of all count.
+
+VALENTINE.
+How painted? And how out of count?
+
+SPEED.
+Marry, sir, so painted to make her fair, that no man counts of her
+beauty.
+
+VALENTINE.
+How esteem’st thou me? I account of her beauty.
+
+SPEED.
+You never saw her since she was deformed.
+
+VALENTINE.
+How long hath she been deformed?
+
+SPEED.
+Ever since you loved her.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I have loved her ever since I saw her, and still I see her beautiful.
+
+SPEED.
+If you love her, you cannot see her.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why?
+
+SPEED.
+Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes, or your own eyes had
+the lights they were wont to have when you chid at Sir Proteus for
+going ungartered!
+
+VALENTINE.
+What should I see then?
+
+SPEED.
+Your own present folly and her passing deformity; for he, being in
+love, could not see to garter his hose; and you, being in love, cannot
+see to put on your hose.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Belike, boy, then you are in love, for last morning you could not see
+to wipe my shoes.
+
+SPEED.
+True, sir, I was in love with my bed. I thank you, you swinged me for
+my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours.
+
+VALENTINE.
+In conclusion, I stand affected to her.
+
+SPEED.
+I would you were set, so your affection would cease.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves.
+
+SPEED.
+And have you?
+
+VALENTINE.
+I have.
+
+SPEED.
+Are they not lamely writ?
+
+VALENTINE.
+No, boy, but as well as I can do them.
+Peace, here she comes.
+
+Enter Silvia.
+
+SPEED.
+[_Aside_.] O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!
+Now will he interpret to her.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows.
+
+SPEED.
+[_Aside_.] O, give ye good e’en! Here’s a million of manners.
+
+SILVIA.
+Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand.
+
+SPEED.
+[_Aside_.] He should give her interest, and she gives it him.
+
+VALENTINE.
+As you enjoined me, I have writ your letter
+Unto the secret nameless friend of yours,
+Which I was much unwilling to proceed in
+But for my duty to your ladyship.
+
+[_Gives her a letter._]
+
+SILVIA.
+I thank you, gentle servant, ’tis very clerkly done.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off,
+For, being ignorant to whom it goes,
+I writ at random, very doubtfully.
+
+SILVIA.
+Perchance you think too much of so much pains?
+
+VALENTINE.
+No, madam; so it stead you, I will write,
+Please you command, a thousand times as much.
+And yet—
+
+SILVIA.
+A pretty period. Well, I guess the sequel;
+And yet I will not name it. And yet I care not.
+And yet take this again.
+
+[_Offers him the letter._]
+
+And yet I thank you,
+Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.
+
+SPEED.
+[_Aside_.] And yet you will; and yet another “yet”.
+
+VALENTINE.
+What means your ladyship? Do you not like it?
+
+SILVIA.
+Yes, yes, the lines are very quaintly writ,
+But, since unwillingly, take them again.
+Nay, take them.
+
+[_Offers the letter again._]
+
+VALENTINE.
+Madam, they are for you.
+
+SILVIA.
+Ay, ay, you writ them, sir, at my request,
+But I will none of them. They are for you.
+I would have had them writ more movingly.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Please you, I’ll write your ladyship another.
+
+SILVIA.
+And when it’s writ, for my sake read it over,
+And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
+
+VALENTINE.
+If it please me, madam? What then?
+
+SILVIA.
+Why, if it please you, take it for your labour.
+And so good morrow, servant.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SPEED.
+[_Aside_.] O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
+As a nose on a man’s face, or a weathercock on a steeple!
+My master sues to her, and she hath taught her suitor,
+He being her pupil, to become her tutor.
+O excellent device! Was there ever heard a better?
+That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter?
+
+VALENTINE.
+How now, sir? What are you reasoning with yourself?
+
+SPEED.
+Nay, I was rhyming. ’Tis you that have the reason.
+
+VALENTINE.
+To do what?
+
+SPEED.
+To be a spokesman from Madam Silvia.
+
+VALENTINE.
+To whom?
+
+SPEED.
+To yourself. Why, she woos you by a figure.
+
+VALENTINE.
+What figure?
+
+SPEED.
+By a letter, I should say.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why, she hath not writ to me.
+
+SPEED.
+What need she, when she hath made you write to yourself? Why, do you
+not perceive the jest?
+
+VALENTINE.
+No, believe me.
+
+SPEED.
+No believing you indeed, sir. But did you perceive her earnest?
+
+VALENTINE.
+She gave me none, except an angry word.
+
+SPEED.
+Why, she hath given you a letter.
+
+VALENTINE.
+That’s the letter I writ to her friend.
+
+SPEED.
+And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I would it were no worse.
+
+SPEED.
+I’ll warrant you, ’tis as well.
+For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty
+Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply,
+Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,
+Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.
+All this I speak in print, for in print I found it. Why muse you, sir?
+’Tis dinner time.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I have dined.
+
+SPEED.
+Ay, but hearken, sir, though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I
+am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat. O,
+be not like your mistress! Be moved, be moved.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Verona. A room in Julia’s house
+
+Enter Proteus and Julia.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Have patience, gentle Julia.
+
+JULIA.
+I must, where is no remedy.
+
+PROTEUS.
+When possibly I can, I will return.
+
+JULIA.
+If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
+Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake.
+
+[_Gives him a ring._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+Why, then we’ll make exchange. Here, take you this.
+
+[_Gives her a ring._]
+
+JULIA.
+And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Here is my hand for my true constancy.
+And when that hour o’erslips me in the day
+Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
+The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
+Torment me for my love’s forgetfulness.
+My father stays my coming; answer not.
+The tide is now—nay, not thy tide of tears,
+That tide will stay me longer than I should.
+Julia, farewell.
+
+[_Exit Julia._]
+
+What, gone without a word?
+Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak,
+For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
+
+Enter Pantino.
+
+PANTINO.
+Sir Proteus, you are stayed for.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Go, I come, I come.
+Alas, this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A street
+
+Enter Lance with his dog Crab.
+
+LANCE.
+Nay, ’twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; all the kind of the
+Lances have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the
+prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial’s court.
+I think Crab my dog be the sourest-natured dog that lives: my mother
+weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat
+wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did
+not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very
+pebblestone, and has no more pity in him than a dog. A Jew would have
+wept to have seen our parting. Why, my grandam, having no eyes, look
+you, wept herself blind at my parting. Nay, I’ll show you the manner of
+it. This shoe is my father. No, this left shoe is my father; no, no,
+this left shoe is my mother. Nay, that cannot be so neither. Yes, it is
+so, it is so; it hath the worser sole. This shoe with the hole in it is
+my mother, and this my father. A vengeance on ’t, there ’tis. Now, sir,
+this staff is my sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and
+as small as a wand. This hat is Nan, our maid. I am the dog. No, the
+dog is himself, and I am the dog. O, the dog is me, and I am myself.
+Ay, so, so. Now come I to my father: “Father, your blessing.” Now
+should not the shoe speak a word for weeping. Now should I kiss my
+father. Well, he weeps on. Now come I to my mother. O, that she could
+speak now like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her. Why there ’tis; here’s
+my mother’s breath up and down. Now come I to my sister. Mark the moan
+she makes. Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a
+word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears.
+
+Enter Pantino.
+
+PANTINO.
+Lance, away, away! Aboard! Thy master is shipped, and thou art to post
+after with oars. What’s the matter? Why weep’st thou, man? Away, ass.
+You’ll lose the tide if you tarry any longer.
+
+LANCE.
+It is no matter if the tied were lost, for it is the unkindest tied
+that ever any man tied.
+
+PANTINO.
+What’s the unkindest tide?
+
+LANCE.
+Why, he that’s tied here, Crab, my dog.
+
+PANTINO.
+Tut, man, I mean thou’lt lose the flood, and, in losing the flood, lose
+thy voyage, and, in losing thy voyage, lose thy master, and, in losing
+thy master, lose thy service, and, in losing thy service—why dost thou
+stop my mouth?
+
+LANCE.
+For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue.
+
+PANTINO.
+Where should I lose my tongue?
+
+LANCE.
+In thy tale.
+
+PANTINO.
+In thy tail!
+
+LANCE.
+Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and the service, and the
+tied? Why, man, if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my
+tears; if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.
+
+PANTINO.
+Come, come away, man. I was sent to call thee.
+
+LANCE.
+Sir, call me what thou dar’st.
+
+PANTINO.
+Will thou go?
+
+LANCE.
+Well, I will go.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Milan. A room in the Duke’s palace
+
+Enter Valentine, Silvia, Thurio and Speed.
+
+SILVIA.
+Servant!
+
+VALENTINE.
+Mistress?
+
+SPEED.
+Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Ay, boy, it’s for love.
+
+SPEED.
+Not of you.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Of my mistress, then.
+
+SPEED.
+’Twere good you knocked him.
+
+SILVIA.
+Servant, you are sad.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Indeed, madam, I seem so.
+
+THURIO.
+Seem you that you are not?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Haply I do.
+
+THURIO.
+So do counterfeits.
+
+VALENTINE.
+So do you.
+
+THURIO.
+What seem I that I am not?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Wise.
+
+THURIO.
+What instance of the contrary?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Your folly.
+
+THURIO.
+And how quote you my folly?
+
+VALENTINE.
+I quote it in your jerkin.
+
+THURIO.
+My jerkin is a doublet.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Well, then, I’ll double your folly.
+
+THURIO.
+How!
+
+SILVIA.
+What, angry, Sir Thurio? Do you change colour?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Give him leave, madam, he is a kind of chameleon.
+
+THURIO.
+That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live in your air.
+
+VALENTINE.
+You have said, sir.
+
+THURIO.
+Ay, sir, and done too, for this time.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I know it well, sir. You always end ere you begin.
+
+SILVIA.
+A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.
+
+VALENTINE.
+’Tis indeed, madam, we thank the giver.
+
+SILVIA.
+Who is that, servant?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Yourself, sweet lady, for you gave the fire. Sir Thurio borrows his wit
+from your ladyship’s looks, and spends what he borrows kindly in your
+company.
+
+THURIO.
+Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit
+bankrupt.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I know it well, sir. You have an exchequer of words and, I think, no
+other treasure to give your followers, for it appears by their bare
+liveries that they live by your bare words.
+
+SILVIA.
+No more, gentlemen, no more. Here comes my father.
+
+Enter Duke.
+
+DUKE.
+Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset.
+Sir Valentine, your father is in good health.
+What say you to a letter from your friends
+Of much good news?
+
+VALENTINE.
+My lord, I will be thankful
+To any happy messenger from thence.
+
+DUKE.
+Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman
+To be of worth and worthy estimation,
+And not without desert so well reputed.
+
+DUKE.
+Hath he not a son?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Ay, my good lord, a son that well deserves
+The honour and regard of such a father.
+
+DUKE.
+You know him well?
+
+VALENTINE.
+I knew him as myself, for from our infancy
+We have conversed and spent our hours together.
+And though myself have been an idle truant,
+Omitting the sweet benefit of time
+To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,
+Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that’s his name,
+Made use and fair advantage of his days:
+His years but young, but his experience old;
+His head unmellowed, but his judgement ripe;
+And in a word, for far behind his worth
+Comes all the praises that I now bestow,
+He is complete in feature and in mind,
+With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
+
+DUKE.
+Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good,
+He is as worthy for an empress’ love
+As meet to be an emperor’s counsellor.
+Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me
+With commendation from great potentates,
+And here he means to spend his time awhile.
+I think ’tis no unwelcome news to you.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Should I have wished a thing, it had been he.
+
+DUKE.
+Welcome him then according to his worth.
+Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio.
+For Valentine, I need not cite him to it.
+I will send him hither to you presently.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+VALENTINE.
+This is the gentleman I told your ladyship
+Had come along with me but that his mistresss
+Did hold his eyes locked in her crystal looks.
+
+SILVIA.
+Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
+Upon some other pawn for fealty.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still.
+
+SILVIA.
+Nay, then, he should be blind, and being blind
+How could he see his way to seek out you?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes.
+
+THURIO.
+They say that Love hath not an eye at all.
+
+VALENTINE.
+To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself.
+Upon a homely object, Love can wink.
+
+SILVIA.
+Have done, have done. Here comes the gentleman.
+
+Enter Proteus.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Welcome, dear Proteus! Mistress, I beseech you
+Confirm his welcome with some special favour.
+
+SILVIA.
+His worth is warrant for his welcome hither,
+If this be he you oft have wished to hear from.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Mistress, it is. Sweet lady, entertain him
+To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship.
+
+SILVIA.
+Too low a mistress for so high a servant.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Not so, sweet lady, but too mean a servant
+To have a look of such a worthy mistress.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Leave off discourse of disability.
+Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.
+
+PROTEUS.
+My duty will I boast of, nothing else.
+
+SILVIA.
+And duty never yet did want his meed.
+Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress.
+
+PROTEUS.
+I’ll die on him that says so but yourself.
+
+SILVIA.
+That you are welcome?
+
+PROTEUS.
+That you are worthless.
+
+Enter Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+Madam, my lord your father would speak with you.
+
+SILVIA.
+I wait upon his pleasure.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+Come, Sir Thurio,
+Go with me.—Once more, new servant, welcome.
+I’ll leave you to confer of home affairs;
+When you have done, we look to hear from you.
+
+PROTEUS.
+We’ll both attend upon your ladyship.
+
+[_Exeunt Silvia and Thurio._]
+
+VALENTINE.
+Now, tell me, how do all from whence you came?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Your friends are well and have them much commended.
+
+VALENTINE.
+And how do yours?
+
+PROTEUS.
+I left them all in health.
+
+VALENTINE.
+How does your lady? And how thrives your love?
+
+PROTEUS.
+My tales of love were wont to weary you;
+I know you joy not in a love-discourse.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Ay, Proteus, but that life is altered now.
+I have done penance for contemning Love,
+Whose high imperious thoughts have punished me
+With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,
+With nightly tears, and daily heart-sore sighs;
+For in revenge of my contempt of love,
+Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes
+And made them watchers of mine own heart’s sorrow.
+O gentle Proteus, Love’s a mighty lord,
+And hath so humbled me as I confess
+There is no woe to his correction,
+Nor to his service no such joy on earth.
+Now, no discourse, except it be of love;
+Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep
+Upon the very naked name of love.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Enough; I read your fortune in your eye.
+Was this the idol that you worship so?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Even she; and is she not a heavenly saint?
+
+PROTEUS.
+No, but she is an earthly paragon.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Call her divine.
+
+PROTEUS.
+I will not flatter her.
+
+VALENTINE.
+O, flatter me, for love delights in praises.
+
+PROTEUS.
+When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
+And I must minister the like to you.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Then speak the truth by her; if not divine,
+Yet let her be a principality,
+Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Except my mistress.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Sweet, except not any,
+Except thou wilt except against my love.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Have I not reason to prefer mine own?
+
+VALENTINE.
+And I will help thee to prefer her too:
+She shall be dignified with this high honour,
+To bear my lady’s train, lest the base earth
+Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss,
+And, of so great a favour growing proud,
+Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower
+And make rough winter everlastingly.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Why, Valentine, what braggartism is this?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Pardon me, Proteus, all I can is nothing
+To her, whose worth makes other worthies nothing;
+She is alone.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Then let her alone.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Not for the world! Why, man, she is mine own,
+And I as rich in having such a jewel
+As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
+The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
+Forgive me that I do not dream on thee,
+Because thou seest me dote upon my love.
+My foolish rival, that her father likes
+Only for his possessions are so huge,
+Is gone with her along, and I must after,
+For love, thou know’st, is full of jealousy.
+
+PROTEUS.
+But she loves you?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Ay, and we are betrothed; nay more, our marriage hour,
+With all the cunning manner of our flight,
+Determined of: how I must climb her window,
+The ladder made of cords, and all the means
+Plotted and ’greed on for my happiness.
+Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber,
+In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Go on before; I shall enquire you forth.
+I must unto the road to disembark
+Some necessaries that I needs must use,
+And then I’ll presently attend you.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Will you make haste?
+
+PROTEUS.
+I will.
+
+[_Exit Valentine._]
+
+Even as one heat another heat expels,
+Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
+So the remembrance of my former love
+Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
+Is it mine eye, or Valentine’s praise,
+Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
+That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
+She is fair; and so is Julia that I love—
+That I did love, for now my love is thawed,
+Which like a waxen image ’gainst a fire
+Bears no impression of the thing it was.
+Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,
+And that I love him not as I was wont.
+O, but I love his lady too too much,
+And that’s the reason I love him so little.
+How shall I dote on her with more advice
+That thus without advice begin to love her?
+’Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,
+And that hath dazzled my reason’s light;
+But when I look on her perfections,
+There is no reason but I shall be blind.
+If I can check my erring love, I will;
+If not, to compass her I’ll use my skill.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. The same. A street
+
+Enter Speed and Lance with his dog Crab.
+
+SPEED.
+Lance, by mine honesty, welcome to Milan!
+
+LANCE.
+Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not welcome. I reckon this
+always, that a man is never undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome
+to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say
+“Welcome”.
+
+SPEED.
+Come on, you madcap. I’ll to the alehouse with you presently, where,
+for one shot of five pence, thou shalt have five thousand welcomes.
+But, sirrah, how did thy master part with Madam Julia?
+
+LANCE.
+Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted very fairly in jest.
+
+SPEED.
+But shall she marry him?
+
+LANCE.
+No.
+
+SPEED.
+How then? Shall he marry her?
+
+LANCE.
+No, neither.
+
+SPEED.
+What, are they broken?
+
+LANCE.
+No, they are both as whole as a fish.
+
+SPEED.
+Why then, how stands the matter with them?
+
+LANCE.
+Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it stands well with her.
+
+SPEED.
+What an ass art thou! I understand thee not.
+
+LANCE.
+What a block art thou that thou canst not! My staff understands me.
+
+SPEED.
+What thou sayst?
+
+LANCE.
+Ay, and what I do too. Look thee, I’ll but lean, and my staff
+understands me.
+
+SPEED.
+It stands under thee indeed.
+
+LANCE.
+Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.
+
+SPEED.
+But tell me true, will’t be a match?
+
+LANCE.
+Ask my dog. If he say “Ay”, it will; if he say “No”, it will; if he
+shake his tail and say nothing, it will.
+
+SPEED.
+The conclusion is, then, that it will.
+
+LANCE.
+Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable.
+
+SPEED.
+’Tis well that I get it so. But, Lance, how sayst thou that my master
+is become a notable lover?
+
+LANCE.
+I never knew him otherwise.
+
+SPEED.
+Than how?
+
+LANCE.
+A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
+
+SPEED.
+Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistak’st me.
+
+LANCE.
+Why, fool, I meant not thee, I meant thy master.
+
+SPEED.
+I tell thee, my master is become a hot lover.
+
+LANCE.
+Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself in love. If thou
+wilt, go with me to the alehouse; if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew,
+and not worth the name of a Christian.
+
+SPEED.
+Why?
+
+LANCE.
+Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to go to the ale with
+a Christian. Wilt thou go?
+
+SPEED.
+At thy service.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. The same. The Duke’s palace
+
+Enter Proteus alone.
+
+PROTEUS.
+To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;
+To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn;
+To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn.
+And e’en that power which gave me first my oath
+Provokes me to this threefold perjury.
+Love bade me swear, and Love bids me forswear.
+O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
+Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it.
+At first I did adore a twinkling star,
+But now I worship a celestial sun.
+Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,
+And he wants wit that wants resolved will
+To learn his wit t’ exchange the bad for better.
+Fie, fie, unreverend tongue, to call her bad
+Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferred
+With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.
+I cannot leave to love, and yet I do;
+But there I leave to love where I should love.
+Julia I lose, and Valentine I lose;
+If I keep them, I needs must lose myself;
+If I lose them, thus find I by their loss,
+For Valentine, myself; for Julia, Silvia.
+I to myself am dearer than a friend,
+For love is still most precious in itself,
+And Silvia—witness heaven that made her fair—
+Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope.
+I will forget that Julia is alive,
+Remembering that my love to her is dead;
+And Valentine I’ll hold an enemy,
+Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend.
+I cannot now prove constant to myself
+Without some treachery used to Valentine.
+This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
+To climb celestial Silvia’s chamber window,
+Myself in counsel, his competitor.
+Now presently I’ll give her father notice
+Of their disguising and pretended flight,
+Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine,
+For Thurio he intends shall wed his daughter.
+But Valentine being gone, I’ll quickly cross
+By some sly trick blunt Thurio’s dull proceeding.
+Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
+As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE VII. Verona. A room in Julia’s house
+
+Enter Julia and Lucetta.
+
+JULIA.
+Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me,
+And ev’n in kind love I do conjure thee,
+Who art the table wherein all my thoughts
+Are visibly charactered and engraved,
+To lesson me and tell me some good mean
+How with my honour I may undertake
+A journey to my loving Proteus.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Alas, the way is wearisome and long.
+
+JULIA.
+A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
+To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;
+Much less shall she that hath Love’s wings to fly,
+And when the flight is made to one so dear,
+Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Better forbear till Proteus make return.
+
+JULIA.
+O, know’st thou not his looks are my soul’s food?
+Pity the dearth that I have pined in
+By longing for that food so long a time.
+Didst thou but know the inly touch of love
+Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
+As seek to quench the fire of love with words.
+
+LUCETTA.
+I do not seek to quench your love’s hot fire,
+But qualify the fire’s extreme rage,
+Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
+
+JULIA.
+The more thou damm’st it up, the more it burns.
+The current that with gentle murmur glides,
+Thou know’st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;
+But when his fair course is not hindered,
+He makes sweet music with th’ enamelled stones,
+Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
+He overtaketh in his pilgrimage;
+And so by many winding nooks he strays
+With willing sport to the wild ocean.
+Then let me go and hinder not my course.
+I’ll be as patient as a gentle stream
+And make a pastime of each weary step
+Till the last step have brought me to my love,
+And there I’ll rest as after much turmoil
+A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
+
+LUCETTA.
+But in what habit will you go along?
+
+JULIA.
+Not like a woman, for I would prevent
+The loose encounters of lascivious men.
+Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds
+As may beseem some well-reputed page.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Why then, your ladyship must cut your hair.
+
+JULIA.
+No, girl, I’ll knit it up in silken strings
+With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots.
+To be fantastic may become a youth
+Of greater time than I shall show to be.
+
+LUCETTA.
+What fashion, madam, shall I make your breeches?
+
+JULIA.
+That fits as well as “Tell me, good my lord,
+What compass will you wear your farthingale?”
+Why e’en what fashion thou best likes, Lucetta.
+
+LUCETTA.
+You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam.
+
+JULIA.
+Out, out, Lucetta, that will be ill-favoured.
+
+LUCETTA.
+A round hose, madam, now’s not worth a pin
+Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on.
+
+JULIA.
+Lucetta, as thou lov’st me, let me have
+What thou think’st meet and is most mannerly.
+But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
+For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
+I fear me it will make me scandalized.
+
+LUCETTA.
+If you think so, then stay at home and go not.
+
+JULIA.
+Nay, that I will not.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Then never dream on infamy, but go.
+If Proteus like your journey when you come,
+No matter who’s displeased when you are gone.
+I fear me he will scarce be pleased withal.
+
+JULIA.
+That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear.
+A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears,
+And instances of infinite of love,
+Warrant me welcome to my Proteus.
+
+LUCETTA.
+All these are servants to deceitful men.
+
+JULIA.
+Base men that use them to so base effect!
+But truer stars did govern Proteus’ birth.
+His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
+His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
+His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
+His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
+
+LUCETTA.
+Pray heav’n he prove so when you come to him.
+
+JULIA.
+Now, as thou lov’st me, do him not that wrong
+To bear a hard opinion of his truth.
+Only deserve my love by loving him.
+And presently go with me to my chamber
+To take a note of what I stand in need of
+To furnish me upon my longing journey.
+All that is mine I leave at thy dispose,
+My goods, my lands, my reputation;
+Only, in lieu thereof, dispatch me hence.
+Come, answer not, but to it presently.
+I am impatient of my tarriance.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Milan. An anteroom in the Duke’s palace
+
+
+Enter Duke, Thurio and Proteus.
+
+DUKE.
+Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile;
+We have some secrets to confer about.
+
+[_Exit Thurio._]
+
+Now tell me, Proteus, what’s your will with me?
+
+PROTEUS.
+My gracious lord, that which I would discover
+The law of friendship bids me to conceal,
+But when I call to mind your gracious favours
+Done to me, undeserving as I am,
+My duty pricks me on to utter that
+Which else no worldly good should draw from me.
+Know, worthy prince, Sir Valentine my friend
+This night intends to steal away your daughter;
+Myself am one made privy to the plot.
+I know you have determined to bestow her
+On Thurio, whom your gentle daughter hates,
+And should she thus be stol’n away from you,
+It would be much vexation to your age.
+Thus, for my duty’s sake, I rather chose
+To cross my friend in his intended drift
+Than, by concealing it, heap on your head
+A pack of sorrows which would press you down,
+Being unprevented, to your timeless grave.
+
+DUKE.
+Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care,
+Which to requite command me while I live.
+This love of theirs myself have often seen,
+Haply when they have judged me fast asleep,
+And oftentimes have purposed to forbid
+Sir Valentine her company and my court.
+But fearing lest my jealous aim might err
+And so, unworthily, disgrace the man—
+A rashness that I ever yet have shunned—
+I gave him gentle looks, thereby to find
+That which thyself hast now disclosed to me.
+And that thou mayst perceive my fear of this,
+Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested,
+I nightly lodge her in an upper tower,
+The key whereof myself have ever kept;
+And thence she cannot be conveyed away.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Know, noble lord, they have devised a mean
+How he her chamber-window will ascend
+And with a corded ladder fetch her down;
+For which the youthful lover now is gone,
+And this way comes he with it presently,
+Where, if it please you, you may intercept him.
+But, good my lord, do it so cunningly
+That my discovery be not aimed at;
+For love of you, not hate unto my friend,
+Hath made me publisher of this pretence.
+
+DUKE.
+Upon mine honour, he shall never know
+That I had any light from thee of this.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Adieu, my lord, Sir Valentine is coming.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+Enter Valentine.
+
+DUKE.
+Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Please it your Grace, there is a messenger
+That stays to bear my letters to my friends,
+And I am going to deliver them.
+
+DUKE.
+Be they of much import?
+
+VALENTINE.
+The tenor of them doth but signify
+My health and happy being at your court.
+
+DUKE.
+Nay then, no matter. Stay with me awhile;
+I am to break with thee of some affairs
+That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret.
+’Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought
+To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I know it well, my lord, and sure the match
+Were rich and honourable. Besides, the gentleman
+Is full of virtue, bounty, worth, and qualities
+Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter.
+Cannot your grace win her to fancy him?
+
+DUKE.
+No, trust me, she is peevish, sullen, froward,
+Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty,
+Neither regarding that she is my child
+Nor fearing me as if I were her father;
+And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers,
+Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her,
+And where I thought the remnant of mine age
+Should have been cherished by her childlike duty,
+I now am full resolved to take a wife
+And turn her out to who will take her in.
+Then let her beauty be her wedding dower,
+For me and my possessions she esteems not.
+
+VALENTINE.
+What would your Grace have me to do in this?
+
+DUKE.
+There is a lady of Verona here
+Whom I affect; but she is nice, and coy,
+And nought esteems my aged eloquence.
+Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor—
+For long agone I have forgot to court;
+Besides, the fashion of the time is changed—
+How and which way I may bestow myself
+To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Win her with gifts if she respect not words;
+Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
+More than quick words do move a woman’s mind.
+
+DUKE.
+But she did scorn a present that I sent her.
+
+VALENTINE.
+A woman sometime scorns what best contents her.
+Send her another; never give her o’er,
+For scorn at first makes after-love the more.
+If she do frown, ’tis not in hate of you,
+But rather to beget more love in you.
+If she do chide, ’tis not to have you gone,
+Forwhy the fools are mad if left alone.
+Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
+For “Get you gone” she doth not mean “Away!”
+Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;
+Though ne’er so black, say they have angels’ faces.
+That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man
+If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
+
+DUKE.
+But she I mean is promised by her friends
+Unto a youthful gentleman of worth,
+And kept severely from resort of men,
+That no man hath access by day to her.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why then, I would resort to her by night.
+
+DUKE.
+Ay, but the doors be locked and keys kept safe,
+That no man hath recourse to her by night.
+
+VALENTINE.
+What lets but one may enter at her window?
+
+DUKE.
+Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground,
+And built so shelving that one cannot climb it
+Without apparent hazard of his life.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why, then a ladder quaintly made of cords
+To cast up with a pair of anchoring hooks,
+Would serve to scale another Hero’s tower,
+So bold Leander would adventure it.
+
+DUKE.
+Now, as thou art a gentleman of blood,
+Advise me where I may have such a ladder.
+
+VALENTINE.
+When would you use it? Pray, sir, tell me that.
+
+DUKE.
+This very night; for Love is like a child
+That longs for everything that he can come by.
+
+VALENTINE.
+By seven o’clock I’ll get you such a ladder.
+
+DUKE.
+But, hark thee: I will go to her alone;
+How shall I best convey the ladder thither?
+
+VALENTINE.
+It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it
+Under a cloak that is of any length.
+
+DUKE.
+A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Then let me see thy cloak;
+I’ll get me one of such another length.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why, any cloak will serve the turn, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak?
+I pray thee, let me feel thy cloak upon me.
+
+[_Takes Valentine’s cloak and finds a letter and a rope ladder
+concealed under it._]
+
+What letter is this same? What’s here?—_To Silvia?_
+And here an engine fit for my proceeding.
+I’ll be so bold to break the seal for once.
+
+[_Reads_.] _My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly,
+    And slaves they are to me that send them flying.
+O, could their master come and go as lightly,
+    Himself would lodge where, senseless, they are lying.
+My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them,
+    While I, their king, that thither them importune,
+Do curse the grace that with such grace hath blest them,
+    Because myself do want my servants’ fortune.
+I curse myself, for they are sent by me,
+That they should harbour where their lord should be._
+What’s here?
+[_Reads_.] _Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee._
+’Tis so; and here’s the ladder for the purpose.
+Why, Phaëthon—for thou art Merops’ son—
+Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car,
+And with thy daring folly burn the world?
+Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee?
+Go, base intruder, overweening slave,
+Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates,
+And think my patience, more than thy desert,
+Is privilege for thy departure hence.
+Thank me for this more than for all the favours
+Which, all too much, I have bestowed on thee.
+But if thou linger in my territories
+Longer than swiftest expedition
+Will give thee time to leave our royal court,
+By heaven, my wrath shall far exceed the love
+I ever bore my daughter or thyself.
+Begone, I will not hear thy vain excuse,
+But, as thou lov’st thy life, make speed from hence.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+VALENTINE.
+And why not death, rather than living torment?
+To die is to be banished from myself,
+And Silvia is myself; banished from her
+Is self from self—a deadly banishment.
+What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
+What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
+Unless it be to think that she is by
+And feed upon the shadow of perfection.
+Except I be by Silvia in the night,
+There is no music in the nightingale.
+Unless I look on Silvia in the day,
+There is no day for me to look upon.
+She is my essence, and I leave to be
+If I be not by her fair influence
+Fostered, illumined, cherished, kept alive.
+I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom:
+Tarry I here, I but attend on death,
+But fly I hence, I fly away from life.
+
+Enter Proteus and Lance.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Run, boy, run, run, seek him out.
+
+LANCE.
+So-ho, so-ho!
+
+PROTEUS.
+What seest thou?
+
+LANCE.
+Him we go to find. There’s not a hair on ’s head but ’tis a Valentine.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Valentine?
+
+VALENTINE.
+No.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Who then? His spirit?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Neither.
+
+PROTEUS.
+What then?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Nothing.
+
+LANCE.
+Can nothing speak? Master, shall I strike?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Who wouldst thou strike?
+
+LANCE.
+Nothing.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Villain, forbear.
+
+LANCE.
+Why, sir, I’ll strike nothing. I pray you—
+
+PROTEUS.
+Sirrah, I say, forbear.—Friend Valentine, a word.
+
+VALENTINE.
+My ears are stopped and cannot hear good news,
+So much of bad already hath possessed them.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Then in dumb silence will I bury mine,
+For they are harsh, untuneable, and bad.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Is Silvia dead?
+
+PROTEUS.
+No, Valentine.
+
+VALENTINE.
+No Valentine indeed for sacred Silvia.
+Hath she forsworn me?
+
+PROTEUS.
+No, Valentine.
+
+VALENTINE.
+No Valentine, if Silvia have forsworn me.
+What is your news?
+
+LANCE.
+Sir, there is a proclamation that you are vanished.
+
+PROTEUS.
+That thou art banished—O, that’s the news—
+From hence, from Silvia, and from me thy friend.
+
+VALENTINE.
+O, I have fed upon this woe already,
+And now excess of it will make me surfeit.
+Doth Silvia know that I am banished?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Ay, ay; and she hath offered to the doom—
+Which unreversed stands in effectual force—
+A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears;
+Those at her father’s churlish feet she tendered,
+With them, upon her knees, her humble self,
+Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them
+As if but now they waxed pale for woe.
+But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
+Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears
+Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire;
+But Valentine, if he be ta’en, must die.
+Besides, her intercession chafed him so,
+When she for thy repeal was suppliant,
+That to close prison he commanded her,
+With many bitter threats of biding there.
+
+VALENTINE.
+No more, unless the next word that thou speak’st
+Have some malignant power upon my life.
+If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,
+As ending anthem of my endless dolour.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
+And study help for that which thou lament’st.
+Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
+Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy love;
+Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life.
+Hope is a lover’s staff; walk hence with that
+And manage it against despairing thoughts.
+Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence,
+Which, being writ to me, shall be delivered
+Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love.
+The time now serves not to expostulate.
+Come, I’ll convey thee through the city-gate,
+And, ere I part with thee, confer at large
+Of all that may concern thy love affairs.
+As thou lov’st Silvia, though not for thyself,
+Regard thy danger, and along with me.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I pray thee, Lance, an if thou seest my boy,
+Bid him make haste and meet me at the North Gate.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Go, sirrah, find him out. Come, Valentine.
+
+VALENTINE.
+O, my dear Silvia! Hapless Valentine!
+
+[_Exeunt Valentine and Proteus._]
+
+LANCE.
+I am but a fool, look you, and yet I have the wit to think my master is
+a kind of a knave; but that’s all one if he be but one knave. He lives
+not now that knows me to be in love, yet I am in love, but a team of
+horse shall not pluck that from me, nor who ’tis I love; and yet ’tis a
+woman, but what woman I will not tell myself; and yet ’tis a milkmaid;
+yet ’tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips; yet ’tis a maid, for she
+is her master’s maid and serves for wages. She hath more qualities than
+a water-spaniel, which is much in a bare Christian. [_Pulls out a
+paper_.] Here is the cate-log of her condition. _Imprimis, She can
+fetch and carry_. Why, a horse can do no more; nay, a horse cannot
+fetch but only carry; therefore is she better than a jade. _Item, She
+can milk_. Look you, a sweet virtue in a maid with clean hands.
+
+Enter Speed.
+
+SPEED.
+How now, Signior Lance? What news with your mastership?
+
+LANCE.
+With my master’s ship? Why, it is at sea.
+
+SPEED.
+Well, your old vice still: mistake the word. What news, then, in your
+paper?
+
+LANCE.
+The blackest news that ever thou heard’st.
+
+SPEED.
+Why, man? How black?
+
+LANCE.
+Why, as black as ink.
+
+SPEED.
+Let me read them.
+
+LANCE.
+Fie on thee, jolt-head, thou canst not read.
+
+SPEED.
+Thou liest. I can.
+
+LANCE.
+I will try thee. Tell me this, who begot thee?
+
+SPEED.
+Marry, the son of my grandfather.
+
+LANCE.
+O, illiterate loiterer! It was the son of thy grandmother.
+This proves that thou canst not read.
+
+SPEED.
+Come, fool, come; try me in thy paper.
+
+LANCE.
+[_Gives him the paper_.] There; and Saint Nicholas be thy speed.
+
+SPEED.
+_Imprimis, She can milk._
+
+LANCE.
+Ay, that she can.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She brews good ale._
+
+LANCE.
+And thereof comes the proverb, “Blessing of your heart, you brew good
+ale.”
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She can sew._
+
+LANCE.
+That’s as much as to say, “Can she so?”
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She can knit._
+
+LANCE.
+What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when she can knit him a
+stock?
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She can wash and scour._
+
+LANCE.
+A special virtue, for then she need not be washed and scoured.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She can spin._
+
+LANCE.
+Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can spin for her living.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She hath many nameless virtues._
+
+LANCE.
+That’s as much as to say, “bastard virtues”, that indeed know not their
+fathers, and therefore have no names.
+
+SPEED.
+Here follow her vices.
+
+LANCE.
+Close at the heels of her virtues.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She is not to be kissed fasting in respect of her breath._
+
+LANCE.
+Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast.
+Read on.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She hath a sweet mouth._
+
+LANCE.
+That makes amends for her sour breath.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She doth talk in her sleep._
+
+LANCE.
+It’s no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She is slow in words._
+
+LANCE.
+O villain, that set this down among her vices! To be slow in words is a
+woman’s only virtue. I pray thee, out with’t, and place it for her
+chief virtue.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She is proud._
+
+LANCE.
+Out with that too; it was Eve’s legacy and cannot be ta’en from her.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She hath no teeth._
+
+LANCE.
+I care not for that neither, because I love crusts.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She is curst._
+
+LANCE.
+Well, the best is, she hath no teeth to bite.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She will often praise her liquor._
+
+LANCE.
+If her liquor be good, she shall; if she will not, I will, for good
+things should be praised.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She is too liberal._
+
+LANCE.
+Of her tongue she cannot, for that’s writ down she is slow of; of her
+purse she shall not, for that I’ll keep shut. Now, of another thing she
+may, and that cannot I help. Well, proceed.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and
+more wealth than faults._
+
+LANCE.
+Stop there; I’ll have her. She was mine and not mine twice or thrice in
+that last article. Rehearse that once more.
+
+SPEED.
+_Item, She hath more hair than wit_—
+
+LANCE.
+More hair than wit. It may be; I’ll prove it: the cover of the salt
+hides the salt, and therefore it is more than the salt; the hair that
+covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less.
+What’s next?
+
+SPEED.
+_And more faults than hairs._
+
+LANCE.
+That’s monstrous! O, that that were out!
+
+SPEED.
+_And more wealth than faults._
+
+LANCE.
+Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well, I’ll have her; an if it
+be a match, as nothing is impossible—
+
+SPEED.
+What then?
+
+LANCE.
+Why, then will I tell thee that thy master stays for thee at the North
+Gate.
+
+SPEED.
+For me?
+
+LANCE.
+For thee? Ay, who art thou? He hath stayed for a better man than thee.
+
+SPEED.
+And must I go to him?
+
+LANCE.
+Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long that going will
+scarce serve the turn.
+
+SPEED.
+Why didst not tell me sooner? Pox of your love letters!
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+LANCE.
+Now will he be swinged for reading my letter; an unmannerly slave, that
+will thrust himself into secrets. I’ll after, to rejoice in the boy’s
+correction.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A room in the Duke’s palace
+
+Enter Duke and Thurio.
+
+DUKE.
+Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you
+Now Valentine is banished from her sight.
+
+THURIO.
+Since his exile she hath despised me most,
+Forsworn my company and railed at me,
+That I am desperate of obtaining her.
+
+DUKE.
+This weak impress of love is as a figure
+Trenched in ice, which with an hour’s heat
+Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.
+A little time will melt her frozen thoughts,
+And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.
+
+Enter Proteus.
+
+How now, Sir Proteus? Is your countryman,
+According to our proclamation, gone?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Gone, my good lord.
+
+DUKE.
+My daughter takes his going grievously.
+
+PROTEUS.
+A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.
+
+DUKE.
+So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so.
+Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee,
+For thou hast shown some sign of good desert,
+Makes me the better to confer with thee.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Longer than I prove loyal to your Grace
+Let me not live to look upon your Grace.
+
+DUKE.
+Thou know’st how willingly I would effect
+The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter?
+
+PROTEUS.
+I do, my lord.
+
+DUKE.
+And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
+How she opposes her against my will?
+
+PROTEUS.
+She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.
+
+DUKE.
+Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
+What might we do to make the girl forget
+The love of Valentine, and love Sir Thurio?
+
+PROTEUS.
+The best way is to slander Valentine
+With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
+Three things that women highly hold in hate.
+
+DUKE.
+Ay, but she’ll think that it is spoke in hate.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Ay, if his enemy deliver it;
+Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
+By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.
+
+DUKE.
+Then you must undertake to slander him.
+
+PROTEUS.
+And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do.
+’Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
+Especially against his very friend.
+
+DUKE.
+Where your good word cannot advantage him,
+Your slander never can endamage him;
+Therefore the office is indifferent,
+Being entreated to it by your friend.
+
+PROTEUS.
+You have prevailed, my lord. If I can do it
+By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
+She shall not long continue love to him.
+But say this weed her love from Valentine,
+It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.
+
+THURIO.
+Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
+Lest it should ravel and be good to none,
+You must provide to bottom it on me,
+Which must be done by praising me as much
+As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.
+
+DUKE.
+And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind
+Because we know, on Valentine’s report,
+You are already Love’s firm votary
+And cannot soon revolt and change your mind.
+Upon this warrant shall you have access
+Where you with Silvia may confer at large—
+For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
+And, for your friend’s sake, will be glad of you—
+Where you may temper her by your persuasion
+To hate young Valentine and love my friend.
+
+PROTEUS.
+As much as I can do I will effect.
+But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough.
+You must lay lime to tangle her desires
+By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes
+Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
+
+DUKE.
+Ay, much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Say that upon the altar of her beauty
+You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart.
+Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
+Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
+That may discover such integrity.
+For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews,
+Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
+Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
+Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
+After your dire-lamenting elegies,
+Visit by night your lady’s chamber-window
+With some sweet consort; to their instruments
+Tune a deploring dump; the night’s dead silence
+Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.
+This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
+
+DUKE.
+This discipline shows thou hast been in love.
+
+THURIO.
+And thy advice this night I’ll put in practice.
+Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
+Let us into the city presently
+To sort some gentlemen well skilled in music.
+I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
+To give the onset to thy good advice.
+
+DUKE.
+About it, gentlemen!
+
+PROTEUS.
+We’ll wait upon your Grace till after supper,
+And afterward determine our proceedings.
+
+DUKE.
+Even now about it! I will pardon you.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. A forest between Milan and Verona
+
+
+Enter certain Outlaws.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+If there be ten, shrink not, but down with ’em.
+
+Enter Valentine and Speed.
+
+THIRD OUTLAW.
+Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye.
+If not, we’ll make you sit, and rifle you.
+
+SPEED.
+Sir, we are undone: these are the villains
+That all the travellers do fear so much.
+
+VALENTINE.
+My friends—
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+That’s not so, sir. We are your enemies.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+Peace! We’ll hear him.
+
+THIRD OUTLAW.
+Ay, by my beard, will we, for he is a proper man.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Then know that I have little wealth to lose.
+A man I am crossed with adversity;
+My riches are these poor habiliments,
+Of which if you should here disfurnish me,
+You take the sum and substance that I have.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+Whither travel you?
+
+VALENTINE.
+To Verona.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+Whence came you?
+
+VALENTINE.
+From Milan.
+
+THIRD OUTLAW.
+Have you long sojourned there?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
+If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+What, were you banished thence?
+
+VALENTINE.
+I was.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+For what offence?
+
+VALENTINE.
+For that which now torments me to rehearse;
+I killed a man, whose death I much repent,
+But yet I slew him manfully in fight,
+Without false vantage or base treachery.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+Why, ne’er repent it, if it were done so.
+But were you banished for so small a fault?
+
+VALENTINE.
+I was, and held me glad of such a doom.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+Have you the tongues?
+
+VALENTINE.
+My youthful travel therein made me happy,
+Or else I often had been miserable.
+
+THIRD OUTLAW.
+By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar,
+This fellow were a king for our wild faction.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+We’ll have him. Sirs, a word.
+
+SPEED.
+Master, be one of them. It’s an honourable kind of thievery.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Peace, villain.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+Tell us this: have you anything to take to?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Nothing but my fortune.
+
+THIRD OUTLAW.
+Know then that some of us are gentlemen,
+Such as the fury of ungoverned youth
+Thrust from the company of awful men.
+Myself was from Verona banished
+For practising to steal away a lady,
+An heir, and near allied unto the Duke.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+And I from Mantua, for a gentleman
+Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+And I for suchlike petty crimes as these.
+But to the purpose, for we cite our faults,
+That they may hold excused our lawless lives;
+And partly, seeing you are beautified
+With goodly shape, and by your own report
+A linguist, and a man of such perfection
+As we do in our quality much want—
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+Indeed because you are a banished man,
+Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you.
+Are you content to be our general?
+To make a virtue of necessity
+And live as we do in this wilderness?
+
+THIRD OUTLAW.
+What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?
+Say “Ay”, and be the captain of us all,
+We’ll do thee homage and be ruled by thee,
+Love thee as our commander and our king.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offered.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I take your offer and will live with you,
+Provided that you do no outrages
+On silly women or poor passengers.
+
+THIRD OUTLAW.
+No, we detest such vile base practices.
+Come, go with us; we’ll bring thee to our crews
+And show thee all the treasure we have got,
+Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Milan. The court of the Duke’s palace
+
+Enter Proteus.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Already have I been false to Valentine,
+And now I must be as unjust to Thurio.
+Under the colour of commending him,
+I have access my own love to prefer.
+But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy
+To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
+When I protest true loyalty to her,
+She twits me with my falsehood to my friend;
+When to her beauty I commend my vows,
+She bids me think how I have been forsworn
+In breaking faith with Julia, whom I loved;
+And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,
+The least whereof would quell a lover’s hope,
+Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
+The more it grows and fawneth on her still.
+But here comes Thurio. Now must we to her window,
+And give some evening music to her ear.
+
+Enter Thurio and Musicians.
+
+THURIO.
+How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love
+Will creep in service where it cannot go.
+
+THURIO.
+Ay, but I hope, sir, that you love not here.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Sir, but I do, or else I would be hence.
+
+THURIO.
+Who? Silvia?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Ay, Silvia, for your sake.
+
+THURIO.
+I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen,
+Let’s tune, and to it lustily awhile.
+
+Enter Host and Julia in boy’s clothes, as Sebastian.
+
+HOST.
+Now, my young guest, methinks you’re allycholly. I pray you, why is it?
+
+JULIA.
+Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry.
+
+HOST.
+Come, we’ll have you merry. I’ll bring you where you shall hear music,
+and see the gentleman that you asked for.
+
+JULIA.
+But shall I hear him speak?
+
+HOST.
+Ay, that you shall.
+
+JULIA.
+That will be music.
+
+[_Music plays._]
+
+HOST.
+Hark, hark!
+
+JULIA.
+Is he among these?
+
+HOST.
+Ay; but peace, let’s hear ’em.
+
+SONG
+
+PROTEUS.
+    Who is Silvia? What is she,
+      That all our swains commend her?
+    Holy, fair, and wise is she;
+      The heaven such grace did lend her,
+    That she might admired be.
+
+    Is she kind as she is fair?
+      For beauty lives with kindness.
+    Love doth to her eyes repair,
+      To help him of his blindness;
+    And, being helped, inhabits there.
+
+    Then to Silvia let us sing,
+      That Silvia is excelling;
+    She excels each mortal thing
+      Upon the dull earth dwelling.
+    To her let us garlands bring.
+
+HOST.
+How now, are you sadder than you were before?
+How do you, man? The music likes you not.
+
+JULIA.
+You mistake; the musician likes me not.
+
+HOST.
+Why, my pretty youth?
+
+JULIA.
+He plays false, father.
+
+HOST.
+How, out of tune on the strings?
+
+JULIA.
+Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my very heart-strings.
+
+HOST.
+You have a quick ear.
+
+JULIA.
+Ay, I would I were deaf; it makes me have a slow heart.
+
+HOST.
+I perceive you delight not in music.
+
+JULIA.
+Not a whit, when it jars so.
+
+HOST.
+Hark, what fine change is in the music!
+
+JULIA.
+Ay, that change is the spite.
+
+HOST.
+You would have them always play but one thing?
+
+JULIA.
+I would always have one play but one thing.
+But, host, doth this Sir Proteus, that we talk on,
+Often resort unto this gentlewoman?
+
+HOST.
+I tell you what Lance, his man, told me: he loved her out of all nick.
+
+JULIA.
+Where is Lance?
+
+HOST.
+Gone to seek his dog, which tomorrow, by his master’s command, he must
+carry for a present to his lady.
+
+JULIA.
+Peace, stand aside. The company parts.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Sir Thurio, fear not you; I will so plead
+That you shall say my cunning drift excels.
+
+THURIO.
+Where meet we?
+
+PROTEUS.
+At Saint Gregory’s well.
+
+THURIO.
+Farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt Thurio and Musicians._]
+
+Enter Silvia above.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Madam, good even to your ladyship.
+
+SILVIA.
+I thank you for your music, gentlemen.
+Who is that that spake?
+
+PROTEUS.
+One, lady, if you knew his pure heart’s truth,
+You would quickly learn to know him by his voice.
+
+SILVIA.
+Sir Proteus, as I take it.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant.
+
+SILVIA.
+What’s your will?
+
+PROTEUS.
+That I may compass yours.
+
+SILVIA.
+You have your wish. My will is even this,
+That presently you hie you home to bed.
+Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man,
+Think’st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,
+To be seduced by thy flattery,
+That hast deceived so many with thy vows?
+Return, return, and make thy love amends.
+For me, by this pale queen of night I swear,
+I am so far from granting thy request
+That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit,
+And by and by intend to chide myself
+Even for this time I spend in talking to thee.
+
+PROTEUS.
+I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady,
+But she is dead.
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] ’Twere false, if I should speak it,
+For I am sure she is not buried.
+
+SILVIA.
+Say that she be; yet Valentine thy friend
+Survives, to whom, thyself art witness,
+I am betrothed. And art thou not ashamed
+To wrong him with thy importunacy?
+
+PROTEUS.
+I likewise hear that Valentine is dead.
+
+SILVIA.
+And so suppose am I, for in his grave,
+Assure thyself, my love is buried.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth.
+
+SILVIA.
+Go to thy lady’s grave and call hers thence,
+Or, at the least, in hers sepulchre thine.
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] He heard not that.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,
+Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,
+The picture that is hanging in your chamber;
+To that I’ll speak, to that I’ll sigh and weep;
+For since the substance of your perfect self
+Is else devoted, I am but a shadow;
+And to your shadow will I make true love.
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] If ’twere a substance you would sure deceive it
+And make it but a shadow, as I am.
+
+SILVIA.
+I am very loath to be your idol, sir;
+But since your falsehood shall become you well
+To worship shadows and adore false shapes,
+Send to me in the morning, and I’ll send it.
+And so, good rest.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+As wretches have o’ernight
+That wait for execution in the morn.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+JULIA.
+Host, will you go?
+
+HOST.
+By my halidom, I was fast asleep.
+
+JULIA.
+Pray you, where lies Sir Proteus?
+
+HOST.
+Marry, at my house. Trust me, I think ’tis almost day.
+
+JULIA.
+Not so; but it hath been the longest night
+That e’er I watched, and the most heaviest.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same
+
+Enter Eglamour.
+
+EGLAMOUR.
+This is the hour that Madam Silvia
+Entreated me to call and know her mind;
+There’s some great matter she’d employ me in.
+Madam, madam!
+
+Enter Silvia above.
+
+SILVIA.
+Who calls?
+
+EGLAMOUR.
+Your servant and your friend;
+One that attends your ladyship’s command.
+
+SILVIA.
+Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow.
+
+EGLAMOUR.
+As many, worthy lady, to yourself.
+According to your ladyship’s impose,
+I am thus early come to know what service
+It is your pleasure to command me in.
+
+SILVIA.
+O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman—
+Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not—
+Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplished.
+Thou art not ignorant what dear good will
+I bear unto the banished Valentine,
+Nor how my father would enforce me marry
+Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhorred.
+Thyself hast loved, and I have heard thee say
+No grief did ever come so near thy heart
+As when thy lady and thy true love died,
+Upon whose grave thou vowed’st pure chastity.
+Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,
+To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;
+And for the ways are dangerous to pass,
+I do desire thy worthy company,
+Upon whose faith and honour I repose.
+Urge not my father’s anger, Eglamour,
+But think upon my grief, a lady’s grief,
+And on the justice of my flying hence
+To keep me from a most unholy match,
+Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues.
+I do desire thee, even from a heart
+As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,
+To bear me company and go with me;
+If not, to hide what I have said to thee,
+That I may venture to depart alone.
+
+EGLAMOUR.
+Madam, I pity much your grievances,
+Which, since I know they virtuously are placed,
+I give consent to go along with you,
+Recking as little what betideth me
+As much I wish all good befortune you.
+When will you go?
+
+SILVIA.
+This evening coming.
+
+EGLAMOUR.
+Where shall I meet you?
+
+SILVIA.
+At Friar Patrick’s cell,
+Where I intend holy confession.
+
+EGLAMOUR.
+I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady.
+
+SILVIA.
+Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same
+
+Enter Lance with his dog Crab.
+
+LANCE.
+When a man’s servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes
+hard: one that I brought up of a puppy; one that I saved from drowning
+when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it. I have
+taught him even as one would say precisely, “Thus I would teach a dog.”
+I was sent to deliver him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my
+master; and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber but he steps me to
+her trencher and steals her capon’s leg. O, ’tis a foul thing when a
+cur cannot keep himself in all companies! I would have, as one should
+say, one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a
+dog at all things. If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault
+upon me that he did, I think verily he had been hanged for’t; sure as I
+live, he had suffered for’t. You shall judge. He thrusts me himself
+into the company of three or four gentleman-like dogs under the Duke’s
+table; he had not been there—bless the mark!—a pissing-while but all
+the chamber smelt him. “Out with the dog!” says one; “What cur is
+that?” says another; “Whip him out”, says the third; “Hang him up”,
+says the Duke. I, having been acquainted with the smell before, knew it
+was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs. “Friend,”
+quoth I, “you mean to whip the dog?” “Ay, marry do I,” quoth he. “You do
+him the more wrong,” quoth I. “’Twas I did the thing you wot of.” He
+makes me no more ado but whips me out of the chamber. How many masters
+would do this for his servant? Nay, I’ll be sworn I have sat in the
+stock for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had been executed. I
+have stood on the pillory for geese he hath killed, otherwise he had
+suffered for’t. [_To Crab_.] Thou think’st not of this now. Nay, I
+remember the trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam Silvia.
+Did not I bid thee still mark me, and do as I do? When didst thou see
+me heave up my leg and make water against a gentlewoman’s farthingale?
+Didst thou ever see me do such a trick?
+
+Enter Proteus and Julia disguised as Sebastian.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well,
+And will employ thee in some service presently.
+
+JULIA.
+In what you please; I’ll do what I can.
+
+PROTEUS.
+I hope thou wilt. [_To Lance_.] How now, you whoreson peasant,
+Where have you been these two days loitering?
+
+LANCE.
+Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me.
+
+PROTEUS.
+And what says she to my little jewel?
+
+LANCE.
+Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you currish thanks is
+good enough for such a present.
+
+PROTEUS.
+But she received my dog?
+
+LANCE.
+No, indeed, did she not. Here have I brought him back again.
+
+PROTEUS.
+What, didst thou offer her this from me?
+
+LANCE.
+Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman’s boys in
+the market-place, and then I offered her mine own, who is a dog as big
+as ten of yours, and therefore the gift the greater.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Go, get thee hence, and find my dog again,
+Or ne’er return again into my sight.
+Away, I say. Stayest thou to vex me here?
+A slave that still an end turns me to shame.
+
+[_Exit Lance with Crab._]
+
+Sebastian, I have entertained thee
+Partly that I have need of such a youth
+That can with some discretion do my business—
+For ’tis no trusting to yond foolish lout—
+But chiefly for thy face and thy behaviour,
+Which, if my augury deceive me not,
+Witness good bringing up, fortune, and truth.
+Therefore, know thou, for this I entertain thee.
+Go presently, and take this ring with thee,
+Deliver it to Madam Silvia.
+She loved me well delivered it to me.
+
+JULIA.
+It seems you loved not her, to leave her token.
+She’s dead belike?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Not so; I think she lives.
+
+JULIA.
+Alas!
+
+PROTEUS.
+Why dost thou cry “Alas”?
+
+JULIA.
+I cannot choose
+But pity her.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Wherefore shouldst thou pity her?
+
+JULIA.
+Because methinks that she loved you as well
+As you do love your lady Silvia.
+She dreams on him that has forgot her love;
+You dote on her that cares not for your love.
+’Tis pity love should be so contrary;
+And thinking on it makes me cry “Alas.”
+
+PROTEUS.
+Well, give her that ring, and therewithal
+This letter. That’s her chamber. Tell my lady
+I claim the promise for her heavenly picture.
+Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,
+Where thou shalt find me sad and solitary.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+JULIA.
+How many women would do such a message?
+Alas, poor Proteus, thou hast entertained
+A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs.
+Alas, poor fool, why do I pity him
+That with his very heart despiseth me?
+Because he loves her, he despiseth me;
+Because I love him, I must pity him.
+This ring I gave him when he parted from me,
+To bind him to remember my good will;
+And now am I, unhappy messenger,
+To plead for that which I would not obtain,
+To carry that which I would have refused,
+To praise his faith, which I would have dispraised.
+I am my master’s true confirmed love,
+But cannot be true servant to my master
+Unless I prove false traitor to myself.
+Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly
+As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed.
+
+Enter Silvia attended.
+
+Gentlewoman, good day. I pray you be my mean
+To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia.
+
+SILVIA.
+What would you with her, if that I be she?
+
+JULIA.
+If you be she, I do entreat your patience
+To hear me speak the message I am sent on.
+
+SILVIA.
+From whom?
+
+JULIA.
+From my master, Sir Proteus, madam.
+
+SILVIA.
+O, he sends you for a picture?
+
+JULIA.
+Ay, madam.
+
+SILVIA.
+Ursula, bring my picture there.
+
+[_She is brought the picture._]
+
+Go, give your master this. Tell him from me,
+One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget,
+Would better fit his chamber than this shadow.
+
+JULIA.
+Madam, please you peruse this letter.
+
+[_Gives her a letter._]
+
+Pardon me, madam, I have unadvised
+Delivered you a paper that I should not.
+This is the letter to your ladyship.
+
+[_Takes back the letter and gives her another._]
+
+SILVIA.
+I pray thee, let me look on that again.
+
+JULIA.
+It may not be. Good madam, pardon me.
+
+SILVIA.
+There, hold.
+I will not look upon your master’s lines.
+I know they are stuffed with protestations
+And full of new-found oaths, which he will break
+As easily as I do tear his paper.
+
+[_She tears the second letter._]
+
+JULIA.
+Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring.
+
+SILVIA.
+The more shame for him that he sends it me;
+For I have heard him say a thousand times
+His Julia gave it him at his departure.
+Though his false finger have profaned the ring,
+Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong.
+
+JULIA.
+She thanks you.
+
+SILVIA.
+What sayst thou?
+
+JULIA.
+I thank you, madam, that you tender her.
+Poor gentlewoman, my master wrongs her much.
+
+SILVIA.
+Dost thou know her?
+
+JULIA.
+Almost as well as I do know myself.
+To think upon her woes, I do protest
+That I have wept a hundred several times.
+
+SILVIA.
+Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her?
+
+JULIA.
+I think she doth, and that’s her cause of sorrow.
+
+SILVIA.
+Is she not passing fair?
+
+JULIA.
+She hath been fairer, madam, than she is.
+When she did think my master loved her well,
+She, in my judgement, was as fair as you.
+But since she did neglect her looking-glass
+And threw her sun-expelling mask away,
+The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks
+And pinched the lily-tincture of her face,
+That now she is become as black as I.
+
+SILVIA.
+How tall was she?
+
+JULIA.
+About my stature; for at Pentecost,
+When all our pageants of delight were played,
+Our youth got me to play the woman’s part,
+And I was trimmed in Madam Julia’s gown,
+Which served me as fit, by all men’s judgements,
+As if the garment had been made for me;
+Therefore I know she is about my height.
+And at that time I made her weep agood,
+For I did play a lamentable part.
+Madam, ’twas Ariadne, passioning
+For Theseus’ perjury and unjust flight,
+Which I so lively acted with my tears
+That my poor mistress, moved therewithal,
+Wept bitterly; and would I might be dead
+If I in thought felt not her very sorrow.
+
+SILVIA.
+She is beholding to thee, gentle youth.
+Alas, poor lady, desolate and left!
+I weep myself to think upon thy words.
+Here, youth, there is my purse. I give thee this
+For thy sweet mistress’ sake, because thou lov’st her.
+Farewell.
+
+JULIA.
+And she shall thank you for’t, if e’er you know her.
+
+[_Exeunt Silvia and Attendants._]
+
+A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful.
+I hope my master’s suit will be but cold,
+Since she respects my mistress’ love so much.
+Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
+Here is her picture; let me see. I think
+If I had such a tire, this face of mine
+Were full as lovely as is this of hers;
+And yet the painter flattered her a little,
+Unless I flatter with myself too much.
+Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow;
+If that be all the difference in his love,
+I’ll get me such a coloured periwig.
+Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine.
+Ay, but her forehead’s low, and mine’s as high.
+What should it be that he respects in her
+But I can make respective in myself,
+If this fond Love were not a blinded god?
+Come, shadow, come, and take this shadow up,
+For ’tis thy rival. O thou senseless form,
+Thou shalt be worshipped, kissed, loved, and adored;
+And were there sense in his idolatry,
+My substance should be statue in thy stead.
+I’ll use thee kindly for thy mistress’ sake,
+That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow,
+I should have scratched out your unseeing eyes
+To make my master out of love with thee.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Milan. An abbey
+
+
+Enter Eglamour.
+
+EGLAMOUR.
+The sun begins to gild the western sky,
+And now it is about the very hour
+That Silvia at Friar Patrick’s cell should meet me.
+She will not fail, for lovers break not hours,
+Unless it be to come before their time,
+So much they spur their expedition.
+
+Enter Silvia.
+
+See where she comes. Lady, a happy evening!
+
+SILVIA.
+Amen, amen. Go on, good Eglamour,
+Out at the postern by the abbey wall.
+I fear I am attended by some spies.
+
+EGLAMOUR.
+Fear not. The forest is not three leagues off;
+If we recover that, we are sure enough.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A room in the Duke’s palace
+
+Enter Thurio, Proteus and Julia.
+
+THURIO.
+Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit?
+
+PROTEUS.
+O, sir, I find her milder than she was,
+And yet she takes exceptions at your person.
+
+THURIO.
+What? That my leg is too long?
+
+PROTEUS.
+No, that it is too little.
+
+THURIO.
+I’ll wear a boot to make it somewhat rounder.
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] But love will not be spurred to what it loathes.
+
+THURIO.
+What says she to my face?
+
+PROTEUS.
+She says it is a fair one.
+
+THURIO.
+Nay, then, the wanton lies; my face is black.
+
+PROTEUS.
+But pearls are fair; and the old saying is,
+“Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies’ eyes.”
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] ’Tis true, such pearls as put out ladies’ eyes,
+For I had rather wink than look on them.
+
+THURIO.
+How likes she my discourse?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Ill, when you talk of war.
+
+THURIO.
+But well when I discourse of love and peace.
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.
+
+THURIO.
+What says she to my valour?
+
+PROTEUS.
+O, sir, she makes no doubt of that.
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] She needs not, when she knows it cowardice.
+
+THURIO.
+What says she to my birth?
+
+PROTEUS.
+That you are well derived.
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] True, from a gentleman to a fool.
+
+THURIO.
+Considers she my possessions?
+
+PROTEUS.
+O, ay, and pities them.
+
+THURIO.
+Wherefore?
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] That such an ass should owe them.
+
+PROTEUS.
+That they are out by lease.
+
+JULIA.
+Here comes the Duke.
+
+Enter Duke.
+
+DUKE.
+How now, Sir Proteus! How now, Thurio!
+Which of you saw Sir Eglamour of late?
+
+THURIO.
+Not I.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Nor I.
+
+DUKE.
+Saw you my daughter?
+
+PROTEUS.
+Neither.
+
+DUKE.
+Why then, she’s fled unto that peasant Valentine,
+And Eglamour is in her company.
+’Tis true, for Friar Lawrence met them both
+As he in penance wandered through the forest;
+Him he knew well, and guessed that it was she,
+But, being masked, he was not sure of it.
+Besides, she did intend confession
+At Patrick’s cell this even, and there she was not.
+These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence.
+Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse,
+But mount you presently and meet with me
+Upon the rising of the mountain foot
+That leads toward Mantua, whither they are fled.
+Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+THURIO.
+Why, this it is to be a peevish girl
+That flies her fortune when it follows her.
+I’ll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour
+Than for the love of reckless Silvia.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+And I will follow, more for Silvia’s love
+Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+JULIA.
+And I will follow, more to cross that love
+Than hate for Silvia, that is gone for love.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. Frontiers of Mantua. The forest
+
+Enter Silvia and Outlaws.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+Come, come, be patient. We must bring you to our captain.
+
+SILVIA.
+A thousand more mischances than this one
+Have learned me how to brook this patiently.
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+Come, bring her away.
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+Where is the gentleman that was with her?
+
+SECOND OUTLAW.
+Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us.
+But Moyses and Valerius follow him.
+Go thou with her to the west end of the wood;
+There is our captain. We’ll follow him that’s fled.
+The thicket is beset; he cannot ’scape.
+
+[_Exeunt Second and Third Outlaws._]
+
+FIRST OUTLAW.
+Come, I must bring you to our captain’s cave.
+Fear not; he bears an honourable mind
+And will not use a woman lawlessly.
+
+SILVIA.
+O Valentine, this I endure for thee!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another part of the forest
+
+Enter Valentine.
+
+VALENTINE.
+How use doth breed a habit in a man!
+This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
+I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
+Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
+And to the nightingale’s complaining notes
+Tune my distresses and record my woes.
+O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,
+Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,
+Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall
+And leave no memory of what it was.
+Repair me with thy presence, Silvia;
+Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain.
+
+[_Shouts within._]
+
+What hallowing and what stir is this today?
+These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
+Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
+They love me well; yet I have much to do
+To keep them from uncivil outrages.
+Withdraw thee, Valentine. Who’s this comes here?
+
+[_Steps aside._]
+
+Enter Proteus, Silvia and Julia as Sebastian.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Madam, this service I have done for you—
+Though you respect not aught your servant doth—
+To hazard life, and rescue you from him
+That would have forced your honour and your love.
+Vouchsafe me for my meed but one fair look;
+A smaller boon than this I cannot beg,
+And less than this, I am sure, you cannot give.
+
+VALENTINE.
+[_Aside_.] How like a dream is this I see and hear!
+Love, lend me patience to forbear awhile.
+
+SILVIA.
+O miserable, unhappy that I am!
+
+PROTEUS.
+Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came;
+But by my coming I have made you happy.
+
+SILVIA.
+By thy approach thou mak’st me most unhappy.
+
+JULIA.
+[_Aside_.] And me, when he approacheth to your presence.
+
+SILVIA.
+Had I been seized by a hungry lion,
+I would have been a breakfast to the beast
+Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.
+O heaven, be judge how I love Valentine,
+Whose life’s as tender to me as my soul!
+And full as much, for more there cannot be,
+I do detest false perjured Proteus.
+Therefore be gone, solicit me no more.
+
+PROTEUS.
+What dangerous action, stood it next to death,
+Would I not undergo for one calm look!
+O, ’tis the curse in love, and still approved,
+When women cannot love where they’re beloved.
+
+SILVIA.
+When Proteus cannot love where he’s beloved.
+Read over Julia’s heart, thy first best love,
+For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
+Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths
+Descended into perjury to love me.
+Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou’dst two,
+And that’s far worse than none; better have none
+Than plural faith, which is too much by one.
+Thou counterfeit to thy true friend!
+
+PROTEUS.
+In love
+Who respects friend?
+
+SILVIA.
+All men but Proteus.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words
+Can no way change you to a milder form,
+I’ll woo you like a soldier, at arms’ end,
+And love you ’gainst the nature of love—force ye.
+
+[_He seizes her._]
+
+SILVIA.
+O heaven!
+
+PROTEUS.
+I’ll force thee yield to my desire.
+
+VALENTINE.
+[_Comes forward_.] Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch,
+Thou friend of an ill fashion!
+
+PROTEUS.
+Valentine!
+
+VALENTINE.
+Thou common friend, that’s without faith or love,
+For such is a friend now. Treacherous man,
+Thou hast beguiled my hopes; nought but mine eye
+Could have persuaded me. Now I dare not say
+I have one friend alive; thou wouldst disprove me.
+Who should be trusted, when one’s right hand
+Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus,
+I am sorry I must never trust thee more,
+But count the world a stranger for thy sake.
+The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst,
+’Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
+
+PROTEUS.
+My shame and guilt confounds me.
+Forgive me, Valentine; if hearty sorrow
+Be a sufficient ransom for offence,
+I tender ’t here. I do as truly suffer
+As e’er I did commit.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Then I am paid,
+And once again I do receive thee honest.
+Who by repentance is not satisfied
+Is nor of heaven nor earth, for these are pleased;
+By penitence th’ Eternal’s wrath’s appeased.
+And that my love may appear plain and free,
+All that was mine in Silvia I give thee.
+
+JULIA.
+O me unhappy!
+
+[_Swoons._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+Look to the boy.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Why, boy!
+Why, wag! How now? What’s the matter? Look up; speak.
+
+JULIA.
+O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring to Madam Silvia,
+which out of my neglect was never done.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Where is that ring, boy?
+
+JULIA.
+Here ’tis; this is it.
+
+[_Gives him a ring._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+How, let me see.
+Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia.
+
+JULIA.
+O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook.
+This is the ring you sent to Silvia.
+
+[_Shows another ring._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+But how cam’st thou by this ring? At my depart
+I gave this unto Julia.
+
+JULIA.
+And Julia herself did give it me,
+And Julia herself have brought it hither.
+
+[_She reveals herself._]
+
+PROTEUS.
+How? Julia?
+
+JULIA.
+Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths
+And entertained ’em deeply in her heart.
+How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root!
+O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush.
+Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me
+Such an immodest raiment, if shame live
+In a disguise of love.
+It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,
+Women to change their shapes than men their minds.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Than men their minds! ’Tis true. O heaven, were man
+But constant, he were perfect. That one error
+Fills him with faults, makes him run through all th’ sins;
+Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
+What is in Silvia’s face but I may spy
+More fresh in Julia’s with a constant eye?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Come, come, a hand from either.
+Let me be blest to make this happy close.
+’Twere pity two such friends should be long foes.
+
+PROTEUS.
+Bear witness, heaven, I have my wish for ever.
+
+JULIA.
+And I mine.
+
+Enter Outlaws with Duke and Thurio.
+
+OUTLAWS.
+A prize, a prize, a prize!
+
+VALENTINE.
+Forbear, forbear, I say! It is my lord the Duke.
+Your Grace is welcome to a man disgraced,
+Banished Valentine.
+
+DUKE.
+Sir Valentine!
+
+THURIO.
+Yonder is Silvia, and Silvia’s mine.
+
+VALENTINE.
+Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death;
+Come not within the measure of my wrath.
+Do not name Silvia thine; if once again,
+Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands;
+Take but possession of her with a touch—
+I dare thee but to breathe upon my love.
+
+THURIO.
+Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I.
+I hold him but a fool that will endanger
+His body for a girl that loves him not.
+I claim her not, and therefore she is thine.
+
+DUKE.
+The more degenerate and base art thou
+To make such means for her as thou hast done,
+And leave her on such slight conditions.—
+Now, by the honour of my ancestry,
+I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,
+And think thee worthy of an empress’ love.
+Know then, I here forget all former griefs,
+Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again,
+Plead a new state in thy unrivalled merit,
+To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine,
+Thou art a gentleman, and well derived;
+Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserved her.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I thank your Grace; the gift hath made me happy.
+I now beseech you, for your daughter’s sake,
+To grant one boon that I shall ask of you.
+
+DUKE.
+I grant it for thine own, whate’er it be.
+
+VALENTINE.
+These banished men, that I have kept withal,
+Are men endued with worthy qualities.
+Forgive them what they have committed here,
+And let them be recalled from their exile.
+They are reformed, civil, full of good,
+And fit for great employment, worthy lord.
+
+DUKE.
+Thou hast prevailed; I pardon them and thee.
+Dispose of them as thou know’st their deserts.
+Come, let us go; we will include all jars
+With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
+
+VALENTINE.
+And as we walk along, I dare be bold
+With our discourse to make your Grace to smile.
+What think you of this page, my lord?
+
+DUKE.
+I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes.
+
+VALENTINE.
+I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy.
+
+DUKE.
+What mean you by that saying?
+
+VALENTINE.
+Please you, I’ll tell you as we pass along,
+That you will wonder what hath fortuned.
+Come, Proteus, ’tis your penance but to hear
+The story of your loves discovered.
+That done, our day of marriage shall be yours,
+One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ ACT I
+ PROLOGUE
+ Scene I. Athens. Before a temple
+ Scene II. Thebes. The Court of the Palace
+ Scene III. Before the gates of Athens
+ Scene IV. A field before Thebes.
+ Scene V. Another part of the same, more remote from Thebes
+
+ ACT II
+ Scene I. Athens. A garden, with a castle in the background
+ Scene II. The prison
+ Scene III. The country near Athens
+ Scene IV. Athens. A room in the prison
+ Scene V. An open place in Athens
+ Scene VI. Athens. Before the prison
+
+ ACT III
+ Scene I. A forest near Athens
+ Scene II. Another part of the forest
+ Scene III. The same part of the forest as in scene I.
+ Scene IV. Another part of the forest
+ Scene V. Another part of the forest
+ Scene VI. The same part of the forest as in scene III.
+
+ ACT IV
+ Scene I. Athens. A room in the prison
+ Scene II. A Room in the Palace
+ Scene III. A room in the prison
+
+ ACT V
+ Scene I. Athens. Before the Temples of Mars, Venus, and Diana
+ Scene II. Athens. A Room in the Prison
+ Scene III. A part of the Forest near Athens, and near the Place appointed for the Combat
+ Scene IV. The same; a Block prepared
+ EPILOGUE
+
+
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+PROLOGUE
+
+ARCITE, the two noble kinsmen, cousins,
+PALAMON, nephews of Creon, King of Thebes
+
+THESEUS, Duke of Athens
+HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, later Duchess of Athens
+EMILIA, Sister of Hippolyta
+PIRITHOUS, friend to Theseus
+
+Three QUEENS, widows of the kings killed in laying siege to Thebes
+
+The JAILER of Theseus’s prison
+His DAUGHTER, in love with Palamon
+His BROTHER,
+The WOOER of the Jailer’s daughter
+Two FRIENDS of the Jailer,
+A DOCTOR
+
+ARTESIUS, an Athenian soldier
+VALERIUS, a Theban
+WOMAN, attending on Emilia
+An Athenian GENTLEMAN
+Six KNIGHTS, three accompanying Arcite, three Palamon
+
+Six COUNTRYMEN, one dressed as a Bavian or baboon
+Gerald, a SCHOOLMASTER
+NEL, a countrywoman
+A TABORER
+
+A singing BOY
+A HERALD
+A MESSENGER
+A SERVANT
+
+EPILOGUE
+
+Hymen (god of weddings), lords, soldiers, four countrywomen (Fritz,
+Maudlin, Luce, and Barbary), nymphs, attendants, maids, executioner,
+guard
+
+SCENE: Athens and the Neighbourhood, except in part of the first Act,
+where it is Thebes and the Neighbourhood
+
+
+
+
+PROLOGUE
+
+
+Flourish. Enter Prologue.
+
+PROLOGUE.
+New plays and maidenheads are near akin:
+Much followed both, for both much money gi’en,
+If they stand sound and well. And a good play,
+Whose modest scenes blush on his marriage day
+And shake to lose his honour, is like her
+That after holy tie and first night’s stir
+Yet still is Modesty, and still retains
+More of the maid, to sight, than husband’s pains.
+We pray our play may be so, for I am sure
+It has a noble breeder and a pure,
+A learned, and a poet never went
+More famous yet ’twixt Po and silver Trent.
+Chaucer, of all admired, the story gives;
+There, constant to eternity, it lives.
+If we let fall the nobleness of this,
+And the first sound this child hear be a hiss,
+How will it shake the bones of that good man
+And make him cry from underground, “O, fan
+From me the witless chaff of such a writer
+That blasts my bays and my famed works makes lighter
+Than Robin Hood!” This is the fear we bring;
+For, to say truth, it were an endless thing
+And too ambitious, to aspire to him,
+Weak as we are, and, almost breathless, swim
+In this deep water. Do but you hold out
+Your helping hands, and we shall tack about
+And something do to save us. You shall hear
+Scenes, though below his art, may yet appear
+Worth two hours’ travel. To his bones sweet sleep;
+Content to you. If this play do not keep
+A little dull time from us, we perceive
+Our losses fall so thick, we must needs leave.
+
+[_Flourish. Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Athens. Before a temple
+
+
+Enter Hymen with a torch burning; a Boy, in a white robe before
+singing, and strewing flowers. After Hymen, a Nymph encompassed in her
+tresses, bearing a wheaten garland; then Theseus between two other
+Nymphs with wheaten chaplets on their heads. Then Hippolyta, the bride,
+led by Pirithous, and another holding a garland over her head, her
+tresses likewise hanging. After her, Emilia, holding up her train. Then
+Artesius and Attendants.
+
+[_Music._]
+
+The Song
+
+_Roses, their sharp spines being gone,
+Not royal in their smells alone,
+    But in their hue;
+Maiden pinks of odour faint,
+Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
+    And sweet thyme true;_
+
+_Primrose, first-born child of Ver,
+Merry springtime’s harbinger,
+    With harebells dim,
+Oxlips in their cradles growing,
+Marigolds on deathbeds blowing,
+    Lark’s-heels trim;_
+
+[_Strews flowers._]
+
+_All dear Nature’s children sweet
+Lie ’fore bride and bridegroom’s feet,
+    Blessing their sense.
+Not an angel of the air,
+Bird melodious or bird fair,
+    Is absent hence._
+
+_The crow, the sland’rous cuckoo, nor
+The boding raven, nor chough hoar,
+    Nor chatt’ring ’pie,
+May on our bride-house perch or sing,
+Or with them any discord bring,
+    But from it fly._
+
+Enter three Queens in black, with veils stained, with imperial crowns.
+The first Queen falls down at the foot of Theseus; the second falls
+down at the foot of Hippolyta; the third before Emilia.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+For pity’s sake and true gentility’s,
+Hear and respect me.
+
+SECOND QUEEN.
+For your mother’s sake,
+And as you wish your womb may thrive with fair ones,
+Hear and respect me.
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+Now, for the love of him whom Jove hath marked
+The honour of your bed, and for the sake
+Of clear virginity, be advocate
+For us and our distresses. This good deed
+Shall raze you out o’ th’ book of trespasses
+All you are set down there.
+
+THESEUS.
+Sad lady, rise.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Stand up.
+
+EMILIA.
+No knees to me.
+What woman I may stead that is distressed,
+Does bind me to her.
+
+THESEUS.
+What’s your request? Deliver you for all.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+We are three queens whose sovereigns fell before
+The wrath of cruel Creon, who endure
+The beaks of ravens, talons of the kites,
+And pecks of crows, in the foul fields of Thebes.
+He will not suffer us to burn their bones,
+To urn their ashes, nor to take th’ offence
+Of mortal loathsomeness from the blest eye
+Of holy Phœbus, but infects the winds
+With stench of our slain lords. O, pity, Duke!
+Thou purger of the earth, draw thy feared sword
+That does good turns to th’ world; give us the bones
+Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them;
+And of thy boundless goodness take some note
+That for our crowned heads we have no roof
+Save this, which is the lion’s and the bear’s,
+And vault to everything.
+
+THESEUS.
+Pray you, kneel not.
+I was transported with your speech and suffered
+Your knees to wrong themselves. I have heard the fortunes
+Of your dead lords, which gives me such lamenting
+As wakes my vengeance and revenge for ’em.
+King Capaneus was your lord. The day
+That he should marry you, at such a season
+As now it is with me, I met your groom
+By Mars’s altar. You were that time fair!
+Not Juno’s mantle fairer than your tresses,
+Nor in more bounty spread her. Your wheaten wreath
+Was then nor threshed nor blasted. Fortune at you
+Dimpled her cheek with smiles. Hercules, our kinsman,
+Then weaker than your eyes, laid by his club;
+He tumbled down upon his Nemean hide
+And swore his sinews thawed. O grief and time,
+Fearful consumers, you will all devour!
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+O, I hope some god,
+Some god hath put his mercy in your manhood,
+Whereto he’ll infuse power, and press you forth
+Our undertaker.
+
+THESEUS.
+O, no knees, none, widow!
+Unto the helmeted Bellona use them,
+And pray for me, your soldier.
+Troubled I am.
+
+[_Turns away._]
+
+SECOND QUEEN.
+Honoured Hippolyta,
+Most dreaded Amazonian, that hast slain
+The scythe-tusked boar; that with thy arm, as strong
+As it is white, wast near to make the male
+To thy sex captive, but that this thy lord,
+Born to uphold creation in that honour
+First nature styled it in, shrunk thee into
+The bound thou wast o’erflowing, at once subduing
+Thy force and thy affection; soldieress
+That equally canst poise sternness with pity,
+Whom now I know hast much more power on him
+Than ever he had on thee, who ow’st his strength
+And his love too, who is a servant for
+The tenor of thy speech, dear glass of ladies,
+Bid him that we, whom flaming war doth scorch,
+Under the shadow of his sword may cool us;
+Require him he advance it o’er our heads;
+Speak ’t in a woman’s key, like such a woman
+As any of us three; weep ere you fail.
+Lend us a knee;
+But touch the ground for us no longer time
+Than a dove’s motion when the head’s plucked off.
+Tell him if he i’ th’ blood-sized field lay swollen,
+Showing the sun his teeth, grinning at the moon,
+What you would do.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Poor lady, say no more.
+I had as lief trace this good action with you
+As that whereto I am going, and never yet
+Went I so willing way. My lord is taken
+Heart-deep with your distress. Let him consider;
+I’ll speak anon.
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+O, my petition was
+Set down in ice, which by hot grief uncandied
+Melts into drops; so sorrow, wanting form,
+Is pressed with deeper matter.
+
+EMILIA.
+Pray, stand up;
+Your grief is written in your cheek.
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+O, woe!
+You cannot read it there. There through my tears,
+Like wrinkled pebbles in a glassy stream,
+You may behold ’em. Lady, lady, alack!
+He that will all the treasure know o’ th’ earth
+Must know the center too; he that will fish
+For my least minnow, let him lead his line
+To catch one at my heart. O, pardon me!
+Extremity, that sharpens sundry wits,
+Makes me a fool.
+
+EMILIA.
+Pray you say nothing, pray you.
+Who cannot feel nor see the rain, being in ’t,
+Knows neither wet nor dry. If that you were
+The ground-piece of some painter, I would buy you
+T’ instruct me ’gainst a capital grief, indeed
+Such heart-pierced demonstration. But, alas,
+Being a natural sister of our sex,
+Your sorrow beats so ardently upon me
+That it shall make a counter-reflect ’gainst
+My brother’s heart and warm it to some pity,
+Though it were made of stone. Pray have good comfort.
+
+THESEUS.
+Forward to th’ temple! Leave not out a jot
+O’ th’ sacred ceremony.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+O, this celebration
+Will longer last and be more costly than
+Your suppliants’ war! Remember that your fame
+Knolls in the ear o’ th’ world; what you do quickly
+Is not done rashly; your first thought is more
+Than others’ laboured meditance, your premeditating
+More than their actions. But, O Jove, your actions,
+Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish,
+Subdue before they touch. Think, dear Duke, think
+What beds our slain kings have!
+
+SECOND QUEEN.
+What griefs our beds,
+That our dear lords have none!
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+None fit for th’ dead.
+Those that with cords, knives, drams, precipitance,
+Weary of this world’s light, have to themselves
+Been death’s most horrid agents, human grace
+Affords them dust and shadow.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+But our lords
+Lie blist’ring ’fore the visitating sun,
+And were good kings when living.
+
+THESEUS.
+It is true, and I will give you comfort
+To give your dead lords graves;
+The which to do must make some work with Creon.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+And that work presents itself to th’ doing.
+Now ’twill take form; the heats are gone tomorrow.
+Then, bootless toil must recompense itself
+With its own sweat. Now he’s secure,
+Not dreams we stand before your puissance,
+Rinsing our holy begging in our eyes
+To make petition clear.
+
+SECOND QUEEN.
+Now you may take him, drunk with his victory.
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+And his army full of bread and sloth.
+
+THESEUS.
+Artesius, that best knowest
+How to draw out fit to this enterprise
+The prim’st for this proceeding, and the number
+To carry such a business: forth and levy
+Our worthiest instruments, whilst we dispatch
+This grand act of our life, this daring deed
+Of fate in wedlock.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+Dowagers, take hands.
+Let us be widows to our woes; delay
+Commends us to a famishing hope.
+
+ALL THE QUEENS.
+Farewell!
+
+SECOND QUEEN.
+We come unseasonably; but when could grief
+Cull forth, as unpanged judgement can, fitt’st time
+For best solicitation?
+
+THESEUS.
+Why, good ladies,
+This is a service, whereto I am going,
+Greater than any war; it more imports me
+Than all the actions that I have foregone,
+Or futurely can cope.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+The more proclaiming
+Our suit shall be neglected when her arms,
+Able to lock Jove from a synod, shall
+By warranting moonlight corselet thee. O, when
+Her twinning cherries shall their sweetness fall
+Upon thy tasteful lips, what wilt thou think
+Of rotten kings or blubbered queens? What care
+For what thou feel’st not, what thou feel’st being able
+To make Mars spurn his drum? O, if thou couch
+But one night with her, every hour in ’t will
+Take hostage of thee for a hundred, and
+Thou shalt remember nothing more than what
+That banquet bids thee to.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Though much unlike
+You should be so transported, as much sorry
+I should be such a suitor, yet I think,
+Did I not, by th’ abstaining of my joy,
+Which breeds a deeper longing, cure their surfeit
+That craves a present med’cine, I should pluck
+All ladies’ scandal on me. Therefore, sir,
+
+[_She kneels._]
+
+As I shall here make trial of my prayers,
+Either presuming them to have some force,
+Or sentencing for aye their vigor dumb,
+Prorogue this business we are going about, and hang
+Your shield afore your heart, about that neck
+Which is my fee, and which I freely lend
+To do these poor queens service.
+
+ALL QUEENS.
+[_To Emilia_.] O, help now!
+Our cause cries for your knee.
+
+EMILIA.
+[_To Theseus, kneeling_.] If you grant not
+My sister her petition in that force,
+With that celerity and nature, which
+She makes it in, from henceforth I’ll not dare
+To ask you anything, nor be so hardy
+Ever to take a husband.
+
+THESEUS.
+Pray stand up.
+I am entreating of myself to do
+
+[_They rise._]
+
+That which you kneel to have me.—Pirithous,
+Lead on the bride; get you and pray the gods
+For success and return; omit not anything
+In the pretended celebration.—Queens,
+Follow your soldier. [_To Artesius._] As before, hence you,
+And at the banks of Aulis meet us with
+The forces you can raise, where we shall find
+The moiety of a number for a business
+More bigger looked.
+
+[_Exit Artesius._]
+
+[_To Hippolyta._] Since that our theme is haste,
+I stamp this kiss upon thy currant lip;
+Sweet, keep it as my token. Set you forward,
+For I will see you gone.
+
+[_The wedding procession moves towards the temple._]
+
+Farewell, my beauteous sister.—Pirithous,
+Keep the feast full; bate not an hour on ’t.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Sir,
+I’ll follow you at heels. The feast’s solemnity
+Shall want till your return.
+
+THESEUS.
+Cousin, I charge you,
+Budge not from Athens. We shall be returning
+Ere you can end this feast, of which I pray you
+Make no abatement. Once more, farewell all.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Theseus and the Queens._]
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+Thus dost thou still make good the tongue o’ th’ world.
+
+SECOND QUEEN.
+And earn’st a deity equal with Mars.
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+If not above him, for
+Thou, being but mortal, mak’st affections bend
+To godlike honours; they themselves, some say,
+Groan under such a mast’ry.
+
+THESEUS.
+As we are men,
+Thus should we do; being sensually subdued,
+We lose our human title. Good cheer, ladies.
+Now turn we towards your comforts.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Thebes. The Court of the Palace
+
+Enter Palamon and Arcite.
+
+ARCITE.
+Dear Palamon, dearer in love than blood
+And our prime cousin, yet unhardened in
+The crimes of nature, let us leave the city
+Thebes, and the temptings in ’t, before we further
+Sully our gloss of youth
+And here to keep in abstinence we shame
+As in incontinence; for not to swim
+I’ th’ aid o’ th’ current, were almost to sink,
+At least to frustrate striving; and to follow
+The common stream, ’twould bring us to an eddy
+Where we should turn or drown; if labour through,
+Our gain but life and weakness.
+
+PALAMON.
+Your advice
+Is cried up with example. What strange ruins,
+Since first we went to school, may we perceive
+Walking in Thebes! Scars and bare weeds
+The gain o’ th’ martialist, who did propound
+To his bold ends honour and golden ingots,
+Which, though he won, he had not, and now flirted
+By peace for whom he fought! Who then shall offer
+To Mars’s so-scorned altar? I do bleed
+When such I meet, and wish great Juno would
+Resume her ancient fit of jealousy
+To get the soldier work, that peace might purge
+For her repletion, and retain anew
+Her charitable heart, now hard and harsher
+Than strife or war could be.
+
+ARCITE.
+Are you not out?
+Meet you no ruin but the soldier in
+The cranks and turns of Thebes? You did begin
+As if you met decays of many kinds.
+Perceive you none that do arouse your pity
+But th’ unconsidered soldier?
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes, I pity
+Decays where’er I find them, but such most
+That, sweating in an honourable toil,
+Are paid with ice to cool ’em.
+
+ARCITE.
+’Tis not this
+I did begin to speak of. This is virtue
+Of no respect in Thebes. I spake of Thebes,
+How dangerous, if we will keep our honours,
+It is for our residing, where every evil
+Hath a good colour; where every seeming good’s
+A certain evil; where not to be e’en jump
+As they are here were to be strangers, and,
+Such things to be, mere monsters.
+
+PALAMON.
+’Tis in our power—
+Unless we fear that apes can tutor ’s—to
+Be masters of our manners. What need I
+Affect another’s gait, which is not catching
+Where there is faith? Or to be fond upon
+Another’s way of speech, when by mine own
+I may be reasonably conceived, saved too,
+Speaking it truly? Why am I bound
+By any generous bond to follow him
+Follows his tailor, haply so long until
+The followed make pursuit? Or let me know
+Why mine own barber is unblessed, with him
+My poor chin too, for ’tis not scissored just
+To such a favourite’s glass? What canon is there
+That does command my rapier from my hip
+To dangle ’t in my hand, or to go tiptoe
+Before the street be foul? Either I am
+The fore-horse in the team, or I am none
+That draw i’ th’ sequent trace. These poor slight sores
+Need not a plantain; that which rips my bosom
+Almost to th’ heart’s—
+
+ARCITE.
+Our uncle Creon.
+
+PALAMON.
+He.
+A most unbounded tyrant, whose successes
+Makes heaven unfeared and villainy assured
+Beyond its power there’s nothing; almost puts
+Faith in a fever, and deifies alone
+Voluble chance; who only attributes
+The faculties of other instruments
+To his own nerves and act; commands men service,
+And what they win in ’t, boot and glory; one
+That fears not to do harm; good, dares not. Let
+The blood of mine that’s sib to him be sucked
+From me with leeches; let them break and fall
+Off me with that corruption.
+
+ARCITE.
+Clear-spirited cousin,
+Let’s leave his court, that we may nothing share
+Of his loud infamy; for our milk
+Will relish of the pasture, and we must
+Be vile or disobedient; not his kinsmen
+In blood unless in quality.
+
+PALAMON.
+Nothing truer.
+I think the echoes of his shames have deafed
+The ears of heavenly justice. Widows’ cries
+Descend again into their throats and have not
+Due audience of the gods.
+
+Enter Valerius.
+
+Valerius!
+
+VALERIUS.
+The King calls for you; yet be leaden-footed
+Till his great rage be off him. Phœbus, when
+He broke his whipstock and exclaimed against
+The horses of the sun, but whispered to
+The loudness of his fury.
+
+PALAMON.
+Small winds shake him.
+But what’s the matter?
+
+VALERIUS.
+Theseus, who where he threats appalls, hath sent
+Deadly defiance to him and pronounces
+Ruin to Thebes, who is at hand to seal
+The promise of his wrath.
+
+ARCITE.
+Let him approach.
+But that we fear the gods in him, he brings not
+A jot of terror to us. Yet what man
+Thirds his own worth—the case is each of ours—
+When that his action’s dregged with mind assured
+’Tis bad he goes about?
+
+PALAMON.
+Leave that unreasoned.
+Our services stand now for Thebes, not Creon.
+Yet to be neutral to him were dishonour,
+Rebellious to oppose; therefore we must
+With him stand to the mercy of our fate,
+Who hath bounded our last minute.
+
+ARCITE.
+So we must.
+[_To Valerius._] Is ’t said this war’s afoot? Or, it shall be,
+On fail of some condition?
+
+VALERIUS.
+’Tis in motion;
+The intelligence of state came in the instant
+With the defier.
+
+PALAMON.
+Let’s to the King; who, were he
+A quarter carrier of that honour which
+His enemy come in, the blood we venture
+Should be as for our health, which were not spent,
+Rather laid out for purchase. But alas,
+Our hands advanced before our hearts, what will
+The fall o’ th’ stroke do damage?
+
+ARCITE.
+Let th’ event,
+That never-erring arbitrator, tell us
+When we know all ourselves; and let us follow
+The becking of our chance.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Before the gates of Athens
+
+Enter Pirithous, Hippolyta and Emilia.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+No further.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Sir, farewell. Repeat my wishes
+To our great lord, of whose success I dare not
+Make any timorous question; yet I wish him
+Excess and overflow of power, an ’t might be,
+To dure ill-dealing fortune. Speed to him!
+Store never hurts good governors.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Though I know
+His ocean needs not my poor drops, yet they
+Must yield their tribute there. My precious maid,
+Those best affections that the heavens infuse
+In their best-tempered pieces keep enthroned
+In your dear heart!
+
+EMILIA.
+Thanks, sir. Remember me
+To our all-royal brother, for whose speed
+The great Bellona I’ll solicit; and
+Since in our terrene state petitions are not
+Without gifts understood, I’ll offer to her
+What I shall be advised she likes. Our hearts
+Are in his army, in his tent.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+In ’s bosom.
+We have been soldiers, and we cannot weep
+When our friends don their helms, or put to sea,
+Or tell of babes broached on the lance, or women
+That have sod their infants in—and after eat them—
+The brine they wept at killing ’em. Then if
+You stay to see of us such spinsters, we
+Should hold you here for ever.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Peace be to you
+As I pursue this war, which shall be then
+ Beyond further requiring.
+
+[_Exit Pirithous._]
+
+EMILIA.
+How his longing
+Follows his friend! Since his depart, his sports,
+Though craving seriousness and skill, passed slightly
+His careless execution, where nor gain
+Made him regard, or loss consider, but
+Playing one business in his hand, another
+Directing in his head, his mind nurse equal
+To these so differing twins. Have you observed him
+Since our great lord departed?
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+With much labour,
+And I did love him for ’t. They two have cabined
+In many as dangerous as poor a corner,
+Peril and want contending; they have skiffed
+Torrents whose roaring tyranny and power
+I’ th’ least of these was dreadful; and they have
+Fought out together where Death’s self was lodged;
+Yet fate hath brought them off. Their knot of love,
+Tied, weaved, entangled, with so true, so long,
+And with a finger of so deep a cunning,
+May be outworn, never undone. I think
+Theseus cannot be umpire to himself,
+Cleaving his conscience into twain and doing
+Each side like justice, which he loves best.
+
+EMILIA.
+Doubtless
+There is a best, and reason has no manners
+To say it is not you. I was acquainted
+Once with a time when I enjoyed a playfellow;
+You were at wars when she the grave enriched,
+Who made too proud the bed, took leave o’ th’ moon
+Which then looked pale at parting, when our count
+Was each eleven.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+’Twas Flavina.
+
+EMILIA.
+Yes.
+You talk of Pirithous’ and Theseus’ love.
+Theirs has more ground, is more maturely seasoned,
+More buckled with strong judgement, and their needs
+The one of th’ other may be said to water
+Their intertangled roots of love; but I,
+And she I sigh and spoke of, were things innocent,
+Loved for we did, and like the elements
+That know not what nor why, yet do effect
+Rare issues by their operance, our souls
+Did so to one another. What she liked
+Was then of me approved, what not, condemned,
+No more arraignment. The flower that I would pluck
+And put between my breasts, O, then but beginning
+To swell about the blossom—she would long
+Till she had such another, and commit it
+To the like innocent cradle, where, phœnix-like,
+They died in perfume. On my head no toy
+But was her pattern; her affections—pretty,
+Though haply her careless wear—I followed
+For my most serious decking; had mine ear
+Stol’n some new air, or at adventure hummed one
+From musical coinage, why, it was a note
+Whereon her spirits would sojourn—rather, dwell on,
+And sing it in her slumbers. This rehearsal,
+Which fury-innocent wots well, comes in
+Like old importment’s bastard—has this end,
+That the true love ’tween maid and maid may be
+More than in sex individual.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+You’re out of breath;
+And this high-speeded pace is but to say
+That you shall never, like the maid Flavina,
+Love any that’s called man.
+
+EMILIA.
+I am sure I shall not.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Now, alack, weak sister,
+I must no more believe thee in this point—
+Though in ’t I know thou dost believe thyself—
+Than I will trust a sickly appetite,
+That loathes even as it longs. But sure, my sister,
+If I were ripe for your persuasion, you
+Have said enough to shake me from the arm
+Of the all-noble Theseus; for whose fortunes
+I will now in and kneel, with great assurance
+That we, more than his Pirithous, possess
+The high throne in his heart.
+
+EMILIA.
+I am not
+Against your faith, yet I continue mine.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. A field before Thebes.
+
+Cornets. A battle struck within; then a retreat. Flourish. Then enter,
+Theseus, as victor, with a Herald, other Lords, and Soldiers. The three
+Queens meet him and fall on their faces before him.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+To thee no star be dark!
+
+SECOND QUEEN.
+Both heaven and earth
+Friend thee for ever!
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+All the good that may
+Be wished upon thy head, I cry “Amen” to ’t!
+
+THESEUS.
+Th’ impartial gods, who from the mounted heavens
+View us their mortal herd, behold who err
+And, in their time, chastise. Go and find out
+The bones of your dead lords and honour them
+With treble ceremony, rather than a gap
+Should be in their dear rites, we would supply ’t,
+But those we will depute which shall invest
+You in your dignities and even each thing
+Our haste does leave imperfect. So, adieu,
+And heaven’s good eyes look on you.
+
+[_Exeunt Queens._]
+
+Enter a Herald and Soldiers bearing Palamon and Arcite on hearses.
+
+What are those?
+
+HERALD.
+Men of great quality, as may be judged
+By their appointment. Some of Thebes have told ’s
+They are sisters’ children, nephews to the King.
+
+THESEUS.
+By th’ helm of Mars, I saw them in the war,
+Like to a pair of lions, smeared with prey,
+Make lanes in troops aghast. I fixed my note
+Constantly on them, for they were a mark
+Worth a god’s view. What prisoner was ’t that told me
+When I enquired their names?
+
+HERALD.
+Wi’ leave, they’re called Arcite and Palamon.
+
+THESEUS.
+’Tis right; those, those. They are not dead?
+
+HERALD.
+Nor in a state of life. Had they been taken
+When their last hurts were given, ’twas possible
+They might have been recovered; yet they breathe
+And have the name of men.
+
+THESEUS.
+Then like men use ’em.
+The very lees of such, millions of rates,
+Exceed the wine of others. All our surgeons
+Convent in their behoof; our richest balms,
+Rather than niggard, waste. Their lives concern us
+Much more than Thebes is worth. Rather than have ’em
+Freed of this plight, and in their morning state,
+Sound and at liberty, I would ’em dead;
+But forty-thousandfold we had rather have ’em
+Prisoners to us than death. Bear ’em speedily
+From our kind air, to them unkind, and minister
+What man to man may do, for our sake, more,
+Since I have known frights, fury, friends’ behests,
+Love’s provocations, zeal, a mistress’ task,
+Desire of liberty, a fever, madness,
+Hath set a mark which nature could not reach to
+Without some imposition, sickness in will
+O’er-wrestling strength in reason. For our love
+And great Apollo’s mercy, all our best
+Their best skill tender. Lead into the city,
+Where, having bound things scattered, we will post
+To Athens ’fore our army.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the same, more remote from Thebes
+
+Music. Enter the Queens with the hearses of their knights, in a funeral
+solemnity, &c.
+
+SONG.
+
+
+_Urns and odours bring away;
+Vapours, sighs, darken the day;
+Our dole more deadly looks than dying;
+Balms and gums and heavy cheers,
+Sacred vials filled with tears,
+And clamours through the wild air flying._
+
+_Come, all sad and solemn shows
+That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes;
+We convent naught else but woes.
+We convent naught else but woes._
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+This funeral path brings to your household’s grave.
+Joy seize on you again; peace sleep with him.
+
+SECOND QUEEN.
+And this to yours.
+
+FIRST QUEEN.
+Yours this way. Heavens lend
+A thousand differing ways to one sure end.
+
+THIRD QUEEN.
+This world’s a city full of straying streets,
+And death’s the market-place where each one meets.
+
+[_Exeunt severally._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Athens. A garden, with a castle in the background
+
+
+Enter Jailer and Wooer.
+
+JAILER.
+I may depart with little while I live; something I may cast to you, not
+much. Alas, the prison I keep, though it be for great ones, yet they
+seldom come; before one salmon, you shall take a number of minnows. I
+am given out to be better lined than it can appear to me report is a
+true speaker. I would I were really that I am delivered to be. Marry,
+what I have, be it what it will, I will assure upon my daughter at the
+day of my death.
+
+WOOER.
+Sir, I demand no more than your own offer, and I will estate your
+daughter in what I have promised.
+
+JAILER.
+Well, we will talk more of this when the solemnity is past. But have
+you a full promise of her? When that shall be seen, I tender my
+consent.
+
+Enter the Jailer’s Daughter, carrying rushes.
+
+WOOER.
+I have sir. Here she comes.
+
+JAILER.
+Your friend and I have chanced to name you here, upon the old business.
+But no more of that now; so soon as the court hurry is over, we will
+have an end of it. I’ th’ meantime, look tenderly to the two prisoners.
+I can tell you they are princes.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+These strewings are for their chamber. ’Tis pity they are in prison,
+and ’twere pity they should be out. I do think they have patience to
+make any adversity ashamed. The prison itself is proud of ’em, and they
+have all the world in their chamber.
+
+JAILER.
+They are famed to be a pair of absolute men.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+By my troth, I think fame but stammers ’em; they stand a grise above
+the reach of report.
+
+JAILER.
+I heard them reported in the battle to be the only doers.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Nay, most likely, for they are noble sufferers. I marvel how they would
+have looked had they been victors, that with such a constant nobility
+enforce a freedom out of bondage, making misery their mirth and
+affliction a toy to jest at.
+
+JAILER.
+Do they so?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+It seems to me they have no more sense of their captivity than I of
+ruling Athens. They eat well, look merrily, discourse of many things,
+but nothing of their own restraint and disasters. Yet sometime a
+divided sigh, martyred as ’twere i’ th’ deliverance, will break from
+one of them—when the other presently gives it so sweet a rebuke that I
+could wish myself a sigh to be so chid, or at least a sigher to be
+comforted.
+
+WOOER.
+I never saw ’em.
+
+JAILER.
+The Duke himself came privately in the night, and so did they.
+
+Enter Palamon and Arcite, above.
+
+What the reason of it is, I know not. Look, yonder they are; that’s
+Arcite looks out.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+No, sir, no, that’s Palamon. Arcite is the lower of the twain; you may
+perceive a part of him.
+
+JAILER.
+Go to, leave your pointing; they would not make us their object. Out of
+their sight.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+It is a holiday to look on them. Lord, the difference of men!
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The prison
+
+Enter Palamon and Arcite in prison.
+
+PALAMON.
+How do you, noble cousin?
+
+ARCITE.
+How do you, sir?
+
+PALAMON.
+Why, strong enough to laugh at misery
+And bear the chance of war; yet we are prisoners
+I fear for ever, cousin.
+
+ARCITE.
+I believe it,
+And to that destiny have patiently
+Laid up my hour to come.
+
+PALAMON.
+O, cousin Arcite,
+Where is Thebes now? Where is our noble country?
+Where are our friends and kindreds? Never more
+Must we behold those comforts, never see
+The hardy youths strive for the games of honour,
+Hung with the painted favours of their ladies,
+Like tall ships under sail; then start amongst ’em,
+And as an east wind leave ’em all behind us,
+Like lazy clouds, whilst Palamon and Arcite,
+Even in the wagging of a wanton leg,
+Outstripped the people’s praises, won the garlands,
+Ere they have time to wish ’em ours. O, never
+Shall we two exercise, like twins of honour,
+Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses
+Like proud seas under us! Our good swords now—
+Better the red-eyed god of war ne’er wore—
+Ravished our sides, like age must run to rust
+And deck the temples of those gods that hate us;
+These hands shall never draw ’em out like lightning
+To blast whole armies more.
+
+ARCITE.
+No, Palamon,
+Those hopes are prisoners with us. Here we are,
+And here the graces of our youths must wither
+Like a too-timely spring; here age must find us
+And, which is heaviest, Palamon, unmarried.
+The sweet embraces of a loving wife,
+Loaden with kisses, armed with thousand Cupids,
+Shall never clasp our necks; no issue know us,
+No figures of ourselves shall we e’er see,
+To glad our age, and like young eagles teach ’em
+Boldly to gaze against bright arms and say
+“Remember what your fathers were, and conquer!”
+The fair-eyed maids shall weep our banishments
+And in their songs curse ever-blinded Fortune
+Till she for shame see what a wrong she has done
+To youth and nature. This is all our world.
+We shall know nothing here but one another,
+Hear nothing but the clock that tells our woes.
+The vine shall grow, but we shall never see it;
+Summer shall come, and with her all delights,
+But dead-cold winter must inhabit here still.
+
+PALAMON.
+’Tis too true, Arcite. To our Theban hounds
+That shook the aged forest with their echoes
+No more now must we hallow, no more shake
+Our pointed javelins whilst the angry swine
+Flies like a Parthian quiver from our rages,
+Struck with our well-steeled darts. All valiant uses,
+The food and nourishment of noble minds,
+In us two here shall perish; we shall die,
+Which is the curse of honour, lastly,
+Children of grief and ignorance.
+
+ARCITE.
+Yet, cousin,
+Even from the bottom of these miseries,
+From all that fortune can inflict upon us,
+I see two comforts rising, two mere blessings,
+If the gods please: to hold here a brave patience,
+And the enjoying of our griefs together.
+Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish
+If I think this our prison!
+
+PALAMON.
+Certainly
+’Tis a main goodness, cousin, that our fortunes
+Were twined together; ’tis most true, two souls
+Put in two noble bodies, let ’em suffer
+The gall of hazard, so they grow together,
+Will never sink; they must not, say they could.
+A willing man dies sleeping and all’s done.
+
+ARCITE.
+Shall we make worthy uses of this place
+That all men hate so much?
+
+PALAMON.
+How, gentle cousin?
+
+ARCITE.
+Let’s think this prison holy sanctuary,
+To keep us from corruption of worse men.
+We are young and yet desire the ways of honour;
+That liberty and common conversation,
+The poison of pure spirits, might like women,
+Woo us to wander from. What worthy blessing
+Can be but our imaginations
+May make it ours? And here being thus together,
+We are an endless mine to one another;
+We are one another’s wife, ever begetting
+New births of love; we are father, friends, acquaintance;
+We are, in one another, families;
+I am your heir, and you are mine. This place
+Is our inheritance; no hard oppressor
+Dare take this from us; here with a little patience
+We shall live long and loving. No surfeits seek us;
+The hand of war hurts none here, nor the seas
+Swallow their youth. Were we at liberty,
+A wife might part us lawfully, or business;
+Quarrels consume us; envy of ill men
+Crave our acquaintance. I might sicken, cousin,
+Where you should never know it, and so perish
+Without your noble hand to close mine eyes,
+Or prayers to the gods. A thousand chances,
+Were we from hence, would sever us.
+
+PALAMON.
+You have made me—
+I thank you, cousin Arcite—almost wanton
+With my captivity. What a misery
+It is to live abroad and everywhere!
+’Tis like a beast, methinks. I find the court here,
+I am sure, a more content; and all those pleasures
+That woo the wills of men to vanity
+I see through now, and am sufficient
+To tell the world ’tis but a gaudy shadow
+That old Time as he passes by takes with him.
+What had we been, old in the court of Creon,
+Where sin is justice, lust and ignorance
+The virtues of the great ones? Cousin Arcite,
+Had not the loving gods found this place for us,
+We had died as they do, ill old men, unwept,
+And had their epitaphs, the people’s curses.
+Shall I say more?
+
+ARCITE.
+I would hear you still.
+
+PALAMON.
+Ye shall.
+Is there record of any two that loved
+Better than we do, Arcite?
+
+ARCITE.
+Sure, there cannot.
+
+PALAMON.
+I do not think it possible our friendship
+Should ever leave us.
+
+ARCITE.
+Till our deaths it cannot;
+
+Enter Emilia and her Woman, below.
+
+And after death our spirits shall be led
+To those that love eternally. Speak on, sir.
+
+EMILIA.
+This garden has a world of pleasures in’t.
+What flower is this?
+
+WOMAN.
+’Tis called narcissus, madam.
+
+EMILIA.
+That was a fair boy, certain, but a fool,
+To love himself. Were there not maids enough?
+
+ARCITE.
+Pray, forward.
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes.
+
+EMILIA.
+Or were they all hard-hearted?
+
+WOMAN.
+They could not be to one so fair.
+
+EMILIA.
+Thou wouldst not.
+
+WOMAN.
+I think I should not, madam.
+
+EMILIA.
+That’s a good wench.
+But take heed to your kindness, though.
+
+WOMAN.
+Why, madam?
+
+EMILIA.
+Men are mad things.
+
+ARCITE.
+Will ye go forward, cousin?
+
+EMILIA.
+Canst not thou work such flowers in silk, wench?
+
+WOMAN.
+Yes.
+
+EMILIA.
+I’ll have a gown full of ’em, and of these.
+This is a pretty colour; will ’t not do
+Rarely upon a skirt, wench?
+
+WOMAN.
+Dainty, madam.
+
+ARCITE.
+Cousin, cousin! How do you, sir? Why, Palamon!
+
+PALAMON.
+Never till now I was in prison, Arcite.
+
+ARCITE.
+Why, what’s the matter, man?
+
+PALAMON.
+Behold, and wonder!
+By heaven, she is a goddess.
+
+ARCITE.
+Ha!
+
+PALAMON.
+Do reverence. She is a goddess, Arcite.
+
+EMILIA.
+Of all flowers,
+Methinks a rose is best.
+
+WOMAN.
+Why, gentle madam?
+
+EMILIA.
+It is the very emblem of a maid.
+For when the west wind courts her gently,
+How modestly she blows and paints the sun
+With her chaste blushes! When the north comes near her,
+Rude and impatient, then, like chastity,
+She locks her beauties in her bud again,
+And leaves him to base briers.
+
+WOMAN.
+Yet, good madam,
+Sometimes her modesty will blow so far
+She falls for ’t. A maid,
+If she have any honour, would be loath
+To take example by her.
+
+EMILIA.
+Thou art wanton.
+
+ARCITE.
+She is wondrous fair.
+
+PALAMON.
+She is all the beauty extant.
+
+EMILIA.
+The sun grows high; let’s walk in. Keep these flowers.
+We’ll see how near art can come near their colours.
+I am wondrous merry-hearted. I could laugh now.
+
+WOMAN.
+I could lie down, I am sure.
+
+EMILIA.
+And take one with you?
+
+WOMAN.
+That’s as we bargain, madam.
+
+EMILIA.
+Well, agree then.
+
+[_Exeunt Emilia and Woman._]
+
+PALAMON.
+What think you of this beauty?
+
+ARCITE.
+’Tis a rare one.
+
+PALAMON.
+Is’t but a rare one?
+
+ARCITE.
+Yes, a matchless beauty.
+
+PALAMON.
+Might not a man well lose himself, and love her?
+
+ARCITE.
+I cannot tell what you have done; I have,
+Beshrew mine eyes for’t! Now I feel my shackles.
+
+PALAMON.
+You love her, then?
+
+ARCITE.
+Who would not?
+
+PALAMON.
+And desire her?
+
+ARCITE.
+Before my liberty.
+
+PALAMON.
+I saw her first.
+
+ARCITE.
+That’s nothing.
+
+PALAMON.
+But it shall be.
+
+ARCITE.
+I saw her too.
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes, but you must not love her.
+
+ARCITE.
+I will not, as you do, to worship her
+As she is heavenly and a blessed goddess.
+I love her as a woman, to enjoy her.
+So both may love.
+
+PALAMON.
+You shall not love at all.
+
+ARCITE.
+Not love at all! Who shall deny me?
+
+PALAMON.
+I, that first saw her; I that took possession
+First with mine eye of all those beauties in her
+Revealed to mankind. If thou lovest her,
+Or entertain’st a hope to blast my wishes,
+Thou art a traitor, Arcite, and a fellow
+False as thy title to her. Friendship, blood,
+And all the ties between us, I disclaim
+If thou once think upon her.
+
+ARCITE.
+Yes, I love her;
+And, if the lives of all my name lay on it,
+I must do so; I love her with my soul.
+If that will lose ye, farewell, Palamon.
+I say again, I love, and in loving her maintain
+I am as worthy and as free a lover
+And have as just a title to her beauty,
+As any Palamon, or any living
+That is a man’s son.
+
+PALAMON.
+Have I called thee friend?
+
+ARCITE.
+Yes, and have found me so. Why are you moved thus?
+Let me deal coldly with you: am not I
+Part of your blood, part of your soul? You have told me
+That I was Palamon and you were Arcite.
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes.
+
+ARCITE.
+Am not I liable to those affections,
+Those joys, griefs, angers, fears, my friend shall suffer?
+
+PALAMON.
+Ye may be.
+
+ARCITE.
+Why then would you deal so cunningly,
+So strangely, so unlike a noble kinsman,
+To love alone? Speak truly; do you think me
+Unworthy of her sight?
+
+PALAMON.
+No; but unjust,
+If thou pursue that sight.
+
+ARCITE.
+Because another
+First sees the enemy, shall I stand still
+And let mine honour down, and never charge?
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes, if he be but one.
+
+ARCITE.
+But say that one
+Had rather combat me?
+
+PALAMON.
+Let that one say so,
+And use thy freedom. Else, if thou pursuest her,
+Be as that cursed man that hates his country,
+A branded villain.
+
+ARCITE.
+You are mad.
+
+PALAMON.
+I must be,
+Till thou art worthy, Arcite; it concerns me;
+And in this madness, if I hazard thee
+And take thy life, I deal but truely.
+
+ARCITE.
+Fie, sir!
+You play the child extremely. I will love her;
+I must, I ought to do so, and I dare,
+And all this justly.
+
+PALAMON.
+O, that now, that now,
+Thy false self and thy friend had but this fortune,
+To be one hour at liberty, and grasp
+Our good swords in our hands! I would quickly teach thee
+What ’twere to filch affection from another!
+Thou art baser in it than a cutpurse.
+Put but thy head out of this window more
+And, as I have a soul, I’ll nail thy life to ’t.
+
+ARCITE.
+Thou dar’st not, fool, thou canst not, thou art feeble.
+Put my head out? I’ll throw my body out
+And leap the garden, when I see her next
+And pitch between her arms, to anger thee.
+
+Enter Jailer.
+
+PALAMON.
+No more; the keeper’s coming. I shall live
+To knock thy brains out with my shackles.
+
+ARCITE.
+Do!
+
+JAILER.
+By your leave, gentlemen.
+
+PALAMON.
+Now, honest keeper?
+
+JAILER.
+Lord Arcite, you must presently to th’ Duke;
+The cause I know not yet.
+
+ARCITE.
+I am ready, keeper.
+
+JAILER.
+Prince Palamon, I must awhile bereave you
+Of your fair cousin’s company.
+
+[_Exeunt Arcite and Jailer._]
+
+PALAMON.
+And me too,
+Even when you please, of life.—Why is he sent for?
+It may be he shall marry her; he’s goodly,
+And like enough the Duke hath taken notice
+Both of his blood and body. But his falsehood!
+Why should a friend be treacherous? If that
+Get him a wife so noble and so fair,
+Let honest men ne’er love again. Once more
+I would but see this fair one. Blessed garden
+And fruit and flowers more blessed that still blossom
+As her bright eyes shine on ye! Would I were,
+For all the fortune of my life hereafter,
+Yon little tree, yon blooming apricock!
+How I would spread and fling my wanton arms
+In at her window! I would bring her fruit
+Fit for the gods to feed on; youth and pleasure
+Still as she tasted should be doubled on her;
+And, if she be not heavenly, I would make her
+So near the gods in nature, they should fear her.
+
+Enter Jailer.
+
+And then I am sure she would love me. How now, keeper?
+Where’s Arcite?
+
+JAILER.
+Banished. Prince Pirithous
+Obtained his liberty, but never more
+Upon his oath and life must he set foot
+Upon this kingdom.
+
+PALAMON.
+He’s a blessed man.
+He shall see Thebes again, and call to arms
+The bold young men that, when he bids ’em charge,
+Fall on like fire. Arcite shall have a fortune,
+If he dare make himself a worthy lover,
+Yet in the field to strike a battle for her;
+And, if he lose her then, he’s a cold coward.
+How bravely may he bear himself to win her
+If he be noble Arcite, thousand ways!
+Were I at liberty, I would do things
+Of such a virtuous greatness that this lady,
+This blushing virgin, should take manhood to her
+And seek to ravish me.
+
+JAILER.
+My lord for you
+I have this charge to—
+
+PALAMON.
+To discharge my life?
+
+JAILER.
+No, but from this place to remove your lordship;
+The windows are too open.
+
+PALAMON.
+Devils take ’em,
+That are so envious to me! Prithee, kill me.
+
+JAILER.
+And hang for’t afterward!
+
+PALAMON.
+By this good light,
+Had I a sword I would kill thee.
+
+JAILER.
+Why, my Lord?
+
+PALAMON.
+Thou bringst such pelting, scurvy news continually,
+Thou art not worthy life. I will not go.
+
+JAILER.
+Indeed, you must, my lord.
+
+PALAMON.
+May I see the garden?
+
+JAILER.
+No.
+
+PALAMON.
+Then I am resolved, I will not go.
+
+JAILER.
+I must constrain you then; and, for you are dangerous,
+I’ll clap more irons on you.
+
+PALAMON.
+Do, good keeper.
+I’ll shake ’em so, ye shall not sleep;
+I’ll make you a new morris. Must I go?
+
+JAILER.
+There is no remedy.
+
+PALAMON.
+Farewell, kind window.
+May rude wind never hurt thee!—O, my lady,
+If ever thou hast felt what sorrow was,
+Dream how I suffer.—Come, now bury me.
+
+[_Exeunt Palamon and Jailer._]
+
+SCENE III. The country near Athens
+
+Enter Arcite.
+
+ARCITE.
+Banished the kingdom? ’Tis a benefit,
+A mercy I must thank ’em for; but banished
+The free enjoying of that face I die for,
+O, ’twas a studied punishment, a death
+Beyond imagination, such a vengeance
+That, were I old and wicked, all my sins
+Could never pluck upon me. Palamon,
+Thou hast the start now; thou shalt stay and see
+Her bright eyes break each morning ’gainst thy window
+And let in life into thee; thou shalt feed
+Upon the sweetness of a noble beauty
+That nature ne’er exceeded nor ne’er shall.
+Good gods, what happiness has Palamon!
+Twenty to one, he’ll come to speak to her;
+And if she be as gentle as she’s fair,
+I know she’s his; he has a tongue will tame
+Tempests and make the wild rocks wanton.
+Come what can come,
+The worst is death; I will not leave the kingdom.
+I know mine own is but a heap of ruins,
+And no redress there. If I go, he has her.
+I am resolved another shape shall make me
+Or end my fortunes. Either way I am happy.
+I’ll see her and be near her, or no more.
+
+Enter four Countrymen, and one with a garland before them.
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+My masters, I’ll be there, that’s certain.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+And I’ll be there.
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+And I.
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+Why, then, have with you, boys. ’Tis but a chiding.
+Let the plough play today; I’ll tickle ’t out
+Of the jades’ tails tomorrow.
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+I am sure
+To have my wife as jealous as a turkey,
+But that’s all one. I’ll go through; let her mumble.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+Clap her aboard tomorrow night, and stow her,
+And all’s made up again.
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+Ay, do but put
+A fescue in her fist and you shall see her
+Take a new lesson out and be a good wench.
+Do we all hold against the Maying?
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+Hold?
+What should ail us?
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+Arcas will be there.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+And Sennois.
+And Rycas; and three better lads ne’er danced
+Under green tree. And ye know what wenches, ha?
+But will the dainty domine, the schoolmaster,
+Keep touch, do you think? For he does all, ye know.
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+He’ll eat a hornbook ere he fail. Go to;
+The matter’s too far driven between him
+And the tanner’s daughter to let slip now;
+And she must see the Duke, and she must dance too.
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+Shall we be lusty?
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+All the boys in Athens
+Blow wind i’ th’ breech on ’s. And here I’ll be,
+And there I’ll be, for our town, and here again,
+And there again. Ha, boys, hey for the weavers!
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+This must be done i’ th’ woods.
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+O, pardon me.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+By any means; our thing of learning says so—
+Where he himself will edify the Duke
+Most parlously in our behalfs. He’s excellent i’ th’ woods;
+Bring him to th’ plains, his learning makes no cry.
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+We’ll see the sports, then every man to ’s tackle;
+And, sweet companions, let’s rehearse, by any means,
+Before the ladies see us, and do sweetly,
+And God knows what may come on ’t.
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+Content; the sports once ended, we’ll perform.
+Away, boys, and hold.
+
+ARCITE.
+By your leaves, honest friends: pray you, whither go you?
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+Whither? Why, what a question’s that?
+
+ARCITE.
+Yes, ’tis a question
+To me that know not.
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+To the games, my friend.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+Where were you bred, you know it not?
+
+ARCITE.
+Not far, sir;
+Are there such games today?
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+Yes, marry, are there,
+And such as you never saw; the Duke himself
+Will be in person there.
+
+ARCITE.
+What pastimes are they?
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+Wrestling, and running.—’Tis a pretty fellow.
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+Thou wilt not go along?
+
+ARCITE.
+Not yet, sir.
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+Well, sir,
+Take your own time. Come, boys.
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+My mind misgives me,
+This fellow has a vengeance trick o’ th’ hip;
+Mark how his body’s made for ’t.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+I’ll be hanged, though,
+If he dare venture. Hang him, plum porridge!
+He wrestle? He roast eggs! Come, let’s be gone, lads.
+
+[_Exeunt Countrymen._]
+
+ARCITE.
+This is an offered opportunity
+I durst not wish for. Well I could have wrestled—
+The best men called it excellent—and run
+Swifter than wind upon a field of corn,
+Curling the wealthy ears, never flew. I’ll venture,
+And in some poor disguise be there. Who knows
+Whether my brows may not be girt with garlands,
+And happiness prefer me to a place
+Where I may ever dwell in sight of her?
+
+[_Exit Arcite._]
+
+SCENE IV. Athens. A room in the prison
+
+Enter Jailer’s Daughter alone.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Why should I love this gentleman? ’Tis odds
+He never will affect me. I am base,
+My father the mean keeper of his prison,
+And he a prince. To marry him is hopeless;
+To be his whore is witless. Out upon ’t!
+What pushes are we wenches driven to
+When fifteen once has found us! First, I saw him;
+I, seeing, thought he was a goodly man;
+He has as much to please a woman in him,
+If he please to bestow it so, as ever
+These eyes yet looked on. Next, I pitied him,
+And so would any young wench, o’ my conscience,
+That ever dreamed, or vowed her maidenhead
+To a young handsome man. Then I loved him,
+Extremely loved him, infinitely loved him!
+And yet he had a cousin, fair as he too,
+But in my heart was Palamon, and there,
+Lord, what a coil he keeps! To hear him
+Sing in an evening, what a heaven it is!
+And yet his songs are sad ones. Fairer spoken
+Was never gentleman. When I come in
+To bring him water in a morning, first
+He bows his noble body, then salutes me thus:
+“Fair, gentle maid, good morrow. May thy goodness
+Get thee a happy husband.” Once he kissed me;
+I loved my lips the better ten days after.
+Would he would do so ev’ry day! He grieves much—
+And me as much to see his misery.
+What should I do to make him know I love him?
+For I would fain enjoy him. Say I ventured
+To set him free? What says the law then?
+Thus much for law or kindred! I will do it;
+And this night, or tomorrow, he shall love me.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. An open place in Athens
+
+A short flourish of cornets and shouts within. Enter Theseus,
+Hippolyta, Pirithous, Emilia; Arcite in disguise as a countryman, with
+a garland, Attendants, and others.
+
+THESEUS.
+You have done worthily. I have not seen,
+Since Hercules, a man of tougher sinews.
+Whate’er you are, you run the best and wrestle,
+That these times can allow.
+
+ARCITE.
+I am proud to please you.
+
+THESEUS.
+What country bred you?
+
+ARCITE.
+This; but far off, Prince.
+
+THESEUS.
+Are you a gentleman?
+
+ARCITE.
+My father said so;
+And to those gentle uses gave me life.
+
+THESEUS.
+Are you his heir?
+
+ARCITE.
+His youngest, sir.
+
+THESEUS.
+Your father
+Sure is a happy sire then. What profess you?
+
+ARCITE.
+A little of all noble qualities.
+I could have kept a hawk and well have hallowed
+To a deep cry of dogs. I dare not praise
+My feat in horsemanship, yet they that knew me
+Would say it was my best piece; last, and greatest,
+I would be thought a soldier.
+
+THESEUS.
+You are perfect.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Upon my soul, a proper man.
+
+EMILIA.
+He is so.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+How do you like him, lady?
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+I admire him.
+I have not seen so young a man so noble,
+If he say true, of his sort.
+
+EMILIA.
+Believe,
+His mother was a wondrous handsome woman;
+His face, methinks, goes that way.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+But his body
+And fiery mind illustrate a brave father.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Mark how his virtue, like a hidden sun,
+Breaks through his baser garments.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+He’s well got, sure.
+
+THESEUS.
+What made you seek this place, sir?
+
+ARCITE.
+Noble Theseus,
+To purchase name and do my ablest service
+To such a well-found wonder as thy worth;
+For only in thy court, of all the world,
+Dwells fair-eyed Honour.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+All his words are worthy.
+
+THESEUS.
+Sir, we are much indebted to your travel,
+Nor shall you lose your wish.—Pirithous,
+Dispose of this fair gentleman.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Thanks, Theseus.
+Whate’er you are, you’re mine, and I shall give you
+To a most noble service: to this lady,
+This bright young virgin; pray, observe her goodness.
+You have honoured her fair birthday with your virtues,
+And, as your due, you’re hers; kiss her fair hand, sir.
+
+ARCITE.
+Sir, you’re a noble giver.—Dearest beauty,
+Thus let me seal my vowed faith.
+
+[_He kisses her hand._]
+
+When your servant,
+Your most unworthy creature, but offends you,
+Command him die, he shall.
+
+EMILIA.
+That were too cruel.
+If you deserve well, sir, I shall soon see ’t.
+You’re mine, and somewhat better than your rank
+I’ll use you.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+I’ll see you furnished, and because you say
+You are a horseman, I must needs entreat you
+This afternoon to ride, but ’tis a rough one.
+
+ARCITE.
+I like him better, Prince; I shall not then
+Freeze in my saddle.
+
+THESEUS.
+Sweet, you must be ready,—
+And you, Emilia,—and you, friend,—and all,
+Tomorrow by the sun, to do observance
+To flowery May, in Dian’s wood.—Wait well, sir,
+Upon your mistress.—Emily, I hope
+He shall not go afoot.
+
+EMILIA.
+That were a shame, sir,
+While I have horses.—Take your choice, and what
+You want at any time, let me but know it.
+If you serve faithfully, I dare assure you
+You’ll find a loving mistress.
+
+ARCITE.
+If I do not,
+Let me find that my father ever hated,
+Disgrace and blows.
+
+THESEUS.
+Go lead the way; you have won it.
+It shall be so; you shall receive all dues
+Fit for the honour you have won; ’twere wrong else.
+Sister, beshrew my heart, you have a servant,
+That, if I were a woman, would be master.
+But you are wise.
+
+EMILIA.
+I hope too wise for that, sir.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. Athens. Before the prison
+
+Enter Jailer’s Daughter alone.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Let all the dukes and all the devils roar,
+He is at liberty! I have ventured for him
+And out I have brought him; to a little wood
+A mile hence I have sent him, where a cedar
+Higher than all the rest spreads like a plane
+Fast by a brook, and there he shall keep close
+Till I provide him files and food, for yet
+His iron bracelets are not off. O Love,
+What a stout-hearted child thou art! My father
+Durst better have endured cold iron than done it.
+I love him beyond love and beyond reason,
+Or wit, or safety. I have made him know it;
+I care not, I am desperate. If the law
+Find me and then condemn me for ’t, some wenches,
+Some honest-hearted maids, will sing my dirge
+And tell to memory my death was noble,
+Dying almost a martyr. That way he takes,
+I purpose is my way too. Sure he cannot
+Be so unmanly as to leave me here.
+If he do, maids will not so easily
+Trust men again. And yet he has not thanked me
+For what I have done; no, not so much as kissed me,
+And that, methinks, is not so well; nor scarcely
+Could I persuade him to become a free man,
+He made such scruples of the wrong he did
+To me and to my father. Yet I hope,
+When he considers more, this love of mine
+Will take more root within him. Let him do
+What he will with me, so he use me kindly;
+For use me so he shall, or I’ll proclaim him,
+And to his face, no man. I’ll presently
+Provide him necessaries and pack my clothes up,
+And where there is a path of ground I’ll venture,
+So he be with me. By him, like a shadow
+I’ll ever dwell. Within this hour the hubbub
+Will be all o’er the prison. I am then
+Kissing the man they look for. Farewell, father!
+Get many more such prisoners and such daughters,
+And shortly you may keep yourself. Now to him.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. A forest near Athens
+
+
+Cornets in sundry places. Noise and hallowing as people a-Maying. Enter
+Arcite alone.
+
+ARCITE.
+The Duke has lost Hippolyta; each took
+A several land. This is a solemn rite
+They owe bloomed May, and the Athenians pay it
+To th’ heart of ceremony. O Queen Emilia,
+Fresher than May, sweeter
+Than her gold buttons on the boughs, or all
+Th’ enameled knacks o’ th’ mead or garden—yea,
+We challenge too the bank of any nymph
+That makes the stream seem flowers; thou, O jewel
+O’ th’ wood, o’ th’ world, hast likewise blessed a pace
+With thy sole presence. In thy rumination
+That I, poor man, might eftsoons come between
+And chop on some cold thought! Thrice blessed chance
+To drop on such a mistress, expectation
+Most guiltless on ’t. Tell me, O Lady Fortune,
+Next after Emily my sovereign, how far
+I may be proud. She takes strong note of me,
+Hath made me near her, and this beauteous morn,
+The prim’st of all the year, presents me with
+A brace of horses; two such steeds might well
+Be by a pair of kings backed, in a field
+That their crowns’ titles tried. Alas, alas,
+Poor cousin Palamon, poor prisoner, thou
+So little dream’st upon my fortune that
+Thou think’st thyself the happier thing, to be
+So near Emilia; me thou deem’st at Thebes,
+And therein wretched, although free. But if
+Thou knew’st my mistress breathed on me, and that
+I eared her language, lived in her eye, O coz,
+What passion would enclose thee!
+
+Enter Palamon as out of a bush, with his shackles; he bends his fist at
+Arcite.
+
+PALAMON.
+Traitor kinsman,
+Thou shouldst perceive my passion, if these signs
+Of prisonment were off me, and this hand
+But owner of a sword. By all oaths in one,
+I and the justice of my love would make thee
+A confessed traitor! O thou most perfidious
+That ever gently looked, the void’st of honour
+That e’er bore gentle token, falsest cousin
+That ever blood made kin! Call’st thou her thine?
+I’ll prove it in my shackles, with these hands,
+Void of appointment, that thou liest, and art
+A very thief in love, a chaffy lord,
+Nor worth the name of villain. Had I a sword,
+And these house-clogs away—
+
+ARCITE.
+Dear cousin Palamon—
+
+PALAMON.
+Cozener Arcite, give me language such
+As thou hast showed me feat.
+
+ARCITE.
+Not finding in
+The circuit of my breast any gross stuff
+To form me like your blazon holds me to
+This gentleness of answer. ’Tis your passion
+That thus mistakes, the which, to you being enemy,
+Cannot to me be kind. Honour and honesty
+I cherish and depend on, howsoe’er
+You skip them in me, and with them, fair coz,
+I’ll maintain my proceedings. Pray be pleased
+To show in generous terms your griefs, since that
+Your question’s with your equal, who professes
+To clear his own way with the mind and sword
+Of a true gentleman.
+
+PALAMON.
+That thou durst, Arcite!
+
+ARCITE.
+My coz, my coz, you have been well advertised
+How much I dare; you’ve seen me use my sword
+Against th’ advice of fear. Sure, of another
+You would not hear me doubted, but your silence
+Should break out, though i’ th’ sanctuary.
+
+PALAMON.
+Sir,
+I have seen you move in such a place, which well
+Might justify your manhood; you were called
+A good knight and a bold. But the whole week’s not fair
+If any day it rain. Their valiant temper
+Men lose when they incline to treachery;
+And then they fight like compelled bears, would fly
+Were they not tied.
+
+ARCITE.
+Kinsman, you might as well
+Speak this and act it in your glass as to
+His ear which now disdains you.
+
+PALAMON.
+Come up to me;
+Quit me of these cold gyves, give me a sword
+Though it be rusty, and the charity
+Of one meal lend me. Come before me then,
+A good sword in thy hand, and do but say
+That Emily is thine, I will forgive
+The trespass thou hast done me, yea, my life,
+If then thou carry ’t; and brave souls in shades
+That have died manly, which will seek of me
+Some news from earth, they shall get none but this:
+That thou art brave and noble.
+
+ARCITE.
+Be content.
+Again betake you to your hawthorn house.
+With counsel of the night, I will be here
+With wholesome viands. These impediments
+Will I file off; you shall have garments and
+Perfumes to kill the smell o’ th’ prison. After,
+When you shall stretch yourself and say but “Arcite,
+I am in plight,” there shall be at your choice
+Both sword and armour.
+
+PALAMON.
+Oh you heavens, dares any
+So noble bear a guilty business? None
+But only Arcite, therefore none but Arcite
+In this kind is so bold.
+
+ARCITE.
+Sweet Palamon.
+
+PALAMON.
+I do embrace you and your offer; for
+Your offer do ’t I only, sir; your person,
+Without hypocrisy I may not wish
+More than my sword’s edge on ’t.
+
+[_Wind horns of cornets._]
+
+ARCITE.
+You hear the horns.
+Enter your musit, lest this match between ’s
+Be crossed ere met. Give me your hand; farewell.
+I’ll bring you every needful thing. I pray you,
+Take comfort and be strong.
+
+PALAMON.
+Pray hold your promise,
+And do the deed with a bent brow. Most certain
+You love me not; be rough with me, and pour
+This oil out of your language. By this air,
+I could for each word give a cuff, my stomach
+Not reconciled by reason.
+
+ARCITE.
+Plainly spoken.
+Yet pardon me hard language. When I spur
+My horse, I chide him not; content and anger
+In me have but one face.
+
+[_Wind horns._]
+
+Hark, sir, they call
+The scattered to the banquet. You must guess
+I have an office there.
+
+PALAMON.
+Sir, your attendance
+Cannot please heaven, and I know your office
+Unjustly is achieved.
+
+ARCITE.
+’Tis a good title.
+I am persuaded, this question, sick between ’s,
+By bleeding must be cured. I am a suitor
+That to your sword you will bequeath this plea,
+And talk of it no more.
+
+PALAMON.
+But this one word:
+You are going now to gaze upon my mistress,
+For, note you, mine she is—
+
+ARCITE.
+Nay, then—
+
+PALAMON.
+Nay, pray you,
+You talk of feeding me to breed me strength.
+You are going now to look upon a sun
+That strengthens what it looks on; there
+You have a vantage o’er me. But enjoy ’t till
+I may enforce my remedy. Farewell.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Another Part of the forest
+
+Enter Jailer’s Daughter alone.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+He has mistook the brake I meant, is gone
+After his fancy. ’Tis now well-nigh morning.
+No matter; would it were perpetual night,
+And darkness lord o’ th’ world. Hark, ’tis a wolf!
+In me hath grief slain fear, and but for one thing,
+I care for nothing, and that’s Palamon.
+I reck not if the wolves would jaw me, so
+He had this file. What if I hallowed for him?
+I cannot hallow. If I whooped, what then?
+If he not answered, I should call a wolf,
+And do him but that service. I have heard
+Strange howls this livelong night; why may ’t not be
+They have made prey of him? He has no weapons;
+He cannot run; the jingling of his gyves
+Might call fell things to listen, who have in them
+A sense to know a man unarmed and can
+Smell where resistance is. I’ll set it down
+He’s torn to pieces; they howled many together,
+And then they fed on him. So much for that.
+Be bold to ring the bell. How stand I then?
+All’s chared when he is gone. No, no, I lie.
+My father’s to be hanged for his escape;
+Myself to beg, if I prized life so much
+As to deny my act; but that I would not,
+Should I try death by dozens. I am moped.
+Food took I none these two days;
+Sipped some water. I have not closed mine eyes
+Save when my lids scoured off their brine. Alas,
+Dissolve, my life! Let not my sense unsettle,
+Lest I should drown, or stab, or hang myself.
+O state of nature, fail together in me,
+Since thy best props are warped! So, which way now?
+The best way is the next way to a grave;
+Each errant step beside is torment. Lo,
+The moon is down, the crickets chirp, the screech owl
+Calls in the dawn. All offices are done
+Save what I fail in. But the point is this:
+An end, and that is all.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. The same part of the forest as in scene I.
+
+Enter Arcite with meat, wine and files.
+
+ARCITE.
+I should be near the place.—Ho! Cousin Palamon!
+
+PALAMON.
+[_From the bush._] Arcite?
+
+ARCITE.
+The same. I have brought you food and files.
+Come forth and fear not; here’s no Theseus.
+
+Enter Palamon.
+
+PALAMON.
+Nor none so honest, Arcite.
+
+ARCITE.
+That’s no matter.
+We’ll argue that hereafter. Come, take courage;
+You shall not die thus beastly. Here, sir, drink—
+I know you are faint—then I’ll talk further with you.
+
+PALAMON.
+Arcite, thou mightst now poison me.
+
+ARCITE.
+I might;
+But I must fear you first. Sit down and, good now,
+No more of these vain parleys; let us not,
+Having our ancient reputation with us,
+Make talk for fools and cowards. To your health.
+
+[_Drinks._]
+
+PALAMON.
+Do.
+
+ARCITE.
+Pray sit down, then, and let me entreat you,
+By all the honesty and honour in you,
+No mention of this woman; ’twill disturb us.
+We shall have time enough.
+
+PALAMON.
+Well, sir, I’ll pledge you.
+
+[_Drinks._]
+
+ARCITE.
+Drink a good hearty draught; it breeds good blood, man.
+Do not you feel it thaw you?
+
+PALAMON.
+Stay, I’ll tell you
+After a draught or two more.
+
+ARCITE.
+Spare it not; the Duke has more, coz. Eat now.
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes.
+
+[_Eats._]
+
+ARCITE.
+I am glad you have so good a stomach.
+
+PALAMON.
+I am gladder I have so good meat to ’t.
+
+ARCITE.
+Is’t not mad lodging,
+Here in the wild woods, cousin?
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes, for them
+That have wild consciences.
+
+ARCITE.
+How tastes your victuals?
+Your hunger needs no sauce, I see.
+
+PALAMON.
+Not much.
+But if it did, yours is too tart, sweet cousin.
+What is this?
+
+ARCITE.
+Venison.
+
+PALAMON.
+’Tis a lusty meat.
+Give me more wine. Here, Arcite, to the wenches
+We have known in our days! The Lord Steward’s daughter,
+Do you remember her?
+
+ARCITE.
+After you, coz.
+
+PALAMON.
+She loved a black-haired man.
+
+ARCITE.
+She did so; well, sir?
+
+PALAMON.
+And I have heard some call him Arcite, and—
+
+ARCITE.
+Out with’t, faith.
+
+PALAMON.
+She met him in an arbour.
+What did she there, coz? Play o’ th’ virginals?
+
+ARCITE.
+Something she did, sir.
+
+PALAMON.
+Made her groan a month for ’t,
+Or two, or three, or ten.
+
+ARCITE.
+The Marshal’s sister
+Had her share too, as I remember, cousin,
+Else there be tales abroad. You’ll pledge her?
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes.
+
+ARCITE.
+A pretty brown wench ’tis. There was a time
+When young men went a-hunting, and a wood,
+And a broad beech; and thereby hangs a tale.
+Heigh ho!
+
+PALAMON.
+For Emily, upon my life! Fool,
+Away with this strained mirth! I say again
+That sigh was breathed for Emily. Base cousin,
+Dar’st thou break first?
+
+ARCITE.
+You are wide.
+
+PALAMON.
+By heaven and earth,
+There’s nothing in thee honest.
+
+ARCITE.
+Then I’ll leave you.
+You are a beast now.
+
+PALAMON.
+As thou mak’st me, traitor.
+
+ARCITE.
+There’s all things needful: files and shirts and perfumes.
+I’ll come again some two hours hence, and bring
+That that shall quiet all.
+
+PALAMON.
+A sword and armour?
+
+ARCITE.
+Fear me not. You are now too foul. Farewell.
+Get off your trinkets; you shall want naught.
+
+PALAMON.
+Sirrah—
+
+ARCITE.
+I’ll hear no more.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+PALAMON.
+If he keep touch, he dies for ’t.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. Another part of the forest
+
+Enter Jailer’s Daughter.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+I am very cold, and all the stars are out too,
+The little stars and all, that look like aglets.
+The sun has seen my folly. Palamon!
+Alas, no; he’s in heaven. Where am I now?
+Yonder’s the sea, and there’s a ship; how ’t tumbles!
+And there’s a rock lies watching under water;
+Now, now, it beats upon it; now, now, now,
+There’s a leak sprung, a sound one! How they cry!
+Run her before the wind, you’ll lose all else.
+Up with a course or two, and tack about, boys!
+Good night, good night; you’re gone. I am very hungry.
+Would I could find a fine frog; he would tell me
+News from all parts o’ th’ world; then would I make
+A carrack of a cockle shell, and sail
+By east and north-east to the king of pygmies,
+For he tells fortunes rarely. Now my father,
+Twenty to one, is trussed up in a trice
+Tomorrow morning. I’ll say never a word.
+
+[_Sings._]
+
+_For I’ll cut my green coat a foot above my knee,
+And I’ll clip my yellow locks an inch below mine eye.
+Hey nonny, nonny, nonny.
+He’s buy me a white cut, forth for to ride,
+And I’ll go seek him through the world that is so wide.
+Hey nonny, nonny, nonny._
+O, for a prick now, like a nightingale,
+To put my breast against. I shall sleep like a top else.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE V. Another part of the forest
+
+Enter a Schoolmaster and five Countrymen, one dressed as a Bavian.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Fie, fie,
+What tediosity and disinsanity
+Is here among ye! Have my rudiments
+Been laboured so long with ye, milked unto ye,
+And, by a figure, even the very plum-broth
+And marrow of my understanding laid upon ye,
+And do you still cry “Where?” and “How?” and “Wherefore?”
+You most coarse-frieze capacities, ye jean judgements,
+Have I said “Thus let be” and “There let be”
+And “Then let be” and no man understand me?
+_Proh Deum, medius fidius_, ye are all dunces!
+For why?
+Here stand I; here the Duke comes; there are you,
+Close in the thicket; the Duke appears; I meet him
+And unto him I utter learned things
+And many figures; he hears, and nods, and hums,
+And then cries “Rare!” and I go forward. At length
+I fling my cap up—mark there! Then do you
+As once did Meleager and the boar,
+Break comely out before him; like true lovers,
+Cast yourselves in a body decently,
+And sweetly, by a figure, trace and turn, boys.
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+And sweetly we will do it, Master Gerald.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+Draw up the company. Where’s the taborer?
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+Why, Timothy!
+
+TABORER.
+Here, my mad boys, have at ye.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+But I say, where’s their women?
+
+Enter five Countrywomen.
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+Here’s Friz and Maudlin.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+And little Luce with the white legs, and bouncing Barbary.
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+And freckled Nel, that never failed her master.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Where be your ribbons, maids? Swim with your bodies,
+And carry it sweetly and deliverly,
+And now and then a favour and a frisk.
+
+NEL.
+Let us alone, sir.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Where’s the rest o’ th’ music?
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+Dispersed, as you commanded.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Couple, then,
+And see what’s wanting. Where’s the Bavian?
+My friend, carry your tail without offence
+Or scandal to the ladies; and be sure
+You tumble with audacity and manhood;
+And when you bark, do it with judgement.
+
+BAVIAN.
+Yes, sir.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+_Quo usque tandem?_ Here is a woman wanting.
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+We may go whistle; all the fat’s i’ th’ fire.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+We have,
+as learned authors utter, washed a tile.
+we have been _fatuus_ and laboured vainly.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+This is that scornful piece, that scurvy hilding,
+That gave her promise faithfully, she would be here,
+Cicely, the sempster’s daughter.
+The next gloves that I give her shall be dogskin!
+Nay an she fail me once—You can tell, Arcas,
+She swore by wine and bread, she would not break.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+An eel and woman,
+A learned poet says, unless by th’ tail
+And with thy teeth thou hold, will either fail.
+In manners this was false position.
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+A fire ill take her; does she flinch now?
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+What
+Shall we determine, sir?
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Nothing.
+Our business is become a nullity,
+Yea, and a woeful and a piteous nullity.
+
+FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.
+Now, when the credit of our town lay on it,
+Now to be frampul, now to piss o’ th’ nettle!
+Go thy ways; I’ll remember thee. I’ll fit thee.
+
+Enter Jailer’s Daughter.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+[_Sings_.]
+_The George Alow came from the south,
+From the coast of Barbary-a.
+And there he met with brave gallants of war,
+By one, by two, by three-a._
+
+_Well hailed, well hailed, you jolly gallants,
+And whither now are you bound-a?
+O let me have your company
+Till I come to the sound-a._
+
+_There was three fools fell out about an howlet:
+The one said it was an owl,
+The other he said nay,
+The third he said it was a hawk,
+And her bells were cut away._
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+There’s a dainty mad woman, Master,
+Comes i’ th’ nick, as mad as a March hare.
+If we can get her dance, we are made again;
+I warrant her, she’ll do the rarest gambols.
+
+FIRST COUNTRYMAN.
+A madwoman? We are made, boys.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+And are you mad, good woman?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+I would be sorry else.
+Give me your hand.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Why?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+I can tell your fortune.
+You are a fool. Tell ten. I have posed him. Buzz!
+Friend, you must eat no white bread; if you do,
+Your teeth will bleed extremely. Shall we dance, ho?
+I know you, you’re a tinker; sirrah tinker,
+Stop no more holes but what you should.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+_Dii boni!_ A tinker, damsel?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Or a conjurer.
+Raise me a devil now, and let him play
+_Qui passa_ o’ th’ bells and bones.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Go, take her,
+And fluently persuade her to a peace.
+_Et opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis—_
+Strike up, and lead her in.
+
+SECOND COUNTRYMAN.
+Come, lass, let’s trip it.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+I’ll lead.
+
+THIRD COUNTRYMAN.
+Do, do!
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Persuasively, and cunningly.
+Away, boys; I hear the horns. Give me some meditation,
+And mark your cue.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Schoolmaster._]
+
+Pallas inspire me.
+
+Enter Theseus, Pirithous, Hippolyta, Emilia, and train.
+
+THESEUS.
+This way the stag took.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Stay, and edify!
+
+THESEUS.
+What have we here?
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Some country sport, upon my life, sir.
+
+THESEUS.
+Well, sir, go forward; we will “edify.”
+Ladies, sit down. We’ll stay it.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+Thou doughty Duke, all hail! All hail, sweet ladies!
+
+THESEUS.
+This is a cold beginning.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+If you but favour, our country pastime made is.
+We are a few of those collected here
+That ruder tongues distinguish “villager.”
+And to say verity, and not to fable,
+We are a merry rout, or else a _rabble_,
+Or company, or by a figure, _chorus_,
+That ’fore thy dignity will dance a morris.
+And I that am the rectifier of all,
+By title _pædagogus_, that let fall
+The birch upon the breeches of the small ones,
+And humble with a ferula the tall ones,
+Do here present this machine, or this frame.
+And, dainty Duke, whose doughty dismal fame
+From Dis to Dædalus, from post to pillar,
+Is blown abroad, help me, thy poor well-willer,
+And with thy twinkling eyes look right and straight
+Upon this mighty _Morr_, of mickle weight.
+_Is_ now comes in, which being glued together
+Makes _Morris_, and the cause that we came hither.
+The body of our sport, of no small study.
+I first appear, though rude and raw and muddy,
+To speak before thy noble grace this tenner,
+At whose great feet I offer up my penner.
+The next, the Lord of May and Lady bright,
+The Chambermaid and Servingman, by night
+That seek out silent hanging; then mine Host
+And his fat Spouse, that welcomes to their cost
+The galled traveller, and with a beck’ning
+Informs the tapster to inflame the reck’ning.
+Then the beest-eating Clown and next the Fool,
+The Bavian with long tail and eke long tool,
+_Cum multis aliis_ that make a dance.
+Say “Ay,” and all shall presently advance.
+
+THESEUS.
+Ay, ay, by any means, dear _Domine_.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Produce.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+_Intrate, filii!_ Come forth and foot it.
+
+Music. Enter the Countrymen, Countrywomen and Jailer’s Daughter; they
+perform a morris dance.
+
+Ladies, if we have been merry
+And have pleased ye with a derry,
+And a derry, and a down,
+Say the schoolmaster’s no clown.
+Duke, if we have pleased thee too
+And have done as good boys should do,
+Give us but a tree or twain
+For a Maypole, and again,
+Ere another year run out,
+We’ll make thee laugh, and all this rout.
+
+THESEUS.
+Take twenty, _Domine_.—How does my sweetheart?
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Never so pleased, sir.
+
+EMILIA.
+’Twas an excellent dance,
+And, for a preface, I never heard a better.
+
+THESEUS.
+Schoolmaster, I thank you.—One see’em all rewarded.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+And here’s something to paint your pole withal.
+
+[_He gives money._]
+
+THESEUS.
+Now to our sports again.
+
+SCHOOLMASTER.
+May the stag thou hunt’st stand long,
+And thy dogs be swift and strong;
+May they kill him without lets,
+And the ladies eat his dowsets.
+
+[_Exeunt Theseus, Pirithous, Hippolyta, Emilia, Arcite and Train. Horns
+winded as they go out._]
+
+Come, we are all made. _Dii deæque omnes_,
+You have danced rarely, wenches.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE VI. The same part of the forest as in scene III.
+
+Enter Palamon from the bush.
+
+PALAMON.
+About this hour my cousin gave his faith
+To visit me again, and with him bring
+Two swords and two good armours. If he fail,
+He’s neither man nor soldier. When he left me,
+I did not think a week could have restored
+My lost strength to me, I was grown so low
+And crestfall’n with my wants. I thank thee, Arcite,
+Thou art yet a fair foe, and I feel myself,
+With this refreshing, able once again
+To outdure danger. To delay it longer
+Would make the world think, when it comes to hearing,
+That I lay fatting like a swine to fight
+And not a soldier. Therefore, this blest morning
+Shall be the last; and that sword he refuses,
+If it but hold, I kill him with. ’Tis justice.
+So, love and fortune for me!
+
+Enter Arcite with armours and swords.
+
+O, good morrow.
+
+ARCITE.
+Good morrow, noble kinsman.
+
+PALAMON.
+I have put you
+To too much pains, sir.
+
+ARCITE.
+That too much, fair cousin,
+Is but a debt to honour, and my duty.
+
+PALAMON.
+Would you were so in all, sir; I could wish ye
+As kind a kinsman as you force me find
+A beneficial foe, that my embraces
+Might thank ye, not my blows.
+
+ARCITE.
+I shall think either,
+Well done, a noble recompence.
+
+PALAMON.
+Then I shall quit you.
+
+ARCITE.
+Defy me in these fair terms, and you show
+More than a mistress to me. No more anger,
+As you love anything that’s honourable!
+We were not bred to talk, man; when we are armed
+And both upon our guards, then let our fury,
+Like meeting of two tides, fly strongly from us;
+And then to whom the birthright of this beauty
+Truly pertains—without upbraidings, scorns,
+Despisings of our persons, and such poutings,
+Fitter for girls and schoolboys—will be seen,
+And quickly, yours or mine. Will ’t please you arm, sir?
+Or, if you feel yourself not fitting yet
+And furnished with your old strength, I’ll stay, cousin,
+And every day discourse you into health,
+As I am spared. Your person I am friends with,
+And I could wish I had not said I loved her,
+Though I had died; but, loving such a lady,
+And justifying my love, I must not fly from ’t.
+
+PALAMON.
+Arcite, thou art so brave an enemy,
+That no man but thy cousin’s fit to kill thee.
+I am well and lusty; choose your arms.
+
+ARCITE.
+Choose you, sir.
+
+PALAMON.
+Wilt thou exceed in all, or dost thou do it
+To make me spare thee?
+
+ARCITE.
+If you think so, cousin,
+You are deceived, for as I am a soldier,
+I will not spare you.
+
+PALAMON.
+That’s well said.
+
+ARCITE.
+You’ll find it.
+
+PALAMON.
+Then, as I am an honest man and love
+With all the justice of affection,
+I’ll pay thee soundly.
+
+[_He chooses armour._]
+
+This I’ll take.
+
+ARCITE.
+That’s mine, then.
+I’ll arm you first.
+
+PALAMON.
+Do.
+
+[_Arcite begins arming him._]
+
+Pray thee, tell me, cousin,
+Where got’st thou this good armour?
+
+ARCITE.
+’Tis the Duke’s,
+And, to say true, I stole it. Do I pinch you?
+
+PALAMON.
+No.
+
+ARCITE.
+Is’t not too heavy?
+
+PALAMON.
+I have worn a lighter,
+But I shall make it serve.
+
+ARCITE.
+I’ll buckle ’t close.
+
+PALAMON.
+By any means.
+
+ARCITE.
+You care not for a grand guard?
+
+PALAMON.
+No, no; we’ll use no horses: I perceive
+You would fain be at that fight.
+
+ARCITE.
+I am indifferent.
+
+PALAMON.
+Faith, so am I. Good cousin, thrust the buckle
+Through far enough.
+
+ARCITE.
+I warrant you.
+
+PALAMON.
+My casque now.
+
+ARCITE.
+Will you fight bare-armed?
+
+PALAMON.
+We shall be the nimbler.
+
+ARCITE.
+But use your gauntlets though. Those are o’ th’ least;
+Prithee take mine, good cousin.
+
+PALAMON.
+Thank you, Arcite.
+How do I look? Am I fall’n much away?
+
+ARCITE.
+Faith, very little; love has used you kindly.
+
+PALAMON.
+I’ll warrant thee, I’ll strike home.
+
+ARCITE.
+Do, and spare not.
+I’ll give you cause, sweet cousin.
+
+PALAMON.
+Now to you, sir.
+
+[_He begins to arm Arcite._]
+
+Methinks this armour’s very like that, Arcite,
+Thou wor’st that day the three kings fell, but lighter.
+
+ARCITE.
+That was a very good one; and that day,
+I well remember, you outdid me, cousin;
+I never saw such valour. When you charged
+Upon the left wing of the enemy,
+I spurred hard to come up, and under me
+I had a right good horse.
+
+PALAMON.
+You had indeed;
+A bright bay, I remember.
+
+ARCITE.
+Yes, but all
+Was vainly laboured in me; you outwent me,
+Nor could my wishes reach you. Yet a little
+I did by imitation.
+
+PALAMON.
+More by virtue;
+You are modest, cousin.
+
+ARCITE.
+When I saw you charge first,
+Me thought I heard a dreadful clap of thunder
+Break from the troop.
+
+PALAMON.
+But still before that flew
+The lightning of your valour. Stay a little;
+Is not this piece too strait?
+
+ARCITE.
+No, no, ’tis well.
+
+PALAMON.
+I would have nothing hurt thee but my sword.
+A bruise would be dishonour.
+
+ARCITE.
+Now I am perfect.
+
+PALAMON.
+Stand off, then.
+
+ARCITE.
+Take my sword; I hold it better.
+
+PALAMON.
+I thank ye, no; keep it; your life lies on it.
+Here’s one; if it but hold, I ask no more
+For all my hopes. My cause and honour guard me!
+
+ARCITE.
+And me my love!
+
+[_They bow several ways, then advance and stand._]
+
+Is there aught else to say?
+
+PALAMON.
+This only, and no more. Thou art mine aunt’s son.
+And that blood we desire to shed is mutual,
+In me thine, and in thee mine. My sword
+Is in my hand, and if thou killest me,
+The gods and I forgive thee. If there be
+A place prepared for those that sleep in honour,
+I wish his weary soul that falls may win it.
+Fight bravely, cousin; give me thy noble hand.
+
+ARCITE.
+Here, Palamon. This hand shall never more
+Come near thee with such friendship.
+
+PALAMON.
+I commend thee.
+
+ARCITE.
+If I fall, curse me, and say I was a coward,
+For none but such dare die in these just trials.
+Once more farewell, my cousin.
+
+PALAMON.
+Farewell, Arcite.
+
+[_They fight. Horns within. They stand_.]
+
+ARCITE.
+Lo, cousin, lo, our folly has undone us.
+
+PALAMON.
+Why?
+
+ARCITE.
+This is the Duke, a-hunting, as I told you.
+If we be found, we are wretched. O, retire,
+For honour’s sake and safety, presently
+Into your bush again. Sir, we shall find
+Too many hours to die in. Gentle cousin,
+If you be seen, you perish instantly
+For breaking prison and I, if you reveal me,
+For my contempt. Then all the world will scorn us,
+And say we had a noble difference,
+But base disposers of it.
+
+PALAMON.
+No, no, cousin,
+I will no more be hidden, nor put off
+This great adventure to a second trial;
+I know your cunning and I know your cause.
+He that faints now, shame take him! Put thyself
+Upon thy present guard—
+
+ARCITE.
+You are not mad?
+
+PALAMON.
+Or I will make th’advantage of this hour
+Mine own, and what to come shall threaten me
+I fear less than my fortune. Know, weak cousin,
+I love Emilia, and in that I’ll bury
+Thee, and all crosses else.
+
+ARCITE.
+Then, come what can come,
+Thou shalt know, Palamon, I dare as well
+Die, as discourse, or sleep. Only this fears me,
+The law will have the honour of our ends.
+Have at thy life!
+
+PALAMON.
+Look to thine own well, Arcite.
+
+[_They fight. Horns within. They stand._]
+
+Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Emilia, Pirithous and train.
+
+THESEUS.
+What ignorant and mad malicious traitors
+Are you, that ’gainst the tenor of my laws
+Are making battle, thus like knights appointed,
+Without my leave, and officers of arms?
+By Castor, both shall die.
+
+PALAMON.
+Hold thy word, Theseus.
+We are certainly both traitors, both despisers
+Of thee and of thy goodness. I am Palamon,
+That cannot love thee, he that broke thy prison.
+Think well what that deserves. And this is Arcite.
+A bolder traitor never trod thy ground,
+A falser ne’er seemed friend. This is the man
+Was begged and banished; this is he contemns thee
+And what thou dar’st do; and in this disguise,
+Against thine own edict, follows thy sister,
+That fortunate bright star, the fair Emilia,
+Whose servant—if there be a right in seeing
+And first bequeathing of the soul to—justly
+I am; and, which is more, dares think her his.
+This treachery, like a most trusty lover,
+I called him now to answer. If thou be’st
+As thou art spoken, great and virtuous,
+The true decider of all injuries,
+Say “Fight again,” and thou shalt see me, Theseus,
+Do such a justice thou thyself wilt envy.
+Then take my life; I’ll woo thee to ’t.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+O heaven,
+What more than man is this!
+
+THESEUS.
+I have sworn.
+
+ARCITE.
+We seek not
+Thy breath of mercy, Theseus. ’Tis to me
+A thing as soon to die as thee to say it,
+And no more moved. Where this man calls me traitor,
+Let me say thus much: if in love be treason,
+In service of so excellent a beauty,
+As I love most, and in that faith will perish,
+As I have brought my life here to confirm it,
+As I have served her truest, worthiest,
+As I dare kill this cousin that denies it,
+So let me be most traitor, and you please me.
+For scorning thy edict, Duke, ask that lady
+Why she is fair, and why her eyes command me
+Stay here to love her; and if she say “traitor,”
+I am a villain fit to lie unburied.
+
+PALAMON.
+Thou shalt have pity of us both, O Theseus,
+If unto neither thou show mercy. Stop,
+As thou art just, thy noble ear against us;
+As thou art valiant, for thy cousin’s soul,
+Whose twelve strong labours crown his memory,
+Let’s die together at one instant, Duke;
+Only a little let him fall before me,
+That I may tell my soul he shall not have her.
+
+THESEUS.
+I grant your wish, for, to say true, your cousin
+Has ten times more offended, for I gave him
+More mercy than you found, sir, your offences
+Being no more than his. None here speak for ’em,
+For, ere the sun set, both shall sleep for ever.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Alas the pity! Now or never, sister,
+Speak, not to be denied. That face of yours
+Will bear the curses else of after ages
+For these lost cousins.
+
+EMILIA.
+In my face, dear sister,
+I find no anger to ’em, nor no ruin;
+The misadventure of their own eyes kill ’em.
+Yet that I will be woman and have pity,
+My knees shall grow to’ th’ ground but I’ll get mercy.
+
+[_She kneels._]
+
+Help me, dear sister; in a deed so virtuous
+The powers of all women will be with us.
+Most royal brother—
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+[_Kneels._] Sir, by our tie of marriage—
+
+EMILIA.
+By your own spotless honour—
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+By that faith,
+That fair hand, and that honest heart you gave me—
+
+EMILIA.
+By that you would have pity in another,
+By your own virtues infinite—
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+By valour,
+By all the chaste nights I have ever pleased you—
+
+THESEUS.
+These are strange conjurings.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Nay, then, I’ll in too.
+
+[_Kneels._]
+
+By all our friendship, sir, by all our dangers,
+By all you love most: wars and this sweet lady—
+
+EMILIA.
+By that you would have trembled to deny
+A blushing maid—
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+By your own eyes, by strength,
+In which you swore I went beyond all women,
+Almost all men, and yet I yielded, Theseus—
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+To crown all this, by your most noble soul,
+Which cannot want due mercy, I beg first.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Next, hear my prayers.
+
+EMILIA.
+Last, let me entreat, sir.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+For mercy.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Mercy.
+
+EMILIA.
+Mercy on these princes.
+
+THESEUS.
+Ye make my faith reel. Say I felt
+Compassion to’em both, how would you place it?
+
+[_Emilia, Hippolyta and Pirithous rise._]
+
+EMILIA.
+Upon their lives. But with their banishments.
+
+THESEUS.
+You are a right woman, sister: you have pity,
+But want the understanding where to use it.
+If you desire their lives, invent a way
+Safer than banishment. Can these two live,
+And have the agony of love about ’em,
+And not kill one another? Every day
+They’d fight about you, hourly bring your honour
+In public question with their swords. Be wise, then,
+And here forget ’em; it concerns your credit
+And my oath equally. I have said they die.
+Better they fall by th’ law than one another.
+Bow not my honour.
+
+EMILIA.
+O, my noble brother,
+That oath was rashly made, and in your anger;
+Your reason will not hold it; if such vows
+Stand for express will, all the world must perish.
+Besides, I have another oath ’gainst yours,
+Of more authority, I am sure more love,
+Not made in passion neither, but good heed.
+
+THESEUS.
+What is it, sister?
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Urge it home, brave lady.
+
+EMILIA.
+That you would ne’er deny me anything
+Fit for my modest suit and your free granting.
+I tie you to your word now; if ye fail in ’t,
+Think how you maim your honour—
+For now I am set a-begging, sir, I am deaf
+To all but your compassion—how their lives
+Might breed the ruin of my name. Opinion!
+Shall anything that loves me perish for me?
+That were a cruel wisdom. Do men prune
+The straight young boughs that blush with thousand blossoms
+Because they may be rotten? O, Duke Theseus,
+The goodly mothers that have groaned for these,
+And all the longing maids that ever loved,
+If your vow stand, shall curse me and my beauty,
+And in their funeral songs for these two cousins
+Despise my cruelty, and cry woe worth me,
+Till I am nothing but the scorn of women.
+For heaven’s sake, save their lives, and banish ’em.
+
+THESEUS.
+On what conditions?
+
+EMILIA.
+Swear ’em never more
+To make me their contention, or to know me,
+To tread upon thy dukedom, and to be,
+Wherever they shall travel, ever strangers
+To one another.
+
+PALAMON.
+I’ll be cut a-pieces
+Before I take this oath! Forget I love her?
+O, all ye gods, despise me then! Thy banishment
+I not mislike, so we may fairly carry
+Our swords and cause along; else never trifle,
+But take our lives, Duke. I must love, and will
+And for that love must and dare kill this cousin
+On any piece the earth has.
+
+THESEUS.
+Will you, Arcite,
+Take these conditions?
+
+PALAMON.
+He’s a villain, then.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+These are men!
+
+ARCITE.
+No, never, Duke. ’Tis worse to me than begging
+To take my life so basely. Though I think
+I never shall enjoy her, yet I’ll preserve
+The honour of affection, and die for her,
+Make death a devil.
+
+THESEUS.
+What may be done? For now I feel compassion.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Let it not fall again, sir.
+
+THESEUS.
+Say, Emilia,
+If one of them were dead, as one must, are you
+Content to take th’ other to your husband?
+They cannot both enjoy you. They are princes
+As goodly as your own eyes, and as noble
+As ever fame yet spoke of. Look upon ’em,
+And, if you can love, end this difference;
+I give consent.—Are you content too, princes?
+
+BOTH.
+With all our souls.
+
+THESEUS.
+He that she refuses
+Must die, then.
+
+BOTH.
+Any death thou canst invent, Duke.
+
+PALAMON.
+If I fall from that mouth, I fall with favour,
+And lovers yet unborn shall bless my ashes.
+
+ARCITE.
+If she refuse me, yet my grave will wed me,
+And soldiers sing my epitaph.
+
+THESEUS.
+Make choice, then.
+
+EMILIA.
+I cannot, sir, they are both too excellent;
+For me, a hair shall never fall of these men.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+What will become of ’em?
+
+THESEUS.
+Thus I ordain it
+And, by mine honour, once again, it stands,
+Or both shall die. You shall both to your country,
+And each within this month, accompanied
+With three fair knights, appear again in this place,
+In which I’ll plant a pyramid; and whether,
+Before us that are here, can force his cousin
+By fair and knightly strength to touch the pillar,
+He shall enjoy her; th’ other lose his head,
+And all his friends; nor shall he grudge to fall,
+Nor think he dies with interest in this lady.
+Will this content ye?
+
+PALAMON.
+Yes. Here, cousin Arcite,
+I am friends again, till that hour.
+
+[_He offers his hand._]
+
+ARCITE.
+I embrace ye.
+
+THESEUS.
+Are you content, sister?
+
+EMILIA.
+Yes, I must, sir,
+Else both miscarry.
+
+THESEUS.
+Come, shake hands again, then;
+And take heed, as you are gentlemen, this quarrel
+Sleep till the hour prefixed, and hold your course.
+
+PALAMON.
+We dare not fail thee, Theseus.
+
+[_They shake hands._]
+
+THESEUS.
+Come, I’ll give ye
+Now usage like to princes, and to friends.
+When ye return, who wins, I’ll settle here;
+Who loses, yet I’ll weep upon his bier.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I. Athens. A room in the prison
+
+
+Enter Jailer and his Friend.
+
+JAILER.
+Hear you no more? Was nothing said of me
+Concerning the escape of Palamon?
+Good sir, remember.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Nothing that I heard,
+For I came home before the business
+Was fully ended. Yet I might perceive,
+Ere I departed, a great likelihood
+Of both their pardons; for Hippolyta
+And fair-eyed Emily, upon their knees,
+Begged with such handsome pity that the Duke
+Methought stood staggering whether he should follow
+His rash oath or the sweet compassion
+Of those two ladies. And, to second them,
+That truly noble prince, Pirithous,
+Half his own heart, set in too, that I hope
+All shall be well. Neither heard I one question
+Of your name or his ’scape.
+
+JAILER.
+Pray heaven it hold so.
+
+Enter Second Friend.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Be of good comfort, man; I bring you news,
+Good news.
+
+JAILER.
+They are welcome.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Palamon has cleared you,
+And got your pardon, and discovered how
+And by whose means he escaped, which was your daughter’s,
+Whose pardon is procured too; and the prisoner,
+Not to be held ungrateful to her goodness,
+Has given a sum of money to her marriage,
+A large one, I’ll assure you.
+
+JAILER.
+You are a good man
+And ever bring good news.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+How was it ended?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Why, as it should be; they that never begged
+But they prevailed had their suits fairly granted;
+The prisoners have their lives.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+I knew ’twould be so.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+But there be new conditions, which you’ll hear of
+At better time.
+
+JAILER.
+I hope they are good.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+They are honourable;
+How good they’ll prove, I know not.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+’Twill be known.
+
+Enter Wooer.
+
+WOOER.
+Alas, sir, where’s your daughter?
+
+JAILER.
+Why do you ask?
+
+WOOER.
+O, sir, when did you see her?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+How he looks?
+
+JAILER.
+This morning.
+
+WOOER.
+Was she well? Was she in health, sir?
+When did she sleep?
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+These are strange questions.
+
+JAILER.
+I do not think she was very well, for now
+You make me mind her, but this very day
+I asked her questions, and she answered me
+So far from what she was, so childishly,
+So sillily, as if she were a fool,
+An innocent, and I was very angry.
+But what of her, sir?
+
+WOOER.
+Nothing but my pity.
+But you must know it, and as good by me
+As by another that less loves her.
+
+JAILER.
+Well, sir?
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Not right?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Not well?
+
+WOOER.
+No, sir, not well:
+’Tis too true, she is mad.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+It cannot be.
+
+WOOER.
+Believe, you’ll find it so.
+
+JAILER.
+I half suspected
+What you have told me. The gods comfort her!
+Either this was her love to Palamon,
+Or fear of my miscarrying on his ’scape,
+Or both.
+
+WOOER.
+’Tis likely.
+
+JAILER.
+But why all this haste, sir?
+
+WOOER.
+I’ll tell you quickly. As I late was angling
+In the great lake that lies behind the palace,
+From the far shore, thick set with reeds and sedges,
+As patiently I was attending sport,
+I heard a voice, a shrill one; and, attentive,
+I gave my ear, when I might well perceive
+’Twas one that sung, and by the smallness of it
+A boy or woman. I then left my angle
+To his own skill, came near, but yet perceived not
+Who made the sound, the rushes and the reeds
+Had so encompassed it. I laid me down
+And listened to the words she sung, for then,
+Through a small glade cut by the fishermen,
+I saw it was your daughter.
+
+JAILER.
+Pray, go on, sir.
+
+WOOER.
+She sung much, but no sense; only I heard her
+Repeat this often: “Palamon is gone,
+Is gone to th’ wood to gather mulberries;
+I’ll find him out tomorrow.”
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Pretty soul!
+
+WOOER.
+“His shackles will betray him; he’ll be taken,
+And what shall I do then? I’ll bring a bevy,
+A hundred black-eyed maids that love as I do,
+With chaplets on their heads of daffadillies,
+With cherry lips and cheeks of damask roses,
+And all we’ll dance an antic ’fore the Duke,
+And beg his pardon.” Then she talked of you, sir;
+That you must lose your head tomorrow morning,
+And she must gather flowers to bury you,
+And see the house made handsome. Then she sung
+Nothing but “Willow, willow, willow,” and between
+Ever was “Palamon, fair Palamon,”
+And “Palamon was a tall young man.” The place
+Was knee-deep where she sat; her careless tresses,
+A wreath of bulrush rounded; about her stuck
+Thousand fresh water-flowers of several colours,
+That methought she appeared like the fair nymph
+That feeds the lake with waters, or as Iris
+Newly dropped down from heaven. Rings she made
+Of rushes that grew by, and to ’em spoke
+The prettiest posies: “Thus our true love’s tied,”
+“This you may loose, not me,” and many a one;
+And then she wept, and sung again, and sighed,
+And with the same breath smiled and kissed her hand.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+Alas, what pity it is!
+
+WOOER.
+I made in to her.
+She saw me, and straight sought the flood. I saved her
+And set her safe to land, when presently
+She slipped away, and to the city made
+With such a cry and swiftness that, believe me,
+She left me far behind her. Three or four
+I saw from far off cross her—one of ’em
+I knew to be your brother—where she stayed
+And fell, scarce to be got away. I left them with her
+And hither came to tell you.
+
+Enter Jailer’s Brother, Jailer’s Daughter and others.
+
+Here they are.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+[_Sings_.]
+
+    _May you never more enjoy the light, &c._
+
+Is not this a fine song?
+
+BROTHER.
+O, a very fine one.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+I can sing twenty more.
+
+BROTHER.
+I think you can.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Yes, truly can I. I can sing “The Broom”
+and “Bonny Robin.” Are not you a tailor?
+
+BROTHER.
+Yes.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Where’s my wedding gown?
+
+BROTHER.
+I’ll bring it tomorrow.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Do, very rarely, I must be abroad else
+To call the maids and pay the minstrels,
+For I must lose my maidenhead by cocklight.
+’Twill never thrive else.
+[_Sings_.] _O fair, O sweet, &c._
+
+BROTHER.
+[_To Jailer._] You must e’en take it patiently.
+
+JAILER.
+’Tis true.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Good ev’n, good men; pray, did you ever hear
+Of one young Palamon?
+
+JAILER.
+Yes, wench, we know him.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Is’t not a fine young gentleman?
+
+JAILER.
+’Tis, love.
+
+BROTHER.
+By no means cross her; she is then distempered
+Far worse than now she shows.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Yes, he’s a fine man.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+O, is he so? You have a sister?
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Yes.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+But she shall never have him, tell her so,
+For a trick that I know; you’d best look to her,
+For if she see him once, she’s gone, she’s done,
+And undone in an hour. All the young maids
+Of our town are in love with him, but I laugh at ’em
+And let ’em all alone. Is ’t not a wise course?
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Yes.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+There is at least two hundred now with child by him—
+There must be four; yet I keep close for all this,
+Close as a cockle; and all these must be boys
+He has the trick on ’t; and at ten years old
+They must be all gelt for musicians
+And sing the wars of Theseus.
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+This is strange.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+As ever you heard, but say nothing.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+No.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+They come from all parts of the dukedom to him.
+I’ll warrant ye, he had not so few last night
+As twenty to dispatch. He’ll tickle ’t up
+In two hours, if his hand be in.
+
+JAILER.
+She’s lost
+Past all cure.
+
+BROTHER.
+Heaven forbid, man!
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Come hither, you are a wise man.
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+[_Aside._] Does she know him?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+[_Aside._] No, would she did.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+You are master of a ship?
+
+JAILER.
+Yes.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Where’s your compass?
+
+JAILER.
+Here.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Set it to th’ north.
+And now direct your course to th’ wood, where Palamon
+Lies longing for me. For the tackling,
+Let me alone. Come, weigh, my hearts, cheerly.
+
+ALL.
+Owgh, owgh, owgh! ’Tis up, the wind’s fair!
+Top the bowline; out with the mainsail;
+Where’s your whistle, master?
+
+BROTHER.
+Let’s get her in.
+
+JAILER.
+Up to the top, boy.
+
+BROTHER.
+Where’s the pilot?
+
+FIRST FRIEND.
+Here.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+What kenn’st thou?
+
+SECOND FRIEND.
+A fair wood.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Bear for it, master. Tack about!
+[_Sings_.]
+    _When Cinthia with her borrowed light, &c._
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. A Room in the Palace
+
+Enter Emilia alone, with two pictures.
+
+EMILIA.
+Yet I may bind those wounds up, that must open
+And bleed to death for my sake else. I’ll choose,
+And end their strife. Two such young handsome men
+Shall never fall for me; their weeping mothers,
+Following the dead cold ashes of their sons,
+Shall never curse my cruelty.
+
+[_Looks at one of the pictures._]
+
+Good heaven,
+What a sweet face has Arcite! If wise Nature,
+With all her best endowments, all those beauties
+She sows into the births of noble bodies,
+Were here a mortal woman, and had in her
+The coy denials of young maids, yet doubtless
+She would run mad for this man. What an eye,
+Of what a fiery sparkle and quick sweetness,
+Has this young prince! Here Love himself sits smiling;
+Just such another wanton Ganymede
+Set Jove afire with, and enforced the god
+Snatch up the goodly boy and set him by him,
+A shining constellation. What a brow,
+Of what a spacious majesty, he carries,
+Arched like the great-eyed Juno’s, but far sweeter,
+Smoother than Pelops’ shoulder! Fame and Honour,
+Methinks, from hence, as from a promontory
+Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings and sing
+To all the under-world the loves and fights
+Of gods and such men near ’em.
+
+[_Looks at the other picture._]
+
+Palamon
+Is but his foil; to him a mere dull shadow;
+He’s swart and meagre, of an eye as heavy
+As if he had lost his mother; a still temper,
+No stirring in him, no alacrity;
+Of all this sprightly sharpness, not a smile.
+Yet these that we count errors may become him;
+Narcissus was a sad boy but a heavenly.
+O, who can find the bent of woman’s fancy?
+I am a fool; my reason is lost in me;
+I have no choice, and I have lied so lewdly
+That women ought to beat me. On my knees
+I ask thy pardon, Palamon, thou art alone
+And only beautiful, and these the eyes,
+These the bright lamps of beauty, that command
+And threaten love, and what young maid dare cross ’em?
+What a bold gravity, and yet inviting,
+Has this brown manly face! O Love, this only
+From this hour is complexion. Lie there, Arcite.
+
+[_She puts aside his picture._]
+
+Thou art a changeling to him, a mere gypsy,
+And this the noble body. I am sotted,
+Utterly lost. My virgin’s faith has fled me.
+For if my brother but even now had asked me
+Whether I loved, I had run mad for Arcite;
+Now, if my sister, more for Palamon.
+Stand both together. Now, come ask me, brother.
+Alas, I know not! Ask me now, sweet sister.
+I may go look! What a mere child is Fancy,
+That, having two fair gauds of equal sweetness,
+Cannot distinguish, but must cry for both.
+
+Enter a Gentleman.
+
+EMILIA.
+How now, sir?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+From the noble Duke your brother,
+Madam, I bring you news. The knights are come.
+
+EMILIA.
+To end the quarrel?
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+Yes.
+
+EMILIA.
+Would I might end first!
+What sins have I committed, chaste Diana,
+That my unspotted youth must now be soiled
+With blood of princes, and my chastity
+Be made the altar where the lives of lovers—
+Two greater and two better never yet
+Made mothers joy—must be the sacrifice
+To my unhappy beauty?
+
+Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Pirithous and Attendants.
+
+THESEUS.
+Bring ’em in
+Quickly, by any means; I long to see ’em.
+Your two contending lovers are returned,
+And with them their fair knights. Now, my fair sister,
+You must love one of them.
+
+EMILIA.
+I had rather both,
+So neither for my sake should fall untimely.
+
+THESEUS.
+Who saw ’em?
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+I a while.
+
+GENTLEMAN.
+And I.
+
+Enter Messenger.
+
+THESEUS.
+From whence come you, sir?
+
+MESSENGER.
+From the knights.
+
+THESEUS.
+Pray, speak,
+You that have seen them, what they are.
+
+MESSENGER.
+I will, sir,
+And truly what I think. Six braver spirits
+Than these they have brought, if we judge by the outside,
+I never saw nor read of. He that stands
+In the first place with Arcite, by his seeming
+Should be a stout man, by his face a prince,
+His very looks so say him; his complexion
+Nearer a brown than black, stern and yet noble,
+Which shows him hardy, fearless, proud of dangers;
+The circles of his eyes show fire within him,
+And as a heated lion so he looks.
+His hair hangs long behind him, black and shining
+Like ravens’ wings; his shoulders broad and strong;
+Armed long and round; and on his thigh a sword
+Hung by a curious baldric, when he frowns
+To seal his will with. Better, o’ my conscience,
+Was never soldier’s friend.
+
+THESEUS.
+Thou hast well described him.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Yet a great deal short,
+Methinks, of him that’s first with Palamon.
+
+THESEUS.
+Pray, speak him, friend.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+I guess he is a prince too,
+And, if it may be, greater; for his show
+Has all the ornament of honour in ’t:
+He’s somewhat bigger than the knight he spoke of,
+But of a face far sweeter; his complexion
+Is, as a ripe grape, ruddy. He has felt
+Without doubt what he fights for, and so apter
+To make this cause his own. In ’s face appears
+All the fair hopes of what he undertakes
+And when he’s angry, then a settled valour,
+Not tainted with extremes, runs through his body
+And guides his arm to brave things. Fear he cannot;
+He shows no such soft temper. His head’s yellow,
+Hard-haired and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods,
+Not to undo with thunder. In his face
+The livery of the warlike maid appears,
+Pure red and white, for yet no beard has blessed him;
+And in his rolling eyes sits Victory,
+As if she ever meant to crown his valour.
+His nose stands high, a character of honour;
+His red lips, after fights, are fit for ladies.
+
+EMILIA.
+Must these men die too?
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+When he speaks, his tongue
+Sounds like a trumpet. All his lineaments
+Are as a man would wish ’em, strong and clean.
+He wears a well-steeled axe, the staff of gold;
+His age some five-and-twenty.
+
+MESSENGER.
+There’s another,
+A little man, but of a tough soul, seeming
+As great as any; fairer promises
+In such a body yet I never looked on.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+O, he that’s freckle-faced?
+
+MESSENGER.
+The same, my lord;
+Are they not sweet ones?
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Yes, they are well.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Methinks,
+Being so few and well disposed, they show
+Great and fine art in nature. He’s white-haired,
+Not wanton white, but such a manly colour
+Next to an auburn; tough and nimble-set,
+Which shows an active soul. His arms are brawny,
+Lined with strong sinews. To the shoulder-piece
+Gently they swell, like women new-conceived,
+Which speaks him prone to labour, never fainting
+Under the weight of arms; stout-hearted still,
+But when he stirs, a tiger. He’s grey-eyed,
+Which yields compassion where he conquers; sharp
+To spy advantages, and where he finds ’em,
+He’s swift to make ’em his. He does no wrongs,
+Nor takes none. He’s round-faced, and when he smiles
+He shows a lover; when he frowns, a soldier.
+About his head he wears the winner’s oak,
+And in it stuck the favour of his lady.
+His age some six-and-thirty. In his hand
+He bears a charging-staff embossed with silver.
+
+THESEUS.
+Are they all thus?
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+They are all the sons of honour.
+
+THESEUS.
+Now, as I have a soul, I long to see’em.
+Lady, you shall see men fight now.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+I wish it,
+But not the cause, my lord. They would show
+Bravely about the titles of two kingdoms.
+’Tis pity love should be so tyrannous.—
+O, my soft-hearted sister, what think you?
+Weep not till they weep blood. Wench, it must be.
+
+THESEUS.
+You have steeled ’em with your beauty.
+Honoured friend,
+To you I give the field; pray order it
+Fitting the persons that must use it.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Yes, sir.
+
+THESEUS.
+Come, I’ll go visit ’em. I cannot stay,
+Their fame has fired me so; till they appear.
+Good friend, be royal.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+There shall want no bravery.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Emilia._]
+
+EMILIA.
+Poor wench, go weep, for whosoever wins,
+Loses a noble cousin for thy sins.
+
+[_Exit._]
+
+SCENE III. A room in the prison
+
+Enter Jailer, Wooer and Doctor.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Her distraction is more at some time of the moon, than at other some,
+is it not?
+
+JAILER.
+She is continually in a harmless distemper, sleeps little, altogether
+without appetite, save often drinking, dreaming of another world, and a
+better; and what broken piece of matter soe’er she’s about, the name
+Palamon lards it, that she farces every business withal, fits it to
+every question.
+
+Enter Jailer’s Daughter.
+
+Look where she comes; you shall perceive her behaviour.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+I have forgot it quite. The burden on ’t was “Down-a, down-a,” and
+penned by no worse man than Geraldo, Emilia’s schoolmaster. He’s as
+fantastical, too, as ever he may go upon’s legs, for in the next world
+will Dido see Palamon, and then will she be out of love with Æneas.
+
+DOCTOR.
+What stuff’s here? Poor soul!
+
+JAILER.
+Even thus all day long.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Now for this charm that I told you of: you must bring a piece of silver
+on the tip of your tongue, or no ferry. Then if it be your chance to
+come where the blessed spirits are, there’s a sight now! We maids that
+have our livers perished, cracked to pieces with love, we shall come
+there, and do nothing all day long but pick flowers with Proserpine.
+Then will I make Palamon a nosegay; then let him mark me—then.
+
+DOCTOR.
+How prettily she’s amiss! Note her a little further.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Faith, I’ll tell you, sometime we go to barley-break, we of the
+blessed. Alas, ’tis a sore life they have i’ th’ other place—such
+burning, frying, boiling, hissing, howling, chattering, cursing—O, they
+have shrewd measure; take heed! If one be mad, or hang or drown
+themselves, thither they go; Jupiter bless us! And there shall we be
+put in a cauldron of lead and usurers’ grease, amongst a whole million
+of cutpurses, and there boil like a gammon of bacon that will never be
+enough.
+
+DOCTOR.
+How her brain coins!
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Lords and courtiers that have got maids with child, they are in this
+place. They shall stand in fire up to the navel and in ice up to the
+heart, and there th’ offending part burns and the deceiving part
+freezes. In troth, a very grievous punishment, as one would think, for
+such a trifle. Believe me, one would marry a leprous witch to be rid on
+’t, I’ll assure you.
+
+DOCTOR.
+How she continues this fancy! ’Tis not an engraffed madness, but a most
+thick, and profound melancholy.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+To hear there a proud lady and a proud city wife howl together! I were
+a beast an I’d call it good sport. One cries “O this smoke!” th’ other,
+“This fire!”; one cries, “O, that ever I did it behind the arras!” and
+then howls; th’ other curses a suing fellow and her garden house.
+
+[_Sings._]
+    _I will be true, my stars, my fate, &c._
+
+[_Exit Jailer’s Daughter._]
+
+JAILER.
+What think you of her, sir?
+
+DOCTOR.
+I think she has a perturbed mind, which I cannot minister to.
+
+JAILER.
+Alas, what then?
+
+DOCTOR.
+Understand you she ever affected any man ere she beheld Palamon?
+
+JAILER.
+I was once, sir, in great hope she had fixed her liking on this
+gentleman, my friend.
+
+WOOER.
+I did think so too, and would account I had a great penn’orth on’t, to
+give half my state, that both she and I at this present stood
+unfeignedly on the same terms.
+
+DOCTOR.
+That intemperate surfeit of her eye hath distempered the other senses.
+They may return and settle again to execute their preordained
+faculties, but they are now in a most extravagant vagary. This you must
+do: confine her to a place where the light may rather seem to steal in
+than be permitted. Take upon you, young sir, her friend, the name of
+Palamon; say you come to eat with her, and to commune of love. This
+will catch her attention, for this her mind beats upon; other objects
+that are inserted ’tween her mind and eye become the pranks and
+friskins of her madness. Sing to her such green songs of love as she
+says Palamon hath sung in prison. Come to her stuck in as sweet flowers
+as the season is mistress of, and thereto make an addition of some
+other compounded odours which are grateful to the sense. All this shall
+become Palamon, for Palamon can sing, and Palamon is sweet and every
+good thing. Desire to eat with her, carve her, drink to her, and still
+among intermingle your petition of grace and acceptance into her
+favour. Learn what maids have been her companions and play-feres, and
+let them repair to her with Palamon in their mouths, and appear with
+tokens, as if they suggested for him. It is a falsehood she is in,
+which is with falsehoods to be combated. This may bring her to eat, to
+sleep, and reduce what’s now out of square in her into their former law
+and regiment. I have seen it approved, how many times I know not, but
+to make the number more I have great hope in this. I will, between the
+passages of this project, come in with my appliance. Let us put it in
+execution and hasten the success, which, doubt not, will bring forth
+comfort.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Athens. Before the Temples of Mars, Venus, and Diana
+
+
+Flourish. Enter Theseus, Pirithous, Hippolyta and Attendants.
+
+THESEUS.
+Now let ’em enter and before the gods
+Tender their holy prayers. Let the temples
+Burn bright with sacred fires, and the altars
+In hallowed clouds commend their swelling incense
+To those above us. Let no due be wanting.
+They have a noble work in hand, will honour
+The very powers that love ’em.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Sir, they enter.
+
+Enter Palamon and Arcite and their Knights.
+
+THESEUS.
+You valiant and strong-hearted enemies,
+You royal german foes, that this day come
+To blow that nearness out that flames between ye,
+Lay by your anger for an hour and, dove-like,
+Before the holy altars of your helpers,
+The all-feared gods, bow down your stubborn bodies.
+Your ire is more than mortal; so your help be;
+And, as the gods regard ye, fight with justice.
+I’ll leave you to your prayers, and betwixt ye
+I part my wishes.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Honour crown the worthiest.
+
+[_Exeunt Theseus and his Train._]
+
+PALAMON.
+The glass is running now that cannot finish
+Till one of us expire. Think you but thus,
+That were there aught in me which strove to show
+Mine enemy in this business, were ’t one eye
+Against another, arm oppressed by arm,
+I would destroy th’ offender, coz, I would
+Though parcel of myself. Then from this gather
+How I should tender you.
+
+ARCITE.
+I am in labour
+To push your name, your ancient love, our kindred
+Out of my memory, and i’ th’ selfsame place
+To seat something I would confound. So hoist we
+The sails that must these vessels port even where
+The heavenly limiter pleases.
+
+PALAMON.
+You speak well.
+Before I turn, let me embrace thee, cousin.
+This I shall never do again.
+
+ARCITE.
+One farewell.
+
+PALAMON.
+Why, let it be so. Farewell, coz.
+
+ARCITE.
+Farewell, sir.
+
+[_Exeunt Palamon and his Knights._]
+
+Knights, kinsmen, lovers, yea, my sacrifices,
+True worshippers of Mars, whose spirit in you
+Expels the seeds of fear and th’ apprehension
+Which still is father of it, go with me
+Before the god of our profession. There
+Require of him the hearts of lions and
+The breath of tigers, yea, the fierceness too,
+Yea, the speed also—to go on, I mean;
+Else wish we to be snails. You know my prize
+Must be dragged out of blood; force and great feat
+Must put my garland on, where she sticks,
+The queen of flowers. Our intercession, then,
+Must be to him that makes the camp a cistern
+Brimmed with the blood of men. Give me your aid,
+And bend your spirits towards him.
+
+[_They advance to the altar of Mars, fall on their faces before it, and
+then kneel._]
+
+Thou mighty one, that with thy power hast turned
+Green Neptune into purple; whose approach
+Comets prewarn, whose havoc in vast field
+Unearthed skulls proclaim; whose breath blows down
+The teeming Ceres’ foison, who dost pluck
+With hand armipotent from forth blue clouds
+The masoned turrets, that both mak’st and break’st
+The stony girths of cities; me thy pupil,
+Youngest follower of thy drum, instruct this day
+With military skill, that to thy laud
+I may advance my streamer, and by thee
+Be styled the lord o’ th’ day. Give me, great Mars,
+Some token of thy pleasure.
+
+[_Here they fall on their faces as formerly, and there is heard
+clanging of armour, with a short thunder, as the burst of a battle,
+whereupon they all rise and bow to the altar._]
+
+O, great corrector of enormous times,
+Shaker of o’er-rank states, thou grand decider
+Of dusty and old titles, that heal’st with blood
+The earth when it is sick, and cur’st the world
+O’ th’ pleurisy of people; I do take
+Thy signs auspiciously, and in thy name
+To my design march boldly.—Let us go.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Enter Palamon and his Knights, with the former observance.
+
+PALAMON.
+Our stars must glister with new fire, or be
+Today extinct. Our argument is love,
+Which, if the goddess of it grant, she gives
+Victory too. Then blend your spirits with mine,
+You whose free nobleness do make my cause
+Your personal hazard. To the goddess Venus
+Commend we our proceeding, and implore
+Her power unto our party.
+
+[_Here they kneel as formerly._]
+
+Hail, sovereign queen of secrets, who hast power
+To call the fiercest tyrant from his rage
+And weep unto a girl; that hast the might
+Even with an eye-glance to choke Mars’s drum
+And turn th’ alarm to whispers; that canst make
+A cripple flourish with his crutch, and cure him
+Before Apollo; that mayst force the king
+To be his subject’s vassal, and induce
+Stale gravity to dance. The polled bachelor,
+Whose youth, like wanton boys through bonfires,
+Have skipped thy flame, at seventy thou canst catch,
+And make him, to the scorn of his hoarse throat,
+Abuse young lays of love. What godlike power
+Hast thou not power upon? To Phœbus thou
+Add’st flames hotter than his; the heavenly fires
+Did scorch his mortal son, thine him. The huntress,
+All moist and cold, some say, began to throw
+Her bow away and sigh. Take to thy grace
+Me, thy vowed soldier, who do bear thy yoke
+As ’twere a wreath of roses, yet is heavier
+Than lead itself, stings more than nettles.
+I have never been foul-mouthed against thy law,
+Ne’er revealed secret, for I knew none—would not,
+Had I kenned all that were. I never practised
+Upon man’s wife, nor would the libels read
+Of liberal wits. I never at great feasts
+Sought to betray a beauty, but have blushed
+At simpering sirs that did. I have been harsh
+To large confessors, and have hotly asked them
+If they had mothers—I had one, a woman,
+And women ’twere they wronged. I knew a man
+Of eighty winters, this I told them, who
+A lass of fourteen brided; ’twas thy power
+To put life into dust. The aged cramp
+Had screwed his square foot round;
+The gout had knit his fingers into knots,
+Torturing convulsions from his globy eyes
+Had almost drawn their spheres, that what was life
+In him seemed torture. This anatomy
+Had by his young fair fere a boy, and I
+Believed it was his, for she swore it was,
+And who would not believe her? Brief, I am
+To those that prate and have done, no companion;
+To those that boast and have not, a defier;
+To those that would and cannot, a rejoicer.
+Yea, him I do not love that tells close offices
+The foulest way, nor names concealments in
+The boldest language. Such a one I am,
+And vow that lover never yet made sigh
+Truer than I. O, then, most soft sweet goddess,
+Give me the victory of this question, which
+Is true love’s merit, and bless me with a sign
+Of thy great pleasure.
+
+[_Here music is heard; doves are seen to flutter. They fall again upon
+their faces, then on their knees._]
+
+O thou that from eleven to ninety reign’st
+In mortal bosoms, whose chase is this world
+And we in herds thy game, I give thee thanks
+For this fair token, which being laid unto
+Mine innocent true heart, arms in assurance
+My body to this business.—Let us rise
+And bow before the goddess.
+
+[_They rise and bow._]
+
+Time comes on.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+Still music of recorders. Enter Emilia in white, her hair about her
+shoulders, wearing a wheaten wreath. One in white holding up her train,
+her hair stuck with flowers. One before her carrying a silver hind, in
+which is conveyed incense and sweet odours, which being set upon the
+altar of  Diana, her maids standing aloof, she sets fire to it; then
+they curtsy and kneel.
+
+EMILIA.
+O sacred, shadowy, cold, and constant queen,
+Abandoner of revels, mute contemplative,
+Sweet, solitary, white as chaste, and pure
+As wind-fanned snow, who to thy female knights
+Allow’st no more blood than will make a blush,
+Which is their order’s robe, I here, thy priest,
+Am humbled ’fore thine altar. O, vouchsafe
+With that thy rare green eye, which never yet
+Beheld thing maculate, look on thy virgin;
+And, sacred silver mistress, lend thine ear,
+Which ne’er heard scurrile term, into whose port
+Ne’er entered wanton sound, to my petition,
+Seasoned with holy fear. This is my last
+Of vestal office. I am bride-habited
+But maiden-hearted. A husband I have ’pointed,
+But do not know him. Out of two I should
+Choose one, and pray for his success, but I
+Am guiltless of election. Of mine eyes,
+Were I to lose one, they are equal precious;
+I could doom neither; that which perished should
+Go to ’t unsentenced. Therefore, most modest queen,
+He of the two pretenders that best loves me
+And has the truest title in ’t, let him
+Take off my wheaten garland, or else grant
+The file and quality I hold I may
+Continue in thy band.
+
+[_Here the hind vanishes under the altar, and in the place ascends a
+rose tree, having one rose upon it._]
+
+ See what our general of ebbs and flows
+Out from the bowels of her holy altar
+With sacred act advances: but one rose!
+If well inspired, this battle shall confound
+Both these brave knights, and I, a virgin flower,
+Must grow alone, unplucked.
+
+[_Here is heard a sudden twang of instruments, and the rose falls from
+the tree._]
+
+The flower is fall’n, the tree descends. O mistress,
+Thou here dischargest me. I shall be gathered;
+I think so, but I know not thine own will.
+Unclasp thy mystery!—I hope she’s pleased;
+Her signs were gracious.
+
+[_They curtsy and exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. Athens. A Room in the Prison
+
+Enter Doctor, Jailer and Wooer in the habit of Palamon.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Has this advice I told you, done any good upon her?
+
+WOOER.
+O, very much. The maids that kept her company
+Have half persuaded her that I am Palamon;
+Within this half-hour she came smiling to me,
+And asked me what I would eat, and when I would kiss her.
+I told her “Presently,” and kissed her twice.
+
+DOCTOR.
+’Twas well done. Twenty times had been far better,
+For there the cure lies mainly.
+
+WOOER.
+Then she told me
+She would watch with me tonight, for well she knew
+What hour my fit would take me.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Let her do so,
+And when your fit comes, fit her home, and presently.
+
+WOOER.
+She would have me sing.
+
+DOCTOR.
+You did so?
+
+WOOER.
+No.
+
+DOCTOR.
+’Twas very ill done, then;
+You should observe her every way.
+
+WOOER.
+Alas,
+I have no voice, sir, to confirm her that way.
+
+DOCTOR.
+That’s all one, if ye make a noise.
+If she entreat again, do anything.
+Lie with her, if she ask you.
+
+JAILER.
+Hoa, there, doctor!
+
+DOCTOR.
+Yes, in the way of cure.
+
+JAILER.
+But first, by your leave,
+I’ th’ way of honesty.
+
+DOCTOR.
+That’s but a niceness,
+Ne’er cast your child away for honesty.
+Cure her first this way; then if she will be honest,
+She has the path before her.
+
+JAILER.
+Thank ye, Doctor.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Pray, bring her in,
+And let’s see how she is.
+
+JAILER.
+I will, and tell her
+Her Palamon stays for her. But, Doctor,
+Methinks you are i’ th’ wrong still.
+
+[_Exit Jailer._]
+
+DOCTOR.
+Go, go;
+You fathers are fine fools. Her honesty?
+An we should give her physic till we find that!
+
+WOOER.
+Why, do you think she is not honest, sir?
+
+DOCTOR.
+How old is she?
+
+WOOER.
+She’s eighteen.
+
+DOCTOR.
+She may be,
+But that’s all one; ’tis nothing to our purpose.
+Whate’er her father says, if you perceive
+Her mood inclining that way that I spoke of,
+_Videlicet_, the way of flesh—you have me?
+
+WOOER.
+Yes, very well, sir.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Please her appetite,
+And do it home; it cures her, _ipso facto_,
+The melancholy humour that infects her.
+
+WOOER.
+I am of your mind, Doctor.
+
+Enter Jailer, Jailer’s Daughter and Maid.
+
+DOCTOR.
+You’ll find it so. She comes, pray, humour her.
+
+JAILER.
+Come, your love Palamon stays for you, child,
+And has done this long hour, to visit you.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+I thank him for his gentle patience;
+He’s a kind gentleman, and I am much bound to him.
+Did you ne’er see the horse he gave me?
+
+JAILER.
+Yes.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+How do you like him?
+
+JAILER.
+He’s a very fair one.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+You never saw him dance?
+
+JAILER.
+No.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+I have often.
+He dances very finely, very comely,
+And for a jig, come cut and long tail to him,
+He turns ye like a top.
+
+JAILER.
+That’s fine, indeed.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+He’ll dance the morris twenty mile an hour,
+And that will founder the best hobby-horse
+If I have any skill in all the parish,
+And gallops to the tune of “Light o’ love.”
+What think you of this horse?
+
+JAILER.
+Having these virtues,
+I think he might be brought to play at tennis.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Alas, that’s nothing.
+
+JAILER.
+Can he write and read too?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+A very fair hand, and casts himself th’ accounts
+Of all his hay and provender. That hostler
+Must rise betime that cozens him. You know
+The chestnut mare the Duke has?
+
+JAILER.
+Very well.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+She is horribly in love with him, poor beast;
+But he is like his master, coy and scornful.
+
+JAILER.
+What dowry has she?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Some two hundred bottles,
+And twenty strike of oates; but he’ll ne’er have her.
+He lisps in’s neighing, able to entice
+A miller’s mare. He’ll be the death of her.
+
+DOCTOR.
+What stuff she utters!
+
+JAILER.
+Make curtsy; here your love comes.
+
+Enter Wooer and Doctor come forward.
+
+WOOER.
+Pretty soul,
+How do ye? That’s a fine maid; there’s a curtsy!
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Yours to command i’ th’ way of honesty.
+How far is’t now to’ th’ end o’ th’ world, my masters?
+
+DOCTOR.
+Why, a day’s journey, wench.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Will you go with me?
+
+WOOER.
+What shall we do there, wench?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Why, play at stool-ball;
+What is there else to do?
+
+WOOER.
+I am content,
+If we shall keep our wedding there.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+’Tis true,
+For there, I will assure you, we shall find
+Some blind priest for the purpose, that will venture
+To marry us, for here they are nice and foolish.
+Besides, my father must be hanged tomorrow,
+And that would be a blot i’ th’ business.
+Are not you Palamon?
+
+WOOER.
+Do not you know me?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Yes, but you care not for me. I have nothing
+But this poor petticoat, and two coarse smocks.
+
+WOOER.
+That’s all one; I will have you.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Will you surely?
+
+WOOER.
+[_Taking her hand._] Yes, by this fair hand, will I.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+We’ll to bed, then.
+
+WOOER.
+E’en when you will.
+
+[_Kisses her._]
+
+DAUGHTER.
+[_Rubs off the kiss._] O sir, you would fain be nibbling.
+
+WOOER.
+Why do you rub my kiss off?
+
+DAUGHTER.
+’Tis a sweet one,
+And will perfume me finely against the wedding.
+Is not this your cousin Arcite?
+
+[_She indicates the Doctor._]
+
+DOCTOR.
+Yes, sweetheart,
+And I am glad my cousin Palamon
+Has made so fair a choice.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Do you think he’ll have me?
+
+DOCTOR.
+Yes, without doubt.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+Do you think so too?
+
+JAILER.
+Yes.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+We shall have many children. [_To Doctor._] Lord, how you’re grown!
+My Palamon, I hope, will grow too, finely,
+Now he’s at liberty. Alas, poor chicken,
+He was kept down with hard meat and ill lodging,
+But I’ll kiss him up again.
+
+Enter a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+What do you here? You’ll lose the noblest sight
+That e’er was seen.
+
+JAILER.
+Are they i’ th’ field?
+
+MESSENGER.
+They are.
+You bear a charge there too.
+
+JAILER.
+I’ll away straight.
+I must e’en leave you here.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Nay, we’ll go with you;
+I will not lose the sight.
+
+JAILER.
+How did you like her?
+
+DOCTOR.
+I’ll warrant you, within these three or four days
+I’ll make her right again. You must not from her,
+But still preserve her in this way.
+
+WOOER.
+I will.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Let’s get her in.
+
+WOOER.
+Come, sweet, we’ll go to dinner;
+And then we’ll play at cards.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+And shall we kiss too?
+
+WOOER.
+A hundred times.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+And twenty.
+
+WOOER.
+Ay, and twenty.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+And then we’ll sleep together.
+
+DOCTOR.
+Take her offer.
+
+WOOER.
+Yes, marry, will we.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+But you shall not hurt me.
+
+WOOER.
+I will not, sweet.
+
+DAUGHTER.
+If you do, love, I’ll cry.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. A part of the Forest near Athens, and near the Place
+appointed for the Combat
+
+Flourish. Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Emilia, Pirithous and some
+Attendants.
+
+EMILIA.
+I’ll no step further.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Will you lose this sight?
+
+EMILIA.
+I had rather see a wren hawk at a fly
+Than this decision. Every blow that falls
+Threats a brave life; each stroke laments
+The place whereon it falls, and sounds more like
+A bell than blade. I will stay here.
+It is enough my hearing shall be punished
+With what shall happen, ’gainst the which there is
+No deafing, but to hear; not taint mine eye
+With dread sights it may shun.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Sir, my good lord,
+Your sister will no further.
+
+THESEUS.
+O, she must.
+She shall see deeds of honour in their kind,
+Which sometime show well, penciled. Nature now
+Shall make and act the story, the belief
+Both sealed with eye and ear. You must be present;
+You are the victor’s meed, the price and garland
+To crown the question’s title.
+
+EMILIA.
+Pardon me;
+If I were there, I’d wink.
+
+THESEUS.
+You must be there;
+This trial is as ’twere i’ th’ night, and you
+The only star to shine.
+
+EMILIA.
+I am extinct.
+There is but envy in that light which shows
+The one the other. Darkness, which ever was
+The dam of horror, who does stand accursed
+Of many mortal millions, may even now,
+By casting her black mantle over both,
+That neither could find other, get herself
+Some part of a good name, and many a murder
+Set off whereto she’s guilty.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+You must go.
+
+EMILIA.
+In faith, I will not.
+
+THESEUS.
+Why, the knights must kindle
+Their valour at your eye. Know, of this war
+You are the treasure, and must needs be by
+To give the service pay.
+
+EMILIA.
+Sir, pardon me;
+The title of a kingdom may be tried
+Out of itself.
+
+THESEUS.
+Well, well, then, at your pleasure.
+Those that remain with you could wish their office
+To any of their enemies.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Farewell, sister.
+I am like to know your husband ’fore yourself
+By some small start of time. He whom the gods
+Do of the two know best, I pray them he
+Be made your lot.
+
+[_Exeunt all but Emilia._]
+
+EMILIA.
+Arcite is gently visaged, yet his eye
+Is like an engine bent, or a sharp weapon
+In a soft sheath; mercy and manly courage
+Are bedfellows in his visage. Palamon
+Has a most menacing aspect; his brow
+Is graved, and seems to bury what it frowns on;
+Yet sometimes ’tis not so, but alters to
+The quality of his thoughts. Long time his eye
+Will dwell upon his object. Melancholy
+Becomes him nobly; so does Arcite’s mirth;
+But Palamon’s sadness is a kind of mirth,
+So mingled as if mirth did make him sad
+And sadness merry. Those darker humours that
+Stick misbecomingly on others, on them
+Live in fair dwelling.
+
+[_Cornets. Trumpets sound as to a charge._]
+
+Hark how yon spurs to spirit do incite
+The princes to their proof! Arcite may win me
+And yet may Palamon wound Arcite to
+The spoiling of his figure. O, what pity
+Enough for such a chance? If I were by,
+I might do hurt, for they would glance their eyes
+Towards my seat, and in that motion might
+Omit a ward or forfeit an offence
+Which craved that very time. It is much better
+I am not there.
+
+[_Cornets. A great cry and noise within crying “À Palamon!”_]
+
+Oh better never born
+Than minister to such harm.
+
+Enter Servant.
+
+What is the chance?
+
+SERVANT.
+The cry’s “À Palamon.”
+
+EMILIA.
+Then he has won. ’Twas ever likely.
+He looked all grace and success, and he is
+Doubtless the prim’st of men. I prithee run
+And tell me how it goes.
+
+[_Shout and cornets, crying “À Palamon!”_]
+
+SERVANT.
+Still “Palamon.”
+
+EMILIA.
+Run and enquire.
+
+[_Exit Servant._]
+
+Poor servant, thou hast lost.
+Upon my right side still I wore thy picture,
+Palamon’s on the left. Why so, I know not.
+I had no end in ’t else; chance would have it so.
+On the sinister side the heart lies; Palamon
+Had the best-boding chance.
+
+[_Another cry and shout within, and cornets._]
+
+This burst of clamour
+Is sure th’ end o’ th’ combat.
+
+Enter Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+They said that Palamon had Arcite’s body
+Within an inch o’ th’ pyramid, that the cry
+Was general “À Palamon.” But anon,
+Th’ assistants made a brave redemption, and
+The two bold titlers at this instant are
+Hand to hand at it.
+
+EMILIA.
+Were they metamorphosed
+Both into one—O, why? There were no woman
+Worth so composed a man! Their single share,
+Their nobleness peculiar to them, gives
+The prejudice of disparity, value’s shortness,
+To any lady breathing.
+
+[_Cornets. Cry within, “Arcite, Arcite.”_]
+
+More exulting?
+“Palamon” still?
+
+SERVANT.
+Nay, now the sound is “Arcite.”
+
+EMILIA.
+I prithee, lay attention to the cry;
+Set both thine ears to th’ business.
+
+[_Cornets. A great shout and cry “Arcite, victory!”_]
+
+
+SERVANT.
+The cry is
+“Arcite”, and “Victory!” Hark, “Arcite, victory!”
+The combat’s consummation is proclaimed
+By the wind instruments.
+
+EMILIA.
+Half-sights saw
+That Arcite was no babe. God’s lid, his richness
+And costliness of spirit looked through him; it could
+No more be hid in him than fire in flax,
+Than humble banks can go to law with waters
+That drift-winds force to raging. I did think
+Good Palamon would miscarry, yet I knew not
+Why I did think so. Our reasons are not prophets
+When oft our fancies are. They are coming off.
+Alas, poor Palamon!
+
+Cornets. Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Pirithous, Arcite as victor, and
+Attendants.
+
+THESEUS.
+Lo, where our sister is in expectation,
+Yet quaking and unsettled.—Fairest Emily,
+The gods by their divine arbitrament
+Have given you this knight; he is a good one
+As ever struck at head. Give me your hands.
+Receive you her, you him; be plighted with
+A love that grows as you decay.
+
+ARCITE.
+Emily,
+To buy you, I have lost what’s dearest to me,
+Save what is bought; and yet I purchase cheaply,
+As I do rate your value.
+
+THESEUS.
+O loved sister,
+He speaks now of as brave a knight as e’er
+Did spur a noble steed. Surely the gods
+Would have him die a bachelor, lest his race
+Should show i’ th’ world too godlike. His behaviour
+So charmed me that methought Alcides was
+To him a sow of lead. If I could praise
+Each part of him to th’ all I have spoke, your Arcite
+Did not lose by ’t, for he that was thus good
+Encountered yet his better. I have heard
+Two emulous Philomels beat the ear o’ th’ night
+With their contentious throats, now one the higher,
+Anon the other, then again the first,
+And by-and-by out-breasted, that the sense
+Could not be judge between ’em. So it fared
+Good space between these kinsmen, till heavens did
+Make hardly one the winner.—Wear the garland
+With joy that you have won.—For the subdued,
+Give them our present justice, since I know
+Their lives but pinch ’em. Let it here be done.
+The scene’s not for our seeing. Go we hence
+Right joyful, with some sorrow.—Arm your prize;
+I know you will not lose her.—Hippolyta,
+I see one eye of yours conceives a tear,
+The which it will deliver.
+
+[_Flourish._]
+
+EMILIA.
+Is this winning?
+O all you heavenly powers, where is your mercy?
+But that your wills have said it must be so,
+And charge me live to comfort this unfriended,
+This miserable prince, that cuts away
+A life more worthy from him than all women,
+I should and would die too.
+
+HIPPOLYTA.
+Infinite pity
+That four such eyes should be so fixed on one
+That two must needs be blind for ’t.
+
+THESEUS.
+So it is.
+
+[_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same; a Block prepared
+
+Enter Palamon and his Knights pinioned; Jailer, Executioner and Guard.
+
+PALAMON.
+There’s many a man alive that hath outlived
+The love o’ th’ people; yea, i’ th’ selfsame state
+Stands many a father with his child. Some comfort
+We have by so considering. We expire,
+And not without men’s pity; to live still,
+Have their good wishes; we prevent
+The loathsome misery of age, beguile
+The gout and rheum that in lag hours attend
+For gray approachers; we come towards the gods
+Young and unwappered, not halting under crimes
+Many and stale. That sure shall please the gods
+Sooner than such, to give us nectar with ’em,
+For we are more clear spirits. My dear kinsmen,
+Whose lives for this poor comfort are laid down,
+You have sold ’em too too cheap.
+
+FIRST KNIGHT.
+What ending could be
+Of more content? O’er us the victors have
+Fortune, whose title is as momentary,
+As to us death is certain. A grain of honour
+They not o’erweigh us.
+
+SECOND KNIGHT.
+Let us bid farewell;
+And with our patience anger tottering Fortune,
+Who at her certain’st reels.
+
+THIRD KNIGHT.
+Come; who begins?
+
+PALAMON.
+E’en he that led you to this banquet shall
+Taste to you all.—Ah ha, my friend, my friend,
+Your gentle daughter gave me freedom once;
+You’ll see ’t done now for ever. Pray, how does she?
+I heard she was not well; her kind of ill
+Gave me some sorrow.
+
+JAILER.
+Sir, she’s well restored,
+And to be married shortly.
+
+PALAMON.
+By my short life,
+I am most glad on’t. ’Tis the latest thing
+I shall be glad of; prithee, tell her so.
+Commend me to her, and, to piece her portion,
+Tender her this.
+
+[_Gives him his purse._]
+
+FIRST KNIGHT.
+Nay let’s be offerers all.
+
+SECOND KNIGHT.
+Is it a maid?
+
+PALAMON.
+Verily, I think so.
+A right good creature, more to me deserving
+Then I can ’quite or speak of.
+
+ALL KNIGHTS.
+Commend us to her.
+
+[_They give their purses._]
+
+JAILER.
+The gods requite you all, and make her thankful.
+
+PALAMON.
+Adieu; and let my life be now as short
+As my leave-taking.
+
+[_Lays his head on the block._]
+
+FIRST KNIGHT.
+Lead, courageous cousin.
+
+SECOND AND THIRD KNIGHT.
+We’ll follow cheerfully.
+
+[_A great noise within crying “Run!” “Save!” “Hold!”_]
+
+Enter in haste a Messenger.
+
+MESSENGER.
+Hold, hold! O hold, hold, hold!
+
+Enter Pirithous in haste.
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Hold, ho! It is a cursed haste you made
+If you have done so quickly!—Noble Palamon,
+The gods will show their glory in a life
+That thou art yet to lead.
+
+PALAMON.
+Can that be,
+When Venus, I have said, is false? How do things fare?
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+Arise, great sir, and give the tidings ear
+That are most dearly sweet and bitter.
+
+PALAMON.
+What
+Hath waked us from our dream?
+
+PIRITHOUS.
+List, then. Your cousin,
+Mounted upon a steed that Emily
+Did first bestow on him, a black one, owing
+Not a hair-worth of white, which some will say
+Weakens his price, and many will not buy
+His goodness with this note, which superstition
+Here finds allowance—on this horse is Arcite
+Trotting the stones of Athens, which the calkins
+Did rather tell than trample; for the horse
+Would make his length a mile, if ’t pleased his rider
+To put pride in him. As he thus went counting
+The flinty pavement, dancing, as ’twere, to th’ music
+His own hooves made—for, as they say, from iron
+Came music’s origin—what envious flint,
+Cold as old Saturn, and like him possessed
+With fire malevolent, darted a spark,
+Or what fierce sulphur else, to this end made,
+I comment not; the hot horse, hot as fire,
+Took toy at this and fell to what disorder
+His power could give his will; bounds, comes on end,
+Forgets school-doing, being therein trained
+And of kind manage. Pig-like he whines
+At the sharp rowel, which he frets at rather
+Than any jot obeys; seeks all foul means
+Of boist’rous and rough jad’ry to disseat
+His lord that kept it bravely. When naught served,
+When neither curb would crack, girth break, nor diff’ring plunges
+Disroot his rider whence he grew, but that
+He kept him ’tween his legs, on his hind hoofs
+On end he stands
+That Arcite’s legs, being higher than his head,
+Seemed with strange art to hang. His victor’s wreath
+Even then fell off his head and presently
+Backward the jade comes o’er, and his full poise
+Becomes the rider’s load. Yet is he living,
+But such a vessel ’tis that floats but for
+The surge that next approaches. He much desires
+To have some speech with you. Lo, he appears.
+
+Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Emilia, Arcite in a chair.
+
+PALAMON.
+O miserable end of our alliance!
+The gods are mighty. Arcite, if thy heart,
+Thy worthy, manly heart, be yet unbroken,
+Give me thy last words. I am Palamon,
+One that yet loves thee dying.
+
+ARCITE.
+Take Emilia
+And with her all the world’s joy. Reach thy hand;
+Farewell. I have told my last hour. I was false,
+Yet never treacherous. Forgive me, cousin.
+One kiss from fair Emilia.
+
+[_Emilia kisses Arcite._]
+
+’Tis done.
+Take her. I die.
+
+PALAMON.
+Thy brave soul seek Elysium!
+
+[_Arcite dies._]
+
+EMILIA.
+I’ll close thine eyes, Prince; blessed souls be with thee!
+Thou art a right good man, and, while I live,
+This day I give to tears.
+
+PALAMON.
+And I to honour.
+
+THESEUS.
+In this place first you fought; e’en very here
+I sundered you. Acknowledge to the gods
+Our thanks that you are living.
+His part is played, and, though it were too short,
+He did it well; your day is lengthened, and
+The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you.
+The powerful Venus well hath graced her altar,
+And given you your love. Our master Mars,
+Hath vouched his oracle, and to Arcite gave
+The grace of the contention. So the deities
+Have showed due justice.—Bear this hence.
+
+PALAMON.
+O cousin,
+That we should things desire, which do cost us
+The loss of our desire! That naught could buy
+Dear love, but loss of dear love!
+
+[_Arcite’s body is carried out._]
+
+THESEUS.
+Never Fortune
+Did play a subtler game. The conquered triumphs;
+The victor has the loss; yet in the passage
+The gods have been most equal. Palamon,
+Your kinsman hath confessed the right o’ th’ lady
+Did lie in you, for you first saw her and
+Even then proclaimed your fancy. He restored her
+As your stol’n jewel and desired your spirit
+To send him hence forgiven. The gods my justice
+Take from my hand and they themselves become
+The executioners. Lead your lady off
+And call your lovers from the stage of death,
+Whom I adopt my friends. A day or two
+Let us look sadly, and give grace unto
+The funeral of Arcite, in whose end
+The visages of bridegrooms we’ll put on
+And smile with Palamon; for whom an hour,
+But one hour since, I was as dearly sorry
+As glad of Arcite, and am now as glad
+As for him sorry. O you heavenly charmers,
+What things you make of us! For what we lack
+We laugh, for what we have are sorry, still
+Are children in some kind. Let us be thankful
+For that which is, and with you leave dispute
+That are above our question. Let’s go off
+And bear us like the time.
+
+[_Flourish. Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+EPILOGUE
+
+
+Enter Epilogue.
+
+EPILOGUE
+ I would now ask ye how you like the play,
+But, as it is with schoolboys, cannot say.
+I am cruel fearful! Pray yet, stay a while,
+And let me look upon ye. No man smile?
+Then it goes hard, I see. He that has
+Loved a young handsome wench, then, show his face—
+’Tis strange if none be here—and, if he will,
+Against his conscience let him hiss, and kill
+Our market. ’Tis in vain, I see, to stay ye.
+Have at the worst can come, then! Now what say ye?
+And yet mistake me not: I am not bold;
+We have no such cause. If the tale we have told
+For ’tis no other—any way content ye—
+For to that honest purpose it was meant ye—
+We have our end; and you shall have ere long,
+I dare say, many a better, to prolong
+Your old loves to us. We, and all our might,
+Rest at your service. Gentlemen, good night.
+
+[_Flourish. Exit._]
+
+FINIS
+
+
+
+
+THE WINTER’S TALE
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+ACT I
+Scene I. Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes’ Palace.
+Scene II. The same. A Room of State in the Palace.
+
+ACT II
+Scene I. Sicilia. A Room in the Palace.
+Scene II. The same. The outer Room of a Prison.
+Scene III. The same. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ACT III
+Scene I. Sicilia. A Street in some Town.
+Scene II. The same. A Court of Justice.
+Scene III. Bohemia. A desert Country near the Sea.
+
+ACT IV
+Scene I. Prologue.
+Scene II. Bohemia. A Room in the palace of Polixenes.
+Scene III. The same. A Road near the Shepherd’s cottage.
+Scene IV. The same. A Shepherd’s Cottage.
+
+ACT V
+Scene I. Sicilia. A Room in the palace of Leontes.
+Scene II. The same. Before the Palace.
+Scene III. The same. A Room in Paulina’s house.
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+LEONTES, King of Sicilia
+MAMILLIUS, his son
+CAMILLO, Sicilian Lord
+ANTIGONUS, Sicilian Lord
+CLEOMENES, Sicilian Lord
+DION, Sicilian Lord
+POLIXENES, King of Bohemia
+FLORIZEL, his son
+ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian Lord
+An Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita
+CLOWN, his son
+AUTOLYCUS, a rogue
+A Mariner
+A Gaoler
+Servant to the Old Shepherd
+Other Sicilian Lords
+Sicilian Gentlemen
+Officers of a Court of Judicature
+
+HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes
+PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione
+PAULINA, wife to Antigonus
+EMILIA, a lady attending on the Queen
+MOPSA, shepherdess
+DORCAS, shepherdess
+Other Ladies, attending on the Queen
+
+Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs for a Dance; Shepherds,
+Shepherdesses, Guards, &c.
+
+TIME, as Chorus
+
+Scene: Sometimes in Sicilia; sometimes in Bohemia.
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+SCENE I. Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes’ Palace.
+
+ Enter Camillo and Archidamus.
+
+ARCHIDAMUS.
+If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion
+whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said,
+great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I think this coming summer the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the
+visitation which he justly owes him.
+
+ARCHIDAMUS.
+Wherein our entertainment shall shame us; we will be justified in our
+loves. For indeed,—
+
+CAMILLO.
+Beseech you—
+
+ARCHIDAMUS.
+Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge. We cannot with such
+magnificence—in so rare—I know not what to say. We will give you sleepy
+drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may,
+though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.
+
+CAMILLO.
+You pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely.
+
+ARCHIDAMUS.
+Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine
+honesty puts it to utterance.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained
+together in their childhoods, and there rooted betwixt them then such
+an affection which cannot choose but branch now. Since their more
+mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their
+society, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally
+attorneyed with interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies, that
+they have seemed to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a
+vast; and embraced as it were from the ends of opposed winds. The
+heavens continue their loves!
+
+ARCHIDAMUS.
+I think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it.
+You have an unspeakable comfort of your young Prince Mamillius. It is a
+gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came into my note.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I very well agree with you in the hopes of him. It is a gallant child;
+one that indeed physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh. They that
+went on crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to see him a
+man.
+
+ARCHIDAMUS.
+Would they else be content to die?
+
+CAMILLO.
+Yes, if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.
+
+ARCHIDAMUS.
+If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he
+had one.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A Room of State in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Hermione, Mamillius, Camillo and Attendants.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Nine changes of the watery star hath been
+The shepherd’s note since we have left our throne
+Without a burden. Time as long again
+Would be fill’d up, my brother, with our thanks;
+And yet we should, for perpetuity,
+Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,
+Yet standing in rich place, I multiply
+With one “we thank you” many thousands more
+That go before it.
+
+LEONTES.
+Stay your thanks a while,
+And pay them when you part.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Sir, that’s tomorrow.
+I am question’d by my fears, of what may chance
+Or breed upon our absence; that may blow
+No sneaping winds at home, to make us say
+“This is put forth too truly.” Besides, I have stay’d
+To tire your royalty.
+
+LEONTES.
+We are tougher, brother,
+Than you can put us to ’t.
+
+POLIXENES.
+No longer stay.
+
+LEONTES.
+One seve’night longer.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Very sooth, tomorrow.
+
+LEONTES.
+We’ll part the time between ’s then: and in that
+I’ll no gainsaying.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Press me not, beseech you, so,
+There is no tongue that moves, none, none i’ th’ world,
+So soon as yours, could win me: so it should now,
+Were there necessity in your request, although
+’Twere needful I denied it. My affairs
+Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder
+Were, in your love a whip to me; my stay
+To you a charge and trouble: to save both,
+Farewell, our brother.
+
+LEONTES.
+Tongue-tied, our queen? Speak you.
+
+HERMIONE.
+I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until
+You had drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,
+Charge him too coldly. Tell him you are sure
+All in Bohemia’s well: this satisfaction
+The by-gone day proclaimed. Say this to him,
+He’s beat from his best ward.
+
+LEONTES.
+Well said, Hermione.
+
+HERMIONE.
+To tell he longs to see his son were strong.
+But let him say so then, and let him go;
+But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,
+We’ll thwack him hence with distaffs.
+[_To Polixenes._] Yet of your royal presence I’ll adventure
+The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia
+You take my lord, I’ll give him my commission
+To let him there a month behind the gest
+Prefix’d for’s parting:—yet, good deed, Leontes,
+I love thee not a jar of th’ clock behind
+What lady she her lord. You’ll stay?
+
+POLIXENES.
+No, madam.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Nay, but you will?
+
+POLIXENES.
+I may not, verily.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Verily!
+You put me off with limber vows; but I,
+Though you would seek t’ unsphere the stars with oaths,
+Should yet say “Sir, no going.” Verily,
+You shall not go. A lady’s verily is
+As potent as a lord’s. Will go yet?
+Force me to keep you as a prisoner,
+Not like a guest: so you shall pay your fees
+When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you?
+My prisoner or my guest? By your dread “verily,”
+One of them you shall be.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Your guest, then, madam.
+To be your prisoner should import offending;
+Which is for me less easy to commit
+Than you to punish.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Not your gaoler then,
+But your kind hostess. Come, I’ll question you
+Of my lord’s tricks and yours when you were boys.
+You were pretty lordings then.
+
+POLIXENES.
+We were, fair queen,
+Two lads that thought there was no more behind
+But such a day tomorrow as today,
+And to be boy eternal.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Was not my lord
+The verier wag o’ th’ two?
+
+POLIXENES.
+We were as twinn’d lambs that did frisk i’ th’ sun
+And bleat the one at th’ other. What we chang’d
+Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
+The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream’d
+That any did. Had we pursu’d that life,
+And our weak spirits ne’er been higher rear’d
+With stronger blood, we should have answer’d heaven
+Boldly “Not guilty,” the imposition clear’d
+Hereditary ours.
+
+HERMIONE.
+By this we gather
+You have tripp’d since.
+
+POLIXENES.
+O my most sacred lady,
+Temptations have since then been born to ’s! for
+In those unfledg’d days was my wife a girl;
+Your precious self had then not cross’d the eyes
+Of my young play-fellow.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Grace to boot!
+Of this make no conclusion, lest you say
+Your queen and I are devils. Yet go on;
+Th’ offences we have made you do we’ll answer,
+If you first sinn’d with us, and that with us
+You did continue fault, and that you slipp’d not
+With any but with us.
+
+LEONTES.
+Is he won yet?
+
+HERMIONE.
+He’ll stay, my lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+At my request he would not.
+Hermione, my dearest, thou never spok’st
+To better purpose.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Never?
+
+LEONTES.
+Never but once.
+
+HERMIONE.
+What! have I twice said well? when was’t before?
+I prithee tell me. Cram ’s with praise, and make ’s
+As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless
+Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
+Our praises are our wages. You may ride ’s
+With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
+With spur we heat an acre. But to th’ goal:
+My last good deed was to entreat his stay.
+What was my first? It has an elder sister,
+Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace!
+But once before I spoke to the purpose—when?
+Nay, let me have’t; I long.
+
+LEONTES.
+Why, that was when
+Three crabbed months had sour’d themselves to death,
+Ere I could make thee open thy white hand
+And clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter
+“I am yours for ever.”
+
+HERMIONE.
+’Tis Grace indeed.
+Why, lo you now, I have spoke to th’ purpose twice.
+The one for ever earn’d a royal husband;
+Th’ other for some while a friend.
+
+ [_Giving her hand to Polixenes._]
+
+LEONTES.
+[_Aside._] Too hot, too hot!
+To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.
+I have _tremor cordis_ on me. My heart dances,
+But not for joy,—not joy. This entertainment
+May a free face put on, derive a liberty
+From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom,
+And well become the agent: ’t may, I grant:
+But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,
+As now they are, and making practis’d smiles
+As in a looking-glass; and then to sigh, as ’twere
+The mort o’ th’ deer. O, that is entertainment
+My bosom likes not, nor my brows. Mamillius,
+Art thou my boy?
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+I’ fecks!
+Why, that’s my bawcock. What! hast smutch’d thy nose?
+They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain,
+We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain:
+And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf
+Are all call’d neat.—Still virginalling
+Upon his palm?—How now, you wanton calf!
+Art thou my calf?
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+Yes, if you will, my lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+Thou want’st a rough pash and the shoots that I have
+To be full like me:—yet they say we are
+Almost as like as eggs; women say so,
+That will say anything. But were they false
+As o’er-dy’d blacks, as wind, as waters, false
+As dice are to be wish’d by one that fixes
+No bourn ’twixt his and mine, yet were it true
+To say this boy were like me. Come, sir page,
+Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain!
+Most dear’st! my collop! Can thy dam?—may’t be?
+Affection! thy intention stabs the centre:
+Thou dost make possible things not so held,
+Communicat’st with dreams;—how can this be?—
+With what’s unreal thou coactive art,
+And fellow’st nothing: then ’tis very credent
+Thou may’st co-join with something; and thou dost,
+And that beyond commission, and I find it,
+And that to the infection of my brains
+And hardening of my brows.
+
+POLIXENES.
+What means Sicilia?
+
+HERMIONE.
+He something seems unsettled.
+
+POLIXENES.
+How, my lord?
+What cheer? How is’t with you, best brother?
+
+HERMIONE.
+You look
+As if you held a brow of much distraction:
+Are you mov’d, my lord?
+
+LEONTES.
+No, in good earnest.
+How sometimes nature will betray its folly,
+Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime
+To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines
+Of my boy’s face, methoughts I did recoil
+Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech’d,
+In my green velvet coat; my dagger muzzled
+Lest it should bite its master, and so prove,
+As ornaments oft do, too dangerous.
+How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,
+This squash, this gentleman. Mine honest friend,
+Will you take eggs for money?
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+No, my lord, I’ll fight.
+
+LEONTES.
+You will? Why, happy man be ’s dole! My brother,
+Are you so fond of your young prince as we
+Do seem to be of ours?
+
+POLIXENES.
+If at home, sir,
+He’s all my exercise, my mirth, my matter:
+Now my sworn friend, and then mine enemy;
+My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all.
+He makes a July’s day short as December;
+And with his varying childness cures in me
+Thoughts that would thick my blood.
+
+LEONTES.
+So stands this squire
+Offic’d with me. We two will walk, my lord,
+And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione,
+How thou lov’st us show in our brother’s welcome;
+Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap:
+Next to thyself and my young rover, he’s
+Apparent to my heart.
+
+HERMIONE.
+If you would seek us,
+We are yours i’ the garden. Shall ’s attend you there?
+
+LEONTES.
+To your own bents dispose you: you’ll be found,
+Be you beneath the sky. [_Aside._] I am angling now,
+Though you perceive me not how I give line.
+Go to, go to!
+How she holds up the neb, the bill to him!
+And arms her with the boldness of a wife
+To her allowing husband!
+
+ [_Exeunt Polixenes, Hermione and Attendants._]
+
+Gone already!
+Inch-thick, knee-deep, o’er head and ears a fork’d one!—
+Go, play, boy, play. Thy mother plays, and I
+Play too; but so disgrac’d a part, whose issue
+Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour
+Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play. There have been,
+Or I am much deceiv’d, cuckolds ere now;
+And many a man there is, even at this present,
+Now while I speak this, holds his wife by th’ arm,
+That little thinks she has been sluic’d in ’s absence,
+And his pond fish’d by his next neighbour, by
+Sir Smile, his neighbour. Nay, there’s comfort in ’t,
+Whiles other men have gates, and those gates open’d,
+As mine, against their will. Should all despair
+That hath revolted wives, the tenth of mankind
+Would hang themselves. Physic for’t there’s none;
+It is a bawdy planet, that will strike
+Where ’tis predominant; and ’tis powerful, think it,
+From east, west, north, and south. Be it concluded,
+No barricado for a belly. Know’t;
+It will let in and out the enemy
+With bag and baggage. Many thousand of us
+Have the disease, and feel’t not.—How now, boy!
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+I am like you, they say.
+
+LEONTES.
+Why, that’s some comfort.
+What! Camillo there?
+
+CAMILLO.
+Ay, my good lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+Go play, Mamillius; thou’rt an honest man.
+
+ [_Exit Mamillius._]
+
+Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer.
+
+CAMILLO.
+You had much ado to make his anchor hold:
+When you cast out, it still came home.
+
+LEONTES.
+Didst note it?
+
+CAMILLO.
+He would not stay at your petitions; made
+His business more material.
+
+LEONTES.
+Didst perceive it?
+[_Aside._] They’re here with me already; whisp’ring, rounding,
+“Sicilia is a so-forth.” ’Tis far gone
+When I shall gust it last.—How came’t, Camillo,
+That he did stay?
+
+CAMILLO.
+At the good queen’s entreaty.
+
+LEONTES.
+At the queen’s be’t: “good” should be pertinent,
+But so it is, it is not. Was this taken
+By any understanding pate but thine?
+For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in
+More than the common blocks. Not noted, is’t,
+But of the finer natures? by some severals
+Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes
+Perchance are to this business purblind? say.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Business, my lord? I think most understand
+Bohemia stays here longer.
+
+LEONTES.
+Ha?
+
+CAMILLO.
+Stays here longer.
+
+LEONTES.
+Ay, but why?
+
+CAMILLO.
+To satisfy your highness, and the entreaties
+Of our most gracious mistress.
+
+LEONTES.
+Satisfy?
+Th’ entreaties of your mistress? Satisfy?
+Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo,
+With all the nearest things to my heart, as well
+My chamber-counsels, wherein, priest-like, thou
+Hast cleans’d my bosom; I from thee departed
+Thy penitent reform’d. But we have been
+Deceiv’d in thy integrity, deceiv’d
+In that which seems so.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Be it forbid, my lord!
+
+LEONTES.
+To bide upon’t: thou art not honest; or,
+If thou inclin’st that way, thou art a coward,
+Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining
+From course requir’d; or else thou must be counted
+A servant grafted in my serious trust,
+And therein negligent; or else a fool
+That seest a game play’d home, the rich stake drawn,
+And tak’st it all for jest.
+
+CAMILLO.
+My gracious lord,
+I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
+In every one of these no man is free,
+But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
+Among the infinite doings of the world,
+Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,
+If ever I were wilful-negligent,
+It was my folly; if industriously
+I play’d the fool, it was my negligence,
+Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful
+To do a thing, where I the issue doubted,
+Whereof the execution did cry out
+Against the non-performance, ’twas a fear
+Which oft affects the wisest: these, my lord,
+Are such allow’d infirmities that honesty
+Is never free of. But, beseech your Grace,
+Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass
+By its own visage: if I then deny it,
+’Tis none of mine.
+
+LEONTES.
+Ha’ not you seen, Camillo?
+(But that’s past doubt: you have, or your eye-glass
+Is thicker than a cuckold’s horn) or heard?
+(For, to a vision so apparent, rumour
+Cannot be mute) or thought? (for cogitation
+Resides not in that man that does not think)
+My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess,
+Or else be impudently negative,
+To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say
+My wife’s a hobby-horse, deserves a name
+As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
+Before her troth-plight: say’t and justify’t.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I would not be a stander-by to hear
+My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
+My present vengeance taken: ’shrew my heart,
+You never spoke what did become you less
+Than this; which to reiterate were sin
+As deep as that, though true.
+
+LEONTES.
+Is whispering nothing?
+Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?
+Kissing with inside lip? Stopping the career
+Of laughter with a sigh?—a note infallible
+Of breaking honesty?—horsing foot on foot?
+Skulking in corners? Wishing clocks more swift?
+Hours, minutes? Noon, midnight? and all eyes
+Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,
+That would unseen be wicked? Is this nothing?
+Why, then the world and all that’s in’t is nothing,
+The covering sky is nothing, Bohemia nothing,
+My wife is nothing, nor nothing have these nothings,
+If this be nothing.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Good my lord, be cur’d
+Of this diseas’d opinion, and betimes,
+For ’tis most dangerous.
+
+LEONTES.
+Say it be, ’tis true.
+
+CAMILLO.
+No, no, my lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+It is; you lie, you lie:
+I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee,
+Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave,
+Or else a hovering temporizer that
+Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
+Inclining to them both. Were my wife’s liver
+Infected as her life, she would not live
+The running of one glass.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Who does infect her?
+
+LEONTES.
+Why, he that wears her like her medal, hanging
+About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I
+Had servants true about me, that bare eyes
+To see alike mine honour as their profits,
+Their own particular thrifts, they would do that
+Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou,
+His cupbearer,—whom I from meaner form
+Have bench’d and rear’d to worship, who mayst see
+Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,
+How I am galled,—mightst bespice a cup,
+To give mine enemy a lasting wink;
+Which draught to me were cordial.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Sir, my lord,
+I could do this, and that with no rash potion,
+But with a ling’ring dram, that should not work
+Maliciously like poison. But I cannot
+Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress,
+So sovereignly being honourable.
+I have lov’d thee,—
+
+LEONTES.
+Make that thy question, and go rot!
+Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,
+To appoint myself in this vexation; sully
+The purity and whiteness of my sheets,
+(Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted
+Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps)
+Give scandal to the blood o’ th’ prince, my son,
+(Who I do think is mine, and love as mine)
+Without ripe moving to’t? Would I do this?
+Could man so blench?
+
+CAMILLO.
+I must believe you, sir:
+I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for’t;
+Provided that, when he’s remov’d, your highness
+Will take again your queen as yours at first,
+Even for your son’s sake, and thereby for sealing
+The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms
+Known and allied to yours.
+
+LEONTES.
+Thou dost advise me
+Even so as I mine own course have set down:
+I’ll give no blemish to her honour, none.
+
+CAMILLO.
+My lord,
+Go then; and with a countenance as clear
+As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia
+And with your queen. I am his cupbearer.
+If from me he have wholesome beverage,
+Account me not your servant.
+
+LEONTES.
+This is all:
+Do’t, and thou hast the one half of my heart;
+Do’t not, thou splitt’st thine own.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I’ll do’t, my lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+I will seem friendly, as thou hast advis’d me.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+CAMILLO.
+O miserable lady! But, for me,
+What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner
+Of good Polixenes, and my ground to do’t
+Is the obedience to a master; one
+Who, in rebellion with himself, will have
+All that are his so too. To do this deed,
+Promotion follows. If I could find example
+Of thousands that had struck anointed kings
+And flourish’d after, I’d not do’t. But since
+Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears not one,
+Let villainy itself forswear’t. I must
+Forsake the court: to do’t, or no, is certain
+To me a break-neck. Happy star reign now!
+Here comes Bohemia.
+
+ Enter Polixenes.
+
+POLIXENES.
+This is strange. Methinks
+My favour here begins to warp. Not speak?
+Good day, Camillo.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Hail, most royal sir!
+
+POLIXENES.
+What is the news i’ th’ court?
+
+CAMILLO.
+None rare, my lord.
+
+POLIXENES.
+The king hath on him such a countenance
+As he had lost some province, and a region
+Lov’d as he loves himself. Even now I met him
+With customary compliment, when he,
+Wafting his eyes to the contrary, and falling
+A lip of much contempt, speeds from me, and
+So leaves me to consider what is breeding
+That changes thus his manners.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I dare not know, my lord.
+
+POLIXENES.
+How, dare not? Do not? Do you know, and dare not?
+Be intelligent to me? ’Tis thereabouts;
+For, to yourself, what you do know, you must,
+And cannot say you dare not. Good Camillo,
+Your chang’d complexions are to me a mirror
+Which shows me mine chang’d too; for I must be
+A party in this alteration, finding
+Myself thus alter’d with’t.
+
+CAMILLO.
+There is a sickness
+Which puts some of us in distemper, but
+I cannot name the disease, and it is caught
+Of you that yet are well.
+
+POLIXENES.
+How caught of me?
+Make me not sighted like the basilisk.
+I have look’d on thousands who have sped the better
+By my regard, but kill’d none so. Camillo,—
+As you are certainly a gentleman, thereto
+Clerk-like, experienc’d, which no less adorns
+Our gentry than our parents’ noble names,
+In whose success we are gentle,—I beseech you,
+If you know aught which does behove my knowledge
+Thereof to be inform’d, imprison’t not
+In ignorant concealment.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I may not answer.
+
+POLIXENES.
+A sickness caught of me, and yet I well?
+I must be answer’d. Dost thou hear, Camillo,
+I conjure thee, by all the parts of man
+Which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least
+Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare
+What incidency thou dost guess of harm
+Is creeping toward me; how far off, how near;
+Which way to be prevented, if to be;
+If not, how best to bear it.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Sir, I will tell you;
+Since I am charg’d in honour, and by him
+That I think honourable. Therefore mark my counsel,
+Which must be ev’n as swiftly follow’d as
+I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me
+Cry lost, and so goodnight!
+
+POLIXENES.
+On, good Camillo.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I am appointed him to murder you.
+
+POLIXENES.
+By whom, Camillo?
+
+CAMILLO.
+By the king.
+
+POLIXENES.
+For what?
+
+CAMILLO.
+He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears,
+As he had seen’t or been an instrument
+To vice you to’t, that you have touch’d his queen
+Forbiddenly.
+
+POLIXENES.
+O, then my best blood turn
+To an infected jelly, and my name
+Be yok’d with his that did betray the Best!
+Turn then my freshest reputation to
+A savour that may strike the dullest nostril
+Where I arrive, and my approach be shunn’d,
+Nay, hated too, worse than the great’st infection
+That e’er was heard or read!
+
+CAMILLO.
+Swear his thought over
+By each particular star in heaven and
+By all their influences, you may as well
+Forbid the sea for to obey the moon
+As or by oath remove or counsel shake
+The fabric of his folly, whose foundation
+Is pil’d upon his faith, and will continue
+The standing of his body.
+
+POLIXENES.
+How should this grow?
+
+CAMILLO.
+I know not: but I am sure ’tis safer to
+Avoid what’s grown than question how ’tis born.
+If therefore you dare trust my honesty,
+That lies enclosed in this trunk, which you
+Shall bear along impawn’d, away tonight.
+Your followers I will whisper to the business,
+And will by twos and threes, at several posterns,
+Clear them o’ th’ city. For myself, I’ll put
+My fortunes to your service, which are here
+By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain,
+For, by the honour of my parents, I
+Have utter’d truth: which if you seek to prove,
+I dare not stand by; nor shall you be safer
+Than one condemned by the king’s own mouth,
+Thereon his execution sworn.
+
+POLIXENES.
+I do believe thee.
+I saw his heart in ’s face. Give me thy hand,
+Be pilot to me, and thy places shall
+Still neighbour mine. My ships are ready, and
+My people did expect my hence departure
+Two days ago. This jealousy
+Is for a precious creature: as she’s rare,
+Must it be great; and, as his person’s mighty,
+Must it be violent; and as he does conceive
+He is dishonour’d by a man which ever
+Profess’d to him, why, his revenges must
+In that be made more bitter. Fear o’ershades me.
+Good expedition be my friend, and comfort
+The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing
+Of his ill-ta’en suspicion! Come, Camillo,
+I will respect thee as a father if
+Thou bear’st my life off hence. Let us avoid.
+
+CAMILLO.
+It is in mine authority to command
+The keys of all the posterns: please your highness
+To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+SCENE I. Sicilia. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Hermione, Mamillius and Ladies.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,
+’Tis past enduring.
+
+FIRST LADY.
+Come, my gracious lord,
+Shall I be your playfellow?
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+No, I’ll none of you.
+
+FIRST LADY.
+Why, my sweet lord?
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+You’ll kiss me hard, and speak to me as if
+I were a baby still. I love you better.
+
+SECOND LADY.
+And why so, my lord?
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+Not for because
+Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,
+Become some women best, so that there be not
+Too much hair there, but in a semicircle
+Or a half-moon made with a pen.
+
+SECOND LADY.
+Who taught this?
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+I learn’d it out of women’s faces. Pray now,
+What colour are your eyebrows?
+
+FIRST LADY.
+Blue, my lord.
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+Nay, that’s a mock. I have seen a lady’s nose
+That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.
+
+FIRST LADY.
+Hark ye,
+The queen your mother rounds apace. We shall
+Present our services to a fine new prince
+One of these days, and then you’d wanton with us,
+If we would have you.
+
+SECOND LADY.
+She is spread of late
+Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her!
+
+HERMIONE.
+What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now
+I am for you again. Pray you sit by us,
+And tell ’s a tale.
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+Merry or sad shall’t be?
+
+HERMIONE.
+As merry as you will.
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+A sad tale’s best for winter. I have one
+Of sprites and goblins.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Let’s have that, good sir.
+Come on, sit down. Come on, and do your best
+To fright me with your sprites: you’re powerful at it.
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+There was a man,—
+
+HERMIONE.
+Nay, come, sit down, then on.
+
+MAMILLIUS.
+Dwelt by a churchyard. I will tell it softly,
+Yond crickets shall not hear it.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Come on then,
+And give’t me in mine ear.
+
+ Enter Leontes, Antigonus, Lords and Guards.
+
+LEONTES.
+Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Behind the tuft of pines I met them, never
+Saw I men scour so on their way: I ey’d them
+Even to their ships.
+
+LEONTES.
+How blest am I
+In my just censure, in my true opinion!
+Alack, for lesser knowledge! How accurs’d
+In being so blest! There may be in the cup
+A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart,
+And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
+Is not infected; but if one present
+Th’ abhorr’d ingredient to his eye, make known
+How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
+With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider.
+Camillo was his help in this, his pander.
+There is a plot against my life, my crown;
+All’s true that is mistrusted. That false villain
+Whom I employ’d, was pre-employ’d by him.
+He has discover’d my design, and I
+Remain a pinch’d thing; yea, a very trick
+For them to play at will. How came the posterns
+So easily open?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+By his great authority,
+Which often hath no less prevail’d than so
+On your command.
+
+LEONTES.
+I know’t too well.
+Give me the boy. I am glad you did not nurse him.
+Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you
+Have too much blood in him.
+
+HERMIONE.
+What is this? sport?
+
+LEONTES.
+Bear the boy hence, he shall not come about her,
+Away with him, and let her sport herself
+With that she’s big with; for ’tis Polixenes
+Has made thee swell thus.
+
+ [_Exit Mamillius with some of the Guards._]
+
+HERMIONE.
+But I’d say he had not,
+And I’ll be sworn you would believe my saying,
+Howe’er you learn th’ nayward.
+
+LEONTES.
+You, my lords,
+Look on her, mark her well. Be but about
+To say, “she is a goodly lady,” and
+The justice of your hearts will thereto add
+“’Tis pity she’s not honest, honourable”:
+Praise her but for this her without-door form,
+Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight
+The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands
+That calumny doth use—O, I am out,
+That mercy does; for calumny will sear
+Virtue itself—these shrugs, these hum’s, and ha’s,
+When you have said “she’s goodly,” come between,
+Ere you can say “she’s honest”: but be it known,
+From him that has most cause to grieve it should be,
+She’s an adultress!
+
+HERMIONE.
+Should a villain say so,
+The most replenish’d villain in the world,
+He were as much more villain: you, my lord,
+Do but mistake.
+
+LEONTES.
+You have mistook, my lady,
+Polixenes for Leontes. O thou thing,
+Which I’ll not call a creature of thy place,
+Lest barbarism, making me the precedent,
+Should a like language use to all degrees,
+And mannerly distinguishment leave out
+Betwixt the prince and beggar. I have said
+She’s an adultress; I have said with whom:
+More, she’s a traitor, and Camillo is
+A federary with her; and one that knows
+What she should shame to know herself
+But with her most vile principal, that she’s
+A bed-swerver, even as bad as those
+That vulgars give bold’st titles; ay, and privy
+To this their late escape.
+
+HERMIONE.
+No, by my life,
+Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you,
+When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that
+You thus have publish’d me! Gentle my lord,
+You scarce can right me throughly then, to say
+You did mistake.
+
+LEONTES.
+No. If I mistake
+In those foundations which I build upon,
+The centre is not big enough to bear
+A school-boy’s top. Away with her to prison!
+He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty
+But that he speaks.
+
+HERMIONE.
+There’s some ill planet reigns:
+I must be patient till the heavens look
+With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,
+I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
+Commonly are; the want of which vain dew
+Perchance shall dry your pities. But I have
+That honourable grief lodg’d here which burns
+Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,
+With thoughts so qualified as your charities
+Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so
+The king’s will be perform’d.
+
+LEONTES.
+Shall I be heard?
+
+HERMIONE.
+Who is’t that goes with me? Beseech your highness
+My women may be with me, for you see
+My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools;
+There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress
+Has deserv’d prison, then abound in tears
+As I come out: this action I now go on
+Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord:
+I never wish’d to see you sorry; now
+I trust I shall. My women, come; you have leave.
+
+LEONTES.
+Go, do our bidding. Hence!
+
+ [_Exeunt Queen and Ladies with Guards._]
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Beseech your highness, call the queen again.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice
+Prove violence, in the which three great ones suffer,
+Yourself, your queen, your son.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+For her, my lord,
+I dare my life lay down, and will do’t, sir,
+Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless
+I’ th’ eyes of heaven and to you—I mean
+In this which you accuse her.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+If it prove
+She’s otherwise, I’ll keep my stables where
+I lodge my wife; I’ll go in couples with her;
+Than when I feel and see her no further trust her.
+For every inch of woman in the world,
+Ay, every dram of woman’s flesh, is false,
+If she be.
+
+LEONTES.
+Hold your peaces.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Good my lord,—
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+It is for you we speak, not for ourselves:
+You are abus’d, and by some putter-on
+That will be damn’d for’t: would I knew the villain,
+I would land-damn him. Be she honour-flaw’d,
+I have three daughters; the eldest is eleven;
+The second and the third, nine and some five;
+If this prove true, they’ll pay for’t. By mine honour,
+I’ll geld ’em all; fourteen they shall not see,
+To bring false generations: they are co-heirs,
+And I had rather glib myself than they
+Should not produce fair issue.
+
+LEONTES.
+Cease; no more.
+You smell this business with a sense as cold
+As is a dead man’s nose: but I do see’t and feel’t,
+As you feel doing thus; and see withal
+The instruments that feel.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+If it be so,
+We need no grave to bury honesty.
+There’s not a grain of it the face to sweeten
+Of the whole dungy earth.
+
+LEONTES.
+What! Lack I credit?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+I had rather you did lack than I, my lord,
+Upon this ground: and more it would content me
+To have her honour true than your suspicion,
+Be blam’d for’t how you might.
+
+LEONTES.
+Why, what need we
+Commune with you of this, but rather follow
+Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative
+Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness
+Imparts this; which, if you, or stupified
+Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not
+Relish a truth, like us, inform yourselves
+We need no more of your advice: the matter,
+The loss, the gain, the ord’ring on’t, is all
+Properly ours.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+And I wish, my liege,
+You had only in your silent judgement tried it,
+Without more overture.
+
+LEONTES.
+How could that be?
+Either thou art most ignorant by age,
+Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo’s flight,
+Added to their familiarity,
+(Which was as gross as ever touch’d conjecture,
+That lack’d sight only, nought for approbation
+But only seeing, all other circumstances
+Made up to th’ deed) doth push on this proceeding.
+Yet, for a greater confirmation
+(For in an act of this importance, ’twere
+Most piteous to be wild), I have dispatch’d in post
+To sacred Delphos, to Apollo’s temple,
+Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know
+Of stuff’d sufficiency: now from the oracle
+They will bring all, whose spiritual counsel had,
+Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well?
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Well done, my lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+Though I am satisfied, and need no more
+Than what I know, yet shall the oracle
+Give rest to the minds of others, such as he
+Whose ignorant credulity will not
+Come up to th’ truth. So have we thought it good
+From our free person she should be confin’d,
+Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence
+Be left her to perform. Come, follow us;
+We are to speak in public; for this business
+Will raise us all.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+[_Aside._] To laughter, as I take it,
+If the good truth were known.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. The outer Room of a Prison.
+
+ Enter Paulina, a Gentleman and Attendants.
+
+PAULINA.
+The keeper of the prison, call to him;
+Let him have knowledge who I am.
+
+ [_Exit the Gentleman._]
+
+Good lady!
+No court in Europe is too good for thee;
+What dost thou then in prison?
+
+ Enter Gentleman with the Gaoler.
+
+Now, good sir,
+You know me, do you not?
+
+GAOLER.
+For a worthy lady
+And one who much I honour.
+
+PAULINA.
+Pray you then,
+Conduct me to the queen.
+
+GAOLER.
+I may not, madam.
+To the contrary I have express commandment.
+
+PAULINA.
+Here’s ado, to lock up honesty and honour from
+Th’ access of gentle visitors! Is’t lawful, pray you,
+To see her women? any of them? Emilia?
+
+GAOLER.
+So please you, madam,
+To put apart these your attendants, I
+Shall bring Emilia forth.
+
+PAULINA.
+I pray now, call her.
+Withdraw yourselves.
+
+ [_Exeunt Gentleman and Attendants._]
+
+GAOLER.
+And, madam,
+I must be present at your conference.
+
+PAULINA.
+Well, be’t so, prithee.
+
+ [_Exit Gaoler._]
+
+Here’s such ado to make no stain a stain
+As passes colouring.
+
+ Re-enter Gaoler with Emilia.
+
+Dear gentlewoman,
+How fares our gracious lady?
+
+EMILIA.
+As well as one so great and so forlorn
+May hold together: on her frights and griefs,
+(Which never tender lady hath borne greater)
+She is, something before her time, deliver’d.
+
+PAULINA.
+A boy?
+
+EMILIA.
+A daughter; and a goodly babe,
+Lusty, and like to live: the queen receives
+Much comfort in ’t; says “My poor prisoner,
+I am as innocent as you.”
+
+PAULINA.
+I dare be sworn.
+These dangerous unsafe lunes i’ th’ king, beshrew them!
+He must be told on’t, and he shall: the office
+Becomes a woman best. I’ll take’t upon me.
+If I prove honey-mouth’d, let my tongue blister,
+And never to my red-look’d anger be
+The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia,
+Commend my best obedience to the queen.
+If she dares trust me with her little babe,
+I’ll show’t the king, and undertake to be
+Her advocate to th’ loud’st. We do not know
+How he may soften at the sight o’ th’ child:
+The silence often of pure innocence
+Persuades, when speaking fails.
+
+EMILIA.
+Most worthy madam,
+Your honour and your goodness is so evident,
+That your free undertaking cannot miss
+A thriving issue: there is no lady living
+So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship
+To visit the next room, I’ll presently
+Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer,
+Who but today hammer’d of this design,
+But durst not tempt a minister of honour,
+Lest she should be denied.
+
+PAULINA.
+Tell her, Emilia,
+I’ll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from ’t
+As boldness from my bosom, let’t not be doubted
+I shall do good.
+
+EMILIA.
+Now be you blest for it!
+I’ll to the queen: please you come something nearer.
+
+GAOLER.
+Madam, if ’t please the queen to send the babe,
+I know not what I shall incur to pass it,
+Having no warrant.
+
+PAULINA.
+You need not fear it, sir:
+This child was prisoner to the womb, and is,
+By law and process of great nature thence
+Freed and enfranchis’d: not a party to
+The anger of the king, nor guilty of,
+If any be, the trespass of the queen.
+
+GAOLER.
+I do believe it.
+
+PAULINA.
+Do not you fear: upon mine honour, I
+Will stand betwixt you and danger.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A Room in the Palace.
+
+ Enter Leontes, Antigonus, Lords and other Attendants.
+
+LEONTES.
+Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness
+To bear the matter thus, mere weakness. If
+The cause were not in being,—part o’ th’ cause,
+She th’ adultress; for the harlot king
+Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank
+And level of my brain, plot-proof. But she
+I can hook to me. Say that she were gone,
+Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest
+Might come to me again. Who’s there?
+
+FIRST ATTENDANT.
+My lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+How does the boy?
+
+FIRST ATTENDANT.
+He took good rest tonight;
+’Tis hop’d his sickness is discharg’d.
+
+LEONTES.
+To see his nobleness,
+Conceiving the dishonour of his mother.
+He straight declin’d, droop’d, took it deeply,
+Fasten’d and fix’d the shame on’t in himself,
+Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep,
+And downright languish’d. Leave me solely: go,
+See how he fares.
+
+ [_Exit First Attendant._]
+
+Fie, fie! no thought of him.
+The very thought of my revenges that way
+Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty,
+And in his parties, his alliance. Let him be,
+Until a time may serve. For present vengeance,
+Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes
+Laugh at me; make their pastime at my sorrow:
+They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor
+Shall she, within my power.
+
+ Enter Paulina carrying a baby, with Antigonus, lords and servants.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+You must not enter.
+
+PAULINA.
+Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me:
+Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas,
+Than the queen’s life? a gracious innocent soul,
+More free than he is jealous.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+That’s enough.
+
+SERVANT.
+Madam, he hath not slept tonight; commanded
+None should come at him.
+
+PAULINA.
+Not so hot, good sir;
+I come to bring him sleep. ’Tis such as you,
+That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh
+At each his needless heavings,—such as you
+Nourish the cause of his awaking. I
+Do come with words as med’cinal as true,
+Honest as either, to purge him of that humour
+That presses him from sleep.
+
+LEONTES.
+What noise there, ho?
+
+PAULINA.
+No noise, my lord; but needful conference
+About some gossips for your highness.
+
+LEONTES.
+How!
+Away with that audacious lady! Antigonus,
+I charg’d thee that she should not come about me.
+I knew she would.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+I told her so, my lord,
+On your displeasure’s peril and on mine,
+She should not visit you.
+
+LEONTES.
+What, canst not rule her?
+
+PAULINA.
+From all dishonesty he can. In this,
+Unless he take the course that you have done,
+Commit me for committing honour—trust it,
+He shall not rule me.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+La you now, you hear.
+When she will take the rein I let her run;
+But she’ll not stumble.
+
+PAULINA.
+Good my liege, I come,—
+And, I beseech you hear me, who professes
+Myself your loyal servant, your physician,
+Your most obedient counsellor, yet that dares
+Less appear so, in comforting your evils,
+Than such as most seem yours—I say I come
+From your good queen.
+
+LEONTES.
+Good queen!
+
+PAULINA.
+Good queen, my lord, good queen: I say, good queen,
+And would by combat make her good, so were I
+A man, the worst about you.
+
+LEONTES.
+Force her hence.
+
+PAULINA.
+Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes
+First hand me: on mine own accord I’ll off;
+But first I’ll do my errand. The good queen,
+(For she is good) hath brought you forth a daughter;
+Here ’tis; commends it to your blessing.
+
+ [_Laying down the child._]
+
+LEONTES.
+Out!
+A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o’ door:
+A most intelligencing bawd!
+
+PAULINA.
+Not so.
+I am as ignorant in that as you
+In so entitling me; and no less honest
+Than you are mad; which is enough, I’ll warrant,
+As this world goes, to pass for honest.
+
+LEONTES.
+Traitors!
+Will you not push her out? [_To Antigonus._] Give her the bastard,
+Thou dotard! Thou art woman-tir’d, unroosted
+By thy Dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard,
+Take’t up, I say; give’t to thy crone.
+
+PAULINA.
+For ever
+Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou
+Tak’st up the princess by that forced baseness
+Which he has put upon ’t!
+
+LEONTES.
+He dreads his wife.
+
+PAULINA.
+So I would you did; then ’twere past all doubt
+You’d call your children yours.
+
+LEONTES.
+A nest of traitors!
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+I am none, by this good light.
+
+PAULINA.
+Nor I; nor any
+But one that’s here, and that’s himself. For he
+The sacred honour of himself, his queen’s,
+His hopeful son’s, his babe’s, betrays to slander,
+Whose sting is sharper than the sword’s; and will not,
+(For, as the case now stands, it is a curse
+He cannot be compell’d to’t) once remove
+The root of his opinion, which is rotten
+As ever oak or stone was sound.
+
+LEONTES.
+A callat
+Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband,
+And now baits me! This brat is none of mine;
+It is the issue of Polixenes.
+Hence with it, and together with the dam
+Commit them to the fire.
+
+PAULINA.
+It is yours;
+And, might we lay th’ old proverb to your charge,
+So like you ’tis the worse. Behold, my lords,
+Although the print be little, the whole matter
+And copy of the father: eye, nose, lip,
+The trick of ’s frown, his forehead; nay, the valley,
+The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek; his smiles;
+The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger:
+And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it
+So like to him that got it, if thou hast
+The ordering of the mind too, ’mongst all colours
+No yellow in ’t, lest she suspect, as he does,
+Her children not her husband’s!
+
+LEONTES.
+A gross hag!
+And, losel, thou art worthy to be hang’d
+That wilt not stay her tongue.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+Hang all the husbands
+That cannot do that feat, you’ll leave yourself
+Hardly one subject.
+
+LEONTES.
+Once more, take her hence.
+
+PAULINA.
+A most unworthy and unnatural lord
+Can do no more.
+
+LEONTES.
+I’ll have thee burnt.
+
+PAULINA.
+I care not.
+It is an heretic that makes the fire,
+Not she which burns in ’t. I’ll not call you tyrant;
+But this most cruel usage of your queen,
+Not able to produce more accusation
+Than your own weak-hing’d fancy, something savours
+Of tyranny, and will ignoble make you,
+Yea, scandalous to the world.
+
+LEONTES.
+On your allegiance,
+Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant,
+Where were her life? She durst not call me so,
+If she did know me one. Away with her!
+
+PAULINA.
+I pray you, do not push me; I’ll be gone.
+Look to your babe, my lord; ’tis yours: Jove send her
+A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands?
+You that are thus so tender o’er his follies,
+Will never do him good, not one of you.
+So, so. Farewell; we are gone.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+LEONTES.
+Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this.
+My child? Away with’t. Even thou, that hast
+A heart so tender o’er it, take it hence,
+And see it instantly consum’d with fire;
+Even thou, and none but thou. Take it up straight:
+Within this hour bring me word ’tis done,
+And by good testimony, or I’ll seize thy life,
+With that thou else call’st thine. If thou refuse
+And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so;
+The bastard brains with these my proper hands
+Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire;
+For thou set’st on thy wife.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+I did not, sir:
+These lords, my noble fellows, if they please,
+Can clear me in ’t.
+
+LORDS
+We can: my royal liege,
+He is not guilty of her coming hither.
+
+LEONTES.
+You’re liars all.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Beseech your highness, give us better credit:
+We have always truly serv’d you; and beseech
+So to esteem of us. And on our knees we beg,
+As recompense of our dear services
+Past and to come, that you do change this purpose,
+Which being so horrible, so bloody, must
+Lead on to some foul issue. We all kneel.
+
+LEONTES.
+I am a feather for each wind that blows.
+Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel
+And call me father? better burn it now
+Than curse it then. But be it; let it live.
+It shall not neither. [_To Antigonus._] You, sir, come you hither,
+You that have been so tenderly officious
+With Lady Margery, your midwife, there,
+To save this bastard’s life—for ’tis a bastard,
+So sure as this beard’s grey. What will you adventure
+To save this brat’s life?
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+Anything, my lord,
+That my ability may undergo,
+And nobleness impose: at least thus much:
+I’ll pawn the little blood which I have left
+To save the innocent. Anything possible.
+
+LEONTES.
+It shall be possible. Swear by this sword
+Thou wilt perform my bidding.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+I will, my lord.
+
+LEONTES.
+Mark, and perform it, seest thou? for the fail
+Of any point in’t shall not only be
+Death to thyself, but to thy lewd-tongu’d wife,
+Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee,
+As thou art liegeman to us, that thou carry
+This female bastard hence, and that thou bear it
+To some remote and desert place, quite out
+Of our dominions; and that there thou leave it,
+Without more mercy, to it own protection
+And favour of the climate. As by strange fortune
+It came to us, I do in justice charge thee,
+On thy soul’s peril and thy body’s torture,
+That thou commend it strangely to some place
+Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+I swear to do this, though a present death
+Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe:
+Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
+To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say,
+Casting their savageness aside, have done
+Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous
+In more than this deed does require! And blessing
+Against this cruelty, fight on thy side,
+Poor thing, condemn’d to loss!
+
+ [_Exit with the child._]
+
+LEONTES.
+No, I’ll not rear
+Another’s issue.
+
+ Enter a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+Please your highness, posts
+From those you sent to th’ oracle are come
+An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion,
+Being well arriv’d from Delphos, are both landed,
+Hasting to th’ court.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+So please you, sir, their speed
+Hath been beyond account.
+
+LEONTES.
+Twenty-three days
+They have been absent: ’tis good speed; foretells
+The great Apollo suddenly will have
+The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords;
+Summon a session, that we may arraign
+Our most disloyal lady; for, as she hath
+Been publicly accus’d, so shall she have
+A just and open trial. While she lives,
+My heart will be a burden to me. Leave me,
+And think upon my bidding.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+SCENE I. Sicilia. A Street in some Town.
+
+ Enter Cleomenes and Dion.
+
+CLEOMENES
+The climate’s delicate; the air most sweet,
+Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
+The common praise it bears.
+
+DION.
+I shall report,
+For most it caught me, the celestial habits
+(Methinks I so should term them) and the reverence
+Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!
+How ceremonious, solemn, and unearthly,
+It was i’ th’ offering!
+
+CLEOMENES
+But of all, the burst
+And the ear-deaf’ning voice o’ th’ oracle,
+Kin to Jove’s thunder, so surprised my sense
+That I was nothing.
+
+DION.
+If the event o’ th’ journey
+Prove as successful to the queen,—O, be’t so!—
+As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,
+The time is worth the use on’t.
+
+CLEOMENES
+Great Apollo
+Turn all to th’ best! These proclamations,
+So forcing faults upon Hermione,
+I little like.
+
+DION.
+The violent carriage of it
+Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,
+(Thus by Apollo’s great divine seal’d up)
+Shall the contents discover, something rare
+Even then will rush to knowledge. Go. Fresh horses!
+And gracious be the issue!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. A Court of Justice.
+
+ Enter Leontes, Lords and Officers appear, properly seated.
+
+LEONTES.
+This sessions (to our great grief we pronounce)
+Even pushes ’gainst our heart: the party tried
+The daughter of a king, our wife, and one
+Of us too much belov’d. Let us be clear’d
+Of being tyrannous, since we so openly
+Proceed in justice, which shall have due course,
+Even to the guilt or the purgation.
+Produce the prisoner.
+
+OFFICER.
+It is his highness’ pleasure that the queen
+Appear in person here in court. Silence!
+
+ Hermione is brought in guarded; Paulina and Ladies attending.
+
+LEONTES.
+Read the indictment.
+
+OFFICER.
+[_Reads._] “Hermione, queen to the worthy Leontes, king of Sicilia,
+thou art here accused and arraigned of high treason, in committing
+adultery with Polixenes, king of Bohemia; and conspiring with Camillo
+to take away the life of our sovereign lord the king, thy royal
+husband: the pretence whereof being by circumstances partly laid open,
+thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance of a true subject,
+didst counsel and aid them, for their better safety, to fly away by
+night.”
+
+HERMIONE.
+Since what I am to say must be but that
+Which contradicts my accusation, and
+The testimony on my part no other
+But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me
+To say “Not guilty”. Mine integrity,
+Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,
+Be so receiv’d. But thus, if powers divine
+Behold our human actions, as they do,
+I doubt not, then, but innocence shall make
+False accusation blush, and tyranny
+Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,
+Who least will seem to do so, my past life
+Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,
+As I am now unhappy; which is more
+Than history can pattern, though devis’d
+And play’d to take spectators. For behold me,
+A fellow of the royal bed, which owe
+A moiety of the throne, a great king’s daughter,
+The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing
+To prate and talk for life and honour ’fore
+Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it
+As I weigh grief, which I would spare. For honour,
+’Tis a derivative from me to mine,
+And only that I stand for. I appeal
+To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes
+Came to your court, how I was in your grace,
+How merited to be so; since he came,
+With what encounter so uncurrent I
+Have strain’d t’ appear thus: if one jot beyond
+The bound of honour, or in act or will
+That way inclining, harden’d be the hearts
+Of all that hear me, and my near’st of kin
+Cry fie upon my grave!
+
+LEONTES.
+I ne’er heard yet
+That any of these bolder vices wanted
+Less impudence to gainsay what they did
+Than to perform it first.
+
+HERMIONE.
+That’s true enough;
+Though ’tis a saying, sir, not due to me.
+
+LEONTES.
+You will not own it.
+
+HERMIONE.
+More than mistress of
+Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not
+At all acknowledge. For Polixenes,
+With whom I am accus’d, I do confess
+I lov’d him as in honour he requir’d,
+With such a kind of love as might become
+A lady like me; with a love even such,
+So and no other, as yourself commanded:
+Which not to have done, I think had been in me
+Both disobedience and ingratitude
+To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,
+Ever since it could speak, from an infant, freely,
+That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy,
+I know not how it tastes, though it be dish’d
+For me to try how: all I know of it
+Is that Camillo was an honest man;
+And why he left your court, the gods themselves,
+Wotting no more than I, are ignorant.
+
+LEONTES.
+You knew of his departure, as you know
+What you have underta’en to do in ’s absence.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Sir,
+You speak a language that I understand not:
+My life stands in the level of your dreams,
+Which I’ll lay down.
+
+LEONTES.
+Your actions are my dreams.
+You had a bastard by Polixenes,
+And I but dream’d it. As you were past all shame
+(Those of your fact are so) so past all truth,
+Which to deny concerns more than avails; for as
+Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,
+No father owning it (which is, indeed,
+More criminal in thee than it), so thou
+Shalt feel our justice; in whose easiest passage
+Look for no less than death.
+
+HERMIONE.
+Sir, spare your threats:
+The bug which you would fright me with, I seek.
+To me can life be no commodity.
+The crown and comfort of my life, your favour,
+I do give lost, for I do feel it gone,
+But know not how it went. My second joy,
+And first-fruits of my body, from his presence
+I am barr’d, like one infectious. My third comfort,
+Starr’d most unluckily, is from my breast,
+(The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth)
+Hal’d out to murder; myself on every post
+Proclaim’d a strumpet; with immodest hatred
+The child-bed privilege denied, which ’longs
+To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried
+Here to this place, i’ th’ open air, before
+I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,
+Tell me what blessings I have here alive,
+That I should fear to die. Therefore proceed.
+But yet hear this: mistake me not: no life,
+I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,
+Which I would free, if I shall be condemn’d
+Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
+But what your jealousies awake, I tell you
+’Tis rigour, and not law. Your honours all,
+I do refer me to the oracle:
+Apollo be my judge!
+
+FIRST LORD.
+This your request
+Is altogether just: therefore bring forth,
+And in Apollo’s name, his oracle:
+
+ [_Exeunt certain Officers._]
+
+HERMIONE.
+The Emperor of Russia was my father.
+O that he were alive, and here beholding
+His daughter’s trial! that he did but see
+The flatness of my misery; yet with eyes
+Of pity, not revenge!
+
+ Enter Officers with Cleomenes and Dion.
+
+OFFICER.
+You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,
+That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have
+Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought
+This seal’d-up oracle, by the hand deliver’d
+Of great Apollo’s priest; and that since then
+You have not dared to break the holy seal,
+Nor read the secrets in’t.
+
+CLEOMENES, DION.
+All this we swear.
+
+LEONTES.
+Break up the seals and read.
+
+OFFICER.
+[_Reads._] “Hermione is chaste; Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true
+subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten;
+and the king shall live without an heir, if that which is lost be not
+found.”
+
+LORDS
+Now blessed be the great Apollo!
+
+HERMIONE.
+Praised!
+
+LEONTES.
+Hast thou read truth?
+
+OFFICER.
+Ay, my lord, even so
+As it is here set down.
+
+LEONTES.
+There is no truth at all i’ th’ oracle:
+The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.
+
+ Enter a Servant hastily.
+
+SERVANT.
+My lord the king, the king!
+
+LEONTES.
+What is the business?
+
+SERVANT.
+O sir, I shall be hated to report it.
+The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear
+Of the queen’s speed, is gone.
+
+LEONTES.
+How! gone?
+
+SERVANT.
+Is dead.
+
+LEONTES.
+Apollo’s angry, and the heavens themselves
+Do strike at my injustice.
+
+ [_Hermione faints._]
+
+How now there?
+
+PAULINA.
+This news is mortal to the queen. Look down
+And see what death is doing.
+
+LEONTES.
+Take her hence:
+Her heart is but o’ercharg’d; she will recover.
+I have too much believ’d mine own suspicion.
+Beseech you tenderly apply to her
+Some remedies for life.
+
+ [_Exeunt Paulina and Ladies with Hermione._]
+
+Apollo, pardon
+My great profaneness ’gainst thine oracle!
+I’ll reconcile me to Polixenes,
+New woo my queen,	 recall the good Camillo,
+Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy;
+For, being transported by my jealousies
+To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose
+Camillo for the minister to poison
+My friend Polixenes: which had been done,
+But that the good mind of Camillo tardied
+My swift command, though I with death and with
+Reward did threaten and encourage him,
+Not doing it and being done. He, most humane
+And fill’d with honour, to my kingly guest
+Unclasp’d my practice, quit his fortunes here,
+Which you knew great, and to the certain hazard
+Of all incertainties himself commended,
+No richer than his honour. How he glisters
+Thorough my rust! And how his piety
+Does my deeds make the blacker!
+
+ Enter Paulina.
+
+PAULINA.
+Woe the while!
+O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,
+Break too!
+
+FIRST LORD.
+What fit is this, good lady?
+
+PAULINA.
+What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
+What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling
+In leads or oils? What old or newer torture
+Must I receive, whose every word deserves
+To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny,
+Together working with thy jealousies,
+Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle
+For girls of nine. O, think what they have done,
+And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all
+Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.
+That thou betray’dst Polixenes, ’twas nothing;
+That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant
+And damnable ingrateful; nor was’t much
+Thou wouldst have poison’d good Camillo’s honour,
+To have him kill a king; poor trespasses,
+More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon
+The casting forth to crows thy baby daughter,
+To be or none or little, though a devil
+Would have shed water out of fire ere done’t,
+Nor is’t directly laid to thee the death
+Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,
+Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart
+That could conceive a gross and foolish sire
+Blemish’d his gracious dam: this is not, no,
+Laid to thy answer: but the last—O lords,
+When I have said, cry Woe!—the queen, the queen,
+The sweet’st, dear’st creature’s dead, and vengeance for’t
+Not dropp’d down yet.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+The higher powers forbid!
+
+PAULINA.
+I say she’s dead: I’ll swear’t. If word nor oath
+Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring
+Tincture, or lustre, in her lip, her eye,
+Heat outwardly or breath within, I’ll serve you
+As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!
+Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
+Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee
+To nothing but despair. A thousand knees
+Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,
+Upon a barren mountain, and still winter
+In storm perpetual, could not move the gods
+To look that way thou wert.
+
+LEONTES.
+Go on, go on:
+Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserv’d
+All tongues to talk their bitterest.
+
+FIRST LORD.
+Say no more:
+Howe’er the business goes, you have made fault
+I’ th’ boldness of your speech.
+
+PAULINA.
+I am sorry for ’t:
+All faults I make, when I shall come to know them,
+I do repent. Alas, I have show’d too much
+The rashness of a woman: he is touch’d
+To th’ noble heart. What’s gone and what’s past help,
+Should be past grief. Do not receive affliction
+At my petition; I beseech you, rather
+Let me be punish’d, that have minded you
+Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege,
+Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:
+The love I bore your queen—lo, fool again!
+I’ll speak of her no more, nor of your children.
+I’ll not remember you of my own lord,
+Who is lost too. Take your patience to you,
+And I’ll say nothing.
+
+LEONTES.
+Thou didst speak but well
+When most the truth, which I receive much better
+Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me
+To the dead bodies of my queen and son:
+One grave shall be for both. Upon them shall
+The causes of their death appear, unto
+Our shame perpetual. Once a day I’ll visit
+The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there
+Shall be my recreation. So long as nature
+Will bear up with this exercise, so long
+I daily vow to use it. Come, and lead me
+To these sorrows.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. Bohemia. A desert Country near the Sea.
+
+ Enter Antigonus with the Child and a Mariner.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+Thou art perfect, then, our ship hath touch’d upon
+The deserts of Bohemia?
+
+MARINER.
+Ay, my lord, and fear
+We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly,
+And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,
+The heavens with that we have in hand are angry,
+And frown upon ’s.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+Their sacred wills be done! Go, get aboard;
+Look to thy bark: I’ll not be long before
+I call upon thee.
+
+MARINER.
+Make your best haste, and go not
+Too far i’ th’ land: ’tis like to be loud weather;
+Besides, this place is famous for the creatures
+Of prey that keep upon ’t.
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+Go thou away:
+I’ll follow instantly.
+
+MARINER.
+I am glad at heart
+To be so rid o’ th’ business.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ANTIGONUS.
+Come, poor babe.
+I have heard, but not believ’d, the spirits of the dead
+May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother
+Appear’d to me last night; for ne’er was dream
+So like a waking. To me comes a creature,
+Sometimes her head on one side, some another.
+I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,
+So fill’d and so becoming: in pure white robes,
+Like very sanctity, she did approach
+My cabin where I lay: thrice bow’d before me,
+And, gasping to begin some speech, her eyes
+Became two spouts. The fury spent, anon
+Did this break from her: “Good Antigonus,
+Since fate, against thy better disposition,
+Hath made thy person for the thrower-out
+Of my poor babe, according to thine oath,
+Places remote enough are in Bohemia,
+There weep, and leave it crying. And, for the babe
+Is counted lost for ever, Perdita
+I prithee call’t. For this ungentle business,
+Put on thee by my lord, thou ne’er shalt see
+Thy wife Paulina more.” And so, with shrieks,
+She melted into air. Affrighted much,
+I did in time collect myself and thought
+This was so, and no slumber. Dreams are toys,
+Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously,
+I will be squar’d by this. I do believe
+Hermione hath suffer’d death, and that
+Apollo would, this being indeed the issue
+Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid,
+Either for life or death, upon the earth
+Of its right father. Blossom, speed thee well! There lie; and there thy
+character: there these;
+
+ [_Laying down the child and a bundle._]
+
+Which may if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty,
+And still rest thine. The storm begins: poor wretch,
+That for thy mother’s fault art thus expos’d
+To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot,
+But my heart bleeds, and most accurs’d am I
+To be by oath enjoin’d to this. Farewell!
+The day frowns more and more. Thou’rt like to have
+A lullaby too rough. I never saw
+The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour!
+Well may I get aboard! This is the chase:
+I am gone for ever.
+
+ [_Exit, pursued by a bear._]
+
+ Enter an old Shepherd.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that
+youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but
+getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing,
+fighting—Hark you now! Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen
+and two-and-twenty hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my
+best sheep, which I fear the wolf will sooner find than the master: if
+anywhere I have them, ’tis by the sea-side, browsing of ivy. Good luck,
+an ’t be thy will, what have we here?
+
+ [_Taking up the child._]
+
+ Mercy on ’s, a bairn! A very pretty bairn! A boy or a child, I wonder?
+ A pretty one; a very pretty one. Sure, some scape. Though I am not
+ bookish, yet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the scape. This has
+ been some stair-work, some trunk-work, some behind-door-work. They
+ were warmer that got this than the poor thing is here. I’ll take it up
+ for pity: yet I’ll tarry till my son come; he halloed but even now.
+ Whoa-ho-hoa!
+
+ Enter Clown.
+
+CLOWN.
+Hilloa, loa!
+
+SHEPHERD.
+What, art so near? If thou’lt see a thing to talk on when thou art dead
+and rotten, come hither. What ail’st thou, man?
+
+CLOWN.
+I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land! But I am not to say it
+is a sea, for it is now the sky: betwixt the firmament and it, you
+cannot thrust a bodkin’s point.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Why, boy, how is it?
+
+CLOWN.
+I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages, how it takes up
+the shore! But that’s not to the point. O, the most piteous cry of the
+poor souls! sometimes to see ’em, and not to see ’em. Now the ship
+boring the moon with her mainmast, and anon swallowed with yest and
+froth, as you’d thrust a cork into a hogshead. And then for the land
+service, to see how the bear tore out his shoulder-bone, how he cried
+to me for help, and said his name was Antigonus, a nobleman. But to
+make an end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragon’d it: but
+first, how the poor souls roared, and the sea mocked them, and how the
+poor gentleman roared, and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder
+than the sea or weather.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Name of mercy, when was this, boy?
+
+CLOWN.
+Now, now. I have not winked since I saw these sights: the men are not
+yet cold under water, nor the bear half dined on the gentleman. He’s at
+it now.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Would I had been by to have helped the old man!
+
+CLOWN.
+I would you had been by the ship side, to have helped her: there your
+charity would have lacked footing.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Heavy matters, heavy matters! But look thee here, boy. Now bless
+thyself: thou met’st with things dying, I with things new-born. Here’s
+a sight for thee. Look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire’s child! Look
+thee here; take up, take up, boy; open’t. So, let’s see. It was told me
+I should be rich by the fairies. This is some changeling: open’t.
+What’s within, boy?
+
+CLOWN.
+You’re a made old man. If the sins of your youth are forgiven you,
+you’re well to live. Gold! all gold!
+
+SHEPHERD.
+This is fairy gold, boy, and ’twill prove so. Up with it, keep it
+close: home, home, the next way. We are lucky, boy, and to be so still
+requires nothing but secrecy. Let my sheep go: come, good boy, the next
+way home.
+
+CLOWN.
+Go you the next way with your findings. I’ll go see if the bear be gone
+from the gentleman, and how much he hath eaten. They are never curst
+but when they are hungry: if there be any of him left, I’ll bury it.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+That’s a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that which is left of him
+what he is, fetch me to th’ sight of him.
+
+CLOWN.
+Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i’ th’ ground.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+’Tis a lucky day, boy, and we’ll do good deeds on ’t.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+SCENE I.
+
+ Enter Time, the Chorus.
+
+TIME.
+I that please some, try all: both joy and terror
+Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,
+Now take upon me, in the name of Time,
+To use my wings. Impute it not a crime
+To me or my swift passage, that I slide
+O’er sixteen years, and leave the growth untried
+Of that wide gap, since it is in my power
+To o’erthrow law, and in one self-born hour
+To plant and o’erwhelm custom. Let me pass
+The same I am, ere ancient’st order was
+Or what is now received. I witness to
+The times that brought them in; so shall I do
+To th’ freshest things now reigning, and make stale
+The glistering of this present, as my tale
+Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing,
+I turn my glass, and give my scene such growing
+As you had slept between. Leontes leaving
+Th’ effects of his fond jealousies, so grieving
+That he shuts up himself, imagine me,
+Gentle spectators, that I now may be
+In fair Bohemia, and remember well,
+I mentioned a son o’ th’ king’s, which Florizel
+I now name to you; and with speed so pace
+To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace
+Equal with wondering. What of her ensues
+I list not prophesy; but let Time’s news
+Be known when ’tis brought forth. A shepherd’s daughter,
+And what to her adheres, which follows after,
+Is th’ argument of Time. Of this allow,
+If ever you have spent time worse ere now;
+If never, yet that Time himself doth say
+He wishes earnestly you never may.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE II. Bohemia. A Room in the palace of Polixenes.
+
+ Enter Polixenes and Camillo.
+
+POLIXENES.
+I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate: ’tis a sickness
+denying thee anything; a death to grant this.
+
+CAMILLO.
+It is fifteen years since I saw my country. Though I have for the most
+part been aired abroad, I desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the
+penitent king, my master, hath sent for me; to whose feeling sorrows I
+might be some allay, or I o’erween to think so,—which is another spur
+to my departure.
+
+POLIXENES.
+As thou lov’st me, Camillo, wipe not out the rest of thy services by
+leaving me now: the need I have of thee, thine own goodness hath made;
+better not to have had thee than thus to want thee. Thou, having made
+me businesses which none without thee can sufficiently manage, must
+either stay to execute them thyself, or take away with thee the very
+services thou hast done, which if I have not enough considered (as too
+much I cannot) to be more thankful to thee shall be my study; and my
+profit therein the heaping friendships. Of that fatal country Sicilia,
+prithee speak no more; whose very naming punishes me with the
+remembrance of that penitent, as thou call’st him, and reconciled king,
+my brother; whose loss of his most precious queen and children are even
+now to be afresh lamented. Say to me, when sawest thou the Prince
+Florizel, my son? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not being
+gracious, than they are in losing them when they have approved their
+virtues.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince. What his happier affairs
+may be, are to me unknown, but I have missingly noted he is of late
+much retired from court, and is less frequent to his princely exercises
+than formerly he hath appeared.
+
+POLIXENES.
+I have considered so much, Camillo, and with some care; so far that I
+have eyes under my service which look upon his removedness; from whom I
+have this intelligence, that he is seldom from the house of a most
+homely shepherd, a man, they say, that from very nothing, and beyond
+the imagination of his neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a daughter of most rare
+note: the report of her is extended more than can be thought to begin
+from such a cottage.
+
+POLIXENES.
+That’s likewise part of my intelligence: but, I fear, the angle that
+plucks our son thither. Thou shalt accompany us to the place, where we
+will, not appearing what we are, have some question with the shepherd;
+from whose simplicity I think it not uneasy to get the cause of my
+son’s resort thither. Prithee, be my present partner in this business,
+and lay aside the thoughts of Sicilia.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I willingly obey your command.
+
+POLIXENES.
+My best Camillo! We must disguise ourselves.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A Road near the Shepherd’s cottage.
+
+ Enter Autolycus, singing.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+_When daffodils begin to peer,
+    With, hey! the doxy over the dale,
+Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year,
+    For the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale._
+
+_The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
+    With, hey! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
+Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
+    For a quart of ale is a dish for a king._
+
+_The lark, that tirra-lirra chants,
+    With, hey! with, hey! the thrush and the jay,
+Are summer songs for me and my aunts,
+    While we lie tumbling in the hay._
+
+I have served Prince Florizel, and in my time wore three-pile, but now
+I am out of service.
+
+_But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?
+    The pale moon shines by night:
+And when I wander here and there,
+    I then do most go right._
+
+_If tinkers may have leave to live,
+    And bear the sow-skin budget,
+Then my account I well may give
+    And in the stocks avouch it._
+
+My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds, look to lesser linen. My
+father named me Autolycus; who being, I as am, littered under Mercury,
+was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. With die and drab I
+purchased this caparison, and my revenue is the silly cheat. Gallows
+and knock are too powerful on the highway. Beating and hanging are
+terrors to me. For the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it. A
+prize! a prize!
+
+ Enter Clown.
+
+CLOWN.
+Let me see: every ’leven wether tods; every tod yields pound and odd
+shilling; fifteen hundred shorn, what comes the wool to?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+[_Aside._] If the springe hold, the cock’s mine.
+
+CLOWN.
+I cannot do’t without counters. Let me see; what am I to buy for our
+sheep-shearing feast? “Three pound of sugar, five pound of currants,
+rice”—what will this sister of mine do with rice? But my father hath
+made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it on. She hath made me
+four-and-twenty nosegays for the shearers, three-man song-men all, and
+very good ones; but they are most of them means and basses, but one
+puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. I must have
+saffron to colour the warden pies; “mace; dates”, none, that’s out of
+my note; “nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger”, but that I may beg;
+“four pound of prunes, and as many of raisins o’ th’ sun.”
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+[_Grovelling on the ground._] O that ever I was born!
+
+CLOWN.
+I’ th’ name of me!
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+O, help me, help me! Pluck but off these rags; and then, death, death!
+
+CLOWN.
+Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of more rags to lay on thee, rather
+than have these off.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more than the stripes I
+have received, which are mighty ones and millions.
+
+CLOWN.
+Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a great matter.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel ta’en from me, and
+these detestable things put upon me.
+
+CLOWN.
+What, by a horseman or a footman?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+A footman, sweet sir, a footman.
+
+CLOWN.
+Indeed, he should be a footman by the garments he has left with thee:
+if this be a horseman’s coat, it hath seen very hot service. Lend me
+thy hand, I’ll help thee: come, lend me thy hand.
+
+ [_Helping him up._]
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+O, good sir, tenderly, O!
+
+CLOWN.
+Alas, poor soul!
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+O, good sir, softly, good sir. I fear, sir, my shoulder blade is out.
+
+CLOWN.
+How now! canst stand?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Softly, dear sir! [_Picks his pocket._] good sir, softly. You ha’ done
+me a charitable office.
+
+CLOWN.
+Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+No, good sweet sir; no, I beseech you, sir: I have a kinsman not past
+three-quarters of a mile hence, unto whom I was going. I shall there
+have money or anything I want. Offer me no money, I pray you; that
+kills my heart.
+
+CLOWN.
+What manner of fellow was he that robbed you?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with troll-my-dames. I
+knew him once a servant of the prince; I cannot tell, good sir, for
+which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the
+court.
+
+CLOWN.
+His vices, you would say; there’s no virtue whipped out of the court.
+They cherish it to make it stay there; and yet it will no more but
+abide.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well. He hath been since an
+ape-bearer, then a process-server, a bailiff. Then he compassed a
+motion of the Prodigal Son, and married a tinker’s wife within a mile
+where my land and living lies; and, having flown over many knavish
+professions, he settled only in rogue. Some call him Autolycus.
+
+CLOWN.
+Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts wakes, fairs, and
+bear-baitings.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that’s the rogue that put me into this
+apparel.
+
+CLOWN.
+Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia. If you had but looked big and
+spit at him, he’d have run.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter. I am false of heart that
+way; and that he knew, I warrant him.
+
+CLOWN.
+How do you now?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Sweet sir, much better than I was. I can stand and walk: I will even
+take my leave of you and pace softly towards my kinsman’s.
+
+CLOWN.
+Shall I bring thee on the way?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir.
+
+CLOWN.
+Then fare thee well. I must go buy spices for our sheep-shearing.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Prosper you, sweet sir!
+
+ [_Exit Clown._]
+
+ Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice. I’ll be with you
+ at your sheep-shearing too. If I make not this cheat bring out
+ another, and the shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled, and my name
+ put in the book of virtue!
+[_Sings._]
+_Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,
+    And merrily hent the stile-a:
+A merry heart goes all the day,
+    Your sad tires in a mile-a._
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+SCENE IV. The same. A Shepherd’s Cottage.
+
+ Enter Florizel and Perdita.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+These your unusual weeds to each part of you
+Do give a life, no shepherdess, but Flora
+Peering in April’s front. This your sheep-shearing
+Is as a meeting of the petty gods,
+And you the queen on ’t.
+
+PERDITA.
+Sir, my gracious lord,
+To chide at your extremes it not becomes me;
+O, pardon that I name them! Your high self,
+The gracious mark o’ th’ land, you have obscur’d
+With a swain’s wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,
+Most goddess-like prank’d up. But that our feasts
+In every mess have folly, and the feeders
+Digest it with a custom, I should blush
+To see you so attir’d; swoon, I think,
+To show myself a glass.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+I bless the time
+When my good falcon made her flight across
+Thy father’s ground.
+
+PERDITA.
+Now Jove afford you cause!
+To me the difference forges dread. Your greatness
+Hath not been us’d to fear. Even now I tremble
+To think your father, by some accident,
+Should pass this way, as you did. O, the Fates!
+How would he look to see his work, so noble,
+Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how
+Should I, in these my borrow’d flaunts, behold
+The sternness of his presence?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Apprehend
+Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,
+Humbling their deities to love, have taken
+The shapes of beasts upon them. Jupiter
+Became a bull and bellow’d; the green Neptune
+A ram and bleated; and the fire-rob’d god,
+Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain,
+As I seem now. Their transformations
+Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,
+Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires
+Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts
+Burn hotter than my faith.
+
+PERDITA.
+O, but, sir,
+Your resolution cannot hold when ’tis
+Oppos’d, as it must be, by the power of the king:
+One of these two must be necessities,
+Which then will speak, that you must change this purpose,
+Or I my life.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Thou dearest Perdita,
+With these forc’d thoughts, I prithee, darken not
+The mirth o’ th’ feast. Or I’ll be thine, my fair,
+Or not my father’s. For I cannot be
+Mine own, nor anything to any, if
+I be not thine. To this I am most constant,
+Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle.
+Strangle such thoughts as these with anything
+That you behold the while. Your guests are coming:
+Lift up your countenance, as it were the day
+Of celebration of that nuptial which
+We two have sworn shall come.
+
+PERDITA.
+O lady Fortune,
+Stand you auspicious!
+
+FLORIZEL.
+See, your guests approach:
+Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
+And let’s be red with mirth.
+
+ Enter Shepherd with Polixenes and Camillo, disguised; Clown, Mopsa,
+ Dorcas with others.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Fie, daughter! When my old wife liv’d, upon
+This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
+Both dame and servant; welcom’d all; serv’d all;
+Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here
+At upper end o’ th’ table, now i’ th’ middle;
+On his shoulder, and his; her face o’ fire
+With labour, and the thing she took to quench it
+She would to each one sip. You are retired,
+As if you were a feasted one, and not
+The hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid
+These unknown friends to ’s welcome, for it is
+A way to make us better friends, more known.
+Come, quench your blushes, and present yourself
+That which you are, mistress o’ th’ feast. Come on,
+And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing,
+As your good flock shall prosper.
+
+PERDITA.
+[_To Polixenes._] Sir, welcome.
+It is my father’s will I should take on me
+The hostess-ship o’ the day.
+[_To Camillo._] You’re welcome, sir.
+Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs,
+For you there’s rosemary and rue; these keep
+Seeming and savour all the winter long.
+Grace and remembrance be to you both!
+And welcome to our shearing!
+
+POLIXENES.
+Shepherdess—
+A fair one are you—well you fit our ages
+With flowers of winter.
+
+PERDITA.
+Sir, the year growing ancient,
+Not yet on summer’s death nor on the birth
+Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o’ th’ season
+Are our carnations and streak’d gillyvors,
+Which some call nature’s bastards: of that kind
+Our rustic garden’s barren; and I care not
+To get slips of them.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Wherefore, gentle maiden,
+Do you neglect them?
+
+PERDITA.
+For I have heard it said
+There is an art which, in their piedness, shares
+With great creating nature.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Say there be;
+Yet nature is made better by no mean
+But nature makes that mean. So, over that art
+Which you say adds to nature, is an art
+That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry
+A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
+And make conceive a bark of baser kind
+By bud of nobler race. This is an art
+Which does mend nature, change it rather, but
+The art itself is nature.
+
+PERDITA.
+So it is.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Then make your garden rich in gillyvors,
+And do not call them bastards.
+
+PERDITA.
+I’ll not put
+The dibble in earth to set one slip of them;
+No more than, were I painted, I would wish
+This youth should say ’twere well, and only therefore
+Desire to breed by me. Here’s flowers for you:
+Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram,
+The marigold, that goes to bed with th’ sun
+And with him rises weeping. These are flowers
+Of middle summer, and I think they are given
+To men of middle age. You’re very welcome.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I should leave grazing, were I of your flock,
+And only live by gazing.
+
+PERDITA.
+Out, alas!
+You’d be so lean that blasts of January
+Would blow you through and through. [_To Florizel_] Now, my fair’st
+friend,
+I would I had some flowers o’ th’ spring, that might
+Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,
+That wear upon your virgin branches yet
+Your maidenheads growing. O Proserpina,
+From the flowers now that, frighted, thou let’st fall
+From Dis’s waggon! daffodils,
+That come before the swallow dares, and take
+The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
+But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes
+Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses,
+That die unmarried ere they can behold
+Bright Phoebus in his strength (a malady
+Most incident to maids); bold oxlips and
+The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
+The flower-de-luce being one. O, these I lack,
+To make you garlands of; and my sweet friend,
+To strew him o’er and o’er!
+
+FLORIZEL.
+What, like a corse?
+
+PERDITA.
+No, like a bank for love to lie and play on;
+Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried,
+But quick, and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers.
+Methinks I play as I have seen them do
+In Whitsun pastorals. Sure this robe of mine
+Does change my disposition.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+What you do
+Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet,
+I’d have you do it ever. When you sing,
+I’d have you buy and sell so, so give alms,
+Pray so; and, for the ord’ring your affairs,
+To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you
+A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do
+Nothing but that, move still, still so,
+And own no other function. Each your doing,
+So singular in each particular,
+Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds,
+That all your acts are queens.
+
+PERDITA.
+O Doricles,
+Your praises are too large. But that your youth,
+And the true blood which peeps fairly through ’t,
+Do plainly give you out an unstained shepherd,
+With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles,
+You woo’d me the false way.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+I think you have
+As little skill to fear as I have purpose
+To put you to ’t. But, come; our dance, I pray.
+Your hand, my Perdita. So turtles pair
+That never mean to part.
+
+PERDITA.
+I’ll swear for ’em.
+
+POLIXENES.
+This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever
+Ran on the green-sward. Nothing she does or seems
+But smacks of something greater than herself,
+Too noble for this place.
+
+CAMILLO.
+He tells her something
+That makes her blood look out. Good sooth, she is
+The queen of curds and cream.
+
+CLOWN.
+Come on, strike up.
+
+DORCAS.
+Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic, to mend her kissing with!
+
+MOPSA.
+Now, in good time!
+
+CLOWN.
+Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners.
+Come, strike up.
+
+ [_Music. Here a dance Of Shepherds and Shepherdesses._]
+
+POLIXENES.
+Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this
+Which dances with your daughter?
+
+SHEPHERD.
+They call him Doricles; and boasts himself
+To have a worthy feeding. But I have it
+Upon his own report, and I believe it.
+He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter.
+I think so too; for never gaz’d the moon
+Upon the water as he’ll stand and read,
+As ’twere, my daughter’s eyes. And, to be plain,
+I think there is not half a kiss to choose
+Who loves another best.
+
+POLIXENES.
+She dances featly.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+So she does anything, though I report it
+That should be silent. If young Doricles
+Do light upon her, she shall bring him that
+Which he not dreams of.
+
+ Enter a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never
+dance again after a tabor and pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you.
+He sings several tunes faster than you’ll tell money. He utters them as
+he had eaten ballads, and all men’s ears grew to his tunes.
+
+CLOWN.
+He could never come better: he shall come in. I love a ballad but even
+too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant
+thing indeed and sung lamentably.
+
+SERVANT.
+He hath songs for man or woman of all sizes. No milliner can so fit his
+customers with gloves. He has the prettiest love-songs for maids, so
+without bawdry, which is strange; with such delicate burdens of dildos
+and fadings, “jump her and thump her”; and where some stretch-mouthed
+rascal would, as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into the
+matter, he makes the maid to answer “Whoop, do me no harm, good man”;
+puts him off, slights him, with “Whoop, do me no harm, good man.”
+
+POLIXENES.
+This is a brave fellow.
+
+CLOWN.
+Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited fellow. Has he any
+unbraided wares?
+
+SERVANT.
+He hath ribbons of all the colours i’ th’ rainbow; points, more than
+all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, though they come to
+him by th’ gross; inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns; why he sings ’em
+over as they were gods or goddesses; you would think a smock were a
+she-angel, he so chants to the sleeve-hand and the work about the
+square on ’t.
+
+CLOWN.
+Prithee bring him in; and let him approach singing.
+
+PERDITA.
+Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in ’s tunes.
+
+ [_Exit Servant._]
+
+CLOWN.
+You have of these pedlars that have more in them than you’d think,
+sister.
+
+PERDITA.
+Ay, good brother, or go about to think.
+
+ Enter Autolycus, singing.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+_Lawn as white as driven snow,
+Cypress black as e’er was crow,
+Gloves as sweet as damask roses,
+Masks for faces and for noses,
+Bugle-bracelet, necklace amber,
+Perfume for a lady’s chamber,
+Golden quoifs and stomachers
+For my lads to give their dears,
+Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
+What maids lack from head to heel.
+Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;
+Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry.
+Come, buy._
+
+CLOWN.
+If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take no money of me;
+but being enthralled as I am, it will also be the bondage of certain
+ribbons and gloves.
+
+MOPSA.
+I was promised them against the feast; but they come not too late now.
+
+DORCAS.
+He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars.
+
+MOPSA.
+He hath paid you all he promised you. Maybe he has paid you more, which
+will shame you to give him again.
+
+CLOWN.
+Is there no manners left among maids? Will they wear their plackets
+where they should bear their faces? Is there not milking-time, when you
+are going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle of these secrets, but you
+must be tittle-tattling before all our guests? ’Tis well they are
+whispering. Clamour your tongues, and not a word more.
+
+MOPSA.
+I have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry lace and a pair of sweet
+gloves.
+
+CLOWN.
+Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way and lost all my
+money?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad; therefore it behoves men to
+be wary.
+
+CLOWN.
+Fear not thou, man. Thou shalt lose nothing here.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels of charge.
+
+CLOWN.
+What hast here? Ballads?
+
+MOPSA.
+Pray now, buy some. I love a ballad in print alife, for then we are
+sure they are true.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Here’s one to a very doleful tune. How a usurer’s wife was brought to
+bed of twenty money-bags at a burden, and how she longed to eat adders’
+heads and toads carbonadoed.
+
+MOPSA.
+Is it true, think you?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Very true, and but a month old.
+
+DORCAS.
+Bless me from marrying a usurer!
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Here’s the midwife’s name to’t, one Mistress Taleporter, and five or
+six honest wives that were present. Why should I carry lies abroad?
+
+MOPSA.
+Pray you now, buy it.
+
+CLOWN.
+Come on, lay it by; and let’s first see more ballads. We’ll buy the
+other things anon.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Here’s another ballad, of a fish that appeared upon the coast on
+Wednesday the fourscore of April, forty thousand fathom above water,
+and sung this ballad against the hard hearts of maids. It was thought
+she was a woman, and was turned into a cold fish for she would not
+exchange flesh with one that loved her. The ballad is very pitiful, and
+as true.
+
+DORCAS.
+Is it true too, think you?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Five justices’ hands at it, and witnesses more than my pack will hold.
+
+CLOWN.
+Lay it by too: another.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+This is a merry ballad; but a very pretty one.
+
+MOPSA.
+Let’s have some merry ones.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to the tune of “Two maids
+wooing a man.” There’s scarce a maid westward but she sings it. ’Tis in
+request, I can tell you.
+
+MOPSA.
+We can both sing it: if thou’lt bear a part, thou shalt hear; ’tis in
+three parts.
+
+DORCAS.
+We had the tune on ’t a month ago.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I can bear my part; you must know ’tis my occupation: have at it with
+you.
+
+SONG.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+_Get you hence, for I must go
+Where it fits not you to know._
+
+DORCAS.
+_Whither?_
+
+MOPSA.
+_O, whither?_
+
+DORCAS.
+_Whither?_
+
+MOPSA.
+_It becomes thy oath full well
+Thou to me thy secrets tell._
+
+DORCAS.
+_Me too! Let me go thither._
+
+MOPSA.
+Or thou goest to th’ grange or mill.
+
+DORCAS.
+_If to either, thou dost ill._
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+_Neither._
+
+DORCAS.
+_What, neither?_
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+_Neither._
+
+DORCAS.
+_Thou hast sworn my love to be._
+
+MOPSA.
+_Thou hast sworn it more to me.
+Then whither goest? Say, whither?_
+
+CLOWN.
+We’ll have this song out anon by ourselves. My father and the gentlemen
+are in sad talk, and we’ll not trouble them. Come, bring away thy pack
+after me. Wenches, I’ll buy for you both. Pedlar, let’s have the first
+choice. Follow me, girls.
+
+ [_Exit with Dorcas and Mopsa._]
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+[_Aside._] And you shall pay well for ’em.
+
+SONG.
+
+
+    _Will you buy any tape,
+    Or lace for your cape,
+My dainty duck, my dear-a?
+    Any silk, any thread,
+    Any toys for your head,
+Of the new’st and fin’st, fin’st wear-a?
+    Come to the pedlar;
+    Money’s a meddler
+That doth utter all men’s ware-a._
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+Master, there is three carters, three shepherds, three neat-herds,
+three swine-herds, that have made themselves all men of hair. They call
+themselves saltiers, and they have dance which the wenches say is a
+gallimaufry of gambols, because they are not in ’t; but they themselves
+are o’ the mind (if it be not too rough for some that know little but
+bowling) it will please plentifully.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Away! we’ll none on ’t. Here has been too much homely foolery already.
+I know, sir, we weary you.
+
+POLIXENES.
+You weary those that refresh us: pray, let’s see these four threes of
+herdsmen.
+
+SERVANT.
+One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath danced before the
+king; and not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half
+by th’ square.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Leave your prating: since these good men are pleased, let them come in;
+but quickly now.
+
+SERVANT.
+Why, they stay at door, sir.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+ Enter Twelve Rustics, habited like Satyrs. They dance, and then
+ exeunt.
+
+POLIXENES.
+O, father, you’ll know more of that hereafter.
+[_To Camillo._] Is it not too far gone? ’Tis time to part them.
+He’s simple and tells much. [_To Florizel._] How now, fair shepherd!
+Your heart is full of something that does take
+Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young
+And handed love, as you do, I was wont
+To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack’d
+The pedlar’s silken treasury and have pour’d it
+To her acceptance. You have let him go,
+And nothing marted with him. If your lass
+Interpretation should abuse, and call this
+Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited
+For a reply, at least if you make a care
+Of happy holding her.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Old sir, I know
+She prizes not such trifles as these are:
+The gifts she looks from me are pack’d and lock’d
+Up in my heart, which I have given already,
+But not deliver’d. O, hear me breathe my life
+Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem,
+Hath sometime lov’d. I take thy hand! this hand,
+As soft as dove’s down and as white as it,
+Or Ethiopian’s tooth, or the fann’d snow that’s bolted
+By th’ northern blasts twice o’er.
+
+POLIXENES.
+What follows this?
+How prettily the young swain seems to wash
+The hand was fair before! I have put you out.
+But to your protestation. Let me hear
+What you profess.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Do, and be witness to ’t.
+
+POLIXENES.
+And this my neighbour, too?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+And he, and more
+Than he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all:
+That were I crown’d the most imperial monarch,
+Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth
+That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge
+More than was ever man’s, I would not prize them
+Without her love; for her employ them all;
+Commend them and condemn them to her service,
+Or to their own perdition.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Fairly offer’d.
+
+CAMILLO.
+This shows a sound affection.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+But my daughter,
+Say you the like to him?
+
+PERDITA.
+I cannot speak
+So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better:
+By th’ pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
+The purity of his.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Take hands, a bargain!
+And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to’t.
+I give my daughter to him, and will make
+Her portion equal his.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+O, that must be
+I’ th’ virtue of your daughter: one being dead,
+I shall have more than you can dream of yet;
+Enough then for your wonder. But come on,
+Contract us ’fore these witnesses.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Come, your hand;
+And, daughter, yours.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you;
+Have you a father?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+I have; but what of him?
+
+POLIXENES.
+Knows he of this?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+He neither does nor shall.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Methinks a father
+Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
+That best becomes the table. Pray you once more,
+Is not your father grown incapable
+Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid
+With age and alt’ring rheums? can he speak? hear?
+Know man from man? dispute his own estate?
+Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing
+But what he did being childish?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+No, good sir;
+He has his health, and ampler strength indeed
+Than most have of his age.
+
+POLIXENES.
+By my white beard,
+You offer him, if this be so, a wrong
+Something unfilial: reason my son
+Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason
+The father, all whose joy is nothing else
+But fair posterity, should hold some counsel
+In such a business.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+I yield all this;
+But for some other reasons, my grave sir,
+Which ’tis not fit you know, I not acquaint
+My father of this business.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Let him know ’t.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+He shall not.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Prithee let him.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+No, he must not.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve
+At knowing of thy choice.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Come, come, he must not.
+Mark our contract.
+
+POLIXENES.
+[_Discovering himself._] Mark your divorce, young sir,
+Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base
+To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre’s heir,
+That thus affects a sheep-hook! Thou, old traitor,
+I am sorry that, by hanging thee, I can
+But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece
+Of excellent witchcraft, whom of force must know
+The royal fool thou cop’st with,—
+
+SHEPHERD.
+O, my heart!
+
+POLIXENES.
+I’ll have thy beauty scratch’d with briers and made
+More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy,
+If I may ever know thou dost but sigh
+That thou no more shalt see this knack (as never
+I mean thou shalt), we’ll bar thee from succession;
+Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,
+Far than Deucalion off. Mark thou my words.
+Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time,
+Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee
+From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment,
+Worthy enough a herdsman; yea, him too
+That makes himself, but for our honour therein,
+Unworthy thee. If ever henceforth thou
+These rural latches to his entrance open,
+Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,
+I will devise a death as cruel for thee
+As thou art tender to ’t.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+PERDITA.
+Even here undone.
+I was not much afeard, for once or twice
+I was about to speak, and tell him plainly
+The selfsame sun that shines upon his court
+Hides not his visage from our cottage, but
+Looks on alike. [_To Florizel._] Will’t please you, sir, be gone?
+I told you what would come of this. Beseech you,
+Of your own state take care. This dream of mine—
+Being now awake, I’ll queen it no inch farther,
+But milk my ewes, and weep.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Why, how now, father!
+Speak ere thou diest.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+I cannot speak, nor think,
+Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir,
+You have undone a man of fourscore three,
+That thought to fill his grave in quiet; yea,
+To die upon the bed my father died,
+To lie close by his honest bones; but now
+Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
+Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch,
+That knew’st this was the prince, and wouldst adventure
+To mingle faith with him! Undone, undone!
+If I might die within this hour, I have liv’d
+To die when I desire.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Why look you so upon me?
+I am but sorry, not afeard; delay’d,
+But nothing alt’red: what I was, I am:
+More straining on for plucking back; not following
+My leash unwillingly.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Gracious my lord,
+You know your father’s temper: at this time
+He will allow no speech (which I do guess
+You do not purpose to him) and as hardly
+Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear:
+Then, till the fury of his highness settle,
+Come not before him.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+I not purpose it.
+I think Camillo?
+
+CAMILLO.
+Even he, my lord.
+
+PERDITA.
+How often have I told you ’twould be thus!
+How often said my dignity would last
+But till ’twere known!
+
+FLORIZEL.
+It cannot fail but by
+The violation of my faith; and then
+Let nature crush the sides o’ th’ earth together
+And mar the seeds within! Lift up thy looks.
+From my succession wipe me, father; I
+Am heir to my affection.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Be advis’d.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+I am, and by my fancy. If my reason
+Will thereto be obedient, I have reason;
+If not, my senses, better pleas’d with madness,
+Do bid it welcome.
+
+CAMILLO.
+This is desperate, sir.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+So call it: but it does fulfil my vow.
+I needs must think it honesty. Camillo,
+Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may
+Be thereat glean’d; for all the sun sees or
+The close earth wombs, or the profound seas hides
+In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath
+To this my fair belov’d. Therefore, I pray you,
+As you have ever been my father’s honour’d friend,
+When he shall miss me,—as, in faith, I mean not
+To see him any more,—cast your good counsels
+Upon his passion: let myself and fortune
+Tug for the time to come. This you may know,
+And so deliver, I am put to sea
+With her whom here I cannot hold on shore;
+And, most opportune to her need, I have
+A vessel rides fast by, but not prepar’d
+For this design. What course I mean to hold
+Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor
+Concern me the reporting.
+
+CAMILLO.
+O my lord,
+I would your spirit were easier for advice,
+Or stronger for your need.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Hark, Perdita. [_Takes her aside._]
+[_To Camillo._] I’ll hear you by and by.
+
+CAMILLO.
+He’s irremovable,
+Resolv’d for flight. Now were I happy if
+His going I could frame to serve my turn,
+Save him from danger, do him love and honour,
+Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia
+And that unhappy king, my master, whom
+I so much thirst to see.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Now, good Camillo,
+I am so fraught with curious business that
+I leave out ceremony.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Sir, I think
+You have heard of my poor services, i’ th’ love
+That I have borne your father?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Very nobly
+Have you deserv’d: it is my father’s music
+To speak your deeds, not little of his care
+To have them recompens’d as thought on.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Well, my lord,
+If you may please to think I love the king,
+And, through him, what’s nearest to him, which is
+Your gracious self, embrace but my direction,
+If your more ponderous and settled project
+May suffer alteration. On mine honour,
+I’ll point you where you shall have such receiving
+As shall become your highness; where you may
+Enjoy your mistress; from the whom, I see,
+There’s no disjunction to be made, but by,
+As heavens forfend, your ruin. Marry her,
+And with my best endeavours in your absence
+Your discontenting father strive to qualify
+And bring him up to liking.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+How, Camillo,
+May this, almost a miracle, be done?
+That I may call thee something more than man,
+And after that trust to thee.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Have you thought on
+A place whereto you’ll go?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Not any yet.
+But as th’ unthought-on accident is guilty
+To what we wildly do, so we profess
+Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
+Of every wind that blows.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Then list to me:
+This follows, if you will not change your purpose,
+But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia,
+And there present yourself and your fair princess,
+For so, I see, she must be, ’fore Leontes:
+She shall be habited as it becomes
+The partner of your bed. Methinks I see
+Leontes opening his free arms and weeping
+His welcomes forth; asks thee, the son, forgiveness,
+As ’twere i’ th’ father’s person; kisses the hands
+Of your fresh princess; o’er and o’er divides him
+’Twixt his unkindness and his kindness. Th’ one
+He chides to hell, and bids the other grow
+Faster than thought or time.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Worthy Camillo,
+What colour for my visitation shall I
+Hold up before him?
+
+CAMILLO.
+Sent by the king your father
+To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,
+The manner of your bearing towards him, with
+What you (as from your father) shall deliver,
+Things known betwixt us three, I’ll write you down,
+The which shall point you forth at every sitting
+What you must say; that he shall not perceive
+But that you have your father’s bosom there
+And speak his very heart.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+I am bound to you:
+There is some sap in this.
+
+CAMILLO.
+A course more promising
+Than a wild dedication of yourselves
+To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores, most certain
+To miseries enough: no hope to help you,
+But as you shake off one to take another:
+Nothing so certain as your anchors, who
+Do their best office if they can but stay you
+Where you’ll be loath to be. Besides, you know
+Prosperity’s the very bond of love,
+Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
+Affliction alters.
+
+PERDITA.
+One of these is true:
+I think affliction may subdue the cheek,
+But not take in the mind.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Yea, say you so?
+There shall not at your father’s house, these seven years
+Be born another such.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+My good Camillo,
+She is as forward of her breeding as
+She is i’ th’ rear our birth.
+
+CAMILLO.
+I cannot say ’tis pity
+She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress
+To most that teach.
+
+PERDITA.
+Your pardon, sir; for this
+I’ll blush you thanks.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+My prettiest Perdita!
+But, O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo,
+Preserver of my father, now of me,
+The medicine of our house, how shall we do?
+We are not furnish’d like Bohemia’s son,
+Nor shall appear in Sicilia.
+
+CAMILLO.
+My lord,
+Fear none of this. I think you know my fortunes
+Do all lie there: it shall be so my care
+To have you royally appointed as if
+The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir,
+That you may know you shall not want,—one word.
+[_They talk aside._]
+
+ Enter Autolycus.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, a very
+simple gentleman! I have sold all my trumpery. Not a counterfeit stone,
+not a ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape,
+glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack from fasting.
+They throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed
+and brought a benediction to the buyer: by which means I saw whose
+purse was best in picture; and what I saw, to my good use I remembered.
+My clown (who wants but something to be a reasonable man) grew so in
+love with the wenches’ song that he would not stir his pettitoes till
+he had both tune and words; which so drew the rest of the herd to me
+that all their other senses stuck in ears: you might have pinched a
+placket, it was senseless; ’twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a purse;
+I would have filed keys off that hung in chains: no hearing, no
+feeling, but my sir’s song, and admiring the nothing of it. So that in
+this time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their festival purses;
+and had not the old man come in with a whoobub against his daughter and
+the king’s son, and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not left a
+purse alive in the whole army.
+
+ Camillo, Florizel and Perdita come forward.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Nay, but my letters, by this means being there
+So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+And those that you’ll procure from king Leontes?
+
+CAMILLO.
+Shall satisfy your father.
+
+PERDITA.
+Happy be you!
+All that you speak shows fair.
+
+CAMILLO.
+[_Seeing Autolycus._] Who have we here?
+We’ll make an instrument of this; omit
+Nothing may give us aid.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+[_Aside._] If they have overheard me now,—why, hanging.
+
+CAMILLO.
+How now, good fellow! why shakest thou so? Fear not, man; here’s no
+harm intended to thee.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I am a poor fellow, sir.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Why, be so still; here’s nobody will steal that from thee: yet, for the
+outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore discase thee
+instantly,—thou must think there’s a necessity in’t—and change garments
+with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side be the worst,
+yet hold thee, there’s some boot.
+
+ [_Giving money._]
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I am a poor fellow, sir: [_Aside._] I know ye well enough.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Nay, prithee dispatch: the gentleman is half flayed already.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Are you in earnest, sir? [_Aside._] I smell the trick on’t.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Dispatch, I prithee.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Indeed, I have had earnest; but I cannot with conscience take it.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Unbuckle, unbuckle.
+
+ [_Florizel and Autolycus exchange garments._]
+
+Fortunate mistress,—let my prophecy
+Come home to you!—you must retire yourself
+Into some covert. Take your sweetheart’s hat
+And pluck it o’er your brows, muffle your face,
+Dismantle you; and, as you can, disliken
+The truth of your own seeming; that you may
+(For I do fear eyes over) to shipboard
+Get undescried.
+
+PERDITA.
+I see the play so lies
+That I must bear a part.
+
+CAMILLO.
+No remedy.
+Have you done there?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Should I now meet my father,
+He would not call me son.
+
+CAMILLO.
+Nay, you shall have no hat. [_Giving it to Perdita._]
+Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Adieu, sir.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+O Perdita, what have we twain forgot?
+Pray you a word.
+
+ [_They converse apart._]
+
+CAMILLO.
+[_Aside._] What I do next, shall be to tell the king
+Of this escape, and whither they are bound;
+Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail
+To force him after: in whose company
+I shall re-view Sicilia; for whose sight
+I have a woman’s longing.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Fortune speed us!
+Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.
+
+CAMILLO.
+The swifter speed the better.
+
+ [_Exeunt Florizel, Perdita and Camillo._]
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I understand the business, I hear it. To have an open ear, a quick eye,
+and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is
+requisite also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see this is
+the time that the unjust man doth thrive. What an exchange had this
+been without boot! What a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the
+gods do this year connive at us, and we may do anything extempore. The
+prince himself is about a piece of iniquity, stealing away from his
+father with his clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of
+honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not do’t: I hold it the
+more knavery to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.
+
+ Enter Clown and Shepherd.
+
+Aside, aside; here is more matter for a hot brain: every lane’s end,
+every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work.
+
+CLOWN.
+See, see; what a man you are now! There is no other way but to tell the
+king she’s a changeling, and none of your flesh and blood.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Nay, but hear me.
+
+CLOWN.
+Nay, but hear me.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Go to, then.
+
+CLOWN.
+She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not
+offended the king; and so your flesh and blood is not to be punished by
+him. Show those things you found about her, those secret things, all
+but what she has with her: this being done, let the law go whistle, I
+warrant you.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his son’s pranks too;
+who, I may say, is no honest man neither to his father nor to me, to go
+about to make me the king’s brother-in-law.
+
+CLOWN.
+Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you could have been to him,
+and then your blood had been the dearer by I know how much an ounce.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+[_Aside._] Very wisely, puppies!
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Well, let us to the king: there is that in this fardel will make him
+scratch his beard.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+[_Aside._] I know not what impediment this complaint may be to the
+flight of my master.
+
+CLOWN.
+Pray heartily he be at’ palace.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+[_Aside._] Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by
+chance. Let me pocket up my pedlar’s excrement. [_Takes off his false
+beard._] How now, rustics! whither are you bound?
+
+SHEPHERD.
+To the palace, an it like your worship.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition of that fardel, the
+place of your dwelling, your names, your ages, of what having,
+breeding, and anything that is fitting to be known? discover!
+
+CLOWN.
+We are but plain fellows, sir.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no lying. It becomes none
+but tradesmen, and they often give us soldiers the lie; but we pay them
+for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not
+give us the lie.
+
+CLOWN.
+Your worship had like to have given us one, if you had not taken
+yourself with the manner.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Are you a courtier, an ’t like you, sir?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest thou not the air of
+the court in these enfoldings? hath not my gait in it the measure of
+the court? receives not thy nose court-odour from me? reflect I not on
+thy baseness court-contempt? Think’st thou, for that I insinuate, or
+toaze from thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier
+_cap-a-pe_, and one that will either push on or pluck back thy business
+there. Whereupon I command thee to open thy affair.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+My business, sir, is to the king.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+What advocate hast thou to him?
+
+SHEPHERD.
+I know not, an ’t like you.
+
+CLOWN.
+Advocate’s the court-word for a pheasant. Say you have none.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+How bless’d are we that are not simple men!
+Yet nature might have made me as these are,
+Therefore I will not disdain.
+
+CLOWN.
+This cannot be but a great courtier.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+His garments are rich, but he wears them not handsomely.
+
+CLOWN.
+He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical: a great man, I’ll
+warrant; I know by the picking on’s teeth.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+The fardel there? What’s i’ th’ fardel? Wherefore that box?
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box which none must
+know but the king; and which he shall know within this hour, if I may
+come to th’ speech of him.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Age, thou hast lost thy labour.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Why, sir?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a new ship to purge
+melancholy and air himself: for, if thou beest capable of things
+serious, thou must know the king is full of grief.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+So ’tis said, sir; about his son, that should have married a shepherd’s
+daughter.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly. The curses he shall
+have, the tortures he shall feel, will break the back of man, the heart
+of monster.
+
+CLOWN.
+Think you so, sir?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy and vengeance bitter;
+but those that are germane to him, though removed fifty times, shall
+all come under the hangman: which, though it be great pity, yet it is
+necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue, a ram-tender, to offer to have
+his daughter come into grace! Some say he shall be stoned; but that
+death is too soft for him, say I. Draw our throne into a sheepcote! All
+deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.
+
+CLOWN.
+Has the old man e’er a son, sir, do you hear, an ’t like you, sir?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then ’nointed over with honey,
+set on the head of a wasp’s nest; then stand till he be three quarters
+and a dram dead; then recovered again with aqua-vitæ or some other hot
+infusion; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognostication
+proclaims, shall he be set against a brick wall, the sun looking with a
+southward eye upon him, where he is to behold him with flies blown to
+death. But what talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries are
+to be smiled at, their offences being so capital? Tell me (for you seem
+to be honest plain men) what you have to the king. Being something
+gently considered, I’ll bring you where he is aboard, tender your
+persons to his presence, whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in
+man besides the king to effect your suits, here is man shall do it.
+
+CLOWN.
+He seems to be of great authority: close with him, give him gold; and
+though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with
+gold: show the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand, and no
+more ado. Remember: “ston’d” and “flayed alive”.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+An ’t please you, sir, to undertake the business for us, here is that
+gold I have. I’ll make it as much more, and leave this young man in
+pawn till I bring it you.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+After I have done what I promised?
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Ay, sir.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business?
+
+CLOWN.
+In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful one, I hope I shall
+not be flayed out of it.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+O, that’s the case of the shepherd’s son. Hang him, he’ll be made an
+example.
+
+CLOWN.
+Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show our strange sights.
+He must know ’tis none of your daughter nor my sister; we are gone
+else. Sir, I will give you as much as this old man does when the
+business is performed, and remain, as he says, your pawn till it be
+brought you.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side; go on the
+right-hand. I will but look upon the hedge, and follow you.
+
+CLOWN.
+We are blessed in this man, as I may say, even blessed.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Let’s before, as he bids us. He was provided to do us good.
+
+ [_Exeunt Shepherd and Clown._]
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would not suffer me: she
+drops booties in my mouth. I am courted now with a double occasion:
+gold, and a means to do the prince my master good; which who knows how
+that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring these two moles,
+these blind ones, aboard him. If he think it fit to shore them again
+and that the complaint they have to the king concerns him nothing, let
+him call me rogue for being so far officious; for I am proof against
+that title and what shame else belongs to ’t. To him will I present
+them. There may be matter in it.
+
+ [_Exit._]
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+SCENE I. Sicilia. A Room in the palace of Leontes.
+
+ Enter Leontes, Cleomenes, Dion, Paulina and others.
+
+CLEOMENES
+Sir, you have done enough, and have perform’d
+A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make
+Which you have not redeem’d; indeed, paid down
+More penitence than done trespass: at the last,
+Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
+With them, forgive yourself.
+
+LEONTES.
+Whilst I remember
+Her and her virtues, I cannot forget
+My blemishes in them; and so still think of
+The wrong I did myself: which was so much
+That heirless it hath made my kingdom, and
+Destroy’d the sweet’st companion that e’er man
+Bred his hopes out of.
+
+PAULINA.
+True, too true, my lord.
+If, one by one, you wedded all the world,
+Or from the all that are took something good,
+To make a perfect woman, she you kill’d
+Would be unparallel’d.
+
+LEONTES.
+I think so. Kill’d!
+She I kill’d! I did so: but thou strik’st me
+Sorely, to say I did: it is as bitter
+Upon thy tongue as in my thought. Now, good now,
+Say so but seldom.
+
+CLEOMENES
+Not at all, good lady.
+You might have spoken a thousand things that would
+Have done the time more benefit and grac’d
+Your kindness better.
+
+PAULINA.
+You are one of those
+Would have him wed again.
+
+DION.
+If you would not so,
+You pity not the state, nor the remembrance
+Of his most sovereign name; consider little
+What dangers, by his highness’ fail of issue,
+May drop upon his kingdom, and devour
+Incertain lookers-on. What were more holy
+Than to rejoice the former queen is well?
+What holier than, for royalty’s repair,
+For present comfort, and for future good,
+To bless the bed of majesty again
+With a sweet fellow to ’t?
+
+PAULINA.
+There is none worthy,
+Respecting her that’s gone. Besides, the gods
+Will have fulfill’d their secret purposes;
+For has not the divine Apollo said,
+Is ’t not the tenor of his oracle,
+That king Leontes shall not have an heir
+Till his lost child be found? Which that it shall,
+Is all as monstrous to our human reason
+As my Antigonus to break his grave
+And come again to me; who, on my life,
+Did perish with the infant. ’Tis your counsel
+My lord should to the heavens be contrary,
+Oppose against their wills. [_To Leontes._] Care not for issue;
+The crown will find an heir. Great Alexander
+Left his to th’ worthiest; so his successor
+Was like to be the best.
+
+LEONTES.
+Good Paulina,
+Who hast the memory of Hermione,
+I know, in honour, O that ever I
+Had squar’d me to thy counsel! Then, even now,
+I might have look’d upon my queen’s full eyes,
+Have taken treasure from her lips,—
+
+PAULINA.
+And left them
+More rich for what they yielded.
+
+LEONTES.
+Thou speak’st truth.
+No more such wives; therefore, no wife: one worse,
+And better us’d, would make her sainted spirit
+Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,
+(Where we offenders now appear) soul-vexed,
+And begin “Why to me?”
+
+PAULINA.
+Had she such power,
+She had just cause.
+
+LEONTES.
+She had; and would incense me
+To murder her I married.
+
+PAULINA.
+I should so.
+Were I the ghost that walk’d, I’d bid you mark
+Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in ’t
+You chose her: then I’d shriek, that even your ears
+Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow’d
+Should be “Remember mine.”
+
+LEONTES.
+Stars, stars,
+And all eyes else dead coals! Fear thou no wife;
+I’ll have no wife, Paulina.
+
+PAULINA.
+Will you swear
+Never to marry but by my free leave?
+
+LEONTES.
+Never, Paulina; so be bless’d my spirit!
+
+PAULINA.
+Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath.
+
+CLEOMENES
+You tempt him over-much.
+
+PAULINA.
+Unless another,
+As like Hermione as is her picture,
+Affront his eye.
+
+CLEOMENES
+Good madam,—
+
+PAULINA.
+I have done.
+Yet, if my lord will marry,—if you will, sir,
+No remedy but you will,—give me the office
+To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young
+As was your former, but she shall be such
+As, walk’d your first queen’s ghost, it should take joy
+To see her in your arms.
+
+LEONTES.
+My true Paulina,
+We shall not marry till thou bid’st us.
+
+PAULINA.
+That
+Shall be when your first queen’s again in breath;
+Never till then.
+
+ Enter a Servant.
+
+SERVANT.
+One that gives out himself Prince Florizel,
+Son of Polixenes, with his princess (she
+The fairest I have yet beheld) desires access
+To your high presence.
+
+LEONTES.
+What with him? he comes not
+Like to his father’s greatness: his approach,
+So out of circumstance and sudden, tells us
+’Tis not a visitation fram’d, but forc’d
+By need and accident. What train?
+
+SERVANT.
+But few,
+And those but mean.
+
+LEONTES.
+His princess, say you, with him?
+
+SERVANT.
+Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,
+That e’er the sun shone bright on.
+
+PAULINA.
+O Hermione,
+As every present time doth boast itself
+Above a better gone, so must thy grave
+Give way to what’s seen now! Sir, you yourself
+Have said and writ so,—but your writing now
+Is colder than that theme,—‘She had not been,
+Nor was not to be equall’d’; thus your verse
+Flow’d with her beauty once; ’tis shrewdly ebb’d,
+To say you have seen a better.
+
+SERVANT.
+Pardon, madam:
+The one I have almost forgot,—your pardon;—
+The other, when she has obtain’d your eye,
+Will have your tongue too. This is a creature,
+Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal
+Of all professors else; make proselytes
+Of who she but bid follow.
+
+PAULINA.
+How! not women?
+
+SERVANT.
+Women will love her that she is a woman
+More worth than any man; men, that she is
+The rarest of all women.
+
+LEONTES.
+Go, Cleomenes;
+Yourself, assisted with your honour’d friends,
+Bring them to our embracement.
+
+ [_Exeunt Cleomenes and others._]
+
+Still, ’tis strange
+He thus should steal upon us.
+
+PAULINA.
+Had our prince,
+Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair’d
+Well with this lord. There was not full a month
+Between their births.
+
+LEONTES.
+Prithee no more; cease; Thou know’st
+He dies to me again when talk’d of: sure,
+When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches
+Will bring me to consider that which may
+Unfurnish me of reason. They are come.
+
+ Enter Florizel, Perdita, Cleomenes and others.
+
+Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince;
+For she did print your royal father off,
+Conceiving you. Were I but twenty-one,
+Your father’s image is so hit in you,
+His very air, that I should call you brother,
+As I did him, and speak of something wildly
+By us perform’d before. Most dearly welcome!
+And your fair princess,—goddess! O, alas!
+I lost a couple that ’twixt heaven and earth
+Might thus have stood, begetting wonder, as
+You, gracious couple, do! And then I lost,—
+All mine own folly,—the society,
+Amity too, of your brave father, whom,
+Though bearing misery, I desire my life
+Once more to look on him.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+By his command
+Have I here touch’d Sicilia, and from him
+Give you all greetings that a king, at friend,
+Can send his brother: and, but infirmity,
+Which waits upon worn times, hath something seiz’d
+His wish’d ability, he had himself
+The lands and waters ’twixt your throne and his
+Measur’d, to look upon you; whom he loves,
+He bade me say so,—more than all the sceptres
+And those that bear them living.
+
+LEONTES.
+O my brother,—
+Good gentleman!—the wrongs I have done thee stir
+Afresh within me; and these thy offices,
+So rarely kind, are as interpreters
+Of my behind-hand slackness! Welcome hither,
+As is the spring to the earth. And hath he too
+Expos’d this paragon to the fearful usage,
+At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune,
+To greet a man not worth her pains, much less
+Th’ adventure of her person?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Good, my lord,
+She came from Libya.
+
+LEONTES.
+Where the warlike Smalus,
+That noble honour’d lord, is fear’d and lov’d?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter
+His tears proclaim’d his, parting with her: thence,
+A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross’d,
+To execute the charge my father gave me
+For visiting your highness: my best train
+I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss’d;
+Who for Bohemia bend, to signify
+Not only my success in Libya, sir,
+But my arrival, and my wife’s, in safety
+Here, where we are.
+
+LEONTES.
+The blessed gods
+Purge all infection from our air whilst you
+Do climate here! You have a holy father,
+A graceful gentleman; against whose person,
+So sacred as it is, I have done sin,
+For which the heavens, taking angry note,
+Have left me issueless. And your father’s bless’d,
+As he from heaven merits it, with you,
+Worthy his goodness. What might I have been,
+Might I a son and daughter now have look’d on,
+Such goodly things as you!
+
+ Enter a Lord.
+
+LORD.
+Most noble sir,
+That which I shall report will bear no credit,
+Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir,
+Bohemia greets you from himself by me;
+Desires you to attach his son, who has—
+His dignity and duty both cast off—
+Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with
+A shepherd’s daughter.
+
+LEONTES.
+Where’s Bohemia? speak.
+
+LORD.
+Here in your city; I now came from him.
+I speak amazedly, and it becomes
+My marvel and my message. To your court
+Whiles he was hast’ning—in the chase, it seems,
+Of this fair couple—meets he on the way
+The father of this seeming lady and
+Her brother, having both their country quitted
+With this young prince.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Camillo has betray’d me;
+Whose honour and whose honesty till now,
+Endur’d all weathers.
+
+LORD.
+Lay ’t so to his charge.
+He’s with the king your father.
+
+LEONTES.
+Who? Camillo?
+
+LORD.
+Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now
+Has these poor men in question. Never saw I
+Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth;
+Forswear themselves as often as they speak.
+Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them
+With divers deaths in death.
+
+PERDITA.
+O my poor father!
+The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have
+Our contract celebrated.
+
+LEONTES.
+You are married?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+We are not, sir, nor are we like to be.
+The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first.
+The odds for high and low’s alike.
+
+LEONTES.
+My lord,
+Is this the daughter of a king?
+
+FLORIZEL.
+She is,
+When once she is my wife.
+
+LEONTES.
+That “once”, I see by your good father’s speed,
+Will come on very slowly. I am sorry,
+Most sorry, you have broken from his liking,
+Where you were tied in duty; and as sorry
+Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,
+That you might well enjoy her.
+
+FLORIZEL.
+Dear, look up:
+Though Fortune, visible an enemy,
+Should chase us with my father, power no jot
+Hath she to change our loves. Beseech you, sir,
+Remember since you ow’d no more to time
+Than I do now: with thought of such affections,
+Step forth mine advocate. At your request
+My father will grant precious things as trifles.
+
+LEONTES.
+Would he do so, I’d beg your precious mistress,
+Which he counts but a trifle.
+
+PAULINA.
+Sir, my liege,
+Your eye hath too much youth in ’t: not a month
+’Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes
+Than what you look on now.
+
+LEONTES.
+I thought of her
+Even in these looks I made. [_To Florizel._] But your petition
+Is yet unanswer’d. I will to your father.
+Your honour not o’erthrown by your desires,
+I am friend to them and you: upon which errand
+I now go toward him; therefore follow me,
+And mark what way I make. Come, good my lord.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE II. The same. Before the Palace.
+
+ Enter Autolycus and a Gentleman.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old shepherd deliver
+the manner how he found it: whereupon, after a little amazedness, we
+were all commanded out of the chamber; only this, methought I heard the
+shepherd say he found the child.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I would most gladly know the issue of it.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+I make a broken delivery of the business; but the changes I perceived
+in the king and Camillo were very notes of admiration. They seemed
+almost, with staring on one another, to tear the cases of their eyes.
+There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture;
+they looked as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed. A
+notable passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest beholder,
+that knew no more but seeing could not say if th’ importance were joy
+or sorrow; but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. Here
+comes a gentleman that happily knows more.
+
+ Enter a Gentleman.
+
+The news, Rogero?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilled: the king’s daughter is
+found: such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour that
+ballad-makers cannot be able to express it. Here comes the Lady
+Paulina’s steward: he can deliver you more.
+
+ Enter a third Gentleman.
+
+ How goes it now, sir? This news, which is called true, is so like an
+ old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion. Has the king
+ found his heir?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by circumstance. That which you
+hear you’ll swear you see, there is such unity in the proofs. The
+mantle of Queen Hermione’s, her jewel about the neck of it, the letters
+of Antigonus found with it, which they know to be his character; the
+majesty of the creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection of
+nobleness which nature shows above her breeding, and many other
+evidences proclaim her with all certainty to be the king’s daughter.
+Did you see the meeting of the two kings?
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+No.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Then you have lost a sight which was to be seen, cannot be spoken of.
+There might you have beheld one joy crown another, so and in such
+manner that it seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their joy
+waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes, holding up of hands, with
+countenance of such distraction that they were to be known by garment,
+not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of himself for joy of
+his found daughter, as if that joy were now become a loss, cries “O,
+thy mother, thy mother!” then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then embraces
+his son-in-law; then again worries he his daughter with clipping her;
+now he thanks the old shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten
+conduit of many kings’ reigns. I never heard of such another encounter,
+which lames report to follow it, and undoes description to do it.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried hence the child?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Like an old tale still, which will have matter to rehearse, though
+credit be asleep and not an ear open. He was torn to pieces with a
+bear: this avouches the shepherd’s son, who has not only his innocence,
+which seems much, to justify him, but a handkerchief and rings of his
+that Paulina knows.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+What became of his bark and his followers?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+Wrecked the same instant of their master’s death, and in the view of
+the shepherd: so that all the instruments which aided to expose the
+child were even then lost when it was found. But O, the noble combat
+that ’twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina! She had one eye
+declined for the loss of her husband, another elevated that the oracle
+was fulfilled. She lifted the princess from the earth, and so locks her
+in embracing, as if she would pin her to her heart, that she might no
+more be in danger of losing.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings and princes;
+for by such was it acted.
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+One of the prettiest touches of all, and that which angled for mine
+eyes (caught the water, though not the fish) was, when at the relation
+of the queen’s death (with the manner how she came to it bravely
+confessed and lamented by the king) how attentiveness wounded his
+daughter; till, from one sign of dolour to another, she did, with an
+“Alas,” I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my heart wept
+blood. Who was most marble there changed colour; some swooned, all
+sorrowed: if all the world could have seen it, the woe had been
+universal.
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Are they returned to the court?
+
+THIRD GENTLEMAN.
+No: the princess hearing of her mother’s statue, which is in the
+keeping of Paulina,—a piece many years in doing and now newly performed
+by that rare Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself
+eternity, and could put breath into his work, would beguile Nature of
+her custom, so perfectly he is her ape: he so near to Hermione hath
+done Hermione that they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of
+answer. Thither with all greediness of affection are they gone, and
+there they intend to sup.
+
+SECOND GENTLEMAN.
+I thought she had some great matter there in hand; for she hath
+privately twice or thrice a day, ever since the death of Hermione,
+visited that removed house. Shall we thither, and with our company
+piece the rejoicing?
+
+FIRST GENTLEMAN.
+Who would be thence that has the benefit of access? Every wink of an
+eye some new grace will be born. Our absence makes us unthrifty to our
+knowledge. Let’s along.
+
+ [_Exeunt Gentlemen._]
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me, would preferment drop
+on my head. I brought the old man and his son aboard the prince; told
+him I heard them talk of a fardel and I know not what. But he at that
+time over-fond of the shepherd’s daughter (so he then took her to be),
+who began to be much sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of
+weather continuing, this mystery remained undiscover’d. But ’tis all
+one to me; for had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not
+have relish’d among my other discredits.
+
+ Enter Shepherd and Clown.
+
+Here come those I have done good to against my will, and already
+appearing in the blossoms of their fortune.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Come, boy; I am past more children, but thy sons and daughters will be
+all gentlemen born.
+
+CLOWN.
+You are well met, sir. You denied to fight with me this other day,
+because I was no gentleman born. See you these clothes? Say you see
+them not and think me still no gentleman born: you were best say these
+robes are not gentlemen born. Give me the lie, do; and try whether I am
+not now a gentleman born.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born.
+
+CLOWN.
+Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+And so have I, boy!
+
+CLOWN.
+So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my father; for the
+king’s son took me by the hand and called me brother; and then the two
+kings called my father brother; and then the prince, my brother, and
+the princess, my sister, called my father father; and so we wept; and
+there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+We may live, son, to shed many more.
+
+CLOWN.
+Ay; or else ’twere hard luck, being in so preposterous estate as we
+are.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the faults I have committed
+to your worship, and to give me your good report to the prince my
+master.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+Prithee, son, do; for we must be gentle, now we are gentlemen.
+
+CLOWN.
+Thou wilt amend thy life?
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+Ay, an it like your good worship.
+
+CLOWN.
+Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou art as honest a true
+fellow as any is in Bohemia.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+You may say it, but not swear it.
+
+CLOWN.
+Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it,
+I’ll swear it.
+
+SHEPHERD.
+How if it be false, son?
+
+CLOWN.
+If it be ne’er so false, a true gentleman may swear it in the behalf of
+his friend. And I’ll swear to the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy
+hands and that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no tall
+fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be drunk: but I’ll swear it; and
+I would thou wouldst be a tall fellow of thy hands.
+
+AUTOLYCUS.
+I will prove so, sir, to my power.
+
+CLOWN.
+Ay, by any means, prove a tall fellow: if I do not wonder how thou
+dar’st venture to be drunk, not being a tall fellow, trust me not.
+Hark! the kings and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the
+queen’s picture. Come, follow us: we’ll be thy good masters.
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+SCENE III. The same. A Room in Paulina’s house.
+
+ Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Florizel, Perdita, Camillo, Paulina, Lords
+ and Attendants.
+
+LEONTES.
+O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort
+That I have had of thee!
+
+PAULINA.
+What, sovereign sir,
+I did not well, I meant well. All my services
+You have paid home: but that you have vouchsaf’d,
+With your crown’d brother and these your contracted
+Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit,
+It is a surplus of your grace which never
+My life may last to answer.
+
+LEONTES.
+O Paulina,
+We honour you with trouble. But we came
+To see the statue of our queen: your gallery
+Have we pass’d through, not without much content
+In many singularities; but we saw not
+That which my daughter came to look upon,
+The statue of her mother.
+
+PAULINA.
+As she liv’d peerless,
+So her dead likeness, I do well believe,
+Excels whatever yet you look’d upon
+Or hand of man hath done; therefore I keep it
+Lonely, apart. But here it is: prepare
+To see the life as lively mock’d as ever
+Still sleep mock’d death. Behold, and say ’tis well.
+
+ Paulina undraws a curtain, and discovers Hermione standing as a
+ statue.
+
+I like your silence, it the more shows off
+Your wonder: but yet speak. First you, my liege.
+Comes it not something near?
+
+LEONTES.
+Her natural posture!
+Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed
+Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she
+In thy not chiding; for she was as tender
+As infancy and grace. But yet, Paulina,
+Hermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing
+So aged as this seems.
+
+POLIXENES.
+O, not by much!
+
+PAULINA.
+So much the more our carver’s excellence,
+Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her
+As she liv’d now.
+
+LEONTES.
+As now she might have done,
+So much to my good comfort as it is
+Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood,
+Even with such life of majesty, warm life,
+As now it coldly stands, when first I woo’d her!
+I am asham’d: does not the stone rebuke me
+For being more stone than it? O royal piece,
+There’s magic in thy majesty, which has
+My evils conjur’d to remembrance and
+From thy admiring daughter took the spirits,
+Standing like stone with thee.
+
+PERDITA.
+And give me leave,
+And do not say ’tis superstition, that
+I kneel, and then implore her blessing. Lady,
+Dear queen, that ended when I but began,
+Give me that hand of yours to kiss.
+
+PAULINA.
+O, patience!
+The statue is but newly fix’d, the colour’s
+Not dry.
+
+CAMILLO.
+My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on,
+Which sixteen winters cannot blow away,
+So many summers dry. Scarce any joy
+Did ever so long live; no sorrow
+But kill’d itself much sooner.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Dear my brother,
+Let him that was the cause of this have power
+To take off so much grief from you as he
+Will piece up in himself.
+
+PAULINA.
+Indeed, my lord,
+If I had thought the sight of my poor image
+Would thus have wrought you—for the stone is mine—
+I’d not have show’d it.
+
+LEONTES.
+Do not draw the curtain.
+
+PAULINA.
+No longer shall you gaze on’t, lest your fancy
+May think anon it moves.
+
+LEONTES.
+Let be, let be.
+Would I were dead, but that methinks already—
+What was he that did make it? See, my lord,
+Would you not deem it breath’d? And that those veins
+Did verily bear blood?
+
+POLIXENES.
+Masterly done:
+The very life seems warm upon her lip.
+
+LEONTES.
+The fixture of her eye has motion in ’t,
+As we are mock’d with art.
+
+PAULINA.
+I’ll draw the curtain:
+My lord’s almost so far transported that
+He’ll think anon it lives.
+
+LEONTES.
+O sweet Paulina,
+Make me to think so twenty years together!
+No settled senses of the world can match
+The pleasure of that madness. Let ’t alone.
+
+PAULINA.
+I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirr’d you: but
+I could afflict you further.
+
+LEONTES.
+Do, Paulina;
+For this affliction has a taste as sweet
+As any cordial comfort. Still methinks
+There is an air comes from her. What fine chisel
+Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me,
+For I will kiss her!
+
+PAULINA.
+Good my lord, forbear:
+The ruddiness upon her lip is wet;
+You’ll mar it if you kiss it, stain your own
+With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain?
+
+LEONTES.
+No, not these twenty years.
+
+PERDITA.
+So long could I
+Stand by, a looker on.
+
+PAULINA.
+Either forbear,
+Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you
+For more amazement. If you can behold it,
+I’ll make the statue move indeed, descend,
+And take you by the hand. But then you’ll think
+(Which I protest against) I am assisted
+By wicked powers.
+
+LEONTES.
+What you can make her do
+I am content to look on: what to speak,
+I am content to hear; for ’tis as easy
+To make her speak as move.
+
+PAULINA.
+It is requir’d
+You do awake your faith. Then all stand still;
+Or those that think it is unlawful business
+I am about, let them depart.
+
+LEONTES.
+Proceed:
+No foot shall stir.
+
+PAULINA.
+Music, awake her: strike! [_Music._]
+’Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;
+Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come;
+I’ll fill your grave up: stir; nay, come away.
+Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him
+Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs.
+
+ Hermione comes down from the pedestal.
+
+Start not; her actions shall be holy as
+You hear my spell is lawful. Do not shun her
+Until you see her die again; for then
+You kill her double. Nay, present your hand:
+When she was young you woo’d her; now in age
+Is she become the suitor?
+
+LEONTES.
+[_Embracing her._] O, she’s warm!
+If this be magic, let it be an art
+Lawful as eating.
+
+POLIXENES.
+She embraces him.
+
+CAMILLO.
+She hangs about his neck.
+If she pertain to life, let her speak too.
+
+POLIXENES.
+Ay, and make it manifest where she has liv’d,
+Or how stol’n from the dead.
+
+PAULINA.
+That she is living,
+Were it but told you, should be hooted at
+Like an old tale; but it appears she lives,
+Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while.
+Please you to interpose, fair madam. Kneel
+And pray your mother’s blessing. Turn, good lady,
+Our Perdita is found.
+
+ [_Presenting Perdita who kneels to Hermione._]
+
+HERMIONE.
+You gods, look down,
+And from your sacred vials pour your graces
+Upon my daughter’s head! Tell me, mine own,
+Where hast thou been preserv’d? where liv’d? how found
+Thy father’s court? for thou shalt hear that I,
+Knowing by Paulina that the oracle
+Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserv’d
+Myself to see the issue.
+
+PAULINA.
+There’s time enough for that;
+Lest they desire upon this push to trouble
+Your joys with like relation. Go together,
+You precious winners all; your exultation
+Partake to everyone. I, an old turtle,
+Will wing me to some wither’d bough, and there
+My mate, that’s never to be found again,
+Lament till I am lost.
+
+LEONTES.
+O peace, Paulina!
+Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent,
+As I by thine a wife: this is a match,
+And made between ’s by vows. Thou hast found mine;
+But how, is to be question’d; for I saw her,
+As I thought, dead; and have in vain said many
+A prayer upon her grave. I’ll not seek far—
+For him, I partly know his mind—to find thee
+An honourable husband. Come, Camillo,
+And take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty
+Is richly noted, and here justified
+By us, a pair of kings. Let’s from this place.
+What! look upon my brother: both your pardons,
+That e’er I put between your holy looks
+My ill suspicion. This your son-in-law,
+And son unto the king, whom heavens directing,
+Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina,
+Lead us from hence; where we may leisurely
+Each one demand, and answer to his part
+Perform’d in this wide gap of time, since first
+We were dissever’d. Hastily lead away!
+
+ [_Exeunt._]
+
+
+
+
+
+A LOVER’S COMPLAINT
+
+
+
+From off a hill whose concave womb reworded
+A plaintful story from a sist’ring vale,
+My spirits t’attend this double voice accorded,
+And down I laid to list the sad-tun’d tale;
+Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
+Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
+Storming her world with sorrow’s wind and rain.
+
+Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
+Which fortified her visage from the sun,
+Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
+The carcass of a beauty spent and done;
+Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
+Nor youth all quit, but spite of heaven’s fell rage
+Some beauty peeped through lattice of sear’d age.
+
+Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
+Which on it had conceited characters,
+Laund’ring the silken figures in the brine
+That seasoned woe had pelleted in tears,
+And often reading what contents it bears;
+As often shrieking undistinguish’d woe,
+In clamours of all size, both high and low.
+
+Sometimes her levell’d eyes their carriage ride,
+As they did batt’ry to the spheres intend;
+Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
+To th’orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
+Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
+To every place at once, and nowhere fix’d,
+The mind and sight distractedly commix’d.
+
+Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,
+Proclaim’d in her a careless hand of pride;
+For some untuck’d descended her sheav’d hat,
+Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;
+Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,
+And, true to bondage, would not break from thence,
+Though slackly braided in loose negligence.
+
+A thousand favours from a maund she drew,
+Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet,
+Which one by one she in a river threw,
+Upon whose weeping margent she was set,
+Like usury applying wet to wet,
+Or monarchs’ hands, that lets not bounty fall
+Where want cries ‘some,’ but where excess begs ‘all’.
+
+Of folded schedules had she many a one,
+Which she perus’d, sigh’d, tore and gave the flood;
+Crack’d many a ring of posied gold and bone,
+Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud;
+Found yet mo letters sadly penn’d in blood,
+With sleided silk, feat and affectedly
+Enswath’d, and seal’d to curious secrecy.
+
+These often bath’d she in her fluxive eyes,
+And often kiss’d, and often gave to tear;
+Cried, ‘O false blood, thou register of lies,
+What unapproved witness dost thou bear!
+Ink would have seem’d more black and damned here!’
+This said, in top of rage the lines she rents,
+Big discontent so breaking their contents.
+
+A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh,
+Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew
+Of court, of city, and had let go by
+The swiftest hours observed as they flew,
+Towards this afflicted fancy fastly drew;
+And, privileg’d by age, desires to know
+In brief the grounds and motives of her woe.
+
+So slides he down upon his grained bat,
+And comely distant sits he by her side,
+When he again desires her, being sat,
+Her grievance with his hearing to divide:
+If that from him there may be aught applied
+Which may her suffering ecstasy assuage,
+’Tis promised in the charity of age.
+
+‘Father,’ she says, ‘though in me you behold
+The injury of many a blasting hour,
+Let it not tell your judgement I am old,
+Not age, but sorrow, over me hath power.
+I might as yet have been a spreading flower,
+Fresh to myself, if I had self-applied
+Love to myself, and to no love beside.
+
+‘But woe is me! Too early I attended
+A youthful suit; it was to gain my grace;
+O one by nature’s outwards so commended,
+That maiden’s eyes stuck over all his face,
+Love lack’d a dwelling and made him her place;
+And when in his fair parts she did abide,
+She was new lodg’d and newly deified.
+
+‘His browny locks did hang in crooked curls,
+And every light occasion of the wind
+Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls,
+What’s sweet to do, to do will aptly find,
+Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind:
+For on his visage was in little drawn,
+What largeness thinks in paradise was sawn.
+
+‘Small show of man was yet upon his chin;
+His phoenix down began but to appear,
+Like unshorn velvet, on that termless skin,
+Whose bare out-bragg’d the web it seemed to wear.
+Yet show’d his visage by that cost more dear,
+And nice affections wavering stood in doubt
+If best were as it was, or best without.
+
+‘His qualities were beauteous as his form,
+For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;
+Yet if men mov’d him, was he such a storm
+As oft ’twixt May and April is to see,
+When winds breathe sweet, unruly though they be.
+His rudeness so with his authoriz’d youth
+Did livery falseness in a pride of truth.
+
+‘Well could he ride, and often men would say
+That horse his mettle from his rider takes,
+Proud of subjection, noble by the sway,
+What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!
+And controversy hence a question takes,
+Whether the horse by him became his deed,
+Or he his manage by th’ well-doing steed.
+
+‘But quickly on this side the verdict went,
+His real habitude gave life and grace
+To appertainings and to ornament,
+Accomplish’d in himself, not in his case;
+All aids, themselves made fairer by their place,
+Came for additions; yet their purpos’d trim
+Piec’d not his grace, but were all grac’d by him.
+
+‘So on the tip of his subduing tongue
+All kind of arguments and question deep,
+All replication prompt, and reason strong,
+For his advantage still did wake and sleep,
+To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep:
+He had the dialect and different skill,
+Catching all passions in his craft of will.
+
+‘That he did in the general bosom reign
+Of young, of old, and sexes both enchanted,
+To dwell with him in thoughts, or to remain
+In personal duty, following where he haunted,
+Consent’s bewitch’d, ere he desire, have granted,
+And dialogued for him what he would say,
+Ask’d their own wills, and made their wills obey.
+
+‘Many there were that did his picture get
+To serve their eyes, and in it put their mind,
+Like fools that in th’ imagination set
+The goodly objects which abroad they find
+Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign’d,
+And labouring in moe pleasures to bestow them,
+Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them.
+
+‘So many have, that never touch’d his hand,
+Sweetly suppos’d them mistress of his heart.
+My woeful self that did in freedom stand,
+And was my own fee-simple (not in part)
+What with his art in youth, and youth in art,
+Threw my affections in his charmed power,
+Reserv’d the stalk and gave him all my flower.
+
+‘Yet did I not, as some my equals did,
+Demand of him, nor being desired yielded,
+Finding myself in honour so forbid,
+With safest distance I mine honour shielded.
+Experience for me many bulwarks builded
+Of proofs new-bleeding, which remain’d the foil
+Of this false jewel, and his amorous spoil.
+
+‘But ah! Who ever shunn’d by precedent
+The destin’d ill she must herself assay,
+Or force’d examples ’gainst her own content,
+To put the by-pass’d perils in her way?
+Counsel may stop a while what will not stay:
+For when we rage, advice is often seen
+By blunting us to make our wills more keen.
+
+‘Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,
+That we must curb it upon others’ proof,
+To be forbode the sweets that seems so good,
+For fear of harms that preach in our behoof.
+O appetite, from judgement stand aloof!
+The one a palate hath that needs will taste,
+Though reason weep and cry, “It is thy last.”
+
+‘For further I could say, “This man’s untrue”,
+And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;
+Heard where his plants in others’ orchards grew,
+Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;
+Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;
+Thought characters and words merely but art,
+And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.
+
+‘And long upon these terms I held my city,
+Till thus he ’gan besiege me: “Gentle maid,
+Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity,
+And be not of my holy vows afraid:
+That’s to ye sworn, to none was ever said,
+For feasts of love I have been call’d unto,
+Till now did ne’er invite, nor never woo.
+
+‘“All my offences that abroad you see
+Are errors of the blood, none of the mind:
+Love made them not; with acture they may be,
+Where neither party is nor true nor kind,
+They sought their shame that so their shame did find,
+And so much less of shame in me remains,
+By how much of me their reproach contains.
+
+‘“Among the many that mine eyes have seen,
+Not one whose flame my heart so much as warmed,
+Or my affection put to th’ smallest teen,
+Or any of my leisures ever charmed:
+Harm have I done to them, but ne’er was harmed;
+Kept hearts in liveries, but mine own was free,
+And reign’d commanding in his monarchy.
+
+‘“Look here what tributes wounded fancies sent me,
+Of pallid pearls and rubies red as blood,
+Figuring that they their passions likewise lent me
+Of grief and blushes, aptly understood
+In bloodless white and the encrimson’d mood;
+Effects of terror and dear modesty,
+Encamp’d in hearts, but fighting outwardly.
+
+‘“And, lo! behold these talents of their hair,
+With twisted metal amorously empleach’d,
+I have receiv’d from many a several fair,
+Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech’d,
+With th’ annexions of fair gems enrich’d,
+And deep-brain’d sonnets that did amplify
+Each stone’s dear nature, worth and quality.
+
+‘“The diamond, why ’twas beautiful and hard,
+Whereto his invis’d properties did tend,
+The deep green emerald, in whose fresh regard
+Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend;
+The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend
+With objects manifold; each several stone,
+With wit well blazon’d smil’d, or made some moan.
+
+‘“Lo, all these trophies of affections hot,
+Of pensiv’d and subdued desires the tender,
+Nature hath charg’d me that I hoard them not,
+But yield them up where I myself must render,
+That is, to you, my origin and ender:
+For these of force must your oblations be,
+Since I their altar, you empatron me.
+
+‘“O then advance of yours that phraseless hand,
+Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise;
+Take all these similes to your own command,
+Hallowed with sighs that burning lungs did raise:
+What me, your minister for you, obeys,
+Works under you; and to your audit comes
+Their distract parcels in combined sums.
+
+‘“Lo, this device was sent me from a nun,
+Or sister sanctified of holiest note,
+Which late her noble suit in court did shun,
+Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote;
+For she was sought by spirits of richest coat,
+But kept cold distance, and did thence remove
+To spend her living in eternal love.
+
+‘“But O, my sweet, what labour is’t to leave
+The thing we have not, mast’ring what not strives,
+Planing the place which did no form receive,
+Playing patient sports in unconstrained gyves,
+She that her fame so to herself contrives,
+The scars of battle ’scapeth by the flight,
+And makes her absence valiant, not her might.
+
+‘“O pardon me, in that my boast is true,
+The accident which brought me to her eye,
+Upon the moment did her force subdue,
+And now she would the caged cloister fly:
+Religious love put out religion’s eye:
+Not to be tempted would she be immur’d,
+And now to tempt all, liberty procur’d.
+
+‘“How mighty then you are, O hear me tell!
+The broken bosoms that to me belong
+Have emptied all their fountains in my well,
+And mine I pour your ocean all among:
+I strong o’er them, and you o’er me being strong,
+Must for your victory us all congest,
+As compound love to physic your cold breast.
+
+‘“My parts had pow’r to charm a sacred nun,
+Who, disciplin’d and dieted in grace,
+Believ’d her eyes when they t’assail begun,
+All vows and consecrations giving place.
+O most potential love! Vow, bond, nor space,
+In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,
+For thou art all and all things else are thine.
+
+‘“When thou impressest, what are precepts worth
+Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame,
+How coldly those impediments stand forth,
+Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!
+Love’s arms are peace, ’gainst rule, ’gainst sense, ’gainst shame,
+And sweetens, in the suff’ring pangs it bears,
+The aloes of all forces, shocks and fears.
+
+‘“Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,
+Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine,
+And supplicant their sighs to your extend,
+To leave the batt’ry that you make ’gainst mine,
+Lending soft audience to my sweet design,
+And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath,
+That shall prefer and undertake my troth.”
+
+‘This said, his wat’ry eyes he did dismount,
+Whose sights till then were levell’d on my face;
+Each cheek a river running from a fount
+With brinish current downward flowed apace.
+O how the channel to the stream gave grace!
+Who, glaz’d with crystal gate the glowing roses
+That flame through water which their hue encloses.
+
+‘O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
+In the small orb of one particular tear!
+But with the inundation of the eyes
+What rocky heart to water will not wear?
+What breast so cold that is not warmed here?
+O cleft effect! Cold modesty, hot wrath,
+Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath.
+
+‘For lo, his passion, but an art of craft,
+Even there resolv’d my reason into tears;
+There my white stole of chastity I daff’d,
+Shook off my sober guards, and civil fears,
+Appear to him as he to me appears,
+All melting, though our drops this diff’rence bore:
+His poison’d me, and mine did him restore.
+
+‘In him a plenitude of subtle matter,
+Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives,
+Of burning blushes, or of weeping water,
+Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,
+In either’s aptness, as it best deceives,
+To blush at speeches rank, to weep at woes,
+Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows.
+
+‘That not a heart which in his level came
+Could ’scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,
+Showing fair nature is both kind and tame;
+And veil’d in them, did win whom he would maim.
+Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;
+When he most burned in heart-wish’d luxury,
+He preach’d pure maid, and prais’d cold chastity.
+
+‘Thus merely with the garment of a grace,
+The naked and concealed fiend he cover’d,
+That th’unexperient gave the tempter place,
+Which, like a cherubin, above them hover’d.
+Who, young and simple, would not be so lover’d?
+Ay me! I fell, and yet do question make
+What I should do again for such a sake.
+
+‘O, that infected moisture of his eye,
+O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow’d!
+O, that forc’d thunder from his heart did fly,
+O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow’d,
+O, all that borrowed motion, seeming owed,
+Would yet again betray the fore-betrayed,
+And new pervert a reconciled maid.’
+
+
+
+
+THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
+
+
+
+
+I
+
+
+When my love swears that she is made of truth,
+I do believe her, though I know she lies,
+That she might think me some untutor’d youth,
+Unskilful in the world’s false forgeries.
+Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
+Although I know my years be past the best,
+I smiling credit her false-speaking tongue,
+Outfacing faults in love with love’s ill rest.
+But wherefore says my love that she is young?
+And wherefore say not I that I am old?
+O, love’s best habit is a soothing tongue,
+And age, in love, loves not to have years told.
+    Therefore, I’ll lie with love, and love with me,
+    Since that our faults in love thus smother’d be.
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+
+Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
+That like two spirits do suggest me still;
+My better angel is a man right fair,
+My worser spirit a woman colour’d ill.
+To win me soon to hell, my female evil
+Tempteth my better angel from my side,
+And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
+Wooing his purity with her fair pride.
+And whether that my angel be turn’d fiend,
+Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
+For being both to me, both to each friend,
+I guess one angel in another’s hell:
+    The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt,
+    Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+
+Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
+’Gainst whom the world could not hold argument,
+Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
+Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
+A woman I forswore; but I will prove,
+Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
+My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;
+Thy grace being gain’d cures all disgrace in me.
+My vow was breath, and breath a vapour is;
+Then, thou fair sun, that on this earth doth shine,
+Exhale this vapour vow; in thee it is;
+If broken then, it is no fault of mine.
+    If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
+    To break an oath, to win a paradise?
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+
+Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook
+With young Adonis, lovely, fresh and green,
+Did court the lad with many a lovely look,
+Such looks as none could look but beauty’s queen.
+She told him stories to delight his ear;
+She show’d him favours to allure his eye;
+To win his heart, she touch’d him here and there;
+Touches so soft still conquer chastity.
+But whether unripe years did want conceit,
+Or he refus’d to take her figur’d proffer,
+The tender nibbler would not touch the bait,
+But smile and jest at every gentle offer.
+    Then fell she on her back, fair queen, and toward:
+    He rose and ran away; ah, fool too froward!
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+
+If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?
+O never faith could hold, if not to beauty vowed.
+Though to myself forsworn, to thee I’ll constant prove;
+Those thoughts, to me like oaks, to thee like osiers bowed.
+Study his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes,
+Where all those pleasures live that art can comprehend.
+If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;
+Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,
+All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;
+Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire.
+Thine eye Jove’s lightning seems, thy voice his dreadful thunder,
+Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.
+    Celestial as thou art, O do not love that wrong,
+    To sing heaven’s praise with such an earthly tongue.
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+
+Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn,
+And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade,
+When Cytherea, all in love forlorn,
+A longing tarriance for Adonis made
+Under an osier growing by a brook,
+A brook where Adon used to cool his spleen.
+Hot was the day; she hotter that did look
+For his approach, that often there had been.
+Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by,
+And stood stark naked on the brook’s green brim:
+The sun look’d on the world with glorious eye,
+Yet not so wistly as this queen on him.
+    He, spying her, bounc’d in, whereas he stood,
+    “O Jove,” quoth she, “why was not I a flood?”
+
+
+
+
+VII
+
+
+Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle,
+Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty,
+Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is, brittle,
+Softer than wax, and yet, as iron, rusty:
+    A lily pale, with damask dye to grace her,
+    None fairer, nor none falser to deface her.
+
+Her lips to mine how often hath she joined,
+Between each kiss her oaths of true love swearing!
+How many tales to please me hath she coined,
+Dreading my love, the loss thereof still fearing!
+    Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings,
+    Her faith, her oaths, her tears, and all were jestings.
+
+She burnt with love, as straw with fire flameth;
+She burnt out love, as soon as straw out-burneth;
+She fram’d the love, and yet she foil’d the framing;
+She bade love last, and yet she fell a-turning.
+    Was this a lover, or a lecher whether?
+    Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.
+
+
+
+
+VIII
+
+
+If music and sweet poetry agree,
+As they must needs, the sister and the brother,
+Then must the love be great ’twixt thee and me,
+Because thou lov’st the one and I the other.
+Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch
+Upon the lute doth ravish human sense;
+Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such
+As passing all conceit, needs no defence.
+Thou lov’st to hear the sweet melodious sound
+That Phœbus’ lute, the queen of music, makes;
+And I in deep delight am chiefly drown’d
+Whenas himself to singing he betakes.
+    One god is god of both, as poets feign;
+    One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.
+
+
+
+
+IX
+
+
+Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love,
+        *        *        *        *        *        *
+Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove,
+For Adon’s sake, a youngster proud and wild;
+Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill;
+Anon Adonis comes with horn and hounds;
+She, silly queen, with more than love’s good will,
+Forbade the boy he should not pass those grounds.
+“Once,” quoth she, “did I see a fair sweet youth
+Here in these brakes deep-wounded with a boar,
+Deep in the thigh, a spectacle of ruth!
+See in my thigh,” quoth she, “here was the sore.”
+    She showed hers: he saw more wounds than one,
+    And blushing fled, and left her all alone.
+
+
+
+
+X
+
+
+Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck’d, soon vaded,
+Pluck’d in the bud and vaded in the spring!
+Bright orient pearl, alack, too timely shaded!
+Fair creature, kill’d too soon by death’s sharp sting!
+    Like a green plum that hangs upon a tree,
+    And falls, through wind, before the fall should be.
+
+I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have;
+For why thou left’st me nothing in thy will;
+And yet thou left’st me more than I did crave;
+For why I craved nothing of thee still.
+    O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee,
+    Thy discontent thou didst bequeath to me.
+
+
+
+
+XI
+
+
+Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her
+Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him;
+She told the youngling how god Mars did try her,
+And as he fell to her, she fell to him.
+“Even thus,” quoth she, “the warlike god embrac’d me,”
+And then she clipp’d Adonis in her arms;
+“Even thus,” quoth she, “the warlike god unlaced me;”
+As if the boy should use like loving charms;
+“Even thus,” quoth she, “he seized on my lips,”
+And with her lips on his did act the seizure;
+And as she fetched breath, away he skips,
+And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.
+    Ah, that I had my lady at this bay,
+    To kiss and clip me till I run away!
+
+
+
+
+XII
+
+
+Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
+Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
+Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
+Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
+Youth is full of sport, age’s breath is short;
+    Youth is nimble, age is lame;
+Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
+    Youth is wild, and age is tame.
+Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee;
+    O, my love, my love is young!
+Age, I do defy thee. O, sweet shepherd, hie thee,
+For methinks thou stay’st too long.
+
+
+
+
+XIII
+
+
+Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good,
+A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;
+A flower that dies when first it ’gins to bud;
+A brittle glass that’s broken presently:
+    A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
+    Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour.
+
+And as goods lost are seld or never found,
+As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh,
+As flowers dead lie wither’d on the ground,
+As broken glass no cement can redress,
+    So beauty blemish’d once, for ever’s lost,
+    In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.
+
+
+
+
+XIV
+
+
+Good night, good rest. Ah, neither be my share:
+She bade good night that kept my rest away;
+And daff’d me to a cabin hang’d with care,
+To descant on the doubts of my decay.
+    “Farewell,” quoth she, “and come again tomorrow:”
+    Fare well I could not, for I supp’d with sorrow.
+
+Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile,
+In scorn or friendship, nill I conster whether:
+’T may be, she joy’d to jest at my exile,
+’T may be, again to make me wander thither:
+    “Wander,” a word for shadows like myself,
+    As take the pain, but cannot pluck the pelf.
+
+Lord, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east!
+My heart doth charge the watch; the morning rise
+Doth cite each moving sense from idle rest.
+Not daring trust the office of mine eyes,
+    While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark,
+    And wish her lays were tuned like the lark.
+
+For she doth welcome daylight with her ditty,
+And drives away dark dreaming night.
+The night so pack’d, I post unto my pretty;
+Heart hath his hope and eyes their wished sight;
+    Sorrow chang’d to solace, solace mix’d with sorrow;
+    For why, she sigh’d, and bade me come tomorrow.
+
+Were I with her, the night would post too soon;
+But now are minutes added to the hours;
+To spite me now, each minute seems a moon;
+Yet not for me, shine sun to succour flowers!
+    Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow:
+    Short, night, tonight, and length thyself tomorrow.
+
+
+
+
+XV
+
+
+It was a lording’s daughter, the fairest one of three,
+That liked of her master as well as well might be,
+Till looking on an Englishman, the fairest that eye could see,
+    Her fancy fell a-turning.
+Long was the combat doubtful, that love with love did fight,
+To leave the master loveless, or kill the gallant knight;
+To put in practice either, alas, it was a spite
+    Unto the silly damsel!
+But one must be refused; more mickle was the pain,
+That nothing could be used to turn them both to gain,
+For of the two the trusty knight was wounded with disdain:
+    Alas she could not help it!
+Thus art with arms contending was victor of the day,
+Which by a gift of learning did bear the maid away:
+Then lullaby, the learned man hath got the lady gay;
+    For now my song is ended.
+
+
+
+
+XVI
+
+
+On a day, alack the day!
+Love, whose month was ever May,
+Spied a blossom passing fair,
+Playing in the wanton air.
+Through the velvet leaves the wind
+All unseen ’gan passage find,
+That the lover, sick to death,
+Wish’d himself the heaven’s breath:
+“Air,” quoth he, “thy cheeks may blow;
+Air, would I might triumph so!
+But, alas, my hand hath sworn
+Ne’er to pluck thee from thy thorn:
+Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,
+Youth, so apt to pluck a sweet!
+Thou for whom Jove would swear
+Juno but an Ethiope were,
+And deny himself for Jove,
+Turning mortal for thy love.”
+
+
+
+
+XVII
+
+
+My flocks feed not, my ewes breed not,
+My rams speed not, all is amis:
+Love is dying, faith’s defying,
+Heart’s denying, causer of this.
+All my merry jigs are quite forgot,
+All my lady’s love is lost, God wot:
+Where her faith was firmely fix’d in love,
+There a nay is plac’d without remove.
+One silly cross wrought all my loss;
+O frowning fortune, cursed fickle dame!
+For now I see inconstancy
+More in women than in men remain.
+
+In black mourn I, all fears scorn I,
+Love hath forlorn me, living in thrall.
+Heart is bleeding, all help needing,
+O cruel speeding, fraughted with gall.
+My shepherd’s pipe can sound no deal.
+My weather’s bell rings doleful knell;
+My curtal dog that wont to have play’d,
+Plays not at all, but seems afraid.
+With sighs so deep procures to weep,
+In howling wise, to see my doleful plight.
+How sighs resound through heartless ground,
+Like a thousand vanquish’d men in bloody fight!
+
+Clear wells spring not, sweet birds sing not,
+Green plants bring not forth their dye;
+Herds stands weeping, flocks all sleeping,
+Nymphs black peeping fearfully.
+All our pleasure known to us poor swains,
+All our merry meetings on the plains,
+All our evening sport from us is fled,
+All our love is lost, for love is dead.
+Farewel, sweet love, thy like ne’er was
+For a sweet content, the cause of all my woe!
+Poor Corydon must live alone;
+Other help for him I see that there is none.
+
+
+
+
+XVIII
+
+
+Whenas thine eye hath chose the dame,
+And stall’d the deer that thou shouldst strike,
+Let reason rule things worthy blame,
+As well as fancy, partial might;
+    Take counsel of some wiser head,
+    Neither too young nor yet unwed.
+
+And when thou com’st thy tale to tell,
+Smooth not thy tongue with filed talk,
+Least she some subtle practice smell,—
+A cripple soon can find a halt,—
+    But plainly say thou lov’st her well,
+    And set her person forth to sale.
+
+What though her frowning brows be bent,
+Her cloudy looks will calm ere night,
+And then too late she will repent,
+That thus dissembled her delight;
+    And twice desire, ere it be day,
+    That which with scorn she put away.
+
+What though she strive to try her strength,
+And ban and brawl, and say thee nay,
+Her feeble force will yield at length,
+When craft hath taught her thus to say:
+    “Had women been so strong as men,
+    In faith, you had not had it then.”
+
+And to her will frame all thy ways;
+Spare not to spend, and chiefly there
+Where thy desert may merit praise,
+By ringing in thy lady’s ear:
+    The strongest castle, tower and town,
+    The golden bullet beats it down.
+
+Serve always with assured trust,
+And in thy suit be humble true;
+Unless thy lady prove unjust,
+Press never thou to choose a new:
+    When time shall serve, be thou not slack,
+    To proffer, though she put thee back.
+
+The wiles and guiles that women work,
+Dissembled with an outward show,
+The tricks and toys that in them lurk,
+The cock that treads them shall not know,
+    Have you not heard it said full oft,
+    A woman’s nay doth stand for nought.
+
+Think women still to strive with men,
+To sin and never for to saint:
+There is no heaven, by holy then,
+When time with age shall them attaint,
+    Were kisses all the joys in bed,
+    One woman would another wed.
+
+But soft, enough,—too much,—I fear
+Lest that my mistress hear my song:
+She will not stick to round me on th’ ear,
+To teach my tongue to be so long.
+    Yet will she blush, here be it said,
+    To hear her secrets so bewray’d.
+
+
+
+
+XIX
+
+
+Live with me and be my love,
+And we will all the pleasures prove
+That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
+And all the craggy mountains yield.
+
+There will we sit upon the rocks,
+And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
+By shallow rivers, by whose falls
+Melodious birds sing madrigals.
+
+There will I make thee a bed of roses,
+With a thousand fragrant posies,
+A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
+Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
+
+A belt of straw and ivy buds,
+With coral clasps and amber studs;
+And if these pleasures may thee move,
+Then live with me and be my love.
+
+Love’s Answer.
+
+If that the world and love were young,
+And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
+These pretty pleasures might me move
+To live with thee and be thy love.
+
+
+
+
+XX
+
+
+As it fell upon a day
+In the merry month of May,
+Sitting in a pleasant shade
+Which a grove of myrtles made,
+Beasts did leap and birds did sing,
+Trees did grow and plants did spring;
+Everything did banish moan,
+Save the nightingale alone:
+She, poor bird, as all forlorn,
+Lean’d her breast up-till a thorn,
+And there sung the dolefull’st ditty,
+That to hear it was great pitty.
+“Fie, fie, fie,” now would she cry,
+“Tereu, Tereu,” by and by;
+
+That to hear her so complain,
+Scarce I could from tears refrain,
+For her griefs so lively shown
+Made me think upon mine own.
+Ah, thought I, thou mourn’st in vain!
+None takes pitty on thy pain.
+Senseless trees they cannot hear thee,
+Ruthless bears they will not cheer thee;
+King Pandion he is dead,
+All thy friends are lapp’d in lead,
+All thy fellow birds do sing,
+Careless of thy sorrowing.
+
+Whilst as fickle fortune smiled,
+Thou and I were both beguiled.
+Every one that flatters thee
+Is no friend in misery.
+Words are easy, like the wind;
+Faithful friends are hard to find.
+Every man will be thy friend
+Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;
+But if store of crowns be scant,
+No man will supply thy want.
+If that one be prodigal,
+Bountiful they will him call,
+And with such-like flattering,
+“Pity but he were a king.”
+
+If he be addict to vice,
+Quickly him they will entice;
+If to women he be bent,
+They have at commandement.
+But if Fortune once do frown,
+Then farewell his great renown.
+They that fawn’d on him before,
+Use his company no more.
+He that is thy friend indeed,
+He will help thee in thy need:
+If thou sorrow, he will weep;
+If thou wake, he cannot sleep.
+Thus of every grief in heart
+He with thee doth bear a part.
+These are certain signs to know
+Faithful friend from flatt’ring foe.
+
+
+
+
+THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE
+
+
+Let the bird of loudest lay,
+On the sole Arabian tree,
+Herald sad and trumpet be,
+To whose sound chaste wings obey.
+
+But thou shrieking harbinger,
+Foul precurrer of the fiend,
+Augur of the fever’s end,
+To this troop come thou not near.
+
+From this session interdict
+Every fowl of tyrant wing,
+Save the eagle, feather’d king;
+Keep the obsequy so strict.
+
+Let the priest in surplice white,
+That defunctive music can,
+Be the death-divining swan,
+Lest the requiem lack his right.
+
+And thou treble-dated crow,
+That thy sable gender mak’st
+With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st,
+’Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
+
+Here the anthem doth commence:
+Love and constancy is dead;
+Phoenix and the turtle fled
+In a mutual flame from hence.
+
+So they lov’d, as love in twain
+Had the essence but in one;
+Two distincts, division none:
+Number there in love was slain.
+
+Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
+Distance and no space was seen
+’Twixt this turtle and his queen;
+But in them it were a wonder.
+
+So between them love did shine,
+That the turtle saw his right
+Flaming in the phoenix’ sight;
+Either was the other’s mine.
+
+Property was thus appalled,
+That the self was not the same;
+Single nature’s double name
+Neither two nor one was called.
+
+Reason, in itself confounded,
+Saw division grow together;
+To themselves yet either neither,
+Simple were so well compounded.
+
+That it cried, How true a twain
+Seemeth this concordant one!
+Love hath reason, reason none,
+If what parts can so remain.
+
+Whereupon it made this threne
+To the phoenix and the dove,
+Co-supremes and stars of love,
+As chorus to their tragic scene.
+
+
+       THRENOS
+
+Beauty, truth, and rarity.
+Grace in all simplicity,
+Here enclos’d in cinders lie.
+
+Death is now the phoenix’ nest;
+And the turtle’s loyal breast
+To eternity doth rest.
+
+Leaving no posterity:—
+’Twas not their infirmity,
+It was married chastity.
+
+Truth may seem, but cannot be;
+Beauty brag, but ’tis not she;
+Truth and beauty buried be.
+
+To this urn let those repair
+That are either true or fair;
+For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
+
+
+
+
+THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
+
+
+TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
+HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON,
+and Baron of Titchfield.
+
+The love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end; whereof this
+pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety. The warrant I
+have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored
+lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what
+I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my
+worth greater, my duty would show greater; meantime, as it is, it is
+bound to your Lordship, to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with
+all happiness.
+
+                           Your Lordship’s in all duty,
+                                WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
+
+
+
+
+THE ARGUMENT.
+
+
+Lucius Tarquinius (for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus), after he
+had caused his own father-in-law, Servius Tullius, to be cruelly
+murdered, and, contrary to the Roman laws and customs, not requiring or
+staying for the people’s suffrages, had possessed himself of the
+kingdom, went, accompanied with his sons and other noblemen of Rome, to
+besiege Ardea. During which siege the principal men of the army meeting
+one evening at the tent of Sextus Tarquinius, the king’s son, in their
+discourses after supper, everyone commended the virtues of his own
+wife; among whom Collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his
+wife Lucretia. In that pleasant humour they all posted to Rome; and
+intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of that
+which everyone had before avouched, only Collatinus finds his wife,
+though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her maids: the other
+ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several disports.
+Whereupon the noblemen yielded Collatinus the victory, and his wife the
+fame. At that time Sextus Tarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece’s
+beauty, yet smothering his passions for the present, departed with the
+rest back to the camp; from whence he shortly after privily withdrew
+himself, and was (according to his estate) royally entertained and
+lodged by Lucrece at Collatium. The same night he treacherously
+stealeth into her chamber, violently ravished her, and early in the
+morning speedeth away. Lucrece, in this lamentable plight, hastily
+dispatched messengers, one to Rome for her father, another to the camp
+for Collatine. They came, the one accompanied with Junius Brutus, the
+other with Publius Valerius; and finding Lucrece attired in mourning
+habit, demanded the cause of her sorrow. She, first taking an oath of
+them for her revenge, revealed the actor, and whole manner of his
+dealing, and withal suddenly stabbed herself. Which done, with one
+consent they all vowed to root out the whole hated family of the
+Tarquins; and bearing the dead body to Rome, Brutus acquainted the
+people with the doer and manner of the vile deed, with a bitter
+invective against the tyranny of the king; wherewith the people were so
+moved, that with one consent and a general acclamation the Tarquins
+were all exiled, and the state government changed from kings to
+consuls.
+
+
+
+
+From the besieged Ardea all in post,
+Borne by the trustless wings of false desire,
+Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host,
+And to Collatium bears the lightless fire,
+Which in pale embers hid, lurks to aspire
+    And girdle with embracing flames the waist
+    Of Collatine’s fair love, Lucrece the chaste.
+
+Haply that name of “chaste” unhapp’ly set
+This bateless edge on his keen appetite,
+When Collatine unwisely did not let
+To praise the clear unmatched red and white
+Which triumphed in that sky of his delight;
+    Where mortal stars as bright as heaven’s beauties,
+    With pure aspects did him peculiar duties.
+
+For he the night before, in Tarquin’s tent
+Unlocked the treasure of his happy state,
+What priceless wealth the heavens had him lent
+In the possession of his beauteous mate;
+Reck’ning his fortune at such high proud rate
+    That kings might be espoused to more fame,
+    But king nor peer to such a peerless dame.
+
+O happiness enjoyed but of a few,
+And, if possessed, as soon decayed and done
+As is the morning’s silver melting dew
+Against the golden splendour of the sun!
+An expired date, cancelled ere well begun.
+    Honour and beauty in the owner’s arms,
+    Are weakly fortressed from a world of harms.
+
+Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
+The eyes of men without an orator;
+What needeth then apologies be made,
+To set forth that which is so singular?
+Or why is Collatine the publisher
+    Of that rich jewel he should keep unknown
+    From thievish ears, because it is his own?
+
+Perchance his boast of Lucrece’ sov’reignty
+Suggested this proud issue of a king;
+For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be.
+Perchance that envy of so rich a thing,
+Braving compare, disdainfully did sting
+    His high-pitched thoughts, that meaner men should vaunt
+    That golden hap which their superiors want.
+
+But some untimely thought did instigate
+His all-too-timeless speed, if none of those;
+His honour, his affairs, his friends, his state,
+Neglected all, with swift intent he goes
+To quench the coal which in his liver glows.
+    O rash false heat, wrapped in repentant cold,
+    Thy hasty spring still blasts and ne’er grows old!
+
+When at Collatium this false lord arrived,
+Well was he welcomed by the Roman dame,
+Within whose face beauty and virtue strived
+Which of them both should underprop her fame.
+When virtue bragged, beauty would blush for shame;
+    When beauty boasted blushes, in despite
+    Virtue would stain that o’er with silver white.
+
+But beauty, in that white intituled
+From Venus’ doves, doth challenge that fair field.
+Then virtue claims from beauty beauty’s red,
+Which virtue gave the golden age to gild
+Their silver cheeks, and called it then their shield;
+    Teaching them thus to use it in the fight,
+    When shame assailed, the red should fence the white.
+
+This heraldry in Lucrece’ face was seen,
+Argued by beauty’s red and virtue’s white.
+Of either’s colour was the other queen,
+Proving from world’s minority their right.
+Yet their ambition makes them still to fight;
+    The sovereignty of either being so great,
+    That oft they interchange each other’s seat.
+
+Their silent war of lilies and of roses,
+Which Tarquin viewed in her fair face’s field,
+In their pure ranks his traitor eye encloses;
+Where, lest between them both it should be killed,
+The coward captive vanquished doth yield
+    To those two armies that would let him go
+    Rather than triumph in so false a foe.
+
+Now thinks he that her husband’s shallow tongue,
+The niggard prodigal that praised her so,
+In that high task hath done her beauty wrong,
+Which far exceeds his barren skill to show.
+Therefore that praise which Collatine doth owe
+    Enchanted Tarquin answers with surmise,
+    In silent wonder of still-gazing eyes.
+
+This earthly saint, adored by this devil,
+Little suspecteth the false worshipper;
+For unstained thoughts do seldom dream on evil;
+Birds never limed no secret bushes fear.
+So guiltless she securely gives good cheer
+    And reverend welcome to her princely guest,
+    Whose inward ill no outward harm expressed.
+
+For that he coloured with his high estate,
+Hiding base sin in pleats of majesty,
+That nothing in him seemed inordinate,
+Save sometime too much wonder of his eye,
+Which, having all, all could not satisfy;
+    But, poorly rich, so wanteth in his store
+    That, cloyed with much, he pineth still for more.
+
+But she, that never coped with stranger eyes,
+Could pick no meaning from their parling looks,
+Nor read the subtle shining secrecies
+Writ in the glassy margents of such books;
+She touched no unknown baits, nor feared no hooks,
+    Nor could she moralize his wanton sight,
+    More than his eyes were opened to the light.
+
+He stories to her ears her husband’s fame,
+Won in the fields of fruitful Italy;
+And decks with praises Collatine’s high name,
+Made glorious by his manly chivalry
+With bruised arms and wreaths of victory.
+    Her joy with heaved-up hand she doth express,
+    And, wordless, so greets heaven for his success.
+
+Far from the purpose of his coming thither,
+He makes excuses for his being there.
+No cloudy show of stormy blust’ring weather
+Doth yet in his fair welkin once appear,
+Till sable Night, mother of dread and fear,
+    Upon the world dim darkness doth display,
+    And in her vaulty prison stows the day.
+
+For then is Tarquin brought unto his bed,
+Intending weariness with heavy sprite;
+For after supper long he questioned
+With modest Lucrece, and wore out the night.
+Now leaden slumber with life’s strength doth fight,
+    And every one to rest themselves betake,
+    Save thieves and cares and troubled minds that wake.
+
+As one of which doth Tarquin lie revolving
+The sundry dangers of his will’s obtaining,
+Yet ever to obtain his will resolving,
+Though weak-built hopes persuade him to abstaining.
+Despair to gain doth traffic oft for gaining,
+    And when great treasure is the meed proposed,
+    Though death be adjunct, there’s no death supposed.
+
+Those that much covet are with gain so fond
+For what they have not, that which they possess
+They scatter and unloose it from their bond;
+And so, by hoping more, they have but less,
+Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
+    Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,
+    That they prove bankrout in this poor-rich gain.
+
+The aim of all is but to nurse the life
+With honour, wealth, and ease, in waning age;
+And in this aim there is such thwarting strife
+That one for all or all for one we gage:
+As life for honour in fell battle’s rage,
+    Honour for wealth; and oft that wealth doth cost
+    The death of all, and all together lost.
+
+So that in vent’ring ill we leave to be
+The things we are, for that which we expect;
+And this ambitious foul infirmity,
+In having much, torments us with defect
+Of that we have. So then we do neglect
+    The thing we have, and, all for want of wit,
+    Make something nothing by augmenting it.
+
+Such hazard now must doting Tarquin make,
+Pawning his honour to obtain his lust;
+And for himself himself he must forsake.
+Then where is truth, if there be no self-trust?
+When shall he think to find a stranger just,
+    When he himself himself confounds, betrays
+    To sland’rous tongues and wretched hateful days?
+
+Now stole upon the time the dead of night,
+When heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes.
+No comfortable star did lend his light,
+No noise but owls’ and wolves’ death-boding cries;
+Now serves the season that they may surprise
+    The silly lambs. Pure thoughts are dead and still,
+    While lust and murder wake to stain and kill.
+
+And now this lustful lord leaped from his bed,
+Throwing his mantle rudely o’er his arm;
+Is madly tossed between desire and dread;
+Th’ one sweetly flatters, th’ other feareth harm.
+But honest fear, bewitched with lust’s foul charm,
+    Doth too too oft betake him to retire,
+    Beaten away by brain-sick rude desire.
+
+His falchion on a flint he softly smiteth,
+That from the cold stone sparks of fire do fly;
+Whereat a waxen torch forthwith he lighteth,
+Which must be lodestar to his lustful eye,
+And to the flame thus speaks advisedly:
+    “As from this cold flint I enforced this fire,
+    So Lucrece must I force to my desire.”
+
+Here pale with fear he doth premeditate
+The dangers of his loathsome enterprise,
+And in his inward mind he doth debate
+What following sorrow may on this arise.
+Then looking scornfully, he doth despise
+    His naked armour of still-slaughtered lust,
+    And justly thus controls his thoughts unjust:
+
+“Fair torch, burn out thy light, and lend it not
+To darken her whose light excelleth thine.
+And die, unhallowed thoughts, before you blot
+With your uncleanness that which is divine.
+Offer pure incense to so pure a shrine.
+    Let fair humanity abhor the deed
+    That spots and stains love’s modest snow-white weed.
+
+“O shame to knighthood and to shining arms!
+O foul dishonour to my household’s grave!
+O impious act including all foul harms!
+A martial man to be soft fancy’s slave!
+True valour still a true respect should have.
+    Then my digression is so vile, so base,
+    That it will live engraven in my face.
+
+“Yea, though I die, the scandal will survive
+And be an eye-sore in my golden coat;
+Some loathsome dash the herald will contrive,
+To cipher me how fondly I did dote,
+That my posterity, shamed with the note,
+    Shall curse my bones, and hold it for no sin
+    To wish that I their father had not been.
+
+“What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
+A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
+Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week,
+Or sells eternity to get a toy?
+For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
+    Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
+    Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?
+
+“If Collatinus dream of my intent,
+Will he not wake, and in a desp’rate rage
+Post hither, this vile purpose to prevent?—
+This siege that hath engirt his marriage,
+This blur to youth, this sorrow to the sage,
+    This dying virtue, this surviving shame,
+    Whose crime will bear an ever-during blame?
+
+“O, what excuse can my invention make
+When thou shalt charge me with so black a deed?
+Will not my tongue be mute, my frail joints shake,
+Mine eyes forgo their light, my false heart bleed?
+The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed;
+    And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly,
+    But coward-like with trembling terror die.
+
+“Had Collatinus killed my son or sire,
+Or lain in ambush to betray my life,
+Or were he not my dear friend, this desire
+Might have excuse to work upon his wife,
+As in revenge or quittal of such strife;
+    But as he is my kinsman, my dear friend,
+    The shame and fault finds no excuse nor end.
+
+“Shameful it is; ay, if the fact be known.
+Hateful it is, there is no hate in loving.
+I’ll beg her love. But she is not her own.
+The worst is but denial and reproving.
+My will is strong, past reason’s weak removing.
+    Who fears a sentence or an old man’s saw
+    Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe.”
+
+Thus, graceless, holds he disputation
+’Tween frozen conscience and hot-burning will,
+And with good thoughts makes dispensation,
+Urging the worser sense for vantage still;
+Which in a moment doth confound and kill
+    All pure effects, and doth so far proceed
+    That what is vile shows like a virtuous deed.
+
+Quoth he, “She took me kindly by the hand,
+And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes,
+Fearing some hard news from the warlike band
+Where her beloved Collatinus lies.
+O how her fear did make her colour rise!
+    First red as roses that on lawn we lay,
+    Then white as lawn, the roses took away.
+
+“And how her hand, in my hand being locked,
+Forced it to tremble with her loyal fear,
+Which struck her sad, and then it faster rocked,
+Until her husband’s welfare she did hear;
+Whereat she smiled with so sweet a cheer
+    That had Narcissus seen her as she stood,
+    Self-love had never drowned him in the flood.
+
+“Why hunt I then for colour or excuses?
+All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.
+Poor wretches have remorse in poor abuses;
+Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.
+Affection is my captain, and he leadeth;
+    And when his gaudy banner is displayed,
+    The coward fights and will not be dismayed.
+
+“Then, childish fear, avaunt! Debating, die!
+Respect and reason wait on wrinkled age!
+My heart shall never countermand mine eye.
+Sad pause and deep regard beseems the sage;
+My part is youth, and beats these from the stage.
+    Desire my pilot is, beauty my prize;
+    Then who fears sinking where such treasure lies?”
+
+As corn o’ergrown by weeds, so heedful fear
+Is almost choked by unresisted lust.
+Away he steals with opening, list’ning ear,
+Full of foul hope, and full of fond mistrust;
+Both which, as servitors to the unjust,
+    So cross him with their opposite persuasion
+    That now he vows a league, and now invasion.
+
+Within his thought her heavenly image sits,
+And in the self-same seat sits Collatine.
+That eye which looks on her confounds his wits;
+That eye which him beholds, as more divine,
+Unto a view so false will not incline,
+    But with a pure appeal seeks to the heart,
+    Which once corrupted takes the worser part;
+
+And therein heartens up his servile powers,
+Who, flattered by their leader’s jocund show,
+Stuff up his lust, as minutes fill up hours;
+And as their captain, so their pride doth grow,
+Paying more slavish tribute than they owe.
+    By reprobate desire thus madly led,
+    The Roman lord marcheth to Lucrece’ bed.
+
+The locks between her chamber and his will,
+Each one by him enforced, retires his ward;
+But, as they open, they all rate his ill,
+Which drives the creeping thief to some regard.
+The threshold grates the door to have him heard;
+    Night-wand’ring weasels shriek to see him there;
+    They fright him, yet he still pursues his fear.
+
+As each unwilling portal yields him way,
+Through little vents and crannies of the place
+The wind wars with his torch, to make him stay,
+And blows the smoke of it into his face,
+Extinguishing his conduct in this case;
+    But his hot heart, which fond desire doth scorch,
+    Puffs forth another wind that fires the torch.
+
+And being lighted, by the light he spies
+Lucretia’s glove, wherein her needle sticks;
+He takes it from the rushes where it lies,
+And griping it, the needle his finger pricks,
+As who should say, “This glove to wanton tricks
+    Is not inured. Return again in haste;
+    Thou seest our mistress’ ornaments are chaste.”
+
+But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
+He in the worst sense construes their denial.
+The doors, the wind, the glove that did delay him,
+He takes for accidental things of trial;
+Or as those bars which stop the hourly dial,
+    Who with a ling’ring stay his course doth let,
+    Till every minute pays the hour his debt.
+
+“So, so,” quoth he, “these lets attend the time,
+Like little frosts that sometime threat the spring,
+To add a more rejoicing to the prime,
+And give the sneaped birds more cause to sing.
+Pain pays the income of each precious thing:
+    Huge rocks, high winds, strong pirates, shelves and sands
+    The merchant fears, ere rich at home he lands.”
+
+Now is he come unto the chamber door
+That shuts him from the heaven of his thought,
+Which with a yielding latch, and with no more,
+Hath barred him from the blessed thing he sought.
+So from himself impiety hath wrought,
+    That for his prey to pray he doth begin,
+    As if the heavens should countenance his sin.
+
+But in the midst of his unfruitful prayer,
+Having solicited th’ eternal power
+That his foul thoughts might compass his fair fair,
+And they would stand auspicious to the hour,
+Even there he starts. Quoth he, “I must deflower.
+    The powers to whom I pray abhor this fact,
+    How can they then assist me in the act?
+
+“Then Love and Fortune be my gods, my guide!
+My will is backed with resolution.
+Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried;
+The blackest sin is cleared with absolution.
+Against love’s fire fear’s frost hath dissolution.
+    The eye of heaven is out, and misty night
+    Covers the shame that follows sweet delight.”
+
+This said, his guilty hand plucked up the latch,
+And with his knee the door he opens wide.
+The dove sleeps fast that this night-owl will catch;
+Thus treason works ere traitors be espied.
+Who sees the lurking serpent steps aside;
+    But she, sound sleeping, fearing no such thing,
+    Lies at the mercy of his mortal sting.
+
+Into the chamber wickedly he stalks,
+And gazeth on her yet unstained bed.
+The curtains being close, about he walks,
+Rolling his greedy eyeballs in his head.
+By their high treason is his heart misled,
+    Which gives the watch-word to his hand full soon
+    To draw the cloud that hides the silver moon.
+
+Look as the fair and fiery-pointed sun,
+Rushing from forth a cloud, bereaves our sight;
+Even so, the curtain drawn, his eyes begun
+To wink, being blinded with a greater light.
+Whether it is that she reflects so bright,
+    That dazzleth them, or else some shame supposed;
+    But blind they are, and keep themselves enclosed.
+
+O, had they in that darksome prison died,
+Then had they seen the period of their ill!
+Then Collatine again by Lucrece’ side
+In his clear bed might have reposed still.
+But they must ope, this blessed league to kill;
+    And holy-thoughted Lucrece to their sight
+    Must sell her joy, her life, her world’s delight.
+
+Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under,
+Coz’ning the pillow of a lawful kiss;
+Who, therefore angry, seems to part in sunder,
+Swelling on either side to want his bliss;
+Between whose hills her head entombed is,
+    Where like a virtuous monument she lies,
+    To be admired of lewd unhallowed eyes.
+
+Without the bed her other fair hand was,
+On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
+Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
+With pearly sweat resembling dew of night.
+Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light,
+    And canopied in darkness sweetly lay,
+    Till they might open to adorn the day.
+
+Her hair, like golden threads, played with her breath:
+O modest wantons, wanton modesty!
+Showing life’s triumph in the map of death,
+And death’s dim look in life’s mortality.
+Each in her sleep themselves so beautify,
+    As if between them twain there were no strife,
+    But that life lived in death and death in life.
+
+Her breasts like ivory globes circled with blue,
+A pair of maiden worlds unconquered,
+Save of their lord no bearing yoke they knew,
+And him by oath they truly honoured.
+These worlds in Tarquin new ambition bred;
+    Who, like a foul usurper, went about
+    From this fair throne to heave the owner out.
+
+What could he see but mightily he noted?
+What did he note but strongly he desired?
+What he beheld, on that he firmly doted,
+And in his will his wilful eye he tired.
+With more than admiration he admired
+    Her azure veins, her alabaster skin,
+    Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin.
+
+As the grim lion fawneth o’er his prey,
+Sharp hunger by the conquest satisfied,
+So o’er this sleeping soul doth Tarquin stay,
+His rage of lust by grazing qualified—
+Slaked, not suppressed; for standing by her side,
+    His eye, which late this mutiny restrains,
+    Unto a greater uproar tempts his veins.
+
+And they, like straggling slaves for pillage fighting,
+Obdurate vassals fell exploits effecting,
+In bloody death and ravishment delighting,
+Nor children’s tears nor mothers’ groans respecting,
+Swell in their pride, the onset still expecting.
+    Anon his beating heart, alarum striking,
+    Gives the hot charge and bids them do their liking.
+
+His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye,
+His eye commends the leading to his hand;
+His hand, as proud of such a dignity,
+Smoking with pride, marched on to make his stand
+On her bare breast, the heart of all her land;
+    Whose ranks of blue veins, as his hand did scale,
+    Left their round turrets destitute and pale.
+
+They, must’ring to the quiet cabinet
+Where their dear governess and lady lies,
+Do tell her she is dreadfully beset,
+And fright her with confusion of their cries.
+She, much amazed, breaks ope her locked-up eyes,
+    Who, peeping forth this tumult to behold,
+    Are by his flaming torch dimmed and controlled.
+
+Imagine her as one in dead of night
+From forth dull sleep by dreadful fancy waking,
+That thinks she hath beheld some ghastly sprite,
+Whose grim aspect sets every joint a shaking.
+What terror ’tis! but she, in worser taking,
+    From sleep disturbed, heedfully doth view
+    The sight which makes supposed terror true.
+
+Wrapped and confounded in a thousand fears,
+Like to a new-killed bird she trembling lies.
+She dares not look; yet, winking, there appears
+Quick-shifting antics, ugly in her eyes.
+Such shadows are the weak brain’s forgeries;
+    Who, angry that the eyes fly from their lights,
+    In darkness daunts them with more dreadful sights.
+
+His hand, that yet remains upon her breast,
+Rude ram, to batter such an ivory wall!
+May feel her heart, poor citizen, distressed,
+Wounding itself to death, rise up and fall,
+Beating her bulk, that his hand shakes withal.
+    This moves in him more rage, and lesser pity,
+    To make the breach and enter this sweet city.
+
+First, like a trumpet doth his tongue begin
+To sound a parley to his heartless foe,
+Who o’er the white sheet peers her whiter chin,
+The reason of this rash alarm to know,
+Which he by dumb demeanour seeks to show;
+    But she with vehement prayers urgeth still
+    Under what colour he commits this ill.
+
+Thus he replies: “The colour in thy face,
+That even for anger makes the lily pale,
+And the red rose blush at her own disgrace,
+Shall plead for me and tell my loving tale.
+Under that colour am I come to scale
+    Thy never-conquered fort; the fault is thine,
+    For those thine eyes betray thee unto mine.
+
+“Thus I forestall thee, if thou mean to chide:
+Thy beauty hath ensnared thee to this night,
+Where thou with patience must my will abide,
+My will that marks thee for my earth’s delight,
+Which I to conquer sought with all my might.
+    But as reproof and reason beat it dead,
+    By thy bright beauty was it newly bred.
+
+“I see what crosses my attempt will bring;
+I know what thorns the growing rose defends;
+I think the honey guarded with a sting;
+All this beforehand counsel comprehends.
+But will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends;
+    Only he hath an eye to gaze on beauty,
+    And dotes on what he looks, ’gainst law or duty.
+
+“I have debated, even in my soul,
+What wrong, what shame, what sorrow I shall breed;
+But nothing can affection’s course control,
+Or stop the headlong fury of his speed.
+I know repentant tears ensue the deed,
+    Reproach, disdain, and deadly enmity;
+    Yet strike I to embrace mine infamy.”
+
+This said, he shakes aloft his Roman blade,
+Which, like a falcon tow’ring in the skies,
+Coucheth the fowl below with his wings’ shade,
+Whose crooked beak threats, if he mount he dies.
+So under his insulting falchion lies
+    Harmless Lucretia, marking what he tells
+    With trembling fear, as fowl hear falcon’s bells.
+
+“Lucrece,” quoth he, “this night I must enjoy thee.
+If thou deny, then force must work my way,
+For in thy bed I purpose to destroy thee;
+That done, some worthless slave of thine I’ll slay.
+To kill thine honour with thy life’s decay;
+    And in thy dead arms do I mean to place him,
+    Swearing I slew him, seeing thee embrace him.
+
+“So thy surviving husband shall remain
+The scornful mark of every open eye;
+Thy kinsmen hang their heads at this disdain,
+Thy issue blurred with nameless bastardy.
+And thou, the author of their obloquy,
+    Shalt have thy trespass cited up in rhymes
+     And sung by children in succeeding times.
+
+“But if thou yield, I rest thy secret friend.
+The fault unknown is as a thought unacted;
+A little harm done to a great good end
+For lawful policy remains enacted.
+The poisonous simple sometimes is compacted
+    In a pure compound; being so applied,
+    His venom in effect is purified.
+
+“Then, for thy husband and thy children’s sake,
+Tender my suit. Bequeath not to their lot
+The shame that from them no device can take,
+The blemish that will never be forgot,
+Worse than a slavish wipe, or birth-hour’s blot:
+    For marks descried in men’s nativity
+    Are nature’s faults, not their own infamy.”
+
+Here with a cockatrice’ dead-killing eye
+He rouseth up himself and makes a pause;
+While she, the picture of pure piety,
+Like a white hind under the gripe’s sharp claws,
+Pleads in a wilderness where are no laws,
+    To the rough beast that knows no gentle right,
+    Nor aught obeys but his foul appetite.
+
+But when a black-faced cloud the world doth threat,
+In his dim mist th’ aspiring mountains hiding,
+From earth’s dark womb some gentle gust doth get,
+Which blows these pitchy vapours from their biding,
+Hind’ring their present fall by this dividing;
+    So his unhallowed haste her words delays,
+    And moody Pluto winks while Orpheus plays.
+
+Yet, foul night-waking cat, he doth but dally,
+While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth.
+Her sad behaviour feeds his vulture folly,
+A swallowing gulf that even in plenty wanteth.
+His ear her prayers admits, but his heart granteth
+    No penetrable entrance to her plaining;
+    Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.
+
+Her pity-pleading eyes are sadly fixed
+In the remorseless wrinkles of his face.
+Her modest eloquence with sighs is mixed,
+Which to her oratory adds more grace.
+She puts the period often from his place,
+    And midst the sentence so her accent breaks
+    That twice she doth begin ere once she speaks.
+
+She conjures him by high almighty Jove,
+By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship’s oath,
+By her untimely tears, her husband’s love,
+By holy human law, and common troth,
+By heaven and earth, and all the power of both,
+    That to his borrowed bed he make retire,
+    And stoop to honour, not to foul desire.
+
+Quoth she, “Reward not hospitality
+With such black payment as thou hast pretended;
+Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee,
+Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.
+End thy ill aim before the shoot be ended;
+    He is no woodman that doth bend his bow
+    To strike a poor unseasonable doe.
+
+“My husband is thy friend; for his sake spare me.
+Thyself art mighty; for thine own sake leave me.
+Myself a weakling, do not then ensnare me;
+Thou look’st not like deceit; do not deceive me.
+My sighs, like whirlwinds, labour hence to heave thee.
+    If ever man were moved with woman’s moans,
+    Be moved with my tears, my sighs, my groans.
+
+“All which together, like a troubled ocean,
+Beat at thy rocky and wrack-threat’ning heart,
+To soften it with their continual motion;
+For stones dissolved to water do convert.
+O, if no harder than a stone thou art,
+    Melt at my tears and be compassionate!
+    Soft pity enters at an iron gate.
+
+“In Tarquin’s likeness I did entertain thee.
+Hast thou put on his shape to do him shame?
+To all the host of heaven I complain me,
+Thou wrong’st his honour, wound’st his princely name.
+Thou art not what thou seem’st; and if the same,
+    Thou seem’st not what thou art, a god, a king;
+    For kings like gods should govern everything.
+
+“How will thy shame be seeded in thine age,
+When thus thy vices bud before thy spring?
+If in thy hope thou dar’st do such outrage,
+What dar’st thou not when once thou art a king?
+O, be remembered, no outrageous thing
+    From vassal actors can be wiped away;
+    Then kings’ misdeeds cannot be hid in clay.
+
+“This deed will make thee only loved for fear,
+But happy monarchs still are feared for love.
+With foul offenders thou perforce must bear,
+When they in thee the like offences prove.
+If but for fear of this, thy will remove,
+    For princes are the glass, the school, the book,
+    Where subjects’ eyes do learn, do read, do look.
+
+“And wilt thou be the school where Lust shall learn?
+Must he in thee read lectures of such shame?
+Wilt thou be glass, wherein it shall discern
+Authority for sin, warrant for blame,
+To privilege dishonour in thy name?
+    Thou back’st reproach against long-living laud,
+    And mak’st fair reputation but a bawd.
+
+“Hast thou command? By him that gave it thee,
+From a pure heart command thy rebel will.
+Draw not thy sword to guard iniquity,
+For it was lent thee all that brood to kill.
+Thy princely office how canst thou fulfill,
+    When, patterned by thy fault, foul Sin may say
+    He learned to sin, and thou didst teach the way?
+
+“Think but how vile a spectacle it were
+To view thy present trespass in another.
+Men’s faults do seldom to themselves appear;
+Their own transgressions partially they smother.
+This guilt would seem death-worthy in thy brother.
+    O how are they wrapped in with infamies
+    That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!
+
+“To thee, to thee, my heaved-up hands appeal,
+Not to seducing lust, thy rash relier.
+I sue for exiled majesty’s repeal;
+Let him return, and flatt’ring thoughts retire.
+His true respect will prison false desire,
+    And wipe the dim mist from thy doting eyne,
+    That thou shalt see thy state, and pity mine.”
+
+“Have done,” quoth he. “My uncontrolled tide
+Turns not, but swells the higher by this let.
+Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide,
+And with the wind in greater fury fret.
+The petty streams that pay a daily debt
+    To their salt sovereign, with their fresh falls’ haste
+    Add to his flow, but alter not his taste.”
+
+“Thou art,” quoth she, “a sea, a sovereign king,
+And, lo, there falls into thy boundless flood
+Black lust, dishonour, shame, misgoverning,
+Who seek to stain the ocean of thy blood.
+If all these petty ills shall change thy good,
+    Thy sea within a puddle’s womb is hearsed,
+    And not the puddle in thy sea dispersed.
+
+“So shall these slaves be king, and thou their slave;
+Thou nobly base, they basely dignified;
+Thou their fair life, and they thy fouler grave;
+Thou loathed in their shame, they in thy pride.
+The lesser thing should not the greater hide;
+    The cedar stoops not to the base shrub’s foot,
+    But low shrubs wither at the cedar’s root.
+
+“So let thy thoughts, low vassals to thy state”—
+“No more,” quoth he, “by heaven, I will not hear thee.
+Yield to my love. If not, enforced hate,
+Instead of love’s coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
+That done, despitefully I mean to bear thee
+    Unto the base bed of some rascal groom,
+    To be thy partner in this shameful doom.”
+
+This said, he sets his foot upon the light,
+For light and lust are deadly enemies.
+Shame folded up in blind concealing night,
+When most unseen, then most doth tyrannize.
+The wolf hath seized his prey, the poor lamb cries,
+    Till with her own white fleece her voice controlled
+    Entombs her outcry in her lips’ sweet fold.
+
+For with the nightly linen that she wears
+He pens her piteous clamours in her head,
+Cooling his hot face in the chastest tears
+That ever modest eyes with sorrow shed.
+O, that prone lust should stain so pure a bed!
+    The spots whereof could weeping purify,
+    Her tears should drop on them perpetually.
+
+But she hath lost a dearer thing than life,
+And he hath won what he would lose again.
+This forced league doth force a further strife;
+This momentary joy breeds months of pain;
+This hot desire converts to cold disdain.
+    Pure Chastity is rifled of her store,
+    And Lust, the thief, far poorer than before.
+
+Look as the full-fed hound or gorged hawk,
+Unapt for tender smell or speedy flight,
+Make slow pursuit, or altogether balk
+The prey wherein by nature they delight;
+So surfeit-taking Tarquin fares this night.
+    His taste delicious, in digestion souring,
+    Devours his will, that lived by foul devouring.
+
+O deeper sin than bottomless conceit
+Can comprehend in still imagination!
+Drunken desire must vomit his receipt,
+Ere he can see his own abomination.
+While lust is in his pride no exclamation
+    Can curb his heat or rein his rash desire,
+    Till, like a jade, self-will himself doth tire.
+
+And then with lank and lean discoloured cheek,
+With heavy eye, knit brow, and strengthless pace,
+Feeble desire, all recreant, poor, and meek,
+Like to a bankrout beggar wails his case.
+The flesh being proud, desire doth fight with Grace,
+    For there it revels; and when that decays,
+    The guilty rebel for remission prays.
+
+So fares it with this faultful lord of Rome,
+Who this accomplishment so hotly chased;
+For now against himself he sounds this doom,
+That through the length of times he stands disgraced.
+Besides, his soul’s fair temple is defaced,
+    To whose weak ruins muster troops of cares,
+    To ask the spotted princess how she fares.
+
+She says her subjects with foul insurrection
+Have battered down her consecrated wall,
+And by their mortal fault brought in subjection
+Her immortality, and made her thrall
+To living death and pain perpetual,
+    Which in her prescience she controlled still,
+    But her foresight could not forestall their will.
+
+E’en in this thought through the dark night he stealeth,
+A captive victor that hath lost in gain,
+Bearing away the wound that nothing healeth,
+The scar that will, despite of cure, remain;
+Leaving his spoil perplexed in greater pain.
+    She bears the load of lust he left behind,
+    And he the burden of a guilty mind.
+
+He like a thievish dog creeps sadly thence;
+She like a wearied lamb lies panting there;
+He scowls, and hates himself for his offence;
+She, desperate, with her nails her flesh doth tear.
+He faintly flies, sweating with guilty fear;
+    She stays, exclaiming on the direful night;
+    He runs, and chides his vanished, loathed delight.
+
+He thence departs a heavy convertite;
+She there remains a hopeless castaway.
+He in his speed looks for the morning light;
+She prays she never may behold the day.
+“For day,” quoth she, “night’s scapes doth open lay,
+    And my true eyes have never practised how
+    To cloak offences with a cunning brow.
+
+“They think not but that every eye can see
+The same disgrace which they themselves behold;
+And therefore would they still in darkness be,
+To have their unseen sin remain untold.
+For they their guilt with weeping will unfold,
+    And grave, like water that doth eat in steel,
+    Upon my cheeks what helpless shame I feel.”
+
+Here she exclaims against repose and rest,
+And bids her eyes hereafter still be blind.
+She wakes her heart by beating on her breast,
+And bids it leap from thence, where it may find
+Some purer chest, to close so pure a mind.
+    Frantic with grief thus breathes she forth her spite
+    Against the unseen secrecy of night.
+
+“O comfort-killing night, image of hell,
+Dim register and notary of shame,
+Black stage for tragedies and murders fell,
+Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame,
+Blind muffled bawd, dark harbour for defame,
+    Grim cave of death, whisp’ring conspirator
+    With close-tongued treason and the ravisher!
+
+“O hateful, vaporous, and foggy night,
+Since thou art guilty of my cureless crime,
+Muster thy mists to meet the eastern light,
+Make war against proportioned course of time;
+Or if thou wilt permit the sun to climb
+    His wonted height, yet ere he go to bed,
+    Knit poisonous clouds about his golden head.
+
+“With rotten damps ravish the morning air;
+Let their exhaled unwholesome breaths make sick
+The life of purity, the supreme fair,
+Ere he arrive his weary noontide prick.
+And let thy misty vapours march so thick,
+    That in their smoky ranks his smothered light
+    May set at noon and make perpetual night.
+
+“Were Tarquin night, as he is but night’s child,
+The silver-shining queen he would distain;
+Her twinkling handmaids too, by him defiled,
+Through Night’s black bosom should not peep again.
+So should I have co-partners in my pain;
+    And fellowship in woe doth woe assuage,
+    As palmers’ chat makes short their pilgrimage.
+
+“Where now I have no one to blush with me,
+To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,
+To mask their brows, and hide their infamy;
+But I alone alone must sit and pine,
+Seasoning the earth with showers of silver brine,
+    Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,
+    Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.
+
+“O night, thou furnace of foul reeking smoke,
+Let not the jealous day behold that face
+Which underneath thy black all-hiding cloak
+Immodesty lies martyred with disgrace!
+Keep still possession of thy gloomy place,
+    That all the faults which in thy reign are made
+    May likewise be sepulchred in thy shade.
+
+“Make me not object to the tell-tale day.
+The light will show charactered in my brow
+The story of sweet chastity’s decay,
+The impious breach of holy wedlock vow.
+Yea, the illiterate, that know not how
+    To cipher what is writ in learned books,
+    Will quote my loathsome trespass in my looks.
+
+“The nurse, to still her child, will tell my story
+And fright her crying babe with Tarquin’s name.
+The orator, to deck his oratory,
+Will couple my reproach to Tarquin’s shame.
+Feast-finding minstrels, tuning my defame,
+    Will tie the hearers to attend each line,
+    How Tarquin wronged me, I Collatine.
+
+“Let my good name, that senseless reputation,
+For Collatine’s dear love be kept unspotted.
+If that be made a theme for disputation,
+The branches of another root are rotted,
+And undeserved reproach to him allotted
+    That is as clear from this attaint of mine
+    As I, ere this, was pure to Collatine.
+
+“O unseen shame, invisible disgrace!
+O unfelt sore, crest-wounding, private scar!
+Reproach is stamped in Collatinus’ face,
+And Tarquin’s eye may read the mot afar,
+How he in peace is wounded, not in war.
+    Alas, how many bear such shameful blows,
+    Which not themselves, but he that gives them knows!
+
+“If, Collatine, thine honour lay in me,
+From me by strong assault it is bereft.
+My honey lost, and I, a drone-like bee,
+Have no perfection of my summer left,
+But robbed and ransacked by injurious theft.
+    In thy weak hive a wand’ring wasp hath crept,
+    And sucked the honey which thy chaste bee kept.
+
+“Yet am I guilty of thy honour’s wrack;
+Yet for thy honour did I entertain him.
+Coming from thee, I could not put him back,
+For it had been dishonour to disdain him.
+Besides, of weariness he did complain him,
+    And talked of virtue. O unlooked-for evil,
+    When virtue is profaned in such a devil!
+
+“Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?
+Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows’ nests?
+Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud?
+Or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts?
+Or kings be breakers of their own behests?
+    But no perfection is so absolute
+    That some impurity doth not pollute.
+
+“The aged man that coffers up his gold
+Is plagued with cramps, and gouts and painful fits,
+And scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold,
+But like still-pining Tantalus he sits,
+And useless barns the harvest of his wits,
+    Having no other pleasure of his gain
+    But torment that it cannot cure his pain.
+
+“So then he hath it when he cannot use it,
+And leaves it to be mastered by his young,
+Who in their pride do presently abuse it.
+Their father was too weak, and they too strong,
+To hold their cursed-blessed fortune long.
+    The sweets we wish for turn to loathed sours
+    Even in the moment that we call them ours.
+
+“Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring;
+Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers;
+The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing;
+What virtue breeds iniquity devours.
+We have no good that we can say is ours,
+    But ill-annexed Opportunity
+    Or kills his life or else his quality.
+
+“O Opportunity, thy guilt is great!
+’Tis thou that execut’st the traitor’s treason;
+Thou sets the wolf where he the lamb may get;
+Whoever plots the sin, thou ’point’st the season.
+’Tis thou that spurn’st at right, at law, at reason;
+    And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him,
+    Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him.
+
+“Thou mak’st the vestal violate her oath;
+Thou blow’st the fire when temperance is thawed;
+Thou smother’st honesty, thou murder’st troth,
+Thou foul abettor, thou notorious bawd!
+Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud.
+    Thou ravisher, thou traitor, thou false thief,
+    Thy honey turns to gall, thy joy to grief.
+
+“Thy secret pleasure turns to open shame,
+Thy private feasting to a public fast,
+Thy smoothing titles to a ragged name,
+Thy sugared tongue to bitter wormwood taste.
+Thy violent vanities can never last.
+    How comes it then, vile Opportunity,
+    Being so bad, such numbers seek for thee?
+
+“When wilt thou be the humble suppliant’s friend,
+And bring him where his suit may be obtained?
+When wilt thou sort an hour great strifes to end,
+Or free that soul which wretchedness hath chained?
+Give physic to the sick, ease to the pained?
+    The poor, lame, blind, halt, creep, cry out for thee;
+    But they ne’er meet with Opportunity.
+
+“The patient dies while the physician sleeps;
+The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds;
+Justice is feasting while the widow weeps;
+Advice is sporting while infection breeds.
+Thou grant’st no time for charitable deeds.
+    Wrath, envy, treason, rape, and murder’s rages,
+    Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.
+
+“When truth and virtue have to do with thee,
+A thousand crosses keep them from thy aid;
+They buy thy help; but Sin ne’er gives a fee;
+He gratis comes, and thou art well appaid
+As well to hear as grant what he hath said.
+    My Collatine would else have come to me
+    When Tarquin did, but he was stayed by thee.
+
+“Guilty thou art of murder and of theft,
+Guilty of perjury and subornation,
+Guilty of treason, forgery, and shift,
+Guilty of incest, that abomination:
+An accessory by thine inclination
+    To all sins past and all that are to come,
+    From the creation to the general doom.
+
+“Misshapen Time, copesmate of ugly night,
+Swift subtle post, carrier of grisly care,
+Eater of youth, false slave to false delight,
+Base watch of woes, sin’s pack-horse, virtue’s snare!
+Thou nursest all and murd’rest all that are.
+    O hear me then, injurious, shifting Time!
+    Be guilty of my death, since of my crime.
+
+“Why hath thy servant, Opportunity
+Betrayed the hours thou gav’st me to repose,
+Cancelled my fortunes, and enchained me
+To endless date of never-ending woes?
+Time’s office is to fine the hate of foes,
+    To eat up errors by opinion bred,
+    Not spend the dowry of a lawful bed.
+
+“Time’s glory is to calm contending kings,
+To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light,
+To stamp the seal of time in aged things,
+To wake the morn and sentinel the night,
+To wrong the wronger till he render right,
+    To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours,
+    And smear with dust their glitt’ring golden towers;
+
+“To fill with worm-holes stately monuments,
+To feed oblivion with decay of things,
+To blot old books and alter their contents,
+To pluck the quills from ancient ravens’ wings,
+To dry the old oak’s sap and cherish springs,
+    To spoil antiquities of hammered steel,
+    And turn the giddy round of Fortune’s wheel;
+
+“To show the beldam daughters of her daughter,
+To make the child a man, the man a child,
+To slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter,
+To tame the unicorn and lion wild,
+To mock the subtle in themselves beguiled,
+    To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,
+    And waste huge stones with little water-drops.
+
+“Why work’st thou mischief in thy pilgrimage,
+Unless thou couldst return to make amends?
+One poor retiring minute in an age
+Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends,
+Lending him wit that to bad debtors lends.
+    O, this dread night, wouldst thou one hour come back,
+    I could prevent this storm and shun thy wrack!
+
+“Thou ceaseless lackey to eternity,
+With some mischance cross Tarquin in his flight.
+Devise extremes beyond extremity,
+To make him curse this cursed crimeful night.
+Let ghastly shadows his lewd eyes affright,
+    And the dire thought of his committed evil
+    Shape every bush a hideous shapeless devil.
+
+“Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances,
+Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans;
+Let there bechance him pitiful mischances,
+To make him moan, but pity not his moans.
+Stone him with hard’ned hearts harder than stones,
+    And let mild women to him lose their mildness,
+    Wilder to him than tigers in their wildness.
+
+“Let him have time to tear his curled hair,
+Let him have time against himself to rave,
+Let him have time of Time’s help to despair,
+Let him have time to live a loathed slave,
+Let him have time a beggar’s orts to crave,
+    And time to see one that by alms doth live
+    Disdain to him disdained scraps to give.
+
+“Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
+And merry fools to mock at him resort;
+Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
+In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
+His time of folly and his time of sport;
+    And ever let his unrecalling crime
+    Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
+
+“O Time, thou tutor both to good and bad,
+Teach me to curse him that thou taught’st this ill!
+At his own shadow let the thief run mad,
+Himself himself seek every hour to kill.
+Such wretched hands such wretched blood should spill,
+    For who so base would such an office have
+    As sland’rous deathsman to so base a slave?
+
+“The baser is he, coming from a king,
+To shame his hope with deeds degenerate.
+The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
+That makes him honoured or begets him hate;
+For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
+    The moon being clouded presently is missed,
+    But little stars may hide them when they list.
+
+“The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire,
+And unperceived fly with the filth away;
+But if the like the snow-white swan desire,
+The stain upon his silver down will stay.
+Poor grooms are sightless night, kings glorious day.
+    Gnats are unnoted wheresoe’er they fly,
+    But eagles gazed upon with every eye.
+
+“Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools,
+Unprofitable sounds, weak arbitrators!
+Busy yourselves in skill-contending schools;
+Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters;
+To trembling clients be you mediators.
+    For me, I force not argument a straw,
+    Since that my case is past the help of law.
+
+“In vain I rail at Opportunity,
+At Time, at Tarquin, and uncheerful night;
+In vain I cavil with mine infamy,
+In vain I spurn at my confirmed despite.
+This helpless smoke of words doth me no right.
+    The remedy indeed to do me good
+    Is to let forth my foul defiled blood.
+
+“Poor hand, why quiver’st thou at this decree?
+Honour thyself to rid me of this shame,
+For if I die, my honour lives in thee,
+But if I live, thou liv’st in my defame.
+Since thou couldst not defend thy loyal dame,
+    And wast afeared to scratch her wicked foe,
+    Kill both thyself and her for yielding so.”
+
+This said, from her betumbled couch she starteth,
+To find some desp’rate instrument of death;
+But this no slaughterhouse no tool imparteth
+To make more vent for passage of her breath,
+Which, thronging through her lips, so vanisheth
+    As smoke from Ætna, that in air consumes,
+    Or that which from discharged cannon fumes.
+
+“In vain,” quoth she, “I live, and seek in vain
+Some happy mean to end a hapless life.
+I feared by Tarquin’s falchion to be slain,
+Yet for the self-same purpose seek a knife.
+But when I feared I was a loyal wife;
+    So am I now.—O no, that cannot be!
+    Of that true type hath Tarquin rifled me.
+
+“O that is gone for which I sought to live,
+And therefore now I need not fear to die.
+To clear this spot by death, at least I give
+A badge of fame to slander’s livery,
+A dying life to living infamy.
+    Poor helpless help, the treasure stol’n away,
+    To burn the guiltless casket where it lay!
+
+“Well, well, dear Collatine, thou shalt not know
+The stained taste of violated troth;
+I will not wrong thy true affection so,
+To flatter thee with an infringed oath.
+This bastard graff shall never come to growth;
+    He shall not boast who did thy stock pollute
+    That thou art doting father of his fruit.
+
+“Nor shall he smile at thee in secret thought,
+Nor laugh with his companions at thy state;
+But thou shalt know thy int’rest was not bought
+Basely with gold, but stol’n from forth thy gate.
+For me, I am the mistress of my fate,
+    And with my trespass never will dispense,
+    Till life to death acquit my forced offence.
+
+“I will not poison thee with my attaint,
+Nor fold my fault in cleanly-coined excuses;
+My sable ground of sin I will not paint,
+To hide the truth of this false night’s abuses.
+My tongue shall utter all; mine eyes, like sluices,
+    As from a mountain-spring that feeds a dale,
+    Shall gush pure streams to purge my impure tale.”
+
+By this, lamenting Philomel had ended
+The well-tuned warble of her nightly sorrow,
+And solemn night with slow sad gait descended
+To ugly hell; when, lo, the blushing morrow
+Lends light to all fair eyes that light will borrow.
+    But cloudy Lucrece shames herself to see,
+    And therefore still in night would cloistered be.
+
+Revealing day through every cranny spies,
+And seems to point her out where she sits weeping,
+To whom she sobbing speaks: “O eye of eyes,
+Why pry’st thou through my window? Leave thy peeping,
+Mock with thy tickling beams eyes that are sleeping.
+    Brand not my forehead with thy piercing light,
+    For day hath naught to do what’s done by night.”
+
+Thus cavils she with everything she sees.
+True grief is fond and testy as a child,
+Who wayward once, his mood with naught agrees.
+Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild.
+Continuance tames the one; the other wild,
+    Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still
+    With too much labour drowns for want of skill.
+
+So she, deep-drenched in a sea of care,
+Holds disputation with each thing she views,
+And to herself all sorrow doth compare;
+No object but her passion’s strength renews,
+And as one shifts, another straight ensues.
+    Sometime her grief is dumb and hath no words;
+    Sometime ’tis mad and too much talk affords.
+
+The little birds that tune their morning’s joy
+Make her moans mad with their sweet melody.
+For mirth doth search the bottom of annoy;
+Sad souls are slain in merry company.
+Grief best is pleased with grief’s society;
+    True sorrow then is feelingly sufficed
+    When with like semblance it is sympathized.
+
+’Tis double death to drown in ken of shore;
+He ten times pines that pines beholding food;
+To see the salve doth make the wound ache more;
+Great grief grieves most at that would do it good;
+Deep woes roll forward like a gentle flood,
+    Who, being stopped, the bounding banks o’erflows;
+    Grief dallied with nor law nor limit knows.
+
+“You mocking birds,” quoth she, “your tunes entomb
+Within your hollow-swelling feathered breasts,
+And in my hearing be you mute and dumb;
+My restless discord loves no stops nor rests.
+A woeful hostess brooks not merry guests.
+    Relish your nimble notes to pleasing ears;
+    Distress likes dumps when time is kept with tears.
+
+“Come, Philomel, that sing’st of ravishment,
+Make thy sad grove in my disheveled hair.
+As the dank earth weeps at thy languishment,
+So I at each sad strain will strain a tear
+And with deep groans the diapason bear;
+    For burden-wise I’ll hum on Tarquin still,
+    While thou on Tereus descants better skill.
+
+“And whiles against a thorn thou bear’st thy part
+To keep thy sharp woes waking, wretched I,
+To imitate thee well, against my heart
+Will fix a sharp knife to affright mine eye,
+Who if it wink shall thereon fall and die.
+    These means, as frets upon an instrument,
+    Shall tune our heart-strings to true languishment.
+
+“And for, poor bird, thou sing’st not in the day,
+As shaming any eye should thee behold,
+Some dark deep desert seated from the way,
+That knows not parching heat nor freezing cold,
+Will we find out; and there we will unfold
+    To creatures stern sad tunes to change their kinds.
+    Since men prove beasts, let beasts bear gentle minds.”
+
+As the poor frighted deer that stands at gaze,
+Wildly determining which way to fly,
+Or one encompassed with a winding maze,
+That cannot tread the way out readily;
+So with herself is she in mutiny,
+    To live or die which of the twain were better,
+    When life is shamed and Death reproach’s debtor.
+
+“To kill myself,” quoth she, “alack, what were it,
+But with my body my poor soul’s pollution?
+They that lose half with greater patience bear it
+Than they whose whole is swallowed in confusion.
+That mother tries a merciless conclusion
+    Who, having two sweet babes, when death takes one,
+    Will slay the other, and be nurse to none.
+
+“My body or my soul, which was the dearer,
+When the one pure, the other made divine?
+Whose love of either to myself was nearer,
+When both were kept for heaven and Collatine?
+Ay me, the bark pilled from the lofty pine,
+    His leaves will wither and his sap decay;
+    So must my soul, her bark being pilled away.
+
+“Her house is sacked, her quiet interrupted,
+Her mansion battered by the enemy,
+Her sacred temple spotted, spoiled, corrupted,
+Grossly engirt with daring infamy.
+Then let it not be called impiety,
+    If in this blemished fort I make some hole
+    Through which I may convey this troubled soul.
+
+“Yet die I will not till my Collatine
+Have heard the cause of my untimely death,
+That he may vow, in that sad hour of mine,
+Revenge on him that made me stop my breath.
+My stained blood to Tarquin I’ll bequeath,
+    Which by him tainted shall for him be spent,
+    And as his due writ in my testament.
+
+“My honour I’ll bequeath unto the knife
+That wounds my body so dishonoured.
+’Tis honour to deprive dishonoured life;
+The one will live, the other being dead.
+So of shame’s ashes shall my fame be bred,
+    For in my death I murder shameful scorn;
+    My shame so dead, mine honour is new born.
+
+“Dear lord of that dear jewel I have lost,
+What legacy shall I bequeath to thee?
+My resolution, love, shall be thy boast,
+By whose example thou revenged mayst be.
+How Tarquin must be used, read it in me;
+    Myself, thy friend, will kill myself, thy foe,
+    And for my sake serve thou false Tarquin so.
+
+“This brief abridgement of my will I make:
+My soul and body to the skies and ground;
+My resolution, husband, do thou take;
+Mine honour be the knife’s that makes my wound;
+My shame be his that did my fame confound;
+    And all my fame that lives disbursed be
+    To those that live and think no shame of me.
+
+“Thou, Collatine, shalt oversee this will;
+How was I overseen that thou shalt see it!
+My blood shall wash the slander of mine ill;
+My life’s foul deed my life’s fair end shall free it.
+Faint not, faint heart, but stoutly say, ‘So be it.’
+    Yield to my hand; my hand shall conquer thee.
+    Thou dead, both die, and both shall victors be.”
+
+This plot of death when sadly she had laid,
+And wiped the brinish pearl from her bright eyes,
+With untuned tongue she hoarsely called her maid,
+Whose swift obedience to her mistress hies;
+For fleet-winged duty with thought’s feathers flies.
+    Poor Lucrece’ cheeks unto her maid seem so
+    As winter meads when sun doth melt their snow.
+
+Her mistress she doth give demure good-morrow,
+With soft slow tongue, true mark of modesty,
+And sorts a sad look to her lady’s sorrow,
+For why her face wore sorrow’s livery,
+But durst not ask of her audaciously
+    Why her two suns were cloud-eclipsed so,
+    Nor why her fair cheeks over-washed with woe.
+
+But as the earth doth weep, the sun being set,
+Each flower moistened like a melting eye,
+Even so the maid with swelling drops ’gan wet
+Her circled eyne, enforced by sympathy
+Of those fair suns set in her mistress’ sky,
+    Who in a salt-waved ocean quench their light,
+    Which makes the maid weep like the dewy night.
+
+A pretty while these pretty creatures stand,
+Like ivory conduits coral cisterns filling.
+One justly weeps; the other takes in hand
+No cause, but company, of her drops spilling.
+Their gentle sex to weep are often willing,
+    Grieving themselves to guess at others’ smarts,
+    And then they drown their eyes or break their hearts.
+
+For men have marble, women waxen, minds,
+And therefore are they formed as marble will;
+The weak oppressed, th’ impression of strange kinds
+Is formed in them by force, by fraud, or skill.
+Then call them not the authors of their ill,
+    No more than wax shall be accounted evil,
+    Wherein is stamped the semblance of a devil.
+
+Their smoothness, like a goodly champaign plain,
+Lays open all the little worms that creep;
+In men, as in a rough-grown grove, remain
+Cave-keeping evils that obscurely sleep.
+Through crystal walls each little mote will peep.
+    Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks,
+    Poor women’s faces are their own faults’ books.
+
+No man inveigh against the withered flower,
+But chide rough winter that the flower hath killed;
+Not that devoured, but that which doth devour,
+Is worthy blame. O, let it not be hild
+Poor women’s faults, that they are so fulfilled
+    With men’s abuses! Those proud lords, to blame,
+    Make weak-made women tenants to their shame.
+
+The precedent whereof in Lucrece view,
+Assailed by night with circumstances strong
+Of present death, and shame that might ensue
+By that her death, to do her husband wrong.
+Such danger to resistance did belong,
+    The dying fear through all her body spread;
+    And who cannot abuse a body dead?
+
+By this, mild patience bid fair Lucrece speak
+To the poor counterfeit of her complaining:
+“My girl,” quoth she, “on what occasion break
+Those tears from thee, that down thy cheeks are raining?
+If thou dost weep for grief of my sustaining,
+    Know, gentle wench, it small avails my mood.
+    If tears could help, mine own would do me good.
+
+“But tell me, girl, when went”—and there she stayed
+Till after a deep groan—“Tarquin from hence?”
+“Madam, ere I was up,” replied the maid,
+“The more to blame my sluggard negligence.
+Yet with the fault I thus far can dispense:
+    Myself was stirring ere the break of day,
+    And, ere I rose, was Tarquin gone away.
+
+“But, lady, if your maid may be so bold,
+She would request to know your heaviness.”
+“O peace!” quoth Lucrece. “If it should be told,
+The repetition cannot make it less;
+For more it is than I can well express,
+    And that deep torture may be called a hell,
+    When more is felt than one hath power to tell.
+
+“Go, get me hither paper, ink, and pen.
+Yet save that labour, for I have them here.
+What should I say?—One of my husband’s men
+Bid thou be ready by and by to bear
+A letter to my lord, my love, my dear.
+    Bid him with speed prepare to carry it;
+    The cause craves haste, and it will soon be writ.”
+
+Her maid is gone, and she prepares to write,
+First hovering o’er the paper with her quill.
+Conceit and grief an eager combat fight;
+What wit sets down is blotted straight with will;
+This is too curious-good, this blunt and ill.
+    Much like a press of people at a door,
+    Throng her inventions, which shall go before.
+
+At last she thus begins: “Thou worthy lord
+Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee,
+Health to thy person! Next vouchsafe t’ afford,
+If ever, love, thy Lucrece thou wilt see,
+Some present speed to come and visit me.
+    So I commend me from our house in grief.
+    My woes are tedious, though my words are brief.”
+
+Here folds she up the tenor of her woe,
+Her certain sorrow writ uncertainly.
+By this short schedule Collatine may know
+Her grief, but not her grief’s true quality;
+She dares not thereof make discovery,
+    Lest he should hold it her own gross abuse,
+    Ere she with blood had stained her stained excuse.
+
+Besides, the life and feeling of her passion
+She hoards, to spend when he is by to hear her;
+When sighs and groans and tears may grace the fashion
+Of her disgrace, the better so to clear her
+From that suspicion which the world might bear her.
+    To shun this blot, she would not blot the letter
+    With words, till action might become them better.
+
+To see sad sights moves more than hear them told,
+For then the eye interprets to the ear
+The heavy motion that it doth behold,
+When every part a part of woe doth bear.
+’Tis but a part of sorrow that we hear.
+    Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords,
+    And sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words.
+
+Her letter now is sealed, and on it writ
+“At Ardea to my lord with more than haste.”
+The post attends, and she delivers it,
+Charging the sour-faced groom to hie as fast
+As lagging fowls before the northern blast.
+    Speed more than speed but dull and slow she deems;
+    Extremely still urgeth such extremes.
+
+The homely villain curtsies to her low,
+And, blushing on her with a steadfast eye,
+Receives the scroll without or yea or no,
+And forth with bashful innocence doth hie.
+But they whose guilt within their bosoms lie
+    Imagine every eye beholds their blame,
+    For Lucrece thought he blushed to see her shame,
+
+When, silly groom! God wot, it was defect
+Of spirit, life, and bold audacity.
+Such harmless creatures have a true respect
+To talk in deeds, while others saucily
+Promise more speed, but do it leisurely.
+    Even so this pattern of the worn-out age
+    Pawned honest looks, but laid no words to gage.
+
+His kindled duty kindled her mistrust,
+That two red fires in both their faces blazed;
+She thought he blushed, as knowing Tarquin’s lust,
+And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed.
+Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.
+    The more she saw the blood his cheeks replenish,
+    The more she thought he spied in her some blemish.
+
+But long she thinks till he return again,
+And yet the duteous vassal scarce is gone.
+The weary time she cannot entertain,
+For now ’tis stale to sigh, to weep, to groan;
+So woe hath wearied woe, moan tired moan,
+    That she her plaints a little while doth stay,
+    Pausing for means to mourn some newer way.
+
+At last she calls to mind where hangs a piece
+Of skilful painting, made for Priam’s Troy,
+Before the which is drawn the power of Greece,
+For Helen’s rape the city to destroy,
+Threat’ning cloud-kissing Ilion with annoy;
+    Which the conceited painter drew so proud,
+    As heaven, it seemed,  to kiss the turrets bowed.
+
+A thousand lamentable objects there,
+In scorn of Nature, Art gave lifeless life.
+Many a dry drop seemed a weeping tear,
+Shed for the slaughtered husband by the wife.
+The red blood reeked to show the painter’s strife,
+    The dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights,
+    Like dying coals burnt out in tedious nights.
+
+There might you see the labouring pioneer
+Begrimed with sweat and smeared all with dust;
+And from the towers of Troy there would appear
+The very eyes of men through loop-holes thrust,
+Gazing upon the Greeks with little lust.
+    Such sweet observance in this work was had,
+    That one might see those far-off eyes look sad.
+
+In great commanders grace and majesty
+You might behold, triumphing in their faces;
+In youth, quick bearing and dexterity;
+And here and there the painter interlaces
+Pale cowards marching on with trembling paces,
+    Which heartless peasants did so well resemble,
+    That one would swear he saw them quake and tremble.
+
+In Ajax and Ulysses, O, what art
+Of physiognomy might one behold!
+The face of either ciphered either’s heart;
+Their face their manners most expressly told.
+In Ajax’ eyes blunt rage and rigour rolled,
+    But the mild glance that sly Ulysses lent
+    Showed deep regard and smiling government.
+
+There pleading might you see grave Nestor stand,
+As ’twere encouraging the Greeks to fight,
+Making such sober action with his hand
+That it beguiled attention, charmed the sight.
+In speech, it seemed, his beard, all silver white,
+    Wagged up and down, and from his lips did fly
+    Thin winding breath, which purled up to the sky.
+
+About him were a press of gaping faces,
+Which seemed to swallow up his sound advice,
+All jointly list’ning, but with several graces,
+As if some mermaid did their ears entice;
+Some high, some low, the painter was so nice.
+    The scalps of many, almost hid behind,
+    To jump up higher seemed to mock the mind.
+
+Here one man’s hand leaned on another’s head,
+His nose being shadowed by his neighbour’s ear;
+Here one being thronged bears back, all boll’n and red;
+Another smothered seems to pelt and swear;
+And in their rage such signs of rage they bear
+    As, but for loss of Nestor’s golden words,
+    It seemed they would debate with angry swords.
+
+For much imaginary work was there,
+Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind,
+That for Achilles’ image stood his spear
+Griped in an armed hand; himself, behind,
+Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind.
+    A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head,
+    Stood for the whole to be imagined.
+
+And from the walls of strong-besieged Troy,
+When their brave hope, bold Hector, marched to field,
+Stood many Trojan mothers, sharing joy
+To see their youthful sons bright weapons wield;
+And to their hope they such odd action yield
+    That through their light joy seemed to appear,
+    Like bright things stained, a kind of heavy fear.
+
+And from the strand of Dardan, where they fought,
+To Simois’ reedy banks the red blood ran,
+Whose waves to imitate the battle sought
+With swelling ridges, and their ranks began
+To break upon the galled shore, and then
+    Retire again till, meeting greater ranks,
+    They join, and shoot their foam at Simois’ banks.
+
+To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come,
+To find a face where all distress is stelled.
+Many she sees where cares have carved some,
+But none where all distress and dolour dwelled,
+Till she despairing Hecuba beheld,
+    Staring on Priam’s wounds with her old eyes,
+    Which bleeding under Pyrrhus’ proud foot lies.
+
+In her the painter had anatomized
+Time’s ruin, beauty’s wrack, and grim care’s reign.
+Her cheeks with chops and wrinkles were disguised;
+Of what she was no semblance did remain.
+Her blue blood, changed to black in every vein,
+    Wanting the spring that those shrunk pipes had fed,
+    Showed life imprisoned in a body dead.
+
+On this sad shadow Lucrece spends her eyes,
+And shapes her sorrow to the beldam’s woes,
+Who nothing wants to answer her but cries
+And bitter words to ban her cruel foes.
+The painter was no god to lend her those,
+    And therefore Lucrece swears he did her wrong,
+    To give her so much grief, and not a tongue.
+
+“Poor instrument,” quoth she, “without a sound,
+I’ll tune thy woes with my lamenting tongue,
+And drop sweet balm in Priam’s painted wound,
+And rail on Pyrrhus that hath done him wrong,
+And with my tears quench Troy that burns so long,
+    And with my knife scratch out the angry eyes
+    Of all the Greeks that are thine enemies.
+
+“Show me the strumpet that began this stir,
+That with my nails her beauty I may tear.
+Thy heat of lust, fond Paris, did incur
+This load of wrath that burning Troy doth bear;
+Thy eye kindled the fire that burneth here,
+    And here in Troy, for trespass of thine eye,
+    The sire, the son, the dame, and daughter die.
+
+“Why should the private pleasure of some one
+Become the public plague of many moe?
+Let sin, alone committed, light alone
+Upon his head that hath transgressed so;
+Let guiltless souls be freed from guilty woe.
+    For one’s offence why should so many fall,
+    To plague a private sin in general?
+
+“Lo, here weeps Hecuba, here Priam dies,
+Here manly Hector faints, here Troilus swounds;
+Here friend by friend in bloody channel lies,
+And friend to friend gives unadvised wounds,
+And one man’s lust these many lives confounds.
+    Had doting Priam checked his son’s desire,
+    Troy had been bright with fame and not with fire.”
+
+Here feelingly she weeps Troy’s painted woes,
+For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,
+Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes;
+Then little strength rings out the doleful knell.
+So Lucrece set a-work, sad tales doth tell
+    To pencilled pensiveness and coloured sorrow;
+    She lends them words, and she their looks doth borrow.
+
+She throws her eyes about the painting round,
+And who she finds forlorn she doth lament.
+At last she sees a wretched image bound,
+That piteous looks to Phrygian shepherds lent.
+His face, though full of cares, yet showed content;
+    Onward to Troy with the blunt swains he goes,
+    So mild, that patience seemed to scorn his woes.
+
+In him the painter laboured with his skill
+To hide deceit and give the harmless show
+An humble gait, calm looks, eyes wailing still,
+A brow unbent that seemed to welcome woe,
+Cheeks neither red nor pale, but mingled so
+    That blushing red no guilty instance gave,
+    Nor ashy pale the fear that false hearts have.
+
+But, like a constant and confirmed devil,
+He entertained a show so seeming just,
+And therein so ensconced his secret evil,
+That jealousy itself could not mistrust
+False-creeping craft and perjury should thrust
+    Into so bright a day such black-faced storms,
+    Or blot with hell-born sin such saint-like forms.
+
+The well-skilled workman this mild image drew
+For perjured Sinon, whose enchanting story
+The credulous Old Priam after slew;
+Whose words like wildfire burnt the shining glory
+Of rich-built Ilion, that the skies were sorry,
+    And little stars shot from their fixed places,
+    When their glass fell wherein they viewed their faces.
+
+This picture she advisedly perused,
+And chid the painter for his wondrous skill,
+Saying some shape in Sinon’s was abused;
+So fair a form lodged not a mind so ill.
+And still on him she gazed, and gazing still,
+    Such signs of truth in his plain face she spied,
+    That she concludes the picture was belied.
+
+“It cannot be,” quoth she, “that so much guile”—
+She would have said “can lurk in such a look.”
+But Tarquin’s shape came in her mind the while,
+And from her tongue “can lurk” from “cannot” took.
+“It cannot be” she in that sense forsook,
+    And turned it thus: “It cannot be, I find,
+    But such a face should bear a wicked mind.
+
+“For even as subtle Sinon here is painted,
+So sober-sad, so weary, and so mild,
+As if with grief or travail he had fainted,
+To me came Tarquin armed too, beguiled
+With outward honesty, but yet defiled
+    With inward vice. As Priam him did cherish,
+    So did I Tarquin; so my Troy did perish.
+
+“Look, look, how listening Priam wets his eyes,
+To see those borrowed tears that Sinon sheds!
+Priam, why art thou old and yet not wise?
+For every tear he falls a Trojan bleeds.
+His eye drops fire, no water thence proceeds;
+    Those round clear pearls of his that move thy pity,
+    Are balls of quenchless fire to burn thy city.
+
+“Such devils steal effects from lightless hell,
+For Sinon in his fire doth quake with cold,
+And in that cold hot-burning fire doth dwell.
+These contraries such unity do hold,
+Only to flatter fools and make them bold;
+    So Priam’s trust false Sinon’s tears doth flatter,
+    That he finds means to burn his Troy with water.”
+
+Here, all enraged, such passion her assails,
+That patience is quite beaten from her breast.
+She tears the senseless Sinon with her nails,
+Comparing him to that unhappy guest
+Whose deed hath made herself herself detest.
+    At last she smilingly with this gives o’er;
+    “Fool, fool!” quoth she, “his wounds will not be sore.”
+
+Thus ebbs and flows the current of her sorrow,
+And time doth weary time with her complaining.
+She looks for night, and then she longs for morrow,
+And both she thinks too long with her remaining.
+Short time seems long in sorrow’s sharp sustaining.
+    Though woe be heavy, yet it seldom sleeps,
+    And they that watch see time how slow it creeps.
+
+Which all this time hath overslipped her thought,
+That she with painted images hath spent,
+Being from the feeling of her own grief brought
+By deep surmise of others’ detriment,
+Losing her woes in shows of discontent.
+    It easeth some, though none it ever cured,
+    To think their dolour others have endured.
+
+But now the mindful messenger, come back,
+Brings home his lord and other company;
+Who finds his Lucrece clad in mourning black,
+And round about her tear-distained eye
+Blue circles streamed, like rainbows in the sky.
+    These water-galls in her dim element
+    Foretell new storms to those already spent.
+
+Which when her sad-beholding husband saw,
+Amazedly in her sad face he stares.
+Her eyes, though sod in tears, looked red and raw,
+Her lively colour killed with deadly cares.
+He hath no power to ask her how she fares;
+    Both stood like old acquaintance in a trance,
+    Met far from home, wond’ring each other’s chance.
+
+At last he takes her by the bloodless hand,
+And thus begins: “What uncouth ill event
+Hath thee befall’n, that thou dost trembling stand?
+Sweet love, what spite hath thy fair colour spent?
+Why art thou thus attired in discontent?
+    Unmask, dear dear, this moody heaviness,
+    And tell thy grief, that we may give redress.”
+
+Three times with sighs she gives her sorrow fire,
+Ere once she can discharge one word of woe.
+At length addressed to answer his desire,
+She modestly prepares to let them know
+Her honour is ta’en prisoner by the foe;
+    While Collatine and his consorted lords
+    With sad attention long to hear her words.
+
+And now this pale swan in her wat’ry nest
+Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending:
+“Few words,” quoth she, “shall fit the trespass best,
+Where no excuse can give the fault amending.
+In me more woes than words are now depending;
+    And my laments would be drawn out too long,
+    To tell them all with one poor tired tongue.
+
+“Then be this all the task it hath to say:
+Dear husband, in the interest of thy bed
+A stranger came, and on that pillow lay
+Where thou wast wont to rest thy weary head;
+And what wrong else may be imagined
+    By foul enforcement might be done to me,
+    From that, alas, thy Lucrece is not free.
+
+“For in the dreadful dead of dark midnight,
+With shining falchion in my chamber came
+A creeping creature with a flaming light,
+And softly cried ‘Awake, thou Roman dame,
+And entertain my love; else lasting shame
+    On thee and thine this night I will inflict,
+    If thou my love’s desire do contradict.
+
+“‘For some hard-favoured groom of thine,’ quoth he,
+‘Unless thou yoke thy liking to my will,
+I’ll murder straight, and then I’ll slaughter thee
+And swear I found you where you did fulfil
+The loathsome act of lust, and so did kill
+    The lechers in their deed. This act will be
+    My fame and thy perpetual infamy.’
+
+“With this, I did begin to start and cry,
+And then against my heart he sets his sword,
+Swearing, unless I took all patiently,
+I should not live to speak another word;
+So should my shame still rest upon record,
+    And never be forgot in mighty Rome
+    The adulterate death of Lucrece and her groom.
+
+“Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak,
+And far the weaker with so strong a fear.
+My bloody judge forbade my tongue to speak;
+No rightful plea might plead for justice there.
+His scarlet lust came evidence to swear
+    That my poor beauty had purloined his eyes;
+    And when the judge is robbed, the prisoner dies.
+
+“O, teach me how to make mine own excuse,
+Or at the least, this refuge let me find:
+Though my gross blood be stained with this abuse,
+Immaculate and spotless is my mind;
+That was not forced; that never was inclined
+    To accessary yieldings, but still pure
+    Doth in her poisoned closet yet endure.”
+
+Lo, here the hopeless merchant of this loss,
+With head declined and voice dammed up with woe,
+With sad set eyes and wretched arms across,
+From lips new-waxen pale begins to blow
+The grief away that stops his answer so.
+    But wretched as he is, he strives in vain;
+    What he breathes out his breath drinks up again.
+
+As through an arch the violent roaring tide
+Outruns the eye that doth behold his haste,
+Yet in the eddy boundeth in his pride
+Back to the strait that forced him on so fast,
+In rage sent out, recalled in rage, being past:
+    Even so his sighs, his sorrows make a saw,
+    To push grief on, and back the same grief draw.
+
+Which speechless woe of his poor she attendeth,
+And his untimely frenzy thus awaketh:
+“Dear lord, thy sorrow to my sorrow lendeth
+Another power; no flood by raining slaketh.
+My woe too sensible thy passion maketh
+    More feeling-painful. Let it then suffice
+    To drown one woe, one pair of weeping eyes.
+
+“And for my sake, when I might charm thee so,
+For she that was thy Lucrece, now attend me:
+Be suddenly revenged on my foe,
+Thine, mine, his own. Suppose thou dost defend me
+From what is past. The help that thou shalt lend me
+    Comes all too late, yet let the traitor die,
+    For sparing justice feeds iniquity.
+
+“But ere I name him, you fair lords,” quoth she,
+Speaking to those that came with Collatine,
+“Shall plight your honourable faiths to me,
+With swift pursuit to venge this wrong of mine;
+For ’tis a meritorious fair design
+    To chase injustice with revengeful arms.
+    Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies’ harms.”
+
+At this request, with noble disposition
+Each present lord began to promise aid,
+As bound in knighthood to her imposition,
+Longing to hear the hateful foe bewrayed.
+But she, that yet her sad task hath not said,
+    The protestation stops. “O, speak,” quoth she,
+    “How may this forced stain be wiped from me?
+
+“What is the quality of my offence,
+Being constrained with dreadful circumstance?
+May my pure mind with the foul act dispense,
+My low-declined honour to advance?
+May any terms acquit me from this chance?
+    The poisoned fountain clears itself again,
+    And why not I from this compelled stain?
+
+With this, they all at once began to say,
+Her body’s stain her mind untainted clears,
+While with a joyless smile she turns away
+The face, that map which deep impression bears
+Of hard misfortune, carved in it with tears.
+    “No, no,” quoth she, “no dame, hereafter living
+    By my excuse shall claim excuse’s giving.”
+
+Here with a sigh, as if her heart would break,
+She throws forth Tarquin’s name: “He, he,” she says,
+But more than “he” her poor tongue could not speak;
+Till after many accents and delays,
+Untimely breathings, sick and short assays,
+    She utters this: “He, he, fair lords, ’tis he,
+    That guides this hand to give this wound to me.”
+
+Even here she sheathed in her harmless breast
+A harmful knife, that thence her soul unsheathed.
+That blow did bail it from the deep unrest
+Of that polluted prison where it breathed.
+Her contrite sighs unto the clouds bequeathed
+    Her winged sprite, and through her wounds doth fly
+    Life’s lasting date from cancelled destiny.
+
+Stone-still, astonished with this deadly deed,
+Stood Collatine and all his lordly crew,
+Till Lucrece’ father that beholds her bleed,
+Himself on her self-slaughtered body threw,
+And from the purple fountain Brutus drew
+    The murd’rous knife, and, as it left the place,
+    Her blood, in poor revenge, held it in chase;
+
+And bubbling from her breast, it doth divide
+In two slow rivers, that the crimson blood
+Circles her body in on every side,
+Who, like a late-sacked island, vastly stood
+Bare and unpeopled in this fearful flood.
+    Some of her blood still pure and red remained,
+    And some looked black, and that false Tarquin stained.
+
+About the mourning and congealed face
+Of that black blood a wat’ry rigol goes,
+Which seems to weep upon the tainted place;
+And ever since, as pitying Lucrece’ woes,
+Corrupted blood some watery token shows,
+    And blood untainted still doth red abide,
+    Blushing at that which is so putrified.
+
+“Daughter, dear daughter,” old Lucretius cries,
+“That life was mine which thou hast here deprived.
+If in the child the father’s image lies,
+Where shall I live now Lucrece is unlived?
+Thou wast not to this end from me derived.
+    If children predecease progenitors,
+    We are their offspring, and they none of ours.
+
+“Poor broken glass, I often did behold
+In thy sweet semblance my old age new born;
+But now that fair fresh mirror, dim and old,
+Shows me a bare-boned death by time outworn.
+O, from thy cheeks my image thou hast torn,
+    And shivered all the beauty of my glass,
+    That I no more can see what once I was!
+
+“O time, cease thou thy course and last no longer,
+If they surcease to be that should survive!
+Shall rotten death make conquest of the stronger,
+And leave the falt’ring feeble souls alive?
+The old bees die, the young possess their hive.
+    Then live, sweet Lucrece, live again and see
+    Thy father die, and not thy father thee!”
+
+By this starts Collatine as from a dream,
+And bids Lucretius give his sorrow place;
+And then in key-cold Lucrece’ bleeding stream
+He falls, and bathes the pale fear in his face,
+And counterfeits to die with her a space;
+    Till manly shame bids him possess his breath,
+    And live to be revenged on her death.
+
+The deep vexation of his inward soul
+Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue;
+Who, mad that sorrow should his use control
+Or keep him from heart-easing words so long,
+Begins to talk; but through his lips do throng
+    Weak words, so thick come in his poor heart’s aid
+    That no man could distinguish what he said.
+
+Yet sometime “Tarquin” was pronounced plain,
+But through his teeth, as if the name he tore.
+This windy tempest, till it blow up rain,
+Held back his sorrow’s tide, to make it more.
+At last it rains, and busy winds give o’er.
+    Then son and father weep with equal strife
+    Who should weep most, for daughter or for wife.
+
+The one doth call her his, the other his,
+Yet neither may possess the claim they lay,
+The father says “She’s mine.” “O, mine she is,”
+Replies her husband. “Do not take away
+My sorrow’s interest; let no mourner say
+    He weeps for her, for she was only mine,
+    And only must be wailed by Collatine.”
+
+“O,” quoth Lucretius, “I did give that life
+Which she too early and too late hath spilled.”
+“Woe, woe,” quoth Collatine, “she was my wife,
+I owed her, and ’tis mine that she hath killed.”
+“My daughter” and “my wife” with clamours filled
+    The dispersed air, who, holding Lucrece’ life,
+    Answered their cries, “my daughter” and “my wife”.
+
+Brutus, who plucked the knife from Lucrece’ side,
+Seeing such emulation in their woe,
+Began to clothe his wit in state and pride,
+Burying in Lucrece’ wound his folly’s show.
+He with the Romans was esteemed so
+    As silly jeering idiots are with kings,
+    For sportive words and utt’ring foolish things.
+
+But now he throws that shallow habit by,
+Wherein deep policy did him disguise,
+And armed his long-hid wits advisedly,
+To check the tears in Collatinus’ eyes.
+“Thou wronged lord of Rome,” quoth he, “arise!
+    Let my unsounded self, supposed a fool,
+    Now set thy long-experienced wit to school.
+
+“Why, Collatine, is woe the cure for woe?
+Do wounds help wounds, or grief help grievous deeds?
+Is it revenge to give thyself a blow
+For his foul act by whom thy fair wife bleeds?
+Such childish humour from weak minds proceeds.
+    Thy wretched wife mistook the matter so,
+    To slay herself, that should have slain her foe.
+
+“Courageous Roman, do not steep thy heart
+In such relenting dew of lamentations,
+But kneel with me, and help to bear thy part
+To rouse our Roman gods with invocations,
+That they will suffer these abominations,—
+    Since Rome herself in them doth stand disgraced,—
+    By our strong arms from forth her fair streets chased.
+
+“Now, by the Capitol that we adore,
+And by this chaste blood so unjustly stained,
+By heaven’s fair sun that breeds the fat earth’s store,
+By all our country rights in Rome maintained,
+And by chaste Lucrece’ soul that late complained
+    Her wrongs to us, and by this bloody knife,
+    We will revenge the death of this true wife.”
+
+This said, he struck his hand upon his breast,
+And kissed the fatal knife, to end his vow;
+And to his protestation urged the rest,
+Who, wond’ring at him, did his words allow.
+Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow,
+    And that deep vow which Brutus made before,
+    He doth again repeat, and that they swore.
+
+When they had sworn to this advised doom,
+They did conclude to bear dead Lucrece thence,
+To show her bleeding body thorough Rome,
+And so to publish Tarquin’s foul offence;
+Which being done with speedy diligence,
+    The Romans plausibly did give consent
+    To Tarquin’s everlasting banishment.
+
+
+
+
+VENUS AND ADONIS
+
+
+
+            _Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo
+            Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua._
+
+
+
+
+TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
+HENRY WRIOTHESLEY,  EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON,
+and Baron of Titchfield.
+
+Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my
+unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me
+for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen: only, if
+your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow
+to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some
+graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I
+shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather, and never after ear so
+barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest. I leave it
+to your honourable survey, and your honour to your heart’s content;
+which I wish may always answer your own wish and the world’s hopeful
+expectation.
+
+Your honour’s in all duty,
+WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+VENUS AND ADONIS
+
+Even as the sun with purple-colour’d face
+Had ta’en his last leave of the weeping morn,
+Rose-cheek’d Adonis tried him to the chase;
+Hunting he lov’d, but love he laugh’d to scorn;        4
+  Sick-thoughted Venus makes amain unto him,
+  And like a bold-fac’d suitor ’gins to woo him.
+
+“Thrice fairer than myself,” thus she began,
+“The field’s chief flower, sweet above compare,        8
+Stain to all nymphs, more lovely than a man,
+More white and red than doves or roses are:
+  Nature that made thee, with herself at strife,
+  Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.     12
+
+“Vouchsafe, thou wonder, to alight thy steed,
+And rein his proud head to the saddle-bow;
+If thou wilt deign this favour, for thy meed
+A thousand honey secrets shalt thou know:             16
+  Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses,
+  And being set, I’ll smother thee with kisses.
+
+“And yet not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,
+But rather famish them amid their plenty,             20
+Making them red, and pale, with fresh variety:
+Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty:
+  A summer’s day will seem an hour but short,
+  Being wasted in such time-beguiling sport.”         24
+
+With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,
+The precedent of pith and livelihood,
+And trembling in her passion, calls it balm,
+Earth’s sovereign salve to do a goddess good:         28
+  Being so enrag’d, desire doth lend her force
+  Courageously to pluck him from his horse.
+
+Over one arm the lusty courser’s rein,
+Under her other was the tender boy,                   32
+Who blush’d and pouted in a dull disdain,
+With leaden appetite, unapt to toy;
+  She red and hot as coals of glowing fire,
+  He red for shame, but frosty in desire.             36
+
+The studded bridle on a ragged bough
+Nimbly she fastens;—O! how quick is love!—
+The steed is stalled up, and even now
+To tie the rider she begins to prove:                 40
+  Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust,
+  And govern’d him in strength, though not in lust.
+
+So soon was she along, as he was down,
+Each leaning on their elbows and their hips:          44
+Now doth she stroke his cheek, now doth he frown,
+And ’gins to chide, but soon she stops his lips,
+  And kissing speaks, with lustful language broken,
+  “If thou wilt chide, thy lips shall never open.”    48
+
+He burns with bashful shame, she with her tears
+Doth quench the maiden burning of his cheeks;
+Then with her windy sighs and golden hairs
+To fan and blow them dry again she seeks.             52
+  He saith she is immodest, blames her miss;
+  What follows more, she murders with a kiss.
+
+Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,
+Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh and bone,      56
+Shaking her wings, devouring all in haste,
+Till either gorge be stuff’d or prey be gone:
+  Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin,
+  And where she ends she doth anew begin.             60
+
+Forc’d to content, but never to obey,
+Panting he lies, and breatheth in her face.
+She feedeth on the steam, as on a prey,
+And calls it heavenly moisture, air of grace,         64
+  Wishing her cheeks were gardens full of flowers
+  So they were dew’d with such distilling showers.
+
+Look how a bird lies tangled in a net,
+So fasten’d in her arms Adonis lies;                  68
+Pure shame and aw’d resistance made him fret,
+Which bred more beauty in his angry eyes:
+  Rain added to a river that is rank
+  Perforce will force it overflow the bank.           72
+
+Still she entreats, and prettily entreats,
+For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale.
+Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets,
+’Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy pale;             76
+  Being red she loves him best, and being white,
+  Her best is better’d with a more delight.
+
+Look how he can, she cannot choose but love;
+And by her fair immortal hand she swears,             80
+From his soft bosom never to remove,
+Till he take truce with her contending tears,
+  Which long have rain’d, making her cheeks all wet;
+  And one sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt.
+
+Upon this promise did he raise his chin,               85
+Like a dive-dapper peering through a wave,
+Who, being look’d on, ducks as quickly in;
+So offers he to give what she did crave,               88
+  But when her lips were ready for his pay,
+  He winks, and turns his lips another way.
+
+Never did passenger in summer’s heat
+More thirst for drink than she for this good turn.    92
+Her help she sees, but help she cannot get;
+She bathes in water, yet her fire must burn:
+  “O! pity,” ’gan she cry, “flint-hearted boy,
+  ’Tis but a kiss I beg; why art thou coy?            96
+
+“I have been woo’d as I entreat thee now,
+Even by the stern and direful god of war,
+Whose sinewy neck in battle ne’er did bow,
+Who conquers where he comes in every jar;             100
+  Yet hath he been my captive and my slave,
+  And begg’d for that which thou unask’d shalt have.
+
+“Over my altars hath he hung his lance,
+His batter’d shield, his uncontrolled crest,          104
+And for my sake hath learn’d to sport and dance,
+To toy, to wanton, dally, smile, and jest;
+  Scorning his churlish drum and ensign red
+  Making my arms his field, his tent my bed.         108
+
+“Thus he that overrul’d I oversway’d,
+Leading him prisoner in a red rose chain:
+Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d,
+Yet was he servile to my coy disdain.                112
+  Oh be not proud, nor brag not of thy might,
+  For mast’ring her that foil’d the god of fight.
+
+“Touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine,
+Though mine be not so fair, yet are they red,        116
+The kiss shall be thine own as well as mine:
+What see’st thou in the ground? hold up thy head,
+  Look in mine eyeballs, there thy beauty lies;
+  Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes?     120
+
+“Art thou asham’d to kiss? then wink again,
+And I will wink; so shall the day seem night.
+Love keeps his revels where there are but twain;
+Be bold to play, our sport is not in sight,          124
+  These blue-vein’d violets whereon we lean
+  Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.
+
+“The tender spring upon thy tempting lip             127
+Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted,
+Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
+Beauty within itself should not be wasted,
+  Fair flowers that are not gather’d in their prime
+  Rot, and consume themselves in little time.         132
+
+“Were I hard-favour’d, foul, or wrinkled old,
+Ill-nurtur’d, crooked, churlish, harsh in voice,
+O’erworn, despised, rheumatic, and cold,
+Thick-sighted, barren, lean, and lacking juice,      136
+  Then mightst thou pause, for then I were not for thee;
+  But having no defects, why dost abhor me?
+
+“Thou canst not see one wrinkle in my brow,           139
+Mine eyes are grey and bright, and quick in turning;
+My beauty as the spring doth yearly grow,
+My flesh is soft and plump, my marrow burning,
+  My smooth moist hand, were it with thy hand felt,
+  Would in thy palm dissolve, or seem to melt.       144
+
+“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
+Or like a fairy, trip upon the green,
+Or like a nymph, with long dishevell’d hair,
+Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen.         148
+  Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
+  Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.
+
+“Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie:           151
+These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me;
+Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky,
+From morn till night, even where I list to sport me.
+  Is love so light, sweet boy, and may it be
+  That thou shouldst think it heavy unto thee?       156
+
+“Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?
+Can thy right hand seize love upon thy left?
+Then woo thyself, be of thyself rejected,
+Steal thine own freedom, and complain on theft.      160
+  Narcissus so himself himself forsook,
+  And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.
+
+“Torches are made to light, jewels to wear,
+Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use,         164
+Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear;
+Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse,
+  Seeds spring from seeds, and beauty breedeth beauty;
+  Thou wast begot; to get it is thy duty.            168
+
+“Upon the earth’s increase why shouldst thou feed,
+Unless the earth with thy increase be fed?
+By law of nature thou art bound to breed,
+That thine may live when thou thyself art dead;      172
+  And so in spite of death thou dost survive,
+  In that thy likeness still is left alive.”
+
+By this the love-sick queen began to sweat,
+For where they lay the shadow had forsook them,      176
+And Titan, tired in the midday heat,
+With burning eye did hotly overlook them,
+  Wishing Adonis had his team to guide,
+  So he were like him and by Venus’ side.            180
+
+And now Adonis with a lazy spright,
+And with a heavy, dark, disliking eye,
+His louring brows o’erwhelming his fair sight,
+Like misty vapours when they blot the sky,           184
+  Souring his cheeks, cries, “Fie, no more of love:
+  The sun doth burn my face; I must remove.”
+
+“Ay me,” quoth Venus, “young, and so unkind!
+What bare excuses mak’st thou to be gone!            188
+I’ll sigh celestial breath, whose gentle wind
+Shall cool the heat of this descending sun:
+  I’ll make a shadow for thee of my hairs;
+  If they burn too, I’ll quench them with my tears.  192
+
+“The sun that shines from heaven shines but warm,
+And lo I lie between that sun and thee:
+The heat I have from thence doth little harm,
+Thine eye darts forth the fire that burneth me;      196
+  And were I not immortal, life were done,
+  Between this heavenly and earthly sun.
+
+“Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel?
+Nay more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth:    200
+Art thou a woman’s son and canst not feel
+What ’tis to love, how want of love tormenteth?
+  O had thy mother borne so hard a mind,
+  She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.   204
+
+“What am I that thou shouldst contemn me this?
+Or what great danger dwells upon my suit?
+What were thy lips the worse for one poor kiss?
+Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:  208
+  Give me one kiss, I’ll give it thee again,
+  And one for int’rest, if thou wilt have twain.
+
+“Fie, lifeless picture, cold and senseless stone,
+Well-painted idol, image dull and dead,              212
+Statue contenting but the eye alone,
+Thing like a man, but of no woman bred:
+  Thou art no man, though of a man’s complexion,
+  For men will kiss even by their own direction.”    216
+
+This said, impatience chokes her pleading tongue,
+And swelling passion doth provoke a pause;
+Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth her wrong;
+Being judge in love, she cannot right her cause.     220
+  And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak,
+  And now her sobs do her intendments break.
+
+Sometimes she shakes her head, and then his hand,
+Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground;            224
+Sometimes her arms infold him like a band:
+She would, he will not in her arms be bound;
+  And when from thence he struggles to be gone,
+  She locks her lily fingers one in one.             228
+
+“Fondling,” she saith, “since I have hemm’d thee here
+Within the circuit of this ivory pale,
+I’ll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;
+Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale:        232
+  Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry,
+  Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
+
+“Within this limit is relief enough,
+Sweet bottom grass and high delightful plain,        236
+Round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
+To shelter thee from tempest and from rain:
+  Then be my deer, since I am such a park,           239
+  No dog shall rouse thee, though a thousand bark.”
+
+At this Adonis smiles as in disdain,
+That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple;
+Love made those hollows, if himself were slain,
+He might be buried in a tomb so simple;              244
+  Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie,
+  Why there love liv’d, and there he could not die.
+
+These lovely caves, these round enchanting pits,
+Open’d their mouths to swallow Venus’ liking.        248
+Being mad before, how doth she now for wits?
+Struck dead at first, what needs a second striking?
+  Poor queen of love, in thine own law forlorn,
+  To love a cheek that smiles at thee in scorn!      252
+
+Now which way shall she turn? what shall she say?
+Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;
+The time is spent, her object will away,
+And from her twining arms doth urge releasing:       256
+  “Pity,” she cries; “some favour, some remorse!”
+  Away he springs, and hasteth to his horse.
+
+But lo from forth a copse that neighbours by,
+A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud,          260
+Adonis’ tramping courser doth espy,
+And forth she rushes, snorts and neighs aloud:
+  The strong-neck’d steed, being tied unto a tree,
+  Breaketh his rein, and to her straight goes he.    264
+
+Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds,
+And now his woven girths he breaks asunder;
+The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds,
+Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder;
+  The iron bit he crusheth ’tween his teeth,         269
+  Controlling what he was controlled with.
+
+His ears up-prick’d; his braided hanging mane
+Upon his compass’d crest now stand on end;           272
+His nostrils drink the air, and forth again,
+As from a furnace, vapours doth he send:
+  His eye, which scornfully glisters like fire,
+  Shows his hot courage and his high desire.         276
+
+Sometime he trots, as if he told the steps,
+With gentle majesty and modest pride;
+Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps,
+As who should say, “Lo thus my strength is tried;
+  And this I do to captivate the eye                 281
+  Of the fair breeder that is standing by.”
+
+What recketh he his rider’s angry stir,
+His flattering “Holla”, or his “Stand, I say”?       284
+What cares he now for curb or pricking spur?
+For rich caparisons or trappings gay?
+  He sees his love, and nothing else he sees,
+  Nor nothing else with his proud sight agrees.      288
+
+Look when a painter would surpass the life,
+In limning out a well-proportion’d steed,
+His art with nature’s workmanship at strife,
+As if the dead the living should exceed:             292
+  So did this horse excel a common one,
+  In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone.
+
+Round-hoof’d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long,
+Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide,
+High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,
+Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:
+  Look, what a horse should have he did not lack,
+  Save a proud rider on so proud a back.             300
+
+Sometimes he scuds far off, and there he stares;
+Anon he starts at stirring of a feather:
+To bid the wind a base he now prepares,
+And where he run or fly they know not whether;       304
+  For through his mane and tail the high wind sings,
+  Fanning the hairs, who wave like feather’d wings.
+
+He looks upon his love, and neighs unto her;
+She answers him as if she knew his mind,             308
+Being proud, as females are, to see him woo her,
+She puts on outward strangeness, seems unkind,
+  Spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels,
+  Beating his kind embracements with her heels.      312
+
+Then like a melancholy malcontent,
+He vails his tail that like a falling plume,
+Cool shadow to his melting buttock lent:
+He stamps, and bites the poor flies in his fume.     316
+  His love, perceiving how he was enrag’d,
+  Grew kinder, and his fury was assuag’d.
+
+His testy master goeth about to take him,
+When lo the unback’d breeder, full of fear,         320
+Jealous of catching, swiftly doth forsake him,
+With her the horse, and left Adonis there:
+  As they were mad, unto the wood they hie them,
+  Outstripping crows that strive to overfly them.    324
+
+All swoln with chafing, down Adonis sits,
+Banning his boisterous and unruly beast;
+And now the happy season once more fits
+That love-sick love by pleading may be blest;        328
+  For lovers say, the heart hath treble wrong,
+  When it is barr’d the aidance of the tongue.
+
+An oven that is stopp’d, or river stay’d,
+Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage:         332
+So of concealed sorrow may be said,
+Free vent of words love’s fire doth assuage;
+  But when the heart’s attorney once is mute,
+  The client breaks, as desperate in his suit.       336
+
+He sees her coming, and begins to glow,
+Even as a dying coal revives with wind,
+And with his bonnet hides his angry brow,
+Looks on the dull earth with disturbed mind,         340
+  Taking no notice that she is so nigh,
+  For all askance he holds her in his eye.
+
+O what a sight it was, wistly to view
+How she came stealing to the wayward boy,            344
+To note the fighting conflict of her hue,
+How white and red each other did destroy:
+  But now her cheek was pale, and by and by
+  It flash’d forth fire, as lightning from the sky.  348
+
+Now was she just before him as he sat,
+And like a lowly lover down she kneels;
+With one fair hand she heaveth up his hat,
+Her other tender hand his fair cheek feels:          352
+  His tend’rer cheek receives her soft hand’s print,
+  As apt as new-fall’n snow takes any dint.
+
+Oh what a war of looks was then between them,
+Her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing,              356
+His eyes saw her eyes, as they had not seen them,
+Her eyes woo’d still, his eyes disdain’d the wooing:
+  And all this dumb play had his acts made plain
+  With tears, which, chorus-like, her eyes did rain.
+
+Full gently now she takes him by the hand,           361
+A lily prison’d in a gaol of snow,
+Or ivory in an alabaster band,
+So white a friend engirts so white a foe:            364
+  This beauteous combat, wilful and unwilling,
+  Show’d like two silver doves that sit a-billing.
+
+Once more the engine of her thoughts began:
+“O fairest mover on this mortal round,               368
+Would thou wert as I am, and I a man,
+My heart all whole as thine, thy heart my wound,
+  For one sweet look thy help I would assure thee,
+  Though nothing but my body’s bane would cure thee.”
+
+“Give me my hand,” saith he, “why dost thou feel it?”
+“Give me my heart,” saith she, “and thou shalt have it.
+O give it me lest thy hard heart do steel it,
+And being steel’d, soft sighs can never grave it.    376
+  Then love’s deep groans I never shall regard,
+  Because Adonis’ heart hath made mine hard.”
+
+“For shame,” he cries, “let go, and let me go,
+My day’s delight is past, my horse is gone,          380
+And ’tis your fault I am bereft him so,
+I pray you hence, and leave me here alone,
+  For all my mind, my thought, my busy care,
+  Is how to get my palfrey from the mare.”           384
+
+Thus she replies: “Thy palfrey as he should,
+Welcomes the warm approach of sweet desire,
+Affection is a coal that must be cool’d;
+Else, suffer’d, it will set the heart on fire,       388
+  The sea hath bounds, but deep desire hath none;
+  Therefore no marvel though thy horse be gone.
+
+“How like a jade he stood tied to the tree,
+Servilely master’d with a leathern rein!             392
+But when he saw his love, his youth’s fair fee,
+He held such petty bondage in disdain;
+  Throwing the base thong from his bending crest,
+  Enfranchising his mouth, his back, his breast.     396
+
+“Who sees his true-love in her naked bed,
+Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white,
+But when his glutton eye so full hath fed,
+His other agents aim at like delight?                400
+  Who is so faint that dare not be so bold
+  To touch the fire, the weather being cold?
+
+“Let me excuse thy courser, gentle boy,
+And learn of him, I heartily beseech thee,           404
+To take advantage on presented joy,
+Though I were dumb, yet his proceedings teach thee.
+  O learn to love, the lesson is but plain,
+  And once made perfect, never lost again.”          408
+
+“I know not love,” quoth he, “nor will not know it,
+Unless it be a boar, and then I chase it;
+’Tis much to borrow, and I will not owe it;
+My love to love is love but to disgrace it;          412
+  For I have heard, it is a life in death,
+  That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.
+
+“Who wears a garment shapeless and unfinish’d?
+Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth?        416
+If springing things be any jot diminish’d,
+They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth;
+  The colt that’s back’d and burden’d being young,
+  Loseth his pride, and never waxeth strong.         420
+
+“You hurt my hand with wringing. Let us part,
+And leave this idle theme, this bootless chat:
+Remove your siege from my unyielding heart,
+To love’s alarms it will not ope the gate:           424
+  Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flatt’ry;
+  For where a heart is hard they make no batt’ry.”
+
+“What! canst thou talk?” quoth she, “hast thou a tongue?
+O would thou hadst not, or I had no hearing;        428
+Thy mermaid’s voice hath done me double wrong;
+I had my load before, now press’d with bearing:
+  Melodious discord, heavenly tune, harsh-sounding,
+  Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding.
+
+“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love          433
+That inward beauty and invisible;
+Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move
+Each part in me that were but sensible:              436
+  Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see,
+  Yet should I be in love by touching thee.
+
+“Say that the sense of feeling were bereft me,
+And that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch,       440
+And nothing but the very smell were left me,
+Yet would my love to thee be still as much;
+  For from the stillitory of thy face excelling
+  Comes breath perfum’d, that breedeth love by smelling.
+
+“But oh what banquet wert thou to the taste,         445
+Being nurse and feeder of the other four;
+Would they not wish the feast might ever last,
+And bid suspicion double-lock the door,
+  Lest jealousy, that sour unwelcome guest,
+  Should by his stealing in disturb the feast?”      448
+
+Once more the ruby-colour’d portal open’d,
+Which to his speech did honey passage yield,         452
+Like a red morn that ever yet betoken’d
+Wrack to the seaman, tempest to the field,
+  Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds,
+  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.      456
+
+This ill presage advisedly she marketh:
+Even as the wind is hush’d before it raineth,
+Or as the wolf doth grin before he barketh,
+Or as the berry breaks before it staineth,           460
+  Or like the deadly bullet of a gun,
+  His meaning struck her ere his words begun.
+
+And at his look she flatly falleth down
+For looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth;     464
+A smile recures the wounding of a frown;
+But blessed bankrout, that by love so thriveth!
+  The silly boy, believing she is dead,
+  Claps her pale cheek, till clapping makes it red.  468
+
+And all amaz’d brake off his late intent,
+For sharply he did think to reprehend her,
+Which cunning love did wittily prevent:
+Fair fall the wit that can so well defend her!       472
+  For on the grass she lies as she were slain,
+  Till his breath breatheth life in her again.
+
+He wrings her nose, he strikes her on the cheeks,
+He bends her fingers, holds her pulses hard,         476
+He chafes her lips; a thousand ways he seeks
+To mend the hurt that his unkindness marr’d:
+  He kisses her; and she, by her good will,
+  Will never rise, so he will kiss her still.        480
+
+The night of sorrow now is turn’d to day:
+Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth,
+Like the fair sun when in his fresh array
+He cheers the morn, and all the world relieveth:     484
+  And as the bright sun glorifies the sky,
+  So is her face illumin’d with her eye.
+
+Whose beams upon his hairless face are fix’d,
+As if from thence they borrow’d all their shine.     488
+Were never four such lamps together mix’d,
+Had not his clouded with his brow’s repine;
+  But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light
+  Shone like the moon in water seen by night.        492
+
+“O where am I?” quoth she, “in earth or heaven?
+Or in the ocean drench’d, or in the fire?
+What hour is this? or morn or weary even?
+Do I delight to die, or life desire?                 496
+  But now I liv’d, and life was death’s annoy;
+  But now I died, and death was lively joy.
+
+“O thou didst kill me; kill me once again:
+Thy eyes’ shrewd tutor, that hard heart of thine,    500
+Hath taught them scornful tricks, and such disdain,
+That they have murder’d this poor heart of mine;
+  And these mine eyes, true leaders to their queen,
+  But for thy piteous lips no more had seen.         504
+
+“Long may they kiss each other for this cure!
+Oh never let their crimson liveries wear,
+And as they last, their verdure still endure,
+To drive infection from the dangerous year:          508
+  That the star-gazers, having writ on death,
+  May say, the plague is banish’d by thy breath.
+
+“Pure lips, sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted,
+What bargains may I make, still to be sealing?       512
+To sell myself I can be well contented,
+So thou wilt buy, and pay, and use good dealing;
+  Which purchase if thou make, for fear of slips,
+  Set thy seal manual on my wax-red lips.            516
+
+“A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
+And pay them at thy leisure, one by one,
+What is ten hundred touches unto thee?
+Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?          520
+  Say, for non-payment that the debt should double,
+  Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?”
+
+“Fair queen,” quoth he, “if any love you owe me,
+Measure my strangeness with my unripe years:         524
+Before I know myself, seek not to know me;
+No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears:
+  The mellow plum doth fall, the green sticks fast,
+  Or being early pluck’d, is sour to taste.          528
+
+“Look the world’s comforter, with weary gait
+His day’s hot task hath ended in the west;
+The owl, night’s herald, shrieks, ’tis very late;
+The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest,     532
+  And coal-black clouds that shadow heaven’s light
+  Do summon us to part, and bid good night.
+
+“Now let me say good night, and so say you;
+If you will say so, you shall have a kiss.”          536
+“Good night,” quoth she; and ere he says adieu,
+The honey fee of parting tender’d is:
+  Her arms do lend his neck a sweet embrace;
+  Incorporate then they seem, face grows to face.    540
+
+Till breathless he disjoin’d, and backward drew
+The heavenly moisture, that sweet coral mouth,
+Whose precious taste her thirsty lips well knew,
+Whereon they surfeit, yet complain on drouth,        544
+  He with her plenty press’d, she faint with dearth,
+  Their lips together glued, fall to the earth.
+
+Now quick desire hath caught the yielding prey,
+And glutton-like she feeds, yet never filleth;       548
+Her lips are conquerors, his lips obey,
+Paying what ransom the insulter willeth;
+  Whose vulture thought doth pitch the price so high,
+  That she will draw his lips’ rich treasure dry.    552
+
+And having felt the sweetness of the spoil,
+With blindfold fury she begins to forage;
+Her face doth reek and smoke, her blood doth boil,
+And careless lust stirs up a desperate courage,      556
+  Planting oblivion, beating reason back,
+  Forgetting shame’s pure blush and honour’s wrack.
+
+Hot, faint, and weary, with her hard embracing,
+Like a wild bird being tam’d with too much handling,
+Or as the fleet-foot roe that’s tir’d with chasing,  561
+Or like the froward infant still’d with dandling:
+  He now obeys, and now no more resisteth,
+  While she takes all she can, not all she listeth.  564
+
+What wax so frozen but dissolves with temp’ring,
+And yields at last to every light impression?
+Things out of hope are compass’d oft with vent’ring,
+Chiefly in love, whose leave exceeds commission:     568
+  Affection faints not like a pale-fac’d coward,
+  But then woos best when most his choice is froward.
+
+When he did frown, O had she then gave over,
+Such nectar from his lips she had not suck’d.        572
+Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover;
+What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis pluck’d.
+  Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
+  Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last.
+
+For pity now she can no more detain him;             577
+The poor fool prays her that he may depart:
+She is resolv’d no longer to restrain him,
+Bids him farewell, and look well to her heart,       580
+  The which by Cupid’s bow she doth protest,
+  He carries thence encaged in his breast.
+
+“Sweet boy,” she says, “this night I’ll waste in sorrow,
+For my sick heart commands mine eyes to watch.       584
+Tell me, love’s master, shall we meet tomorrow
+Say, shall we? shall we? wilt thou make the match?”
+  He tells her no, tomorrow he intends
+  To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.      588
+
+“The boar!” quoth she; whereat a sudden pale,
+Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose,
+Usurps her cheek, she trembles at his tale,
+And on his neck her yoking arms she throws.          592
+  She sinketh down, still hanging by his neck,
+  He on her belly falls, she on her back.
+
+Now is she in the very lists of love,
+Her champion mounted for the hot encounter:          596
+All is imaginary she doth prove,
+He will not manage her, although he mount her;
+  That worse than Tantalus’ is her annoy,
+  To clip Elysium and to lack her joy.               600
+
+Even as poor birds, deceiv’d with painted grapes,
+Do surfeit by the eye and pine the maw:
+Even so she languisheth in her mishaps,
+As those poor birds that helpless berries saw.       604
+  The warm effects which she in him finds missing,
+  She seeks to kindle with continual kissing.
+
+But all in vain, good queen, it will not be,
+She hath assay’d as much as may be prov’d;           608
+Her pleading hath deserv’d a greater fee;
+She’s love, she loves, and yet she is not lov’d.
+  “Fie, fie,” he says, “you crush me; let me go;
+  You have no reason to withhold me so.”             612
+
+“Thou hadst been gone,” quoth she, “sweet boy, ere this,
+But that thou told’st me thou wouldst hunt the boar.
+Oh be advis’d; thou know’st not what it is,
+With javelin’s point a churlish swine to gore,       616
+  Whose tushes never sheath’d he whetteth still,
+  Like to a mortal butcher, bent to kill.
+
+“On his bow-back he hath a battle set
+Of bristly pikes, that ever threat his foes;         620
+His eyes like glow-worms shine when he doth fret;
+His snout digs sepulchres where’er he goes;
+  Being mov’d, he strikes whate’er is in his way,
+  And whom he strikes his crooked tushes slay.       624
+
+“His brawny sides, with hairy bristles armed,
+Are better proof than thy spear’s point can enter;
+His short thick neck cannot be easily harmed;
+Being ireful, on the lion he will venture:           628
+  The thorny brambles and embracing bushes,
+  As fearful of him, part, through whom he rushes.
+
+“Alas! he naught esteems that face of thine,
+To which love’s eyes pay tributary gazes;            632
+Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips, and crystal eyne,
+Whose full perfection all the world amazes;
+  But having thee at vantage, wondrous dread!
+  Would root these beauties as he roots the mead.
+
+“Oh let him keep his loathsome cabin still,          637
+Beauty hath naught to do with such foul fiends:
+Come not within his danger by thy will;
+They that thrive well, take counsel of their friends.
+  When thou didst name the boar, not to dissemble,
+  I fear’d thy fortune, and my joints did tremble.
+
+“Didst thou not mark my face, was it not white?
+Saw’st thou not signs of fear lurk in mine eye?      644
+Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright?
+Within my bosom, whereon thou dost lie,
+  My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest,
+  But like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast.
+
+“For where love reigns, disturbing jealousy          649
+Doth call himself affection’s sentinel;
+Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,
+And in a peaceful hour doth cry “Kill, kill!”        652
+  Distemp’ring gentle love in his desire,
+  As air and water do abate the fire.
+
+“This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy,
+This canker that eats up love’s tender spring,       656
+This carry-tale, dissentious jealousy,
+That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring,
+  Knocks at my heart, and whispers in mine ear,
+  That if I love thee, I thy death should fear.      660
+
+“And more than so, presenteth to mine eye
+The picture of an angry chafing boar,
+Under whose sharp fangs on his back doth lie
+An image like thyself, all stain’d with gore;        664
+  Whose blood upon the fresh flowers being shed,
+  Doth make them droop with grief and hang the head.
+
+“What should I do, seeing thee so indeed,
+That tremble at th’imagination?                      668
+The thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed,
+And fear doth teach it divination:
+  I prophesy thy death, my living sorrow,
+  If thou encounter with the boar tomorrow.          672
+
+“But if thou needs wilt hunt, be rul’d by me;
+Uncouple at the timorous flying hare,
+Or at the fox which lives by subtilty,
+Or at the roe which no encounter dare:               676
+  Pursue these fearful creatures o’er the downs,
+  And on thy well-breath’d horse keep with thy hounds.
+
+“And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare,
+Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles      680
+How he outruns the wind, and with what care
+He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:
+  The many musits through the which he goes
+  Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.            684
+
+“Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep,
+To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell,
+And sometime where earth-delving conies keep,
+To stop the loud pursuers in their yell,             688
+  And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer;
+  Danger deviseth shifts, wit waits on fear.
+
+“For there his smell with others being mingled,      691
+The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt,
+Ceasing their clamorous cry, till they have singled
+With much ado the cold fault cleanly out;
+  Then do they spend their mouths: echo replies,
+  As if another chase were in the skies.             696
+
+“By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill,
+Stands on his hinder legs with list’ning ear,
+To hearken if his foes pursue him still.
+Anon their loud alarums he doth hear;                700
+  And now his grief may be compared well
+  To one sore sick that hears the passing bell.
+
+“Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch
+Turn, and return, indenting with the way,            704
+Each envious briar his weary legs do scratch,
+Each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay:
+  For misery is trodden on by many,
+  And being low never reliev’d by any.               708
+
+“Lie quietly, and hear a little more;
+Nay, do not struggle, for thou shalt not rise:
+To make thee hate the hunting of the boar,
+Unlike myself thou hear’st me moralize,              712
+  Applying this to that, and so to so,
+  For love can comment upon every woe.
+
+“Where did I leave?” “No matter where,” quoth he
+“Leave me, and then the story aptly ends:            716
+The night is spent.” “Why, what of that?” quoth she.
+“I am,” quoth he, “expected of my friends;
+  And now ’tis dark, and going I shall fall.”
+  “In night,” quoth she, “desire sees best of all.”  720
+
+But if thou fall, oh then imagine this,
+The earth, in love with thee, thy footing trips,
+And all is but to rob thee of a kiss.                723
+Rich preys make true men thieves; so do thy lips
+  Make modest Dian cloudy and forlorn,
+  Lest she should steal a kiss and die forsworn.
+
+“Now of this dark night I perceive the reason:
+Cynthia for shame obscures her silver shine          728
+Till forging nature be condemn’d of treason,
+For stealing moulds from heaven, that were divine;
+  Wherein she fram’d thee, in high heaven’s despite,
+  To shame the sun by day and her by night.          732
+
+“And therefore hath she brib’d the destinies,
+To cross the curious workmanship of nature,
+To mingle beauty with infirmities,
+And pure perfection with impure defeature,           736
+  Making it subject to the tyranny
+  Of mad mischances and much misery.
+
+“As burning fevers, agues pale and faint,
+Life-poisoning pestilence and frenzies wood,         740
+The marrow-eating sickness, whose attaint
+Disorder breeds by heating of the blood;
+  Surfeits, imposthumes, grief, and damn’d despair,
+  Swear nature’s death, for framing thee so fair.    744
+
+“And not the least of all these maladies
+But in one minute’s fight brings beauty under:
+Both favour, savour, hue and qualities,
+Whereat th’impartial gazer late did wonder,          748
+  Are on the sudden wasted, thaw’d and done,
+  As mountain snow melts with the midday sun.
+
+“Therefore despite of fruitless chastity,
+Love-lacking vestals and self-loving nuns,           752
+That on the earth would breed a scarcity
+And barren dearth of daughters and of sons,
+  Be prodigal: the lamp that burns by night
+  Dries up his oil to lend the world his light.      756
+
+“What is thy body but a swallowing grave,
+Seeming to bury that posterity,
+Which by the rights of time thou needs must have,
+If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?          760
+  If so, the world will hold thee in disdain,
+  Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain.
+
+“So in thyself thyself art made away;
+A mischief worse than civil home-bred strife,        764
+Or theirs whose desperate hands themselves do slay,
+Or butcher sire that reeves his son of life.
+  Foul cank’ring rust the hidden treasure frets,
+  But gold that’s put to use more gold begets.”      768
+
+“Nay then,” quoth Adon, “you will fall again
+Into your idle over-handled theme;
+The kiss I gave you is bestow’d in vain,
+And all in vain you strive against the stream;       772
+  For by this black-fac’d night, desire’s foul nurse,
+  Your treatise makes me like you worse and worse.
+
+“If love have lent you twenty thousand tongues,
+And every tongue more moving than your own,          776
+Bewitching like the wanton mermaid’s songs,
+Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown;
+  For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear,
+  And will not let a false sound enter there.        780
+
+“Lest the deceiving harmony should run
+Into the quiet closure of my breast,
+And then my little heart were quite undone,
+In his bedchamber to be barr’d of rest.              784
+  No, lady, no; my heart longs not to groan,
+  But soundly sleeps, while now it sleeps alone.
+
+“What have you urg’d that I cannot reprove?
+The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger;        790
+I hate not love, but your device in love
+That lends embracements unto every stranger.
+  You do it for increase: O strange excuse!
+  When reason is the bawd to lust’s abuse.           792
+
+“Call it not, love, for love to heaven is fled,
+Since sweating lust on earth usurp’d his name;
+Under whose simple semblance he hath fed
+Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame;           796
+  Which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves,
+  As caterpillars do the tender leaves.
+
+“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
+But lust’s effect is tempest after sun;              800
+Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
+Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done.
+  Love surfeits not, lust like a glutton dies;
+  Love is all truth, lust full of forged lies.       804
+
+“More I could tell, but more I dare not say;
+The text is old, the orator too green.
+Therefore, in sadness, now I will away;
+My face is full of shame, my heart of teen,          808
+  Mine ears, that to your wanton talk attended
+  Do burn themselves for having so offended.”
+
+With this he breaketh from the sweet embrace         811
+Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast,
+And homeward through the dark laund runs apace;
+Leaves love upon her back deeply distress’d.
+  Look how a bright star shooteth from the sky,
+  So glides he in the night from Venus’ eye.         816
+
+Which after him she darts, as one on shore
+Gazing upon a late embarked friend,
+Till the wild waves will have him seen no more,
+Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend:        820
+  So did the merciless and pitchy night
+  Fold in the object that did feed her sight.
+
+Whereat amaz’d, as one that unaware
+Hath dropp’d a precious jewel in the flood,          824
+Or ’stonish’d as night-wanderers often are,
+Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood;
+  Even so confounded in the dark she lay,
+  Having lost the fair discovery of her way.         828
+
+And now she beats her heart, whereat it groans,
+That all the neighbour caves, as seeming troubled,
+Make verbal repetition of her moans;
+Passion on passion deeply is redoubled:              832
+  “Ay me!” she cries, and twenty times, “Woe, woe!”
+  And twenty echoes twenty times cry so.
+
+She marking them, begins a wailing note,
+And sings extemporally a woeful ditty;               836
+How love makes young men thrall, and old men dote,
+How love is wise in folly foolish witty:
+  Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe,
+  And still the choir of echoes answer so.           840
+
+Her song was tedious, and outwore the night,
+For lovers’ hours are long, though seeming short,
+If pleas’d themselves, others they think, delight
+In such like circumstance, with such like sport:     844
+  Their copious stories oftentimes begun,
+  End without audience, and are never done.
+
+For who hath she to spend the night withal,
+But idle sounds resembling parasites;                848
+Like shrill-tongu’d tapsters answering every call,
+Soothing the humour of fantastic wits?
+  She says, “’Tis so:” they answer all, “’Tis so;”
+  And would say after her, if she said “No.”         852
+
+Lo here the gentle lark, weary of rest,
+From his moist cabinet mounts up on high,
+And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
+The sun ariseth in his majesty;                      856
+  Who doth the world so gloriously behold,
+  That cedar tops and hills seem burnish’d gold.
+
+Venus salutes him with this fair good morrow:
+“Oh thou clear god, and patron of all light,         860
+From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow
+The beauteous influence that makes him bright,
+  There lives a son that suck’d an earthly mother,
+  May lend thee light, as thou dost lend to other.”
+
+This said, she hasteth to a myrtle grove,            865
+Musing the morning is so much o’erworn,
+And yet she hears no tidings of her love;
+She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn.        868
+  Anon she hears them chant it lustily,
+  And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
+
+And as she runs, the bushes in the way
+Some catch her by the neck, some kiss her face,      872
+Some twine about her thigh to make her stay:
+She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace,
+  Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache,
+  Hasting to feed her fawn hid in some brake.        876
+
+By this she hears the hounds are at a bay,
+Whereat she starts like one that spies an adder
+Wreath’d up in fatal folds just in his way,
+The fear whereof doth make him shake and shudder;    880
+  Even so the timorous yelping of the hounds
+  Appals her senses, and her spirit confounds.
+
+For now she knows it is no gentle chase,
+But the blunt boar, rough bear, or lion proud,       884
+Because the cry remaineth in one place,
+Where fearfully the dogs exclaim aloud,
+  Finding their enemy to be so curst,
+  They all strain court’sy who shall cope him first. 888
+
+This dismal cry rings sadly in her ear,
+Through which it enters to surprise her heart;
+Who overcome by doubt and bloodless fear,
+With cold-pale weakness numbs each feeling part;     892
+  Like soldiers when their captain once doth yield,
+  They basely fly and dare not stay the field.
+
+Thus stands she in a trembling ecstasy,
+Till cheering up her senses sore dismay’d,           896
+She tells them ’tis a causeless fantasy,
+And childish error, that they are afraid;
+  Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more:
+  And with that word, she spied the hunted boar.     900
+
+Whose frothy mouth bepainted all with red,
+Like milk and blood being mingled both together,
+A second fear through all her sinews spread,
+Which madly hurries her she knows not whither:       904
+  This way she runs, and now she will no further,
+  But back retires, to rate the boar for murther.
+
+A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways,
+She treads the path that she untreads again;         908
+Her more than haste is mated with delays,
+Like the proceedings of a drunken brain,
+  Full of respects, yet naught at all respecting,
+  In hand with all things, naught at all effecting.
+
+Here kennel’d in a brake she finds a hound,          913
+And asks the weary caitiff for his master,
+And there another licking of his wound,
+’Gainst venom’d sores the only sovereign plaster.    916
+  And here she meets another sadly scowling,
+  To whom she speaks, and he replies with howling.
+
+When he hath ceas’d his ill-resounding noise,
+Another flap-mouth’d mourner, black and grim,        920
+Against the welkin volleys out his voice;
+Another and another answer him,
+  Clapping their proud tails to the ground below,
+  Shaking their scratch’d ears, bleeding as they go.
+
+Look how the world’s poor people are amazed          925
+At apparitions, signs, and prodigies,
+Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gazed,
+Infusing them with dreadful prophecies;              928
+  So she at these sad sighs draws up her breath,
+  And sighing it again, exclaims on death.
+
+“Hard-favour’d tyrant, ugly, meagre, lean,           931
+Hateful divorce of love,” thus chides she death,
+“Grim-grinning ghost, earth’s worm, what dost thou mean?
+To stifle beauty and to steal his breath,
+  Who when he liv’d, his breath and beauty set
+  Gloss on the rose, smell to the violet.            936
+
+“If he be dead, O no, it cannot be,
+Seeing his beauty, thou shouldst strike at it,
+O yes, it may, thou hast no eyes to see,
+But hatefully at random dost thou hit.               940
+  Thy mark is feeble age, but thy false dart
+  Mistakes that aim, and cleaves an infant’s heart.
+
+“Hadst thou but bid beware, then he had spoke,
+And hearing him, thy power had lost his power.       944
+The destinies will curse thee for this stroke;
+They bid thee crop a weed, thou pluck’st a flower.
+  Love’s golden arrow at him should have fled,
+  And not death’s ebon dart to strike him dead.      948
+
+“Dost thou drink tears, that thou provok’st such weeping?
+What may a heavy groan advantage thee?
+Why hast thou cast into eternal sleeping
+Those eyes that taught all other eyes to see?        952
+  Now nature cares not for thy mortal vigour,
+  Since her best work is ruin’d with thy rigour.”
+
+Here overcome, as one full of despair,
+She vail’d her eyelids, who like sluices stopp’d     956
+The crystal tide that from her two cheeks fair
+In the sweet channel of her bosom dropp’d
+  But through the flood-gates breaks the silver rain,
+  And with his strong course opens them again.       960
+
+O how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow;
+Her eyes seen in the tears, tears in her eye;
+Both crystals, where they view’d each other’s sorrow,
+Sorrow that friendly sighs sought still to dry;      964
+  But like a stormy day, now wind, now rain,
+  Sighs dry her cheeks, tears make them wet again.
+
+Variable passions throng her constant woe,
+As striving who should best become her grief;        968
+All entertain’d, each passion labours so,
+That every present sorrow seemeth chief,
+  But none is best, then join they all together,
+  Like many clouds consulting for foul weather.      972
+
+By this, far off she hears some huntsman holla;
+A nurse’s song ne’er pleas’d her babe so well:
+The dire imagination she did follow
+This sound of hope doth labour to expel;             976
+  For now reviving joy bids her rejoice,
+  And flatters her it is Adonis’ voice.
+
+Whereat her tears began to turn their tide,
+Being prison’d in her eye, like pearls in glass;     980
+Yet sometimes falls an orient drop beside,
+Which her cheek melts, as scorning it should pass
+  To wash the foul face of the sluttish ground,
+  Who is but drunken when she seemeth drown’d.
+
+O hard-believing love, how strange it seems          985
+Not to believe, and yet too credulous;
+Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes;
+Despair and hope make thee ridiculous,               988
+  The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely,
+  In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.
+
+Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought,
+Adonis lives, and death is not to blame;             992
+It was not she that call’d him all to naught;
+Now she adds honours to his hateful name.
+  She clepes him king of graves, and grave for kings,
+  Imperious supreme of all mortal things.            996
+
+“No, no,” quoth she, “sweet death, I did but jest;
+Yet pardon me, I felt a kind of fear
+Whenas I met the boar, that bloody beast,
+Which knows no pity, but is still severe;           1000
+  Then, gentle shadow,—truth I must confess—
+  I rail’d on thee, fearing my love’s decease.
+
+“’Tis not my fault, the boar provok’d my tongue;
+Be wreak’d on him, invisible commander;             1004
+’Tis he, foul creature, that hath done thee wrong;
+I did but act, he’s author of my slander.
+  Grief hath two tongues, and never woman yet,
+  Could rule them both, without ten women’s wit.”
+
+Thus hoping that Adonis is alive,                   1009
+Her rash suspect she doth extenuate;
+And that his beauty may the better thrive,
+With death she humbly doth insinuate;               1012
+  Tells him of trophies, statues, tombs and stories
+  His victories, his triumphs and his glories.
+
+“O love!” quoth she, “how much a fool was I,
+To be of such a weak and silly mind,                1016
+To wail his death who lives, and must not die
+Till mutual overthrow of mortal kind;
+  For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
+  And beauty dead, black Chaos comes again.         1020
+
+“Fie, fie, fond love, thou art as full of fear
+As one with treasure laden, hemm’d with thieves,
+Trifles unwitnessed with eye or ear,
+Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves.”    1024
+  Even at this word she hears a merry horn,
+  Whereat she leaps that was but late forlorn.
+
+As falcon to the lure, away she flies;
+The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light,    1028
+And in her haste unfortunately spies
+The foul boar’s conquest on her fair delight;
+  Which seen, her eyes, as murder’d with the view,
+  Like stars asham’d of day, themselves withdrew.
+
+Or as the snail, whose tender horns being hit,      1033
+Shrinks backwards in his shelly cave with pain,
+And there all smother’d up, in shade doth sit,
+Long after fearing to creep forth again:            1036
+  So at his bloody view her eyes are fled
+  Into the deep dark cabins of her head.
+
+Where they resign their office and their light
+To the disposing of her troubled brain,             1040
+Who bids them still consort with ugly night,
+And never wound the heart with looks again;
+  Who like a king perplexed in his throne,
+  By their suggestion gives a deadly groan.         1044
+
+Whereat each tributary subject quakes,
+As when the wind imprison’d in the ground,
+Struggling for passage, earth’s foundation shakes,
+Which with cold terror doth men’s minds confound.
+  This mutiny each part doth so surprise            1049
+  That from their dark beds once more leap her eyes.
+
+And being open’d, threw unwilling light
+Upon the wide wound that the boar had trench’d
+In his soft flank, whose wonted lily white          1053
+With purple tears that his wound wept, was drench’d.
+  No flower was nigh, no grass, herb, leaf or weed,
+  But stole his blood and seem’d with him to bleed.
+
+This solemn sympathy poor Venus noteth,             1057
+Over one shoulder doth she hang her head,
+Dumbly she passions, franticly she doteth;
+She thinks he could not die, he is not dead:        1060
+  Her voice is stopp’d, her joints forget to bow,
+  Her eyes are mad, that they have wept till now.
+
+Upon his hurt she looks so steadfastly,
+That her sight dazzling makes the wound seem three;
+And then she reprehends her mangling eye,           1065
+That makes more gashes, where no breach should be:
+  His face seems twain, each several limb is doubled,
+  For oft the eye mistakes, the brain being troubled.
+
+“My tongue cannot express my grief for one,         1069
+And yet,” quoth she, “behold two Adons dead!
+My sighs are blown away, my salt tears gone,
+Mine eyes are turn’d to fire, my heart to lead:     1072
+  Heavy heart’s lead, melt at mine eyes’ red fire!
+  So shall I die by drops of hot desire.
+
+“Alas poor world, what treasure hast thou lost!
+What face remains alive that’s worth the viewing?
+Whose tongue is music now? what canst thou boast
+Of things long since, or anything ensuing?          1078
+  The flowers are sweet, their colours fresh and trim,
+  But true sweet beauty liv’d and died with him.
+
+“Bonnet nor veil henceforth no creature wear!       1081
+Nor sun nor wind will ever strive to kiss you:
+Having no fair to lose, you need not fear;
+The sun doth scorn you, and the wind doth hiss you.
+  But when Adonis liv’d, sun and sharp air          1085
+  Lurk’d like two thieves, to rob him of his fair.
+
+“And therefore would he put his bonnet on,
+Under whose brim the gaudy sun would peep;          1088
+The wind would blow it off, and being gone,
+Play with his locks; then would Adonis weep;
+  And straight, in pity of his tender years,
+  They both would strive who first should dry his tears.
+
+“To see his face the lion walk’d along              1093
+Behind some hedge, because he would not fear him;
+To recreate himself when he hath sung,
+The tiger would be tame and gently hear him.        1096
+  If he had spoke, the wolf would leave his prey,
+  And never fright the silly lamb that day.
+
+“When he beheld his shadow in the brook,
+The fishes spread on it their golden gills;         1100
+When he was by, the birds such pleasure took,
+That some would sing, some other in their bills
+  Would bring him mulberries and ripe-red cherries,
+  He fed them with his sight, they him with berries.
+
+“But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar,      1105
+Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,
+Ne’er saw the beauteous livery that he wore;
+Witness the entertainment that he gave.             1108
+  If he did see his face, why then I know
+  He thought to kiss him, and hath kill’d him so.
+
+“’Tis true, ’tis true; thus was Adonis slain:
+He ran upon the boar with his sharp spear,          1112
+Who did not whet his teeth at him again,
+But by a kiss thought to persuade him there;
+  And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine
+  Sheath’d unaware the tusk in his soft groin.      1116
+
+“Had I been tooth’d like him, I must confess,
+With kissing him I should have kill’d him first;
+But he is dead, and never did he bless
+My youth with his; the more am I accurst.”          1120
+  With this she falleth in the place she stood,
+  And stains her face with his congealed blood.
+
+She looks upon his lips, and they are pale;
+She takes him by the hand, and that is cold,        1124
+She whispers in his ears a heavy tale,
+As if they heard the woeful words she told;
+She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes,
+Where lo, two lamps burnt out in darkness lies.
+
+Two glasses where herself herself beheld            1129
+A thousand times, and now no more reflect;
+Their virtue lost, wherein they late excell’d,
+And every beauty robb’d of his effect.              1132
+  “Wonder of time,” quoth she, “this is my spite,
+  That thou being dead, the day should yet be light.
+
+“Since thou art dead, lo here I prophesy,
+Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend:              1136
+It shall be waited on with jealousy,
+Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end;
+  Ne’er settled equally, but high or low,
+  That all love’s pleasure shall not match his woe.
+
+“It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud,       1141
+Bud, and be blasted in a breathing while;
+The bottom poison, and the top o’erstraw’d
+With sweets that shall the truest sight beguile.    1144
+  The strongest body shall it make most weak,
+  Strike the wise dumb, and teach the fool to speak.
+
+“It shall be sparing, and too full of riot,
+Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures;        1148
+The staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet,
+Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with treasures;
+  It shall be raging mad, and silly mild,
+  Make the young old, the old become a child.       1152
+
+“It shall suspect where is no cause of fear,
+It shall not fear where it should most mistrust;
+It shall be merciful, and too severe,
+And most deceiving when it seems most just;         1156
+  Perverse it shall be, where it shows most toward,
+  Put fear to valour, courage to the coward.
+
+“It shall be cause of war and dire events,
+And set dissension ’twixt the son and sire;         1160
+Subject and servile to all discontents,
+As dry combustious matter is to fire,
+  Sith in his prime death doth my love destroy,
+  They that love best their love shall not enjoy.”  1164
+
+By this the boy that by her side lay kill’d
+Was melted like a vapour from her sight,
+And in his blood that on the ground lay spill’d,
+A purple flower sprung up, chequer’d with white,    1168
+  Resembling well his pale cheeks, and the blood
+  Which in round drops upon their whiteness stood.
+
+She bows her head, the new-sprung flower to smell,
+Comparing it to her Adonis’ breath;                 1172
+And says within her bosom it shall dwell,
+Since he himself is reft from her by death;
+  She drops the stalk, and in the breach appears
+  Green-dropping sap, which she compares to tears.
+
+“Poor flower,” quoth she, “this was thy father’s guise,
+Sweet issue of a more sweet-smelling sire,
+For every little grief to wet his eyes,
+To grow unto himself was his desire,                1180
+  And so ’tis thine; but know, it is as good
+  To wither in my breast as in his blood.
+
+“Here was thy father’s bed, here in my breast;
+Thou art the next of blood, and ’tis thy right:     1184
+Lo in this hollow cradle take thy rest,
+My throbbing heart shall rock thee day and night:
+  There shall not be one minute in an hour
+  Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love’s flower.”
+
+Thus weary of the world, away she hies,             1189
+And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid
+Their mistress mounted through the empty skies,
+In her light chariot quickly is convey’d;           1192
+  Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen
+  Means to immure herself and not be seen.
+
+
+
+
+  FINIS
+
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of The King James Version of the Bible
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+Title: The King James Version of the Bible
+
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+Release date: August 1, 1989 [eBook #10]
+                Most recently updated: February 1, 2024
+
+Language: English
+
+
+
+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE ***
+The Old Testament of the King James Version of the Bible
+The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis
+The Second Book of Moses: Called Exodus
+The Third Book of Moses: Called Leviticus
+The Fourth Book of Moses: Called Numbers
+The Fifth Book of Moses: Called Deuteronomy
+The Book of Joshua
+The Book of Judges
+The Book of Ruth
+The First Book of Samuel
+The Second Book of Samuel
+The First Book of the Kings
+The Second Book of the Kings
+The First Book of the Chronicles
+The Second Book of the Chronicles
+Ezra
+The Book of Nehemiah
+The Book of Esther
+The Book of Job
+The Book of Psalms
+The Proverbs
+Ecclesiastes
+The Song of Solomon
+The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
+The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah
+The Lamentations of Jeremiah
+The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel
+The Book of Daniel
+Hosea
+Joel
+Amos
+Obadiah
+Jonah
+Micah
+Nahum
+Habakkuk
+Zephaniah
+Haggai
+Zechariah
+Malachi
+
+The New Testament of the King James Bible
+The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
+The Gospel According to Saint Mark
+The Gospel According to Saint Luke
+The Gospel According to Saint John
+The Acts of the Apostles
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans
+The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
+The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians
+The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
+The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
+The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
+The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Titus
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews
+The General Epistle of James
+The First Epistle General of Peter
+The Second General Epistle of Peter
+The First Epistle General of John
+The Second Epistle General of John
+The Third Epistle General of John
+The General Epistle of Jude
+The Revelation of Saint John the Divine
+
+
+
+
+The Old Testament of the King James Version of the Bible
+
+
+
+
+The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis
+
+
+1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
+
+1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon
+the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
+waters.
+
+1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
+
+1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
+from the darkness.
+
+1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
+And the evening and the morning were the first day.
+
+1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
+and let it divide the waters from the waters.
+
+1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
+under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:
+and it was so.
+
+1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
+morning were the second day.
+
+1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together
+unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
+
+1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of
+the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
+
+1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
+seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is
+in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
+
+1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after
+his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after
+his kind: and God saw that it was good.
+
+1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
+
+1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
+to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
+seasons, and for days, and years: 1:15 And let them be for lights in
+the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was
+so.
+
+1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
+and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
+
+1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
+upon the earth, 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and
+to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
+
+1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
+
+1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
+creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
+open firmament of heaven.
+
+1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that
+moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
+and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
+
+1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
+the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
+
+1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
+
+1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after
+his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
+kind: and it was so.
+
+1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
+after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
+his kind: and God saw that it was good.
+
+1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
+and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
+of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
+every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
+
+1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
+he him; male and female created he them.
+
+1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
+multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
+over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
+living thing that moveth upon the earth.
+
+1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
+which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which
+is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
+
+1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,
+and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is
+life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
+
+1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
+very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
+
+2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
+them.
+
+2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and
+he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
+
+2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that
+in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
+
+2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
+they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the
+heavens, 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,
+and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not
+caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the
+ground.
+
+2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole
+face of the ground.
+
+2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
+breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
+soul.
+
+2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he
+put the man whom he had formed.
+
+2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is
+pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
+midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
+
+2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence
+it was parted, and became into four heads.
+
+2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the
+whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 2:12 And the gold of that
+land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
+
+2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
+compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
+
+2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which
+goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
+
+2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of
+Eden to dress it and to keep it.
+
+2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the
+garden thou mayest freely eat: 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge
+of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou
+eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
+
+2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be
+alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
+
+2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the
+field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see
+what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living
+creature, that was the name thereof.
+
+2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
+and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an
+help meet for him.
+
+2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
+slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
+thereof; 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made
+he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
+
+2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
+flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
+
+2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
+cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
+
+2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
+ashamed.
+
+3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which
+the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,
+Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 3:2 And the woman said
+unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
+3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
+God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest
+ye die.
+
+3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 3:5
+For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall
+be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
+
+3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that
+it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
+wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
+her husband with her; and he did eat.
+
+3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
+were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
+aprons.
+
+3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in
+the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the
+presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
+
+3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art
+thou? 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
+afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
+
+3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten
+of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
+3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she
+gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
+
+3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast
+done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
+
+3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
+this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the
+field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the
+days of thy life: 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the
+woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,
+and thou shalt bruise his heel.
+
+3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and
+thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy
+desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
+
+3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice
+of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
+saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake;
+in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 3:18 Thorns
+also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the
+herb of the field; 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
+till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for
+dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
+
+3:20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother
+of all living.
+
+3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of
+skins, and clothed them.
+
+3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to
+know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also
+of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 3:23 Therefore the
+LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground
+from whence he was taken.
+
+3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden
+of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep
+the way of the tree of life.
+
+4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and
+said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
+
+4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
+sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
+
+4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the
+fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
+
+4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of
+the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his
+offering: 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
+And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
+
+4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy
+countenance fallen? 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be
+accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto
+thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
+
+4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when
+they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,
+and slew him.
+
+4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
+said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? 4:10 And he said, What
+hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from
+the ground.
+
+4:11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
+mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; 4:12 When thou
+tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her
+strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
+
+4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can
+bear.
+
+4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the
+earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and
+a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one
+that findeth me shall slay me.
+
+4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
+vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark
+upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
+
+4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the
+land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
+
+4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he
+builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his
+son, Enoch.
+
+4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
+Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
+
+4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah,
+and the name of the other Zillah.
+
+4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents,
+and of such as have cattle.
+
+4:21 And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such
+as handle the harp and organ.
+
+4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every
+artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
+
+4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice;
+ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to
+my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
+
+4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
+sevenfold.
+
+4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his
+name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead
+of Abel, whom Cain slew.
+
+4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his
+name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
+
+5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God
+created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 5:2 Male and female
+created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the
+day when they were created.
+
+5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his
+own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: 5:4 And
+the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years:
+and he begat sons and daughters: 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived
+were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
+
+5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: 5:7 And
+Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and
+begat sons and daughters: 5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine
+hundred and twelve years: and he died.
+
+5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: 5:10 And Enos lived
+after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons
+and daughters: 5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and
+five years: and he died.
+
+5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel: 5:13 And
+Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years,
+and begat sons and daughters: 5:14 And all the days of Cainan were
+nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
+
+5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: 5:16
+And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty
+years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:17 And all the days of
+Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
+
+5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
+Enoch: 5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years,
+and begat sons and daughters: 5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine
+hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
+
+5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 5:22
+And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred
+years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:23 And all the days of Enoch
+were three hundred sixty and five years: 5:24 And Enoch walked with
+God: and he was not; for God took him.
+
+5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat
+Lamech.
+
+5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty
+and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:27 And all the days of
+Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
+
+5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a
+son: 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort
+us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground
+which the LORD hath cursed.
+
+5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five
+years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:31 And all the days of Lamech
+were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
+
+5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham,
+and Japheth.
+
+6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
+earth, and daughters were born unto them, 6:2 That the sons of God saw
+the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of
+all which they chose.
+
+6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for
+that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
+years.
+
+6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
+when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
+children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of
+renown.
+
+6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
+that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
+continually.
+
+6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it
+grieved him at his heart.
+
+6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
+face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and
+the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
+
+6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
+
+6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect
+in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
+
+6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
+
+6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled
+with violence.
+
+6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for
+all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
+
+6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me;
+for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I
+will destroy them with the earth.
+
+6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
+ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
+
+6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length
+of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty
+cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
+
+6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou
+finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
+thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
+
+6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the
+earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under
+heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
+
+6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come
+into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives
+with thee.
+
+6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt
+thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be
+male and female.
+
+6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of
+every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort
+shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
+
+6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt
+gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
+
+6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did
+he.
+
+7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the
+ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
+
+7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male
+and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and
+his female.
+
+7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to
+keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
+
+7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth
+forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have
+made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
+
+7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
+
+7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was
+upon the earth.
+
+7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives
+with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
+
+7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls,
+and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 There went in two
+and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had
+commanded Noah.
+
+7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the
+flood were upon the earth.
+
+7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month,
+the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains
+of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
+
+7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
+
+7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth,
+the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons
+with them, into the ark; 7:14 They, and every beast after his kind,
+and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that
+creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind,
+every bird of every sort.
+
+7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all
+flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
+
+7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as
+God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
+
+7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
+increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
+
+7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the
+earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
+
+7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the
+high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
+
+7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains
+were covered.
+
+7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and
+of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth
+upon the earth, and every man: 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the
+breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
+
+7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face
+of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the
+fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah
+only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
+
+7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty
+days.
+
+8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the
+cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over
+the earth, and the waters asswaged; 8:2 The fountains also of the deep
+and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was
+restrained; 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth
+continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the
+waters were abated.
+
+8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of
+the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
+
+8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the
+tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the
+mountains seen.
+
+8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the
+window of the ark which he had made: 8:7 And he sent forth a raven,
+which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off
+the earth.
+
+8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
+abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 But the dove found no rest
+for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for
+the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his
+hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
+
+8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the
+dove out of the ark; 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening;
+and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that
+the waters were abated from off the earth.
+
+8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove;
+which returned not again unto him any more.
+
+8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the
+first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from
+off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked,
+and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
+
+8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
+month, was the earth dried.
+
+8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou,
+and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
+
+8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of
+all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing
+that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the
+earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
+
+8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’
+wives with him: 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every
+fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
+forth out of the ark.
+
+8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean
+beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the
+altar.
+
+8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his
+heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for
+the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I
+again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
+
+8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
+heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
+
+9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
+fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
+
+9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast
+of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth
+upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are
+they delivered.
+
+9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the
+green herb have I given you all things.
+
+9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall
+ye not eat.
+
+9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of
+every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of
+every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
+
+9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in
+the image of God made he man.
+
+9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in
+the earth, and multiply therein.
+
+9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9:9 And
+I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after
+you; 9:10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the
+fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from
+all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
+
+9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all
+flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall
+there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
+
+9:12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make
+between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for
+perpetual generations: 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall
+be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
+
+9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,
+that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 9:15 And I will remember my
+covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all
+flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all
+flesh.
+
+9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that
+I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living
+creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
+
+9:17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which
+I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
+
+9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and
+Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
+
+9:19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth
+overspread.
+
+9:20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
+9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered
+within his tent.
+
+9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,
+and told his two brethren without.
+
+9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their
+shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their
+father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s
+nakedness.
+
+9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had
+done unto him.
+
+9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be
+unto his brethren.
+
+9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be
+his servant.
+
+9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of
+Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
+
+9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
+
+9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and
+he died.
+
+10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and
+Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
+
+10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and
+Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
+
+10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
+
+10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
+Dodanim.
+
+10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands;
+every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
+
+10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
+
+10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,
+and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
+
+10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
+
+10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said,
+Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
+
+10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
+Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
+
+10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the
+city Rehoboth, and Calah, 10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah:
+the same is a great city.
+
+10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
+10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and
+Caphtorim.
+
+10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, 10:16 And the
+Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 10:17 And the Hivite,
+and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 10:18 And the Arvadite, and the
+Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the
+Canaanites spread abroad.
+
+10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest
+to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and
+Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
+
+10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their
+tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
+
+10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the
+brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
+
+10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
+and Aram.
+
+10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
+
+10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
+
+10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for
+in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
+
+10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and
+Jerah, 10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 10:28 And Obal, and
+Abimael, and Sheba, 10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these
+were the sons of Joktan.
+
+10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a
+mount of the east.
+
+10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their
+tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
+
+10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their
+generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided
+in the earth after the flood.
+
+11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
+
+11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
+found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
+
+11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn
+them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
+morter.
+
+11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose
+top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
+scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
+
+11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the
+children of men builded.
+
+11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all
+one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
+restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
+
+11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
+they may not understand one another’s speech.
+
+11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of
+all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
+
+11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did
+there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the
+LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
+
+11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years
+old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11:11 And Shem
+lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and
+daughters.
+
+11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: 11:13
+And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years,
+and begat sons and daughters.
+
+11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 11:15 And Salah
+lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons
+and daughters.
+
+11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: 11:17 And
+Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and
+begat sons and daughters.
+
+11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: 11:19 And Peleg
+lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons
+and daughters.
+
+11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 11:21 And
+Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat
+sons and daughters.
+
+11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 11:23 And Serug
+lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and
+daughters.
+
+11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: 11:25
+And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years,
+and begat sons and daughters.
+
+11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
+Haran.
+
+11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
+Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
+
+11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
+nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
+
+11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife
+was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of
+Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
+
+11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
+
+11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s
+son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they
+went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
+Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
+
+11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah
+died in Haran.
+
+12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,
+and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I
+will shew thee: 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I
+will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
+blessing: 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him
+that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
+blessed.
+
+12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went
+with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed
+out of Haran.
+
+12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all
+their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had
+gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan;
+and into the land of Canaan they came.
+
+12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto
+the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
+
+12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I
+give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who
+appeared unto him.
+
+12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel,
+and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east:
+and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name
+of the LORD.
+
+12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
+
+12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into
+Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
+
+12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt,
+that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a
+fair woman to look upon: 12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when
+the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife:
+and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
+
+12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with
+me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
+
+12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the
+Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
+
+12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before
+Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
+
+12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and
+oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses,
+and camels.
+
+12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
+because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
+
+12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast
+done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 12:19
+Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to
+wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
+
+12:20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him
+away, and his wife, and all that he had.
+
+13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he
+had, and Lot with him, into the south.
+
+13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
+
+13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto
+the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and
+Hai; 13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the
+first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
+
+13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and
+tents.
+
+13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
+together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell
+together.
+
+13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and
+the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite
+dwelled then in the land.
+
+13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
+between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be
+brethren.
+
+13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee,
+from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right;
+or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
+
+13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan,
+that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom
+and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt,
+as thou comest unto Zoar.
+
+13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed
+east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
+
+13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the
+cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
+
+13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD
+exceedingly.
+
+13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from
+him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art
+northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 13:15 For all
+the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for
+ever.
+
+13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a
+man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be
+numbered.
+
+13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the
+breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
+
+13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of
+Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
+
+14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
+Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of
+nations; 14:2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with
+Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
+Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
+
+14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
+the salt sea.
+
+14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year
+they rebelled.
+
+14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that
+were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the
+Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 14:6 And the
+Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
+
+14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and
+smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that
+dwelt in Hazezontamar.
+
+14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah,
+and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela
+(the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of
+Siddim; 14:9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king
+of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar;
+four kings with five.
+
+14:10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of
+Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled
+to the mountain.
+
+14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their
+victuals, and went their way.
+
+14:12 And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom,
+and his goods, and departed.
+
+14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew;
+for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and
+brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
+
+14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he
+armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and
+eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
+
+14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by
+night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the
+left hand of Damascus.
+
+14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
+brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
+
+14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from
+the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at
+the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
+
+14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and
+he was the priest of the most high God.
+
+14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high
+God, possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20 And blessed be the most high
+God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him
+tithes of all.
+
+14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and
+take the goods to thyself.
+
+14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand
+unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
+14:23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and
+that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say,
+I have made Abram rich: 14:24 Save only that which the young men have
+eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol,
+and Mamre; let them take their portion.
+
+15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a
+vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
+great reward.
+
+15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
+childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
+15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo,
+one born in my house is mine heir.
+
+15:4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This
+shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own
+bowels shall be thine heir.
+
+15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
+heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he
+said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
+
+15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
+righteousness.
+
+15:7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur
+of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
+
+15:8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit
+it? 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
+and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a
+turtledove, and a young pigeon.
+
+15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst,
+and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
+
+15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them
+away.
+
+15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
+and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
+
+15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be
+a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and
+they shall afflict them four hundred years; 15:14 And also that
+nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they
+come out with great substance.
+
+15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
+in a good old age.
+
+15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for
+the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
+
+15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was
+dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between
+those pieces.
+
+15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
+Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the
+great river, the river Euphrates: 15:19 The Kenites, and the
+Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 15:20 And the Hittites, and the
+Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 15:21 And the Amorites, and the
+Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
+
+16:1 Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an
+handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
+
+16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained
+me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may
+obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
+
+16:3 And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
+Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her
+husband Abram to be his wife.
+
+16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw
+that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
+
+16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my
+maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was
+despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
+
+16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do
+to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she
+fled from her face.
+
+16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the
+wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
+
+16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither
+wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
+
+16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress,
+and submit thyself under her hands.
+
+16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy
+seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
+
+16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with
+child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because
+the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
+
+16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,
+and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence
+of all his brethren.
+
+16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou
+God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that
+seeth me? 16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold,
+it is between Kadesh and Bered.
+
+16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name,
+which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
+
+16:16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare
+Ishmael to Abram.
+
+17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared
+to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me,
+and be thou perfect.
+
+17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
+multiply thee exceedingly.
+
+17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 17:4
+As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a
+father of many nations.
+
+17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name
+shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
+
+17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations
+of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
+
+17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed
+after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a
+God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
+
+17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
+wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
+everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
+
+17:9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore,
+thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
+
+17:10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and
+thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
+
+17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall
+be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
+
+17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,
+every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or
+bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
+
+17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy
+money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your
+flesh for an everlasting covenant.
+
+17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is
+not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath
+broken my covenant.
+
+17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not
+call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
+
+17:16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I
+will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people
+shall be of her.
+
+17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his
+heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old?
+and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 17:18 And Abraham
+said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! 17:19 And God
+said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call
+his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an
+everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
+
+17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed
+him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
+twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
+
+17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
+bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
+
+17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
+
+17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his
+house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the
+men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in
+the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
+
+17:24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
+circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
+
+17:25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was
+circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
+
+17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his
+son.
+
+17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with
+money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
+
+18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat
+in the tent door in the heat of the day; 18:2 And he lift up his eyes
+and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he
+ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the
+ground, 18:3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy
+sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 18:4 Let a little
+water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves
+under the tree: 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort
+ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
+to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
+
+18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make
+ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes
+upon the hearth.
+
+18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good,
+and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
+
+18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed,
+and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they
+did eat.
+
+18:9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
+Behold, in the tent.
+
+18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the
+time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah
+heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
+
+18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
+ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
+
+18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed
+old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 18:13 And the LORD
+said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a
+surety bear a child, which am old? 18:14 Is any thing too hard for
+the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to
+the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
+
+18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.
+And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
+
+18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and
+Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
+
+18:17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I
+do; 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
+nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
+18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his
+household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do
+justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which
+he hath spoken of him.
+
+18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
+great, and because their sin is very grievous; 18:21 I will go down
+now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of
+it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
+
+18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward
+Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
+
+18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
+righteous with the wicked? 18:24 Peradventure there be fifty
+righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the
+place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 18:25 That be far
+from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the
+wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far
+from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 18:26 And
+the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,
+then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
+
+18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me
+to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: 18:28
+Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou
+destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there
+forty and five, I will not destroy it.
+
+18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there
+shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s
+sake.
+
+18:30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will
+speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I
+will not do it, if I find thirty there.
+
+18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the
+LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I
+will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
+
+18:32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet
+but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I
+will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
+
+18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with
+Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
+
+19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the
+gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed
+himself with his face toward the ground; 19:2 And he said, Behold now,
+my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry
+all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on
+your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all
+night.
+
+19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him,
+and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake
+unleavened bread, and they did eat.
+
+19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of
+Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people
+from every quarter: 19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him,
+Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out
+unto us, that we may know them.
+
+19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after
+him, 19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
+
+19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let
+me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good
+in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they
+under the shadow of my roof.
+
+19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow
+came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal
+worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man,
+even Lot, and came near to break the door.
+
+19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house
+to them, and shut to the door.
+
+19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with
+blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to
+find the door.
+
+19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in
+law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the
+city, bring them out of this place: 19:13 For we will destroy this
+place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the
+LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
+
+19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married
+his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD
+will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons
+in law.
+
+19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot,
+saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here;
+lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
+
+19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon
+the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD
+being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him
+without the city.
+
+19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,
+that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay
+thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
+
+19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD: 19:19 Behold now,
+thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy
+mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot
+escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: 19:20
+Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one:
+Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall
+live.
+
+19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this
+thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou
+hast spoken.
+
+19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou
+be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
+
+19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
+
+19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and
+fire from the LORD out of heaven; 19:25 And he overthrew those cities,
+and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that
+which grew upon the ground.
+
+19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
+pillar of salt.
+
+19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he
+stood before the LORD: 19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
+and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke
+of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
+
+19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain,
+that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the
+overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
+
+19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his
+two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt
+in a cave, he and his two daughters.
+
+19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and
+there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of
+all the earth: 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we
+will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
+
+19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
+firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when
+she lay down, nor when she arose.
+
+19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto
+the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him
+drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we
+may preserve seed of our father.
+
+19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the
+younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay
+down, nor when she arose.
+
+19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
+
+19:37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the
+same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
+
+19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name
+Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this
+day.
+
+20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and
+dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
+
+20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and
+Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
+
+20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,
+Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken;
+for she is a man’s wife.
+
+20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou
+slay also a righteous nation? 20:5 Said he not unto me, She is my
+sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the
+integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
+
+20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst
+this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from
+sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
+
+20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and
+he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her
+not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are
+thine.
+
+20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his
+servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were
+sore afraid.
+
+20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou
+done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on
+me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that
+ought not to be done.
+
+20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou
+hast done this thing? 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought,
+Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for
+my wife’s sake.
+
+20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my
+father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
+
+20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my
+father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou
+shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me,
+He is my brother.
+
+20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
+womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his
+wife.
+
+20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where
+it pleaseth thee.
+
+20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a
+thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the
+eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was
+reproved.
+
+20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his
+wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
+
+20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of
+Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
+
+21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto
+Sarah as he had spoken.
+
+21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at
+the set time of which God had spoken to him.
+
+21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him,
+whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
+
+21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as
+God had commanded him.
+
+21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born
+unto him.
+
+21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear
+will laugh with me.
+
+21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should
+have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
+
+21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great
+feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
+
+21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born
+unto Abraham, mocking.
+
+21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her
+son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even
+with Isaac.
+
+21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of
+his son.
+
+21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight
+because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah
+hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy
+seed be called.
+
+21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
+because he is thy seed.
+
+21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a
+bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,
+and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in
+the wilderness of Beersheba.
+
+21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
+under one of the shrubs.
+
+21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off,
+as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the
+child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
+
+21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called
+to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar?
+fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
+
+21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will
+make him a great nation.
+
+21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she
+went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
+
+21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the
+wilderness, and became an archer.
+
+21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him
+a wife out of the land of Egypt.
+
+21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the
+chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee
+in all that thou doest: 21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God
+that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my
+son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee,
+thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
+
+21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
+
+21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which
+Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
+
+21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither
+didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
+
+21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech;
+and both of them made a covenant.
+
+21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
+
+21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs
+which thou hast set by themselves? 21:30 And he said, For these seven
+ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto
+me, that I have digged this well.
+
+21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they
+sware both of them.
+
+21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up,
+and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the
+land of the Philistines.
+
+21:33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on
+the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
+
+21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
+
+22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt
+Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
+
+22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
+lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for
+a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
+
+22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,
+and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave
+the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place
+of which God had told him.
+
+22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the
+place afar off.
+
+22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass;
+and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
+
+22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon
+Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they
+went both of them together.
+
+22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and
+he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood:
+but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 22:8 And Abraham said, My
+son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they
+went both of them together.
+
+22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham
+built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his
+son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
+
+22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay
+his son.
+
+22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and
+said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
+
+22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou
+any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
+hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
+
+22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind
+him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took
+the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
+son.
+
+22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is
+said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
+
+22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the
+second time, 22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD,
+for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,
+thine only son: 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
+multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and
+as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess
+the gate of his enemies; 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations
+of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
+
+22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and
+went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
+
+22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
+Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy
+brother Nahor; 22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and
+Kemuel the father of Aram, 22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash,
+and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
+
+22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor,
+Abraham’s brother.
+
+22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah,
+and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
+
+23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
+were the years of the life of Sarah.
+
+23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of
+Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
+
+23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
+sons of Heth, saying, 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you:
+give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my
+dead out of my sight.
+
+23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 23:6
+Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of
+our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his
+sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
+
+23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
+land, even to the children of Heth.
+
+23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
+should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to
+Ephron the son of Zohar, 23:9 That he may give me the cave of
+Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as
+much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a
+buryingplace amongst you.
+
+23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the
+Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even
+of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 23:11 Nay, my
+lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I
+give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee:
+bury thy dead.
+
+23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
+
+23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the
+land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will
+give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead
+there.
+
+23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 23:15 My lord,
+hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver;
+what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
+
+23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron
+the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth,
+four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
+
+23:17 And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before
+Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees
+that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were
+made sure 23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the
+children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
+
+23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the
+field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of
+Canaan.
+
+23:20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto
+Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
+
+24:1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had
+blessed Abraham in all things.
+
+24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled
+over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 24:3
+And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God
+of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the
+daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 24:4 But thou shalt
+go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son
+Isaac.
+
+24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be
+willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again
+unto the land from whence thou camest? 24:6 And Abraham said unto
+him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
+
+24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and
+from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware
+unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send
+his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from
+thence.
+
+24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou
+shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
+
+24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
+master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
+
+24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and
+departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he
+arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
+
+24:11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well
+of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out
+to draw water.
+
+24:12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send
+me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
+
+24:13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of
+the men of the city come out to draw water: 24:14 And let it come to
+pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I
+pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give
+thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed
+for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed
+kindness unto my master.
+
+24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold,
+Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of
+Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
+
+24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had
+any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her
+pitcher, and came up.
+
+24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee,
+drink a little water of thy pitcher.
+
+24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her
+pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
+
+24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw
+water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
+
+24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran
+again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
+
+24:21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the
+LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
+
+24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the
+man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets
+for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; 24:23 And said, Whose
+daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father’s
+house for us to lodge in? 24:24 And she said unto him, I am the
+daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
+
+24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender
+enough, and room to lodge in.
+
+24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
+
+24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who
+hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being
+in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
+
+24:28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these
+things.
+
+24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran
+out unto the man, unto the well.
+
+24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon
+his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister,
+saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and,
+behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
+
+24:31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore
+standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the
+camels.
+
+24:32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and
+gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet,
+and the men’s feet that were with him.
+
+24:33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will
+not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
+
+24:34 And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.
+
+24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become
+great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold,
+and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
+
+24:36 And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was
+old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
+
+24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife
+to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
+24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and
+take a wife unto my son.
+
+24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not
+follow me.
+
+24:40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his
+angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for
+my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house: 24:41 Then shalt thou
+be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if
+they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
+
+24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my
+master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go: 24:43
+Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that
+when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me,
+I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; 24:44 And she say
+to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the
+same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master’s
+son.
+
+24:45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah
+came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto
+the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray
+thee.
+
+24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder,
+and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank,
+and she made the camels drink also.
+
+24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she
+said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him:
+and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
+
+24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed
+the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way
+to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.
+
+24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell
+me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the
+left.
+
+24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth
+from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
+
+24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be
+thy master’s son’s wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
+
+24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their
+words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
+
+24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of
+gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her
+brother and to her mother precious things.
+
+24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him,
+and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said,
+Send me away unto my master.
+
+24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with
+us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
+
+24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath
+prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
+
+24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her
+mouth.
+
+24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with
+this man? And she said, I will go.
+
+24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
+Abraham’s servant, and his men.
+
+24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our
+sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed
+possess the gate of those which hate them.
+
+24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
+camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went
+his way.
+
+24:62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt
+in the south country.
+
+24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and
+he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
+
+24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
+lighted off the camel.
+
+24:65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh
+in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master:
+therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
+
+24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
+
+24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took
+Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was
+comforted after his mother’s death.
+
+25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
+
+25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and
+Ishbak, and Shuah.
+
+25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were
+Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
+
+25:4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah,
+and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
+
+25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
+
+25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham
+gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived,
+eastward, unto the east country.
+
+25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he
+lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
+
+25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an
+old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
+
+25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
+Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which
+is before Mamre; 25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons
+of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
+
+25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed
+his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
+
+25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom
+Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham: 25:13 And
+these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according
+to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar,
+and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 25:15
+Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: 25:16 These are the sons
+of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their
+castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
+
+25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and
+thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was
+gathered unto his people.
+
+25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as
+thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his
+brethren.
+
+25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham
+begat Isaac: 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah
+to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister
+to Laban the Syrian.
+
+25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was
+barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
+conceived.
+
+25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If
+it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
+
+25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two
+manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one
+people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall
+serve the younger.
+
+25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there
+were twins in her womb.
+
+25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and
+they called his name Esau.
+
+25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on
+Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore
+years old when she bare them.
+
+25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the
+field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
+
+25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but
+Rebekah loved Jacob.
+
+25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was
+faint: 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that
+same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
+
+25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
+
+25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit
+shall this birthright do to me? 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me
+this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto
+Jacob.
+
+25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did
+eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his
+birthright.
+
+26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that
+was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the
+Philistines unto Gerar.
+
+26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt;
+dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 26:3 Sojourn in this
+land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and
+unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the
+oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 26:4 And I will make thy
+seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed
+all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the
+earth be blessed; 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept
+my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
+
+26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 26:7 And the men of the place asked him
+of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She
+is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for
+Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
+
+26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that
+Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw,
+and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
+
+26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is
+thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto
+him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
+
+26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of
+the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest
+have brought guiltiness upon us.
+
+26:11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth
+this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
+
+26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an
+hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
+
+26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he
+became very great: 26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and
+possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines
+envied him.
+
+26:15 For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the
+days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and
+filled them with earth.
+
+26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much
+mightier than we.
+
+26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of
+Gerar, and dwelt there.
+
+26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged
+in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped
+them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the
+names by which his father had called them.
+
+26:19 And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a
+well of springing water.
+
+26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen,
+saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek;
+because they strove with him.
+
+26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he
+called the name of it Sitnah.
+
+26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for
+that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he
+said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful
+in the land.
+
+26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
+
+26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am
+the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will
+bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
+
+26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the
+LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a
+well.
+
+26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his
+friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
+
+26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye
+hate me, and have sent me away from you? 26:28 And they said, We saw
+certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now
+an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a
+covenant with thee; 26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not
+touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have
+sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
+
+26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
+
+26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
+another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in
+peace.
+
+26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came,
+and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto
+him, We have found water.
+
+26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is
+Beersheba unto this day.
+
+26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
+daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the
+Hittite: 26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
+
+27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were
+dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said
+unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
+
+27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
+death: 27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver
+and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; 27:4
+And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I
+may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
+
+27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went
+to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
+
+27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy
+father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, 27:7 Bring me venison, and
+make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD
+before my death.
+
+27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I
+command thee.
+
+27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of
+the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as
+he loveth: 27:10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may
+eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
+
+27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is
+a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: 27:12 My father peradventure will
+feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a
+curse upon me, and not a blessing.
+
+27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only
+obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
+
+27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and
+his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
+
+27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
+were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
+27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,
+and upon the smooth of his neck: 27:17 And she gave the savoury meat
+and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
+
+27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said,
+Here am I; who art thou, my son? 27:19 And Jacob said unto his
+father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest
+me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may
+bless me.
+
+27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it
+so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it
+to me.
+
+27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may
+feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
+
+27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and
+said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
+
+27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his
+brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
+
+27:24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
+
+27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s
+venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him,
+and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.
+
+27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me,
+my son.
+
+27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of
+his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as
+the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: 27:28 Therefore God
+give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and
+plenty of corn and wine: 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow
+down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow
+down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he
+that blesseth thee.
+
+27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
+blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of
+Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
+
+27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his
+father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his
+son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.
+
+27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I
+am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
+
+27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he
+that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all
+before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be
+blessed.
+
+27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a
+great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me,
+even me also, O my father.
+
+27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away
+thy blessing.
+
+27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
+supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and,
+behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not
+reserved a blessing for me? 27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto
+Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I
+given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained
+him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? 27:38 And Esau said
+unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even
+me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
+
+27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
+dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven
+from above; 27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve
+thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the
+dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
+
+27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
+father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning
+for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
+
+27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and
+she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold,
+thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to
+kill thee.
+
+27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban
+my brother to Haran; 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy
+brother’s fury turn away; 27:45 Until thy brother’s anger turn away
+from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will
+send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you
+both in one day? 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my
+life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
+daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the
+land, what good shall my life do me? 28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and
+blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a
+wife of the daughters of Canaan.
+
+28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s
+father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy
+mother’s brother.
+
+28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply
+thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; 28:4 And give thee
+the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou
+mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave
+unto Abraham.
+
+28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban,
+son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s
+mother.
+
+28:6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to
+Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him
+he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
+daughters of Canaan; 28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his
+mother, and was gone to Padanaram; 28:8 And Esau seeing that the
+daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 28:9 Then went Esau
+unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the
+daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his
+wife.
+
+28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
+
+28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all
+night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that
+place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to
+sleep.
+
+28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the
+top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending
+and descending on it.
+
+28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
+God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
+liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 28:14 And thy seed
+shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the
+west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee
+and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
+
+28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places
+whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I
+will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to
+thee of.
+
+28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD
+is in this place; and I knew it not.
+
+28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is
+none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
+
+28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that
+he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil
+upon the top of it.
+
+28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of
+that city was called Luz at the first.
+
+28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will
+keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and
+raiment to put on, 28:21 So that I come again to my father’s house in
+peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 28:22 And this stone, which I
+have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou
+shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
+
+29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the
+people of the east.
+
+29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there
+were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they
+watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
+
+29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the
+stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone
+again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
+
+29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they
+said, Of Haran are we.
+
+29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they
+said, We know him.
+
+29:6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well:
+and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
+
+29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the
+cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and
+feed them.
+
+29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
+together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we
+water the sheep.
+
+29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s
+sheep; for she kept them.
+
+29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban
+his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother,
+that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and
+watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
+
+29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
+
+29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that
+he was Rebekah’s son: and she ran and told her father.
+
+29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his
+sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed
+him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
+
+29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And
+he abode with him the space of a month.
+
+29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
+shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy
+wages be? 29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder
+was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
+
+29:17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well
+favoured.
+
+29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years
+for Rachel thy younger daughter.
+
+29:19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that
+I should give her to another man: abide with me.
+
+29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto
+him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
+
+29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
+fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
+
+29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a
+feast.
+
+29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his
+daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
+
+29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an
+handmaid.
+
+29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah:
+and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I
+serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
+29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give
+the younger before the firstborn.
+
+29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service
+which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
+
+29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel
+his daughter to wife also.
+
+29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be
+her maid.
+
+29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more
+than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
+
+29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb:
+but Rachel was barren.
+
+29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name
+Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction;
+now therefore my husband will love me.
+
+29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the
+LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also:
+and she called his name Simeon.
+
+29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time
+will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons:
+therefore was his name called Levi.
+
+29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will
+I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left
+bearing.
+
+30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel
+envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I
+die.
+
+30:2 And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I
+in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
+30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she
+shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
+
+30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in
+unto her.
+
+30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
+
+30:6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
+voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
+
+30:7 And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second
+son.
+
+30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my
+sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
+
+30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
+maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
+
+30:10 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
+
+30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
+
+30:12 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.
+
+30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
+blessed: and she called his name Asher.
+
+30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
+mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then
+Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
+
+30:15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken
+my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And
+Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s
+mandrakes.
+
+30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went
+out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I
+have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that
+night.
+
+30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob
+the fifth son.
+
+30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given
+my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
+
+30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
+
+30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my
+husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she
+called his name Zebulun.
+
+30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
+
+30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened
+her womb.
+
+30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away
+my reproach: 30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD
+shall add to me another son.
+
+30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob
+said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and
+to my country.
+
+30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee,
+and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
+
+30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in
+thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath
+blessed me for thy sake.
+
+30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
+
+30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and
+how thy cattle was with me.
+
+30:30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now
+increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my
+coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? 30:31
+And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not
+give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again
+feed and keep thy flock.
+
+30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence
+all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among
+the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such
+shall be my hire.
+
+30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it
+shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled
+and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be
+counted stolen with me.
+
+30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy
+word.
+
+30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and
+spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and
+every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the
+sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
+
+30:36 And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and
+Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
+
+30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
+chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white
+appear which was in the rods.
+
+30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the
+gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that
+they should conceive when they came to drink.
+
+30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
+cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
+
+30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
+flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of
+Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto
+Laban’s cattle.
+
+30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
+conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in
+the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
+
+30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the
+feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
+
+30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and
+maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
+
+31:1 And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken
+away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s
+hath he gotten all this glory.
+
+31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was
+not toward him as before.
+
+31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy
+fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
+
+31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his
+flock, 31:5 And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that
+it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with
+me.
+
+31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
+
+31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times;
+but God suffered him not to hurt me.
+
+31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the
+cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be
+thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
+
+31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given
+them to me.
+
+31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that
+I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which
+leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
+
+31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob:
+And I said, Here am I.
+
+31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which
+leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I
+have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
+
+31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and
+where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this
+land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
+
+31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any
+portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? 31:15 Are we not
+counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured
+also our money.
+
+31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is
+ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto
+thee, do.
+
+31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
+31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he
+had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in
+Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
+
+31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
+images that were her father’s.
+
+31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he
+told him not that he fled.
+
+31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over
+the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
+
+31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
+
+31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven
+days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
+
+31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said
+unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
+
+31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the
+mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
+
+31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast
+stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives
+taken with the sword? 31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly,
+and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent
+thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
+31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou
+hast now done foolishly in so doing.
+
+31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of
+your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that
+thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
+
+31:30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore
+longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my
+gods? 31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was
+afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
+daughters from me.
+
+31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before
+our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.
+For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
+
+31:33 And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into
+the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out
+of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
+
+31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s
+furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but
+found them not.
+
+31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I
+cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he
+searched but found not the images.
+
+31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered
+and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast
+so hotly pursued after me? 31:37 Whereas thou hast searched all my
+stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here
+before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us
+both.
+
+31:38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she
+goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not
+eaten.
+
+31:39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare
+the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by
+day, or stolen by night.
+
+31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by
+night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
+
+31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee
+fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle:
+and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
+
+31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of
+Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God
+hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee
+yesternight.
+
+31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my
+daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my
+cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day
+unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
+31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and
+let it be for a witness between me and thee.
+
+31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
+
+31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took
+stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
+
+31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
+
+31:48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this
+day.
+
+Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 31:49 And Mizpah; for he
+said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from
+another.
+
+31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other
+wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness
+betwixt me and thee.
+
+31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this
+pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee: 31:52 This heap be
+witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this
+heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this
+pillar unto me, for harm.
+
+31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
+father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father
+Isaac.
+
+31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his
+brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night
+in the mount.
+
+31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and
+his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto
+his place.
+
+32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
+
+32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he
+called the name of that place Mahanaim.
+
+32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the
+land of Seir, the country of Edom.
+
+32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord
+Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and
+stayed there until now: 32:5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and
+menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that
+I may find grace in thy sight.
+
+32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy
+brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men
+with him.
+
+32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the
+people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels,
+into two bands; 32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and
+smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
+
+32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father
+Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to
+thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 32:10 I am not worthy of
+the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast
+shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan;
+and now I am become two bands.
+
+32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the
+hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the
+mother with the children.
+
+32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed
+as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
+
+32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came
+to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 32:14 Two hundred she
+goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 32:15
+Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls,
+twenty she asses, and ten foals.
+
+32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove
+by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and
+put a space betwixt drove and drove.
+
+32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother
+meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither
+goest thou? and whose are these before thee? 32:18 Then thou shalt
+say, They be thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord
+Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
+
+32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that
+followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau,
+when ye find him.
+
+32:20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For
+he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and
+afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
+
+32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
+night in the company.
+
+32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
+womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
+
+32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
+that he had.
+
+32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
+until the breaking of the day.
+
+32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched
+the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of
+joint, as he wrestled with him.
+
+32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I
+will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
+
+32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
+
+32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel:
+for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast
+prevailed.
+
+32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.
+And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he
+blessed him there.
+
+32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen
+God face to face, and my life is preserved.
+
+32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he
+halted upon his thigh.
+
+32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which
+shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because
+he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.
+
+33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came,
+and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah,
+and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
+
+33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah
+and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
+
+33:3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground
+seven times, until he came near to his brother.
+
+33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck,
+and kissed him: and they wept.
+
+33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;
+and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God
+hath graciously given thy servant.
+
+33:6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they
+bowed themselves.
+
+33:7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves:
+and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
+
+33:8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And
+he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
+
+33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast
+unto thyself.
+
+33:10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in
+thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have
+seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast
+pleased with me.
+
+33:11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because
+God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he
+urged him, and he took it.
+
+33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will
+go before thee.
+
+33:13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are
+tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men
+should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
+
+33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I
+will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and
+the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
+
+33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that
+are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the
+sight of my lord.
+
+33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
+
+33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made
+booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called
+Succoth.
+
+33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the
+land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent
+before the city.
+
+33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent,
+at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred
+pieces of money.
+
+33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.
+
+34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went
+out to see the daughters of the land.
+
+34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the
+country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
+
+34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved
+the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
+
+34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this
+damsel to wife.
+
+34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his
+sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until
+they were come.
+
+34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune
+with him.
+
+34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it:
+and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had
+wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter: which thing
+ought not to be done.
+
+34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem
+longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
+
+34:9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us,
+and take our daughters unto you.
+
+34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you;
+dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
+
+34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me
+find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
+
+34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according
+as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
+
+34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father
+deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
+34:14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our
+sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
+34:15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be,
+that every male of you be circumcised; 34:16 Then will we give our
+daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will
+dwell with you, and we will become one people.
+
+34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will
+we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
+
+34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
+
+34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had
+delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the
+house of his father.
+
+34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city,
+and communed with the men of their city, saying, 34:21 These men are
+peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade
+therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us
+take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our
+daughters.
+
+34:22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us,
+to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are
+circumcised.
+
+34:23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of
+theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell
+with us.
+
+34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went
+out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that
+went out of the gate of his city.
+
+34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that
+two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each
+man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
+
+34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the
+sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
+
+34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city,
+because they had defiled their sister.
+
+34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that
+which was in the city, and that which was in the field, 34:29 And all
+their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they
+captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
+
+34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make
+me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites
+and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather
+themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed,
+I and my house.
+
+34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
+35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there:
+and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou
+fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
+
+35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with
+him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and
+change your garments: 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and
+I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my
+distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
+
+35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their
+hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid
+them under the oak which was by Shechem.
+
+35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities
+that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of
+Jacob.
+
+35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is,
+Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
+
+35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:
+because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his
+brother.
+
+35:8 But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath
+Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
+
+35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram,
+and blessed him.
+
+35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be
+called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his
+name Israel.
+
+35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
+multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and
+kings shall come out of thy loins; 35:12 And the land which I gave
+Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee
+will I give the land.
+
+35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
+
+35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him,
+even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he
+poured oil thereon.
+
+35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him,
+Bethel.
+
+35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way
+to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
+
+35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the
+midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
+
+35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she
+died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him
+Benjamin.
+
+35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is
+Bethlehem.
+
+35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of
+Rachel’s grave unto this day.
+
+35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of
+Edar.
+
+35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben
+went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it.
+Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben,
+Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and
+Zebulun: 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 35:25 And the
+sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 35:26 And the
+sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of
+Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
+
+35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city
+of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
+
+35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
+
+35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his
+people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried
+him.
+
+36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
+
+36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter
+of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter
+of Zibeon the Hivite; 36:3 And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of
+Nebajoth.
+
+36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; 36:5 And
+Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of
+Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
+
+36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all
+the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all
+his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into
+the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
+
+36:7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together;
+and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because
+of their cattle.
+
+36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
+
+36:9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites
+in mount Seir: 36:10 These are the names of Esau’s sons; Eliphaz the
+son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of
+Esau.
+
+36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and
+Kenaz.
+
+36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to
+Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.
+
+36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and
+Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.
+
+36:14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the
+daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and
+Jaalam, and Korah.
+
+36:15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the
+firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
+36:16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes
+that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
+
+36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke
+Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of
+Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau’s
+wife.
+
+36:18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau’s wife; duke Jeush,
+duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah
+the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.
+
+36:19 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their
+dukes.
+
+36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land;
+Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, 36:21 And Dishon, and Ezer,
+and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir
+in the land of Edom.
+
+36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s
+sister was Timna.
+
+36:23 And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and
+Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
+
+36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this
+was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the
+asses of Zibeon his father.
+
+36:25 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the
+daughter of Anah.
+
+36:26 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and
+Ithran, and Cheran.
+
+36:27 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
+
+36:28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
+
+36:29 These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke
+Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 36:30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke
+Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in
+the land of Seir.
+
+36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before
+there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
+
+36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his
+city was Dinhabah.
+
+36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in
+his stead.
+
+36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his
+stead.
+
+36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in
+the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was
+Avith.
+
+36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
+
+36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in
+his stead.
+
+36:38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his
+stead.
+
+36:39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his
+stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was
+Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
+
+36:40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau,
+according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke
+Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, 36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah,
+duke Pinon, 36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, 36:43 Duke
+Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their
+habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of
+the Edomites.
+
+37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in
+the land of Canaan.
+
+37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years
+old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the
+sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and
+Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
+
+37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
+was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
+
+37:4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than
+all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto
+him.
+
+37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they
+hated him yet the more.
+
+37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have
+dreamed: 37:7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and,
+lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves
+stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
+
+37:8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or
+shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the
+more for his dreams, and for his words.
+
+37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and
+said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and
+the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
+
+37:10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his
+father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou
+hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to
+bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? 37:11 And his brethren
+envied him; but his father observed the saying.
+
+37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
+
+37:13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock
+in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him,
+Here am I.
+
+37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with
+thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he
+sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
+
+37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in
+the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? 37:16
+And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed
+their flocks.
+
+37:17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say,
+Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found
+them in Dothan.
+
+37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto
+them, they conspired against him to slay him.
+
+37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
+
+37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some
+pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall
+see what will become of his dreams.
+
+37:21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands;
+and said, Let us not kill him.
+
+37:22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this
+pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might
+rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
+
+37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren,
+that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that
+was on him; 37:24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the
+pit was empty, there was no water in it.
+
+37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes
+and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead
+with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry
+it down to Egypt.
+
+37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay
+our brother, and conceal his blood? 37:27 Come, and let us sell him
+to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our
+brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
+
+37:28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and
+lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites
+for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
+
+37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in
+the pit; and he rent his clothes.
+
+37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not;
+and I, whither shall I go? 37:31 And they took Joseph’s coat, and
+killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; 37:32 And
+they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their
+father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s
+coat or no.
+
+37:33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast
+hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
+
+37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins,
+and mourned for his son many days.
+
+37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him;
+but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into
+the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
+
+37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer
+of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.
+
+38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his
+brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
+
+38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name
+was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
+
+38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
+
+38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name
+Onan.
+
+38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name
+Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
+
+38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
+
+38:7 And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD;
+and the LORD slew him.
+
+38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and
+marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
+
+38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to
+pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on
+the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
+
+38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he
+slew him also.
+
+38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at
+thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest
+peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and
+dwelt in her father’s house.
+
+38:12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died;
+and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to
+Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
+
+38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up
+to Timnath to shear his sheep.
+
+38:14 And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her
+with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is
+by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was
+not given unto him to wife.
+
+38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she
+had covered her face.
+
+38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee,
+let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter
+in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come
+in unto me? 38:17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock.
+And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? 38:18
+And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet,
+and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it
+her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
+
+38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and
+put on the garments of her widowhood.
+
+38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite,
+to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.
+
+38:21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the
+harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no
+harlot in this place.
+
+38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also
+the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
+
+38:23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed:
+behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
+
+38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told
+Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and
+also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her
+forth, and let her be burnt.
+
+38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law,
+saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said,
+Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and
+staff.
+
+38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more
+righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he
+knew her again no more.
+
+38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold,
+twins were in her womb.
+
+38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out
+his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet
+thread, saying, This came out first.
+
+38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his
+brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this
+breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
+
+38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread
+upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
+
+39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of
+Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of
+the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
+
+39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he
+was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
+
+39:3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD
+made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
+
+39:4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he
+made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his
+hand.
+
+39:5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer
+in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the
+Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the LORD was
+upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
+
+39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not
+ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly
+person, and well favoured.
+
+39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife
+cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
+
+39:8 But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my
+master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed
+all that he hath to my hand; 39:9 There is none greater in this house
+than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because
+thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin
+against God? 39:10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by
+day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
+
+39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the
+house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house
+there within.
+
+39:12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he
+left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
+
+39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment
+in her hand, and was fled forth, 39:14 That she called unto the men of
+her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an
+Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I
+cried with a loud voice: 39:15 And it came to pass, when he heard that
+I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and
+fled, and got him out.
+
+39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
+
+39:17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The
+Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to
+mock me: 39:18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried,
+that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
+
+39:19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his
+wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy
+servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
+
+39:20 And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a
+place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the
+prison.
+
+39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him
+favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
+
+39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the
+prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he
+was the doer of it.
+
+39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under
+his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the
+LORD made it to prosper.
+
+40:1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the
+king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
+
+40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the
+chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
+
+40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard,
+into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
+
+40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he
+served them: and they continued a season in ward.
+
+40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one
+night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the
+butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the
+prison.
+
+40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon
+them, and, behold, they were sad.
+
+40:7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of
+his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 40:8 And
+they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no
+interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations
+belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
+
+40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him,
+In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 40:10 And in the vine were
+three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot
+forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: 40:11 And
+Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them
+into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
+
+40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The
+three branches are three days: 40:13 Yet within three days shall
+Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou
+shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner
+when thou wast his butler.
+
+40:14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew
+kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh,
+and bring me out of this house: 40:15 For indeed I was stolen away out
+of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that
+they should put me into the dungeon.
+
+40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he
+said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three
+white baskets on my head: 40:17 And in the uppermost basket there was
+of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out
+of the basket upon my head.
+
+40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation
+thereof: The three baskets are three days: 40:19 Yet within three days
+shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a
+tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
+
+40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday,
+that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head
+of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
+
+40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and
+he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand: 40:22 But he hanged the chief
+baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
+
+40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
+
+41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh
+dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
+
+41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured
+kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
+
+41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the
+river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon
+the brink of the river.
+
+41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven
+well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
+
+41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears
+of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
+
+41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind
+sprung up after them.
+
+41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears.
+And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
+
+41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled;
+and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the
+wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none
+that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
+
+41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember
+my faults this day: 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put
+me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief
+baker: 41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed
+each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
+
+41:12 And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to
+the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us
+our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
+
+41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he
+restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
+
+41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
+hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his
+raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
+
+41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there
+is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou
+canst understand a dream to interpret it.
+
+41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall
+give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
+
+41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon
+the bank of the river: 41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the
+river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a
+meadow: 41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor
+and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the
+land of Egypt for badness: 41:20 And the lean and the ill favoured
+kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 41:21 And when they had
+eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but
+they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
+
+41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one
+stalk, full and good: 41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin,
+and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: 41:24 And the
+thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the
+magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
+
+41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God
+hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
+
+41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are
+seven years: the dream is one.
+
+41:27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them
+are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind
+shall be seven years of famine.
+
+41:28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is
+about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
+
+41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all
+the land of Egypt: 41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years
+of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt;
+and the famine shall consume the land; 41:31 And the plenty shall not
+be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall
+be very grievous.
+
+41:32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is
+because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it
+to pass.
+
+41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and
+set him over the land of Egypt.
+
+41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land,
+and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous
+years.
+
+41:35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come,
+and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in
+the cities.
+
+41:36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven
+years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land
+perish not through the famine.
+
+41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
+of all his servants.
+
+41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as
+this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? 41:39 And Pharaoh said
+unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none
+so discreet and wise as thou art: 41:40 Thou shalt be over my house,
+and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the
+throne will I be greater than thou.
+
+41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the
+land of Egypt.
+
+41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon
+Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a
+gold chain about his neck; 41:43 And he made him to ride in the second
+chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he
+made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
+
+41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee
+shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
+
+41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave
+him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And
+Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
+
+41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh
+king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and
+went throughout all the land of Egypt.
+
+41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
+handfuls.
+
+41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were
+in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of
+the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
+
+41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much,
+until he left numbering; for it was without number.
+
+41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine
+came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto
+him.
+
+41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God,
+said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
+
+41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath
+caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
+
+41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of
+Egypt, were ended.
+
+41:54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph
+had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of
+Egypt there was bread.
+
+41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to
+Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto
+Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
+
+41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph
+opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the
+famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
+
+41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn;
+because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
+
+42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto
+his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 42:2 And he said, Behold,
+I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and
+buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
+
+42:3 And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
+
+42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren;
+for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
+
+42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came:
+for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
+
+42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that
+sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and
+bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
+
+42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself
+strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them,
+Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
+
+42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
+
+42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and
+said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are
+come.
+
+42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy
+servants come.
+
+42:11 We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no
+spies.
+
+42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land
+ye are come.
+
+42:13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one
+man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with
+our father, and one is not.
+
+42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you,
+saying, Ye are spies: 42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of
+Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come
+hither.
+
+42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be
+kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any
+truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
+
+42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
+
+42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for
+I fear God: 42:19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound
+in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
+houses: 42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your
+words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
+
+42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning
+our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought
+us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
+
+42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying,
+Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore,
+behold, also his blood is required.
+
+42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto
+them by an interpreter.
+
+42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to
+them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and
+bound him before their eyes.
+
+42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to
+restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision
+for the way: and thus did he unto them.
+
+42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
+
+42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in
+the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.
+
+42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it
+is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid,
+saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us? 42:29
+And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and
+told him all that befell unto them; saying, 42:30 The man, who is the
+lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the
+country.
+
+42:31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: 42:32 We
+be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest
+is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
+
+42:33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall
+I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me,
+and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone: 42:34
+And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are
+no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your
+brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
+
+42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,
+every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and
+their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
+
+42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my
+children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin
+away: all these things are against me.
+
+42:37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I
+bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him
+to thee again.
+
+42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
+is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in
+the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
+the grave.
+
+43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.
+
+43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they
+had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy
+us a little food.
+
+43:3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest
+unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with
+you.
+
+43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy
+thee food: 43:5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down:
+for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your
+brother be with you.
+
+43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell
+the man whether ye had yet a brother? 43:7 And they said, The man
+asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your
+father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according
+to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would
+say, Bring your brother down? 43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his
+father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may
+live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
+
+43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I
+bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the
+blame for ever: 43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had
+returned this second time.
+
+43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do
+this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry
+down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and
+myrrh, nuts, and almonds: 43:12 And take double money in your hand;
+and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry
+it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight: 43:13 Take
+also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: 43:14 And God
+Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your
+other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am
+bereaved.
+
+43:15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in
+their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and
+stood before Joseph.
+
+43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of
+his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these
+men shall dine with me at noon.
+
+43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into
+Joseph’s house.
+
+43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s
+house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our
+sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion
+against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
+
+43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they
+communed with him at the door of the house, 43:20 And said, O sir, we
+came indeed down at the first time to buy food: 43:21 And it came to
+pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold,
+every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full
+weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
+
+43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food:
+we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
+
+43:23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of
+your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money.
+And he brought Simeon out unto them.
+
+43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them
+water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
+
+43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for
+they heard that they should eat bread there.
+
+43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which
+was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the
+earth.
+
+43:27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father
+well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 43:28 And they
+answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive.
+And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
+
+43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his
+mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake
+unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
+
+43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his
+brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber,
+and wept there.
+
+43:31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and
+said, Set on bread.
+
+43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves,
+and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because
+the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an
+abomination unto the Egyptians.
+
+43:33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his
+birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men
+marvelled one at another.
+
+43:34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but
+Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they
+drank, and were merry with him.
+
+44:1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s
+sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money
+in his sack’s mouth.
+
+44:2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the
+youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that
+Joseph had spoken.
+
+44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they
+and their asses.
+
+44:4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off,
+Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou
+dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for
+good? 44:5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby
+indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
+
+44:6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
+
+44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God
+forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing: 44:8
+Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought
+again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal
+out of thy lord’s house silver or gold? 44:9 With whomsoever of thy
+servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord’s
+bondmen.
+
+44:10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he
+with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
+
+44:11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground,
+and opened every man his sack.
+
+44:12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the
+youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
+
+44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and
+returned to the city.
+
+44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; for he was
+yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
+
+44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done?
+wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? 44:16 And Judah
+said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how
+shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy
+servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with
+whom the cup is found.
+
+44:17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in
+whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you,
+get you up in peace unto your father.
+
+44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy
+servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not
+thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
+
+44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a
+brother? 44:20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old
+man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is
+dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
+
+44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that
+I may set mine eyes upon him.
+
+44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for
+if he should leave his father, his father would die.
+
+44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother
+come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
+
+44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father,
+we told him the words of my lord.
+
+44:25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
+
+44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with
+us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except
+our youngest brother be with us.
+
+44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife
+bare me two sons: 44:28 And the one went out from me, and I said,
+Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since: 44:29 And if ye
+take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down
+my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
+
+44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad
+be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
+44:31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with
+us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs
+of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
+
+44:32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,
+saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to
+my father for ever.
+
+44:33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the
+lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
+
+44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me?
+lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
+
+45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood
+by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there
+stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his
+brethren.
+
+45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
+heard.
+
+45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father
+yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
+troubled at his presence.
+
+45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you.
+And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye
+sold into Egypt.
+
+45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye
+sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
+
+45:6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet
+there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor
+harvest.
+
+45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the
+earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
+
+45:8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath
+made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
+throughout all the land of Egypt.
+
+45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith
+thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me,
+tarry not: 45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou
+shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s
+children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: 45:11
+And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine;
+lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
+
+45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,
+that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
+
+45:13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all
+that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
+
+45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and
+Benjamin wept upon his neck.
+
+45:15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and
+after that his brethren talked with him.
+
+45:16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying,
+Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his
+servants.
+
+45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye;
+lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 45:18 And
+take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will
+give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of
+the land.
+
+45:19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the
+land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your
+father, and come.
+
+45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of
+Egypt is yours.
+
+45:21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons,
+according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for
+the way.
+
+45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to
+Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of
+raiment.
+
+45:23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden
+with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and
+bread and meat for his father by the way.
+
+45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said
+unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
+
+45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan
+unto Jacob their father, 45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet
+alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s
+heart fainted, for he believed them not.
+
+45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said
+unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry
+him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: 45:28 And Israel said,
+It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before
+I die.
+
+46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to
+Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
+
+46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said,
+Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
+
+46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down
+into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 46:4 I will
+go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up
+again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
+
+46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried
+Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the
+wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
+
+46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had
+gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his
+seed with him: 46:7 His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his
+daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with
+him into Egypt.
+
+46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
+into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
+
+46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and
+Carmi.
+
+46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,
+and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
+
+46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
+
+46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and
+Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of
+Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
+
+46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and
+Shimron.
+
+46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
+
+46:15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in
+Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his
+daughters were thirty and three.
+
+46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri,
+and Arodi, and Areli.
+
+46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah,
+and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
+
+46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his
+daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
+
+46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
+
+46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and
+Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare
+unto him.
+
+46:21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel,
+Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
+
+46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the
+souls were fourteen.
+
+46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
+
+46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
+Shillem.
+
+46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his
+daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
+
+46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of
+his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore
+and six; 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt,
+were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into
+Egypt, were threescore and ten.
+
+46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face
+unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
+
+46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel
+his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on
+his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
+
+46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen
+thy face, because thou art yet alive.
+
+46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house,
+I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my
+father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
+46:32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed
+cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all
+that they have.
+
+46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and
+shall say, What is your occupation? 46:34 That ye shall say, Thy
+servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now,
+both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of
+Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
+
+47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my
+brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have,
+are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land
+of Goshen.
+
+47:2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented
+them unto Pharaoh.
+
+47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And
+they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also
+our fathers.
+
+47:4 They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we
+come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the
+famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let
+thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
+
+47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
+brethren are come unto thee: 47:6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in
+the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the
+land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity
+among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
+
+47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before
+Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
+
+47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 47:9 And Jacob
+said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an
+hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of
+my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the
+life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
+
+47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
+
+47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a
+possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land
+of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
+
+47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his
+father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
+
+47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very
+sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by
+reason of the famine.
+
+47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land
+of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought:
+and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
+
+47:15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
+Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread:
+for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
+
+47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your
+cattle, if money fail.
+
+47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them
+bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle
+of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all
+their cattle for that year.
+
+47:18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,
+and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our
+money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not
+ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
+47:19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?
+buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants
+unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that
+the land be not desolate.
+
+47:20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the
+Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over
+them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
+
+47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of
+the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
+
+47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had
+a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which
+Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
+
+47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this
+day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall
+sow the land.
+
+47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give
+the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for
+seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households,
+and for food for your little ones.
+
+47:25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in
+the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
+
+47:26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day,
+that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of the
+priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
+
+47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen;
+and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied
+exceedingly.
+
+47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the
+whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
+
+47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his
+son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight,
+put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly
+with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 47:30 But I will lie with
+my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their
+buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
+
+47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel
+bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
+
+48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph,
+Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons,
+Manasseh and Ephraim.
+
+48:2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto
+thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
+
+48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz
+in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4 And said unto me, Behold,
+I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee
+a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee
+for an everlasting possession.
+
+48:5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto
+thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are
+mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
+
+48:6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine,
+and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their
+inheritance.
+
+48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the
+land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come
+unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same
+is Bethlehem.
+
+48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these? 48:9
+And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given
+me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I
+will bless them.
+
+48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not
+see.
+
+And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced
+them.
+
+48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face:
+and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
+
+48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed
+himself with his face to the earth.
+
+48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward
+Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s
+right hand, and brought them near unto him.
+
+48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon
+Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s
+head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
+
+48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers
+Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto
+this day, 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the
+lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
+Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of
+the earth.
+
+48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the
+head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand,
+to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.
+
+48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is
+the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
+
+48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it:
+he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly
+his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall
+become a multitude of nations.
+
+48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel
+bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set
+Ephraim before Manasseh.
+
+48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be
+with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
+
+48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren,
+which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my
+bow.
+
+49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
+together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last
+days.
+
+49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
+hearken unto Israel your father.
+
+49:3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my
+strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 49:4
+Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to
+thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
+
+49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their
+habitations.
+
+49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly,
+mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man,
+and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
+
+49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it
+was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
+
+49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall
+be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down
+before thee.
+
+49:9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
+he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall
+rouse him up? 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a
+lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall
+the gathering of the people be.
+
+49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the
+choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the
+blood of grapes: 49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth
+white with milk.
+
+49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for
+an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
+
+49:14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
+49:15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was
+pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto
+tribute.
+
+49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
+
+49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that
+biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
+
+49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
+
+49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the
+last.
+
+49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal
+dainties.
+
+49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
+
+49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;
+whose branches run over the wall: 49:23 The archers have sorely
+grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 49:24 But his bow abode
+in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands
+of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of
+Israel:) 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and
+by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
+blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and
+of the womb: 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above
+the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the
+everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the
+crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
+
+49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour
+the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
+
+49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that
+their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to
+his blessing he blessed them.
+
+49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
+unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the
+field of Ephron the Hittite, 49:30 In the cave that is in the field of
+Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham
+bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a
+buryingplace.
+
+49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried
+Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
+
+49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was
+from the children of Heth.
+
+49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
+gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was
+gathered unto his people.
+
+50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and
+kissed him.
+
+50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
+father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
+
+50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the
+days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him
+threescore and ten days.
+
+50:4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto
+the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes,
+speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5 My father made
+me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in
+the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go
+up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
+
+50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he
+made thee swear.
+
+50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all
+the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders
+of the land of Egypt, 50:8 And all the house of Joseph, and his
+brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their
+flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
+
+50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was
+a very great company.
+
+50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond
+Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation:
+and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
+
+50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
+mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning
+to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim,
+which is beyond Jordan.
+
+50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 50:13
+For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in
+the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the
+field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before
+Mamre.
+
+50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all
+that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his
+father.
+
+50:15 And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they
+said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us
+all the evil which we did unto him.
+
+50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
+command before he died, saying, 50:17 So shall ye say unto Joseph,
+Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin;
+for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the
+trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept
+when they spake unto him.
+
+50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and
+they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
+
+50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of
+God? 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant
+it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people
+alive.
+
+50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little
+ones.
+
+And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
+
+50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and
+Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
+
+50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the
+children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon
+Joseph’s knees.
+
+50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely
+visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware
+to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
+
+50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
+will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
+
+50:26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they
+embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
+
+
+
+
+The Second Book of Moses: Called Exodus
+
+
+1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
+into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
+
+1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and
+Benjamin, 1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
+
+1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy
+souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
+
+1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
+
+1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
+abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land
+was filled with them.
+
+1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
+
+1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of
+Israel are more and mightier than we: 1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely
+with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there
+falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight
+against us, and so get them up out of the land.
+
+1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with
+their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and
+Raamses.
+
+1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
+grew.
+
+And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
+
+1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with
+rigour: 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in
+morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all
+their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
+
+1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the
+name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 1:16 And
+he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and
+see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but
+if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
+
+1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
+commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
+
+1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto
+them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children
+alive? 1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew
+women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are
+delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
+
+1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
+multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
+
+1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he
+made them houses.
+
+1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is
+born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save
+alive.
+
+2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a
+daughter of Levi.
+
+2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that
+he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
+
+2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of
+bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child
+therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
+
+2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
+
+2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
+river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she
+saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
+
+2:6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the
+babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the
+Hebrews’ children.
+
+2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to
+thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for
+thee? 2:8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went
+and called the child’s mother.
+
+2:9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and
+nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took
+the child, and nursed it.
+
+2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter,
+and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said,
+Because I drew him out of the water.
+
+2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he
+went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied
+an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
+
+2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there
+was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
+
+2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
+Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
+Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 2:14 And he said, Who made thee a
+prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou
+killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing
+is known.
+
+2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But
+Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:
+and he sat down by a well.
+
+2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and
+drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
+
+2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up
+and helped them, and watered their flock.
+
+2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that
+ye are come so soon to day? 2:19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered
+us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for
+us, and watered the flock.
+
+2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that
+ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
+
+2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
+Zipporah his daughter.
+
+2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he
+said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
+
+2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt
+died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and
+they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
+
+2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant
+with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
+
+2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect
+unto them.
+
+3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest
+of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and
+came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
+
+3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out
+of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned
+with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
+
+3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight,
+why the bush is not burnt.
+
+3:4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto
+him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said,
+Here am I.
+
+3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
+feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
+
+3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham,
+the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he
+was afraid to look upon God.
+
+3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
+which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
+taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 3:8 And I am come down to
+deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
+out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing
+with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the
+Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and
+the Jebusites.
+
+3:9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come
+unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians
+oppress them.
+
+3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou
+mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
+
+3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh,
+and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
+3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a
+token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth
+the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
+
+3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of
+Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me
+unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say
+unto them? 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said,
+Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me
+unto you.
+
+3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
+children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
+the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is
+my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
+
+3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them,
+The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
+Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen
+that which is done to you in Egypt: 3:17 And I have said, I will bring
+you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites,
+and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
+Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
+
+3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou
+and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say
+unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us
+go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we
+may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
+
+3:19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not
+by a mighty hand.
+
+3:20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
+wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will
+let you go.
+
+3:21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians:
+and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty.
+
+3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that
+sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
+raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your
+daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
+
+4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe
+me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not
+appeared unto thee.
+
+4:2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he
+said, A rod.
+
+4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground,
+and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
+
+4:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by
+the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a
+rod in his hand: 4:5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their
+fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
+hath appeared unto thee.
+
+4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into
+thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it
+out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
+
+4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his
+hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and,
+behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
+
+4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
+hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the
+voice of the latter sign.
+
+4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two
+signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the
+water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which
+thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
+
+4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent,
+neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I
+am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
+
+4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who
+maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the
+LORD? 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach
+thee what thou shalt say.
+
+4:13 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him
+whom thou wilt send.
+
+4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said,
+Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.
+And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth
+thee, he will be glad in his heart.
+
+4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I
+will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye
+shall do.
+
+4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be,
+even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him
+instead of God.
+
+4:17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt
+do signs.
+
+4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said
+unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which
+are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to
+Moses, Go in peace.
+
+4:19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt:
+for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
+
+4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass,
+and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in
+his hand.
+
+4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
+Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have
+put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let
+the people go.
+
+4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is
+my son, even my firstborn: 4:23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go,
+that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will
+slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
+
+4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him,
+and sought to kill him.
+
+4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her
+son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art
+thou to me.
+
+4:26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art,
+because of the circumcision.
+
+4:27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.
+And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
+
+4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him,
+and all the signs which he had commanded him.
+
+4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of
+the children of Israel: 4:30 And Aaron spake all the words which the
+LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the
+people.
+
+4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had
+visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their
+affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
+
+5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus
+saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a
+feast unto me in the wilderness.
+
+5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to
+let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
+
+5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go,
+we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto
+the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
+sword.
+
+5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and
+Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
+
+5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and
+ye make them rest from their burdens.
+
+5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people,
+and their officers, saying, 5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw
+to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for
+themselves.
+
+5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye
+shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be
+idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
+
+5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour
+therein; and let them not regard vain words.
+
+5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers,
+and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not
+give you straw.
+
+5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your
+work shall be diminished.
+
+5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of
+Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
+
+5:13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your
+daily tasks, as when there was straw.
+
+5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s
+taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore
+have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to
+day, as heretofore? 5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel
+came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with
+thy servants? 5:16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and
+they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but
+the fault is in thine own people.
+
+5:17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us
+go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
+
+5:18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given
+you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
+
+5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were
+in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your
+bricks of your daily task.
+
+5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came
+forth from Pharaoh: 5:21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon
+you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the
+eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in
+their hand to slay us.
+
+5:22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore hast
+thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
+5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done
+evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
+
+6:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do
+to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a
+strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
+
+6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: 6:3
+And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name
+of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
+
+6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them
+the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were
+strangers.
+
+6:5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom
+the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
+
+6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I
+will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will
+rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched
+out arm, and with great judgments: 6:7 And I will take you to me for a
+people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the
+LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the
+Egyptians.
+
+6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did
+swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give
+it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
+
+6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened
+not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
+
+6:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:11 Go in, speak unto
+Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of
+his land.
+
+6:12 And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of
+Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who
+am of uncircumcised lips? 6:13 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto
+Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto
+Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land
+of Egypt.
+
+6:14 These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben
+the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these
+be the families of Reuben.
+
+6:15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,
+and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the
+families of Simeon.
+
+6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their
+generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the
+life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
+
+6:17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their
+families.
+
+6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel:
+and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three
+years.
+
+6:19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families
+of Levi according to their generations.
+
+6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she
+bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an
+hundred and thirty and seven years.
+
+6:21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
+
+6:22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
+
+6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of
+Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
+Ithamar.
+
+6:24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these
+are the families of the Korhites.
+
+6:25 And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel
+to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers
+of the Levites according to their families.
+
+6:26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out
+the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their
+armies.
+
+6:27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out
+the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
+
+6:28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in
+the land of Egypt, 6:29 That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am
+the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto
+thee.
+
+6:30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised
+lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me? 7:1 And the LORD said
+unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy
+brother shall be thy prophet.
+
+7:2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother
+shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of
+his land.
+
+7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my
+wonders in the land of Egypt.
+
+7:4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand
+upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of
+Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
+
+7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch
+forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from
+among them.
+
+7:6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
+
+7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three
+years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
+
+7:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 7:9 When
+Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then
+thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh,
+and it shall become a serpent.
+
+7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the
+LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and
+before his servants, and it became a serpent.
+
+7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the
+magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their
+enchantments.
+
+7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents:
+but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
+
+7:13 And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them;
+as the LORD had said.
+
+7:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, he
+refuseth to let the people go.
+
+7:15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the
+water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and
+the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
+
+7:16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath
+sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in
+the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
+
+7:17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
+behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters
+which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
+
+7:18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall
+stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the
+river.
+
+7:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and
+stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams,
+upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of
+water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood
+throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in
+vessels of stone.
+
+7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted
+up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight
+of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that
+were in the river were turned to blood.
+
+7:21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and
+the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was
+blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
+
+7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and
+Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the
+LORD had said.
+
+7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set
+his heart to this also.
+
+7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to
+drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
+
+7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten
+the river.
+
+8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him,
+Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
+
+8:2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy
+borders with frogs: 8:3 And the river shall bring forth frogs
+abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy
+bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and
+upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
+8:4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and
+upon all thy servants.
+
+8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine
+hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the
+ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
+
+8:6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the
+frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
+
+8:7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up
+frogs upon the land of Egypt.
+
+8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the
+LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and
+I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
+
+8:9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat
+for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the
+frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river
+only? 8:10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to
+thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD
+our God.
+
+8:11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and
+from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river
+only.
+
+8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto
+the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
+
+8:13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs
+died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
+
+8:14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
+
+8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his
+heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
+
+8:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy
+rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice
+throughout all the land of Egypt.
+
+8:17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod,
+and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in
+beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of
+Egypt.
+
+8:18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth
+lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
+
+8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God:
+and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as
+the LORD had said.
+
+8:20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and
+stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto
+him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
+
+8:21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send
+swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people,
+and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of
+swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
+
+8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my
+people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou
+mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
+
+8:23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to
+morrow shall this sign be.
+
+8:24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies
+into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all
+the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of
+flies.
+
+8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye,
+sacrifice to your God in the land.
+
+8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice
+the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we
+sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will
+they not stone us? 8:27 We will go three days’ journey into the
+wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
+
+8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the
+LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away:
+intreat for me.
+
+8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat
+the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his
+servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal
+deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the
+LORD.
+
+8:30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
+
+8:31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed
+the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his
+people; there remained not one.
+
+8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would
+he let the people go.
+
+9:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him,
+Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they
+may serve me.
+
+9:2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 9:3
+Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field,
+upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and
+upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
+
+9:4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the
+cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the
+children’s of Israel.
+
+9:5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD
+shall do this thing in the land.
+
+9:6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of
+Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
+
+9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of
+the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did
+not let the people go.
+
+9:8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls
+of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven
+in the sight of Pharaoh.
+
+9:9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall
+be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast,
+throughout all the land of Egypt.
+
+9:10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and
+Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking
+forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
+
+9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the
+boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the
+Egyptians.
+
+9:12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not
+unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
+
+9:13 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and
+stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the
+Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
+
+9:14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and
+upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that
+there is none like me in all the earth.
+
+9:15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy
+people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
+
+9:16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to
+shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all
+the earth.
+
+9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt
+not let them go? 9:18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause
+it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since
+the foundation thereof even until now.
+
+9:19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast
+in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the
+field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon
+them, and they shall die.
+
+9:20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh
+made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: 9:21 And he
+that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his
+cattle in the field.
+
+9:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward
+heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and
+upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of
+Egypt.
+
+9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD
+sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the
+LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
+
+9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous,
+such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it
+became a nation.
+
+9:25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was
+in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the
+field, and brake every tree of the field.
+
+9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were,
+was there no hail.
+
+9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto
+them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my
+people are wicked.
+
+9:28 Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty
+thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no
+longer.
+
+9:29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I
+will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall
+cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how
+that the earth is the LORD’s.
+
+9:30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet
+fear the LORD God.
+
+9:31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in
+the ear, and the flax was bolled.
+
+9:32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not
+grown up.
+
+9:33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad
+his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the
+rain was not poured upon the earth.
+
+9:34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders
+were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his
+servants.
+
+9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the
+children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
+
+10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have
+hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew
+these my signs before him: 10:2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears
+of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt,
+and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I
+am the LORD.
+
+10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus
+saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble
+thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
+
+10:4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will
+I bring the locusts into thy coast: 10:5 And they shall cover the face
+of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall
+eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you
+from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of
+the field: 10:6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all
+thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy
+fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they
+were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out
+from Pharaoh.
+
+10:7 And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be
+a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their
+God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? 10:8 And Moses and
+Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go,
+serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go? 10:9 And
+Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons
+and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go;
+for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
+
+10:10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will
+let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
+
+10:11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye
+did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
+
+10:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
+land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of
+Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath
+left.
+
+10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and
+the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that
+night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
+
+10:14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in
+all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there
+were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
+
+10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land
+was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the
+fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any
+green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all
+the land of Egypt.
+
+10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I
+have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
+
+10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and
+intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death
+only.
+
+10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
+
+10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away
+the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one
+locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
+
+10:20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let
+the children of Israel go.
+
+10:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward
+heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even
+darkness which may be felt.
+
+10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was
+a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: 10:23 They saw
+not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but
+all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
+
+10:24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD;
+only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones
+also go with you.
+
+10:25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt
+offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
+
+10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be
+left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and
+we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
+
+10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them
+go.
+
+10:28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to
+thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou
+shalt die.
+
+10:29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again
+no more.
+
+11:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more
+upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence:
+when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence
+altogether.
+
+11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of
+his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver and
+jewels of gold.
+
+11:3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
+Egyptians.
+
+Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the
+sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
+
+11:4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out
+into the midst of Egypt: 11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of
+Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his
+throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the
+mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
+
+11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,
+such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
+
+11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move
+his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD
+doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
+
+11:8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down
+themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that
+follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from
+Pharaoh in a great anger.
+
+11:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you;
+that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
+
+11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and
+the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the
+children of Israel go out of his land.
+
+12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt
+saying, 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it
+shall be the first month of the year to you.
+
+12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the
+tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,
+according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 12:4 And
+if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour
+next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls;
+every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
+
+12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye
+shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 12:6 And ye shall
+keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole
+assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
+
+12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side
+posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat
+it.
+
+12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and
+unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
+
+12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with
+fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
+
+12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and
+that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
+
+12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on
+your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste:
+it is the LORD’s passover.
+
+12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will
+smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and
+against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
+
+12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where
+ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague
+shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
+
+12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep
+it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a
+feast by an ordinance for ever.
+
+12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye
+shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth
+leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul
+shall be cut off from Israel.
+
+12:16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in
+the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner
+of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat,
+that only may be done of you.
+
+12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this
+selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
+therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an
+ordinance for ever.
+
+12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even,
+ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the
+month at even.
+
+12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for
+whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut
+off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born
+in the land.
+
+12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye
+eat unleavened bread.
+
+12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto
+them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and
+kill the passover.
+
+12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood
+that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts
+with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at
+the door of his house until the morning.
+
+12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when
+he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the
+LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to
+come in unto your houses to smite you.
+
+12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to
+thy sons for ever.
+
+12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the
+LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep
+this service.
+
+12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto
+you, What mean ye by this service? 12:27 That ye shall say, It is the
+sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over the houses of the
+children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and
+delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
+
+12:28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had
+commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
+
+12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the
+firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat
+on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the
+dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
+
+12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and
+all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was
+not a house where there was not one dead.
+
+12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up,
+and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of
+Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
+
+12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be
+gone; and bless me also.
+
+12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might
+send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
+
+12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
+kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
+
+12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses;
+and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of
+gold, and raiment: 12:36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the
+sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as
+they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
+
+12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth,
+about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
+
+12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and
+herds, even very much cattle.
+
+12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought
+forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust
+out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for
+themselves any victual.
+
+12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
+Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
+
+12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty
+years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of
+the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
+
+12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing
+them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be
+observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
+
+12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of
+the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 12:44 But every
+man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised
+him, then shall he eat thereof.
+
+12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
+
+12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought
+of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
+thereof.
+
+12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
+
+12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the
+passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let
+him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the
+land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
+
+12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger
+that sojourneth among you.
+
+12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses
+and Aaron, so did they.
+
+12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring
+the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
+
+13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 13:2 Sanctify unto me all
+the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of
+Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
+
+13:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye
+came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of
+hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened
+bread be eaten.
+
+13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
+
+13:5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of
+the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites,
+and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a
+land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in
+this month.
+
+13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
+day shall be a feast to the LORD.
+
+13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no
+leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen
+with thee in all thy quarters.
+
+13:8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done
+because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of
+Egypt.
+
+13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a
+memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in thy mouth:
+for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
+
+13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year
+to year.
+
+13:11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of
+the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall
+give it thee, 13:12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that
+openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which
+thou hast; the males shall be the LORD’s.
+
+13:13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and
+if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all
+the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
+
+13:14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
+saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of
+hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
+13:15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that
+the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
+firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to
+the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the
+firstborn of my children I redeem.
+
+13:16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets
+between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth
+out of Egypt.
+
+13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that
+God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines,
+although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people
+repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 13:18 But God led
+the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea:
+and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
+
+13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly
+sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and
+ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
+
+13:20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham,
+in the edge of the wilderness.
+
+13:21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to
+lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them
+light; to go by day and night: 13:22 He took not away the pillar of
+the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the
+people.
+
+14:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 14:2 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth,
+between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall
+ye encamp by the sea.
+
+14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
+entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
+
+14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after
+them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that
+the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
+
+14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the
+heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people,
+and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from
+serving us? 14:6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people
+with him: 14:7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
+chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
+
+14:8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he
+pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went
+out with an high hand.
+
+14:9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots
+of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them
+encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
+
+14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up
+their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they
+were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
+
+14:11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt,
+hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou
+dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? 14:12 Is not this
+the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we
+may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the
+Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
+
+14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and
+see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for
+the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no
+more for ever.
+
+14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
+
+14:15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me?
+speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 14:16 But
+lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and
+divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through
+the midst of the sea.
+
+14:17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and
+they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and
+upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
+
+14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
+gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his
+horsemen.
+
+14:19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,
+removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from
+before their face, and stood behind them: 14:20 And it came between
+the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud
+and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the
+one came not near the other all the night.
+
+14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD
+caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and
+made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
+
+14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon
+the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right
+hand, and on their left.
+
+14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst
+of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
+
+14:24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked
+unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the
+cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, 14:25 And took off
+their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the
+Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD
+fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
+
+14:26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
+sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their
+chariots, and upon their horsemen.
+
+14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea
+returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians
+fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of
+the sea.
+
+14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the
+horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after
+them; there remained not so much as one of them.
+
+14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of
+the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and
+on their left.
+
+14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
+Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
+
+14:31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the
+Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and
+his servant Moses.
+
+15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the
+LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath
+triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the
+sea.
+
+15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation:
+he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God,
+and I will exalt him.
+
+15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
+
+15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his
+chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
+
+15:5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a
+stone.
+
+15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right
+hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
+
+15:7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown
+them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which
+consumed them as stubble.
+
+15:8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered
+together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were
+congealed in the heart of the sea.
+
+15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the
+spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my
+hand shall destroy them.
+
+15:10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank
+as lead in the mighty waters.
+
+15:11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee,
+glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 15:12 Thou
+stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
+
+15:13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast
+redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy
+habitation.
+
+15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on
+the inhabitants of Palestina.
+
+15:15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab,
+trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan
+shall melt away.
+
+15:16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine
+arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O
+LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
+
+15:17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of
+thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee
+to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have
+established.
+
+15:18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
+
+15:19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his
+horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the
+sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the
+midst of the sea.
+
+15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel
+in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and
+with dances.
+
+15:21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath
+triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the
+sea.
+
+15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into
+the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness,
+and found no water.
+
+15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters
+of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called
+Marah.
+
+15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we
+drink? 15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a
+tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made
+sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he
+proved them, 15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the
+voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his
+sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his
+statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have
+brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
+
+15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and
+threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
+
+16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation
+of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is
+between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after
+their departing out of the land of Egypt.
+
+16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured
+against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 16:3 And the children of
+Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the
+LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we
+did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this
+wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
+
+16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from
+heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate
+every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or
+no.
+
+16:5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall
+prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as
+they gather daily.
+
+16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At
+even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the
+land of Egypt: 16:7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of
+the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and
+what are we, that ye murmur against us? 16:8 And Moses said, This
+shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat,
+and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your
+murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your
+murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.
+
+16:9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the
+children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your
+murmurings.
+
+16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation
+of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness,
+and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
+
+16:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 16:12 I have heard the
+murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even
+ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread;
+and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
+
+16:13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and
+covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
+
+16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of
+the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar
+frost on the ground.
+
+16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to
+another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said
+unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
+
+16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it
+every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to
+the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in
+his tents.
+
+16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some
+less.
+
+16:18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much
+had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they
+gathered every man according to his eating.
+
+16:19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
+
+16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them
+left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses
+was wroth with them.
+
+16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his
+eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
+
+16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice
+as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the
+congregation came and told Moses.
+
+16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To
+morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which
+ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which
+remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
+
+16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did
+not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
+
+16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto
+the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
+
+16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is
+the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
+
+16:27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on
+the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
+
+16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my
+commandments and my laws? 16:29 See, for that the LORD hath given you
+the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two
+days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place
+on the seventh day.
+
+16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
+
+16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it
+was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers
+made with honey.
+
+16:32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth,
+Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see
+the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought
+you forth from the land of Egypt.
+
+16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of
+manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your
+generations.
+
+16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
+Testimony, to be kept.
+
+16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they
+came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the
+borders of the land of Canaan.
+
+16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
+
+17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from
+the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the
+commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no
+water for the people to drink.
+
+17:2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us
+water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with
+me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 17:3 And the people thirsted
+there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said,
+Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill
+us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 17:4 And Moses cried
+unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be
+almost ready to stone me.
+
+17:5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take
+with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest
+the river, take in thine hand, and go.
+
+17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb;
+and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it,
+that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders
+of Israel.
+
+17:7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because
+of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the
+LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? 17:8 Then came Amalek,
+and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
+
+17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight
+with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the
+rod of God in mine hand.
+
+17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek:
+and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
+
+17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
+prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
+
+17:12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it
+under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands,
+the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his
+hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
+
+17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of
+the sword.
+
+17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a
+book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put
+out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
+
+17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it
+Jehovahnissi: 17:16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the
+LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
+
+18:1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of
+all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that
+the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 18:2 Then Jethro, Moses’
+father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
+18:3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for
+he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 18:4 And the name of
+the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine
+help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: 18:5 And Jethro,
+Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into
+the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: 18:6 And he
+said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy
+wife, and her two sons with her.
+
+18:7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance,
+and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they
+came into the tent.
+
+18:8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto
+Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail
+that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
+
+18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done
+to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
+
+18:10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out
+of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath
+delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
+
+18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the
+thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
+
+18:12 And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and
+sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to
+eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
+
+18:13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the
+people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the
+evening.
+
+18:14 And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people,
+he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest
+thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto
+even? 18:15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people
+come unto me to enquire of God: 18:16 When they have a matter, they
+come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them
+know the statutes of God, and his laws.
+
+18:17 And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou
+doest is not good.
+
+18:18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is
+with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to
+perform it thyself alone.
+
+18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God
+shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou
+mayest bring the causes unto God: 18:20 And thou shalt teach them
+ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must
+walk, and the work that they must do.
+
+18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such
+as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over
+them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of
+fifties, and rulers of tens: 18:22 And let them judge the people at
+all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring
+unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be
+easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
+
+18:23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou
+shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their
+place in peace.
+
+18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did
+all that he had said.
+
+18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads
+over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
+fifties, and rulers of tens.
+
+18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they
+brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
+
+18:27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into
+his own land.
+
+19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth
+out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness
+of Sinai.
+
+19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert
+of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped
+before the mount.
+
+19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of
+the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and
+tell the children of Israel; 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the
+Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto
+myself.
+
+19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
+covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all
+people: for all the earth is mine: 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a
+kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
+
+These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of
+Israel.
+
+19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid
+before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
+
+19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD
+hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people
+unto the LORD.
+
+19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick
+cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe
+thee for ever.
+
+And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
+
+19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify
+them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 19:11 And
+be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come
+down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
+
+19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying,
+Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch
+the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to
+death: 19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be
+stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not
+live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
+
+19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
+sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
+
+19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day:
+come not at your wives.
+
+19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there
+were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and
+the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that
+was in the camp trembled.
+
+19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with
+God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
+
+19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
+descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke
+of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
+
+19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder
+and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
+
+19:20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the
+mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses
+went up.
+
+19:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest
+they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
+
+19:22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify
+themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
+
+19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount
+Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and
+sanctify it.
+
+19:24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt
+come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the
+people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth
+upon them.
+
+19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
+
+20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, 20:2 I am the LORD thy
+God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
+house of bondage.
+
+20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
+
+20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness
+of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
+or that is in the water under the earth.
+
+20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I
+the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
+fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them
+that hate me; 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love
+me, and keep my commandments.
+
+20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the
+LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
+
+20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
+
+20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 20:10 But the
+seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not
+do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor
+thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy
+gates: 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea,
+and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the
+LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
+
+20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon
+the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
+
+20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
+
+20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
+
+20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
+
+20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
+
+20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet
+thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his
+ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
+
+20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and
+the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the
+people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
+
+20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear:
+but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
+
+20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to
+prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin
+not.
+
+20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
+thick darkness where God was.
+
+20:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the
+children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from
+heaven.
+
+20:23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make
+unto you gods of gold.
+
+20:24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice
+thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and
+thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto
+thee, and I will bless thee.
+
+20:25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build
+it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast
+polluted it.
+
+20:26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
+nakedness be not discovered thereon.
+
+21:1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
+
+21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in
+the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
+
+21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were
+married, then his wife shall go out with him.
+
+21:4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons
+or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he
+shall go out by himself.
+
+21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife,
+and my children; I will not go out free: 21:6 Then his master shall
+bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or
+unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an
+aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
+
+21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not
+go out as the menservants do.
+
+21:8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself,
+then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation
+he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
+
+21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her
+after the manner of daughters.
+
+21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty
+of marriage, shall he not diminish.
+
+21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out
+free without money.
+
+21:12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to
+death.
+
+21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand;
+then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
+
+21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him
+with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
+
+21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely
+put to death.
+
+21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found
+in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
+
+21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be
+put to death.
+
+21:18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone,
+or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: 21:19 If he
+rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote
+him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall
+cause him to be thoroughly healed.
+
+21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he
+die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
+
+21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
+punished: for he is his money.
+
+21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit
+depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely
+punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he
+shall pay as the judges determine.
+
+21:23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
+21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
+21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
+
+21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his
+maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
+
+21:27 And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s
+tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
+
+21:28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall
+be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of
+the ox shall be quit.
+
+21:29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and
+it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but
+that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his
+owner also shall be put to death.
+
+21:30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for
+the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
+
+21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according
+to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
+
+21:32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall
+give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be
+stoned.
+
+21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and
+not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; 21:34 The owner of the
+pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the
+dead beast shall be his.
+
+21:35 And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall
+sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also
+they shall divide.
+
+21:36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,
+and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and
+the dead shall be his own.
+
+22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it;
+he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
+
+22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
+there shall no blood be shed for him.
+
+22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him;
+for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall
+be sold for his theft.
+
+22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be
+ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
+
+22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall
+put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best
+of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make
+restitution.
+
+22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of
+corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he
+that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
+
+22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep,
+and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let
+him pay double.
+
+22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be
+brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his
+neighbour’s goods.
+
+22:9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for
+sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another
+challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
+judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto
+his neighbour.
+
+22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a
+sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away,
+no man seeing it: 22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them
+both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and
+the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
+
+22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the
+owner thereof.
+
+22:13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and
+he shall not make good that which was torn.
+
+22:14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or
+die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it
+good.
+
+22:15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good:
+if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
+
+22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with
+her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
+
+22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay
+money according to the dowry of virgins.
+
+22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
+
+22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
+
+22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he
+shall be utterly destroyed.
+
+22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were
+strangers in the land of Egypt.
+
+22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
+
+22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I
+will surely hear their cry; 22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I
+will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your
+children fatherless.
+
+22:25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee,
+thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him
+usury.
+
+22:26 If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou
+shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 22:27 For that
+is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he
+sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will
+hear; for I am gracious.
+
+22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy
+people.
+
+22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and
+of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
+
+22:30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep:
+seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give
+it me.
+
+22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh
+that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
+
+23:1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the
+wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
+
+23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou
+speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: 23:3 Neither
+shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
+
+23:4 If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt
+surely bring it back to him again.
+
+23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his
+burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with
+him.
+
+23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
+
+23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous
+slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
+
+23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and
+perverteth the words of the righteous.
+
+23:9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of
+a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
+
+23:10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
+fruits thereof: 23:11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and
+lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave
+the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with
+thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
+
+23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou
+shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy
+handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
+
+23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and
+make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out
+of thy mouth.
+
+23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
+
+23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
+unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time
+appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and
+none shall appear before me empty:) 23:16 And the feast of harvest,
+the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and
+the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou
+hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
+
+23:17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the
+LORD God.
+
+23:18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
+bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
+
+23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into
+the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his
+mother’s milk.
+
+23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,
+and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
+
+23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will
+not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
+
+23:22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I
+speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary
+unto thine adversaries.
+
+23:23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the
+Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites,
+the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
+
+23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
+after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite
+break down their images.
+
+23:25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy
+bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of
+thee.
+
+23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
+land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
+
+23:27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people
+to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their
+backs unto thee.
+
+23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
+Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
+
+23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the
+land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against
+thee.
+
+23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,
+until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
+
+23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of
+the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will
+deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt
+drive them out before thee.
+
+23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
+
+23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin
+against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare
+unto thee.
+
+24:1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron,
+Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye
+afar off.
+
+24:2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come
+nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
+
+24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and
+all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and
+said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
+
+24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in
+the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars,
+according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
+
+24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered
+burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
+
+24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half
+of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
+
+24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of
+the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and
+be obedient.
+
+24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and
+said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with
+you concerning all these words.
+
+24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of
+the elders of Israel: 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there
+was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as
+it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
+
+24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his
+hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
+
+24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and
+be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and
+commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
+
+24:13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up
+into the mount of God.
+
+24:14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come
+again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man
+have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
+
+24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
+
+24:16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud
+covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of
+the midst of the cloud.
+
+24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire
+on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
+
+24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into
+the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
+
+25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25:2 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that
+giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
+
+25:3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and
+silver, and brass, 25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
+linen, and goats’ hair, 25:5 And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’
+skins, and shittim wood, 25:6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing
+oil, and for sweet incense, 25:7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in
+the ephod, and in the breastplate.
+
+25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
+
+25:9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the
+tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so
+shall ye make it.
+
+25:10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a
+half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth
+thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
+
+25:11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without
+shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round
+about.
+
+25:12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in
+the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of
+it, and two rings in the other side of it.
+
+25:13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them
+with gold.
+
+25:14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the
+ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
+
+25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be
+taken from it.
+
+25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give
+thee.
+
+25:17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a
+half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth
+thereof.
+
+25:18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt
+thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
+
+25:19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the
+other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the
+two ends thereof.
+
+25:20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,
+covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look
+one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims
+be.
+
+25:21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the
+ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
+
+25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee
+from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are
+upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in
+commandment unto the children of Israel.
+
+25:23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall
+be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit
+and a half the height thereof.
+
+25:24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a
+crown of gold round about.
+
+25:25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round
+about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round
+about.
+
+25:26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings
+in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
+
+25:27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the
+staves to bear the table.
+
+25:28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them
+with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
+
+25:29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and
+covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt
+thou make them.
+
+25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
+
+25:31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work
+shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls,
+his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
+
+25:32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three
+branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of
+the candlestick out of the other side: 25:33 Three bowls made like
+unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls
+made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in
+the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
+
+25:34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto
+almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
+
+25:35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a
+knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of
+the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the
+candlestick.
+
+25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it
+shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
+
+25:37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall
+light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
+
+25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of
+pure gold.
+
+25:39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these
+vessels.
+
+25:40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was
+shewed thee in the mount.
+
+26:1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine
+twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of
+cunning work shalt thou make them.
+
+26:2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and
+the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains
+shall have one measure.
+
+26:3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and
+other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
+
+26:4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one
+curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou
+make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the
+second.
+
+26:5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops
+shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of
+the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
+
+26:6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains
+together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
+
+26:7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon
+the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
+
+26:8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth
+of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of
+one measure.
+
+26:9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six
+curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the
+forefront of the tabernacle.
+
+26:10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain
+that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the
+curtain which coupleth the second.
+
+26:11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches
+into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
+
+26:12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the
+half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the
+tabernacle.
+
+26:13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of
+that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it
+shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that
+side, to cover it.
+
+26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed
+red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
+
+26:15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood
+standing up.
+
+26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a
+half shall be the breadth of one board.
+
+26:17 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against
+another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
+
+26:18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards
+on the south side southward.
+
+26:19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty
+boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two
+sockets under another board for his two tenons.
+
+26:20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side
+there shall be twenty boards: 26:21 And their forty sockets of silver;
+two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
+
+26:22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six
+boards.
+
+26:23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle
+in the two sides.
+
+26:24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be
+coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be
+for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
+
+26:25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver,
+sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under
+another board.
+
+26:26 And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of
+the one side of the tabernacle, 26:27 And five bars for the boards of
+the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the
+side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
+
+26:28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from
+end to end.
+
+26:29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their
+rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars
+with gold.
+
+26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion
+thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
+
+26:31 And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
+fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
+26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood
+overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four
+sockets of silver.
+
+26:33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou
+mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and
+the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most
+holy.
+
+26:34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony
+in the most holy place.
+
+26:35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the
+candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle
+toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
+
+26:36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of
+blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with
+needlework.
+
+26:37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim
+wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold:
+and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
+
+27:1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long,
+and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height
+thereof shall be three cubits.
+
+27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners
+thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it
+with brass.
+
+27:3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his
+shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the
+vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
+
+27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon
+the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
+
+27:5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath,
+that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
+
+27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood,
+and overlay them with brass.
+
+27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall
+be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
+
+27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in
+the mount, so shall they make it.
+
+27:9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south
+side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined
+linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 27:10 And the twenty
+pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks
+of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
+
+27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be
+hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their
+twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of
+silver.
+
+27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be
+hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
+
+27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be
+fifty cubits.
+
+27:14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits:
+their pillars three, and their sockets three.
+
+27:15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their
+pillars three, and their sockets three.
+
+27:16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty
+cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
+wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their
+sockets four.
+
+27:17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with
+silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
+
+27:18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the
+breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined
+linen, and their sockets of brass.
+
+27:19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof,
+and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of
+brass.
+
+27:20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring
+thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn
+always.
+
+27:21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is
+before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening
+to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their
+generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
+
+28:1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him,
+from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the
+priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar,
+Aaron’s sons.
+
+28:2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory
+and for beauty.
+
+28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have
+filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments
+to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s
+office.
+
+28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate,
+and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle:
+and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons,
+that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
+
+28:5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
+fine linen.
+
+28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of
+scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
+
+28:7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two
+edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
+
+28:8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be
+of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and
+purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
+
+28:9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names
+of the children of Israel: 28:10 Six of their names on one stone, and
+the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their
+birth.
+
+28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a
+signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the
+children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
+
+28:12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the
+ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron
+shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a
+memorial.
+
+28:13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold; 28:14 And two chains of pure
+gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten
+the wreathen chains to the ouches.
+
+28:15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning
+work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of
+blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt
+thou make it.
+
+28:16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length
+thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
+
+28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of
+stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle:
+this shall be the first row.
+
+28:18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a
+diamond.
+
+28:19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
+
+28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they
+shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
+
+28:21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of
+Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a
+signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve
+tribes.
+
+28:22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of
+wreathen work of pure gold.
+
+28:23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and
+shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
+
+28:24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two
+rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
+
+28:25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt
+fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the
+ephod before it.
+
+28:26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them
+upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is
+in the side of the ephod inward.
+
+28:27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them
+on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof,
+over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of
+the ephod.
+
+28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto
+the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the
+curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed
+from the ephod.
+
+28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the
+breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy
+place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
+
+28:30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and
+the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in
+before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of
+Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
+
+28:31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
+
+28:32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst
+thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of
+it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
+
+28:33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of
+blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and
+bells of gold between them round about: 28:34 A golden bell and a
+pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe
+round about.
+
+28:35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be
+heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when
+he cometh out, that he die not.
+
+28:36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it,
+like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
+
+28:37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the
+mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
+
+28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the
+iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow
+in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead,
+that they may be accepted before the LORD.
+
+28:39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt
+make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of
+needlework.
+
+28:40 And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make
+for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and
+for beauty.
+
+28:41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons
+with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify
+them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
+
+28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their
+nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach: 28:43
+And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in
+unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto
+the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity,
+and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after
+him.
+
+29:1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow
+them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young
+bullock, and two rams without blemish, 29:2 And unleavened bread, and
+cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed
+with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
+
+29:3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the
+basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
+
+29:4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the
+tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
+
+29:5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat,
+and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and
+gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod: 29:6 And thou shalt put
+the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
+
+29:7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his
+head, and anoint him.
+
+29:8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
+
+29:9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and
+put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a
+perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
+
+29:10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the
+tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their
+hands upon the head of the bullock.
+
+29:11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of
+the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon
+the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside
+the bottom of the altar.
+
+29:13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and
+the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat
+that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
+
+29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt
+thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
+
+29:15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put
+their hands upon the head of the ram.
+
+29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and
+sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
+
+29:17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of
+him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
+
+29:18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt
+offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire
+unto the LORD.
+
+29:19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
+put their hands upon the head of the ram.
+
+29:20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it
+upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right
+ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the
+great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar
+round about.
+
+29:21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of
+the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments,
+and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he
+shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’
+garments with him.
+
+29:22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the
+fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the
+two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder;
+for it is a ram of consecration: 29:23 And one loaf of bread, and one
+cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened
+bread that is before the LORD: 29:24 And thou shalt put all in the
+hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for
+a wave offering before the LORD.
+
+29:25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon
+the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it
+is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+29:26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s
+consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it
+shall be thy part.
+
+29:27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the
+shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved
+up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron,
+and of that which is for his sons: 29:28 And it shall be Aaron’s and
+his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is
+an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children
+of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave
+offering unto the LORD.
+
+29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to
+be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
+
+29:30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven
+days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to
+minister in the holy place.
+
+29:31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his
+flesh in the holy place.
+
+29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the
+bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was
+made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat
+thereof, because they are holy.
+
+29:34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread,
+remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire:
+it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
+
+29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to
+all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou
+consecrate them.
+
+29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
+atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an
+atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
+
+29:37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and
+sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth
+the altar shall be holy.
+
+29:38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two
+lambs of the first year day by day continually.
+
+29:39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb
+thou shalt offer at even: 29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of
+flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the
+fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
+
+29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do
+thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according
+to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by
+fire unto the LORD.
+
+29:42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your
+generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before
+the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
+
+29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the
+tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
+
+29:44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the
+altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me
+in the priest’s office.
+
+29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their
+God.
+
+29:46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought
+them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am
+the LORD their God.
+
+30:1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim
+wood shalt thou make it.
+
+30:2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth
+thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height
+thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
+
+30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and
+the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt
+make unto it a crown of gold round about.
+
+30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it,
+by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make
+it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
+
+30:5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them
+with gold.
+
+30:6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the
+testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I
+will meet with thee.
+
+30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he
+dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
+
+30:8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense
+upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your
+generations.
+
+30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice,
+nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
+
+30:10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a
+year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the
+year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it
+is most holy unto the LORD.
+
+30:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 30:12 When thou takest
+the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they
+give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou
+numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou
+numberest them.
+
+30:13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are
+numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel
+is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
+
+30:14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty
+years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
+
+30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less
+than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make
+an atonement for your souls.
+
+30:16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of
+Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the
+congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel
+before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
+
+30:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 30:18 Thou shalt also
+make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and
+thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the
+altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
+
+30:19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet
+thereat: 30:20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation,
+they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near
+to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:
+30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die
+not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to
+his seed throughout their generations.
+
+30:22 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 30:23 Take thou also
+unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of
+sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and
+of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, 30:24 And of cassia
+five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil
+olive an hin: 30:25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an
+ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy
+anointing oil.
+
+30:26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation
+therewith, and the ark of the testimony, 30:27 And the table and all
+his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of
+incense, 30:28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels,
+and the laver and his foot.
+
+30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy:
+whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
+
+30:30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them,
+that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
+
+30:31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This
+shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
+
+30:32 Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make
+any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it
+shall be holy unto you.
+
+30:33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of
+it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
+
+30:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices,
+stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure
+frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: 30:35 And thou
+shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary,
+tempered together, pure and holy: 30:36 And thou shalt beat some of it
+very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of
+the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you
+most holy.
+
+30:37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make
+to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto
+thee holy for the LORD.
+
+30:38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall
+even be cut off from his people.
+
+31:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 31:2 See, I have called by
+name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
+31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in
+understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
+31:4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in
+brass, 31:5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of
+timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
+
+31:6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of
+Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise
+hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have
+commanded thee; 31:7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark
+of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the
+furniture of the tabernacle, 31:8 And the table and his furniture, and
+the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
+31:9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the
+laver and his foot, 31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy
+garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to
+minister in the priest’s office, 31:11 And the anointing oil, and
+sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have
+commanded thee shall they do.
+
+31:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 31:13 Speak thou also
+unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep:
+for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that
+ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
+
+31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you:
+every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever
+doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his
+people.
+
+31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of
+rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day,
+he shall surely be put to death.
+
+31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to
+observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual
+covenant.
+
+31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for
+in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he
+rested, and was refreshed.
+
+31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing
+with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone,
+written with the finger of God.
+
+32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of
+the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and
+said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for
+this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we
+wot not what is become of him.
+
+32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which
+are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,
+and bring them unto me.
+
+32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in
+their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
+
+32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a
+graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These
+be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
+
+32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
+made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
+
+32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt
+offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat
+and to drink, and rose up to play.
+
+32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people,
+which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted
+themselves: 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
+commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped
+it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O
+Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
+
+32:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
+behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 32:10 Now therefore let me alone,
+that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them:
+and I will make of thee a great nation.
+
+32:11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth
+thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth
+out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
+32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did
+he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them
+from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of
+this evil against thy people.
+
+32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou
+swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your
+seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of
+will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
+
+32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto
+his people.
+
+32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two
+tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on
+both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
+
+32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the
+writing of God, graven upon the tables.
+
+32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,
+he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
+
+32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery,
+neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the
+noise of them that sing do I hear.
+
+32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that
+he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he
+cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
+
+32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the
+fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made
+the children of Israel drink of it.
+
+32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that
+thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? 32:22 And Aaron said, Let
+not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they
+are set on mischief.
+
+32:23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us:
+for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of
+Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
+
+32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it
+off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came
+out this calf.
+
+32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had
+made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) 32:26 Then
+Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’s
+side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered
+themselves together unto him.
+
+32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put
+every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate
+throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his
+companion, and every man his neighbour.
+
+32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and
+there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
+
+32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD,
+even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow
+upon you a blessing this day.
+
+32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the
+people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the
+LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
+
+32:31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have
+sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
+
+32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me,
+I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
+
+32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me,
+him will I blot out of my book.
+
+32:34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have
+spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee:
+nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
+
+32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf,
+which Aaron made.
+
+33:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and
+the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto
+the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,
+Unto thy seed will I give it: 33:2 And I will send an angel before
+thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the
+Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 33:3 Unto a
+land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of
+thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the
+way.
+
+33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and
+no man did put on him his ornaments.
+
+33:5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of
+Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of
+thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy
+ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
+
+33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments
+by the mount Horeb.
+
+33:7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp,
+afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the
+congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the
+LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was
+without the camp.
+
+33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle,
+that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and
+looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
+
+33:9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the
+cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and
+the Lord talked with Moses.
+
+33:10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle
+door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent
+door.
+
+33:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh
+unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant
+Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the
+tabernacle.
+
+33:12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up
+this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with
+me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found
+grace in my sight.
+
+33:13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight,
+shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in
+thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
+
+33:14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give
+thee rest.
+
+33:15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us
+not up hence.
+
+33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have
+found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so
+shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are
+upon the face of the earth.
+
+33:17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that
+thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know
+thee by name.
+
+33:18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
+
+33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I
+will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious
+to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew
+mercy.
+
+33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man
+see me, and live.
+
+33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou
+shalt stand upon a rock: 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my
+glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and
+will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 33:23 And I will take
+away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall
+not be seen.
+
+34:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like
+unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were
+in the first tables, which thou brakest.
+
+34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto
+mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
+
+34:3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen
+throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before
+that mount.
+
+34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses
+rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the
+LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
+
+34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,
+and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
+
+34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The
+LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in
+goodness and truth, 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
+iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear
+the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,
+and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth
+generation.
+
+34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and
+worshipped.
+
+34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let
+my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and
+pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
+
+34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I
+will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in
+any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work
+of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
+
+34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive
+out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and
+the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
+
+34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
+inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in
+the midst of thee: 34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break
+their images, and cut down their groves: 34:14 For thou shalt worship
+no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
+34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and
+they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods,
+and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; 34:16 And thou take
+of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring
+after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
+
+34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
+
+34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou
+shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the
+month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
+
+34:19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among
+thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
+
+34:20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and
+if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the
+firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before
+me empty.
+
+34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt
+rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
+
+34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of
+wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
+
+34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the
+LORD God, the God of Israel.
+
+34:24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy
+borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up
+to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
+
+34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven;
+neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto
+the morning.
+
+34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto
+the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his
+mother’s milk.
+
+34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after
+the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with
+Israel.
+
+34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he
+did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables
+the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
+
+34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with
+the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the
+mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he
+talked with him.
+
+34:30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold,
+the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
+
+34:31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the
+congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
+
+34:32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave
+them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount
+Sinai.
+
+34:33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his
+face.
+
+34:34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he
+took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto
+the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
+
+34:35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin
+of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again,
+until he went in to speak with him.
+
+35:1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel
+together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath
+commanded, that ye should do them.
+
+35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall
+be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth
+work therein shall be put to death.
+
+35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the
+sabbath day.
+
+35:4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of
+Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
+35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of
+a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and
+silver, and brass, 35:6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
+linen, and goats’ hair, 35:7 And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’
+skins, and shittim wood, 35:8 And oil for the light, and spices for
+anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, 35:9 And onyx stones, and
+stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
+
+35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that
+the LORD hath commanded; 35:11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his
+covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his
+sockets, 35:12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat,
+and the vail of the covering, 35:13 The table, and his staves, and all
+his vessels, and the shewbread, 35:14 The candlestick also for the
+light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
+35:15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil,
+and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in
+of the tabernacle, 35:16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen
+grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, 35:17
+The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the
+hanging for the door of the court, 35:18 The pins of the tabernacle,
+and the pins of the court, and their cords, 35:19 The cloths of
+service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron
+the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s
+office.
+
+35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from
+the presence of Moses.
+
+35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every
+one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD’s offering
+to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his
+service, and for the holy garments.
+
+35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing
+hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets,
+all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of
+gold unto the LORD.
+
+35:23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and
+scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and
+badgers’ skins, brought them.
+
+35:24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought
+the LORD’s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood
+for any work of the service, brought it.
+
+35:25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their
+hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of
+purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
+
+35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun
+goats’ hair.
+
+35:27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for
+the ephod, and for the breastplate; 35:28 And spice, and oil for the
+light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
+
+35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD,
+every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all
+manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of
+Moses.
+
+35:30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath
+called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
+of Judah; 35:31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in
+wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
+workmanship; 35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and
+in silver, and in brass, 35:33 And in the cutting of stones, to set
+them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
+
+35:34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and
+Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
+
+35:35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of
+work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the
+embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen,
+and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that
+devise cunning work.
+
+36:1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in
+whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all
+manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that
+the LORD had commanded.
+
+36:2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted
+man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose
+heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it: 36:3 And they
+received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had
+brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it
+withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
+
+36:4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary,
+came every man from his work which they made; 36:5 And they spake unto
+Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service
+of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.
+
+36:6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed
+throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more
+work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained
+from bringing.
+
+36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make
+it, and too much.
+
+36:8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of
+the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and
+purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
+
+36:9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the
+breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
+
+36:10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other
+five curtains he coupled one unto another.
+
+36:11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the
+selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of
+another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
+
+36:12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in
+the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the
+loops held one curtain to another.
+
+36:13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one
+unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
+
+36:14 And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the
+tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
+
+36:15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was
+the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
+
+36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
+themselves.
+
+36:17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain
+in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain
+which coupleth the second.
+
+36:18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together,
+that it might be one.
+
+36:19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and
+a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
+
+36:20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing
+up.
+
+36:21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board
+one cubit and a half.
+
+36:22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus
+did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
+
+36:23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the
+south side southward: 36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under
+the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and
+two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
+
+36:25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the
+north corner, he made twenty boards, 36:26 And their forty sockets of
+silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another
+board.
+
+36:27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
+
+36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the
+two sides.
+
+36:29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head
+thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
+
+36:30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen
+sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
+
+36:31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one
+side of the tabernacle, 36:32 And five bars for the boards of the
+other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the
+tabernacle for the sides westward.
+
+36:33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the
+one end to the other.
+
+36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of
+gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
+
+36:35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
+twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
+
+36:36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid
+them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four
+sockets of silver.
+
+36:37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and
+purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; 36:38 And
+the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their
+chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of
+brass.
+
+37:1 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half
+was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a
+cubit and a half the height of it: 37:2 And he overlaid it with pure
+gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
+
+37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four
+corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings
+upon the other side of it.
+
+37:4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
+
+37:5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to
+bear the ark.
+
+37:6 And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half
+was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
+
+37:7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made
+he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat; 37:8 One cherub on the end
+on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of
+the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
+
+37:9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered
+with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another;
+even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
+
+37:10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length
+thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the
+height thereof: 37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made
+thereunto a crown of gold round about.
+
+37:12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about;
+and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
+
+37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon
+the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
+
+37:14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the
+staves to bear the table.
+
+37:15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
+gold, to bear the table.
+
+37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes,
+and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure
+gold.
+
+37:17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he
+the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and
+his flowers, were of the same: 37:18 And six branches going out of the
+sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side
+thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side
+thereof: 37:19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one
+branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in
+another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches
+going out of the candlestick.
+
+37:20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his
+knops, and his flowers: 37:21 And a knop under two branches of the
+same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two
+branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.
+
+37:22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was
+one beaten work of pure gold.
+
+37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his
+snuffdishes, of pure gold.
+
+37:24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels
+thereof.
+
+37:25 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it
+was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two
+cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
+
+37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the
+sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a
+crown of gold round about.
+
+37:27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by
+the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for
+the staves to bear it withal.
+
+37:28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
+gold.
+
+37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of
+sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
+
+38:1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five
+cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it
+was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
+
+38:2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the
+horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
+
+38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the
+shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the
+vessels thereof made he of brass.
+
+38:4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the
+compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
+
+38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass,
+to be places for the staves.
+
+38:6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
+brass.
+
+38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar,
+to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
+
+38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of
+the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the
+door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+38:9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings
+of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits: 38:10 Their
+pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the
+pillars and their fillets were of silver.
+
+38:11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits,
+their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the
+hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
+
+38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their
+pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their
+fillets of silver.
+
+38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
+
+38:14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits;
+their pillars three, and their sockets three.
+
+38:15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that
+hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their
+sockets three.
+
+38:16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined
+linen.
+
+38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the
+pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their
+chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted
+with silver.
+
+38:18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of
+blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty
+cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits,
+answerable to the hangings of the court.
+
+38:19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four;
+their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their
+fillets of silver.
+
+38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round
+about, were of brass.
+
+38:21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of
+testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses,
+for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron
+the priest.
+
+38:22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
+Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+38:23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan,
+an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in
+purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
+
+38:24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of
+the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine
+talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the
+sanctuary.
+
+38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation
+was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore
+and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 38:26 A bekah
+for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the
+sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years
+old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five
+hundred and fifty men.
+
+38:27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of
+the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the
+hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
+
+38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he
+made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted
+them.
+
+38:29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two
+thousand and four hundred shekels.
+
+38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle
+of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for
+it, and all the vessels of the altar, 38:31 And the sockets of the
+court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins
+of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
+
+39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of
+service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments
+for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+39:2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
+fine twined linen.
+
+39:3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into
+wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet,
+and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
+
+39:4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the
+two edges was it coupled together.
+
+39:5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the
+same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and
+scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+39:6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven,
+as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
+
+39:7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should
+be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD
+commanded Moses.
+
+39:8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the
+ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
+
+39:9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was
+the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
+
+39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a
+sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
+
+39:11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
+
+39:12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
+
+39:13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were
+inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
+
+39:14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of
+Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a
+signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
+
+39:15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of
+wreathen work of pure gold.
+
+39:16 And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put
+the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
+
+39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on
+the ends of the breastplate.
+
+39:18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the
+two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before
+it.
+
+39:19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of
+the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the
+ephod inward.
+
+39:20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two
+sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against
+the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
+
+39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of
+the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious
+girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from
+the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
+
+39:23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of
+an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not
+rend.
+
+39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue,
+and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
+
+39:25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the
+pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the
+pomegranates; 39:26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a
+pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the
+LORD commanded Moses.
+
+39:27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and
+for his sons, 39:28 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of
+fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen, 39:29 And a
+girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of
+needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and
+wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS
+TO THE LORD.
+
+39:31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon
+the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+39:32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the
+congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all
+that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
+
+39:33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all
+his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and
+his sockets, 39:34 And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the
+covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering, 39:35 The
+ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
+39:36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread, 39:37
+The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to
+be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
+39:38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet
+incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, 39:39 The brasen
+altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the
+laver and his foot, 39:40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and
+his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his
+pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the
+tent of the congregation, 39:41 The cloths of service to do service in
+the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his
+sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.
+
+39:42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children
+of Israel made all the work.
+
+39:43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done
+it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses
+blessed them.
+
+40:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 40:2 On the first day of
+the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the
+congregation.
+
+40:3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover
+the ark with the vail.
+
+40:4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things
+that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the
+candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
+
+40:5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the
+ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the
+tabernacle.
+
+40:6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the
+door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
+
+40:7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation
+and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
+
+40:8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the
+hanging at the court gate.
+
+40:9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle,
+and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels
+thereof: and it shall be holy.
+
+40:10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all
+his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most
+holy.
+
+40:11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
+
+40:12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the
+tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
+
+40:13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him,
+and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
+
+40:14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: 40:15
+And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that
+they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing
+shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their
+generations.
+
+40:16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so
+did he.
+
+40:17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on
+the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
+
+40:18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets,
+and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared
+up his pillars.
+
+40:19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the
+covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+40:20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the
+staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: 40:21
+And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the
+covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded
+Moses.
+
+40:22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the
+side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
+
+40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the
+LORD had commanded Moses.
+
+40:24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over
+against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
+
+40:25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded
+Moses.
+
+40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation
+before the vail: 40:27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD
+commanded Moses.
+
+40:28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
+
+40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the
+tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the
+burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and
+the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
+
+40:31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their
+feet thereat: 40:32 When they went into the tent of the congregation,
+and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD
+commanded Moses.
+
+40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the
+altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the
+work.
+
+40:34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory
+of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
+
+40:35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the
+congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the
+LORD filled the tabernacle.
+
+40:36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the
+children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: 40:37 But if the
+cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it
+was taken up.
+
+40:38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and
+fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel,
+throughout all their journeys.
+
+
+
+
+The Third Book of Moses: Called Leviticus
+
+
+1:1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the
+tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 1:2 Speak unto the children of
+Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto
+the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the
+herd, and of the flock.
+
+1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a
+male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at
+the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
+
+1:4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and
+it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
+
+1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests,
+Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round
+about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+1:6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
+
+1:7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar,
+and lay the wood in order upon the fire: 1:8 And the priests, Aaron’s
+sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the
+wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: 1:9 But his inwards
+and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on
+the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a
+sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+1:10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of
+the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without
+blemish.
+
+1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before
+the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle his blood
+round about upon the altar.
+
+1:12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat:
+and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire
+which is upon the altar: 1:13 But he shall wash the inwards and the
+legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon
+the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a
+sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+1:14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of
+fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young
+pigeons.
+
+1:15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his
+head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung
+out at the side of the altar: 1:16 And he shall pluck away his crop
+with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by
+the place of the ashes: 1:17 And he shall cleave it with the wings
+thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it
+upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt
+sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his
+offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and
+put frankincense thereon: 2:2 And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons
+the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour
+thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof;
+and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an
+offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: 2:3 And the
+remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a
+thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
+
+2:4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the
+oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or
+unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
+
+2:5 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be
+of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
+
+2:6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat
+offering.
+
+2:7 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it
+shall be made of fine flour with oil.
+
+2:8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these
+things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he
+shall bring it unto the altar.
+
+2:9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial
+thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by
+fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+2:10 And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and
+his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made
+by fire.
+
+2:11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be
+made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any
+offering of the LORD made by fire.
+
+2:12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto
+the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
+
+2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with
+salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to
+be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt
+offer salt.
+
+2:14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the
+LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green
+ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
+
+2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it
+is a meat offering.
+
+2:16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten
+corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense
+thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+3:1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer
+it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it
+without blemish before the LORD.
+
+3:2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill
+it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons
+the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
+
+3:3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
+offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the
+inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 3:4 And the two
+kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the
+caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
+
+3:5 And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt
+sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an
+offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+3:6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the
+LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without
+blemish.
+
+3:7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before
+the LORD.
+
+3:8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill
+it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons shall
+sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.
+
+3:9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
+offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole
+rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that
+covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 3:10
+And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the
+flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he
+take away.
+
+3:11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of
+the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+3:12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the
+LORD.
+
+3:13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before
+the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall
+sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
+
+3:14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by
+fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat
+that is upon the inwards, 3:15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that
+is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver,
+with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
+
+3:16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of
+the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the
+LORD’s.
+
+3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout
+all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
+
+4:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 4:2 Speak unto the children
+of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any
+of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to
+be done, and shall do against any of them: 4:3 If the priest that is
+anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring
+for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish
+unto the LORD for a sin offering.
+
+4:4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of
+the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the
+bullock’s head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
+
+4:5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood,
+and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation: 4:6 And the priest
+shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven
+times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
+
+4:7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the
+altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of
+the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the
+bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the
+tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+4:8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the
+sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that
+is upon the inwards, 4:9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon
+them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the
+kidneys, it shall he take away, 4:10 As it was taken off from the
+bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn
+them upon the altar of the burnt offering.
+
+4:11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head,
+and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung, 4:12 Even the whole
+bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place,
+where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire:
+where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
+
+4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance,
+and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done
+somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things
+which should not be done, and are guilty; 4:14 When the sin, which
+they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall
+offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle
+of the congregation.
+
+4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the
+head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed
+before the LORD.
+
+4:16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock’s
+blood to the tabernacle of the congregation: 4:17 And the priest shall
+dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times
+before the LORD, even before the vail.
+
+4:18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar
+which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the
+congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the
+altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of
+the congregation.
+
+4:19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the
+altar.
+
+4:20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a
+sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an
+atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
+
+4:21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn
+him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the
+congregation.
+
+4:22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance
+against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things
+which should not be done, and is guilty; 4:23 Or if his sin, wherein
+he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a
+kid of the goats, a male without blemish: 4:24 And he shall lay his
+hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they
+kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.
+
+4:25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with
+his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering,
+and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt
+offering.
+
+4:26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the
+sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement
+for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
+
+4:27 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while
+he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD
+concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty; 4:28 Or
+if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall
+bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for
+his sin which he hath sinned.
+
+4:29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and
+slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
+
+4:30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger,
+and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall
+pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
+
+4:31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken
+away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall
+burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the
+priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
+
+4:32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a
+female without blemish.
+
+4:33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and
+slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt
+offering.
+
+4:34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with
+his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering,
+and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:
+4:35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the
+lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the
+priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made
+by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his
+sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
+
+5:1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a
+witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it,
+then he shall bear his iniquity.
+
+5:2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of
+an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of
+unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall
+be unclean, and guilty.
+
+5:3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it
+be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he
+knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
+
+5:4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do
+good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it
+be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one
+of these.
+
+5:5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things,
+that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing: 5:6 And he
+shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he
+hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats,
+for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him
+concerning his sin.
+
+5:7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his
+trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young
+pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a
+burnt offering.
+
+5:8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that
+which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his
+neck, but shall not divide it asunder: 5:9 And he shall sprinkle of
+the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest
+of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a
+sin offering.
+
+5:10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to
+the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin
+which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
+
+5:11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young
+pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth
+part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil
+upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a
+sin offering.
+
+5:12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take
+his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar,
+according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin
+offering.
+
+5:13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his
+sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him:
+and the remnant shall be the priest’s, as a meat offering.
+
+5:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 5:15 If a soul commit a
+trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD;
+then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without
+blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver,
+after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
+
+5:16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the
+holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the
+priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of
+the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
+
+5:17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are
+forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist
+it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
+
+5:18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with
+thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the
+priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance
+wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
+
+5:19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against
+the LORD.
+
+6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:2 If a soul sin, and
+commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that
+which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken
+away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 6:3 Or have found
+that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in
+any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 6:4 Then it shall
+be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that
+which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully
+gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing
+which he found, 6:5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he
+shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part
+more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day
+of his trespass offering.
+
+6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram
+without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass
+offering, unto the priest: 6:7 And the priest shall make an atonement
+for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of
+all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
+
+6:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:9 Command Aaron and his
+sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt
+offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the
+morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
+
+6:10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen
+breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the
+fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall
+put them beside the altar.
+
+6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and
+carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
+
+6:12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not
+be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and
+lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the
+fat of the peace offerings.
+
+6:13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go
+out.
+
+6:14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall
+offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
+
+6:15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat
+offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is
+upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet
+savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
+
+6:16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with
+unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of
+the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
+
+6:17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for
+their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the
+sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
+
+6:18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It
+shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the
+offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall
+be holy.
+
+6:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:20 This is the offering
+of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the
+day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for
+a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof
+at night.
+
+6:21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou
+shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt
+thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+6:22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall
+offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly
+burnt.
+
+6:23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it
+shall not be eaten.
+
+6:24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:25 Speak unto Aaron and
+to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place
+where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed
+before the LORD: it is most holy.
+
+6:26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy
+place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when
+there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt
+wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
+
+6:28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and
+if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed
+in water.
+
+6:29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most
+holy.
+
+6:30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the
+tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place,
+shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
+
+7:1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most
+holy.
+
+7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill
+the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round
+about upon the altar.
+
+7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the
+fat that covereth the inwards, 7:4 And the two kidneys, and the fat
+that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above
+the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away: 7:5 And the priest
+shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the
+LORD: it is a trespass offering.
+
+7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten
+in the holy place: it is most holy.
+
+7:7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one
+law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have
+it.
+
+7:8 And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even the
+priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he
+hath offered.
+
+7:9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that
+is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s
+that offereth it.
+
+7:10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the
+sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
+
+7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
+shall offer unto the LORD.
+
+7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the
+sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and
+unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of
+fine flour, fried.
+
+7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread
+with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
+
+7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an
+heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest’s that
+sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
+
+7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
+thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall
+not leave any of it until the morning.
+
+7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary
+offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his
+sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
+7:17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day
+shall be burnt with fire.
+
+7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings
+be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither
+shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an
+abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
+
+7:19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten;
+it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean
+shall eat thereof.
+
+7:20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace
+offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon
+him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
+
+7:21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the
+uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean
+thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which
+pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his
+people.
+
+7:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 7:23 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or
+of sheep, or of goat.
+
+7:24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of
+that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye
+shall in no wise eat of it.
+
+7:25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an
+offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it
+shall be cut off from his people.
+
+7:26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl
+or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
+
+7:27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that
+soul shall be cut off from his people.
+
+7:28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 7:29 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his
+peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD
+of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
+
+7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire,
+the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be
+waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
+
+7:31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast
+shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
+
+7:32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave
+offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
+
+7:33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace
+offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
+
+7:34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the
+children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings,
+and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a
+statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
+
+7:35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the
+anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire,
+in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the
+priest’s office; 7:36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the
+children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for
+ever throughout their generations.
+
+7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and
+of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the
+consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings; 7:38 Which
+the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded
+the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the
+wilderness of Sinai.
+
+8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8:2 Take Aaron and his sons
+with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for
+the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread; 8:3
+And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the
+tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+8:4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was
+gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+8:5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the
+LORD commanded to be done.
+
+8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
+
+8:7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and
+clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded
+him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him
+therewith.
+
+8:8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the
+breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
+
+8:9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon
+his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the
+LORD commanded Moses.
+
+8:10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and
+all that was therein, and sanctified them.
+
+8:11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed
+the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to
+sanctify them.
+
+8:12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and
+anointed him, to sanctify him.
+
+8:13 And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and
+girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD
+commanded Moses.
+
+8:14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and
+his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin
+offering.
+
+8:15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
+horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the
+altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified
+it, to make reconciliation upon it.
+
+8:16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul
+above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned
+it upon the altar.
+
+8:17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt
+with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+8:18 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his
+sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
+
+8:19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar
+round about.
+
+8:20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the
+pieces, and the fat.
+
+8:21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt
+the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet
+savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD
+commanded Moses.
+
+8:22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron
+and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
+
+8:23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it
+upon the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his right
+hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
+
+8:24 And he brought Aaron’s sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the
+tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and
+upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood
+upon the altar round about.
+
+8:25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon
+the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and
+their fat, and the right shoulder: 8:26 And out of the basket of
+unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened
+cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the
+fat, and upon the right shoulder: 8:27 And he put all upon Aaron’s
+hands, and upon his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering
+before the LORD.
+
+8:28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the
+altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet
+savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+8:29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering
+before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses’ part; as
+the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+8:30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was
+upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments,
+and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ garments with him; and
+sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’
+garments with him.
+
+8:31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the
+door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the
+bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying,
+Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
+
+8:32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye
+burn with fire.
+
+8:33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at
+an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
+
+8:34 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to
+make an atonement for you.
+
+8:35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the
+LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
+
+8:36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by
+the hand of Moses.
+
+9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and
+his sons, and the elders of Israel; 9:2 And he said unto Aaron, Take
+thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering,
+without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
+
+9:3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye
+a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of
+the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering; 9:4 Also a
+bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD;
+and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear
+unto you.
+
+9:5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle
+of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood
+before the LORD.
+
+9:6 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye
+should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.
+
+9:7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin
+offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself,
+and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an
+atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
+
+9:8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin
+offering, which was for himself.
+
+9:9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped
+his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and
+poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar: 9:10 But the fat, and
+the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he
+burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+9:11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
+
+9:12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto
+him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
+
+9:13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces
+thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
+
+9:14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the
+burnt offering on the altar.
+
+9:15 And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which
+was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for
+sin, as the first.
+
+9:16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to
+the manner.
+
+9:17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof,
+and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the
+morning.
+
+9:18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace
+offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons presented unto
+him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about, 9:19 And
+the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which
+covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
+9:20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon
+the altar: 9:21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for
+a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
+
+9:22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them,
+and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt
+offering, and peace offerings.
+
+9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation,
+and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD
+appeared unto all the people.
+
+9:24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon
+the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people
+saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
+
+10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his
+censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered
+strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
+
+10:2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and
+they died before the LORD.
+
+10:3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake,
+saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all
+the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
+
+10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the
+uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren
+from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
+
+10:5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the
+camp; as Moses had said.
+
+10:6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his
+sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die,
+and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the
+whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
+
+10:7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon
+you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
+
+10:8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, 10:9 Do not drink wine nor
+strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the
+tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for
+ever throughout your generations: 10:10 And that ye may put difference
+between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 10:11 And that
+ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD
+hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
+
+10:12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
+his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the
+offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside
+the altar: for it is most holy: 10:13 And ye shall eat it in the holy
+place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of
+the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
+
+10:14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean
+place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be
+thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of
+peace offerings of the children of Israel.
+
+10:15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the
+offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering
+before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a
+statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
+
+10:16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and,
+behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the
+sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying, 10:17 Wherefore have ye
+not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy,
+and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to
+make atonement for them before the LORD? 10:18 Behold, the blood of
+it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have
+eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.
+
+10:19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered
+their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such
+things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day,
+should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD? 10:20 And when
+Moses heard that, he was content.
+
+11:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
+11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts
+which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
+
+11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the
+cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
+
+11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or
+of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the
+cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
+
+11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
+hoof; he is unclean unto you.
+
+11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
+hoof; he is unclean unto you.
+
+11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted,
+yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
+
+11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not
+touch; they are unclean to you.
+
+11:9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath
+fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them
+shall ye eat.
+
+11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the
+rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which
+is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11:11 They
+shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their
+flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
+
+11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be
+an abomination unto you.
+
+11:13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the
+fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle,
+and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 11:14 And the vulture, and the kite
+after his kind; 11:15 Every raven after his kind; 11:16 And the owl,
+and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, 11:17
+And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, 11:18 And
+the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, 11:19 And the stork,
+the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
+
+11:20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an
+abomination unto you.
+
+11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth
+upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon
+the earth; 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his
+kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his
+kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
+
+11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet,
+shall be an abomination unto you.
+
+11:24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the
+carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
+
+11:25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash
+his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
+
+11:26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not
+clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one
+that toucheth them shall be unclean.
+
+11:27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts
+that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their
+carcase shall be unclean until the even.
+
+11:28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes,
+and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
+
+11:29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things
+that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise
+after his kind, 11:30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the
+lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
+
+11:31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth
+touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
+
+11:32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall,
+it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or
+skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it
+must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it
+shall be cleansed.
+
+11:33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth,
+whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
+
+11:34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh
+shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel
+shall be unclean.
+
+11:35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth
+shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall
+be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be unclean unto you.
+
+11:36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of
+water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be
+unclean.
+
+11:37 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which
+is to be sown, it shall be clean.
+
+11:38 But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their
+carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
+
+11:39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the
+carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
+
+11:40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes,
+and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it
+shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
+
+11:41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be
+an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
+
+11:42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all
+four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that
+creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an
+abomination.
+
+11:43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing
+that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them,
+that ye should be defiled thereby.
+
+11:44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify
+yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye
+defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon
+the earth.
+
+11:45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt,
+to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
+
+11:46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every
+living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that
+creepeth upon the earth: 11:47 To make a difference between the
+unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the
+beast that may not be eaten.
+
+12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12:2 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a
+man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days
+of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
+
+12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
+circumcised.
+
+12:4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three
+and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the
+sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
+
+12:5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two
+weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of
+her purifying threescore and six days.
+
+12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or
+for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt
+offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering,
+unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
+12:7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for
+her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is
+the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
+
+12:8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two
+turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the
+other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for
+her, and she shall be clean.
+
+13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, 13:2 When a man
+shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot,
+and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he
+shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the
+priests: 13:3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of
+the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the
+plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague
+of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him
+unclean.
+
+13:4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in
+sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned
+white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven
+days: 13:5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and,
+behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread
+not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
+13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and,
+behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in
+the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and
+he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
+
+13:7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he
+hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of
+the priest again.
+
+13:8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the
+skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
+
+13:9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought
+unto the priest; 13:10 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if
+the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white,
+and there be quick raw flesh in the rising; 13:11 It is an old leprosy
+in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean,
+and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
+
+13:12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy
+cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to
+his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh; 13:13 Then the priest shall
+consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he
+shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned
+white: he is clean.
+
+13:14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
+
+13:15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be
+unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
+
+13:16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he
+shall come unto the priest; 13:17 And the priest shall see him: and,
+behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall
+pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.
+
+13:18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil,
+and is healed, 13:19 And in the place of the boil there be a white
+rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be
+shewed to the priest; 13:20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold,
+it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned
+white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of
+leprosy broken out of the boil.
+
+13:21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
+hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat
+dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: 13:22 And if it
+spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
+unclean: it is a plague.
+
+13:23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is
+a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
+
+13:24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot
+burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot,
+somewhat reddish, or white; 13:25 Then the priest shall look upon it:
+and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be
+in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the
+burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the
+plague of leprosy.
+
+13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
+hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but
+be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: 13:27
+And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be
+spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
+unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
+
+13:28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the
+skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the
+priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the
+burning.
+
+13:29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
+13:30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in
+sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair;
+then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a
+leprosy upon the head or beard.
+
+13:31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold,
+it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black
+hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of
+the scall seven days: 13:32 And in the seventh day the priest shall
+look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be
+in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the
+skin; 13:33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and
+the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
+13:34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and,
+behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper
+than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall
+wash his clothes, and be clean.
+
+13:35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
+13:36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be
+spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is
+unclean.
+
+13:37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is
+black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the
+priest shall pronounce him clean.
+
+13:38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright
+spots, even white bright spots; 13:39 Then the priest shall look: and,
+behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish
+white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
+
+13:40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet
+is he clean.
+
+13:41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head
+toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
+
+13:42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white
+reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald
+forehead.
+
+13:43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising
+of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald
+forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; 13:44 He
+is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him
+utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
+
+13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent,
+and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and
+shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
+
+13:46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be
+defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall
+his habitation be.
+
+13:47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be
+a woollen garment, or a linen garment; 13:48 Whether it be in the
+warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any
+thing made of skin; 13:49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in
+the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
+any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto
+the priest: 13:50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut
+up it that hath the plague seven days: 13:51 And he shall look on the
+plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment,
+either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that
+is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
+
+13:52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in
+woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for
+it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
+
+13:53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not
+spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any
+thing of skin; 13:54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the
+thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
+13:55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is
+washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and
+the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the
+fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
+
+13:56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark
+after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or
+out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: 13:57 And if
+it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or
+in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that
+wherein the plague is with fire.
+
+13:58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of
+skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from
+them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
+
+13:59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen
+or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to
+pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
+
+14:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 14:2 This shall be the law
+of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the
+priest: 14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the
+priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in
+the leper; 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is
+to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet,
+and hyssop: 14:5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be
+killed in an earthen vessel over running water: 14:6 As for the living
+bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the
+hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the
+bird that was killed over the running water: 14:7 And he shall
+sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times,
+and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose
+into the open field.
+
+14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave
+off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and
+after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of
+his tent seven days.
+
+14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his
+hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he
+shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his
+flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
+
+14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without
+blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three
+tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and
+one log of oil.
+
+14:11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that
+is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of
+the tabernacle of the congregation: 14:12 And the priest shall take
+one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of
+oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: 14:13 And he
+shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering
+and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is
+the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy: 14:14 And
+the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and
+the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is
+to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
+great toe of his right foot: 14:15 And the priest shall take some of
+the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand: 14:16
+And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his
+left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times
+before the LORD: 14:17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand
+shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to
+be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great
+toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering: 14:18
+And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour
+upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make
+an atonement for him before the LORD.
+
+14:19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an
+atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and
+afterward he shall kill the burnt offering: 14:20 And the priest shall
+offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the
+priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
+
+14:21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take
+one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for
+him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
+offering, and a log of oil; 14:22 And two turtledoves, or two young
+pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin
+offering, and the other a burnt offering.
+
+14:23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto
+the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
+before the LORD.
+
+14:24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and
+the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering
+before the LORD: 14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass
+offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass
+offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to
+be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great
+toe of his right foot: 14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into
+the palm of his own left hand: 14:27 And the priest shall sprinkle
+with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven
+times before the LORD: 14:28 And the priest shall put of the oil that
+is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
+cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe
+of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass
+offering: 14:29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand
+he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an
+atonement for him before the LORD.
+
+14:30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young
+pigeons, such as he can get; 14:31 Even such as he is able to get, the
+one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the
+meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is
+to be cleansed before the LORD.
+
+14:32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose
+hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
+
+14:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 14:34 When
+ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a
+possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of
+your possession; 14:35 And he that owneth the house shall come and
+tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague
+in the house: 14:36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the
+house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that
+is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go
+in to see the house: 14:37 And he shall look on the plague, and,
+behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow
+strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
+14:38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the
+house, and shut up the house seven days: 14:39 And the priest shall
+come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague
+be spread in the walls of the house; 14:40 Then the priest shall
+command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and
+they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: 14:41 And
+he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they
+shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an
+unclean place: 14:42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in
+the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall
+plaister the house.
+
+14:43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after
+that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the
+house, and after it is plaistered; 14:44 Then the priest shall come
+and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a
+fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
+
+14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the
+timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry
+them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
+
+14:46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is
+shut up shall be unclean until the even.
+
+14:47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he
+that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
+
+14:48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold,
+the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was
+plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because
+the plague is healed.
+
+14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar
+wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 14:50 And he shall kill the one of the
+birds in an earthen vessel over running water: 14:51 And he shall take
+the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird,
+and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water,
+and sprinkle the house seven times: 14:52 And he shall cleanse the
+house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with
+the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and
+with the scarlet: 14:53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the
+city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it
+shall be clean.
+
+14:54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
+14:55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house, 14:56 And for
+a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot: 14:57 To teach when
+it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
+
+15:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 15:2 Speak
+unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a
+running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
+
+15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh
+run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his
+uncleanness.
+
+15:4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and
+every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
+
+15:5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe
+himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
+
+15:6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the
+issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
+unclean until the even.
+
+15:7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall
+wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
+even.
+
+15:8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then
+he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean
+until the even.
+
+15:9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall
+be unclean.
+
+15:10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be
+unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall
+wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
+even.
+
+15:11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not
+rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
+himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
+
+15:12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue,
+shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
+
+15:13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he
+shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his
+clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
+
+15:14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or
+two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the
+tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest: 15:15
+And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the
+other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for
+him before the LORD for his issue.
+
+15:16 And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he
+shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
+
+15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of
+copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
+
+15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation,
+they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the
+even.
+
+15:19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be
+blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her
+shall be unclean until the even.
+
+15:20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be
+unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
+
+15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe
+himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
+
+15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash
+his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
+even.
+
+15:23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth,
+when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
+
+15:24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him,
+he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall
+be unclean.
+
+15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the
+time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her
+separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as
+the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
+
+15:26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be
+unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon
+shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
+
+15:27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall
+wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
+even.
+
+15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to
+herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
+
+15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or
+two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the
+tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+15:30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the
+other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for
+her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
+
+15:31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their
+uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile
+my tabernacle that is among them.
+
+15:32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed
+goeth from him, and is defiled therewith; 15:33 And of her that is
+sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of
+the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.
+
+16:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of
+Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; 16:2 And the LORD
+said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all
+times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which
+is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon
+the mercy seat.
+
+16:3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock
+for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
+
+16:4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen
+breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and
+with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments;
+therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
+
+16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel
+two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt
+offering.
+
+16:6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is
+for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
+
+16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD
+at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the
+LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
+
+16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD’s lot fell,
+and offer him for a sin offering.
+
+16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall
+be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and
+to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
+
+16:11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is
+for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his
+house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for
+himself: 16:12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of
+fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet
+incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: 16:13 And he shall
+put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the
+incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he
+die not: 16:14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and
+sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before
+the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven
+times.
+
+16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the
+people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as
+he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy
+seat, and before the mercy seat: 16:16 And he shall make an atonement
+for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of
+Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so
+shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth
+among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
+
+16:17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation
+when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come
+out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household,
+and for all the congregation of Israel.
+
+16:18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and
+make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock,
+and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar
+round about.
+
+16:19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven
+times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the
+children of Israel.
+
+16:20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and
+the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the
+live goat: 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of
+the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children
+of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting
+them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of
+a fit man into the wilderness: 16:22 And the goat shall bear upon him
+all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go
+the goat in the wilderness.
+
+16:23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation,
+and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went
+into the holy place, and shall leave them there: 16:24 And he shall
+wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments,
+and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering
+of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.
+
+16:25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
+
+16:26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his
+clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the
+camp.
+
+16:27 And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin
+offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy
+place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in
+the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
+
+16:28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his
+flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
+
+16:29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the
+seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your
+souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country,
+or a stranger that sojourneth among you: 16:30 For on that day shall
+the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be
+clean from all your sins before the LORD.
+
+16:31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict
+your souls, by a statute for ever.
+
+16:32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall
+consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead,
+shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the
+holy garments: 16:33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy
+sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the
+congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for
+the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
+
+16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an
+atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year.
+And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+17:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17:2 Speak unto Aaron, and
+unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them;
+This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying, 17:3 What man
+soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb,
+or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, 17:4 And
+bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
+to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD;
+blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man
+shall be cut off from among his people: 17:5 To the end that the
+children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the
+open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door
+of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them
+for peace offerings unto the LORD.
+
+17:6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the
+LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the
+fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after
+whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto
+them throughout their generations.
+
+17:8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the
+house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that
+offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, 17:9 And bringeth it not unto
+the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the
+LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
+
+17:10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the
+strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I
+will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will
+cut him off from among his people.
+
+17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it
+to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is
+the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
+
+17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you
+shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you
+eat blood.
+
+17:13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the
+strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast
+or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof,
+and cover it with dust.
+
+17:14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life
+thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat
+the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the
+blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
+
+17:15 And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that
+which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or
+a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
+water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
+
+17:16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear
+his iniquity.
+
+18:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18:2 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
+
+18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye
+not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring
+you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
+
+18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk
+therein: I am the LORD your God.
+
+18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a
+man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
+
+18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to
+uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
+
+18:7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother,
+shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her
+nakedness.
+
+18:8 The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is
+thy father’s nakedness.
+
+18:9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or
+daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad,
+even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
+
+18:10 The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s
+daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is
+thine own nakedness.
+
+18:11 The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy
+father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
+
+18:12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she
+is thy father’s near kinswoman.
+
+18:13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for
+she is thy mother’s near kinswoman.
+
+18:14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother,
+thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
+
+18:15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she
+is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
+
+18:16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it
+is thy brother’s nakedness.
+
+18:17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her
+daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her
+daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near
+kinswomen: it is wickedness.
+
+18:18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to
+uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
+
+18:19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her
+nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
+
+18:20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife,
+to defile thyself with her.
+
+18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to
+Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
+
+18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
+abomination.
+
+18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
+therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down
+thereto: it is confusion.
+
+18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all
+these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 18:25 And
+the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon
+it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
+
+18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall
+not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation,
+nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: 18:27 (For all these
+abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and
+the land is defiled;) 18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when
+ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
+
+18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the
+souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
+
+18:30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any
+one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and
+that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
+
+19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 19:2 Speak unto all the
+congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be
+holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
+
+19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my
+sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
+
+19:4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am
+the LORD your God.
+
+19:5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye
+shall offer it at your own will.
+
+19:6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow:
+and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the
+fire.
+
+19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it
+shall not be accepted.
+
+19:8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity,
+because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul
+shall be cut off from among his people.
+
+19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly
+reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings
+of thy harvest.
+
+19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather
+every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and
+stranger: I am the LORD your God.
+
+19:11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to
+another.
+
+19:12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou
+profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
+
+19:13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages
+of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the
+morning.
+
+19:14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before
+the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
+
+19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not
+respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty:
+but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
+
+19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people:
+neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the
+LORD.
+
+19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in
+any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
+
+19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children
+of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the
+LORD.
+
+19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender
+with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed:
+neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
+
+19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid,
+betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given
+her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because
+she was not free.
+
+19:21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the
+door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass
+offering.
+
+19:22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of
+the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done:
+and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
+
+19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all
+manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as
+uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it
+shall not be eaten of.
+
+19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to
+praise the LORD withal.
+
+19:25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it
+may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
+
+19:26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use
+enchantment, nor observe times.
+
+19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou
+mar the corners of thy beard.
+
+19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor
+print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
+
+19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest
+the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
+
+19:30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the
+LORD.
+
+19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after
+wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
+
+19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of
+the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
+
+19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not
+vex him.
+
+19:34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one
+born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were
+strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
+
+19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in
+weight, or in measure.
+
+19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall
+ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
+Egypt.
+
+19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my
+judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
+
+20:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 20:2 Again, thou shalt say
+to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel,
+or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his
+seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the
+land shall stone him with stones.
+
+20:3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
+from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech,
+to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
+
+20:4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from
+the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
+20:5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family,
+and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit
+whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
+
+20:6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits,
+and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face
+against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
+
+20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD
+your God.
+
+20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which
+sanctify you.
+
+20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be
+surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his
+blood shall be upon him.
+
+20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife,
+even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the
+adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
+
+20:11 And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his
+father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their
+blood shall be upon them.
+
+20:12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall
+surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall
+be upon them.
+
+20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both
+of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to
+death; their blood shall be upon them.
+
+20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they
+shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no
+wickedness among you.
+
+20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death:
+and ye shall slay the beast.
+
+20:16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto,
+thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to
+death; their blood shall be upon them.
+
+20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or
+his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his
+nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the
+sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he
+shall bear his iniquity.
+
+20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and
+shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she
+hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be
+cut off from among their people.
+
+20:19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister,
+nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall
+bear their iniquity.
+
+20:20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered
+his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die
+childless.
+
+20:21 And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean
+thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be
+childless.
+
+20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments,
+and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue
+you not out.
+
+20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast
+out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I
+abhorred them.
+
+20:24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I
+will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and
+honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other
+people.
+
+20:25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and
+unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make
+your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living
+thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as
+unclean.
+
+20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have
+severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
+
+20:27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a
+wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with
+stones: their blood shall be upon them.
+
+21:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of
+Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead
+among his people: 21:2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that
+is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his
+daughter, and for his brother.
+
+21:3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath
+had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
+
+21:4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his
+people, to profane himself.
+
+21:5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they
+shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their
+flesh.
+
+21:6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of
+their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread
+of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
+
+21:7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither
+shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto
+his God.
+
+21:8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of
+thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify
+you, am holy.
+
+21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing
+the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
+
+21:10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose
+head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on
+the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 21:11
+Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his
+father, or for his mother; 21:12 Neither shall he go out of the
+sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the
+anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
+
+21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
+
+21:14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these
+shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to
+wife.
+
+21:15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the
+LORD do sanctify him.
+
+21:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 21:17 Speak unto Aaron,
+saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any
+blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
+
+21:18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not
+approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any
+thing superfluous, 21:19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or
+brokenhanded, 21:20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish
+in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; 21:21
+No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come
+nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a
+blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
+
+21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of
+the holy.
+
+21:23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the
+altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries:
+for I the LORD do sanctify them.
+
+21:24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the
+children of Israel.
+
+22:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 22:2 Speak unto Aaron and
+to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the
+children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those
+things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
+
+22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your
+generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of
+Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that
+soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
+
+22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a
+running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.
+And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man
+whose seed goeth from him; 22:5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping
+thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take
+uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; 22:6 The soul which hath
+touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the
+holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
+
+22:7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward
+eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
+
+22:8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not
+eat to defile himself therewith; I am the LORD.
+
+22:9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for
+it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify
+them.
+
+22:10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of
+the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
+
+22:11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of
+it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
+
+22:12 If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she
+may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
+
+22:13 But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have
+no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth,
+she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall be no stranger eat
+thereof.
+
+22:14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall
+put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest
+with the holy thing.
+
+22:15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of
+Israel, which they offer unto the LORD; 22:16 Or suffer them to bear
+the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the
+LORD do sanctify them.
+
+22:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 22:18 Speak unto Aaron,
+and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto
+them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in
+Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his
+freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt
+offering; 22:19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without
+blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
+
+22:20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it
+shall not be acceptable for you.
+
+22:21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the
+LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep,
+it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
+
+22:22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or
+scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering
+by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
+
+22:23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or
+lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering;
+but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
+
+22:24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or
+crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof
+in your land.
+
+22:25 Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer the bread of your
+God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and
+blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
+
+22:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 22:27 When a bullock, or
+a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days
+under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be
+accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+22:28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her
+young both in one day.
+
+22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the
+LORD, offer it at your own will.
+
+22:30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it
+until the morrow: I am the LORD.
+
+22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the
+LORD.
+
+22:32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed
+among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you, 22:33
+That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the
+LORD.
+
+23:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:2 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the
+LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are
+my feasts.
+
+23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath
+of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the
+sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
+
+23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which
+ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
+
+23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s
+passover.
+
+23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of
+unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened
+bread.
+
+23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do
+no servile work therein.
+
+23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven
+days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no
+servile work therein.
+
+23:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:10 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land
+which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye
+shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the
+priest: 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be
+accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall
+wave it.
+
+23:12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb
+without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
+
+23:13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine
+flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a
+sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the
+fourth part of an hin.
+
+23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green
+ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto
+your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations
+in all your dwellings.
+
+23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath,
+from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven
+sabbaths shall be complete: 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the
+seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new
+meat offering unto the LORD.
+
+23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two
+tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with
+leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
+
+23:18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of
+the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for
+a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their
+drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto
+the LORD.
+
+23:19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering,
+and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
+
+23:20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits
+for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be
+holy to the LORD for the priest.
+
+23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an
+holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it
+shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your
+generations.
+
+23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make
+clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither
+shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them
+unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
+
+23:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:24 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of
+the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets,
+an holy convocation.
+
+23:25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an
+offering made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+23:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:27 Also on the tenth
+day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall
+be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and
+offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of
+atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
+
+23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that
+same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
+
+23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day,
+the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
+
+23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever
+throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
+
+23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict
+your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto
+even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
+
+23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:34 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month
+shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
+
+23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no
+servile work therein.
+
+23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the
+LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye
+shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn
+assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
+
+23:37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be
+holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a
+burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings,
+every thing upon his day: 23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and
+beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your
+freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
+
+23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have
+gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD
+seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day
+shall be a sabbath.
+
+23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly
+trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and
+willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God
+seven days.
+
+23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the
+year.
+
+It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate
+it in the seventh month.
+
+23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites
+born shall dwell in booths: 23:43 That your generations may know that
+I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them
+out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
+
+23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the
+LORD.
+
+24:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24:2 Command the children
+of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the
+light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
+
+24:3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the
+congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning
+before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your
+generations.
+
+24:4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the
+LORD continually.
+
+24:5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof:
+two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
+
+24:6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure
+table before the LORD.
+
+24:7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may
+be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the
+LORD.
+
+24:8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD
+continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting
+covenant.
+
+24:9 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in
+the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the
+LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
+
+24:10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an
+Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the
+Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
+24:11 And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord,
+and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name
+was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) 24:12 And
+they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
+
+24:13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24:14 Bring forth him
+that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay
+their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
+
+24:15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
+Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
+
+24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be
+put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as
+well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth
+the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
+
+24:17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
+
+24:18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
+
+24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done,
+so shall it be done to him; 24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye,
+tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be
+done to him again.
+
+24:21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that
+killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
+
+24:22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as
+for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
+
+24:23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should
+bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with
+stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 25:2 Speak
+unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the
+land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the
+LORD.
+
+25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt
+prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 25:4 But in the
+seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for
+the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
+
+25:5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt
+not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a
+year of rest unto the land.
+
+25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and
+for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for
+thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
+
+25:7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall
+all the increase thereof be meat.
+
+25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven
+times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall
+be unto thee forty and nine years.
+
+25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the
+tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make
+the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
+
+25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
+throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be
+a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,
+and ye shall return every man unto his family.
+
+25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow,
+neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes
+in it of thy vine undressed.
+
+25:12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat
+the increase thereof out of the field.
+
+25:13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his
+possession.
+
+25:14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of
+thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another: 25:15
+According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of
+thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he
+shall sell unto thee: 25:16 According to the multitude of years thou
+shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of
+years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number
+of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
+
+25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear
+thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
+
+25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do
+them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
+
+25:19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill,
+and dwell therein in safety.
+
+25:20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold,
+we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 25:21 Then I will
+command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring
+forth fruit for three years.
+
+25:22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until
+the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old
+store.
+
+25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for
+ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
+
+25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a
+redemption for the land.
+
+25:25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his
+possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he
+redeem that which his brother sold.
+
+25:26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to
+redeem it; 25:27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and
+restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may
+return unto his possession.
+
+25:28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is
+sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the
+year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return
+unto his possession.
+
+25:29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may
+redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may
+he redeem it.
+
+25:30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then
+the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to
+him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in
+the jubile.
+
+25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about
+them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be
+redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
+
+25:32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the
+cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
+
+25:33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was
+sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of
+jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their
+possession among the children of Israel.
+
+25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold;
+for it is their perpetual possession.
+
+25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee;
+then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a
+sojourner; that he may live with thee.
+
+25:36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that
+thy brother may live with thee.
+
+25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy
+victuals for increase.
+
+25:38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land
+of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
+
+25:39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be
+sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
+25:40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with
+thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
+
+25:41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children
+with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the
+possession of his fathers shall he return.
+
+25:42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land
+of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
+
+25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy
+God.
+
+25:44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,
+shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy
+bondmen and bondmaids.
+
+25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among
+you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you,
+which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
+
+25:46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after
+you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for
+ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule
+one over another with rigour.
+
+25:47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother
+that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or
+sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family: 25:48
+After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren
+may redeem him: 25:49 Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem
+him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him;
+or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
+
+25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that
+he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale
+shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of
+an hired servant shall it be with him.
+
+25:51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall
+give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was
+bought for.
+
+25:52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then
+he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give
+him again the price of his redemption.
+
+25:53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the
+other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
+
+25:54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out
+in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
+
+25:55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my
+servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD
+your God.
+
+26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up
+a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your
+land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
+
+26:2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the
+LORD.
+
+26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
+26:4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield
+her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
+
+26:5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage
+shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the
+full, and dwell in your land safely.
+
+26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and
+none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the
+land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
+
+26:7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you
+by the sword.
+
+26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you
+shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before
+you by the sword.
+
+26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
+multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
+
+26:10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of
+the new.
+
+26:11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
+you.
+
+26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be
+my people.
+
+26:13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land
+of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the
+bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
+
+26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
+commandments; 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your
+soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments,
+but that ye break my covenant: 26:16 I also will do this unto you; I
+will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague,
+that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall
+sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
+
+26:17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before
+your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall
+flee when none pursueth you.
+
+26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will
+punish you seven times more for your sins.
+
+26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your
+heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 26:20 And your strength shall
+be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither
+shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
+
+26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I
+will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
+
+26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of
+your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number;
+and your high ways shall be desolate.
+
+26:23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will
+walk contrary unto me; 26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you,
+and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
+
+26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel
+of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities,
+I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into
+the hand of the enemy.
+
+26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall
+bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread
+again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
+
+26:27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk
+contrary unto me; 26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in
+fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
+
+26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
+daughters shall ye eat.
+
+26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images,
+and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul
+shall abhor you.
+
+26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries
+unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
+
+26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies
+which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
+
+26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a
+sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities
+waste.
+
+26:34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth
+desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land
+rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
+
+26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not
+rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
+
+26:36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness
+into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a
+shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a
+sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
+
+26:37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword,
+when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your
+enemies.
+
+26:38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your
+enemies shall eat you up.
+
+26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity
+in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers
+shall they pine away with them.
+
+26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
+fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and
+that also they have walked contrary unto me; 26:41 And that I also
+have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of
+their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they
+then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: 26:42 Then will I
+remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and
+also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the
+land.
+
+26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her
+sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept
+of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they
+despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
+
+26:44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies,
+I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them
+utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their
+God.
+
+26:45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their
+ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight
+of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
+
+26:46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD
+made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand
+of Moses.
+
+27:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27:2 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a
+singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
+
+27:3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old
+even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels
+of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
+
+27:4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty
+shekels.
+
+27:5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then
+thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female
+ten shekels.
+
+27:6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy
+estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the
+female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
+
+27:7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male,
+then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten
+shekels.
+
+27:8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present
+himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according
+to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
+
+27:9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the
+LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
+
+27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad
+for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and
+the exchange thereof shall be holy.
+
+27:11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a
+sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the
+priest: 27:12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or
+bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
+
+27:13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part
+thereof unto thy estimation.
+
+27:14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the
+LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as
+the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
+
+27:15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he
+shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and
+it shall be his.
+
+27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field
+of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed
+thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of
+silver.
+
+27:17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to
+thy estimation it shall stand.
+
+27:18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest
+shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain,
+even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy
+estimation.
+
+27:19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it,
+then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto
+it, and it shall be assured to him.
+
+27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the
+field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
+
+27:21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy
+unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the
+priest’s.
+
+27:22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath
+bought, which is not of the fields of his possession; 27:23 Then the
+priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto
+the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that
+day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
+
+27:24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of
+whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did
+belong.
+
+27:25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the
+sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
+
+27:26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD’s
+firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is
+the LORD’s.
+
+27:27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it
+according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it
+thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to
+thy estimation.
+
+27:28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto
+the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field
+of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is
+most holy unto the LORD.
+
+27:29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed;
+but shall surely be put to death.
+
+27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land,
+or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.
+
+27:31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall
+add thereto the fifth part thereof.
+
+27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of
+whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the
+LORD.
+
+27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he
+change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change
+thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
+
+27:34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for
+the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
+
+
+
+
+The Fourth Book of Moses: Called Numbers
+
+
+1:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the
+tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month,
+in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt,
+saying, 1:2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of
+Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the
+number of their names, every male by their polls; 1:3 From twenty
+years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel:
+thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
+
+1:4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head
+of the house of his fathers.
+
+1:5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of
+the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
+
+1:6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
+
+1:7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
+
+1:8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
+
+1:9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
+
+1:10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of
+Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
+
+1:11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
+
+1:12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
+
+1:13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
+
+1:14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
+
+1:15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
+
+1:16 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the
+tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
+
+1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their
+names: 1:18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the
+first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after
+their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number
+of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
+
+1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the
+wilderness of Sinai.
+
+1:20 And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their
+generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
+according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from
+twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
+1:21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben,
+were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
+
+1:22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of
+them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male
+from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
+war; 1:23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
+Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
+
+1:24 Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
+the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
+forth to war; 1:25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe
+of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
+
+1:26 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
+the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
+forth to war; 1:27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe
+of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
+
+1:28 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
+the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
+forth to war; 1:29 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe
+of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
+
+1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
+the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
+forth to war; 1:31 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe
+of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
+
+1:32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by
+their generations, after their families, by the house of their
+fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old
+and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 1:33 Those that
+were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty
+thousand and five hundred.
+
+1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
+the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
+forth to war; 1:35 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe
+of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
+
+1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
+the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
+forth to war; 1:37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe
+of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
+
+1:38 Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
+the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
+forth to war; 1:39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe
+of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
+
+1:40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
+the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
+forth to war; 1:41 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe
+of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
+
+1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after
+their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number
+of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to
+go forth to war; 1:43 Those that were numbered of them, even of the
+tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
+
+1:44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron
+numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was
+for the house of his fathers.
+
+1:45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel,
+by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all
+that were able to go forth to war in Israel; 1:46 Even all they that
+were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five
+hundred and fifty.
+
+1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
+numbered among them.
+
+1:48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying, 1:49 Only thou shalt
+not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the
+children of Israel: 1:50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the
+tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over
+all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all
+the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp
+round about the tabernacle.
+
+1:51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take
+it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall
+set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
+
+1:52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by
+his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their
+hosts.
+
+1:53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of
+testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the
+children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the
+tabernacle of testimony.
+
+1:54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
+commanded Moses, so did they.
+
+2:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2:2 Every
+man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with
+the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of
+the congregation shall they pitch.
+
+2:3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of
+the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and
+Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of
+Judah.
+
+2:4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
+threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
+
+2:5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of
+Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the
+children of Issachar.
+
+2:6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and
+four thousand and four hundred.
+
+2:7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be
+captain of the children of Zebulun.
+
+2:8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and
+seven thousand and four hundred.
+
+2:9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred
+thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred,
+throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
+
+2:10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben
+according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben
+shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
+
+2:11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty
+and six thousand and five hundred.
+
+2:12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and
+the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of
+Zurishaddai.
+
+2:13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty
+and nine thousand and three hundred.
+
+2:14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall
+be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
+
+2:15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
+and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
+
+2:16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred
+thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty,
+throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
+
+2:17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with
+the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so
+shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
+
+2:18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim
+according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim
+shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
+
+2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
+thousand and five hundred.
+
+2:20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the
+children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
+
+2:21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty
+and two thousand and two hundred.
+
+2:22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of
+Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
+
+2:23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty
+and five thousand and four hundred.
+
+2:24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred
+thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies.
+And they shall go forward in the third rank.
+
+2:25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by
+their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer
+the son of Ammishaddai.
+
+2:26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
+threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
+
+2:27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the
+captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
+
+2:28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
+and one thousand and five hundred.
+
+2:29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of
+Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
+
+2:30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty
+and three thousand and four hundred.
+
+2:31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred
+thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go
+hindmost with their standards.
+
+2:32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by
+the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps
+throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand
+and five hundred and fifty.
+
+2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel;
+as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+2:34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
+commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set
+forward, every one after their families, according to the house of
+their fathers.
+
+3:1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that
+the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
+
+3:2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn,
+and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
+
+3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were
+anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
+
+3:4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered
+strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had
+no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office
+in the sight of Aaron their father.
+
+3:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 3:6 Bring the tribe of Levi
+near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister
+unto him.
+
+3:7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole
+congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the
+service of the tabernacle.
+
+3:8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the
+congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the
+service of the tabernacle.
+
+3:9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they
+are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
+
+3:10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on
+their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put
+to death.
+
+3:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 3:12 And I, behold, I have
+taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the
+firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel:
+therefore the Levites shall be mine; 3:13 Because all the firstborn
+are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of
+Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and
+beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
+
+3:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
+3:15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by
+their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou
+number them.
+
+3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he
+was commanded.
+
+3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and
+Kohath, and Merari.
+
+3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families;
+Libni, and Shimei.
+
+3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar,
+Hebron, and Uzziel.
+
+3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These
+are the families of the Levites according to the house of their
+fathers.
+
+3:21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the
+Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
+
+3:22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all
+the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered
+of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
+
+3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle
+westward.
+
+3:24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall
+be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
+
+3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the
+congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering
+thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation, 3:26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for
+the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar
+round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
+
+3:27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of
+the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of
+the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
+
+3:28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were
+eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
+
+3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the
+tabernacle southward.
+
+3:30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the
+Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
+
+3:31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the
+candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary
+wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
+
+3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the
+chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the
+charge of the sanctuary.
+
+3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the
+Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
+
+3:34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of
+all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two
+hundred.
+
+3:35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
+Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of
+the tabernacle northward.
+
+3:36 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be
+the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars
+thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all
+that serveth thereto, 3:37 And the pillars of the court round about,
+and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
+
+3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even
+before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses,
+and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the
+charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh
+shall be put to death.
+
+3:39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron
+numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families,
+all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two
+thousand.
+
+3:40 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the
+males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take
+the number of their names.
+
+3:41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of
+all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the
+Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children
+of Israel.
+
+3:42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn
+among the children of Israel.
+
+3:43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month
+old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and
+two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
+
+3:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 3:45 Take the Levites
+instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the
+cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall
+be mine: I am the LORD.
+
+3:46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and
+threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel,
+which are more than the Levites; 3:47 Thou shalt even take five
+shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt
+thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:) 3:48 And thou shalt
+give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed,
+unto Aaron and to his sons.
+
+3:49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and
+above them that were redeemed by the Levites: 3:50 Of the firstborn of
+the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and
+threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 3:51
+And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to
+his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded
+Moses.
+
+4:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 4:2 Take the
+sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their
+families, by the house of their fathers, 4:3 From thirty years old and
+upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do
+the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+4:4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle
+of the congregation, about the most holy things: 4:5 And when the camp
+setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take
+down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: 4:6
+And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread
+over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
+
+4:7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue,
+and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers
+to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: 4:8 And
+they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same
+with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves
+thereof.
+
+4:9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of
+the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all
+the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it: 4:10 And
+they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of
+badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
+
+4:11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and
+cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the
+staves thereof: 4:12 And they shall take all the instruments of
+ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a
+cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and
+shall put them on a bar: 4:13 And they shall take away the ashes from
+the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: 4:14 And they shall put
+upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it,
+even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all
+the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of
+badgers’ skins, and put to the staves of it.
+
+4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the
+sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set
+forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but
+they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are
+the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+4:16 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
+pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily
+meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the
+tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the
+vessels thereof.
+
+4:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying, 4:18 Cut ye
+not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the
+Levites: 4:19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die,
+when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall
+go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
+4:20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered,
+lest they die.
+
+4:21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 4:22 Take also the sum of
+the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their
+families; 4:23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old
+shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to
+do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+4:24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve,
+and for burdens: 4:25 And they shall bear the curtains of the
+tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and
+the covering of the badgers’ skins that is above upon it, and the
+hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 4:26 And
+the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of
+the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about,
+and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all
+that is made for them: so shall they serve.
+
+4:27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service
+of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their
+service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.
+
+4:28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the
+tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the
+hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
+
+4:29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their
+families, by the house of their fathers; 4:30 From thirty years old
+and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one
+that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of
+the congregation.
+
+4:31 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their
+service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the
+tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets
+thereof, 4:32 And the pillars of the court round about, and their
+sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments,
+and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the
+instruments of the charge of their burden.
+
+4:33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari,
+according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation,
+under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
+
+4:34 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered
+the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house
+of their fathers, 4:35 From thirty years old and upward even unto
+fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the
+work in the tabernacle of the congregation: 4:36 And those that were
+numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and
+fifty.
+
+4:37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the
+Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
+congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the
+commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
+
+4:38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout
+their families, and by the house of their fathers, 4:39 From thirty
+years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that
+entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the
+congregation, 4:40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout
+their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and
+six hundred and thirty.
+
+4:41 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of
+Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
+congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the
+commandment of the LORD.
+
+4:42 And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of
+Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, 4:43
+From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one
+that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the
+congregation, 4:44 Even those that were numbered of them after their
+families, were three thousand and two hundred.
+
+4:45 These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of
+Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the
+LORD by the hand of Moses.
+
+4:46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron
+and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the
+house of their fathers, 4:47 From thirty years old and upward even
+unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the
+ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+4:48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and
+five hundred and fourscore, 4:49 According to the commandment of the
+LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to
+his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of
+him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+5:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 5:2 Command the children of
+Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that
+hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 5:3 Both male and
+female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they
+defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
+
+5:4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the
+camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
+
+5:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 5:6 Speak unto the children
+of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit,
+to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; 5:7 Then
+they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall
+recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it
+the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath
+trespassed.
+
+5:8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto,
+let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest;
+beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made
+for him.
+
+5:9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of
+Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
+
+5:10 And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man
+giveth the priest, it shall be his.
+
+5:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 5:12 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and
+commit a trespass against him, 5:13 And a man lie with her carnally,
+and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she
+be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken
+with the manner; 5:14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he
+be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of
+jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
+defiled: 5:15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and
+he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of
+barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense
+thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial,
+bringing iniquity to remembrance.
+
+5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
+5:17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of
+the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take,
+and put it into the water: 5:18 And the priest shall set the woman
+before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of
+memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest
+shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: 5:19
+And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If
+no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to
+uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from
+this bitter water that causeth the curse: 5:20 But if thou hast gone
+aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and
+some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: 5:21 Then the
+priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest
+shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among
+thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to
+swell; 5:22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy
+bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the
+woman shall say, Amen, amen.
+
+5:23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
+blot them out with the bitter water: 5:24 And he shall cause the woman
+to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that
+causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
+
+5:25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the
+woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer
+it upon the altar: 5:26 And the priest shall take an handful of the
+offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and
+afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
+
+5:27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come
+to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her
+husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her,
+and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot:
+and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
+
+5:28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be
+free, and shall conceive seed.
+
+5:29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another
+instead of her husband, and is defiled; 5:30 Or when the spirit of
+jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall
+set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her
+all this law.
+
+5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman
+shall bear her iniquity.
+
+6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:2 Speak unto the children
+of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate
+themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the
+LORD: 6:3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and
+shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither
+shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
+
+6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made
+of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
+
+6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor
+come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he
+separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the
+locks of the hair of his head grow.
+
+6:6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall
+come at no dead body.
+
+6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his
+mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the
+consecration of his God is upon his head.
+
+6:8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
+
+6:9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the
+head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of
+his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
+
+6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young
+pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation: 6:11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin
+offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement
+for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head
+that same day.
+
+6:12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation,
+and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but
+the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was
+defiled.
+
+6:13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his
+separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the
+tabernacle of the congregation: 6:14 And he shall offer his offering
+unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a
+burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for
+a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, 6:15
+And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with
+oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat
+offering, and their drink offerings.
+
+6:16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer
+his sin offering, and his burnt offering: 6:17 And he shall offer the
+ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket
+of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering,
+and his drink offering.
+
+6:18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the
+door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of
+the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the
+sacrifice of the peace offerings.
+
+6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one
+unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall
+put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his
+separation is shaven: 6:20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave
+offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave
+breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
+
+6:21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his
+offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand
+shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after
+the law of his separation.
+
+6:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:23 Speak unto Aaron and
+unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of
+Israel, saying unto them, 6:24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
+6:25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto
+thee: 6:26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
+peace.
+
+6:27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I
+will bless them.
+
+7:1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the
+tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the
+instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and
+had anointed them, and sanctified them; 7:2 That the princes of
+Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of
+the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered: 7:3 And
+they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and
+twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox:
+and they brought them before the tabernacle.
+
+7:4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 7:5 Take it of them, that
+they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation;
+and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to
+his service.
+
+7:6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the
+Levites.
+
+7:7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon,
+according to their service: 7:8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave
+unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand
+of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
+
+7:9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of
+the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their
+shoulders.
+
+7:10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day
+that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before
+the altar.
+
+7:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering,
+each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
+
+7:12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the
+son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: 7:13 And his offering was one
+silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels,
+one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
+both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
+offering: 7:14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense: 7:15
+One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt
+offering: 7:16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 7:17 And for a
+sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
+lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of
+Amminadab.
+
+7:18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar,
+did offer: 7:19 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the
+weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
+seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
+of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 7:20 One spoon of
+gold of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:21 One young bullock, one ram,
+one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 7:22 One kid of the
+goats for a sin offering: 7:23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
+two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
+was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
+
+7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children
+of Zebulun, did offer: 7:25 His offering was one silver charger, the
+weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
+seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
+of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 7:26 One golden
+spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:27 One young bullock, one
+ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 7:28 One kid of
+the goats for a sin offering: 7:29 And for a sacrifice of peace
+offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first
+year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
+
+7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
+children of Reuben, did offer: 7:31 His offering was one silver
+charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver
+bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
+them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 7:32 One
+golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:33 One young bullock,
+one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 7:34 One
+kid of the goats for a sin offering: 7:35 And for a sacrifice of peace
+offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first
+year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
+
+7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the
+children of Simeon, did offer: 7:37 His offering was one silver
+charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one
+silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
+both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
+7:38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:39 One young
+bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
+7:40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 7:41 And for a sacrifice
+of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of
+the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of
+Zurishaddai.
+
+7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
+children of Gad, offered: 7:43 His offering was one silver charger of
+the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy
+shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
+flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 7:44 One golden spoon of
+ten shekels, full of incense: 7:45 One young bullock, one ram, one
+lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 7:46 One kid of the
+goats for a sin offering: 7:47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings,
+two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this
+was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
+
+7:48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the
+children of Ephraim, offered: 7:49 His offering was one silver
+charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one
+silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
+both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
+7:50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:51 One young
+bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
+7:52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 7:53 And for a sacrifice
+of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of
+the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
+
+7:54 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of
+the children of Manasseh: 7:55 His offering was one silver charger of
+the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
+seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
+of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 7:56 One golden
+spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:57 One young bullock, one
+ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 7:58 One kid of
+the goats for a sin offering: 7:59 And for a sacrifice of peace
+offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first
+year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
+
+7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the
+children of Benjamin, offered: 7:61 His offering was one silver
+charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one
+silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
+both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
+7:62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:63 One young
+bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
+7:64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 7:65 And for a sacrifice
+of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of
+the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
+
+7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the
+children of Dan, offered: 7:67 His offering was one silver charger,
+the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
+of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
+full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 7:68 One
+golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:69 One young bullock,
+one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 7:70 One
+kid of the goats for a sin offering: 7:71 And for a sacrifice of peace
+offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first
+year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
+
+7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the
+children of Asher, offered: 7:73 His offering was one silver charger,
+the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl
+of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them
+full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 7:74 One
+golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:75 One young bullock,
+one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 7:76 One
+kid of the goats for a sin offering: 7:77 And for a sacrifice of peace
+offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first
+year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
+
+7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children
+of Naphtali, offered: 7:79 His offering was one silver charger, the
+weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
+seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
+of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: 7:80 One golden
+spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 7:81 One young bullock, one
+ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 7:82 One kid of
+the goats for a sin offering: 7:83 And for a sacrifice of peace
+offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first
+year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
+
+7:84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was
+anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve
+silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold: 7:85 Each charger of silver
+weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the
+silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after
+the shekel of the sanctuary: 7:86 The golden spoons were twelve, full
+of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the
+sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty
+shekels.
+
+7:87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the
+rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat
+offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
+
+7:88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were
+twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the
+lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar,
+after that it was anointed.
+
+7:89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation
+to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him
+from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from
+between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
+
+8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8:2 Speak unto Aaron and
+say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give
+light over against the candlestick.
+
+8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the
+candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+8:4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the
+shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according
+unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the
+candlestick.
+
+8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8:6 Take the Levites from
+among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
+
+8:7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water
+of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let
+them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
+
+8:8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even
+fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take
+for a sin offering.
+
+8:9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the
+congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children
+of Israel together: 8:10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the
+LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the
+Levites: 8:11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an
+offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service
+of the LORD.
+
+8:12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the
+bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the
+other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for
+the Levites.
+
+8:13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons,
+and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
+
+8:14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of
+Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
+
+8:15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the
+tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer
+them for an offering.
+
+8:16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of
+Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the
+firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
+
+8:17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both
+man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of
+Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
+
+8:18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the
+children of Israel.
+
+8:19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons
+from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children
+of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an
+atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among
+the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the
+sanctuary.
+
+8:20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of
+Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded
+Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
+
+8:21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and
+Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an
+atonement for them to cleanse them.
+
+8:22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the
+tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as
+the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto
+them.
+
+8:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8:24 This is it that
+belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward
+they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the
+congregation: 8:25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease
+waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more: 8:26 But
+shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the
+congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt
+thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
+
+9:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the
+first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of
+Egypt, saying, 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover
+at his appointed season.
+
+9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in
+his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according
+to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
+
+9:4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep
+the passover.
+
+9:5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first
+month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the
+LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
+
+9:6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a
+man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came
+before Moses and before Aaron on that day: 9:7 And those men said unto
+him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept
+back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed
+season among the children of Israel? 9:8 And Moses said unto them,
+Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning
+you.
+
+9:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 9:10 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity
+shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar
+off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
+
+9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep
+it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
+
+9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone
+of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep
+it.
+
+9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and
+forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off
+from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD
+in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
+
+9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the
+passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover,
+and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one
+ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the
+land.
+
+9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud
+covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even
+there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until
+the morning.
+
+9:16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance
+of fire by night.
+
+9:17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after
+that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the
+cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
+
+9:18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed,
+and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud
+abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
+
+9:19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days,
+then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed
+not.
+
+9:20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle;
+according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents,
+and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
+
+9:21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning,
+and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed:
+whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they
+journeyed.
+
+9:22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the
+cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of
+Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken
+up, they journeyed.
+
+9:23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at
+the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of
+the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
+
+10:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10:2 Make thee two
+trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou
+mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the
+journeying of the camps.
+
+10:3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall
+assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+10:4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which
+are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto
+thee.
+
+10:5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts
+shall go forward.
+
+10:6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on
+the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for
+their journeys.
+
+10:7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall
+blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
+
+10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets;
+and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your
+generations.
+
+10:9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that
+oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye
+shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved
+from your enemies.
+
+10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and
+in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over
+your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings;
+that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD
+your God.
+
+10:11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in
+the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle
+of the testimony.
+
+10:12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the
+wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
+
+10:13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment
+of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
+
+10:14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children
+of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the
+son of Amminadab.
+
+10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was
+Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
+
+10:16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was
+Eliab the son of Helon.
+
+10:17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and
+the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
+
+10:18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to
+their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
+
+10:19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was
+Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
+
+10:20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was
+Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
+
+10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the
+other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
+
+10:22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set
+forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the
+son of Ammihud.
+
+10:23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was
+Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
+
+10:24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was
+Abidan the son of Gideoni.
+
+10:25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward,
+which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and
+over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
+
+10:26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was
+Pagiel the son of Ocran.
+
+10:27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was
+Ahira the son of Enan.
+
+10:28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to
+their armies, when they set forward.
+
+10:29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite,
+Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the
+LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee
+good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
+
+10:30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine
+own land, and to my kindred.
+
+10:31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou
+knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to
+us instead of eyes.
+
+10:32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what
+goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
+
+10:33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’
+journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in
+the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.
+
+10:34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went
+out of the camp.
+
+10:35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said,
+Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that
+hate thee flee before thee.
+
+10:36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many
+thousands of Israel.
+
+11:1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the
+LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD
+burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts
+of the camp.
+
+11:2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the
+LORD, the fire was quenched.
+
+11:3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of
+the LORD burnt among them.
+
+11:4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and
+the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us
+flesh to eat? 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt
+freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions,
+and the garlick: 11:6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing
+at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
+
+11:7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as
+the colour of bdellium.
+
+11:8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in
+mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of
+it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
+
+11:9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell
+upon it.
+
+11:10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families,
+every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was
+kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
+
+11:11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy
+servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou
+layest the burden of all this people upon me? 11:12 Have I conceived
+all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto
+me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking
+child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? 11:13
+Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep
+unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
+
+11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too
+heavy for me.
+
+11:15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of
+hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my
+wretchedness.
+
+11:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the
+elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people,
+and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the
+congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
+
+11:17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take
+of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they
+shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not
+thyself alone.
+
+11:18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to
+morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the
+LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us
+in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
+
+11:19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither
+ten days, nor twenty days; 11:20 But even a whole month, until it come
+out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye
+have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him,
+saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 11:21 And Moses said, The
+people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou
+hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
+
+11:22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice
+them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them,
+to suffice them? 11:23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD’s
+hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to
+pass unto thee or not.
+
+11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD,
+and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them
+round about the tabernacle.
+
+11:25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took
+of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders:
+and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they
+prophesied, and did not cease.
+
+11:26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the
+one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested
+upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out
+unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
+
+11:27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and
+Medad do prophesy in the camp.
+
+11:28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his
+young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
+
+11:29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God
+that all the LORD’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put
+his spirit upon them! 11:30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and
+the elders of Israel.
+
+11:31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails
+from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s
+journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other
+side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the
+face of the earth.
+
+11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and
+all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least
+gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves
+round about the camp.
+
+11:33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was
+chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the
+LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
+
+11:34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because
+there they buried the people that lusted.
+
+11:35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth;
+and abode at Hazeroth.
+
+12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian
+woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
+
+12:2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he
+not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
+
+12:3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were
+upon the face of the earth.) 12:4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto
+Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the
+tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
+
+12:5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in
+the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both
+came forth.
+
+12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you,
+I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak
+unto him in a dream.
+
+12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
+
+12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in
+dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold:
+wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
+12:9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he
+departed.
+
+12:10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold,
+Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam,
+and, behold, she was leprous.
+
+12:11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay
+not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we
+have sinned.
+
+12:12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed
+when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
+
+12:13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I
+beseech thee.
+
+12:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her
+face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from
+the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
+
+12:15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people
+journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
+
+12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in
+the wilderness of Paran.
+
+13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 13:2 Send thou men, that
+they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of
+Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one
+a ruler among them.
+
+13:3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the
+wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of
+Israel.
+
+13:4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the
+son of Zaccur.
+
+13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
+
+13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
+
+13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
+
+13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
+
+13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
+
+13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
+
+13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi
+the son of Susi.
+
+13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
+
+13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
+
+13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
+
+13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
+
+13:16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the
+land.
+
+And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
+
+13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto
+them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
+13:18 And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth
+therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 13:19 And what
+the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what
+cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong
+holds; 13:20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether
+there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of
+the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe
+grapes.
+
+13:21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of
+Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
+
+13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where
+Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron
+was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 13:23 And they came unto
+the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one
+cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they
+brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
+
+13:24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of
+grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
+
+13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
+
+13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
+congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran,
+to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the
+congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
+
+13:27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou
+sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the
+fruit of it.
+
+13:28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and
+the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the
+children of Anak there.
+
+13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites,
+and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the
+Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
+
+13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go
+up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
+
+13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up
+against the people; for they are stronger than we.
+
+13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had
+searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which
+we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants
+thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great
+stature.
+
+13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the
+giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were
+in their sight.
+
+14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
+the people wept that night.
+
+14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against
+Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we
+had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this
+wilderness! 14:3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this
+land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be
+a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 14:4 And they
+said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into
+Egypt.
+
+14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly
+of the congregation of the children of Israel.
+
+14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which
+were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 14:7 And they
+spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The
+land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
+
+14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land,
+and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
+
+14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of
+the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from
+them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
+
+14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the
+glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation
+before all the children of Israel.
+
+14:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke
+me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs
+which I have shewed among them? 14:12 I will smite them with the
+pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater
+nation and mightier than they.
+
+14:13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it,
+(for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
+14:14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they
+have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art
+seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that
+thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a
+pillar of fire by night.
+
+14:15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the
+nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 14:16
+Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which
+he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
+
+14:17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great,
+according as thou hast spoken, saying, 14:18 The LORD is
+longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and
+transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the
+iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
+generation.
+
+14:19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according
+unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this
+people, from Egypt even until now.
+
+14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 14:21
+But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory
+of the LORD.
+
+14:22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles,
+which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now
+these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 14:23 Surely they
+shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall
+any of them that provoked me see it: 14:24 But my servant Caleb,
+because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully,
+him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall
+possess it.
+
+14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.)
+Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the
+Red sea.
+
+14:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 14:27 How
+long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against
+me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they
+murmur against me.
+
+14:28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have
+spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 14:29 Your carcases shall
+fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according
+to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have
+murmured against me.
+
+14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I
+sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and
+Joshua the son of Nun.
+
+14:31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will
+I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
+
+14:32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
+wilderness.
+
+14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
+and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
+wilderness.
+
+14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even
+forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even
+forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
+
+14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil
+congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
+wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
+
+14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned,
+and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a
+slander upon the land, 14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil
+report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
+
+14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which
+were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
+
+14:39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel:
+and the people mourned greatly.
+
+14:40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the
+top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the
+place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
+
+14:41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment
+of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
+
+14:42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten
+before your enemies.
+
+14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and
+ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD,
+therefore the LORD will not be with you.
+
+14:44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the
+ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the
+camp.
+
+14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in
+that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
+
+15:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 15:2 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land
+of your habitations, which I give unto you, 15:3 And will make an
+offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in
+performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts,
+to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
+15:4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a
+meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of
+an hin of oil.
+
+15:5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt
+thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
+
+15:6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth
+deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
+
+15:7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an
+hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+15:8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a
+sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD: 15:9
+Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth
+deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
+
+15:10 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine,
+for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+15:11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a
+lamb, or a kid.
+
+15:12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to
+every one according to their number.
+
+15:13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after
+this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour
+unto the LORD.
+
+15:14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in
+your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet
+savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
+
+15:15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and
+also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever
+in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the
+LORD.
+
+15:16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger
+that sojourneth with you.
+
+15:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 15:18 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land
+whither I bring you, 15:19 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the
+bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
+
+15:20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave
+offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall
+ye heave it.
+
+15:21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave
+offering in your generations.
+
+15:22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments,
+which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, 15:23 Even all that the LORD
+hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD
+commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations; 15:24 Then
+it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge
+of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young
+bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with
+his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner,
+and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
+
+15:25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation
+of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is
+ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by
+fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their
+ignorance: 15:26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the
+children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them;
+seeing all the people were in ignorance.
+
+15:27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she
+goat of the first year for a sin offering.
+
+15:28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth
+ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an
+atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
+
+15:29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance,
+both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the
+stranger that sojourneth among them.
+
+15:30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born
+in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that
+soul shall be cut off from among his people.
+
+15:31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken
+his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity
+shall be upon him.
+
+15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
+found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
+
+15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses
+and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
+
+15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what
+should be done to him.
+
+15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to
+death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the
+camp.
+
+15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
+stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+15:37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 15:38 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the
+borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they
+put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: 15:39 And it
+shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember
+all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not
+after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a
+whoring: 15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and
+be holy unto your God.
+
+15:41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
+Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
+
+16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi,
+and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth,
+sons of Reuben, took men: 16:2 And they rose up before Moses, with
+certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of
+the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: 16:3 And they
+gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said
+unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are
+holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then
+lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD? 16:4 And
+when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: 16:5 And he spake unto
+Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will
+shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near
+unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto
+him.
+
+16:6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company; 16:7 And
+put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow:
+and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be
+holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
+
+16:8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
+16:9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel
+hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near
+to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to
+stand before the congregation to minister unto them? 16:10 And he
+hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi
+with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also? 16:11 For which cause
+both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD:
+and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him? 16:12 And Moses sent
+to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not
+come up: 16:13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of
+a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness,
+except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us? 16:14 Moreover
+thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey,
+or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the
+eyes of these men? we will not come up.
+
+16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not
+thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have
+I hurt one of them.
+
+16:16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before
+the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow: 16:17 And take every
+man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD
+every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and
+Aaron, each of you his censer.
+
+16:18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and
+laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the
+congregation with Moses and Aaron.
+
+16:19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the
+door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD
+appeared unto all the congregation.
+
+16:20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 16:21
+Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume
+them in a moment.
+
+16:22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the
+spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with
+all the congregation? 16:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
+16:24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the
+tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
+
+16:25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the
+elders of Israel followed him.
+
+16:26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you,
+from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest
+ye be consumed in all their sins.
+
+16:27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram,
+on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door
+of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little
+children.
+
+16:28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me
+to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
+
+16:29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be
+visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent
+me.
+
+16:30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth,
+and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go
+down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have
+provoked the LORD.
+
+16:31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these
+words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: 16:32 And
+the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses,
+and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
+
+16:33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the
+pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the
+congregation.
+
+16:34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of
+them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
+
+16:35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two
+hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
+
+16:36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 16:37 Speak unto Eleazar
+the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the
+burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
+
+16:38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them
+make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered
+them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a
+sign unto the children of Israel.
+
+16:39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they
+that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a
+covering of the altar: 16:40 To be a memorial unto the children of
+Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near
+to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his
+company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
+
+16:41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel
+murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the
+people of the LORD.
+
+16:42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against
+Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the
+congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the
+LORD appeared.
+
+16:43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+16:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 16:45 Get you up from
+among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And
+they fell upon their faces.
+
+16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein
+from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the
+congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone
+out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
+
+16:47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the
+congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and
+he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
+
+16:48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was
+stayed.
+
+16:49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and
+seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
+
+16:50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of
+the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
+
+17:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17:2 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to
+the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the
+house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man’s name upon
+his rod.
+
+17:3 And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi: for one
+rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
+
+17:4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation
+before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
+
+17:5 And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall
+choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings
+of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
+
+17:6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of
+their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to
+their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was
+among their rods.
+
+17:7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of
+witness.
+
+17:8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the
+tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of
+Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and
+yielded almonds.
+
+17:9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all
+the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
+
+17:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the
+testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt
+quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
+
+17:11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
+
+17:12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we
+die, we perish, we all perish.
+
+17:13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD
+shall die: shall we be consumed with dying? 18:1 And the LORD said
+unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall
+bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee
+shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
+
+18:2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy
+father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and
+minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister
+before the tabernacle of witness.
+
+18:3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
+tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary
+and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
+
+18:4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the
+tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle:
+and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
+
+18:5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of
+the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of
+Israel.
+
+18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among
+the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD,
+to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+18:7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s
+office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall
+serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of
+gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
+
+18:8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the
+charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the
+children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the
+anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
+
+18:9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the
+fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and
+every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs
+which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for
+thy sons.
+
+18:10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat
+it: it shall be holy unto thee.
+
+18:11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all
+the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto
+thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for
+ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
+
+18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of
+the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the
+LORD, them have I given thee.
+
+18:13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring
+unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house
+shall eat of it.
+
+18:14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
+
+18:15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they
+bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine:
+nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the
+firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
+
+18:16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou
+redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels,
+after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
+
+18:17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the
+firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt
+sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an
+offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+18:18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as
+the right shoulder are thine.
+
+18:19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children
+of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy
+daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt
+for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
+
+18:20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in
+their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part
+and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
+
+18:21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in
+Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even
+the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+18:22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the
+tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
+
+18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the
+congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a
+statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children
+of Israel they have no inheritance.
+
+18:24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an
+heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit:
+therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they
+shall have no inheritance.
+
+18:25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 18:26 Thus speak unto the
+Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the
+tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye
+shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part
+of the tithe.
+
+18:27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as
+though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of
+the winepress.
+
+18:28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all
+your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall
+give thereof the LORD’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.
+
+18:29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the
+LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of
+it.
+
+18:30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best
+thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the
+increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
+
+18:31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for
+it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+18:32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved
+from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of
+the children of Israel, lest ye die.
+
+19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 19:2 This
+is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying,
+Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer
+without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
+19:3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring
+her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
+19:4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger,
+and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the
+congregation seven times: 19:5 And one shall burn the heifer in his
+sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he
+burn: 19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and
+scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
+
+19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his
+flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the
+priest shall be unclean until the even.
+
+19:8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and
+bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
+
+19:9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer,
+and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be
+kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of
+separation: it is a purification for sin.
+
+19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his
+clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the
+children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them,
+for a statute for ever.
+
+19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven
+days.
+
+19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the
+seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third
+day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
+
+19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and
+purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that
+soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was
+not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet
+upon him.
+
+19:14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into
+the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
+
+19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is
+unclean.
+
+19:16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the
+open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be
+unclean seven days.
+
+19:17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the
+burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put
+thereto in a vessel: 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and
+dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the
+vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that
+touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: 19:19 And the
+clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on
+the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and
+wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at
+even.
+
+19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself,
+that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he
+hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath
+not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
+
+19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that
+sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that
+toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
+
+19:22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and
+the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
+
+20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
+into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in
+Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
+
+20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered
+themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
+
+20:3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God
+that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! 20:4 And why
+have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness,
+that we and our cattle should die there? 20:5 And wherefore have ye
+made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place?
+it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates;
+neither is there any water to drink.
+
+20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto
+the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon
+their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
+
+20:7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 20:8 Take the rod, and
+gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and
+speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his
+water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so
+thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
+
+20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
+
+20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before
+the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch
+you water out of this rock? 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and
+with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out
+abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
+
+20:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me
+not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore
+ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given
+them.
+
+20:13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel
+strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
+
+20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom,
+Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath
+befallen us: 20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have
+dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our
+fathers: 20:16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice,
+and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and,
+behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: 20:17
+Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass
+through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of
+the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not
+turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy
+borders.
+
+20:18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come
+out against thee with the sword.
+
+20:19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high
+way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for
+it: I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet.
+
+20:20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out
+against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
+
+20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border:
+wherefore Israel turned away from him.
+
+20:22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
+journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
+
+20:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the
+coast of the land of Edom, saying, 20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto
+his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given
+unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at
+the water of Meribah.
+
+20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount
+Hor: 20:26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar
+his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die
+there.
+
+20:27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount
+Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
+
+20:28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon
+Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and
+Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
+
+20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they
+mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
+
+21:1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard
+tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against
+Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
+
+21:2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt
+indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy
+their cities.
+
+21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up
+the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and
+he called the name of the place Hormah.
+
+21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to
+compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much
+discouraged because of the way.
+
+21:5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore
+have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there
+is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this
+light bread.
+
+21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit
+the people; and much people of Israel died.
+
+21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for
+we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD,
+that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the
+people.
+
+21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set
+it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is
+bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
+
+21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it
+came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the
+serpent of brass, he lived.
+
+21:10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
+
+21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the
+wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
+
+21:12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
+
+21:13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of
+Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the
+Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the
+Amorites.
+
+21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What
+he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon, 21:15 And at the
+stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth
+upon the border of Moab.
+
+21:16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the
+LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give
+them water.
+
+21:17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
+21:18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it,
+by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the
+wilderness they went to Mattanah: 21:19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel:
+and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: 21:20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that
+is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward
+Jeshimon.
+
+21:21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
+saying, 21:22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the
+fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the
+well: but we will go along by the king’s high way, until we be past
+thy borders.
+
+21:23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border:
+but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against
+Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against
+Israel.
+
+21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed
+his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for
+the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
+
+21:25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the
+cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
+
+21:26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who
+had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out
+of his hand, even unto Arnon.
+
+21:27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon,
+let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: 21:28 For there is a fire
+gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed
+Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
+
+21:29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath
+given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto
+Sihon king of the Amorites.
+
+21:30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and
+we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
+
+21:31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
+
+21:32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages
+thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
+
+21:33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the
+king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the
+battle at Edrei.
+
+21:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered
+him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do
+to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at
+Heshbon.
+
+21:35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there
+was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
+
+22:1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains
+of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
+
+22:2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the
+Amorites.
+
+22:3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many:
+and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
+
+22:4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company
+lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of
+the field.
+
+And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
+
+22:5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to
+Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his
+people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from
+Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over
+against me: 22:6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this
+people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail,
+that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for
+I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest
+is cursed.
+
+22:7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the
+rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and
+spake unto him the words of Balak.
+
+22:8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring
+you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of
+Moab abode with Balaam.
+
+22:9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
+22:10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab,
+hath sent unto me, saying, 22:11 Behold, there is a people come out of
+Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them;
+peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
+
+22:12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou
+shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
+
+22:13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of
+Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave
+to go with you.
+
+22:14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and
+said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
+
+22:15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than
+they.
+
+22:16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the
+son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto
+me: 22:17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will
+do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse
+me this people.
+
+22:18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If
+Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go
+beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
+
+22:19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I
+may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
+
+22:20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men
+come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I
+shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
+
+22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went
+with the princes of Moab.
+
+22:22 And God’s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of
+the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was
+riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
+
+22:23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and
+his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way,
+and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into
+the way.
+
+22:24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a
+wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
+
+22:25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself
+unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he
+smote her again.
+
+22:26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow
+place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the
+left.
+
+22:27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under
+Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a
+staff.
+
+22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto
+Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these
+three times? 22:29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast
+mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I
+kill thee.
+
+22:30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which
+thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont
+to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
+
+22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of
+the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he
+bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
+
+22:32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou
+smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand
+thee, because thy way is perverse before me: 22:33 And the ass saw me,
+and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me,
+surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
+
+22:34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I
+knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if
+it displease thee, I will get me back again.
+
+22:35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but
+only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So
+Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
+
+22:36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet
+him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in
+the utmost coast.
+
+22:37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee
+to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed
+to promote thee to honour? 22:38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am
+come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word
+that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
+
+22:39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.
+
+22:40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the
+princes that were with him.
+
+22:41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and
+brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see
+the utmost part of the people.
+
+23:1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
+prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
+
+23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered
+on every altar a bullock and a ram.
+
+23:3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I
+will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he
+sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
+
+23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven
+altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
+
+23:5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto
+Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
+
+23:6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt
+sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
+
+23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath
+brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come,
+curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
+
+23:8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy,
+whom the LORD hath not defied? 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I
+see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell
+alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
+
+23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth
+part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last
+end be like his! 23:11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou
+done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou
+hast blessed them altogether.
+
+23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that
+which the LORD hath put in my mouth? 23:13 And Balak said unto him,
+Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest
+see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not
+see them all: and curse me them from thence.
+
+23:14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of
+Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on
+every altar.
+
+23:15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while
+I meet the LORD yonder.
+
+23:16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said,
+Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
+
+23:17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering,
+and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath
+the LORD spoken? 23:18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up,
+Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: 23:19 God is not
+a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should
+repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and
+shall he not make it good? 23:20 Behold, I have received commandment
+to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
+
+23:21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen
+perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of
+a king is among them.
+
+23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength
+of an unicorn.
+
+23:23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there
+any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said
+of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! 23:24 Behold, the
+people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young
+lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the
+blood of the slain.
+
+23:25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless
+them at all.
+
+23:26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee,
+saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do? 23:27 And Balak
+said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another
+place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them
+from thence.
+
+23:28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh
+toward Jeshimon.
+
+23:29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
+prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
+
+23:30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a
+ram on every altar.
+
+24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he
+went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his
+face toward the wilderness.
+
+24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his
+tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
+
+24:3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath
+said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 24:4 He hath said,
+which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty,
+falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: 24:5 How goodly are
+thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! 24:6 As the
+valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the
+trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees
+beside the waters.
+
+24:7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be
+in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his
+kingdom shall be exalted.
+
+24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the
+strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and
+shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
+
+24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall
+stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that
+curseth thee.
+
+24:10 And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his
+hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse
+mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these
+three times.
+
+24:11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee
+unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.
+
+24:12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers
+which thou sentest unto me, saying, 24:13 If Balak would give me his
+house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of
+the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD
+saith, that will I speak? 24:14 And now, behold, I go unto my people:
+come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to
+thy people in the latter days.
+
+24:15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
+hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 24:16 He hath
+said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most
+High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but
+having his eyes open: 24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall
+behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a
+Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab,
+and destroy all the children of Sheth.
+
+24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession
+for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
+
+24:19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall
+destroy him that remaineth of the city.
+
+24:20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said,
+Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that
+he perish for ever.
+
+24:21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said,
+Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
+
+24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall
+carry thee away captive.
+
+24:23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when
+God doeth this! 24:24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim,
+and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall
+perish for ever.
+
+24:25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and
+Balak also went his way.
+
+25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit
+whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
+
+25:2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and
+the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
+
+25:3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the
+LORD was kindled against Israel.
+
+25:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people,
+and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce
+anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
+
+25:5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his
+men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
+
+25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto
+his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the
+sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were
+weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
+priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a
+javelin in his hand; 25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into the
+tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the
+woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of
+Israel.
+
+25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
+
+25:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25:11 Phinehas, the son
+of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away
+from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among
+them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
+
+25:12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
+25:13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant
+of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and
+made an atonement for the children of Israel.
+
+25:14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was
+slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince
+of a chief house among the Simeonites.
+
+25:15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi,
+the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house
+in Midian.
+
+25:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25:17 Vex the Midianites,
+and smite them: 25:18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith
+they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of
+Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was
+slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
+
+26:1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto
+Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 26:2 Take
+the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty
+years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are
+able to go to war in Israel.
+
+26:3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of
+Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 26:4 Take the sum of the people,
+from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the
+children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
+
+26:5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch,
+of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of
+the Palluites: 26:6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi,
+the family of the Carmites.
+
+26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were
+numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and
+thirty.
+
+26:8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
+
+26:9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is
+that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who
+strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when
+they strove against the LORD: 26:10 And the earth opened her mouth,
+and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died,
+what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became
+a sign.
+
+26:11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
+
+26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family
+of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin,
+the family of the Jachinites: 26:13 Of Zerah, the family of the
+Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
+
+26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two
+thousand and two hundred.
+
+26:15 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family
+of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the
+family of the Shunites: 26:16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of
+Eri, the family of the Erites: 26:17 Of Arod, the family of the
+Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
+
+26:18 These are the families of the children of Gad according to those
+that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
+
+26:19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the
+land of Canaan.
+
+26:20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the
+family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of
+Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
+
+26:21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the
+Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
+
+26:22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were
+numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
+
+26:23 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the
+family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites: 26:24 Of
+Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the
+Shimronites.
+
+26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were
+numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
+
+26:26 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the
+family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of
+Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
+
+26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those
+that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
+
+26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and
+Ephraim.
+
+26:29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
+Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the
+Gileadites.
+
+26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the
+Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: 26:31 And of
+Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of
+the Shechemites: 26:32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites:
+and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
+
+26:33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and
+the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah,
+Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
+
+26:34 These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered
+of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
+
+26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
+Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of
+the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
+
+26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the
+Eranites.
+
+26:37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those
+that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred.
+These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
+
+26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family
+of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram,
+the family of the Ahiramites: 26:39 Of Shupham, the family of the
+Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
+
+26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of
+the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
+
+26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they
+that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six
+hundred.
+
+26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the
+family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their
+families.
+
+26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were
+numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
+
+26:44 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the
+family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of
+Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
+
+26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of
+Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
+
+26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
+
+26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those
+that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four
+hundred.
+
+26:48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the
+family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: 26:49
+Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the
+Shillemites.
+
+26:50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families:
+and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and
+four hundred.
+
+26:51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred
+thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
+
+26:52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26:53 Unto these the land
+shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
+
+26:54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou
+shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be
+given according to those that were numbered of him.
+
+26:55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to
+the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
+
+26:56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided
+between many and few.
+
+26:57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their
+families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the
+family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
+
+26:58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the
+Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites,
+the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath
+begat Amram.
+
+26:59 And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi,
+whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron
+and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
+
+26:60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
+
+26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before
+the LORD.
+
+26:62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three
+thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not
+numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no
+inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
+
+26:63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
+priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by
+Jordan near Jericho.
+
+26:64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron
+the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the
+wilderness of Sinai.
+
+26:65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the
+wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son
+of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
+
+27:1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son
+of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of
+Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters;
+Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
+
+27:2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and
+before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the
+tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 27:3 Our father died in the
+wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered
+themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died
+in his own sin, and had no sons.
+
+27:4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his
+family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession
+among the brethren of our father.
+
+27:5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
+
+27:6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27:7 The daughters of
+Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an
+inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the
+inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
+
+27:8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a
+man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass
+unto his daughter.
+
+27:9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance
+unto his brethren.
+
+27:10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance
+unto his father’s brethren.
+
+27:11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his
+inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he
+shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a
+statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+27:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount
+Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of
+Israel.
+
+27:13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy
+people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
+
+27:14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in
+the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before
+their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness
+of Zin.
+
+27:15 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying, 27:16 Let the LORD, the
+God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
+27:17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them,
+and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the
+congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
+
+27:18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a
+man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; 27:19 And set
+him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and
+give him a charge in their sight.
+
+27:20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the
+congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
+
+27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask
+counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his
+word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he,
+and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
+
+27:22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and
+set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
+27:23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the
+LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
+
+28:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 28:2 Command the children
+of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my
+sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe
+to offer unto me in their due season.
+
+28:3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire
+which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year
+without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
+
+28:4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb
+shalt thou offer at even; 28:5 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour
+for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten
+oil.
+
+28:6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount
+Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+28:7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin
+for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine
+to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
+
+28:8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering
+of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer
+it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
+
+28:9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot,
+and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil,
+and the drink offering thereof: 28:10 This is the burnt offering of
+every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink
+offering.
+
+28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt
+offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs
+of the first year without spot; 28:12 And three tenth deals of flour
+for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth
+deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
+28:13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat
+offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a
+sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+28:14 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a
+bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of
+an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month
+throughout the months of the year.
+
+28:15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall
+be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink
+offering.
+
+28:16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of
+the LORD.
+
+28:17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days
+shall unleavened bread be eaten.
+
+28:18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no
+manner of servile work therein: 28:19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice
+made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks,
+and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you
+without blemish: 28:20 And their meat offering shall be of flour
+mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and
+two tenth deals for a ram; 28:21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer
+for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 28:22 And one goat for a
+sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
+
+28:23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning,
+which is for a continual burnt offering.
+
+28:24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven
+days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
+the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and
+his drink offering.
+
+28:25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye
+shall do no servile work.
+
+28:26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat
+offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy
+convocation; ye shall do no servile work: 28:27 But ye shall offer the
+burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks,
+one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 28:28 And their meat offering
+of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two
+tenth deals unto one ram, 28:29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb,
+throughout the seven lambs; 28:30 And one kid of the goats, to make an
+atonement for you.
+
+28:31 Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his
+meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their
+drink offerings.
+
+29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall
+have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of
+blowing the trumpets unto you.
+
+29:2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the
+LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year
+without blemish: 29:3 And their meat offering shall be of flour
+mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals
+for a ram, 29:4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven
+lambs: 29:5 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an
+atonement for you: 29:6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and
+his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat
+offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for
+a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
+
+29:7 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy
+convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work
+therein: 29:8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a
+sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first
+year; they shall be unto you without blemish: 29:9 And their meat
+offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a
+bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram, 29:10 A several tenth deal
+for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 29:11 One kid of the goats
+for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the
+continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink
+offerings.
+
+29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an
+holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a
+feast unto the LORD seven days: 29:13 And ye shall offer a burnt
+offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD;
+thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first
+year; they shall be without blemish: 29:14 And their meat offering
+shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every
+bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the
+two rams, 29:15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen
+lambs: 29:16 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
+continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
+
+29:17 And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two
+rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot: 29:18 And their
+meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the
+rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the
+manner: 29:19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
+continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their
+drink offerings.
+
+29:20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs
+of the first year without blemish; 29:21 And their meat offering and
+their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
+lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 29:22 And
+one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and
+his meat offering, and his drink offering.
+
+29:23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs
+of the first year without blemish: 29:24 Their meat offering and their
+drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs,
+shall be according to their number, after the manner: 29:25 And one
+kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
+offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
+
+29:26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs
+of the first year without spot: 29:27 And their meat offering and
+their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
+lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 29:28 And
+one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and
+his meat offering, and his drink offering.
+
+29:29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
+lambs of the first year without blemish: 29:30 And their meat offering
+and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
+lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 29:31 And
+one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his
+meat offering, and his drink offering.
+
+29:32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
+lambs of the first year without blemish: 29:33 And their meat offering
+and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
+lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: 29:34 And
+one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his
+meat offering, and his drink offering.
+
+29:35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do
+no servile work therein: 29:36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a
+sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock,
+one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish: 29:37 Their
+meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram,
+and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the
+manner: 29:38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual
+burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
+
+29:39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts,
+beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt
+offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings,
+and for your peace offerings.
+
+29:40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the
+LORD commanded Moses.
+
+30:1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the
+children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath
+commanded.
+
+30:2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his
+soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according
+to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
+
+30:3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a
+bond, being in her father’s house in her youth; 30:4 And her father
+hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her
+father shall hold his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and
+every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
+
+30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not
+any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul,
+shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father
+disallowed her.
+
+30:6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered
+ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; 30:7 And her
+husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard
+it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her
+soul shall stand.
+
+30:8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it;
+then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered
+with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the
+LORD shall forgive her.
+
+30:9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith
+they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
+
+30:10 And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a
+bond with an oath; 30:11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace
+at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and
+every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
+
+30:12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he
+heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her
+vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband
+hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
+
+30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her
+husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
+
+30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to
+day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are
+upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the
+day that he heard them.
+
+30:15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard
+them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
+
+30:16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between
+a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in
+her youth in her father’s house.
+
+31:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 31:2 Avenge the children
+of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy
+people.
+
+31:3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves
+unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the
+LORD of Midian.
+
+31:4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel,
+shall ye send to the war.
+
+31:5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a
+thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
+
+31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them
+and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy
+instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
+
+31:7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded
+Moses; and they slew all the males.
+
+31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that
+were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five
+kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
+
+31:9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives,
+and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all
+their flocks, and all their goods.
+
+31:10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all
+their goodly castles, with fire.
+
+31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and
+of beasts.
+
+31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto
+Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the
+children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by
+Jordan near Jericho.
+
+31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
+congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
+
+31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the
+captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from
+the battle.
+
+31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
+31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel
+of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor,
+and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
+
+31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
+every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
+
+31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying
+with him, keep alive for yourselves.
+
+31:19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath
+killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both
+yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
+
+31:20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and
+all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
+
+31:21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to
+the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded
+Moses; 31:22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the
+tin, and the lead, 31:23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall
+make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it
+shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth
+not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
+
+31:24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall
+be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
+
+31:25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 31:26 Take the sum of the
+prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the
+priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: 31:27 And divide
+the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who
+went out to battle, and between all the congregation: 31:28 And levy a
+tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one
+soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of
+the asses, and of the sheep: 31:29 Take it of their half, and give it
+unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
+
+31:30 And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one
+portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of
+the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites,
+which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
+
+31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded
+Moses.
+
+31:32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war
+had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five
+thousand sheep, 31:33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, 31:34
+And threescore and one thousand asses, 31:35 And thirty and two
+thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with
+him.
+
+31:36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to
+war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty
+thousand and five hundred sheep: 31:37 And the LORD’s tribute of the
+sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
+
+31:38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD’s
+tribute was threescore and twelve.
+
+31:39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which
+the LORD’s tribute was threescore and one.
+
+31:40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD’s
+tribute was thirty and two persons.
+
+31:41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s heave offering,
+unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+31:42 And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from
+the men that warred, 31:43 (Now the half that pertained unto the
+congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven
+thousand and five hundred sheep, 31:44 And thirty and six thousand
+beeves, 31:45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred, 31:46 And
+sixteen thousand persons;) 31:47 Even of the children of Israel’s
+half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and
+gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of
+the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+31:48 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the
+captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
+31:49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the
+men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man
+of us.
+
+31:50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every
+man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings,
+earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the
+LORD.
+
+31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all
+wrought jewels.
+
+31:52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the
+LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds,
+was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
+
+31:53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
+31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains
+of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of
+the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the
+LORD.
+
+32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
+great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and
+the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
+32:2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake
+unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the
+congregation, saying, 32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah,
+and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 32:4 Even
+the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is
+a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: 32:5 Wherefore, said
+they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto
+thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
+
+32:6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of
+Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? 32:7
+And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from
+going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? 32:8 Thus
+did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
+
+32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
+land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they
+should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
+
+32:10 And the LORD’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware,
+saying, 32:11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from
+twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto
+Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly
+followed me: 32:12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and
+Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
+
+32:13 And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made
+them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation,
+that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
+
+32:14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase
+of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward
+Israel.
+
+32:15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them
+in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
+
+32:16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds
+here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: 32:17 But we
+ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we
+have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in
+the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
+
+32:18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel
+have inherited every man his inheritance.
+
+32:19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or
+forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan
+eastward.
+
+32:20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will
+go armed before the LORD to war, 32:21 And will go all of you armed
+over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from
+before him, 32:22 And the land be subdued before the LORD: then
+afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and
+before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
+
+32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the
+LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
+
+32:24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep;
+and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
+
+32:25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto
+Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
+
+32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle,
+shall be there in the cities of Gilead: 32:27 But thy servants will
+pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my
+lord saith.
+
+32:28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and
+Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the
+children of Israel: 32:29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of
+Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every
+man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued
+before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a
+possession: 32:30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they
+shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
+
+32:31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
+saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
+
+32:32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan,
+that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be
+ours.
+
+32:33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to
+the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of
+Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of
+Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts,
+even the cities of the country round about.
+
+32:34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
+32:35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah, 32:36 And
+Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
+
+32:37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
+Kirjathaim, 32:38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,)
+and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
+
+32:39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead,
+and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
+
+32:40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he
+dwelt therein.
+
+32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns
+thereof, and called them Havothjair.
+
+32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and
+called it Nobah, after his own name.
+
+33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went
+forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of
+Moses and Aaron.
+
+33:2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by
+the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to
+their goings out.
+
+33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the
+fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the
+children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the
+Egyptians.
+
+33:4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had
+smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.
+
+33:5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in
+Succoth.
+
+33:6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in
+the edge of the wilderness.
+
+33:7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth,
+which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
+
+33:8 And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the
+midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in
+the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
+
+33:9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were
+twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they
+pitched there.
+
+33:10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
+
+33:11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the
+wilderness of Sin.
+
+33:12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and
+encamped in Dophkah.
+
+33:13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
+
+33:14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was
+no water for the people to drink.
+
+33:15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness
+of Sinai.
+
+33:16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at
+Kibrothhattaavah.
+
+33:17 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at
+Hazeroth.
+
+33:18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
+
+33:19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez.
+
+33:20 And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah.
+
+33:21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
+
+33:22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
+
+33:23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
+
+33:24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
+
+33:25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
+
+33:26 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
+
+33:27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
+
+33:28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
+
+33:29 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
+
+33:30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
+
+33:31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Benejaakan.
+
+33:32 And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhagidgad.
+
+33:33 And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
+
+33:34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
+
+33:35 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber.
+
+33:36 And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness
+of Zin, which is Kadesh.
+
+33:37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the
+edge of the land of Edom.
+
+33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment
+of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children
+of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the
+fifth month.
+
+33:39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he
+died in mount Hor.
+
+33:40 And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the
+land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
+
+33:41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
+
+33:42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
+
+33:43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
+
+33:44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ijeabarim, in the
+border of Moab.
+
+33:45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibongad.
+
+33:46 And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in Almondiblathaim.
+
+33:47 And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the
+mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
+
+33:48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in
+the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
+
+33:49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto
+Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
+
+33:50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan
+near Jericho, saying, 33:51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
+unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
+33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
+before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their
+molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: 33:53 And
+ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein:
+for I have given you the land to possess it.
+
+33:54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among
+your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and
+to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s
+inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to
+the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
+
+33:55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from
+before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain
+of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and
+shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
+
+33:56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I
+thought to do unto them.
+
+34:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 34:2 Command the children
+of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan;
+(this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even
+the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) 34:3 Then your south
+quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of
+Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea
+eastward: 34:4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent
+of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be
+from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and
+pass on to Azmon: 34:5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon
+unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
+
+34:6 And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea
+for a border: this shall be your west border.
+
+34:7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall
+point out for you mount Hor: 34:8 From mount Hor ye shall point out
+your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the
+border shall be to Zedad: 34:9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron,
+and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your
+north border.
+
+34:10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to
+Shepham: 34:11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on
+the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach
+unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward: 34:12 And the border
+shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt
+sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
+
+34:13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the
+land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give
+unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe: 34:14 For the tribe of
+the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and
+the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their
+fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of
+Manasseh have received their inheritance: 34:15 The two tribes and the
+half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near
+Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
+
+34:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 34:17 These are the names
+of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest,
+and Joshua the son of Nun.
+
+34:18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land
+by inheritance.
+
+34:19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb
+the son of Jephunneh.
+
+34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of
+Ammihud.
+
+34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
+
+34:22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the
+son of Jogli.
+
+34:23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the
+children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
+
+34:24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel
+the son of Shiphtan.
+
+34:25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun,
+Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
+
+34:26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel
+the son of Azzan.
+
+34:27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the
+son of Shelomi.
+
+34:28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel
+the son of Ammihud.
+
+34:29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance
+unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
+
+35:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan
+near Jericho, saying, 35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they
+give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to
+dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the
+cities round about them.
+
+35:3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of
+them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their
+beasts.
+
+35:4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the
+Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand
+cubits round about.
+
+35:5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two
+thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the
+west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand
+cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the
+suburbs of the cities.
+
+35:6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there
+shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the
+manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty
+and two cities.
+
+35:7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be
+forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
+
+35:8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of
+the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many;
+but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of
+his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he
+inheriteth.
+
+35:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 35:10 Speak unto the
+children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan
+into the land of Canaan; 35:11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be
+cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which
+killeth any person at unawares.
+
+35:12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger;
+that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in
+judgment.
+
+35:13 And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have
+for refuge.
+
+35:14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities
+shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
+
+35:15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of
+Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that
+every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
+
+35:16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die,
+he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
+
+35:17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die,
+and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
+death.
+
+35:18 Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may
+die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
+death.
+
+35:19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he
+meeteth him, he shall slay him.
+
+35:20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of
+wait, that he die; 35:21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he
+die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a
+murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he
+meeteth him.
+
+35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon
+him any thing without laying of wait, 35:23 Or with any stone,
+wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he
+die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm: 35:24 Then the
+congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood
+according to these judgments: 35:25 And the congregation shall deliver
+the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the
+congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he
+was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest,
+which was anointed with the holy oil.
+
+35:26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of
+the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; 35:27 And the revenger of
+blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the
+revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
+35:28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until
+the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest
+the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
+
+35:29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you
+throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
+
+35:30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by
+the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any
+person to cause him to die.
+
+35:31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
+murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to
+death.
+
+35:32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the
+city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land,
+until the death of the priest.
+
+35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it
+defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that
+is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
+
+35:34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I
+dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
+
+36:1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead,
+the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of
+Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the
+chief fathers of the children of Israel: 36:2 And they said, The LORD
+commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the
+children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the
+inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
+
+36:3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of
+the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the
+inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the
+tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot
+of our inheritance.
+
+36:4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then
+shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe
+whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away
+from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
+
+36:5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word
+of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
+
+36:6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the
+daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think
+best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they
+marry.
+
+36:7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove
+from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall
+keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
+
+36:8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe
+of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the
+tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man
+the inheritance of his fathers.
+
+36:9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another
+tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall
+keep himself to his own inheritance.
+
+36:10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of
+Zelophehad: 36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
+Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s
+brothers’ sons: 36:12 And they were married into the families of the
+sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in
+the tribe of the family of their father.
+
+36:13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD
+commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the
+plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
+
+
+
+
+The Fifth Book of Moses: Called Deuteronomy
+
+
+1:1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side
+Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea,
+between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
+
+1:2 (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount
+Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) 1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth
+year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses
+spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD
+had given him in commandment unto them; 1:4 After he had slain Sihon
+the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of
+Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 1:5 On this side Jordan, in
+the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 1:6 The
+LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough
+in this mount: 1:7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the
+mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the
+plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea
+side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great
+river, the river Euphrates.
+
+1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land
+which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to
+give unto them and to their seed after them.
+
+1:9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear
+you myself alone: 1:10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and,
+behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
+
+1:11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many
+more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) 1:12 How can
+I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
+1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your
+tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
+
+1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is
+good for us to do.
+
+1:15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made
+them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over
+hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and
+officers among your tribes.
+
+1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes
+between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his
+brother, and the stranger that is with him.
+
+1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the
+small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man;
+for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you,
+bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
+
+1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should
+do.
+
+1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great
+and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of
+the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to
+Kadeshbarnea.
+
+1:20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the
+Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
+
+1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and
+possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear
+not, neither be discouraged.
+
+1:22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send
+men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us
+word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall
+come.
+
+1:23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one
+of a tribe: 1:24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and
+came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
+
+1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and
+brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a
+good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
+
+1:26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the
+commandment of the LORD your God: 1:27 And ye murmured in your tents,
+and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of
+the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to
+destroy us.
+
+1:28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart,
+saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great
+and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the
+Anakims there.
+
+1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
+
+1:30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you,
+according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 1:31
+And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God
+bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went,
+until ye came into this place.
+
+1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, 1:33 Who
+went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your
+tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and
+in a cloud by day.
+
+1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and
+sware, saying, 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this
+evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your
+fathers.
+
+1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will
+I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,
+because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
+
+1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also
+shalt not go in thither.
+
+1:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall
+go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
+
+1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and
+your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and
+evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they
+shall possess it.
+
+1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the
+wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
+
+1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the
+LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God
+commanded us.
+
+And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready
+to go up into the hill.
+
+1:42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither
+fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
+
+1:43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against
+the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
+
+1:44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against
+you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto
+Hormah.
+
+1:45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not
+hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
+
+1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye
+abode there.
+
+2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the
+way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount
+Seir many days.
+
+2:2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying, 2:3 Ye have compassed this
+mountain long enough: turn you northward.
+
+2:4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the
+coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and
+they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves
+therefore: 2:5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their
+land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount
+Seir unto Esau for a possession.
+
+2:6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall
+also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
+
+2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy
+hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these
+forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked
+nothing.
+
+2:8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau,
+which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from
+Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
+
+2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither
+contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land
+for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for
+a possession.
+
+2:10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many,
+and tall, as the Anakims; 2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as
+the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.
+
+2:12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of
+Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them,
+and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his
+possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
+
+2:13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we
+went over the brook Zered.
+
+2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were
+come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the
+generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as
+the LORD sware unto them.
+
+2:15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them
+from among the host, until they were consumed.
+
+2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and
+dead from among the people, 2:17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
+2:18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
+2:19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon,
+distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of
+the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given
+it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
+
+2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein
+in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; 2:21 A people
+great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them
+before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: 2:22
+As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he
+destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and
+dwelt in their stead even unto this day: 2:23 And the Avims which
+dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth
+out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 2:24 Rise
+ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I
+have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his
+land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
+
+2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of
+thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear
+report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
+
+2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto
+Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 2:27 Let me pass
+through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn
+unto the right hand nor to the left.
+
+2:28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me
+water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my
+feet; 2:29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the
+Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over
+Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
+
+2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the
+LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that
+he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
+
+2:31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and
+his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his
+land.
+
+2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight
+at Jahaz.
+
+2:33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him,
+and his sons, and all his people.
+
+2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed
+the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left
+none to remain: 2:35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto
+ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
+
+2:36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from
+the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one
+city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us: 2:37
+Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto
+any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains,
+nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
+
+3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
+Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
+
+3:2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him,
+and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do
+unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at
+Heshbon.
+
+3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of
+Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to
+him remaining.
+
+3:4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city
+which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of
+Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
+
+3:5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars;
+beside unwalled towns a great many.
+
+3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of
+Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every
+city.
+
+3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a
+prey to ourselves.
+
+3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the
+Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of
+Arnon unto mount Hermon; 3:9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion;
+and the Amorites call it Shenir;) 3:10 All the cities of the plain,
+and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the
+kingdom of Og in Bashan.
+
+3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
+behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of
+the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four
+cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
+
+3:12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which
+is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof,
+gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
+
+3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og,
+gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with
+all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
+
+3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the
+coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name,
+Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
+
+3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
+
+3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead
+even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto
+the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 3:17
+The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth
+even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah
+eastward.
+
+3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath
+given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before
+your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
+
+3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I
+know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I
+have given you; 3:20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your
+brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land
+which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall
+ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
+
+3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen
+all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall
+the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
+
+3:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for
+you.
+
+3:23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, 3:24 O Lord GOD,
+thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty
+hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do
+according to thy works, and according to thy might? 3:25 I pray thee,
+let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that
+goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
+
+3:26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear
+me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto
+me of this matter.
+
+3:27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
+westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it
+with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
+
+3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he
+shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit
+the land which thou shalt see.
+
+3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
+
+4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
+judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
+in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
+
+4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall
+ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the
+LORD your God which I command you.
+
+4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all
+the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them
+from among you.
+
+4:4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one
+of you this day.
+
+4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD
+my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to
+possess it.
+
+4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
+understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these
+statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and
+understanding people.
+
+4:7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them,
+as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 4:8
+And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so
+righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 4:9 Only
+take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget
+the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy
+heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’
+sons; 4:10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy
+God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people
+together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to
+fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that
+they may teach their children.
+
+4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain
+burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and
+thick darkness.
+
+4:12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye
+heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a
+voice.
+
+4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to
+perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of
+stone.
+
+4:14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
+judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to
+possess it.
+
+4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner
+of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of
+the midst of the fire: 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a
+graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or
+female, 4:17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the
+likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 4:18 The likeness
+of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish
+that is in the waters beneath the earth: 4:19 And lest thou lift up
+thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and
+the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship
+them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all
+nations under the whole heaven.
+
+4:20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the
+iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of
+inheritance, as ye are this day.
+
+4:21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware
+that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto
+that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
+4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye
+shall go over, and possess that good land.
+
+4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the
+LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or
+the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
+
+4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
+
+4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye
+shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves,
+and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do
+evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: 4:26 I
+call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall
+soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to
+possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly
+be destroyed.
+
+4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be
+left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
+
+4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and
+stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
+
+4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt
+find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
+
+4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon
+thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and
+shalt be obedient unto his voice; 4:31 (For the LORD thy God is a
+merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor
+forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
+
+4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee,
+since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the
+one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such
+thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 4:33 Did
+ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the
+fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 4:34 Or hath God assayed to go
+and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by
+temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty
+hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to
+all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
+4:35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he
+is God; there is none else beside him.
+
+4:36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might
+instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou
+heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
+
+4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed
+after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power
+out of Egypt; 4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and
+mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for
+an inheritance, as it is this day.
+
+4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the
+LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is
+none else.
+
+4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments,
+which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with
+thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon
+the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
+
+4:41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
+sunrising; 4:42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill
+his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that
+fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 4:43 Namely, Bezer in
+the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in
+Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
+
+4:44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of
+Israel: 4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
+judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they
+came forth out of Egypt.
+
+4:46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the
+land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses
+and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of
+Egypt: 4:47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of
+Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan
+toward the sunrising; 4:48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the
+river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon, 4:49 And all the
+plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain,
+under the springs of Pisgah.
+
+5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel,
+the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that
+ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
+
+5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
+
+5:3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us,
+even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
+
+5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the
+midst of the fire, 5:5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time,
+to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the
+fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying, 5:6 I am the LORD thy
+God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
+bondage.
+
+5:7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
+
+5:8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
+thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
+that is in the waters beneath the earth: 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down
+thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous
+God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
+third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 5:10 And shewing
+mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
+
+5:11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the
+LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
+
+5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath
+commanded thee.
+
+5:13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 5:14 But the
+seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not
+do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant,
+nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy
+cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant
+and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
+
+5:15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and
+that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand
+and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee
+to keep the sabbath day.
+
+5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath
+commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go
+well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
+
+5:17 Thou shalt not kill.
+
+5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
+
+5:19 Neither shalt thou steal.
+
+5:20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
+
+5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt
+thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his
+maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
+
+5:22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount
+out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,
+with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two
+tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
+
+5:23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of
+the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near
+unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 5:24 And
+ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his
+greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire:
+we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
+
+5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume
+us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall
+die.
+
+5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the
+living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and
+lived? 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall
+say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto
+thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
+
+5:28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto
+me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of
+this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all
+that they have spoken.
+
+5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me,
+and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them,
+and with their children for ever! 5:30 Go say to them, Get you into
+your tents again.
+
+5:31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto
+thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
+thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give
+them to possess it.
+
+5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath
+commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the
+left.
+
+5:33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath
+commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and
+that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
+
+6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments,
+which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them
+in the land whither ye go to possess it: 6:2 That thou mightest fear
+the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which
+I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of
+thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
+
+6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be
+well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of
+thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and
+honey.
+
+6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 6:5 And thou shalt
+love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
+with all thy might.
+
+6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine
+heart: 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and
+shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
+walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
+
+6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they
+shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
+
+6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy
+gates.
+
+6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee
+into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
+and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou
+buildedst not, 6:11 And houses full of all good things, which thou
+filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and
+olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and
+be full; 6:12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought
+thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
+
+6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear
+by his name.
+
+6:14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which
+are round about you; 6:15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among
+you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and
+destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
+
+6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in
+Massah.
+
+6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God,
+and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
+
+6:18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of
+the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in
+and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.
+
+6:19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath
+spoken.
+
+6:20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean
+the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD
+our God hath commanded you? 6:21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We
+were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt
+with a mighty hand: 6:22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great
+and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before
+our eyes: 6:23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring
+us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
+
+6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the
+LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as
+it is at this day.
+
+6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
+commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
+
+7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
+goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
+Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
+and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
+greater and mightier than thou; 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall
+deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy
+them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
+7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
+shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy
+son.
+
+7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may
+serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against
+you, and destroy thee suddenly.
+
+7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars,
+and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their
+graven images with fire.
+
+7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy
+God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all
+people that are upon the face of the earth.
+
+7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye
+were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all
+people: 7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep
+the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought
+you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of
+bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
+
+7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God,
+which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his
+commandments to a thousand generations; 7:10 And repayeth them that
+hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him
+that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
+
+7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and
+the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
+
+7:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these
+judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep
+unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
+7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will
+also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn,
+and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks
+of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give
+thee.
+
+7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male
+or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
+
+7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put
+none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but
+will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
+
+7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God
+shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither
+shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
+
+7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I;
+how can I dispossess them? 7:18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but
+shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto
+all Egypt; 7:19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the
+signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out
+arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy
+God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
+
+7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until
+they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
+
+7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is
+among you, a mighty God and terrible.
+
+7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by
+little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the
+beasts of the field increase upon thee.
+
+7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall
+destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
+
+7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt
+destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to
+stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
+
+7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou
+shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto
+thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD
+thy God.
+
+7:26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest
+thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and
+thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
+
+8:1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye
+observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess
+the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
+
+8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led
+thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove
+thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
+commandments, or no.
+
+8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee
+with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that
+he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by
+every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
+
+8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell,
+these forty years.
+
+8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth
+his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
+
+8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to
+walk in his ways, and to fear him.
+
+8:7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of
+brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys
+and hills; 8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees,
+and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 8:9 A land wherein
+thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing
+in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou
+mayest dig brass.
+
+8:10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD
+thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
+
+8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
+commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command
+thee this day: 8:12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast
+built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 8:13 And when thy herds and
+thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and
+all that thou hast is multiplied; 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up,
+and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the
+land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 8:15 Who led thee through
+that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and
+scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee
+forth water out of the rock of flint; 8:16 Who fed thee in the
+wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might
+humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy
+latter end; 8:17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might
+of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
+
+8:18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that
+giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant
+which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
+
+8:19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and
+walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify
+against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
+
+8:20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so
+shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of
+the LORD your God.
+
+9:1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to
+possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and
+fenced up to heaven, 9:2 A people great and tall, the children of the
+Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can
+stand before the children of Anak! 9:3 Understand therefore this day,
+that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a
+consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down
+before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them
+quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
+
+9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath
+cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD
+hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of
+these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
+
+9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart,
+dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these
+nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and
+that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
+Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
+
+9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this
+good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a
+stiffnecked people.
+
+9:7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to
+wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of
+the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been
+rebellious against the LORD.
+
+9:8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was
+angry with you to have destroyed you.
+
+9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone,
+even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I
+abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat
+bread nor drink water: 9:10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables
+of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written
+according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount
+out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
+
+9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,
+that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the
+covenant.
+
+9:12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from
+hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have
+corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way
+which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
+
+9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this
+people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 9:14 Let me alone,
+that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven:
+and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
+
+9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned
+with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
+
+9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your
+God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out
+of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
+
+9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and
+brake them before your eyes.
+
+9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and
+forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all
+your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD,
+to provoke him to anger.
+
+9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the
+LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto
+me at that time also.
+
+9:20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and
+I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
+
+9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it
+with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was
+as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that
+descended out of the mount.
+
+9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye
+provoked the LORD to wrath.
+
+9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up
+and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against
+the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor
+hearkened to his voice.
+
+9:24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew
+you.
+
+9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as
+I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy
+you.
+
+9:26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy
+not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through
+thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a
+mighty hand.
+
+9:27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto
+the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their
+sin: 9:28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the
+LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them,
+and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in
+the wilderness.
+
+9:29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou
+broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
+
+10:1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone
+like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee
+an ark of wood.
+
+10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first
+tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
+
+10:3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone
+like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables
+in mine hand.
+
+10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the
+ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of
+the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave
+them unto me.
+
+10:5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the
+tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD
+commanded me.
+
+10:6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the
+children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was
+buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his
+stead.
+
+10:7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
+Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
+
+10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the
+ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister
+unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
+
+10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren;
+the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised
+him.
+
+10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty
+days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time
+also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
+
+10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
+people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto
+their fathers to give unto them.
+
+10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but
+to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him,
+and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
+soul, 10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes,
+which I command thee this day for thy good? 10:14 Behold, the heaven
+and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with
+all that therein is.
+
+10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he
+chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this
+day.
+
+10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
+stiffnecked.
+
+10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great
+God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh
+reward: 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and
+widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
+
+10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the
+land of Egypt.
+
+10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to
+him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
+
+10:21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee
+these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
+
+10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten
+persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of
+heaven for multitude.
+
+11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge,
+and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
+
+11:2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which
+have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD
+your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
+11:3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of
+Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 11:4 And
+what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their
+chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as
+they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this
+day; 11:5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came
+into this place; 11:6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons
+of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and
+swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the
+substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
+11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he
+did.
+
+11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you
+this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
+whither ye go to possess it; 11:9 And that ye may prolong your days in
+the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and
+to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
+
+11:10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the
+land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed,
+and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11:11 But the
+land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and
+drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 11:12 A land which the LORD thy
+God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from
+the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
+
+11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto
+my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your
+God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
+11:14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season,
+the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy
+corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
+
+11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou
+mayest eat and be full.
+
+11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye
+turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 11:17 And then the
+LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that
+there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye
+perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
+
+11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in
+your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be
+as frontlets between your eyes.
+
+11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when
+thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when
+thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
+
+11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,
+and upon thy gates: 11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the
+days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your
+fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
+
+11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I
+command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his
+ways, and to cleave unto him; 11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all
+these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations
+and mightier than yourselves.
+
+11:24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be
+yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river
+Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
+
+11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD
+your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the
+land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
+
+11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 11:27
+A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I
+command you this day: 11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the
+commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which
+I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not
+known.
+
+11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought
+thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou
+shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount
+Ebal.
+
+11:30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun
+goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the
+champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 11:31 For
+ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD
+your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
+
+11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which
+I set before you this day.
+
+12:1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to
+do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to
+possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
+
+12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations
+which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and
+upon the hills, and under every green tree: 12:3 And ye shall
+overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves
+with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and
+destroy the names of them out of that place.
+
+12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
+
+12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of
+all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall
+ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 12:6 And thither ye shall bring
+your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave
+offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings,
+and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 12:7 And there ye
+shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that
+ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy
+God hath blessed thee.
+
+12:8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
+every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
+
+12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
+which the LORD your God giveth you.
+
+12:10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD
+your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all
+your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; 12:11 Then there
+shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his
+name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you;
+your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave
+offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the
+LORD: 12:12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and
+your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your
+maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as
+he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
+
+12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in
+every place that thou seest: 12:14 But in the place which the LORD
+shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt
+offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
+
+12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,
+whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the
+LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may
+eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
+
+12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth
+as water.
+
+12:17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or
+of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy
+flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill
+offerings, or heave offering of thine hand: 12:18 But thou must eat
+them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall
+choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and
+thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou
+shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine
+hands unto.
+
+12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as
+thou livest upon the earth.
+
+12:20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath
+promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul
+longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul
+lusteth after.
+
+12:21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name
+there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of
+thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee,
+and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
+
+12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat
+them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
+
+12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the
+life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
+
+12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as
+water.
+
+12:25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with
+thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the
+sight of the LORD.
+
+12:26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt
+take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: 12:27 And
+thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon
+the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall
+be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat
+the flesh.
+
+12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it
+may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when
+thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy
+God.
+
+12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before
+thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them,
+and dwellest in their land; 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be
+not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before
+thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did
+these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
+
+12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every
+abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their
+gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the
+fire to their gods.
+
+12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt
+not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
+
+13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and
+giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 13:2 And the sign or the wonder come
+to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other
+gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 13:3 Thou
+shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of
+dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the
+LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
+
+13:4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
+commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave
+unto him.
+
+13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
+death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God,
+which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of
+the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy
+God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from
+the midst of thee.
+
+13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
+daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine
+own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other
+gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 13:7 Namely,
+of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee,
+or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the
+other end of the earth; 13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor
+hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou
+spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 13:9 But thou shalt surely kill
+him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
+afterwards the hand of all the people.
+
+13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he
+hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought
+thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
+
+13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any
+such wickedness as this is among you.
+
+13:12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy
+God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13:13 Certain men, the
+children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn
+the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
+which ye have not known; 13:14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make
+search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
+certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 13:15 Thou shalt
+surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword,
+destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle
+thereof, with the edge of the sword.
+
+13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the
+street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil
+thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for
+ever; it shall not be built again.
+
+13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand:
+that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee
+mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath
+sworn unto thy fathers; 13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of
+the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee
+this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
+
+14:1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut
+yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
+
+14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD
+hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the
+nations that are upon the earth.
+
+14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
+
+14:4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and
+the goat, 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the
+wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
+
+14:6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft
+into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall
+eat.
+
+14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or
+of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and
+the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore
+they are unclean unto you.
+
+14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the
+cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor
+touch their dead carcase.
+
+14:9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have
+fins and scales shall ye eat: 14:10 And whatsoever hath not fins and
+scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
+
+14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
+
+14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the
+ossifrage, and the ospray, 14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the
+vulture after his kind, 14:14 And every raven after his kind, 14:15
+And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after
+his kind, 14:16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 14:17
+And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, 14:18 And the
+stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
+
+14:19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they
+shall not be eaten.
+
+14:20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
+
+14:21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt
+give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or
+thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto
+the LORD thy God.
+
+Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
+
+14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the
+field bringeth forth year by year.
+
+14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which
+he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy
+wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy
+flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
+
+14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able
+to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy
+God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath
+blessed thee: 14:25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up
+the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD
+thy God shall choose: 14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for
+whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for
+wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and
+thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice,
+thou, and thine household, 14:27 And the Levite that is within thy
+gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance
+with thee.
+
+14:28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe
+of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
+14:29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with
+thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are
+within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the
+LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou
+doest.
+
+15:1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
+
+15:2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that
+lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact
+it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the
+LORD’s release.
+
+15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is
+thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; 15:4 Save when there
+shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in
+the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to
+possess it: 15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the
+LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command
+thee this day.
+
+15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou
+shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou
+shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
+
+15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within
+any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou
+shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor
+brother: 15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt
+surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
+
+15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying,
+The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be
+evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry
+unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
+
+15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved
+when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy
+God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest
+thine hand unto.
+
+15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I
+command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy
+brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
+
+15:12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold
+unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou
+shalt let him go free from thee.
+
+15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let
+him go away empty: 15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy
+flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that
+wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
+
+15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
+Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee
+this thing to day.
+
+15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from
+thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with
+thee; 15:17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear
+unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy
+maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
+
+15:18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away
+free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee,
+in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in
+all that thou doest.
+
+15:19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock
+thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with
+the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
+
+15:20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the
+place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
+
+15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind,
+or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy
+God.
+
+15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean
+person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
+
+15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it
+upon the ground as water.
+
+16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD
+thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth
+out of Egypt by night.
+
+16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy
+God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall
+choose to place his name there.
+
+16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou
+eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou
+camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest
+remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all
+the days of thy life.
+
+16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy
+coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which
+thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the
+morning.
+
+16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,
+which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 16:6 But at the place which the
+LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt
+sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the
+season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
+
+16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy
+God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy
+tents.
+
+16:8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day
+shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work
+therein.
+
+16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the
+seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the
+corn.
+
+16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God
+with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt
+give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed
+thee: 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and
+thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant,
+and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the
+fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the
+LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
+
+16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and
+thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
+
+16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
+that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: 16:14 And thou shalt
+rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
+manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the
+fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
+
+16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God
+in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God
+shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine
+hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
+
+16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD
+thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened
+bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and
+they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 16:17 Every man shall
+give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God
+which he hath given thee.
+
+16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which
+the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall
+judge the people with just judgment.
+
+16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
+neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and
+pervert the words of the righteous.
+
+16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou
+mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
+
+16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the
+altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
+
+16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God
+hateth.
+
+17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or
+sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an
+abomination unto the LORD thy God.
+
+17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the
+LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness
+in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 17:3
+And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the
+sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not
+commanded; 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and
+enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain,
+that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 17:5 Then shalt thou bring
+forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing,
+unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with
+stones, till they die.
+
+17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that
+is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he
+shall not be put to death.
+
+17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to
+death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put
+the evil away from among you.
+
+17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between
+blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke,
+being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise,
+and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
+17:9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
+judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew
+thee the sentence of judgment: 17:10 And thou shalt do according to
+the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose
+shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that
+they inform thee: 17:11 According to the sentence of the law which
+they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall
+tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence
+which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
+
+17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken
+unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy
+God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put
+away the evil from Israel.
+
+17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
+presumptuously.
+
+17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
+thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I
+will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
+17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy
+God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over
+thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy
+brother.
+
+17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
+people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses:
+forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return
+no more that way.
+
+17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn
+not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and
+gold.
+
+17:18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom,
+that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which
+is before the priests the Levites: 17:19 And it shall be with him, and
+he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to
+fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these
+statutes, to do them: 17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his
+brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the
+right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in
+his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
+
+18:1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no
+part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the
+LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
+
+18:2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren:
+the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
+
+18:3 And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from them
+that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give
+unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
+
+18:4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil,
+and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
+
+18:5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to
+stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
+
+18:6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,
+where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the
+place which the LORD shall choose; 18:7 Then he shall minister in the
+name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which
+stand there before the LORD.
+
+18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of
+the sale of his patrimony.
+
+18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
+thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those
+nations.
+
+18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son
+or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or
+an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
+
+18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard,
+or a necromancer.
+
+18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD:
+and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out
+from before thee.
+
+18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
+
+18:14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
+observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy
+God hath not suffered thee so to do.
+
+18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
+midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall
+hearken; 18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy
+God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
+the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any
+more, that I die not.
+
+18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they
+have spoken.
+
+18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like
+unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto
+them all that I shall command him.
+
+18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto
+my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
+
+18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
+which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the
+name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
+
+18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which
+the LORD hath not spoken? 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name
+of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the
+thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it
+presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
+
+19:1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the
+LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in
+their cities, and in their houses; 19:2 Thou shalt separate three
+cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God
+giveth thee to possess it.
+
+19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land,
+which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that
+every slayer may flee thither.
+
+19:4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither,
+that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he
+hated not in time past; 19:5 As when a man goeth into the wood with
+his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe
+to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and
+lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of
+those cities, and live: 19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the
+slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is
+long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he
+hated him not in time past.
+
+19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three
+cities for thee.
+
+19:8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto
+thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto
+thy fathers; 19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do
+them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to
+walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee,
+beside these three: 19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land,
+which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be
+upon thee.
+
+19:11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and
+rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth
+into one of these cities: 19:12 Then the elders of his city shall send
+and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of
+blood, that he may die.
+
+19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt
+of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
+
+19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of
+old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in
+the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
+
+19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or
+for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two
+witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be
+established.
+
+19:16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against
+him that which is wrong; 19:17 Then both the men, between whom the
+controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and
+the judges, which shall be in those days; 19:18 And the judges shall
+make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false
+witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19:19 Then
+shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother:
+so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
+
+19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall
+henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
+
+19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye
+for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
+
+20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest
+horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of
+them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of
+the land of Egypt.
+
+20:2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the
+priest shall approach and speak unto the people, 20:3 And shall say
+unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against
+your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble,
+neither be ye terrified because of them; 20:4 For the LORD your God is
+he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save
+you.
+
+20:5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is
+there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him
+go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
+dedicate it.
+
+20:6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet
+eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in
+the battle, and another man eat of it.
+
+20:7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not
+taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the
+battle, and another man take her.
+
+20:8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they
+shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him
+go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well
+as his heart.
+
+20:9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking
+unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead
+the people.
+
+20:10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then
+proclaim peace unto it.
+
+20:11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto
+thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein
+shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
+
+20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war
+against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 20:13 And when the LORD thy
+God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male
+thereof with the edge of the sword: 20:14 But the women, and the
+little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the
+spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the
+spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
+
+20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off
+from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
+
+20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth
+give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that
+breatheth: 20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the
+Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the
+Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
+20:18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations,
+which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the
+LORD your God.
+
+20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war
+against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by
+forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou
+shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to
+employ them in the siege: 20:20 Only the trees which thou knowest that
+they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and
+thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,
+until it be subdued.
+
+21:1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
+thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath
+slain him: 21:2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and
+they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is
+slain: 21:3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the
+slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which
+hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 21:4
+And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough
+valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the
+heifer’s neck there in the valley: 21:5 And the priests the sons of
+Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to
+minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their
+word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: 21:6 And all
+the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash
+their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: 21:7 And
+they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither
+have our eyes seen it.
+
+21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
+redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s
+charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
+
+21:9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among
+you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
+
+21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD
+thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them
+captive, 21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and
+hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 21:12
+Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her
+head, and pare her nails; 21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her
+captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail
+her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go
+in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
+
+21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt
+let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for
+money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast
+humbled her.
+
+21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and
+they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if
+the firstborn son be hers that was hated: 21:16 Then it shall be, when
+he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make
+the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is
+indeed the firstborn: 21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the
+hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he
+hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
+firstborn is his.
+
+21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey
+the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when
+they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 21:19 Then shall
+his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the
+elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 21:20 And they
+shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and
+rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a
+drunkard.
+
+21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he
+die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall
+hear, and fear.
+
+21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to
+be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 21:23 His body shall not
+remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him
+that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be
+not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
+
+22:1 Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and
+hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto
+thy brother.
+
+22:2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him
+not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be
+with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it
+to him again.
+
+22:3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do
+with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he
+hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest
+not hide thyself.
+
+22:4 Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the
+way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift
+them up again.
+
+22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,
+neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are
+abomination unto the LORD thy God.
+
+22:6 If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree,
+or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam
+sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam
+with the young: 22:7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and
+take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou
+mayest prolong thy days.
+
+22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement
+for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man
+fall from thence.
+
+22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit
+of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be
+defiled.
+
+22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
+
+22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and
+linen together.
+
+22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy
+vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
+
+22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 22:14
+And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name
+upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found
+her not a maid: 22:15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her
+mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto
+the elders of the city in the gate: 22:16 And the damsel’s father
+shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife,
+and he hateth her; 22:17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech
+against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these
+are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the
+cloth before the elders of the city.
+
+22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise
+him; 22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver,
+and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought
+up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he
+may not put her away all his days.
+
+22:20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not
+found for the damsel: 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to
+the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone
+her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in
+Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put
+evil away from among you.
+
+22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then
+they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and
+the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
+
+22:23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a
+man find her in the city, and lie with her; 22:24 Then ye shall bring
+them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with
+stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the
+city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so
+thou shalt put away evil from among you.
+
+22:25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man
+force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall
+die.
+
+22:26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the
+damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his
+neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: 22:27 For he found
+her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none
+to save her.
+
+22:28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed,
+and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 22:29 Then
+the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty
+shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled
+her, he may not put her away all his days.
+
+22:30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his
+father’s skirt.
+
+23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut
+off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
+
+23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even
+to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of
+the LORD.
+
+23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of
+the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the
+congregation of the LORD for ever: 23:4 Because they met you not with
+bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and
+because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of
+Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
+
+23:5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but
+the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because
+the LORD thy God loved thee.
+
+23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days
+for ever.
+
+23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou
+shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
+
+23:8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the
+congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
+
+23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee
+from every wicked thing.
+
+23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of
+uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of
+the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 23:11 But it shall be,
+when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the
+sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
+
+23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou
+shalt go forth abroad: 23:13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy
+weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou
+shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh
+from thee: 23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy
+camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee;
+therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in
+thee, and turn away from thee.
+
+23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is
+escaped from his master unto thee: 23:16 He shall dwell with thee,
+even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy
+gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
+
+23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a
+sodomite of the sons of Israel.
+
+23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog,
+into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these
+are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
+
+23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money,
+usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: 23:20
+Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou
+shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all
+that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to
+possess it.
+
+23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not
+slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee;
+and it would be sin in thee.
+
+23:22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
+
+23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform;
+even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD
+thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
+
+23:24 When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest
+eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any
+in thy vessel.
+
+23:25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then
+thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a
+sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.
+
+24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to
+pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
+uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and
+give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
+
+24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
+another man’s wife.
+
+24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
+divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his
+house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
+24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again
+to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
+before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the
+LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
+
+24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war,
+neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at
+home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
+
+24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge:
+for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
+
+24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
+Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief
+shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
+
+24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently,
+and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you:
+as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
+
+24:9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after
+that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
+
+24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go
+into his house to fetch his pledge.
+
+24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend
+shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
+
+24:12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
+24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun
+goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and
+it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
+
+24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy,
+whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy
+land within thy gates: 24:15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire,
+neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his
+heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin
+unto thee.
+
+24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither
+shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be
+put to death for his own sin.
+
+24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the
+fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge: 24:18 But thou shalt
+remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God
+redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
+
+24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast
+forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it
+shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that
+the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
+
+24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the
+boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and
+for the widow.
+
+24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not
+glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless,
+and for the widow.
+
+24:22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
+Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
+
+25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto
+judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the
+righteous, and condemn the wicked.
+
+25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that
+the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his
+face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
+
+25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should
+exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother
+should seem vile unto thee.
+
+25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
+
+25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
+child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger:
+her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to
+wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
+
+25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall
+succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not
+put out of Israel.
+
+25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his
+brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My
+husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in
+Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
+
+25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him:
+and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; 25:9 Then
+shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders,
+and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall
+answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build
+up his brother’s house.
+
+25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that
+hath his shoe loosed.
+
+25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the
+one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him
+that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the
+secrets: 25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not
+pity her.
+
+25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
+small.
+
+25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and
+a small.
+
+25:15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and
+just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the
+land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
+
+25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are
+an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
+
+25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come
+forth out of Egypt; 25:18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the
+hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou
+wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
+
+25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee
+rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD
+thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt
+blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not
+forget it.
+
+26:1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the
+LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and
+dwellest therein; 26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the
+fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD
+thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto
+the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
+
+26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days,
+and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am
+come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to
+give us.
+
+26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set
+it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
+
+26:5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian
+ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and
+sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty,
+and populous: 26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted
+us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 26:7 And when we cried unto the
+LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our
+affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: 26:8 And the LORD
+brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an
+outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and
+with wonders: 26:9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath
+given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
+
+26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land,
+which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the
+LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 26:11 And thou
+shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given
+unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the
+stranger that is among you.
+
+26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine
+increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given
+it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that
+they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 26:13 Then thou shalt
+say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things
+out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto
+the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all
+thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed
+thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
+
+26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken
+away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for
+the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and
+have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
+
+26:15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy
+people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest
+unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
+
+26:16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these
+statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all
+thine heart, and with all thy soul.
+
+26:17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk
+in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
+judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 26:18 And the LORD hath
+avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised
+thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 26:19 And to
+make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in
+name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the
+LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
+
+27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
+Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
+
+27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto
+the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee
+up great stones, and plaister them with plaister: 27:3 And thou shalt
+write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over,
+that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
+thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy
+fathers hath promised thee.
+
+27:4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall
+set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and
+thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
+
+27:5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an
+altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
+
+27:6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones:
+and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
+27:7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and
+rejoice before the LORD thy God.
+
+27:8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law
+very plainly.
+
+27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,
+saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the
+people of the LORD thy God.
+
+27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do
+his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
+
+27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 27:12 These
+shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come
+over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph,
+and Benjamin: 27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse;
+Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
+
+27:14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel
+with a loud voice, 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or
+molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of
+the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people
+shall answer and say, Amen.
+
+27:16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And
+all the people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the
+people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And
+all the people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,
+fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he
+uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the
+people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his
+father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say,
+Amen.
+
+27:23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the
+people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the
+people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And
+all the people shall say, Amen.
+
+27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do
+them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
+
+28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto
+the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his
+commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will
+set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 28:2 And all these
+blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken
+unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
+
+28:3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in
+the field.
+
+28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
+ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the
+flocks of thy sheep.
+
+28:5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
+
+28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou
+be when thou goest out.
+
+28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to
+be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way,
+and flee before thee seven ways.
+
+28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses,
+and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee
+in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
+
+28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he
+hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD
+thy God, and walk in his ways.
+
+28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by
+the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
+
+28:11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of
+thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
+ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give
+thee.
+
+28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to
+give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work
+of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt
+not borrow.
+
+28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and
+thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou
+hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command
+thee this day, to observe and to do them: 28:14 And thou shalt not go
+aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the
+right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
+
+28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the
+voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and
+his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses
+shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in
+the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
+
+28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
+
+28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
+land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
+
+28:19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou
+be when thou goest out.
+
+28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in
+all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be
+destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of
+thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
+
+28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he
+have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess
+it.
+
+28:22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever,
+and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the
+sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee
+until thou perish.
+
+28:23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the
+earth that is under thee shall be iron.
+
+28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from
+heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
+
+28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies:
+thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before
+them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
+
+28:26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and
+unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
+
+28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
+emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not
+be healed.
+
+28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
+astonishment of heart: 28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the
+blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and
+thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall
+save thee.
+
+28:30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
+thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou
+shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
+
+28:31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not
+eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy
+face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto
+thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
+
+28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people,
+and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day
+long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.
+
+28:33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which
+thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed
+alway: 28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes
+which thou shalt see.
+
+28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a
+sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the
+top of thy head.
+
+28:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set
+over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have
+known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
+
+28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
+among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
+
+28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather
+but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
+
+28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither
+drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat
+them.
+
+28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou
+shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his
+fruit.
+
+28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
+them; for they shall go into captivity.
+
+28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
+
+28:43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very
+high; and thou shalt come down very low.
+
+28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall
+be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
+
+28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue
+thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou
+hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
+commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: 28:46 And they
+shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for
+ever.
+
+28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and
+with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 28:48
+Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send
+against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want
+of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he
+have destroyed thee.
+
+28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the
+end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue
+thou shalt not understand; 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which
+shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
+28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy
+land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either
+corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy
+sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
+
+28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
+fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy
+land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy
+land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
+
+28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy
+sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in
+the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
+distress thee: 28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and
+very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward
+the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he
+shall leave: 28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the
+flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left
+him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
+distress thee in all thy gates.
+
+28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not
+adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness
+and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom,
+and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 28:57 And toward her
+young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her
+children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all
+things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy
+shall distress thee in thy gates.
+
+28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that
+are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and
+fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy
+plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues,
+and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
+
+28:60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt,
+which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
+
+28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in
+the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou
+be destroyed.
+
+28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars
+of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of
+the LORD thy God.
+
+28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to
+do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to
+destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from
+off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
+
+28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one
+end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other
+gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and
+stone.
+
+28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall
+the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a
+trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 28:66 And
+thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and
+night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 28:67 In the morning
+thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say,
+Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou
+shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
+
+28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by
+the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again:
+and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and
+bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
+
+29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded
+Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside
+the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
+
+29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have
+seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto
+Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 29:3 The
+great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those
+great miracles: 29:4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to
+perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
+
+29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes
+are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy
+foot.
+
+29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong
+drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
+
+29:7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and
+Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote
+them: 29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto
+the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
+
+29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye
+may prosper in all that ye do.
+
+29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your
+captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the
+men of Israel, 29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger
+that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy
+water: 29:12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy
+God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this
+day: 29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto
+himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto
+thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
+to Jacob.
+
+29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
+29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD
+our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 29:16
+(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came
+through the nations which ye passed by; 29:17 And ye have seen their
+abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which
+were among them:) 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman,
+or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD
+our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should
+be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 29:19 And it come
+to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless
+himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the
+imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 29:20 The
+LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his
+jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are
+written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out
+his name from under heaven.
+
+29:21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes
+of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are
+written in this book of the law: 29:22 So that the generation to come
+of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that
+shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of
+that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; 29:23
+And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning,
+that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like
+the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the
+LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 29:24 Even all nations
+shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what
+meaneth the heat of this great anger? 29:25 Then men shall say,
+Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their
+fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the
+land of Egypt: 29:26 For they went and served other gods, and
+worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given
+unto them: 29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this
+land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
+29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
+wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as
+it is this day.
+
+29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
+which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that
+we may do all the words of this law.
+
+30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
+thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and
+thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD
+thy God hath driven thee, 30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God,
+and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this
+day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy
+soul; 30:3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and
+have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all
+the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
+
+30:4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven,
+from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
+fetch thee: 30:5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land
+which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do
+thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
+
+30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart
+of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with
+all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
+
+30:7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine
+enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
+
+30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all
+his commandments which I command thee this day.
+
+30:9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of
+thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle,
+and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again
+rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 30:10 If
+thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
+commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
+law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
+with all thy soul.
+
+30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not
+hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
+
+30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up
+for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do
+it? 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who
+shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear
+it, and do it? 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy
+mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
+
+30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death
+and evil; 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy
+God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
+statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and
+the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to
+possess it.
+
+30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but
+shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 30:18 I
+denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye
+shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over
+Jordan to go to possess it.
+
+30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I
+have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
+choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 30:20 That thou
+mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and
+that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length
+of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware
+unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
+
+31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
+
+31:2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this
+day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto
+me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
+
+31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will
+destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them:
+and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
+
+31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og,
+kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
+
+31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do
+unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded
+you.
+
+31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them:
+for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not
+fail thee, nor forsake thee.
+
+31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of
+all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with
+this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers
+to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
+
+31:8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with
+thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither
+be dismayed.
+
+31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the
+sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto
+all the elders of Israel.
+
+31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven
+years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of
+tabernacles, 31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD
+thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law
+before all Israel in their hearing.
+
+31:12 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy
+stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they
+may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words
+of this law: 31:13 And that their children, which have not known any
+thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye
+live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
+
+31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that
+thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle
+of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and
+Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the
+congregation.
+
+31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud:
+and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
+
+31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
+fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods
+of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and
+will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
+
+31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I
+will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall
+be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that
+they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because
+our God is not among us? 31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that
+day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are
+turned unto other gods.
+
+31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the
+children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a
+witness for me against the children of Israel.
+
+31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware
+unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall
+have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn
+unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my
+covenant.
+
+31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are
+befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness;
+for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I
+know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have
+brought them into the land which I sware.
+
+31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
+children of Israel.
+
+31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong
+and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel
+into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
+
+31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the
+words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 31:25 That
+Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the
+LORD, saying, 31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side
+of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there
+for a witness against thee.
+
+31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am
+yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD;
+and how much more after my death? 31:28 Gather unto me all the elders
+of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in
+their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.
+
+31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt
+yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you;
+and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil
+in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of
+your hands.
+
+31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel
+the words of this song, until they were ended.
+
+32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the
+words of my mouth.
+
+32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the
+dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon
+the grass: 32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe
+ye greatness unto our God.
+
+32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are
+judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
+
+32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
+children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
+
+32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not
+he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
+established thee? 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years
+of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy
+elders, and they will tell thee.
+
+32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when
+he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people
+according to the number of the children of Israel.
+
+32:9 For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
+inheritance.
+
+32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
+wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the
+apple of his eye.
+
+32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
+spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
+32:12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god
+with him.
+
+32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might
+eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of
+the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 32:14 Butter of kine, and
+milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and
+goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure
+blood of the grape.
+
+32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
+grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which
+made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
+
+32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with
+abominations provoked they him to anger.
+
+32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew
+not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
+
+32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast
+forgotten God that formed thee.
+
+32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the
+provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
+
+32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what
+their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children
+in whom is no faith.
+
+32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they
+have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to
+jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to
+anger with a foolish nation.
+
+32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
+lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on
+fire the foundations of the mountains.
+
+32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
+them.
+
+32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat,
+and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon
+them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
+
+32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the
+young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray
+hairs.
+
+32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
+remembrance of them to cease from among men: 32:27 Were it not that I
+feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave
+themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and
+the LORD hath not done all this.
+
+32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
+understanding in them.
+
+32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
+would consider their latter end! 32:30 How should one chase a
+thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had
+sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 32:31 For their rock is not
+as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
+
+32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
+Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
+32:33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of
+asps.
+
+32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
+treasures? 32:35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot
+shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and
+the things that shall come upon them make haste.
+
+32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his
+servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none
+shut up, or left.
+
+32:37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they
+trusted, 32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank
+the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and
+be your protection.
+
+32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I
+kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that
+can deliver out of my hand.
+
+32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
+
+32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on
+judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward
+them that hate me.
+
+32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall
+devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the
+captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
+
+32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the
+blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries,
+and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
+
+32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears
+of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
+
+32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
+32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which
+I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to
+observe to do, all the words of this law.
+
+32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and
+through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye
+go over Jordan to possess it.
+
+32:48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 32:49
+Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in
+the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of
+Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
+32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto
+thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered
+unto his people: 32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the
+children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness
+of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of
+Israel.
+
+32:52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go
+thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
+
+33:1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed
+the children of Israel before his death.
+
+33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto
+them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands
+of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
+
+33:3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and
+they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
+
+33:4 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the
+congregation of Jacob.
+
+33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the
+tribes of Israel were gathered together.
+
+33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
+
+33:7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the
+voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be
+sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
+
+33:8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy
+holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst
+strive at the waters of Meribah; 33:9 Who said unto his father and to
+his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his
+brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word,
+and kept thy covenant.
+
+33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they
+shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine
+altar.
+
+33:11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands;
+smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them
+that hate him, that they rise not again.
+
+33:12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in
+safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he
+shall dwell between his shoulders.
+
+33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the
+precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth
+beneath, 33:14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun,
+and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 33:15 And for the
+chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of
+the lasting hills, 33:16 And for the precious things of the earth and
+fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush:
+let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the
+head of him that was separated from his brethren.
+
+33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns
+are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people
+together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of
+Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
+
+33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
+Issachar, in thy tents.
+
+33:19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall
+offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the
+abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
+
+33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he
+dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
+
+33:21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a
+portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of
+the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments
+with Israel.
+
+33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from
+Bashan.
+
+33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and
+full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the
+south.
+
+33:24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let
+him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
+
+33:25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy
+strength be.
+
+33:26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the
+heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
+
+33:27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the
+everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee;
+and shall say, Destroy them.
+
+33:28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob
+shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop
+down dew.
+
+33:29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved
+by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy
+excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou
+shalt tread upon their high places.
+
+34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of
+Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD
+shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, 34:2 And all Naphtali,
+and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto
+the utmost sea, 34:3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of
+Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
+
+34:4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto
+Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy
+seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not
+go over thither.
+
+34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab,
+according to the word of the LORD.
+
+34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against
+Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
+
+34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
+eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
+
+34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab
+thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
+
+34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for
+Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel
+hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,
+whom the LORD knew face to face, 34:11 In all the signs and the
+wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to
+Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, 34:12 And in
+all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed
+in the sight of all Israel.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of Joshua
+
+
+1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to
+pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister,
+saying, 1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over
+this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give
+to them, even to the children of Israel.
+
+1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have
+I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
+
+1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river,
+the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great
+sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
+
+1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days
+of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not
+fail thee, nor forsake thee.
+
+1:6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou
+divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers
+to give them.
+
+1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe
+to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:
+turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest
+prosper whithersoever thou goest.
+
+1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou
+shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do
+according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy
+way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
+
+1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not
+afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee
+whithersoever thou goest.
+
+1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 1:11
+Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you
+victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go
+in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess
+it.
+
+1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe
+of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, 1:13 Remember the word which Moses
+the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath
+given you rest, and hath given you this land.
+
+1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in
+the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass
+before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help
+them; 1:15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath
+given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your
+God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your
+possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD’s servant gave you on
+this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
+
+1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we
+will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
+
+1:17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we
+hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with
+Moses.
+
+1:18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will
+not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall
+be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
+
+2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy
+secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and
+came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
+
+2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came
+men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the
+country.
+
+2:3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the
+men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for
+they be come to search out all the country.
+
+2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There
+came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: 2:5 And it came to
+pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that
+the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them
+quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
+
+2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them
+with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
+
+2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords:
+and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut
+the gate.
+
+2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the
+roof; 2:9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given
+you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the
+inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
+
+2:10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea
+for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings
+of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og,
+whom ye utterly destroyed.
+
+2:11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt,
+neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you:
+for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth
+beneath.
+
+2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I
+have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my
+father’s house, and give me a true token: 2:13 And that ye will save
+alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and
+all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
+
+2:14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not
+this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the
+land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
+
+2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her
+house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
+
+2:16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the
+pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the
+pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
+
+2:17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine
+oath which thou hast made us swear.
+
+2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of
+scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou
+shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy
+father’s household, home unto thee.
+
+2:19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy
+house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will
+be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood
+shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
+
+2:20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of
+thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
+
+2:21 And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent
+them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the
+window.
+
+2:22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three
+days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them
+throughout all the way, but found them not.
+
+2:23 So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and
+passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all
+things that befell them: 2:24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the
+LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the
+inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
+
+3:1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from
+Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and
+lodged there before they passed over.
+
+3:2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went
+through the host; 3:3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye
+see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the
+Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after
+it.
+
+3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand
+cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by
+which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
+
+3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to
+morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
+
+3:6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the
+covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of
+the covenant, and went before the people.
+
+3:7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify
+thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was
+with Moses, so I will be with thee.
+
+3:8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the
+covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of
+Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
+
+3:9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear
+the words of the LORD your God.
+
+3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is
+among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the
+Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and
+the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
+
+3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth
+passeth over before you into Jordan.
+
+3:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel,
+out of every tribe a man.
+
+3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of
+the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the earth,
+shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be
+cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall
+stand upon an heap.
+
+3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to
+pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant
+before the people; 3:15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto
+Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in
+the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the
+time of harvest,) 3:16 That the waters which came down from above
+stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is
+beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain,
+even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed
+over right against Jericho.
+
+3:17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD
+stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the
+Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed
+clean over Jordan.
+
+4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over
+Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, 4:2 Take you twelve
+men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 4:3 And command ye
+them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the
+place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall
+carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where
+ye shall lodge this night.
+
+4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the
+children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: 4:5 And Joshua said unto
+them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of
+Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder,
+according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: 4:6
+That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their
+fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? 4:7
+Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off
+before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over
+Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be
+for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
+
+4:8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up
+twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto
+Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of
+Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they
+lodged, and laid them down there.
+
+4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the
+place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant
+stood: and they are there unto this day.
+
+4:10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan,
+until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak
+unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the
+people hasted and passed over.
+
+4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over,
+that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence
+of the people.
+
+4:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the
+tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as
+Moses spake unto them: 4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war
+passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
+
+4:14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel;
+and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
+
+4:15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, 4:16 Command the priests
+that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
+
+4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of
+Jordan.
+
+4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the
+covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the
+soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the
+waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his
+banks, as they did before.
+
+4:19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the
+first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
+
+4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did
+Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
+
+4:21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your
+children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean
+these stones? 4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying,
+Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
+
+4:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before
+you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red
+sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: 4:24
+That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that
+it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
+
+5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which
+were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
+Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up
+the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were
+passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them
+any more, because of the children of Israel.
+
+5:2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives,
+and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
+
+5:3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of
+Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
+
+5:4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people
+that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died
+in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
+
+5:5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the
+people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth
+out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
+
+5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,
+till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt,
+were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto
+whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the
+LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that
+floweth with milk and honey.
+
+5:7 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua
+circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not
+circumcised them by the way.
+
+5:8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the
+people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were
+whole.
+
+5:9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
+reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is
+called Gilgal unto this day.
+
+5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
+passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of
+Jericho.
+
+5:11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after
+the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
+
+5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the
+old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any
+more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
+
+5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted
+up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against
+him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and
+said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 5:14 And he
+said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And
+Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto
+him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? 5:15 And the captain of the
+LORD’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for
+the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
+
+6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of
+Israel: none went out, and none came in.
+
+6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand
+Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
+
+6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round
+about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
+
+6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of
+rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven
+times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
+
+6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with
+the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the
+people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall
+fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight
+before him.
+
+6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them,
+Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven
+trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.
+
+6:7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and
+let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
+
+6:8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that
+the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on
+before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the
+covenant of the LORD followed them.
+
+6:9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the
+trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on,
+and blowing with the trumpets.
+
+6:10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout,
+nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out
+of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
+
+6:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once:
+and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
+
+6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the
+ark of the LORD.
+
+6:13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before
+the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets:
+and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the
+ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
+
+6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned
+into the camp: so they did six days.
+
+6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early
+about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same
+manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven
+times.
+
+6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew
+with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD
+hath given you the city.
+
+6:17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are
+therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all
+that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we
+sent.
+
+6:18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest
+ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and
+make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
+
+6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are
+consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the
+LORD.
+
+6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets:
+and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet,
+and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down
+flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight
+before him, and they took the city.
+
+6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and
+woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the
+sword.
+
+6:22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the
+country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman,
+and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
+
+6:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab,
+and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she
+had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the
+camp of Israel.
+
+6:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only
+the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they
+put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
+
+6:25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s
+household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto
+this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out
+Jericho.
+
+6:26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man
+before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he
+shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest
+son shall he set up the gates of it.
+
+6:27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout
+all the country.
+
+7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed
+thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of
+Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the
+anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
+
+7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven,
+on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the
+country.
+
+And the men went up and viewed Ai.
+
+7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the
+people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite
+Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but
+few.
+
+7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men:
+and they fled before the men of Ai.
+
+7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they
+chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in
+the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became
+as water.
+
+7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face
+before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of
+Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
+
+7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all
+brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the
+Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt
+on the other side Jordan! 7:8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel
+turneth their backs before their enemies! 7:9 For the Canaanites and
+all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us
+round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto
+thy great name? 7:10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up;
+wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? 7:11 Israel hath sinned, and
+they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for
+they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and
+dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
+
+7:12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their
+enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they
+were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy
+the accursed from among you.
+
+7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to
+morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed
+thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before
+thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
+
+7:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your
+tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall
+come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD
+shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD
+shall take shall come man by man.
+
+7:15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing
+shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath
+transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought
+folly in Israel.
+
+7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by
+their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: 7:17 And he brought
+the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he
+brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
+7:18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of
+Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was
+taken.
+
+7:19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to
+the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now
+what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
+
+7:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against
+the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: 7:21 When I saw
+among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels
+of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted
+them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the
+midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
+
+7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,
+behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
+
+7:23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them
+unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out
+before the LORD.
+
+7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah,
+and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons,
+and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his
+tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of
+Achor.
+
+7:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall
+trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and
+burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
+
+7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So
+the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name
+of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
+
+8:1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed:
+take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I
+have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city,
+and his land: 8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst
+unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle
+thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush
+for the city behind it.
+
+8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai:
+and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent
+them away by night.
+
+8:4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait
+against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city,
+but be ye all ready: 8:5 And I, and all the people that are with me,
+will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come
+out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them, 8:6
+(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the
+city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first:
+therefore we will flee before them.
+
+8:7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city:
+for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
+
+8:8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set
+the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye
+do. See, I have commanded you.
+
+8:9 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush,
+and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua
+lodged that night among the people.
+
+8:10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people,
+and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
+
+8:11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him,
+went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the
+north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
+
+8:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in
+ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
+
+8:13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on
+the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the
+city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
+
+8:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted
+and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to
+battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain;
+but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the
+city.
+
+8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before
+them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
+
+8:16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue
+after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from
+the city.
+
+8:17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out
+after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
+
+8:18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in
+thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua
+stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
+
+8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as
+soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city,
+and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
+
+8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold,
+the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to
+flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness
+turned back upon the pursuers.
+
+8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the
+city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again,
+and slew the men of Ai.
+
+8:22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were
+in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and
+they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
+
+8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
+
+8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all
+the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they
+chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword,
+until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai,
+and smote it with the edge of the sword.
+
+8:25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and
+women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
+
+8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the
+spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
+
+8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey
+unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he
+commanded Joshua.
+
+8:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a
+desolation unto this day.
+
+8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as
+soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his
+carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of
+the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth
+unto this day.
+
+8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount
+Ebal, 8:31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of
+Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of
+whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they
+offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace
+offerings.
+
+8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses,
+which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
+
+8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges,
+stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the
+Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the
+stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against
+mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the
+servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the
+people of Israel.
+
+8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and
+cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
+
+8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua
+read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and
+the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
+
+9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side
+Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the
+great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the
+Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
+9:2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and
+with Israel, with one accord.
+
+9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto
+Jericho and to Ai, 9:4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if
+they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and
+wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 9:5 And old shoes and
+clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread
+of their provision was dry and mouldy.
+
+9:6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto
+him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now
+therefore make ye a league with us.
+
+9:7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell
+among us; and how shall we make a league with you? 9:8 And they said
+unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are
+ye? and from whence come ye? 9:9 And they said unto him, From a very
+far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy
+God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
+9:10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were
+beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan,
+which was at Ashtaroth.
+
+9:11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake
+to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet
+them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a
+league with us.
+
+9:12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on
+the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and
+it is mouldy: 9:13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were
+new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes
+are become old by reason of the very long journey.
+
+9:14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the
+mouth of the LORD.
+
+9:15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to
+let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
+
+9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made
+a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours,
+and that they dwelt among them.
+
+9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities
+on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and
+Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
+
+9:18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of
+the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And
+all the congregation murmured against the princes.
+
+9:19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn
+unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch
+them.
+
+9:20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath
+be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
+
+9:21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be
+hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the
+princes had promised them.
+
+9:22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying,
+Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when
+ye dwell among us? 9:23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall
+none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and
+drawers of water for the house of my God.
+
+9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told
+thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to
+give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land
+from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of
+you, and have done this thing.
+
+9:25 And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and
+right unto thee to do unto us, do.
+
+9:26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of
+the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
+
+9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water
+for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this
+day, in the place which he should choose.
+
+10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard
+how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done
+to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how
+the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among
+them; 10:2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city,
+as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and
+all the men thereof were mighty.
+
+10:3 Wherefore Adonizedec king of Jerusalem, sent unto Hoham king of
+Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of
+Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, 10:4 Come up unto me,
+and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with
+Joshua and with the children of Israel.
+
+10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem,
+the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king
+of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all
+their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
+
+10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal,
+saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly,
+and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell
+in the mountains are gathered together against us.
+
+10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war
+with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
+
+10:8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have
+delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand
+before thee.
+
+10:9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal
+all night.
+
+10:10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with
+a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth
+up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
+
+10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were
+in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones
+from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which
+died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with
+the sword.
+
+10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered
+up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the
+sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in
+the valley of Ajalon.
+
+10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people
+had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the
+book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and
+hasted not to go down about a whole day.
+
+10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the
+LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for
+Israel.
+
+10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to
+Gilgal.
+
+10:16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at
+Makkedah.
+
+10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in
+a cave at Makkedah.
+
+10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave,
+and set men by it for to keep them: 10:19 And stay ye not, but pursue
+after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to
+enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them
+into your hand.
+
+10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had
+made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they
+were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into
+fenced cities.
+
+10:21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in
+peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
+
+10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out
+those five kings unto me out of the cave.
+
+10:23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out
+of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of
+Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
+
+10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto
+Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto
+the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put
+your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put
+their feet upon the necks of them.
+
+10:25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong
+and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies
+against whom ye fight.
+
+10:26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them
+on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
+
+10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun,
+that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast
+them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in
+the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day.
+
+10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of
+the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all
+the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the
+king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
+
+10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto
+Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 10:30 And the LORD delivered it
+also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it
+with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he
+let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto
+the king of Jericho.
+
+10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto
+Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it: 10:32 And the
+LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the
+second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls
+that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
+
+10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua
+smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
+
+10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with
+him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it: 10:35 And
+they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and
+all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day,
+according to all that he had done to Lachish.
+
+10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto
+Hebron; and they fought against it: 10:37 And they took it, and smote
+it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the
+cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none
+remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed
+it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.
+
+10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and
+fought against it: 10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all
+the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword,
+and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none
+remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the
+king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
+
+10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south,
+and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none
+remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of
+Israel commanded.
+
+10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and all
+the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
+
+10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time,
+because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
+
+10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to
+Gilgal.
+
+11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those
+things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of
+Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 11:2 And to the kings that were
+on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth,
+and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west, 11:3 And to
+the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the
+Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to
+the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
+
+11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much
+people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with
+horses and chariots very many.
+
+11:5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched
+together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
+
+11:6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for
+to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before
+Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with
+fire.
+
+11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them
+by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
+
+11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote
+them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and
+unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they
+left them none remaining.
+
+11:9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their
+horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
+
+11:10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote
+the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of
+all those kingdoms.
+
+11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of
+the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe:
+and he burnt Hazor with fire.
+
+11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them,
+did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he
+utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.
+
+11:13 But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel
+burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
+
+11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children
+of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote
+with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither
+left they any to breathe.
+
+11:15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command
+Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD
+commanded Moses.
+
+11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south
+country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain,
+and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same; 11:17 Even
+from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the
+valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and
+smote them, and slew them.
+
+11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
+
+11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of
+Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they
+took in battle.
+
+11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should
+come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and
+that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the
+LORD commanded Moses.
+
+11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the
+mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the
+mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua
+destroyed them utterly with their cities.
+
+11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children
+of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
+
+11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD
+said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel
+according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from
+war.
+
+12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel
+smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the
+rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the
+plain on the east: 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in
+Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river
+Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even
+unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
+12:3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto
+the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to
+Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah: 12:4 And the
+coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants,
+that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 12:5 And reigned in mount
+Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the
+Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon
+king of Heshbon.
+
+12:6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel
+smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto
+the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
+
+12:7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the
+children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad
+in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to
+Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession
+according to their divisions; 12:8 In the mountains, and in the
+valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness,
+and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the
+Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 12:9 The
+king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
+12:10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; 12:11 The
+king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; 12:12 The king of
+Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 12:13 The king of Debir, one; the
+king of Geder, one; 12:14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad,
+one; 12:15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; 12:16
+The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; 12:17 The king of
+Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; 12:18 The king of Aphek, one;
+the king of Lasharon, one; 12:19 The king of Madon, one; the king of
+Hazor, one; 12:20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph,
+one; 12:21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; 12:22
+The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one; 12:23 The
+king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of
+Gilgal, one; 12:24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and
+one.
+
+13:1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto
+him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very
+much land to be possessed.
+
+13:2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the
+Philistines, and all Geshuri, 13:3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt,
+even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the
+Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the
+Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also
+the Avites: 13:4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and
+Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the
+Amorites: 13:5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward
+the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into
+Hamath.
+
+13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto
+Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from
+before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the
+Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
+
+13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine
+tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 13:8 With whom the Reubenites
+and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave
+them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD
+gave them; 13:9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon,
+and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of
+Medeba unto Dibon; 13:10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the
+Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of
+Ammon; 13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and
+Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; 13:12
+All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in
+Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses
+smite, and cast them out.
+
+13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites,
+nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell
+among the Israelites until this day.
+
+13:14 Only unto the tribes of Levi he gave none inheritance; the
+sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their
+inheritance, as he said unto them.
+
+13:15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
+inheritance according to their families.
+
+13:16 And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river
+Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the
+plain by Medeba; 13:17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the
+plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon, 13:18 And Jahaza, and
+Kedemoth, and Mephaath, 13:19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and
+Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley, 13:20 And Bethpeor, and
+Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth, 13:21 And all the cities of the
+plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which
+reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi,
+and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon,
+dwelling in the country.
+
+13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of
+Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
+
+13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the
+border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben
+after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
+
+13:24 And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the
+children of Gad according to their families.
+
+13:25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and
+half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before
+Rabbah; 13:26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and
+from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; 13:27 And in the valley,
+Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the
+kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the
+edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
+
+13:28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their
+families, the cities, and their villages.
+
+13:29 And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and
+this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh
+by their families.
+
+13:30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom
+of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan,
+threescore cities: 13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei,
+cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the
+children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the
+children of Machir by their families.
+
+13:32 These are the countries which Moses did distribute for
+inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by
+Jericho, eastward.
+
+13:33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the
+LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
+
+14:1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel
+inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua
+the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the
+children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
+
+14:2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand
+of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
+
+14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half
+tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none
+inheritance among them.
+
+14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim:
+therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities
+to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their
+substance.
+
+14:5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and
+they divided the land.
+
+14:6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb
+the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the
+thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and
+thee in Kadeshbarnea.
+
+14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me
+from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again
+as it was in mine heart.
+
+14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of
+the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
+
+14:9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy
+feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for
+ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
+
+14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these
+forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses,
+while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo,
+I am this day fourscore and five years old.
+
+14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses
+sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war,
+both to go out, and to come in.
+
+14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in
+that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there,
+and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be
+with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
+
+14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh
+Hebron for an inheritance.
+
+14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
+Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed
+the LORD God of Israel.
+
+14:15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a
+great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
+
+15:1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by
+their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin
+southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
+
+15:2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from
+the bay that looketh southward: 15:3 And it went out to the south side
+to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the
+south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up
+to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: 15:4 From thence it passed
+toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out
+of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.
+
+15:5 And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of
+Jordan.
+
+And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at
+the uttermost part of Jordan: 15:6 And the border went up to
+Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border
+went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben: 15:7 And the border
+went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward,
+looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which
+is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the
+waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel: 15:8
+And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the
+south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went
+up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom
+westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
+15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the
+fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount
+Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
+15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir,
+and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on
+the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
+15:11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and
+the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and
+went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the
+sea.
+
+15:12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof.
+
+This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to
+their families.
+
+15:13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the
+children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua,
+even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
+
+15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and
+Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
+
+15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name
+of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.
+
+15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to
+him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
+
+15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and
+he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
+
+15:18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to
+ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said
+unto her, What wouldest thou? 15:19 Who answered, Give me a blessing;
+for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water.
+And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
+
+15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
+according to their families.
+
+15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah
+toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
+15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, 15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor,
+and Ithnan, 15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, 15:25 And Hazor,
+Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, 15:26 Amam, and
+Shema, and Moladah, 15:27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
+15:28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah, 15:29 Baalah, and
+Iim, and Azem, 15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, 15:31 And
+Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, 15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim,
+and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their
+villages: 15:33 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
+15:34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam, 15:35 Jarmuth, and
+Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, 15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and
+Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: 15:37
+Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad, 15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and
+Joktheel, 15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, 15:40 And Cabbon, and
+Lahmam, and Kithlish, 15:41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and
+Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: 15:42 Libnah, and Ether,
+and Ashan, 15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, 15:44 And Keilah,
+and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages: 15:45
+Ekron, with her towns and her villages: 15:46 From Ekron even unto the
+sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages: 15:47 Ashdod with
+her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto
+the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof: 15:48
+And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh, 15:49 And Dannah,
+and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir, 15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and
+Anim, 15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their
+villages: 15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, 15:53 And Janum, and
+Bethtappuah, and Aphekah, 15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is
+Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages: 15:55 Maon, Carmel,
+and Ziph, and Juttah, 15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
+15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages: 15:58
+Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor, 15:59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and
+Eltekon; six cities with their villages: 15:60 Kirjathbaal, which is
+Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages: 15:61 In
+the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah, 15:62 And Nibshan,
+and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
+
+15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children
+of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the
+children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
+
+16:1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by
+Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that
+goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel, 16:2 And goeth out from
+Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
+16:3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast
+of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings out thereof are
+at the sea.
+
+16:4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
+inheritance.
+
+16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their
+families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east
+side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper; 16:6 And the border
+went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the
+border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the
+east to Janohah; 16:7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to
+Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
+
+16:8 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah;
+and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of
+the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
+
+16:9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among
+the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their
+villages.
+
+16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but
+the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve
+under tribute.
+
+17:1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the
+firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the
+father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead
+and Bashan.
+
+17:2 There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by
+their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of
+Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of
+Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of
+Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by
+their families.
+
+17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of
+Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are
+the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and
+Tirzah.
+
+17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua
+the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded
+Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore
+according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance
+among the brethren of their father.
+
+17:5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of
+Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan; 17:6 Because
+the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the
+rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.
+
+17:7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that
+lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto
+the inhabitants of Entappuah.
+
+17:8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border
+of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim; 17:9 And the coast
+descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities
+of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh
+also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were
+at the sea: 17:10 Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was
+Manasseh’s, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher
+on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
+
+17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her
+towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her
+towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants
+of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her
+towns, even three countries.
+
+17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants
+of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
+
+17:13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen
+strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly
+drive them out.
+
+17:14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast
+thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a
+great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto? 17:15
+And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up
+to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the
+Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
+
+17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us:
+and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have
+chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and
+they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
+
+17:17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and
+to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power:
+thou shalt not have one lot only: 17:18 But the mountain shall be
+thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings
+of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though
+they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
+
+18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
+together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation
+there. And the land was subdued before them.
+
+18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes,
+which had not yet received their inheritance.
+
+18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye
+slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers
+hath given you? 18:4 Give out from among you three men for each
+tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the
+land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they
+shall come again to me.
+
+18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in
+their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their
+coasts on the north.
+
+18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring
+the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before
+the LORD our God.
+
+18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the
+LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of
+Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east,
+which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
+
+18:8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that
+went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and
+describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you
+before the LORD in Shiloh.
+
+18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by
+cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the
+host at Shiloh.
+
+18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and
+there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to
+their divisions.
+
+18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
+according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth
+between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
+
+18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the
+border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up
+through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the
+wilderness of Bethaven.
+
+18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of
+Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to
+Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether
+Bethhoron.
+
+18:14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the
+sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward;
+and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is
+Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west
+quarter.
+
+18:15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the
+border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of
+Nephtoah: 18:16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain
+that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the
+valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of
+Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
+18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and
+went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of
+Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, 18:18
+And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and
+went down unto Arabah: 18:19 And the border passed along to the side
+of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the
+north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the
+south coast.
+
+18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the
+inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round
+about, according to their families.
+
+18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
+according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the
+valley of Keziz, 18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, 18:23
+And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah, 18:24 And Chepharhaammonai, and
+Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages: 18:25 Gibeon, and
+Ramah, and Beeroth, 18:26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, 18:27
+And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, 18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and
+Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with
+their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin
+according to their families.
+
+19:1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of
+the children of Simeon according to their families: and their
+inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
+
+19:2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and
+Moladah, 19:3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem, 19:4 And Eltolad,
+and Bethul, and Hormah, 19:5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and
+Hazarsusah, 19:6 And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and
+their villages: 19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities
+and their villages: 19:8 And all the villages that were round about
+these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the
+inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
+families.
+
+19:9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance
+of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was
+too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their
+inheritance within the inheritance of them.
+
+19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according
+to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:
+19:11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and
+reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before
+Jokneam; 19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising
+unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and
+goeth up to Japhia, 19:13 And from thence passeth on along on the east
+to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to
+Neah; 19:14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to
+Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:
+19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and
+Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
+
+19:16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to
+their families, these cities with their villages.
+
+19:17 And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of
+Issachar according to their families.
+
+19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
+19:19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath, 19:20 And Rabbith, and
+Kishion, and Abez, 19:21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and
+Bethpazzez; 19:22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and
+Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen
+cities with their villages.
+
+19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar
+according to their families, the cities and their villages.
+
+19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of
+Asher according to their families.
+
+19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
+19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel
+westward, and to Shihorlibnath; 19:27 And turneth toward the sunrising
+to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel
+toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul
+on the left hand, 19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah,
+even unto great Zidon; 19:29 And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and
+to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the
+outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib: 19:30 Ummah
+also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
+
+19:31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
+according to their families, these cities with their villages.
+
+19:32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the
+children of Naphtali according to their families.
+
+19:33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and
+Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were
+at Jordan: 19:34 And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor,
+and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the
+south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon
+Jordan toward the sunrising.
+
+19:35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and
+Chinnereth, 19:36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, 19:37 And Kedesh,
+and Edrei, and Enhazor, 19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and
+Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
+
+19:39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali
+according to their families, the cities and their villages.
+
+19:40 And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of
+Dan according to their families.
+
+19:41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and
+Irshemesh, 19:42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah, 19:43 And
+Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron, 19:44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and
+Baalath, 19:45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon, 19:46 And
+Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
+
+19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for
+them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem,
+and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed
+it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan
+their father.
+
+19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
+according to their families, these cities with their villages.
+
+19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance
+by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua
+the son of Nun among them: 19:50 According to the word of the LORD
+they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount
+Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
+
+19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua
+the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the
+children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before
+the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they
+made an end of dividing the country.
+
+20:1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, 20:2 Speak to the
+children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge,
+whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: 20:3 That the slayer
+that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and
+they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
+
+20:4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand
+at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause
+in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the
+city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
+
+20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not
+deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour
+unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
+
+20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
+congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that
+shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto
+his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he
+fled.
+
+20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and
+Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the
+mountain of Judah.
+
+20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned
+Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and
+Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of
+the tribe of Manasseh.
+
+20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel,
+and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever
+killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the
+hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
+
+21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto
+Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads
+of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel; 21:2 And they
+spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD
+commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the
+suburbs thereof for our cattle.
+
+21:3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their
+inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their
+suburbs.
+
+21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the
+children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot
+out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of
+the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
+
+21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the
+families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out
+of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
+
+21:6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the
+tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe
+of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen
+cities.
+
+21:7 The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of
+Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun,
+twelve cities.
+
+21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these
+cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
+
+21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out
+of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here
+mentioned by name.
+
+21:10 Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the
+Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the
+first lot.
+
+21:11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which
+city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof
+round about it.
+
+21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they
+to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
+
+21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with
+her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with
+her suburbs, 21:14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her
+suburbs, 21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
+21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and
+Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
+
+21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba
+with her suburbs, 21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her
+suburbs; four cities.
+
+21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were
+thirteen cities with their suburbs.
+
+21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which
+remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their
+lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
+
+21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to
+be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs, 21:22
+And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four
+cities.
+
+21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon
+with her suburbs, 21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her
+suburbs; four cities.
+
+21:25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs,
+and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
+
+21:26 All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of
+the children of Kohath that remained.
+
+21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the
+Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in
+Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and
+Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.
+
+21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs,
+Dabareh with her suburbs, 21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim
+with her suburbs; four cities.
+
+21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon
+with her suburbs, 21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her
+suburbs; four cities.
+
+21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her
+suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with
+her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
+
+21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families
+were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
+
+21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the
+Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and
+Kartah with her suburbs, 21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with
+her suburbs; four cities.
+
+21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and
+Jahazah with her suburbs, 21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and
+Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
+
+21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs,
+to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
+21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in
+all.
+
+21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families,
+which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot
+twelve cities.
+
+21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the
+children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
+
+21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them:
+thus were all these cities.
+
+21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to
+give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
+
+21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that
+he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their
+enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their
+hand.
+
+21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had
+spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
+
+22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half
+tribe of Manasseh, 22:2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that
+Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice
+in all that I commanded you: 22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these
+many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment
+of the LORD your God.
+
+22:4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as
+he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your
+tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant
+of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
+
+22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which
+Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God,
+and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to
+cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all
+your soul.
+
+22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto
+their tents.
+
+22:7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
+possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua
+among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua
+sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them, 22:8 And
+he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents,
+and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass,
+and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your
+enemies with your brethren.
+
+22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half
+tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel
+out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country
+of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were
+possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
+
+22:10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the
+land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
+half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar
+to see to.
+
+22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of
+Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have
+built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of
+Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
+
+22:12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole
+congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at
+Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
+
+22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and
+to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the
+land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, 22:14 And with
+him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the
+tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their
+fathers among the thousands of Israel.
+
+22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children
+of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead,
+and they spake with them, saying, 22:16 Thus saith the whole
+congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed
+against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the
+LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this
+day against the LORD? 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for
+us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was
+a plague in the congregation of the LORD, 22:18 But that ye must turn
+away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel
+to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the
+whole congregation of Israel.
+
+22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then
+pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the
+LORD’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel
+not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar
+beside the altar of the LORD our God.
+
+22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed
+thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man
+perished not alone in his iniquity.
+
+22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half
+tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands
+of Israel, 22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he
+knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in
+transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,) 22:23 That we
+have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer
+thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace
+offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it; 22:24 And if we
+have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to
+come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye
+to do with the LORD God of Israel? 22:25 For the LORD hath made
+Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children
+of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our
+children cease from fearing the LORD.
+
+22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not
+for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: 22:27 But that it may be a
+witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we
+might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings,
+and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your
+children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part
+in the LORD.
+
+22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to
+us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again,
+Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made,
+not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness
+between us and you.
+
+22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this
+day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings,
+for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD
+our God that is before his tabernacle.
+
+22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
+congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him,
+heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
+and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
+
+22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the
+children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of
+Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye
+have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have
+delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
+
+22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes,
+returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad,
+out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of
+Israel, and brought them word again.
+
+22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children
+of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in
+battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad
+dwelt.
+
+22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the
+altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
+
+23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given
+rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed
+old and stricken in age.
+
+23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for
+their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said
+unto them, I am old and stricken in age: 23:3 And ye have seen all
+that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of
+you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.
+
+23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain,
+to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the
+nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
+
+23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and
+drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as
+the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
+
+23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is
+written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside
+therefrom to the right hand or to the left; 23:7 That ye come not
+among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention
+of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve
+them, nor bow yourselves unto them: 23:8 But cleave unto the LORD your
+God, as ye have done unto this day.
+
+23:9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and
+strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto
+this day.
+
+23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he
+it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
+
+23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD
+your God.
+
+23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant
+of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make
+marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: 23:13 Know
+for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of
+these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto
+you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye
+perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
+
+23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and
+ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing
+hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake
+concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath
+failed thereof.
+
+23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are
+come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD
+bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off
+this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
+
+23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God,
+which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed
+yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled
+against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which
+he hath given unto you.
+
+24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and
+called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their
+judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before
+God.
+
+24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of
+Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time,
+even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they
+served other gods.
+
+24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood,
+and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his
+seed, and gave him Isaac.
+
+24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount
+Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
+
+24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to
+that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
+
+24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the
+sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and
+horsemen unto the Red sea.
+
+24:7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you
+and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them;
+and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the
+wilderness a long season.
+
+24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on
+the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into
+your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from
+before you.
+
+24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred
+against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse
+you: 24:10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed
+you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
+
+24:11 And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of
+Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
+Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and
+the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
+
+24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from
+before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy
+sword, nor with thy bow.
+
+24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and
+cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and
+oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
+
+24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in
+truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other
+side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
+
+24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this
+day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served
+that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites,
+in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the
+LORD.
+
+24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should
+forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 24:17 For the LORD our God, he
+it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt,
+from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our
+sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all
+the people through whom we passed: 24:18 And the LORD drave out from
+before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land:
+therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
+
+24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for
+he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your
+transgressions nor your sins.
+
+24:20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will
+turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you
+good.
+
+24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the
+LORD.
+
+24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against
+yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they
+said, We are witnesses.
+
+24:23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are
+among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
+
+24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve,
+and his voice will we obey.
+
+24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them
+a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
+
+24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and
+took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the
+sanctuary of the LORD.
+
+24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be
+a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which
+he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye
+deny your God.
+
+24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
+
+24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of
+Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years
+old.
+
+24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
+Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill
+of Gaash.
+
+24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the
+days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the
+works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
+
+24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up
+out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which
+Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred
+pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of
+Joseph.
+
+24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill
+that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount
+Ephraim.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of Judges
+
+
+1:1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children
+of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the
+Canaanites first, to fight against them? 1:2 And the LORD said, Judah
+shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
+
+1:3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my
+lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go
+with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
+
+1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the
+Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten
+thousand men.
+
+1:5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him,
+and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
+
+1:6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him,
+and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
+
+1:7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs
+and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I
+have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem,
+and there he died.
+
+1:8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had
+taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city
+on fire.
+
+1:9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the
+Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the
+valley.
+
+1:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now
+the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and
+Ahiman, and Talmai.
+
+1:11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the
+name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher: 1:12 And Caleb said, He that
+smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my
+daughter to wife.
+
+1:13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it:
+and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
+
+1:14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to
+ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb
+said unto her, What wilt thou? 1:15 And she said unto him, Give me a
+blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of
+water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
+
+1:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out
+of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the
+wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went
+and dwelt among the people.
+
+1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the
+Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the
+name of the city was called Hormah.
+
+1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the
+coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
+
+1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of
+the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley,
+because they had chariots of iron.
+
+1:20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled
+thence the three sons of Anak.
+
+1:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that
+inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of
+Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
+
+1:22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and
+the LORD was with them.
+
+1:23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of
+the city before was Luz.) 1:24 And the spies saw a man come forth out
+of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the
+entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
+
+1:25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote
+the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all
+his family.
+
+1:26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city,
+and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this
+day.
+
+1:27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and
+her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and
+her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the
+inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell
+in that land.
+
+1:28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the
+Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
+
+1:29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer;
+but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
+
+1:30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the
+inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and
+became tributaries.
+
+1:31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the
+inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor
+of Aphik, nor of Rehob: 1:32 But the Asherites dwelt among the
+Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them
+out.
+
+1:33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh,
+nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites,
+the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of
+Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.
+
+1:34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain:
+for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: 1:35 But
+the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim:
+yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became
+tributaries.
+
+1:36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim,
+from the rock, and upward.
+
+2:1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said,
+I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land
+which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my
+covenant with you.
+
+2:2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye
+shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why
+have ye done this? 2:3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them
+out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and
+their gods shall be a snare unto you.
+
+2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words
+unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their
+voice, and wept.
+
+2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed
+there unto the LORD.
+
+2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went
+every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
+
+2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the
+days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great
+works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
+
+2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an
+hundred and ten years old.
+
+2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
+Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill
+Gaash.
+
+2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers:
+and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the
+LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
+
+2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
+served Baalim: 2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers,
+which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods,
+of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed
+themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
+
+2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
+
+2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
+delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he
+sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they
+could not any longer stand before their enemies.
+
+2:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against
+them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto
+them: and they were greatly distressed.
+
+2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out
+of the hand of those that spoiled them.
+
+2:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a
+whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned
+quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the
+commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
+
+2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with
+the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the
+days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings
+by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
+
+2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned,
+and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other
+gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from
+their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
+
+2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said,
+Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I
+commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; 2:21 I
+also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations
+which Joshua left when he died: 2:22 That through them I may prove
+Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as
+their fathers did keep it, or not.
+
+2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out
+hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
+
+3:1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by
+them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
+3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to
+teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; 3:3
+Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the
+Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount
+Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
+
+3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would
+hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their
+fathers by the hand of Moses.
+
+3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites,
+and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: 3:6 And they
+took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to
+their sons, and served their gods.
+
+3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
+forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
+
+3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
+sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and
+the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
+
+3:9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD
+raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them,
+even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
+
+3:10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel,
+and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of
+Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against
+Chushanrishathaim.
+
+3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz
+died.
+
+3:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the
+LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel,
+because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
+
+3:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and
+went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
+
+3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen
+years.
+
+3:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD
+raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man
+lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto
+Eglon the king of Moab.
+
+3:16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit
+length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
+
+3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was
+a very fat man.
+
+3:18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away
+the people that bare the present.
+
+3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by
+Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said,
+Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
+
+3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour,
+which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from
+God unto thee.
+
+And he arose out of his seat.
+
+3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his
+right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: 3:22 And the haft also went
+in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he
+could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
+
+3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the
+parlour upon him, and locked them.
+
+3:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that,
+behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he
+covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
+
+3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened
+not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened
+them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
+
+3:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the
+quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
+
+3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in
+the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him
+from the mount, and he before them.
+
+3:28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath
+delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down
+after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not
+a man to pass over.
+
+3:29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all
+lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
+
+3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the
+land had rest fourscore years.
+
+3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the
+Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered
+Israel.
+
+4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the
+LORD, when Ehud was dead.
+
+4:2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that
+reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in
+Harosheth of the Gentiles.
+
+4:3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine
+hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the
+children of Israel.
+
+4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel
+at that time.
+
+4:5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and
+Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for
+judgment.
+
+4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of
+Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel
+commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee
+ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of
+Zebulun? 4:7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera,
+the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and
+I will deliver him into thine hand.
+
+4:8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go:
+but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
+
+4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the
+journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD
+shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and
+went with Barak to Kedesh.
+
+4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up
+with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
+
+4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the
+father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and
+pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
+
+4:12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up
+to mount Tabor.
+
+4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred
+chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from
+Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
+
+4:14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the
+LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out
+before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men
+after him.
+
+4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all
+his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera
+lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
+
+4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto
+Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the
+edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
+
+4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife
+of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of
+Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
+
+4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my
+lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into
+the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
+
+4:19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to
+drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him
+drink, and covered him.
+
+4:20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it
+shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is
+there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
+
+4:21 Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an
+hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into
+his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep
+and weary. So he died.
+
+4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him,
+and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou
+seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and
+the nail was in his temples.
+
+4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the
+children of Israel.
+
+4:24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed
+against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king
+of Canaan.
+
+5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day,
+saying, 5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the
+people willingly offered themselves.
+
+5:3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing
+unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
+
+5:4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of
+the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the
+clouds also dropped water.
+
+5:5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from
+before the LORD God of Israel.
+
+5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the
+highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
+
+5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel,
+until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
+
+5:8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield
+or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? 5:9 My heart is toward
+the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the
+people. Bless ye the LORD.
+
+5:10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and
+walk by the way.
+
+5:11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places
+of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the
+LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages
+in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
+
+5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak,
+and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
+
+5:13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles
+among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
+
+5:14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after
+thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors,
+and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
+
+5:15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and
+also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of
+Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
+
+5:16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of
+the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of
+heart.
+
+5:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships?
+Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
+
+5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives
+unto the death in the high places of the field.
+
+5:19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in
+Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
+
+5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought
+against Sisera.
+
+5:21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the
+river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
+
+5:22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings,
+the pransings of their mighty ones.
+
+5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the
+inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to
+the help of the LORD against the mighty.
+
+5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be,
+blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
+
+5:25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter
+in a lordly dish.
+
+5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s
+hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head,
+when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
+
+5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed,
+he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
+
+5:28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through
+the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the
+wheels of his chariots? 5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she
+returned answer to herself, 5:30 Have they not sped? have they not
+divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of
+divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers
+colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that
+take the spoil? 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let
+them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And
+the land had rest forty years.
+
+6:1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and
+the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
+
+6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of
+the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in
+the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
+
+6:3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up,
+and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up
+against them; 6:4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the
+increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no
+sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
+
+6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came
+as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were
+without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
+
+6:6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and
+the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
+
+6:7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the
+LORD because of the Midianites, 6:8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto
+the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God
+of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of
+the house of bondage; 6:9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the
+Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave
+them out from before you, and gave you their land; 6:10 And I said
+unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites,
+in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.
+
+6:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which
+was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son
+Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the
+Midianites.
+
+6:12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him,
+The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
+
+6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why
+then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our
+fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?
+but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of
+the Midianites.
+
+6:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and
+thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I
+sent thee? 6:15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I
+save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the
+least in my father’s house.
+
+6:16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou
+shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
+
+6:17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight,
+then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
+
+6:18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring
+forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry
+until thou come again.
+
+6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of
+an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth
+in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
+
+6:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the
+unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth.
+And he did so.
+
+6:21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that
+was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and
+there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the
+unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his
+sight.
+
+6:22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD,
+Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an angel of the
+LORD face to face.
+
+6:23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou
+shalt not die.
+
+6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it
+Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
+
+6:25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him,
+Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven
+years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and
+cut down the grove that is by it: 6:26 And build an altar unto the
+LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take
+the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the
+grove which thou shalt cut down.
+
+6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had
+said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s
+household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day,
+that he did it by night.
+
+6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold,
+the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was
+by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was
+built.
+
+6:29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when
+they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done
+this thing.
+
+6:30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that
+he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because
+he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
+
+6:31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for
+Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to
+death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for
+himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
+
+6:32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal
+plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
+
+6:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of
+the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the
+valley of Jezreel.
+
+6:34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a
+trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
+
+6:35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was
+gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto
+Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
+
+6:36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand,
+as thou hast said, 6:37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the
+floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all
+the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine
+hand, as thou hast said.
+
+6:38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the
+fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of
+water.
+
+6:39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me,
+and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this
+once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon
+all the ground let there be dew.
+
+6:40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only,
+and there was dew on all the ground.
+
+7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with
+him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the
+host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of
+Moreh, in the valley.
+
+7:2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are
+too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel
+vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
+
+7:3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying,
+Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from
+mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two
+thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
+
+7:4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring
+them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it
+shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the
+same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall
+not go with thee, the same shall not go.
+
+7:5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said
+unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a
+dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that
+boweth down upon his knees to drink.
+
+7:6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their
+mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed
+down upon their knees to drink water.
+
+7:7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that
+lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand:
+and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
+
+7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and
+he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained
+those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the
+valley.
+
+7:9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him,
+Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine
+hand.
+
+7:10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down
+to the host: 7:11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward
+shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went
+he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that
+were in the host.
+
+7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the
+east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and
+their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for
+multitude.
+
+7:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a
+dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a
+cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a
+tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay
+along.
+
+7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the
+sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand
+hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
+
+7:15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and
+the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the
+host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your
+hand the host of Midian.
+
+7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he
+put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps
+within the pitchers.
+
+7:17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold,
+when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so
+shall ye do.
+
+7:18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow
+ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword
+of the LORD, and of Gideon.
+
+7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the
+outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had
+but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the
+pitchers that were in their hands.
+
+7:20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the
+pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in
+their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the
+LORD, and of Gideon.
+
+7:21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and
+all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
+
+7:22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every
+man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the
+host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of
+Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
+
+7:23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of
+Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after
+the Midianites.
+
+7:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying,
+come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto
+Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves
+together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
+
+7:25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and
+they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress
+of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to
+Gideon on the other side Jordan.
+
+8:1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us
+thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the
+Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
+
+8:2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you?
+Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage
+of Abiezer? 8:3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of
+Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you?
+Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
+
+8:4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three
+hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
+
+8:5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of
+bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am
+pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
+
+8:6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and
+Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
+8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and
+Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns
+of the wilderness and with briers.
+
+8:8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and
+the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.
+
+8:9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come
+again in peace, I will break down this tower.
+
+8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them,
+about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the
+children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand
+men that drew sword.
+
+8:11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the
+east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the host was
+secure.
+
+8:12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took
+the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the
+host.
+
+8:13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun
+was up, 8:14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and
+enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and
+the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
+
+8:15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and
+Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah
+and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men
+that are weary? 8:16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns
+of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of
+Succoth.
+
+8:17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the
+city.
+
+8:18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were
+they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were
+they; each one resembled the children of a king.
+
+8:19 And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother:
+as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
+
+8:20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the
+youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.
+
+8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as
+the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and
+Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’
+necks.
+
+8:22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both
+thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us
+from the hand of Midian.
+
+8:23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither
+shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
+
+8:24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that
+ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had
+golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) 8:25 And they
+answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and
+did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
+
+8:26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a
+thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and
+collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and
+beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
+
+8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in
+Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing
+became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
+
+8:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that
+they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness
+forty years in the days of Gideon.
+
+8:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
+
+8:30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for
+he had many wives.
+
+8:31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son,
+whose name he called Abimelech.
+
+8:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was
+buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the
+Abiezrites.
+
+8:33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
+children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and
+made Baalberith their god.
+
+8:34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who
+had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every
+side: 8:35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,
+namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto
+Israel.
+
+9:1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his
+mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of
+the house of his mother’s father, saying, 9:2 Speak, I pray you, in
+the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either
+that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons,
+reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am
+your bone and your flesh.
+
+9:3 And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men
+of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow
+Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
+
+9:4 And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the
+house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons,
+which followed him.
+
+9:5 And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his
+brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon
+one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal
+was left; for he hid himself.
+
+9:6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of
+Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar
+that was in Shechem.
+
+9:7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of
+mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them,
+Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
+
+9:8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and
+they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
+
+9:9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness,
+wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over
+the trees? 9:10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and
+reign over us.
+
+9:11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness,
+and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? 9:12 Then
+said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
+
+9:13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which
+cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? 9:14 Then
+said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
+
+9:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me
+king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not,
+let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
+
+9:16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye
+have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and
+his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his
+hands; 9:17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life
+far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: 9:18 And ye are
+risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons,
+threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech,
+the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he
+is your brother;) 9:19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with
+Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech,
+and let him also rejoice in you: 9:20 But if not, let fire come out
+from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo;
+and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of
+Millo, and devour Abimelech.
+
+9:21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there,
+for fear of Abimelech his brother.
+
+9:22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, 9:23 Then God
+sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the
+men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: 9:24 That the
+cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come,
+and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them;
+and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his
+brethren.
+
+9:25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of
+the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them:
+and it was told Abimelech.
+
+9:26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to
+Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.
+
+9:27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards,
+and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their
+god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
+
+9:28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is
+Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and
+Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for
+why should we serve him? 9:29 And would to God this people were under
+my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech,
+Increase thine army, and come out.
+
+9:30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the
+son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
+
+9:31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold,
+Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold,
+they fortify the city against thee.
+
+9:32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee,
+and lie in wait in the field: 9:33 And it shall be, that in the
+morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon
+the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come
+out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find
+occasion.
+
+9:34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by
+night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
+
+9:35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of
+the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were
+with him, from lying in wait.
+
+9:36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there
+come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto
+him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
+
+9:37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See there come people down by the
+middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of
+Meonenim.
+
+9:38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou
+saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the
+people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with
+them.
+
+9:39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with
+Abimelech.
+
+9:40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were
+overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.
+
+9:41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his
+brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
+
+9:42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into
+the field; and they told Abimelech.
+
+9:43 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies,
+and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were
+come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote
+them.
+
+9:44 And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward,
+and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other
+companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew
+them.
+
+9:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took
+the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the
+city, and sowed it with salt.
+
+9:46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they
+entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
+
+9:47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of
+Shechem were gathered together.
+
+9:48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people
+that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut
+down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder,
+and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do,
+make haste, and do as I have done.
+
+9:49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and
+followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire
+upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also,
+about a thousand men and women.
+
+9:50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and
+took it.
+
+9:51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled
+all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them,
+and gat them up to the top of the tower.
+
+9:52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and
+went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
+
+9:53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s
+head, and all to brake his skull.
+
+9:54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and
+said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A
+women slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
+
+9:55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they
+departed every man unto his place.
+
+9:56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto
+his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: 9:57 And all the evil of
+the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came
+the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
+
+10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of
+Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in
+mount Ephraim.
+
+10:2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was
+buried in Shamir.
+
+10:3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty
+and two years.
+
+10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they
+had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which
+are in the land of Gilead.
+
+10:5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
+
+10:6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the
+LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the
+gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of
+Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and
+served not him.
+
+10:7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold
+them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the
+children of Ammon.
+
+10:8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel:
+eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side
+Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
+
+10:9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also
+against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim;
+so that Israel was sore distressed.
+
+10:10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have
+sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also
+served Baalim.
+
+10:11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver
+you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of
+Ammon, and from the Philistines? 10:12 The Zidonians also, and the
+Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and
+I delivered you out of their hand.
+
+10:13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will
+deliver you no more.
+
+10:14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver
+you in the time of your tribulation.
+
+10:15 And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned:
+do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we
+pray thee, this day.
+
+10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served
+the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
+
+10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped
+in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together,
+and encamped in Mizpeh.
+
+10:18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What
+man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he
+shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
+
+11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was
+the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
+
+11:2 And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and
+they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in
+our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
+
+11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of
+Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with
+him.
+
+11:4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of
+Ammon made war against Israel.
+
+11:5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against
+Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of
+Tob: 11:6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that
+we may fight with the children of Ammon.
+
+11:7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me,
+and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now
+when ye are in distress? 11:8 And the elders of Gilead said unto
+Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go
+with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over
+all the inhabitants of Gilead.
+
+11:9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home
+again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver
+them before me, shall I be your head? 11:10 And the elders of Gilead
+said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so
+according to thy words.
+
+11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people
+made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his
+words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
+
+11:12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of
+Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come
+against me to fight in my land? 11:13 And the king of the children of
+Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took
+away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto
+Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again
+peaceably.
+
+11:14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children
+of Ammon: 11:15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took
+not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
+11:16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the
+wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh; 11:17 Then Israel
+sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee,
+pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto.
+And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not
+consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
+
+11:18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the
+land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the
+land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not
+within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
+
+11:19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the
+king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee,
+through thy land into my place.
+
+11:20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but
+Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and
+fought against Israel.
+
+11:21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people
+into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all
+the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
+
+11:22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon
+even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
+
+11:23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites
+from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? 11:24
+Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to
+possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before
+us, them will we possess.
+
+11:25 And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor,
+king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight
+against them, 11:26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and
+in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the
+coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover
+them within that time? 11:27 Wherefore I have not sinned against
+thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be
+judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of
+Ammon.
+
+11:28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the
+words of Jephthah which he sent him.
+
+11:29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed
+over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from
+Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
+
+11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt
+without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 11:31 Then
+it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to
+meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall
+surely be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
+
+11:32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight
+against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
+
+11:33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith,
+even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very
+great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the
+children of Israel.
+
+11:34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his
+daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she
+was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
+
+11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes,
+and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou
+art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the
+LORD, and I cannot go back.
+
+11:36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth
+unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of
+thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of
+thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
+
+11:37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let
+me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and
+bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
+
+11:38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she
+went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the
+mountains.
+
+11:39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned
+unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had
+vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, 11:40 That
+the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah
+the Gileadite four days in a year.
+
+12:1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went
+northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to
+fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with
+thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
+
+12:2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife
+with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not
+out of their hands.
+
+12:3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my
+hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD
+delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me
+this day, to fight against me? 12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together
+all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead
+smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of
+Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
+
+12:5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the
+Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were
+escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him,
+Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; 12:6 Then said they unto him,
+Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to
+pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages
+of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and
+two thousand.
+
+12:7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the
+Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
+
+12:8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
+
+12:9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent
+abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he
+judged Israel seven years.
+
+12:10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
+
+12:11 And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged
+Israel ten years.
+
+12:12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the
+country of Zebulun.
+
+12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged
+Israel.
+
+12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on
+threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
+
+12:15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried
+in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
+
+13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the
+LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines
+forty years.
+
+13:2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the
+Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
+
+13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto
+her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt
+conceive, and bear a son.
+
+13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong
+drink, and eat not any unclean thing: 13:5 For, lo, thou shalt
+conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the
+child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin
+to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
+
+13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God
+came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel
+of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told
+he me his name: 13:7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive,
+and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat
+any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the
+womb to the day of his death.
+
+13:8 Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man
+of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we
+shall do unto the child that shall be born.
+
+13:9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God
+came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her
+husband was not with her.
+
+13:10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and
+said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto
+me the other day.
+
+13:11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man,
+and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And
+he said, I am.
+
+13:12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we
+order the child, and how shall we do unto him? 13:13 And the angel of
+the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her
+beware.
+
+13:14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither
+let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all
+that I commanded her let her observe.
+
+13:15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us
+detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
+
+13:16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain
+me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt
+offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that
+he was an angel of the LORD.
+
+13:17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name,
+that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? 13:18 And
+the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my
+name, seeing it is secret? 13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat
+offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did
+wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
+
+13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from
+off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the
+altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces
+to the ground.
+
+13:21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to
+his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
+
+13:22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we
+have seen God.
+
+13:23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us,
+he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our
+hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as
+at this time have told us such things as these.
+
+13:24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the
+child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
+
+13:25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the
+camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
+
+14:1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of
+the daughters of the Philistines.
+
+14:2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I
+have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now
+therefore get her for me to wife.
+
+14:3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a
+woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people,
+that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And
+Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
+
+14:4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD,
+that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time
+the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
+
+14:5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath,
+and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared
+against him.
+
+14:6 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent
+him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but
+he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
+
+14:7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased
+Samson well.
+
+14:8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to
+see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees
+and honey in the carcase of the lion.
+
+14:9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to
+his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told
+not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
+
+14:10 So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a
+feast; for so used the young men to do.
+
+14:11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty
+companions to be with him.
+
+14:12 And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto
+you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the
+feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty
+change of garments: 14:13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall
+ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said
+unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
+
+14:14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out
+of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days
+expound the riddle.
+
+14:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto
+Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the
+riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye
+called us to take that we have? is it not so? 14:16 And Samson’s wife
+wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not:
+thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast
+not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my
+father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee? 14:17 And she wept
+before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to
+pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon
+him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
+
+14:18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before
+the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger
+than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my
+heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
+
+14:19 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to
+Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave
+change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger
+was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.
+
+14:20 But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used
+as his friend.
+
+15:1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat
+harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will
+go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him
+to go in.
+
+15:2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly
+hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger
+sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
+
+15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless
+than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
+
+15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took
+firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst
+between two tails.
+
+15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the
+standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and
+also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
+
+15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered,
+Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife,
+and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt
+her and her father with fire.
+
+15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I
+be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
+
+15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he
+went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
+
+15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread
+themselves in Lehi.
+
+15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And
+they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath
+done to us.
+
+15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock
+Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are
+rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said
+unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
+
+15:12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we
+may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said
+unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
+
+15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast,
+and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee.
+And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the
+rock.
+
+15:14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him:
+and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that
+were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his
+bands loosed from off his hands.
+
+15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand,
+and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
+
+15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps,
+with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
+
+15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that
+he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place
+Ramathlehi.
+
+15:18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou
+hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and
+now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the
+uncircumcised? 15:19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the
+jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit
+came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof
+Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
+
+15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty
+years.
+
+16:1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in
+unto her.
+
+16:2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And
+they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of
+the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when
+it is day, we shall kill him.
+
+16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the
+doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with
+them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them
+up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
+
+16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the
+valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
+
+16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto
+her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what
+means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him;
+and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
+
+16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy
+great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict
+thee.
+
+16:7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs
+that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
+
+16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green
+withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
+
+16:9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the
+chamber.
+
+And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he
+brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the
+fire. So his strength was not known.
+
+16:10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and
+told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be
+bound.
+
+16:11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that
+never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
+
+16:12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and
+said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were
+liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his
+arms like a thread.
+
+16:13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and
+told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said
+unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
+
+16:14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The
+Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and
+went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
+
+16:15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when
+thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and
+hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
+
+16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words,
+and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; 16:17 That he
+told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor
+upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s
+womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall
+become weak, and be like any other man.
+
+16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she
+sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this
+once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the
+Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
+
+16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man,
+and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she
+began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
+
+16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke
+out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before,
+and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
+
+16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought
+him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did
+grind in the prison house.
+
+16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was
+shaven.
+
+16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to
+offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they
+said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
+
+16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they
+said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the
+destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
+
+16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they
+said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for
+Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set
+him between the pillars.
+
+16:26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer
+me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I
+may lean upon them.
+
+16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of
+the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three
+thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
+
+16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember
+me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O
+God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
+
+16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the
+house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right
+hand, and of the other with his left.
+
+16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed
+himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and
+upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at
+his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
+
+16:31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and
+took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol
+in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty
+years.
+
+17:1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
+
+17:2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver
+that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of
+also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his
+mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
+
+17:3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to
+his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto
+the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten
+image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
+
+17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took
+two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made
+thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house
+of Micah.
+
+17:5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and
+teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
+
+17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that
+which was right in his own eyes.
+
+17:7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of
+Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
+
+17:8 And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to
+sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to
+the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
+
+17:9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto
+him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may
+find a place.
+
+17:10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father
+and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year,
+and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
+
+17:11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young
+man was unto him as one of his sons.
+
+17:12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his
+priest, and was in the house of Micah.
+
+17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good,
+seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
+
+18:1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the
+tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto
+that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the
+tribes of Israel.
+
+18:2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their
+coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the
+land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land:
+who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they
+lodged there.
+
+18:3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the
+young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him,
+Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what
+hast thou here? 18:4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth
+Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
+
+18:5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that
+we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
+
+18:6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is
+your way wherein ye go.
+
+18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people
+that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the
+Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land,
+that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the
+Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
+
+18:8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their
+brethren said unto them, What say ye? 18:9 And they said, Arise, that
+we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it
+is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to
+possess the land.
+
+18:10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large
+land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no
+want of any thing that is in the earth.
+
+18:11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of
+Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of
+war.
+
+18:12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah:
+wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it
+is behind Kirjathjearim.
+
+18:13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the
+house of Micah.
+
+18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of
+Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these
+houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image?
+now therefore consider what ye have to do.
+
+18:15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young
+man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
+
+18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war,
+which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
+
+18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came
+in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the
+teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering
+of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons
+of war.
+
+18:18 And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image,
+the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the
+priest unto them, What do ye? 18:19 And they said unto him, Hold thy
+peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a
+father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the
+house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family
+in Israel? 18:20 And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the
+ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst
+of the people.
+
+18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the
+cattle and the carriage before them.
+
+18:22 And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men
+that were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together,
+and overtook the children of Dan.
+
+18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their
+faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with
+such a company? 18:24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I
+made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and
+what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee? 18:25 And the
+children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us,
+lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the
+lives of thy household.
+
+18:26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that
+they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
+
+18:27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest
+which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet
+and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt
+the city with fire.
+
+18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and
+they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth
+by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
+
+18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan
+their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city
+was Laish at the first.
+
+18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan,
+the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests
+to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
+
+18:31 And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all
+the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
+
+19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in
+Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of
+mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
+
+19:2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away
+from him unto her father’s house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four
+whole months.
+
+19:3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto
+her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple
+of asses: and she brought him into her father’s house: and when the
+father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
+
+19:4 And his father in law, the damsel’s father, retained him; and he
+abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged
+there.
+
+19:5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in
+the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel’s father said
+unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and
+afterward go your way.
+
+19:6 And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together:
+for the damsel’s father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray
+thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
+
+19:7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him:
+therefore he lodged there again.
+
+19:8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and
+the damsel’s father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they
+tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.
+
+19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and
+his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him,
+Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all
+night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart
+may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou
+mayest go home.
+
+19:10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and
+departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there
+were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
+
+19:11 And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the
+servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in
+into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
+
+19:12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into
+the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will
+pass over to Gibeah.
+
+19:13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one
+of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
+
+19:14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down
+upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
+
+19:15 And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah:
+and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for
+there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
+
+19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the
+field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in
+Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
+
+19:17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in
+the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and
+whence comest thou? 19:18 And he said unto him, We are passing from
+Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and
+I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD;
+and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
+
+19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there
+is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young
+man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
+
+19:20 And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy
+wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
+
+19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the
+asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
+
+19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of
+the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and
+beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man,
+saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may
+know him.
+
+19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and
+said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly;
+seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
+
+19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I
+will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth
+good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
+
+19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his
+concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and
+abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to
+spring, they let her go.
+
+19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at
+the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.
+
+19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the
+house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his
+concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were
+upon the threshold.
+
+19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none
+answered.
+
+Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him
+unto his place.
+
+19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid
+hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into
+twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
+
+19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed
+done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of
+the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and
+speak your minds.
+
+20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation
+was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the
+land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
+
+20:2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of
+Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God,
+four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
+
+20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel
+were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us,
+how was this wickedness? 20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the
+woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that
+belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
+
+20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round
+about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine
+have they forced, that she is dead.
+
+20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her
+throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have
+committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
+
+20:7 Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and
+counsel.
+
+20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of
+us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
+
+20:9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we
+will go up by lot against it; 20:10 And we will take ten men of an
+hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a
+thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the
+people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin,
+according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
+
+20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit
+together as one man.
+
+20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of
+Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
+20:13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which
+are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from
+Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of
+their brethren the children of Israel.
+
+20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of
+the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of
+Israel.
+
+20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of
+the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the
+inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
+
+20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men
+lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not
+miss.
+
+20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four
+hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
+
+20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of
+God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first
+to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said,
+Judah shall go up first.
+
+20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped
+against Gibeah.
+
+20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and
+the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at
+Gibeah.
+
+20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and
+destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two
+thousand men.
+
+20:22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set
+their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in
+array the first day.
+
+20:23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD
+until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again
+to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD
+said, Go up against him.) 20:24 And the children of Israel came near
+against the children of Benjamin the second day.
+
+20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second
+day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again
+eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
+
+20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up,
+and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the
+LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and
+peace offerings before the LORD.
+
+20:27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of
+the covenant of God was there in those days, 20:28 And Phinehas, the
+son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,)
+saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of
+Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for
+to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
+
+20:29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
+
+20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of
+Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah,
+as at other times.
+
+20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and
+were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people,
+and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to
+the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty
+men of Israel.
+
+20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before
+us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and
+draw them from the city unto the highways.
+
+20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put
+themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came
+forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
+
+20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all
+Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near
+them.
+
+20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of
+Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand
+and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
+
+20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the
+men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto
+the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
+
+20:37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the
+liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the
+edge of the sword.
+
+20:38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and
+the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise
+up out of the city.
+
+20:39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began
+to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they
+said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
+
+20:40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a
+pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the
+flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
+
+20:41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin
+were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
+
+20:42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto
+the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them
+which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
+
+20:43 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them,
+and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the
+sunrising.
+
+20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were
+men of valour.
+
+20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of
+Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men;
+and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of
+them.
+
+20:46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five
+thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
+
+20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the
+rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
+
+20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of
+Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men
+of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set
+on fire all the cities that they came to.
+
+21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall
+not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
+
+21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till
+even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; 21:3 And
+said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that
+there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel? 21:4 And it came
+to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an
+altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
+
+21:5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the
+tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD?
+For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the
+LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
+
+21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their
+brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
+
+21:7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have
+sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to
+wives? 21:8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel
+that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none
+to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
+
+21:9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the
+inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
+
+21:10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the
+valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants
+of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the
+children.
+
+21:11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy
+every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
+
+21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four
+hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male:
+and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of
+Canaan.
+
+21:13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of
+Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto
+them.
+
+21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives
+which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so
+they sufficed them not.
+
+21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD
+had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
+
+21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for
+wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of
+Benjamin? 21:17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them
+that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of
+Israel.
+
+21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the
+children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife
+to Benjamin.
+
+21:19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh
+yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east
+side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the
+south of Lebonah.
+
+21:20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go
+and lie in wait in the vineyards; 21:21 And see, and, behold, if the
+daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of
+the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of
+Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
+
+21:22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto
+us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them
+for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the
+war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be
+guilty.
+
+21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives,
+according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and
+they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the
+cities, and dwelt in them.
+
+21:24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every
+man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence
+every man to his inheritance.
+
+21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that
+which was right in his own eyes.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of Ruth
+
+
+1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there
+was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to
+sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
+
+1:2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife
+Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of
+Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued
+there.
+
+1:3 And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two
+sons.
+
+1:4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one
+was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there
+about ten years.
+
+1:5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was
+left of her two sons and her husband.
+
+1:6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return
+from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how
+that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
+
+1:7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her
+two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto
+the land of Judah.
+
+1:8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to
+her mother’s house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt
+with the dead, and with me.
+
+1:9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house
+of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice,
+and wept.
+
+1:10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy
+people.
+
+1:11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me?
+are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your
+husbands? 1:12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too
+old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have
+an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; 1:13 Would ye
+tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from
+having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your
+sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
+
+1:14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed
+her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
+
+1:15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her
+people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
+
+1:16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from
+following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where
+thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God
+my God: 1:17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried:
+the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and
+me.
+
+1:18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then
+she left speaking unto her.
+
+1:19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to
+pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved
+about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? 1:20 And she said unto
+them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt
+very bitterly with me.
+
+1:21 I went out full and the LORD hath brought me home again empty:
+why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me,
+and the Almighty hath afflicted me? 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth
+the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of
+the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of
+barley harvest.
+
+2:1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth,
+of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
+
+2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the
+field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find
+grace.
+
+And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
+
+2:3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the
+reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging
+unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
+
+2:4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers,
+The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.
+
+2:5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers,
+Whose damsel is this? 2:6 And the servant that was set over the
+reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back
+with Naomi out of the country of Moab: 2:7 And she said, I pray you,
+let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she
+came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she
+tarried a little in the house.
+
+2:8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to
+glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by
+my maidens: 2:9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and
+go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall
+not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and
+drink of that which the young men have drawn.
+
+2:10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and
+said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou
+shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? 2:11 And Boaz
+answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that
+thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine
+husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the
+land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest
+not heretofore.
+
+2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of
+the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
+
+2:13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that
+thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto
+thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
+
+2:14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of
+the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the
+reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was
+sufficed, and left.
+
+2:15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men,
+saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
+2:16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and
+leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
+
+2:17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had
+gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
+
+2:18 And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law
+saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that
+she had reserved after she was sufficed.
+
+2:19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to
+day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge
+of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought,
+and said, The man’s name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
+
+2:20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the
+LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the
+dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of
+our next kinsmen.
+
+2:21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt
+keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
+
+2:22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my
+daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not
+in any other field.
+
+2:23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of
+barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
+
+3:1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I
+not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? 3:2 And now is
+not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he
+winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
+
+3:3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon
+thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto
+the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
+
+3:4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the
+place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet,
+and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
+
+3:5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
+
+3:6 And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that
+her mother in law bade her.
+
+3:7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he
+went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly,
+and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
+
+3:8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and
+turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
+
+3:9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine
+handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art
+a near kinsman.
+
+3:10 And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou
+hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning,
+inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
+
+3:11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou
+requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a
+virtuous woman.
+
+3:12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a
+kinsman nearer than I.
+
+3:13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will
+perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the
+kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee,
+then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie
+down until the morning.
+
+3:14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before
+one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman
+came into the floor.
+
+3:15 Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold
+it.
+
+And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it
+on her: and she went into the city.
+
+3:16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou,
+my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.
+
+3:17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he
+said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
+
+3:18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the
+matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have
+finished the thing this day.
+
+4:1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and,
+behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho,
+such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat
+down.
+
+4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye
+down here. And they sat down.
+
+4:3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the
+country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother
+Elimelech’s: 4:4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it
+before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou
+wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell
+me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I
+am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
+
+4:5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of
+Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the
+dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
+
+4:6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar
+mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot
+redeem it.
+
+4:7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning
+redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man
+plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a
+testimony in Israel.
+
+4:8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew
+off his shoe.
+
+4:9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are
+witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and
+all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi.
+
+4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased
+to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance,
+that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and
+from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
+
+4:11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said,
+We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine
+house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of
+Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
+4:12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare
+unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young
+woman.
+
+4:13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto
+her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
+
+4:14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath
+not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous
+in Israel.
+
+4:15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher
+of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is
+better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
+
+4:16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became
+nurse unto it.
+
+4:17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a
+son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of
+Jesse, the father of David.
+
+4:18 Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
+4:19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, 4:20 And Amminadab
+begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, 4:21 And Salmon begat Boaz,
+and Boaz begat Obed, 4:22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
+
+
+
+
+The First Book of Samuel
+
+Otherwise Called:
+
+The First Book of the Kings
+
+
+1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim,
+and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the
+son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: 1:2 And he had two wives;
+the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah:
+and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
+
+1:3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to
+sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli,
+Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
+
+1:4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah
+his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 1:5 But
+unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the
+LORD had shut up her womb.
+
+1:6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret,
+because the LORD had shut up her womb.
+
+1:7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of
+the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
+
+1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou?
+and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better
+to thee than ten sons? 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in
+Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat
+by a post of the temple of the LORD.
+
+1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and
+wept sore.
+
+1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt
+indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and
+not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man
+child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life,
+and there shall no razor come upon his head.
+
+1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD,
+that Eli marked her mouth.
+
+1:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her
+voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
+
+1:14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away
+thy wine from thee.
+
+1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a
+sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have
+poured out my soul before the LORD.
+
+1:16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the
+abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
+
+1:17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel
+grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
+
+1:18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the
+woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
+
+1:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the
+LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew
+Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
+
+1:20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after
+Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel,
+saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
+
+1:21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the
+LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
+
+1:22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not
+go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he
+may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.
+
+1:23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good;
+tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So
+the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
+
+1:24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three
+bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought
+him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
+
+1:25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
+
+1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the
+woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
+
+1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition
+which I asked of him: 1:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD;
+as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped
+the LORD there.
+
+2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine
+horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies;
+because I rejoice in thy salvation.
+
+2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee:
+neither is there any rock like our God.
+
+2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of
+your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are
+weighed.
+
+2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are
+girded with strength.
+
+2:5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they
+that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she
+that hath many children is waxed feeble.
+
+2:6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave,
+and bringeth up.
+
+2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and
+lifteth up.
+
+2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar
+from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit
+the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and
+he hath set the world upon them.
+
+2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be
+silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
+
+2:10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of
+heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of
+the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the
+horn of his anointed.
+
+2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did
+minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
+
+2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
+
+2:13 And the priest’s custom with the people was, that, when any man
+offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in
+seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 2:14 And he
+struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the
+fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in
+Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
+
+2:15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and
+said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest;
+for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
+
+2:16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat
+presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would
+answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will
+take it by force.
+
+2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the
+LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
+
+2:18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with
+a linen ephod.
+
+2:19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him
+from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the
+yearly sacrifice.
+
+2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give
+thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And
+they went unto their own home.
+
+2:21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare
+three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the
+LORD.
+
+2:22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all
+Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of
+the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+2:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your
+evil dealings by all this people.
+
+2:24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the
+LORD’s people to transgress.
+
+2:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if
+a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding
+they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD
+would slay them.
+
+2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the
+LORD, and also with men.
+
+2:27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus
+saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father,
+when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house? 2:28 And did I choose him
+out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine
+altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give
+unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the
+children of Israel? 2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at
+mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest
+thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the
+offerings of Israel my people? 2:30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel
+saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father,
+should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from
+me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me
+shall be lightly esteemed.
+
+2:31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm
+of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine
+house.
+
+2:32 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth
+which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in
+thine house for ever.
+
+2:33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar,
+shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the
+increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
+
+2:34 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two
+sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
+
+2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according
+to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a
+sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
+
+2:36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine
+house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel
+of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’
+offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
+
+3:1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the
+word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
+
+3:2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his
+place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see; 3:3 And
+ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark
+of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; 3:4 That the LORD
+called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
+
+3:5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me.
+And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.
+
+3:6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went
+to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered,
+I called not, my son; lie down again.
+
+3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the
+LORD yet revealed unto him.
+
+3:8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and
+went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli
+perceived that the LORD had called the child.
+
+3:9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if
+he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant
+heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
+
+3:10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times,
+Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.
+
+3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel,
+at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
+
+3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have
+spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
+
+3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the
+iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and
+he restrained them not.
+
+3:14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
+iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor
+offering for ever.
+
+3:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the
+house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
+
+3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he
+answered, Here am I.
+
+3:17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee?
+I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if
+thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.
+
+3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he
+said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
+
+3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of
+his words fall to the ground.
+
+3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
+established to be a prophet of the LORD.
+
+3:21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed
+himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
+
+4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out
+against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and
+the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
+
+4:2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and
+when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines:
+and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
+
+4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel
+said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the
+Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of
+Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of
+the hand of our enemies.
+
+4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence
+the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between
+the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were
+there with the ark of the covenant of God.
+
+4:5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp,
+all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
+
+4:6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said,
+What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?
+And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.
+
+4:7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into
+the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a
+thing heretofore.
+
+4:8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty
+Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues
+in the wilderness.
+
+4:9 Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye
+be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit
+yourselves like men, and fight.
+
+4:10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled
+every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for
+there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
+
+4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
+Phinehas, were slain.
+
+4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to
+Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his
+head.
+
+4:13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside
+watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man
+came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
+
+4:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth
+the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
+
+4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim,
+that he could not see.
+
+4:16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and
+I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my
+son? 4:17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before
+the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the
+people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the
+ark of God is taken.
+
+4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that
+he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his
+neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had
+judged Israel forty years.
+
+4:19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to
+be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was
+taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed
+herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
+
+4:20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said
+unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not,
+neither did she regard it.
+
+4:21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed
+from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her
+father in law and her husband.
+
+4:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of
+God is taken.
+
+5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from
+Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
+
+5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the
+house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
+
+5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon
+was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And
+they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
+
+5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was
+fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the
+head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the
+threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
+
+5:5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into
+Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this
+day.
+
+5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he
+destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the
+coasts thereof.
+
+5:7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark
+of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore
+upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
+
+5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines
+unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of
+Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried
+about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about
+thither.
+
+5:9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of
+the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he
+smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods
+in their secret parts.
+
+5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass,
+as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying,
+They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us
+and our people.
+
+5:11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the
+Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let
+it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for
+there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of
+God was very heavy there.
+
+5:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the
+cry of the city went up to heaven.
+
+6:1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines
+seven months.
+
+6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,
+saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we
+shall send it to his place.
+
+6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send
+it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye
+shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not
+removed from you.
+
+6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall
+return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden
+mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one
+plague was on you all, and on your lords.
+
+6:5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your
+mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of
+Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from
+off your gods, and from off your land.
+
+6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and
+Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among
+them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? 6:7 Now
+therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there
+hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their
+calves home from them: 6:8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it
+upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a
+trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away,
+that it may go.
+
+6:9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to
+Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we
+shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that
+happened to us.
+
+6:10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the
+cart, and shut up their calves at home: 6:11 And they laid the ark of
+the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the
+images of their emerods.
+
+6:12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and
+went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to
+the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went
+after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
+
+6:13 And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the
+valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced
+to see it.
+
+6:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and
+stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of
+the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
+
+6:15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer
+that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the
+great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and
+sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
+
+6:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they
+returned to Ekron the same day.
+
+6:17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned
+for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one,
+for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; 6:18 And the golden
+mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines
+belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country
+villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the
+ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of
+Joshua, the Bethshemite.
+
+6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into
+the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and
+threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had
+smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
+
+6:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this
+holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us? 6:21 And they sent
+messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The
+Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and
+fetch it up to you.
+
+7:1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the
+LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
+sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
+
+7:2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that
+the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of
+Israel lamented after the LORD.
+
+7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do
+return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange
+gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the
+LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of
+the Philistines.
+
+7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and
+served the LORD only.
+
+7:5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for
+you unto the LORD.
+
+7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured
+it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We
+have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel
+in Mizpeh.
+
+7:7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
+gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up
+against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were
+afraid of the Philistines.
+
+7:8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto
+the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
+Philistines.
+
+7:9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt
+offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for
+Israel; and the LORD heard him.
+
+7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines
+drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a
+great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them;
+and they were smitten before Israel.
+
+7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
+Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.
+
+7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and
+called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped
+us.
+
+7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the
+coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines
+all the days of Samuel.
+
+7:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
+restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof
+did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was
+peace between Israel and the Amorites.
+
+7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
+
+7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal,
+and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
+
+7:17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there
+he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
+
+8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons
+judges over Israel.
+
+8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
+second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
+
+8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre,
+and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
+
+8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and
+came to Samuel unto Ramah, 8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art
+old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us
+like all the nations.
+
+8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to
+judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
+
+8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the
+people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected
+thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
+
+8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that
+I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have
+forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
+
+8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
+solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall
+reign over them.
+
+8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that
+asked of him a king.
+
+8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign
+over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for
+his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his
+chariots.
+
+8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains
+over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his
+harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his
+chariots.
+
+8:13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be
+cooks, and to be bakers.
+
+8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your
+oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
+
+8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards,
+and give to his officers, and to his servants.
+
+8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and
+your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
+
+8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his
+servants.
+
+8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye
+shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
+
+8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and
+they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 8:20 That we also may
+be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out
+before us, and fight our battles.
+
+8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed
+them in the ears of the LORD.
+
+8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make
+them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man
+unto his city.
+
+9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of
+Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a
+Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
+
+9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a
+goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier
+person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any
+of the people.
+
+9:3 And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to
+Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go
+seek the asses.
+
+9:4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land
+of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the
+land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the
+land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.
+
+9:5 And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his
+servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father
+leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
+
+9:6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of
+God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to
+pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that
+we should go.
+
+9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall
+we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is
+not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we? 9:8 And the
+servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the
+fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God,
+to tell us our way.
+
+9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he
+spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a
+Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 9:10 Then said Saul to his
+servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where
+the man of God was.
+
+9:11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young
+maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
+9:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before
+you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a
+sacrifice of the people to day in the high place: 9:13 As soon as ye
+be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up
+to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come,
+because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be
+bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find
+him.
+
+9:14 And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the
+city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high
+place.
+
+9:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came,
+saying, 9:16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of
+the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my
+people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the
+Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is
+come unto me.
+
+9:17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man
+whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
+
+9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I
+pray thee, where the seer’s house is.
+
+9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before
+me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow
+I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
+
+9:20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy
+mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of
+Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house? 9:21 And
+Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the
+tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the
+tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me? 9:22 And
+Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour,
+and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden,
+which were about thirty persons.
+
+9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave
+thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
+
+9:24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it,
+and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left!
+set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for
+thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with
+Samuel that day.
+
+9:25 And when they were come down from the high place into the city,
+Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
+
+9:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the
+day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that
+I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them,
+he and Samuel, abroad.
+
+9:27 And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said
+to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on), but
+stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
+
+10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and
+kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to
+be captain over his inheritance? 10:2 When thou art departed from me
+to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the
+border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses
+which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left
+the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do
+for my son? 10:3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou
+shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men
+going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another
+carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
+10:4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread;
+which thou shalt receive of their hands.
+
+10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the
+garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art
+come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets
+coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a
+pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: 10:6 And the
+Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with
+them, and shalt be turned into another man.
+
+10:7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do
+as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
+
+10:8 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will
+come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice
+sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I
+come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
+
+10:9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from
+Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass
+that day.
+
+10:10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of
+prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he
+prophesied among them.
+
+10:11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that,
+behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to
+another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also
+among the prophets? 10:12 And one of the same place answered and
+said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul
+also among the prophets? 10:13 And when he had made an end of
+prophesying, he came to the high place.
+
+10:14 And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went
+ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no
+where, we came to Samuel.
+
+10:15 And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said
+unto you.
+
+10:16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses
+were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he
+told him not.
+
+10:17 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
+10:18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of
+Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the
+hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of
+them that oppressed you: 10:19 And ye have this day rejected your God,
+who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your
+tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us.
+Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and
+by your thousands.
+
+10:20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come
+near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
+
+10:21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their
+families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was
+taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.
+
+10:22 Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should
+yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold he hath hid himself
+among the stuff.
+
+10:23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the
+people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and
+upward.
+
+10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath
+chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the
+people shouted, and said, God save the king.
+
+10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote
+it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the
+people away, every man to his house.
+
+10:26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a
+band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
+
+10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And
+they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held his peace.
+
+11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against
+Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a
+covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
+
+11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I
+make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes,
+and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
+
+11:3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’
+respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel:
+and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
+
+11:4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings
+in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices,
+and wept.
+
+11:5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul
+said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the
+tidings of the men of Jabesh.
+
+11:6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings,
+and his anger was kindled greatly.
+
+11:7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent
+them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers,
+saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so
+shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the
+people, and they came out with one consent.
+
+11:8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were
+three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
+
+11:9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say
+unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot,
+ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men
+of Jabesh; and they were glad.
+
+11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out
+unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.
+
+11:11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three
+companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning
+watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came
+to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them
+were not left together.
+
+11:12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul
+reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
+
+11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day:
+for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
+
+11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal,
+and renew the kingdom there.
+
+11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king
+before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of
+peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of
+Israel rejoiced greatly.
+
+12:1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto
+your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
+
+12:2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and
+grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked
+before you from my childhood unto this day.
+
+12:3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before
+his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or
+whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I
+received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it
+you.
+
+12:4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,
+neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand.
+
+12:5 And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his
+anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand.
+And they answered, He is witness.
+
+12:6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced
+Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of
+Egypt.
+
+12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the
+LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to
+your fathers.
+
+12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the
+LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your
+fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
+
+12:9 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the
+hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the
+Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought
+against them.
+
+12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because
+we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but
+now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
+
+12:11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and
+Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every
+side, and ye dwelled safe.
+
+12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon
+came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over
+us: when the LORD your God was your king.
+
+12:13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye
+have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
+
+12:14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and
+not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and
+also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your
+God: 12:15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel
+against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD
+be against you, as it was against your fathers.
+
+12:16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD
+will do before your eyes.
+
+12:17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and
+he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your
+wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in
+asking you a king.
+
+12:18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and
+rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
+
+12:19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto
+the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins
+this evil, to ask us a king.
+
+12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this
+wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the
+LORD with all your heart; 12:21 And turn ye not aside: for then should
+ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are
+vain.
+
+12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s
+sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
+
+12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the
+LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the
+right way: 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all
+your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
+
+12:25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye
+and your king.
+
+13:1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over
+Israel, 13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two
+thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a
+thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the
+people he sent every man to his tent.
+
+13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in
+Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet
+throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
+
+13:4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the
+Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the
+Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
+
+13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with
+Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and
+people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they
+came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
+
+13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the
+people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves,
+and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
+
+13:7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and
+Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed
+him trembling.
+
+13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel
+had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were
+scattered from him.
+
+13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
+offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
+
+13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of
+offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to
+meet him, that he might salute him.
+
+13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I
+saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not
+within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered
+themselves together at Michmash; 13:12 Therefore said I, The
+Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made
+supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a
+burnt offering.
+
+13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not
+kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for
+now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
+
+13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him
+a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be
+captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the
+LORD commanded thee.
+
+13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of
+Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him,
+about six hundred men.
+
+13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present
+with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped
+in Michmash.
+
+13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in
+three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to
+Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: 13:18 And another company turned the
+way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border
+that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
+
+13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel:
+for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
+13:20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen
+every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
+
+13:21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and
+for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
+
+13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither
+sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with
+Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there
+found.
+
+13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of
+Michmash.
+
+14:1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul
+said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over
+to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told
+not his father.
+
+14:2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a
+pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him
+were about six hundred men; 14:3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub,
+Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’s
+priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that
+Jonathan was gone.
+
+14:4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over
+unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one
+side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was
+Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
+
+14:5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against
+Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
+
+14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come,
+and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be
+that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD
+to save by many or by few.
+
+14:7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine
+heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
+
+14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and
+we will discover ourselves unto them.
+
+14:9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we
+will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
+
+14:10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for
+the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign
+unto us.
+
+14:11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the
+Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth
+out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
+
+14:12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his
+armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing.
+And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the
+LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
+
+14:13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and
+his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his
+armourbearer slew after him.
+
+14:14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer
+made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land,
+which a yoke of oxen might plow.
+
+14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all
+the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and
+the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
+
+14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and,
+behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one
+another.
+
+14:17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now,
+and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold,
+Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
+
+14:18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the
+ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
+
+14:19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the
+noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased:
+and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.
+
+14:20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled
+themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s
+sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
+
+14:21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that
+time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round
+about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with
+Saul and Jonathan.
+
+14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount
+Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also
+followed hard after them in the battle.
+
+14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over
+unto Bethaven.
+
+14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
+adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food
+until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the
+people tasted any food.
+
+14:25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey
+upon the ground.
+
+14:26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey
+dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared
+the oath.
+
+14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with
+the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his
+hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth;
+and his eyes were enlightened.
+
+14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly
+charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth
+any food this day. And the people were faint.
+
+14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I
+pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a
+little of this honey.
+
+14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of
+the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been
+now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? 14:31 And they
+smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the
+people were very faint.
+
+14:32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen,
+and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them
+with the blood.
+
+14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the
+LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have
+transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
+
+14:34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say
+unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep,
+and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating
+with the blood.
+
+And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and
+slew them there.
+
+14:35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first
+altar that he built unto the LORD.
+
+14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night,
+and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of
+them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said
+the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
+
+14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
+Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he
+answered him not that day.
+
+14:38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people:
+and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
+
+14:39 For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in
+Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among
+all the people that answered him.
+
+14:40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and
+Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto
+Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
+
+14:41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect
+lot.
+
+And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
+
+14:42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And
+Jonathan was taken.
+
+14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And
+Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the
+end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
+
+14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt
+surely die, Jonathan.
+
+14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath
+wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD
+liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for
+he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan,
+that he died not.
+
+14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the
+Philistines went to their own place.
+
+14:47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his
+enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of
+Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against
+the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.
+
+14:48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered
+Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
+
+14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua:
+and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the
+firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal: 14:50 And the
+name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name
+of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
+
+14:51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was
+the son of Abiel.
+
+14:52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of
+Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took
+him unto him.
+
+15:1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be
+king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the
+voice of the words of the LORD.
+
+15:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to
+Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from
+Egypt.
+
+15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have,
+and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling,
+ox and sheep, camel and ass.
+
+15:4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in
+Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
+
+15:5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
+
+15:6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from
+among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed
+kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of
+Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
+
+15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to
+Shur, that is over against Egypt.
+
+15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
+destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
+
+15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep,
+and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was
+good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was
+vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
+
+15:10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, 15:11 It
+repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back
+from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it
+grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
+
+15:12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was
+told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a
+place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
+
+15:13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou
+of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
+
+15:14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in
+mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? 15:15 And Saul
+said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people
+spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the
+LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
+
+15:16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the
+LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
+
+15:17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast
+thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed
+thee king over Israel? 15:18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and
+said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight
+against them until they be consumed.
+
+15:19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but
+didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
+15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the
+LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought
+Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
+
+15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of
+the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto
+the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
+
+15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt
+offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold,
+to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
+
+15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
+as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the
+LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
+
+15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have
+transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I
+feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
+
+15:25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with
+me, that I may worship the LORD.
+
+15:26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou
+hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee
+from being king over Israel.
+
+15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the
+skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
+
+15:28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of
+Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine,
+that is better than thou.
+
+15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he
+is not a man, that he should repent.
+
+15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee,
+before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with
+me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
+
+15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
+
+15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the
+Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely
+the bitterness of death is past.
+
+15:33 And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so
+shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in
+pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
+
+15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
+Gibeah of Saul.
+
+15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death:
+nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he
+had made Saul king over Israel.
+
+16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul,
+seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn
+with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I
+have provided me a king among his sons.
+
+16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.
+And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to
+sacrifice to the LORD.
+
+16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou
+shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
+
+16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem.
+And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest
+thou peaceably? 16:5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice
+unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.
+And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the
+sacrifice.
+
+16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on
+Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.
+
+16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on
+the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD
+seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but
+the LORD looketh on the heart.
+
+16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And
+he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
+
+16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the
+LORD chosen this.
+
+16:10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And
+Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
+
+16:11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he
+said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the
+sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not
+sit down till he come hither.
+
+16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of
+a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said,
+Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
+
+16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst
+of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that
+day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
+
+16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil
+spirit from the LORD troubled him.
+
+16:15 And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit
+from God troubleth thee.
+
+16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to
+seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come
+to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall
+play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
+
+16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can
+play well, and bring him to me.
+
+16:18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen
+a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a
+mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a
+comely person, and the LORD is with him.
+
+16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me
+David thy son, which is with the sheep.
+
+16:20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine,
+and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
+
+16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him
+greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
+
+16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand
+before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
+
+16:23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon
+Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was
+refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
+
+17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and
+were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and
+pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
+
+17:2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and
+pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the
+Philistines.
+
+17:3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and
+Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley
+between them.
+
+17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
+named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
+
+17:5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed
+with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand
+shekels of brass.
+
+17:6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass
+between his shoulders.
+
+17:7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his
+spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a
+shield went before him.
+
+17:8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto
+them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a
+Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let
+him come down to me.
+
+17:9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be
+your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall
+ye be our servants, and serve us.
+
+17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
+give me a man, that we may fight together.
+
+17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine,
+they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
+
+17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah,
+whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among
+men for an old man in the days of Saul.
+
+17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the
+battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were
+Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third
+Shammah.
+
+17:14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
+
+17:15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep
+at Bethlehem.
+
+17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented
+himself forty days.
+
+17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an
+ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp
+of thy brethren; 17:18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of
+their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
+
+17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the
+valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
+
+17:20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with
+a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came
+to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted
+for the battle.
+
+17:21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army
+against army.
+
+17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
+carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
+
+17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion,
+the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the
+Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard
+them.
+
+17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him,
+and were sore afraid.
+
+17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come
+up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the
+man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and
+will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in
+Israel.
+
+17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall
+be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the
+reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that
+he should defy the armies of the living God? 17:27 And the people
+answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man
+that killeth him.
+
+17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men;
+and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest
+thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the
+wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for
+thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
+
+17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
+17:30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same
+manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
+
+17:31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed
+them before Saul: and he sent for him.
+
+17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him;
+thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
+
+17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this
+Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man
+of war from his youth.
+
+17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep,
+and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
+17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of
+his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard,
+and smote him, and slew him.
+
+17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this
+uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath
+defied the armies of the living God.
+
+17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw
+of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of
+the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the
+LORD be with thee.
+
+17:38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of
+brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
+
+17:39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to
+go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go
+with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
+
+17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth
+stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he
+had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near
+to the Philistine.
+
+17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man
+that bare the shield went before him.
+
+17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he
+disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair
+countenance.
+
+17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest
+to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
+
+17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give
+thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
+
+17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a
+sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the
+name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou
+hast defied.
+
+17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will
+smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the
+carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the
+air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know
+that there is a God in Israel.
+
+17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with
+sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you
+into our hands.
+
+17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and
+drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army
+to meet the Philistine.
+
+17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and
+slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone
+sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
+
+17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a
+stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword
+in the hand of David.
+
+17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his
+sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut
+off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion
+was dead, they fled.
+
+17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and
+pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the
+gates of Ekron.
+
+And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim,
+even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
+
+17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the
+Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
+
+17:54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to
+Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
+
+17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said
+unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth?
+And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
+
+17:56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
+
+17:57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
+Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the
+Philistine in his hand.
+
+17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And
+David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
+
+18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto
+Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and
+Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
+
+18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to
+his father’s house.
+
+18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as
+his own soul.
+
+18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and
+gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow,
+and to his girdle.
+
+18:5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved
+himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was
+accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of
+Saul’s servants.
+
+18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from
+the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities
+of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with
+joy, and with instruments of musick.
+
+18:7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul
+hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
+
+18:8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he
+said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have
+ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
+18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
+
+18:10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God
+came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David
+played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in
+Saul’s hand.
+
+18:11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even
+to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
+
+18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and
+was departed from Saul.
+
+18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain
+over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
+
+18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD
+was with him.
+
+18:15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he
+was afraid of him.
+
+18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and
+came in before them.
+
+18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will
+I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s
+battles.
+
+For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the
+Philistines be upon him.
+
+18:18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my
+father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
+18:19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter
+should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the
+Meholathite to wife.
+
+18:20 And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and
+the thing pleased him.
+
+18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to
+him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
+Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in
+the one of the twain.
+
+18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David
+secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his
+servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.
+
+18:23 And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And
+David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law,
+seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? 18:24 And the
+servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
+
+18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not
+any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged
+of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand
+of the Philistines.
+
+18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David
+well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.
+
+18:27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the
+Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and
+they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s
+son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
+
+18:28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that
+Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
+
+18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became
+David’s enemy continually.
+
+18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to
+pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely
+than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
+
+19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that
+they should kill David.
+
+19:2 But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan
+told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now
+therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and
+abide in a secret place, and hide thyself: 19:3 And I will go out and
+stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune
+with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
+
+19:4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said
+unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David;
+because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have
+been to thee-ward very good: 19:5 For he did put his life in his hand,
+and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for
+all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt
+thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause? 19:6
+And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the
+LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
+
+19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those
+things.
+
+And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in
+times past.
+
+19:8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
+Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from
+him.
+
+19:9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his
+house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
+
+19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the
+javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the
+javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
+
+19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and
+to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying,
+If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
+
+19:12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and
+fled, and escaped.
+
+19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a
+pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
+
+19:14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is
+sick.
+
+19:15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring
+him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
+
+19:16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image
+in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.
+
+19:17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and
+sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He
+said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee? 19:18 So David fled,
+and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul
+had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
+
+19:19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in
+Ramah.
+
+19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
+company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed
+over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they
+also prophesied.
+
+19:21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they
+prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time,
+and they prophesied also.
+
+19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in
+Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one
+said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
+
+19:23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God
+was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to
+Naioth in Ramah.
+
+19:24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before
+Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that
+night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? 20:1 And
+David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan,
+What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy
+father, that he seeketh my life? 20:2 And he said unto him, God
+forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either
+great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father
+hide this thing from me? it is not so.
+
+20:3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth
+that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan
+know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as
+thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
+
+20:4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I
+will even do it for thee.
+
+20:5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon,
+and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go,
+that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
+
+20:6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked
+leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a
+yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
+
+20:7 If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if
+he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
+
+20:8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast
+brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee:
+notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why
+shouldest thou bring me to thy father? 20:9 And Jonathan said, Far be
+it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my
+father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee? 20:10 Then
+said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father
+answer thee roughly? 20:11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and
+let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the
+field.
+
+20:12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have
+sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and,
+behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee,
+and shew it thee; 20:13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but
+if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and
+send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with
+thee, as he hath been with my father.
+
+20:14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of
+the LORD, that I die not: 20:15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy
+kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off
+the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
+
+20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let
+the LORD even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.
+
+20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him:
+for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
+
+20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou
+shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
+
+20:19 And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down
+quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the
+business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
+
+20:20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I
+shot at a mark.
+
+20:21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows.
+If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side
+of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no
+hurt; as the LORD liveth.
+
+20:22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are
+beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
+
+20:23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of,
+behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.
+
+20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was
+come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
+
+20:25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a
+seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side,
+and David’s place was empty.
+
+20:26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought,
+Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
+
+20:27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of
+the month, that David’s place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan
+his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither
+yesterday, nor to day? 20:28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David
+earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem: 20:29 And he said, Let
+me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and
+my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found
+favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my
+brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king’s table.
+
+20:30 Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto
+him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that
+thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the
+confusion of thy mother’s nakedness? 20:31 For as long as the son of
+Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy
+kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely
+die.
+
+20:32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him,
+Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done? 20:33 And Saul cast a
+javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was
+determined of his father to slay David.
+
+20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no
+meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David,
+because his father had done him shame.
+
+20:35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into
+the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
+
+20:36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I
+shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
+
+20:37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which
+Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the
+arrow beyond thee? 20:38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make
+speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and
+came to his master.
+
+20:39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the
+matter.
+
+20:40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him,
+Go, carry them to the city.
+
+20:41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place
+toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed
+himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with
+another, until David exceeded.
+
+20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have
+sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between
+me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose
+and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
+
+21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was
+afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone,
+and no man with thee? 21:2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest,
+The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no
+man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I
+have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such
+a place.
+
+21:3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of
+bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
+
+21:4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread
+under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have
+kept themselves at least from women.
+
+21:5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth
+women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out,
+and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a
+manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
+
+21:6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread
+there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put
+hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
+
+21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,
+detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the
+chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
+
+21:8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine
+hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my
+weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.
+
+21:9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom
+thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a
+cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is
+no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give
+it me.
+
+21:10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to
+Achish the king of Gath.
+
+21:11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the
+king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances,
+saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
+21:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid
+of Achish the king of Gath.
+
+21:13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself
+mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let
+his spittle fall down upon his beard.
+
+21:14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad:
+wherefore then have ye brought him to me? 21:15 Have I need of mad
+men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my
+presence? shall this fellow come into my house? 22:1 David therefore
+departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his
+brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither
+to him.
+
+22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in
+debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto
+him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about
+four hundred men.
+
+22:3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the
+king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth,
+and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
+
+22:4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with
+him all the while that David was in the hold.
+
+22:5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold;
+depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and
+came into the forest of Hareth.
+
+22:6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were
+with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his
+spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;) 22:7
+Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye
+Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and
+vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of
+hundreds; 22:8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is
+none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of
+Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto
+me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait,
+as at this day? 22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set
+over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to
+Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
+
+22:10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and
+gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
+
+22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of
+Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nob: and
+they came all of them to the king.
+
+22:12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered,
+Here I am, my lord.
+
+22:13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou
+and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword,
+and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to
+lie in wait, as at this day? 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king,
+and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David,
+which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is
+honourable in thine house? 22:15 Did I then begin to enquire of God
+for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his
+servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew
+nothing of all this, less or more.
+
+22:16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and
+all thy father’s house.
+
+22:17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn,
+and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with
+David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me.
+But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall
+upon the priests of the LORD.
+
+22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.
+And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on
+that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
+
+22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the
+sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and
+asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
+
+22:20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named
+Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
+
+22:21 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD’s
+priests.
+
+22:22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the
+Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned
+the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.
+
+22:23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life
+seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
+
+23:1 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight
+against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
+
+23:2 Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and
+smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite
+the Philistines, and save Keilah.
+
+23:3 And David’s men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in
+Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of
+the Philistines? 23:4 Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And
+the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will
+deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
+
+23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the
+Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a
+great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
+
+23:6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to
+David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
+
+23:7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul
+said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by
+entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
+
+23:8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to
+Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
+
+23:9 And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him;
+and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
+
+23:10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath
+certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the
+city for my sake.
+
+23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul
+come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech
+thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
+
+23:12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men
+into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
+
+23:13 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and
+departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it
+was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go
+forth.
+
+23:14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained
+in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every
+day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
+
+23:15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David
+was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
+
+23:16 And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood,
+and strengthened his hand in God.
+
+23:17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father
+shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall
+be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
+
+23:18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in
+the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
+
+23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not
+David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of
+Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? 23:20 Now therefore, O
+king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down;
+and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.
+
+23:21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion
+on me.
+
+23:22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where
+his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he
+dealeth very subtilly.
+
+23:23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places
+where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty,
+and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the
+land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of
+Judah.
+
+23:24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his
+men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of
+Jeshimon.
+
+23:25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David;
+wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of
+Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the
+wilderness of Maon.
+
+23:26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his
+men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for
+fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round
+about to take them.
+
+23:27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and
+come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
+
+23:28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went
+against the Philistines: therefore they called that place
+Selahammahlekoth.
+
+23:29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at
+Engedi.
+
+24:1 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the
+Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the
+wilderness of Engedi.
+
+24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and
+went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
+
+24:3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and
+Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the
+sides of the cave.
+
+24:4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the
+LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine
+hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then
+David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily.
+
+24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David’s heart smote him,
+because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.
+
+24:6 And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this
+thing unto my master, the LORD’s anointed, to stretch forth mine hand
+against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
+
+24:7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them
+not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went
+on his way.
+
+24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried
+after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him,
+David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
+
+24:9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words,
+saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt? 24:10 Behold, this day thine
+eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine
+hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared
+thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for
+he is the LORD’s anointed.
+
+24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my
+hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee
+not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in
+mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my
+soul to take it.
+
+24:12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of
+thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
+
+24:13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
+the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
+
+24:14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou
+pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
+
+24:15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and
+see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
+
+24:16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking
+these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son
+David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
+
+24:17 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou
+hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
+
+24:18 And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with
+me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou
+killedst me not.
+
+24:19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?
+wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me
+this day.
+
+24:20 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and
+that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
+
+24:21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut
+off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my
+father’s house.
+
+24:22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his
+men gat them up unto the hold.
+
+25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together,
+and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David
+arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
+
+25:2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel;
+and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a
+thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
+
+25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife
+Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful
+countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he
+was of the house of Caleb.
+
+25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
+
+25:5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young
+men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
+25:6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be
+both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that
+thou hast.
+
+25:7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds
+which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing
+unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
+
+25:8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the
+young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give,
+I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to
+thy son David.
+
+25:9 And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to
+all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
+
+25:10 And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and
+who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break
+away every man from his master.
+
+25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I
+have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not
+whence they be? 25:12 So David’s young men turned their way, and went
+again, and came and told him all those sayings.
+
+25:13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And
+they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his
+sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two
+hundred abode by the stuff.
+
+25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying,
+Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our
+master; and he railed on them.
+
+25:15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt,
+neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them,
+when we were in the fields: 25:16 They were a wall unto us both by
+night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
+
+25:17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is
+determined against our master, and against all his household: for he
+is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
+
+25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two
+bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of
+parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred
+cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
+
+25:19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come
+after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
+
+25:20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the
+covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against
+her; and she met them.
+
+25:21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this
+fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that
+pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
+
+25:22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of
+all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against
+the wall.
+
+25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass,
+and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
+25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let
+this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine
+audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
+
+25:25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even
+Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is
+with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom
+thou didst send.
+
+25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
+liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed
+blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine
+enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
+
+25:27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my
+lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
+
+25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the
+LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord
+fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee
+all thy days.
+
+25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the
+soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy
+God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out
+of the middle of a sling.
+
+25:30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my
+lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee,
+and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; 25:31 That this shall
+be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that
+thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself:
+but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember
+thine handmaid.
+
+25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
+which sent thee this day to meet me: 25:33 And blessed be thy advice,
+and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed
+blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
+
+25:34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath
+kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to
+meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning
+light any that pisseth against the wall.
+
+25:35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him,
+and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have
+hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
+
+25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his
+house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within
+him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or
+more, until the morning light.
+
+25:37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out
+of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died
+within him, and he became as a stone.
+
+25:38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote
+Nabal, that he died.
+
+25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be
+the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of
+Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned
+the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed
+with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
+
+25:40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel,
+they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to
+him to wife.
+
+25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and
+said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the
+servants of my lord.
+
+25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five
+damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers
+of David, and became his wife.
+
+25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of
+them his wives.
+
+25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti
+the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
+
+26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David
+hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon? 26:2
+Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three
+thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the
+wilderness of Ziph.
+
+26:3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before
+Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw
+that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
+
+26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come
+in very deed.
+
+26:5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched:
+and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner,
+the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people
+pitched round about him.
+
+26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to
+Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down
+with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with
+thee.
+
+26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold,
+Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground
+at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
+
+26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into
+thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with
+the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the
+second time.
+
+26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch
+forth his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless? 26:10
+David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him;
+or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and
+perish.
+
+26:11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against
+the LORD’s anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is
+at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
+
+26:12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s
+bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it,
+neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from
+the LORD was fallen upon them.
+
+26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of
+an hill afar off; a great space being between them: 26:14 And David
+cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest
+thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that
+criest to the king? 26:15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a
+valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast
+thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in
+to destroy the king thy lord.
+
+26:16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth,
+ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD’s
+anointed.
+
+And now see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that was
+at his bolster.
+
+26:17 And Saul knew David’s voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son
+David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
+
+26:18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his
+servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand? 26:19
+Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his
+servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept
+an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before
+the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the
+inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
+
+26:20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the
+face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea,
+as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
+
+26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will
+no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this
+day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
+
+26:22 And David answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! and let
+one of the young men come over and fetch it.
+
+26:23 The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his
+faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I
+would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’s anointed.
+
+26:24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes,
+so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him
+deliver me out of all tribulation.
+
+26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou
+shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David
+went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
+
+27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the
+hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should
+speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall
+despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I
+escape out of his hand.
+
+27:2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that
+were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
+
+27:3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man
+with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the
+Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
+
+27:4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought
+no more again for him.
+
+27:5 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine
+eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may
+dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with
+thee? 27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag
+pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
+
+27:7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines
+was a full year and four months.
+
+27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and
+the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the
+inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of
+Egypt.
+
+27:9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive,
+and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels,
+and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
+
+27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David
+said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the
+Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
+
+27:11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to
+Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and
+so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the
+Philistines.
+
+27:12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people
+Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for
+ever.
+
+28:1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered
+their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish
+said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me
+to battle, thou and thy men.
+
+28:2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant
+can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of
+mine head for ever.
+
+28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried
+him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that
+had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
+
+28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and
+pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they
+pitched in Gilboa.
+
+28:5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and
+his heart greatly trembled.
+
+28:6 And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not,
+neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
+
+28:7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a
+familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his
+servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar
+spirit at Endor.
+
+28:8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he
+went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and
+he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring
+me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
+
+28:9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath
+done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the
+wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my
+life, to cause me to die? 28:10 And Saul sware to her by the LORD,
+saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee
+for this thing.
+
+28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he
+said, Bring me up Samuel.
+
+28:12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and
+the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou
+art Saul.
+
+28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou?
+And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
+
+28:14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old
+man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived
+that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and
+bowed himself.
+
+28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring
+me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines
+make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no
+more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called
+thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
+
+28:16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the
+LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? 28:17 And the
+LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the
+kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to
+David: 28:18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor
+executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done
+this thing unto thee this day.
+
+28:19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the
+hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with
+me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of
+the Philistines.
+
+28:20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore
+afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in
+him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
+
+28:21 And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled,
+and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I
+have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which
+thou spakest unto me.
+
+28:22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of
+thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat,
+that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
+
+28:23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants,
+together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their
+voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
+
+28:24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and
+killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened
+bread thereof: 28:25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his
+servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that
+night.
+
+29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek:
+and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
+
+29:2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by
+thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with
+Achish.
+
+29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews
+here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not
+this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been
+with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him
+since he fell unto me unto this day? 29:4 And the princes of the
+Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines
+said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his
+place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us
+to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith
+should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the
+heads of these men? 29:5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to
+another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten
+thousands? 29:6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely,
+as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy
+coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not
+found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day:
+nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
+
+29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not
+the lords of the Philistines.
+
+29:8 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast
+thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this
+day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
+29:9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good
+in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the
+Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
+
+29:10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master’s
+servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the
+morning, and have light, depart.
+
+29:11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to
+return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up
+to Jezreel.
+
+30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag
+on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and
+Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 30:2 And had
+taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either
+great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
+
+30:3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned
+with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were
+taken captives.
+
+30:4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their
+voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
+
+30:5 And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the
+Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
+
+30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning
+him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his
+sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD
+his God.
+
+30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray
+thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the
+ephod to David.
+
+30:8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this
+troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou
+shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
+
+30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and
+came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
+
+30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred
+abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the
+brook Besor.
+
+30:11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to
+David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink
+water; 30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two
+clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to
+him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and
+three nights.
+
+30:13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art
+thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite;
+and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
+
+30:14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon
+the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and
+we burned Ziklag with fire.
+
+30:15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company?
+And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor
+deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to
+this company.
+
+30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread
+abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because
+of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the
+Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
+
+30:17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of
+the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred
+young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
+
+30:18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away:
+and David rescued his two wives.
+
+30:19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great,
+neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had
+taken to them: David recovered all.
+
+30:20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave
+before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
+
+30:21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that
+they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the
+brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people
+that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted
+them.
+
+30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those
+that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will
+not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every
+man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and
+depart.
+
+30:23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that
+which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the
+company that came against us into our hand.
+
+30:24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is
+that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by
+the stuff: they shall part alike.
+
+30:25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute
+and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
+
+30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the
+elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you
+of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD; 30:27 To them which were in
+Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were
+in Jattir, 30:28 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which
+were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa, 30:29 And to
+them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the
+Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
+30:30 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in
+Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach, 30:31 And to them which
+were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men
+were wont to haunt.
+
+31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel
+fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
+
+31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons;
+and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua,
+Saul’s sons.
+
+31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him;
+and he was sore wounded of the archers.
+
+31:4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust
+me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me
+through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore
+afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
+
+31:5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell
+likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
+
+31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all
+his men, that same day together.
+
+31:7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the
+valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men
+of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the
+cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
+
+31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to
+strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in
+mount Gilboa.
+
+31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent
+into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the
+house of their idols, and among the people.
+
+31:10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they
+fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
+
+31:11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the
+Philistines had done to Saul; 31:12 All the valiant men arose, and
+went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons
+from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
+
+31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at
+Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
+
+
+
+
+The Second Book of Samuel
+
+Otherwise Called:
+
+The Second Book of the Kings
+
+
+1:1 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was
+returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two
+days in Ziklag; 1:2 It came even to pass on the third day, that,
+behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent,
+and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he
+fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
+
+1:3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto
+him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
+
+1:4 And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell
+me.
+
+And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of
+the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are
+dead also.
+
+1:5 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou
+that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead? 1:6 And the young man that
+told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul
+leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed
+hard after him.
+
+1:7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And
+I answered, Here am I.
+
+1:8 And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an
+Amalekite.
+
+1:9 He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me:
+for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
+
+1:10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he
+could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was
+upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought
+them hither unto my lord.
+
+1:11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise
+all the men that were with him: 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and
+fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the
+people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were
+fallen by the sword.
+
+1:13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou?
+And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
+
+1:14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch
+forth thine hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed? 1:15 And David
+called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And
+he smote him that he died.
+
+1:16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy
+mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD’s
+anointed.
+
+1:17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over
+Jonathan his son: 1:18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah
+the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
+1:19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the
+mighty fallen! 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the
+streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
+lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
+
+1:21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be
+rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the
+mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not
+been anointed with oil.
+
+1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow
+of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
+
+1:23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
+their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they
+were stronger than lions.
+
+1:24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in
+scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your
+apparel.
+
+1:25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan,
+thou wast slain in thine high places.
+
+1:26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast
+thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of
+women.
+
+1:27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! 2:1
+And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the LORD,
+saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD
+said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he
+said, Unto Hebron.
+
+2:2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the
+Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal’s wife the Carmelite.
+
+2:3 And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with
+his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
+
+2:4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over
+the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of
+Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.
+
+2:5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said
+unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this
+kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
+
+2:6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will
+requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
+
+2:7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant:
+for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have
+anointed me king over them.
+
+2:8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ishbosheth
+the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; 2:9 And made him
+king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over
+Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
+
+2:10 Ishbosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign
+over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed
+David.
+
+2:11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of
+Judah was seven years and six months.
+
+2:12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son
+of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
+
+2:13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out,
+and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on
+the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
+
+2:14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play
+before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
+
+2:15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin,
+which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the
+servants of David.
+
+2:16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his
+sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: wherefore that
+place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
+
+2:17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten,
+and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
+
+2:18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai,
+and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
+
+2:19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the
+right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
+
+2:20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he
+answered, I am.
+
+2:21 And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to
+thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his
+armour.
+
+But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
+
+2:22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following
+me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I
+hold up my face to Joab thy brother? 2:23 Howbeit he refused to turn
+aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him
+under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell
+down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as
+many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
+
+2:24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down
+when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by
+the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
+
+2:25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after
+Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
+
+2:26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for
+ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?
+how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from
+following their brethren? 2:27 And Joab said, As God liveth, unless
+thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up
+every one from following his brother.
+
+2:28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and
+pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
+
+2:29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain,
+and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to
+Mahanaim.
+
+2:30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered
+all the people together, there lacked of David’s servants nineteen men
+and Asahel.
+
+2:31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s
+men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
+
+2:32 And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his
+father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night,
+and they came to Hebron at break of day.
+
+3:1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of
+David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul
+waxed weaker and weaker.
+
+3:2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was
+Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; 3:3 And his second, Chileab, of
+Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the
+son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; 3:4 And the
+fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son
+of Abital; 3:5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife. These
+were born to David in Hebron.
+
+3:6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul
+and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house
+of Saul.
+
+3:7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of
+Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto
+my father’s concubine? 3:8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of
+Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog’s head, which against Judah do shew
+kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren,
+and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of
+David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this
+woman? 3:9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD
+hath sworn to David, even so I do to him; 3:10 To translate the
+kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over
+Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
+
+3:11 And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared
+him.
+
+3:12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose
+is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my
+hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
+
+3:13 And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing
+I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou
+first bring Michal Saul’s daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
+
+3:14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul’s son, saying,
+Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred
+foreskins of the Philistines.
+
+3:15 And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from
+Phaltiel the son of Laish.
+
+3:16 And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to
+Bahurim.
+
+Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
+
+3:17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye
+sought for David in times past to be king over you: 3:18 Now then do
+it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my
+servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the
+Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
+
+3:19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also
+to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to
+Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
+
+3:20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And
+David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
+
+3:21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather
+all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with
+thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth.
+And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
+
+3:22 And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a
+troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with
+David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
+
+3:23 When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told
+Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent
+him away, and he is gone in peace.
+
+3:24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done?
+behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away,
+and he is quite gone? 3:25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he
+came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and
+to know all that thou doest.
+
+3:26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after
+Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew
+it not.
+
+3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the
+gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth
+rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
+
+3:28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are
+guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of
+Ner: 3:29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s
+house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an
+issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth
+on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
+
+3:30 So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain
+their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
+
+3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him,
+Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before
+Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
+
+3:32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his
+voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
+
+3:33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool
+dieth? 3:34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters:
+as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the
+people wept again over him.
+
+3:35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it
+was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I
+taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
+
+3:36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as
+whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
+
+3:37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was
+not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
+
+3:38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a
+prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? 3:39 And I am this
+day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be
+too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to
+his wickedness.
+
+4:1 And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands
+were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
+
+4:2 And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name
+of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of
+Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also
+was reckoned to Benjamin.
+
+4:3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there
+until this day.) 4:4 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was
+lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul
+and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and
+it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became
+lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
+
+4:5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went,
+and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay
+on a bed at noon.
+
+4:6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they
+would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and
+Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
+
+4:7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his
+bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and
+took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
+
+4:8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and
+said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine
+enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the
+king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
+
+4:9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of
+Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who
+hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 4:10 When one told me,
+saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I
+took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would
+have given him a reward for his tidings: 4:11 How much more, when
+wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his
+bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and
+take you away from the earth? 4:12 And David commanded his young men,
+and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged
+them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth,
+and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
+
+5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and
+spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
+
+5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that
+leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou
+shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
+
+5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king
+David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they
+anointed David king over Israel.
+
+5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+forty years.
+
+5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in
+Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
+
+5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the
+inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou
+take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither:
+thinking, David cannot come in hither.
+
+5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the
+city of David.
+
+5:8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter,
+and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated
+of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said,
+The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
+
+5:9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And
+David built round about from Millo and inward.
+
+5:10 And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was
+with him.
+
+5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
+and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
+
+5:12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over
+Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s
+sake.
+
+5:13 And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem,
+after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters
+born to David.
+
+5:14 And these be the names of those that were born unto him in
+Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, 5:15 Ibhar
+also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 5:16 And Elishama, and
+Eliada, and Eliphalet.
+
+5:17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king
+over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David
+heard of it, and went down to the hold.
+
+5:18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of
+Rephaim.
+
+5:19 And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the
+Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said
+unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into
+thine hand.
+
+5:20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and
+said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the
+breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place
+Baalperazim.
+
+5:21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned
+them.
+
+5:22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in
+the valley of Rephaim.
+
+5:23 And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go
+up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against
+the mulberry trees.
+
+5:24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops
+of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then
+shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the
+Philistines.
+
+5:25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the
+Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
+
+6:1 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
+thirty thousand.
+
+6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him
+from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose
+name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between
+the cherubims.
+
+6:3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of
+the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons
+of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
+
+6:4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at
+Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
+
+6:5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on
+all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on
+psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
+
+6:6 And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his
+hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
+
+6:7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote
+him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
+
+6:8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon
+Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
+
+6:9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the
+ark of the LORD come to me? 6:10 So David would not remove the ark of
+the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside
+into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
+
+6:11 And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the
+Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his
+household.
+
+6:12 And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the
+house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the
+ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house
+of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
+
+6:13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had
+gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
+
+6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David
+was girded with a linen ephod.
+
+6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the
+LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
+
+6:16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal
+Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping
+and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
+
+6:17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place,
+in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and
+David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
+
+6:18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings
+and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of
+hosts.
+
+6:19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude
+of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread,
+and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people
+departed every one to his house.
+
+6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the
+daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was
+the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of
+the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly
+uncovereth himself! 6:21 And David said unto Michal, It was before
+the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house,
+to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel:
+therefore will I play before the LORD.
+
+6:22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine
+own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them
+shall I be had in honour.
+
+6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day
+of her death.
+
+7:1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD
+had given him rest round about from all his enemies; 7:2 That the king
+said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar,
+but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
+
+7:3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart;
+for the LORD is with thee.
+
+7:4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came
+unto Nathan, saying, 7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the
+LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? 7:6 Whereas I
+have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the
+children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in
+a tent and in a tabernacle.
+
+7:7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of
+Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I
+commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an
+house of cedar? 7:8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant
+David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote,
+from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: 7:9
+And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all
+thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like
+unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
+
+7:10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will
+plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no
+more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more,
+as beforetime, 7:11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to
+be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine
+enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
+
+7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy
+fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of
+thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
+
+7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the
+throne of his kingdom for ever.
+
+7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit
+iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes
+of the children of men: 7:15 But my mercy shall not depart away from
+him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
+
+7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever
+before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
+
+7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
+so did Nathan speak unto David.
+
+7:18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said,
+Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me
+hitherto? 7:19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord
+GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great
+while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD? 7:20 And
+what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy
+servant.
+
+7:21 For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou
+done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
+
+7:22 Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like
+thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we
+have heard with our ears.
+
+7:23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like
+Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make
+him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land,
+before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the
+nations and their gods? 7:24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy
+people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art
+become their God.
+
+7:25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning
+thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do
+as thou hast said.
+
+7:26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts
+is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be
+established before thee.
+
+7:27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy
+servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy
+servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
+
+7:28 And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true,
+and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: 7:29 Therefore
+now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may
+continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it:
+and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for
+ever.
+
+8:1 And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines,
+and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the
+Philistines.
+
+8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them
+down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death,
+and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became
+David’s servants, and brought gifts.
+
+8:3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he
+went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
+
+8:4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred
+horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the
+chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
+
+8:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of
+Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
+
+8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians
+became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved
+David whithersoever he went.
+
+8:7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
+Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
+
+8:8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David
+took exceeding much brass.
+
+8:9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host
+of Hadadezer, 8:10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to
+salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer,
+and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought
+with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
+8:11 Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver
+and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; 8:12
+Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the
+Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of
+Rehob, king of Zobah.
+
+8:13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the
+Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
+
+8:14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he
+garrisons, and all they of Edom became David’s servants. And the LORD
+preserved David whithersoever he went.
+
+8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment
+and justice unto all his people.
+
+8:16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat
+the son of Ahilud was recorder; 8:17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and
+Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the
+scribe; 8:18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the
+Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief rulers.
+
+9:1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of
+Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan’s sake? 9:2 And there
+was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they
+had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And
+he said, Thy servant is he.
+
+9:3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that
+I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king,
+Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
+
+9:4 And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the
+king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in
+Lodebar.
+
+9:5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir,
+the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
+
+9:6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was
+come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David
+said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant! 9:7 And
+David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness
+for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of
+Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
+
+9:8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou
+shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? 9:9 Then the king called
+to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy
+master’s son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.
+
+9:10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the
+land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master’s
+son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master’s son shall eat
+bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty
+servants.
+
+9:11 Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the
+king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for
+Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the
+king’s sons.
+
+9:12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha. And all
+that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.
+
+9:13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at
+the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.
+
+10:1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of
+Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
+
+10:2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
+Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to
+comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David’s
+servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
+
+10:3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their
+lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath
+sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants
+unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
+10:4 Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one
+half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even
+to their buttocks, and sent them away.
+
+10:5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the
+men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until
+your beards be grown, and then return.
+
+10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David,
+the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob and the
+Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a
+thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
+
+10:7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the
+mighty men.
+
+10:8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array
+at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob,
+and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
+
+10:9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before
+and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in
+array against the Syrians: 10:10 And the rest of the people he
+delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them
+in array against the children of Ammon.
+
+10:11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou
+shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee,
+then I will come and help thee.
+
+10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and
+for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him
+good.
+
+10:13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the
+battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
+
+10:14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled,
+then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab
+returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
+
+10:15 And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel,
+they gathered themselves together.
+
+10:16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond
+the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host
+of Hadarezer went before them.
+
+10:17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and
+passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves
+in array against David, and fought with him.
+
+10:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of
+seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen,
+and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
+
+10:19 And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that
+they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and
+served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any
+more.
+
+11:1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when
+kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with
+him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and
+besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
+
+11:2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off
+his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the
+roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful
+to look upon.
+
+11:3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not
+this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
+11:4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto
+him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness:
+and she returned unto her house.
+
+11:5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am
+with child.
+
+11:6 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And
+Joab sent Uriah to David.
+
+11:7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab
+did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
+
+11:8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.
+And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a
+mess of meat from the king.
+
+11:9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the
+servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
+
+11:10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto
+his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey?
+why then didst thou not go down unto thine house? 11:11 And Uriah
+said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and
+my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open
+fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to
+lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not
+do this thing.
+
+11:12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I
+will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the
+morrow.
+
+11:13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him;
+and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with
+the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
+
+11:14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to
+Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
+
+11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the
+forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may
+be smitten, and die.
+
+11:16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he
+assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
+
+11:17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and
+there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the
+Hittite died also.
+
+11:18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
+11:19 And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of
+telling the matters of the war unto the king, 11:20 And if so be that
+the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye
+so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would
+shoot from the wall? 11:21 Who smote Abimelech the son of
+Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him
+from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then
+say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
+
+11:22 So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab
+had sent him for.
+
+11:23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed
+against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them
+even unto the entering of the gate.
+
+11:24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and
+some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite
+is dead also.
+
+11:25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto
+Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one
+as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and
+overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
+
+11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was
+dead, she mourned for her husband.
+
+11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to
+his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing
+that David had done displeased the LORD.
+
+12:1 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and
+said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the
+other poor.
+
+12:2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: 12:3 But the
+poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought
+and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his
+children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and
+lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
+
+12:4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to
+take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring
+man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed
+it for the man that was come to him.
+
+12:5 And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he
+said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing
+shall surely die: 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because
+he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
+
+12:7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD
+God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee
+out of the hand of Saul; 12:8 And I gave thee thy master’s house, and
+thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel
+and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have
+given unto thee such and such things.
+
+12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do
+evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,
+and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the
+sword of the children of Ammon.
+
+12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house;
+because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the
+Hittite to be thy wife.
+
+12:11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee
+out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes,
+and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in
+the sight of this sun.
+
+12:12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all
+Israel, and before the sun.
+
+12:13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And
+Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou
+shalt not die.
+
+12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to
+the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto
+thee shall surely die.
+
+12:15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the
+child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
+
+12:16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted,
+and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
+
+12:17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him
+up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with
+them.
+
+12:18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And
+the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for
+they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him,
+and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself,
+if we tell him that the child is dead? 12:19 But when David saw that
+his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead:
+therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they
+said, He is dead.
+
+12:20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed
+himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD,
+and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required,
+they set bread before him, and he did eat.
+
+12:21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou
+hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive;
+but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
+
+12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept:
+for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the
+child may live? 12:23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
+can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return
+to me.
+
+12:24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her,
+and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon:
+and the LORD loved him.
+
+12:25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his
+name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
+
+12:26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and
+took the royal city.
+
+12:27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought
+against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
+
+12:28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp
+against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called
+after my name.
+
+12:29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah,
+and fought against it, and took it.
+
+12:30 And he took their king’s crown from off his head, the weight
+whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set
+on David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great
+abundance.
+
+12:31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them
+under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and
+made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the
+cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned
+unto Jerusalem.
+
+13:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had
+a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved
+her.
+
+13:2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar;
+for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything
+to her.
+
+13:3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of
+Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
+
+13:4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean
+from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I
+love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.
+
+13:5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make
+thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I
+pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the
+meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
+
+13:6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was
+come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my
+sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat
+at her hand.
+
+13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother
+Amnon’s house, and dress him meat.
+
+13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down.
+And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and
+did bake the cakes.
+
+13:9 And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he
+refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they
+went out every man from him.
+
+13:10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that
+I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made,
+and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
+
+13:11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of
+her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
+
+13:12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no
+such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
+
+13:13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee,
+thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray
+thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
+
+13:14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger
+than she, forced her, and lay with her.
+
+13:15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith
+he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And
+Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
+
+13:16 And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending
+me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he
+would not hearken unto her.
+
+13:17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said,
+Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
+
+13:18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such
+robes were the king’s daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his
+servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
+
+13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers
+colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on
+crying.
+
+13:20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother
+been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother;
+regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother
+Absalom’s house.
+
+13:21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very
+wroth.
+
+13:22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad:
+for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
+
+13:23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had
+sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom
+invited all the king’s sons.
+
+13:24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant
+hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go
+with thy servant.
+
+13:25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now
+go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he
+would not go, but blessed him.
+
+13:26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go
+with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?
+13:27 But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king’s
+sons go with him.
+
+13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when
+Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite
+Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be
+courageous, and be valiant.
+
+13:29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had
+commanded.
+
+Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his
+mule, and fled.
+
+13:30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings
+came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king’s sons, and
+there is not one of them left.
+
+13:31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the
+earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
+
+13:32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and
+said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men
+the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of
+Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his
+sister Tamar.
+
+13:33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his
+heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead: for Amnon only is
+dead.
+
+13:34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted
+up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the
+way of the hill side behind him.
+
+13:35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons come: as
+thy servant said, so it is.
+
+13:36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking,
+that, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice and
+wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
+
+13:37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king
+of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
+
+13:38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
+
+13:39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for
+he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
+
+14:1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was
+toward Absalom.
+
+14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and
+said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on
+now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a
+woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: 14:3 And come to the
+king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her
+mouth.
+
+14:4 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her
+face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
+
+14:5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I
+am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
+
+14:6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in
+the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the
+other, and slew him.
+
+14:7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid,
+and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill
+him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the
+heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall
+not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
+
+14:8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will
+give charge concerning thee.
+
+14:9 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the
+iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house: and the king and his
+throne be guiltless.
+
+14:10 And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to
+me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
+
+14:11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy
+God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy
+any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth,
+there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
+
+14:12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one
+word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
+
+14:13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a
+thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as
+one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his
+banished.
+
+14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
+which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any
+person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled
+from him.
+
+14:15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord
+the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy
+handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king
+will perform the request of his handmaid.
+
+14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand
+of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the
+inheritance of God.
+
+14:17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now
+be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to
+discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
+
+14:18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from
+me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said,
+Let my lord the king now speak.
+
+14:19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all
+this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord
+the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought
+that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me,
+and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid: 14:20 To
+fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing:
+and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to
+know all things that are in the earth.
+
+14:21 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing:
+go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
+
+14:22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and
+thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I
+have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath
+fulfilled the request of his servant.
+
+14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to
+Jerusalem.
+
+14:24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him
+not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the
+king’s face.
+
+14:25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as
+Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of
+his head there was no blemish in him.
+
+14:26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end
+that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he
+polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels
+after the king’s weight.
+
+14:27 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter,
+whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
+
+14:28 So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the
+king’s face.
+
+14:29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king;
+but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time,
+he would not come.
+
+14:30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab’s field is near
+mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom’s
+servants set the field on fire.
+
+14:31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said
+unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire? 14:32 And
+Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither,
+that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from
+Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now
+therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be any iniquity in
+me, let him kill me.
+
+14:33 So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called
+for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the
+ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
+
+15:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him
+chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
+
+15:2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate:
+and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the
+king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what
+city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of
+Israel.
+
+15:3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right;
+but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
+
+15:4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land,
+that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I
+would do him justice! 15:5 And it was so, that when any man came nigh
+to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and
+kissed him.
+
+15:6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the
+king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
+
+15:7 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the
+king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto
+the LORD, in Hebron.
+
+15:8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria,
+saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I
+will serve the LORD.
+
+15:9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to
+Hebron.
+
+15:10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel,
+saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall
+say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
+
+15:11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that
+were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any
+thing.
+
+15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s
+counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered
+sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased
+continually with Absalom.
+
+15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the
+men of Israel are after Absalom.
+
+15:14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at
+Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from
+Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring
+evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
+
+15:15 And the king’s servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants
+are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
+
+15:16 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And
+the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
+
+15:17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and
+tarried in a place that was far off.
+
+15:18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the
+Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred
+men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
+
+15:19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou
+also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou
+art a stranger, and also an exile.
+
+15:20 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee
+go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and
+take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
+
+15:21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and
+as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king
+shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant
+be.
+
+15:22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite
+passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with
+him.
+
+15:23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people
+passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and
+all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
+
+15:24 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing
+the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and
+Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the
+city.
+
+15:25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the
+city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me
+again, and shew me both it, and his habitation: 15:26 But if he thus
+say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as
+seemeth good unto him.
+
+15:27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer?
+return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy
+son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
+
+15:28 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there
+come word from you to certify me.
+
+15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to
+Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
+
+15:30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he
+went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the
+people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up,
+weeping as they went up.
+
+15:31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators
+with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of
+Ahithophel into foolishness.
+
+15:32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the
+mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to
+meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head: 15:33 Unto whom
+David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden
+unto me: 15:34 But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I
+will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father’s servant
+hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me
+defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
+
+15:35 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the
+priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt
+hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar
+the priests.
+
+15:36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz
+Zadok’s son, and Jonathan Abiathar’s son; and by them ye shall send
+unto me every thing that ye can hear.
+
+15:37 So Hushai David’s friend came into the city, and Absalom came
+into Jerusalem.
+
+16:1 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold,
+Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses
+saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred
+bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of
+wine.
+
+16:2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba
+said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread
+and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as
+be faint in the wilderness may drink.
+
+16:3 And the king said, And where is thy master’s son? And Ziba said
+unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day
+shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
+
+16:4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained
+unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may
+find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
+
+16:5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a
+man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son
+of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
+
+16:6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king
+David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right
+hand and on his left.
+
+16:7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou
+bloody man, and thou man of Belial: 16:8 The LORD hath returned upon
+thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast
+reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of
+Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because
+thou art a bloody man.
+
+16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should
+this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and
+take off his head.
+
+16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of
+Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse
+David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? 16:11 And
+David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which
+came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this
+Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath
+bidden him.
+
+16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that
+the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
+
+16:13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on
+the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw
+stones at him, and cast dust.
+
+16:14 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary,
+and refreshed themselves there.
+
+16:15 And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to
+Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
+
+16:16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend,
+was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the
+king, God save the king.
+
+16:17 And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend?
+why wentest thou not with thy friend? 16:18 And Hushai said unto
+Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of
+Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
+
+16:19 And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the
+presence of his son? as I have served in thy father’s presence, so
+will I be in thy presence.
+
+16:20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we
+shall do.
+
+16:21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s
+concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall
+hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all
+that are with thee be strong.
+
+16:22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and
+Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all
+Israel.
+
+16:23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those
+days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all
+the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
+
+17:1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out
+twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this
+night: 17:2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak
+handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him
+shall flee; and I will smite the king only: 17:3 And I will bring back
+all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all
+returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
+
+17:4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of
+Israel.
+
+17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us
+hear likewise what he saith.
+
+17:6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him,
+saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after
+his saying? if not; speak thou.
+
+17:7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath
+given is not good at this time.
+
+17:8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they
+be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of
+her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not
+lodge with the people.
+
+17:9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it
+will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that
+whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people
+that follow Absalom.
+
+17:10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a
+lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a
+mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
+
+17:11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto
+thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for
+multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
+
+17:12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found,
+and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of
+him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so
+much as one.
+
+17:13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel
+bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until
+there be not one small stone found there.
+
+17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of
+Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the
+LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the
+intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
+
+17:15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus
+and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and
+thus and thus have I counselled.
+
+17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not
+this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over;
+lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
+
+17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not
+be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and
+they went and told king David.
+
+17:18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went
+both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which
+had a well in his court; whither they went down.
+
+17:19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth,
+and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
+
+17:20 And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they
+said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them,
+They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and
+could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
+
+17:21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up
+out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David,
+Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel
+counselled against you.
+
+17:22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and
+they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of
+them that was not gone over Jordan.
+
+17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he
+saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his
+city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died,
+and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
+
+17:24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he
+and all the men of Israel with him.
+
+17:25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab:
+which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that
+went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s
+mother.
+
+17:26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
+
+17:27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi
+the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the
+son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
+17:28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and
+barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and
+parched pulse, 17:29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of
+kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for
+they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the
+wilderness.
+
+18:1 And David numbered the people that were with him, and set
+captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over them.
+
+18:2 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of
+Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah,
+Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite.
+And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you
+myself also.
+
+18:3 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee
+away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they
+care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now
+it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
+
+18:4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And
+the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by
+hundreds and by thousands.
+
+18:5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal
+gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the
+people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning
+Absalom.
+
+18:6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the
+battle was in the wood of Ephraim; 18:7 Where the people of Israel
+were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great
+slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
+
+18:8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the
+country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword
+devoured.
+
+18:9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a
+mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his
+head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven
+and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
+
+18:10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw
+Absalom hanged in an oak.
+
+18:11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou
+sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and
+I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
+
+18:12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand
+shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand
+against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and
+Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man
+Absalom.
+
+18:13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life:
+for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest
+have set thyself against me.
+
+18:14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took
+three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom,
+while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
+
+18:15 And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and
+smote Absalom, and slew him.
+
+18:16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing
+after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
+
+18:17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the
+wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel
+fled every one to his tent.
+
+18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself
+a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to
+keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own
+name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.
+
+18:19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the
+king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
+
+18:20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day,
+but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear
+no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.
+
+18:21 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen.
+And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.
+
+18:22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But
+howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said,
+Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings
+ready? 18:23 But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto
+him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
+
+18:24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to
+the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and
+looked, and behold a man running alone.
+
+18:25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If
+he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and
+drew near.
+
+18:26 And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman
+called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone.
+And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
+
+18:27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost
+is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He
+is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
+
+18:28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he
+fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said,
+Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that
+lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
+
+18:29 And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz
+answered, When Joab sent the king’s servant, and me thy servant, I saw
+a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
+
+18:30 And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he
+turned aside, and stood still.
+
+18:31 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the
+king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up
+against thee.
+
+18:32 And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And
+Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise
+against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
+
+18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the
+gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my
+son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son,
+my son! 19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and
+mourneth for Absalom.
+
+19:2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the
+people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for
+his son.
+
+19:3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as
+people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
+
+19:4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud
+voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! 19:5 And Joab
+came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day
+the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and
+the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy
+wives, and the lives of thy concubines; 19:6 In that thou lovest thine
+enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that
+thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive,
+that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had
+pleased thee well.
+
+19:7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy
+servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will
+not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee
+than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
+
+19:8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all
+the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the
+people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his
+tent.
+
+19:9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of
+Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and
+he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled
+out of the land for Absalom.
+
+19:10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now
+therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? 19:11
+And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying,
+Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring
+the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to
+the king, even to his house.
+
+19:12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then
+are ye the last to bring back the king? 19:13 And say ye to Amasa,
+Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more
+also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the
+room of Joab.
+
+19:14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the
+heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return
+thou, and all thy servants.
+
+19:15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to
+Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
+
+19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim,
+hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
+
+19:17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the
+servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty
+servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
+
+19:18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s
+household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera
+fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan; 19:19 And said
+unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do
+thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my
+lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to
+his heart.
+
+19:20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold,
+I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to
+meet my lord the king.
+
+19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not
+Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s
+anointed? 19:22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons
+of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall
+there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know
+that I am this day king over Israel? 19:23 Therefore the king said
+unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
+
+19:24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and
+had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his
+clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in
+peace.
+
+19:25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the
+king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me,
+Mephibosheth? 19:26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant
+deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may
+ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
+
+19:27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my
+lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in
+thine eyes.
+
+19:28 For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord
+the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at
+thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto
+the king? 19:29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any
+more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
+
+19:30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all,
+forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own
+house.
+
+19:31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went
+over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
+
+19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and
+he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for
+he was a very great man.
+
+19:33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I
+will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
+
+19:34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that
+I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? 19:35 I am this day
+fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy
+servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the
+voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy
+servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? 19:36 Thy servant will
+go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king
+recompense it me with such a reward? 19:37 Let thy servant, I pray
+thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried
+by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant
+Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what
+shall seem good unto thee.
+
+19:38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will
+do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou
+shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
+
+19:39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come
+over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto
+his own place.
+
+19:40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him:
+and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the
+people of Israel.
+
+19:41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said
+unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee
+away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David’s
+men with him, over Jordan? 19:42 And all the men of Judah answered
+the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore
+then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s
+cost? or hath he given us any gift? 19:43 And the men of Israel
+answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king,
+and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise
+us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?
+And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the
+men of Israel.
+
+20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was
+Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and
+said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son
+of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
+
+20:2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed
+Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king,
+from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
+
+20:3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the
+ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put
+them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were
+shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
+
+20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within
+three days, and be thou here present.
+
+20:5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer
+than the set time which he had appointed him.
+
+20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do
+us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and
+pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
+
+20:7 And there went out after him Joab’s men, and the Cherethites, and
+the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of
+Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
+
+20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went
+before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto
+him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the
+sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
+
+20:9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab
+took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
+
+20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so
+he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to
+the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai
+his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
+
+20:11 And one of Joab’s men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth
+Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
+
+20:12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And
+when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out
+of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw
+that every one that came by him stood still.
+
+20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on
+after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
+
+20:14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to
+Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and
+went also after him.
+
+20:15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they
+cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all
+the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
+
+20:16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray
+you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
+
+20:17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou
+Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the
+words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
+
+20:18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time,
+saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the
+matter.
+
+20:19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou
+seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou
+swallow up the inheritance of the LORD? 20:20 And Joab answered and
+said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or
+destroy.
+
+20:21 The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son
+of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even
+against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And
+the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee
+over the wall.
+
+20:22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they
+cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab.
+And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to
+his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
+
+20:23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of
+Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: 20:24 And
+Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was
+recorder: 20:25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the
+priests: 20:26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
+
+21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year
+after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It
+is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
+
+21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the
+Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of
+the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul
+sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
+21:3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for
+you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the
+inheritance of the LORD? 21:4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We
+will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us
+shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say,
+that will I do for you.
+
+21:5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that
+devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any
+of the coasts of Israel, 21:6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered
+unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul,
+whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
+
+21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of
+Saul, because of the LORD’s oath that was between them, between David
+and Jonathan the son of Saul.
+
+21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
+whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of
+Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of
+Barzillai the Meholathite: 21:9 And he delivered them into the hands
+of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD:
+and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of
+harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
+
+21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it
+for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water
+dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the
+air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
+
+21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
+concubine of Saul, had done.
+
+21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
+Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them
+from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them,
+when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: 21:13 And he brought up
+from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and
+they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
+
+21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the
+country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and
+they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was
+intreated for the land.
+
+21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and
+David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the
+Philistines: and David waxed faint.
+
+21:16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight
+of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he
+being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
+
+21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the
+Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him,
+saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench
+not the light of Israel.
+
+21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle
+with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph,
+which was of the sons of the giant.
+
+21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where
+Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of
+Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s
+beam.
+
+21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great
+stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six
+toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
+
+21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the
+brother of David slew him.
+
+21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand
+of David, and by the hand of his servants.
+
+22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day
+that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies,
+and out of the hand of Saul: 22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock,
+and my fortress, and my deliverer; 22:3 The God of my rock; in him
+will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high
+tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
+
+22:4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I
+be saved from mine enemies.
+
+22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men
+made me afraid; 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the
+snares of death prevented me; 22:7 In my distress I called upon the
+LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple,
+and my cry did enter into his ears.
+
+22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven
+moved and shook, because he was wroth.
+
+22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
+mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
+
+22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under
+his feet.
+
+22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the
+wings of the wind.
+
+22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and
+thick clouds of the skies.
+
+22:13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
+
+22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his
+voice.
+
+22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
+discomfited them.
+
+22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the
+world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of
+the breath of his nostrils.
+
+22:17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
+22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated
+me: for they were too strong for me.
+
+22:19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my
+stay.
+
+22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me,
+because he delighted in me.
+
+22:21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to
+the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
+
+22:22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
+departed from my God.
+
+22:23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I
+did not depart from them.
+
+22:24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine
+iniquity.
+
+22:25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my
+righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
+
+22:26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the
+upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
+
+22:27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward
+thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
+
+22:28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon
+the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
+
+22:29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my
+darkness.
+
+22:30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped
+over a wall.
+
+22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried:
+he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
+
+22:32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
+22:33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
+
+22:34 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high
+places.
+
+22:35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by
+mine arms.
+
+22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
+gentleness hath made me great.
+
+22:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not
+slip.
+
+22:38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not
+again until I had consumed them.
+
+22:39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not
+arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
+
+22:40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose
+up against me hast thou subdued under me.
+
+22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might
+destroy them that hate me.
+
+22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but
+he answered them not.
+
+22:43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did
+stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
+
+22:44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people,
+thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not
+shall serve me.
+
+22:45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear,
+they shall be obedient unto me.
+
+22:46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their
+close places.
+
+22:47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God
+of the rock of my salvation.
+
+22:48 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people
+under me.
+
+22:49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast
+lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast
+delivered me from the violent man.
+
+22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
+heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
+
+22:51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to
+his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
+
+23:1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
+said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God
+of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 23:2 The Spirit of
+the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
+
+23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that
+ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
+
+23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,
+even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of
+the earth by clear shining after rain.
+
+23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an
+everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all
+my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
+
+23:6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust
+away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 23:7 But the man that
+shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear;
+and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
+
+23:8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
+Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same
+was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom
+he slew at one time.
+
+23:9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the
+three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that
+were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were
+gone away: 23:10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand
+was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a
+great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to
+spoil.
+
+23:11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the
+Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of
+ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
+
+23:12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and
+slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
+
+23:13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in
+the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the
+Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
+
+23:14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the
+Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
+
+23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of
+the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! 23:16 And
+the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and
+drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and
+took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink
+thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
+
+23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this:
+is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?
+therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty
+men.
+
+23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief
+among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and
+slew them, and had the name among three.
+
+23:19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their
+captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
+
+23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of
+Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he
+went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
+23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
+spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked
+the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
+
+23:22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name
+among three mighty men.
+
+23:23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to
+the first three. And David set him over his guard.
+
+23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the
+son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the
+Harodite, 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
+23:27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, 23:28 Zalmon
+the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, 23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah,
+a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children
+of Benjamin, 23:30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of
+Gaash, 23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, 23:32
+Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, 23:33
+Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, 23:34
+Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the
+son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 23:35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the
+Arbite, 23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 23:37
+Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the
+son of Zeruiah, 23:38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, 23:39 Uriah
+the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
+
+24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and
+he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
+
+24:2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with
+him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to
+Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the
+people.
+
+24:3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the
+people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of
+my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in
+this thing? 24:4 Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against
+Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains
+of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the
+people of Israel.
+
+24:5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right
+side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and
+toward Jazer: 24:6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of
+Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon, 24:7 And
+came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites,
+and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even
+to Beersheba.
+
+24:8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to
+Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
+
+24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the
+king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that
+drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
+
+24:10 And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the
+people.
+
+And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have
+done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy
+servant; for I have done very foolishly.
+
+24:11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came
+unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 24:12 Go and say unto
+David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one
+of them, that I may do it unto thee.
+
+24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall
+seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee
+three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that
+there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what
+answer I shall return to him that sent me.
+
+24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now
+into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not
+fall into the hand of man.
+
+24:15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even
+to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to
+Beersheba seventy thousand men.
+
+24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to
+destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel
+that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the
+angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
+
+24:17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote
+the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but
+these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be
+against me, and against my father’s house.
+
+24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear
+an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
+
+24:19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
+commanded.
+
+24:20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on
+toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on
+his face upon the ground.
+
+24:21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his
+servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build
+an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
+
+24:22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer
+up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt
+sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen
+for wood.
+
+24:23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And
+Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
+
+24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of
+thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my
+God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the
+threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
+
+24:25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt
+offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land,
+and the plague was stayed from Israel.
+
+
+
+
+The First Book of the Kings
+
+Commonly Called:
+
+The Third Book of the Kings
+
+
+1:1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered
+him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
+
+1:2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my
+lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and
+let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the
+king may get heat.
+
+1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of
+Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
+
+1:4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and
+ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
+
+1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will
+be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to
+run before him.
+
+1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why
+hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother
+bare him after Absalom.
+
+1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar
+the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
+
+1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan
+the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to
+David, were not with Adonijah.
+
+1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of
+Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king’s
+sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants: 1:10 But Nathan
+the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother,
+he called not.
+
+1:11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon,
+saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth
+reign, and David our lord knoweth it not? 1:12 Now therefore come,
+let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine
+own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
+
+1:13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not
+thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly
+Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
+why then doth Adonijah reign? 1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest
+there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy
+words.
+
+1:15 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the
+king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the
+king.
+
+1:16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the
+king said, What wouldest thou? 1:17 And she said unto him, My lord,
+thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying,
+Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon
+my throne.
+
+1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king,
+thou knowest it not: 1:19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and
+sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and
+Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy
+servant hath he not called.
+
+1:20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee,
+that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord
+the king after him.
+
+1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall
+sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted
+offenders.
+
+1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet
+also came in.
+
+1:23 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And
+when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king
+with his face to the ground.
+
+1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall
+reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? 1:25 For he is gone
+down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in
+abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of
+the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink
+before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
+
+1:26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah
+the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
+
+1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed
+it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king
+after him? 1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba.
+And she came into the king’s presence, and stood before the king.
+
+1:29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath
+redeemed my soul out of all distress, 1:30 Even as I sware unto thee
+by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall
+reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so
+will I certainly do this day.
+
+1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did
+reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
+
+1:32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
+prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the
+king.
+
+1:33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your
+lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring
+him down to Gihon: 1:34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the
+prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the
+trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
+
+1:35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my
+throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to
+be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
+
+1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said,
+Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
+
+1:37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with
+Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king
+David.
+
+1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son
+of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and
+caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to
+Gihon.
+
+1:39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle,
+and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people
+said, God save king Solomon.
+
+1:40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with
+pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the
+sound of them.
+
+1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as
+they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the
+trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an
+uproar? 1:42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of
+Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for
+thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
+
+1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king
+David hath made Solomon king.
+
+1:44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
+prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the
+Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:
+1:45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him
+king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the
+city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
+
+1:46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
+
+1:47 And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king
+David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and
+make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself
+upon the bed.
+
+1:48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
+which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even
+seeing it.
+
+1:49 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose
+up, and went every man his way.
+
+1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and
+caught hold on the horns of the altar.
+
+1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king
+Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar,
+saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his
+servant with the sword.
+
+1:52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there
+shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be
+found in him, he shall die.
+
+1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar.
+And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto
+him, Go to thine house.
+
+2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged
+Solomon his son, saying, 2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou
+strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; 2:3 And keep the charge of
+the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his
+commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written
+in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest,
+and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: 2:4 That the LORD may continue
+his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take
+heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and
+with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the
+throne of Israel.
+
+2:5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me,
+and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner
+the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and
+shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his
+girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his
+feet.
+
+2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go
+down to the grave in peace.
+
+2:7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and
+let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me
+when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
+
+2:8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a
+Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day
+when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I
+sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with
+the sword.
+
+2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and
+knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring
+thou down to the grave with blood.
+
+2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
+David.
+
+2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years:
+seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned
+he in Jerusalem.
+
+2:12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his
+kingdom was established greatly.
+
+2:13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of
+Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
+
+2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said,
+Say on.
+
+2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all
+Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom
+is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the
+LORD.
+
+2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said
+unto him, Say on.
+
+2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he
+will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to
+wife.
+
+2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
+
+2:19 Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for
+Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto
+her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the
+king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
+
+2:20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee,
+say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I
+will not say thee nay.
+
+2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy
+brother to wife.
+
+2:22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost
+thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom
+also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the
+priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
+
+2:23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and
+more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
+
+2:24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and
+set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an
+house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
+
+2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada;
+and he fell upon him that he died.
+
+2:26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth,
+unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at
+this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD
+God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in
+all wherein my father was afflicted.
+
+2:27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD;
+that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning
+the house of Eli in Shiloh.
+
+2:28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah,
+though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle
+of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
+
+2:29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the
+tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon
+sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
+
+2:30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto
+him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die
+here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab,
+and thus he answered me.
+
+2:31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon
+him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood,
+which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
+
+2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell
+upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the
+sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of
+Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether,
+captain of the host of Judah.
+
+2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and
+upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed,
+and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever
+from the LORD.
+
+2:34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and
+slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
+
+2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the
+host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
+
+2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build
+thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence
+any whither.
+
+2:37 For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over
+the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely
+die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
+
+2:38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the
+king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem
+many days.
+
+2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the
+servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath.
+And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
+
+2:40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish
+to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from
+Gath.
+
+2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to
+Gath, and was come again.
+
+2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I
+not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying,
+Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any
+whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word
+that I have heard is good.
+
+2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the
+commandment that I have charged thee with? 2:44 The king said
+moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart
+is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD
+shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head; 2:45 And king Solomon
+shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before
+the LORD for ever.
+
+2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went
+out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established
+in the hand of Solomon.
+
+3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
+Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he
+had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD,
+and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
+
+3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no
+house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
+
+3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his
+father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
+
+3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the
+great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon
+that altar.
+
+3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and
+God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
+
+3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my
+father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and
+in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast
+kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to
+sit on his throne, as it is this day.
+
+3:7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of
+David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out
+or come in.
+
+3:8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast
+chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for
+multitude.
+
+3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy
+people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to
+judge this thy so great a people? 3:10 And the speech pleased the
+LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.
+
+3:11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and
+hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for
+thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for
+thyself understanding to discern judgment; 3:12 Behold, I have done
+according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an
+understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee,
+neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
+
+3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both
+riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings
+like unto thee all thy days.
+
+3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my
+commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy
+days.
+
+3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to
+Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
+offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a
+feast to all his servants.
+
+3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and
+stood before him.
+
+3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one
+house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
+
+3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered,
+that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no
+stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
+
+3:19 And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid
+it.
+
+3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while
+thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead
+child in my bosom.
+
+3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it
+was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was
+not my son, which I did bear.
+
+3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the
+dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the
+living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
+
+3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth,
+and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the
+dead, and my son is the living.
+
+3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword
+before the king.
+
+3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half
+to the one, and half to the other.
+
+3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king,
+for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her
+the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it
+be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
+
+3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and
+in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
+
+3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged;
+and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in
+him, to do judgment.
+
+4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
+
+4:2 And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok
+the priest, 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;
+Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
+
+4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and
+Abiathar were the priests: 4:5 And Azariah the son of Nathan was over
+the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and
+the king’s friend: 4:6 And Ahishar was over the household: and
+Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.
+
+4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided
+victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year
+made provision.
+
+4:8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: 4:9
+The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and
+Elonbethhanan: 4:10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained
+Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: 4:11 The son of Abinadab, in all
+the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
+4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo,
+and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from
+Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:
+4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of
+Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained
+the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with
+walls and brasen bars: 4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
+4:15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of
+Solomon to wife: 4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in
+Aloth: 4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: 4:18 Shimei
+the son of Elah, in Benjamin: 4:19 Geber the son of Uri was in the
+country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and
+of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the
+land.
+
+4:20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in
+multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
+
+4:21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the
+land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought
+presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
+
+4:22 And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine
+flour, and threescore measures of meal, 4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty
+oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and
+roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
+
+4:24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river,
+from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river:
+and he had peace on all sides round about him.
+
+4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and
+under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of
+Solomon.
+
+4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots,
+and twelve thousand horsemen.
+
+4:27 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all
+that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they
+lacked nothing.
+
+4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they
+unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his
+charge.
+
+4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and
+largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
+
+4:30 And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of
+the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
+
+4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and
+Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in
+all nations round about.
+
+4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a
+thousand and five.
+
+4:33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon
+even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of
+beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
+
+4:34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from
+all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
+
+5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had
+heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for
+Hiram was ever a lover of David.
+
+5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 5:3 Thou knowest how that David
+my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God
+for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put
+them under the soles of his feet.
+
+5:4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that
+there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
+
+5:5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD
+my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom
+I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto
+my name.
+
+5:6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of
+Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee
+will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt
+appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can
+skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
+
+5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that
+he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which
+hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
+
+5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things
+which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning
+timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
+
+5:9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I
+will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt
+appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt
+receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for
+my household.
+
+5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all
+his desire.
+
+5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food
+to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon
+to Hiram year by year.
+
+5:12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there
+was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league
+together.
+
+5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy
+was thirty thousand men.
+
+5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a
+month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was
+over the levy.
+
+5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens,
+and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; 5:16 Beside the chief
+of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and
+three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
+
+5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly
+stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
+
+5:18 And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the
+stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
+
+6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after
+the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the
+fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is
+the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
+
+6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length
+thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits,
+and the height thereof thirty cubits.
+
+6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was
+the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten
+cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
+
+6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
+
+6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about,
+against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of
+the oracle: and he made chambers round about: 6:6 The nethermost
+chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad,
+and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the
+house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be
+fastened in the walls of the house.
+
+6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made
+ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer
+nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in
+building.
+
+6:8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the
+house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber,
+and out of the middle into the third.
+
+6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with
+beams and boards of cedar.
+
+6:10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits
+high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
+
+6:11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, 6:12 Concerning
+this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my
+statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to
+walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake
+unto David thy father: 6:13 And I will dwell among the children of
+Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
+
+6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
+
+6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar,
+both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he
+covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the
+house with planks of fir.
+
+6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the
+floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it
+within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
+
+6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits
+long.
+
+6:18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open
+flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
+
+6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the
+ark of the covenant of the LORD.
+
+6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and
+twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and
+he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of
+cedar.
+
+6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made
+a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid
+it with gold.
+
+6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished
+all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid
+with gold.
+
+6:23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each
+ten cubits high.
+
+6:24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits
+the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing
+unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
+
+6:25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of
+one measure and one size.
+
+6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the
+other cherub.
+
+6:27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they
+stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the
+one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the
+other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the
+house.
+
+6:28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
+
+6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved
+figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and
+without.
+
+6:30 And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and
+without.
+
+6:31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree:
+the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
+
+6:32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them
+carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid
+them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm
+trees.
+
+6:33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a
+fourth part of the wall.
+
+6:34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one
+door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
+
+6:35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers:
+and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
+
+6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and
+a row of cedar beams.
+
+6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD
+laid, in the month Zif: 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month
+Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all
+the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he
+seven years in building it.
+
+7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
+finished all his house.
+
+7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length
+thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits,
+and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars,
+with cedar beams upon the pillars.
+
+7:3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on
+forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
+
+7:4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light
+in three ranks.
+
+7:5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and
+light was against light in three ranks.
+
+7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty
+cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was
+before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before
+them.
+
+7:7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the
+porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the
+floor to the other.
+
+7:8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch,
+which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s
+daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
+
+7:9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of
+hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the
+foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great
+court.
+
+7:10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones,
+stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
+
+7:11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones,
+and cedars.
+
+7:12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed
+stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the
+house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
+
+7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
+
+7:14 He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was
+a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and
+understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to
+king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
+
+7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece:
+and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
+
+7:16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops
+of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and
+the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 7:17 And nets of
+checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were
+upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for
+the other chapiter.
+
+7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one
+network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with
+pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
+
+7:19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of
+lily work in the porch, four cubits.
+
+7:20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also
+above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the
+pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other
+chapiter.
+
+7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set
+up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up
+the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
+
+7:22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of
+the pillars finished.
+
+7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the
+other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a
+line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
+
+7:24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing
+it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were
+cast in two rows, when it was cast.
+
+7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
+three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and
+three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them,
+and all their hinder parts were inward.
+
+7:26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was
+wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained
+two thousand baths.
+
+7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one
+base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height
+of it.
+
+7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders,
+and the borders were between the ledges: 7:29 And on the borders that
+were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the
+ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were
+certain additions made of thin work.
+
+7:30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and
+the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were
+undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
+
+7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit:
+but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit
+and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their
+borders, foursquare, not round.
+
+7:32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the
+wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit
+and half a cubit.
+
+7:33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel:
+their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes,
+were all molten.
+
+7:34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base:
+and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
+
+7:35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a
+cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the
+borders thereof were of the same.
+
+7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders
+thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the
+proportion of every one, and additions round about.
+
+7:37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one
+casting, one measure, and one size.
+
+7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty
+baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten
+bases one laver.
+
+7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on
+the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of
+the house eastward over against the south.
+
+7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So
+Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for
+the house of the LORD: 7:41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the
+chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two
+networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the
+top of the pillars; 7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two
+networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the
+two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars; 7:43 And the
+ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; 7:44 And one sea, and twelve
+oxen under the sea; 7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the
+basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for
+the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
+
+7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
+between Succoth and Zarthan.
+
+7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were
+exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
+
+7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of
+the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the
+shewbread was, 7:49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the
+right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers,
+and the lamps, and the tongs of gold, 7:50 And the bowls, and the
+snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure
+gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house,
+the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the
+temple.
+
+7:51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of
+the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had
+dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put
+among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
+
+8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of
+the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto
+king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the
+covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
+
+8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon
+at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
+
+8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the
+ark.
+
+8:4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the
+congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle,
+even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
+
+8:5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were
+assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep
+and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
+
+8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
+unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place,
+even under the wings of the cherubims.
+
+8:7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of
+the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof
+above.
+
+8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were
+seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen
+without: and there they are unto this day.
+
+8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which
+Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the
+children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
+
+8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
+place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 8:11 So that the
+priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the
+glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
+
+8:12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the
+thick darkness.
+
+8:13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place
+for thee to abide in for ever.
+
+8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the
+congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
+8:15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with
+his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it,
+saying, 8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out
+of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an
+house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my
+people Israel.
+
+8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for
+the name of the LORD God of Israel.
+
+8:18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine
+heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in
+thine heart.
+
+8:19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that
+shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my
+name.
+
+8:20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am
+risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of
+Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of
+the LORD God of Israel.
+
+8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant
+of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out
+of the land of Egypt.
+
+8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of
+all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward
+heaven: 8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like
+thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and
+mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
+8:24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou
+promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled
+it with thine hand, as it is this day.
+
+8:25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my
+father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a
+man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children
+take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked
+before me.
+
+8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified,
+which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
+
+8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and
+heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I
+have builded? 8:28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy
+servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the
+cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
+8:29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even
+toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that
+thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make
+toward this place.
+
+8:30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy
+people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou
+in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
+
+8:31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid
+upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar
+in this house: 8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy
+servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and
+justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
+
+8:33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because
+they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and
+confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this
+house: 8:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
+people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest
+unto their fathers.
+
+8:35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have
+sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy
+name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: 8:36 Then
+hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy
+people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should
+walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people
+for an inheritance.
+
+8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
+mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege
+them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever
+sickness there be; 8:38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by
+any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the
+plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
+8:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do,
+and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest;
+(for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of
+men;) 8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the
+land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
+
+8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel,
+but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake; 8:42 (For they
+shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy
+stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
+8:43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all
+that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth
+may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that
+they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy
+name.
+
+8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever
+thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city
+which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy
+name: 8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their
+supplication, and maintain their cause.
+
+8:46 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,)
+and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that
+they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
+8:47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they
+were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in
+the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned,
+and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; 8:48 And so
+return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the
+land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee
+toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city
+which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
+8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
+dwelling place, and maintain their cause, 8:50 And forgive thy people
+that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein
+they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before
+them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
+8:51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou
+broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
+8:52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant,
+and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them
+in all that they call for unto thee.
+
+8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the
+earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses
+thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD
+God.
+
+8:54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all
+this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the
+altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up
+to heaven.
+
+8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a
+loud voice, saying, 8:56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest
+unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath
+not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the
+hand of Moses his servant.
+
+8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him
+not leave us, nor forsake us: 8:58 That he may incline our hearts unto
+him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his
+statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
+
+8:59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before
+the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he
+maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel
+at all times, as the matter shall require: 8:60 That all the people of
+the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
+
+8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to
+walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
+
+8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before
+the LORD.
+
+8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
+offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred
+and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel
+dedicated the house of the LORD.
+
+8:64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was
+before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings,
+and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the
+brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the
+burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace
+offerings.
+
+8:65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a
+great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of
+Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even
+fourteen days.
+
+8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the
+king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the
+goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel
+his people.
+
+9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the
+house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire
+which he was pleased to do, 9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the
+second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
+
+9:3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
+supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this
+house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine
+eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
+
+9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in
+integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I
+have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: 9:5
+Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever,
+as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a
+man upon the throne of Israel.
+
+9:6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
+children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I
+have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
+9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
+them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast
+out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
+people: 9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth
+by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why
+hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? 9:9 And
+they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who
+brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken
+hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:
+therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
+
+9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had
+built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king’s house,
+9:11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar
+trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that
+then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
+
+9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
+given him; and they pleased him not.
+
+9:13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my
+brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
+
+9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
+
+9:15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for
+to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the
+wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
+
+9:16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt
+it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and
+given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
+
+9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether, 9:18 And
+Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, 9:19 And all the
+cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and
+cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in
+Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
+
+9:20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,
+Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of
+Israel, 9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land,
+whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy,
+upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
+
+9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but
+they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his
+captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
+
+9:23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s
+work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that
+wrought in the work.
+
+9:24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her
+house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
+
+9:25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and
+peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he
+burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished
+the house.
+
+9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is
+beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
+
+9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had
+knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
+
+9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four
+hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
+
+10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon
+concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard
+questions.
+
+10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels
+that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when
+she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her
+heart.
+
+10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing
+hid from the king, which he told her not.
+
+10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and
+the house that he had built, 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the
+sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and
+their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up
+unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
+
+10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in
+mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
+
+10:7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had
+seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and
+prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
+
+10:8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand
+continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
+
+10:9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee
+on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever,
+therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
+
+10:10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and
+of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more
+such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to
+king Solomon.
+
+10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir,
+brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious
+stones.
+
+10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of
+the LORD, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for
+singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
+
+10:13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
+whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal
+bounty.
+
+So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
+
+10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six
+hundred threescore and six talents of gold, 10:15 Beside that he had
+of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of
+all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
+
+10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
+hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
+
+10:17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of
+gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the
+forest of Lebanon.
+
+10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
+with the best gold.
+
+10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round
+behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat,
+and two lions stood beside the stays.
+
+10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other
+upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
+
+10:21 And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all
+the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold;
+none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of
+Solomon.
+
+10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of
+Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold,
+and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
+
+10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches
+and for wisdom.
+
+10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which
+God had put in his heart.
+
+10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and
+vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and
+mules, a rate year by year.
+
+10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had
+a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,
+whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at
+Jerusalem.
+
+10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and
+cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for
+abundance.
+
+10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the
+king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
+
+10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
+shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for
+all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they
+bring them out by their means.
+
+11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the
+daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
+Zidonians, and Hittites: 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD
+said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither
+shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart
+after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
+
+11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
+concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
+
+11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned
+away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with
+the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
+
+11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians,
+and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
+
+11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully
+after the LORD, as did David his father.
+
+11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination
+of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the
+abomination of the children of Ammon.
+
+11:8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt
+incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
+
+11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned
+from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, 11:10
+And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go
+after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
+
+11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done
+of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I
+have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and
+will give it to thy servant.
+
+11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy
+father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
+
+11:13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one
+tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake
+which I have chosen.
+
+11:14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the
+Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.
+
+11:15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the
+captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had
+smitten every male in Edom; 11:16 (For six months did Joab remain
+there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) 11:17
+That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with
+him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
+
+11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took
+men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king
+of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and
+gave him land.
+
+11:19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he
+gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes
+the queen.
+
+11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom
+Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s
+household among the sons of Pharaoh.
+
+11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers,
+and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh,
+Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
+
+11:22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me,
+that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he
+answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
+
+11:23 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of
+Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: 11:24 And
+he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David
+slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and
+reigned in Damascus.
+
+11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
+beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and
+reigned over Syria.
+
+11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,
+Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even
+he lifted up his hand against the king.
+
+11:27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the
+king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of
+David his father.
+
+11:28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon
+seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over
+all the charge of the house of Joseph.
+
+11:29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of
+Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way;
+and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in
+the field: 11:30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him,
+and rent it in twelve pieces: 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee
+ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will
+rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes
+to thee: 11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s
+sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of
+all the tribes of Israel:) 11:33 Because that they have forsaken me,
+and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh
+the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon,
+and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine
+eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his
+father.
+
+11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I
+will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s
+sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
+11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give
+it unto thee, even ten tribes.
+
+11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant
+may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have
+chosen me to put my name there.
+
+11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that
+thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
+
+11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command
+thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to
+keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I
+will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David,
+and will give Israel unto thee.
+
+11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
+
+11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose,
+and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt
+until the death of Solomon.
+
+11:41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and
+his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
+11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
+was forty years.
+
+11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city
+of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
+
+12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem
+to make him king.
+
+12:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet
+in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king
+Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) 12:3 That they sent and called
+him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake
+unto Rehoboam, saying, 12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now
+therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy
+yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
+
+12:5 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again
+to me. And the people departed.
+
+12:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before
+Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that
+I may answer this people? 12:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If
+thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them,
+and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy
+servants for ever.
+
+12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given
+him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and
+which stood before him: 12:9 And he said unto them, What counsel give
+ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make
+the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? 12:10 And the
+young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus
+shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy
+father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus
+shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my
+father’s loins.
+
+12:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will
+add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will
+chastise you with scorpions.
+
+12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
+as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
+
+12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old
+men’s counsel that they gave him; 12:14 And spake to them after the
+counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and
+I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but
+I will chastise you with scorpions.
+
+12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause
+was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD
+spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
+
+12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them,
+the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?
+neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O
+Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto
+their tents.
+
+12:17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of
+Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
+
+12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and
+all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king
+Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to
+Jerusalem.
+
+12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
+
+12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was
+come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and
+made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house
+of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
+
+12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the
+house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore
+thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house
+of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
+
+12:22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
+12:23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto
+all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people,
+saying, 12:24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight
+against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his
+house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word
+of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the
+LORD.
+
+12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein;
+and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
+
+12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to
+the house of David: 12:27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the
+house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people
+turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they
+shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
+
+12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,
+and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:
+behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of
+Egypt.
+
+12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
+
+12:30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship
+before the one, even unto Dan.
+
+12:31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the
+lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
+
+12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
+fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and
+he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the
+calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the
+high places which he had made.
+
+12:33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the
+fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had
+devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of
+Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
+
+13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of
+the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
+
+13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said,
+O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born
+unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer
+the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s
+bones shall be burnt upon thee.
+
+13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which
+the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes
+that are upon it shall be poured out.
+
+13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the
+man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put
+forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand,
+which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it
+in again to him.
+
+13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar,
+according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of
+the LORD.
+
+13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now
+the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be
+restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the
+king’s hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
+
+13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and
+refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
+
+13:8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half
+thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor
+drink water in this place: 13:9 For so was it charged me by the word
+of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by
+the same way that thou camest.
+
+13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came
+to Bethel.
+
+13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and
+told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in
+Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told
+also to their father.
+
+13:12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons
+had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
+
+13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled
+him the ass: and he rode thereon, 13:14 And went after the man of God,
+and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the
+man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
+
+13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
+
+13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee:
+neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
+13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no
+bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou
+camest.
+
+13:18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel
+spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with
+thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he
+lied unto him.
+
+13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and
+drank water.
+
+13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of
+the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: 13:21 And he
+cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the
+LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast
+not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, 13:22
+But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of
+the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water;
+thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
+
+13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had
+drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom
+he had brought back.
+
+13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him:
+and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion
+also stood by the carcase.
+
+13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way,
+and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the
+city where the old prophet dwelt.
+
+13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
+thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the
+word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion,
+which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD,
+which he spake unto him.
+
+13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they
+saddled him.
+
+13:28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass
+and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the
+carcase, nor torn the ass.
+
+13:29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid
+it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the
+city, to mourn and to bury him.
+
+13:30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over
+him, saying, Alas, my brother! 13:31 And it came to pass, after he
+had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead,
+then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my
+bones beside his bones: 13:32 For the saying which he cried by the
+word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the
+houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall
+surely come to pass.
+
+13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but
+made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:
+whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests
+of the high places.
+
+13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to
+cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
+
+14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
+
+14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise
+thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get
+thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me
+that I should be king over this people.
+
+14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of
+honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the
+child.
+
+14:4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and
+came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes
+were set by reason of his age.
+
+14:5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam
+cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and
+thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in,
+that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
+
+14:6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she
+came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why
+feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy
+tidings.
+
+14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch
+as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my
+people Israel, 14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David,
+and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who
+kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do
+that only which was right in mine eyes; 14:9 But hast done evil above
+all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other
+gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me
+behind thy back: 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the
+house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth
+against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will
+take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away
+dung, till it be all gone.
+
+14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and
+him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the
+LORD hath spoken it.
+
+14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy
+feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
+
+14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of
+Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some
+good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
+
+14:14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who
+shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
+
+14:15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the
+water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he
+gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river,
+because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
+
+14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who
+did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
+
+14:17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and
+when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died; 14:18 And
+they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word
+of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the
+prophet.
+
+14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he
+reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
+kings of Israel.
+
+14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years:
+and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
+
+14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was
+forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out
+of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s
+name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
+
+14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked
+him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all
+that their fathers had done.
+
+14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on
+every high hill, and under every green tree.
+
+14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did
+according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast
+out before the children of Israel.
+
+14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that
+Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 14:26 And he took
+away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the
+king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields
+of gold which Solomon had made.
+
+14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and
+committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept
+the door of the king’s house.
+
+14:28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD,
+that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard
+chamber.
+
+14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are
+they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
+14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
+
+14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
+fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an
+Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
+
+15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
+reigned Abijam over Judah.
+
+15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother’s name was
+Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
+
+15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
+before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as
+the heart of David his father.
+
+15:4 Nevertheless for David’s sake did the LORD his God give him a
+lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish
+Jerusalem: 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of
+the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him
+all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the
+Hittite.
+
+15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of
+his life.
+
+15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they
+not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And
+there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
+
+15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the
+city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
+
+15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa
+over Judah.
+
+15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
+mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
+
+15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did
+David his father.
+
+15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all
+the idols that his fathers had made.
+
+15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being
+queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her
+idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
+
+15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart
+was perfect with the LORD all his days.
+
+15:15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and
+the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD,
+silver, and gold, and vessels.
+
+15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all
+their days.
+
+15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built
+Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king
+of Judah.
+
+15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the
+treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s
+house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa
+sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of
+Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 15:19 There is a league between
+me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent
+unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with
+Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
+
+15:20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of
+the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon,
+and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of
+Naphtali.
+
+15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off
+building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
+
+15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was
+exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber
+thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them
+Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
+
+15:23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that
+he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the
+book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time
+of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
+
+15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
+in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in
+his stead.
+
+15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the
+second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
+
+15:26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way
+of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
+
+15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
+conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which
+belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to
+Gibbethon.
+
+15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him,
+and reigned in his stead.
+
+15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the
+house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he
+had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he
+spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: 15:30 Because of the sins
+of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his
+provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
+
+15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they
+not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
+15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all
+their days.
+
+15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
+Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
+
+15:34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way
+of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
+
+16:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against
+Baasha, saying, 16:2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and
+made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the
+way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me
+to anger with their sins; 16:3 Behold, I will take away the posterity
+of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house
+like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
+
+16:4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
+that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
+
+16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his
+might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
+of Israel? 16:6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in
+Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
+
+16:7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came
+the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for
+all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to
+anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam;
+and because he killed him.
+
+16:8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the
+son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
+
+16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired
+against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house
+of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
+
+16:10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty
+and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
+
+16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat
+on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not
+one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his
+friends.
+
+16:12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the
+word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet.
+
+16:13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by
+which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking
+the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
+
+16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they
+not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
+16:15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri
+reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against
+Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
+
+16:16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath
+conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made
+Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
+
+16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and
+they besieged Tirzah.
+
+16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken,
+that he went into the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s
+house over him with fire, and died.
+
+16:19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the
+LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did,
+to make Israel to sin.
+
+16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he
+wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
+kings of Israel? 16:21 Then were the people of Israel divided into
+two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to
+make him king; and half followed Omri.
+
+16:22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people
+that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri
+reigned.
+
+16:23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to
+reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
+
+16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of
+silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which
+he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
+
+16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse
+than all that were before him.
+
+16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and
+in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of
+Israel to anger with their vanities.
+
+16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might
+that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
+the kings of Israel? 16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was
+buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
+
+16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began
+Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri
+reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
+
+16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above
+all that were before him.
+
+16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to
+walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife
+Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and
+served Baal, and worshipped him.
+
+16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which
+he had built in Samaria.
+
+16:33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God
+of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
+
+16:34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the
+foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates
+thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD,
+which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
+
+17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead,
+said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand,
+there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
+
+17:2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 17:3 Get thee
+hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith,
+that is before Jordan.
+
+17:4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
+commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
+
+17:5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he
+went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
+
+17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and
+bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
+
+17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up,
+because there had been no rain in the land.
+
+17:8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 17:9 Arise, get
+thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold,
+I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
+
+17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate
+of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks:
+and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water
+in a vessel, that I may drink.
+
+17:11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said,
+Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
+
+17:12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but
+an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and,
+behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for
+me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
+
+17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said:
+but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and
+after make for thee and for thy son.
+
+17:14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall
+not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the
+LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
+
+17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she,
+and he, and her house, did eat many days.
+
+17:16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil
+fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
+
+17:17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the
+woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so
+sore, that there was no breath left in him.
+
+17:18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou
+man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and
+to slay my son? 17:19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he
+took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he
+abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
+
+17:20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou
+also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her
+son? 17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and
+cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this
+child’s soul come into him again.
+
+17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the
+child came into him again, and he revived.
+
+17:23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the
+chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah
+said, See, thy son liveth.
+
+17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a
+man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
+
+18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD
+came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab;
+and I will send rain upon the earth.
+
+18:2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore
+famine in Samaria.
+
+18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house.
+(Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel
+cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred
+prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and
+water.) 18:5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all
+fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find
+grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the
+beasts.
+
+18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab
+went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
+
+18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he
+knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord
+Elijah? 18:8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold,
+Elijah is here.
+
+18:9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy
+servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? 18:10 As the LORD thy God
+liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent
+to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of
+the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
+
+18:11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
+
+18:12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that
+the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so
+when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me:
+but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
+
+18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the
+prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets
+by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 18:14 And now
+thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall
+slay me.
+
+18:15 And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
+stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.
+
+18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to
+meet Elijah.
+
+18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto
+him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 18:18 And he answered, I have
+not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have
+forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
+
+18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount
+Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the
+prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.
+
+18:20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
+prophets together unto mount Carmel.
+
+18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye
+between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal,
+then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
+
+18:22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a
+prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty
+men.
+
+18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one
+bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and
+put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on
+wood, and put no fire under: 18:24 And call ye on the name of your
+gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that
+answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and
+said, It is well spoken.
+
+18:25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one
+bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call
+on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
+
+18:26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed
+it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon,
+saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that
+answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
+
+18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said,
+Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing,
+or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be
+awaked.
+
+18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with
+knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
+
+18:29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied
+until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there
+was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
+
+18:30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all
+the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD
+that was broken down.
+
+18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the
+tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came,
+saying, Israel shall be thy name: 18:32 And with the stones he built
+an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the
+altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
+
+18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and
+laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour
+it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
+
+18:34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second
+time.
+
+And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
+
+18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the
+trench also with water.
+
+18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening
+sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of
+Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art
+God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all
+these things at thy word.
+
+18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou
+art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
+
+18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt
+sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up
+the water that was in the trench.
+
+18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and
+they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
+
+18:40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not
+one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down
+to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
+
+18:41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there
+is a sound of abundance of rain.
+
+18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the
+top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his
+face between his knees, 18:43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look
+toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is
+nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
+
+18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold,
+there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he
+said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down
+that the rain stop thee not.
+
+18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black
+with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and
+went to Jezreel.
+
+18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his
+loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
+
+19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he
+had slain all the prophets with the sword.
+
+19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the
+gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of
+one of them by to morrow about this time.
+
+19:3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came
+to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
+
+19:4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came
+and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that
+he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life;
+for I am not better than my fathers.
+
+19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an
+angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
+
+19:6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals,
+and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid
+him down again.
+
+19:7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched
+him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for
+thee.
+
+19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of
+that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
+
+19:9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold,
+the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest
+thou here, Elijah? 19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for
+the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy
+covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the
+sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
+away.
+
+19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD.
+
+And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the
+mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD
+was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD
+was not in the earthquake: 19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; but
+the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
+
+19:13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in
+his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave.
+And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou
+here, Elijah? 19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the
+LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy
+covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the
+sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
+away.
+
+19:15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the
+wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king
+over Syria: 19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be
+king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt
+thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
+
+19:17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of
+Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu
+shall Elisha slay.
+
+19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which
+have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
+
+19:19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who
+was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the
+twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
+
+19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I
+pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee.
+And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
+19:21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew
+them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and
+gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after
+Elijah, and ministered unto him.
+
+20:1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together:
+and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and
+chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
+
+20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and
+said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad, 20:3 Thy silver and thy gold is
+mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
+
+20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king,
+according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
+
+20:5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad,
+saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me
+thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; 20:6 Yet I
+will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they
+shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall
+be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in
+their hand, and take it away.
+
+20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and
+said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he
+sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and
+for my gold; and I denied him not.
+
+20:8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not
+unto him, nor consent.
+
+20:9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord
+the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I
+will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and
+brought him word again.
+
+20:10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me,
+and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for
+all the people that follow me.
+
+20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him
+that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
+
+20:12 And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message, as he
+was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his
+servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array
+against the city.
+
+20:13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel,
+saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude?
+behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt
+know that I am the LORD.
+
+20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even
+by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who
+shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
+
+20:15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces,
+and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered
+all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
+
+20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself
+drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings
+that helped him.
+
+20:17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out
+first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men
+come out of Samaria.
+
+20:18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them
+alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
+
+20:19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of
+the city, and the army which followed them.
+
+20:20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and
+Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an
+horse with the horsemen.
+
+20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and
+chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
+
+20:22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him,
+Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the
+return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
+
+20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods
+are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let
+us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger
+than they.
+
+20:24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his
+place, and put captains in their rooms: 20:25 And number thee an army,
+like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for
+chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we
+shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and
+did so.
+
+20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad
+numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
+
+20:27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present,
+and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them
+like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
+
+20:28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel,
+and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD
+is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will
+I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know
+that I am the LORD.
+
+20:29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so
+it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the
+children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in
+one day.
+
+20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell
+upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad
+fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
+
+20:31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that
+the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray
+thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out
+to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
+
+20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their
+heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad
+saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is
+my brother.
+
+20:33 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come
+from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother
+Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to
+him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
+
+20:34 And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took
+from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee
+in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send
+thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent
+him away.
+
+20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his
+neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man
+refused to smite him.
+
+20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of
+the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall
+slay thee.
+
+And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew
+him.
+
+20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And
+the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
+
+20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and
+disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
+
+20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said,
+Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man
+turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if
+by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or
+else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
+
+20:40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the
+king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast
+decided it.
+
+20:41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the
+king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
+
+20:42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let
+go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction,
+therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his
+people.
+
+20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased,
+and came to Samaria.
+
+21:1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the
+Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of
+Ahab king of Samaria.
+
+21:2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I
+may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house:
+and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem
+good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
+
+21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should
+give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
+
+21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the
+word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I
+will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down
+upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
+
+21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy
+spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? 21:6 And he said unto her,
+Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me
+thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee
+another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my
+vineyard.
+
+21:7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the
+kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry:
+I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
+
+21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his
+seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were
+in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
+
+21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set
+Naboth on high among the people: 21:10 And set two men, sons of
+Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst
+blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him,
+that he may die.
+
+21:11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were
+the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as
+it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
+
+21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
+
+21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before
+him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth,
+in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and
+the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him
+with stones, that he died.
+
+21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is
+dead.
+
+21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned,
+and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the
+vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for
+money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
+
+21:16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that
+Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to
+take possession of it.
+
+21:17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
+21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria:
+behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to
+possess it.
+
+21:19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast
+thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him,
+saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood
+of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
+
+21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And
+he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work
+evil in the sight of the LORD.
+
+21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy
+posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the
+wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, 21:22 And will make
+thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the
+house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou
+hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
+
+21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat
+Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
+
+21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him
+that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
+
+21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to
+work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife
+stirred up.
+
+21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all
+things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children
+of Israel.
+
+21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent
+his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in
+sackcloth, and went softly.
+
+21:28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
+21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he
+humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but
+in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.
+
+22:1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and
+Israel.
+
+22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king
+of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
+
+22:3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that
+Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the
+hand of the king of Syria? 22:4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt
+thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the
+king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses
+as thy horses.
+
+22:5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
+thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
+
+22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about
+four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead
+to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the LORD
+shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
+
+22:7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD
+besides, that we might enquire of him? 22:8 And the king of Israel
+said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah,
+by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not
+prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not
+the king say so.
+
+22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten
+hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
+
+22:10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat
+each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the
+entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied
+before them.
+
+22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he
+said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians,
+until thou have consumed them.
+
+22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
+Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the
+king’s hand.
+
+22:13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him,
+saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the
+king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of
+one of them, and speak that which is good.
+
+22:14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto
+me, that will I speak.
+
+22:15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah,
+shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And
+he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into
+the hand of the king.
+
+22:16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee
+that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the
+LORD? 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills,
+as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no
+master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
+
+22:18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
+thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil? 22:19
+And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD
+sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on
+his right hand and on his left.
+
+22:20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up
+and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another
+said on that manner.
+
+22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
+said, I will persuade him.
+
+22:22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go
+forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
+And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and
+do so.
+
+22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
+mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
+concerning thee.
+
+22:24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah
+on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me
+to speak unto thee? 22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in
+that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
+
+22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back
+unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son; 22:27
+And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed
+him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I
+come in peace.
+
+22:28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath
+not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
+
+22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up
+to Ramothgilead.
+
+22:30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
+myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the
+king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
+
+22:31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that
+had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor
+great, save only with the king of Israel.
+
+22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
+Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they
+turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
+
+22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived
+that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from
+pursuing him.
+
+22:34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of
+Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the
+driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host;
+for I am wounded.
+
+22:35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in
+his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran
+out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
+
+22:36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the
+going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to
+his own country.
+
+22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried
+the king in Samaria.
+
+22:38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs
+licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the
+word of the LORD which he spake.
+
+22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the
+ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they
+not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
+22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in
+his stead.
+
+22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the
+fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
+
+22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to
+reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
+mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
+
+22:43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not
+aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD:
+nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people
+offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
+
+22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
+
+22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he
+shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the
+chronicles of the kings of Judah? 22:46 And the remnant of the
+sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out
+of the land.
+
+22:47 There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
+
+22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but
+they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
+
+22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my
+servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
+
+22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
+fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned
+in his stead.
+
+22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria
+the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two
+years over Israel.
+
+22:52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way
+of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of
+Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: 22:53 For he served
+Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of
+Israel, according to all that his father had done.
+
+
+
+
+The Second Book of the Kings
+
+Commonly Called:
+
+The Fourth Book of the Kings
+
+
+1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
+
+1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that
+was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto
+them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall
+recover of this disease.
+
+1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go
+up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them,
+Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire
+of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? 1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD,
+Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but
+shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
+
+1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them,
+Why are ye now turned back? 1:6 And they said unto him, There came a
+man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that
+sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because
+there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of
+Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from
+that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
+
+1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to
+meet you, and told you these words? 1:8 And they answered him, He was
+an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And
+he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
+
+1:9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And
+he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he
+spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
+
+1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a
+man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and
+thy fifty.
+
+And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
+
+1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his
+fifty.
+
+And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king
+said, Come down quickly.
+
+1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let
+fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the
+fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
+
+1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty.
+And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees
+before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I
+pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be
+precious in thy sight.
+
+1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two
+captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my
+life now be precious in thy sight.
+
+1:15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be
+not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
+
+1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast
+sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not
+because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore
+thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but
+shalt surely die.
+
+1:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had
+spoken.
+
+And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son
+of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
+
+1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not
+written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2:1 And
+it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a
+whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
+
+2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD
+hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth,
+and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to
+Bethel.
+
+2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to
+Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away
+thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye
+your peace.
+
+2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the
+LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as
+thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
+
+2:5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha,
+and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
+master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye
+your peace.
+
+2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD
+hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy
+soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
+
+2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view
+afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
+
+2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the
+waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two
+went over on dry ground.
+
+2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said
+unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from
+thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit
+be upon me.
+
+2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou
+see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if
+not, it shall not be so.
+
+2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that,
+behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and
+parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into
+heaven.
+
+2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the
+chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more:
+and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
+
+2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went
+back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; 2:14 And he took the mantle of
+Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is
+the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they
+parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
+
+2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho
+saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they
+came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
+
+2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants
+fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest
+peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him
+upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not
+send.
+
+2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They
+sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him
+not.
+
+2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he
+said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not? 2:19 And the men of
+the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this
+city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the
+ground barren.
+
+2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they
+brought it to him.
+
+2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the
+salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these
+waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
+
+2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying
+of Elisha which he spake.
+
+2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by
+the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked
+him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
+
+2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the
+name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood,
+and tare forty and two children of them.
+
+2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he
+returned to Samaria.
+
+3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria
+the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve
+years.
+
+3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his
+father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that
+his father had made.
+
+3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of
+Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
+
+3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the
+king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand
+rams, with the wool.
+
+3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab
+rebelled against the king of Israel.
+
+3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered
+all Israel.
+
+3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The
+king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against
+Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people
+as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
+
+3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way
+through the wilderness of Edom.
+
+3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of
+Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was
+no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
+
+3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called
+these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
+3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD,
+that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of
+Israel’s servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of
+Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
+
+3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the
+king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
+
+3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with
+thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of
+thy mother.
+
+And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called
+these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
+
+3:14 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
+stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat
+the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
+
+3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the
+minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
+
+3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of
+ditches.
+
+3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye
+see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may
+drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
+
+3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will
+deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
+
+3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and
+shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every
+good piece of land with stones.
+
+3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was
+offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the
+country was filled with water.
+
+3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to
+fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour,
+and upward, and stood in the border.
+
+3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the
+water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as
+blood: 3:23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain,
+and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
+
+3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up
+and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went
+forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
+
+3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land
+cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the
+wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth
+left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and
+smote it.
+
+3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for
+him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break
+through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
+
+3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his
+stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there
+was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and
+returned to their own land.
+
+4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the
+prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou
+knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come
+to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
+
+4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what
+hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any
+thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
+
+4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
+neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
+
+4:4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and
+upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou
+shalt set aside that which is full.
+
+4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her
+sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
+
+4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said
+unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is
+not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
+
+4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the
+oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
+
+4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a
+great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that
+as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
+
+4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is
+an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
+
+4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let
+us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a
+candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn
+in thither.
+
+4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into
+the chamber, and lay there.
+
+4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when
+he had called her, she stood before him.
+
+4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been
+careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee?
+wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the
+host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
+
+4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi
+answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
+
+4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in
+the door.
+
+4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life,
+thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God,
+do not lie unto thine handmaid.
+
+4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that
+Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
+
+4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out
+to his father to the reapers.
+
+4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a
+lad, Carry him to his mother.
+
+4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat
+on her knees till noon, and then died.
+
+4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and
+shut the door upon him, and went out.
+
+4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee,
+one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man
+of God, and come again.
+
+4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither
+new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
+
+4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go
+forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
+
+4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it
+came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to
+Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: 4:26 Run now, I
+pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it
+well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It
+is well: 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she
+caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And
+the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her:
+and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
+
+4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do
+not deceive me? 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and
+take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man,
+salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay
+my staff upon the face of the child.
+
+4:30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy
+soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
+
+4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the
+face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore
+he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not
+awaked.
+
+4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was
+dead, and laid upon his bed.
+
+4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and
+prayed unto the LORD.
+
+4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon
+his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands:
+and stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed
+warm.
+
+4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went
+up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times,
+and the child opened his eyes.
+
+4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he
+called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy
+son.
+
+4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the
+ground, and took up her son, and went out.
+
+4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the
+land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he
+said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for
+the sons of the prophets.
+
+4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild
+vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and
+shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
+
+4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as
+they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou
+man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
+
+4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he
+said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no
+harm in the pot.
+
+4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of
+God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears
+of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that
+they may eat.
+
+4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred
+men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus
+saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
+
+4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof,
+according to the word of the LORD.
+
+5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great
+man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given
+deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was
+a leper.
+
+5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away
+captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on
+Naaman’s wife.
+
+5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the
+prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
+
+5:4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the
+maid that is of the land of Israel.
+
+5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter
+unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten
+talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of
+raiment.
+
+5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when
+this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my
+servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
+
+5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter,
+that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make
+alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his
+leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a
+quarrel against me.
+
+5:8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king
+of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying,
+Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he
+shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
+
+5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at
+the door of the house of Elisha.
+
+5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in
+Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou
+shalt be clean.
+
+5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought,
+He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the
+LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the
+leper.
+
+5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all
+the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he
+turned and went away in a rage.
+
+5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My
+father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou
+not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash,
+and be clean? 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times
+in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh
+came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
+
+5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and
+came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there
+is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee,
+take a blessing of thy servant.
+
+5:16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will
+receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
+
+5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to
+thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will
+henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods,
+but unto the LORD.
+
+5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master
+goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my
+hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself
+in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
+
+5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a
+little way.
+
+5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold,
+my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his
+hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after
+him, and take somewhat of him.
+
+5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running
+after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is
+all well? 5:22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me,
+saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two
+young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a
+talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
+
+5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him,
+and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of
+garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them
+before him.
+
+5:24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and
+bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
+
+5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto
+him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no
+whither.
+
+5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man
+turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive
+money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and
+sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? 5:27 The leprosy
+therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for
+ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
+
+6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the
+place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
+
+6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a
+beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he
+answered, Go ye.
+
+6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.
+And he answered, I will go.
+
+6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down
+wood.
+
+6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water:
+and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
+
+6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the
+place.
+
+And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did
+swim.
+
+6:7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand,
+and took it.
+
+6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel
+with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
+
+6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware
+that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come
+down.
+
+6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God
+told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor
+twice.
+
+6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for
+this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye
+not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? 6:12 And one of
+his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that
+is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest
+in thy bedchamber.
+
+6:13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch
+him.
+
+And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
+
+6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host:
+and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
+
+6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone
+forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and
+chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we
+do? 6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more
+than they that be with them.
+
+6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes,
+that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he
+saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire
+round about Elisha.
+
+6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and
+said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote
+them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
+
+6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this
+the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But
+he led them to Samaria.
+
+6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that
+Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And
+the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in
+the midst of Samaria.
+
+6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My
+father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them? 6:22 And he answered,
+Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast
+taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water
+before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
+
+6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten
+and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the
+bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
+
+6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria
+gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
+
+6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they
+besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of
+silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of
+silver.
+
+6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there
+cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
+
+6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help
+thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? 6:28 And the
+king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman
+said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will
+eat my son to morrow.
+
+6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the
+next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
+
+6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman,
+that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the
+people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
+
+6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of
+Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
+
+6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the
+king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he
+said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to
+take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door,
+and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master’s feet
+behind him? 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the
+messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the
+LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer? 7:1 Then Elisha
+said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow
+about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel,
+and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
+
+7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God,
+and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this
+thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but
+shalt not eat thereof.
+
+7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate:
+and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 7:4 If we
+say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and
+we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now
+therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they
+save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
+
+7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the
+Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of
+Syria, behold, there was no man there.
+
+7:6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of
+chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and
+they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us
+the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come
+upon us.
+
+7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their
+tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and
+fled for their life.
+
+7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they
+went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver,
+and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and
+entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid
+it.
+
+7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day
+of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning
+light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we
+may go and tell the king’s household.
+
+7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they
+told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold,
+there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and
+asses tied, and the tents as they were.
+
+7:11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house
+within.
+
+7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I
+will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we
+be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves
+in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch
+them alive, and get into the city.
+
+7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray
+thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city,
+(behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it:
+behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites
+that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
+
+7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after
+the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
+
+7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was
+full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their
+haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
+
+7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So
+a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of
+barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
+
+7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have
+the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and
+he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down
+to him.
+
+7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king,
+saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine
+flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of
+Samaria: 7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now,
+behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing
+be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt
+not eat thereof.
+
+7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the
+gate, and he died.
+
+8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to
+life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn
+wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine;
+and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
+
+8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God:
+and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the
+Philistines seven years.
+
+8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman
+returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry
+unto the king for her house and for her land.
+
+8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God,
+saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath
+done.
+
+8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
+restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he
+had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her
+land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is
+her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
+
+8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
+appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was
+hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the
+land, even until now.
+
+8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was
+sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
+
+8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and
+go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall
+I recover of this disease? 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a
+present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’
+burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king
+of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
+disease? 8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
+certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall
+surely die.
+
+8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed:
+and the man of God wept.
+
+8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I
+know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their
+strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay
+with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women
+with child.
+
+8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should
+do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that
+thou shalt be king over Syria.
+
+8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to
+him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou
+shouldest surely recover.
+
+8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth,
+and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died:
+and Hazael reigned in his stead.
+
+8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
+Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat
+king of Judah began to reign.
+
+8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he
+reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
+
+8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house
+of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the
+sight of the LORD.
+
+8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant’s
+sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his
+children.
+
+8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made
+a king over themselves.
+
+8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he
+rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and
+the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
+
+8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day.
+Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
+
+8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they
+not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 8:24
+And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
+the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
+
+8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did
+Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
+
+8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and
+he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah,
+the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
+
+8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in
+the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in
+law of the house of Ahab.
+
+8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael
+king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
+
+8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
+which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against
+Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
+went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was
+sick.
+
+9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets,
+and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in
+thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead: 9:2 And when thou comest thither,
+look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go
+in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an
+inner chamber; 9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head,
+and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
+Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
+
+9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
+Ramothgilead.
+
+9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting;
+and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto
+which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
+
+9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on
+his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have
+anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
+
+9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may
+avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
+servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
+
+9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from
+Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and
+left in Israel: 9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house
+of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of
+Ahijah: 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel,
+and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
+
+9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said
+unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he
+said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
+
+9:12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and
+thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee
+king over Israel.
+
+9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it
+under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying,
+Jehu is king.
+
+9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
+against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel,
+because of Hazael king of Syria.
+
+9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
+which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of
+Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth
+nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
+
+9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay
+there.
+
+And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
+
+9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied
+the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram
+said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it
+peace? 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,
+Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do
+with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The
+messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
+
+9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and
+said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast
+thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
+
+9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh
+not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of
+Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
+
+9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And
+Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his
+chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of
+Naboth the Jezreelite.
+
+9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it
+peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of
+thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? 9:23 And Joram
+turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O
+Ahaziah.
+
+9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram
+between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk
+down in his chariot.
+
+9:25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in
+the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how
+that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD
+laid this burden upon him; 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood
+of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will
+requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast
+him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
+
+9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way
+of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him
+also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is
+by Ibleam.
+
+And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
+
+9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
+buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
+
+9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah
+to reign over Judah.
+
+9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she
+painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
+
+9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace,
+who slew his master? 9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window,
+and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or
+three eunuchs.
+
+9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of
+her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode
+her under foot.
+
+9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see
+now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king’s daughter.
+
+9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the
+skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
+
+9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the
+word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite,
+saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
+9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the
+field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is
+Jezebel.
+
+10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and
+sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to
+them that brought up Ahab’s children, saying, 10:2 Now as soon as this
+letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and
+there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and
+armour; 10:3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master’s sons,
+and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.
+
+10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings
+stood not before him: how then shall we stand? 10:5 And he that was
+over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and
+the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy
+servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any
+king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
+
+10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be
+mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the
+men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this
+time. Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great
+men of the city, which brought them up.
+
+10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took
+the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in
+baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
+
+10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have
+brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two
+heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
+
+10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood,
+and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired
+against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these? 10:10 Know
+now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the
+LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD
+hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
+
+10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel,
+and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he
+left him none remaining.
+
+10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at
+the shearing house in the way, 10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of
+Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are
+the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the
+king and the children of the queen.
+
+10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew
+them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither
+left he any of them.
+
+10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son
+of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is
+thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab
+answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his
+hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
+
+10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they
+made him ride in his chariot.
+
+10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab
+in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the
+LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
+
+10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them,
+Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
+
+10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his
+servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great
+sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not
+live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy
+the worshippers of Baal.
+
+10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they
+proclaimed it.
+
+10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of
+Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they
+came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one
+end to another.
+
+10:22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth
+vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth
+vestments.
+
+10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house
+of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that
+there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the
+worshippers of Baal only.
+
+10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings,
+Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom
+I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his
+life shall be for the life of him.
+
+10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering
+the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains,
+Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with
+the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out,
+and went to the city of the house of Baal.
+
+10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and
+burned them.
+
+10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house
+of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
+
+10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
+
+10:29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
+Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden
+calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
+
+10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in
+executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the
+house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of
+the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
+
+10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of
+Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of
+Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
+
+10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael
+smote them in all the coasts of Israel; 10:33 From Jordan eastward,
+all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the
+Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and
+Bashan.
+
+10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all
+his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
+kings of Israel? 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they
+buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
+
+10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty
+and eight years.
+
+11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
+dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
+
+11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah,
+took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s
+sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in
+the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
+
+11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And
+Athaliah did reign over the land.
+
+11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over
+hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him
+into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an
+oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king’s son.
+
+11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall
+do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be
+keepers of the watch of the king’s house; 11:6 And a third part shall
+be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard:
+so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
+
+11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they
+shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
+
+11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his
+weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be
+slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
+
+11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things
+that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men
+that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on
+the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
+
+11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king
+David’s spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
+
+11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand,
+round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left
+corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
+
+11:12 And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him,
+and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him;
+and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
+
+11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the
+people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
+
+11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the
+manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all
+the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah
+rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
+
+11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds,
+the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without
+the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the
+priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
+
+11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which
+the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.
+
+11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and
+the people, that they should be the LORD’s people; between the king
+also and the people.
+
+11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and
+brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces
+thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And
+the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
+
+11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the
+guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king
+from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the
+guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
+
+11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in
+quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king’s house.
+
+11:21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
+
+12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty
+years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of
+Beersheba.
+
+12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all
+his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
+
+12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still
+sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
+
+12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated
+things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of
+every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set
+at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into
+the house of the LORD, 12:5 Let the priests take it to them, every man
+of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
+wheresoever any breach shall be found.
+
+12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king
+Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
+
+12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other
+priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the
+house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but
+deliver it for the breaches of the house.
+
+12:8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people,
+neither to repair the breaches of the house.
+
+12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid
+of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh
+into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put
+therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
+
+12:10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the
+chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they
+put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the
+LORD.
+
+12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that
+did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and
+they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the
+house of the LORD, 12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to
+buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the
+LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
+
+12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of
+silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of
+silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
+12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the
+house of the LORD.
+
+12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they
+delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
+faithfully.
+
+12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house
+of the LORD: it was the priests’.
+
+12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and
+took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
+
+12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
+Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah,
+had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was
+found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s
+house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from
+Jerusalem.
+
+12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they
+not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
+12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in
+the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
+
+12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
+Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with
+his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his
+stead.
+
+13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king
+of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in
+Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
+
+13:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and
+followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to
+sin; he departed not therefrom.
+
+13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he
+delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the
+hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
+
+13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him:
+for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria
+oppressed them.
+
+13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from
+under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in
+their tents, as beforetime.
+
+13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of
+Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained
+the grove also in Samaria.) 13:7 Neither did he leave of the people
+to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand
+footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them
+like the dust by threshing.
+
+13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and
+his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
+kings of Israel? 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they
+buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
+
+13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began
+Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
+reigned sixteen years.
+
+13:11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he
+departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
+Israel sin: but he walked therein.
+
+13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his
+might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not
+written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 13:13
+And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne:
+and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
+
+13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And
+Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face,
+and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the
+horsemen thereof.
+
+13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto
+him bow and arrows.
+
+13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow.
+And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king’s
+hands.
+
+13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then
+Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD’s
+deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt
+smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
+
+13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto
+the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and
+stayed.
+
+13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest
+have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till
+thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
+
+13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the
+Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
+
+13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold,
+they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of
+Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of
+Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
+
+13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
+Jehoahaz.
+
+13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them,
+and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham,
+Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them
+from his presence as yet.
+
+13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in
+his stead.
+
+13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
+Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the
+hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him,
+and recovered the cities of Israel.
+
+14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
+reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
+
+14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and
+reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was
+Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
+
+14:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not
+like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his
+father did.
+
+14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people
+did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
+
+14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his
+hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
+
+14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto
+that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the
+LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the
+children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every
+man shall be put to death for his own sin.
+
+14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took
+Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
+
+14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son
+of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the
+face.
+
+14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
+saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in
+Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed
+by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
+
+14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee
+up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to
+thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
+14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel
+went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the
+face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
+
+14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled
+every man to their tents.
+
+14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
+of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem,
+and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the
+corner gate, four hundred cubits.
+
+14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that
+were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
+king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
+
+14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might,
+and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in
+the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 14:16 And Jehoash
+slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of
+Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
+
+14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
+of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
+
+14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the
+book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 14:19 Now they made a
+conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they
+sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
+
+14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem
+with his fathers in the city of David.
+
+14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen
+years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
+
+14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
+slept with his fathers.
+
+14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
+Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria,
+and reigned forty and one years.
+
+14:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
+departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
+Israel to sin.
+
+14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto
+the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel,
+which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai,
+the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
+
+14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very
+bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper
+for Israel.
+
+14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel
+from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son
+of Joash.
+
+14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and
+his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,
+which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book
+of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 14:29 And Jeroboam slept
+with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son
+reigned in his stead.
+
+15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began
+Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
+
+15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned
+two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah
+of Jerusalem.
+
+15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that his father Amaziah had done; 15:4 Save that the
+high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense
+still on the high places.
+
+15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day
+of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son
+was over the house, judging the people of the land.
+
+15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are
+they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
+15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
+fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
+
+15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
+Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
+
+15:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
+fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
+Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
+
+15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote
+him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
+
+15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written
+in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
+
+15:12 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying,
+Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation.
+And so it came to pass.
+
+15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
+thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in
+Samaria.
+
+15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to
+Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him,
+and reigned in his stead.
+
+15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he
+made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
+kings of Israel.
+
+15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the
+coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore
+he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped
+up.
+
+15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began
+Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in
+Samaria.
+
+15:18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
+departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
+who made Israel to sin.
+
+15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem
+gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him
+to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
+
+15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty
+men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the
+king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not
+there in the land.
+
+15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are
+they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
+15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned
+in his stead.
+
+15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son
+of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two
+years.
+
+15:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
+departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
+Israel to sin.
+
+15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
+against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s
+house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites:
+and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
+
+15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
+behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
+Israel.
+
+15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the
+son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned
+twenty years.
+
+15:28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
+departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
+Israel to sin.
+
+15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of
+Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh,
+and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and
+carried them captive to Assyria.
+
+15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the
+son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his
+stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
+
+15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold,
+they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
+
+15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel
+began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
+
+15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he
+reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha,
+the daughter of Zadok.
+
+15:34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did
+according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
+
+15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed
+and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate
+of the house of the LORD.
+
+15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are
+they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
+15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the
+king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
+
+15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
+fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in
+his stead.
+
+16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son
+of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
+
+16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned
+sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the
+sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
+
+16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made
+his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the
+heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
+
+16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on
+the hills, and under every green tree.
+
+16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel
+came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not
+overcome him.
+
+16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and
+drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt
+there unto this day.
+
+16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,
+saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the
+hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel,
+which rise up against me.
+
+16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of
+the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a
+present to the king of Assyria.
+
+16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of
+Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people
+of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
+
+16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of
+Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to
+Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it,
+according to all the workmanship thereof.
+
+16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king
+Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king
+Ahaz came from Damascus.
+
+16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the
+altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
+
+16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and
+poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace
+offerings, upon the altar.
+
+16:14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD,
+from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house
+of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
+
+16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the
+great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat
+offering, and the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with
+the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat
+offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the
+blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and
+the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
+
+16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz
+commanded.
+
+16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the
+laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen
+that were under it, and put it upon the pavement of stones.
+
+16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house,
+and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for
+the king of Assyria.
+
+16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not
+written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 16:20
+And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
+the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
+
+17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of
+Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
+
+17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not
+as the kings of Israel that were before him.
+
+17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
+became his servant, and gave him presents.
+
+17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had
+sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the
+king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of
+Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
+
+17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and
+went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
+
+17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and
+carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in
+Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
+
+17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the
+LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt,
+from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other
+gods, 17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD
+cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of
+Israel, which they had made.
+
+17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were
+not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places
+in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced
+city.
+
+17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and
+under every green tree: 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the
+high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before
+them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 17:12
+For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall
+not do this thing.
+
+17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all
+the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil
+ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the
+law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my
+servants the prophets.
+
+17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks,
+like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD
+their God.
+
+17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made
+with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against
+them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the
+heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had
+charged them, that they should not do like them.
+
+17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and
+made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and
+worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
+
+17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through
+the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to
+do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
+
+17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them
+out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
+
+17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but
+walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
+
+17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted
+them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast
+them out of his sight.
+
+17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
+Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from
+following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
+
+17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam
+which he did; they departed not from them; 17:23 Until the LORD
+removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants
+the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to
+Assyria unto this day.
+
+17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
+Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed
+them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and
+they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
+
+17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that
+they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them,
+which slew some of them.
+
+17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations
+which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not
+the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among
+them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of
+the God of the land.
+
+17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of
+the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell
+there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
+
+17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria
+came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the
+LORD.
+
+17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the
+houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation
+in their cities wherein they dwelt.
+
+17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth
+made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 17:31 And the Avites
+made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in
+fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
+
+17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest
+of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the
+houses of the high places.
+
+17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the
+manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
+
+17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not
+the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
+ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded
+the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 17:35 With whom the LORD
+had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other
+gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to
+them: 17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
+with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him
+shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
+
+17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the
+commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
+evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
+
+17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget;
+neither shall ye fear other gods.
+
+17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you
+out of the hand of all your enemies.
+
+17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former
+manner.
+
+17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven
+images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did
+their fathers, so do they unto this day.
+
+18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king
+of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
+
+18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he
+reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was
+Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
+
+18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that David his father did.
+
+18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down
+the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had
+made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to
+it: and he called it Nehushtan.
+
+18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none
+like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
+
+18:6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him,
+but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
+
+18:7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went
+forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him
+not.
+
+18:8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders
+thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
+
+18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which
+was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that
+Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
+
+18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth
+year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,
+Samaria was taken.
+
+18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and
+put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the
+cities of the Medes: 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the
+LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the
+servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
+
+18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king
+of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took
+them.
+
+18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
+Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou
+puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto
+Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty
+talents of gold.
+
+18:15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house
+of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
+
+18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the
+temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah
+had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
+
+18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh
+from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And
+they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they
+came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the
+highway of the fuller’s field.
+
+18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them
+Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna
+the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
+
+18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
+saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
+wherein thou trustest? 18:20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain
+words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou
+trust, that thou rebellest against me? 18:21 Now, behold, thou
+trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on
+which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is
+Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
+
+18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that
+he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and
+hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar
+in Jerusalem? 18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my
+lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses,
+if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
+
+18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
+least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots
+and for horsemen? 18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against
+this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this
+land, and destroy it.
+
+18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto
+Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language;
+for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in
+the ears of the people that are on the wall.
+
+18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy
+master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the
+men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink
+their own piss with you? 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a
+loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of
+the great king, the king of Assyria: 18:29 Thus saith the king, Let
+not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out
+of his hand: 18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD,
+saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be
+delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
+
+18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
+Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then
+eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and
+drink ye every one the waters of his cistern: 18:32 Until I come and
+take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a
+land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye
+may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he
+persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
+
+18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land
+out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 18:34 Where are the gods of
+Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and
+Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? 18:35 Who are
+they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their
+country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out
+of mine hand? 18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him
+not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
+
+18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
+household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
+recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words
+of Rabshakeh.
+
+19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent
+his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
+house of the LORD.
+
+19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the
+scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to
+Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
+
+19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
+trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to
+the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
+
+19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh,
+whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living
+God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
+wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
+
+19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
+
+19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus
+saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with
+which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
+
+19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour,
+and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
+sword in his own land.
+
+19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
+against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
+
+19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is
+come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto
+Hezekiah, saying, 19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
+saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,
+Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
+
+19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
+all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
+19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
+have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of
+Eden which were in Thelasar? 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and
+the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena,
+and Ivah? 19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
+messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the
+LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
+
+19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of
+Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even
+thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven
+and earth.
+
+19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and
+see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to
+reproach the living God.
+
+19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the
+nations and their lands, 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire:
+for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone:
+therefore they have destroyed them.
+
+19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out
+of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art
+the LORD God, even thou only.
+
+19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith
+the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against
+Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
+
+19:21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The
+virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
+scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
+
+19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast
+thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against
+the Holy One of Israel.
+
+19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said,
+With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the
+mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar
+trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into
+the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
+
+19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my
+feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
+
+19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient
+times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
+shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
+
+19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
+dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as
+the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted
+before it be grown up.
+
+19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and
+thy rage against me.
+
+19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine
+ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy
+lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
+
+19:29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such
+things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which
+springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and
+plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
+
+19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet
+again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
+
+19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that
+escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
+
+19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He
+shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
+before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
+
+19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall
+not come into this city, saith the LORD.
+
+19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and
+for my servant David’s sake.
+
+19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went
+out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and
+five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they
+were all dead corpses.
+
+19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned,
+and dwelt at Nineveh.
+
+19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
+Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with
+the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon
+his son reigned in his stead.
+
+20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet
+Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the
+LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
+
+20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
+saying, 20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked
+before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that
+which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
+
+20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle
+court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 20:5 Turn again,
+and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the
+God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
+tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up
+unto the house of the LORD.
+
+20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver
+thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will
+defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
+
+20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it
+on the boil, and he recovered.
+
+20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the
+LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD
+the third day? 20:9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the
+LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the
+shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 20:10 And
+Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten
+degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
+
+20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the
+shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of
+Ahaz.
+
+20:12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
+Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard
+that Hezekiah had been sick.
+
+20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house
+of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and
+the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that
+was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all
+his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
+
+20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto
+him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
+Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
+
+20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
+answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there
+is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
+
+20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
+
+20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
+which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be
+carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
+
+20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
+beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace
+of the king of Babylon.
+
+20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD
+which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and
+truth be in my days? 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and
+all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought
+water into the city, are they not written in the book of the
+chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his
+fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
+
+21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned
+fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was
+Hephzibah.
+
+21:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after
+the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the
+children of Israel.
+
+21:3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father
+had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as
+did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and
+served them.
+
+21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD
+said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
+
+21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts
+of the house of the LORD.
+
+21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times,
+and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he
+wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to
+anger.
+
+21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the
+house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In
+this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of
+Israel, will I put my name for ever: 21:8 Neither will I make the feet
+of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers;
+only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded
+them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded
+them.
+
+21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil
+than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of
+Israel.
+
+21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying, 21:11
+Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath
+done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him,
+and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 21:12 Therefore thus
+saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon
+Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall
+tingle.
+
+21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the
+plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man
+wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
+
+21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver
+them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and
+a spoil to all their enemies; 21:15 Because they have done that which
+was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day
+their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
+
+21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had
+filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he
+made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the
+LORD.
+
+21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and
+his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the
+chronicles of the kings of Judah? 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his
+fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden
+of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
+
+21:19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he
+reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was
+Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
+
+21:20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
+father Manasseh did.
+
+21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and
+served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: 21:22
+And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way
+of the LORD.
+
+21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the
+king in his own house.
+
+21:24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
+against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king
+in his stead.
+
+21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not
+written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 21:26
+And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah
+his son reigned in his stead.
+
+22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah,
+the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
+
+22:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and
+walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the
+right hand or to the left.
+
+22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that
+the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the
+scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying, 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the
+high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the
+house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the
+people: 22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the
+work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them
+give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to
+repair the breaches of the house, 22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders,
+and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
+
+22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that
+was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
+
+22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have
+found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave
+the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
+
+22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king
+word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was
+found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that
+do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
+
+22:10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the
+priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
+
+22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the
+book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
+
+22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of
+Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and
+Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying, 22:13 Go ye, enquire of the
+LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the
+words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD
+that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened
+unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is
+written concerning us.
+
+22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and
+Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son
+of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt
+in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
+
+22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell
+the man that sent you to me, 22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
+bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all
+the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: 22:17 Because
+they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that
+they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands;
+therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not
+be quenched.
+
+22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD,
+thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As
+touching the words which thou hast heard; 22:19 Because thine heart
+was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou
+heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants
+thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast
+rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith
+the LORD.
+
+22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou
+shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not
+see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought
+the king word again.
+
+23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of
+Judah and of Jerusalem.
+
+23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men
+of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the
+priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great:
+and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant
+which was found in the house of the LORD.
+
+23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the
+LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his
+testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul,
+to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book.
+And all the people stood to the covenant.
+
+23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests
+of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out
+of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and
+for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them
+without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of
+them unto Bethel.
+
+23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah
+had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of
+Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned
+incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets,
+and to all the host of heaven.
+
+23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without
+Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron,
+and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the
+graves of the children of the people.
+
+23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the
+house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
+
+23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
+defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from
+Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that
+were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the
+city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
+
+23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the
+altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened
+bread among their brethren.
+
+23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children
+of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass
+through the fire to Molech.
+
+23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to
+the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber
+of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned
+the chariots of the sun with fire.
+
+23:12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of
+Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh
+had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat
+down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into
+the brook Kidron.
+
+23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on
+the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of
+Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and
+for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the
+abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
+
+23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and
+filled their places with the bones of men.
+
+23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which
+Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that
+altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and
+stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
+
+23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were
+there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the
+sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according
+to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who
+proclaimed these words.
+
+23:17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the
+city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from
+Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the
+altar of Bethel.
+
+23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they
+let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of
+Samaria.
+
+23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the
+cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the
+Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the
+acts that he had done in Bethel.
+
+23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there
+upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to
+Jerusalem.
+
+23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover
+unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
+
+23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the
+judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel,
+nor of the kings of Judah; 23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king
+Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
+
+23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and
+the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in
+the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might
+perform the words of the law which were written in the book that
+Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
+
+23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to
+the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his
+might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose
+there any like him.
+
+23:26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his
+great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of
+all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
+
+23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as
+I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I
+have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
+
+23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are
+they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
+23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king
+of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him;
+and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
+
+23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and
+brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the
+people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him,
+and made him king in his father’s stead.
+
+23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign;
+and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was
+Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
+
+23:32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that his fathers had done.
+
+23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of
+Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a
+tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
+
+23:34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the
+room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took
+Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
+
+23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he
+taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of
+Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land,
+of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
+
+23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign;
+and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was
+Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
+
+23:37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that his fathers had done.
+
+24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim
+became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against
+him.
+
+24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of
+the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of
+Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the
+word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
+
+24:3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to
+remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to
+all that he did; 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed:
+for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
+pardon.
+
+24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are
+they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
+24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son
+reigned in his stead.
+
+24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land:
+for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the
+river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
+
+24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he
+reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother’s name was Nehushta,
+the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
+
+24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that his father had done.
+
+24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
+up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
+
+24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and
+his servants did besiege it.
+
+24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
+Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and
+his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of
+his reign.
+
+24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the
+LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the
+vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of
+the LORD, as the LORD had said.
+
+24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all
+the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the
+craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the
+people of the land.
+
+24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s
+mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the
+land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
+
+24:16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and
+smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the
+king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
+
+24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king
+in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
+
+24:18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign,
+and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was
+Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
+
+24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
+
+24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem
+and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah
+rebelled against the king of Babylon.
+
+25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
+month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
+Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched
+against it; and they built forts against it round about.
+
+25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
+Zedekiah.
+
+25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in
+the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
+
+25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night
+by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s
+garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the
+king went the way toward the plain.
+
+25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook
+him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from
+him.
+
+25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon
+to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
+
+25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out
+the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried
+him to Babylon.
+
+25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is
+the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came
+Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon,
+unto Jerusalem: 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the
+king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s
+house burnt he with fire.
+
+25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of
+the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
+
+25:11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the
+fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of
+the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
+
+25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be 
+vinedressers and husbandmen.
+
+25:13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and
+the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did
+the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to
+Babylon.
+
+25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons,
+and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they
+away.
+
+25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of
+gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took
+away.
+
+25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made
+for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without
+weight.
+
+25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the
+chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three
+cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter
+round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar
+with wreathen work.
+
+25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
+Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 25:19
+And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of
+war, and five men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were
+found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which
+mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of
+the land that were found in the city: 25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of
+the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to
+Riblah: 25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at
+Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their
+land.
+
+25:22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
+Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made
+Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
+
+25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men,
+heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came
+to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan
+the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite,
+and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
+
+25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto
+them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land,
+and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
+
+25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son
+of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten
+men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the
+Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
+
+25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of
+the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the
+Chaldees.
+
+25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
+captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the
+seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of
+Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of
+Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 25:28 And he spake kindly to
+him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with
+him in Babylon; 25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat
+bread continually before him all the days of his life.
+
+25:30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the
+king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
+
+
+
+
+The First Book of the Chronicles
+
+
+1:1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh, 1:2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, 1:3 Henoch,
+Methuselah, Lamech, 1:4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
+
+1:5 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and
+Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
+
+1:6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
+
+1:7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
+
+1:8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
+
+1:9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah,
+and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
+
+1:10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
+
+1:11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
+1:12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and
+Caphthorim.
+
+1:13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth, 1:14 The Jebusite
+also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, 1:15 And the Hivite, and
+the Arkite, and the Sinite, 1:16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite,
+and the Hamathite.
+
+1:17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and
+Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
+
+1:18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
+
+1:19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg;
+because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother’s name was
+Joktan.
+
+1:20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and
+Jerah, 1:21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah, 1:22 And Ebal, and
+Abimael, and Sheba, 1:23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these
+were the sons of Joktan.
+
+1:24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, 1:25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 1:26 Serug, Nahor,
+Terah, 1:27 Abram; the same is Abraham.
+
+1:28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
+
+1:29 These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth;
+then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 1:30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa,
+Hadad, and Tema, 1:31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons
+of Ishmael.
+
+1:32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran,
+and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the
+sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
+
+1:33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida,
+and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
+
+1:34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
+
+1:35 The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and
+Korah.
+
+1:36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz,
+and Timna, and Amalek.
+
+1:37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
+
+1:38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
+and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.
+
+1:39 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan’s
+sister.
+
+1:40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and
+Onam.
+
+and the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.
+
+1:41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and
+Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
+
+1:42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of
+Dishan; Uz, and Aran.
+
+1:43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before
+any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor:
+and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
+
+1:44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned
+in his stead.
+
+1:45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites
+reigned in his stead.
+
+1:46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote
+Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his
+city was Avith.
+
+1:47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
+
+1:48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned
+in his stead.
+
+1:49 And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in
+his stead.
+
+1:50 And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the
+name of his city was Pai; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the
+daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
+
+1:51 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke
+Aliah, duke Jetheth, 1:52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, 1:53
+Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, 1:54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram.
+These are the dukes of Edom.
+
+2:1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
+Issachar, and Zebulun, 2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad,
+and Asher.
+
+2:3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born
+unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the
+firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew
+him.
+
+2:4 And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the
+sons of Judah were five.
+
+2:5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
+
+2:6 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol,
+and Dara: five of them in all.
+
+2:7 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who
+transgressed in the thing accursed.
+
+2:8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
+
+2:9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and
+Ram, and Chelubai.
+
+2:10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of
+the children of Judah; 2:11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat
+Boaz, 2:12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse, 2:13 And Jesse
+begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the
+third, 2:14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 2:15 Ozem the
+sixth, David the seventh: 2:16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and
+Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel,
+three.
+
+2:17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the
+Ishmeelite.
+
+2:18 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife,
+and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
+
+2:19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare
+him Hur.
+
+2:20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
+
+2:21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father
+of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she
+bare him Segub.
+
+2:22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land
+of Gilead.
+
+2:23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them,
+with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these
+belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
+
+2:24 And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah
+Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
+
+2:25 And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the
+firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
+
+2:26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was
+the mother of Onam.
+
+2:27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and
+Jamin, and Eker.
+
+2:28 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of
+Shammai; Nadab and Abishur.
+
+2:29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him
+Ahban, and Molid.
+
+2:30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without
+children.
+
+2:31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And
+the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.
+
+2:32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and
+Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
+
+2:33 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons
+of Jerahmeel.
+
+2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a
+servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
+
+2:35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and
+she bare him Attai.
+
+2:36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, 2:37 And Zabad
+begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed, 2:38 And Obed begat Jehu, and
+Jehu begat Azariah, 2:39 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat
+Eleasah, 2:40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
+2:41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.
+
+2:42 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his
+firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the
+father of Hebron.
+
+2:43 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
+
+2:44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat
+Shammai.
+
+2:45 And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of
+Bethzur.
+
+2:46 And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez:
+and Haran begat Gazez.
+
+2:47 And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet,
+and Ephah, and Shaaph.
+
+2:48 Maachah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
+
+2:49 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of
+Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was
+Achsa.
+
+2:50 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of
+Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim.
+
+2:51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader.
+
+2:52 And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half
+of the Manahethites.
+
+2:53 And the families of Kirjathjearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites,
+and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites,
+and the Eshtaulites, 2:54 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the
+Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the
+Manahethites, the Zorites.
+
+2:55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the
+Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites
+that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
+
+3:1 Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in
+Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second
+Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess: 3:2 The third, Absalom the son of
+Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah
+the son of Haggith: 3:3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth,
+Ithream by Eglah his wife.
+
+3:4 These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven
+years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three
+years.
+
+3:5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and
+Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel: 3:6
+Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet, 3:7 And Nogah, and Nepheg,
+and Japhia, 3:8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
+
+3:9 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the
+concubines, and Tamar their sister.
+
+3:10 And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son,
+Jehoshaphat his son, 3:11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his
+son, 3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, 3:13 Ahaz
+his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, 3:14 Amon his son, Josiah
+his son.
+
+3:15 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second
+Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
+
+3:16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
+
+3:17 And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son, 3:18
+Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and
+Nedabiah.
+
+3:19 And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the
+sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their
+sister: 3:20 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah,
+Jushabhesed, five.
+
+3:21 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of
+Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of
+Shechaniah.
+
+3:22 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah;
+Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
+
+3:23 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam,
+three.
+
+3:24 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and
+Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.
+
+4:1 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
+
+4:2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat
+Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
+
+4:3 And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and
+Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi: 4:4 And Penuel
+the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons
+of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
+
+4:5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
+
+4:6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and
+Haahashtari.
+
+These were the sons of Naarah.
+
+4:7 And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
+
+4:8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the
+son of Harum.
+
+4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother
+called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
+
+4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou
+wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand
+might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it
+may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
+
+4:11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father
+of Eshton.
+
+4:12 And Eshton begat Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father
+of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.
+
+4:13 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of
+Othniel; Hathath.
+
+4:14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of
+the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.
+
+4:15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam:
+and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.
+
+4:16 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
+
+4:17 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and
+Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of
+Eshtemoa.
+
+4:18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber
+the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are
+the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
+
+4:19 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father
+of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
+
+4:20 And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and
+Tilon.
+
+And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth.
+
+4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah,
+and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of
+them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea, 4:22 And Jokim,
+and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in
+Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are ancient things.
+
+4:23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and
+hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
+
+4:24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and
+Shaul: 4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
+
+4:26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei
+his son.
+
+4:27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters: but his brethren
+had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to
+the children of Judah.
+
+4:28 And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, 4:29
+And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 4:30 And at Bethuel, and at
+Hormah, and at Ziklag, 4:31 And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and
+at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign
+of David.
+
+4:32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and
+Ashan, five cities: 4:33 And all their villages that were round about
+the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their
+genealogy.
+
+4:34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah, 4:35
+And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of
+Asiel, 4:36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah,
+and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 4:37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi,
+the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of
+Shemaiah; 4:38 These mentioned by their names were princes in their
+families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
+
+4:39 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side
+of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
+
+4:40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and
+quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
+
+4:41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of
+Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found
+there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their
+rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
+
+4:42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men,
+went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah,
+and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
+
+4:43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and
+dwelt there unto this day.
+
+5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the
+firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his
+birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and
+the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
+
+5:2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief
+ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:) 5:3 The sons, I say, of
+Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and
+Carmi.
+
+5:4 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
+5:5 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son, 5:6 Beerah his son,
+whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was
+prince of the Reubenites.
+
+5:7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their
+generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 5:8
+And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt
+in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon: 5:9 And eastward he inhabited
+unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates:
+because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
+
+5:10 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who
+fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the
+east land of Gilead.
+
+5:11 And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of
+Bashan unto Salcah: 5:12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and
+Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
+
+5:13 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael,
+and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber,
+seven.
+
+5:14 These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of
+Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai,
+the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; 5:15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son
+of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
+
+5:16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all
+the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
+
+5:17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king
+of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
+
+5:18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of
+Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to
+shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven
+hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
+
+5:19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish,
+and Nodab.
+
+5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were
+delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried
+to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put
+their trust in him.
+
+5:21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand,
+and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two
+thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
+
+5:22 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And
+they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
+
+5:23 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land:
+they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount
+Hermon.
+
+5:24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even
+Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah,
+and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house
+of their fathers.
+
+5:25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went
+a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed
+before them.
+
+5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of
+Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he
+carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half
+tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara,
+and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
+
+6:1 The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
+
+6:2 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
+
+6:3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons
+also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
+
+6:4 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, 6:5 And Abishua
+begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, 6:6 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and
+Zerahiah begat Meraioth, 6:7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat
+Ahitub, 6:8 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz, 6:9 And
+Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan, 6:10 And Johanan
+begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the
+temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:) 6:11 And Azariah begat
+Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, 6:12 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and
+Zadok begat Shallum, 6:13 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat
+Azariah, 6:14 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,
+6:15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away
+Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
+
+6:16 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
+
+6:17 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
+
+6:18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
+Uzziel.
+
+6:19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families
+of the Levites according to their fathers.
+
+6:20 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, 6:21
+Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.
+
+6:22 The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his
+son, 6:23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
+6:24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
+
+6:25 And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
+
+6:26 As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath
+his son, 6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
+
+6:28 And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
+
+6:29 The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza
+his son, 6:30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
+
+6:31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the
+house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
+
+6:32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle
+of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of
+the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according
+to their order.
+
+6:33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons
+of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of
+Shemuel, 6:34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of
+Eliel, the son of Toah, 6:35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the
+son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, 6:36 The son of Elkanah, the son of
+Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, 6:37 The son of
+Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, 6:38
+The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of
+Israel.
+
+6:39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph
+the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea, 6:40 The son of Michael, the
+son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah, 6:41 The son of Ethni, the son
+of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, 6:42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah,
+the son of Shimei, 6:43 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son
+of Levi.
+
+6:44 And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand:
+Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, 6:45 The
+son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, 6:46 The son
+of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer, 6:47 The son of Mahli,
+the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
+
+6:48 Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of
+service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
+
+6:49 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt
+offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the
+work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel,
+according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
+
+6:50 And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his
+son, Abishua his son, 6:51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his
+son, 6:52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 6:53
+Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
+
+6:54 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in
+their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites:
+for theirs was the lot.
+
+6:55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs
+thereof round about it.
+
+6:56 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave
+to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
+
+6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely,
+Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir,
+and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, 6:58 And Hilen with her suburbs,
+Debir with her suburbs, 6:59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and
+Bethshemesh with her suburbs: 6:60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin;
+Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with
+her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen
+cities.
+
+6:61 And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of
+that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of
+the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
+
+6:62 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the
+tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe
+of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen
+cities.
+
+6:63 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their
+families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and
+out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
+
+6:64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with
+their suburbs.
+
+6:65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah,
+and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe
+of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their
+names.
+
+6:66 And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities
+of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
+
+6:67 And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in
+mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
+6:68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs,
+6:69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:
+6:70 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and
+Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of
+Kohath.
+
+6:71 Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half
+tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth
+with her suburbs: 6:72 And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with
+her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs, 6:73 And Ramoth with her
+suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs: 6:74 And out of the tribe of
+Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs, 6:75 And
+Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs: 6:76 And out of
+the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon
+with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
+
+6:77 Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the
+tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
+6:78 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of
+Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the
+wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs, 6:79
+Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs: 6:80
+And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and
+Mahanaim with her suburbs, 6:81 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and
+Jazer with her suburbs.
+
+7:1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and
+Shimrom, four.
+
+7:2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai,
+and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of
+Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose
+number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six
+hundred.
+
+7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael,
+and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
+
+7:4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their
+fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men:
+for they had many wives and sons.
+
+7:5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant
+men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven
+thousand.
+
+7:6 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
+
+7:7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth,
+and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of
+valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand
+and thirty and four.
+
+7:8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and
+Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and
+Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
+
+7:9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their
+generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of
+valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
+
+7:10 The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush,
+and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and
+Ahishahar.
+
+7:11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers,
+mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred
+soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
+
+7:12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the
+sons of Aher.
+
+7:13 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum,
+the sons of Bilhah.
+
+7:14 The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine
+the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead: 7:15 And Machir took
+to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was
+Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad
+had daughters.
+
+7:16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his
+name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons
+were Ulam and Rakem.
+
+7:17 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the
+son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
+
+7:18 And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
+
+7:19 And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and
+Aniam.
+
+7:20 And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath
+his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, 7:21 And Zabad his
+son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath
+that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away
+their cattle.
+
+7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came
+to comfort him.
+
+7:23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son,
+and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
+
+7:24 (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and
+the upper, and Uzzensherah.) 7:25 And Rephah was his son, also
+Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son.
+
+7:26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son.
+
+7:27 Non his son, Jehoshuah his son.
+
+7:28 And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns
+thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns
+thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns
+thereof: 7:29 And by the borders of the children of Manasseh,
+Bethshean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns,
+Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of
+Israel.
+
+7:30 The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and
+Serah their sister.
+
+7:31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of
+Birzavith.
+
+7:32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their
+sister.
+
+7:33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These
+are the children of Japhlet.
+
+7:34 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
+
+7:35 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh,
+and Amal.
+
+7:36 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and
+Imrah, 7:37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and
+Beera.
+
+7:38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
+
+7:39 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
+
+7:40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s
+house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the
+number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and
+to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
+
+8:1 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and
+Aharah the third, 8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
+
+8:3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, 8:4 And
+Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, 8:5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and
+Huram.
+
+8:6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers
+of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath: 8:7 And
+Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and
+Ahihud.
+
+8:8 And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had
+sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
+
+8:9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and
+Malcham, 8:10 And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons,
+heads of the fathers.
+
+8:11 And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
+
+8:12 The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono,
+and Lod, with the towns thereof: 8:13 Beriah also, and Shema, who were
+heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the
+inhabitants of Gath: 8:14 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, 8:15 And
+Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader, 8:16 And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha,
+the sons of Beriah; 8:17 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and
+Heber, 8:18 Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
+8:19 And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi, 8:20 And Elienai, and Zilthai,
+and Eliel, 8:21 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of
+Shimhi; 8:22 And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel, 8:23 And Abdon, and
+Zichri, and Hanan, 8:24 And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah, 8:25
+And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak; 8:26 And Shamsherai,
+and Shehariah, and Athaliah, 8:27 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri,
+the sons of Jeroham.
+
+8:28 These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men.
+
+These dwelt in Jerusalem.
+
+8:29 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife’s name was
+Maachah: 8:30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and
+Baal, and Nadab, 8:31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
+
+8:32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their
+brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.
+
+8:33 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan,
+and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
+
+8:34 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah.
+
+8:35 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and
+Ahaz.
+
+8:36 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and
+Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza, 8:37 And Moza begat Binea:
+Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son: 8:38 And Azel had
+six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and
+Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
+
+8:39 And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn,
+Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
+
+8:40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had
+many sons, and sons’ sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the
+sons of Benjamin.
+
+9:1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were
+written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried
+away to Babylon for their transgression.
+
+9:2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their
+cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
+
+9:3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the
+children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;
+9:4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the
+son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
+
+9:5 And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
+
+9:6 And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred
+and ninety.
+
+9:7 And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son
+of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah, 9:8 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham,
+and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of
+Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; 9:9 And their
+brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and
+six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their
+fathers.
+
+9:10 And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin, 9:11 And
+Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok,
+the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;
+9:12 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of
+Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son
+of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; 9:13 And
+their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and
+seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the
+service of the house of God.
+
+9:14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of
+Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; 9:15 And
+Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son
+of Zichri, the son of Asaph; 9:16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the
+son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the
+son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
+
+9:17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman,
+and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; 9:18 Who hitherto waited in
+the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the
+children of Levi.
+
+9:19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of
+Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites,
+were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the
+tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were
+keepers of the entry.
+
+9:20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time
+past, and the LORD was with him.
+
+9:21 And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of
+the tabernacle of the congregation.
+
+9:22 All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two
+hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their
+villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set
+office.
+
+9:23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the
+house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
+
+9:24 In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north,
+and south.
+
+9:25 And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come
+after seven days from time to time with them.
+
+9:26 For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set
+office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
+
+9:27 And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge
+was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to
+them.
+
+9:28 And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels,
+that they should bring them in and out by tale.
+
+9:29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all
+the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine,
+and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
+
+9:30 And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the
+spices.
+
+9:31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of
+Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were
+made in the pans.
+
+9:32 And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were
+over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
+
+9:33 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites,
+who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in
+that work day and night.
+
+9:34 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their
+generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
+
+9:35 And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s
+name was Maachah: 9:36 And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and
+Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab.
+
+9:37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
+
+9:38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their
+brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
+
+9:39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan,
+and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
+
+9:40 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begat Micah.
+
+9:41 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and
+Ahaz.
+
+9:42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and
+Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza; 9:43 And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah
+his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
+
+9:44 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru,
+and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons
+of Azel.
+
+10:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel
+fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
+
+10:2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons;
+and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the
+sons of Saul.
+
+10:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him,
+and he was wounded of the archers.
+
+10:4 Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me
+through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his
+armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword,
+and fell upon it.
+
+10:5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell
+likewise on the sword, and died.
+
+10:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died
+together.
+
+10:7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that
+they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook
+their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
+
+10:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to
+strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount
+Gilboa.
+
+10:9 And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his
+armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to
+carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
+
+10:10 And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened
+his head in the temple of Dagon.
+
+10:11 And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had
+done to Saul, 10:12 They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the
+body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh,
+and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
+
+10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against
+the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and
+also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire
+of it; 10:14 And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and
+turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
+
+11:1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying,
+Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
+
+11:2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he
+that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said
+unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler
+over my people Israel.
+
+11:3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron;
+and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and
+they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the
+LORD by Samuel.
+
+11:4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where
+the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
+
+11:5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come
+hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city
+of David.
+
+11:6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be
+chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was
+chief.
+
+11:7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city
+of David.
+
+11:8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about:
+and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
+
+11:9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was
+with him.
+
+11:10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who
+strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel,
+to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.
+
+11:11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had;
+Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his
+spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
+
+11:12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was
+one of the three mighties.
+
+11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were
+gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of
+barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
+
+11:14 And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and
+delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a
+great deliverance.
+
+11:15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David,
+into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in
+the valley of Rephaim.
+
+11:16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines’ garrison
+was then at Bethlehem.
+
+11:17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of
+the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate! 11:18 And
+the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water
+out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and
+brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it
+out to the LORD.
+
+11:19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing:
+shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in
+jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
+Therefore he would not drink it.
+
+These things did these three mightiest.
+
+11:20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for
+lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a
+name among the three.
+
+11:21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was
+their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
+
+11:22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of
+Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab:
+also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
+
+11:23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits
+high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and
+he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the
+Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
+
+11:24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name
+among the three mighties.
+
+11:25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to
+the first three: and David set him over his guard.
+
+11:26 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of
+Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 11:27 Shammoth the
+Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, 11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
+Abiezer the Antothite, 11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the
+Ahohite, 11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
+Netophathite, 11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained
+to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, 11:32 Hurai of
+the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 11:33 Azmaveth the
+Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, 11:34 The sons of Hashem the
+Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite, 11:35 Ahiam the son
+of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, 11:36 Hepher the
+Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, 11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai
+the son of Ezbai, 11:38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of
+Haggeri, 11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the
+armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb
+the Ithrite, 11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, 11:42
+Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and
+thirty with him, 11:43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the
+Mithnite, 11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of
+Hothan the Aroerite, 11:45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his
+brother, the Tizite, 11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and
+Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, 11:47 Eliel,
+and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
+
+12:1 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet
+kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were
+among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
+
+12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and
+the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of
+Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.
+
+12:3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the
+Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah,
+and Jehu the Antothite.
+
+12:4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and
+over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad
+the Gederathite, 12:5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and
+Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite, 12:6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and
+Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites, 12:7 And Joelah, and
+Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
+
+12:8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the
+hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the
+battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like
+the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
+12:9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, 12:10
+Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, 12:11 Attai the sixth,
+Eliel the seventh, 12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, 12:13
+Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
+
+12:14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the
+least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
+
+12:15 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it
+had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the
+valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
+
+12:16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold
+unto David.
+
+12:17 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto
+them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be
+knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing
+there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon,
+and rebuke it.
+
+12:18 Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains,
+and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse:
+peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God
+helpeth thee.
+
+Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
+
+12:19 And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the
+Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the
+lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He
+will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
+
+12:20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and
+Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and
+Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
+
+12:21 And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they
+were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
+
+12:22 For at that time day by day there came to David to help him,
+until it was a great host, like the host of God.
+
+12:23 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to
+the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to
+him, according to the word of the LORD.
+
+12:24 The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six
+thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
+
+12:25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war,
+seven thousand and one hundred.
+
+12:26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
+
+12:27 And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were
+three thousand and seven hundred; 12:28 And Zadok, a young man mighty
+of valour, and of his father’s house twenty and two captains.
+
+12:29 And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three
+thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of
+the house of Saul.
+
+12:30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight
+hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their
+fathers.
+
+12:31 And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were
+expressed by name, to come and make David king.
+
+12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had
+understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads
+of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their
+commandment.
+
+12:33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with
+all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they
+were not of double heart.
+
+12:34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield
+and spear thirty and seven thousand.
+
+12:35 And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and
+six hundred.
+
+12:36 And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty
+thousand.
+
+12:37 And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the
+Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of
+instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
+
+12:38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect
+heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest
+also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
+
+12:39 And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking:
+for their brethren had prepared for them.
+
+12:40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and
+Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on
+mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of
+raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there
+was joy in Israel.
+
+13:1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds,
+and with every leader.
+
+13:2 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem
+good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad
+unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of
+Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in
+their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
+13:3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired
+not at it in the days of Saul.
+
+13:4 And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the
+thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
+
+13:5 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even
+unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from
+Kirjathjearim.
+
+13:6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to
+Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of
+God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is
+called on it.
+
+13:7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of
+Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
+
+13:8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might,
+and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with
+timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
+
+13:9 And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put
+forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
+
+13:10 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote
+him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
+
+13:11 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach
+upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
+
+13:12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring
+the ark of God home to me? 13:13 So David brought not the ark home to
+himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of
+Obededom the Gittite.
+
+13:14 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his
+house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and
+all that he had.
+
+14:1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of
+cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
+
+14:2 And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over
+Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people
+Israel.
+
+14:3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons
+and daughters.
+
+14:4 Now these are the names of his children which he had in
+Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, 14:5 And Ibhar,
+and Elishua, and Elpalet, 14:6 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 14:7
+And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.
+
+14:8 And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over
+all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard
+of it, and went out against them.
+
+14:9 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of
+Rephaim.
+
+14:10 And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the
+Philistines? And wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD
+said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
+
+14:11 So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then
+David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the
+breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place
+Baalperazim.
+
+14:12 And when they had left their gods there, David gave a
+commandment, and they were burned with fire.
+
+14:13 And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the
+valley.
+
+14:14 Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go
+not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over
+against the mulberry trees.
+
+14:15 And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the
+tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for
+God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
+
+14:16 David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the
+host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
+
+14:17 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD
+brought the fear of him upon all nations.
+
+15:1 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a
+place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
+
+15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the
+Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to
+minister unto him for ever.
+
+15:3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up
+the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
+
+15:4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: 15:5
+Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred
+and twenty: 15:6 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his
+brethren two hundred and twenty: 15:7 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the
+chief and his brethren an hundred and thirty: 15:8 Of the sons of
+Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred: 15:9 Of
+the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore: 15:10
+Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an
+hundred and twelve.
+
+15:11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the
+Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
+Amminadab, 15:12 And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers
+of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that
+ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that
+I have prepared for it.
+
+15:13 For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a
+breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
+
+15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up
+the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
+
+15:15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their
+shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the
+word of the LORD.
+
+15:16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their
+brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and
+harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
+
+15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his
+brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their
+brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 15:18 And with them their
+brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and
+Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah,
+and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel,
+the porters.
+
+15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound
+with cymbals of brass; 15:20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and
+Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and
+Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth; 15:21 And Mattithiah, and
+Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with
+harps on the Sheminith to excel.
+
+15:22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed
+about the song, because he was skilful.
+
+15:23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
+
+15:24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and
+Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the
+trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were
+doorkeepers for the ark.
+
+15:25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over
+thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of
+the house of Obededom with joy.
+
+15:26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the
+ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and
+seven rams.
+
+15:27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the
+Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master
+of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of
+linen.
+
+15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD
+with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and
+with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
+
+15:29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came
+to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at
+a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in
+her heart.
+
+16:1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the
+tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices
+and peace offerings before God.
+
+16:2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings
+and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the
+LORD.
+
+16:3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every
+one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
+
+16:4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the
+ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God
+of Israel: 16:5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and
+Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and
+Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a
+sound with cymbals; 16:6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with
+trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
+
+16:7 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the
+LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
+
+16:8 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his
+deeds among the people.
+
+16:9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous
+works.
+
+16:10 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
+seek the LORD.
+
+16:11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
+
+16:12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders,
+and the judgments of his mouth; 16:13 O ye seed of Israel his servant,
+ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
+
+16:14 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
+
+16:15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he
+commanded to a thousand generations; 16:16 Even of the covenant which
+he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; 16:17 And hath
+confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an
+everlasting covenant, 16:18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of
+Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; 16:19 When ye were but few, even
+a few, and strangers in it.
+
+16:20 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom
+to another people; 16:21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he
+reproved kings for their sakes, 16:22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed,
+and do my prophets no harm.
+
+16:23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day
+his salvation.
+
+16:24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among
+all nations.
+
+16:25 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to
+be feared above all gods.
+
+16:26 For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the
+heavens.
+
+16:27 Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are
+in his place.
+
+16:28 Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
+LORD glory and strength.
+
+16:29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an
+offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of
+holiness.
+
+16:30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable,
+that it be not moved.
+
+16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men
+say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
+
+16:32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields
+rejoice, and all that is therein.
+
+16:33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the
+LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
+
+16:34 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+16:35 And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us
+together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to
+thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
+
+16:36 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the
+people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
+
+16:37 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD
+Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as
+every day’s work required: 16:38 And Obededom with their brethren,
+threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to
+be porters: 16:39 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests,
+before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at
+Gibeon, 16:40 To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of
+the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do
+according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he
+commanded Israel; 16:41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest
+that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the
+LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever; 16:42 And with them Heman
+and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a
+sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun
+were porters.
+
+16:43 And all the people departed every man to his house: and David
+returned to bless his house.
+
+17:1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said
+to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark
+of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
+
+17:2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for
+God is with thee.
+
+17:3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to
+Nathan, saying, 17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the
+LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: 17:5 For I have
+not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this
+day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to
+another.
+
+17:6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any
+of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying,
+Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? 17:7 Now therefore thus
+shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I
+took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou
+shouldest be ruler over my people Israel: 17:8 And I have been with
+thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine
+enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of
+the great men that are in the earth.
+
+17:9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant
+them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more;
+neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at
+the beginning, 17:10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be
+over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies.
+Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
+
+17:11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou
+must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after
+thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
+
+17:12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for
+ever.
+
+17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not
+take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before
+thee: 17:14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for
+ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
+
+17:15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
+so did Nathan speak unto David.
+
+17:16 And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who
+am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me
+hitherto? 17:17 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God;
+for thou hast also spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to
+come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high
+degree, O LORD God.
+
+17:18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant?
+for thou knowest thy servant.
+
+17:19 O LORD, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own
+heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these
+great things.
+
+17:20 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside
+thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
+
+17:21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom
+God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of
+greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy
+people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? 17:22 For thy people
+Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD,
+becamest their God.
+
+17:23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken
+concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for
+ever, and do as thou hast said.
+
+17:24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for
+ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to
+Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before
+thee.
+
+17:25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build
+him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray
+before thee.
+
+17:26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness
+unto thy servant: 17:27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the
+house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou
+blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.
+
+18:1 Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines,
+and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the
+Philistines.
+
+18:2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David’s servants, and
+brought gifts.
+
+18:3 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went
+to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
+
+18:4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand
+horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the
+chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
+
+18:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of
+Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
+
+18:6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became
+David’s servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David
+whithersoever he went.
+
+18:7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
+Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
+
+18:8 Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer,
+brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea,
+and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
+
+18:9 Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the
+host of Hadarezer king of Zobah; 18:10 He sent Hadoram his son to king
+David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he
+had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war
+with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and
+brass.
+
+18:11 Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver
+and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and
+from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines,
+and from Amalek.
+
+18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the
+valley of salt eighteen thousand.
+
+18:13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became
+David’s servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
+
+18:14 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and
+justice among all his people.
+
+18:15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat
+the son of Ahilud, recorder.
+
+18:16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar,
+were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe; 18:17 And Benaiah the son of
+Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of
+David were chief about the king.
+
+19:1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the
+children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
+
+19:2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
+Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent
+messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of
+David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort
+him.
+
+19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest
+thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters
+unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to
+overthrow, and to spy out the land? 19:4 Wherefore Hanun took David’s
+servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst
+hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
+
+19:5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served.
+And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the
+king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then
+return.
+
+19:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves
+odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand
+talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
+Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.
+
+19:7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of
+Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the
+children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
+came to battle.
+
+19:8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the
+mighty men.
+
+19:9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array
+before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by
+themselves in the field.
+
+19:10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and
+behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in
+array against the Syrians.
+
+19:11 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai
+his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of
+Ammon.
+
+19:12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou
+shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee,
+then I will help thee.
+
+19:13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for
+our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that
+which is good in his sight.
+
+19:14 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the
+Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
+
+19:15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled,
+they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the
+city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
+
+19:16 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before
+Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were
+beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer
+went before them.
+
+19:17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed
+over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against
+them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians,
+they fought with him.
+
+19:18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the
+Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty
+thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
+
+19:19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the
+worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his
+servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any
+more.
+
+20:1 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time
+that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and
+wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged
+Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and
+destroyed it.
+
+20:2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and
+found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in
+it; and it was set upon David’s head: and he brought also exceeding
+much spoil out of the city.
+
+20:3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with
+saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David
+with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the
+people returned to Jerusalem.
+
+20:4 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer
+with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew
+Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
+
+20:5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son
+of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear
+staff was like a weaver’s beam.
+
+20:6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great
+stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each
+hand, and six on each foot and he also was the son of the giant.
+
+20:7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s
+brother slew him.
+
+20:8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand
+of David, and by the hand of his servants.
+
+21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number
+Israel.
+
+21:2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go,
+number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them
+to me, that I may know it.
+
+21:3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so
+many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my
+lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will
+he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 21:4 Nevertheless the king’s
+word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went
+throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
+
+21:5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And
+all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand
+men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten
+thousand men that drew sword.
+
+21:6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s
+word was abominable to Joab.
+
+21:7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote
+Israel.
+
+21:8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have
+done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy
+servant; for I have done very foolishly.
+
+21:9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, 21:10 Go and
+tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things:
+choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
+
+21:11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
+Choose thee 21:12 Either three years’ famine; or three months to be
+destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies
+overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the
+pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying
+throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what
+word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
+
+21:13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now
+into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me
+not fall into the hand of man.
+
+21:14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of
+Israel seventy thousand men.
+
+21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he
+was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and
+said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand.
+And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the
+Jebusite.
+
+21:16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD
+stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his
+hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of
+Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
+
+21:17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people
+to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed;
+but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray
+thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on
+thy people, that they should be plagued.
+
+21:18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that
+David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the
+threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
+
+21:19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the
+name of the LORD.
+
+21:20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with
+him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
+
+21:21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went
+out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to
+the ground.
+
+21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this
+threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou
+shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed
+from the people.
+
+21:23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the
+king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also
+for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the
+wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
+
+21:24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for
+the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD,
+nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
+
+21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold
+by weight.
+
+21:26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt
+offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he
+answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
+
+21:27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again
+into the sheath thereof.
+
+21:28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in
+the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
+
+21:29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the
+wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season
+in the high place at Gibeon.
+
+21:30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was
+afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
+
+22:1 Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is
+the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
+
+22:2 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in
+the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build
+the house of God.
+
+22:3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors
+of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without
+weight; 22:4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they
+of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
+
+22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house
+that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of
+fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make
+preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
+
+22:6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an
+house for the LORD God of Israel.
+
+22:7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind
+to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God: 22:8 But the word
+of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and
+hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name,
+because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
+
+22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest;
+and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his
+name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel
+in his days.
+
+22:10 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and
+I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom
+over Israel for ever.
+
+22:11 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build
+the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.
+
+22:12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee
+charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD
+thy God.
+
+22:13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the
+statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning
+Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
+
+22:14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the
+LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand
+talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in
+abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add
+thereto.
+
+22:15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and
+workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every
+manner of work.
+
+22:16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is
+no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
+
+22:17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon
+his son, saying, 22:18 Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he
+not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of
+the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and
+before his people.
+
+22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God;
+arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring
+the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into
+the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
+
+23:1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son
+king over Israel.
+
+23:2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the
+priests and the Levites.
+
+23:3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and
+upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and
+eight thousand.
+
+23:4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work
+of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
+23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised
+the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise
+therewith.
+
+23:6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,
+namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
+
+23:7 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
+
+23:8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel,
+three.
+
+23:9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three.
+These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
+
+23:10 And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and
+Beriah.
+
+These four were the sons of Shimei.
+
+23:11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and
+Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning,
+according to their father’s house.
+
+23:12 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
+
+23:13 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated,
+that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for
+ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to
+bless in his name for ever.
+
+23:14 Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the
+tribe of Levi.
+
+23:15 The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.
+
+23:16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
+
+23:17 And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer
+had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
+
+23:18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
+
+23:19 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second,
+Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
+
+23:20 Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first and Jesiah the second.
+
+23:21 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli;
+Eleazar, and Kish.
+
+23:22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their
+brethren the sons of Kish took them.
+
+23:23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
+
+23:24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers;
+even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names
+by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the
+LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
+
+23:25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his
+people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: 23:26 And also unto
+the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels
+of it for the service thereof.
+
+23:27 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from
+twenty years old and above: 23:28 Because their office was to wait on
+the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the
+courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things,
+and the work of the service of the house of God; 23:29 Both for the
+shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the
+unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that
+which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size; 23:30 And to
+stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at
+even: 23:31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the
+sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number,
+according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the
+LORD: 23:32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of
+the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of
+the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the
+LORD.
+
+24:1 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of
+Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
+
+24:2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no
+children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.
+
+24:3 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar,
+and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in
+their service.
+
+24:4 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than
+of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided. Among the sons of
+Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers,
+and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their
+fathers.
+
+24:5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the
+governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of
+the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
+
+24:6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites,
+wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and
+Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of
+the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for
+Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
+
+24:7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
+24:8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, 24:9 The fifth to
+Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, 24:10 The seventh to Hakkoz, the
+eighth to Abijah, 24:11 The ninth to Jeshuah, the tenth to Shecaniah,
+24:12 The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, 24:13 The
+thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, 24:14 The fifteenth
+to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, 24:15 The seventeenth to Hezir, the
+eighteenth to Aphses, 24:16 The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth
+to Jehezekel, 24:17 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and
+twentieth to Gamul, 24:18 The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four
+and twentieth to Maaziah.
+
+24:19 These were the orderings of them in their service to come into
+the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their
+father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
+
+24:20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of
+Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.
+
+24:21 Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was
+Isshiah.
+
+24:22 Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.
+
+24:23 And the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second,
+Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
+
+24:24 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.
+
+24:25 The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah;
+Zechariah.
+
+24:26 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah;
+Beno.
+
+24:27 The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and
+Ibri.
+
+24:28 Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
+
+24:29 Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.
+
+24:30 The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These
+were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.
+
+24:31 These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of
+Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and
+the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the
+principal fathers over against their younger brethren.
+
+25:1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the
+service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who
+should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the
+number of the workmen according to their service was: 25:2 Of the sons
+of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of
+Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the
+order of the king.
+
+25:3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and
+Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their
+father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to
+praise the LORD.
+
+25:4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel,
+and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer,
+Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth: 25:5 All these were the
+sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the
+horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
+
+25:6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the
+house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the
+service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph,
+Jeduthun, and Heman.
+
+25:7 So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed
+in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred
+fourscore and eight.
+
+25:8 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the
+great, the teacher as the scholar.
+
+25:9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to
+Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve: 25:10 The third
+to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:11 The
+fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:12 The
+fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:13
+The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
+25:14 The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
+twelve: 25:15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren,
+were twelve: 25:16 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his
+brethren, were twelve: 25:17 The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and
+his brethren, were twelve: 25:18 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his
+sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:19 The twelfth to Hashabiah,
+he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:20 The thirteenth to
+Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:21 The
+fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
+25:22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
+twelve: 25:23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his
+brethren, were twelve: 25:24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his
+sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:25 The eighteenth to Hanani,
+he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:26 The nineteenth to
+Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:27 The
+twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
+25:28 The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren,
+were twelve: 25:29 The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons,
+and his brethren, were twelve: 25:30 The three and twentieth to
+Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25:31 The four
+and twentieth to Romamtiezer, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
+twelve.
+
+26:1 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was
+Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
+
+26:2 And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn,
+Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 26:3 Elam
+the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.
+
+26:4 Moreover the sons of Obededom were, Shemaiah the firstborn,
+Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and
+Nethaneel the fifth.
+
+26:5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for
+God blessed him.
+
+26:6 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout
+the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.
+
+26:7 The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad,
+whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
+
+26:8 All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their
+brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and
+two of Obededom.
+
+26:9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.
+
+26:10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the
+chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him
+the chief;) 26:11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah
+the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
+
+26:12 Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the
+chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house
+of the LORD.
+
+26:13 And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to
+the house of their fathers, for every gate.
+
+26:14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his
+son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out
+northward.
+
+26:15 To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
+
+26:16 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate
+Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
+
+26:17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four
+a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
+
+26:18 At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
+
+26:19 These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore,
+and among the sons of Merari.
+
+26:20 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house
+of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
+
+26:21 As concerning the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite
+Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli.
+
+26:22 The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were
+over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
+
+26:23 Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the
+Uzzielites: 26:24 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses,
+was ruler of the treasures.
+
+26:25 And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his
+son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.
+
+26:26 Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of
+the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the
+captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host,
+had dedicated.
+
+26:27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain
+the house of the LORD.
+
+26:28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and
+Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and
+whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith,
+and of his brethren.
+
+26:29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward
+business over Israel, for officers and judges.
+
+26:30 And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of
+valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of
+Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD,
+and in the service of the king.
+
+26:31 Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the
+Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the
+fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there
+were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.
+
+26:32 And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven
+hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the
+Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every
+matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.
+
+27:1 Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief
+fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers
+that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and
+went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of
+every course were twenty and four thousand.
+
+27:2 Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son
+of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
+
+27:3 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the
+host for the first month.
+
+27:4 And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and
+of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were
+twenty and four thousand.
+
+27:5 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the
+son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and
+four thousand.
+
+27:6 This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above
+the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son.
+
+27:7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of
+Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty
+and four thousand.
+
+27:8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite:
+and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
+
+27:9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh
+the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
+
+27:10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the
+Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty
+and four thousand.
+
+27:11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the
+Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four
+thousand.
+
+27:12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the
+Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four
+thousand.
+
+27:13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the
+Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four
+thousand.
+
+27:14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the
+Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty
+and four thousand.
+
+27:15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the
+Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four
+thousand.
+
+27:16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the
+Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites,
+Shephatiah the son of Maachah: 27:17 Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son
+of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok: 27:18 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the
+brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: 27:19 Of
+Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of
+Azriel: 27:20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah:
+of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah: 27:21 Of the
+half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of
+Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: 27:22 Of Dan, Azareel the son of
+Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.
+
+27:23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and
+under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the
+stars of the heavens.
+
+27:24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not,
+because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number
+put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
+
+27:25 And over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and
+over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the
+villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah: 27:26
+And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground
+was Ezri the son of Chelub: 27:27 And over the vineyards was Shimei
+the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars
+was Zabdi the Shiphmite: 27:28 And over the olive trees and the
+sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite:
+and over the cellars of oil was Joash: 27:29 And over the herds that
+fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were
+in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai: 27:30 Over the camels
+also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the
+Meronothite: 27:31 And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All
+these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.
+
+27:32 Also Jonathan David’s uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a
+scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons: 27:33
+And Ahithophel was the king’s counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was
+the king’s companion: 27:34 And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son
+of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king’s army was Joab.
+
+28:1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the
+tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king
+by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the
+hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of
+the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men,
+and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
+
+28:2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my
+brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an
+house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the
+footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building: 28:3 But
+God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because
+thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
+
+28:4 Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of
+my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to
+be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and
+among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all
+Israel: 28:5 And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many
+sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the
+kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
+
+28:6 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and
+my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his
+father.
+
+28:7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant
+to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.
+
+28:8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the
+LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the
+commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land,
+and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
+
+28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and
+serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD
+searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
+thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou
+forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
+
+28:10 Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house
+for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
+
+28:11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and
+of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper
+chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place
+of the mercy seat, 28:12 And the pattern of all that he had by the
+spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the
+chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of
+the treasuries of the dedicated things: 28:13 Also for the courses of
+the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of
+the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house
+of the LORD.
+
+28:14 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all
+instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments
+of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
+28:15 Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their
+lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps
+thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the
+candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of
+every candlestick.
+
+28:16 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for
+every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver: 28:17 Also
+pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the
+golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise
+silver by weight for every bason of silver: 28:18 And for the altar of
+incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the
+chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the
+ark of the covenant of the LORD.
+
+28:19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by
+his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
+
+28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good
+courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even
+my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee,
+until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of
+the LORD.
+
+28:21 And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even
+they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and
+there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing
+skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the
+people will be wholly at thy commandment.
+
+29:1 Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation,
+Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender,
+and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD
+God.
+
+29:2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the
+gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of
+silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of
+iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set,
+glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious
+stones, and marble stones in abundance.
+
+29:3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God,
+I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given
+to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for
+the holy house.
+
+29:4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and
+seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the
+houses withal: 29:5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for
+things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands
+of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this
+day unto the LORD? 29:6 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of
+the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds,
+with the rulers of the king’s work, offered willingly, 29:7 And gave
+for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and
+ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass
+eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
+
+29:8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the
+treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the
+Gershonite.
+
+29:9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly,
+because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and
+David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
+
+29:10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation:
+and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for
+ever and ever.
+
+29:11 Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory,
+and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in
+the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted
+as head above all.
+
+29:12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all;
+and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make
+great, and to give strength unto all.
+
+29:13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious
+name.
+
+29:14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to
+offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and
+of thine own have we given thee.
+
+29:15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all
+our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none
+abiding.
+
+29:16 O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build
+thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all
+thine own.
+
+29:17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast
+pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I
+have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy
+thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
+
+29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep
+this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy
+people, and prepare their heart unto thee: 29:19 And give unto Solomon
+my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and
+thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for
+the which I have made provision.
+
+29:20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your
+God.
+
+And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and
+bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
+
+29:21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt
+offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand
+bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink
+offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel: 29:22 And did
+eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And
+they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed
+him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.
+
+29:23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of
+David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
+
+29:24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons
+likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
+
+29:25 And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all
+Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on
+any king before him in Israel.
+
+29:26 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
+
+29:27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven
+years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in
+Jerusalem.
+
+29:28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour:
+and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
+
+29:29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are
+written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the
+prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer, 29:30 With all his reign and
+his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over
+all the kingdoms of the countries.
+
+
+
+
+The Second Book of the Chronicles
+
+
+1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and
+the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
+
+1:2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands
+and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all
+Israel, the chief of the fathers.
+
+1:3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high
+place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the
+congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in
+the wilderness.
+
+1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the
+place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for
+it at Jerusalem.
+
+1:5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son
+of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and
+Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
+
+1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD,
+which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a
+thousand burnt offerings upon it.
+
+1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask
+what I shall give thee.
+
+1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David
+my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
+
+1:9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be
+established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of
+the earth in multitude.
+
+1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in
+before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so
+great? 1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart,
+and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of
+thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom
+and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom
+I have made thee king: 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee;
+and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of
+the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any
+after thee have the like.
+
+1:13 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at
+Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation,
+and reigned over Israel.
+
+1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand
+and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he
+placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
+
+1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as
+stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the
+vale for abundance.
+
+1:16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the
+king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
+
+1:17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for
+six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty:
+and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and
+for the kings of Syria, by their means.
+
+2:1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD,
+and an house for his kingdom.
+
+2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear
+burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three
+thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
+
+2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst
+deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an
+house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
+
+2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to
+dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the
+continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening,
+on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the
+LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
+
+2:5 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above
+all gods.
+
+2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and
+heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should
+build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? 2:7 Send
+me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in
+brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can
+skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in
+Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
+
+2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of
+Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in
+Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 2:9 Even
+to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to
+build shall be wonderful great.
+
+2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut
+timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand
+measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty
+thousand baths of oil.
+
+2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to
+Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee
+king over them.
+
+2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made
+heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued
+with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the
+LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
+
+2:13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of
+Huram my father’s, 2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan,
+and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in
+silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in
+blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of
+graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with
+thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
+
+2:15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine,
+which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants: 2:16 And
+we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we
+will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry
+it up to Jerusalem.
+
+2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of
+Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered
+them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three
+thousand and six hundred.
+
+2:18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of
+burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and
+three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
+
+3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in
+mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the
+place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the
+Jebusite.
+
+3:2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in
+the fourth year of his reign.
+
+3:3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the
+building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first
+measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
+
+3:4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it
+was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
+height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure
+gold.
+
+3:5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid
+with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
+
+3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and
+the gold was gold of Parvaim.
+
+3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls
+thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the
+walls.
+
+3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according
+to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof
+twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six
+hundred talents.
+
+3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he
+overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
+
+3:10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work,
+and overlaid them with gold.
+
+3:11 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing
+of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house:
+and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of
+the other cherub.
+
+3:12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the
+wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to
+the wing of the other cherub.
+
+3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
+cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
+
+3:14 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine
+linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
+
+3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five
+cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was
+five cubits.
+
+3:16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads
+of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the
+chains.
+
+3:17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right
+hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the
+right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
+
+4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length
+thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the
+height thereof.
+
+4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round
+in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty
+cubits did compass it round about.
+
+4:3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it
+round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows
+of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
+
+4:4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
+three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and
+three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them,
+and all their hinder parts were inward.
+
+4:5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it
+like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it
+received and held three thousand baths.
+
+4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five
+on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the
+burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to
+wash in.
+
+4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and
+set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
+
+4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on
+the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of
+gold.
+
+4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court,
+and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
+
+4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over
+against the south.
+
+4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And
+Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the
+house of God; 4:12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the
+chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two
+wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the
+top of the pillars; 4:13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two
+wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two
+pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
+
+4:14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases; 4:15 One
+sea, and twelve oxen under it.
+
+4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their
+instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house
+of the LORD of bright brass.
+
+4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
+between Succoth and Zeredathah.
+
+4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the
+weight of the brass could not be found out.
+
+4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God,
+the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
+4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn
+after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; 4:21 And the
+flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that
+perfect gold; 4:22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons,
+and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner
+doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of
+the temple, were of gold.
+
+5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was
+finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father
+had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments,
+put he among the treasures of the house of God.
+
+5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of
+the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto
+Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the
+city of David, which is Zion.
+
+5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king
+in the feast which was in the seventh month.
+
+5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the
+ark.
+
+5:5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the
+congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle,
+these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
+
+5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were
+assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which
+could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
+
+5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
+unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place,
+even under the wings of the cherubims: 5:8 For the cherubims spread
+forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered
+the ark and the staves thereof above.
+
+5:9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the
+staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not
+seen without. And there it is unto this day.
+
+5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put
+therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of
+Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
+
+5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
+place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did
+not then wait by course: 5:12 Also the Levites which were the singers,
+all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their
+brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries
+and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an
+hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) 5:13 It came even
+to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound
+to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up
+their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick,
+and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth
+for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house
+of the LORD; 5:14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by
+reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of
+God.
+
+6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the
+thick darkness.
+
+6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for
+thy dwelling for ever.
+
+6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation
+of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
+
+6:4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his
+hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David,
+saying, 6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the
+land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build
+an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to
+be a ruler over my people Israel: 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem,
+that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my
+people Israel.
+
+6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for
+the name of the LORD God of Israel.
+
+6:8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine
+heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in
+thine heart: 6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but
+thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
+house for my name.
+
+6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken:
+for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the
+throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for
+the name of the LORD God of Israel.
+
+6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the
+LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
+
+6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all
+the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: 6:13 For
+Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long, and five
+cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of
+the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees
+before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands
+toward heaven.
+
+6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the
+heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy
+unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts: 6:15
+Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou
+hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it
+with thine hand, as it is this day.
+
+6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David
+my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not
+fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so
+that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou
+hast walked before me.
+
+6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which
+thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
+
+6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold,
+heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less
+this house which I have built! 6:19 Have respect therefore to the
+prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to
+hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before
+thee: 6:20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night,
+upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name
+there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward
+this place.
+
+6:21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of
+thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou
+from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest,
+forgive.
+
+6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him
+to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
+6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by
+requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and
+by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his
+righteousness.
+
+6:24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy,
+because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess
+thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
+6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
+people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to
+them and to their fathers.
+
+6:26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
+have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and
+confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict
+them; 6:27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
+servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the
+good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which
+thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
+
+6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there
+be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies
+besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or
+whatsoever sickness there be: 6:29 Then what prayer or what
+supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people
+Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and
+shall spread forth his hands in this house: 6:30 Then hear thou from
+heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man
+according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only
+knowest the hearts of the children of men:) 6:31 That they may fear
+thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou
+gavest unto our fathers.
+
+6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people
+Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and
+thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in
+this house; 6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy
+dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to
+thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear
+thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I
+have built is called by thy name.
+
+6:34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that
+thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which
+thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name; 6:35
+Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication,
+and maintain their cause.
+
+6:36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth
+not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their
+enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or
+near; 6:37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are
+carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their
+captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt
+wickedly; 6:38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with
+all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have
+carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest
+unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and
+toward the house which I have built for thy name: 6:39 Then hear thou
+from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their
+supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which
+have sinned against thee.
+
+6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let
+thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
+
+6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou,
+and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed
+with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
+
+6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember
+the mercies of David thy servant.
+
+7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down
+from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and
+the glory of the LORD filled the house.
+
+7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD,
+because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD’s house.
+
+7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down,
+and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with
+their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and
+praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for
+ever.
+
+7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the
+LORD.
+
+7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand
+oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all
+the people dedicated the house of God.
+
+7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with
+instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to
+praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David
+praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before
+them, and all Israel stood.
+
+7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before
+the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the
+fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had
+made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat
+offerings, and the fat.
+
+7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all
+Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of
+Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
+
+7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept
+the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
+
+7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent
+the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the
+goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to
+Israel his people.
+
+7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king’s
+house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of
+the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
+
+7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I
+have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an
+house of sacrifice.
+
+7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the
+locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
+7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
+themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked
+ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and
+will heal their land.
+
+7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer
+that is made in this place.
+
+7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may
+be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
+perpetually.
+
+7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father
+walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt
+observe my statutes and my judgments; 7:18 Then will I stablish the
+throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy
+father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
+
+7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments,
+which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and
+worship them; 7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my
+land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified
+for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a
+proverb and a byword among all nations.
+
+7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every
+one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done
+thus unto this land, and unto this house? 7:22 And it shall be
+answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which
+brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other
+gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought
+all this evil upon them.
+
+8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon
+had built the house of the LORD, and his own house, 8:2 That the
+cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and
+caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
+
+8:3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
+
+8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities,
+which he built in Hamath.
+
+8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,
+fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; 8:6 And Baalath, and all
+the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the
+cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in
+Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his
+dominion.
+
+8:7 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the
+Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
+which were not of Israel, 8:8 But of their children, who were left
+after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them
+did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
+
+8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his
+work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and
+captains of his chariots and horsemen.
+
+8:10 And these were the chief of king Solomon’s officers, even two
+hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
+
+8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of
+David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife
+shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the
+places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
+
+8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar
+of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, 8:13 Even after a
+certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of
+Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn
+feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened
+bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
+
+8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the
+courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their
+charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of
+every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate:
+for so had David the man of God commanded.
+
+8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the
+priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the
+treasures.
+
+8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the
+foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the
+house of the LORD was perfected.
+
+8:17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in
+the land of Edom.
+
+8:18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and
+servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the
+servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty
+talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
+
+9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came
+to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great
+company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and
+precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with
+him of all that was in her heart.
+
+9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid
+from Solomon which he told her not.
+
+9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and
+the house that he had built, 9:4 And the meat of his table, and the
+sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and
+their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent
+by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more
+spirit in her.
+
+9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in
+mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom: 9:6 Howbeit I believed
+not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold,
+the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou
+exceedest the fame that I heard.
+
+9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand
+continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
+
+9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee
+on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved
+Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over
+them, to do judgment and justice.
+
+9:9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and
+of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any
+such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
+
+9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon,
+which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious
+stones.
+
+9:11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the
+LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers:
+and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
+
+9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
+whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king.
+So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
+
+9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six
+hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; 9:14 Beside that which
+chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and
+governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
+
+9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
+hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
+
+9:16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred
+shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house
+of the forest of Lebanon.
+
+9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
+with pure gold.
+
+9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold,
+which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the
+sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays: 9:19 And twelve
+lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps.
+There was not the like made in any kingdom.
+
+9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and
+all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure
+gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the
+days of Solomon.
+
+9:21 For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram:
+every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and
+silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
+
+9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and
+wisdom.
+
+9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to
+hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
+
+9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and
+vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules,
+a rate year by year.
+
+9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and
+twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and
+with the king at Jerusalem.
+
+9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the
+land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
+
+9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees
+made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
+
+9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all
+lands.
+
+9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not
+written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of
+Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against
+Jeroboam the son of Nebat? 9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over
+all Israel forty years.
+
+9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city
+of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
+
+10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come
+to make him king.
+
+10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in
+Egypt, whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard
+it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
+
+10:3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and
+spake to Rehoboam, saying, 10:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now
+therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and
+his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
+
+10:5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And
+the people departed.
+
+10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood
+before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel
+give ye me to return answer to this people? 10:7 And they spake unto
+him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and
+speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
+
+10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took
+counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood
+before him.
+
+10:9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return
+answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat
+the yoke that thy father did put upon us? 10:10 And the young men
+that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou
+answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our
+yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou
+say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s
+loins.
+
+10:11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more
+to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
+you with scorpions.
+
+10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third
+day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.
+
+10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook
+the counsel of the old men, 10:14 And answered them after the advice
+of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will
+add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
+you with scorpions.
+
+10:15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of
+God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand
+of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
+
+10:16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto
+them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in
+David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to
+your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all
+Israel went to their tents.
+
+10:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of
+Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
+
+10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and
+the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king
+Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to
+Jerusalem.
+
+10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
+
+11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house
+of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men,
+which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the
+kingdom again to Rehoboam.
+
+11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
+11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all
+Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 11:4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye
+shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to
+his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of
+the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
+
+11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in
+Judah.
+
+11:6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, 11:7 And Bethzur,
+and Shoco, and Adullam, 11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, 11:9
+And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, 11:10 And Zorah, and Aijalon,
+and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
+
+11:11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and
+store of victual, and of oil and wine.
+
+11:12 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made
+them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
+
+11:13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted
+to him out of all their coasts.
+
+11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and
+came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them
+off from executing the priest’s office unto the LORD: 11:15 And he
+ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for
+the calves which he had made.
+
+11:16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their
+hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice
+unto the LORD God of their fathers.
+
+11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the
+son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the
+way of David and Solomon.
+
+11:18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son
+of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
+11:19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
+
+11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which
+bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
+
+11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his
+wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore
+concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore
+daughters.) 11:22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the
+chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him
+king.
+
+11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children
+throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced
+city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many
+wives.
+
+12:1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom,
+and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all
+Israel with him.
+
+12:2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam
+Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had
+transgressed against the LORD, 12:3 With twelve hundred chariots, and
+threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that
+came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the
+Ethiopians.
+
+12:4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came
+to Jerusalem.
+
+12:5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of
+Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak,
+and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and
+therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
+
+12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves;
+and they said, The LORD is righteous.
+
+12:7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of
+the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves;
+therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some
+deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by
+the hand of Shishak.
+
+12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my
+service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
+
+12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away
+the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the
+king’s house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold
+which Solomon had made.
+
+12:10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and
+committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the
+entrance of the king’s house.
+
+12:11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard
+came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
+
+12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from
+him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah
+things went well.
+
+12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned:
+for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and
+he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had
+chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his
+mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
+
+12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the
+LORD.
+
+12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written
+in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning
+genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
+continually.
+
+12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city
+of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
+
+13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign
+over Judah.
+
+13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was
+Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between
+Abijah and Jeroboam.
+
+13:3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of
+war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the
+battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men,
+being mighty men of valour.
+
+13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount
+Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; 13:5 Ought
+ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over
+Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of
+salt? 13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the
+son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
+
+13:7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial,
+and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon,
+when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand
+them.
+
+13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand
+of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with
+you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
+
+13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron,
+and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the
+nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself
+with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them
+that are no gods.
+
+13:10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken
+him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of
+Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business: 13:11 And they burn
+unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and
+sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure
+table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn
+every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have
+forsaken him.
+
+13:12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his
+priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of
+Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye
+shall not prosper.
+
+13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so
+they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
+
+13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and
+behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the
+trumpets.
+
+13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah
+shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel
+before Abijah and Judah.
+
+13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered
+them into their hand.
+
+13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so
+there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
+
+13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and
+the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God
+of their fathers.
+
+13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
+Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof,
+and Ephraim with the towns thereof.
+
+13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of
+Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
+
+13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat
+twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
+
+13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his
+sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
+
+14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city
+of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land
+was quiet ten years.
+
+14:2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD
+his God: 14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the
+high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 14:4
+And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do
+the law and the commandment.
+
+14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places
+and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
+
+14:6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and
+he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
+
+14:7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make
+about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet
+before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought
+him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and
+prospered.
+
+14:8 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of
+Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields
+and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were
+mighty men of valour.
+
+14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host
+of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto
+Mareshah.
+
+14:10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array
+in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
+
+14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is
+nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have
+no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy
+name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let no
+man prevail against thee.
+
+14:12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah;
+and the Ethiopians fled.
+
+14:13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto
+Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover
+themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his
+host; and they carried away very much spoil.
+
+14:14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of
+the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there
+was exceeding much spoil in them.
+
+14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and
+camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
+
+15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: 15:2 And
+he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all
+Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if
+ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will
+forsake you.
+
+15:3 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and
+without a teaching priest, and without law.
+
+15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of
+Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
+
+15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor
+to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants
+of the countries.
+
+15:6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did
+vex them with all adversity.
+
+15:7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your
+work shall be rewarded.
+
+15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the
+prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all
+the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had
+taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was
+before the porch of the LORD.
+
+15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with
+them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to
+him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God
+was with him.
+
+15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third
+month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
+
+15:11 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which
+they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
+
+15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their
+fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; 15:13 That
+whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to
+death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
+
+15:14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with
+shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
+
+15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all
+their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found
+of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
+
+15:16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he
+removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove:
+and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook
+Kidron.
+
+15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:
+nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
+
+15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father
+had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold,
+and vessels.
+
+15:19 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of
+the reign of Asa.
+
+16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of
+Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he
+might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
+
+16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the
+house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent to Benhadad king
+of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 16:3 There is a league
+between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father:
+behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with
+Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
+
+16:4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of
+his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan,
+and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
+
+16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off
+building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
+
+16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the
+stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was
+building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
+
+16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and
+said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not
+relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria
+escaped out of thine hand.
+
+16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very
+many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD,
+he delivered them into thine hand.
+
+16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole
+earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is
+perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from
+henceforth thou shalt have wars.
+
+16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house;
+for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed
+some of the people the same time.
+
+16:11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are
+written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
+
+16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased
+in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease
+he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
+
+16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth
+year of his reign.
+
+16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for
+himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled
+with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the
+apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
+
+17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened
+himself against Israel.
+
+17:2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set
+garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which
+Asa his father had taken.
+
+17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first
+ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim; 17:4 But sought
+to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not
+after the doings of Israel.
+
+17:5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all
+Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in
+abundance.
+
+17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he
+took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
+
+17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even
+to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to
+Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
+
+17:8 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and
+Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah,
+and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and
+Jehoram, priests.
+
+17:9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD
+with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and
+taught the people.
+
+17:10 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands
+that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against
+Jehoshaphat.
+
+17:11 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and
+tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand
+and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
+
+17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah
+castles, and cities of store.
+
+17:13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of
+war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.
+
+17:14 And these are the numbers of them according to the house of
+their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief,
+and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.
+
+17:15 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two
+hundred and fourscore thousand.
+
+17:16 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly
+offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand
+mighty men of valour.
+
+17:17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him
+armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
+
+17:18 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and
+fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
+
+17:19 These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the
+fenced cities throughout all Judah.
+
+18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined
+affinity with Ahab.
+
+18:2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab
+killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he
+had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.
+
+18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt
+thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou
+art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
+
+18:4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
+thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
+
+18:5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four
+hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to
+battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver
+it into the king’s hand.
+
+18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD
+besides, that we might enquire of him? 18:7 And the king of Israel
+said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of
+the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but
+always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat
+said, Let not the king say so.
+
+18:8 And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said,
+Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
+
+18:9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either
+of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void
+place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets
+prophesied before them.
+
+18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron,
+and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until
+they be consumed.
+
+18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
+Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand
+of the king.
+
+18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him,
+saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king
+with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of
+theirs, and speak thou good.
+
+18:13 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith,
+that will I speak.
+
+18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him,
+Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
+And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into
+your hand.
+
+18:15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee
+that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?
+18:16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains,
+as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no
+master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
+
+18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee
+that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil? 18:18 Again he
+said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon
+his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and
+on his left.
+
+18:19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he
+may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this
+manner, and another saying after that manner.
+
+18:20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
+said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? 18:21
+And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all
+his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt
+also prevail: go out, and do even so.
+
+18:22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
+mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against
+thee.
+
+18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah
+upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from
+me to speak unto thee? 18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see
+on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
+
+18:25 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him
+back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
+18:26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and
+feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until
+I return in peace.
+
+18:27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath
+not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
+
+18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up
+to Ramothgilead.
+
+18:29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
+myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the
+king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
+
+18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots
+that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save
+only with the king of Israel.
+
+18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
+Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they
+compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD
+helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
+
+18:32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots
+perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again
+from pursuing him.
+
+18:33 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of
+Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his
+chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the
+host; for I am wounded.
+
+18:34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel
+stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even:
+and about the time of the sun going down he died.
+
+19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace
+to Jerusalem.
+
+19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and
+said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love
+them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the
+LORD.
+
+19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou
+hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine
+heart to seek God.
+
+19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through
+the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto
+the LORD God of their fathers.
+
+19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of
+Judah, city by city, 19:6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye
+do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the
+judgment.
+
+19:7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and
+do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of
+persons, nor taking of gifts.
+
+19:8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of
+the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the
+judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to
+Jerusalem.
+
+19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the
+LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
+
+19:10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that
+dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and
+commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they
+trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon
+your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.
+
+19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters
+of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house
+of Judah, for all the king’s matters: also the Levites shall be
+officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the
+good.
+
+20:1 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and
+the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came
+against Jehoshaphat to battle.
+
+20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh
+a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria;
+and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
+
+20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and
+proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
+
+20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD:
+even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
+
+20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem,
+in the house of the LORD, before the new court, 20:6 And said, O LORD
+God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou
+over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not
+power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? 20:7 Art not
+thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before
+thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for
+ever? 20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary
+therein for thy name, saying, 20:9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as
+the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this
+house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry
+unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
+
+20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir,
+whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the
+land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
+20:11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy
+possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
+
+20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might
+against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we
+what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
+
+20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones,
+their wives, and their children.
+
+20:14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the
+son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph,
+came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; 20:15
+And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,
+and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid
+nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not
+yours, but God’s.
+
+20:16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the
+cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before
+the wilderness of Jeruel.
+
+20:17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand
+ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and
+Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them:
+for the LORD will be with you.
+
+20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and
+all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD,
+worshipping the LORD.
+
+20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the
+children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel
+with a loud voice on high.
+
+20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the
+wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and
+said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in
+the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets,
+so shall ye prosper.
+
+20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers
+unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they
+went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set
+ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which
+were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
+
+20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the
+inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when
+they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to
+destroy another.
+
+20:24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness,
+they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies
+fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
+
+20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil
+of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead
+bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves,
+more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering
+of the spoil, it was so much.
+
+20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of
+Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the
+same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
+
+20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
+Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with
+joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
+
+20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and
+trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
+
+20:29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries,
+when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of
+Israel.
+
+20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest
+round about.
+
+20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years
+old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in
+Jerusalem.
+
+And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
+
+20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not
+from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
+
+20:33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the
+people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
+
+20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold,
+they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is
+mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
+
+20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with
+Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: 20:36 And he joined
+himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the
+ships in Eziongaber.
+
+20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against
+Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah,
+the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they
+were not able to go to Tarshish.
+
+21:1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
+fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his
+stead.
+
+21:2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel,
+and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these
+were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
+
+21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold,
+and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom
+gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
+
+21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he
+strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and
+divers also of the princes of Israel.
+
+21:5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and
+he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
+
+21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the
+house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought
+that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
+
+21:7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of
+the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a
+light to him and to his sons for ever.
+
+21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of
+Judah, and made themselves a king.
+
+21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots
+with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which
+compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
+
+21:10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
+day.
+
+The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he
+had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
+
+21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and
+caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and
+compelled Judah thereto.
+
+21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying,
+Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not
+walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa
+king of Judah, 21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of
+Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a
+whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast
+slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, which were better than
+thyself: 21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy
+people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: 21:15 And
+thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy
+bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
+
+21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
+Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians: 21:17
+And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all
+the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also,
+and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz,
+the youngest of his sons.
+
+21:18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an
+incurable disease.
+
+21:19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of
+two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died
+of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the
+burning of his fathers.
+
+21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he
+reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired.
+Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the
+sepulchres of the kings.
+
+22:1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son
+king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to
+the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king
+of Judah reigned.
+
+22:2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and
+he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah
+the daughter of Omri.
+
+22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother
+was his counsellor to do wickedly.
+
+22:4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of
+Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to
+his destruction.
+
+22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son
+of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at
+Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
+
+22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds
+which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of
+Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see
+Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
+
+22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for
+when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of
+Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
+
+22:8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon
+the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the
+brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
+
+22:9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in
+Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they
+buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who
+sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no
+power to keep still the kingdom.
+
+22:10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
+dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of
+Judah.
+
+22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son
+of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain,
+and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the
+daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she
+was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew
+him not.
+
+22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and
+Athaliah reigned over the land.
+
+23:1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took
+the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the
+son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of
+Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
+
+23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all
+the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they
+came to Jerusalem.
+
+23:3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the
+house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall
+reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
+
+23:4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering
+on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of
+the doors; 23:5 And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a
+third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be
+in the courts of the house of the LORD.
+
+23:6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests,
+and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are
+holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
+
+23:7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man
+with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the
+house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he
+cometh in, and when he goeth out.
+
+23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that
+Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that
+were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the
+sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
+
+23:9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of
+hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king
+David’s, which were in the house of God.
+
+23:10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his
+hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the
+temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
+
+23:11 Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the
+crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and
+his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
+
+23:12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
+praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
+23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the
+entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the
+people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the
+singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise.
+Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
+
+23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds
+that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the
+ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For
+the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
+
+23:15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering
+of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there.
+
+23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the
+people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
+
+23:17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it
+down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan
+the priest of Baal before the altars.
+
+23:18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by
+the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the
+house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is
+written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it
+was ordained by David.
+
+23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD,
+that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
+
+23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the
+governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought
+down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the
+high gate into the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of
+the kingdom.
+
+23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet,
+after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
+
+24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Zibiah of
+Beersheba.
+
+24:2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all
+the days of Jehoiada the priest.
+
+24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and
+daughters.
+
+24:4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair
+the house of the LORD.
+
+24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to
+them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money
+to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye
+hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
+
+24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him,
+Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and
+out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses
+the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the
+tabernacle of witness? 24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked
+woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated
+things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
+
+24:8 And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it
+without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
+
+24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to
+bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid
+upon Israel in the wilderness.
+
+24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in,
+and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
+
+24:11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought
+unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw
+that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s
+officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his
+place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in
+abundance.
+
+24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the
+service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to
+repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass
+to mend the house of the LORD.
+
+24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and
+they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
+
+24:14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the
+money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the
+house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and
+spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt
+offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of
+Jehoiada.
+
+24:15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an
+hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
+
+24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,
+because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his
+house.
+
+24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and
+made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
+
+24:18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and
+served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for
+this their trespass.
+
+24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD;
+and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
+
+24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
+the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus
+saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye
+cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also
+forsaken you.
+
+24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at
+the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
+
+24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada
+his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he
+said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
+
+24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of
+Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and
+destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and
+sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
+
+24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men,
+and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they
+had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment
+against Joash.
+
+24:25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in
+great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood
+of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he
+died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him
+not in the sepulchres of the kings.
+
+24:26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of
+Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
+
+24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid
+upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are
+written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son
+reigned in his stead.
+
+25:1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and
+he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
+was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
+
+25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not
+with a perfect heart.
+
+25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him,
+that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
+
+25:4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the
+law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The
+fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die
+for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
+
+25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains
+over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of
+their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them
+from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand
+choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and
+shield.
+
+25:6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of
+Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
+
+25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the
+army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit,
+with all the children of Ephraim.
+
+25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall
+make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to
+cast down.
+
+25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the
+hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man
+of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
+
+25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to
+him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was
+greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
+
+25:11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and
+went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten
+thousand.
+
+25:12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah
+carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and
+cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in
+pieces.
+
+25:13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they
+should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from
+Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and
+took much spoil.
+
+25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the
+slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of
+Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before
+them, and burned incense unto them.
+
+25:15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and
+he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought
+after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people
+out of thine hand? 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him,
+that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel?
+forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and
+said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou
+hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
+
+25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the
+son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us
+see one another in the face.
+
+25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
+The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon,
+saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a
+wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
+
+25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart
+lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle
+to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with
+thee? 25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he
+might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought
+after the gods of Edom.
+
+25:21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in
+the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which
+belongeth to Judah.
+
+25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled
+every man to his tent.
+
+25:23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
+of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to
+Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of
+Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
+
+25:24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels
+that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures
+of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
+
+25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
+of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
+
+25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are
+they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 25:27
+Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD
+they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to
+Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
+
+25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his
+fathers in the city of Judah.
+
+26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years
+old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
+
+26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
+slept with his fathers.
+
+26:3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he
+reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was
+Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
+
+26:4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that his father Amaziah did.
+
+26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding
+in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him
+to prosper.
+
+26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake
+down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod,
+and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
+
+26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the
+Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
+
+26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread
+abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself
+exceedingly.
+
+26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and
+at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified
+them.
+
+26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for
+he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains:
+husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel:
+for he loved husbandry.
+
+26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to
+war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of
+Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah,
+one of the king’s captains.
+
+26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men
+of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
+
+26:13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and
+seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to
+help the king against the enemy.
+
+26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields,
+and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast
+stones.
+
+26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be
+on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones
+withal.
+
+And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till
+he was strong.
+
+26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his
+destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went
+into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
+
+26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore
+priests of the LORD, that were valiant men: 26:18 And they withstood
+Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee,
+Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of
+Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary;
+for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from
+the LORD God.
+
+26:19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn
+incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even
+rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD,
+from beside the incense altar.
+
+26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon
+him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him
+out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD
+had smitten him.
+
+26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and
+dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the
+house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king’s house,
+judging the people of the land.
+
+26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah
+the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
+
+26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his
+fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for
+they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
+
+27:1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and
+he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was
+Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
+
+27:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not
+into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
+
+27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall
+of Ophel he built much.
+
+27:4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the
+forests he built castles and towers.
+
+27:5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed
+against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an
+hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten
+thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him,
+both the second year, and the third.
+
+27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the
+LORD his God.
+
+27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his
+ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and
+Judah.
+
+27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
+reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
+
+27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
+city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
+
+28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the
+sight of the LORD, like David his father: 28:2 For he walked in the
+ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
+
+28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and
+burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen
+whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
+
+28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on
+the hills, and under every green tree.
+
+28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the
+king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude
+of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also
+delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a
+great slaughter.
+
+28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty
+thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had
+forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
+
+28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king’s
+son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next
+to the king.
+
+28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren
+two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away
+much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
+
+28:9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he
+went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them,
+Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he
+hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage
+that reacheth up unto heaven.
+
+28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and
+Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with
+you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God? 28:11 Now hear me
+therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive
+of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
+
+28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah
+the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah
+the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them
+that came from the war, 28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring
+in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD
+already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for
+our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
+
+28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the
+princes and all the congregation.
+
+28:15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the
+captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them,
+and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink,
+and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and
+brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren:
+then they returned to Samaria.
+
+28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to
+help him.
+
+28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried
+away captives.
+
+28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country,
+and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and
+Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the
+villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt
+there.
+
+28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel;
+for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
+
+28:20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and
+distressed him, but strengthened him not.
+
+28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and
+out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the
+king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
+
+28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against
+the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
+
+28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him:
+and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,
+therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they
+were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
+
+28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and
+cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors
+of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of
+Jerusalem.
+
+28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn
+incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his
+fathers.
+
+28:26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last,
+behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
+
+28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
+city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres
+of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
+
+29:1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old,
+and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s
+name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
+
+29:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
+according to all that David his father had done.
+
+29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the
+doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
+
+29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them
+together into the east street, 29:5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye
+Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD
+God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy
+place.
+
+29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in
+the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned
+away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their
+backs.
+
+29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the
+lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the
+holy place unto the God of Israel.
+
+29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and
+he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as
+ye see with your eyes.
+
+29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and
+our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
+
+29:10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of
+Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
+
+29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to
+stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him,
+and burn incense.
+
+29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the
+son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of
+Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of
+the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
+29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons
+of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: 29:14 And of the sons of Heman;
+Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
+
+29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and
+came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the
+LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
+
+29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the
+LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they
+found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the
+LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook
+Kidron.
+
+29:17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify,
+and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD:
+so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the
+sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
+
+29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have
+cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering,
+with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the
+vessels thereof.
+
+29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast
+away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and,
+behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
+
+29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of
+the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
+
+29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven
+lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for
+the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of
+Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
+
+29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood,
+and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the
+rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the
+lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
+
+29:23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before
+the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
+29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with
+their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for
+the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should
+be made for all Israel.
+
+29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals,
+with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of
+David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was
+the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
+
+29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the
+priests with the trumpets.
+
+29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the
+altar.
+
+And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also
+with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of
+Israel.
+
+29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and
+the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt
+offering was finished.
+
+29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that
+were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
+
+29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites
+to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the
+seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads
+and worshipped.
+
+29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated
+yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank
+offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in
+sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart
+burnt offerings.
+
+29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation
+brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two
+hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
+
+29:33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three
+thousand sheep.
+
+29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all
+the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help
+them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had
+sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to
+sanctify themselves than the priests.
+
+29:35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of
+the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering.
+So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
+
+29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared
+the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
+
+30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also
+to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the
+LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
+
+30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the
+congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
+
+30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had
+not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people
+gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
+
+30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
+
+30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all
+Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the
+passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not
+done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
+
+30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes
+throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of
+the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God
+of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of
+you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
+
+30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which
+trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave
+them up to desolation, as ye see.
+
+30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield
+yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath
+sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness
+of his wrath may turn away from you.
+
+30:9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your
+children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so
+that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is
+gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye
+return unto him.
+
+30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of
+Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to
+scorn, and mocked them.
+
+30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled
+themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
+
+30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do
+the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the
+LORD.
+
+30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast
+of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
+
+30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem,
+and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the
+brook Kidron.
+
+30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the
+second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and
+sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the
+house of the LORD.
+
+30:16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to
+the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood,
+which they received of the hand of the Levites.
+
+30:17 For there were many in the congregation that were not
+sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the
+passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the
+LORD.
+
+30:18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and
+Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did
+they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah
+prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one 30:19 That
+prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though
+he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
+
+30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
+
+30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept
+the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the
+Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud
+instruments unto the LORD.
+
+30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught
+the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast
+seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the
+LORD God of their fathers.
+
+30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days:
+and they kept other seven days with gladness.
+
+30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a
+thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to
+the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a
+great number of priests sanctified themselves.
+
+30:25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the
+Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the
+strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in
+Judah, rejoiced.
+
+30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of
+Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in
+Jerusalem.
+
+30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and
+their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling
+place, even unto heaven.
+
+31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went
+out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut
+down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of
+all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had
+utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned,
+every man to his possession, into their own cities.
+
+31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites
+after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests
+and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister,
+and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the
+LORD.
+
+31:3 He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the
+burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings,
+and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and
+for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
+
+31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give
+the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be
+encouraged in the law of the LORD.
+
+31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of
+Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil,
+and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all
+things brought they in abundantly.
+
+31:6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in
+the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep,
+and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD
+their God, and laid them by heaps.
+
+31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps,
+and finished them in the seventh month.
+
+31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they
+blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
+
+31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites
+concerning the heaps.
+
+31:10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him,
+and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house
+of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the
+LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great
+store.
+
+31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the
+LORD; and they prepared them, 31:12 And brought in the offerings and
+the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah
+the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
+
+31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth,
+and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were
+overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the
+commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house
+of God.
+
+31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the
+east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the
+oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
+
+31:15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah,
+Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set
+office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as
+to the small: 31:16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years
+old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of
+the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges
+according to their courses; 31:17 Both to the genealogy of the priests
+by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old
+and upward, in their charges by their courses; 31:18 And to the
+genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and
+their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office
+they sanctified themselves in holiness: 31:19 Also of the sons of
+Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their
+cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to
+give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were
+reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
+
+31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that
+which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
+
+31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of
+God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did
+it with all his heart, and prospered.
+
+32:1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib
+king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the
+fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
+
+32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was
+purposed to fight against Jerusalem, 32:3 He took counsel with his
+princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which
+were without the city: and they did help him.
+
+32:4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the
+fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land,
+saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
+32:5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was
+broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and
+repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in
+abundance.
+
+32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them
+together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake
+comfortably to them, saying, 32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not
+afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude
+that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: 32:8 With
+him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us,
+and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the
+words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
+
+32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to
+Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his
+power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that
+were at Jerusalem, saying, 32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of
+Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
+32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by
+famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of
+the hand of the king of Assyria? 32:12 Hath not the same Hezekiah
+taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and
+Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense
+upon it? 32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all
+the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands
+any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand? 32:14 Who was
+there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly
+destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your
+God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? 32:15 Now
+therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this
+manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom
+was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand
+of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine
+hand? 32:16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and
+against his servant Hezekiah.
+
+32:17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to
+speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands
+have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God
+of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
+
+32:18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the
+people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to
+trouble them; that they might take the city.
+
+32:19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods
+of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
+
+32:20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the
+son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
+
+32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of
+valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of
+Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when
+he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own
+bowels slew him there with the sword.
+
+32:22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
+from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of
+all other, and guided them on every side.
+
+32:23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents
+to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of
+all nations from thenceforth.
+
+32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto
+the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
+
+32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done
+unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon
+him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
+
+32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his
+heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of
+the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
+
+32:27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made
+himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones,
+and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant
+jewels; 32:28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and
+oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
+
+32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and
+herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
+
+32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon,
+and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David.
+And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
+
+32:31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of
+Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in
+the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in
+his heart.
+
+32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold,
+they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz,
+and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
+
+32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
+chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his
+son reigned in his stead.
+
+33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he
+reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 33:2 But did that which was
+evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the
+heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
+
+33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had
+broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and
+worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
+
+33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD
+had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
+
+33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts
+of the house of the LORD.
+
+33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley
+of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments,
+and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with
+wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
+to anger.
+
+33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the
+house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son,
+In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the
+tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: 33:8 Neither will I any
+more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have
+appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that
+I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and
+the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
+
+33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err,
+and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before
+the children of Israel.
+
+33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they
+would not hearken.
+
+33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of
+the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound
+him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
+
+33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and
+humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 33:13 And
+prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his
+supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
+Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
+
+33:14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the
+west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish
+gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height,
+and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
+
+33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house
+of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the
+house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
+
+33:16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon
+peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the
+LORD God of Israel.
+
+33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places,
+yet unto the LORD their God only.
+
+33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his
+God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the
+LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings
+of Israel.
+
+33:19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his
+sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places,
+and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold,
+they are written among the sayings of the seers.
+
+33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his
+own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
+
+33:21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
+reigned two years in Jerusalem.
+
+33:22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did
+Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images
+which Manasseh his father had made, and served them; 33:23 And humbled
+not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled
+himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
+
+33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own
+house.
+
+33:25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
+against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king
+in his stead.
+
+34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
+
+34:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and
+walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the
+right hand, nor to the left.
+
+34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he
+began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth
+year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and
+the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
+
+34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the
+images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and
+the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made
+dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had
+sacrificed unto them.
+
+34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and
+cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
+
+34:6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon,
+even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
+
+34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had
+beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols
+throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
+
+34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the
+land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah
+the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to
+repair the house of the LORD his God.
+
+34:9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the
+money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that
+kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and
+of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they
+returned to Jerusalem.
+
+34:10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the
+oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen
+that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
+34:11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn
+stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the
+kings of Judah had destroyed.
+
+34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them
+were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and
+Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it
+forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments
+of musick.
+
+34:13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers
+of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the
+Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
+
+34:14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the
+house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the
+LORD given by Moses.
+
+34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have
+found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah
+delivered the book to Shaphan.
+
+34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king
+word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they
+do it.
+
+34:17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the
+house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the
+overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
+
+34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the
+priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
+
+34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the
+law, that he rent his clothes.
+
+34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
+and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a
+servant of the king’s, saying, 34:21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me,
+and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the
+words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD
+that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word
+of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
+
+34:22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to
+Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son
+of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the
+college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
+
+34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell
+ye the man that sent you to me, 34:24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
+will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof,
+even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read
+before the king of Judah: 34:25 Because they have forsaken me, and
+have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to
+anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be
+poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
+
+34:26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the
+LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel
+concerning the words which thou hast heard; 34:27 Because thine heart
+was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou
+heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants
+thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes,
+and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
+
+34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be
+gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the
+evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of
+the same. So they brought the king word again.
+
+34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah
+and Jerusalem.
+
+34:30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men
+of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the
+Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their
+ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the
+house of the LORD.
+
+34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the
+LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his
+testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his
+soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this
+book.
+
+34:32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to
+stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the
+covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
+
+34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the
+countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that
+were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And
+all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of
+their fathers.
+
+35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and
+they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
+
+35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to
+the service of the house of the LORD, 35:3 And said unto the Levites
+that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy
+ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did
+build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the
+LORD your God, and his people Israel, 35:4 And prepare yourselves by
+the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the
+writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of
+Solomon his son.
+
+35:5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the
+families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the
+division of the families of the Levites.
+
+35:6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your
+brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the
+hand of Moses.
+
+35:7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all
+for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number
+of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the
+king’s substance.
+
+35:8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests,
+and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the
+house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two
+thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.
+
+35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and
+Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the
+Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five
+hundred oxen.
+
+35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their
+place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s
+commandment.
+
+35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the
+blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
+
+35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give
+according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer
+unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they
+with the oxen.
+
+35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the
+ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in
+caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
+
+35:14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the
+priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering
+of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites
+prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
+
+35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according
+to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the
+king’s seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not
+depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for
+them.
+
+35:16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to
+keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the
+LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
+
+35:17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover
+at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
+
+35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the
+days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep
+such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and
+all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of
+Jerusalem.
+
+35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover
+kept.
+
+35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king
+of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah
+went out against him.
+
+35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with
+thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but
+against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make
+haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he
+destroy thee not.
+
+35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but
+disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not
+unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in
+the valley of Megiddo.
+
+35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his
+servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
+
+35:24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him
+in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem,
+and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
+And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
+
+35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and
+the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day,
+and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in
+the lamentations.
+
+35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according
+to that which was written in the law of the LORD, 35:27 And his deeds,
+first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
+Israel and Judah.
+
+36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and
+made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.
+
+36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign,
+and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
+
+36:3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned
+the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
+
+36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah
+and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took
+Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
+
+36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
+and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was
+evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
+
+36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him
+in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
+
+36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the
+LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
+
+36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which
+he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in
+the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son
+reigned in his stead.
+
+36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
+reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which
+was evil in the sight of the LORD.
+
+36:10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and
+brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the
+LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
+
+36:11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
+and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
+
+36:12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God,
+and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the
+mouth of the LORD.
+
+36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made
+him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart
+from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
+
+36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,
+transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and
+polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
+
+36:15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his
+messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion
+on his people, and on his dwelling place: 36:16 But they mocked the
+messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets,
+until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was
+no remedy.
+
+36:17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who
+slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary,
+and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that
+stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
+
+36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and
+the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king,
+and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
+
+36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of
+Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed
+all the goodly vessels thereof.
+
+36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to
+Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign
+of the kingdom of Persia: 36:21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the
+mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as
+long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and
+ten years.
+
+36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of
+the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the
+LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a
+proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing,
+saying, 36:23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the
+earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to
+build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among
+you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
+
+
+
+
+Ezra
+
+
+1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of
+the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred
+up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation
+throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 1:2
+Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me
+all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an
+house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
+
+1:3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and
+let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of
+the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
+
+1:4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the
+men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods,
+and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God
+that is in Jerusalem.
+
+1:5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and
+the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had
+raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
+
+1:6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with
+vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with
+precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.
+
+1:7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the
+LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had
+put them in the house of his gods; 1:8 Even those did Cyrus king of
+Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and
+numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
+
+1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a
+thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, 1:10 Thirty
+basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten,
+and other vessels a thousand.
+
+1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four
+hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity
+that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
+
+2:1 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the
+captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar
+the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto
+Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; 2:2 Which came with
+Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan,
+Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of
+Israel: 2:3 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy
+and two.
+
+2:4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
+
+2:5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
+
+2:6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab,
+two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
+
+2:7 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
+
+2:8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
+
+2:9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
+
+2:10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
+
+2:11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
+
+2:12 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.
+
+2:13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
+
+2:14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
+
+2:15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
+
+2:16 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
+
+2:17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.
+
+2:18 The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
+
+2:19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
+
+2:20 The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
+
+2:21 The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.
+
+2:22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
+
+2:23 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
+
+2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
+
+2:25 The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven
+hundred and forty and three.
+
+2:26 The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
+
+2:27 The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
+
+2:28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
+
+2:29 The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
+
+2:30 The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
+
+2:31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and
+four.
+
+2:32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
+
+2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and
+five.
+
+2:34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
+
+2:35 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and
+thirty.
+
+2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
+nine hundred seventy and three.
+
+2:37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
+
+2:38 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
+
+2:39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
+
+2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children
+of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
+
+2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
+
+2:42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the
+children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the
+children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty
+and nine.
+
+2:43 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the
+children of Tabbaoth, 2:44 The children of Keros, the children of
+Siaha, the children of Padon, 2:45 The children of Lebanah, the
+children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, 2:46 The children of
+Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan, 2:47 The
+children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
+2:48 The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of
+Gazzam, 2:49 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the
+children of Besai, 2:50 The children of Asnah, the children of
+Mehunim, the children of Nephusim, 2:51 The children of Bakbuk, the
+children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, 2:52 The children of
+Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, 2:53 The
+children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
+2:54 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
+
+2:55 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the
+children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, 2:56 The children of
+Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, 2:57 The
+children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of
+Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
+
+2:58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were
+three hundred ninety and two.
+
+2:59 And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa,
+Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s
+house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: 2:60 The children
+of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six
+hundred fifty and two.
+
+2:61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the
+children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the
+daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
+2:62 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by
+genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted,
+put from the priesthood.
+
+2:63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the
+most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with
+Thummim.
+
+2:64 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three
+hundred and threescore, 2:65 Beside their servants and their maids, of
+whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and
+there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.
+
+2:66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two
+hundred forty and five; 2:67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and
+five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
+
+2:68 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house
+of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God
+to set it up in his place: 2:69 They gave after their ability unto the
+treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and
+five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
+
+2:70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the
+singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities,
+and all Israel in their cities.
+
+3:1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel
+were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man
+to Jerusalem.
+
+3:2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the
+priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and
+builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings
+thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
+
+3:3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them
+because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt
+offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and
+evening.
+
+3:4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and
+offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom,
+as the duty of every day required; 3:5 And afterward offered the
+continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set
+feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that
+willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
+
+3:6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt
+offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD
+was not yet laid.
+
+3:7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and
+meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to
+bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the
+grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
+
+3:8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at
+Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
+and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the
+priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the
+captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years
+old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.
+
+3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his
+sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the
+house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren
+the Levites.
+
+3:10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the
+LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the
+Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the
+ordinance of David king of Israel.
+
+3:11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks
+unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever
+toward Israel.
+
+And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the
+LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
+
+3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who
+were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation
+of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and
+many shouted aloud for joy: 3:13 So that the people could not discern
+the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the
+people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was
+heard afar off.
+
+4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the
+children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of
+Israel; 4:2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the
+fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your
+God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of
+Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
+
+4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the
+fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to
+build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto
+the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath
+commanded us.
+
+4:4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of
+Judah, and troubled them in building, 4:5 And hired counsellors
+against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king
+of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
+
+4:6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign,
+wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and
+Jerusalem.
+
+4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel,
+and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and
+the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and
+interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
+
+4:8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter
+against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: 4:9 Then wrote
+Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their
+companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the
+Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the
+Dehavites, and the Elamites, 4:10 And the rest of the nations whom the
+great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of
+Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a
+time.
+
+4:11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto
+Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and
+at such a time.
+
+4:12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee
+to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad
+city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
+
+4:13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and
+the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and
+custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
+
+4:14 Now because we have maintenance from the king’s palace, and it
+was not meet for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore have we
+sent and certified the king; 4:15 That search may be made in the book
+of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the
+records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful
+unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the
+same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
+
+4:16 We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the
+walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this
+side the river.
+
+4:17 Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to
+Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in
+Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a
+time.
+
+4:18 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before
+me.
+
+4:19 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that
+this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that
+rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
+
+4:20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have
+ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and
+custom, was paid unto them.
+
+4:21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that
+this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given
+from me.
+
+4:22 Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow
+to the hurt of the kings? 4:23 Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’
+letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their
+companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made
+them to cease by force and power.
+
+4:24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem.
+So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of
+Persia.
+
+5:1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of
+Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the
+name of the God of Israel, even unto them.
+
+5:2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son
+of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem:
+and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
+
+5:3 At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the
+river, and Shetharboznai and their companions, and said thus unto
+them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this
+wall? 5:4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the
+names of the men that make this building? 5:5 But the eye of their
+God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to
+cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer
+by letter concerning this matter.
+
+5:6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the
+river, and Shetharboznai and his companions the Apharsachites, which
+were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king: 5:7 They sent
+a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all
+peace.
+
+5:8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of
+Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great
+stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on,
+and prospereth in their hands.
+
+5:9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded
+you to build this house, and to make up these walls? 5:10 We asked
+their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of
+the men that were the chief of them.
+
+5:11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of
+the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded
+these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
+
+5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto
+wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of
+Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the
+people away into Babylon.
+
+5:13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king
+Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
+
+5:14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God,
+which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and
+brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take
+out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose
+name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; 5:15 And said unto
+him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in
+Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
+
+5:16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the
+house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now
+hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.
+
+5:17 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search
+made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether
+it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house
+of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us
+concerning this matter.
+
+6:1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the
+house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
+
+6:2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the
+province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
+6:3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a
+decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be
+builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the
+foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore
+cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; 6:4 With three rows
+of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be
+given out of the king’s house: 6:5 And also let the golden and silver
+vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of
+the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be
+restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem,
+every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
+
+6:6 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai,
+and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be
+ye far from thence: 6:7 Let the work of this house of God alone; let
+the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house
+of God in his place.
+
+6:8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these
+Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods,
+even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto
+these men, that they be not hindered.
+
+6:9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams,
+and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt,
+wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are
+at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail: 6:10 That
+they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and
+pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
+
+6:11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word,
+let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be
+hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
+
+6:12 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all
+kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy
+this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree;
+let it be done with speed.
+
+6:13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and
+their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so
+they did speedily.
+
+6:14 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through
+the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo.
+And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the
+God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius,
+and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
+
+6:15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar,
+which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
+
+6:16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the
+rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this
+house of God with joy.
+
+6:17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred
+bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering
+for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes
+of Israel.
+
+6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in
+their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is
+written in the book of Moses.
+
+6:19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the
+fourteenth day of the first month.
+
+6:20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of
+them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the
+captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
+
+6:21 And the children of Israel, which were come again out of
+captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the
+filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel,
+did eat, 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with
+joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the
+king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of
+the house of God, the God of Israel.
+
+7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia,
+Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, 7:2
+The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, 7:3 The son
+of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 7:4 The son of
+Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, 7:5 The son of Abishua,
+the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief
+priest: 7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe
+in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the
+king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD
+his God upon him.
+
+7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
+priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the
+Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
+
+7:8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the
+seventh year of the king.
+
+7:9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from
+Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem,
+according to the good hand of his God upon him.
+
+7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and
+to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
+
+7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave
+unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the
+commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
+
+7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the
+law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
+
+7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of
+his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own
+freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
+
+7:14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven
+counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to
+the law of thy God which is in thine hand; 7:15 And to carry the
+silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely
+offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem, 7:16
+And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province
+of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the
+priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in
+Jerusalem: 7:17 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money
+bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink
+offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God
+which is in Jerusalem.
+
+7:18 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to
+do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of
+your God.
+
+7:19 The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house
+of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.
+
+7:20 And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God,
+which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s
+treasure house.
+
+7:21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the
+treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the
+priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of
+you, it be done speedily, 7:22 Unto an hundred talents of silver, and
+to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and
+to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
+
+7:23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be
+diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should
+there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? 7:24 Also
+we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers,
+porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be
+lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.
+
+7:25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine
+hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that
+are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach
+ye them that know them not.
+
+7:26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the
+king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto
+death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to
+imprisonment.
+
+7:27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a
+thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the LORD
+which is in Jerusalem: 7:28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the
+king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes.
+And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and
+I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
+
+8:1 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the
+genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of
+Artaxerxes the king.
+
+8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel:
+of the sons of David; Hattush.
+
+8:3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and
+with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
+
+8:4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with
+him two hundred males.
+
+8:5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three
+hundred males.
+
+8:6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him
+fifty males.
+
+8:7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with
+him seventy males.
+
+8:8 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and
+with him fourscore males.
+
+8:9 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two
+hundred and eighteen males.
+
+8:10 And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him
+an hundred and threescore males.
+
+8:11 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with
+him twenty and eight males.
+
+8:12 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with
+him an hundred and ten males.
+
+8:13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these,
+Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
+
+8:14 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them
+seventy males.
+
+8:15 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava;
+and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and
+the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
+
+8:16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for
+Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for
+Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for
+Elnathan, men of understanding.
+
+8:17 And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place
+Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his
+brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring
+unto us ministers for the house of our God.
+
+8:18 And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of
+understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of
+Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen; 8:19
+And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his
+brethren and their sons, twenty; 8:20 Also of the Nethinims, whom
+David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites,
+two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
+
+8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we
+might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for
+us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
+
+8:22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and
+horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had
+spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for
+good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them
+that forsake him.
+
+8:23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated
+of us.
+
+8:24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah,
+Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, 8:25 And weighed unto
+them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of
+the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his
+lords, and all Israel there present, had offered: 8:26 I even weighed
+unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver
+vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents; 8:27 Also
+twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine
+copper, precious as gold.
+
+8:28 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are
+holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto
+the LORD God of your fathers.
+
+8:29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of
+the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at
+Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
+
+8:30 So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and
+the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house
+of our God.
+
+8:31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of
+the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was
+upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such
+as lay in wait by the way.
+
+8:32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
+
+8:33 Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels
+weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of
+Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and
+with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of
+Binnui, Levites; 8:34 By number and by weight of every one: and all
+the weight was written at that time.
+
+8:35 Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were
+come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of
+Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy
+and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a
+burnt offering unto the LORD.
+
+8:36 And they delivered the king’s commissions unto the king’s
+lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they
+furthered the people, and the house of God.
+
+9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying,
+The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not
+separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to
+their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
+Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians,
+and the Amorites.
+
+9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for
+their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the
+people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath
+been chief in this trespass.
+
+9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and
+plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down
+astonied.
+
+9:4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words
+of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had
+been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
+
+9:5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and
+having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread
+out my hands unto the LORD my God, 9:6 And said, O my God, I am
+ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our
+iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up
+unto the heavens.
+
+9:7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass
+unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our
+priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to
+the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as
+it is this day.
+
+9:8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD
+our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his
+holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little
+reviving in our bondage.
+
+9:9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our
+bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of
+Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to
+repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in
+Jerusalem.
+
+9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have
+forsaken thy commandments, 9:11 Which thou hast commanded by thy
+servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess
+it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands,
+with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another
+with their uncleanness.
+
+9:12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither
+take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their
+wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land,
+and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
+
+9:13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for
+our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less
+than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as
+this; 9:14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in
+affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be
+angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no
+remnant nor escaping? 9:15 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous:
+for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before
+thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of
+this.
+
+10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and
+casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him
+out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children:
+for the people wept very sore.
+
+10:2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
+answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and
+have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is
+hope in Israel concerning this thing.
+
+10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all
+the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of
+my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and
+let it be done according to the law.
+
+10:4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with
+thee: be of good courage, and do it.
+
+10:5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all
+Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they
+sware.
+
+10:6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the
+chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he
+did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the
+transgression of them that had been carried away.
+
+10:7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto
+all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves
+together unto Jerusalem; 10:8 And that whosoever would not come within
+three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders,
+all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the
+congregation of those that had been carried away.
+
+10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves
+together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on
+the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street
+of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the
+great rain.
+
+10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have
+transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass
+of Israel.
+
+10:11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers,
+and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the
+land, and from the strange wives.
+
+10:12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice,
+As thou hast said, so must we do.
+
+10:13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we
+are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or
+two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
+
+10:14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all
+them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed
+times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,
+until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
+
+10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah
+were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the
+Levite helped them.
+
+10:16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest,
+with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers,
+and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the
+first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
+
+10:17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
+wives by the first day of the first month.
+
+10:18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had
+taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak,
+and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
+
+10:19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives;
+and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
+
+10:20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
+
+10:21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah,
+and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
+
+10:22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael,
+Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
+
+10:23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same
+is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
+
+10:24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and
+Telem, and Uri.
+
+10:25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah,
+and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
+
+10:26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and
+Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
+
+10:27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and
+Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
+
+10:28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and
+Athlai.
+
+10:29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub,
+and Sheal, and Ramoth.
+
+10:30 And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah,
+Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
+
+10:31 And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah,
+Shimeon, 10:32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
+
+10:33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet,
+Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
+
+10:34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel, 10:35 Benaiah,
+Bedeiah, Chelluh, 10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, 10:37 Mattaniah,
+Mattenai, and Jaasau, 10:38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, 10:39 And
+Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah, 10:40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
+10:41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah, 10:42 Shallum, Amariah, and
+Joseph.
+
+10:43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau,
+and Joel, Benaiah.
+
+10:44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by
+whom they had children.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of Nehemiah
+
+
+1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass
+in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the
+palace, 1:2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men
+of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which
+were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
+
+1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity
+there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall
+of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned
+with fire.
+
+1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and
+wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God
+of heaven, 1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the
+great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that
+love him and observe his commandments: 1:6 Let thine ear now be
+attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of
+thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the
+children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children
+of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s
+house have sinned.
+
+1:7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the
+commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou
+commandedst thy servant Moses.
+
+1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy
+servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad
+among the nations: 1:9 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my
+commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the
+uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and
+will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name
+there.
+
+1:10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast
+redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
+
+1:11 O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the
+prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire
+to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and
+grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s
+cupbearer.
+
+2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of
+Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine,
+and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his
+presence.
+
+2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad,
+seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart.
+Then I was very sore afraid, 2:3 And said unto the king, Let the king
+live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city,
+the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates
+thereof are consumed with fire? 2:4 Then the king said unto me, For
+what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
+
+2:5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy
+servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me
+unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build
+it.
+
+2:6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For
+how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it
+pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
+
+2:7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters
+be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me
+over till I come into Judah; 2:8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of
+the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the
+gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall
+of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king
+granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
+
+2:9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the
+king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and
+horsemen with me.
+
+2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
+Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come
+a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
+
+2:11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
+
+2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither
+told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem:
+neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
+
+2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before
+the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of
+Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed
+with fire.
+
+2:14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s
+pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
+
+2:15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall,
+and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so
+returned.
+
+2:16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither
+had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the
+nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
+
+2:17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how
+Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire:
+come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a
+reproach.
+
+2:18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as
+also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let
+us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good
+work.
+
+2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
+Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn,
+and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye
+rebel against the king? 2:20 Then answered I them, and said unto
+them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants
+will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial,
+in Jerusalem.
+
+3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the
+priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set
+up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it,
+unto the tower of Hananeel.
+
+3:2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them
+builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
+
+3:3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid
+the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof,
+and the bars thereof.
+
+3:4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of
+Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the
+son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of
+Baana.
+
+3:5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not
+their necks to the work of their LORD.
+
+3:6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and
+Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set
+up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
+
+3:7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the
+Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the
+governor on this side the river.
+
+3:8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the
+goldsmiths.
+
+Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the
+apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
+
+3:9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of
+the half part of Jerusalem.
+
+3:10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even
+over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of
+Hashabniah.
+
+3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab,
+repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
+
+3:12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler
+of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
+
+3:13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah;
+they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and
+the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung
+gate.
+
+3:14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler
+of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof,
+the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
+
+3:15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of
+Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it,
+and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof,
+and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the
+stairs that go down from the city of David.
+
+3:16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the
+half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of
+David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the
+mighty.
+
+3:17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto
+him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his
+part.
+
+3:18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the
+ruler of the half part of Keilah.
+
+3:19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of
+Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the
+turning of the wall.
+
+3:20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other
+piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of
+Eliashib the high priest.
+
+3:21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz
+another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end
+of the house of Eliashib.
+
+3:22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
+
+3:23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house.
+
+After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by
+his house.
+
+3:24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from
+the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even unto the
+corner.
+
+3:25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and
+the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that was by the
+court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
+
+3:26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over
+against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
+
+3:27 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the
+great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
+
+3:28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over
+against his house.
+
+3:29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his
+house.
+
+After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of
+the east gate.
+
+3:30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the
+sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the
+son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
+
+3:31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of
+the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad,
+and to the going up of the corner.
+
+3:32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate
+repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
+
+4:1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the
+wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
+
+4:2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and
+said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will
+they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the
+stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 4:3 Now
+Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they
+build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
+
+4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon
+their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: 4:5
+And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out
+from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the
+builders.
+
+4:6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto
+the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
+
+4:7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the
+Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls
+of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped,
+then they were very wroth, 4:8 And conspired all of them together to
+come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
+
+4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch
+against them day and night, because of them.
+
+4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is
+decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build
+the wall.
+
+4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till
+we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to
+cease.
+
+4:12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came,
+they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return
+unto us they will be upon you.
+
+4:13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the
+higher places, I even set the people after their families with their
+swords, their spears, and their bows.
+
+4:14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the
+rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them:
+remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your
+brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
+
+4:15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known
+unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned
+all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
+
+4:16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my
+servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the
+spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers
+were behind all the house of Judah.
+
+4:17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with
+those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work,
+and with the other hand held a weapon.
+
+4:18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and
+so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
+
+4:19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of
+the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the
+wall, one far from another.
+
+4:20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort
+ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
+
+4:21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from
+the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
+
+4:22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one
+with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be
+a guard to us, and labour on the day.
+
+4:23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of
+the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving
+that every one put them off for washing.
+
+5:1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against
+their brethren the Jews.
+
+5:2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are
+many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
+
+5:3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands,
+vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
+
+5:4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s
+tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
+
+5:5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as
+their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our
+daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto
+bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other
+men have our lands and vineyards.
+
+5:6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
+
+5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the
+rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother.
+And I set a great assembly against them.
+
+5:8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our
+brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even
+sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they
+their peace, and found nothing to answer.
+
+5:9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in
+the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our
+enemies? 5:10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might
+exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
+
+5:11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their
+vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part
+of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of
+them.
+
+5:12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of
+them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and
+took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
+
+5:13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from
+his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even
+thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said,
+Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this
+promise.
+
+5:14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor
+in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and
+thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my
+brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
+
+5:15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable
+unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty
+shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people:
+but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
+
+5:16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we
+any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
+
+5:17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews
+and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that
+are about us.
+
+5:18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six
+choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days
+store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread
+of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
+
+5:19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have
+done for this people.
+
+6:1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the
+Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the
+wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time
+I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) 6:2 That Sanballat and
+Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of
+the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
+
+6:3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work,
+so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave
+it, and come down to you? 6:4 Yet they sent unto me four times after
+this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
+
+6:5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth
+time with an open letter in his hand; 6:6 Wherein was written, It is
+reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the
+Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou
+mayest be their king, according to these words.
+
+6:7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at
+Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be
+reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and
+let us take counsel together.
+
+6:8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as
+thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
+
+6:9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened
+from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen
+my hands.
+
+6:10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah
+the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet
+together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the
+doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the
+night will they come to slay thee.
+
+6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that,
+being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not
+go in.
+
+6:12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he
+pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had
+hired him.
+
+6:13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and
+sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they
+might reproach me.
+
+6:14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these
+their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the
+prophets, that would have put me in fear.
+
+6:15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month
+Elul, in fifty and two days.
+
+6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and
+all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much
+cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was
+wrought of our God.
+
+6:17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto
+Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
+
+6:18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the
+son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had
+taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
+
+6:19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words
+to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
+
+7:1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the
+doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
+7:2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the
+palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared
+God above many.
+
+7:3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened
+until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the
+doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of
+Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against
+his house.
+
+7:4 Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein,
+and the houses were not builded.
+
+7:5 And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and
+the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy.
+And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the
+first, and found written therein, 7:6 These are the children of the
+province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been
+carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried
+away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his
+city; 7:7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah,
+Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum,
+Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was
+this; 7:8 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and
+two.
+
+7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
+
+7:10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.
+
+7:11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab,
+two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
+
+7:12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
+
+7:13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
+
+7:14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
+
+7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
+
+7:16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.
+
+7:17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.
+
+7:18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
+
+7:19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
+
+7:20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.
+
+7:21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
+
+7:22 The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.
+
+7:23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.
+
+7:24 The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.
+
+7:25 The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.
+
+7:26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and
+eight.
+
+7:27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
+
+7:28 The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
+
+7:29 The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred
+forty and three.
+
+7:30 The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
+
+7:31 The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.
+
+7:32 The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
+
+7:33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.
+
+7:34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and
+four.
+
+7:35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
+
+7:36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
+
+7:37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and
+one.
+
+7:38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
+
+7:39 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
+nine hundred seventy and three.
+
+7:40 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
+
+7:41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
+
+7:42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
+
+7:43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the
+children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
+
+7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
+
+7:45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the
+children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the
+children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
+
+7:46 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha,
+the children of Tabbaoth, 7:47 The children of Keros, the children of
+Sia, the children of Padon, 7:48 The children of Lebana, the children
+of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai, 7:49 The children of Hanan, the
+children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, 7:50 The children of
+Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, 7:51 The
+children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,
+7:52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of
+Nephishesim, 7:53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the
+children of Harhur, 7:54 The children of Bazlith, the children of
+Mehida, the children of Harsha, 7:55 The children of Barkos, the
+children of Sisera, the children of Tamah, 7:56 The children of
+Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
+
+7:57 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the
+children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, 7:58 The children of
+Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, 7:59 The
+children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of
+Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.
+
+7:60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were
+three hundred ninety and two.
+
+7:61 And these were they which went up also from Telmelah, Telharesha,
+Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s
+house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
+
+7:62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of
+Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
+
+7:63 And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz,
+the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of
+Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
+
+7:64 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by
+genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put
+from the priesthood.
+
+7:65 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the
+most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
+
+7:66 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three
+hundred and threescore, 7:67 Beside their manservants and their
+maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty
+and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and
+singing women.
+
+7:68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two
+hundred forty and five: 7:69 Their camels, four hundred thirty and
+five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
+
+7:70 And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The
+Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons,
+five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.
+
+7:71 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the
+work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred
+pound of silver.
+
+7:72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand
+drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and
+seven priests’ garments.
+
+7:73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the
+singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel,
+dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children
+of Israel were in their cities.
+
+8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into
+the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra
+the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had
+commanded to Israel.
+
+8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both
+of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the
+first day of the seventh month.
+
+8:3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water
+gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and
+those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were
+attentive unto the book of the law.
+
+8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had
+made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and
+Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and
+on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and
+Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
+
+8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he
+was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood
+up: 8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people
+answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed
+their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
+
+8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai,
+Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the
+Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood
+in their place.
+
+8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave
+the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
+
+8:9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the
+scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the
+people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep.
+For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
+
+8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the
+sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for
+this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of
+the LORD is your strength.
+
+8:11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace,
+for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
+
+8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to
+send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood
+the words that were declared unto them.
+
+8:13 And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the
+fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the
+scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
+
+8:14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by
+Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast
+of the seventh month: 8:15 And that they should publish and proclaim
+in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the
+mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle
+branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make
+booths, as it is written.
+
+8:16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves
+booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and
+in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water
+gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
+
+8:17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the
+captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of
+Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel
+done so. And there was very great gladness.
+
+8:18 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in
+the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on
+the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
+
+9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of
+Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth
+upon them.
+
+9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers,
+and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their
+fathers.
+
+9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law
+of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth
+part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.
+
+9:4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani,
+Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried
+with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
+
+9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah,
+Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless
+the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name,
+which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
+
+9:6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven
+of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are
+therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them
+all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
+
+9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest
+him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of
+Abraham; 9:8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a
+covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites,
+the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the
+Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy
+words; for thou art righteous: 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our
+fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; 9:10 And
+shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and
+on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt
+proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this
+day.
+
+9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went
+through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors
+thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
+
+9:12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in
+the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein
+they should go.
+
+9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them
+from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good
+statutes and commandments: 9:14 And madest known unto them thy holy
+sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the
+hand of Moses thy servant: 9:15 And gavest them bread from heaven for
+their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for
+their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess
+the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
+
+9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks,
+and hearkened not to thy commandments, 9:17 And refused to obey,
+neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but
+hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to
+return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious
+and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest
+them not.
+
+9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy
+God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great
+provocations; 9:19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them
+not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them
+by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night,
+to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
+
+9:20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and
+withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for
+their thirst.
+
+9:21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so
+that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet
+swelled not.
+
+9:22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide
+them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land
+of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
+
+9:23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and
+broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to
+their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
+
+9:24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou
+subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and
+gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the
+land, that they might do with them as they would.
+
+9:25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses
+full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit
+trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat,
+and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
+
+9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
+and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which
+testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great
+provocations.
+
+9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies,
+who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto
+thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold
+mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of
+their enemies.
+
+9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee:
+therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they
+had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto
+thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou
+deliver them according to thy mercies; 9:29 And testifiedst against
+them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt
+proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against
+thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and
+withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
+
+9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against
+them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear:
+therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
+
+9:31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly
+consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful
+God.
+
+9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible
+God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem
+little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our
+princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers,
+and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto
+this day.
+
+9:33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou
+hast done right, but we have done wickedly: 9:34 Neither have our
+kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor
+hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou
+didst testify against them.
+
+9:35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great
+goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which
+thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
+
+9:36 Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou
+gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
+behold, we are servants in it: 9:37 And it yieldeth much increase unto
+the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they
+have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure,
+and we are in great distress.
+
+9:38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it;
+and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
+
+10:1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of
+Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, 10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 10:3 Pashur,
+Amariah, Malchijah, 10:4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 10:5 Harim,
+Meremoth, Obadiah, 10:6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 10:7 Meshullam,
+Abijah, Mijamin, 10:8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the
+priests.
+
+10:9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the
+sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; 10:10 And their brethren, Shebaniah,
+Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 10:11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah, 10:12
+Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 10:13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.
+
+10:14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,
+10:15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 10:17 Ater,
+Hizkijah, Azzur, 10:18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai, 10:19 Hariph, Anathoth,
+Nebai, 10:20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 10:21 Meshezabeel, Zadok,
+Jaddua, 10:22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 10:23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,
+10:24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek, 10:25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
+10:26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, 10:27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
+
+10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the
+porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated
+themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their
+wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge,
+and having understanding; 10:29 They clave to their brethren, their
+nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s
+law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and
+do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and
+his statutes; 10:30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the
+people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons: 10:31 And
+if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath
+day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on
+the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the
+exaction of every debt.
+
+10:32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with
+the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
+10:33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for
+the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for
+the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to
+make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our
+God.
+
+10:34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the
+people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God,
+after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to
+burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
+10:35 And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits
+of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
+10:36 Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is
+written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks,
+to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in
+the house of our God: 10:37 And that we should bring the firstfruits
+of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees,
+of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of
+our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same
+Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
+
+10:38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when
+the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of
+the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the
+treasure house.
+
+10:39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring
+the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the
+chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that
+minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake
+the house of our God.
+
+11:1 And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the
+people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the
+holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.
+
+11:2 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered
+themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.
+
+11:3 Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem:
+but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their
+cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the
+Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
+
+11:4 And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of
+the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of
+Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of
+Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez; 11:5 And
+Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah,
+the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son
+of Shiloni.
+
+11:6 All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred
+threescore and eight valiant men.
+
+11:7 And these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam,
+the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of
+Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.
+
+11:8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
+
+11:9 And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son
+of Senuah was second over the city.
+
+11:10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.
+
+11:11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of
+Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the
+house of God.
+
+11:12 And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight
+hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of
+Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur,
+the son of Malchiah.
+
+11:13 And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and
+two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of
+Meshillemoth, the son of Immer, 11:14 And their brethren, mighty men
+of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was
+Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.
+
+11:15 Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of
+Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; 11:16 And Shabbethai
+and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the
+outward business of the house of God.
+
+11:17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of
+Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and
+Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua,
+the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
+
+11:18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and
+four.
+
+11:19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that
+kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
+
+11:20 And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were
+in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
+
+11:21 But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over
+the Nethinims.
+
+11:22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son
+of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha.
+Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house
+of God.
+
+11:23 For it was the king’s commandment concerning them, that a
+certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.
+
+11:24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah
+the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the
+people.
+
+11:25 And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of
+Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon,
+and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages
+thereof, 11:26 And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Bethphelet, 11:27
+And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages thereof,
+11:28 And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,
+11:29 And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth, 11:30 Zanoah,
+Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at
+Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba
+unto the valley of Hinnom.
+
+11:31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and
+Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.
+
+11:32 And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, 11:33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
+11:34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, 11:35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of
+craftsmen.
+
+11:36 And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.
+
+12:1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with
+Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
+12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, 12:3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, 12:4
+Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah, 12:5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, 12:6 Shemaiah,
+and Joiarib, Jedaiah, 12:7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were
+the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
+
+12:8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah,
+and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
+
+12:9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them
+in the watches.
+
+12:10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and
+Eliashib begat Joiada, 12:11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan
+begat Jaddua.
+
+12:12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the
+fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; 12:13 Of Ezra,
+Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; 12:14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of
+Shebaniah, Joseph; 12:15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; 12:16 Of
+Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; 12:17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of
+Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai: 12:18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah,
+Jehonathan; 12:19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; 12:20 Of
+Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; 12:21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of
+Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
+
+12:22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and
+Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the
+reign of Darius the Persian.
+
+12:23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the
+book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of
+Eliashib.
+
+12:24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua
+the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise
+and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of
+God, ward over against ward.
+
+12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub,
+were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
+
+12:26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of
+Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the
+priest, the scribe.
+
+12:27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the
+Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep
+the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with
+singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
+
+12:28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both
+out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages
+of Netophathi; 12:29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the
+fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages
+round about Jerusalem.
+
+12:30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and
+purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
+
+12:31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and
+appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one
+went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate: 12:32 And
+after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, 12:33 And
+Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, 12:34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah,
+and Jeremiah, 12:35 And certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets;
+namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of
+Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:
+12:36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai,
+Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David
+the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
+
+12:37 And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went
+up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall,
+above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
+
+12:38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against
+them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from
+beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall; 12:39 And
+from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the
+fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto
+the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
+
+12:40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house
+of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me: 12:41 And the
+priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah,
+and Hananiah, with trumpets; 12:42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and
+Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer.
+And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
+
+12:43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for
+God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the
+children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar
+off.
+
+12:44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the
+treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes,
+to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of
+the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the
+priests and for the Levites that waited.
+
+12:45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God,
+and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of
+David, and of Solomon his son.
+
+12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of
+the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
+
+12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of
+Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day
+his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the
+Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
+
+13:1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the
+people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the
+Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; 13:2
+Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water,
+but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our
+God turned the curse into a blessing.
+
+13:3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they
+separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
+
+13:4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the
+chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah: 13:5 And he
+had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the
+meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of
+the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given
+to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of
+the priests.
+
+13:6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and
+thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and
+after certain days obtained I leave of the king: 13:7 And I came to
+Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in
+preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
+
+13:8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household
+stuff to Tobiah out of the chamber.
+
+13:9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither
+brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat
+offering and the frankincense.
+
+13:10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been
+given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were
+fled every one to his field.
+
+13:11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of
+God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their
+place.
+
+13:12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine
+and the oil unto the treasuries.
+
+13:13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest,
+and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them
+was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were
+counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their
+brethren.
+
+13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good
+deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices
+thereof.
+
+13:15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the
+sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine,
+grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into
+Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day
+wherein they sold victuals.
+
+13:16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and
+all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of
+Judah, and in Jerusalem.
+
+13:17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them,
+What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
+13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this
+evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel
+by profaning the sabbath.
+
+13:19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to
+be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut,
+and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and
+some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be
+brought in on the sabbath day.
+
+13:20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without
+Jerusalem once or twice.
+
+13:21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye
+about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that
+time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
+
+13:22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves,
+and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath
+day.
+
+Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to
+the greatness of thy mercy.
+
+13:23 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod,
+of Ammon, and of Moab: 13:24 And their children spake half in the
+speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but
+according to the language of each people.
+
+13:25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of
+them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying,
+Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their
+daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
+
+13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among
+many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God,
+and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did
+outlandish women cause to sin.
+
+13:27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to
+transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? 13:28 And one
+of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in
+law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
+
+13:29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the
+priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
+
+13:30 Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards
+of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business; 13:31 And
+for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits.
+Remember me, O my God, for good.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of Esther
+
+
+1:1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus
+which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and
+seven and twenty provinces:) 1:2 That in those days, when the king
+Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the
+palace, 1:3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all
+his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the
+nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him: 1:4 When he
+shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his
+excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
+
+1:5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all
+the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great
+and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s
+palace; 1:6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with
+cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble:
+the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue,
+and white, and black, marble.
+
+1:7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being
+diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to
+the state of the king.
+
+1:8 And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so
+the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they
+should do according to every man’s pleasure.
+
+1:9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal
+house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
+
+1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with
+wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha,
+Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence
+of Ahasuerus the king, 1:11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king
+with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty:
+for she was fair to look on.
+
+1:12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by
+his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger
+burned in him.
+
+1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so
+was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment: 1:14 And
+the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres,
+Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw
+the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;) 1:15 What
+shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath
+not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the
+chamberlains? 1:16 And Memucan answered before the king and the
+princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but
+also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the
+provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
+
+1:17 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so
+that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be
+reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought
+in before him, but she came not.
+
+1:18 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto
+all the king’s princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen.
+Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
+
+1:19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him,
+and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes,
+that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king
+Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is
+better than she.
+
+1:20 And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published
+throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give
+to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
+
+1:21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did
+according to the word of Memucan: 1:22 For he sent letters into all
+the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing
+thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man
+should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published
+according to the language of every people.
+
+2:1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased,
+he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed
+against her.
+
+2:2 Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there
+be fair young virgins sought for the king: 2:3 And let the king
+appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may
+gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to
+the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s
+chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for
+purification be given them: 2:4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the
+king be queen instead of Vashti.
+
+And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
+
+2:5 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was
+Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a
+Benjamite; 2:6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the
+captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah,
+whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
+
+2:7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter:
+for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and
+beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took
+for his own daughter.
+
+2:8 So it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and his decree was
+heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the
+palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the
+king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
+
+2:9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and
+he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as
+belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her,
+out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the
+best place of the house of the women.
+
+2:10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai
+had charged her that she should not shew it.
+
+2:11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s
+house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
+
+2:12 Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus,
+after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the
+women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to
+wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours,
+and with other things for the purifying of the women;) 2:13 Then thus
+came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her
+to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.
+
+2:14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the
+second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s
+chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no
+more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by
+name.
+
+2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of
+Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto
+the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain,
+the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the
+sight of all them that looked upon her.
+
+2:16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in
+the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his
+reign.
+
+2:17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained
+grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he
+set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of
+Vashti.
+
+2:18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his
+servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces,
+and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
+
+2:19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then
+Mordecai sat in the king’s gate.
+
+2:20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai
+had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as
+when she was brought up with him.
+
+2:21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the
+king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door,
+were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
+
+2:22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the
+queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.
+
+2:23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out;
+therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the
+book of the chronicles before the king.
+
+3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of
+Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all
+the princes that were with him.
+
+3:2 And all the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, bowed,
+and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him.
+But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.
+
+3:3 Then the king’s servants, which were in the king’s gate, said unto
+Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king’s commandment? 3:4 Now it
+came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not
+unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s matters
+would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
+
+3:5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence,
+then was Haman full of wrath.
+
+3:6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had
+shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy
+all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even
+the people of Mordecai.
+
+3:7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year
+of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from
+day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is,
+the month Adar.
+
+3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people
+scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces
+of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither
+keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit
+to suffer them.
+
+3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be
+destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands
+of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the
+king’s treasuries.
+
+3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman
+the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
+
+3:11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the
+people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
+
+3:12 Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the
+first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had
+commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were
+over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every
+province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after
+their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and
+sealed with the king’s ring.
+
+3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces,
+to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and
+old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth
+day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the
+spoil of them for a prey.
+
+3:14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every
+province was published unto all people, that they should be ready
+against that day.
+
+3:15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and
+the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat
+down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
+
+4:1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his
+clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst
+of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; 4:2 And came even
+before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate
+clothed with sackcloth.
+
+4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and
+his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting,
+and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
+
+4:4 So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then
+was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe
+Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it
+not.
+
+4:5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains,
+whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment
+to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
+
+4:6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city,
+which was before the king’s gate.
+
+4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of
+the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s
+treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
+
+4:8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was
+given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to
+declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the
+king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him
+for her people.
+
+4:9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
+
+4:10 Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto
+Mordecai; 4:11 All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s
+provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come
+unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one
+law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall
+hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been
+called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
+
+4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
+
+4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself
+that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
+
+4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall
+there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another
+place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who
+knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
+4:15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, 4:16 Go,
+gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye
+for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and
+my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king,
+which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
+
+4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther
+had commanded him.
+
+5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal
+apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over
+against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in
+the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
+
+5:2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the
+court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to
+Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near,
+and touched the top of the sceptre.
+
+5:3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and
+what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the
+kingdom.
+
+5:4 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king
+and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
+
+5:5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as
+Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that
+Esther had prepared.
+
+5:6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy
+petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even
+to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
+
+5:7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is; 5:8
+If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the
+king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and
+Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do
+to morrow as the king hath said.
+
+5:9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but
+when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he stood not up, nor
+moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
+
+5:10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he
+sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
+
+5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude
+of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him,
+and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the
+king.
+
+5:12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in
+with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and
+to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
+
+5:13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the
+Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
+
+5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a
+gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto
+the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily
+with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he
+caused the gallows to be made.
+
+6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring
+the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the
+king.
+
+6:2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and
+Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who
+sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
+
+6:3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to
+Mordecai for this? Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto
+him, There is nothing done for him.
+
+6:4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into
+the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang
+Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
+
+6:5 And the king’s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in
+the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
+
+6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done
+unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in
+his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to
+myself? 6:7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king
+delighteth to honour, 6:8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the
+king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the
+crown royal which is set upon his head: 6:9 And let this apparel and
+horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble
+princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth
+to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city,
+and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the
+king delighteth to honour.
+
+6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and
+the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that
+sitteth at the king’s gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast
+spoken.
+
+6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai,
+and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and
+proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the
+king delighteth to honour.
+
+6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to
+his house mourning, and having his head covered.
+
+6:13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing
+that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto
+him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast
+begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely
+fall before him.
+
+6:14 And while they were yet talking with him, came the king’s
+chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther
+had prepared.
+
+7:1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
+
+7:2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the
+banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be
+granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even
+to the half of the kingdom.
+
+7:3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in
+thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me
+at my petition, and my people at my request: 7:4 For we are sold, I
+and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we
+had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue,
+although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
+
+7:5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen,
+Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
+7:6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman.
+Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
+
+7:7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went
+into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his
+life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined
+against him by the king.
+
+7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of
+the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther
+was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the
+house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s
+face.
+
+7:9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king,
+Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for
+Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of
+Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
+
+7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for
+Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
+
+8:1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the
+Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king;
+for Esther had told what he was unto her.
+
+8:2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and
+gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of
+Haman.
+
+8:3 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his
+feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman
+the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
+
+8:4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther
+arose, and stood before the king, 8:5 And said, If it please the king,
+and if I have favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the
+king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the
+letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he
+wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces: 8:6
+For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?
+or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? 8:7 Then
+the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew,
+Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have
+hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
+
+8:8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name,
+and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in
+the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.
+
+8:9 Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third
+month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day
+thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded
+unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of
+the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty
+and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing
+thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews
+according to their writing, and according to their language.
+
+8:10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the
+king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on
+mules, camels, and young dromedaries: 8:11 Wherein the king granted
+the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and
+to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay and to cause to perish,
+all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both
+little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey, 8:12
+Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the
+thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
+
+8:13 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every
+province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be
+ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
+
+8:14 So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being
+hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was
+given at Shushan the palace.
+
+8:15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal
+apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a
+garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and
+was glad.
+
+8:16 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
+
+8:17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the
+king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness,
+a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became
+Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
+
+9:1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the
+thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree
+drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the
+Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the
+contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) 9:2 The
+Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the
+provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their
+hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon
+all people.
+
+9:3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the
+deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear
+of Mordecai fell upon them.
+
+9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out
+throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and
+greater.
+
+9:5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the
+sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto
+those that hated them.
+
+9:6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred
+men.
+
+9:7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, 9:8 And Poratha, and
+Adalia, and Aridatha, 9:9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and
+Vajezatha, 9:10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy
+of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
+
+9:11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the
+palace was brought before the king.
+
+9:12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and
+destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of
+Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? now
+what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy
+request further? and it shall be done.
+
+9:13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the
+Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this
+day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
+
+9:14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given
+at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
+
+9:15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on
+the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men
+at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
+
+9:16 But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered
+themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from
+their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but
+they laid not their hands on the prey, 9:17 On the thirteenth day of
+the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and
+made it a day of feasting and gladness.
+
+9:18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the
+thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the
+fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting
+and gladness.
+
+9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled
+towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and
+feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
+
+9:20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the
+Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh
+and far, 9:21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the
+fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same,
+yearly, 9:22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies,
+and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from
+mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting
+and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the
+poor.
+
+9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai
+had written unto them; 9:24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the
+Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to
+destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and
+to destroy them; 9:25 But when Esther came before the king, he
+commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against
+the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons
+should be hanged on the gallows.
+
+9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur.
+
+Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had
+seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them, 9:27 The
+Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all
+such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that
+they would keep these two days according to their writing, and
+according to their appointed time every year; 9:28 And that these days
+should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every
+family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim
+should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish
+from their seed.
+
+9:29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the
+Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
+
+9:30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty
+and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace
+and truth, 9:31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times
+appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had
+enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their
+seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
+
+9:32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it
+was written in the book.
+
+10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the
+isles of the sea.
+
+10:2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the
+declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced
+him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
+of Media and Persia? 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king
+Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of
+his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to
+all his seed.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of Job
+
+
+1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that
+man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
+
+1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
+
+1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand
+camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and
+a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the
+men of the east.
+
+1:4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day;
+and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with
+them.
+
+1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about,
+that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning,
+and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for
+Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their
+hearts. Thus did Job continually.
+
+1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
+themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
+
+1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan
+answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and
+from walking up and down in it.
+
+1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job,
+that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright
+man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 1:9 Then Satan
+answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 1:10 Hast
+not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all
+that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands,
+and his substance is increased in the land.
+
+1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he
+will curse thee to thy face.
+
+1:12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy
+power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth
+from the presence of the LORD.
+
+1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating
+and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: 1:14 And there came
+a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses
+feeding beside them: 1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took
+them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the
+sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
+
+1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The
+fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and
+the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell
+thee.
+
+1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The
+Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have
+carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the
+sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
+
+1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy
+sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest
+brother’s house: 1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the
+wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon
+the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell
+thee.
+
+1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and
+fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 1:21 And said, Naked came I
+out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD
+gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
+
+1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
+
+2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present
+themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present
+himself before the LORD.
+
+2:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan
+answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and
+from walking up and down in it.
+
+2:3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job,
+that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright
+man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth
+fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy
+him without cause.
+
+2:4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all
+that a man hath will he give for his life.
+
+2:5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh,
+and he will curse thee to thy face.
+
+2:6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but
+save his life.
+
+2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job
+with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
+
+2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat
+down among the ashes.
+
+2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine
+integrity? curse God, and die.
+
+2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women
+speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we
+not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
+
+2:11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come
+upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the
+Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they
+had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to
+comfort him.
+
+2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not,
+they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his
+mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
+
+2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven
+nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief
+was very great.
+
+3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
+
+3:2 And Job spake, and said, 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was
+born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child
+conceived.
+
+3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above,
+neither let the light shine upon it.
+
+3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell
+upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
+
+3:6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be
+joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of
+the months.
+
+3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
+
+3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up
+their mourning.
+
+3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for
+light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: 3:10
+Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow
+from mine eyes.
+
+3:11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost
+when I came out of the belly? 3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or
+why the breasts that I should suck? 3:13 For now should I have lain
+still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
+3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate
+places for themselves; 3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled
+their houses with silver: 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had
+not been; as infants which never saw light.
+
+3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at
+rest.
+
+3:18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the
+oppressor.
+
+3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his
+master.
+
+3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto
+the bitter in soul; 3:21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and
+dig for it more than for hid treasures; 3:22 Which rejoice
+exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 3:23 Why is
+light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
+3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured
+out like the waters.
+
+3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that
+which I was afraid of is come unto me.
+
+3:26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet
+trouble came.
+
+4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 4:2 If we assay to
+commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself
+from speaking? 4:3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast
+strengthened the weak hands.
+
+4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast
+strengthened the feeble knees.
+
+4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee,
+and thou art troubled.
+
+4:6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the
+uprightness of thy ways? 4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever
+perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 4:8
+Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap
+the same.
+
+4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils
+are they consumed.
+
+4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and
+the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
+
+4:11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s
+whelps are scattered abroad.
+
+4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a
+little thereof.
+
+4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep
+falleth on men, 4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all
+my bones to shake.
+
+4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood
+up: 4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an
+image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice,
+saying, 4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be
+more pure than his maker? 4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his
+servants; and his angels he charged with folly: 4:19 How much less in
+them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust,
+which are crushed before the moth? 4:20 They are destroyed from
+morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
+
+4:21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die,
+even without wisdom.
+
+5:1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of
+the saints wilt thou turn? 5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and
+envy slayeth the silly one.
+
+5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his
+habitation.
+
+5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the
+gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
+
+5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the
+thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
+
+5:6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth
+trouble spring out of the ground; 5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as
+the sparks fly upward.
+
+5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 5:9
+Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without
+number: 5:10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon
+the fields: 5:11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which
+mourn may be exalted to safety.
+
+5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands
+cannot perform their enterprise.
+
+5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of
+the froward is carried headlong.
+
+5:14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday
+as in the night.
+
+5:15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from
+the hand of the mighty.
+
+5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
+
+5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise
+not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 5:18 For he maketh sore, and
+bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
+
+5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall
+no evil touch thee.
+
+5:20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the
+power of the sword.
+
+5:21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt
+thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
+
+5:22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be
+afraid of the beasts of the earth.
+
+5:23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the
+beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
+
+5:24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and
+thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
+
+5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine
+offspring as the grass of the earth.
+
+5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
+corn cometh in in his season.
+
+5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it
+for thy good.
+
+6:1 But Job answered and said, 6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly
+weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 6:3 For now
+it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are
+swallowed up.
+
+6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof
+drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array
+against me.
+
+6:5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over
+his fodder? 6:6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or
+is there any taste in the white of an egg? 6:7 The things that my
+soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
+
+6:8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the
+thing that I long for! 6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy
+me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 6:10 Then
+should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let
+him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
+
+6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end,
+that I should prolong my life? 6:12 Is my strength the strength of
+stones? or is my flesh of brass? 6:13 Is not my help in me? and is
+wisdom driven quite from me? 6:14 To him that is afflicted pity
+should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the
+Almighty.
+
+6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream
+of brooks they pass away; 6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the
+ice, and wherein the snow is hid: 6:17 What time they wax warm, they
+vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
+
+6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and
+perish.
+
+6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for
+them.
+
+6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither,
+and were ashamed.
+
+6:21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
+
+6:22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your
+substance? 6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me
+from the hand of the mighty? 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my
+tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
+
+6:25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
+6:26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is
+desperate, which are as wind? 6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless,
+and ye dig a pit for your friend.
+
+6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto
+you if I lie.
+
+6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my
+righteousness is in it.
+
+6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse
+things? 7:1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not
+his days also like the days of an hireling? 7:2 As a servant
+earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the
+reward of his work: 7:3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and
+wearisome nights are appointed to me.
+
+7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone?
+and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
+
+7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is
+broken, and become loathsome.
+
+7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without
+hope.
+
+7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
+
+7:8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes
+are upon me, and I am not.
+
+7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down
+to the grave shall come up no more.
+
+7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place
+know him any more.
+
+7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the
+anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
+
+7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? 7:13
+When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my
+complaints; 7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me
+through visions: 7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death
+rather than my life.
+
+7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days
+are vanity.
+
+7:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou
+shouldest set thine heart upon him? 7:18 And that thou shouldest
+visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 7:19 How long wilt
+thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my
+spittle? 7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou
+preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so
+that I am a burden to myself? 7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my
+transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the
+dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
+
+8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 8:2 How long wilt thou
+speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like
+a strong wind? 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty
+pervert justice? 8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he
+have cast them away for their transgression; 8:5 If thou wouldest seek
+unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 8:6 If
+thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and
+make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
+
+8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly
+increase.
+
+8:8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself
+to the search of their fathers: 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and
+know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 8:10 Shall
+not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their
+heart? 8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow
+without water? 8:12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut
+down, it withereth before any other herb.
+
+8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope
+shall perish: 8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall
+be a spider’s web.
+
+8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall
+hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
+
+8:16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his
+garden.
+
+8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of
+stones.
+
+8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying,
+I have not seen thee.
+
+8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall
+others grow.
+
+8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he
+help the evil doers: 8:21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and
+thy lips with rejoicing.
+
+8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling
+place of the wicked shall come to nought.
+
+9:1 Then Job answered and said, 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but
+how should man be just with God? 9:3 If he will contend with him, he
+cannot answer him one of a thousand.
+
+9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened
+himself against him, and hath prospered? 9:5 Which removeth the
+mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
+
+9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof
+tremble.
+
+9:7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the
+stars.
+
+9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves
+of the sea.
+
+9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of
+the south.
+
+9:10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders
+without number.
+
+9:11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I
+perceive him not.
+
+9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto
+him, What doest thou? 9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the
+proud helpers do stoop under him.
+
+9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to
+reason with him? 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not
+answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
+
+9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe
+that he had hearkened unto my voice.
+
+9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds
+without cause.
+
+9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
+bitterness.
+
+9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who
+shall set me a time to plead? 9:20 If I justify myself, mine own
+mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me
+perverse.
+
+9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would
+despise my life.
+
+9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect
+and the wicked.
+
+9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the
+innocent.
+
+9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the
+faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? 9:25 Now
+my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
+
+9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that
+hasteth to the prey.
+
+9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my
+heaviness, and comfort myself: 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I
+know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
+
+9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 9:30 If I wash myself
+with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 9:31 Yet shalt thou
+plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
+
+9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
+should come together in judgment.
+
+9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand
+upon us both.
+
+9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify
+me: 9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with
+me.
+
+10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon
+myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
+
+10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou
+contendest with me.
+
+10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou
+shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel
+of the wicked? 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man
+seeth? 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s
+days, 10:6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest
+after my sin? 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is
+none that can deliver out of thine hand.
+
+10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about;
+yet thou dost destroy me.
+
+10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and
+wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10:10 Hast thou not poured me out
+as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 10:11 Thou hast clothed me with
+skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
+
+10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath
+preserved my spirit.
+
+10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this
+is with thee.
+
+10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from
+mine iniquity.
+
+10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I
+not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine
+affliction; 10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion:
+and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
+
+10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
+indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
+
+10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh
+that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 10:19 I should
+have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from
+the womb to the grave.
+
+10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may
+take comfort a little, 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return,
+even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 10:22 A land of
+darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any
+order, and where the light is as darkness.
+
+11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 11:2 Should not
+the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be
+justified? 11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when
+thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? 11:4 For thou hast
+said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
+
+11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; 11:6
+And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are
+double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less
+than thine iniquity deserveth.
+
+11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the
+Almighty unto perfection? 11:8 It is as high as heaven; what canst
+thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 11:9 The measure
+thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
+
+11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can
+hinder him? 11:11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also;
+will he not then consider it? 11:12 For vain men would be wise,
+though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
+
+11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward
+him; 11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
+wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
+
+11:15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou
+shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: 11:16 Because thou shalt forget
+thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: 11:17 And thine
+age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou
+shalt be as the morning.
+
+11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt
+dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
+
+11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea,
+many shall make suit unto thee.
+
+11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not
+escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
+
+12:1 And Job answered and said, 12:2 No doubt but ye are the people,
+and wisdom shall die with you.
+
+12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to
+you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 12:4 I am as one
+mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him:
+the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
+
+12:5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in
+the thought of him that is at ease.
+
+12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are
+secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
+
+12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
+of the air, and they shall tell thee: 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and
+it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto
+thee.
+
+12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath
+wrought this? 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,
+and the breath of all mankind.
+
+12:11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? 12:12
+With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
+
+12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
+understanding.
+
+12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he
+shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
+
+12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he
+sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
+
+12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver
+are his.
+
+12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges
+fools.
+
+12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a
+girdle.
+
+12:19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
+
+12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
+understanding of the aged.
+
+12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of
+the mighty.
+
+12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to
+light the shadow of death.
+
+12:23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the
+nations, and straiteneth them again.
+
+12:24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the
+earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no
+way.
+
+12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to
+stagger like a drunken man.
+
+13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
+understood it.
+
+13:2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto
+you.
+
+13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with
+God.
+
+13:4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
+
+13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your
+wisdom.
+
+13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
+
+13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
+13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 13:9 Is it
+good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do
+ye so mock him? 13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly
+accept persons.
+
+13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
+upon you? 13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to
+bodies of clay.
+
+13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on
+me what will.
+
+13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in
+mine hand? 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I
+will maintain mine own ways before him.
+
+13:16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come
+before him.
+
+13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
+
+13:18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be
+justified.
+
+13:19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue,
+I shall give up the ghost.
+
+13:20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from
+thee.
+
+13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me
+afraid.
+
+13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer
+thou me.
+
+13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
+transgression and my sin.
+
+13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
+13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue
+the dry stubble? 13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and
+makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
+
+13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly
+unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
+
+13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth
+eaten.
+
+14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
+
+14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as
+a shadow, and continueth not.
+
+14:3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me
+into judgment with thee? 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an
+unclean? not one.
+
+14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with
+thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 14:6 Turn
+from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling,
+his day.
+
+14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will
+sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
+
+14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock
+thereof die in the ground; 14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will
+bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
+
+14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost,
+and where is he? 14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood
+decayeth and drieth up: 14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till
+the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of
+their sleep.
+
+14:13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest
+keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me
+a set time, and remember me! 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again?
+all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
+
+14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire
+to the work of thine hands.
+
+14:16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my
+sin? 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up
+mine iniquity.
+
+14:18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock
+is removed out of his place.
+
+14:19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which
+grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of
+man.
+
+14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou
+changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
+
+14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are
+brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
+
+14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him
+shall mourn.
+
+15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 15:2 Should a wise
+man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 15:3
+Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he
+can do no good? 15:4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest
+prayer before God.
+
+15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the
+tongue of the crafty.
+
+15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips
+testify against thee.
+
+15:7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before
+the hills? 15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou
+restrain wisdom to thyself? 15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not?
+what understandest thou, which is not in us? 15:10 With us are both
+the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
+
+15:11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret
+thing with thee? 15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what
+do thy eyes wink at, 15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God,
+and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? 15:14 What is man, that
+he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be
+righteous? 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
+heavens are not clean in his sight.
+
+15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh
+iniquity like water? 15:17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which
+I have seen I will declare; 15:18 Which wise men have told from their
+fathers, and have not hid it: 15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was
+given, and no stranger passed among them.
+
+15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number
+of years is hidden to the oppressor.
+
+15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer
+shall come upon him.
+
+15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is
+waited for of the sword.
+
+15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth
+that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
+
+15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail
+against him, as a king ready to the battle.
+
+15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth
+himself against the Almighty.
+
+15:26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of
+his bucklers: 15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and
+maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
+
+15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
+inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
+
+15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
+neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
+
+15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his
+branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
+
+15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall
+be his recompence.
+
+15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall
+not be green.
+
+15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast
+off his flower as the olive.
+
+15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire
+shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
+
+15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly
+prepareth deceit.
+
+16:1 Then Job answered and said, 16:2 I have heard many such things:
+miserable comforters are ye all.
+
+16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou
+answerest? 16:4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my
+soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head
+at you.
+
+16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my
+lips should asswage your grief.
+
+16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear,
+what am I eased? 16:7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made
+desolate all my company.
+
+16:8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against
+me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
+
+16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me
+with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
+
+16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me
+upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together
+against me.
+
+16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into
+the hands of the wicked.
+
+16:12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken
+me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
+
+16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins
+asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
+
+16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like
+a giant.
+
+16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the
+dust.
+
+16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of
+death; 16:17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is
+pure.
+
+16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
+
+16:19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on
+high.
+
+16:20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
+
+16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for
+his neighbour! 16:22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the
+way whence I shall not return.
+
+17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready
+for me.
+
+17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in
+their provocation? 17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee;
+who is he that will strike hands with me? 17:4 For thou hast hid
+their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
+
+17:5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his
+children shall fail.
+
+17:6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was
+as a tabret.
+
+17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are
+as a shadow.
+
+17:8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall
+stir up himself against the hypocrite.
+
+17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean
+hands shall be stronger and stronger.
+
+17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot
+find one wise man among you.
+
+17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts
+of my heart.
+
+17:12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of
+darkness.
+
+17:13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
+darkness.
+
+17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou
+art my mother, and my sister.
+
+17:15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
+17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest
+together is in the dust.
+
+18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 18:2 How long will it
+be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
+
+18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your
+sight? 18:4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be
+forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
+18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of
+his fire shall not shine.
+
+18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall
+be put out with him.
+
+18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own
+counsel shall cast him down.
+
+18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a
+snare.
+
+18:9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail
+against him.
+
+18:10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in
+the way.
+
+18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him
+to his feet.
+
+18:12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be
+ready at his side.
+
+18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of
+death shall devour his strength.
+
+18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it
+shall bring him to the king of terrors.
+
+18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his:
+brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
+
+18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch
+be cut off.
+
+18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have
+no name in the street.
+
+18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of
+the world.
+
+18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any
+remaining in his dwellings.
+
+18:20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they
+that went before were affrighted.
+
+18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the
+place of him that knoweth not God.
+
+19:1 Then Job answered and said, 19:2 How long will ye vex my soul,
+and break me in pieces with words? 19:3 These ten times have ye
+reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to
+me.
+
+19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with
+myself.
+
+19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead
+against me my reproach: 19:6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and
+hath compassed me with his net.
+
+19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but
+there is no judgment.
+
+19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set
+darkness in my paths.
+
+19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my
+head.
+
+19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope
+hath he removed like a tree.
+
+19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me
+unto him as one of his enemies.
+
+19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and
+encamp round about my tabernacle.
+
+19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are
+verily estranged from me.
+
+19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten
+me.
+
+19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a
+stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
+
+19:16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him
+with my mouth.
+
+19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the
+children’s sake of mine own body.
+
+19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against
+me.
+
+19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are
+turned against me.
+
+19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped
+with the skin of my teeth.
+
+19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the
+hand of God hath touched me.
+
+19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my
+flesh? 19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were
+printed in a book! 19:24 That they were graven with an iron pen and
+lead in the rock for ever! 19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth,
+and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 19:26 And
+though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I
+see God: 19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall
+behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
+
+19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the
+matter is found in me? 19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath
+bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a
+judgment.
+
+20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 20:2 Therefore do
+my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
+
+20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my
+understanding causeth me to answer.
+
+20:4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
+20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
+hypocrite but for a moment? 20:6 Though his excellency mount up to
+the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 20:7 Yet he shall
+perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say,
+Where is he? 20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be
+found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
+
+20:9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall
+his place any more behold him.
+
+20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall
+restore their goods.
+
+20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down
+with him in the dust.
+
+20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
+his tongue; 20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it
+still within his mouth: 20:14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it
+is the gall of asps within him.
+
+20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:
+God shall cast them out of his belly.
+
+20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay
+him.
+
+20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and
+butter.
+
+20:18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not
+swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be,
+and he shall not rejoice therein.
+
+20:19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he
+hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; 20:20 Surely
+he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that
+which he desired.
+
+20:21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man
+look for his goods.
+
+20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every
+hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
+
+20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of
+his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
+
+20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall
+strike him through.
+
+20:25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering
+sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
+
+20:26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown
+shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his
+tabernacle.
+
+20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise
+up against him.
+
+20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow
+away in the day of his wrath.
+
+20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage
+appointed unto him by God.
+
+21:1 But Job answered and said, 21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and
+let this be your consolations.
+
+21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock
+on.
+
+21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should
+not my spirit be troubled? 21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay
+your hand upon your mouth.
+
+21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my
+flesh.
+
+21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in
+power? 21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and
+their offspring before their eyes.
+
+21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon
+them.
+
+21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and
+casteth not her calf.
+
+21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their
+children dance.
+
+21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the
+organ.
+
+21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the
+grave.
+
+21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
+the knowledge of thy ways.
+
+21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit
+should we have, if we pray unto him? 21:16 Lo, their good is not in
+their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
+
+21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh
+their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
+
+21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm
+carrieth away.
+
+21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him,
+and he shall know it.
+
+21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the
+wrath of the Almighty.
+
+21:21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the
+number of his months is cut off in the midst? 21:22 Shall any teach
+God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
+
+21:23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
+
+21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with
+marrow.
+
+21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never
+eateth with pleasure.
+
+21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover
+them.
+
+21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
+wrongfully imagine against me.
+
+21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the
+dwelling places of the wicked? 21:29 Have ye not asked them that go
+by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 21:30 That the wicked is
+reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the
+day of wrath.
+
+21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him
+what he hath done? 21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and
+shall remain in the tomb.
+
+21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man
+shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
+
+21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
+remaineth falsehood? 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and
+said, 22:2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be
+profitable unto himself? 22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty,
+that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy
+ways perfect? 22:4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he
+enter with thee into judgment? 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and
+thine iniquities infinite? 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy
+brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
+
+22:7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast
+withholden bread from the hungry.
+
+22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable
+man dwelt in it.
+
+22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless
+have been broken.
+
+22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth
+thee; 22:11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of
+waters cover thee.
+
+22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the
+stars, how high they are! 22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know?
+can he judge through the dark cloud? 22:14 Thick clouds are a
+covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of
+heaven.
+
+22:15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
+22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown
+with a flood: 22:17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can
+the Almighty do for them? 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good
+things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
+
+22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them
+to scorn.
+
+22:20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them
+the fire consumeth.
+
+22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good
+shall come unto thee.
+
+22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his
+words in thine heart.
+
+22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou
+shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
+
+22:24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as
+the stones of the brooks.
+
+22:25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have
+plenty of silver.
+
+22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt
+lift up thy face unto God.
+
+22:27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and
+thou shalt pay thy vows.
+
+22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto
+thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
+
+22:29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting
+up; and he shall save the humble person.
+
+22:30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered
+by the pureness of thine hands.
+
+23:1 Then Job answered and said, 23:2 Even to day is my complaint
+bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
+
+23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to
+his seat! 23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth
+with arguments.
+
+23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand
+what he would say unto me.
+
+23:6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would
+put strength in me.
+
+23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be
+delivered for ever from my judge.
+
+23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I
+cannot perceive him: 23:9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I
+cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot
+see him: 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried
+me, I shall come forth as gold.
+
+23:11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not
+declined.
+
+23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I
+have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
+
+23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul
+desireth, even that he doeth.
+
+23:14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many
+such things are with him.
+
+23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am
+afraid of him.
+
+23:16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
+23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he
+covered the darkness from my face.
+
+24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that
+know him not see his days? 24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they
+violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
+
+24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s
+ox for a pledge.
+
+24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
+themselves together.
+
+24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work;
+rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and
+for their children.
+
+24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the
+vintage of the wicked.
+
+24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no
+covering in the cold.
+
+24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the
+rock for want of a shelter.
+
+24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of
+the poor.
+
+24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away
+the sheaf from the hungry; 24:11 Which make oil within their walls,
+and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
+
+24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded
+crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
+
+24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not
+the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
+
+24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,
+and in the night is as a thief.
+
+24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying,
+No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
+
+24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for
+themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
+
+24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one
+know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
+
+24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth:
+he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
+
+24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave
+those which have sinned.
+
+24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him;
+he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a
+tree.
+
+24:21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not
+good to the widow.
+
+24:22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no
+man is sure of life.
+
+24:23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet
+his eyes are upon their ways.
+
+24:24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought
+low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the
+tops of the ears of corn.
+
+24:25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my
+speech nothing worth? 25:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
+said, 25:2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high
+places.
+
+25:3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his
+light arise? 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can
+he be clean that is born of a woman? 25:5 Behold even to the moon,
+and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
+
+25:6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a
+worm? 26:1 But Job answered and said, 26:2 How hast thou helped him
+that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
+26:3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast
+thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 26:4 To whom hast thou
+uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? 26:5 Dead things are
+formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
+
+26:6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
+
+26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the
+earth upon nothing.
+
+26:8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is
+not rent under them.
+
+26:9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud
+upon it.
+
+26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and
+night come to an end.
+
+26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
+
+26:12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he
+smiteth through the proud.
+
+26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath
+formed the crooked serpent.
+
+26:14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is
+heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? 27:1
+Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 27:2 As God liveth, who
+hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
+27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my
+nostrils; 27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter
+deceit.
+
+27:5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not
+remove mine integrity from me.
+
+27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart
+shall not reproach me so long as I live.
+
+27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me
+as the unrighteous.
+
+27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
+when God taketh away his soul? 27:9 Will God hear his cry when
+trouble cometh upon him? 27:10 Will he delight himself in the
+Almighty? will he always call upon God? 27:11 I will teach you by the
+hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
+
+27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus
+altogether vain? 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
+and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the
+Almighty.
+
+27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his
+offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
+
+27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his
+widows shall not weep.
+
+27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the
+clay; 27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
+innocent shall divide the silver.
+
+27:18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper
+maketh.
+
+27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he
+openeth his eyes, and he is not.
+
+27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away
+in the night.
+
+27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a
+storm hurleth him out of his place.
+
+27:22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee
+out of his hand.
+
+27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his
+place.
+
+28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where
+they fine it.
+
+28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the
+stone.
+
+28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection:
+the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
+
+28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters
+forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
+
+28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned
+up as it were fire.
+
+28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of
+gold.
+
+28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s
+eye hath not seen: 28:8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the
+fierce lion passed by it.
+
+28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the
+mountains by the roots.
+
+28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every
+precious thing.
+
+28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is
+hid bringeth he forth to light.
+
+28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of
+understanding? 28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it
+found in the land of the living.
+
+28:14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not
+with me.
+
+28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
+for the price thereof.
+
+28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious
+onyx, or the sapphire.
+
+28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it
+shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
+
+28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price
+of wisdom is above rubies.
+
+28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be
+valued with pure gold.
+
+28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
+understanding? 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
+and kept close from the fowls of the air.
+
+28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with
+our ears.
+
+28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
+thereof.
+
+28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the
+whole heaven; 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth
+the waters by measure.
+
+28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning
+of the thunder: 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared
+it, yea, and searched it out.
+
+28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is
+wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
+
+29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 29:2 Oh that I were
+as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 29:3 When his
+candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through
+darkness; 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of
+God was upon my tabernacle; 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me,
+when my children were about me; 29:6 When I washed my steps with
+butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; 29:7 When I went out
+to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
+29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and
+stood up.
+
+29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their
+mouth.
+
+29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the
+roof of their mouth.
+
+29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw
+me, it gave witness to me: 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that
+cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
+
+29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I
+caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
+
+29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a
+robe and a diadem.
+
+29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
+
+29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I
+searched out.
+
+29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of
+his teeth.
+
+29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my
+days as the sand.
+
+29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night
+upon my branch.
+
+29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
+
+29:21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my
+counsel.
+
+29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon
+them.
+
+29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their
+mouth wide as for the latter rain.
+
+29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my
+countenance they cast not down.
+
+29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the
+army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
+
+30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose
+fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
+
+30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom
+old age was perished? 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary;
+fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
+
+30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their
+meat.
+
+30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as
+after a thief;) 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves
+of the earth, and in the rocks.
+
+30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were
+gathered together.
+
+30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were
+viler than the earth.
+
+30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
+
+30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in
+my face.
+
+30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also
+let loose the bridle before me.
+
+30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and
+they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
+
+30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no
+helper.
+
+30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the
+desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
+
+30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and
+my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
+
+30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction
+have taken hold upon me.
+
+30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews
+take no rest.
+
+30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it
+bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
+
+30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and
+ashes.
+
+30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou
+regardest me not.
+
+30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest
+thyself against me.
+
+30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it,
+and dissolvest my substance.
+
+30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
+appointed for all living.
+
+30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though
+they cry in his destruction.
+
+30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul
+grieved for the poor? 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came
+unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
+
+30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction
+prevented me.
+
+30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the
+congregation.
+
+30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
+
+30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
+
+30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice
+of them that weep.
+
+31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a
+maid? 31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what
+inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 31:3 Is not destruction to
+the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 31:4
+Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 31:5 If I have
+walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 31:6 Let me
+be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
+
+31:7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked
+after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; 31:8 Then
+let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
+
+31:9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid
+wait at my neighbour’s door; 31:10 Then let my wife grind unto
+another, and let others bow down upon her.
+
+31:11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be
+punished by the judges.
+
+31:12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root
+out all mine increase.
+
+31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
+maidservant, when they contended with me; 31:14 What then shall I do
+when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
+31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one
+fashion us in the womb? 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their
+desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 31:17 Or have
+eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten
+thereof; 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a
+father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;) 31:19 If I have
+seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
+31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with
+the fleece of my sheep; 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the
+fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: 31:22 Then let mine arm
+fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
+
+31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of
+his highness I could not endure.
+
+31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou
+art my confidence; 31:25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and
+because mine hand had gotten much; 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it
+shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 31:27 And my heart hath
+been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 31:28 This
+also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have
+denied the God that is above.
+
+31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted
+up myself when evil found him: 31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth
+to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
+
+31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his
+flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
+
+31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors
+to the traveller.
+
+31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity
+in my bosom: 31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt
+of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the
+door? 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
+Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
+
+31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown
+to me.
+
+31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince
+would I go near unto him.
+
+31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof
+complain; 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or
+have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 31:40 Let thistles
+grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley.
+
+The words of Job are ended.
+
+32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous
+in his own eyes.
+
+32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the
+Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled,
+because he justified himself rather than God.
+
+32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because
+they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
+
+32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder
+than he.
+
+32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these
+three men, then his wrath was kindled.
+
+32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am
+young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew
+you mine opinion.
+
+32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach
+wisdom.
+
+32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty
+giveth them understanding.
+
+32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
+judgment.
+
+32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
+
+32:11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons,
+whilst ye searched out what to say.
+
+32:12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you
+that convinced Job, or that answered his words: 32:13 Lest ye should
+say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
+
+32:14 Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I
+answer him with your speeches.
+
+32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
+
+32:16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and
+answered no more;) 32:17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also
+will shew mine opinion.
+
+32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
+
+32:19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to
+burst like new bottles.
+
+32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and
+answer.
+
+32:21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me
+give flattering titles unto man.
+
+32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker
+would soon take me away.
+
+33:1 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all
+my words.
+
+33:2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my
+mouth.
+
+33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips
+shall utter knowledge clearly.
+
+33:4 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty
+hath given me life.
+
+33:5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand
+up.
+
+33:6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am
+formed out of the clay.
+
+33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my
+hand be heavy upon thee.
+
+33:8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the
+voice of thy words, saying, 33:9 I am clean without transgression, I
+am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
+
+33:10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his
+enemy, 33:11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my
+paths.
+
+33:12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God
+is greater than man.
+
+33:13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of
+any of his matters.
+
+33:14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
+
+33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth
+upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; 33:16 Then he openeth the ears
+of men, and sealeth their instruction, 33:17 That he may withdraw man
+from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
+
+33:18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from
+perishing by the sword.
+
+33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude
+of his bones with strong pain: 33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread,
+and his soul dainty meat.
+
+33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his
+bones that were not seen stick out.
+
+33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the
+destroyers.
+
+33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a
+thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: 33:24 Then he is gracious
+unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have
+found a ransom.
+
+33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to
+the days of his youth: 33:26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be
+favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will
+render unto man his righteousness.
+
+33:27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and
+perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; 33:28 He will
+deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the
+light.
+
+33:29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, 33:30 To
+bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of
+the living.
+
+33:31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will
+speak.
+
+33:32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to
+justify thee.
+
+33:33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee
+wisdom.
+
+34:1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said, 34:2 Hear my words, O ye
+wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
+
+34:3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
+
+34:4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is
+good.
+
+34:5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my
+judgment.
+
+34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without
+transgression.
+
+34:7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? 34:8
+Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with
+wicked men.
+
+34:9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should
+delight himself with God.
+
+34:10 Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it
+from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he
+should commit iniquity.
+
+34:11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every
+man to find according to his ways.
+
+34:12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty
+pervert judgment.
+
+34:13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed
+the whole world? 34:14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather
+unto himself his spirit and his breath; 34:15 All flesh shall perish
+together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
+
+34:16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice
+of my words.
+
+34:17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn
+him that is most just? 34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art
+wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? 34:19 How much less to him
+that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more
+than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
+
+34:20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at
+midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without
+hand.
+
+34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his
+goings.
+
+34:22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of
+iniquity may hide themselves.
+
+34:23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should
+enter into judgment with God.
+
+34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set
+others in their stead.
+
+34:25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the
+night, so that they are destroyed.
+
+34:26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
+34:27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of
+his ways: 34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto
+him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
+
+34:29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he
+hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a
+nation, or against a man only: 34:30 That the hypocrite reign not,
+lest the people be ensnared.
+
+34:31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne
+chastisement, I will not offend any more: 34:32 That which I see not
+teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
+
+34:33 Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it,
+whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore
+speak what thou knowest.
+
+34:34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken
+unto me.
+
+34:35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without
+wisdom.
+
+34:36 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his
+answers for wicked men.
+
+34:37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands
+among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
+
+35:1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, 35:2 Thinkest thou this to be
+right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s? 35:3
+For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit
+shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 35:4 I will answer thee,
+and thy companions with thee.
+
+35:5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are
+higher than thou.
+
+35:6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy
+transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 35:7 If thou
+be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine
+hand? 35:8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy
+righteousness may profit the son of man.
+
+35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed
+to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
+
+35:10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the
+night; 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and
+maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? 35:12 There they cry, but
+none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
+
+35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty
+regard it.
+
+35:14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is
+before him; therefore trust thou in him.
+
+35:15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet
+he knoweth it not in great extremity: 35:16 Therefore doth Job open
+his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
+
+36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said, 36:2 Suffer me a little, and I
+will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.
+
+36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe
+righteousness to my Maker.
+
+36:4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in
+knowledge is with thee.
+
+36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in
+strength and wisdom.
+
+36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the
+poor.
+
+36:7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings
+are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they
+are exalted.
+
+36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of
+affliction; 36:9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their
+transgressions that they have exceeded.
+
+36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that
+they return from iniquity.
+
+36:11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in
+prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
+
+36:12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they
+shall die without knowledge.
+
+36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he
+bindeth them.
+
+36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
+
+36:15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears
+in oppression.
+
+36:16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a
+broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be
+set on thy table should be full of fatness.
+
+36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and
+justice take hold on thee.
+
+36:18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his
+stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
+
+36:19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of
+strength.
+
+36:20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
+
+36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather
+than affliction.
+
+36:22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? 36:23
+Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought
+iniquity? 36:24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men
+behold.
+
+36:25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
+
+36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the
+number of his years be searched out.
+
+36:27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain
+according to the vapour thereof: 36:28 Which the clouds do drop and
+distil upon man abundantly.
+
+36:29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the
+noise of his tabernacle? 36:30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon
+it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
+
+36:31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
+
+36:32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to
+shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
+
+36:33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also
+concerning the vapour.
+
+37:1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
+
+37:2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth
+out of his mouth.
+
+37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto
+the ends of the earth.
+
+37:4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his
+excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
+
+37:5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth
+he, which we cannot comprehend.
+
+37:6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the
+small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
+
+37:7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his
+work.
+
+37:8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
+
+37:9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
+
+37:10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the
+waters is straitened.
+
+37:11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his
+bright cloud: 37:12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that
+they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world
+in the earth.
+
+37:13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land,
+or for mercy.
+
+37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous
+works of God.
+
+37:15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of
+his cloud to shine? 37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the
+clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
+37:17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the
+south wind? 37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is
+strong, and as a molten looking glass? 37:19 Teach us what we shall
+say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
+
+37:20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he
+shall be swallowed up.
+
+37:21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but
+the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
+
+37:22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible
+majesty.
+
+37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent
+in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not
+afflict.
+
+37:24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise
+of heart.
+
+38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 38:2
+Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 38:3
+Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and
+answer thou me.
+
+38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
+declare, if thou hast understanding.
+
+38:5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath
+stretched the line upon it? 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations
+thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 38:7 When the
+morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
+38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it
+had issued out of the womb? 38:9 When I made the cloud the garment
+thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 38:10 And brake up
+for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 38:11 And said,
+Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud
+waves be stayed? 38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy
+days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 38:13 That it might
+take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken
+out of it? 38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as
+a garment.
+
+38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm
+shall be broken.
+
+38:16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou
+walked in the search of the depth? 38:17 Have the gates of death been
+opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
+38:18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou
+knowest it all.
+
+38:19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness,
+where is the place thereof, 38:20 That thou shouldest take it to the
+bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house
+thereof? 38:21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or
+because the number of thy days is great? 38:22 Hast thou entered into
+the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the
+hail, 38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against
+the day of battle and war? 38:24 By what way is the light parted,
+which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? 38:25 Who hath divided
+a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the
+lightning of thunder; 38:26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no
+man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 38:27 To satisfy
+the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb
+to spring forth? 38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten
+the drops of dew? 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary
+frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 38:30 The waters are hid as
+with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
+
+38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the
+bands of Orion? 38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?
+or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 38:33 Knowest thou the
+ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the
+earth? 38:34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that
+abundance of waters may cover thee? 38:35 Canst thou send lightnings,
+that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are? 38:36 Who hath put
+wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the
+heart? 38:37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the
+bottles of heaven, 38:38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the
+clods cleave fast together? 38:39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the
+lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, 38:40 When they couch
+in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? 38:41 Who
+provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God,
+they wander for lack of meat.
+
+39:1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring
+forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 39:2 Canst thou
+number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they
+bring forth? 39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young
+ones, they cast out their sorrows.
+
+39:4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they
+go forth, and return not unto them.
+
+39:5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands
+of the wild ass? 39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the
+barren land his dwellings.
+
+39:7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the
+crying of the driver.
+
+39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after
+every green thing.
+
+39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
+39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will
+he harrow the valleys after thee? 39:11 Wilt thou trust him, because
+his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? 39:12
+Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it
+into thy barn? 39:13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks?
+or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? 39:14 Which leaveth her eggs
+in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 39:15 And forgetteth that the
+foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
+
+39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not
+hers: her labour is in vain without fear; 39:17 Because God hath
+deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
+
+39:18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse
+and his rider.
+
+39:19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck
+with thunder? 39:20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the
+glory of his nostrils is terrible.
+
+39:21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth
+on to meet the armed men.
+
+39:22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he
+back from the sword.
+
+39:23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the
+shield.
+
+39:24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither
+believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
+
+39:25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle
+afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
+
+39:26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward
+the south? 39:27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her
+nest on high? 39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the
+crag of the rock, and the strong place.
+
+39:29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
+
+39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are,
+there is she.
+
+40:1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, 40:2 Shall he that
+contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let
+him answer it.
+
+40:3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 40:4 Behold, I am vile;
+what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
+
+40:5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will
+proceed no further.
+
+40:6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
+40:7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and
+declare thou unto me.
+
+40:8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that
+thou mayest be righteous? 40:9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst
+thou thunder with a voice like him? 40:10 Deck thyself now with
+majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
+
+40:11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is
+proud, and abase him.
+
+40:12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread
+down the wicked in their place.
+
+40:13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
+
+40:14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can
+save thee.
+
+40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as
+an ox.
+
+40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the
+navel of his belly.
+
+40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are
+wrapped together.
+
+40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars
+of iron.
+
+40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make
+his sword to approach unto him.
+
+40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts
+of the field play.
+
+40:21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and
+fens.
+
+40:22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the
+brook compass him about.
+
+40:23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth
+that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
+
+40:24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
+
+41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a
+cord which thou lettest down? 41:2 Canst thou put an hook into his
+nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 41:3 Will he make many
+supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? 41:4
+Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant
+for ever? 41:5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou
+bind him for thy maidens? 41:6 Shall the companions make a banquet of
+him? shall they part him among the merchants? 41:7 Canst thou fill
+his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? 41:8 Lay
+thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
+
+41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down
+even at the sight of him? 41:10 None is so fierce that dare stir him
+up: who then is able to stand before me? 41:11 Who hath prevented me,
+that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
+
+41:12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely
+proportion.
+
+41:13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him
+with his double bridle? 41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? his
+teeth are terrible round about.
+
+41:15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
+
+41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
+
+41:17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they
+cannot be sundered.
+
+41:18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the
+eyelids of the morning.
+
+41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
+
+41:20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or
+caldron.
+
+41:21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
+
+41:22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy
+before him.
+
+41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in
+themselves; they cannot be moved.
+
+41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the
+nether millstone.
+
+41:25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of
+breakings they purify themselves.
+
+41:26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the
+dart, nor the habergeon.
+
+41:27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
+
+41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him
+into stubble.
+
+41:29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a
+spear.
+
+41:30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things
+upon the mire.
+
+41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a
+pot of ointment.
+
+41:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to
+be hoary.
+
+41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
+
+41:34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children
+of pride.
+
+42:1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 42:2 I know that thou canst
+do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
+
+42:3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I
+uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I
+knew not.
+
+42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee,
+and declare thou unto me.
+
+42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye
+seeth thee.
+
+42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
+
+42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto
+Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled
+against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of
+me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
+
+42:8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go
+to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and
+my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal
+with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing
+which is right, like my servant Job.
+
+42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the
+Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the
+LORD also accepted Job.
+
+42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his
+friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
+
+42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters,
+and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat
+bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him
+over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also
+gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
+
+42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his
+beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand
+camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
+
+42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
+
+42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the
+second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
+
+42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters
+of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
+
+42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his
+sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
+
+42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of Psalms
+
+
+1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
+nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
+scornful.
+
+1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he
+meditate day and night.
+
+1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
+bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not
+wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
+
+1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind
+driveth away.
+
+1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners
+in the congregation of the righteous.
+
+1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the
+ungodly shall perish.
+
+2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
+
+2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel
+together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
+
+2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from
+us.
+
+2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have
+them in derision.
+
+2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his
+sore displeasure.
+
+2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
+
+2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my
+Son; this day have I begotten thee.
+
+2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine
+inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
+
+2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in
+pieces like a potter’s vessel.
+
+2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of
+the earth.
+
+2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
+
+2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when
+his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their
+trust in him.
+
+3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that
+rise up against me.
+
+3:2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in
+God.
+
+Selah.
+
+3:3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up
+of mine head.
+
+3:4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his
+holy hill. Selah.
+
+3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
+
+3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set
+themselves against me round about.
+
+3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine
+enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the
+ungodly.
+
+3:8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy
+people.
+
+Selah.
+
+4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged
+me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
+
+4:2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how
+long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
+
+4:3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for
+himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
+
+4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your
+bed, and be still. Selah.
+
+4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the
+LORD.
+
+4:6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou
+up the light of thy countenance upon us.
+
+4:7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that
+their corn and their wine increased.
+
+4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only
+makest me dwell in safety.
+
+5:1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
+
+5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto
+thee will I pray.
+
+5:3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning
+will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
+
+5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither
+shall evil dwell with thee.
+
+5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers
+of iniquity.
+
+5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor
+the bloody and deceitful man.
+
+5:7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy
+mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
+
+5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;
+make thy way straight before my face.
+
+5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is
+very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with
+their tongue.
+
+5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;
+cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have
+rebelled against thee.
+
+5:11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them
+ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that
+love thy name be joyful in thee.
+
+5:12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou
+compass him as with a shield.
+
+6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy
+hot displeasure.
+
+6:2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my
+bones are vexed.
+
+6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
+
+6:4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.
+
+6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who
+shall give thee thanks?
+
+6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim;
+I water my couch with my tears.
+
+6:7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of
+all mine enemies.
+
+6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath
+heard the voice of my weeping.
+
+6:9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my
+prayer.
+
+6:10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return
+and be ashamed suddenly.
+
+7:1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them
+that persecute me, and deliver me:
+
+7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while
+there is none to deliver.
+
+7:3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my
+hands;
+
+7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea,
+I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
+
+7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread
+down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
+
+7:6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage
+of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast
+commanded.
+
+7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for
+their sakes therefore return thou on high.
+
+7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my
+righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
+
+7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish
+the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
+
+7:10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
+
+7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every
+day.
+
+7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and
+made it ready.
+
+7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he
+ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
+
+7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief,
+and brought forth falsehood.
+
+7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which
+he made.
+
+7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent
+dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
+
+7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will
+sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
+
+8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who
+hast set thy glory above the heavens.
+
+8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
+strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy
+and the avenger.
+
+8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and
+the stars, which thou hast ordained;
+
+8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man,
+that thou visitest him?
+
+8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
+crowned him with glory and honour.
+
+8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou
+hast put all things under his feet:
+
+8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
+
+8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever
+passeth through the paths of the seas.
+
+8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
+
+
+9:1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth
+all thy marvellous works.
+
+9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy
+name, O thou most High.
+
+9:3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at
+thy presence.
+
+9:4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the
+throne judging right.
+
+9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked,
+thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
+
+9:6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou
+hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
+
+9:7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne
+for judgment.
+
+9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister
+judgment to the people in uprightness.
+
+9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in
+times of trouble.
+
+9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for
+thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
+
+9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among
+the people his doings.
+
+9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he
+forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
+
+9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of
+them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
+
+9:14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter
+of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
+
+9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net
+which they hid is their own foot taken.
+
+9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked
+is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
+
+9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that
+forget God.
+
+9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of
+the poor shall not perish for ever.
+
+9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in
+thy sight.
+
+9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to
+be but men. Selah.
+
+10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in
+times of trouble?
+
+10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
+taken in the devices that they have imagined.
+
+10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the
+covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
+
+10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek
+after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
+
+10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of
+his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
+
+10:6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall
+never be in adversity.
+
+10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
+tongue is mischief and vanity.
+
+10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret
+places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against
+the poor.
+
+10:9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait
+to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into
+his net.
+
+10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
+his strong ones.
+
+10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
+face; he will never see it.
+
+10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
+
+10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
+heart, Thou wilt not require it.
+
+10:14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to
+requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou
+art the helper of the fatherless.
+
+10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his
+wickedness till thou find none.
+
+10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out
+of his land.
+
+10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
+prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
+
+10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the
+earth may no more oppress.
+
+11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird
+to your mountain?
+
+11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow
+upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
+
+11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
+
+11:4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven:
+his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
+
+11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth
+violence his soul hateth.
+
+11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an
+horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
+
+11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth
+behold the upright.
+
+12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from
+among the children of men.
+
+12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering
+lips and with a double heart do they speak.
+
+12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that
+speaketh proud things:
+
+12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our
+own: who is lord over us?
+
+12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now
+will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that
+puffeth at him.
+
+12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a
+furnace of earth, purified seven times.
+
+12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this
+generation for ever.
+
+12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
+
+13:1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt
+thou hide thy face from me?
+
+13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my
+heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
+
+13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I
+sleep the sleep of death;
+
+13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that
+trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
+
+13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy
+salvation.
+
+13:6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with
+me.
+
+14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are
+corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth
+good.
+
+14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see
+if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
+
+14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy:
+there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
+
+14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
+people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
+
+14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of
+the righteous.
+
+14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his
+refuge.
+
+14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the
+LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice,
+and Israel shall be glad.
+
+15:1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy
+holy hill?
+
+15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and
+speaketh the truth in his heart.
+
+15:3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his
+neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
+
+15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them
+that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth
+not.
+
+15:5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward
+against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
+
+16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
+
+16:2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my
+goodness extendeth not to thee;
+
+16:3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in
+whom is all my delight.
+
+16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god:
+their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their
+names into my lips.
+
+16:5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou
+maintainest my lot.
+
+16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a
+goodly heritage.
+
+16:7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also
+instruct me in the night seasons.
+
+16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right
+hand, I shall not be moved.
+
+16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also
+shall rest in hope.
+
+16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
+suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
+
+16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness
+of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
+
+17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my
+prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
+
+17:2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes
+behold the things that are equal.
+
+17:3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night;
+thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my
+mouth shall not transgress.
+
+17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept
+me from the paths of the destroyer.
+
+17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
+
+17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
+thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
+
+17:7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy
+right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up
+against them.
+
+17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy
+wings,
+
+17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who
+compass me about.
+
+17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak
+proudly.
+
+17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their
+eyes bowing down to the earth;
+
+17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a
+young lion lurking in secret places.
+
+17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul
+from the wicked, which is thy sword:
+
+17:14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world,
+which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest
+with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest
+of their substance to their babes.
+
+17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
+satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
+
+18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
+
+18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God,
+my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my
+salvation, and my high tower.
+
+18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall
+I be saved from mine enemies.
+
+18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men
+made me afraid.
+
+18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death
+prevented me.
+
+18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he
+heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even
+into his ears.
+
+18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the
+hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
+
+18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
+mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
+
+18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under
+his feet.
+
+18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the
+wings of the wind.
+
+18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him
+were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
+
+18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,
+hail stones and coals of fire.
+
+18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his
+voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
+
+18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out
+lightnings, and discomfited them.
+
+18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of
+the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the
+breath of thy nostrils.
+
+18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
+
+18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated
+me: for they were too strong for me.
+
+18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my
+stay.
+
+18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,
+because he delighted in me.
+
+18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to
+the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
+
+18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
+departed from my God.
+
+18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his
+statutes from me.
+
+18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine
+iniquity.
+
+18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
+righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
+
+18:25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
+upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
+
+18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward
+thou wilt shew thyself froward.
+
+18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down
+high looks.
+
+18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my
+darkness.
+
+18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I
+leaped over a wall.
+
+18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried:
+he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
+
+18:31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
+
+18:32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way
+perfect.
+
+18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high
+places.
+
+18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by
+mine arms.
+
+18:35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
+right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
+
+18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
+
+18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I
+turn again till they were consumed.
+
+18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are
+fallen under my feet.
+
+18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast
+subdued under me those that rose up against me.
+
+18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might
+destroy them that hate me.
+
+18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD,
+but he answered them not.
+
+18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did
+cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
+
+18:43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and
+thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not
+known shall serve me.
+
+18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers
+shall submit themselves unto me.
+
+18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close
+places.
+
+18:46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my
+salvation be exalted.
+
+18:47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
+
+18:48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up
+above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the
+violent man.
+
+18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
+heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
+
+18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to
+his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
+
+19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth
+his handywork.
+
+19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
+knowledge.
+
+19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
+
+19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to
+the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
+
+19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth
+as a strong man to run a race.
+
+19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit
+unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
+
+19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the
+testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
+
+19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the
+commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
+
+19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments
+of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
+
+19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
+sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
+
+19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them
+there is great reward.
+
+19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret
+faults.
+
+19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not
+have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be
+innocent from the great transgression.
+
+19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
+acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
+
+20:1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of
+Jacob defend thee;
+
+20:2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of
+Zion;
+
+20:3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice;
+Selah.
+
+20:4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy
+counsel.
+
+20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we
+will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
+
+20:6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him
+from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
+
+20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember
+the name of the LORD our God.
+
+20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand
+upright.
+
+20:9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
+
+21:1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation
+how greatly shall he rejoice!
+
+21:2 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden
+the request of his lips. Selah.
+
+21:3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou
+settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
+
+21:4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of
+days for ever and ever.
+
+21:5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou
+laid upon him.
+
+21:6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him
+exceeding glad with thy countenance.
+
+21:7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the
+most High he shall not be moved.
+
+21:8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall
+find out those that hate thee.
+
+21:9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger:
+the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour
+them.
+
+21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed
+from among the children of men.
+
+21:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous
+device, which they are not able to perform.
+
+21:12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt
+make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
+
+21:13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing
+and praise thy power.
+
+22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far
+from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
+
+22:2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the
+night season, and am not silent.
+
+22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
+
+22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver
+them.
+
+22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee,
+and were not confounded.
+
+22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of
+the people.
+
+22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip,
+they shake the head, saying,
+
+22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver
+him, seeing he delighted in him.
+
+22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me
+hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
+
+22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my
+mother’s belly.
+
+22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to
+help.
+
+22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset
+me round.
+
+22:13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a
+roaring lion.
+
+22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:
+my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
+
+22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth
+to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
+
+22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
+inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
+
+22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
+
+22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
+
+22:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee
+to help me.
+
+22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the
+dog.
+
+22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the
+horns of the unicorns.
+
+22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
+congregation will I praise thee.
+
+22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
+glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
+
+22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
+afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried
+unto him, he heard.
+
+22:25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay
+my vows before them that fear him.
+
+22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD
+that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
+
+22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:
+and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
+
+22:28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the
+nations.
+
+22:29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they
+that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive
+his own soul.
+
+22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
+generation.
+
+22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
+people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
+
+23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
+
+23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside
+the still waters.
+
+23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness
+for his name’s sake.
+
+23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
+will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they
+comfort me.
+
+23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
+thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
+
+23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
+life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
+
+24:1 The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and
+they that dwell therein.
+
+24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the
+floods.
+
+24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in
+his holy place?
+
+24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted
+up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
+
+24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness
+from the God of his salvation.
+
+24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face,
+O Jacob. Selah.
+
+24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
+doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
+
+24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD
+mighty in battle.
+
+24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting
+doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
+
+24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of
+glory. Selah.
+
+25:1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
+
+25:2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine
+enemies triumph over me.
+
+25:3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed
+which transgress without cause.
+
+25:4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
+
+25:5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my
+salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
+
+25:6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses;
+for they have been ever of old.
+
+25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
+according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O
+LORD.
+
+25:8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in
+the way.
+
+25:9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach
+his way.
+
+25:10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep
+his covenant and his testimonies.
+
+25:11 For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is
+great.
+
+25:12 What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the
+way that he shall choose.
+
+25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the
+earth.
+
+25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will
+shew them his covenant.
+
+25:15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet
+out of the net.
+
+25:16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and
+afflicted.
+
+25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my
+distresses.
+
+25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
+
+25:19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with
+cruel hatred.
+
+25:20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put
+my trust in thee.
+
+25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
+
+25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
+
+26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have
+trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
+
+26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
+
+26:3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in
+thy truth.
+
+26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with
+dissemblers.
+
+26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit
+with the wicked.
+
+26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
+altar, O LORD:
+
+26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of
+all thy wondrous works.
+
+26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place
+where thine honour dwelleth.
+
+26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
+
+26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of
+bribes.
+
+26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be
+merciful unto me.
+
+26:12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I
+bless the LORD.
+
+27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the
+LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
+
+27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to
+eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
+
+27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear:
+though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
+
+27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after;
+that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to
+behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
+
+27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in
+the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon
+a rock.
+
+27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round
+about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
+I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
+
+27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me,
+and answer me.
+
+27:8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy
+face, LORD, will I seek.
+
+27:9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger:
+thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my
+salvation.
+
+27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take
+me up.
+
+27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because
+of mine enemies.
+
+27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false
+witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
+
+27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the
+LORD in the land of the living.
+
+27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
+thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
+
+28:1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest,
+if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
+
+28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I
+lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
+
+28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
+iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in
+their hearts.
+
+28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
+wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their
+hands; render to them their desert.
+
+28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation
+of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
+
+28:6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
+supplications.
+
+28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him,
+and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my
+song will I praise him.
+
+28:8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his
+anointed.
+
+28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and
+lift them up for ever.
+
+29:1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and
+strength.
+
+29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD
+in the beauty of holiness.
+
+29:3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory
+thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
+
+29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full
+of majesty.
+
+29:5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh
+the cedars of Lebanon.
+
+29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like
+a young unicorn.
+
+29:7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
+
+29:8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh
+the wilderness of Kadesh.
+
+29:9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth
+the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
+
+29:10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for
+ever.
+
+29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless
+his people with peace.
+
+30:1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast
+not made my foes to rejoice over me.
+
+30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
+
+30:3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast
+kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
+
+30:4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the
+remembrance of his holiness.
+
+30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life:
+weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
+
+30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
+
+30:7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong:
+thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
+
+30:8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
+
+30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
+Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
+
+30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
+
+30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put
+off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
+
+30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be
+silent.
+
+O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
+
+31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed:
+deliver me in thy righteousness.
+
+31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong
+rock, for an house of defence to save me.
+
+31:3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s
+sake lead me, and guide me.
+
+31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for
+thou art my strength.
+
+31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD
+God of truth.
+
+31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the
+LORD.
+
+31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered
+my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
+
+31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set
+my feet in a large room.
+
+31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is
+consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
+
+31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my
+strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
+
+31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my
+neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me
+without fled from me.
+
+31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken
+vessel.
+
+31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side:
+while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away
+my life.
+
+31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
+
+31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine
+enemies, and from them that persecute me.
+
+31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy
+mercies’ sake.
+
+31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let
+the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
+
+31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous
+things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
+
+31:19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them
+that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee
+before the sons of men!
+
+31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the
+pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the
+strife of tongues.
+
+31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
+kindness in a strong city.
+
+31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
+nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried
+unto thee.
+
+31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the
+faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
+
+31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye
+that hope in the LORD.
+
+32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is
+covered.
+
+32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and
+in whose spirit there is no guile.
+
+32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all
+the day long.
+
+32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is
+turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
+
+32:5 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid.
+I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou
+forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
+
+32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time
+when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they
+shall not come nigh unto him.
+
+32:7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
+thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
+
+32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt
+go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
+
+32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no
+understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest
+they come near unto thee.
+
+32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the
+LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
+
+32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for
+joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
+
+33:1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the
+upright.
+
+33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an
+instrument of ten strings.
+
+33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
+
+33:4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in
+truth.
+
+33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the
+goodness of the LORD.
+
+33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host
+of them by the breath of his mouth.
+
+33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth
+up the depth in storehouses.
+
+33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the
+world stand in awe of him.
+
+33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
+
+33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he
+maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
+
+33:11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his
+heart to all generations.
+
+33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom
+he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
+
+33:13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
+
+33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
+inhabitants of the earth.
+
+33:15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their
+works.
+
+33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man
+is not delivered by much strength.
+
+33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver
+any by his great strength.
+
+33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon
+them that hope in his mercy;
+
+33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in
+famine.
+
+33:20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
+
+33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in
+his holy name.
+
+33:22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
+
+34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually
+be in my mouth.
+
+34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear
+thereof, and be glad.
+
+34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
+
+34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my
+fears.
+
+34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were
+not ashamed.
+
+34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of
+all his troubles.
+
+34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him,
+and delivereth them.
+
+34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that
+trusteth in him.
+
+34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that
+fear him.
+
+34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek
+the LORD shall not want any good thing.
+
+34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of
+the LORD.
+
+34:12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he
+may see good?
+
+34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
+
+34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
+
+34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are
+open unto their cry.
+
+34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off
+the remembrance of them from the earth.
+
+34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out
+of all their troubles.
+
+34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and
+saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
+
+34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
+delivereth him out of them all.
+
+34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
+
+34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous
+shall be desolate.
+
+34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them
+that trust in him shall be desolate.
+
+35:1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight
+against them that fight against me.
+
+35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
+
+35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
+persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
+
+35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:
+let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
+
+35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
+LORD chase them.
+
+35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD
+persecute them.
+
+35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which
+without cause they have digged for my soul.
+
+35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that
+he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
+
+35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
+salvation.
+
+35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which
+deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor
+and the needy from him that spoileth him?
+
+35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that
+I knew not.
+
+35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
+
+35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I
+humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own
+bosom.
+
+35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I
+bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
+
+35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
+together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me,
+and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
+
+35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
+their teeth.
+
+35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
+destructions, my darling from the lions.
+
+35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise
+thee among much people.
+
+35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
+neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
+
+35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
+against them that are quiet in the land.
+
+35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha,
+aha, our eye hath seen it.
+
+35:22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not
+far from me.
+
+35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause,
+my God and my Lord.
+
+35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let
+them not rejoice over me.
+
+35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let
+them not say, We have swallowed him up.
+
+35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
+rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour
+that magnify themselves against me.
+
+35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
+cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which
+hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
+
+35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise
+all the day long.
+
+36:1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there
+is no fear of God before his eyes.
+
+36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be
+found to be hateful.
+
+36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off
+to be wise, and to do good.
+
+36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way
+that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
+
+36:5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness
+reacheth unto the clouds.
+
+36:6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are
+a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
+
+36:7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
+children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
+
+36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;
+and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
+
+36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see
+light.
+
+36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy
+righteousness to the upright in heart.
+
+36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand
+of the wicked remove me.
+
+36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down,
+and shall not be able to rise.
+
+37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious
+against the workers of iniquity.
+
+37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the
+green herb.
+
+37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land,
+and verily thou shalt be fed.
+
+37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the
+desires of thine heart.
+
+37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
+bring it to pass.
+
+37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy
+judgment as the noonday.
+
+37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
+because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who
+bringeth wicked devices to pass.
+
+37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise
+to do evil.
+
+37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the
+LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
+
+37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou
+shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
+
+37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
+themselves in the abundance of peace.
+
+37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with
+his teeth.
+
+37:13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
+coming.
+
+37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to
+cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright
+conversation.
+
+37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows
+shall be broken.
+
+37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of
+many wicked.
+
+37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
+upholdeth the righteous.
+
+37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance
+shall be for ever.
+
+37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of
+famine they shall be satisfied.
+
+37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall
+be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they
+consume away.
+
+37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
+sheweth mercy, and giveth.
+
+37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they
+that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
+
+37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he
+delighteth in his way.
+
+37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD
+upholdeth him with his hand.
+
+37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the
+righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
+
+37:26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
+
+37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
+
+37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they
+are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
+
+37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for
+ever.
+
+37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
+talketh of judgment.
+
+37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall
+slide.
+
+37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
+
+37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he
+is judged.
+
+37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to
+inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
+
+37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself
+like a green bay tree.
+
+37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but
+he could not be found.
+
+37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
+that man is peace.
+
+37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of
+the wicked shall be cut off.
+
+37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their
+strength in the time of trouble.
+
+37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver
+them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
+
+38:1 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
+displeasure.
+
+38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
+
+38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither
+is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
+
+38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden
+they are too heavy for me.
+
+38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
+
+38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day
+long.
+
+38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no
+soundness in my flesh.
+
+38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the
+disquietness of my heart.
+
+38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid
+from thee.
+
+38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of
+mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
+
+38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my
+kinsmen stand afar off.
+
+38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they
+that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all
+the day long.
+
+38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that
+openeth not his mouth.
+
+38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no
+reproofs.
+
+38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
+
+38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me:
+when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
+
+38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
+
+38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
+
+38:19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that
+hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
+
+38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
+because I follow the thing that good is.
+
+38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
+
+38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
+
+39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
+tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before
+me.
+
+39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my
+sorrow was stirred.
+
+39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:
+then spake I with my tongue,
+
+39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what
+it is: that I may know how frail I am.
+
+39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is
+as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is
+altogether vanity.
+
+Selah.
+
+39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
+disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall
+gather them.
+
+39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
+
+39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach
+of the foolish.
+
+39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
+
+39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
+thine hand.
+
+39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou
+makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is
+vanity. Selah.
+
+39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy
+peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as
+all my fathers were.
+
+39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and
+be no more.
+
+40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and
+heard my cry.
+
+40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
+clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
+
+40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:
+many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
+
+40:4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
+respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
+
+40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast
+done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned
+up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are
+more than can be numbered.
+
+40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
+opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
+
+40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written
+of me,
+
+40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my
+heart.
+
+40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I
+have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
+
+40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have
+declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy
+lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
+
+40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
+lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
+
+40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities
+have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are
+more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
+
+40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
+me.
+
+40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my
+soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that
+wish me evil.
+
+40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto
+me, Aha, aha.
+
+40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
+such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
+
+40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art
+my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
+
+41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver
+him in time of trouble.
+
+41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be
+blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of
+his enemies.
+
+41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou
+wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
+
+41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have
+sinned against thee.
+
+41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name
+perish?
+
+41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth
+iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
+
+41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they
+devise my hurt.
+
+41:8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that
+he lieth he shall rise up no more.
+
+41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
+of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
+
+41:10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I
+may requite them.
+
+41:11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth
+not triumph over me.
+
+41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest
+me before thy face for ever.
+
+41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to
+everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
+
+42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
+after thee, O God.
+
+42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come
+and appear before God?
+
+42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually
+say unto me, Where is thy God?
+
+42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had
+gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with
+the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
+
+42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in
+me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his
+countenance.
+
+42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I
+remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the
+hill Mizar.
+
+42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy
+waves and thy billows are gone over me.
+
+42:8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and
+in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of
+my life.
+
+42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I
+mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
+
+42:10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while
+they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
+
+42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
+within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
+health of my countenance, and my God.
+
+43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O
+deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
+
+43:2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off?
+why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
+
+43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them
+bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
+
+43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:
+yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
+
+43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
+within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health
+of my countenance, and my God.
+
+44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
+what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
+
+44:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst
+them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
+
+44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
+neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine
+arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour
+unto them.
+
+44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
+
+44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will
+we tread them under that rise up against us.
+
+44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
+
+44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
+shame that hated us.
+
+44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.
+
+Selah.
+
+44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth
+with our armies.
+
+44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate
+us spoil for themselves.
+
+44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast
+scattered us among the heathen.
+
+44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy
+wealth by their price.
+
+44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
+derision to them that are round about us.
+
+44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head
+among the people.
+
+44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face
+hath covered me,
+
+44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason
+of the enemy and avenger.
+
+44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
+neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
+
+44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
+from thy way;
+
+44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
+covered us with the shadow of death.
+
+44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our
+hands to a strange god;
+
+44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the
+heart.
+
+44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted
+as sheep for the slaughter.
+
+44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for
+ever.
+
+44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction
+and our oppression?
+
+44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto
+the earth.
+
+44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.
+
+45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I
+have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
+
+45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into
+thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
+
+45:3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and
+thy majesty.
+
+45:4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and
+meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee
+terrible things.
+
+45:5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies;
+whereby the people fall under thee.
+
+45:6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy
+kingdom is a right sceptre.
+
+45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God,
+thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
+fellows.
+
+45:8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of
+the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
+
+45:9 Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right
+hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
+
+45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget
+also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
+
+45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord;
+and worship thou him.
+
+45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the
+rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
+
+45:13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of
+wrought gold.
+
+45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the
+virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
+
+45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall
+enter into the king’s palace.
+
+45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest
+make princes in all the earth.
+
+45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
+therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
+
+46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
+
+46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and
+though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
+
+46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the
+mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
+
+46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of
+God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
+
+46:5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall
+help her, and that right early.
+
+46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice,
+the earth melted.
+
+46:7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
+Selah.
+
+46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made
+in the earth.
+
+46:9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh
+the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in
+the fire.
+
+46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the
+heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
+
+46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
+Selah.
+
+47:1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice
+of triumph.
+
+47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all
+the earth.
+
+47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
+feet.
+
+47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob
+whom he loved. Selah.
+
+47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
+trumpet.
+
+47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
+sing praises.
+
+47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
+understanding.
+
+47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his
+holiness.
+
+47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people
+of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God:
+he is greatly exalted.
+
+48:1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our
+God, in the mountain of his holiness.
+
+48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount
+Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
+
+48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
+
+48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
+
+48:5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and
+hasted away.
+
+48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in
+travail.
+
+48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
+
+48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of
+hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
+
+48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy
+temple.
+
+48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of
+the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
+
+48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
+because of thy judgments.
+
+48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
+thereof.
+
+48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may
+tell it to the generation following.
+
+48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide
+even unto death.
+
+49:1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
+world:
+
+49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
+
+49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
+shall be of understanding.
+
+49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying
+upon the harp.
+
+49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of
+my heels shall compass me about?
+
+49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the
+multitude of their riches;
+
+49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God
+a ransom for him:
+
+49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for
+ever:)
+
+49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
+
+49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
+brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
+
+49:11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for
+ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their
+lands after their own names.
+
+49:12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the
+beasts that perish.
+
+49:13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their
+sayings. Selah.
+
+49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them;
+and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and
+their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
+
+49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he
+shall receive me. Selah.
+
+49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his
+house is increased;
+
+49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
+not descend after him.
+
+49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise
+thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
+
+49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
+see light.
+
+49:20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts
+that perish.
+
+50:1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth
+from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
+
+50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
+
+50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
+devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
+
+50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that
+he may judge his people.
+
+50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
+covenant with me by sacrifice.
+
+50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge
+himself. Selah.
+
+50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify
+against thee: I am God, even thy God.
+
+50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
+offerings, to have been continually before me.
+
+50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy
+folds.
+
+50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a
+thousand hills.
+
+50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of
+the field are mine.
+
+50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine,
+and the fulness thereof.
+
+50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
+
+50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
+High:
+
+50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and
+thou shalt glorify me.
+
+50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
+my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
+
+50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind
+thee.
+
+50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
+hast been partaker with adulterers.
+
+50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
+
+50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest
+thine own mother’s son.
+
+50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest
+that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee,
+and set them in order before thine eyes.
+
+50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in
+pieces, and there be none to deliver.
+
+50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
+his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
+
+51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
+according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
+transgressions.
+
+51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
+
+51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before
+me.
+
+51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy
+sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be
+clear when thou judgest.
+
+51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
+conceive me.
+
+51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
+hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
+
+51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall
+be whiter than snow.
+
+51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast
+broken may rejoice.
+
+51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
+
+51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
+within me.
+
+51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit
+from me.
+
+51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy
+free spirit.
+
+51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be
+converted unto thee.
+
+51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
+salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
+
+51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
+praise.
+
+51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou
+delightest not in burnt offering.
+
+51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a
+contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
+
+51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
+Jerusalem.
+
+51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
+with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer
+bullocks upon thine altar.
+
+52:1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness
+of God endureth continually.
+
+52:2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working
+deceitfully.
+
+52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak
+righteousness. Selah.
+
+52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
+
+52:5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee
+away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of
+the land of the living. Selah.
+
+52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
+
+52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted
+in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his
+wickedness.
+
+52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in
+the mercy of God for ever and ever.
+
+52:9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I
+will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
+
+53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are
+they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth
+good.
+
+53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if
+there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
+
+53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
+filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
+
+53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people
+as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
+
+53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath
+scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put
+them to shame, because God hath despised them.
+
+53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God
+bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and
+Israel shall be glad.
+
+54:1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
+
+54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
+
+54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after
+my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
+
+54:4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my
+soul.
+
+54:5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy
+truth.
+
+54:6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O
+LORD; for it is good.
+
+54:7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath
+seen his desire upon mine enemies.
+
+55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
+supplication.
+
+55:2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a
+noise;
+
+55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of
+the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
+
+55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are
+fallen upon me.
+
+55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
+overwhelmed me.
+
+55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly
+away, and be at rest.
+
+55:7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.
+Selah.
+
+55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
+
+55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen
+violence and strife in the city.
+
+55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief
+also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
+
+55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not
+from her streets.
+
+55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have
+borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself
+against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
+
+55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
+acquaintance.
+
+55:14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God
+in company.
+
+55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell:
+for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
+
+55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
+
+55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud:
+and he shall hear my voice.
+
+55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was
+against me: for there were many with me.
+
+55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old.
+
+Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
+
+55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with
+him: he hath broken his covenant.
+
+55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in
+his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
+
+55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
+shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
+
+55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of
+destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their
+days; but I will trust in thee.
+
+56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he
+fighting daily oppresseth me.
+
+56:2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that
+fight against me, O thou most High.
+
+56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
+
+56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will
+not fear what flesh can do unto me.
+
+56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me
+for evil.
+
+56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark
+my steps, when they wait for my soul.
+
+56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the
+people, O God.
+
+56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle:
+are they not in thy book?
+
+56:9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I
+know; for God is for me.
+
+56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his
+word.
+
+56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do
+unto me.
+
+56:12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
+
+56:13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou
+deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light
+of the living?
+
+57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul
+trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my
+refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
+
+57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all
+things for me.
+
+57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him
+that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and
+his truth.
+
+57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on
+fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and
+their tongue a sharp sword.
+
+57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above
+all the earth.
+
+57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down:
+they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are
+fallen themselves. Selah.
+
+57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give
+praise.
+
+57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake
+early.
+
+57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto
+thee among the nations.
+
+57:10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the
+clouds.
+
+57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be
+above all the earth.
+
+58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge
+uprightly, O ye sons of men?
+
+58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your
+hands in the earth.
+
+58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as
+they be born, speaking lies.
+
+58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the
+deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
+
+58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never
+so wisely.
+
+58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great
+teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
+
+58:7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he
+bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
+
+58:8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like
+the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
+
+58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as
+with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
+
+58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he
+shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
+
+58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
+righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
+
+59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that
+rise up against me.
+
+59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody
+men.
+
+59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered
+against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
+
+59:4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help
+me, and behold.
+
+59:5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to
+visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.
+Selah.
+
+59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go
+round about the city.
+
+59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their
+lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
+
+59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the
+heathen in derision.
+
+59:9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my
+defence.
+
+59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my
+desire upon mine enemies.
+
+59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power;
+and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
+
+59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them
+even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they
+speak.
+
+59:13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and
+let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth.
+Selah.
+
+59:14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a
+dog, and go round about the city.
+
+59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not
+satisfied.
+
+59:16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy
+mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the
+day of my trouble.
+
+59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence,
+and the God of my mercy.
+
+60:1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast
+been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
+
+60:2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal
+the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
+
+60:3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to
+drink the wine of astonishment.
+
+60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be
+displayed because of the truth. Selah.
+
+60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and
+hear me.
+
+60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
+Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
+
+60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the
+strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
+
+60:8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia,
+triumph thou because of me.
+
+60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
+Edom?
+
+60:10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God,
+which didst not go out with our armies?
+
+60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
+
+60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread
+down our enemies.
+
+61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
+
+61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is
+overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
+
+61:3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the
+enemy.
+
+61:4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the
+covert of thy wings. Selah.
+
+61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the
+heritage of those that fear thy name.
+
+61:6 Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many
+generations.
+
+61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth,
+which may preserve him.
+
+61:8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily
+perform my vows.
+
+62:1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
+
+62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall
+not be greatly moved.
+
+62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be
+slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering
+fence.
+
+62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they
+delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.
+Selah.
+
+62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
+
+62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall
+not be moved.
+
+62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and
+my refuge, is in God.
+
+62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before
+him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
+
+62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a
+lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than
+vanity.
+
+62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if
+riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
+
+62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power
+belongeth unto God.
+
+62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to
+every man according to his work.
+
+63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth
+for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where
+no water is;
+
+63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the
+sanctuary.
+
+63:3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall
+praise thee.
+
+63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in
+thy name.
+
+63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my
+mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
+
+63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the
+night watches.
+
+63:7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
+wings will I rejoice.
+
+63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
+
+63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the
+lower parts of the earth.
+
+63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
+
+63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by
+him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be
+stopped.
+
+64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of
+the enemy.
+
+64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the
+insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
+
+64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot
+their arrows, even bitter words:
+
+64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they
+shoot at him, and fear not.
+
+64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of
+laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
+
+64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search:
+both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
+
+64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be
+wounded.
+
+64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all
+that see them shall flee away.
+
+64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for
+they shall wisely consider of his doing.
+
+64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him;
+and all the upright in heart shall glory.
+
+65:1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the
+vow be performed.
+
+65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
+
+65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou
+shalt purge them away.
+
+65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach
+unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with
+the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
+
+65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of
+our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
+and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
+
+65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded
+with power:
+
+65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves,
+and the tumult of the people.
+
+65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy
+tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to
+rejoice.
+
+65:9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest
+it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them
+corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
+
+65:10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the
+furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the
+springing thereof.
+
+65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop
+fatness.
+
+65:12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little
+hills rejoice on every side.
+
+65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are
+covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
+
+66:1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
+
+66:2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
+
+66:3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the
+greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto
+thee.
+
+66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they
+shall sing to thy name. Selah.
+
+66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward
+the children of men.
+
+66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on
+foot: there did we rejoice in him.
+
+66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let
+not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
+
+66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to
+be heard:
+
+66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be
+moved.
+
+66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver
+is tried.
+
+66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our
+loins.
+
+66:12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through
+fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy
+place.
+
+66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee
+my vows,
+
+66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was
+in trouble.
+
+66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the
+incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
+
+66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he
+hath done for my soul.
+
+66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my
+tongue.
+
+66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
+
+66:19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of
+my prayer.
+
+66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his
+mercy from me.
+
+67:1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to
+shine upon us; Selah.
+
+67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all
+nations.
+
+67:3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
+thee.
+
+67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge
+the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
+
+67:5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
+thee.
+
+67:6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own
+God, shall bless us.
+
+67:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
+
+68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that
+hate him flee before him.
+
+68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth
+before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
+
+68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea,
+let them exceedingly rejoice.
+
+68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth
+upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
+
+68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in
+his holy habitation.
+
+68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which
+are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
+
+68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst
+march through the wilderness; Selah:
+
+68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God:
+even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
+
+68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst
+confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
+
+68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared
+of thy goodness for the poor.
+
+68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that
+published it.
+
+68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home
+divided the spoil.
+
+68:13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings
+of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
+
+68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in
+Salmon.
+
+68:15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the
+hill of Bashan.
+
+68:16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth
+to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
+
+68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of
+angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
+
+68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:
+thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that
+the LORD God might dwell among them.
+
+68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even
+the God of our salvation. Selah.
+
+68:20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the
+Lord belong the issues from death.
+
+68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp
+of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
+
+68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my
+people again from the depths of the sea:
+
+68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and
+the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
+
+68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my
+King, in the sanctuary.
+
+68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed
+after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
+
+68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the
+fountain of Israel.
+
+68:27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah
+and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of
+Naphtali.
+
+68:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that
+which thou hast wrought for us.
+
+68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents
+unto thee.
+
+68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with
+the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of
+silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
+
+68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out
+her hands unto God.
+
+68:32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the
+Lord; Selah:
+
+68:33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of
+old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
+
+68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and
+his strength is in the clouds.
+
+68:35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of
+Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed
+be God.
+
+69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
+
+69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into
+deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
+
+69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while
+I wait for my God.
+
+69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine
+head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are
+mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
+
+69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from
+thee.
+
+69:6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed
+for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O
+God of Israel.
+
+69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my
+face.
+
+69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
+mother’s children.
+
+69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches
+of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
+
+69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my
+reproach.
+
+69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
+them.
+
+69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song
+of the drunkards.
+
+69:13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable
+time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of
+thy salvation.
+
+69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be
+delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
+
+69:15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow
+me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
+
+69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me
+according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
+
+69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble:
+hear me speedily.
+
+69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of
+mine enemies.
+
+69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
+mine adversaries are all before thee.
+
+69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I
+looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters,
+but I found none.
+
+69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
+me vinegar to drink.
+
+69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which
+should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
+
+69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
+loins continually to shake.
+
+69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger
+take hold of them.
+
+69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their
+tents.
+
+69:26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to
+the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
+
+69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy
+righteousness.
+
+69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
+written with the righteous.
+
+69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up
+on high.
+
+69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him
+with thanksgiving.
+
+69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock
+that hath horns and hoofs.
+
+69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall
+live that seek God.
+
+69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
+
+69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing
+that moveth therein.
+
+69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that
+they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
+
+69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that
+love his name shall dwell therein.
+
+70:1 Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.
+
+70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let
+them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
+
+70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say,
+Aha, aha.
+
+70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let
+such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
+
+70:5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my
+help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
+
+71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
+confusion.
+
+71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline
+thine ear unto me, and save me.
+
+71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort:
+thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my
+fortress.
+
+71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the
+hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
+
+71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my
+youth.
+
+71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that
+took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of
+thee.
+
+71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
+
+71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all
+the day.
+
+71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my
+strength faileth.
+
+71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my
+soul take counsel together,
+
+71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there
+is none to deliver him.
+
+71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
+
+71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my
+soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my
+hurt.
+
+71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and
+more.
+
+71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation
+all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
+
+71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention
+of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
+
+71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I
+declared thy wondrous works.
+
+71:18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not;
+until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power
+to every one that is to come.
+
+71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great
+things: O God, who is like unto thee!
+
+71:20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt
+quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the
+earth.
+
+71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
+
+71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my
+God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
+
+71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my
+soul, which thou hast redeemed.
+
+71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long:
+for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my
+hurt.
+
+72:1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto
+the king’s son.
+
+72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with
+judgment.
+
+72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
+hills, by righteousness.
+
+72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children
+of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
+
+72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,
+throughout all generations.
+
+72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that
+water the earth.
+
+72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace
+so long as the moon endureth.
+
+72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river
+unto the ends of the earth.
+
+72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his
+enemies shall lick the dust.
+
+72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the
+kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
+
+72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall
+serve him.
+
+72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also,
+and him that hath no helper.
+
+72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of
+the needy.
+
+72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and
+precious shall their blood be in his sight.
+
+72:15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
+Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall
+he be praised.
+
+72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of
+the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of
+the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
+
+72:17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as
+long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall
+call him blessed.
+
+72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
+wondrous things.
+
+72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole
+earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
+
+72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
+
+73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean
+heart.
+
+73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh
+slipped.
+
+73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of
+the wicked.
+
+73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is
+firm.
+
+73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued
+like other men.
+
+73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence
+covereth them as a garment.
+
+73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart
+could wish.
+
+73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they
+speak loftily.
+
+73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue
+walketh through the earth.
+
+73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are
+wrung out to them.
+
+73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the
+most High?
+
+73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
+increase in riches.
+
+73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in
+innocency.
+
+73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every
+morning.
+
+73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the
+generation of thy children.
+
+73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
+
+73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their
+end.
+
+73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst
+them down into destruction.
+
+73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are
+utterly consumed with terrors.
+
+73:20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou
+shalt despise their image.
+
+73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
+
+73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
+
+73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by
+my right hand.
+
+73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me
+to glory.
+
+73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth
+that I desire beside thee.
+
+73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my
+heart, and my portion for ever.
+
+73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast
+destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
+
+73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust
+in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
+
+74:1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger
+smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
+
+74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the
+rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion,
+wherein thou hast dwelt.
+
+74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that
+the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
+
+74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up
+their ensigns for signs.
+
+74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the
+thick trees.
+
+74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes
+and hammers.
+
+74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by
+casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
+
+74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they
+have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
+
+74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is
+there among us any that knoweth how long.
+
+74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
+blaspheme thy name for ever?
+
+74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out
+of thy bosom.
+
+74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the
+earth.
+
+74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the
+heads of the dragons in the waters.
+
+74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to
+be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
+
+74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up
+mighty rivers.
+
+74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared
+the light and the sun.
+
+74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
+summer and winter.
+
+74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that
+the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
+
+74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of
+the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
+
+74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth
+are full of the habitations of cruelty.
+
+74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy
+praise thy name.
+
+74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish
+man reproacheth thee daily.
+
+74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that
+rise up against thee increaseth continually.
+
+75:1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks:
+for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
+
+75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
+
+75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear
+up the pillars of it. Selah.
+
+75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked,
+Lift not up the horn:
+
+75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
+
+75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
+nor from the south.
+
+75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
+another.
+
+75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red;
+it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs
+thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink
+them.
+
+75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of
+Jacob.
+
+75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns
+of the righteous shall be exalted.
+
+76:1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
+
+76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
+
+76:3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword,
+and the battle. Selah.
+
+76:4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
+
+76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and
+none of the men of might have found their hands.
+
+76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are
+cast into a dead sleep.
+
+76:7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight
+when once thou art angry?
+
+76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth
+feared, and was still,
+
+76:9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
+Selah.
+
+76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of
+wrath shalt thou restrain.
+
+76:11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about
+him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
+
+76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the
+kings of the earth.
+
+77:1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and
+he gave ear unto me.
+
+77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the
+night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
+
+77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit
+was overwhelmed. Selah.
+
+77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot
+speak.
+
+77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
+
+77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine
+own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
+
+77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
+more?
+
+77:8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for
+evermore?
+
+77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his
+tender mercies? Selah.
+
+77:10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years
+of the right hand of the most High.
+
+77:11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember
+thy wonders of old.
+
+77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
+
+77:13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as
+our God?
+
+77:14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy
+strength among the people.
+
+77:15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob
+and Joseph. Selah.
+
+77:16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were
+afraid: the depths also were troubled.
+
+77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine
+arrows also went abroad.
+
+77:18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings
+lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
+
+77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy
+footsteps are not known.
+
+77:20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and
+Aaron.
+
+78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words
+of my mouth.
+
+78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of
+old:
+
+78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
+
+78:4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the
+generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his
+wonderful works that he hath done.
+
+78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in
+Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them
+known to their children:
+
+78:6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children
+which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their
+children:
+
+78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works
+of God, but keep his commandments:
+
+78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
+generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose
+spirit was not stedfast with God.
+
+78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned
+back in the day of battle.
+
+78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his
+law;
+
+78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
+
+78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the
+land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
+
+78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made
+the waters to stand as an heap.
+
+78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night
+with a light of fire.
+
+78:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out
+of the great depths.
+
+78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to
+run down like rivers.
+
+78:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High
+in the wilderness.
+
+78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their
+lust.
+
+78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table
+in the wilderness?
+
+78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the
+streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for
+his people?
+
+78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was
+kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
+
+78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
+salvation:
+
+78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
+doors of heaven,
+
+78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them
+of the corn of heaven.
+
+78:25 Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
+
+78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
+he brought in the south wind.
+
+78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like
+as the sand of the sea:
+
+78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their
+habitations.
+
+78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their
+own desire;
+
+78:30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
+was yet in their mouths,
+
+78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,
+and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
+
+78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
+wondrous works.
+
+78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
+in trouble.
+
+78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and
+enquired early after God.
+
+78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God
+their redeemer.
+
+78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
+lied unto him with their tongues.
+
+78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
+stedfast in his covenant.
+
+78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
+destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did
+not stir up all his wrath.
+
+78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth
+away, and cometh not again.
+
+78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him
+in the desert!
+
+78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One
+of Israel.
+
+78:42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them
+from the enemy.
+
+78:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
+field of Zoan.
+
+78:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that
+they could not drink.
+
+78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
+and frogs, which destroyed them.
+
+78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
+labour unto the locust.
+
+78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees
+with frost.
+
+78:48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
+hot thunderbolts.
+
+78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
+indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
+
+78:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death,
+but gave their life over to the pestilence;
+
+78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their
+strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
+
+78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them
+in the wilderness like a flock.
+
+78:53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
+overwhelmed their enemies.
+
+78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this
+mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
+
+78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an
+inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their
+tents.
+
+78:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
+his testimonies:
+
+78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they
+were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
+
+78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved
+him to jealousy with their graven images.
+
+78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
+
+78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he
+placed among men;
+
+78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into
+the enemy’s hand.
+
+78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with
+his inheritance.
+
+78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not
+given to marriage.
+
+78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no
+lamentation.
+
+78:65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man
+that shouteth by reason of wine.
+
+78:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a
+perpetual reproach.
+
+78:67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the
+tribe of Ephraim:
+
+78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
+
+78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth
+which he hath established for ever.
+
+78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the
+sheepfolds:
+
+78:71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed
+Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
+
+78:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and
+guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
+
+79:1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy
+temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
+
+79:2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto
+the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of
+the earth.
+
+79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and
+there was none to bury them.
+
+79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision
+to them that are round about us.
+
+79:5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy
+burn like fire?
+
+79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and
+upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
+
+79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
+
+79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender
+mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
+
+79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and
+deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
+
+79:10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be
+known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of
+thy servants which is shed.
+
+79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to
+the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to
+die;
+
+79:12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their
+reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
+
+79:13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks
+for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
+
+80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a
+flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
+
+80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,
+and come and save us.
+
+80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
+be saved.
+
+80:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the
+prayer of thy people?
+
+80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears
+to drink in great measure.
+
+80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
+laugh among themselves.
+
+80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and
+we shall be saved.
+
+80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
+heathen, and planted it.
+
+80:9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep
+root, and it filled the land.
+
+80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
+thereof were like the goodly cedars.
+
+80:11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the
+river.
+
+80:12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they
+which pass by the way do pluck her?
+
+80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of
+the field doth devour it.
+
+80:14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven,
+and behold, and visit this vine;
+
+80:15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the
+branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
+
+80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the
+rebuke of thy countenance.
+
+80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of
+man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
+
+80:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call
+upon thy name.
+
+80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and
+we shall be saved.
+
+81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the
+God of Jacob.
+
+81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp
+with the psaltery.
+
+81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on
+our solemn feast day.
+
+81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
+
+81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out
+through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood
+not.
+
+81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered
+from the pots.
+
+81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee
+in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of
+Meribah.
+
+Selah.
+
+81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if
+thou wilt hearken unto me;
+
+81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship
+any strange god.
+
+81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
+Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
+
+81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would
+none of me.
+
+81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked
+in their own counsels.
+
+81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked
+in my ways!
+
+81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand
+against their adversaries.
+
+81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto
+him: but their time should have endured for ever.
+
+81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and
+with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
+
+82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among
+the gods.
+
+82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the
+wicked? Selah.
+
+82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and
+needy.
+
+82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the
+wicked.
+
+82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in
+darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
+
+82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most
+High.
+
+82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
+
+82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all
+nations.
+
+83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
+still, O God.
+
+83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
+have lifted up the head.
+
+83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
+against thy hidden ones.
+
+83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a
+nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
+
+83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
+confederate against thee:
+
+83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
+Hagarenes;
+
+83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the
+inhabitants of Tyre;
+
+83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
+Lot.
+
+Selah.
+
+83:9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin,
+at the brook of Kison:
+
+83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
+
+83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their
+princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
+
+83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in
+possession.
+
+83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the
+wind.
+
+83:14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the
+mountains on fire;
+
+83:15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with
+thy storm.
+
+83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
+LORD.
+
+83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
+put to shame, and perish:
+
+83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art
+the most high over all the earth.
+
+84:1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
+
+84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:
+my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
+
+84:3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
+herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of
+hosts, my King, and my God.
+
+84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still
+praising thee. Selah.
+
+84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are
+the ways of them.
+
+84:6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain
+also filleth the pools.
+
+84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion
+appeareth before God.
+
+84:8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
+Selah.
+
+84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
+anointed.
+
+84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather
+be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of
+wickedness.
+
+84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace
+and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk
+uprightly.
+
+84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
+
+85:1 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought
+back the captivity of Jacob.
+
+85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered
+all their sin. Selah.
+
+85:3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from
+the fierceness of thine anger.
+
+85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us
+to cease.
+
+85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine
+anger to all generations?
+
+85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in
+thee?
+
+85:7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
+
+85:8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace
+unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to
+folly.
+
+85:9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may
+dwell in our land.
+
+85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
+kissed each other.
+
+85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall
+look down from heaven.
+
+85:12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall
+yield her increase.
+
+85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way
+of his steps.
+
+86:1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
+
+86:2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant
+that trusteth in thee.
+
+86:3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
+
+86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift
+up my soul.
+
+86:5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in
+mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
+
+86:6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
+supplications.
+
+86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt
+answer me.
+
+86:8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are
+there any works like unto thy works.
+
+86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before
+thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
+
+86:10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God
+alone.
+
+86:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
+heart to fear thy name.
+
+86:12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will
+glorify thy name for evermore.
+
+86:13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my
+soul from the lowest hell.
+
+86:14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of
+violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before
+them.
+
+86:15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,
+long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
+
+86:16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto
+thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
+
+86:17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it,
+and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
+
+87:1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
+
+87:2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of
+Jacob.
+
+87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
+
+87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me:
+behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
+
+87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her:
+and the highest himself shall establish her.
+
+87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this
+man was born there. Selah.
+
+87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there:
+all my springs are in thee.
+
+88:1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before
+thee:
+
+88:2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
+
+88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto
+the grave.
+
+88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man
+that hath no strength:
+
+88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom
+thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
+
+88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
+
+88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all
+thy waves. Selah.
+
+88:8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made
+me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
+
+88:9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
+daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
+
+88:10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and
+praise thee? Selah.
+
+88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy
+faithfulness in destruction?
+
+88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in
+the land of forgetfulness?
+
+88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my
+prayer prevent thee.
+
+88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face
+from me?
+
+88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer
+thy terrors I am distracted.
+
+88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
+
+88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me
+about together.
+
+88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine
+acquaintance into darkness.
+
+89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth
+will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
+
+89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy
+faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
+
+89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my
+servant,
+
+89:4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to
+all generations. Selah.
+
+89:5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy
+faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
+
+89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among
+the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
+
+89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to
+be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
+
+89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to
+thy faithfulness round about thee?
+
+89:9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise,
+thou stillest them.
+
+89:10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou
+hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
+
+89:11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world
+and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
+
+89:12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon
+shall rejoice in thy name.
+
+89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy
+right hand.
+
+89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and
+truth shall go before thy face.
+
+89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall
+walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
+
+89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy
+righteousness shall they be exalted.
+
+89:17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our
+horn shall be exalted.
+
+89:18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our
+king.
+
+89:19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have
+laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of
+the people.
+
+89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed
+him:
+
+89:21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall
+strengthen him.
+
+89:22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness
+afflict him.
+
+89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them
+that hate him.
+
+89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my
+name shall his horn be exalted.
+
+89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the
+rivers.
+
+89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock
+of my salvation.
+
+89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the
+earth.
+
+89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall
+stand fast with him.
+
+89:29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as
+the days of heaven.
+
+89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
+
+89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
+
+89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their
+iniquity with stripes.
+
+89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,
+nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
+
+89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone
+out of my lips.
+
+89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
+
+89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before
+me.
+
+89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful
+witness in heaven. Selah.
+
+89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with
+thine anointed.
+
+89:39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast
+profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
+
+89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his
+strong holds to ruin.
+
+89:41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his
+neighbours.
+
+89:42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast
+made all his enemies to rejoice.
+
+89:43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made
+him to stand in the battle.
+
+89:44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to
+the ground.
+
+89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him
+with shame. Selah.
+
+89:46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath
+burn like fire?
+
+89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men
+in vain?
+
+89:48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
+deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
+
+89:49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest
+unto David in thy truth?
+
+89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in
+my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
+
+89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they
+have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
+
+89:52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
+
+90:1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
+
+90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
+formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,
+thou art God.
+
+90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children
+of men.
+
+90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is
+past, and as a watch in the night.
+
+90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in
+the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
+
+90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it
+is cut down, and withereth.
+
+90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we
+troubled.
+
+90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the
+light of thy countenance.
+
+90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years
+as a tale that is told.
+
+90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
+reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
+labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
+
+90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy
+fear, so is thy wrath.
+
+90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts
+unto wisdom.
+
+90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy
+servants.
+
+90:14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be
+glad all our days.
+
+90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted
+us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
+
+90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their
+children.
+
+90:17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish
+thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands
+establish thou it.
+
+91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide
+under the shadow of the Almighty.
+
+91:2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God;
+in him will I trust.
+
+91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and
+from the noisome pestilence.
+
+91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt
+thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
+
+91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the
+arrow that flieth by day;
+
+91:6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the
+destruction that wasteth at noonday.
+
+91:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right
+hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
+
+91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the
+wicked.
+
+91:9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the
+most High, thy habitation;
+
+91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come
+nigh thy dwelling.
+
+91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in
+all thy ways.
+
+91:12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot
+against a stone.
+
+91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the
+dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
+
+91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver
+him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
+
+91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him
+in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
+
+91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
+
+92:1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing
+praises unto thy name, O most High:
+
+92:2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy
+faithfulness every night,
+
+92:3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon
+the harp with a solemn sound.
+
+92:4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will
+triumph in the works of thy hands.
+
+92:5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
+
+92:6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
+
+92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of
+iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
+
+92:8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
+
+92:9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
+perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
+
+92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I
+shall be anointed with fresh oil.
+
+92:11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears
+shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
+
+92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow
+like a cedar in Lebanon.
+
+92:13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in
+the courts of our God.
+
+92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat
+and flourishing;
+
+92:15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no
+unrighteousness in him.
+
+93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is
+clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world
+also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
+
+93:2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
+
+93:3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up
+their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
+
+93:4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
+than the mighty waves of the sea.
+
+93:5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O
+LORD, for ever.
+
+94:1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance
+belongeth, shew thyself.
+
+94:2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the
+proud.
+
+94:3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
+triumph?
+
+94:4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the
+workers of iniquity boast themselves?
+
+94:5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine
+heritage.
+
+94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
+
+94:7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of
+Jacob regard it.
+
+94:8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will
+ye be wise?
+
+94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the
+eye, shall he not see?
+
+94:10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that
+teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
+
+94:11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
+
+94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest
+him out of thy law;
+
+94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until
+the pit be digged for the wicked.
+
+94:14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he
+forsake his inheritance.
+
+94:15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the
+upright in heart shall follow it.
+
+94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand
+up for me against the workers of iniquity?
+
+94:17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in
+silence.
+
+94:18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
+
+94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight
+my soul.
+
+94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which
+frameth mischief by a law?
+
+94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the
+righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
+
+94:22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
+
+94:23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut
+them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them
+off.
+
+95:1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to
+the rock of our salvation.
+
+95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a
+joyful noise unto him with psalms.
+
+95:3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
+
+95:4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the
+hills is his also.
+
+95:5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
+land.
+
+95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD
+our maker.
+
+95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the
+sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
+
+95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day
+of temptation in the wilderness:
+
+95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
+
+95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said,
+It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my
+ways:
+
+95:11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my
+rest.
+
+96:1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the
+earth.
+
+96:2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from
+day to day.
+
+96:3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all
+people.
+
+96:4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be
+feared above all gods.
+
+96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the
+heavens.
+
+96:6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his
+sanctuary.
+
+96:7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
+LORD glory and strength.
+
+96:8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an
+offering, and come into his courts.
+
+96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him,
+all the earth.
+
+96:10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also
+shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the
+people righteously.
+
+96:11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea
+roar, and the fulness thereof.
+
+96:12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all
+the trees of the wood rejoice
+
+96:13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the
+earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people
+with his truth.
+
+97:1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of
+isles be glad thereof.
+
+97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and
+judgment are the habitation of his throne.
+
+97:3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
+
+97:4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and
+trembled.
+
+97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the
+presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
+
+97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his
+glory.
+
+97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast
+themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
+
+97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced
+because of thy judgments, O LORD.
+
+97:9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted
+far above all gods.
+
+97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his
+saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
+
+97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in
+heart.
+
+97:12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the
+remembrance of his holiness.
+
+98:1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous
+things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
+
+98:2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he
+openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
+
+98:3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
+Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
+
+98:4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud
+noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
+
+98:5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of
+a psalm.
+
+98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the
+LORD, the King.
+
+98:7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
+that dwell therein.
+
+98:8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
+
+98:9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with
+righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
+
+99:1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the
+cherubims; let the earth be moved.
+
+99:2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
+
+99:3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
+
+99:4 The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish
+equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
+
+99:5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he
+is holy.
+
+99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that
+call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
+
+99:7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his
+testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
+
+99:8 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that
+forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
+
+99:9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the
+LORD our God is holy.
+
+100:1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
+
+100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
+singing.
+
+100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and
+not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
+
+100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with
+praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
+
+100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth
+endureth to all generations.
+
+101:1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I
+sing.
+
+101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou
+come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
+
+101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of
+them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
+
+101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
+person.
+
+101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him
+that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
+
+101:6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may
+dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
+
+101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that
+telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
+
+101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut
+off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
+
+102:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
+
+102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble;
+incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
+
+102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as
+an hearth.
+
+102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget
+to eat my bread.
+
+102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
+skin.
+
+102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
+desert.
+
+102:7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
+
+102:8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad
+against me are sworn against me.
+
+102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with
+weeping.
+
+102:10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast
+lifted me up, and cast me down.
+
+102:11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered
+like grass.
+
+102:12 But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance
+unto all generations.
+
+102:13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to
+favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
+
+102:14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the
+dust thereof.
+
+102:15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the
+kings of the earth thy glory.
+
+102:16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his
+glory.
+
+102:17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
+their prayer.
+
+102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the
+people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
+
+102:19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
+heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
+
+102:20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are
+appointed to death;
+
+102:21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in
+Jerusalem;
+
+102:22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to
+serve the LORD.
+
+102:23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
+
+102:24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy
+years are throughout all generations.
+
+102:25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the
+heavens are the work of thy hands.
+
+102:26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them
+shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and
+they shall be changed:
+
+102:27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
+
+102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed
+shall be established before thee.
+
+103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his
+holy name.
+
+103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
+
+103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
+diseases;
+
+103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
+lovingkindness and tender mercies;
+
+103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is
+renewed like the eagle’s.
+
+103:6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are
+oppressed.
+
+103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of
+Israel.
+
+103:8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous
+in mercy.
+
+103:9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for
+ever.
+
+103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us
+according to our iniquities.
+
+103:11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his
+mercy toward them that fear him.
+
+103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
+transgressions from us.
+
+103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them
+that fear him.
+
+103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
+
+103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so
+he flourisheth.
+
+103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
+thereof shall know it no more.
+
+103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting
+upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s
+children;
+
+103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
+commandments to do them.
+
+103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his
+kingdom ruleth over all.
+
+103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do
+his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
+
+103:21 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that
+do his pleasure.
+
+103:22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion:
+bless the LORD, O my soul.
+
+104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great;
+thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
+
+104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who
+stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
+
+104:3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh
+the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
+
+104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
+
+104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be
+removed for ever.
+
+104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters
+stood above the mountains.
+
+104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted
+away.
+
+104:8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto
+the place which thou hast founded for them.
+
+104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they
+turn not again to cover the earth.
+
+104:10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the
+hills.
+
+104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses
+quench their thirst.
+
+104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,
+which sing among the branches.
+
+104:13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied
+with the fruit of thy works.
+
+104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
+service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
+
+104:15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his
+face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
+
+104:16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon,
+which he hath planted;
+
+104:17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir
+trees are her house.
+
+104:18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks
+for the conies.
+
+104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going
+down.
+
+104:20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts
+of the forest do creep forth.
+
+104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from
+God.
+
+104:22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them
+down in their dens.
+
+104:23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the
+evening.
+
+104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
+them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
+
+104:25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping
+innumerable, both small and great beasts.
+
+104:26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast
+made to play therein.
+
+104:27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat
+in due season.
+
+104:28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand,
+they are filled with good.
+
+104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their
+breath, they die, and return to their dust.
+
+104:30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou
+renewest the face of the earth.
+
+104:31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall
+rejoice in his works.
+
+104:32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the
+hills, and they smoke.
+
+104:33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise
+to my God while I have my being.
+
+104:34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the
+LORD.
+
+104:35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the
+wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+105:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his
+deeds among the people.
+
+105:2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous
+works.
+
+105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
+seek the LORD.
+
+105:4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
+
+105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders,
+and the judgments of his mouth;
+
+105:6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his
+chosen.
+
+105:7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
+
+105:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he
+commanded to a thousand generations.
+
+105:9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
+
+105:10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for
+an everlasting covenant:
+
+105:11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of
+your inheritance:
+
+105:12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and
+strangers in it.
+
+105:13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to
+another people;
+
+105:14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for
+their sakes;
+
+105:15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
+
+105:16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the
+whole staff of bread.
+
+105:17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a
+servant:
+
+105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
+
+105:19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried
+him.
+
+105:20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and
+let him go free.
+
+105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
+
+105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
+wisdom.
+
+105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of
+Ham.
+
+105:24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger
+than their enemies.
+
+105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with
+his servants.
+
+105:26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
+
+105:27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of
+Ham.
+
+105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
+against his word.
+
+105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
+
+105:30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of
+their kings.
+
+105:31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all
+their coasts.
+
+105:32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
+
+105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the
+trees of their coasts.
+
+105:34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that
+without number,
+
+105:35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the
+fruit of their ground.
+
+105:36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all
+their strength.
+
+105:37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was
+not one feeble person among their tribes.
+
+105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell
+upon them.
+
+105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the
+night.
+
+105:40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
+with the bread of heaven.
+
+105:41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the
+dry places like a river.
+
+105:42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
+
+105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with
+gladness:
+
+105:44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the
+labour of the people;
+
+105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise
+ye the LORD.
+
+106:1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good:
+for his mercy endureth for ever.
+
+106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth
+all his praise?
+
+106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth
+righteousness at all times.
+
+106:4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy
+people: O visit me with thy salvation;
+
+106:5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the
+gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
+
+106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we
+have done wickedly.
+
+106:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered
+not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at
+the Red sea.
+
+106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might
+make his mighty power to be known.
+
+106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them
+through the depths, as through the wilderness.
+
+106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and
+redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
+
+106:11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them
+left.
+
+106:12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
+
+106:13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
+
+106:14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in
+the desert.
+
+106:15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
+soul.
+
+106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the
+LORD.
+
+106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the
+company of Abiram.
+
+106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up
+the wicked.
+
+106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
+
+106:20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that
+eateth grass.
+
+106:21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in
+Egypt;
+
+106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the
+Red sea.
+
+106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his
+chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he
+should destroy them.
+
+106:24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his
+word:
+
+106:25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice
+of the LORD.
+
+106:26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them
+in the wilderness:
+
+106:27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter
+them in the lands.
+
+106:28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the
+sacrifices of the dead.
+
+106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the
+plague brake in upon them.
+
+106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the
+plague was stayed.
+
+106:31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all
+generations for evermore.
+
+106:32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went
+ill with Moses for their sakes:
+
+106:33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly
+with his lips.
+
+106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
+commanded them:
+
+106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
+
+106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
+
+106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto
+devils,
+
+106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of
+their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and
+the land was polluted with blood.
+
+106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring
+with their own inventions.
+
+106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people,
+insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
+
+106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that
+hated them ruled over them.
+
+106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
+subjection under their hand.
+
+106:43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with
+their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
+
+106:44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their
+cry:
+
+106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according
+to the multitude of his mercies.
+
+106:46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
+captives.
+
+106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen,
+to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
+
+106:48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to
+everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+107:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from
+the hand of the enemy;
+
+107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the
+west, from the north, and from the south.
+
+107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no
+city to dwell in.
+
+107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
+
+107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered
+them out of their distresses.
+
+107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a
+city of habitation.
+
+107:8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his
+wonderful works to the children of men!
+
+107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul
+with goodness.
+
+107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound
+in affliction and iron;
+
+107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned
+the counsel of the most High:
+
+107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell
+down, and there was none to help.
+
+107:13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved
+them out of their distresses.
+
+107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and
+brake their bands in sunder.
+
+107:15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his
+wonderful works to the children of men!
+
+107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron
+in sunder.
+
+107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their
+iniquities, are afflicted.
+
+107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near
+unto the gates of death.
+
+107:19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth
+them out of their distresses.
+
+107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from
+their destructions.
+
+107:21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his
+wonderful works to the children of men!
+
+107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and
+declare his works with rejoicing.
+
+107:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in
+great waters;
+
+107:24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
+
+107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth
+up the waves thereof.
+
+107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths:
+their soul is melted because of trouble.
+
+107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are
+at their wit’s end.
+
+107:28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth
+them out of their distresses.
+
+107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are
+still.
+
+107:30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them
+unto their desired haven.
+
+107:31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his
+wonderful works to the children of men!
+
+107:32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and
+praise him in the assembly of the elders.
+
+107:33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into
+dry ground;
+
+107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them
+that dwell therein.
+
+107:35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground
+into watersprings.
+
+107:36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare
+a city for habitation;
+
+107:37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits
+of increase.
+
+107:38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and
+suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
+
+107:39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression,
+affliction, and sorrow.
+
+107:40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in
+the wilderness, where there is no way.
+
+107:41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him
+families like a flock.
+
+107:42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall
+stop her mouth.
+
+107:43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall
+understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
+
+108:1 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with
+my glory.
+
+108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
+
+108:3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing
+praises unto thee among the nations.
+
+108:4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth
+unto the clouds.
+
+108:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above
+all the earth;
+
+108:6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and
+answer me.
+
+108:7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
+Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
+
+108:8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength
+of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
+
+108:9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over
+Philistia will I triumph.
+
+108:10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
+Edom?
+
+108:11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou,
+O God, go forth with our hosts?
+
+108:12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
+
+108:13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall
+tread down our enemies.
+
+109:1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
+
+109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are
+opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
+
+109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
+against me without a cause.
+
+109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto
+prayer.
+
+109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
+
+109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right
+hand.
+
+109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
+prayer become sin.
+
+109:8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
+
+109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
+
+109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them
+seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
+
+109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the
+strangers spoil his labour.
+
+109:12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there
+be any to favour his fatherless children.
+
+109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following
+let their name be blotted out.
+
+109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;
+and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
+
+109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off
+the memory of them from the earth.
+
+109:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted
+the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
+
+109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted
+not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
+
+109:18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so
+let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
+
+109:19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a
+girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
+
+109:20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and
+of them that speak evil against my soul.
+
+109:21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake:
+because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
+
+109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
+
+109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and
+down as the locust.
+
+109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
+fatness.
+
+109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me
+they shaked their heads.
+
+109:26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
+
+109:27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast
+done it.
+
+109:28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be
+ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
+
+109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
+themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
+
+109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will
+praise him among the multitude.
+
+109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him
+from those that condemn his soul.
+
+110:1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I
+make thine enemies thy footstool.
+
+110:2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule
+thou in the midst of thine enemies.
+
+110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the
+beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew
+of thy youth.
+
+110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for
+ever after the order of Melchizedek.
+
+110:5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day
+of his wrath.
+
+110:6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with
+the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
+
+110:7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift
+up the head.
+
+111:1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart,
+in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
+
+111:2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that
+have pleasure therein.
+
+111:3 His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness
+endureth for ever.
+
+111:4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is
+gracious and full of compassion.
+
+111:5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be
+mindful of his covenant.
+
+111:6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may
+give them the heritage of the heathen.
+
+111:7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his
+commandments are sure.
+
+111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and
+uprightness.
+
+111:9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his
+covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
+
+111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good
+understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise
+endureth for ever.
+
+112:1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD,
+that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
+
+112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the
+upright shall be blessed.
+
+112:3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness
+endureth for ever.
+
+112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is
+gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
+
+112:5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his
+affairs with discretion.
+
+112:6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in
+everlasting remembrance.
+
+112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
+trusting in the LORD.
+
+112:8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see
+his desire upon his enemies.
+
+112:9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness
+endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
+
+112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with
+his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
+
+113:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise
+the name of the LORD.
+
+113:2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for
+evermore.
+
+113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the
+LORD’s name is to be praised.
+
+113:4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the
+heavens.
+
+113:5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
+
+113:6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven,
+and in the earth!
+
+113:7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy
+out of the dunghill;
+
+113:8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his
+people.
+
+113:9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful
+mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people
+of strange language;
+
+114:2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
+
+114:3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
+
+114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like
+lambs.
+
+114:5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
+that thou wast driven back?
+
+114:6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills,
+like lambs?
+
+114:7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the
+presence of the God of Jacob;
+
+114:8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a
+fountain of waters.
+
+115:1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory,
+for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.
+
+115:2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
+
+115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath
+pleased.
+
+115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
+
+115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they
+see not:
+
+115:6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
+smell not:
+
+115:7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they
+walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
+
+115:8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that
+trusteth in them.
+
+115:9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their
+shield.
+
+115:10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their
+shield.
+
+115:11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and
+their shield.
+
+115:12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will
+bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
+
+115:13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
+
+115:14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your
+children.
+
+115:15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
+
+115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth
+hath he given to the children of men.
+
+115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into
+silence.
+
+115:18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for
+evermore.
+
+Praise the LORD.
+
+116:1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my
+supplications.
+
+116:2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call
+upon him as long as I live.
+
+116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
+hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
+
+116:4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee,
+deliver my soul.
+
+116:5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
+
+116:6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped
+me.
+
+116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt
+bountifully with thee.
+
+116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from
+tears, and my feet from falling.
+
+116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
+
+116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
+
+116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
+
+116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward
+me?
+
+116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the
+LORD.
+
+116:14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his
+people.
+
+116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
+
+116:16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son
+of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
+
+116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
+call upon the name of the LORD.
+
+116:18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his
+people.
+
+116:19 In the courts of the LORD’s house, in the midst of thee, O
+Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+117:1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
+
+117:2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of
+the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+118:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+118:2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
+
+118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for
+ever.
+
+118:4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for
+ever.
+
+118:5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and
+set me in a large place.
+
+118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto
+me?
+
+118:7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall
+I see my desire upon them that hate me.
+
+118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
+
+118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
+princes.
+
+118:10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD
+will I destroy them.
+
+118:11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in
+the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
+
+118:12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the
+fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
+
+118:13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD
+helped me.
+
+118:14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
+
+118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of
+the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
+
+118:16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the
+LORD doeth valiantly.
+
+118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
+
+118:18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over
+unto death.
+
+118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and
+I will praise the LORD:
+
+118:20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
+
+118:21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my
+salvation.
+
+118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone
+of the corner.
+
+118:23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
+
+118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and
+be glad in it.
+
+118:25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send
+now prosperity.
+
+118:26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have
+blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
+
+118:27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice
+with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
+
+118:28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I
+will exalt thee.
+
+118:29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the
+LORD.
+
+119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him
+with the whole heart.
+
+119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
+
+119:4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
+
+119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
+
+119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
+commandments.
+
+119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have
+learned thy righteous judgments.
+
+119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
+
+119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
+thereto according to thy word.
+
+119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander
+from thy commandments.
+
+119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against
+thee.
+
+119:12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
+
+119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
+
+119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in
+all riches.
+
+119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy
+ways.
+
+119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy
+word.
+
+119:17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep
+thy word.
+
+119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
+thy law.
+
+119:19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from
+me.
+
+119:20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy
+judgments at all times.
+
+119:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from
+thy commandments.
+
+119:22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy
+testimonies.
+
+119:23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did
+meditate in thy statutes.
+
+119:24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
+
+119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to
+thy word.
+
+119:26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy
+statutes.
+
+119:27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk
+of thy wondrous works.
+
+119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according
+unto thy word.
+
+119:29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law
+graciously.
+
+119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid
+before me.
+
+119:31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
+
+119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge
+my heart.
+
+119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it
+unto the end.
+
+119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall
+observe it with my whole heart.
+
+119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I
+delight.
+
+119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
+
+119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me
+in thy way.
+
+119:38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
+
+119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
+
+119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
+righteousness.
+
+119:41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation,
+according to thy word.
+
+119:42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me:
+for I trust in thy word.
+
+119:43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I
+have hoped in thy judgments.
+
+119:44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
+
+119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
+
+119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not
+be ashamed.
+
+119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have
+loved.
+
+119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I
+have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
+
+119:49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused
+me to hope.
+
+119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath
+quickened me.
+
+119:51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not
+declined from thy law.
+
+119:52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted
+myself.
+
+119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
+forsake thy law.
+
+119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
+
+119:55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept
+thy law.
+
+119:56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
+
+119:57 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy
+words.
+
+119:58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me
+according to thy word.
+
+119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
+
+119:60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
+
+119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not
+forgotten thy law.
+
+119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy
+righteous judgments.
+
+119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that
+keep thy precepts.
+
+119:64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
+
+119:65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto
+thy word.
+
+119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
+commandments.
+
+119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
+word.
+
+119:68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
+
+119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy
+precepts with my whole heart.
+
+119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
+
+119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might
+learn thy statutes.
+
+119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold
+and silver.
+
+119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding,
+that I may learn thy commandments.
+
+119:74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I
+have hoped in thy word.
+
+119:75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in
+faithfulness hast afflicted me.
+
+119:76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort,
+according to thy word unto thy servant.
+
+119:77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy
+law is my delight.
+
+119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me
+without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
+
+119:79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have
+known thy testimonies.
+
+119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
+
+119:81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
+
+119:82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
+
+119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget
+thy statutes.
+
+119:84 How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute
+judgment on them that persecute me?
+
+119:85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
+
+119:86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me
+wrongfully; help thou me.
+
+119:87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy
+precepts.
+
+119:88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the
+testimony of thy mouth.
+
+119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
+
+119:90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established
+the earth, and it abideth.
+
+119:91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all
+are thy servants.
+
+119:92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have
+perished in mine affliction.
+
+119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast
+quickened me.
+
+119:94 I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts.
+
+119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will
+consider thy testimonies.
+
+119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is
+exceeding broad.
+
+119:97 O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
+
+119:98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine
+enemies: for they are ever with me.
+
+119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy
+testimonies are my meditation.
+
+119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy
+precepts.
+
+119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might
+keep thy word.
+
+119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught
+me.
+
+119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey
+to my mouth!
+
+119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate
+every false way.
+
+119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
+
+119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy
+righteous judgments.
+
+119:107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto
+thy word.
+
+119:108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O
+LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
+
+119:109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy
+law.
+
+119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy
+precepts.
+
+119:111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they
+are the rejoicing of my heart.
+
+119:112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even
+unto the end.
+
+119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
+
+119:114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
+
+119:115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments
+of my God.
+
+119:116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me
+not be ashamed of my hope.
+
+119:117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect
+unto thy statutes continually.
+
+119:118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes:
+for their deceit is falsehood.
+
+119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross:
+therefore I love thy testimonies.
+
+119:120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy
+judgments.
+
+119:121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine
+oppressors.
+
+119:122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress
+me.
+
+119:123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
+righteousness.
+
+119:124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me
+thy statutes.
+
+119:125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy
+testimonies.
+
+119:126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void
+thy law.
+
+119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine
+gold.
+
+119:128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to
+be right; and I hate every false way.
+
+119:129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep
+them.
+
+119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth
+understanding unto the simple.
+
+119:131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy
+commandments.
+
+119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to
+do unto those that love thy name.
+
+119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have
+dominion over me.
+
+119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy
+precepts.
+
+119:135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy
+statutes.
+
+119:136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy
+law.
+
+119:137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
+
+119:138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and
+very faithful.
+
+119:139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten
+thy words.
+
+119:140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
+
+119:141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
+
+119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law
+is the truth.
+
+119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy
+commandments are my delights.
+
+119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me
+understanding, and I shall live.
+
+119:145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy
+statutes.
+
+119:146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
+
+119:147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in
+thy word.
+
+119:148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in
+thy word.
+
+119:149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD,
+quicken me according to thy judgment.
+
+119:150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from
+thy law.
+
+119:151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
+
+119:152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast
+founded them for ever.
+
+119:153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget
+thy law.
+
+119:154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy
+word.
+
+119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy
+statutes.
+
+119:156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to
+thy judgments.
+
+119:157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline
+from thy testimonies.
+
+119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept
+not thy word.
+
+119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD,
+according to thy lovingkindness.
+
+119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy
+righteous judgments endureth for ever.
+
+119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart
+standeth in awe of thy word.
+
+119:162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
+
+119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
+
+119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous
+judgments.
+
+119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall
+offend them.
+
+119:166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy
+commandments.
+
+119:167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them
+exceedingly.
+
+119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways
+are before thee.
+
+119:169 Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me
+understanding according to thy word.
+
+119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to
+thy word.
+
+119:171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy
+statutes.
+
+119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments
+are righteousness.
+
+119:173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
+
+119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my
+delight.
+
+119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy
+judgments help me.
+
+119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I
+do not forget thy commandments.
+
+120:1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
+
+120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful
+tongue.
+
+120:3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee,
+thou false tongue?
+
+120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
+
+120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents
+of Kedar!
+
+120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
+
+120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
+
+121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my
+help.
+
+121:2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
+
+121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee
+will not slumber.
+
+121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
+
+121:5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right
+hand.
+
+121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
+
+121:7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
+thy soul.
+
+121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from
+this time forth, and even for evermore.
+
+122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of
+the LORD.
+
+122:2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
+
+122:3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
+
+122:4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the
+testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
+
+122:5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house
+of David.
+
+122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
+thee.
+
+122:7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
+
+122:8 For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be
+within thee.
+
+122:9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
+
+123:1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
+heavens.
+
+123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their
+masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so
+our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
+
+123:3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are
+exceedingly filled with contempt.
+
+123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that
+are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
+
+124:1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel
+say;
+
+124:2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose
+up against us:
+
+124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was
+kindled against us:
+
+124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our
+soul:
+
+124:5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
+
+124:6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their
+teeth.
+
+124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:
+the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
+
+124:8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
+
+125:1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot
+be removed, but abideth for ever.
+
+125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round
+about his people from henceforth even for ever.
+
+125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the
+righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
+
+125:4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are
+upright in their hearts.
+
+125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD
+shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be
+upon Israel.
+
+126:1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like
+them that dream.
+
+126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with
+singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great
+things for them.
+
+126:3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
+
+126:4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
+
+126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
+
+126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
+doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
+
+127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build
+it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
+
+127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the
+bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
+
+127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the
+womb is his reward.
+
+127:4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of
+the youth.
+
+127:5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall
+not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
+
+128:1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his
+ways.
+
+128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou
+be, and it shall be well with thee.
+
+128:3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
+house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
+
+128:4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the
+LORD.
+
+128:5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
+good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
+
+128:6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon
+Israel.
+
+129:1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now
+say:
+
+129:2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have
+not prevailed against me.
+
+129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
+
+129:4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
+wicked.
+
+129:5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
+
+129:6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth
+afore it groweth up:
+
+129:7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth
+sheaves his bosom.
+
+129:8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be
+upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
+
+130:1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
+
+130:2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of
+my supplications.
+
+130:3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
+stand?
+
+130:4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
+
+130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I
+hope.
+
+130:6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the
+morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
+
+130:7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy,
+and with him is plenteous redemption.
+
+130:8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
+
+131:1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I
+exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
+
+131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is
+weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
+
+131:3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
+
+132:1 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
+
+132:2 How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of
+Jacob;
+
+132:3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go
+up into my bed;
+
+132:4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
+
+132:5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the
+mighty God of Jacob.
+
+132:6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the
+wood.
+
+132:7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his
+footstool.
+
+132:8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
+
+132:9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy
+saints shout for joy.
+
+132:10 For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine
+anointed.
+
+132:11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from
+it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
+
+132:12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I
+shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for
+evermore.
+
+132:13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his
+habitation.
+
+132:14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired
+it.
+
+132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor
+with bread.
+
+132:16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints
+shall shout aloud for joy.
+
+132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a
+lamp for mine anointed.
+
+132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall
+his crown flourish.
+
+133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
+together in unity!
+
+133:2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down
+upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of
+his garments;
+
+133:3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the
+mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even
+life for evermore.
+
+134:1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by
+night stand in the house of the LORD.
+
+134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
+
+134:3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
+
+135:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him,
+O ye servants of the LORD.
+
+135:2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the
+house of our God.
+
+135:3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his
+name; for it is pleasant.
+
+135:4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his
+peculiar treasure.
+
+135:5 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above
+all gods.
+
+135:6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in
+earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
+
+135:7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he
+maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his
+treasuries.
+
+135:8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
+
+135:9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt,
+upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
+
+135:10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
+
+135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the
+kingdoms of Canaan:
+
+135:12 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel
+his people.
+
+135:13 Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD,
+throughout all generations.
+
+135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself
+concerning his servants.
+
+135:15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s
+hands.
+
+135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they
+see not;
+
+135:17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath
+in their mouths.
+
+135:18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that
+trusteth in them.
+
+135:19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of
+Aaron:
+
+135:20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless
+the LORD.
+
+135:21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem.
+
+Praise ye the LORD.
+
+136:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+136:2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for
+ever.
+
+136:3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for
+ever.
+
+136:4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for
+ever.
+
+136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth
+for ever.
+
+136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his
+mercy endureth for ever.
+
+136:7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
+
+136:8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
+
+136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for
+ever.
+
+136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
+endureth for ever:
+
+136:11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth
+for ever:
+
+136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+136:13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy
+endureth for ever:
+
+136:14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
+endureth for ever:
+
+136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his
+mercy endureth for ever.
+
+136:16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his
+mercy endureth for ever.
+
+136:17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for
+ever:
+
+136:18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
+
+136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
+
+136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:
+
+136:21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for
+ever:
+
+136:22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for
+ever:
+
+136:24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth
+for ever.
+
+136:25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
+
+136:26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth
+for ever.
+
+137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when
+we remembered Zion.
+
+137:2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
+
+137:3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a
+song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us
+one of the songs of Zion.
+
+137:4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
+
+137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
+cunning.
+
+137:6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
+my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
+
+137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
+who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
+
+137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he
+be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
+
+137:9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
+against the stones.
+
+138:1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I
+sing praise unto thee.
+
+138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for
+thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word
+above all thy name.
+
+138:3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst
+me with strength in my soul.
+
+138:4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they
+hear the words of thy mouth.
+
+138:5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the
+glory of the LORD.
+
+138:6 Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but
+the proud he knoweth afar off.
+
+138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou
+shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and
+thy right hand shall save me.
+
+138:8 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O
+LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
+
+139:1 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
+
+139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou
+understandest my thought afar off.
+
+139:3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted
+with all my ways.
+
+139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou
+knowest it altogether.
+
+139:5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon
+me.
+
+139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot
+attain unto it.
+
+139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from
+thy presence?
+
+139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in
+hell, behold, thou art there.
+
+139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost
+parts of the sea;
+
+139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall
+hold me.
+
+139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night
+shall be light about me.
+
+139:12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth
+as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
+
+139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my
+mother’s womb.
+
+139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
+marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
+
+139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,
+and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
+
+139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in
+thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were
+fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
+
+139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is
+the sum of them!
+
+139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
+when I awake, I am still with thee.
+
+139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me
+therefore, ye bloody men.
+
+139:20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take
+thy name in vain.
+
+139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I
+grieved with those that rise up against thee?
+
+139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
+
+139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
+thoughts:
+
+139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
+way everlasting.
+
+140:1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the
+violent man;
+
+140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they
+gathered together for war.
+
+140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison
+is under their lips. Selah.
+
+140:4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from
+the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
+
+140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a
+net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
+
+140:6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my
+supplications, O LORD.
+
+140:7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered
+my head in the day of battle.
+
+140:8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his
+wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
+
+140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief
+of their own lips cover them.
+
+140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the
+fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
+
+140:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall
+hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
+
+140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
+and the right of the poor.
+
+140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the
+upright shall dwell in thy presence.
+
+141:1 Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my
+voice, when I cry unto thee.
+
+141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the
+lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
+
+141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
+
+141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works
+with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
+
+141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him
+reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my
+head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
+
+141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall
+hear my words; for they are sweet.
+
+141:7 Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one
+cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
+
+141:8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my
+trust; leave not my soul destitute.
+
+141:9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the
+gins of the workers of iniquity.
+
+141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal
+escape.
+
+142:1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD
+did I make my supplication.
+
+142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my
+trouble.
+
+142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my
+path.
+
+In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
+
+142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that
+would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
+
+142:5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my
+portion in the land of the living.
+
+142:6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from
+my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
+
+142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the
+righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with
+me.
+
+143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy
+faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
+
+143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight
+shall no man living be justified.
+
+143:3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life
+down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those
+that have been long dead.
+
+143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me
+is desolate.
+
+143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse
+on the work of thy hands.
+
+143:6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after
+thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
+
+143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face
+from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
+
+143:8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee
+do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift
+up my soul unto thee.
+
+143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide
+me.
+
+143:10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is
+good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
+
+143:11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’
+sake bring my soul out of trouble.
+
+143:12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them
+that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
+
+144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war,
+and my fingers to fight:
+
+144:2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer;
+my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
+
+144:3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son
+of man, that thou makest account of him!
+
+144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth
+away.
+
+144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and
+they shall smoke.
+
+144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows,
+and destroy them.
+
+144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great
+waters, from the hand of strange children;
+
+144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right
+hand of falsehood.
+
+144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an
+instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
+
+144:10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David
+his servant from the hurtful sword.
+
+144:11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose
+mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of
+falsehood:
+
+144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that
+our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude
+of a palace:
+
+144:13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store:
+that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our
+streets:
+
+144:14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no
+breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our
+streets.
+
+144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is
+that people, whose God is the LORD.
+
+145:1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for
+ever and ever.
+
+145:2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever
+and ever.
+
+145:3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness
+is unsearchable.
+
+145:4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
+declare thy mighty acts.
+
+145:5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy
+wondrous works.
+
+145:6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I
+will declare thy greatness.
+
+145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
+and shall sing of thy righteousness.
+
+145:8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and
+of great mercy.
+
+145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his
+works.
+
+145:10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall
+bless thee.
+
+145:11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy
+power;
+
+145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
+glorious majesty of his kingdom.
+
+145:13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion
+endureth throughout all generations.
+
+145:14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that
+be bowed down.
+
+145:15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat
+in due season.
+
+145:16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every
+living thing.
+
+145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his
+works.
+
+145:18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that
+call upon him in truth.
+
+145:19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will
+hear their cry, and will save them.
+
+145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked
+will he destroy.
+
+145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh
+bless his holy name for ever and ever.
+
+146:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
+
+146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my
+God while I have any being.
+
+146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom
+there is no help.
+
+146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very
+day his thoughts perish.
+
+146:5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope
+is in the LORD his God:
+
+146:6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is:
+which keepeth truth for ever:
+
+146:7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to
+the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
+
+146:8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them
+that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
+
+146:9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless
+and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
+
+146:10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all
+generations. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+147:1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God;
+for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
+
+147:2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the
+outcasts of Israel.
+
+147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
+
+147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their
+names.
+
+147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is
+infinite.
+
+147:6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the
+ground.
+
+147:7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp
+unto our God:
+
+147:8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the
+earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
+
+147:9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which
+cry.
+
+147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not
+pleasure in the legs of a man.
+
+147:11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that
+hope in his mercy.
+
+147:12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
+
+147:13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed
+thy children within thee.
+
+147:14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the
+finest of the wheat.
+
+147:15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth
+very swiftly.
+
+147:16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like
+ashes.
+
+147:17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his
+cold?
+
+147:18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind
+to blow, and the waters flow.
+
+147:19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments
+unto Israel.
+
+147:20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments,
+they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+148:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise
+him in the heights.
+
+148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
+
+148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
+
+148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above
+the heavens.
+
+148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they
+were created.
+
+148:6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a
+decree which shall not pass.
+
+148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
+
+148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his
+word:
+
+148:9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
+
+148:10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
+
+148:11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of
+the earth:
+
+148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
+
+148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is
+excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
+
+148:14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his
+saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise
+ye the LORD.
+
+149:1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his
+praise in the congregation of saints.
+
+149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of
+Zion be joyful in their King.
+
+149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises
+unto him with the timbrel and harp.
+
+149:4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the
+meek with salvation.
+
+149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon
+their beds.
+
+149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged
+sword in their hand;
+
+149:7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the
+people;
+
+149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
+of iron;
+
+149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all
+his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+150:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in
+the firmament of his power.
+
+150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his
+excellent greatness.
+
+150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the
+psaltery and harp.
+
+150:4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
+instruments and organs.
+
+150:5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high
+sounding cymbals.
+
+150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
+
+
+
+
+The Proverbs
+
+
+1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 1:2 To
+know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
+1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and
+equity; 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge
+and discretion.
+
+1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of
+understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 1:6 To understand a
+proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark
+sayings.
+
+1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools
+despise wisdom and instruction.
+
+1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the
+law of thy mother: 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy
+head, and chains about thy neck.
+
+1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
+
+1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk
+privily for the innocent without cause: 1:12 Let us swallow them up
+alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
+1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses
+with spoil: 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
+1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from
+their path: 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed
+blood.
+
+1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
+
+1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for
+their own lives.
+
+1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh
+away the life of the owners thereof.
+
+1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
+1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of
+the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 1:22 How long,
+ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in
+their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 1:23 Turn you at my
+reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known
+my words unto you.
+
+1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my
+hand, and no man regarded; 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my
+counsel, and would none of my reproof: 1:26 I also will laugh at your
+calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 1:27 When your fear
+cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when
+distress and anguish cometh upon you.
+
+1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall
+seek me early, but they shall not find me: 1:29 For that they hated
+knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 1:30 They would
+none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
+
+1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be
+filled with their own devices.
+
+1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
+prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
+
+1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be
+quiet from fear of evil.
+
+2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments
+with thee; 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply
+thine heart to understanding; 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,
+and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 2:4 If thou seekest her as
+silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 2:5 Then shalt
+thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
+
+2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and
+understanding.
+
+2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to
+them that walk uprightly.
+
+2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his
+saints.
+
+2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and
+equity; yea, every good path.
+
+2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant
+unto thy soul; 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding
+shall keep thee: 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,
+from the man that speaketh froward things; 2:13 Who leave the paths of
+uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 2:14 Who rejoice to do
+evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 2:15 Whose ways
+are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 2:16 To deliver thee
+from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with
+her words; 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth
+the covenant of her God.
+
+2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
+
+2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the
+paths of life.
+
+2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths
+of the righteous.
+
+2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall
+remain in it.
+
+2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
+transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
+
+3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my
+commandments: 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall
+they add to thee.
+
+3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck;
+write them upon the table of thine heart: 3:4 So shalt thou find
+favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
+
+3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine
+own understanding.
+
+3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
+
+3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from
+evil.
+
+3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
+
+3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of
+all thine increase: 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and
+thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
+
+3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary
+of his correction: 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even
+as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
+
+3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth
+understanding.
+
+3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of
+silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
+
+3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst
+desire are not to be compared unto her.
+
+3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches
+and honour.
+
+3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
+
+3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy
+is every one that retaineth her.
+
+3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath
+he established the heavens.
+
+3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop
+down the dew.
+
+3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom
+and discretion: 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to
+thy neck.
+
+3:23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not
+stumble.
+
+3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt
+lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
+
+3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the
+wicked, when it cometh.
+
+3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot
+from being taken.
+
+3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the
+power of thine hand to do it.
+
+3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I
+will give; when thou hast it by thee.
+
+3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth
+securely by thee.
+
+3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no
+harm.
+
+3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
+
+3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is
+with the righteous.
+
+3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he
+blesseth the habitation of the just.
+
+3:34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the
+lowly.
+
+3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of
+fools.
+
+4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know
+understanding.
+
+4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
+
+4:3 For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of
+my mother.
+
+4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my
+words: keep my commandments, and live.
+
+4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from
+the words of my mouth.
+
+4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she
+shall keep thee.
+
+4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all
+thy getting get understanding.
+
+4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to
+honour, when thou dost embrace her.
+
+4:9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of
+glory shall she deliver to thee.
+
+4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life
+shall be many.
+
+4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right
+paths.
+
+4:12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou
+runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
+
+4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she
+is thy life.
+
+4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of
+evil men.
+
+4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
+
+4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their
+sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
+
+4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of
+violence.
+
+4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth
+more and more unto the perfect day.
+
+4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they
+stumble.
+
+4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
+
+4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of
+thine heart.
+
+4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all
+their flesh.
+
+4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues
+of life.
+
+4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far
+from thee.
+
+4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight
+before thee.
+
+4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
+
+4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from
+evil.
+
+5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my
+understanding: 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy
+lips may keep knowledge.
+
+5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her
+mouth is smoother than oil: 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood,
+sharp as a two-edged sword.
+
+5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
+
+5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
+moveable, that thou canst not know them.
+
+5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the
+words of my mouth.
+
+5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her
+house: 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto
+the cruel: 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy
+labours be in the house of a stranger; 5:11 And thou mourn at the
+last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 5:12 And say, How have
+I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 5:13 And have not
+obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that
+instructed me! 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the
+congregation and assembly.
+
+5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of
+thine own well.
+
+5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in
+the streets.
+
+5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
+
+5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy
+youth.
+
+5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts
+satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
+
+5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and
+embrace the bosom of a stranger? 5:21 For the ways of man are before
+the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
+
+5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be
+holden with the cords of his sins.
+
+5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his
+folly he shall go astray.
+
+6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken
+thy hand with a stranger, 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy
+mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
+
+6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into
+the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
+
+6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
+
+6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a
+bird from the hand of the fowler.
+
+6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 6:7
+Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 6:8 Provideth her meat in
+the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
+
+6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of
+thy sleep? 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little
+folding of the hands to sleep: 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one
+that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
+
+6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
+
+6:13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth
+with his fingers; 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth
+mischief continually; he soweth discord.
+
+6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be
+broken without remedy.
+
+6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an
+abomination unto him: 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands
+that shed innocent blood, 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked
+imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 6:19 A false
+witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
+
+6:20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of
+thy mother: 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them
+about thy neck.
+
+6:22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall
+keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
+
+6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs
+of instruction are the way of life: 6:24 To keep thee from the evil
+woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
+
+6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take
+thee with her eyelids.
+
+6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of
+bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
+
+6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
+6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 6:29 So
+he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall
+not be innocent.
+
+6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when
+he is hungry; 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he
+shall give all the substance of his house.
+
+6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding:
+he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
+
+6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be
+wiped away.
+
+6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in
+the day of vengeance.
+
+6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content,
+though thou givest many gifts.
+
+7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
+
+7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine
+eye.
+
+7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine
+heart.
+
+7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy
+kinswoman: 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from
+the stranger which flattereth with her words.
+
+7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7:7
+And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a
+young man void of understanding, 7:8 Passing through the street near
+her corner; and he went the way to her house, 7:9 In the twilight, in
+the evening, in the black and dark night: 7:10 And, behold, there met
+him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
+
+7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 7:12
+Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every
+corner.) 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent
+face said unto him, 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have
+I payed my vows.
+
+7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face,
+and I have found thee.
+
+7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved
+works, with fine linen of Egypt.
+
+7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
+
+7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us
+solace ourselves with loves.
+
+7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 7:20
+He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day
+appointed.
+
+7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the
+flattering of her lips she forced him.
+
+7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
+or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 7:23 Till a dart strike
+through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not
+that it is for his life.
+
+7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the
+words of my mouth.
+
+7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her
+paths.
+
+7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have
+been slain by her.
+
+7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of
+death.
+
+8:1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? 8:2
+She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of
+the paths.
+
+8:3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming
+in at the doors.
+
+8:4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
+
+8:5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an
+understanding heart.
+
+8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my
+lips shall be right things.
+
+8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination
+to my lips.
+
+8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing
+froward or perverse in them.
+
+8:9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them
+that find knowledge.
+
+8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than
+choice gold.
+
+8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be
+desired are not to be compared to it.
+
+8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty
+inventions.
+
+8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and
+the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
+
+8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have
+strength.
+
+8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
+
+8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
+
+8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find
+me.
+
+8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and
+righteousness.
+
+8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue
+than choice silver.
+
+8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of
+judgment: 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit
+substance; and I will fill their treasures.
+
+8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his
+works of old.
+
+8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the
+earth was.
+
+8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were
+no fountains abounding with water.
+
+8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought
+forth: 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,
+nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
+
+8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass
+upon the face of the depth: 8:28 When he established the clouds above:
+when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 8:29 When he gave to
+the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment:
+when he appointed the foundations of the earth: 8:30 Then I was by
+him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight,
+rejoicing always before him; 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of
+his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
+
+8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are
+they that keep my ways.
+
+8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
+
+8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,
+waiting at the posts of my doors.
+
+8:35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the
+LORD.
+
+8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they
+that hate me love death.
+
+9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
+pillars: 9:2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine;
+she hath also furnished her table.
+
+9:3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest
+places of the city, 9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as
+for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 9:5 Come, eat of
+my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
+
+9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
+
+9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that
+rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
+
+9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and
+he will love thee.
+
+9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a
+just man, and he will increase in learning.
+
+9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the
+knowledge of the holy is understanding.
+
+9:11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life
+shall be increased.
+
+9:12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou
+scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
+
+9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
+
+9:14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
+places of the city, 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their
+ways: 9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him
+that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 9:17 Stolen waters are
+sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
+
+9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests
+are in the depths of hell.
+
+10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a
+foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
+
+10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness
+delivereth from death.
+
+10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but
+he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
+
+10:4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of
+the diligent maketh rich.
+
+10:5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth
+in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
+
+10:6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth
+the mouth of the wicked.
+
+10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked
+shall rot.
+
+10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool
+shall fall.
+
+10:9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth
+his ways shall be known.
+
+10:10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool
+shall fall.
+
+10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence
+covereth the mouth of the wicked.
+
+10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
+
+10:13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but
+a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
+
+10:14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near
+destruction.
+
+10:15 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the
+poor is their poverty.
+
+10:16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the
+wicked to sin.
+
+10:17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that
+refuseth reproof erreth.
+
+10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a
+slander, is a fool.
+
+10:19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that
+refraineth his lips is wise.
+
+10:20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the
+wicked is little worth.
+
+10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of
+wisdom.
+
+10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
+sorrow with it.
+
+10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of
+understanding hath wisdom.
+
+10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire
+of the righteous shall be granted.
+
+10:25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the
+righteous is an everlasting foundation.
+
+10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the
+sluggard to them that send him.
+
+10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the
+wicked shall be shortened.
+
+10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation
+of the wicked shall perish.
+
+10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction
+shall be to the workers of iniquity.
+
+10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not
+inhabit the earth.
+
+10:31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward
+tongue shall be cut out.
+
+10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth
+of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
+
+11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is
+his delight.
+
+11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is
+wisdom.
+
+11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the
+perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
+
+11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness
+delivereth from death.
+
+11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the
+wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
+
+11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but
+transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
+
+11:7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the
+hope of unjust men perisheth.
+
+11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh
+in his stead.
+
+11:9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through
+knowledge shall the just be delivered.
+
+11:10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and
+when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
+
+11:11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is
+overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
+
+11:12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of
+understanding holdeth his peace.
+
+11:13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful
+spirit concealeth the matter.
+
+11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of
+counsellors there is safety.
+
+11:15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that
+hateth suretiship is sure.
+
+11:16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
+
+11:17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is
+cruel troubleth his own flesh.
+
+11:18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth
+righteousness shall be a sure reward.
+
+11:19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil
+pursueth it to his own death.
+
+11:20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD:
+but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
+
+11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished:
+but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
+
+11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which
+is without discretion.
+
+11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of
+the wicked is wrath.
+
+11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that
+withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
+
+11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall
+be watered also himself.
+
+11:26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but
+blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
+
+11:27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that
+seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
+
+11:28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous
+shall flourish as a branch.
+
+11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the
+fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
+
+11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that
+winneth souls is wise.
+
+11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much
+more the wicked and the sinner.
+
+12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth
+reproof is brutish.
+
+12:2 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked
+devices will he condemn.
+
+12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the
+righteous shall not be moved.
+
+12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh
+ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
+
+12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the
+wicked are deceit.
+
+12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the
+mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
+
+12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the
+righteous shall stand.
+
+12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is
+of a perverse heart shall be despised.
+
+12:9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that
+honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
+
+12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender
+mercies of the wicked are cruel.
+
+12:11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he
+that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
+
+12:12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the
+righteous yieldeth fruit.
+
+12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the
+just shall come out of trouble.
+
+12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth:
+and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.
+
+12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that
+hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
+
+12:16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth
+shame.
+
+12:17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false
+witness deceit.
+
+12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the
+tongue of the wise is health.
+
+12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying
+tongue is but for a moment.
+
+12:20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the
+counsellors of peace is joy.
+
+12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be
+filled with mischief.
+
+12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly
+are his delight.
+
+12:23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools
+proclaimeth foolishness.
+
+12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall
+be under tribute.
+
+12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word
+maketh it glad.
+
+12:26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way
+of the wicked seduceth them.
+
+12:27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but
+the substance of a diligent man is precious.
+
+12:28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof
+there is no death.
+
+13:1 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner
+heareth not rebuke.
+
+13:2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of
+the transgressors shall eat violence.
+
+13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth
+wide his lips shall have destruction.
+
+13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul
+of the diligent shall be made fat.
+
+13:5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and
+cometh to shame.
+
+13:6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but
+wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
+
+13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is
+that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
+
+13:8 The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth
+not rebuke.
+
+13:9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked
+shall be put out.
+
+13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is
+wisdom.
+
+13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that
+gathereth by labour shall increase.
+
+13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh,
+it is a tree of life.
+
+13:13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth
+the commandment shall be rewarded.
+
+13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the
+snares of death.
+
+13:15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors
+is hard.
+
+13:16 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open
+his folly.
+
+13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful
+ambassador is health.
+
+13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but
+he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
+
+13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is
+abomination to fools to depart from evil.
+
+13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of
+fools shall be destroyed.
+
+13:21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be
+repayed.
+
+13:22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children:
+and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
+
+13:23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is
+destroyed for want of judgment.
+
+13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
+chasteneth him betimes.
+
+13:25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the
+belly of the wicked shall want.
+
+14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it
+down with her hands.
+
+14:2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that
+is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
+
+14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of
+the wise shall preserve them.
+
+14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the
+strength of the ox.
+
+14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter
+lies.
+
+14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is
+easy unto him that understandeth.
+
+14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not
+in him the lips of knowledge.
+
+14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly
+of fools is deceit.
+
+14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is
+favour.
+
+14:10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not
+intermeddle with his joy.
+
+14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle
+of the upright shall flourish.
+
+14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end
+thereof are the ways of death.
+
+14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that
+mirth is heaviness.
+
+14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a
+good man shall be satisfied from himself.
+
+14:15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh
+well to his going.
+
+14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool
+rageth, and is confident.
+
+14:17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked
+devices is hated.
+
+14:18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with
+knowledge.
+
+14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the
+righteous.
+
+14:20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath
+many friends.
+
+14:21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy
+on the poor, happy is he.
+
+14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be
+to them that devise good.
+
+14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth
+only to penury.
+
+14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of
+fools is folly.
+
+14:25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness
+speaketh lies.
+
+14:26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children
+shall have a place of refuge.
+
+14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the
+snares of death.
+
+14:28 In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want
+of people is the destruction of the prince.
+
+14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that
+is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
+
+14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness
+of the bones.
+
+14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that
+honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
+
+14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous
+hath hope in his death.
+
+14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but
+that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
+
+14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any
+people.
+
+14:35 The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is
+against him that causeth shame.
+
+15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up
+anger.
+
+15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of
+fools poureth out foolishness.
+
+15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and
+the good.
+
+15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is
+a breach in the spirit.
+
+15:5 A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth
+reproof is prudent.
+
+15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the
+revenues of the wicked is trouble.
+
+15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the
+foolish doeth not so.
+
+15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but
+the prayer of the upright is his delight.
+
+15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he
+loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
+
+15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he
+that hateth reproof shall die.
+
+15:11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the
+hearts of the children of men? 15:12 A scorner loveth not one that
+reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
+
+15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of
+the heart the spirit is broken.
+
+15:14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but
+the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
+
+15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a
+merry heart hath a continual feast.
+
+15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure
+and trouble therewith.
+
+15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
+hatred therewith.
+
+15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger
+appeaseth strife.
+
+15:19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the
+way of the righteous is made plain.
+
+15:20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his
+mother.
+
+15:21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of
+understanding walketh uprightly.
+
+15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude
+of counsellors they are established.
+
+15:23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in
+due season, how good is it! 15:24 The way of life is above to the
+wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
+
+15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will
+establish the border of the widow.
+
+15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but
+the words of the pure are pleasant words.
+
+15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that
+hateth gifts shall live.
+
+15:28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of
+the wicked poureth out evil things.
+
+15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of
+the righteous.
+
+15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report
+maketh the bones fat.
+
+15:31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
+
+15:32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that
+heareth reproof getteth understanding.
+
+15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before
+honour is humility.
+
+16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the
+tongue, is from the LORD.
+
+16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD
+weigheth the spirits.
+
+16:3 Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be
+established.
+
+16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked
+for the day of evil.
+
+16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD:
+though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
+
+16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the
+LORD men depart from evil.
+
+16:7 When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to
+be at peace with him.
+
+16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without
+right.
+
+16:9 A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
+
+16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth
+transgresseth not in judgment.
+
+16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the
+bag are his work.
+
+16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the
+throne is established by righteousness.
+
+16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that
+speaketh right.
+
+16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man
+will pacify it.
+
+16:15 In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour
+is as a cloud of the latter rain.
+
+16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get
+understanding rather to be chosen than silver! 16:17 The highway of
+the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth
+his soul.
+
+16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
+fall.
+
+16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to
+divide the spoil with the proud.
+
+16:20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso
+trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
+
+16:21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of
+the lips increaseth learning.
+
+16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but
+the instruction of fools is folly.
+
+16:23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to
+his lips.
+
+16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and
+health to the bones.
+
+16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end
+thereof are the ways of death.
+
+16:26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth
+it of him.
+
+16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a
+burning fire.
+
+16:28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief
+friends.
+
+16:29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the
+way that is not good.
+
+16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips
+he bringeth evil to pass.
+
+16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of
+righteousness.
+
+16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
+ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
+
+16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is
+of the LORD.
+
+17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house
+full of sacrifices with strife.
+
+17:2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and
+shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
+
+17:3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the
+LORD trieth the hearts.
+
+17:4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to
+a naughty tongue.
+
+17:5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad
+at calamities shall not be unpunished.
+
+17:6 Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of
+children are their fathers.
+
+17:7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a
+prince.
+
+17:8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it:
+whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
+
+17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that
+repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
+
+17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes
+into a fool.
+
+17:11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger
+shall be sent against him.
+
+17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool
+in his folly.
+
+17:13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his
+house.
+
+17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water:
+therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
+
+17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,
+even they both are abomination to the LORD.
+
+17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom,
+seeing he hath no heart to it? 17:17 A friend loveth at all times,
+and a brother is born for adversity.
+
+17:18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety
+in the presence of his friend.
+
+17:19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth
+his gate seeketh destruction.
+
+17:20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a
+perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
+
+17:21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father
+of a fool hath no joy.
+
+17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
+drieth the bones.
+
+17:23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways
+of judgment.
+
+17:24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a
+fool are in the ends of the earth.
+
+17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her
+that bare him.
+
+17:26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for
+equity.
+
+17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of
+understanding is of an excellent spirit.
+
+17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he
+that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
+
+18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and
+intermeddleth with all wisdom.
+
+18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may
+discover itself.
+
+18:3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with
+ignominy reproach.
+
+18:4 The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring
+of wisdom as a flowing brook.
+
+18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow
+the righteous in judgment.
+
+18:6 A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for
+strokes.
+
+18:7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of
+his soul.
+
+18:8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into
+the innermost parts of the belly.
+
+18:9 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a
+great waster.
+
+18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth
+into it, and is safe.
+
+18:11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in
+his own conceit.
+
+18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before
+honour is humility.
+
+18:13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and
+shame unto him.
+
+18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded
+spirit who can bear? 18:15 The heart of the prudent getteth
+knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
+
+18:16 A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great
+men.
+
+18:17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his
+neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
+
+18:18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the
+mighty.
+
+18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and
+their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
+
+18:20 A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth;
+and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
+
+18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that
+love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
+
+18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour
+of the LORD.
+
+18:23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
+
+18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is
+a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
+
+19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is
+perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
+
+19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he
+that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
+
+19:3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth
+against the LORD.
+
+19:4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his
+neighbour.
+
+19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh
+lies shall not escape.
+
+19:6 Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a
+friend to him that giveth gifts.
+
+19:7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his
+friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are
+wanting to him.
+
+19:8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth
+understanding shall find good.
+
+19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh
+lies shall perish.
+
+19:10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to
+have rule over princes.
+
+19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory
+to pass over a transgression.
+
+19:12 The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is
+as dew upon the grass.
+
+19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions
+of a wife are a continual dropping.
+
+19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent
+wife is from the LORD.
+
+19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall
+suffer hunger.
+
+19:16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he
+that despiseth his ways shall die.
+
+19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that
+which he hath given will he pay him again.
+
+19:18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare
+for his crying.
+
+19:19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou
+deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
+
+19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise
+in thy latter end.
+
+19:21 There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the
+counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
+
+19:22 The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better
+than a liar.
+
+19:23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall
+abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
+
+19:24 A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so
+much as bring it to his mouth again.
+
+19:25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one
+that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
+
+19:26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a
+son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
+
+19:27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from
+the words of knowledge.
+
+19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the
+wicked devoureth iniquity.
+
+19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of
+fools.
+
+20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is
+deceived thereby is not wise.
+
+20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh
+him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
+
+20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
+will be meddling.
+
+20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall
+he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
+
+20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of
+understanding will draw it out.
+
+20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful
+man who can find? 20:7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his
+children are blessed after him.
+
+20:8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all
+evil with his eyes.
+
+20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
+20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
+abomination to the LORD.
+
+20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure,
+and whether it be right.
+
+20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even
+both of them.
+
+20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and
+thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
+
+20:14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
+his way, then he boasteth.
+
+20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of
+knowledge are a precious jewel.
+
+20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a
+pledge of him for a strange woman.
+
+20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth
+shall be filled with gravel.
+
+20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice
+make war.
+
+20:19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore
+meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
+
+20:20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put
+out in obscure darkness.
+
+20:21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the
+end thereof shall not be blessed.
+
+20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and
+he shall save thee.
+
+20:23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false
+balance is not good.
+
+20:24 Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his
+own way? 20:25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is
+holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
+
+20:26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over
+them.
+
+20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the
+inward parts of the belly.
+
+20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by
+mercy.
+
+20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old
+men is the grey head.
+
+20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the
+inward parts of the belly.
+
+21:1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of
+water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
+
+21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD
+pondereth the hearts.
+
+21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than
+sacrifice.
+
+21:4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked,
+is sin.
+
+21:5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of
+every one that is hasty only to want.
+
+21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to
+and fro of them that seek death.
+
+21:7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse
+to do judgment.
+
+21:8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his
+work is right.
+
+21:9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
+brawling woman in a wide house.
+
+21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no
+favour in his eyes.
+
+21:11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when
+the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
+
+21:12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked:
+but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
+
+21:13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall
+cry himself, but shall not be heard.
+
+21:14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom
+strong wrath.
+
+21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be
+to the workers of iniquity.
+
+21:16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall
+remain in the congregation of the dead.
+
+21:17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine
+and oil shall not be rich.
+
+21:18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the
+transgressor for the upright.
+
+21:19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious
+and an angry woman.
+
+21:20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the
+wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
+
+21:21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life,
+righteousness, and honour.
+
+21:22 A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the
+strength of the confidence thereof.
+
+21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from
+troubles.
+
+21:24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud
+wrath.
+
+21:25 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to
+labour.
+
+21:26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth
+and spareth not.
+
+21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when
+he bringeth it with a wicked mind? 21:28 A false witness shall
+perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
+
+21:29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he
+directeth his way.
+
+21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the
+LORD.
+
+21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is
+of the LORD.
+
+22:1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving
+favour rather than silver and gold.
+
+22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them
+all.
+
+22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the
+simple pass on, and are punished.
+
+22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and
+life.
+
+22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth
+keep his soul shall be far from them.
+
+22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
+will not depart from it.
+
+22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the
+lender.
+
+22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his
+anger shall fail.
+
+22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of
+his bread to the poor.
+
+22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife
+and reproach shall cease.
+
+22:11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the
+king shall be his friend.
+
+22:12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the
+words of the transgressor.
+
+22:13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be
+slain in the streets.
+
+22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of
+the LORD shall fall therein.
+
+22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of
+correction shall drive it far from him.
+
+22:16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that
+giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
+
+22:17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply
+thine heart unto my knowledge.
+
+22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they
+shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
+
+22:19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee
+this day, even to thee.
+
+22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and
+knowledge, 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the
+words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them
+that send unto thee? 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor:
+neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: 22:23 For the LORD will
+plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
+
+22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man
+thou shalt not go: 22:25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to
+thy soul.
+
+22:26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are
+sureties for debts.
+
+22:27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed
+from under thee? 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy
+fathers have set.
+
+22:29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before
+kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
+
+23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what
+is before thee: 23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man
+given to appetite.
+
+23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
+
+23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
+
+23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
+certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward
+heaven.
+
+23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
+desire thou his dainty meats: 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so
+is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with
+thee.
+
+23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose
+thy sweet words.
+
+23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom
+of thy words.
+
+23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of
+the fatherless: 23:11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead
+their cause with thee.
+
+23:12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words
+of knowledge.
+
+23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him
+with the rod, he shall not die.
+
+23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul
+from hell.
+
+23:15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even
+mine.
+
+23:16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
+
+23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the
+LORD all the day long.
+
+23:18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be
+cut off.
+
+23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the
+way.
+
+23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 23:21
+For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness
+shall clothe a man with rags.
+
+23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy
+mother when she is old.
+
+23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction,
+and understanding.
+
+23:24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that
+begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
+
+23:25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee
+shall rejoice.
+
+23:26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
+
+23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow
+pit.
+
+23:28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the
+transgressors among men.
+
+23:29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath
+babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
+23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed
+wine.
+
+23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
+colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
+
+23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an
+adder.
+
+23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall
+utter perverse things.
+
+23:34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the
+sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
+
+23:35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they
+have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it
+yet again.
+
+24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with
+them.
+
+24:2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of
+mischief.
+
+24:3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is
+established: 24:4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with
+all precious and pleasant riches.
+
+24:5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth
+strength.
+
+24:6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of
+counsellors there is safety.
+
+24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the
+gate.
+
+24:8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
+
+24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an
+abomination to men.
+
+24:10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
+
+24:11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and
+those that are ready to be slain; 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we
+knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he
+that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to
+every man according to his works? 24:13 My son, eat thou honey,
+because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
+24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou
+hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall
+not be cut off.
+
+24:15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the
+righteous; spoil not his resting place: 24:16 For a just man falleth
+seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into
+mischief.
+
+24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be
+glad when he stumbleth: 24:18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease
+him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
+
+24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at
+the wicked: 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the
+candle of the wicked shall be put out.
+
+24:21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with
+them that are given to change: 24:22 For their calamity shall rise
+suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? 24:23 These things
+also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in
+judgment.
+
+24:24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are righteous; him shall the
+people curse, nations shall abhor him: 24:25 But to them that rebuke
+him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
+
+24:26 Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
+
+24:27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the
+field; and afterwards build thine house.
+
+24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and
+deceive not with thy lips.
+
+24:29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will
+render to the man according to his work.
+
+24:30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the
+man void of understanding; 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with
+thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall
+thereof was broken down.
+
+24:32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and
+received instruction.
+
+24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
+hands to sleep: 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as one that
+travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
+
+25:1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah
+king of Judah copied out.
+
+25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of
+kings is to search out a matter.
+
+25:3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of
+kings is unsearchable.
+
+25:4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a
+vessel for the finer.
+
+25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall
+be established in righteousness.
+
+25:6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not
+in the place of great men: 25:7 For better it is that it be said unto
+thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the
+presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
+
+25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in
+the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
+
+25:9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a
+secret to another: 25:10 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame,
+and thine infamy turn not away.
+
+25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of
+silver.
+
+25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a
+wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
+
+25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful
+messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his
+masters.
+
+25:14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind
+without rain.
+
+25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue
+breaketh the bone.
+
+25:16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee,
+lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
+
+25:17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary
+of thee, and so hate thee.
+
+25:18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a
+maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
+
+25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a
+broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
+
+25:20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar
+upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
+
+25:21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be
+thirsty, give him water to drink: 25:22 For thou shalt heap coals of
+fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
+
+25:23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a
+backbiting tongue.
+
+25:24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a
+brawling woman and in a wide house.
+
+25:25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
+country.
+
+25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled
+fountain, and a corrupt spring.
+
+25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own
+glory is not glory.
+
+25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is
+broken down, and without walls.
+
+26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not
+seemly for a fool.
+
+26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
+causeless shall not come.
+
+26:3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
+fool’s back.
+
+26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
+unto him.
+
+26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own
+conceit.
+
+26:6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the
+feet, and drinketh damage.
+
+26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth
+of fools.
+
+26:8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth
+honour to a fool.
+
+26:9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable
+in the mouths of fools.
+
+26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool,
+and rewardeth transgressors.
+
+26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his
+folly.
+
+26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of
+a fool than of him.
+
+26:13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in
+the streets.
+
+26:14 As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon
+his bed.
+
+26:15 The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to
+bring it again to his mouth.
+
+26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
+render a reason.
+
+26:17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to
+him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
+
+26:18 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, 26:19 So
+is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
+26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no
+talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
+
+26:21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a
+contentious man to kindle strife.
+
+26:22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into
+the innermost parts of the belly.
+
+26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with
+silver dross.
+
+26:24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit
+within him; 26:25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there
+are seven abominations in his heart.
+
+26:26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be
+shewed before the whole congregation.
+
+26:27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a
+stone, it will return upon him.
+
+26:28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a
+flattering mouth worketh ruin.
+
+27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day
+may bring forth.
+
+27:2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger,
+and not thine own lips.
+
+27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is
+heavier than them both.
+
+27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand
+before envy? 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
+
+27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy
+are deceitful.
+
+27:7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every
+bitter thing is sweet.
+
+27:8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that
+wandereth from his place.
+
+27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of
+a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
+
+27:10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither
+go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is
+a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
+
+27:11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him
+that reproacheth me.
+
+27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the
+simple pass on, and are punished.
+
+27:13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a
+pledge of him for a strange woman.
+
+27:14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in
+the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
+
+27:15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman
+are alike.
+
+27:16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his
+right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
+
+27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his
+friend.
+
+27:18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he
+that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
+
+27:19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
+
+27:20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are
+never satisfied.
+
+27:21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a
+man to his praise.
+
+27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
+pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
+
+27:23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well
+to thy herds.
+
+27:24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every
+generation? 27:25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth
+itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
+
+27:26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of
+the field.
+
+27:27 And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the
+food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
+
+28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold
+as a lion.
+
+28:2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but
+by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be
+prolonged.
+
+28:3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which
+leaveth no food.
+
+28:4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the
+law contend with them.
+
+28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD
+understand all things.
+
+28:6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that
+is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
+
+28:7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion
+of riotous men shameth his father.
+
+28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he
+shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
+
+28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his
+prayer shall be abomination.
+
+28:10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he
+shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good
+things in possession.
+
+28:11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath
+understanding searcheth him out.
+
+28:12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when
+the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
+
+28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso
+confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
+
+28:14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his
+heart shall fall into mischief.
+
+28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over
+the poor people.
+
+28:16 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor:
+but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
+
+28:17 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee
+to the pit; let no man stay him.
+
+28:18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse
+in his ways shall fall at once.
+
+28:19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that
+followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
+
+28:20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh
+haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
+
+28:21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread
+that man will transgress.
+
+28:22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not
+that poverty shall come upon him.
+
+28:23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he
+that flattereth with the tongue.
+
+28:24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no
+transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
+
+28:25 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that
+putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
+
+28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh
+wisely, he shall be delivered.
+
+28:27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth
+his eyes shall have many a curse.
+
+28:28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish,
+the righteous increase.
+
+29:1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly
+be destroyed, and that without remedy.
+
+29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when
+the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
+
+29:3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth
+company with harlots spendeth his substance.
+
+29:4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth
+gifts overthroweth it.
+
+29:5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
+
+29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the
+righteous doth sing and rejoice.
+
+29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked
+regardeth not to know it.
+
+29:8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away
+wrath.
+
+29:9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or
+laugh, there is no rest.
+
+29:10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
+
+29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till
+afterwards.
+
+29:12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
+
+29:13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD
+lighteneth both their eyes.
+
+29:14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be
+established for ever.
+
+29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself
+bringeth his mother to shame.
+
+29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but
+the righteous shall see their fall.
+
+29:17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give
+delight unto thy soul.
+
+29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth
+the law, happy is he.
+
+29:19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he
+understand he will not answer.
+
+29:20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope
+of a fool than of him.
+
+29:21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall
+have him become his son at the length.
+
+29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in
+transgression.
+
+29:23 A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the
+humble in spirit.
+
+29:24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth
+cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
+
+29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in
+the LORD shall be safe.
+
+29:26 Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh
+from the LORD.
+
+29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is
+upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
+
+30:1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man
+spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, 30:2 Surely I am more
+brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
+
+30:3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
+
+30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered
+the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who
+hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what
+is his son’s name, if thou canst tell? 30:5 Every word of God is
+pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
+
+30:6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be
+found a liar.
+
+30:7 Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I
+die: 30:8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty
+nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: 30:9 Lest I be full,
+and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal,
+and take the name of my God in vain.
+
+30:10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and
+thou be found guilty.
+
+30:11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not
+bless their mother.
+
+30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet
+is not washed from their filthiness.
+
+30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their
+eyelids are lifted up.
+
+30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw
+teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy
+from among men.
+
+30:15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are
+three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is
+enough: 30:16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not
+filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
+
+30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his
+mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young
+eagles shall eat it.
+
+30:18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
+which I know not: 30:19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a
+serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and
+the way of a man with a maid.
+
+30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth
+her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
+
+30:21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it
+cannot bear: 30:22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he
+is filled with meat; 30:23 For an odious woman when she is married;
+and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
+
+30:24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they
+are exceeding wise: 30:25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they
+prepare their meat in the summer; 30:26 The conies are but a feeble
+folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 30:27 The locusts have
+no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 30:28 The spider
+taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
+
+30:29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in
+going: 30:30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not
+away for any; 30:31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against
+whom there is no rising up.
+
+30:32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou
+hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
+
+30:33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the
+wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath
+bringeth forth strife.
+
+31:1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught
+him.
+
+31:2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of
+my vows? 31:3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that
+which destroyeth kings.
+
+31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine;
+nor for princes strong drink: 31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the
+law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
+
+31:6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto
+those that be of heavy hearts.
+
+31:7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no
+more.
+
+31:8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are
+appointed to destruction.
+
+31:9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the
+poor and needy.
+
+31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above
+rubies.
+
+31:11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he
+shall have no need of spoil.
+
+31:12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
+
+31:13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her
+hands.
+
+31:14 She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from
+afar.
+
+31:15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her
+household, and a portion to her maidens.
+
+31:16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her
+hands she planteth a vineyard.
+
+31:17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
+
+31:18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth
+not out by night.
+
+31:19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the
+distaff.
+
+31:20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth
+her hands to the needy.
+
+31:21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her
+household are clothed with scarlet.
+
+31:22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk
+and purple.
+
+31:23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the
+elders of the land.
+
+31:24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles
+unto the merchant.
+
+31:25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in
+time to come.
+
+31:26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law
+of kindness.
+
+31:27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not
+the bread of idleness.
+
+31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also,
+and he praiseth her.
+
+31:29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them
+all.
+
+31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that
+feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
+
+31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise
+her in the gates.
+
+
+
+
+Ecclesiastes
+
+or
+
+The Preacher
+
+
+1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
+
+1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is
+vanity.
+
+1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the
+sun? 1:4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh:
+but the earth abideth for ever.
+
+1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his
+place where he arose.
+
+1:6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north;
+it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according
+to his circuits.
+
+1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the
+place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
+
+1:8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not
+satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
+
+1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
+which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing
+under the sun.
+
+1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it
+hath been already of old time, which was before us.
+
+1:11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be
+any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come
+after.
+
+1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
+
+1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning
+all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God
+given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
+
+1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and,
+behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
+
+1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is
+wanting cannot be numbered.
+
+1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great
+estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been
+before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom
+and knowledge.
+
+1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and
+folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
+
+1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
+knowledge increaseth sorrow.
+
+2:1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth,
+therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
+
+2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? 2:3 I
+sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine
+heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was
+that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven
+all the days of their life.
+
+2:4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me
+vineyards: 2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in
+them of all kind of fruits: 2:6 I made me pools of water, to water
+therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: 2:7 I got me servants
+and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great
+possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem
+before me: 2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar
+treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women
+singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments,
+and that of all sorts.
+
+2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in
+Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
+
+2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld
+not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and
+this was my portion of all my labour.
+
+2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on
+the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and
+vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
+
+2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for
+what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath
+been already done.
+
+2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth
+darkness.
+
+2:14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in
+darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them
+all.
+
+2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it
+happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my
+heart, that this also is vanity.
+
+2:16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for
+ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be
+forgotten.
+
+And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
+
+2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under
+the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
+
+2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun:
+because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
+
+2:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet
+shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and
+wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
+
+2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the
+labour which I took under the sun.
+
+2:21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge,
+and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he
+leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
+
+2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his
+heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? 2:23 For all his days
+are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in
+the night. This is also vanity.
+
+2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and
+drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This
+also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
+
+2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
+2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and
+knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and
+to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also
+is vanity and vexation of spirit.
+
+3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
+under the heaven: 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to
+plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3:3 A time to
+kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build
+up; 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a
+time to dance; 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather
+stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from
+embracing; 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and
+a time to cast away; 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to
+keep silence, and a time to speak; 3:8 A time to love, and a time to
+hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
+
+3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
+3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men
+to be exercised in it.
+
+3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set
+the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that
+God maketh from the beginning to the end.
+
+3:12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice,
+and to do good in his life.
+
+3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good
+of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
+
+3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing
+can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that
+men should fear before him.
+
+3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already
+been; and God requireth that which is past.
+
+3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that
+wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity
+was there.
+
+3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the
+wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every
+work.
+
+3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men,
+that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they
+themselves are beasts.
+
+3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even
+one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea,
+they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a
+beast: for all is vanity.
+
+3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust
+again.
+
+3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit
+of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? 3:22 Wherefore I
+perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice
+in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to
+see what shall be after him? 4:1 So I returned, and considered all
+the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of
+such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of
+their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
+
+4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the
+living which are yet alive.
+
+4:3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who
+hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
+
+4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for
+this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and
+vexation of spirit.
+
+4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
+
+4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with
+travail and vexation of spirit.
+
+4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
+
+4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath
+neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour;
+neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom
+do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it
+is a sore travail.
+
+4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their
+labour.
+
+4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him
+that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
+
+4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one
+be warm alone? 4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall
+withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
+
+4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king,
+who will no more be admonished.
+
+4:14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is
+born in his kingdom becometh poor.
+
+4:15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the
+second child that shall stand up in his stead.
+
+4:16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been
+before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him.
+Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
+
+5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more
+ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider
+not that they do evil.
+
+5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
+utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth:
+therefore let thy words be few.
+
+5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s
+voice is known by multitude of words.
+
+5:4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath
+no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
+
+5:5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest
+vow and not pay.
+
+5:6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou
+before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry
+at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? 5:7 For in the
+multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but
+fear thou God.
+
+5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting
+of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for
+he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than
+they.
+
+5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is
+served by the field.
+
+5:10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he
+that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
+
+5:11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what
+good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with
+their eyes? 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he
+eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him
+to sleep.
+
+5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely,
+riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
+
+5:14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son,
+and there is nothing in his hand.
+
+5:15 As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to
+go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may
+carry away in his hand.
+
+5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so
+shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
+5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow
+and wrath with his sickness.
+
+5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to
+eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he
+taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him:
+for it is his portion.
+
+5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath
+given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to
+rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
+
+5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God
+answereth him in the joy of his heart.
+
+6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common
+among men: 6:2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and
+honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he
+desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger
+eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
+
+6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that
+the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good,
+and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is
+better than he.
+
+6:4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his
+name shall be covered with darkness.
+
+6:5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath
+more rest than the other.
+
+6:6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen
+no good: do not all go to one place? 6:7 All the labour of man is for
+his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
+
+6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor,
+that knoweth to walk before the living? 6:9 Better is the sight of
+the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and
+vexation of spirit.
+
+6:10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is
+man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
+
+6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the
+better? 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all
+the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can
+tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? 7:1 A good name is
+better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of
+one’s birth.
+
+7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the
+house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will
+lay it to his heart.
+
+7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the
+countenance the heart is made better.
+
+7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart
+of fools is in the house of mirth.
+
+7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to
+hear the song of fools.
+
+7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of
+the fool: this also is vanity.
+
+7:7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the
+heart.
+
+7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the
+patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
+
+7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the
+bosom of fools.
+
+7:10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better
+than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
+
+7:11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to
+them that see the sun.
+
+7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the
+excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have
+it.
+
+7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which
+he hath made crooked? 7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in
+the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against
+the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
+
+7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just
+man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man
+that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
+
+7:16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why
+shouldest thou destroy thyself? 7:17 Be not over much wicked,
+neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? 7:18
+It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this
+withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of
+them all.
+
+7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are
+in the city.
+
+7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and
+sinneth not.
+
+7:21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear
+thy servant curse thee: 7:22 For oftentimes also thine own heart
+knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
+
+7:23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it
+was far from me.
+
+7:24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
+7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out
+wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly,
+even of foolishness and madness: 7:26 And I find more bitter than
+death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as
+bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall
+be taken by her.
+
+7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by
+one, to find out the account: 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I
+find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all
+those have I not found.
+
+7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
+they have sought out many inventions.
+
+8:1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a
+thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of
+his face shall be changed.
+
+8:2 I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard
+of the oath of God.
+
+8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing;
+for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
+
+8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto
+him, What doest thou? 8:5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no
+evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
+
+8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the
+misery of man is great upon him.
+
+8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when
+it shall be? 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to
+retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and
+there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver
+those that are given to it.
+
+8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is
+done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over
+another to his own hurt.
+
+8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the
+place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had
+so done: this is also vanity.
+
+8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
+therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do
+evil.
+
+8:12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be
+prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear
+God, which fear before him: 8:13 But it shall not be well with the
+wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow;
+because he feareth not before God.
+
+8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be
+just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked;
+again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work
+of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
+
+8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under
+the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall
+abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth
+him under the sun.
+
+8:16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business
+that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor
+night seeth sleep with his eyes:) 8:17 Then I beheld all the work of
+God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun:
+because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it;
+yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be
+able to find it.
+
+9:1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this,
+that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of
+God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
+
+9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous,
+and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean;
+to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the
+good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an
+oath.
+
+9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that
+there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is
+full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after
+that they go to the dead.
+
+9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a
+living dog is better than a dead lion.
+
+9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any
+thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is
+forgotten.
+
+9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now
+perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing
+that is done under the sun.
+
+9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a
+merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
+
+9:8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no
+ointment.
+
+9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the
+life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the
+days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy
+labour which thou takest under the sun.
+
+9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for
+there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave,
+whither thou goest.
+
+9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
+swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise,
+nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of
+skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
+
+9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken
+in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are
+the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon
+them.
+
+9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great
+unto me: 9:14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and
+there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great
+bulwarks against it: 9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man,
+and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that
+same poor man.
+
+9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the
+poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
+
+9:17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him
+that ruleth among fools.
+
+9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth
+much good.
+
+10:1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a
+stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for
+wisdom and honour.
+
+10:2 A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at
+his left.
+
+10:3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom
+faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
+
+10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy
+place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
+
+10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error
+which proceedeth from the ruler: 10:6 Folly is set in great dignity,
+and the rich sit in low place.
+
+10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants
+upon the earth.
+
+10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an
+hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
+
+10:9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that
+cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
+
+10:10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he
+put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
+
+10:11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler
+is no better.
+
+10:12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a
+fool will swallow up himself.
+
+10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the
+end of his talk is mischievous madness.
+
+10:14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be;
+and what shall be after him, who can tell him? 10:15 The labour of
+the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to
+go to the city.
+
+10:16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes
+eat in the morning! 10:17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is
+the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength,
+and not for drunkenness! 10:18 By much slothfulness the building
+decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth
+through.
+
+10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
+answereth all things.
+
+10:20 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the
+rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice,
+and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
+
+11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many
+days.
+
+11:2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not
+what evil shall be upon the earth.
+
+11:3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the
+earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in
+the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
+
+11:4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth
+the clouds shall not reap.
+
+11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the
+bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou
+knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
+
+11:6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not
+thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or
+that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
+
+11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes
+to behold the sun: 11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in
+them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be
+many. All that cometh is vanity.
+
+11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee
+in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in
+the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God
+will bring thee into judgment.
+
+11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from
+thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
+
+12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil
+days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no
+pleasure in them; 12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or
+the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 12:3
+In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong
+men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few,
+and those that look out of the windows be darkened, 12:4 And the doors
+shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low,
+and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters
+of musick shall be brought low; 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of
+that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree
+shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire
+shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go
+about the streets: 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the
+golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or
+the wheel broken at the cistern.
+
+12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
+shall return unto God who gave it.
+
+12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
+
+12:9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the
+people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in
+order many proverbs.
+
+12:10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which
+was written was upright, even words of truth.
+
+12:11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the
+masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
+
+12:12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
+books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
+
+12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and
+keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
+
+12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
+thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
+
+
+
+
+The Song of Solomon
+
+
+1:1 The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
+
+1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is
+better than wine.
+
+1:3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as
+ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
+
+1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his
+chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy
+love more than wine: the upright love thee.
+
+1:5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents
+of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
+
+1:6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked
+upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the
+keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
+
+1:7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where
+thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that
+turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? 1:8 If thou know not,
+O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the
+flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
+
+1:9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in
+Pharaoh’s chariots.
+
+1:10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains
+of gold.
+
+1:11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
+
+1:12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth
+the smell thereof.
+
+1:13 A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all
+night betwixt my breasts.
+
+1:14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards
+of Engedi.
+
+1:15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast
+doves’ eyes.
+
+1:16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is
+green.
+
+1:17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
+
+2:1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
+
+2:2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
+
+2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved
+among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and
+his fruit was sweet to my taste.
+
+2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was
+love.
+
+2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of
+love.
+
+2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace
+me.
+
+2:7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the
+hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he
+please.
+
+2:8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the
+mountains, skipping upon the hills.
+
+2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth
+behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself
+through the lattice.
+
+2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair
+one, and come away.
+
+2:11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; 2:12 The
+flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come,
+and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 2:13 The fig tree
+putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give
+a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
+
+2:14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret
+places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy
+voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
+
+2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for
+our vines have tender grapes.
+
+2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
+
+2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved,
+and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
+
+3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him,
+but I found him not.
+
+3:2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the
+broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I
+found him not.
+
+3:3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw
+ye him whom my soul loveth? 3:4 It was but a little that I passed
+from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would
+not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and
+into the chamber of her that conceived me.
+
+3:5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the
+hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he
+please.
+
+3:6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of
+smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the
+merchant? 3:7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant
+men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
+
+3:8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his
+sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
+
+3:9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
+
+3:10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of
+gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with
+love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
+
+3:11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with
+the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his
+espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
+
+4:1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast
+doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that
+appear from mount Gilead.
+
+4:2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which
+came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is
+barren among them.
+
+4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely:
+thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
+
+4:4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury,
+whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
+
+4:5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed
+among the lilies.
+
+4:6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to
+the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
+
+4:7 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
+
+4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look
+from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the
+lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
+
+4:9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast
+ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
+
+4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is
+thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
+4:11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are
+under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of
+Lebanon.
+
+4:12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a
+fountain sealed.
+
+4:13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits;
+camphire, with spikenard, 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and
+cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all
+the chief spices: 4:15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters,
+and streams from Lebanon.
+
+4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden,
+that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his
+garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
+
+5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my
+myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have
+drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink
+abundantly, O beloved.
+
+5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that
+knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my
+undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops
+of the night.
+
+5:3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my
+feet; how shall I defile them? 5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the
+hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
+
+5:5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh,
+and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the
+lock.
+
+5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and
+was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not
+find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
+
+5:7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me,
+they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
+
+5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved,
+that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
+
+5:9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest
+among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou
+dost so charge us? 5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest
+among ten thousand.
+
+5:11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black
+as a raven.
+
+5:12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed
+with milk, and fitly set.
+
+5:13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips
+like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
+
+5:14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as
+bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
+
+5:15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
+his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
+
+5:16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my
+beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
+
+6:1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither
+is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
+
+6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to
+feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
+
+6:3 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the
+lilies.
+
+6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem,
+terrible as an army with banners.
+
+6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair
+is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
+
+6:6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing,
+whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among
+them.
+
+6:7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
+
+6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins
+without number.
+
+6:9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her
+mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw
+her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they
+praised her.
+
+6:10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon,
+clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? 6:11 I went
+down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to
+see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.
+
+6:12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of
+Amminadib.
+
+6:13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look
+upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company
+of two armies.
+
+7:1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the
+joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a
+cunning workman.
+
+7:2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy
+belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
+
+7:3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
+
+7:4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
+Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of
+Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
+
+7:5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head
+like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
+
+7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! 7:7
+This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters
+of grapes.
+
+7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the
+boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine,
+and the smell of thy nose like apples; 7:9 And the roof of thy mouth
+like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing
+the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
+
+7:10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
+
+7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in
+the villages.
+
+7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine
+flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud
+forth: there will I give thee my loves.
+
+7:13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of
+pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my
+beloved.
+
+8:1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my
+mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I
+should not be despised.
+
+8:2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who
+would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the
+juice of my pomegranate.
+
+8:3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should
+embrace me.
+
+8:4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor
+awake my love, until he please.
+
+8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her
+beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother
+brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
+
+8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for
+love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals
+thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
+
+8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it:
+if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would
+utterly be contemned.
+
+8:8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do
+for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? 8:9 If she be
+a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a
+door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
+
+8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes
+as one that found favour.
+
+8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto
+keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand
+pieces of silver.
+
+8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must
+have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
+
+8:13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy
+voice: cause me to hear it.
+
+8:14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young
+hart upon the mountains of spices.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
+
+
+1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning
+Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah,
+kings of Judah.
+
+1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken,
+I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled
+against me.
+
+1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but
+Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
+
+1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
+evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD,
+they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone
+away backward.
+
+1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more:
+the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
+
+1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness
+in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not
+been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
+
+1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your
+land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as
+overthrown by strangers.
+
+1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a
+lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
+
+1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we
+should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
+
+1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the
+law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
+
+1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
+saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat
+of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of
+lambs, or of he goats.
+
+1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your
+hand, to tread my courts? 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense
+is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
+assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn
+meeting.
+
+1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are
+a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
+
+1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from
+you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are
+full of blood.
+
+1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from
+before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 1:17 Learn to do well; seek
+judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the
+widow.
+
+1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your
+sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red
+like crimson, they shall be as wool.
+
+1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
+1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword:
+for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
+
+1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
+judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
+
+1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 1:23 Thy
+princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth
+gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,
+neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
+
+1:24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of
+Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine
+enemies: 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away
+thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 1:26 And I will restore thy
+judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning:
+afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the
+faithful city.
+
+1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
+righteousness.
+
+1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall
+be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
+
+1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and
+ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
+
+1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that
+hath no water.
+
+1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark,
+and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
+
+2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
+Jerusalem.
+
+2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of
+the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and
+shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
+
+2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
+mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will
+teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion
+shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
+
+2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
+people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
+spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against
+nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
+
+2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the
+LORD.
+
+2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
+because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like
+the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of
+strangers.
+
+2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any
+end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is
+there any end of their chariots: 2:8 Their land also is full of idols;
+they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers
+have made: 2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man
+humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
+
+2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the
+LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
+
+2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of
+men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that
+day.
+
+2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is
+proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be
+brought low: 2:13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high
+and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 2:14 And upon all the
+high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 2:15 And
+upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 2:16 And upon all
+the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
+
+2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness
+of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that
+day.
+
+2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
+
+2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves
+of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty,
+when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
+
+2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols
+of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles
+and to the bats; 2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the
+tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
+his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
+
+2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
+is he to be accounted of? 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of
+hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the
+staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
+
+3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet,
+and the prudent, and the ancient, 3:3 The captain of fifty, and the
+honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the
+eloquent orator.
+
+3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule
+over them.
+
+3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every
+one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against
+the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
+
+3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his
+father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this
+ruin be under thy hand: 3:7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will
+not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make
+me not a ruler of the people.
+
+3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue
+and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his
+glory.
+
+3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they
+declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for
+they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
+
+3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they
+shall eat the fruit of their doings.
+
+3:11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of
+his hands shall be given him.
+
+3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule
+over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and
+destroy the way of thy paths.
+
+3:13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
+
+3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
+people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard;
+the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
+
+3:15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the
+faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
+
+3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are
+haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking
+and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 3:17
+Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the
+daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
+
+3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling
+ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires
+like the moon, 3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
+3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands,
+and the tablets, and the earrings, 3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,
+3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
+wimples, and the crisping pins, 3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen,
+and the hoods, and the vails.
+
+3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there
+shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well
+set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;
+and burning instead of beauty.
+
+3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
+
+3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate
+shall sit upon the ground.
+
+4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We
+will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be
+called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
+
+4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
+glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for
+them that are escaped of Israel.
+
+4:3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he
+that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that
+is written among the living in Jerusalem: 4:4 When the Lord shall have
+washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged
+the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of
+judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
+
+4:5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,
+and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of
+a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
+
+4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from
+the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and
+from rain.
+
+5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching
+his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
+5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted
+it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and
+also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring
+forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
+
+5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I
+pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
+
+5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not
+done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth
+grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5:5 And now go to; I will tell
+you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof,
+and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it
+shall be trodden down: 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be
+pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will
+also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
+
+5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and
+the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but
+behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
+
+5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field,
+till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of
+the earth! 5:9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many
+houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
+
+5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of
+an homer shall yield an ephah.
+
+5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may
+follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame
+them! 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and
+wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD,
+neither consider the operation of his hands.
+
+5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
+knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude
+dried up with thirst.
+
+5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
+without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp,
+and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
+
+5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall
+be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: 5:16 But the
+LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall
+be sanctified in righteousness.
+
+5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste
+places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
+
+5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as
+it were with a cart rope: 5:19 That say, Let him make speed, and
+hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy
+One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 5:20 Woe unto
+them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light,
+and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
+bitter! 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
+prudent in their own sight! 5:22 Woe unto them that are mighty to
+drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 5:23 Which
+justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the
+righteous from him! 5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble,
+and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as
+rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have
+cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the
+Holy One of Israel.
+
+5:25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people,
+and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten
+them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the
+midst of the streets.
+
+For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched
+out still.
+
+5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will
+hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come
+with speed swiftly: 5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them;
+none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins
+be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 5:28 Whose arrows
+are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be
+counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 5:29 Their
+roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea,
+they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away
+safe, and none shall deliver it.
+
+5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of
+the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow,
+and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
+
+6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon
+a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
+
+6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain
+he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with
+twain he did fly.
+
+6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the
+LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
+
+6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried,
+and the house was filled with smoke.
+
+6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
+unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:
+for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
+
+6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
+hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 6:7 And he
+laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and
+thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
+
+6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and
+who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
+
+6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
+understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
+
+6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and
+shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their
+ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
+
+6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be
+wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be
+utterly desolate, 6:12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and
+there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
+
+6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be
+eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when
+they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance
+thereof.
+
+7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son
+of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the
+son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war
+against it, but could not prevail against it.
+
+7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate
+with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as
+the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
+
+7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou,
+and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool
+in the highway of the fuller’s field; 7:4 And say unto him, Take heed,
+and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of
+these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria,
+and of the son of Remaliah.
+
+7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil
+counsel against thee, saying, 7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex
+it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the
+midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: 7:7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It
+shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
+
+7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is
+Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken,
+that it be not a people.
+
+7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
+Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
+established.
+
+7:10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 7:11 Ask thee a
+sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height
+above.
+
+7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
+
+7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing
+for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 7:14 Therefore
+the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall
+conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
+
+7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the
+evil, and choose the good.
+
+7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose
+the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her
+kings.
+
+7:17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy
+father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim
+departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
+
+7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss
+for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and
+for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
+
+7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate
+valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon
+all bushes.
+
+7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired,
+namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head,
+and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
+
+7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a
+young cow, and two sheep; 7:22 And it shall come to pass, for the
+abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter
+and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
+
+7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be,
+where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall
+even be for briers and thorns.
+
+7:24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the
+land shall become briers and thorns.
+
+7:25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there
+shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be
+for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
+
+8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write
+in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
+
+8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest,
+and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
+
+8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son.
+
+Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
+
+8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and
+my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be
+taken away before the king of Assyria.
+
+8:5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, 8:6 Forasmuch as this
+people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in
+Rezin and Remaliah’s son; 8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth
+up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king
+of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
+channels, and go over all his banks: 8:8 And he shall pass through
+Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck;
+and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy
+land, O Immanuel.
+
+8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in
+pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye
+shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
+pieces.
+
+8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the
+word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
+
+8:11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed
+me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 8:12 Say
+ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A
+confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
+
+8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and
+let him be your dread.
+
+8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and
+for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for
+a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
+
+8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and
+be snared, and be taken.
+
+8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
+
+8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the
+house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
+
+8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for
+signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth
+in mount Zion.
+
+8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
+familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should
+not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 8:20 To
+the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this
+word, it is because there is no light in them.
+
+8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it
+shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
+themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
+
+8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and
+darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
+
+9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,
+when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the
+land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the
+way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
+
+9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they
+that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the
+light shined.
+
+9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they
+joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice
+when they divide the spoil.
+
+9:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his
+shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
+
+9:5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and
+garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of
+fire.
+
+9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
+government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
+Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
+Prince of Peace.
+
+9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,
+upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
+establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
+ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
+
+9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
+
+9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of
+Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 9:10 The bricks
+are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are
+cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
+
+9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against
+him, and join his enemies together; 9:12 The Syrians before, and the
+Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For
+all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
+still.
+
+9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do
+they seek the LORD of hosts.
+
+9:14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch
+and rush, in one day.
+
+9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that
+teacheth lies, he is the tail.
+
+9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that
+are led of them are destroyed.
+
+9:17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither
+shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an
+hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all
+this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
+still.
+
+9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers
+and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they
+shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
+
+9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and
+the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his
+brother.
+
+9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he
+shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they
+shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim;
+and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For
+all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
+still.
+
+10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
+grievousness which they have prescribed; 10:2 To turn aside the needy
+from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people,
+that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
+10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
+desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help?
+and where will ye leave your glory? 10:4 Without me they shall bow
+down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all
+this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
+still.
+
+10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is
+mine indignation.
+
+10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the
+people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to
+take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
+
+10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but
+it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
+
+10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? 10:9 Is not
+Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as
+Damascus? 10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and
+whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 10:11
+Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to
+Jerusalem and her idols? 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that
+when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on
+Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
+Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
+
+10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by
+my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the
+people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the
+inhabitants like a valiant man: 10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest
+the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left,
+have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing,
+or opened the mouth, or peeped.
+
+10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or
+shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the
+rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the
+staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
+
+10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat
+ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the
+burning of a fire.
+
+10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One
+for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in
+one day; 10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his
+fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
+standard-bearer fainteth.
+
+10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a
+child may write them.
+
+10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of
+Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more
+again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the
+Holy One of Israel, in truth.
+
+10:21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the
+mighty God.
+
+10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a
+remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow
+with righteousness.
+
+10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even
+determined, in the midst of all the land.
+
+10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that
+dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee
+with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner
+of Egypt.
+
+10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease,
+and mine anger in their destruction.
+
+10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according
+to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was
+upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
+
+10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be
+taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and
+the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
+
+10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath
+laid up his carriages: 10:29 They are gone over the passage: they have
+taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is
+fled.
+
+10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard
+unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
+
+10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves
+to flee.
+
+10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand
+against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
+
+10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with
+terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the
+haughty shall be humbled.
+
+10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
+Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
+
+11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a
+Branch shall grow out of his roots: 11:2 And the spirit of the LORD
+shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
+spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear
+of the LORD; 11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the
+fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
+neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 11:4 But with
+righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the
+meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his
+mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
+
+11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
+faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
+
+11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
+lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
+together; and a little child shall lead them.
+
+11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie
+down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
+
+11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the
+weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
+
+11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the
+earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover
+the sea.
+
+11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall
+stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and
+his rest shall be glorious.
+
+11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set
+his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people,
+which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros,
+and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and
+from the islands of the sea.
+
+11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
+assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
+Judah from the four corners of the earth.
+
+11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of
+Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall
+not vex Ephraim.
+
+11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward
+the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay
+their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey
+them.
+
+11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
+sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river,
+and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
+
+11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,
+which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day
+that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
+
+12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:
+though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou
+comfortedst me.
+
+12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for
+the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my
+salvation.
+
+12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
+salvation.
+
+12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his
+name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name
+is exalted.
+
+12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is
+known in all the earth.
+
+12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy
+One of Israel in the midst of thee.
+
+13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
+
+13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto
+them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
+
+13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty
+ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
+
+13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
+people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered
+together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
+
+13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
+LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
+
+13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a
+destruction from the Almighty.
+
+13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall
+melt: 13:8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold
+of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall
+be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
+
+13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and
+fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the
+sinners thereof out of it.
+
+13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not
+give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and
+the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
+
+13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
+their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,
+and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
+
+13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than
+the golden wedge of Ophir.
+
+13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove
+out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of
+his fierce anger.
+
+13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man
+taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every
+one into his own land.
+
+13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one
+that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
+
+13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
+their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
+
+13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not
+regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
+
+13:18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
+shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not
+spare children.
+
+13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’
+excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
+
+13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
+generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;
+neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
+
+13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses
+shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and
+satyrs shall dance there.
+
+13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
+houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to
+come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
+
+14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
+Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be
+joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
+
+14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
+and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for
+servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose
+captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
+
+14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give
+thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard
+bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 14:4 That thou shalt take up
+this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the
+oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 14:5 The LORD hath broken
+the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
+
+14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that
+ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
+
+14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into
+singing.
+
+14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
+saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
+
+14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming:
+it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the
+earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the
+nations.
+
+14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become
+weak as we? art thou become like unto us? 14:11 Thy pomp is brought
+down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread
+under thee, and the worms cover thee.
+
+14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
+how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
+14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I
+will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the
+mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14:14 I will
+ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
+
+14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
+
+14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider
+thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did
+shake kingdoms; 14:17 That made the world as a wilderness, and
+destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
+prisoners? 14:18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie
+in glory, every one in his own house.
+
+14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch,
+and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a
+sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden
+under feet.
+
+14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast
+destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall
+never be renowned.
+
+14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their
+fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the
+face of the world with cities.
+
+14:22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and
+cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith
+the LORD.
+
+14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of
+water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the
+LORD of hosts.
+
+14:24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought,
+so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
+14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains
+tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and
+his burden depart from off their shoulders.
+
+14:26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and
+this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
+
+14:27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?
+and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 14:28 In
+the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
+
+14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that
+smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a
+cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
+
+14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall
+lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall
+slay thy remnant.
+
+14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved:
+for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone
+in his appointed times.
+
+14:32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That
+the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in
+it.
+
+15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid
+waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is
+laid waste, and brought to silence; 15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and
+to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and
+over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut
+off.
+
+15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on
+the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl,
+weeping abundantly.
+
+15:4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard
+even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out;
+his life shall be grievous unto him.
+
+15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto
+Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith
+with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they
+shall raise up a cry of destruction.
+
+15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
+withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
+
+15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
+have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
+
+15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling
+thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
+
+15:9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring
+more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the
+remnant of the land.
+
+16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
+wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
+
+16:2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest,
+so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
+
+16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in
+the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that
+wandereth.
+
+16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them
+from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the
+spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
+
+16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit
+upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking
+judgment, and hasting righteousness.
+
+16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his
+haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be
+so.
+
+16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the
+foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
+
+16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the
+lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof,
+they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness:
+her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
+
+16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of
+Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for
+the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
+
+16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field;
+and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be
+shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I
+have made their vintage shouting to cease.
+
+16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine
+inward parts for Kirharesh.
+
+16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on
+the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he
+shall not prevail.
+
+16:13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since
+that time.
+
+16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the
+years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with
+all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and
+feeble.
+
+17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being
+a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
+
+17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which
+shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
+
+17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
+Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the
+children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+17:4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob
+shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
+
+17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and
+reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth
+ears in the valley of Rephaim.
+
+17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an
+olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough,
+four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD
+God of Israel.
+
+17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall
+have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
+
+17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands,
+neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the
+groves, or the images.
+
+17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and
+an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of
+Israel: and there shall be desolation.
+
+17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast
+not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou
+plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: 17:11 In
+the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt
+thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the
+day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
+
+17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the
+noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing
+like the rushing of mighty waters! 17:13 The nations shall rush like
+the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall
+flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before
+the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
+
+17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is
+not.
+
+This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that
+rob us.
+
+18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers
+of Ethiopia: 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels
+of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a
+nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning
+hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers
+have spoiled! 18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on
+the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and
+when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
+
+18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will
+consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a
+cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
+
+18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour
+grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with
+pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
+
+18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and
+to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and
+all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
+
+18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts
+of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from
+their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot,
+whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the
+LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
+
+19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud,
+and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at
+his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
+
+19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they
+shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his
+neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
+
+19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I
+will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols,
+and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to
+the wizards.
+
+19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord;
+and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of
+hosts.
+
+19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be
+wasted and dried up.
+
+19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of
+defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall
+wither.
+
+19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and
+every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be
+no more.
+
+19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into
+the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters
+shall languish.
+
+19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
+networks, shall be confounded.
+
+19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make
+sluices and ponds for fish.
+
+19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise
+counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I
+am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 19:12 Where are
+they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them
+know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
+
+19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are
+deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of
+the tribes thereof.
+
+19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:
+and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken
+man staggereth in his vomit.
+
+19:15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or
+tail, branch or rush, may do.
+
+19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be
+afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of
+hosts, which he shaketh over it.
+
+19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one
+that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the
+counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
+
+19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the
+language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be
+called, The city of destruction.
+
+19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of
+the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
+
+19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of
+hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because
+of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one,
+and he shall deliver them.
+
+19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall
+know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea,
+they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
+
+19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and
+they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them,
+and shall heal them.
+
+19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria,
+and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria,
+and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
+
+19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
+Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 19:25 Whom the LORD
+of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria
+the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
+
+20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king
+of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; 20:2 At
+the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and
+loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy
+foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
+
+20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked
+and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon
+Ethiopia; 20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
+prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and
+barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
+
+20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
+expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
+
+20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold,
+such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from
+the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? 21:1 The burden of the
+desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it
+cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
+
+21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer
+dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam:
+besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
+
+21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold
+upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at
+the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
+
+21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
+pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
+
+21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye
+princes, and anoint the shield.
+
+21:6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him
+declare what he seeth.
+
+21:7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of
+asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much
+heed: 21:8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
+watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: 21:9
+And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
+
+And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the
+graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
+
+21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have
+heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto
+you.
+
+21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
+what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 21:12 The watchman
+said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire,
+enquire ye: return, come.
+
+21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge,
+O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
+
+21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that
+was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
+
+21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from
+the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
+
+21:16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to
+the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: 21:17
+And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the
+children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel
+hath spoken it.
+
+22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that
+thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 22:2 Thou that art full of
+stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain
+with the sword, nor dead in battle.
+
+22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers:
+all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from
+far.
+
+22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour
+not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my
+people.
+
+22:5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of
+perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking
+down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
+
+22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and
+Kir uncovered the shield.
+
+22:7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be
+full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at
+the gate.
+
+22:8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in
+that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
+
+22:9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they
+are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
+
+22:10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses
+have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
+
+22:11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the
+old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had
+respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
+
+22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and
+to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 22:13 And
+behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating
+flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall
+die.
+
+22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely
+this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord
+GOD of hosts.
+
+22:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
+treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, 22:16
+What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed
+thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on
+high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? 22:17
+Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and
+will surely cover thee.
+
+22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a
+large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy
+glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.
+
+22:19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall
+he pull thee down.
+
+22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
+servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 22:21 And I will clothe him with
+thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy
+government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants
+of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
+
+22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder;
+so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none
+shall open.
+
+22:23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be
+for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
+
+22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s
+house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity,
+from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
+
+22:25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is
+fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and
+the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken
+it.
+
+23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid
+waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of
+Chittim it is revealed to them.
+
+23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of
+Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
+
+23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river,
+is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
+
+23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the
+strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children,
+neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
+
+23:5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained
+at the report of Tyre.
+
+23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
+
+23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her
+own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
+
+23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
+whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of
+the earth? 23:9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the
+pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of
+the earth.
+
+23:10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there
+is no more strength.
+
+23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:
+the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to
+destroy the strong holds thereof.
+
+23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed
+virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also
+shalt thou have no rest.
+
+23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the
+Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up
+the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought
+it to ruin.
+
+23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
+
+23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be
+forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the
+end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
+
+23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
+forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
+remembered.
+
+23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that
+the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall
+commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of
+the earth.
+
+23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD:
+it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be
+for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for
+durable clothing.
+
+24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and
+turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
+
+24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with
+the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her
+mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender,
+so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of
+usury to him.
+
+24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the
+LORD hath spoken this word.
+
+24:4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and
+fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
+
+24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because
+they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the
+everlasting covenant.
+
+24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
+therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are
+burned, and few men left.
+
+24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted
+do sigh.
+
+24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice
+endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
+
+24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be
+bitter to them that drink it.
+
+24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up,
+that no man may come in.
+
+24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened,
+the mirth of the land is gone.
+
+24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
+destruction.
+
+24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,
+there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning
+grapes when the vintage is done.
+
+24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty
+of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
+
+24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the
+LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
+
+24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even
+glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto
+me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the
+treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
+
+24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of
+the earth.
+
+24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of
+the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the
+midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on
+high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
+
+24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved,
+the earth is moved exceedingly.
+
+24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be
+removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy
+upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
+
+24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
+punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of
+the earth upon the earth.
+
+24:22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered
+in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days
+shall they be visited.
+
+24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the
+LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before
+his ancients gloriously.
+
+25:1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy
+name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are
+faithfulness and truth.
+
+25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin:
+a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
+
+25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the
+terrible nations shall fear thee.
+
+25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the
+needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the
+heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the
+wall.
+
+25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a
+dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the
+terrible ones shall be brought low.
+
+25:6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people
+a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things
+full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
+
+25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering
+cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
+
+25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe
+away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he
+take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
+
+25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
+waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited
+for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
+
+25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab
+shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the
+dunghill.
+
+25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he
+that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring
+down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
+
+25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring
+down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
+
+26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have
+a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
+
+26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the
+truth may enter in.
+
+26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
+thee: because he trusteth in thee.
+
+26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is
+everlasting strength: 26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on
+high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the
+ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
+
+26:6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the
+steps of the needy.
+
+26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost
+weigh the path of the just.
+
+26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for
+thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of
+thee.
+
+26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my
+spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in
+the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
+
+26:10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
+righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and
+will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
+
+26:11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they
+shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire
+of thine enemies shall devour them.
+
+26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought
+all our works in us.
+
+26:13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over
+us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
+
+26:14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they
+shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and
+made all their memory to perish.
+
+26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the
+nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the
+ends of the earth.
+
+26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a
+prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
+
+26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her
+delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in
+thy sight, O LORD.
+
+26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it
+were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the
+earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
+
+26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
+arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the
+dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
+
+26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
+doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until
+the indignation be overpast.
+
+26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
+inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
+disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
+
+27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword
+shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that
+crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
+
+27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
+
+27:3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any
+hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
+
+27:4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me
+in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
+
+27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with
+me; and he shall make peace with me.
+
+27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall
+blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
+
+27:7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he
+slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? 27:8
+In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he
+stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
+
+27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this
+is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones
+of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and
+images shall not stand up.
+
+27:10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation
+forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and
+there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
+
+27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off:
+the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no
+understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on
+them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
+
+27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat
+off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye
+shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
+
+27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet
+shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the
+land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall
+worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
+
+28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose
+glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat
+valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 28:2 Behold, the Lord
+hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a
+destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast
+down to the earth with the hand.
+
+28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden
+under feet: 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the
+fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before
+the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet
+in his hand he eateth it up.
+
+28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and
+for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, 28:6 And for a
+spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength
+to them that turn the battle to the gate.
+
+28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink
+are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through
+strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way
+through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
+
+28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is
+no place clean.
+
+28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
+understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn
+from the breasts.
+
+28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
+upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 28:11
+For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this
+people.
+
+28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the
+weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
+
+28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
+precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little,
+and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be
+broken, and snared, and taken.
+
+28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule
+this people which is in Jerusalem.
+
+28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and
+with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass
+through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge,
+and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 28:16 Therefore thus saith
+the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried
+stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth
+shall not make haste.
+
+28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the
+plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
+waters shall overflow the hiding place.
+
+28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
+agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge
+shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
+
+28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning
+by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a
+vexation only to understand the report.
+
+28:20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on
+it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
+
+28:21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be
+wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange
+work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
+
+28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong:
+for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even
+determined upon the whole earth.
+
+28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
+
+28:24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the
+clods of his ground? 28:25 When he hath made plain the face thereof,
+doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast
+in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their
+place? 28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth
+teach him.
+
+28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument,
+neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches
+are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
+
+28:28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it,
+nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his
+horsemen.
+
+28:29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is
+wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
+
+29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year
+to year; let them kill sacrifices.
+
+29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
+sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
+
+29:3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege
+against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
+
+29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the
+ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice
+shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,
+and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
+
+29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust,
+and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth
+away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
+
+29:6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with
+earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of
+devouring fire.
+
+29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
+even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress
+her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
+
+29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he
+eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty
+man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold,
+he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all
+the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
+
+29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
+drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
+
+29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep,
+and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers
+hath he covered.
+
+29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book
+that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read
+this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 29:12 And
+the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I
+pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
+
+29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me
+with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed
+their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the
+precept of men: 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
+marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a
+wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
+understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
+
+29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
+LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and
+who knoweth us? 29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall
+be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that
+made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that
+framed it, He had no understanding? 29:17 Is it not yet a very little
+while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the
+fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 29:18 And in that day
+shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind
+shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
+
+29:19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor
+among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
+
+29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is
+consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: 29:21 That make
+a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth
+in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
+
+29:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning
+the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his
+face now wax pale.
+
+29:23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the
+midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One
+of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
+
+29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and
+they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
+
+30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take
+counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my
+spirit, that they may add sin to sin: 30:2 That walk to go down into
+Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the
+strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 30:3
+Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust
+in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
+
+30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
+
+30:5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor
+be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
+
+30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble
+and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and
+fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders
+of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a
+people that shall not profit them.
+
+30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
+therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit
+still.
+
+30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
+that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: 30:9 That this
+is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear
+the law of the LORD: 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
+prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
+things, prophesy deceits: 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out
+of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
+
+30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise
+this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
+30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
+fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at
+an instant.
+
+30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel
+that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not
+be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth,
+or to take water withal out of the pit.
+
+30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In
+returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence
+shall be your strength: and ye would not.
+
+30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall
+ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that
+pursue you be swift.
+
+30:17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of
+five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a
+mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
+
+30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto
+you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon
+you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait
+for him.
+
+30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep
+no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry;
+when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
+
+30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the
+water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a
+corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 30:21 And
+thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way,
+walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the
+left.
+
+30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of
+silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast
+them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee
+hence.
+
+30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the
+ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be
+fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large
+pastures.
+
+30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall
+eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with
+the fan.
+
+30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high
+hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter,
+when the towers fall.
+
+30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
+and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven
+days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,
+and healeth the stroke of their wound.
+
+30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his
+anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
+indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 30:28 And his breath,
+as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to
+sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle
+in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
+
+30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is
+kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come
+into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
+
+30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and
+shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his
+anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and
+tempest, and hailstones.
+
+30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten
+down, which smote with a rod.
+
+30:32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which
+the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and
+in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
+
+30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared;
+he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much
+wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle
+it.
+
+31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses,
+and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because
+they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel,
+neither seek the LORD! 31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil,
+and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of
+the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
+
+31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh,
+and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that
+helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they
+all shall fail together.
+
+31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the
+young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is
+called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor
+abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come
+down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
+
+31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
+defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve
+it.
+
+31:6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
+revolted.
+
+31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver,
+and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a
+sin.
+
+31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man;
+and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee
+from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
+
+31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his
+princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is
+in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
+
+32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall
+rule in judgment.
+
+32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert
+from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of
+a great rock in a weary land.
+
+32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of
+them that hear shall hearken.
+
+32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the
+tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
+
+32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl
+said to be bountiful.
+
+32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work
+iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD,
+to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of
+the thirsty to fail.
+
+32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked
+devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy
+speaketh right.
+
+32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things
+shall he stand.
+
+32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
+daughters; give ear unto my speech.
+
+32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for
+the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
+
+32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless
+ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your
+loins.
+
+32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for
+the fruitful vine.
+
+32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea,
+upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 32:14 Because the
+palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left;
+the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses,
+a pasture of flocks; 32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on
+high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field
+be counted for a forest.
+
+32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness
+remain in the fruitful field.
+
+32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
+righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
+
+32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure
+dwellings, and in quiet resting places; 32:19 When it shall hail,
+coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
+
+32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
+thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
+
+33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest
+treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou
+shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make
+an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
+
+33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou
+their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
+
+33:3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of
+thyself the nations were scattered.
+
+33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the
+caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon
+them.
+
+33:5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion
+with judgment and righteousness.
+
+33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and
+strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
+
+33:7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of
+peace shall weep bitterly.
+
+33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken
+the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
+
+33:9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn
+down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off
+their fruits.
+
+33:10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will
+I lift up myself.
+
+33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your
+breath, as fire, shall devour you.
+
+33:12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut
+up shall they be burned in the fire.
+
+33:13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are
+near, acknowledge my might.
+
+33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
+hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who
+among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 33:15 He that walketh
+righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of
+oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that
+stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from
+seeing evil; 33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall
+be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall
+be sure.
+
+33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold
+the land that is very far off.
+
+33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is
+the receiver? where is he that counted the towers? 33:19 Thou shalt
+not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst
+perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
+
+33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall
+see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken
+down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither
+shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
+
+33:21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad
+rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither
+shall gallant ship pass thereby.
+
+33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is
+our king; he will save us.
+
+33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their
+mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great
+spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
+
+33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
+dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
+
+34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the
+earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that
+come forth of it.
+
+34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury
+upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath
+delivered them to the slaughter.
+
+34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up
+out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their
+blood.
+
+34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens
+shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall
+down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from
+the fig tree.
+
+34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come
+down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
+
+34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with
+fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the
+kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great
+slaughter in the land of Idumea.
+
+34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with
+the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust
+made fat with fatness.
+
+34:8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of
+recompences for the controversy of Zion.
+
+34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
+thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
+pitch.
+
+34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall
+go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none
+shall pass through it for ever and ever.
+
+34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also
+and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the
+line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
+
+34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
+shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
+
+34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in
+the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and
+a court for owls.
+
+34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild
+beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the
+screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of
+rest.
+
+34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and
+gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered,
+every one with her mate.
+
+34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these
+shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded,
+and his spirit it hath gathered them.
+
+34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it
+unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to
+generation shall they dwell therein.
+
+35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and
+the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
+
+35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
+singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency
+of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the
+excellency of our God.
+
+35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
+
+35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:
+behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence;
+he will come and save you.
+
+35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the
+deaf shall be unstopped.
+
+35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the
+dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams
+in the desert.
+
+35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
+springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall
+be grass with reeds and rushes.
+
+35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called
+The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall
+be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
+
+35:9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up
+thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk
+there: 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to
+Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall
+obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
+
+36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
+Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of
+Judah, and took them.
+
+36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem
+unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of
+the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
+
+36:3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over
+the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
+
+36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith
+the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein
+thou trustest? 36:5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words)
+I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that
+thou rebellest against me? 36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of
+this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his
+hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in
+him.
+
+36:7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not
+he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and
+said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
+36:8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of
+Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on
+thy part to set riders upon them.
+
+36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least
+of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and
+for horsemen? 36:10 And am I now come up without the LORD against
+this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this
+land, and destroy it.
+
+36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I
+pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand
+it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the
+people that are on the wall.
+
+36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to
+thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit
+upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own
+piss with you? 36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud
+voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great
+king, the king of Assyria.
+
+36:14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall
+not be able to deliver you.
+
+36:15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
+LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the
+hand of the king of Assyria.
+
+36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
+Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye
+every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye
+every one the waters of his own cistern; 36:17 Until I come and take
+you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land
+of bread and vineyards.
+
+36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver
+us.
+
+Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand
+of the king of Assyria? 36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and
+Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered
+Samaria out of my hand? 36:20 Who are they among all the gods of
+these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the
+LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 36:21 But they held
+their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment
+was, saying, Answer him not.
+
+36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the
+household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the
+recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words
+of Rabshakeh.
+
+37:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent
+his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
+house of the LORD.
+
+37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the
+scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto
+Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
+
+37:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
+trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to
+the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
+
+37:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom
+the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God,
+and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
+wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
+
+37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
+
+37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master,
+Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard,
+wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
+
+37:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour,
+and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword
+in his own land.
+
+37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
+against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
+
+37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come
+forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers
+to Hezekiah, saying, 37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of
+Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee,
+saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
+Assyria.
+
+37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
+all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
+37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
+have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of
+Eden which were in Telassar? 37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and
+the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and
+Ivah? 37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
+messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the
+LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
+
+37:15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, 37:16 O LORD of
+hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art
+the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast
+made heaven and earth.
+
+37:17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD,
+and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to
+reproach the living God.
+
+37:18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
+nations, and their countries, 37:19 And have cast their gods into the
+fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and
+stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
+
+37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all
+the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou
+only.
+
+37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus
+saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against
+Sennacherib king of Assyria: 37:22 This is the word which the LORD
+hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath
+despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem
+hath shaken her head at thee.
+
+37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast
+thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against
+the Holy One of Israel.
+
+37:24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By
+the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the
+mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall
+cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter
+into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
+
+37:25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet
+have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
+
+37:26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient
+times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
+shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
+
+37:27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
+dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as
+the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted
+before it be grown up.
+
+37:28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and
+thy rage against me.
+
+37:29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into
+mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in
+thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
+
+37:30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such
+as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the
+same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and
+eat the fruit thereof.
+
+37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall
+again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: 37:32 For out of
+Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount
+Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
+
+37:33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He
+shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
+before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
+
+37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall
+not come into this city, saith the LORD.
+
+37:35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and
+for my servant David’s sake.
+
+37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of
+the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they
+arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
+
+37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned,
+and dwelt at Nineveh.
+
+37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
+Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with
+the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon
+his son reigned in his stead.
+
+38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
+prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith
+the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
+
+38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto
+the LORD, 38:3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I
+have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
+done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
+
+38:4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, 38:5 Go, and
+say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I
+have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto
+thy days fifteen years.
+
+38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king
+of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
+
+38:7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD
+will do this thing that he hath spoken; 38:8 Behold, I will bring
+again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of
+Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which
+degrees it was gone down.
+
+38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and
+was recovered of his sickness: 38:10 I said in the cutting off of my
+days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the
+residue of my years.
+
+38:11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of
+the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the
+world.
+
+38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s
+tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with
+pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
+
+38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all
+my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
+
+38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a
+dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed;
+undertake for me.
+
+38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath
+done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
+
+38:16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the
+life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
+
+38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love
+to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast
+all my sins behind thy back.
+
+38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee:
+they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
+
+38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:
+the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
+
+38:20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs
+to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of
+the LORD.
+
+38:21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it
+for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
+
+38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to
+the house of the LORD? 39:1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of
+Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for
+he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
+
+39:2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his
+precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the
+precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was
+found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
+dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
+
+39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto
+him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
+Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from
+Babylon.
+
+39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
+answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing
+among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
+
+39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
+39:6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
+which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be
+carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
+
+39:7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
+beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace
+of the king of Babylon.
+
+39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which
+thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth
+in my days.
+
+40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
+
+40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
+warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath
+received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
+
+40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the
+way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
+
+40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall
+be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
+places plain: 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and
+all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
+it.
+
+40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
+grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
+40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the
+LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
+
+40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God
+shall stand for ever.
+
+40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high
+mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice
+with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of
+Judah, Behold your God! 40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with
+strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is
+with him, and his work before him.
+
+40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the
+lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead
+those that are with young.
+
+40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and
+meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth
+in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
+balance? 40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his
+counsellor hath taught him? 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who
+instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him
+knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? 40:15 Behold,
+the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small
+dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little
+thing.
+
+40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
+sufficient for a burnt offering.
+
+40:17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to
+him less than nothing, and vanity.
+
+40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare
+unto him? 40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
+spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
+
+40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a
+tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to
+prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
+
+40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you
+from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the
+earth? 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and
+the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
+heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
+40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of
+the earth as vanity.
+
+40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown:
+yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also
+blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take
+them away as stubble.
+
+40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the
+Holy One.
+
+40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
+things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by
+names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power;
+not one faileth.
+
+40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid
+from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 40:28 Hast
+thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the
+LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is
+weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
+
+40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he
+increaseth strength.
+
+40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men
+shall utterly fall: 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew
+their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
+run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
+
+41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their
+strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near
+together to judgment.
+
+41:2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his
+foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he
+gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
+
+41:3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had
+not gone with his feet.
+
+41:4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
+beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
+
+41:5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid,
+drew near, and came.
+
+41:6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his
+brother, Be of good courage.
+
+41:7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth
+with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the
+sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
+
+41:8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the
+seed of Abraham my friend.
+
+41:9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called
+thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my
+servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
+
+41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy
+God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold
+thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
+
+41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be
+ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive
+with thee shall perish.
+
+41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that
+contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing,
+and as a thing of nought.
+
+41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto
+thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
+
+41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help
+thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
+
+41:15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having
+teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt
+make the hills as chaff.
+
+41:16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the
+whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and
+shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
+
+41:17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
+tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of
+Israel will not forsake them.
+
+41:18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of
+the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry
+land springs of water.
+
+41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and
+the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree,
+and the pine, and the box tree together: 41:20 That they may see, and
+know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD
+hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
+
+41:21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong
+reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
+
+41:22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let
+them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them,
+and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
+
+41:23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know
+that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed,
+and behold it together.
+
+41:24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an
+abomination is he that chooseth you.
+
+41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the
+rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon
+princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
+
+41:26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and
+beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that
+sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that
+heareth your words.
+
+41:27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will
+give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
+
+41:28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there
+was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
+
+41:29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their
+molten images are wind and confusion.
+
+42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul
+delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
+judgment to the Gentiles.
+
+42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in
+the street.
+
+42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he
+not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
+
+42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment
+in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
+
+42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and
+stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which
+cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and
+spirit to them that walk therein: 42:6 I the LORD have called thee in
+righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give
+thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 42:7
+To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
+and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
+
+42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to
+another, neither my praise to graven images.
+
+42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I
+declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
+
+42:10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of
+the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the
+isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
+
+42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice,
+the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock
+sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
+
+42:12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the
+islands.
+
+42:13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up
+jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail
+against his enemies.
+
+42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and
+refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will
+destroy and devour at once.
+
+42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their
+herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the
+pools.
+
+42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will
+lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness
+light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do
+unto them, and not forsake them.
+
+42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that
+trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our
+gods.
+
+42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
+
+42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I
+sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’s
+servant? 42:20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening
+the ears, but he heareth not.
+
+42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will
+magnify the law, and make it honourable.
+
+42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them
+snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a
+prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
+
+42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear
+for the time to come? 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to
+the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for
+they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his
+law.
+
+42:25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the
+strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he
+knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
+
+43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he
+that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have
+called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
+
+43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and
+through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest
+through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame
+kindle upon thee.
+
+43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I
+gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
+
+43:4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable,
+and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people
+for thy life.
+
+43:5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the
+east, and gather thee from the west; 43:6 I will say to the north,
+Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and
+my daughters from the ends of the earth; 43:7 Even every one that is
+called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed
+him; yea, I have made him.
+
+43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that
+have ears.
+
+43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
+assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things?
+let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or
+let them hear, and say, It is truth.
+
+43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
+chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
+before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
+
+43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
+
+43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there
+was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the
+LORD, that I am God.
+
+43:13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can
+deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? 43:14 Thus
+saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I
+have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the
+Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
+
+43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
+
+43:16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path
+in the mighty waters; 43:17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and
+horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they
+shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
+
+43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things
+of old.
+
+43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall
+ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers
+in the desert.
+
+43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the
+owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the
+desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
+
+43:21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my
+praise.
+
+43:22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been
+weary of me, O Israel.
+
+43:23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt
+offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have
+not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with
+incense.
+
+43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou
+filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to
+serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
+
+43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine
+own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
+
+43:26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that
+thou mayest be justified.
+
+43:27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed
+against me.
+
+43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have
+given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
+
+44:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
+44:2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the
+womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou,
+Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
+
+44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon
+the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing
+upon thine offspring: 44:4 And they shall spring up as among the
+grass, as willows by the water courses.
+
+44:5 One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by
+the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the
+LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
+
+44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD
+of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no
+God.
+
+44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in
+order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things
+that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.
+
+44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that
+time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God
+beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
+
+44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their
+delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses;
+they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
+
+44:10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is
+profitable for nothing? 44:11 Behold, all his fellows shall be
+ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered
+together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be
+ashamed together.
+
+44:12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and
+fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his
+arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no
+water, and is faint.
+
+44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a
+line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the
+compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the
+beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
+
+44:14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak,
+which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he
+planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
+
+44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof,
+and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he
+maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and
+falleth down thereto.
+
+44:16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth
+flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself,
+and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 44:17 And the residue
+thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto
+it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me;
+for thou art my god.
+
+44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes,
+that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
+
+44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge
+nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea,
+also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh,
+and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination?
+shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 44:20 He feedeth on ashes:
+a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his
+soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? 44:21 Remember
+these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed
+thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of
+me.
+
+44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and,
+as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
+
+44:23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower
+parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest,
+and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and
+glorified himself in Israel.
+
+44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from
+the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth
+the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; 44:25
+That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
+that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
+44:26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the
+counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be
+inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will
+raise up the decayed places thereof: 44:27 That saith to the deep, Be
+dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: 44:28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my
+shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem,
+Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
+
+45:1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I
+have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins
+of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall
+not be shut; 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places
+straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder
+the bars of iron: 45:3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness,
+and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the
+LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
+
+45:4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even
+called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not
+known me.
+
+45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me:
+I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 45:6 That they may know
+from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none
+beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
+
+45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create
+evil: I the LORD do all these things.
+
+45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
+righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation,
+and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
+
+45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd
+strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that
+fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? 45:10
+Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to
+the woman, What hast thou brought forth? 45:11 Thus saith the LORD,
+the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come
+concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
+
+45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my
+hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I
+commanded.
+
+45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his
+ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for
+price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+45:14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of
+Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto
+thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains
+they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall
+make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there
+is none else, there is no God.
+
+45:15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the
+Saviour.
+
+45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they
+shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
+
+45:17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting
+salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
+
+45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself
+that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created
+it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there
+is none else.
+
+45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I
+said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak
+righteousness, I declare things that are right.
+
+45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are
+escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of
+their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
+
+45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel
+together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it
+from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside
+me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
+
+45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I
+am God, and there is none else.
+
+45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
+righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall
+bow, every tongue shall swear.
+
+45:24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and
+strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed
+against him shall be ashamed.
+
+45:25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall
+glory.
+
+46:1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts,
+and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a
+burden to the weary beast.
+
+46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the
+burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
+
+46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the
+house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are
+carried from the womb: 46:4 And even to your old age I am he; and even
+to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I
+will carry, and will deliver you.
+
+46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that
+we may be like? 46:6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh
+silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god:
+they fall down, yea, they worship.
+
+46:7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in
+his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea,
+one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his
+trouble.
+
+46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O
+ye transgressors.
+
+46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is
+none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 46:10 Declaring the
+end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not
+yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
+pleasure: 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that
+executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will
+also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
+
+46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
+righteousness: 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be
+far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation
+in Zion for Israel my glory.
+
+47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit
+on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for
+thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
+
+47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare
+the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
+
+47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I
+will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
+
+47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One
+of Israel.
+
+47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
+Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
+
+47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and
+given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the
+ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
+
+47:7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst
+not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter
+end of it.
+
+47:8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that
+dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else
+beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss
+of children: 47:9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment
+in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon
+thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for
+the great abundance of thine enchantments.
+
+47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None
+seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and
+thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
+
+47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from
+whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be
+able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly,
+which thou shalt not know.
+
+47:12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
+sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou
+shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
+
+47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
+astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up,
+and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
+
+47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they
+shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall
+not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
+
+47:15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even
+thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his
+quarter; none shall save thee.
+
+48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of
+Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by
+the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not
+in truth, nor in righteousness.
+
+48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves
+upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
+
+48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they
+went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly,
+and they came to pass.
+
+48:4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron
+sinew, and thy brow brass; 48:5 I have even from the beginning
+declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest
+thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and
+my molten image, hath commanded them.
+
+48:6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have
+shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou
+didst not know them.
+
+48:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the
+day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I
+knew them.
+
+48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that
+time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal
+very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
+
+48:9 For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise
+will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
+
+48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen
+thee in the furnace of affliction.
+
+48:11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how
+should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
+
+48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am
+the first, I also am the last.
+
+48:13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my
+right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand
+up together.
+
+48:14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath
+declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his
+pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
+
+48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought
+him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
+
+48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret
+from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the
+Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
+
+48:17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am
+the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by
+the way that thou shouldest go.
+
+48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy
+peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
+48:19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy
+bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off
+nor destroyed from before me.
+
+48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice
+of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the
+earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
+
+48:21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he
+caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock
+also, and the waters gushed out.
+
+48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
+
+49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The
+LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath
+he made mention of my name.
+
+49:2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of
+his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver
+hath he hid me; 49:3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel,
+in whom I will be glorified.
+
+49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength
+for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and
+my work with my God.
+
+49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his
+servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered,
+yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be
+my strength.
+
+49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my
+servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved
+of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that
+thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
+
+49:7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to
+him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant
+of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship,
+because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and
+he shall choose thee.
+
+49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and
+in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee,
+and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to
+cause to inherit the desolate heritages; 49:9 That thou mayest say to
+the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew
+yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be
+in all high places.
+
+49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun
+smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by
+the springs of water shall he guide them.
+
+49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be
+exalted.
+
+49:12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north
+and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
+
+49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into
+singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will
+have mercy upon his afflicted.
+
+49:14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
+forgotten me.
+
+49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
+compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I
+not forget thee.
+
+49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls
+are continually before me.
+
+49:17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made
+thee waste shall go forth of thee.
+
+49:18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
+themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou
+shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind
+them on thee, as a bride doeth.
+
+49:19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
+destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
+inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
+
+49:20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the
+other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me:
+give place to me that I may dwell.
+
+49:21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these,
+seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and
+removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left
+alone; these, where had they been? 49:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD,
+Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my
+standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms,
+and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
+
+49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy
+nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward
+the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that
+I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
+
+49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
+delivered? 49:25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the
+mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
+delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and
+I will save thy children.
+
+49:26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and
+they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and
+all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
+the mighty One of Jacob.
+
+50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s
+divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to
+whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold
+yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
+
+50:2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was
+there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot
+redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up
+the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because
+there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
+
+50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their
+covering.
+
+50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
+should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he
+wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the
+learned.
+
+50:5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
+neither turned away back.
+
+50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked
+off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
+
+50:7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
+confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that
+I shall not be ashamed.
+
+50:8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us
+stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
+
+50:9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn
+me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them
+up.
+
+50:10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice
+of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him
+trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
+
+50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about
+with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye
+have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in
+sorrow.
+
+51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek
+the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of
+the pit whence ye are digged.
+
+51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for
+I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
+
+51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste
+places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like
+the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein,
+thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
+
+51:4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation:
+for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest
+for a light of the people.
+
+51:5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine
+arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine
+arm shall they trust.
+
+51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
+beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth
+shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in
+like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness
+shall not be abolished.
+
+51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
+heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid
+of their revilings.
+
+51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall
+eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my
+salvation from generation to generation.
+
+51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in
+the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath
+cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 51:10 Art thou not it which hath
+dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths
+of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 51:11 Therefore the
+redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion;
+and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain
+gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
+
+51:12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
+shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man
+which shall be made as grass; 51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker,
+that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the
+earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of
+the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury
+of the oppressor? 51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be
+loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread
+should fail.
+
+51:15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves
+roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
+
+51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in
+the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
+foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
+
+51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the
+hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of
+the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
+
+51:18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath
+brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all
+the sons that she hath brought up.
+
+51:19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for
+thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by
+whom shall I comfort thee? 51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at
+the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of
+the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
+
+51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not
+with wine: 51:22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that
+pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine
+hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou
+shalt no more drink it again: 51:23 But I will put it into the hand of
+them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we
+may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the
+street, to them that went over.
+
+52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful
+garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no
+more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
+
+52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
+loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
+
+52:3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and
+ye shall be redeemed without money.
+
+52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into
+Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
+
+52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people
+is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl,
+saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
+
+52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know
+in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
+
+52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
+bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good
+tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy
+God reigneth! 52:8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the
+voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when
+the LORD shall bring again Zion.
+
+52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
+Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
+Jerusalem.
+
+52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
+nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our
+God.
+
+52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean
+thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the
+vessels of the LORD.
+
+52:12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the
+LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
+
+52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and
+extolled, and be very high.
+
+52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more
+than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: 52:15 So shall
+he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him:
+for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which
+they had not heard shall they consider.
+
+53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD
+revealed? 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and
+as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
+when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
+
+53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
+acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he
+was despised, and we esteemed him not.
+
+53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we
+did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
+
+53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
+iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
+stripes we are healed.
+
+53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to
+his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
+
+53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his
+mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before
+her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
+
+53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare
+his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for
+the transgression of my people was he stricken.
+
+53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his
+death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his
+mouth.
+
+53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:
+when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his
+seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall
+prosper in his hand.
+
+53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:
+by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall
+bear their iniquities.
+
+53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
+shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his
+soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he
+bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
+
+54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into
+singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for
+more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married
+wife, saith the LORD.
+
+54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
+curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and
+strengthen thy stakes; 54:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right
+hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and
+make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
+
+54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou
+confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget
+the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy
+widowhood any more.
+
+54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name;
+and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth
+shall he be called.
+
+54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in
+spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
+
+54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies
+will I gather thee.
+
+54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with
+everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy
+Redeemer.
+
+54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn
+that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I
+sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
+
+54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my
+kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my
+peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
+
+54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
+behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy
+foundations with sapphires.
+
+54:12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of
+carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
+
+54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great
+shall be the peace of thy children.
+
+54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far
+from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it
+shall not come near thee.
+
+54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:
+whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
+
+54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the
+fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have
+created the waster to destroy.
+
+54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every
+tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
+This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their
+righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
+
+55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that
+hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk
+without money and without price.
+
+55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your
+labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and
+eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
+fatness.
+
+55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall
+live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
+mercies of David.
+
+55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader
+and commander to the people.
+
+55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and
+nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy
+God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
+
+55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he
+is near: 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man
+his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy
+upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
+
+55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
+ways, saith the LORD.
+
+55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
+higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
+
+55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and
+returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring
+forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the
+eater: 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
+shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
+please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
+
+55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
+mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
+all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
+
+55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of
+the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD
+for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
+
+56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
+salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
+
+56:2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that
+layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and
+keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
+
+56:3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to
+the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his
+people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
+
+56:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths,
+and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
+56:5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a
+place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give
+them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
+
+56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD,
+to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants,
+every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold
+of my covenant; 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and
+make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and
+their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house
+shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
+
+56:8 The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet
+will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
+
+56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in
+the forest.
+
+56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb
+dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
+
+56:11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they
+are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way,
+every one for his gain, from his quarter.
+
+56:12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves
+with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more
+abundant.
+
+57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and
+merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is
+taken away from the evil to come.
+
+57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each
+one walking in his uprightness.
+
+57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the
+adulterer and the whore.
+
+57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide
+mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression,
+a seed of falsehood,
+
+57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying
+the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 57:6 Among
+the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy
+lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered
+a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? 57:7 Upon a lofty
+and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up
+to offer sacrifice.
+
+57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
+remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and
+art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with
+them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
+
+57:9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase
+thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase
+thyself even unto hell.
+
+57:10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou
+not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand;
+therefore thou wast not grieved.
+
+57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast
+lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I
+held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? 57:12 I will
+declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit
+thee.
+
+57:13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind
+shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth
+his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy
+mountain; 57:14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the
+way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
+
+57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
+whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also
+that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the
+humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
+
+57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth:
+for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
+
+57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him:
+I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his
+heart.
+
+57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,
+and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
+
+57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far
+off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
+
+57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
+whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
+
+57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
+
+58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew
+my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
+
+58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation
+that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God:
+they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in
+approaching to God.
+
+58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore
+have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in
+the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
+
+58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist
+of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice
+to be heard on high.
+
+58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict
+his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread
+sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an
+acceptable day to the LORD? 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have
+chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens,
+and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 58:7
+Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
+poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that
+thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
+58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health
+shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before
+thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
+
+58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry,
+and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee
+the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 58:10
+And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
+soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as
+the noon day: 58:11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and
+satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be
+like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail
+not.
+
+58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:
+thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou
+shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to
+dwell in.
+
+58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
+pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of
+the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,
+nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 58:14
+Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to
+ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the
+heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
+it.
+
+59:1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
+neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 59:2 But your iniquities
+have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his
+face from you, that he will not hear.
+
+59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
+iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
+perverseness.
+
+59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust
+in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth
+iniquity.
+
+59:5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that
+eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out
+into a viper.
+
+59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
+themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and
+the act of violence is in their hands.
+
+59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
+blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
+destruction are in their paths.
+
+59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their
+goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein
+shall not know peace.
+
+59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake
+us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we
+walk in darkness.
+
+59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had
+no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate
+places as dead men.
+
+59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for
+judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
+
+59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
+testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
+iniquities, we know them; 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the
+LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt,
+conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
+
+59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar
+off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
+
+59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh
+himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there
+was no judgment.
+
+59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no
+intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
+righteousness, it sustained him.
+
+59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of
+salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for
+clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
+
+59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his
+adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
+recompence.
+
+59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his
+glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a
+flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
+
+59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn
+from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
+
+59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My
+spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth,
+shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
+nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from
+henceforth and for ever.
+
+60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is
+risen upon thee.
+
+60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
+darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory
+shall be seen upon thee.
+
+60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
+brightness of thy rising.
+
+60:4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
+themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far,
+and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
+
+60:5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall
+fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be
+converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
+
+60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of
+Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring
+gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
+
+60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the
+rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with
+acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
+
+60:8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their
+windows? 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of
+Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their
+gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One
+of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
+
+60:10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their
+kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in
+my favour have I had mercy on thee.
+
+60:11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be
+shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the
+Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
+
+60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall
+perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
+
+60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the
+pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my
+sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
+
+60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending
+unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down
+at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the
+LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
+
+60:15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went
+through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many
+generations.
+
+60:16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck
+the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy
+Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
+
+60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver,
+and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers
+peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
+
+60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor
+destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls
+Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
+
+60:19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for
+brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be
+unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
+
+60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw
+itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of
+thy mourning shall be ended.
+
+60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the
+land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I
+may be glorified.
+
+60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong
+nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
+
+61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
+anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to
+bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
+the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 61:2 To proclaim the
+acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to
+comfort all that mourn; 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,
+to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
+garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be
+called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might
+be glorified.
+
+61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the
+former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the
+desolations of many generations.
+
+61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of
+the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
+
+61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you
+the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and
+in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
+
+61:7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall
+rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess
+the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
+
+61:8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering;
+and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting
+covenant with them.
+
+61:9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
+offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them,
+that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
+
+61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in
+my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath
+covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh
+himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her
+jewels.
+
+61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
+causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord
+GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the
+nations.
+
+62:1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s
+sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as
+brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
+
+62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy
+glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the
+LORD shall name.
+
+62:3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and
+a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
+
+62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any
+more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy
+land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be
+married.
+
+62:5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry
+thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God
+rejoice over thee.
+
+62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall
+never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the
+LORD, keep not silence, 62:7 And give him no rest, till he establish,
+and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
+
+62:8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his
+strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine
+enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for
+the which thou hast laboured: 62:9 But they that have gathered it
+shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it
+together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
+
+62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the
+people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a
+standard for the people.
+
+62:11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say
+ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his
+reward is with him, and his work before him.
+
+62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the
+LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
+
+63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
+Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the
+greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to
+save.
+
+63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like
+him that treadeth in the winefat? 63:3 I have trodden the winepress
+alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them
+in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be
+sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
+
+63:4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my
+redeemed is come.
+
+63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that
+there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation
+unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
+
+63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them
+drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
+
+63:7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises
+of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and
+the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed
+on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of
+his lovingkindnesses.
+
+63:8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not
+lie: so he was their Saviour.
+
+63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
+presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and
+he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
+
+63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was
+turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
+
+63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people,
+saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the
+shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within
+him? 63:12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious
+arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting
+name? 63:13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the
+wilderness, that they should not stumble? 63:14 As a beast goeth down
+into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst
+thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
+
+63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
+holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the
+sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they
+restrained? 63:16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be
+ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our
+father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
+
+63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened
+our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of
+thine inheritance.
+
+63:18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while:
+our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
+
+63:19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not
+called by thy name.
+
+64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come
+down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 64:2 As when
+the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make
+thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at
+thy presence! 64:3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked
+not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
+
+64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor
+perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
+what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
+
+64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those
+that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have
+sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
+
+64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses
+are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
+like the wind, have taken us away.
+
+64:7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up
+himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and
+hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
+
+64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou
+our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
+
+64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for
+ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
+
+64:10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness,
+Jerusalem a desolation.
+
+64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised
+thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid
+waste.
+
+64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou
+hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? 65:1 I am sought of them
+that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said,
+Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
+
+65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people,
+which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
+65:3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
+sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; 65:4
+Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat
+swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
+65:5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier
+than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the
+day.
+
+65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but
+will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 65:7 Your
+iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the
+LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me
+upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their
+bosom.
+
+65:8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and
+one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for
+my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
+
+65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an
+inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my
+servants shall dwell there.
+
+65:10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a
+place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
+
+65:11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy
+mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the
+drink offering unto that number.
+
+65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow
+down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when
+I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did
+choose that wherein I delighted not.
+
+65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall
+eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye
+shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be
+ashamed: 65:14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye
+shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
+
+65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the
+Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: 65:16
+That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the
+God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God
+of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they
+are hid from mine eyes.
+
+65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the
+former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
+
+65:18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for,
+behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
+
+65:19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the
+voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of
+crying.
+
+65:20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man
+that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred
+years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be
+accursed.
+
+65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
+plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
+
+65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant,
+and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people,
+and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
+
+65:23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for
+they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with
+them.
+
+65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer;
+and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
+
+65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall
+eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They
+shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
+
+66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
+footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the
+place of my rest? 66:2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and
+all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I
+look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth
+at my word.
+
+66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth
+a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation,
+as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he
+blessed an idol.
+
+Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in
+their abominations.
+
+66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears
+upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they
+did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in
+which I delighted not.
+
+66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your
+brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said,
+Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they
+shall be ashamed.
+
+66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice
+of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
+
+66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came,
+she was delivered of a man child.
+
+66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the
+earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at
+once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
+
+66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith
+the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy
+God.
+
+66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that
+love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: 66:11
+That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her
+consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
+abundance of her glory.
+
+66:12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like
+a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then
+shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon
+her knees.
+
+66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye
+shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
+
+66:14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones
+shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known
+toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
+
+66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots
+like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with
+flames of fire.
+
+66:16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh:
+and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
+
+66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the
+gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the
+abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the
+LORD.
+
+66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I
+will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my
+glory.
+
+66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that
+escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw
+the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not
+heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my
+glory among the Gentiles.
+
+66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the
+LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters,
+and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,
+saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean
+vessel into the house of the LORD.
+
+66:21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith
+the LORD.
+
+66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
+shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your
+name remain.
+
+66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
+and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship
+before me, saith the LORD.
+
+66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men
+that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,
+neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring
+unto all flesh.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah
+
+
+1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that
+were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 1:2 To whom the word of the
+LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the
+thirteenth year of his reign.
+
+1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
+Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah
+king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the
+fifth month.
+
+1:4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 1:5 Before I
+formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out
+of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the
+nations.
+
+1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a
+child.
+
+1:7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt
+go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou
+shalt speak.
+
+1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee,
+saith the LORD.
+
+1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the
+LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
+
+1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the
+kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw
+down, to build, and to plant.
+
+1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah,
+what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
+
+1:12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will
+hasten my word to perform it.
+
+1:13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
+What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face
+thereof is toward the north.
+
+1:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break
+forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
+
+1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the
+north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every
+one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against
+all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of
+Judah.
+
+1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their
+wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other
+gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
+
+1:17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them
+all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I
+confound thee before them.
+
+1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an
+iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the
+kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests
+thereof, and against the people of the land.
+
+1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail
+against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
+
+2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2:2 Go and cry
+in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember
+thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when
+thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
+
+2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his
+increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them,
+saith the LORD.
+
+2:4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the
+families of the house of Israel: 2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What
+iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from
+me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 2:6 Neither
+said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of
+Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts
+and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death,
+through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
+2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit
+thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my
+land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
+
+2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the
+law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the
+prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not
+profit.
+
+2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your
+children’s children will I plead.
+
+2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar,
+and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
+
+2:11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my
+people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
+
+2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be
+ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
+
+2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the
+fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken
+cisterns, that can hold no water.
+
+2:14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
+2:15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his
+land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
+
+2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of
+thy head.
+
+2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast
+forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? 2:18 And now
+what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of
+Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the
+waters of the river? 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee,
+and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that
+it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy
+God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
+
+2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and
+thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and
+under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
+
+2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how
+then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto
+me? 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
+soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after
+Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art
+a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 2:24 A wild ass used to the
+wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion
+who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary
+themselves; in her month they shall find her.
+
+2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst:
+but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and
+after them will I go.
+
+2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of
+Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests,
+and their prophets.
+
+2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast
+brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not
+their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and
+save us.
+
+2:28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise,
+if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the
+number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
+
+2:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against
+me, saith the LORD.
+
+2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
+correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
+destroying lion.
+
+2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
+wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people,
+We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? 2:32 Can a maid forget
+her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me
+days without number.
+
+2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also
+taught the wicked ones thy ways.
+
+2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor
+innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
+
+2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall
+turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I
+have not sinned.
+
+2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt
+be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
+
+2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine
+head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not
+prosper in them.
+
+3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and
+become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that
+land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many
+lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
+
+3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast
+not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian
+in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms
+and with thy wickedness.
+
+3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no
+latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be
+ashamed.
+
+3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the
+guide of my youth? 3:5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he
+keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as
+thou couldest.
+
+3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast
+thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon
+every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played
+the harlot.
+
+3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me.
+But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
+
+3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
+committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of
+divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and
+played the harlot also.
+
+3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that
+she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with
+stocks.
+
+3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned
+unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
+
+3:11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified
+herself more than treacherous Judah.
+
+3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return,
+thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine
+anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will
+not keep anger for ever.
+
+3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed
+against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers
+under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the
+LORD.
+
+3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married
+unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and
+I will bring you to Zion: 3:15 And I will give you pastors according
+to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
+
+3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in
+the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The
+ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind:
+neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither
+shall that be done any more.
+
+3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD;
+and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the
+LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the
+imagination of their evil heart.
+
+3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of
+Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to
+the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
+
+3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give
+thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I
+said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
+
+3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so
+have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the
+LORD.
+
+3:21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications
+of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they
+have forgotten the LORD their God.
+
+3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your
+backslidings.
+
+Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
+
+3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the
+multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of
+Israel.
+
+3:24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth;
+their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
+
+3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we
+have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our
+youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD
+our God.
+
+4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and
+if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt
+thou not remove.
+
+4:2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and
+in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and
+in him shall they glory.
+
+4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break
+up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
+
+4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of
+your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury
+come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the
+evil of your doings.
+
+4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye
+the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble
+yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
+
+4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will
+bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
+
+4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the
+Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy
+land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an
+inhabitant.
+
+4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce
+anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
+
+4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the
+heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the
+priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
+
+4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this
+people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword
+reacheth unto the soul.
+
+4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A
+dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of
+my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, 4:12 Even a full wind from
+those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against
+them.
+
+4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as
+a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we
+are spoiled.
+
+4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest
+be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? 4:15
+For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount
+Ephraim.
+
+4:16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
+Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their
+voice against the cities of Judah.
+
+4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because
+she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
+
+4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this
+is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto
+thine heart.
+
+4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart
+maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard,
+O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
+
+4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is
+spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
+
+4:21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the
+trumpet? 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they
+are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise
+to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
+
+4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and
+the heavens, and they had no light.
+
+4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills
+moved lightly.
+
+4:25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the
+heavens were fled.
+
+4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all
+the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and
+by his fierce anger.
+
+4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;
+yet will I not make a full end.
+
+4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black;
+because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent,
+neither will I turn back from it.
+
+4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and
+bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks:
+every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
+
+4:30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou
+clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments
+of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt
+thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek
+thy life.
+
+4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the
+anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of
+the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her
+hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of
+murderers.
+
+5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now,
+and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man,
+if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I
+will pardon it.
+
+5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
+
+5:3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken
+them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they
+have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder
+than a rock; they have refused to return.
+
+5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for
+they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
+
+5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for
+they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God:
+but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
+
+5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of
+the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their
+cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces:
+because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are
+increased.
+
+5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me,
+and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full,
+they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in
+the harlots’ houses.
+
+5:8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after
+his neighbour’s wife.
+
+5:9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not
+my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 5:10 Go ye up upon her
+walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her
+battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
+
+5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
+treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
+
+5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall
+evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 5:13 And the
+prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it
+be done unto them.
+
+5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this
+word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people
+wood, and it shall devour them.
+
+5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel,
+saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a
+nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what
+they say.
+
+5:16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
+
+5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy
+sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and
+thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall
+impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
+
+5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a
+full end with you.
+
+5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the
+LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them,
+Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so
+shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
+
+5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
+saying, 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
+understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear
+not: 5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
+presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a
+perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof
+toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can
+they not pass over it? 5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a
+rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
+
+5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our
+God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season:
+he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
+
+5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have
+withholden good things from you.
+
+5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he
+that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
+
+5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit:
+therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
+
+5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of
+the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet
+they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
+
+5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my
+soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 5:30 A wonderful and
+horrible thing is committed in the land; 5:31 The prophets prophesy
+falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love
+to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? 6:1 O ye
+children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of
+Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in
+Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great
+destruction.
+
+6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
+woman.
+
+6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall
+pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one
+in his place.
+
+6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe
+unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are
+stretched out.
+
+6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
+
+6:6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast
+a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is
+wholly oppression in the midst of her.
+
+6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
+wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually
+is grief and wounds.
+
+6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee;
+lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
+
+6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the
+remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer
+into the baskets.
+
+6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?
+behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold,
+the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in
+it.
+
+6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with
+holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the
+assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife
+shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
+
+6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields
+and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the
+inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
+
+6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every
+one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the
+priest every one dealeth falsely.
+
+6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
+slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
+
+6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they
+were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they
+shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they
+shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
+
+6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for
+the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall
+find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
+
+6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the
+trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
+
+6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is
+among them.
+
+6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even
+the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my
+words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
+
+6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the
+sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
+acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
+
+6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks
+before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall
+upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
+
+6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north
+country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the
+earth.
+
+6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
+mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses,
+set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
+
+6:24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish
+hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
+
+6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword
+of the enemy and fear is on every side.
+
+6:26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow
+thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter
+lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
+
+6:27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that
+thou mayest know and try their way.
+
+6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are
+brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
+
+6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the
+founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
+
+6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath
+rejected them.
+
+7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 7:2 Stand in
+the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say,
+Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these
+gates to worship the LORD.
+
+7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways
+and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
+
+7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The
+temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
+
+7:5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye
+throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 7:6 If ye
+oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not
+innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your
+hurt: 7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
+that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
+
+7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
+
+7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and
+burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
+7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my
+name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 7:11 Is
+this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in
+your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
+
+7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my
+name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my
+people Israel.
+
+7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD,
+and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not;
+and I called you, but ye answered not; 7:14 Therefore will I do unto
+this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the
+place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to
+Shiloh.
+
+7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your
+brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
+
+7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor
+prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear
+thee.
+
+7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
+streets of Jerusalem? 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers
+kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the
+queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that
+they may provoke me to anger.
+
+7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke
+themselves to the confusion of their own faces? 7:20 Therefore thus
+saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out
+upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the
+field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall
+not be quenched.
+
+7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt
+offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
+
+7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day
+that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt
+offerings or sacrifices: 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying,
+Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and
+walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well
+unto you.
+
+7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
+counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went
+backward, and not forward.
+
+7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of
+Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the
+prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 7:26 Yet they
+hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their
+neck: they did worse than their fathers.
+
+7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they
+will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they
+will not answer thee.
+
+7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not
+the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is
+perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
+
+7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a
+lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken
+the generation of his wrath.
+
+7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the
+LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by
+my name, to pollute it.
+
+7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the
+valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in
+the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
+
+7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall
+no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the
+valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no
+place.
+
+7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of
+the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them
+away.
+
+7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the
+streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness,
+the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land
+shall be desolate.
+
+8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of
+the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
+priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 8:2 And they shall
+spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven,
+whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they
+have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped:
+they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon
+the face of the earth.
+
+8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of
+them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places
+whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they
+fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 8:5 Why then
+is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?
+they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
+
+8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented
+him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to
+his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
+
+8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the
+turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;
+but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
+
+8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?
+Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
+
+8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they
+have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? 8:10
+Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to
+them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto
+the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the
+priest every one dealeth falsely.
+
+8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
+slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
+
+8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they
+were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall
+they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they
+shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
+
+8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no
+grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade;
+and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
+
+8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into
+the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God
+hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because
+we have sinned against the LORD.
+
+8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health,
+and behold trouble! 8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from
+Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his
+strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all
+that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
+
+8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which
+will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
+
+8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in
+me.
+
+8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because
+of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not
+her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven
+images, and with strange vanities? 8:20 The harvest is past, the
+summer is ended, and we are not saved.
+
+8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
+astonishment hath taken hold on me.
+
+8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then
+is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? 9:1 Oh that
+my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might
+weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 9:2 Oh
+that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I
+might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers,
+an assembly of treacherous men.
+
+9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are
+not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil
+to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
+
+9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any
+brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour
+will walk with slanders.
+
+9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak
+the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary
+themselves to commit iniquity.
+
+9:6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they
+refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
+
+9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them,
+and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? 9:8
+Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh
+peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his
+wait.
+
+9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not
+my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 9:10 For the mountains
+will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the
+wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can
+pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both
+the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
+
+9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will
+make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
+
+9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to
+whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for
+what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none
+passeth through? 9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken
+my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither
+walked therein; 9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their
+own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 9:15
+Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
+will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water
+of gall to drink.
+
+9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor
+their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I
+have consumed them.
+
+9:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the
+mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that
+they may come: 9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for
+us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out
+with waters.
+
+9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled!
+we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because
+our dwellings have cast us out.
+
+9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear
+receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and
+every one her neighbour lamentation.
+
+9:21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our
+palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from
+the streets.
+
+9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall
+as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman,
+and none shall gather them.
+
+9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
+neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
+glory in his riches: 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this,
+that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which
+exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth:
+for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
+
+9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all
+them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 9:26 Egypt, and
+Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are
+in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these
+nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are
+uncircumcised in the heart.
+
+10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of
+Israel: 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen,
+and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are
+dismayed at them.
+
+10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree
+out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
+
+10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails
+and with hammers, that it move not.
+
+10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs
+be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they
+cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
+
+10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art
+great, and thy name is great in might.
+
+10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it
+appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in
+all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
+
+10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a
+doctrine of vanities.
+
+10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
+Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue
+and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
+
+10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an
+everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the
+nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
+
+10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the
+heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from
+under these heavens.
+
+10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
+world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his
+discretion.
+
+10:13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in
+the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the
+earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out
+of his treasures.
+
+10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is
+confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
+there is no breath in them.
+
+10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their
+visitation they shall perish.
+
+10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of
+all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of
+hosts is his name.
+
+10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
+fortress.
+
+10:18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
+inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that
+they may find it so.
+
+10:19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly
+this is a grief, and I must bear it.
+
+10:20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my
+children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to
+stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
+
+10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the
+LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be
+scattered.
+
+10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion
+out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a
+den of dragons.
+
+10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not
+in man that walketh to direct his steps.
+
+10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest
+thou bring me to nothing.
+
+10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon
+the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob,
+and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation
+desolate.
+
+11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying, 11:2 Hear ye
+the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to
+the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 11:3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith
+the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words
+of this covenant, 11:4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that
+I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace,
+saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command
+you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: 11:5 That I may
+perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a
+land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I,
+and said, So be it, O LORD.
+
+11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the
+cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the
+words of this covenant, and do them.
+
+11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I
+brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising
+early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
+
+11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one
+in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon
+them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but
+they did them not.
+
+11:9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of
+Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
+
+11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,
+which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to
+serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my
+covenant which I made with their fathers.
+
+11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon
+them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall
+cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
+
+11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go,
+and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not
+save them at all in the time of their trouble.
+
+11:13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O
+Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye
+set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto
+Baal.
+
+11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry
+or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry
+unto me for their trouble.
+
+11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath
+wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee?
+when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
+
+11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of
+goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire
+upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
+
+11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil
+against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of
+Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger
+in offering incense unto Baal.
+
+11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then
+thou shewedst me their doings.
+
+11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter;
+and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let
+us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off
+from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
+
+11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the
+reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee
+have I revealed my cause.
+
+11:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek
+thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die
+not by our hand: 11:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold,
+I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons
+and their daughters shall die by famine: 11:23 And there shall be no
+remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even
+the year of their visitation.
+
+12:1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me
+talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked
+prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
+12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow,
+yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far
+from their reins.
+
+12:3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine
+heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and
+prepare them for the day of slaughter.
+
+12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field
+wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are
+consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last
+end.
+
+12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee,
+then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace,
+wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in
+the swelling of Jordan? 12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of
+thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they
+have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they
+speak fair words unto thee.
+
+12:7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have
+given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
+
+12:8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out
+against me: therefore have I hated it.
+
+12:9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round
+about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field,
+come to devour.
+
+12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my
+portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate
+wilderness.
+
+12:11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto
+me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to
+heart.
+
+12:12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the
+wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of
+the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
+
+12:13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put
+themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of
+your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
+
+12:14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch
+the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit;
+Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house
+of Judah from among them.
+
+12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I
+will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again,
+every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
+
+12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the
+ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they
+taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the
+midst of my people.
+
+12:17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy
+that nation, saith the LORD.
+
+13:1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and
+put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
+
+13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it
+on my loins.
+
+13:3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
+13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and
+arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
+
+13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
+
+13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me,
+Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I
+commanded thee to hide there.
+
+13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from
+the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it
+was profitable for nothing.
+
+13:8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 13:9 Thus saith
+the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the
+great pride of Jerusalem.
+
+13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in
+the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve
+them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good
+for nothing.
+
+13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I
+caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house
+of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and
+for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not
+hear.
+
+13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the
+LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they
+shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall
+be filled with wine? 13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith
+the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even
+the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, and the
+prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
+
+13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and
+the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor
+have mercy, but destroy them.
+
+13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
+
+13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and
+before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look
+for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross
+darkness.
+
+13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places
+for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears,
+because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
+
+13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down:
+for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
+
+13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open
+them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be
+wholly carried away captive.
+
+13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:
+where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? 13:21
+What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught
+them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take
+thee, as a woman in travail? 13:22 And if thou say in thine heart,
+Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine
+iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
+
+13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
+then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
+
+13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away
+by the wind of the wilderness.
+
+13:25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the
+LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
+
+13:26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy
+shame may appear.
+
+13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of
+thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe
+unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it
+once be? 14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning
+the dearth.
+
+14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black
+unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
+
+14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they
+came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels
+empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
+
+14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth,
+the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
+
+14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because
+there was no grass.
+
+14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up
+the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no
+grass.
+
+14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for
+thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against
+thee.
+
+14:8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why
+shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man
+that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 14:9 Why shouldest thou be
+as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD,
+art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
+
+14:10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to
+wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth
+not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their
+sins.
+
+14:11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their
+good.
+
+14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer
+burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will
+consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
+
+14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them,
+Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will
+give you assured peace in this place.
+
+14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my
+name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake
+unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a
+thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
+
+14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
+prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and
+famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those
+prophets be consumed.
+
+14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the
+streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they
+shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor
+their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
+
+14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run
+down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin
+daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very
+grievous blow.
+
+14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the
+sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick
+with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a
+land that they know not.
+
+14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why
+hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for
+peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold
+trouble! 14:20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the
+iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
+
+14:21 Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne
+of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
+
+14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause
+rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our
+God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these
+things.
+
+15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before
+me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my
+sight, and let them go forth.
+
+15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall
+we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as
+are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword;
+and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the
+captivity, to the captivity.
+
+15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the
+sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and
+the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
+
+15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the
+earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that
+which he did in Jerusalem.
+
+15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall
+bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? 15:6 Thou
+hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore
+will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary
+with repenting.
+
+15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will
+bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return
+not from their ways.
+
+15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I
+have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler
+at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors
+upon the city.
+
+15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
+ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been
+ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the
+sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
+
+15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife
+and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on
+usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth
+curse me.
+
+15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily
+I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in
+the time of affliction.
+
+15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 15:13 Thy
+substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price,
+and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
+
+15:14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land
+which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which
+shall burn upon you.
+
+15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me
+of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that
+for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
+
+15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto
+me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O
+LORD God of hosts.
+
+15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat
+alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
+
+15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth
+to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters
+that fail? 15:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then
+will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou
+take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let
+them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
+
+15:20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and
+they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against
+thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the
+LORD.
+
+15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I
+will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
+
+16:1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, 16:2 Thou shalt
+not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in
+this place.
+
+16:3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the
+daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers
+that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this
+land; 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be
+lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon
+the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by
+famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and
+for the beasts of the earth.
+
+16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,
+neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace
+from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
+
+16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall
+not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves,
+nor make themselves bald for them: 16:7 Neither shall men tear
+themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither
+shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father
+or for their mother.
+
+16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with
+them to eat and to drink.
+
+16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
+will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days,
+the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
+bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
+
+16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all
+these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD
+pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or
+what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
+16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have
+forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and
+have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and
+have not kept my law; 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers;
+for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil
+heart, that they may not hearken unto me: 16:13 Therefore will I cast
+you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your
+fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I
+will not shew you favour.
+
+16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall
+no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
+Israel out of the land of Egypt; 16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that
+brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from
+all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again
+into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
+
+16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they
+shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they
+shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of
+the holes of the rocks.
+
+16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my
+face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
+
+16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double;
+because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance
+with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
+
+16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day
+of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the
+earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity,
+and things wherein there is no profit.
+
+16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? 16:21
+Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause
+them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name
+is The LORD.
+
+17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the
+point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and
+upon the horns of your altars; 17:2 Whilst their children remember
+their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
+
+17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy
+treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all
+thy borders.
+
+17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage
+that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the
+land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger,
+which shall burn for ever.
+
+17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and
+maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
+
+17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see
+when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the
+wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
+
+17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the
+LORD is.
+
+17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that
+spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat
+cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the
+year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
+
+17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
+who can know it? 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins,
+even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the
+fruit of his doings.
+
+17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he
+that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst
+of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
+
+17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our
+sanctuary.
+
+17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
+ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth,
+because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
+
+17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be
+saved: for thou art my praise.
+
+17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it
+come now.
+
+17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow
+thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which
+came out of my lips was right before thee.
+
+17:17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
+
+17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be
+confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring
+upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
+
+17:19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the
+children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the
+which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 17:20 And say
+unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all
+Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these
+gates: 17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
+burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
+17:22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath
+day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I
+commanded your fathers.
+
+17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their
+neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
+
+17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me,
+saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city
+on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
+17:25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and
+princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on
+horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants
+of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.
+
+17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
+places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the
+plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt
+offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and
+bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
+
+17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day,
+and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem
+on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof,
+and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be
+quenched.
+
+18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 18:2
+Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee
+to hear my words.
+
+18:3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a
+work on the wheels.
+
+18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the
+potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the
+potter to make it.
+
+18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18:6 O house of
+Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold,
+as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house
+of Israel.
+
+18:7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning
+a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 18:8 If
+that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I
+will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
+
+18:9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
+concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 18:10 If it do evil in
+my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good,
+wherewith I said I would benefit them.
+
+18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame
+evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every
+one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
+
+18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own
+devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
+
+18:13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who
+hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible
+thing.
+
+18:14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock
+of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another
+place be forsaken? 18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they
+have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in
+their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast
+up; 18:16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every
+one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
+
+18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I
+will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their
+calamity.
+
+18:18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah;
+for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the
+wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with
+the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
+
+18:19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that
+contend with me.
+
+18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit
+for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them,
+and to turn away thy wrath from them.
+
+18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out
+their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved
+of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death;
+let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
+
+18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a
+troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and
+hid snares for my feet.
+
+18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me:
+forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight,
+but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the
+time of thine anger.
+
+19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and
+take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the
+priests; 19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which
+is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I
+shall tell thee, 19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings
+of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
+the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the
+which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
+
+19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and
+have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their
+fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place
+with the blood of innocents; 19:5 They have built also the high places
+of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal,
+which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
+19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place
+shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom,
+but The valley of slaughter.
+
+19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this
+place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their
+enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their
+carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for
+the beasts of the earth.
+
+19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one
+that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the
+plagues thereof.
+
+19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the
+flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of
+his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and
+they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
+
+19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go
+with thee, 19:11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
+hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh
+a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall
+bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
+
+19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the
+inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: 19:13 And the
+houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be
+defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose
+roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have
+poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
+
+19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to
+prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house; and said to
+all the people, 19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
+Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the
+evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened
+their necks, that they might not hear my words.
+
+20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief
+governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied
+these things.
+
+20:2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks
+that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the
+LORD.
+
+20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth
+Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath
+not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
+
+20:4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to
+thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of
+their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all
+Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them
+captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
+
+20:5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all
+the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the
+treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their
+enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to
+Babylon.
+
+20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into
+captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die,
+and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou
+hast prophesied lies.
+
+20:7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art
+stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one
+mocketh me.
+
+20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;
+because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a
+derision, daily.
+
+20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more
+in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up
+in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
+
+20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report,
+say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my
+halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail
+against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
+
+20:11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my
+persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be
+greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting
+confusion shall never be forgotten.
+
+20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the
+reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee
+have I opened my cause.
+
+20:13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered
+the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
+
+20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my
+mother bare me be blessed.
+
+20:15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A
+man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
+
+20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and
+repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the
+shouting at noontide; 20:17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or
+that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always
+great with me.
+
+20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow,
+that my days should be consumed with shame? 21:1 The word which came
+unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur
+the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest,
+saying, 21:2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for
+Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that
+the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that
+he may go up from us.
+
+21:3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: 21:4
+Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the
+weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the
+king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without
+the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
+
+21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and
+with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
+
+21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
+beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
+
+21:7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of
+Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this
+city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into
+the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their
+enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall
+smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them,
+neither have pity, nor have mercy.
+
+21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,
+I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
+
+21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the
+famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to
+the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be
+unto him for a prey.
+
+21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for
+good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of
+Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
+
+21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the
+word of the LORD; 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute
+judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the
+hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that
+none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
+
+21:13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock
+of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against
+us? or who shall enter into our habitations? 21:14 But I will punish
+you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will
+kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things
+round about it.
+
+22:1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah,
+and speak there this word, 22:2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O
+king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy
+servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: 22:3 Thus saith
+the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the
+spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no
+violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed
+innocent blood in this place.
+
+22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the
+gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in
+chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
+
+22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the
+LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
+
+22:6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art
+Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a
+wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
+
+22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his
+weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into
+the fire.
+
+22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say
+every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
+this great city? 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have
+forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other
+gods, and served them.
+
+22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for
+him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native
+country.
+
+22:11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king
+of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth
+out of this place; He shall not return thither any more: 22:12 But he
+shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall
+see this land no more.
+
+22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his
+chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages,
+and giveth him not for his work; 22:14 That saith, I will build me a
+wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is
+cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
+
+22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not
+thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was
+well with him? 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then
+it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
+
+22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness,
+and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence,
+to do it.
+
+22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of
+Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my
+brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah
+lord! or, Ah his glory! 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of
+an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
+
+22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and
+cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
+
+22:21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not
+hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not
+my voice.
+
+22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go
+into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for
+all thy wickedness.
+
+22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how
+gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a
+woman in travail! 22:24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the
+son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet
+would I pluck thee thence; 22:25 And I will give thee into the hand of
+them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou
+fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
+into the hand of the Chaldeans.
+
+22:26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into
+another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
+
+22:27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall
+they not return.
+
+22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel
+wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed,
+and are cast into a land which they know not? 22:29 O earth, earth,
+earth, hear the word of the LORD.
+
+22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that
+shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper,
+sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
+
+23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my
+pasture! saith the LORD.
+
+23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors
+that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away,
+and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of
+your doings, saith the LORD.
+
+23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries
+whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds;
+and they shall be fruitful and increase.
+
+23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and
+they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be
+lacking, saith the LORD.
+
+23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto
+David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and
+shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
+
+23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely:
+and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR
+RIGHTEOUSNESS.
+
+23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall
+no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel
+out of the land of Egypt; 23:8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up
+and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north
+country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they
+shall dwell in their own land.
+
+23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my
+bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath
+overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his
+holiness.
+
+23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the
+land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and
+their course is evil, and their force is not right.
+
+23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I
+found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
+
+23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the
+darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring
+evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
+
+23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
+prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
+
+23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing:
+they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands
+of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all
+of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
+
+23:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets;
+Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water
+of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth
+into all the land.
+
+23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the
+prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a
+vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
+
+23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye
+shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the
+imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
+
+23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath
+perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
+23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a
+grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the
+wicked.
+
+23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed,
+and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter
+days ye shall consider it perfectly.
+
+23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken
+to them, yet they prophesied.
+
+23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to
+hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way,
+and from the evil of their doings.
+
+23:23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
+23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?
+saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
+
+23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my
+name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
+
+23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that
+prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own
+heart; 23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their
+dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers
+have forgotten my name for Baal.
+
+23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that
+hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to
+the wheat? saith the LORD.
+
+23:29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer
+that breaketh the rock in pieces? 23:30 Therefore, behold, I am
+against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one
+from his neighbour.
+
+23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use
+their tongues, and say, He saith.
+
+23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the
+LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and
+by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore
+they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
+
+23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask
+thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto
+them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
+
+23:34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that
+shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his
+house.
+
+23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to
+his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD
+spoken? 23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more:
+for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the
+words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
+
+23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered
+thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? 23:38 But since ye say, The
+burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this
+word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye
+shall not say, The burden of the LORD; 23:39 Therefore, behold, I,
+even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city
+that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
+23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
+perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
+
+24:1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set
+before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of
+Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of
+Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from
+Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
+
+24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first
+ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be
+eaten, they were so bad.
+
+24:3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I
+said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that
+cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
+
+24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:5 Thus saith
+the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I
+acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have
+sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
+
+24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring
+them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them
+down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
+
+24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and
+they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall
+return unto me with their whole heart.
+
+24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil;
+surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah,
+and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this
+land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: 24:9 And I will
+deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for
+their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in
+all places whither I shall drive them.
+
+24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among
+them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them
+and to their fathers.
+
+25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah
+in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that
+was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; 25:2 The which
+Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all
+the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 25:3 From the thirteenth year of
+Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the
+three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and
+I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not
+hearkened.
+
+25:4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,
+rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined
+your ear to hear.
+
+25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and
+from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath
+given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: 25:6 And go not
+after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me
+not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
+
+25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might
+provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
+
+25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard
+my words, 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the
+north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my
+servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the
+inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and
+will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an
+hissing, and perpetual desolations.
+
+25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice
+of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,
+the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
+
+25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
+and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
+
+25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished,
+that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the
+LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make
+it perpetual desolations.
+
+25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
+pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which
+Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
+
+25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them
+also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and
+according to the works of their own hands.
+
+25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup
+of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send
+thee, to drink it.
+
+25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the
+sword that I will send among them.
+
+25:17 Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations
+to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: 25:18 To wit, Jerusalem, and
+the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof,
+to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse;
+as it is this day; 25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and
+his princes, and all his people; 25:20 And all the mingled people, and
+all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the
+Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of
+Ashdod, 25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, 25:22 And all
+the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the
+isles which are beyond the sea, 25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and
+all that are in the utmost corners, 25:24 And all the kings of Arabia,
+and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
+25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all
+the kings of the Medes, 25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and
+near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are
+upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after
+them.
+
+25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
+hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and
+fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among
+you.
+
+25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to
+drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye
+shall certainly drink.
+
+25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my
+name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished:
+for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
+saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say
+unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from
+his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he
+shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the
+inhabitants of the earth.
+
+25:31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD
+hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he
+will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
+
+25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from
+nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the
+coasts of the earth.
+
+25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of
+the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be
+lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the
+ground.
+
+25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes,
+ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your
+dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant
+vessel.
+
+25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal
+of the flock to escape.
+
+25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the
+principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled
+their pasture.
+
+25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce
+anger of the LORD.
+
+25:38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is
+desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of
+his fierce anger.
+
+26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
+of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying, 26:2 Thus saith the
+LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak unto all the
+cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s house, all the
+words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
+26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way,
+that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them
+because of the evil of their doings.
+
+26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not
+hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, 26:5 To
+hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto
+you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not
+hearkened; 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make
+this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
+
+26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah
+speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
+
+26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
+all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that
+the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou
+shalt surely die.
+
+26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This
+house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an
+inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the
+house of the LORD.
+
+26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up
+from the king’s house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the
+entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house.
+
+26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to
+all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath
+prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
+
+26:12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people,
+saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against
+this city all the words that ye have heard.
+
+26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the
+voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil
+that he hath pronounced against you.
+
+26:14 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good
+and meet unto you.
+
+26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall
+surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and
+upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me
+unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
+
+26:16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to
+the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us
+in the name of the LORD our God.
+
+26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all
+the assembly of the people, saying, 26:18 Micah the Morasthite
+prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the
+people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be
+plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the
+mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
+
+26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to
+death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD
+repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus
+might we procure great evil against our souls.
+
+26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the
+LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied
+against this city and against this land according to all the words of
+Jeremiah.
+
+26:21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all
+the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but
+when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
+26:22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the
+son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
+
+26:23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto
+Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead
+body into the graves of the common people.
+
+26:24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with
+Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to
+put him to death.
+
+27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
+of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 27:2 Thus
+saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy
+neck, 27:3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab,
+and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the
+king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem
+unto Zedekiah king of Judah; 27:4 And command them to say unto their
+masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall
+ye say unto your masters; 27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the
+beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my
+outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
+
+27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
+Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the
+field have I given him also to serve him.
+
+27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son,
+until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great
+kings shall serve themselves of him.
+
+27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will
+not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will
+not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation
+will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine,
+and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
+
+27:9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners,
+nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers,
+which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
+27:10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your
+land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
+
+27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king
+of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own
+land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
+
+27:12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these
+words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
+and serve him and his people, and live.
+
+27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the
+famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the
+nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 27:14 Therefore
+hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you,
+saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a
+lie unto you.
+
+27:15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a
+lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish,
+ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
+
+27:16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus
+saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that
+prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house
+shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a
+lie unto you.
+
+27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
+wherefore should this city be laid waste? 27:18 But if they be
+prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make
+intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in
+the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at
+Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
+
+27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and
+concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the
+residue of the vessels that remain in this city.
+
+27:20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried
+away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from
+Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; 27:21
+Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the
+vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the
+king of Judah and of Jerusalem; 27:22 They shall be carried to
+Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them,
+saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this
+place.
+
+28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign
+of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month,
+that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake
+unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and
+of all the people, saying, 28:2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the
+God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
+
+28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the
+vessels of the LORD’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took
+away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: 28:4 And I will
+bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah,
+with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the
+LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
+
+28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the
+presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that
+stood in the house of the LORD, 28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said,
+Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast
+prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD’s house, and all
+that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
+
+28:7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears,
+and in the ears of all the people; 28:8 The prophets that have been
+before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many
+countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of
+pestilence.
+
+28:9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the
+prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the
+LORD hath truly sent him.
+
+28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
+Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.
+
+28:11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying,
+Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
+king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two
+full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
+
+28:12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after
+that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the
+prophet Jeremiah, saying, 28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus
+saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt
+make for them yokes of iron.
+
+28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put
+a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve
+Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have
+given him the beasts of the field also.
+
+28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear
+now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this
+people to trust in a lie.
+
+28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off
+the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast
+taught rebellion against the LORD.
+
+28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
+
+29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet
+sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried
+away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the
+people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to
+Babylon; 29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the
+eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and
+the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;) 29:3 By the hand of Elasah
+the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah
+king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon)
+saying, 29:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all
+that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away
+from Jerusalem unto Babylon; 29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them;
+and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; 29:6 Take ye wives, and
+beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your
+daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye
+may be increased there, and not diminished.
+
+29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be
+carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace
+thereof shall ye have peace.
+
+29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your
+prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you,
+neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
+
+29:9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent
+them, saith the LORD.
+
+29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be
+accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word
+toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
+
+29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
+thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
+
+29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me,
+and I will hearken unto you.
+
+29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me
+with all your heart.
+
+29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away
+your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from
+all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will
+bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away
+captive.
+
+29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in
+Babylon; 29:16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth
+upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this
+city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into
+captivity; 29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send
+upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make
+them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
+
+29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and
+with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the
+kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an
+hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven
+them: 29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the
+LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up
+early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
+
+29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity,
+whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: 29:21 Thus saith the LORD
+of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of
+Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my
+name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king
+of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; 29:22 And of them
+shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in
+Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom
+the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; 29:23 Because they have
+committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their
+neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I
+have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the
+LORD.
+
+29:24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
+29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
+Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that
+are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and
+to all the priests, saying, 29:26 The LORD hath made thee priest in
+the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the
+house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a
+prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
+
+29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth,
+which maketh himself a prophet to you? 29:28 For therefore he sent
+unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses,
+and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
+
+29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
+Jeremiah the prophet.
+
+29:30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, 29:31 Send
+to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning
+Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto
+you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie: 29:32
+Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the
+Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this
+people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people,
+saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
+
+30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 30:2 Thus
+speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that
+I have spoken unto thee in a book.
+
+30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again
+the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I
+will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers,
+and they shall possess it.
+
+30:4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and
+concerning Judah.
+
+30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of
+fear, and not of peace.
+
+30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
+wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman
+in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 30:7 Alas! for
+that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of
+Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
+
+30:8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts,
+that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy
+bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 30:9 But
+they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will
+raise up unto them.
+
+30:10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD;
+neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar,
+and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return,
+and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
+
+30:11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make
+a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will
+not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and
+will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
+
+30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound
+is grievous.
+
+30:13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up:
+thou hast no healing medicines.
+
+30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I
+have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of
+a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins
+were increased.
+
+30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable
+for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased,
+I have done these things unto thee.
+
+30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all
+thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and
+they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee
+will I give for a prey.
+
+30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy
+wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying,
+This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
+
+30:18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of
+Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city
+shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after
+the manner thereof.
+
+30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them
+that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
+I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
+
+30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their
+congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all
+that oppress them.
+
+30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor
+shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw
+near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his
+heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
+
+30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
+
+30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a
+continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the
+wicked.
+
+30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath
+done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the
+latter days ye shall consider it.
+
+31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the
+families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
+
+31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword
+found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him
+to rest.
+
+31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved
+thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I
+drawn thee.
+
+31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of
+Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go
+forth in the dances of them that make merry.
+
+31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the
+planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
+
+31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount
+Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD
+our God.
+
+31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
+among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O
+LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
+
+31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them
+from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame,
+the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a
+great company shall return thither.
+
+31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead
+them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight
+way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and
+Ephraim is my firstborn.
+
+31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the
+isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and
+keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
+
+31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand
+of him that was stronger than he.
+
+31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and
+shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for
+wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and
+their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any
+more at all.
+
+31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and
+old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will
+comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
+
+31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my
+people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
+
+31:15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation,
+and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be
+comforted for her children, because they were not.
+
+31:16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine
+eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and
+they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
+
+31:17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy
+children shall come again to their own border.
+
+31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast
+chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the
+yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my
+God.
+
+31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was
+instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even
+confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
+
+31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I
+spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my
+bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith
+the LORD.
+
+31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart
+toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O
+virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
+
+31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for
+the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass
+a man.
+
+31:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they
+shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof,
+when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O
+habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
+
+31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities
+thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
+
+31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every
+sorrowful soul.
+
+31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
+
+31:27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house
+of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the
+seed of beast.
+
+31:28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over
+them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to
+destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to
+plant, saith the LORD.
+
+31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a
+sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
+
+31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that
+eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
+
+31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new
+covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 31:32
+Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the
+day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
+Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto
+them, saith the LORD: 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will
+make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I
+will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts;
+and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
+
+31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every
+man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me,
+from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for
+I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
+
+31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day,
+and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,
+which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts
+is his name: 31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith
+the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
+before me for ever.
+
+31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the
+foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off
+all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
+
+31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be
+built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the
+corner.
+
+31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon
+the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
+
+31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and
+all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse
+gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be
+plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
+
+32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of
+Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
+Nebuchadrezzar.
+
+32:2 For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and
+Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was
+in the king of Judah’s house.
+
+32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore
+dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give
+this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
+32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of
+the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king
+of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes
+shall behold his eyes; 32:5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and
+there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight
+with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
+
+32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
+32:7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto
+thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of
+redemption is thine to buy it.
+
+32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the
+prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my
+field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of
+Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is
+thine; buy it for thyself.
+
+Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
+
+32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in
+Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
+
+32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took
+witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
+
+32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was
+sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open: 32:12
+And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah,
+the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in
+the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the
+purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
+
+32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying, 32:14 Thus saith the
+LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence
+of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is
+open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many
+days.
+
+32:15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and
+fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
+
+32:16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto
+Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, 32:17 Ah
+Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great
+power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
+32:18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the
+iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them:
+the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name, 32:19 Great
+in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the
+ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and
+according to the fruit of his doings: 32:20 Which hast set signs and
+wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and
+among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day; 32:21 And
+hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with
+signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched
+out arm, and with great terror; 32:22 And hast given them this land,
+which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing
+with milk and honey; 32:23 And they came in, and possessed it; but
+they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done
+nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast
+caused all this evil to come upon them: 32:24 Behold the mounts, they
+are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand
+of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of
+the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come
+to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
+
+32:25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for
+money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the
+Chaldeans.
+
+32:26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, 32:27
+Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too
+hard for me? 32:28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give
+this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of
+Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: 32:29 And the
+Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on
+this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have
+offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other
+gods, to provoke me to anger.
+
+32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only
+done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have
+only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the
+LORD.
+
+32:31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and
+of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I
+should remove it from before my face, 32:32 Because of all the evil of
+the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have
+done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their
+priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants
+of Jerusalem.
+
+32:33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though
+I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not
+hearkened to receive instruction.
+
+32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by
+my name, to defile it.
+
+32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley
+of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
+through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came
+it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah
+to sin.
+
+32:36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
+concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the
+hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by
+the pestilence; 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries,
+whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great
+wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause
+them to dwell safely: 32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be
+their God: 32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that
+they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children
+after them: 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them,
+that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put
+my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
+
+32:41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant
+them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole
+soul.
+
+32:42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great
+evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I
+have promised them.
+
+32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is
+desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the
+Chaldeans.
+
+32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and
+seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the
+places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities
+of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities
+of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the
+LORD.
+
+33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time,
+while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 33:2 Thus
+saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to
+establish it; the LORD is his name; 33:3 Call unto me, and I will
+answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest
+not.
+
+33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses
+of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which
+are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; 33:5 They come to
+fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies
+of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all
+whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
+
+33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them,
+and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
+
+33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of
+Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
+
+33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they
+have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities,
+whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against
+me.
+
+33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour
+before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good
+that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the
+goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
+
+33:10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place,
+which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in
+the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are
+desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
+33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
+bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall
+say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy
+endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of
+praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the
+captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
+
+33:12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is
+desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof,
+shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
+
+33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and
+in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the
+places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks
+pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
+
+33:14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that
+good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the
+house of Judah.
+
+33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
+righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and
+righteousness in the land.
+
+33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell
+safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD
+our righteousness.
+
+33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit
+upon the throne of the house of Israel; 33:18 Neither shall the
+priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and
+to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
+
+33:19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, 33:20 Thus
+saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my
+covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in
+their season; 33:21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my
+servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and
+with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
+
+33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of
+the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and
+the Levites that minister unto me.
+
+33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 33:24
+Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two
+families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus
+they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation
+before them.
+
+33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night,
+and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 33:26
+Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that
+I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham,
+Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have
+mercy on them.
+
+34:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when
+Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
+of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against
+Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying, 34:2 Thus saith
+the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah,
+and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into
+the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: 34:3
+And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken,
+and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of
+the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and
+thou shalt go to Babylon.
+
+34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus
+saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: 34:5 But thou
+shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former
+kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and
+they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the
+word, saith the LORD.
+
+34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah
+king of Judah in Jerusalem, 34:7 When the king of Babylon’s army
+fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that
+were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced
+cities remained of the cities of Judah.
+
+34:8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after
+that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which
+were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; 34:9 That every man
+should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an
+Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of
+them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
+
+34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered
+into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and
+every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves
+of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
+
+34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the
+handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into
+subjection for servants and for handmaids.
+
+34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
+saying, 34:13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a
+covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of
+the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, 34:14 At the
+end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which
+hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou
+shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto
+me, neither inclined their ear.
+
+34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
+proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a
+covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: 34:16 But
+ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and
+every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure,
+to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for
+servants and for handmaids.
+
+34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in
+proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his
+neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to
+the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you
+to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
+
+34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,
+which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made
+before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the
+parts thereof, 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of
+Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the
+land, which passed between the parts of the calf; 34:20 I will even
+give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them
+that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the
+fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
+
+34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the
+hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life,
+and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up
+from you.
+
+34:22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return
+to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn
+it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without
+an inhabitant.
+
+35:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of
+Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 35:2 Go unto the
+house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the
+house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to
+drink.
+
+35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah,
+and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the
+Rechabites; 35:4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into
+the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God,
+which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber
+of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door: 35:5 And I set
+before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and
+cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
+
+35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of
+Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine,
+neither ye, nor your sons for ever: 35:7 Neither shall ye build house,
+nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye
+shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye
+be strangers.
+
+35:8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our
+father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days,
+we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; 35:9 Nor to build houses
+for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
+35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according
+to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
+
+35:11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up
+into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear
+of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians:
+so we dwell at Jerusalem.
+
+35:12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, 35:13 Thus
+saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of
+Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive
+instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
+
+35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his
+sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink
+none, but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have
+spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto
+me.
+
+35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising
+up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his
+evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve
+them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to
+your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto
+me.
+
+35:16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the
+commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people
+hath not hearkened unto me: 35:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of
+hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all
+the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced
+against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not
+heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
+
+35:18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith
+the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the
+commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and
+done according unto all that he hath commanded you: 35:19 Therefore
+thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of
+Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
+
+36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
+Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
+saying, 36:2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the
+words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah,
+and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the
+days of Josiah, even unto this day.
+
+36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I
+purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil
+way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
+
+36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote
+from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had
+spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
+
+36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go
+into the house of the LORD: 36:6 Therefore go thou, and read in the
+roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in
+the ears of the people in the LORD’s house upon the fasting day: and
+also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of
+their cities.
+
+36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD,
+and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger
+and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
+
+36:8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah
+the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD
+in the LORD’s house.
+
+36:9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
+Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast
+before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people
+that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
+
+36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house
+of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe,
+in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house,
+in the ears of all the people.
+
+36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard
+out of the book all the words of the LORD, 36:12 Then he went down
+into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the
+princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of
+Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of
+Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
+
+36:13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had
+heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
+
+36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the
+son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine
+hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and
+come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came
+unto them.
+
+36:15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears.
+So Baruch read it in their ears.
+
+36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they
+were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely
+tell the king of all these words.
+
+36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write
+all these words at his mouth? 36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He
+pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them
+with ink in the book.
+
+36:19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
+Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
+
+36:20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up
+the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words
+in the ears of the king.
+
+36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of
+Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the
+king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
+
+36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
+there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
+
+36:23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four
+leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that
+was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that
+was on the hearth.
+
+36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the
+king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
+
+36:25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
+intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would
+not hear them.
+
+36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
+Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take
+Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
+
+36:27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king
+had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of
+Jeremiah, saying, 36:28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it
+all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the
+king of Judah hath burned.
+
+36:29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the
+LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written
+therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy
+this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 36:30
+Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall
+have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be
+cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
+
+36:31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
+iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of
+Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have
+pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
+
+36:32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
+scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of
+Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had
+burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like
+words.
+
+37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the
+son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the
+land of Judah.
+
+37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did
+hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet
+Jeremiah.
+
+37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and
+Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah,
+saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
+
+37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had
+not put him into prison.
+
+37:5 Then Pharaoh’s army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the
+Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed
+from Jerusalem.
+
+37:6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah saying,
+37:7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the
+king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold,
+Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt
+into their own land.
+
+37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city,
+and take it, and burn it with fire.
+
+37:9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
+Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
+
+37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that
+fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet
+should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with
+fire.
+
+37:11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was
+broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, 37:12 Then
+Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin,
+to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.
+
+37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward
+was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
+Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away
+to the Chaldeans.
+
+37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the
+Chaldeans.
+
+But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him
+to the princes.
+
+37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him,
+and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they
+had made that the prison.
+
+37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins,
+and Jeremiah had remained there many days; 37:17 Then Zedekiah the
+king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his
+house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said,
+There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the
+king of Babylon.
+
+37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended
+against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye
+have put me in prison? 37:19 Where are now your prophets which
+prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come
+against you, nor against this land? 37:20 Therefore hear now, I pray
+thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be
+accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of
+Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
+
+37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
+Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him
+daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread
+in the city were spent.
+
+Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
+
+38:1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
+Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of
+Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the
+people, saying, 38:2 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this
+city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but
+he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his
+life for a prey, and shall live.
+
+38:3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the
+hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which shall take it.
+
+38:4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let
+this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men
+of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in
+speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of
+this people, but the hurt.
+
+38:5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the
+king is not he that can do any thing against you.
+
+38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
+Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison:
+and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no
+water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
+
+38:7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was
+in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon;
+the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; 38:8 Ebedmelech went
+forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king saying, 38:9 My
+lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to
+Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is
+like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more
+bread in the city.
+
+38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take
+from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out
+of the dungeon, before he die.
+
+38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of
+the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old
+rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
+
+38:12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these
+old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords.
+And Jeremiah did so.
+
+38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the
+dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
+
+38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto
+him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the
+king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from
+me.
+
+38:15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee,
+wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt
+thou not hearken unto me? 38:16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly
+unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I
+will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of
+these men that seek thy life.
+
+38:17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God
+of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the
+king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city
+shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
+38:18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes,
+then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they
+shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
+
+38:19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
+Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their
+hand, and they mock me.
+
+38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech
+thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be
+well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
+
+38:21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD
+hath shewed me: 38:22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the
+king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s
+princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and
+have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they
+are turned away back.
+
+38:23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the
+Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be
+taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this
+city to be burned with fire.
+
+38:24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
+words, and thou shalt not die.
+
+38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they
+come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast
+said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to
+death; also what the king said unto thee: 38:26 Then thou shalt say
+unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would
+not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.
+
+38:27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he
+told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So
+they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
+
+38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that
+Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
+
+39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month,
+came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against
+Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
+
+39:2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the
+ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
+
+39:3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in
+the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris,
+Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the
+king of Babylon.
+
+39:4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw
+them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of
+the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate
+betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
+
+39:5 But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah
+in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought
+him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of
+Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
+
+39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah
+before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of
+Judah.
+
+39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains,
+to carry him to Babylon.
+
+39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the
+people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
+
+39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
+into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and
+those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people
+that remained.
+
+39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the
+people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them
+vineyards and fields at the same time.
+
+39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
+Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying, 39:12 Take
+him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as
+he shall say unto thee.
+
+39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban,
+Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon’s
+princes; 39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of
+the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son
+of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the
+people.
+
+39:15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut
+up in the court of the prison, saying, 39:16 Go and speak to
+Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
+God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil,
+and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before
+thee.
+
+39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou
+shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
+
+39:18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the
+sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast
+put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
+
+40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
+Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when
+he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried
+away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive
+unto Babylon.
+
+40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him,
+The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
+
+40:3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said:
+because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his
+voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
+
+40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were
+upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into
+Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto
+thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is
+before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go,
+thither go.
+
+40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to
+Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of
+Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with
+him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto
+thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a
+reward, and let him go.
+
+40:6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and
+dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
+
+40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields,
+even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
+Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed
+unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of
+them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; 40:8 Then they
+came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
+Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of
+Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the
+son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
+
+40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them
+and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in
+the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with
+you.
+
+40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the
+Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer
+fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your
+cities that ye have taken.
+
+40:11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the
+Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that
+the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set
+over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan; 40:12 Even
+all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and
+came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine
+and summer fruits very much.
+
+40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
+forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, 40:14 And
+said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the
+Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But
+Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
+
+40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah
+secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the
+son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay
+thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be
+scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish? 40:16 But Gedaliah the
+son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do
+this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
+
+41:1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
+Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of
+the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
+to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
+
+41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that
+were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan
+with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made
+governor over the land.
+
+41:3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with
+Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the
+men of war.
+
+41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah,
+and no man knew it, 41:5 That there came certain from Shechem, from
+Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards
+shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with
+offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the
+LORD.
+
+41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet
+them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met
+them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
+
+41:7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that
+Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst
+of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
+
+41:8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us
+not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and
+of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their
+brethren.
+
+41:9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the
+men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king
+had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of
+Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
+
+41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people
+that were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people
+that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had
+committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of
+Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
+Ammonites.
+
+41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
+forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son
+of Nethaniah had done, 41:12 Then they took all the men, and went to
+fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great
+waters that are in Gibeon.
+
+41:13 Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with
+Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
+forces that were with him, then they were glad.
+
+41:14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from
+Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of
+Kareah.
+
+41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight
+men, and went to the Ammonites.
+
+41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
+forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had
+recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that
+he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and
+the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought
+again from Gibeon: 41:17 And they departed, and dwelt in the
+habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into
+Egypt, 41:18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,
+because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of
+Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
+
+42:1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of
+Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the
+least even unto the greatest, came near, 42:2 And said unto Jeremiah
+the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before
+thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this
+remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold
+us:) 42:3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may
+walk, and the thing that we may do.
+
+42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you;
+behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words;
+and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer
+you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
+
+42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful
+witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the
+which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
+
+42:6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice
+of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with
+us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.
+
+42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD
+came unto Jeremiah.
+
+42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
+the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even
+to the greatest, 42:9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God
+of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before
+him; 42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you,
+and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for
+I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
+
+42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be
+not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and
+to deliver you from his hand.
+
+42:12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon
+you, and cause you to return to your own land.
+
+42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the
+voice of the LORD your God, 42:14 Saying, No; but we will go into the
+land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the
+trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: 42:15 And
+now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus
+saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your
+faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; 42:16 Then it
+shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake
+you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were
+afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye
+shall die.
+
+42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into
+Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine,
+and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from
+the evil that I will bring upon them.
+
+42:18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine
+anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of
+Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall
+enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment,
+and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
+
+42:19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye
+not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
+
+42:20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD
+your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according
+unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we
+will do it.
+
+42:21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not
+obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he
+hath sent me unto you.
+
+42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by
+the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to
+go and to sojourn.
+
+43:1 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of
+speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for
+which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
+43:2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of
+Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest
+falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt
+to sojourn there: 43:3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on
+against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that
+they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
+
+43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,
+and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the
+land of Judah.
+
+43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
+forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all
+nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
+43:6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king’s daughters, and
+every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with
+Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the
+prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
+
+43:7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the
+voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
+
+43:8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
+saying, 43:9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the
+clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in
+Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; 43:10 And say unto them,
+Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send
+and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set
+his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his
+royal pavilion over them.
+
+43:11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and
+deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity
+to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
+
+43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and
+he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array
+himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment;
+and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
+
+43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the
+land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he
+burn with fire.
+
+44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which
+dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes,
+and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, 44:2 Thus saith
+the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I
+have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and,
+behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
+44:3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke
+me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other
+gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
+
+44:4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising
+early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that
+I hate.
+
+44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their
+wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
+
+44:6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was
+kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and
+they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
+
+44:7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of
+Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut
+off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave
+you none to remain; 44:8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the
+works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of
+Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off,
+and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of
+the earth? 44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and
+the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their
+wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives,
+which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of
+Jerusalem? 44:10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither
+have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set
+before you and before your fathers.
+
+44:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
+Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all
+Judah.
+
+44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces
+to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be
+consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed
+by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even
+unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be
+an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
+
+44:13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I
+have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
+pestilence: 44:14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone
+into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that
+they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a
+desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as
+shall escape.
+
+44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense
+unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude,
+even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros,
+answered Jeremiah, saying, 44:16 As for the word that thou hast spoken
+unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
+
+44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our
+own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out
+drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our
+kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
+Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw
+no evil.
+
+44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven,
+and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things,
+and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
+
+44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured
+out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her,
+and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? 44:20 Then
+Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and
+to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, 44:21 The
+incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
+Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the
+people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not
+into his mind? 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because
+of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye
+have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an
+astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
+
+44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned
+against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor
+walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies;
+therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
+
+44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the
+women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of
+Egypt: 44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying;
+Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled
+with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have
+vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
+offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely
+perform your vows.
+
+44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in
+the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the
+LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of
+Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
+
+44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and
+all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed
+by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
+
+44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the
+land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah,
+that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know
+whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
+
+44:29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will
+punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely
+stand against you for evil: 44:30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
+give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and
+into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of
+Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and
+that sought his life.
+
+45:1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of
+Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of
+Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
+Judah, saying, 45:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee,
+O Baruch: 45:3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added
+grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
+
+45:4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that
+which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I
+will pluck up, even this whole land.
+
+45:5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for,
+behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life
+will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
+
+46:1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against
+the Gentiles; 46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho
+king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which
+Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
+the son of Josiah king of Judah.
+
+46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
+
+46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with
+your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
+
+46:5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and
+their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not
+back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
+
+46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they
+shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
+
+46:7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as
+the rivers? 46:8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are
+moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the
+earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
+
+46:9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men
+come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield;
+and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
+
+46:10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of
+vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword
+shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:
+for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the
+river Euphrates.
+
+46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of
+Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be
+cured.
+
+46:12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the
+land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they
+are fallen both together.
+
+46:13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how
+Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of
+Egypt.
+
+46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph
+and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword
+shall devour round about thee.
+
+46:15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the
+LORD did drive them.
+
+46:16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said,
+Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our
+nativity, from the oppressing sword.
+
+46:17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he
+hath passed the time appointed.
+
+46:18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts,
+Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so
+shall he come.
+
+46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into
+captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
+
+46:20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it
+cometh out of the north.
+
+46:21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks;
+for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did
+not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and
+the time of their visitation.
+
+46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march
+with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
+
+46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot
+be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are
+innumerable.
+
+46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be
+delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
+
+46:25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will
+punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods,
+and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: 46:26
+And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives,
+and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand
+of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days
+of old, saith the LORD.
+
+46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O
+Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from
+the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest
+and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
+
+46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with
+thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have
+driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee
+in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
+
+47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against
+the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
+
+47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and
+shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all
+that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men
+shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
+
+47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,
+at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the
+fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
+47:4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and
+to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the
+LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of
+Caphtor.
+
+47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant
+of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? 47:6 O thou sword of
+the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into
+thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
+
+47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge
+against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed
+it.
+
+48:1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe
+unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken:
+Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
+
+48:2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have
+devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a
+nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue
+thee.
+
+48:3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
+destruction.
+
+48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
+
+48:5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for
+in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of
+destruction.
+
+48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
+
+48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures,
+thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity
+with his priests and his princes together.
+
+48:8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall
+escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be
+destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
+
+48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the
+cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
+
+48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and
+cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
+
+48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on
+his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither
+hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and
+his scent is not changed.
+
+48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
+send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall
+empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
+
+48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
+ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
+
+48:14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war? 48:15
+Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young
+men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the
+LORD of hosts.
+
+48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth
+fast.
+
+48:17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his
+name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!
+48:18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory,
+and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and
+he shall destroy thy strong holds.
+
+48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that
+fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? 48:20 Moab is
+confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon,
+that Moab is spoiled, 48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain
+country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, 48:22 And
+upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim, 48:23 And upon
+Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon, 48:24 And upon
+Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab,
+far or near.
+
+48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the
+LORD.
+
+48:26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD:
+Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
+
+48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among
+thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
+
+48:28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the
+rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the
+hole’s mouth.
+
+48:29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his
+loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of
+his heart.
+
+48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his
+lies shall not so effect it.
+
+48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab;
+mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
+
+48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of
+Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of
+Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy
+vintage.
+
+48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from
+the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses:
+none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
+
+48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz,
+have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an
+heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be
+desolate.
+
+48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that
+offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.
+
+48:36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine
+heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the
+riches that he hath gotten are perished.
+
+48:37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all
+the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
+
+48:38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of
+Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel
+wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
+
+48:39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab
+turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a
+dismaying to all them about him.
+
+48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and
+shall spread his wings over Moab.
+
+48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the
+mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a
+woman in her pangs.
+
+48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath
+magnified himself against the LORD.
+
+48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O
+inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
+
+48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he
+that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will
+bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the
+LORD.
+
+48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the
+force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from
+the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown
+of the head of the tumultuous ones.
+
+48:46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for
+thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
+
+48:47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days,
+saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
+
+49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no
+sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his
+people dwell in his cities? 49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come,
+saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in
+Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her
+daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto
+them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
+
+49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah,
+gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for
+their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes
+together.
+
+49:4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
+backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall
+come unto me? 49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the
+Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be
+driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that
+wandereth.
+
+49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of
+Ammon, saith the LORD.
+
+49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more
+in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
+vanished? 49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of
+Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I
+will visit him.
+
+49:9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some
+gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have
+enough.
+
+49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places,
+and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his
+brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
+
+49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and
+let thy widows trust in me.
+
+49:12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to
+drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall
+altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt
+surely drink of it.
+
+49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall
+become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the
+cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
+
+49:14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent
+unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her,
+and rise up to the battle.
+
+49:15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised
+among men.
+
+49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine
+heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest
+the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as
+the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
+
+49:17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it
+shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
+
+49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
+cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither
+shall a son of man dwell in it.
+
+49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan
+against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run
+away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her?
+for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that
+shepherd that will stand before me? 49:20 Therefore hear the counsel
+of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that
+he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of
+the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations
+desolate with them.
+
+49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the
+noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
+
+49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his
+wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men
+of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
+
+49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they
+have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
+sea; it cannot be quiet.
+
+49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear
+hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
+travail.
+
+49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 49:26
+Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
+war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall
+consume the palaces of Benhadad.
+
+49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which
+Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise
+ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
+
+49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall
+take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
+camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
+
+49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor,
+saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel
+against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
+
+49:31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without
+care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell
+alone.
+
+49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their
+cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the
+utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides
+thereof, saith the LORD.
+
+49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for
+ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
+
+49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against
+Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
+49:35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of
+Elam, the chief of their might.
+
+49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters
+of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there
+shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
+
+49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and
+before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them,
+even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after
+them, till I have consumed them: 49:38 And I will set my throne in
+Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the
+LORD.
+
+49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring
+again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
+
+50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land
+of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
+
+50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard;
+publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,
+Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are
+broken in pieces.
+
+50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which
+shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall
+remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
+
+50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of
+Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and
+weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
+
+50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward,
+saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual
+covenant that shall not be forgotten.
+
+50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them
+to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have
+gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
+
+50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries
+said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the
+habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
+
+50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land
+of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
+
+50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an
+assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set
+themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their
+arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
+
+50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
+satisfied, saith the LORD.
+
+50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of
+mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and
+bellow as bulls; 50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that
+bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall
+be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
+
+50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but
+it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be
+astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
+
+50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that
+bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned
+against the LORD.
+
+50:15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her
+foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the
+vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do
+unto her.
+
+50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle
+in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall
+turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own
+land.
+
+50:17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away:
+first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this
+Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
+
+50:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
+Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have
+punished the king of Assyria.
+
+50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall
+feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount
+Ephraim and Gilead.
+
+50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of
+Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of
+Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
+reserve.
+
+50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and
+against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after
+them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded
+thee.
+
+50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
+
+50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how
+is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 50:24 I have laid a
+snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not
+aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven
+against the LORD.
+
+50:25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the
+weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of
+hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
+
+50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses:
+cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be
+left.
+
+50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe
+unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
+
+50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of
+Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the
+vengeance of his temple.
+
+50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the
+bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense
+her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do
+unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy
+One of Israel.
+
+50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her
+men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
+
+50:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD
+of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
+
+50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise
+him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour
+all round about him.
+
+50:33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the
+children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them
+captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
+
+50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he
+shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land,
+and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
+
+50:35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the
+inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
+
+50:36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon
+her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
+
+50:37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon
+all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall
+become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be
+robbed.
+
+50:38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it
+is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
+
+50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of
+the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and
+it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in
+from generation to generation.
+
+50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
+thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall
+any son of man dwell therein.
+
+50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation,
+and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
+
+50:42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will
+not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall
+ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle,
+against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
+
+50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands
+waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in
+travail.
+
+50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan
+unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run
+away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her?
+for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that
+shepherd that will stand before me? 50:45 Therefore hear ye the
+counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his
+purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
+Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall
+make their habitation desolate with them.
+
+50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and
+the cry is heard among the nations.
+
+51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and
+against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me,
+a destroying wind; 51:2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall
+fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they
+shall be against her round about.
+
+51:3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against
+him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her
+young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
+
+51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they
+that are thrust through in her streets.
+
+51:5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the
+LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy
+One of Israel.
+
+51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul:
+be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’s
+vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
+
+51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all
+the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
+nations are mad.
+
+51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm
+for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
+
+51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her,
+and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment
+reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
+
+51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
+declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
+
+51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised
+up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against
+Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the
+vengeance of his temple.
+
+51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch
+strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath
+both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of
+Babylon.
+
+51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures,
+thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
+
+51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will
+fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a
+shout against thee.
+
+51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
+world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his
+understanding.
+
+51:16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in
+the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the
+earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out
+of his treasures.
+
+51:17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is
+confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
+there is no breath in them.
+
+51:18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their
+visitation they shall perish.
+
+51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of
+all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of
+hosts is his name.
+
+51:20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I
+break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
+51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
+and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 51:22
+With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee
+will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in
+pieces the young man and the maid; 51:23 I will also break in pieces
+with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in
+pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break
+in pieces captains and rulers.
+
+51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of
+Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,
+saith the LORD.
+
+51:25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the
+LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand
+upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a
+burnt mountain.
+
+51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a
+stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the
+LORD.
+
+51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the
+nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her
+the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain
+against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
+
+51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the
+captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his
+dominion.
+
+51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the
+LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a
+desolation without an inhabitant.
+
+51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have
+remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as
+women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
+
+51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
+another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one
+end, 51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have
+burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
+
+51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The
+daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh
+her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
+
+51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath
+crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up
+like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath
+cast me out.
+
+51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall
+the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of
+Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
+
+51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause,
+and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her
+springs dry.
+
+51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an
+astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
+
+51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’
+whelps.
+
+51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them
+drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not
+wake, saith the LORD.
+
+51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams
+with he goats.
+
+51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth
+surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
+51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the
+multitude of the waves thereof.
+
+51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a
+land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass
+thereby.
+
+51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of
+his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not
+flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
+
+51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every
+man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
+
+51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall
+be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after
+that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land,
+ruler against ruler.
+
+51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon
+the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded,
+and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
+
+51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall
+sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north,
+saith the LORD.
+
+51:49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
+Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
+
+51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:
+remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
+
+51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath
+covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the
+LORD’s house.
+
+51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do
+judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
+shall groan.
+
+51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should
+fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come
+unto her, saith the LORD.
+
+51:54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from
+the land of the Chaldeans: 51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled
+Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do
+roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: 51:56
+Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her
+mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD
+God of recompences shall surely requite.
+
+51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her
+captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a
+perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD
+of hosts.
+
+51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall
+be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and
+the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they
+shall be weary.
+
+51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of
+Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of
+Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah
+was a quiet prince.
+
+51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon
+Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
+
+51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and
+shalt see, and shalt read all these words; 51:62 Then shalt thou say,
+O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none
+shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be
+desolate for ever.
+
+51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this
+book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst
+of Euphrates: 51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and
+shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they
+shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
+
+52:1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
+he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was
+Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
+
+52:2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according
+to all that Jehoiakim had done.
+
+52:3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem
+and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah
+rebelled against the king of Babylon.
+
+52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
+month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of
+Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched
+against it, and built forts against it round about.
+
+52:5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
+
+52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the
+famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people
+of the land.
+
+52:7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and
+went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the
+two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by
+the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
+
+52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
+overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was
+scattered from him.
+
+52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of
+Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon
+him.
+
+52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his
+eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
+
+52:11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon
+bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison
+till the day of his death.
+
+52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was
+the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came
+Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon,
+into Jerusalem, 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s
+house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the
+great men, burned he with fire: 52:14 And all the army of the
+Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the
+walls of Jerusalem round about.
+
+52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
+certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that
+remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king
+of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
+
+52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the
+poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
+
+52:17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD,
+and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD,
+the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
+
+52:18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
+bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
+ministered, took they away.
+
+52:19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the
+caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that
+which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver,
+took the captain of the guard away.
+
+52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were
+under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD:
+the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
+
+52:21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was
+eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the
+thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
+
+52:22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one
+chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the
+chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the
+pomegranates were like unto these.
+
+52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all
+the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
+
+52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
+Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 52:25
+He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the
+men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person,
+which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host,
+who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people
+of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
+
+52:26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought
+them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
+
+52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in
+Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out
+of his own land.
+
+52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in
+the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: 52:29 In
+the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from
+Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: 52:30 In the three and
+twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
+carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons:
+all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
+
+52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
+captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the
+five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon
+in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king
+of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison.
+
+52:32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne
+of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 52:33 And changed his
+prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the
+days of his life.
+
+52:34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the
+king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all
+the days of his life.
+
+
+
+
+The Lamentations of Jeremiah
+
+
+1:1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is
+she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and
+princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! 1:2 She
+weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all
+her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt
+treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
+
+1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of
+great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:
+all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
+
+1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts:
+all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are
+afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
+
+1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD
+hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her
+children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
+
+1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her
+princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone
+without strength before the pursuer.
+
+1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her
+miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when
+her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the
+adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
+
+1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all
+that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:
+yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
+
+1:9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;
+therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD,
+behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
+
+1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant
+things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,
+whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy
+congregation.
+
+1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their
+pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and
+consider; for I am become vile.
+
+1:12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if
+there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me,
+wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
+
+1:13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth
+against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me
+back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
+
+1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are
+wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall,
+the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able
+to rise up.
+
+1:15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst
+of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men:
+the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a
+winepress.
+
+1:16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with
+water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from
+me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
+
+1:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her:
+the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should
+be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
+
+1:18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his
+commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my
+virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
+
+1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine
+elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to
+relieve their souls.
+
+1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled;
+mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad
+the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
+
+1:21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all
+mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast
+done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall
+be like unto me.
+
+1:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as
+thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are
+many, and my heart is faint.
+
+2:1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
+anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,
+and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 2:2 The
+LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not
+pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the
+daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath
+polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
+
+2:3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he
+hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned
+against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
+
+2:4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand
+as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the
+tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
+
+2:5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath
+swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and
+hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
+
+2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of
+a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath
+caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and
+hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
+
+2:7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,
+he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;
+they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a
+solemn feast.
+
+2:8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
+Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand
+from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament;
+they languished together.
+
+2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken
+her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is
+no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
+
+2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep
+silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded
+themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
+heads to the ground.
+
+2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is
+poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my
+people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of
+the city.
+
+2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they
+swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was
+poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
+
+2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I
+liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee,
+that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is
+great like the sea: who can heal thee? 2:14 Thy prophets have seen
+vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine
+iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false
+burdens and causes of banishment.
+
+2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag
+their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that
+men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 2:16
+All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and
+gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is
+the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
+
+2:17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled
+his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown
+down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice
+over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
+
+2:18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion,
+let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest;
+let not the apple of thine eye cease.
+
+2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour
+out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy
+hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for
+hunger in the top of every street.
+
+2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall
+the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the
+priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? 2:21
+The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and
+my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day
+of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
+
+2:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so
+that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those
+that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
+
+3:1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
+
+3:2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
+
+3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all
+the day.
+
+3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
+
+3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and
+travail.
+
+3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
+
+3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my
+chain heavy.
+
+3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
+
+3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths
+crooked.
+
+3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret
+places.
+
+3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath
+made me desolate.
+
+3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
+
+3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
+
+3:14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
+
+3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with
+wormwood.
+
+3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered
+me with ashes.
+
+3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat
+prosperity.
+
+3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
+3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the
+gall.
+
+3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
+
+3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
+
+3:22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his
+compassions fail not.
+
+3:23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
+
+3:24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in
+him.
+
+3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that
+seeketh him.
+
+3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the
+salvation of the LORD.
+
+3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
+
+3:28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it
+upon him.
+
+3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
+
+3:30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full
+with reproach.
+
+3:31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever: 3:32 But though he cause
+grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his
+mercies.
+
+3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
+
+3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
+
+3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most
+High, 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
+
+3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord
+commandeth it not? 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth
+not evil and good? 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man
+for the punishment of his sins? 3:40 Let us search and try our ways,
+and turn again to the LORD.
+
+3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
+
+3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
+
+3:43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain,
+thou hast not pitied.
+
+3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should
+not pass through.
+
+3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of
+the people.
+
+3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
+
+3:47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
+
+3:48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of
+the daughter of my people.
+
+3:49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any
+intermission.
+
+3:50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
+
+3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my
+city.
+
+3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
+
+3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon
+me.
+
+3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
+
+3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
+
+3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at
+my cry.
+
+3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou
+saidst, Fear not.
+
+3:58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast
+redeemed my life.
+
+3:59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
+
+3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations
+against me.
+
+3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their
+imaginations against me; 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against
+me, and their device against me all the day.
+
+3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their
+musick.
+
+3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of
+their hands.
+
+3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
+
+3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the
+LORD.
+
+4:1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the
+stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
+
+4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they
+esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
+4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their
+young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the
+ostriches in the wilderness.
+
+4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth
+for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto
+them.
+
+4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they
+that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
+
+4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is
+greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown
+as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
+
+4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,
+they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of
+sapphire: 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known
+in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it
+is become like a stick.
+
+4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be
+slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of
+the fruits of the field.
+
+4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children:
+they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
+
+4:11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his
+fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured
+the foundations thereof.
+
+4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world,
+would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have
+entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
+
+4:13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests,
+that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 4:14 They
+have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted
+themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
+
+4:15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart,
+touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the
+heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
+
+4:16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard
+them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not
+the elders.
+
+4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our
+watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
+
+4:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is
+near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
+
+4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they
+pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the
+wilderness.
+
+4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken
+in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among
+the heathen.
+
+4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the
+land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be
+drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
+
+4:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of
+Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit
+thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
+
+5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our
+reproach.
+
+5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
+
+5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
+
+5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
+
+5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
+
+5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to
+be satisfied with bread.
+
+5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their
+iniquities.
+
+5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us
+out of their hand.
+
+5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword
+of the wilderness.
+
+5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
+
+5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of
+Judah.
+
+5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not
+honoured.
+
+5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the
+wood.
+
+5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
+musick.
+
+5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
+mourning.
+
+5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have
+sinned! 5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes
+are dim.
+
+5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes
+walk upon it.
+
+5:19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to
+generation.
+
+5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long
+time? 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;
+renew our days as of old.
+
+5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel
+
+
+1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month,
+in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river
+of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
+
+1:2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king
+Jehoiachin’s captivity, 1:3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto
+Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by
+the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
+
+1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a
+great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about
+it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the
+midst of the fire.
+
+1:5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living
+creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a
+man.
+
+1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
+
+1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was
+like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of
+burnished brass.
+
+1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four
+sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
+
+1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they
+went; they went every one straight forward.
+
+1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a
+man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the
+face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an
+eagle.
+
+1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two
+wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their
+bodies.
+
+1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was
+to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
+
+1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was
+like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went
+up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and
+out of the fire went forth lightning.
+
+1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a
+flash of lightning.
+
+1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the
+earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
+
+1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the
+colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their
+appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a
+wheel.
+
+1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned
+not when they went.
+
+1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful;
+and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
+
+1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and
+when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
+were lifted up.
+
+1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their
+spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the
+spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
+
+1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood;
+and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted
+up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
+wheels.
+
+1:22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living
+creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth
+over their heads above.
+
+1:23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward
+the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every
+one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
+
+1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the
+noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of
+speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their
+wings.
+
+1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their
+heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
+
+1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the
+likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon
+the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man
+above upon it.
+
+1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round
+about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and
+from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the
+appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
+
+1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of
+rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was
+the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I
+saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
+
+2:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will
+speak unto thee.
+
+2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me
+upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
+
+2:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of
+Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and
+their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
+
+2:4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee
+unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
+
+2:5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear,
+(for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been
+a prophet among them.
+
+2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of
+their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost
+dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed
+at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
+
+2:7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear,
+or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
+
+2:8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou
+rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I
+give thee.
+
+2:9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a
+roll of a book was therein; 2:10 And he spread it before me; and it
+was written within and without: and there was written therein
+lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
+
+3:1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat
+this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
+
+3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
+
+3:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill
+thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it
+was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
+
+3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of
+Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
+
+3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an
+hard language, but to the house of Israel; 3:6 Not to many people of a
+strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not
+understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened
+unto thee.
+
+3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will
+not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and
+hardhearted.
+
+3:8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy
+forehead strong against their foreheads.
+
+3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear
+them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a
+rebellious house.
+
+3:10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
+speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
+
+3:11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of
+thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord
+GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
+
+3:12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a
+great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his
+place.
+
+3:13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that
+touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them,
+and a noise of a great rushing.
+
+3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
+bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was
+strong upon me.
+
+3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by
+the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there
+astonished among them seven days.
+
+3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of
+the LORD came unto me, saying, 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a
+watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my
+mouth, and give them warning from me.
+
+3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou
+givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his
+wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his
+iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
+
+3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness,
+nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast
+delivered thy soul.
+
+3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and
+commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die:
+because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and
+his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his
+blood will I require at thine hand.
+
+3:21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous
+sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is
+warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
+
+3:22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me,
+Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
+
+3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the
+glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river
+of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
+
+3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and
+spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
+
+3:25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee,
+and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
+3:26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that
+thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are
+a rebellious house.
+
+3:27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt
+say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear;
+and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious
+house.
+
+4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee,
+and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 4:2 And lay siege
+against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it;
+set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round
+about.
+
+4:3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of
+iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it
+shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be
+a sign to the house of Israel.
+
+4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the
+house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou
+shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
+
+4:5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according
+to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt
+thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
+
+4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side,
+and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I
+have appointed thee each day for a year.
+
+4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
+and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
+
+4:8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn
+thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy
+siege.
+
+4:9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
+lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and
+make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou
+shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat
+thereof.
+
+4:10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty
+shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
+
+4:11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin:
+from time to time shalt thou drink.
+
+4:12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it
+with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
+
+4:13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat
+their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
+
+4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted:
+for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which
+dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable
+flesh into my mouth.
+
+4:15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s
+dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
+
+4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the
+staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and
+with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with
+astonishment: 4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied
+one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
+
+5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
+barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy
+beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
+
+5:2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city,
+when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third
+part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt
+scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
+
+5:3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy
+skirts.
+
+5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire,
+and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into
+all the house of Israel.
+
+5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the
+midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
+
+5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the
+nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about
+her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not
+walked in them.
+
+5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than
+the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my
+statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according
+to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 5:8
+Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee,
+and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the
+nations.
+
+5:9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I
+will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
+
+5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee,
+and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in
+thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
+
+5:11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou
+hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all
+thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall
+mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
+
+5:12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with
+famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part
+shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third
+part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
+
+5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury
+to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I
+the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury
+in them.
+
+5:14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations
+that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
+
+5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
+astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall
+execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes.
+I the LORD have spoken it.
+
+5:16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which
+shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you:
+and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of
+bread: 5:17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they
+shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;
+and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
+
+6:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 6:2 Son of man, set
+thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
+6:3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD;
+Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the
+rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon
+you, and I will destroy your high places.
+
+6:4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be
+broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
+
+6:5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before
+their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
+
+6:6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the
+high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and
+made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images
+may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
+
+6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know
+that I am the LORD.
+
+6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall
+escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through
+the countries.
+
+6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations
+whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their
+whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which
+go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for
+the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
+
+6:10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said
+in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
+
+6:11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with
+thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of
+Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
+pestilence.
+
+6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is
+near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged
+shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
+
+6:13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall
+be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill,
+in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and
+under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to
+all their idols.
+
+6:14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land
+desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in
+all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 7:2 Also, thou
+son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end,
+the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
+
+7:3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon
+thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense
+upon thee all thine abominations.
+
+7:4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I
+will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in
+the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+7:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
+
+7:6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it
+is come.
+
+7:7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land:
+the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding
+again of the mountains.
+
+7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine
+anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
+recompense thee for all thine abominations.
+
+7:9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
+recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are
+in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that
+smiteth.
+
+7:10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth;
+the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
+
+7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall
+remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall
+there be wailing for them.
+
+7:12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
+rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude
+thereof.
+
+7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although
+they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude
+thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself
+in the iniquity of his life.
+
+7:14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none
+goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
+
+7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within:
+he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in
+the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
+
+7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the
+mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one
+for his iniquity.
+
+7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
+
+7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall
+cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all
+their heads.
+
+7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall
+be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver
+them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their
+souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of
+their iniquity.
+
+7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they
+made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things
+therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
+
+7:21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,
+and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
+
+7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my
+secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
+
+7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city
+is full of violence.
+
+7:24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall
+possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to
+cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
+
+7:25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be
+none.
+
+7:26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
+rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law
+shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
+
+7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
+desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled:
+I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts
+will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the
+fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of
+Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
+
+8:2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from
+the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins
+even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
+
+8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of
+mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the
+heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door
+of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of
+the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
+
+8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according
+to the vision that I saw in the plain.
+
+8:5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way
+toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north,
+and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy
+in the entry.
+
+8:6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do?
+even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here,
+that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again,
+and thou shalt see greater abominations.
+
+8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
+behold a hole in the wall.
+
+8:8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I
+had digged in the wall, behold a door.
+
+8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations
+that they do here.
+
+8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things,
+and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
+pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
+
+8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the
+house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of
+Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of
+incense went up.
+
+8:12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
+ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the
+chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD
+hath forsaken the earth.
+
+8:13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see
+greater abominations that they do.
+
+8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’s house
+which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for
+Tammuz.
+
+8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn
+thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
+
+8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and,
+behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and
+the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the
+temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they
+worshipped the sun toward the east.
+
+8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a
+light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations
+which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence,
+and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch
+to their nose.
+
+8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare,
+neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud
+voice, yet will I not hear them.
+
+9:1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them
+that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his
+destroying weapon in his hand.
+
+9:2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which
+lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand;
+and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn
+by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
+
+9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
+whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the
+man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side;
+9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city,
+through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of
+the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done
+in the midst thereof.
+
+9:5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through
+the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 9:6
+Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and
+women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at
+my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the
+house.
+
+9:7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with
+the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
+
+9:8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left,
+that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou
+destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon
+Jerusalem? 9:9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of
+Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood,
+and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath
+forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
+
+9:10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have
+pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
+
+9:11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by
+his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast
+commanded me.
+
+10:1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the
+head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire
+stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
+
+10:2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in
+between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with
+coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the
+city. And he went in in my sight.
+
+10:3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the
+man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
+
+10:4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood
+over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the
+cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s glory.
+
+10:5 And the sound of the cherubims’ wings was heard even to the outer
+court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
+
+10:6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed
+with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between
+the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
+
+10:7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
+cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took
+thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen:
+who took it, and went out.
+
+10:8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man’s hand
+under their wings.
+
+10:9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one
+wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the
+appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
+
+10:10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if
+a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
+
+10:11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not
+as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed
+it; they turned not as they went.
+
+10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and
+their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the
+wheels that they four had.
+
+10:13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O
+wheel.
+
+10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a
+cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the
+face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
+
+10:15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature
+that I saw by the river of Chebar.
+
+10:16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when
+the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the
+same wheels also turned not from beside them.
+
+10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,
+these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature
+was in them.
+
+10:18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of
+the house, and stood over the cherubims.
+
+10:19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the
+earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside
+them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’s
+house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
+
+10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel
+by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
+
+10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and
+the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
+
+10:22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw
+by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went
+every one straight forward.
+
+11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east
+gate of the LORD’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the
+door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the
+son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
+
+11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise
+mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 11:3 Which say, It is
+not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the
+flesh.
+
+11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
+
+11:5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak;
+Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know
+the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
+
+11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled
+the streets thereof with the slain.
+
+11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid
+in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron:
+but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
+
+11:8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,
+saith the Lord GOD.
+
+11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you
+into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
+
+11:10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of
+Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the
+flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of
+Israel: 11:12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not
+walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done
+after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
+
+11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
+Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud
+voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant
+of Israel? 11:14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
+11:15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy
+kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us
+is this land given in possession.
+
+11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast
+them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them
+among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in
+the countries where they shall come.
+
+11:17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you
+from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have
+been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
+
+11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the
+detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from
+thence.
+
+11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit
+within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and
+will give them an heart of flesh: 11:20 That they may walk in my
+statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my
+people, and I will be their God.
+
+11:21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their
+detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way
+upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+11:22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels
+beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
+
+11:23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city,
+and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
+
+11:24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by
+the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the
+vision that I had seen went up from me.
+
+11:25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the
+LORD had shewed me.
+
+12:1 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, 12:2 Son of man,
+thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to
+see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a
+rebellious house.
+
+12:3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and
+remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to
+another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though
+they be a rebellious house.
+
+12:4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as
+stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as
+they that go forth into captivity.
+
+12:5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
+
+12:6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry
+it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not
+the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
+
+12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day,
+as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with
+mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my
+shoulder in their sight.
+
+12:8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
+12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house,
+said unto thee, What doest thou? 12:10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith
+the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all
+the house of Israel that are among them.
+
+12:11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done
+unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
+
+12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder
+in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall
+to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the
+ground with his eyes.
+
+12:13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my
+snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;
+yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
+
+12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to
+help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
+
+12:15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter
+them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
+
+12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the
+famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their
+abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know
+that I am the LORD.
+
+12:17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12:18 Son of
+man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling
+and with carefulness; 12:19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus
+saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of
+Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their
+water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that
+is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
+
+12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the
+land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+12:21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12:22 Son of man,
+what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The
+days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? 12:23 Tell them
+therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease,
+and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto
+them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
+
+12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
+divination within the house of Israel.
+
+12:25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak
+shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O
+rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the
+Lord GOD.
+
+12:26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
+
+12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision
+that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the
+times that are far off.
+
+12:28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall
+none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have
+spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+13:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 13:2 Son of man,
+prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou
+unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of
+the LORD; 13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets,
+that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 13:4 O Israel,
+thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
+
+13:5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for
+the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
+
+13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD
+saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to
+hope that they would confirm the word.
+
+13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying
+divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not
+spoken? 13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have
+spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
+saith the Lord GOD.
+
+13:9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
+that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people,
+neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel,
+neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know
+that I am the Lord GOD.
+
+13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
+Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo,
+others daubed it with untempered morter: 13:11 Say unto them which
+daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an
+overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a
+stormy wind shall rend it.
+
+13:12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you,
+Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? 13:13 Therefore
+thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my
+fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and
+great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
+
+13:14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with
+untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the
+foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye
+shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am
+the LORD.
+
+13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them
+that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The
+wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; 13:16 To wit, the
+prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see
+visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+13:17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of
+thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou
+against them, 13:18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women
+that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of
+every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and
+will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? 13:19 And will ye
+pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of
+bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls
+alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your
+lies? 13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
+your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and
+I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the
+souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
+
+13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
+your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye
+shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad,
+whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked,
+that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
+13:23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations:
+for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that
+I am the LORD.
+
+14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before
+me.
+
+14:2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 14:3 Son of man,
+these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the
+stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be
+enquired of at all by them? 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say
+unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel
+that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock
+of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD
+will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
+14:5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because
+they are all estranged from me through their idols.
+
+14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
+Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces
+from all your abominations.
+
+14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
+sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up
+his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity
+before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning
+me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: 14:8 And I will set my face
+against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will
+cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am
+the LORD.
+
+14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the
+LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon
+him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
+
+14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the
+punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that
+seeketh unto him; 14:11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray
+from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions;
+but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+14:12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 14:13 Son of man,
+when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will
+I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread
+thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast
+from it: 14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in
+it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
+saith the Lord GOD.
+
+14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they
+spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because
+of the beasts: 14:16 Though these three men were in it, as I live,
+saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters;
+they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
+
+14:17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through
+the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: 14:18 Though these
+three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall
+deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered
+themselves.
+
+14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury
+upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 14:20 Though Noah,
+Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall
+deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own
+souls by their righteousness.
+
+14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four
+sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the
+noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
+14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
+brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth
+unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be
+comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even
+concerning all that I have brought upon it.
+
+14:23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their
+doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that
+I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+15:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 15:2 Son of man,
+what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is
+among the trees of the forest? 15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do
+any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
+15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth
+both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any
+work? 15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how
+much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath
+devoured it, and it is burned? 15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord
+GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have
+given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of
+Jerusalem.
+
+15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one
+fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am
+the LORD, when I set my face against them.
+
+15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
+trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 16:2 Son of man,
+cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 16:3 And say, Thus saith the
+Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of
+Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
+
+16:4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was
+not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast
+not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
+
+16:5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
+compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the
+lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
+
+16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own
+blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said
+unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
+
+16:7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou
+hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent
+ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas
+thou wast naked and bare.
+
+16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time
+was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy
+nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with
+thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
+
+16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy
+blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
+
+16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with
+badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered
+thee with silk.
+
+16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy
+hands, and a chain on thy neck.
+
+16:12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears,
+and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
+
+16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was
+of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine
+flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou
+didst prosper into a kingdom.
+
+16:14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for
+it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith
+the Lord GOD.
+
+16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the
+harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on
+every one that passed by; his it was.
+
+16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high
+places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the
+like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
+
+16:17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
+silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men,
+and didst commit whoredom with them, 16:18 And tookest thy broidered
+garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine
+incense before them.
+
+16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
+wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
+savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou
+hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be
+devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, 16:21 That thou
+hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass
+through the fire for them? 16:22 And in all thine abominations and
+thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when
+thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
+
+16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto
+thee! saith the LORD GOD;) 16:24 That thou hast also built unto thee
+an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
+
+16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and
+hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every
+one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
+
+16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
+neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to
+provoke me to anger.
+
+16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and
+have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will
+of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are
+ashamed of thy lewd way.
+
+16:28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou
+wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet
+couldest not be satisfied.
+
+16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of
+Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.
+
+16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest
+all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; 16:31 In
+that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and
+makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an
+harlot, in that thou scornest hire; 16:32 But as a wife that
+committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
+16:33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all
+thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every
+side for thy whoredom.
+
+16:34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms,
+whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou
+givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art
+contrary.
+
+16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: 16:36 Thus saith
+the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness
+discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the
+idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which
+thou didst give unto them; 16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all
+thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou
+hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather
+them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto
+them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
+
+16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed
+blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
+
+16:39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw
+down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they
+shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels,
+and leave thee naked and bare.
+
+16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall
+stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
+
+16:41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute
+judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee
+to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any
+more.
+
+16:42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy
+shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more
+angry.
+
+16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast
+fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will
+recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt
+not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
+
+16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb
+against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
+
+16:45 Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her
+children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their
+husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your
+father an Amorite.
+
+16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that
+dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy
+right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
+
+16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their
+abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast
+corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
+
+16:48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done,
+she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
+
+16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
+fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her
+daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
+
+16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
+therefore I took them away as I saw good.
+
+16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast
+multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy
+sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
+
+16:52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame
+for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they
+are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear
+thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
+
+16:53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom
+and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters,
+then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of
+them: 16:54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
+confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto
+them.
+
+16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their
+former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their
+former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former
+estate.
+
+16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day
+of thy pride, 16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the
+time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round
+about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round
+about.
+
+16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the
+LORD.
+
+16:59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou
+hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
+
+16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days
+of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
+
+16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou
+shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will
+give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
+
+16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know
+that I am the LORD: 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be
+confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame,
+when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the
+Lord GOD.
+
+17:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17:2 Son of man,
+put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; 17:3
+And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings,
+longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto
+Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: 17:4 He cropped off
+the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he
+set it in a city of merchants.
+
+17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a
+fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow
+tree.
+
+17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose
+branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so
+it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
+
+17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many
+feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and
+shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the
+furrows of her plantation.
+
+17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might
+bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a
+goodly vine.
+
+17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not
+pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it
+wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without
+great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
+
+17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
+utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the
+furrows where it grew.
+
+17:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17:12 Say
+now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell
+them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken
+the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to
+Babylon; 17:13 And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant
+with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty
+of the land: 17:14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not
+lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
+
+17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
+Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he
+prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the
+covenant, and be delivered? 17:16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD,
+surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose
+oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the
+midst of Babylon he shall die.
+
+17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
+make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to
+cut off many persons: 17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking
+the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these
+things, he shall not escape.
+
+17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath
+that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it
+will I recompense upon his own head.
+
+17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my
+snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there
+for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
+
+17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the
+sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and
+ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
+
+17:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch
+of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of
+his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain
+and eminent: 17:23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I
+plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a
+goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the
+shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
+
+17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have
+brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up
+the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD
+have spoken and have done it.
+
+18:1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, 18:2 What mean
+ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
+The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set
+on edge? 18:3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have
+occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
+
+18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also
+the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
+
+18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, 18:6
+And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes
+to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his
+neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, 18:7
+And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his
+pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the
+hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; 18:8 He that hath
+not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath
+withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between
+man and man, 18:9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my
+judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the
+Lord GOD.
+
+18:10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that
+doeth the like to any one of these things, 18:11 And that doeth not
+any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and
+defiled his neighbour’s wife, 18:12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy,
+hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath
+lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, 18:13
+Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then
+live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall
+surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
+
+18:14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins
+which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, 18:15
+That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his
+eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his
+neighbour’s wife, 18:16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not
+withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath
+given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a
+garment, 18:17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath
+not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath
+walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his
+father, he shall surely live.
+
+18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his
+brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people,
+lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
+
+18:19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the
+father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and
+hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
+
+18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the
+iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of
+the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the
+wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
+
+18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
+committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
+right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
+
+18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be
+mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall
+live.
+
+18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the
+Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
+18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
+committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that
+the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he
+hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath
+trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
+
+18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house
+of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? 18:26 When
+a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
+iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall
+he die.
+
+18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that
+he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall
+save his soul alive.
+
+18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his
+transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall
+not die.
+
+18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal.
+O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
+18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one
+according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves
+from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
+
+18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
+transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will
+ye die, O house of Israel? 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death
+of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and
+live ye.
+
+19:1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
+19:2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions,
+she nourished her whelps among young lions.
+
+19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and
+it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
+
+19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and
+they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
+
+19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then
+she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
+
+19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion,
+and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
+
+19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their
+cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the
+noise of his roaring.
+
+19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
+provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
+
+19:9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king
+of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more
+be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
+
+19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters:
+she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
+
+19:11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule,
+and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared
+in her height with the multitude of her branches.
+
+19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground,
+and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and
+withered; the fire consumed them.
+
+19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty
+ground.
+
+19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath
+devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to
+rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
+
+20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the
+tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to
+enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
+
+20:2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 20:3 Son of man,
+speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the
+Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD,
+I will not be enquired of by you.
+
+20:4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause
+them to know the abominations of their fathers: 20:5 And say unto
+them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and
+lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made
+myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine
+hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; 20:6 In the day that I
+lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of
+Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and
+honey, which is the glory of all lands: 20:7 Then said I unto them,
+Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not
+yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
+
+20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they
+did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither
+did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my
+fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of
+the land of Egypt.
+
+20:9 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted
+before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself
+known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
+
+20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
+and brought them into the wilderness.
+
+20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which
+if a man do, he shall even live in them.
+
+20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me
+and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
+
+20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
+they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which
+if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly
+polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the
+wilderness, to consume them.
+
+20:14 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted
+before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
+
+20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I
+would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing
+with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 20:16 Because
+they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but
+polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
+
+20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither
+did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
+
+20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in
+the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor
+defile yourselves with their idols: 20:19 I am the LORD your God; walk
+in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; 20:20 And hallow
+my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may
+know that I am the LORD your God.
+
+20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked
+not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a
+man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I
+said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger
+against them in the wilderness.
+
+20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s
+sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in
+whose sight I brought them forth.
+
+20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I
+would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the
+countries; 20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had
+despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes
+were after their fathers’ idols.
+
+20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and
+judgments whereby they should not live; 20:26 And I polluted them in
+their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that
+openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that
+they might know that I am the LORD.
+
+20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say
+unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have
+blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
+
+20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I
+lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill,
+and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and
+there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also
+they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink
+offerings.
+
+20:29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go?
+And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.
+
+20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
+Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye
+whoredom after their abominations? 20:31 For when ye offer your
+gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute
+yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be
+enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD,
+I will not be enquired of by you.
+
+20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that
+ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries,
+to serve wood and stone.
+
+20:33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and
+with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over
+you: 20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather
+you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand,
+and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
+
+20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and
+there will I plead with you face to face.
+
+20:36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the
+land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you
+into the bond of the covenant: 20:38 And I will purge out from among
+you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them
+forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter
+into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye,
+serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not
+hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts,
+and with your idols.
+
+20:40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
+Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all
+of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there
+will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations,
+with all your holy things.
+
+20:41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out
+from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have
+been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
+
+20:42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you
+into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up
+mine hand to give it to your fathers.
+
+20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,
+wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your
+own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
+
+20:44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with
+you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor
+according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+20:45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 20:46 Son of
+man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the
+south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 20:47 And
+say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith
+the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall
+devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame
+shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall
+be burned therein.
+
+20:48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it
+shall not be quenched.
+
+20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
+parables? 21:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21:2
+Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward
+the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, 21:3 And say
+to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee,
+and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from
+thee the righteous and the wicked.
+
+21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
+wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against
+all flesh from the south to the north: 21:5 That all flesh may know
+that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall
+not return any more.
+
+21:6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins;
+and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
+
+21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou?
+that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every
+heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit
+shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh,
+and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+21:8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21:9 Son of man,
+prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is
+sharpened, and also furbished: 21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore
+slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make
+mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
+
+21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled:
+this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand
+of the slayer.
+
+21:12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it
+shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the
+sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
+
+21:13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the
+rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+21:14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands
+together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of
+the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which
+entereth into their privy chambers.
+
+21:15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that
+their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made
+bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
+
+21:16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the
+left, whithersoever thy face is set.
+
+21:17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury
+to rest: I the LORD have said it.
+
+21:18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, 21:19 Also,
+thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of
+Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and
+choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
+
+21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the
+Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
+
+21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the
+head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he
+consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
+
+21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint
+captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice
+with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a
+mount, and to build a fort.
+
+21:23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight,
+to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the
+iniquity, that they may be taken.
+
+21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your
+iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered,
+so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that
+ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
+
+21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come,
+when iniquity shall have an end, 21:26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove
+the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt
+him that is low, and abase him that is high.
+
+21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no
+more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
+
+21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD
+concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say
+thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is
+furbished, to consume because of the glittering: 21:29 Whiles they see
+vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee
+upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is
+come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
+
+21:30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in
+the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
+
+21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow
+against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand
+of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
+
+21:32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the
+midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD
+have spoken it.
+
+22:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22:2 Now,
+thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?
+yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
+
+22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood
+in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against
+herself to defile herself.
+
+22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast
+defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast
+caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years:
+therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking
+to all countries.
+
+22:5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock
+thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
+
+22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their
+power to shed blood.
+
+22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of
+thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have
+they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
+
+22:8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my
+sabbaths.
+
+22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they
+eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
+
+22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee
+have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
+
+22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife;
+and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in
+thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
+
+22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken
+usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by
+extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain
+which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of
+thee.
+
+22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the
+days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will
+do it.
+
+22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in
+the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
+
+22:16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of
+the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
+
+22:17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22:18 Son of man,
+the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and
+tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even
+the dross of silver.
+
+22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become
+dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of
+Jerusalem.
+
+22:20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,
+into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it;
+so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave
+you there, and melt you.
+
+22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my
+wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.
+
+22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be
+melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have
+poured out my fury upon you.
+
+22:23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22:24 Son of man,
+say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon
+in the day of indignation.
+
+22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like
+a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have
+taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows
+in the midst thereof.
+
+22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy
+things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane,
+neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean,
+and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among
+them.
+
+22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the
+prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
+
+22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing
+vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD,
+when the LORD hath not spoken.
+
+22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised
+robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed
+the stranger wrongfully.
+
+22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the
+hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not
+destroy it: but I found none.
+
+22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have
+consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I
+recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 23:2 Son of man,
+there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 23:3 And they
+committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth:
+there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of
+their virginity.
+
+23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her
+sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus
+were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
+
+23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on
+her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, 23:6 Which were clothed
+with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men,
+horsemen riding upon horses.
+
+23:7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that
+were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with
+all their idols she defiled herself.
+
+23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her
+youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her
+virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
+
+23:9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into
+the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
+
+23:10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her
+daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among
+women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
+
+23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in
+her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her
+sister in her whoredoms.
+
+23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers
+clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them
+desirable young men.
+
+23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
+23:14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men
+pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with
+vermilion, 23:15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in
+dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after
+the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
+23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them,
+and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
+
+23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they
+defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and
+her mind was alienated from them.
+
+23:18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness:
+then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated
+from her sister.
+
+23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the
+days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of
+Egypt.
+
+23:20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh
+of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
+
+23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in
+bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
+
+23:22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
+raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and
+I will bring them against thee on every side; 23:23 The Babylonians,
+and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians
+with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great
+lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
+
+23:24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and
+wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee
+buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment
+before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
+
+23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal
+furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and
+thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy
+daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
+
+23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy
+fair jewels.
+
+23:27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy
+whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift
+up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
+
+23:28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into
+the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy
+mind is alienated: 23:29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and
+shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare:
+and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy
+lewdness and thy whoredoms.
+
+23:30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a
+whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their
+idols.
+
+23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give
+her cup into thine hand.
+
+23:32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup
+deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it
+containeth much.
+
+23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup
+of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
+
+23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break
+the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken
+it, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten
+me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness
+and thy whoredoms.
+
+23:36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge
+Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 23:37
+That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and
+with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused
+their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire,
+to devour them.
+
+23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my
+sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
+
+23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they
+came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have
+they done in the midst of mine house.
+
+23:40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far,
+unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou
+didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with
+ornaments, 23:41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared
+before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
+
+23:42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with
+the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness,
+which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their
+heads.
+
+23:43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now
+commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? 23:44 Yet they went in
+unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went
+they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
+
+23:45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of
+adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because
+they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
+
+23:46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon
+them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
+
+23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them
+with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and
+burn up their houses with fire.
+
+23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all
+women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
+
+23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall
+bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
+
+24:1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of
+the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:2 Son of man,
+write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of
+Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
+
+24:3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them,
+Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water
+into it: 24:4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good
+piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
+
+24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it,
+and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
+
+24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the
+pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring
+it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
+
+24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of
+a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; 24:8
+That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her
+blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
+
+24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will
+even make the pile for fire great.
+
+24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it
+well, and let the bones be burned.
+
+24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it
+may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten
+in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
+
+24:12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not
+forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
+
+24:13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and
+thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any
+more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
+
+24:14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do
+it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent;
+according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge
+thee, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+24:15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:16 Son of
+man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a
+stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears
+run down.
+
+24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of
+thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover
+not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
+
+24:18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife
+died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
+
+24:19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these
+things are to us, that thou doest so? 24:20 Then I answered them, The
+word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:21 Speak unto the house of
+Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary,
+the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that
+which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have
+left shall fall by the sword.
+
+24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips,
+nor eat the bread of men.
+
+24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon
+your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for
+your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
+
+24:24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath
+done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the
+Lord GOD.
+
+24:25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take
+from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their
+eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their
+daughters, 24:26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto
+thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? 24:27 In that day
+shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt
+speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and
+they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+25:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 25:2 Son of man,
+set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; 25:3
+And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith
+the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it
+was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate;
+and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; 25:4
+Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a
+possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their
+dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy
+milk.
+
+25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a
+couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+25:6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine
+hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy
+despite against the land of Israel; 25:7 Behold, therefore I will
+stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to
+the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause
+thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou
+shalt know that I am the LORD.
+
+25:8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say,
+Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; 25:9
+Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from
+his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country,
+Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, 25:10 Unto the men of the
+east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the
+Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
+
+25:11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that
+I am the LORD.
+
+25:12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against
+the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and
+revenged himself upon them; 25:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I
+will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and
+beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of
+Dedan shall fall by the sword.
+
+25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people
+Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and
+according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+25:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by
+revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy
+it for the old hatred; 25:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
+Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will
+cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
+
+25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious
+rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my
+vengeance upon them.
+
+26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the
+month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 26:2 Son of
+man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is
+broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I
+shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 26:3 Therefore thus saith
+the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many
+nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come
+up.
+
+26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her
+towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the
+top of a rock.
+
+26:5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the
+sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a
+spoil to the nations.
+
+26:6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the
+sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+26:7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
+Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with
+horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much
+people.
+
+26:8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he
+shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and
+lift up the buckler against thee.
+
+26:9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his
+axes he shall break down thy towers.
+
+26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover
+thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the
+wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as
+men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
+
+26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy
+streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong
+garrisons shall go down to the ground.
+
+26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of
+thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy
+pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy
+dust in the midst of the water.
+
+26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound
+of thy harps shall be no more heard.
+
+26:14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a
+place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD
+have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+26:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at
+the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is
+made in the midst of thee? 26:16 Then all the princes of the sea
+shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put
+off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with
+trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every
+moment, and be astonished at thee.
+
+26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee,
+How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the
+renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants,
+which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 26:18 Now shall
+the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in
+the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
+
+26:19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate
+city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up
+the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 26:20 When I
+shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the
+people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth,
+in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that
+thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the
+living; 26:21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more:
+though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith
+the Lord GOD.
+
+27:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 27:2 Now, thou
+son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; 27:3 And say unto Tyrus,
+O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant
+of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou
+hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
+
+27:4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have
+perfected thy beauty.
+
+27:5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they
+have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
+
+27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of
+the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles
+of Chittim.
+
+27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou
+spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of
+Elishah was that which covered thee.
+
+27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise
+men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
+
+27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy
+calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to
+occupy thy merchandise.
+
+27:10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy
+men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth
+thy comeliness.
+
+27:11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round
+about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields
+upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
+
+27:12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind
+of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
+
+27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded
+the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
+
+27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses
+and horsemen and mules.
+
+27:15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the
+merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of
+ivory and ebony.
+
+27:16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares
+of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and
+broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
+
+27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they
+traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil,
+and balm.
+
+27:18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy
+making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and
+white wool.
+
+27:19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs:
+bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
+
+27:20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
+
+27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in
+lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
+
+27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they
+occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious
+stones, and gold.
+
+27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and
+Chilmad, were thy merchants.
+
+27:24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue
+clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with
+cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
+
+27:25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou
+wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
+
+27:26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind
+hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
+
+27:27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and
+thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all
+thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in
+the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of
+thy ruin.
+
+27:28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
+
+27:29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of
+the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the
+land; 27:30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and
+shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they
+shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 27:31 And they shall make
+themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and
+they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
+
+27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee,
+and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the
+destroyed in the midst of the sea? 27:33 When thy wares went forth
+out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the
+kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy
+merchandise.
+
+27:34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths
+of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee
+shall fall.
+
+27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee,
+and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
+countenance.
+
+27:36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be
+a terror, and never shalt be any more.
+
+28:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 28:2 Son of man,
+say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine
+heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat
+of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God,
+though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 28:3 Behold, thou art
+wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
+28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten
+thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 28:5
+By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy
+riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: 28:6
+Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart
+as the heart of God; 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers
+upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their
+swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy
+brightness.
+
+28:8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the
+deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
+
+28:9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but
+thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
+
+28:10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
+strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 28:12 Son of
+man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him,
+Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and
+perfect in beauty.
+
+28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone
+was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the
+onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
+and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared
+in thee in the day that thou wast created.
+
+28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee
+so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and
+down in the midst of the stones of fire.
+
+28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
+created, till iniquity was found in thee.
+
+28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst
+of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast
+thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O
+covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
+
+28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast
+corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to
+the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
+
+28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
+iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring
+forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will
+bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that
+behold thee.
+
+28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at
+thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
+
+28:20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 28:21 Son of
+man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 28:22 And
+say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and
+I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I
+am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be
+sanctified in her.
+
+28:23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets;
+and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon
+her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of
+Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that
+despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
+
+28:25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of
+Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be
+sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell
+in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
+
+28:26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and
+plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have
+executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them;
+and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
+
+29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the
+month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 29:2 Son of man, set
+thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and
+against all Egypt: 29:3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
+Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon
+that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is
+mine own, and I have made it for myself.
+
+29:4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of
+thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of
+the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick
+unto thy scales.
+
+29:5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all
+the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou
+shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for
+meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
+
+29:6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD,
+because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
+
+29:7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and
+rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest,
+and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
+
+29:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword
+upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
+
+29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall
+know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and
+I have made it.
+
+29:10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and
+I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the
+tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
+
+29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall
+pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
+
+29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the
+countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are
+laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the
+Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the
+countries.
+
+29:13 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I
+gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
+29:14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause
+them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their
+habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
+
+29:15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt
+itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they
+shall no more rule over the nations.
+
+29:16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,
+which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look
+after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
+
+29:17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the
+first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came
+unto me, saying, 29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
+caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was
+made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his
+army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 29:19
+Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of
+Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her
+multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the
+wages for his army.
+
+29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he
+served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+29:21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud
+forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of
+them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+30:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 30:2 Son of man,
+prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
+30:3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy
+day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
+
+30:4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in
+Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away
+her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
+
+30:5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and
+Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them
+by the sword.
+
+30:6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and
+the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall
+they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+30:7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are
+desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are
+wasted.
+
+30:8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in
+Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
+
+30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make
+the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them,
+as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
+
+30:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt
+to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
+
+30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall
+be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords
+against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
+
+30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand
+of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is
+therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
+
+30:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I
+will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no
+more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land
+of Egypt.
+
+30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and
+will execute judgments in No.
+
+30:15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I
+will cut off the multitude of No.
+
+30:16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No
+shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
+
+30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword:
+and these cities shall go into captivity.
+
+30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall
+break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall
+cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters
+shall go into captivity.
+
+30:19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that
+I am the LORD.
+
+30:20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in
+the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
+saying, 30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of
+Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller
+to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
+
+30:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh
+king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was
+broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
+
+30:23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
+disperse them through the countries.
+
+30:24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put
+my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall
+groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
+
+30:25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the
+arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the
+LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon,
+and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
+
+30:26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse
+them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+31:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in
+the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
+saying, 31:2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
+multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 31:3 Behold, the
+Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a
+shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the
+thick boughs.
+
+31:4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her
+rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto
+all the trees of the field.
+
+31:5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the
+field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long
+because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
+
+31:6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under
+his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young,
+and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
+
+31:7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches:
+for his root was by great waters.
+
+31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees
+were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his
+branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his
+beauty.
+
+31:9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that
+all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
+
+31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up
+thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs,
+and his heart is lifted up in his height; 31:11 I have therefore
+delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall
+surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
+
+31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
+and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his
+branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of
+the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his
+shadow, and have left him.
+
+31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all
+the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: 31:14 To the end
+that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their
+height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
+their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they
+are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the
+midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
+
+31:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the
+grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
+restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I
+caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field
+fainted for him.
+
+31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
+cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the
+trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water,
+shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
+
+31:17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain
+with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his
+shadow in the midst of the heathen.
+
+31:18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the
+trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden
+unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the
+uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh
+and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+32:1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in
+the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
+saying, 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of
+Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations,
+and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy
+rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their
+rivers.
+
+32:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over
+thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my
+net.
+
+32:4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon
+the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain
+upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
+
+32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys
+with thy height.
+
+32:6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest,
+even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
+
+32:7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make
+the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the
+moon shall not give her light.
+
+32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and
+set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+32:9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
+destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
+known.
+
+32:10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings
+shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword
+before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his
+own life, in the day of thy fall.
+
+32:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon
+shall come upon thee.
+
+32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall,
+the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the
+pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
+
+32:13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great
+waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the
+hoofs of beasts trouble them.
+
+32:14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to
+run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country
+shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all
+them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
+
+32:16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the
+daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her,
+even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+32:17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day
+of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 32:18
+Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even
+her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of
+the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
+
+32:19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with
+the uncircumcised.
+
+32:20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the
+sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
+
+32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst
+of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie
+uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
+
+32:22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him:
+all of them slain, fallen by the sword: 32:23 Whose graves are set in
+the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of
+them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of
+the living.
+
+32:24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all
+of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised
+into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the
+land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go
+down to the pit.
+
+32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her
+multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised,
+slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the
+living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the
+pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
+
+32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are
+round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though
+they caused their terror in the land of the living.
+
+32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the
+uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war:
+and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their
+iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of
+the mighty in the land of the living.
+
+32:28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
+shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
+
+32:29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their
+might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie
+with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
+
+32:30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
+Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they
+are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that
+be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to
+the pit.
+
+32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
+multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the
+Lord GOD.
+
+32:32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he
+shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are
+slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the
+Lord GOD.
+
+33:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 33:2 Son of man,
+speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring
+the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their
+coasts, and set him for their watchman: 33:3 If when he seeth the
+sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
+33:4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not
+warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon
+his own head.
+
+33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his
+blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his
+soul.
+
+33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet,
+and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person
+from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will
+I require at the watchman’s hand.
+
+33:7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house
+of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn
+them from me.
+
+33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die;
+if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked
+man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine
+hand.
+
+33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it;
+if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou
+hast delivered thy soul.
+
+33:10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel;
+Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us,
+and we pine away in them, how should we then live? 33:11 Say unto
+them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death
+of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn
+ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of
+Israel? 33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of
+thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him
+in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked,
+he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his
+wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his
+righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
+
+33:13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if
+he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his
+righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he
+hath committed, he shall die for it.
+
+33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he
+turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 33:15 If the
+wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the
+statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live,
+he shall not die.
+
+33:16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto
+him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely
+live.
+
+33:17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not
+equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
+
+33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and
+committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
+
+33:19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is
+lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
+
+33:20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of
+Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
+
+33:21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the
+tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped
+out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
+
+33:22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he
+that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in
+the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
+
+33:23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 33:24 Son of
+man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak,
+saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many;
+the land is given us for inheritance.
+
+33:25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with
+the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood:
+and shall ye possess the land? 33:26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye
+work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and
+shall ye possess the land? 33:27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith
+the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall
+by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the
+beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves
+shall die of the pestilence.
+
+33:28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her
+strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate,
+that none shall pass through.
+
+33:29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the
+land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have
+committed.
+
+33:30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are
+talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and
+speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray
+you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
+
+33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit
+before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not
+do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart
+goeth after their covetousness.
+
+33:32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that
+hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they
+hear thy words, but they do them not.
+
+33:33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall
+they know that a prophet hath been among them.
+
+34:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 34:2 Son of man,
+prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them,
+Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of
+Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the
+flocks? 34:3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill
+them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
+
+34:4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed
+that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken,
+neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have
+ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye
+ruled them.
+
+34:5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they
+became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
+
+34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high
+hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and
+none did search or seek after them.
+
+34:7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 34:8 As I
+live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and
+my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no
+shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the
+shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; 34:9 Therefore, O ye
+shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 34:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
+Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at
+their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither
+shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my
+flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
+
+34:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search
+my sheep, and seek them out.
+
+34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among
+his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will
+deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the
+cloudy and dark day.
+
+34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from
+the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them
+upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited
+places of the country.
+
+34:14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains
+of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold,
+and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
+
+34:15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith
+the Lord GOD.
+
+34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was
+driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will
+strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the
+strong; I will feed them with judgment.
+
+34:17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
+judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
+
+34:18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good
+pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your
+pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the
+residue with your feet? 34:19 And as for my flock, they eat that
+which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye
+have fouled with your feet.
+
+34:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I,
+will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
+
+34:21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed
+all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
+34:22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a
+prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
+
+34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed
+them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
+shepherd.
+
+34:24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince
+among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
+
+34:25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause
+the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely
+in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
+
+34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a
+blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season;
+there shall be showers of blessing.
+
+34:27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth
+shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and
+shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their
+yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served
+themselves of them.
+
+34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall
+the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and
+none shall make them afraid.
+
+34:29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall
+be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of
+the heathen any more.
+
+34:30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and
+that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+34:31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your
+God, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+35:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 35:2 Son of
+man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 35:3
+And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am
+against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I
+will make thee most desolate.
+
+35:4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou
+shalt know that I am the LORD.
+
+35:5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood
+of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of
+their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: 35:6
+Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto
+blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood,
+even blood shall pursue thee.
+
+35:7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it
+him that passeth out and him that returneth.
+
+35:8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills,
+and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are
+slain with the sword.
+
+35:9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not
+return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+35:10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two
+countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was
+there: 35:11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do
+according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast
+used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known
+among them, when I have judged thee.
+
+35:12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard
+all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of
+Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
+
+35:13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have
+multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
+
+35:14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will
+make thee desolate.
+
+35:15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel,
+because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be
+desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall
+know that I am the LORD.
+
+36:1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and
+say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD: 36:2 Thus
+saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even
+the ancient high places are ours in possession: 36:3 Therefore
+prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you
+desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a
+possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the
+lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people: 36:4 Therefore, ye
+mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the
+Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the
+valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken,
+which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that
+are round about; 36:5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the
+fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen,
+and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their
+possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to
+cast it out for a prey.
+
+36:6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto
+the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys,
+Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in
+my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: 36:7
+Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely
+the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
+
+36:8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
+branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at
+hand to come.
+
+36:9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall
+be tilled and sown: 36:10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the
+house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited,
+and the wastes shall be builded: 36:11 And I will multiply upon you
+man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will
+settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at
+your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+36:12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel;
+and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and
+thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
+
+36:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land
+devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations: 36:14 Therefore thou
+shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith
+the Lord GOD.
+
+36:15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the
+heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people
+any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith
+the Lord GOD.
+
+36:16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 36:17 Son of
+man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it
+by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the
+uncleanness of a removed woman.
+
+36:18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had
+shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted
+it: 36:19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were
+dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according
+to their doings I judged them.
+
+36:20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they
+profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of
+the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
+
+36:21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had
+profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
+
+36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD;
+I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy
+name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye
+went.
+
+36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the
+heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen
+shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be
+sanctified in you before their eyes.
+
+36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out
+of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
+
+36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be
+clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I
+cleanse you.
+
+36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
+within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
+and I will give you an heart of flesh.
+
+36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
+statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
+
+36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and
+ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
+
+36:29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will
+call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
+
+36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of
+the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the
+heathen.
+
+36:31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that
+were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your
+iniquities and for your abominations.
+
+36:32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known
+unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of
+Israel.
+
+36:33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed
+you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the
+cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
+
+36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate
+in the sight of all that passed by.
+
+36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like
+the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are
+become fenced, and are inhabited.
+
+36:36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I
+the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I
+the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
+
+36:37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by
+the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men
+like a flock.
+
+36:38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
+feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and
+they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the
+spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which
+was full of bones, 37:2 And caused me to pass by them round about:
+and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they
+were very dry.
+
+37:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I
+answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
+
+37:4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto
+them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
+
+37:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause
+breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 37:6 And I will lay
+sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with
+skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that
+I am the LORD.
+
+37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there
+was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone
+to his bone.
+
+37:8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon
+them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in
+them.
+
+37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of
+man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four
+winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
+
+37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into
+them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great
+army.
+
+37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
+house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope
+is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
+
+37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
+Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up
+out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
+
+37:13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your
+graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 37:14 And
+shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you
+in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it,
+and performed it, saith the LORD.
+
+37:15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 37:16 Moreover,
+thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah,
+and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another
+stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all
+the house of Israel his companions: 37:17 And join them one to another
+into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
+
+37:18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee,
+saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? 37:19 Say
+unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of
+Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
+fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and
+make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
+
+37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand
+before their eyes.
+
+37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take
+the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone,
+and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own
+land: 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the
+mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they
+shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two
+kingdoms any more at all.
+
+37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols,
+nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
+transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces,
+wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my
+people, and I will be their God.
+
+37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall
+have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe
+my statutes, and do them.
+
+37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my
+servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell
+therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children
+for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
+
+37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be
+an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply
+them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
+
+37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God,
+and they shall be my people.
+
+37:28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel,
+when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
+
+38:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 38:2 Son of man,
+set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of
+Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 38:3 And say, Thus saith
+the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
+Meshech and Tubal: 38:4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into
+thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and
+horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great
+company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: 38:5
+Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and
+helmet: 38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the
+north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
+
+38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy
+company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
+
+38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou
+shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is
+gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which
+have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations,
+and they shall dwell safely all of them.
+
+38:9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a
+cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with
+thee.
+
+38:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the
+same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an
+evil thought: 38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of
+unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell
+safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars
+nor gates, 38:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine
+hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the
+people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle
+and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
+
+38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the
+young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a
+spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away
+silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
+38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the
+Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt
+thou not know it? 38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the
+north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon
+horses, a great company, and a mighty army: 38:16 And thou shalt come
+up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall
+be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the
+heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before
+their eyes.
+
+38:17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in
+old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in
+those days many years that I would bring thee against them? 38:18 And
+it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the
+land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my
+face.
+
+38:19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
+Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of
+Israel; 38:20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the
+heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that
+creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the
+earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown
+down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to
+the ground.
+
+38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my
+mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his
+brother.
+
+38:22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and
+I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people
+that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire,
+and brimstone.
+
+38:23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be
+known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the
+LORD.
+
+39:1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus
+saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince
+of Meshech and Tubal: 39:2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but
+the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north
+parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: 39:3 And I
+will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows
+to fall out of thy right hand.
+
+39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy
+bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the
+ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be
+devoured.
+
+39:5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith
+the Lord GOD.
+
+39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell
+carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
+
+39:7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people
+Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the
+heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
+
+39:8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is
+the day whereof I have spoken.
+
+39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and
+shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the
+bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears,
+and they shall burn them with fire seven years: 39:10 So that they
+shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the
+forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall
+spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith
+the Lord GOD.
+
+39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog
+a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the
+east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and
+there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call
+it The valley of Hamongog.
+
+39:12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them,
+that they may cleanse the land.
+
+39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be
+to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing
+through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon
+the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months
+shall they search.
+
+39:15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a
+man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have
+buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
+
+39:16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they
+cleanse the land.
+
+39:17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
+feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves,
+and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
+sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of
+Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
+
+39:18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the
+princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks,
+all of them fatlings of Bashan.
+
+39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be
+drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
+
+39:20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots,
+with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+39:21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen
+shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have
+laid upon them.
+
+39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God
+from that day and forward.
+
+39:23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into
+captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me,
+therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of
+their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
+
+39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their
+transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
+
+39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the
+captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and
+will be jealous for my holy name; 39:26 After that they have borne
+their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed
+against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them
+afraid.
+
+39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered
+them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the
+sight of many nations; 39:28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD
+their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the
+heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left
+none of them any more there.
+
+39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have
+poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning
+of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year
+after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the
+LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
+
+40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and
+set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city
+on the south.
+
+40:3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose
+appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in
+his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
+
+40:4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and
+hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew
+thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou
+brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
+
+40:5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in
+the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an
+hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed;
+and the height, one reed.
+
+40:6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and
+went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate,
+which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which
+was one reed broad.
+
+40:7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad;
+and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of
+the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
+
+40:8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
+
+40:9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the
+posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
+
+40:10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this
+side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the
+posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
+
+40:11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten
+cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
+
+40:12 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this
+side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little
+chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
+
+40:13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to
+the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door
+against door.
+
+40:14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of
+the court round about the gate.
+
+40:15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of
+the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
+
+40:16 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to
+their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches:
+and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm
+trees.
+
+40:17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were
+chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty
+chambers were upon the pavement.
+
+40:18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the
+length of the gates was the lower pavement.
+
+40:19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower
+gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits
+eastward and northward.
+
+40:20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north,
+he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.
+
+40:21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and
+three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were
+after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty
+cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
+
+40:22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were
+after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they
+went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before
+them.
+
+40:23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward
+the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an
+hundred cubits.
+
+40:24 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate
+toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches
+thereof according to these measures.
+
+40:25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round
+about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the
+breadth five and twenty cubits.
+
+40:26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches
+thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and
+another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
+
+40:27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he
+measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
+
+40:28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he
+measured the south gate according to these measures; 40:29 And the
+little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches
+thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and
+in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five
+and twenty cubits broad.
+
+40:30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and
+five cubits broad.
+
+40:31 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm
+trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight
+steps.
+
+40:32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
+measured the gate according to these measures.
+
+40:33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the
+arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were
+windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty
+cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
+
+40:34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm
+trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and
+the going up to it had eight steps.
+
+40:35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according
+to these measures; 40:36 The little chambers thereof, the posts
+thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about:
+the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
+
+40:37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm
+trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and
+the going up to it had eight steps.
+
+40:38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of
+the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
+
+40:39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and
+two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the
+sin offering and the trespass offering.
+
+40:40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the
+north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the
+porch of the gate, were two tables.
+
+40:41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by
+the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their
+sacrifices.
+
+40:42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering,
+of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one
+cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they
+slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
+
+40:43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and
+upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
+
+40:44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in
+the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their
+prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having
+the prospect toward the north.
+
+40:45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the
+south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
+
+40:46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the
+priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of
+Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister
+unto him.
+
+40:47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred
+cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
+
+40:48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each
+post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that
+side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and
+three cubits on that side.
+
+40:49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
+eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to
+it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another
+on that side.
+
+41:1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts,
+six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other
+side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
+
+41:2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the
+door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other
+side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the
+breadth, twenty cubits.
+
+41:3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two
+cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven
+cubits.
+
+41:4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the
+breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This
+is the most holy place.
+
+41:5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the
+breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on
+every side.
+
+41:6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in
+order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the
+side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not
+hold in the wall of the house.
+
+41:7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to
+the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still
+upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was
+still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest
+by the midst.
+
+41:8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations
+of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
+
+41:9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber
+without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the
+side chambers that were within.
+
+41:10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round
+about the house on every side.
+
+41:11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that
+was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the
+south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits
+round about.
+
+41:12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end
+toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building
+was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety
+cubits.
+
+41:13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the
+separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred
+cubits long; 41:14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of
+the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
+
+41:15 And he measured the length of the building over against the
+separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the
+one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner
+temple, and the porches of the court; 41:16 The door posts, and the
+narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories,
+over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the
+ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; 41:17 To that
+above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the
+wall round about within and without, by measure.
+
+41:18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm
+tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two
+faces; 41:19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the
+one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the
+other side: it was made through all the house round about.
+
+41:20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm
+trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
+
+41:21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the
+sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
+
+41:22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof
+two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the
+walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table
+that is before the LORD.
+
+41:23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
+
+41:24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two
+leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
+
+41:25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
+cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there
+were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
+
+41:26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and
+on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side
+chambers of the house, and thick planks.
+
+42:1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the
+north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the
+separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
+
+42:2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and
+the breadth was fifty cubits.
+
+42:3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court,
+and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was
+gallery against gallery in three stories.
+
+42:4 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward,
+a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
+
+42:5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were
+higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the
+building.
+
+42:6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the
+pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than
+the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
+
+42:7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward
+the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof
+was fifty cubits.
+
+42:8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was
+fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
+
+42:9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as
+one goeth into them from the utter court.
+
+42:10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court
+toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the
+building.
+
+42:11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers
+which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they:
+and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and
+according to their doors.
+
+42:12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the
+south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before
+the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
+
+42:13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers,
+which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the
+priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things:
+there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and
+the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
+
+42:14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of
+the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their
+garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on
+other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the
+people.
+
+42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he
+brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east,
+and measured it round about.
+
+42:16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred
+reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
+
+42:17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the
+measuring reed round about.
+
+42:18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the
+measuring reed.
+
+42:19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred
+reeds with the measuring reed.
+
+42:20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about,
+five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation
+between the sanctuary and the profane place.
+
+43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh
+toward the east: 43:2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
+from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many
+waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
+
+43:3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
+even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the
+city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river
+Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
+
+43:4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the
+gate whose prospect is toward the east.
+
+43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court;
+and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
+
+43:6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man
+stood by me.
+
+43:7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the
+place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the
+children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of
+Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their
+whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
+
+43:8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their
+post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even
+defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed:
+wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
+
+43:9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their
+kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
+
+43:10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that
+they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the
+pattern.
+
+43:11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the
+form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out
+thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and
+all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the
+laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the
+whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
+
+43:12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the
+whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is
+the law of the house.
+
+43:13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The
+cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a
+cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge
+thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher
+place of the altar.
+
+43:14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle
+shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser
+settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the
+breadth one cubit.
+
+43:15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward
+shall be four horns.
+
+43:16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square
+in the four squares thereof.
+
+43:17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad
+in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a
+cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs
+shall look toward the east.
+
+43:18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These
+are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to
+offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
+
+43:19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the
+seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the
+Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
+
+43:20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four
+horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the
+border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
+
+43:21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he
+shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the
+sanctuary.
+
+43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats
+without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar,
+as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
+
+43:23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a
+young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without
+blemish.
+
+43:24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall
+cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering
+unto the LORD.
+
+43:25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin
+offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of
+the flock, without blemish.
+
+43:26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they
+shall consecrate themselves.
+
+43:27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the
+eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt
+offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept
+you, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+44:1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward
+sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
+
+44:2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not
+be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God
+of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
+
+44:3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread
+before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate,
+and shall go out by the way of the same.
+
+44:4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house:
+and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of
+the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
+
+44:5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with
+thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee
+concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the
+laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every
+going forth of the sanctuary.
+
+44:6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of
+Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice
+you of all your abominations, 44:7 In that ye have brought into my
+sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in
+flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye
+offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my
+covenant because of all your abominations.
+
+44:8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have
+set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
+
+44:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor
+uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger
+that is among the children of Israel.
+
+44:10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went
+astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall
+even bear their iniquity.
+
+44:11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at
+the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay
+the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall
+stand before them to minister unto them.
+
+44:12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused
+the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up
+mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their
+iniquity.
+
+44:13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a
+priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most
+holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations
+which they have committed.
+
+44:14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all
+the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
+
+44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the
+charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from
+me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall
+stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord
+GOD: 44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come
+near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
+
+44:17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates
+of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no
+wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the
+inner court, and within.
+
+44:18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have
+linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with
+any thing that causeth sweat.
+
+44:19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter
+court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they
+ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on
+other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their
+garments.
+
+44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to
+grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
+
+44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the
+inner court.
+
+44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is
+put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of
+Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
+
+44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy
+and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the
+clean.
+
+44:24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall
+judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my
+statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
+
+44:25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but
+for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother,
+or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
+
+44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
+
+44:27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner
+court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,
+saith the Lord GOD.
+
+44:28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their
+inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am
+their possession.
+
+44:29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the
+trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be
+theirs.
+
+44:30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every
+oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the
+priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough,
+that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
+
+44:31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself,
+or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
+
+45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance,
+ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land:
+the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and
+the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the
+borders thereof round about.
+
+45:2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length,
+with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits
+round about for the suburbs thereof.
+
+45:3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and
+twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be
+the sanctuary and the most holy place.
+
+45:4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the
+ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the
+LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for
+the sanctuary.
+
+45:5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand
+of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have
+for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
+
+45:6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand
+broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of
+the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
+
+45:7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the
+other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession
+of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the
+possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east
+side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the
+portions, from the west border unto the east border.
+
+45:8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes
+shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they
+give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
+
+45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel:
+remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away
+your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
+
+45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
+may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part
+of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
+
+45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and
+twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
+
+45:13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an
+ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an
+ephah of an homer of barley: 45:14 Concerning the ordinance of oil,
+the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the
+cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: 45:15
+And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat
+pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and
+for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+45:16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the
+prince in Israel.
+
+45:17 And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and
+meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new
+moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel:
+he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the
+burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for
+the house of Israel.
+
+45:18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of
+the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and
+cleanse the sanctuary: 45:19 And the priest shall take of the blood of
+the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the
+four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the
+gate of the inner court.
+
+45:20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one
+that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the
+house.
+
+45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall
+have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be
+eaten.
+
+45:22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for
+all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
+
+45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to
+the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the
+seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
+
+45:24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock,
+and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
+
+45:25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall
+he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin
+offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat
+offering, and according to the oil.
+
+46:1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh
+toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath
+it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
+
+46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate
+without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests
+shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall
+worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the
+gate shall not be shut until the evening.
+
+46:3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this
+gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
+
+46:4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD
+in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram
+without blemish.
+
+46:5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat
+offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil
+to an ephah.
+
+46:6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock
+without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without
+blemish.
+
+46:7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and
+an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall
+attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
+
+46:8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the
+porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
+
+46:9 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the
+solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to
+worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that
+entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the
+north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came
+in, but shall go forth over against it.
+
+46:10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go
+in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
+
+46:11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall
+be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as
+he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
+
+46:12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or
+peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the
+gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt
+offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then
+he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
+
+46:13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a
+lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every
+morning.
+
+46:14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the
+sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper
+with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual
+ordinance unto the LORD.
+
+46:15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the
+oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
+
+46:16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of
+his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be
+their possession by inheritance.
+
+46:17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants,
+then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to
+the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.
+
+46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance
+by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall
+give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be
+not scattered every man from his possession.
+
+46:19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of
+the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward
+the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.
+
+46:20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall
+boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake
+the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court,
+to sanctify the people.
+
+46:21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to
+pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of
+the court there was a court.
+
+46:22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of
+forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one
+measure.
+
+46:23 And there was a row of building round about in them, round about
+them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round
+about.
+
+46:24 Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil,
+where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the
+people.
+
+47:1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and,
+behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
+eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and
+the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at
+the south side of the altar.
+
+47:2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led
+me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh
+eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
+
+47:3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth
+eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the
+waters; the waters were to the ankles.
+
+47:4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters;
+the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and
+brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
+
+47:5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could
+not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river
+that could not be passed over.
+
+47:6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he
+brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
+
+47:7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were
+very many trees on the one side and on the other.
+
+47:8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east
+country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being
+brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
+
+47:9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which
+moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there
+shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall
+come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live
+whither the river cometh.
+
+47:10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it
+from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth
+nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the
+great sea, exceeding many.
+
+47:11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not
+be healed; they shall be given to salt.
+
+47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that
+side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade,
+neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new
+fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of
+the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf
+thereof for medicine.
+
+47:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye
+shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel:
+Joseph shall have two portions.
+
+47:14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the
+which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this
+land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
+
+47:15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side,
+from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; 47:16
+Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and
+the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
+
+47:17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of
+Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this
+is the north side.
+
+47:18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from
+Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from
+the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
+
+47:19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of
+strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south
+side southward.
+
+47:20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till
+a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
+
+47:21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of
+Israel.
+
+47:22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an
+inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you,
+which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as
+born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have
+inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
+
+47:23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger
+sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the
+coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the
+border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are
+his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
+
+48:2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side,
+a portion for Asher.
+
+48:3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west
+side, a portion for Naphtali.
+
+48:4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west
+side, a portion for Manasseh.
+
+48:5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west
+side, a portion for Ephraim.
+
+48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the
+west side, a portion for Reuben.
+
+48:7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west
+side, a portion for Judah.
+
+48:8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west
+side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty
+thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts,
+from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in
+the midst of it.
+
+48:9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five
+and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
+
+48:10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation;
+toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the
+west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in
+breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and
+the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
+
+48:11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of
+Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the
+children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
+
+48:12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them
+a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
+
+48:13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall
+have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth:
+all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten
+thousand.
+
+48:14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate
+the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
+
+48:15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against
+the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city,
+for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst
+thereof.
+
+48:16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four
+thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five
+hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the
+west side four thousand and five hundred.
+
+48:17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two
+hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and
+toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred
+and fifty.
+
+48:18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy
+portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and
+it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the
+increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
+
+48:19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the
+tribes of Israel.
+
+48:20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and
+twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the
+possession of the city.
+
+48:21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on
+the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city,
+over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the
+east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand
+toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and
+it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be
+in the midst thereof.
+
+48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the
+possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the
+prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin,
+shall be for the prince.
+
+48:23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west
+side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
+
+48:24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west
+side, Simeon shall have a portion.
+
+48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west
+side, Issachar a portion.
+
+48:26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west
+side, Zebulun a portion.
+
+48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west
+side, Gad a portion.
+
+48:28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the
+border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh,
+and to the river toward the great sea.
+
+48:29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of
+Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+48:30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four
+thousand and five hundred measures.
+
+48:31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes
+of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of
+Judah, one gate of Levi.
+
+48:32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three
+gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
+
+48:33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures:
+and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of
+Zebulun.
+
+48:34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their
+three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
+
+48:35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of
+the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
+
+
+
+
+The Book of Daniel
+
+
+1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came
+Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
+
+1:2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part
+of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of
+Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the
+treasure house of his god.
+
+1:3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that
+he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s
+seed, and of the princes; 1:4 Children in whom was no blemish, but
+well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge,
+and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in
+the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the
+tongue of the Chaldeans.
+
+1:5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat,
+and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that
+at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
+
+1:6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah,
+Mishael, and Azariah: 1:7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave
+names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to
+Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of
+Abednego.
+
+1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself
+with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank:
+therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not
+defile himself.
+
+1:9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the
+prince of the eunuchs.
+
+1:10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord
+the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should
+he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your
+sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
+
+1:11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had
+set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 1:12 Prove thy
+servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat,
+and water to drink.
+
+1:13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the
+countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s
+meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
+
+1:14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
+
+1:15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and
+fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the
+king’s meat.
+
+1:16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine
+that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
+
+1:17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in
+all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions
+and dreams.
+
+1:18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring
+them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before
+Nebuchadnezzar.
+
+1:19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found
+none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they
+before the king.
+
+1:20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king
+enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the
+magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
+
+1:21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.
+
+2:1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar
+Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and
+his sleep brake from him.
+
+2:2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the
+astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the
+king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
+
+2:3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit
+was troubled to know the dream.
+
+2:4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for
+ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the
+interpretation.
+
+2:5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone
+from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the
+interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses
+shall be made a dunghill.
+
+2:6 But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall
+receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me
+the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
+
+2:7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the
+dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
+
+2:8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain
+the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
+
+2:9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one
+decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak
+before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and
+I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
+
+2:10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a
+man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is
+no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or
+astrologer, or Chaldean.
+
+2:11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none
+other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose
+dwelling is not with flesh.
+
+2:12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded
+to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
+
+2:13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and
+they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
+
+2:14 Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the
+captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men
+of Babylon: 2:15 He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain,
+Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing
+known to Daniel.
+
+2:16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give
+him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.
+
+2:17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to
+Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: 2:18 That they would
+desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that
+Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men
+of Babylon.
+
+2:19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then
+Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
+
+2:20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and
+ever: for wisdom and might are his: 2:21 And he changeth the times and
+the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom
+unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: 2:22 He
+revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the
+darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
+
+2:23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast
+given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we
+desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s
+matter.
+
+2:24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained
+to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him;
+Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and
+I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
+
+2:25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said
+thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will
+make known unto the king the interpretation.
+
+2:26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was
+Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I
+have seen, and the interpretation thereof? 2:27 Daniel answered in
+the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath
+demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the
+soothsayers, shew unto the king; 2:28 But there is a God in heaven
+that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar
+what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy
+head upon thy bed, are these; 2:29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts
+came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter:
+and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to
+pass.
+
+2:30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom
+that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make
+known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the
+thoughts of thy heart.
+
+2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image,
+whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form
+thereof was terrible.
+
+2:32 This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of
+silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 2:33 His legs of iron, his
+feet part of iron and part of clay.
+
+2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which
+smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake
+them to pieces.
+
+2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold,
+broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer
+threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was
+found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great
+mountain, and filled the whole earth.
+
+2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof
+before the king.
+
+2:37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath
+given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
+
+2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the
+field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and
+hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
+
+2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and
+another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the
+earth.
+
+2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron
+breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh
+all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
+
+2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay,
+and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in
+it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron
+mixed with miry clay.
+
+2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay,
+so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
+
+2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall
+mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one
+to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
+
+2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a
+kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be
+left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all
+these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
+
+2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the
+mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the
+brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made
+known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is
+certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
+
+2:46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped
+Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet
+odours unto him.
+
+2:47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that
+your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of
+secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
+
+2:48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great
+gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and
+chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
+
+2:49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach,
+and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel
+sat in the gate of the king.
+
+3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was
+threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in
+the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
+
+3:2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes,
+the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the
+counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to
+come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had
+set up.
+
+3:3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the
+treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the
+provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image
+that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the
+image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
+
+3:4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people,
+nations, and languages, 3:5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the
+cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of
+musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar
+the king hath set up: 3:6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth
+shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
+
+3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the
+cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all
+the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped
+the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
+
+3:8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused
+the Jews.
+
+3:9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for
+ever.
+
+3:10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear
+the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
+and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
+3:11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be
+cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
+
+3:12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the
+province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O
+king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the
+golden image which thou hast set up.
+
+3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring
+Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before
+the king.
+
+3:14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach,
+Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden
+image which I have set up? 3:15 Now if ye be ready that at what time
+ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and
+dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image
+which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the
+same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that
+God that shall deliver you out of my hands? 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach,
+and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are
+not careful to answer thee in this matter.
+
+3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the
+burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O
+king.
+
+3:18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve
+thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
+
+3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage
+was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he
+spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times
+more than it was wont to be heated.
+
+3:20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to
+bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the
+burning fiery furnace.
+
+3:21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their
+hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the
+burning fiery furnace.
+
+3:22 Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the
+furnace exceeding hot, the flames of the fire slew those men that took
+up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
+
+3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down
+bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
+
+3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste,
+and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men
+bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the
+king, True, O king.
+
+3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the
+midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth
+is like the Son of God.
+
+3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery
+furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye
+servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then
+Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
+
+3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s
+counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies
+the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither
+were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
+
+3:28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of
+Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and
+delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the
+king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor
+worship any god, except their own God.
+
+3:29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and
+language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach,
+Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall
+be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver
+after this sort.
+
+3:30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the
+province of Babylon.
+
+4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages,
+that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
+
+4:2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God
+hath wrought toward me.
+
+4:3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his
+kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation
+to generation.
+
+4:4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my
+palace: 4:5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon
+my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
+
+4:6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon
+before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of
+the dream.
+
+4:7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and
+the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not
+make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
+
+4:8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was
+Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is the
+spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying, 4:9
+O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the
+spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell
+me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation
+thereof.
+
+4:10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a
+tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
+
+4:11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached
+unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: 4:12
+The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it
+was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the
+fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed
+of it.
+
+4:13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a
+watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; 4:14 He cried aloud,
+and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off
+his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under
+it, and the fowls from his branches: 4:15 Nevertheless leave the stump
+of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the
+tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven,
+and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: 4:16
+Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given
+unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
+
+4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by
+the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that
+the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to
+whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
+
+4:18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O
+Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the
+wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the
+interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is
+in thee.
+
+4:19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one
+hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said,
+Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof,
+trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to
+them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
+
+4:20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose
+height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the
+earth; 4:21 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in
+it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and
+upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: 4:22
+It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy
+greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the
+end of the earth.
+
+4:23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down
+from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave
+the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron
+and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with
+the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the
+field, till seven times pass over him; 4:24 This is the
+interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which
+is come upon my lord the king: 4:25 That they shall drive thee from
+men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they
+shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the
+dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know
+that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to
+whomsoever he will.
+
+4:26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots;
+thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known
+that the heavens do rule.
+
+4:27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and
+break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing
+mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
+
+4:28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
+
+4:29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the
+kingdom of Babylon.
+
+4:30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have
+built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for
+the honour of my majesty? 4:31 While the word was in the king’s
+mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar,
+to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
+
+4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be
+with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as
+oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the
+most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he
+will.
+
+4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he
+was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet
+with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’
+feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
+
+4:34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes
+unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed
+the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever,
+whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from
+generation to generation: 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth
+are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army
+of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay
+his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? 4:36 At the same time my
+reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour
+and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords
+sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent
+majesty was added unto me.
+
+4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of
+heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those
+that walk in pride he is able to abase.
+
+5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords,
+and drank wine before the thousand.
+
+5:2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the
+golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken
+out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his
+princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
+
+5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the
+temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and
+his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
+
+5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of
+brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
+
+5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote
+over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the
+king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
+
+5:6 Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled
+him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote
+one against another.
+
+5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans,
+and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of
+Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the
+interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a
+chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the
+kingdom.
+
+5:8 Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the
+writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
+
+5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was
+changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
+
+5:10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords
+came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king,
+live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy
+countenance be changed: 5:11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is
+the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and
+understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in
+him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy
+father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and
+soothsayers; 5:12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and
+understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences,
+and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king
+named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the
+interpretation.
+
+5:13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake
+and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children
+of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of
+Jewry? 5:14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is
+in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is
+found in thee.
+
+5:15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in
+before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me
+the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation
+of the thing: 5:16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make
+interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the
+writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt
+be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and
+shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
+
+5:17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be
+to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the
+writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
+
+5:18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a
+kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: 5:19 And for the majesty
+that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and
+feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept
+alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
+
+5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride,
+he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from
+him: 5:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was
+made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they
+fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of
+heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of
+men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
+
+5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart,
+though thou knewest all this; 5:23 But hast lifted up thyself against
+the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house
+before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines,
+have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and
+gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor
+know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy
+ways, hast thou not glorified: 5:24 Then was the part of the hand sent
+from him; and this writing was written.
+
+5:25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
+UPHARSIN.
+
+5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered
+thy kingdom, and finished it.
+
+5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
+
+5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and
+Persians.
+
+5:29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet,
+and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation
+concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
+
+5:30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
+
+5:31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore
+and two years old.
+
+6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty
+princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; 6:2 And over these
+three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might
+give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
+
+6:3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes,
+because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set
+him over the whole realm.
+
+6:4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against
+Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor
+fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or
+fault found in him.
+
+6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this
+Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
+
+6:6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king,
+and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
+
+6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes,
+the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to
+establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever
+shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee,
+O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
+
+6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it
+be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which
+altereth not.
+
+6:9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
+
+6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into
+his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem,
+he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave
+thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
+
+6:11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making
+supplication before his God.
+
+6:12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the
+king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that
+shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of
+thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered
+and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and
+Persians, which altereth not.
+
+6:13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which
+is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O
+king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition
+three times a day.
+
+6:14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased
+with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he
+laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
+
+6:15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king,
+Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no
+decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
+
+6:16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him
+into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy
+God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
+
+6:17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and
+the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his
+lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
+
+6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting:
+neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep
+went from him.
+
+6:19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste
+unto the den of lions.
+
+6:20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice
+unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant
+of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to
+deliver thee from the lions? 6:21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O
+king, live for ever.
+
+6:22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that
+they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in
+me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
+
+6:23 Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that
+they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out
+of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he
+believed in his God.
+
+6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had
+accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their
+children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and
+brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the
+den.
+
+6:25 Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages,
+that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
+
+6:26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble
+and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and
+stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed,
+and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
+
+6:27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in
+heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the
+lions.
+
+6:28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign
+of Cyrus the Persian.
+
+7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream
+and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and
+told the sum of the matters.
+
+7:2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold,
+the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
+
+7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from
+another.
+
+7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till
+the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth,
+and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to
+it.
+
+7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised
+up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it
+between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour
+much flesh.
+
+7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had
+upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four
+heads; and dominion was given to it.
+
+7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,
+dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron
+teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with
+the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were
+before it; and it had ten horns.
+
+7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them
+another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns
+plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the
+eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
+
+7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days
+did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head
+like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his
+wheels as burning fire.
+
+7:10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand
+thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
+stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
+
+7:11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the
+horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body
+destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
+
+7:12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion
+taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
+
+7:13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man
+came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and
+they brought him near before him.
+
+7:14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that
+all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is
+an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom
+that which shall not be destroyed.
+
+7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and
+the visions of my head troubled me.
+
+7:16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the
+truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation
+of the things.
+
+7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall
+arise out of the earth.
+
+7:18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and
+possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
+
+7:19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was
+diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of
+iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and
+stamped the residue with his feet; 7:20 And of the ten horns that were
+in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three
+fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very
+great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
+
+7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and
+prevailed against them; 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and
+judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came
+that the saints possessed the kingdom.
+
+7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon
+earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the
+whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
+
+7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall
+arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from
+the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
+
+7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall
+wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and
+laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and
+the dividing of time.
+
+7:26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his
+dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
+
+7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom
+under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of
+the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all
+dominions shall serve and obey him.
+
+7:28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my
+cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I
+kept the matter in my heart.
+
+8:1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision
+appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto
+me at the first.
+
+8:2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was
+at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw
+in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
+
+8:3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood
+before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were
+high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
+
+8:4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so
+that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that
+could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and
+became great.
+
+8:5 And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on
+the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat
+had a notable horn between his eyes.
+
+8:6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen
+standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
+
+8:7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with
+choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and
+there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him
+down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that
+could deliver the ram out of his hand.
+
+8:8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong,
+the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward
+the four winds of heaven.
+
+8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed
+exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the
+pleasant land.
+
+8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down
+some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon
+them.
+
+8:11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by
+him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary
+was cast down.
+
+8:12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason
+of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it
+practised, and prospered.
+
+8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that
+certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the
+daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the
+sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 8:14 And he said
+unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the
+sanctuary be cleansed.
+
+8:15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision,
+and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the
+appearance of a man.
+
+8:16 And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which
+called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
+
+8:17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid,
+and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man:
+for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
+
+8:18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face
+toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
+
+8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the
+last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall
+be.
+
+8:20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media
+and Persia.
+
+8:21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that
+is between his eyes is the first king.
+
+8:22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four
+kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
+
+8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors
+are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding
+dark sentences, shall stand up.
+
+8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he
+shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall
+destroy the mighty and the holy people.
+
+8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in
+his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace
+shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of
+princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
+
+8:26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is
+true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many
+days.
+
+8:27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose
+up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision,
+but none understood it.
+
+9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of
+the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 9:2 In
+the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of
+the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet,
+that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of
+Jerusalem.
+
+9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and
+supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: 9:4 And I
+prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord,
+the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them
+that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; 9:5 We have
+sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have
+rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
+9:6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which
+spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to
+all the people of the land.
+
+9:7 O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion
+of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants
+of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far
+off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because
+of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
+
+9:8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our
+princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
+
+9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we
+have rebelled against him; 9:10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of
+the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his
+servants the prophets.
+
+9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing,
+that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon
+us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of
+God, because we have sinned against him.
+
+9:12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and
+against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil:
+for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon
+Jerusalem.
+
+9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon
+us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might
+turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
+
+9:14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it
+upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he
+doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
+
+9:15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out
+of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown,
+as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
+
+9:16 O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let
+thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy
+holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our
+fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that
+are about us.
+
+9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his
+supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is
+desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
+
+9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and
+behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for
+we do not present our supplications before thee for our
+righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
+
+9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not,
+for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called
+by thy name.
+
+9:20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and
+the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the
+LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; 9:21 Yea, whiles I was
+speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the
+vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about
+the time of the evening oblation.
+
+9:22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am
+now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
+
+9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth,
+and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore
+understand the matter, and consider the vision.
+
+9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy
+city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
+make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
+righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint
+the most Holy.
+
+9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the
+commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the
+Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street
+shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
+
+9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but
+not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall
+destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with
+a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
+
+9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in
+the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
+cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it
+desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be
+poured upon the desolate.
+
+10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed
+unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was
+true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing,
+and had understanding of the vision.
+
+10:2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
+
+10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth,
+neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were
+fulfilled.
+
+10:4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by
+the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel; 10:5 Then I lifted up
+mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen,
+whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: 10:6 His body also
+was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and
+his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to
+polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a
+multitude.
+
+10:7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me
+saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they
+fled to hide themselves.
+
+10:8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there
+remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into
+corruption, and I retained no strength.
+
+10:9 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of
+his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward
+the ground.
+
+10:10 And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and
+upon the palms of my hands.
+
+10:11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand
+the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am
+I now sent.
+
+And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
+
+10:12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day
+that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself
+before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
+
+10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and
+twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help
+me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
+
+10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy
+people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
+
+10:15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward
+the ground, and I became dumb.
+
+10:16 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched
+my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that
+stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon
+me, and I have retained no strength.
+
+10:17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord?
+for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither
+is there breath left in me.
+
+10:18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of
+a man, and he strengthened me, 10:19 And said, O man greatly beloved,
+fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he
+had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak;
+for thou hast strengthened me.
+
+10:20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now
+will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone
+forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
+
+10:21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of
+truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but
+Michael your prince.
+
+11:1 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to
+confirm and to strengthen him.
+
+11:2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up
+yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than
+they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all
+against the realm of Grecia.
+
+11:3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great
+dominion, and do according to his will.
+
+11:4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and
+shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his
+posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his
+kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
+
+11:5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his
+princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his
+dominion shall be a great dominion.
+
+11:6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for
+the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north
+to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm;
+neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and
+they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened
+her in these times.
+
+11:7 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his
+estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the
+fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and
+shall prevail: 11:8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their
+gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver
+and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the
+north.
+
+11:9 So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall
+return into his own land.
+
+11:10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude
+of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass
+through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his
+fortress.
+
+11:11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall
+come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he
+shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given
+into his hand.
+
+11:12 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be
+lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not
+be strengthened by it.
+
+11:13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a
+multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after
+certain years with a great army and with much riches.
+
+11:14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of
+the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to
+establish the vision; but they shall fall.
+
+11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and
+take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not
+withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any
+strength to withstand.
+
+11:16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own
+will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the
+glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
+
+11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his
+whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he
+shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall
+not stand on his side, neither be for him.
+
+11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take
+many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered
+by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn
+upon him.
+
+11:19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but
+he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
+
+11:20 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory
+of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in
+anger, nor in battle.
+
+11:21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they
+shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in
+peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
+
+11:22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before
+him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
+
+11:23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully:
+for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
+
+11:24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the
+province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor
+his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil,
+and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong
+holds, even for a time.
+
+11:25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king
+of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be
+stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall
+not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
+
+11:26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy
+him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
+
+11:27 And both of these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and
+they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet
+the end shall be at the time appointed.
+
+11:28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his
+heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits,
+and return to his own land.
+
+11:29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the
+south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
+
+11:30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he
+shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy
+covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence
+with them that forsake the holy covenant.
+
+11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the
+sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and
+they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
+
+11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by
+flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and
+do exploits.
+
+11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many:
+yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by
+spoil, many days.
+
+11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little
+help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
+
+11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and
+to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because
+it is yet for a time appointed.
+
+11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt
+himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak
+marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the
+indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be
+done.
+
+11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire
+of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
+
+11:38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god
+whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and
+with precious stones, and pleasant things.
+
+11:39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,
+whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause
+them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
+
+11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at
+him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a
+whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and
+he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
+
+11:41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries
+shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even
+Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
+
+11:42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the
+land of Egypt shall not escape.
+
+11:43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of
+silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and
+the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
+
+11:44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble
+him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and
+utterly to make away many.
+
+11:45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the
+seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and
+none shall help him.
+
+12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which
+standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of
+trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same
+time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that
+shall be found written in the book.
+
+12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
+some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
+
+12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
+firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for
+ever and ever.
+
+12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to
+the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
+increased.
+
+12:5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one
+on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of
+the bank of the river.
+
+12:6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the
+waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
+12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters
+of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto
+heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a
+time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to
+scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be
+finished.
+
+12:8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what
+shall be the end of these things? 12:9 And he said, Go thy way,
+Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the
+end.
+
+12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the
+wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but
+the wise shall understand.
+
+12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,
+and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a
+thousand two hundred and ninety days.
+
+12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
+hundred and five and thirty days.
+
+12:13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest,
+and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
+
+
+
+
+Hosea
+
+
+1:1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in
+the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in
+the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
+
+1:2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said
+to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of
+whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from
+the LORD.
+
+1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
+conceived, and bare him a son.
+
+1:4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a
+little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of
+Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
+
+1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow
+of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.
+
+1:6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto
+him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the
+house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
+
+1:7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them
+by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword,
+nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
+
+1:8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
+
+1:9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and
+I will not be your God.
+
+1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of
+the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to
+pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
+people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the
+living God.
+
+1:11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be
+gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall
+come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
+
+2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
+
+2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am
+I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her
+sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 2:3 Lest I strip
+her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her
+as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with
+thirst.
+
+2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the
+children of whoredoms.
+
+2:5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them
+hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that
+give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my
+drink.
+
+2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a
+wall, that she shall not find her paths.
+
+2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake
+them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she
+say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better
+with me than now.
+
+2:8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and
+multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
+
+2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time
+thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool
+and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
+
+2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
+and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
+
+2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new
+moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
+
+2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath
+said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will
+make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
+
+2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned
+incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her
+jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
+
+2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
+wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
+
+2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of
+Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of
+her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of
+Egypt.
+
+2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call
+me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
+
+2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and
+they shall no more be remembered by their name.
+
+2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts
+of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping
+things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the
+battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
+
+2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth
+thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness,
+and in mercies.
+
+2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt
+know the LORD.
+
+2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the
+LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 2:22 And
+the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they
+shall hear Jezreel.
+
+2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy
+upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which
+were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art
+my God.
+
+3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her
+friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward
+the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of
+wine.
+
+3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an
+homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: 3:3 And I said unto her,
+Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and
+thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
+
+3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king,
+and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image,
+and without an ephod, and without teraphim: 3:5 Afterward shall the
+children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David
+their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter
+days.
+
+4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD
+hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is
+no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
+
+4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing
+adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
+
+4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth
+therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the
+fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
+
+4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as
+they that strive with the priest.
+
+4:5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall
+fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
+
+4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast
+rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no
+priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will
+also forget thy children.
+
+4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will
+I change their glory into shame.
+
+4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on
+their iniquity.
+
+4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish
+them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
+
+4:10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit
+whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take
+heed to the LORD.
+
+4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
+
+4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth
+unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and
+they have gone a whoring from under their God.
+
+4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense
+upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow
+thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and
+your spouses shall commit adultery.
+
+4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor
+your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated
+with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people
+that doth not understand shall fall.
+
+4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend;
+and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear,
+The LORD liveth.
+
+4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD
+will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
+
+4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
+
+4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually:
+her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
+
+4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be
+ashamed because of their sacrifices.
+
+5:1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give
+ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye
+have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
+
+5:2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have
+been a rebuker of them all.
+
+5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim,
+thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
+
+5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the
+spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known
+the LORD.
+
+5:5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall
+Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with
+them.
+
+5:6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the
+LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from
+them.
+
+5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have
+begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their
+portions.
+
+5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud
+at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
+
+5:9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes
+of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
+
+5:10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:
+therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
+
+5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly
+walked after the commandment.
+
+5:12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of
+Judah as rottenness.
+
+5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went
+Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal
+you, nor cure you of your wound.
+
+5:14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the
+house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away,
+and none shall rescue him.
+
+5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their
+offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me
+early.
+
+6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he
+will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
+
+6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise
+us up, and we shall live in his sight.
+
+6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going
+forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the
+rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
+
+6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do
+unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early
+dew it goeth away.
+
+6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by
+the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth
+forth.
+
+6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God
+more than burnt offerings.
+
+6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they
+dealt treacherously against me.
+
+6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with
+blood.
+
+6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests
+murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
+
+6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is
+the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
+
+6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned
+the captivity of my people.
+
+7:1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was
+discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood;
+and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
+
+7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their
+wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are
+before my face.
+
+7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes
+with their lies.
+
+7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who
+ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be
+leavened.
+
+7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles
+of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
+
+7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie
+in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth
+as a flaming fire.
+
+7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all
+their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
+
+7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake
+not turned.
+
+7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea,
+gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
+
+7:10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not
+return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
+
+7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to
+Egypt, they go to Assyria.
+
+7:12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring
+them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their
+congregation hath heard.
+
+7:13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them!
+because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed
+them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
+
+7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they
+howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine,
+and they rebel against me.
+
+7:15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they
+imagine mischief against me.
+
+7:16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful
+bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their
+tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
+
+8:1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against
+the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and
+trespassed against my law.
+
+8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
+
+8:3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall
+pursue him.
+
+8:4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and
+I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them
+idols, that they may be cut off.
+
+8:5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled
+against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 8:6
+For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not
+God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
+
+8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it
+hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the
+strangers shall swallow it up.
+
+8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a
+vessel wherein is no pleasure.
+
+8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:
+Ephraim hath hired lovers.
+
+8:10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather
+them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of
+princes.
+
+8:11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be
+unto him to sin.
+
+8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were
+counted as a strange thing.
+
+8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and
+eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their
+iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
+
+8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and
+Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his
+cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
+
+9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast
+gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every
+cornfloor.
+
+9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine
+shall fail in her.
+
+9:3 They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return
+to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
+
+9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall
+they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the
+bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their
+bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
+
+9:5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of
+the LORD? 9:6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt
+shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for
+their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their
+tabernacles.
+
+9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come;
+Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad,
+for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
+
+9:8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a
+snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
+
+9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah:
+therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
+
+9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers
+as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to
+Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their
+abominations were according as they loved.
+
+9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the
+birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
+
+9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them,
+that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I
+depart from them! 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a
+pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the
+murderer.
+
+9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying
+womb and dry breasts.
+
+9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for
+the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I
+will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
+
+9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no
+fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved
+fruit of their womb.
+
+9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto
+him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
+
+10:1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:
+according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars;
+according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
+
+10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall
+break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
+
+10:3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not
+the LORD; what then should a king do to us? 10:4 They have spoken
+words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth
+up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
+
+10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of
+Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests
+thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is
+departed from it.
+
+10:6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king
+Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his
+own counsel.
+
+10:7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
+
+10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be
+destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars;
+and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall
+on us.
+
+10:9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they
+stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not
+overtake them.
+
+10:10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people
+shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in
+their two furrows.
+
+10:11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread
+out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make
+Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
+
+10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your
+fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain
+righteousness upon you.
+
+10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have
+eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the
+multitude of thy mighty men.
+
+10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy
+fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day
+of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
+
+10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in
+a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
+
+11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out
+of Egypt.
+
+11:2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto
+Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
+
+11:3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they
+knew not that I healed them.
+
+11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to
+them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat
+unto them.
+
+11:5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian
+shall be his king, because they refused to return.
+
+11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his
+branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
+
+11:7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called
+them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
+
+11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee,
+Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as
+Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled
+together.
+
+11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not
+return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in
+the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
+
+11:10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when
+he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
+
+11:11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of
+the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the
+LORD.
+
+11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel
+with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the
+saints.
+
+12:1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he
+daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with
+the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
+
+12:2 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish
+Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he
+recompense him.
+
+12:3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength
+he had power with God: 12:4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and
+prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in
+Bethel, and there he spake with us; 12:5 Even the LORD God of hosts;
+the LORD is his memorial.
+
+12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait
+on thy God continually.
+
+12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he
+loveth to oppress.
+
+12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
+substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that
+were sin.
+
+12:9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet
+make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
+
+12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
+visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
+
+12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they
+sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the
+furrows of the fields.
+
+12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for
+a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
+
+12:13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a
+prophet was he preserved.
+
+12:14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he
+leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto
+him.
+
+13:1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but
+when he offended in Baal, he died.
+
+13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images
+of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all
+of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that
+sacrifice kiss the calves.
+
+13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew
+that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out
+of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
+
+13:4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt
+know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
+
+13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
+
+13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were
+filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
+
+13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way
+will I observe them: 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved
+of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I
+devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
+
+13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
+
+13:10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all
+thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and
+princes? 13:11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in
+my wrath.
+
+13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
+
+13:13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an
+unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking
+forth of children.
+
+13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
+them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be
+thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
+
+13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall
+come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his
+spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall
+spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
+
+13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her
+God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in
+pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
+
+14:1 O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by
+thine iniquity.
+
+14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take
+away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the
+calves of our lips.
+
+14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither
+will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in
+thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
+
+14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine
+anger is turned away from him.
+
+14:5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and
+cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
+
+14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive
+tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
+
+14:7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive
+as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the
+wine of Lebanon.
+
+14:8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have
+heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is
+thy fruit found.
+
+14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and
+he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just
+shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
+
+
+
+
+Joel
+
+
+1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
+
+1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
+
+Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 1:3
+Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their
+children, and their children another generation.
+
+1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and
+that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that
+which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
+
+1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,
+because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
+
+1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number,
+whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a
+great lion.
+
+1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made
+it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
+
+1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her
+youth.
+
+1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house
+of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
+
+1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted:
+the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
+
+1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the
+wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is
+perished.
+
+1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the
+pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the
+trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from
+the sons of men.
+
+1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of
+the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God:
+for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the
+house of your God.
+
+1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and
+all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God,
+and cry unto the LORD, 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD
+is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
+
+1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness
+from the house of our God? 1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods,
+the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn
+is withered.
+
+1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed,
+because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made
+desolate.
+
+1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the
+pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of
+the field.
+
+1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of
+waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the
+wilderness.
+
+2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
+mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of
+the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2:2 A day of darkness and of
+gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning
+spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not
+been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the
+years of many generations.
+
+2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the
+land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate
+wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
+
+2:4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as
+horsemen, so shall they run.
+
+2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they
+leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as
+a strong people set in battle array.
+
+2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall
+gather blackness.
+
+2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men
+of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not
+break their ranks: 2:8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall
+walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they
+shall not be wounded.
+
+2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the
+wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the
+windows like a thief.
+
+2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the
+sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
+shining: 2:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for
+his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for
+the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
+2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all
+your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
+2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the
+LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
+great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
+
+2:14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing
+behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD
+your God? 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a
+solemn assembly: 2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,
+assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the
+breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out
+of her closet.
+
+2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the
+porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and
+give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over
+them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
+2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
+
+2:19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will
+send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith:
+and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 2:20 But I
+will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him
+into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea,
+and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come
+up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great
+things.
+
+2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great
+things.
+
+2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the
+wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and
+the vine do yield their strength.
+
+2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your
+God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will
+cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter
+rain in the first month.
+
+2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall
+overflow with wine and oil.
+
+2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten,
+the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army
+which I sent among you.
+
+2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name
+of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
+people shall never be ashamed.
+
+2:27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am
+the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be
+ashamed.
+
+2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my
+spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
+prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see
+visions: 2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in
+those days will I pour out my spirit.
+
+2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood,
+and fire, and pillars of smoke.
+
+2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
+before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
+
+2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name
+of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem
+shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom
+the LORD shall call.
+
+3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring
+again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 3:2 I will also gather all
+nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and
+will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel,
+whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
+
+3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an
+harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
+
+3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all
+the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye
+recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon
+your own head; 3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and
+have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 3:6 The
+children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto
+the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
+
+3:7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold
+them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 3:8 And I
+will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children
+of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far
+off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
+
+3:9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the
+mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 3:10
+Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears:
+let the weak say, I am strong.
+
+3:11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather
+yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come
+down, O LORD.
+
+3:12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of
+Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round
+about.
+
+3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you
+down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness
+is great.
+
+3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of
+the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
+
+3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall
+withdraw their shining.
+
+3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
+Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD
+will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of
+Israel.
+
+3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my
+holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
+strangers pass through her any more.
+
+3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall
+drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the
+rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come
+forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of
+Shittim.
+
+3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate
+wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because
+they have shed innocent blood in their land.
+
+3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to
+generation.
+
+3:21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the
+LORD dwelleth in Zion.
+
+
+
+
+Amos
+
+
+1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he
+saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the
+days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the
+earthquake.
+
+1:2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice
+from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and
+the top of Carmel shall wither.
+
+1:3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for
+four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have
+threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 1:4 But I will
+send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces
+of Benhadad.
+
+1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant
+from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the
+house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto
+Kir, saith the LORD.
+
+1:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for
+four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
+carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
+1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the
+palaces thereof: 1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod,
+and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine
+hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,
+saith the Lord GOD.
+
+1:9 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for
+four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
+delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the
+brotherly covenant: 1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus,
+which shall devour the palaces thereof.
+
+1:11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for
+four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did
+pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his
+anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: 1:12 But I
+will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
+
+1:13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of
+Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
+because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they
+might enlarge their border: 1:14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall
+of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in
+the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: 1:15
+And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together,
+saith the LORD.
+
+2:1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for
+four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned
+the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 2:2 But I will send a fire
+upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall
+die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: 2:3
+And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all
+the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
+
+2:4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for
+four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have
+despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and
+their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have
+walked: 2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
+palaces of Jerusalem.
+
+2:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for
+four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold
+the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 2:7 That
+pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn
+aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto
+the same maid, to profane my holy name: 2:8 And they lay themselves
+down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the
+wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
+
+2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the
+height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed
+his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
+
+2:10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty
+years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
+
+2:11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men
+for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the
+LORD.
+
+2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
+prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
+
+2:13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full
+of sheaves.
+
+2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong
+shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
+himself: 2:15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he
+that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that
+rideth the horse deliver himself.
+
+2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked
+in that day, saith the LORD.
+
+3:1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children
+of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land
+of Egypt, saying, 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the
+earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
+
+3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? 3:4 Will a lion
+roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of
+his den, if he have taken nothing? 3:5 Can a bird fall in a snare
+upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare
+from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? 3:6 Shall a trumpet be
+blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil
+in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD
+will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the
+prophets.
+
+3:8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken,
+who can but prophesy? 3:9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in
+the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon
+the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst
+thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
+
+3:10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up
+violence and robbery in their palaces.
+
+3:11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be
+even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from
+thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
+
+3:12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of
+the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of
+Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and
+in Damascus in a couch.
+
+3:13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD,
+the God of hosts, 3:14 That in the day that I shall visit the
+transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of
+Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the
+ground.
+
+3:15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the
+houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end,
+saith the LORD.
+
+4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of
+Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to
+their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
+
+4:2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall
+come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your
+posterity with fishhooks.
+
+4:3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is
+before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
+
+4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression;
+and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three
+years: 4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and
+proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye
+children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
+
+4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
+and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto
+me, saith the LORD.
+
+4:7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet
+three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city,
+and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained
+upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
+
+4:8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but
+they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
+LORD.
+
+4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and
+your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the
+palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
+LORD.
+
+4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt:
+your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your
+horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your
+nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
+
+4:11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and
+Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet
+have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
+
+4:12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will
+do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
+
+4:13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind,
+and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning
+darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD,
+The God of hosts, is his name.
+
+5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation,
+O house of Israel.
+
+5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is
+forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
+
+5:3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand
+shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall
+leave ten, to the house of Israel.
+
+5:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and
+ye shall live: 5:5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and
+pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and
+Bethel shall come to nought.
+
+5:6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in
+the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in
+Bethel.
+
+5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in
+the earth, 5:8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and
+turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark
+with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them
+out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name: 5:9 That
+strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled
+shall come against the fortress.
+
+5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that
+speaketh uprightly.
+
+5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye
+take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone,
+but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards,
+but ye shall not drink wine of them.
+
+5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins:
+they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor
+in the gate from their right.
+
+5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is
+an evil time.
+
+5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the
+God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
+
+5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the
+gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the
+remnant of Joseph.
+
+5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus;
+Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the
+highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning,
+and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
+
+5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through
+thee, saith the LORD.
+
+5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it
+for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
+
+5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went
+into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit
+him.
+
+5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even
+very dark, and no brightness in it? 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast
+days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
+
+5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I
+will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of
+your fat beasts.
+
+5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not
+hear the melody of thy viols.
+
+5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a
+mighty stream.
+
+5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
+wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 5:26 But ye have borne the
+tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god,
+which ye made to yourselves.
+
+5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
+saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
+
+6:1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of
+Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of
+Israel came! 6:2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye
+to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they
+better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
+6:3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence
+to come near; 6:4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves
+upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves
+out of the midst of the stall; 6:5 That chant to the sound of the
+viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; 6:6
+That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief
+ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
+
+6:7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go
+captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be
+removed.
+
+6:8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of
+hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces:
+therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
+
+6:9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house,
+that they shall die.
+
+6:10 And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to
+bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is
+by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall
+say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make
+mention of the name of the LORD.
+
+6:11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great
+house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
+
+6:12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen?
+for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness
+into hemlock: 6:13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say,
+Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? 6:14 But, behold,
+I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the
+LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in
+of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
+
+7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed
+grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth;
+and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
+
+7:2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the
+grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee:
+by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
+
+7:3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
+
+7:4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD
+called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat
+up a part.
+
+7:5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall
+Jacob arise? for he is small.
+
+7:6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord
+GOD.
+
+7:7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by
+a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
+
+7:8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A
+plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the
+midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more: 7:9
+And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of
+Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of
+Jeroboam with the sword.
+
+7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of
+Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the
+house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
+
+7:11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel
+shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
+
+7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into
+the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: 7:13 But
+prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel,
+and it is the king’s court.
+
+7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet,
+neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of
+sycomore fruit: 7:15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and
+the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
+
+7:16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest,
+Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house
+of Isaac.
+
+7:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the
+city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy
+land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land:
+and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
+
+8:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of
+summer fruit.
+
+8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer
+fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of
+Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
+
+8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith
+the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they
+shall cast them forth with silence.
+
+8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor
+of the land to fail, 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that
+we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making
+the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by
+deceit? 8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a
+pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 8:7 The LORD
+hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any
+of their works.
+
+8:8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that
+dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall
+be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
+
+8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I
+will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in
+the clear day: 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all
+your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all
+loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the
+mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
+
+8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a
+famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but
+of hearing the words of the LORD: 8:12 And they shall wander from sea
+to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro
+to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
+
+8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for
+thirst.
+
+8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan,
+liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and
+never rise up again.
+
+9:1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the
+lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the
+head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he
+that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them
+shall not be delivered.
+
+9:2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them;
+though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 9:3 And
+though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and
+take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the
+bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall
+bite them: 9:4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies,
+thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will
+set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
+
+9:5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it
+shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise
+up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of
+Egypt.
+
+9:6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded
+his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and
+poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
+
+9:7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of
+Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land
+of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
+9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and
+I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will
+not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
+
+9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among
+all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the
+least grain fall upon the earth.
+
+9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say,
+The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
+
+9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is
+fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his
+ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 9:12 That they may
+possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called
+by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
+
+9:13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall
+overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed;
+and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
+
+9:14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and
+they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall
+plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make
+gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
+
+9:15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be
+pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD
+thy God.
+
+
+
+
+Obadiah
+
+
+1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom;
+We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among
+the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
+
+1:2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly
+despised.
+
+1:3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in
+the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his
+heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 1:4 Though thou exalt
+thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars,
+thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
+
+1:5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut
+off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the
+grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes? 1:6
+How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things
+sought up! 1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even
+to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived
+thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a
+wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
+
+1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men
+out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 1:9 And thy
+mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of
+the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
+
+1:10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover
+thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
+
+1:11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that
+the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered
+into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of
+them.
+
+1:12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in
+the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have
+rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction;
+neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
+
+1:13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the
+day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their
+affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their
+substance in the day of their calamity; 1:14 Neither shouldest thou
+have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape;
+neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain
+in the day of distress.
+
+1:15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou
+hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon
+thine own head.
+
+1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the
+heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall
+swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
+
+1:17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be
+holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
+
+1:18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a
+flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in
+them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the
+house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
+
+1:19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they
+of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of
+Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
+
+1:20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall
+possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity
+of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the
+south.
+
+1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of
+Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
+
+
+
+
+Jonah
+
+
+1:1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai,
+saying, 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it;
+for their wickedness is come up before me.
+
+1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the
+LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish:
+so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them
+unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
+
+1:4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a
+mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
+
+1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god,
+and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to
+lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the
+ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
+
+1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest
+thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will
+think upon us, that we perish not.
+
+1:7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots,
+that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast
+lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
+
+1:8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause
+this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest
+thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou? 1:9 And he
+said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of
+heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
+
+1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why hast
+thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the
+LORD, because he had told them.
+
+1:11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea
+may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
+
+1:12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the
+sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake
+this great tempest is upon you.
+
+1:13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they
+could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
+
+1:14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O
+LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay
+not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased
+thee.
+
+1:15 So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the
+sea ceased from her raging.
+
+1:16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice
+unto the LORD, and made vows.
+
+1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And
+Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
+
+2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
+2:2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and
+he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my
+voice.
+
+2:3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas;
+and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves
+passed over me.
+
+2:4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again
+toward thy holy temple.
+
+2:5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed
+me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
+
+2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her
+bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from
+corruption, O LORD my God.
+
+2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my
+prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
+
+2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
+
+2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I
+will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
+
+2:10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon
+the dry land.
+
+3:1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
+3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the
+preaching that I bid thee.
+
+3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of
+the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’
+journey.
+
+3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he
+cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
+
+3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and
+put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
+
+3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
+throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth,
+and sat in ashes.
+
+3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by
+the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor
+beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink
+water: 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry
+mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and
+from the violence that is in their hands.
+
+3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his
+fierce anger, that we perish not? 3:10 And God saw their works, that
+they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he
+had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
+
+4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
+
+4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was
+not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled
+before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and
+merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of
+the evil.
+
+4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for
+it is better for me to die than to live.
+
+4:4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? 4:5 So Jonah
+went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there
+made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see
+what would become of the city.
+
+4:6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over
+Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from
+his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
+
+4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it
+smote the gourd that it withered.
+
+4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a
+vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he
+fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me
+to die than to live.
+
+4:9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?
+And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
+
+4:10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the
+which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in
+a night, and perished in a night: 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh,
+that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that
+cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also
+much cattle?
+
+
+
+
+Micah
+
+
+1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the
+days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw
+concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
+
+1:2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is:
+and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy
+temple.
+
+1:3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come
+down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
+
+1:4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall
+be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured
+down a steep place.
+
+1:5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of
+the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not
+Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not
+Jerusalem? 1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field,
+and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones
+thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
+
+1:7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and
+all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols
+thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an
+harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
+
+1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I
+will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
+
+1:9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come
+unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
+
+1:10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of
+Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
+
+1:11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked:
+the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel;
+he shall receive of you his standing.
+
+1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil
+came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
+
+1:13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift
+beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for
+the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
+
+1:14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses
+of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
+
+1:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he
+shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
+
+1:16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge
+thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
+
+2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds!
+when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the
+power of their hand.
+
+2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and
+take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and
+his heritage.
+
+2:3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I
+devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither
+shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
+
+2:4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament
+with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath
+changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me!
+turning away he hath divided our fields.
+
+2:5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in
+the congregation of the LORD.
+
+2:6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not
+prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
+
+2:7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the
+LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him
+that walketh uprightly? 2:8 Even of late my people is risen up as an
+enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by
+securely as men averse from war.
+
+2:9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant
+houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
+
+2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is
+polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
+
+2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I
+will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be
+the prophet of this people.
+
+2:12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely
+gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of
+Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great
+noise by reason of the multitude of men.
+
+2:13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have
+passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall
+pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
+
+3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of
+the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 3:2 Who hate
+the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them,
+and their flesh from off their bones; 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my
+people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones,
+and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the
+caldron.
+
+3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he
+will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved
+themselves ill in their doings.
+
+3:5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people
+err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth
+not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
+
+3:6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a
+vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and
+the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark
+over them.
+
+3:7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea,
+they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
+
+3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of
+judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and
+to Israel his sin.
+
+3:9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes
+of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
+
+3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
+
+3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach
+for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they
+lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can
+come upon us.
+
+3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and
+Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the
+high places of the forest.
+
+4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of
+the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the
+mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall
+flow unto it.
+
+4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to
+the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he
+will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law
+shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
+
+4:3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations
+afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
+spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against
+nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
+
+4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig
+tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of
+hosts hath spoken it.
+
+4:5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we
+will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
+
+4:6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and
+I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
+4:7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast
+far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount
+Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
+
+4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of
+Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom
+shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
+
+4:9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy
+counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
+
+4:10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a
+woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and
+thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon;
+there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from
+the hand of thine enemies.
+
+4:11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let
+her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
+
+4:12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand
+they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the
+floor.
+
+4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn
+iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces
+many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their
+substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
+
+5:1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid
+siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon
+the cheek.
+
+5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the
+thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that
+is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old,
+from everlasting.
+
+5:3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which
+travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall
+return unto the children of Israel.
+
+5:4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the
+majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now
+shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
+
+5:5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into
+our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise
+against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
+
+5:6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the
+land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from
+the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth
+within our borders.
+
+5:7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a
+dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not
+for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
+
+5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst
+of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young
+lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth
+down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
+
+5:9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all
+thine enemies shall be cut off.
+
+5:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I
+will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy
+thy chariots: 5:11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and
+throw down all thy strong holds: 5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts
+out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: 5:13 Thy
+graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the
+midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
+
+5:14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will
+I destroy thy cities.
+
+5:15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen,
+such as they have not heard.
+
+6:1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the
+mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
+
+6:2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong
+foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his
+people, and he will plead with Israel.
+
+6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I
+wearied thee? testify against me.
+
+6:4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee
+out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and
+Miriam.
+
+6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and
+what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal;
+that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
+
+6:6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the
+high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of
+a year old? 6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or
+with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my
+transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 6:8 He
+hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require
+of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
+thy God? 6:9 The LORD’s voice crieth unto the city, and the man of
+wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
+
+6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the
+wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 6:11 Shall I count
+them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful
+weights? 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the
+inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in
+their mouth.
+
+6:13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making
+thee desolate because of thy sins.
+
+6:14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall
+be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not
+deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
+
+6:15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the
+olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but
+shalt not drink wine.
+
+6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house
+of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a
+desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall
+bear the reproach of my people.
+
+7:1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits,
+as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my
+soul desired the firstripe fruit.
+
+7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none
+upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man
+his brother with a net.
+
+7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince
+asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he
+uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
+
+7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a
+thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now
+shall be their perplexity.
+
+7:5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep
+the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
+
+7:6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up
+against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a
+man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
+
+7:7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my
+salvation: my God will hear me.
+
+7:8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise;
+when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
+
+7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned
+against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he
+will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his
+righteousness.
+
+7:10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover
+her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall
+behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
+
+7:11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the
+decree be far removed.
+
+7:12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and
+from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river,
+and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
+
+7:13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that
+dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
+
+7:14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which
+dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in
+Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
+
+7:15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will
+I shew unto him marvellous things.
+
+7:16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they
+shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
+
+7:17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of
+their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD
+our God, and shall fear because of thee.
+
+7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth
+by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not
+his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
+
+7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will
+subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the
+depths of the sea.
+
+7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham,
+which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
+
+
+
+
+Nahum
+
+
+1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
+
+1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is
+furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he
+reserveth wrath for his enemies.
+
+1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all
+acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the
+storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
+
+1:4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the
+rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon
+languisheth.
+
+1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is
+burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
+
+1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the
+fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the
+rocks are thrown down by him.
+
+1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he
+knoweth them that trust in him.
+
+1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the
+place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
+
+1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end:
+affliction shall not rise up the second time.
+
+1:10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are
+drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
+
+1:11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the
+LORD, a wicked counsellor.
+
+1:12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet
+thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have
+afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
+
+1:13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy
+bonds in sunder.
+
+1:14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no
+more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off
+the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou
+art vile.
+
+1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good
+tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts,
+perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he
+is utterly cut off.
+
+2:1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the
+munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power
+mightily.
+
+2:2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the
+excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and
+marred their vine branches.
+
+2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in
+scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his
+preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
+
+2:4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one
+against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they
+shall run like the lightnings.
+
+2:5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk;
+they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be
+prepared.
+
+2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be
+dissolved.
+
+2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and
+her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon
+their breasts.
+
+2:8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee
+away.
+
+Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
+
+2:9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is
+none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
+
+2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the
+knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of
+them all gather blackness.
+
+2:11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the
+young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s
+whelp, and none made them afraid? 2:12 The lion did tear in pieces
+enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his
+holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
+
+2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
+burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young
+lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of
+thy messengers shall no more be heard.
+
+3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the
+prey departeth not; 3:2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the
+rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping
+chariots.
+
+3:3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering
+spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of
+carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon
+their corpses: 3:4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the
+wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations
+through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
+
+3:5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will
+discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy
+nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
+
+3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile,
+and will set thee as a gazingstock.
+
+3:7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall
+flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her?
+whence shall I seek comforters for thee? 3:8 Art thou better than
+populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters
+round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the
+sea? 3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite;
+Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
+
+3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young
+children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and
+they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were
+bound in chains.
+
+3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt
+seek strength because of the enemy.
+
+3:12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe
+figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the
+eater.
+
+3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of
+thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall
+devour thy bars.
+
+3:14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into
+clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
+
+3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off,
+it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the
+cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
+
+3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the
+cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
+
+3:17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great
+grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the
+sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they
+are.
+
+3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell
+in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man
+gathereth them.
+
+3:19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all
+that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon
+whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
+
+
+
+
+Habakkuk
+
+
+1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
+
+1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out
+unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! 1:3 Why dost thou shew
+me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and
+violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and
+contention.
+
+1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:
+for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong
+judgment proceedeth.
+
+1:5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously:
+for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though
+it be told you.
+
+1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation,
+which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the
+dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
+
+1:7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity
+shall proceed of themselves.
+
+1:8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more
+fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread
+themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as
+the eagle that hasteth to eat.
+
+1:9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the
+east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
+
+1:10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a
+scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall
+heap dust, and take it.
+
+1:11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend,
+imputing this his power unto his god.
+
+1:12 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we
+shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O
+mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
+
+1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on
+iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously,
+and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more
+righteous than he? 1:14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as
+the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? 1:15 They take up
+all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather
+them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
+
+1:16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto
+their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat
+plenteous.
+
+1:17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually
+to slay the nations? 2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon
+the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I
+shall answer when I am reproved.
+
+2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it
+plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
+
+2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it
+shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it
+will surely come, it will not tarry.
+
+2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the
+just shall live by his faith.
+
+2:5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man,
+neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as
+death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations,
+and heapeth unto him all people: 2:6 Shall not all these take up a
+parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe
+to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him
+that ladeth himself with thick clay! 2:7 Shall they not rise up
+suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou
+shalt be for booties unto them? 2:8 Because thou hast spoiled many
+nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of
+men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all
+that dwell therein.
+
+2:9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that
+he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power
+of evil! 2:10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off
+many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
+
+2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the
+timber shall answer it.
+
+2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a
+city by iniquity! 2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that
+the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary
+themselves for very vanity? 2:14 For the earth shall be filled with
+the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
+
+2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy
+bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on
+their nakedness! 2:16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink
+thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s
+right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on
+thy glory.
+
+2:17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of
+beasts, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the
+violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
+
+2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath
+graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of
+his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? 2:19 Woe unto him that
+saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach!
+Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath
+at all in the midst of it.
+
+2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep
+silence before him.
+
+3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
+
+3:2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive
+thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make
+known; in wrath remember mercy.
+
+3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His
+glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
+
+3:4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of
+his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
+
+3:5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at
+his feet.
+
+3:6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the
+nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual
+hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
+
+3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the
+land of Midian did tremble.
+
+3:8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger
+against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst
+ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? 3:9 Thy bow was
+made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word.
+Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
+
+3:10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the
+water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands
+on high.
+
+3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of
+thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
+
+3:12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst
+thresh the heathen in anger.
+
+3:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for
+salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the
+house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck.
+Selah.
+
+3:14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his
+villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing
+was as to devour the poor secretly.
+
+3:15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the
+heap of great waters.
+
+3:16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice:
+rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I
+might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people,
+he will invade them with his troops.
+
+3:17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be
+in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall
+yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there
+shall be no herd in the stalls: 3:18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I
+will joy in the God of my salvation.
+
+3:19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’
+feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief
+singer on my stringed instruments.
+
+
+
+
+Zephaniah
+
+
+1:1 The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi,
+the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the
+days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
+
+1:2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the
+LORD.
+
+1:3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the
+heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the
+wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
+
+1:4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from
+this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests; 1:5 And
+them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that
+worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham; 1:6 And
+them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not
+sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
+
+1:7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the
+LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid
+his guests.
+
+1:8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’s sacrifice, that
+I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as
+are clothed with strange apparel.
+
+1:9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the
+threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
+
+1:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there
+shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from
+the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
+
+1:11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are
+cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
+
+1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search
+Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their
+lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will
+he do evil.
+
+1:13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a
+desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and
+they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
+
+1:14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth
+greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall
+cry there bitterly.
+
+1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day
+of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day
+of clouds and thick darkness, 1:16 A day of the trumpet and alarm
+against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
+
+1:17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like
+blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood
+shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
+
+1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them
+in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured
+by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance
+of all them that dwell in the land.
+
+2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not
+desired; 2:2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the
+chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the
+day of the LORD’s anger come upon you.
+
+2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his
+judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid
+in the day of the LORD’s anger.
+
+2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall
+drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
+
+2:5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the
+Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land
+of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no
+inhabitant.
+
+2:6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds,
+and folds for flocks.
+
+2:7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they
+shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in
+the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away
+their captivity.
+
+2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the
+children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and
+magnified themselves against their border.
+
+2:9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
+Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah,
+even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual
+desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant
+of my people shall possess them.
+
+2:10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have
+reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of
+hosts.
+
+2:11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the
+gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his
+place, even all the isles of the heathen.
+
+2:12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
+
+2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy
+Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a
+wilderness.
+
+2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of
+the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the
+upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation
+shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.
+
+2:15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in
+her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a
+desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth
+by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
+
+3:1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
+3:2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted
+not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
+
+3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening
+wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
+
+3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have
+polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
+
+3:5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity:
+every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but
+the unjust knoweth no shame.
+
+3:6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made
+their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed,
+so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
+
+3:7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction;
+so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them:
+but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
+
+3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I
+rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations,
+that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation,
+even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the
+fire of my jealousy.
+
+3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may
+all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
+
+3:10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the
+daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
+
+3:11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein
+thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of
+the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no
+more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
+
+3:12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor
+people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
+
+3:13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies;
+neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they
+shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
+
+3:14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice
+with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
+
+3:15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine
+enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee:
+thou shalt not see evil any more.
+
+3:16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to
+Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
+
+3:17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he
+will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy
+over thee with singing.
+
+3:18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly,
+who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
+
+3:19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I
+will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I
+will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put
+to shame.
+
+3:20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I
+gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people
+of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes,
+saith the LORD.
+
+
+
+
+Haggai
+
+
+1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the
+first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the
+prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and
+to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, 1:2 Thus
+speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not
+come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
+
+1:3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 1:4
+Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this
+house lie waste? 1:5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;
+Consider your ways.
+
+1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not
+enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but
+there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it
+into a bag with holes.
+
+1:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
+
+1:8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I
+will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
+
+1:9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought
+it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of
+mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
+
+1:10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth
+is stayed from her fruit.
+
+1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains,
+and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon
+that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle,
+and upon all the labour of the hands.
+
+1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of
+Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed
+the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet,
+as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the
+LORD.
+
+1:13 Then spake Haggai the LORD’s messenger in the LORD’s message unto
+the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
+
+1:14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of
+Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of
+Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the
+people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts,
+their God, 1:15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in
+the second year of Darius the king.
+
+2:1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month,
+came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, 2:2 Speak now
+to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua
+the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the
+people, saying, 2:3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her
+first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in
+comparison of it as nothing? 2:4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel,
+saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high
+priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and
+work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: 2:5 According to the
+word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my
+spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
+
+2:6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while,
+and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry
+land; 2:7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations
+shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of
+hosts.
+
+2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the
+former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace,
+saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+2:10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second
+year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet,
+saying, 2:11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests
+concerning the law, saying, 2:12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt
+of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or
+wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered
+and said, No.
+
+2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any
+of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It
+shall be unclean.
+
+2:14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this
+nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands;
+and that which they offer there is unclean.
+
+2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from
+before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: 2:16
+Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures,
+there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out
+fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
+
+2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all
+the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
+
+2:18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and
+twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the
+foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
+
+2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig
+tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth:
+from this day will I bless you.
+
+2:20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and
+twentieth day of the month, saying, 2:21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor
+of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; 2:22 And I
+will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength
+of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and
+those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come
+down, every one by the sword of his brother.
+
+2:23 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O
+Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will
+make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+
+
+
+Zechariah
+
+
+1:1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word
+of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the
+prophet, saying, 1:2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your
+fathers.
+
+1:3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn
+ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith
+the LORD of hosts.
+
+1:4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have
+cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your
+evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor
+hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
+
+1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for
+ever? 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants
+the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they
+returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us,
+according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt
+with us.
+
+1:7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is
+the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the
+LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the
+prophet, saying, 1:8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a
+red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the
+bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
+
+1:9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked
+with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
+
+1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said,
+These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the
+earth.
+
+1:11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the
+myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth,
+and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
+
+1:12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts,
+how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of
+Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and
+ten years? 1:13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me
+with good words and comfortable words.
+
+1:14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou,
+saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and
+for Zion with a great jealousy.
+
+1:15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease:
+for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the
+affliction.
+
+1:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with
+mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a
+line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
+
+1:17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through
+prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort
+Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
+
+1:18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
+
+1:19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And
+he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah,
+Israel, and Jerusalem.
+
+1:20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
+
+1:21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These
+are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up
+his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of
+the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to
+scatter it.
+
+2:1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a
+measuring line in his hand.
+
+2:2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure
+Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length
+thereof.
+
+2:3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another
+angel went out to meet him, 2:4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this
+young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls
+for the multitude of men and cattle therein: 2:5 For I, saith the
+LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the
+glory in the midst of her.
+
+2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the
+LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven,
+saith the LORD.
+
+2:7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of
+Babylon.
+
+2:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me
+unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth
+the apple of his eye.
+
+2:9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a
+spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath
+sent me.
+
+2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will
+dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
+
+2:11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and
+shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou
+shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
+
+2:12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land,
+and shall choose Jerusalem again.
+
+2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out
+of his holy habitation.
+
+3:1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel
+of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
+
+3:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even
+the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand
+plucked out of the fire? 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy
+garments, and stood before the angel.
+
+3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him,
+saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said,
+Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will
+clothe thee with change of raiment.
+
+3:5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a
+fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel
+of the LORD stood by.
+
+3:6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying, 3:7 Thus
+saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou
+wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt
+also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these
+that stand by.
+
+3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit
+before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring
+forth my servant the BRANCH.
+
+3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one
+stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof,
+saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land
+in one day.
+
+3:10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his
+neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
+
+4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a
+man that is wakened out of his sleep.
+
+4:2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and
+behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and
+his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are
+upon the top thereof: 4:3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the
+right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
+
+4:4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying,
+What are these, my lord? 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me
+answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said,
+No, my lord.
+
+4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of
+the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by
+my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt
+become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with
+shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
+
+4:8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 4:9 The hands
+of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall
+also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent
+me unto you.
+
+4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall
+rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with
+those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro
+through the whole earth.
+
+4:11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive
+trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side
+thereof? 4:12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these
+two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden
+oil out of themselves? 4:13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou
+not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
+
+4:14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the
+LORD of the whole earth.
+
+5:1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a
+flying roll.
+
+5:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a
+flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth
+thereof ten cubits.
+
+5:3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the
+face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off
+as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be
+cut off as on that side according to it.
+
+5:4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter
+into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth
+falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and
+shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
+
+5:5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me,
+Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
+
+5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth
+forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the
+earth.
+
+5:7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a
+woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
+
+5:8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of
+the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
+
+5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came
+out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings
+like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the
+earth and the heaven.
+
+5:10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these
+bear the ephah? 5:11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the
+land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her
+own base.
+
+6:1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold,
+there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the
+mountains were mountains of brass.
+
+6:2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot
+black horses; 6:3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the
+fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
+
+6:4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What
+are these, my lord? 6:5 And the angel answered and said unto me,
+These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from
+standing before the LORD of all the earth.
+
+6:6 The black horses which are therein go forth into the north
+country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth
+toward the south country.
+
+6:7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to
+and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro
+through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
+
+6:8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these
+that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north
+country.
+
+6:9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 6:10 Take of them
+of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which
+are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the
+house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; 6:11 Then take silver and gold,
+and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of
+Josedech, the high priest; 6:12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus
+speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The
+BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the
+temple of the LORD: 6:13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD;
+and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne;
+and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace
+shall be between them both.
+
+6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah,
+and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the
+LORD.
+
+6:15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of
+the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto
+you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice
+of the LORD your God.
+
+7:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the
+word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth
+month, even in Chisleu; 7:2 When they had sent unto the house of God
+Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, 7:3
+And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of
+hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month,
+separating myself, as I have done these so many years? 7:4 Then came
+the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, 7:5 Speak unto all the
+people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and
+mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did
+ye at all fast unto me, even to me? 7:6 And when ye did eat, and when
+ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
+7:7 Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the
+former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and
+the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and
+the plain? 7:8 And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
+7:9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment,
+and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 7:10 And
+oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor;
+and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
+
+7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and
+stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
+
+7:12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should
+hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his
+spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the
+LORD of hosts.
+
+7:13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would
+not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of
+hosts: 7:14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the
+nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them,
+that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant
+land desolate.
+
+8:1 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 8:2 Thus
+saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy,
+and I was jealous for her with great fury.
+
+8:3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in
+the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth;
+and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
+
+8:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old
+women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff
+in his hand for very age.
+
+8:5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls
+playing in the streets thereof.
+
+8:6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of
+the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous
+in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+8:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from
+the east country, and from the west country; 8:8 And I will bring
+them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall
+be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
+
+8:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that
+hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which
+were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts
+was laid, that the temple might be built.
+
+8:10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for
+beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in
+because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his
+neighbour.
+
+8:11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the
+former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+8:12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit,
+and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give
+their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all
+these things.
+
+8:13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the
+heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you,
+and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
+
+8:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you,
+when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I
+repented not: 8:15 So again have I thought in these days to do well
+unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
+
+8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the
+truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in
+your gates: 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts
+against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are
+things that I hate, saith the LORD.
+
+8:18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying, 8:19 Thus
+saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of
+the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth,
+shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts;
+therefore love the truth and peace.
+
+8:20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that
+there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: 8:21 And
+the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go
+speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I
+will go also.
+
+8:22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD
+of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
+
+8:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to
+pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the
+nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew,
+saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
+
+9:1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and
+Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all
+the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
+
+9:2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it
+be very wise.
+
+9:3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as
+the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
+
+9:4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in
+the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
+
+9:5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be
+very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and
+the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
+
+9:6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride
+of the Philistines.
+
+9:7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his
+abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he,
+shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and
+Ekron as a Jebusite.
+
+9:8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of
+him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no
+oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with
+mine eyes.
+
+9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
+Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having
+salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of
+an ass.
+
+9:10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from
+Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak
+peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to
+sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
+
+9:11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth
+thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
+
+9:12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do
+I declare that I will render double unto thee; 9:13 When I have bent
+Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O
+Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a
+mighty man.
+
+9:14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go
+forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and
+shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
+
+9:15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and
+subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as
+through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners
+of the altar.
+
+9:16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock
+of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up
+as an ensign upon his land.
+
+9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn
+shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
+
+10:1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the
+LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every
+one grass in the field.
+
+10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a
+lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they
+went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no
+shepherd.
+
+10:3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the
+goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of
+Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.
+
+10:4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him
+the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.
+
+10:5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies
+in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight,
+because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be
+confounded.
+
+10:6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the
+house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have
+mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off:
+for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
+
+10:7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart
+shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and
+be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
+
+10:8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them:
+and they shall increase as they have increased.
+
+10:9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me
+in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn
+again.
+
+10:10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and
+gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of
+Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.
+
+10:11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall
+smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry
+up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of
+Egypt shall depart away.
+
+10:12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up
+and down in his name, saith the LORD.
+
+11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
+
+11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are
+spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is
+come down.
+
+11:3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory
+is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of
+Jordan is spoiled.
+
+11:4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 11:5
+Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they
+that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own
+shepherds pity them not.
+
+11:6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the
+LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s
+hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land,
+and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
+
+11:7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the
+flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the
+other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
+
+11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed
+them, and their soul also abhorred me.
+
+11:9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die;
+and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest
+eat every one the flesh of another.
+
+11:10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I
+might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
+
+11:11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that
+waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
+
+11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if
+not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
+
+11:13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly
+price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of
+silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
+
+11:14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might
+break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
+
+11:15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of
+a foolish shepherd.
+
+11:16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not
+visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor
+heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he
+shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
+
+11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall
+be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried
+up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
+
+12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD,
+which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the
+earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
+
+12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the
+people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah
+and against Jerusalem.
+
+12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all
+people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces,
+though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
+
+12:4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with
+astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes
+upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with
+blindness.
+
+12:5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The
+inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts
+their God.
+
+12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of
+fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they
+shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the
+left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in
+Jerusalem.
+
+12:7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory
+of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do
+not magnify themselves against Judah.
+
+12:8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
+and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and
+the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before
+them.
+
+12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to
+destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
+
+12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications:
+and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall
+mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in
+bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
+
+12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the
+mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
+
+12:12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the
+house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house
+of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 12:13 The family of the house
+of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and
+their wives apart; 12:14 All the families that remain, every family
+apart, and their wives apart.
+
+13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of
+David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
+
+13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts,
+that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they
+shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and
+the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
+
+13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then
+his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou
+shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and
+his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when
+he prophesieth.
+
+13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be
+ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither
+shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: 13:5 But he shall say, I
+am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle
+from my youth.
+
+13:6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands?
+Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of
+my friends.
+
+13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is
+my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep
+shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
+
+13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD,
+two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be
+left therein.
+
+13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine
+them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they
+shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my
+people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
+
+14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
+divided in the midst of thee.
+
+14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and
+the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women
+ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the
+residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
+
+14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as
+when he fought in the day of battle.
+
+14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
+which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall
+cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and
+there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall
+remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
+
+14:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley
+of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye
+fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah:
+and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
+
+14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not
+be clear, nor dark: 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known
+to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at
+evening time it shall be light.
+
+14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from
+Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward
+the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
+
+14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall
+there be one LORD, and his name one.
+
+14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon
+south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her
+place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the
+corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s
+winepresses.
+
+14:11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter
+destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
+
+14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all
+the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall
+consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall
+consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in
+their mouth.
+
+14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from
+the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the
+hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of
+his neighbour.
+
+14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all
+the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver,
+and apparel, in great abundance.
+
+14:15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
+camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these
+tents, as this plague.
+
+14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all
+the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to
+year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of
+tabernacles.
+
+14:17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families
+of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts,
+even upon them shall be no rain.
+
+14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no
+rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the
+heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
+
+14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all
+nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
+
+14:20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,
+HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like
+the bowls before the altar.
+
+14:21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto
+the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of
+them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the
+Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
+
+
+
+
+Malachi
+
+
+1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
+
+1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou
+loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved
+Jacob, 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage
+waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
+
+1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and
+build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall
+build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of
+wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for
+ever.
+
+1:5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be
+magnified from the border of Israel.
+
+1:6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be
+a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my
+fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my
+name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? 1:7 Ye offer
+polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted
+thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
+
+1:8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye
+offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy
+governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith
+the LORD of hosts.
+
+1:9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us:
+this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the
+LORD of hosts.
+
+1:10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought?
+neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure
+in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at
+your hand.
+
+1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the
+same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place
+incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my
+name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is
+polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
+
+1:13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed
+at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn,
+and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I
+accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
+
+1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and
+voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a
+great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the
+heathen.
+
+2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
+
+2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give
+glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse
+upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them
+already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
+
+2:3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces,
+even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with
+it.
+
+2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that
+my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+2:5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him
+for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
+
+2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in
+his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many
+away from iniquity.
+
+2:7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek
+the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
+
+2:8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble
+at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of
+hosts.
+
+2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all
+the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been
+partial in the law.
+
+2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do
+we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the
+covenant of our fathers? 2:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an
+abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath
+profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the
+daughter of a strange god.
+
+2:12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the
+scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an
+offering unto the LORD of hosts.
+
+2:13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with
+tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth
+not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your
+hand.
+
+2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between
+thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt
+treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
+
+2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.
+And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take
+heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife
+of his youth.
+
+2:16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting
+away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of
+hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not
+treacherously.
+
+2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein
+have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in
+the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God
+of judgment? 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall
+prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly
+come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye
+delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when
+he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
+3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall
+purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they
+may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
+
+3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto
+the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
+
+3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift
+witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against
+false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his
+wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger
+from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are
+not consumed.
+
+3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine
+ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return
+unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we
+return? 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say,
+Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
+
+3:9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole
+nation.
+
+3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be
+meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of
+hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out
+a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
+
+3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not
+destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her
+fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a
+delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
+
+3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye
+say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 3:14 Ye have said, It
+is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his
+ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of
+hosts? 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
+wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
+
+3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and
+the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was
+written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought
+upon his name.
+
+3:17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when
+I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own
+son that serveth him.
+
+3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the
+wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
+
+4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all
+the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the
+day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it
+shall leave them neither root nor branch.
+
+4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
+arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as
+calves of the stall.
+
+4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under
+the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD
+of hosts.
+
+4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto
+him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
+
+4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
+the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 4:6 And he shall turn the
+heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to
+their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
+
+
+***
+
+
+
+
+The New Testament of the King James Bible
+
+
+
+
+The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
+
+
+1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
+son of Abraham.
+
+1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas
+and his brethren; 1:3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and
+Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 1:4 And Aram begat Aminadab;
+and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; 1:5 And Salmon
+begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat
+Jesse; 1:6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat
+Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; 1:7 And Solomon begat
+Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; 1:8 And Asa begat
+Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; 1:9 And
+Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
+1:10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon
+begat Josias; 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about
+the time they were carried away to Babylon: 1:12 And after they were
+brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat
+Zorobabel; 1:13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim;
+and Eliakim begat Azor; 1:14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat
+Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; 1:15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and
+Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; 1:16 And Jacob begat
+Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called
+Christ.
+
+1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen
+generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are
+fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto
+Christ are fourteen generations.
+
+1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his
+mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was
+found with child of the Holy Ghost.
+
+1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to
+make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
+
+1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the
+LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David,
+fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived
+in her is of the Holy Ghost.
+
+1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
+JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
+
+1:22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was
+spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall
+be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his
+name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
+
+1:24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord
+had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: 1:25 And knew her not till
+she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
+
+2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of
+Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to
+Jerusalem, 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for
+we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
+
+2:3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and
+all Jerusalem with him.
+
+2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the
+people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
+
+2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is
+written by the prophet, 2:6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda,
+art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall
+come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
+
+2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of
+them diligently what time the star appeared.
+
+2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently
+for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again,
+that I may come and worship him also.
+
+2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star,
+which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood
+over where the young child was.
+
+2:10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
+
+2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child
+with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they
+had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and
+frankincense and myrrh.
+
+2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to
+Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
+
+2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord
+appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young
+child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I
+bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
+
+2:14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night,
+and departed into Egypt: 2:15 And was there until the death of Herod:
+that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the
+prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
+
+2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was
+exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were
+in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and
+under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the
+wise men.
+
+2:17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
+saying, 2:18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and
+weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and
+would not be comforted, because they are not.
+
+2:19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth
+in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 2:20 Saying, Arise, and take the young
+child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are
+dead which sought the young child’s life.
+
+2:21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came
+into the land of Israel.
+
+2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room
+of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding,
+being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of
+Galilee: 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it
+might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be
+called a Nazarene.
+
+3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness
+of Judaea, 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at
+hand.
+
+3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying,
+The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
+Lord, make his paths straight.
+
+3:4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern
+girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
+
+3:5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region
+round about Jordan, 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing
+their sins.
+
+3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his
+baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned
+you to flee from the wrath to come? 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits
+meet for repentance: 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We
+have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of
+these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
+
+3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:
+therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
+and cast into the fire.
+
+3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that
+cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to
+bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 3:12
+Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and
+gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with
+unquenchable fire.
+
+3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be
+baptized of him.
+
+3:14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee,
+and comest thou to me? 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer
+it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
+Then he suffered him.
+
+3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the
+water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the
+Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 3:17 And
+lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
+well pleased.
+
+4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be
+tempted of the devil.
+
+4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was
+afterward an hungred.
+
+4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of
+God, command that these stones be made bread.
+
+4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by
+bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
+God.
+
+4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him
+on a pinnacle of the temple, 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the
+Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his
+angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee
+up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
+
+4:7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the
+Lord thy God.
+
+4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain,
+and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
+4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou
+wilt fall down and worship me.
+
+4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is
+written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
+serve.
+
+4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and
+ministered unto him.
+
+4:12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he
+departed into Galilee; 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in
+Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and
+Nephthalim: 4:14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias
+the prophet, saying, 4:15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of
+Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the
+Gentiles; 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and
+to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung
+up.
+
+4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the
+kingdom of heaven is at hand.
+
+4:18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon
+called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for
+they were fishers.
+
+4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of
+men.
+
+4:20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
+
+4:21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the
+son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their
+father, mending their nets; and he called them.
+
+4:22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed
+him.
+
+4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
+and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of
+sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
+
+4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him
+all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and
+those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick,
+and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
+
+4:25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee,
+and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from
+beyond Jordan.
+
+5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he
+was set, his disciples came unto him: 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and
+taught them, saying, 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is
+the kingdom of heaven.
+
+5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
+
+5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
+
+5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
+for they shall be filled.
+
+5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
+
+5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
+
+5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children
+of God.
+
+5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake:
+for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
+
+5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and
+shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
+
+5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in
+heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
+
+5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his
+savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for
+nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
+
+5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill
+cannot be hid.
+
+5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on
+a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
+
+5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
+works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
+
+5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I
+am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
+
+5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or
+one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
+
+5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,
+and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of
+heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
+called great in the kingdom of heaven.
+
+5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed
+the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case
+enter into the kingdom of heaven.
+
+5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt
+not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
+5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother
+without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever
+shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but
+whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
+
+5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there
+rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 5:24 Leave there
+thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy
+brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
+
+5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way
+with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge,
+and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into
+prison.
+
+5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence,
+till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
+
+5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt
+not commit adultery: 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh
+on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already
+in his heart.
+
+5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from
+thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should
+perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
+
+5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from
+thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should
+perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
+
+5:31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him
+give her a writing of divorcement: 5:32 But I say unto you, That
+whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of
+fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry
+her that is divorced committeth adultery.
+
+5:33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time,
+Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine
+oaths: 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven;
+for it is God’s throne: 5:35 Nor by the earth; for it is his
+footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
+
+5:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make
+one hair white or black.
+
+5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever
+is more than these cometh of evil.
+
+5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a
+tooth for a tooth: 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil:
+but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the
+other also.
+
+5:40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat,
+let him have thy cloak also.
+
+5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
+
+5:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of
+thee turn not thou away.
+
+5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy
+neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
+
+5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
+do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully
+use you, and persecute you; 5:45 That ye may be the children of your
+Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil
+and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
+
+5:46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not
+even the publicans the same? 5:47 And if ye salute your brethren
+only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 5:48
+Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
+perfect.
+
+6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them:
+otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
+
+6:2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet
+before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
+streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They
+have their reward.
+
+6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
+right hand doeth: 6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father
+which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
+
+6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are:
+for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of
+the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They
+have their reward.
+
+6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou
+hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy
+Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
+
+6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for
+they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
+
+6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what
+things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
+
+6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in
+heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
+
+6:10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
+
+6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
+
+6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
+
+6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For
+thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
+
+6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
+also forgive you: 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses,
+neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
+
+6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad
+countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto
+men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
+
+6:17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy
+face; 6:18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father
+which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall
+reward thee openly.
+
+6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and
+rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 6:20 But
+lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
+doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 6:21
+For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
+
+6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
+single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
+
+6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of
+darkness.
+
+If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that
+darkness! 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate
+the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and
+despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
+
+6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
+shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye
+shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than
+raiment? 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither
+do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth
+them. Are ye not much better than they? 6:27 Which of you by taking
+thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 6:28 And why take ye
+thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;
+they toil not, neither do they spin: 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That
+even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
+
+6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day
+is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe
+you, O ye of little faith? 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying,
+What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we
+be clothed? 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:)
+for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these
+things.
+
+6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and
+all these things shall be added unto you.
+
+6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
+take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the
+evil thereof.
+
+7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
+
+7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what
+measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
+
+7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but
+considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 7:4 Or how wilt
+thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
+and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first
+cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see
+clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
+
+7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your
+pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn
+again and rend you.
+
+7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock,
+and it shall be opened unto you: 7:8 For every one that asketh
+receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it
+shall be opened.
+
+7:9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he
+give him a stone? 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a
+serpent? 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
+unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven
+give good things to them that ask him? 7:12 Therefore all things
+whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them:
+for this is the law and the prophets.
+
+7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad
+is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
+thereat: 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
+leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
+
+7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing,
+but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
+
+7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of
+thorns, or figs of thistles? 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth
+forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
+
+7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt
+tree bring forth good fruit.
+
+7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and
+cast into the fire.
+
+7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
+
+7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
+the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which
+is in heaven.
+
+7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
+prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in
+thy name done many wonderful works? 7:23 And then will I profess unto
+them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
+
+7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
+them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a
+rock: 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
+blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded
+upon a rock.
+
+7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them
+not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon
+the sand: 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the
+winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the
+fall of it.
+
+7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the
+people were astonished at his doctrine: 7:29 For he taught them as one
+having authority, and not as the scribes.
+
+8:1 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed
+him.
+
+8:2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord,
+if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
+
+8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be
+thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
+
+8:4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way,
+shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded,
+for a testimony unto them.
+
+8:5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a
+centurion, beseeching him, 8:6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at
+home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
+
+8:7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
+
+8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou
+shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant
+shall be healed.
+
+8:9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I
+say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he
+cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
+
+8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that
+followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no,
+not in Israel.
+
+8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west,
+and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom
+of heaven.
+
+8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer
+darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
+
+8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast
+believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the
+selfsame hour.
+
+8:14 And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s
+mother laid, and sick of a fever.
+
+8:15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose,
+and ministered unto them.
+
+8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were
+possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and
+healed all that were sick: 8:17 That it might be fulfilled which was
+spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities,
+and bare our sicknesses.
+
+8:18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave
+commandment to depart unto the other side.
+
+8:19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will
+follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
+
+8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of
+the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
+
+8:21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first
+to go and bury my father.
+
+8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their
+dead.
+
+8:23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
+
+8:24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch
+that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
+
+8:25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save
+us: we perish.
+
+8:26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?
+Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a
+great calm.
+
+8:27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that
+even the winds and the sea obey him! 8:28 And when he was come to the
+other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two
+possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so
+that no man might pass by that way.
+
+8:29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with
+thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us
+before the time? 8:30 And there was a good way off from them an herd
+of many swine feeding.
+
+8:31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer
+us to go away into the herd of swine.
+
+8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went
+into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran
+violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
+
+8:33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city,
+and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the
+devils.
+
+8:34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they
+saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.
+
+9:1 And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own
+city.
+
+9:2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on
+a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy;
+Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
+
+9:3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This
+man blasphemeth.
+
+9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in
+your hearts? 9:5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven
+thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? 9:6 But that ye may know that the
+Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the
+sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
+
+9:7 And he arose, and departed to his house.
+
+9:8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God,
+which had given such power unto men.
+
+9:9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named
+Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him,
+Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
+
+9:10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold,
+many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his
+disciples.
+
+9:11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why
+eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 9:12 But when Jesus
+heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a
+physician, but they that are sick.
+
+9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
+sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to
+repentance.
+
+9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the
+Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? 9:15 And Jesus said
+unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the
+bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom
+shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
+
+9:16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that
+which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is
+made worse.
+
+9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles
+break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put
+new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
+
+9:18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a
+certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now
+dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
+
+9:19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
+
+9:20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood
+twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
+9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I
+shall be whole.
+
+9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said,
+Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the
+woman was made whole from that hour.
+
+9:23 And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels
+and the people making a noise, 9:24 He said unto them, Give place: for
+the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
+
+9:25 But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by
+the hand, and the maid arose.
+
+9:26 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
+
+9:27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him,
+crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.
+
+9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him:
+and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They
+said unto him, Yea, Lord.
+
+9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it
+unto you.
+
+9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them,
+saying, See that no man know it.
+
+9:31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all
+that country.
+
+9:32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man
+possessed with a devil.
+
+9:33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the
+multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.
+
+9:34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince
+of the devils.
+
+9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in
+their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing
+every sickness and every disease among the people.
+
+9:36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on
+them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having
+no shepherd.
+
+9:37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous,
+but the labourers are few; 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the
+harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
+
+10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave
+them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all
+manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
+
+10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon,
+who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee,
+and John his brother; 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and
+Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose
+surname was Thaddaeus; 10:4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot,
+who also betrayed him.
+
+10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not
+into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans
+enter ye not: 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of
+Israel.
+
+10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
+
+10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out
+devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
+
+10:9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, 10:10
+Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet
+staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
+
+10:11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in
+it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
+
+10:12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
+
+10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if
+it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
+
+10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when
+ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
+
+10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land
+of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
+
+10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye
+therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
+
+10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils,
+and they will scourge you in their synagogues; 10:18 And ye shall be
+brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony
+against them and the Gentiles.
+
+10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye
+shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall
+speak.
+
+10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which
+speaketh in you.
+
+10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the
+father the child: and the children shall rise up against their
+parents, and cause them to be put to death.
+
+10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that
+endureth to the end shall be saved.
+
+10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another:
+for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of
+Israel, till the Son of man be come.
+
+10:24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his
+lord.
+
+10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the
+servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house
+Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? 10:26
+Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not
+be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
+
+10:27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye
+hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
+
+10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill
+the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and
+body in hell.
+
+10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall
+not fall on the ground without your Father.
+
+10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
+
+10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
+
+10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
+confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
+
+10:33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny
+before my Father which is in heaven.
+
+10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to
+send peace, but a sword.
+
+10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and
+the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her
+mother in law.
+
+10:36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
+
+10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of
+me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of
+me.
+
+10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not
+worthy of me.
+
+10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his
+life for my sake shall find it.
+
+10:40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me
+receiveth him that sent me.
+
+10:41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall
+receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in
+the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.
+
+10:42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones
+a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto
+you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
+
+11:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his
+twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their
+cities.
+
+11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he
+sent two of his disciples, 11:3 And said unto him, Art thou he that
+should come, or do we look for another? 11:4 Jesus answered and said
+unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and
+see: 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers
+are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor
+have the gospel preached to them.
+
+11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
+
+11:7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes
+concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed
+shaken with the wind? 11:8 But what went ye out for to see? A man
+clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in
+kings’ houses.
+
+11:9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you,
+and more than a prophet.
+
+11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my
+messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
+
+11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there
+hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he
+that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
+
+11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of
+heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
+
+11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
+
+11:14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
+
+11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
+
+11:16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto
+children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, 11:17
+And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have
+mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
+
+11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath
+a devil.
+
+11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a
+man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
+But wisdom is justified of her children.
+
+11:20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty
+works were done, because they repented not: 11:21 Woe unto thee,
+Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which
+were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have
+repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
+
+11:22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and
+Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
+
+11:23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be
+brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in
+thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
+
+11:24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land
+of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
+
+11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father,
+Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the
+wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
+
+11:26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
+
+11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man
+knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father,
+save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
+
+11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will
+give you rest.
+
+11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly
+in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
+
+11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
+
+12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and
+his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and
+to eat.
+
+12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy
+disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
+
+12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he
+was an hungred, and they that were with him; 12:4 How he entered into
+the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for
+him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the
+priests? 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath
+days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
+12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the
+temple.
+
+12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
+sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
+
+12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
+
+12:9 And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
+12:10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And
+they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that
+they might accuse him.
+
+12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that
+shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day,
+will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? 12:12 How much then is a
+man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the
+sabbath days.
+
+12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he
+stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
+
+12:14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how
+they might destroy him.
+
+12:15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and
+great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; 12:16 And
+charged them that they should not make him known: 12:17 That it might
+be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 12:18
+Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is
+well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew
+judgment to the Gentiles.
+
+12:19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his
+voice in the streets.
+
+12:20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not
+quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
+
+12:21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
+
+12:22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and
+dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake
+and saw.
+
+12:23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of
+David? 12:24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow
+doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
+
+12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom
+divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or
+house divided against itself shall not stand: 12:26 And if Satan cast
+out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom
+stand? 12:27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your
+children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
+
+12:28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom
+of God is come unto you.
+
+12:29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil
+his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil
+his house.
+
+12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not
+with me scattereth abroad.
+
+12:31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall
+be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall
+not be forgiven unto men.
+
+12:32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall
+be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it
+shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world
+to come.
+
+12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the
+tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his
+fruit.
+
+12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
+things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
+
+12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth
+good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth
+evil things.
+
+12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak,
+they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
+
+12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou
+shalt be condemned.
+
+12:38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered,
+saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
+
+12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous
+generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to
+it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 12:40 For as Jonas was three
+days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be
+three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
+
+12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation,
+and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas;
+and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
+
+12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this
+generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost
+parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a
+greater than Solomon is here.
+
+12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through
+dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
+
+12:44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came
+out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
+
+12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more
+wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last
+state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also
+unto this wicked generation.
+
+12:46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his
+brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
+
+12:47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren
+stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
+
+12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my
+mother? and who are my brethren? 12:49 And he stretched forth his
+hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
+12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven,
+the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
+
+13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea
+side.
+
+13:2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he
+went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
+
+13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a
+sower went forth to sow; 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by
+the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 13:5 Some fell
+upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they
+sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 13:6 And when the
+sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they
+withered away.
+
+13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked
+them: 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit,
+some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
+
+13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
+
+13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou
+unto them in parables? 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because
+it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,
+but to them it is not given.
+
+13:12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have
+more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away
+even that he hath.
+
+13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see
+not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
+
+13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By
+hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall
+see, and shall not perceive: 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed
+gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have
+closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with
+their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be
+converted, and I should heal them.
+
+13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they
+hear.
+
+13:17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men
+have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them;
+and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
+
+13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
+
+13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth
+it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was
+sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
+
+13:20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he
+that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; 13:21 Yet hath
+he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation
+or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
+
+13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth
+the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
+choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
+
+13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that
+heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and
+bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
+
+13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of
+heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 13:25
+But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,
+and went his way.
+
+13:26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then
+appeared the tares also.
+
+13:27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir,
+didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it
+tares? 13:28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants
+said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 13:29
+But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also
+the wheat with them.
+
+13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of
+harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares,
+and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my
+barn.
+
+13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of
+heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed
+in his field: 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when
+it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so
+that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
+
+13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is
+like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of
+meal, till the whole was leavened.
+
+13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and
+without a parable spake he not unto them: 13:35 That it might be
+fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my
+mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret
+from the foundation of the world.
+
+13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and
+his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of
+the tares of the field.
+
+13:37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is
+the Son of man; 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the
+children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked
+one; 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the
+end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
+
+13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so
+shall it be in the end of this world.
+
+13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
+gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do
+iniquity; 13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there
+shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
+
+13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom
+of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
+
+13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a
+field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof
+goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
+
+13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,
+seeking goodly pearls: 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great
+price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
+
+13:47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast
+into the sea, and gathered of every kind: 13:48 Which, when it was
+full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into
+vessels, but cast the bad away.
+
+13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come
+forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, 13:50 And shall cast
+them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of
+teeth.
+
+13:51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They
+say unto him, Yea, Lord.
+
+13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is
+instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an
+householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and
+old.
+
+13:53 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these
+parables, he departed thence.
+
+13:54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in
+their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence
+hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? 13:55 Is not this
+the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren,
+James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 13:56 And his sisters, are
+they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
+13:57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A
+prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own
+house.
+
+13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their
+unbelief.
+
+14:1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, 14:2
+And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from
+the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
+
+14:3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in
+prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.
+
+14:4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
+
+14:5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude,
+because they counted him as a prophet.
+
+14:6 But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias
+danced before them, and pleased Herod.
+
+14:7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she
+would ask.
+
+14:8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me
+here John Baptist’s head in a charger.
+
+14:9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and
+them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
+
+14:10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
+
+14:11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel:
+and she brought it to her mother.
+
+14:12 And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and
+went and told Jesus.
+
+14:13 When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert
+place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him
+on foot out of the cities.
+
+14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved
+with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
+
+14:15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This
+is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away,
+that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
+
+14:16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to
+eat.
+
+14:17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two
+fishes.
+
+14:18 He said, Bring them hither to me.
+
+14:19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and
+took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he
+blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the
+disciples to the multitude.
+
+14:20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
+fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
+
+14:21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside
+women and children.
+
+14:22 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a
+ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the
+multitudes away.
+
+14:23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a
+mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there
+alone.
+
+14:24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves:
+for the wind was contrary.
+
+14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them,
+walking on the sea.
+
+14:26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were
+troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
+
+14:27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer;
+it is I; be not afraid.
+
+14:28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me
+come unto thee on the water.
+
+14:29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship,
+he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
+
+14:30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and
+beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
+
+14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him,
+and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
+14:32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
+
+14:33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying,
+Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
+
+14:34 And when they were gone over, they came into the land of
+Gennesaret.
+
+14:35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent
+out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that
+were diseased; 14:36 And besought him that they might only touch the
+hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
+
+15:1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of
+Jerusalem, saying, 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition
+of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
+
+15:3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the
+commandment of God by your tradition? 15:4 For God commanded, saying,
+Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother,
+let him die the death.
+
+15:5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It
+is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; 15:6 And
+honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye
+made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
+
+15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, 15:8 This
+people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with
+their lips; but their heart is far from me.
+
+15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the
+commandments of men.
+
+15:10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and
+understand: 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;
+but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
+
+15:12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that
+the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 15:13 But
+he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not
+planted, shall be rooted up.
+
+15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the
+blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
+
+15:15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this
+parable.
+
+15:16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? 15:17 Do
+not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth
+into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 15:18 But those
+things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and
+they defile the man.
+
+15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
+fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 15:20 These are the
+things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not
+a man.
+
+15:21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and
+Sidon.
+
+15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and
+cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David;
+my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
+
+15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and
+besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
+
+15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep
+of the house of Israel.
+
+15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
+
+15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s
+bread, and to cast it to dogs.
+
+15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which
+fall from their masters’ table.
+
+15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy
+faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made
+whole from that very hour.
+
+15:29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of
+Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.
+
+15:30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that
+were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at
+Jesus’ feet; and he healed them: 15:31 Insomuch that the multitude
+wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the
+lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of
+Israel.
+
+15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have
+compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three
+days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting,
+lest they faint in the way.
+
+15:33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much
+bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? 15:34 And
+Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven,
+and a few little fishes.
+
+15:35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
+
+15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks,
+and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the
+multitude.
+
+15:37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
+broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
+
+15:38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and
+children.
+
+15:39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the
+coasts of Magdala.
+
+16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired
+him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
+
+16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It
+will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
+
+16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky
+is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the
+sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? 16:4 A wicked and
+adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be
+given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them,
+and departed.
+
+16:5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had
+forgotten to take bread.
+
+16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of
+the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
+
+16:7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have
+taken no bread.
+
+16:8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little
+faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no
+bread? 16:9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five
+loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 16:10
+Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye
+took up? 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it
+not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of
+the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 16:12 Then understood they how
+that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the
+doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
+
+16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked
+his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
+16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some,
+Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
+
+16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16:16 And Simon
+Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
+God.
+
+16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon
+Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my
+Father which is in heaven.
+
+16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this
+rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
+against it.
+
+16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
+whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
+whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
+
+16:20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that
+he was Jesus the Christ.
+
+16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how
+that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders
+and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the
+third day.
+
+16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far
+from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
+
+16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
+thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be
+of God, but those that be of men.
+
+16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after
+me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
+
+16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever
+will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
+
+16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,
+and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his
+soul? 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father
+with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his
+works.
+
+16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall
+not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his
+kingdom.
+
+17:1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his
+brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 17:2 And
+was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and
+his raiment was white as the light.
+
+17:3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking
+with him.
+
+17:4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us
+to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for
+thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
+
+17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and
+behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son,
+in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
+
+17:6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and
+were sore afraid.
+
+17:7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not
+afraid.
+
+17:8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save
+Jesus only.
+
+17:9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them,
+saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again
+from the dead.
+
+17:10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes
+that Elias must first come? 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto
+them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
+
+17:12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew
+him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall
+also the Son of man suffer of them.
+
+17:13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John
+the Baptist.
+
+17:14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a
+certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, 17:15 Lord, have mercy
+on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth
+into the fire, and oft into the water.
+
+17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
+
+17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse
+generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you?
+bring him hither to me.
+
+17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the
+child was cured from that very hour.
+
+17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not
+we cast him out? 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your
+unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of
+mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder
+place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
+
+17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
+
+17:22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son
+of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: 17:23 And they shall
+kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again.
+
+And they were exceeding sorry.
+
+17:24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute
+money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
+17:25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus
+prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings
+of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of
+strangers? 17:26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto
+him, Then are the children free.
+
+17:27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea,
+and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when
+thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that
+take, and give unto them for me and thee.
+
+18:1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is
+the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 18:2 And Jesus called a little
+child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 18:3 And said,
+Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little
+children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
+
+18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child,
+the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
+
+18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name
+receiveth me.
+
+18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in
+me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
+neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
+
+18:7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that
+offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! 18:8
+Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast
+them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or
+maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into
+everlasting fire.
+
+18:9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from
+thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather
+than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
+
+18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I
+say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of
+my Father which is in heaven.
+
+18:11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
+
+18:12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be
+gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the
+mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 18:13 And if so be
+that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that
+sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
+
+18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven,
+that one of these little ones should perish.
+
+18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell
+him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou
+hast gained thy brother.
+
+18:16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two
+more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
+established.
+
+18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church:
+but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an
+heathen man and a publican.
+
+18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall
+be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be
+loosed in heaven.
+
+18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as
+touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of
+my Father which is in heaven.
+
+18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there
+am I in the midst of them.
+
+18:21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother
+sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 18:22 Jesus
+saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until
+seventy times seven.
+
+18:23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king,
+which would take account of his servants.
+
+18:24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which
+owed him ten thousand talents.
+
+18:25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be
+sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to
+be made.
+
+18:26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying,
+Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
+
+18:27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and
+loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
+
+18:28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his
+fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on
+him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
+
+18:29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him,
+saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
+
+18:30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he
+should pay the debt.
+
+18:31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very
+sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
+
+18:32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O
+thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou
+desiredst me: 18:33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy
+fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? 18:34 And his lord was
+wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all
+that was due unto him.
+
+18:35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye
+from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
+
+19:1 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings,
+he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond
+Jordan; 19:2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them
+there.
+
+19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto
+him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
+19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he
+which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 19:5 And
+said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall
+cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 19:6 Wherefore
+they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined
+together, let not man put asunder.
+
+19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing
+of divorcement, and to put her away? 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses
+because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your
+wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
+
+19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it
+be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and
+whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
+
+19:10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with
+his wife, it is not good to marry.
+
+19:11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save
+they to whom it is given.
+
+19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their
+mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of
+men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the
+kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him
+receive it.
+
+19:13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should
+put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
+
+19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to
+come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
+
+19:15 And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
+
+19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good
+thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 19:17 And he said
+unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that
+is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
+
+19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder,
+Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
+bear false witness, 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou
+shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
+
+19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from
+my youth up: what lack I yet? 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt
+be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou
+shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
+
+19:22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away
+sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
+
+19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That
+a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
+
+19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through
+the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of
+God.
+
+19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed,
+saying, Who then can be saved? 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said
+unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are
+possible.
+
+19:27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken
+all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? 19:28 And Jesus
+said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me,
+in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his
+glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve
+tribes of Israel.
+
+19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or
+sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my
+name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit
+everlasting life.
+
+19:30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be
+first.
+
+20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an
+householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers
+into his vineyard.
+
+20:2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he
+sent them into his vineyard.
+
+20:3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing
+idle in the marketplace, 20:4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the
+vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their
+way.
+
+20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did
+likewise.
+
+20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others
+standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day
+idle? 20:7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith
+unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that
+shall ye receive.
+
+20:8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his
+steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from
+the last unto the first.
+
+20:9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they
+received every man a penny.
+
+20:10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have
+received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
+
+20:11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman
+of the house, 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and
+thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and
+heat of the day.
+
+20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no
+wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? 20:14 Take that
+thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto
+thee.
+
+20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is
+thine eye evil, because I am good? 20:16 So the last shall be first,
+and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
+
+20:17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart
+in the way, and said unto them, 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;
+and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto
+the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, 20:19 And shall
+deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify
+him: and the third day he shall rise again.
+
+20:20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons,
+worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
+
+20:21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant
+that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the
+other on the left, in thy kingdom.
+
+20:22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye
+able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized
+with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are
+able.
+
+20:23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be
+baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my
+right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given
+to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
+
+20:24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation
+against the two brethren.
+
+20:25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the
+princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are
+great exercise authority upon them.
+
+20:26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great
+among you, let him be your minister; 20:27 And whosoever will be chief
+among you, let him be your servant: 20:28 Even as the Son of man came
+not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a
+ransom for many.
+
+20:29 And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed
+him.
+
+20:30 And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they
+heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O
+Lord, thou son of David.
+
+20:31 And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their
+peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou
+son of David.
+
+20:32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye
+that I shall do unto you? 20:33 They say unto him, Lord, that our
+eyes may be opened.
+
+20:34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and
+immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
+
+21:1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to
+Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
+21:2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and
+straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose
+them, and bring them unto me.
+
+21:3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath
+need of them; and straightway he will send them.
+
+21:4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
+the prophet, saying, 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy
+King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the
+foal of an ass.
+
+21:6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, 21:7 And
+brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they
+set him thereon.
+
+21:8 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way;
+others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
+
+21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried,
+saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the
+name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
+
+21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved,
+saying, Who is this? 21:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the
+prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
+
+21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them
+that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the
+moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 21:13 And said
+unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of
+prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
+
+21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he
+healed them.
+
+21:15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things
+that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying,
+Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased, 21:16 And said
+unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea;
+have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast
+perfected praise? 21:17 And he left them, and went out of the city
+into Bethany; and he lodged there.
+
+21:18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
+
+21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found
+nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow
+on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered
+away.
+
+21:20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon
+is the fig tree withered away! 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto
+them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall
+not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall
+say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the
+sea; it shall be done.
+
+21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye
+shall receive.
+
+21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the
+elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By
+what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this
+authority? 21:24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will
+ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you
+by what authority I do these things.
+
+21:25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And
+they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven;
+he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? 21:26 But if we
+shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
+
+21:27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said
+unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
+
+21:28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to
+the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
+
+21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and
+went.
+
+21:30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered
+and said, I go, sir: and went not.
+
+21:31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto
+him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the
+publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
+
+21:32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye
+believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and
+ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe
+him.
+
+21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which
+planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress
+in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
+a far country: 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent
+his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of
+it.
+
+21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed
+another, and stoned another.
+
+21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did
+unto them likewise.
+
+21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will
+reverence my son.
+
+21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves,
+This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his
+inheritance.
+
+21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew
+him.
+
+21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do
+unto those husbandmen? 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably
+destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other
+husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
+
+21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The
+stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the
+corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
+21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from
+you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
+
+21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on
+whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
+
+21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables,
+they perceived that he spake of them.
+
+21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the
+multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
+
+22:1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and
+said, 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which
+made a marriage for his son, 22:3 And sent forth his servants to call
+them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
+
+22:4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are
+bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are
+killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
+
+22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm,
+another to his merchandise: 22:6 And the remnant took his servants,
+and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
+
+22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth
+his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
+
+22:8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they
+which were bidden were not worthy.
+
+22:9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find,
+bid to the marriage.
+
+22:10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered
+together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding
+was furnished with guests.
+
+22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man
+which had not on a wedding garment: 22:12 And he saith unto him,
+Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he
+was speechless.
+
+22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and
+take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be
+weeping and gnashing of teeth.
+
+22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
+
+22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might
+entangle him in his talk.
+
+22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians,
+saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of
+God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not
+the person of men.
+
+22:17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give
+tribute unto Caesar, or not? 22:18 But Jesus perceived their
+wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? 22:19 Shew me
+the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
+
+22:20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
+22:21 They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render
+therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the
+things that are God’s.
+
+22:22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him,
+and went their way.
+
+22:23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is
+no resurrection, and asked him, 22:24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a
+man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and
+raise up seed unto his brother.
+
+22:25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he
+had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto
+his brother: 22:26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the
+seventh.
+
+22:27 And last of all the woman died also.
+
+22:28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the
+seven? for they all had her.
+
+22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the
+scriptures, nor the power of God.
+
+22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in
+marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
+
+22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read
+that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, 22:32 I am the God of
+Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the
+God of the dead, but of the living.
+
+22:33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his
+doctrine.
+
+22:34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees
+to silence, they were gathered together.
+
+22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question,
+tempting him, and saying, 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment
+in the law? 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
+God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
+
+22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
+
+22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
+thyself.
+
+22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
+
+22:41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
+22:42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto
+him, The son of David.
+
+22:43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord,
+saying, 22:44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
+till I make thine enemies thy footstool? 22:45 If David then call him
+Lord, how is he his son? 22:46 And no man was able to answer him a
+word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more
+questions.
+
+23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 23:2
+Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: 23:3 All
+therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do
+not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
+
+23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay
+them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with
+one of their fingers.
+
+23:5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make
+broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
+23:6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in
+the synagogues, 23:7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of
+men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
+
+23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ;
+and all ye are brethren.
+
+23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your
+Father, which is in heaven.
+
+23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even
+Christ.
+
+23:11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
+
+23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that
+shall humble himself shall be exalted.
+
+23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut
+up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves,
+neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
+
+23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour
+widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye
+shall receive the greater damnation.
+
+23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass
+sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him
+twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
+
+23:16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear
+by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of
+the temple, he is a debtor! 23:17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is
+greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 23:18
+And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever
+sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
+
+23:19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the
+altar that sanctifieth the gift? 23:20 Whoso therefore shall swear by
+the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
+
+23:21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him
+that dwelleth therein.
+
+23:22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of
+God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
+
+23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay
+tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier
+matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have
+done, and not to leave the other undone.
+
+23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
+
+23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make
+clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are
+full of extortion and excess.
+
+23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup
+and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
+
+23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like
+unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are
+within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
+
+23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within
+ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
+
+23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye
+build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the
+righteous, 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers,
+we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the
+prophets.
+
+23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the
+children of them which killed the prophets.
+
+23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
+
+23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
+damnation of hell? 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets,
+and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify;
+and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute
+them from city to city: 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous
+blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the
+blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple
+and the altar.
+
+23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
+generation.
+
+23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and
+stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered
+thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
+wings, and ye would not! 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you
+desolate.
+
+23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye
+shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
+
+24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his
+disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
+
+24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I
+say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another,
+that shall not be thrown down.
+
+24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto
+him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what
+shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 24:4
+And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive
+you.
+
+24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
+deceive many.
+
+24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not
+troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not
+yet.
+
+24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
+kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes,
+in divers places.
+
+24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
+
+24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill
+you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
+
+24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
+and shall hate one another.
+
+24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
+
+24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax
+cold.
+
+24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
+
+24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
+world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
+
+24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
+spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso
+readeth, let him understand:) 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea
+flee into the mountains: 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not
+come down to take any thing out of his house: 24:18 Neither let him
+which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
+
+24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give
+suck in those days! 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the
+winter, neither on the sabbath day: 24:21 For then shall be great
+tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this
+time, no, nor ever shall be.
+
+24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh
+be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
+
+24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or
+there; believe it not.
+
+24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and
+shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were
+possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
+
+24:25 Behold, I have told you before.
+
+24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the
+desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it
+not.
+
+24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even
+unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
+
+24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be
+gathered together.
+
+24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
+darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall
+fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 24:30
+And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then
+shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of
+man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
+
+24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
+and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one
+end of heaven to the other.
+
+24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
+tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 24:33
+So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is
+near, even at the doors.
+
+24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all
+these things be fulfilled.
+
+24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass
+away.
+
+24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of
+heaven, but my Father only.
+
+24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son
+of man be.
+
+24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating
+and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
+entered into the ark, 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and
+took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
+
+24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the
+other left.
+
+24:41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,
+and the other left.
+
+24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
+
+24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in
+what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not
+have suffered his house to be broken up.
+
+24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not
+the Son of man cometh.
+
+24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made
+ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 24:46
+Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
+doing.
+
+24:47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his
+goods.
+
+24:48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord
+delayeth his coming; 24:49 And shall begin to smite his
+fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 24:50 The lord
+of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and
+in an hour that he is not aware of, 24:51 And shall cut him asunder,
+and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be
+weeping and gnashing of teeth.
+
+25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins,
+which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
+
+25:2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
+
+25:3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with
+them: 25:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
+
+25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
+
+25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom
+cometh; go ye out to meet him.
+
+25:7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
+
+25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our
+lamps are gone out.
+
+25:9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough
+for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for
+yourselves.
+
+25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that
+were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
+
+25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open
+to us.
+
+25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
+
+25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
+wherein the Son of man cometh.
+
+25:14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far
+country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his
+goods.
+
+25:15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to
+another one; to every man according to his several ability; and
+straightway took his journey.
+
+25:16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with
+the same, and made them other five talents.
+
+25:17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
+
+25:18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and
+hid his lord’s money.
+
+25:19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and
+reckoneth with them.
+
+25:20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other
+five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents:
+behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
+
+25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful
+servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee
+ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
+
+25:22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou
+deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other
+talents beside them.
+
+25:23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant;
+thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over
+many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
+
+25:24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I
+knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown,
+and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25:25 And I was afraid, and
+went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is
+thine.
+
+25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful
+servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where
+I have not strawed: 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money
+to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine
+own with usury.
+
+25:28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which
+hath ten talents.
+
+25:29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
+abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that
+which he hath.
+
+25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there
+shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
+
+25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy
+angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 25:32
+And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate
+them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the
+goats: 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the
+goats on the left.
+
+25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
+blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
+foundation of the world: 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me
+meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye
+took me in: 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited
+me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
+
+25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
+thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 25:38
+When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed
+thee? 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto
+thee? 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say
+unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these
+my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
+
+25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from
+me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
+angels: 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was
+thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took
+me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye
+visited me not.
+
+25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
+an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
+prison, and did not minister unto thee? 25:45 Then shall he answer
+them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one
+of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
+
+25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the
+righteous into life eternal.
+
+26:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings,
+he said unto his disciples, 26:2 Ye know that after two days is the
+feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
+
+26:3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and
+the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was
+called Caiaphas, 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by
+subtilty, and kill him.
+
+26:5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar
+among the people.
+
+26:6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
+26:7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very
+precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
+
+26:8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To
+what purpose is this waste? 26:9 For this ointment might have been
+sold for much, and given to the poor.
+
+26:10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the
+woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
+
+26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
+
+26:12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it
+for my burial.
+
+26:13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached
+in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done,
+be told for a memorial of her.
+
+26:14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the
+chief priests, 26:15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I
+will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty
+pieces of silver.
+
+26:16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
+
+26:17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples
+came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for
+thee to eat the passover? 26:18 And he said, Go into the city to such
+a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will
+keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
+
+26:19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made
+ready the passover.
+
+26:20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
+
+26:21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of
+you shall betray me.
+
+26:22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them
+to say unto him, Lord, is it I? 26:23 And he answered and said, He
+that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
+
+26:24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that
+man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man
+if he had not been born.
+
+26:25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it
+I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
+
+26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and
+brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is
+my body.
+
+26:27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
+saying, Drink ye all of it; 26:28 For this is my blood of the new
+testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
+
+26:29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of
+the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s
+kingdom.
+
+26:30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of
+Olives.
+
+26:31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of
+me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the
+sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
+
+26:32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
+
+26:33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be
+offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
+
+26:34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night,
+before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
+
+26:35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I
+not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
+
+26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and
+saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
+
+26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and
+began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
+
+26:38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even
+unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
+
+26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed,
+saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
+nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
+
+26:40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and
+saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 26:41
+Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed
+is willing, but the flesh is weak.
+
+26:42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my
+Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy
+will be done.
+
+26:43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were
+heavy.
+
+26:44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third
+time, saying the same words.
+
+26:45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on
+now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of
+man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
+
+26:46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray
+me.
+
+26:47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and
+with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief
+priests and elders of the people.
+
+26:48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I
+shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
+
+26:49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and
+kissed him.
+
+26:50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then
+came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.
+
+26:51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his
+hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s,
+and smote off his ear.
+
+26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place:
+for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
+
+26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall
+presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? 26:54 But how
+then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? 26:55
+In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as
+against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily
+with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
+
+26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might
+be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
+
+26:57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas
+the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
+
+26:58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace,
+and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
+
+26:59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought
+false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 26:60 But found
+none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At
+the last came two false witnesses, 26:61 And said, This fellow said, I
+am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
+
+26:62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou
+nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? 26:63 But Jesus
+held his peace, And the high priest answered and said unto him, I
+adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the
+Christ, the Son of God.
+
+26:64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto
+you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand
+of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
+
+26:65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken
+blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have
+heard his blasphemy.
+
+26:66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
+
+26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others
+smote him with the palms of their hands, 26:68 Saying, Prophesy unto
+us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? 26:69 Now Peter sat
+without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also
+wast with Jesus of Galilee.
+
+26:70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou
+sayest.
+
+26:71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him,
+and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of
+Nazareth.
+
+26:72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.
+
+26:73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to
+Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth
+thee.
+
+26:74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man.
+And immediately the cock crew.
+
+26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him,
+Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and
+wept bitterly.
+
+27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of
+the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 27:2 And
+when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to
+Pontius Pilate the governor.
+
+27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was
+condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of
+silver to the chief priests and elders, 27:4 Saying, I have sinned in
+that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that
+to us? see thou to that.
+
+27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and
+departed, and went and hanged himself.
+
+27:6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not
+lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of
+blood.
+
+27:7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field,
+to bury strangers in.
+
+27:8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this
+day.
+
+27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
+saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him
+that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; 27:10
+And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.
+
+27:11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him,
+saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou
+sayest.
+
+27:12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he
+answered nothing.
+
+27:13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they
+witness against thee? 27:14 And he answered him to never a word;
+insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
+
+27:15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the
+people a prisoner, whom they would.
+
+27:16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
+
+27:17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto
+them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which
+is called Christ? 27:18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered
+him.
+
+27:19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto
+him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have
+suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
+
+27:20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that
+they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
+
+27:21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain
+will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
+
+27:22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is
+called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
+
+27:23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they
+cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
+
+27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a
+tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the
+multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see
+ye to it.
+
+27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and
+on our children.
+
+27:26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged
+Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
+
+27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common
+hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
+
+27:28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
+
+27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon
+his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before
+him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! 27:30 And they
+spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
+
+27:31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from
+him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
+
+27:32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name:
+him they compelled to bear his cross.
+
+27:33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to
+say, a place of a skull, 27:34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled
+with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
+
+27:35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots:
+that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They
+parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
+
+27:36 And sitting down they watched him there; 27:37 And set up over
+his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
+
+27:38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right
+hand, and another on the left.
+
+27:39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 27:40
+And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three
+days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the
+cross.
+
+27:41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes
+and elders, said, 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he
+be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we
+will believe him.
+
+27:43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him:
+for he said, I am the Son of God.
+
+27:44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same
+in his teeth.
+
+27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
+unto the ninth hour.
+
+27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
+Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast
+thou forsaken me? 27:47 Some of them that stood there, when they
+heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
+
+27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled
+it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
+
+27:49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to
+save him.
+
+27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
+ghost.
+
+27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the
+top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 27:52
+And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept
+arose, 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and
+went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
+
+27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching
+Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they
+feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
+
+27:55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed
+Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: 27:56 Among which was Mary
+Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of
+Zebedee’s children.
+
+27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea,
+named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple: 27:58 He went to
+Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body
+to be delivered.
+
+27:59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean
+linen cloth, 27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn
+out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the
+sepulchre, and departed.
+
+27:61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over
+against the sepulchre.
+
+27:62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the
+chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, 27:63 Saying,
+Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive,
+After three days I will rise again.
+
+27:64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the
+third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and
+say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error
+shall be worse than the first.
+
+27:65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as
+sure as ye can.
+
+27:66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone,
+and setting a watch.
+
+28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first
+day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the
+sepulchre.
+
+28:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the
+Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from
+the door, and sat upon it.
+
+28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as
+snow: 28:4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as
+dead men.
+
+28:5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for
+I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
+
+28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place
+where the Lord lay.
+
+28:7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the
+dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye
+see him: lo, I have told you.
+
+28:8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great
+joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
+
+28:9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them,
+saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and
+worshipped him.
+
+28:10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren
+that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
+
+28:11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into
+the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were
+done.
+
+28:12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken
+counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, 28:13 Saying, Say
+ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
+
+28:14 And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him,
+and secure you.
+
+28:15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this
+saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
+
+28:16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a
+mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
+
+28:17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
+
+28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given
+unto me in heaven and in earth.
+
+28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
+name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 28:20
+Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
+and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Gospel According to Saint Mark
+
+
+1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; 1:2
+As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before
+thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
+
+1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
+the Lord, make his paths straight.
+
+1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of
+repentance for the remission of sins.
+
+1:5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of
+Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan,
+confessing their sins.
+
+1:6 And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a
+skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; 1:7 And
+preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the
+latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
+
+1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you
+with the Holy Ghost.
+
+1:9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth
+of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
+
+1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens
+opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: 1:11 And there
+came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I
+am well pleased.
+
+1:12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
+
+1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan;
+and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
+
+1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee,
+preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 1:15 And saying, The time
+is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and
+believe the gospel.
+
+1:16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew
+his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
+
+1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you
+to become fishers of men.
+
+1:18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
+
+1:19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the
+son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship
+mending their nets.
+
+1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father
+Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
+
+1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day
+he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
+
+1:22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as
+one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
+
+1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit;
+and he cried out, 1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with
+thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee
+who thou art, the Holy One of God.
+
+1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of
+him.
+
+1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud
+voice, he came out of him.
+
+1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among
+themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for
+with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do
+obey him.
+
+1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region
+round about Galilee.
+
+1:29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they
+entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
+
+1:30 But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell
+him of her.
+
+1:31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and
+immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
+
+1:32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that
+were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
+
+1:33 And all the city was gathered together at the door.
+
+1:34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast
+out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they
+knew him.
+
+1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went
+out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
+
+1:36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.
+
+1:37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for
+thee.
+
+1:38 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may
+preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
+
+1:39 And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and
+cast out devils.
+
+1:40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down
+to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
+
+1:41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched
+him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
+
+1:42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed
+from him, and he was cleansed.
+
+1:43 And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away; 1:44
+And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way,
+shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things
+which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
+
+1:45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze
+abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into
+the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from
+every quarter.
+
+2:1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was
+noised that he was in the house.
+
+2:2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there
+was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he
+preached the word unto them.
+
+2:3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was
+borne of four.
+
+2:4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they
+uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they
+let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
+
+2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy,
+Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
+
+2:6 But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning
+in their hearts, 2:7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can
+forgive sins but God only? 2:8 And immediately when Jesus perceived
+in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto
+them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? 2:9 Whether is it
+easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or
+to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? 2:10 But that ye may
+know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he
+saith to the sick of the palsy,) 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take
+up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
+
+2:12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before
+them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God,
+saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
+
+2:13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude
+resorted unto him, and he taught them.
+
+2:14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at
+the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and
+followed him.
+
+2:15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house,
+many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his
+disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
+
+2:16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and
+sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and
+drinketh with publicans and sinners? 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he
+saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician,
+but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners
+to repentance.
+
+2:18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and
+they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the
+Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? 2:19 And Jesus said unto
+them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom
+is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they
+cannot fast.
+
+2:20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away
+from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
+
+2:21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else
+the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent
+is made worse.
+
+2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine
+doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will
+be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
+
+2:23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the
+sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears
+of corn.
+
+2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the
+sabbath day that which is not lawful? 2:25 And he said unto them,
+Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an
+hungred, he, and they that were with him? 2:26 How he went into the
+house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the
+shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave
+also to them which were with him? 2:27 And he said unto them, The
+sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 2:28 Therefore
+the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
+
+3:1 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there
+which had a withered hand.
+
+3:2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath
+day; that they might accuse him.
+
+3:3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand
+forth.
+
+3:4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath
+days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their
+peace.
+
+3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being
+grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man,
+Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was
+restored whole as the other.
+
+3:6 And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with
+the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
+
+3:7 But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a
+great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea, 3:8 And
+from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they
+about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what
+great things he did, came unto him.
+
+3:9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on
+him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
+
+3:10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for
+to touch him, as many as had plagues.
+
+3:11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and
+cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
+
+3:12 And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
+
+3:13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he
+would: and they came unto him.
+
+3:14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he
+might send them forth to preach, 3:15 And to have power to heal
+sicknesses, and to cast out devils: 3:16 And Simon he surnamed Peter;
+3:17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and
+he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: 3:18 And
+Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and
+James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
+3:19 And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into
+an house.
+
+3:20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not
+so much as eat bread.
+
+3:21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on
+him: for they said, He is beside himself.
+
+3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath
+Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
+
+3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How
+can Satan cast out Satan? 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against
+itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
+
+3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot
+stand.
+
+3:26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot
+stand, but hath an end.
+
+3:27 No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods,
+except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his
+house.
+
+3:28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons
+of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: 3:29
+But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never
+forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
+
+3:30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
+
+3:31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing
+without, sent unto him, calling him.
+
+3:32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold,
+thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
+
+3:33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
+3:34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said,
+Behold my mother and my brethren! 3:35 For whosoever shall do the
+will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
+
+4:1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was
+gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship,
+and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the
+land.
+
+4:2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in
+his doctrine, 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4:4
+And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the
+fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
+
+4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and
+immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: 4:6 But
+when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it
+withered away.
+
+4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it,
+and it yielded no fruit.
+
+4:8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up
+and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and
+some an hundred.
+
+4:9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
+
+4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve
+asked of him the parable.
+
+4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery
+of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these
+things are done in parables: 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not
+perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any
+time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
+
+4:13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then
+will ye know all parables? 4:14 The sower soweth the word.
+
+4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but
+when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the
+word that was sown in their hearts.
+
+4:16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who,
+when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
+4:17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time:
+afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake,
+immediately they are offended.
+
+4:18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the
+word, 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of
+riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and
+it becometh unfruitful.
+
+4:20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear
+the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some
+sixty, and some an hundred.
+
+4:21 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a
+bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? 4:22 For
+there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any
+thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
+
+4:23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
+
+4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure
+ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall
+more be given.
+
+4:25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not,
+from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
+
+4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast
+seed into the ground; 4:27 And should sleep, and rise night and day,
+and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
+
+4:28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade,
+then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
+
+4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in
+the sickle, because the harvest is come.
+
+4:30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with
+what comparison shall we compare it? 4:31 It is like a grain of
+mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all
+the seeds that be in the earth: 4:32 But when it is sown, it groweth
+up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great
+branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of
+it.
+
+4:33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they
+were able to hear it.
+
+4:34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were
+alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
+
+4:35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let
+us pass over unto the other side.
+
+4:36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as
+he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
+
+4:37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into
+the ship, so that it was now full.
+
+4:38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow:
+and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we
+perish? 4:39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the
+sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
+
+4:40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye
+have no faith? 4:41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to
+another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea
+obey him? 5:1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into
+the country of the Gadarenes.
+
+5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him
+out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 5:3 Who had his
+dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with
+chains: 5:4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and
+chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the
+fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
+
+5:5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the
+tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
+
+5:6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, 5:7 And
+cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus,
+thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment
+me not.
+
+5:8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
+
+5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My
+name is Legion: for we are many.
+
+5:10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of
+the country.
+
+5:11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine
+feeding.
+
+5:12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine,
+that we may enter into them.
+
+5:13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went
+out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a
+steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were
+choked in the sea.
+
+5:14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in
+the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
+
+5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the
+devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right
+mind: and they were afraid.
+
+5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was
+possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
+
+5:17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
+
+5:18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed
+with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
+
+5:19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to
+thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for
+thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
+
+5:20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great
+things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
+
+5:21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side,
+much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.
+
+5:22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue,
+Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, 5:23 And
+besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of
+death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be
+healed; and she shall live.
+
+5:24 And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and
+thronged him.
+
+5:25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
+5:26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent
+all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
+5:27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and
+touched his garment.
+
+5:28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
+
+5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she
+felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
+
+5:30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone
+out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my
+clothes? 5:31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the
+multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 5:32 And
+he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
+
+5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in
+her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
+
+5:34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole;
+go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
+
+5:35 While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s
+house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the
+Master any further? 5:36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was
+spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only
+believe.
+
+5:37 And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and
+John the brother of James.
+
+5:38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and
+seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
+
+5:39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this
+ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
+
+5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out,
+he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were
+with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
+
+5:41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha
+cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
+
+5:42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the
+age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great
+astonishment.
+
+5:43 And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and
+commanded that something should be given her to eat.
+
+6:1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and
+his disciples follow him.
+
+6:2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the
+synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence
+hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given
+unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? 6:3
+Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and
+Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?
+And they were offended at him.
+
+6:4 But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in
+his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
+
+6:5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands
+upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
+
+6:6 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round
+about the villages, teaching.
+
+6:7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by
+two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; 6:8 And
+commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a
+staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse: 6:9 But be
+shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.
+
+6:10 And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an
+house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
+
+6:11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart
+thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against
+them.
+
+Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and
+Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
+
+6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
+
+6:13 And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that
+were sick, and healed them.
+
+6:14 And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:)
+and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and
+therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
+
+6:15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a
+prophet, or as one of the prophets.
+
+6:16 But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I
+beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
+
+6:17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and
+bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for
+he had married her.
+
+6:18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have
+thy brother’s wife.
+
+6:19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have
+killed him; but she could not: 6:20 For Herod feared John, knowing
+that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he
+heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
+
+6:21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday
+made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of
+Galilee; 6:22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and
+danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said
+unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it
+thee.
+
+6:23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will
+give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
+
+6:24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask?
+And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
+
+6:25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked,
+saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of
+John the Baptist.
+
+6:26 And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath’s sake, and
+for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
+
+6:27 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his
+head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, 6:28
+And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the
+damsel gave it to her mother.
+
+6:29 And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his
+corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
+
+6:30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and
+told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had
+taught.
+
+6:31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert
+place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and
+they had no leisure so much as to eat.
+
+6:32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
+
+6:33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran
+afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together
+unto him.
+
+6:34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with
+compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a
+shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
+
+6:35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him,
+and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: 6:36
+Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and
+into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to
+eat.
+
+6:37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say
+unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and
+give them to eat? 6:38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye?
+go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
+
+6:39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the
+green grass.
+
+6:40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
+
+6:41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he
+looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them
+to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he
+among them all.
+
+6:42 And they did all eat, and were filled.
+
+6:43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the
+fishes.
+
+6:44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
+
+6:45 And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the
+ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent
+away the people.
+
+6:46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to
+pray.
+
+6:47 And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and
+he alone on the land.
+
+6:48 And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto
+them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them,
+walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
+
+6:49 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had
+been a spirit, and cried out: 6:50 For they all saw him, and were
+troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be
+of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
+
+6:51 And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and
+they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.
+
+6:52 For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their
+heart was hardened.
+
+6:53 And when they had passed over, they came into the land of
+Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.
+
+6:54 And when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knew
+him, 6:55 And ran through that whole region round about, and began to
+carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
+
+6:56 And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or
+country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they
+might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as
+touched him were made whole.
+
+7:1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the
+scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
+
+7:2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled,
+that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
+
+7:3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands
+oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
+
+7:4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat
+not.
+
+And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as
+the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
+
+7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy
+disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with
+unwashen hands? 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias
+prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth
+me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
+
+7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
+commandments of men.
+
+7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of
+men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things
+ye do.
+
+7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God,
+that ye may keep your own tradition.
+
+7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso
+curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 7:11 But ye say, If a
+man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a
+gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
+
+7:12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his
+mother; 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your
+tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
+
+7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto
+them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: 7:15 There is
+nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but
+the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
+
+7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
+
+7:17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his
+disciples asked him concerning the parable.
+
+7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do
+ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the
+man, it cannot defile him; 7:19 Because it entereth not into his
+heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all
+meats? 7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that
+defileth the man.
+
+7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
+adulteries, fornications, murders, 7:22 Thefts, covetousness,
+wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride,
+foolishness: 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile
+the man.
+
+7:24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and
+Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but
+he could not be hid.
+
+7:25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit,
+heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 7:26 The woman was a
+Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would
+cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
+
+7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it
+is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the
+dogs.
+
+7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under
+the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
+
+7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is
+gone out of thy daughter.
+
+7:30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out,
+and her daughter laid upon the bed.
+
+7:31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came
+unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
+
+7:32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment
+in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
+
+7:33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers
+into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; 7:34 And looking
+up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be
+opened.
+
+7:35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his
+tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
+
+7:36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he
+charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 7:37
+And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things
+well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
+
+8:1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing
+to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, 8:2
+I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me
+three days, and have nothing to eat: 8:3 And if I send them away
+fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of
+them came from far.
+
+8:4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy
+these men with bread here in the wilderness? 8:5 And he asked them,
+How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
+
+8:6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took
+the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his
+disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
+
+8:7 And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to
+set them also before them.
+
+8:8 So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken
+meat that was left seven baskets.
+
+8:9 And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them
+away.
+
+8:10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and
+came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
+
+8:11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him,
+seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
+
+8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this
+generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no
+sign be given unto this generation.
+
+8:13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to
+the other side.
+
+8:14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they
+in the ship with them more than one loaf.
+
+8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of
+the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
+
+8:16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have
+no bread.
+
+8:17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye,
+because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand?
+have ye your heart yet hardened? 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and
+having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? 8:19 When I brake
+the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of
+fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
+
+8:20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of
+fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
+
+8:21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand? 8:22
+And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and
+besought him to touch him.
+
+8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the
+town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he
+asked him if he saw ought.
+
+8:24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
+
+8:25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him
+look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
+
+8:26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the
+town, nor tell it to any in the town.
+
+8:27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea
+Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them,
+Whom do men say that I am? 8:28 And they answered, John the Baptist;
+but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
+
+8:29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter
+answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
+
+8:30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
+
+8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many
+things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and
+scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
+
+8:32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to
+rebuke him.
+
+8:33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he
+rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest
+not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
+
+8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples
+also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny
+himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
+
+8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever
+shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save
+it.
+
+8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world,
+and lose his own soul? 8:37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for
+his soul? 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my
+words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the
+Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with
+the holy angels.
+
+9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some
+of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they
+have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
+
+9:2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and
+John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves:
+and he was transfigured before them.
+
+9:3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no
+fuller on earth can white them.
+
+9:4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were
+talking with Jesus.
+
+9:5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to
+be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for
+Moses, and one for Elias.
+
+9:6 For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.
+
+9:7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out
+of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
+
+9:8 And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man
+any more, save Jesus only with themselves.
+
+9:9 And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they
+should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were
+risen from the dead.
+
+9:10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with
+another what the rising from the dead should mean.
+
+9:11 And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must
+first come? 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh
+first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of
+man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
+
+9:13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done
+unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
+
+9:14 And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about
+them, and the scribes questioning with them.
+
+9:15 And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were
+greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.
+
+9:16 And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? 9:17 And
+one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto
+thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; 9:18 And wheresoever he taketh
+him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and
+pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him
+out; and they could not.
+
+9:19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long
+shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
+
+9:20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway
+the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
+
+9:21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto
+him? And he said, Of a child.
+
+9:22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters,
+to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us,
+and help us.
+
+9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are
+possible to him that believeth.
+
+9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with
+tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
+
+9:25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked
+the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge
+thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
+
+9:26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and
+he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
+
+9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
+
+9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him
+privately, Why could not we cast him out? 9:29 And he said unto them,
+This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
+
+9:30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he
+would not that any man should know it.
+
+9:31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man
+is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after
+that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
+
+9:32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
+
+9:33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them,
+What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? 9:34 But
+they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among
+themselves, who should be the greatest.
+
+9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If
+any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant
+of all.
+
+9:36 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when
+he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, 9:37 Whosoever shall
+receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever
+shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.
+
+9:38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out
+devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him,
+because he followeth not us.
+
+9:39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall
+do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
+
+9:40 For he that is not against us is on our part.
+
+9:41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name,
+because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose
+his reward.
+
+9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe
+in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
+neck, and he were cast into the sea.
+
+9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to
+enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into
+the fire that never shall be quenched: 9:44 Where their worm dieth
+not, and the fire is not quenched.
+
+9:45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to
+enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into
+the fire that never shall be quenched: 9:46 Where their worm dieth
+not, and the fire is not quenched.
+
+9:47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee
+to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to
+be cast into hell fire: 9:48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire
+is not quenched.
+
+9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice
+shall be salted with salt.
+
+9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith
+will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with
+another.
+
+10:1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by
+the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and,
+as he was wont, he taught them again.
+
+10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a
+man to put away his wife? tempting him.
+
+10:3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
+10:4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and
+to put her away.
+
+10:5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your
+heart he wrote you this precept.
+
+10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and
+female.
+
+10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and
+cleave to his wife; 10:8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then
+they are no more twain, but one flesh.
+
+10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
+
+10:10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same
+matter.
+
+10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and
+marry another, committeth adultery against her.
+
+10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to
+another, she committeth adultery.
+
+10:13 And they brought young children to him, that he should touch
+them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
+
+10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto
+them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not:
+for of such is the kingdom of God.
+
+10:15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
+of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
+
+10:16 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and
+blessed them.
+
+10:17 And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running,
+and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I
+may inherit eternal life? 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest
+thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
+
+10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not
+kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy
+father and mother. 10:20 And he answered and said unto him, Master,
+all these have I observed from my youth.
+
+10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing
+thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the
+poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the
+cross, and follow me.
+
+10:22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had
+great possessions.
+
+10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How
+hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
+10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus
+answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for
+them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! 10:25 It
+is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a
+rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
+
+10:26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among
+themselves, Who then can be saved? 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them
+saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all
+things are possible.
+
+10:28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have
+followed thee.
+
+10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no
+man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
+mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
+10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses,
+and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with
+persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
+
+10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
+
+10:32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went
+before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were
+afraid.
+
+And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things
+should happen unto him, 10:33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;
+and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto
+the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver
+him to the Gentiles: 10:34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge
+him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he
+shall rise again.
+
+10:35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying,
+Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall
+desire.
+
+10:36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?
+10:37 They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy
+right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
+
+10:38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink
+of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am
+baptized with? 10:39 And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said
+unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with
+the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: 10:40 But
+to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but
+it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.
+
+10:41 And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with
+James and John.
+
+10:42 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that
+they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship
+over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
+
+10:43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great
+among you, shall be your minister: 10:44 And whosoever of you will be
+the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
+
+10:45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
+minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
+
+10:46 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his
+disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of
+Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
+
+10:47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry
+out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
+
+10:48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried
+the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
+
+10:49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they
+call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he
+calleth thee.
+
+10:50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
+
+10:51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I
+should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might
+receive my sight.
+
+10:52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee
+whole.
+
+And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
+
+11:1 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany,
+at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, 11:2
+And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you:
+and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied,
+whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.
+
+11:3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord
+hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
+
+11:4 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door
+without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
+
+11:5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye,
+loosing the colt? 11:6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had
+commanded: and they let them go.
+
+11:7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on
+him; and he sat upon him.
+
+11:8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down
+branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
+
+11:9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying,
+Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: 11:10
+Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of
+the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
+
+11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when
+he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was
+come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
+
+11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was
+hungry: 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came,
+if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he
+found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
+
+11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee
+hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
+
+11:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and
+began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and
+overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that
+sold doves; 11:16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any
+vessel through the temple.
+
+11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house
+shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made
+it a den of thieves.
+
+11:18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they
+might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was
+astonished at his doctrine.
+
+11:19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
+
+11:20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree
+dried up from the roots.
+
+11:21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold,
+the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
+
+11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
+
+11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this
+mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall
+not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he
+saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
+
+11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye
+pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
+
+11:25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against
+any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your
+trespasses.
+
+11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in
+heaven forgive your trespasses.
+
+11:27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the
+temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the
+elders, 11:28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these
+things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things? 11:29
+And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one
+question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do
+these things.
+
+11:30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
+
+11:31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From
+heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him? 11:32 But if we
+shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John,
+that he was a prophet indeed.
+
+11:33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus
+answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I
+do these things.
+
+12:1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man
+planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for
+the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
+into a far country.
+
+12:2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he
+might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
+
+12:3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
+
+12:4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast
+stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully
+handled.
+
+12:5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others;
+beating some, and killing some.
+
+12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also
+last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
+
+12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir;
+come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
+
+12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the
+vineyard.
+
+12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come
+and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
+
+12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the
+builders rejected is become the head of the corner: 12:11 This was the
+Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? 12:12 And they sought
+to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had
+spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their
+way.
+
+12:13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the
+Herodians, to catch him in his words.
+
+12:14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that
+thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the
+person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to
+give tribute to Caesar, or not? 12:15 Shall we give, or shall we not
+give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye
+me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
+
+12:16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image
+and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar’s.
+
+12:17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things
+that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they
+marvelled at him.
+
+12:18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no
+resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 12:19 Master, Moses wrote
+unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and
+leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up
+seed unto his brother.
+
+12:20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and
+dying left no seed.
+
+12:21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and
+the third likewise.
+
+12:22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman
+died also.
+
+12:23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife
+shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
+
+12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err,
+because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? 12:25
+For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are
+given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
+
+12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in
+the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am
+the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? 12:27
+He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore
+do greatly err.
+
+12:28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning
+together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him,
+Which is the first commandment of all? 12:29 And Jesus answered him,
+The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God
+is one Lord: 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
+heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
+strength: this is the first commandment.
+
+12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy
+neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than
+these.
+
+12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the
+truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: 12:33 And
+to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and
+with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his
+neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and
+sacrifices.
+
+12:34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto
+him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that
+durst ask him any question.
+
+12:35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How
+say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? 12:36 For David
+himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on
+my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
+
+12:37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then
+his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
+
+12:38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes,
+which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the
+marketplaces, 12:39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the
+uppermost rooms at feasts: 12:40 Which devour widows’ houses, and for
+a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
+
+12:41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the
+people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in
+much.
+
+12:42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites,
+which make a farthing.
+
+12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them,
+Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than
+all they which have cast into the treasury: 12:44 For all they did
+cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that
+she had, even all her living.
+
+13:1 And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto
+him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
+13:2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great
+buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall
+not be thrown down.
+
+13:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple,
+Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, 13:4 Tell us,
+when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these
+things shall be fulfilled? 13:5 And Jesus answering them began to
+say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: 13:6 For many shall come in
+my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
+
+13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not
+troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
+
+13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
+kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there
+shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
+
+13:9 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to
+councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be
+brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against
+them.
+
+13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
+
+13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no
+thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but
+whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is
+not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
+
+13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the
+father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and
+shall cause them to be put to death.
+
+13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that
+shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
+
+13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of
+by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that
+readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the
+mountains: 13:15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into
+the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
+13:16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take
+up his garment.
+
+13:17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck
+in those days! 13:18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the
+winter.
+
+13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the
+beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither
+shall be.
+
+13:20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh
+should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he
+hath shortened the days.
+
+13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or,
+lo, he is there; believe him not: 13:22 For false Christs and false
+prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if
+it were possible, even the elect.
+
+13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
+
+13:24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be
+darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 13:25 And the stars
+of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be
+shaken.
+
+13:26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with
+great power and glory.
+
+13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his
+elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the
+uttermost part of heaven.
+
+13:28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet
+tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: 13:29
+So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass,
+know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
+
+13:30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till
+all these things be done.
+
+13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass
+away.
+
+13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels
+which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
+
+13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
+
+13:34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left
+his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his
+work, and commanded the porter to watch.
+
+13:35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house
+cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the
+morning: 13:36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
+
+13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
+
+14:1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened
+bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might
+take him by craft, and put him to death.
+
+14:2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of
+the people.
+
+14:3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat
+at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of
+spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his
+head.
+
+14:4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and
+said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? 14:5 For it might have
+been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to
+the poor. And they murmured against her.
+
+14:6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath
+wrought a good work on me.
+
+14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye
+may do them good: but me ye have not always.
+
+14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my
+body to the burying.
+
+14:9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached
+throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be
+spoken of for a memorial of her.
+
+14:10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief
+priests, to betray him unto them.
+
+14:11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him
+money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
+
+14:12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the
+passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and
+prepare that thou mayest eat the passover? 14:13 And he sendeth forth
+two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and
+there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
+
+14:14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the
+house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat
+the passover with my disciples? 14:15 And he will shew you a large
+upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
+
+14:16 And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found
+as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
+
+14:17 And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
+
+14:18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you,
+One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
+
+14:19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one,
+Is it I? and another said, Is it I? 14:20 And he answered and said
+unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
+
+14:21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to
+that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man
+if he had never been born.
+
+14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake
+it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
+
+14:23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to
+them: and they all drank of it.
+
+14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament,
+which is shed for many.
+
+14:25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the
+vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
+
+14:26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of
+Olives.
+
+14:27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of
+me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the
+sheep shall be scattered.
+
+14:28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
+
+14:29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet
+will not I.
+
+14:30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day,
+even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me
+thrice.
+
+14:31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I
+will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
+
+14:32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he
+saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.
+
+14:33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be
+sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 14:34 And saith unto them, My soul
+is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
+
+14:35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed
+that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
+
+14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee;
+take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what
+thou wilt.
+
+14:37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter,
+Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? 14:38 Watch
+ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready,
+but the flesh is weak.
+
+14:39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
+
+14:40 And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their
+eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
+
+14:41 And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now,
+and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of
+man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
+
+14:42 Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
+
+14:43 And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the
+twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from
+the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
+
+14:44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying,
+Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away
+safely.
+
+14:45 And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and
+saith, Master, master; and kissed him.
+
+14:46 And they laid their hands on him, and took him.
+
+14:47 And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant
+of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
+
+14:48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as
+against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? 14:49 I was
+daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the
+scriptures must be fulfilled.
+
+14:50 And they all forsook him, and fled.
+
+14:51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth
+cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: 14:52
+And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
+
+14:53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were
+assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
+
+14:54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the
+high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the
+fire.
+
+14:55 And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness
+against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
+
+14:56 For many bare false witness against him, but their witness
+agreed not together.
+
+14:57 And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him,
+saying, 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is
+made with hands, and within three days I will build another made
+without hands.
+
+14:59 But neither so did their witness agree together.
+
+14:60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus,
+saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against
+thee? 14:61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the
+high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son
+of the Blessed? 14:62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son
+of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of
+heaven.
+
+14:63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we
+any further witnesses? 14:64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think
+ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
+
+14:65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to
+buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike
+him with the palms of their hands.
+
+14:66 And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the
+maids of the high priest: 14:67 And when she saw Peter warming
+himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus
+of Nazareth.
+
+14:68 But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what
+thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
+
+14:69 And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood
+by, This is one of them.
+
+14:70 And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by
+said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a
+Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.
+
+14:71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man
+of whom ye speak.
+
+14:72 And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the
+word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt
+deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
+
+15:1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a
+consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and
+bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
+
+15:2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he
+answering said unto them, Thou sayest it.
+
+15:3 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered
+nothing.
+
+15:4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing?
+behold how many things they witness against thee.
+
+15:5 But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.
+
+15:6 Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever
+they desired.
+
+15:7 And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that
+had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the
+insurrection.
+
+15:8 And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he
+had ever done unto them.
+
+15:9 But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you
+the King of the Jews? 15:10 For he knew that the chief priests had
+delivered him for envy.
+
+15:11 But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather
+release Barabbas unto them.
+
+15:12 And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then
+that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews? 15:13 And
+they cried out again, Crucify him.
+
+15:14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And
+they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
+
+15:15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas
+unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be
+crucified.
+
+15:16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium;
+and they call together the whole band.
+
+15:17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns,
+and put it about his head, 15:18 And began to salute him, Hail, King
+of the Jews! 15:19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and
+did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
+
+15:20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him,
+and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
+
+15:21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out
+of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
+
+15:22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being
+interpreted, The place of a skull.
+
+15:23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he
+received it not.
+
+15:24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments,
+casting lots upon them, what every man should take.
+
+15:25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
+
+15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE
+KING OF THE JEWS.
+
+15:27 And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right
+hand, and the other on his left.
+
+15:28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was
+numbered with the transgressors.
+
+15:29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and
+saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three
+days, 15:30 Save thyself, and come down from the cross.
+
+15:31 Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves
+with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
+
+15:32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that
+we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled
+him.
+
+15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the
+whole land until the ninth hour.
+
+15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
+Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my
+God, why hast thou forsaken me? 15:35 And some of them that stood by,
+when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.
+
+15:36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a
+reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether
+Elias will come to take him down.
+
+15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
+
+15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the
+bottom.
+
+15:39 And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that
+he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was
+the Son of God.
+
+15:40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary
+Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and
+Salome; 15:41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and
+ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto
+Jerusalem.
+
+15:42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation,
+that is, the day before the sabbath, 15:43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an
+honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came,
+and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
+
+15:44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto
+him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
+
+15:45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to
+Joseph.
+
+15:46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in
+the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock,
+and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
+
+15:47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he
+was laid.
+
+16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
+mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might
+come and anoint him.
+
+16:2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they
+came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
+
+16:3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone
+from the door of the sepulchre? 16:4 And when they looked, they saw
+that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
+
+16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on
+the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were
+affrighted.
+
+16:6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of
+Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the
+place where they laid him.
+
+16:7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth
+before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
+
+16:8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they
+trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for
+they were afraid.
+
+16:9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he
+appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven
+devils.
+
+16:10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they
+mourned and wept.
+
+16:11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been
+seen of her, believed not.
+
+16:12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they
+walked, and went into the country.
+
+16:13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed
+they them.
+
+16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and
+upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they
+believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
+
+16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the
+gospel to every creature.
+
+16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that
+believeth not shall be damned.
+
+16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall
+they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 16:18 They
+shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall
+not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall
+recover.
+
+16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up
+into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
+
+16:20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working
+with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Gospel According to Saint Luke
+
+
+1:1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a
+declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
+1:2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were
+eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 1:3 It seemed good to me
+also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very
+first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 1:4
+That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou
+hast been instructed.
+
+1:5 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain
+priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the
+daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
+
+1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the
+commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
+
+1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they
+both were now well stricken in years.
+
+1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office
+before God in the order of his course, 1:9 According to the custom of
+the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the
+temple of the Lord.
+
+1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the
+time of incense.
+
+1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the
+right side of the altar of incense.
+
+1:12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon
+him.
+
+1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer
+is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt
+call his name John.
+
+1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at
+his birth.
+
+1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink
+neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy
+Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
+
+1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord
+their God.
+
+1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to
+turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to
+the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
+
+1:18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for
+I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
+
+1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand
+in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew
+thee these glad tidings.
+
+1:20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the
+day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not
+my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
+
+1:21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he
+tarried so long in the temple.
+
+1:22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they
+perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned
+unto them, and remained speechless.
+
+1:23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his
+ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
+
+1:24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid
+herself five months, saying, 1:25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in
+the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
+
+1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a
+city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man
+whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name
+was Mary.
+
+1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art
+highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
+
+1:29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in
+her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
+
+1:30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found
+favour with God.
+
+1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a
+son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
+
+1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest:
+and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
+1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his
+kingdom there shall be no end.
+
+1:34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know
+not a man? 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy
+Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall
+overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of
+thee shall be called the Son of God.
+
+1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son
+in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called
+barren.
+
+1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
+
+1:38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me
+according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
+
+1:39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with
+haste, into a city of Juda; 1:40 And entered into the house of
+Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
+
+1:41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of
+Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the
+Holy Ghost: 1:42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said,
+Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
+
+1:43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come
+to me? 1:44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded
+in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
+
+1:45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a
+performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
+
+1:46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, 1:47 And my spirit
+hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
+
+1:48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for,
+behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
+
+1:49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is
+his name.
+
+1:50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to
+generation.
+
+1:51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud
+in the imagination of their hearts.
+
+1:52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of
+low degree.
+
+1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath
+sent empty away.
+
+1:54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
+1:55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
+
+1:56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her
+own house.
+
+1:57 Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and
+she brought forth a son.
+
+1:58 And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed
+great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
+
+1:59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to
+circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of
+his father.
+
+1:60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called
+John.
+
+1:61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is
+called by this name.
+
+1:62 And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
+
+1:63 And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is
+John. And they marvelled all.
+
+1:64 And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and
+he spake, and praised God.
+
+1:65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these
+sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
+
+1:66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts,
+saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord
+was with him.
+
+1:67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and
+prophesied, saying, 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he
+hath visited and redeemed his people, 1:69 And hath raised up an horn
+of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 1:70 As he
+spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the
+world began: 1:71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from
+the hand of all that hate us; 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to
+our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 1:73 The oath which he
+sware to our father Abraham, 1:74 That he would grant unto us, that we
+being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without
+fear, 1:75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of
+our life.
+
+1:76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for
+thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; 1:77 To
+give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their
+sins, 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring
+from on high hath visited us, 1:79 To give light to them that sit in
+darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of
+peace.
+
+1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the
+deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
+
+2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree
+from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
+
+2:2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of
+Syria.) 2:3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
+
+2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,
+into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem;
+(because he was of the house and lineage of David:) 2:5 To be taxed
+with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
+
+2:6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were
+accomplished that she should be delivered.
+
+2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
+swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room
+for them in the inn.
+
+2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field,
+keeping watch over their flock by night.
+
+2:9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of
+the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
+
+2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you
+good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
+
+2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour,
+which is Christ the Lord.
+
+2:12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped
+in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
+
+2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly
+host praising God, and saying, 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and
+on earth peace, good will toward men.
+
+2:15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into
+heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto
+Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord
+hath made known unto us.
+
+2:16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the
+babe lying in a manger.
+
+2:17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying
+which was told them concerning this child.
+
+2:18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were
+told them by the shepherds.
+
+2:19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
+
+2:20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all
+the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
+
+2:21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the
+child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel
+before he was conceived in the womb.
+
+2:22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of
+Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him
+to the Lord; 2:23 (As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male
+that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) 2:24 And to
+offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the
+Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
+
+2:25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon;
+and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of
+Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
+
+2:26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should
+not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
+
+2:27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents
+brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
+2:28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 2:29
+Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy
+word: 2:30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, 2:31 Which thou hast
+prepared before the face of all people; 2:32 A light to lighten the
+Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
+
+2:33 And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were
+spoken of him.
+
+2:34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold,
+this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and
+for a sign which shall be spoken against; 2:35 (Yea, a sword shall
+pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts
+may be revealed.
+
+2:36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of
+the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an
+husband seven years from her virginity; 2:37 And she was a widow of
+about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple,
+but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
+
+2:38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the
+Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in
+Jerusalem.
+
+2:39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of
+the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
+
+2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with
+wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
+
+2:41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the
+passover.
+
+2:42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after
+the custom of the feast.
+
+2:43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child
+Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not
+of it.
+
+2:44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s
+journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
+
+2:45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem,
+seeking him.
+
+2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the
+temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and
+asking them questions.
+
+2:47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and
+answers.
+
+2:48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto
+him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I
+have sought thee sorrowing.
+
+2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not
+that I must be about my Father’s business? 2:50 And they understood
+not the saying which he spake unto them.
+
+2:51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject
+unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
+
+2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God
+and man.
+
+3:1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius
+Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,
+and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of
+Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 3:2 Annas and
+Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the
+son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
+
+3:3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the
+baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 3:4 As it is written
+in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of
+one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his
+paths straight.
+
+3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be
+brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
+ways shall be made smooth; 3:6 And all flesh shall see the salvation
+of God.
+
+3:7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of
+him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the
+wrath to come? 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance,
+and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father:
+for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up
+children unto Abraham.
+
+3:9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every
+tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and
+cast into the fire.
+
+3:10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? 3:11 He
+answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart
+to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
+
+3:12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him,
+Master, what shall we do? 3:13 And he said unto them, Exact no more
+than that which is appointed you.
+
+3:14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall
+we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse
+any falsely; and be content with your wages.
+
+3:15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their
+hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; 3:16 John
+answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but
+one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy
+to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
+3:17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor,
+and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn
+with fire unquenchable.
+
+3:18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the
+people.
+
+3:19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his
+brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
+3:20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
+
+3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that
+Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 3:22
+And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him,
+and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in
+thee I am well pleased.
+
+3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being
+(as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, 3:24
+Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the
+son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of
+Joseph, 3:25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of
+Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was
+the son of Nagge, 3:26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son
+of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of
+Joseph, which was the son of Juda, 3:27 Which was the son of Joanna,
+which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was
+the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri, 3:28 Which was the
+son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam,
+which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er, 3:29 Which was
+the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of
+Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, 3:30
+Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the
+son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of
+Eliakim, 3:31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan,
+which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was
+the son of David, 3:32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son
+of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which
+was the son of Naasson, 3:33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was
+the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of
+Phares, which was the son of Juda, 3:34 Which was the son of Jacob,
+which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was
+the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor, 3:35 Which was the son
+of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec,
+which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala, 3:36 Which was
+the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of
+Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, 3:37 Which
+was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the
+son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of
+Cainan, 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth,
+which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
+
+4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and
+was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 4:2 Being forty days
+tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when
+they were ended, he afterward hungered.
+
+4:3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command
+this stone that it be made bread.
+
+4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not
+live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
+
+4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto
+him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
+
+4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and
+the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I
+will I give it.
+
+4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
+
+4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan:
+for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only
+shalt thou serve.
+
+4:9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the
+temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself
+down from hence: 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels
+charge over thee, to keep thee: 4:11 And in their hands they shall
+bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
+
+4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not
+tempt the Lord thy God.
+
+4:13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from
+him for a season.
+
+4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and
+there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
+
+4:15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
+
+4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as
+his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and
+stood up for to read.
+
+4:17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias.
+And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was
+written, 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
+anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal
+the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
+recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
+bruised, 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
+
+4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and
+sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were
+fastened on him.
+
+4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture
+fulfilled in your ears.
+
+4:22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words
+which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s
+son? 4:23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this
+proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in
+Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
+
+4:24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his
+own country.
+
+4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days
+of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when
+great famine was throughout all the land; 4:26 But unto none of them
+was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that
+was a widow.
+
+4:27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the
+prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
+
+4:28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were
+filled with wrath, 4:29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city,
+and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built,
+that they might cast him down headlong.
+
+4:30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way, 4:31 And
+came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the
+sabbath days.
+
+4:32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with
+power.
+
+4:33 And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an
+unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, 4:34 Saying, Let us
+alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou
+come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
+
+4:35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of
+him.
+
+And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him,
+and hurt him not.
+
+4:36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying,
+What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the
+unclean spirits, and they come out.
+
+4:37 And the fame of him went out into every place of the country
+round about.
+
+4:38 And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s
+house.
+
+And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they
+besought him for her.
+
+4:39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her:
+and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
+
+4:40 Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with
+divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every
+one of them, and healed them.
+
+4:41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou
+art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to
+speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
+
+4:42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place:
+and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he
+should not depart from them.
+
+4:43 And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other
+cities also: for therefore am I sent.
+
+4:44 And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
+
+5:1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear
+the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, 5:2 And saw two
+ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them,
+and were washing their nets.
+
+5:3 And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and
+prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat
+down, and taught the people out of the ship.
+
+5:4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into
+the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
+
+5:5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the
+night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let
+down the net.
+
+5:6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of
+fishes: and their net brake.
+
+5:7 And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other
+ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled
+both the ships, so that they began to sink.
+
+5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying,
+Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
+
+5:9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught
+of the fishes which they had taken: 5:10 And so was also James, and
+John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus
+said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
+
+5:11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all,
+and followed him.
+
+5:12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man
+full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him,
+saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
+
+5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be
+thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
+
+5:14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to
+the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded,
+for a testimony unto them.
+
+5:15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great
+multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their
+infirmities.
+
+5:16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
+
+5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that
+there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were
+come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the
+power of the Lord was present to heal them.
+
+5:18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a
+palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before
+him.
+
+5:19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in
+because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him
+down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
+
+5:20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are
+forgiven thee.
+
+5:21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is
+this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
+5:22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto
+them, What reason ye in your hearts? 5:23 Whether is easier, to say,
+Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? 5:24 But that
+ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins,
+(he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take
+up thy couch, and go into thine house.
+
+5:25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon
+he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
+
+5:26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled
+with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
+
+5:27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named
+Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow
+me.
+
+5:28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
+
+5:29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a
+great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
+
+5:30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples,
+saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 5:31 And
+Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a
+physician; but they that are sick.
+
+5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
+
+5:33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often,
+and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but
+thine eat and drink? 5:34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the
+children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
+5:35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away
+from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
+
+5:36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of
+a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a
+rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the
+old.
+
+5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine
+will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
+
+5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are
+preserved.
+
+5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for
+he saith, The old is better.
+
+6:1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he
+went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of
+corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
+
+6:2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which
+is not lawful to do on the sabbath days? 6:3 And Jesus answering them
+said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself
+was an hungred, and they which were with him; 6:4 How he went into the
+house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to
+them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the
+priests alone? 6:5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord
+also of the sabbath.
+
+6:6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into
+the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was
+withered.
+
+6:7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal
+on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
+
+6:8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the
+withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and
+stood forth.
+
+6:9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful
+on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to
+destroy it? 6:10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto
+the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was
+restored whole as the other.
+
+6:11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another
+what they might do to Jesus.
+
+6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a
+mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
+
+6:13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of
+them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; 6:14 Simon, (whom
+he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip
+and Bartholomew, 6:15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus,
+and Simon called Zelotes, 6:16 And Judas the brother of James, and
+Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.
+
+6:17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the
+company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all
+Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which
+came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; 6:18 And they
+that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
+
+6:19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went
+virtue out of him, and healed them all.
+
+6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be
+ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
+
+6:21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed
+are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
+
+6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall
+separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out
+your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
+
+6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your
+reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers
+unto the prophets.
+
+6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your
+consolation.
+
+6:25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you
+that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
+
+6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
+their fathers to the false prophets.
+
+6:27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them
+which hate you, 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them
+which despitefully use you.
+
+6:29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the
+other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat
+also.
+
+6:30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh
+away thy goods ask them not again.
+
+6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them
+likewise.
+
+6:32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for
+sinners also love those that love them.
+
+6:33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have
+ye? for sinners also do even the same.
+
+6:34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank
+have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
+
+6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for
+nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the
+children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the
+evil.
+
+6:36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
+
+6:37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall
+not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: 6:38 Give, and it
+shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken
+together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with
+the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you
+again.
+
+6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind?
+shall they not both fall into the ditch? 6:40 The disciple is not
+above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his
+master.
+
+6:41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but
+perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 6:42 Either how
+canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that
+is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in
+thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine
+own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is
+in thy brother’s eye.
+
+6:43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a
+corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
+
+6:44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do
+not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
+
+6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth
+that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his
+heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the
+heart his mouth speaketh.
+
+6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
+say? 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth
+them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 6:48 He is like a man which
+built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock:
+and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house,
+and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
+
+6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a
+foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did
+beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house
+was great.
+
+7:1 Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the
+people, he entered into Capernaum.
+
+7:2 And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was
+sick, and ready to die.
+
+7:3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the
+Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
+
+7:4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying,
+That he was worthy for whom he should do this: 7:5 For he loveth our
+nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
+
+7:6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the
+house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord,
+trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter
+under my roof: 7:7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come
+unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
+
+7:8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers,
+and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he
+cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
+
+7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him
+about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I
+have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
+
+7:10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the
+servant whole that had been sick.
+
+7:11 And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city
+called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
+
+7:12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was
+a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a
+widow: and much people of the city was with her.
+
+7:13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said
+unto her, Weep not.
+
+7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood
+still.
+
+And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
+
+7:15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered
+him to his mother.
+
+7:16 And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying,
+That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited
+his people.
+
+7:17 And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and
+throughout all the region round about.
+
+7:18 And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things.
+
+7:19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to
+Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
+7:20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath
+sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we
+for another? 7:21 And in that same hour he cured many of their
+infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were
+blind he gave sight.
+
+7:22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John
+what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame
+walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to
+the poor the gospel is preached.
+
+7:23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
+
+7:24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak
+unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness
+for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? 7:25 But what went ye out
+for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are
+gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
+
+7:26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you,
+and much more than a prophet.
+
+7:27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger
+before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
+
+7:28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is
+not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in
+the kingdom of God is greater than he.
+
+7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified
+God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
+
+7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against
+themselves, being not baptized of him.
+
+7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this
+generation? and to what are they like? 7:32 They are like unto
+children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and
+saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have
+mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
+
+7:33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine;
+and ye say, He hath a devil.
+
+7:34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a
+gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
+7:35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
+
+7:36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him.
+And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.
+
+7:37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she
+knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an
+alabaster box of ointment, 7:38 And stood at his feet behind him
+weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with
+the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the
+ointment.
+
+7:39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake
+within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have
+known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she
+is a sinner.
+
+7:40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say
+unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
+
+7:41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed
+five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
+
+7:42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.
+Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? 7:43 Simon
+answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most.
+
+And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
+
+7:44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this
+woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my
+feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the
+hairs of her head.
+
+7:45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in
+hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
+
+7:46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath
+anointed my feet with ointment.
+
+7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are
+forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same
+loveth little.
+
+7:48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
+
+7:49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within
+themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? 7:50 And he said to
+the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
+
+8:1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city
+and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of
+God: and the twelve were with him, 8:2 And certain women, which had
+been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene,
+out of whom went seven devils, 8:3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza
+Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto
+him of their substance.
+
+8:4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him
+out of every city, he spake by a parable: 8:5 A sower went out to sow
+his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was
+trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
+
+8:6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it
+withered away, because it lacked moisture.
+
+8:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and
+choked it.
+
+8:8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an
+hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath
+ears to hear, let him hear.
+
+8:9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
+8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the
+kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not
+see, and hearing they might not understand.
+
+8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
+
+8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil,
+and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe
+and be saved.
+
+8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the
+word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and
+in time of temptation fall away.
+
+8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have
+heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of
+this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
+
+8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good
+heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with
+patience.
+
+8:16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel,
+or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they
+which enter in may see the light.
+
+8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither
+any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
+
+8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall
+be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that
+which he seemeth to have.
+
+8:19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come
+at him for the press.
+
+8:20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy
+brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
+
+8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are
+these which hear the word of God, and do it.
+
+8:22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship
+with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the
+other side of the lake. And they launched forth.
+
+8:23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of
+wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in
+jeopardy.
+
+8:24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we
+perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the
+water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
+
+8:25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid
+wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he
+commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
+
+8:26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over
+against Galilee.
+
+8:27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a
+certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither
+abode in any house, but in the tombs.
+
+8:28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and
+with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son
+of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
+
+8:29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man.
+For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains
+and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil
+into the wilderness.) 8:30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy
+name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
+
+8:31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out
+into the deep.
+
+8:32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the
+mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter
+into them. And he suffered them.
+
+8:33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine:
+and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were
+choked.
+
+8:34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went
+and told it in the city and in the country.
+
+8:35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and
+found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the
+feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
+
+8:36 They also which saw it told them by what means he that was
+possessed of the devils was healed.
+
+8:37 Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round
+about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great
+fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
+
+8:38 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him
+that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying, 8:39
+Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done
+unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole
+city how great things Jesus had done unto him.
+
+8:40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people
+gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
+
+8:41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of
+the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that
+he would come into his house: 8:42 For he had one only daughter, about
+twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people
+thronged him.
+
+8:43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had
+spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
+8:44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and
+immediately her issue of blood stanched.
+
+8:45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they
+that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press
+thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 8:46 And Jesus said, Somebody
+hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
+
+8:47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling,
+and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the
+people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed
+immediately.
+
+8:48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith
+hath made thee whole; go in peace.
+
+8:49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the
+synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not
+the Master.
+
+8:50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not:
+believe only, and she shall be made whole.
+
+8:51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in,
+save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the
+maiden.
+
+8:52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not
+dead, but sleepeth.
+
+8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
+
+8:54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called,
+saying, Maid, arise.
+
+8:55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he
+commanded to give her meat.
+
+8:56 And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they
+should tell no man what was done.
+
+9:1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power
+and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
+
+9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the
+sick.
+
+9:3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither
+staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two
+coats apiece.
+
+9:4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence
+depart.
+
+9:5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city,
+shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
+
+9:6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the
+gospel, and healing every where.
+
+9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he
+was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen
+from the dead; 9:8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of
+others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.
+
+9:9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I
+hear such things? And he desired to see him.
+
+9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they
+had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert
+place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
+
+9:11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received
+them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that
+had need of healing.
+
+9:12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and
+said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the
+towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are
+here in a desert place.
+
+9:13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We
+have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and
+buy meat for all this people.
+
+9:14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his
+disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
+
+9:15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
+
+9:16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up
+to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to
+set before the multitude.
+
+9:17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of
+fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
+
+9:18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were
+with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
+9:19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and
+others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
+
+9:20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering
+said, The Christ of God.
+
+9:21 And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man
+that thing; 9:22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and
+be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain,
+and be raised the third day.
+
+9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him
+deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
+
+9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever
+will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
+
+9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and
+lose himself, or be cast away? 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of
+me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he
+shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy
+angels.
+
+9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which
+shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
+
+9:28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he
+took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
+
+9:29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and
+his raiment was white and glistering.
+
+9:30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and
+Elias: 9:31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he
+should accomplish at Jerusalem.
+
+9:32 But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and
+when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood
+with him.
+
+9:33 And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto
+Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three
+tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not
+knowing what he said.
+
+9:34 While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them:
+and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
+
+9:35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my
+beloved Son: hear him.
+
+9:36 And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept
+it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they
+had seen.
+
+9:37 And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come
+down from the hill, much people met him.
+
+9:38 And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I
+beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.
+
+9:39 And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it
+teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth
+from him.
+
+9:40 And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.
+
+9:41 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation,
+how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
+
+9:42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare
+him.
+
+And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and
+delivered him again to his father.
+
+9:43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while
+they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto
+his disciples, 9:44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for
+the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
+
+9:45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them,
+that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
+
+9:46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be
+greatest.
+
+9:47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child,
+and set him by him, 9:48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive
+this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me
+receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the
+same shall be great.
+
+9:49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils
+in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.
+
+9:50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not
+against us is for us.
+
+9:51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be
+received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, 9:52 And
+sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a
+village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
+
+9:53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he
+would go to Jerusalem.
+
+9:54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord,
+wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume
+them, even as Elias did? 9:55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and
+said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
+
+9:56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to
+save them. And they went to another village.
+
+9:57 And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man
+said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
+
+9:58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air
+have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
+
+9:59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me
+first to go and bury my father.
+
+9:60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou
+and preach the kingdom of God.
+
+9:61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first
+go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
+
+9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the
+plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
+
+10:1 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and
+sent them two and two before his face into every city and place,
+whither he himself would come.
+
+10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the
+labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he
+would send forth labourers into his harvest.
+
+10:3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
+
+10:4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by
+the way.
+
+10:5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this
+house.
+
+10:6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it:
+if not, it shall turn to you again.
+
+10:7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as
+they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house
+to house.
+
+10:8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such
+things as are set before you: 10:9 And heal the sick that are therein,
+and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
+
+10:10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go
+your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, 10:11 Even the
+very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against
+you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is
+come nigh unto you.
+
+10:12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day
+for Sodom, than for that city.
+
+10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
+mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in
+you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and
+ashes.
+
+10:14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the
+judgment, than for you.
+
+10:15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be
+thrust down to hell.
+
+10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you
+despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
+
+10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the
+devils are subject unto us through thy name.
+
+10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from
+heaven.
+
+10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and
+scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by
+any means hurt you.
+
+10:20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are
+subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written
+in heaven.
+
+10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O
+Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from
+the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so,
+Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
+
+10:22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth
+who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son,
+and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
+
+10:23 And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately,
+Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: 10:24 For I
+tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those
+things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things
+which ye hear, and have not heard them.
+
+10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying,
+Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 10:26 He said unto
+him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? 10:27 And he
+answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
+and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy
+mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
+
+10:28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and
+thou shalt live.
+
+10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is
+my neighbour? 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down
+from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him
+of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
+
+10:31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and
+when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
+
+10:32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked
+on him, and passed by on the other side.
+
+10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and
+when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 10:34 And went to him, and
+bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own
+beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
+
+10:35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and
+gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and
+whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
+
+10:36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him
+that fell among the thieves? 10:37 And he said, He that shewed mercy
+on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
+
+10:38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a
+certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into
+her house.
+
+10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet,
+and heard his word.
+
+10:40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and
+said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve
+alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
+
+10:41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art
+careful and troubled about many things: 10:42 But one thing is
+needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken
+away from her.
+
+11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place,
+when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to
+pray, as John also taught his disciples.
+
+11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in
+heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as
+in heaven, so in earth.
+
+11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
+
+11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is
+indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from
+evil.
+
+11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and
+shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three
+loaves; 11:6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I
+have nothing to set before him? 11:7 And he from within shall answer
+and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are
+with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
+
+11:8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he
+is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give
+him as many as he needeth.
+
+11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
+shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
+
+11:10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh
+findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
+
+11:11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he
+give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a
+serpent? 11:12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a
+scorpion? 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
+unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the
+Holy Spirit to them that ask him? 11:14 And he was casting out a
+devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone
+out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
+
+11:15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub
+the chief of the devils.
+
+11:16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
+
+11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom
+divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided
+against a house falleth.
+
+11:18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom
+stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
+
+11:19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast
+them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
+
+11:20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the
+kingdom of God is come upon you.
+
+11:21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in
+peace: 11:22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and
+overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted,
+and divideth his spoils.
+
+11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not
+with me scattereth.
+
+11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through
+dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return
+unto my house whence I came out.
+
+11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
+
+11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked
+than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state
+of that man is worse than the first.
+
+11:27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman
+of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the
+womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
+
+11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of
+God, and keep it.
+
+11:29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to
+say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no
+sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
+
+11:30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the
+Son of man be to this generation.
+
+11:31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the
+men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost
+parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a
+greater than Solomon is here.
+
+11:32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this
+generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching
+of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
+
+11:33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret
+place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which
+come in may see the light.
+
+11:34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is
+single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is
+evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
+
+11:35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not
+darkness.
+
+11:36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part
+dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of
+a candle doth give thee light.
+
+11:37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with
+him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
+
+11:38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first
+washed before dinner.
+
+11:39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the
+outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of
+ravening and wickedness.
+
+11:40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that
+which is within also? 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as ye
+have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
+
+11:42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all
+manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these
+ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
+
+11:43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the
+synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
+
+11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as
+graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware
+of them.
+
+11:45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master,
+thus saying thou reproachest us also.
+
+11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with
+burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens
+with one of your fingers.
+
+11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and
+your fathers killed them.
+
+11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers:
+for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
+
+11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets
+and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: 11:50
+That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation
+of the world, may be required of this generation; 11:51 From the blood
+of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar
+and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this
+generation.
+
+11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of
+knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering
+in ye hindered.
+
+11:53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the
+Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of
+many things: 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something
+out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
+
+12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an
+innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon
+another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of
+the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
+
+12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither
+hid, that shall not be known.
+
+12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in
+the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall
+be proclaimed upon the housetops.
+
+12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill
+the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
+
+12:5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after
+he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear
+him.
+
+12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them
+is forgotten before God? 12:7 But even the very hairs of your head
+are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many
+sparrows.
+
+12:8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him
+shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 12:9 But
+he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of
+God.
+
+12:10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it
+shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy
+Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
+
+12:11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto
+magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall
+answer, or what ye shall say: 12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you
+in the same hour what ye ought to say.
+
+12:13 And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my
+brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
+
+12:14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over
+you? 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of
+covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the
+things which he possesseth.
+
+12:16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a
+certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 12:17 And he thought
+within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where
+to bestow my fruits? 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull
+down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my
+fruits and my goods.
+
+12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up
+for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
+
+12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be
+required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast
+provided? 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is
+not rich toward God.
+
+12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take
+no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body,
+what ye shall put on.
+
+12:23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
+
+12:24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which
+neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more
+are ye better than the fowls? 12:25 And which of you with taking
+thought can add to his stature one cubit? 12:26 If ye then be not
+able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the
+rest? 12:27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they
+spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was
+not arrayed like one of these.
+
+12:28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field,
+and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you,
+O ye of little faith? 12:29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or
+what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
+
+12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and
+your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
+
+12:31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things
+shall be added unto you.
+
+12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to
+give you the kingdom.
+
+12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which
+wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no
+thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
+
+12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
+
+12:35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 12:36
+And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will
+return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may
+open unto him immediately.
+
+12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall
+find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and
+make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
+
+12:38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third
+watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
+
+12:39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what
+hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have
+suffered his house to be broken through.
+
+12:40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour
+when ye think not.
+
+12:41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto
+us, or even to all? 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that
+faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his
+household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 12:43
+Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
+doing.
+
+12:44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all
+that he hath.
+
+12:45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his
+coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to
+eat and drink, and to be drunken; 12:46 The lord of that servant will
+come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is
+not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his
+portion with the unbelievers.
+
+12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not
+himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many
+stripes.
+
+12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes,
+shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given,
+of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of
+him they will ask the more.
+
+12:49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be
+already kindled? 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and
+how am I straitened till it be accomplished! 12:51 Suppose ye that I
+am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
+12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided,
+three against two, and two against three.
+
+12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against
+the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against
+the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the
+daughter in law against her mother in law.
+
+12:54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of
+the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
+
+12:55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat;
+and it cometh to pass.
+
+12:56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the
+earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 12:57 Yea, and
+why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? 12:58 When thou
+goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way,
+give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale
+thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the
+officer cast thee into prison.
+
+12:59 I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid
+the very last mite.
+
+13:1 There were present at that season some that told him of the
+Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
+
+13:2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these
+Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they
+suffered such things? 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye
+shall all likewise perish.
+
+13:4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew
+them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in
+Jerusalem? 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all
+likewise perish.
+
+13:6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted
+in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
+
+13:7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these
+three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut
+it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 13:8 And he answering said unto
+him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and
+dung it: 13:9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that
+thou shalt cut it down.
+
+13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
+
+13:11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity
+eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up
+herself.
+
+13:12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her,
+Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
+
+13:13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made
+straight, and glorified God.
+
+13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation,
+because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the
+people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them
+therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
+
+13:15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not
+each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall,
+and lead him away to watering? 13:16 And ought not this woman, being
+a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen
+years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 13:17 And when he
+had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the
+people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
+
+13:18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and
+whereunto shall I resemble it? 13:19 It is like a grain of mustard
+seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and
+waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of
+it.
+
+13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
+13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures
+of meal, till the whole was leavened.
+
+13:22 And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and
+journeying toward Jerusalem.
+
+13:23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And
+he said unto them, 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for
+many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
+
+13:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to
+the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door,
+saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto
+you, I know you not whence ye are: 13:26 Then shall ye begin to say,
+We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our
+streets.
+
+13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are;
+depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
+
+13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see
+Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of
+God, and you yourselves thrust out.
+
+13:29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from
+the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of
+God.
+
+13:30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are
+first which shall be last.
+
+13:31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto
+him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
+
+13:32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast
+out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I
+shall be perfected.
+
+13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day
+following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
+
+13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest
+them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy
+children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and
+ye would not! 13:35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and
+verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when
+ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
+
+14:1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the
+chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched
+him.
+
+14:2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the
+dropsy.
+
+14:3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying,
+Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 14:4 And they held their
+peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; 14:5 And
+answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen
+into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
+14:6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
+
+14:7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he
+marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
+
+14:8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the
+highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
+14:9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man
+place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
+
+14:10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room;
+that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go
+up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that
+sit at meat with thee.
+
+14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
+humbleth himself shall be exalted.
+
+14:12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a
+dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither
+thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again,
+and a recompence be made thee.
+
+14:13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the
+lame, the blind: 14:14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot
+recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of
+the just.
+
+14:15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these
+things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the
+kingdom of God.
+
+14:16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and
+bade many: 14:17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them
+that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
+
+14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first
+said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go
+and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
+
+14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to
+prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
+
+14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot
+come.
+
+14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the
+master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly
+into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor,
+and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
+
+14:22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded,
+and yet there is room.
+
+14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and
+hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
+
+14:24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden
+shall taste of my supper.
+
+14:25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and
+said unto them, 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father,
+and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea,
+and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
+
+14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot
+be my disciple.
+
+14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down
+first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
+14:29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able
+to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 14:30 Saying, This
+man began to build, and was not able to finish.
+
+14:31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth
+not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to
+meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 14:32 Or else,
+while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and
+desireth conditions of peace.
+
+14:33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that
+he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
+
+14:34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith
+shall it be seasoned? 14:35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet
+for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let
+him hear.
+
+15:1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear
+him.
+
+15:2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man
+receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
+
+15:3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 15:4 What man of
+you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave
+the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is
+lost, until he find it? 15:5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it
+on his shoulders, rejoicing.
+
+15:6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and
+neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my
+sheep which was lost.
+
+15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one
+sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons,
+which need no repentance.
+
+15:8 Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one
+piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek
+diligently till she find it? 15:9 And when she hath found it, she
+calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with
+me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
+
+15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the
+angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
+
+15:11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 15:12 And the younger
+of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that
+falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
+
+15:13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together,
+and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his
+substance with riotous living.
+
+15:14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that
+land; and he began to be in want.
+
+15:15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and
+he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
+
+15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the
+swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
+
+15:17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of
+my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
+15:18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father,
+I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 15:19 And am no more
+worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
+
+15:20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a
+great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and
+fell on his neck, and kissed him.
+
+15:21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven,
+and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
+
+15:22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe,
+and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
+15:23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat,
+and be merry: 15:24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he
+was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
+
+15:25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh
+to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
+
+15:26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things
+meant.
+
+15:27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath
+killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
+
+15:28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father
+out, and intreated him.
+
+15:29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I
+serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and
+yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my
+friends: 15:30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath
+devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted
+calf.
+
+15:31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I
+have is thine.
+
+15:32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy
+brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
+
+16:1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich
+man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he
+had wasted his goods.
+
+16:2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this
+of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no
+longer steward.
+
+16:3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my
+lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am
+ashamed.
+
+16:4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the
+stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
+
+16:5 So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said
+unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? 16:6 And he said,
+An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and
+sit down quickly, and write fifty.
+
+16:7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An
+hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and
+write fourscore.
+
+16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done
+wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser
+than the children of light.
+
+16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of
+unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into
+everlasting habitations.
+
+16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in
+much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
+
+16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous
+mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 16:12 And if
+ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall
+give you that which is your own? 16:13 No servant can serve two
+masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else
+he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God
+and mammon.
+
+16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these
+things: and they derided him.
+
+16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves
+before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly
+esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
+
+16:16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the
+kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
+
+16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle
+of the law to fail.
+
+16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another,
+committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from
+her husband committeth adultery.
+
+16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and
+fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 16:20 And there was a
+certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of
+sores, 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from
+the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
+
+16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by
+the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was
+buried; 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and
+seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
+
+16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and
+send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool
+my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
+
+16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
+receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now
+he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
+
+16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf
+fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither
+can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
+
+16:27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest
+send him to my father’s house: 16:28 For I have five brethren; that he
+may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
+
+16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let
+them hear them.
+
+16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from
+the dead, they will repent.
+
+16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
+neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
+
+17:1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that
+offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! 17:2 It
+were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and
+he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little
+ones.
+
+17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee,
+rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
+
+17:4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven
+times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt
+forgive him.
+
+17:5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
+
+17:6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
+might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and
+be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
+
+17:7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle,
+will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and
+sit down to meat? 17:8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready
+wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten
+and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? 17:9 Doth he
+thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him?
+I trow not.
+
+17:10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which
+are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done
+that which was our duty to do.
+
+17:11 And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed
+through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
+
+17:12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men
+that were lepers, which stood afar off: 17:13 And they lifted up their
+voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
+
+17:14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto
+the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were
+cleansed.
+
+17:15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back,
+and with a loud voice glorified God, 17:16 And fell down on his face
+at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
+
+17:17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where
+are the nine? 17:18 There are not found that returned to give glory
+to God, save this stranger.
+
+17:19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made
+thee whole.
+
+17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of
+God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh
+not with observation: 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo
+there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
+
+17:22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye
+shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall
+not see it.
+
+17:23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after
+them, nor follow them.
+
+17:24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under
+heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the
+Son of man be in his day.
+
+17:25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this
+generation.
+
+17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the
+days of the Son of man.
+
+17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in
+marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood
+came, and destroyed them all.
+
+17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they
+drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 17:29 But
+the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone
+from heaven, and destroyed them all.
+
+17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is
+revealed.
+
+17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff
+in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in
+the field, let him likewise not return back.
+
+17:32 Remember Lot’s wife.
+
+17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and
+whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
+
+17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the
+one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
+
+17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,
+and the other left.
+
+17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the
+other left.
+
+17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said
+unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be
+gathered together.
+
+18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought
+always to pray, and not to faint; 18:2 Saying, There was in a city a
+judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 18:3 And there was
+a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine
+adversary.
+
+18:4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within
+himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 18:5 Yet because this
+widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming
+she weary me.
+
+18:6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
+
+18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night
+unto him, though he bear long with them? 18:8 I tell you that he will
+avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall
+he find faith on the earth? 18:9 And he spake this parable unto
+certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and
+despised others: 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the
+one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
+
+18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank
+thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust,
+adulterers, or even as this publican.
+
+18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
+
+18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much
+as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be
+merciful to me a sinner.
+
+18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather
+than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased;
+and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
+
+18:15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch
+them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
+
+18:16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children
+to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of
+God.
+
+18:17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
+of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
+
+18:18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I
+do to inherit eternal life? 18:19 And Jesus said unto him, Why
+callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
+
+18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not
+kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and
+thy mother.
+
+18:21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
+
+18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest
+thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor,
+and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
+
+18:23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very
+rich.
+
+18:24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How
+hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
+18:25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than
+for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
+
+18:26 And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved? 18:27 And
+he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with
+God.
+
+18:28 Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
+
+18:29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man
+that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children,
+for the kingdom of God’s sake, 18:30 Who shall not receive manifold
+more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
+
+18:31 Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we
+go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets
+concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
+
+18:32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be
+mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: 18:33 And they shall
+scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise
+again.
+
+18:34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was
+hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
+
+18:35 And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a
+certain blind man sat by the way side begging: 18:36 And hearing the
+multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
+
+18:37 And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.
+
+18:38 And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on
+me.
+
+18:39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his
+peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou son of David, have mercy on
+me.
+
+18:40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and
+when he was come near, he asked him, 18:41 Saying, What wilt thou that
+I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
+
+18:42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved
+thee.
+
+18:43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him,
+glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto
+God.
+
+19:1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
+
+19:2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief
+among the publicans, and he was rich.
+
+19:3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the
+press, because he was little of stature.
+
+19:4 And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see
+him: for he was to pass that way.
+
+19:5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and
+said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must
+abide at thy house.
+
+19:6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
+
+19:7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone
+to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
+
+19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the
+half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing
+from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
+
+19:9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this
+house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
+
+19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was
+lost.
+
+19:11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable,
+because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the
+kingdom of God should immediately appear.
+
+19:12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to
+receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
+
+19:13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds,
+and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
+
+19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him,
+saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
+
+19:15 And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received
+the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him,
+to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man
+had gained by trading.
+
+19:16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten
+pounds.
+
+19:17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast
+been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
+
+19:18 And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five
+pounds.
+
+19:19 And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
+
+19:20 And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which
+I have kept laid up in a napkin: 19:21 For I feared thee, because thou
+art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and
+reapest that thou didst not sow.
+
+19:22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee,
+thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up
+that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: 19:23 Wherefore
+then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might
+have required mine own with usury? 19:24 And he said unto them that
+stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten
+pounds.
+
+19:25 (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.) 19:26 For I
+say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from
+him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
+
+19:27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over
+them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
+
+19:28 And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to
+Jerusalem.
+
+19:29 And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and
+Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his
+disciples, 19:30 Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in
+the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet
+never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
+
+19:31 And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say
+unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
+
+19:32 And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had
+said unto them.
+
+19:33 And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto
+them, Why loose ye the colt? 19:34 And they said, The Lord hath need
+of him.
+
+19:35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon
+the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
+
+19:36 And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way.
+
+19:37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount
+of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and
+praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had
+seen; 19:38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the
+Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
+
+19:39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto
+him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
+
+19:40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these
+should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
+
+19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
+19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy
+day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from
+thine eyes.
+
+19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast
+a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every
+side, 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children
+within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another;
+because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
+
+19:45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that
+sold therein, and them that bought; 19:46 Saying unto them, It is
+written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of
+thieves.
+
+19:47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the
+scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, 19:48 And
+could not find what they might do: for all the people were very
+attentive to hear him.
+
+20:1 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the
+people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and
+the scribes came upon him with the elders, 20:2 And spake unto him,
+saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is
+he that gave thee this authority? 20:3 And he answered and said unto
+them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me: 20:4 The baptism
+of John, was it from heaven, or of men? 20:5 And they reasoned with
+themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why
+then believed ye him not? 20:6 But and if we say, Of men; all the
+people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
+
+20:7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
+
+20:8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I
+do these things.
+
+20:9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man
+planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a
+far country for a long time.
+
+20:10 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they
+should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat
+him, and sent him away empty.
+
+20:11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and
+entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
+
+20:12 And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast
+him out.
+
+20:13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send
+my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
+
+20:14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves,
+saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance
+may be ours.
+
+20:15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What
+therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? 20:16 He shall
+come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to
+others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
+
+20:17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written,
+The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of
+the corner? 20:18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be
+broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
+
+20:19 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to
+lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that
+he had spoken this parable against them.
+
+20:20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign
+themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so
+they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
+
+20:21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and
+teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but
+teachest the way of God truly: 20:22 Is it lawful for us to give
+tribute unto Caesar, or no? 20:23 But he perceived their craftiness,
+and said unto them, Why tempt ye me? 20:24 Shew me a penny. Whose
+image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar’s.
+
+20:25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things
+which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.
+
+20:26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and
+they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
+
+20:27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there
+is any resurrection; and they asked him, 20:28 Saying, Master, Moses
+wrote unto us, If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he die
+without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up
+seed unto his brother.
+
+20:29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife,
+and died without children.
+
+20:30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
+
+20:31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and
+they left no children, and died.
+
+20:32 Last of all the woman died also.
+
+20:33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for
+seven had her to wife.
+
+20:34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world
+marry, and are given in marriage: 20:35 But they which shall be
+accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the
+dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 20:36 Neither can they
+die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children
+of God, being the children of the resurrection.
+
+20:37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush,
+when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
+the God of Jacob.
+
+20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live
+unto him.
+
+20:39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast
+well said.
+
+20:40 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.
+
+20:41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David’s son?
+20:42 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said
+unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 20:43 Till I make thine
+enemies thy footstool.
+
+20:44 David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son? 20:45
+Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,
+20:46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and
+love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the
+synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; 20:47 Which devour widows’
+houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive
+greater damnation.
+
+21:1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into
+the treasury.
+
+21:2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two
+mites.
+
+21:3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath
+cast in more than they all: 21:4 For all these have of their abundance
+cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in
+all the living that she had.
+
+21:5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly
+stones and gifts, he said, 21:6 As for these things which ye behold,
+the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone
+upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
+
+21:7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things
+be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
+21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall
+come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye
+not therefore after them.
+
+21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified:
+for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and
+by.
+
+21:10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and
+kingdom against kingdom: 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in
+divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and
+great signs shall there be from heaven.
+
+21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and
+persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons,
+being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
+
+21:13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
+
+21:14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what
+ye shall answer: 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which
+all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
+
+21:16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and
+kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to
+death.
+
+21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
+
+21:18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
+
+21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
+
+21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know
+that the desolation thereof is nigh.
+
+21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let
+them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that
+are in the countries enter thereinto.
+
+21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are
+written may be fulfilled.
+
+21:23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give
+suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land,
+and wrath upon this people.
+
+21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led
+away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of
+the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
+
+21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the
+stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the
+sea and the waves roaring; 21:26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,
+and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for
+the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
+
+21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with
+power and great glory.
+
+21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and
+lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
+
+21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the
+trees; 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own
+selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
+
+21:31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye
+that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
+
+21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till
+all be fulfilled.
+
+21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass
+away.
+
+21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
+overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life,
+and so that day come upon you unawares.
+
+21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face
+of the whole earth.
+
+21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted
+worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to
+stand before the Son of man.
+
+21:37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night
+he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of
+Olives.
+
+21:38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the
+temple, for to hear him.
+
+22:1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the
+Passover.
+
+22:2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him;
+for they feared the people.
+
+22:3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the
+number of the twelve.
+
+22:4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and
+captains, how he might betray him unto them.
+
+22:5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
+
+22:6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them
+in the absence of the multitude.
+
+22:7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be
+killed.
+
+22:8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the
+passover, that we may eat.
+
+22:9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? 22:10
+And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city,
+there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him
+into the house where he entereth in.
+
+22:11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith
+unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover
+with my disciples? 22:12 And he shall shew you a large upper room
+furnished: there make ready.
+
+22:13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made
+ready the passover.
+
+22:14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles
+with him.
+
+22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this
+passover with you before I suffer: 22:16 For I say unto you, I will
+not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
+
+22:17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and
+divide it among yourselves: 22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink
+of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
+
+22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto
+them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in
+remembrance of me.
+
+22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new
+testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
+
+22:21 But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the
+table.
+
+22:22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe
+unto that man by whom he is betrayed! 22:23 And they began to enquire
+among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.
+
+22:24 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be
+accounted the greatest.
+
+22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise
+lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are
+called benefactors.
+
+22:26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let
+him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
+
+22:27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that
+serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he
+that serveth.
+
+22:28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
+
+22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed
+unto me; 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom,
+and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
+
+22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to
+have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 22:32 But I have prayed for
+thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen
+thy brethren.
+
+22:33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both
+into prison, and to death.
+
+22:34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this
+day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
+
+22:35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip,
+and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
+
+22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him
+take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him
+sell his garment, and buy one.
+
+22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be
+accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for
+the things concerning me have an end.
+
+22:38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said
+unto them, It is enough.
+
+22:39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of
+Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
+
+22:40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye
+enter not into temptation.
+
+22:41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled
+down, and prayed, 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove
+this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
+
+22:43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening
+him.
+
+22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat
+was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
+
+22:45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples,
+he found them sleeping for sorrow, 22:46 And said unto them, Why sleep
+ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
+
+22:47 And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was
+called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto
+Jesus to kiss him.
+
+22:48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man
+with a kiss? 22:49 When they which were about him saw what would
+follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?
+22:50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut
+off his right ear.
+
+22:51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched
+his ear, and healed him.
+
+22:52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the
+temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as
+against a thief, with swords and staves? 22:53 When I was daily with
+you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is
+your hour, and the power of darkness.
+
+22:54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high
+priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off.
+
+22:55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and
+were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
+
+22:56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and
+earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
+
+22:57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
+
+22:58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art
+also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
+
+22:59 And about the space of one hour after another confidently
+affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is
+a Galilaean.
+
+22:60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And
+immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
+
+22:61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered
+the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow,
+thou shalt deny me thrice.
+
+22:62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
+
+22:63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
+
+22:64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face,
+and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee? 22:65 And
+many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
+
+22:66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the
+chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their
+council, saying, 22:67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto
+them, If I tell you, ye will not believe: 22:68 And if I also ask you,
+ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
+
+22:69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the
+power of God.
+
+22:70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said
+unto them, Ye say that I am.
+
+22:71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we
+ourselves have heard of his own mouth.
+
+23:1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
+
+23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow
+perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar,
+saying that he himself is Christ a King.
+
+23:3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And
+he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
+
+23:4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find
+no fault in this man.
+
+23:5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people,
+teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
+
+23:6 When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a
+Galilaean.
+
+23:7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod’s
+jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem
+at that time.
+
+23:8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was
+desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things
+of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
+
+23:9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him
+nothing.
+
+23:10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused
+him.
+
+23:11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him,
+and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
+
+23:12 And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together:
+for before they were at enmity between themselves.
+
+23:13 And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and
+the rulers and the people, 23:14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this
+man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having
+examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching
+those things whereof ye accuse him: 23:15 No, nor yet Herod: for I
+sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
+
+23:16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
+
+23:17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
+23:18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and
+release unto us Barabbas: 23:19 (Who for a certain sedition made in
+the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) 23:20 Pilate
+therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
+
+23:21 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
+
+23:22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he
+done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise
+him, and let him go.
+
+23:23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might
+be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests
+prevailed.
+
+23:24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
+
+23:25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was
+cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to
+their will.
+
+23:26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a
+Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross,
+that he might bear it after Jesus.
+
+23:27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women,
+which also bewailed and lamented him.
+
+23:28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep
+not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
+
+23:29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say,
+Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps
+which never gave suck.
+
+23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and
+to the hills, Cover us.
+
+23:31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done
+in the dry? 23:32 And there were also two other, malefactors, led
+with him to be put to death.
+
+23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary,
+there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand,
+and the other on the left.
+
+23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what
+they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
+
+23:35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them
+derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be
+Christ, the chosen of God.
+
+23:36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering
+him vinegar, 23:37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save
+thyself.
+
+23:38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of
+Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
+
+23:39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him,
+saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
+
+23:40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear
+God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 23:41 And we indeed
+justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath
+done nothing amiss.
+
+23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into
+thy kingdom.
+
+23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt
+thou be with me in paradise.
+
+23:44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over
+all the earth until the ninth hour.
+
+23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in
+the midst.
+
+23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father,
+into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up
+the ghost.
+
+23:47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God,
+saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
+
+23:48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding
+the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
+
+23:49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from
+Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
+
+23:50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he
+was a good man, and a just: 23:51 (The same had not consented to the
+counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews:
+who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
+
+23:52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
+
+23:53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a
+sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
+
+23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
+
+23:55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed
+after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
+
+23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested
+the sabbath day according to the commandment.
+
+24:1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning,
+they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had
+prepared, and certain others with them.
+
+24:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
+
+24:3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
+
+24:4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout,
+behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 24:5 And as they
+were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto
+them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 24:6 He is not here, but
+is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
+24:7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful
+men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
+
+24:8 And they remembered his words, 24:9 And returned from the
+sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the
+rest.
+
+24:10 It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James,
+and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the
+apostles.
+
+24:11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed
+them not.
+
+24:12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down,
+he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed,
+wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
+
+24:13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called
+Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
+
+24:14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
+
+24:15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and
+reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
+
+24:16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
+
+24:17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these
+that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? 24:18 And the
+one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou
+only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are
+come to pass there in these days? 24:19 And he said unto them, What
+things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which
+was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
+24:20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be
+condemned to death, and have crucified him.
+
+24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed
+Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these
+things were done.
+
+24:22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished,
+which were early at the sepulchre; 24:23 And when they found not his
+body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels,
+which said that he was alive.
+
+24:24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre,
+and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
+
+24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe
+all that the prophets have spoken: 24:26 Ought not Christ to have
+suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 24:27 And
+beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all
+the scriptures the things concerning himself.
+
+24:28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he
+made as though he would have gone further.
+
+24:29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is
+toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with
+them.
+
+24:30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread,
+and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
+
+24:31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished
+out of their sight.
+
+24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us,
+while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the
+scriptures? 24:33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to
+Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were
+with them, 24:34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared
+to Simon.
+
+24:35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was
+known of them in breaking of bread.
+
+24:36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of
+them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
+
+24:37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they
+had seen a spirit.
+
+24:38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts
+arise in your hearts? 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I
+myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as
+ye see me have.
+
+24:40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his
+feet.
+
+24:41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said
+unto them, Have ye here any meat? 24:42 And they gave him a piece of
+a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
+
+24:43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
+
+24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto
+you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled,
+which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in
+the psalms, concerning me.
+
+24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand
+the scriptures, 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus
+it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
+24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in
+his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
+
+24:48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
+
+24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry
+ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on
+high.
+
+24:50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his
+hands, and blessed them.
+
+24:51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from
+them, and carried up into heaven.
+
+24:52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great
+joy: 24:53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing
+God. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Gospel According to Saint John
+
+
+1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
+Word was God.
+
+1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
+
+1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing
+made that was made.
+
+1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
+
+1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended
+it not.
+
+1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
+
+1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that
+all men through him might believe.
+
+1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
+
+1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into
+the world.
+
+1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world
+knew him not.
+
+1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
+
+1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the
+sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 1:13 Which were
+born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
+man, but of God.
+
+1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
+his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
+grace and truth.
+
+1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom
+I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was
+before me.
+
+1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
+
+1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
+Christ.
+
+1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is
+in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
+
+1:19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and
+Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? 1:20 And he
+confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
+
+1:21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am
+not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
+
+1:22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer
+to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? 1:23 He said, I am
+the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of
+the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
+
+1:24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
+
+1:25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then,
+if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 1:26
+John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth
+one among you, whom ye know not; 1:27 He it is, who coming after me is
+preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
+
+1:28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was
+baptizing.
+
+1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold
+the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
+
+1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is
+preferred before me: for he was before me.
+
+1:31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to
+Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
+
+1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from
+heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
+
+1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water,
+the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending,
+and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy
+Ghost.
+
+1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
+
+1:35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
+1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of
+God! 1:37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed
+Jesus.
+
+1:38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them,
+What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being
+interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? 1:39 He saith unto them,
+Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him
+that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
+
+1:40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was
+Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
+
+1:41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We
+have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
+
+1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said,
+Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is
+by interpretation, A stone.
+
+1:43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth
+Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
+
+1:44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
+
+1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him,
+of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of
+Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
+
+1:46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of
+Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
+
+1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an
+Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! 1:48 Nathanael saith unto him,
+Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that
+Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
+
+1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of
+God; thou art the King of Israel.
+
+1:50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw
+thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things
+than these.
+
+1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter
+ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and
+descending upon the Son of man.
+
+2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the
+mother of Jesus was there: 2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his
+disciples, to the marriage.
+
+2:3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him,
+They have no wine.
+
+2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine
+hour is not yet come.
+
+2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you,
+do it.
+
+2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner
+of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
+
+2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they
+filled them up to the brim.
+
+2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor
+of the feast. And they bare it.
+
+2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made
+wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the
+water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, 2:10 And
+saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine;
+and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast
+kept the good wine until now.
+
+2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and
+manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
+
+2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his
+brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
+
+2:13 And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to
+Jerusalem.
+
+2:14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves,
+and the changers of money sitting: 2:15 And when he had made a scourge
+of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep,
+and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the
+tables; 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things
+hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
+
+2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of
+thine house hath eaten me up.
+
+2:18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou
+unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? 2:19 Jesus answered and
+said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it
+up.
+
+2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in
+building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 2:21 But he spake
+of the temple of his body.
+
+2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples
+remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the
+scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
+
+2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day,
+many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
+
+2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all
+men, 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew
+what was in man.
+
+3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the
+Jews: 3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi,
+we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these
+miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
+
+3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
+Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
+
+3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old?
+can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 3:5
+Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born
+of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
+
+3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
+of the Spirit is spirit.
+
+3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
+
+3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
+thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so
+is every one that is born of the Spirit.
+
+3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
+3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel,
+and knowest not these things? 3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
+We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye
+receive not our witness.
+
+3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall
+ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 3:13 And no man hath
+ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son
+of man which is in heaven.
+
+3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
+must the Son of man be lifted up: 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him
+should not perish, but have eternal life.
+
+3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
+that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
+everlasting life.
+
+3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but
+that the world through him might be saved.
+
+3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth
+not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of
+the only begotten Son of God.
+
+3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
+and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
+evil.
+
+3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to
+the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
+
+3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may
+be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
+
+3:22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of
+Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
+
+3:23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there
+was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
+
+3:24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
+
+3:25 Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and
+the Jews about purifying.
+
+3:26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was
+with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same
+baptizeth, and all men come to him.
+
+3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be
+given him from heaven.
+
+3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ,
+but that I am sent before him.
+
+3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the
+bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because
+of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
+
+3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
+
+3:31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth
+is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is
+above all.
+
+3:32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man
+receiveth his testimony.
+
+3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God
+is true.
+
+3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God
+giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
+
+3:35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his
+hand.
+
+3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that
+believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth
+on him.
+
+4:1 When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that
+Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 4:2 (Though Jesus
+himself baptized not, but his disciples,) 4:3 He left Judaea, and
+departed again into Galilee.
+
+4:4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
+
+4:5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near
+to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
+
+4:6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with
+his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
+
+4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto
+her, Give me to drink.
+
+4:8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 4:9
+Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a
+Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews
+have no dealings with the Samaritans.
+
+4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of
+God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest
+have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
+
+4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with,
+and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
+4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well,
+and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? 4:13
+Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water
+shall thirst again: 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I
+shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him
+shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
+
+4:15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst
+not, neither come hither to draw.
+
+4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
+
+4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto
+her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 4:18 For thou hast had
+five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that
+saidst thou truly.
+
+4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a
+prophet.
+
+4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in
+Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
+
+4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye
+shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the
+Father.
+
+4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for
+salvation is of the Jews.
+
+4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
+worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such
+to worship him.
+
+4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
+spirit and in truth.
+
+4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is
+called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
+
+4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
+
+4:27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked
+with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest
+thou with her? 4:28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her
+way into the city, and saith to the men, 4:29 Come, see a man, which
+told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 4:30 Then
+they went out of the city, and came unto him.
+
+4:31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
+
+4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
+
+4:33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought
+him ought to eat? 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the
+will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
+
+4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?
+behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for
+they are white already to harvest.
+
+4:36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
+life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice
+together.
+
+4:37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
+
+4:38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men
+laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
+
+4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the
+saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
+
+4:40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that
+he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
+
+4:41 And many more believed because of his own word; 4:42 And said
+unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have
+heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the
+Saviour of the world.
+
+4:43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
+
+4:44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his
+own country.
+
+4:45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him,
+having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for
+they also went unto the feast.
+
+4:46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water
+wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at
+Capernaum.
+
+4:47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he
+went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his
+son: for he was at the point of death.
+
+4:48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye
+will not believe.
+
+4:49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
+
+4:50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man
+believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
+
+4:51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him,
+saying, Thy son liveth.
+
+4:52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And
+they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
+
+4:53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which
+Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his
+whole house.
+
+4:54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come
+out of Judaea into Galilee.
+
+5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
+Jerusalem.
+
+5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is
+called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
+
+5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt,
+withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
+
+5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and
+troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the
+water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
+
+5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and
+eight years.
+
+5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time
+in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 5:7 The
+impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is
+troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another
+steppeth down before me.
+
+5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
+
+5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and
+walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
+
+5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the
+sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
+
+5:11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me,
+Take up thy bed, and walk.
+
+5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take
+up thy bed, and walk? 5:13 And he that was healed wist not who it
+was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that
+place.
+
+5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him,
+Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
+thee.
+
+5:15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had
+made him whole.
+
+5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay
+him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
+
+5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
+
+5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not
+only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father,
+making himself equal with God.
+
+5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
+unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the
+Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
+likewise.
+
+5:20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that
+himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye
+may marvel.
+
+5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even
+so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
+
+5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment
+unto the Son: 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they
+honour the Father.
+
+He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent
+him.
+
+5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and
+believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
+come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
+
+5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is,
+when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that
+hear shall live.
+
+5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
+Son to have life in himself; 5:27 And hath given him authority to
+execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
+
+5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that
+are in the graves shall hear his voice, 5:29 And shall come forth;
+they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that
+have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
+
+5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
+judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of
+the Father which hath sent me.
+
+5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
+
+5:32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the
+witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
+
+5:33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
+
+5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say,
+that ye might be saved.
+
+5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a
+season to rejoice in his light.
+
+5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which
+the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear
+witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
+
+5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of
+me.
+
+Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
+
+5:38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent,
+him ye believe not.
+
+5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life:
+and they are they which testify of me.
+
+5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
+
+5:41 I receive not honour from men.
+
+5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
+
+5:43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another
+shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
+
+5:44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek
+not the honour that cometh from God only? 5:45 Do not think that I
+will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even
+Moses, in whom ye trust.
+
+5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he
+wrote of me.
+
+5:47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my
+words? 6:1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee,
+which is the sea of Tiberias.
+
+6:2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles
+which he did on them that were diseased.
+
+6:3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his
+disciples.
+
+6:4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
+
+6:5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come
+unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these
+may eat? 6:6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what
+he would do.
+
+6:7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not
+sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
+
+6:8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, saith unto
+him, 6:9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two
+small fishes: but what are they among so many? 6:10 And Jesus said,
+Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the
+men sat down, in number about five thousand.
+
+6:11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he
+distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set
+down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
+
+6:12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the
+fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
+
+6:13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets
+with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and
+above unto them that had eaten.
+
+6:14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did,
+said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
+
+6:15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him
+by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain
+himself alone.
+
+6:16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
+6:17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum.
+And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
+
+6:18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
+
+6:19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs,
+they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and
+they were afraid.
+
+6:20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
+
+6:21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately
+the ship was at the land whither they went.
+
+6:22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side
+of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one
+whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his
+disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;
+6:23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place
+where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) 6:24
+When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his
+disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for
+Jesus.
+
+6:25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they
+said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? 6:26 Jesus answered
+them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because
+ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were
+filled.
+
+6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which
+endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto
+you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
+
+6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the
+works of God? 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the
+work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
+
+6:30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that
+we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? 6:31 Our fathers
+did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from
+heaven to eat.
+
+6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses
+gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true
+bread from heaven.
+
+6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and
+giveth life unto the world.
+
+6:34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
+
+6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh
+to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never
+thirst.
+
+6:36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
+
+6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that
+cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
+
+6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the
+will of him that sent me.
+
+6:39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all
+which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up
+again at the last day.
+
+6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
+seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I
+will raise him up at the last day.
+
+6:41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread
+which came down from heaven.
+
+6:42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
+and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from
+heaven? 6:43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not
+among yourselves.
+
+6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw
+him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
+
+6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of
+God.
+
+Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father,
+cometh unto me.
+
+6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God,
+he hath seen the Father.
+
+6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath
+everlasting life.
+
+6:48 I am that bread of life.
+
+6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
+
+6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may
+eat thereof, and not die.
+
+6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat
+of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give
+is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
+
+6:52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this
+man give us his flesh to eat? 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily,
+verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
+drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
+
+6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life;
+and I will raise him up at the last day.
+
+6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
+
+6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me,
+and I in him.
+
+6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so
+he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
+
+6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your
+fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread
+shall live for ever.
+
+6:59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
+
+6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said,
+This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 6:61 When Jesus knew in
+himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth
+this offend you? 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend
+up where he was before? 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the
+flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are
+spirit, and they are life.
+
+6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from
+the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray
+him.
+
+6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto
+me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
+
+6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no
+more with him.
+
+6:67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 6:68 Then
+Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the
+words of eternal life.
+
+6:69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of
+the living God.
+
+6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you
+is a devil? 6:71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he
+it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
+
+7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk
+in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
+
+7:2 Now the Jew’s feast of tabernacles was at hand.
+
+7:3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into
+Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
+
+7:4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself
+seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to
+the world.
+
+7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
+
+7:6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time
+is alway ready.
+
+7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of
+it, that the works thereof are evil.
+
+7:8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my
+time is not yet full come.
+
+7:9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
+
+7:10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the
+feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
+
+7:11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
+7:12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for
+some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the
+people.
+
+7:13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
+
+7:14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple,
+and taught.
+
+7:15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters,
+having never learned? 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine
+is not mine, but his that sent me.
+
+7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,
+whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
+
+7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that
+seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no
+unrighteousness is in him.
+
+7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the
+law? Why go ye about to kill me? 7:20 The people answered and said,
+Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? 7:21 Jesus answered
+and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
+
+7:22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of
+Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a
+man.
+
+7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of
+Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a
+man every whit whole on the sabbath day? 7:24 Judge not according to
+the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
+
+7:25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they
+seek to kill? 7:26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing
+unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
+7:27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no
+man knoweth whence he is.
+
+7:28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know
+me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that
+sent me is true, whom ye know not.
+
+7:29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
+
+7:30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him,
+because his hour was not yet come.
+
+7:31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ
+cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
+7:32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things
+concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers
+to take him.
+
+7:33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and
+then I go unto him that sent me.
+
+7:34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither
+ye cannot come.
+
+7:35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we
+shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles,
+and teach the Gentiles? 7:36 What manner of saying is this that he
+said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither
+ye cannot come? 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast,
+Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto
+me, and drink.
+
+7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
+belly shall flow rivers of living water.
+
+7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
+should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that
+Jesus was not yet glorified.) 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when
+they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
+
+7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come
+out of Galilee? 7:42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh
+of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David
+was? 7:43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
+
+7:44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on
+him.
+
+7:45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and
+they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? 7:46 The officers
+answered, Never man spake like this man.
+
+7:47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? 7:48
+Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 7:49 But
+this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
+
+7:50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being
+one of them,) 7:51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and
+know what he doeth? 7:52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou
+also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no
+prophet.
+
+7:53 And every man went unto his own house.
+
+8:1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
+
+8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all
+the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
+
+8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in
+adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 8:4 They say unto
+him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
+
+8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but
+what sayest thou? 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might
+have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote
+on the ground, as though he heard them not.
+
+8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said
+unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a
+stone at her.
+
+8:8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
+
+8:9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience,
+went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and
+Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
+
+8:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he
+said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man
+condemned thee? 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her,
+Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
+
+8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the
+world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have
+the light of life.
+
+8:13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of
+thyself; thy record is not true.
+
+8:14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of
+myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I
+go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
+
+8:15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
+
+8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but
+I and the Father that sent me.
+
+8:17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is
+true.
+
+8:18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me
+beareth witness of me.
+
+8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye
+neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have
+known my Father also.
+
+8:20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the
+temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
+
+8:21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek
+me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
+
+8:22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith,
+Whither I go, ye cannot come.
+
+8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye
+are of this world; I am not of this world.
+
+8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if
+ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
+
+8:25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them,
+Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
+
+8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent
+me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard
+of him.
+
+8:27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
+
+8:28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
+then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but
+as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
+
+8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me
+alone; for I do always those things that please him.
+
+8:30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
+
+8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye
+continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 8:32 And ye
+shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
+
+8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in
+bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 8:34
+Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever
+committeth sin is the servant of sin.
+
+8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son
+abideth ever.
+
+8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free
+indeed.
+
+8:37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me,
+because my word hath no place in you.
+
+8:38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that
+which ye have seen with your father.
+
+8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus
+saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works
+of Abraham.
+
+8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth,
+which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
+
+8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not
+born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
+
+8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me:
+for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but
+he sent me.
+
+8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear
+my word.
+
+8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
+will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
+truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
+speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
+
+8:45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
+
+8:46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do
+ye not believe me? 8:47 He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye
+therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
+
+8:48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that
+thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? 8:49 Jesus answered, I have
+not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
+
+8:50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and
+judgeth.
+
+8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall
+never see death.
+
+8:52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil.
+
+Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my
+saying, he shall never taste of death.
+
+8:53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the
+prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 8:54 Jesus answered, If
+I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth
+me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: 8:55 Yet ye have not known
+him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a
+liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
+
+8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and
+was glad.
+
+8:57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old,
+and hast thou seen Abraham? 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily,
+verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
+
+8:59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself,
+and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so
+passed by.
+
+9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his
+birth.
+
+9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this
+man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 9:3 Jesus answered,
+Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of
+God should be made manifest in him.
+
+9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the
+night cometh, when no man can work.
+
+9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
+
+9:6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of
+the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
+9:7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by
+interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came
+seeing.
+
+9:8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that
+he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? 9:9 Some
+said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
+
+9:10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? 9:11
+He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and
+anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and
+wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
+
+9:12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
+
+9:13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
+
+9:14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened
+his eyes.
+
+9:15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his
+sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed,
+and do see.
+
+9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God,
+because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man
+that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among
+them.
+
+9:17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that
+he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
+
+9:18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been
+blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him
+that had received his sight.
+
+9:19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was
+born blind? how then doth he now see? 9:20 His parents answered them
+and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
+9:21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened
+his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for
+himself.
+
+9:22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for
+the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was
+Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
+
+9:23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
+
+9:24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him,
+Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
+
+9:25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not:
+one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
+
+9:26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he
+thine eyes? 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye
+did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his
+disciples? 9:28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his
+disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples.
+
+9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know
+not from whence he is.
+
+9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous
+thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine
+eyes.
+
+9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a
+worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
+
+9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the
+eyes of one that was born blind.
+
+9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
+
+9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in
+sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
+
+9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found
+him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 9:36 He
+answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? 9:37
+And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that
+talketh with thee.
+
+9:38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
+
+9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they
+which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
+
+9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words,
+and said unto him, Are we blind also? 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If
+ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see;
+therefore your sin remaineth.
+
+10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door
+into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a
+thief and a robber.
+
+10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
+
+10:3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he
+calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
+
+10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them,
+and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
+
+10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for
+they know not the voice of strangers.
+
+10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what
+things they were which he spake unto them.
+
+10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
+I am the door of the sheep.
+
+10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the
+sheep did not hear them.
+
+10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and
+shall go in and out, and find pasture.
+
+10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to
+destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have
+it more abundantly.
+
+10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for
+the sheep.
+
+10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the
+sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and
+fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
+
+10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not
+for the sheep.
+
+10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
+
+10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay
+down my life for the sheep.
+
+10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I
+must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold,
+and one shepherd.
+
+10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,
+that I might take it again.
+
+10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have
+power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This
+commandment have I received of my Father.
+
+10:19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these
+sayings.
+
+10:20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye
+him? 10:21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a
+devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? 10:22 And it was at
+Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
+
+10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.
+
+10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long
+dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
+
+10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works
+that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
+
+10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said
+unto you.
+
+10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
+10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
+neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
+
+10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man
+is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
+
+10:30 I and my Father are one.
+
+10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
+
+10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my
+Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 10:33 The Jews
+answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for
+blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
+
+10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye
+are gods? 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God
+came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 10:36 Say ye of him, whom
+the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest;
+because I said, I am the Son of God? 10:37 If I do not the works of
+my Father, believe me not.
+
+10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that
+ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
+
+10:39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of
+their hand, 10:40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place
+where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
+
+10:41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but
+all things that John spake of this man were true.
+
+10:42 And many believed on him there.
+
+11:1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town
+of Mary and her sister Martha.
+
+11:2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and
+wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 11:3
+Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom
+thou lovest is sick.
+
+11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death,
+but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified
+thereby.
+
+11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
+
+11:6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days
+still in the same place where he was.
+
+11:7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea
+again.
+
+11:8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to
+stone thee; and goest thou thither again? 11:9 Jesus answered, Are
+there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he
+stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
+
+11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is
+no light in him.
+
+11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our
+friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
+
+11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
+
+11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had
+spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
+
+11:14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
+
+11:15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent
+ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
+
+11:16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow
+disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
+
+11:17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave
+four days already.
+
+11:18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
+11:19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them
+concerning their brother.
+
+11:20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went
+and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
+
+11:21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
+brother had not died.
+
+11:22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God
+will give it thee.
+
+11:23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
+
+11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the
+resurrection at the last day.
+
+11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he
+that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 11:26
+And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest
+thou this? 11:27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou
+art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
+
+11:28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her
+sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
+
+11:29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
+
+11:30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place
+where Martha met him.
+
+11:31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted
+her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out,
+followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
+
+11:32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell
+down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
+brother had not died.
+
+11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping
+which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
+
+11:34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come
+and see.
+
+11:35 Jesus wept.
+
+11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! 11:37 And some of
+them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind,
+have caused that even this man should not have died? 11:38 Jesus
+therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a
+cave, and a stone lay upon it.
+
+11:39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him
+that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he
+hath been dead four days.
+
+11:40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou
+wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? 11:41 Then
+they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And
+Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou
+hast heard me.
+
+11:42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the
+people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast
+sent me.
+
+11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice,
+Lazarus, come forth.
+
+11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with
+graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith
+unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
+
+11:45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the
+things which Jesus did, believed on him.
+
+11:46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them
+what things Jesus had done.
+
+11:47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and
+said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
+
+11:48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the
+Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
+
+11:49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same
+year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, 11:50 Nor consider that
+it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and
+that the whole nation perish not.
+
+11:51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that
+year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; 11:52 And
+not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in
+one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
+
+11:53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put
+him to death.
+
+11:54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went
+thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called
+Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
+
+11:55 And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of
+the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
+
+11:56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they
+stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the
+feast? 11:57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a
+commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it,
+that they might take him.
+
+12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where
+Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
+
+12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was
+one of them that sat at the table with him.
+
+12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and
+anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the
+house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
+
+12:4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son,
+which should betray him, 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three
+hundred pence, and given to the poor? 12:6 This he said, not that he
+cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and
+bare what was put therein.
+
+12:7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying
+hath she kept this.
+
+12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
+
+12:9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and
+they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus
+also, whom he had raised from the dead.
+
+12:10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also
+to death; 12:11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went
+away, and believed on Jesus.
+
+12:12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when
+they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 12:13 Took branches of
+palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is
+the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
+
+12:14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is
+written, 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh,
+sitting on an ass’s colt.
+
+12:16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when
+Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were
+written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
+
+12:17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus
+out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
+
+12:18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that
+he had done this miracle.
+
+12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how
+ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
+
+12:20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship
+at the feast: 12:21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of
+Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see
+Jesus.
+
+12:22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip
+tell Jesus.
+
+12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son
+of man should be glorified.
+
+12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into
+the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth
+much fruit.
+
+12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his
+life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
+
+12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there
+shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father
+honour.
+
+12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me
+from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
+
+12:28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven,
+saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
+
+12:29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it
+thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
+
+12:30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but
+for your sakes.
+
+12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this
+world be cast out.
+
+12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto
+me.
+
+12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
+
+12:34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that
+Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be
+lifted up? who is this Son of man? 12:35 Then Jesus said unto them,
+Yet a little while is the light with you.
+
+Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that
+walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
+
+12:36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the
+children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did
+hide himself from them.
+
+12:37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they
+believed not on him: 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might
+be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and
+to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 12:39 Therefore they
+could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 12:40 He hath
+blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see
+with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted,
+and I should heal them.
+
+12:41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of
+him.
+
+12:42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him;
+but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they
+should be put out of the synagogue: 12:43 For they loved the praise of
+men more than the praise of God.
+
+12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on
+me, but on him that sent me.
+
+12:45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
+
+12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me
+should not abide in darkness.
+
+12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not:
+for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
+
+12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that
+judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in
+the last day.
+
+12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me,
+he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
+
+12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever
+I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
+
+13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his
+hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father,
+having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the
+end.
+
+13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart
+of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; 13:3 Jesus knowing that
+the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come
+from God, and went to God; 13:4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside
+his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
+
+13:5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the
+disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was
+girded.
+
+13:6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord,
+dost thou wash my feet? 13:7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I
+do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
+
+13:8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus
+answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
+
+13:9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my
+hands and my head.
+
+13:10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash
+his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
+
+13:11 For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not
+all clean.
+
+13:12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments,
+and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to
+you? 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
+
+13:14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also
+ought to wash one another’s feet.
+
+13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have
+done to you.
+
+13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than
+his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
+
+13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
+
+13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the
+scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted
+up his heel against me.
+
+13:19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye
+may believe that I am he.
+
+13:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I
+send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent
+me.
+
+13:21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and
+testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you
+shall betray me.
+
+13:22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he
+spake.
+
+13:23 Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom
+Jesus loved.
+
+13:24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it
+should be of whom he spake.
+
+13:25 He then lying on Jesus’ breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
+13:26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I
+have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas
+Iscariot, the son of Simon.
+
+13:27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto
+him, That thou doest, do quickly.
+
+13:28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto
+him.
+
+13:29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus
+had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the
+feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
+
+13:30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was
+night.
+
+13:31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of
+man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
+
+13:32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in
+himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
+
+13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek
+me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now
+I say to you.
+
+13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as
+I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
+
+13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have
+love one to another.
+
+13:36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus
+answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou
+shalt follow me afterwards.
+
+13:37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will
+lay down my life for thy sake.
+
+13:38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake?
+Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou
+hast denied me thrice.
+
+14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also
+in me.
+
+14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
+would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
+
+14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
+receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
+
+14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
+
+14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and
+how can we know the way? 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
+truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
+
+14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from
+henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
+
+14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth
+us.
+
+14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet
+hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the
+Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 14:10 Believest
+thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words
+that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that
+dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
+
+14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or
+else believe me for the very works’ sake.
+
+14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the
+works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall
+he do; because I go unto my Father.
+
+14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the
+Father may be glorified in the Son.
+
+14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
+
+14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
+
+14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
+Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 14:17 Even the Spirit
+of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not,
+neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and
+shall be in you.
+
+14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
+
+14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see
+me: because I live, ye shall live also.
+
+14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me,
+and I in you.
+
+14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that
+loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I
+will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
+
+14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou
+wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 14:23 Jesus
+answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words:
+and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our
+abode with him.
+
+14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which
+ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
+
+14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
+
+14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will
+send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things
+to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
+
+14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the
+world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither
+let it be afraid.
+
+14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again
+unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto
+the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
+
+14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is
+come to pass, ye might believe.
+
+14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this
+world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
+
+14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the
+Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
+
+15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
+
+15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and
+every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring
+forth more fruit.
+
+15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
+
+15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
+itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide
+in me.
+
+15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I
+in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
+nothing.
+
+15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
+withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they
+are burned.
+
+15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what
+ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
+
+15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall
+ye be my disciples.
+
+15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in
+my love.
+
+15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I
+have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
+
+15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in
+you, and that your joy might be full.
+
+15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have
+loved you.
+
+15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
+for his friends.
+
+15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
+
+15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not
+what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things
+that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
+
+15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you,
+that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
+remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may
+give it you.
+
+15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
+
+15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated
+you.
+
+15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
+because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
+world, therefore the world hateth you.
+
+15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
+greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also
+persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
+
+15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake,
+because they know not him that sent me.
+
+15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:
+but now they have no cloak for their sin.
+
+15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
+
+15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did,
+they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me
+and my Father.
+
+15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that
+is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
+
+15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
+the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
+Father, he shall testify of me: 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness,
+because ye have been with me from the beginning.
+
+16:1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be
+offended.
+
+16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh,
+that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
+
+16:3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not
+known the Father, nor me.
+
+16:4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come,
+ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not
+unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
+
+16:5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh
+me, Whither goest thou? 16:6 But because I have said these things
+unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
+
+16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I
+go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you;
+but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
+
+16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
+righteousness, and of judgment: 16:9 Of sin, because they believe not
+on me; 16:10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see
+me no more; 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is
+judged.
+
+16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
+now.
+
+16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
+into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he
+shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
+
+16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall
+shew it unto you.
+
+16:15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that
+he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
+
+16:16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little
+while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
+
+16:17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this
+that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and
+again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the
+Father? 16:18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A
+little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
+
+16:19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto
+them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while,
+and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see
+me? 16:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and
+lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but
+your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
+
+16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is
+come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no
+more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
+
+16:22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and
+your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
+
+16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say
+unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give
+it you.
+
+16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall
+receive, that your joy may be full.
+
+16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time
+cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall
+shew you plainly of the Father.
+
+16:26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you,
+that I will pray the Father for you: 16:27 For the Father himself
+loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came
+out from God.
+
+16:28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again,
+I leave the world, and go to the Father.
+
+16:29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and
+speakest no proverb.
+
+16:30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not
+that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest
+forth from God.
+
+16:31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? 16:32 Behold, the hour
+cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his
+own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the
+Father is with me.
+
+16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
+peace.
+
+In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
+overcome the world.
+
+17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
+said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
+glorify thee: 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that
+he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
+
+17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true
+God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
+
+17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work
+which thou gavest me to do.
+
+17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the
+glory which I had with thee before the world was.
+
+17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out
+of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have
+kept thy word.
+
+17:7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me
+are of thee.
+
+17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and
+they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from
+thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
+
+17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which
+thou hast given me; for they are thine.
+
+17:10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified
+in them.
+
+17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
+and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those
+whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
+
+17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
+those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but
+the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
+
+17:13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world,
+that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
+
+17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them,
+because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
+
+17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but
+that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
+
+17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
+
+17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
+
+17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent
+them into the world.
+
+17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
+sanctified through the truth.
+
+17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
+believe on me through their word; 17:21 That they all may be one; as
+thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in
+us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
+
+17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they
+may be one, even as we are one: 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that
+they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou
+hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
+
+17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with
+me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given
+me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
+
+17:25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have
+known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
+
+17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it:
+that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in
+them.
+
+18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his
+disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he
+entered, and his disciples.
+
+18:2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus
+ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
+
+18:3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the
+chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches
+and weapons.
+
+18:4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him,
+went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? 18:5 They answered him,
+Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he.
+
+And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
+
+18:6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went
+backward, and fell to the ground.
+
+18:7 Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of
+Nazareth.
+
+18:8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye
+seek me, let these go their way: 18:9 That the saying might be
+fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost
+none.
+
+18:10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high
+priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was
+Malchus.
+
+18:11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath:
+the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? 18:12
+Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and
+bound him, 18:13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in
+law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
+
+18:14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was
+expedient that one man should die for the people.
+
+18:15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple:
+that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus
+into the palace of the high priest.
+
+18:16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other
+disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her
+that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
+
+18:17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not
+thou also one of this man’s disciples? He saith, I am not.
+
+18:18 And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire
+of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood
+with them, and warmed himself.
+
+18:19 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his
+doctrine.
+
+18:20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught
+in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort;
+and in secret have I said nothing.
+
+18:21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said
+unto them: behold, they know what I said.
+
+18:22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by
+struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the
+high priest so? 18:23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear
+witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me? 18:24 Now
+Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
+
+18:25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore
+unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and
+said, I am not.
+
+18:26 One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose
+ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
+18:27 Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
+
+18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and
+it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall,
+lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
+
+18:29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring
+ye against this man? 18:30 They answered and said unto him, If he
+were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
+
+18:31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according
+to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us
+to put any man to death: 18:32 That the saying of Jesus might be
+fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.
+
+18:33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called
+Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? 18:34 Jesus
+answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it
+thee of me? 18:35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and
+the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
+18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom
+were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be
+delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
+
+18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus
+answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and
+for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto
+the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
+
+18:38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this,
+he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no
+fault at all.
+
+18:39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the
+passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the
+Jews? 18:40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but
+Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
+
+19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
+
+19:2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his
+head, and they put on him a purple robe, 19:3 And said, Hail, King of
+the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
+
+19:4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I
+bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
+
+19:5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the
+purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! 19:6 When
+the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out,
+saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him,
+and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
+
+19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to
+die, because he made himself the Son of God.
+
+19:8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
+19:9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus,
+Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
+
+19:10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest
+thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release
+thee? 19:11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all
+against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that
+delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
+
+19:12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews
+cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s
+friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
+
+19:13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth,
+and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the
+Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
+
+19:14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth
+hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! 19:15 But they
+cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him.
+
+Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests
+answered, We have no king but Caesar.
+
+19:16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And
+they took Jesus, and led him away.
+
+19:17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the
+place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: 19:18 Where
+they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and
+Jesus in the midst.
+
+19:19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the
+writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
+
+19:20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus
+was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and
+Greek, and Latin.
+
+19:21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not,
+The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
+
+19:22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
+
+19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
+garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his
+coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
+
+19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but
+cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be
+fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my
+vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
+
+19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his
+mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
+
+19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing
+by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
+19:27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that
+hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
+
+19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished,
+that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
+
+19:29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a
+spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
+
+19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is
+finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
+
+19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
+bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that
+sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be
+broken, and that they might be taken away.
+
+19:32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of
+the other which was crucified with him.
+
+19:33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already,
+they brake not his legs: 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear
+pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
+
+19:35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he
+knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
+
+19:36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be
+fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
+
+19:37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom
+they pierced.
+
+19:38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
+but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take
+away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore,
+and took the body of Jesus.
+
+19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus
+by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred
+pound weight.
+
+19:40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes
+with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
+
+19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and
+in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
+
+19:42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation
+day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
+
+20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it
+was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from
+the sepulchre.
+
+20:2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other
+disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away
+the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid
+him.
+
+20:3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to
+the sepulchre.
+
+20:4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun
+Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
+
+20:5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes
+lying; yet went he not in.
+
+20:6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the
+sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, 20:7 And the napkin, that
+was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped
+together in a place by itself.
+
+20:8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the
+sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
+
+20:9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again
+from the dead.
+
+20:10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
+
+20:11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she
+wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, 20:12 And seeth
+two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the
+feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
+
+20:13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto
+them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know not where they
+have laid him.
+
+20:14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw
+Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
+
+20:15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest
+thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if
+thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I
+will take him away.
+
+20:16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto
+him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
+
+20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to
+my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my
+Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
+
+20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the
+LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
+
+20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
+when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear
+of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them,
+Peace be unto you.
+
+20:20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his
+side.
+
+Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.
+
+20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father
+hath sent me, even so send I you.
+
+20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto
+them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit,
+they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are
+retained.
+
+20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them
+when Jesus came.
+
+20:25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the
+LORD.
+
+But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of
+the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust
+my hand into his side, I will not believe.
+
+20:26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas
+with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the
+midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
+
+20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my
+hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be
+not faithless, but believing.
+
+20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
+
+20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou
+hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have
+believed.
+
+20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his
+disciples, which are not written in this book: 20:31 But these are
+written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
+God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
+
+21:1 After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at
+the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.
+
+21:2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and
+Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other
+of his disciples.
+
+21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him,
+We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship
+immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
+
+21:4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but
+the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
+
+21:5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They
+answered him, No.
+
+21:6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the
+ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not
+able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
+
+21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is
+the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his
+fisher’s coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into
+the sea.
+
+21:8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not
+far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net
+with fishes.
+
+21:9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals
+there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
+
+21:10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now
+caught.
+
+21:11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great
+fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so
+many, yet was not the net broken.
+
+21:12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples
+durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
+
+21:13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish
+likewise.
+
+21:14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his
+disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
+
+21:15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son
+of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea,
+Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
+
+21:16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas,
+lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love
+thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
+
+21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest
+thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time,
+Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things;
+thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
+
+21:18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou
+girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou
+shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall
+gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
+
+21:19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God.
+And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
+
+21:20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved
+following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord,
+which is he that betrayeth thee? 21:21 Peter seeing him saith to
+Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? 21:22 Jesus saith unto him,
+If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou
+me.
+
+21:23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that
+disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not
+die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
+21:24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote
+these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
+
+21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which,
+if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world
+itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Acts of the Apostles
+
+
+1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus
+began both to do and teach, 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken
+up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto
+the apostles whom he had chosen: 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself
+alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them
+forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of
+God: 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that
+they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the
+Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
+
+1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with
+the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
+
+1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying,
+Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 1:7
+And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the
+seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
+
+1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
+you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all
+Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
+
+1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was
+taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
+
+1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up,
+behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 1:11 Which also said,
+Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same
+Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like
+manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
+
+1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet,
+which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.
+
+1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room,
+where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and
+Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
+Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
+
+1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication,
+with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
+
+1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples,
+and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and
+twenty,) 1:16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been
+fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before
+concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
+
+1:17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this
+ministry.
+
+1:18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and
+falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels
+gushed out.
+
+1:19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as
+that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say,
+The field of blood.
+
+1:20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be
+desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another
+take.
+
+1:21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time
+that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 1:22 Beginning from the
+baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must
+one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
+
+1:23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed
+Justus, and Matthias.
+
+1:24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts
+of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, 1:25 That he
+may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by
+transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
+
+1:26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias;
+and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
+
+2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with
+one accord in one place.
+
+2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty
+wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
+
+2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and
+it sat upon each of them.
+
+2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak
+with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
+
+2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of
+every nation under heaven.
+
+2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and
+were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own
+language.
+
+2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another,
+Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 2:8 And how hear we
+every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 2:9 Parthians, and
+Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea,
+and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 2:10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in
+Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome,
+Jews and proselytes, 2:11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak
+in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
+
+2:12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to
+another, What meaneth this? 2:13 Others mocking said, These men are
+full of new wine.
+
+2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and
+said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem,
+be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 2:15 For these are
+not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the
+day.
+
+2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 2:17 And
+it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of
+my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall
+prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall
+dream dreams: 2:18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will
+pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 2:19 And
+I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath;
+blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 2:20 The sun shall be turned
+into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable
+day of the Lord come: 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
+shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
+
+2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man
+approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God
+did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 2:23 Him,
+being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,
+ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 2:24 Whom
+God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was
+not possible that he should be holden of it.
+
+2:25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always
+before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be
+moved: 2:26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad;
+moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: 2:27 Because thou wilt not
+leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see
+corruption.
+
+2:28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me
+full of joy with thy countenance.
+
+2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch
+David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us
+unto this day.
+
+2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an
+oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh,
+he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 2:31 He seeing this
+before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left
+in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
+
+2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
+
+2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having
+received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed
+forth this, which ye now see and hear.
+
+2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself,
+The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 2:35 Until I
+make thy foes thy footstool.
+
+2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God
+hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and
+Christ.
+
+2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and
+said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren,
+what shall we do? 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be
+baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the
+remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
+
+2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all
+that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
+
+2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save
+yourselves from this untoward generation.
+
+2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the
+same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
+
+2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and
+fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
+
+2:43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were
+done by the apostles.
+
+2:44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
+2:45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men,
+as every man had need.
+
+2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and
+breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness
+and singleness of heart, 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all
+the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be
+saved.
+
+3:1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of
+prayer, being the ninth hour.
+
+3:2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom
+they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful,
+to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; 3:3 Who seeing Peter
+and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
+
+3:4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on
+us.
+
+3:5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of
+them.
+
+3:6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have
+give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
+
+3:7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and
+immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
+
+3:8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into
+the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
+
+3:9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God: 3:10 And they
+knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the
+temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which
+had happened unto him.
+
+3:11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the
+people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s,
+greatly wondering.
+
+3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of
+Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as
+though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
+3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our
+fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and
+denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let
+him go.
+
+3:14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer
+to be granted unto you; 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God
+hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
+
+3:16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong,
+whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him
+this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
+
+3:17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did
+also your rulers.
+
+3:18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all
+his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
+
+3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be
+blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence
+of the Lord.
+
+3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
+you: 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution
+of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
+prophets since the world began.
+
+3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord
+your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall
+ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
+
+3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
+that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
+
+3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow
+after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
+
+3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which
+God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall
+all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
+
+3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to
+bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
+
+4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of
+the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, 4:2 Being grieved that
+they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection
+from the dead.
+
+4:3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next
+day: for it was now eventide.
+
+4:4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number
+of the men was about five thousand.
+
+4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders,
+and scribes, 4:6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John,
+and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest,
+were gathered together at Jerusalem.
+
+4:7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what
+power, or by what name, have ye done this? 4:8 Then Peter, filled
+with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and
+elders of Israel, 4:9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done
+to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; 4:10 Be it known
+unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of
+Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the
+dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
+
+4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which
+is become the head of the corner.
+
+4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other
+name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
+
+4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived
+that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they
+took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
+
+4:14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they
+could say nothing against it.
+
+4:15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council,
+they conferred among themselves, 4:16 Saying, What shall we do to
+these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is
+manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
+
+4:17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly
+threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
+
+4:18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor
+teach in the name of Jesus.
+
+4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be
+right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God,
+judge ye.
+
+4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
+
+4:21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go,
+finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for
+all men glorified God for that which was done.
+
+4:22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of
+healing was shewed.
+
+4:23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported
+all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
+
+4:24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with
+one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and
+earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: 4:25 Who by the mouth of
+thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people
+imagine vain things? 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the
+rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his
+Christ.
+
+4:27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast
+anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the
+people of Israel, were gathered together, 4:28 For to do whatsoever
+thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
+
+4:29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy
+servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, 4:30 By
+stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be
+done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
+
+4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were
+assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and
+they spake the word of God with boldness.
+
+4:32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of
+one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he
+possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
+
+4:33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the
+resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
+
+4:34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were
+possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the
+things that were sold, 4:35 And laid them down at the apostles’ feet:
+and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
+
+4:36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is,
+being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the
+country of Cyprus, 4:37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money,
+and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
+
+5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a
+possession, 5:2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being
+privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’
+feet.
+
+5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie
+to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
+5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold,
+was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in
+thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
+
+5:5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost:
+and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
+
+5:6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and
+buried him.
+
+5:7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife,
+not knowing what was done, came in.
+
+5:8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for
+so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
+
+5:9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together
+to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have
+buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
+
+5:10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the
+ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying
+her forth, buried her by her husband.
+
+5:11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as
+heard these things.
+
+5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders
+wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in
+Solomon’s porch.
+
+5:13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people
+magnified them.
+
+5:14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of
+men and women.) 5:15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into
+the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the
+shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
+
+5:16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto
+Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean
+spirits: and they were healed every one.
+
+5:17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him,
+(which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with
+indignation, 5:18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them
+in the common prison.
+
+5:19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and
+brought them forth, and said, 5:20 Go, stand and speak in the temple
+to the people all the words of this life.
+
+5:21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in
+the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were
+with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the
+children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
+
+5:22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison,
+they returned and told, 5:23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut
+with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors:
+but when we had opened, we found no man within.
+
+5:24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the
+chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this
+would grow.
+
+5:25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put
+in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
+
+5:26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without
+violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been
+stoned.
+
+5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council:
+and the high priest asked them, 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly
+command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye
+have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this
+man’s blood upon us.
+
+5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to
+obey God rather than men.
+
+5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged
+on a tree.
+
+5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a
+Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
+
+5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy
+Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
+
+5:33 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took
+counsel to slay them.
+
+5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named
+Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people,
+and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; 5:35 And said
+unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to
+do as touching these men.
+
+5:36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be
+somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined
+themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were
+scattered, and brought to nought.
+
+5:37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the
+taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and
+all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
+
+5:38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them
+alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to
+nought: 5:39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply
+ye be found even to fight against God.
+
+5:40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles,
+and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name
+of Jesus, and let them go.
+
+5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing
+that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
+
+5:42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to
+teach and preach Jesus Christ.
+
+6:1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was
+multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the
+Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily
+ministration.
+
+6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them,
+and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and
+serve tables.
+
+6:3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest
+report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over
+this business.
+
+6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the
+ministry of the word.
+
+6:5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose
+Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and
+Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a
+proselyte of Antioch: 6:6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when
+they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
+
+6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples
+multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests
+were obedient to the faith.
+
+6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and
+miracles among the people.
+
+6:9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the
+synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of
+them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
+
+6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by
+which he spake.
+
+6:11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak
+blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
+
+6:12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes,
+and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
+6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to
+speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: 6:14 For
+we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this
+place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
+
+6:15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw
+his face as it had been the face of an angel.
+
+7:1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 7:2 And he said,
+Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto
+our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
+Charran, 7:3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from
+thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
+
+7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in
+Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him
+into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
+
+7:5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set
+his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a
+possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
+
+7:6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a
+strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and
+entreat them evil four hundred years.
+
+7:7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said
+God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
+
+7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat
+Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and
+Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
+
+7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but
+God was with him, 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions,
+and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
+and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
+
+7:11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan,
+and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
+
+7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out
+our fathers first.
+
+7:13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and
+Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
+
+7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his
+kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
+
+7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
+7:16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that
+Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of
+Sychem.
+
+7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn
+to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 7:18 Till another
+king arose, which knew not Joseph.
+
+7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our
+fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they
+might not live.
+
+7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and
+nourished up in his father’s house three months: 7:21 And when he was
+cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her
+own son.
+
+7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was
+mighty in words and in deeds.
+
+7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to
+visit his brethren the children of Israel.
+
+7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged
+him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: 7:25 For he supposed
+his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would
+deliver them: but they understood not.
+
+7:26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and
+would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why
+do ye wrong one to another? 7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong
+thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
+7:28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? 7:29
+Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of
+Madian, where he begat two sons.
+
+7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the
+wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a
+bush.
+
+7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near
+to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him, 7:32 Saying, I am
+the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
+the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
+
+7:33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for
+the place where thou standest is holy ground.
+
+7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in
+Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver
+them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
+
+7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a
+judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand
+of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
+
+7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs
+in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty
+years.
+
+7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A
+prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
+like unto me; him shall ye hear.
+
+7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the
+angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who
+received the lively oracles to give unto us: 7:39 To whom our fathers
+would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned
+back again into Egypt, 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go
+before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of
+Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
+
+7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto
+the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
+
+7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
+as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel,
+have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of
+forty years in the wilderness? 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of
+Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to
+worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
+
+7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as
+he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it
+according to the fashion that he had seen.
+
+7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into
+the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of
+our fathers, unto the days of David; 7:46 Who found favour before God,
+and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
+
+7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
+
+7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as
+saith the prophet, 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my
+footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the
+place of my rest? 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things? 7:51
+Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always
+resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
+
+7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they
+have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of
+whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 7:53 Who have
+received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
+
+7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and
+they gnashed on him with their teeth.
+
+7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into
+heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand
+of God, 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son
+of man standing on the right hand of God.
+
+7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,
+and ran upon him with one accord, 7:58 And cast him out of the city,
+and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young
+man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
+
+7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord
+Jesus, receive my spirit.
+
+7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not
+this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
+
+8:1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was
+a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and
+they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and
+Samaria, except the apostles.
+
+8:2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great
+lamentation over him.
+
+8:3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every
+house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
+
+8:4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where
+preaching the word.
+
+8:5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ
+unto them.
+
+8:6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which
+Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
+
+8:7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that
+were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were
+lame, were healed.
+
+8:8 And there was great joy in that city.
+
+8:9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the
+same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving
+out that himself was some great one: 8:10 To whom they all gave heed,
+from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of
+God.
+
+8:11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had
+bewitched them with sorceries.
+
+8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the
+kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both
+men and women.
+
+8:13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he
+continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs
+which were done.
+
+8:14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria
+had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 8:15
+Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might
+receive the Holy Ghost: 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of
+them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 8:17
+Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
+
+8:18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands
+the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, 8:19 Saying, Give me
+also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the
+Holy Ghost.
+
+8:20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou
+hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
+
+8:21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is
+not right in the sight of God.
+
+8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps
+the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
+
+8:23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in
+the bond of iniquity.
+
+8:24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the LORD for me, that
+none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
+
+8:25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the
+Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages
+of the Samaritans.
+
+8:26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and
+go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto
+Gaza, which is desert.
+
+8:27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch
+of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the
+charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
+8:28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the
+prophet.
+
+8:29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to
+this chariot.
+
+8:30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet
+Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? 8:31 And he
+said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired
+Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
+
+8:32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as
+a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so
+opened he not his mouth: 8:33 In his humiliation his judgment was
+taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is
+taken from the earth.
+
+8:34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom
+speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? 8:35
+Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and
+preached unto him Jesus.
+
+8:36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water:
+and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be
+baptized? 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine
+heart, thou mayest.
+
+And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
+God.
+
+8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down
+both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
+
+8:39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the
+Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went
+on his way rejoicing.
+
+8:40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached
+in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
+
+9:1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the
+disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 9:2 And desired of
+him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of
+this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound
+unto Jerusalem.
+
+9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there
+shined round about him a light from heaven: 9:4 And he fell to the
+earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest
+thou me? 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am
+Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the
+pricks.
+
+9:6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me
+to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it
+shall be told thee what thou must do.
+
+9:7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a
+voice, but seeing no man.
+
+9:8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he
+saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into
+Damascus.
+
+9:9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor
+drink.
+
+9:10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and
+to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am
+here, Lord.
+
+9:11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which
+is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called
+Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, 9:12 And hath seen in a
+vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him,
+that he might receive his sight.
+
+9:13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man,
+how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: 9:14 And here
+he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy
+name.
+
+9:15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel
+unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the
+children of Israel: 9:16 For I will shew him how great things he must
+suffer for my name’s sake.
+
+9:17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting
+his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that
+appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou
+mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
+
+9:18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales:
+and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
+
+9:19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul
+certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
+
+9:20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is
+the Son of God.
+
+9:21 But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that
+destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither
+for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief
+priests? 9:22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded
+the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
+
+9:23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to
+kill him: 9:24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they
+watched the gates day and night to kill him.
+
+9:25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the
+wall in a basket.
+
+9:26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself
+to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not
+that he was a disciple.
+
+9:27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and
+declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he
+had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the
+name of Jesus.
+
+9:28 And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
+
+9:29 And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed
+against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
+
+9:30 Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea,
+and sent him forth to Tarsus.
+
+9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and
+Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in
+the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
+
+9:32 And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he
+came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
+
+9:33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his
+bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
+
+9:34 And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole:
+arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
+
+9:35 And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the
+Lord.
+
+9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by
+interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and
+almsdeeds which she did.
+
+9:37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died:
+whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
+
+9:38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had
+heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him
+that he would not delay to come to them.
+
+9:39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they
+brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him
+weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while
+she was with them.
+
+9:40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and
+turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes:
+and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
+
+9:41 And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had
+called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
+
+9:42 And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the
+Lord.
+
+9:43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one
+Simon a tanner.
+
+10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion
+of the band called the Italian band, 10:2 A devout man, and one that
+feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and
+prayed to God alway.
+
+10:3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an
+angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
+
+10:4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it,
+Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up
+for a memorial before God.
+
+10:5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname
+is Peter: 10:6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by
+the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
+
+10:7 And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he
+called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them
+that waited on him continually; 10:8 And when he had declared all
+these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
+
+10:9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto
+the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth
+hour: 10:10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while
+they made ready, he fell into a trance, 10:11 And saw heaven opened,
+and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet
+knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 10:12 Wherein
+were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts,
+and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
+
+10:13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
+
+10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing
+that is common or unclean.
+
+10:15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God
+hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
+
+10:16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into
+heaven.
+
+10:17 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had
+seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had
+made enquiry for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate, 10:18 And
+called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged
+there.
+
+10:19 While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him,
+Behold, three men seek thee.
+
+10:20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting
+nothing: for I have sent them.
+
+10:21 Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from
+Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause
+wherefore ye are come? 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion,
+a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the
+nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for
+thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
+
+10:23 Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter
+went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
+
+10:24 And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius
+waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near
+friends.
+
+10:25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at
+his feet, and worshipped him.
+
+10:26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.
+
+10:27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were
+come together.
+
+10:28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing
+for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another
+nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common
+or unclean.
+
+10:29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was
+sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me? 10:30
+And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and
+at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood
+before me in bright clothing, 10:31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is
+heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
+
+10:32 Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is
+Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea
+side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
+
+10:33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done
+that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God,
+to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
+
+10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive
+that God is no respecter of persons: 10:35 But in every nation he that
+feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
+
+10:36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching
+peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) 10:37 That word, I say, ye
+know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from
+Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; 10:38 How God anointed
+Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about
+doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God
+was with him.
+
+10:39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land
+of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
+10:40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; 10:41
+Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to
+us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
+
+10:42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify
+that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and
+dead.
+
+10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name
+whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
+
+10:44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all
+them which heard the word.
+
+10:45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as
+many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured
+out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
+
+10:46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then
+answered Peter, 10:47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not
+be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? 10:48
+And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then
+prayed they him to tarry certain days.
+
+11:1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the
+Gentiles had also received the word of God.
+
+11:2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the
+circumcision contended with him, 11:3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men
+uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
+
+11:4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded
+it by order unto them, saying, 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa
+praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as
+it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and
+it came even to me: 11:6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes,
+I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts,
+and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
+
+11:7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
+
+11:8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at
+any time entered into my mouth.
+
+11:9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath
+cleansed, that call not thou common.
+
+11:10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into
+heaven.
+
+11:11 And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto
+the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.
+
+11:12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover
+these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s
+house: 11:13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house,
+which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon,
+whose surname is Peter; 11:14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou
+and all thy house shall be saved.
+
+11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us
+at the beginning.
+
+11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John
+indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy
+Ghost.
+
+11:17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us,
+who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could
+withstand God? 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their
+peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles
+granted repentance unto life.
+
+11:19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that
+arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and
+Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
+
+11:20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they
+were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the LORD
+Jesus.
+
+11:21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number
+believed, and turned unto the Lord.
+
+11:22 Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church
+which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should
+go as far as Antioch.
+
+11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and
+exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto
+the Lord.
+
+11:24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith:
+and much people was added unto the Lord.
+
+11:25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: 11:26 And
+when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to
+pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and
+taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in
+Antioch.
+
+11:27 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
+
+11:28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by
+the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world:
+which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
+
+11:29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability,
+determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:
+11:30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of
+Barnabas and Saul.
+
+12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to
+vex certain of the church.
+
+12:2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
+
+12:3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to
+take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 12:4 And
+when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him
+to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to
+bring him forth to the people.
+
+12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without
+ceasing of the church unto God for him.
+
+12:6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter
+was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the
+keepers before the door kept the prison.
+
+12:7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light
+shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him
+up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
+
+12:8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy
+sandals.
+
+And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and
+follow me.
+
+12:9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true
+which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.
+
+12:10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came
+unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of
+his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street;
+and forthwith the angel departed from him.
+
+12:11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a
+surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out
+of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of
+the Jews.
+
+12:12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of
+Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were
+gathered together praying.
+
+12:13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to
+hearken, named Rhoda.
+
+12:14 And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for
+gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
+
+12:15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly
+affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
+
+12:16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door,
+and saw him, they were astonished.
+
+12:17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace,
+declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And
+he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he
+departed, and went into another place.
+
+12:18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
+soldiers, what was become of Peter.
+
+12:19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he
+examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death.
+And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
+
+12:20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but
+they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s
+chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was
+nourished by the king’s country.
+
+12:21 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his
+throne, and made an oration unto them.
+
+12:22 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god,
+and not of a man.
+
+12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave
+not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
+
+12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
+
+12:25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had
+fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was
+Mark.
+
+13:1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets
+and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and
+Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the
+tetrarch, and Saul.
+
+13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said,
+Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called
+them.
+
+13:3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on
+them, they sent them away.
+
+13:4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto
+Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
+
+13:5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in
+the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
+
+13:6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a
+certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
+13:7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a
+prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the
+word of God.
+
+13:8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation)
+withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
+
+13:9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost,
+set his eyes on him.
+
+13:10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of
+the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to
+pervert the right ways of the Lord? 13:11 And now, behold, the hand
+of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun
+for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness;
+and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
+
+13:12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being
+astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
+
+13:13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to
+Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to
+Jerusalem.
+
+13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in
+Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
+
+13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of
+the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have
+any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
+
+13:16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of
+Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
+
+13:17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted
+the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with
+an high arm brought he them out of it.
+
+13:18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in
+the wilderness.
+
+13:19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan,
+he divided their land to them by lot.
+
+13:20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four
+hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
+
+13:21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul
+the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty
+years.
+
+13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be
+their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have
+found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall
+fulfil all my will.
+
+13:23 Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto
+Israel a Saviour, Jesus: 13:24 When John had first preached before his
+coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
+
+13:25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I
+am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes
+of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
+
+13:26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and
+whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation
+sent.
+
+13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they
+knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every
+sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
+
+13:28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they
+Pilate that he should be slain.
+
+13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they
+took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
+
+13:30 But God raised him from the dead: 13:31 And he was seen many
+days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are
+his witnesses unto the people.
+
+13:32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which
+was made unto the fathers, 13:33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us
+their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also
+written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten
+thee.
+
+13:34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no
+more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you
+the sure mercies of David.
+
+13:35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer
+thine Holy One to see corruption.
+
+13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of
+God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
+13:37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
+
+13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through
+this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 13:39 And by
+him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye
+could not be justified by the law of Moses.
+
+13:40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in
+the prophets; 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for
+I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe,
+though a man declare it unto you.
+
+13:42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles
+besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
+
+13:43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and
+religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to
+them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
+
+13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to
+hear the word of God.
+
+13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with
+envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul,
+contradicting and blaspheming.
+
+13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary
+that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing
+ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life,
+lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
+
+13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be
+a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the
+ends of the earth.
+
+13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified
+the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life
+believed.
+
+13:49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the
+region.
+
+13:50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the
+chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and
+Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
+
+13:51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came
+unto Iconium.
+
+13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
+
+14:1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into
+the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both
+of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
+
+14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their
+minds evil affected against the brethren.
+
+14:3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which
+gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and
+wonders to be done by their hands.
+
+14:4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the
+Jews, and part with the apostles.
+
+14:5 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also
+of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone
+them, 14:6 They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe,
+cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about: 14:7
+And there they preached the gospel.
+
+14:8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet,
+being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked: 14:9 The
+same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving
+that he had faith to be healed, 14:10 Said with a loud voice, Stand
+upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
+
+14:11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their
+voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us
+in the likeness of men.
+
+14:12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because
+he was the chief speaker.
+
+14:13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought
+oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with
+the people.
+
+14:14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent
+their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, 14:15 And
+saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions
+with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities
+unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and
+all things that are therein: 14:16 Who in times past suffered all
+nations to walk in their own ways.
+
+14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did
+good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our
+hearts with food and gladness.
+
+14:18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that
+they had not done sacrifice unto them.
+
+14:19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium,
+who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of the
+city, supposing he had been dead.
+
+14:20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and
+came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to
+Derbe.
+
+14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had
+taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and
+Antioch, 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting
+them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much
+tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
+
+14:23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had
+prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they
+believed.
+
+14:24 And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to
+Pamphylia.
+
+14:25 And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down
+into Attalia: 14:26 And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had
+been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they
+fulfilled.
+
+14:27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together,
+they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened
+the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
+
+14:28 And there they abode long time with the disciples.
+
+15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren,
+and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye
+cannot be saved.
+
+15:2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and
+disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and
+certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and
+elders about this question.
+
+15:3 And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through
+Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and
+they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
+
+15:4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the
+church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things
+that God had done with them.
+
+15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which
+believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to
+command them to keep the law of Moses.
+
+15:6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this
+matter.
+
+15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said
+unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God
+made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the
+word of the gospel, and believe.
+
+15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them
+the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 15:9 And put no difference
+between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
+
+15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of
+the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
+15:11 But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ
+we shall be saved, even as they.
+
+15:12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to
+Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought
+among the Gentiles by them.
+
+15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men
+and brethren, hearken unto me: 15:14 Simeon hath declared how God at
+the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his
+name.
+
+15:15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
+15:16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of
+David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof,
+and I will set it up: 15:17 That the residue of men might seek after
+the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the
+Lord, who doeth all these things.
+
+15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the
+world.
+
+15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from
+among the Gentiles are turned to God: 15:20 But that we write unto
+them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from
+fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
+
+15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him,
+being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
+
+15:22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church,
+to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and
+Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men among
+the brethren: 15:23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner;
+The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren
+which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
+
+15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us
+have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must
+be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
+15:25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send
+chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 15:26 Men that
+have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+15:27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you
+the same things by mouth.
+
+15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you
+no greater burden than these necessary things; 15:29 That ye abstain
+from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things
+strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye
+shall do well. Fare ye well.
+
+15:30 So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they
+had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: 15:31
+Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
+
+15:32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted
+the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
+
+15:33 And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in
+peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
+
+15:34 Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
+
+15:35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and
+preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
+
+15:36 And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and
+visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of
+the LORD, and see how they do.
+
+15:37 And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname
+was Mark.
+
+15:38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed
+from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
+
+15:39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed
+asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto
+Cyprus; 15:40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by
+the brethren unto the grace of God.
+
+15:41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
+
+16:1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple
+was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a
+Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: 16:2 Which was well
+reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
+
+16:3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and
+circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for
+they knew all that his father was a Greek.
+
+16:4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the
+decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders
+which were at Jerusalem.
+
+16:5 And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased
+in number daily.
+
+16:6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of
+Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in
+Asia, 16:7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into
+Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
+
+16:8 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.
+
+16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of
+Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help
+us.
+
+16:10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to
+go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for
+to preach the gospel unto them.
+
+16:11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to
+Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis; 16:12 And from thence to
+Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a
+colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
+
+16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side,
+where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the
+women which resorted thither.
+
+16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city
+of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord
+opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
+
+16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us,
+saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my
+house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
+
+16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel
+possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her
+masters much gain by soothsaying: 16:17 The same followed Paul and us,
+and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God,
+which shew unto us the way of salvation.
+
+16:18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and
+said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come
+out of her.
+
+And he came out the same hour.
+
+16:19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone,
+they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto
+the rulers, 16:20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These
+men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, 16:21 And teach
+customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe,
+being Romans.
+
+16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the
+magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
+
+16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them
+into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 16:24 Who,
+having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and
+made their feet fast in the stocks.
+
+16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto
+God: and the prisoners heard them.
+
+16:26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
+foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors
+were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
+
+16:27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and
+seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have
+killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
+
+16:28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm:
+for we are all here.
+
+16:29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling,
+and fell down before Paul and Silas, 16:30 And brought them out, and
+said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 16:31 And they said, Believe
+on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
+
+16:32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that
+were in his house.
+
+16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their
+stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
+
+16:34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before
+them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
+
+16:35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying,
+Let those men go.
+
+16:36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The
+magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in
+peace.
+
+16:37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned,
+being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us
+out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us
+out.
+
+16:38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and
+they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
+
+16:39 And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and
+desired them to depart out of the city.
+
+16:40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of
+Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and
+departed.
+
+17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they
+came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 17:2 And
+Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days
+reasoned with them out of the scriptures, 17:3 Opening and alleging,
+that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead;
+and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
+
+17:4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and
+of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a
+few.
+
+17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them
+certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and
+set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and
+sought to bring them out to the people.
+
+17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain
+brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned
+the world upside down are come hither also; 17:7 Whom Jason hath
+received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying
+that there is another king, one Jesus.
+
+17:8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when
+they heard these things.
+
+17:9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they
+let them go.
+
+17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night
+unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
+
+17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
+received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the
+scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
+
+17:12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which
+were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
+
+17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of
+God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred
+up the people.
+
+17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it
+were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
+
+17:15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and
+receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him
+with all speed, they departed.
+
+17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred
+in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
+
+17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with
+the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with
+him.
+
+17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks,
+encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other
+some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he
+preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
+
+17:19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May
+we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 17:20 For
+thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know
+therefore what these things mean.
+
+17:21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent
+their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new
+thing.) 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said,
+Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too
+superstitious.
+
+17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar
+with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye
+ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
+
+17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he
+is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
+17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any
+thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 17:26
+And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the
+face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and
+the bounds of their habitation; 17:27 That they should seek the Lord,
+if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far
+from every one of us: 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our
+being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also
+his offspring.
+
+17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to
+think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven
+by art and man’s device.
+
+17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now
+commandeth all men every where to repent: 17:31 Because he hath
+appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness
+by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance
+unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
+
+17:32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
+mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
+
+17:33 So Paul departed from among them.
+
+17:34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the
+which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and
+others with them.
+
+18:1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to
+Corinth; 18:2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus,
+lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that
+Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto
+them.
+
+18:3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and
+wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
+
+18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the
+Jews and the Greeks.
+
+18:5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was
+pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was
+Christ.
+
+18:6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his
+raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am
+clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
+
+18:7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house,
+named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the
+synagogue.
+
+18:8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the
+Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed,
+and were baptized.
+
+18:9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not
+afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: 18:10 For I am with thee,
+and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in
+this city.
+
+18:11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word
+of God among them.
+
+18:12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made
+insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the
+judgment seat, 18:13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God
+contrary to the law.
+
+18:14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto
+the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews,
+reason would that I should bear with you: 18:15 But if it be a
+question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I
+will be no judge of such matters.
+
+18:16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.
+
+18:17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the
+synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for
+none of those things.
+
+18:18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then
+took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with
+him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he
+had a vow.
+
+18:19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself
+entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
+
+18:20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he
+consented not; 18:21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all
+means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return
+again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
+
+18:22 And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the
+church, he went down to Antioch.
+
+18:23 And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went
+over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening
+all the disciples.
+
+18:24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent
+man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
+
+18:25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being
+fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of
+the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
+
+18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila
+and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto
+him the way of God more perfectly.
+
+18:27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren
+wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come,
+helped them much which had believed through grace: 18:28 For he
+mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the
+scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
+
+19:1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul
+having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding
+certain disciples, 19:2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy
+Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much
+as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
+
+19:3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they
+said, Unto John’s baptism.
+
+19:4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of
+repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him
+which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
+
+19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord
+Jesus.
+
+19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came
+on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
+
+19:7 And all the men were about twelve.
+
+19:8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of
+three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the
+kingdom of God.
+
+19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil
+of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated
+the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
+
+19:10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they
+which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and
+Greeks.
+
+19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: 19:12 So
+that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons,
+and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of
+them.
+
+19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to
+call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus,
+saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
+
+19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the
+priests, which did so.
+
+19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I
+know; but who are ye? 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was
+leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that
+they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
+
+19:17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at
+Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was
+magnified.
+
+19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their
+deeds.
+
+19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books
+together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price
+of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
+
+19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
+
+19:21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when
+he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem,
+saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
+
+19:22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him,
+Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
+
+19:23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
+
+19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made
+silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
+19:25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and
+said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
+
+19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost
+throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much
+people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: 19:27
+So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but
+also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised,
+and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world
+worshippeth.
+
+19:28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and
+cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
+
+19:29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught
+Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel,
+they rushed with one accord into the theatre.
+
+19:30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the
+disciples suffered him not.
+
+19:31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent
+unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the
+theatre.
+
+19:32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the
+assembly was confused: and the more part knew not wherefore they were
+come together.
+
+19:33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting
+him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made
+his defence unto the people.
+
+19:34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about
+the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
+
+19:35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men
+of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of
+the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the
+image which fell down from Jupiter? 19:36 Seeing then that these
+things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do
+nothing rashly.
+
+19:37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers
+of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
+
+19:38 Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him,
+have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are
+deputies: let them implead one another.
+
+19:39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall
+be determined in a lawful assembly.
+
+19:40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s
+uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this
+concourse.
+
+19:41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
+
+20:1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the
+disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
+
+20:2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much
+exhortation, he came into Greece, 20:3 And there abode three months.
+And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into
+Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
+
+20:4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the
+Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and
+Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
+
+20:5 These going before tarried for us at Troas.
+
+20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened
+bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven
+days.
+
+20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came
+together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on
+the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
+
+20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were
+gathered together.
+
+20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus,
+being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he
+sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken
+up dead.
+
+20:10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said,
+Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
+
+20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and
+eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he
+departed.
+
+20:12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little
+comforted.
+
+20:13 And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there
+intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to
+go afoot.
+
+20:14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to
+Mitylene.
+
+20:15 And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios;
+and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and
+the next day we came to Miletus.
+
+20:16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not
+spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to
+be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
+
+20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of
+the church.
+
+20:18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from
+the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been
+with you at all seasons, 20:19 Serving the LORD with all humility of
+mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the
+lying in wait of the Jews: 20:20 And how I kept back nothing that was
+profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you
+publickly, and from house to house, 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews,
+and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our
+Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+20:22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not
+knowing the things that shall befall me there: 20:23 Save that the
+Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions
+abide me.
+
+20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear
+unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the
+ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the
+gospel of the grace of God.
+
+20:25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone
+preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
+
+20:26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the
+blood of all men.
+
+20:27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of
+God.
+
+20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over
+the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church
+of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
+
+20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves
+enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
+
+20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse
+things, to draw away disciples after them.
+
+20:31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years
+I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
+
+20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his
+grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance
+among all them which are sanctified.
+
+20:33 I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
+
+20:34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto
+my necessities, and to them that were with me.
+
+20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
+support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he
+said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
+
+20:36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with
+them all.
+
+20:37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,
+20:38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they
+should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.
+
+21:1 And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had
+launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day
+following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara: 21:2 And finding a
+ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
+
+21:3 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand,
+and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to
+unlade her burden.
+
+21:4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to
+Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
+
+21:5 And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our
+way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till
+we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
+
+21:6 And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and
+they returned home again.
+
+21:7 And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to
+Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.
+
+21:8 And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and
+came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the
+evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.
+
+21:9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
+
+21:10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a
+certain prophet, named Agabus.
+
+21:11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound
+his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall
+the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall
+deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
+
+21:12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place,
+besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.
+
+21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine
+heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
+Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
+
+21:14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will
+of the Lord be done.
+
+21:15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to
+Jerusalem.
+
+21:16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea,
+and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom
+we should lodge.
+
+21:17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us
+gladly.
+
+21:18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all
+the elders were present.
+
+21:19 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what
+things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
+
+21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto
+him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which
+believe; and they are all zealous of the law: 21:21 And they are
+informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the
+Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise
+their children, neither to walk after the customs.
+
+21:22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together:
+for they will hear that thou art come.
+
+21:23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which
+have a vow on them; 21:24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and
+be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may
+know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee,
+are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest
+the law.
+
+21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and
+concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep
+themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from
+strangled, and from fornication.
+
+21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with
+them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the
+days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for
+every one of them.
+
+21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were
+of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people,
+and laid hands on him, 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is
+the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the
+law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple,
+and hath polluted this holy place.
+
+21:29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an
+Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
+21:30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and
+they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the
+doors were shut.
+
+21:31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief
+captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
+
+21:32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto
+them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left
+beating of Paul.
+
+21:33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded
+him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he
+had done.
+
+21:34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and
+when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him
+to be carried into the castle.
+
+21:35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne
+of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
+
+21:36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away
+with him.
+
+21:37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the
+chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak
+Greek? 21:38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days
+madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand
+men that were murderers? 21:39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a
+Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I
+beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
+
+21:40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and
+beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a
+great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying, 22:1
+Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto
+you.
+
+22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them,
+they kept the more silence: and he saith,) 22:3 I am verily a man
+which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in
+this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect
+manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye
+all are this day.
+
+22:4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering
+into prisons both men and women.
+
+22:5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate
+of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren,
+and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto
+Jerusalem, for to be punished.
+
+22:6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come
+nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a
+great light round about me.
+
+22:7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me,
+Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 22:8 And I answered, Who art
+thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou
+persecutest.
+
+22:9 And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid;
+but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
+
+22:10 And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said unto me,
+Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all
+things which are appointed for thee to do.
+
+22:11 And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led
+by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
+
+22:12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a
+good report of all the Jews which dwelt there, 22:13 Came unto me, and
+stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same
+hour I looked up upon him.
+
+22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou
+shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the
+voice of his mouth.
+
+22:15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast
+seen and heard.
+
+22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away
+thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
+
+22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem,
+even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; 22:18 And saw
+him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem:
+for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
+
+22:19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every
+synagogue them that believed on thee: 22:20 And when the blood of thy
+martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto
+his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
+
+22:21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto
+the Gentiles.
+
+22:22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up
+their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it
+is not fit that he should live.
+
+22:23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw
+dust into the air, 22:24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought
+into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging;
+that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
+
+22:25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion
+that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman,
+and uncondemned? 22:26 When the centurion heard that, he went and
+told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this
+man is a Roman.
+
+22:27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art
+thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
+
+22:28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this
+freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
+
+22:29 Then straightway they departed from him which should have
+examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew
+that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
+
+22:30 On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty
+wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands,
+and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and
+brought Paul down, and set him before them.
+
+23:1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and
+brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this
+day.
+
+23:2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to
+smite him on the mouth.
+
+23:3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall:
+for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be
+smitten contrary to the law? 23:4 And they that stood by said,
+Revilest thou God’s high priest? 23:5 Then said Paul, I wist not,
+brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt
+not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
+
+23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the
+other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a
+Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the
+dead I am called in question.
+
+23:7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the
+Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
+
+23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither
+angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
+
+23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the
+Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this
+man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight
+against God.
+
+23:10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain,
+fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded
+the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and
+to bring him into the castle.
+
+23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of
+good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so
+must thou bear witness also at Rome.
+
+23:12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and
+bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor
+drink till they had killed Paul.
+
+23:13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.
+
+23:14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have
+bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we
+have slain Paul.
+
+23:15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain
+that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire
+something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near,
+are ready to kill him.
+
+23:16 And when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, he
+went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
+
+23:17 Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring
+this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to
+tell him.
+
+23:18 So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said,
+Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this
+young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.
+
+23:19 Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him
+aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?
+23:20 And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou
+wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they
+would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
+
+23:21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him
+of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath,
+that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and
+now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
+
+23:22 So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged
+him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
+
+23:23 And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two
+hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten,
+and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; 23:24 And
+provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe
+unto Felix the governor.
+
+23:25 And he wrote a letter after this manner: 23:26 Claudius Lysias
+unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
+
+23:27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of
+them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood
+that he was a Roman.
+
+23:28 And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused
+him, I brought him forth into their council: 23:29 Whom I perceived to
+be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his
+charge worthy of death or of bonds.
+
+23:30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man,
+I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also
+to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
+
+23:31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and
+brought him by night to Antipatris.
+
+23:32 On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and
+returned to the castle: 23:33 Who, when they came to Caesarea and
+delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
+
+23:34 And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what
+province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia; 23:35
+I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he
+commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.
+
+24:1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the
+elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the
+governor against Paul.
+
+24:2 And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him,
+saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very
+worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence, 24:3 We
+accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all
+thankfulness.
+
+24:4 Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray
+thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.
+
+24:5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of
+sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of
+the sect of the Nazarenes: 24:6 Who also hath gone about to profane
+the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
+
+24:7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great
+violence took him away out of our hands, 24:8 Commanding his accusers
+to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge
+of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
+
+24:9 And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
+
+24:10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to
+speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years
+a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
+24:11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but
+twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
+
+24:12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man,
+neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the
+city: 24:13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse
+me.
+
+24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call
+heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which
+are written in the law and in the prophets: 24:15 And have hope toward
+God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a
+resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
+
+24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience
+void to offence toward God, and toward men.
+
+24:17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and
+offerings.
+
+24:18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the
+temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
+
+24:19 Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had
+ought against me.
+
+24:20 Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil
+doing in me, while I stood before the council, 24:21 Except it be for
+this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the
+resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
+
+24:22 And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge
+of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain
+shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
+
+24:23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have
+liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to
+minister or come unto him.
+
+24:24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla,
+which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the
+faith in Christ.
+
+24:25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to
+come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I
+have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
+
+24:26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul,
+that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and
+communed with him.
+
+24:27 But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and
+Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
+
+25:1 Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he
+ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
+
+25:2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him
+against Paul, and besought him, 25:3 And desired favour against him,
+that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to
+kill him.
+
+25:4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and
+that he himself would depart shortly thither.
+
+25:5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down
+with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
+
+25:6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went
+down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat
+commanded Paul to be brought.
+
+25:7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem
+stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul,
+which they could not prove.
+
+25:8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the
+Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I
+offended any thing at all.
+
+25:9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and
+said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these
+things before me? 25:10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s judgment
+seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as
+thou very well knowest.
+
+25:11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of
+death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things
+whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal
+unto Caesar.
+
+25:12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered,
+Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
+
+25:13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto
+Caesarea to salute Festus.
+
+25:14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s
+cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by
+Felix: 25:15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests
+and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment
+against him.
+
+25:16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to
+deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the
+accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself
+concerning the crime laid against him.
+
+25:17 Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the
+morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought
+forth.
+
+25:18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none
+accusation of such things as I supposed: 25:19 But had certain
+questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus,
+which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
+
+25:20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him
+whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these
+matters.
+
+25:21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of
+Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
+
+25:22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself.
+To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
+
+25:23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with
+great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief
+captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul
+was brought forth.
+
+25:24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here
+present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the
+Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that
+he ought not to live any longer.
+
+25:25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death,
+and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to
+send him.
+
+25:26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore
+I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king
+Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
+
+25:27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not
+withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
+
+26:1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for
+thyself.
+
+Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: 26:2 I
+think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself
+this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of
+the Jews: 26:3 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all
+customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech
+thee to hear me patiently.
+
+26:4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among
+mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; 26:5 Which knew me
+from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most
+straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
+
+26:6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of
+God, unto our fathers: 26:7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes,
+instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s
+sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
+
+26:8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God
+should raise the dead? 26:9 I verily thought with myself, that I
+ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
+
+26:10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did
+I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests;
+and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
+
+26:11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them
+to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted
+them even unto strange cities.
+
+26:12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission
+from the chief priests, 26:13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a
+light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round
+about me and them which journeyed with me.
+
+26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice
+speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why
+persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
+
+26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom
+thou persecutest.
+
+26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee
+for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these
+things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will
+appear unto thee; 26:17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the
+Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, 26:18 To open their eyes, and to
+turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto
+God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among
+them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
+
+26:19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the
+heavenly vision: 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at
+Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the
+Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet
+for repentance.
+
+26:21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went
+about to kill me.
+
+26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day,
+witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than
+those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: 26:23 That
+Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise
+from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the
+Gentiles.
+
+26:24 And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice,
+Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
+
+26:25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth
+the words of truth and soberness.
+
+26:26 For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak
+freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from
+him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
+
+26:27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou
+believest.
+
+26:28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a
+Christian.
+
+26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all
+that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am,
+except these bonds.
+
+26:30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor,
+and Bernice, and they that sat with them: 26:31 And when they were
+gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth
+nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
+
+26:32 Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at
+liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
+
+27:1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they
+delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a
+centurion of Augustus’ band.
+
+27:2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to
+sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of
+Thessalonica, being with us.
+
+27:3 And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously
+entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh
+himself.
+
+27:4 And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus,
+because the winds were contrary.
+
+27:5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we
+came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
+
+27:6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into
+Italy; and he put us therein.
+
+27:7 And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come
+over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete,
+over against Salmone; 27:8 And, hardly passing it, came unto a place
+which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
+
+27:9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous,
+because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them, 27:10 And
+said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt
+and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our
+lives.
+
+27:11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of
+the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
+
+27:12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more
+part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain
+to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth
+toward the south west and north west.
+
+27:13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had
+obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.
+
+27:14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind,
+called Euroclydon.
+
+27:15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the
+wind, we let her drive.
+
+27:16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we
+had much work to come by the boat: 27:17 Which when they had taken up,
+they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should
+fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
+
+27:18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day
+they lightened the ship; 27:19 And the third day we cast out with our
+own hands the tackling of the ship.
+
+27:20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no
+small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then
+taken away.
+
+27:21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them,
+and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed
+from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
+
+27:22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no
+loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship.
+
+27:23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am,
+and whom I serve, 27:24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought
+before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with
+thee.
+
+27:25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it
+shall be even as it was told me.
+
+27:26 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
+
+27:27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and
+down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near
+to some country; 27:28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and
+when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it
+fifteen fathoms.
+
+27:29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast
+four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
+
+27:30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they
+had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would
+have cast anchors out of the foreship, 27:31 Paul said to the
+centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye
+cannot be saved.
+
+27:32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her
+fall off.
+
+27:33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take
+meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and
+continued fasting, having taken nothing.
+
+27:34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your
+health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
+
+27:35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to
+God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to
+eat.
+
+27:36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
+
+27:37 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and
+sixteen souls.
+
+27:38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and
+cast out the wheat into the sea.
+
+27:39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered
+a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it
+were possible, to thrust in the ship.
+
+27:40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed
+themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up
+the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
+
+27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship
+aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the
+hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
+
+27:42 And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of
+them should swim out, and escape.
+
+27:43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their
+purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast
+themselves first into the sea, and get to land: 27:44 And the rest,
+some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship.
+
+And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
+
+28:1 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was
+called Melita.
+
+28:2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they
+kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present
+rain, and because of the cold.
+
+28:3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on
+the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his
+hand.
+
+28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand,
+they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom,
+though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
+
+28:5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
+
+28:6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down
+dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no
+harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a
+god.
+
+28:7 In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the
+island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three
+days courteously.
+
+28:8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a
+fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and
+laid his hands on him, and healed him.
+
+28:9 So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the
+island, came, and were healed: 28:10 Who also honoured us with many
+honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were
+necessary.
+
+28:11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria,
+which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
+
+28:12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
+
+28:13 And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and
+after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to
+Puteoli: 28:14 Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with
+them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
+
+28:15 And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to
+meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul
+saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
+
+28:16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners
+to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself
+with a soldier that kept him.
+
+28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief
+of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto
+them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the
+people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from
+Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
+
+28:18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because
+there was no cause of death in me.
+
+28:19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal
+unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
+
+28:20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and
+to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with
+this chain.
+
+28:21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of
+Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed
+or spake any harm of thee.
+
+28:22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as
+concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
+
+28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him
+into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of
+God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses,
+and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
+
+28:24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some
+believed not.
+
+28:25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after
+that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the
+prophet unto our fathers, 28:26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say,
+Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall
+see, and not perceive: 28:27 For the heart of this people is waxed
+gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they
+closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their
+ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I
+should heal them.
+
+28:28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is
+sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
+
+28:29 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had
+great reasoning among themselves.
+
+28:30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and
+received all that came in unto him, 28:31 Preaching the kingdom of
+God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ,
+with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
+
+
+
+
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans
+
+
+1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,
+separated unto the gospel of God, 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by
+his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus
+Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the
+flesh; 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to
+the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: 1:5 By whom
+we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith
+among all nations, for his name: 1:6 Among whom are ye also the called
+of Jesus Christ: 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to
+be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord
+Jesus Christ.
+
+1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your
+faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
+
+1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel
+of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my
+prayers; 1:10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might
+have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
+
+1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual
+gift, to the end ye may be established; 1:12 That is, that I may be
+comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
+
+1:13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I
+purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have
+some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
+
+1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to
+the wise, and to the unwise.
+
+1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you
+that are at Rome also.
+
+1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power
+of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first,
+and also to the Greek.
+
+1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
+faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
+
+1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
+ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
+unrighteousness; 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is
+manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
+
+1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
+are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even
+his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 1:21
+Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
+neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and
+their foolish heart was darkened.
+
+1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 1:23 And
+changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to
+corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
+things.
+
+1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts
+of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
+1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and
+served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
+Amen.
+
+1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
+their women did change the natural use into that which is against
+nature: 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
+woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working
+that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of
+their error which was meet.
+
+1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
+God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are
+not convenient; 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness,
+fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy,
+murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 1:30 Backbiters, haters
+of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
+disobedient to parents, 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers,
+without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 1:32 Who knowing
+the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of
+death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
+
+2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that
+judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself;
+for thou that judgest doest the same things.
+
+2:2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth
+against them which commit such things.
+
+2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such
+things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of
+God? 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
+and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee
+to repentance? 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart
+treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and
+revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 2:6 Who will render to
+every man according to his deeds: 2:7 To them who by patient
+continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality,
+eternal life: 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey
+the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 2:9
+Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of
+the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 2:10 But glory, honour, and
+peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to
+the Gentile: 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
+
+2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without
+law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
+2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the
+doers of the law shall be justified.
+
+2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the
+things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto
+themselves: 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their
+hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the
+mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 2:16 In the day
+when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to
+my gospel.
+
+2:17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest
+thy boast of God, 2:18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things
+that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 2:19 And art
+confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them
+which are in darkness, 2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of
+babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
+
+2:21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?
+thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? 2:22
+Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit
+adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? 2:23
+Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law
+dishonourest thou God? 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among
+the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
+
+2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if
+thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
+
+2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the
+law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 2:27
+And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law,
+judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the
+law? 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is
+that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 2:29 But he is a
+Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in
+the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of
+God.
+
+3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
+circumcision? 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them
+were committed the oracles of God.
+
+3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the
+faith of God without effect? 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true,
+but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be
+justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
+
+3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what
+shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a
+man) 3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 3:7 For
+if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory;
+why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 3:8 And not rather, (as we be
+slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do
+evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
+
+3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have
+before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
+3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 3:11
+There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after
+God.
+
+3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
+unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
+
+3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have
+used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 3:14 Whose mouth
+is full of cursing and bitterness: 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed
+blood: 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 3:17 And the way
+of peace have they not known: 3:18 There is no fear of God before
+their eyes.
+
+3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
+them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all
+the world may become guilty before God.
+
+3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
+justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
+
+3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
+being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 3:22 Even the
+righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and
+upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 3:23 For all
+have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 3:24 Being justified
+freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
+3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his
+blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
+past, through the forbearance of God; 3:26 To declare, I say, at this
+time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of
+him which believeth in Jesus.
+
+3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
+Nay: but by the law of faith.
+
+3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without
+the deeds of the law.
+
+3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles?
+Yes, of the Gentiles also: 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall
+justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
+
+3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
+establish the law.
+
+4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to
+the flesh, hath found? 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he
+hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
+
+4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was
+counted unto him for righteousness.
+
+4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but
+of debt.
+
+4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
+the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
+
+4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto
+whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 4:7 Saying, Blessed are
+they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
+
+4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
+
+4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon
+the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham
+for righteousness.
+
+4:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in
+uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
+
+4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
+righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that
+he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not
+circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 4:12
+And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision
+only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father
+Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
+
+4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not
+to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
+righteousness of faith.
+
+4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,
+and the promise made of none effect: 4:15 Because the law worketh
+wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
+
+4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end
+the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is
+of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is
+the father of us all, 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a
+father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who
+quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though
+they were.
+
+4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
+father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall
+thy seed be.
+
+4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now
+dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness
+of Sarah’s womb: 4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through
+unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 4:21 And being
+fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to
+perform.
+
+4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
+
+4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to
+him; 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe
+on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 4:25 Who was
+delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our
+justification.
+
+5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through
+our Lord Jesus Christ: 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into
+this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
+
+5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that
+tribulation worketh patience; 5:4 And patience, experience; and
+experience, hope: 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of
+God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto
+us.
+
+5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for
+the ungodly.
+
+5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure
+for a good man some would even dare to die.
+
+5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
+sinners, Christ died for us.
+
+5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
+saved from wrath through him.
+
+5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the
+death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by
+his life.
+
+5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
+Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
+
+5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by
+sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 5:13
+(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when
+there is no law.
+
+5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them
+that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who
+is the figure of him that was to come.
+
+5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through
+the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the
+gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto
+many.
+
+5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the
+judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many
+offences unto justification.
+
+5:17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they
+which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
+shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 5:18 Therefore as by the
+offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by
+the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto
+justification of life.
+
+5:19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by
+the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
+
+5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
+where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 5:21 That as sin hath
+reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness
+unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
+
+6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may
+abound? 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any
+longer therein? 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized
+into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 6:4 Therefore we are
+buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised
+up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
+walk in newness of life.
+
+6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
+we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6:6 Knowing
+this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin
+might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
+
+6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
+
+6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live
+with him: 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no
+more; death hath no more dominion over him.
+
+6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he
+liveth, he liveth unto God.
+
+6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,
+but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
+
+6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should
+obey it in the lusts thereof.
+
+6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness
+unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from
+the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
+
+6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
+the law, but under grace.
+
+6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but
+under grace? God forbid.
+
+6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,
+his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
+obedience unto righteousness? 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were
+the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of
+doctrine which was delivered you.
+
+6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
+righteousness.
+
+6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
+flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and
+to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to
+righteousness unto holiness.
+
+6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
+righteousness.
+
+6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now
+ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
+
+6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye
+have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
+
+6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal
+life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
+
+7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,)
+how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 7:2
+For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband
+so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from
+the law of her husband.
+
+7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another
+man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead,
+she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be
+married to another man.
+
+7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the
+body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who
+is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
+
+7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by
+the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
+
+7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we
+were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
+oldness of the letter.
+
+7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not
+known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
+had said, Thou shalt not covet.
+
+7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all
+manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
+
+7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment
+came, sin revived, and I died.
+
+7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be
+unto death.
+
+7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by
+it slew me.
+
+7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just,
+and good.
+
+7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But
+sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is
+good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
+
+7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold
+under sin.
+
+7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not;
+but what I hate, that do I.
+
+7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that
+it is good.
+
+7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
+
+7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
+thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which
+is good I find not.
+
+7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would
+not, that I do.
+
+7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin
+that dwelleth in me.
+
+7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present
+with me.
+
+7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 7:23 But I
+see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
+bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
+
+7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of
+this death? 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then
+with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the
+law of sin.
+
+8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
+Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
+
+8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
+free from the law of sin and death.
+
+8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
+flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and
+for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 8:4 That the righteousness of the
+law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after
+the Spirit.
+
+8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh;
+but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
+
+8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded
+is life and peace.
+
+8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not
+subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
+
+8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
+
+8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the
+Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of
+Christ, he is none of his.
+
+8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the
+Spirit is life because of righteousness.
+
+8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
+in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your
+mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
+
+8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
+after the flesh.
+
+8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through
+the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
+
+8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of
+God.
+
+8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but
+ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
+
+8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are
+the children of God: 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God,
+and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we
+may be also glorified together.
+
+8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
+worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
+
+8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
+manifestation of the sons of God.
+
+8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but
+by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 8:21 Because the
+creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption
+into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
+
+8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
+pain together until now.
+
+8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits
+of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for
+the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
+
+8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for
+what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 8:25 But if we hope for
+that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
+
+8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not
+what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
+intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
+
+8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the
+Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the
+will of God.
+
+8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that
+love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
+
+8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
+conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
+among many brethren.
+
+8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom
+he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
+glorified.
+
+8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can
+be against us? 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him
+up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all
+things? 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It
+is God that justifieth.
+
+8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather,
+that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
+maketh intercession for us.
+
+8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation,
+or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
+sword? 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day
+long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
+
+8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
+that loved us.
+
+8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
+principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
+8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
+separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
+
+9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing
+me witness in the Holy Ghost, 9:2 That I have great heaviness and
+continual sorrow in my heart.
+
+9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my
+brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 9:4 Who are Israelites;
+to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and
+the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 9:5
+Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ
+came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
+
+9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are
+not all Israel, which are of Israel: 9:7 Neither, because they are the
+seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed
+be called.
+
+9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not
+the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for
+the seed.
+
+9:9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and
+Sarah shall have a son.
+
+9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,
+even by our father Isaac; 9:11 (For the children being not yet born,
+neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God
+according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that
+calleth;) 9:12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the
+younger.
+
+9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
+
+9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God
+forbid.
+
+9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have
+mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
+
+9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
+but of God that sheweth mercy.
+
+9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose
+have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my
+name might be declared throughout all the earth.
+
+9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he
+will he hardeneth.
+
+9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who
+hath resisted his will? 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that
+repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed
+it, Why hast thou made me thus? 9:21 Hath not the potter power over
+the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another
+unto dishonour? 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to
+make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of
+wrath fitted to destruction: 9:23 And that he might make known the
+riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore
+prepared unto glory, 9:24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the
+Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 9:25 As he saith also in Osee, I
+will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved,
+which was not beloved.
+
+9:26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said
+unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the
+children of the living God.
+
+9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the
+children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be
+saved: 9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in
+righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
+
+9:29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us
+a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
+
+9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not
+after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the
+righteousness which is of faith.
+
+9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath
+not attained to the law of righteousness.
+
+9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by
+the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 9:33
+As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of
+offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
+
+10:1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that
+they might be saved.
+
+10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
+according to knowledge.
+
+10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about
+to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves
+unto the righteousness of God.
+
+10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one
+that believeth.
+
+10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That
+the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
+
+10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise,
+Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to
+bring Christ down from above:) 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the
+deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 10:8 But
+what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy
+heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 10:9 That if thou
+shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in
+thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
+saved.
+
+10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with
+the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
+
+10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be
+ashamed.
+
+10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for
+the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
+
+10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
+saved.
+
+10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
+and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how
+shall they hear without a preacher? 10:15 And how shall they preach,
+except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of
+them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good
+things! 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias
+saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 10:17 So then faith cometh
+by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
+
+10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went
+into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
+
+10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will
+provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish
+nation I will anger you.
+
+10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that
+sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
+
+10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my
+hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
+
+11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also
+am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
+
+11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not
+what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God
+against Israel saying, 11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and
+digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
+
+11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to
+myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of
+Baal.
+
+11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant
+according to the election of grace.
+
+11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is
+no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace:
+otherwise work is no more work.
+
+11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for;
+but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
+
+11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of
+slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not
+hear;) unto this day.
+
+11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and
+a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 11:10 Let their eyes be
+darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
+
+11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God
+forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the
+Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
+
+11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the
+diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their
+fulness? 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
+apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: 11:14 If by any means
+I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save
+some of them.
+
+11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world,
+what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 11:16
+For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root
+be holy, so are the branches.
+
+11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a
+wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest
+of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 11:18 Boast not against the
+branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root
+thee.
+
+11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might
+be graffed in.
+
+11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou
+standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 11:21 For if God
+spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not
+thee.
+
+11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which
+fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his
+goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
+
+11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be
+graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
+
+11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by
+nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree:
+how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed
+into their own olive tree? 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye
+should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
+conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the
+fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
+
+11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall
+come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
+Jacob: 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away
+their sins.
+
+11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but
+as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes.
+
+11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
+
+11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now
+obtained mercy through their unbelief: 11:31 Even so have these also
+now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
+
+11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have
+mercy upon all.
+
+11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of
+God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding
+out! 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been
+his counsellor? 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
+recompensed unto him again? 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to
+him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
+
+12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
+present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
+which is your reasonable service.
+
+12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
+renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
+acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
+
+12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is
+among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think;
+but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the
+measure of faith.
+
+12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not
+the same office: 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and
+every one members one of another.
+
+12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given
+to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion
+of faith; 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that
+teacheth, on teaching; 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he
+that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with
+diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
+
+12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil;
+cleave to that which is good.
+
+12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in
+honour preferring one another; 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent
+in spirit; serving the Lord; 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in
+tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; 12:13 Distributing to the
+necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
+
+12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
+
+12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
+
+12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things,
+but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
+
+12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the
+sight of all men.
+
+12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with
+all men.
+
+12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place
+unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith
+the Lord.
+
+12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give
+him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
+
+12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
+
+13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no
+power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
+
+13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance
+of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
+
+13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt
+thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou
+shalt have praise of the same: 13:4 For he is the minister of God to
+thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he
+beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a
+revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
+
+13:5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also
+for conscience sake.
+
+13:6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s
+ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
+
+13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is
+due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
+
+13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth
+another hath fulfilled the law.
+
+13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill,
+Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt
+not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly
+comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
+thyself.
+
+13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the
+fulfilling of the law.
+
+13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake
+out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
+
+13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore
+cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
+
+13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and
+drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and
+envying.
+
+13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for
+the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
+
+14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful
+disputations.
+
+14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is
+weak, eateth herbs.
+
+14:3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not
+him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
+
+14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own
+master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is
+able to make him stand.
+
+14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every
+day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
+
+14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he
+that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that
+eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that
+eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
+
+14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
+
+14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die,
+we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the
+Lord’s.
+
+14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he
+might be Lord both of the dead and living.
+
+14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at
+nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of
+Christ.
+
+14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall
+bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
+
+14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
+
+14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this
+rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his
+brother’s way.
+
+14:14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is
+nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be
+unclean, to him it is unclean.
+
+14:15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou
+not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
+
+14:16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of: 14:17 For the kingdom
+of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in
+the Holy Ghost.
+
+14:18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God,
+and approved of men.
+
+14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace,
+and things wherewith one may edify another.
+
+14:20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are
+pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
+
+14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any
+thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
+
+14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that
+condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
+
+14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not
+of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
+
+15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the
+weak, and not to please ourselves.
+
+15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to
+edification.
+
+15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The
+reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
+
+15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our
+learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might
+have hope.
+
+15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be
+likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: 15:6 That ye
+may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our
+Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to
+the glory of God.
+
+15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision
+for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
+15:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is
+written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and
+sing unto thy name.
+
+15:10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
+
+15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all
+ye people.
+
+15:12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he
+that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles
+trust.
+
+15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
+believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy
+Ghost.
+
+15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also
+are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish
+one another.
+
+15:15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you
+in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is
+given to me of God, 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus
+Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the
+offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by
+the Holy Ghost.
+
+15:17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in
+those things which pertain to God.
+
+15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ
+hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and
+deed, 15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the
+Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum,
+I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
+
+15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ
+was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation: 15:21
+But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see:
+and they that have not heard shall understand.
+
+15:22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to
+you.
+
+15:23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great
+desire these many years to come unto you; 15:24 Whensoever I take my
+journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my
+journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be
+somewhat filled with your company.
+
+15:25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
+
+15:26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a
+certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
+
+15:27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if
+the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their
+duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
+
+15:28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them
+this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
+
+15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the
+fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
+
+15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake,
+and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in
+your prayers to God for me; 15:31 That I may be delivered from them
+that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for
+Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; 15:32 That I may come unto
+you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
+
+15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
+
+16:1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the
+church which is at Cenchrea: 16:2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as
+becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she
+hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself
+also.
+
+16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: 16:4 Who
+have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give
+thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
+
+16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my
+well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
+
+16:6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
+
+16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners,
+who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
+
+16:8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
+
+16:9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
+
+16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of
+Aristobulus’ household.
+
+16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household
+of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
+
+16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the
+beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
+
+16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
+
+16:14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the
+brethren which are with them.
+
+16:15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and
+Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.
+
+16:16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ
+salute you.
+
+16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and
+offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid
+them.
+
+16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but
+their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the
+hearts of the simple.
+
+16:19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad
+therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that
+which is good, and simple concerning evil.
+
+16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
+The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
+
+16:21 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater,
+my kinsmen, salute you.
+
+16:22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
+
+16:23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus
+the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
+
+16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
+
+16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my
+gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation
+of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, 16:26 But
+now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according
+to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations
+for the obedience of faith: 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through
+Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
+
+
+1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of
+God, and Sosthenes our brother, 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at
+Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be
+saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus
+Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: 1:3 Grace be unto you, and
+peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which
+is given you by Jesus Christ; 1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched
+by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 1:6 Even as the
+testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 1:7 So that ye come behind
+in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1:8 Who
+shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the
+day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his
+Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
+
+1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
+Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no
+divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the
+same mind and in the same judgment.
+
+1:11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them
+which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
+
+1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I
+of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
+
+1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye
+baptized in the name of Paul? 1:14 I thank God that I baptized none
+of you, but Crispus and Gaius; 1:15 Lest any should say that I had
+baptized in mine own name.
+
+1:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know
+not whether I baptized any other.
+
+1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not
+with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none
+effect.
+
+1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
+foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
+
+1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and
+will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
+
+1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of
+this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1:21
+For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God,
+it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that
+believe.
+
+1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
+1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock,
+and unto the Greeks foolishness; 1:24 But unto them which are called,
+both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
+
+1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the
+weakness of God is stronger than men.
+
+1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men
+after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 1:27 But
+God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
+and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the
+things which are mighty; 1:28 And base things of the world, and things
+which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to
+bring to nought things that are: 1:29 That no flesh should glory in
+his presence.
+
+1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us
+wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 1:31
+That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in
+the Lord.
+
+2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of
+speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
+
+2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus
+Christ, and him crucified.
+
+2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much
+trembling.
+
+2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of
+man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 2:5
+That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
+power of God.
+
+2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the
+wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to
+nought: 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the
+hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 2:8
+Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,
+they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
+
+2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
+have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
+for them that love him.
+
+2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
+searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
+
+2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man
+which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
+Spirit of God.
+
+2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
+which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
+to us of God.
+
+2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom
+teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual
+things with spiritual.
+
+2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
+God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
+because they are spiritually discerned.
+
+2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is
+judged of no man.
+
+2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct
+him? But we have the mind of Christ.
+
+3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but
+as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
+
+3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were
+not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
+
+3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and
+strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 3:4 For
+while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye
+not carnal? 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers
+by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 3:6 I have
+planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
+
+3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that
+watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
+
+3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man
+shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
+
+3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye
+are God’s building.
+
+3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise
+masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth
+thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
+
+3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is
+Jesus Christ.
+
+3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious
+stones, wood, hay, stubble; 3:13 Every man’s work shall be made
+manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed
+by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
+
+3:14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall
+receive a reward.
+
+3:15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
+himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
+
+3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of
+God dwelleth in you? 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him
+shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
+
+3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be
+wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
+
+3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
+written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
+
+3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they
+are vain.
+
+3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
+3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or
+death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 3:23 And
+ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
+
+4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and
+stewards of the mysteries of God.
+
+4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
+
+4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of
+you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
+
+4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but
+he that judgeth me is the Lord.
+
+4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who
+both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make
+manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have
+praise of God.
+
+4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to
+myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to
+think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed
+up for one against another.
+
+4:7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou
+that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost
+thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 4:8 Now ye are full,
+now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to
+God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
+
+4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it
+were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world,
+and to angels, and to men.
+
+4:10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are
+weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
+
+4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are
+naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; 4:12 And
+labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being
+persecuted, we suffer it: 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made
+as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto
+this day.
+
+4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I
+warn you.
+
+4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have
+ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through
+the gospel.
+
+4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
+
+4:17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved
+son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of
+my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
+
+4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
+
+4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know,
+not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
+
+4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
+
+4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and
+in the spirit of meekness? 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is
+fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named
+among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
+
+5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that
+hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
+
+5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have
+judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so
+done this deed, 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are
+gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus
+Christ, 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of
+the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
+
+5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven
+leaveneth the whole lump? 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven,
+that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our
+passover is sacrificed for us: 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast,
+not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness;
+but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
+
+5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
+5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with
+the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye
+needs go out of the world.
+
+5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man
+that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater,
+or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not
+to eat.
+
+5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not
+ye judge them that are within? 5:13 But them that are without God
+judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
+
+6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before
+the unjust, and not before the saints? 6:2 Do ye not know that the
+saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you,
+are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 6:3 Know ye not that
+we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
+6:4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set
+them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
+
+6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man
+among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his
+brethren? 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before
+the unbelievers.
+
+6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to
+law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not
+rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and
+defraud, and that your brethren.
+
+6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
+God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
+adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
+6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
+extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
+
+6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are
+sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by
+the Spirit of our God.
+
+6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient:
+all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the
+power of any.
+
+6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall
+destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for
+the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
+
+6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us
+by his own power.
+
+6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I
+then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an
+harlot? God forbid.
+
+6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one
+body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
+
+6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
+
+6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body;
+but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
+
+6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
+which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 6:20
+For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body,
+and in your spirit, which are God’s.
+
+7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for
+a man not to touch a woman.
+
+7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own
+wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
+
+7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise
+also the wife unto the husband.
+
+7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and
+likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the
+wife.
+
+7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a
+time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come
+together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
+
+7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
+
+7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath
+his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
+
+7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them
+if they abide even as I.
+
+7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to
+marry than to burn.
+
+7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not
+the wife depart from her husband: 7:11 But and if she depart, let her
+remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the
+husband put away his wife.
+
+7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife
+that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not
+put her away.
+
+7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he
+be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
+
+7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the
+unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children
+unclean; but now are they holy.
+
+7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a
+sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to
+peace.
+
+7:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy
+husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy
+wife? 7:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath
+called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
+
+7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
+uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be
+circumcised.
+
+7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the
+keeping of the commandments of God.
+
+7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
+
+7:21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou
+mayest be made free, use it rather.
+
+7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s
+freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s
+servant.
+
+7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
+
+7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with
+God.
+
+7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I
+give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be
+faithful.
+
+7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I
+say, that it is good for a man so to be.
+
+7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou
+loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
+
+7:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin
+marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in
+the flesh: but I spare you.
+
+7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that
+both they that have wives be as though they had none; 7:30 And they
+that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though
+they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
+7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion
+of this world passeth away.
+
+7:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried
+careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the
+Lord: 7:33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of
+the world, how he may please his wife.
+
+7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The
+unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be
+holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for
+the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
+
+7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare
+upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon
+the Lord without distraction.
+
+7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his
+virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let
+him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
+
+7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no
+necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in
+his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
+
+7:38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that
+giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
+
+7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but
+if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she
+will; only in the Lord.
+
+7:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I
+think also that I have the Spirit of God.
+
+8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all
+have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
+
+8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing
+yet as he ought to know.
+
+8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
+
+8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are
+offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in
+the world, and that there is none other God but one.
+
+8:5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in
+earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 8:6 But to us there is
+but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and
+one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
+
+8:7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with
+conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto
+an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
+
+8:8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we
+the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
+
+8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a
+stumblingblock to them that are weak.
+
+8:10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the
+idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be
+emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 8:11 And
+through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ
+died? 8:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their
+weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
+
+8:13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh
+while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
+
+9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ
+our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 9:2 If I be not an apostle
+unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine
+apostleship are ye in the Lord.
+
+9:3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 9:4 Have we not
+power to eat and to drink? 9:5 Have we not power to lead about a
+sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the
+Lord, and Cephas? 9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to
+forbear working? 9:7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges?
+who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who
+feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 9:8 Say I
+these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 9:9 For it
+is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the
+ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 9:10 Or
+saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is
+written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that
+thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
+
+9:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if
+we shall reap your carnal things? 9:12 If others be partakers of this
+power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this
+power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of
+Christ.
+
+9:13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of
+the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are
+partakers with the altar? 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that
+they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
+
+9:15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written
+these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better
+for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
+
+9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for
+necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the
+gospel! 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but
+if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
+
+9:18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I
+may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my
+power in the gospel.
+
+9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant
+unto all, that I might gain the more.
+
+9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews;
+to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain
+them that are under the law; 9:21 To them that are without law, as
+without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to
+Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
+
+9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am
+made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
+
+9:23 And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker
+thereof with you.
+
+9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one
+receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
+
+9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all
+things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an
+incorruptible.
+
+9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one
+that beateth the air: 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into
+subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I
+myself should be a castaway.
+
+10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how
+that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the
+sea; 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the
+sea; 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 10:4 And did all
+drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock
+that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
+
+10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were
+overthrown in the wilderness.
+
+10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not
+lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
+
+10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written,
+The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
+
+10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and
+fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
+
+10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and
+were destroyed of serpents.
+
+10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were
+destroyed of the destroyer.
+
+10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they
+are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are
+come.
+
+10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
+fall.
+
+10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:
+but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that
+ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
+that ye may be able to bear it.
+
+10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
+
+10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
+
+10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of
+the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion
+of the body of Christ? 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one
+body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
+
+10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the
+sacrifices partakers of the altar? 10:19 What say I then? that the
+idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is
+any thing? 10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles
+sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not
+that ye should have fellowship with devils.
+
+10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye
+cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
+
+10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
+10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient:
+all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
+
+10:24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
+
+10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question
+for conscience sake: 10:26 For the earth is the Lord’s, and the
+fulness thereof.
+
+10:27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be
+disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question
+for conscience sake.
+
+10:28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto
+idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake:
+for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof: 10:29
+Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my
+liberty judged of another man’s conscience? 10:30 For if I by grace
+be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give
+thanks? 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye
+do, do all to the glory of God.
+
+10:32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor
+to the church of God: 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things,
+not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be
+saved.
+
+11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
+
+11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things,
+and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
+
+11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ;
+and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
+
+11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,
+dishonoureth his head.
+
+11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head
+uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she
+were shaven.
+
+11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it
+be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
+
+11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is
+the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
+
+11:8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
+
+11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the
+man.
+
+11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because
+of the angels.
+
+11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the
+woman without the man, in the Lord.
+
+11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the
+woman; but all things of God.
+
+11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God
+uncovered? 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a
+man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 11:15 But if a woman have
+long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a
+covering.
+
+11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,
+neither the churches of God.
+
+11:17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye
+come together not for the better, but for the worse.
+
+11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear
+that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
+
+11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are
+approved may be made manifest among you.
+
+11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to
+eat the Lord’s supper.
+
+11:21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and
+one is hungry, and another is drunken.
+
+11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye
+the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to
+you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
+
+11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto
+you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took
+bread: 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,
+Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
+remembrance of me.
+
+11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped,
+saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft
+as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
+
+11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do
+shew the Lord’s death till he come.
+
+11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of
+the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the
+Lord.
+
+11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread,
+and drink of that cup.
+
+11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh
+damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
+
+11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many
+sleep.
+
+11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
+
+11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we
+should not be condemned with the world.
+
+11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one
+for another.
+
+11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not
+together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I
+come.
+
+12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
+ignorant.
+
+12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb
+idols, even as ye were led.
+
+12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the
+Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that
+Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
+
+12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
+
+12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
+
+12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God
+which worketh all in all.
+
+12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to
+profit withal.
+
+12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another
+the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 12:9 To another faith by the
+same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 12:10
+To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another
+discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another
+the interpretation of tongues: 12:11 But all these worketh that one
+and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
+
+12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
+members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
+
+12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we
+be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all
+made to drink into one Spirit.
+
+12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
+
+12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of
+the body; is it therefore not of the body? 12:16 And if the ear shall
+say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore
+not of the body? 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the
+hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 12:18
+But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it
+hath pleased him.
+
+12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 12:20 But
+now are they many members, yet but one body.
+
+12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee:
+nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
+
+12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more
+feeble, are necessary: 12:23 And those members of the body, which we
+think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant
+honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
+
+12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the
+body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which
+lacked.
+
+12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members
+should have the same care one for another.
+
+12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it;
+or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
+
+12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
+
+12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily
+prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of
+healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
+
+12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all
+workers of miracles? 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all
+speak with tongues? do all interpret? 12:31 But covet earnestly the
+best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
+
+13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have
+not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
+
+13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
+mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I
+could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
+
+13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I
+give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me
+nothing.
+
+13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
+vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 13:5 Doth not behave itself
+unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no
+evil; 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 13:7
+Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth
+all things.
+
+13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they
+shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
+be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
+
+13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
+
+13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in
+part shall be done away.
+
+13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child,
+I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
+things.
+
+13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:
+now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
+
+13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
+greatest of these is charity.
+
+14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that
+ye may prophesy.
+
+14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men,
+but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he
+speaketh mysteries.
+
+14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and
+exhortation, and comfort.
+
+14:4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he
+that prophesieth edifieth the church.
+
+14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye
+prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh
+with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive
+edifying.
+
+14:6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what
+shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation,
+or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 14:7 And even
+things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they
+give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped
+or harped? 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall
+prepare himself to the battle? 14:9 So likewise ye, except ye utter
+by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what
+is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
+
+14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and
+none of them is without signification.
+
+14:11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be
+unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a
+barbarian unto me.
+
+14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek
+that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
+
+14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that
+he may interpret.
+
+14:14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my
+understanding is unfruitful.
+
+14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray
+with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will
+sing with the understanding also.
+
+14:16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that
+occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks,
+seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? 14:17 For thou verily
+givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
+
+14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 14:19 Yet
+in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding,
+that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in
+an unknown tongue.
+
+14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be
+ye children, but in understanding be men.
+
+14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other
+lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not
+hear me, saith the LORD.
+
+14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but
+to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that
+believe not, but for them which believe.
+
+14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place,
+and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are
+unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? 14:24
+But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one
+unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 14:25 And thus
+are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his
+face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
+
+14:26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of
+you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation,
+hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
+
+14:27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at
+the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
+
+14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the
+church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
+
+14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
+
+14:30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the
+first hold his peace.
+
+14:31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all
+may be comforted.
+
+14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
+
+14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all
+churches of the saints.
+
+14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not
+permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under
+obedience as also saith the law.
+
+14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at
+home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
+
+14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you
+only? 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual,
+let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the
+commandments of the Lord.
+
+14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
+
+14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak
+with tongues.
+
+14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
+
+15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I
+preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
+15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
+unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
+
+15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,
+how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 15:4
+And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according
+to the scriptures: 15:5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the
+twelve: 15:6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at
+once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are
+fallen asleep.
+
+15:7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
+
+15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due
+time.
+
+15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called
+an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
+
+15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was
+bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than
+they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
+
+15:11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye
+believed.
+
+15:12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say
+some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 15:13 But
+if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
+15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your
+faith is also vain.
+
+15:15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have
+testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if
+so be that the dead rise not.
+
+15:16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 15:17 And
+if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
+
+15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
+
+15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men
+most miserable.
+
+15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
+firstfruits of them that slept.
+
+15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection
+of the dead.
+
+15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
+alive.
+
+15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
+afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
+
+15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
+to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all
+authority and power.
+
+15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
+
+15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
+
+15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all
+things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which
+did put all things under him.
+
+15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the
+Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him,
+that God may be all in all.
+
+15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the
+dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? 15:30
+And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? 15:31 I protest by your
+rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
+
+15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,
+what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink;
+for to morrow we die.
+
+15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
+
+15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the
+knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
+
+15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what
+body do they come? 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
+quickened, except it die: 15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou
+sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of
+wheat, or of some other grain: 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it
+hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
+
+15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh
+of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of
+birds.
+
+15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the
+glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is
+another.
+
+15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,
+and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another
+star in glory.
+
+15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
+corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 15:43 It is sown in
+dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised
+in power: 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual
+body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
+
+15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul;
+the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
+
+15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is
+natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
+
+15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the
+Lord from heaven.
+
+15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is
+the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
+
+15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear
+the image of the heavenly.
+
+15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit
+the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
+
+15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we
+shall all be changed, 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
+at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
+raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
+
+15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
+must put on immortality.
+
+15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and
+this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to
+pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
+
+15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
+15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
+
+15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our
+Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
+always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that
+your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
+
+16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given
+order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
+
+16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in
+store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I
+come.
+
+16:3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters,
+them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
+
+16:4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
+
+16:5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia:
+for I do pass through Macedonia.
+
+16:6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that
+ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
+
+16:7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a
+while with you, if the Lord permit.
+
+16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
+
+16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are
+many adversaries.
+
+16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear:
+for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
+
+16:11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in
+peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
+
+16:12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come
+unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at
+this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.
+
+16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
+
+16:14 Let all your things be done with charity.
+
+16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that
+it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted
+themselves to the ministry of the saints,) 16:16 That ye submit
+yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and
+laboureth.
+
+16:17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and
+Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
+
+16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore
+acknowledge ye them that are such.
+
+16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you
+much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
+
+16:20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with
+an holy kiss.
+
+16:21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
+
+16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be
+Anathema Maranatha.
+
+16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
+
+16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
+
+
+1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy
+our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the
+saints which are in all Achaia: 1:2 Grace be to you and peace from God
+our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
+Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 1:4 Who comforteth us
+in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are
+in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of
+God.
+
+1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation
+also aboundeth by Christ.
+
+1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and
+salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings
+which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your
+consolation and salvation.
+
+1:7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers
+of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
+
+1:8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which
+came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above
+strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 1:9 But we had the
+sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,
+but in God which raiseth the dead: 1:10 Who delivered us from so great
+a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver
+us; 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift
+bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by
+many on our behalf.
+
+1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that
+in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the
+grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more
+abundantly to you-ward.
+
+1:13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or
+acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; 1:14 As
+also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even
+as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
+
+1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that
+ye might have a second benefit; 1:16 And to pass by you into
+Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to
+be brought on my way toward Judaea.
+
+1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the
+things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with
+me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? 1:18 But as God is true, our
+word toward you was not yea and nay.
+
+1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by
+us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in
+him was yea.
+
+1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto
+the glory of God by us.
+
+1:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed
+us, is God; 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the
+Spirit in our hearts.
+
+1:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you
+I came not as yet unto Corinth.
+
+1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of
+your joy: for by faith ye stand.
+
+2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to
+you in heaviness.
+
+2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but
+the same which is made sorry by me? 2:3 And I wrote this same unto
+you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought
+to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of
+you all.
+
+2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you
+with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know
+the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
+
+2:5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part:
+that I may not overcharge you all.
+
+2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted
+of many.
+
+2:7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort
+him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch
+sorrow.
+
+2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward
+him.
+
+2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of
+you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
+
+2:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave
+any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the
+person of Christ; 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for
+we are not ignorant of his devices.
+
+2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and
+a door was opened unto me of the Lord, 2:13 I had no rest in my
+spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of
+them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
+
+2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in
+Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every
+place.
+
+2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are
+saved, and in them that perish: 2:16 To the one we are the savour of
+death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And
+who is sufficient for these things? 2:17 For we are not as many,
+which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in
+the sight of God speak we in Christ.
+
+3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
+others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation
+from you? 3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and
+read of all men: 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the
+epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the
+Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables
+of the heart.
+
+3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 3:5 Not that we
+are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but
+our sufficiency is of God; 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of
+the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the
+letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
+
+3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones,
+was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly
+behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory
+was to be done away: 3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit
+be rather glorious? 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be
+glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in
+glory.
+
+3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
+respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
+
+3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which
+remaineth is glorious.
+
+3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
+speech: 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that
+the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that
+which is abolished: 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this
+day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old
+testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
+
+3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon
+their heart.
+
+3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
+taken away.
+
+3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
+there is liberty.
+
+3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of
+the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as
+by the Spirit of the LORD.
+
+4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy,
+we faint not; 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
+not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully;
+but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s
+conscience in the sight of God.
+
+4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4:4 In
+whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which
+believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is
+the image of God, should shine unto them.
+
+4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and
+ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
+
+4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath
+shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory
+of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
+
+4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency
+of the power may be of God, and not of us.
+
+4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are
+perplexed, but not in despair; 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast
+down, but not destroyed; 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the
+dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made
+manifest in our body.
+
+4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake,
+that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal
+flesh.
+
+4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
+
+4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I
+believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore
+speak; 4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise
+up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
+
+4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might
+through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
+
+4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish,
+yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
+
+4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for
+us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 4:18 While we
+look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not
+seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which
+are not seen are eternal.
+
+5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
+dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands,
+eternal in the heavens.
+
+5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with
+our house which is from heaven: 5:3 If so be that being clothed we
+shall not be found naked.
+
+5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not
+for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might
+be swallowed up of life.
+
+5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who
+also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
+
+5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at
+home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 5:7 (For we walk by
+faith, not by sight:) 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather
+to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
+
+5:9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be
+accepted of him.
+
+5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
+every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that
+he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
+
+5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we
+are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your
+consciences.
+
+5:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you
+occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer
+them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
+
+5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we
+be sober, it is for your cause.
+
+5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge,
+that if one died for all, then were all dead: 5:15 And that he died
+for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto
+themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
+
+5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though
+we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him
+no more.
+
+5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old
+things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
+
+5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by
+Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
+5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
+himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed
+unto us the word of reconciliation.
+
+5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech
+you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
+
+5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
+might be made the righteousness of God in him.
+
+6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye
+receive not the grace of God in vain.
+
+6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the
+day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted
+time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 6:3 Giving no offence in
+any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 6:4 But in all things
+approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in
+afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 6:5 In stripes, in
+imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6:6
+By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy
+Ghost, by love unfeigned, 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of
+God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
+6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as
+deceivers, and yet true; 6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying,
+and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 6:10 As sorrowful,
+yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing,
+and yet possessing all things.
+
+6:11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is
+enlarged.
+
+6:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own
+bowels.
+
+6:13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,)
+be ye also enlarged.
+
+6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
+fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
+hath light with darkness? 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with
+Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 6:16 And
+what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the
+temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and
+walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
+
+6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
+Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
+
+6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
+daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
+
+7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse
+ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting
+holiness in the fear of God.
+
+7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we
+have defrauded no man.
+
+7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye
+are in our hearts to die and live with you.
+
+7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of
+you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our
+tribulation.
+
+7:5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but
+we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were
+fears.
+
+7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down,
+comforted us by the coming of Titus; 7:7 And not by his coming only,
+but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told
+us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so
+that I rejoiced the more.
+
+7:8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though
+I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you
+sorry, though it were but for a season.
+
+7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed
+to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye
+might receive damage by us in nothing.
+
+7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be
+repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
+
+7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly
+sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of
+yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement
+desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have
+approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
+
+7:12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause
+that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but
+that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
+
+7:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly
+the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was
+refreshed by you all.
+
+7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed;
+but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting,
+which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
+
+7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he
+remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye
+received him.
+
+7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
+
+8:1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed
+on the churches of Macedonia; 8:2 How that in a great trial of
+affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded
+unto the riches of their liberality.
+
+8:3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power
+they were willing of themselves; 8:4 Praying us with much intreaty
+that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the
+ministering to the saints.
+
+8:5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own
+selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
+
+8:6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would
+also finish in you the same grace also.
+
+8:7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance,
+and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that
+ye abound in this grace also.
+
+8:8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of
+others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
+
+8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he
+was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his
+poverty might be rich.
+
+8:10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who
+have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
+
+8:11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a
+readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that
+which ye have.
+
+8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to
+that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
+
+8:13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 8:14 But
+by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply
+for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your
+want: that there may be equality: 8:15 As it is written, He that had
+gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no
+lack.
+
+8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the
+heart of Titus for you.
+
+8:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward,
+of his own accord he went unto you.
+
+8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the
+gospel throughout all the churches; 8:19 And not that only, but who
+was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace,
+which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and
+declaration of your ready mind: 8:20 Avoiding this, that no man should
+blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: 8:21 Providing
+for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the
+sight of men.
+
+8:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes
+proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the
+great confidence which I have in you.
+
+8:23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and
+fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are
+the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
+
+8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of
+your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
+
+9:1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous
+for me to write to you: 9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind,
+for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a
+year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
+
+9:3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be
+in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: 9:4 Lest
+haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we
+(that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident
+boasting.
+
+9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they
+would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof
+ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of
+bounty, and not as of covetousness.
+
+9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
+sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
+bountifully.
+
+9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give;
+not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
+
+9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye,
+always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good
+work: 9:9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given
+to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
+
+9:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for
+your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of
+your righteousness;) 9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all
+bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
+
+9:12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the
+want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto
+God; 9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify
+God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for
+your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; 9:14 And by
+their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of
+God in you.
+
+9:15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
+
+10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of
+Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold
+toward you: 10:2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am
+present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against
+some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
+
+10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
+10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
+through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 10:5 Casting down
+imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the
+knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
+obedience of Christ; 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all
+disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
+
+10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man
+trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this
+again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
+
+10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which
+the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction,
+I should not be ashamed: 10:9 That I may not seem as if I would
+terrify you by letters.
+
+10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his
+bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
+
+10:11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by
+letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are
+present.
+
+10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
+ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring
+themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves,
+are not wise.
+
+10:13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but
+according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us,
+a measure to reach even unto you.
+
+10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we
+reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in
+preaching the gospel of Christ: 10:15 Not boasting of things without
+our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when
+your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to
+our rule abundantly, 10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond
+you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to
+our hand.
+
+10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
+
+10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the
+Lord commendeth.
+
+11:1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and
+indeed bear with me.
+
+11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
+espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin
+to Christ.
+
+11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
+through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the
+simplicity that is in Christ.
+
+11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not
+preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received,
+or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with
+him.
+
+11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
+
+11:6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have
+been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
+
+11:7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be
+exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
+11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
+
+11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to
+no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from
+Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being
+burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
+
+11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
+boasting in the regions of Achaia.
+
+11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
+
+11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from
+them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found
+even as we.
+
+11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
+themselves into the apostles of Christ.
+
+11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
+light.
+
+11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
+transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be
+according to their works.
+
+11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a
+fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
+
+11:17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it
+were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
+
+11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
+
+11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
+
+11:20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour
+you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you
+on the face.
+
+11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak.
+Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold
+also.
+
+11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are
+they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
+
+11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in
+labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more
+frequent, in deaths oft.
+
+11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
+
+11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I
+suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 11:26
+In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in
+perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in
+the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils
+among false brethren; 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings
+often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
+
+11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me
+daily, the care of all the churches.
+
+11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
+11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern
+mine infirmities.
+
+11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed
+for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
+
+11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of
+the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 11:33 And
+through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped
+his hands.
+
+12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to
+visions and revelations of the Lord.
+
+12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the
+body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God
+knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
+
+12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body,
+I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 12:4 How that he was caught up into
+paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a
+man to utter.
+
+12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but
+in mine infirmities.
+
+12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I
+will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me
+above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
+
+12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance
+of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the
+messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above
+measure.
+
+12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart
+from me.
+
+12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
+strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I
+rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon
+me.
+
+12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in
+necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for
+when I am weak, then am I strong.
+
+12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I
+ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the
+very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
+
+12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all
+patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
+
+12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches,
+except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this
+wrong.
+
+12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not
+be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children
+ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
+
+12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the
+more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
+
+12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty,
+I caught you with guile.
+
+12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
+12:18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a
+gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the
+same steps? 12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you?
+we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved,
+for your edifying.
+
+12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I
+would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest
+there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings,
+swellings, tumults: 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will
+humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned
+already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and
+lasciviousness which they have committed.
+
+13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or
+three witnesses shall every word be established.
+
+13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the
+second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore
+have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not
+spare: 13:3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to
+you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
+
+13:4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by
+the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with
+him by the power of God toward you.
+
+13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own
+selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
+except ye be reprobates? 13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we
+are not reprobates.
+
+13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear
+approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as
+reprobates.
+
+13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
+
+13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this
+also we wish, even your perfection.
+
+13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present
+I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath
+given me to edification, and not to destruction.
+
+13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be
+of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be
+with you.
+
+13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
+
+13:13 All the saints salute you.
+
+13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
+communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians
+
+
+1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus
+Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 1:2 And all
+the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 1:3
+Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus
+Christ, 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us
+from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our
+Father: 1:5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
+
+1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into
+the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 1:7 Which is not another; but
+there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of
+Christ.
+
+1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel
+unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
+accursed.
+
+1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other
+gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
+
+1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men?
+for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
+
+1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
+of me is not after man.
+
+1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by
+the revelation of Jesus Christ.
+
+1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’
+religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and
+wasted it: 1:14 And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my
+equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the
+traditions of my fathers.
+
+1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb,
+and called me by his grace, 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might
+preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh
+and blood: 1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were
+apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto
+Damascus.
+
+1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and
+abode with him fifteen days.
+
+1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s
+brother.
+
+1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie
+not.
+
+1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; 1:22 And
+was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
+1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times
+past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
+
+1:24 And they glorified God in me.
+
+2:1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with
+Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
+
+2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that
+gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which
+were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in
+vain.
+
+2:3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled
+to be circumcised: 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares
+brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have
+in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 2:5 To whom we
+gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the
+gospel might continue with you.
+
+2:6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it
+maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who
+seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: 2:7 But
+contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was
+committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
+2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of
+the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) 2:9
+And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived
+the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the
+right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and
+they unto the circumcision.
+
+2:10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which
+I also was forward to do.
+
+2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face,
+because he was to be blamed.
+
+2:12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the
+Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself,
+fearing them which were of the circumcision.
+
+2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that
+Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
+
+2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the
+truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being
+a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews,
+why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 2:15 We who
+are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 2:16 Knowing that
+a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of
+Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be
+justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for
+by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
+
+2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves
+also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God
+forbid.
+
+2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself
+a transgressor.
+
+2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto
+God.
+
+2:20 I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but
+Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live
+by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
+
+2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by
+the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
+
+3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not
+obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set
+forth, crucified among you? 3:2 This only would I learn of you,
+Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
+faith? 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now
+made perfect by the flesh? 3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in
+vain? if it be yet in vain.
+
+3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh
+miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the
+hearing of faith? 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was
+accounted to him for righteousness.
+
+3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the
+children of Abraham.
+
+3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen
+through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In
+thee shall all nations be blessed.
+
+3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
+
+3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:
+for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all
+things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
+
+3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it
+is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
+
+3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall
+live in them.
+
+3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
+curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
+tree: 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles
+through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
+through faith.
+
+3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a
+man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth
+thereto.
+
+3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not,
+And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is
+Christ.
+
+3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of
+God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
+cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
+
+3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise:
+but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
+
+3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of
+transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was
+made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
+
+3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
+
+3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if
+there had been a law given which could have given life, verily
+righteousness should have been by the law.
+
+3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise
+by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
+
+3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto
+the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
+
+3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
+that we might be justified by faith.
+
+3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a
+schoolmaster.
+
+3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
+
+3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on
+Christ.
+
+3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
+there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
+
+3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs
+according to the promise.
+
+4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
+nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 4:2 But is under
+tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
+
+4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the
+elements of the world: 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come,
+God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 4:5 To
+redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the
+adoption of sons.
+
+4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son
+into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
+
+4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son,
+then an heir of God through Christ.
+
+4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which
+by nature are no gods.
+
+4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God,
+how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye
+desire again to be in bondage? 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and
+times, and years.
+
+4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
+
+4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have
+not injured me at all.
+
+4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel
+unto you at the first.
+
+4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor
+rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
+
+4:15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record,
+that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own
+eyes, and have given them to me.
+
+4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
+4:17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude
+you, that ye might affect them.
+
+4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing,
+and not only when I am present with you.
+
+4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ
+be formed in you, 4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to
+change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
+
+4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the
+law? 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a
+bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
+
+4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he
+of the freewoman was by promise.
+
+4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;
+the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is
+Agar.
+
+4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to
+Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
+
+4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us
+all.
+
+4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break
+forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many
+more children than she which hath an husband.
+
+4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
+
+4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that
+was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
+
+4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and
+her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son
+of the freewoman.
+
+4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of
+the free.
+
+5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
+free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
+
+5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ
+shall profit you nothing.
+
+5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a
+debtor to do the whole law.
+
+5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are
+justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
+
+5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by
+faith.
+
+5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
+uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
+
+5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the
+truth? 5:8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
+
+5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
+
+5:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none
+otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment,
+whosoever he be.
+
+5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet
+suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
+
+5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
+
+5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not
+liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
+
+5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou
+shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
+
+5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not
+consumed one of another.
+
+5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the
+lust of the flesh.
+
+5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
+the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye
+cannot do the things that ye would.
+
+5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
+
+5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
+Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 5:20 Idolatry,
+witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
+heresies, 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such
+like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time
+past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of
+God.
+
+5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
+gentleness, goodness, faith, 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such
+there is no law.
+
+5:24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the
+affections and lusts.
+
+5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
+
+5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
+envying one another.
+
+6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are
+spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering
+thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
+
+6:2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
+
+6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he
+deceiveth himself.
+
+6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have
+rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
+
+6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
+
+6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that
+teacheth in all good things.
+
+6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
+that shall he also reap.
+
+6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
+corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap
+life everlasting.
+
+6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall
+reap, if we faint not.
+
+6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,
+especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
+
+6:11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own
+hand.
+
+6:12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they
+constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer
+persecution for the cross of Christ.
+
+6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but
+desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
+
+6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord
+Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the
+world.
+
+6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
+uncircumcision, but a new creature.
+
+6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and
+mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
+
+6:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the
+marks of the Lord Jesus.
+
+6:18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
+
+Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
+
+
+1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the
+saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
+1:2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord
+Jesus Christ.
+
+1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath
+blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
+1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
+world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
+1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
+Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 1:6 To
+the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted
+in the beloved.
+
+1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
+sins, according to the riches of his grace; 1:8 Wherein he hath
+abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 1:9 Having made known
+unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which
+he hath purposed in himself: 1:10 That in the dispensation of the
+fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ,
+both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 1:11 In
+whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
+according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the
+counsel of his own will: 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his
+glory, who first trusted in Christ.
+
+1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth,
+the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye
+were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 1:14 Which is the
+earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
+possession, unto the praise of his glory.
+
+1:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus,
+and love unto all the saints, 1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you,
+making mention of you in my prayers; 1:17 That the God of our Lord
+Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of
+wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 1:18 The eyes of your
+understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of
+his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in
+the saints, 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to
+us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
+1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and
+set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 1:21 Far above
+all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name
+that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to
+come: 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be
+the head over all things to the church, 1:23 Which is his body, the
+fulness of him that filleth all in all.
+
+2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
+2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this
+world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
+that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 2:3 Among whom also
+we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh,
+fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by
+nature the children of wrath, even as others.
+
+2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he
+loved us, 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
+together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 2:6 And hath raised us
+up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
+Jesus: 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches
+of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
+
+2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
+yourselves: it is the gift of God: 2:9 Not of works, lest any man
+should boast.
+
+2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good
+works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
+
+2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the
+flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the
+Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 2:12 That at that time ye
+were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and
+strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without
+God in the world: 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were
+far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
+
+2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down
+the middle wall of partition between us; 2:15 Having abolished in his
+flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in
+ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making
+peace; 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by
+the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 2:17 And came and preached
+peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
+
+2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
+Father.
+
+2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
+fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 2:20 And
+are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
+Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 2:21 In whom all the
+building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the
+Lord: 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of
+God through the Spirit.
+
+3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you
+Gentiles, 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God
+which is given me to you-ward: 3:3 How that by revelation he made
+known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, 3:4
+Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery
+of Christ) 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of
+men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the
+Spirit; 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same
+body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: 3:7
+Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of
+God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
+
+3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace
+given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
+of Christ; 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the
+mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God,
+who created all things by Jesus Christ: 3:10 To the intent that now
+unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known
+by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 3:11 According to the
+eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 3:12 In
+whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
+
+3:13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you,
+which is your glory.
+
+3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus
+Christ, 3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
+3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to
+be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 3:17 That
+Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and
+grounded in love, 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what
+is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 3:19 And to know
+the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled
+with all the fulness of God.
+
+3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all
+that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 3:21
+Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages,
+world without end. Amen.
+
+4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk
+worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 4:2 With all lowliness
+and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 4:3
+Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
+
+4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
+hope of your calling; 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 4:6 One
+God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you
+all.
+
+4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure
+of the gift of Christ.
+
+4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity
+captive, and gave gifts unto men.
+
+4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first
+into the lower parts of the earth? 4:10 He that descended is the same
+also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all
+things.) 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and
+some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 4:12 For the
+perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the
+edifying of the body of Christ: 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of
+the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
+unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 4:14 That we
+henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about
+with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning
+craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 4:15 But speaking the
+truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head,
+even Christ: 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and
+compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the
+effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the
+body unto the edifying of itself in love.
+
+4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth
+walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 4:18
+Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of
+God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of
+their heart: 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over
+unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
+
+4:20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 4:21 If so be that ye have
+heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 4:22
+That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which
+is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 4:23 And be renewed in
+the spirit of your mind; 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which
+after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
+
+4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his
+neighbour: for we are members one of another.
+
+4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
+wrath: 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.
+
+4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour,
+working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to
+give to him that needeth.
+
+4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that
+which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto
+the hearers.
+
+4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto
+the day of redemption.
+
+4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil
+speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 4:32 And be ye kind
+one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for
+Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
+
+5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 5:2 And walk
+in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us
+an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
+
+5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not
+be once named among you, as becometh saints; 5:4 Neither filthiness,
+nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather
+giving of thanks.
+
+5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor
+covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom
+of Christ and of God.
+
+5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
+things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
+
+5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
+
+5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:
+walk as children of light: 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all
+goodness and righteousness and truth;) 5:10 Proving what is acceptable
+unto the Lord.
+
+5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
+rather reprove them.
+
+5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of
+them in secret.
+
+5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:
+for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
+
+5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the
+dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
+
+5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
+5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
+
+5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of
+the Lord is.
+
+5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with
+the Spirit; 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
+spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
+5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in
+the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to
+another in the fear of God.
+
+5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the
+Lord.
+
+5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the
+head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
+
+5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives
+be to their own husbands in every thing.
+
+5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church,
+and gave himself for it; 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it
+with the washing of water by the word, 5:27 That he might present it
+to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such
+thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
+
+5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
+loveth his wife loveth himself.
+
+5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and
+cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 5:30 For we are members of
+his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
+
+5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall
+be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
+
+5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the
+church.
+
+5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife
+even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
+
+6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
+
+6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with
+promise; 6:3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long
+on the earth.
+
+6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring
+them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
+
+6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to
+the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as
+unto Christ; 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the
+servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 6:7 With
+good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: 6:8 Knowing
+that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of
+the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
+
+6:9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing
+threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is
+there respect of persons with him.
+
+6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of
+his might.
+
+6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand
+against the wiles of the devil.
+
+6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
+principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
+this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
+
+6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be
+able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
+
+6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and
+having on the breastplate of righteousness; 6:15 And your feet shod
+with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 6:16 Above all, taking
+the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the
+fiery darts of the wicked.
+
+6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,
+which is the word of God: 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and
+supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
+perseverance and supplication for all saints; 6:19 And for me, that
+utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to
+make known the mystery of the gospel, 6:20 For which I am an
+ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to
+speak.
+
+6:21 But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a
+beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to
+you all things: 6:22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose,
+that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
+
+6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the
+Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in
+sincerity.
+
+Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians
+
+
+1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the
+saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and
+deacons: 1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and
+from the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 1:4 Always in every
+prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, 1:5 For your
+fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; 1:6 Being
+confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in
+you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: 1:7 Even as it is
+meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart;
+inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of
+the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
+
+1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the
+bowels of Jesus Christ.
+
+1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
+knowledge and in all judgment; 1:10 That ye may approve things that
+are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day
+of Christ.
+
+1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus
+Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
+
+1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which
+happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the
+gospel; 1:13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the
+palace, and in all other places; 1:14 And many of the brethren in the
+Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the
+word without fear.
+
+1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also
+of good will: 1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely,
+supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 1:17 But the other of love,
+knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
+
+1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in
+truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will
+rejoice.
+
+1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your
+prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 1:20 According
+to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be
+ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ
+shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
+
+1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
+
+1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet
+what I shall choose I wot not.
+
+1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and
+to be with Christ; which is far better: 1:24 Nevertheless to abide in
+the flesh is more needful for you.
+
+1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and
+continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; 1:26 That
+your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my
+coming to you again.
+
+1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of
+Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear
+of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind
+striving together for the faith of the gospel; 1:28 And in nothing
+terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of
+perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
+
+1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to
+believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; 1:30 Having the same
+conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
+
+2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of
+love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2:2
+Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being
+of one accord, of one mind.
+
+2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness
+of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
+
+2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the
+things of others.
+
+2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 2:6 Who,
+being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
+2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a
+servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 2:8 And being found in
+fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death,
+even the death of the cross.
+
+2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name
+which is above every name: 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee
+should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under
+the earth; 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
+is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
+
+2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my
+presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
+salvation with fear and trembling.
+
+2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his
+good pleasure.
+
+2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 2:15 That ye may
+be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the
+midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights
+in the world; 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice
+in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in
+vain.
+
+2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your
+faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
+
+2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
+
+2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you,
+that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
+
+2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your
+state.
+
+2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
+
+2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he
+hath served with me in the gospel.
+
+2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see
+how it will go with me.
+
+2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
+
+2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my
+brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your
+messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
+
+2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because
+that ye had heard that he had been sick.
+
+2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him;
+and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon
+sorrow.
+
+2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him
+again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
+
+2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold
+such in reputation: 2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh
+unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service
+toward me.
+
+3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
+things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
+
+3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
+
+3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and
+rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
+
+3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man
+thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 3:5
+Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of
+Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
+3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the
+righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
+
+3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
+
+3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency
+of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the
+loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
+3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is
+of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
+righteousness which is of God by faith: 3:10 That I may know him, and
+the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings,
+being made conformable unto his death; 3:11 If by any means I might
+attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
+
+3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already
+perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which
+also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
+
+3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
+thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching
+forth unto those things which are before, 3:14 I press toward the mark
+for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
+
+3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if
+in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto
+you.
+
+3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by
+the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
+
+3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk
+so as ye have us for an ensample.
+
+3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you
+even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 3:19
+Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is
+in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 3:20 For our conversation
+is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus
+Christ: 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned
+like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is
+able even to subdue all things unto himself.
+
+4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and
+crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
+
+4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same
+mind in the Lord.
+
+4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which
+laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my
+fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
+
+4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
+
+4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
+
+4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
+supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto
+God.
+
+4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep
+your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
+
+4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things
+are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
+whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if
+there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these
+things.
+
+4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard,
+and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
+
+4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your
+care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye
+lacked opportunity.
+
+4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in
+whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
+
+4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every
+where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be
+hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
+
+4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
+
+4:14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with
+my affliction.
+
+4:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the
+gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me
+as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
+
+4:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my
+necessity.
+
+4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound
+to your account.
+
+4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of
+Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet
+smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
+
+4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in
+glory by Christ Jesus.
+
+4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
+
+4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with
+me greet you.
+
+4:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar’s
+household.
+
+4:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians
+
+
+1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
+and Timotheus our brother, 1:2 To the saints and faithful brethren
+in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace,
+from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+1:3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying
+always for you,
+1:4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye
+have to all the saints,
+1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard
+before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
+1:6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth
+fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the
+grace of God in truth:
+1:7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you
+a faithful minister of Christ;
+1:8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
+
+1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to
+pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his
+will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
+1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being
+fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
+1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto
+all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
+1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be
+partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
+1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated
+us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
+1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of
+sins:
+1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
+creature:
+1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are
+in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or
+principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
+1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
+
+1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the
+firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
+
+1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
+1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
+reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in
+earth, or things in heaven.
+
+1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by
+wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
+1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
+unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
+1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved
+away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached
+to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
+1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is
+behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is
+the church:
+1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God
+which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
+1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations,
+but now is made manifest to his saints:
+1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this
+mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
+1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all
+wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
+1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which
+worketh in me mightily.
+
+2:1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for
+them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
+2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and
+unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the
+acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
+2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
+
+2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
+
+2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit,
+joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in
+Christ.
+
+2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in
+him:
+2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have
+been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
+
+2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
+after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after
+Christ.
+
+2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
+
+2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and
+power:
+2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without
+hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision
+of Christ:
+2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
+through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
+
+2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
+flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
+trespasses;
+2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which
+was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
+2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them
+openly, triumphing over them in it.
+
+2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of
+an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
+2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
+
+2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and
+worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen,
+vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
+2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands
+having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the
+increase of God.
+
+2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world,
+why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
+2:21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
+2:22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and
+doctrines of men?
+2:23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and
+humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying
+of the flesh.
+
+3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
+where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
+
+3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
+
+3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
+
+3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear
+with him in glory.
+
+3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
+uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness,
+which is idolatry:
+3:6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of
+disobedience:
+3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
+
+3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,
+filthy communication out of your mouth.
+
+3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with
+his deeds;
+3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the
+image of him that created him:
+3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
+uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in
+all.
+
+3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of
+mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
+3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a
+quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
+
+3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of
+perfectness.
+
+3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye
+are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
+
+3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching
+and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
+with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
+
+3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord
+Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
+
+3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the
+Lord.
+
+3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
+
+3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing
+unto the Lord.
+
+3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be
+discouraged.
+
+3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not
+with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;
+3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto
+men;
+3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the
+inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
+
+3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath
+done: and there is no respect of persons.
+
+4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing
+that ye also have a Master in heaven.
+
+4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
+4:3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of
+utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
+4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
+
+4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
+
+4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may
+know how ye ought to answer every man.
+
+4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved
+brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
+4:8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know
+your estate, and comfort your hearts;
+4:9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They
+shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
+
+4:10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister’s son
+to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you,
+receive him;)
+4:11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These
+only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort
+unto me.
+
+4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you,
+always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and
+complete in all the will of God.
+
+4:13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them
+that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
+
+4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
+
+4:15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the
+church which is in his house.
+
+4:16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also
+in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from
+Laodicea.
+
+4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast
+received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
+
+4:18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be
+with you. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
+
+
+1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
+Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ:
+Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus
+Christ.
+
+1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in
+our prayers; 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and
+labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the
+sight of God and our Father; 1:4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your
+election of God.
+
+1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power,
+and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner
+of men we were among you for your sake.
+
+1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received
+the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
+
+1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and
+Achaia.
+
+1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
+Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward
+is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
+
+1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had
+unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and
+true God; 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised
+from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
+
+2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it
+was not in vain: 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and
+were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in
+our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
+
+2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in
+guile: 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the
+gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth
+our hearts.
+
+2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor
+a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: 2:6 Nor of men sought we
+glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been
+burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
+
+2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her
+children: 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing
+to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our
+own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
+
+2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring
+night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we
+preached unto you the gospel of God.
+
+2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and
+unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: 2:11 As ye
+know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a
+father doth his children, 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who
+hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
+
+2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when
+ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not
+as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which
+effectually worketh also in you that believe.
+
+2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which
+in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things
+of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 2:15 Who both
+killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us;
+and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 2:16 Forbidding
+us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their
+sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
+
+2:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in
+presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your
+face with great desire.
+
+2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and
+again; but Satan hindered us.
+
+2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even
+ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? 2:20 For
+ye are our glory and joy.
+
+3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to
+be left at Athens alone; 3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and
+minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to
+establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: 3:3 That no
+man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we
+are appointed thereunto.
+
+3:4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we
+should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
+
+3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know
+your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our
+labour be in vain.
+
+3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good
+tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance
+of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you: 3:7
+Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction
+and distress by your faith: 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in
+the Lord.
+
+3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the
+joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; 3:10 Night and day
+praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect
+that which is lacking in your faith? 3:11 Now God himself and our
+Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
+
+3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward
+another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: 3:13 To the end
+he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even
+our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his
+saints.
+
+4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the
+Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to
+please God, so ye would abound more and more.
+
+4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
+
+4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye
+should abstain from fornication: 4:4 That every one of you should know
+how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 4:5 Not in the
+lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 4:6
+That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because
+that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned
+you and testified.
+
+4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
+
+4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath
+also given unto us his holy Spirit.
+
+4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you:
+for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
+
+4:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all
+Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and
+more; 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business,
+and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 4:12 That ye may
+walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack
+of nothing.
+
+4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
+them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have
+no hope.
+
+4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
+also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
+
+4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
+are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
+them which are asleep.
+
+4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
+the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
+Christ shall rise first: 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall
+be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the
+air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
+
+4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
+
+5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I
+write unto you.
+
+5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh
+as a thief in the night.
+
+5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
+cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall
+not escape.
+
+5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should
+overtake you as a thief.
+
+5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we
+are not of the night, nor of darkness.
+
+5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be
+sober.
+
+5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken
+are drunken in the night.
+
+5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the
+breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of
+salvation.
+
+5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by
+our Lord Jesus Christ, 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or
+sleep, we should live together with him.
+
+5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another,
+even as also ye do.
+
+5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among
+you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; 5:13 And to
+esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace
+among yourselves.
+
+5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort
+the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
+
+5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow
+that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
+
+5:16 Rejoice evermore.
+
+5:17 Pray without ceasing.
+
+5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ
+Jesus concerning you.
+
+5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
+
+5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
+
+5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
+
+5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
+
+5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
+your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the
+coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
+
+5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
+
+5:26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
+
+5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the
+holy brethren.
+
+5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
+
+
+1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
+Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 1:2 Grace
+unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet,
+because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every
+one of you all toward each other aboundeth; 1:4 So that we ourselves
+glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all
+your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: 1:5 Which is a
+manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be
+counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 1:6
+Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to
+them that trouble you; 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
+when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
+angels, 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not
+God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1:9 Who
+shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of
+the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 1:10 When he shall come to
+be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe
+(because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
+
+1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count
+you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his
+goodness, and the work of faith with power: 1:12 That the name of our
+Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to
+the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
+Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2:2 That ye be not
+soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word,
+nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
+
+2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come,
+except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
+revealed, the son of perdition; 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself
+above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
+sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
+
+2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these
+things? 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be
+revealed in his time.
+
+2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now
+letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
+
+2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
+consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
+brightness of his coming: 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the
+working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 2:10 And
+with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
+because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
+saved.
+
+2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
+should believe a lie: 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed
+not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
+
+2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren
+beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to
+salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the
+truth: 2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of
+the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye
+have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
+
+2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father,
+which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and
+good hope through grace, 2:17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in
+every good word and work.
+
+3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have
+free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 3:2 And that we
+may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have
+not faith.
+
+3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you
+from evil.
+
+3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do
+and will do the things which we command you.
+
+3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the
+patient waiting for Christ.
+
+3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus
+Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh
+disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
+
+3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not
+ourselves disorderly among you; 3:8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread
+for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we
+might not be chargeable to any of you: 3:9 Not because we have not
+power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
+
+3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if
+any would not work, neither should he eat.
+
+3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly,
+working not at all, but are busybodies.
+
+3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus
+Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
+
+3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
+
+3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man,
+and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
+
+3:15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
+
+3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means.
+The Lord be with you all.
+
+3:17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in
+every epistle: so I write.
+
+3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
+
+
+1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our
+Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; 1:2 Unto Timothy,
+my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father
+and Jesus Christ our Lord.
+
+1:3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into
+Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other
+doctrine, 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies,
+which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in
+faith: so do.
+
+1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and
+of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 1:6 From which some
+having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 1:7 Desiring to
+be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor
+whereof they affirm.
+
+1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 1:9
+Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for
+the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for
+unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers,
+for manslayers, 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves
+with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if
+there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 1:11
+According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was
+committed to my trust.
+
+1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that
+he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; 1:13 Who was
+before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained
+mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
+
+1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and
+love which is in Christ Jesus.
+
+1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that
+Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
+
+1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus
+Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which
+should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
+
+1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise
+God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
+
+1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the
+prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a
+good warfare; 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some
+having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: 1:20 Of whom is
+Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they
+may learn not to blaspheme.
+
+2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,
+intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2:2 For
+kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and
+peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
+
+2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
+2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge
+of the truth.
+
+2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the
+man Christ Jesus; 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be
+testified in due time.
+
+2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the
+truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
+verity.
+
+2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands,
+without wrath and doubting.
+
+2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest
+apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or
+gold, or pearls, or costly array; 2:10 But (which becometh women
+professing godliness) with good works.
+
+2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
+
+2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over
+the man, but to be in silence.
+
+2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
+
+2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in
+the transgression.
+
+2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they
+continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
+
+3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he
+desireth a good work.
+
+3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,
+vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to
+teach; 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
+but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 3:4 One that ruleth well his
+own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 3:5
+(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take
+care of the church of God?) 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up
+with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
+
+3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without;
+lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
+
+3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given
+to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; 3:9 Holding the mystery of
+the faith in a pure conscience.
+
+3:10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office
+of a deacon, being found blameless.
+
+3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober,
+faithful in all things.
+
+3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their
+children and their own houses well.
+
+3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to
+themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in
+Christ Jesus.
+
+3:14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
+3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to
+behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living
+God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
+
+3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God
+was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels,
+preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into
+glory.
+
+4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some
+shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
+doctrines of devils; 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
+conscience seared with a hot iron; 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and
+commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be
+received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
+
+4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if
+it be received with thanksgiving: 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word
+of God and prayer.
+
+4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou
+shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of
+faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
+
+4:7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself
+rather unto godliness.
+
+4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable
+unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that
+which is to come.
+
+4:9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
+
+4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we
+trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of
+those that believe.
+
+4:11 These things command and teach.
+
+4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the
+believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith,
+in purity.
+
+4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to
+doctrine.
+
+4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by
+prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
+
+4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy
+profiting may appear to all.
+
+4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them:
+for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear
+thee.
+
+5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger
+men as brethren; 5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as
+sisters, with all purity.
+
+5:3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.
+
+5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to
+shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and
+acceptable before God.
+
+5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and
+continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
+
+5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
+
+5:7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
+
+5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his
+own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
+
+5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years
+old, having been the wife of one man.
+
+5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children,
+if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if
+she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every
+good work.
+
+5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax
+wanton against Christ, they will marry; 5:12 Having damnation, because
+they have cast off their first faith.
+
+5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
+house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking
+things which they ought not.
+
+5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children,
+guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak
+reproachfully.
+
+5:15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
+
+5:16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve
+them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that
+are widows indeed.
+
+5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour,
+especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
+
+5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that
+treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
+
+5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or
+three witnesses.
+
+5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
+
+5:21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
+elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one
+before another, doing nothing by partiality.
+
+5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s
+sins: keep thyself pure.
+
+5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s
+sake and thine often infirmities.
+
+5:24 Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment;
+and some men they follow after.
+
+5:25 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and
+they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
+
+6:1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters
+worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not
+blasphemed.
+
+6:2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them,
+because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they
+are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach
+and exhort.
+
+6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words,
+even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is
+according to godliness; 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting
+about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife,
+railings, evil surmisings, 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt
+minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness:
+from such withdraw thyself.
+
+6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
+
+6:7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can
+carry nothing out.
+
+6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
+
+6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and
+into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction
+and perdition.
+
+6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
+coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves
+through with many sorrows.
+
+6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after
+righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
+
+6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life,
+whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession
+before many witnesses.
+
+6:13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all
+things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a
+good confession; 6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot,
+unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: 6:15 Which
+in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the
+King of kings, and Lord of lords; 6:16 Who only hath immortality,
+dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath
+seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
+
+6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not
+highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who
+giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 6:18 That they do good, that
+they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to
+communicate; 6:19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation
+against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
+
+6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding
+profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so
+called: 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
+Grace be with thee. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
+
+
+1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to
+the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 1:2 To Timothy,
+my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father
+and Christ Jesus our Lord.
+
+1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure
+conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my
+prayers night and day; 1:4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful
+of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; 1:5 When I call to
+remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in
+thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that
+in thee also.
+
+1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of
+God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
+
+1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of
+love, and of a sound mind.
+
+1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of
+me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel
+according to the power of God; 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us
+with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his
+own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the
+world began, 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our
+Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life
+and immortality to light through the gospel: 1:11 Whereunto I am
+appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
+
+1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am
+not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he
+is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
+
+1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me,
+in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
+
+1:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy
+Ghost which dwelleth in us.
+
+1:15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away
+from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
+
+1:16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft
+refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: 1:17 But, when he was
+in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
+
+1:18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in
+that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus,
+thou knowest very well.
+
+2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ
+Jesus.
+
+2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses,
+the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach
+others also.
+
+2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
+
+2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this
+life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
+
+2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,
+except he strive lawfully.
+
+2:6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the
+fruits.
+
+2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all
+things.
+
+2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from
+the dead according to my gospel: 2:9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an
+evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
+
+2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they
+may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal
+glory.
+
+2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall
+also live with him: 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:
+if we deny him, he also will deny us: 2:13 If we believe not, yet he
+abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
+
+2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the
+Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the
+subverting of the hearers.
+
+2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth
+not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
+
+2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto
+more ungodliness.
+
+2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus
+and Philetus; 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that
+the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
+
+2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this
+seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that
+nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
+
+2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of
+silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to
+dishonour.
+
+2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel
+unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared
+unto every good work.
+
+2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith,
+charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
+
+2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do
+gender strifes.
+
+2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto
+all men, apt to teach, patient, 2:25 In meekness instructing those
+that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance
+to the acknowledging of the truth; 2:26 And that they may recover
+themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him
+at his will.
+
+3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
+
+3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
+proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3:3
+Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
+fierce, despisers of those that are good, 3:4 Traitors, heady,
+highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 3:5 Having a
+form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
+
+3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead
+captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 3:7
+Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
+
+3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist
+the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
+
+3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be
+manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
+
+3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose,
+faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 3:11 Persecutions,
+afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra;
+what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered
+me.
+
+3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
+persecution.
+
+3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving,
+and being deceived.
+
+3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast
+been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 3:15 And that
+from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to
+make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
+
+3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
+for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
+righteousness: 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly
+furnished unto all good works.
+
+4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who
+shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
+4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,
+rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
+
+4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
+but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
+having itching ears; 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the
+truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
+
+4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of
+an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
+
+4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is
+at hand.
+
+4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
+the faith: 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
+righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at
+that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his
+appearing.
+
+4:9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: 4:10 For Demas hath
+forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto
+Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
+
+4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he
+is profitable to me for the ministry.
+
+4:12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.
+
+4:13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest,
+bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
+
+4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him
+according to his works: 4:15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath
+greatly withstood our words.
+
+4:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me:
+I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
+
+4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that
+by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles
+might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
+
+4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will
+preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and
+ever. Amen.
+
+4:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
+
+4:20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum
+sick.
+
+4:21 Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee,
+and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
+
+4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.
+Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Titus
+
+
+1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according
+to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which
+is after godliness; 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that
+cannot lie, promised before the world began; 1:3 But hath in due times
+manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me
+according to the commandment of God our Saviour; 1:4 To Titus, mine
+own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the
+Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
+
+1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in
+order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as
+I had appointed thee: 1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one
+wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
+
+1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not
+selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given
+to filthy lucre; 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men,
+sober, just, holy, temperate; 1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he
+hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort
+and to convince the gainsayers.
+
+1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers,
+specially they of the circumcision: 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped,
+who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for
+filthy lucre’s sake.
+
+1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The
+Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
+
+1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they
+may be sound in the faith; 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and
+commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
+
+1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled
+and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is
+defiled.
+
+1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him,
+being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
+
+2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 2:2 That
+the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity,
+in patience.
+
+2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh
+holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good
+things; 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love
+their husbands, to love their children, 2:5 To be discreet, chaste,
+keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word
+of God be not blasphemed.
+
+2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
+
+2:7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine
+shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 2:8 Sound speech, that
+cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be
+ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
+
+2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to
+please them well in all things; not answering again; 2:10 Not
+purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the
+doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
+
+2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all
+men, 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
+should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
+2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the
+great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 2:14 Who gave himself for us,
+that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a
+peculiar people, zealous of good works.
+
+2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority.
+Let no man despise thee.
+
+3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to
+obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 3:2 To speak evil of
+no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all
+men.
+
+3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
+deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and
+envy, hateful, and hating one another.
+
+3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man
+appeared, 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
+according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration,
+and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly
+through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 3:7 That being justified by his
+grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
+
+3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou
+affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be
+careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable
+unto men.
+
+3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and
+strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
+
+3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition
+reject; 3:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth,
+being condemned of himself.
+
+3:12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to
+come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
+
+3:13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently,
+that nothing be wanting unto them.
+
+3:14 And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary
+uses, that they be not unfruitful.
+
+3:15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the
+faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon
+
+
+1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto
+Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, 1:2 And to our
+beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in
+thy house: 1:3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the
+Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+1:4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, 1:5
+Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus,
+and toward all saints; 1:6 That the communication of thy faith may
+become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in
+you in Christ Jesus.
+
+1:7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the
+bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
+
+1:8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee
+that which is convenient, 1:9 Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech
+thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of
+Jesus Christ.
+
+1:10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my
+bonds: 1:11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now
+profitable to thee and to me: 1:12 Whom I have sent again: thou
+therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: 1:13 Whom I would
+have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto
+me in the bonds of the gospel: 1:14 But without thy mind would I do
+nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but
+willingly.
+
+1:15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou
+shouldest receive him for ever; 1:16 Not now as a servant, but above a
+servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto
+thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? 1:17 If thou count me
+therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
+
+1:18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine
+account; 1:19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay
+it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own
+self besides.
+
+1:20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my
+bowels in the Lord.
+
+1:21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing
+that thou wilt also do more than I say.
+
+1:22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through
+your prayers I shall be given unto you.
+
+1:23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;
+1:24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
+
+1:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews
+
+
+1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past
+unto the fathers by the prophets, 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken
+unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom
+also he made the worlds; 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory,
+and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the
+word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on
+the right hand of the Majesty on high: 1:4 Being made so much better
+than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent
+name than they.
+
+1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son,
+this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father,
+and he shall be to me a Son? 1:6 And again, when he bringeth in the
+firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God
+worship him.
+
+1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his
+ministers a flame of fire.
+
+1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and
+ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
+
+1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God,
+even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
+fellows.
+
+1:10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the
+earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: 1:11 They shall
+perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a
+garment; 1:12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall
+be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
+
+1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right
+hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? 1:14 Are they not all
+ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be
+heirs of salvation? 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest
+heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let
+them slip.
+
+2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every
+transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
+2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at
+the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by
+them that heard him; 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with
+signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy
+Ghost, according to his own will? 2:5 For unto the angels hath he not
+put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
+
+2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that
+thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?
+2:7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him
+with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
+2:8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that
+he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put
+under him.
+
+But now we see not yet all things put under him.
+
+2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for
+the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the
+grace of God should taste death for every man.
+
+2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all
+things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their
+salvation perfect through sufferings.
+
+2:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all
+of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 2:12
+Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the
+church will I sing praise unto thee.
+
+2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and
+the children which God hath given me.
+
+2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
+he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he
+might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
+2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
+lifetime subject to bondage.
+
+2:16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took
+on him the seed of Abraham.
+
+2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his
+brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in
+things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the
+people.
+
+2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to
+succour them that are tempted.
+
+3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
+consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
+3:2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was
+faithful in all his house.
+
+3:3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch
+as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
+
+3:4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all
+things is God.
+
+3:5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for
+a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 3:6 But
+Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold
+fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
+
+3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his
+voice, 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day
+of temptation in the wilderness: 3:9 When your fathers tempted me,
+proved me, and saw my works forty years.
+
+3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do
+alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
+
+3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 3:12
+Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
+unbelief, in departing from the living God.
+
+3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any
+of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
+
+3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of
+our confidence stedfast unto the end; 3:15 While it is said, To day if
+ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
+
+3:16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that
+came out of Egypt by Moses.
+
+3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them
+that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 3:18 And to
+whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them
+that believed not? 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in
+because of unbelief.
+
+4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering
+into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
+
+4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the
+word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them
+that heard it.
+
+4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I
+have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the
+works were finished from the foundation of the world.
+
+4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise,
+And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
+
+4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
+
+4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and
+they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
+4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after
+so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice,
+harden not your hearts.
+
+4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have
+spoken of another day.
+
+4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
+
+4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from
+his own works, as God did from his.
+
+4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man
+fall after the same example of unbelief.
+
+4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
+twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
+spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
+thoughts and intents of the heart.
+
+4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight:
+but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we
+have to do.
+
+4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into
+the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
+
+4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the
+feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we
+are, yet without sin.
+
+4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
+may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
+
+5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in
+things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices
+for sins: 5:2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them
+that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with
+infirmity.
+
+5:3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for
+himself, to offer for sins.
+
+5:4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called
+of God, as was Aaron.
+
+5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest;
+but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten
+thee.
+
+5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever
+after the order of Melchisedec.
+
+5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and
+supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to
+save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 5:8 Though he
+were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
+5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation
+unto all them that obey him; 5:10 Called of God an high priest after
+the order of Melchisedec.
+
+5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,
+seeing ye are dull of hearing.
+
+5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that
+one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of
+God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
+
+5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of
+righteousness: for he is a babe.
+
+5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even
+those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both
+good and evil.
+
+6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us
+go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance
+from dead works, and of faith toward God, 6:2 Of the doctrine of
+baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead,
+and of eternal judgment.
+
+6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.
+
+6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have
+tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy
+Ghost, 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the
+world to come, 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
+repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh,
+and put him to an open shame.
+
+6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it,
+and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed,
+receiveth blessing from God: 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and
+briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be
+burned.
+
+6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things
+that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
+
+6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of
+love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered
+to the saints, and do minister.
+
+6:11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to
+the full assurance of hope unto the end: 6:12 That ye be not slothful,
+but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
+promises.
+
+6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by
+no greater, he sware by himself, 6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will
+bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
+
+6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
+
+6:16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation
+is to them an end of all strife.
+
+6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
+promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 6:18
+That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to
+lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to
+lay hold upon the hope set before us: 6:19 Which hope we have as an
+anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into
+that within the veil; 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered,
+even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of
+Melchisedec.
+
+7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God,
+who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed
+him; 7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by
+interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of
+Salem, which is, King of peace; 7:3 Without father, without mother,
+without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life;
+but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
+
+7:4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch
+Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
+
+7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the
+office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the
+people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they
+come out of the loins of Abraham: 7:6 But he whose descent is not
+counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had
+the promises.
+
+7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
+
+7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them,
+of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
+
+7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes
+in Abraham.
+
+7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met
+him.
+
+7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for
+under it the people received the law,) what further need was there
+that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and
+not be called after the order of Aaron? 7:12 For the priesthood being
+changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
+
+7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another
+tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
+
+7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which
+tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
+
+7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of
+Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, 7:16 Who is made, not after
+the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless
+life.
+
+7:17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
+Melchisedec.
+
+7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going
+before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
+
+7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
+hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
+
+7:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: 7:21 (For
+those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him
+that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a
+priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) 7:22 By so much was
+Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
+
+7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered
+to continue by reason of death: 7:24 But this man, because he
+continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
+
+7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come
+unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
+
+7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,
+undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
+7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up
+sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this
+he did once, when he offered up himself.
+
+7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the
+word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is
+consecrated for evermore.
+
+8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have
+such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the
+Majesty in the heavens; 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the
+true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
+
+8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:
+wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to
+offer.
+
+8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that
+there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 8:5 Who serve
+unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was
+admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See,
+saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to
+thee in the mount.
+
+8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much
+also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established
+upon better promises.
+
+8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no
+place have been sought for the second.
+
+8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come,
+saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of
+Israel and with the house of Judah: 8:9 Not according to the covenant
+that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand
+to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in
+my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
+
+8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
+Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their
+mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and
+they shall be to me a people: 8:11 And they shall not teach every man
+his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for
+all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
+
+8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins
+and their iniquities will I remember no more.
+
+8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now
+that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
+
+9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine
+service, and a worldly sanctuary.
+
+9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the
+candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the
+sanctuary.
+
+9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the
+Holiest of all; 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the
+covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot
+that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the
+covenant; 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the
+mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
+
+9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always
+into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
+
+9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year,
+not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of
+the people: 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the
+holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
+tabernacle was yet standing: 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then
+present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could
+not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
+conscience; 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers
+washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of
+reformation.
+
+9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a
+greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to
+say, not of this building; 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and
+calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
+having obtained eternal redemption for us.
+
+9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
+heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the
+flesh: 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
+eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
+conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 9:15 And for this
+cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death,
+for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first
+testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal
+inheritance.
+
+9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the
+death of the testator.
+
+9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is
+of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
+
+9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
+blood.
+
+9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people
+according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with
+water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and
+all the people, 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which
+God hath enjoined unto you.
+
+9:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the
+vessels of the ministry.
+
+9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
+without shedding of blood is no remission.
+
+9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the
+heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
+themselves with better sacrifices than these.
+
+9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
+which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to
+appear in the presence of God for us: 9:25 Nor yet that he should
+offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place
+every year with blood of others; 9:26 For then must he often have
+suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of
+the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
+himself.
+
+9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the
+judgment: 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;
+and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time
+without sin unto salvation.
+
+10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the
+very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they
+offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
+
+10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that
+the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of
+sins.
+
+10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins
+every year.
+
+10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats
+should take away sins.
+
+10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and
+offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 10:6 In
+burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
+
+10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written
+of me,) to do thy will, O God.
+
+10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings
+and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure
+therein; which are offered by the law; 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come
+to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish
+the second.
+
+10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the
+body of Jesus Christ once for all.
+
+10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering
+oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 10:12
+But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
+sat down on the right hand of God; 10:13 From henceforth expecting
+till his enemies be made his footstool.
+
+10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
+sanctified.
+
+10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that
+he had said before, 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with
+them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their
+hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 10:17 And their sins and
+iniquities will I remember no more.
+
+10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
+sin.
+
+10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
+by the blood of Jesus, 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath
+consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 10:21
+And having an high priest over the house of God; 10:22 Let us draw
+near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
+sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure
+water.
+
+10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;
+(for he is faithful that promised;) 10:24 And let us consider one
+another to provoke unto love and to good works: 10:25 Not forsaking
+the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but
+exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day
+approaching.
+
+10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge
+of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 10:27 But a
+certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which
+shall devour the adversaries.
+
+10:28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or
+three witnesses: 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall
+he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and
+hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified,
+an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
+10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I
+will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his
+people.
+
+10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
+
+10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were
+illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; 10:33 Partly,
+whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions;
+and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
+
+10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the
+spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a
+better and an enduring substance.
+
+10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
+recompence of reward.
+
+10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will
+of God, ye might receive the promise.
+
+10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and
+will not tarry.
+
+10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my
+soul shall have no pleasure in him.
+
+10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them
+that believe to the saving of the soul.
+
+11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
+things not seen.
+
+11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
+
+11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
+word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things
+which do appear.
+
+11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
+Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God
+testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
+
+11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and
+was not found, because God had translated him: for before his
+translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
+
+11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that
+cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
+them that diligently seek him.
+
+11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
+moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the
+which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness
+which is by faith.
+
+11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which
+he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out,
+not knowing whither he went.
+
+11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange
+country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with
+him of the same promise: 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath
+foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
+
+11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive
+seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she
+judged him faithful who had promised.
+
+11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so
+many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by
+the sea shore innumerable.
+
+11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but
+having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced
+them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the
+earth.
+
+11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a
+country.
+
+11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence
+they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
+
+11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
+wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath
+prepared for them a city.
+
+11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he
+that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 11:18
+Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 11:19
+Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from
+whence also he received him in a figure.
+
+11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
+
+11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of
+Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
+
+11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of
+the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
+
+11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his
+parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not
+afraid of the king’s commandment.
+
+11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called
+the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer
+affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
+for a season; 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches
+than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of
+the reward.
+
+11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king:
+for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
+
+11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood,
+lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
+
+11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which
+the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
+
+11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were
+compassed about seven days.
+
+11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed
+not, when she had received the spies with peace.
+
+11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of
+Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also,
+and Samuel, and of the prophets: 11:33 Who through faith subdued
+kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths
+of lions.
+
+11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
+out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to
+flight the armies of the aliens.
+
+11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were
+tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better
+resurrection: 11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and
+scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 11:37 They were
+stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the
+sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being
+destitute, afflicted, tormented; 11:38 (Of whom the world was not
+worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and
+caves of the earth.
+
+11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,
+received not the promise: 11:40 God having provided some better thing
+for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
+
+12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
+cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which
+doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is
+set before us, 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
+faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
+despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne
+of God.
+
+12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
+against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
+
+12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
+
+12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as
+unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
+nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth
+he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
+
+12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for
+what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 12:8 But if ye be
+without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards,
+and not sons.
+
+12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us,
+and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection
+unto the Father of spirits, and live? 12:10 For they verily for a few
+days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit,
+that we might be partakers of his holiness.
+
+12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
+grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
+righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
+
+12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble
+knees; 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is
+lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
+
+12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man
+shall see the Lord: 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the
+grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you,
+and thereby many be defiled; 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or
+profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his
+birthright.
+
+12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the
+blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though
+he sought it carefully with tears.
+
+12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and
+that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
+12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice
+they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them
+any more: 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded,
+And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or
+thrust through with a dart: 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that
+Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 12:22 But ye are come unto
+mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly
+Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 12:23 To the
+general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in
+heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men
+made perfect, 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and
+to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of
+Abel.
+
+12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped
+not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we
+escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 12:26
+Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying,
+Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
+
+12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those
+things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things
+which cannot be shaken may remain.
+
+12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
+have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and
+godly fear: 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
+
+13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
+
+13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have
+entertained angels unawares.
+
+13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them
+which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
+
+13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
+whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
+
+13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content
+with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave
+thee, nor forsake thee.
+
+13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not
+fear what man shall do unto me.
+
+13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto
+you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their
+conversation.
+
+13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
+
+13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is
+a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats,
+which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
+
+13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve
+the tabernacle.
+
+13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the
+sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
+
+13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his
+own blood, suffered without the gate.
+
+13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his
+reproach.
+
+13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
+
+13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
+continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
+
+13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such
+sacrifices God is well pleased.
+
+13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves:
+for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that
+they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable
+for you.
+
+13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all
+things willing to live honestly.
+
+13:19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored
+to you the sooner.
+
+13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord
+Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
+everlasting covenant, 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do
+his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight,
+through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
+
+13:22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for
+I have written a letter unto you in few words.
+
+13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom,
+if he come shortly, I will see you.
+
+13:24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints.
+
+They of Italy salute you.
+
+13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The General Epistle of James
+
+
+1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
+to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
+
+1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
+temptations; 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
+patience.
+
+1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
+entire, wanting nothing.
+
+1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all
+men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
+
+1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth
+is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
+
+1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the
+Lord.
+
+1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
+
+1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 1:10
+But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the
+grass he shall pass away.
+
+1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it
+withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of
+the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in
+his ways.
+
+1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
+tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
+promised to them that love him.
+
+1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God
+cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 1:14 But
+every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
+enticed.
+
+1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
+when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
+
+1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
+
+1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh
+down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
+shadow of turning.
+
+1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
+should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
+
+1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,
+slow to speak, slow to wrath: 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not
+the righteousness of God.
+
+1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
+naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is
+able to save your souls.
+
+1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your
+own selves.
+
+1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
+unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 1:24 For he
+beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what
+manner of man he was.
+
+1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
+therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
+man shall be blessed in his deed.
+
+1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
+tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
+
+1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To
+visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
+himself unspotted from the world.
+
+2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord
+of glory, with respect of persons.
+
+2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in
+goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 2:3
+And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto
+him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou
+there, or sit here under my footstool: 2:4 Are ye not then partial in
+yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? 2:5 Hearken, my
+beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in
+faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that
+love him? 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress
+you, and draw you before the judgment seats? 2:7 Do not they
+blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? 2:8 If ye
+fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy
+neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 2:9 But if ye have respect to
+persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
+
+2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one
+point, he is guilty of all.
+
+2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill.
+Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a
+transgressor of the law.
+
+2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law
+of liberty.
+
+2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no
+mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
+
+2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith,
+and have not works? can faith save him? 2:15 If a brother or sister
+be naked, and destitute of daily food, 2:16 And one of you say unto
+them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye
+give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it
+profit? 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being
+alone.
+
+2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me
+thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my
+works.
+
+2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils
+also believe, and tremble.
+
+2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
+2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had
+offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 2:22 Seest thou how faith
+wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 2:23 And
+the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it
+was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend
+of God.
+
+2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by
+faith only.
+
+2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when
+she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
+2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
+works is dead also.
+
+3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive
+the greater condemnation.
+
+3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word,
+the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
+
+3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us;
+and we turn about their whole body.
+
+3:4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are
+driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small
+helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
+
+3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
+
+Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 3:6 And the tongue
+is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members,
+that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of
+nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
+
+3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of
+things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 3:8 But
+the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly
+poison.
+
+3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we
+men, which are made after the similitude of God.
+
+3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My
+brethren, these things ought not so to be.
+
+3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and
+bitter? 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
+either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and
+fresh.
+
+3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him
+shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
+
+3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory
+not, and lie not against the truth.
+
+3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual,
+devilish.
+
+3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every
+evil work.
+
+3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable,
+gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits,
+without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
+
+3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make
+peace.
+
+4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not
+hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 4:2 Ye lust, and
+have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and
+war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
+
+4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume
+it upon your lusts.
+
+4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of
+the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
+the world is the enemy of God.
+
+4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
+dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 4:6 But he giveth more grace.
+Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
+humble.
+
+4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
+flee from you.
+
+4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your
+hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
+
+4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
+mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
+
+4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you
+up.
+
+4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of
+his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and
+judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the
+law, but a judge.
+
+4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who
+art thou that judgest another? 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or
+to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and
+buy and sell, and get gain: 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on
+the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth
+for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
+
+4:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do
+this, or that.
+
+4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
+
+4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to
+him it is sin.
+
+5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall
+come upon you.
+
+5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
+
+5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a
+witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have
+heaped treasure together for the last days.
+
+5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your
+fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of
+them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of
+sabaoth.
+
+5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have
+nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
+
+5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
+
+5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
+
+Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth,
+and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter
+rain.
+
+5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the
+Lord draweth nigh.
+
+5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned:
+behold, the judge standeth before the door.
+
+5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of
+the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
+
+5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the
+patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is
+very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
+
+5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven,
+neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be
+yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
+
+5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him
+sing psalms.
+
+5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church;
+and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the
+Lord: 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord
+shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be
+forgiven him.
+
+5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,
+that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
+availeth much.
+
+5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed
+earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by
+the space of three years and six months.
+
+5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth
+brought forth her fruit.
+
+5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert
+him; 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the
+error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a
+multitude of sins.
+
+
+
+
+The First Epistle General of Peter
+
+
+1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered
+throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 1:2 Elect
+according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
+sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the
+blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
+
+1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
+according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively
+hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1:4 To an
+inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
+reserved in heaven for you, 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God
+through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
+
+1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be,
+ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 1:7 That the trial
+of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth,
+though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour
+and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 1:8 Whom having not seen,
+ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice
+with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 1:9 Receiving the end of your
+faith, even the salvation of your souls.
+
+1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched
+diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
+1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which
+was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings
+of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
+
+1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us
+they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them
+that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down
+from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
+
+1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to
+the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation
+of Jesus Christ; 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves
+according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 1:15 But as he which
+hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
+1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
+
+1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons
+judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your
+sojourning here in fear: 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not
+redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
+conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 1:19 But with
+the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without
+spot: 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
+world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 1:21 Who by him
+do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him
+glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
+
+1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through
+the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one
+another with a pure heart fervently: 1:23 Being born again, not of
+corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which
+liveth and abideth for ever.
+
+1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower
+of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
+1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word
+which by the gospel is preached unto you.
+
+2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
+and envies, all evil speakings, 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the
+sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 2:3 If so be ye
+have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
+
+2:4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men,
+but chosen of God, and precious, 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are
+built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
+sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
+
+2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in
+Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on
+him shall not be confounded.
+
+2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them
+which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the
+same is made the head of the corner, 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and
+a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being
+disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
+
+2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
+nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of
+him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
+2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of
+God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
+
+2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain
+from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 2:12 Having your
+conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak
+against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they
+shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
+
+2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake:
+whether it be to the king, as supreme; 2:14 Or unto governors, as unto
+them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the
+praise of them that do well.
+
+2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to
+silence the ignorance of foolish men: 2:16 As free, and not using your
+liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
+
+2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
+
+2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to
+the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
+
+2:19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God
+endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
+
+2:20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye
+shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it,
+ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
+
+2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered
+for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 2:22
+Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 2:23 Who, when
+he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened
+not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 2:24 Who
+his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being
+dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were
+healed.
+
+2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
+Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
+
+3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that,
+if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the
+conversation of the wives; 3:2 While they behold your chaste
+conversation coupled with fear.
+
+3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the
+hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 3:4 But let
+it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible,
+even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of
+God of great price.
+
+3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who
+trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own
+husbands: 3:6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
+daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any
+amazement.
+
+3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
+giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being
+heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not
+hindered.
+
+3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another,
+love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 3:9 Not rendering evil for
+evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that
+ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
+
+3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain
+his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 3:11 Let
+him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
+
+3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are
+open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that
+do evil.
+
+3:13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that
+which is good? 3:14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake,
+happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
+3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to
+give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that
+is in you with meekness and fear: 3:16 Having a good conscience; that,
+whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed
+that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
+
+3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for
+well doing, than for evil doing.
+
+3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the
+unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the
+flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 3:19 By which also he went and
+preached unto the spirits in prison; 3:20 Which sometime were
+disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of
+Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls
+were saved by water.
+
+3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not
+the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
+conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 3:22 Who
+is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and
+authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
+
+4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm
+yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in
+the flesh hath ceased from sin; 4:2 That he no longer should live the
+rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of
+God.
+
+4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the
+will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess
+of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4:4
+Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same
+excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 4:5 Who shall give account to
+him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
+
+4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are
+dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but
+live according to God in the spirit.
+
+4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and
+watch unto prayer.
+
+4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for
+charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
+
+4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
+
+4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same
+one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
+
+4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man
+minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God
+in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise
+and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
+
+4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is
+to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 4:13 But
+rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that,
+when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding
+joy.
+
+4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the
+spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil
+spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
+
+4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an
+evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
+
+4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but
+let him glorify God on this behalf.
+
+4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of
+God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that
+obey not the gospel of God? 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be
+saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 4:19 Wherefore
+let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping
+of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
+
+5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and
+a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the
+glory that shall be revealed: 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among
+you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly;
+not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 5:3 Neither as being lords
+over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
+
+5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown
+of glory that fadeth not away.
+
+5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all
+of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for
+God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
+
+5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he
+may exalt you in due time: 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he
+careth for you.
+
+5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a
+roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 5:9 Whom
+resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are
+accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
+
+5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
+glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you
+perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
+
+5:11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
+
+5:12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have
+written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace
+of God wherein ye stand.
+
+5:13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you,
+saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
+
+5:14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you
+all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Second General Epistle of Peter
+
+
+1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them
+that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
+righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 1:2 Grace and peace
+be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our
+Lord, 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things
+that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him
+that hath called us to glory and virtue: 1:4 Whereby are given unto us
+exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be
+partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is
+in the world through lust.
+
+1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
+and to virtue knowledge; 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to
+temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 1:7 And to godliness
+brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
+
+1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye
+shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
+Jesus Christ.
+
+1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar
+off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
+
+1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
+calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never
+fall: 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
+into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
+
+1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in
+remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established
+in the present truth.
+
+1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir
+you up by putting you in remembrance; 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must
+put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed
+me.
+
+1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to
+have these things always in remembrance.
+
+1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made
+known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were
+eyewitnesses of his majesty.
+
+1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there
+came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved
+Son, in whom I am well pleased.
+
+1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with
+him in the holy mount.
+
+1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well
+that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until
+the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 1:20 Knowing this
+first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private
+interpretation.
+
+1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but
+holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
+
+2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there
+shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
+heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon
+themselves swift destruction.
+
+2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
+way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
+
+2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
+merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
+and their damnation slumbereth not.
+
+2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down
+to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved
+unto judgment; 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the
+eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon
+the world of the ungodly; 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and
+Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an
+ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 2:7 And delivered
+just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 2:8 (For
+that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed
+his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 2:9 The
+Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
+reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 2:10 But
+chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and
+despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not
+afraid to speak evil of dignities.
+
+2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not
+railing accusation against them before the Lord.
+
+2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
+destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and
+shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 2:13 And shall receive
+the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot
+in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves
+with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 2:14 Having eyes
+full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable
+souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed
+children: 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,
+following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of
+unrighteousness; 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
+speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
+
+2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
+tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
+
+2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure
+through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that
+were clean escaped from them who live in error.
+
+2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants
+of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he
+brought in bondage.
+
+2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
+through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are
+again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with
+them than the beginning.
+
+2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
+righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy
+commandment delivered unto them.
+
+2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The
+dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to
+her wallowing in the mire.
+
+3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which
+I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 3:2 That ye may be
+mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets,
+and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3:3
+Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
+walking after their own lusts, 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of
+his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as
+they were from the beginning of the creation.
+
+3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God
+the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and
+in the water: 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed
+with water, perished: 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are
+now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against
+the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
+
+3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is
+with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
+
+3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
+slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
+should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
+
+3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the
+which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
+shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
+therein shall be burned up.
+
+3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner
+of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 3:12
+Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the
+heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt
+with fervent heat? 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise,
+look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
+
+3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
+diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and
+blameless.
+
+3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even
+as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto
+him hath written unto you; 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking
+in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be
+understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they
+do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
+
+3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware
+lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from
+your own stedfastness.
+
+3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
+Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The First Epistle General of John
+
+
+1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
+have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
+handled, of the Word of life; 1:2 (For the life was manifested, and we
+have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life,
+which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 1:3 That which
+we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have
+fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and
+with his Son Jesus Christ.
+
+1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
+
+1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare
+unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
+
+1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
+we lie, and do not the truth: 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he
+is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of
+Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
+
+1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
+is not in us.
+
+1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
+sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
+
+1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his
+word is not in us.
+
+2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin
+not.
+
+And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
+the righteous: 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not
+for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
+
+2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
+commandments.
+
+2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a
+liar, and the truth is not in him.
+
+2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God
+perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
+
+2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk,
+even as he walked.
+
+2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
+commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is
+the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
+
+2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in
+him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now
+shineth.
+
+2:9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in
+darkness even until now.
+
+2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is
+none occasion of stumbling in him.
+
+2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in
+darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath
+blinded his eyes.
+
+2:12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven
+you for his name’s sake.
+
+2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from
+the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome
+the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have
+known the Father.
+
+2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that
+is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye
+are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome
+the wicked one.
+
+2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If
+any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
+
+2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
+of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of
+the world.
+
+2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that
+doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
+
+2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that
+antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we
+know that it is the last time.
+
+2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had
+been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went
+out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
+
+2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
+
+2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but
+because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
+
+2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is
+antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
+
+2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that
+acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
+
+2:24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the
+beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain
+in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
+
+2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal
+life.
+
+2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce
+you.
+
+2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you,
+and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing
+teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as
+it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
+
+2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall
+appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his
+coming.
+
+2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that
+doeth righteousness is born of him.
+
+3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that
+we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us
+not, because it knew him not.
+
+3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
+what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be
+like him; for we shall see him as he is.
+
+3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even
+as he is pure.
+
+3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is
+the transgression of the law.
+
+3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in
+him is no sin.
+
+3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not
+seen him, neither known him.
+
+3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth
+righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
+
+3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from
+the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he
+might destroy the works of the devil.
+
+3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed
+remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
+
+3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the
+devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he
+that loveth not his brother.
+
+3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we
+should love one another.
+
+3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.
+And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his
+brother’s righteous.
+
+3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
+
+3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love
+the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
+
+3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no
+murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
+
+3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life
+for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
+
+3:17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have
+need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth
+the love of God in him? 3:18 My little children, let us not love in
+word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
+
+3:19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our
+hearts before him.
+
+3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and
+knoweth all things.
+
+3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence
+toward God.
+
+3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his
+commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
+
+3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name
+of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us
+commandment.
+
+3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in
+him.
+
+And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath
+given us.
+
+4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
+they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
+world.
+
+4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth
+that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 4:3 And every spirit
+that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of
+God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that
+it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
+
+4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
+greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
+
+4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the
+world heareth them.
+
+4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of
+God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit
+of error.
+
+4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every
+one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
+
+4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
+
+4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
+sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
+him.
+
+4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
+sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
+
+4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
+
+4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
+dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
+
+4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he
+hath given us of his Spirit.
+
+4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to
+be the Saviour of the world.
+
+4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
+dwelleth in him, and he in God.
+
+4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God
+is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
+
+4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the
+day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
+
+4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
+because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in
+love.
+
+4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
+
+4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
+for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love
+God whom he hath not seen? 4:21 And this commandment have we from
+him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
+
+5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and
+every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten
+of him.
+
+5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love
+God, and keep his commandments.
+
+5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and
+his commandments are not grievous.
+
+5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is
+the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
+
+5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that
+Jesus is the Son of God? 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood,
+even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it
+is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
+
+5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
+Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
+
+5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and
+the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
+
+5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater:
+for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
+
+5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself:
+he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth
+not the record that God gave of his Son.
+
+5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life,
+and this life is in his Son.
+
+5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of
+God hath not life.
+
+5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of
+the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that
+ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
+
+5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask
+any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 5:15 And if we know
+that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions
+that we desired of him.
+
+5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he
+shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto
+death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for
+it.
+
+5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
+
+5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is
+begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
+
+5:19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
+wickedness.
+
+5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an
+understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him
+that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
+eternal life.
+
+5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Second Epistle General of John
+
+
+1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in
+the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the
+truth; 1:2 For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be
+with us for ever.
+
+1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from
+the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
+
+1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth,
+as we have received a commandment from the Father.
+
+1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new
+commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that
+we love one another.
+
+1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the
+commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk
+in it.
+
+1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not
+that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an
+antichrist.
+
+1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have
+wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
+
+1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
+Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he
+hath both the Father and the Son.
+
+1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive
+him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 1:11 For he that
+biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
+
+1:12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with
+paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face,
+that our joy may be full.
+
+1:13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Third Epistle General of John
+
+
+1:1 The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
+
+1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be
+in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
+
+1:3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of
+the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
+
+1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
+
+1:5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the
+brethren, and to strangers; 1:6 Which have borne witness of thy
+charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey
+after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: 1:7 Because that for his
+name’s sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
+
+1:8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers
+to the truth.
+
+1:9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the
+preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
+
+1:10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth,
+prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith,
+neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that
+would, and casteth them out of the church.
+
+1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good.
+He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen
+God.
+
+1:12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself:
+yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.
+
+1:13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write
+unto thee: 1:14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall
+speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet
+the friends by name.
+
+
+
+
+The General Epistle of Jude
+
+
+1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them
+that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ,
+and called: 1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
+
+1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
+salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you
+that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once
+delivered unto the saints.
+
+1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of
+old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of
+our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
+Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
+how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
+afterward destroyed them that believed not.
+
+1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their
+own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
+unto the judgment of the great day.
+
+1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like
+manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange
+flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of
+eternal fire.
+
+1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
+dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
+
+1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he
+disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a
+railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
+
+1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but
+what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
+corrupt themselves.
+
+1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran
+greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the
+gainsaying of Core.
+
+1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with
+you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water,
+carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
+twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 1:13 Raging waves of the sea,
+foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the
+blackness of darkness for ever.
+
+1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
+saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 1:15
+To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
+among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
+committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have
+spoken against him.
+
+1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts;
+and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in
+admiration because of advantage.
+
+1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of
+the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1:18 How that they told you
+there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their
+own ungodly lusts.
+
+1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the
+Spirit.
+
+1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
+praying in the Holy Ghost, 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God,
+looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
+
+1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 1:23 And others
+save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment
+spotted by the flesh.
+
+1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
+present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding
+joy, 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty,
+dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
+
+
+
+
+The Revelation of Saint John the Divine
+
+
+1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew
+unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent
+and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 1:2 Who bare
+record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and
+of all things that he saw.
+
+1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this
+prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the
+time is at hand.
+
+1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you,
+and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and
+from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; 1:5 And from Jesus
+Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the
+dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved
+us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 1:6 And hath made us
+kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and
+dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
+
+1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and
+they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail
+because of him. Even so, Amen.
+
+1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the
+Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
+
+1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation,
+and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that
+is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus
+Christ.
+
+1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a
+great voice, as of a trumpet, 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the
+first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it
+unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto
+Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and
+unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
+
+1:12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being
+turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 1:13 And in the midst of the
+seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a
+garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden
+girdle.
+
+1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow;
+and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 1:15 And his feet like unto fine
+brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of
+many waters.
+
+1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth
+went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun
+shineth in his strength.
+
+1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his
+right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the
+last: 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive
+for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
+
+1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are,
+and the things which shall be hereafter; 1:20 The mystery of the seven
+stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden
+candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches:
+and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
+
+2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith
+he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the
+midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2:2 I know thy works, and thy
+labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are
+evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are
+not, and hast found them liars: 2:3 And hast borne, and hast patience,
+and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
+
+2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left
+thy first love.
+
+2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do
+the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will
+remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
+
+2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the
+Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
+
+2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
+churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of
+life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
+
+2:8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things
+saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; 2:9 I know
+thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I
+know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but
+are the synagogue of Satan.
+
+2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the
+devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye
+shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I
+will give thee a crown of life.
+
+2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
+churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
+
+2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things
+saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; 2:13 I know thy
+works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou
+holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days
+wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where
+Satan dwelleth.
+
+2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there
+them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a
+stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed
+unto idols, and to commit fornication.
+
+2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the
+Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
+
+2:16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight
+against them with the sword of my mouth.
+
+2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
+churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden
+manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name
+written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
+
+2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things
+saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and
+his feet are like fine brass; 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and
+service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to
+be more than the first.
+
+2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou
+sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to
+teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat
+things sacrificed unto idols.
+
+2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she
+repented not.
+
+2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery
+with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
+
+2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches
+shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I
+will give unto every one of you according to your works.
+
+2:24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as
+have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan,
+as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
+
+2:25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
+
+2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him
+will I give power over the nations: 2:27 And he shall rule them with a
+rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to
+shivers: even as I received of my Father.
+
+2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
+
+2:29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
+churches.
+
+3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things
+saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I
+know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
+
+3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are
+ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
+
+3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold
+fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on
+thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon
+thee.
+
+3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their
+garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
+
+3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;
+and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will
+confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
+
+3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
+churches.
+
+3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things
+saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David,
+he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man
+openeth; 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open
+door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and
+hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
+
+3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they
+are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come
+and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
+
+3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep
+thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world,
+to try them that dwell upon the earth.
+
+3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no
+man take thy crown.
+
+3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God,
+and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my
+God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which
+cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my
+new name.
+
+3:13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
+churches.
+
+3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These
+things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of
+the creation of God; 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold
+nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
+
+3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
+will spue thee out of my mouth.
+
+3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and
+have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
+miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 3:18 I counsel thee to buy
+of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white
+raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
+nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that
+thou mayest see.
+
+3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore,
+and repent.
+
+3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice,
+and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and
+he with me.
+
+3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne,
+even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
+
+3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
+churches.
+
+4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and
+the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
+me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must
+be hereafter.
+
+4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set
+in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
+
+4:3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine
+stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like
+unto an emerald.
+
+4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon
+the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white
+raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
+
+4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and
+voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne,
+which are the seven Spirits of God.
+
+4:6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal:
+and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four
+beasts full of eyes before and behind.
+
+4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a
+calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast
+was like a flying eagle.
+
+4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they
+were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying,
+Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to
+come.
+
+4:9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that
+sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 4:10 The four and
+twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship
+him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the
+throne, saying, 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
+honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy
+pleasure they are and were created.
+
+5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book
+written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
+
+5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is
+worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 5:3 And no
+man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open
+the book, neither to look thereon.
+
+5:4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to
+read the book, neither to look thereon.
+
+5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of
+the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book,
+and to loose the seven seals thereof.
+
+5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
+beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been
+slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits
+of God sent forth into all the earth.
+
+5:7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that
+sat upon the throne.
+
+5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and
+twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them
+harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of
+saints.
+
+5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
+book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
+redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and
+people, and nation; 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and
+priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
+
+5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about
+the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was
+ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 5:12
+Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive
+power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory,
+and blessing.
+
+5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and
+under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
+heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto
+him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
+
+5:14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders
+fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
+
+6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as
+it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and
+see.
+
+6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a
+bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and
+to conquer.
+
+6:3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast
+say, Come and see.
+
+6:4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given
+to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they
+should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
+
+6:5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast
+say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat
+on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
+
+6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure
+of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and
+see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
+
+6:7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the
+fourth beast say, Come and see.
+
+6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on
+him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto
+them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with
+hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
+
+6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
+souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the
+testimony which they held: 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice,
+saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and
+avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 6:11 And white
+robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them,
+that they should rest yet for a little season, until their
+fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they
+were, should be fulfilled.
+
+6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there
+was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
+and the moon became as blood; 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto
+the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is
+shaken of a mighty wind.
+
+6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together;
+and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
+
+6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men,
+and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and
+every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
+mountains; 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and
+hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the
+wrath of the Lamb: 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and
+who shall be able to stand? 7:1 And after these things I saw four
+angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four
+winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on
+the sea, nor on any tree.
+
+7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal
+of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels,
+to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 7:3 Saying, Hurt
+not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the
+servants of our God in their foreheads.
+
+7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were
+sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the
+children of Israel.
+
+7:5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
+Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed
+twelve thousand.
+
+7:6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
+Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were
+sealed twelve thousand.
+
+7:7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe
+of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were
+sealed twelve thousand.
+
+7:8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe
+of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were
+sealed twelve thousand.
+
+7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
+could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,
+stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white
+robes, and palms in their hands; 7:10 And cried with a loud voice,
+saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto
+the Lamb.
+
+7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the
+elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces,
+and worshipped God, 7:12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and
+wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto
+our God for ever and ever. Amen.
+
+7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these
+which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 7:14 And I
+said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they
+which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and
+made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
+
+7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day
+and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell
+among them.
+
+7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall
+the sun light on them, nor any heat.
+
+7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them,
+and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall
+wipe away all tears from their eyes.
+
+8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
+heaven about the space of half an hour.
+
+8:2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them
+were given seven trumpets.
+
+8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden
+censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should
+offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which
+was before the throne.
+
+8:4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the
+saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
+
+8:5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the
+altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and
+thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
+
+8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared
+themselves to sound.
+
+8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled
+with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of
+trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
+
+8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain
+burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea
+became blood; 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were in
+the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were
+destroyed.
+
+8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from
+heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of
+the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 8:11 And the name of the
+star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became
+wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made
+bitter.
+
+8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was
+smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the
+stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone
+not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
+
+8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of
+heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of
+the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three
+angels, which are yet to sound! 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and
+I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the
+key of the bottomless pit.
+
+9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of
+the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were
+darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
+
+9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto
+them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
+
+9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of
+the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those
+men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
+
+9:5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that
+they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the
+torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
+
+9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and
+shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
+
+9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto
+battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their
+faces were as the faces of men.
+
+9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as
+the teeth of lions.
+
+9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and
+the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses
+running to battle.
+
+9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in
+their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
+
+9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the
+bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the
+Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
+
+9:12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
+
+9:13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four
+horns of the golden altar which is before God, 9:14 Saying to the
+sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are
+bound in the great river Euphrates.
+
+9:15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour,
+and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
+
+9:16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred
+thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
+
+9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on
+them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and
+the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their
+mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
+
+9:18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and
+by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
+
+9:19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their
+tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do
+hurt.
+
+9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues
+yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not
+worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone,
+and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 9:21 Neither
+repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
+fornication, nor of their thefts.
+
+10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed
+with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it
+were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: 10:2 And he had in his
+hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and
+his left foot on the earth, 10:3 And cried with a loud voice, as when
+a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their
+voices.
+
+10:4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about
+to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up
+those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
+
+10:5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth
+lifted up his hand to heaven, 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for
+ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are,
+and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the
+things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 10:7
+But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin
+to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared
+to his servants the prophets.
+
+10:8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and
+said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the
+angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
+
+10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little
+book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make
+thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
+
+10:10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it
+up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten
+it, my belly was bitter.
+
+10:11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many
+peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
+
+11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel
+stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and
+them that worship therein.
+
+11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure
+it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall
+they tread under foot forty and two months.
+
+11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall
+prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in
+sackcloth.
+
+11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing
+before the God of the earth.
+
+11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their
+mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he
+must in this manner be killed.
+
+11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of
+their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and
+to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
+
+11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that
+ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and
+shall overcome them, and kill them.
+
+11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
+which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
+crucified.
+
+11:9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall
+see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer
+their dead bodies to be put in graves.
+
+11:10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
+make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
+prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
+
+11:11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God
+entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell
+upon them which saw them.
+
+11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come
+up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their
+enemies beheld them.
+
+11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth
+part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
+thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God
+of heaven.
+
+11:14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh
+quickly.
+
+11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in
+heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of
+our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
+
+11:16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their
+seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 11:17 Saying, We
+give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to
+come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast
+reigned.
+
+11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time
+of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give
+reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them
+that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which
+destroy the earth.
+
+11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen
+in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and
+voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
+
+12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with
+the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
+twelve stars: 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in
+birth, and pained to be delivered.
+
+12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great
+red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon
+his heads.
+
+12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did
+cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which
+was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was
+born.
+
+12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations
+with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his
+throne.
+
+12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
+prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two
+hundred and threescore days.
+
+12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
+against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 12:8 And
+prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
+
+12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
+Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out
+into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
+
+12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come
+salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
+his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which
+accused them before our God day and night.
+
+12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word
+of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
+
+12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to
+the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down
+unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a
+short time.
+
+12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he
+persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
+
+12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she
+might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished
+for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
+
+12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the
+woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
+
+12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth,
+and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
+
+12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war
+with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and
+have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
+
+13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out
+of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
+crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
+
+13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet
+were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and
+the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
+
+13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his
+deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
+
+13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast:
+and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who
+is able to make war with him? 13:5 And there was given unto him a
+mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto
+him to continue forty and two months.
+
+13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
+his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
+
+13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to
+overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues,
+and nations.
+
+13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names
+are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the
+foundation of the world.
+
+13:9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
+
+13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that
+killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the
+patience and the faith of the saints.
+
+13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he
+had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
+
+13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,
+and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the
+first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
+
+13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down
+from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 13:14 And deceiveth them
+that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had
+power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on
+the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the
+wound by a sword, and did live.
+
+13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that
+the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as
+would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
+
+13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
+and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
+foreheads: 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had
+the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
+
+13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number
+of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six
+hundred threescore and six.
+
+14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with
+him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name
+written in their foreheads.
+
+14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and
+as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers
+harping with their harps: 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song
+before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no
+man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand,
+which were redeemed from the earth.
+
+14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are
+virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
+These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and
+to the Lamb.
+
+14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault
+before the throne of God.
+
+14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the
+everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to
+every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 14:7 Saying with a
+loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his
+judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the
+sea, and the fountains of waters.
+
+14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is
+fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the
+wine of the wrath of her fornication.
+
+14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If
+any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his
+forehead, or in his hand, 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of
+the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of
+his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in
+the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
+14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever:
+and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his
+image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
+
+14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the
+commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
+
+14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed
+are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the
+Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do
+follow them.
+
+14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one
+sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and
+in his hand a sharp sickle.
+
+14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud
+voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap:
+for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is
+ripe.
+
+14:16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth;
+and the earth was reaped.
+
+14:17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he
+also having a sharp sickle.
+
+14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over
+fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle,
+saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the
+vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
+
+14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered
+the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the
+wrath of God.
+
+14:20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came
+out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a
+thousand and six hundred furlongs.
+
+15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven
+angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the
+wrath of God.
+
+15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them
+that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and
+over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of
+glass, having the harps of God.
+
+15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song
+of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God
+Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
+
+15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou
+only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for
+thy judgments are made manifest.
+
+15:5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the
+tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: 15:6 And the seven
+angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in
+pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden
+girdles.
+
+15:7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven
+golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
+
+15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and
+from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the
+seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
+
+16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven
+angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon
+the earth.
+
+16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and
+there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark
+of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
+
+16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it
+became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the
+sea.
+
+16:4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and
+fountains of waters; and they became blood.
+
+16:5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O
+Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged
+thus.
+
+16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou
+hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
+
+16:7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God
+Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
+
+16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power
+was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
+
+16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of
+God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to
+give him glory.
+
+16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the
+beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their
+tongues for pain, 16:11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of
+their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
+
+16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river
+Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the
+kings of the east might be prepared.
+
+16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth
+of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth
+of the false prophet.
+
+16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
+forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather
+them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
+
+16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and
+keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
+
+16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew
+tongue Armageddon.
+
+16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and
+there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne,
+saying, It is done.
+
+16:18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there
+was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth,
+so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
+
+16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities
+of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God,
+to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
+
+16:20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
+
+16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone
+about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the
+plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
+
+17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials,
+and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee
+the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 17:2
+With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the
+inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her
+fornication.
+
+17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I
+saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of
+blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
+
+17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and
+decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup
+in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
+17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE
+GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
+
+17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and
+with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered
+with great admiration.
+
+17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will
+tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth
+her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
+
+17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out
+of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on
+the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of
+life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that
+was, and is not, and yet is.
+
+17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven
+mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
+
+17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the
+other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short
+space.
+
+17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and
+is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
+
+17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have
+received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with
+the beast.
+
+17:13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength
+unto the beast.
+
+17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome
+them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are
+with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
+
+17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the
+whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
+
+17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall
+hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat
+her flesh, and burn her with fire.
+
+17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to
+agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God
+shall be fulfilled.
+
+17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which
+reigneth over the kings of the earth.
+
+18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven,
+having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
+
+18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the
+great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils,
+and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and
+hateful bird.
+
+18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
+fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
+with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
+abundance of her delicacies.
+
+18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
+my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive
+not of her plagues.
+
+18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered
+her iniquities.
+
+18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
+according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
+double.
+
+18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so
+much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a
+queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
+
+18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning,
+and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is
+the Lord God who judgeth her.
+
+18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and
+lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when
+they shall see the smoke of her burning, 18:10 Standing afar off for
+the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon,
+that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
+
+18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her;
+for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 18:12 The merchandise of
+gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen,
+and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner
+vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of
+brass, and iron, and marble, 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and
+ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and
+wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves,
+and souls of men.
+
+18:14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from
+thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from
+thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
+
+18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,
+shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
+18:16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine
+linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious
+stones, and pearls! 18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to
+nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and
+sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18:18 And cried
+when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto
+this great city! 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried,
+weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were
+made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness!
+for in one hour is she made desolate.
+
+18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and
+prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
+
+18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and
+cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city
+Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
+
+18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and
+trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman,
+of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the
+sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 18:23 And
+the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the
+voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all
+in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy
+sorceries were all nations deceived.
+
+18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and
+of all that were slain upon the earth.
+
+19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in
+heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power,
+unto the Lord our God: 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments:
+for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with
+her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her
+hand.
+
+19:3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and
+ever.
+
+19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and
+worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
+
+19:5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all
+ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
+
+19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the
+voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying,
+Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
+
+19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the
+marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
+
+19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,
+clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
+
+19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called
+unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are
+the true sayings of God.
+
+19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See
+thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have
+the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the
+spirit of prophecy.
+
+19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that
+sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he
+doth judge and make war.
+
+19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many
+crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
+
+19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name
+is called The Word of God.
+
+19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white
+horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
+
+19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should
+smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he
+treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
+
+19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING
+OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
+
+19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud
+voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come
+and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 19:18
+That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the
+flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on
+them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and
+great.
+
+19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their
+armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the
+horse, and against his army.
+
+19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that
+wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had
+received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
+These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
+
+19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon
+the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls
+were filled with their flesh.
+
+20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the
+bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
+
+20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the
+Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 20:3 And cast him
+into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him,
+that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years
+should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
+
+20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
+unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
+witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not
+worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark
+upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned
+with Christ a thousand years.
+
+20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years
+were finished. This is the first resurrection.
+
+20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:
+on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of
+God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
+
+20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed
+out of his prison, 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which
+are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them
+together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
+
+20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the
+camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down
+from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
+
+20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire
+and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be
+tormented day and night for ever and ever.
+
+20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from
+whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no
+place for them.
+
+20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the
+books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of
+life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written
+in the books, according to their works.
+
+20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
+hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged
+every man according to their works.
+
+20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the
+second death.
+
+20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast
+into the lake of fire.
+
+21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
+the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
+
+21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
+out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
+
+21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
+tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they
+shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their
+God.
+
+21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
+shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
+there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
+
+21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things
+new.
+
+And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
+
+21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
+beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the
+fountain of the water of life freely.
+
+21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his
+God, and he shall be my son.
+
+21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
+murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all
+liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
+brimstone: which is the second death.
+
+21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the
+seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me,
+saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
+
+21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high
+mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem,
+descending out of heaven from God, 21:11 Having the glory of God: and
+her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper
+stone, clear as crystal; 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had
+twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written
+thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of
+Israel: 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on
+the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
+
+21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the
+names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
+
+21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the
+city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
+
+21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the
+breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand
+furlongs.
+
+The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
+
+21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four
+cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
+
+21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city
+was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
+
+21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with
+all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the
+second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
+21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
+chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a
+chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
+
+21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was
+of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
+transparent glass.
+
+21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the
+Lamb are the temple of it.
+
+21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
+shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the
+light thereof.
+
+21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light
+of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into
+it.
+
+21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there
+shall be no night there.
+
+21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into
+it.
+
+21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that
+defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but
+they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
+
+22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
+proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
+
+22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
+river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits,
+and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for
+the healing of the nations.
+
+22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of
+the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 22:4 And
+they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
+
+22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
+neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they
+shall reign for ever and ever.
+
+22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the
+Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants
+the things which must shortly be done.
+
+22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of
+the prophecy of this book.
+
+22:8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard
+and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which
+shewed me these things.
+
+22:9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy
+fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which
+keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
+
+22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of
+this book: for the time is at hand.
+
+22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is
+filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be
+righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
+
+22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give
+every man according as his work shall be.
+
+22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
+the last.
+
+22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have
+right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the
+city.
+
+22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
+murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
+
+22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in
+the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright
+and morning star.
+
+22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth
+say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let
+him take the water of life freely.
+
+22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
+prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God
+shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 22:19
+And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
+prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and
+out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
+
+22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly.
+Amen.
+
+Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
+
+22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
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+This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
+most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
+whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
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+before using this eBook.
+
+Title: Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
+
+
+Author: Herman Melville
+
+Release date: July 1, 2001 [eBook #2701]
+                Most recently updated: August 18, 2021
+
+Language: English
+
+
+
+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOBY DICK; OR, THE WHALE ***
+
+
+
+
+MOBY-DICK;
+
+or, THE WHALE.
+
+By Herman Melville
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+ETYMOLOGY.
+
+EXTRACTS (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).
+
+CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
+
+CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
+
+CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
+
+CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
+
+CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
+
+CHAPTER 6. The Street.
+
+CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
+
+CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
+
+CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
+
+CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
+
+CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
+
+CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
+
+CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
+
+CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
+
+CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
+
+CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
+
+CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
+
+CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
+
+CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
+
+CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
+
+CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
+
+CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
+
+CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
+
+CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
+
+CHAPTER 25. Postscript.
+
+CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
+
+CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
+
+CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
+
+CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
+
+CHAPTER 30. The Pipe.
+
+CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab.
+
+CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
+
+CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
+
+CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
+
+CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
+
+CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
+
+CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
+
+CHAPTER 38. Dusk.
+
+CHAPTER 39. First Night-Watch.
+
+CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.
+
+CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
+
+CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of the Whale.
+
+CHAPTER 43. Hark!
+
+CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
+
+CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
+
+CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
+
+CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
+
+CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
+
+CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
+
+CHAPTER 50. Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
+
+CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
+
+CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
+
+CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
+
+CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho’s Story.
+
+CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
+
+CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True
+Pictures of Whaling Scenes.
+
+CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in
+Stone; in Mountains; in Stars.
+
+CHAPTER 58. Brit.
+
+CHAPTER 59. Squid.
+
+CHAPTER 60. The Line.
+
+CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
+
+CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
+
+CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
+
+CHAPTER 64. Stubb’s Supper.
+
+CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
+
+CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
+
+CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
+
+CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
+
+CHAPTER 69. The Funeral.
+
+CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
+
+CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam’s Story.
+
+CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
+
+CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk
+over Him.
+
+CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.
+
+CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.
+
+CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
+
+CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
+
+CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
+
+CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
+
+CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
+
+CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
+
+CHAPTER 82. The Honor and Glory of Whaling.
+
+CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
+
+CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
+
+CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
+
+CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
+
+CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
+
+CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
+
+CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
+
+CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
+
+CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
+
+CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
+
+CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
+
+CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
+
+CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.
+
+CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
+
+CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.
+
+CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
+
+CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
+
+CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
+
+CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
+
+CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
+
+CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton.
+
+CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
+
+CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?
+
+CHAPTER 106. Ahab’s Leg.
+
+CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
+
+CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
+
+CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.
+
+CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
+
+CHAPTER 111. The Pacific.
+
+CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
+
+CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
+
+CHAPTER 114. The Gilder.
+
+CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
+
+CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.
+
+CHAPTER 117. The Whale Watch.
+
+CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.
+
+CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
+
+CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch.
+
+CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.
+
+CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.
+
+CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
+
+CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
+
+CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
+
+CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
+
+CHAPTER 127. The Deck.
+
+CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
+
+CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
+
+CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
+
+CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight.
+
+CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
+
+CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
+
+CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
+
+CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
+
+Epilogue
+
+
+
+
+Original Transcriber’s Notes:
+
+
+
+
+
+This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS
+project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg’s archives. The
+proofreaders of this version are indebted to The University of Adelaide
+Library for preserving the Virginia Tech version. The resulting etext
+was compared with a public domain hard copy version of the text.
+
+
+
+
+
+  ETYMOLOGY.
+
+
+  (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School.)
+
+  The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him
+  now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer
+  handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the
+  known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it
+  somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.
+
+  “While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what
+  name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through
+  ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the
+  signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.”
+  —_Hackluyt._
+
+  “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. _hval_. This animal is named from
+  roundness or rolling; for in Dan. _hvalt_ is arched or vaulted.”
+  —_Webster’s Dictionary._
+
+  “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. _Wallen_;
+  A.S. _Walw-ian_, to roll, to wallow.” —_Richardson’s Dictionary._
+
+
+  חו,                 _Hebrew_.
+  ϰητος,              _Greek_.
+  CETUS,              _Latin_.
+  WHŒL,               _Anglo-Saxon_.
+  HVALT,              _Danish_.
+  WAL,                _Dutch_.
+  HWAL,               _Swedish_.
+  WHALE,              _Icelandic_.
+  WHALE,              _English_.
+  BALLENA,            _Spanish_.
+  PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE,    _Fegee_.
+  PEHEE-NUEE-NUEE,    _Erromangoan_.
+
+
+
+  EXTRACTS. (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).
+
+
+
+  It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of
+  a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long
+  Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random
+  allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever,
+  sacred or profane. Therefore you must not, in every case at least,
+  take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in
+  these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As
+  touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here
+  appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as
+  affording a glancing bird’s eye view of what has been promiscuously
+  said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and
+  generations, including our own.
+
+  So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am.
+  Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this
+  world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too
+  rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel
+  poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them
+  bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether
+  unpleasant sadness—Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much the more
+  pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for
+  ever go thankless! Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the
+  Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the
+  royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before
+  are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of
+  long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.
+  Here ye strike but splintered hearts together—there, ye shall strike
+  unsplinterable glasses!
+
+EXTRACTS.
+
+  “And God created great whales.” —_Genesis_.
+
+  “Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep
+  to be hoary.” —_Job_.
+
+  “Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.”
+  —_Jonah_.
+
+  “There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to
+  play therein.” —_Psalms_.
+
+  “In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword,
+  shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that
+  crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.”
+  —_Isaiah_.
+
+  “And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of this
+  monster’s mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all
+  incontinently that foul great swallow of his, and perisheth in the
+  bottomless gulf of his paunch.” —_Holland’s Plutarch’s Morals_.
+
+  “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are:
+  among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as
+  much in length as four acres or arpens of land.” —_Holland’s Pliny_.
+
+  “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a
+  great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the
+  former, one was of a most monstrous size.... This came towards us,
+  open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea
+  before him into a foam.” —_Tooke’s Lucian_. “_The True History_.”
+
+
+
+
+  “He visited this country also with a view of catching horse-whales,
+  which had bones of very great value for their teeth, of which he
+  brought some to the king.... The best whales were catched in his own
+  country, of which some were forty-eight, some fifty yards long. He
+  said that he was one of six who had killed sixty in two days.”
+  —_Other or Other’s verbal narrative taken down from his mouth by King
+  Alfred, A.D._ 890.
+
+  “And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that
+  enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are
+  immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in
+  great security, and there sleeps.” —MONTAIGNE. —_Apology for Raimond
+  Sebond_.
+
+  “Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan
+  described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.”
+  —_Rabelais_.
+
+  “This whale’s liver was two cartloads.” —_Stowe’s Annals_.
+
+  “The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling
+  pan.” —_Lord Bacon’s Version of the Psalms_.
+
+  “Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received
+  nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible
+  quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” —_Ibid_.
+  “_History of Life and Death_.”
+
+
+
+
+  “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.”
+  —_King Henry_.
+
+  “Very like a whale.” —_Hamlet_.
+
+
+  “Which to secure, no skill of leach’s art Mote him availle, but to
+  returne againe To his wound’s worker, that with lowly dart, Dinting
+  his breast, had bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to
+  shore flies thro’ the maine.” —_The Fairie Queen_.
+
+
+
+  “Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful
+  calm trouble the ocean till it boil.” —_Sir William Davenant. Preface
+  to Gondibert_.
+
+  “What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned
+  Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, _Nescio quid
+  sit_.” —_Sir T. Browne. Of Sperma Ceti and the Sperma Ceti Whale.
+  Vide his V. E._
+
+
+  “Like Spencer’s Talus with his modern flail He threatens ruin with
+  his ponderous tail. ... Their fixed jav’lins in his side he wears,
+  And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” —_Waller’s Battle of the
+  Summer Islands_.
+
+
+
+  “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or
+  State—(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man.” —_Opening
+  sentence of Hobbes’s Leviathan_.
+
+  “Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a
+  sprat in the mouth of a whale.” —_Pilgrim’s Progress_.
+
+
+  “That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest
+  that swim the ocean stream.” —_Paradise Lost_.
+
+  —“There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched
+  like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at
+  his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.” —_Ibid_.
+
+
+
+  “The mighty whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of
+  oil swimming in them.” —_Fuller’s Profane and Holy State_.
+
+
+  “So close behind some promontory lie The huge Leviathan to attend
+  their prey, And give no chance, but swallow in the fry, Which through
+  their gaping jaws mistake the way.” —_Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis_.
+
+
+
+  “While the whale is floating at the stern of the ship, they cut off
+  his head, and tow it with a boat as near the shore as it will come;
+  but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen feet water.” —_Thomas
+  Edge’s Ten Voyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchas_.
+
+  “In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in
+  wantonness fuzzing up the water through their pipes and vents, which
+  nature has placed on their shoulders.” —_Sir T. Herbert’s Voyages
+  into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll_.
+
+  “Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they were forced to
+  proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run their
+  ship upon them.” —_Schouten’s Sixth Circumnavigation_.
+
+  “We set sail from the Elbe, wind N.E. in the ship called The
+  Jonas-in-the-Whale.... Some say the whale can’t open his mouth, but
+  that is a fable.... They frequently climb up the masts to see whether
+  they can see a whale, for the first discoverer has a ducat for his
+  pains.... I was told of a whale taken near Shetland, that had above a
+  barrel of herrings in his belly.... One of our harpooneers told me
+  that he caught once a whale in Spitzbergen that was white all over.”
+  —_A Voyage to Greenland, A.D._ 1671. _Harris Coll_.
+
+  “Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife) Anno 1652, one
+  eighty feet in length of the whale-bone kind came in, which (as I was
+  informed), besides a vast quantity of oil, did afford 500 weight of
+  baleen. The jaws of it stand for a gate in the garden of Pitferren.”
+  —_Sibbald’s Fife and Kinross_.
+
+  “Myself have agreed to try whether I can master and kill this
+  Sperma-ceti whale, for I could never hear of any of that sort that
+  was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swiftness.”
+  —_Richard Strafford’s Letter from the Bermudas. Phil. Trans. A.D._
+  1668.
+
+  “Whales in the sea God’s voice obey.” —_N. E. Primer_.
+
+  “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those
+  southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the
+  northward of us.” —_Captain Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe, A.D._
+  1729.
+
+  “... and the breath of the whale is frequently attended with such an
+  insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.”
+  —_Ulloa’s South America_.
+
+
+  “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the important
+  charge, the petticoat. Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to
+  fail, Tho’ stuffed with hoops and armed with ribs of whale.” —_Rape
+  of the Lock_.
+
+
+
+  “If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that
+  take up their abode in the deep, we shall find they will appear
+  contemptible in the comparison. The whale is doubtless the largest
+  animal in creation.” —_Goldsmith, Nat. Hist_.
+
+  “If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them
+  speak like great whales.” —_Goldsmith to Johnson_.
+
+  “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was
+  found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, and were
+  then towing ashore. They seemed to endeavor to conceal themselves
+  behind the whale, in order to avoid being seen by us.” —_Cook’s
+  Voyages_.
+
+  “The larger whales, they seldom venture to attack. They stand in so
+  great dread of some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to
+  mention even their names, and carry dung, lime-stone, juniper-wood,
+  and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in order
+  to terrify and prevent their too near approach.” —_Uno Von Troil’s
+  Letters on Banks’s and Solander’s Voyage to Iceland in_ 1772.
+
+  “The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce
+  animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.”
+  —_Thomas Jefferson’s Whale Memorial to the French minister in_ 1778.
+
+  “And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?” —_Edmund Burke’s
+  reference in Parliament to the Nantucket Whale-Fishery_.
+
+  “Spain—a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.” —_Edmund
+  Burke_. (_somewhere_.)
+
+  “A tenth branch of the king’s ordinary revenue, said to be grounded
+  on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from
+  pirates and robbers, is the right to _royal_ fish, which are whale
+  and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the
+  coast, are the property of the king.” —_Blackstone_.
+
+
+  “Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring o’er
+  his head suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends.”
+  —_Falconer’s Shipwreck_.
+
+  “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets blew self
+  driven, To hang their momentary fire Around the vault of heaven.
+
+  “So fire with water to compare, The ocean serves on high, Up-spouted
+  by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.” —_Cowper, on the Queen’s
+  Visit to London_.
+
+
+
+  “Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a
+  stroke, with immense velocity.” —_John Hunter’s account of the
+  dissection of a whale_. (_A small sized one_.)
+
+  “The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the
+  water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage
+  through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood
+  gushing from the whale’s heart.” —_Paley’s Theology_.
+
+  “The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” —_Baron
+  Cuvier_.
+
+  “In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any
+  till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them.”
+  —_Colnett’s Voyage for the Purpose of Extending the Spermaceti Whale
+  Fishery_.
+
+
+  “In the free element beneath me swam, Floundered and dived, in play,
+  in chace, in battle, Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which
+  language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread
+  Leviathan To insect millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals
+  immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through
+  that waste And trackless region, though on every side Assaulted by
+  voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm’d in front or
+  jaw, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.”
+  —_Montgomery’s World before the Flood_.
+
+  “Io!  Paean!  Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier
+  whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he,
+  Flounders round the Polar Sea.” —_Charles Lamb’s Triumph of the
+  Whale_.
+
+
+
+  “In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the
+  whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed:
+  there—pointing to the sea—is a green pasture where our children’s
+  grand-children will go for bread.” —_Obed Macy’s History of
+  Nantucket_.
+
+  “I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the
+  form of a Gothic Arch, by setting up a whale’s jaw bones.”
+  —_Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales_.
+
+  “She came to bespeak a monument for her first love, who had been
+  killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years
+  ago.” —_Ibid_.
+
+  “No, Sir, ’tis a Right Whale,” answered Tom; “I saw his sprout; he
+  threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to
+  look at. He’s a raal oil-butt, that fellow!” —_Cooper’s Pilot_.
+
+  “The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that
+  whales had been introduced on the stage there.” —_Eckermann’s
+  Conversations with Goethe_.
+
+  “My God! Mr. Chace, what is the matter?” I answered, “we have been
+  stove by a whale.” —“_Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Whale Ship
+  Essex of Nantucket, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a
+  large Sperm Whale in the Pacific Ocean_.” _By Owen Chace of
+  Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York_, 1821.
+
+
+  “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was piping free;
+  Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale, And the phospher
+  gleamed in the wake of the whale, As it floundered in the sea.”
+  —_Elizabeth Oakes Smith_.
+
+
+
+  “The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the capture
+  of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six
+  English miles....
+
+  “Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which,
+  cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four
+  miles.” —_Scoresby_.
+
+  “Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the
+  infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous
+  head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he
+  rushes at the boats with his head; they are propelled before him with
+  vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly destroyed.... It is a matter of
+  great astonishment that the consideration of the habits of so
+  interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, so important an
+  animal (as the Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely neglected,
+  or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and
+  many of them competent observers, that of late years, must have
+  possessed the most abundant and the most convenient opportunities of
+  witnessing their habitudes.” —_Thomas Beale’s History of the Sperm
+  Whale_, 1839.
+
+  “The Cachalot” (Sperm Whale) “is not only better armed than the True
+  Whale” (Greenland or Right Whale) “in possessing a formidable weapon
+  at either extremity of its body, but also more frequently displays a
+  disposition to employ these weapons offensively and in manner at once
+  so artful, bold, and mischievous, as to lead to its being regarded as
+  the most dangerous to attack of all the known species of the whale
+  tribe.” —_Frederick Debell Bennett’s Whaling Voyage Round the Globe_,
+  1840.
+
+
+  October 13.  “There she blows,” was sung out from the mast-head.
+  “Where away?” demanded the captain. “Three points off the lee bow,
+  sir.” “Raise up your wheel.  Steady!”  “Steady, sir.” “Mast-head
+  ahoy! Do you see that whale now?” “Ay ay, sir!  A shoal of Sperm
+  Whales! There she blows!  There she breaches!” “Sing out! sing out
+  every time!” “Ay Ay, sir!  There she blows! there—there—_thar_ she
+  blows—bowes—bo-o-os!” “How far off?” “Two miles and a half.” “Thunder
+  and lightning! so near!  Call all hands.” —_J. Ross Browne’s Etchings
+  of a Whaling Cruize_.  1846.
+
+
+
+  “The Whale-ship Globe, on board of which vessel occurred the horrid
+  transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of
+  Nantucket.” —“_Narrative of the Globe Mutiny_,” _by Lay and Hussey
+  survivors. A.D._ 1828.
+
+  Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the
+  assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length
+  rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by
+  leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.”
+  —_Missionary Journal of Tyerman and Bennett_.
+
+  “Nantucket itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and
+  peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of
+  eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely
+  every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering
+  industry.” —_Report of Daniel Webster’s Speech in the U. S. Senate,
+  on the application for the Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket_.
+  1828.
+
+  “The whale fell directly over him, and probably killed him in a
+  moment.” —“_The Whale and his Captors, or The Whaleman’s Adventures
+  and the Whale’s Biography, gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the
+  Commodore Preble_.” _By Rev. Henry T. Cheever_.
+
+  “If you make the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will
+  send you to hell.” —_Life of Samuel Comstock_ (_the mutineer_), _by
+  his brother, William Comstock. Another Version of the whale-ship
+  Globe narrative_.
+
+  “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in
+  order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though
+  they failed of their main object, laid-open the haunts of the whale.”
+  —_McCulloch’s Commercial Dictionary_.
+
+  “These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to bound
+  forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the
+  whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same
+  mystic North-West Passage.” —_From_ “_Something_” _unpublished_.
+
+  “It is impossible to meet a whale-ship on the ocean without being
+  struck by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with
+  look-outs at the mast-heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around
+  them, has a totally different air from those engaged in regular
+  voyage.” —_Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex_.
+
+  “Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect
+  having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to
+  form arches over gateways, or entrances to alcoves, and they may
+  perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales.” —_Tales
+  of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean_.
+
+  “It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales,
+  that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages
+  enrolled among the crew.” —_Newspaper Account of the Taking and
+  Retaking of the Whale-Ship Hobomack_.
+
+  “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels
+  (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they
+  departed.” —_Cruise in a Whale Boat_.
+
+  “Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and shot up
+  perpendicularly into the air. It was the whale.” —_Miriam Coffin or
+  the Whale Fisherman_.
+
+  “The Whale is harpooned to be sure; but bethink you, how you would
+  manage a powerful unbroken colt, with the mere appliance of a rope
+  tied to the root of his tail.” —_A Chapter on Whaling in Ribs and
+  Trucks_.
+
+  “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male
+  and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a
+  stone’s throw of the shore” (Terra Del Fuego), “over which the beech
+  tree extended its branches.” —_Darwin’s Voyage of a Naturalist_.
+
+  “‘Stern all!’ exclaimed the mate, as upon turning his head, he saw
+  the distended jaws of a large Sperm Whale close to the head of the
+  boat, threatening it with instant destruction;—‘Stern all, for your
+  lives!’” —_Wharton the Whale Killer_.
+
+  “So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold
+  harpooneer is striking the whale!” —_Nantucket Song_.
+
+
+  “Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be
+  A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless
+  sea.” —_Whale Song_.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
+
+Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having
+little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me
+on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part
+of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and
+regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about
+the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever
+I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and
+bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever
+my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral
+principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and
+methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to
+get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball.
+With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I
+quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they
+but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other,
+cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
+
+There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by
+wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her
+surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme
+downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and
+cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of
+land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
+
+Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears
+Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What
+do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand
+thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some
+leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some
+looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the
+rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these
+are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster—tied to
+counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are
+the green fields gone? What do they here?
+
+But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and
+seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the
+extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder
+warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water
+as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand—miles of
+them—leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets
+and avenues—north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell
+me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all
+those ships attract them thither?
+
+Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take
+almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a
+dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in
+it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest
+reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will
+infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.
+Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this
+experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical
+professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for
+ever.
+
+But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest,
+quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley
+of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his
+trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were
+within; and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up
+from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands
+winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in
+their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and
+though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this
+shepherd’s head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd’s eye were
+fixed upon the magic stream before him. Go visit the Prairies in June,
+when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among
+Tiger-lilies—what is the one charm wanting?—Water—there is not a drop
+of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel
+your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon
+suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy
+him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian
+trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a
+robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
+Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a
+mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out
+of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did
+the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely
+all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that
+story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild
+image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that
+same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image
+of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
+
+Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin
+to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my
+lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a
+passenger. For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a
+purse is but a rag unless you have something in it. Besides, passengers
+get sea-sick—grow quarrelsome—don’t sleep of nights—do not enjoy
+themselves much, as a general thing;—no, I never go as a passenger;
+nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a
+Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook. I abandon the glory and distinction
+of such offices to those who like them. For my part, I abominate all
+honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind
+whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself,
+without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not.
+And as for going as cook,—though I confess there is considerable glory
+in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board—yet, somehow, I
+never fancied broiling fowls;—though once broiled, judiciously
+buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who
+will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled
+fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old
+Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the
+mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
+
+No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast,
+plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
+True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to
+spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of
+thing is unpleasant enough. It touches one’s sense of honor,
+particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the
+Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if
+just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been
+lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in
+awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a
+schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and
+the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off
+in time.
+
+What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom
+and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed,
+I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel
+Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and
+respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who ain’t
+a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may
+order me about—however they may thump and punch me about, I have the
+satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is
+one way or other served in much the same way—either in a physical or
+metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is
+passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades,
+and be content.
+
+Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of
+paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single
+penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must
+pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and
+being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable
+infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But _being
+paid_,—what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man
+receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly
+believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no
+account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign
+ourselves to perdition!
+
+Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome
+exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world,
+head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if
+you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the
+Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from
+the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not
+so. In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many
+other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it. But
+wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a
+merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling
+voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the
+constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in
+some unaccountable way—he can better answer than any one else. And,
+doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand
+programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in
+as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive
+performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run
+something like this:
+
+“_Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States._
+“WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN.”
+
+Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the
+Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when
+others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short
+and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces—though I
+cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the
+circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives
+which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced
+me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the
+delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill
+and discriminating judgment.
+
+Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale
+himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my
+curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island
+bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all
+the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds,
+helped to sway me to my wish. With other men, perhaps, such things
+would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an
+everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and
+land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to
+perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let
+me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of
+the place one lodges in.
+
+By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the
+great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild
+conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into
+my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them
+all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
+
+
+CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
+
+I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my
+arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city
+of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford. It was a Saturday night
+in December. Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little
+packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching
+that place would offer, till the following Monday.
+
+As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at
+this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well
+be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing. For my mind was
+made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a
+fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous
+old island, which amazingly pleased me. Besides though New Bedford has
+of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though
+in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket
+was her great original—the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the
+first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket
+did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes
+to give chase to the Leviathan? And where but from Nantucket, too, did
+that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with
+imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw at the whales, in
+order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the
+bowsprit?
+
+Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me
+in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a
+matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile. It was a
+very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold
+and cheerless. I knew no one in the place. With anxious grapnels I had
+sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver,—So,
+wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of
+a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the
+north with the darkness towards the south—wherever in your wisdom you
+may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to
+inquire the price, and don’t be too particular.
+
+With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of “The
+Crossed Harpoons”—but it looked too expensive and jolly there. Further
+on, from the bright red windows of the “Sword-Fish Inn,” there came
+such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and
+ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay
+ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,—rather weary for me,
+when I struck my foot against the flinty projections, because from
+hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most
+miserable plight. Too expensive and jolly, again thought I, pausing one
+moment to watch the broad glare in the street, and hear the sounds of
+the tinkling glasses within. But go on, Ishmael, said I at last; don’t
+you hear? get away from before the door; your patched boots are
+stopping the way. So on I went. I now by instinct followed the streets
+that took me waterward, for there, doubtless, were the cheapest, if not
+the cheeriest inns.
+
+Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand,
+and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. At
+this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of
+the town proved all but deserted. But presently I came to a smoky light
+proceeding from a low, wide building, the door of which stood
+invitingly open. It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the
+uses of the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble
+over an ash-box in the porch. Ha! thought I, ha, as the flying
+particles almost choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city,
+Gomorrah? But “The Crossed Harpoons,” and “The Sword-Fish?”—this, then
+must needs be the sign of “The Trap.” However, I picked myself up and
+hearing a loud voice within, pushed on and opened a second, interior
+door.
+
+It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet. A hundred black
+faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of
+Doom was beating a book in a pulpit. It was a negro church; and the
+preacher’s text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping
+and wailing and teeth-gnashing there. Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing
+out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of ‘The Trap!’
+
+Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the
+docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a
+swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly
+representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words
+underneath—“The Spouter Inn:—Peter Coffin.”
+
+Coffin?—Spouter?—Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought
+I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this
+Peter here is an emigrant from there. As the light looked so dim, and
+the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated
+little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here
+from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a
+poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very
+spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
+
+It was a queer sort of place—a gable-ended old house, one side palsied
+as it were, and leaning over sadly. It stood on a sharp bleak corner,
+where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than
+ever it did about poor Paul’s tossed craft. Euroclydon, nevertheless,
+is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in-doors, with his feet on the
+hob quietly toasting for bed. “In judging of that tempestuous wind
+called Euroclydon,” says an old writer—of whose works I possess the
+only copy extant—“it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou
+lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the
+outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where
+the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only
+glazier.” True enough, thought I, as this passage occurred to my
+mind—old black-letter, thou reasonest well. Yes, these eyes are
+windows, and this body of mine is the house. What a pity they didn’t
+stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint
+here and there. But it’s too late to make any improvements now. The
+universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted
+off a million years ago. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth
+against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with
+his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a
+corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the
+tempestuous Euroclydon. Euroclydon! says old Dives, in his red silken
+wrapper—(he had a redder one afterwards) pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty
+night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their
+oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the
+privilege of making my own summer with my own coals.
+
+But what thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up
+to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra
+than here? Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the
+line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in
+order to keep out this frost?
+
+Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the
+door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be
+moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a
+Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a
+temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
+
+But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there
+is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted
+feet, and see what sort of a place this “Spouter” may be.
+
+
+CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
+
+Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide,
+low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of
+the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. On one side hung a very large
+oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the
+unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent
+study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of
+the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its
+purpose. Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first
+you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New
+England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint
+of much and earnest contemplation, and oft repeated ponderings, and
+especially by throwing open the little window towards the back of the
+entry, you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea, however
+wild, might not be altogether unwarranted.
+
+But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber,
+portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the
+picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a
+nameless yeast. A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive
+a nervous man distracted. Yet was there a sort of indefinite,
+half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to
+it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what
+that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas,
+deceptive idea would dart you through.—It’s the Black Sea in a midnight
+gale.—It’s the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.—It’s a
+blasted heath.—It’s a Hyperborean winter scene.—It’s the breaking-up of
+the icebound stream of Time. But at last all these fancies yielded to
+that one portentous something in the picture’s midst. _That_ once found
+out, and all the rest were plain. But stop; does it not bear a faint
+resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself?
+
+In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own,
+partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with
+whom I conversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape-Horner
+in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its
+three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale,
+purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of
+impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
+
+The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish
+array of monstrous clubs and spears. Some were thickly set with
+glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots
+of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping
+round like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed
+mower. You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal
+and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking,
+horrifying implement. Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances
+and harpoons all broken and deformed. Some were storied weapons. With
+this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan
+Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that
+harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung in Javan seas, and run away
+with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The
+original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle
+sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last
+was found imbedded in the hump.
+
+Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low-arched way—cut
+through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with
+fireplaces all round—you enter the public room. A still duskier place
+is this, with such low ponderous beams above, and such old wrinkled
+planks beneath, that you would almost fancy you trod some old craft’s
+cockpits, especially of such a howling night, when this corner-anchored
+old ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf-like
+table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities
+gathered from this wide world’s remotest nooks. Projecting from the
+further angle of the room stands a dark-looking den—the bar—a rude
+attempt at a right whale’s head. Be that how it may, there stands the
+vast arched bone of the whale’s jaw, so wide, a coach might almost
+drive beneath it. Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old
+decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction,
+like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him),
+bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells
+the sailors deliriums and death.
+
+Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison. Though true
+cylinders without—within, the villanous green goggling glasses
+deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel meridians
+rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads’ goblets. Fill to
+_this_ mark, and your charge is but a penny; to _this_ a penny more;
+and so on to the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp
+down for a shilling.
+
+Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about
+a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of _skrimshander_. I
+sought the landlord, and telling him I desired to be accommodated with
+a room, received for answer that his house was full—not a bed
+unoccupied. “But avast,” he added, tapping his forehead, “you haint no
+objections to sharing a harpooneer’s blanket, have ye? I s’pose you are
+goin’ a-whalin’, so you’d better get used to that sort of thing.”
+
+I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should
+ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that
+if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the
+harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander
+further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with
+the half of any decent man’s blanket.
+
+“I thought so. All right; take a seat. Supper?—you want supper?
+Supper’ll be ready directly.”
+
+I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a bench on the
+Battery. At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with
+his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space
+between his legs. He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but
+he didn’t make much headway, I thought.
+
+At last some four or five of us were summoned to our meal in an
+adjoining room. It was cold as Iceland—no fire at all—the landlord said
+he couldn’t afford it. Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a
+winding sheet. We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold
+to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers. But the
+fare was of the most substantial kind—not only meat and potatoes, but
+dumplings; good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a
+green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful
+manner.
+
+“My boy,” said the landlord, “you’ll have the nightmare to a dead
+sartainty.”
+
+“Landlord,” I whispered, “that aint the harpooneer is it?”
+
+“Oh, no,” said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny, “the
+harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap. He never eats dumplings, he
+don’t—he eats nothing but steaks, and he likes ’em rare.”
+
+“The devil he does,” says I. “Where is that harpooneer? Is he here?”
+
+“He’ll be here afore long,” was the answer.
+
+I could not help it, but I began to feel suspicious of this “dark
+complexioned” harpooneer. At any rate, I made up my mind that if it so
+turned out that we should sleep together, he must undress and get into
+bed before I did.
+
+Supper over, the company went back to the bar-room, when, knowing not
+what else to do with myself, I resolved to spend the rest of the
+evening as a looker on.
+
+Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord
+cried, “That’s the Grampus’s crew. I seed her reported in the offing
+this morning; a three years’ voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now
+we’ll have the latest news from the Feegees.”
+
+A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung
+open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough. Enveloped in their
+shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters,
+all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they
+seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador. They had just landed from
+their boat, and this was the first house they entered. No wonder, then,
+that they made a straight wake for the whale’s mouth—the bar—when the
+wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out
+brimmers all round. One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon
+which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he
+swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never
+mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador,
+or on the weather side of an ice-island.
+
+The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even
+with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began
+capering about most obstreperously.
+
+I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though
+he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his
+own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much
+noise as the rest. This man interested me at once; and since the
+sea-gods had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate (though
+but a sleeping-partner one, so far as this narrative is concerned), I
+will here venture upon a little description of him. He stood full six
+feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam. I
+have seldom seen such brawn in a man. His face was deeply brown and
+burnt, making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast; while in the
+deep shadows of his eyes floated some reminiscences that did not seem
+to give him much joy. His voice at once announced that he was a
+Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of
+those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When
+the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man
+slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my
+comrade on the sea. In a few minutes, however, he was missed by his
+shipmates, and being, it seems, for some reason a huge favourite with
+them, they raised a cry of “Bulkington! Bulkington! where’s
+Bulkington?” and darted out of the house in pursuit of him.
+
+It was now about nine o’clock, and the room seeming almost
+supernaturally quiet after these orgies, I began to congratulate myself
+upon a little plan that had occurred to me just previous to the
+entrance of the seamen.
+
+No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal
+rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but
+people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to
+sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town,
+and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely
+multiply. Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should
+sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep
+two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore. To be sure they all
+sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and
+cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin.
+
+The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated the
+thought of sleeping with him. It was fair to presume that being a
+harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of
+the tidiest, certainly none of the finest. I began to twitch all over.
+Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home
+and going bedwards. Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at
+midnight—how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming?
+
+“Landlord! I’ve changed my mind about that harpooneer.—I shan’t sleep
+with him. I’ll try the bench here.”
+
+“Just as you please; I’m sorry I can’t spare ye a tablecloth for a
+mattress, and it’s a plaguy rough board here”—feeling of the knots and
+notches. “But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I’ve got a carpenter’s plane
+there in the bar—wait, I say, and I’ll make ye snug enough.” So saying
+he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting
+the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning
+like an ape. The shavings flew right and left; till at last the
+plane-iron came bump against an indestructible knot. The landlord was
+near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven’s sake to quit—the
+bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing
+in the world could make eider down of a pine plank. So gathering up the
+shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in
+the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a
+brown study.
+
+I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was a foot too
+short; but that could be mended with a chair. But it was a foot too
+narrow, and the other bench in the room was about four inches higher
+than the planed one—so there was no yoking them. I then placed the
+first bench lengthwise along the only clear space against the wall,
+leaving a little interval between, for my back to settle down in. But I
+soon found that there came such a draught of cold air over me from
+under the sill of the window, that this plan would never do at all,
+especially as another current from the rickety door met the one from
+the window, and both together formed a series of small whirlwinds in
+the immediate vicinity of the spot where I had thought to spend the
+night.
+
+The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I, but stop, couldn’t I steal
+a march on him—bolt his door inside, and jump into his bed, not to be
+wakened by the most violent knockings? It seemed no bad idea; but upon
+second thoughts I dismissed it. For who could tell but what the next
+morning, so soon as I popped out of the room, the harpooneer might be
+standing in the entry, all ready to knock me down!
+
+Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of
+spending a sufferable night unless in some other person’s bed, I began
+to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices
+against this unknown harpooneer. Thinks I, I’ll wait awhile; he must be
+dropping in before long. I’ll have a good look at him then, and perhaps
+we may become jolly good bedfellows after all—there’s no telling.
+
+But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes,
+and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
+
+“Landlord!” said I, “what sort of a chap is he—does he always keep such
+late hours?” It was now hard upon twelve o’clock.
+
+The landlord chuckled again with his lean chuckle, and seemed to be
+mightily tickled at something beyond my comprehension. “No,” he
+answered, “generally he’s an early bird—airley to bed and airley to
+rise—yes, he’s the bird what catches the worm. But to-night he went out
+a peddling, you see, and I don’t see what on airth keeps him so late,
+unless, may be, he can’t sell his head.”
+
+“Can’t sell his head?—What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are
+telling me?” getting into a towering rage. “Do you pretend to say,
+landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed
+Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around
+this town?”
+
+“That’s precisely it,” said the landlord, “and I told him he couldn’t
+sell it here, the market’s overstocked.”
+
+“With what?” shouted I.
+
+“With heads to be sure; ain’t there too many heads in the world?”
+
+“I tell you what it is, landlord,” said I quite calmly, “you’d better
+stop spinning that yarn to me—I’m not green.”
+
+“May be not,” taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick, “but I
+rayther guess you’ll be done _brown_ if that ere harpooneer hears you a
+slanderin’ his head.”
+
+“I’ll break it for him,” said I, now flying into a passion again at
+this unaccountable farrago of the landlord’s.
+
+“It’s broke a’ready,” said he.
+
+“Broke,” said I—“_broke_, do you mean?”
+
+“Sartain, and that’s the very reason he can’t sell it, I guess.”
+
+“Landlord,” said I, going up to him as cool as Mt. Hecla in a
+snow-storm—“landlord, stop whittling. You and I must understand one
+another, and that too without delay. I come to your house and want a
+bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half
+belongs to a certain harpooneer. And about this harpooneer, whom I have
+not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and
+exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling
+towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow—a sort of connexion,
+landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest
+degree. I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this
+harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the
+night with him. And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay
+that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good
+evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I’ve no idea of
+sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, _you_ I mean, landlord, _you_,
+sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render
+yourself liable to a criminal prosecution.”
+
+“Wall,” said the landlord, fetching a long breath, “that’s a purty long
+sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then. But be easy, be
+easy, this here harpooneer I have been tellin’ you of has just arrived
+from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of ’balmed New Zealand
+heads (great curios, you know), and he’s sold all on ’em but one, and
+that one he’s trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow’s Sunday, and it
+would not do to be sellin’ human heads about the streets when folks is
+goin’ to churches. He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as
+he was goin’ out of the door with four heads strung on a string, for
+all the airth like a string of inions.”
+
+This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery, and showed
+that the landlord, after all, had had no idea of fooling me—but at the
+same time what could I think of a harpooneer who stayed out of a
+Saturday night clean into the holy Sabbath, engaged in such a cannibal
+business as selling the heads of dead idolators?
+
+“Depend upon it, landlord, that harpooneer is a dangerous man.”
+
+“He pays reg’lar,” was the rejoinder. “But come, it’s getting dreadful
+late, you had better be turning flukes—it’s a nice bed; Sal and me
+slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced. There’s plenty of room
+for two to kick about in that bed; it’s an almighty big bed that. Why,
+afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the
+foot of it. But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one night, and
+somehow, Sam got pitched on the floor, and came near breaking his arm.
+Arter that, Sal said it wouldn’t do. Come along here, I’ll give ye a
+glim in a jiffy;” and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards
+me, offering to lead the way. But I stood irresolute; when looking at a
+clock in the corner, he exclaimed “I vum it’s Sunday—you won’t see that
+harpooneer to-night; he’s come to anchor somewhere—come along then;
+_do_ come; _won’t_ ye come?”
+
+I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was
+ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough,
+with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four
+harpooneers to sleep abreast.
+
+“There,” said the landlord, placing the candle on a crazy old sea chest
+that did double duty as a wash-stand and centre table; “there, make
+yourself comfortable now, and good night to ye.” I turned round from
+eyeing the bed, but he had disappeared.
+
+Folding back the counterpane, I stooped over the bed. Though none of
+the most elegant, it yet stood the scrutiny tolerably well. I then
+glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table,
+could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf,
+the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a
+whale. Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a
+hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a
+large seaman’s bag, containing the harpooneer’s wardrobe, no doubt in
+lieu of a land trunk. Likewise, there was a parcel of outlandish bone
+fish hooks on the shelf over the fire-place, and a tall harpoon
+standing at the head of the bed.
+
+But what is this on the chest? I took it up, and held it close to the
+light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to
+arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it. I can compare it
+to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little
+tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an
+Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as
+you see the same in South American ponchos. But could it be possible
+that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the
+streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise? I put it on, to
+try it, and it weighed me down like a hamper, being uncommonly shaggy
+and thick, and I thought a little damp, as though this mysterious
+harpooneer had been wearing it of a rainy day. I went up in it to a bit
+of glass stuck against the wall, and I never saw such a sight in my
+life. I tore myself out of it in such a hurry that I gave myself a kink
+in the neck.
+
+I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this
+head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat. After thinking some time on
+the bed-side, I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in
+the middle of the room thinking. I then took off my coat, and thought a
+little more in my shirt sleeves. But beginning to feel very cold now,
+half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about
+the harpooneer’s not coming home at all that night, it being so very
+late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots,
+and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself
+to the care of heaven.
+
+Whether that mattress was stuffed with corn-cobs or broken crockery,
+there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could not
+sleep for a long time. At last I slid off into a light doze, and had
+pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard
+a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into
+the room from under the door.
+
+Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal
+head-peddler. But I lay perfectly still, and resolved not to say a word
+till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New
+Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without
+looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on
+the floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted
+cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room. I was
+all eagerness to see his face, but he kept it averted for some time
+while employed in unlacing the bag’s mouth. This accomplished, however,
+he turned round—when, good heavens! what a sight! Such a face! It was
+of a dark, purplish, yellow colour, here and there stuck over with
+large blackish looking squares. Yes, it’s just as I thought, he’s a
+terrible bedfellow; he’s been in a fight, got dreadfully cut, and here
+he is, just from the surgeon. But at that moment he chanced to turn his
+face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be
+sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks. They were
+stains of some sort or other. At first I knew not what to make of this;
+but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me. I remembered a story
+of a white man—a whaleman too—who, falling among the cannibals, had
+been tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course
+of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure. And
+what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be
+honest in any sort of skin. But then, what to make of his unearthly
+complexion, that part of it, I mean, lying round about, and completely
+independent of the squares of tattooing. To be sure, it might be
+nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot
+sun’s tanning a white man into a purplish yellow one. However, I had
+never been in the South Seas; and perhaps the sun there produced these
+extraordinary effects upon the skin. Now, while all these ideas were
+passing through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me at
+all. But, after some difficulty having opened his bag, he commenced
+fumbling in it, and presently pulled out a sort of tomahawk, and a
+seal-skin wallet with the hair on. Placing these on the old chest in
+the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head—a ghastly
+thing enough—and crammed it down into the bag. He now took off his
+hat—a new beaver hat—when I came nigh singing out with fresh surprise.
+There was no hair on his head—none to speak of at least—nothing but a
+small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead. His bald purplish head now
+looked for all the world like a mildewed skull. Had not the stranger
+stood between me and the door, I would have bolted out of it quicker
+than ever I bolted a dinner.
+
+Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of the window, but
+it was the second floor back. I am no coward, but what to make of this
+head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension.
+Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and
+confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of
+him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at
+the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game
+enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer
+concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
+
+Meanwhile, he continued the business of undressing, and at last showed
+his chest and arms. As I live, these covered parts of him were
+checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all
+over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’
+War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt. Still
+more, his very legs were marked, as if a parcel of dark green frogs
+were running up the trunks of young palms. It was now quite plain that
+he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman
+in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country. I quaked to
+think of it. A peddler of heads too—perhaps the heads of his own
+brothers. He might take a fancy to mine—heavens! look at that tomahawk!
+
+But there was no time for shuddering, for now the savage went about
+something that completely fascinated my attention, and convinced me
+that he must indeed be a heathen. Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall,
+or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in
+the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image
+with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days’ old
+Congo baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought
+that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar
+manner. But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened
+a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing
+but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be. For now the savage
+goes up to the empty fire-place, and removing the papered fire-board,
+sets up this little hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the
+andirons. The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty,
+so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine
+or chapel for his Congo idol.
+
+I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image, feeling but
+ill at ease meantime—to see what was next to follow. First he takes
+about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places
+them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on
+top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into
+a sacrificial blaze. Presently, after many hasty snatches into the
+fire, and still hastier withdrawals of his fingers (whereby he seemed
+to be scorching them badly), he at last succeeded in drawing out the
+biscuit; then blowing off the heat and ashes a little, he made a polite
+offer of it to the little negro. But the little devil did not seem to
+fancy such dry sort of fare at all; he never moved his lips. All these
+strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from
+the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing
+some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in
+the most unnatural manner. At last extinguishing the fire, he took the
+idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket
+as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
+
+All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness, and seeing
+him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business
+operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time,
+now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which
+I had so long been bound.
+
+But the interval I spent in deliberating what to say, was a fatal one.
+Taking up his tomahawk from the table, he examined the head of it for
+an instant, and then holding it to the light, with his mouth at the
+handle, he puffed out great clouds of tobacco smoke. The next moment
+the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between
+his teeth, sprang into bed with me. I sang out, I could not help it
+now; and giving a sudden grunt of astonishment he began feeling me.
+
+Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him
+against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might
+be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again. But his
+guttural responses satisfied me at once that he but ill comprehended my
+meaning.
+
+“Who-e debel you?”—he at last said—“you no speak-e, dam-me, I kill-e.”
+And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the
+dark.
+
+“Landlord, for God’s sake, Peter Coffin!” shouted I. “Landlord! Watch!
+Coffin! Angels! save me!”
+
+“Speak-e! tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam-me, I kill-e!” again growled the
+cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the
+hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire.
+But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light
+in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him.
+
+“Don’t be afraid now,” said he, grinning again, “Queequeg here wouldn’t
+harm a hair of your head.”
+
+“Stop your grinning,” shouted I, “and why didn’t you tell me that that
+infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?”
+
+“I thought ye know’d it;—didn’t I tell ye, he was a peddlin’ heads
+around town?—but turn flukes again and go to sleep. Queequeg, look
+here—you sabbee me, I sabbee—you this man sleepe you—you sabbee?”
+
+“Me sabbee plenty”—grunted Queequeg, puffing away at his pipe and
+sitting up in bed.
+
+“You gettee in,” he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and
+throwing the clothes to one side. He really did this in not only a
+civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a
+moment. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely
+looking cannibal. What’s all this fuss I have been making about,
+thought I to myself—the man’s a human being just as I am: he has just
+as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep
+with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
+
+“Landlord,” said I, “tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or
+whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will
+turn in with him. But I don’t fancy having a man smoking in bed with
+me. It’s dangerous. Besides, I ain’t insured.”
+
+This being told to Queequeg, he at once complied, and again politely
+motioned me to get into bed—rolling over to one side as much as to
+say—“I won’t touch a leg of ye.”
+
+“Good night, landlord,” said I, “you may go.”
+
+I turned in, and never slept better in my life.
+
+
+CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
+
+Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown
+over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost
+thought I had been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of
+odd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his
+tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no
+two parts of which were of one precise shade—owing I suppose to his
+keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt
+sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times—this same arm of his, I
+say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork
+quilt. Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I
+could hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues
+together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I
+could tell that Queequeg was hugging me.
+
+My sensations were strange. Let me try to explain them. When I was a
+child, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me;
+whether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle. The
+circumstance was this. I had been cutting up some caper or other—I
+think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little
+sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other,
+was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless,—my
+mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to
+bed, though it was only two o’clock in the afternoon of the 21st June,
+the longest day in the year in our hemisphere. I felt dreadfully. But
+there was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room in the
+third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time,
+and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.
+
+I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse
+before I could hope for a resurrection. Sixteen hours in bed! the small
+of my back ached to think of it. And it was so light too; the sun
+shining in at the window, and a great rattling of coaches in the
+streets, and the sound of gay voices all over the house. I felt worse
+and worse—at last I got up, dressed, and softly going down in my
+stockinged feet, sought out my stepmother, and suddenly threw myself at
+her feet, beseeching her as a particular favour to give me a good
+slippering for my misbehaviour; anything indeed but condemning me to
+lie abed such an unendurable length of time. But she was the best and
+most conscientious of stepmothers, and back I had to go to my room. For
+several hours I lay there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than
+I have ever done since, even from the greatest subsequent misfortunes.
+At last I must have fallen into a troubled nightmare of a doze; and
+slowly waking from it—half steeped in dreams—I opened my eyes, and the
+before sun-lit room was now wrapped in outer darkness. Instantly I felt
+a shock running through all my frame; nothing was to be seen, and
+nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.
+My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable,
+silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely
+seated by my bed-side. For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there,
+frozen with the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet
+ever thinking that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid
+spell would be broken. I knew not how this consciousness at last glided
+away from me; but waking in the morning, I shudderingly remembered it
+all, and for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in
+confounding attempts to explain the mystery. Nay, to this very hour, I
+often puzzle myself with it.
+
+Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the
+supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to
+those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg’s pagan arm
+thrown round me. But at length all the past night’s events soberly
+recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to
+the comical predicament. For though I tried to move his arm—unlock his
+bridegroom clasp—yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly,
+as though naught but death should part us twain. I now strove to rouse
+him—“Queequeg!”—but his only answer was a snore. I then rolled over, my
+neck feeling as if it were in a horse-collar; and suddenly felt a
+slight scratch. Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk
+sleeping by the savage’s side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby. A
+pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the
+broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk! “Queequeg!—in the name of
+goodness, Queequeg, wake!” At length, by dint of much wriggling, and
+loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his
+hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in
+extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm, shook himself
+all over like a Newfoundland dog just from the water, and sat up in
+bed, stiff as a pike-staff, looking at me, and rubbing his eyes as if
+he did not altogether remember how I came to be there, though a dim
+consciousness of knowing something about me seemed slowly dawning over
+him. Meanwhile, I lay quietly eyeing him, having no serious misgivings
+now, and bent upon narrowly observing so curious a creature. When, at
+last, his mind seemed made up touching the character of his bedfellow,
+and he became, as it were, reconciled to the fact; he jumped out upon
+the floor, and by certain signs and sounds gave me to understand that,
+if it pleased me, he would dress first and then leave me to dress
+afterwards, leaving the whole apartment to myself. Thinks I, Queequeg,
+under the circumstances, this is a very civilized overture; but, the
+truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy, say what you
+will; it is marvellous how essentially polite they are. I pay this
+particular compliment to Queequeg, because he treated me with so much
+civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great rudeness;
+staring at him from the bed, and watching all his toilette motions; for
+the time my curiosity getting the better of my breeding. Nevertheless,
+a man like Queequeg you don’t see every day, he and his ways were well
+worth unusual regarding.
+
+He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall
+one, by the by, and then—still minus his trowsers—he hunted up his
+boots. What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his
+next movement was to crush himself—boots in hand, and hat on—under the
+bed; when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he
+was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I
+ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his
+boots. But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition
+stage—neither caterpillar nor butterfly. He was just enough civilized
+to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manners. His
+education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate. If he had not
+been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled
+himself with boots at all; but then, if he had not been still a savage,
+he never would have dreamt of getting under the bed to put them on. At
+last, he emerged with his hat very much dented and crushed down over
+his eyes, and began creaking and limping about the room, as if, not
+being much accustomed to boots, his pair of damp, wrinkled cowhide
+ones—probably not made to order either—rather pinched and tormented him
+at the first go off of a bitter cold morning.
+
+Seeing, now, that there were no curtains to the window, and that the
+street being very narrow, the house opposite commanded a plain view
+into the room, and observing more and more the indecorous figure that
+Queequeg made, staving about with little else but his hat and boots on;
+I begged him as well as I could, to accelerate his toilet somewhat, and
+particularly to get into his pantaloons as soon as possible. He
+complied, and then proceeded to wash himself. At that time in the
+morning any Christian would have washed his face; but Queequeg, to my
+amazement, contented himself with restricting his ablutions to his
+chest, arms, and hands. He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a
+piece of hard soap on the wash-stand centre table, dipped it into water
+and commenced lathering his face. I was watching to see where he kept
+his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed
+corner, slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it
+a little on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the
+wall, begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks.
+Thinks I, Queequeg, this is using Rogers’s best cutlery with a
+vengeance. Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came
+to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how
+exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
+
+The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of
+the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his
+harpoon like a marshal’s baton.
+
+
+CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
+
+I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the
+grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him,
+though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my
+bedfellow.
+
+However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a
+good thing; the more’s the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper
+person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be
+backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in
+that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about
+him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
+
+The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the
+night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at. They were
+nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates,
+and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and
+harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky
+beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning
+gowns.
+
+You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore. This
+young fellow’s healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and
+would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days
+landed from his Indian voyage. That man next him looks a few shades
+lighter; you might say a touch of satin wood is in him. In the
+complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly
+bleached withal; _he_ doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore. But who
+could show a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints,
+seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array,
+contrasting climates, zone by zone.
+
+“Grub, ho!” now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we
+went to breakfast.
+
+They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease
+in manner, quite self-possessed in company. Not always, though:
+Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch
+one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor. But
+perhaps the mere crossing of Siberia in a sledge drawn by dogs as
+Ledyard did, or the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in
+the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s
+performances—this kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode
+of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort
+of thing is to be had anywhere.
+
+These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that
+after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some
+good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man
+maintained a profound silence. And not only that, but they looked
+embarrassed. Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the
+slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas—entire
+strangers to them—and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here
+they sat at a social breakfast table—all of the same calling, all of
+kindred tastes—looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they
+had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green
+Mountains. A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior
+whalemen!
+
+But as for Queequeg—why, Queequeg sat there among them—at the head of
+the table, too, it so chanced; as cool as an icicle. To be sure I
+cannot say much for his breeding. His greatest admirer could not have
+cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him,
+and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it,
+to the imminent jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks
+towards him. But _that_ was certainly very coolly done by him, and
+every one knows that in most people’s estimation, to do anything coolly
+is to do it genteelly.
+
+We will not speak of all Queequeg’s peculiarities here; how he eschewed
+coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to
+beefsteaks, done rare. Enough, that when breakfast was over he withdrew
+like the rest into the public room, lighted his tomahawk-pipe, and was
+sitting there quietly digesting and smoking with his inseparable hat
+on, when I sallied out for a stroll.
+
+
+CHAPTER 6. The Street.
+
+If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish
+an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a
+civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first
+daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.
+
+In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will
+frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign
+parts. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners
+will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent Street is not
+unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live
+Yankees have often scared the natives. But New Bedford beats all Water
+Street and Wapping. In these last-mentioned haunts you see only
+sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street
+corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy
+flesh. It makes a stranger stare.
+
+But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians,
+and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft
+which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still
+more curious, certainly more comical. There weekly arrive in this town
+scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain
+and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young, of stalwart frames;
+fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and
+snatch the whale-lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence
+they came. In some things you would think them but a few hours old.
+Look there! that chap strutting round the corner. He wears a beaver hat
+and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.
+Here comes another with a sou’-wester and a bombazine cloak.
+
+No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one—I mean a
+downright bumpkin dandy—a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his
+two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands. Now when a
+country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished
+reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the
+comical things he does upon reaching the seaport. In bespeaking his
+sea-outfit, he orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats; straps to his
+canvas trowsers. Ah, poor Hay-Seed! how bitterly will burst those
+straps in the first howling gale, when thou art driven, straps,
+buttons, and all, down the throat of the tempest.
+
+But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals,
+and bumpkins to show her visitors. Not at all. Still New Bedford is a
+queer place. Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would
+this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of
+Labrador. As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten
+one, they look so bony. The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to
+live in, in all New England. It is a land of oil, true enough: but not
+like Canaan; a land, also, of corn and wine. The streets do not run
+with milk; nor in the spring-time do they pave them with fresh eggs.
+Yet, in spite of this, nowhere in all America will you find more
+patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New
+Bedford. Whence came they? how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of
+a country?
+
+Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty
+mansion, and your question will be answered. Yes; all these brave
+houses and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian
+oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up hither from the
+bottom of the sea. Can Herr Alexander perform a feat like that?
+
+In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their
+daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
+You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say,
+they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly
+burn their lengths in spermaceti candles.
+
+In summer time, the town is sweet to see; full of fine maples—long
+avenues of green and gold. And in August, high in air, the beautiful
+and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by
+their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms. So omnipotent is
+art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright
+terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at
+creation’s final day.
+
+And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But
+roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks
+is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens. Elsewhere match that
+bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young
+girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off
+shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of
+the Puritanic sands.
+
+
+CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
+
+In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman’s Chapel, and few are
+the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who
+fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot. I am sure that I did not.
+
+Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out upon this
+special errand. The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving
+sleet and mist. Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called
+bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm. Entering, I found
+a small scattered congregation of sailors, and sailors’ wives and
+widows. A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks
+of the storm. Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart
+from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and
+incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these
+silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble
+tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the
+pulpit. Three of them ran something like the following, but I do not
+pretend to quote:—
+
+SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN TALBOT, Who, at the age of eighteen, was
+lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, _November_
+1_st_, 1836. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS SISTER.
+
+SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT LONG, WILLIS ELLERY, NATHAN COLEMAN,
+WALTER CANNY, SETH MACY, AND SAMUEL GLEIG, Forming one of the boats’
+crews OF THE SHIP ELIZA Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the
+Off-shore Ground in the PACIFIC, _December_ 31_st_, 1839. THIS MARBLE
+Is here placed by their surviving SHIPMATES.
+
+SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY, Who in the bows
+of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, _August_
+3_d_, 1833. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW.
+
+Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated
+myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see
+Queequeg near me. Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was a
+wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance. This savage
+was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because
+he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading
+those frigid inscriptions on the wall. Whether any of the relatives of
+the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation,
+I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery,
+and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not
+the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here
+before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of
+those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed
+afresh.
+
+Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing
+among flowers can say—here, _here_ lies my beloved; ye know not the
+desolation that broods in bosoms like these. What bitter blanks in
+those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes! What despair in
+those immovable inscriptions! What deadly voids and unbidden
+infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse
+resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a
+grave. As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as
+here.
+
+In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included;
+why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no
+tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is
+that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix
+so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if
+he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the
+Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what
+eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies
+antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we
+still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are
+dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all
+the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify
+a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.
+
+But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these
+dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
+
+It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a
+Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky
+light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who
+had gone before me. Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. But
+somehow I grew merry again. Delightful inducements to embark, fine
+chance for promotion, it seems—aye, a stove boat will make me an
+immortal by brevet. Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a
+speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what
+then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.
+Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true
+substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too
+much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking
+that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees
+of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is
+not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat
+and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
+
+
+CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
+
+I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable
+robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon
+admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation,
+sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain. Yes, it
+was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen, among whom he
+was a very great favourite. He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in
+his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the
+ministry. At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy
+winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging
+into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his
+wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing
+bloom—the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February’s snow. No
+one having previously heard his history, could for the first time
+behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were
+certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that
+adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that
+he carried no umbrella, and certainly had not come in his carriage, for
+his tarpaulin hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot
+cloth jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight of
+the water it had absorbed. However, hat and coat and overshoes were one
+by one removed, and hung up in a little space in an adjacent corner;
+when, arrayed in a decent suit, he quietly approached the pulpit.
+
+Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a
+regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the
+floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the
+architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and
+finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side
+ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea. The wife
+of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of
+red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely
+headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance,
+considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad
+taste. Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both
+hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple
+cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still
+reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if
+ascending the main-top of his vessel.
+
+The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case
+with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of
+wood, so that at every step there was a joint. At my first glimpse of
+the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship,
+these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary. For I was not
+prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn
+round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder
+step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him
+impregnable in his little Quebec.
+
+I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for this.
+Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and
+sanctity, that I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any
+mere tricks of the stage. No, thought I, there must be some sober
+reason for this thing; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen.
+Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies
+his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties
+and connexions? Yes, for replenished with the meat and wine of the
+word, to the faithful man of God, this pulpit, I see, is a
+self-containing stronghold—a lofty Ehrenbreitstein, with a perennial
+well of water within the walls.
+
+But the side ladder was not the only strange feature of the place,
+borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea-farings. Between the marble
+cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back
+was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating
+against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy
+breakers. But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there
+floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel’s
+face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the
+ship’s tossed deck, something like that silver plate now inserted into
+the Victory’s plank where Nelson fell. “Ah, noble ship,” the angel
+seemed to say, “beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy
+helm; for lo! the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling
+off—serenest azure is at hand.”
+
+Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that
+had achieved the ladder and the picture. Its panelled front was in the
+likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a
+projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship’s fiddle-headed
+beak.
+
+What could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth’s
+foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the
+world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first
+descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is
+the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds.
+Yes, the world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete;
+and the pulpit is its prow.
+
+
+CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
+
+Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered
+the scattered people to condense. “Starboard gangway, there! side away
+to larboard—larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!”
+
+There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a
+still slighter shuffling of women’s shoes, and all was quiet again, and
+every eye on the preacher.
+
+He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit’s bows, folded his
+large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and
+offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying
+at the bottom of the sea.
+
+This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a
+bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog—in such tones he
+commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards
+the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy—
+
+
+  “The ribs and terrors in the whale, Arched over me a dismal gloom,
+  While all God’s sun-lit waves rolled by, And lift me deepening down
+  to doom.
+
+  “I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there;
+  Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to
+  despair.
+
+  “In black distress, I called my God, When I could scarce believe him
+  mine, He bowed his ear to my complaints— No more the whale did me
+  confine.
+
+  “With speed he flew to my relief, As on a radiant dolphin borne;
+  Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone The face of my Deliverer God.
+
+  “My song for ever shall record That terrible, that joyful hour; I
+  give the glory to my God, His all the mercy and the power.”
+
+
+
+
+Nearly all joined in singing this hymn, which swelled high above the
+howling of the storm. A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned
+over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon
+the proper page, said: “Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the
+first chapter of Jonah—‘And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up
+Jonah.’”
+
+“Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters—four yarns—is one
+of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what
+depths of the soul does Jonah’s deep sealine sound! what a pregnant
+lesson to us is this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in
+the fish’s belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the
+floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the
+waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us! But _what_
+is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches? Shipmates, it is a
+two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to
+me as a pilot of the living God. As sinful men, it is a lesson to us
+all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly
+awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally
+the deliverance and joy of Jonah. As with all sinners among men, the
+sin of this son of Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the
+command of God—never mind now what that command was, or how
+conveyed—which he found a hard command. But all the things that God
+would have us do are hard for us to do—remember that—and hence, he
+oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we
+must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein
+the hardness of obeying God consists.
+
+“With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further flouts at
+God, by seeking to flee from Him. He thinks that a ship made by men
+will carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the
+Captains of this earth. He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks
+a ship that’s bound for Tarshish. There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto
+unheeded meaning here. By all accounts Tarshish could have been no
+other city than the modern Cadiz. That’s the opinion of learned men.
+And where is Cadiz, shipmates? Cadiz is in Spain; as far by water, from
+Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when
+the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern
+Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean,
+the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the
+westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar. See ye not
+then, shipmates, that Jonah sought to flee world-wide from God?
+Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with
+slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the
+shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas. So
+disordered, self-condemning is his look, that had there been policemen
+in those days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion of something wrong, had
+been arrested ere he touched a deck. How plainly he’s a fugitive! no
+baggage, not a hat-box, valise, or carpet-bag,—no friends accompany him
+to the wharf with their adieux. At last, after much dodging search, he
+finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo; and as
+he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin, all the sailors for
+the moment desist from hoisting in the goods, to mark the stranger’s
+evil eye. Jonah sees this; but in vain he tries to look all ease and
+confidence; in vain essays his wretched smile. Strong intuitions of the
+man assure the mariners he can be no innocent. In their gamesome but
+still serious way, one whispers to the other—“Jack, he’s robbed a
+widow;” or, “Joe, do you mark him; he’s a bigamist;” or, “Harry lad, I
+guess he’s the adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah, or belike,
+one of the missing murderers from Sodom.” Another runs to read the bill
+that’s stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is
+moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a
+parricide, and containing a description of his person. He reads, and
+looks from Jonah to the bill; while all his sympathetic shipmates now
+crowd round Jonah, prepared to lay their hands upon him. Frighted Jonah
+trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so
+much the more a coward. He will not confess himself suspected; but that
+itself is strong suspicion. So he makes the best of it; and when the
+sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised, they let him
+pass, and he descends into the cabin.
+
+“‘Who’s there?’ cries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making
+out his papers for the Customs—‘Who’s there?’ Oh! how that harmless
+question mangles Jonah! For the instant he almost turns to flee again.
+But he rallies. ‘I seek a passage in this ship to Tarshish; how soon
+sail ye, sir?’ Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah,
+though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that
+hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance. ‘We sail with the
+next coming tide,’ at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing
+him. ‘No sooner, sir?’—‘Soon enough for any honest man that goes a
+passenger.’ Ha! Jonah, that’s another stab. But he swiftly calls away
+the Captain from that scent. ‘I’ll sail with ye,’—he says,—‘the passage
+money how much is that?—I’ll pay now.’ For it is particularly written,
+shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history,
+‘that he paid the fare thereof’ ere the craft did sail. And taken with
+the context, this is full of meaning.
+
+“Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects
+crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In
+this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and
+without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all
+frontiers. So Jonah’s Captain prepares to test the length of Jonah’s
+purse, ere he judge him openly. He charges him thrice the usual sum;
+and it’s assented to. Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive;
+but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with
+gold. Yet when Jonah fairly takes out his purse, prudent suspicions
+still molest the Captain. He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
+Not a forger, any way, he mutters; and Jonah is put down for his
+passage. ‘Point out my state-room, Sir,’ says Jonah now, ‘I’m
+travel-weary; I need sleep.’ ‘Thou lookest like it,’ says the Captain,
+‘there’s thy room.’ Jonah enters, and would lock the door, but the lock
+contains no key. Hearing him foolishly fumbling there, the Captain
+laughs lowly to himself, and mutters something about the doors of
+convicts’ cells being never allowed to be locked within. All dressed
+and dusty as he is, Jonah throws himself into his berth, and finds the
+little state-room ceiling almost resting on his forehead. The air is
+close, and Jonah gasps. Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too,
+beneath the ship’s water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment
+of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of
+his bowels’ wards.
+
+“Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly
+oscillates in Jonah’s room; and the ship, heeling over towards the
+wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and
+all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity
+with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight
+itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it
+hung. The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his
+tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful
+fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance. But that
+contradiction in the lamp more and more appals him. The floor, the
+ceiling, and the side, are all awry. ‘Oh! so my conscience hangs in
+me!’ he groans, ‘straight upwards, so it burns; but the chambers of my
+soul are all in crookedness!’
+
+“Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still
+reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the
+Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him;
+as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy
+anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at
+last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as
+over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and
+there’s naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth,
+Jonah’s prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.
+
+“And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and
+from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening,
+glides to sea. That ship, my friends, was the first of recorded
+smugglers! the contraband was Jonah. But the sea rebels; he will not
+bear the wicked burden. A dreadful storm comes on, the ship is like to
+break. But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her; when
+boxes, bales, and jars are clattering overboard; when the wind is
+shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with
+trampling feet right over Jonah’s head; in all this raging tumult,
+Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep. He sees no black sky and raging sea,
+feels not the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds he the far
+rush of the mighty whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving
+the seas after him. Aye, shipmates, Jonah was gone down into the sides
+of the ship—a berth in the cabin as I have taken it, and was fast
+asleep. But the frightened master comes to him, and shrieks in his dead
+ear, ‘What meanest thou, O, sleeper! arise!’ Startled from his lethargy
+by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the
+deck, grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea. But at that moment he
+is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks. Wave
+after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs
+roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet
+afloat. And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the
+steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing
+bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the
+tormented deep.
+
+“Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his soul. In all his
+cringing attitudes, the God-fugitive is now too plainly known. The
+sailors mark him; more and more certain grow their suspicions of him,
+and at last, fully to test the truth, by referring the whole matter to
+high Heaven, they fall to casting lots, to see for whose cause this
+great tempest was upon them. The lot is Jonah’s; that discovered, then
+how furiously they mob him with their questions. ‘What is thine
+occupation? Whence comest thou? Thy country? What people? But mark now,
+my shipmates, the behavior of poor Jonah. The eager mariners but ask
+him who he is, and where from; whereas, they not only receive an answer
+to those questions, but likewise another answer to a question not put
+by them, but the unsolicited answer is forced from Jonah by the hard
+hand of God that is upon him.
+
+“‘I am a Hebrew,’ he cries—and then—‘I fear the Lord the God of Heaven
+who hath made the sea and the dry land!’ Fear him, O Jonah? Aye, well
+mightest thou fear the Lord God _then!_ Straightway, he now goes on to
+make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more
+appalled, but still are pitiful. For when Jonah, not yet supplicating
+God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his
+deserts,—when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him
+forth into the sea, for he knew that for _his_ sake this great tempest
+was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means
+to save the ship. But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder;
+then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not
+unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
+
+“And now behold Jonah taken up as an anchor and dropped into the sea;
+when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea
+is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leaving smooth water
+behind. He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless
+commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into
+the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory
+teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison. Then Jonah prayed
+unto the Lord out of the fish’s belly. But observe his prayer, and
+learn a weighty lesson. For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and
+wail for direct deliverance. He feels that his dreadful punishment is
+just. He leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with
+this, that spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards
+His holy temple. And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance;
+not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. And how pleasing
+to God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown in the eventual deliverance
+of him from the sea and the whale. Shipmates, I do not place Jonah
+before you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a
+model for repentance. Sin not; but if you do, take heed to repent of it
+like Jonah.”
+
+While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking,
+slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who,
+when describing Jonah’s sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
+His deep chest heaved as with a ground-swell; his tossed arms seemed
+the warring elements at work; and the thunders that rolled away from
+off his swarthy brow, and the light leaping from his eye, made all his
+simple hearers look on him with a quick fear that was strange to them.
+
+There now came a lull in his look, as he silently turned over the
+leaves of the Book once more; and, at last, standing motionless, with
+closed eyes, for the moment, seemed communing with God and himself.
+
+But again he leaned over towards the people, and bowing his head lowly,
+with an aspect of the deepest yet manliest humility, he spake these
+words:
+
+“Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands press
+upon me. I have read ye by what murky light may be mine the lesson that
+Jonah teaches to all sinners; and therefore to ye, and still more to
+me, for I am a greater sinner than ye. And now how gladly would I come
+down from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit,
+and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads _me_ that other
+and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to _me_, as a pilot of the
+living God. How being an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true
+things, and bidden by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the
+ears of a wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should
+raise, fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God
+by taking ship at Joppa. But God is everywhere; Tarshish he never
+reached. As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed
+him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him
+along ‘into the midst of the seas,’ where the eddying depths sucked him
+ten thousand fathoms down, and ‘the weeds were wrapped about his head,’
+and all the watery world of woe bowled over him. Yet even then beyond
+the reach of any plummet—‘out of the belly of hell’—when the whale
+grounded upon the ocean’s utmost bones, even then, God heard the
+engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried. Then God spake unto the
+fish; and from the shuddering cold and blackness of the sea, the whale
+came breeching up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the
+delights of air and earth; and ‘vomited out Jonah upon the dry land;’
+when the word of the Lord came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and
+beaten—his ears, like two sea-shells, still multitudinously murmuring
+of the ocean—Jonah did the Almighty’s bidding. And what was that,
+shipmates? To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood! That was it!
+
+“This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of
+the living God who slights it. Woe to him whom this world charms from
+Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God
+has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than
+to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe
+to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would
+not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him
+who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is
+himself a castaway!”
+
+He dropped and fell away from himself for a moment; then lifting his
+face to them again, showed a deep joy in his eyes, as he cried out with
+a heavenly enthusiasm,—“But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of
+every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight,
+than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than
+the kelson is low? Delight is to him—a far, far upward, and inward
+delight—who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever
+stands forth his own inexorable self. Delight is to him whose strong
+arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has
+gone down beneath him. Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the
+truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out
+from under the robes of Senators and Judges. Delight,—top-gallant
+delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his
+God, and is only a patriot to heaven. Delight is to him, whom all the
+waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake
+from this sure Keel of the Ages. And eternal delight and deliciousness
+will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final
+breath—O Father!—chiefly known to me by Thy rod—mortal or immortal,
+here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world’s,
+or mine own. Yet this is nothing: I leave eternity to Thee; for what is
+man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?”
+
+He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with
+his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed,
+and he was left alone in the place.
+
+
+CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
+
+Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there
+quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some
+time. He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the
+stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that
+little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a
+jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to
+himself in his heathenish way.
+
+But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going
+to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap
+began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth
+page—as I fancied—stopping a moment, looking vacantly around him, and
+giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment. He
+would then begin again at the next fifty; seeming to commence at number
+one each time, as though he could not count more than fifty, and it was
+only by such a large number of fifties being found together, that his
+astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited.
+
+With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and
+hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste—his countenance
+yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You
+cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I
+saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes,
+fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a
+thousand devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty
+bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not
+altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never
+had had a creditor. Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved,
+his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked
+more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to
+decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent
+one. It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington’s
+head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It had the same long
+regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were
+likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on
+top. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
+
+Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be
+looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my
+presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but
+appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous
+book. Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night
+previous, and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found
+thrown over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this indifference
+of his very strange. But savages are strange beings; at times you do
+not know exactly how to take them. At first they are overawing; their
+calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom. I had
+noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little,
+with the other seamen in the inn. He made no advances whatever;
+appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances.
+All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts, there
+was something almost sublime in it. Here was a man some twenty thousand
+miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only
+way he could get there—thrown among people as strange to him as though
+he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease;
+preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship;
+always equal to himself. Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy;
+though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as that. But,
+perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of
+so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man
+gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the
+dyspeptic old woman, he must have “broken his digester.”
+
+As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that
+mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then
+only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering
+round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain; the
+storm booming without in solemn swells; I began to be sensible of
+strange feelings. I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart
+and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing
+savage had redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a
+nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland
+deceits. Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to
+feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that
+would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus
+drew me. I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness
+has proved but hollow courtesy. I drew my bench near him, and made some
+friendly signs and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile. At
+first he little noticed these advances; but presently, upon my
+referring to his last night’s hospitalities, he made out to ask me
+whether we were again to be bedfellows. I told him yes; whereat I
+thought he looked pleased, perhaps a little complimented.
+
+We then turned over the book together, and I endeavored to explain to
+him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures
+that were in it. Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we
+went to jabbering the best we could about the various outer sights to
+be seen in this famous town. Soon I proposed a social smoke; and,
+producing his pouch and tomahawk, he quietly offered me a puff. And
+then we sat exchanging puffs from that wild pipe of his, and keeping it
+regularly passing between us.
+
+If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan’s
+breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and
+left us cronies. He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and
+unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his
+forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that
+henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country’s phrase, that we
+were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be. In a
+countryman, this sudden flame of friendship would have seemed far too
+premature, a thing to be much distrusted; but in this simple savage
+those old rules would not apply.
+
+After supper, and another social chat and smoke, we went to our room
+together. He made me a present of his embalmed head; took out his
+enormous tobacco wallet, and groping under the tobacco, drew out some
+thirty dollars in silver; then spreading them on the table, and
+mechanically dividing them into two equal portions, pushed one of them
+towards me, and said it was mine. I was going to remonstrate; but he
+silenced me by pouring them into my trowsers’ pockets. I let them stay.
+He then went about his evening prayers, took out his idol, and removed
+the paper fireboard. By certain signs and symptoms, I thought he seemed
+anxious for me to join him; but well knowing what was to follow, I
+deliberated a moment whether, in case he invited me, I would comply or
+otherwise.
+
+I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible
+Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in
+worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you
+suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and
+earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an
+insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do
+the will of God—_that_ is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do
+to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—_that_ is
+the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish
+that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular
+Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him
+in his; ergo, I must turn idolator. So I kindled the shavings; helped
+prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with
+Queequeg; salamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that
+done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences
+and all the world. But we did not go to sleep without some little chat.
+
+How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential
+disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the
+very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often
+lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our
+hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.
+
+
+CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
+
+We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and
+Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs
+over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free
+and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what
+little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like
+getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.
+
+Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position
+began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves
+sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the
+head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two
+noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans. We felt
+very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors;
+indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the
+room. The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some
+small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world
+that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If
+you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been
+so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. But
+if, like Queequeg and me in the bed, the tip of your nose or the crown
+of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general
+consciousness you feel most delightfully and unmistakably warm. For
+this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire,
+which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height
+of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket
+between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there
+you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
+
+We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at
+once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether
+by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always
+keeping my eyes shut, in order the more to concentrate the snugness of
+being in bed. Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright
+except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper
+element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey
+part. Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant and
+self-created darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom of the
+unilluminated twelve-o’clock-at-night, I experienced a disagreeable
+revulsion. Nor did I at all object to the hint from Queequeg that
+perhaps it were best to strike a light, seeing that we were so wide
+awake; and besides he felt a strong desire to have a few quiet puffs
+from his Tomahawk. Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong
+repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how
+elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
+For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me,
+even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy
+then. I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord’s policy of
+insurance. I was only alive to the condensed confidential
+comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
+With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the
+Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue
+hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.
+
+Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage away to
+far distant scenes, I know not, but he now spoke of his native island;
+and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go on and tell it. He
+gladly complied. Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of
+his words, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar
+with his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole story
+such as it may prove in the mere skeleton I give.
+
+
+CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
+
+Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and
+South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
+
+When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a
+grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green
+sapling; even then, in Queequeg’s ambitious soul, lurked a strong
+desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or
+two. His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and
+on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of
+unconquerable warriors. There was excellent blood in his veins—royal
+stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he
+nourished in his untutored youth.
+
+A Sag Harbor ship visited his father’s bay, and Queequeg sought a
+passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of
+seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father’s influence
+could prevail. But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled
+off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when
+she quitted the island. On one side was a coral reef; on the other a
+low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into
+the water. Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with
+its prow seaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand; and
+when the ship was gliding by, like a flash he darted out; gained her
+side; with one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank his canoe;
+climbed up the chains; and throwing himself at full length upon the
+deck, grappled a ring-bolt there, and swore not to let it go, though
+hacked in pieces.
+
+In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a
+cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and
+Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his
+wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and
+told him he might make himself at home. But this fine young savage—this
+sea Prince of Wales, never saw the Captain’s cabin. They put him down
+among the sailors, and made a whaleman of him. But like Czar Peter
+content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained
+no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of
+enlightening his untutored countrymen. For at bottom—so he told me—he
+was actuated by a profound desire to learn among the Christians, the
+arts whereby to make his people still happier than they were; and more
+than that, still better than they were. But, alas! the practices of
+whalemen soon convinced him that even Christians could be both
+miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father’s
+heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the
+sailors did there; and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they
+spent their wages in _that_ place also, poor Queequeg gave it up for
+lost. Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a
+pagan.
+
+And thus an old idolator at heart, he yet lived among these Christians,
+wore their clothes, and tried to talk their gibberish. Hence the queer
+ways about him, though now some time from home.
+
+By hints, I asked him whether he did not propose going back, and having
+a coronation; since he might now consider his father dead and gone, he
+being very old and feeble at the last accounts. He answered no, not
+yet; and added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians,
+had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty
+pagan Kings before him. But by and by, he said, he would return,—as
+soon as he felt himself baptized again. For the nonce, however, he
+proposed to sail about, and sow his wild oats in all four oceans. They
+had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a
+sceptre now.
+
+I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future
+movements. He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation. Upon
+this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my
+intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port
+for an adventurous whaleman to embark from. He at once resolved to
+accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the
+same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my
+every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of
+both worlds. To all this I joyously assented; for besides the affection
+I now felt for Queequeg, he was an experienced harpooneer, and as such,
+could not fail to be of great usefulness to one, who, like me, was
+wholly ignorant of the mysteries of whaling, though well acquainted
+with the sea, as known to merchant seamen.
+
+His story being ended with his pipe’s last dying puff, Queequeg
+embraced me, pressed his forehead against mine, and blowing out the
+light, we rolled over from each other, this way and that, and very soon
+were sleeping.
+
+
+CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
+
+Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber,
+for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my
+comrade’s money. The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed
+amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between
+me and Queequeg—especially as Peter Coffin’s cock and bull stories
+about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person
+whom I now companied with.
+
+We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own
+poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg’s canvas sack and hammock, away we went
+down to “the Moss,” the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the
+wharf. As we were going along the people stared; not at Queequeg so
+much—for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their
+streets,—but at seeing him and me upon such confidential terms. But we
+heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg
+now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs. I
+asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore, and
+whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons. To this, in
+substance, he replied, that though what I hinted was true enough, yet
+he had a particular affection for his own harpoon, because it was of
+assured stuff, well tried in many a mortal combat, and deeply intimate
+with the hearts of whales. In short, like many inland reapers and
+mowers, who go into the farmers’ meadows armed with their own
+scythes—though in no wise obliged to furnish them—even so, Queequeg,
+for his own private reasons, preferred his own harpoon.
+
+Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about
+the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen. It was in Sag Harbor. The
+owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his
+heavy chest to his boarding house. Not to seem ignorant about the
+thing—though in truth he was entirely so, concerning the precise way in
+which to manage the barrow—Queequeg puts his chest upon it; lashes it
+fast; and then shoulders the barrow and marches up the wharf. “Why,”
+said I, “Queequeg, you might have known better than that, one would
+think. Didn’t the people laugh?”
+
+Upon this, he told me another story. The people of his island of
+Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water
+of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and
+this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided
+mat where the feast is held. Now a certain grand merchant ship once
+touched at Rokovoko, and its commander—from all accounts, a very
+stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain—this
+commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg’s sister, a
+pretty young princess just turned of ten. Well; when all the wedding
+guests were assembled at the bride’s bamboo cottage, this Captain
+marches in, and being assigned the post of honor, placed himself over
+against the punchbowl, and between the High Priest and his majesty the
+King, Queequeg’s father. Grace being said,—for those people have their
+grace as well as we—though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such
+times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying
+the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts—Grace, I
+say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial
+ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and
+consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage
+circulates. Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the
+ceremony, and thinking himself—being Captain of a ship—as having plain
+precedence over a mere island King, especially in the King’s own
+house—the Captain coolly proceeds to wash his hands in the
+punchbowl;—taking it I suppose for a huge finger-glass. “Now,” said
+Queequeg, “what you tink now?—Didn’t our people laugh?”
+
+At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the
+schooner. Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one
+side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees
+all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of
+casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the
+world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while
+from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises
+of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises
+were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only
+begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on,
+for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness
+of all earthly effort.
+
+Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little
+Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his
+snortings. How I snuffed that Tartar air!—how I spurned that turnpike
+earth!—that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish
+heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea
+which will permit no records.
+
+At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me.
+His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed
+teeth. On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Moss did homage to
+the blast; ducked and dived her bows as a slave before the Sultan.
+Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a
+wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
+So full of this reeling scene were we, as we stood by the plunging
+bowsprit, that for some time we did not notice the jeering glances of
+the passengers, a lubber-like assembly, who marvelled that two fellow
+beings should be so companionable; as though a white man were anything
+more dignified than a whitewashed negro. But there were some boobies
+and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come
+from the heart and centre of all verdure. Queequeg caught one of these
+young saplings mimicking him behind his back. I thought the bumpkin’s
+hour of doom was come. Dropping his harpoon, the brawny savage caught
+him in his arms, and by an almost miraculous dexterity and strength,
+sent him high up bodily into the air; then slightly tapping his stern
+in mid-somerset, the fellow landed with bursting lungs upon his feet,
+while Queequeg, turning his back upon him, lighted his tomahawk pipe
+and passed it to me for a puff.
+
+“Capting! Capting!” yelled the bumpkin, running towards that officer;
+“Capting, Capting, here’s the devil.”
+
+“Hallo, _you_ sir,” cried the Captain, a gaunt rib of the sea, stalking
+up to Queequeg, “what in thunder do you mean by that? Don’t you know
+you might have killed that chap?”
+
+“What him say?” said Queequeg, as he mildly turned to me.
+
+“He say,” said I, “that you came near kill-e that man there,” pointing
+to the still shivering greenhorn.
+
+“Kill-e,” cried Queequeg, twisting his tattooed face into an unearthly
+expression of disdain, “ah! him bevy small-e fish-e; Queequeg no kill-e
+so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!”
+
+“Look you,” roared the Captain, “I’ll kill-e _you_, you cannibal, if
+you try any more of your tricks aboard here; so mind your eye.”
+
+But it so happened just then, that it was high time for the Captain to
+mind his own eye. The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted
+the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to
+side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck. The poor
+fellow whom Queequeg had handled so roughly, was swept overboard; all
+hands were in a panic; and to attempt snatching at the boom to stay it,
+seemed madness. It flew from right to left, and back again, almost in
+one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of
+snapping into splinters. Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable
+of being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing
+the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale. In the
+midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and
+crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured
+one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso,
+caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next
+jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe. The schooner was
+run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern
+boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long
+living arc of a leap. For three minutes or more he was seen swimming
+like a dog, throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by
+turns revealing his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam. I
+looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved.
+The greenhorn had gone down. Shooting himself perpendicularly from the
+water, Queequeg, now took an instant’s glance around him, and seeming
+to see just how matters were, dived down and disappeared. A few minutes
+more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other
+dragging a lifeless form. The boat soon picked them up. The poor
+bumpkin was restored. All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the
+captain begged his pardon. From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a
+barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.
+
+Was there ever such unconsciousness? He did not seem to think that he
+at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies. He
+only asked for water—fresh water—something to wipe the brine off; that
+done, he put on dry clothes, lighted his pipe, and leaning against the
+bulwarks, and mildly eyeing those around him, seemed to be saying to
+himself—“It’s a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We
+cannibals must help these Christians.”
+
+
+CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
+
+Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a
+fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket.
+
+Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of
+the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely
+than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it—a mere hillock, and elbow of
+sand; all beach, without a background. There is more sand there than
+you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper. Some
+gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they
+don’t grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have
+to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that
+pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true
+cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses,
+to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an
+oasis, three blades in a day’s walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand
+shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up,
+belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island
+of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will
+sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles. But these
+extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois.
+
+Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was
+settled by the red-men. Thus goes the legend. In olden times an eagle
+swooped down upon the New England coast, and carried off an infant
+Indian in his talons. With loud lament the parents saw their child
+borne out of sight over the wide waters. They resolved to follow in the
+same direction. Setting out in their canoes, after a perilous passage
+they discovered the island, and there they found an empty ivory
+casket,—the poor little Indian’s skeleton.
+
+What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should
+take to the sea for a livelihood! They first caught crabs and quohogs
+in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more
+experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last,
+launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world;
+put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at
+Behring’s Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared
+everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the
+flood; most monstrous and most mountainous! That Himmalehan, salt-sea
+Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that
+his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and
+malicious assaults!
+
+And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from
+their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the watery world like
+so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific,
+and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America
+add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English
+overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun;
+two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer’s. For the sea
+is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a
+right of way through it. Merchant ships are but extension bridges;
+armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though
+following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships,
+other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw
+their living from the bottomless deep itself. The Nantucketer, he alone
+resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to
+it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation.
+_There_ is his home; _there_ lies his business, which a Noah’s flood
+would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China.
+He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among
+the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps. For years
+he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells
+like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman.
+With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to
+sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight
+of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his
+very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
+
+
+CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
+
+It was quite late in the evening when the little Moss came snugly to
+anchor, and Queequeg and I went ashore; so we could attend to no
+business that day, at least none but a supper and a bed. The landlord
+of the Spouter-Inn had recommended us to his cousin Hosea Hussey of the
+Try Pots, whom he asserted to be the proprietor of one of the best kept
+hotels in all Nantucket, and moreover he had assured us that Cousin
+Hosea, as he called him, was famous for his chowders. In short, he
+plainly hinted that we could not possibly do better than try pot-luck
+at the Try Pots. But the directions he had given us about keeping a
+yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to
+the larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a
+corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first
+man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very
+much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg
+insisted that the yellow warehouse—our first point of departure—must be
+left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say
+it was on the starboard. However, by dint of beating about a little in
+the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to
+inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no
+mistaking.
+
+Two enormous wooden pots painted black, and suspended by asses’ ears,
+swung from the cross-trees of an old top-mast, planted in front of an
+old doorway. The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the other
+side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows.
+Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I
+could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving. A sort
+of crick was in my neck as I gazed up to the two remaining horns; yes,
+_two_ of them, one for Queequeg, and one for me. It’s ominous, thinks
+I. A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first whaling port;
+tombstones staring at me in the whalemen’s chapel; and here a gallows!
+and a pair of prodigious black pots too! Are these last throwing out
+oblique hints touching Tophet?
+
+I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman
+with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn,
+under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured
+eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen
+shirt.
+
+“Get along with ye,” said she to the man, “or I’ll be combing ye!”
+
+“Come on, Queequeg,” said I, “all right. There’s Mrs. Hussey.”
+
+And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving
+Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs. Upon
+making known our desires for a supper and a bed, Mrs. Hussey,
+postponing further scolding for the present, ushered us into a little
+room, and seating us at a table spread with the relics of a recently
+concluded repast, turned round to us and said—“Clam or Cod?”
+
+“What’s that about Cods, ma’am?” said I, with much politeness.
+
+“Clam or Cod?” she repeated.
+
+“A clam for supper? a cold clam; is _that_ what you mean, Mrs. Hussey?”
+says I, “but that’s a rather cold and clammy reception in the winter
+time, ain’t it, Mrs. Hussey?”
+
+But being in a great hurry to resume scolding the man in the purple
+Shirt, who was waiting for it in the entry, and seeming to hear nothing
+but the word “clam,” Mrs. Hussey hurried towards an open door leading
+to the kitchen, and bawling out “clam for two,” disappeared.
+
+“Queequeg,” said I, “do you think that we can make out a supper for us
+both on one clam?”
+
+However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the
+apparently cheerless prospect before us. But when that smoking chowder
+came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh, sweet friends!
+hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than
+hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up
+into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully
+seasoned with pepper and salt. Our appetites being sharpened by the
+frosty voyage, and in particular, Queequeg seeing his favourite fishing
+food before him, and the chowder being surpassingly excellent, we
+despatched it with great expedition: when leaning back a moment and
+bethinking me of Mrs. Hussey’s clam and cod announcement, I thought I
+would try a little experiment. Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered
+the word “cod” with great emphasis, and resumed my seat. In a few
+moments the savoury steam came forth again, but with a different
+flavor, and in good time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.
+
+We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I
+to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head? What’s
+that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people? “But look,
+Queequeg, ain’t that a live eel in your bowl? Where’s your harpoon?”
+
+Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its
+name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for
+breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you
+began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. The area
+before the house was paved with clam-shells. Mrs. Hussey wore a
+polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account
+books bound in superior old shark-skin. There was a fishy flavor to the
+milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning
+happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen’s
+boats, I saw Hosea’s brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and
+marching along the sand with each foot in a cod’s decapitated head,
+looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.
+
+Supper concluded, we received a lamp, and directions from Mrs. Hussey
+concerning the nearest way to bed; but, as Queequeg was about to
+precede me up the stairs, the lady reached forth her arm, and demanded
+his harpoon; she allowed no harpoon in her chambers. “Why not?” said I;
+“every true whaleman sleeps with his harpoon—but why not?” “Because
+it’s dangerous,” says she. “Ever since young Stiggs coming from that
+unfort’nt v’y’ge of his, when he was gone four years and a half, with
+only three barrels of _ile_, was found dead in my first floor back,
+with his harpoon in his side; ever since then I allow no boarders to
+take sich dangerous weepons in their rooms at night. So, Mr. Queequeg”
+(for she had learned his name), “I will just take this here iron, and
+keep it for you till morning. But the chowder; clam or cod to-morrow
+for breakfast, men?”
+
+“Both,” says I; “and let’s have a couple of smoked herring by way of
+variety.”
+
+
+CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
+
+In bed we concocted our plans for the morrow. But to my surprise and no
+small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had been
+diligently consulting Yojo—the name of his black little god—and Yojo
+had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it
+everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in
+harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say,
+Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest
+wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; and, in order
+to do so, had already pitched upon a vessel, which, if left to myself,
+I, Ishmael, should infallibly light upon, for all the world as though
+it had turned out by chance; and in that vessel I must immediately ship
+myself, for the present irrespective of Queequeg.
+
+I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed great
+confidence in the excellence of Yojo’s judgment and surprising forecast
+of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem, as a rather
+good sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon the whole, but in
+all cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
+
+Now, this plan of Queequeg’s, or rather Yojo’s, touching the selection
+of our craft; I did not like that plan at all. I had not a little
+relied upon Queequeg’s sagacity to point out the whaler best fitted to
+carry us and our fortunes securely. But as all my remonstrances
+produced no effect upon Queequeg, I was obliged to acquiesce; and
+accordingly prepared to set about this business with a determined
+rushing sort of energy and vigor, that should quickly settle that
+trifling little affair. Next morning early, leaving Queequeg shut up
+with Yojo in our little bedroom—for it seemed that it was some sort of
+Lent or Ramadan, or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer with
+Queequeg and Yojo that day; _how_ it was I never could find out, for,
+though I applied myself to it several times, I never could master his
+liturgies and XXXIX Articles—leaving Queequeg, then, fasting on his
+tomahawk pipe, and Yojo warming himself at his sacrificial fire of
+shavings, I sallied out among the shipping. After much prolonged
+sauntering and many random inquiries, I learnt that there were three
+ships up for three-years’ voyages—The Devil-dam, the Tit-bit, and the
+Pequod. _Devil-Dam_, I do not know the origin of; _Tit-bit_ is obvious;
+_Pequod_, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated
+tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I
+peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped over to the
+Tit-bit; and finally, going on board the Pequod, looked around her for
+a moment, and then decided that this was the very ship for us.
+
+You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I
+know;—square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box
+galliots, and what not; but take my word for it, you never saw such a
+rare old craft as this same rare old Pequod. She was a ship of the old
+school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned claw-footed
+look about her. Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and
+calms of all four oceans, her old hull’s complexion was darkened like a
+French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her
+venerable bows looked bearded. Her masts—cut somewhere on the coast of
+Japan, where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale—her masts
+stood stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne. Her
+ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped
+flag-stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Becket bled. But to all these
+her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining
+to the wild business that for more than half a century she had
+followed. Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief-mate, before he
+commanded another vessel of his own, and now a retired seaman, and one
+of the principal owners of the Pequod,—this old Peleg, during the term
+of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and
+inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device,
+unmatched by anything except it be Thorkill-Hake’s carved buckler or
+bedstead. She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his
+neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of
+trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased
+bones of her enemies. All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were
+garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the
+sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews
+and tendons to. Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood,
+but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory. Scorning a turnstile
+wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller
+was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her
+hereditary foe. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest,
+felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching
+its jaw. A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things
+are touched with that.
+
+Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having
+authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at
+first I saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of
+tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little behind the main-mast. It
+seemed only a temporary erection used in port. It was of a conical
+shape, some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber
+black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the
+right-whale. Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of
+these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at
+the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved
+to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem’s head. A
+triangular opening faced towards the bows of the ship, so that the
+insider commanded a complete view forward.
+
+And half concealed in this queer tenement, I at length found one who by
+his aspect seemed to have authority; and who, it being noon, and the
+ship’s work suspended, was now enjoying respite from the burden of
+command. He was seated on an old-fashioned oaken chair, wriggling all
+over with curious carving; and the bottom of which was formed of a
+stout interlacing of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was
+constructed.
+
+There was nothing so very particular, perhaps, about the appearance of
+the elderly man I saw; he was brown and brawny, like most old seamen,
+and heavily rolled up in blue pilot-cloth, cut in the Quaker style;
+only there was a fine and almost microscopic net-work of the minutest
+wrinkles interlacing round his eyes, which must have arisen from his
+continual sailings in many hard gales, and always looking to
+windward;—for this causes the muscles about the eyes to become pursed
+together. Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl.
+
+“Is this the Captain of the Pequod?” said I, advancing to the door of
+the tent.
+
+“Supposing it be the captain of the Pequod, what dost thou want of
+him?” he demanded.
+
+“I was thinking of shipping.”
+
+“Thou wast, wast thou? I see thou art no Nantucketer—ever been in a
+stove boat?”
+
+“No, Sir, I never have.”
+
+“Dost know nothing at all about whaling, I dare say—eh?
+
+“Nothing, Sir; but I have no doubt I shall soon learn. I’ve been
+several voyages in the merchant service, and I think that—”
+
+“Merchant service be damned. Talk not that lingo to me. Dost see that
+leg?—I’ll take that leg away from thy stern, if ever thou talkest of
+the marchant service to me again. Marchant service indeed! I suppose
+now ye feel considerable proud of having served in those marchant
+ships. But flukes! man, what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh?—it
+looks a little suspicious, don’t it, eh?—Hast not been a pirate, hast
+thou?—Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?—Dost not think of
+murdering the officers when thou gettest to sea?”
+
+I protested my innocence of these things. I saw that under the mask of
+these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated
+Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather
+distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the
+Vineyard.
+
+“But what takes thee a-whaling? I want to know that before I think of
+shipping ye.”
+
+“Well, sir, I want to see what whaling is. I want to see the world.”
+
+“Want to see what whaling is, eh? Have ye clapped eye on Captain Ahab?”
+
+“Who is Captain Ahab, sir?”
+
+“Aye, aye, I thought so. Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship.”
+
+“I am mistaken then. I thought I was speaking to the Captain himself.”
+
+“Thou art speaking to Captain Peleg—that’s who ye are speaking to,
+young man. It belongs to me and Captain Bildad to see the Pequod fitted
+out for the voyage, and supplied with all her needs, including crew. We
+are part owners and agents. But as I was going to say, if thou wantest
+to know what whaling is, as thou tellest ye do, I can put ye in a way
+of finding it out before ye bind yourself to it, past backing out. Clap
+eye on Captain Ahab, young man, and thou wilt find that he has only one
+leg.”
+
+“What do you mean, sir? Was the other one lost by a whale?”
+
+“Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed
+up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a
+boat!—ah, ah!”
+
+I was a little alarmed by his energy, perhaps also a little touched at
+the hearty grief in his concluding exclamation, but said as calmly as I
+could, “What you say is no doubt true enough, sir; but how could I know
+there was any peculiar ferocity in that particular whale, though indeed
+I might have inferred as much from the simple fact of the accident.”
+
+“Look ye now, young man, thy lungs are a sort of soft, d’ye see; thou
+dost not talk shark a bit. _Sure_, ye’ve been to sea before now; sure
+of that?”
+
+“Sir,” said I, “I thought I told you that I had been four voyages in
+the merchant—”
+
+“Hard down out of that! Mind what I said about the marchant
+service—don’t aggravate me—I won’t have it. But let us understand each
+other. I have given thee a hint about what whaling is; do ye yet feel
+inclined for it?”
+
+“I do, sir.”
+
+“Very good. Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live
+whale’s throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!”
+
+“I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to
+be got rid of, that is; which I don’t take to be the fact.”
+
+“Good again. Now then, thou not only wantest to go a-whaling, to find
+out by experience what whaling is, but ye also want to go in order to
+see the world? Was not that what ye said? I thought so. Well then, just
+step forward there, and take a peep over the weather-bow, and then back
+to me and tell me what ye see there.”
+
+For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not
+knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest. But
+concentrating all his crow’s feet into one scowl, Captain Peleg started
+me on the errand.
+
+Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the
+ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely
+pointing towards the open ocean. The prospect was unlimited, but
+exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I
+could see.
+
+“Well, what’s the report?” said Peleg when I came back; “what did ye
+see?”
+
+“Not much,” I replied—“nothing but water; considerable horizon though,
+and there’s a squall coming up, I think.”
+
+“Well, what does thou think then of seeing the world? Do ye wish to go
+round Cape Horn to see any more of it, eh? Can’t ye see the world where
+you stand?”
+
+I was a little staggered, but go a-whaling I must, and I would; and the
+Pequod was as good a ship as any—I thought the best—and all this I now
+repeated to Peleg. Seeing me so determined, he expressed his
+willingness to ship me.
+
+“And thou mayest as well sign the papers right off,” he added—“come
+along with ye.” And so saying, he led the way below deck into the
+cabin.
+
+Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and
+surprising figure. It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with
+Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other
+shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd
+of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards;
+each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a
+nail or two in the ship. People in Nantucket invest their money in
+whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state
+stocks bringing in good interest.
+
+Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a
+Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to
+this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the
+peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified by
+things altogether alien and heterogeneous. For some of these same
+Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They
+are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.
+
+So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with
+Scripture names—a singularly common fashion on the island—and in
+childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the
+Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless
+adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these
+unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not
+unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when
+these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a
+globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and
+seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and
+beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think
+untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature’s sweet or
+savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding
+breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental
+advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language—that man makes
+one in a whole nation’s census—a mighty pageant creature, formed for
+noble tragedies. Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically
+regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems
+a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature. For
+all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be
+sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
+But, as yet we have not to do with such an one, but with quite another;
+and still a man, who, if indeed peculiar, it only results again from
+another phase of the Quaker, modified by individual circumstances.
+
+Like Captain Peleg, Captain Bildad was a well-to-do, retired whaleman.
+But unlike Captain Peleg—who cared not a rush for what are called
+serious things, and indeed deemed those self-same serious things the
+veriest of all trifles—Captain Bildad had not only been originally
+educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism, but
+all his subsequent ocean life, and the sight of many unclad, lovely
+island creatures, round the Horn—all that had not moved this native
+born Quaker one single jot, had not so much as altered one angle of his
+vest. Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common
+consistency about worthy Captain Bildad. Though refusing, from
+conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself
+had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn
+foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled
+tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore. How now in the contemplative evening
+of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the
+reminiscence, I do not know; but it did not seem to concern him much,
+and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible
+conclusion that a man’s religion is one thing, and this practical world
+quite another. This world pays dividends. Rising from a little
+cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a
+broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header,
+chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship owner; Bildad, as I hinted
+before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from
+active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining
+days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.
+
+Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an
+incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard
+task-master. They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seems a
+curious story, that when he sailed the old Categut whaleman, his crew,
+upon arriving home, were mostly all carried ashore to the hospital,
+sore exhausted and worn out. For a pious man, especially for a Quaker,
+he was certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least. He never used
+to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an
+inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them. When
+Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-coloured eye intently looking
+at you, made you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch
+something—a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at
+something or other, never mind what. Indolence and idleness perished
+before him. His own person was the exact embodiment of his utilitarian
+character. On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no
+superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like
+the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.
+
+Such, then, was the person that I saw seated on the transom when I
+followed Captain Peleg down into the cabin. The space between the decks
+was small; and there, bolt-upright, sat old Bildad, who always sat so,
+and never leaned, and this to save his coat tails. His broad-brim was
+placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was
+buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in
+reading from a ponderous volume.
+
+“Bildad,” cried Captain Peleg, “at it again, Bildad, eh? Ye have been
+studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years, to my
+certain knowledge. How far ye got, Bildad?”
+
+As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate,
+Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up,
+and seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg.
+
+“He says he’s our man, Bildad,” said Peleg, “he wants to ship.”
+
+“Dost thee?” said Bildad, in a hollow tone, and turning round to me.
+
+“I _dost_,” said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.
+
+“What do ye think of him, Bildad?” said Peleg.
+
+“He’ll do,” said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at
+his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
+
+I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg,
+his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer. But I said
+nothing, only looking round me sharply. Peleg now threw open a chest,
+and drawing forth the ship’s articles, placed pen and ink before him,
+and seated himself at a little table. I began to think it was high time
+to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for
+the voyage. I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid
+no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares
+of the profits called _lays_, and that these lays were proportioned to
+the degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the
+ship’s company. I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my
+own lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used to the
+sea, could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that, I made no doubt
+that from all I had heard I should be offered at least the 275th
+lay—that is, the 275th part of the clear net proceeds of the voyage,
+whatever that might eventually amount to. And though the 275th lay was
+what they call a rather _long lay_, yet it was better than nothing; and
+if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I
+would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years’ beef and board,
+for which I would not have to pay one stiver.
+
+It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely
+fortune—and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am one of those
+that never take on about princely fortunes, and am quite content if the
+world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up at this
+grim sign of the Thunder Cloud. Upon the whole, I thought that the
+275th lay would be about the fair thing, but would not have been
+surprised had I been offered the 200th, considering I was of a
+broad-shouldered make.
+
+But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about
+receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard
+something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad;
+how that they being the principal proprietors of the Pequod, therefore
+the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners, left nearly the
+whole management of the ship’s affairs to these two. And I did not know
+but what the stingy old Bildad might have a mighty deal to say about
+shipping hands, especially as I now found him on board the Pequod,
+quite at home there in the cabin, and reading his Bible as if at his
+own fireside. Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend a pen with his
+jack-knife, old Bildad, to my no small surprise, considering that he
+was such an interested party in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded
+us, but went on mumbling to himself out of his book, “_Lay_ not up for
+yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth—”
+
+“Well, Captain Bildad,” interrupted Peleg, “what d’ye say, what lay
+shall we give this young man?”
+
+“Thou knowest best,” was the sepulchral reply, “the seven hundred and
+seventy-seventh wouldn’t be too much, would it?—‘where moth and rust do
+corrupt, but _lay_—’”
+
+_Lay_, indeed, thought I, and such a lay! the seven hundred and
+seventy-seventh! Well, old Bildad, you are determined that I, for one,
+shall not _lay_ up many _lays_ here below, where moth and rust do
+corrupt. It was an exceedingly _long lay_ that, indeed; and though from
+the magnitude of the figure it might at first deceive a landsman, yet
+the slightest consideration will show that though seven hundred and
+seventy-seven is a pretty large number, yet, when you come to make a
+_teenth_ of it, you will then see, I say, that the seven hundred and
+seventy-seventh part of a farthing is a good deal less than seven
+hundred and seventy-seven gold doubloons; and so I thought at the time.
+
+“Why, blast your eyes, Bildad,” cried Peleg, “thou dost not want to
+swindle this young man! he must have more than that.”
+
+“Seven hundred and seventy-seventh,” again said Bildad, without lifting
+his eyes; and then went on mumbling—“for where your treasure is, there
+will your heart be also.”
+
+“I am going to put him down for the three hundredth,” said Peleg, “do
+ye hear that, Bildad! The three hundredth lay, I say.”
+
+Bildad laid down his book, and turning solemnly towards him said,
+“Captain Peleg, thou hast a generous heart; but thou must consider the
+duty thou owest to the other owners of this ship—widows and orphans,
+many of them—and that if we too abundantly reward the labors of this
+young man, we may be taking the bread from those widows and those
+orphans. The seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay, Captain Peleg.”
+
+“Thou Bildad!” roared Peleg, starting up and clattering about the
+cabin. “Blast ye, Captain Bildad, if I had followed thy advice in these
+matters, I would afore now had a conscience to lug about that would be
+heavy enough to founder the largest ship that ever sailed round Cape
+Horn.”
+
+“Captain Peleg,” said Bildad steadily, “thy conscience may be drawing
+ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can’t tell; but as thou art
+still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy
+conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering
+down to the fiery pit, Captain Peleg.”
+
+“Fiery pit! fiery pit! ye insult me, man; past all natural bearing, ye
+insult me. It’s an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that
+he’s bound to hell. Flukes and flames! Bildad, say that again to me,
+and start my soul-bolts, but I’ll—I’ll—yes, I’ll swallow a live goat
+with all his hair and horns on. Out of the cabin, ye canting,
+drab-coloured son of a wooden gun—a straight wake with ye!”
+
+As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a
+marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
+
+Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and
+responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up all
+idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily
+commanded, I stepped aside from the door to give egress to Bildad, who,
+I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened
+wrath of Peleg. But to my astonishment, he sat down again on the
+transom very quietly, and seemed to have not the slightest intention of
+withdrawing. He seemed quite used to impenitent Peleg and his ways. As
+for Peleg, after letting off his rage as he had, there seemed no more
+left in him, and he, too, sat down like a lamb, though he twitched a
+little as if still nervously agitated. “Whew!” he whistled at last—“the
+squall’s gone off to leeward, I think. Bildad, thou used to be good at
+sharpening a lance, mend that pen, will ye. My jack-knife here needs
+the grindstone. That’s he; thank ye, Bildad. Now then, my young man,
+Ishmael’s thy name, didn’t ye say? Well then, down ye go here, Ishmael,
+for the three hundredth lay.”
+
+“Captain Peleg,” said I, “I have a friend with me who wants to ship
+too—shall I bring him down to-morrow?”
+
+“To be sure,” said Peleg. “Fetch him along, and we’ll look at him.”
+
+“What lay does he want?” groaned Bildad, glancing up from the book in
+which he had again been burying himself.
+
+“Oh! never thee mind about that, Bildad,” said Peleg. “Has he ever
+whaled it any?” turning to me.
+
+“Killed more whales than I can count, Captain Peleg.”
+
+“Well, bring him along then.”
+
+And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I
+had done a good morning’s work, and that the Pequod was the identical
+ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.
+
+But I had not proceeded far, when I began to bethink me that the
+Captain with whom I was to sail yet remained unseen by me; though,
+indeed, in many cases, a whale-ship will be completely fitted out, and
+receive all her crew on board, ere the captain makes himself visible by
+arriving to take command; for sometimes these voyages are so prolonged,
+and the shore intervals at home so exceedingly brief, that if the
+captain have a family, or any absorbing concernment of that sort, he
+does not trouble himself much about his ship in port, but leaves her to
+the owners till all is ready for sea. However, it is always as well to
+have a look at him before irrevocably committing yourself into his
+hands. Turning back I accosted Captain Peleg, inquiring where Captain
+Ahab was to be found.
+
+“And what dost thou want of Captain Ahab? It’s all right enough; thou
+art shipped.”
+
+“Yes, but I should like to see him.”
+
+“But I don’t think thou wilt be able to at present. I don’t know
+exactly what’s the matter with him; but he keeps close inside the
+house; a sort of sick, and yet he don’t look so. In fact, he ain’t
+sick; but no, he isn’t well either. Any how, young man, he won’t always
+see me, so I don’t suppose he will thee. He’s a queer man, Captain
+Ahab—so some think—but a good one. Oh, thou’lt like him well enough; no
+fear, no fear. He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab;
+doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen.
+Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in
+colleges, as well as ’mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders
+than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than
+whales. His lance! aye, the keenest and the surest that out of all our
+isle! Oh! he ain’t Captain Bildad; no, and he ain’t Captain Peleg;
+_he’s Ahab_, boy; and Ahab of old, thou knowest, was a crowned king!”
+
+“And a very vile one. When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did
+they not lick his blood?”
+
+“Come hither to me—hither, hither,” said Peleg, with a significance in
+his eye that almost startled me. “Look ye, lad; never say that on board
+the Pequod. Never say it anywhere. Captain Ahab did not name himself.
+’Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother, who died
+when he was only a twelvemonth old. And yet the old squaw Tistig, at
+Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic. And,
+perhaps, other fools like her may tell thee the same. I wish to warn
+thee. It’s a lie. I know Captain Ahab well; I’ve sailed with him as
+mate years ago; I know what he is—a good man—not a pious, good man,
+like Bildad, but a swearing good man—something like me—only there’s a
+good deal more of him. Aye, aye, I know that he was never very jolly;
+and I know that on the passage home, he was a little out of his mind
+for a spell; but it was the sharp shooting pains in his bleeding stump
+that brought that about, as any one might see. I know, too, that ever
+since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he’s been a
+kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all
+pass off. And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young
+man, it’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad
+one. So good-bye to thee—and wrong not Captain Ahab, because he happens
+to have a wicked name. Besides, my boy, he has a wife—not three voyages
+wedded—a sweet, resigned girl. Think of that; by that sweet girl that
+old man has a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm
+in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his
+humanities!”
+
+As I walked away, I was full of thoughtfulness; what had been
+incidentally revealed to me of Captain Ahab, filled me with a certain
+wild vagueness of painfulness concerning him. And somehow, at the time,
+I felt a sympathy and a sorrow for him, but for I don’t know what,
+unless it was the cruel loss of his leg. And yet I also felt a strange
+awe of him; but that sort of awe, which I cannot at all describe, was
+not exactly awe; I do not know what it was. But I felt it; and it did
+not disincline me towards him; though I felt impatience at what seemed
+like mystery in him, so imperfectly as he was known to me then.
+However, my thoughts were at length carried in other directions, so
+that for the present dark Ahab slipped my mind.
+
+
+CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
+
+As Queequeg’s Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all
+day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I
+cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations,
+never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue
+even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other
+creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of
+footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the
+torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the
+inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.
+
+I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these
+things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals,
+pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these
+subjects. There was Queequeg, now, certainly entertaining the most
+absurd notions about Yojo and his Ramadan;—but what of that? Queequeg
+thought he knew what he was about, I suppose; he seemed to be content;
+and there let him rest. All our arguing with him would not avail; let
+him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans
+alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and
+sadly need mending.
+
+Towards evening, when I felt assured that all his performances and
+rituals must be over, I went up to his room and knocked at the door;
+but no answer. I tried to open it, but it was fastened inside.
+“Queequeg,” said I softly through the key-hole:—all silent. “I say,
+Queequeg! why don’t you speak? It’s I—Ishmael.” But all remained still
+as before. I began to grow alarmed. I had allowed him such abundant
+time; I thought he might have had an apoplectic fit. I looked through
+the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the
+key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one. I could only see
+part of the foot-board of the bed and a line of the wall, but nothing
+more. I was surprised to behold resting against the wall the wooden
+shaft of Queequeg’s harpoon, which the landlady the evening previous
+had taken from him, before our mounting to the chamber. That’s strange,
+thought I; but at any rate, since the harpoon stands yonder, and he
+seldom or never goes abroad without it, therefore he must be inside
+here, and no possible mistake.
+
+“Queequeg!—Queequeg!”—all still. Something must have happened.
+Apoplexy! I tried to burst open the door; but it stubbornly resisted.
+Running down stairs, I quickly stated my suspicions to the first person
+I met—the chamber-maid. “La! la!” she cried, “I thought something must
+be the matter. I went to make the bed after breakfast, and the door was
+locked; and not a mouse to be heard; and it’s been just so silent ever
+since. But I thought, may be, you had both gone off and locked your
+baggage in for safe keeping. La! la, ma’am!—Mistress! murder! Mrs.
+Hussey! apoplexy!”—and with these cries, she ran towards the kitchen, I
+following.
+
+Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a
+vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation
+of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy
+meantime.
+
+“Wood-house!” cried I, “which way to it? Run for God’s sake, and fetch
+something to pry open the door—the axe!—the axe! he’s had a stroke;
+depend upon it!”—and so saying I was unmethodically rushing up stairs
+again empty-handed, when Mrs. Hussey interposed the mustard-pot and
+vinegar-cruet, and the entire castor of her countenance.
+
+“What’s the matter with you, young man?”
+
+“Get the axe! For God’s sake, run for the doctor, some one, while I pry
+it open!”
+
+“Look here,” said the landlady, quickly putting down the vinegar-cruet,
+so as to have one hand free; “look here; are you talking about prying
+open any of my doors?”—and with that she seized my arm. “What’s the
+matter with you? What’s the matter with you, shipmate?”
+
+In as calm, but rapid a manner as possible, I gave her to understand
+the whole case. Unconsciously clapping the vinegar-cruet to one side of
+her nose, she ruminated for an instant; then exclaimed—“No! I haven’t
+seen it since I put it there.” Running to a little closet under the
+landing of the stairs, she glanced in, and returning, told me that
+Queequeg’s harpoon was missing. “He’s killed himself,” she cried. “It’s
+unfort’nate Stiggs done over again—there goes another counterpane—God
+pity his poor mother!—it will be the ruin of my house. Has the poor lad
+a sister? Where’s that girl?—there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter,
+and tell him to paint me a sign, with—“no suicides permitted here, and
+no smoking in the parlor;”—might as well kill both birds at once. Kill?
+The Lord be merciful to his ghost! What’s that noise there? You, young
+man, avast there!”
+
+And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force
+open the door.
+
+“I don’t allow it; I won’t have my premises spoiled. Go for the
+locksmith, there’s one about a mile from here. But avast!” putting her
+hand in her side-pocket, “here’s a key that’ll fit, I guess; let’s
+see.” And with that, she turned it in the lock; but, alas! Queequeg’s
+supplemental bolt remained unwithdrawn within.
+
+“Have to burst it open,” said I, and was running down the entry a
+little, for a good start, when the landlady caught at me, again vowing
+I should not break down her premises; but I tore from her, and with a
+sudden bodily rush dashed myself full against the mark.
+
+With a prodigious noise the door flew open, and the knob slamming
+against the wall, sent the plaster to the ceiling; and there, good
+heavens! there sat Queequeg, altogether cool and self-collected; right
+in the middle of the room; squatting on his hams, and holding Yojo on
+top of his head. He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat
+like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.
+
+“Queequeg,” said I, going up to him, “Queequeg, what’s the matter with
+you?”
+
+“He hain’t been a sittin’ so all day, has he?” said the landlady.
+
+But all we said, not a word could we drag out of him; I almost felt
+like pushing him over, so as to change his position, for it was almost
+intolerable, it seemed so painfully and unnaturally constrained;
+especially, as in all probability he had been sitting so for upwards of
+eight or ten hours, going too without his regular meals.
+
+“Mrs. Hussey,” said I, “he’s _alive_ at all events; so leave us, if you
+please, and I will see to this strange affair myself.”
+
+Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavored to prevail upon
+Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain. There he sat; and all he could
+do—for all my polite arts and blandishments—he would not move a peg,
+nor say a single word, nor even look at me, nor notice my presence in
+the slightest way.
+
+I wonder, thought I, if this can possibly be a part of his Ramadan; do
+they fast on their hams that way in his native island. It must be so;
+yes, it’s part of his creed, I suppose; well, then, let him rest; he’ll
+get up sooner or later, no doubt. It can’t last for ever, thank God,
+and his Ramadan only comes once a year; and I don’t believe it’s very
+punctual then.
+
+I went down to supper. After sitting a long time listening to the long
+stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum-pudding voyage,
+as they called it (that is, a short whaling-voyage in a schooner or
+brig, confined to the north of the line, in the Atlantic Ocean only);
+after listening to these plum-puddingers till nearly eleven o’clock, I
+went up stairs to go to bed, feeling quite sure by this time Queequeg
+must certainly have brought his Ramadan to a termination. But no; there
+he was just where I had left him; he had not stirred an inch. I began
+to grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless and insane to
+be sitting there all day and half the night on his hams in a cold room,
+holding a piece of wood on his head.
+
+“For heaven’s sake, Queequeg, get up and shake yourself; get up and
+have some supper. You’ll starve; you’ll kill yourself, Queequeg.” But
+not a word did he reply.
+
+Despairing of him, therefore, I determined to go to bed and to sleep;
+and no doubt, before a great while, he would follow me. But previous to
+turning in, I took my heavy bearskin jacket, and threw it over him, as
+it promised to be a very cold night; and he had nothing but his
+ordinary round jacket on. For some time, do all I would, I could not
+get into the faintest doze. I had blown out the candle; and the mere
+thought of Queequeg—not four feet off—sitting there in that uneasy
+position, stark alone in the cold and dark; this made me really
+wretched. Think of it; sleeping all night in the same room with a wide
+awake pagan on his hams in this dreary, unaccountable Ramadan!
+
+But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of
+day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted Queequeg, as if he
+had been screwed down to the floor. But as soon as the first glimpse of
+sun entered the window, up he got, with stiff and grating joints, but
+with a cheerful look; limped towards me where I lay; pressed his
+forehead again against mine; and said his Ramadan was over.
+
+Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person’s religion,
+be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any
+other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when
+a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment
+to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to
+lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and
+argue the point with him.
+
+And just so I now did with Queequeg. “Queequeg,” said I, “get into bed
+now, and lie and listen to me.” I then went on, beginning with the rise
+and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various
+religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show
+Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings
+in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health;
+useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene
+and common sense. I told him, too, that he being in other things such
+an extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly
+pained me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous
+Ramadan of his. Besides, argued I, fasting makes the body cave in;
+hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must
+necessarily be half-starved. This is the reason why most dyspeptic
+religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters. In
+one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first
+born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated
+through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
+
+I then asked Queequeg whether he himself was ever troubled with
+dyspepsia; expressing the idea very plainly, so that he could take it
+in. He said no; only upon one memorable occasion. It was after a great
+feast given by his father the king, on the gaining of a great battle
+wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o’clock in the
+afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.
+
+“No more, Queequeg,” said I, shuddering; “that will do;” for I knew the
+inferences without his further hinting them. I had seen a sailor who
+had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom,
+when a great battle had been gained there, to barbecue all the slain in
+the yard or garden of the victor; and then, one by one, they were
+placed in great wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau,
+with breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths,
+were sent round with the victor’s compliments to all his friends, just
+as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys.
+
+After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion made much
+impression upon Queequeg. Because, in the first place, he somehow
+seemed dull of hearing on that important subject, unless considered
+from his own point of view; and, in the second place, he did not more
+than one third understand me, couch my ideas simply as I would; and,
+finally, he no doubt thought he knew a good deal more about the true
+religion than I did. He looked at me with a sort of condescending
+concern and compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such
+a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan
+piety.
+
+At last we rose and dressed; and Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty
+breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not
+make much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the
+Pequod, sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.
+
+
+CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
+
+As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg
+carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us
+from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal,
+and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that
+craft, unless they previously produced their papers.
+
+“What do you mean by that, Captain Peleg?” said I, now jumping on the
+bulwarks, and leaving my comrade standing on the wharf.
+
+“I mean,” he replied, “he must show his papers.”
+
+“Yes,” said Captain Bildad in his hollow voice, sticking his head from
+behind Peleg’s, out of the wigwam. “He must show that he’s converted.
+Son of darkness,” he added, turning to Queequeg, “art thou at present
+in communion with any Christian church?”
+
+“Why,” said I, “he’s a member of the first Congregational Church.” Here
+be it said, that many tattooed savages sailing in Nantucket ships at
+last come to be converted into the churches.
+
+“First Congregational Church,” cried Bildad, “what! that worships in
+Deacon Deuteronomy Coleman’s meeting-house?” and so saying, taking out
+his spectacles, he rubbed them with his great yellow bandana
+handkerchief, and putting them on very carefully, came out of the
+wigwam, and leaning stiffly over the bulwarks, took a good long look at
+Queequeg.
+
+“How long hath he been a member?” he then said, turning to me; “not
+very long, I rather guess, young man.”
+
+“No,” said Peleg, “and he hasn’t been baptized right either, or it
+would have washed some of that devil’s blue off his face.”
+
+“Do tell, now,” cried Bildad, “is this Philistine a regular member of
+Deacon Deuteronomy’s meeting? I never saw him going there, and I pass
+it every Lord’s day.”
+
+“I don’t know anything about Deacon Deuteronomy or his meeting,” said
+I; “all I know is, that Queequeg here is a born member of the First
+Congregational Church. He is a deacon himself, Queequeg is.”
+
+“Young man,” said Bildad sternly, “thou art skylarking with me—explain
+thyself, thou young Hittite. What church dost thee mean? answer me.”
+
+Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied. “I mean, sir, the same
+ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there,
+and Queequeg here, and all of us, and every mother’s son and soul of us
+belong; the great and everlasting First Congregation of this whole
+worshipping world; we all belong to that; only some of us cherish some
+queer crotchets no ways touching the grand belief; in _that_ we all
+join hands.”
+
+“Splice, thou mean’st _splice_ hands,” cried Peleg, drawing nearer.
+“Young man, you’d better ship for a missionary, instead of a fore-mast
+hand; I never heard a better sermon. Deacon Deuteronomy—why Father
+Mapple himself couldn’t beat it, and he’s reckoned something. Come
+aboard, come aboard; never mind about the papers. I say, tell Quohog
+there—what’s that you call him? tell Quohog to step along. By the great
+anchor, what a harpoon he’s got there! looks like good stuff that; and
+he handles it about right. I say, Quohog, or whatever your name is, did
+you ever stand in the head of a whale-boat? did you ever strike a
+fish?”
+
+Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, jumped upon
+the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats
+hanging to the side; and then bracing his left knee, and poising his
+harpoon, cried out in some such way as this:—
+
+“Cap’ain, you see him small drop tar on water dere? You see him? well,
+spose him one whale eye, well, den!” and taking sharp aim at it, he
+darted the iron right over old Bildad’s broad brim, clean across the
+ship’s decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.
+
+“Now,” said Queequeg, quietly hauling in the line, “spos-ee him whale-e
+eye; why, dad whale dead.”
+
+“Quick, Bildad,” said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close
+vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin
+gangway. “Quick, I say, you Bildad, and get the ship’s papers. We must
+have Hedgehog there, I mean Quohog, in one of our boats. Look ye,
+Quohog, we’ll give ye the ninetieth lay, and that’s more than ever was
+given a harpooneer yet out of Nantucket.”
+
+So down we went into the cabin, and to my great joy Queequeg was soon
+enrolled among the same ship’s company to which I myself belonged.
+
+When all preliminaries were over and Peleg had got everything ready for
+signing, he turned to me and said, “I guess, Quohog there don’t know
+how to write, does he? I say, Quohog, blast ye! dost thou sign thy name
+or make thy mark?”
+
+But at this question, Queequeg, who had twice or thrice before taken
+part in similar ceremonies, looked no ways abashed; but taking the
+offered pen, copied upon the paper, in the proper place, an exact
+counterpart of a queer round figure which was tattooed upon his arm; so
+that through Captain Peleg’s obstinate mistake touching his
+appellative, it stood something like this:—
+
+Quohog. his X mark.
+
+Meanwhile Captain Bildad sat earnestly and steadfastly eyeing Queequeg,
+and at last rising solemnly and fumbling in the huge pockets of his
+broad-skirted drab coat, took out a bundle of tracts, and selecting one
+entitled “The Latter Day Coming; or No Time to Lose,” placed it in
+Queequeg’s hands, and then grasping them and the book with both his,
+looked earnestly into his eyes, and said, “Son of darkness, I must do
+my duty by thee; I am part owner of this ship, and feel concerned for
+the souls of all its crew; if thou still clingest to thy Pagan ways,
+which I sadly fear, I beseech thee, remain not for aye a Belial
+bondsman. Spurn the idol Bell, and the hideous dragon; turn from the
+wrath to come; mind thine eye, I say; oh! goodness gracious! steer
+clear of the fiery pit!”
+
+Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad’s language,
+heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.
+
+“Avast there, avast there, Bildad, avast now spoiling our harpooneer,”
+cried Peleg. “Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers—it takes the
+shark out of ’em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who aint pretty
+sharkish. There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out
+of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never
+came to good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he
+shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case
+he got stove and went to Davy Jones.”
+
+“Peleg! Peleg!” said Bildad, lifting his eyes and hands, “thou thyself,
+as I myself, hast seen many a perilous time; thou knowest, Peleg, what
+it is to have the fear of death; how, then, can’st thou prate in this
+ungodly guise. Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg. Tell me, when this
+same Pequod here had her three masts overboard in that typhoon on
+Japan, that same voyage when thou went mate with Captain Ahab, did’st
+thou not think of Death and the Judgment then?”
+
+“Hear him, hear him now,” cried Peleg, marching across the cabin, and
+thrusting his hands far down into his pockets,—“hear him, all of ye.
+Think of that! When every moment we thought the ship would sink! Death
+and the Judgment then? What? With all three masts making such an
+everlasting thundering against the side; and every sea breaking over
+us, fore and aft. Think of Death and the Judgment then? No! no time to
+think about Death then. Life was what Captain Ahab and I was thinking
+of; and how to save all hands—how to rig jury-masts—how to get into the
+nearest port; that was what I was thinking of.”
+
+Bildad said no more, but buttoning up his coat, stalked on deck, where
+we followed him. There he stood, very quietly overlooking some
+sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist. Now and then he
+stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which
+otherwise might have been wasted.
+
+
+CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
+
+“Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?”
+
+Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from
+the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the
+above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us,
+levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question. He was but
+shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a
+black handkerchief investing his neck. A confluent small-pox had in all
+directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated
+ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.
+
+“Have ye shipped in her?” he repeated.
+
+“You mean the ship Pequod, I suppose,” said I, trying to gain a little
+more time for an uninterrupted look at him.
+
+“Aye, the Pequod—that ship there,” he said, drawing back his whole arm,
+and then rapidly shoving it straight out from him, with the fixed
+bayonet of his pointed finger darted full at the object.
+
+“Yes,” said I, “we have just signed the articles.”
+
+“Anything down there about your souls?”
+
+“About what?”
+
+“Oh, perhaps you hav’n’t got any,” he said quickly. “No matter though,
+I know many chaps that hav’n’t got any,—good luck to ’em; and they are
+all the better off for it. A soul’s a sort of a fifth wheel to a
+wagon.”
+
+“What are you jabbering about, shipmate?” said I.
+
+“_He’s_ got enough, though, to make up for all deficiencies of that
+sort in other chaps,” abruptly said the stranger, placing a nervous
+emphasis upon the word _he_.
+
+“Queequeg,” said I, “let’s go; this fellow has broken loose from
+somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know.”
+
+“Stop!” cried the stranger. “Ye said true—ye hav’n’t seen Old Thunder
+yet, have ye?”
+
+“Who’s Old Thunder?” said I, again riveted with the insane earnestness
+of his manner.
+
+“Captain Ahab.”
+
+“What! the captain of our ship, the Pequod?”
+
+“Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name. Ye
+hav’n’t seen him yet, have ye?”
+
+“No, we hav’n’t. He’s sick they say, but is getting better, and will be
+all right again before long.”
+
+“All right again before long!” laughed the stranger, with a solemnly
+derisive sort of laugh. “Look ye; when Captain Ahab is all right, then
+this left arm of mine will be all right; not before.”
+
+“What do you know about him?”
+
+“What did they _tell_ you about him? Say that!”
+
+“They didn’t tell much of anything about him; only I’ve heard that he’s
+a good whale-hunter, and a good captain to his crew.”
+
+“That’s true, that’s true—yes, both true enough. But you must jump when
+he gives an order. Step and growl; growl and go—that’s the word with
+Captain Ahab. But nothing about that thing that happened to him off
+Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights;
+nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar
+in Santa?—heard nothing about that, eh? Nothing about the silver
+calabash he spat into? And nothing about his losing his leg last
+voyage, according to the prophecy. Didn’t ye hear a word about them
+matters and something more, eh? No, I don’t think ye did; how could ye?
+Who knows it? Not all Nantucket, I guess. But hows’ever, mayhap, ye’ve
+heard tell about the leg, and how he lost it; aye, ye have heard of
+that, I dare say. Oh yes, _that_ every one knows a’most—I mean they
+know he’s only one leg; and that a parmacetti took the other off.”
+
+“My friend,” said I, “what all this gibberish of yours is about, I
+don’t know, and I don’t much care; for it seems to me that you must be
+a little damaged in the head. But if you are speaking of Captain Ahab,
+of that ship there, the Pequod, then let me tell you, that I know all
+about the loss of his leg.”
+
+“_All_ about it, eh—sure you do?—all?”
+
+“Pretty sure.”
+
+With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like
+stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a
+little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped, have ye? Names down on the
+papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will
+be; and then again, perhaps it won’t be, after all. Anyhow, it’s all
+fixed and arranged a’ready; and some sailors or other must go with him,
+I suppose; as well these as any other men, God pity ’em! Morning to ye,
+shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye; I’m sorry I stopped
+ye.”
+
+“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell
+us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are
+mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”
+
+“And it’s said very well, and I like to hear a chap talk up that way;
+you are just the man for him—the likes of ye. Morning to ye, shipmates,
+morning! Oh! when ye get there, tell ’em I’ve concluded not to make one
+of ’em.”
+
+“Ah, my dear fellow, you can’t fool us that way—you can’t fool us. It
+is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a
+great secret in him.”
+
+“Morning to ye, shipmates, morning.”
+
+“Morning it is,” said I. “Come along, Queequeg, let’s leave this crazy
+man. But stop, tell me your name, will you?”
+
+“Elijah.”
+
+Elijah! thought I, and we walked away, both commenting, after each
+other’s fashion, upon this ragged old sailor; and agreed that he was
+nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear. But we had not gone
+perhaps above a hundred yards, when chancing to turn a corner, and
+looking back as I did so, who should be seen but Elijah following us,
+though at a distance. Somehow, the sight of him struck me so, that I
+said nothing to Queequeg of his being behind, but passed on with my
+comrade, anxious to see whether the stranger would turn the same corner
+that we did. He did; and then it seemed to me that he was dogging us,
+but with what intent I could not for the life of me imagine. This
+circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing,
+shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments
+and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain
+Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver
+calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship
+the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the
+voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred other shadowy
+things.
+
+I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really
+dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg,
+and on that side of it retraced our steps. But Elijah passed on,
+without seeming to notice us. This relieved me; and once more, and
+finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
+
+
+CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
+
+A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod.
+Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on
+board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything
+betokened that the ship’s preparations were hurrying to a close.
+Captain Peleg seldom or never went ashore, but sat in his wigwam
+keeping a sharp look-out upon the hands: Bildad did all the purchasing
+and providing at the stores; and the men employed in the hold and on
+the rigging were working till long after night-fall.
+
+On the day following Queequeg’s signing the articles, word was given at
+all the inns where the ship’s company were stopping, that their chests
+must be on board before night, for there was no telling how soon the
+vessel might be sailing. So Queequeg and I got down our traps,
+resolving, however, to sleep ashore till the last. But it seems they
+always give very long notice in these cases, and the ship did not sail
+for several days. But no wonder; there was a good deal to be done, and
+there is no telling how many things to be thought of, before the Pequod
+was fully equipped.
+
+Every one knows what a multitude of things—beds, sauce-pans, knives and
+forks, shovels and tongs, napkins, nut-crackers, and what not, are
+indispensable to the business of housekeeping. Just so with whaling,
+which necessitates a three-years’ housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far
+from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers. And
+though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means
+to the same extent as with whalemen. For besides the great length of
+the whaling voyage, the numerous articles peculiar to the prosecution
+of the fishery, and the impossibility of replacing them at the remote
+harbors usually frequented, it must be remembered, that of all ships,
+whaling vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds, and
+especially to the destruction and loss of the very things upon which
+the success of the voyage most depends. Hence, the spare boats, spare
+spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but
+a spare Captain and duplicate ship.
+
+At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage of the
+Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef, bread, water,
+fuel, and iron hoops and staves. But, as before hinted, for some time
+there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and
+ends of things, both large and small.
+
+Chief among those who did this fetching and carrying was Captain
+Bildad’s sister, a lean old lady of a most determined and indefatigable
+spirit, but withal very kindhearted, who seemed resolved that, if _she_
+could help it, nothing should be found wanting in the Pequod, after
+once fairly getting to sea. At one time she would come on board with a
+jar of pickles for the steward’s pantry; another time with a bunch of
+quills for the chief mate’s desk, where he kept his log; a third time
+with a roll of flannel for the small of some one’s rheumatic back.
+Never did any woman better deserve her name, which was Charity—Aunt
+Charity, as everybody called her. And like a sister of charity did this
+charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn
+her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort,
+and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother
+Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of
+well-saved dollars.
+
+But it was startling to see this excellent hearted Quakeress coming on
+board, as she did the last day, with a long oil-ladle in one hand, and
+a still longer whaling lance in the other. Nor was Bildad himself nor
+Captain Peleg at all backward. As for Bildad, he carried about with him
+a long list of the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival, down
+went his mark opposite that article upon the paper. Every once in a
+while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men
+down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and
+then concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.
+
+During these days of preparation, Queequeg and I often visited the
+craft, and as often I asked about Captain Ahab, and how he was, and
+when he was going to come on board his ship. To these questions they
+would answer, that he was getting better and better, and was expected
+aboard every day; meantime, the two captains, Peleg and Bildad, could
+attend to everything necessary to fit the vessel for the voyage. If I
+had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly
+in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so
+long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the
+absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open
+sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he
+be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up
+his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I
+said nothing, and tried to think nothing.
+
+At last it was given out that some time next day the ship would
+certainly sail. So next morning, Queequeg and I took a very early
+start.
+
+
+CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
+
+It was nearly six o’clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we
+drew nigh the wharf.
+
+“There are some sailors running ahead there, if I see right,” said I to
+Queequeg, “it can’t be shadows; she’s off by sunrise, I guess; come
+on!”
+
+“Avast!” cried a voice, whose owner at the same time coming close
+behind us, laid a hand upon both our shoulders, and then insinuating
+himself between us, stood stooping forward a little, in the uncertain
+twilight, strangely peering from Queequeg to me. It was Elijah.
+
+“Going aboard?”
+
+“Hands off, will you,” said I.
+
+“Lookee here,” said Queequeg, shaking himself, “go ’way!”
+
+“Ain’t going aboard, then?”
+
+“Yes, we are,” said I, “but what business is that of yours? Do you
+know, Mr. Elijah, that I consider you a little impertinent?”
+
+“No, no, no; I wasn’t aware of that,” said Elijah, slowly and
+wonderingly looking from me to Queequeg, with the most unaccountable
+glances.
+
+“Elijah,” said I, “you will oblige my friend and me by withdrawing. We
+are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer not to be
+detained.”
+
+“Ye be, be ye? Coming back afore breakfast?”
+
+“He’s cracked, Queequeg,” said I, “come on.”
+
+“Holloa!” cried stationary Elijah, hailing us when we had removed a few
+paces.
+
+“Never mind him,” said I, “Queequeg, come on.”
+
+But he stole up to us again, and suddenly clapping his hand on my
+shoulder, said—“Did ye see anything looking like men going towards that
+ship a while ago?”
+
+Struck by this plain matter-of-fact question, I answered, saying, “Yes,
+I thought I did see four or five men; but it was too dim to be sure.”
+
+“Very dim, very dim,” said Elijah. “Morning to ye.”
+
+Once more we quitted him; but once more he came softly after us; and
+touching my shoulder again, said, “See if you can find ’em now, will
+ye?
+
+“Find who?”
+
+“Morning to ye! morning to ye!” he rejoined, again moving off. “Oh! I
+was going to warn ye against—but never mind, never mind—it’s all one,
+all in the family too;—sharp frost this morning, ain’t it? Good-bye to
+ye. Shan’t see ye again very soon, I guess; unless it’s before the
+Grand Jury.” And with these cracked words he finally departed, leaving
+me, for the moment, in no small wonderment at his frantic impudence.
+
+At last, stepping on board the Pequod, we found everything in profound
+quiet, not a soul moving. The cabin entrance was locked within; the
+hatches were all on, and lumbered with coils of rigging. Going forward
+to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open. Seeing a
+light, we went down, and found only an old rigger there, wrapped in a
+tattered pea-jacket. He was thrown at whole length upon two chests, his
+face downwards and inclosed in his folded arms. The profoundest slumber
+slept upon him.
+
+“Those sailors we saw, Queequeg, where can they have gone to?” said I,
+looking dubiously at the sleeper. But it seemed that, when on the
+wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I
+would have thought myself to have been optically deceived in that
+matter, were it not for Elijah’s otherwise inexplicable question. But I
+beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper, jocularly hinted to
+Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to
+establish himself accordingly. He put his hand upon the sleeper’s rear,
+as though feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado,
+sat quietly down there.
+
+“Gracious! Queequeg, don’t sit there,” said I.
+
+“Oh! perry dood seat,” said Queequeg, “my country way; won’t hurt him
+face.”
+
+“Face!” said I, “call that his face? very benevolent countenance then;
+but how hard he breathes, he’s heaving himself; get off, Queequeg, you
+are heavy, it’s grinding the face of the poor. Get off, Queequeg! Look,
+he’ll twitch you off soon. I wonder he don’t wake.”
+
+Queequeg removed himself to just beyond the head of the sleeper, and
+lighted his tomahawk pipe. I sat at the feet. We kept the pipe passing
+over the sleeper, from one to the other. Meanwhile, upon questioning
+him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his
+land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king,
+chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening
+some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house
+comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy
+fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves. Besides, it was
+very convenient on an excursion; much better than those garden-chairs
+which are convertible into walking-sticks; upon occasion, a chief
+calling his attendant, and desiring him to make a settee of himself
+under a spreading tree, perhaps in some damp marshy place.
+
+While narrating these things, every time Queequeg received the tomahawk
+from me, he flourished the hatchet-side of it over the sleeper’s head.
+
+“What’s that for, Queequeg?”
+
+“Perry easy, kill-e; oh! perry easy!”
+
+He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe,
+which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed
+his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger. The
+strong vapor now completely filling the contracted hole, it began to
+tell upon him. He breathed with a sort of muffledness; then seemed
+troubled in the nose; then revolved over once or twice; then sat up and
+rubbed his eyes.
+
+“Holloa!” he breathed at last, “who be ye smokers?”
+
+“Shipped men,” answered I, “when does she sail?”
+
+“Aye, aye, ye are going in her, be ye? She sails to-day. The Captain
+came aboard last night.”
+
+“What Captain?—Ahab?”
+
+“Who but him indeed?”
+
+I was going to ask him some further questions concerning Ahab, when we
+heard a noise on deck.
+
+“Holloa! Starbuck’s astir,” said the rigger. “He’s a lively chief mate,
+that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to.” And so
+saying he went on deck, and we followed.
+
+It was now clear sunrise. Soon the crew came on board in twos and
+threes; the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively
+engaged; and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various
+last things on board. Meanwhile Captain Ahab remained invisibly
+enshrined within his cabin.
+
+
+CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
+
+At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship’s
+riggers, and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and
+after the ever-thoughtful Charity had come off in a whale-boat, with
+her last gift—a night-cap for Stubb, the second mate, her
+brother-in-law, and a spare Bible for the steward—after all this, the
+two Captains, Peleg and Bildad, issued from the cabin, and turning to
+the chief mate, Peleg said:
+
+“Now, Mr. Starbuck, are you sure everything is right? Captain Ahab is
+all ready—just spoke to him—nothing more to be got from shore, eh?
+Well, call all hands, then. Muster ’em aft here—blast ’em!”
+
+“No need of profane words, however great the hurry, Peleg,” said
+Bildad, “but away with thee, friend Starbuck, and do our bidding.”
+
+How now! Here upon the very point of starting for the voyage, Captain
+Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on the
+quarter-deck, just as if they were to be joint-commanders at sea, as
+well as to all appearances in port. And, as for Captain Ahab, no sign
+of him was yet to be seen; only, they said he was in the cabin. But
+then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in
+getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea. Indeed,
+as that was not at all his proper business, but the pilot’s; and as he
+was not yet completely recovered—so they said—therefore, Captain Ahab
+stayed below. And all this seemed natural enough; especially as in the
+merchant service many captains never show themselves on deck for a
+considerable time after heaving up the anchor, but remain over the
+cabin table, having a farewell merry-making with their shore friends,
+before they quit the ship for good with the pilot.
+
+But there was not much chance to think over the matter, for Captain
+Peleg was now all alive. He seemed to do most of the talking and
+commanding, and not Bildad.
+
+“Aft here, ye sons of bachelors,” he cried, as the sailors lingered at
+the main-mast. “Mr. Starbuck, drive ’em aft.”
+
+“Strike the tent there!”—was the next order. As I hinted before, this
+whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the
+Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known
+to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
+
+“Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!—jump!”—was the next command, and
+the crew sprang for the handspikes.
+
+Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot
+is the forward part of the ship. And here Bildad, who, with Peleg, be
+it known, in addition to his other officers, was one of the licensed
+pilots of the port—he being suspected to have got himself made a pilot
+in order to save the Nantucket pilot-fee to all the ships he was
+concerned in, for he never piloted any other craft—Bildad, I say, might
+now be seen actively engaged in looking over the bows for the
+approaching anchor, and at intervals singing what seemed a dismal stave
+of psalmody, to cheer the hands at the windlass, who roared forth some
+sort of a chorus about the girls in Booble Alley, with hearty good
+will. Nevertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them that
+no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in
+getting under weigh; and Charity, his sister, had placed a small choice
+copy of Watts in each seaman’s berth.
+
+Meantime, overseeing the other part of the ship, Captain Peleg ripped
+and swore astern in the most frightful manner. I almost thought he
+would sink the ship before the anchor could be got up; involuntarily I
+paused on my handspike, and told Queequeg to do the same, thinking of
+the perils we both ran, in starting on the voyage with such a devil for
+a pilot. I was comforting myself, however, with the thought that in
+pious Bildad might be found some salvation, spite of his seven hundred
+and seventy-seventh lay; when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear,
+and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in
+the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity. That was my
+first kick.
+
+“Is that the way they heave in the marchant service?” he roared.
+“Spring, thou sheep-head; spring, and break thy backbone! Why don’t ye
+spring, I say, all of ye—spring! Quohog! spring, thou chap with the red
+whiskers; spring there, Scotch-cap; spring, thou green pants. Spring, I
+say, all of ye, and spring your eyes out!” And so saying, he moved
+along the windlass, here and there using his leg very freely, while
+imperturbable Bildad kept leading off with his psalmody. Thinks I,
+Captain Peleg must have been drinking something to-day.
+
+At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It
+was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into
+night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose
+freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. The long rows of
+teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white
+ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from
+the bows.
+
+Lank Bildad, as pilot, headed the first watch, and ever and anon, as
+the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering
+frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang, his
+steady notes were heard,—
+
+
+_“Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living
+green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.”_
+
+
+
+Never did those sweet words sound more sweetly to me than then. They
+were full of hope and fruition. Spite of this frigid winter night in
+the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there
+was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and
+meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the
+spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
+
+At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no
+longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging
+alongside.
+
+It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected
+at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad. For loath to depart, yet;
+very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a
+voyage—beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his
+hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate
+sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to
+encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to
+a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him,—poor old Bildad
+lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the
+cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and
+looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only
+bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the
+land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and
+nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin,
+convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern,
+for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say,
+“Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can.”
+
+As for Peleg himself, he took it more like a philosopher; but for all
+his philosophy, there was a tear twinkling in his eye, when the lantern
+came too near. And he, too, did not a little run from cabin to deck—now
+a word below, and now a word with Starbuck, the chief mate.
+
+But, at last, he turned to his comrade, with a final sort of look about
+him,—“Captain Bildad—come, old shipmate, we must go. Back the main-yard
+there! Boat ahoy! Stand by to come close alongside, now! Careful,
+careful!—come, Bildad, boy—say your last. Luck to ye, Starbuck—luck to
+ye, Mr. Stubb—luck to ye, Mr. Flask—good-bye and good luck to ye
+all—and this day three years I’ll have a hot supper smoking for ye in
+old Nantucket. Hurrah and away!”
+
+“God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men,” murmured old
+Bildad, almost incoherently. “I hope ye’ll have fine weather now, so
+that Captain Ahab may soon be moving among ye—a pleasant sun is all he
+needs, and ye’ll have plenty of them in the tropic voyage ye go. Be
+careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye
+harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent.
+within the year. Don’t forget your prayers, either. Mr. Starbuck, mind
+that cooper don’t waste the spare staves. Oh! the sail-needles are in
+the green locker! Don’t whale it too much a’ Lord’s days, men; but
+don’t miss a fair chance either, that’s rejecting Heaven’s good gifts.
+Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I
+thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication.
+Good-bye, good-bye! Don’t keep that cheese too long down in the hold,
+Mr. Starbuck; it’ll spoil. Be careful with the butter—twenty cents the
+pound it was, and mind ye, if—”
+
+“Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,—away!” and with that,
+Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat.
+
+Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a
+screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave
+three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone
+Atlantic.
+
+
+CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
+
+Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlanded
+mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.
+
+When on that shivering winter’s night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive
+bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her
+helm but Bulkington! I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon
+the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous
+voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another
+tempestuous term. The land seemed scorching to his feet. Wonderfullest
+things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs;
+this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington. Let me only
+say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that
+miserably drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give
+succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort,
+hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s kind to our
+mortalities. But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s
+direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land,
+though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and
+through. With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing,
+fights ’gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks
+all the lashed sea’s landlessness again; for refuge’s sake forlornly
+rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!
+
+Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally
+intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid
+effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the
+wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the
+treacherous, slavish shore?
+
+But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless,
+indefinite as God—so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite,
+than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For
+worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the
+terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O
+Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy
+ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
+
+
+CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
+
+As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling;
+and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among
+landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit; therefore, I
+am all anxiety to convince ye, ye landsmen, of the injustice hereby
+done to us hunters of whales.
+
+In the first place, it may be deemed almost superfluous to establish
+the fact, that among people at large, the business of whaling is not
+accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions. If a
+stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society,
+it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits, were
+he presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation
+of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F. (Sperm Whale
+Fishery) to his visiting card, such a procedure would be deemed
+pre-eminently presuming and ridiculous.
+
+Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honoring us
+whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a
+butchering sort of business; and that when actively engaged therein, we
+are surrounded by all manner of defilements. Butchers we are, that is
+true. But butchers, also, and butchers of the bloodiest badge have been
+all Martial Commanders whom the world invariably delights to honor. And
+as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye
+shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally
+unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm
+whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth. But
+even granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered
+slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable
+carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers return to
+drink in all ladies’ plaudits? And if the idea of peril so much
+enhances the popular conceit of the soldier’s profession; let me assure
+ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would
+quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale’s vast tail,
+fanning into eddies the air over his head. For what are the
+comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and
+wonders of God!
+
+But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it
+unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding
+adoration! for almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles that burn
+round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory!
+
+But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of
+scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been.
+
+Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling
+fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France, at his own personal expense, fit
+out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and politely invite to that town some
+score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket? Why did
+Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties
+upwards of £1,000,000? And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of
+America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world;
+sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen
+thousand men; yearly consuming 4,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth,
+at the time of sailing, $20,000,000! and every year importing into our
+harbors a well reaped harvest of $7,000,000. How comes all this, if
+there be not something puissant in whaling?
+
+But this is not the half; look again.
+
+I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life,
+point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty
+years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken
+in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling. One way
+and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves, and so
+continuously momentous in their sequential issues, that whaling may
+well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves
+pregnant from her womb. It would be a hopeless, endless task to
+catalogue all these things. Let a handful suffice. For many years past
+the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and
+least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes
+which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If
+American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once savage
+harbors, let them fire salutes to the honor and glory of the
+whale-ship, which originally showed them the way, and first interpreted
+between them and the savages. They may celebrate as they will the
+heroes of Exploring Expeditions, your Cooks, your Krusensterns; but I
+say that scores of anonymous Captains have sailed out of Nantucket,
+that were as great, and greater than your Cook and your Krusenstern.
+For in their succourless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish
+sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands,
+battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines
+and muskets would not willingly have dared. All that is made such a
+flourish of in the old South Sea Voyages, those things were but the
+life-time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers. Often, adventures
+which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted
+unworthy of being set down in the ship’s common log. Ah, the world! Oh,
+the world!
+
+Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial,
+scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe
+and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific
+coast. It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy
+of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted,
+it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated
+the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain,
+and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.
+
+That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was
+given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its first
+blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned
+those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched
+there. The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony.
+Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the
+emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent
+biscuit of the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters.
+The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do
+commercial homage to the whale-ship, that cleared the way for the
+missionary and the merchant, and in many cases carried the primitive
+missionaries to their first destinations. If that double-bolted land,
+Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom
+the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold.
+
+But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no
+æsthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to
+shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet
+every time.
+
+The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you
+will say.
+
+_The whale no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler?_ Who
+wrote the first account of our Leviathan? Who but mighty Job! And who
+composed the first narrative of a whaling-voyage? Who, but no less a
+prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down
+the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And
+who pronounced our glowing eulogy in Parliament? Who, but Edmund Burke!
+
+True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no
+good blood in their veins.
+
+_No good blood in their veins?_ They have something better than royal
+blood there. The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel;
+afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of
+Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and
+harpooneers—all kith and kin to noble Benjamin—this day darting the
+barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.
+
+Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not
+respectable.
+
+_Whaling not respectable?_ Whaling is imperial! By old English
+statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fish.” *
+
+Oh, that’s only nominal! The whale himself has never figured in any
+grand imposing way.
+
+_The whale never figured in any grand imposing way?_ In one of the
+mighty triumphs given to a Roman general upon his entering the world’s
+capital, the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian
+coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.*
+
+*See subsequent chapters for something more on this head.
+
+Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is no real
+dignity in whaling.
+
+_No dignity in whaling?_ The dignity of our calling the very heavens
+attest. Cetus is a constellation in the South! No more! Drive down your
+hat in presence of the Czar, and take it off to Queequeg! No more! I
+know a man that, in his lifetime, has taken three hundred and fifty
+whales. I account that man more honorable than that great captain of
+antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns.
+
+And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet
+undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute
+in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably
+ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a
+man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death,
+my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in
+my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory
+to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
+
+
+CHAPTER 25. Postscript.
+
+In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but
+substantiated facts. But after embattling his facts, an advocate who
+should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell
+eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be
+blameworthy?
+
+It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even
+modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their
+functions is gone through. There is a saltcellar of state, so called,
+and there may be a castor of state. How they use the salt,
+precisely—who knows? Certain I am, however, that a king’s head is
+solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad. Can it be,
+though, that they anoint it with a view of making its interior run
+well, as they anoint machinery? Much might be ruminated here,
+concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in
+common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints
+his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man
+who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a
+quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can’t amount to
+much in his totality.
+
+But the only thing to be considered here, is this—what kind of oil is
+used at coronations? Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar
+oil, nor castor oil, nor bear’s oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil.
+What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured,
+unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?
+
+Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and
+queens with coronation stuff!
+
+
+CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
+
+The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a
+Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an
+icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being
+hard as twice-baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood
+would not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been born in some time
+of general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which
+his state is famous. Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those
+summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. But this, his
+thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties
+and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight. It was
+merely the condensation of the man. He was by no means ill-looking;
+quite the contrary. His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and
+closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength,
+like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for
+long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow
+or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was
+warranted to do well in all climates. Looking into his eyes, you seemed
+to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he
+had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life
+for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame
+chapter of sounds. Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there
+were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some
+cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest. Uncommonly
+conscientious for a seaman, and endued with a deep natural reverence,
+the wild watery loneliness of his life did therefore strongly incline
+him to superstition; but to that sort of superstition, which in some
+organizations seems rather to spring, somehow, from intelligence than
+from ignorance. Outward portents and inward presentiments were his. And
+if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more
+did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child,
+tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature,
+and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some
+honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often
+evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery. “I
+will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a
+whale.” By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and
+useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the
+encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more
+dangerous comrade than a coward.
+
+“Aye, aye,” said Stubb, the second mate, “Starbuck, there, is as
+careful a man as you’ll find anywhere in this fishery.” But we shall
+ere long see what that word “careful” precisely means when used by a
+man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
+
+Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a
+sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon
+all mortally practical occasions. Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in
+this business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits
+of the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be foolishly
+wasted. Wherefore he had no fancy for lowering for whales after
+sun-down; nor for persisting in fighting a fish that too much persisted
+in fighting him. For, thought Starbuck, I am here in this critical
+ocean to kill whales for my living, and not to be killed by them for
+theirs; and that hundreds of men had been so killed Starbuck well knew.
+What doom was his own father’s? Where, in the bottomless deeps, could
+he find the torn limbs of his brother?
+
+With memories like these in him, and, moreover, given to a certain
+superstitiousness, as has been said; the courage of this Starbuck which
+could, nevertheless, still flourish, must indeed have been extreme. But
+it was not in reasonable nature that a man so organized, and with such
+terrible experiences and remembrances as he had; it was not in nature
+that these things should fail in latently engendering an element in
+him, which, under suitable circumstances, would break out from its
+confinement, and burn all his courage up. And brave as he might be, it
+was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which,
+while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or
+whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet
+cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors,
+which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged
+and mighty man.
+
+But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete
+abasement of poor Starbuck’s fortitude, scarce might I have the heart
+to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose
+the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint
+stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be;
+men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble
+and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any
+ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their
+costliest robes. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so
+far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character
+seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a
+valor-ruined man. Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight,
+completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. But
+this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes,
+but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou shalt
+see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that
+democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God;
+Himself! The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all
+democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
+
+If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall
+hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic
+graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among
+them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall
+touch that workman’s arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a
+rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics
+bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one
+royal mantle of humanity over all my kind! Bear me out in it, thou
+great democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict,
+Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly
+hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old
+Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who
+didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a
+throne! Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest
+Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O
+God!
+
+
+CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
+
+Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence,
+according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky;
+neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an
+indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the
+chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged
+for the year. Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his
+whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his
+crew all invited guests. He was as particular about the comfortable
+arrangement of his part of the boat, as an old stage-driver is about
+the snugness of his box. When close to the whale, in the very
+death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and
+off-handedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer. He would hum over his
+old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated
+monster. Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death
+into an easy chair. What he thought of death itself, there is no
+telling. Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question;
+but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a
+comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a
+sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there,
+about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and
+not sooner.
+
+What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going,
+unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a
+world full of grave pedlars, all bowed to the ground with their packs;
+what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that
+thing must have been his pipe. For, like his nose, his short, black
+little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would
+almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his
+nose as without his pipe. He kept a whole row of pipes there ready
+loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and, whenever
+he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from
+the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in
+readiness anew. For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his
+legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.
+
+I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his
+peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air,
+whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless
+miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in
+time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated
+handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal
+tribulations, Stubb’s tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of
+disinfecting agent.
+
+The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha’s Vineyard. A
+short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales,
+who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally
+and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of
+honor with him, to destroy them whenever encountered. So utterly lost
+was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic
+bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of
+any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion,
+the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least
+water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small
+application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil. This
+ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in
+the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a
+three years’ voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted
+that length of time. As a carpenter’s nails are divided into wrought
+nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided. Little Flask
+was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long. They
+called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could
+be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in
+Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers
+inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions
+of those battering seas.
+
+Now these three mates—Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, were momentous men.
+They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the
+Pequod’s boats as headsmen. In that grand order of battle in which
+Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the
+whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies. Or, being
+armed with their long keen whaling spears, they were as a picked trio
+of lancers; even as the harpooneers were flingers of javelins.
+
+And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic
+Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer,
+who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the
+former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and
+moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy
+and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set
+down who the Pequod’s harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of
+them belonged.
+
+First of all was Queequeg, whom Starbuck, the chief mate, had selected
+for his squire. But Queequeg is already known.
+
+Next was Tashtego, an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly
+promontory of Martha’s Vineyard, where there still exists the last
+remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the
+neighboring island of Nantucket with many of her most daring
+harpooneers. In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of
+Gay-Headers. Tashtego’s long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones,
+and black rounding eyes—for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but
+Antarctic in their glittering expression—all this sufficiently
+proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud
+warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had
+scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main. But no longer
+snuffing in the trail of the wild beasts of the woodland, Tashtego now
+hunted in the wake of the great whales of the sea; the unerring harpoon
+of the son fitly replacing the infallible arrow of the sires. To look
+at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have
+credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and
+half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers
+of the Air. Tashtego was Stubb the second mate’s squire.
+
+Third among the harpooneers was Daggoo, a gigantic, coal-black
+negro-savage, with a lion-like tread—an Ahasuerus to behold. Suspended
+from his ears were two golden hoops, so large that the sailors called
+them ring-bolts, and would talk of securing the top-sail halyards to
+them. In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler,
+lying in a lonely bay on his native coast. And never having been
+anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors
+most frequented by whalemen; and having now led for many years the bold
+life of the fishery in the ships of owners uncommonly heedful of what
+manner of men they shipped; Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues,
+and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six
+feet five in his socks. There was a corporeal humility in looking up at
+him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to
+beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro,
+Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a
+chess-man beside him. As for the residue of the Pequod’s company, be it
+said, that at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men
+before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans
+born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the same
+with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military
+and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the
+construction of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say,
+because in all these cases the native American liberally provides the
+brains, the rest of the world as generously supplying the muscles. No
+small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the
+outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews
+from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores. In like manner, the
+Greenland whalers sailing out of Hull or London, put in at the Shetland
+Islands, to receive the full complement of their crew. Upon the passage
+homewards, they drop them there again. How it is, there is no telling,
+but Islanders seem to make the best whalemen. They were nearly all
+Islanders in the Pequod, _Isolatoes_ too, I call such, not
+acknowledging the common continent of men, but each _Isolato_ living on
+a separate continent of his own. Yet now, federated along one keel,
+what a set these Isolatoes were! An Anacharsis Clootz deputation from
+all the isles of the sea, and all the ends of the earth, accompanying
+Old Ahab in the Pequod to lay the world’s grievances before that bar
+from which not very many of them ever come back. Black Little Pip—he
+never did—oh, no! he went before. Poor Alabama boy! On the grim
+Pequod’s forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine;
+prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck
+on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in
+glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!
+
+
+CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
+
+For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was
+seen of Captain Ahab. The mates regularly relieved each other at the
+watches, and for aught that could be seen to the contrary, they seemed
+to be the only commanders of the ship; only they sometimes issued from
+the cabin with orders so sudden and peremptory, that after all it was
+plain they but commanded vicariously. Yes, their supreme lord and
+dictator was there, though hitherto unseen by any eyes not permitted to
+penetrate into the now sacred retreat of the cabin.
+
+Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly
+gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible; for my first vague
+disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the
+sea, became almost a perturbation. This was strangely heightened at
+times by the ragged Elijah’s diabolical incoherences uninvitedly
+recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived
+of. But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was
+almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish
+prophet of the wharves. But whatever it was of apprehensiveness or
+uneasiness—to call it so—which I felt, yet whenever I came to look
+about me in the ship, it seemed against all warrantry to cherish such
+emotions. For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew,
+were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the
+tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me
+acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the
+fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation
+in which I had so abandonedly embarked. But it was especially the
+aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was
+most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and
+induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.
+Three better, more likely sea-officers and men, each in his own
+different way, could not readily be found, and they were every one of
+them Americans; a Nantucketer, a Vineyarder, a Cape man. Now, it being
+Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had
+biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the
+southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed,
+gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable
+weather behind us. It was one of those less lowering, but still grey
+and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the
+ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping
+and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of
+the forenoon watch, so soon as I levelled my glance towards the
+taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension;
+Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.
+
+There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him, nor of the
+recovery from any. He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when
+the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them,
+or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness. His
+whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an
+unalterable mould, like Cellini’s cast Perseus. Threading its way out
+from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his
+tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you
+saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that
+perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a
+great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and
+without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from
+top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still
+greenly alive, but branded. Whether that mark was born with him, or
+whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could
+certainly say. By some tacit consent, throughout the voyage little or
+no allusion was made to it, especially by the mates. But once
+Tashtego’s senior, an old Gay-Head Indian among the crew,
+superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years old did
+Ahab become that way branded, and then it came upon him, not in the
+fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea. Yet, this
+wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman
+insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out
+of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab. Nevertheless,
+the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested
+this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment. So that no
+white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever
+Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out—which might hardly come to
+pass, so he muttered—then, whoever should do that last office for the
+dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.
+
+So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the
+livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly
+noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the
+barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood. It had previously come
+to me that this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished
+bone of the sperm whale’s jaw. “Aye, he was dismasted off Japan,” said
+the old Gay-Head Indian once; “but like his dismasted craft, he shipped
+another mast without coming home for it. He has a quiver of ’em.”
+
+I was struck with the singular posture he maintained. Upon each side of
+the Pequod’s quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds,
+there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the
+plank. His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and
+holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out
+beyond the ship’s ever-pitching prow. There was an infinity of firmest
+fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and
+fearless, forward dedication of that glance. Not a word he spoke; nor
+did his officers say aught to him; though by all their minutest
+gestures and expressions, they plainly showed the uneasy, if not
+painful, consciousness of being under a troubled master-eye. And not
+only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion
+in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some
+mighty woe.
+
+Ere long, from his first visit in the air, he withdrew into his cabin.
+But after that morning, he was every day visible to the crew; either
+standing in his pivot-hole, or seated upon an ivory stool he had; or
+heavily walking the deck. As the sky grew less gloomy; indeed, began to
+grow a little genial, he became still less and less a recluse; as if,
+when the ship had sailed from home, nothing but the dead wintry
+bleakness of the sea had then kept him so secluded. And, by and by, it
+came to pass, that he was almost continually in the air; but, as yet,
+for all that he said, or perceptibly did, on the at last sunny deck, he
+seemed as unnecessary there as another mast. But the Pequod was only
+making a passage now; not regularly cruising; nearly all whaling
+preparatives needing supervision the mates were fully competent to, so
+that there was little or nothing, out of himself, to employ or excite
+Ahab, now; and thus chase away, for that one interval, the clouds that
+layer upon layer were piled upon his brow, as ever all clouds choose
+the loftiest peaks to pile themselves upon.
+
+Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the
+pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him
+from his mood. For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and
+May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest,
+ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some
+few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did,
+in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish
+air. More than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look,
+which, in any other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile.
+
+
+CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
+
+Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went
+rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost
+perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the
+Tropic. The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing,
+redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped
+up—flaked up, with rose-water snow. The starred and stately nights
+seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely
+pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted
+suns! For sleeping man, ’twas hard to choose between such winsome days
+and such seducing nights. But all the witcheries of that unwaning
+weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward
+world. Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild
+hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice
+most forms of noiseless twilights. And all these subtle agencies, more
+and more they wrought on Ahab’s texture.
+
+Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less
+man has to do with aught that looks like death. Among sea-commanders,
+the old greybeards will oftenest leave their berths to visit the
+night-cloaked deck. It was so with Ahab; only that now, of late, he
+seemed so much to live in the open air, that truly speaking, his visits
+were more to the cabin, than from the cabin to the planks. “It feels
+like going down into one’s tomb,”—he would mutter to himself—“for an
+old captain like me to be descending this narrow scuttle, to go to my
+grave-dug berth.”
+
+So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were
+set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below;
+and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors
+flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt
+it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when
+this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the
+silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old
+man would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled
+way. Some considering touch of humanity was in him; for at times like
+these, he usually abstained from patrolling the quarter-deck; because
+to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory
+heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony
+step, that their dreams would have been on the crunching teeth of
+sharks. But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings;
+and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from
+taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the old second mate, came up from below,
+with a certain unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if
+Captain Ahab was pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say
+nay; but there might be some way of muffling the noise; hinting
+something indistinctly and hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the
+insertion into it, of the ivory heel. Ah! Stubb, thou didst not know
+Ahab then.
+
+“Am I a cannon-ball, Stubb,” said Ahab, “that thou wouldst wad me that
+fashion? But go thy ways; I had forgot. Below to thy nightly grave;
+where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at
+last.—Down, dog, and kennel!”
+
+Starting at the unforseen concluding exclamation of the so suddenly
+scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly,
+“I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half
+like it, sir.”
+
+“Avast! gritted Ahab between his set teeth, and violently moving away,
+as if to avoid some passionate temptation.
+
+“No, sir; not yet,” said Stubb, emboldened, “I will not tamely be
+called a dog, sir.”
+
+“Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone,
+or I’ll clear the world of thee!”
+
+As he said this, Ahab advanced upon him with such overbearing terrors
+in his aspect, that Stubb involuntarily retreated.
+
+“I was never served so before without giving a hard blow for it,”
+muttered Stubb, as he found himself descending the cabin-scuttle. “It’s
+very queer. Stop, Stubb; somehow, now, I don’t well know whether to go
+back and strike him, or—what’s that?—down here on my knees and pray for
+him? Yes, that was the thought coming up in me; but it would be the
+first time I ever _did_ pray. It’s queer; very queer; and he’s queer
+too; aye, take him fore and aft, he’s about the queerest old man Stubb
+ever sailed with. How he flashed at me!—his eyes like powder-pans! is
+he mad? Anyway there’s something on his mind, as sure as there must be
+something on a deck when it cracks. He aint in his bed now, either,
+more than three hours out of the twenty-four; and he don’t sleep then.
+Didn’t that Dough-Boy, the steward, tell me that of a morning he always
+finds the old man’s hammock clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the
+sheets down at the foot, and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and
+the pillow a sort of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had been on
+it? A hot old man! I guess he’s got what some folks ashore call a
+conscience; it’s a kind of Tic-Dolly-row they say—worse nor a
+toothache. Well, well; I don’t know what it is, but the Lord keep me
+from catching it. He’s full of riddles; I wonder what he goes into the
+after hold for, every night, as Dough-Boy tells me he suspects; what’s
+that for, I should like to know? Who’s made appointments with him in
+the hold? Ain’t that queer, now? But there’s no telling, it’s the old
+game—Here goes for a snooze. Damn me, it’s worth a fellow’s while to be
+born into the world, if only to fall right asleep. And now that I think
+of it, that’s about the first thing babies do, and that’s a sort of
+queer, too. Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.
+But that’s against my principles. Think not, is my eleventh
+commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth—So here goes again.
+But how’s that? didn’t he call me a dog? blazes! he called me ten times
+a donkey, and piled a lot of jackasses on top of _that!_ He might as
+well have kicked me, and done with it. Maybe he _did_ kick me, and I
+didn’t observe it, I was so taken all aback with his brow, somehow. It
+flashed like a bleached bone. What the devil’s the matter with me? I
+don’t stand right on my legs. Coming afoul of that old man has a sort
+of turned me wrong side out. By the Lord, I must have been dreaming,
+though—How? how? how?—but the only way’s to stash it; so here goes to
+hammock again; and in the morning, I’ll see how this plaguey juggling
+thinks over by daylight.”
+
+
+CHAPTER 30. The Pipe.
+
+When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the
+bulwarks; and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a
+sailor of the watch, he sent him below for his ivory stool, and also
+his pipe. Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the stool
+on the weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked.
+
+In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were
+fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale. How could
+one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without
+bethinking him of the royalty it symbolized? For a Khan of the plank,
+and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.
+
+Some moments passed, during which the thick vapor came from his mouth
+in quick and constant puffs, which blew back again into his face. “How
+now,” he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, “this smoking no
+longer soothes. Oh, my pipe! hard must it go with me if thy charm be
+gone! Here have I been unconsciously toiling, not pleasuring—aye, and
+ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward, and with
+such nervous whiffs, as if, like the dying whale, my final jets were
+the strongest and fullest of trouble. What business have I with this
+pipe? This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white
+vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like
+mine. I’ll smoke no more—”
+
+He tossed the still lighted pipe into the sea. The fire hissed in the
+waves; the same instant the ship shot by the bubble the sinking pipe
+made. With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.
+
+
+CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab.
+
+Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.
+
+“Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man’s
+ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried to
+kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And
+then, presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept
+kicking at it. But what was still more curious, Flask—you know how
+curious all dreams are—through all this rage that I was in, I somehow
+seemed to be thinking to myself, that after all, it was not much of an
+insult, that kick from Ahab. ‘Why,’ thinks I, ‘what’s the row? It’s not
+a real leg, only a false leg.’ And there’s a mighty difference between
+a living thump and a dead thump. That’s what makes a blow from the
+hand, Flask, fifty times more savage to bear than a blow from a cane.
+The living member—that makes the living insult, my little man. And
+thinks I to myself all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly
+toes against that cursed pyramid—so confoundedly contradictory was it
+all, all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, ‘what’s his leg
+now, but a cane—a whalebone cane. Yes,’ thinks I, ‘it was only a
+playful cudgelling—in fact, only a whaleboning that he gave me—not a
+base kick. Besides,’ thinks I, ‘look at it once; why, the end of it—the
+foot part—what a small sort of end it is; whereas, if a broad footed
+farmer kicked me, _there’s_ a devilish broad insult. But this insult is
+whittled down to a point only.’ But now comes the greatest joke of the
+dream, Flask. While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of
+badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the
+shoulders, and slews me round. ‘What are you ’bout?’ says he. Slid!
+man, but I was frightened. Such a phiz! But, somehow, next moment I was
+over the fright. ‘What am I about?’ says I at last. ‘And what business
+is that of yours, I should like to know, Mr. Humpback? Do _you_ want a
+kick?’ By the lord, Flask, I had no sooner said that, than he turned
+round his stern to me, bent over, and dragging up a lot of seaweed he
+had for a clout—what do you think, I saw?—why thunder alive, man, his
+stern was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out. Says I, on
+second thoughts, ‘I guess I won’t kick you, old fellow.’ ‘Wise Stubb,’
+said he, ‘wise Stubb;’ and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of
+eating of his own gums like a chimney hag. Seeing he wasn’t going to
+stop saying over his ‘wise Stubb, wise Stubb,’ I thought I might as
+well fall to kicking the pyramid again. But I had only just lifted my
+foot for it, when he roared out, ‘Stop that kicking!’ ‘Halloa,’ says I,
+‘what’s the matter now, old fellow?’ ‘Look ye here,’ says he; ‘let’s
+argue the insult. Captain Ahab kicked ye, didn’t he?’ ‘Yes, he did,’
+says I—‘right _here_ it was.’ ‘Very good,’ says he—‘he used his ivory
+leg, didn’t he?’ ‘Yes, he did,’ says I. ‘Well then,’ says he, ‘wise
+Stubb, what have you to complain of? Didn’t he kick with right good
+will? it wasn’t a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it? No, you
+were kicked by a great man, and with a beautiful ivory leg, Stubb. It’s
+an honor; I consider it an honor. Listen, wise Stubb. In old England
+the greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and
+made garter-knights of; but, be _your_ boast, Stubb, that ye were
+kicked by old Ahab, and made a wise man of. Remember what I say; _be_
+kicked by him; account his kicks honors; and on no account kick back;
+for you can’t help yourself, wise Stubb. Don’t you see that pyramid?’
+With that, he all of a sudden seemed somehow, in some queer fashion, to
+swim off into the air. I snored; rolled over; and there I was in my
+hammock! Now, what do you think of that dream, Flask?”
+
+“I don’t know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho.’”
+
+“May be; may be. But it’s made a wise man of me, Flask. D’ye see Ahab
+standing there, sideways looking over the stern? Well, the best thing
+you can do, Flask, is to let the old man alone; never speak to him,
+whatever he says. Halloa! What’s that he shouts? Hark!”
+
+“Mast-head, there! Look sharp, all of ye! There are whales hereabouts!
+
+“If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!
+
+“What do you think of that now, Flask? ain’t there a small drop of
+something queer about that, eh? A white whale—did ye mark that, man?
+Look ye—there’s something special in the wind. Stand by for it, Flask.
+Ahab has that that’s bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way.”
+
+
+CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
+
+Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost
+in its unshored, harbourless immensities. Ere that come to pass; ere
+the Pequod’s weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of
+the leviathan; at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter
+almost indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the
+more special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts which
+are to follow.
+
+It is some systematized exhibition of the whale in his broad genera,
+that I would now fain put before you. Yet is it no easy task. The
+classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here
+essayed. Listen to what the best and latest authorities have laid down.
+
+“No branch of Zoology is so much involved as that which is entitled
+Cetology,” says Captain Scoresby, A.D. 1820.
+
+“It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the inquiry
+as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.
+* * * Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal”
+(sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839.
+
+“Unfitness to pursue our research in the unfathomable waters.”
+“Impenetrable veil covering our knowledge of the cetacea.” “A field
+strewn with thorns.” “All these incomplete indications but serve to
+torture us naturalists.”
+
+Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson,
+those lights of zoology and anatomy. Nevertheless, though of real
+knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty; and so in
+some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales. Many are
+the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen and seamen, who have at
+large or in little, written of the whale. Run over a few:—The Authors
+of the Bible; Aristotle; Pliny; Aldrovandi; Sir Thomas Browne; Gesner;
+Ray; Linnæus; Rondeletius; Willoughby; Green; Artedi; Sibbald; Brisson;
+Marten; Lacépède; Bonneterre; Desmarest; Baron Cuvier; Frederick
+Cuvier; John Hunter; Owen; Scoresby; Beale; Bennett; J. Ross Browne;
+the Author of Miriam Coffin; Olmstead; and the Rev. T. Cheever. But to
+what ultimate generalizing purpose all these have written, the above
+cited extracts will show.
+
+Of the names in this list of whale authors, only those following Owen
+ever saw living whales; and but one of them was a real professional
+harpooneer and whaleman. I mean Captain Scoresby. On the separate
+subject of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing
+authority. But Scoresby knew nothing and says nothing of the great
+sperm whale, compared with which the Greenland whale is almost unworthy
+mentioning. And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper
+upon the throne of the seas. He is not even by any means the largest of
+the whales. Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims, and the
+profound ignorance which, till some seventy years back, invested the
+then fabulous or utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which ignorance to
+this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats
+and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete. Reference
+to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past
+days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one rival, was
+to them the monarch of the seas. But the time has at last come for a
+new proclamation. This is Charing Cross; hear ye! good people all,—the
+Greenland whale is deposed,—the great sperm whale now reigneth!
+
+There are only two books in being which at all pretend to put the
+living sperm whale before you, and at the same time, in the remotest
+degree succeed in the attempt. Those books are Beale’s and Bennett’s;
+both in their time surgeons to English South-Sea whale-ships, and both
+exact and reliable men. The original matter touching the sperm whale to
+be found in their volumes is necessarily small; but so far as it goes,
+it is of excellent quality, though mostly confined to scientific
+description. As yet, however, the sperm whale, scientific or poetic,
+lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted
+whales, his is an unwritten life.
+
+Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular
+comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the
+present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent
+laborers. As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I
+hereupon offer my own poor endeavors. I promise nothing complete;
+because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very
+reason infallibly be faulty. I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical
+description of the various species, or—in this place at least—to much
+of any description. My object here is simply to project the draught of
+a systematization of cetology. I am the architect, not the builder.
+
+But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the
+Post-Office is equal to it. To grope down into the bottom of the sea
+after them; to have one’s hands among the unspeakable foundations,
+ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing. What am I
+that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan! The awful
+tauntings in Job might well appal me. Will he (the leviathan) make a
+covenant with thee? Behold the hope of him is vain! But I have swam
+through libraries and sailed through oceans; I have had to do with
+whales with these visible hands; I am in earnest; and I will try. There
+are some preliminaries to settle.
+
+First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology
+is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it
+still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish. In his System of
+Nature, A.D. 1776, Linnæus declares, “I hereby separate the whales from
+the fish.” But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850,
+sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnæus’s express edict,
+were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the
+Leviathan.
+
+The grounds upon which Linnæus would fain have banished the whales from
+the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular
+heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem
+intrantem feminam mammis lactantem,” and finally, “ex lege naturæ jure
+meritoque.” I submitted all this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley
+Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and
+they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether
+insufficient. Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
+
+Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned
+ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
+This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal
+respect does the whale differ from other fish. Above, Linnæus has given
+you those items. But in brief, they are these: lungs and warm blood;
+whereas, all other fish are lungless and cold blooded.
+
+Next: how shall we define the whale, by his obvious externals, so as
+conspicuously to label him for all time to come? To be short, then, a
+whale is _a spouting fish with a horizontal tail_. There you have him.
+However contracted, that definition is the result of expanded
+meditation. A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a
+fish, because he is amphibious. But the last term of the definition is
+still more cogent, as coupled with the first. Almost any one must have
+noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a
+vertical, or up-and-down tail. Whereas, among spouting fish the tail,
+though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal
+position.
+
+By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude
+from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified
+with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other
+hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as
+alien.* Hence, all the smaller, spouting, and horizontal tailed fish
+must be included in this ground-plan of Cetology. Now, then, come the
+grand divisions of the entire whale host.
+
+*I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled Lamatins and
+Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are
+included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish
+are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers,
+and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny
+their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their
+passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
+
+First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary
+BOOKS (subdivisible into CHAPTERS), and these shall comprehend them
+all, both small and large.
+
+I. THE FOLIO WHALE; II. the OCTAVO WHALE; III. the DUODECIMO WHALE.
+
+As the type of the FOLIO I present the _Sperm Whale_; of the OCTAVO,
+the _Grampus_; of the DUODECIMO, the _Porpoise_.
+
+FOLIOS. Among these I here include the following chapters:—I. The
+_Sperm Whale_; II. the _Right Whale_; III. the _Fin-Back Whale_; IV.
+the _Hump-backed Whale_; V. the _Razor Back Whale_; VI. the _Sulphur
+Bottom Whale_.
+
+BOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER I. (_Sperm Whale_).—This whale, among the
+English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale, and the Physeter
+whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the
+French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the
+Long Words. He is, without doubt, the largest inhabitant of the globe;
+the most formidable of all whales to encounter; the most majestic in
+aspect; and lastly, by far the most valuable in commerce; he being the
+only creature from which that valuable substance, spermaceti, is
+obtained. All his peculiarities will, in many other places, be enlarged
+upon. It is chiefly with his name that I now have to do. Philologically
+considered, it is absurd. Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was
+almost wholly unknown in his own proper individuality, and when his oil
+was only accidentally obtained from the stranded fish; in those days
+spermaceti, it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from a
+creature identical with the one then known in England as the Greenland
+or Right Whale. It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was
+that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable
+of the word literally expresses. In those times, also, spermaceti was
+exceedingly scarce, not being used for light, but only as an ointment
+and medicament. It was only to be had from the druggists as you
+nowadays buy an ounce of rhubarb. When, as I opine, in the course of
+time, the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was
+still retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a
+notion so strangely significant of its scarcity. And so the appellation
+must at last have come to be bestowed upon the whale from which this
+spermaceti was really derived.
+
+BOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER II. (_Right Whale_).—In one respect this is
+the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly
+hunted by man. It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or
+baleen; and the oil specially known as “whale oil,” an inferior article
+in commerce. Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by
+all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black
+Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale. There is a
+deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus
+multitudinously baptised. What then is the whale, which I include in
+the second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the
+English naturalists; the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the
+Baleine Ordinaire of the French whalemen; the Growlands Walfish of the
+Swedes. It is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been
+hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale
+which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on
+the Brazil Banks, on the Nor’ West Coast, and various other parts of
+the world, designated by them Right Whale Cruising Grounds.
+
+Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the
+English and the right whale of the Americans. But they precisely agree
+in all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single
+determinate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by
+endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that
+some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
+The right whale will be elsewhere treated of at some length, with
+reference to elucidating the sperm whale.
+
+BOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER III. (_Fin-Back_).—Under this head I reckon
+a monster which, by the various names of Fin-Back, Tall-Spout, and
+Long-John, has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly the whale
+whose distant jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the
+Atlantic, in the New York packet-tracks. In the length he attains, and
+in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less
+portly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive. His great
+lips present a cable-like aspect, formed by the intertwisting, slanting
+folds of large wrinkles. His grand distinguishing feature, the fin,
+from which he derives his name, is often a conspicuous object. This fin
+is some three or four feet long, growing vertically from the hinder
+part of the back, of an angular shape, and with a very sharp pointed
+end. Even if not the slightest other part of the creature be visible,
+this isolated fin will, at times, be seen plainly projecting from the
+surface. When the sea is moderately calm, and slightly marked with
+spherical ripples, and this gnomon-like fin stands up and casts shadows
+upon the wrinkled surface, it may well be supposed that the watery
+circle surrounding it somewhat resembles a dial, with its style and
+wavy hour-lines graved on it. On that Ahaz-dial the shadow often goes
+back. The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some
+men are man-haters. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly
+rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his
+straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear
+upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in
+swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems
+the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark
+that style upon his back. From having the baleen in his mouth, the
+Fin-Back is sometimes included with the right whale, among a theoretic
+species denominated _Whalebone whales_, that is, whales with baleen. Of
+these so called Whalebone whales, there would seem to be several
+varieties, most of which, however, are little known. Broad-nosed whales
+and beaked whales; pike-headed whales; bunched whales; under-jawed
+whales and rostrated whales, are the fishermen’s names for a few sorts.
+
+In connection with this appellative of “Whalebone whales,” it is of
+great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature may be
+convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales, yet it is
+in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan, founded
+upon either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth; notwithstanding that
+those marked parts or features very obviously seem better adapted to
+afford the basis for a regular system of Cetology than any other
+detached bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents.
+How then? The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose
+peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales,
+without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in
+other and more essential particulars. Thus, the sperm whale and the
+humpbacked whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases.
+Then, this same humpbacked whale and the Greenland whale, each of these
+has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases. And it is just the
+same with the other parts above mentioned. In various sorts of whales,
+they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of
+them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all
+general methodization formed upon such a basis. On this rock every one
+of the whale-naturalists has split.
+
+But it may possibly be conceived that, in the internal parts of the
+whale, in his anatomy—there, at least, we shall be able to hit the
+right classification. Nay; what thing, for example, is there in the
+Greenland whale’s anatomy more striking than his baleen? Yet we have
+seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the
+Greenland whale. And if you descend into the bowels of the various
+leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as
+available to the systematizer as those external ones already
+enumerated. What then remains? nothing but to take hold of the whales
+bodily, in their entire liberal volume, and boldly sort them that way.
+And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only
+one that can possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable. To proceed.
+
+BOOK I. (_Folio_) CHAPTER IV. (_Hump Back_).—This whale is often seen
+on the northern American coast. He has been frequently captured there,
+and towed into harbor. He has a great pack on him like a peddler; or
+you might call him the Elephant and Castle whale. At any rate, the
+popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the
+sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one. His oil is not very
+valuable. He has baleen. He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of
+all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any
+other of them.
+
+BOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER V. (_Razor Back_).—Of this whale little is
+known but his name. I have seen him at a distance off Cape Horn. Of a
+retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no
+coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but his back, which
+rises in a long sharp ridge. Let him go. I know little more of him, nor
+does anybody else.
+
+BOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER VI. (_Sulphur Bottom_).—Another retiring
+gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the
+Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings. He is seldom seen;
+at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and
+then always at too great a distance to study his countenance. He is
+never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are
+told of him. Adieu, Sulphur Bottom! I can say nothing more that is true
+of ye, nor can the oldest Nantucketer.
+
+Thus ends BOOK I. (_Folio_), and now begins BOOK II. (_Octavo_).
+
+OCTAVOES.*—These embrace the whales of middling magnitude, among which
+present may be numbered:—I., the _Grampus_; II., the _Black Fish_;
+III., the _Narwhale_; IV., the _Thrasher_; V., the _Killer_.
+
+*Why this book of whales is not denominated the Quarto is very plain.
+Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of
+the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them
+in figure, yet the bookbinder’s Quarto volume in its dimensioned form
+does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume
+does.
+
+BOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER I. (_Grampus_).—Though this fish, whose
+loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb to
+landsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not
+popularly classed among whales. But possessing all the grand
+distinctive features of the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised
+him for one. He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to
+twenty-five feet in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the
+waist. He swims in herds; he is never regularly hunted, though his oil
+is considerable in quantity, and pretty good for light. By some
+fishermen his approach is regarded as premonitory of the advance of the
+great sperm whale.
+
+BOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER II. (_Black Fish_).—I give the popular
+fishermen’s names for all these fish, for generally they are the best.
+Where any name happens to be vague or inexpressive, I shall say so, and
+suggest another. I do so now, touching the Black Fish, so-called,
+because blackness is the rule among almost all whales. So, call him the
+Hyena Whale, if you please. His voracity is well known, and from the
+circumstance that the inner angles of his lips are curved upwards, he
+carries an everlasting Mephistophelean grin on his face. This whale
+averages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length. He is found in almost
+all latitudes. He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin
+in swimming, which looks something like a Roman nose. When not more
+profitably employed, the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the
+Hyena whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic
+employment—as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and
+quite alone by themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax.
+Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you
+upwards of thirty gallons of oil.
+
+BOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER III. (_Narwhale_), that is, _Nostril
+whale_.—Another instance of a curiously named whale, so named I suppose
+from his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose. The
+creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five
+feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet. Strictly
+speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw
+in a line a little depressed from the horizontal. But it is only found
+on the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner
+something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man. What
+precise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers, it would be hard to
+say. It does not seem to be used like the blade of the sword-fish and
+bill-fish; though some sailors tell me that the Narwhale employs it for
+a rake in turning over the bottom of the sea for food. Charley Coffin
+said it was used for an ice-piercer; for the Narwhale, rising to the
+surface of the Polar Sea, and finding it sheeted with ice, thrusts his
+horn up, and so breaks through. But you cannot prove either of these
+surmises to be correct. My own opinion is, that however this one-sided
+horn may really be used by the Narwhale—however that may be—it would
+certainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.
+The Narwhale I have heard called the Tusked whale, the Horned whale,
+and the Unicorn whale. He is certainly a curious example of the
+Unicornism to be found in almost every kingdom of animated nature. From
+certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same
+sea-unicorn’s horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote
+against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.
+It was also distilled to a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same
+way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn.
+Originally it was in itself accounted an object of great curiosity.
+Black Letter tells me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that
+voyage, when Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him
+from a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the
+Thames; “when Sir Martin returned from that voyage,” saith Black
+Letter, “on bended knees he presented to her highness a prodigious long
+horn of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle
+at Windsor.” An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on
+bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn,
+pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.
+
+The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a
+milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.
+His oil is very superior, clear and fine; but there is little of it,
+and he is seldom hunted. He is mostly found in the circumpolar seas.
+
+BOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER IV. (_Killer_).—Of this whale little is
+precisely known to the Nantucketer, and nothing at all to the professed
+naturalist. From what I have seen of him at a distance, I should say
+that he was about the bigness of a grampus. He is very savage—a sort of
+Feegee fish. He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip, and
+hangs there like a leech, till the mighty brute is worried to death.
+The Killer is never hunted. I never heard what sort of oil he has.
+Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the
+ground of its indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on
+sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.
+
+BOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER V. (_Thrasher_).—This gentleman is famous
+for his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes. He
+mounts the Folio whale’s back, and as he swims, he works his passage by
+flogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar
+process. Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer. Both
+are outlaws, even in the lawless seas.
+
+ Thus ends BOOK II. (_Octavo_), and begins BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_).
+
+DUODECIMOES.—These include the smaller whales. I. The Huzza Porpoise.
+II. The Algerine Porpoise. III. The Mealy-mouthed Porpoise.
+
+To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may
+possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five
+feet should be marshalled among WHALES—a word, which, in the popular
+sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness. But the creatures set down
+above as Duodecimoes are infallibly whales, by the terms of my
+definition of what a whale is—_i.e._ a spouting fish, with a horizontal
+tail.
+
+BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_), CHAPTER 1. (_Huzza Porpoise_).—This is the
+common porpoise found almost all over the globe. The name is of my own
+bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something
+must be done to distinguish them. I call him thus, because he always
+swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing
+themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd. Their
+appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner. Full of
+fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.
+They are the lads that always live before the wind. They are accounted
+a lucky omen. If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding
+these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly
+gamesomeness is not in ye. A well-fed, plump Huzza Porpoise will yield
+you one good gallon of good oil. But the fine and delicate fluid
+extracted from his jaws is exceedingly valuable. It is in request among
+jewellers and watchmakers. Sailors put it on their hones. Porpoise meat
+is good eating, you know. It may never have occurred to you that a
+porpoise spouts. Indeed, his spout is so small that it is not very
+readily discernible. But the next time you have a chance, watch him;
+and you will then see the great Sperm whale himself in miniature.
+
+BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_), CHAPTER II. (_Algerine Porpoise_).—A pirate.
+Very savage. He is only found, I think, in the Pacific. He is somewhat
+larger than the Huzza Porpoise, but much of the same general make.
+Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark. I have lowered for him many
+times, but never yet saw him captured.
+
+BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_), CHAPTER III. (_Mealy-mouthed Porpoise_).—The
+largest kind of Porpoise; and only found in the Pacific, so far as it
+is known. The only English name, by which he has hitherto been
+designated, is that of the fishers—Right-Whale Porpoise, from the
+circumstance that he is chiefly found in the vicinity of that Folio. In
+shape, he differs in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise, being of a
+less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and
+gentleman-like figure. He has no fins on his back (most other porpoises
+have), he has a lovely tail, and sentimental Indian eyes of a hazel
+hue. But his mealy-mouth spoils all. Though his entire back down to his
+side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark
+in a ship’s hull, called the “bright waist,” that line streaks him from
+stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.
+The white comprises part of his head, and the whole of his mouth, which
+makes him look as if he had just escaped from a felonious visit to a
+meal-bag. A most mean and mealy aspect! His oil is much like that of
+the common porpoise.
+
+  * * * * * *
+
+Beyond the DUODECIMO, this system does not proceed, inasmuch as the
+Porpoise is the smallest of the whales. Above, you have all the
+Leviathans of note. But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive,
+half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by
+reputation, but not personally. I shall enumerate them by their
+fore-castle appellations; for possibly such a list may be valuable to
+future investigators, who may complete what I have here but begun. If
+any of the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked, then
+he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his
+Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude:—The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk
+Whale; the Pudding-Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the
+Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale;
+the Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; etc. From Icelandic,
+Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists
+of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names. But I
+omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them
+for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
+
+Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be
+here, and at once, perfected. You cannot but plainly see that I have
+kept my word. But I now leave my cetological System standing thus
+unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the
+crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower. For small
+erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true
+ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever
+completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the
+draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
+
+
+CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
+
+Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place
+as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising
+from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers, a class unknown
+of course in any other marine than the whale-fleet.
+
+The large importance attached to the harpooneer’s vocation is evinced
+by the fact, that originally in the old Dutch Fishery, two centuries
+and more ago, the command of a whale ship was not wholly lodged in the
+person now called the captain, but was divided between him and an
+officer called the Specksnyder. Literally this word means Fat-Cutter;
+usage, however, in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer. In
+those days, the captain’s authority was restricted to the navigation
+and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting
+department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer
+reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted
+title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but
+his former dignity is sadly abridged. At present he ranks simply as
+senior Harpooneer; and as such, is but one of the captain’s more
+inferior subalterns. Nevertheless, as upon the good conduct of the
+harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely depends, and since
+in the American Fishery he is not only an important officer in the
+boat, but under certain circumstances (night watches on a whaling
+ground) the command of the ship’s deck is also his; therefore the grand
+political maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart
+from the men before the mast, and be in some way distinguished as their
+professional superior; though always, by them, familiarly regarded as
+their social equal.
+
+Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man at sea, is
+this—the first lives aft, the last forward. Hence, in whale-ships and
+merchantmen alike, the mates have their quarters with the captain; and
+so, too, in most of the American whalers the harpooneers are lodged in
+the after part of the ship. That is to say, they take their meals in
+the captain’s cabin, and sleep in a place indirectly communicating with
+it.
+
+Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest
+of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and
+the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high
+or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their
+common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and
+hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a
+less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind
+how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some
+primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious
+externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed,
+and in no instance done away. Indeed, many are the Nantucket ships in
+which you will see the skipper parading his quarter-deck with an elated
+grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as
+much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the
+shabbiest of pilot-cloth.
+
+And though of all men the moody captain of the Pequod was the least
+given to that sort of shallowest assumption; and though the only homage
+he ever exacted, was implicit, instantaneous obedience; though he
+required no man to remove the shoes from his feet ere stepping upon the
+quarter-deck; and though there were times when, owing to peculiar
+circumstances connected with events hereafter to be detailed, he
+addressed them in unusual terms, whether of condescension or _in
+terrorem_, or otherwise; yet even Captain Ahab was by no means
+unobservant of the paramount forms and usages of the sea.
+
+Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind
+those forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself;
+incidentally making use of them for other and more private ends than
+they were legitimately intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of
+his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested;
+through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an
+irresistible dictatorship. For be a man’s intellectual superiority what
+it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over
+other men, without the aid of some sort of external arts and
+entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry and base.
+This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from
+the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can
+give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite
+inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than
+through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
+Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political
+superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot
+imbecility they have imparted potency. But when, as in the case of
+Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an
+imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the
+tremendous centralization. Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would
+depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing,
+ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one
+now alluded to.
+
+But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket
+grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and
+Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old
+whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings
+and housings are denied me. Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it
+must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and
+featured in the unbodied air!
+
+
+CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
+
+It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale
+loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord
+and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking
+an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on
+the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on
+the upper part of his ivory leg. From his complete inattention to the
+tidings, you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial. But
+presently, catching hold of the mizen shrouds, he swings himself to the
+deck, and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, “Dinner, Mr.
+Starbuck,” disappears into the cabin.
+
+When the last echo of his sultan’s step has died away, and Starbuck,
+the first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated, then
+Starbuck rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along the planks,
+and, after a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some touch of
+pleasantness, “Dinner, Mr. Stubb,” and descends the scuttle. The second
+Emir lounges about the rigging awhile, and then slightly shaking the
+main brace, to see whether it will be all right with that important
+rope, he likewise takes up the old burden, and with a rapid “Dinner,
+Mr. Flask,” follows after his predecessors.
+
+But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck,
+seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all
+sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his
+shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right
+over the Grand Turk’s head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching
+his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so
+far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other
+processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into
+the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a new face altogether, and,
+then, independent, hilarious little Flask enters King Ahab’s presence,
+in the character of Abjectus, or the Slave.
+
+It is not the least among the strange things bred by the intense
+artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck
+some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and
+defyingly enough towards their commander; yet, ten to one, let those
+very officers the next moment go down to their customary dinner in that
+same commander’s cabin, and straightway their inoffensive, not to say
+deprecatory and humble air towards him, as he sits at the head of the
+table; this is marvellous, sometimes most comical. Wherefore this
+difference? A problem? Perhaps not. To have been Belshazzar, King of
+Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously,
+therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur. But he
+who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own
+private dinner-table of invited guests, that man’s unchallenged power
+and dominion of individual influence for the time; that man’s royalty
+of state transcends Belshazzar’s, for Belshazzar was not the greatest.
+Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Cæsar.
+It is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding.
+Now, if to this consideration you superadd the official supremacy of a
+ship-master, then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that
+peculiarity of sea-life just mentioned.
+
+Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion
+on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still
+deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be
+served. They were as little children before Ahab; and yet, in Ahab,
+there seemed not to lurk the smallest social arrogance. With one mind,
+their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man’s knife, as he carved
+the chief dish before him. I do not suppose that for the world they
+would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even
+upon so neutral a topic as the weather. No! And when reaching out his
+knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked, Ahab
+thereby motioned Starbuck’s plate towards him, the mate received his
+meat as though receiving alms; and cut it tenderly; and a little
+started if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate; and chewed
+it noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection. For, like
+the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor
+profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals
+were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old
+Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb. What a relief
+it was to choking Stubb, when a rat made a sudden racket in the hold
+below. And poor little Flask, he was the youngest son, and little boy
+of this weary family party. His were the shinbones of the saline beef;
+his would have been the drumsticks. For Flask to have presumed to help
+himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the
+first degree. Had he helped himself at that table, doubtless, never
+more would he have been able to hold his head up in this honest world;
+nevertheless, strange to say, Ahab never forbade him. And had Flask
+helped himself, the chances were Ahab had never so much as noticed it.
+Least of all, did Flask presume to help himself to butter. Whether he
+thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its
+clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so
+long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and
+therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas!
+was a butterless man!
+
+Another thing. Flask was the last person down at the dinner, and Flask
+is the first man up. Consider! For hereby Flask’s dinner was badly
+jammed in point of time. Starbuck and Stubb both had the start of him;
+and yet they also have the privilege of lounging in the rear. If Stubb
+even, who is but a peg higher than Flask, happens to have but a small
+appetite, and soon shows symptoms of concluding his repast, then Flask
+must bestir himself, he will not get more than three mouthfuls that
+day; for it is against holy usage for Stubb to precede Flask to the
+deck. Therefore it was that Flask once admitted in private, that ever
+since he had arisen to the dignity of an officer, from that moment he
+had never known what it was to be otherwise than hungry, more or less.
+For what he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal
+in him. Peace and satisfaction, thought Flask, have for ever departed
+from my stomach. I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fish a bit of
+old-fashioned beef in the forecastle, as I used to when I was before
+the mast. There’s the fruits of promotion now; there’s the vanity of
+glory: there’s the insanity of life! Besides, if it were so that any
+mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask’s
+official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample
+vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask
+through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before
+awful Ahab.
+
+Now, Ahab and his three mates formed what may be called the first table
+in the Pequod’s cabin. After their departure, taking place in inverted
+order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was
+restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward. And then the
+three harpooneers were bidden to the feast, they being its residuary
+legatees. They made a sort of temporary servants’ hall of the high and
+mighty cabin.
+
+In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless
+invisible domineerings of the captain’s table, was the entire care-free
+license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior
+fellows the harpooneers. While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid
+of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed
+their food with such a relish that there was a report to it. They dined
+like lords; they filled their bellies like Indian ships all day loading
+with spices. Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that
+to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale
+Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly
+quarried out of the solid ox. And if he were not lively about it, if he
+did not go with a nimble hop-skip-and-jump, then Tashtego had an
+ungentlemanly way of accelerating him by darting a fork at his back,
+harpoon-wise. And once Daggoo, seized with a sudden humor, assisted
+Dough-Boy’s memory by snatching him up bodily, and thrusting his head
+into a great empty wooden trencher, while Tashtego, knife in hand,
+began laying out the circle preliminary to scalping him. He was
+naturally a very nervous, shuddering sort of little fellow, this
+bread-faced steward; the progeny of a bankrupt baker and a hospital
+nurse. And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab,
+and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages,
+Dough-Boy’s whole life was one continual lip-quiver. Commonly, after
+seeing the harpooneers furnished with all things they demanded, he
+would escape from their clutches into his little pantry adjoining, and
+fearfully peep out at them through the blinds of its door, till all was
+over.
+
+It was a sight to see Queequeg seated over against Tashtego, opposing
+his filed teeth to the Indian’s: crosswise to them, Daggoo seated on
+the floor, for a bench would have brought his hearse-plumed head to the
+low carlines; at every motion of his colossal limbs, making the low
+cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in
+a ship. But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious,
+not to say dainty. It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively
+small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so
+broad, baronial, and superb a person. But, doubtless, this noble savage
+fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through
+his dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds. Not by
+beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished. But Queequeg, he had a
+mortal, barbaric smack of the lip in eating—an ugly sound enough—so
+much so, that the trembling Dough-Boy almost looked to see whether any
+marks of teeth lurked in his own lean arms. And when he would hear
+Tashtego singing out for him to produce himself, that his bones might
+be picked, the simple-witted steward all but shattered the crockery
+hanging round him in the pantry, by his sudden fits of the palsy. Nor
+did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for
+their lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones, at dinner,
+they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did
+not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy. How could he forget
+that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been
+guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions. Alas! Dough-Boy!
+hard fares the white waiter who waits upon cannibals. Not a napkin
+should he carry on his arm, but a buckler. In good time, though, to his
+great delight, the three salt-sea warriors would rise and depart; to
+his credulous, fable-mongering ears, all their martial bones jingling
+in them at every step, like Moorish scimetars in scabbards.
+
+But, though these barbarians dined in the cabin, and nominally lived
+there; still, being anything but sedentary in their habits, they were
+scarcely ever in it except at mealtimes, and just before sleeping-time,
+when they passed through it to their own peculiar quarters.
+
+In this one matter, Ahab seemed no exception to most American whale
+captains, who, as a set, rather incline to the opinion that by rights
+the ship’s cabin belongs to them; and that it is by courtesy alone that
+anybody else is, at any time, permitted there. So that, in real truth,
+the mates and harpooneers of the Pequod might more properly be said to
+have lived out of the cabin than in it. For when they did enter it, it
+was something as a street-door enters a house; turning inwards for a
+moment, only to be turned out the next; and, as a permanent thing,
+residing in the open air. Nor did they lose much hereby; in the cabin
+was no companionship; socially, Ahab was inaccessible. Though nominally
+included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it. He
+lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled
+Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan
+of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the
+winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old
+age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed
+upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
+
+
+CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
+
+It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the
+other seamen my first mast-head came round.
+
+In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost
+simultaneously with the vessel’s leaving her port; even though she may
+have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper
+cruising ground. And if, after a three, four, or five years’ voyage she
+is drawing nigh home with anything empty in her—say, an empty vial
+even—then, her mast-heads are kept manned to the last; and not till her
+skysail-poles sail in among the spires of the port, does she altogether
+relinquish the hope of capturing one whale more.
+
+Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a
+very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate
+here. I take it, that the earliest standers of mast-heads were the old
+Egyptians; because, in all my researches, I find none prior to them.
+For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by
+their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia,
+or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it) as that great
+stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by the board, in the
+dread gale of God’s wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel
+builders priority over the Egyptians. And that the Egyptians were a
+nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general
+belief among archæologists, that the first pyramids were founded for
+astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar
+stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with
+prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were
+wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the
+look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing
+in sight. In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times,
+who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole
+latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the
+ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a
+dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his
+place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing
+everything out to the last, literally died at his post. Of modern
+standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron,
+and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing out a stiff gale,
+are still entirely incompetent to the business of singing out upon
+discovering any strange sight. There is Napoleon; who, upon the top of
+the column of Vendome, stands with arms folded, some one hundred and
+fifty feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below;
+whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil. Great
+Washington, too, stands high aloft on his towering main-mast in
+Baltimore, and like one of Hercules’ pillars, his column marks that
+point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals will go. Admiral
+Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in
+Trafalgar Square; and ever when most obscured by that London smoke,
+token is yet given that a hidden hero is there; for where there is
+smoke, must be fire. But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor
+Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to
+befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze;
+however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the
+thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be
+shunned.
+
+It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect the mast-head
+standers of the land with those of the sea; but that in truth it is not
+so, is plainly evinced by an item for which Obed Macy, the sole
+historian of Nantucket, stands accountable. The worthy Obed tells us,
+that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly
+launched in pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected
+lofty spars along the sea-coast, to which the look-outs ascended by
+means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house.
+A few years ago this same plan was adopted by the Bay whalemen of New
+Zealand, who, upon descrying the game, gave notice to the ready-manned
+boats nigh the beach. But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we
+then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea. The
+three mast-heads are kept manned from sun-rise to sun-set; the seamen
+taking their regular turns (as at the helm), and relieving each other
+every two hours. In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly
+pleasant the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is
+delightful. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks,
+striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while
+beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters
+of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous
+Colossus at old Rhodes. There you stand, lost in the infinite series of
+the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship
+indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you
+into languor. For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime
+uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras
+with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into
+unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt
+securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what
+you shall have for dinner—for all your meals for three years and more
+are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.
+
+In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years’
+voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the
+mast-head would amount to several entire months. And it is much to be
+deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion
+of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of
+anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a
+comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock,
+a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small
+and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves. Your
+most usual point of perch is the head of the t’ gallant-mast, where you
+stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen)
+called the t’ gallant cross-trees. Here, tossed about by the sea, the
+beginner feels about as cosy as he would standing on a bull’s horns. To
+be sure, in cold weather you may carry your house aloft with you, in
+the shape of a watch-coat; but properly speaking the thickest
+watch-coat is no more of a house than the unclad body; for as the soul
+is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about
+in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing
+(like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a
+watch-coat is not so much of a house as it is a mere envelope, or
+additional skin encasing you. You cannot put a shelf or chest of
+drawers in your body, and no more can you make a convenient closet of
+your watch-coat.
+
+Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a
+southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or
+pulpits, called _crow’s-nests_, in which the look-outs of a Greenland
+whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas. In
+the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled “A Voyage among the
+Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the
+re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;” in this
+admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads are furnished with a
+charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented
+_crow’s-nest_ of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleet’s
+good craft. He called it the _Sleet’s crow’s-nest_, in honor of
+himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all
+ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children
+after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and
+patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other
+apparatus we may beget. In shape, the Sleet’s crow’s-nest is something
+like a large tierce or pipe; it is open above, however, where it is
+furnished with a movable side-screen to keep to windward of your head
+in a hard gale. Being fixed on the summit of the mast, you ascend into
+it through a little trap-hatch in the bottom. On the after side, or
+side next the stern of the ship, is a comfortable seat, with a locker
+underneath for umbrellas, comforters, and coats. In front is a leather
+rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and
+other nautical conveniences. When Captain Sleet in person stood his
+mast-head in this crow’s-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a
+rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask
+and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or
+vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot
+successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the
+water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing. Now, it
+was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does,
+all the little detailed conveniences of his crow’s-nest; but though he
+so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very
+scientific account of his experiments in this crow’s-nest, with a small
+compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors
+resulting from what is called the “local attraction” of all binnacle
+magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in
+the ship’s planks, and in the Glacier’s case, perhaps, to there having
+been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though
+the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his
+learned “binnacle deviations,” “azimuth compass observations,” and
+“approximate errors,” he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was
+not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail
+being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little
+case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow’s nest, within
+easy reach of his hand. Though, upon the whole, I greatly admire and
+even love the brave, the honest, and learned Captain; yet I take it
+very ill of him that he should so utterly ignore that case-bottle,
+seeing what a faithful friend and comforter it must have been, while
+with mittened fingers and hooded head he was studying the mathematics
+aloft there in that bird’s nest within three or four perches of the
+pole.
+
+But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as
+Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is
+greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those
+seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float. For one, I used
+to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a
+chat with Queequeg, or any one else off duty whom I might find there;
+then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the
+top-sail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so
+at last mount to my ultimate destination.
+
+Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept
+but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how
+could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering
+altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all
+whale-ships’ standing orders, “Keep your weather eye open, and sing out
+every time.”
+
+And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of
+Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with
+lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who
+offers to ship with the Phædon instead of Bowditch in his head. Beware
+of such an one, I say; your whales must be seen before they can be
+killed; and this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes
+round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer. Nor
+are these monitions at all unneeded. For nowadays, the whale-fishery
+furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded
+young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking
+sentiment in tar and blubber. Childe Harold not unfrequently perches
+himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship,
+and in moody phrase ejaculates:—
+
+
+“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand
+blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.”
+
+
+
+Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young
+philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient
+“interest” in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost
+to all honorable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would
+rather not see whales than otherwise. But all in vain; those young
+Platonists have a notion that their vision is imperfect; they are
+short-sighted; what use, then, to strain the visual nerve? They have
+left their opera-glasses at home.
+
+“Why, thou monkey,” said a harpooneer to one of these lads, “we’ve been
+cruising now hard upon three years, and thou hast not raised a whale
+yet. Whales are scarce as hen’s teeth whenever thou art up here.”
+Perhaps they were; or perhaps there might have been shoals of them in
+the far horizon; but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of
+vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending
+cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity;
+takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep,
+blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange,
+half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every
+dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him
+the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by
+continually flitting through it. In this enchanted mood, thy spirit
+ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space;
+like Cranmer’s sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of
+every shore the round globe over.
+
+There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a
+gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from
+the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on
+ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your
+identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And
+perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled
+shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no
+more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
+
+
+CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
+
+(_Enter Ahab: Then, all._)
+
+It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning
+shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the
+cabin-gangway to the deck. There most sea-captains usually walk at that
+hour, as country gentlemen, after the same meal, take a few turns in
+the garden.
+
+Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old
+rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over
+dented, like geological stones, with the peculiar mark of his walk. Did
+you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also,
+you would see still stranger foot-prints—the foot-prints of his one
+unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
+
+But on the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper, even as his
+nervous step that morning left a deeper mark. And, so full of his
+thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn that he made, now at the
+main-mast and now at the binnacle, you could almost see that thought
+turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced; so completely
+possessing him, indeed, that it all but seemed the inward mould of
+every outer movement.
+
+“D’ye mark him, Flask?” whispered Stubb; “the chick that’s in him pecks
+the shell. ’Twill soon be out.”
+
+The hours wore on;—Ahab now shut up within his cabin; anon, pacing the
+deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose in his aspect.
+
+It drew near the close of day. Suddenly he came to a halt by the
+bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and
+with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody
+aft.
+
+“Sir!” said the mate, astonished at an order seldom or never given on
+ship-board except in some extraordinary case.
+
+“Send everybody aft,” repeated Ahab. “Mast-heads, there! come down!”
+
+When the entire ship’s company were assembled, and with curious and not
+wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not unlike
+the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly
+glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his eyes among the crew,
+started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him
+resumed his heavy turns upon the deck. With bent head and half-slouched
+hat he continued to pace, unmindful of the wondering whispering among
+the men; till Stubb cautiously whispered to Flask, that Ahab must have
+summoned them there for the purpose of witnessing a pedestrian feat.
+But this did not last long. Vehemently pausing, he cried:—
+
+“What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?”
+
+“Sing out for him!” was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed
+voices.
+
+“Good!” cried Ahab, with a wild approval in his tones; observing the
+hearty animation into which his unexpected question had so magnetically
+thrown them.
+
+“And what do ye next, men?”
+
+“Lower away, and after him!”
+
+“And what tune is it ye pull to, men?”
+
+“A dead whale or a stove boat!”
+
+More and more strangely and fiercely glad and approving, grew the
+countenance of the old man at every shout; while the mariners began to
+gaze curiously at each other, as if marvelling how it was that they
+themselves became so excited at such seemingly purposeless questions.
+
+But, they were all eagerness again, as Ahab, now half-revolving in his
+pivot-hole, with one hand reaching high up a shroud, and tightly,
+almost convulsively grasping it, addressed them thus:—
+
+“All ye mast-headers have before now heard me give orders about a white
+whale. Look ye! d’ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?”—holding up a
+broad bright coin to the sun—“it is a sixteen dollar piece, men. D’ye
+see it? Mr. Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul.”
+
+While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was
+slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if
+to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile lowly
+humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and
+inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming of the wheels of his
+vitality in him.
+
+Receiving the top-maul from Starbuck, he advanced towards the main-mast
+with the hammer uplifted in one hand, exhibiting the gold with the
+other, and with a high raised voice exclaiming: “Whosoever of ye raises
+me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw;
+whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes
+punctured in his starboard fluke—look ye, whosoever of ye raises me
+that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!”
+
+“Huzza! huzza!” cried the seamen, as with swinging tarpaulins they
+hailed the act of nailing the gold to the mast.
+
+“It’s a white whale, I say,” resumed Ahab, as he threw down the
+topmaul: “a white whale. Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for
+white water; if ye see but a bubble, sing out.”
+
+All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even
+more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention of
+the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was
+separately touched by some specific recollection.
+
+“Captain Ahab,” said Tashtego, “that white whale must be the same that
+some call Moby Dick.”
+
+“Moby Dick?” shouted Ahab. “Do ye know the white whale then, Tash?”
+
+“Does he fan-tail a little curious, sir, before he goes down?” said the
+Gay-Header deliberately.
+
+“And has he a curious spout, too,” said Daggoo, “very bushy, even for a
+parmacetty, and mighty quick, Captain Ahab?”
+
+“And he have one, two, three—oh! good many iron in him hide, too,
+Captain,” cried Queequeg disjointedly, “all twiske-tee be-twisk, like
+him—him—” faltering hard for a word, and screwing his hand round and
+round as though uncorking a bottle—“like him—him—”
+
+“Corkscrew!” cried Ahab, “aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted
+and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole
+shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the
+great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a
+split jib in a squall. Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have
+seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick!”
+
+“Captain Ahab,” said Starbuck, who, with Stubb and Flask, had thus far
+been eyeing his superior with increasing surprise, but at last seemed
+struck with a thought which somewhat explained all the wonder. “Captain
+Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick—but it was not Moby Dick that took off
+thy leg?”
+
+“Who told thee that?” cried Ahab; then pausing, “Aye, Starbuck; aye, my
+hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that
+brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye,” he shouted
+with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose;
+“Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor
+pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!” Then tossing both arms, with
+measureless imprecations he shouted out: “Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him
+round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom,
+and round perdition’s flames before I give him up. And this is what ye
+have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land,
+and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin
+out. What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do
+look brave.”
+
+“Aye, aye!” shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer to the
+excited old man: “A sharp eye for the white whale; a sharp lance for
+Moby Dick!”
+
+“God bless ye,” he seemed to half sob and half shout. “God bless ye,
+men. Steward! go draw the great measure of grog. But what’s this long
+face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not
+game for Moby Dick?”
+
+“I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain
+Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I
+came here to hunt whales, not my commander’s vengeance. How many
+barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain
+Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market.”
+
+“Nantucket market! Hoot! But come closer, Starbuck; thou requirest a
+little lower layer. If money’s to be the measurer, man, and the
+accountants have computed their great counting-house the globe, by
+girdling it with guineas, one to every three parts of an inch; then,
+let me tell thee, that my vengeance will fetch a great premium _here!_”
+
+“He smites his chest,” whispered Stubb, “what’s that for? methinks it
+rings most vast, but hollow.”
+
+“Vengeance on a dumb brute!” cried Starbuck, “that simply smote thee
+from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing,
+Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”
+
+“Hark ye yet again—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man,
+are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the
+undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth
+the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man
+will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach
+outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is
+that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there’s naught beyond.
+But ’tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous
+strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable
+thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the
+white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me
+of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the
+sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of
+fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations. But not my
+master, man, is even that fair play. Who’s over me? Truth hath no
+confines. Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends’ glarings is
+a doltish stare! So, so; thou reddenest and palest; my heat has melted
+thee to anger-glow. But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that
+thing unsays itself. There are men from whom warm words are small
+indignity. I meant not to incense thee. Let it go. Look! see yonder
+Turkish cheeks of spotted tawn—living, breathing pictures painted by
+the sun. The Pagan leopards—the unrecking and unworshipping things,
+that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!
+The crew, man, the crew! Are they not one and all with Ahab, in this
+matter of the whale? See Stubb! he laughs! See yonder Chilian! he
+snorts to think of it. Stand up amid the general hurricane, thy one
+tost sapling cannot, Starbuck! And what is it? Reckon it. ’Tis but to
+help strike a fin; no wondrous feat for Starbuck. What is it more? From
+this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely
+he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a
+whetstone? Ah! constrainings seize thee; I see! the billow lifts thee!
+Speak, but speak!—Aye, aye! thy silence, then, _that_ voices thee.
+(_Aside_) Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in
+his lungs. Starbuck now is mine; cannot oppose me now, without
+rebellion.”
+
+“God keep me!—keep us all!” murmured Starbuck, lowly.
+
+But in his joy at the enchanted, tacit acquiescence of the mate, Ahab
+did not hear his foreboding invocation; nor yet the low laugh from the
+hold; nor yet the presaging vibrations of the winds in the cordage; nor
+yet the hollow flap of the sails against the masts, as for a moment
+their hearts sank in. For again Starbuck’s downcast eyes lighted up
+with the stubbornness of life; the subterranean laugh died away; the
+winds blew on; the sails filled out; the ship heaved and rolled as
+before. Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come?
+But rather are ye predictions than warnings, ye shadows! Yet not so
+much predictions from without, as verifications of the foregoing things
+within. For with little external to constrain us, the innermost
+necessities in our being, these still drive us on.
+
+“The measure! the measure!” cried Ahab.
+
+Receiving the brimming pewter, and turning to the harpooneers, he
+ordered them to produce their weapons. Then ranging them before him
+near the capstan, with their harpoons in their hands, while his three
+mates stood at his side with their lances, and the rest of the ship’s
+company formed a circle round the group; he stood for an instant
+searchingly eyeing every man of his crew. But those wild eyes met his,
+as the bloodshot eyes of the prairie wolves meet the eye of their
+leader, ere he rushes on at their head in the trail of the bison; but,
+alas! only to fall into the hidden snare of the Indian.
+
+“Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the
+nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short
+draughts—long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof. So, so; it goes
+round excellently. It spiralizes in ye; forks out at the
+serpent-snapping eye. Well done; almost drained. That way it went, this
+way it comes. Hand it me—here’s a hollow! Men, ye seem the years; so
+brimming life is gulped and gone. Steward, refill!
+
+“Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and
+ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there
+with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some
+sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me. O men,
+you will yet see that—Ha! boy, come back? bad pennies come not sooner.
+Hand it me. Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wer’t not
+thou St. Vitus’ imp—away, thou ague!
+
+“Advance, ye mates! Cross your lances full before me. Well done! Let me
+touch the axis.” So saying, with extended arm, he grasped the three
+level, radiating lances at their crossed centre; while so doing,
+suddenly and nervously twitched them; meanwhile, glancing intently from
+Starbuck to Stubb; from Stubb to Flask. It seemed as though, by some
+nameless, interior volition, he would fain have shocked into them the
+same fiery emotion accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own
+magnetic life. The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained,
+and mystic aspect. Stubb and Flask looked sideways from him; the honest
+eye of Starbuck fell downright.
+
+“In vain!” cried Ahab; “but, maybe, ’tis well. For did ye three but
+once take the full-forced shock, then mine own electric thing, _that_
+had perhaps expired from out me. Perchance, too, it would have dropped
+ye dead. Perchance ye need it not. Down lances! And now, ye mates, I do
+appoint ye three cupbearers to my three pagan kinsmen there—yon three
+most honorable gentlemen and noblemen, my valiant harpooneers. Disdain
+the task? What, when the great Pope washes the feet of beggars, using
+his tiara for ewer? Oh, my sweet cardinals! your own condescension,
+_that_ shall bend ye to it. I do not order ye; ye will it. Cut your
+seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
+
+Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the
+detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs
+up, before him.
+
+“Stab me not with that keen steel! Cant them; cant them over! know ye
+not the goblet end? Turn up the socket! So, so; now, ye cup-bearers,
+advance. The irons! take them; hold them while I fill!” Forthwith,
+slowly going from one officer to the other, he brimmed the harpoon
+sockets with the fiery waters from the pewter.
+
+“Now, three to three, ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow
+them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha!
+Starbuck! but the deed is done! Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon
+it. Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the
+deathful whaleboat’s bow—Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all, if we do
+not hunt Moby Dick to his death!” The long, barbed steel goblets were
+lifted; and to cries and maledictions against the white whale, the
+spirits were simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss. Starbuck paled,
+and turned, and shivered. Once more, and finally, the replenished
+pewter went the rounds among the frantic crew; when, waving his free
+hand to them, they all dispersed; and Ahab retired within his cabin.
+
+
+CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
+
+_The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out_.
+
+I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I
+sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them;
+but first I pass.
+
+Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet’s rim, the warm waves blush like wine.
+The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver sun—slow dived from noon—goes
+down; my soul mounts up! she wearies with her endless hill. Is, then,
+the crown too heavy that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet is it
+bright with many a gem; I the wearer, see not its far flashings; but
+darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzlingly confounds. ’Tis iron—that
+I know—not gold. ’Tis split, too—that I feel; the jagged edge galls me
+so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull,
+mine; the sort that needs no helmet in the most brain-battering fight!
+
+Dry heat upon my brow? Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred
+me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it lights not
+me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne’er enjoy. Gifted
+with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power; damned, most
+subtly and most malignantly! damned in the midst of Paradise! Good
+night—good night! (_waving his hand, he moves from the window_.)
+
+’Twas not so hard a task. I thought to find one stubborn, at the least;
+but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they
+revolve. Or, if you will, like so many ant-hills of powder, they all
+stand before me; and I their match. Oh, hard! that to fire others, the
+match itself must needs be wasting! What I’ve dared, I’ve willed; and
+what I’ve willed, I’ll do! They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I’m
+demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to
+comprehend itself! The prophecy was that I should be dismembered;
+and—Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my
+dismemberer. Now, then, be the prophet and the fulfiller one. That’s
+more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye
+cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I
+will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own
+size; don’t pommel _me!_ No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up again;
+but _ye_ have run and hidden. Come forth from behind your cotton bags!
+I have no long gun to reach ye. Come, Ahab’s compliments to ye; come
+and see if ye can swerve me. Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye
+swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed
+purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
+Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under
+torrents’ beds, unerringly I rush! Naught’s an obstacle, naught’s an
+angle to the iron way!
+
+
+CHAPTER 38. Dusk.
+
+_By the Mainmast; Starbuck leaning against it_.
+
+My soul is more than matched; she’s overmanned; and by a madman!
+Insufferable sting, that sanity should ground arms on such a field! But
+he drilled deep down, and blasted all my reason out of me! I think I
+see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it. Will I, nill
+I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have
+no knife to cut. Horrible old man! Who’s over him, he cries;—aye, he
+would be a democrat to all above; look, how he lords it over all below!
+Oh! I plainly see my miserable office,—to obey, rebelling; and worse
+yet, to hate with touch of pity! For in his eyes I read some lurid woe
+would shrivel me up, had I it. Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow
+wide. The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the
+small gold-fish has its glassy globe. His heaven-insulting purpose, God
+may wedge aside. I would up heart, were it not like lead. But my whole
+clock’s run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to
+lift again.
+
+[_A burst of revelry from the forecastle_.]
+
+Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of
+human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea. The white
+whale is their demigorgon. Hark! the infernal orgies! that revelry is
+forward! mark the unfaltering silence aft! Methinks it pictures life.
+Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled,
+bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods
+within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake,
+and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings. The long howl thrills
+me through! Peace! ye revellers, and set the watch! Oh, life! ’tis in
+an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge,—as wild,
+untutored things are forced to feed—Oh, life! ’tis now that I do feel
+the latent horror in thee! but ’tis not me! that horror’s out of me!
+and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight
+ye, ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye
+blessed influences!
+
+
+CHAPTER 39. First Night-Watch.
+
+Fore-Top.
+
+(_Stubb solus, and mending a brace_.)
+
+Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!—I’ve been thinking over it ever
+since, and that ha, ha’s the final consequence. Why so? Because a
+laugh’s the wisest, easiest answer to all that’s queer; and come what
+will, one comfort’s always left—that unfailing comfort is, it’s all
+predestinated. I heard not all his talk with Starbuck; but to my poor
+eye Starbuck then looked something as I the other evening felt. Be sure
+the old Mogul has fixed him, too. I twigged it, knew it; had had the
+gift, might readily have prophesied it—for when I clapped my eye upon
+his skull I saw it. Well, Stubb, _wise_ Stubb—that’s my title—well,
+Stubb, what of it, Stubb? Here’s a carcase. I know not all that may be
+coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. Such a waggish
+leering as lurks in all your horribles! I feel funny. Fa, la! lirra,
+skirra! What’s my juicy little pear at home doing now? Crying its eyes
+out?—Giving a party to the last arrived harpooneers, I dare say, gay as
+a frigate’s pennant, and so am I—fa, la! lirra, skirra! Oh—
+
+
+We’ll drink to-night with hearts as light, To love, as gay and fleeting
+As bubbles that swim, on the beaker’s brim, And break on the lips while
+meeting.
+
+
+
+A brave stave that—who calls? Mr. Starbuck? Aye, aye, sir—(_Aside_)
+he’s my superior, he has his too, if I’m not mistaken.—Aye, aye, sir,
+just through with this job—coming.
+
+
+CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.
+
+HARPOONEERS AND SAILORS.
+
+(_Foresail rises and discovers the watch standing, lounging, leaning,
+and lying in various attitudes, all singing in chorus_.)
+
+
+  Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies! Farewell and adieu to you,
+  ladies of Spain! Our captain’s commanded.—
+
+
+
+1ST NANTUCKET SAILOR. Oh, boys, don’t be sentimental; it’s bad for the
+digestion! Take a tonic, follow me!
+
+(_Sings, and all follow._)
+
+
+ Our captain stood upon the deck, A spy-glass in his hand, A viewing of
+ those gallant whales That blew at every strand. Oh, your tubs in your
+ boats, my boys, And by your braces stand, And we’ll have one of those
+ fine whales, Hand, boys, over hand! So, be cheery, my lads! may your
+ hearts never fail! While the bold harpooner is striking the whale!
+
+
+
+MATE’S VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK. Eight bells there, forward!
+
+2ND NANTUCKET SAILOR. Avast the chorus! Eight bells there! d’ye hear,
+bell-boy? Strike the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me
+call the watch. I’ve the sort of mouth for that—the hogshead mouth. So,
+so, (_thrusts his head down the scuttle_,) Star-bo-l-e-e-n-s, a-h-o-y!
+Eight bells there below! Tumble up!
+
+DUTCH SAILOR. Grand snoozing to-night, maty; fat night for that. I mark
+this in our old Mogul’s wine; it’s quite as deadening to some as
+filliping to others. We sing; they sleep—aye, lie down there, like
+ground-tier butts. At ’em again! There, take this copper-pump, and hail
+’em through it. Tell ’em to avast dreaming of their lasses. Tell ’em
+it’s the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.
+That’s the way—_that’s_ it; thy throat ain’t spoiled with eating
+Amsterdam butter.
+
+FRENCH SAILOR. Hist, boys! let’s have a jig or two before we ride to
+anchor in Blanket Bay. What say ye? There comes the other watch. Stand
+by all legs! Pip! little Pip! hurrah with your tambourine!
+
+PIP. (_Sulky and sleepy._) Don’t know where it is.
+
+FRENCH SAILOR. Beat thy belly, then, and wag thy ears. Jig it, men, I
+say; merry’s the word; hurrah! Damn me, won’t you dance? Form, now,
+Indian-file, and gallop into the double-shuffle? Throw yourselves!
+Legs! legs!
+
+ICELAND SAILOR. I don’t like your floor, maty; it’s too springy to my
+taste. I’m used to ice-floors. I’m sorry to throw cold water on the
+subject; but excuse me.
+
+MALTESE SAILOR. Me too; where’s your girls? Who but a fool would take
+his left hand by his right, and say to himself, how d’ye do? Partners!
+I must have partners!
+
+SICILIAN SAILOR. Aye; girls and a green!—then I’ll hop with ye; yea,
+turn grasshopper!
+
+LONG-ISLAND SAILOR. Well, well, ye sulkies, there’s plenty more of us.
+Hoe corn when you may, say I. All legs go to harvest soon. Ah! here
+comes the music; now for it!
+
+AZORE SAILOR. (_Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up the
+scuttle_.) Here you are, Pip; and there’s the windlass-bitts; up you
+mount! Now, boys! (_The half of them dance to the tambourine; some go
+below; some sleep or lie among the coils of rigging. Oaths a-plenty_.)
+
+AZORE SAILOR. (_Dancing_) Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig
+it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy! Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!
+
+PIP. Jinglers, you say?—there goes another, dropped off; I pound it so.
+
+CHINA SAILOR. Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of
+thyself.
+
+FRENCH SAILOR. Merry-mad! Hold up thy hoop, Pip, till I jump through
+it! Split jibs! tear yourselves!
+
+TASHTEGO. (_Quietly smoking._) That’s a white man; he calls that fun:
+humph! I save my sweat.
+
+OLD MANX SAILOR. I wonder whether those jolly lads bethink them of what
+they are dancing over. I’ll dance over your grave, I will—that’s the
+bitterest threat of your night-women, that beat head-winds round
+corners. O Christ! to think of the green navies and the green-skulled
+crews! Well, well; belike the whole world’s a ball, as you scholars
+have it; and so ’tis right to make one ballroom of it. Dance on, lads,
+you’re young; I was once.
+
+3D NANTUCKET SAILOR. Spell oh!—whew! this is worse than pulling after
+whales in a calm—give us a whiff, Tash.
+
+(_They cease dancing, and gather in clusters. Meantime the sky
+darkens—the wind rises_.)
+
+LASCAR SAILOR. By Brahma! boys, it’ll be douse sail soon. The sky-born,
+high-tide Ganges turned to wind! Thou showest thy black brow, Seeva!
+
+MALTESE SAILOR. (_Reclining and shaking his cap_.) It’s the waves—the
+snow’s caps turn to jig it now. They’ll shake their tassels soon. Now
+would all the waves were women, then I’d go drown, and chassee with
+them evermore! There’s naught so sweet on earth—heaven may not match
+it!—as those swift glances of warm, wild bosoms in the dance, when the
+over-arboring arms hide such ripe, bursting grapes.
+
+SICILIAN SAILOR. (_Reclining_.) Tell me not of it! Hark ye, lad—fleet
+interlacings of the limbs—lithe swayings—coyings—flutterings! lip!
+heart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye,
+else come satiety. Eh, Pagan? (_Nudging_.)
+
+TAHITAN SAILOR. (_Reclining on a mat_.) Hail, holy nakedness of our
+dancing girls!—the Heeva-Heeva! Ah! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I
+still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee woven
+in the wood, my mat! green the first day I brought ye thence; now worn
+and wilted quite. Ah me!—not thou nor I can bear the change! How then,
+if so be transplanted to yon sky? Hear I the roaring streams from
+Pirohitee’s peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the
+villages?—The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (_Leaps to his
+feet_.)
+
+PORTUGUESE SAILOR. How the sea rolls swashing ’gainst the side! Stand
+by for reefing, hearties! the winds are just crossing swords, pell-mell
+they’ll go lunging presently.
+
+DANISH SAILOR. Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou
+holdest! Well done! The mate there holds ye to it stiffly. He’s no more
+afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic
+with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!
+
+4TH NANTUCKET SAILOR. He has his orders, mind ye that. I heard old Ahab
+tell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a
+waterspout with a pistol—fire your ship right into it!
+
+ENGLISH SAILOR. Blood! but that old man’s a grand old cove! We are the
+lads to hunt him up his whale!
+
+ALL. Aye! aye!
+
+OLD MANX SAILOR. How the three pines shake! Pines are the hardest sort
+of tree to live when shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none
+but the crew’s cursed clay. Steady, helmsman! steady. This is the sort
+of weather when brave hearts snap ashore, and keeled hulls split at
+sea. Our captain has his birthmark; look yonder, boys, there’s another
+in the sky—lurid-like, ye see, all else pitch black.
+
+DAGGOO. What of that? Who’s afraid of black’s afraid of me! I’m
+quarried out of it!
+
+SPANISH SAILOR. (_Aside_.) He wants to bully, ah!—the old grudge makes
+me touchy (_Advancing_.) Aye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable
+dark side of mankind—devilish dark at that. No offence.
+
+DAGGOO (_grimly_). None.
+
+ST. JAGO’S SAILOR. That Spaniard’s mad or drunk. But that can’t be, or
+else in his one case our old Mogul’s fire-waters are somewhat long in
+working.
+
+5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR. What’s that I saw—lightning? Yes.
+
+SPANISH SAILOR. No; Daggoo showing his teeth.
+
+DAGGOO (_springing_). Swallow thine, mannikin! White skin, white liver!
+
+SPANISH SAILOR (_meeting him_). Knife thee heartily! big frame, small
+spirit!
+
+ALL. A row! a row! a row!
+
+TASHTEGO (_with a whiff_). A row a’low, and a row aloft—Gods and
+men—both brawlers! Humph!
+
+BELFAST SAILOR. A row! arrah a row! The Virgin be blessed, a row!
+Plunge in with ye!
+
+ENGLISH SAILOR. Fair play! Snatch the Spaniard’s knife! A ring, a ring!
+
+OLD MANX SAILOR. Ready formed. There! the ringed horizon. In that ring
+Cain struck Abel. Sweet work, right work! No? Why then, God, mad’st
+thou the ring?
+
+MATE’S VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK. Hands by the halyards! in
+top-gallant sails! Stand by to reef topsails!
+
+ALL. The squall! the squall! jump, my jollies! (_They scatter_.)
+
+PIP (_shrinking under the windlass_). Jollies? Lord help such jollies!
+Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God! Duck lower,
+Pip, here comes the royal yard! It’s worse than being in the whirled
+woods, the last day of the year! Who’d go climbing after chestnuts now?
+But there they go, all cursing, and here I don’t. Fine prospects to
+’em; they’re on the road to heaven. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a
+squall! But those chaps there are worse yet—they are your white
+squalls, they. White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! Here have I
+heard all their chat just now, and the white whale—shirr! shirr!—but
+spoken of once! and only this evening—it makes me jingle all over like
+my tambourine—that anaconda of an old man swore ’em in to hunt him! Oh,
+thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on
+this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no
+bowels to feel fear!
+
+
+CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
+
+I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest;
+my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more
+did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A
+wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab’s quenchless feud
+seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous
+monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of
+violence and revenge.
+
+For some time past, though at intervals only, the unaccompanied,
+secluded White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly
+frequented by the Sperm Whale fishermen. But not all of them knew of
+his existence; only a few of them, comparatively, had knowingly seen
+him; while the number who as yet had actually and knowingly given
+battle to him, was small indeed. For, owing to the large number of
+whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire
+watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest
+along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth
+or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any
+sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity
+of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances,
+direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole
+world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings
+concerning Moby Dick. It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels
+reported to have encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or
+such a meridian, a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity,
+which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had
+completely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair
+presumption, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other
+than Moby Dick. Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked
+by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and
+malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by
+accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps,
+for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred,
+more, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large,
+than to the individual cause. In that way, mostly, the disastrous
+encounter between Ahab and the whale had hitherto been popularly
+regarded.
+
+And as for those who, previously hearing of the White Whale, by chance
+caught sight of him; in the beginning of the thing they had every one
+of them, almost, as boldly and fearlessly lowered for him, as for any
+other whale of that species. But at length, such calamities did ensue
+in these assaults—not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken
+limbs, or devouring amputations—but fatal to the last degree of
+fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and
+piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake
+the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White
+Whale had eventually come.
+
+Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more
+horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters. For not only do
+fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising
+terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in
+maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors
+abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
+And as the sea surpasses the land in this matter, so the whale fishery
+surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and
+fearfulness of the rumors which sometimes circulate there. For not only
+are whalemen as a body unexempt from that ignorance and
+superstitiousness hereditary to all sailors; but of all sailors, they
+are by all odds the most directly brought into contact with whatever is
+appallingly astonishing in the sea; face to face they not only eye its
+greatest marvels, but, hand to jaw, give battle to them. Alone, in such
+remotest waters, that though you sailed a thousand miles, and passed a
+thousand shores, you would not come to any chiseled hearth-stone, or
+aught hospitable beneath that part of the sun; in such latitudes and
+longitudes, pursuing too such a calling as he does, the whaleman is
+wrapped by influences all tending to make his fancy pregnant with many
+a mighty birth.
+
+No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over
+the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in
+the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and
+half-formed fœtal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which
+eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything
+that visibly appears. So that in many cases such a panic did he finally
+strike, that few who by those rumors, at least, had heard of the White
+Whale, few of those hunters were willing to encounter the perils of his
+jaw.
+
+But there were still other and more vital practical influences at work.
+Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm
+Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the
+leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body. There are
+those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous
+enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would
+perhaps—either from professional inexperience, or incompetency, or
+timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there
+are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not
+sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered
+the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is
+restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North;
+seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish
+fireside interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern
+whaling. Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale
+anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows
+which stem him.
+
+And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary
+times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book
+naturalists—Olassen and Povelson—declaring the Sperm Whale not only to
+be a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be
+so incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood.
+Nor even down to so late a time as Cuvier’s, were these or almost
+similar impressions effaced. For in his Natural History, the Baron
+himself affirms that at sight of the Sperm Whale, all fish (sharks
+included) are “struck with the most lively terrors,” and “often in the
+precipitancy of their flight dash themselves against the rocks with
+such violence as to cause instantaneous death.” And however the general
+experiences in the fishery may amend such reports as these; yet in
+their full terribleness, even to the bloodthirsty item of Povelson, the
+superstitious belief in them is, in some vicissitudes of their
+vocation, revived in the minds of the hunters.
+
+So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him, not a few
+of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days
+of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long
+practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils of this new and daring
+warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be
+hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lance at such an apparition
+as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man. That to attempt it, would be
+inevitably to be torn into a quick eternity. On this head, there are
+some remarkable documents that may be consulted.
+
+Nevertheless, some there were, who even in the face of these things
+were ready to give chase to Moby Dick; and a still greater number who,
+chancing only to hear of him distantly and vaguely, without the
+specific details of any certain calamity, and without superstitious
+accompaniments, were sufficiently hardy not to flee from the battle if
+offered.
+
+One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked
+with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was
+the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had
+actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same
+instant of time.
+
+Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit
+altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability. For as
+the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged,
+even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm
+Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to
+his pursuers; and from time to time have originated the most curious
+and contradictory speculations regarding them, especially concerning
+the mystic modes whereby, after sounding to a great depth, he
+transports himself with such vast swiftness to the most widely distant
+points.
+
+It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and
+as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby,
+that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose
+bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland
+seas. Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances it has
+been declared that the interval of time between the two assaults could
+not have exceeded very many days. Hence, by inference, it has been
+believed by some whalemen, that the Nor’ West Passage, so long a
+problem to man, was never a problem to the whale. So that here, in the
+real living experience of living men, the prodigies related in old
+times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there
+was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the
+surface); and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain
+near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy
+Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost
+fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen.
+
+Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and
+knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had
+escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen
+should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not
+only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in
+time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he
+would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to
+spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for
+again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied
+jet would once more be seen.
+
+But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in
+the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike
+the imagination with unwonted power. For, it was not so much his
+uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from other sperm whales,
+but, as was elsewhere thrown out—a peculiar snow-white wrinkled
+forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump. These were his prominent
+features; the tokens whereby, even in the limitless, uncharted seas, he
+revealed his identity, at a long distance, to those who knew him.
+
+The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the
+same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive
+appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by
+his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue
+sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden
+gleamings.
+
+Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his
+deformed lower jaw, that so much invested the whale with natural
+terror, as that unexampled, intelligent malignity which, according to
+specific accounts, he had over and over again evinced in his assaults.
+More than all, his treacherous retreats struck more of dismay than
+perhaps aught else. For, when swimming before his exulting pursuers,
+with every apparent symptom of alarm, he had several times been known
+to turn round suddenly, and, bearing down upon them, either stave their
+boats to splinters, or drive them back in consternation to their ship.
+
+Already several fatalities had attended his chase. But though similar
+disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual in
+the fishery; yet, in most instances, such seemed the White Whale’s
+infernal aforethought of ferocity, that every dismembering or death
+that he caused, was not wholly regarded as having been inflicted by an
+unintelligent agent.
+
+Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of
+his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed
+boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the
+white curds of the whale’s direful wrath into the serene, exasperating
+sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
+
+His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the
+eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had
+dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly
+seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the
+whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping
+his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away
+Ahab’s leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk,
+no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming
+malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that
+almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness
+against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness
+he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but
+all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam
+before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious
+agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left
+living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity
+which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern
+Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of
+the east reverenced in their statue devil;—Ahab did not fall down and
+worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the
+abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All
+that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things;
+all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the
+brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy
+Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby
+Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general
+rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if
+his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.
+
+It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at
+the precise time of his bodily dismemberment. Then, in darting at the
+monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate,
+corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he
+probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.
+Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long
+months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in
+one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian
+Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into one
+another; and so interfusing, made him mad. That it was only then, on
+the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania
+seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals
+during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a
+leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was
+moreover intensified by his delirium, that his mates were forced to
+lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock. In a
+strait-jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales. And, when
+running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun’sails
+spread, floated across the tranquil tropics, and, to all appearances,
+the old man’s delirium seemed left behind him with the Cape Horn
+swells, and he came forth from his dark den into the blessed light and
+air; even then, when he bore that firm, collected front, however pale,
+and issued his calm orders once again; and his mates thanked God the
+direful madness was now gone; even then, Ahab, in his hidden self,
+raved on. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.
+When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some
+still subtler form. Ahab’s full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly
+contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows
+narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge. But, as in his
+narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab’s broad madness had been
+left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural
+intellect had perished. That before living agent, now became the living
+instrument. If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy
+stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its
+concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost
+his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold
+more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one
+reasonable object.
+
+This is much; yet Ahab’s larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted.
+But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. Winding
+far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where
+we here stand—however grand and wonderful, now quit it;—and take your
+way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes;
+where far beneath the fantastic towers of man’s upper earth, his root
+of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique
+buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes! So with a broken
+throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he
+patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of
+ages. Wind ye down there, ye prouder, sadder souls! question that
+proud, sad king! A family likeness! aye, he did beget ye, ye young
+exiled royalties; and from your grim sire only will the old
+State-secret come.
+
+Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely: all my means
+are sane, my motive and my object mad. Yet without power to kill, or
+change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long
+dissemble; in some sort, did still. But that thing of his dissembling
+was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
+Nevertheless, so well did he succeed in that dissembling, that when
+with ivory leg he stepped ashore at last, no Nantucketer thought him
+otherwise than but naturally grieved, and that to the quick, with the
+terrible casualty which had overtaken him.
+
+The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly
+ascribed to a kindred cause. And so too, all the added moodiness which
+always afterwards, to the very day of sailing in the Pequod on the
+present voyage, sat brooding on his brow. Nor is it so very unlikely,
+that far from distrusting his fitness for another whaling voyage, on
+account of such dark symptoms, the calculating people of that prudent
+isle were inclined to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons
+he was all the better qualified and set on edge, for a pursuit so full
+of rage and wildness as the bloody hunt of whales. Gnawed within and
+scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable
+idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart
+his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.
+Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that,
+yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on
+his underlings to the attack. But be all this as it may, certain it is,
+that with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in
+him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one
+only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale. Had any one
+of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking
+in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have
+wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man! They were bent on
+profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the
+mint. He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural
+revenge.
+
+Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses
+a Job’s whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made
+up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals—morally enfeebled
+also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in
+Starbuck, the invulnerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in
+Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask. Such a crew, so
+officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality
+to help him to his monomaniac revenge. How it was that they so
+aboundingly responded to the old man’s ire—by what evil magic their
+souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the
+White Whale as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to
+be—what the White Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious
+understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way, he might have
+seemed the gliding great demon of the seas of life,—all this to
+explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go. The subterranean
+miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by
+the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick? Who does not feel the
+irresistible arm drag? What skiff in tow of a seventy-four can stand
+still? For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the
+place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see
+naught in that brute but the deadliest ill.
+
+
+CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of the Whale.
+
+What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he
+was to me, as yet remains unsaid.
+
+Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which
+could not but occasionally awaken in any man’s soul some alarm, there
+was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him,
+which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest;
+and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost
+despair of putting it in a comprehensible form. It was the whiteness of
+the whale that above all things appalled me. But how can I hope to
+explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I
+must, else all these chapters might be naught.
+
+Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty,
+as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles,
+japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way
+recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric,
+grand old kings of Pegu placing the title “Lord of the White Elephants”
+above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion; and the
+modern kings of Siam unfurling the same snow-white quadruped in the
+royal standard; and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a
+snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Cæsarian, heir to
+overlording Rome, having for the imperial colour the same imperial hue;
+and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself,
+giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and
+though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made significant of
+gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked a joyful day; and
+though in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings, this same hue is
+made the emblem of many touching, noble things—the innocence of brides,
+the benignity of age; though among the Red Men of America the giving of
+the white belt of wampum was the deepest pledge of honor; though in
+many climes, whiteness typifies the majesty of Justice in the ermine of
+the Judge, and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn
+by milk-white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of the most
+august religions it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness
+and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame
+being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies,
+Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull; and
+though to the noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred
+White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that
+spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they could send
+to the Great Spirit with the annual tidings of their own fidelity; and
+though directly from the Latin word for white, all Christian priests
+derive the name of one part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic,
+worn beneath the cassock; and though among the holy pomps of the Romish
+faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of
+our Lord; though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to
+the redeemed, and the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white
+before the great white throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there
+white like wool; yet for all these accumulated associations, with
+whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an
+elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more
+of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.
+
+This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when
+divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object
+terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.
+Witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of the
+tropics; what but their smooth, flaky whiteness makes them the
+transcendent horrors they are? That ghastly whiteness it is which
+imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific,
+to the dumb gloating of their aspect. So that not the fierce-fanged
+tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shrouded
+bear or shark.*
+
+*With reference to the Polar bear, it may possibly be urged by him who
+would fain go still deeper into this matter, that it is not the
+whiteness, separately regarded, which heightens the intolerable
+hideousness of that brute; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness,
+it might be said, only rises from the circumstance, that the
+irresponsible ferociousness of the creature stands invested in the
+fleece of celestial innocence and love; and hence, by bringing together
+two such opposite emotions in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us
+with so unnatural a contrast. But even assuming all this to be true;
+yet, were it not for the whiteness, you would not have that intensified
+terror.
+
+As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that
+creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the
+same quality in the Polar quadruped. This peculiarity is most vividly
+hit by the French in the name they bestow upon that fish. The Romish
+mass for the dead begins with “Requiem eternam” (eternal rest), whence
+_Requiem_ denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music.
+Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark,
+and the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him _Requin_.
+
+Bethink thee of the albatross, whence come those clouds of spiritual
+wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails in all
+imaginations? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but God’s great,
+unflattering laureate, Nature.*
+
+*I remember the first albatross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged
+gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas. From my forenoon watch
+below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the
+main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and
+with a hooked, Roman bill sublime. At intervals, it arched forth its
+vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark. Wondrous
+flutterings and throbbings shook it. Though bodily unharmed, it uttered
+cries, as some king’s ghost in supernatural distress. Through its
+inexpressible, strange eyes, methought I peeped to secrets which took
+hold of God. As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself; the white
+thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled
+waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of
+towns. Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage. I cannot tell, can only
+hint, the things that darted through me then. But at last I awoke; and
+turning, asked a sailor what bird was this. A goney, he replied. Goney!
+never had heard that name before; is it conceivable that this glorious
+thing is utterly unknown to men ashore! never! But some time after, I
+learned that goney was some seaman’s name for albatross. So that by no
+possibility could Coleridge’s wild Rhyme have had aught to do with
+those mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon
+our deck. For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to
+be an albatross. Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a
+little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
+
+I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird
+chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in
+this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey
+albatrosses; and these I have frequently seen, but never with such
+emotions as when I beheld the Antarctic fowl.
+
+But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will
+tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea.
+At last the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern
+tally round its neck, with the ship’s time and place; and then letting
+it escape. But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was
+taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding,
+the invoking, and adoring cherubim!
+
+Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the
+White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger,
+large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a
+thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage. He was the
+elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those
+days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies. At
+their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which
+every evening leads on the hosts of light. The flashing cascade of his
+mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more
+resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him. A
+most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western
+world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the
+glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god,
+bluff-browed and fearless as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid
+his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly
+streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his
+circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White
+Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through
+his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to
+the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.
+Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this
+noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so
+clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it
+which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain
+nameless terror.
+
+But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that
+accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and
+Albatross.
+
+What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks
+the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin! It is
+that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed by the name he
+bears. The Albino is as well made as other men—has no substantive
+deformity—and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him
+more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion. Why should this be
+so?
+
+Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but not
+the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this
+crowning attribute of the terrible. From its snowy aspect, the
+gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White
+Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice
+omitted so potent an auxiliary. How wildly it heightens the effect of
+that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their
+faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the
+market-place!
+
+Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all
+mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue. It
+cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of
+the dead which most appals the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering
+there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of
+consternation in the other world, as of mortal trepidation here. And
+from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the
+shroud in which we wrap them. Nor even in our superstitions do we fail
+to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in
+a milk-white fog—Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that
+even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on
+his pallid horse.
+
+Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious
+thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest
+idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.
+
+But though without dissent this point be fixed, how is mortal man to
+account for it? To analyse it, would seem impossible. Can we, then, by
+the citation of some of those instances wherein this thing of
+whiteness—though for the time either wholly or in great part stripped
+of all direct associations calculated to impart to it aught fearful,
+but nevertheless, is found to exert over us the same sorcery, however
+modified;—can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us
+to the hidden cause we seek?
+
+Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety,
+and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls. And
+though, doubtless, some at least of the imaginative impressions about
+to be presented may have been shared by most men, yet few perhaps were
+entirely conscious of them at the time, and therefore may not be able
+to recall them now.
+
+Why to the man of untutored ideality, who happens to be but loosely
+acquainted with the peculiar character of the day, does the bare
+mention of Whitsuntide marshal in the fancy such long, dreary,
+speechless processions of slow-pacing pilgrims, down-cast and hooded
+with new-fallen snow? Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of
+the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White
+Friar or a White Nun, evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
+
+Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and
+kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White Tower
+of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an
+untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its
+neighbors—the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody? And those sublimer
+towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar
+moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare
+mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia’s Blue Ridge is
+full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, irrespective of all
+latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a
+spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with
+mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves,
+followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets? Or, to choose a
+wholly unsubstantial instance, purely addressed to the fancy, why, in
+reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does “the tall pale man”
+of the Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrustlingly glides
+through the green of the groves—why is this phantom more terrible than
+all the whooping imps of the Blocksburg?
+
+Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling
+earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the
+tearlessness of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide
+field of leaning spires, wrenched cope-stones, and crosses all adroop
+(like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues of
+house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards;—it
+is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest,
+saddest city thou can’st see. For Lima has taken the white veil; and
+there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe. Old as Pizarro,
+this whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new; admits not the cheerful
+greenness of complete decay; spreads over her broken ramparts the rigid
+pallor of an apoplexy that fixes its own distortions.
+
+I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness
+is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of
+objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there
+aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind
+almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when
+exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or
+universality. What I mean by these two statements may perhaps be
+respectively elucidated by the following examples.
+
+First: The mariner, when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands, if
+by night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels
+just enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties; but under
+precisely similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock to
+view his ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky whiteness—as if
+from encircling headlands shoals of combed white bears were swimming
+round him, then he feels a silent, superstitious dread; the shrouded
+phantom of the whitened waters is horrible to him as a real ghost; in
+vain the lead assures him he is still off soundings; heart and helm
+they both go down; he never rests till blue water is under him again.
+Yet where is the mariner who will tell thee, “Sir, it was not so much
+the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous
+whiteness that so stirred me?”
+
+Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the
+snow-howdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the
+mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast
+altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be to
+lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes. Much the same is it with the
+backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an
+unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig
+to break the fixed trance of whiteness. Not so the sailor, beholding
+the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal
+trick of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and
+half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his
+misery, views what seems a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with
+its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.
+
+But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is
+but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a
+hypo, Ishmael.
+
+Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of
+Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey—why is it that upon the
+sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that
+he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness—why
+will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in
+phrensies of affright? There is no remembrance in him of any gorings of
+wild creatures in his green northern home, so that the strange
+muskiness he smells cannot recall to him anything associated with the
+experience of former perils; for what knows he, this New England colt,
+of the black bisons of distant Oregon?
+
+No: but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the
+knowledge of the demonism in the world. Though thousands of miles from
+Oregon, still when he smells that savage musk, the rending, goring
+bison herds are as present as to the deserted wild foal of the
+prairies, which this instant they may be trampling into dust.
+
+Thus, then, the muffled rollings of a milky sea; the bleak rustlings of
+the festooned frosts of mountains; the desolate shiftings of the
+windrowed snows of prairies; all these, to Ishmael, are as the shaking
+of that buffalo robe to the frightened colt!
+
+Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic
+sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere
+those things must exist. Though in many of its aspects this visible
+world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in
+fright.
+
+But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and
+learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange
+and far more portentous—why, as we have seen, it is at once the most
+meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the
+Christian’s Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent
+in things the most appalling to mankind.
+
+Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids
+and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the
+thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky
+way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a colour as
+the visible absence of colour; and at the same time the concrete of all
+colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness,
+full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows—a colourless, all-colour
+of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory
+of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every stately
+or lovely emblazoning—the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea,
+and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of
+young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent
+in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified
+Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover
+nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and
+consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her
+hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless
+in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all
+objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge—pondering all
+this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful
+travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring
+glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at
+the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him. And
+of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at
+the fiery hunt?
+
+
+CHAPTER 43. Hark!
+
+“HIST! Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?”
+
+It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in
+a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to
+the scuttle-butt near the taffrail. In this manner, they passed the
+buckets to fill the scuttle-butt. Standing, for the most part, on the
+hallowed precincts of the quarter-deck, they were careful not to speak
+or rustle their feet. From hand to hand, the buckets went in the
+deepest silence, only broken by the occasional flap of a sail, and the
+steady hum of the unceasingly advancing keel.
+
+It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon,
+whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a
+Cholo, the words above.
+
+“Hist! did you hear that noise, Cabaco?”
+
+“Take the bucket, will ye, Archy? what noise d’ye mean?”
+
+“There it is again—under the hatches—don’t you hear it—a cough—it
+sounded like a cough.”
+
+“Cough be damned! Pass along that return bucket.”
+
+“There again—there it is!—it sounds like two or three sleepers turning
+over, now!”
+
+“Caramba! have done, shipmate, will ye? It’s the three soaked biscuits
+ye eat for supper turning over inside of ye—nothing else. Look to the
+bucket!”
+
+“Say what ye will, shipmate; I’ve sharp ears.”
+
+“Aye, you are the chap, ain’t ye, that heard the hum of the old
+Quakeress’s knitting-needles fifty miles at sea from Nantucket; you’re
+the chap.”
+
+“Grin away; we’ll see what turns up. Hark ye, Cabaco, there is somebody
+down in the after-hold that has not yet been seen on deck; and I
+suspect our old Mogul knows something of it too. I heard Stubb tell
+Flask, one morning watch, that there was something of that sort in the
+wind.”
+
+“Tish! the bucket!”
+
+
+CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
+
+Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that
+took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his
+purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the
+transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea
+charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table. Then seating
+himself before it, you would have seen him intently study the various
+lines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady
+pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank. At
+intervals, he would refer to piles of old log-books beside him, wherein
+were set down the seasons and places in which, on various former
+voyages of various ships, sperm whales had been captured or seen.
+
+While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his
+head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever
+threw shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon his wrinkled brow, till
+it almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and
+courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing
+lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.
+
+But it was not this night in particular that, in the solitude of his
+cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts. Almost every night they were
+brought out; almost every night some pencil marks were effaced, and
+others were substituted. For with the charts of all four oceans before
+him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to
+the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
+
+Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans,
+it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary
+creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet. But not so did it seem
+to Ahab, who knew the sets of all tides and currents; and thereby
+calculating the driftings of the sperm whale’s food; and, also, calling
+to mind the regular, ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular
+latitudes; could arrive at reasonable surmises, almost approaching to
+certainties, concerning the timeliest day to be upon this or that
+ground in search of his prey.
+
+So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the
+sperm whale’s resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe
+that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world;
+were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully
+collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to
+correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the
+flights of swallows. On this hint, attempts have been made to construct
+elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.*
+
+
+  *Since the above was written, the statement is happily borne out by
+  an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National
+  Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it
+  appears that precisely such a chart is in course of completion; and
+  portions of it are presented in the circular. “This chart divides the
+  ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of
+  longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve
+  columns for the twelve months; and horizontally through each of which
+  districts are three lines; one to show the number of days that have
+  been spent in each month in every district, and the two others to
+  show the number of days in which whales, sperm or right, have been
+  seen.”
+
+
+
+
+Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the
+sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret
+intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in _veins_, as they are called;
+continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating
+exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one
+tithe of such marvellous precision. Though, in these cases, the
+direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor’s parallel,
+and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own
+unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary _vein_ in which at these
+times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width
+(more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but
+never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship’s mast-heads, when
+circumspectly gliding along this magic zone. The sum is, that at
+particular seasons within that breadth and along that path, migrating
+whales may with great confidence be looked for.
+
+And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known separate
+feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in crossing
+the widest expanses of water between those grounds he could, by his
+art, so place and time himself on his way, as even then not to be
+wholly without prospect of a meeting.
+
+There was a circumstance which at first sight seemed to entangle his
+delirious but still methodical scheme. But not so in the reality,
+perhaps. Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular seasons
+for particular grounds, yet in general you cannot conclude that the
+herds which haunted such and such a latitude or longitude this year,
+say, will turn out to be identically the same with those that were
+found there the preceding season; though there are peculiar and
+unquestionable instances where the contrary of this has proved true. In
+general, the same remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the
+solitaries and hermits among the matured, aged sperm whales. So that
+though Moby Dick had in a former year been seen, for example, on what
+is called the Seychelle ground in the Indian ocean, or Volcano Bay on
+the Japanese Coast; yet it did not follow, that were the Pequod to
+visit either of those spots at any subsequent corresponding season, she
+would infallibly encounter him there. So, too, with some other feeding
+grounds, where he had at times revealed himself. But all these seemed
+only his casual stopping-places and ocean-inns, so to speak, not his
+places of prolonged abode. And where Ahab’s chances of accomplishing
+his object have hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made to
+whatever way-side, antecedent, extra prospects were his, ere a
+particular set time or place were attained, when all possibilities
+would become probabilities, and, as Ahab fondly thought, every
+possibility the next thing to a certainty. That particular set time and
+place were conjoined in the one technical phrase—the
+Season-on-the-Line. For there and then, for several consecutive years,
+Moby Dick had been periodically descried, lingering in those waters for
+awhile, as the sun, in its annual round, loiters for a predicted
+interval in any one sign of the Zodiac. There it was, too, that most of
+the deadly encounters with the white whale had taken place; there the
+waves were storied with his deeds; there also was that tragic spot
+where the monomaniac old man had found the awful motive to his
+vengeance. But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering
+vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering
+hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one
+crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those
+hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his
+unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.
+
+Now, the Pequod had sailed from Nantucket at the very beginning of the
+Season-on-the-Line. No possible endeavor then could enable her
+commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and
+then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial
+Pacific in time to cruise there. Therefore, he must wait for the next
+ensuing season. Yet the premature hour of the Pequod’s sailing had,
+perhaps, been correctly selected by Ahab, with a view to this very
+complexion of things. Because, an interval of three hundred and
+sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead
+of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt;
+if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote
+from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow
+off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any
+other waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, Pampas,
+Nor’-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon,
+might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the
+Pequod’s circumnavigating wake.
+
+But granting all this; yet, regarded discreetly and coolly, seems it
+not but a mad idea, this; that in the broad boundless ocean, one
+solitary whale, even if encountered, should be thought capable of
+individual recognition from his hunter, even as a white-bearded Mufti
+in the thronged thoroughfares of Constantinople? Yes. For the peculiar
+snow-white brow of Moby Dick, and his snow-white hump, could not but be
+unmistakable. And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to
+himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he
+would throw himself back in reveries—tallied him, and shall he escape?
+His broad fins are bored, and scalloped out like a lost sheep’s ear!
+And here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race; till a
+weariness and faintness of pondering came over him; and in the open air
+of the deck he would seek to recover his strength. Ah, God! what
+trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one
+unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes
+with his own bloody nails in his palms.
+
+Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid
+dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through
+the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them
+round and round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing
+of his life-spot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was
+sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up
+from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked
+flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap
+down among them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild
+cry would be heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would
+burst from his state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on
+fire. Yet these, perhaps, instead of being the unsuppressable symptoms
+of some latent weakness, or fright at his own resolve, were but the
+plainest tokens of its intensity. For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the
+scheming, unappeasedly steadfast hunter of the white whale; this Ahab
+that had gone to his hammock, was not the agent that so caused him to
+burst from it in horror again. The latter was the eternal, living
+principle or soul in him; and in sleep, being for the time dissociated
+from the characterizing mind, which at other times employed it for its
+outer vehicle or agent, it spontaneously sought escape from the
+scorching contiguity of the frantic thing, of which, for the time, it
+was no longer an integral. But as the mind does not exist unless
+leagued with the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahab’s
+case, yielding up all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme
+purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced
+itself against gods and devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent
+being of its own. Nay, could grimly live and burn, while the common
+vitality to which it was conjoined, fled horror-stricken from the
+unbidden and unfathered birth. Therefore, the tormented spirit that
+glared out of bodily eyes, when what seemed Ahab rushed from his room,
+was for the time but a vacated thing, a formless somnambulistic being,
+a ray of living light, to be sure, but without an object to colour, and
+therefore a blankness in itself. God help thee, old man, thy thoughts
+have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus
+makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that
+vulture the very creature he creates.
+
+
+CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
+
+So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed,
+as indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious
+particulars in the habits of sperm whales, the foregoing chapter, in
+its earlier part, is as important a one as will be found in this
+volume; but the leading matter of it requires to be still further and
+more familiarly enlarged upon, in order to be adequately understood,
+and moreover to take away any incredulity which a profound ignorance of
+the entire subject may induce in some minds, as to the natural verity
+of the main points of this affair.
+
+I care not to perform this part of my task methodically; but shall be
+content to produce the desired impression by separate citations of
+items, practically or reliably known to me as a whaleman; and from
+these citations, I take it—the conclusion aimed at will naturally
+follow of itself.
+
+First: I have personally known three instances where a whale, after
+receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape; and, after an
+interval (in one instance of three years), has been again struck by the
+same hand, and slain; when the two irons, both marked by the same
+private cypher, have been taken from the body. In the instance where
+three years intervened between the flinging of the two harpoons; and I
+think it may have been something more than that; the man who darted
+them happening, in the interval, to go in a trading ship on a voyage to
+Africa, went ashore there, joined a discovery party, and penetrated far
+into the interior, where he travelled for a period of nearly two years,
+often endangered by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas, with
+all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of
+unknown regions. Meanwhile, the whale he had struck must also have been
+on its travels; no doubt it had thrice circumnavigated the globe,
+brushing with its flanks all the coasts of Africa; but to no purpose.
+This man and this whale again came together, and the one vanquished the
+other. I say I, myself, have known three instances similar to this;
+that is in two of them I saw the whales struck; and, upon the second
+attack, saw the two irons with the respective marks cut in them,
+afterwards taken from the dead fish. In the three-year instance, it so
+fell out that I was in the boat both times, first and last, and the
+last time distinctly recognised a peculiar sort of huge mole under the
+whale’s eye, which I had observed there three years previous. I say
+three years, but I am pretty sure it was more than that. Here are three
+instances, then, which I personally know the truth of; but I have heard
+of many other instances from persons whose veracity in the matter there
+is no good ground to impeach.
+
+Secondly: It is well known in the Sperm Whale Fishery, however ignorant
+the world ashore may be of it, that there have been several memorable
+historical instances where a particular whale in the ocean has been at
+distant times and places popularly cognisable. Why such a whale became
+thus marked was not altogether and originally owing to his bodily
+peculiarities as distinguished from other whales; for however peculiar
+in that respect any chance whale may be, they soon put an end to his
+peculiarities by killing him, and boiling him down into a peculiarly
+valuable oil. No: the reason was this: that from the fatal experiences
+of the fishery there hung a terrible prestige of perilousness about
+such a whale as there did about Rinaldo Rinaldini, insomuch that most
+fishermen were content to recognise him by merely touching their
+tarpaulins when he would be discovered lounging by them on the sea,
+without seeking to cultivate a more intimate acquaintance. Like some
+poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they
+make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they
+pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump
+for their presumption.
+
+But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual
+celebrity—Nay, you may call it an ocean-wide renown; not only was he
+famous in life and now is immortal in forecastle stories after death,
+but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges, and distinctions
+of a name; had as much a name indeed as Cambyses or Cæsar. Was it not
+so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so
+long did’st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was
+oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? Was it not so, O New Zealand
+Jack! thou terror of all cruisers that crossed their wakes in the
+vicinity of the Tattoo Land? Was it not so, O Morquan! King of Japan,
+whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white
+cross against the sky? Was it not so, O Don Miguel! thou Chilian whale,
+marked like an old tortoise with mystic hieroglyphics upon the back! In
+plain prose, here are four whales as well known to the students of
+Cetacean History as Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar.
+
+But this is not all. New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various
+times creating great havoc among the boats of different vessels, were
+finally gone in quest of, systematically hunted out, chased and killed
+by valiant whaling captains, who heaved up their anchors with that
+express object as much in view, as in setting out through the
+Narragansett Woods, Captain Butler of old had it in his mind to capture
+that notorious murderous savage Annawon, the headmost warrior of the
+Indian King Philip.
+
+I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make
+mention of one or two other things, which to me seem important, as in
+printed form establishing in all respects the reasonableness of the
+whole story of the White Whale, more especially the catastrophe. For
+this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full
+as much bolstering as error. So ignorant are most landsmen of some of
+the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some
+hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the
+fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still
+worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
+
+First: Though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general
+perils of the grand fishery, yet they have nothing like a fixed, vivid
+conception of those perils, and the frequency with which they recur.
+One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters
+and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at
+home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record. Do you
+suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by
+the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to
+the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan—do you suppose that
+that poor fellow’s name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will
+read to-morrow at your breakfast? No: because the mails are very
+irregular between here and New Guinea. In fact, did you ever hear what
+might be called regular news direct or indirect from New Guinea? Yet I
+tell you that upon one particular voyage which I made to the Pacific,
+among many others we spoke thirty different ships, every one of which
+had had a death by a whale, some of them more than one, and three that
+had each lost a boat’s crew. For God’s sake, be economical with your
+lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of
+man’s blood was spilled for it.
+
+Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale
+is an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that
+when narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold
+enormousness, they have significantly complimented me upon my
+facetiousness; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of
+being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of
+Egypt.
+
+But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established upon
+testimony entirely independent of my own. That point is this: The Sperm
+Whale is in some cases sufficiently powerful, knowing, and judiciously
+malicious, as with direct aforethought to stave in, utterly destroy,
+and sink a large ship; and what is more, the Sperm Whale _has_ done it.
+
+First: In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket,
+was cruising in the Pacific Ocean. One day she saw spouts, lowered her
+boats, and gave chase to a shoal of sperm whales. Ere long, several of
+the whales were wounded; when, suddenly, a very large whale escaping
+from the boats, issued from the shoal, and bore directly down upon the
+ship. Dashing his forehead against her hull, he so stove her in, that
+in less than “ten minutes” she settled down and fell over. Not a
+surviving plank of her has been seen since. After the severest
+exposure, part of the crew reached the land in their boats. Being
+returned home at last, Captain Pollard once more sailed for the Pacific
+in command of another ship, but the gods shipwrecked him again upon
+unknown rocks and breakers; for the second time his ship was utterly
+lost, and forthwith forswearing the sea, he has never tempted it since.
+At this day Captain Pollard is a resident of Nantucket. I have seen
+Owen Chace, who was chief mate of the Essex at the time of the tragedy;
+I have read his plain and faithful narrative; I have conversed with his
+son; and all this within a few miles of the scene of the catastrophe.*
+
+*The following are extracts from Chace’s narrative: “Every fact seemed
+to warrant me in concluding that it was anything but chance which
+directed his operations; he made two several attacks upon the ship, at
+a short interval between them, both of which, according to their
+direction, were calculated to do us the most injury, by being made
+ahead, and thereby combining the speed of the two objects for the
+shock; to effect which, the exact manœuvres which he made were
+necessary. His aspect was most horrible, and such as indicated
+resentment and fury. He came directly from the shoal which we had just
+before entered, and in which we had struck three of his companions, as
+if fired with revenge for their sufferings.” Again: “At all events, the
+whole circumstances taken together, all happening before my own eyes,
+and producing, at the time, impressions in my mind of decided,
+calculating mischief, on the part of the whale (many of which
+impressions I cannot now recall), induce me to be satisfied that I am
+correct in my opinion.”
+
+Here are his reflections some time after quitting the ship, during a
+black night in an open boat, when almost despairing of reaching any
+hospitable shore. “The dark ocean and swelling waters were nothing; the
+fears of being swallowed up by some dreadful tempest, or dashed upon
+hidden rocks, with all the other ordinary subjects of fearful
+contemplation, seemed scarcely entitled to a moment’s thought; the
+dismal looking wreck, and _the horrid aspect and revenge of the whale_,
+wholly engrossed my reflections, until day again made its appearance.”
+
+In another place—p. 45,—he speaks of “_the mysterious and mortal attack
+of the animal_.”
+
+Secondly: The ship Union, also of Nantucket, was in the year 1807
+totally lost off the Azores by a similar onset, but the authentic
+particulars of this catastrophe I have never chanced to encounter,
+though from the whale hunters I have now and then heard casual
+allusions to it.
+
+Thirdly: Some eighteen or twenty years ago Commodore J——, then
+commanding an American sloop-of-war of the first class, happened to be
+dining with a party of whaling captains, on board a Nantucket ship in
+the harbor of Oahu, Sandwich Islands. Conversation turning upon whales,
+the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing strength
+ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present. He peremptorily
+denied for example, that any whale could so smite his stout
+sloop-of-war as to cause her to leak so much as a thimbleful. Very
+good; but there is more coming. Some weeks after, the Commodore set
+sail in this impregnable craft for Valparaiso. But he was stopped on
+the way by a portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments’
+confidential business with him. That business consisted in fetching the
+Commodore’s craft such a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made
+straight for the nearest port to heave down and repair. I am not
+superstitious, but I consider the Commodore’s interview with that whale
+as providential. Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a
+similar fright? I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
+
+I will now refer you to Langsdorff’s Voyages for a little circumstance
+in point, peculiarly interesting to the writer hereof. Langsdorff, you
+must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s
+famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning of the present century.
+Captain Langsdorff thus begins his seventeenth chapter:
+
+“By the thirteenth of May our ship was ready to sail, and the next day
+we were out in the open sea, on our way to Ochotsh. The weather was
+very clear and fine, but so intolerably cold that we were obliged to
+keep on our fur clothing. For some days we had very little wind; it was
+not till the nineteenth that a brisk gale from the northwest sprang up.
+An uncommon large whale, the body of which was larger than the ship
+itself, lay almost at the surface of the water, but was not perceived
+by any one on board till the moment when the ship, which was in full
+sail, was almost upon him, so that it was impossible to prevent its
+striking against him. We were thus placed in the most imminent danger,
+as this gigantic creature, setting up its back, raised the ship three
+feet at least out of the water. The masts reeled, and the sails fell
+altogether, while we who were below all sprang instantly upon the deck,
+concluding that we had struck upon some rock; instead of this we saw
+the monster sailing off with the utmost gravity and solemnity. Captain
+D’Wolf applied immediately to the pumps to examine whether or not the
+vessel had received any damage from the shock, but we found that very
+happily it had escaped entirely uninjured.”
+
+Now, the Captain D’Wolf here alluded to as commanding the ship in
+question, is a New Englander, who, after a long life of unusual
+adventures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village of
+Dorchester near Boston. I have the honor of being a nephew of his. I
+have particularly questioned him concerning this passage in Langsdorff.
+He substantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large
+one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my
+uncle after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.
+
+In that up and down manly book of old-fashioned adventure, so full,
+too, of honest wonders—the voyage of Lionel Wafer, one of ancient
+Dampier’s old chums—I found a little matter set down so like that just
+quoted from Langsdorff, that I cannot forbear inserting it here for a
+corroborative example, if such be needed.
+
+Lionel, it seems, was on his way to “John Ferdinando,” as he calls the
+modern Juan Fernandes. “In our way thither,” he says, “about four
+o’clock in the morning, when we were about one hundred and fifty
+leagues from the Main of America, our ship felt a terrible shock, which
+put our men in such consternation that they could hardly tell where
+they were or what to think; but every one began to prepare for death.
+And, indeed, the shock was so sudden and violent, that we took it for
+granted the ship had struck against a rock; but when the amazement was
+a little over, we cast the lead, and sounded, but found no ground. * *
+* * * The suddenness of the shock made the guns leap in their
+carriages, and several of the men were shaken out of their hammocks.
+Captain Davis, who lay with his head on a gun, was thrown out of his
+cabin!” Lionel then goes on to impute the shock to an earthquake, and
+seems to substantiate the imputation by stating that a great
+earthquake, somewhere about that time, did actually do great mischief
+along the Spanish land. But I should not much wonder if, in the
+darkness of that early hour of the morning, the shock was after all
+caused by an unseen whale vertically bumping the hull from beneath.
+
+I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to
+me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale. In more
+than one instance, he has been known, not only to chase the assailing
+boats back to their ships, but to pursue the ship itself, and long
+withstand all the lances hurled at him from its decks. The English ship
+Pusie Hall can tell a story on that head; and, as for his strength, let
+me say, that there have been examples where the lines attached to a
+running sperm whale have, in a calm, been transferred to the ship, and
+secured there; the whale towing her great hull through the water, as a
+horse walks off with a cart. Again, it is very often observed that, if
+the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts,
+not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of
+destruction to his pursuers; nor is it without conveying some eloquent
+indication of his character, that upon being attacked he will
+frequently open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for
+several consecutive minutes. But I must be content with only one more
+and a concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one,
+by which you will not fail to see, that not only is the most marvellous
+event in this book corroborated by plain facts of the present day, but
+that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages;
+so that for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon—Verily there is
+nothing new under the sun.
+
+In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate
+of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian was Emperor and
+Belisarius general. As many know, he wrote the history of his own
+times, a work every way of uncommon value. By the best authorities, he
+has always been considered a most trustworthy and unexaggerating
+historian, except in some one or two particulars, not at all affecting
+the matter presently to be mentioned.
+
+Now, in this history of his, Procopius mentions that, during the term
+of his prefecture at Constantinople, a great sea-monster was captured
+in the neighboring Propontis, or Sea of Marmora, after having destroyed
+vessels at intervals in those waters for a period of more than fifty
+years. A fact thus set down in substantial history cannot easily be
+gainsaid. Nor is there any reason it should be. Of what precise species
+this sea-monster was, is not mentioned. But as he destroyed ships, as
+well as for other reasons, he must have been a whale; and I am strongly
+inclined to think a sperm whale. And I will tell you why. For a long
+time I fancied that the sperm whale had been always unknown in the
+Mediterranean and the deep waters connecting with it. Even now I am
+certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the
+present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious
+resort. But further investigations have recently proved to me, that in
+modern times there have been isolated instances of the presence of the
+sperm whale in the Mediterranean. I am told, on good authority, that on
+the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the
+skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war readily passes
+through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route,
+pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
+
+In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar
+substance called _brit_ is to be found, the aliment of the right whale.
+But I have every reason to believe that the food of the sperm
+whale—squid or cuttle-fish—lurks at the bottom of that sea, because
+large creatures, but by no means the largest of that sort, have been
+found at its surface. If, then, you properly put these statements
+together, and reason upon them a bit, you will clearly perceive that,
+according to all human reasoning, Procopius’s sea-monster, that for
+half a century stove the ships of a Roman Emperor, must in all
+probability have been a sperm whale.
+
+
+CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
+
+Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his
+thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby
+Dick; though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that
+one passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and
+long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman’s ways, altogether
+to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage. Or at least if
+this were otherwise, there were not wanting other motives much more
+influential with him. It would be refining too much, perhaps, even
+considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the
+White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all
+sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he
+multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would
+prove to be the hated one he hunted. But if such an hypothesis be
+indeed exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which,
+though not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling
+passion, yet were by no means incapable of swaying him.
+
+To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in
+the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order. He knew,
+for example, that however magnetic his ascendency in some respects was
+over Starbuck, yet that ascendency did not cover the complete spiritual
+man any more than mere corporeal superiority involves intellectual
+mastership; for to the purely spiritual, the intellectual but stand in
+a sort of corporeal relation. Starbuck’s body and Starbuck’s coerced
+will were Ahab’s, so long as Ahab kept his magnet at Starbuck’s brain;
+still he knew that for all this the chief mate, in his soul, abhorred
+his captain’s quest, and could he, would joyfully disintegrate himself
+from it, or even frustrate it. It might be that a long interval would
+elapse ere the White Whale was seen. During that long interval Starbuck
+would ever be apt to fall into open relapses of rebellion against his
+captain’s leadership, unless some ordinary, prudential, circumstantial
+influences were brought to bear upon him. Not only that, but the subtle
+insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly
+manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing
+that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that
+strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that the
+full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure
+background (for few men’s courage is proof against protracted
+meditation unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long night
+watches, his officers and men must have some nearer things to think of
+than Moby Dick. For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had
+hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are
+more or less capricious and unreliable—they live in the varying outer
+weather, and they inhale its fickleness—and when retained for any
+object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and
+passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary
+interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily
+suspended for the final dash.
+
+Nor was Ahab unmindful of another thing. In times of strong emotion
+mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
+The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought
+Ahab, is sordidness. Granting that the White Whale fully incites the
+hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even
+breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for
+the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food
+for their more common, daily appetites. For even the high lifted and
+chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two
+thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without
+committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious
+perquisites by the way. Had they been strictly held to their one final
+and romantic object—that final and romantic object, too many would have
+turned from in disgust. I will not strip these men, thought Ahab, of
+all hopes of cash—aye, cash. They may scorn cash now; but let some
+months go by, and no perspective promise of it to them, and then this
+same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would
+soon cashier Ahab.
+
+Nor was there wanting still another precautionary motive more related
+to Ahab personally. Having impulsively, it is probable, and perhaps
+somewhat prematurely revealed the prime but private purpose of the
+Pequod’s voyage, Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing, he
+had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of
+usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew
+if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further
+obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command. From
+even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible
+consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground, Ahab must
+of course have been most anxious to protect himself. That protection
+could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand,
+backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute
+atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be
+subjected to.
+
+For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be
+verbally developed here, Ahab plainly saw that he must still in a good
+degree continue true to the natural, nominal purpose of the Pequod’s
+voyage; observe all customary usages; and not only that, but force
+himself to evince all his well known passionate interest in the general
+pursuit of his profession.
+
+Be all this as it may, his voice was now often heard hailing the three
+mast-heads and admonishing them to keep a bright look-out, and not omit
+reporting even a porpoise. This vigilance was not long without reward.
+
+
+CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
+
+It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging
+about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.
+Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat,
+for an additional lashing to our boat. So still and subdued and yet
+somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie
+lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own
+invisible self.
+
+I was the attendant or page of Queequeg, while busy at the mat. As I
+kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between the
+long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as
+Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy oaken sword
+between the threads, and idly looking off upon the water, carelessly
+and unthinkingly drove home every yarn: I say so strange a dreaminess
+did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only
+broken by the intermitting dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as
+if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically
+weaving and weaving away at the Fates. There lay the fixed threads of
+the warp subject to but one single, ever returning, unchanging
+vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit of the crosswise
+interblending of other threads with its own. This warp seemed
+necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle
+and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads. Meantime,
+Queequeg’s impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof
+slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be;
+and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding
+contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage’s
+sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and
+woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance—aye, chance, free
+will, and necessity—nowise incompatible—all interweavingly working
+together. The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its
+ultimate course—its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending
+to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads;
+and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of
+necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though
+thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the
+last featuring blow at events.
+
+Thus we were weaving and weaving away when I started at a sound so
+strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of
+free will dropped from my hand, and I stood gazing up at the clouds
+whence that voice dropped like a wing. High aloft in the cross-trees
+was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly
+forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden
+intervals he continued his cries. To be sure the same sound was that
+very moment perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of
+whalemen’s look-outs perched as high in the air; but from few of those
+lungs could that accustomed old cry have derived such a marvellous
+cadence as from Tashtego the Indian’s.
+
+As he stood hovering over you half suspended in air, so wildly and
+eagerly peering towards the horizon, you would have thought him some
+prophet or seer beholding the shadows of Fate, and by those wild cries
+announcing their coming.
+
+“There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!”
+
+“Where-away?”
+
+“On the lee-beam, about two miles off! a school of them!”
+
+Instantly all was commotion.
+
+The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and
+reliable uniformity. And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from
+other tribes of his genus.
+
+“There go flukes!” was now the cry from Tashtego; and the whales
+disappeared.
+
+“Quick, steward!” cried Ahab. “Time! time!”
+
+Dough-Boy hurried below, glanced at the watch, and reported the exact
+minute to Ahab.
+
+The ship was now kept away from the wind, and she went gently rolling
+before it. Tashtego reporting that the whales had gone down heading to
+leeward, we confidently looked to see them again directly in advance of
+our bows. For that singular craft at times evinced by the Sperm Whale
+when, sounding with his head in one direction, he nevertheless, while
+concealed beneath the surface, mills round, and swiftly swims off in
+the opposite quarter—this deceitfulness of his could not now be in
+action; for there was no reason to suppose that the fish seen by
+Tashtego had been in any way alarmed, or indeed knew at all of our
+vicinity. One of the men selected for shipkeepers—that is, those not
+appointed to the boats, by this time relieved the Indian at the
+main-mast head. The sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the
+line tubs were fixed in their places; the cranes were thrust out; the
+mainyard was backed, and the three boats swung over the sea like three
+samphire baskets over high cliffs. Outside of the bulwarks their eager
+crews with one hand clung to the rail, while one foot was expectantly
+poised on the gunwale. So look the long line of man-of-war’s men about
+to throw themselves on board an enemy’s ship.
+
+But at this critical instant a sudden exclamation was heard that took
+every eye from the whale. With a start all glared at dark Ahab, who was
+surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed out of air.
+
+
+CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
+
+The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side
+of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the
+tackles and bands of the boat which swung there. This boat had always
+been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the
+captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter. The
+figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white
+tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese
+jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black
+trowsers of the same dark stuff. But strangely crowning this ebonness
+was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and
+coiled round and round upon his head. Less swart in aspect, the
+companions of this figure were of that vivid, tiger-yellow complexion
+peculiar to some of the aboriginal natives of the Manillas;—a race
+notorious for a certain diabolism of subtilty, and by some honest white
+mariners supposed to be the paid spies and secret confidential agents
+on the water of the devil, their lord, whose counting-room they suppose
+to be elsewhere.
+
+While yet the wondering ship’s company were gazing upon these
+strangers, Ahab cried out to the white-turbaned old man at their head,
+“All ready there, Fedallah?”
+
+“Ready,” was the half-hissed reply.
+
+“Lower away then; d’ye hear?” shouting across the deck. “Lower away
+there, I say.”
+
+Such was the thunder of his voice, that spite of their amazement the
+men sprang over the rail; the sheaves whirled round in the blocks; with
+a wallow, the three boats dropped into the sea; while, with a
+dexterous, off-handed daring, unknown in any other vocation, the
+sailors, goat-like, leaped down the rolling ship’s side into the tossed
+boats below.
+
+Hardly had they pulled out from under the ship’s lee, when a fourth
+keel, coming from the windward side, pulled round under the stern, and
+showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect in the
+stern, loudly hailed Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, to spread themselves
+widely, so as to cover a large expanse of water. But with all their
+eyes again riveted upon the swart Fedallah and his crew, the inmates of
+the other boats obeyed not the command.
+
+“Captain Ahab?—” said Starbuck.
+
+“Spread yourselves,” cried Ahab; “give way, all four boats. Thou,
+Flask, pull out more to leeward!”
+
+“Aye, aye, sir,” cheerily cried little King-Post, sweeping round his
+great steering oar. “Lay back!” addressing his crew.
+“There!—there!—there again! There she blows right ahead, boys!—lay
+back!”
+
+“Never heed yonder yellow boys, Archy.”
+
+“Oh, I don’t mind ’em, sir,” said Archy; “I knew it all before now.
+Didn’t I hear ’em in the hold? And didn’t I tell Cabaco here of it?
+What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask.”
+
+“Pull, pull, my fine hearts-alive; pull, my children; pull, my little
+ones,” drawlingly and soothingly sighed Stubb to his crew, some of whom
+still showed signs of uneasiness. “Why don’t you break your backbones,
+my boys? What is it you stare at? Those chaps in yonder boat? Tut! They
+are only five more hands come to help us—never mind from where—the more
+the merrier. Pull, then, do pull; never mind the brimstone—devils are
+good fellows enough. So, so; there you are now; that’s the stroke for a
+thousand pounds; that’s the stroke to sweep the stakes! Hurrah for the
+gold cup of sperm oil, my heroes! Three cheers, men—all hearts alive!
+Easy, easy; don’t be in a hurry—don’t be in a hurry. Why don’t you snap
+your oars, you rascals? Bite something, you dogs! So, so, so,
+then:—softly, softly! That’s it—that’s it! long and strong. Give way
+there, give way! The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are
+all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers, and pull. Pull, will ye? pull,
+can’t ye? pull, won’t ye? Why in the name of gudgeons and ginger-cakes
+don’t ye pull?—pull and break something! pull, and start your eyes out!
+Here!” whipping out the sharp knife from his girdle; “every mother’s
+son of ye draw his knife, and pull with the blade between his teeth.
+That’s it—that’s it. Now ye do something; that looks like it, my
+steel-bits. Start her—start her, my silver-spoons! Start her,
+marling-spikes!”
+
+Stubb’s exordium to his crew is given here at large, because he had
+rather a peculiar way of talking to them in general, and especially in
+inculcating the religion of rowing. But you must not suppose from this
+specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions
+with his congregation. Not at all; and therein consisted his chief
+peculiarity. He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a
+tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so
+calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear
+such queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling
+for the mere joke of the thing. Besides he all the time looked so easy
+and indolent himself, so loungingly managed his steering-oar, and so
+broadly gaped—open-mouthed at times—that the mere sight of such a
+yawning commander, by sheer force of contrast, acted like a charm upon
+the crew. Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists,
+whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all
+inferiors on their guard in the matter of obeying them.
+
+In obedience to a sign from Ahab, Starbuck was now pulling obliquely
+across Stubb’s bow; and when for a minute or so the two boats were
+pretty near to each other, Stubb hailed the mate.
+
+“Mr. Starbuck! larboard boat there, ahoy! a word with ye, sir, if ye
+please!”
+
+“Halloa!” returned Starbuck, turning round not a single inch as he
+spoke; still earnestly but whisperingly urging his crew; his face set
+like a flint from Stubb’s.
+
+“What think ye of those yellow boys, sir!”
+
+“Smuggled on board, somehow, before the ship sailed. (Strong, strong,
+boys!)” in a whisper to his crew, then speaking out loud again: “A sad
+business, Mr. Stubb! (seethe her, seethe her, my lads!) but never mind,
+Mr. Stubb, all for the best. Let all your crew pull strong, come what
+will. (Spring, my men, spring!) There’s hogsheads of sperm ahead, Mr.
+Stubb, and that’s what ye came for. (Pull, my boys!) Sperm, sperm’s the
+play! This at least is duty; duty and profit hand in hand.”
+
+“Aye, aye, I thought as much,” soliloquized Stubb, when the boats
+diverged, “as soon as I clapt eye on ’em, I thought so. Aye, and that’s
+what he went into the after hold for, so often, as Dough-Boy long
+suspected. They were hidden down there. The White Whale’s at the bottom
+of it. Well, well, so be it! Can’t be helped! All right! Give way, men!
+It ain’t the White Whale to-day! Give way!”
+
+Now the advent of these outlandish strangers at such a critical instant
+as the lowering of the boats from the deck, this had not unreasonably
+awakened a sort of superstitious amazement in some of the ship’s
+company; but Archy’s fancied discovery having some time previous got
+abroad among them, though indeed not credited then, this had in some
+small measure prepared them for the event. It took off the extreme edge
+of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubb’s confident way of
+accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from
+superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room
+for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab’s precise agency in
+the matter from the beginning. For me, I silently recalled the
+mysterious shadows I had seen creeping on board the Pequod during the
+dim Nantucket dawn, as well as the enigmatical hintings of the
+unaccountable Elijah.
+
+Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the
+furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a
+circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him. Those tiger
+yellow creatures of his seemed all steel and whalebone; like five
+trip-hammers they rose and fell with regular strokes of strength, which
+periodically started the boat along the water like a horizontal burst
+boiler out of a Mississippi steamer. As for Fedallah, who was seen
+pulling the harpooneer oar, he had thrown aside his black jacket, and
+displayed his naked chest with the whole part of his body above the
+gunwale, clearly cut against the alternating depressions of the watery
+horizon; while at the other end of the boat Ahab, with one arm, like a
+fencer’s, thrown half backward into the air, as if to counterbalance
+any tendency to trip; Ahab was seen steadily managing his steering oar
+as in a thousand boat lowerings ere the White Whale had torn him. All
+at once the outstretched arm gave a peculiar motion and then remained
+fixed, while the boat’s five oars were seen simultaneously peaked. Boat
+and crew sat motionless on the sea. Instantly the three spread boats in
+the rear paused on their way. The whales had irregularly settled bodily
+down into the blue, thus giving no distantly discernible token of the
+movement, though from his closer vicinity Ahab had observed it.
+
+“Every man look out along his oars!” cried Starbuck. “Thou, Queequeg,
+stand up!”
+
+Nimbly springing up on the triangular raised box in the bow, the savage
+stood erect there, and with intensely eager eyes gazed off towards the
+spot where the chase had last been descried. Likewise upon the extreme
+stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with
+the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing
+himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft, and silently
+eyeing the vast blue eye of the sea.
+
+Not very far distant Flask’s boat was also lying breathlessly still;
+its commander recklessly standing upon the top of the loggerhead, a
+stout sort of post rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above
+the level of the stern platform. It is used for catching turns with the
+whale line. Its top is not more spacious than the palm of a man’s hand,
+and standing upon such a base as that, Flask seemed perched at the
+mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks. But little
+King-Post was small and short, and at the same time little King-Post
+was full of a large and tall ambition, so that this loggerhead
+stand-point of his did by no means satisfy King-Post.
+
+“I can’t see three seas off; tip us up an oar there, and let me on to
+that.”
+
+Upon this, Daggoo, with either hand upon the gunwale to steady his way,
+swiftly slid aft, and then erecting himself volunteered his lofty
+shoulders for a pedestal.
+
+“Good a mast-head as any, sir. Will you mount?”
+
+“That I will, and thank ye very much, my fine fellow; only I wish you
+fifty feet taller.”
+
+Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the
+boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to
+Flask’s foot, and then putting Flask’s hand on his hearse-plumed head
+and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous
+fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders. And here was
+Flask now standing, Daggoo with one lifted arm furnishing him with a
+breastband to lean against and steady himself by.
+
+At any time it is a strange sight to the tyro to see with what wondrous
+habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman will maintain an erect
+posture in his boat, even when pitched about by the most riotously
+perverse and cross-running seas. Still more strange to see him giddily
+perched upon the loggerhead itself, under such circumstances. But the
+sight of little Flask mounted upon gigantic Daggoo was yet more
+curious; for sustaining himself with a cool, indifferent, easy,
+unthought of, barbaric majesty, the noble negro to every roll of the
+sea harmoniously rolled his fine form. On his broad back, flaxen-haired
+Flask seemed a snow-flake. The bearer looked nobler than the rider.
+Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now
+and then stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby
+give to the negro’s lordly chest. So have I seen Passion and Vanity
+stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her
+tides and her seasons for that.
+
+Meanwhile Stubb, the third mate, betrayed no such far-gazing
+solicitudes. The whales might have made one of their regular soundings,
+not a temporary dive from mere fright; and if that were the case,
+Stubb, as his wont in such cases, it seems, was resolved to solace the
+languishing interval with his pipe. He withdrew it from his hatband,
+where he always wore it aslant like a feather. He loaded it, and rammed
+home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his
+match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his
+harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed
+stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat,
+crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, “Down, down all, and give
+way!—there they are!”
+
+To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been
+visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white
+water, and thin scattered puffs of vapor hovering over it, and
+suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white
+rolling billows. The air around suddenly vibrated and tingled, as it
+were, like the air over intensely heated plates of iron. Beneath this
+atmospheric waving and curling, and partially beneath a thin layer of
+water, also, the whales were swimming. Seen in advance of all the other
+indications, the puffs of vapor they spouted, seemed their forerunning
+couriers and detached flying outriders.
+
+All four boats were now in keen pursuit of that one spot of troubled
+water and air. But it bade fair to outstrip them; it flew on and on, as
+a mass of interblending bubbles borne down a rapid stream from the
+hills.
+
+“Pull, pull, my good boys,” said Starbuck, in the lowest possible but
+intensest concentrated whisper to his men; while the sharp fixed glance
+from his eyes darted straight ahead of the bow, almost seemed as two
+visible needles in two unerring binnacle compasses. He did not say much
+to his crew, though, nor did his crew say anything to him. Only the
+silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly pierced by one of his
+peculiar whispers, now harsh with command, now soft with entreaty.
+
+How different the loud little King-Post. “Sing out and say something,
+my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts! Beach me, beach me on
+their black backs, boys; only do that for me, and I’ll sign over to you
+my Martha’s Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children,
+boys. Lay me on—lay me on! O Lord, Lord! but I shall go stark, staring
+mad! See! see that white water!” And so shouting, he pulled his hat
+from his head, and stamped up and down on it; then picking it up,
+flirted it far off upon the sea; and finally fell to rearing and
+plunging in the boat’s stern like a crazed colt from the prairie.
+
+“Look at that chap now,” philosophically drawled Stubb, who, with his
+unlighted short pipe, mechanically retained between his teeth, at a
+short distance, followed after—“He’s got fits, that Flask has. Fits?
+yes, give him fits—that’s the very word—pitch fits into ’em. Merrily,
+merrily, hearts-alive. Pudding for supper, you know;—merry’s the word.
+Pull, babes—pull, sucklings—pull, all. But what the devil are you
+hurrying about? Softly, softly, and steadily, my men. Only pull, and
+keep pulling; nothing more. Crack all your backbones, and bite your
+knives in two—that’s all. Take it easy—why don’t ye take it easy, I
+say, and burst all your livers and lungs!”
+
+But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that tiger-yellow crew of
+his—these were words best omitted here; for you live under the blessed
+light of the evangelical land. Only the infidel sharks in the audacious
+seas may give ear to such words, when, with tornado brow, and eyes of
+red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey.
+
+Meanwhile, all the boats tore on. The repeated specific allusions of
+Flask to “that whale,” as he called the fictitious monster which he
+declared to be incessantly tantalizing his boat’s bow with its
+tail—these allusions of his were at times so vivid and life-like, that
+they would cause some one or two of his men to snatch a fearful look
+over the shoulder. But this was against all rule; for the oarsmen must
+put out their eyes, and ram a skewer through their necks; usage
+pronouncing that they must have no organs but ears, and no limbs but
+arms, in these critical moments.
+
+It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the
+omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled
+along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless
+bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip
+for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost
+seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the
+watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the
+top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other
+side;—all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and
+the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the
+ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like
+a wild hen after her screaming brood;—all this was thrilling.
+
+Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever
+heat of his first battle; not the dead man’s ghost encountering the
+first unknown phantom in the other world;—neither of these can feel
+stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first
+time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of the
+hunted sperm whale.
+
+The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming more and
+more visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun cloud-shadows
+flung upon the sea. The jets of vapor no longer blended, but tilted
+everywhere to right and left; the whales seemed separating their wakes.
+The boats were pulled more apart; Starbuck giving chase to three whales
+running dead to leeward. Our sail was now set, and, with the still
+rising wind, we rushed along; the boat going with such madness through
+the water, that the lee oars could scarcely be worked rapidly enough to
+escape being torn from the row-locks.
+
+Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist; neither
+ship nor boat to be seen.
+
+“Give way, men,” whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the
+sheet of his sail; “there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall
+comes. There’s white water again!—close to! Spring!”
+
+Soon after, two cries in quick succession on each side of us denoted
+that the other boats had got fast; but hardly were they overheard, when
+with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said: “Stand up!” and
+Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprang to his feet.
+
+Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril
+so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense countenance
+of the mate in the stern of the boat, they knew that the imminent
+instant had come; they heard, too, an enormous wallowing sound as of
+fifty elephants stirring in their litter. Meanwhile the boat was still
+booming through the mist, the waves curling and hissing around us like
+the erected crests of enraged serpents.
+
+“That’s his hump. _There_, _there_, give it to him!” whispered
+Starbuck.
+
+A short rushing sound leaped out of the boat; it was the darted iron of
+Queequeg. Then all in one welded commotion came an invisible push from
+astern, while forward the boat seemed striking on a ledge; the sail
+collapsed and exploded; a gush of scalding vapor shot up near by;
+something rolled and tumbled like an earthquake beneath us. The whole
+crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the
+white curdling cream of the squall. Squall, whale, and harpoon had all
+blended together; and the whale, merely grazed by the iron, escaped.
+
+Though completely swamped, the boat was nearly unharmed. Swimming round
+it we picked up the floating oars, and lashing them across the gunwale,
+tumbled back to our places. There we sat up to our knees in the sea,
+the water covering every rib and plank, so that to our downward gazing
+eyes the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from the
+bottom of the ocean.
+
+The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together;
+the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white
+fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal
+in these jaws of death! In vain we hailed the other boats; as well roar
+to the live coals down the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those
+boats in that storm. Meanwhile the driving scud, rack, and mist, grew
+darker with the shadows of night; no sign of the ship could be seen.
+The rising sea forbade all attempts to bale out the boat. The oars were
+useless as propellers, performing now the office of life-preservers.
+So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many
+failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then
+stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the
+standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up
+that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There,
+then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly
+holding up hope in the midst of despair.
+
+Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, despairing of ship or boat,
+we lifted up our eyes as the dawn came on. The mist still spread over
+the sea, the empty lantern lay crushed in the bottom of the boat.
+Suddenly Queequeg started to his feet, hollowing his hand to his ear.
+We all heard a faint creaking, as of ropes and yards hitherto muffled
+by the storm. The sound came nearer and nearer; the thick mists were
+dimly parted by a huge, vague form. Affrighted, we all sprang into the
+sea as the ship at last loomed into view, bearing right down upon us
+within a distance of not much more than its length.
+
+Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one instant it
+tossed and gaped beneath the ship’s bows like a chip at the base of a
+cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no
+more till it came up weltering astern. Again we swam for it, were
+dashed against it by the seas, and were at last taken up and safely
+landed on board. Ere the squall came close to, the other boats had cut
+loose from their fish and returned to the ship in good time. The ship
+had given us up, but was still cruising, if haply it might light upon
+some token of our perishing,—an oar or a lance pole.
+
+
+CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
+
+There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed
+affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast
+practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more
+than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.
+However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing. He
+bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all
+hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich
+of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints. And as for
+small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril
+of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly,
+good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen
+and unaccountable old joker. That odd sort of wayward mood I am
+speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation;
+it comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before
+might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part
+of the general joke. There is nothing like the perils of whaling to
+breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with
+it I now regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White
+Whale its object.
+
+“Queequeg,” said I, when they had dragged me, the last man, to the
+deck, and I was still shaking myself in my jacket to fling off the
+water; “Queequeg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often
+happen?” Without much emotion, though soaked through just like me, he
+gave me to understand that such things did often happen.
+
+“Mr. Stubb,” said I, turning to that worthy, who, buttoned up in his
+oil-jacket, was now calmly smoking his pipe in the rain; “Mr. Stubb, I
+think I have heard you say that of all whalemen you ever met, our chief
+mate, Mr. Starbuck, is by far the most careful and prudent. I suppose
+then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy
+squall is the height of a whaleman’s discretion?”
+
+“Certain. I’ve lowered for whales from a leaking ship in a gale off
+Cape Horn.”
+
+“Mr. Flask,” said I, turning to little King-Post, who was standing
+close by; “you are experienced in these things, and I am not. Will you
+tell me whether it is an unalterable law in this fishery, Mr. Flask,
+for an oarsman to break his own back pulling himself back-foremost into
+death’s jaws?”
+
+“Can’t you twist that smaller?” said Flask. “Yes, that’s the law. I
+should like to see a boat’s crew backing water up to a whale face
+foremost. Ha, ha! the whale would give them squint for squint, mind
+that!”
+
+Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement
+of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings
+in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of
+common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the
+superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign
+my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow
+who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of
+scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that
+the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be
+imputed to Starbuck’s driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a
+squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for
+his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to
+this uncommonly prudent Starbuck’s boat; and finally considering in
+what a devil’s chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking
+all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make
+a rough draft of my will. “Queequeg,” said I, “come along, you shall be
+my lawyer, executor, and legatee.”
+
+It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at
+their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world
+more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical
+life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded
+upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled
+away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as
+good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a
+supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might
+be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
+I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a
+clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
+
+Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock,
+here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the
+devil fetch the hindmost.
+
+
+CHAPTER 50. Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
+
+“Who would have thought it, Flask!” cried Stubb; “if I had but one leg
+you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole
+with my timber toe. Oh! he’s a wonderful old man!”
+
+“I don’t think it so strange, after all, on that account,” said Flask.
+“If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing.
+That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other
+left, you know.”
+
+“I don’t know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.”
+
+Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering
+the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it
+is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active
+perils of the chase. So Tamerlane’s soldiers often argued with tears in
+their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried
+into the thickest of the fight.
+
+But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that
+with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger;
+considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and
+extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then
+comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed
+man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the
+joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.
+
+Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of
+his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of
+the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving
+his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually
+apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt—above all for
+Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boat’s
+crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads
+of the owners of the Pequod. Therefore he had not solicited a boat’s
+crew from them, nor had he in any way hinted his desires on that head.
+Nevertheless he had taken private measures of his own touching all that
+matter. Until Cabaco’s published discovery, the sailors had little
+foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of
+port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the
+whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then
+found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his
+own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even
+solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is
+running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was
+observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra
+coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better
+withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety
+he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it
+is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat’s bow for bracing
+the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was
+observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee
+fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the
+carpenter’s chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a
+little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and
+curiosity at the time. But almost everybody supposed that this
+particular preparative heedfulness in Ahab must only be with a view to
+the ultimate chase of Moby Dick; for he had already revealed his
+intention to hunt that mortal monster in person. But such a supposition
+did by no means involve the remotest suspicion as to any boat’s crew
+being assigned to that boat.
+
+Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned
+away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane. Besides, now and then such
+unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from the unknown
+nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating outlaws of
+whalers; and the ships themselves often pick up such queer castaway
+creatures found tossing about the open sea on planks, bits of wreck,
+oars, whaleboats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks, and what not; that
+Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin
+to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable
+excitement in the forecastle.
+
+But be all this as it may, certain it is that while the subordinate
+phantoms soon found their place among the crew, though still as it were
+somehow distinct from them, yet that hair-turbaned Fedallah remained a
+muffled mystery to the last. Whence he came in a mannerly world like
+this, by what sort of unaccountable tie he soon evinced himself to be
+linked with Ahab’s peculiar fortunes; nay, so far as to have some sort
+of a half-hinted influence; Heaven knows, but it might have been even
+authority over him; all this none knew. But one cannot sustain an
+indifferent air concerning Fedallah. He was such a creature as
+civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their
+dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom now and then glide
+among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles
+to the east of the continent—those insulated, immemorial, unalterable
+countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the
+ghostly aboriginalness of earth’s primal generations, when the memory
+of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his
+descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real
+phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and
+to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed
+consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the
+uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.
+
+
+CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
+
+Days, weeks passed, and under easy sail, the ivory Pequod had slowly
+swept across four several cruising-grounds; that off the Azores; off
+the Cape de Verdes; on the Plate (so called), being off the mouth of
+the Rio de la Plata; and the Carrol Ground, an unstaked, watery
+locality, southerly from St. Helena.
+
+It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and
+moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver;
+and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery
+silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen
+far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow. Lit up by the moon, it
+looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from
+the sea. Fedallah first descried this jet. For of these moonlight
+nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a
+look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day. And yet,
+though herds of whales were seen by night, not one whaleman in a
+hundred would venture a lowering for them. You may think with what
+emotions, then, the seamen beheld this old Oriental perched aloft at
+such unusual hours; his turban and the moon, companions in one sky. But
+when, after spending his uniform interval there for several successive
+nights without uttering a single sound; when, after all this silence,
+his unearthly voice was heard announcing that silvery, moon-lit jet,
+every reclining mariner started to his feet as if some winged spirit
+had lighted in the rigging, and hailed the mortal crew. “There she
+blows!” Had the trump of judgment blown, they could not have quivered
+more; yet still they felt no terror; rather pleasure. For though it was
+a most unwonted hour, yet so impressive was the cry, and so deliriously
+exciting, that almost every soul on board instinctively desired a
+lowering.
+
+Walking the deck with quick, side-lunging strides, Ahab commanded the
+t’gallant sails and royals to be set, and every stunsail spread. The
+best man in the ship must take the helm. Then, with every mast-head
+manned, the piled-up craft rolled down before the wind. The strange,
+upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows
+of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck to feel like air
+beneath the feet; while still she rushed along, as if two antagonistic
+influences were struggling in her—one to mount direct to heaven, the
+other to drive yawingly to some horizontal goal. And had you watched
+Ahab’s face that night, you would have thought that in him also two
+different things were warring. While his one live leg made lively
+echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a
+coffin-tap. On life and death this old man walked. But though the ship
+so swiftly sped, and though from every eye, like arrows, the eager
+glances shot, yet the silvery jet was no more seen that night. Every
+sailor swore he saw it once, but not a second time.
+
+This midnight-spout had almost grown a forgotten thing, when, some days
+after, lo! at the same silent hour, it was again announced: again it
+was descried by all; but upon making sail to overtake it, once more it
+disappeared as if it had never been. And so it served us night after
+night, till no one heeded it but to wonder at it. Mysteriously jetted
+into the clear moonlight, or starlight, as the case might be;
+disappearing again for one whole day, or two days, or three; and
+somehow seeming at every distinct repetition to be advancing still
+further and further in our van, this solitary jet seemed for ever
+alluring us on.
+
+Nor with the immemorial superstition of their race, and in accordance
+with the preternaturalness, as it seemed, which in many things invested
+the Pequod, were there wanting some of the seamen who swore that
+whenever and wherever descried; at however remote times, or in however
+far apart latitudes and longitudes, that unnearable spout was cast by
+one self-same whale; and that whale, Moby Dick. For a time, there
+reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as
+if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the
+monster might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest
+and most savage seas.
+
+These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a
+wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in
+which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a
+devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so
+wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful
+errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.
+
+But, at last, when turning to the eastward, the Cape winds began
+howling around us, and we rose and fell upon the long, troubled seas
+that are there; when the ivory-tusked Pequod sharply bowed to the
+blast, and gored the dark waves in her madness, till, like showers of
+silver chips, the foam-flakes flew over her bulwarks; then all this
+desolate vacuity of life went away, but gave place to sights more
+dismal than before.
+
+Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither
+before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens. And
+every morning, perched on our stays, rows of these birds were seen; and
+spite of our hootings, for a long time obstinately clung to the hemp,
+as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a
+thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosting-place for
+their homeless selves. And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved
+the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great
+mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering
+it had bred.
+
+Cape of Good Hope, do they call ye? Rather Cape Tormentoso, as called
+of yore; for long allured by the perfidious silences that before had
+attended us, we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea, where
+guilty beings transformed into those fowls and these fish, seemed
+condemned to swim on everlastingly without any haven in store, or beat
+that black air without any horizon. But calm, snow-white, and
+unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still
+beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be
+descried.
+
+During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for
+the time the almost continual command of the drenched and dangerous
+deck, manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever
+addressed his mates. In tempestuous times like these, after everything
+above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but
+passively to await the issue of the gale. Then Captain and crew become
+practical fatalists. So, with his ivory leg inserted into its
+accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for
+hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an
+occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very
+eyelashes together. Meantime, the crew driven from the forward part of
+the ship by the perilous seas that burstingly broke over its bows,
+stood in a line along the bulwarks in the waist; and the better to
+guard against the leaping waves, each man had slipped himself into a
+sort of bowline secured to the rail, in which he swung as in a loosened
+belt. Few or no words were spoken; and the silent ship, as if manned by
+painted sailors in wax, day after day tore on through all the swift
+madness and gladness of the demoniac waves. By night the same muteness
+of humanity before the shrieks of the ocean prevailed; still in silence
+the men swung in the bowlines; still wordless Ahab stood up to the
+blast. Even when wearied nature seemed demanding repose he would not
+seek that repose in his hammock. Never could Starbuck forget the old
+man’s aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark how the
+barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes sitting straight in his
+floor-screwed chair; the rain and half-melted sleet of the storm from
+which he had some time before emerged, still slowly dripping from the
+unremoved hat and coat. On the table beside him lay unrolled one of
+those charts of tides and currents which have previously been spoken
+of. His lantern swung from his tightly clenched hand. Though the body
+was erect, the head was thrown back so that the closed eyes were
+pointed towards the needle of the tell-tale that swung from a beam in
+the ceiling.*
+
+*The cabin-compass is called the tell-tale, because without going to
+the compass at the helm, the Captain, while below, can inform himself
+of the course of the ship.
+
+Terrible old man! thought Starbuck with a shudder, sleeping in this
+gale, still thou steadfastly eyest thy purpose.
+
+
+CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
+
+South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts, a good cruising
+ground for Right Whalemen, a sail loomed ahead, the Goney (Albatross)
+by name. As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the
+fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight so remarkable to a tyro
+in the far ocean fisheries—a whaler at sea, and long absent from home.
+
+As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the
+skeleton of a stranded walrus. All down her sides, this spectral
+appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all
+her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred
+over with hoar-frost. Only her lower sails were set. A wild sight it
+was to see her long-bearded look-outs at those three mast-heads. They
+seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment
+that had survived nearly four years of cruising. Standing in iron hoops
+nailed to the mast, they swayed and swung over a fathomless sea; and
+though, when the ship slowly glided close under our stern, we six men
+in the air came so nigh to each other that we might almost have leaped
+from the mast-heads of one ship to those of the other; yet, those
+forlorn-looking fishermen, mildly eyeing us as they passed, said not
+one word to our own look-outs, while the quarter-deck hail was being
+heard from below.
+
+“Ship ahoy! Have ye seen the White Whale?”
+
+But as the strange captain, leaning over the pallid bulwarks, was in
+the act of putting his trumpet to his mouth, it somehow fell from his
+hand into the sea; and the wind now rising amain, he in vain strove to
+make himself heard without it. Meantime his ship was still increasing
+the distance between. While in various silent ways the seamen of the
+Pequod were evincing their observance of this ominous incident at the
+first mere mention of the White Whale’s name to another ship, Ahab for
+a moment paused; it almost seemed as though he would have lowered a
+boat to board the stranger, had not the threatening wind forbade. But
+taking advantage of his windward position, he again seized his trumpet,
+and knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was a Nantucketer
+and shortly bound home, he loudly hailed—“Ahoy there! This is the
+Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters
+to the Pacific ocean! and this time three years, if I am not at home,
+tell them to address them to ——”
+
+At that moment the two wakes were fairly crossed, and instantly, then,
+in accordance with their singular ways, shoals of small harmless fish,
+that for some days before had been placidly swimming by our side,
+darted away with what seemed shuddering fins, and ranged themselves
+fore and aft with the stranger’s flanks. Though in the course of his
+continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar
+sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously
+carry meanings.
+
+“Swim away from me, do ye?” murmured Ahab, gazing over into the water.
+There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of
+deep helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced.
+But turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship in
+the wind to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lion
+voice,—“Up helm! Keep her off round the world!”
+
+Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings;
+but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through
+numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that
+we left behind secure, were all the time before us.
+
+Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for
+ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange
+than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise
+in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in
+tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims
+before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they
+either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
+
+
+CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
+
+The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had
+spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms. But even had this
+not been the case, he would not after all, perhaps, have boarded
+her—judging by his subsequent conduct on similar occasions—if so it had
+been that, by the process of hailing, he had obtained a negative answer
+to the question he put. For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not
+to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he
+could contribute some of that information he so absorbingly sought. But
+all this might remain inadequately estimated, were not something said
+here of the peculiar usages of whaling-vessels when meeting each other
+in foreign seas, and especially on a common cruising-ground.
+
+If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the
+equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering
+each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of
+them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment
+to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and
+resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the
+illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling
+vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth—off lone
+Fanning’s Island, or the far away King’s Mills; how much more natural,
+I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only
+interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and
+sociable contact. And especially would this seem to be a matter of
+course, in the case of vessels owned in one seaport, and whose
+captains, officers, and not a few of the men are personally known to
+each other; and consequently, have all sorts of dear domestic things to
+talk about.
+
+For the long absent ship, the outward-bounder, perhaps, has letters on
+board; at any rate, she will be sure to let her have some papers of a
+date a year or two later than the last one on her blurred and
+thumb-worn files. And in return for that courtesy, the outward-bound
+ship would receive the latest whaling intelligence from the
+cruising-ground to which she may be destined, a thing of the utmost
+importance to her. And in degree, all this will hold true concerning
+whaling vessels crossing each other’s track on the cruising-ground
+itself, even though they are equally long absent from home. For one of
+them may have received a transfer of letters from some third, and now
+far remote vessel; and some of those letters may be for the people of
+the ship she now meets. Besides, they would exchange the whaling news,
+and have an agreeable chat. For not only would they meet with all the
+sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar
+congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared
+privations and perils.
+
+Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference;
+that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case
+with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, from the small number
+of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when
+they do occur there is too apt to be a sort of shyness between them;
+for your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not
+fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself. Besides, the English
+whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the
+American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his
+nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant. But where this
+superiority in the English whalemen does really consist, it would be
+hard to say, seeing that the Yankees in one day, collectively, kill
+more whales than all the English, collectively, in ten years. But this
+is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the
+Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows
+that he has a few foibles himself.
+
+So, then, we see that of all ships separately sailing the sea, the
+whalers have most reason to be sociable—and they are so. Whereas, some
+merchant ships crossing each other’s wake in the mid-Atlantic, will
+oftentimes pass on without so much as a single word of recognition,
+mutually cutting each other on the high seas, like a brace of dandies
+in Broadway; and all the time indulging, perhaps, in finical criticism
+upon each other’s rig. As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at
+sea, they first go through such a string of silly bowings and
+scrapings, such a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be
+much right-down hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all. As
+touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are in such a prodigious hurry,
+they run away from each other as soon as possible. And as for Pirates,
+when they chance to cross each other’s cross-bones, the first hail
+is—“How many skulls?”—the same way that whalers hail—“How many
+barrels?” And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer
+apart, for they are infernal villains on both sides, and don’t like to
+see overmuch of each other’s villanous likenesses.
+
+But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious, hospitable, sociable,
+free-and-easy whaler! What does the whaler do when she meets another
+whaler in any sort of decent weather? She has a “_Gam_,” a thing so
+utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name
+even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it,
+and repeat gamesome stuff about “spouters” and “blubber-boilers,” and
+such like pretty exclamations. Why it is that all Merchant-seamen, and
+also all Pirates and Man-of-War’s men, and Slave-ship sailors, cherish
+such a scornful feeling towards Whale-ships; this is a question it
+would be hard to answer. Because, in the case of pirates, say, I should
+like to know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory
+about it. It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at
+the gallows. And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion,
+he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude. Hence, I
+conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman,
+in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on.
+
+But what is a _Gam?_ You might wear out your index-finger running up
+and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word. Dr.
+Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s ark does not
+hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years
+been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees.
+Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the
+Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it.
+
+GAM. NOUN—_A social meeting of two_ (_or more_) _Whaleships, generally
+on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange
+visits by boats’ crews: the two captains remaining, for the time, on
+board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other._
+
+There is another little item about Gamming which must not be forgotten
+here. All professions have their own little peculiarities of detail; so
+has the whale fishery. In a pirate, man-of-war, or slave ship, when the
+captain is rowed anywhere in his boat, he always sits in the stern
+sheets on a comfortable, sometimes cushioned seat there, and often
+steers himself with a pretty little milliner’s tiller decorated with
+gay cords and ribbons. But the whale-boat has no seat astern, no sofa
+of that sort whatever, and no tiller at all. High times indeed, if
+whaling captains were wheeled about the water on castors like gouty old
+aldermen in patent chairs. And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never
+admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete
+boat’s crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or
+harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the
+occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to
+his visit all standing like a pine tree. And often you will notice that
+being conscious of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him
+from the sides of the two ships, this standing captain is all alive to
+the importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs. Nor
+is this any very easy matter; for in his rear is the immense projecting
+steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of his back, the
+after-oar reciprocating by rapping his knees in front. He is thus
+completely wedged before and behind, and can only expand himself
+sideways by settling down on his stretched legs; but a sudden, violent
+pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him, because length of
+foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth. Merely make a
+spread angle of two poles, and you cannot stand them up. Then, again,
+it would never do in plain sight of the world’s riveted eyes, it would
+never do, I say, for this straddling captain to be seen steadying
+himself the slightest particle by catching hold of anything with his
+hands; indeed, as token of his entire, buoyant self-command, he
+generally carries his hands in his trowsers’ pockets; but perhaps being
+generally very large, heavy hands, he carries them there for ballast.
+Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones
+too, where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment
+or two, in a sudden squall say—to seize hold of the nearest oarsman’s
+hair, and hold on there like grim death.
+
+
+CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho’s Story.
+
+(_As told at the Golden Inn._)
+
+The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is
+much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet
+more travellers than in any other part.
+
+It was not very long after speaking the Goney that another
+homeward-bound whaleman, the Town-Ho,* was encountered. She was manned
+almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short gam that ensued she gave us
+strong news of Moby Dick. To some the general interest in the White
+Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of the Town-Ho’s
+story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain
+wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of
+God which at times are said to overtake some men. This latter
+circumstance, with its own particular accompaniments, forming what may
+be called the secret part of the tragedy about to be narrated, never
+reached the ears of Captain Ahab or his mates. For that secret part of
+the story was unknown to the captain of the Town-Ho himself. It was the
+private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of
+whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of
+secrecy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and
+revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could
+not well withhold the rest. Nevertheless, so potent an influence did
+this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full
+knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were
+they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among
+themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod’s main-mast.
+Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as
+publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now
+proceed to put on lasting record.
+
+*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head,
+still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.
+
+For my humor’s sake, I shall preserve the style in which I once
+narrated it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one
+saint’s eve, smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden
+Inn. Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were
+on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they
+occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.
+
+“Some two years prior to my first learning the events which I am about
+rehearsing to you, gentlemen, the Town-Ho, Sperm Whaler of Nantucket,
+was cruising in your Pacific here, not very many days’ sail eastward
+from the eaves of this good Golden Inn. She was somewhere to the
+northward of the Line. One morning upon handling the pumps, according
+to daily usage, it was observed that she made more water in her hold
+than common. They supposed a sword-fish had stabbed her, gentlemen. But
+the captain, having some unusual reason for believing that rare good
+luck awaited him in those latitudes; and therefore being very averse to
+quit them, and the leak not being then considered at all dangerous,
+though, indeed, they could not find it after searching the hold as low
+down as was possible in rather heavy weather, the ship still continued
+her cruisings, the mariners working at the pumps at wide and easy
+intervals; but no good luck came; more days went by, and not only was
+the leak yet undiscovered, but it sensibly increased. So much so, that
+now taking some alarm, the captain, making all sail, stood away for the
+nearest harbor among the islands, there to have his hull hove out and
+repaired.
+
+“Though no small passage was before her, yet, if the commonest chance
+favoured, he did not at all fear that his ship would founder by the
+way, because his pumps were of the best, and being periodically
+relieved at them, those six-and-thirty men of his could easily keep the
+ship free; never mind if the leak should double on her. In truth, well
+nigh the whole of this passage being attended by very prosperous
+breezes, the Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect safety at
+her port without the occurrence of the least fatality, had it not been
+for the brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate, a Vineyarder, and the
+bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from
+Buffalo.
+
+“‘Lakeman!—Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo?’
+said Don Sebastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass.
+
+“On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but—I crave your
+courtesy—may be, you shall soon hear further of all that. Now,
+gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as
+large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far
+Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet
+been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly
+connected with the open ocean. For in their interflowing aggregate,
+those grand fresh-water seas of ours,—Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and
+Superior, and Michigan,—possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many
+of the ocean’s noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of
+races and of climes. They contain round archipelagoes of romantic
+isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by
+two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long
+maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East,
+dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by
+batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they
+have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they
+yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash
+from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by
+ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried
+lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild
+Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give
+robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and
+Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the
+full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer,
+and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as
+direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks
+are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full
+many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew. Thus, gentlemen,
+though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean
+nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any. And for Radney,
+though in his infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket
+beach, to nurse at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long
+followed our austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was
+he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods
+seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buck-horn handled Bowie-knives. Yet
+was this Nantucketer a man with some good-hearted traits; and this
+Lakeman, a mariner, who though a sort of devil indeed, might yet by
+inflexible firmness, only tempered by that common decency of human
+recognition which is the meanest slave’s right; thus treated, this
+Steelkilt had long been retained harmless and docile. At all events, he
+had proved so thus far; but Radney was doomed and made mad, and
+Steelkilt—but, gentlemen, you shall hear.
+
+“It was not more than a day or two at the furthest after pointing her
+prow for her island haven, that the Town-Ho’s leak seemed again
+increasing, but only so as to require an hour or more at the pumps
+every day. You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our
+Atlantic, for example, some skippers think little of pumping their
+whole way across it; though of a still, sleepy night, should the
+officer of the deck happen to forget his duty in that respect, the
+probability would be that he and his shipmates would never again
+remember it, on account of all hands gently subsiding to the bottom.
+Nor in the solitary and savage seas far from you to the westward,
+gentlemen, is it altogether unusual for ships to keep clanging at their
+pump-handles in full chorus even for a voyage of considerable length;
+that is, if it lie along a tolerably accessible coast, or if any other
+reasonable retreat is afforded them. It is only when a leaky vessel is
+in some very out of the way part of those waters, some really landless
+latitude, that her captain begins to feel a little anxious.
+
+“Much this way had it been with the Town-Ho; so when her leak was found
+gaining once more, there was in truth some small concern manifested by
+several of her company; especially by Radney the mate. He commanded the
+upper sails to be well hoisted, sheeted home anew, and every way
+expanded to the breeze. Now this Radney, I suppose, was as little of a
+coward, and as little inclined to any sort of nervous apprehensiveness
+touching his own person as any fearless, unthinking creature on land or
+on sea that you can conveniently imagine, gentlemen. Therefore when he
+betrayed this solicitude about the safety of the ship, some of the
+seamen declared that it was only on account of his being a part owner
+in her. So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was
+on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they
+stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear
+water; clear as any mountain spring, gentlemen—that bubbling from the
+pumps ran across the deck, and poured itself out in steady spouts at
+the lee scupper-holes.
+
+“Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional
+world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command
+over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his
+superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he
+conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a
+chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern’s tower, and make
+a little heap of dust of it. Be this conceit of mine as it may,
+gentlemen, at all events Steelkilt was a tall and noble animal with a
+head like a Roman, and a flowing golden beard like the tasseled
+housings of your last viceroy’s snorting charger; and a brain, and a
+heart, and a soul in him, gentlemen, which had made Steelkilt
+Charlemagne, had he been born son to Charlemagne’s father. But Radney,
+the mate, was ugly as a mule; yet as hardy, as stubborn, as malicious.
+He did not love Steelkilt, and Steelkilt knew it.
+
+“Espying the mate drawing near as he was toiling at the pump with the
+rest, the Lakeman affected not to notice him, but unawed, went on with
+his gay banterings.
+
+“‘Aye, aye, my merry lads, it’s a lively leak this; hold a cannikin,
+one of ye, and let’s have a taste. By the Lord, it’s worth bottling! I
+tell ye what, men, old Rad’s investment must go for it! he had best cut
+away his part of the hull and tow it home. The fact is, boys, that
+sword-fish only began the job; he’s come back again with a gang of
+ship-carpenters, saw-fish, and file-fish, and what not; and the whole
+posse of ’em are now hard at work cutting and slashing at the bottom;
+making improvements, I suppose. If old Rad were here now, I’d tell him
+to jump overboard and scatter ’em. They’re playing the devil with his
+estate, I can tell him. But he’s a simple old soul,—Rad, and a beauty
+too. Boys, they say the rest of his property is invested in
+looking-glasses. I wonder if he’d give a poor devil like me the model
+of his nose.’
+
+“‘Damn your eyes! what’s that pump stopping for?’ roared Radney,
+pretending not to have heard the sailors’ talk. ‘Thunder away at it!’
+
+“‘Aye, aye, sir,’ said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. ‘Lively, boys,
+lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like fifty fire-engines;
+the men tossed their hats off to it, and ere long that peculiar gasping
+of the lungs was heard which denotes the fullest tension of life’s
+utmost energies.
+
+“Quitting the pump at last, with the rest of his band, the Lakeman went
+forward all panting, and sat himself down on the windlass; his face
+fiery red, his eyes bloodshot, and wiping the profuse sweat from his
+brow. Now what cozening fiend it was, gentlemen, that possessed Radney
+to meddle with such a man in that corporeally exasperated state, I know
+not; but so it happened. Intolerably striding along the deck, the mate
+commanded him to get a broom and sweep down the planks, and also a
+shovel, and remove some offensive matters consequent upon allowing a
+pig to run at large.
+
+“Now, gentlemen, sweeping a ship’s deck at sea is a piece of household
+work which in all times but raging gales is regularly attended to every
+evening; it has been known to be done in the case of ships actually
+foundering at the time. Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of
+sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom
+would not willingly drown without first washing their faces. But in all
+vessels this broom business is the prescriptive province of the boys,
+if boys there be aboard. Besides, it was the stronger men in the
+Town-Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps;
+and being the most athletic seaman of them all, Steelkilt had been
+regularly assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should
+have been freed from any trivial business not connected with truly
+nautical duties, such being the case with his comrades. I mention all
+these particulars so that you may understand exactly how this affair
+stood between the two men.
+
+“But there was more than this: the order about the shovel was almost as
+plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat
+in his face. Any man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will
+understand this; and all this and doubtless much more, the Lakeman
+fully comprehended when the mate uttered his command. But as he sat
+still for a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mate’s
+malignant eye and perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him
+and the slow-match silently burning along towards them; as he
+instinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness
+to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being—a
+repugnance most felt, when felt at all, by really valiant men even when
+aggrieved—this nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over
+Steelkilt.
+
+“Therefore, in his ordinary tone, only a little broken by the bodily
+exhaustion he was temporarily in, he answered him saying that sweeping
+the deck was not his business, and he would not do it. And then,
+without at all alluding to the shovel, he pointed to three lads as the
+customary sweepers; who, not being billeted at the pumps, had done
+little or nothing all day. To this, Radney replied with an oath, in a
+most domineering and outrageous manner unconditionally reiterating his
+command; meanwhile advancing upon the still seated Lakeman, with an
+uplifted cooper’s club hammer which he had snatched from a cask near
+by.
+
+“Heated and irritated as he was by his spasmodic toil at the pumps, for
+all his first nameless feeling of forbearance the sweating Steelkilt
+could but ill brook this bearing in the mate; but somehow still
+smothering the conflagration within him, without speaking he remained
+doggedly rooted to his seat, till at last the incensed Radney shook the
+hammer within a few inches of his face, furiously commanding him to do
+his bidding.
+
+“Steelkilt rose, and slowly retreating round the windlass, steadily
+followed by the mate with his menacing hammer, deliberately repeated
+his intention not to obey. Seeing, however, that his forbearance had
+not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with
+his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it
+was to no purpose. And in this way the two went once slowly round the
+windlass; when, resolved at last no longer to retreat, bethinking him
+that he had now forborne as much as comported with his humor, the
+Lakeman paused on the hatches and thus spoke to the officer:
+
+“‘Mr. Radney, I will not obey you. Take that hammer away, or look to
+yourself.’ But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where
+the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of
+his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
+Retreating not the thousandth part of an inch; stabbing him in the eye
+with the unflinching poniard of his glance, Steelkilt, clenching his
+right hand behind him and creepingly drawing it back, told his
+persecutor that if the hammer but grazed his cheek he (Steelkilt) would
+murder him. But, gentlemen, the fool had been branded for the slaughter
+by the gods. Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant
+the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch
+spouting blood like a whale.
+
+“Ere the cry could go aft Steelkilt was shaking one of the backstays
+leading far aloft to where two of his comrades were standing their
+mastheads. They were both Canallers.
+
+“‘Canallers!’ cried Don Pedro. ‘We have seen many whale-ships in our
+harbours, but never heard of your Canallers. Pardon: who and what are
+they?’
+
+“‘Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal.
+You must have heard of it.’
+
+“‘Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary
+land, we know but little of your vigorous North.’
+
+“‘Aye? Well then, Don, refill my cup. Your chicha’s very fine; and ere
+proceeding further I will tell ye what our Canallers are; for such
+information may throw side-light upon my story.’
+
+“For three hundred and sixty miles, gentlemen, through the entire
+breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and
+most thriving villages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and
+affluent, cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility; by billiard-room
+and bar-room; through the holy-of-holies of great forests; on Roman
+arches over Indian rivers; through sun and shade; by happy hearts or
+broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk
+counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires
+stand almost like milestones, flows one continual stream of Venetianly
+corrupt and often lawless life. There’s your true Ashantee, gentlemen;
+there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you;
+under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronising lee of churches.
+For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan
+freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so
+sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.
+
+“‘Is that a friar passing?’ said Don Pedro, looking downwards into the
+crowded plazza, with humorous concern.
+
+“‘Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella’s Inquisition wanes in
+Lima,’ laughed Don Sebastian. ‘Proceed, Senor.’
+
+“‘A moment! Pardon!’ cried another of the company. ‘In the name of all
+us Limeese, I but desire to express to you, sir sailor, that we have by
+no means overlooked your delicacy in not substituting present Lima for
+distant Venice in your corrupt comparison. Oh! do not bow and look
+surprised; you know the proverb all along this coast—“Corrupt as Lima.”
+It but bears out your saying, too; churches more plentiful than
+billiard-tables, and for ever open—and “Corrupt as Lima.” So, too,
+Venice; I have been there; the holy city of the blessed evangelist, St.
+Mark!—St. Dominic, purge it! Your cup! Thanks: here I refill; now, you
+pour out again.’
+
+“Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would
+make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is
+he. Like Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery
+Nile, he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked
+Cleopatra, ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck. But ashore,
+all this effeminacy is dashed. The brigandish guise which the Canaller
+so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his
+grand features. A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages
+through which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not
+unshunned in cities. Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received
+good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would
+fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming
+qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm
+to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one. In
+sum, gentlemen, what the wildness of this canal life is, is
+emphatically evinced by this; that our wild whale-fishery contains so
+many of its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of
+mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling
+captains. Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter,
+that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its
+line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole
+transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and
+recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas.
+
+“‘I see! I see!’ impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro, spilling his chicha
+upon his silvery ruffles. ‘No need to travel! The world’s one Lima. I
+had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were
+cold and holy as the hills.—But the story.’
+
+“I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman shook the backstay. Hardly
+had he done so, when he was surrounded by the three junior mates and
+the four harpooneers, who all crowded him to the deck. But sliding down
+the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the
+uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle.
+Others of the sailors joined with them in this attempt, and a twisted
+turmoil ensued; while standing out of harm’s way, the valiant captain
+danced up and down with a whale-pike, calling upon his officers to
+manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke him along to the
+quarter-deck. At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of
+the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to
+prick out the object of his resentment. But Steelkilt and his
+desperadoes were too much for them all; they succeeded in gaining the
+forecastle deck, where, hastily slewing about three or four large casks
+in a line with the windlass, these sea-Parisians entrenched themselves
+behind the barricade.
+
+“‘Come out of that, ye pirates!’ roared the captain, now menacing them
+with a pistol in each hand, just brought to him by the steward. ‘Come
+out of that, ye cut-throats!’
+
+“Steelkilt leaped on the barricade, and striding up and down there,
+defied the worst the pistols could do; but gave the captain to
+understand distinctly, that his (Steelkilt’s) death would be the signal
+for a murderous mutiny on the part of all hands. Fearing in his heart
+lest this might prove but too true, the captain a little desisted, but
+still commanded the insurgents instantly to return to their duty.
+
+“‘Will you promise not to touch us, if we do?’ demanded their
+ringleader.
+
+“‘Turn to! turn to!—I make no promise;—to your duty! Do you want to
+sink the ship, by knocking off at a time like this? Turn to!’ and he
+once more raised a pistol.
+
+“‘Sink the ship?’ cried Steelkilt. ‘Aye, let her sink. Not a man of us
+turns to, unless you swear not to raise a rope-yarn against us. What
+say ye, men?’ turning to his comrades. A fierce cheer was their
+response.
+
+“The Lakeman now patrolled the barricade, all the while keeping his eye
+on the Captain, and jerking out such sentences as these:—‘It’s not our
+fault; we didn’t want it; I told him to take his hammer away; it was
+boy’s business; he might have known me before this; I told him not to
+prick the buffalo; I believe I have broken a finger here against his
+cursed jaw; ain’t those mincing knives down in the forecastle there,
+men? look to those handspikes, my hearties. Captain, by God, look to
+yourself; say the word; don’t be a fool; forget it all; we are ready to
+turn to; treat us decently, and we’re your men; but we won’t be
+flogged.’
+
+“‘Turn to! I make no promises, turn to, I say!’
+
+“‘Look ye, now,’ cried the Lakeman, flinging out his arm towards him,
+‘there are a few of us here (and I am one of them) who have shipped for
+the cruise, d’ye see; now as you well know, sir, we can claim our
+discharge as soon as the anchor is down; so we don’t want a row; it’s
+not our interest; we want to be peaceable; we are ready to work, but we
+won’t be flogged.’
+
+“‘Turn to!’ roared the Captain.
+
+“Steelkilt glanced round him a moment, and then said:—‘I tell you what
+it is now, Captain, rather than kill ye, and be hung for such a shabby
+rascal, we won’t lift a hand against ye unless ye attack us; but till
+you say the word about not flogging us, we don’t do a hand’s turn.’
+
+“‘Down into the forecastle then, down with ye, I’ll keep ye there till
+ye’re sick of it. Down ye go.’
+
+“‘Shall we?’ cried the ringleader to his men. Most of them were against
+it; but at length, in obedience to Steelkilt, they preceded him down
+into their dark den, growlingly disappearing, like bears into a cave.
+
+“As the Lakeman’s bare head was just level with the planks, the Captain
+and his posse leaped the barricade, and rapidly drawing over the slide
+of the scuttle, planted their group of hands upon it, and loudly called
+for the steward to bring the heavy brass padlock belonging to the
+companionway. Then opening the slide a little, the Captain whispered
+something down the crack, closed it, and turned the key upon them—ten
+in number—leaving on deck some twenty or more, who thus far had
+remained neutral.
+
+“All night a wide-awake watch was kept by all the officers, forward and
+aft, especially about the forecastle scuttle and fore hatchway; at
+which last place it was feared the insurgents might emerge, after
+breaking through the bulkhead below. But the hours of darkness passed
+in peace; the men who still remained at their duty toiling hard at the
+pumps, whose clinking and clanking at intervals through the dreary
+night dismally resounded through the ship.
+
+“At sunrise the Captain went forward, and knocking on the deck,
+summoned the prisoners to work; but with a yell they refused. Water was
+then lowered down to them, and a couple of handfuls of biscuit were
+tossed after it; when again turning the key upon them and pocketing it,
+the Captain returned to the quarter-deck. Twice every day for three
+days this was repeated; but on the fourth morning a confused wrangling,
+and then a scuffling was heard, as the customary summons was delivered;
+and suddenly four men burst up from the forecastle, saying they were
+ready to turn to. The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet,
+united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained
+them to surrender at discretion. Emboldened by this, the Captain
+reiterated his demand to the rest, but Steelkilt shouted up to him a
+terrific hint to stop his babbling and betake himself where he
+belonged. On the fifth morning three others of the mutineers bolted up
+into the air from the desperate arms below that sought to restrain
+them. Only three were left.
+
+“‘Better turn to, now?’ said the Captain with a heartless jeer.
+
+“‘Shut us up again, will ye!’ cried Steelkilt.
+
+“‘Oh certainly,’ said the Captain, and the key clicked.
+
+“It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of
+seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had
+last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as
+black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to
+the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst
+out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with
+their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a
+handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if
+by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship. For
+himself, he would do this, he said, whether they joined him or not.
+That was the last night he should spend in that den. But the scheme met
+with no opposition on the part of the other two; they swore they were
+ready for that, or for any other mad thing, for anything in short but a
+surrender. And what was more, they each insisted upon being the first
+man on deck, when the time to make the rush should come. But to this
+their leader as fiercely objected, reserving that priority for himself;
+particularly as his two comrades would not yield, the one to the other,
+in the matter; and both of them could not be first, for the ladder
+would but admit one man at a time. And here, gentlemen, the foul play
+of these miscreants must come out.
+
+“Upon hearing the frantic project of their leader, each in his own
+separate soul had suddenly lighted, it would seem, upon the same piece
+of treachery, namely: to be foremost in breaking out, in order to be
+the first of the three, though the last of the ten, to surrender; and
+thereby secure whatever small chance of pardon such conduct might
+merit. But when Steelkilt made known his determination still to lead
+them to the last, they in some way, by some subtle chemistry of
+villany, mixed their before secret treacheries together; and when their
+leader fell into a doze, verbally opened their souls to each other in
+three sentences; and bound the sleeper with cords, and gagged him with
+cords; and shrieked out for the Captain at midnight.
+
+“Thinking murder at hand, and smelling in the dark for the blood, he
+and all his armed mates and harpooneers rushed for the forecastle. In a
+few minutes the scuttle was opened, and, bound hand and foot, the still
+struggling ringleader was shoved up into the air by his perfidious
+allies, who at once claimed the honor of securing a man who had been
+fully ripe for murder. But all these were collared, and dragged along
+the deck like dead cattle; and, side by side, were seized up into the
+mizzen rigging, like three quarters of meat, and there they hung till
+morning. ‘Damn ye,’ cried the Captain, pacing to and fro before them,
+‘the vultures would not touch ye, ye villains!’
+
+“At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had
+rebelled from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the
+former that he had a good mind to flog them all round—thought, upon the
+whole, he would do so—he ought to—justice demanded it; but for the
+present, considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with
+a reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.
+
+“‘But as for you, ye carrion rogues,’ turning to the three men in the
+rigging—‘for you, I mean to mince ye up for the try-pots;’ and, seizing
+a rope, he applied it with all his might to the backs of the two
+traitors, till they yelled no more, but lifelessly hung their heads
+sideways, as the two crucified thieves are drawn.
+
+“‘My wrist is sprained with ye!’ he cried, at last; ‘but there is still
+rope enough left for you, my fine bantam, that wouldn’t give up. Take
+that gag from his mouth, and let us hear what he can say for himself.’
+
+“For a moment the exhausted mutineer made a tremulous motion of his
+cramped jaws, and then painfully twisting round his head, said in a
+sort of hiss, ‘What I say is this—and mind it well—if you flog me, I
+murder you!’
+
+“‘Say ye so? then see how ye frighten me’—and the Captain drew off with
+the rope to strike.
+
+“‘Best not,’ hissed the Lakeman.
+
+“‘But I must,’—and the rope was once more drawn back for the stroke.
+
+“Steelkilt here hissed out something, inaudible to all but the Captain;
+who, to the amazement of all hands, started back, paced the deck
+rapidly two or three times, and then suddenly throwing down his rope,
+said, ‘I won’t do it—let him go—cut him down: d’ye hear?’
+
+“But as the junior mates were hurrying to execute the order, a pale
+man, with a bandaged head, arrested them—Radney the chief mate. Ever
+since the blow, he had lain in his berth; but that morning, hearing the
+tumult on the deck, he had crept out, and thus far had watched the
+whole scene. Such was the state of his mouth, that he could hardly
+speak; but mumbling something about _his_ being willing and able to do
+what the captain dared not attempt, he snatched the rope and advanced
+to his pinioned foe.
+
+“‘You are a coward!’ hissed the Lakeman.
+
+“‘So I am, but take that.’ The mate was in the very act of striking,
+when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm. He paused: and then pausing
+no more, made good his word, spite of Steelkilt’s threat, whatever that
+might have been. The three men were then cut down, all hands were
+turned to, and, sullenly worked by the moody seamen, the iron pumps
+clanged as before.
+
+“Just after dark that day, when one watch had retired below, a clamor
+was heard in the forecastle; and the two trembling traitors running up,
+besieged the cabin door, saying they durst not consort with the crew.
+Entreaties, cuffs, and kicks could not drive them back, so at their own
+instance they were put down in the ship’s run for salvation. Still, no
+sign of mutiny reappeared among the rest. On the contrary, it seemed,
+that mainly at Steelkilt’s instigation, they had resolved to maintain
+the strictest peacefulness, obey all orders to the last, and, when the
+ship reached port, desert her in a body. But in order to insure the
+speediest end to the voyage, they all agreed to another thing—namely,
+not to sing out for whales, in case any should be discovered. For,
+spite of her leak, and spite of all her other perils, the Town-Ho still
+maintained her mast-heads, and her captain was just as willing to lower
+for a fish that moment, as on the day his craft first struck the
+cruising ground; and Radney the mate was quite as ready to change his
+berth for a boat, and with his bandaged mouth seek to gag in death the
+vital jaw of the whale.
+
+“But though the Lakeman had induced the seamen to adopt this sort of
+passiveness in their conduct, he kept his own counsel (at least till
+all was over) concerning his own proper and private revenge upon the
+man who had stung him in the ventricles of his heart. He was in Radney
+the chief mate’s watch; and as if the infatuated man sought to run more
+than half way to meet his doom, after the scene at the rigging, he
+insisted, against the express counsel of the captain, upon resuming the
+head of his watch at night. Upon this, and one or two other
+circumstances, Steelkilt systematically built the plan of his revenge.
+
+“During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way of sitting on the
+bulwarks of the quarter-deck, and leaning his arm upon the gunwale of
+the boat which was hoisted up there, a little above the ship’s side. In
+this attitude, it was well known, he sometimes dozed. There was a
+considerable vacancy between the boat and the ship, and down between
+this was the sea. Steelkilt calculated his time, and found that his
+next trick at the helm would come round at two o’clock, in the morning
+of the third day from that in which he had been betrayed. At his
+leisure, he employed the interval in braiding something very carefully
+in his watches below.
+
+“‘What are you making there?’ said a shipmate.
+
+“‘What do you think? what does it look like?’
+
+“‘Like a lanyard for your bag; but it’s an odd one, seems to me.’
+
+“‘Yes, rather oddish,’ said the Lakeman, holding it at arm’s length
+before him; ‘but I think it will answer. Shipmate, I haven’t enough
+twine,—have you any?’
+
+“But there was none in the forecastle.
+
+“‘Then I must get some from old Rad;’ and he rose to go aft.
+
+“‘You don’t mean to go a begging to _him!_’ said a sailor.
+
+“‘Why not? Do you think he won’t do me a turn, when it’s to help
+himself in the end, shipmate?’ and going to the mate, he looked at him
+quietly, and asked him for some twine to mend his hammock. It was given
+him—neither twine nor lanyard were seen again; but the next night an
+iron ball, closely netted, partly rolled from the pocket of the
+Lakeman’s monkey jacket, as he was tucking the coat into his hammock
+for a pillow. Twenty-four hours after, his trick at the silent
+helm—nigh to the man who was apt to doze over the grave always ready
+dug to the seaman’s hand—that fatal hour was then to come; and in the
+fore-ordaining soul of Steelkilt, the mate was already stark and
+stretched as a corpse, with his forehead crushed in.
+
+“But, gentlemen, a fool saved the would-be murderer from the bloody
+deed he had planned. Yet complete revenge he had, and without being the
+avenger. For by a mysterious fatality, Heaven itself seemed to step in
+to take out of his hands into its own the damning thing he would have
+done.
+
+“It was just between daybreak and sunrise of the morning of the second
+day, when they were washing down the decks, that a stupid Teneriffe
+man, drawing water in the main-chains, all at once shouted out, ‘There
+she rolls! there she rolls!’ Jesu, what a whale! It was Moby Dick.
+
+“‘Moby Dick!’ cried Don Sebastian; ‘St. Dominic! Sir sailor, but do
+whales have christenings? Whom call you Moby Dick?’
+
+“‘A very white, and famous, and most deadly immortal monster, Don;—but
+that would be too long a story.’
+
+“‘How? how?’ cried all the young Spaniards, crowding.
+
+“‘Nay, Dons, Dons—nay, nay! I cannot rehearse that now. Let me get more
+into the air, Sirs.’
+
+“‘The chicha! the chicha!’ cried Don Pedro; ‘our vigorous friend looks
+faint;—fill up his empty glass!’
+
+“No need, gentlemen; one moment, and I proceed.—Now, gentlemen, so
+suddenly perceiving the snowy whale within fifty yards of the
+ship—forgetful of the compact among the crew—in the excitement of the
+moment, the Teneriffe man had instinctively and involuntarily lifted
+his voice for the monster, though for some little time past it had been
+plainly beheld from the three sullen mast-heads. All was now a phrensy.
+‘The White Whale—the White Whale!’ was the cry from captain, mates, and
+harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to
+capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed
+askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass,
+that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a
+living opal in the blue morning sea. Gentlemen, a strange fatality
+pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out
+before the world itself was charted. The mutineer was the bowsman of
+the mate, and when fast to a fish, it was his duty to sit next him,
+while Radney stood up with his lance in the prow, and haul in or
+slacken the line, at the word of command. Moreover, when the four boats
+were lowered, the mate’s got the start; and none howled more fiercely
+with delight than did Steelkilt, as he strained at his oar. After a
+stiff pull, their harpooneer got fast, and, spear in hand, Radney
+sprang to the bow. He was always a furious man, it seems, in a boat.
+And now his bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whale’s topmost back.
+Nothing loath, his bowsman hauled him up and up, through a blinding
+foam that blent two whitenesses together; till of a sudden the boat
+struck as against a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled out the
+standing mate. That instant, as he fell on the whale’s slippery back,
+the boat righted, and was dashed aside by the swell, while Radney was
+tossed over into the sea, on the other flank of the whale. He struck
+out through the spray, and, for an instant, was dimly seen through that
+veil, wildly seeking to remove himself from the eye of Moby Dick. But
+the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom; seized the swimmer
+between his jaws; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again,
+and went down.
+
+“Meantime, at the first tap of the boat’s bottom, the Lakeman had
+slackened the line, so as to drop astern from the whirlpool; calmly
+looking on, he thought his own thoughts. But a sudden, terrific,
+downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line. He
+cut it; and the whale was free. But, at some distance, Moby Dick rose
+again, with some tatters of Radney’s red woollen shirt, caught in the
+teeth that had destroyed him. All four boats gave chase again; but the
+whale eluded them, and finally wholly disappeared.
+
+“In good time, the Town-Ho reached her port—a savage, solitary
+place—where no civilized creature resided. There, headed by the
+Lakeman, all but five or six of the foremastmen deliberately deserted
+among the palms; eventually, as it turned out, seizing a large double
+war-canoe of the savages, and setting sail for some other harbor.
+
+“The ship’s company being reduced to but a handful, the captain called
+upon the Islanders to assist him in the laborious business of heaving
+down the ship to stop the leak. But to such unresting vigilance over
+their dangerous allies was this small band of whites necessitated, both
+by night and by day, and so extreme was the hard work they underwent,
+that upon the vessel being ready again for sea, they were in such a
+weakened condition that the captain durst not put off with them in so
+heavy a vessel. After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the
+ship as far off shore as possible; loaded and ran out his two cannon
+from the bows; stacked his muskets on the poop; and warning the
+Islanders not to approach the ship at their peril, took one man with
+him, and setting the sail of his best whale-boat, steered straight
+before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a
+reinforcement to his crew.
+
+“On the fourth day of the sail, a large canoe was descried, which
+seemed to have touched at a low isle of corals. He steered away from
+it; but the savage craft bore down on him; and soon the voice of
+Steelkilt hailed him to heave to, or he would run him under water. The
+captain presented a pistol. With one foot on each prow of the yoked
+war-canoes, the Lakeman laughed him to scorn; assuring him that if the
+pistol so much as clicked in the lock, he would bury him in bubbles and
+foam.
+
+“‘What do you want of me?’ cried the captain.
+
+“‘Where are you bound? and for what are you bound?’ demanded Steelkilt;
+‘no lies.’
+
+“‘I am bound to Tahiti for more men.’
+
+“‘Very good. Let me board you a moment—I come in peace.’ With that he
+leaped from the canoe, swam to the boat; and climbing the gunwale,
+stood face to face with the captain.
+
+“‘Cross your arms, sir; throw back your head. Now, repeat after me. As
+soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder
+island, and remain there six days. If I do not, may lightnings strike
+me!’
+
+“‘A pretty scholar,’ laughed the Lakeman. ‘Adios, Senor!’ and leaping
+into the sea, he swam back to his comrades.
+
+“Watching the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the
+roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due
+time arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. There, luck
+befriended him; two ships were about to sail for France, and were
+providentially in want of precisely that number of men which the sailor
+headed. They embarked; and so for ever got the start of their former
+captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution.
+
+“Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale-boat arrived,
+and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilized
+Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea. Chartering a small
+native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all
+right there, again resumed his cruisings.
+
+“Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know; but upon the island of
+Nantucket, the widow of Radney still turns to the sea which refuses to
+give up its dead; still in dreams sees the awful white whale that
+destroyed him.  * * * *
+
+“‘Are you through?’ said Don Sebastian, quietly.
+
+“‘I am, Don.’
+
+“‘Then I entreat you, tell me if to the best of your own convictions,
+this your story is in substance really true? It is so passing
+wonderful! Did you get it from an unquestionable source? Bear with me
+if I seem to press.’
+
+“‘Also bear with all of us, sir sailor; for we all join in Don
+Sebastian’s suit,’ cried the company, with exceeding interest.
+
+“‘Is there a copy of the Holy Evangelists in the Golden Inn,
+gentlemen?’
+
+“‘Nay,’ said Don Sebastian; ‘but I know a worthy priest near by, who
+will quickly procure one for me. I go for it; but are you well advised?
+this may grow too serious.’
+
+“‘Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don?’
+
+“‘Though there are no Auto-da-Fés in Lima now,’ said one of the company
+to another; ‘I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy.
+Let us withdraw more out of the moonlight. I see no need of this.’
+
+“‘Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian; but may I also beg
+that you will be particular in procuring the largest sized Evangelists
+you can.’
+
+* * * * * *
+
+“‘This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists,’ said Don
+Sebastian, gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure.
+
+“‘Let me remove my hat. Now, venerable priest, further into the light,
+and hold the Holy Book before me that I may touch it.
+
+“‘So help me Heaven, and on my honor the story I have told ye,
+gentlemen, is in substance and its great items, true. I know it to be
+true; it happened on this ball; I trod the ship; I knew the crew; I
+have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney.’”
+
+
+CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
+
+I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas,
+something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the
+eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored
+alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there.
+It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert to those curious
+imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day
+confidently challenge the faith of the landsman. It is time to set the
+world right in this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all
+wrong.
+
+It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will
+be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For
+ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble
+panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields,
+medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of
+chain-armor like Saladin’s, and a helmeted head like St. George’s; ever
+since then has something of the same sort of license prevailed, not
+only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific
+presentations of him.
+
+Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting
+to be the whale’s, is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of
+Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless
+sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits,
+every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of
+them actually came into being. No wonder then, that in some sort our
+noble profession of whaling should have been there shadowed forth. The
+Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall,
+depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly
+known as the Matse Avatar. But though this sculpture is half man and
+half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small
+section of him is all wrong. It looks more like the tapering tail of an
+anaconda, than the broad palms of the true whale’s majestic flukes.
+
+But go to the old Galleries, and look now at a great Christian
+painter’s portrait of this fish; for he succeeds no better than the
+antediluvian Hindoo. It is Guido’s picture of Perseus rescuing
+Andromeda from the sea-monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model
+of such a strange creature as that? Nor does Hogarth, in painting the
+same scene in his own “Perseus Descending,” make out one whit better.
+The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the
+surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water. It has a sort of howdah on
+its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are
+rolling, might be taken for the Traitors’ Gate leading from the Thames
+by water into the Tower. Then, there are the Prodromus whales of old
+Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah’s whale, as depicted in the prints of old
+Bibles and the cuts of old primers. What shall be said of these? As for
+the book-binder’s whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a
+descending anchor—as stamped and gilded on the backs and title-pages of
+many books both old and new—that is a very picturesque but purely
+fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on
+antique vases. Though universally denominated a dolphin, I nevertheless
+call this book-binder’s fish an attempt at a whale; because it was so
+intended when the device was first introduced. It was introduced by an
+old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the
+Revival of Learning; and in those days, and even down to a
+comparatively late period, dolphins were popularly supposed to be a
+species of the Leviathan.
+
+In the vignettes and other embellishments of some ancient books you
+will at times meet with very curious touches at the whale, where all
+manner of spouts, jets d’eau, hot springs and cold, Saratoga and
+Baden-Baden, come bubbling up from his unexhausted brain. In the
+title-page of the original edition of the “Advancement of Learning” you
+will find some curious whales.
+
+But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those
+pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations,
+by those who know. In old Harris’s collection of voyages there are some
+plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671,
+entitled “A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship Jonas in the
+Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master.” In one of those plates the
+whales, like great rafts of logs, are represented lying among
+ice-isles, with white bears running over their living backs. In another
+plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with
+perpendicular flukes.
+
+Then again, there is an imposing quarto, written by one Captain
+Colnett, a Post Captain in the English navy, entitled “A Voyage round
+Cape Horn into the South Seas, for the purpose of extending the
+Spermaceti Whale Fisheries.” In this book is an outline purporting to
+be a “Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from
+one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted on deck.”
+I doubt not the captain had this veracious picture taken for the
+benefit of his marines. To mention but one thing about it, let me say
+that it has an eye which applied, according to the accompanying scale,
+to a full grown sperm whale, would make the eye of that whale a
+bow-window some five feet long. Ah, my gallant captain, why did ye not
+give us Jonah looking out of that eye!
+
+Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for the
+benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of
+mistake. Look at that popular work “Goldsmith’s Animated Nature.” In
+the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged
+“whale” and a “narwhale.” I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this
+unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the
+narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this
+nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon
+any intelligent public of schoolboys.
+
+Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacépède, a great
+naturalist, published a scientific systemized whale book, wherein are
+several pictures of the different species of the Leviathan. All these
+are not only incorrect, but the picture of the Mysticetus or Greenland
+whale (that is to say, the Right whale), even Scoresby, a long
+experienced man as touching that species, declares not to have its
+counterpart in nature.
+
+But the placing of the cap-sheaf to all this blundering business was
+reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous
+Baron. In 1836, he published a Natural History of Whales, in which he
+gives what he calls a picture of the Sperm Whale. Before showing that
+picture to any Nantucketer, you had best provide for your summary
+retreat from Nantucket. In a word, Frederick Cuvier’s Sperm Whale is
+not a Sperm Whale, but a squash. Of course, he never had the benefit of
+a whaling voyage (such men seldom have), but whence he derived that
+picture, who can tell? Perhaps he got it as his scientific predecessor
+in the same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that
+is, from a Chinese drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the
+pencil those Chinese are, many queer cups and saucers inform us.
+
+As for the sign-painters’ whales seen in the streets hanging over the
+shops of oil-dealers, what shall be said of them? They are generally
+Richard III. whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage;
+breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of
+mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue
+paint.
+
+But these manifold mistakes in depicting the whale are not so very
+surprising after all. Consider! Most of the scientific drawings have
+been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a
+drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent
+the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars.
+Though elephants have stood for their full-lengths, the living
+Leviathan has never yet fairly floated himself for his portrait. The
+living whale, in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen
+at sea in unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out
+of sight, like a launched line-of-battle ship; and out of that element
+it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily
+into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations.
+And, not to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour
+between a young sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan;
+yet, even in the case of one of those young sucking whales hoisted to a
+ship’s deck, such is then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying
+shape of him, that his precise expression the devil himself could not
+catch.
+
+But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded
+whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form. Not at
+all. For it is one of the more curious things about this Leviathan,
+that his skeleton gives very little idea of his general shape. Though
+Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of
+one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed
+utilitarian old gentleman, with all Jeremy’s other leading personal
+characteristics; yet nothing of this kind could be inferred from any
+leviathan’s articulated bones. In fact, as the great Hunter says, the
+mere skeleton of the whale bears the same relation to the fully
+invested and padded animal as the insect does to the chrysalis that so
+roundingly envelopes it. This peculiarity is strikingly evinced in the
+head, as in some part of this book will be incidentally shown. It is
+also very curiously displayed in the side fin, the bones of which
+almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand, minus only the
+thumb. This fin has four regular bone-fingers, the index, middle, ring,
+and little finger. But all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy
+covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering. “However
+recklessly the whale may sometimes serve us,” said humorous Stubb one
+day, “he can never be truly said to handle us without mittens.”
+
+For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs
+conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world
+which must remain unpainted to the last. True, one portrait may hit the
+mark much nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very
+considerable degree of exactness. So there is no earthly way of finding
+out precisely what the whale really looks like. And the only mode in
+which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by
+going a whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of
+being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you
+had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this
+Leviathan.
+
+
+CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True
+Pictures of Whaling Scenes.
+
+In connexion with the monstrous pictures of whales, I am strongly
+tempted here to enter upon those still more monstrous stories of them
+which are to be found in certain books, both ancient and modern,
+especially in Pliny, Purchas, Hackluyt, Harris, Cuvier, etc. But I pass
+that matter by.
+
+I know of only four published outlines of the great Sperm Whale;
+Colnett’s, Huggins’s, Frederick Cuvier’s, and Beale’s. In the previous
+chapter Colnett and Cuvier have been referred to. Huggins’s is far
+better than theirs; but, by great odds, Beale’s is the best. All
+Beale’s drawings of this whale are good, excepting the middle figure in
+the picture of three whales in various attitudes, capping his second
+chapter. His frontispiece, boats attacking Sperm Whales, though no
+doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlor men, is
+admirably correct and life-like in its general effect. Some of the
+Sperm Whale drawings in J. Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour;
+but they are wretchedly engraved. That is not his fault though.
+
+Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they
+are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression. He has
+but one picture of whaling scenes, and this is a sad deficiency,
+because it is by such pictures only, when at all well done, that you
+can derive anything like a truthful idea of the living whale as seen by
+his living hunters.
+
+But, taken for all in all, by far the finest, though in some details
+not the most correct, presentations of whales and whaling scenes to be
+anywhere found, are two large French engravings, well executed, and
+taken from paintings by one Garnery. Respectively, they represent
+attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale. In the first engraving a noble
+Sperm Whale is depicted in full majesty of might, just risen beneath
+the boat from the profundities of the ocean, and bearing high in the
+air upon his back the terrific wreck of the stoven planks. The prow of
+the boat is partially unbroken, and is drawn just balancing upon the
+monster’s spine; and standing in that prow, for that one single
+incomputable flash of time, you behold an oarsman, half shrouded by the
+incensed boiling spout of the whale, and in the act of leaping, as if
+from a precipice. The action of the whole thing is wonderfully good and
+true. The half-emptied line-tub floats on the whitened sea; the wooden
+poles of the spilled harpoons obliquely bob in it; the heads of the
+swimming crew are scattered about the whale in contrasting expressions
+of affright; while in the black stormy distance the ship is bearing
+down upon the scene. Serious fault might be found with the anatomical
+details of this whale, but let that pass; since, for the life of me, I
+could not draw so good a one.
+
+In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside
+the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his
+black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the
+Patagonian cliffs. His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so
+that from so abounding a smoke in the chimney, you would think there
+must be a brave supper cooking in the great bowels below. Sea fowls are
+pecking at the small crabs, shell-fish, and other sea candies and
+maccaroni, which the Right Whale sometimes carries on his pestilent
+back. And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through
+the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake, and
+causing the slight boat to rock in the swells like a skiff caught nigh
+the paddle-wheels of an ocean steamer. Thus, the foreground is all
+raging commotion; but behind, in admirable artistic contrast, is the
+glassy level of a sea becalmed, the drooping unstarched sails of the
+powerless ship, and the inert mass of a dead whale, a conquered
+fortress, with the flag of capture lazily hanging from the whale-pole
+inserted into his spout-hole.
+
+Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not. But my life for it he
+was either practically conversant with his subject, or else
+marvellously tutored by some experienced whaleman. The French are the
+lads for painting action. Go and gaze upon all the paintings of Europe,
+and where will you find such a gallery of living and breathing
+commotion on canvas, as in that triumphal hall at Versailles; where the
+beholder fights his way, pell-mell, through the consecutive great
+battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern
+Lights, and the successive armed kings and Emperors dash by, like a
+charge of crowned centaurs? Not wholly unworthy of a place in that
+gallery, are these sea battle-pieces of Garnery.
+
+The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of
+things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings
+they have of their whaling scenes. With not one tenth of England’s
+experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the
+Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only
+finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the
+whale hunt. For the most part, the English and American whale
+draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical
+outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so
+far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to
+sketching the profile of a pyramid. Even Scoresby, the justly renowned
+Right whaleman, after giving us a stiff full length of the Greenland
+whale, and three or four delicate miniatures of narwhales and
+porpoises, treats us to a series of classical engravings of boat hooks,
+chopping knives, and grapnels; and with the microscopic diligence of a
+Leuwenhoeck submits to the inspection of a shivering world ninety-six
+fac-similes of magnified Arctic snow crystals. I mean no disparagement
+to the excellent voyager (I honor him for a veteran), but in so
+important a matter it was certainly an oversight not to have procured
+for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of
+the Peace.
+
+In addition to those fine engravings from Garnery, there are two other
+French engravings worthy of note, by some one who subscribes himself
+“H. Durand.” One of them, though not precisely adapted to our present
+purpose, nevertheless deserves mention on other accounts. It is a quiet
+noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific; a French whaler anchored,
+inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking water on board; the loosened
+sails of the ship, and the long leaves of the palms in the background,
+both drooping together in the breezeless air. The effect is very fine,
+when considered with reference to its presenting the hardy fishermen
+under one of their few aspects of oriental repose. The other engraving
+is quite a different affair: the ship hove-to upon the open sea, and in
+the very heart of the Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside;
+the vessel (in the act of cutting-in) hove over to the monster as if to
+a quay; and a boat, hurriedly pushing off from this scene of activity,
+is about giving chase to whales in the distance. The harpoons and
+lances lie levelled for use; three oarsmen are just setting the mast in
+its hole; while from a sudden roll of the sea, the little craft stands
+half-erect out of the water, like a rearing horse. From the ship, the
+smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke
+over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up
+with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the
+excited seamen.
+
+
+CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in
+Stone; in Mountains; in Stars.
+
+On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a
+crippled beggar (or _kedger_, as the sailors say) holding a painted
+board before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his
+leg. There are three whales and three boats; and one of the boats
+(presumed to contain the missing leg in all its original integrity) is
+being crunched by the jaws of the foremost whale. Any time these ten
+years, they tell me, has that man held up that picture, and exhibited
+that stump to an incredulous world. But the time of his justification
+has now come. His three whales are as good whales as were ever
+published in Wapping, at any rate; and his stump as unquestionable a
+stump as any you will find in the western clearings. But, though for
+ever mounted on that stump, never a stump-speech does the poor whaleman
+make; but, with downcast eyes, stands ruefully contemplating his own
+amputation.
+
+Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag
+Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and
+whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm
+Whale-teeth, or ladies’ busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and
+other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous
+little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough
+material, in their hours of ocean leisure. Some of them have little
+boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the
+skrimshandering business. But, in general, they toil with their
+jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor,
+they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner’s
+fancy.
+
+Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man
+to that condition in which God placed him, _i.e._ what is called
+savagery. Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois. I
+myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the
+Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.
+
+Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic
+hours, is his wonderful patience of industry. An ancient Hawaiian
+war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of
+carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon.
+For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark’s tooth, that
+miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has
+cost steady years of steady application.
+
+As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage. With the
+same marvellous patience, and with the same single shark’s tooth, of
+his one poor jack-knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not
+quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as
+the Greek savage, Achilles’s shield; and full of barbaric spirit and
+suggestiveness, as the prints of that fine old Dutch savage, Albert
+Durer.
+
+Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of
+the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the
+forecastles of American whalers. Some of them are done with much
+accuracy.
+
+At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales hung
+by the tail for knockers to the road-side door. When the porter is
+sleepy, the anvil-headed whale would be best. But these knocking whales
+are seldom remarkable as faithful essays. On the spires of some
+old-fashioned churches you will see sheet-iron whales placed there for
+weather-cocks; but they are so elevated, and besides that are to all
+intents and purposes so labelled with “_Hands off!_” you cannot examine
+them closely enough to decide upon their merit.
+
+In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken
+cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain,
+you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the
+Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against
+them in a surf of green surges.
+
+Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is
+continually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from
+some lucky point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the
+profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges. But you must be
+a thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you
+wish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the
+exact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point,
+else so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your
+precise, previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery;
+like the Soloma Islands, which still remain incognita, though once
+high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.
+
+Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out
+great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as
+when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies
+locked in battle among the clouds. Thus at the North have I chased
+Leviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright
+points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent
+Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase
+against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and
+the Flying Fish.
+
+With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for
+spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to
+see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really
+lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!
+
+
+CHAPTER 58. Brit.
+
+Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows
+of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon which the Right Whale
+largely feeds. For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that
+we seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe and golden
+wheat.
+
+On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure from
+the attack of a Sperm Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly
+swam through the brit, which, adhering to the fringing fibres of that
+wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated
+from the water that escaped at the lip.
+
+As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their
+scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these
+monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving
+behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.*
+
+*That part of the sea known among whalemen as the “Brazil Banks” does
+not bear that name as the Banks of Newfoundland do, because of there
+being shallows and soundings there, but because of this remarkable
+meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast drifts of brit continually
+floating in those latitudes, where the Right Whale is often chased.
+
+But it was only the sound they made as they parted the brit which at
+all reminded one of mowers. Seen from the mast-heads, especially when
+they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms
+looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else. And as in
+the great hunting countries of India, the stranger at a distance will
+sometimes pass on the plains recumbent elephants without knowing them
+to be such, taking them for bare, blackened elevations of the soil;
+even so, often, with him, who for the first time beholds this species
+of the leviathans of the sea. And even when recognised at last, their
+immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such
+bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with
+the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
+
+Indeed, in other respects, you can hardly regard any creatures of the
+deep with the same feelings that you do those of the shore. For though
+some old naturalists have maintained that all creatures of the land are
+of their kind in the sea; and though taking a broad general view of the
+thing, this may very well be; yet coming to specialties, where, for
+example, does the ocean furnish any fish that in disposition answers to
+the sagacious kindness of the dog? The accursed shark alone can in any
+generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.
+
+But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas
+have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and
+repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita,
+so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his
+one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of
+all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen
+tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters;
+though but a moment’s consideration will teach, that however baby man
+may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering
+future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever,
+to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize
+the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the
+continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense
+of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
+
+The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese
+vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow.
+That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships
+of last year. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah’s flood is not yet subsided;
+two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
+
+Wherein differ the sea and the land, that a miracle upon one is not a
+miracle upon the other? Preternatural terrors rested upon the Hebrews,
+when under the feet of Korah and his company the live ground opened and
+swallowed them up for ever; yet not a modern sun ever sets, but in
+precisely the same manner the live sea swallows up ships and crews.
+
+But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it
+is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the Persian host who
+murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath
+spawned. Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her
+own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the
+rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of
+ships. No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting
+like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean
+overruns the globe.
+
+Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures
+glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously
+hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish
+brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the
+dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once
+more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey
+upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
+
+Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile
+earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a
+strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean
+surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one
+insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the
+horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that
+isle, thou canst never return!
+
+
+CHAPTER 59. Squid.
+
+Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her
+way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling
+her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering
+masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a
+plain. And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night, the lonely,
+alluring jet would be seen.
+
+But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural
+spread over the sea, however unattended with any stagnant calm; when
+the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid
+across them, enjoining some secrecy; when the slippered waves whispered
+together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush of the visible
+sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head.
+
+In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher and
+higher, and disentangling itself from the azure, at last gleamed before
+our prow like a snow-slide, new slid from the hills. Thus glistening
+for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank. Then once more arose,
+and silently gleamed. It seemed not a whale; and yet is this Moby Dick?
+thought Daggoo. Again the phantom went down, but on re-appearing once
+more, with a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod,
+the negro yelled out—“There! there again! there she breaches! right
+ahead! The White Whale, the White Whale!”
+
+Upon this, the seamen rushed to the yard-arms, as in swarming-time the
+bees rush to the boughs. Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab stood on
+the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave
+his orders to the helmsman, cast his eager glance in the direction
+indicated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of Daggoo.
+
+Whether the flitting attendance of the one still and solitary jet had
+gradually worked upon Ahab, so that he was now prepared to connect the
+ideas of mildness and repose with the first sight of the particular
+whale he pursued; however this was, or whether his eagerness betrayed
+him; whichever way it might have been, no sooner did he distinctly
+perceive the white mass, than with a quick intensity he instantly gave
+orders for lowering.
+
+The four boats were soon on the water; Ahab’s in advance, and all
+swiftly pulling towards their prey. Soon it went down, and while, with
+oars suspended, we were awaiting its reappearance, lo! in the same spot
+where it sank, once more it slowly rose. Almost forgetting for the
+moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous
+phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind. A
+vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing
+cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms
+radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of
+anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.
+No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token of
+either sensation or instinct; but undulated there on the billows, an
+unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life.
+
+As with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again, Starbuck still
+gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk, with a wild voice
+exclaimed—“Almost rather had I seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to
+have seen thee, thou white ghost!”
+
+“What was it, Sir?” said Flask.
+
+“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld,
+and returned to their ports to tell of it.”
+
+But Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel;
+the rest as silently following.
+
+Whatever superstitions the sperm whalemen in general have connected
+with the sight of this object, certain it is, that a glimpse of it
+being so very unusual, that circumstance has gone far to invest it with
+portentousness. So rarely is it beheld, that though one and all of them
+declare it to be the largest animated thing in the ocean, yet very few
+of them have any but the most vague ideas concerning its true nature
+and form; notwithstanding, they believe it to furnish to the sperm
+whale his only food. For though other species of whales find their food
+above water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the
+spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the
+surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell of what,
+precisely, that food consists. At times, when closely pursued, he will
+disgorge what are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some
+of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length. They
+fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings
+by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other
+species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it.
+
+There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop
+Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. The manner in
+which the Bishop describes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with
+some other particulars he narrates, in all this the two correspond. But
+much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he
+assigns it.
+
+By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious
+creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of
+cuttle-fish, to which, indeed, in certain external respects it would
+seem to belong, but only as the Anak of the tribe.
+
+
+CHAPTER 60. The Line.
+
+With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as
+for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented,
+I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.
+
+The line originally used in the fishery was of the best hemp, slightly
+vapored with tar, not impregnated with it, as in the case of ordinary
+ropes; for while tar, as ordinarily used, makes the hemp more pliable
+to the rope-maker, and also renders the rope itself more convenient to
+the sailor for common ship use; yet, not only would the ordinary
+quantity too much stiffen the whale-line for the close coiling to which
+it must be subjected; but as most seamen are beginning to learn, tar in
+general by no means adds to the rope’s durability or strength, however
+much it may give it compactness and gloss.
+
+Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American fishery almost
+entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though not
+so durable as hemp, it is stronger, and far more soft and elastic; and
+I will add (since there is an æsthetics in all things), is much more
+handsome and becoming to the boat, than hemp. Hemp is a dusky, dark
+fellow, a sort of Indian; but Manilla is as a golden-haired Circassian
+to behold.
+
+The whale-line is only two-thirds of an inch in thickness. At first
+sight, you would not think it so strong as it really is. By experiment
+its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and
+twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal
+to three tons. In length, the common sperm whale-line measures
+something over two hundred fathoms. Towards the stern of the boat it is
+spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still
+though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely
+bedded “sheaves,” or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any
+hollow but the “heart,” or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of
+the cheese. As the least tangle or kink in the coiling would, in
+running out, infallibly take somebody’s arm, leg, or entire body off,
+the utmost precaution is used in stowing the line in its tub. Some
+harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business,
+carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a
+block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all
+possible wrinkles and twists.
+
+In the English boats two tubs are used instead of one; the same line
+being continuously coiled in both tubs. There is some advantage in
+this; because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into
+the boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub,
+nearly three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a
+rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in
+thickness; for the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which
+will bear up a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a
+concentrated one. When the painted canvas cover is clapped on the
+American line-tub, the boat looks as if it were pulling off with a
+prodigious great wedding-cake to present to the whales.
+
+Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an
+eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the
+tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything.
+This arrangement of the lower end is necessary on two accounts. First:
+In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an additional line from a
+neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as to
+threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the
+harpoon. In these instances, the whale of course is shifted like a mug
+of ale, as it were, from the one boat to the other; though the first
+boat always hovers at hand to assist its consort. Second: This
+arrangement is indispensable for common safety’s sake; for were the
+lower end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were the
+whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking
+minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there, for the doomed
+boat would infallibly be dragged down after him into the profundity of
+the sea; and in that case no town-crier would ever find her again.
+
+Before lowering the boat for the chase, the upper end of the line is
+taken aft from the tub, and passing round the loggerhead there, is
+again carried forward the entire length of the boat, resting crosswise
+upon the loom or handle of every man’s oar, so that it jogs against his
+wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately
+sit at the opposite gunwales, to the leaded chocks or grooves in the
+extreme pointed prow of the boat, where a wooden pin or skewer the size
+of a common quill, prevents it from slipping out. From the chocks it
+hangs in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside the
+boat again; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called box-line) being
+coiled upon the box in the bows, it continues its way to the gunwale
+still a little further aft, and is then attached to the short-warp—the
+rope which is immediately connected with the harpoon; but previous to
+that connexion, the short-warp goes through sundry mystifications too
+tedious to detail.
+
+Thus the whale-line folds the whole boat in its complicated coils,
+twisting and writhing around it in almost every direction. All the
+oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid
+eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest
+snakes sportively festooning their limbs. Nor can any son of mortal
+woman, for the first time, seat himself amid those hempen intricacies,
+and while straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any
+unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible
+contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus
+circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones
+to quiver in him like a shaken jelly. Yet habit—strange thing! what
+cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes,
+and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you
+will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus
+hung in hangman’s nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before
+King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of
+death, with a halter around every neck, as you may say.
+
+Perhaps a very little thought will now enable you to account for those
+repeated whaling disasters—some few of which are casually chronicled—of
+this man or that man being taken out of the boat by the line, and lost.
+For, when the line is darting out, to be seated then in the boat, is
+like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings of a
+steam-engine in full play, when every flying beam, and shaft, and
+wheel, is grazing you. It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in
+the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle,
+and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest
+warning; and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and
+simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape being made a
+Mazeppa of, and run away with where the all-seeing sun himself could
+never pierce you out.
+
+Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and
+prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself;
+for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and
+contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal
+powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the
+line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought
+into actual play—this is a thing which carries more of true terror than
+any other aspect of this dangerous affair. But why say more? All men
+live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their
+necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death,
+that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
+And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would
+not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before
+your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.
+
+
+CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
+
+If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to
+Queequeg it was quite a different object.
+
+“When you see him ’quid,” said the savage, honing his harpoon in the
+bow of his hoisted boat, “then you quick see him ’parm whale.”
+
+The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special
+to engage them, the Pequod’s crew could hardly resist the spell of
+sleep induced by such a vacant sea. For this part of the Indian Ocean
+through which we then were voyaging is not what whalemen call a lively
+ground; that is, it affords fewer glimpses of porpoises, dolphins,
+flying-fish, and other vivacious denizens of more stirring waters, than
+those off the Rio de la Plata, or the in-shore ground off Peru.
+
+It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders
+leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I idly swayed
+in what seemed an enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it; in
+that dreamy mood losing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of
+my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will,
+long after the power which first moved it is withdrawn.
+
+Ere forgetfulness altogether came over me, I had noticed that the
+seamen at the main and mizzen-mast-heads were already drowsy. So that
+at last all three of us lifelessly swung from the spars, and for every
+swing that we made there was a nod from below from the slumbering
+helmsman. The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests; and across the
+wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all.
+
+Suddenly bubbles seemed bursting beneath my closed eyes; like vices my
+hands grasped the shrouds; some invisible, gracious agency preserved
+me; with a shock I came back to life. And lo! close under our lee, not
+forty fathoms off, a gigantic Sperm Whale lay rolling in the water like
+the capsized hull of a frigate, his broad, glossy back, of an Ethiopian
+hue, glistening in the sun’s rays like a mirror. But lazily undulating
+in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his
+vapory jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of
+a warm afternoon. But that pipe, poor whale, was thy last. As if struck
+by some enchanter’s wand, the sleepy ship and every sleeper in it all
+at once started into wakefulness; and more than a score of voices from
+all parts of the vessel, simultaneously with the three notes from
+aloft, shouted forth the accustomed cry, as the great fish slowly and
+regularly spouted the sparkling brine into the air.
+
+“Clear away the boats! Luff!” cried Ahab. And obeying his own order, he
+dashed the helm down before the helmsman could handle the spokes.
+
+The sudden exclamations of the crew must have alarmed the whale; and
+ere the boats were down, majestically turning, he swam away to the
+leeward, but with such a steady tranquillity, and making so few ripples
+as he swam, that thinking after all he might not as yet be alarmed,
+Ahab gave orders that not an oar should be used, and no man must speak
+but in whispers. So seated like Ontario Indians on the gunwales of the
+boats, we swiftly but silently paddled along; the calm not admitting of
+the noiseless sails being set. Presently, as we thus glided in chase,
+the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air,
+and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
+
+“There go flukes!” was the cry, an announcement immediately followed by
+Stubb’s producing his match and igniting his pipe, for now a respite
+was granted. After the full interval of his sounding had elapsed, the
+whale rose again, and being now in advance of the smoker’s boat, and
+much nearer to it than to any of the others, Stubb counted upon the
+honor of the capture. It was obvious, now, that the whale had at length
+become aware of his pursuers. All silence of cautiousness was therefore
+no longer of use. Paddles were dropped, and oars came loudly into play.
+And still puffing at his pipe, Stubb cheered on his crew to the
+assault.
+
+Yes, a mighty change had come over the fish. All alive to his jeopardy,
+he was going “head out”; that part obliquely projecting from the mad
+yeast which he brewed.*
+
+*It will be seen in some other place of what a very light substance the
+entire interior of the sperm whale’s enormous head consists. Though
+apparently the most massive, it is by far the most buoyant part about
+him. So that with ease he elevates it in the air, and invariably does
+so when going at his utmost speed. Besides, such is the breadth of the
+upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water
+formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he
+thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish
+galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat.
+
+“Start her, start her, my men! Don’t hurry yourselves; take plenty of
+time—but start her; start her like thunder-claps, that’s all,” cried
+Stubb, spluttering out the smoke as he spoke. “Start her, now; give ’em
+the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy—start
+her, all; but keep cool, keep cool—cucumbers is the word—easy,
+easy—only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the
+buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys—that’s all. Start
+her!”
+
+“Woo-hoo! Wa-hee!” screamed the Gay-Header in reply, raising some old
+war-whoop to the skies; as every oarsman in the strained boat
+involuntarily bounced forward with the one tremendous leading stroke
+which the eager Indian gave.
+
+But his wild screams were answered by others quite as wild. “Kee-hee!
+Kee-hee!” yelled Daggoo, straining forwards and backwards on his seat,
+like a pacing tiger in his cage.
+
+“Ka-la! Koo-loo!” howled Queequeg, as if smacking his lips over a
+mouthful of Grenadier’s steak. And thus with oars and yells the keels
+cut the sea. Meanwhile, Stubb retaining his place in the van, still
+encouraged his men to the onset, all the while puffing the smoke from
+his mouth. Like desperadoes they tugged and they strained, till the
+welcome cry was heard—“Stand up, Tashtego!—give it to him!” The harpoon
+was hurled. “Stern all!” The oarsmen backed water; the same moment
+something went hot and hissing along every one of their wrists. It was
+the magical line. An instant before, Stubb had swiftly caught two
+additional turns with it round the loggerhead, whence, by reason of its
+increased rapid circlings, a hempen blue smoke now jetted up and
+mingled with the steady fumes from his pipe. As the line passed round
+and round the loggerhead; so also, just before reaching that point, it
+blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubb’s hands, from
+which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at
+these times, had accidentally dropped. It was like holding an enemy’s
+sharp two-edged sword by the blade, and that enemy all the time
+striving to wrest it out of your clutch.
+
+“Wet the line! wet the line!” cried Stubb to the tub oarsman (him
+seated by the tub) who, snatching off his hat, dashed sea-water into
+it.* More turns were taken, so that the line began holding its place.
+The boat now flew through the boiling water like a shark all fins.
+Stubb and Tashtego here changed places—stem for stern—a staggering
+business truly in that rocking commotion.
+
+*Partly to show the indispensableness of this act, it may here be
+stated, that, in the old Dutch fishery, a mop was used to dash the
+running line with water; in many other ships, a wooden piggin, or
+bailer, is set apart for that purpose. Your hat, however, is the most
+convenient.
+
+From the vibrating line extending the entire length of the upper part
+of the boat, and from its now being more tight than a harpstring, you
+would have thought the craft had two keels—one cleaving the water, the
+other the air—as the boat churned on through both opposing elements at
+once. A continual cascade played at the bows; a ceaseless whirling eddy
+in her wake; and, at the slightest motion from within, even but of a
+little finger, the vibrating, cracking craft canted over her spasmodic
+gunwale into the sea. Thus they rushed; each man with might and main
+clinging to his seat, to prevent being tossed to the foam; and the tall
+form of Tashtego at the steering oar crouching almost double, in order
+to bring down his centre of gravity. Whole Atlantics and Pacifics
+seemed passed as they shot on their way, till at length the whale
+somewhat slackened his flight.
+
+“Haul in—haul in!” cried Stubb to the bowsman! and, facing round
+towards the whale, all hands began pulling the boat up to him, while
+yet the boat was being towed on. Soon ranging up by his flank, Stubb,
+firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart
+into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately
+sterning out of the way of the whale’s horrible wallow, and then
+ranging up for another fling.
+
+The red tide now poured from all sides of the monster like brooks down
+a hill. His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which
+bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake. The slanting sun
+playing upon this crimson pond in the sea, sent back its reflection
+into every face, so that they all glowed to each other like red men.
+And all the while, jet after jet of white smoke was agonizingly shot
+from the spiracle of the whale, and vehement puff after puff from the
+mouth of the excited headsman; as at every dart, hauling in upon his
+crooked lance (by the line attached to it), Stubb straightened it again
+and again, by a few rapid blows against the gunwale, then again and
+again sent it into the whale.
+
+“Pull up—pull up!” he now cried to the bowsman, as the waning whale
+relaxed in his wrath. “Pull up!—close to!” and the boat ranged along
+the fish’s flank. When reaching far over the bow, Stubb slowly churned
+his long sharp lance into the fish, and kept it there, carefully
+churning and churning, as if cautiously seeking to feel after some gold
+watch that the whale might have swallowed, and which he was fearful of
+breaking ere he could hook it out. But that gold watch he sought was
+the innermost life of the fish. And now it is struck; for, starting
+from his trance into that unspeakable thing called his “flurry,” the
+monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in
+impenetrable, mad, boiling spray, so that the imperilled craft,
+instantly dropping astern, had much ado blindly to struggle out from
+that phrensied twilight into the clear air of the day.
+
+And now abating in his flurry, the whale once more rolled out into
+view; surging from side to side; spasmodically dilating and contracting
+his spout-hole, with sharp, cracking, agonized respirations. At last,
+gush after gush of clotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees
+of red wine, shot into the frighted air; and falling back again, ran
+dripping down his motionless flanks into the sea. His heart had burst!
+
+“He’s dead, Mr. Stubb,” said Daggoo.
+
+“Yes; both pipes smoked out!” and withdrawing his own from his mouth,
+Stubb scattered the dead ashes over the water; and, for a moment, stood
+thoughtfully eyeing the vast corpse he had made.
+
+
+CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
+
+A word concerning an incident in the last chapter.
+
+According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes
+off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary
+steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost
+oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar. Now it needs a strong,
+nervous arm to strike the first iron into the fish; for often, in what
+is called a long dart, the heavy implement has to be flung to the
+distance of twenty or thirty feet. But however prolonged and exhausting
+the chase, the harpooneer is expected to pull his oar meanwhile to the
+uttermost; indeed, he is expected to set an example of superhuman
+activity to the rest, not only by incredible rowing, but by repeated
+loud and intrepid exclamations; and what it is to keep shouting at the
+top of one’s compass, while all the other muscles are strained and half
+started—what that is none know but those who have tried it. For one, I
+cannot bawl very heartily and work very recklessly at one and the same
+time. In this straining, bawling state, then, with his back to the
+fish, all at once the exhausted harpooneer hears the exciting
+cry—“Stand up, and give it to him!” He now has to drop and secure his
+oar, turn round on his centre half way, seize his harpoon from the
+crotch, and with what little strength may remain, he essays to pitch it
+somehow into the whale. No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen
+in a body, that out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are
+successful; no wonder that so many hapless harpooneers are madly cursed
+and disrated; no wonder that some of them actually burst their
+blood-vessels in the boat; no wonder that some sperm whalemen are
+absent four years with four barrels; no wonder that to many ship
+owners, whaling is but a losing concern; for it is the harpooneer that
+makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can
+you expect to find it there when most wanted!
+
+Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical instant,
+that is, when the whale starts to run, the boatheader and harpooneer
+likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent jeopardy of
+themselves and every one else. It is then they change places; and the
+headsman, the chief officer of the little craft, takes his proper
+station in the bows of the boat.
+
+Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both
+foolish and unnecessary. The headsman should stay in the bows from
+first to last; he should both dart the harpoon and the lance, and no
+rowing whatever should be expected of him, except under circumstances
+obvious to any fisherman. I know that this would sometimes involve a
+slight loss of speed in the chase; but long experience in various
+whalemen of more than one nation has convinced me that in the vast
+majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so
+much the speed of the whale as the before described exhaustion of the
+harpooneer that has caused them.
+
+To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this
+world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out
+of toil.
+
+
+CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
+
+Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in
+productive subjects, grow the chapters.
+
+The crotch alluded to on a previous page deserves independent mention.
+It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length,
+which is perpendicularly inserted into the starboard gunwale near the
+bow, for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of
+the harpoon, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the
+prow. Thereby the weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler, who
+snatches it up as readily from its rest as a backwoodsman swings his
+rifle from the wall. It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in
+the crotch, respectively called the first and second irons.
+
+But these two harpoons, each by its own cord, are both connected with
+the line; the object being this: to dart them both, if possible, one
+instantly after the other into the same whale; so that if, in the
+coming drag, one should draw out, the other may still retain a hold. It
+is a doubling of the chances. But it very often happens that owing to
+the instantaneous, violent, convulsive running of the whale upon
+receiving the first iron, it becomes impossible for the harpooneer,
+however lightning-like in his movements, to pitch the second iron into
+him. Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the
+line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events,
+be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else
+the most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands. Tumbled into the
+water, it accordingly is in such cases; the spare coils of box line
+(mentioned in a preceding chapter) making this feat, in most instances,
+prudently practicable. But this critical act is not always unattended
+with the saddest and most fatal casualties.
+
+Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown
+overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror,
+skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines,
+or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
+Nor, in general, is it possible to secure it again until the whale is
+fairly captured and a corpse.
+
+Consider, now, how it must be in the case of four boats all engaging
+one unusually strong, active, and knowing whale; when owing to these
+qualities in him, as well as to the thousand concurring accidents of
+such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be
+simultaneously dangling about him. For, of course, each boat is
+supplied with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first
+one be ineffectually darted without recovery. All these particulars are
+faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several
+most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be
+painted.
+
+
+CHAPTER 64. Stubb’s Supper.
+
+Stubb’s whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a
+calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow
+business of towing the trophy to the Pequod. And now, as we eighteen
+men with our thirty-six arms, and one hundred and eighty thumbs and
+fingers, slowly toiled hour after hour upon that inert, sluggish corpse
+in the sea; and it seemed hardly to budge at all, except at long
+intervals; good evidence was hereby furnished of the enormousness of
+the mass we moved. For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever
+they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will
+draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this
+grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with pig-lead
+in bulk.
+
+Darkness came on; but three lights up and down in the Pequod’s
+main-rigging dimly guided our way; till drawing nearer we saw Ahab
+dropping one of several more lanterns over the bulwarks. Vacantly
+eyeing the heaving whale for a moment, he issued the usual orders for
+securing it for the night, and then handing his lantern to a seaman,
+went his way into the cabin, and did not come forward again until
+morning.
+
+Though, in overseeing the pursuit of this whale, Captain Ahab had
+evinced his customary activity, to call it so; yet now that the
+creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or
+despair, seemed working in him; as if the sight of that dead body
+reminded him that Moby Dick was yet to be slain; and though a thousand
+other whales were brought to his ship, all that would not one jot
+advance his grand, monomaniac object. Very soon you would have thought
+from the sound on the Pequod’s decks, that all hands were preparing to
+cast anchor in the deep; for heavy chains are being dragged along the
+deck, and thrust rattling out of the port-holes. But by those clanking
+links, the vast corpse itself, not the ship, is to be moored. Tied by
+the head to the stern, and by the tail to the bows, the whale now lies
+with its black hull close to the vessel’s and seen through the darkness
+of the night, which obscured the spars and rigging aloft, the two—ship
+and whale, seemed yoked together like colossal bullocks, whereof one
+reclines while the other remains standing.*
+
+*A little item may as well be related here. The strongest and most
+reliable hold which the ship has upon the whale when moored alongside,
+is by the flukes or tail; and as from its greater density that part is
+relatively heavier than any other (excepting the side-fins), its
+flexibility even in death, causes it to sink low beneath the surface;
+so that with the hand you cannot get at it from the boat, in order to
+put the chain round it. But this difficulty is ingeniously overcome: a
+small, strong line is prepared with a wooden float at its outer end,
+and a weight in its middle, while the other end is secured to the ship.
+By adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side
+of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily
+made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last
+locked fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of
+junction with its broad flukes or lobes.
+
+If moody Ahab was now all quiescence, at least so far as could be known
+on deck, Stubb, his second mate, flushed with conquest, betrayed an
+unusual but still good-natured excitement. Such an unwonted bustle was
+he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned
+to him for the time the sole management of affairs. One small, helping
+cause of all this liveliness in Stubb, was soon made strangely
+manifest. Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of
+the whale as a flavorish thing to his palate.
+
+“A steak, a steak, ere I sleep! You, Daggoo! overboard you go, and cut
+me one from his small!”
+
+Here be it known, that though these wild fishermen do not, as a general
+thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray
+the current expenses of the war (at least before realizing the proceeds
+of the voyage), yet now and then you find some of these Nantucketers
+who have a genuine relish for that particular part of the Sperm Whale
+designated by Stubb; comprising the tapering extremity of the body.
+
+About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two
+lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper
+at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard. Nor was Stubb
+the only banqueter on whale’s flesh that night. Mingling their
+mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks,
+swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.
+The few sleepers below in their bunks were often startled by the sharp
+slapping of their tails against the hull, within a few inches of the
+sleepers’ hearts. Peering over the side you could just see them (as
+before you heard them) wallowing in the sullen, black waters, and
+turning over on their backs as they scooped out huge globular pieces of
+the whale of the bigness of a human head. This particular feat of the
+shark seems all but miraculous. How at such an apparently unassailable
+surface, they contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains
+a part of the universal problem of all things. The mark they thus leave
+on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in
+countersinking for a screw.
+
+Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks
+will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship’s decks, like hungry dogs
+round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every
+killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant
+butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other’s
+live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks,
+also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away
+under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the
+whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing,
+that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties;
+and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships
+crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy
+in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be
+decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be
+set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do
+most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no
+conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless
+numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm
+whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea. If you have never seen
+that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of
+devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
+
+But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings of the banquet that was
+going on so nigh him, no more than the sharks heeded the smacking of
+his own epicurean lips.
+
+“Cook, cook!—where’s that old Fleece?” he cried at length, widening his
+legs still further, as if to form a more secure base for his supper;
+and, at the same time darting his fork into the dish, as if stabbing
+with his lance; “cook, you cook!—sail this way, cook!”
+
+The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously
+roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came
+shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was
+something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well
+scoured like his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came
+shuffling and limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which,
+after a clumsy fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old
+Ebony floundered along, and in obedience to the word of command, came
+to a dead stop on the opposite side of Stubb’s sideboard; when, with
+both hands folded before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he
+bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideways
+inclining his head, so as to bring his best ear into play.
+
+“Cook,” said Stubb, rapidly lifting a rather reddish morsel to his
+mouth, “don’t you think this steak is rather overdone? You’ve been
+beating this steak too much, cook; it’s too tender. Don’t I always say
+that to be good, a whale-steak must be tough? There are those sharks
+now over the side, don’t you see they prefer it tough and rare? What a
+shindy they are kicking up! Cook, go and talk to ’em; tell ’em they are
+welcome to help themselves civilly, and in moderation, but they must
+keep quiet. Blast me, if I can hear my own voice. Away, cook, and
+deliver my message. Here, take this lantern,” snatching one from his
+sideboard; “now then, go and preach to ’em!”
+
+Sullenly taking the offered lantern, old Fleece limped across the deck
+to the bulwarks; and then, with one hand dropping his light low over
+the sea, so as to get a good view of his congregation, with the other
+hand he solemnly flourished his tongs, and leaning far over the side in
+a mumbling voice began addressing the sharks, while Stubb, softly
+crawling behind, overheard all that was said.
+
+“Fellow-critters: I’se ordered here to say dat you must stop dat dam
+noise dare. You hear? Stop dat dam smackin’ ob de lip! Massa Stubb say
+dat you can fill your dam bellies up to de hatchings, but by Gor! you
+must stop dat dam racket!”
+
+“Cook,” here interposed Stubb, accompanying the word with a sudden slap
+on the shoulder,—“Cook! why, damn your eyes, you mustn’t swear that way
+when you’re preaching. That’s no way to convert sinners, cook!”
+
+“Who dat? Den preach to him yourself,” sullenly turning to go.
+
+“No, cook; go on, go on.”
+
+“Well, den, Belubed fellow-critters:”—
+
+“Right!” exclaimed Stubb, approvingly, “coax ’em to it; try that,” and
+Fleece continued.
+
+“Do you is all sharks, and by natur wery woracious, yet I zay to you,
+fellow-critters, dat dat woraciousness—’top dat dam slappin’ ob de
+tail! How you tink to hear, spose you keep up such a dam slappin’ and
+bitin’ dare?”
+
+“Cook,” cried Stubb, collaring him, “I won’t have that swearing. Talk
+to ’em gentlemanly.”
+
+Once more the sermon proceeded.
+
+“Your woraciousness, fellow-critters, I don’t blame ye so much for; dat
+is natur, and can’t be helped; but to gobern dat wicked natur, dat is
+de pint. You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why
+den you be angel; for all angel is not’ing more dan de shark well
+goberned. Now, look here, bred’ren, just try wonst to be cibil, a
+helping yourselbs from dat whale. Don’t be tearin’ de blubber out your
+neighbour’s mout, I say. Is not one shark dood right as toder to dat
+whale? And, by Gor, none on you has de right to dat whale; dat whale
+belong to some one else. I know some o’ you has berry brig mout,
+brigger dan oders; but den de brig mouts sometimes has de small
+bellies; so dat de brigness of de mout is not to swaller wid, but to
+bit off de blubber for de small fry ob sharks, dat can’t get into de
+scrouge to help demselves.”
+
+“Well done, old Fleece!” cried Stubb, “that’s Christianity; go on.”
+
+“No use goin’ on; de dam willains will keep a scougin’ and slappin’
+each oder, Massa Stubb; dey don’t hear one word; no use a-preachin’ to
+such dam g’uttons as you call ’em, till dare bellies is full, and dare
+bellies is bottomless; and when dey do get ’em full, dey wont hear you
+den; for den dey sink in de sea, go fast to sleep on de coral, and
+can’t hear not’ing at all, no more, for eber and eber.”
+
+“Upon my soul, I am about of the same opinion; so give the benediction,
+Fleece, and I’ll away to my supper.”
+
+Upon this, Fleece, holding both hands over the fishy mob, raised his
+shrill voice, and cried—
+
+“Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill
+your dam’ bellies ’till dey bust—and den die.”
+
+“Now, cook,” said Stubb, resuming his supper at the capstan; “stand
+just where you stood before, there, over against me, and pay particular
+attention.”
+
+“All dention,” said Fleece, again stooping over upon his tongs in the
+desired position.
+
+“Well,” said Stubb, helping himself freely meanwhile; “I shall now go
+back to the subject of this steak. In the first place, how old are you,
+cook?”
+
+“What dat do wid de ’teak,” said the old black, testily.
+
+“Silence! How old are you, cook?”
+
+“’Bout ninety, dey say,” he gloomily muttered.
+
+“And you have lived in this world hard upon one hundred years, cook,
+and don’t know yet how to cook a whale-steak?” rapidly bolting another
+mouthful at the last word, so that morsel seemed a continuation of the
+question. “Where were you born, cook?”
+
+“’Hind de hatchway, in ferry-boat, goin’ ober de Roanoke.”
+
+“Born in a ferry-boat! That’s queer, too. But I want to know what
+country you were born in, cook!”
+
+“Didn’t I say de Roanoke country?” he cried sharply.
+
+“No, you didn’t, cook; but I’ll tell you what I’m coming to, cook. You
+must go home and be born over again; you don’t know how to cook a
+whale-steak yet.”
+
+“Bress my soul, if I cook noder one,” he growled, angrily, turning
+round to depart.
+
+“Come back, cook;—here, hand me those tongs;—now take that bit of steak
+there, and tell me if you think that steak cooked as it should be? Take
+it, I say”—holding the tongs towards him—“take it, and taste it.”
+
+Faintly smacking his withered lips over it for a moment, the old negro
+muttered, “Best cooked ’teak I eber taste; joosy, berry joosy.”
+
+“Cook,” said Stubb, squaring himself once more; “do you belong to the
+church?”
+
+“Passed one once in Cape-Down,” said the old man sullenly.
+
+“And you have once in your life passed a holy church in Cape-Town,
+where you doubtless overheard a holy parson addressing his hearers as
+his beloved fellow-creatures, have you, cook! And yet you come here,
+and tell me such a dreadful lie as you did just now, eh?” said Stubb.
+“Where do you expect to go to, cook?”
+
+“Go to bed berry soon,” he mumbled, half-turning as he spoke.
+
+“Avast! heave to! I mean when you die, cook. It’s an awful question.
+Now what’s your answer?”
+
+“When dis old brack man dies,” said the negro slowly, changing his
+whole air and demeanor, “he hisself won’t go nowhere; but some bressed
+angel will come and fetch him.”
+
+“Fetch him? How? In a coach and four, as they fetched Elijah? And fetch
+him where?”
+
+“Up dere,” said Fleece, holding his tongs straight over his head, and
+keeping it there very solemnly.
+
+“So, then, you expect to go up into our main-top, do you, cook, when
+you are dead? But don’t you know the higher you climb, the colder it
+gets? Main-top, eh?”
+
+“Didn’t say dat t’all,” said Fleece, again in the sulks.
+
+“You said up there, didn’t you? and now look yourself, and see where
+your tongs are pointing. But, perhaps you expect to get into heaven by
+crawling through the lubber’s hole, cook; but, no, no, cook, you don’t
+get there, except you go the regular way, round by the rigging. It’s a
+ticklish business, but must be done, or else it’s no go. But none of us
+are in heaven yet. Drop your tongs, cook, and hear my orders. Do ye
+hear? Hold your hat in one hand, and clap t’other a’top of your heart,
+when I’m giving my orders, cook. What! that your heart, there?—that’s
+your gizzard! Aloft! aloft!—that’s it—now you have it. Hold it there
+now, and pay attention.”
+
+“All ’dention,” said the old black, with both hands placed as desired,
+vainly wriggling his grizzled head, as if to get both ears in front at
+one and the same time.
+
+“Well then, cook, you see this whale-steak of yours was so very bad,
+that I have put it out of sight as soon as possible; you see that,
+don’t you? Well, for the future, when you cook another whale-steak for
+my private table here, the capstan, I’ll tell you what to do so as not
+to spoil it by overdoing. Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live
+coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; d’ye hear? And now
+to-morrow, cook, when we are cutting in the fish, be sure you stand by
+to get the tips of his fins; have them put in pickle. As for the ends
+of the flukes, have them soused, cook. There, now ye may go.”
+
+But Fleece had hardly got three paces off, when he was recalled.
+
+“Cook, give me cutlets for supper to-morrow night in the mid-watch.
+D’ye hear? away you sail, then.—Halloa! stop! make a bow before you
+go.—Avast heaving again! Whale-balls for breakfast—don’t forget.”
+
+“Wish, by gor! whale eat him, ’stead of him eat whale. I’m bressed if
+he ain’t more of shark dan Massa Shark hisself,” muttered the old man,
+limping away; with which sage ejaculation he went to his hammock.
+
+
+CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
+
+That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and,
+like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so
+outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and
+philosophy of it.
+
+It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right
+Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large
+prices there. Also, that in Henry VIIIth’s time, a certain cook of the
+court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be
+eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of
+whale. Porpoises, indeed, are to this day considered fine eating. The
+meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being
+well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
+The old monks of Dunfermline were very fond of them. They had a great
+porpoise grant from the crown.
+
+The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all
+hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but
+when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet
+long, it takes away your appetite. Only the most unprejudiced of men
+like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are
+not so fastidious. We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare
+old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous
+doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly
+juicy and nourishing. And this reminds me that certain Englishmen, who
+long ago were accidentally left in Greenland by a whaling vessel—that
+these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of
+whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber. Among
+the Dutch whalemen these scraps are called “fritters”; which, indeed,
+they greatly resemble, being brown and crisp, and smelling something
+like old Amsterdam housewives’ dough-nuts or oly-cooks, when fresh.
+They have such an eatable look that the most self-denying stranger can
+hardly keep his hands off.
+
+But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his
+exceeding richness. He is the great prize ox of the sea, too fat to be
+delicately good. Look at his hump, which would be as fine eating as the
+buffalo’s (which is esteemed a rare dish), were it not such a solid
+pyramid of fat. But the spermaceti itself, how bland and creamy that
+is; like the transparent, half-jellied, white meat of a cocoanut in the
+third month of its growth, yet far too rich to supply a substitute for
+butter. Nevertheless, many whalemen have a method of absorbing it into
+some other substance, and then partaking of it. In the long try watches
+of the night it is a common thing for the seamen to dip their
+ship-biscuit into the huge oil-pots and let them fry there awhile. Many
+a good supper have I thus made.
+
+In the case of a small Sperm Whale the brains are accounted a fine
+dish. The casket of the skull is broken into with an axe, and the two
+plump, whitish lobes being withdrawn (precisely resembling two large
+puddings), they are then mixed with flour, and cooked into a most
+delectable mess, in flavor somewhat resembling calves’ head, which is
+quite a dish among some epicures; and every one knows that some young
+bucks among the epicures, by continually dining upon calves’ brains, by
+and by get to have a little brains of their own, so as to be able to
+tell a calf’s head from their own heads; which, indeed, requires
+uncommon discrimination. And that is the reason why a young buck with
+an intelligent looking calf’s head before him, is somehow one of the
+saddest sights you can see. The head looks a sort of reproachfully at
+him, with an “Et tu Brute!” expression.
+
+It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively
+unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with
+abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration
+before mentioned: _i.e._ that a man should eat a newly murdered thing
+of the sea, and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt the first man
+that ever murdered an ox was regarded as a murderer; perhaps he was
+hung; and if he had been put on his trial by oxen, he certainly would
+have been; and he certainly deserved it if any murderer does. Go to the
+meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds
+staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight
+take a tooth out of the cannibal’s jaw? Cannibals? who is not a
+cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that
+salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it
+will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of
+judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who
+nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy
+paté-de-foie-gras.
+
+But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? and that is
+adding insult to injury, is it? Look at your knife-handle, there, my
+civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is
+that handle made of?—what but the bones of the brother of the very ox
+you are eating? And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring
+that fat goose? With a feather of the same fowl. And with what quill
+did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to
+Ganders formally indite his circulars? It is only within the last month
+or two that that society passed a resolution to patronize nothing but
+steel pens.
+
+
+CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
+
+When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and
+weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general
+thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting
+him in. For that business is an exceedingly laborious one; is not very
+soon completed; and requires all hands to set about it. Therefore, the
+common usage is to take in all sail; lash the helm a’lee; and then send
+every one below to his hammock till daylight, with the reservation
+that, until that time, anchor-watches shall be kept; that is, two and
+two for an hour, each couple, the crew in rotation shall mount the deck
+to see that all goes well.
+
+But sometimes, especially upon the Line in the Pacific, this plan will
+not answer at all; because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather
+round the moored carcase, that were he left so for six hours, say, on a
+stretch, little more than the skeleton would be visible by morning. In
+most other parts of the ocean, however, where these fish do not so
+largely abound, their wondrous voracity can be at times considerably
+diminished, by vigorously stirring them up with sharp whaling-spades, a
+procedure notwithstanding, which, in some instances, only seems to
+tickle them into still greater activity. But it was not thus in the
+present case with the Pequod’s sharks; though, to be sure, any man
+unaccustomed to such sights, to have looked over her side that night,
+would have almost thought the whole round sea was one huge cheese, and
+those sharks the maggots in it.
+
+Nevertheless, upon Stubb setting the anchor-watch after his supper was
+concluded; and when, accordingly, Queequeg and a forecastle seaman came
+on deck, no small excitement was created among the sharks; for
+immediately suspending the cutting stages over the side, and lowering
+three lanterns, so that they cast long gleams of light over the turbid
+sea, these two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an
+incessant murdering of the sharks,* by striking the keen steel deep
+into their skulls, seemingly their only vital part. But in the foamy
+confusion of their mixed and struggling hosts, the marksmen could not
+always hit their mark; and this brought about new revelations of the
+incredible ferocity of the foe. They viciously snapped, not only at
+each other’s disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and
+bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again
+by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound. Nor was
+this all. It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these
+creatures. A sort of generic or Pantheistic vitality seemed to lurk in
+their very joints and bones, after what might be called the individual
+life had departed. Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin,
+one of these sharks almost took poor Queequeg’s hand off, when he tried
+to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw.
+
+*The whaling-spade used for cutting-in is made of the very best steel;
+is about the bigness of a man’s spread hand; and in general shape,
+corresponds to the garden implement after which it is named; only its
+sides are perfectly flat, and its upper end considerably narrower than
+the lower. This weapon is always kept as sharp as possible; and when
+being used is occasionally honed, just like a razor. In its socket, a
+stiff pole, from twenty to thirty feet long, is inserted for a handle.
+
+“Queequeg no care what god made him shark,” said the savage,
+agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; “wedder Fejee god or
+Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.”
+
+
+CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
+
+It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! Ex officio
+professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The ivory Pequod was
+turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would
+have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods.
+
+In the first place, the enormous cutting tackles, among other ponderous
+things comprising a cluster of blocks generally painted green, and
+which no single man can possibly lift—this vast bunch of grapes was
+swayed up to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the
+strongest point anywhere above a ship’s deck. The end of the
+hawser-like rope winding through these intricacies, was then conducted
+to the windlass, and the huge lower block of the tackles was swung over
+the whale; to this block the great blubber hook, weighing some one
+hundred pounds, was attached. And now suspended in stages over the
+side, Starbuck and Stubb, the mates, armed with their long spades,
+began cutting a hole in the body for the insertion of the hook just
+above the nearest of the two side-fins. This done, a broad,
+semicircular line is cut round the hole, the hook is inserted, and the
+main body of the crew striking up a wild chorus, now commence heaving
+in one dense crowd at the windlass. When instantly, the entire ship
+careens over on her side; every bolt in her starts like the nail-heads
+of an old house in frosty weather; she trembles, quivers, and nods her
+frighted mast-heads to the sky. More and more she leans over to the
+whale, while every gasping heave of the windlass is answered by a
+helping heave from the billows; till at last, a swift, startling snap
+is heard; with a great swash the ship rolls upwards and backwards from
+the whale, and the triumphant tackle rises into sight dragging after it
+the disengaged semicircular end of the first strip of blubber. Now as
+the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange,
+so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes
+stripped by spiralizing it. For the strain constantly kept up by the
+windlass continually keeps the whale rolling over and over in the
+water, and as the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the
+line called the “scarf,” simultaneously cut by the spades of Starbuck
+and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as it is thus peeled off, and
+indeed by that very act itself, it is all the time being hoisted higher
+and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the main-top; the men at the
+windlass then cease heaving, and for a moment or two the prodigious
+blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let down from the sky, and
+every one present must take good heed to dodge it when it swings, else
+it may box his ears and pitch him headlong overboard.
+
+One of the attending harpooneers now advances with a long, keen weapon
+called a boarding-sword, and watching his chance he dexterously slices
+out a considerable hole in the lower part of the swaying mass. Into
+this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then
+hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for
+what follows. Whereupon, this accomplished swordsman, warning all hands
+to stand off, once more makes a scientific dash at the mass, and with a
+few sidelong, desperate, lunging slicings, severs it completely in
+twain; so that while the short lower part is still fast, the long upper
+strip, called a blanket-piece, swings clear, and is all ready for
+lowering. The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one
+tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other
+is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the
+main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the
+blubber-room. Into this twilight apartment sundry nimble hands keep
+coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of
+plaited serpents. And thus the work proceeds; the two tackles hoisting
+and lowering simultaneously; both whale and windlass heaving, the
+heavers singing, the blubber-room gentlemen coiling, the mates
+scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally, by
+way of assuaging the general friction.
+
+
+CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
+
+I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin
+of the whale. I have had controversies about it with experienced
+whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists ashore. My original opinion
+remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion.
+
+The question is, what and where is the skin of the whale? Already you
+know what his blubber is. That blubber is something of the consistence
+of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and
+ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
+
+Now, however preposterous it may at first seem to talk of any
+creature’s skin as being of that sort of consistence and thickness, yet
+in point of fact these are no arguments against such a presumption;
+because you cannot raise any other dense enveloping layer from the
+whale’s body but that same blubber; and the outermost enveloping layer
+of any animal, if reasonably dense, what can that be but the skin?
+True, from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with
+your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance, somewhat
+resembling the thinnest shreds of isinglass, only it is almost as
+flexible and soft as satin; that is, previous to being dried, when it
+not only contracts and thickens, but becomes rather hard and brittle. I
+have several such dried bits, which I use for marks in my whale-books.
+It is transparent, as I said before; and being laid upon the printed
+page, I have sometimes pleased myself with fancying it exerted a
+magnifying influence. At any rate, it is pleasant to read about whales
+through their own spectacles, as you may say. But what I am driving at
+here is this. That same infinitely thin, isinglass substance, which, I
+admit, invests the entire body of the whale, is not so much to be
+regarded as the skin of the creature, as the skin of the skin, so to
+speak; for it were simply ridiculous to say, that the proper skin of
+the tremendous whale is thinner and more tender than the skin of a
+new-born child. But no more of this.
+
+Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this skin,
+as in the case of a very large Sperm Whale, will yield the bulk of one
+hundred barrels of oil; and, when it is considered that, in quantity,
+or rather weight, that oil, in its expressed state, is only three
+fourths, and not the entire substance of the coat; some idea may hence
+be had of the enormousness of that animated mass, a mere part of whose
+mere integument yields such a lake of liquid as that. Reckoning ten
+barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three
+quarters of the stuff of the whale’s skin.
+
+In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among
+the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all over
+obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in
+thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line
+engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the
+isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as
+if they were engraved upon the body itself. Nor is this all. In some
+instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a
+veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.
+These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers
+on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to
+use in the present connexion. By my retentive memory of the
+hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck
+with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the
+famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi.
+Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic-marked whale remains
+undecipherable. This allusion to the Indian rocks reminds me of another
+thing. Besides all the other phenomena which the exterior of the Sperm
+Whale presents, he not seldom displays the back, and more especially
+his flanks, effaced in great part of the regular linear appearance, by
+reason of numerous rude scratches, altogether of an irregular, random
+aspect. I should say that those New England rocks on the sea-coast,
+which Agassiz imagines to bear the marks of violent scraping contact
+with vast floating icebergs—I should say, that those rocks must not a
+little resemble the Sperm Whale in this particular. It also seems to me
+that such scratches in the whale are probably made by hostile contact
+with other whales; for I have most remarked them in the large,
+full-grown bulls of the species.
+
+A word or two more concerning this matter of the skin or blubber of the
+whale. It has already been said, that it is stript from him in long
+pieces, called blanket-pieces. Like most sea-terms, this one is very
+happy and significant. For the whale is indeed wrapt up in his blubber
+as in a real blanket or counterpane; or, still better, an Indian poncho
+slipt over his head, and skirting his extremity. It is by reason of
+this cosy blanketing of his body, that the whale is enabled to keep
+himself comfortable in all weathers, in all seas, times, and tides.
+What would become of a Greenland whale, say, in those shuddering, icy
+seas of the North, if unsupplied with his cosy surtout? True, other
+fish are found exceedingly brisk in those Hyperborean waters; but
+these, be it observed, are your cold-blooded, lungless fish, whose very
+bellies are refrigerators; creatures, that warm themselves under the
+lee of an iceberg, as a traveller in winter would bask before an inn
+fire; whereas, like man, the whale has lungs and warm blood. Freeze his
+blood, and he dies. How wonderful is it then—except after
+explanation—that this great monster, to whom corporeal warmth is as
+indispensable as it is to man; how wonderful that he should be found at
+home, immersed to his lips for life in those Arctic waters! where, when
+seamen fall overboard, they are sometimes found, months afterwards,
+perpendicularly frozen into the hearts of fields of ice, as a fly is
+found glued in amber. But more surprising is it to know, as has been
+proved by experiment, that the blood of a Polar whale is warmer than
+that of a Borneo negro in summer.
+
+It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong
+individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare
+virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself
+after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too,
+live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep
+thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter’s, and
+like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of
+thine own.
+
+But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things! Of erections,
+how few are domed like St. Peter’s! of creatures, how few vast as the
+whale!
+
+
+CHAPTER 69. The Funeral.
+
+“Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!”
+
+The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the
+beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue,
+it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk. It is still colossal.
+Slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and
+splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with
+rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many
+insulting poniards in the whale. The vast white headless phantom floats
+further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats,
+what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the
+murderous din. For hours and hours from the almost stationary ship that
+hideous sight is seen. Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon
+the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that
+great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite
+perspectives.
+
+There’s a most doleful and most mocking funeral! The sea-vultures all
+in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or
+speckled. In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween,
+if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral
+they most piously do pounce. Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from
+which not the mightiest whale is free.
+
+Nor is this the end. Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost
+survives and hovers over it to scare. Espied by some timid man-of-war
+or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring
+the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in
+the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the
+whale’s unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the
+log—_shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!_ And for years
+afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly
+sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there
+when a stick was held. There’s your law of precedents; there’s your
+utility of traditions; there’s the story of your obstinate survival of
+old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in
+the air! There’s orthodoxy!
+
+Thus, while in life the great whale’s body may have been a real terror
+to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a
+world.
+
+Are you a believer in ghosts, my friend? There are other ghosts than
+the Cock-Lane one, and far deeper men than Doctor Johnson who believe
+in them.
+
+
+CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
+
+It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping
+the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the
+Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which experienced
+whale surgeons very much pride themselves: and not without reason.
+
+Consider that the whale has nothing that can properly be called a neck;
+on the contrary, where his head and body seem to join, there, in that
+very place, is the thickest part of him. Remember, also, that the
+surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening
+between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a
+discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea. Bear
+in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut
+many feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without
+so much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus
+made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts,
+and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its insertion
+into the skull. Do you not marvel, then, at Stubb’s boast, that he
+demanded but ten minutes to behead a sperm whale?
+
+When first severed, the head is dropped astern and held there by a
+cable till the body is stripped. That done, if it belong to a small
+whale it is hoisted on deck to be deliberately disposed of. But, with a
+full grown leviathan this is impossible; for the sperm whale’s head
+embraces nearly one third of his entire bulk, and completely to suspend
+such a burden as that, even by the immense tackles of a whaler, this
+were as vain a thing as to attempt weighing a Dutch barn in jewellers’
+scales.
+
+The Pequod’s whale being decapitated and the body stripped, the head
+was hoisted against the ship’s side—about half way out of the sea, so
+that it might yet in great part be buoyed up by its native element. And
+there with the strained craft steeply leaning over to it, by reason of
+the enormous downward drag from the lower mast-head, and every yard-arm
+on that side projecting like a crane over the waves; there, that
+blood-dripping head hung to the Pequod’s waist like the giant
+Holofernes’s from the girdle of Judith.
+
+When this last task was accomplished it was noon, and the seamen went
+below to their dinner. Silence reigned over the before tumultuous but
+now deserted deck. An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow
+lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves
+upon the sea.
+
+A short space elapsed, and up into this noiselessness came Ahab alone
+from his cabin. Taking a few turns on the quarter-deck, he paused to
+gaze over the side, then slowly getting into the main-chains he took
+Stubb’s long spade—still remaining there after the whale’s
+decapitation—and striking it into the lower part of the half-suspended
+mass, placed its other end crutch-wise under one arm, and so stood
+leaning over with eyes attentively fixed on this head.
+
+It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so
+intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the desert. “Speak, thou vast
+and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a
+beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty
+head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou
+hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams,
+has moved amid this world’s foundations. Where unrecorded names and
+navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous
+hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the
+drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar
+home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many
+a sailor’s side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay
+them down. Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their
+flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true
+to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw’st the
+murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours
+he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his
+murderers still sailed on unharmed—while swift lightnings shivered the
+neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to
+outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou hast seen enough to split the
+planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!”
+
+“Sail ho!” cried a triumphant voice from the main-mast-head.
+
+“Aye? Well, now, that’s cheering,” cried Ahab, suddenly erecting
+himself, while whole thunder-clouds swept aside from his brow. “That
+lively cry upon this deadly calm might almost convert a better
+man.—Where away?”
+
+“Three points on the starboard bow, sir, and bringing down her breeze
+to us!
+
+“Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way,
+and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man!
+how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the
+smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate
+in mind.”
+
+
+CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam’s Story.
+
+Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than
+the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock.
+
+By and by, through the glass the stranger’s boats and manned mast-heads
+proved her a whale-ship. But as she was so far to windward, and
+shooting by, apparently making a passage to some other ground, the
+Pequod could not hope to reach her. So the signal was set to see what
+response would be made.
+
+Here be it said, that like the vessels of military marines, the ships
+of the American Whale Fleet have each a private signal; all which
+signals being collected in a book with the names of the respective
+vessels attached, every captain is provided with it. Thereby, the whale
+commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean, even at
+considerable distances and with no small facility.
+
+The Pequod’s signal was at last responded to by the stranger’s setting
+her own; which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket.
+Squaring her yards, she bore down, ranged abeam under the Pequod’s lee,
+and lowered a boat; it soon drew nigh; but, as the side-ladder was
+being rigged by Starbuck’s order to accommodate the visiting captain,
+the stranger in question waved his hand from his boat’s stern in token
+of that proceeding being entirely unnecessary. It turned out that the
+Jeroboam had a malignant epidemic on board, and that Mayhew, her
+captain, was fearful of infecting the Pequod’s company. For, though
+himself and boat’s crew remained untainted, and though his ship was
+half a rifle-shot off, and an incorruptible sea and air rolling and
+flowing between; yet conscientiously adhering to the timid quarantine
+of the land, he peremptorily refused to come into direct contact with
+the Pequod.
+
+But this did by no means prevent all communications. Preserving an
+interval of some few yards between itself and the ship, the Jeroboam’s
+boat by the occasional use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to
+the Pequod, as she heavily forged through the sea (for by this time it
+blew very fresh), with her main-topsail aback; though, indeed, at times
+by the sudden onset of a large rolling wave, the boat would be pushed
+some way ahead; but would be soon skilfully brought to her proper
+bearings again. Subject to this, and other the like interruptions now
+and then, a conversation was sustained between the two parties; but at
+intervals not without still another interruption of a very different
+sort.
+
+Pulling an oar in the Jeroboam’s boat, was a man of a singular
+appearance, even in that wild whaling life where individual
+notabilities make up all totalities. He was a small, short, youngish
+man, sprinkled all over his face with freckles, and wearing redundant
+yellow hair. A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut
+tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on
+his wrists. A deep, settled, fanatic delirium was in his eyes.
+
+So soon as this figure had been first descried, Stubb had
+exclaimed—“That’s he! that’s he!—the long-togged scaramouch the
+Town-Ho’s company told us of!” Stubb here alluded to a strange story
+told of the Jeroboam, and a certain man among her crew, some time
+previous when the Pequod spoke the Town-Ho. According to this account
+and what was subsequently learned, it seemed that the scaramouch in
+question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the
+Jeroboam. His story was this:
+
+He had been originally nurtured among the crazy society of Neskyeuna
+Shakers, where he had been a great prophet; in their cracked, secret
+meetings having several times descended from heaven by the way of a
+trap-door, announcing the speedy opening of the seventh vial, which he
+carried in his vest-pocket; but, which, instead of containing
+gunpowder, was supposed to be charged with laudanum. A strange,
+apostolic whim having seized him, he had left Neskyeuna for Nantucket,
+where, with that cunning peculiar to craziness, he assumed a steady,
+common-sense exterior, and offered himself as a green-hand candidate
+for the Jeroboam’s whaling voyage. They engaged him; but straightway
+upon the ship’s getting out of sight of land, his insanity broke out in
+a freshet. He announced himself as the archangel Gabriel, and commanded
+the captain to jump overboard. He published his manifesto, whereby he
+set himself forth as the deliverer of the isles of the sea and
+vicar-general of all Oceanica. The unflinching earnestness with which
+he declared these things;—the dark, daring play of his sleepless,
+excited imagination, and all the preternatural terrors of real
+delirium, united to invest this Gabriel in the minds of the majority of
+the ignorant crew, with an atmosphere of sacredness. Moreover, they
+were afraid of him. As such a man, however, was not of much practical
+use in the ship, especially as he refused to work except when he
+pleased, the incredulous captain would fain have been rid of him; but
+apprised that that individual’s intention was to land him in the first
+convenient port, the archangel forthwith opened all his seals and
+vials—devoting the ship and all hands to unconditional perdition, in
+case this intention was carried out. So strongly did he work upon his
+disciples among the crew, that at last in a body they went to the
+captain and told him if Gabriel was sent from the ship, not a man of
+them would remain. He was therefore forced to relinquish his plan. Nor
+would they permit Gabriel to be any way maltreated, say or do what he
+would; so that it came to pass that Gabriel had the complete freedom of
+the ship. The consequence of all this was, that the archangel cared
+little or nothing for the captain and mates; and since the epidemic had
+broken out, he carried a higher hand than ever; declaring that the
+plague, as he called it, was at his sole command; nor should it be
+stayed but according to his good pleasure. The sailors, mostly poor
+devils, cringed, and some of them fawned before him; in obedience to
+his instructions, sometimes rendering him personal homage, as to a god.
+Such things may seem incredible; but, however wondrous, they are true.
+Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the
+measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless
+power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others. But it is time to
+return to the Pequod.
+
+“I fear not thy epidemic, man,” said Ahab from the bulwarks, to Captain
+Mayhew, who stood in the boat’s stern; “come on board.”
+
+But now Gabriel started to his feet.
+
+“Think, think of the fevers, yellow and bilious! Beware of the horrible
+plague!”
+
+“Gabriel! Gabriel!” cried Captain Mayhew; “thou must either—” But that
+instant a headlong wave shot the boat far ahead, and its seethings
+drowned all speech.
+
+“Hast thou seen the White Whale?” demanded Ahab, when the boat drifted
+back.
+
+“Think, think of thy whale-boat, stoven and sunk! Beware of the
+horrible tail!”
+
+“I tell thee again, Gabriel, that—” But again the boat tore ahead as if
+dragged by fiends. Nothing was said for some moments, while a
+succession of riotous waves rolled by, which by one of those occasional
+caprices of the seas were tumbling, not heaving it. Meantime, the
+hoisted sperm whale’s head jogged about very violently, and Gabriel was
+seen eyeing it with rather more apprehensiveness than his archangel
+nature seemed to warrant.
+
+When this interlude was over, Captain Mayhew began a dark story
+concerning Moby Dick; not, however, without frequent interruptions from
+Gabriel, whenever his name was mentioned, and the crazy sea that seemed
+leagued with him.
+
+It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home, when upon speaking
+a whale-ship, her people were reliably apprised of the existence of
+Moby Dick, and the havoc he had made. Greedily sucking in this
+intelligence, Gabriel solemnly warned the captain against attacking the
+White Whale, in case the monster should be seen; in his gibbering
+insanity, pronouncing the White Whale to be no less a being than the
+Shaker God incarnated; the Shakers receiving the Bible. But when, some
+year or two afterwards, Moby Dick was fairly sighted from the
+mast-heads, Macey, the chief mate, burned with ardour to encounter him;
+and the captain himself being not unwilling to let him have the
+opportunity, despite all the archangel’s denunciations and
+forewarnings, Macey succeeded in persuading five men to man his boat.
+With them he pushed off; and, after much weary pulling, and many
+perilous, unsuccessful onsets, he at last succeeded in getting one iron
+fast. Meantime, Gabriel, ascending to the main-royal mast-head, was
+tossing one arm in frantic gestures, and hurling forth prophecies of
+speedy doom to the sacrilegious assailants of his divinity. Now, while
+Macey, the mate, was standing up in his boat’s bow, and with all the
+reckless energy of his tribe was venting his wild exclamations upon the
+whale, and essaying to get a fair chance for his poised lance, lo! a
+broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its quick, fanning motion,
+temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies of the oarsmen. Next
+instant, the luckless mate, so full of furious life, was smitten bodily
+into the air, and making a long arc in his descent, fell into the sea
+at the distance of about fifty yards. Not a chip of the boat was
+harmed, nor a hair of any oarsman’s head; but the mate for ever sank.
+
+It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the
+Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.
+Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated;
+oftener the boat’s bow is knocked off, or the thigh-board, in which the
+headsman stands, is torn from its place and accompanies the body. But
+strangest of all is the circumstance, that in more instances than one,
+when the body has been recovered, not a single mark of violence is
+discernible; the man being stark dead.
+
+The whole calamity, with the falling form of Macey, was plainly
+descried from the ship. Raising a piercing shriek—“The vial! the vial!”
+Gabriel called off the terror-stricken crew from the further hunting of
+the whale. This terrible event clothed the archangel with added
+influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had
+specifically fore-announced it, instead of only making a general
+prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one
+of many marks in the wide margin allowed. He became a nameless terror
+to the ship.
+
+Mayhew having concluded his narration, Ahab put such questions to him,
+that the stranger captain could not forbear inquiring whether he
+intended to hunt the White Whale, if opportunity should offer. To which
+Ahab answered—“Aye.” Straightway, then, Gabriel once more started to
+his feet, glaring upon the old man, and vehemently exclaimed, with
+downward pointed finger—“Think, think of the blasphemer—dead, and down
+there!—beware of the blasphemer’s end!”
+
+Ahab stolidly turned aside; then said to Mayhew, “Captain, I have just
+bethought me of my letter-bag; there is a letter for one of thy
+officers, if I mistake not. Starbuck, look over the bag.”
+
+Every whale-ship takes out a goodly number of letters for various
+ships, whose delivery to the persons to whom they may be addressed,
+depends upon the mere chance of encountering them in the four oceans.
+Thus, most letters never reach their mark; and many are only received
+after attaining an age of two or three years or more.
+
+Soon Starbuck returned with a letter in his hand. It was sorely
+tumbled, damp, and covered with a dull, spotted, green mould, in
+consequence of being kept in a dark locker of the cabin. Of such a
+letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy.
+
+“Can’st not read it?” cried Ahab. “Give it me, man. Aye, aye, it’s but
+a dim scrawl;—what’s this?” As he was studying it out, Starbuck took a
+long cutting-spade pole, and with his knife slightly split the end, to
+insert the letter there, and in that way, hand it to the boat, without
+its coming any closer to the ship.
+
+Meantime, Ahab holding the letter, muttered, “Mr. Har—yes, Mr. Harry—(a
+woman’s pinny hand,—the man’s wife, I’ll wager)—Aye—Mr. Harry Macey,
+Ship Jeroboam;—why it’s Macey, and he’s dead!”
+
+“Poor fellow! poor fellow! and from his wife,” sighed Mayhew; “but let
+me have it.”
+
+“Nay, keep it thyself,” cried Gabriel to Ahab; “thou art soon going
+that way.”
+
+“Curses throttle thee!” yelled Ahab. “Captain Mayhew, stand by now to
+receive it”; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck’s hands, he
+caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the
+boat. But as he did so, the oarsmen expectantly desisted from rowing;
+the boat drifted a little towards the ship’s stern; so that, as if by
+magic, the letter suddenly ranged along with Gabriel’s eager hand. He
+clutched it in an instant, seized the boat-knife, and impaling the
+letter on it, sent it thus loaded back into the ship. It fell at Ahab’s
+feet. Then Gabriel shrieked out to his comrades to give way with their
+oars, and in that manner the mutinous boat rapidly shot away from the
+Pequod.
+
+As, after this interlude, the seamen resumed their work upon the jacket
+of the whale, many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild
+affair.
+
+
+CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
+
+In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale,
+there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands
+are wanted here, and then again hands are wanted there. There is no
+staying in any one place; for at one and the same time everything has
+to be done everywhere. It is much the same with him who endeavors the
+description of the scene. We must now retrace our way a little. It was
+mentioned that upon first breaking ground in the whale’s back, the
+blubber-hook was inserted into the original hole there cut by the
+spades of the mates. But how did so clumsy and weighty a mass as that
+same hook get fixed in that hole? It was inserted there by my
+particular friend Queequeg, whose duty it was, as harpooneer, to
+descend upon the monster’s back for the special purpose referred to.
+But in very many cases, circumstances require that the harpooneer shall
+remain on the whale till the whole flensing or stripping operation is
+concluded. The whale, be it observed, lies almost entirely submerged,
+excepting the immediate parts operated upon. So down there, some ten
+feet below the level of the deck, the poor harpooneer flounders about,
+half on the whale and half in the water, as the vast mass revolves like
+a tread-mill beneath him. On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured
+in the Highland costume—a shirt and socks—in which to my eyes, at
+least, he appeared to uncommon advantage; and no one had a better
+chance to observe him, as will presently be seen.
+
+Being the savage’s bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar
+in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to
+attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead
+whale’s back. You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by
+a long cord. Just so, from the ship’s steep side, did I hold Queequeg
+down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a
+monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his
+waist.
+
+It was a humorously perilous business for both of us. For, before we
+proceed further, it must be said that the monkey-rope was fast at both
+ends; fast to Queequeg’s broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow
+leather one. So that for better or for worse, we two, for the time,
+were wedded; and should poor Queequeg sink to rise no more, then both
+usage and honor demanded, that instead of cutting the cord, it should
+drag me down in his wake. So, then, an elongated Siamese ligature
+united us. Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I
+any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond
+entailed.
+
+So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then,
+that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to
+perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock
+company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that
+another’s mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited
+disaster and death. Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of
+interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have
+so gross an injustice. And yet still further pondering—while I jerked
+him now and then from between the whale and ship, which would threaten
+to jam him—still further pondering, I say, I saw that this situation of
+mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes; only, in
+most cases, he, one way or other, has this Siamese connexion with a
+plurality of other mortals. If your banker breaks, you snap; if your
+apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True,
+you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these
+and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg’s
+monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I
+came very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do
+what I would, I only had the management of one end of it.*
+
+*The monkey-rope is found in all whalers; but it was only in the Pequod
+that the monkey and his holder were ever tied together. This
+improvement upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man
+than Stubb, in order to afford the imperilled harpooneer the strongest
+possible guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his
+monkey-rope holder.
+
+I have hinted that I would often jerk poor Queequeg from between the
+whale and the ship—where he would occasionally fall, from the incessant
+rolling and swaying of both. But this was not the only jamming jeopardy
+he was exposed to. Unappalled by the massacre made upon them during the
+night, the sharks now freshly and more keenly allured by the before
+pent blood which began to flow from the carcass—the rabid creatures
+swarmed round it like bees in a beehive.
+
+And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them
+aside with his floundering feet. A thing altogether incredible were it
+not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise
+miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a man.
+
+Nevertheless, it may well be believed that since they have such a
+ravenous finger in the pie, it is deemed but wise to look sharp to
+them. Accordingly, besides the monkey-rope, with which I now and then
+jerked the poor fellow from too close a vicinity to the maw of what
+seemed a peculiarly ferocious shark—he was provided with still another
+protection. Suspended over the side in one of the stages, Tashtego and
+Daggoo continually flourished over his head a couple of keen
+whale-spades, wherewith they slaughtered as many sharks as they could
+reach. This procedure of theirs, to be sure, was very disinterested and
+benevolent of them. They meant Queequeg’s best happiness, I admit; but
+in their hasty zeal to befriend him, and from the circumstance that
+both he and the sharks were at times half hidden by the blood-muddled
+water, those indiscreet spades of theirs would come nearer amputating a
+leg than a tail. But poor Queequeg, I suppose, straining and gasping
+there with that great iron hook—poor Queequeg, I suppose, only prayed
+to his Yojo, and gave up his life into the hands of his gods.
+
+Well, well, my dear comrade and twin-brother, thought I, as I drew in
+and then slacked off the rope to every swell of the sea—what matters
+it, after all? Are you not the precious image of each and all of us men
+in this whaling world? That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those
+sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks
+and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad.
+
+But courage! there is good cheer in store for you, Queequeg. For now,
+as with blue lips and blood-shot eyes the exhausted savage at last
+climbs up the chains and stands all dripping and involuntarily
+trembling over the side; the steward advances, and with a benevolent,
+consolatory glance hands him—what? Some hot Cognac? No! hands him, ye
+gods! hands him a cup of tepid ginger and water!
+
+“Ginger? Do I smell ginger?” suspiciously asked Stubb, coming near.
+“Yes, this must be ginger,” peering into the as yet untasted cup. Then
+standing as if incredulous for a while, he calmly walked towards the
+astonished steward slowly saying, “Ginger? ginger? and will you have
+the goodness to tell me, Mr. Dough-Boy, where lies the virtue of
+ginger? Ginger! is ginger the sort of fuel you use, Dough-boy, to
+kindle a fire in this shivering cannibal? Ginger!—what the devil is
+ginger? Sea-coal? firewood?—lucifer matches?—tinder?—gunpowder?—what
+the devil is ginger, I say, that you offer this cup to our poor
+Queequeg here.”
+
+“There is some sneaking Temperance Society movement about this
+business,” he suddenly added, now approaching Starbuck, who had just
+come from forward. “Will you look at that kannakin, sir: smell of it,
+if you please.” Then watching the mate’s countenance, he added, “The
+steward, Mr. Starbuck, had the face to offer that calomel and jalap to
+Queequeg, there, this instant off the whale. Is the steward an
+apothecary, sir? and may I ask whether this is the sort of bitters by
+which he blows back the life into a half-drowned man?”
+
+“I trust not,” said Starbuck, “it is poor stuff enough.”
+
+“Aye, aye, steward,” cried Stubb, “we’ll teach you to drug a
+harpooneer; none of your apothecary’s medicine here; you want to poison
+us, do ye? You have got out insurances on our lives and want to murder
+us all, and pocket the proceeds, do ye?”
+
+“It was not me,” cried Dough-Boy, “it was Aunt Charity that brought the
+ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits,
+but only this ginger-jub—so she called it.”
+
+“Ginger-jub! you gingerly rascal! take that! and run along with ye to
+the lockers, and get something better. I hope I do no wrong, Mr.
+Starbuck. It is the captain’s orders—grog for the harpooneer on a
+whale.”
+
+“Enough,” replied Starbuck, “only don’t hit him again, but—”
+
+“Oh, I never hurt when I hit, except when I hit a whale or something of
+that sort; and this fellow’s a weazel. What were you about saying,
+sir?”
+
+“Only this: go down with him, and get what thou wantest thyself.”
+
+When Stubb reappeared, he came with a dark flask in one hand, and a
+sort of tea-caddy in the other. The first contained strong spirits, and
+was handed to Queequeg; the second was Aunt Charity’s gift, and that
+was freely given to the waves.
+
+
+CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk
+over Him.
+
+It must be borne in mind that all this time we have a Sperm Whale’s
+prodigious head hanging to the Pequod’s side. But we must let it
+continue hanging there a while till we can get a chance to attend to
+it. For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for
+the head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold.
+
+Now, during the past night and forenoon, the Pequod had gradually
+drifted into a sea, which, by its occasional patches of yellow brit,
+gave unusual tokens of the vicinity of Right Whales, a species of the
+Leviathan that but few supposed to be at this particular time lurking
+anywhere near. And though all hands commonly disdained the capture of
+those inferior creatures; and though the Pequod was not commissioned to
+cruise for them at all, and though she had passed numbers of them near
+the Crozetts without lowering a boat; yet now that a Sperm Whale had
+been brought alongside and beheaded, to the surprise of all, the
+announcement was made that a Right Whale should be captured that day,
+if opportunity offered.
+
+Nor was this long wanting. Tall spouts were seen to leeward; and two
+boats, Stubb’s and Flask’s, were detached in pursuit. Pulling further
+and further away, they at last became almost invisible to the men at
+the mast-head. But suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of
+tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or
+both the boats must be fast. An interval passed and the boats were in
+plain sight, in the act of being dragged right towards the ship by the
+towing whale. So close did the monster come to the hull, that at first
+it seemed as if he meant it malice; but suddenly going down in a
+maelstrom, within three rods of the planks, he wholly disappeared from
+view, as if diving under the keel. “Cut, cut!” was the cry from the
+ship to the boats, which, for one instant, seemed on the point of being
+brought with a deadly dash against the vessel’s side. But having plenty
+of line yet in the tubs, and the whale not sounding very rapidly, they
+paid out abundance of rope, and at the same time pulled with all their
+might so as to get ahead of the ship. For a few minutes the struggle
+was intensely critical; for while they still slacked out the tightened
+line in one direction, and still plied their oars in another, the
+contending strain threatened to take them under. But it was only a few
+feet advance they sought to gain. And they stuck to it till they did
+gain it; when instantly, a swift tremor was felt running like lightning
+along the keel, as the strained line, scraping beneath the ship,
+suddenly rose to view under her bows, snapping and quivering; and so
+flinging off its drippings, that the drops fell like bits of broken
+glass on the water, while the whale beyond also rose to sight, and once
+more the boats were free to fly. But the fagged whale abated his speed,
+and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship
+towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete
+circuit.
+
+Meantime, they hauled more and more upon their lines, till close
+flanking him on both sides, Stubb answered Flask with lance for lance;
+and thus round and round the Pequod the battle went, while the
+multitudes of sharks that had before swum round the Sperm Whale’s body,
+rushed to the fresh blood that was spilled, thirstily drinking at every
+new gash, as the eager Israelites did at the new bursting fountains
+that poured from the smitten rock.
+
+At last his spout grew thick, and with a frightful roll and vomit, he
+turned upon his back a corpse.
+
+While the two headsmen were engaged in making fast cords to his flukes,
+and in other ways getting the mass in readiness for towing, some
+conversation ensued between them.
+
+“I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard,” said
+Stubb, not without some disgust at the thought of having to do with so
+ignoble a leviathan.
+
+“Wants with it?” said Flask, coiling some spare line in the boat’s bow,
+“did you never hear that the ship which but once has a Sperm Whale’s
+head hoisted on her starboard side, and at the same time a Right
+Whale’s on the larboard; did you never hear, Stubb, that that ship can
+never afterwards capsize?”
+
+“Why not?
+
+“I don’t know, but I heard that gamboge ghost of a Fedallah saying so,
+and he seems to know all about ships’ charms. But I sometimes think
+he’ll charm the ship to no good at last. I don’t half like that chap,
+Stubb. Did you ever notice how that tusk of his is a sort of carved
+into a snake’s head, Stubb?”
+
+“Sink him! I never look at him at all; but if ever I get a chance of a
+dark night, and he standing hard by the bulwarks, and no one by; look
+down there, Flask”—pointing into the sea with a peculiar motion of both
+hands—“Aye, will I! Flask, I take that Fedallah to be the devil in
+disguise. Do you believe that cock and bull story about his having been
+stowed away on board ship? He’s the devil, I say. The reason why you
+don’t see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries
+it coiled away in his pocket, I guess. Blast him! now that I think of
+it, he’s always wanting oakum to stuff into the toes of his boots.”
+
+“He sleeps in his boots, don’t he? He hasn’t got any hammock; but I’ve
+seen him lay of nights in a coil of rigging.”
+
+“No doubt, and it’s because of his cursed tail; he coils it down, do ye
+see, in the eye of the rigging.”
+
+“What’s the old man have so much to do with him for?”
+
+“Striking up a swap or a bargain, I suppose.”
+
+“Bargain?—about what?”
+
+“Why, do ye see, the old man is hard bent after that White Whale, and
+the devil there is trying to come round him, and get him to swap away
+his silver watch, or his soul, or something of that sort, and then
+he’ll surrender Moby Dick.”
+
+“Pooh! Stubb, you are skylarking; how can Fedallah do that?”
+
+“I don’t know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked
+one, I tell ye. Why, they say as how he went a sauntering into the old
+flag-ship once, switching his tail about devilish easy and
+gentlemanlike, and inquiring if the old governor was at home. Well, he
+was at home, and asked the devil what he wanted. The devil, switching
+his hoofs, up and says, ‘I want John.’ ‘What for?’ says the old
+governor. ‘What business is that of yours,’ says the devil, getting
+mad,—‘I want to use him.’ ‘Take him,’ says the governor—and by the
+Lord, Flask, if the devil didn’t give John the Asiatic cholera before
+he got through with him, I’ll eat this whale in one mouthful. But look
+sharp—ain’t you all ready there? Well, then, pull ahead, and let’s get
+the whale alongside.”
+
+“I think I remember some such story as you were telling,” said Flask,
+when at last the two boats were slowly advancing with their burden
+towards the ship, “but I can’t remember where.”
+
+“Three Spaniards? Adventures of those three bloody-minded soldadoes?
+Did ye read it there, Flask? I guess ye did?”
+
+“No: never saw such a book; heard of it, though. But now, tell me,
+Stubb, do you suppose that that devil you was speaking of just now, was
+the same you say is now on board the Pequod?”
+
+“Am I the same man that helped kill this whale? Doesn’t the devil live
+for ever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any
+parson a wearing mourning for the devil? And if the devil has a
+latch-key to get into the admiral’s cabin, don’t you suppose he can
+crawl into a porthole? Tell me that, Mr. Flask?”
+
+“How old do you suppose Fedallah is, Stubb?”
+
+“Do you see that mainmast there?” pointing to the ship; “well, that’s
+the figure one; now take all the hoops in the Pequod’s hold, and string
+along in a row with that mast, for oughts, do you see; well, that
+wouldn’t begin to be Fedallah’s age. Nor all the coopers in creation
+couldn’t show hoops enough to make oughts enough.”
+
+“But see here, Stubb, I thought you a little boasted just now, that you
+meant to give Fedallah a sea-toss, if you got a good chance. Now, if
+he’s so old as all those hoops of yours come to, and if he is going to
+live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me
+that?
+
+“Give him a good ducking, anyhow.”
+
+“But he’d crawl back.”
+
+“Duck him again; and keep ducking him.”
+
+“Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though—yes, and
+drown you—what then?”
+
+“I should like to see him try it; I’d give him such a pair of black
+eyes that he wouldn’t dare to show his face in the admiral’s cabin
+again for a long while, let alone down in the orlop there, where he
+lives, and hereabouts on the upper decks where he sneaks so much. Damn
+the devil, Flask; so you suppose I’m afraid of the devil? Who’s afraid
+of him, except the old governor who daresn’t catch him and put him in
+double-darbies, as he deserves, but lets him go about kidnapping
+people; aye, and signed a bond with him, that all the people the devil
+kidnapped, he’d roast for him? There’s a governor!”
+
+“Do you suppose Fedallah wants to kidnap Captain Ahab?”
+
+“Do I suppose it? You’ll know it before long, Flask. But I am going now
+to keep a sharp look-out on him; and if I see anything very suspicious
+going on, I’ll just take him by the nape of his neck, and say—Look
+here, Beelzebub, you don’t do it; and if he makes any fuss, by the Lord
+I’ll make a grab into his pocket for his tail, take it to the capstan,
+and give him such a wrenching and heaving, that his tail will come
+short off at the stump—do you see; and then, I rather guess when he
+finds himself docked in that queer fashion, he’ll sneak off without the
+poor satisfaction of feeling his tail between his legs.”
+
+“And what will you do with the tail, Stubb?”
+
+“Do with it? Sell it for an ox whip when we get home;—what else?”
+
+“Now, do you mean what you say, and have been saying all along, Stubb?”
+
+“Mean or not mean, here we are at the ship.”
+
+The boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side,
+where fluke chains and other necessaries were already prepared for
+securing him.
+
+“Didn’t I tell you so?” said Flask; “yes, you’ll soon see this right
+whale’s head hoisted up opposite that parmacetti’s.”
+
+In good time, Flask’s saying proved true. As before, the Pequod steeply
+leaned over towards the sperm whale’s head, now, by the counterpoise of
+both heads, she regained her even keel; though sorely strained, you may
+well believe. So, when on one side you hoist in Locke’s head, you go
+over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant’s and you come
+back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep
+trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard,
+and then you will float light and right.
+
+In disposing of the body of a right whale, when brought alongside the
+ship, the same preliminary proceedings commonly take place as in the
+case of a sperm whale; only, in the latter instance, the head is cut
+off whole, but in the former the lips and tongue are separately removed
+and hoisted on deck, with all the well known black bone attached to
+what is called the crown-piece. But nothing like this, in the present
+case, had been done. The carcases of both whales had dropped astern;
+and the head-laden ship not a little resembled a mule carrying a pair
+of overburdening panniers.
+
+Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whale’s head, and ever
+and anon glancing from the deep wrinkles there to the lines in his own
+hand. And Ahab chanced so to stand, that the Parsee occupied his
+shadow; while, if the Parsee’s shadow was there at all it seemed only
+to blend with, and lengthen Ahab’s. As the crew toiled on, Laplandish
+speculations were bandied among them, concerning all these passing
+things.
+
+
+CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.
+
+Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us
+join them, and lay together our own.
+
+Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right
+Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales
+regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two
+extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external
+difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a
+head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod’s side; and as we
+may freely go from one to the other, by merely stepping across the
+deck:—where, I should like to know, will you obtain a better chance to
+study practical cetology than here?
+
+In the first place, you are struck by the general contrast between
+these heads. Both are massive enough in all conscience; but there is a
+certain mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whale’s which the Right
+Whale’s sadly lacks. There is more character in the Sperm Whale’s head.
+As you behold it, you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to
+him, in point of pervading dignity. In the present instance, too, this
+dignity is heightened by the pepper and salt colour of his head at the
+summit, giving token of advanced age and large experience. In short, he
+is what the fishermen technically call a “grey-headed whale.”
+
+Let us now note what is least dissimilar in these heads—namely, the two
+most important organs, the eye and the ear. Far back on the side of the
+head, and low down, near the angle of either whale’s jaw, if you
+narrowly search, you will at last see a lashless eye, which you would
+fancy to be a young colt’s eye; so out of all proportion is it to the
+magnitude of the head.
+
+Now, from this peculiar sideway position of the whale’s eyes, it is
+plain that he can never see an object which is exactly ahead, no more
+than he can one exactly astern. In a word, the position of the whale’s
+eyes corresponds to that of a man’s ears; and you may fancy, for
+yourself, how it would fare with you, did you sideways survey objects
+through your ears. You would find that you could only command some
+thirty degrees of vision in advance of the straight side-line of sight;
+and about thirty more behind it. If your bitterest foe were walking
+straight towards you, with dagger uplifted in broad day, you would not
+be able to see him, any more than if he were stealing upon you from
+behind. In a word, you would have two backs, so to speak; but, at the
+same time, also, two fronts (side fronts): for what is it that makes
+the front of a man—what, indeed, but his eyes?
+
+Moreover, while in most other animals that I can now think of, the eyes
+are so planted as imperceptibly to blend their visual power, so as to
+produce one picture and not two to the brain; the peculiar position of
+the whale’s eyes, effectually divided as they are by many cubic feet of
+solid head, which towers between them like a great mountain separating
+two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the
+impressions which each independent organ imparts. The whale, therefore,
+must see one distinct picture on this side, and another distinct
+picture on that side; while all between must be profound darkness and
+nothingness to him. Man may, in effect, be said to look out on the
+world from a sentry-box with two joined sashes for his window. But with
+the whale, these two sashes are separately inserted, making two
+distinct windows, but sadly impairing the view. This peculiarity of the
+whale’s eyes is a thing always to be borne in mind in the fishery; and
+to be remembered by the reader in some subsequent scenes.
+
+A curious and most puzzling question might be started concerning this
+visual matter as touching the Leviathan. But I must be content with a
+hint. So long as a man’s eyes are open in the light, the act of seeing
+is involuntary; that is, he cannot then help mechanically seeing
+whatever objects are before him. Nevertheless, any one’s experience
+will teach him, that though he can take in an undiscriminating sweep of
+things at one glance, it is quite impossible for him, attentively, and
+completely, to examine any two things—however large or however small—at
+one and the same instant of time; never mind if they lie side by side
+and touch each other. But if you now come to separate these two
+objects, and surround each by a circle of profound darkness; then, in
+order to see one of them, in such a manner as to bring your mind to
+bear on it, the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary
+consciousness. How is it, then, with the whale? True, both his eyes, in
+themselves, must simultaneously act; but is his brain so much more
+comprehensive, combining, and subtle than man’s, that he can at the
+same moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on
+one side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction? If he
+can, then is it as marvellous a thing in him, as if a man were able
+simultaneously to go through the demonstrations of two distinct
+problems in Euclid. Nor, strictly investigated, is there any
+incongruity in this comparison.
+
+It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the
+extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when
+beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer
+frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly
+proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their
+divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
+
+But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye. If you are an
+entire stranger to their race, you might hunt over these two heads for
+hours, and never discover that organ. The ear has no external leaf
+whatever; and into the hole itself you can hardly insert a quill, so
+wondrously minute is it. It is lodged a little behind the eye. With
+respect to their ears, this important difference is to be observed
+between the sperm whale and the right. While the ear of the former has
+an external opening, that of the latter is entirely and evenly covered
+over with a membrane, so as to be quite imperceptible from without.
+
+Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the
+world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear
+which is smaller than a hare’s? But if his eyes were broad as the lens
+of Herschel’s great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of
+cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of
+hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind?
+Subtilize it.
+
+Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant
+over the sperm whale’s head, that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending
+by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not
+that the body is now completely separated from it, with a lantern we
+might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But
+let us hold on here by this tooth, and look about us where we are. What
+a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling,
+lined, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as
+bridal satins.
+
+But come out now, and look at this portentous lower jaw, which seems
+like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with the hinge at one
+end, instead of one side. If you pry it up, so as to get it overhead,
+and expose its rows of teeth, it seems a terrific portcullis; and such,
+alas! it proves to many a poor wight in the fishery, upon whom these
+spikes fall with impaling force. But far more terrible is it to behold,
+when fathoms down in the sea, you see some sulky whale, floating there
+suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging
+straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a
+ship’s jib-boom. This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of
+sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his
+jaw have relaxed, leaving him there in that ungainly sort of plight, a
+reproach to all his tribe, who must, no doubt, imprecate lock-jaws upon
+him.
+
+In most cases this lower jaw—being easily unhinged by a practised
+artist—is disengaged and hoisted on deck for the purpose of extracting
+the ivory teeth, and furnishing a supply of that hard white whalebone
+with which the fishermen fashion all sorts of curious articles,
+including canes, umbrella-stocks, and handles to riding-whips.
+
+With a long, weary hoist the jaw is dragged on board, as if it were an
+anchor; and when the proper time comes—some few days after the other
+work—Queequeg, Daggoo, and Tashtego, being all accomplished dentists,
+are set to drawing teeth. With a keen cutting-spade, Queequeg lances
+the gums; then the jaw is lashed down to ringbolts, and a tackle being
+rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth, as Michigan oxen drag
+stumps of old oaks out of wild wood lands. There are generally
+forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed;
+nor filled after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn
+into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.
+
+
+CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.
+
+Crossing the deck, let us now have a good long look at the Right
+Whale’s head.
+
+As in general shape the noble Sperm Whale’s head may be compared to a
+Roman war-chariot (especially in front, where it is so broadly
+rounded); so, at a broad view, the Right Whale’s head bears a rather
+inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe. Two hundred
+years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a
+shoemaker’s last. And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the
+nursery tale, with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be
+lodged, she and all her progeny.
+
+But as you come nearer to this great head it begins to assume different
+aspects, according to your point of view. If you stand on its summit
+and look at these two F-shaped spoutholes, you would take the whole
+head for an enormous bass-viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in
+its sounding-board. Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange,
+crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass—this green,
+barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the “crown,” and the
+Southern fishers the “bonnet” of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes
+solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak,
+with a bird’s nest in its crotch. At any rate, when you watch those
+live crabs that nestle here on this bonnet, such an idea will be almost
+sure to occur to you; unless, indeed, your fancy has been fixed by the
+technical term “crown” also bestowed upon it; in which case you will
+take great interest in thinking how this mighty monster is actually a
+diademed king of the sea, whose green crown has been put together for
+him in this marvellous manner. But if this whale be a king, he is a
+very sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem. Look at that hanging lower
+lip! what a huge sulk and pout is there! a sulk and pout, by
+carpenter’s measurement, about twenty feet long and five feet deep; a
+sulk and pout that will yield you some 500 gallons of oil and more.
+
+A great pity, now, that this unfortunate whale should be hare-lipped.
+The fissure is about a foot across. Probably the mother during an
+important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when
+earthquakes caused the beach to gape. Over this lip, as over a slippery
+threshold, we now slide into the mouth. Upon my word were I at
+Mackinaw, I should take this to be the inside of an Indian wigwam. Good
+Lord! is this the road that Jonah went? The roof is about twelve feet
+high, and runs to a pretty sharp angle, as if there were a regular
+ridge-pole there; while these ribbed, arched, hairy sides, present us
+with those wondrous, half vertical, scimetar-shaped slats of whalebone,
+say three hundred on a side, which depending from the upper part of the
+head or crown bone, form those Venetian blinds which have elsewhere
+been cursorily mentioned. The edges of these bones are fringed with
+hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in
+whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes
+through the seas of brit in feeding time. In the central blinds of
+bone, as they stand in their natural order, there are certain curious
+marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the
+creature’s age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings. Though the
+certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the
+savor of analogical probability. At any rate, if we yield to it, we
+must grant a far greater age to the Right Whale than at first glance
+will seem reasonable.
+
+In old times, there seem to have prevailed the most curious fancies
+concerning these blinds. One voyager in Purchas calls them the wondrous
+“whiskers” inside of the whale’s mouth;* another, “hogs’ bristles”; a
+third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language:
+“There are about two hundred and fifty fins growing on each side of his
+upper _chop_, which arch over his tongue on each side of his mouth.”
+
+*This reminds us that the Right Whale really has a sort of whisker, or
+rather a moustache, consisting of a few scattered white hairs on the
+upper part of the outer end of the lower jaw. Sometimes these tufts
+impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn
+countenance.
+
+As every one knows, these same “hogs’ bristles,” “fins,” “whiskers,”
+“blinds,” or whatever you please, furnish to the ladies their busks and
+other stiffening contrivances. But in this particular, the demand has
+long been on the decline. It was in Queen Anne’s time that the bone was
+in its glory, the farthingale being then all the fashion. And as those
+ancient dames moved about gaily, though in the jaws of the whale, as
+you may say; even so, in a shower, with the like thoughtlessness, do we
+nowadays fly under the same jaws for protection; the umbrella being a
+tent spread over the same bone.
+
+But now forget all about blinds and whiskers for a moment, and,
+standing in the Right Whale’s mouth, look around you afresh. Seeing all
+these colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not
+think you were inside of the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its
+thousand pipes? For a carpet to the organ we have a rug of the softest
+Turkey—the tongue, which is glued, as it were, to the floor of the
+mouth. It is very fat and tender, and apt to tear in pieces in hoisting
+it on deck. This particular tongue now before us; at a passing glance I
+should say it was a six-barreler; that is, it will yield you about that
+amount of oil.
+
+Ere this, you must have plainly seen the truth of what I started
+with—that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely
+different heads. To sum up, then: in the Right Whale’s there is no
+great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible
+of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale’s. Nor in the Sperm Whale are
+there any of those blinds of bone; no huge lower lip; and scarcely
+anything of a tongue. Again, the Right Whale has two external
+spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one.
+
+Look your last, now, on these venerable hooded heads, while they yet
+lie together; for one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea; the other
+will not be very long in following.
+
+Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale’s there? It is the same
+he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem now
+faded away. I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like
+placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death. But mark the
+other head’s expression. See that amazing lower lip, pressed by
+accident against the vessel’s side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw.
+Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical
+resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a
+Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in
+his latter years.
+
+
+CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
+
+Ere quitting, for the nonce, the Sperm Whale’s head, I would have you,
+as a sensible physiologist, simply—particularly remark its front
+aspect, in all its compacted collectedness. I would have you
+investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some
+unexaggerated, intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may
+be lodged there. Here is a vital point; for you must either
+satisfactorily settle this matter with yourself, or for ever remain an
+infidel as to one of the most appalling, but not the less true events,
+perhaps anywhere to be found in all recorded history.
+
+You observe that in the ordinary swimming position of the Sperm Whale,
+the front of his head presents an almost wholly vertical plane to the
+water; you observe that the lower part of that front slopes
+considerably backwards, so as to furnish more of a retreat for the long
+socket which receives the boom-like lower jaw; you observe that the
+mouth is entirely under the head, much in the same way, indeed, as
+though your own mouth were entirely under your chin. Moreover you
+observe that the whale has no external nose; and that what nose he
+has—his spout hole—is on the top of his head; you observe that his eyes
+and ears are at the sides of his head, nearly one third of his entire
+length from the front. Wherefore, you must now have perceived that the
+front of the Sperm Whale’s head is a dead, blind wall, without a single
+organ or tender prominence of any sort whatsoever. Furthermore, you are
+now to consider that only in the extreme, lower, backward sloping part
+of the front of the head, is there the slightest vestige of bone; and
+not till you get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the
+full cranial development. So that this whole enormous boneless mass is
+as one wad. Finally, though, as will soon be revealed, its contents
+partly comprise the most delicate oil; yet, you are now to be apprised
+of the nature of the substance which so impregnably invests all that
+apparent effeminacy. In some previous place I have described to you how
+the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange.
+Just so with the head; but with this difference: about the head this
+envelope, though not so thick, is of a boneless toughness, inestimable
+by any man who has not handled it. The severest pointed harpoon, the
+sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds
+from it. It is as though the forehead of the Sperm Whale were paved
+with horses’ hoofs. I do not think that any sensation lurks in it.
+
+Bethink yourself also of another thing. When two large, loaded Indiamen
+chance to crowd and crush towards each other in the docks, what do the
+sailors do? They do not suspend between them, at the point of coming
+contact, any merely hard substance, like iron or wood. No, they hold
+there a large, round wad of tow and cork, enveloped in the thickest and
+toughest of ox-hide. That bravely and uninjured takes the jam which
+would have snapped all their oaken handspikes and iron crow-bars. By
+itself this sufficiently illustrates the obvious fact I drive at. But
+supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that as
+ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them,
+capable, at will, of distension or contraction; and as the Sperm Whale,
+as far as I know, has no such provision in him; considering, too, the
+otherwise inexplicable manner in which he now depresses his head
+altogether beneath the surface, and anon swims with it high elevated
+out of the water; considering the unobstructed elasticity of its
+envelope; considering the unique interior of his head; it has
+hypothetically occurred to me, I say, that those mystical lung-celled
+honeycombs there may possibly have some hitherto unknown and
+unsuspected connexion with the outer air, so as to be susceptible to
+atmospheric distension and contraction. If this be so, fancy the
+irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and
+destructive of all elements contributes.
+
+Now, mark. Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable
+wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a
+mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood
+is—by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest
+insect. So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the
+specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this
+expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more
+inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all
+ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the
+Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed
+the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your
+eye-brow. For unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and
+sentimentalist in Truth. But clear Truth is a thing for salamander
+giants only to encounter; how small the chances for the provincials
+then? What befell the weakling youth lifting the dread goddess’s veil
+at Lais?
+
+
+CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
+
+Now comes the Baling of the Case. But to comprehend it aright, you must
+know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated
+upon.
+
+Regarding the Sperm Whale’s head as a solid oblong, you may, on an
+inclined plane, sideways divide it into two quoins,* whereof the lower
+is the bony structure, forming the cranium and jaws, and the upper an
+unctuous mass wholly free from bones; its broad forward end forming the
+expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale. At the middle of the
+forehead horizontally subdivide this upper quoin, and then you have two
+almost equal parts, which before were naturally divided by an internal
+wall of a thick tendinous substance.
+
+*Quoin is not a Euclidean term. It belongs to the pure nautical
+mathematics. I know not that it has been defined before. A quoin is a
+solid which differs from a wedge in having its sharp end formed by the
+steep inclination of one side, instead of the mutual tapering of both
+sides.
+
+The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of
+oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand
+infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole
+extent. The upper part, known as the Case, may be regarded as the great
+Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale. And as that famous great tierce is
+mystically carved in front, so the whale’s vast plaited forehead forms
+innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his
+wondrous tun. Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished
+with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun
+of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily
+vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure,
+limpid, and odoriferous state. Nor is this precious substance found
+unalloyed in any other part of the creature. Though in life it remains
+perfectly fluid, yet, upon exposure to the air, after death, it soon
+begins to concrete; sending forth beautiful crystalline shoots, as when
+the first thin delicate ice is just forming in water. A large whale’s
+case generally yields about five hundred gallons of sperm, though from
+unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it is spilled, leaks, and
+dribbles away, or is otherwise irrevocably lost in the ticklish
+business of securing what you can.
+
+I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was
+coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not
+possibly have compared with the silken pearl-coloured membrane, like
+the lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm
+Whale’s case.
+
+It will have been seen that the Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale
+embraces the entire length of the entire top of the head; and since—as
+has been elsewhere set forth—the head embraces one third of the whole
+length of the creature, then setting that length down at eighty feet
+for a good sized whale, you have more than twenty-six feet for the
+depth of the tun, when it is lengthwise hoisted up and down against a
+ship’s side.
+
+As in decapitating the whale, the operator’s instrument is brought
+close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the
+spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest
+a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly
+let out its invaluable contents. It is this decapitated end of the
+head, also, which is at last elevated out of the water, and retained in
+that position by the enormous cutting tackles, whose hempen
+combinations, on one side, make quite a wilderness of ropes in that
+quarter.
+
+Thus much being said, attend now, I pray you, to that marvellous and—in
+this particular instance—almost fatal operation whereby the Sperm
+Whale’s great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
+
+
+CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
+
+Nimble as a cat, Tashtego mounts aloft; and without altering his erect
+posture, runs straight out upon the overhanging mainyard-arm, to the
+part where it exactly projects over the hoisted Tun. He has carried
+with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of only two parts,
+travelling through a single-sheaved block. Securing this block, so that
+it hangs down from the yard-arm, he swings one end of the rope, till it
+is caught and firmly held by a hand on deck. Then, hand-over-hand, down
+the other part, the Indian drops through the air, till dexterously he
+lands on the summit of the head. There—still high elevated above the
+rest of the company, to whom he vivaciously cries—he seems some Turkish
+Muezzin calling the good people to prayers from the top of a tower. A
+short-handled sharp spade being sent up to him, he diligently searches
+for the proper place to begin breaking into the Tun. In this business
+he proceeds very heedfully, like a treasure-hunter in some old house,
+sounding the walls to find where the gold is masoned in. By the time
+this cautious search is over, a stout iron-bound bucket, precisely like
+a well-bucket, has been attached to one end of the whip; while the
+other end, being stretched across the deck, is there held by two or
+three alert hands. These last now hoist the bucket within grasp of the
+Indian, to whom another person has reached up a very long pole.
+Inserting this pole into the bucket, Tashtego downward guides the
+bucket into the Tun, till it entirely disappears; then giving the word
+to the seamen at the whip, up comes the bucket again, all bubbling like
+a dairy-maid’s pail of new milk. Carefully lowered from its height, the
+full-freighted vessel is caught by an appointed hand, and quickly
+emptied into a large tub. Then remounting aloft, it again goes through
+the same round until the deep cistern will yield no more. Towards the
+end, Tashtego has to ram his long pole harder and harder, and deeper
+and deeper into the Tun, until some twenty feet of the pole have gone
+down.
+
+Now, the people of the Pequod had been baling some time in this way;
+several tubs had been filled with the fragrant sperm; when all at once
+a queer accident happened. Whether it was that Tashtego, that wild
+Indian, was so heedless and reckless as to let go for a moment his
+one-handed hold on the great cabled tackles suspending the head; or
+whether the place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy; or
+whether the Evil One himself would have it to fall out so, without
+stating his particular reasons; how it was exactly, there is no telling
+now; but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came
+suckingly up—my God! poor Tashtego—like the twin reciprocating bucket
+in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of
+Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of
+sight!
+
+“Man overboard!” cried Daggoo, who amid the general consternation first
+came to his senses. “Swing the bucket this way!” and putting one foot
+into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip
+itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost
+before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. Meantime, there
+was a terrible tumult. Looking over the side, they saw the before
+lifeless head throbbing and heaving just below the surface of the sea,
+as if that moment seized with some momentous idea; whereas it was only
+the poor Indian unconsciously revealing by those struggles the perilous
+depth to which he had sunk.
+
+At this instant, while Daggoo, on the summit of the head, was clearing
+the whip—which had somehow got foul of the great cutting tackles—a
+sharp cracking noise was heard; and to the unspeakable horror of all,
+one of the two enormous hooks suspending the head tore out, and with a
+vast vibration the enormous mass sideways swung, till the drunk ship
+reeled and shook as if smitten by an iceberg. The one remaining hook,
+upon which the entire strain now depended, seemed every instant to be
+on the point of giving way; an event still more likely from the violent
+motions of the head.
+
+“Come down, come down!” yelled the seamen to Daggoo, but with one hand
+holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should drop, he
+would still remain suspended; the negro having cleared the foul line,
+rammed down the bucket into the now collapsed well, meaning that the
+buried harpooneer should grasp it, and so be hoisted out.
+
+“In heaven’s name, man,” cried Stubb, “are you ramming home a cartridge
+there?—Avast! How will that help him; jamming that iron-bound bucket on
+top of his head? Avast, will ye!”
+
+“Stand clear of the tackle!” cried a voice like the bursting of a
+rocket.
+
+Almost in the same instant, with a thunder-boom, the enormous mass
+dropped into the sea, like Niagara’s Table-Rock into the whirlpool; the
+suddenly relieved hull rolled away from it, to far down her glittering
+copper; and all caught their breath, as half swinging—now over the
+sailors’ heads, and now over the water—Daggoo, through a thick mist of
+spray, was dimly beheld clinging to the pendulous tackles, while poor,
+buried-alive Tashtego was sinking utterly down to the bottom of the
+sea! But hardly had the blinding vapor cleared away, when a naked
+figure with a boarding-sword in his hand, was for one swift moment seen
+hovering over the bulwarks. The next, a loud splash announced that my
+brave Queequeg had dived to the rescue. One packed rush was made to the
+side, and every eye counted every ripple, as moment followed moment,
+and no sign of either the sinker or the diver could be seen. Some hands
+now jumped into a boat alongside, and pushed a little off from the
+ship.
+
+“Ha! ha!” cried Daggoo, all at once, from his now quiet, swinging perch
+overhead; and looking further off from the side, we saw an arm thrust
+upright from the blue waves; a sight strange to see, as an arm thrust
+forth from the grass over a grave.
+
+“Both! both!—it is both!”—cried Daggoo again with a joyful shout; and
+soon after, Queequeg was seen boldly striking out with one hand, and
+with the other clutching the long hair of the Indian. Drawn into the
+waiting boat, they were quickly brought to the deck; but Tashtego was
+long in coming to, and Queequeg did not look very brisk.
+
+Now, how had this noble rescue been accomplished? Why, diving after the
+slowly descending head, Queequeg with his keen sword had made side
+lunges near its bottom, so as to scuttle a large hole there; then
+dropping his sword, had thrust his long arm far inwards and upwards,
+and so hauled out poor Tash by the head. He averred, that upon first
+thrusting in for him, a leg was presented; but well knowing that that
+was not as it ought to be, and might occasion great trouble;—he had
+thrust back the leg, and by a dexterous heave and toss, had wrought a
+somerset upon the Indian; so that with the next trial, he came forth in
+the good old way—head foremost. As for the great head itself, that was
+doing as well as could be expected.
+
+And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of
+Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was
+successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and
+apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be
+forgotten. Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing
+and boxing, riding and rowing.
+
+I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header’s will be sure to
+seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have
+either seen or heard of some one’s falling into a cistern ashore; an
+accident which not seldom happens, and with much less reason too than
+the Indian’s, considering the exceeding slipperiness of the curb of the
+Sperm Whale’s well.
+
+But, peradventure, it may be sagaciously urged, how is this? We thought
+the tissued, infiltrated head of the Sperm Whale, was the lightest and
+most corky part about him; and yet thou makest it sink in an element of
+a far greater specific gravity than itself. We have thee there. Not at
+all, but I have ye; for at the time poor Tash fell in, the case had
+been nearly emptied of its lighter contents, leaving little but the
+dense tendinous wall of the well—a double welded, hammered substance,
+as I have before said, much heavier than the sea water, and a lump of
+which sinks in it like lead almost. But the tendency to rapid sinking
+in this substance was in the present instance materially counteracted
+by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it
+sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair
+chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.
+Yes, it was a running delivery, so it was.
+
+Now, had Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious
+perishing; smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant
+spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber
+and sanctum sanctorum of the whale. Only one sweeter end can readily be
+recalled—the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey
+in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that
+leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How
+many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato’s honey head, and
+sweetly perished there?
+
+
+CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
+
+To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this
+Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has
+as yet undertaken. Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as
+for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar,
+or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the
+Pantheon. Still, in that famous work of his, Lavater not only treats of
+the various faces of men, but also attentively studies the faces of
+horses, birds, serpents, and fish; and dwells in detail upon the
+modifications of expression discernible therein. Nor have Gall and his
+disciple Spurzheim failed to throw out some hints touching the
+phrenological characteristics of other beings than man. Therefore,
+though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of
+these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor. I try all
+things; I achieve what I can.
+
+Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature. He
+has no proper nose. And since the nose is the central and most
+conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and
+finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that
+its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect
+the countenance of the whale. For as in landscape gardening, a spire,
+cupola, monument, or tower of some sort, is deemed almost indispensable
+to the completion of the scene; so no face can be physiognomically in
+keeping without the elevated open-work belfry of the nose. Dash the
+nose from Phidias’s marble Jove, and what a sorry remainder!
+Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his
+proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the
+sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all. Nay, it is
+an added grandeur. A nose to the whale would have been impertinent. As
+on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your
+jolly-boat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the
+reflection that he has a nose to be pulled. A pestilent conceit, which
+so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest
+royal beadle on his throne.
+
+In some particulars, perhaps the most imposing physiognomical view to
+be had of the Sperm Whale, is that of the full front of his head. This
+aspect is sublime.
+
+In thought, a fine human brow is like the East when troubled with the
+morning. In the repose of the pasture, the curled brow of the bull has
+a touch of the grand in it. Pushing heavy cannon up mountain defiles,
+the elephant’s brow is majestic. Human or animal, the mystical brow is
+as that great golden seal affixed by the German emperors to their
+decrees. It signifies—“God: done this day by my hand.” But in most
+creatures, nay in man himself, very often the brow is but a mere strip
+of alpine land lying along the snow line. Few are the foreheads which
+like Shakespeare’s or Melancthon’s rise so high, and descend so low,
+that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes;
+and all above them in the forehead’s wrinkles, you seem to track the
+antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters
+track the snow prints of the deer. But in the great Sperm Whale, this
+high and mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely
+amplified, that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the
+Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other
+object in living nature. For you see no one point precisely; not one
+distinct feature is revealed; no nose, eyes, ears, or mouth; no face;
+he has none, proper; nothing but that one broad firmament of a
+forehead, pleated with riddles; dumbly lowering with the doom of boats,
+and ships, and men. Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish;
+though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so. In
+profile, you plainly perceive that horizontal, semi-crescentic
+depression in the forehead’s middle, which, in man, is Lavater’s mark
+of genius.
+
+But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a
+book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing
+nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his
+pyramidical silence. And this reminds me that had the great Sperm Whale
+been known to the young Orient World, he would have been deified by
+their child-magian thoughts. They deified the crocodile of the Nile,
+because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no tongue,
+or at least it is so exceedingly small, as to be incapable of
+protrusion. If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall
+lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and
+livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now
+unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove’s high seat, the great
+Sperm Whale shall lord it.
+
+Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is
+no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man’s and every being’s
+face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing
+fable. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could
+not read the simplest peasant’s face in its profounder and more subtle
+meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of
+the Sperm Whale’s brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you
+can.
+
+
+CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
+
+If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist
+his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to
+square.
+
+In the full-grown creature the skull will measure at least twenty feet
+in length. Unhinge the lower jaw, and the side view of this skull is as
+the side of a moderately inclined plane resting throughout on a level
+base. But in life—as we have elsewhere seen—this inclined plane is
+angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent
+mass of the junk and sperm. At the high end the skull forms a crater to
+bed that part of the mass; while under the long floor of this crater—in
+another cavity seldom exceeding ten inches in length and as many in
+depth—reposes the mere handful of this monster’s brain. The brain is at
+least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden away
+behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the
+amplified fortifications of Quebec. So like a choice casket is it
+secreted in him, that I have known some whalemen who peremptorily deny
+that the Sperm Whale has any other brain than that palpable semblance
+of one formed by the cubic-yards of his sperm magazine. Lying in
+strange folds, courses, and convolutions, to their apprehensions, it
+seems more in keeping with the idea of his general might to regard that
+mystic part of him as the seat of his intelligence.
+
+It is plain, then, that phrenologically the head of this Leviathan, in
+the creature’s living intact state, is an entire delusion. As for his
+true brain, you can then see no indications of it, nor feel any. The
+whale, like all things that are mighty, wears a false brow to the
+common world.
+
+If you unload his skull of its spermy heaps and then take a rear view
+of its rear end, which is the high end, you will be struck by its
+resemblance to the human skull, beheld in the same situation, and from
+the same point of view. Indeed, place this reversed skull (scaled down
+to the human magnitude) among a plate of men’s skulls, and you would
+involuntarily confound it with them; and remarking the depressions on
+one part of its summit, in phrenological phrase you would say—This man
+had no self-esteem, and no veneration. And by those negations,
+considered along with the affirmative fact of his prodigious bulk and
+power, you can best form to yourself the truest, though not the most
+exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is.
+
+But if from the comparative dimensions of the whale’s proper brain, you
+deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea
+for you. If you attentively regard almost any quadruped’s spine, you
+will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebræ to a strung
+necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the
+skull proper. It is a German conceit, that the vertebræ are absolutely
+undeveloped skulls. But the curious external resemblance, I take it the
+Germans were not the first men to perceive. A foreign friend once
+pointed it out to me, in the skeleton of a foe he had slain, and with
+the vertebræ of which he was inlaying, in a sort of basso-relievo, the
+beaked prow of his canoe. Now, I consider that the phrenologists have
+omitted an important thing in not pushing their investigations from the
+cerebellum through the spinal canal. For I believe that much of a man’s
+character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel
+your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine
+never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I rejoice in my spine, as in
+the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the
+world.
+
+Apply this spinal branch of phrenology to the Sperm Whale. His cranial
+cavity is continuous with the first neck-vertebra; and in that vertebra
+the bottom of the spinal canal will measure ten inches across, being
+eight in height, and of a triangular figure with the base downwards. As
+it passes through the remaining vertebræ the canal tapers in size, but
+for a considerable distance remains of large capacity. Now, of course,
+this canal is filled with much the same strangely fibrous substance—the
+spinal cord—as the brain; and directly communicates with the brain. And
+what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain’s
+cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal
+to that of the brain. Under all these circumstances, would it be
+unreasonable to survey and map out the whale’s spine phrenologically?
+For, viewed in this light, the wonderful comparative smallness of his
+brain proper is more than compensated by the wonderful comparative
+magnitude of his spinal cord.
+
+But leaving this hint to operate as it may with the phrenologists, I
+would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the
+Sperm Whale’s hump. This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one
+of the larger vertebræ, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer
+convex mould of it. From its relative situation then, I should call
+this high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm
+Whale. And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have
+reason to know.
+
+
+CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
+
+The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau,
+Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen.
+
+At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and
+Germans are now among the least; but here and there at very wide
+intervals of latitude and longitude, you still occasionally meet with
+their flag in the Pacific.
+
+For some reason, the Jungfrau seemed quite eager to pay her respects.
+While yet some distance from the Pequod, she rounded to, and dropping a
+boat, her captain was impelled towards us, impatiently standing in the
+bows instead of the stern.
+
+“What has he in his hand there?” cried Starbuck, pointing to something
+wavingly held by the German. “Impossible!—a lamp-feeder!”
+
+“Not that,” said Stubb, “no, no, it’s a coffee-pot, Mr. Starbuck; he’s
+coming off to make us our coffee, is the Yarman; don’t you see that big
+tin can there alongside of him?—that’s his boiling water. Oh! he’s all
+right, is the Yarman.”
+
+“Go along with you,” cried Flask, “it’s a lamp-feeder and an oil-can.
+He’s out of oil, and has come a-begging.”
+
+However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the
+whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old
+proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing
+really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did
+indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.
+
+As he mounted the deck, Ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all
+heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken lingo, the German
+soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately
+turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some
+remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in
+profound darkness—his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a
+single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding by
+hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically
+called a _clean_ one (that is, an empty one), well deserving the name
+of Jungfrau or the Virgin.
+
+His necessities supplied, Derick departed; but he had not gained his
+ship’s side, when whales were almost simultaneously raised from the
+mast-heads of both vessels; and so eager for the chase was Derick, that
+without pausing to put his oil-can and lamp-feeder aboard, he slewed
+round his boat and made after the leviathan lamp-feeders.
+
+Now, the game having risen to leeward, he and the other three German
+boats that soon followed him, had considerably the start of the
+Pequod’s keels. There were eight whales, an average pod. Aware of their
+danger, they were going all abreast with great speed straight before
+the wind, rubbing their flanks as closely as so many spans of horses in
+harness. They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling
+a great wide parchment upon the sea.
+
+Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge,
+humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as
+by the unusual yellowish incrustations overgrowing him, seemed
+afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity. Whether this
+whale belonged to the pod in advance, seemed questionable; for it is
+not customary for such venerable leviathans to be at all social.
+Nevertheless, he stuck to their wake, though indeed their back water
+must have retarded him, because the white-bone or swell at his broad
+muzzle was a dashed one, like the swell formed when two hostile
+currents meet. His spout was short, slow, and laborious; coming forth
+with a choking sort of gush, and spending itself in torn shreds,
+followed by strange subterranean commotions in him, which seemed to
+have egress at his other buried extremity, causing the waters behind
+him to upbubble.
+
+“Who’s got some paregoric?” said Stubb, “he has the stomach-ache, I’m
+afraid. Lord, think of having half an acre of stomach-ache! Adverse
+winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys. It’s the first foul wind
+I ever knew to blow from astern; but look, did ever whale yaw so
+before? it must be, he’s lost his tiller.”
+
+As an overladen Indiaman bearing down the Hindostan coast with a deck
+load of frightened horses, careens, buries, rolls, and wallows on her
+way; so did this old whale heave his aged bulk, and now and then partly
+turning over on his cumbrous rib-ends, expose the cause of his devious
+wake in the unnatural stump of his starboard fin. Whether he had lost
+that fin in battle, or had been born without it, it were hard to say.
+
+“Only wait a bit, old chap, and I’ll give ye a sling for that wounded
+arm,” cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
+
+“Mind he don’t sling thee with it,” cried Starbuck. “Give way, or the
+German will have him.”
+
+With one intent all the combined rival boats were pointed for this one
+fish, because not only was he the largest, and therefore the most
+valuable whale, but he was nearest to them, and the other whales were
+going with such great velocity, moreover, as almost to defy pursuit for
+the time. At this juncture the Pequod’s keels had shot by the three
+German boats last lowered; but from the great start he had had,
+Derick’s boat still led the chase, though every moment neared by his
+foreign rivals. The only thing they feared, was, that from being
+already so nigh to his mark, he would be enabled to dart his iron
+before they could completely overtake and pass him. As for Derick, he
+seemed quite confident that this would be the case, and occasionally
+with a deriding gesture shook his lamp-feeder at the other boats.
+
+“The ungracious and ungrateful dog!” cried Starbuck; “he mocks and
+dares me with the very poor-box I filled for him not five minutes
+ago!”—then in his old intense whisper—“Give way, greyhounds! Dog to
+it!”
+
+“I tell ye what it is, men”—cried Stubb to his crew—“it’s against my
+religion to get mad; but I’d like to eat that villainous
+Yarman—Pull—won’t ye? Are ye going to let that rascal beat ye? Do ye
+love brandy? A hogshead of brandy, then, to the best man. Come, why
+don’t some of ye burst a blood-vessel? Who’s that been dropping an
+anchor overboard—we don’t budge an inch—we’re becalmed. Halloo, here’s
+grass growing in the boat’s bottom—and by the Lord, the mast there’s
+budding. This won’t do, boys. Look at that Yarman! The short and long
+of it is, men, will ye spit fire or not?”
+
+“Oh! see the suds he makes!” cried Flask, dancing up and down—“What a
+hump—Oh, _do_ pile on the beef—lays like a log! Oh! my lads, _do_
+spring—slap-jacks and quahogs for supper, you know, my lads—baked clams
+and muffins—oh, _do_, _do_, spring,—he’s a hundred barreller—don’t lose
+him now—don’t oh, _don’t!_—see that Yarman—Oh, won’t ye pull for your
+duff, my lads—such a sog! such a sogger! Don’t ye love sperm? There
+goes three thousand dollars, men!—a bank!—a whole bank! The bank of
+England!—Oh, _do_, _do_, _do!_—What’s that Yarman about now?”
+
+At this moment Derick was in the act of pitching his lamp-feeder at the
+advancing boats, and also his oil-can; perhaps with the double view of
+retarding his rivals’ way, and at the same time economically
+accelerating his own by the momentary impetus of the backward toss.
+
+“The unmannerly Dutch dogger!” cried Stubb. “Pull now, men, like fifty
+thousand line-of-battle-ship loads of red-haired devils. What d’ye say,
+Tashtego; are you the man to snap your spine in two-and-twenty pieces
+for the honor of old Gayhead? What d’ye say?”
+
+“I say, pull like god-dam,”—cried the Indian.
+
+Fiercely, but evenly incited by the taunts of the German, the Pequod’s
+three boats now began ranging almost abreast; and, so disposed,
+momentarily neared him. In that fine, loose, chivalrous attitude of the
+headsman when drawing near to his prey, the three mates stood up
+proudly, occasionally backing the after oarsman with an exhilarating
+cry of, “There she slides, now! Hurrah for the white-ash breeze! Down
+with the Yarman! Sail over him!”
+
+But so decided an original start had Derick had, that spite of all
+their gallantry, he would have proved the victor in this race, had not
+a righteous judgment descended upon him in a crab which caught the
+blade of his midship oarsman. While this clumsy lubber was striving to
+free his white-ash, and while, in consequence, Derick’s boat was nigh
+to capsizing, and he thundering away at his men in a mighty rage;—that
+was a good time for Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask. With a shout, they took
+a mortal start forwards, and slantingly ranged up on the German’s
+quarter. An instant more, and all four boats were diagonically in the
+whale’s immediate wake, while stretching from them, on both sides, was
+the foaming swell that he made.
+
+It was a terrific, most pitiable, and maddening sight. The whale was
+now going head out, and sending his spout before him in a continual
+tormented jet; while his one poor fin beat his side in an agony of
+fright. Now to this hand, now to that, he yawed in his faltering
+flight, and still at every billow that he broke, he spasmodically sank
+in the sea, or sideways rolled towards the sky his one beating fin. So
+have I seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles
+in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks. But the bird
+has a voice, and with plaintive cries will make known her fear; but the
+fear of this vast dumb brute of the sea, was chained up and enchanted
+in him; he had no voice, save that choking respiration through his
+spiracle, and this made the sight of him unspeakably pitiable; while
+still, in his amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there
+was enough to appal the stoutest man who so pitied.
+
+Seeing now that but a very few moments more would give the Pequod’s
+boats the advantage, and rather than be thus foiled of his game, Derick
+chose to hazard what to him must have seemed a most unusually long
+dart, ere the last chance would for ever escape.
+
+But no sooner did his harpooneer stand up for the stroke, than all
+three tigers—Queequeg, Tashtego, Daggoo—instinctively sprang to their
+feet, and standing in a diagonal row, simultaneously pointed their
+barbs; and darted over the head of the German harpooneer, their three
+Nantucket irons entered the whale. Blinding vapors of foam and
+white-fire! The three boats, in the first fury of the whale’s headlong
+rush, bumped the German’s aside with such force, that both Derick and
+his baffled harpooneer were spilled out, and sailed over by the three
+flying keels.
+
+“Don’t be afraid, my butter-boxes,” cried Stubb, casting a passing
+glance upon them as he shot by; “ye’ll be picked up presently—all
+right—I saw some sharks astern—St. Bernard’s dogs, you know—relieve
+distressed travellers. Hurrah! this is the way to sail now. Every keel
+a sunbeam! Hurrah!—Here we go like three tin kettles at the tail of a
+mad cougar! This puts me in mind of fastening to an elephant in a
+tilbury on a plain—makes the wheel-spokes fly, boys, when you fasten to
+him that way; and there’s danger of being pitched out too, when you
+strike a hill. Hurrah! this is the way a fellow feels when he’s going
+to Davy Jones—all a rush down an endless inclined plane! Hurrah! this
+whale carries the everlasting mail!”
+
+But the monster’s run was a brief one. Giving a sudden gasp, he
+tumultuously sounded. With a grating rush, the three lines flew round
+the loggerheads with such a force as to gouge deep grooves in them;
+while so fearful were the harpooneers that this rapid sounding would
+soon exhaust the lines, that using all their dexterous might, they
+caught repeated smoking turns with the rope to hold on; till at
+last—owing to the perpendicular strain from the lead-lined chocks of
+the boats, whence the three ropes went straight down into the blue—the
+gunwales of the bows were almost even with the water, while the three
+sterns tilted high in the air. And the whale soon ceasing to sound, for
+some time they remained in that attitude, fearful of expending more
+line, though the position was a little ticklish. But though boats have
+been taken down and lost in this way, yet it is this “holding on,” as
+it is called; this hooking up by the sharp barbs of his live flesh from
+the back; this it is that often torments the Leviathan into soon rising
+again to meet the sharp lance of his foes. Yet not to speak of the
+peril of the thing, it is to be doubted whether this course is always
+the best; for it is but reasonable to presume, that the longer the
+stricken whale stays under water, the more he is exhausted. Because,
+owing to the enormous surface of him—in a full grown sperm whale
+something less than 2000 square feet—the pressure of the water is
+immense. We all know what an astonishing atmospheric weight we
+ourselves stand up under; even here, above-ground, in the air; how
+vast, then, the burden of a whale, bearing on his back a column of two
+hundred fathoms of ocean! It must at least equal the weight of fifty
+atmospheres. One whaleman has estimated it at the weight of twenty
+line-of-battle ships, with all their guns, and stores, and men on
+board.
+
+As the three boats lay there on that gently rolling sea, gazing down
+into its eternal blue noon; and as not a single groan or cry of any
+sort, nay, not so much as a ripple or a bubble came up from its depths;
+what landsman would have thought, that beneath all that silence and
+placidity, the utmost monster of the seas was writhing and wrenching in
+agony! Not eight inches of perpendicular rope were visible at the bows.
+Seems it credible that by three such thin threads the great Leviathan
+was suspended like the big weight to an eight day clock. Suspended? and
+to what? To three bits of board. Is this the creature of whom it was
+once so triumphantly said—“Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?
+or his head with fish-spears? The sword of him that layeth at him
+cannot hold, the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon: he esteemeth iron
+as straw; the arrow cannot make him flee; darts are counted as stubble;
+he laugheth at the shaking of a spear!” This the creature? this he? Oh!
+that unfulfilments should follow the prophets. For with the strength of
+a thousand thighs in his tail, Leviathan had run his head under the
+mountains of the sea, to hide him from the Pequod’s fish-spears!
+
+In that sloping afternoon sunlight, the shadows that the three boats
+sent down beneath the surface, must have been long enough and broad
+enough to shade half Xerxes’ army. Who can tell how appalling to the
+wounded whale must have been such huge phantoms flitting over his head!
+
+“Stand by, men; he stirs,” cried Starbuck, as the three lines suddenly
+vibrated in the water, distinctly conducting upwards to them, as by
+magnetic wires, the life and death throbs of the whale, so that every
+oarsman felt them in his seat. The next moment, relieved in great part
+from the downward strain at the bows, the boats gave a sudden bounce
+upwards, as a small icefield will, when a dense herd of white bears are
+scared from it into the sea.
+
+“Haul in! Haul in!” cried Starbuck again; “he’s rising.”
+
+The lines, of which, hardly an instant before, not one hand’s breadth
+could have been gained, were now in long quick coils flung back all
+dripping into the boats, and soon the whale broke water within two
+ship’s lengths of the hunters.
+
+His motions plainly denoted his extreme exhaustion. In most land
+animals there are certain valves or flood-gates in many of their veins,
+whereby when wounded, the blood is in some degree at least instantly
+shut off in certain directions. Not so with the whale; one of whose
+peculiarities it is to have an entire non-valvular structure of the
+blood-vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a
+harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial
+system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of
+water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to
+pour from him in incessant streams. Yet so vast is the quantity of
+blood in him, and so distant and numerous its interior fountains, that
+he will keep thus bleeding and bleeding for a considerable period; even
+as in a drought a river will flow, whose source is in the well-springs
+of far-off and undiscernible hills. Even now, when the boats pulled
+upon this whale, and perilously drew over his swaying flukes, and the
+lances were darted into him, they were followed by steady jets from the
+new made wound, which kept continually playing, while the natural
+spout-hole in his head was only at intervals, however rapid, sending
+its affrighted moisture into the air. From this last vent no blood yet
+came, because no vital part of him had thus far been struck. His life,
+as they significantly call it, was untouched.
+
+As the boats now more closely surrounded him, the whole upper part of
+his form, with much of it that is ordinarily submerged, was plainly
+revealed. His eyes, or rather the places where his eyes had been, were
+beheld. As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the
+noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale’s eyes
+had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.
+But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his
+blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light
+the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate
+the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to
+all. Still rolling in his blood, at last he partially disclosed a
+strangely discoloured bunch or protuberance, the size of a bushel, low
+down on the flank.
+
+“A nice spot,” cried Flask; “just let me prick him there once.”
+
+“Avast!” cried Starbuck, “there’s no need of that!”
+
+But humane Starbuck was too late. At the instant of the dart an
+ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more
+than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift
+fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying
+crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask’s boat and marring
+the bows. It was his death stroke. For, by this time, so spent was he
+by loss of blood, that he helplessly rolled away from the wreck he had
+made; lay panting on his side, impotently flapped with his stumped fin,
+then over and over slowly revolved like a waning world; turned up the
+white secrets of his belly; lay like a log, and died. It was most
+piteous, that last expiring spout. As when by unseen hands the water is
+gradually drawn off from some mighty fountain, and with half-stifled
+melancholy gurglings the spray-column lowers and lowers to the
+ground—so the last long dying spout of the whale.
+
+Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival of the ship, the body
+showed symptoms of sinking with all its treasures unrifled.
+Immediately, by Starbuck’s orders, lines were secured to it at
+different points, so that ere long every boat was a buoy; the sunken
+whale being suspended a few inches beneath them by the cords. By very
+heedful management, when the ship drew nigh, the whale was transferred
+to her side, and was strongly secured there by the stiffest
+fluke-chains, for it was plain that unless artificially upheld, the
+body would at once sink to the bottom.
+
+It so chanced that almost upon first cutting into him with the spade,
+the entire length of a corroded harpoon was found imbedded in his
+flesh, on the lower part of the bunch before described. But as the
+stumps of harpoons are frequently found in the dead bodies of captured
+whales, with the flesh perfectly healed around them, and no prominence
+of any kind to denote their place; therefore, there must needs have
+been some other unknown reason in the present case fully to account for
+the ulceration alluded to. But still more curious was the fact of a
+lance-head of stone being found in him, not far from the buried iron,
+the flesh perfectly firm about it. Who had darted that stone lance? And
+when? It might have been darted by some Nor’ West Indian long before
+America was discovered.
+
+What other marvels might have been rummaged out of this monstrous
+cabinet there is no telling. But a sudden stop was put to further
+discoveries, by the ship’s being unprecedentedly dragged over sideways
+to the sea, owing to the body’s immensely increasing tendency to sink.
+However, Starbuck, who had the ordering of affairs, hung on to it to
+the last; hung on to it so resolutely, indeed, that when at length the
+ship would have been capsized, if still persisting in locking arms with
+the body; then, when the command was given to break clear from it, such
+was the immovable strain upon the timber-heads to which the
+fluke-chains and cables were fastened, that it was impossible to cast
+them off. Meantime everything in the Pequod was aslant. To cross to the
+other side of the deck was like walking up the steep gabled roof of a
+house. The ship groaned and gasped. Many of the ivory inlayings of her
+bulwarks and cabins were started from their places, by the unnatural
+dislocation. In vain handspikes and crows were brought to bear upon the
+immovable fluke-chains, to pry them adrift from the timberheads; and so
+low had the whale now settled that the submerged ends could not be at
+all approached, while every moment whole tons of ponderosity seemed
+added to the sinking bulk, and the ship seemed on the point of going
+over.
+
+“Hold on, hold on, won’t ye?” cried Stubb to the body, “don’t be in
+such a devil of a hurry to sink! By thunder, men, we must do something
+or go for it. No use prying there; avast, I say with your handspikes,
+and run one of ye for a prayer book and a pen-knife, and cut the big
+chains.”
+
+“Knife? Aye, aye,” cried Queequeg, and seizing the carpenter’s heavy
+hatchet, he leaned out of a porthole, and steel to iron, began slashing
+at the largest fluke-chains. But a few strokes, full of sparks, were
+given, when the exceeding strain effected the rest. With a terrific
+snap, every fastening went adrift; the ship righted, the carcase sank.
+
+Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm
+Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequately
+accounted for it. Usually the dead Sperm Whale floats with great
+buoyancy, with its side or belly considerably elevated above the
+surface. If the only whales that thus sank were old, meagre, and
+broken-hearted creatures, their pads of lard diminished and all their
+bones heavy and rheumatic; then you might with some reason assert that
+this sinking is caused by an uncommon specific gravity in the fish so
+sinking, consequent upon this absence of buoyant matter in him. But it
+is not so. For young whales, in the highest health, and swelling with
+noble aspirations, prematurely cut off in the warm flush and May of
+life, with all their panting lard about them; even these brawny,
+buoyant heroes do sometimes sink.
+
+Be it said, however, that the Sperm Whale is far less liable to this
+accident than any other species. Where one of that sort go down, twenty
+Right Whales do. This difference in the species is no doubt imputable
+in no small degree to the greater quantity of bone in the Right Whale;
+his Venetian blinds alone sometimes weighing more than a ton; from this
+incumbrance the Sperm Whale is wholly free. But there are instances
+where, after the lapse of many hours or several days, the sunken whale
+again rises, more buoyant than in life. But the reason of this is
+obvious. Gases are generated in him; he swells to a prodigious
+magnitude; becomes a sort of animal balloon. A line-of-battle ship
+could hardly keep him under then. In the Shore Whaling, on soundings,
+among the Bays of New Zealand, when a Right Whale gives token of
+sinking, they fasten buoys to him, with plenty of rope; so that when
+the body has gone down, they know where to look for it when it shall
+have ascended again.
+
+It was not long after the sinking of the body that a cry was heard from
+the Pequod’s mast-heads, announcing that the Jungfrau was again
+lowering her boats; though the only spout in sight was that of a
+Fin-Back, belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of
+its incredible power of swimming. Nevertheless, the Fin-Back’s spout is
+so similar to the Sperm Whale’s, that by unskilful fishermen it is
+often mistaken for it. And consequently Derick and all his host were
+now in valiant chase of this unnearable brute. The Virgin crowding all
+sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared
+far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.
+
+Oh! many are the Fin-Backs, and many are the Dericks, my friend.
+
+
+CHAPTER 82. The Honor and Glory of Whaling.
+
+There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the
+true method.
+
+The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up
+to the very spring-head of it so much the more am I impressed with its
+great honorableness and antiquity; and especially when I find so many
+great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other
+have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection
+that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a
+fraternity.
+
+The gallant Perseus, a son of Jupiter, was the first whaleman; and to
+the eternal honor of our calling be it said, that the first whale
+attacked by our brotherhood was not killed with any sordid intent.
+Those were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms
+to succor the distressed, and not to fill men’s lamp-feeders. Every one
+knows the fine story of Perseus and Andromeda; how the lovely
+Andromeda, the daughter of a king, was tied to a rock on the sea-coast,
+and as Leviathan was in the very act of carrying her off, Perseus, the
+prince of whalemen, intrepidly advancing, harpooned the monster, and
+delivered and married the maid. It was an admirable artistic exploit,
+rarely achieved by the best harpooneers of the present day; inasmuch as
+this Leviathan was slain at the very first dart. And let no man doubt
+this Arkite story; for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian
+coast, in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the vast
+skeleton of a whale, which the city’s legends and all the inhabitants
+asserted to be the identical bones of the monster that Perseus slew.
+When the Romans took Joppa, the same skeleton was carried to Italy in
+triumph. What seems most singular and suggestively important in this
+story, is this: it was from Joppa that Jonah set sail.
+
+Akin to the adventure of Perseus and Andromeda—indeed, by some supposed
+to be indirectly derived from it—is that famous story of St. George and
+the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale; for in many
+old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely jumbled together, and
+often stand for each other. “Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a
+dragon of the sea,” saith Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale; in
+truth, some versions of the Bible use that word itself. Besides, it
+would much subtract from the glory of the exploit had St. George but
+encountered a crawling reptile of the land, instead of doing battle
+with the great monster of the deep. Any man may kill a snake, but only
+a Perseus, a St. George, a Coffin, have the heart in them to march
+boldly up to a whale.
+
+Let not the modern paintings of this scene mislead us; for though the
+creature encountered by that valiant whaleman of old is vaguely
+represented of a griffin-like shape, and though the battle is depicted
+on land and the saint on horseback, yet considering the great ignorance
+of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists;
+and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might have
+crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and considering that the animal
+ridden by St. George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse;
+bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible
+with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to
+hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself.
+In fact, placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story
+will fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines,
+Dagon by name; who being planted before the ark of Israel, his horse’s
+head and both the palms of his hands fell off from him, and only the
+stump or fishy part of him remained. Thus, then, one of our own noble
+stamp, even a whaleman, is the tutelary guardian of England; and by
+good rights, we harpooneers of Nantucket should be enrolled in the most
+noble order of St. George. And therefore, let not the knights of that
+honorable company (none of whom, I venture to say, have ever had to do
+with a whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer
+with disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we
+are much better entitled to St. George’s decoration than they.
+
+Whether to admit Hercules among us or not, concerning this I long
+remained dubious: for though according to the Greek mythologies, that
+antique Crockett and Kit Carson—that brawny doer of rejoicing good
+deeds, was swallowed down and thrown up by a whale; still, whether that
+strictly makes a whaleman of him, that might be mooted. It nowhere
+appears that he ever actually harpooned his fish, unless, indeed, from
+the inside. Nevertheless, he may be deemed a sort of involuntary
+whaleman; at any rate the whale caught him, if he did not the whale. I
+claim him for one of our clan.
+
+But, by the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of
+Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the still more
+ancient Hebrew story of Jonah and the whale; and vice versâ; certainly
+they are very similar. If I claim the demi-god then, why not the
+prophet?
+
+Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole
+roll of our order. Our grand master is still to be named; for like
+royal kings of old times, we find the head waters of our fraternity in
+nothing short of the great gods themselves. That wondrous oriental
+story is now to be rehearsed from the Shaster, which gives us the dread
+Vishnoo, one of the three persons in the godhead of the Hindoos; gives
+us this divine Vishnoo himself for our Lord;—Vishnoo, who, by the first
+of his ten earthly incarnations, has for ever set apart and sanctified
+the whale. When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved
+to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave
+birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical
+books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo
+before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained
+something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these
+Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became
+incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths,
+rescued the sacred volumes. Was not this Vishnoo a whaleman, then? even
+as a man who rides a horse is called a horseman?
+
+Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there’s a
+member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman’s can head off like
+that?
+
+
+CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
+
+Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in
+the preceding chapter. Now some Nantucketers rather distrust this
+historical story of Jonah and the whale. But then there were some
+sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans
+of their times, equally doubted the story of Hercules and the whale,
+and Arion and the dolphin; and yet their doubting those traditions did
+not make those traditions one whit the less facts, for all that.
+
+One old Sag-Harbor whaleman’s chief reason for questioning the Hebrew
+story was this:—He had one of those quaint old-fashioned Bibles,
+embellished with curious, unscientific plates; one of which represented
+Jonah’s whale with two spouts in his head—a peculiarity only true with
+respect to a species of the Leviathan (the Right Whale, and the
+varieties of that order), concerning which the fishermen have this
+saying, “A penny roll would choke him”; his swallow is so very small.
+But, to this, Bishop Jebb’s anticipative answer is ready. It is not
+necessary, hints the Bishop, that we consider Jonah as tombed in the
+whale’s belly, but as temporarily lodged in some part of his mouth. And
+this seems reasonable enough in the good Bishop. For truly, the Right
+Whale’s mouth would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and
+comfortably seat all the players. Possibly, too, Jonah might have
+ensconced himself in a hollow tooth; but, on second thoughts, the Right
+Whale is toothless.
+
+Another reason which Sag-Harbor (he went by that name) urged for his
+want of faith in this matter of the prophet, was something obscurely in
+reference to his incarcerated body and the whale’s gastric juices. But
+this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist
+supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a
+_dead_ whale—even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned
+their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them. Besides, it has
+been divined by other continental commentators, that when Jonah was
+thrown overboard from the Joppa ship, he straightway effected his
+escape to another vessel near by, some vessel with a whale for a
+figure-head; and, I would add, possibly called “The Whale,” as some
+craft are nowadays christened the “Shark,” the “Gull,” the “Eagle.” Nor
+have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the
+whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver—an
+inflated bag of wind—which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was
+saved from a watery doom. Poor Sag-Harbor, therefore, seems worsted all
+round. But he had still another reason for his want of faith. It was
+this, if I remember right: Jonah was swallowed by the whale in the
+Mediterranean Sea, and after three days he was vomited up somewhere
+within three days’ journey of Nineveh, a city on the Tigris, very much
+more than three days’ journey across from the nearest point of the
+Mediterranean coast. How is that?
+
+But was there no other way for the whale to land the prophet within
+that short distance of Nineveh? Yes. He might have carried him round by
+the way of the Cape of Good Hope. But not to speak of the passage
+through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up
+the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the
+complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of
+the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any
+whale to swim in. Besides, this idea of Jonah’s weathering the Cape of
+Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of
+that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and
+so make modern history a liar.
+
+But all these foolish arguments of old Sag-Harbor only evinced his
+foolish pride of reason—a thing still more reprehensible in him, seeing
+that he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the
+sun and the sea. I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and
+abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a
+Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh
+via the Cape of Good Hope was advanced as a signal magnification of the
+general miracle. And so it was. Besides, to this day, the highly
+enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah.
+And some three centuries ago, an English traveller in old Harris’s
+Voyages, speaks of a Turkish Mosque built in honor of Jonah, in which
+Mosque was a miraculous lamp that burnt without any oil.
+
+
+CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
+
+To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are
+anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an
+analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom. Nor is it
+to be doubted that as such a procedure can do no harm, it may possibly
+be of no contemptible advantage; considering that oil and water are
+hostile; that oil is a sliding thing, and that the object in view is to
+make the boat slide bravely. Queequeg believed strongly in anointing
+his boat, and one morning not long after the German ship Jungfrau
+disappeared, took more than customary pains in that occupation;
+crawling under its bottom, where it hung over the side, and rubbing in
+the unctuousness as though diligently seeking to insure a crop of hair
+from the craft’s bald keel. He seemed to be working in obedience to
+some particular presentiment. Nor did it remain unwarranted by the
+event.
+
+Towards noon whales were raised; but so soon as the ship sailed down to
+them, they turned and fled with swift precipitancy; a disordered
+flight, as of Cleopatra’s barges from Actium.
+
+Nevertheless, the boats pursued, and Stubb’s was foremost. By great
+exertion, Tashtego at last succeeded in planting one iron; but the
+stricken whale, without at all sounding, still continued his horizontal
+flight, with added fleetness. Such unintermitted strainings upon the
+planted iron must sooner or later inevitably extract it. It became
+imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him. But to
+haul the boat up to his flank was impossible, he swam so fast and
+furious. What then remained?
+
+Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and
+countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced,
+none exceed that fine manœuvre with the lance called pitchpoling. Small
+sword, or broad sword, in all its exercises boasts nothing like it. It
+is only indispensable with an inveterate running whale; its grand fact
+and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long lance is
+accurately darted from a violently rocking, jerking boat, under extreme
+headway. Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or
+twelve feet in length; the staff is much slighter than that of the
+harpoon, and also of a lighter material—pine. It is furnished with a
+small rope called a warp, of considerable length, by which it can be
+hauled back to the hand after darting.
+
+But before going further, it is important to mention here, that though
+the harpoon may be pitchpoled in the same way with the lance, yet it is
+seldom done; and when done, is still less frequently successful, on
+account of the greater weight and inferior length of the harpoon as
+compared with the lance, which in effect become serious drawbacks. As a
+general thing, therefore, you must first get fast to a whale, before
+any pitchpoling comes into play.
+
+Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and
+equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel
+in pitchpoling. Look at him; he stands upright in the tossed bow of the
+flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is forty feet
+ahead. Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or thrice along
+its length to see if it be exactly straight, Stubb whistlingly gathers
+up the coil of the warp in one hand, so as to secure its free end in
+his grasp, leaving the rest unobstructed. Then holding the lance full
+before his waistband’s middle, he levels it at the whale; when,
+covering him with it, he steadily depresses the butt-end in his hand,
+thereby elevating the point till the weapon stands fairly balanced upon
+his palm, fifteen feet in the air. He minds you somewhat of a juggler,
+balancing a long staff on his chin. Next moment with a rapid, nameless
+impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming
+distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale. Instead of
+sparkling water, he now spouts red blood.
+
+“That drove the spigot out of him!” cried Stubb. “’Tis July’s immortal
+Fourth; all fountains must run wine today! Would now, it were old
+Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old Monongahela! Then,
+Tashtego, lad, I’d have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we’d drink
+round it! Yea, verily, hearts alive, we’d brew choice punch in the
+spread of his spout-hole there, and from that live punch-bowl quaff the
+living stuff.”
+
+Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated,
+the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful
+leash. The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is
+slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and
+mutely watches the monster die.
+
+
+CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
+
+That for six thousand years—and no one knows how many millions of ages
+before—the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and
+sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many
+sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back,
+thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the
+whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings—that all this should
+be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter
+minutes past one o’clock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D.
+1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are,
+after all, really water, or nothing but vapor—this is surely a
+noteworthy thing.
+
+Let us, then, look at this matter, along with some interesting items
+contingent. Every one knows that by the peculiar cunning of their
+gills, the finny tribes in general breathe the air which at all times
+is combined with the element in which they swim; hence, a herring or a
+cod might live a century, and never once raise its head above the
+surface. But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him
+regular lungs, like a human being’s, the whale can only live by
+inhaling the disengaged air in the open atmosphere. Wherefore the
+necessity for his periodical visits to the upper world. But he cannot
+in any degree breathe through his mouth, for, in his ordinary attitude,
+the Sperm Whale’s mouth is buried at least eight feet beneath the
+surface; and what is still more, his windpipe has no connexion with his
+mouth. No, he breathes through his spiracle alone; and this is on the
+top of his head.
+
+If I say, that in any creature breathing is only a function
+indispensable to vitality, inasmuch as it withdraws from the air a
+certain element, which being subsequently brought into contact with the
+blood imparts to the blood its vivifying principle, I do not think I
+shall err; though I may possibly use some superfluous scientific words.
+Assume it, and it follows that if all the blood in a man could be
+aerated with one breath, he might then seal up his nostrils and not
+fetch another for a considerable time. That is to say, he would then
+live without breathing. Anomalous as it may seem, this is precisely the
+case with the whale, who systematically lives, by intervals, his full
+hour and more (when at the bottom) without drawing a single breath, or
+so much as in any way inhaling a particle of air; for, remember, he has
+no gills. How is this? Between his ribs and on each side of his spine
+he is supplied with a remarkable involved Cretan labyrinth of
+vermicelli-like vessels, which vessels, when he quits the surface, are
+completely distended with oxygenated blood. So that for an hour or
+more, a thousand fathoms in the sea, he carries a surplus stock of
+vitality in him, just as the camel crossing the waterless desert
+carries a surplus supply of drink for future use in its four
+supplementary stomachs. The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is
+indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable
+and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise
+inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in _having his spoutings out_,
+as the fishermen phrase it. This is what I mean. If unmolested, upon
+rising to the surface, the Sperm Whale will continue there for a period
+of time exactly uniform with all his other unmolested risings. Say he
+stays eleven minutes, and jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy
+breaths; then whenever he rises again, he will be sure to have his
+seventy breaths over again, to a minute. Now, if after he fetches a few
+breaths you alarm him, so that he sounds, he will be always dodging up
+again to make good his regular allowance of air. And not till those
+seventy breaths are told, will he finally go down to stay out his full
+term below. Remark, however, that in different individuals these rates
+are different; but in any one they are alike. Now, why should the whale
+thus insist upon having his spoutings out, unless it be to replenish
+his reservoir of air, ere descending for good? How obvious is it, too,
+that this necessity for the whale’s rising exposes him to all the fatal
+hazards of the chase. For not by hook or by net could this vast
+leviathan be caught, when sailing a thousand fathoms beneath the
+sunlight. Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great
+necessities that strike the victory to thee!
+
+In man, breathing is incessantly going on—one breath only serving for
+two or three pulsations; so that whatever other business he has to
+attend to, waking or sleeping, breathe he must, or die he will. But the
+Sperm Whale only breathes about one seventh or Sunday of his time.
+
+It has been said that the whale only breathes through his spout-hole;
+if it could truthfully be added that his spouts are mixed with water,
+then I opine we should be furnished with the reason why his sense of
+smell seems obliterated in him; for the only thing about him that at
+all answers to his nose is that identical spout-hole; and being so
+clogged with two elements, it could not be expected to have the power
+of smelling. But owing to the mystery of the spout—whether it be water
+or whether it be vapor—no absolute certainty can as yet be arrived at
+on this head. Sure it is, nevertheless, that the Sperm Whale has no
+proper olfactories. But what does he want of them? No roses, no
+violets, no Cologne-water in the sea.
+
+Furthermore, as his windpipe solely opens into the tube of his spouting
+canal, and as that long canal—like the grand Erie Canal—is furnished
+with a sort of locks (that open and shut) for the downward retention of
+air or the upward exclusion of water, therefore the whale has no voice;
+unless you insult him by saying, that when he so strangely rumbles, he
+talks through his nose. But then again, what has the whale to say?
+Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this
+world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a
+living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!
+
+Now, the spouting canal of the Sperm Whale, chiefly intended as it is
+for the conveyance of air, and for several feet laid along,
+horizontally, just beneath the upper surface of his head, and a little
+to one side; this curious canal is very much like a gas-pipe laid down
+in a city on one side of a street. But the question returns whether
+this gas-pipe is also a water-pipe; in other words, whether the spout
+of the Sperm Whale is the mere vapor of the exhaled breath, or whether
+that exhaled breath is mixed with water taken in at the mouth, and
+discharged through the spiracle. It is certain that the mouth
+indirectly communicates with the spouting canal; but it cannot be
+proved that this is for the purpose of discharging water through the
+spiracle. Because the greatest necessity for so doing would seem to be,
+when in feeding he accidentally takes in water. But the Sperm Whale’s
+food is far beneath the surface, and there he cannot spout even if he
+would. Besides, if you regard him very closely, and time him with your
+watch, you will find that when unmolested, there is an undeviating
+rhyme between the periods of his jets and the ordinary periods of
+respiration.
+
+But why pester one with all this reasoning on the subject? Speak out!
+You have seen him spout; then declare what the spout is; can you not
+tell water from air? My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to
+settle these plain things. I have ever found your plain things the
+knottiest of all. And as for this whale spout, you might almost stand
+in it, and yet be undecided as to what it is precisely.
+
+The central body of it is hidden in the snowy sparkling mist enveloping
+it; and how can you certainly tell whether any water falls from it,
+when, always, when you are close enough to a whale to get a close view
+of his spout, he is in a prodigious commotion, the water cascading all
+around him. And if at such times you should think that you really
+perceived drops of moisture in the spout, how do you know that they are
+not merely condensed from its vapor; or how do you know that they are
+not those identical drops superficially lodged in the spout-hole
+fissure, which is countersunk into the summit of the whale’s head? For
+even when tranquilly swimming through the mid-day sea in a calm, with
+his elevated hump sun-dried as a dromedary’s in the desert; even then,
+the whale always carries a small basin of water on his head, as under a
+blazing sun you will sometimes see a cavity in a rock filled up with
+rain.
+
+Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the
+precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering
+into it, and putting his face in it. You cannot go with your pitcher to
+this fountain and fill it, and bring it away. For even when coming into
+slight contact with the outer, vapory shreds of the jet, which will
+often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of
+the thing so touching it. And I know one, who coming into still closer
+contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or
+otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm.
+Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to
+evade it. Another thing; I have heard it said, and I do not much doubt
+it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind
+you. The wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is
+to let this deadly spout alone.
+
+Still, we can hypothesize, even if we cannot prove and establish. My
+hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist. And besides
+other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations
+touching the great inherent dignity and sublimity of the Sperm Whale; I
+account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed
+fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores; all other
+whales sometimes are. He is both ponderous and profound. And I am
+convinced that from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as
+Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter, Dante, and so on, there always goes
+up a certain semi-visible steam, while in the act of thinking deep
+thoughts. While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the
+curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected
+there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over
+my head. The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep
+thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an
+August noon; this seems an additional argument for the above
+supposition.
+
+And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to
+behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild
+head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable
+contemplations, and that vapor—as you will sometimes see it—glorified
+by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts.
+For, d’ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate
+vapor. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my
+mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a
+heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny;
+but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of
+all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this
+combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who
+regards them both with equal eye.
+
+
+CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
+
+Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope,
+and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial,
+I celebrate a tail.
+
+Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale’s tail to begin at that point
+of the trunk where it tapers to about the girth of a man, it comprises
+upon its upper surface alone, an area of at least fifty square feet.
+The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat
+palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in
+thickness. At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap,
+then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy
+between. In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely
+defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes. At its utmost
+expansion in the full grown whale, the tail will considerably exceed
+twenty feet across.
+
+The entire member seems a dense webbed bed of welded sinews; but cut
+into it, and you find that three distinct strata compose it:—upper,
+middle, and lower. The fibres in the upper and lower layers, are long
+and horizontal; those of the middle one, very short, and running
+crosswise between the outside layers. This triune structure, as much as
+anything else, imparts power to the tail. To the student of old Roman
+walls, the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin
+course of tiles always alternating with the stone in those wonderful
+relics of the antique, and which undoubtedly contribute so much to the
+great strength of the masonry.
+
+But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough,
+the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of
+muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins
+and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and
+largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent
+measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
+Could annihilation occur to matter, this were the thing to do it.
+
+Nor does this—its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful
+flexion of its motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through a
+Titanism of power. On the contrary, those motions derive their most
+appalling beauty from it. Real strength never impairs beauty or
+harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly
+beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. Take away the tied
+tendons that all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved
+Hercules, and its charm would be gone. As devout Eckerman lifted the
+linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with
+the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.
+When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what
+robustness is there. And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in
+the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which
+his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so
+destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but
+the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on
+all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his
+teachings.
+
+Such is the subtle elasticity of the organ I treat of, that whether
+wielded in sport, or in earnest, or in anger, whatever be the mood it
+be in, its flexions are invariably marked by exceeding grace. Therein
+no fairy’s arm can transcend it.
+
+Five great motions are peculiar to it. First, when used as a fin for
+progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping;
+Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.
+
+First: Being horizontal in its position, the Leviathan’s tail acts in a
+different manner from the tails of all other sea creatures. It never
+wriggles. In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority. To the
+whale, his tail is the sole means of propulsion. Scroll-wise coiled
+forwards beneath the body, and then rapidly sprung backwards, it is
+this which gives that singular darting, leaping motion to the monster
+when furiously swimming. His side-fins only serve to steer by.
+
+Second: It is a little significant, that while one sperm whale only
+fights another sperm whale with his head and jaw, nevertheless, in his
+conflicts with man, he chiefly and contemptuously uses his tail. In
+striking at a boat, he swiftly curves away his flukes from it, and the
+blow is only inflicted by the recoil. If it be made in the unobstructed
+air, especially if it descend to its mark, the stroke is then simply
+irresistible. No ribs of man or boat can withstand it. Your only
+salvation lies in eluding it; but if it comes sideways through the
+opposing water, then partly owing to the light buoyancy of the
+whale-boat, and the elasticity of its materials, a cracked rib or a
+dashed plank or two, a sort of stitch in the side, is generally the
+most serious result. These submerged side blows are so often received
+in the fishery, that they are accounted mere child’s play. Some one
+strips off a frock, and the hole is stopped.
+
+Third: I cannot demonstrate it, but it seems to me, that in the whale
+the sense of touch is concentrated in the tail; for in this respect
+there is a delicacy in it only equalled by the daintiness of the
+elephant’s trunk. This delicacy is chiefly evinced in the action of
+sweeping, when in maidenly gentleness the whale with a certain soft
+slowness moves his immense flukes from side to side upon the surface of
+the sea; and if he feel but a sailor’s whisker, woe to that sailor,
+whiskers and all. What tenderness there is in that preliminary touch!
+Had this tail any prehensile power, I should straightway bethink me of
+Darmonodes’ elephant that so frequented the flower-market, and with low
+salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their
+zones. On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not
+possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet
+another elephant, that when wounded in the fight, curved round his
+trunk and extracted the dart.
+
+Fourth: Stealing unawares upon the whale in the fancied security of the
+middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence
+of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a
+hearth. But still you see his power in his play. The broad palms of his
+tail are flirted high into the air; then smiting the surface, the
+thunderous concussion resounds for miles. You would almost think a
+great gun had been discharged; and if you noticed the light wreath of
+vapor from the spiracle at his other extremity, you would think that
+that was the smoke from the touch-hole.
+
+Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture of the leviathan the flukes
+lie considerably below the level of his back, they are then completely
+out of sight beneath the surface; but when he is about to plunge into
+the deeps, his entire flukes with at least thirty feet of his body are
+tossed erect in the air, and so remain vibrating a moment, till they
+downwards shoot out of view. Excepting the sublime _breach_—somewhere
+else to be described—this peaking of the whale’s flukes is perhaps the
+grandest sight to be seen in all animated nature. Out of the bottomless
+profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the
+highest heaven. So in dreams, have I seen majestic Satan thrusting
+forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell. But in
+gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the
+Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the
+archangels. Standing at the mast-head of my ship during a sunrise that
+crimsoned sky and sea, I once saw a large herd of whales in the east,
+all heading towards the sun, and for a moment vibrating in concert with
+peaked flukes. As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment
+of adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of
+the fire worshippers. As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African
+elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most
+devout of all beings. For according to King Juba, the military
+elephants of antiquity often hailed the morning with their trunks
+uplifted in the profoundest silence.
+
+The chance comparison in this chapter, between the whale and the
+elephant, so far as some aspects of the tail of the one and the trunk
+of the other are concerned, should not tend to place those two opposite
+organs on an equality, much less the creatures to which they
+respectively belong. For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to
+Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan’s tail, his trunk is but the
+stalk of a lily. The most direful blow from the elephant’s trunk were
+as the playful tap of a fan, compared with the measureless crush and
+crash of the sperm whale’s ponderous flukes, which in repeated
+instances have one after the other hurled entire boats with all their
+oars and crews into the air, very much as an Indian juggler tosses his
+balls.*
+
+*Though all comparison in the way of general bulk between the whale and
+the elephant is preposterous, inasmuch as in that particular the
+elephant stands in much the same respect to the whale that a dog does
+to the elephant; nevertheless, there are not wanting some points of
+curious similitude; among these is the spout. It is well known that the
+elephant will often draw up water or dust in his trunk, and then
+elevating it, jet it forth in a stream.
+
+The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my
+inability to express it. At times there are gestures in it, which,
+though they would well grace the hand of man, remain wholly
+inexplicable. In an extensive herd, so remarkable, occasionally, are
+these mystic gestures, that I have heard hunters who have declared them
+akin to Free-Mason signs and symbols; that the whale, indeed, by these
+methods intelligently conversed with the world. Nor are there wanting
+other motions of the whale in his general body, full of strangeness,
+and unaccountable to his most experienced assailant. Dissect him how I
+may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. But if I
+know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much
+more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none? Thou shalt see my
+back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen.
+But I cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will
+about his face, I say again he has no face.
+
+
+CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
+
+The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from
+the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia.
+In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of
+Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast
+mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and
+dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded
+oriental archipelagoes. This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports
+for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are
+the straits of Sunda and Malacca. By the straits of Sunda, chiefly,
+vessels bound to China from the west, emerge into the China seas.
+
+Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing
+midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green
+promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond
+to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and
+considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels,
+and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental
+sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such
+treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the
+appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping
+western world. The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with
+those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the
+Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis. Unlike the Danes, these
+Orientals do not demand the obsequious homage of lowered top-sails from
+the endless procession of ships before the wind, which for centuries
+past, by night and by day, have passed between the islands of Sumatra
+and Java, freighted with the costliest cargoes of the east. But while
+they freely waive a ceremonial like this, they do by no means renounce
+their claim to more solid tribute.
+
+Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the
+low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, have sallied out upon the
+vessels sailing through the straits, fiercely demanding tribute at the
+point of their spears. Though by the repeated bloody chastisements they
+have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these
+corsairs has of late been somewhat repressed; yet, even at the present
+day, we occasionally hear of English and American vessels, which, in
+those waters, have been remorselessly boarded and pillaged.
+
+With a fair, fresh wind, the Pequod was now drawing nigh to these
+straits; Ahab purposing to pass through them into the Javan sea, and
+thence, cruising northwards, over waters known to be frequented here
+and there by the Sperm Whale, sweep inshore by the Philippine Islands,
+and gain the far coast of Japan, in time for the great whaling season
+there. By these means, the circumnavigating Pequod would sweep almost
+all the known Sperm Whale cruising grounds of the world, previous to
+descending upon the Line in the Pacific; where Ahab, though everywhere
+else foiled in his pursuit, firmly counted upon giving battle to Moby
+Dick, in the sea he was most known to frequent; and at a season when he
+might most reasonably be presumed to be haunting it.
+
+But how now? in this zoned quest, does Ahab touch no land? does his
+crew drink air? Surely, he will stop for water. Nay. For a long time,
+now, the circus-running sun has raced within his fiery ring, and needs
+no sustenance but what’s in himself. So Ahab. Mark this, too, in the
+whaler. While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be
+transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries
+no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants. She has a
+whole lake’s contents bottled in her ample hold. She is ballasted with
+utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge. She
+carries years’ water in her. Clear old prime Nantucket water; which,
+when three years afloat, the Nantucketer, in the Pacific, prefers to
+drink before the brackish fluid, but yesterday rafted off in casks,
+from the Peruvian or Indian streams. Hence it is, that, while other
+ships may have gone to China from New York, and back again, touching at
+a score of ports, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have
+sighted one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating
+seamen like themselves. So that did you carry them the news that
+another flood had come; they would only answer—“Well, boys, here’s the
+ark!”
+
+Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured off the western coast of
+Java, in the near vicinity of the Straits of Sunda; indeed, as most of
+the ground, roundabout, was generally recognised by the fishermen as an
+excellent spot for cruising; therefore, as the Pequod gained more and
+more upon Java Head, the look-outs were repeatedly hailed, and
+admonished to keep wide awake. But though the green palmy cliffs of the
+land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils the
+fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was
+descried. Almost renouncing all thought of falling in with any game
+hereabouts, the ship had well nigh entered the straits, when the
+customary cheering cry was heard from aloft, and ere long a spectacle
+of singular magnificence saluted us.
+
+But here be it premised, that owing to the unwearied activity with
+which of late they have been hunted over all four oceans, the Sperm
+Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached
+companies, as in former times, are now frequently met with in extensive
+herds, sometimes embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost
+seem as if numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and
+covenant for mutual assistance and protection. To this aggregation of
+the Sperm Whale into such immense caravans, may be imputed the
+circumstance that even in the best cruising grounds, you may now
+sometimes sail for weeks and months together, without being greeted by
+a single spout; and then be suddenly saluted by what sometimes seems
+thousands on thousands.
+
+Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and
+forming a great semicircle, embracing one half of the level horizon, a
+continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the
+noon-day air. Unlike the straight perpendicular twin-jets of the Right
+Whale, which, dividing at top, fall over in two branches, like the
+cleft drooping boughs of a willow, the single forward-slanting spout of
+the Sperm Whale presents a thick curled bush of white mist, continually
+rising and falling away to leeward.
+
+Seen from the Pequod’s deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of
+the sea, this host of vapory spouts, individually curling up into the
+air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze, showed
+like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried
+of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.
+
+As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains,
+accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in
+their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the
+plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward
+through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their
+semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.
+
+Crowding all sail the Pequod pressed after them; the harpooneers
+handling their weapons, and loudly cheering from the heads of their yet
+suspended boats. If the wind only held, little doubt had they, that
+chased through these Straits of Sunda, the vast host would only deploy
+into the Oriental seas to witness the capture of not a few of their
+number. And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby
+Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped
+white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese! So with
+stun-sail piled on stun-sail, we sailed along, driving these leviathans
+before us; when, of a sudden, the voice of Tashtego was heard, loudly
+directing attention to something in our wake.
+
+Corresponding to the crescent in our van, we beheld another in our
+rear. It seemed formed of detached white vapors, rising and falling
+something like the spouts of the whales; only they did not so
+completely come and go; for they constantly hovered, without finally
+disappearing. Levelling his glass at this sight, Ahab quickly revolved
+in his pivot-hole, crying, “Aloft there, and rig whips and buckets to
+wet the sails;—Malays, sir, and after us!”
+
+As if too long lurking behind the headlands, till the Pequod should
+fairly have entered the straits, these rascally Asiatics were now in
+hot pursuit, to make up for their over-cautious delay. But when the
+swift Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; how
+very kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on
+to her own chosen pursuit,—mere riding-whips and rowels to her, that
+they were. As with glass under arm, Ahab to-and-fro paced the deck; in
+his forward turn beholding the monsters he chased, and in the after one
+the bloodthirsty pirates chasing _him_; some such fancy as the above
+seemed his. And when he glanced upon the green walls of the watery
+defile in which the ship was then sailing, and bethought him that
+through that gate lay the route to his vengeance, and beheld, how that
+through that same gate he was now both chasing and being chased to his
+deadly end; and not only that, but a herd of remorseless wild pirates
+and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with
+their curses;—when all these conceits had passed through his brain,
+Ahab’s brow was left gaunt and ribbed, like the black sand beach after
+some stormy tide has been gnawing it, without being able to drag the
+firm thing from its place.
+
+But thoughts like these troubled very few of the reckless crew; and
+when, after steadily dropping and dropping the pirates astern, the
+Pequod at last shot by the vivid green Cockatoo Point on the Sumatra
+side, emerging at last upon the broad waters beyond; then, the
+harpooneers seemed more to grieve that the swift whales had been
+gaining upon the ship, than to rejoice that the ship had so
+victoriously gained upon the Malays. But still driving on in the wake
+of the whales, at length they seemed abating their speed; gradually the
+ship neared them; and the wind now dying away, word was passed to
+spring to the boats. But no sooner did the herd, by some presumed
+wonderful instinct of the Sperm
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+                                PRIDE.
+                                  and
+                               PREJUDICE
+
+                                  by
+                             Jane Austen,
+
+                           with a Preface by
+                           George Saintsbury
+                                  and
+                           Illustrations by
+                             Hugh Thomson
+
+                         [Illustration: 1894]
+
+                       Ruskin       156. Charing
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+                                London
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+                            [Illustration:
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+                          _To J. Comyns Carr
+                      in acknowledgment of all I
+                       owe to his friendship and
+                    advice, these illustrations are
+                         gratefully inscribed_
+
+                            _Hugh Thomson_
+                                   ]
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+_Walt Whitman has somewhere a fine and just distinction between “loving
+by allowance” and “loving with personal love.” This distinction applies
+to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very
+numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it
+brings a curious consequence with it. There is much more difference as
+to their best work than in the case of those others who are loved “by
+allowance” by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and
+proper thing to love them. And in the sect--fairly large and yet
+unusually choice--of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be
+found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the
+novels. To some the delightful freshness and humour of_ Northanger
+Abbey, _its completeness, finish, and_ entrain, _obscure the undoubted
+critical facts that its scale is small, and its scheme, after all, that
+of burlesque or parody, a kind in which the first rank is reached with
+difficulty._ Persuasion, _relatively faint in tone, and not enthralling
+in interest, has devotees who exalt above all the others its exquisite
+delicacy and keeping. The catastrophe of_ Mansfield Park _is admittedly
+theatrical, the hero and heroine are insipid, and the author has almost
+wickedly destroyed all romantic interest by expressly admitting that
+Edmund only took Fanny because Mary shocked him, and that Fanny might
+very likely have taken Crawford if he had been a little more assiduous;
+yet the matchless rehearsal-scenes and the characters of Mrs. Norris and
+others have secured, I believe, a considerable party for it._ Sense and
+Sensibility _has perhaps the fewest out-and-out admirers; but it does
+not want them._
+
+_I suppose, however, that the majority of at least competent votes
+would, all things considered, be divided between_ Emma _and the present
+book; and perhaps the vulgar verdict (if indeed a fondness for Miss
+Austen be not of itself a patent of exemption from any possible charge
+of vulgarity) would go for_ Emma. _It is the larger, the more varied, the
+more popular; the author had by the time of its composition seen rather
+more of the world, and had improved her general, though not her most
+peculiar and characteristic dialogue; such figures as Miss Bates, as the
+Eltons, cannot but unite the suffrages of everybody. On the other hand,
+I, for my part, declare for_ Pride and Prejudice _unhesitatingly. It
+seems to me the most perfect, the most characteristic, the most
+eminently quintessential of its author’s works; and for this contention
+in such narrow space as is permitted to me, I propose here to show
+cause._
+
+_In the first place, the book (it may be barely necessary to remind the
+reader) was in its first shape written very early, somewhere about 1796,
+when Miss Austen was barely twenty-one; though it was revised and
+finished at Chawton some fifteen years later, and was not published till
+1813, only four years before her death. I do not know whether, in this
+combination of the fresh and vigorous projection of youth, and the
+critical revision of middle life, there may be traced the distinct
+superiority in point of construction, which, as it seems to me, it
+possesses over all the others. The plot, though not elaborate, is almost
+regular enough for Fielding; hardly a character, hardly an incident
+could be retrenched without loss to the story. The elopement of Lydia
+and Wickham is not, like that of Crawford and Mrs. Rushworth, a_ coup de
+théâtre; _it connects itself in the strictest way with the course of the
+story earlier, and brings about the denouement with complete propriety.
+All the minor passages--the loves of Jane and Bingley, the advent of Mr.
+Collins, the visit to Hunsford, the Derbyshire tour--fit in after the
+same unostentatious, but masterly fashion. There is no attempt at the
+hide-and-seek, in-and-out business, which in the transactions between
+Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax contributes no doubt a good deal to the
+intrigue of_ Emma, _but contributes it in a fashion which I do not think
+the best feature of that otherwise admirable book. Although Miss Austen
+always liked something of the misunderstanding kind, which afforded her
+opportunities for the display of the peculiar and incomparable talent to
+be noticed presently, she has been satisfied here with the perfectly
+natural occasions provided by the false account of Darcy’s conduct given
+by Wickham, and by the awkwardness (arising with equal naturalness) from
+the gradual transformation of Elizabeth’s own feelings from positive
+aversion to actual love. I do not know whether the all-grasping hand of
+the playwright has ever been laid upon_ Pride and Prejudice; _and I dare
+say that, if it were, the situations would prove not startling or
+garish enough for the footlights, the character-scheme too subtle and
+delicate for pit and gallery. But if the attempt were made, it would
+certainly not be hampered by any of those loosenesses of construction,
+which, sometimes disguised by the conveniences of which the novelist can
+avail himself, appear at once on the stage._
+
+_I think, however, though the thought will doubtless seem heretical to
+more than one school of critics, that construction is not the highest
+merit, the choicest gift, of the novelist. It sets off his other gifts
+and graces most advantageously to the critical eye; and the want of it
+will sometimes mar those graces--appreciably, though not quite
+consciously--to eyes by no means ultra-critical. But a very badly-built
+novel which excelled in pathetic or humorous character, or which
+displayed consummate command of dialogue--perhaps the rarest of all
+faculties--would be an infinitely better thing than a faultless plot
+acted and told by puppets with pebbles in their mouths. And despite the
+ability which Miss Austen has shown in working out the story, I for one
+should put_ Pride and Prejudice _far lower if it did not contain what
+seem to me the very masterpieces of Miss Austen’s humour and of her
+faculty of character-creation--masterpieces who may indeed admit John
+Thorpe, the Eltons, Mrs. Norris, and one or two others to their company,
+but who, in one instance certainly, and perhaps in others, are still
+superior to them._
+
+_The characteristics of Miss Austen’s humour are so subtle and delicate
+that they are, perhaps, at all times easier to apprehend than to
+express, and at any particular time likely to be differently
+apprehended by different persons. To me this humour seems to possess a
+greater affinity, on the whole, to that of Addison than to any other of
+the numerous species of this great British genus. The differences of
+scheme, of time, of subject, of literary convention, are, of course,
+obvious enough; the difference of sex does not, perhaps, count for much,
+for there was a distinctly feminine element in “Mr. Spectator,” and in
+Jane Austen’s genius there was, though nothing mannish, much that was
+masculine. But the likeness of quality consists in a great number of
+common subdivisions of quality--demureness, extreme minuteness of touch,
+avoidance of loud tones and glaring effects. Also there is in both a
+certain not inhuman or unamiable cruelty. It is the custom with those
+who judge grossly to contrast the good nature of Addison with the
+savagery of Swift, the mildness of Miss Austen with the boisterousness
+of Fielding and Smollett, even with the ferocious practical jokes that
+her immediate predecessor, Miss Burney, allowed without very much
+protest. Yet, both in Mr. Addison and in Miss Austen there is, though a
+restrained and well-mannered, an insatiable and ruthless delight in
+roasting and cutting up a fool. A man in the early eighteenth century,
+of course, could push this taste further than a lady in the early
+nineteenth; and no doubt Miss Austen’s principles, as well as her heart,
+would have shrunk from such things as the letter from the unfortunate
+husband in the_ Spectator, _who describes, with all the gusto and all the
+innocence in the world, how his wife and his friend induce him to play
+at blind-man’s-buff. But another_ Spectator _letter--that of the damsel
+of fourteen who wishes to marry Mr. Shapely, and assures her selected
+Mentor that “he admires your_ Spectators _mightily”--might have been
+written by a rather more ladylike and intelligent Lydia Bennet in the
+days of Lydia’s great-grandmother; while, on the other hand, some (I
+think unreasonably) have found “cynicism” in touches of Miss Austen’s
+own, such as her satire of Mrs. Musgrove’s self-deceiving regrets over
+her son. But this word “cynical” is one of the most misused in the
+English language, especially when, by a glaring and gratuitous
+falsification of its original sense, it is applied, not to rough and
+snarling invective, but to gentle and oblique satire. If cynicism means
+the perception of “the other side,” the sense of “the accepted hells
+beneath,” the consciousness that motives are nearly always mixed, and
+that to seem is not identical with to be--if this be cynicism, then
+every man and woman who is not a fool, who does not care to live in a
+fool’s paradise, who has knowledge of nature and the world and life, is
+a cynic. And in that sense Miss Austen certainly was one. She may even
+have been one in the further sense that, like her own Mr. Bennet, she
+took an epicurean delight in dissecting, in displaying, in setting at
+work her fools and her mean persons. I think she did take this delight,
+and I do not think at all the worse of her for it as a woman, while she
+was immensely the better for it as an artist._
+
+_In respect of her art generally, Mr. Goldwin Smith has truly observed
+that “metaphor has been exhausted in depicting the perfection of it,
+combined with the narrowness of her field;” and he has justly added that
+we need not go beyond her own comparison to the art of a miniature
+painter. To make this latter observation quite exact we must not use the
+term miniature in its restricted sense, and must think rather of Memling
+at one end of the history of painting and Meissonier at the other, than
+of Cosway or any of his kind. And I am not so certain that I should
+myself use the word “narrow” in connection with her. If her world is a
+microcosm, the cosmic quality of it is at least as eminent as the
+littleness. She does not touch what she did not feel herself called to
+paint; I am not so sure that she could not have painted what she did not
+feel herself called to touch. It is at least remarkable that in two very
+short periods of writing--one of about three years, and another of not
+much more than five--she executed six capital works, and has not left a
+single failure. It is possible that the romantic paste in her
+composition was defective: we must always remember that hardly
+anybody born in her decade--that of the eighteenth-century
+seventies--independently exhibited the full romantic quality. Even Scott
+required hill and mountain and ballad, even Coleridge metaphysics and
+German to enable them to chip the classical shell. Miss Austen was an
+English girl, brought up in a country retirement, at the time when
+ladies went back into the house if there was a white frost which might
+pierce their kid shoes, when a sudden cold was the subject of the
+gravest fears, when their studies, their ways, their conduct were
+subject to all those fantastic limits and restrictions against which
+Mary Wollstonecraft protested with better general sense than particular
+taste or judgment. Miss Austen, too, drew back when the white frost
+touched her shoes; but I think she would have made a pretty good journey
+even in a black one._
+
+_For if her knowledge was not very extended, she knew two things which
+only genius knows. The one was humanity, and the other was art. On the
+first head she could not make a mistake; her men, though limited, are
+true, and her women are, in the old sense, “absolute.” As to art, if she
+has never tried idealism, her realism is real to a degree which makes
+the false realism of our own day look merely dead-alive. Take almost any
+Frenchman, except the late M. de Maupassant, and watch him laboriously
+piling up strokes in the hope of giving a complete impression. You get
+none; you are lucky if, discarding two-thirds of what he gives, you can
+shape a real impression out of the rest. But with Miss Austen the
+myriad, trivial, unforced strokes build up the picture like magic.
+Nothing is false; nothing is superfluous. When (to take the present book
+only) Mr. Collins changed his mind from Jane to Elizabeth “while Mrs.
+Bennet was stirring the fire” (and we know_ how _Mrs. Bennet would have
+stirred the fire), when Mr. Darcy “brought his coffee-cup back_
+himself,” _the touch in each case is like that of Swift--“taller by the
+breadth of my nail”--which impressed the half-reluctant Thackeray with
+just and outspoken admiration. Indeed, fantastic as it may seem, I
+should put Miss Austen as near to Swift in some ways, as I have put her
+to Addison in others._
+
+_This Swiftian quality appears in the present novel as it appears
+nowhere else in the character of the immortal, the ineffable Mr.
+Collins. Mr. Collins is really_ great; _far greater than anything Addison
+ever did, almost great enough for Fielding or for Swift himself. It has
+been said that no one ever was like him. But in the first place,_ he
+_was like him; he is there--alive, imperishable, more real than hundreds
+of prime ministers and archbishops, of “metals, semi-metals, and
+distinguished philosophers.” In the second place, it is rash, I think,
+to conclude that an actual Mr. Collins was impossible or non-existent at
+the end of the eighteenth century. It is very interesting that we
+possess, in this same gallery, what may be called a spoiled first
+draught, or an unsuccessful study of him, in John Dashwood. The
+formality, the under-breeding, the meanness, are there; but the portrait
+is only half alive, and is felt to be even a little unnatural. Mr.
+Collins is perfectly natural, and perfectly alive. In fact, for all the
+“miniature,” there is something gigantic in the way in which a certain
+side, and more than one, of humanity, and especially eighteenth-century
+humanity, its Philistinism, its well-meaning but hide-bound morality,
+its formal pettiness, its grovelling respect for rank, its materialism,
+its selfishness, receives exhibition. I will not admit that one speech
+or one action of this inestimable man is incapable of being reconciled
+with reality, and I should not wonder if many of these words and actions
+are historically true._
+
+_But the greatness of Mr. Collins could not have been so satisfactorily
+exhibited if his creatress had not adjusted so artfully to him the
+figures of Mr. Bennet and of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. The latter, like
+Mr. Collins himself, has been charged with exaggeration. There is,
+perhaps, a very faint shade of colour for the charge; but it seems to me
+very faint indeed. Even now I do not think that it would be impossible
+to find persons, especially female persons, not necessarily of noble
+birth, as overbearing, as self-centred, as neglectful of good manners,
+as Lady Catherine. A hundred years ago, an earl’s daughter, the Lady
+Powerful (if not exactly Bountiful) of an out-of-the-way country parish,
+rich, long out of marital authority, and so forth, had opportunities of
+developing these agreeable characteristics which seldom present
+themselves now. As for Mr. Bennet, Miss Austen, and Mr. Darcy, and even
+Miss Elizabeth herself, were, I am inclined to think, rather hard on him
+for the “impropriety” of his conduct. His wife was evidently, and must
+always have been, a quite irreclaimable fool; and unless he had shot her
+or himself there was no way out of it for a man of sense and spirit but
+the ironic. From no other point of view is he open to any reproach,
+except for an excusable and not unnatural helplessness at the crisis of
+the elopement, and his utterances are the most acutely delightful in the
+consciously humorous kind--in the kind that we laugh with, not at--that
+even Miss Austen has put into the mouth of any of her characters. It is
+difficult to know whether he is most agreeable when talking to his wife,
+or when putting Mr. Collins through his paces; but the general sense of
+the world has probably been right in preferring to the first rank his
+consolation to the former when she maunders over the entail, “My dear,
+do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things.
+Let us flatter ourselves that_ I _may be the survivor;” and his inquiry
+to his colossal cousin as to the compliments which Mr. Collins has just
+related as made by himself to Lady Catherine, “May I ask whether these
+pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the
+result of previous study?” These are the things which give Miss Austen’s
+readers the pleasant shocks, the delightful thrills, which are felt by
+the readers of Swift, of Fielding, and we may here add, of Thackeray, as
+they are felt by the readers of no other English author of fiction
+outside of these four._
+
+_The goodness of the minor characters in_ Pride and Prejudice _has been
+already alluded to, and it makes a detailed dwelling on their beauties
+difficult in any space, and impossible in this. Mrs. Bennet we have
+glanced at, and it is not easy to say whether she is more exquisitely
+amusing or more horribly true. Much the same may be said of Kitty and
+Lydia; but it is not every author, even of genius, who would have
+differentiated with such unerring skill the effects of folly and
+vulgarity of intellect and disposition working upon the common
+weaknesses of woman at such different ages. With Mary, Miss Austen has
+taken rather less pains, though she has been even more unkind to her;
+not merely in the text, but, as we learn from those interesting
+traditional appendices which Mr. Austen Leigh has given us, in dooming
+her privately to marry “one of Mr. Philips’s clerks.” The habits of
+first copying and then retailing moral sentiments, of playing and
+singing too long in public, are, no doubt, grievous and criminal; but
+perhaps poor Mary was rather the scapegoat of the sins of blue stockings
+in that Fordyce-belectured generation. It is at any rate difficult not
+to extend to her a share of the respect and affection (affection and
+respect of a peculiar kind; doubtless), with which one regards Mr.
+Collins, when she draws the moral of Lydia’s fall. I sometimes wish
+that the exigencies of the story had permitted Miss Austen to unite
+these personages, and thus at once achieve a notable mating and soothe
+poor Mrs. Bennet’s anguish over the entail._
+
+_The Bingleys and the Gardiners and the Lucases, Miss Darcy and Miss de
+Bourgh, Jane, Wickham, and the rest, must pass without special comment,
+further than the remark that Charlotte Lucas (her egregious papa, though
+delightful, is just a little on the thither side of the line between
+comedy and farce) is a wonderfully clever study in drab of one kind, and
+that Wickham (though something of Miss Austen’s hesitation of touch in
+dealing with young men appears) is a not much less notable sketch in
+drab of another. Only genius could have made Charlotte what she is, yet
+not disagreeable; Wickham what he is, without investing him either with
+a cheap Don Juanish attractiveness or a disgusting rascality. But the
+hero and the heroine are not tints to be dismissed._
+
+_Darcy has always seemed to me by far the best and most interesting of
+Miss Austen’s heroes; the only possible competitor being Henry Tilney,
+whose part is so slight and simple that it hardly enters into
+comparison. It has sometimes, I believe, been urged that his pride is
+unnatural at first in its expression and later in its yielding, while
+his falling in love at all is not extremely probable. Here again I
+cannot go with the objectors. Darcy’s own account of the way in which
+his pride had been pampered, is perfectly rational and sufficient; and
+nothing could be, psychologically speaking, a_ causa verior _for its
+sudden restoration to healthy conditions than the shock of Elizabeth’s
+scornful refusal acting on a nature_ ex hypothesi _generous. Nothing in
+even our author is finer and more delicately touched than the change of
+his demeanour at the sudden meeting in the grounds of Pemberley. Had he
+been a bad prig or a bad coxcomb, he might have been still smarting
+under his rejection, or suspicious that the girl had come
+husband-hunting. His being neither is exactly consistent with the
+probable feelings of a man spoilt in the common sense, but not really
+injured in disposition, and thoroughly in love. As for his being in
+love, Elizabeth has given as just an exposition of the causes of that
+phenomenon as Darcy has of the conditions of his unregenerate state,
+only she has of course not counted in what was due to her own personal
+charm._
+
+_The secret of that charm many men and not a few women, from Miss Austen
+herself downwards, have felt, and like most charms it is a thing rather
+to be felt than to be explained. Elizabeth of course belongs to the_
+allegro _or_ allegra _division of the army of Venus. Miss Austen was
+always provokingly chary of description in regard to her beauties; and
+except the fine eyes, and a hint or two that she had at any rate
+sometimes a bright complexion, and was not very tall, we hear nothing
+about her looks. But her chief difference from other heroines of the
+lively type seems to lie first in her being distinctly clever--almost
+strong-minded, in the better sense of that objectionable word--and
+secondly in her being entirely destitute of ill-nature for all her
+propensity to tease and the sharpness of her tongue. Elizabeth can give
+at least as good as she gets when she is attacked; but she never
+“scratches,” and she never attacks first. Some of the merest
+obsoletenesses of phrase and manner give one or two of her early
+speeches a slight pertness, but that is nothing, and when she comes to
+serious business, as in the great proposal scene with Darcy (which is,
+as it should be, the climax of the interest of the book), and in the
+final ladies’ battle with Lady Catherine, she is unexceptionable. Then
+too she is a perfectly natural girl. She does not disguise from herself
+or anybody that she resents Darcy’s first ill-mannered personality with
+as personal a feeling. (By the way, the reproach that the ill-manners of
+this speech are overdone is certainly unjust; for things of the same
+kind, expressed no doubt less stiltedly but more coarsely, might have
+been heard in more than one ball-room during this very year from persons
+who ought to have been no worse bred than Darcy.) And she lets the
+injury done to Jane and the contempt shown to the rest of her family
+aggravate this resentment in the healthiest way in the world._
+
+_Still, all this does not explain her charm, which, taking beauty as a
+common form of all heroines, may perhaps consist in the addition to her
+playfulness, her wit, her affectionate and natural disposition, of a
+certain fearlessness very uncommon in heroines of her type and age.
+Nearly all of them would have been in speechless awe of the magnificent
+Darcy; nearly all of them would have palpitated and fluttered at the
+idea of proposals, even naughty ones, from the fascinating Wickham.
+Elizabeth, with nothing offensive, nothing_ viraginous, _nothing of the
+“New Woman” about her, has by nature what the best modern (not “new”)
+women have by education and experience, a perfect freedom from the idea
+that all men may bully her if they choose, and that most will away with
+her if they can. Though not in the least “impudent and mannish grown,”
+she has no mere sensibility, no nasty niceness about her. The form of
+passion common and likely to seem natural in Miss Austen’s day was so
+invariably connected with the display of one or the other, or both of
+these qualities, that she has not made Elizabeth outwardly passionate.
+But I, at least, have not the slightest doubt that she would have
+married Darcy just as willingly without Pemberley as with it, and
+anybody who can read between lines will not find the lovers’
+conversations in the final chapters so frigid as they might have looked
+to the Della Cruscans of their own day, and perhaps do look to the Della
+Cruscans of this._
+
+_And, after all, what is the good of seeking for the reason of
+charm?--it is there. There were better sense in the sad mechanic
+exercise of determining the reason of its absence where it is not. In
+the novels of the last hundred years there are vast numbers of young
+ladies with whom it might be a pleasure to fall in love; there are at
+least five with whom, as it seems to me, no man of taste and spirit can
+help doing so. Their names are, in chronological order, Elizabeth
+Bennet, Diana Vernon, Argemone Lavington, Beatrix Esmond, and Barbara
+Grant. I should have been most in love with Beatrix and Argemone; I
+should, I think, for mere occasional companionship, have preferred Diana
+and Barbara. But to live with and to marry, I do not know that any one
+of the four can come into competition with Elizabeth._
+
+_GEORGE SAINTSBURY._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: List of Illustrations.]
+
+
+                                                                    PAGE
+
+Frontispiece                                                          iv
+
+Title-page                                                             v
+
+Dedication                                                           vii
+
+Heading to Preface                                                    ix
+
+Heading to List of Illustrations                                     xxv
+
+Heading to Chapter I.                                                  1
+
+“He came down to see the place”                                        2
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Bennet                                                    5
+
+“I hope Mr. Bingley will like it”                                      6
+
+“I’m the tallest”                                                      9
+
+“He rode a black horse”                                               10
+
+“When the party entered”                                              12
+
+“She is tolerable”                                                    15
+
+Heading to Chapter IV.                                                18
+
+Heading to Chapter V.                                                 22
+
+“Without once opening his lips”                                       24
+
+Tailpiece to Chapter V.                                               26
+
+Heading to Chapter VI.                                                27
+
+“The entreaties of several”                                           31
+
+“A note for Miss Bennet”                                              36
+
+“Cheerful prognostics”                                                40
+
+“The apothecary came”                                                 43
+
+“Covering a screen”                                                   45
+
+“Mrs. Bennet and her two youngest girls”                              53
+
+Heading to Chapter X.                                                 60
+
+“No, no; stay where you are”                                          67
+
+“Piling up the fire”                                                  69
+
+Heading to Chapter XII.                                               75
+
+Heading to Chapter XIII.                                              78
+
+Heading to Chapter XIV.                                               84
+
+“Protested that he never read novels”                                 87
+
+Heading to Chapter XV.                                                89
+
+Heading to Chapter XVI.                                               95
+
+“The officers of the ----shire”                                       97
+
+“Delighted to see their dear friend again”                           108
+
+Heading to Chapter XVIII.                                            113
+
+“Such very superior dancing is not often seen”                       118
+
+“To assure you in the most animated language”                        132
+
+Heading to Chapter XX.                                               139
+
+“They entered the breakfast-room”                                    143
+
+Heading to Chapter XXI.                                              146
+
+“Walked back with them”                                              148
+
+Heading to Chapter XXII.                                             154
+
+“So much love and eloquence”                                         156
+
+“Protested he must be entirely mistaken”                             161
+
+“Whenever she spoke in a low voice”                                  166
+
+Heading to Chapter XXIV.                                             168
+
+Heading to Chapter XXV.                                              175
+
+“Offended two or three young ladies”                                 177
+
+“Will you come and see me?”                                          181
+
+“On the stairs”                                                      189
+
+“At the door”                                                        194
+
+“In conversation with the ladies”                                    198
+
+“Lady Catherine,” said she, “you have given me a treasure”           200
+
+Heading to Chapter XXX.                                              209
+
+“He never failed to inform them”                                     211
+
+“The gentlemen accompanied him”                                      213
+
+Heading to Chapter XXXI.                                             215
+
+Heading to Chapter XXXII.                                            221
+
+“Accompanied by their aunt”                                          225
+
+“On looking up”                                                      228
+
+Heading to Chapter XXXIV.                                            235
+
+“Hearing herself called”                                             243
+
+Heading to Chapter XXXVI.                                            253
+
+“Meeting accidentally in town”                                       256
+
+“His parting obeisance”                                              261
+
+“Dawson”                                                             263
+
+“The elevation of his feelings”                                      267
+
+“They had forgotten to leave any message”                            270
+
+“How nicely we are crammed in!”                                      272
+
+Heading to Chapter XL.                                               278
+
+“I am determined never to speak of it again”                         283
+
+“When Colonel Miller’s regiment went away”                           285
+
+“Tenderly flirting”                                                  290
+
+The arrival of the Gardiners                                         294
+
+“Conjecturing as to the date”                                        301
+
+Heading to Chapter XLIV.                                             318
+
+“To make herself agreeable to all”                                   321
+
+“Engaged by the river”                                               327
+
+Heading to Chapter XLVI.                                             334
+
+“I have not an instant to lose”                                      339
+
+“The first pleasing earnest of their welcome”                        345
+
+The Post                                                             359
+
+“To whom I have related the affair”                                  363
+
+Heading to Chapter XLIX.                                             368
+
+“But perhaps you would like to read it”                              370
+
+“The spiteful old ladies”                                            377
+
+“With an affectionate smile”                                         385
+
+“I am sure she did not listen”                                       393
+
+“Mr. Darcy with him”                                                 404
+
+“Jane happened to look round”                                        415
+
+“Mrs. Long and her nieces”                                           420
+
+“Lizzy, my dear, I want to speak to you”                             422
+
+Heading to Chapter LVI.                                              431
+
+“After a short survey”                                               434
+
+“But now it comes out”                                               442
+
+“The efforts of his aunt”                                            448
+
+“Unable to utter a syllable”                                         457
+
+“The obsequious civility”                                            466
+
+Heading to Chapter LXI.                                              472
+
+The End                                                              476
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: ·PRIDE AND PREJUDICE·
+
+
+
+
+Chapter I.]
+
+
+It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession
+of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
+
+However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his
+first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds
+of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful
+property of some one or other of their daughters.
+
+“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that
+Netherfield Park is let at last?”
+
+Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
+
+“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she
+told me all about it.”
+
+Mr. Bennet made no answer.
+
+“Do not you want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife, impatiently.
+
+“_You_ want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“He came down to see the place”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+This was invitation enough.
+
+“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken
+by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came
+down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much
+delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is
+to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be
+in the house by the end of next week.”
+
+“What is his name?”
+
+“Bingley.”
+
+“Is he married or single?”
+
+“Oh, single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or
+five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
+
+“How so? how can it affect them?”
+
+“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome? You
+must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
+
+“Is that his design in settling here?”
+
+“Design? Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he
+_may_ fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as
+soon as he comes.”
+
+“I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go--or you may send
+them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better; for as you are
+as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the
+party.”
+
+“My dear, you flatter me. I certainly _have_ had my share of beauty, but
+I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five
+grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”
+
+“In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.”
+
+“But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into
+the neighbourhood.”
+
+“It is more than I engage for, I assure you.”
+
+“But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would
+be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go,
+merely on that account; for in general, you know, they visit no new
+comers. Indeed you must go, for it will be impossible for _us_ to visit
+him, if you do not.”
+
+“You are over scrupulous, surely. I dare say Mr. Bingley will be very
+glad to see you; and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my
+hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls--though
+I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.”
+
+“I desire you will do no such thing. Lizzy is not a bit better than the
+others: and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so
+good-humoured as Lydia. But you are always giving _her_ the preference.”
+
+“They have none of them much to recommend them,” replied he: “they are
+all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of
+quickness than her sisters.”
+
+“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take
+delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves.”
+
+“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They
+are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration
+these twenty years at least.”
+
+“Ah, you do not know what I suffer.”
+
+“But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four
+thousand a year come into the neighbourhood.”
+
+“It will be no use to us, if twenty such should come, since you will not
+visit them.”
+
+“Depend upon it, my dear, that when there are twenty, I will visit them
+all.”
+
+Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour,
+reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had
+been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. _Her_ mind
+was less difficult to develope. She was a woman of mean understanding,
+little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she
+fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her
+daughters married: its solace was visiting and news.
+
+[Illustration: M^{r.} & M^{rs.} Bennet
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“I hope Mr. Bingley will like it”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He
+had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his
+wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was
+paid she had no knowledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following
+manner. Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he
+suddenly addressed her with,--
+
+“I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.”
+
+“We are not in a way to know _what_ Mr. Bingley likes,” said her mother,
+resentfully, “since we are not to visit.”
+
+“But you forget, mamma,” said Elizabeth, “that we shall meet him at the
+assemblies, and that Mrs. Long has promised to introduce him.”
+
+“I do not believe Mrs. Long will do any such thing. She has two nieces
+of her own. She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion
+of her.”
+
+“No more have I,” said Mr. Bennet; “and I am glad to find that you do
+not depend on her serving you.”
+
+Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply; but, unable to contain
+herself, began scolding one of her daughters.
+
+“Don’t keep coughing so, Kitty, for heaven’s sake! Have a little
+compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”
+
+“Kitty has no discretion in her coughs,” said her father; “she times
+them ill.”
+
+“I do not cough for my own amusement,” replied Kitty, fretfully. “When
+is your next ball to be, Lizzy?”
+
+“To-morrow fortnight.”
+
+“Ay, so it is,” cried her mother, “and Mrs. Long does not come back till
+the day before; so, it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for
+she will not know him herself.”
+
+“Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend, and introduce
+Mr. Bingley to _her_.”
+
+“Impossible, Mr. Bennet, impossible, when I am not acquainted with him
+myself; how can you be so teasing?”
+
+“I honour your circumspection. A fortnight’s acquaintance is certainly
+very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a
+fortnight. But if _we_ do not venture, somebody else will; and after
+all, Mrs. Long and her nieces must stand their chance; and, therefore,
+as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I
+will take it on myself.”
+
+The girls stared at their father. Mrs. Bennet said only, “Nonsense,
+nonsense!”
+
+“What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation?” cried he. “Do
+you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid on
+them, as nonsense? I cannot quite agree with you _there_. What say you,
+Mary? For you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read
+great books, and make extracts.”
+
+Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
+
+“While Mary is adjusting her ideas,” he continued, “let us return to Mr.
+Bingley.”
+
+“I am sick of Mr. Bingley,” cried his wife.
+
+“I am sorry to hear _that_; but why did you not tell me so before? If I
+had known as much this morning, I certainly would not have called on
+him. It is very unlucky; but as I have actually paid the visit, we
+cannot escape the acquaintance now.”
+
+The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished--that of Mrs.
+Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though when the first tumult of joy
+was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the
+while.
+
+“How good it was in you, my dear Mr. Bennet! But I knew I should
+persuade you at last. I was sure you loved your girls too well to
+neglect such an acquaintance. Well, how pleased I am! And it is such a
+good joke, too, that you should have gone this morning, and never said a
+word about it till now.”
+
+“Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose,” said Mr. Bennet; and,
+as he spoke, he left the room, fatigued with the raptures of his wife.
+
+“What an excellent father you have, girls,” said she, when the door was
+shut. “I do not know how you will ever make him amends for his kindness;
+or me either, for that matter. At our time of life, it is not so
+pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but
+for your sakes we would do anything. Lydia, my love, though you _are_
+the youngest, I dare say Mr. Bingley will dance with you at the next
+ball.”
+
+“Oh,” said Lydia, stoutly, “I am not afraid; for though I _am_ the
+youngest, I’m the tallest.”
+
+The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would
+return Mr. Bennet’s visit, and determining when they should ask him to
+dinner.
+
+[Illustration: “I’m the tallest”]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “He rode a black horse”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five
+daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her
+husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him
+in various ways, with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and
+distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all; and they were at
+last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour,
+Lady Lucas. Her report was highly favourable. Sir William had been
+delighted with him. He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely
+agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly
+with a large party. Nothing could be more delightful! To be fond of
+dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively
+hopes of Mr. Bingley’s heart were entertained.
+
+“If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield,”
+said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, “and all the others equally well
+married, I shall have nothing to wish for.”
+
+In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet’s visit, and sat about ten
+minutes with him in his library. He had entertained hopes of being
+admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard
+much; but he saw only the father. The ladies were somewhat more
+fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining, from an upper
+window, that he wore a blue coat and rode a black horse.
+
+An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards despatched; and already had
+Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her
+housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all. Mr. Bingley
+was obliged to be in town the following day, and consequently unable to
+accept the honour of their invitation, etc. Mrs. Bennet was quite
+disconcerted. She could not imagine what business he could have in town
+so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that
+he might always be flying about from one place to another, and never
+settled at Netherfield as he ought to be. Lady Lucas quieted her fears a
+little by starting the idea of his
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “When the Party entered”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+being gone to London only to get a large party for the ball; and a
+report soon followed that Mr. Bingley was to bring twelve ladies and
+seven gentlemen with him to the assembly. The girls grieved over such a
+number of ladies; but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing
+that, instead of twelve, he had brought only six with him from London,
+his five sisters and a cousin. And when the party entered the
+assembly-room, it consisted of only five altogether: Mr. Bingley, his
+two sisters, the husband of the eldest, and another young man.
+
+Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike: he had a pleasant
+countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women,
+with an air of decided fashion. His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely
+looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention
+of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and
+the report, which was in general circulation within five minutes after
+his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen
+pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was
+much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great
+admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust
+which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be
+proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his
+large estate in Derbyshire could save him from having a most forbidding,
+disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his
+friend.
+
+Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal
+people in the room: he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance,
+was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked of giving one
+himself at Netherfield. Such amiable qualities must speak for
+themselves. What a contrast between him and his friend! Mr. Darcy danced
+only once with Mrs. Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, declined being
+introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening in
+walking about the room, speaking occasionally to one of his own party.
+His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in
+the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.
+Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Bennet, whose dislike of
+his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his
+having slighted one of her daughters.
+
+Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit
+down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been
+standing near enough for her to overhear a conversation between him and
+Mr. Bingley, who came from the dance for a few minutes to press his
+friend to join it.
+
+“Come, Darcy,” said he, “I must have you dance. I hate to see you
+standing about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better
+dance.”
+
+“I certainly shall not. You know how I detest it, unless I am
+particularly acquainted with my partner. At such an assembly as this, it
+would be insupportable. Your sisters are engaged, and there is not
+another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to
+stand up with.”
+
+“I would not be so fastidious as you are,” cried Bingley, “for a
+kingdom! Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my
+life as I have this evening; and there are several of them, you see,
+uncommonly pretty.”
+
+“_You_ are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room,” said Mr.
+Darcy, looking at the eldest Miss Bennet.
+
+“Oh, she is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld! But there is one
+of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I
+dare say very agreeable. Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“She is tolerable”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+“Which do you mean?” and turning round, he looked for a moment at
+Elizabeth, till, catching her eye, he withdrew his own, and coldly said,
+“She is tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt _me_; and I am in no
+humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted
+by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her
+smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”
+
+Mr. Bingley followed his advice. Mr. Darcy walked off; and Elizabeth
+remained with no very cordial feelings towards him. She told the story,
+however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively,
+playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.
+
+The evening altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family. Mrs.
+Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Netherfield
+party. Mr. Bingley had danced with her twice, and she had been
+distinguished by his sisters. Jane was as much gratified by this as her
+mother could be, though in a quieter way. Elizabeth felt Jane’s
+pleasure. Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most
+accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Catherine and Lydia had been
+fortunate enough to be never without partners, which was all that they
+had yet learnt to care for at a ball. They returned, therefore, in good
+spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which they
+were the principal inhabitants. They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a
+book, he was regardless of time; and on the present occasion he had a
+good deal of curiosity as to the event of an evening which had raised
+such splendid expectations. He had rather hoped that all his wife’s
+views on the stranger would be disappointed; but he soon found that he
+had a very different story to hear.
+
+“Oh, my dear Mr. Bennet,” as she entered the room, “we have had a most
+delightful evening, a most excellent ball. I wish you had been there.
+Jane was so admired, nothing could be like it. Everybody said how well
+she looked; and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with
+her twice. Only think of _that_, my dear: he actually danced with her
+twice; and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a second
+time. First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand
+up with her; but, however, he did not admire her at all; indeed, nobody
+can, you know; and he seemed quite struck with Jane as she was going
+down the dance. So he inquired who she was, and got introduced, and
+asked her for the two next. Then, the two third he danced with Miss
+King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane
+again, and the two sixth with Lizzy, and the _Boulanger_----”
+
+“If he had had any compassion for _me_,” cried her husband impatiently,
+“he would not have danced half so much! For God’s sake, say no more of
+his partners. O that he had sprained his ancle in the first dance!”
+
+“Oh, my dear,” continued Mrs. Bennet, “I am quite delighted with him. He
+is so excessively handsome! and his sisters are charming women. I never
+in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses. I dare say the
+lace upon Mrs. Hurst’s gown----”
+
+Here she was interrupted again. Mr. Bennet protested against any
+description of finery. She was therefore obliged to seek another branch
+of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit, and some
+exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Mr. Darcy.
+
+“But I can assure you,” she added, “that Lizzy does not lose much by not
+suiting _his_ fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at
+all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited, that there was no enduring
+him! He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very
+great! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my
+dear, to have given him one of your set-downs. I quite detest the man.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in
+her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much
+she admired him.
+
+“He is just what a young-man ought to be,” said she, “sensible,
+good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! so much ease,
+with such perfect good breeding!”
+
+“He is also handsome,” replied Elizabeth, “which a young man ought
+likewise to be if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.”
+
+“I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time. I
+did not expect such a compliment.”
+
+“Did not you? _I_ did for you. But that is one great difference between
+us. Compliments always take _you_ by surprise, and _me_ never. What
+could be more natural than his asking you again? He could not help
+seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in
+the room. No thanks to his gallantry for that. Well, he certainly is
+very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a
+stupider person.”
+
+“Dear Lizzy!”
+
+“Oh, you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general.
+You never see a fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable
+in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.”
+
+“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak
+what I think.”
+
+“I know you do: and it is _that_ which makes the wonder. With _your_
+good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of
+others! Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets with it
+everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design,--to take the
+good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing
+of the bad,--belongs to you alone. And so, you like this man’s sisters,
+too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his.”
+
+“Certainly not, at first; but they are very pleasing women when you
+converse with them. Miss Bingley is to live with her brother, and keep
+his house; and I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming
+neighbour in her.”
+
+Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced: their behaviour at
+the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more
+quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and
+with a judgment, too, unassailed by any attention to herself, she was
+very little disposed to approve them. They were, in fact, very fine
+ladies; not deficient in good-humour when they were pleased, nor in the
+power of being agreeable where they chose it; but proud and conceited.
+They were rather handsome; had been educated in one of the first private
+seminaries in town; had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds; were in the
+habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people
+of rank; and were, therefore, in every respect entitled to think well of
+themselves and meanly of others. They were of a respectable family in
+the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their
+memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been
+acquired by trade.
+
+Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred
+thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate,
+but did not live to do it. Mr. Bingley intended it likewise, and
+sometimes made choice of his county; but, as he was now provided with a
+good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those
+who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the
+remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to
+purchase.
+
+His sisters were very anxious for his having an estate of his own; but
+though he was now established only as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no
+means unwilling to preside at his table; nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had
+married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider
+his house as her home when it suited her. Mr. Bingley had not been of
+age two years when he was tempted, by an accidental recommendation, to
+look at Netherfield House. He did look at it, and into it, for half an
+hour; was pleased with the situation and the principal rooms, satisfied
+with what the owner said in its praise, and took it immediately.
+
+Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendship, in spite of a
+great opposition of character. Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the
+easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition
+could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he
+never appeared dissatisfied. On the strength of Darcy’s regard, Bingley
+had the firmest reliance, and of his judgment the highest opinion. In
+understanding, Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means
+deficient; but Darcy was clever. He was at the same time haughty,
+reserved, and fastidious; and his manners, though well bred, were not
+inviting. In that respect his friend had greatly the advantage. Bingley
+was sure of being liked wherever he appeared; Darcy was continually
+giving offence.
+
+The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently
+characteristic. Bingley had never met with pleasanter people or prettier
+girls in his life; everybody had been most kind and attentive to him;
+there had been no formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted
+with all the room; and as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel
+more beautiful. Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people
+in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had
+felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or
+pleasure. Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty; but she smiled too
+much.
+
+Mrs. Hurst and her sister allowed it to be so; but still they admired
+her and liked her, and pronounced her to be a sweet girl, and one whom
+they should not object to know more of. Miss Bennet was therefore
+established as a sweet girl; and their brother felt authorized by such
+commendation to think of her as he chose.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: [_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets
+were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade
+in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the
+honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The
+distinction had, perhaps, been felt too strongly. It had given him a
+disgust to his business and to his residence in a small market town;
+and, quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about
+a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge; where he
+could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by
+business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world. For,
+though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the
+contrary, he was all attention to everybody. By nature inoffensive,
+friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James’s had made him
+courteous.
+
+Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a
+valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet. They had several children. The eldest
+of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was
+Elizabeth’s intimate friend.
+
+That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a
+ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assembly
+brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate.
+
+“_You_ began the evening well, Charlotte,” said Mrs. Bennet, with civil
+self-command, to Miss Lucas. “_You_ were Mr. Bingley’s first choice.”
+
+“Yes; but he seemed to like his second better.”
+
+“Oh, you mean Jane, I suppose, because he danced with her twice. To be
+sure that _did_ seem as if he admired her--indeed, I rather believe he
+_did_--I heard something about it--but I hardly know what--something
+about Mr. Robinson.”
+
+“Perhaps you mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson: did not
+I mention it to you? Mr. Robinson’s asking him how he liked our Meryton
+assemblies, and whether he did not think there were a great many pretty
+women in the room, and _which_ he thought the prettiest? and his
+answering immediately to the last question, ‘Oh, the eldest Miss Bennet,
+beyond a doubt: there cannot be two opinions on that point.’”
+
+“Upon my word! Well, that was very decided, indeed--that does seem as
+if--but, however, it may all come to nothing, you know.”
+
+“_My_ overhearings were more to the purpose than _yours_, Eliza,” said
+Charlotte. “Mr. Darcy is not so well worth listening to as his friend,
+is he? Poor Eliza! to be only just _tolerable_.”
+
+“I beg you will not put it into Lizzy’s head to be vexed by his
+ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man that it would be quite
+a misfortune to be liked by him. Mrs. Long told me last night that he
+sat close to her for half an hour without once opening his lips.”
+
+[Illustration: “Without once opening his lips”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+“Are you quite sure, ma’am? Is not there a little mistake?” said Jane.
+“I certainly saw Mr. Darcy speaking to her.”
+
+“Ay, because she asked him at last how he liked Netherfield, and he
+could not help answering her; but she said he seemed very angry at being
+spoke to.”
+
+“Miss Bingley told me,” said Jane, “that he never speaks much unless
+among his intimate acquaintance. With _them_ he is remarkably
+agreeable.”
+
+“I do not believe a word of it, my dear. If he had been so very
+agreeable, he would have talked to Mrs. Long. But I can guess how it
+was; everybody says that he is eat up with pride, and I dare say he had
+heard somehow that Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had to come
+to the ball in a hack chaise.”
+
+“I do not mind his not talking to Mrs. Long,” said Miss Lucas, “but I
+wish he had danced with Eliza.”
+
+“Another time, Lizzy,” said her mother, “I would not dance with _him_,
+if I were you.”
+
+“I believe, ma’am, I may safely promise you _never_ to dance with him.”
+
+“His pride,” said Miss Lucas, “does not offend _me_ so much as pride
+often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so
+very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour,
+should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a _right_
+to be proud.”
+
+“That is very true,” replied Elizabeth, “and I could easily forgive
+_his_ pride, if he had not mortified _mine_.”
+
+“Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her
+reflections, “is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have
+ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human
+nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us
+who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some
+quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different
+things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be
+proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of
+ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
+
+“If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy,” cried a young Lucas, who came with his
+sisters, “I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of
+foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine every day.”
+
+“Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought,” said Mrs.
+Bennet; “and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle
+directly.”
+
+The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she
+would; and the argument ended only with the visit.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit
+was returned in due form. Miss Bennet’s pleasing manners grew on the
+good-will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was
+found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to,
+a wish of being better acquainted with _them_ was expressed towards the
+two eldest. By Jane this attention was received with the greatest
+pleasure; but Elizabeth still saw superciliousness in their treatment of
+everybody, hardly excepting even her sister, and could not like them;
+though their kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value, as arising,
+in all probability, from the influence of their brother’s admiration. It
+was generally evident, whenever they met, that he _did_ admire her; and
+to _her_ it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference
+which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a
+way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it
+was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane
+united with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and an
+uniform cheerfulness of manner, which would guard her from the
+suspicions of the impertinent. She mentioned this to her friend, Miss
+Lucas.
+
+“It may, perhaps, be pleasant,” replied Charlotte, “to be able to impose
+on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be
+so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill
+from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and
+it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the
+dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every
+attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all
+_begin_ freely--a slight preference is natural enough; but there are
+very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without
+encouragement. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show _more_
+affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he
+may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.”
+
+“But she does help him on, as much as her nature will allow. If _I_ can
+perceive her regard for him, he must be a simpleton indeed not to
+discover it too.”
+
+“Remember, Eliza, that he does not know Jane’s disposition as you do.”
+
+“But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavor to conceal
+it, he must find it out.”
+
+“Perhaps he must, if he sees enough of her. But though Bingley and Jane
+meet tolerably often, it is never for many hours together; and as they
+always see each other in large mixed parties, it is impossible that
+every moment should be employed in conversing together. Jane should
+therefore make the most of every half hour in which she can command his
+attention. When she is secure of him, there will be leisure for falling
+in love as much as she chooses.”
+
+“Your plan is a good one,” replied Elizabeth, “where nothing is in
+question but the desire of being well married; and if I were determined
+to get a rich husband, or any husband, I dare say I should adopt it. But
+these are not Jane’s feelings; she is not acting by design. As yet she
+cannot even be certain of the degree of her own regard, nor of its
+reasonableness. She has known him only a fortnight. She danced four
+dances with him at Meryton; she saw him one morning at his own house,
+and has since dined in company with him four times. This is not quite
+enough to make her understand his character.”
+
+“Not as you represent it. Had she merely _dined_ with him, she might
+only have discovered whether he had a good appetite; but you must
+remember that four evenings have been also spent together--and four
+evenings may do a great deal.”
+
+“Yes: these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both
+like Vingt-un better than Commerce, but with respect to any other
+leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.”
+
+“Well,” said Charlotte, “I wish Jane success with all my heart; and if
+she were married to him to-morrow, I should think she had as good a
+chance of happiness as if she were to be studying his character for a
+twelvemonth. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If
+the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or
+ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the
+least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to
+have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as
+possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your
+life.”
+
+“You make me laugh, Charlotte; but it is not sound. You know it is not
+sound, and that you would never act in this way yourself.”
+
+Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attention to her sister, Elizabeth
+was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some
+interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely
+allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the
+ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no
+sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had
+hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered
+uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To
+this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had
+detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry
+in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and
+pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those
+of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of
+this she was perfectly unaware: to her he was only the man who made
+himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough
+to dance with.
+
+He began to wish to know more of her; and, as a step towards conversing
+with her himself, attended to her conversation with others. His doing so
+drew her notice. It was at Sir William Lucas’s, where a large party were
+assembled.
+
+“What does Mr. Darcy mean,” said she to Charlotte, “by listening to my
+conversation with Colonel Forster?”
+
+“That is a question which Mr. Darcy only can answer.”
+
+“But if he does it any more, I shall certainly let him know that I see
+what he is about. He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by
+being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.”
+
+[Illustration: “The entreaties of several” [_Copyright 1894 by George
+Allen._]]
+
+On his approaching them soon afterwards, though without seeming to have
+any intention of speaking, Miss Lucas defied her friend to mention such
+a subject to him, which immediately provoking Elizabeth to do it, she
+turned to him and said,--
+
+“Did not you think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well
+just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at
+Meryton?”
+
+“With great energy; but it is a subject which always makes a lady
+energetic.”
+
+“You are severe on us.”
+
+“It will be _her_ turn soon to be teased,” said Miss Lucas. “I am going
+to open the instrument, Eliza, and you know what follows.”
+
+“You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!--always wanting me
+to play and sing before anybody and everybody! If my vanity had taken a
+musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would
+really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of
+hearing the very best performers.” On Miss Lucas’s persevering, however,
+she added, “Very well; if it must be so, it must.” And gravely glancing
+at Mr. Darcy, “There is a very fine old saying, which everybody here is
+of course familiar with--‘Keep your breath to cool your porridge,’--and
+I shall keep mine to swell my song.”
+
+Her performance was pleasing, though by no means capital. After a song
+or two, and before she could reply to the entreaties of several that she
+would sing again, she was eagerly succeeded at the instrument by her
+sister Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in
+the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always
+impatient for display.
+
+Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her
+application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited
+manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she
+had reached. Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with
+much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the
+end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by
+Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who with
+some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in
+dancing at one end of the room.
+
+Mr. Darcy stood near them in silent indignation at such a mode of
+passing the evening, to the exclusion of all conversation, and was too
+much engrossed by his own thoughts to perceive that Sir William Lucas
+was his neighbour, till Sir William thus began:--
+
+“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is
+nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first
+refinements of polished societies.”
+
+“Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst
+the less polished societies of the world: every savage can dance.”
+
+Sir William only smiled. “Your friend performs delightfully,” he
+continued, after a pause, on seeing Bingley join the group; “and I doubt
+not that you are an adept in the science yourself, Mr. Darcy.”
+
+“You saw me dance at Meryton, I believe, sir.”
+
+“Yes, indeed, and received no inconsiderable pleasure from the sight. Do
+you often dance at St. James’s?”
+
+“Never, sir.”
+
+“Do you not think it would be a proper compliment to the place?”
+
+“It is a compliment which I never pay to any place if I can avoid it.”
+
+“You have a house in town, I conclude?”
+
+Mr. Darcy bowed.
+
+“I had once some thoughts of fixing in town myself, for I am fond of
+superior society; but I did not feel quite certain that the air of
+London would agree with Lady Lucas.”
+
+He paused in hopes of an answer: but his companion was not disposed to
+make any; and Elizabeth at that instant moving towards them, he was
+struck with the notion of doing a very gallant thing, and called out to
+her,--
+
+“My dear Miss Eliza, why are not you dancing? Mr. Darcy, you must allow
+me to present this young lady to you as a very desirable partner. You
+cannot refuse to dance, I am sure, when so much beauty is before you.”
+And, taking her hand, he would have given it to Mr. Darcy, who, though
+extremely surprised, was not unwilling to receive it, when she instantly
+drew back, and said with some discomposure to Sir William,--
+
+“Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I entreat you
+not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.”
+
+Mr. Darcy, with grave propriety, requested to be allowed the honour of
+her hand, but in vain. Elizabeth was determined; nor did Sir William at
+all shake her purpose by his attempt at persuasion.
+
+“You excel so much in the dance, Miss Eliza, that it is cruel to deny me
+the happiness of seeing you; and though this gentleman dislikes the
+amusement in general, he can have no objection, I am sure, to oblige us
+for one half hour.”
+
+“Mr. Darcy is all politeness,” said Elizabeth, smiling.
+
+“He is, indeed: but considering the inducement, my dear Miss Eliza, we
+cannot wonder at his complaisance; for who would object to such a
+partner?”
+
+Elizabeth looked archly, and turned away. Her resistance had not injured
+her with the gentleman, and he was thinking of her with some
+complacency, when thus accosted by Miss Bingley,--
+
+“I can guess the subject of your reverie.”
+
+“I should imagine not.”
+
+“You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass many
+evenings in this manner,--in such society; and, indeed, I am quite of
+your opinion. I was never more annoyed! The insipidity, and yet the
+noise--the nothingness, and yet the self-importance, of all these
+people! What would I give to hear your strictures on them!”
+
+“Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more
+agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure
+which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
+
+Miss Bingley immediately fixed her eyes on his face, and desired he
+would tell her what lady had the credit of inspiring such reflections.
+Mr. Darcy replied, with great intrepidity,--
+
+“Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”
+
+“Miss Elizabeth Bennet!” repeated Miss Bingley. “I am all astonishment.
+How long has she been such a favourite? and pray when am I to wish you
+joy?”
+
+“That is exactly the question which I expected you to ask. A lady’s
+imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love
+to matrimony, in a moment. I knew you would be wishing me joy.”
+
+“Nay, if you are so serious about it, I shall consider the matter as
+absolutely settled. You will have a charming mother-in-law, indeed, and
+of course she will be always at Pemberley with you.”
+
+He listened to her with perfect indifference, while she chose to
+entertain herself in this manner; and as his composure convinced her
+that all was safe, her wit flowed along.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “A note for Miss Bennet”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two
+thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed,
+in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s
+fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply
+the deficiency of his. Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and
+had left her four thousand pounds.
+
+She had a sister married to a Mr. Philips, who had been a clerk to their
+father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in
+London in a respectable line of trade.
+
+The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most
+convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted
+thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt, and
+to a milliner’s shop just over the way. The two youngest of the family,
+Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions:
+their minds were more vacant than their sisters’, and when nothing
+better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning
+hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and, however bare of
+news the country in general might be, they always contrived to learn
+some from their aunt. At present, indeed, they were well supplied both
+with news and happiness by the recent arrival of a militia regiment in
+the neighbourhood; it was to remain the whole winter, and Meryton was
+the head-quarters.
+
+Their visits to Mrs. Philips were now productive of the most interesting
+intelligence. Every day added something to their knowledge of the
+officers’ names and connections. Their lodgings were not long a secret,
+and at length they began to know the officers themselves. Mr. Philips
+visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a source of felicity
+unknown before. They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr.
+Bingley’s large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their
+mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of
+an ensign.
+
+After listening one morning to their effusions on this subject, Mr.
+Bennet coolly observed,--
+
+“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two
+of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but
+I am now convinced.”
+
+Catherine was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Lydia, with perfect
+indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and
+her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the
+next morning to London.
+
+“I am astonished, my dear,” said Mrs. Bennet, “that you should be so
+ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly
+of anybody’s children, it should not be of my own, however.”
+
+“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”
+
+“Yes; but as it happens, they are all of them very clever.”
+
+“This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree. I
+had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must
+so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly
+foolish.”
+
+“My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of
+their father and mother. When they get to our age, I dare say they will
+not think about officers any more than we do. I remember the time when I
+liked a red coat myself very well--and, indeed, so I do still at my
+heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year,
+should want one of my girls, I shall not say nay to him; and I thought
+Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William’s in
+his regimentals.”
+
+“Mamma,” cried Lydia, “my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain
+Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson’s as they did when they first
+came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke’s library.”
+
+Mrs. Bennet was prevented replying by the entrance of the footman with a
+note for Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and the servant waited
+for an answer. Mrs. Bennet’s eyes sparkled with pleasure, and she was
+eagerly calling out, while her daughter read,--
+
+“Well, Jane, who is it from? What is it about? What does he say? Well,
+Jane, make haste and tell us; make haste, my love.”
+
+“It is from Miss Bingley,” said Jane, and then read it aloud.
+
+     /* NIND “My dear friend, */
+
+     “If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and
+     me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our
+     lives; for a whole day’s _tête-à-tête_ between two women can never
+     end without a quarrel. Come as soon as you can on the receipt of
+     this. My brother and the gentlemen are to dine with the officers.
+     Yours ever,
+
+“CAROLINE BINGLEY.”
+
+“With the officers!” cried Lydia: “I wonder my aunt did not tell us of
+_that_.”
+
+“Dining out,” said Mrs. Bennet; “that is very unlucky.”
+
+“Can I have the carriage?” said Jane.
+
+“No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to
+rain; and then you must stay all night.”
+
+“That would be a good scheme,” said Elizabeth, “if you were sure that
+they would not offer to send her home.”
+
+“Oh, but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley’s chaise to go to Meryton;
+and the Hursts have no horses to theirs.”
+
+“I had much rather go in the coach.”
+
+“But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I am sure. They are
+wanted in the farm, Mr. Bennet, are not they?”
+
+[Illustration: Cheerful prognostics]
+
+“They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I can get them.”
+
+“But if you have got them to-day,” said Elizabeth, “my mother’s purpose
+will be answered.”
+
+She did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses
+were engaged; Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her
+mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad
+day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it
+rained hard. Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was
+delighted. The rain continued the whole evening without intermission;
+Jane certainly could not come back.
+
+“This was a lucky idea of mine, indeed!” said Mrs. Bennet, more than
+once, as if the credit of making it rain were all her own. Till the next
+morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her
+contrivance. Breakfast was scarcely over when a servant from Netherfield
+brought the following note for Elizabeth:--
+
+     /* NIND “My dearest Lizzie, */
+
+     “I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be
+     imputed to my getting wet through yesterday. My kind friends will
+     not hear of my returning home till I am better. They insist also on
+     my seeing Mr. Jones--therefore do not be alarmed if you should hear
+     of his having been to me--and, excepting a sore throat and a
+     headache, there is not much the matter with me.
+
+“Yours, etc.”
+
+“Well, my dear,” said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note
+aloud, “if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness--if she
+should die--it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of
+Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”
+
+“Oh, I am not at all afraid of her dying. People do not die of little
+trifling colds. She will be taken good care of. As long as she stays
+there, it is all very well. I would go and see her if I could have the
+carriage.”
+
+Elizabeth, feeling really anxious, determined to go to her, though the
+carriage was not to be had: and as she was no horsewoman, walking was
+her only alternative. She declared her resolution.
+
+“How can you be so silly,” cried her mother, “as to think of such a
+thing, in all this dirt! You will not be fit to be seen when you get
+there.”
+
+“I shall be very fit to see Jane--which is all I want.”
+
+“Is this a hint to me, Lizzy,” said her father, “to send for the
+horses?”
+
+“No, indeed. I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing,
+when one has a motive; only three miles. I shall be back by dinner.”
+
+“I admire the activity of your benevolence,” observed Mary, “but every
+impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion,
+exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”
+
+“We will go as far as Meryton with you,” said Catherine and Lydia.
+Elizabeth accepted their company, and the three young ladies set off
+together.
+
+“If we make haste,” said Lydia, as they walked along, “perhaps we may
+see something of Captain Carter, before he goes.”
+
+In Meryton they parted: the two youngest repaired to the lodgings of one
+of the officers’ wives, and Elizabeth continued her walk alone, crossing
+field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing
+over puddles, with impatient activity, and finding herself at last
+within view of the house, with weary ancles, dirty stockings, and a face
+glowing with the warmth of exercise.
+
+She was shown into the breakfast parlour, where all but Jane were
+assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise.
+That she should have walked three miles so early in the day in such
+dirty weather, and by herself, was almost incredible to Mrs. Hurst and
+Miss Bingley; and Elizabeth was convinced that they held her in contempt
+for it. She was received, however, very politely by them; and in their
+brother’s manners there was something better than politeness--there was
+good-humour and kindness. Mr. Darcy said very little, and Mr. Hurst
+nothing at all. The former was divided between admiration of the
+brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion and doubt as to
+the occasion’s justifying her coming so far alone. The latter was
+thinking only of his breakfast.
+
+Her inquiries after her sister were not very favourably answered. Miss
+Bennet had slept ill, and though up, was very feverish, and not well
+enough to leave her room. Elizabeth was glad to be taken to her
+immediately; and Jane, who had only been withheld by the fear of giving
+alarm or inconvenience, from expressing in her note how much she longed
+for such a visit, was delighted at her entrance. She was not equal,
+however, to much conversation; and when Miss Bingley left them together,
+could attempt little beside expressions of gratitude for the
+extraordinary kindness she was treated with. Elizabeth silently attended
+her.
+
+When breakfast was over, they were joined by the sisters; and Elizabeth
+began to like them herself, when she saw how much affection and
+solicitude they showed for Jane. The apothecary came; and having
+examined his patient, said, as might be supposed, that she had caught a
+violent cold, and that they must endeavour to get the better of it;
+advised her to return to bed, and promised her some draughts. The advice
+was followed readily, for the feverish symptoms increased, and her head
+ached acutely. Elizabeth did not quit her room for a moment, nor were
+the other ladies often absent; the gentlemen being out, they had in fact
+nothing to do elsewhere.
+
+When the clock struck three, Elizabeth felt that she must go, and very
+unwillingly said so. Miss Bingley offered her the carriage, and she only
+wanted a little pressing to accept it, when Jane testified such concern
+at parting with her that Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer
+of the chaise into an invitation to remain at Netherfield for the
+present. Elizabeth most thankfully consented, and a servant was
+despatched to Longbourn, to acquaint the family with her stay, and bring
+back a supply of clothes.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“The Apothecary came”
+]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“covering a screen”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+At five o’clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-past six
+Elizabeth was summoned to dinner. To the civil inquiries which then
+poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the
+much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley, she could not make a very
+favourable answer. Jane was by no means better. The sisters, on hearing
+this, repeated three or four times how much they were grieved, how
+shocking it was to have a bad cold, and how excessively they disliked
+being ill themselves; and then thought no more of the matter: and their
+indifference towards Jane, when not immediately before them, restored
+Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her original dislike.
+
+Their brother, indeed, was the only one of the party whom she could
+regard with any complacency. His anxiety for Jane was evident, and his
+attentions to herself most pleasing; and they prevented her feeling
+herself so much an intruder as she believed she was considered by the
+others. She had very little notice from any but him. Miss Bingley was
+engrossed by Mr. Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for Mr.
+Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to
+eat, drink, and play at cards, who, when he found her prefer a plain
+dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.
+
+When dinner was over, she returned directly to Jane, and Miss Bingley
+began abusing her as soon as she was out of the room. Her manners were
+pronounced to be very bad indeed,--a mixture of pride and impertinence:
+she had no conversation, no style, no taste, no beauty. Mrs. Hurst
+thought the same, and added,--
+
+“She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent
+walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really
+looked almost wild.”
+
+“She did indeed, Louisa. I could hardly keep my countenance. Very
+nonsensical to come at all! Why must _she_ be scampering about the
+country, because her sister had a cold? Her hair so untidy, so blowzy!”
+
+“Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep
+in mud, I am absolutely certain, and the gown which had been let down to
+hide it not doing its office.”
+
+“Your picture may be very exact, Louisa,” said Bingley; “but this was
+all lost upon me. I thought Miss Elizabeth Bennet looked remarkably well
+when she came into the room this morning. Her dirty petticoat quite
+escaped my notice.”
+
+“_You_ observed it, Mr. Darcy, I am sure,” said Miss Bingley; “and I am
+inclined to think that you would not wish to see _your sister_ make such
+an exhibition.”
+
+“Certainly not.”
+
+“To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is,
+above her ancles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! what could she mean by
+it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence,
+a most country-town indifference to decorum.”
+
+“It shows an affection for her sister that is very pleasing,” said
+Bingley.
+
+“I am afraid, Mr. Darcy,” observed Miss Bingley, in a half whisper,
+“that this adventure has rather affected your admiration of her fine
+eyes.”
+
+“Not at all,” he replied: “they were brightened by the exercise.” A
+short pause followed this speech, and Mrs. Hurst began again,--
+
+“I have an excessive regard for Jane Bennet,--she is really a very sweet
+girl,--and I wish with all my heart she were well settled. But with such
+a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no
+chance of it.”
+
+“I think I have heard you say that their uncle is an attorney in
+Meryton?”
+
+“Yes; and they have another, who lives somewhere near Cheapside.”
+
+“That is capital,” added her sister; and they both laughed heartily.
+
+“If they had uncles enough to fill _all_ Cheapside,” cried Bingley, “it
+would not make them one jot less agreeable.”
+
+“But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any
+consideration in the world,” replied Darcy.
+
+To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their
+hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of
+their dear friend’s vulgar relations.
+
+With a renewal of tenderness, however, they repaired to her room on
+leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee.
+She was still very poorly, and Elizabeth would not quit her at all, till
+late in the evening, when she had the comfort of seeing her asleep, and
+when it appeared to her rather right than pleasant that she should go
+down stairs herself. On entering the drawing-room, she found the whole
+party at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting
+them to be playing high, she declined it, and making her sister the
+excuse, said she would amuse herself, for the short time she could stay
+below, with a book. Mr. Hurst looked at her with astonishment.
+
+“Do you prefer reading to cards?” said he; “that is rather singular.”
+
+“Miss Eliza Bennet,” said Miss Bingley, “despises cards. She is a great
+reader, and has no pleasure in anything else.”
+
+“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,” cried Elizabeth; “I
+am _not_ a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.”
+
+“In nursing your sister I am sure you have pleasure,” said Bingley; “and
+I hope it will soon be increased by seeing her quite well.”
+
+Elizabeth thanked him from her heart, and then walked towards a table
+where a few books were lying. He immediately offered to fetch her
+others; all that his library afforded.
+
+“And I wish my collection were larger for your benefit and my own
+credit; but I am an idle fellow; and though I have not many, I have more
+than I ever looked into.”
+
+Elizabeth assured him that she could suit herself perfectly with those
+in the room.
+
+“I am astonished,” said Miss Bingley, “that my father should have left
+so small a collection of books. What a delightful library you have at
+Pemberley, Mr. Darcy!”
+
+“It ought to be good,” he replied: “it has been the work of many
+generations.”
+
+“And then you have added so much to it yourself--you are always buying
+books.”
+
+“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as
+these.”
+
+“Neglect! I am sure you neglect nothing that can add to the beauties of
+that noble place. Charles, when you build _your_ house, I wish it may be
+half as delightful as Pemberley.”
+
+“I wish it may.”
+
+“But I would really advise you to make your purchase in that
+neighbourhood, and take Pemberley for a kind of model. There is not a
+finer county in England than Derbyshire.”
+
+“With all my heart: I will buy Pemberley itself, if Darcy will sell it.”
+
+“I am talking of possibilities, Charles.”
+
+“Upon my word, Caroline, I should think it more possible to get
+Pemberley by purchase than by imitation.”
+
+Elizabeth was so much caught by what passed, as to leave her very little
+attention for her book; and, soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near
+the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr. Bingley and his eldest
+sister, to observe the game.
+
+“Is Miss Darcy much grown since the spring?” said Miss Bingley: “will
+she be as tall as I am?”
+
+“I think she will. She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet’s height, or
+rather taller.”
+
+“How I long to see her again! I never met with anybody who delighted me
+so much. Such a countenance, such manners, and so extremely accomplished
+for her age! Her performance on the pianoforte is exquisite.”
+
+“It is amazing to me,” said Bingley, “how young ladies can have patience
+to be so very accomplished as they all are.”
+
+“All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?”
+
+“Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens, and
+net purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this; and I am
+sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without
+being informed that she was very accomplished.”
+
+“Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,” said Darcy, “has
+too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no
+otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen; but I am very
+far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I
+cannot boast of knowing more than half-a-dozen in the whole range of my
+acquaintance that are really accomplished.”
+
+“Nor I, I am sure,” said Miss Bingley.
+
+“Then,” observed Elizabeth, “you must comprehend a great deal in your
+idea of an accomplished woman.”
+
+“Yes; I do comprehend a great deal in it.”
+
+“Oh, certainly,” cried his faithful assistant, “no one can be really
+esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met
+with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing,
+dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and, besides all
+this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of
+walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word
+will be but half deserved.”
+
+“All this she must possess,” added Darcy; “and to all she must yet add
+something more substantial in the improvement of her mind by extensive
+reading.”
+
+“I am no longer surprised at your knowing _only_ six accomplished women.
+I rather wonder now at your knowing _any_.”
+
+“Are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the possibility of all
+this?”
+
+“_I_ never saw such a woman. _I_ never saw such capacity, and taste, and
+application, and elegance, as you describe, united.”
+
+Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her
+implied doubt, and were both protesting that they knew many women who
+answered this description, when Mr. Hurst called them to order, with
+bitter complaints of their inattention to what was going forward. As all
+conversation was thereby at an end, Elizabeth soon afterwards left the
+room.
+
+“Eliza Bennet,” said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her, “is
+one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other
+sex by undervaluing their own; and with many men, I daresay, it
+succeeds; but, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.”
+
+“Undoubtedly,” replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed,
+“there is meanness in _all_ the arts which ladies sometimes condescend
+to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is
+despicable.”
+
+Miss Bingley was not so entirely satisfied with this reply as to
+continue the subject.
+
+Elizabeth joined them again only to say that her sister was worse, and
+that she could not leave her. Bingley urged Mr. Jones’s being sent for
+immediately; while his sisters, convinced that no country advice could
+be of any service, recommended an express to town for one of the most
+eminent physicians. This she would not hear of; but she was not so
+unwilling to comply with their brother’s proposal; and it was settled
+that Mr. Jones should be sent for early in the morning, if Miss Bennet
+were not decidedly better. Bingley was quite uncomfortable; his sisters
+declared that they were miserable. They solaced their wretchedness,
+however, by duets after supper; while he could find no better relief to
+his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that every
+possible attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+M^{rs} Bennet and her two youngest girls
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister’s room, and in the
+morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the
+inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid,
+and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his
+sisters. In spite of this amendment, however, she requested to have a
+note sent to Longbourn, desiring her mother to visit Jane, and form her
+own judgment of her situation. The note was immediately despatched, and
+its contents as quickly complied with. Mrs. Bennet, accompanied by her
+two youngest girls, reached Netherfield soon after the family breakfast.
+
+Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs. Bennet would have been
+very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was
+not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her
+restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield. She
+would not listen, therefore, to her daughter’s proposal of being carried
+home; neither did the apothecary, who arrived about the same time, think
+it at all advisable. After sitting a little while with Jane, on Miss
+Bingley’s appearance and invitation, the mother and three daughters all
+attended her into the breakfast parlour. Bingley met them with hopes
+that Mrs. Bennet had not found Miss Bennet worse than she expected.
+
+“Indeed I have, sir,” was her answer. “She is a great deal too ill to be
+moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass
+a little longer on your kindness.”
+
+“Removed!” cried Bingley. “It must not be thought of. My sister, I am
+sure, will not hear of her removal.”
+
+“You may depend upon it, madam,” said Miss Bingley, with cold civility,
+“that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she
+remains with us.”
+
+Mrs. Bennet was profuse in her acknowledgments.
+
+“I am sure,” she added, “if it was not for such good friends, I do not
+know what would become of her, for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a
+vast deal, though with the greatest patience in the world, which is
+always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest
+temper I ever met with. I often tell my other girls they are nothing to
+_her_. You have a sweet room here, Mr. Bingley, and a charming prospect
+over that gravel walk. I do not know a place in the country that is
+equal to Netherfield. You will not think of quitting it in a hurry, I
+hope, though you have but a short lease.”
+
+“Whatever I do is done in a hurry,” replied he; “and therefore if I
+should resolve to quit Netherfield, I should probably be off in five
+minutes. At present, however, I consider myself as quite fixed here.”
+
+“That is exactly what I should have supposed of you,” said Elizabeth.
+
+“You begin to comprehend me, do you?” cried he, turning towards her.
+
+“Oh yes--I understand you perfectly.”
+
+“I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen
+through, I am afraid, is pitiful.”
+
+“That is as it happens. It does not necessarily follow that a deep,
+intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours.”
+
+“Lizzy,” cried her mother, “remember where you are, and do not run on in
+the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.”
+
+“I did not know before,” continued Bingley, immediately, “that you were
+a studier of character. It must be an amusing study.”
+
+“Yes; but intricate characters are the _most_ amusing. They have at
+least that advantage.”
+
+“The country,” said Darcy, “can in general supply but few subjects for
+such a study. In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and
+unvarying society.”
+
+“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be
+observed in them for ever.”
+
+“Yes, indeed,” cried Mrs. Bennet, offended by his manner of mentioning a
+country neighbourhood. “I assure you there is quite as much of _that_
+going on in the country as in town.”
+
+Everybody was surprised; and Darcy, after looking at her for a moment,
+turned silently away. Mrs. Bennet, who fancied she had gained a complete
+victory over him, continued her triumph,--
+
+“I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for
+my part, except the shops and public places. The country is a vast deal
+pleasanter, is not it, Mr. Bingley?”
+
+“When I am in the country,” he replied, “I never wish to leave it; and
+when I am in town, it is pretty much the same. They have each their
+advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.”
+
+“Ay, that is because you have the right disposition. But that
+gentleman,” looking at Darcy, “seemed to think the country was nothing
+at all.”
+
+“Indeed, mamma, you are mistaken,” said Elizabeth, blushing for her
+mother. “You quite mistook Mr. Darcy. He only meant that there was not
+such a variety of people to be met with in the country as in town, which
+you must acknowledge to be true.”
+
+“Certainly, my dear, nobody said there were; but as to not meeting with
+many people in this neighbourhood, I believe there are few
+neighbourhoods larger. I know we dine with four-and-twenty families.”
+
+Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his
+countenance. His sister was less delicate, and directed her eye towards
+Mr. Darcy with a very expressive smile. Elizabeth, for the sake of
+saying something that might turn her mother’s thoughts, now asked her if
+Charlotte Lucas had been at Longbourn since _her_ coming away.
+
+“Yes, she called yesterday with her father. What an agreeable man Sir
+William is, Mr. Bingley--is not he? so much the man of fashion! so
+genteel and so easy! He has always something to say to everybody. _That_
+is my idea of good breeding; and those persons who fancy themselves very
+important and never open their mouths quite mistake the matter.”
+
+“Did Charlotte dine with you?”
+
+“No, she would go home. I fancy she was wanted about the mince-pies. For
+my part, Mr. Bingley, _I_ always keep servants that can do their own
+work; _my_ daughters are brought up differently. But everybody is to
+judge for themselves, and the Lucases are a very good sort of girls, I
+assure you. It is a pity they are not handsome! Not that _I_ think
+Charlotte so _very_ plain; but then she is our particular friend.”
+
+“She seems a very pleasant young woman,” said Bingley.
+
+“Oh dear, yes; but you must own she is very plain. Lady Lucas herself
+has often said so, and envied me Jane’s beauty. I do not like to boast
+of my own child; but to be sure, Jane--one does not often see anybody
+better looking. It is what everybody says. I do not trust my own
+partiality. When she was only fifteen there was a gentleman at my
+brother Gardiner’s in town so much in love with her, that my
+sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away.
+But, however, he did not. Perhaps he thought her too young. However, he
+wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.”
+
+“And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth, impatiently. “There has
+been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first
+discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!”
+
+“I have been used to consider poetry as the _food_ of love,” said Darcy.
+
+“Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
+strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
+am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
+
+Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth
+tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again. She longed to
+speak, but could think of nothing to say; and after a short silence Mrs.
+Bennet began repeating her thanks to Mr. Bingley for his kindness to
+Jane, with an apology for troubling him also with Lizzy. Mr. Bingley was
+unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be
+civil also, and say what the occasion required. She performed her part,
+indeed, without much graciousness, but Mrs. Bennet was satisfied, and
+soon afterwards ordered her carriage. Upon this signal, the youngest of
+her daughters put herself forward. The two girls had been whispering to
+each other during the whole visit; and the result of it was, that the
+youngest should tax Mr. Bingley with having promised on his first coming
+into the country to give a ball at Netherfield.
+
+Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion
+and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose
+affection had brought her into public at an early age. She had high
+animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the
+attentions of the officers, to whom her uncle’s good dinners and her
+own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance. She was
+very equal, therefore, to address Mr. Bingley on the subject of the
+ball, and abruptly reminded him of his promise; adding, that it would be
+the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it. His answer
+to this sudden attack was delightful to her mother’s ear.
+
+“I am perfectly ready, I assure you, to keep my engagement; and, when
+your sister is recovered, you shall, if you please, name the very day of
+the ball. But you would not wish to be dancing while she is ill?”
+
+Lydia declared herself satisfied. “Oh yes--it would be much better to
+wait till Jane was well; and by that time, most likely, Captain Carter
+would be at Meryton again. And when you have given _your_ ball,” she
+added, “I shall insist on their giving one also. I shall tell Colonel
+Forster it will be quite a shame if he does not.”
+
+Mrs. Bennet and her daughters then departed, and Elizabeth returned
+instantly to Jane, leaving her own and her relations’ behaviour to the
+remarks of the two ladies and Mr. Darcy; the latter of whom, however,
+could not be prevailed on to join in their censure of _her_, in spite of
+all Miss Bingley’s witticisms on _fine eyes_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss
+Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who
+continued, though slowly, to mend; and, in the evening, Elizabeth joined
+their party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear.
+Mr. Darcy was writing, and Miss Bingley, seated near him, was watching
+the progress of his letter, and repeatedly calling off his attention by
+messages to his sister. Mr. Hurst and Mr. Bingley were at piquet, and
+Mrs. Hurst was observing their game.
+
+Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in
+attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion. The perpetual
+commendations of the lady either on his hand-writing, or on the evenness
+of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern
+with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was
+exactly in unison with her opinion of each.
+
+“How delighted Miss Darcy will be to receive such a letter!”
+
+He made no answer.
+
+“You write uncommonly fast.”
+
+“You are mistaken. I write rather slowly.”
+
+“How many letters you must have occasion to write in the course of a
+year! Letters of business, too! How odious I should think them!”
+
+“It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot instead of to yours.”
+
+“Pray tell your sister that I long to see her.”
+
+“I have already told her so once, by your desire.”
+
+“I am afraid you do not like your pen. Let me mend it for you. I mend
+pens remarkably well.”
+
+“Thank you--but I always mend my own.”
+
+“How can you contrive to write so even?”
+
+He was silent.
+
+“Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improvement on the harp,
+and pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful
+little design for a table, and I think it infinitely superior to Miss
+Grantley’s.”
+
+“Will you give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again? At
+present I have not room to do them justice.”
+
+“Oh, it is of no consequence. I shall see her in January. But do you
+always write such charming long letters to her, Mr. Darcy?”
+
+“They are generally long; but whether always charming, it is not for me
+to determine.”
+
+“It is a rule with me, that a person who can write a long letter with
+ease cannot write ill.”
+
+“That will not do for a compliment to Darcy, Caroline,” cried her
+brother, “because he does _not_ write with ease. He studies too much
+for words of four syllables. Do not you, Darcy?”
+
+“My style of writing is very different from yours.”
+
+“Oh,” cried Miss Bingley, “Charles writes in the most careless way
+imaginable. He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest.”
+
+“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them; by which
+means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”
+
+“Your humility, Mr. Bingley,” said Elizabeth, “must disarm reproof.”
+
+“Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of
+humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an
+indirect boast.”
+
+“And which of the two do you call _my_ little recent piece of modesty?”
+
+“The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in
+writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of
+thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you
+think at least highly interesting. The power of doing anything with
+quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any
+attention to the imperfection of the performance. When you told Mrs.
+Bennet this morning, that if you ever resolved on quitting Netherfield
+you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of
+panegyric, of compliment to yourself; and yet what is there so very
+laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business
+undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?”
+
+“Nay,” cried Bingley, “this is too much, to remember at night all the
+foolish things that were said in the morning. And yet, upon my honour, I
+believed what I said of myself to be true, and I believe it at this
+moment. At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless
+precipitance merely to show off before the ladies.”
+
+“I daresay you believed it; but I am by no means convinced that you
+would be gone with such celerity. Your conduct would be quite as
+dependent on chance as that of any man I know; and if, as you were
+mounting your horse, a friend were to say, ‘Bingley, you had better stay
+till next week,’ you would probably do it--you would probably not
+go--and, at another word, might stay a month.”
+
+“You have only proved by this,” cried Elizabeth, “that Mr. Bingley did
+not do justice to his own disposition. You have shown him off now much
+more than he did himself.”
+
+“I am exceedingly gratified,” said Bingley, “by your converting what my
+friend says into a compliment on the sweetness of my temper. But I am
+afraid you are giving it a turn which that gentleman did by no means
+intend; for he would certainly think the better of me if, under such a
+circumstance, I were to give a flat denial, and ride off as fast as I
+could.”
+
+“Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention
+as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?”
+
+“Upon my word, I cannot exactly explain the matter--Darcy must speak for
+himself.”
+
+“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine,
+but which I have never acknowledged. Allowing the case, however, to
+stand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet,
+that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and
+the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering
+one argument in favour of its propriety.”
+
+“To yield readily--easily--to the _persuasion_ of a friend is no merit
+with you.”
+
+“To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of
+either.”
+
+“You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of
+friendship and affection. A regard for the requester would often make
+one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason
+one into it. I am not particularly speaking of such a case as you have
+supposed about Mr. Bingley. We may as well wait, perhaps, till the
+circumstance occurs, before we discuss the discretion of his behaviour
+thereupon. But in general and ordinary cases, between friend and friend,
+where one of them is desired by the other to change a resolution of no
+very great moment, should you think ill of that person for complying
+with the desire, without waiting to be argued into it?”
+
+“Will it not be advisable, before we proceed on this subject, to arrange
+with rather more precision the degree of importance which is to
+appertain to this request, as well as the degree of intimacy subsisting
+between the parties?”
+
+“By all means,” cried Bingley; “let us hear all the particulars, not
+forgetting their comparative height and size, for that will have more
+weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of. I assure
+you that if Darcy were not such a great tall fellow, in comparison with
+myself, I should not pay him half so much deference. I declare I do not
+know a more awful object than Darcy on particular occasions, and in
+particular places; at his own house especially, and of a Sunday evening,
+when he has nothing to do.”
+
+Mr. Darcy smiled; but Elizabeth thought she could perceive that he was
+rather offended, and therefore checked her laugh. Miss Bingley warmly
+resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her
+brother for talking such nonsense.
+
+“I see your design, Bingley,” said his friend. “You dislike an argument,
+and want to silence this.”
+
+“Perhaps I do. Arguments are too much like disputes. If you and Miss
+Bennet will defer yours till I am out of the room, I shall be very
+thankful; and then you may say whatever you like of me.”
+
+“What you ask,” said Elizabeth, “is no sacrifice on my side; and Mr.
+Darcy had much better finish his letter.”
+
+Mr. Darcy took her advice, and did finish his letter.
+
+When that business was over, he applied to Miss Bingley and Elizabeth
+for the indulgence of some music. Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to
+the pianoforte, and after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the
+way, which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she
+seated herself.
+
+Mrs. Hurst sang with her sister; and while they were thus employed,
+Elizabeth could not help observing, as she turned over some music-books
+that lay on the instrument, how frequently Mr. Darcy’s eyes were fixed
+on her. She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of
+admiration to so great a man, and yet that he should look at her because
+he disliked her was still more strange. She could only imagine, however,
+at last, that she drew his notice because there was something about her
+more wrong and reprehensible, according to his ideas of right, than in
+any other person present. The supposition did not pain her. She liked
+him too little to care for his approbation.
+
+After playing some Italian songs, Miss Bingley varied the charm by a
+lively Scotch air; and soon afterwards Mr. Darcy, drawing near
+Elizabeth, said to her,--
+
+“Do you not feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an
+opportunity of dancing a reel?”
+
+She smiled, but made no answer. He repeated the question, with some
+surprise at her silence.
+
+“Oh,” said she, “I heard you before; but I could not immediately
+determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’
+that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always
+delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of
+their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore, made up my mind to tell
+you that I do not want to dance a reel at all; and now despise me if you
+dare.”
+
+“Indeed I do not dare.”
+
+Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his
+gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her
+manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody, and Darcy had
+never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really
+believed that, were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he
+should be in some danger.
+
+Miss Bingley saw, or suspected, enough to be jealous; and her great
+anxiety for the recovery of her dear friend Jane received some
+assistance from her desire of getting rid of Elizabeth.
+
+She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest, by talking of
+their supposed marriage, and planning his happiness in such an alliance.
+
+“I hope,” said she, as they were walking together in the shrubbery the
+next day, “you will give your mother-in-law a few hints, when this
+desirable event takes place, as to the advantage of holding her tongue;
+and if you can compass it, to cure the younger girls of running after
+the officers. And, if I may mention so delicate a subject, endeavour to
+check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence,
+which your lady possesses.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “No, no; stay where you are”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+“Have you anything else to propose for my domestic felicity?”
+
+“Oh yes. Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Philips be placed
+in the gallery at Pemberley. Put them next to your great-uncle the
+judge. They are in the same profession, you know, only in different
+lines. As for your Elizabeth’s picture, you must not attempt to have it
+taken, for what painter could do justice to those beautiful eyes?”
+
+“It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression; but their
+colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be
+copied.”
+
+At that moment they were met from another walk by Mrs. Hurst and
+Elizabeth herself.
+
+“I did not know that you intended to walk,” said Miss Bingley, in some
+confusion, lest they had been overheard.
+
+“You used us abominably ill,” answered Mrs. Hurst, “running away without
+telling us that you were coming out.”
+
+Then taking the disengaged arm of Mr. Darcy, she left Elizabeth to walk
+by herself. The path just admitted three. Mr. Darcy felt their rudeness,
+and immediately said,--
+
+“This walk is not wide enough for our party. We had better go into the
+avenue.”
+
+But Elizabeth, who had not the least inclination to remain with them,
+laughingly answered,--
+
+“No, no; stay where you are. You are charmingly grouped, and appear to
+uncommon advantage. The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a
+fourth. Good-bye.”
+
+She then ran gaily off, rejoicing, as she rambled about, in the hope of
+being at home again in a day or two. Jane was already so much recovered
+as to intend leaving her room for a couple of hours that evening.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Piling up the fire”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the ladies removed after dinner Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and
+seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room,
+where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of
+pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were
+during the hour which passed before the gentlemen appeared. Their powers
+of conversation were considerable. They could describe an entertainment
+with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their
+acquaintance with spirit.
+
+But when the gentlemen entered, Jane was no longer the first object;
+Miss Bingley’s eyes were instantly turned towards Darcy, and she had
+something to say to him before he had advanced many steps. He addressed
+himself directly to Miss Bennet with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst
+also made her a slight bow, and said he was “very glad;” but diffuseness
+and warmth remained for Bingley’s salutation. He was full of joy and
+attention. The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she
+should suffer from the change of room; and she removed, at his desire,
+to the other side of the fireplace, that she might be farther from the
+door. He then sat down by her, and talked scarcely to anyone else.
+Elizabeth, at work in the opposite corner, saw it all with great
+delight.
+
+When tea was over Mr. Hurst reminded his sister-in-law of the
+card-table--but in vain. She had obtained private intelligence that Mr.
+Darcy did not wish for cards, and Mr. Hurst soon found even his open
+petition rejected. She assured him that no one intended to play, and the
+silence of the whole party on the subject seemed to justify her. Mr.
+Hurst had, therefore, nothing to do but to stretch himself on one of the
+sofas and go to sleep. Darcy took up a book. Miss Bingley did the same;
+and Mrs. Hurst, principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and
+rings, joined now and then in her brother’s conversation with Miss
+Bennet.
+
+Miss Bingley’s attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr.
+Darcy’s progress through _his_ book, as in reading her own; and she was
+perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She
+could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her
+question and read on. At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be
+amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the
+second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, “How pleasant it
+is to spend an evening in this way! I declare, after all, there is no
+enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a
+book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not
+an excellent library.”
+
+No one made any reply. She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and
+cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement; when, hearing
+her brother mentioning a ball to Miss Bennet, she turned suddenly
+towards him and said,--
+
+“By the bye Charles, are you really serious in meditating a dance at
+Netherfield? I would advise you, before you determine on it, to consult
+the wishes of the present party; I am much mistaken if there are not
+some among us to whom a ball would be rather a punishment than a
+pleasure.”
+
+“If you mean Darcy,” cried her brother, “he may go to bed, if he
+chooses, before it begins; but as for the ball, it is quite a settled
+thing, and as soon as Nicholls has made white soup enough I shall send
+round my cards.”
+
+“I should like balls infinitely better,” she replied, “if they were
+carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably
+tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much
+more rational if conversation instead of dancing made the order of the
+day.”
+
+“Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say; but it would not be
+near so much like a ball.”
+
+Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards got up and walked about
+the room. Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at
+whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious. In the
+desperation of her feelings, she resolved on one effort more; and,
+turning to Elizabeth, said,--
+
+“Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a
+turn about the room. I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so
+long in one attitude.”
+
+Elizabeth was surprised, but agreed to it immediately. Miss Bingley
+succeeded no less in the real object of her civility: Mr. Darcy looked
+up. He was as much awake to the novelty of attention in that quarter as
+Elizabeth herself could be, and unconsciously closed his book. He was
+directly invited to join their party, but he declined it, observing that
+he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down
+the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would
+interfere. What could he mean? She was dying to know what could be his
+meaning--and asked Elizabeth whether she could at all understand him.
+
+“Not at all,” was her answer; “but, depend upon it, he means to be
+severe on us, and our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask
+nothing about it.”
+
+Miss Bingley, however, was incapable of disappointing Mr. Darcy in
+anything, and persevered, therefore, in requiring an explanation of his
+two motives.
+
+“I have not the smallest objection to explaining them,” said he, as soon
+as she allowed him to speak. “You either choose this method of passing
+the evening because you are in each other’s confidence, and have secret
+affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures
+appear to the greatest advantage in walking: if the first, I should be
+completely in your way; and if the second, I can admire you much better
+as I sit by the fire.”
+
+“Oh, shocking!” cried Miss Bingley. “I never heard anything so
+abominable. How shall we punish him for such a speech?”
+
+“Nothing so easy, if you have but the inclination,” said Elizabeth. “We
+can all plague and punish one another. Tease him--laugh at him. Intimate
+as you are, you must know how it is to be done.”
+
+“But upon my honour I do _not_. I do assure you that my intimacy has not
+yet taught me _that_. Tease calmness of temper and presence of mind! No,
+no; I feel he may defy us there. And as to laughter, we will not expose
+ourselves, if you please, by attempting to laugh without a subject. Mr.
+Darcy may hug himself.”
+
+“Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!” cried Elizabeth. “That is an
+uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would
+be a great loss to _me_ to have many such acquaintance. I dearly love a
+laugh.”
+
+“Miss Bingley,” said he, “has given me credit for more than can be. The
+wisest and best of men,--nay, the wisest and best of their actions,--may
+be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a
+joke.”
+
+“Certainly,” replied Elizabeth, “there are such people, but I hope I am
+not one of _them_. I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies
+and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, _do_ divert me, I own, and I
+laugh at them whenever I can. But these, I suppose, are precisely what
+you are without.”
+
+“Perhaps that is not possible for anyone. But it has been the study of
+my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong
+understanding to ridicule.”
+
+“Such as vanity and pride.”
+
+“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride--where there is a real
+superiority of mind--pride will be always under good regulation.”
+
+Elizabeth turned away to hide a smile.
+
+“Your examination of Mr. Darcy is over, I presume,” said Miss Bingley;
+“and pray what is the result?”
+
+“I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect. He owns it
+himself without disguise.”
+
+“No,” said Darcy, “I have made no such pretension. I have faults enough,
+but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch
+for. It is, I believe, too little yielding; certainly too little for the
+convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of
+others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself. My
+feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper
+would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost is lost for
+ever.”
+
+“_That_ is a failing, indeed!” cried Elizabeth. “Implacable resentment
+_is_ a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I
+really cannot _laugh_ at it. You are safe from me.”
+
+“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular
+evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”
+
+“And _your_ defect is a propensity to hate everybody.”
+
+“And yours,” he replied, with a smile, “is wilfully to misunderstand
+them.”
+
+“Do let us have a little music,” cried Miss Bingley, tired of a
+conversation in which she had no share. “Louisa, you will not mind my
+waking Mr. Hurst.”
+
+Her sister made not the smallest objection, and the pianoforte was
+opened; and Darcy, after a few moments’ recollection, was not sorry for
+it. He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the
+next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for
+them in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on
+her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which
+would exactly finish Jane’s week, could not bring herself to receive
+them with pleasure before. Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at
+least not to Elizabeth’s wishes, for she was impatient to get home. Mrs.
+Bennet sent them word that they could not possibly have the carriage
+before Tuesday; and in her postscript it was added, that if Mr. Bingley
+and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she could spare them very
+well. Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively
+resolved--nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the
+contrary, of being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long,
+she urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley’s carriage immediately, and at
+length it was settled that their original design of leaving Netherfield
+that morning should be mentioned, and the request made.
+
+The communication excited many professions of concern; and enough was
+said of wishing them to stay at least till the following day to work on
+Jane; and till the morrow their going was deferred. Miss Bingley was
+then sorry that she had proposed the delay; for her jealousy and dislike
+of one sister much exceeded her affection for the other.
+
+The master of the house heard with real sorrow that they were to go so
+soon, and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would not be
+safe for her--that she was not enough recovered; but Jane was firm where
+she felt herself to be right.
+
+To Mr. Darcy it was welcome intelligence: Elizabeth had been at
+Netherfield long enough. She attracted him more than he liked; and Miss
+Bingley was uncivil to _her_ and more teasing than usual to himself. He
+wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration
+should _now_ escape him--nothing that could elevate her with the hope of
+influencing his felicity; sensible that, if such an idea had been
+suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight
+in confirming or crushing it. Steady to his purpose, he scarcely spoke
+ten words to her through the whole of Saturday: and though they were at
+one time left by themselves for half an hour, he adhered most
+conscientiously to his book, and would not even look at her.
+
+On Sunday, after morning service, the separation, so agreeable to almost
+all, took place. Miss Bingley’s civility to Elizabeth increased at last
+very rapidly, as well as her affection for Jane; and when they parted,
+after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give her to
+see her either at Longbourn or Netherfield, and embracing her most
+tenderly, she even shook hands with the former. Elizabeth took leave of
+the whole party in the liveliest spirits.
+
+They were not welcomed home very cordially by their mother. Mrs. Bennet
+wondered at their coming, and thought them very wrong to give so much
+trouble, and was sure Jane would have caught cold again. But their
+father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really
+glad to see them; he had felt their importance in the family circle. The
+evening conversation, when they were all assembled, had lost much of its
+animation, and almost all its sense, by the absence of Jane and
+Elizabeth.
+
+They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human
+nature; and had some new extracts to admire and some new observations of
+threadbare morality to listen to. Catherine and Lydia had information
+for them of a different sort. Much had been done, and much had been said
+in the regiment since the preceding Wednesday; several of the officers
+had dined lately with their uncle; a private had been flogged; and it
+had actually been hinted that Colonel Forster was going to be married.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“I hope, my dear,” said Mr. Bennet to his wife, as they were at
+breakfast the next morning, “that you have ordered a good dinner to-day,
+because I have reason to expect an addition to our family party.”
+
+“Who do you mean, my dear? I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure,
+unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in; and I hope _my_ dinners
+are good enough for her. I do not believe she often sees such at home.”
+
+“The person of whom I speak is a gentleman and a stranger.”
+
+Mrs. Bennet’s eyes sparkled. “A gentleman and a stranger! It is Mr.
+Bingley, I am sure. Why, Jane--you never dropped a word of this--you sly
+thing! Well, I am sure I shall be extremely glad to see Mr. Bingley.
+But--good Lord! how unlucky! there is not a bit of fish to be got
+to-day. Lydia, my love, ring the bell. I must speak to Hill this
+moment.”
+
+“It is _not_ Mr. Bingley,” said her husband; “it is a person whom I
+never saw in the whole course of my life.”
+
+This roused a general astonishment; and he had the pleasure of being
+eagerly questioned by his wife and five daughters at once.
+
+After amusing himself some time with their curiosity, he thus
+explained:--“About a month ago I received this letter, and about a
+fortnight ago I answered it; for I thought it a case of some delicacy,
+and requiring early attention. It is from my cousin, Mr. Collins, who,
+when I am dead, may turn you all out of this house as soon as he
+pleases.”
+
+“Oh, my dear,” cried his wife, “I cannot bear to hear that mentioned.
+Pray do not talk of that odious man. I do think it is the hardest thing
+in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own
+children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago
+to do something or other about it.”
+
+Jane and Elizabeth attempted to explain to her the nature of an entail.
+They had often attempted it before: but it was a subject on which Mrs.
+Bennet was beyond the reach of reason; and she continued to rail
+bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of
+five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
+
+“It certainly is a most iniquitous affair,” said Mr. Bennet; “and
+nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn.
+But if you will listen to his letter, you may, perhaps, be a little
+softened by his manner of expressing himself.”
+
+“No, that I am sure I shall not: and I think it was very impertinent of
+him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical. I hate such false
+friends. Why could not he keep on quarrelling with you, as his father
+did before him?”
+
+“Why, indeed, he does seem to have had some filial scruples on that
+head, as you will hear.”
+
+     /* RIGHT “Hunsford, near Westerham, Kent, _15th October_. */
+
+“Dear Sir,
+
+     “The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured
+     father always gave me much uneasiness; and, since I have had the
+     misfortune to lose him, I have frequently wished to heal the
+     breach: but, for some time, I was kept back by my own doubts,
+     fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be
+     on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be
+     at variance.”--‘There, Mrs. Bennet.’--“My mind, however, is now
+     made up on the subject; for, having received ordination at Easter,
+     I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of
+     the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis
+     de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the
+     valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest
+     endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her
+     Ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies
+     which are instituted by the Church of England. As a clergyman,
+     moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing
+     of peace in all families within the reach of my influence; and on
+     these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures of
+     good-will are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my
+     being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly
+     overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered
+     olive branch. I cannot be otherwise than concerned at being the
+     means of injuring your amiable daughters, and beg leave to
+     apologize for it, as well as to assure you of my readiness to make
+     them every possible amends; but of this hereafter. If you should
+     have no objection to receive me into your house, I propose myself
+     the satisfaction of waiting on you and your family, Monday,
+     November 18th, by four o’clock, and shall probably trespass on your
+     hospitality till the Saturday se’nnight following, which I can do
+     without any inconvenience, as Lady Catherine is far from objecting
+     to my occasional absence on a Sunday, provided that some other
+     clergyman is engaged to do the duty of the day. I remain, dear sir,
+     with respectful compliments to your lady and daughters, your
+     well-wisher and friend,
+
+“WILLIAM COLLINS.”
+
+“At four o’clock, therefore, we may expect this peace-making gentleman,”
+said Mr. Bennet, as he folded up the letter. “He seems to be a most
+conscientious and polite young man, upon my word; and, I doubt not, will
+prove a valuable acquaintance, especially if Lady Catherine should be so
+indulgent as to let him come to us again.”
+
+“There is some sense in what he says about the girls, however; and, if
+he is disposed to make them any amends, I shall not be the person to
+discourage him.”
+
+“Though it is difficult,” said Jane, “to guess in what way he can mean
+to make us the atonement he thinks our due, the wish is certainly to his
+credit.”
+
+Elizabeth was chiefly struck with his extraordinary deference for Lady
+Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying
+his parishioners whenever it were required.
+
+“He must be an oddity, I think,” said she. “I cannot make him out. There
+is something very pompous in his style. And what can he mean by
+apologizing for being next in the entail? We cannot suppose he would
+help it, if he could. Can he be a sensible man, sir?”
+
+“No, my dear; I think not. I have great hopes of finding him quite the
+reverse. There is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his
+letter which promises well. I am impatient to see him.”
+
+“In point of composition,” said Mary, “his letter does not seem
+defective. The idea of the olive branch perhaps is not wholly new, yet I
+think it is well expressed.”
+
+To Catherine and Lydia neither the letter nor its writer were in any
+degree interesting. It was next to impossible that their cousin should
+come in a scarlet coat, and it was now some weeks since they had
+received pleasure from the society of a man in any other colour. As for
+their mother, Mr. Collins’s letter had done away much of her ill-will,
+and she was preparing to see him with a degree of composure which
+astonished her husband and daughters.
+
+Mr. Collins was punctual to his time, and was received with great
+politeness by the whole family. Mr. Bennet indeed said little; but the
+ladies were ready enough to talk, and Mr. Collins seemed neither in need
+of encouragement, nor inclined to be silent himself. He was a tall,
+heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty. His air was grave and
+stately, and his manners were very formal. He had not been long seated
+before he complimented Mrs. Bennet on having so fine a family of
+daughters, said he had heard much of their beauty, but that, in this
+instance, fame had fallen short of the truth; and added, that he did not
+doubt her seeing them all in due time well disposed of in marriage. This
+gallantry was not much to the taste of some of his hearers; but Mrs.
+Bennet, who quarrelled with no compliments, answered most readily,--
+
+“You are very kind, sir, I am sure; and I wish with all my heart it may
+prove so; for else they will be destitute enough. Things are settled so
+oddly.”
+
+“You allude, perhaps, to the entail of this estate.”
+
+“Ah, sir, I do indeed. It is a grievous affair to my poor girls, you
+must confess. Not that I mean to find fault with _you_, for such things,
+I know, are all chance in this world. There is no knowing how estates
+will go when once they come to be entailed.”
+
+“I am very sensible, madam, of the hardship to my fair cousins, and
+could say much on the subject, but that I am cautious of appearing
+forward and precipitate. But I can assure the young ladies that I come
+prepared to admire them. At present I will not say more, but, perhaps,
+when we are better acquainted----”
+
+He was interrupted by a summons to dinner; and the girls smiled on each
+other. They were not the only objects of Mr. Collins’s admiration. The
+hall, the dining-room, and all its furniture, were examined and praised;
+and his commendation of everything would have touched Mrs. Bennet’s
+heart, but for the mortifying supposition of his viewing it all as his
+own future property. The dinner, too, in its turn, was highly admired;
+and he begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellence of its
+cookery was owing. But here he was set right by Mrs. Bennet, who assured
+him, with some asperity, that they were very well able to keep a good
+cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen. He begged
+pardon for having displeased her. In a softened tone she declared
+herself not at all offended; but he continued to apologize for about a
+quarter of an hour.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+During dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants
+were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his
+guest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to
+shine, by observing that he seemed very fortunate in his patroness. Lady
+Catherine de Bourgh’s attention to his wishes, and consideration for his
+comfort, appeared very remarkable. Mr. Bennet could not have chosen
+better. Mr. Collins was eloquent in her praise. The subject elevated him
+to more than usual solemnity of manner; and with a most important aspect
+he protested that he had never in his life witnessed such behaviour in a
+person of rank--such affability and condescension, as he had himself
+experienced from Lady Catherine. She had been graciously pleased to
+approve of both the discourses which he had already had the honour of
+preaching before her. She had also asked him twice to dine at Rosings,
+and had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of
+quadrille in the evening. Lady Catherine was reckoned proud by many
+people, he knew, but _he_ had never seen anything but affability in her.
+She had always spoken to him as she would to any other gentleman; she
+made not the smallest objection to his joining in the society of the
+neighbourhood, nor to his leaving his parish occasionally for a week or
+two to visit his relations. She had even condescended to advise him to
+marry as soon as he could, provided he chose with discretion; and had
+once paid him a visit in his humble parsonage, where she had perfectly
+approved all the alterations he had been making, and had even vouchsafed
+to suggest some herself,--some shelves in the closets upstairs.
+
+“That is all very proper and civil, I am sure,” said Mrs. Bennet, “and I
+dare say she is a very agreeable woman. It is a pity that great ladies
+in general are not more like her. Does she live near you, sir?”
+
+“The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane
+from Rosings Park, her Ladyship’s residence.”
+
+“I think you said she was a widow, sir? has she any family?”
+
+“She has one only daughter, the heiress of Rosings, and of very
+extensive property.”
+
+“Ah,” cried Mrs. Bennet, shaking her head, “then she is better off than
+many girls. And what sort of young lady is she? Is she handsome?”
+
+“She is a most charming young lady, indeed. Lady Catherine herself says
+that, in point of true beauty, Miss de Bourgh is far superior to the
+handsomest of her sex; because there is that in her features which marks
+the young woman of distinguished birth. She is unfortunately of a sickly
+constitution, which has prevented her making that progress in many
+accomplishments which she could not otherwise have failed of, as I am
+informed by the lady who superintended her education, and who still
+resides with them. But she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends
+to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies.”
+
+“Has she been presented? I do not remember her name among the ladies at
+court.”
+
+“Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town;
+and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine myself one day, has deprived
+the British Court of its brightest ornament. Her Ladyship seemed pleased
+with the idea; and you may imagine that I am happy on every occasion to
+offer those little delicate compliments which are always acceptable to
+ladies. I have more than once observed to Lady Catherine, that her
+charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess; and that the most
+elevated rank, instead of giving her consequence, would be adorned by
+her. These are the kind of little things which please her Ladyship, and
+it is a sort of attention which I conceive myself peculiarly bound to
+pay.”
+
+“You judge very properly,” said Mr. Bennet; “and it is happy for you
+that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask
+whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the
+moment, or are the result of previous study?”
+
+“They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time; and though I
+sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant
+compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to
+give them as unstudied an air as possible.”
+
+Mr. Bennet’s expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd
+as he had hoped; and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment,
+maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance,
+and, except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner
+in his pleasure.
+
+By tea-time, however, the dose had been enough, and Mr. Bennet was glad
+to take his guest into the drawing-room again, and when tea was over,
+glad to invite him
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“Protested
+that he never read novels”      H.T Feb 94
+]
+
+to read aloud to the ladies. Mr. Collins readily assented, and a book
+was produced; but on beholding it (for everything announced it to be
+from a circulating library) he started back, and, begging pardon,
+protested that he never read novels. Kitty stared at him, and Lydia
+exclaimed. Other books were produced, and after some deliberation he
+chose “Fordyce’s Sermons.” Lydia gaped as he opened the volume; and
+before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three pages, she
+interrupted him with,--
+
+“Do you know, mamma, that my uncle Philips talks of turning away
+Richard? and if he does, Colonel Forster will hire him. My aunt told me
+so herself on Saturday. I shall walk to Meryton to-morrow to hear more
+about it, and to ask when Mr. Denny comes back from town.”
+
+Lydia was bid by her two eldest sisters to hold her tongue; but Mr.
+Collins, much offended, laid aside his book, and said,--
+
+“I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books
+of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit. It amazes
+me, I confess; for certainly there can be nothing so advantageous to
+them as instruction. But I will no longer importune my young cousin.”
+
+Then, turning to Mr. Bennet, he offered himself as his antagonist at
+backgammon. Mr. Bennet accepted the challenge, observing that he acted
+very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements. Mrs.
+Bennet and her daughters apologized most civilly for Lydia’s
+interruption, and promised that it should not occur again, if he would
+resume his book; but Mr. Collins, after assuring them that he bore his
+young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any
+affront, seated himself at another table with Mr. Bennet, and prepared
+for backgammon.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had
+been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of
+his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and
+miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he
+had merely kept the necessary terms without forming at it any useful
+acquaintance. The subjection in which his father had brought him up had
+given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good
+deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in
+retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected
+prosperity. A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de
+Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he
+felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness,
+mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a
+clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of
+pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
+
+Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, he intended to
+marry; and in seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had
+a wife in view, as he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found
+them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report.
+This was his plan of amends--of atonement--for inheriting their father’s
+estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and
+suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own
+part.
+
+His plan did not vary on seeing them. Miss Bennet’s lovely face
+confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what
+was due to seniority; and for the first evening _she_ was his settled
+choice. The next morning, however, made an alteration; for in a quarter
+of an hour’s _tête-à-tête_ with Mrs. Bennet before breakfast, a
+conversation beginning with his parsonage-house, and leading naturally
+to the avowal of his hopes, that a mistress for it might be found at
+Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general
+encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on. “As to
+her _younger_ daughters, she could not take upon her to say--she could
+not positively answer--but she did not _know_ of any prepossession;--her
+_eldest_ daughter she must just mention--she felt it incumbent on her to
+hint, was likely to be very soon engaged.”
+
+Mr. Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth--and it was soon
+done--done while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire. Elizabeth, equally
+next to Jane in birth and beauty, succeeded her of course.
+
+Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint, and trusted that she might soon have
+two daughters married; and the man whom she could not bear to speak of
+the day before, was now high in her good graces.
+
+Lydia’s intention of walking to Meryton was not forgotten: every sister
+except Mary agreed to go with her; and Mr. Collins was to attend them,
+at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him,
+and have his library to himself; for thither Mr. Collins had followed
+him after breakfast, and there he would continue, nominally engaged with
+one of the largest folios in the collection, but really talking to Mr.
+Bennet, with little cessation, of his house and garden at Hunsford. Such
+doings discomposed Mr. Bennet exceedingly. In his library he had been
+always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told
+Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the
+house, he was used to be free from them there: his civility, therefore,
+was most prompt in inviting Mr. Collins to join his daughters in their
+walk; and Mr. Collins, being in fact much better fitted for a walker
+than a reader, was extremely well pleased to close his large book, and
+go.
+
+In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his
+cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. The attention of
+the younger ones was then no longer to be gained by _him_. Their eyes
+were immediately wandering up the street in quest of the officers, and
+nothing less than a very smart bonnet, indeed, or a really new muslin in
+a shop window, could recall them.
+
+But the attention of every lady was soon caught by a young man, whom
+they had never seen before, of most gentlemanlike appearance, walking
+with an officer on the other side of the way. The officer was the very
+Mr. Denny concerning whose return from London Lydia came to inquire, and
+he bowed as they passed. All were struck with the stranger’s air, all
+wondered who he could be; and Kitty and Lydia, determined if possible
+to find out, led the way across the street, under pretence of wanting
+something in an opposite shop, and fortunately had just gained the
+pavement, when the two gentlemen, turning back, had reached the same
+spot. Mr. Denny addressed them directly, and entreated permission to
+introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham, who had returned with him the day
+before from town, and, he was happy to say, had accepted a commission in
+their corps. This was exactly as it should be; for the young man wanted
+only regimentals to make him completely charming. His appearance was
+greatly in his favour: he had all the best parts of beauty, a fine
+countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address. The introduction
+was followed up on his side by a happy readiness of conversation--a
+readiness at the same time perfectly correct and unassuming; and the
+whole party were still standing and talking together very agreeably,
+when the sound of horses drew their notice, and Darcy and Bingley were
+seen riding down the street. On distinguishing the ladies of the group
+the two gentlemen came directly towards them, and began the usual
+civilities. Bingley was the principal spokesman, and Miss Bennet the
+principal object. He was then, he said, on his way to Longbourn on
+purpose to inquire after her. Mr. Darcy corroborated it with a bow, and
+was beginning to determine not to fix his eyes on Elizabeth, when they
+were suddenly arrested by the sight of the stranger; and Elizabeth
+happening to see the countenance of both as they looked at each other,
+was all astonishment at the effect of the meeting. Both changed colour,
+one looked white, the other red. Mr. Wickham, after a few moments,
+touched his hat--a salutation which Mr. Darcy just deigned to return.
+What could be the meaning of it? It was impossible to imagine; it was
+impossible not to long to know.
+
+In another minute Mr. Bingley, but without seeming to have noticed what
+passed, took leave and rode on with his friend.
+
+Mr. Denny and Mr. Wickham walked with the young ladies to the door of
+Mr. Philips’s house, and then made their bows, in spite of Miss Lydia’s
+pressing entreaties that they would come in, and even in spite of Mrs.
+Philips’s throwing up the parlour window, and loudly seconding the
+invitation.
+
+Mrs. Philips was always glad to see her nieces; and the two eldest, from
+their recent absence, were particularly welcome; and she was eagerly
+expressing her surprise at their sudden return home, which, as their own
+carriage had not fetched them, she should have known nothing about, if
+she had not happened to see Mr. Jones’s shopboy in the street, who had
+told her that they were not to send any more draughts to Netherfield,
+because the Miss Bennets were come away, when her civility was claimed
+towards Mr. Collins by Jane’s introduction of him. She received him with
+her very best politeness, which he returned with as much more,
+apologizing for his intrusion, without any previous acquaintance with
+her, which he could not help flattering himself, however, might be
+justified by his relationship to the young ladies who introduced him to
+her notice. Mrs. Philips was quite awed by such an excess of good
+breeding; but her contemplation of one stranger was soon put an end to
+by exclamations and inquiries about the other, of whom, however, she
+could only tell her nieces what they already knew, that Mr. Denny had
+brought him from London, and that he was to have a lieutenant’s
+commission in the ----shire. She had been watching him the last hour,
+she said, as he walked up and down the street,--and had Mr. Wickham
+appeared, Kitty and Lydia would certainly have continued the occupation;
+but unluckily no one passed the windows now except a few of the
+officers, who, in comparison with the stranger, were become “stupid,
+disagreeable fellows.” Some of them were to dine with the Philipses the
+next day, and their aunt promised to make her husband call on Mr.
+Wickham, and give him an invitation also, if the family from Longbourn
+would come in the evening. This was agreed to; and Mrs. Philips
+protested that they would have a nice comfortable noisy game of lottery
+tickets, and a little bit of hot supper afterwards. The prospect of such
+delights was very cheering, and they parted in mutual good spirits. Mr.
+Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured,
+with unwearying civility, that they were perfectly needless.
+
+As they walked home, Elizabeth related to Jane what she had seen pass
+between the two gentlemen; but though Jane would have defended either or
+both, had they appeared to be wrong, she could no more explain such
+behaviour than her sister.
+
+Mr. Collins on his return highly gratified Mrs. Bennet by admiring Mrs.
+Philips’s manners and politeness. He protested that, except Lady
+Catherine and her daughter, he had never seen a more elegant woman; for
+she had not only received him with the utmost civility, but had even
+pointedly included him in her invitation for the next evening, although
+utterly unknown to her before. Something, he supposed, might be
+attributed to his connection with them, but yet he had never met with so
+much attention in the whole course of his life.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As no objection was made to the young people’s engagement with their
+aunt, and all Mr. Collins’s scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for
+a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach
+conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the
+girls had the pleasure of hearing, as they entered the drawing-room,
+that Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle’s invitation, and was then in
+the house.
+
+When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr.
+Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much
+struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he
+might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour
+at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much
+gratification; but when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings
+was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the
+description of only one of Lady Catherine’s drawing-rooms, and found
+that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all
+the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison
+with the housekeeper’s room.
+
+In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion,
+with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode, and the
+improvements it was receiving, he was happily employed until the
+gentlemen joined them; and he found in Mrs. Philips a very attentive
+listener, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she
+heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as
+soon as she could. To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin,
+and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine
+their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantel-piece, the
+interval of waiting appeared very long. It was over at last, however.
+The gentlemen did approach: and when Mr. Wickham walked into the room,
+Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking
+of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. The
+officers of the ----shire were in general a very creditable,
+gentlemanlike set and the best of them were of the present party; but
+Mr, Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and
+walk, as _they_ were superior to the broad-faced stuffy uncle Philips,
+breathing port wine, who followed them into the room.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“The officers of the ----shire”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was
+turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated
+himself; and the agreeable manner in which he immediately fell into
+conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, and on the
+probability of a rainy season, made her feel that the commonest,
+dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the
+skill of the speaker.
+
+With such rivals for the notice of the fair as Mr. Wickham and the
+officers, Mr. Collins seemed to sink into insignificance; to the young
+ladies he certainly was nothing; but he had still at intervals a kind
+listener in Mrs. Philips, and was, by her watchfulness, most abundantly
+supplied with coffee and muffin.
+
+When the card tables were placed, he had an opportunity of obliging her,
+in return, by sitting down to whist.
+
+“I know little of the game at present,” said he, “but I shall be glad to
+improve myself; for in my situation of life----” Mrs. Philips was very
+thankful for his compliance, but could not wait for his reason.
+
+Mr. Wickham did not play at whist, and with ready delight was he
+received at the other table between Elizabeth and Lydia. At first there
+seemed danger of Lydia’s engrossing him entirely, for she was a most
+determined talker; but being likewise extremely fond of lottery tickets,
+she soon grew too much interested in the game, too eager in making bets
+and exclaiming after prizes, to have attention for anyone in particular.
+Allowing for the common demands of the game, Mr. Wickham was therefore
+at leisure to talk to Elizabeth, and she was very willing to hear him,
+though what she chiefly wished to hear she could not hope to be told,
+the history of his acquaintance with Mr. Darcy. She dared not even
+mention that gentleman. Her curiosity, however, was unexpectedly
+relieved. Mr. Wickham began the subject himself. He inquired how far
+Netherfield was from Meryton; and, after receiving her answer, asked in
+a hesitating manner how long Mr. Darcy had been staying there.
+
+“About a month,” said Elizabeth; and then, unwilling to let the subject
+drop, added, “he is a man of very large property in Derbyshire, I
+understand.”
+
+“Yes,” replied Wickham; “his estate there is a noble one. A clear ten
+thousand per annum. You could not have met with a person more capable of
+giving you certain information on that head than myself--for I have been
+connected with his family, in a particular manner, from my infancy.”
+
+Elizabeth could not but look surprised.
+
+“You may well be surprised, Miss Bennet, at such an assertion, after
+seeing, as you probably might, the very cold manner of our meeting
+yesterday. Are you much acquainted with Mr. Darcy?”
+
+“As much as I ever wish to be,” cried Elizabeth, warmly. “I have spent
+four days in the same house with him, and I think him very
+disagreeable.”
+
+“I have no right to give _my_ opinion,” said Wickham, “as to his being
+agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I have known him
+too long and too well to be a fair judge. It is impossible for _me_ to
+be impartial. But I believe your opinion of him would in general
+astonish--and, perhaps, you would not express it quite so strongly
+anywhere else. Here you are in your own family.”
+
+“Upon my word I say no more _here_ than I might say in any house in the
+neighbourhood, except Netherfield. He is not at all liked in
+Hertfordshire. Everybody is disgusted with his pride. You will not find
+him more favourably spoken of by anyone.”
+
+“I cannot pretend to be sorry,” said Wickham, after a short
+interruption, “that he or that any man should not be estimated beyond
+their deserts; but with _him_ I believe it does not often happen. The
+world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his
+high and imposing manners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen.”
+
+“I should take him, even on _my_ slight acquaintance, to be an
+ill-tempered man.”
+
+Wickham only shook his head.
+
+“I wonder,” said he, at the next opportunity of speaking, “whether he is
+likely to be in this country much longer.”
+
+“I do not at all know; but I _heard_ nothing of his going away when I
+was at Netherfield. I hope your plans in favour of the ----shire will
+not be affected by his being in the neighbourhood.”
+
+“Oh no--it is not for _me_ to be driven away by Mr. Darcy. If _he_
+wishes to avoid seeing _me_ he must go. We are not on friendly terms,
+and it always gives me pain to meet him, but I have no reason for
+avoiding _him_ but what I might proclaim to all the world--a sense of
+very great ill-usage, and most painful regrets at his being what he is.
+His father, Miss Bennet, the late Mr. Darcy, was one of the best men
+that ever breathed, and the truest friend I ever had; and I can never be
+in company with this Mr. Darcy without being grieved to the soul by a
+thousand tender recollections. His behaviour to myself has been
+scandalous; but I verily believe I could forgive him anything and
+everything, rather than his disappointing the hopes and disgracing the
+memory of his father.”
+
+Elizabeth found the interest of the subject increase, and listened with
+all her heart; but the delicacy of it prevented further inquiry.
+
+Mr. Wickham began to speak on more general topics, Meryton, the
+neighbourhood, the society, appearing highly pleased with all that he
+had yet seen, and speaking of the latter, especially, with gentle but
+very intelligible gallantry.
+
+“It was the prospect of constant society, and good society,” he added,
+“which was my chief inducement to enter the ----shire. I know it to be a
+most respectable, agreeable corps; and my friend Denny tempted me
+further by his account of their present quarters, and the very great
+attentions and excellent acquaintance Meryton had procured them.
+Society, I own, is necessary to me. I have been a disappointed man, and
+my spirits will not bear solitude. I _must_ have employment and society.
+A military life is not what I was intended for, but circumstances have
+now made it eligible. The church _ought_ to have been my profession--I
+was brought up for the church; and I should at this time have been in
+possession of a most valuable living, had it pleased the gentleman we
+were speaking of just now.”
+
+“Indeed!”
+
+“Yes--the late Mr. Darcy bequeathed me the next presentation of the best
+living in his gift. He was my godfather, and excessively attached to me.
+I cannot do justice to his kindness. He meant to provide for me amply,
+and thought he had done it; but when the living fell, it was given
+elsewhere.”
+
+“Good heavens!” cried Elizabeth; “but how could _that_ be? How could his
+will be disregarded? Why did not you seek legal redress?”
+
+“There was just such an informality in the terms of the bequest as to
+give me no hope from law. A man of honour could not have doubted the
+intention, but Mr. Darcy chose to doubt it--or to treat it as a merely
+conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim
+to it by extravagance, imprudence, in short, anything or nothing.
+Certain it is that the living became vacant two years ago, exactly as I
+was of an age to hold it, and that it was given to another man; and no
+less certain is it, that I cannot accuse myself of having really done
+anything to deserve to lose it. I have a warm unguarded temper, and I
+may perhaps have sometimes spoken my opinion _of_ him, and _to_ him, too
+freely. I can recall nothing worse. But the fact is, that we are very
+different sort of men, and that he hates me.”
+
+“This is quite shocking! He deserves to be publicly disgraced.”
+
+“Some time or other he _will_ be--but it shall not be by _me_. Till I
+can forget his father, I can never defy or expose _him_.”
+
+Elizabeth honoured him for such feelings, and thought him handsomer than
+ever as he expressed them.
+
+“But what,” said she, after a pause, “can have been his motive? what can
+have induced him to behave so cruelly?”
+
+“A thorough, determined dislike of me--a dislike which I cannot but
+attribute in some measure to jealousy. Had the late Mr. Darcy liked me
+less, his son might have borne with me better; but his father’s uncommon
+attachment to me irritated him, I believe, very early in life. He had
+not a temper to bear the sort of competition in which we stood--the sort
+of preference which was often given me.”
+
+“I had not thought Mr. Darcy so bad as this--though I have never liked
+him, I had not thought so very ill of him--I had supposed him to be
+despising his fellow-creatures in general, but did not suspect him of
+descending to such malicious revenge, such injustice, such inhumanity as
+this!”
+
+After a few minutes’ reflection, however, she continued, “I _do_
+remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability of
+his resentments, of his having an unforgiving temper. His disposition
+must be dreadful.”
+
+“I will not trust myself on the subject,” replied Wickham; “_I_ can
+hardly be just to him.”
+
+Elizabeth was again deep in thought, and after a time exclaimed, “To
+treat in such a manner the godson, the friend, the favourite of his
+father!” She could have added, “A young man, too, like _you_, whose very
+countenance may vouch for your being amiable.” But she contented herself
+with--“And one, too, who had probably been his own companion from
+childhood, connected together, as I think you said, in the closest
+manner.”
+
+“We were born in the same parish, within the same park; the greatest
+part of our youth was passed together: inmates of the same house,
+sharing the same amusements, objects of the same parental care. _My_
+father began life in the profession which your uncle, Mr. Philips,
+appears to do so much credit to; but he gave up everything to be of use
+to the late Mr. Darcy, and devoted all his time to the care of the
+Pemberley property. He was most highly esteemed by Mr. Darcy, a most
+intimate, confidential friend. Mr. Darcy often acknowledged himself to
+be under the greatest obligations to my father’s active superintendence;
+and when, immediately before my father’s death, Mr. Darcy gave him a
+voluntary promise of providing for me, I am convinced that he felt it
+to be as much a debt of gratitude to _him_ as of affection to myself.”
+
+“How strange!” cried Elizabeth. “How abominable! I wonder that the very
+pride of this Mr. Darcy has not made him just to you. If from no better
+motive, that he should not have been too proud to be dishonest,--for
+dishonesty I must call it.”
+
+“It _is_ wonderful,” replied Wickham; “for almost all his actions may be
+traced to pride; and pride has often been his best friend. It has
+connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling. But we are none
+of us consistent; and in his behaviour to me there were stronger
+impulses even than pride.”
+
+“Can such abominable pride as his have ever done him good?”
+
+“Yes; it has often led him to be liberal and generous; to give his money
+freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the
+poor. Family pride, and _filial_ pride, for he is very proud of what his
+father was, have done this. Not to appear to disgrace his family, to
+degenerate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the
+Pemberley House, is a powerful motive. He has also _brotherly_ pride,
+which, with _some_ brotherly affection, makes him a very kind and
+careful guardian of his sister; and you will hear him generally cried up
+as the most attentive and best of brothers.”
+
+“What sort of a girl is Miss Darcy?”
+
+He shook his head. “I wish I could call her amiable. It gives me pain to
+speak ill of a Darcy; but she is too much like her brother,--very, very
+proud. As a child, she was affectionate and pleasing, and extremely fond
+of me; and I have devoted hours and hours to her amusement. But she is
+nothing to me now. She is a handsome girl, about fifteen or sixteen,
+and, I understand, highly accomplished. Since her father’s death her
+home has been London, where a lady lives with her, and superintends her
+education.”
+
+After many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizabeth could not
+help reverting once more to the first, and saying,--
+
+“I am astonished at his intimacy with Mr. Bingley. How can Mr. Bingley,
+who seems good-humour itself, and is, I really believe, truly amiable,
+be in friendship with such a man? How can they suit each other? Do you
+know Mr. Bingley?”
+
+“Not at all.”
+
+“He is a sweet-tempered, amiable, charming man. He cannot know what Mr.
+Darcy is.”
+
+“Probably not; but Mr. Darcy can please where he chooses. He does not
+want abilities. He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth
+his while. Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a
+very different man from what he is to the less prosperous. His pride
+never deserts him; but with the rich he is liberal-minded, just,
+sincere, rational, honourable, and, perhaps, agreeable,--allowing
+something for fortune and figure.”
+
+The whist party soon afterwards breaking up, the players gathered round
+the other table, and Mr. Collins took his station between his cousin
+Elizabeth and Mrs. Philips. The usual inquiries as to his success were
+made by the latter. It had not been very great; he had lost every point;
+but when Mrs. Philips began to express her concern thereupon, he assured
+her, with much earnest gravity, that it was not of the least importance;
+that he considered the money as a mere trifle, and begged she would not
+make herself uneasy.
+
+“I know very well, madam,” said he, “that when persons sit down to a
+card table they must take their chance of these things,--and happily I
+am not in such circumstances as to make five shillings any object. There
+are, undoubtedly, many who could not say the same; but, thanks to Lady
+Catherine de Bourgh, I am removed far beyond the necessity of regarding
+little matters.”
+
+Mr. Wickham’s attention was caught; and after observing Mr. Collins for
+a few moments, he asked Elizabeth in a low voice whether her relations
+were very intimately acquainted with the family of De Bourgh.
+
+“Lady Catherine de Bourgh,” she replied, “has very lately given him a
+living. I hardly know how Mr. Collins was first introduced to her
+notice, but he certainly has not known her long.”
+
+“You know of course that Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Lady Anne Darcy
+were sisters; consequently that she is aunt to the present Mr. Darcy.”
+
+“No, indeed, I did not. I knew nothing at all of Lady Catherine’s
+connections. I never heard of her existence till the day before
+yesterday.”
+
+“Her daughter, Miss de Bourgh, will have a very large fortune, and it is
+believed that she and her cousin will unite the two estates.”
+
+This information made Elizabeth smile, as she thought of poor Miss
+Bingley. Vain indeed must be all her attentions, vain and useless her
+affection for his sister and her praise of himself, if he were already
+self-destined to another.
+
+“Mr. Collins,” said she, “speaks highly both of Lady Catherine and her
+daughter; but, from some particulars that he has related of her
+Ladyship, I suspect his gratitude misleads him; and that, in spite of
+her being his patroness, she is an arrogant, conceited woman.”
+
+“I believe her to be both in a great degree,” replied Wickham; “I have
+not seen her for many years; but I very well remember that I never liked
+her, and that her manners were dictatorial and insolent. She has the
+reputation of being remarkably sensible and clever; but I rather believe
+she derives part of her abilities from her rank and fortune, part from
+her authoritative manner, and the rest from the pride of her nephew, who
+chooses that everyone connected with him should have an understanding of
+the first class.”
+
+Elizabeth allowed that he had given a very rational account of it, and
+they continued talking together with mutual satisfaction till supper put
+an end to cards, and gave the rest of the ladies their share of Mr.
+Wickham’s attentions. There could be no conversation in the noise of
+Mrs. Philips’s supper party, but his manners recommended him to
+everybody. Whatever he said, was said well; and whatever he did, done
+gracefully. Elizabeth went away with her head full of him. She could
+think of nothing but of Mr. Wickham, and of what he had told her, all
+the way home; but there was not time for her even to mention his name as
+they went, for neither Lydia nor Mr. Collins were once silent. Lydia
+talked incessantly of lottery tickets, of the fish she had lost and the
+fish she had won; and Mr. Collins, in describing the civility of Mr. and
+Mrs. Philips, protesting that he did not in the least regard his losses
+at whist, enumerating all the dishes at supper, and repeatedly fearing
+that he crowded his cousins, had more to say than he could well manage
+before the carriage stopped at Longbourn House.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “delighted to see their dear friend again”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth related to Jane, the next day, what had passed between Mr.
+Wickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern: she
+knew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr.
+Bingley’s regard; and yet it was not in her nature to question the
+veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham. The
+possibility of his having really endured such unkindness was enough to
+interest all her tender feelings; and nothing therefore remained to be
+done but to think well of them both, to defend the conduct of each, and
+throw into the account of accident or mistake whatever could not be
+otherwise explained.
+
+“They have both,” said she, “been deceived, I dare say, in some way or
+other, of which we can form no idea. Interested people have perhaps
+misrepresented each to the other. It is, in short, impossible for us to
+conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them,
+without actual blame on either side.”
+
+“Very true, indeed; and now, my dear Jane, what have you got to say in
+behalf of the interested people who have probably been concerned in the
+business? Do clear _them_, too, or we shall be obliged to think ill of
+somebody.”
+
+“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my
+opinion. My dearest Lizzy, do but consider in what a disgraceful light
+it places Mr. Darcy, to be treating his father’s favourite in such a
+manner,--one whom his father had promised to provide for. It is
+impossible. No man of common humanity, no man who had any value for his
+character, could be capable of it. Can his most intimate friends be so
+excessively deceived in him? Oh no.”
+
+“I can much more easily believe Mr. Bingley’s being imposed on than that
+Mr. Wickham should invent such a history of himself as he gave me last
+night; names, facts, everything mentioned without ceremony. If it be not
+so, let Mr. Darcy contradict it. Besides, there was truth in his looks.”
+
+“It is difficult, indeed--it is distressing. One does not know what to
+think.”
+
+“I beg your pardon;--one knows exactly what to think.”
+
+But Jane could think with certainty on only one point,--that Mr.
+Bingley, if he _had been_ imposed on, would have much to suffer when
+the affair became public.
+
+The two young ladies were summoned from the shrubbery, where this
+conversation passed, by the arrival of some of the very persons of whom
+they had been speaking; Mr. Bingley and his sisters came to give their
+personal invitation for the long expected ball at Netherfield, which was
+fixed for the following Tuesday. The two ladies were delighted to see
+their dear friend again, called it an age since they had met, and
+repeatedly asked what she had been doing with herself since their
+separation. To the rest of the family they paid little attention;
+avoiding Mrs. Bennet as much as possible, saying not much to Elizabeth,
+and nothing at all to the others. They were soon gone again, rising from
+their seats with an activity which took their brother by surprise, and
+hurrying off as if eager to escape from Mrs. Bennet’s civilities.
+
+The prospect of the Netherfield ball was extremely agreeable to every
+female of the family. Mrs. Bennet chose to consider it as given in
+compliment to her eldest daughter, and was particularly flattered by
+receiving the invitation from Mr. Bingley himself, instead of a
+ceremonious card. Jane pictured to herself a happy evening in the
+society of her two friends, and the attentions of their brother; and
+Elizabeth thought with pleasure of dancing a great deal with Mr.
+Wickham, and of seeing a confirmation of everything in Mr. Darcy’s look
+and behaviour. The happiness anticipated by Catherine and Lydia depended
+less on any single event, or any particular person; for though they
+each, like Elizabeth, meant to dance half the evening with Mr. Wickham,
+he was by no means the only partner who could satisfy them, and a ball
+was, at any rate, a ball. And even Mary could assure her family that she
+had no disinclination for it.
+
+“While I can have my mornings to myself,” said she, “it is enough. I
+think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements.
+Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who
+consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for
+everybody.”
+
+Elizabeth’s spirits were so high on the occasion, that though she did
+not often speak unnecessarily to Mr. Collins, she could not help asking
+him whether he intended to accept Mr. Bingley’s invitation, and if he
+did, whether he would think it proper to join in the evening’s
+amusement; and she was rather surprised to find that he entertained no
+scruple whatever on that head, and was very far from dreading a rebuke,
+either from the Archbishop or Lady Catherine de Bourgh, by venturing to
+dance.
+
+“I am by no means of opinion, I assure you,” said he, “that a ball of
+this kind, given by a young man of character, to respectable people, can
+have any evil tendency; and I am so far from objecting to dancing
+myself, that I shall hope to be honoured with the hands of all my fair
+cousins in the course of the evening; and I take this opportunity of
+soliciting yours, Miss Elizabeth, for the two first dances especially; a
+preference which I trust my cousin Jane will attribute to the right
+cause, and not to any disrespect for her.”
+
+Elizabeth felt herself completely taken in. She had fully proposed being
+engaged by Wickham for those very dances; and to have Mr. Collins
+instead!--her liveliness had been never worse timed. There was no help
+for it, however. Mr. Wickham’s happiness and her own was perforce
+delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins’s proposal accepted with as
+good a grace as she could. She was not the better pleased with his
+gallantry, from the idea it suggested of something more. It now first
+struck her, that _she_ was selected from among her sisters as worthy of
+being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a
+quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
+The idea soon reached to conviction, as she observed his increasing
+civilities towards herself, and heard his frequent attempt at a
+compliment on her wit and vivacity; and though more astonished than
+gratified herself by this effect of her charms, it was not long before
+her mother gave her to understand that the probability of their marriage
+was exceedingly agreeable to _her_. Elizabeth, however, did not choose
+to take the hint, being well aware that a serious dispute must be the
+consequence of any reply. Mr. Collins might never make the offer, and,
+till he did, it was useless to quarrel about him.
+
+If there had not been a Netherfield ball to prepare for and talk of, the
+younger Miss Bennets would have been in a pitiable state at this time;
+for, from the day of the invitation to the day of the ball, there was
+such a succession of rain as prevented their walking to Meryton once. No
+aunt, no officers, no news could be sought after; the very shoe-roses
+for Netherfield were got by proxy. Even Elizabeth might have found some
+trial of her patience in weather which totally suspended the improvement
+of her acquaintance with Mr. Wickham; and nothing less than a dance on
+Tuesday could have made such a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
+endurable to Kitty and Lydia.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Till Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield, and looked in
+vain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled, a
+doubt of his being present had never occurred to her. The certainty of
+meeting him had not been checked by any of those recollections that
+might not unreasonably have alarmed her. She had dressed with more than
+usual care, and prepared in the highest spirits for the conquest of all
+that remained unsubdued of his heart, trusting that it was not more than
+might be won in the course of the evening. But in an instant arose the
+dreadful suspicion of his being purposely omitted, for Mr. Darcy’s
+pleasure, in the Bingleys’ invitation to the officers; and though this
+was not exactly the case, the absolute fact of his absence was
+pronounced by his friend Mr. Denny, to whom Lydia eagerly applied, and
+who told them that Wickham had been obliged to go to town on business
+the day before, and was not yet returned; adding, with a significant
+smile,--
+
+“I do not imagine his business would have called him away just now, if
+he had not wished to avoid a certain gentleman here.”
+
+This part of his intelligence, though unheard by Lydia, was caught by
+Elizabeth; and, as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable for
+Wickham’s absence than if her first surmise had been just, every feeling
+of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediate
+disappointment, that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility to
+the polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make.
+Attention, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham. She
+was resolved against any sort of conversation with him, and turned away
+with a degree of ill-humour which she could not wholly surmount even in
+speaking to Mr. Bingley, whose blind partiality provoked her.
+
+But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect
+of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her
+spirits; and, having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she
+had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary
+transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her
+particular notice. The two first dances, however, brought a return of
+distress: they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkward and
+solemn, apologizing instead of attending, and often moving wrong
+without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a
+disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give. The moment of her
+release from him was ecstasy.
+
+She danced next with an officer, and had the refreshment of talking of
+Wickham, and of hearing that he was universally liked. When those dances
+were over, she returned to Charlotte Lucas, and was in conversation with
+her, when she found herself suddenly addressed by Mr. Darcy, who took
+her so much by surprise in his application for her hand, that, without
+knowing what she did, she accepted him. He walked away again
+immediately, and she was left to fret over her own want of presence of
+mind: Charlotte tried to console her.
+
+“I dare say you will find him very agreeable.”
+
+“Heaven forbid! _That_ would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find
+a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an
+evil.”
+
+When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim her
+hand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her, in a whisper, not to be a
+simpleton, and allow her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant
+in the eyes of a man often times his consequence. Elizabeth made no
+answer, and took her place in the set, amazed at the dignity to which
+she was arrived in being allowed to stand opposite to Mr. Darcy, and
+reading in her neighbours’ looks their equal amazement in beholding it.
+They stood for some time without speaking a word; and she began to
+imagine that their silence was to last through the two dances, and, at
+first, was resolved not to break it; till suddenly fancying that it
+would be the greater punishment to her partner to oblige him to talk,
+she made some slight observation on the dance. He replied, and was again
+silent. After a pause of some minutes, she addressed him a second time,
+with--
+
+“It is _your_ turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. _I_ talked about the
+dance, and _you_ ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the
+room, or the number of couples.”
+
+He smiled, and assured her that whatever she wished him to say should be
+said.
+
+“Very well; that reply will do for the present. Perhaps, by-and-by, I
+may observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones; but
+_now_ we may be silent.”
+
+“Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?”
+
+“Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be
+entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet, for the advantage of
+_some_, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the
+trouble of saying as little as possible.”
+
+“Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you
+imagine that you are gratifying mine?”
+
+“Both,” replied Elizabeth archly; “for I have always seen a great
+similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial,
+taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say
+something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to
+posterity with all the _éclat_ of a proverb.”
+
+“This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure,”
+said he. “How near it may be to _mine_, I cannot pretend to say. _You_
+think it a faithful portrait, undoubtedly.”
+
+“I must not decide on my own performance.”
+
+He made no answer; and they were again silent till they had gone down
+the dance, when he asked her if she and her sisters did not very often
+walk to Meryton. She answered in the affirmative; and, unable to resist
+the temptation, added, “When you met us there the other day, we had just
+been forming a new acquaintance.”
+
+The effect was immediate. A deeper shade of _hauteur_ overspread his
+features, but he said not a word; and Elizabeth, though blaming herself
+for her own weakness, could not go on. At length Darcy spoke, and in a
+constrained manner said,--
+
+“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may insure his
+_making_ friends; whether he may be equally capable of _retaining_ them,
+is less certain.”
+
+“He has been so unlucky as to lose your friendship,” replied Elizabeth,
+with emphasis, “and in a manner which he is likely to suffer from all
+his life.”
+
+Darcy made no answer, and seemed desirous of changing the subject. At
+that moment Sir William Lucas appeared close to them, meaning to pass
+through the set to the other side of the room; but, on perceiving Mr.
+Darcy, he stopped, with a bow of superior courtesy, to compliment him on
+his dancing and his partner.
+
+“I have been most highly gratified, indeed, my dear sir; such very
+superior dancing is not often seen. It is evident that you belong to the
+first circles. Allow me to say, however, that your fair partner does not
+disgrace you: and that I must hope to have this pleasure often repeated,
+especially when a certain desirable event, my dear Miss Eliza (glancing
+at her sister and Bingley), shall take place. What congratulations will
+then flow in! I appeal to Mr. Darcy;--but let me not interrupt you, sir.
+You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of
+that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“Such very superior dancing is not
+often seen.”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+The latter part of this address was scarcely heard by Darcy; but Sir
+William’s allusion to his friend seemed to strike him forcibly, and his
+eyes were directed, with a very serious expression, towards Bingley and
+Jane, who were dancing together. Recovering himself, however, shortly,
+he turned to his partner, and said,--
+
+“Sir William’s interruption has made me forget what we were talking
+of.”
+
+“I do not think we were speaking at all. Sir William could not have
+interrupted any two people in the room who had less to say for
+themselves. We have tried two or three subjects already without success,
+and what we are to talk of next I cannot imagine.”
+
+“What think you of books?” said he, smiling.
+
+“Books--oh no!--I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same
+feelings.”
+
+“I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be
+no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”
+
+“No--I cannot talk of books in a ball-room; my head is always full of
+something else.”
+
+“The _present_ always occupies you in such scenes--does it?” said he,
+with a look of doubt.
+
+“Yes, always,” she replied, without knowing what she said; for her
+thoughts had wandered far from the subject, as soon afterwards appeared
+by her suddenly exclaiming, “I remember hearing you once say, Mr. Darcy,
+that you hardly ever forgave;--that your resentment, once created, was
+unappeasable. You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its _being
+created_?”
+
+“I am,” said he, with a firm voice.
+
+“And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?”
+
+“I hope not.”
+
+“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion,
+to be secure of judging properly at first.”
+
+“May I ask to what these questions tend?”
+
+“Merely to the illustration of _your_ character,” said she, endeavouring
+to shake off her gravity. “I am trying to make it out.”
+
+“And what is your success?”
+
+She shook her head. “I do not get on at all. I hear such different
+accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.”
+
+“I can readily believe,” answered he, gravely, “that reports may vary
+greatly with respect to me; and I could wish, Miss Bennet, that you were
+not to sketch my character at the present moment, as there is reason to
+fear that the performance would reflect no credit on either.”
+
+“But if I do not take your likeness now, I may never have another
+opportunity.”
+
+“I would by no means suspend any pleasure of yours,” he coldly replied.
+She said no more, and they went down the other dance and parted in
+silence; on each side dissatisfied, though not to an equal degree; for
+in Darcy’s breast there was a tolerably powerful feeling towards her,
+which soon procured her pardon, and directed all his anger against
+another.
+
+They had not long separated when Miss Bingley came towards her, and,
+with an expression of civil disdain, thus accosted her,--
+
+“So, Miss Eliza, I hear you are quite delighted with George Wickham?
+Your sister has been talking to me about him, and asking me a thousand
+questions; and I find that the young man forgot to tell you, among his
+other communications, that he was the son of old Wickham, the late Mr.
+Darcy’s steward. Let me recommend you, however, as a friend, not to give
+implicit confidence to all his assertions; for, as to Mr. Darcy’s using
+him ill, it is perfectly false: for, on the contrary, he has been always
+remarkably kind to him, though George Wickham has treated Mr. Darcy in a
+most infamous manner. I do not know the particulars, but I know very
+well that Mr. Darcy is not in the least to blame; that he cannot bear
+to hear George Wickham mentioned; and that though my brother thought he
+could not well avoid including him in his invitation to the officers, he
+was excessively glad to find that he had taken himself out of the way.
+His coming into the country at all is a most insolent thing, indeed, and
+I wonder how he could presume to do it. I pity you, Miss Eliza, for this
+discovery of your favourite’s guilt; but really, considering his
+descent, one could not expect much better.”
+
+“His guilt and his descent appear, by your account, to be the same,”
+said Elizabeth, angrily; “for I have heard you accuse him of nothing
+worse than of being the son of Mr. Darcy’s steward, and of _that_, I can
+assure you, he informed me himself.”
+
+“I beg your pardon,” replied Miss Bingley, turning away with a sneer.
+“Excuse my interference; it was kindly meant.”
+
+“Insolent girl!” said Elizabeth to herself. “You are much mistaken if
+you expect to influence me by such a paltry attack as this. I see
+nothing in it but your own wilful ignorance and the malice of Mr.
+Darcy.” She then sought her eldest sister, who had undertaken to make
+inquiries on the same subject of Bingley. Jane met her with a smile of
+such sweet complacency, a glow of such happy expression, as sufficiently
+marked how well she was satisfied with the occurrences of the evening.
+Elizabeth instantly read her feelings; and, at that moment, solicitude
+for Wickham, resentment against his enemies, and everything else, gave
+way before the hope of Jane’s being in the fairest way for happiness.
+
+“I want to know,” said she, with a countenance no less smiling than her
+sister’s, “what you have learnt about Mr. Wickham. But perhaps you have
+been too pleasantly engaged to think of any third person, in which case
+you may be sure of my pardon.”
+
+“No,” replied Jane, “I have not forgotten him; but I have nothing
+satisfactory to tell you. Mr. Bingley does not know the whole of his
+history, and is quite ignorant of the circumstances which have
+principally offended Mr. Darcy; but he will vouch for the good conduct,
+the probity and honour, of his friend, and is perfectly convinced that
+Mr. Wickham has deserved much less attention from Mr. Darcy than he has
+received; and I am sorry to say that by his account, as well as his
+sister’s, Mr. Wickham is by no means a respectable young man. I am
+afraid he has been very imprudent, and has deserved to lose Mr. Darcy’s
+regard.”
+
+“Mr. Bingley does not know Mr. Wickham himself.”
+
+“No; he never saw him till the other morning at Meryton.”
+
+“This account then is what he has received from Mr. Darcy. I am
+perfectly satisfied. But what does he say of the living?”
+
+“He does not exactly recollect the circumstances, though he has heard
+them from Mr. Darcy more than once, but he believes that it was left to
+him _conditionally_ only.”
+
+“I have not a doubt of Mr. Bingley’s sincerity,” said Elizabeth warmly,
+“but you must excuse my not being convinced by assurances only. Mr.
+Bingley’s defence of his friend was a very able one, I dare say; but
+since he is unacquainted with several parts of the story, and has learnt
+the rest from that friend himself, I shall venture still to think of
+both gentlemen as I did before.”
+
+She then changed the discourse to one more gratifying to each, and on
+which there could be no difference of sentiment. Elizabeth listened with
+delight to the happy though modest hopes which Jane entertained of
+Bingley’s regard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence
+in it. On their being joined by Mr. Bingley himself, Elizabeth withdrew
+to Miss Lucas; to whose inquiry after the pleasantness of her last
+partner she had scarcely replied, before Mr. Collins came up to them,
+and told her with great exultation, that he had just been so fortunate
+as to make a most important discovery.
+
+“I have found out,” said he, “by a singular accident, that there is now
+in the room a near relation to my patroness. I happened to overhear the
+gentleman himself mentioning to the young lady who does the honours of
+this house the names of his cousin Miss De Bourgh, and of her mother,
+Lady Catherine. How wonderfully these sort of things occur! Who would
+have thought of my meeting with--perhaps--a nephew of Lady Catherine de
+Bourgh in this assembly! I am most thankful that the discovery is made
+in time for me to pay my respects to him, which I am now going to do,
+and trust he will excuse my not having done it before. My total
+ignorance of the connection must plead my apology.”
+
+“You are not going to introduce yourself to Mr. Darcy?”
+
+“Indeed I am. I shall entreat his pardon for not having done it earlier.
+I believe him to be Lady Catherine’s _nephew_. It will be in my power to
+assure him that her Ladyship was quite well yesterday se’nnight.”
+
+Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme; assuring him
+that Mr. Darcy would consider his addressing him without introduction as
+an impertinent freedom, rather than a compliment to his aunt; that it
+was not in the least necessary there should be any notice on either
+side, and that if it were, it must belong to Mr. Darcy, the superior in
+consequence, to begin the acquaintance. Mr. Collins listened to her with
+the determined air of following his own inclination, and when she ceased
+speaking, replied thus,--
+
+“My dear Miss Elizabeth, I have the highest opinion in the world of your
+excellent judgment in all matters within the scope of your
+understanding, but permit me to say that there must be a wide difference
+between the established forms of ceremony amongst the laity and those
+which regulate the clergy; for, give me leave to observe that I consider
+the clerical office as equal in point of dignity with the highest rank
+in the kingdom--provided that a proper humility of behaviour is at the
+same time maintained. You must, therefore, allow me to follow the
+dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which lead me to perform
+what I look on as a point of duty. Pardon me for neglecting to profit by
+your advice, which on every other subject shall be my constant guide,
+though in the case before us I consider myself more fitted by education
+and habitual study to decide on what is right than a young lady like
+yourself;” and with a low bow he left her to attack Mr. Darcy, whose
+reception of his advances she eagerly watched, and whose astonishment at
+being so addressed was very evident. Her cousin prefaced his speech with
+a solemn bow, and though she could not hear a word of it, she felt as if
+hearing it all, and saw in the motion of his lips the words “apology,”
+“Hunsford,” and “Lady Catherine de Bourgh.” It vexed her to see him
+expose himself to such a man. Mr. Darcy was eyeing him with
+unrestrained wonder; and when at last Mr. Collins allowed him to speak,
+replied with an air of distant civility. Mr. Collins, however, was not
+discouraged from speaking again, and Mr. Darcy’s contempt seemed
+abundantly increasing with the length of his second speech; and at the
+end of it he only made him a slight bow, and moved another way: Mr.
+Collins then returned to Elizabeth.
+
+“I have no reason, I assure you,” said he, “to be dissatisfied with my
+reception. Mr. Darcy seemed much pleased with the attention. He answered
+me with the utmost civility, and even paid me the compliment of saying,
+that he was so well convinced of Lady Catherine’s discernment as to be
+certain she could never bestow a favour unworthily. It was really a very
+handsome thought. Upon the whole, I am much pleased with him.”
+
+As Elizabeth had no longer any interest of her own to pursue, she turned
+her attention almost entirely on her sister and Mr. Bingley; and the
+train of agreeable reflections which her observations gave birth to made
+her perhaps almost as happy as Jane. She saw her in idea settled in that
+very house, in all the felicity which a marriage of true affection could
+bestow; and she felt capable, under such circumstances, of endeavouring
+even to like Bingley’s two sisters. Her mother’s thoughts she plainly
+saw were bent the same way, and she determined not to venture near her,
+lest she might hear too much. When they sat down to supper, therefore,
+she considered it a most unlucky perverseness which placed them within
+one of each other; and deeply was she vexed to find that her mother was
+talking to that one person (Lady Lucas) freely, openly, and of nothing
+else but of her expectation that Jane would be soon married to Mr.
+Bingley. It was an animating subject, and Mrs. Bennet seemed incapable
+of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match. His being such
+a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them,
+were the first points of self-gratulation; and then it was such a
+comfort to think how fond the two sisters were of Jane, and to be
+certain that they must desire the connection as much as she could do. It
+was, moreover, such a promising thing for her younger daughters, as
+Jane’s marrying so greatly must throw them in the way of other rich men;
+and, lastly, it was so pleasant at her time of life to be able to
+consign her single daughters to the care of their sister, that she might
+not be obliged to go into company more than she liked. It was necessary
+to make this circumstance a matter of pleasure, because on such
+occasions it is the etiquette; but no one was less likely than Mrs.
+Bennet to find comfort in staying at home at any period of her life. She
+concluded with many good wishes that Lady Lucas might soon be equally
+fortunate, though evidently and triumphantly believing there was no
+chance of it.
+
+In vain did Elizabeth endeavour to check the rapidity of her mother’s
+words, or persuade her to describe her felicity in a less audible
+whisper; for to her inexpressible vexation she could perceive that the
+chief of it was overheard by Mr. Darcy, who sat opposite to them. Her
+mother only scolded her for being nonsensical.
+
+“What is Mr. Darcy to me, pray, that I should be afraid of him? I am
+sure we owe him no such particular civility as to be obliged to say
+nothing _he_ may not like to hear.”
+
+“For heaven’s sake, madam, speak lower. What advantage can it be to you
+to offend Mr. Darcy? You will never recommend yourself to his friend by
+so doing.”
+
+Nothing that she could say, however, had any influence. Her mother would
+talk of her views in the same intelligible tone. Elizabeth blushed and
+blushed again with shame and vexation. She could not help frequently
+glancing her eye at Mr. Darcy, though every glance convinced her of what
+she dreaded; for though he was not always looking at her mother, she was
+convinced that his attention was invariably fixed by her. The expression
+of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and
+steady gravity.
+
+At length, however, Mrs. Bennet had no more to say; and Lady Lucas, who
+had been long yawning at the repetition of delights which she saw no
+likelihood of sharing, was left to the comforts of cold ham and chicken.
+Elizabeth now began to revive. But not long was the interval of
+tranquillity; for when supper was over, singing was talked of, and she
+had the mortification of seeing Mary, after very little entreaty,
+preparing to oblige the company. By many significant looks and silent
+entreaties did she endeavour to prevent such a proof of
+complaisance,--but in vain; Mary would not understand them; such an
+opportunity of exhibiting was delightful to her, and she began her song.
+Elizabeth’s eyes were fixed on her, with most painful sensations; and
+she watched her progress through the several stanzas with an impatience
+which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving
+amongst the thanks of the table the hint of a hope that she might be
+prevailed on to favour them again, after the pause of half a minute
+began another. Mary’s powers were by no means fitted for such a display;
+her voice was weak, and her manner affected. Elizabeth was in agonies.
+She looked at Jane to see how she bore it; but Jane was very composedly
+talking to Bingley. She looked at his two sisters, and saw them making
+signs of derision at each other, and at Darcy, who continued, however,
+impenetrably grave. She looked at her father to entreat his
+interference, lest Mary should be singing all night. He took the hint,
+and, when Mary had finished her second song, said aloud,--
+
+“That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough.
+Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”
+
+Mary, though pretending not to hear, was somewhat disconcerted; and
+Elizabeth, sorry for her, and sorry for her father’s speech, was afraid
+her anxiety had done no good. Others of the party were now applied to.
+
+“If I,” said Mr. Collins, “were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I
+should have great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging the company with an
+air; for I consider music as a very innocent diversion, and perfectly
+compatible with the profession of a clergyman. I do not mean, however,
+to assert that we can be justified in devoting too much of our time to
+music, for there are certainly other things to be attended to. The
+rector of a parish has much to do. In the first place, he must make such
+an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not
+offensive to his patron. He must write his own sermons; and the time
+that remains will not be too much for his parish duties, and the care
+and improvement of his dwelling, which he cannot be excused from making
+as comfortable as possible. And I do not think it of light importance
+that he should have attentive and conciliatory manners towards
+everybody, especially towards those to whom he owes his preferment. I
+cannot acquit him of that duty; nor could I think well of the man who
+should omit an occasion of testifying his respect towards anybody
+connected with the family.” And with a bow to Mr. Darcy, he concluded
+his speech, which had been spoken so loud as to be heard by half the
+room. Many stared--many smiled; but no one looked more amused than Mr.
+Bennet himself, while his wife seriously commended Mr. Collins for
+having spoken so sensibly, and observed, in a half-whisper to Lady
+Lucas, that he was a remarkably clever, good kind of young man.
+
+To Elizabeth it appeared, that had her family made an agreement to
+expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would
+have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit, or
+finer success; and happy did she think it for Bingley and her sister
+that some of the exhibition had escaped his notice, and that his
+feelings were not of a sort to be much distressed by the folly which he
+must have witnessed. That his two sisters and Mr. Darcy, however, should
+have such an opportunity of ridiculing her relations was bad enough; and
+she could not determine whether the silent contempt of the gentleman, or
+the insolent smiles of the ladies, were more intolerable.
+
+The rest of the evening brought her little amusement. She was teased by
+Mr. Collins, who continued most perseveringly by her side; and though he
+could not prevail with her to dance with him again, put it out of her
+power to dance with others. In vain did she entreat him to stand up with
+somebody else, and offered to introduce him to any young lady in the
+room. He assured her that, as to dancing, he was perfectly indifferent
+to it; that his chief object was, by delicate attentions, to recommend
+himself to her; and that he should therefore make a point of remaining
+close to her the whole evening. There was no arguing upon such a
+project. She owed her greatest relief to her friend Miss Lucas, who
+often joined them, and good-naturedly engaged Mr. Collins’s conversation
+to herself.
+
+She was at least free from the offence of Mr. Darcy’s further notice:
+though often standing within a very short distance of her, quite
+disengaged, he never came near enough to speak. She felt it to be the
+probable consequence of her allusions to Mr. Wickham, and rejoiced in
+it.
+
+The Longbourn party were the last of all the company to depart; and by a
+manœuvre of Mrs. Bennet had to wait for their carriage a quarter of an
+hour after everybody else was gone, which gave them time to see how
+heartily they were wished away by some of the family. Mrs. Hurst and her
+sister scarcely opened their mouths except to complain of fatigue, and
+were evidently impatient to have the house to themselves. They repulsed
+every attempt of Mrs. Bennet at conversation, and, by so doing, threw a
+languor over the whole party, which was very little relieved by the long
+speeches of Mr. Collins, who was complimenting Mr. Bingley and his
+sisters on the elegance of their entertainment, and the hospitality and
+politeness which had marked their behaviour to their guests. Darcy said
+nothing at all. Mr. Bennet, in equal silence, was enjoying the scene.
+Mr. Bingley and Jane were standing together a little detached from the
+rest, and talked only to each other. Elizabeth preserved as steady a
+silence as either Mrs. Hurst or Miss Bingley; and even Lydia was too
+much fatigued to utter more than the occasional exclamation of “Lord,
+how tired I am!” accompanied by a violent yawn.
+
+When at length they arose to take leave, Mrs. Bennet was most pressingly
+civil in her hope of seeing the whole family soon at Longbourn; and
+addressed herself particularly to Mr. Bingley, to assure him how happy
+he would make them, by eating a family dinner with them at any time,
+without the ceremony of a formal invitation. Bingley was all grateful
+pleasure; and he readily engaged for taking the earliest opportunity of
+waiting on her after his return from London, whither he was obliged to
+go the next day for a short time.
+
+Mrs. Bennet was perfectly satisfied; and quitted the house under the
+delightful persuasion that, allowing for the necessary preparations of
+settlements, new carriages, and wedding clothes, she should undoubtedly
+see her daughter settled at Netherfield in the course of three or four
+months. Of having another daughter married to Mr. Collins she thought
+with equal certainty, and with considerable, though not equal, pleasure.
+Elizabeth was the least dear to her of all her children; and though the
+man and the match were quite good enough for _her_, the worth of each
+was eclipsed by Mr. Bingley and Netherfield.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “to assure you in the most animated language”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The next day opened a new scene at Longbourn. Mr. Collins made his
+declaration in form. Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as
+his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having
+no feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the
+moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the
+observances which he supposed a regular part of the business. On finding
+Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth, and one of the younger girls together, soon
+after breakfast, he addressed the mother in these words,--
+
+“May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth,
+when I solicit for the honour of a private audience with her in the
+course of this morning?”
+
+Before Elizabeth had time for anything but a blush of surprise, Mrs.
+Bennet instantly answered,--
+
+“Oh dear! Yes, certainly. I am sure Lizzy will be very happy--I am sure
+she can have no objection. Come, Kitty, I want you upstairs.” And
+gathering her work together, she was hastening away, when Elizabeth
+called out,--
+
+“Dear ma’am, do not go. I beg you will not go. Mr. Collins must excuse
+me. He can have nothing to say to me that anybody need not hear. I am
+going away myself.”
+
+“No, no, nonsense, Lizzy. I desire you will stay where you are.” And
+upon Elizabeth’s seeming really, with vexed and embarrassed looks, about
+to escape, she added, “Lizzy, I _insist_ upon your staying and hearing
+Mr. Collins.”
+
+Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction; and a moment’s
+consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it
+over as soon and as quietly as possible, she sat down again, and tried
+to conceal, by incessant employment, the feelings which were divided
+between distress and diversion. Mrs. Bennet and Kitty walked off, and as
+soon as they were gone, Mr. Collins began,--
+
+“Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that your modesty, so far from
+doing you any disservice, rather adds to your other perfections. You
+would have been less amiable in my eyes had there _not_ been this little
+unwillingness; but allow me to assure you that I have your respected
+mother’s permission for this address. You can hardly doubt the purport
+of my discourse, however your natural delicacy may lead you to
+dissemble; my attentions have been too marked to be mistaken. Almost as
+soon as I entered the house I singled you out as the companion of my
+future life. But before I am run away with by my feelings on this
+subject, perhaps it will be advisable for me to state my reasons for
+marrying--and, moreover, for coming into Hertfordshire with the design
+of selecting a wife, as I certainly did.”
+
+The idea of Mr. Collins, with all his solemn composure, being run away
+with by his feelings, made Elizabeth so near laughing that she could not
+use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him farther, and
+he continued,--
+
+“My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for
+every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example
+of matrimony in his parish; secondly, that I am convinced it will add
+very greatly to my happiness; and, thirdly, which perhaps I ought to
+have mentioned earlier, that it is the particular advice and
+recommendation of the very noble lady whom I have the honour of calling
+patroness. Twice has she condescended to give me her opinion (unasked
+too!) on this subject; and it was but the very Saturday night before I
+left Hunsford,--between our pools at quadrille, while Mrs. Jenkinson was
+arranging Miss De Bourgh’s footstool,--that she said, ‘Mr. Collins, you
+must marry. A clergyman like you must marry. Choose properly, choose a
+gentlewoman for _my_ sake, and for your _own_; let her be an active,
+useful sort of person, not brought up high, but able to make a small
+income go a good way. This is my advice. Find such a woman as soon as
+you can, bring her to Hunsford, and I will visit her.’ Allow me, by the
+way, to observe, my fair cousin, that I do not reckon the notice and
+kindness of Lady Catherine de Bourgh as among the least of the
+advantages in my power to offer. You will find her manners beyond
+anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be
+acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect
+which her rank will inevitably excite. Thus much for my general
+intention in favour of matrimony; it remains to be told why my views
+were directed to Longbourn instead of my own neighbourhood, where I
+assure you there are many amiable young women. But the fact is, that
+being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honoured
+father (who, however, may live many years longer), I could not satisfy
+myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters, that
+the loss to them might be as little as possible when the melancholy
+event takes place--which, however, as I have already said, may not be
+for several years. This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I
+flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem. And now nothing
+remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the
+violence of my affection. To fortune I am perfectly indifferent, and
+shall make no demand of that nature on your father, since I am well
+aware that it could not be complied with; and that one thousand pounds
+in the 4 per cents., which will not be yours till after your mother’s
+decease, is all that you may ever be entitled to. On that head,
+therefore, I shall be uniformly silent: and you may assure yourself that
+no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my lips when we are married.”
+
+It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
+
+“You are too hasty, sir,” she cried. “You forget that I have made no
+answer. Let me do it without further loss of time. Accept my thanks for
+the compliment you are paying me. I am very sensible of the honour of
+your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline
+them.”
+
+“I am not now to learn,” replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the
+hand, “that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the
+man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their
+favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a
+third time. I am, therefore, by no means discouraged by what you have
+just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long.”
+
+“Upon my word, sir,” cried Elizabeth, “your hope is rather an
+extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not
+one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so
+daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second
+time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make _me_
+happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who
+would make _you_ so. Nay, were your friend Lady Catherine to know me, I
+am persuaded she would find me in every respect ill qualified for the
+situation.”
+
+“Were it certain that Lady Catherine would think so,” said Mr. Collins,
+very gravely--“but I cannot imagine that her Ladyship would at all
+disapprove of you. And you may be certain that when I have the honour of
+seeing her again I shall speak in the highest terms of your modesty,
+economy, and other amiable qualifications.”
+
+“Indeed, Mr. Collins, all praise of me will be unnecessary. You must
+give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of
+believing what I say. I wish you very happy and very rich, and by
+refusing your hand, do all in my power to prevent your being otherwise.
+In making me the offer, you must have satisfied the delicacy of your
+feelings with regard to my family, and may take possession of Longbourn
+estate whenever it falls, without any self-reproach. This matter may be
+considered, therefore, as finally settled.” And rising as she thus
+spoke, she would have quitted the room, had not Mr. Collins thus
+addressed her,--
+
+“When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I
+shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given
+me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I
+know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the
+first application, and, perhaps, you have even now said as much to
+encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the
+female character.”
+
+“Really, Mr. Collins,” cried Elizabeth, with some warmth, “you puzzle me
+exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form
+of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as
+may convince you of its being one.”
+
+“You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your
+refusal of my addresses are merely words of course. My reasons for
+believing it are briefly these:--It does not appear to me that my hand
+is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would
+be any other than highly desirable. My situation in life, my connections
+with the family of De Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are
+circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into further
+consideration that, in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no
+means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you. Your
+portion is unhappily so small, that it will in all likelihood undo the
+effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications. As I must,
+therefore, conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I
+shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by
+suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.”
+
+“I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind
+of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would
+rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you
+again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but
+to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect
+forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant
+female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the
+truth from her heart.”
+
+“You are uniformly charming!” cried he, with an air of awkward
+gallantry; “and I am persuaded that, when sanctioned by the express
+authority of both your excellent parents, my proposals will not fail of
+being acceptable.”
+
+To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no
+reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he
+persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering
+encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered
+in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behaviour at least could
+not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. Collins was not left long to the silent contemplation of his
+successful love; for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule
+to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the
+door and with quick step pass her towards the staircase, than she
+entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in
+warm terms on the happy prospect of their nearer connection. Mr. Collins
+received and returned these felicitations with equal pleasure, and then
+proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result
+of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the
+refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow
+from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.
+
+This information, however, startled Mrs. Bennet: she would have been
+glad to be equally satisfied that her daughter had meant to encourage
+him by protesting against his proposals, but she dared not believe it,
+and could not help saying so.
+
+“But depend upon it, Mr. Collins,” she added, “that Lizzy shall be
+brought to reason. I will speak to her about it myself directly. She is
+a very headstrong, foolish girl, and does not know her own interest; but
+I will _make_ her know it.”
+
+“Pardon me for interrupting you, madam,” cried Mr. Collins; “but if she
+is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would
+altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who
+naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state. If, therefore, she
+actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to
+force her into accepting me, because, if liable to such defects of
+temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.”
+
+“Sir, you quite misunderstand me,” said Mrs. Bennet, alarmed. “Lizzy is
+only headstrong in such matters as these. In everything else she is as
+good-natured a girl as ever lived. I will go directly to Mr. Bennet, and
+we shall very soon settle it with her, I am sure.”
+
+She would not give him time to reply, but hurrying instantly to her
+husband, called out, as she entered the library,--
+
+“Oh, Mr. Bennet, you are wanted immediately; we are all in an uproar.
+You must come and make Lizzy marry Mr. Collins, for she vows she will
+not have him; and if you do not make haste he will change his mind and
+not have _her_.”
+
+Mr. Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them
+on her face with a calm unconcern, which was not in the least altered by
+her communication.
+
+“I have not the pleasure of understanding you,” said he, when she had
+finished her speech. “Of what are you talking?”
+
+“Of Mr. Collins and Lizzy. Lizzy declares she will not have Mr. Collins,
+and Mr. Collins begins to say that he will not have Lizzy.”
+
+“And what am I to do on the occasion? It seems a hopeless business.”
+
+“Speak to Lizzy about it yourself. Tell her that you insist upon her
+marrying him.”
+
+“Let her be called down. She shall hear my opinion.”
+
+Mrs. Bennet rang the bell, and Miss Elizabeth was summoned to the
+library.
+
+“Come here, child,” cried her father as she appeared. “I have sent for
+you on an affair of importance. I understand that Mr. Collins has made
+you an offer of marriage. Is it true?”
+
+Elizabeth replied that it was.
+
+“Very well--and this offer of marriage you have refused?”
+
+“I have, sir.”
+
+“Very well. We now come to the point. Your mother insists upon your
+accepting it. Is it not so, Mrs. Bennet?”
+
+“Yes, or I will never see her again.”
+
+“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must
+be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you
+again if you do _not_ marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again
+if you _do_.”
+
+Elizabeth could not but smile at such a conclusion of such a beginning;
+but Mrs. Bennet, who had persuaded herself that her husband regarded the
+affair as she wished, was excessively disappointed.
+
+“What do you mean, Mr. Bennet, by talking in this way? You promised me
+to _insist_ upon her marrying him.”
+
+“My dear,” replied her husband, “I have two small favours to request.
+First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the
+present occasion; and, secondly, of my room. I shall be glad to have the
+library to myself as soon as may be.”
+
+Not yet, however, in spite of her disappointment in her husband, did
+Mrs. Bennet give up the point. She talked to Elizabeth again and again;
+coaxed and threatened her by turns. She endeavoured to secure Jane in
+her interest, but Jane, with all possible mildness, declined
+interfering; and Elizabeth, sometimes with real earnestness, and
+sometimes with playful gaiety, replied to her attacks. Though her manner
+varied, however, her determination never did.
+
+Mr. Collins, meanwhile, was meditating in solitude on what had passed.
+He thought too well of himself to comprehend on what motive his cousin
+could refuse him; and though his pride was hurt, he suffered in no other
+way. His regard for her was quite imaginary; and the possibility of her
+deserving her mother’s reproach prevented his feeling any regret.
+
+While the family were in this confusion, Charlotte Lucas came to spend
+the day with them. She was met in the vestibule by Lydia, who, flying to
+her, cried in a half whisper, “I am glad you are come, for there is such
+fun here! What do you think has happened this morning? Mr. Collins has
+made an offer to Lizzy, and she will not have him.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “they entered the breakfast room”
+]
+
+Charlotte had hardly time to answer before they were joined by Kitty,
+who came to tell the same news; and no sooner had they entered the
+breakfast-room, where Mrs. Bennet was alone, than she likewise began on
+the subject, calling on Miss Lucas for her compassion, and entreating
+her to persuade her friend Lizzy to comply with the wishes of her
+family. “Pray do, my dear Miss Lucas,” she added, in a melancholy tone;
+“for nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me; I am cruelly used,
+nobody feels for my poor nerves.”
+
+Charlotte’s reply was spared by the entrance of Jane and Elizabeth.
+
+“Ay, there she comes,” continued Mrs. Bennet, “looking as unconcerned as
+may be, and caring no more for us than if we were at York, provided she
+can have her own way. But I tell you what, Miss Lizzy, if you take it
+into your head to go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way,
+you will never get a husband at all--and I am sure I do not know who is
+to maintain you when your father is dead. _I_ shall not be able to keep
+you--and so I warn you. I have done with you from this very day. I told
+you in the library, you know, that I should never speak to you again,
+and you will find me as good as my word. I have no pleasure in talking
+to undutiful children. Not that I have much pleasure, indeed, in talking
+to anybody. People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have
+no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it
+is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
+
+Her daughters listened in silence to this effusion, sensible that any
+attempt to reason with or soothe her would only increase the irritation.
+She talked on, therefore, without interruption from any of them till
+they were joined by Mr. Collins, who entered with an air more stately
+than usual, and on perceiving whom, she said to the girls,--
+
+“Now, I do insist upon it, that you, all of you, hold your tongues, and
+let Mr. Collins and me have a little conversation together.”
+
+Elizabeth passed quietly out of the room, Jane and Kitty followed, but
+Lydia stood her ground, determined to hear all she could; and Charlotte,
+detained first by the civility of Mr. Collins, whose inquiries after
+herself and all her family were very minute, and then by a little
+curiosity, satisfied herself with walking to the window and pretending
+not to hear. In a doleful voice Mrs. Bennet thus began the projected
+conversation:--
+
+“Oh, Mr. Collins!”
+
+“My dear madam,” replied he, “let us be for ever silent on this point.
+Far be it from me,” he presently continued, in a voice that marked his
+displeasure, “to resent the behaviour of your daughter. Resignation to
+inevitable evils is the duty of us all: the peculiar duty of a young man
+who has been so fortunate as I have been, in early preferment; and, I
+trust, I am resigned. Perhaps not the less so from feeling a doubt of my
+positive happiness had my fair cousin honoured me with her hand; for I
+have often observed, that resignation is never so perfect as when the
+blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
+You will not, I hope, consider me as showing any disrespect to your
+family, my dear madam, by thus withdrawing my pretensions to your
+daughter’s favour, without having paid yourself and Mr. Bennet the
+compliment of requesting you to interpose your authority in my behalf.
+My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my
+dismission from your daughter’s lips instead of your own; but we are all
+liable to error. I have certainly meant well through the whole affair.
+My object has been to secure an amiable companion for myself, with due
+consideration for the advantage of all your family; and if my _manner_
+has been at all reprehensible, I here beg leave to apologize.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The discussion of Mr. Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and
+Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily
+attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusion of her mother.
+As for the gentleman himself, _his_ feelings were chiefly expressed, not
+by embarrassment or dejection, or by trying to avoid her, but by
+stiffness of manner and resentful silence. He scarcely ever spoke to
+her; and the assiduous attentions which he had been so sensible of
+himself were transferred for the rest of the day to Miss Lucas, whose
+civility in listening to him was a seasonable relief to them all, and
+especially to her friend.
+
+The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet’s ill humour or ill
+health. Mr. Collins was also in the same state of angry pride. Elizabeth
+had hoped that his resentment might shorten his visit, but his plan did
+not appear in the least affected by it. He was always to have gone on
+Saturday, and to Saturday he still meant to stay.
+
+After breakfast, the girls walked to Meryton, to inquire if Mr. Wickham
+were returned, and to lament over his absence from the Netherfield ball.
+He joined them on their entering the town, and attended them to their
+aunt’s, where his regret and vexation and the concern of everybody were
+well talked over. To Elizabeth, however, he voluntarily acknowledged
+that the necessity of his absence _had_ been self-imposed.
+
+“I found,” said he, “as the time drew near, that I had better not meet
+Mr. Darcy;--that to be in the same room, the same party with him for so
+many hours together, might be more than I could bear, and that scenes
+might arise unpleasant to more than myself.”
+
+She highly approved his forbearance; and they had leisure for a full
+discussion of it, and for all the commendations which they civilly
+bestowed on each other, as Wickham and another officer walked back with
+them to Longbourn, and during the walk he particularly attended to her.
+His accompanying them was a double advantage: she felt all the
+compliment it offered to herself; and it was most acceptable as an
+occasion of introducing him to her father and mother.
+
+[Illustration: “Walked back with them”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+Soon after their return, a letter was delivered to Miss Bennet; it came
+from Netherfield, and was opened immediately. The envelope contained a
+sheet of elegant, little, hot-pressed paper, well covered with a lady’s
+fair, flowing hand; and Elizabeth saw her sister’s countenance change as
+she read it, and saw her dwelling intently on some particular passages.
+Jane recollected herself soon; and putting the letter away, tried to
+join, with her usual cheerfulness, in the general conversation: but
+Elizabeth felt an anxiety on the subject which drew off her attention
+even from Wickham; and no sooner had he and his companion taken leave,
+than a glance from Jane invited her to follow her upstairs. When they
+had gained their own room, Jane, taking out her letter, said, “This is
+from Caroline Bingley: what it contains has surprised me a good deal.
+The whole party have left Netherfield by this time, and are on their way
+to town; and without any intention of coming back again. You shall hear
+what she says.”
+
+She then read the first sentence aloud, which comprised the information
+of their having just resolved to follow their brother to town directly,
+and of their meaning to dine that day in Grosvenor Street, where Mr.
+Hurst had a house. The next was in these words:--“‘I do not pretend to
+regret anything I shall leave in Hertfordshire except your society, my
+dearest friend; but we will hope, at some future period, to enjoy many
+returns of that delightful intercourse we have known, and in the
+meanwhile may lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most
+unreserved correspondence. I depend on you for that.’” To these
+high-flown expressions Elizabeth listened with all the insensibility of
+distrust; and though the suddenness of their removal surprised her, she
+saw nothing in it really to lament: it was not to be supposed that their
+absence from Netherfield would prevent Mr. Bingley’s being there; and as
+to the loss of their society, she was persuaded that Jane must soon
+cease to regard it in the enjoyment of his.
+
+“It is unlucky,” said she, after a short pause, “that you should not be
+able to see your friends before they leave the country. But may we not
+hope that the period of future happiness, to which Miss Bingley looks
+forward, may arrive earlier than she is aware, and that the delightful
+intercourse you have known as friends will be renewed with yet greater
+satisfaction as sisters? Mr. Bingley will not be detained in London by
+them.”
+
+“Caroline decidedly says that none of the party will return into
+Hertfordshire this winter. I will read it to you.
+
+“‘When my brother left us yesterday, he imagined that the business which
+took him to London might be concluded in three or four days; but as we
+are certain it cannot be so, and at the same time convinced that when
+Charles gets to town he will be in no hurry to leave it again, we have
+determined on following him thither, that he may not be obliged to spend
+his vacant hours in a comfortless hotel. Many of my acquaintance are
+already there for the winter: I wish I could hear that you, my dearest
+friend, had any intention of making one in the crowd, but of that I
+despair. I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in
+the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux
+will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of
+whom we shall deprive you.’
+
+“It is evident by this,” added Jane, “that he comes back no more this
+winter.”
+
+“It is only evident that Miss Bingley does not mean he _should_.”
+
+“Why will you think so? It must be his own doing; he is his own master.
+But you do not know _all_. I _will_ read you the passage which
+particularly hurts me. I will have no reserves from _you_. ‘Mr. Darcy is
+impatient to see his sister; and to confess the truth, _we_ are scarcely
+less eager to meet her again. I really do not think Georgiana Darcy has
+her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments; and the affection
+she inspires in Louisa and myself is heightened into something still
+more interesting from the hope we dare to entertain of her being
+hereafter our sister. I do not know whether I ever before mentioned to
+you my feelings on this subject, but I will not leave the country
+without confiding them, and I trust you will not esteem them
+unreasonable. My brother admires her greatly already; he will have
+frequent opportunity now of seeing her on the most intimate footing; her
+relations all wish the connection as much as his own; and a sister’s
+partiality is not misleading me, I think, when I call Charles most
+capable of engaging any woman’s heart. With all these circumstances to
+favour an attachment, and nothing to prevent it, am I wrong, my dearest
+Jane, in indulging the hope of an event which will secure the happiness
+of so many?’ What think you of _this_ sentence, my dear Lizzy?” said
+Jane, as she finished it. “Is it not clear enough? Does it not expressly
+declare that Caroline neither expects nor wishes me to be her sister;
+that she is perfectly convinced of her brother’s indifference; and that
+if she suspects the nature of my feelings for him she means (most
+kindly!) to put me on my guard. Can there be any other opinion on the
+subject?”
+
+“Yes, there can; for mine is totally different. Will you hear it?”
+
+“Most willingly.”
+
+“You shall have it in a few words. Miss Bingley sees that her brother is
+in love with you and wants him to marry Miss Darcy. She follows him to
+town in the hope of keeping him there, and tries to persuade you that he
+does not care about you.”
+
+Jane shook her head.
+
+“Indeed, Jane, you ought to believe me. No one who has ever seen you
+together can doubt his affection; Miss Bingley, I am sure, cannot: she
+is not such a simpleton. Could she have seen half as much love in Mr.
+Darcy for herself, she would have ordered her wedding clothes. But the
+case is this:--we are not rich enough or grand enough for them; and she
+is the more anxious to get Miss Darcy for her brother, from the notion
+that when there has been _one_ inter-marriage, she may have less trouble
+in achieving a second; in which there is certainly some ingenuity, and I
+dare say it would succeed if Miss de Bourgh were out of the way. But, my
+dearest Jane, you cannot seriously imagine that, because Miss Bingley
+tells you her brother greatly admires Miss Darcy, he is in the smallest
+degree less sensible of _your_ merit than when he took leave of you on
+Tuesday; or that it will be in her power to persuade him that, instead
+of being in love with you, he is very much in love with her friend.”
+
+“If we thought alike of Miss Bingley,” replied Jane, “your
+representation of all this might make me quite easy. But I know the
+foundation is unjust. Caroline is incapable of wilfully deceiving
+anyone; and all that I can hope in this case is, that she is deceived
+herself.”
+
+“That is right. You could not have started a more happy idea, since you
+will not take comfort in mine: believe her to be deceived, by all means.
+You have now done your duty by her, and must fret no longer.”
+
+“But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in
+accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry
+elsewhere?”
+
+“You must decide for yourself,” said Elizabeth; “and if, upon mature
+deliberation, you find that the misery of disobliging his two sisters is
+more than equivalent to the happiness of being his wife, I advise you,
+by all means, to refuse him.”
+
+“How can you talk so?” said Jane, faintly smiling; “you must know, that,
+though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could
+not hesitate.”
+
+“I did not think you would; and that being the case, I cannot consider
+your situation with much compassion.”
+
+“But if he returns no more this winter, my choice will never be
+required. A thousand things may arise in six months.”
+
+The idea of his returning no more Elizabeth treated with the utmost
+contempt. It appeared to her merely the suggestion of Caroline’s
+interested wishes; and she could not for a moment suppose that those
+wishes, however openly or artfully spoken, could influence a young man
+so totally independent of everyone.
+
+She represented to her sister, as forcibly as possible, what she felt on
+the subject, and had soon the pleasure of seeing its happy effect.
+Jane’s temper was not desponding; and she was gradually led to hope,
+though the diffidence of affection sometimes overcame the hope, that
+Bingley would return to Netherfield, and answer every wish of her heart.
+
+They agreed that Mrs. Bennet should only hear of the departure of the
+family, without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman’s conduct;
+but even this partial communication gave her a great deal of concern,
+and she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky that the ladies should happen
+to go away just as they were all getting so intimate together. After
+lamenting it, however, at some length, she had the consolation of
+thinking that Mr. Bingley would be soon down again, and soon dining at
+Longbourn; and the conclusion of all was the comfortable declaration,
+that, though he had been invited only to a family dinner, she would take
+care to have two full courses.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Bennets were engaged to dine with the Lucases; and again, during the
+chief of the day, was Miss Lucas so kind as to listen to Mr. Collins.
+Elizabeth took an opportunity of thanking her. “It keeps him in good
+humour,” said she, “and I am more obliged to you than I can express.”
+
+Charlotte assured her friend of her satisfaction in being useful, and
+that it amply repaid her for the little sacrifice of her time. This was
+very amiable; but Charlotte’s kindness extended farther than Elizabeth
+had any conception of:--its object was nothing less than to secure her
+from any return of Mr. Collins’s addresses, by engaging them towards
+herself. Such was Miss Lucas’s scheme; and appearances were so
+favourable, that when they parted at night, she would have felt almost
+sure of success if he had not been to leave Hertfordshire so very soon.
+But here she did injustice to the fire and independence of his
+character; for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next
+morning with admirable slyness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw
+himself at her feet. He was anxious to avoid the notice of his cousins,
+from a conviction that, if they saw him depart, they could not fail to
+conjecture his design, and he was not willing to have the attempt known
+till its success could be known likewise; for, though feeling almost
+secure, and with reason, for Charlotte had been tolerably encouraging,
+he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday. His
+reception, however, was of the most flattering kind. Miss Lucas
+perceived him from an upper window as he walked towards the house, and
+instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane. But little had
+she dared to hope that so much love and eloquence awaited her there.
+
+In as short a time as Mr. Collins’s long speeches would allow,
+everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as
+they entered the house, he earnestly entreated her to name the day that
+was to make him the happiest of men; and though such a solicitation must
+be waived for the present, the lady felt no inclination to trifle with
+his happiness. The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must
+guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its
+continuance; and Miss Lucas, who accepted him solely from the pure and
+disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that
+establishment were gained.
+
+Sir William and Lady Lucas were speedily applied to for their consent;
+and it was bestowed with a most joyful alacrity. Mr. Collins’s present
+circumstances made it a most eligible match for their daughter, to whom
+they could give little fortune; and his prospects of future wealth were
+exceedingly fair. Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more
+interest than the matter had ever
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “So much love and eloquence”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+excited before, how many years longer Mr. Bennet was likely to live; and
+Sir William gave it as his decided opinion, that whenever Mr. Collins
+should be in possession of the Longbourn estate, it would be highly
+expedient that both he and his wife should make their appearance at St.
+James’s. The whole family in short were properly overjoyed on the
+occasion. The younger girls formed hopes of _coming out_ a year or two
+sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved
+from their apprehension of Charlotte’s dying an old maid. Charlotte
+herself was tolerably composed. She had gained her point, and had time
+to consider of it. Her reflections were in general satisfactory. Mr.
+Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable: his society was
+irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. But still he would
+be her husband. Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony,
+marriage had always been her object: it was the only honourable
+provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however
+uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative
+from want. This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of
+twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good
+luck of it. The least agreeable circumstance in the business was the
+surprise it must occasion to Elizabeth Bennet, whose friendship she
+valued beyond that of any other person. Elizabeth would wonder, and
+probably would blame her; and though her resolution was not to be
+shaken, her feelings must be hurt by such a disapprobation. She resolved
+to give her the information herself; and therefore charged Mr. Collins,
+when he returned to Longbourn to dinner, to drop no hint of what had
+passed before any of the family. A promise of secrecy was of course very
+dutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for the
+curiosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very direct
+questions on his return, as required some ingenuity to evade, and he was
+at the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing to
+publish his prosperous love.
+
+As he was to begin his journey too early on the morrow to see any of
+the family, the ceremony of leave-taking was performed when the ladies
+moved for the night; and Mrs. Bennet, with great politeness and
+cordiality, said how happy they should be to see him at Longbourn again,
+whenever his other engagements might allow him to visit them.
+
+“My dear madam,” he replied, “this invitation is particularly
+gratifying, because it is what I have been hoping to receive; and you
+may be very certain that I shall avail myself of it as soon as
+possible.”
+
+They were all astonished; and Mr. Bennet, who could by no means wish for
+so speedy a return, immediately said,--
+
+“But is there not danger of Lady Catherine’s disapprobation here, my
+good sir? You had better neglect your relations than run the risk of
+offending your patroness.”
+
+“My dear sir,” replied Mr. Collins, “I am particularly obliged to you
+for this friendly caution, and you may depend upon my not taking so
+material a step without her Ladyship’s concurrence.”
+
+“You cannot be too much on your guard. Risk anything rather than her
+displeasure; and if you find it likely to be raised by your coming to us
+again, which I should think exceedingly probable, stay quietly at home,
+and be satisfied that _we_ shall take no offence.”
+
+“Believe me, my dear sir, my gratitude is warmly excited by such
+affectionate attention; and, depend upon it, you will speedily receive
+from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of
+your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire. As for my fair cousins,
+though my absence may not be long enough to render it necessary, I shall
+now take the liberty of wishing them health and happiness, not excepting
+my cousin Elizabeth.”
+
+With proper civilities, the ladies then withdrew; all of them equally
+surprised to find that he meditated a quick return. Mrs. Bennet wished
+to understand by it that he thought of paying his addresses to one of
+her younger girls, and Mary might have been prevailed on to accept him.
+She rated his abilities much higher than any of the others: there was a
+solidity in his reflections which often struck her; and though by no
+means so clever as herself, she thought that, if encouraged to read and
+improve himself by such an example as hers, he might become a very
+agreeable companion. But on the following morning every hope of this
+kind was done away. Miss Lucas called soon after breakfast, and in a
+private conference with Elizabeth related the event of the day before.
+
+The possibility of Mr. Collins’s fancying himself in love with her
+friend had once occurred to Elizabeth within the last day or two: but
+that Charlotte could encourage him seemed almost as far from possibility
+as that she could encourage him herself; and her astonishment was
+consequently so great as to overcome at first the bounds of decorum, and
+she could not help crying out,--
+
+“Engaged to Mr. Collins! my dear Charlotte, impossible!”
+
+The steady countenance which Miss Lucas had commanded in telling her
+story gave way to a momentary confusion here on receiving so direct a
+reproach; though, as it was no more than she expected, she soon regained
+her composure, and calmly replied,--
+
+“Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza? Do you think it incredible
+that Mr. Collins should be able to procure any woman’s good opinion,
+because he was not so happy as to succeed with you?”
+
+But Elizabeth had now recollected herself; and, making a strong effort
+for it, was able to assure her, with tolerable firmness, that the
+prospect of their relationship was highly grateful to her, and that she
+wished her all imaginable happiness.
+
+“I see what you are feeling,” replied Charlotte; “you must be surprised,
+very much surprised, so lately as Mr. Collins was wishing to marry you.
+But when you have had time to think it all over, I hope you will be
+satisfied with what I have done. I am not romantic, you know. I never
+was. I ask only a comfortable home; and, considering Mr. Collins’s
+character, connections, and situation in life, I am convinced that my
+chance of happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on
+entering the marriage state.”
+
+Elizabeth quietly answered “undoubtedly;” and, after an awkward pause,
+they returned to the rest of the family. Charlotte did not stay much
+longer; and Elizabeth was then left to reflect on what she had heard. It
+was a long time before she became at all reconciled to the idea of so
+unsuitable a match. The strangeness of Mr. Collins’s making two offers
+of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now
+accepted. She had always felt that Charlotte’s opinion of matrimony was
+not exactly like her own; but she could not have supposed it possible
+that, when called into action, she would have sacrificed every better
+feeling to worldly advantage. Charlotte, the wife of Mr. Collins, was a
+most humiliating picture! And to the pang of a friend disgracing
+herself, and sunk in her esteem, was added the distressing conviction
+that it was impossible for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot
+she had chosen.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Protested he must be entirely mistaken.”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters, reflecting on what
+she had heard, and doubting whether she was authorized to mention it,
+when Sir William Lucas himself appeared, sent by his daughter to
+announce her engagement to the family. With many compliments to them,
+and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the
+houses, he unfolded the matter,--to an audience not merely wondering,
+but incredulous; for Mrs. Bennet, with more perseverance than
+politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always
+unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed,--
+
+“Good Lord! Sir William, how can you tell such a story? Do not you know
+that Mr. Collins wants to marry Lizzy?”
+
+Nothing less than the complaisance of a courtier could have borne
+without anger such treatment: but Sir William’s good-breeding carried
+him through it all; and though he begged leave to be positive as to the
+truth of his information, he listened to all their impertinence with the
+most forbearing courtesy.
+
+Elizabeth, feeling it incumbent on her to relieve him from so unpleasant
+a situation, now put herself forward to confirm his account, by
+mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself; and
+endeavoured to put a stop to the exclamations of her mother and sisters,
+by the earnestness of her congratulations to Sir William, in which she
+was readily joined by Jane, and by making a variety of remarks on the
+happiness that might be expected from the match, the excellent character
+of Mr. Collins, and the convenient distance of Hunsford from London.
+
+Mrs. Bennet was, in fact, too much overpowered to say a great deal while
+Sir William remained; but no sooner had he left them than her feelings
+found a rapid vent. In the first place, she persisted in disbelieving
+the whole of the matter; secondly, she was very sure that Mr. Collins
+had been taken in; thirdly, she trusted that they would never be happy
+together; and, fourthly, that the match might be broken off. Two
+inferences, however, were plainly deduced from the whole: one, that
+Elizabeth was the real cause of all the mischief; and the other, that
+she herself had been barbarously used by them all; and on these two
+points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day. Nothing could
+console and nothing appease her. Nor did that day wear out her
+resentment. A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without
+scolding her: a month passed away before she could speak to Sir William
+or Lady Lucas without being rude; and many months were gone before she
+could at all forgive their daughter.
+
+Mr. Bennet’s emotions were much more tranquil on the occasion, and such
+as he did experience he pronounced to be of a most agreeable sort; for
+it gratified him, he said, to discover that Charlotte Lucas, whom he had
+been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and
+more foolish than his daughter!
+
+Jane confessed herself a little surprised at the match: but she said
+less of her astonishment than of her earnest desire for their happiness;
+nor could Elizabeth persuade her to consider it as improbable. Kitty and
+Lydia were far from envying Miss Lucas, for Mr. Collins was only a
+clergyman; and it affected them in no other way than as a piece of news
+to spread at Meryton.
+
+Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort on
+Mrs. Bennet the comfort of having a daughter well married; and she
+called at Longbourn rather oftener than usual to say how happy she was,
+though Mrs. Bennet’s sour looks and ill-natured remarks might have been
+enough to drive happiness away.
+
+Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them
+mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no
+real confidence could ever subsist between them again. Her
+disappointment in Charlotte made her turn with fonder regard to her
+sister, of whose rectitude and delicacy she was sure her opinion could
+never be shaken, and for whose happiness she grew daily more anxious, as
+Bingley had now been gone a week, and nothing was heard of his return.
+
+Jane had sent Caroline an early answer to her letter, and was counting
+the days till she might reasonably hope to hear again. The promised
+letter of thanks from Mr. Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their
+father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a
+twelve-month’s abode in the family might have prompted. After
+discharging his conscience on that head, he proceeded to inform them,
+with many rapturous expressions, of his happiness in having obtained the
+affection of their amiable neighbour, Miss Lucas, and then explained
+that it was merely with the view of enjoying her society that he had
+been so ready to close with their kind wish of seeing him again at
+Longbourn, whither he hoped to be able to return on Monday fortnight;
+for Lady Catherine, he added, so heartily approved his marriage, that
+she wished it to take place as soon as possible, which he trusted would
+be an unanswerable argument with his amiable Charlotte to name an early
+day for making him the happiest of men.
+
+Mr. Collins’s return into Hertfordshire was no longer a matter of
+pleasure to Mrs. Bennet. On the contrary, she was as much disposed to
+complain of it as her husband. It was very strange that he should come
+to Longbourn instead of to Lucas Lodge; it was also very inconvenient
+and exceedingly troublesome. She hated having visitors in the house
+while her health was so indifferent, and lovers were of all people the
+most disagreeable. Such were the gentle murmurs of Mrs. Bennet, and they
+gave way only to the greater distress of Mr. Bingley’s continued
+absence.
+
+Neither Jane nor Elizabeth were comfortable on this subject. Day after
+day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the
+report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to
+Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed Mrs.
+Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous
+falsehood.
+
+Even Elizabeth began to fear--not that Bingley was indifferent--but that
+his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she
+was to admit an idea so destructive to Jane’s happiness, and so
+dishonourable to the stability of her lover, she could not prevent its
+frequently recurring. The united efforts of his two unfeeling sisters,
+and of his overpowering friend, assisted by the attractions of Miss
+Darcy and the amusements of London, might be too much, she feared, for
+the strength of his attachment.
+
+As for Jane, _her_ anxiety under this suspense was, of course, more
+painful than Elizabeth’s: but whatever she felt she was desirous of
+concealing; and between herself and Elizabeth, therefore, the subject
+was never alluded to. But as no such delicacy restrained her mother, an
+hour seldom passed in which she did not talk of Bingley, express her
+impatience for his arrival, or even require Jane to confess that if he
+did not come back she should think herself very ill-used. It needed all
+Jane’s steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable
+tranquillity.
+
+Mr. Collins returned most punctually on the Monday fortnight, but his
+reception at Longbourn was not quite so gracious as it had been on his
+first introduction. He was too happy, however, to need much attention;
+and, luckily for the others, the business of love-making relieved them
+from a great deal of his company. The chief of every day was spent by
+him at Lucas Lodge, and he sometimes returned to Longbourn only in time
+to make an apology for his absence before the family went to bed.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “_Whenever she spoke in a low voice_”
+]
+
+Mrs. Bennet was really in a most pitiable state. The very mention of
+anything concerning the match threw her into an agony of ill-humour, and
+wherever she went she was sure of hearing it talked of. The sight of
+Miss Lucas was odious to her. As her successor in that house, she
+regarded her with jealous abhorrence. Whenever Charlotte came to see
+them, she concluded her to be anticipating the hour of possession; and
+whenever she spoke in a low voice to Mr. Collins, was convinced that
+they were talking of the Longbourn estate, and resolving to turn herself
+and her daughters out of the house as soon as Mr. Bennet was dead. She
+complained bitterly of all this to her husband.
+
+“Indeed, Mr. Bennet,” said she, “it is very hard to think that Charlotte
+Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that _I_ should be forced
+to make way for _her_, and live to see her take my place in it!”
+
+“My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for
+better things. Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.”
+
+This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet; and, therefore, instead of
+making any answer, she went on as before.
+
+“I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was
+not for the entail, I should not mind it.”
+
+“What should not you mind?”
+
+“I should not mind anything at all.”
+
+“Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such
+insensibility.”
+
+“I never can be thankful, Mr. Bennet, for anything about the entail. How
+anyone could have the conscience to entail away an estate from one’s own
+daughters I cannot understand; and all for the sake of Mr. Collins, too!
+Why should _he_ have it more than anybody else?”
+
+“I leave it to yourself to determine,” said Mr. Bennet.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Miss Bingley’s letter arrived, and put an end to doubt. The very first
+sentence conveyed the assurance of their being all settled in London for
+the winter, and concluded with her brother’s regret at not having had
+time to pay his respects to his friends in Hertfordshire before he left
+the country.
+
+Hope was over, entirely over; and when Jane could attend to the rest of
+the letter, she found little, except the professed affection of the
+writer, that could give her any comfort. Miss Darcy’s praise occupied
+the chief of it. Her many attractions were again dwelt on; and Caroline
+boasted joyfully of their increasing intimacy, and ventured to predict
+the accomplishment of the wishes which had been unfolded in her former
+letter. She wrote also with great pleasure of her brother’s being an
+inmate of Mr. Darcy’s house, and mentioned with raptures some plans of
+the latter with regard to new furniture.
+
+Elizabeth, to whom Jane very soon communicated the chief of all this,
+heard it in silent indignation. Her heart was divided between concern
+for her sister and resentment against all others. To Caroline’s
+assertion of her brother’s being partial to Miss Darcy, she paid no
+credit. That he was really fond of Jane, she doubted no more than she
+had ever done; and much as she had always been disposed to like him, she
+could not think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that easiness
+of temper, that want of proper resolution, which now made him the slave
+of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice his own happiness to
+the caprice of their inclinations. Had his own happiness, however, been
+the only sacrifice, he might have been allowed to sport with it in
+whatever manner he thought best; but her sister’s was involved in it, as
+she thought he must be sensible himself. It was a subject, in short, on
+which reflection would be long indulged, and must be unavailing. She
+could think of nothing else; and yet, whether Bingley’s regard had
+really died away, or were suppressed by his friends’ interference;
+whether he had been aware of Jane’s attachment, or whether it had
+escaped his observation; whichever were the case, though her opinion of
+him must be materially affected by the difference, her sister’s
+situation remained the same, her peace equally wounded.
+
+A day or two passed before Jane had courage to speak of her feelings to
+Elizabeth; but at last, on Mrs. Bennet’s leaving them together, after a
+longer irritation than usual about Netherfield and its master, she could
+not help saying,--
+
+“O that my dear mother had more command over herself! she can have no
+idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him. But I
+will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall
+all be as we were before.”
+
+Elizabeth looked at her sister with incredulous solicitude, but said
+nothing.
+
+“You doubt me,” cried Jane, slightly colouring; “indeed, you have no
+reason. He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my
+acquaintance but that is all. I have nothing either to hope or fear, and
+nothing to reproach him with. Thank God I have not _that_ pain. A little
+time, therefore--I shall certainly try to get the better----”
+
+With a stronger voice she soon added, “I have this comfort immediately,
+that it has not been more than an error of fancy on my side, and that it
+has done no harm to anyone but myself.”
+
+“My dear Jane,” exclaimed Elizabeth, “you are too good. Your sweetness
+and disinterestedness are really angelic; I do not know what to say to
+you. I feel as if I had never done you justice, or loved you as you
+deserve.”
+
+Miss Bennet eagerly disclaimed all extraordinary merit, and threw back
+the praise on her sister’s warm affection.
+
+“Nay,” said Elizabeth, “this is not fair. _You_ wish to think all the
+world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. _I_ only want
+to think _you_ perfect, and you set yourself against it. Do not be
+afraid of my running into any excess, of my encroaching on your
+privilege of universal good-will. You need not. There are few people
+whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see
+of the world the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms
+my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the
+little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit
+or sense. I have met with two instances lately: one I will not mention,
+the other is Charlotte’s marriage. It is unaccountable! in every view it
+is unaccountable!”
+
+“My dear Lizzy, do not give way to such feelings as these. They will
+ruin your happiness. You do not make allowance enough for difference of
+situation and temper. Consider Mr. Collins’s respectability, and
+Charlotte’s prudent, steady character. Remember that she is one of a
+large family; that as to fortune it is a most eligible match; and be
+ready to believe, for everybody’s sake, that she may feel something like
+regard and esteem for our cousin.”
+
+“To oblige you, I would try to believe almost anything, but no one else
+could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that
+Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her
+understanding than I now do of her heart. My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a
+conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man: you know he is, as well as
+I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who marries him
+cannot have a proper way of thinking. You shall not defend her, though
+it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual,
+change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade
+yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of
+danger security for happiness.”
+
+“I must think your language too strong in speaking of both,” replied
+Jane; “and I hope you will be convinced of it, by seeing them happy
+together. But enough of this. You alluded to something else. You
+mentioned _two_ instances. I cannot misunderstand you, but I entreat
+you, dear Lizzy, not to pain me by thinking _that person_ to blame, and
+saying your opinion of him is sunk. We must not be so ready to fancy
+ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man
+to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but
+our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than
+it does.”
+
+“And men take care that they should.”
+
+“If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea
+of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.”
+
+“I am far from attributing any part of Mr. Bingley’s conduct to design,”
+said Elizabeth; “but, without scheming to do wrong, or to make others
+unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness,
+want of attention to other people’s feelings, and want of resolution,
+will do the business.”
+
+“And do you impute it to either of those?”
+
+“Yes; to the last. But if I go on I shall displease you by saying what I
+think of persons you esteem. Stop me, whilst you can.”
+
+“You persist, then, in supposing his sisters influence him?”
+
+“Yes, in conjunction with his friend.”
+
+“I cannot believe it. Why should they try to influence him? They can
+only wish his happiness; and if he is attached to me no other woman can
+secure it.”
+
+“Your first position is false. They may wish many things besides his
+happiness: they may wish his increase of wealth and consequence; they
+may wish him to marry a girl who has all the importance of money, great
+connections, and pride.”
+
+“Beyond a doubt they do wish him to choose Miss Darcy,” replied Jane;
+“but this may be from better feelings than you are supposing. They have
+known her much longer than they have known me; no wonder if they love
+her better. But, whatever may be their own wishes, it is very unlikely
+they should have opposed their brother’s. What sister would think
+herself at liberty to do it, unless there were something very
+objectionable? If they believed him attached to me they would not try to
+part us; if he were so, they could not succeed. By supposing such an
+affection, you make everybody acting unnaturally and wrong, and me most
+unhappy. Do not distress me by the idea. I am not ashamed of having been
+mistaken--or, at least, it is slight, it is nothing in comparison of
+what I should feel in thinking ill of him or his sisters. Let me take it
+in the best light, in the light in which it may be understood.”
+
+Elizabeth could not oppose such a wish; and from this time Mr. Bingley’s
+name was scarcely ever mentioned between them.
+
+Mrs. Bennet still continued to wonder and repine at his returning no
+more; and though a day seldom passed in which Elizabeth did not account
+for it clearly, there seemed little chance of her ever considering it
+with less perplexity. Her daughter endeavoured to convince her of what
+she did not believe herself, that his attentions to Jane had been merely
+the effect of a common and transient liking, which ceased when he saw
+her no more; but though the probability of the statement was admitted at
+the time, she had the same story to repeat every day. Mrs. Bennet’s best
+comfort was, that Mr. Bingley must be down again in the summer.
+
+Mr. Bennet treated the matter differently. “So, Lizzy,” said he, one
+day, “your sister is crossed in love, I find. I congratulate her. Next
+to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and
+then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction
+among her companions. When is your turn to come? You will hardly bear to
+be long outdone by Jane. Now is your time. Here are officers enough at
+Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country. Let Wickham
+be your man. He is a pleasant fellow, and would jilt you creditably.”
+
+“Thank you, sir, but a less agreeable man would satisfy me. We must not
+all expect Jane’s good fortune.”
+
+“True,” said Mr. Bennet; “but it is a comfort to think that, whatever of
+that kind may befall you, you have an affectionate mother who will
+always make the most of it.”
+
+Mr. Wickham’s society was of material service in dispelling the gloom
+which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of the Longbourn
+family. They saw him often, and to his other recommendations was now
+added that of general unreserve. The whole of what Elizabeth had already
+heard, his claims on Mr. Darcy, and all that he had suffered from him,
+was now openly acknowledged and publicly canvassed; and everybody was
+pleased to think how much they had always disliked Mr. Darcy before they
+had known anything of the matter.
+
+Miss Bennet was the only creature who could suppose there might be any
+extenuating circumstances in the case unknown to the society of
+Hertfordshire: her mild and steady candour always pleaded for
+allowances, and urged the possibility of mistakes; but by everybody else
+Mr. Darcy was condemned as the worst of men.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr.
+Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of
+Saturday. The pain of separation, however, might be alleviated on his
+side by preparations for the reception of his bride, as he had reason to
+hope, that shortly after his next return into Hertfordshire, the day
+would be fixed that was to make him the happiest of men. He took leave
+of his relations at Longbourn with as much solemnity as before; wished
+his fair cousins health and happiness again, and promised their father
+another letter of thanks.
+
+On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her
+brother and his wife, who came, as usual, to spend the Christmas at
+Longbourn. Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly
+superior to his sister, as well by nature as education. The Netherfield
+ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by
+trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so
+well-bred and agreeable. Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger
+than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Philips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant
+woman, and a great favourite with her Longbourn nieces. Between the two
+eldest and herself especially, there subsisted a very particular regard.
+They had frequently been staying with her in town.
+
+The first part of Mrs. Gardiner’s business, on her arrival, was to
+distribute her presents and describe the newest fashions. When this was
+done, she had a less active part to play. It became her turn to listen.
+Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of. They
+had all been very ill-used since she last saw her sister. Two of her
+girls had been on the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing
+in it.
+
+“I do not blame Jane,” she continued, “for Jane would have got Mr.
+Bingley if she could. But, Lizzy! Oh, sister! it is very hard to think
+that she might have been Mr. Collins’s wife by this time, had not it
+been for her own perverseness. He made her an offer in this very room,
+and she refused him. The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have
+a daughter married before I have, and that Longbourn estate is just as
+much entailed as ever. The Lucases are very artful people, indeed,
+sister. They are all for what they can get. I am sorry to say it of
+them, but so it is. It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted
+so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves
+before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the
+greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us of
+long sleeves.”
+
+Mrs. Gardiner, to whom the chief of this news had been given before, in
+the course of Jane and Elizabeth’s correspondence with her, made her
+sister a slight answer, and, in compassion to her nieces, turned the
+conversation.
+
+When alone with Elizabeth afterwards, she spoke more on the subject.
+“It seems likely to have been a desirable match for Jane,” said she. “I
+am sorry it went off. But these things happen so often! A young man,
+such as you describe Mr. Bingley, so easily falls in love with a pretty
+girl for a few weeks, and, when accident separates them, so easily
+forgets her, that these sort of inconstancies are very frequent.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Offended two or three young ladies”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+“An excellent consolation in its way,” said Elizabeth; “but it will not
+do for _us_. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen
+that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of
+independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in
+love with only a few days before.”
+
+“But that expression of ‘violently in love’ is so hackneyed, so
+doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as
+often applied to feelings which arise only from a half hour’s
+acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pray, how _violent was_
+Mr. Bingley’s love?”
+
+“I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite
+inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time
+they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he
+offended two or three young ladies by not asking them to dance; and I
+spoke to him twice myself without receiving an answer. Could there be
+finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
+
+“Oh, yes! of that kind of love which I suppose him to have felt. Poor
+Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get
+over it immediately. It had better have happened to _you_, Lizzy; you
+would have laughed yourself out of it sooner. But do you think she would
+be prevailed on to go back with us? Change of scene might be of
+service--and perhaps a little relief from home may be as useful as
+anything.”
+
+Elizabeth was exceedingly pleased with this proposal, and felt persuaded
+of her sister’s ready acquiescence.
+
+“I hope,” added Mrs. Gardiner, “that no consideration with regard to
+this young man will influence her. We live in so different a part of
+town, all our connections are so different, and, as you well know, we go
+out so little, that it is very improbable they should meet at all,
+unless he really comes to see her.”
+
+“And _that_ is quite impossible; for he is now in the custody of his
+friend, and Mr. Darcy would no more suffer him to call on Jane in such a
+part of London! My dear aunt, how could you think of it? Mr. Darcy may,
+perhaps, have _heard_ of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he
+would hardly think a month’s ablution enough to cleanse him from its
+impurities, were he once to enter it; and, depend upon it, Mr. Bingley
+never stirs without him.”
+
+“So much the better. I hope they will not meet at all. But does not Jane
+correspond with his sister? _She_ will not be able to help calling.”
+
+“She will drop the acquaintance entirely.”
+
+But, in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this
+point, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley’s being
+withheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject which
+convinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirely
+hopeless. It was possible, and sometimes she thought it probable, that
+his affection might be re-animated, and the influence of his friends
+successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane’s
+attractions.
+
+Miss Bennet accepted her aunt’s invitation with pleasure; and the
+Bingleys were no otherwise in her thoughts at the same time than as she
+hoped, by Caroline’s not living in the same house with her brother, she
+might occasionally spend a morning with her, without any danger of
+seeing him.
+
+The Gardiners stayed a week at Longbourn; and what with the Philipses,
+the Lucases, and the officers, there was not a day without its
+engagement. Mrs. Bennet had so carefully provided for the entertainment
+of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family
+dinner. When the engagement was for home, some of the officers always
+made part of it, of which officers Mr. Wickham was sure to be one; and
+on these occasions Mrs. Gardiner, rendered suspicious by Elizabeth’s
+warm commendation of him, narrowly observed them both. Without supposing
+them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference
+of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she
+resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left
+Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such
+an attachment.
+
+To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure,
+unconnected with his general powers. About ten or a dozen years ago,
+before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part
+of Derbyshire to which he belonged. They had, therefore, many
+acquaintance in common; and, though Wickham had been little there since
+the death of Darcy’s father, five years before, it was yet in his power
+to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been
+in the way of procuring.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner had seen Pemberley, and known the late Mr. Darcy by
+character perfectly well. Here, consequently, was an inexhaustible
+subject of discourse. In comparing her recollection of Pemberley with
+the minute description which Wickham could give, and in bestowing her
+tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor, she was
+delighting both him and herself. On being made acquainted with the
+present Mr. Darcy’s treatment of him, she tried to remember something of
+that gentleman’s reputed disposition, when quite a lad, which might
+agree with it; and was confident, at last, that she recollected having
+heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud,
+ill-natured boy.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Will you come and see me?”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mrs. Gardiner’s caution to Elizabeth was punctually and kindly given on
+the first favourable opportunity of speaking to her alone: after
+honestly telling her what she thought, she thus went on:--
+
+“You are too sensible a girl, Lizzy, to fall in love merely because you
+are warned against it; and, therefore, I am not afraid of speaking
+openly. Seriously, I would have you be on your guard. Do not involve
+yourself, or endeavour to involve him, in an affection which the want of
+fortune would make so very imprudent. I have nothing to say against
+_him_: he is a most interesting young man; and if he had the fortune he
+ought to have, I should think you could not do better. But as it is--you
+must not let your fancy run away with you. You have sense, and we all
+expect you to use it. Your father would depend on _your_ resolution and
+good conduct, I am sure. You must not disappoint your father.”
+
+“My dear aunt, this is being serious indeed.”
+
+“Yes, and I hope to engage you to be serious likewise.”
+
+“Well, then, you need not be under any alarm. I will take care of
+myself, and of Mr. Wickham too. He shall not be in love with me, if I
+can prevent it.”
+
+“Elizabeth, you are not serious now.”
+
+“I beg your pardon. I will try again. At present I am not in love with
+Mr. Wickham; no, I certainly am not. But he is, beyond all comparison,
+the most agreeable man I ever saw--and if he becomes really attached to
+me--I believe it will be better that he should not. I see the imprudence
+of it. Oh, _that_ abominable Mr. Darcy! My father’s opinion of me does
+me the greatest honour; and I should be miserable to forfeit it. My
+father, however, is partial to Mr. Wickham. In short, my dear aunt, I
+should be very sorry to be the means of making any of you unhappy; but
+since we see, every day, that where there is affection young people are
+seldom withheld, by immediate want of fortune, from entering into
+engagements with each other, how can I promise to be wiser than so many
+of my fellow-creatures, if I am tempted, or how am I even to know that
+it would be wiser to resist? All that I can promise you, therefore, is
+not to be in a hurry. I will not be in a hurry to believe myself his
+first object. When I am in company with him, I will not be wishing. In
+short, I will do my best.”
+
+“Perhaps it will be as well if you discourage his coming here so very
+often. At least you should not _remind_ your mother of inviting him.”
+
+“As I did the other day,” said Elizabeth, with a conscious smile; “very
+true, it will be wise in me to refrain from _that_. But do not imagine
+that he is always here so often. It is on your account that he has been
+so frequently invited this week. You know my mother’s ideas as to the
+necessity of constant company for her friends. But really, and upon my
+honour, I will try to do what I think to be wisest; and now I hope you
+are satisfied.”
+
+Her aunt assured her that she was; and Elizabeth, having thanked her for
+the kindness of her hints, they parted,--a wonderful instance of advice
+being given on such a point without being resented.
+
+Mr. Collins returned into Hertfordshire soon after it had been quitted
+by the Gardiners and Jane; but, as he took up his abode with the
+Lucases, his arrival was no great inconvenience to Mrs. Bennet. His
+marriage was now fast approaching; and she was at length so far resigned
+as to think it inevitable, and even repeatedly to say, in an ill-natured
+tone, that she “_wished_ they might be happy.” Thursday was to be the
+wedding-day, and on Wednesday Miss Lucas paid her farewell visit; and
+when she rose to take leave, Elizabeth, ashamed of her mother’s
+ungracious and reluctant good wishes, and sincerely affected herself,
+accompanied her out of the room. As they went down stairs together,
+Charlotte said,--
+
+“I shall depend on hearing from you very often, Eliza.”
+
+“_That_ you certainly shall.”
+
+“And I have another favour to ask. Will you come and see me?”
+
+“We shall often meet, I hope, in Hertfordshire.”
+
+“I am not likely to leave Kent for some time. Promise me, therefore, to
+come to Hunsford.”
+
+Elizabeth could not refuse, though she foresaw little pleasure in the
+visit.
+
+“My father and Maria are to come to me in March,” added Charlotte, “and
+I hope you will consent to be of the party. Indeed, Eliza, you will be
+as welcome to me as either of them.”
+
+The wedding took place: the bride and bridegroom set off for Kent from
+the church door, and everybody had as much to say or to hear on the
+subject as usual. Elizabeth soon heard from her friend, and their
+correspondence was as regular and frequent as it ever had been: that it
+should be equally unreserved was impossible. Elizabeth could never
+address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over;
+and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the
+sake of what had been rather than what was. Charlotte’s first letters
+were received with a good deal of eagerness: there could not but be
+curiosity to know how she would speak of her new home, how she would
+like Lady Catherine, and how happy she would dare pronounce herself to
+be; though, when the letters were read, Elizabeth felt that Charlotte
+expressed herself on every point exactly as she might have foreseen. She
+wrote cheerfully, seemed surrounded with comforts, and mentioned nothing
+which she could not praise. The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and
+roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine’s behaviour was most
+friendly and obliging. It was Mr. Collins’s picture of Hunsford and
+Rosings rationally softened; and Elizabeth perceived that she must wait
+for her own visit there, to know the rest.
+
+Jane had already written a few lines to her sister, to announce their
+safe arrival in London; and when she wrote again, Elizabeth hoped it
+would be in her power to say something of the Bingleys.
+
+Her impatience for this second letter was as well rewarded as impatience
+generally is. Jane had been a week in town, without either seeing or
+hearing from Caroline. She accounted for it, however, by supposing that
+her last letter to her friend from Longbourn had by some accident been
+lost.
+
+“My aunt,” she continued, “is going to-morrow into that part of the
+town, and I shall take the opportunity of calling in Grosvenor Street.”
+
+She wrote again when the visit was paid, and she had seen Miss Bingley.
+“I did not think Caroline in spirits,” were her words, “but she was very
+glad to see me, and reproached me for giving her no notice of my coming
+to London. I was right, therefore; my last letter had never reached her.
+I inquired after their brother, of course. He was well, but so much
+engaged with Mr. Darcy that they scarcely ever saw him. I found that
+Miss Darcy was expected to dinner: I wish I could see her. My visit was
+not long, as Caroline and Mrs. Hurst were going out. I dare say I shall
+soon see them here.”
+
+Elizabeth shook her head over this letter. It convinced her that
+accident only could discover to Mr. Bingley her sister’s being in town.
+
+Four weeks passed away, and Jane saw nothing of him. She endeavoured to
+persuade herself that she did not regret it; but she could no longer be
+blind to Miss Bingley’s inattention. After waiting at home every morning
+for a fortnight, and inventing every evening a fresh excuse for her, the
+visitor did at last appear; but the shortness of her stay, and, yet
+more, the alteration of her manner, would allow Jane to deceive herself
+no longer. The letter which she wrote on this occasion to her sister
+will prove what she felt:--
+
+     “My dearest Lizzy will, I am sure, be incapable of triumphing in
+     her better judgment, at my expense, when I confess myself to have
+     been entirely deceived in Miss Bingley’s regard for me. But, my
+     dear sister, though the event has proved you right, do not think me
+     obstinate if I still assert that, considering what her behaviour
+     was, my confidence was as natural as your suspicion. I do not at
+     all comprehend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but,
+     if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should
+     be deceived again. Caroline did not return my visit till yesterday;
+     and not a note, not a line, did I receive in the meantime. When she
+     did come, it was very evident that she had no pleasure in it; she
+     made a slight, formal apology for not calling before, said not a
+     word of wishing to see me again, and was, in every respect, so
+     altered a creature, that when she went away I was perfectly
+     resolved to continue the acquaintance no longer. I pity, though I
+     cannot help blaming, her. She was very wrong in singling me out as
+     she did; I can safely say, that every advance to intimacy began on
+     her side. But I pity her, because she must feel that she has been
+     acting wrong, and because I am very sure that anxiety for her
+     brother is the cause of it. I need not explain myself farther; and
+     though _we_ know this anxiety to be quite needless, yet if she
+     feels it, it will easily account for her behaviour to me; and so
+     deservedly dear as he is to his sister, whatever anxiety she may
+     feel on his behalf is natural and amiable. I cannot but wonder,
+     however, at her having any such fears now, because if he had at all
+     cared about me, we must have met long, long ago. He knows of my
+     being in town, I am certain, from something she said herself; and
+     yet it would seem, by her manner of talking, as if she wanted to
+     persuade herself that he is really partial to Miss Darcy. I cannot
+     understand it. If I were not afraid of judging harshly, I should be
+     almost tempted to say, that there is a strong appearance of
+     duplicity in all this. I will endeavour to banish every painful
+     thought, and think only of what will make me happy, your affection,
+     and the invariable kindness of my dear uncle and aunt. Let me hear
+     from you very soon. Miss Bingley said something of his never
+     returning to Netherfield again, of giving up the house, but not
+     with any certainty. We had better not mention it. I am extremely
+     glad that you have such pleasant accounts from our friends at
+     Hunsford. Pray go to see them, with Sir William and Maria. I am
+     sure you will be very comfortable there.
+
+“Yours, etc.”
+
+This letter gave Elizabeth some pain; but her spirits returned, as she
+considered that Jane would no longer be duped, by the sister at least.
+All expectation from the brother was now absolutely over. She would not
+even wish for any renewal of his attentions. His character sunk on every
+review of it; and, as a punishment for him, as well as a possible
+advantage to Jane, she seriously hoped he might really soon marry Mr.
+Darcy’s sister, as, by Wickham’s account, she would make him abundantly
+regret what he had thrown away.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner about this time reminded Elizabeth of her promise
+concerning that gentleman, and required information; and Elizabeth had
+such to send as might rather give contentment to her aunt than to
+herself. His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over,
+he was the admirer of some one else. Elizabeth was watchful enough to
+see it all, but she could see it and write of it without material pain.
+Her heart had been but slightly touched, and her vanity was satisfied
+with believing that _she_ would have been his only choice, had fortune
+permitted it. The sudden acquisition of ten thousand pounds was the most
+remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now rendering himself
+agreeable; but Elizabeth, less clear-sighted perhaps in this case than
+in Charlotte’s, did not quarrel with him for his wish of independence.
+Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and, while able to
+suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was
+ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very
+sincerely wish him happy.
+
+All this was acknowledged to Mrs. Gardiner; and, after relating the
+circumstances, she thus went on:--“I am now convinced, my dear aunt,
+that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that
+pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name,
+and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial
+towards _him_, they are even impartial towards Miss King. I cannot find
+out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think
+her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this. My
+watchfulness has been effectual; and though I should certainly be a more
+interesting object to all my acquaintance, were I distractedly in love
+with him, I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance.
+Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly. Kitty and Lydia take
+his defection much more to heart than I do. They are young in the ways
+of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that
+handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the
+plain.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “On the Stairs”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family, and otherwise
+diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and
+sometimes cold, did January and February pass away. March was to take
+Elizabeth to Hunsford. She had not at first thought very seriously of
+going thither; but Charlotte, she soon found, was depending on the
+plan, and she gradually learned to consider it herself with greater
+pleasure as well as greater certainty. Absence had increased her desire
+of seeing Charlotte again, and weakened her disgust of Mr. Collins.
+There was novelty in the scheme; and as, with such a mother and such
+uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change
+was not unwelcome for its own sake. The journey would, moreover, give
+her a peep at Jane; and, in short, as the time drew near, she would have
+been very sorry for any delay. Everything, however, went on smoothly,
+and was finally settled according to Charlotte’s first sketch. She was
+to accompany Sir William and his second daughter. The improvement of
+spending a night in London was added in time, and the plan became as
+perfect as plan could be.
+
+The only pain was in leaving her father, who would certainly miss her,
+and who, when it came to the point, so little liked her going, that he
+told her to write to him, and almost promised to answer her letter.
+
+The farewell between herself and Mr. Wickham was perfectly friendly; on
+his side even more. His present pursuit could not make him forget that
+Elizabeth had been the first to excite and to deserve his attention, the
+first to listen and to pity, the first to be admired; and in his manner
+of bidding her adieu, wishing her every enjoyment, reminding her of what
+she was to expect in Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and trusting their
+opinion of her--their opinion of everybody--would always coincide, there
+was a solicitude, an interest, which she felt must ever attach her to
+him with a most sincere regard; and she parted from him convinced, that,
+whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable
+and pleasing.
+
+Her fellow-travellers the next day were not of a kind to make her think
+him less agreeable. Sir William Lucas, and his daughter Maria, a
+good-humoured girl, but as empty-headed as himself, had nothing to say
+that could be worth hearing, and were listened to with about as much
+delight as the rattle of the chaise. Elizabeth loved absurdities, but
+she had known Sir William’s too long. He could tell her nothing new of
+the wonders of his presentation and knighthood; and his civilities were
+worn out, like his information.
+
+It was a journey of only twenty-four miles, and they began it so early
+as to be in Gracechurch Street by noon. As they drove to Mr. Gardiner’s
+door, Jane was at a drawing-room window watching their arrival: when
+they entered the passage, she was there to welcome them, and Elizabeth,
+looking earnestly in her face, was pleased to see it healthful and
+lovely as ever. On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls,
+whose eagerness for their cousin’s appearance would not allow them to
+wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her
+for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower. All was joy and
+kindness. The day passed most pleasantly away; the morning in bustle and
+shopping, and the evening at one of the theatres.
+
+Elizabeth then contrived to sit by her aunt. Their first subject was her
+sister; and she was more grieved than astonished to hear, in reply to
+her minute inquiries, that though Jane always struggled to support her
+spirits, there were periods of dejection. It was reasonable, however, to
+hope that they would not continue long. Mrs. Gardiner gave her the
+particulars also of Miss Bingley’s visit in Gracechurch Street, and
+repeated conversations occurring at different times between Jane and
+herself, which proved that the former had, from her heart, given up the
+acquaintance.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner then rallied her niece on Wickham’s desertion, and
+complimented her on bearing it so well.
+
+“But, my dear Elizabeth,” she added, “what sort of girl is Miss King? I
+should be sorry to think our friend mercenary.”
+
+“Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs,
+between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end,
+and avarice begin? Last Christmas you were afraid of his marrying me,
+because it would be imprudent; and now, because he is trying to get a
+girl with only ten thousand pounds, you want to find out that he is
+mercenary.”
+
+“If you will only tell me what sort of girl Miss King is, I shall know
+what to think.”
+
+“She is a very good kind of girl, I believe. I know no harm of her.”
+
+“But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather’s death
+made her mistress of this fortune?”
+
+“No--why should he? If it were not allowable for him to gain _my_
+affections, because I had no money, what occasion could there be for
+making love to a girl whom he did not care about, and who was equally
+poor?”
+
+“But there seems indelicacy in directing his attentions towards her so
+soon after this event.”
+
+“A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant
+decorums which other people may observe. If _she_ does not object to it,
+why should _we_?”
+
+“_Her_ not objecting does not justify _him_. It only shows her being
+deficient in something herself--sense or feeling.”
+
+“Well,” cried Elizabeth, “have it as you choose. _He_ shall be
+mercenary, and _she_ shall be foolish.”
+
+“No, Lizzy, that is what I do _not_ choose. I should be sorry, you know,
+to think ill of a young man who has lived so long in Derbyshire.”
+
+“Oh, if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in
+Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not
+much better. I am sick of them all. Thank heaven! I am going to-morrow
+where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has
+neither manners nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones
+worth knowing, after all.”
+
+“Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.”
+
+Before they were separated by the conclusion of the play, she had the
+unexpected happiness of an invitation to accompany her uncle and aunt in
+a tour of pleasure which they proposed taking in the summer.
+
+“We have not quite determined how far it shall carry us,” said Mrs.
+Gardiner; “but perhaps, to the Lakes.”
+
+No scheme could have been more agreeable to Elizabeth, and her
+acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful. “My dear, dear
+aunt,” she rapturously cried, “what delight! what felicity! You give me
+fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men
+to rocks and mountains? Oh, what hours of transport we shall spend! And
+when we _do_ return, it shall not be like other travellers, without
+being able to give one accurate idea of anything. We _will_ know where
+we have gone--we _will_ recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains,
+and rivers, shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when
+we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling
+about its relative situation. Let _our_ first effusions be less
+insupportable than those of the generality of travellers.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “At the door”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Every object in the next day’s journey was new and interesting to
+Elizabeth; and her spirits were in a state of enjoyment; for she had
+seen her sister looking so well as to banish all fear for her health,
+and the prospect of her northern tour was a constant source of delight.
+
+When they left the high road for the lane to Hunsford, every eye was in
+search of the Parsonage, and every turning expected to bring it in view.
+The paling of Rosings park was their boundary on one side. Elizabeth
+smiled at the recollection of all that she had heard of its inhabitants.
+
+At length the Parsonage was discernible. The garden sloping to the
+road, the house standing in it, the green pales and the laurel hedge,
+everything declared they were arriving. Mr. Collins and Charlotte
+appeared at the door, and the carriage stopped at the small gate, which
+led by a short gravel walk to the house, amidst the nods and smiles of
+the whole party. In a moment they were all out of the chaise, rejoicing
+at the sight of each other. Mrs. Collins welcomed her friend with the
+liveliest pleasure, and Elizabeth was more and more satisfied with
+coming, when she found herself so affectionately received. She saw
+instantly that her cousin’s manners were not altered by his marriage:
+his formal civility was just what it had been; and he detained her some
+minutes at the gate to hear and satisfy his inquiries after all her
+family. They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out the
+neatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as they were
+in the parlour, he welcomed them a second time, with ostentatious
+formality, to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife’s
+offers of refreshment.
+
+Elizabeth was prepared to see him in his glory; and she could not help
+fancying that in displaying the good proportion of the room, its aspect,
+and its furniture, he addressed himself particularly to her, as if
+wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him. But though
+everything seemed neat and comfortable, she was not able to gratify him
+by any sigh of repentance; and rather looked with wonder at her friend,
+that she could have so cheerful an air with such a companion. When Mr.
+Collins said anything of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed,
+which certainly was not seldom, she involuntarily turned her eye on
+Charlotte. Once or twice she could discern a faint blush; but in general
+Charlotte wisely did not hear. After sitting long enough to admire
+every article of furniture in the room, from the sideboard to the
+fender, to give an account of their journey, and of all that had
+happened in London, Mr. Collins invited them to take a stroll in the
+garden, which was large and well laid out, and to the cultivation of
+which he attended himself. To work in his garden was one of his most
+respectable pleasures; and Elizabeth admired the command of countenance
+with which Charlotte talked of the healthfulness of the exercise, and
+owned she encouraged it as much as possible. Here, leading the way
+through every walk and cross walk, and scarcely allowing them an
+interval to utter the praises he asked for, every view was pointed out
+with a minuteness which left beauty entirely behind. He could number the
+fields in every direction, and could tell how many trees there were in
+the most distant clump. But of all the views which his garden, or which
+the country or the kingdom could boast, none were to be compared with
+the prospect of Rosings, afforded by an opening in the trees that
+bordered the park nearly opposite the front of his house. It was a
+handsome modern building, well situated on rising ground.
+
+From his garden, Mr. Collins would have led them round his two meadows;
+but the ladies, not having shoes to encounter the remains of a white
+frost, turned back; and while Sir William accompanied him, Charlotte
+took her sister and friend over the house, extremely well pleased,
+probably, to have the opportunity of showing it without her husband’s
+help. It was rather small, but well built and convenient; and everything
+was fitted up and arranged with a neatness and consistency, of which
+Elizabeth gave Charlotte all the credit. When Mr. Collins could be
+forgotten, there was really a great air of comfort throughout, and by
+Charlotte’s evident enjoyment of it, Elizabeth supposed he must be often
+forgotten.
+
+She had already learnt that Lady Catherine was still in the country. It
+was spoken of again while they were at dinner, when Mr. Collins joining
+in, observed,--
+
+“Yes, Miss Elizabeth, you will have the honour of seeing Lady Catherine
+de Bourgh on the ensuing Sunday at church, and I need not say you will
+be delighted with her. She is all affability and condescension, and I
+doubt not but you will be honoured with some portion of her notice when
+service is over. I have scarcely any hesitation in saying that she will
+include you and my sister Maria in every invitation with which she
+honours us during your stay here. Her behaviour to my dear Charlotte is
+charming. We dine at Rosings twice every week, and are never allowed to
+walk home. Her Ladyship’s carriage is regularly ordered for us. I
+_should_ say, one of her Ladyship’s carriages, for she has several.”
+
+“Lady Catherine is a very respectable, sensible woman, indeed,” added
+Charlotte, “and a most attentive neighbour.”
+
+“Very true, my dear, that is exactly what I say. She is the sort of
+woman whom one cannot regard with too much deference.”
+
+The evening was spent chiefly in talking over Hertfordshire news, and
+telling again what had been already written; and when it closed,
+Elizabeth, in the solitude of her chamber, had to meditate upon
+Charlotte’s degree of contentment, to understand her address in guiding,
+and composure in bearing with, her husband, and to acknowledge that it
+was all done very well. She had also to anticipate how her visit would
+pass, the quiet tenour of their usual employments, the vexatious
+interruptions of Mr. Collins, and the gaieties of their intercourse
+with Rosings. A lively imagination soon settled it all.
+
+About the middle of the next day, as she was in her room getting ready
+for a walk, a sudden noise below seemed to speak the whole house in
+confusion; and, after listening a moment, she heard somebody running
+upstairs in a violent hurry, and calling loudly after her. She opened
+the door, and met Maria in the landing-place, who, breathless with
+agitation, cried out,--
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “In Conversation with the ladies”
+
+[Copyright 1894 by George Allen.]]
+
+“Oh, my dear Eliza! pray make haste and come into the dining-room, for
+there is such a sight to be seen! I will not tell you what it is. Make
+haste, and come down this moment.”
+
+Elizabeth asked questions in vain; Maria would tell her nothing more;
+and down they ran into the dining-room which fronted the lane, in quest
+of this wonder; it was two ladies, stopping in a low phaeton at the
+garden gate.
+
+“And is this all?” cried Elizabeth. “I expected at least that the pigs
+were got into the garden, and here is nothing but Lady Catherine and her
+daughter!”
+
+“La! my dear,” said Maria, quite shocked at the mistake, “it is not Lady
+Catherine. The old lady is Mrs. Jenkinson, who lives with them. The
+other is Miss De Bourgh. Only look at her. She is quite a little
+creature. Who would have thought she could be so thin and small!”
+
+“She is abominably rude to keep Charlotte out of doors in all this wind.
+Why does she not come in?”
+
+“Oh, Charlotte says she hardly ever does. It is the greatest of favours
+when Miss De Bourgh comes in.”
+
+“I like her appearance,” said Elizabeth, struck with other ideas. “She
+looks sickly and cross. Yes, she will do for him very well. She will
+make him a very proper wife.”
+
+Mr. Collins and Charlotte were both standing at the gate in conversation
+with the ladies; and Sir William, to Elizabeth’s high diversion, was
+stationed in the doorway, in earnest contemplation of the greatness
+before him, and constantly bowing whenever Miss De Bourgh looked that
+way.
+
+At length there was nothing more to be said; the ladies drove on, and
+the others returned into the house. Mr. Collins no sooner saw the two
+girls than he began to congratulate them on their good fortune, which
+Charlotte explained by letting them know that the whole party was asked
+to dine at Rosings the next day.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     ‘Lady Catherine, said she, you have given me a treasure.’
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. Collins’s triumph, in consequence of this invitation, was complete.
+The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering
+visitors, and of letting them see her civility towards himself and his
+wife, was exactly what he had wished for; and that an opportunity of
+doing it should be given so soon was such an instance of Lady
+Catherine’s condescension as he knew not how to admire enough.
+
+“I confess,” said he, “that I should not have been at all surprised by
+her Ladyship’s asking us on Sunday to drink tea and spend the evening
+at Rosings. I rather expected, from my knowledge of her affability, that
+it would happen. But who could have foreseen such an attention as this?
+Who could have imagined that we should receive an invitation to dine
+there (an invitation, moreover, including the whole party) so
+immediately after your arrival?”
+
+“I am the less surprised at what has happened,” replied Sir William,
+“from that knowledge of what the manners of the great really are, which
+my situation in life has allowed me to acquire. About the court, such
+instances of elegant breeding are not uncommon.”
+
+Scarcely anything was talked of the whole day or next morning but their
+visit to Rosings. Mr. Collins was carefully instructing them in what
+they were to expect, that the sight of such rooms, so many servants, and
+so splendid a dinner, might not wholly overpower them.
+
+When the ladies were separating for the toilette, he said to
+Elizabeth,--
+
+“Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel. Lady
+Catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us which
+becomes herself and daughter. I would advise you merely to put on
+whatever of your clothes is superior to the rest--there is no occasion
+for anything more. Lady Catherine will not think the worse of you for
+being simply dressed. She likes to have the distinction of rank
+preserved.”
+
+While they were dressing, he came two or three times to their different
+doors, to recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much
+objected to be kept waiting for her dinner. Such formidable accounts of
+her Ladyship, and her manner of living, quite frightened Maria Lucas,
+who had been little used to company; and she looked forward to her
+introduction at Rosings with as much apprehension as her father had done
+to his presentation at St. James’s.
+
+As the weather was fine, they had a pleasant walk of about half a mile
+across the park. Every park has its beauty and its prospects; and
+Elizabeth saw much to be pleased with, though she could not be in such
+raptures as Mr. Collins expected the scene to inspire, and was but
+slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the
+house, and his relation of what the glazing altogether had originally
+cost Sir Lewis de Bourgh.
+
+When they ascended the steps to the hall, Maria’s alarm was every moment
+increasing, and even Sir William did not look perfectly calm.
+Elizabeth’s courage did not fail her. She had heard nothing of Lady
+Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or
+miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money and rank she
+thought she could witness without trepidation.
+
+From the entrance hall, of which Mr. Collins pointed out, with a
+rapturous air, the fine proportion and finished ornaments, they followed
+the servants through an antechamber to the room where Lady Catherine,
+her daughter, and Mrs. Jenkinson were sitting. Her Ladyship, with great
+condescension, arose to receive them; and as Mrs. Collins had settled it
+with her husband that the office of introduction should be hers, it was
+performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks
+which he would have thought necessary.
+
+In spite of having been at St. James’s, Sir William was so completely
+awed by the grandeur surrounding him, that he had but just courage
+enough to make a very low bow, and take his seat without saying a word;
+and his daughter, frightened almost out of her senses, sat on the edge
+of her chair, not knowing which way to look. Elizabeth found herself
+quite equal to the scene, and could observe the three ladies before her
+composedly. Lady Catherine was a tall, large woman, with strongly-marked
+features, which might once have been handsome. Her air was not
+conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her
+visitors forget their inferior rank. She was not rendered formidable by
+silence: but whatever she said was spoken in so authoritative a tone as
+marked her self-importance, and brought Mr. Wickham immediately to
+Elizabeth’s mind; and, from the observation of the day altogether, she
+believed Lady Catherine to be exactly what he had represented.
+
+When, after examining the mother, in whose countenance and deportment
+she soon found some resemblance of Mr. Darcy, she turned her eyes on the
+daughter, she could almost have joined in Maria’s astonishment at her
+being so thin and so small. There was neither in figure nor face any
+likeness between the ladies. Miss de Bourgh was pale and sickly: her
+features, though not plain, were insignificant; and she spoke very
+little, except in a low voice, to Mrs. Jenkinson, in whose appearance
+there was nothing remarkable, and who was entirely engaged in listening
+to what she said, and placing a screen in the proper direction before
+her eyes.
+
+After sitting a few minutes, they were all sent to one of the windows to
+admire the view, Mr. Collins attending them to point out its beauties,
+and Lady Catherine kindly informing them that it was much better worth
+looking at in the summer.
+
+The dinner was exceedingly handsome, and there were all the servants,
+and all the articles of plate which Mr. Collins had promised; and, as he
+had likewise foretold, he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by
+her Ladyship’s desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish
+nothing greater. He carved and ate and praised with delighted alacrity;
+and every dish was commended first by him, and then by Sir William, who
+was now enough recovered to echo whatever his son-in-law said, in a
+manner which Elizabeth wondered Lady Catherine could bear. But Lady
+Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most
+gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty
+to them. The party did not supply much conversation. Elizabeth was ready
+to speak whenever there was an opening, but she was seated between
+Charlotte and Miss de Bourgh--the former of whom was engaged in
+listening to Lady Catherine, and the latter said not a word to her all
+the dinnertime. Mrs. Jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how
+little Miss de Bourgh ate, pressing her to try some other dish and
+fearing she was indisposed. Maria thought speaking out of the question,
+and the gentlemen did nothing but eat and admire.
+
+When the ladies returned to the drawing-room, there was little to be
+done but to hear Lady Catherine talk, which she did without any
+intermission till coffee came in, delivering her opinion on every
+subject in so decisive a manner as proved that she was not used to have
+her judgment controverted. She inquired into Charlotte’s domestic
+concerns familiarly and minutely, and gave her a great deal of advice as
+to the management of them all; told her how everything ought to be
+regulated in so small a family as hers, and instructed her as to the
+care of her cows and her poultry. Elizabeth found that nothing was
+beneath this great lady’s attention which could furnish her with an
+occasion for dictating to others. In the intervals of her discourse with
+Mrs. Collins, she addressed a variety of questions to Maria and
+Elizabeth, but especially to the latter, of whose connections she knew
+the least, and who, she observed to Mrs. Collins, was a very genteel,
+pretty kind of girl. She asked her at different times how many sisters
+she had, whether they were older or younger than herself, whether any of
+them were likely to be married, whether they were handsome, where they
+had been educated, what carriage her father kept, and what had been her
+mother’s maiden name? Elizabeth felt all the impertinence of her
+questions, but answered them very composedly. Lady Catherine then
+observed,--
+
+“Your father’s estate is entailed on Mr. Collins, I think? For your
+sake,” turning to Charlotte, “I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no
+occasion for entailing estates from the female line. It was not thought
+necessary in Sir Lewis de Bourgh’s family. Do you play and sing, Miss
+Bennet?”
+
+“A little.”
+
+“Oh then--some time or other we shall be happy to hear you. Our
+instrument is a capital one, probably superior to ---- you shall try it
+some day. Do your sisters play and sing?”
+
+“One of them does.”
+
+“Why did not you all learn? You ought all to have learned. The Miss
+Webbs all play, and their father has not so good an income as yours. Do
+you draw?”
+
+“No, not at all.”
+
+“What, none of you?”
+
+“Not one.”
+
+“That is very strange. But I suppose you had no opportunity. Your mother
+should have taken you to town every spring for the benefit of masters.”
+
+“My mother would have no objection, but my father hates London.”
+
+“Has your governess left you?”
+
+“We never had any governess.”
+
+“No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home
+without a governess! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must
+have been quite a slave to your education.”
+
+Elizabeth could hardly help smiling, as she assured her that had not
+been the case.
+
+“Then who taught you? who attended to you? Without a governess, you must
+have been neglected.”
+
+“Compared with some families, I believe we were; but such of us as
+wished to learn never wanted the means. We were always encouraged to
+read, and had all the masters that were necessary. Those who chose to be
+idle certainly might.”
+
+“Ay, no doubt: but that is what a governess will prevent; and if I had
+known your mother, I should have advised her most strenuously to engage
+one. I always say that nothing is to be done in education without steady
+and regular instruction, and nobody but a governess can give it. It is
+wonderful how many families I have been the means of supplying in that
+way. I am always glad to get a young person well placed out. Four nieces
+of Mrs. Jenkinson are most delightfully situated through my means; and
+it was but the other day that I recommended another young person, who
+was merely accidentally mentioned to me, and the family are quite
+delighted with her. Mrs. Collins, did I tell you of Lady Metcalfe’s
+calling yesterday to thank me? She finds Miss Pope a treasure. ‘Lady
+Catherine,’ said she, ‘you have given me a treasure.’ Are any of your
+younger sisters out, Miss Bennet?”
+
+“Yes, ma’am, all.”
+
+“All! What, all five out at once? Very odd! And you only the second. The
+younger ones out before the elder are married! Your younger sisters must
+be very young?”
+
+“Yes, my youngest is not sixteen. Perhaps _she_ is full young to be much
+in company. But really, ma’am, I think it would be very hard upon
+younger sisters that they should not have their share of society and
+amusement, because the elder may not have the means or inclination to
+marry early. The last born has as good a right to the pleasures of youth
+as the first. And to be kept back on _such_ a motive! I think it would
+not be very likely to promote sisterly affection or delicacy of mind.”
+
+“Upon my word,” said her Ladyship, “you give your opinion very decidedly
+for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?”
+
+“With three younger sisters grown up,” replied Elizabeth, smiling, “your
+Ladyship can hardly expect me to own it.”
+
+Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer;
+and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever
+dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
+
+“You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure,--therefore you need not
+conceal your age.”
+
+“I am not one-and-twenty.”
+
+When the gentlemen had joined them, and tea was over, the card tables
+were placed. Lady Catherine, Sir William, and Mr. and Mrs. Collins sat
+down to quadrille; and as Miss De Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the
+two girls had the honour of assisting Mrs. Jenkinson to make up her
+party. Their table was superlatively stupid. Scarcely a syllable was
+uttered that did not relate to the game, except when Mrs. Jenkinson
+expressed her fears of Miss De Bourgh’s being too hot or too cold, or
+having too much or too little light. A great deal more passed at the
+other table. Lady Catherine was generally speaking--stating the mistakes
+of the three others, or relating some anecdote of herself. Mr. Collins
+was employed in agreeing to everything her Ladyship said, thanking her
+for every fish he won, and apologizing if he thought he won too many.
+Sir William did not say much. He was storing his memory with anecdotes
+and noble names.
+
+When Lady Catherine and her daughter had played as long as they chose,
+the tables were broken up, the carriage was offered to Mrs. Collins,
+gratefully accepted, and immediately ordered. The party then gathered
+round the fire to hear Lady Catherine determine what weather they were
+to have on the morrow. From these instructions they were summoned by the
+arrival of the coach; and with many speeches of thankfulness on Mr.
+Collins’s side, and as many bows on Sir William’s, they departed. As
+soon as they had driven from the door, Elizabeth was called on by her
+cousin to give her opinion of all that she had seen at Rosings, which,
+for Charlotte’s sake, she made more favourable than it really was. But
+her commendation, though costing her some trouble, could by no means
+satisfy Mr. Collins, and he was very soon obliged to take her Ladyship’s
+praise into his own hands.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Sir William stayed only a week at Hunsford; but his visit was long
+enough to convince him of his daughter’s being most comfortably settled,
+and of her possessing such a husband and such a neighbour as were not
+often met with. While Sir William was with them, Mr. Collins devoted his
+mornings to driving him out in his gig, and showing him the country: but
+when he went away, the whole family returned to their usual employments,
+and Elizabeth was thankful to find that they did not see more of her
+cousin by the alteration; for the chief of the time between breakfast
+and dinner was now passed by him either at work in the garden, or in
+reading and writing, and looking out of window in his own book room,
+which fronted the road. The room in which the ladies sat was backwards.
+Elizabeth at first had rather wondered that Charlotte should not prefer
+the dining parlour for common use; it was a better sized room, and had a
+pleasanter aspect: but she soon saw that her friend had an excellent
+reason for what she did, for Mr. Collins would undoubtedly have been
+much less in his own apartment had they sat in one equally lively; and
+she gave Charlotte credit for the arrangement.
+
+From the drawing-room they could distinguish nothing in the lane, and
+were indebted to Mr. Collins for the knowledge of what carriages went
+along, and how often especially Miss De Bourgh drove by in her phaeton,
+which he never failed coming to inform them of, though it happened
+almost every day. She not unfrequently stopped at the Parsonage, and had
+a few minutes’ conversation with Charlotte, but was scarcely ever
+prevailed on to get out.
+
+Very few days passed in which Mr. Collins did not walk to Rosings, and
+not many in which his wife did not think it necessary to go likewise;
+and till Elizabeth recollected that there might be other family livings
+to be disposed of, she could not understand the sacrifice of so many
+hours. Now and then they were honoured with a call from her Ladyship,
+and nothing escaped her observation that was passing in the room during
+these visits. She examined into their employments, looked at their work,
+and advised them to do it differently; found fault with the arrangement
+of the furniture, or detected the housemaid in negligence; and if she
+accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding
+out that Mrs. Collins’s joints of meat were too large for her family.
+
+Elizabeth soon perceived, that though this great lady was not in the
+commission of the peace for the county, she was a most active magistrate
+in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by
+Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be
+quarrelsome, discontented, or too poor, she sallied forth into the
+village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold
+them into harmony and plenty.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “he never failed to inform them”
+]
+
+The entertainment of dining at Rosings was repeated about twice a week;
+and, allowing for the loss of Sir William, and there being only one
+card-table in the evening, every such entertainment was the counterpart
+of the first. Their other engagements were few, as the style of living
+of the neighbourhood in general was beyond the Collinses’ reach. This,
+however, was no evil to Elizabeth, and upon the whole she spent her time
+comfortably enough: there were half hours of pleasant conversation with
+Charlotte, and the weather was so fine for the time of year, that she
+had often great enjoyment out of doors. Her favourite walk, and where
+she frequently went while the others were calling on Lady Catherine, was
+along the open grove which edged that side of the park, where there was
+a nice sheltered path, which no one seemed to value but herself, and
+where she felt beyond the reach of Lady Catherine’s curiosity.
+
+In this quiet way the first fortnight of her visit soon passed away.
+Easter was approaching, and the week preceding it was to bring an
+addition to the family at Rosings, which in so small a circle must be
+important. Elizabeth had heard, soon after her arrival, that Mr. Darcy
+was expected there in the course of a few weeks; and though there were
+not many of her acquaintance whom she did not prefer, his coming would
+furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and
+she might be amused in seeing how hopeless Miss Bingley’s designs on him
+were, by his behaviour to his cousin, for whom he was evidently destined
+by Lady Catherine, who talked of his coming with the greatest
+satisfaction, spoke of him in terms of the highest admiration, and
+seemed almost angry to find that he had already been frequently seen by
+Miss Lucas and herself.
+
+His arrival was soon known at the Parsonage; for Mr. Collins was walking
+the whole morning within view of the lodges opening into Hunsford Lane,
+in order to have
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“The gentlemen accompanied him.”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+the earliest assurance of it; and, after making his bow as the carriage
+turned into the park, hurried home with the great intelligence. On the
+following morning he hastened to Rosings to pay his respects. There were
+two nephews of Lady Catherine to require them, for Mr. Darcy had brought
+with him a Colonel Fitzwilliam, the younger son of his uncle, Lord ----;
+and, to the great surprise of all the party, when Mr. Collins returned,
+the gentlemen accompanied him. Charlotte had seen them from her
+husband’s room, crossing the road, and immediately running into the
+other, told the girls what an honour they might expect, adding,--
+
+“I may thank you, Eliza, for this piece of civility. Mr. Darcy would
+never have come so soon to wait upon me.”
+
+Elizabeth had scarcely time to disclaim all right to the compliment
+before their approach was announced by the door-bell, and shortly
+afterwards the three gentlemen entered the room. Colonel Fitzwilliam,
+who led the way, was about thirty, not handsome, but in person and
+address most truly the gentleman. Mr. Darcy looked just as he had been
+used to look in Hertfordshire, paid his compliments, with his usual
+reserve, to Mrs. Collins; and whatever might be his feelings towards her
+friend, met her with every appearance of composure. Elizabeth merely
+courtesied to him, without saying a word.
+
+Colonel Fitzwilliam entered into conversation directly, with the
+readiness and ease of a well-bred man, and talked very pleasantly; but
+his cousin, after having addressed a slight observation on the house and
+garden to Mrs. Collins, sat for some time without speaking to anybody.
+At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of
+Elizabeth after the health of her family. She answered him in the usual
+way; and, after a moment’s pause, added,--
+
+“My eldest sister has been in town these three months. Have you never
+happened to see her there?”
+
+She was perfectly sensible that he never had: but she wished to see
+whether he would betray any consciousness of what had passed between the
+Bingleys and Jane; and she thought he looked a little confused as he
+answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet. The
+subject was pursued no further, and the gentlemen soon afterwards went
+away.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“At Church”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Colonel Fitzwilliam’s manners were very much admired at the Parsonage,
+and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasure of
+their engagements at Rosings. It was some days, however, before they
+received any invitation thither, for while there were visitors in the
+house they could not be necessary; and it was not till Easter-day,
+almost a week after the gentlemen’s arrival, that they were honoured by
+such an attention, and then they were merely asked on leaving church to
+come there in the evening. For the last week they had seen very little
+of either Lady Catherine or her daughter. Colonel Fitzwilliam had called
+at the Parsonage more than once during the time, but Mr. Darcy they had
+only seen at church.
+
+The invitation was accepted, of course, and at a proper hour they joined
+the party in Lady Catherine’s drawing-room. Her Ladyship received them
+civilly, but it was plain that their company was by no means so
+acceptable as when she could get nobody else; and she was, in fact,
+almost engrossed by her nephews, speaking to them, especially to Darcy,
+much more than to any other person in the room.
+
+Colonel Fitzwilliam seemed really glad to see them: anything was a
+welcome relief to him at Rosings; and Mrs. Collins’s pretty friend had,
+moreover, caught his fancy very much. He now seated himself by her, and
+talked so agreeably of Kent and Hertfordshire, of travelling and staying
+at home, of new books and music, that Elizabeth had never been half so
+well entertained in that room before; and they conversed with so much
+spirit and flow as to draw the attention of Lady Catherine herself, as
+well as of Mr. Darcy. _His_ eyes had been soon and repeatedly turned
+towards them with a look of curiosity; and that her Ladyship, after a
+while, shared the feeling, was more openly acknowledged, for she did not
+scruple to call out,--
+
+“What is that you are saying, Fitzwilliam? What is it you are talking
+of? What are you telling Miss Bennet? Let me hear what it is.”
+
+“We were talking of music, madam,” said he, when no longer able to avoid
+a reply.
+
+“Of music! Then pray speak aloud. It is of all subjects my delight. I
+must have my share in the conversation, if you are speaking of music.
+There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true
+enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever
+learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her
+health had allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have
+performed delightfully. How does Georgiana get on, Darcy?”
+
+Mr. Darcy spoke with affectionate praise of his sister’s proficiency.
+
+“I am very glad to hear such a good account of her,” said Lady
+Catherine; “and pray tell her from me, that she cannot expect to excel,
+if she does not practise a great deal.”
+
+“I assure you, madam,” he replied, “that she does not need such advice.
+She practises very constantly.”
+
+“So much the better. It cannot be done too much; and when I next write
+to her, I shall charge her not to neglect it on any account. I often
+tell young ladies, that no excellence in music is to be acquired without
+constant practice. I have told Miss Bennet several times, that she will
+never play really well, unless she practises more; and though Mrs.
+Collins has no instrument, she is very welcome, as I have often told
+her, to come to Rosings every day, and play on the pianoforte in Mrs.
+Jenkinson’s room. She would be in nobody’s way, you know, in that part
+of the house.”
+
+Mr. Darcy looked a little ashamed of his aunt’s ill-breeding, and made
+no answer.
+
+When coffee was over, Colonel Fitzwilliam reminded Elizabeth of having
+promised to play to him; and she sat down directly to the instrument. He
+drew a chair near her. Lady Catherine listened to half a song, and then
+talked, as before, to her other nephew; till the latter walked away from
+her, and moving with his usual deliberation towards the pianoforte,
+stationed himself so as to command a full view of the fair performer’s
+countenance. Elizabeth saw what he was doing, and at the first
+convenient pause turned to him with an arch smile, and said,--
+
+“You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear
+me. But I will not be alarmed, though your sister _does_ play so well.
+There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at
+the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to
+intimidate me.”
+
+“I shall not say that you are mistaken,” he replied, “because you could
+not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I
+have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know, that you
+find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which, in fact,
+are not your own.”
+
+Elizabeth laughed heartily at this picture of herself, and said to
+Colonel Fitzwilliam, “Your cousin will give you a very pretty notion of
+me, and teach you not to believe a word I say. I am particularly unlucky
+in meeting with a person so well able to expose my real character, in a
+part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree
+of credit. Indeed, Mr. Darcy, it is very ungenerous in you to mention
+all that you knew to my disadvantage in Hertfordshire--and, give me
+leave to say, very impolitic too--for it is provoking me to retaliate,
+and such things may come out as will shock your relations to hear.”
+
+“I am not afraid of you,” said he, smilingly.
+
+“Pray let me hear what you have to accuse him of,” cried Colonel
+Fitzwilliam. “I should like to know how he behaves among strangers.”
+
+“You shall hear, then--but prepare for something very dreadful. The
+first time of my ever seeing him in Hertfordshire, you must know, was at
+a ball--and at this ball, what do you think he did? He danced only four
+dances! I am sorry to pain you, but so it was. He danced only four
+dances, though gentlemen were scarce; and, to my certain knowledge, more
+than one young lady was sitting down in want of a partner. Mr. Darcy,
+you cannot deny the fact.”
+
+“I had not at that time the honour of knowing any lady in the assembly
+beyond my own party.”
+
+“True; and nobody can ever be introduced in a ball-room. Well, Colonel
+Fitzwilliam, what do I play next? My fingers wait your orders.”
+
+“Perhaps,” said Darcy, “I should have judged better had I sought an
+introduction, but I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.”
+
+“Shall we ask your cousin the reason of this?” said Elizabeth, still
+addressing Colonel Fitzwilliam. “Shall we ask him why a man of sense and
+education, and who has lived in the world, is ill-qualified to recommend
+himself to strangers?”
+
+“I can answer your question,” said Fitzwilliam, “without applying to
+him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble.”
+
+“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,” said Darcy,
+“of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot
+catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their
+concerns, as I often see done.”
+
+“My fingers,” said Elizabeth, “do not move over this instrument in the
+masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same
+force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I
+have always supposed it to be my own fault--because I would not take
+the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe _my_ fingers
+as capable as any other woman’s of superior execution.”
+
+Darcy smiled and said, “You are perfectly right. You have employed your
+time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can
+think anything wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers.”
+
+Here they were interrupted by Lady Catherine, who called out to know
+what they were talking of. Elizabeth immediately began playing again.
+Lady Catherine approached, and, after listening for a few minutes, said
+to Darcy,--
+
+“Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practised more, and
+could have the advantage of a London master. She has a very good notion
+of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne’s. Anne would have
+been a delightful performer, had her health allowed her to learn.”
+
+Elizabeth looked at Darcy, to see how cordially he assented to his
+cousin’s praise: but neither at that moment nor at any other could she
+discern any symptom of love; and from the whole of his behaviour to Miss
+De Bourgh she derived this comfort for Miss Bingley, that he might have
+been just as likely to marry _her_, had she been his relation.
+
+Lady Catherine continued her remarks on Elizabeth’s performance, mixing
+with them many instructions on execution and taste. Elizabeth received
+them with all the forbearance of civility; and at the request of the
+gentlemen remained at the instrument till her Ladyship’s carriage was
+ready to take them all home.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth was sitting by herself the next morning, and writing to Jane,
+while Mrs. Collins and Maria were gone on business into the village,
+when she was startled by a ring at the door, the certain signal of a
+visitor. As she had heard no carriage, she thought it not unlikely to be
+Lady Catherine; and under that apprehension was putting away her
+half-finished letter, that she might escape all impertinent questions,
+when the door opened, and to her very great surprise Mr. Darcy, and Mr.
+Darcy only, entered the room.
+
+He seemed astonished too on finding her alone, and apologized for his
+intrusion, by letting her know that he had understood all the ladies to
+be within.
+
+They then sat down, and when her inquiries after Rosings were made,
+seemed in danger of sinking into total silence. It was absolutely
+necessary, therefore, to think of something; and in this emergency
+recollecting _when_ she had seen him last in Hertfordshire, and feeling
+curious to know what he would say on the subject of their hasty
+departure, she observed,--
+
+“How very suddenly you all quitted Netherfield last November, Mr. Darcy!
+It must have been a most agreeable surprise to Mr. Bingley to see you
+all after him so soon; for, if I recollect right, he went but the day
+before. He and his sisters were well, I hope, when you left London?”
+
+“Perfectly so, I thank you.”
+
+She found that she was to receive no other answer; and, after a short
+pause, added,--
+
+“I think I have understood that Mr. Bingley has not much idea of ever
+returning to Netherfield again?”
+
+“I have never heard him say so; but it is probable that he may spend
+very little of his time there in future. He has many friends, and he is
+at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually
+increasing.”
+
+“If he means to be but little at Netherfield, it would be better for the
+neighbourhood that he should give up the place entirely, for then we
+might possibly get a settled family there. But, perhaps, Mr. Bingley did
+not take the house so much for the convenience of the neighbourhood as
+for his own, and we must expect him to keep or quit it on the same
+principle.”
+
+“I should not be surprised,” said Darcy, “if he were to give it up as
+soon as any eligible purchase offers.”
+
+Elizabeth made no answer. She was afraid of talking longer of his
+friend; and, having nothing else to say, was now determined to leave the
+trouble of finding a subject to him.
+
+He took the hint and soon began with, “This seems a very comfortable
+house. Lady Catherine, I believe, did a great deal to it when Mr.
+Collins first came to Hunsford.”
+
+“I believe she did--and I am sure she could not have bestowed her
+kindness on a more grateful object.”
+
+“Mr. Collins appears very fortunate in his choice of a wife.”
+
+“Yes, indeed; his friends may well rejoice in his having met with one of
+the very few sensible women who would have accepted him, or have made
+him happy if they had. My friend has an excellent understanding--though
+I am not certain that I consider her marrying Mr. Collins as the wisest
+thing she ever did. She seems perfectly happy, however; and, in a
+prudential light, it is certainly a very good match for her.”
+
+“It must be very agreeable to her to be settled within so easy a
+distance of her own family and friends.”
+
+“An easy distance do you call it? It is nearly fifty miles.”
+
+“And what is fifty miles of good road? Little more than half a day’s
+journey. Yes, I call it a very easy distance.”
+
+“I should never have considered the distance as one of the _advantages_
+of the match,” cried Elizabeth. “I should never have said Mrs. Collins
+was settled _near_ her family.”
+
+“It is a proof of your own attachment to Hertfordshire. Anything beyond
+the very neighbourhood of Longbourn, I suppose, would appear far.”
+
+As he spoke there was a sort of smile, which Elizabeth fancied she
+understood; he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane and
+Netherfield, and she blushed as she answered,--
+
+“I do not mean to say that a woman may not be settled too near her
+family. The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many
+varying circumstances. Where there is fortune to make the expense of
+travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil. But that is not the
+case _here_. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have a comfortable income, but not
+such a one as will allow of frequent journeys--and I am persuaded my
+friend would not call herself _near_ her family under less than _half_
+the present distance.”
+
+Mr. Darcy drew his chair a little towards her, and said, “_You_ cannot
+have a right to such very strong local attachment. _You_ cannot have
+been always at Longbourn.”
+
+Elizabeth looked surprised. The gentleman experienced some change of
+feeling; he drew back his chair, took a newspaper from the table, and,
+glancing over it, said, in a colder voice,--
+
+“Are you pleased with Kent?”
+
+A short dialogue on the subject of the country ensued, on either side
+calm and concise--and soon put an end to by the entrance of Charlotte
+and her sister, just returned from their walk. The _tête-à-tête_
+surprised them. Mr. Darcy related the mistake which had occasioned his
+intruding on Miss Bennet, and, after sitting a few minutes longer,
+without saying much to anybody, went away.
+
+[Illustration: “Accompanied by their aunt”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+“What can be the meaning of this?” said Charlotte, as soon as he was
+gone. “My dear Eliza, he must be in love with you, or he would never
+have called on us in this familiar way.”
+
+But when Elizabeth told of his silence, it did not seem very likely,
+even to Charlotte’s wishes, to be the case; and, after various
+conjectures, they could at last only suppose his visit to proceed from
+the difficulty of finding anything to do, which was the more probable
+from the time of year. All field sports were over. Within doors there
+was Lady Catherine, books, and a billiard table, but gentlemen cannot be
+always within doors; and in the nearness of the Parsonage, or the
+pleasantness of the walk to it, or of the people who lived in it, the
+two cousins found a temptation from this period of walking thither
+almost every day. They called at various times of the morning, sometimes
+separately, sometimes together, and now and then accompanied by their
+aunt. It was plain to them all that Colonel Fitzwilliam came because he
+had pleasure in their society, a persuasion which of course recommended
+him still more; and Elizabeth was reminded by her own satisfaction in
+being with him, as well as by his evident admiration, of her former
+favourite, George Wickham; and though, in comparing them, she saw there
+was less captivating softness in Colonel Fitzwilliam’s manners, she
+believed he might have the best informed mind.
+
+But why Mr. Darcy came so often to the Parsonage it was more difficult
+to understand. It could not be for society, as he frequently sat there
+ten minutes together without opening his lips; and when he did speak, it
+seemed the effect of necessity rather than of choice--a sacrifice to
+propriety, not a pleasure to himself. He seldom appeared really
+animated. Mrs. Collins knew not what to make of him. Colonel
+Fitzwilliam’s occasionally laughing at his stupidity proved that he was
+generally different, which her own knowledge of him could not have told
+her; and as she would have liked to believe this change the effect of
+love, and the object of that love her friend Eliza, she set herself
+seriously to work to find it out: she watched him whenever they were at
+Rosings, and whenever he came to Hunsford; but without much success. He
+certainly looked at her friend a great deal, but the expression of that
+look was disputable. It was an earnest, steadfast gaze, but she often
+doubted whether there were much admiration in it, and sometimes it
+seemed nothing but absence of mind.
+
+She had once or twice suggested to Elizabeth the possibility of his
+being partial to her, but Elizabeth always laughed at the idea; and Mrs.
+Collins did not think it right to press the subject, from the danger of
+raising expectations which might only end in disappointment; for in her
+opinion it admitted not of a doubt, that all her friend’s dislike would
+vanish, if she could suppose him to be in her power.
+
+In her kind schemes for Elizabeth, she sometimes planned her marrying
+Colonel Fitzwilliam. He was, beyond comparison, the pleasantest man: he
+certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but,
+to counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage
+in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: “On looking up”]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+More than once did Elizabeth, in her ramble within the park,
+unexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy. She felt all the perverseness of the
+mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought; and, to
+prevent its ever happening again, took care to inform him, at first,
+that it was a favourite haunt of hers. How it could occur a second time,
+therefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even the third. It seemed like
+wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance; for on these occasions it was
+not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away,
+but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her. He
+never said a great deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking
+or of listening much; but it struck her in the course of their third
+rencounter that he was asking some odd unconnected questions--about her
+pleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her
+opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins’s happiness; and that in speaking of
+Rosings, and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to
+expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be staying
+_there_ too. His words seemed to imply it. Could he have Colonel
+Fitzwilliam in his thoughts? She supposed, if he meant anything, he must
+mean an allusion to what might arise in that quarter. It distressed her
+a little, and she was quite glad to find herself at the gate in the
+pales opposite the Parsonage.
+
+She was engaged one day, as she walked, in re-perusing Jane’s last
+letter, and dwelling on some passages which proved that Jane had not
+written in spirits, when, instead of being again surprised by Mr. Darcy,
+she saw, on looking up, that Colonel Fitzwilliam was meeting her.
+Putting away the letter immediately, and forcing a smile, she said,--
+
+“I did not know before that you ever walked this way.”
+
+“I have been making the tour of the park,” he replied, “as I generally
+do every year, and intended to close it with a call at the Parsonage.
+Are you going much farther?”
+
+“No, I should have turned in a moment.”
+
+And accordingly she did turn, and they walked towards the Parsonage
+together.
+
+“Do you certainly leave Kent on Saturday?” said she.
+
+“Yes--if Darcy does not put it off again. But I am at his disposal. He
+arranges the business just as he pleases.”
+
+“And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at least
+great pleasure in the power of choice. I do not know anybody who seems
+more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than Mr. Darcy.”
+
+“He likes to have his own way very well,” replied Colonel Fitzwilliam.
+“But so we all do. It is only that he has better means of having it than
+many others, because he is rich, and many others are poor. I speak
+feelingly. A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and
+dependence.”
+
+“In my opinion, the younger son of an earl can know very little of
+either. Now, seriously, what have you ever known of self-denial and
+dependence? When have you been prevented by want of money from going
+wherever you chose or procuring anything you had a fancy for?”
+
+“These are home questions--and perhaps I cannot say that I have
+experienced many hardships of that nature. But in matters of greater
+weight, I may suffer from the want of money. Younger sons cannot marry
+where they like.”
+
+“Unless where they like women of fortune, which I think they very often
+do.”
+
+“Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are not many in
+my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to
+money.”
+
+“Is this,” thought Elizabeth, “meant for me?” and she coloured at the
+idea; but, recovering herself, said in a lively tone, “And pray, what is
+the usual price of an earl’s younger son? Unless the elder brother is
+very sickly, I suppose you would not ask above fifty thousand pounds.”
+
+He answered her in the same style, and the subject dropped. To interrupt
+a silence which might make him fancy her affected with what had passed,
+she soon afterwards said,--
+
+“I imagine your cousin brought you down with him chiefly for the sake of
+having somebody at his disposal. I wonder he does not marry, to secure a
+lasting convenience of that kind. But, perhaps, his sister does as well
+for the present; and, as she is under his sole care, he may do what he
+likes with her.”
+
+“No,” said Colonel Fitzwilliam, “that is an advantage which he must
+divide with me. I am joined with him in the guardianship of Miss Darcy.”
+
+“Are you, indeed? And pray what sort of a guardian do you make? Does
+your charge give you much trouble? Young ladies of her age are sometimes
+a little difficult to manage; and if she has the true Darcy spirit, she
+may like to have her own way.”
+
+As she spoke, she observed him looking at her earnestly; and the manner
+in which he immediately asked her why she supposed Miss Darcy likely to
+give them any uneasiness, convinced her that she had somehow or other
+got pretty near the truth. She directly replied,--
+
+“You need not be frightened. I never heard any harm of her; and I dare
+say she is one of the most tractable creatures in the world. She is a
+very great favourite with some ladies of my acquaintance, Mrs. Hurst and
+Miss Bingley. I think I have heard you say that you know them.”
+
+“I know them a little. Their brother is a pleasant, gentlemanlike
+man--he is a great friend of Darcy’s.”
+
+“Oh yes,” said Elizabeth drily--“Mr. Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr.
+Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him.”
+
+“Care of him! Yes, I really believe Darcy _does_ take care of him in
+those points where he most wants care. From something that he told me
+in our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted
+to him. But I ought to beg his pardon, for I have no right to suppose
+that Bingley was the person meant. It was all conjecture.”
+
+“What is it you mean?”
+
+“It is a circumstance which Darcy of course could not wish to be
+generally known, because if it were to get round to the lady’s family it
+would be an unpleasant thing.”
+
+“You may depend upon my not mentioning it.”
+
+“And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be
+Bingley. What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself
+on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most
+imprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other
+particulars; and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him
+the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from
+knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer.”
+
+“Did Mr. Darcy give you his reasons for this interference?”
+
+“I understood that there were some very strong objections against the
+lady.”
+
+“And what arts did he use to separate them?”
+
+“He did not talk to me of his own arts,” said Fitzwilliam, smiling. “He
+only told me what I have now told you.”
+
+Elizabeth made no answer, and walked on, her heart swelling with
+indignation. After watching her a little, Fitzwilliam asked her why she
+was so thoughtful.
+
+“I am thinking of what you have been telling me,” said she. “Your
+cousin’s conduct does not suit my feelings. Why was he to be the
+judge?”
+
+“You are rather disposed to call his interference officious?”
+
+“I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his
+friend’s inclination; or why, upon his own judgment alone, he was to
+determine and direct in what manner that friend was to be happy. But,”
+she continued, recollecting herself, “as we know none of the
+particulars, it is not fair to condemn him. It is not to be supposed
+that there was much affection in the case.”
+
+“That is not an unnatural surmise,” said Fitzwilliam; “but it is
+lessening the honour of my cousin’s triumph very sadly.”
+
+This was spoken jestingly, but it appeared to her so just a picture of
+Mr. Darcy, that she would not trust herself with an answer; and,
+therefore, abruptly changing the conversation, talked on indifferent
+matters till they reached the Parsonage. There, shut into her own room,
+as soon as their visitor left them, she could think without interruption
+of all that she had heard. It was not to be supposed that any other
+people could be meant than those with whom she was connected. There
+could not exist in the world _two_ men over whom Mr. Darcy could have
+such boundless influence. That he had been concerned in the measures
+taken to separate Mr. Bingley and Jane, she had never doubted; but she
+had always attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and
+arrangement of them. If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him,
+_he_ was the cause--his pride and caprice were the cause--of all that
+Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer. He had ruined for a
+while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart
+in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have
+inflicted.
+
+“There were some very strong objections against the lady,” were Colonel
+Fitzwilliam’s words; and these strong objections probably were, her
+having one uncle who was a country attorney, and another who was in
+business in London.
+
+“To Jane herself,” she exclaimed, “there could be no possibility of
+objection,--all loveliness and goodness as she is! Her understanding
+excellent, her mind improved, and her manners captivating. Neither could
+anything be urged against my father, who, though with some
+peculiarities, has abilities which Mr. Darcy himself need not disdain,
+and respectability which he will probably never reach.” When she thought
+of her mother, indeed, her confidence gave way a little; but she would
+not allow that any objections _there_ had material weight with Mr.
+Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from
+the want of importance in his friend’s connections than from their want
+of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly
+governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of
+retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister.
+
+The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned brought on a
+headache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening that, added to
+her unwillingness to see Mr. Darcy, it determined her not to attend her
+cousins to Rosings, where they were engaged to drink tea. Mrs. Collins,
+seeing that she was really unwell, did not press her to go, and as much
+as possible prevented her husband from pressing her; but Mr. Collins
+could not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine’s being rather
+displeased by her staying at home.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to exasperate herself as
+much as possible against Mr. Darcy, chose for her employment the
+examination of all the letters which Jane had written to her since her
+being in Kent. They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any
+revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering.
+But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that
+cheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style, and which,
+proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself, and kindly
+disposed towards everyone, had been scarcely ever clouded. Elizabeth
+noticed every sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness, with an
+attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal. Mr. Darcy’s
+shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict gave her a
+keener sense of her sister’s sufferings. It was some consolation to
+think that his visit to Rosings was to end on the day after the next,
+and a still greater that in less than a fortnight she should herself be
+with Jane again, and enabled to contribute to the recovery of her
+spirits, by all that affection could do.
+
+She could not think of Darcy’s leaving Kent without remembering that his
+cousin was to go with him; but Colonel Fitzwilliam had made it clear
+that he had no intentions at all, and, agreeable as he was, she did not
+mean to be unhappy about him.
+
+While settling this point, she was suddenly roused by the sound of the
+door-bell; and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its
+being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in
+the evening, and might now come to inquire particularly after her. But
+this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently
+affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the
+room. In a hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her
+health, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better.
+She answered him with cold civility. He sat down for a few moments, and
+then getting up walked about the room. Elizabeth was surprised, but
+said not a word. After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her
+in an agitated manner, and thus began:--
+
+“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be
+repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love
+you.”
+
+Elizabeth’s astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, coloured,
+doubted, and was silent. This he considered sufficient encouragement,
+and the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her immediately
+followed. He spoke well; but there were feelings besides those of the
+heart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the subject of
+tenderness than of pride. His sense of her inferiority, of its being a
+degradation, of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed
+to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the
+consequence he was wounding, but was very unlikely to recommend his
+suit.
+
+In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to
+the compliment of such a man’s affection, and though her intentions did
+not vary for an instant, she was at first sorry for the pain he was to
+receive; till roused to resentment by his subsequent language, she lost
+all compassion in anger. She tried, however, to compose herself to
+answer him with patience, when he should have done. He concluded with
+representing to her the strength of that attachment which in spite of
+all his endeavours he had found impossible to conquer; and with
+expressing his hope that it would now be rewarded by her acceptance of
+his hand. As he said this she could easily see that he had no doubt of a
+favourable answer. He _spoke_ of apprehension and anxiety, but his
+countenance expressed real security. Such a circumstance could only
+exasperate farther; and when he ceased the colour rose into her cheeks
+and she said,--
+
+“In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to
+express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however
+unequally they may be returned. It is natural that obligation should be
+felt, and if I could _feel_ gratitude, I would now thank you. But I
+cannot--I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly
+bestowed it most unwillingly. I am sorry to have occasioned pain to
+anyone. It has been most unconsciously done, however, and I hope will be
+of short duration. The feelings which you tell me have long prevented
+the acknowledgment of your regard can have little difficulty in
+overcoming it after this explanation.”
+
+Mr. Darcy, who was leaning against the mantel-piece with his eyes fixed
+on her face, seemed to catch her words with no less resentment than
+surprise. His complexion became pale with anger, and the disturbance of
+his mind was visible in every feature. He was struggling for the
+appearance of composure, and would not open his lips till he believed
+himself to have attained it. The pause was to Elizabeth’s feelings
+dreadful. At length, in a voice of forced calmness, he said,--
+
+“And this is all the reply which I am to have the honour of expecting! I
+might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little _endeavour_ at
+civility, I am thus rejected. But it is of small importance.”
+
+“I might as well inquire,” replied she, “why, with so evident a design
+of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me
+against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
+Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I _was_ uncivil? But I have
+other provocations. You know I have. Had not my own feelings decided
+against you, had they been indifferent, or had they even been
+favourable, do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept
+the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the
+happiness of a most beloved sister?”
+
+As she pronounced these words, Mr. Darcy changed colour; but the emotion
+was short, and he listened without attempting to interrupt her while she
+continued,--
+
+“I have every reason in the world to think ill of you. No motive can
+excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted _there_. You dare not,
+you cannot deny that you have been the principal, if not the only means
+of dividing them from each other, of exposing one to the censure of the
+world for caprice and instability, the other to its derision for
+disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest
+kind.”
+
+She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening
+with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse.
+He even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity.
+
+“Can you deny that you have done it?” she repeated.
+
+With assumed tranquillity he then replied, “I have no wish of denying
+that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your
+sister, or that I rejoice in my success. Towards _him_ I have been
+kinder than towards myself.”
+
+Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection,
+but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her.
+
+“But it is not merely this affair,” she continued, “on which my dislike
+is founded. Long before it had taken place, my opinion of you was
+decided. Your character was unfolded in the recital which I received
+many months ago from Mr. Wickham. On this subject, what can you have to
+say? In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself?
+or under what misrepresentation can you here impose upon others?”
+
+“You take an eager interest in that gentleman’s concerns,” said Darcy,
+in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour.
+
+“Who that knows what his misfortunes have been can help feeling an
+interest in him?”
+
+“His misfortunes!” repeated Darcy, contemptuously,--“yes, his
+misfortunes have been great indeed.”
+
+“And of your infliction,” cried Elizabeth, with energy; “You have
+reduced him to his present state of poverty--comparative poverty. You
+have withheld the advantages which you must know to have been designed
+for him. You have deprived the best years of his life of that
+independence which was no less his due than his desert. You have done
+all this! and yet you can treat the mention of his misfortunes with
+contempt and ridicule.”
+
+“And this,” cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room,
+“is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I
+thank you for explaining it so fully. My faults, according to this
+calculation, are heavy indeed! But, perhaps,” added he, stopping in his
+walk, and turning towards her, “these offences might have been
+overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the
+scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design. These
+bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater
+policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my
+being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by
+reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.
+Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related. They were natural and just.
+Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your
+connections?--to congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose
+condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?”
+
+Elizabeth felt herself growing more angry every moment; yet she tried to
+the utmost to speak with composure when she said,--
+
+“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your
+declaration affected me in any other way than as it spared me the
+concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a
+more gentlemanlike manner.”
+
+She saw him start at this; but he said nothing, and she continued,--
+
+“You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way
+that would have tempted me to accept it.”
+
+Again his astonishment was obvious; and he looked at her with an
+expression of mingled incredulity and mortification. She went on,--
+
+“From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my
+acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest
+belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the
+feelings of others, were such as to form that groundwork of
+disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immovable a
+dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the
+last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
+
+“You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your
+feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been.
+Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best
+wishes for your health and happiness.”
+
+And with these words he hastily left the room, and Elizabeth heard him
+the next moment open the front door and quit the house. The tumult of
+her mind was now painfully great. She knew not how to support herself,
+and, from actual weakness, sat down and cried for half an hour. Her
+astonishment, as she reflected on what had passed, was increased by
+every review of it. That she should receive an offer of marriage from
+Mr. Darcy! that he should have been in love with her for so many months!
+so much in love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections
+which had made him prevent his friend’s marrying her sister, and which
+must appear at least with equal force in his own case, was almost
+incredible! it was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong
+an affection. But his pride, his abominable pride, his shameless avowal
+of what he had done with respect to Jane, his unpardonable assurance in
+acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner
+which he had mentioned Mr. Wickham, his cruelty towards whom he had not
+attempted to deny, soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his
+attachment had for a moment excited.
+
+She continued in very agitating reflections till the sound of Lady
+Catherine’s carriage made her feel how unequal she was to encounter
+Charlotte’s observation, and hurried her away to her room.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“Hearing herself called”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth awoke the next morning to the same thoughts and meditations
+which had at length closed her eyes. She could not yet recover from the
+surprise of what had happened: it was impossible to think of anything
+else; and, totally indisposed for employment, she resolved soon after
+breakfast to indulge herself in air and exercise. She was proceeding
+directly to her favourite walk, when the recollection of Mr. Darcy’s
+sometimes coming there stopped her, and instead of entering the park,
+she turned up the lane which led her farther from the turnpike road. The
+park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one
+of the gates into the ground.
+
+After walking two or three times along that part of the lane, she was
+tempted, by the pleasantness of the morning, to stop at the gates and
+look into the park. The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had
+made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the
+verdure of the early trees. She was on the point of continuing her
+walk, when she caught a glimpse of a gentleman within the sort of grove
+which edged the park: he was moving that way; and fearful of its being
+Mr. Darcy, she was directly retreating. But the person who advanced was
+now near enough to see her, and stepping forward with eagerness,
+pronounced her name. She had turned away; but on hearing herself called,
+though in a voice which proved it to be Mr. Darcy, she moved again
+towards the gate. He had by that time reached it also; and, holding out
+a letter, which she instinctively took, said, with a look of haughty
+composure, “I have been walking in the grove some time, in the hope of
+meeting you. Will you do me the honour of reading that letter?” and
+then, with a slight bow, turned again into the plantation, and was soon
+out of sight.
+
+With no expectation of pleasure, but with the strongest curiosity,
+Elizabeth opened the letter, and to her still increasing wonder,
+perceived an envelope containing two sheets of letter paper, written
+quite through, in a very close hand. The envelope itself was likewise
+full. Pursuing her way along the lane, she then began it. It was dated
+from Rosings, at eight o’clock in the morning, and was as follows:--
+
+“Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of
+its containing any repetition of those sentiments, or renewal of those
+offers, which were last night so disgusting to you. I write without any
+intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes,
+which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten; and the
+effort which the formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion,
+should have been spared, had not my character required it to be written
+and read. You must, therefore, pardon the freedom with which I demand
+your attention; your feelings, I know, will bestow it unwillingly, but I
+demand it of your justice.
+
+“Two offences of a very different nature, and by no means of equal
+magnitude, you last night laid to my charge. The first mentioned was,
+that, regardless of the sentiments of either, I had detached Mr. Bingley
+from your sister,--and the other, that I had, in defiance of various
+claims, in defiance of honour and humanity, ruined the immediate
+prosperity and blasted the prospects of Mr. Wickham. Wilfully and
+wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged
+favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other
+dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect
+its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young
+persons whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could
+bear no comparison. But from the severity of that blame which was last
+night so liberally bestowed, respecting each circumstance, I shall hope
+to be in future secured, when the following account of my actions and
+their motives has been read. If, in the explanation of them which is due
+to myself, I am under the necessity of relating feelings which may be
+offensive to yours, I can only say that I am sorry. The necessity must
+be obeyed, and further apology would be absurd. I had not been long in
+Hertfordshire before I saw, in common with others, that Bingley
+preferred your elder sister to any other young woman in the country. But
+it was not till the evening of the dance at Netherfield that I had any
+apprehension of his feeling a serious attachment. I had often seen him
+in love before. At that ball, while I had the honour of dancing with
+you, I was first made acquainted, by Sir William Lucas’s accidental
+information, that Bingley’s attentions to your sister had given rise to
+a general expectation of their marriage. He spoke of it as a certain
+event, of which the time alone could be undecided. From that moment I
+observed my friend’s behaviour attentively; and I could then perceive
+that his partiality for Miss Bennet was beyond what I had ever witnessed
+in him. Your sister I also watched. Her look and manners were open,
+cheerful, and engaging as ever, but without any symptom of peculiar
+regard; and I remained convinced, from the evening’s scrutiny, that
+though she received his attentions with pleasure, she did not invite
+them by any participation of sentiment. If _you_ have not been mistaken
+here, _I_ must have been in an error. Your superior knowledge of your
+sister must make the latter probable. If it be so, if I have been misled
+by such error to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been
+unreasonable. But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of
+your sister’s countenance and air was such as might have given the most
+acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart
+was not likely to be easily touched. That I was desirous of believing
+her indifferent is certain; but I will venture to say that my
+investigations and decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes or
+fears. I did not believe her to be indifferent because I wished it; I
+believed it on impartial conviction, as truly as I wished it in reason.
+My objections to the marriage were not merely those which I last night
+acknowledged to have required the utmost force of passion to put aside
+in my own case; the want of connection could not be so great an evil to
+my friend as to me. But there were other causes of repugnance; causes
+which, though still existing, and existing to an equal degree in both
+instances, I had myself endeavoured to forget, because they were not
+immediately before me. These causes must be stated, though briefly. The
+situation of your mother’s family, though objectionable, was nothing in
+comparison of that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost
+uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and
+occasionally even by your father:--pardon me,--it pains me to offend
+you. But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations,
+and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you
+consolation to consider that to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid
+any share of the like censure is praise no less generally bestowed on
+you and your eldest sister than it is honourable to the sense and
+disposition of both. I will only say, farther, that from what passed
+that evening my opinion of all parties was confirmed, and every
+inducement heightened, which could have led me before to preserve my
+friend from what I esteemed a most unhappy connection. He left
+Netherfield for London on the day following, as you, I am certain,
+remember, with the design of soon returning. The part which I acted is
+now to be explained. His sisters’ uneasiness had been equally excited
+with my own: our coincidence of feeling was soon discovered; and, alike
+sensible that no time was to be lost in detaching their brother, we
+shortly resolved on joining him directly in London. We accordingly
+went--and there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my
+friend the certain evils of such a choice. I described and enforced them
+earnestly. But however this remonstrance might have staggered or delayed
+his determination, I do not suppose that it would ultimately have
+prevented the marriage, had it not been seconded by the assurance, which
+I hesitated not in giving, of your sister’s indifference. He had before
+believed her to return his affection with sincere, if not with equal,
+regard. But Bingley has great natural modesty, with a stronger
+dependence on my judgment than on his own. To convince him, therefore,
+that he had deceived himself was no very difficult point. To persuade
+him against returning into Hertfordshire, when that conviction had been
+given, was scarcely the work of a moment. I cannot blame myself for
+having done thus much. There is but one part of my conduct, in the whole
+affair, on which I do not reflect with satisfaction; it is that I
+condescended to adopt the measures of art so far as to conceal from him
+your sister’s being in town. I knew it myself, as it was known to Miss
+Bingley; but her brother is even yet ignorant of it. That they might
+have met without ill consequence is, perhaps, probable; but his regard
+did not appear to me enough extinguished for him to see her without some
+danger. Perhaps this concealment, this disguise, was beneath me. It is
+done, however, and it was done for the best. On this subject I have
+nothing more to say, no other apology to offer. If I have wounded your
+sister’s feelings, it was unknowingly done; and though the motives which
+governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not
+yet learnt to condemn them.--With respect to that other, more weighty
+accusation, of having injured Mr. Wickham, I can only refute it by
+laying before you the whole of his connection with my family. Of what he
+has _particularly_ accused me I am ignorant; but of the truth of what I
+shall relate I can summon more than one witness of undoubted veracity.
+Mr. Wickham is the son of a very respectable man, who had for many years
+the management of all the Pemberley estates, and whose good conduct in
+the discharge of his trust naturally inclined my father to be of service
+to him; and on George Wickham, who was his godson, his kindness was
+therefore liberally bestowed. My father supported him at school, and
+afterwards at Cambridge; most important assistance, as his own father,
+always poor from the extravagance of his wife, would have been unable to
+give him a gentleman’s education. My father was not only fond of this
+young man’s society, whose manners were always engaging, he had also the
+highest opinion of him, and hoping the church would be his profession,
+intended to provide for him in it. As for myself, it is many, many years
+since I first began to think of him in a very different manner. The
+vicious propensities, the want of principle, which he was careful to
+guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the
+observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who
+had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr. Darcy
+could not have. Here again I shall give you pain--to what degree you
+only can tell. But whatever may be the sentiments which Mr. Wickham has
+created, a suspicion of their nature shall not prevent me from unfolding
+his real character. It adds even another motive. My excellent father
+died about five years ago; and his attachment to Mr. Wickham was to the
+last so steady, that in his will he particularly recommended it to me to
+promote his advancement in the best manner that his profession might
+allow, and if he took orders, desired that a valuable family living
+might be his as soon as it became vacant. There was also a legacy of
+one thousand pounds. His own father did not long survive mine; and
+within half a year from these events Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me
+that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should
+not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate
+pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the preferment, by which he could not be
+benefited. He had some intention, he added, of studying the law, and I
+must be aware that the interest of one thousand pounds would be a very
+insufficient support therein. I rather wished than believed him to be
+sincere; but, at any rate, was perfectly ready to accede to his
+proposal. I knew that Mr. Wickham ought not to be a clergyman. The
+business was therefore soon settled. He resigned all claim to assistance
+in the church, were it possible that he could ever be in a situation to
+receive it, and accepted in return three thousand pounds. All connection
+between us seemed now dissolved. I thought too ill of him to invite him
+to Pemberley, or admit his society in town. In town, I believe, he
+chiefly lived, but his studying the law was a mere pretence; and being
+now free from all restraint, his life was a life of idleness and
+dissipation. For about three years I heard little of him; but on the
+decease of the incumbent of the living which had been designed for him,
+he applied to me again by letter for the presentation. His
+circumstances, he assured me, and I had no difficulty in believing it,
+were exceedingly bad. He had found the law a most unprofitable study,
+and was now absolutely resolved on being ordained, if I would present
+him to the living in question--of which he trusted there could be little
+doubt, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for,
+and I could not have forgotten my revered father’s intentions. You will
+hardly blame me for refusing to comply with this entreaty, or for
+resisting every repetition of it. His resentment was in proportion to
+the distress of his circumstances--and he was doubtless as violent in
+his abuse of me to others as in his reproaches to myself. After this
+period, every appearance of acquaintance was dropped. How he lived, I
+know not. But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my
+notice. I must now mention a circumstance which I would wish to forget
+myself, and which no obligation less than the present should induce me
+to unfold to any human being. Having said thus much, I feel no doubt of
+your secrecy. My sister, who is more than ten years my junior, was left
+to the guardianship of my mother’s nephew, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and
+myself. About a year ago, she was taken from school, and an
+establishment formed for her in London; and last summer she went with
+the lady who presided over it to Ramsgate; and thither also went Mr.
+Wickham, undoubtedly by design; for there proved to have been a prior
+acquaintance between him and Mrs. Younge, in whose character we were
+most unhappily deceived; and by her connivance and aid he so far
+recommended himself to Georgiana, whose affectionate heart retained a
+strong impression of his kindness to her as a child, that she was
+persuaded to believe herself in love and to consent to an elopement. She
+was then but fifteen, which must be her excuse; and after stating her
+imprudence, I am happy to add, that I owed the knowledge of it to
+herself. I joined them unexpectedly a day or two before the intended
+elopement; and then Georgiana, unable to support the idea of grieving
+and offending a brother whom she almost looked up to as a father,
+acknowledged the whole to me. You may imagine what I felt and how I
+acted. Regard for my sister’s credit and feelings prevented any public
+exposure; but I wrote to Mr. Wickham, who left the place immediately,
+and Mrs. Younge was of course removed from her charge. Mr. Wickham’s
+chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty
+thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging
+himself on me was a strong inducement. His revenge would have been
+complete indeed. This, madam, is a faithful narrative of every event in
+which we have been concerned together; and if you do not absolutely
+reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me henceforth of cruelty
+towards Mr. Wickham. I know not in what manner, under what form of
+falsehood, he has imposed on you; but his success is not perhaps to be
+wondered at, ignorant as you previously were of everything concerning
+either. Detection could not be in your power, and suspicion certainly
+not in your inclination. You may possibly wonder why all this was not
+told you last night. But I was not then master enough of myself to know
+what could or ought to be revealed. For the truth of everything here
+related, I can appeal more particularly to the testimony of Colonel
+Fitzwilliam, who, from our near relationship and constant intimacy, and
+still more as one of the executors of my father’s will, has been
+unavoidably acquainted with every particular of these transactions. If
+your abhorrence of _me_ should make _my_ assertions valueless, you
+cannot be prevented by the same cause from confiding in my cousin; and
+that there may be the possibility of consulting him, I shall endeavour
+to find some opportunity of putting this letter in your hands in the
+course of the morning. I will only add, God bless you.
+
+“FITZWILLIAM DARCY.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did not expect it to
+contain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of
+its contents. But such as they were, it may be well supposed how eagerly
+she went through them, and what a contrariety of emotion they excited.
+Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined. With amazement did
+she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power;
+and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to
+give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal. With a strong
+prejudice against everything he might say, she began his account of
+what had happened at Netherfield. She read with an eagerness which
+hardly left her power of comprehension; and from impatience of knowing
+what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the
+sense of the one before her eyes. His belief of her sister’s
+insensibility she instantly resolved to be false; and his account of the
+real, the worst objections to the match, made her too angry to have any
+wish of doing him justice. He expressed no regret for what he had done
+which satisfied her; his style was not penitent, but haughty. It was all
+pride and insolence.
+
+But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham--when
+she read, with somewhat clearer attention, a relation of events which,
+if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which
+bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself--her feelings
+were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.
+Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her. She wished
+to discredit it entirely, repeatedly exclaiming, “This must be false!
+This cannot be! This must be the grossest falsehood!”--and when she had
+gone through the whole letter, though scarcely knowing anything of the
+last page or two, put it hastily away, protesting that she would not
+regard it, that she would never look in it again.
+
+In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on
+nothing, she walked on; but it would not do: in half a minute the letter
+was unfolded again; and collecting herself as well as she could, she
+again began the mortifying perusal of all that related to Wickham, and
+commanded herself so far as to examine the meaning of every sentence.
+The account of his connection with the Pemberley family was exactly
+what he had related himself; and the kindness of the late Mr. Darcy,
+though she had not before known its extent, agreed equally well with his
+own words. So far each recital confirmed the other; but when she came to
+the will, the difference was great. What Wickham had said of the living
+was fresh in her memory; and as she recalled his very words, it was
+impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the
+other, and, for a few moments, she flattered herself that her wishes did
+not err. But when she read and re-read, with the closest attention, the
+particulars immediately following of Wickham’s resigning all pretensions
+to the living, of his receiving in lieu so considerable a sum as three
+thousand pounds, again was she forced to hesitate. She put down the
+letter, weighed every circumstance with what she meant to be
+impartiality--deliberated on the probability of each statement--but with
+little success. On both sides it was only assertion. Again she read on.
+But every line proved more clearly that the affair, which she had
+believed it impossible that any contrivance could so represent as to
+render Mr. Darcy’s conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a
+turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.
+
+The extravagance and general profligacy which he scrupled not to lay to
+Mr. Wickham’s charge exceedingly shocked her; the more so, as she could
+bring no proof of its injustice. She had never heard of him before his
+entrance into the ----shire militia, in which he had engaged at the
+persuasion of the young man, who, on meeting him accidentally in town,
+had there renewed a slight acquaintance. Of his former way of life,
+nothing had been known in Hertfordshire but what he told
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Meeting accidentally in Town”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+himself. As to his real character, had information been in her power,
+she had never felt a wish of inquiring. His countenance, voice, and
+manner, had established him at once in the possession of every virtue.
+She tried to recollect some instance of goodness, some distinguished
+trait of integrity or benevolence, that might rescue him from the
+attacks of Mr. Darcy; or at least, by the predominance of virtue, atone
+for those casual errors, under which she would endeavour to class what
+Mr. Darcy had described as the idleness and vice of many years’
+continuance. But no such recollection befriended her. She could see him
+instantly before her, in every charm of air and address, but she could
+remember no more substantial good than the general approbation of the
+neighbourhood, and the regard which his social powers had gained him in
+the mess. After pausing on this point a considerable while, she once
+more continued to read. But, alas! the story which followed, of his
+designs on Miss Darcy, received some confirmation from what had passed
+between Colonel Fitzwilliam and herself only the morning before; and at
+last she was referred for the truth of every particular to Colonel
+Fitzwilliam himself--from whom she had previously received the
+information of his near concern in all his cousin’s affairs and whose
+character she had no reason to question. At one time she had almost
+resolved on applying to him, but the idea was checked by the awkwardness
+of the application, and at length wholly banished by the conviction that
+Mr. Darcy would never have hazarded such a proposal, if he had not been
+well assured of his cousin’s corroboration.
+
+She perfectly remembered everything that had passed in conversation
+between Wickham and herself in their first evening at Mr. Philips’s.
+Many of his expressions were still fresh in her memory. She was _now_
+struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and
+wondered it had escaped her before. She saw the indelicacy of putting
+himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions
+with his conduct. She remembered that he had boasted of having no fear
+of seeing Mr. Darcy--that Mr. Darcy might leave the country, but that
+_he_ should stand his ground; yet he had avoided the Netherfield ball
+the very next week. She remembered, also, that till the Netherfield
+family had quitted the country, he had told his story to no one but
+herself; but that after their removal, it had been everywhere discussed;
+that he had then no reserves, no scruples in sinking Mr. Darcy’s
+character, though he had assured her that respect for the father would
+always prevent his exposing the son.
+
+How differently did everything now appear in which he was concerned! His
+attentions to Miss King were now the consequence of views solely and
+hatefully mercenary; and the mediocrity of her fortune proved no longer
+the moderation of his wishes, but his eagerness to grasp at anything.
+His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive: he had
+either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying
+his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most
+incautiously shown. Every lingering struggle in his favour grew fainter
+and fainter; and in further justification of Mr. Darcy, she could not
+but allow that Mr. Bingley, when questioned by Jane, had long ago
+asserted his blamelessness in the affair;--that, proud and repulsive as
+were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their
+acquaintance--an acquaintance which had latterly brought them much
+together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways--seen anything
+that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust--anything that spoke him
+of irreligious or immoral habits;--that among his own connections he was
+esteemed and valued;--that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a
+brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his
+sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling;--that had his
+actions been what Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of
+everything right could hardly have been concealed from the world; and
+that friendship between a person capable of it and such an amiable man
+as Mr. Bingley was incomprehensible.
+
+She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham
+could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial,
+prejudiced, absurd.
+
+“How despicably have I acted!” she cried. “I, who have prided myself on
+my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have
+often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my
+vanity in useless or blameless distrust. How humiliating is this
+discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not
+have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my
+folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect
+of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted
+prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away where either were
+concerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself.”
+
+From herself to Jane, from Jane to Bingley, her thoughts were in a line
+which soon brought to her recollection that Mr. Darcy’s explanation
+_there_ had appeared very insufficient; and she read it again. Widely
+different was the effect of a second perusal. How could she deny that
+credit to his assertions, in one instance, which she had been obliged to
+give in the other? He declared himself to have been totally unsuspicious
+of her sister’s attachment; and she could not help remembering what
+Charlotte’s opinion had always been. Neither could she deny the justice
+of his description of Jane. She felt that Jane’s feelings, though
+fervent, were little displayed, and that there was a constant
+complacency in her air and manner, not often united with great
+sensibility.
+
+When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were
+mentioned, in tones of such mortifying, yet merited, reproach, her sense
+of shame was severe. The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly
+for denial; and the circumstances to which he particularly alluded, as
+having passed at the Netherfield ball, and as confirming all his first
+disapprobation, could not have made a stronger impression on his mind
+than on hers.
+
+The compliment to herself and her sister was not unfelt. It soothed, but
+it could not console her for the contempt which had been thus
+self-attracted by the rest of her family; and as she considered that
+Jane’s disappointment had, in fact, been the work of her nearest
+relations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt
+by such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond anything she
+had ever known before.
+
+After wandering along the lane for two hours, giving way to every
+variety of thought, reconsidering events, determining probabilities, and
+reconciling herself, as well as she could, to a change so sudden and so
+important, fatigue, and a recollection of her long absence, made her at
+length return home; and she entered the house with the wish of appearing
+cheerful as usual, and the resolution of repressing such reflections as
+must make her unfit for conversation.
+
+She was immediately told, that the two gentlemen from Rosings had each
+called during her absence; Mr. Darcy, only for a few minutes, to take
+leave, but that Colonel Fitzwilliam had been sitting with them at least
+an hour, hoping for her return, and almost resolving to walk after her
+till she could be found. Elizabeth could but just _affect_ concern in
+missing him; she really rejoiced at it. Colonel Fitzwilliam was no
+longer an object. She could think only of her letter.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“His parting obeisance”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The two gentlemen left Rosings the next morning; and Mr. Collins having
+been in waiting near the lodges, to make them his parting obeisance, was
+able to bring home the pleasing intelligence of their appearing in very
+good health, and in as tolerable spirits as could be expected, after the
+melancholy scene so lately gone through at Rosings. To Rosings he then
+hastened to console Lady Catherine and her daughter; and on his return
+brought back, with great satisfaction, a message from her Ladyship,
+importing that she felt herself so dull as to make her very desirous of
+having them all to dine with her.
+
+Elizabeth could not see Lady Catherine without recollecting that, had
+she chosen it, she might by this time have been presented to her as her
+future niece; nor could she think, without a smile, of what her
+Ladyship’s indignation would have been. “What would she have said? how
+would she have behaved?” were the questions with which she amused
+herself.
+
+Their first subject was the diminution of the Rosings’ party. “I assure
+you, I feel it exceedingly,” said Lady Catherine; “I believe nobody
+feels the loss of friends so much as I do. But I am particularly
+attached to these young men; and know them to be so much attached to me!
+They were excessively sorry to go! But so they always are. The dear
+Colonel rallied his spirits tolerably till just at last; but Darcy
+seemed to feel it most acutely--more, I think, than last year. His
+attachment to Rosings certainly increases.”
+
+Mr. Collins had a compliment and an allusion to throw in here, which
+were kindly smiled on by the mother and daughter.
+
+Lady Catherine observed, after dinner, that Miss Bennet seemed out of
+spirits; and immediately accounting for it herself, by supposing that
+she did not like to go home again so soon, she added,--
+
+“But if that is the case, you must write to your mother to beg that you
+may stay a little longer. Mrs. Collins will be very glad of your
+company, I am sure.”
+
+“I am much obliged to your Ladyship for your kind invitation,” replied
+Elizabeth; “but it is not in my power to accept it. I must be in town
+next Saturday.”
+
+“Why, at that rate, you will have been here only six weeks. I expected
+you to stay two months. I told Mrs. Collins so before you came. There
+can be no occasion for your going so soon. Mrs. Bennet could certainly
+spare you for another fortnight.”
+
+“But my father cannot. He wrote last week to hurry my return.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“Dawson”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+“Oh, your father, of course, may spare you, if your mother can.
+Daughters are never of so much consequence to a father. And if you will
+stay another _month_ complete, it will be in my power to take one of you
+as far as London, for I am going there early in June, for a week; and
+as Dawson does not object to the barouche-box, there will be very good
+room for one of you--and, indeed, if the weather should happen to be
+cool, I should not object to taking you both, as you are neither of you
+large.”
+
+“You are all kindness, madam; but I believe we must abide by our
+original plan.”
+
+Lady Catherine seemed resigned. “Mrs. Collins, you must send a servant
+with them. You know I always speak my mind, and I cannot bear the idea
+of two young women travelling post by themselves. It is highly improper.
+You must contrive to send somebody. I have the greatest dislike in the
+world to that sort of thing. Young women should always be properly
+guarded and attended, according to their situation in life. When my
+niece Georgiana went to Ramsgate last summer, I made a point of her
+having two men-servants go with her. Miss Darcy, the daughter of Mr.
+Darcy of Pemberley, and Lady Anne, could not have appeared with
+propriety in a different manner. I am excessively attentive to all those
+things. You must send John with the young ladies, Mrs. Collins. I am
+glad it occurred to me to mention it; for it would really be
+discreditable to _you_ to let them go alone.”
+
+“My uncle is to send a servant for us.”
+
+“Oh! Your uncle! He keeps a man-servant, does he? I am very glad you
+have somebody who thinks of those things. Where shall you change horses?
+Oh, Bromley, of course. If you mention my name at the Bell, you will be
+attended to.”
+
+Lady Catherine had many other questions to ask respecting their journey;
+and as she did not answer them all herself attention was
+necessary--which Elizabeth believed to be lucky for her; or, with a
+mind so occupied, she might have forgotten where she was. Reflection
+must be reserved for solitary hours: whenever she was alone, she gave
+way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a
+solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of
+unpleasant recollections.
+
+Mr. Darcy’s letter she was in a fair way of soon knowing by heart. She
+studied every sentence; and her feelings towards its writer were at
+times widely different. When she remembered the style of his address,
+she was still full of indignation: but when she considered how unjustly
+she had condemned and upbraided him, her anger was turned against
+herself; and his disappointed feelings became the object of compassion.
+His attachment excited gratitude, his general character respect: but she
+could not approve him; nor could she for a moment repent her refusal, or
+feel the slightest inclination ever to see him again. In her own past
+behaviour, there was a constant source of vexation and regret: and in
+the unhappy defects of her family, a subject of yet heavier chagrin.
+They were hopeless of remedy. Her father, contented with laughing at
+them, would never exert himself to restrain the wild giddiness of his
+youngest daughters; and her mother, with manners so far from right
+herself, was entirely insensible of the evil. Elizabeth had frequently
+united with Jane in an endeavour to check the imprudence of Catherine
+and Lydia; but while they were supported by their mother’s indulgence,
+what chance could there be of improvement? Catherine, weak-spirited,
+irritable, and completely under Lydia’s guidance, had been always
+affronted by their advice; and Lydia, self-willed and careless, would
+scarcely give them a hearing. They were ignorant, idle, and vain. While
+there was an officer in Meryton, they would flirt with him; and while
+Meryton was within a walk of Longbourn, they would be going there for
+ever.
+
+Anxiety on Jane’s behalf was another prevailing concern; and Mr. Darcy’s
+explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion,
+heightened the sense of what Jane had lost. His affection was proved to
+have been sincere, and his conduct cleared of all blame, unless any
+could attach to the implicitness of his confidence in his friend. How
+grievous then was the thought that, of a situation so desirable in every
+respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had
+been deprived, by the folly and indecorum of her own family!
+
+When to these recollections was added the development of Wickham’s
+character, it may be easily believed that the happy spirits which had
+seldom been depressed before were now so much affected as to make it
+almost impossible for her to appear tolerably cheerful.
+
+Their engagements at Rosings were as frequent during the last week of
+her stay as they had been at first. The very last evening was spent
+there; and her Ladyship again inquired minutely into the particulars of
+their journey, gave them directions as to the best method of packing,
+and was so urgent on the necessity of placing gowns in the only right
+way, that Maria thought herself obliged, on her return, to undo all the
+work of the morning, and pack her trunk afresh.
+
+When they parted, Lady Catherine, with great condescension, wished them
+a good journey, and invited them to come to Hunsford again next year;
+and Miss de Bourgh exerted herself so far as to courtesy and hold out
+her hand to both.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“The elevation of his feelings.”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On Saturday morning Elizabeth and Mr. Collins met for breakfast a few
+minutes before the others appeared; and he took the opportunity of
+paying the parting civilities which he deemed indispensably necessary.
+
+“I know not, Miss Elizabeth,” said he, “whether Mrs. Collins has yet
+expressed her sense of your kindness in coming to us; but I am very
+certain you will not leave the house without receiving her thanks for
+it. The favour of your company has been much felt, I assure you. We know
+how little there is to tempt anyone to our humble abode. Our plain
+manner of living, our small rooms, and few domestics, and the little we
+see of the world, must make Hunsford extremely dull to a young lady like
+yourself; but I hope you will believe us grateful for the condescension,
+and that we have done everything in our power to prevent you spending
+your time unpleasantly.”
+
+Elizabeth was eager with her thanks and assurances of happiness. She had
+spent six weeks with great enjoyment; and the pleasure of being with
+Charlotte, and the kind attention she had received, must make _her_ feel
+the obliged. Mr. Collins was gratified; and with a more smiling
+solemnity replied,--
+
+“It gives me the greatest pleasure to hear that you have passed your
+time not disagreeably. We have certainly done our best; and most
+fortunately having it in our power to introduce you to very superior
+society, and from our connection with Rosings, the frequent means of
+varying the humble home scene, I think we may flatter ourselves that
+your Hunsford visit cannot have been entirely irksome. Our situation
+with regard to Lady Catherine’s family is, indeed, the sort of
+extraordinary advantage and blessing which few can boast. You see on
+what a footing we are. You see how continually we are engaged there. In
+truth, I must acknowledge, that, with all the disadvantages of this
+humble parsonage, I should not think anyone abiding in it an object of
+compassion, while they are sharers of our intimacy at Rosings.”
+
+Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was
+obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility
+and truth in a few short sentences.
+
+“You may, in fact, carry a very favourable report of us into
+Hertfordshire, my dear cousin. I flatter myself, at least, that you will
+be able to do so. Lady Catherine’s great attentions to Mrs. Collins you
+have been a daily witness of; and altogether I trust it does not appear
+that your friend has drawn an unfortunate--but on this point it will be
+as well to be silent. Only let me assure you, my dear Miss Elizabeth,
+that I can from my heart most cordially wish you equal felicity in
+marriage. My dear Charlotte and I have but one mind and one way of
+thinking. There is in everything a most remarkable resemblance of
+character and ideas between us. We seem to have been designed for each
+other.”
+
+Elizabeth could safely say that it was a great happiness where that was
+the case, and with equal sincerity could add, that she firmly believed
+and rejoiced in his domestic comforts. She was not sorry, however, to
+have the recital of them interrupted by the entrance of the lady from
+whom they sprang. Poor Charlotte! it was melancholy to leave her to such
+society! But she had chosen it with her eyes open; and though evidently
+regretting that her visitors were to go, she did not seem to ask for
+compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry,
+and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.
+
+At length the chaise arrived, the trunks were fastened on, the parcels
+placed within, and it was pronounced to be ready. After an affectionate
+parting between the friends, Elizabeth was attended to the carriage by
+Mr. Collins; and as they walked down the garden, he was commissioning
+her with his best respects to all her family, not forgetting his thanks
+for the kindness he had received at Longbourn in the winter, and his
+compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, though unknown. He then handed
+her in, Maria followed, and the door was on the point of being closed,
+when he suddenly reminded them, with some consternation, that they had
+hitherto forgotten to leave any message for the ladies of Rosings.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“They had forgotten to leave any message”
+]
+
+“But,” he added, “you will of course wish to have your humble respects
+delivered to them, with your grateful thanks for their kindness to you
+while you have been here.”
+
+Elizabeth made no objection: the door was then allowed to be shut, and
+the carriage drove off.
+
+“Good gracious!” cried Maria, after a few minutes’ silence, “it seems
+but a day or two since we first came! and yet how many things have
+happened!”
+
+“A great many indeed,” said her companion, with a sigh.
+
+“We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking tea there twice!
+How much I shall have to tell!”
+
+Elizabeth privately added, “And how much I shall have to conceal!”
+
+Their journey was performed without much conversation, or any alarm; and
+within four hours of their leaving Hunsford they reached Mr. Gardiner’s
+house, where they were to remain a few days.
+
+Jane looked well, and Elizabeth had little opportunity of studying her
+spirits, amidst the various engagements which the kindness of her aunt
+had reserved for them. But Jane was to go home with her, and at
+Longbourn there would be leisure enough for observation.
+
+It was not without an effort, meanwhile, that she could wait even for
+Longbourn, before she told her sister of Mr. Darcy’s proposals. To know
+that she had the power of revealing what would so exceedingly astonish
+Jane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own
+vanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation
+to openness as nothing could have conquered, but the state of indecision
+in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate,
+and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into
+repeating something of Bingley, which might only grieve her sister
+further.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “How nicely we are crammed in”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set out
+together from Gracechurch Street for the town of ----, in Hertfordshire;
+and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet’s carriage was
+to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman’s
+punctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room upstairs.
+These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed
+in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and
+dressing a salad and cucumber.
+
+After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set
+out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming,
+“Is not this nice? is not this an agreeable surprise?”
+
+“And we mean to treat you all,” added Lydia; “but you must lend us the
+money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.” Then showing
+her purchases,--“Look here, I have bought this bonnet. I do not think it
+is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not. I shall
+pull it to pieces as soon as I get home, and see if I can make it up any
+better.”
+
+And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect
+unconcern, “Oh, but there were two or three much uglier in the shop; and
+when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it with fresh, I
+think it will be very tolerable. Besides, it will not much signify what
+one wears this summer, after the ----shire have left Meryton, and they
+are going in a fortnight.”
+
+“Are they, indeed?” cried Elizabeth, with the greatest satisfaction.
+
+“They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want papa to
+take us all there for the summer! It would be such a delicious scheme,
+and I dare say would hardly cost anything at all. Mamma would like to
+go, too, of all things! Only think what a miserable summer else we shall
+have!”
+
+“Yes,” thought Elizabeth; “_that_ would be a delightful scheme, indeed,
+and completely do for us at once. Good Heaven! Brighton and a whole
+campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor
+regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!”
+
+“Now I have got some news for you,” said Lydia, as they sat down to
+table. “What do you think? It is excellent news, capital news, and about
+a certain person that we all like.”
+
+Jane and Elizabeth looked at each other, and the waiter was told that he
+need not stay. Lydia laughed, and said,--
+
+“Ay, that is just like your formality and discretion. You thought the
+waiter must not hear, as if he cared! I dare say he often hears worse
+things said than I am going to say. But he is an ugly fellow! I am glad
+he is gone. I never saw such a long chin in my life. Well, but now for
+my news: it is about dear Wickham; too good for the waiter, is not it?
+There is no danger of Wickham’s marrying Mary King--there’s for you! She
+is gone down to her uncle at Liverpool; gone to stay. Wickham is safe.”
+
+“And Mary King is safe!” added Elizabeth; “safe from a connection
+imprudent as to fortune.”
+
+“She is a great fool for going away, if she liked him.”
+
+“But I hope there is no strong attachment on either side,” said Jane.
+
+“I am sure there is not on _his_. I will answer for it, he never cared
+three straws about her. Who _could_ about such a nasty little freckled
+thing?”
+
+Elizabeth was shocked to think that, however incapable of such
+coarseness of _expression_ herself, the coarseness of the _sentiment_
+was little other than her own breast had formerly harboured and fancied
+liberal!
+
+As soon as all had ate, and the elder ones paid, the carriage was
+ordered; and, after some contrivance, the whole party, with all their
+boxes, workbags, and parcels, and the unwelcome addition of Kitty’s and
+Lydia’s purchases, were seated in it.
+
+“How nicely we are crammed in!” cried Lydia. “I am glad I brought my
+bonnet, if it is only for the fun of having another band-box! Well, now
+let us be quite comfortable and snug, and talk and laugh all the way
+home. And in the first place, let us hear what has happened to you all
+since you went away. Have you seen any pleasant men? Have you had any
+flirting? I was in great hopes that one of you would have got a husband
+before you came back. Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare.
+She is almost three-and-twenty! Lord! how ashamed I should be of not
+being married before three-and-twenty! My aunt Philips wants you so to
+get husbands you can’t think. She says Lizzy had better have taken Mr.
+Collins; but _I_ do not think there would have been any fun in it. Lord!
+how I should like to be married before any of you! and then I would
+_chaperon_ you about to all the balls. Dear me! we had such a good piece
+of fun the other day at Colonel Forster’s! Kitty and me were to spend
+the day there, and Mrs. Forster promised to have a little dance in the
+evening; (by-the-bye, Mrs. Forster and me are _such_ friends!) and so
+she asked the two Harringtons to come: but Harriet was ill, and so Pen
+was forced to come by herself; and then, what do you think we did? We
+dressed up Chamberlayne in woman’s clothes, on purpose to pass for a
+lady,--only think what fun! Not a soul knew of it, but Colonel and Mrs.
+Forster, and Kitty and me, except my aunt, for we were forced to borrow
+one of her gowns; and you cannot imagine how well he looked! When Denny,
+and Wickham, and Pratt, and two or three more of the men came in, they
+did not know him in the least. Lord! how I laughed! and so did Mrs.
+Forster. I thought I should have died. And _that_ made the men suspect
+something, and then they soon found out what was the matter.”
+
+With such kind of histories of their parties and good jokes did Lydia,
+assisted by Kitty’s hints and additions, endeavour to amuse her
+companions all the way to Longbourn. Elizabeth listened as little as she
+could, but there was no escaping the frequent mention of Wickham’s name.
+
+Their reception at home was most kind. Mrs. Bennet rejoiced to see Jane
+in undiminished beauty; and more than once during dinner did Mr. Bennet
+say voluntarily to Elizabeth,----
+
+“I am glad you are come back, Lizzy.”
+
+Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases
+came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects
+which occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, across the
+table, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet
+was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present
+fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and on the other,
+retailing them all to the younger Miss Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice
+rather louder than any other person’s, was enumerating the various
+pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.
+
+“Oh, Mary,” said she, “I wish you had gone with us, for we had such fun!
+as we went along Kitty and me drew up all the blinds, and pretended
+there was nobody in the coach; and I should have gone so all the way, if
+Kitty had not been sick; and when we got to the George, I do think we
+behaved very handsomely, for we treated the other three with the nicest
+cold luncheon in the world, and if you would have gone, we would have
+treated you too. And then when we came away it was such fun! I thought
+we never should have got into the coach. I was ready to die of laughter.
+And then we were so merry all the way home! we talked and laughed so
+loud, that anybody might have heard us ten miles off!”
+
+To this, Mary very gravely replied, “Far be it from me, my dear sister,
+to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the
+generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for
+_me_. I should infinitely prefer a book.”
+
+But of this answer Lydia heard not a word. She seldom listened to
+anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all.
+
+In the afternoon Lydia was urgent with the rest of the girls to walk to
+Meryton, and see how everybody went on; but Elizabeth steadily opposed
+the scheme. It should not be said, that the Miss Bennets could not be at
+home half a day before they were in pursuit of the officers. There was
+another reason, too, for her opposition. She dreaded seeing Wickham
+again, and was resolved to avoid it as long as possible. The comfort to
+_her_, of the regiment’s approaching removal, was indeed beyond
+expression. In a fortnight they were to go, and once gone, she hoped
+there could be nothing more to plague her on his account.
+
+She had not been many hours at home, before she found that the Brighton
+scheme, of which Lydia had given them a hint at the inn, was under
+frequent discussion between her parents. Elizabeth saw directly that her
+father had not the smallest intention of yielding; but his answers were
+at the same time so vague and equivocal, that her mother, though often
+disheartened, had never yet despaired of succeeding at last.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XL.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth’s impatience to acquaint Jane with what had happened could no
+longer be overcome; and at length resolving to suppress every particular
+in which her sister was concerned, and preparing her to be surprised,
+she related to her the next morning the chief of the scene between Mr.
+Darcy and herself.
+
+Miss Bennet’s astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly
+partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly
+natural; and all surprise was shortly lost in other feelings. She was
+sorry that Mr. Darcy should have delivered his sentiments in a manner so
+little suited to recommend them; but still more was she grieved for the
+unhappiness which her sister’s refusal must have given him.
+
+“His being so sure of succeeding was wrong,” said she, “and certainly
+ought not to have appeared; but consider how much it must increase his
+disappointment.”
+
+“Indeed,” replied Elizabeth, “I am heartily sorry for him; but he has
+other feelings which will probably soon drive away his regard for me.
+You do not blame me, however, for refusing him?”
+
+“Blame you! Oh, no.”
+
+“But you blame me for having spoken so warmly of Wickham?”
+
+“No--I do not know that you were wrong in saying what you did.”
+
+“But you _will_ know it, when I have told you what happened the very
+next day.”
+
+She then spoke of the letter, repeating the whole of its contents as far
+as they concerned George Wickham. What a stroke was this for poor Jane,
+who would willingly have gone through the world without believing that
+so much wickedness existed in the whole race of mankind as was here
+collected in one individual! Nor was Darcy’s vindication, though
+grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery.
+Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, and
+seek to clear one, without involving the other.
+
+“This will not do,” said Elizabeth; “you never will be able to make both
+of them good for anything. Take your choice, but you must be satisfied
+with only one. There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just
+enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting
+about pretty much. For my part, I am inclined to believe it all Mr.
+Darcy’s, but you shall do as you choose.”
+
+It was some time, however, before a smile could be extorted from Jane.
+
+“I do not know when I have been more shocked,” said she. “Wickham so
+very bad! It is almost past belief. And poor Mr. Darcy! dear Lizzy,
+only consider what he must have suffered. Such a disappointment! and
+with the knowledge of your ill opinion too! and having to relate such a
+thing of his sister! It is really too distressing, I am sure you must
+feel it so.”
+
+“Oh no, my regret and compassion are all done away by seeing you so full
+of both. I know you will do him such ample justice, that I am growing
+every moment more unconcerned and indifferent. Your profusion makes me
+saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as
+light as a feather.”
+
+“Poor Wickham! there is such an expression of goodness in his
+countenance! such an openness and gentleness in his manner.”
+
+“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those
+two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the
+appearance of it.”
+
+“I never thought Mr. Darcy so deficient in the _appearance_ of it as you
+used to do.”
+
+“And yet I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike
+to him, without any reason. It is such a spur to one’s genius, such an
+opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind. One may be continually
+abusive without saying anything just; but one cannot be always laughing
+at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
+
+“Lizzy, when you first read that letter, I am sure you could not treat
+the matter as you do now.”
+
+“Indeed, I could not. I was uncomfortable enough, I was very
+uncomfortable--I may say unhappy. And with no one to speak to of what I
+felt, no Jane to comfort me, and say that I had not been so very weak,
+and vain, and nonsensical, as I knew I had! Oh, how I wanted you!”
+
+“How unfortunate that you should have used such very strong expressions
+in speaking of Wickham to Mr. Darcy, for now they _do_ appear wholly
+undeserved.”
+
+“Certainly. But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most
+natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging. There is
+one point on which I want your advice. I want to be told whether I
+ought, or ought not, to make our acquaintance in general understand
+Wickham’s character.”
+
+Miss Bennet paused a little, and then replied, “Surely there can be no
+occasion for exposing him so dreadfully. What is your own opinion?”
+
+“That it ought not to be attempted. Mr. Darcy has not authorized me to
+make his communication public. On the contrary, every particular
+relative to his sister was meant to be kept as much as possible to
+myself; and if I endeavour to undeceive people as to the rest of his
+conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is
+so violent, that it would be the death of half the good people in
+Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light. I am not equal to
+it. Wickham will soon be gone; and, therefore, it will not signify to
+anybody here what he really is. Some time hence it will be all found
+out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before.
+At present I will say nothing about it.”
+
+“You are quite right. To have his errors made public might ruin him for
+ever. He is now, perhaps, sorry for what he has done, and anxious to
+re-establish a character. We must not make him desperate.”
+
+The tumult of Elizabeth’s mind was allayed by this conversation. She
+had got rid of two of the secrets which had weighed on her for a
+fortnight, and was certain of a willing listener in Jane, whenever she
+might wish to talk again of either. But there was still something
+lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure. She dared not
+relate the other half of Mr. Darcy’s letter, nor explain to her sister
+how sincerely she had been valued by his friend. Here was knowledge in
+which no one could partake; and she was sensible that nothing less than
+a perfect understanding between the parties could justify her in
+throwing off this last encumbrance of mystery. “And then,” said she, “if
+that very improbable event should ever take place, I shall merely be
+able to tell what Bingley may tell in a much more agreeable manner
+himself. The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost
+all its value!”
+
+She was now, on being settled at home, at leisure to observe the real
+state of her sister’s spirits. Jane was not happy. She still cherished a
+very tender affection for Bingley. Having never even fancied herself in
+love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from
+her age and disposition, greater steadiness than first attachments often
+boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance, and prefer him to
+every other man, that all her good sense, and all her attention to the
+feelings of her friends, were requisite to check the indulgence of those
+regrets which must have been injurious to her own health and their
+tranquillity.
+
+“Well, Lizzy,” said Mrs. Bennet, one day, “what is your opinion _now_ of
+this sad business of Jane’s? For my part, I am determined never to speak
+of it again to anybody. I told my sister Philips so the other day. But I
+cannot find out that Jane saw anything of him in London. Well, he is a
+very undeserving young man--and I do not suppose there is the least
+chance in the world of her ever getting him now. There is no talk of his
+coming to Netherfield again in the summer; and I have inquired of
+everybody, too, who is likely to know.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “I am determined never to speak of it again”
+]
+
+“I do not believe that he will ever live at Netherfield any more.”
+
+“Oh, well! it is just as he chooses. Nobody wants him to come; though I
+shall always say that he used my daughter extremely ill; and, if I was
+her, I would not have put up with it. Well, my comfort is, I am sure
+Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he
+has done.”
+
+But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation she
+made no answer.
+
+“Well, Lizzy,” continued her mother, soon afterwards, “and so the
+Collinses live very comfortable, do they? Well, well, I only hope it
+will last. And what sort of table do they keep? Charlotte is an
+excellent manager, I dare say. If she is half as sharp as her mother,
+she is saving enough. There is nothing extravagant in _their_
+housekeeping, I dare say.”
+
+“No, nothing at all.”
+
+“A great deal of good management, depend upon it. Yes, yes. _They_ will
+take care not to outrun their income. _They_ will never be distressed
+for money. Well, much good may it do them! And so, I suppose, they often
+talk of having Longbourn when your father is dead. They look upon it
+quite as their own, I dare say, whenever that happens.”
+
+“It was a subject which they could not mention before me.”
+
+“No; it would have been strange if they had. But I make no doubt they
+often talk of it between themselves. Well, if they can be easy with an
+estate that is not lawfully their own, so much the better. _I_ should be
+ashamed of having one that was only entailed on me.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“When Colonel Miller’s regiment went away”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The first week of their return was soon gone. The second began. It was
+the last of the regiment’s stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in
+the neighbourhood were drooping apace. The dejection was almost
+universal. The elder Miss Bennets alone were still able to eat, drink,
+and sleep, and pursue the usual course of their employments. Very
+frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and
+Lydia, whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such
+hard-heartedness in any of the family.
+
+“Good Heaven! What is to become of us? What are we to do?” would they
+often exclaim in the bitterness of woe. “How can you be smiling so,
+Lizzy?”
+
+Their affectionate mother shared all their grief; she remembered what
+she had herself endured on a similar occasion five-and-twenty years ago.
+
+“I am sure,” said she, “I cried for two days together when Colonel
+Miller’s regiment went away. I thought I should have broke my heart.”
+
+“I am sure I shall break _mine_,” said Lydia.
+
+“If one could but go to Brighton!” observed Mrs. Bennet.
+
+“Oh yes!--if one could but go to Brighton! But papa is so disagreeable.”
+
+“A little sea-bathing would set me up for ever.”
+
+“And my aunt Philips is sure it would do _me_ a great deal of good,”
+added Kitty.
+
+Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through
+Longbourn House. Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them; but all sense
+of pleasure was lost in shame. She felt anew the justice of Mr. Darcy’s
+objections; and never had she before been so much disposed to pardon his
+interference in the views of his friend.
+
+But the gloom of Lydia’s prospect was shortly cleared away; for she
+received an invitation from Mrs. Forster, the wife of the colonel of the
+regiment, to accompany her to Brighton. This invaluable friend was a
+very young woman, and very lately married. A resemblance in good-humour
+and good spirits had recommended her and Lydia to each other, and out of
+their _three_ months’ acquaintance they had been intimate _two_.
+
+The rapture of Lydia on this occasion, her adoration of Mrs. Forster,
+the delight of Mrs. Bennet, and the mortification of Kitty, are scarcely
+to be described. Wholly inattentive to her sister’s feelings, Lydia flew
+about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone’s
+congratulations, and laughing and talking with more violence than ever;
+whilst the luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate
+in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
+
+“I cannot see why Mrs. Forster should not ask _me_ as well as Lydia,”
+said she, “though I am _not_ her particular friend. I have just as much
+right to be asked as she has, and more too, for I am two years older.”
+
+In vain did Elizabeth attempt to make her reasonable, and Jane to make
+her resigned. As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from
+exciting in her the same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she
+considered it as the death-warrant of all possibility of common sense
+for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her, were it
+known, she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her
+go. She represented to him all the improprieties of Lydia’s general
+behaviour, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of
+such a woman as Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more
+imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must
+be greater than at home. He heard her attentively, and then said,--
+
+“Lydia will never be easy till she has exposed herself in some public
+place or other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little
+expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present
+circumstances.”
+
+“If you were aware,” said Elizabeth, “of the very great disadvantage to
+us all, which must arise from the public notice of Lydia’s unguarded and
+imprudent manner, nay, which has already arisen from it, I am sure you
+would judge differently in the affair.”
+
+“Already arisen!” repeated Mr. Bennet. “What! has she frightened away
+some of your lovers? Poor little Lizzy! But do not be cast down. Such
+squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity
+are not worth a regret. Come, let me see the list of the pitiful fellows
+who have been kept aloof by Lydia’s folly.”
+
+“Indeed, you are mistaken. I have no such injuries to resent. It is not
+of peculiar, but of general evils, which I am now complaining. Our
+importance, our respectability in the world, must be affected by the
+wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark
+Lydia’s character. Excuse me,--for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear
+father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and
+of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of
+her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character
+will be fixed; and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt
+that ever made herself and her family ridiculous;--a flirt, too, in the
+worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond
+youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and emptiness of
+her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal
+contempt which her rage for admiration will excite. In this danger Kitty
+is also comprehended. She will follow wherever Lydia leads. Vain,
+ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrolled! Oh, my dear father, can you
+suppose it possible that they will not be censured and despised wherever
+they are known, and that their sisters will not be often involved in the
+disgrace?”
+
+Mr. Bennet saw that her whole heart was in the subject; and,
+affectionately taking her hand, said, in reply,--
+
+“Do not make yourself uneasy, my love. Wherever you and Jane are known,
+you must be respected and valued; and you will not appear to less
+advantage for having a couple of--or I may say, three--very silly
+sisters. We shall have no peace at Longbourn if Lydia does not go to
+Brighton. Let her go, then. Colonel Forster is a sensible man, and will
+keep her out of any real mischief; and she is luckily too poor to be an
+object of prey to anybody. At Brighton she will be of less importance
+even as a common flirt than she has been here. The officers will find
+women better worth their notice. Let us hope, therefore, that her being
+there may teach her her own insignificance. At any rate, she cannot grow
+many degrees worse, without authorizing us to lock her up for the rest
+of her life.”
+
+With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion
+continued the same, and she left him disappointed and sorry. It was not
+in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them.
+She was confident of having performed her duty; and to fret over
+unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her
+disposition.
+
+Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her conference with her
+father, their indignation would hardly have found expression in their
+united volubility. In Lydia’s imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised
+every possibility of earthly happiness. She saw, with the creative eye
+of fancy, the streets of that gay bathing-place covered with officers.
+She saw herself the object of attention to tens and to scores of them at
+present unknown. She saw all the glories of the camp: its tents
+stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young
+and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet; and, to complete the view, she
+saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six
+officers at once.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“Tenderly flirting”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+Had she known that her sister sought to tear her from such prospects and
+such realities as these, what would have been her sensations? They could
+have been understood only by her mother, who might have felt nearly the
+same. Lydia’s going to Brighton was all that consoled her for the
+melancholy conviction of her husband’s never intending to go there
+himself.
+
+But they were entirely ignorant of what had passed; and their raptures
+continued, with little intermission, to the very day of Lydia’s leaving
+home.
+
+Elizabeth was now to see Mr. Wickham for the last time. Having been
+frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty
+well over; the agitations of former partiality entirely so. She had even
+learnt to detect, in the very gentleness which had first delighted her,
+an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary. In his present
+behaviour to herself, moreover, she had a fresh source of displeasure;
+for the inclination he soon testified of renewing those attentions which
+had marked the early part of their acquaintance could only serve, after
+what had since passed, to provoke her. She lost all concern for him in
+finding herself thus selected as the object of such idle and frivolous
+gallantry; and while she steadily repressed it, could not but feel the
+reproof contained in his believing, that however long, and for whatever
+cause, his attentions had been withdrawn, her vanity would be gratified,
+and her preference secured, at any time, by their renewal.
+
+On the very last day of the regiment’s remaining in Meryton, he dined,
+with others of the officers, at Longbourn; and so little was Elizabeth
+disposed to part from him in good-humour, that, on his making some
+inquiry as to the manner in which her time had passed at Hunsford, she
+mentioned Colonel Fitzwilliam’s and Mr. Darcy’s having both spent three
+weeks at Rosings, and asked him if he were acquainted with the former.
+
+He looked surprised, displeased, alarmed; but, with a moment’s
+recollection, and a returning smile, replied, that he had formerly seen
+him often; and, after observing that he was a very gentlemanlike man,
+asked her how she had liked him. Her answer was warmly in his favour.
+With an air of indifference, he soon afterwards added, “How long did you
+say that he was at Rosings?”
+
+“Nearly three weeks.”
+
+“And you saw him frequently?”
+
+“Yes, almost every day.”
+
+“His manners are very different from his cousin’s.”
+
+“Yes, very different; but I think Mr. Darcy improves on acquaintance.”
+
+“Indeed!” cried Wickham, with a look which did not escape her. “And pray
+may I ask--” but checking himself, he added, in a gayer tone, “Is it in
+address that he improves? Has he deigned to add aught of civility to his
+ordinary style? for I dare not hope,” he continued, in a lower and more
+serious tone, “that he is improved in essentials.”
+
+“Oh, no!” said Elizabeth. “In essentials, I believe, he is very much
+what he ever was.”
+
+While she spoke, Wickham looked as if scarcely knowing whether to
+rejoice over her words or to distrust their meaning. There was a
+something in her countenance which made him listen with an apprehensive
+and anxious attention, while she added,--
+
+“When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that
+either his mind or manners were in a state of improvement; but that,
+from knowing him better, his disposition was better understood.”
+
+Wickham’s alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated
+look; for a few minutes he was silent; till, shaking off his
+embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of
+accents,--
+
+“You, who so well know my feelings towards Mr. Darcy, will readily
+comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume
+even the _appearance_ of what is right. His pride, in that direction,
+may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must deter
+him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by. I only fear that
+the sort of cautiousness to which you, I imagine, have been alluding, is
+merely adopted on his visits to his aunt, of whose good opinion and
+judgment he stands much in awe. His fear of her has always operated, I
+know, when they were together; and a good deal is to be imputed to his
+wish of forwarding the match with Miss de Bourgh, which I am certain he
+has very much at heart.”
+
+Elizabeth could not repress a smile at this, but she answered only by a
+slight inclination of the head. She saw that he wanted to engage her on
+the old subject of his grievances, and she was in no humour to indulge
+him. The rest of the evening passed with the _appearance_, on his side,
+of usual cheerfulness, but with no further attempt to distinguish
+Elizabeth; and they parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a
+mutual desire of never meeting again.
+
+When the party broke up, Lydia returned with Mrs. Forster to Meryton,
+from whence they were to set out early the next morning. The separation
+between her and her family was rather noisy than pathetic. Kitty was the
+only one who shed tears; but she did weep from vexation and envy. Mrs.
+Bennet was diffuse in her good wishes for the felicity of her daughter,
+and impressive in her injunctions that she would not miss the
+opportunity of enjoying herself as much as possible,--advice which there
+was every reason to believe would be attended to; and, in the clamorous
+happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus
+of her sisters were uttered without being heard.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+The arrival of the
+Gardiners
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could
+not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic
+comfort. Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance
+of good-humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a
+woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in
+their marriage put an end to all real affection for her. Respect,
+esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of
+domestic happiness were overthrown. But Mr. Bennet was not of a
+disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own
+imprudence had brought on in any of those pleasures which too often
+console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice. He was fond of
+the country and of books; and from these tastes had arisen his principal
+enjoyments. To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted than as
+her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement. This is not
+the sort of happiness which a man would in general wish to owe to his
+wife; but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true
+philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
+
+Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her
+father’s behaviour as a husband. She had always seen it with pain; but
+respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of
+herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to
+banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation
+and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own
+children, was so highly reprehensible. But she had never felt so
+strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so
+unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising
+from so ill-judged a direction of talents--talents which, rightly used,
+might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even
+if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
+
+When Elizabeth had rejoiced over Wickham’s departure, she found little
+other cause for satisfaction in the loss of the regiment. Their parties
+abroad were less varied than before; and at home she had a mother and
+sister, whose constant repinings at the dulness of everything around
+them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty
+might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers
+of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition
+greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her
+folly and assurance, by a situation of such double danger as a
+watering-place and a camp. Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what
+has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked
+forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the
+satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to
+name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have
+some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by
+again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the
+present, and prepare for another disappointment. Her tour to the Lakes
+was now the object of her happiest thoughts: it was her best consolation
+for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her mother
+and Kitty made inevitable; and could she have included Jane in the
+scheme, every part of it would have been perfect.
+
+“But it is fortunate,” thought she, “that I have something to wish for.
+Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain.
+But here, by carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my
+sister’s absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of
+pleasure realized. A scheme of which every part promises delight can
+never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by
+the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”
+
+When Lydia went away she promised to write very often and very minutely
+to her mother and Kitty; but her letters were always long expected, and
+always very short. Those to her mother contained little else than that
+they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers
+had attended them, and where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as
+made her quite wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which
+she would have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a
+violent hurry, as Mrs. Forster called her, and they were going to the
+camp; and from her correspondence with her sister there was still less
+to be learnt, for her letters to Kitty, though rather longer, were much
+too full of lines under the words to be made public.
+
+After the first fortnight or three weeks of her absence, health,
+good-humour, and cheerfulness began to reappear at Longbourn. Everything
+wore a happier aspect. The families who had been in town for the winter
+came back again, and summer finery and summer engagements arose. Mrs.
+Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and by the middle
+of June Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton
+without tears,--an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth
+hope, that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably
+reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by
+some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment
+should be quartered in Meryton.
+
+The time fixed for the beginning of their northern tour was now fast
+approaching; and a fortnight only was wanting of it, when a letter
+arrived from Mrs. Gardiner, which at once delayed its commencement and
+curtailed its extent. Mr. Gardiner would be prevented by business from
+setting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again
+within a month; and as that left too short a period for them to go so
+far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with
+the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up
+the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour; and, according to the
+present plan, were to go no farther northward than Derbyshire. In that
+county there was enough to be seen to occupy the chief of their three
+weeks; and to Mrs. Gardiner it had a peculiarly strong attraction. The
+town where she had formerly passed some years of her life, and where
+they were now to spend a few days, was probably as great an object of
+her curiosity as all the celebrated beauties of Matlock, Chatsworth,
+Dovedale, or the Peak.
+
+Elizabeth was excessively disappointed: she had set her heart on seeing
+the Lakes; and still thought there might have been time enough. But it
+was her business to be satisfied--and certainly her temper to be happy;
+and all was soon right again.
+
+With the mention of Derbyshire, there were many ideas connected. It was
+impossible for her to see the word without thinking of Pemberley and its
+owner. “But surely,” said she, “I may enter his county with impunity,
+and rob it of a few petrified spars, without his perceiving me.”
+
+The period of expectation was now doubled. Four weeks were to pass away
+before her uncle and aunt’s arrival. But they did pass away, and Mr. and
+Mrs. Gardiner, with their four children, did at length appear at
+Longbourn. The children, two girls of six and eight years old, and two
+younger boys, were to be left under the particular care of their cousin
+Jane, who was the general favourite, and whose steady sense and
+sweetness of temper exactly adapted her for attending to them in every
+way--teaching them, playing with them, and loving them.
+
+The Gardiners stayed only one night at Longbourn, and set off the next
+morning with Elizabeth in pursuit of novelty and amusement. One
+enjoyment was certain--that of suitableness as companions; a
+suitableness which comprehended health and temper to bear
+inconveniences--cheerfulness to enhance every pleasure--and affection
+and intelligence, which might supply it among themselves if there were
+disappointments abroad.
+
+It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire,
+nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither
+lay--Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, Birmingham, etc., are
+sufficiently known. A small part of Derbyshire is all the present
+concern. To the little town of Lambton, the scene of Mrs. Gardiner’s
+former residence, and where she had lately learned that some
+acquaintance still remained, they bent their steps, after having seen
+all the principal wonders of the country; and within five miles of
+Lambton, Elizabeth found, from her aunt, that Pemberley was situated. It
+was not in their direct road; nor more than a mile or two out of it. In
+talking over their route the evening before, Mrs. Gardiner expressed an
+inclination to see the place again. Mr. Gardiner declared his
+willingness, and Elizabeth was applied to for her approbation.
+
+“My love, should not you like to see a place of which you have heard so
+much?” said her aunt. “A place, too, with which so many of your
+acquaintance are connected. Wickham passed all his youth there, you
+know.”
+
+Elizabeth was distressed. She felt that she had no business at
+Pemberley, and was obliged to assume a disinclination for seeing it. She
+must own that she was tired of great houses: after going over so many,
+she really had no pleasure in fine carpets or satin curtains.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner abused her stupidity. “If it were merely a fine house
+richly furnished,” said she, “I should not care about it myself; but the
+grounds are delightful. They have some of the finest woods in the
+country.”
+
+Elizabeth said no more; but her mind could not acquiesce. The
+possibility of meeting Mr. Darcy, while viewing the place, instantly
+occurred. It would be dreadful! She blushed at the very idea; and
+thought it would be better to speak openly to her aunt, than to run such
+a risk. But against this there were objections; and she finally resolved
+that it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries as to the
+absence of the family were unfavourably answered.
+
+Accordingly, when she retired at night, she asked the chambermaid
+whether Pemberley were not a very fine place, what was the name of its
+proprietor, and, with no little alarm, whether the family were down for
+the summer? A most welcome negative followed the last question; and her
+alarms being now removed, she was at leisure to feel a great deal of
+curiosity to see the house herself; and when the subject was revived the
+next morning, and she was again applied to, could readily answer, and
+with a proper air of indifference, that she had not really any dislike
+to the scheme.
+
+To Pemberley, therefore, they were to go.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Conjecturing as to the date”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of
+Pemberley Woods with some perturbation; and when at length they turned
+in at the lodge, her spirits were in a high flutter.
+
+The park was very large, and contained great variety of ground. They
+entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through
+a beautiful wood stretching over a wide extent.
+
+Elizabeth’s mind was too full for conversation, but she saw and admired
+every remarkable spot and point of view. They gradually ascended for
+half a mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable
+eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by
+Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of the valley, into which
+the road with some abruptness wound. It was a large, handsome stone
+building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high
+woody hills; and in front a stream of some natural importance was
+swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. Its banks
+were neither formal nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She
+had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural
+beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were
+all of them warm in their admiration; and at that moment she felt that
+to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!
+
+They descended the hill, crossed the bridge, and drove to the door; and,
+while examining the nearer aspect of the house, all her apprehension of
+meeting its owner returned. She dreaded lest the chambermaid had been
+mistaken. On applying to see the place, they were admitted into the
+hall; and Elizabeth, as they waited for the housekeeper, had leisure to
+wonder at her being where she was.
+
+The housekeeper came; a respectable looking elderly woman, much less
+fine, and more civil, than she had any notion of finding her. They
+followed her into the dining-parlour. It was a large, well-proportioned
+room, handsomely fitted up. Elizabeth, after slightly surveying it, went
+to a window to enjoy its prospect. The hill, crowned with wood, from
+which they had descended, receiving increased abruptness from the
+distance, was a beautiful object. Every disposition of the ground was
+good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered
+on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace
+it, with delight. As they passed into other rooms, these objects were
+taking different positions; but from every window there were beauties
+to be seen. The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture
+suitable to the fortune of their proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with
+admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly
+fine,--with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the
+furniture of Rosings.
+
+“And of this place,” thought she, “I might have been mistress! With
+these rooms I might have now been familiarly acquainted! Instead of
+viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and
+welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt. But, no,” recollecting
+herself, “that could never be; my uncle and aunt would have been lost to
+me; I should not have been allowed to invite them.”
+
+This was a lucky recollection--it saved her from something like regret.
+
+She longed to inquire of the housekeeper whether her master were really
+absent, but had not courage for it. At length, however, the question was
+asked by her uncle; and she turned away with alarm, while Mrs. Reynolds
+replied, that he was; adding, “But we expect him to-morrow, with a large
+party of friends.” How rejoiced was Elizabeth that their own journey had
+not by any circumstance been delayed a day!
+
+Her aunt now called her to look at a picture. She approached, and saw
+the likeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other
+miniatures, over the mantel-piece. Her aunt asked her, smilingly, how
+she liked it. The housekeeper came forward, and told them it was the
+picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master’s steward, who
+had been brought up by him at his own expense. “He is now gone into the
+army,” she added; “but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.”
+
+Mrs. Gardiner looked at her niece with a smile, but Elizabeth could not
+return it.
+
+“And that,” said Mrs. Reynolds, pointing to another of the miniatures,
+“is my master--and very like him. It was drawn at the same time as the
+other--about eight years ago.”
+
+“I have heard much of your master’s fine person,” said Mrs. Gardiner,
+looking at the picture; “it is a handsome face. But, Lizzy, you can tell
+us whether it is like or not.”
+
+Mrs. Reynolds’ respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this
+intimation of her knowing her master.
+
+“Does that young lady know Mr. Darcy?”
+
+Elizabeth coloured, and said, “A little.”
+
+“And do not you think him a very handsome gentleman, ma’am?”
+
+“Yes, very handsome.”
+
+“I am sure _I_ know none so handsome; but in the gallery upstairs you
+will see a finer, larger picture of him than this. This room was my late
+master’s favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to
+be then. He was very fond of them.”
+
+This accounted to Elizabeth for Mr. Wickham’s being among them.
+
+Mrs. Reynolds then directed their attention to one of Miss Darcy, drawn
+when she was only eight years old.
+
+“And is Miss Darcy as handsome as her brother?” said Mr. Gardiner.
+
+“Oh, yes--the handsomest young lady that ever was seen; and so
+accomplished! She plays and sings all day long. In the next room is a
+new instrument just come down for her--a present from my master: she
+comes here to-morrow with him.”
+
+Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were easy and pleasant, encouraged her
+communicativeness by his questions and remarks: Mrs. Reynolds, either
+from pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her
+master and his sister.
+
+“Is your master much at Pemberley in the course of the year?”
+
+“Not so much as I could wish, sir: but I dare say he may spend half his
+time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.”
+
+“Except,” thought Elizabeth, “when she goes to Ramsgate.”
+
+“If your master would marry, you might see more of him.”
+
+“Yes, sir; but I do not know when _that_ will be. I do not know who is
+good enough for him.”
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner smiled. Elizabeth could not help saying, “It is
+very much to his credit, I am sure, that you should think so.”
+
+“I say no more than the truth, and what everybody will say that knows
+him,” replied the other. Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far;
+and she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added,
+“I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him
+ever since he was four years old.”
+
+This was praise of all others most extraordinary, most opposite to her
+ideas. That he was not a good-tempered man had been her firmest opinion.
+Her keenest attention was awakened: she longed to hear more; and was
+grateful to her uncle for saying,--
+
+“There are very few people of whom so much can be said. You are lucky in
+having such a master.”
+
+“Yes, sir, I know I am. If I were to go through the world, I could not
+meet with a better. But I have always observed, that they who are
+good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he
+was always the sweetest tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the
+world.”
+
+Elizabeth almost stared at her. “Can this be Mr. Darcy?” thought she.
+
+“His father was an excellent man,” said Mrs. Gardiner.
+
+“Yes, ma’am, that he was indeed; and his son will be just like him--just
+as affable to the poor.”
+
+Elizabeth listened, wondered, doubted, and was impatient for more. Mrs.
+Reynolds could interest her on no other point. She related the subjects
+of the pictures, the dimensions of the rooms, and the price of the
+furniture in vain. Mr. Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family
+prejudice, to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her
+master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his
+many merits, as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
+
+“He is the best landlord, and the best master,” said she, “that ever
+lived. Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but
+themselves. There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will
+give him a good name. Some people call him proud; but I am sure I never
+saw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle
+away like other young men.”
+
+“In what an amiable light does this place him!” thought Elizabeth.
+
+“This fine account of him,” whispered her aunt as they walked, “is not
+quite consistent with his behaviour to our poor friend.”
+
+“Perhaps we might be deceived.”
+
+“That is not very likely; our authority was too good.”
+
+On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty
+sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than
+the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to
+give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when
+last at Pemberley.
+
+“He is certainly a good brother,” said Elizabeth, as she walked towards
+one of the windows.
+
+Mrs. Reynolds anticipated Miss Darcy’s delight, when she should enter
+the room. “And this is always the way with him,” she added. “Whatever
+can give his sister any pleasure, is sure to be done in a moment. There
+is nothing he would not do for her.”
+
+The picture gallery, and two or three of the principal bed-rooms, were
+all that remained to be shown. In the former were many good paintings:
+but Elizabeth knew nothing of the art; and from such as had been already
+visible below, she had willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss
+Darcy’s, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and
+also more intelligible.
+
+In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have
+little to fix the attention of a stranger. Elizabeth walked on in quest
+of the only face whose features would be known to her. At last it
+arrested her--and she beheld a striking resemblance of Mr. Darcy, with
+such a smile over the face, as she remembered to have sometimes seen,
+when he looked at her. She stood several minutes before the picture, in
+earnest contemplation, and returned to it again before they quitted the
+gallery. Mrs. Reynolds informed them, that it had been taken in his
+father’s lifetime.
+
+There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth’s mind, a more gentle
+sensation towards the original than she had ever felt in the height of
+their acquaintance. The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds
+was of no trifling nature. What praise is more valuable than the praise
+of an intelligent servant? As a brother, a landlord, a master, she
+considered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship! How
+much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! How much of good
+or evil must be done by him! Every idea that had been brought forward by
+the housekeeper was favourable to his character; and as she stood before
+the canvas, on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon
+herself, she thought of his regard with a deeper sentiment of gratitude
+than it had ever raised before: she remembered its warmth, and softened
+its impropriety of expression.
+
+When all of the house that was open to general inspection had been seen,
+they returned down stairs; and, taking leave of the housekeeper, were
+consigned over to the gardener, who met them at the hall door.
+
+As they walked across the lawn towards the river, Elizabeth turned back
+to look again; her uncle and aunt stopped also; and while the former was
+conjecturing as to the date of the building, the owner of it himself
+suddenly came forward from the road which led behind it to the stables.
+
+They were within twenty yards of each other; and so abrupt was his
+appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes
+instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest
+blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immovable from
+surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party,
+and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least
+of perfect civility.
+
+She had instinctively turned away; but stopping on his approach,
+received his compliments with an embarrassment impossible to be
+overcome. Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture
+they had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two
+that they now saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener’s expression of surprise, on
+beholding his master, must immediately have told it. They stood a little
+aloof while he was talking to their niece, who, astonished and confused,
+scarcely dared lift her eyes to his face, and knew not what answer she
+returned to his civil inquiries after her family. Amazed at the
+alteration of his manner since they last parted, every sentence that he
+uttered was increasing her embarrassment; and every idea of the
+impropriety of her being found there recurring to her mind, the few
+minutes in which they continued together were some of the most
+uncomfortable of her life. Nor did he seem much more at ease; when he
+spoke, his accent had none of its usual sedateness; and he repeated his
+inquiries as to the time of her having left Longbourn, and of her stay
+in Derbyshire, so often, and in so hurried a way, as plainly spoke the
+distraction of his thoughts.
+
+At length, every idea seemed to fail him; and after standing a few
+moments without saying a word, he suddenly recollected himself, and took
+leave.
+
+The others then joined her, and expressed their admiration of his
+figure; but Elizabeth heard not a word, and, wholly engrossed by her own
+feelings, followed them in silence. She was overpowered by shame and
+vexation. Her coming there was the most unfortunate, the most ill-judged
+thing in the world! How strange must it appear to him! In what a
+disgraceful light might it not strike so vain a man! It might seem as if
+she had purposely thrown herself in his way again! Oh! why did she come?
+or, why did he thus come a day before he was expected? Had they been
+only ten minutes sooner, they should have been beyond the reach of his
+discrimination; for it was plain that he was that moment arrived, that
+moment alighted from his horse or his carriage. She blushed again and
+again over the perverseness of the meeting. And his behaviour, so
+strikingly altered,--what could it mean? That he should even speak to
+her was amazing!--but to speak with such civility, to inquire after her
+family! Never in her life had she seen his manners so little dignified,
+never had he spoken with such gentleness as on this unexpected meeting.
+What a contrast did it offer to his last address in Rosings Park, when
+he put his letter into her hand! She knew not what to think, or how to
+account for it.
+
+They had now entered a beautiful walk by the side of the water, and
+every step was bringing forward a nobler fall of ground, or a finer
+reach of the woods to which they were approaching: but it was some time
+before Elizabeth was sensible of any of it; and, though she answered
+mechanically to the repeated appeals of her uncle and aunt, and seemed
+to direct her eyes to such objects as they pointed out, she
+distinguished no part of the scene. Her thoughts were all fixed on that
+one spot of Pemberley House, whichever it might be, where Mr. Darcy then
+was. She longed to know what at that moment was passing in his mind; in
+what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything,
+she was still dear to him. Perhaps he had been civil only because he
+felt himself at ease; yet there had been _that_ in his voice, which was
+not like ease. Whether he had felt more of pain or of pleasure in seeing
+her, she could not tell, but he certainly had not seen her with
+composure.
+
+At length, however, the remarks of her companions on her absence of mind
+roused her, and she felt the necessity of appearing more like herself.
+
+They entered the woods, and, bidding adieu to the river for a while,
+ascended some of the higher grounds; whence, in spots where the opening
+of the trees gave the eye power to wander, were many charming views of
+the valley, the opposite hills, with the long range of woods
+overspreading many, and occasionally part of the stream. Mr. Gardiner
+expressed a wish of going round the whole park, but feared it might be
+beyond a walk. With a triumphant smile, they were told, that it was ten
+miles round. It settled the matter; and they pursued the accustomed
+circuit; which brought them again, after some time, in a descent among
+hanging woods, to the edge of the water, and one of its narrowest parts.
+They crossed it by a simple bridge, in character with the general air of
+the scene: it was a spot less adorned than any they had yet visited; and
+the valley, here contracted into a glen, allowed room only for the
+stream, and a narrow walk amidst the rough coppice-wood which bordered
+it. Elizabeth longed to explore its windings; but when they had crossed
+the bridge, and perceived their distance from the house, Mrs. Gardiner,
+who was not a great walker, could go no farther, and thought only of
+returning to the carriage as quickly as possible. Her niece was,
+therefore, obliged to submit, and they took their way towards the house
+on the opposite side of the river, in the nearest direction; but their
+progress was slow, for Mr. Gardiner, though seldom able to indulge the
+taste, was very fond of fishing, and was so much engaged in watching the
+occasional appearance of some trout in the water, and talking to the man
+about them, that he advanced but little. Whilst wandering on in this
+slow manner, they were again surprised, and Elizabeth’s astonishment was
+quite equal to what it had been at first, by the sight of Mr. Darcy
+approaching them, and at no great distance. The walk being here less
+sheltered than on the other side, allowed them to see him before they
+met. Elizabeth, however astonished, was at least more prepared for an
+interview than before, and resolved to appear and to speak with
+calmness, if he really intended to meet them. For a few moments, indeed,
+she felt that he would probably strike into some other path. The idea
+lasted while a turning in the walk concealed him from their view; the
+turning past, he was immediately before them. With a glance she saw that
+he had lost none of his recent civility; and, to imitate his politeness,
+she began as they met to admire the beauty of the place; but she had not
+got beyond the words “delightful,” and “charming,” when some unlucky
+recollections obtruded, and she fancied that praise of Pemberley from
+her might be mischievously construed. Her colour changed, and she said
+no more.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner was standing a little behind; and on her pausing, he asked
+her if she would do him the honour of introducing him to her friends.
+This was a stroke of civility for which she was quite unprepared; and
+she could hardly suppress a smile at his being now seeking the
+acquaintance of some of those very people, against whom his pride had
+revolted, in his offer to herself. “What will be his surprise,” thought
+she, “when he knows who they are! He takes them now for people of
+fashion.”
+
+The introduction, however, was immediately made; and as she named their
+relationship to herself, she stole a sly look at him, to see how he bore
+it; and was not without the expectation of his decamping as fast as he
+could from such disgraceful companions. That he was _surprised_ by the
+connection was evident: he sustained it, however, with fortitude: and,
+so far from going away, turned back with them, and entered into
+conversation with Mr. Gardiner. Elizabeth could not but be pleased,
+could not but triumph. It was consoling that he should know she had some
+relations for whom there was no need to blush. She listened most
+attentively to all that passed between them, and gloried in every
+expression, every sentence of her uncle, which marked his intelligence,
+his taste, or his good manners.
+
+The conversation soon turned upon fishing; and she heard Mr. Darcy
+invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he
+chose, while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same
+time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of
+the stream where there was usually most sport. Mrs. Gardiner, who was
+walking arm in arm with Elizabeth, gave her a look expressive of her
+wonder. Elizabeth said nothing, but it gratified her exceedingly; the
+compliment must be all for herself. Her astonishment, however, was
+extreme; and continually was she repeating, “Why is he so altered? From
+what can it proceed? It cannot be for _me_, it cannot be for _my_ sake
+that his manners are thus softened. My reproofs at Hunsford could not
+work such a change as this. It is impossible that he should still love
+me.”
+
+After walking some time in this way, the two ladies in front, the two
+gentlemen behind, on resuming their places, after descending to the
+brink of the river for the better inspection of some curious
+water-plant, there chanced to be a little alteration. It originated in
+Mrs. Gardiner, who, fatigued by the exercise of the morning, found
+Elizabeth’s arm inadequate to her support, and consequently preferred
+her husband’s. Mr. Darcy took her place by her niece, and they walked on
+together. After a short silence the lady first spoke. She wished him to
+know that she had been assured of his absence before she came to the
+place, and accordingly began by observing, that his arrival had been
+very unexpected--“for your housekeeper,” she added, “informed us that
+you would certainly not be here till to-morrow; and, indeed, before we
+left Bakewell, we understood that you were not immediately expected in
+the country.” He acknowledged the truth of it all; and said that
+business with his steward had occasioned his coming forward a few hours
+before the rest of the party with whom he had been travelling. “They
+will join me early to-morrow,” he continued, “and among them are some
+who will claim an acquaintance with you,--Mr. Bingley and his sisters.”
+
+Elizabeth answered only by a slight bow. Her thoughts were instantly
+driven back to the time when Mr. Bingley’s name had been last mentioned
+between them; and if she might judge from his complexion, _his_ mind was
+not very differently engaged.
+
+“There is also one other person in the party,” he continued after a
+pause, “who more particularly wishes to be known to you. Will you allow
+me, or do I ask too much, to introduce my sister to your acquaintance
+during your stay at Lambton?”
+
+The surprise of such an application was great indeed; it was too great
+for her to know in what manner she acceded to it. She immediately felt
+that whatever desire Miss Darcy might have of being acquainted with her,
+must be the work of her brother, and without looking farther, it was
+satisfactory; it was gratifying to know that his resentment had not made
+him think really ill of her.
+
+They now walked on in silence; each of them deep in thought. Elizabeth
+was not comfortable; that was impossible; but she was flattered and
+pleased. His wish of introducing his sister to her was a compliment of
+the highest kind. They soon outstripped the others; and when they had
+reached the carriage, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were half a quarter of a
+mile behind.
+
+He then asked her to walk into the house--but she declared herself not
+tired, and they stood together on the lawn. At such a time much might
+have been said, and silence was very awkward. She wanted to talk, but
+there seemed an embargo on every subject. At last she recollected that
+she had been travelling, and they talked of Matlock and Dovedale with
+great perseverance. Yet time and her aunt moved slowly--and her patience
+and her ideas were nearly worn out before the _tête-à-tête_ was over.
+
+On Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner’s coming up they were all pressed to go into
+the house and take some refreshment; but this was declined, and they
+parted on each side with the utmost politeness. Mr. Darcy handed the
+ladies into the carriage; and when it drove off, Elizabeth saw him
+walking slowly towards the house.
+
+The observations of her uncle and aunt now began; and each of them
+pronounced him to be infinitely superior to anything they had expected.
+
+“He is perfectly well-behaved, polite, and unassuming,” said her uncle.
+
+“There _is_ something a little stately in him, to be sure,” replied her
+aunt; “but it is confined to his air, and is not unbecoming. I can now
+say with the housekeeper, that though some people may call him proud,
+_I_ have seen nothing of it.”
+
+“I was never more surprised than by his behaviour to us. It was more
+than civil; it was really attentive; and there was no necessity for such
+attention. His acquaintance with Elizabeth was very trifling.”
+
+“To be sure, Lizzy,” said her aunt, “he is not so handsome as Wickham;
+or rather he has not Wickham’s countenance, for his features are
+perfectly good. But how came you to tell us that he was so
+disagreeable?”
+
+Elizabeth excused herself as well as she could: said that she had liked
+him better when they met in Kent than before, and that she had never
+seen him so pleasant as this morning.
+
+“But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities,” replied
+her uncle. “Your great men often are; and therefore I shall not take him
+at his word about fishing, as he might change his mind another day, and
+warn me off his grounds.”
+
+Elizabeth felt that they had entirely mistaken his character, but said
+nothing.
+
+“From what we have seen of him,” continued Mrs. Gardiner, “I really
+should not have thought that he could have behaved in so cruel a way by
+anybody as he has done by poor Wickham. He has not an ill-natured look.
+On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he
+speaks. And there is something of dignity in his countenance, that would
+not give one an unfavourable idea of his heart. But, to be sure, the
+good lady who showed us the house did give him a most flaming character!
+I could hardly help laughing aloud sometimes. But he is a liberal
+master, I suppose, and _that_, in the eye of a servant, comprehends
+every virtue.”
+
+Elizabeth here felt herself called on to say something in vindication of
+his behaviour to Wickham; and, therefore, gave them to understand, in as
+guarded a manner as she could, that by what she had heard from his
+relations in Kent, his actions were capable of a very different
+construction; and that his character was by no means so faulty, nor
+Wickham’s so amiable, as they had been considered in Hertfordshire. In
+confirmation of this, she related the particulars of all the pecuniary
+transactions in which they had been connected, without actually naming
+her authority, but stating it to be such as might be relied on.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner was surprised and concerned: but as they were now
+approaching the scene of her former pleasures, every idea gave way to
+the charm of recollection; and she was too much engaged in pointing out
+to her husband all the interesting spots in its environs, to think of
+anything else. Fatigued as she had been by the morning’s walk, they had
+no sooner dined than she set off again in quest of her former
+acquaintance, and the evening was spent in the satisfactions of an
+intercourse renewed after many years’ discontinuance.
+
+The occurrences of the day were too full of interest to leave Elizabeth
+much attention for any of these new friends; and she could do nothing
+but think, and think with wonder, of Mr. Darcy’s civility, and, above
+all, of his wishing her to be acquainted with his sister.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth had settled it that Mr. Darcy would bring his sister to visit
+her the very day after her reaching Pemberley; and was, consequently,
+resolved not to be out of sight of the inn the whole of that morning.
+But her conclusion was false; for on the very morning after their own
+arrival at Lambton these visitors came. They had been walking about the
+place with some of their new friends, and were just returned to the inn
+to dress themselves for dining with the same family, when the sound of a
+carriage drew them to a window, and they saw a gentleman and lady in a
+curricle driving up the street. Elizabeth, immediately recognizing the
+livery, guessed what it meant, and imparted no small degree of surprise
+to her relations, by acquainting them with the honour which she
+expected. Her uncle and aunt were all amazement; and the embarrassment
+of her manner as she spoke, joined to the circumstance itself, and many
+of the circumstances of the preceding day, opened to them a new idea on
+the business. Nothing had ever suggested it before, but they now felt
+that there was no other way of accounting for such attentions from such
+a quarter than by supposing a partiality for their niece. While these
+newly-born notions were passing in their heads, the perturbation of
+Elizabeth’s feelings was every moment increasing. She was quite amazed
+at her own discomposure; but, amongst other causes of disquiet, she
+dreaded lest the partiality of the brother should have said too much in
+her favour; and, more than commonly anxious to please, she naturally
+suspected that every power of pleasing would fail her.
+
+She retreated from the window, fearful of being seen; and as she walked
+up and down the room, endeavouring to compose herself, saw such looks of
+inquiring surprise in her uncle and aunt as made everything worse.
+
+Miss Darcy and her brother appeared, and this formidable introduction
+took place. With astonishment did Elizabeth see that her new
+acquaintance was at least as much embarrassed as herself. Since her
+being at Lambton, she had heard that Miss Darcy was exceedingly proud;
+but the observation of a very few minutes convinced her that she was
+only exceedingly shy. She found it difficult to obtain even a word from
+her beyond a monosyllable.
+
+Miss Darcy was tall, and on a larger scale than Elizabeth; and, though
+little more than sixteen, her figure was formed, and her appearance
+womanly and graceful. She was less handsome than her brother, but there
+was sense and good-humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly
+unassuming and gentle. Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as
+acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much
+relieved by discerning such different feelings.
+
+They had not been long together before Darcy told her that Bingley was
+also coming to wait on her; and she had barely time to express her
+satisfaction, and prepare for such a visitor, when Bingley’s quick step
+was heard on the stairs, and in a moment he entered the room. All
+Elizabeth’s anger against him had been long done away; but had she still
+felt any, it could hardly have stood its ground against the unaffected
+cordiality with which he expressed himself on seeing her again. He
+inquired in a friendly, though general, way, after her family, and
+looked and spoke with the same good-humoured ease that he had ever done.
+
+To Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner he was scarcely a less interesting personage
+than to herself. They had long wished to see him. The whole party before
+them, indeed, excited a lively attention. The suspicions which had just
+arisen of Mr. Darcy and their niece, directed their observation towards
+each with an earnest, though guarded, inquiry; and they soon drew from
+those inquiries the full conviction that one of them at least knew what
+it was to love. Of the lady’s sensations they remained a little in
+doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was
+evident enough.
+
+Elizabeth, on her side, had much to do. She wanted to ascertain the
+feelings of each of her visitors, she wanted to compose her own, and to
+make herself agreeable to all; and in the latter object, where she
+feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom
+she endeavoured to give pleasure were pre-possessed in her favour.
+Bingley was ready, Georgiana was eager, and Darcy determined, to be
+pleased.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “To make herself agreeable to all”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+In seeing Bingley, her thoughts naturally flew to her sister; and oh!
+how ardently did she long to know whether any of his were directed in a
+like manner. Sometimes she could fancy that he talked less than on
+former occasions, and once or twice pleased herself with the notion
+that, as he looked at her, he was trying to trace a resemblance. But,
+though this might be imaginary, she could not be deceived as to his
+behaviour to Miss Darcy, who had been set up as a rival to Jane. No
+look appeared on either side that spoke particular regard. Nothing
+occurred between them that could justify the hopes of his sister. On
+this point she was soon satisfied; and two or three little circumstances
+occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted
+a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of
+saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared. He
+observed to her, at a moment when the others were talking together, and
+in a tone which had something of real regret, that it “was a very long
+time since he had had the pleasure of seeing her;” and, before she could
+reply, he added, “It is above eight months. We have not met since the
+26th of November, when we were all dancing together at Netherfield.”
+
+Elizabeth was pleased to find his memory so exact; and he afterwards
+took occasion to ask her, when unattended to by any of the rest, whether
+_all_ her sisters were at Longbourn. There was not much in the question,
+nor in the preceding remark; but there was a look and a manner which
+gave them meaning.
+
+It was not often that she could turn her eyes on Mr. Darcy himself; but
+whenever she did catch a glimpse she saw an expression of general
+complaisance, and in all that he said, she heard an accent so far
+removed from _hauteur_ or disdain of his companions, as convinced her
+that the improvement of manners which she had yesterday witnessed,
+however temporary its existence might prove, had at least outlived one
+day. When she saw him thus seeking the acquaintance, and courting the
+good opinion of people with whom any intercourse a few months ago would
+have been a disgrace; when she saw him thus civil, not only to herself,
+but to the very relations whom he had openly disdained, and recollected
+their last lively scene in Hunsford Parsonage, the difference, the
+change was so great, and struck so forcibly on her mind, that she could
+hardly restrain her astonishment from being visible. Never, even in the
+company of his dear friends at Netherfield, or his dignified relations
+at Rosings, had she seen him so desirous to please, so free from
+self-consequence or unbending reserve, as now, when no importance could
+result from the success of his endeavours, and when even the
+acquaintance of those to whom his attentions were addressed, would draw
+down the ridicule and censure of the ladies both of Netherfield and
+Rosings.
+
+Their visitors stayed with them above half an hour; and when they arose
+to depart, Mr. Darcy called on his sister to join him in expressing
+their wish of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, and Miss Bennet, to dinner
+at Pemberley, before they left the country. Miss Darcy, though with a
+diffidence which marked her little in the habit of giving invitations,
+readily obeyed. Mrs. Gardiner looked at her niece, desirous of knowing
+how _she_, whom the invitation most concerned, felt disposed as to its
+acceptance, but Elizabeth had turned away her head. Presuming, however,
+that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than
+any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of
+society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for
+her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.
+
+Bingley expressed great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth
+again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many inquiries to
+make after all their Hertfordshire friends. Elizabeth, construing all
+this into a wish of hearing her speak of her sister, was pleased; and
+on this account, as well as some others, found herself, when their
+visitors left them, capable of considering the last half hour with some
+satisfaction, though while it was passing the enjoyment of it had been
+little. Eager to be alone, and fearful of inquiries or hints from her
+uncle and aunt, she stayed with them only long enough to hear their
+favourable opinion of Bingley, and then hurried away to dress.
+
+But she had no reason to fear Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner’s curiosity; it was
+not their wish to force her communication. It was evident that she was
+much better acquainted with Mr. Darcy than they had before any idea of;
+it was evident that he was very much in love with her. They saw much to
+interest, but nothing to justify inquiry.
+
+Of Mr. Darcy it was now a matter of anxiety to think well; and, as far
+as their acquaintance reached, there was no fault to find. They could
+not be untouched by his politeness; and had they drawn his character
+from their own feelings and his servant’s report, without any reference
+to any other account, the circle in Hertfordshire to which he was known
+would not have recognized it for Mr. Darcy. There was now an interest,
+however, in believing the housekeeper; and they soon became sensible
+that the authority of a servant, who had known him since he was four
+years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be
+hastily rejected. Neither had anything occurred in the intelligence of
+their Lambton friends that could materially lessen its weight. They had
+nothing to accuse him of but pride; pride he probably had, and if not,
+it would certainly be imputed by the inhabitants of a small market town
+where the family did not visit. It was acknowledged, however, that he
+was a liberal man, and did much good among the poor.
+
+With respect to Wickham, the travellers soon found that he was not held
+there in much estimation; for though the chief of his concerns with the
+son of his patron were imperfectly understood, it was yet a well-known
+fact that, on his quitting Derbyshire, he had left many debts behind
+him, which Mr. Darcy afterwards discharged.
+
+As for Elizabeth, her thoughts were at Pemberley this evening more than
+the last; and the evening, though as it passed it seemed long, was not
+long enough to determine her feelings towards _one_ in that mansion; and
+she lay awake two whole hours, endeavouring to make them out. She
+certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she
+had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him,
+that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his
+valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some
+time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened
+into somewhat of a friendlier nature by the testimony so highly in his
+favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light,
+which yesterday had produced. But above all, above respect and esteem,
+there was a motive within her of good-will which could not be
+overlooked. It was gratitude;--gratitude, not merely for having once
+loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the
+petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the
+unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been
+persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this
+accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance; and
+without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner,
+where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good
+opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister. Such
+a change in a man of so much pride excited not only astonishment but
+gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and, as
+such, its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no
+means unpleasing, though it could not be exactly defined. She respected,
+she esteemed, she was grateful to him, she felt a real interest in his
+welfare; and she only wanted to know how far she wished that welfare to
+depend upon herself, and how far it would be for the happiness of both
+that she should employ the power, which her fancy told her she still
+possessed, of bringing on the renewal of his addresses.
+
+It had been settled in the evening, between the aunt and niece, that
+such a striking civility as Miss Darcy’s, in coming to them on the very
+day of her arrival at Pemberley--for she had reached it only to a late
+breakfast--ought to be imitated, though it could not be equalled, by
+some exertion of politeness on their side; and, consequently, that it
+would be highly expedient to wait on her at Pemberley the following
+morning. They were, therefore, to go. Elizabeth was pleased; though when
+she asked herself the reason, she had very little to say in reply.
+
+Mr. Gardiner left them soon after breakfast. The fishing scheme had been
+renewed the day before, and a positive engagement made of his meeting
+some of the gentlemen at Pemberley by noon.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Engaged by the river”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Convinced as Elizabeth now was that Miss Bingley’s dislike of her had
+originated in jealousy, she could not help feeling how very unwelcome
+her appearance at Pemberley must be to her, and was curious to know
+with how much civility on that lady’s side the acquaintance would now
+be renewed.
+
+On reaching the house, they were shown through the hall into the saloon,
+whose northern aspect rendered it delightful for summer. Its windows,
+opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody
+hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts
+which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.
+
+In this room they were received by Miss Darcy, who was sitting there
+with Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley, and the lady with whom she lived in
+London. Georgiana’s reception of them was very civil, but attended with
+all that embarrassment which, though proceeding from shyness and the
+fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt themselves
+inferior the belief of her being proud and reserved. Mrs. Gardiner and
+her niece, however, did her justice, and pitied her.
+
+By Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley they were noticed only by a courtesy; and
+on their being seated, a pause, awkward as such pauses must always be,
+succeeded for a few moments. It was first broken by Mrs. Annesley, a
+genteel, agreeable-looking woman, whose endeavour to introduce some kind
+of discourse proved her to be more truly well-bred than either of the
+others; and between her and Mrs. Gardiner, with occasional help from
+Elizabeth, the conversation was carried on. Miss Darcy looked as if she
+wished for courage enough to join in it; and sometimes did venture a
+short sentence, when there was least danger of its being heard.
+
+Elizabeth soon saw that she was herself closely watched by Miss Bingley,
+and that she could not speak a word, especially to Miss Darcy, without
+calling her attention. This observation would not have prevented her
+from trying to talk to the latter, had they not been seated at an
+inconvenient distance; but she was not sorry to be spared the necessity
+of saying much: her own thoughts were employing her. She expected every
+moment that some of the gentlemen would enter the room: she wished, she
+feared, that the master of the house might be amongst them; and whether
+she wished or feared it most, she could scarcely determine. After
+sitting in this manner a quarter of an hour, without hearing Miss
+Bingley’s voice, Elizabeth was roused by receiving from her a cold
+inquiry after the health of her family. She answered with equal
+indifference and brevity, and the other said no more.
+
+The next variation which their visit afforded was produced by the
+entrance of servants with cold meat, cake, and a variety of all the
+finest fruits in season; but this did not take place till after many a
+significant look and smile from Mrs. Annesley to Miss Darcy had been
+given, to remind her of her post. There was now employment for the whole
+party; for though they could not all talk, they could all eat; and the
+beautiful pyramids of grapes, nectarines, and peaches, soon collected
+them round the table.
+
+While thus engaged, Elizabeth had a fair opportunity of deciding whether
+she most feared or wished for the appearance of Mr. Darcy, by the
+feelings which prevailed on his entering the room; and then, though but
+a moment before she had believed her wishes to predominate, she began to
+regret that he came.
+
+He had been some time with Mr. Gardiner, who, with two or three other
+gentlemen from the house, was engaged by the river; and had left him
+only on learning that the ladies of the family intended a visit to
+Georgiana that morning. No sooner did he appear, than Elizabeth wisely
+resolved to be perfectly easy and unembarrassed;--a resolution the more
+necessary to be made, but perhaps not the more easily kept, because she
+saw that the suspicions of the whole party were awakened against them,
+and that there was scarcely an eye which did not watch his behaviour
+when he first came into the room. In no countenance was attentive
+curiosity so strongly marked as in Miss Bingley’s, in spite of the
+smiles which overspread her face whenever she spoke to one of its
+objects; for jealousy had not yet made her desperate, and her attentions
+to Mr. Darcy were by no means over. Miss Darcy, on her brother’s
+entrance, exerted herself much more to talk; and Elizabeth saw that he
+was anxious for his sister and herself to get acquainted, and forwarded,
+as much as possible, every attempt at conversation on either side. Miss
+Bingley saw all this likewise; and, in the imprudence of anger, took the
+first opportunity of saying, with sneering civility,--
+
+“Pray, Miss Eliza, are not the ----shire militia removed from Meryton?
+They must be a great loss to _your_ family.”
+
+In Darcy’s presence she dared not mention Wickham’s name: but Elizabeth
+instantly comprehended that he was uppermost in her thoughts; and the
+various recollections connected with him gave her a moment’s distress;
+but, exerting herself vigorously to repel the ill-natured attack, she
+presently answered the question in a tolerably disengaged tone. While
+she spoke, an involuntary glance showed her Darcy with a heightened
+complexion, earnestly looking at her, and his sister overcome with
+confusion, and unable to lift up her eyes. Had Miss Bingley known what
+pain she was then giving her beloved friend, she undoubtedly would have
+refrained from the hint; but she had merely intended to discompose
+Elizabeth, by bringing forward the idea of a man to whom she believed
+her partial, to make her betray a sensibility which might injure her in
+Darcy’s opinion, and, perhaps, to remind the latter of all the follies
+and absurdities by which some part of her family were connected with
+that corps. Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy’s
+meditated elopement. To no creature had it been revealed, where secrecy
+was possible, except to Elizabeth; and from all Bingley’s connections
+her brother was particularly anxious to conceal it, from that very wish
+which Elizabeth had long ago attributed to him, of their becoming
+hereafter her own. He had certainly formed such a plan; and without
+meaning that it should affect his endeavour to separate him from Miss
+Bennet, it is probable that it might add something to his lively concern
+for the welfare of his friend.
+
+Elizabeth’s collected behaviour, however, soon quieted his emotion; and
+as Miss Bingley, vexed and disappointed, dared not approach nearer to
+Wickham, Georgiana also recovered in time, though not enough to be able
+to speak any more. Her brother, whose eye she feared to meet, scarcely
+recollected her interest in the affair; and the very circumstance which
+had been designed to turn his thoughts from Elizabeth, seemed to have
+fixed them on her more and more cheerfully.
+
+Their visit did not continue long after the question and answer above
+mentioned; and while Mr. Darcy was attending them to their carriage,
+Miss Bingley was venting her feelings in criticisms on Elizabeth’s
+person, behaviour, and dress. But Georgiana would not join her. Her
+brother’s recommendation was enough to insure her favour: his judgment
+could not err; and he had spoken in such terms of Elizabeth, as to leave
+Georgiana without the power of finding her otherwise than lovely and
+amiable. When Darcy returned to the saloon, Miss Bingley could not help
+repeating to him some part of what she had been saying to his sister.
+
+“How very ill Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy,” she cried: “I
+never in my life saw anyone so much altered as she is since the winter.
+She is grown so brown and coarse! Louisa and I were agreeing that we
+should not have known her again.”
+
+However little Mr. Darcy might have liked such an address, he contented
+himself with coolly replying, that he perceived no other alteration than
+her being rather tanned,--no miraculous consequence of travelling in the
+summer.
+
+“For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see
+any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no
+brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants
+character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are
+tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which
+have sometimes been called so fine, I never could perceive anything
+extraordinary in them. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not
+like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency
+without fashion, which is intolerable.”
+
+Persuaded as Miss Bingley was that Darcy admired Elizabeth, this was not
+the best method of recommending herself; but angry people are not always
+wise; and in seeing him at last look somewhat nettled, she had all the
+success she expected. He was resolutely silent, however; and, from a
+determination of making him speak, she continued,--
+
+“I remember, when we first knew her in Hertfordshire, how amazed we all
+were to find that she was a reputed beauty; and I particularly recollect
+your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, ‘_She_
+a beauty! I should as soon call her mother a wit.’ But afterwards she
+seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at
+one time.”
+
+“Yes,” replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, “but _that_
+was only when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have
+considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
+
+He then went away, and Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of
+having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner and Elizabeth talked of all that had occurred during their
+visit, as they returned, except what had particularly interested them
+both. The looks and behaviour of everybody they had seen were discussed,
+except of the person who had mostly engaged their attention. They talked
+of his sister, his friends, his house, his fruit, of everything but
+himself; yet Elizabeth was longing to know what Mrs. Gardiner thought of
+him, and Mrs. Gardiner would have been highly gratified by her niece’s
+beginning the subject.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XLVI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not finding a letter from
+Jane on their first arrival at Lambton; and this disappointment had been
+renewed on each of the mornings that had now been spent there; but on
+the third her repining was over, and her sister justified, by the
+receipt of two letters from her at once, on one of which was marked that
+it had been mis-sent elsewhere. Elizabeth was not surprised at it, as
+Jane had written the direction remarkably ill.
+
+They had just been preparing to walk as the letters came in; and her
+uncle and aunt, leaving her to enjoy them in quiet, set off by
+themselves. The one mis-sent must be first attended to; it had been
+written five days ago. The beginning contained an account of all their
+little parties and engagements, with such news as the country afforded;
+but the latter half, which was dated a day later, and written in evident
+agitation, gave more important intelligence. It was to this effect:--
+
+“Since writing the above, dearest Lizzy, something has occurred of a
+most unexpected and serious nature; but I am afraid of alarming you--be
+assured that we are all well. What I have to say relates to poor Lydia.
+An express came at twelve last night, just as we were all gone to bed,
+from Colonel Forster, to inform us that she was gone off to Scotland
+with one of his officers; to own the truth, with Wickham! Imagine our
+surprise. To Kitty, however, it does not seem so wholly unexpected. I am
+very, very sorry. So imprudent a match on both sides! But I am willing
+to hope the best, and that his character has been misunderstood.
+Thoughtless and indiscreet I can easily believe him, but this step (and
+let us rejoice over it) marks nothing bad at heart. His choice is
+disinterested at least, for he must know my father can give her nothing.
+Our poor mother is sadly grieved. My father bears it better. How
+thankful am I, that we never let them know what has been said against
+him; we must forget it ourselves. They were off Saturday night about
+twelve, as is conjectured, but were not missed till yesterday morning at
+eight. The express was sent off directly. My dear Lizzy, they must have
+passed within ten miles of us. Colonel Forster gives us reason to expect
+him here soon. Lydia left a few lines for his wife, informing her of
+their intention. I must conclude, for I cannot be long from my poor
+mother. I am afraid you will not be able to make it out, but I hardly
+know what I have written.”
+
+Without allowing herself time for consideration, and scarcely knowing
+what she felt, Elizabeth, on finishing this letter, instantly seized the
+other, and opening it with the utmost impatience, read as follows: it
+had been written a day later than the conclusion of the first.
+
+“By this time, my dearest sister, you have received my hurried letter; I
+wish this may be more intelligible, but though not confined for time, my
+head is so bewildered that I cannot answer for being coherent. Dearest
+Lizzy, I hardly know what I would write, but I have bad news for you,
+and it cannot be delayed. Imprudent as a marriage between Mr. Wickham
+and our poor Lydia would be, we are now anxious to be assured it has
+taken place, for there is but too much reason to fear they are not gone
+to Scotland. Colonel Forster came yesterday, having left Brighton the
+day before, not many hours after the express. Though Lydia’s short
+letter to Mrs. F. gave them to understand that they were going to Gretna
+Green, something was dropped by Denny expressing his belief that W.
+never intended to go there, or to marry Lydia at all, which was repeated
+to Colonel F., who, instantly taking the alarm, set off from B.,
+intending to trace their route. He did trace them easily to Clapham, but
+no farther; for on entering that place, they removed into a
+hackney-coach, and dismissed the chaise that brought them from Epsom.
+All that is known after this is, that they were seen to continue the
+London road. I know not what to think. After making every possible
+inquiry on that side London, Colonel F. came on into Hertfordshire,
+anxiously renewing them at all the turnpikes, and at the inns in Barnet
+and Hatfield, but without any success,--no such people had been seen to
+pass through. With the kindest concern he came on to Longbourn, and
+broke his apprehensions to us in a manner most creditable to his heart.
+I am sincerely grieved for him and Mrs. F.; but no one can throw any
+blame on them. Our distress, my dear Lizzy, is very great. My father and
+mother believe the worst, but I cannot think so ill of him. Many
+circumstances might make it more eligible for them to be married
+privately in town than to pursue their first plan; and even if _he_
+could form such a design against a young woman of Lydia’s connections,
+which is not likely, can I suppose her so lost to everything?
+Impossible! I grieve to find, however, that Colonel F. is not disposed
+to depend upon their marriage: he shook his head when I expressed my
+hopes, and said he feared W. was not a man to be trusted. My poor mother
+is really ill, and keeps her room. Could she exert herself, it would be
+better, but this is not to be expected; and as to my father, I never in
+my life saw him so affected. Poor Kitty has anger for having concealed
+their attachment; but as it was a matter of confidence, one cannot
+wonder. I am truly glad, dearest Lizzy, that you have been spared
+something of these distressing scenes; but now, as the first shock is
+over, shall I own that I long for your return? I am not so selfish,
+however, as to press for it, if inconvenient. Adieu! I take up my pen
+again to do, what I have just told you I would not; but circumstances
+are such, that I cannot help earnestly begging you all to come here as
+soon as possible. I know my dear uncle and aunt so well, that I am not
+afraid of requesting it, though I have still something more to ask of
+the former. My father is going to London with Colonel Forster instantly,
+to try to discover her. What he means to do, I am sure I know not; but
+his excessive distress will not allow him to pursue any measure in the
+best and safest way, and Colonel Forster is obliged to be at Brighton
+again to-morrow evening. In such an exigence my uncle’s advice and
+assistance would be everything in the world; he will immediately
+comprehend what I must feel, and I rely upon his goodness.”
+
+“Oh! where, where is my uncle?” cried Elizabeth, darting from her seat
+as she finished the letter, in eagerness to follow him, without losing a
+moment of the time so precious; but as she reached the door, it was
+opened by a servant, and Mr. Darcy appeared. Her pale face and
+impetuous manner made him start, and before he could recover himself
+enough to speak, she, in whose mind every idea was superseded by Lydia’s
+situation, hastily exclaimed, “I beg your pardon, but I must leave you.
+I must find Mr. Gardiner this moment on business that cannot be delayed;
+I have not an instant to lose.”
+
+“Good God! what is the matter?” cried he, with more feeling than
+politeness; then recollecting himself, “I will not detain you a minute;
+but let me, or let the servant, go after Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. You are
+not well enough; you cannot go yourself.”
+
+Elizabeth hesitated; but her knees trembled under her, and she felt how
+little would be gained by her attempting to pursue them. Calling back
+the servant, therefore, she commissioned him, though in so breathless an
+accent as made her almost unintelligible, to fetch his master and
+mistress home instantly.
+
+On his quitting the room, she sat down, unable to support herself, and
+looking so miserably ill, that it was impossible for Darcy to leave her,
+or to refrain from saying, in a tone of gentleness and commiseration,
+“Let me call your maid. Is there nothing you could take to give you
+present relief? A glass of wine; shall I get you one? You are very ill.”
+
+“No, I thank you,” she replied, endeavouring to recover herself. “There
+is nothing the matter with me. I am quite well, I am only distressed by
+some dreadful news which I have just received from Longbourn.”
+
+She burst into tears as she alluded to it, and for a few minutes could
+not speak another word. Darcy, in wretched suspense, could only say
+something indistinctly of his
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “I have not an instant to lose”
+]
+
+concern, and observe her in compassionate silence. At length she spoke
+again. “I have just had a letter from Jane, with such dreadful news. It
+cannot be concealed from anyone. My youngest sister has left all her
+friends--has eloped; has thrown herself into the power of--of Mr.
+Wickham. They are gone off together from Brighton. _You_ know him too
+well to doubt the rest. She has no money, no connections, nothing that
+can tempt him to--she is lost for ever.”
+
+Darcy was fixed in astonishment.
+
+“When I consider,” she added, in a yet more agitated voice, “that _I_
+might have prevented it! _I_ who knew what he was. Had I but explained
+some part of it only--some part of what I learnt, to my own family! Had
+his character been known, this could not have happened. But it is all,
+all too late now.”
+
+“I am grieved, indeed,” cried Darcy: “grieved--shocked. But is it
+certain, absolutely certain?”
+
+“Oh, yes! They left Brighton together on Sunday night, and were traced
+almost to London, but not beyond: they are certainly not gone to
+Scotland.”
+
+“And what has been done, what has been attempted, to recover her?”
+
+“My father has gone to London, and Jane has written to beg my uncle’s
+immediate assistance, and we shall be off, I hope, in half an hour. But
+nothing can be done; I know very well that nothing can be done. How is
+such a man to be worked on? How are they even to be discovered? I have
+not the smallest hope. It is every way horrible!”
+
+Darcy shook his head in silent acquiescence.
+
+“When _my_ eyes were opened to his real character, oh! had I known what
+I ought, what I dared to do! But I knew not--I was afraid of doing too
+much. Wretched, wretched mistake!”
+
+Darcy made no answer. He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up
+and down the room in earnest meditation; his brow contracted, his air
+gloomy. Elizabeth soon observed, and instantly understood it. Her power
+was sinking; everything _must_ sink under such a proof of family
+weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace. She could neither
+wonder nor condemn; but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing
+consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress. It
+was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own
+wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved
+him, as now, when all love must be vain.
+
+But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her. Lydia--the
+humiliation, the misery she was bringing on them all--soon swallowed up
+every private care; and covering her face with her handkerchief,
+Elizabeth was soon lost to everything else; and, after a pause of
+several minutes, was only recalled to a sense of her situation by the
+voice of her companion, who, in a manner which, though it spoke
+compassion, spoke likewise restraint, said,--
+
+“I am afraid you have been long desiring my absence, nor have I anything
+to plead in excuse of my stay, but real, though unavailing concern.
+Would to Heaven that anything could be either said or done on my part,
+that might offer consolation to such distress! But I will not torment
+you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.
+This unfortunate affair will, I fear, prevent my sister’s having the
+pleasure of seeing you at Pemberley to-day.”
+
+“Oh, yes! Be so kind as to apologize for us to Miss Darcy. Say that
+urgent business calls us home immediately. Conceal the unhappy truth as
+long as it is possible. I know it cannot be long.”
+
+He readily assured her of his secrecy, again expressed his sorrow for
+her distress, wished it a happier conclusion than there was at present
+reason to hope, and, leaving his compliments for her relations, with
+only one serious parting look, went away.
+
+As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they
+should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality as had
+marked their several meetings in Derbyshire; and as she threw a
+retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of
+contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those
+feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would
+formerly have rejoiced in its termination.
+
+If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth’s
+change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if
+otherwise, if the regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or
+unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a
+first interview with its object, and even before two words have been
+exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given
+somewhat of a trial to the latter method, in her partiality for Wickham,
+and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorize her to seek the other
+less interesting mode of attachment. Be that as it may, she saw him go
+with regret; and in this early example of what Lydia’s infamy must
+produce, found additional anguish as she reflected on that wretched
+business. Never since reading Jane’s second letter had she entertained a
+hope of Wickham’s meaning to marry her. No one but Jane, she thought,
+could flatter herself with such an expectation. Surprise was the least
+of all her feelings on this development. While the contents of the first
+letter remained on her mind, she was all surprise, all astonishment,
+that Wickham should marry a girl whom it was impossible he could marry
+for money; and how Lydia could ever have attached him had appeared
+incomprehensible. But now it was all too natural. For such an attachment
+as this, she might have sufficient charms; and though she did not
+suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement, without the
+intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither
+her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy
+prey.
+
+She had never perceived, while the regiment was in Hertfordshire, that
+Lydia had any partiality for him; but she was convinced that Lydia had
+wanted only encouragement to attach herself to anybody. Sometimes one
+officer, sometimes another, had been her favourite, as their attentions
+raised them in her opinion. Her affections had been continually
+fluctuating, but never without an object. The mischief of neglect and
+mistaken indulgence towards such a girl--oh! how acutely did she now
+feel it!
+
+She was wild to be at home--to hear, to see, to be upon the spot to
+share with Jane in the cares that must now fall wholly upon her, in a
+family so deranged; a father absent, a mother incapable of exertion, and
+requiring constant attendance; and though almost persuaded that nothing
+could be done for Lydia, her uncle’s interference seemed of the utmost
+importance, and till he entered the room the misery of her impatience
+was severe. Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner had hurried back in alarm, supposing,
+by the servant’s account, that their niece was taken suddenly ill; but
+satisfying them instantly on that head, she eagerly communicated the
+cause of their summons, reading the two letters aloud, and dwelling on
+the postscript of the last with trembling energy. Though Lydia had never
+been a favourite with them, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner could not but be
+deeply affected. Not Lydia only, but all were concerned in it; and after
+the first exclamations of surprise and horror, Mr. Gardiner readily
+promised every assistance in his power. Elizabeth, though expecting no
+less, thanked him with tears of gratitude; and all three being actuated
+by one spirit, everything relating to their journey was speedily
+settled. They were to be off as soon as possible. “But what is to be
+done about Pemberley?” cried Mrs. Gardiner. “John told us Mr. Darcy was
+here when you sent for us;--was it so?”
+
+“Yes; and I told him we should not be able to keep our engagement.
+_That_ is all settled.”
+
+“What is all settled?” repeated the other, as she ran into her room to
+prepare. “And are they upon such terms as for her to disclose the real
+truth? Oh, that I knew how it was!”
+
+But wishes were vain; or, at best, could serve only to amuse her in the
+hurry and confusion of the following hour. Had Elizabeth been at leisure
+to be idle, she would have remained certain that all employment was
+impossible to one so wretched as herself; but she had her share of
+business as well as her aunt, and amongst the rest there were notes to
+be written to all their friends at Lambton, with false excuses for their
+sudden departure. An hour, however, saw the whole completed; and Mr.
+Gardiner, meanwhile, having settled his account at the inn, nothing
+remained to be done but to go; and Elizabeth, after all the misery of
+the morning, found herself, in a shorter space of time than she could
+have supposed, seated in the carriage, and on the road to Longbourn.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “The first pleasing earnest of their welcome”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth,” said her uncle, as they
+drove from the town; “and really, upon serious consideration, I am much
+more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does of the
+matter. It appears to me so very unlikely that any young man should form
+such a design against a girl who is by no means unprotected or
+friendless, and who was actually staying in his Colonel’s family, that I
+am strongly inclined to hope the best. Could he expect that her friends
+would not step forward? Could he expect to be noticed again by the
+regiment, after such an affront to Colonel Forster? His temptation is
+not adequate to the risk.”
+
+“Do you really think so?” cried Elizabeth, brightening up for a moment.
+
+“Upon my word,” said Mrs. Gardiner, “I begin to be of your uncle’s
+opinion. It is really too great a violation of decency, honour, and
+interest, for him to be guilty of it. I cannot think so very ill of
+Wickham. Can you, yourself, Lizzie, so wholly give him up, as to believe
+him capable of it?”
+
+“Not perhaps of neglecting his own interest. But of every other neglect
+I can believe him capable. If, indeed, it should be so! But I dare not
+hope it. Why should they not go on to Scotland, if that had been the
+case?”
+
+“In the first place,” replied Mr. Gardiner, “there is no absolute proof
+that they are not gone to Scotland.”
+
+“Oh, but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a
+presumption! And, besides, no traces of them were to be found on the
+Barnet road.”
+
+“Well, then,--supposing them to be in London--they may be there, though
+for the purpose of concealment, for no more exceptionable purpose. It is
+not likely that money should be very abundant on either side; and it
+might strike them that they could be more economically, though less
+expeditiously, married in London, than in Scotland.”
+
+“But why all this secrecy? Why any fear of detection? Why must their
+marriage be private? Oh, no, no--this is not likely. His most particular
+friend, you see by Jane’s account, was persuaded of his never intending
+to marry her. Wickham will never marry a woman without some money. He
+cannot afford it. And what claims has Lydia, what attractions has she
+beyond youth, health, and good humour, that could make him for her sake
+forego every chance of benefiting himself by marrying well? As to what
+restraint the apprehensions of disgrace in the corps might throw on a
+dishonourable elopement with her, I am not able to judge; for I know
+nothing of the effects that such a step might produce. But as to your
+other objection, I am afraid it will hardly hold good. Lydia has no
+brothers to step forward; and he might imagine, from my father’s
+behaviour, from his indolence and the little attention he has ever
+seemed to give to what was going forward in his family, that _he_ would
+do as little and think as little about it, as any father could do, in
+such a matter.”
+
+“But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of him,
+as to consent to live with him on any other terms than marriage?”
+
+“It does seem, and it is most shocking, indeed,” replied Elizabeth, with
+tears in her eyes, “that a sister’s sense of decency and virtue in such
+a point should admit of doubt. But, really, I know not what to say.
+Perhaps I am not doing her justice. But she is very young: she has never
+been taught to think on serious subjects; and for the last half year,
+nay, for a twelvemonth, she has been given up to nothing but amusement
+and vanity. She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle
+and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way.
+Since the ----shire were first quartered in Meryton, nothing but love,
+flirtation, and officers, have been in her head. She has been doing
+everything in her power, by thinking and talking on the subject, to give
+greater--what shall I call it?--susceptibility to her feelings; which
+are naturally lively enough. And we all know that Wickham has every
+charm of person and address that can captivate a woman.”
+
+“But you see that Jane,” said her aunt, “does not think so ill of
+Wickham, as to believe him capable of the attempt.”
+
+“Of whom does Jane ever think ill? And who is there, whatever might be
+their former conduct, that she would believe capable of such an attempt,
+till it were proved against them? But Jane knows, as well as I do, what
+Wickham really is. We both know that he has been profligate in every
+sense of the word; that he has neither integrity nor honour; that he is
+as false and deceitful as he is insinuating.”
+
+“And do you really know all this?” cried Mrs. Gardiner, whose curiosity
+as to the mode of her intelligence was all alive.
+
+“I do, indeed,” replied Elizabeth, colouring. “I told you the other day
+of his infamous behaviour to Mr. Darcy; and you, yourself, when last at
+Longbourn, heard in what manner he spoke of the man who had behaved with
+such forbearance and liberality towards him. And there are other
+circumstances which I am not at liberty--which it is not worth while to
+relate; but his lies about the whole Pemberley family are endless. From
+what he said of Miss Darcy, I was thoroughly prepared to see a proud,
+reserved, disagreeable girl. Yet he knew to the contrary himself. He
+must know that she was as amiable and unpretending as we have found
+her.”
+
+“But does Lydia know nothing of this? can she be ignorant of what you
+and Jane seem so well to understand?”
+
+“Oh, yes!--that, that is the worst of all. Till I was in Kent, and saw
+so much both of Mr. Darcy and his relation Colonel Fitzwilliam, I was
+ignorant of the truth myself. And when I returned home the ----shire
+was to leave Meryton in a week or fortnight’s time. As that was the
+case, neither Jane, to whom I related the whole, nor I, thought it
+necessary to make our knowledge public; for of what use could it
+apparently be to anyone, that the good opinion, which all the
+neighbourhood had of him, should then be overthrown? And even when it
+was settled that Lydia should go with Mrs. Forster, the necessity of
+opening her eyes to his character never occurred to me. That _she_ could
+be in any danger from the deception never entered my head. That such a
+consequence as _this_ should ensue, you may easily believe was far
+enough from my thoughts.”
+
+“When they all removed to Brighton, therefore, you had no reason, I
+suppose, to believe them fond of each other?”
+
+“Not the slightest. I can remember no symptom of affection on either
+side; and had anything of the kind been perceptible, you must be aware
+that ours is not a family on which it could be thrown away. When first
+he entered the corps, she was ready enough to admire him; but so we all
+were. Every girl in or near Meryton was out of her senses about him for
+the first two months: but he never distinguished _her_ by any particular
+attention; and, consequently, after a moderate period of extravagant and
+wild admiration, her fancy for him gave way, and others of the regiment,
+who treated her with more distinction, again became her favourites.”
+
+It may be easily believed, that however little of novelty could be added
+to their fears, hopes, and conjectures, on this interesting subject by
+its repeated discussion, no other could detain them from it long, during
+the whole of the journey. From Elizabeth’s thoughts it was never absent.
+Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish, self-reproach, she could
+find no interval of ease or forgetfulness.
+
+They travelled as expeditiously as possible; and sleeping one night on
+the road, reached Longbourn by dinnertime the next day. It was a comfort
+to Elizabeth to consider that Jane could not have been wearied by long
+expectations.
+
+The little Gardiners, attracted by the sight of a chaise, were standing
+on the steps of the house, as they entered the paddock; and when the
+carriage drove up to the door, the joyful surprise that lighted up their
+faces and displayed itself over their whole bodies, in a variety of
+capers and frisks, was the first pleasing earnest of their welcome.
+
+Elizabeth jumped out; and after giving each of them a hasty kiss,
+hurried into the vestibule, where Jane, who came running downstairs from
+her mother’s apartment, immediately met her.
+
+Elizabeth, as she affectionately embraced her, whilst tears filled the
+eyes of both, lost not a moment in asking whether anything had been
+heard of the fugitives.
+
+“Not yet,” replied Jane. “But now that my dear uncle is come, I hope
+everything will be well.”
+
+“Is my father in town?”
+
+“Yes, he went on Tuesday, as I wrote you word.”
+
+“And have you heard from him often?”
+
+“We have heard only once. He wrote me a few lines on Wednesday, to say
+that he had arrived in safety, and to give me his directions, which I
+particularly begged him to do. He merely added, that he should not write
+again, till he had something of importance to mention.”
+
+“And my mother--how is she? How are you all?”
+
+“My mother is tolerably well, I trust; though her spirits are greatly
+shaken. She is upstairs, and will have great satisfaction in seeing you
+all. She does not yet leave her dressing-room. Mary and Kitty, thank
+Heaven! are quite well.”
+
+“But you--how are you?” cried Elizabeth. “You look pale. How much you
+must have gone through!”
+
+Her sister, however, assured her of her being perfectly well; and their
+conversation, which had been passing while Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were
+engaged with their children, was now put an end to by the approach of
+the whole party. Jane ran to her uncle and aunt, and welcomed and
+thanked them both, with alternate smiles and tears.
+
+When they were all in the drawing-room, the questions which Elizabeth
+had already asked were of course repeated by the others, and they soon
+found that Jane had no intelligence to give. The sanguine hope of good,
+however, which the benevolence of her heart suggested, had not yet
+deserted her; she still expected that it would all end well, and that
+every morning would bring some letter, either from Lydia or her father,
+to explain their proceedings, and, perhaps, announce the marriage.
+
+Mrs. Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes’
+conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with
+tears and lamentations of regret, invectives against the villainous
+conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage;
+blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the
+errors of her daughter must be principally owing.
+
+“If I had been able,” said she, “to carry my point in going to Brighton
+with all my family, _this_ would not have happened: but poor dear Lydia
+had nobody to take care of her. Why did the Forsters ever let her go out
+of their sight? I am sure there was some great neglect or other on their
+side, for she is not the kind of girl to do such a thing, if she had
+been well looked after. I always thought they were very unfit to have
+the charge of her; but I was over-ruled, as I always am. Poor, dear
+child! And now here’s Mr. Bennet gone away, and I know he will fight
+Wickham, wherever he meets him, and then he will be killed, and what is
+to become of us all? The Collinses will turn us out, before he is cold
+in his grave; and if you are not kind to us, brother, I do not know what
+we shall do.”
+
+They all exclaimed against such terrific ideas; and Mr. Gardiner, after
+general assurances of his affection for her and all her family, told her
+that he meant to be in London the very next day, and would assist Mr.
+Bennet in every endeavour for recovering Lydia.
+
+“Do not give way to useless alarm,” added he: “though it is right to be
+prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
+It is not quite a week since they left Brighton. In a few days more, we
+may gain some news of them; and till we know that they are not married,
+and have no design of marrying, do not let us give the matter over as
+lost. As soon as I get to town, I shall go to my brother, and make him
+come home with me to Gracechurch Street, and then we may consult
+together as to what is to be done.”
+
+“Oh, my dear brother,” replied Mrs. Bennet, “that is exactly what I
+could most wish for. And now do, when you get to town, find them out,
+wherever they may be; and if they are not married already, _make_ them
+marry. And as for wedding clothes, do not let them wait for that, but
+tell Lydia she shall have as much money as she chooses to buy them,
+after they are married. And, above all things, keep Mr. Bennet from
+fighting. Tell him what a dreadful state I am in--that I am frightened
+out of my wits; and have such tremblings, such flutterings all over me,
+such spasms in my side, and pains in my head, and such beatings at my
+heart, that I can get no rest by night nor by day. And tell my dear
+Lydia not to give any directions about her clothes till she has seen me,
+for she does not know which are the best warehouses. Oh, brother, how
+kind you are! I know you will contrive it all.”
+
+But Mr. Gardiner, though he assured her again of his earnest endeavours
+in the cause, could not avoid recommending moderation to her, as well in
+her hopes as her fears; and after talking with her in this manner till
+dinner was on table, they left her to vent all her feelings on the
+housekeeper, who attended in the absence of her daughters.
+
+Though her brother and sister were persuaded that there was no real
+occasion for such a seclusion from the family, they did not attempt to
+oppose it; for they knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her
+tongue before the servants, while they waited at table, and judged it
+better that _one_ only of the household, and the one whom they could
+most trust, should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the
+subject.
+
+In the dining-room they were soon joined by Mary and Kitty, who had been
+too busily engaged in their separate apartments to make their appearance
+before. One came from her books, and the other from her toilette. The
+faces of both, however, were tolerably calm; and no change was visible
+in either, except that the loss of her favourite sister, or the anger
+which she had herself incurred in the business, had given something more
+of fretfulness than usual to the accents of Kitty. As for Mary, she was
+mistress enough of herself to whisper to Elizabeth, with a countenance
+of grave reflection, soon after they were seated at table,--
+
+“This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of.
+But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of
+each other the balm of sisterly consolation.”
+
+Then perceiving in Elizabeth no inclination of replying, she added,
+“Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful
+lesson:--that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable, that one
+false step involves her in endless ruin, that her reputation is no less
+brittle than it is beautiful, and that she cannot be too much guarded in
+her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.”
+
+Elizabeth lifted up her eyes in amazement, but was too much oppressed to
+make any reply. Mary, however, continued to console herself with such
+kind of moral extractions from the evil before them.
+
+In the afternoon, the two elder Miss Bennets were able to be for half an
+hour by themselves; and Elizabeth instantly availed herself of the
+opportunity of making any inquiries which Jane was equally eager to
+satisfy. After joining in general lamentations over the dreadful sequel
+of this event, which Elizabeth considered as all but certain, and Miss
+Bennet could not assert to be wholly impossible, the former continued
+the subject by saying, “But tell me all and everything about it which I
+have not already heard. Give me further particulars. What did Colonel
+Forster say? Had they no apprehension of anything before the elopement
+took place? They must have seen them together for ever.”
+
+“Colonel Forster did own that he had often suspected some partiality,
+especially on Lydia’s side, but nothing to give him any alarm. I am so
+grieved for him. His behaviour was attentive and kind to the utmost. He
+_was_ coming to us, in order to assure us of his concern, before he had
+any idea of their not being gone to Scotland: when that apprehension
+first got abroad, it hastened his journey.”
+
+“And was Denny convinced that Wickham would not marry? Did he know of
+their intending to go off? Had Colonel Forster seen Denny himself?”
+
+“Yes; but when questioned by _him_, Denny denied knowing anything of
+their plan, and would not give his real opinion about it. He did not
+repeat his persuasion of their not marrying, and from _that_ I am
+inclined to hope he might have been misunderstood before.”
+
+“And till Colonel Forster came himself, not one of you entertained a
+doubt, I suppose, of their being really married?”
+
+“How was it possible that such an idea should enter our brains? I felt a
+little uneasy--a little fearful of my sister’s happiness with him in
+marriage, because I knew that his conduct had not been always quite
+right. My father and mother knew nothing of that; they only felt how
+imprudent a match it must be. Kitty then owned, with a very natural
+triumph on knowing more than the rest of us, that in Lydia’s last letter
+she had prepared her for such a step. She had known, it seems, of their
+being in love with each other many weeks.”
+
+“But not before they went to Brighton?”
+
+“No, I believe not.”
+
+“And did Colonel Forster appear to think ill of Wickham himself? Does he
+know his real character?”
+
+“I must confess that he did not speak so well of Wickham as he formerly
+did. He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant; and since this sad
+affair has taken place, it is said that he left Meryton greatly in debt:
+but I hope this may be false.”
+
+“Oh, Jane, had we been less secret, had we told what we knew of him,
+this could not have happened!”
+
+“Perhaps it would have been better,” replied her sister.
+
+“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what
+their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.”
+
+“We acted with the best intentions.”
+
+“Could Colonel Forster repeat the particulars of Lydia’s note to his
+wife?”
+
+“He brought it with him for us to see.”
+
+Jane then took it from her pocket-book, and gave it to Elizabeth. These
+were the contents:--
+
+     /* NIND “My dear Harriet, */
+
+     “You will laugh when you know where I am gone, and I cannot help
+     laughing myself at your surprise to-morrow morning, as soon as I am
+     missed. I am going to Gretna Green, and if you cannot guess with
+     who, I shall think you a simpleton, for there is but one man in the
+     world I love, and he is an angel. I should never be happy without
+     him, so think it no harm to be off. You need not send them word at
+     Longbourn of my going, if you do not like it, for it will make the
+     surprise the greater when I write to them, and sign my name Lydia
+     Wickham. What a good joke it will be! I can hardly write for
+     laughing. Pray make my excuses to Pratt for not keeping my
+     engagement, and dancing with him to-night. Tell him I hope he will
+     excuse me when he knows all, and tell him I will dance with him at
+     the next ball we meet with great pleasure. I shall send for my
+     clothes when I get to Longbourn; but I wish you would tell Sally to
+     mend a great slit in my worked muslin gown before they are packed
+     up. Good-bye. Give my love to Colonel Forster. I hope you will
+     drink to our good journey.
+
+“Your affectionate friend,
+
+“LYDIA BENNET.”
+
+
+“Oh, thoughtless, thoughtless Lydia!” cried Elizabeth when she had
+finished it. “What a letter is this, to be written at such a moment! But
+at least it shows that _she_ was serious in the object of her journey.
+Whatever he might afterwards persuade her to, it was not on her side a
+_scheme_ of infamy. My poor father! how he must have felt it!”
+
+“I never saw anyone so shocked. He could not speak a word for full ten
+minutes. My mother was taken ill immediately, and the whole house in
+such confusion!”
+
+“Oh, Jane,” cried Elizabeth, “was there a servant belonging to it who
+did not know the whole story before the end of the day?”
+
+“I do not know: I hope there was. But to be guarded at such a time is
+very difficult. My mother was in hysterics; and though I endeavoured to
+give her every assistance in my power, I am afraid I did not do so much
+as I might have done. But the horror of what might possibly happen
+almost took from me my faculties.”
+
+“Your attendance upon her has been too much for you. You do not look
+well. Oh that I had been with you! you have had every care and anxiety
+upon yourself alone.”
+
+“Mary and Kitty have been very kind, and would have shared in every
+fatigue, I am sure, but I did not think it right for either of them.
+Kitty is slight and delicate, and Mary studies so much that her hours of
+repose should not be broken in on. My aunt Philips came to Longbourn on
+Tuesday, after my father went away; and was so good as to stay till
+Thursday with me. She was of great use and comfort to us all, and Lady
+Lucas has been very kind: she walked here on Wednesday morning to
+condole with us, and offered her services, or any of her daughters, if
+they could be of use to us.”
+
+“She had better have stayed at home,” cried Elizabeth: “perhaps she
+_meant_ well, but, under such a misfortune as this, one cannot see too
+little of one’s neighbours. Assistance is impossible; condolence,
+insufferable. Let them triumph over us at a distance, and be satisfied.”
+
+She then proceeded to inquire into the measures which her father had
+intended to pursue, while in town, for the recovery of his daughter.
+
+“He meant, I believe,” replied Jane, “to go to Epsom, the place where
+they last changed horses, see the postilions, and try if anything could
+be made out from them. His principal object must be to discover the
+number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham. It had come
+with a fare from London; and as he thought the circumstance of a
+gentleman and lady’s removing from one carriage into another might be
+remarked, he meant to make inquiries at Clapham. If he could anyhow
+discover at what house the coachman had before set down his fare, he
+determined to make inquiries there, and hoped it might not be impossible
+to find out the stand and number of the coach. I do not know of any
+other designs that he had formed; but he was in such a hurry to be gone,
+and his spirits so greatly discomposed, that I had difficulty in finding
+out even so much as this.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     The Post
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The whole party were in hopes of a letter from Mr. Bennet the next
+morning, but the post came in without bringing a single line from him.
+His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and
+dilatory correspondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.
+They were forced to conclude, that he had no pleasing intelligence to
+send; but even of _that_ they would have been glad to be certain. Mr.
+Gardiner had waited only for the letters before he set off.
+
+When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant
+information of what was going on; and their uncle promised, at parting,
+to prevail on Mr. Bennet to return to Longbourn as soon as he could, to
+the great consolation of his sister, who considered it as the only
+security for her husband’s not being killed in a duel.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner and the children were to remain in Hertfordshire a few
+days longer, as the former thought her presence might be serviceable to
+her nieces. She shared in their attendance on Mrs. Bennet, and was a
+great comfort to them in their hours of freedom. Their other aunt also
+visited them frequently, and always, as she said, with the design of
+cheering and heartening them up--though, as she never came without
+reporting some fresh instance of Wickham’s extravagance or irregularity,
+she seldom went away without leaving them more dispirited than she found
+them.
+
+All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months
+before, had been almost an angel of light. He was declared to be in debt
+to every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with
+the title of seduction, had been extended into every tradesman’s family.
+Everybody declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world; and
+everybody began to find out that they had always distrusted the
+appearance of his goodness. Elizabeth, though she did not credit above
+half of what was said, believed enough to make her former assurance of
+her sister’s ruin still more certain; and even Jane, who believed still
+less of it, became almost hopeless, more especially as the time was now
+come, when, if they had gone to Scotland, which she had never before
+entirely despaired of, they must in all probability have gained some
+news of them.
+
+Mr. Gardiner left Longbourn on Sunday; on Tuesday, his wife received a
+letter from him: it told them, that on his arrival he had immediately
+found out his brother, and persuaded him to come to Gracechurch Street.
+That Mr. Bennet had been to Epsom and Clapham, before his arrival, but
+without gaining any satisfactory information; and that he was now
+determined to inquire at all the principal hotels in town, as Mr. Bennet
+thought it possible they might have gone to one of them, on their first
+coming to London, before they procured lodgings. Mr. Gardiner himself
+did not expect any success from this measure; but as his brother was
+eager in it, he meant to assist him in pursuing it. He added, that Mr.
+Bennet seemed wholly disinclined at present to leave London, and
+promised to write again very soon. There was also a postscript to this
+effect:--
+
+“I have written to Colonel Forster to desire him to find out, if
+possible, from some of the young man’s intimates in the regiment,
+whether Wickham has any relations or connections who would be likely to
+know in what part of the town he has now concealed himself. If there
+were anyone that one could apply to, with a probability of gaining such
+a clue as that, it might be of essential consequence. At present we have
+nothing to guide us. Colonel Forster will, I dare say, do everything in
+his power to satisfy us on this head. But, on second thoughts, perhaps
+Lizzy could tell us what relations he has now living better than any
+other person.”
+
+Elizabeth was at no loss to understand from whence this deference for
+her authority proceeded; but it was not in her power to give any
+information of so satisfactory a nature as the compliment deserved.
+
+She had never heard of his having had any relations, except a father
+and mother, both of whom had been dead many years. It was possible,
+however, that some of his companions in the ----shire might be able to
+give more information; and though she was not very sanguine in expecting
+it, the application was a something to look forward to.
+
+Every day at Longbourn was now a day of anxiety; but the most anxious
+part of each was when the post was expected. The arrival of letters was
+the first grand object of every morning’s impatience. Through letters,
+whatever of good or bad was to be told would be communicated; and every
+succeeding day was expected to bring some news of importance.
+
+But before they heard again from Mr. Gardiner, a letter arrived for
+their father, from a different quarter, from Mr. Collins; which, as Jane
+had received directions to open all that came for him in his absence,
+she accordingly read; and Elizabeth, who knew what curiosities his
+letters always were, looked over her, and read it likewise. It was as
+follows:--
+
+     /* “My dear Sir, */
+
+     “I feel myself called upon, by our relationship, and my situation
+     in life, to condole with you on the grievous affliction you are now
+     suffering under, of which we were yesterday informed by a letter
+     from Hertfordshire. Be assured, my dear sir, that Mrs. Collins and
+     myself sincerely sympathize with you, and all your respectable
+     family, in your present distress, which must be of the bitterest
+     kind, because proceeding from a cause which no time can remove. No
+     arguments shall be wanting on my part, that can alleviate so severe
+     a misfortune; or that may comfort you, under a circumstance that
+     must be, of all others, most afflicting to a parent’s mind. The
+     death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of
+     this. And it is the more to be lamented, because there is reason to
+     suppose, as my dear Charlotte informs me, that this licentiousness
+     of behaviour in your
+
+     [Illustration:
+
+“To whom I have related the affair”
+
+     [_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+     daughter has proceeded from a faulty degree of indulgence; though,
+     at the same time, for the consolation of yourself and Mrs. Bennet,
+     I am inclined to think that her own disposition must be naturally
+     bad, or she could not be guilty of such an enormity, at so early an
+     age. Howsoever that may be, you are grievously to be pitied; in
+     which opinion I am not only joined by Mrs. Collins, but likewise by
+     Lady Catherine and her daughter, to whom I have related the affair.
+     They agree with me in apprehending that this false step in one
+     daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others: for
+     who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, will connect
+     themselves with such a family? And this consideration leads me,
+     moreover, to reflect, with augmented satisfaction, on a certain
+     event of last November; for had it been otherwise, I must have been
+     involved in all your sorrow and disgrace. Let me advise you, then,
+     my dear sir, to console yourself as much as possible, to throw off
+     your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to
+     reap the fruits of her own heinous offence.
+
+“I am, dear sir,” etc., etc.
+
+Mr. Gardiner did not write again, till he had received an answer from
+Colonel Forster; and then he had nothing of a pleasant nature to send.
+It was not known that Wickham had a single relation with whom he kept up
+any connection, and it was certain that he had no near one living. His
+former acquaintance had been numerous; but since he had been in the
+militia, it did not appear that he was on terms of particular friendship
+with any of them. There was no one, therefore, who could be pointed out
+as likely to give any news of him. And in the wretched state of his own
+finances, there was a very powerful motive for secrecy, in addition to
+his fear of discovery by Lydia’s relations; for it had just transpired
+that he had left gaming debts behind him to a very considerable amount.
+Colonel Forster believed that more than a thousand pounds would be
+necessary to clear his expenses at Brighton. He owed a good deal in the
+town, but his debts of honour were still more formidable. Mr. Gardiner
+did not attempt to conceal these particulars from the Longbourn family;
+Jane heard them with horror. “A gamester!” she cried. “This is wholly
+unexpected; I had not an idea of it.”
+
+Mr. Gardiner added, in his letter, that they might expect to see their
+father at home on the following day, which was Saturday. Rendered
+spiritless by the ill success of all their endeavours, he had yielded to
+his brother-in-law’s entreaty that he would return to his family and
+leave it to him to do whatever occasion might suggest to be advisable
+for continuing their pursuit. When Mrs. Bennet was told of this, she did
+not express so much satisfaction as her children expected, considering
+what her anxiety for his life had been before.
+
+“What! is he coming home, and without poor Lydia?” she cried. “Sure he
+will not leave London before he has found them. Who is to fight Wickham,
+and make him marry her, if he comes away?”
+
+As Mrs. Gardiner began to wish to be at home, it was settled that she
+and her children should go to London at the same time that Mr. Bennet
+came from it. The coach, therefore, took them the first stage of their
+journey, and brought its master back to Longbourn.
+
+Mrs. Gardiner went away in all the perplexity about Elizabeth and her
+Derbyshire friend, that had attended her from that part of the world.
+His name had never been voluntarily mentioned before them by her niece;
+and the kind of half-expectation which Mrs. Gardiner had formed, of
+their being followed by a letter from him, had ended in nothing.
+Elizabeth had received none since her return, that could come from
+Pemberley.
+
+The present unhappy state of the family rendered any other excuse for
+the lowness of her spirits unnecessary; nothing, therefore, could be
+fairly conjectured from _that_,--though Elizabeth, who was by this time
+tolerably well acquainted with her own feelings, was perfectly aware
+that, had she known nothing of Darcy, she could have borne the dread of
+Lydia’s infamy somewhat better. It would have spared her, she thought,
+one sleepless night out of two.
+
+When Mr. Bennet arrived, he had all the appearance of his usual
+philosophic composure. He said as little as he had ever been in the
+habit of saying; made no mention of the business that had taken him
+away; and it was some time before his daughters had courage to speak of
+it.
+
+It was not till the afternoon, when he joined them at tea, that
+Elizabeth ventured to introduce the subject; and then, on her briefly
+expressing her sorrow for what he must have endured, he replied, “Say
+nothing of that. Who should suffer but myself? It has been my own doing,
+and I ought to feel it.”
+
+“You must not be too severe upon yourself,” replied Elizabeth.
+
+“You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to
+fall into it! No, Lizzy, let me once in my life feel how much I have
+been to blame. I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression.
+It will pass away soon enough.”
+
+“Do you suppose them to be in London?”
+
+“Yes; where else can they be so well concealed?”
+
+“And Lydia used to want to go to London,” added Kitty.
+
+“She is happy, then,” said her father, drily; “and her residence there
+will probably be of some duration.”
+
+Then, after a short silence, he continued, “Lizzy, I bear you no
+ill-will for being justified in your advice to me last May, which,
+considering the event, shows some greatness of mind.”
+
+They were interrupted by Miss Bennet, who came to fetch her mother’s
+tea.
+
+“This is a parade,” cried he, “which does one good; it gives such an
+elegance to misfortune! Another day I will do the same; I will sit in my
+library, in my nightcap and powdering gown, and give as much trouble as
+I can,--or perhaps I may defer it till Kitty runs away.”
+
+“I am not going to run away, papa,” said Kitty, fretfully. “If _I_
+should ever go to Brighton, I would behave better than Lydia.”
+
+“_You_ go to Brighton! I would not trust you so near it as Eastbourne,
+for fifty pounds! No, Kitty, I have at least learnt to be cautious, and
+you will feel the effects of it. No officer is ever to enter my house
+again, nor even to pass through the village. Balls will be absolutely
+prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. And you are
+never to stir out of doors, till you can prove that you have spent ten
+minutes of every day in a rational manner.”
+
+Kitty, who took all these threats in a serious light, began to cry.
+
+“Well, well,” said he, “do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good
+girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of
+them.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two days after Mr. Bennet’s return, as Jane and Elizabeth were walking
+together in the shrubbery behind the house, they saw the housekeeper
+coming towards them, and concluding that she came to call them to their
+mother, went forward to meet her; but instead of the expected summons,
+when they approached her, she said to Miss Bennet, “I beg your pardon,
+madam, for interrupting you, but I was in hopes you might have got some
+good news from town, so I took the liberty of coming to ask.”
+
+“What do you mean, Hill? We have heard nothing from town.”
+
+“Dear madam,” cried Mrs. Hill, in great astonishment, “don’t you know
+there is an express come for master from Mr. Gardiner? He has been here
+this half hour, and master has had a letter.”
+
+Away ran the girls, too eager to get in to have time for speech. They
+ran through the vestibule into the breakfast-room; from thence to the
+library;--their father was in neither; and they were on the point of
+seeking him upstairs with their mother, when they were met by the
+butler, who said,--
+
+“If you are looking for my master, ma’am, he is walking towards the
+little copse.”
+
+Upon this information, they instantly passed through the hall once more,
+and ran across the lawn after their father, who was deliberately
+pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock.
+
+Jane, who was not so light, nor so much in the habit of running as
+Elizabeth, soon lagged behind, while her sister, panting for breath,
+came up with him, and eagerly cried out,--
+
+“Oh, papa, what news? what news? have you heard from my uncle?”
+
+“Yes, I have had a letter from him by express.”
+
+“Well, and what news does it bring--good or bad?”
+
+“What is there of good to be expected?” said he, taking the letter from
+his pocket; “but perhaps you would like to read it.”
+
+Elizabeth impatiently caught it from his hand. Jane now came up.
+
+“Read it aloud,” said their father, “for I hardly know myself what it is
+about.”
+
+     /* RIGHT “Gracechurch Street, _Monday, August 2_. */
+
+“My dear Brother,
+
+     “At last I am able to send you some tidings of my niece, and such
+     as, upon the whole, I hope will give you satisfaction. Soon after
+     you left me on Saturday, I was fortunate enough to find out in what
+     part of London they were. The particulars I reserve till we meet.
+     It is enough to know they are discovered: I have seen them
+     both----”
+
+     [Illustration:
+
+“But perhaps you would like to read it”
+
+     [_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+     “Then it is as I always hoped,” cried Jane: “they are married!”
+
+     Elizabeth read on: “I have seen them both. They are not married,
+     nor can I find there was any intention of being so; but if you are
+     willing to perform the engagements which I have ventured to make on
+     your side, I hope it will not be long before they are. All that is
+     required of you is, to assure to your daughter, by settlement, her
+     equal share of the five thousand pounds, secured among your
+     children after the decease of yourself and my sister; and,
+     moreover, to enter into an engagement of allowing her, during your
+     life, one hundred pounds per annum. These are conditions which,
+     considering everything, I had no hesitation in complying with, as
+     far as I thought myself privileged, for you. I shall send this by
+     express, that no time may be lost in bringing me your answer. You
+     will easily comprehend, from these particulars, that Mr. Wickham’s
+     circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to
+     be. The world has been deceived in that respect; and I am happy to
+     say, there will be some little money, even when all his debts are
+     discharged, to settle on my niece, in addition to her own fortune.
+     If, as I conclude will be the case, you send me full powers to act
+     in your name throughout the whole of this business, I will
+     immediately give directions to Haggerston for preparing a proper
+     settlement. There will not be the smallest occasion for your coming
+     to town again; therefore stay quietly at Longbourn, and depend on
+     my diligence and care. Send back your answer as soon as you can,
+     and be careful to write explicitly. We have judged it best that my
+     niece should be married from this house, of which I hope you will
+     approve. She comes to us to-day. I shall write again as soon as
+     anything more is determined on. Yours, etc.
+
+“EDW. GARDINER.”
+
+“Is it possible?” cried Elizabeth, when she had finished. “Can it be
+possible that he will marry her?”
+
+“Wickham is not so undeserving, then, as we have thought him,” said her
+sister. “My dear father, I congratulate you.”
+
+“And have you answered the letter?” said Elizabeth.
+
+“No; but it must be done soon.”
+
+Most earnestly did she then entreat him to lose no more time before he
+wrote.
+
+“Oh! my dear father,” she cried, “come back and write immediately.
+Consider how important every moment is in such a case.”
+
+“Let me write for you,” said Jane, “if you dislike the trouble
+yourself.”
+
+“I dislike it very much,” he replied; “but it must be done.”
+
+And so saying, he turned back with them, and walked towards the house.
+
+“And--may I ask?” said Elizabeth; “but the terms, I suppose, must be
+complied with.”
+
+“Complied with! I am only ashamed of his asking so little.”
+
+“And they _must_ marry! Yet he is _such_ a man.”
+
+“Yes, yes, they must marry. There is nothing else to be done. But there
+are two things that I want very much to know:--one is, how much money
+your uncle has laid down to bring it about; and the other, how I am ever
+to pay him.”
+
+“Money! my uncle!” cried Jane, “what do you mean, sir?”
+
+“I mean that no man in his proper senses would marry Lydia on so slight
+a temptation as one hundred a year during my life, and fifty after I am
+gone.”
+
+“That is very true,” said Elizabeth; “though it had not occurred to me
+before. His debts to be discharged, and something still to remain! Oh,
+it must be my uncle’s doings! Generous, good man, I am afraid he has
+distressed himself. A small sum could not do all this.”
+
+“No,” said her father. “Wickham’s a fool if he takes her with a farthing
+less than ten thousand pounds: I should be sorry to think so ill of him,
+in the very beginning of our relationship.”
+
+“Ten thousand pounds! Heaven forbid! How is half such a sum to be
+repaid?”
+
+Mr. Bennet made no answer; and each of them, deep in thought, continued
+silent till they reached the house. Their father then went to the
+library to write, and the girls walked into the breakfast-room.
+
+“And they are really to be married!” cried Elizabeth, as soon as they
+were by themselves. “How strange this is! and for _this_ we are to be
+thankful. That they should marry, small as is their chance of happiness,
+and wretched as is his character, we are forced to rejoice! Oh, Lydia!”
+
+“I comfort myself with thinking,” replied Jane, “that he certainly would
+not marry Lydia, if he had not a real regard for her. Though our kind
+uncle has done something towards clearing him, I cannot believe that ten
+thousand pounds, or anything like it, has been advanced. He has children
+of his own, and may have more. How could he spare half ten thousand
+pounds?”
+
+“If we are ever able to learn what Wickham’s debts have been,” said
+Elizabeth, “and how much is settled on his side on our sister, we shall
+exactly know what Mr. Gardiner has done for them, because Wickham has
+not sixpence of his own. The kindness of my uncle and aunt can never be
+requited. Their taking her home, and affording her their personal
+protection and countenance, is such a sacrifice to her advantage as
+years of gratitude cannot enough acknowledge. By this time she is
+actually with them! If such goodness does not make her miserable now,
+she will never deserve to be happy! What a meeting for her, when she
+first sees my aunt!”
+
+“We must endeavour to forget all that has passed on either side,” said
+Jane: “I hope and trust they will yet be happy. His consenting to marry
+her is a proof, I will believe, that he is come to a right way of
+thinking. Their mutual affection will steady them; and I flatter myself
+they will settle so quietly, and live in so rational a manner, as may in
+time make their past imprudence forgotten.”
+
+“Their conduct has been such,” replied Elizabeth, “as neither you, nor
+I, nor anybody, can ever forget. It is useless to talk of it.”
+
+It now occurred to the girls that their mother was in all likelihood
+perfectly ignorant of what had happened. They went to the library,
+therefore, and asked their father whether he would not wish them to make
+it known to her. He was writing, and, without raising his head, coolly
+replied,--
+
+“Just as you please.”
+
+“May we take my uncle’s letter to read to her?”
+
+“Take whatever you like, and get away.”
+
+Elizabeth took the letter from his writing-table, and they went upstairs
+together. Mary and Kitty were both with Mrs. Bennet: one communication
+would, therefore, do for all. After a slight preparation for good news,
+the letter was read aloud. Mrs. Bennet could hardly contain herself. As
+soon as Jane had read Mr. Gardiner’s hope of Lydia’s being soon married,
+her joy burst forth, and every following sentence added to its
+exuberance. She was now in an irritation as violent from delight as she
+had ever been fidgety from alarm and vexation. To know that her daughter
+would be married was enough. She was disturbed by no fear for her
+felicity, nor humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct.
+
+“My dear, dear Lydia!” she cried: “this is delightful indeed! She will
+be married! I shall see her again! She will be married at sixteen! My
+good, kind brother! I knew how it would be--I knew he would manage
+everything. How I long to see her! and to see dear Wickham too! But the
+clothes, the wedding clothes! I will write to my sister Gardiner about
+them directly. Lizzy, my dear, run down to your father, and ask him how
+much he will give her. Stay, stay, I will go myself. Ring the bell,
+Kitty, for Hill. I will put on my things in a moment. My dear, dear
+Lydia! How merry we shall be together when we meet!”
+
+Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some relief to the violence of
+these transports, by leading her thoughts to the obligations which Mr.
+Gardiner’s behaviour laid them all under.
+
+“For we must attribute this happy conclusion,” she added, “in a great
+measure to his kindness. We are persuaded that he has pledged himself to
+assist Mr. Wickham with money.”
+
+“Well,” cried her mother, “it is all very right; who should do it but
+her own uncle? If he had not had a family of his own, I and my children
+must have had all his money, you know; and it is the first time we have
+ever had anything from him except a few presents. Well! I am so happy.
+In a short time, I shall have a daughter married. Mrs. Wickham! How well
+it sounds! And she was only sixteen last June. My dear Jane, I am in
+such a flutter, that I am sure I can’t write; so I will dictate, and you
+write for me. We will settle with your father about the money
+afterwards; but the things should be ordered immediately.”
+
+She was then proceeding to all the particulars of calico, muslin, and
+cambric, and would shortly have dictated some very plentiful orders, had
+not Jane, though with some difficulty, persuaded her to wait till her
+father was at leisure to be consulted. One day’s delay, she observed,
+would be of small importance; and her mother was too happy to be quite
+so obstinate as usual. Other schemes, too, came into her head.
+
+“I will go to Meryton,” said she, “as soon as I am dressed, and tell the
+good, good news to my sister Philips. And as I come back, I can call on
+Lady Lucas and Mrs. Long. Kitty, run down and order the carriage. An
+airing would do me a great deal of good, I am sure. Girls, can I do
+anything for you in Meryton? Oh! here comes Hill. My dear Hill, have you
+heard the good news? Miss Lydia is going to be married; and you shall
+all have a bowl of punch to make merry at her wedding.”
+
+Mrs. Hill began instantly to express her joy. Elizabeth received her
+congratulations amongst the rest, and then, sick of this folly, took
+refuge in her own room, that she might think with freedom. Poor Lydia’s
+situation must, at best, be bad enough; but that it was no worse, she
+had need to be thankful. She felt it so; and though, in looking forward,
+neither rational happiness, nor worldly prosperity could be justly
+expected for her sister, in looking back to what they had feared, only
+two hours ago, she felt all the advantages of what they had gained.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“The spiteful old ladies”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER L.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. Bennet had very often wished, before this period of his life, that,
+instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum, for
+the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived
+him. He now wished it more than ever. Had he done his duty in that
+respect, Lydia need not have been indebted to her uncle for whatever of
+honour or credit could now be purchased for her. The satisfaction of
+prevailing on one of the most worthless young men in Great Britain to
+be her husband might then have rested in its proper place.
+
+He was seriously concerned that a cause of so little advantage to anyone
+should be forwarded at the sole expense of his brother-in-law; and he
+was determined, if possible, to find out the extent of his assistance,
+and to discharge the obligation as soon as he could.
+
+When first Mr. Bennet had married, economy was held to be perfectly
+useless; for, of course, they were to have a son. This son was to join
+in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age, and the widow
+and younger children would by that means be provided for. Five daughters
+successively entered the world, but yet the son was to come; and Mrs.
+Bennet, for many years after Lydia’s birth, had been certain that he
+would. This event had at last been despaired of, but it was then too
+late to be saving. Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy; and her
+husband’s love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their
+income.
+
+Five thousand pounds was settled by marriage articles on Mrs. Bennet and
+the children. But in what proportions it should be divided amongst the
+latter depended on the will of the parents. This was one point, with
+regard to Lydia at least, which was now to be settled, and Mr. Bennet
+could have no hesitation in acceding to the proposal before him. In
+terms of grateful acknowledgment for the kindness of his brother, though
+expressed most concisely, he then delivered on paper his perfect
+approbation of all that was done, and his willingness to fulfil the
+engagements that had been made for him. He had never before supposed
+that, could Wickham be prevailed on to marry his daughter, it would be
+done with so little inconvenience to himself as by the present
+arrangement. He would scarcely be ten pounds a year the loser, by the
+hundred that was to be paid them; for, what with her board and pocket
+allowance, and the continual presents in money which passed to her
+through her mother’s hands, Lydia’s expenses had been very little within
+that sum.
+
+That it would be done with such trifling exertion on his side, too, was
+another very welcome surprise; for his chief wish at present was to have
+as little trouble in the business as possible. When the first transports
+of rage which had produced his activity in seeking her were over, he
+naturally returned to all his former indolence. His letter was soon
+despatched; for though dilatory in undertaking business, he was quick in
+its execution. He begged to know further particulars of what he was
+indebted to his brother; but was too angry with Lydia to send any
+message to her.
+
+The good news quickly spread through the house; and with proportionate
+speed through the neighbourhood. It was borne in the latter with decent
+philosophy. To be sure, it would have been more for the advantage of
+conversation, had Miss Lydia Bennet come upon the town; or, as the
+happiest alternative, been secluded from the world in some distant
+farm-house. But there was much to be talked of, in marrying her; and the
+good-natured wishes for her well-doing, which had proceeded before from
+all the spiteful old ladies in Meryton, lost but little of their spirit
+in this change of circumstances, because with such a husband her misery
+was considered certain.
+
+It was a fortnight since Mrs. Bennet had been down stairs, but on this
+happy day she again took her seat at the head of her table, and in
+spirits oppressively high. No sentiment of shame gave a damp to her
+triumph. The marriage of a daughter, which had been the first object of
+her wishes since Jane was sixteen, was now on the point of
+accomplishment, and her thoughts and her words ran wholly on those
+attendants of elegant nuptials, fine muslins, new carriages, and
+servants. She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a
+proper situation for her daughter; and, without knowing or considering
+what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and
+importance.
+
+“Haye Park might do,” said she, “if the Gouldings would quit it, or the
+great house at Stoke, if the drawing-room were larger; but Ashworth is
+too far off. I could not bear to have her ten miles from me; and as for
+Purvis Lodge, the attics are dreadful.”
+
+Her husband allowed her to talk on without interruption while the
+servants remained. But when they had withdrawn, he said to her, “Mrs.
+Bennet, before you take any, or all of these houses, for your son and
+daughter, let us come to a right understanding. Into _one_ house in this
+neighbourhood they shall never have admittance. I will not encourage the
+imprudence of either, by receiving them at Longbourn.”
+
+A long dispute followed this declaration; but Mr. Bennet was firm: it
+soon led to another; and Mrs. Bennet found, with amazement and horror,
+that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his
+daughter. He protested that she should receive from him no mark of
+affection whatever on the occasion. Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend
+it. That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable
+resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege, without which her
+marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all that she could believe
+possible. She was more alive to the disgrace, which her want of new
+clothes must reflect on her daughter’s nuptials, than to any sense of
+shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they
+took place.
+
+Elizabeth was now most heartily sorry that she had, from the distress of
+the moment, been led to make Mr. Darcy acquainted with their fears for
+her sister; for since her marriage would so shortly give the proper
+termination to the elopement, they might hope to conceal its
+unfavourable beginning from all those who were not immediately on the
+spot.
+
+She had no fear of its spreading farther, through his means. There were
+few people on whose secrecy she would have more confidently depended;
+but at the same time there was no one whose knowledge of a sister’s
+frailty would have mortified her so much. Not, however, from any fear of
+disadvantage from it individually to herself; for at any rate there
+seemed a gulf impassable between them. Had Lydia’s marriage been
+concluded on the most honourable terms, it was not to be supposed that
+Mr. Darcy would connect himself with a family, where to every other
+objection would now be added an alliance and relationship of the nearest
+kind with the man whom he so justly scorned.
+
+From such a connection she could not wonder that he should shrink. The
+wish of procuring her regard, which she had assured herself of his
+feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational expectation survive such a
+blow as this. She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she
+hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no
+longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there
+seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that
+she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they
+should meet.
+
+What a triumph for him, as she often thought, could he know that the
+proposals which she had proudly spurned only four months ago would now
+have been gladly and gratefully received! He was as generous, she
+doubted not, as the most generous of his sex. But while he was mortal,
+there must be a triumph.
+
+She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in
+disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and
+temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It
+was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease
+and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved;
+and from his judgment, information, and knowledge of the world, she must
+have received benefit of greater importance.
+
+But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what
+connubial felicity really was. An union of a different tendency, and
+precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their
+family.
+
+How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence she
+could not imagine. But how little of permanent happiness could belong to
+a couple who were only brought together because their passions were
+stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.
+
+Mr. Gardiner soon wrote again to his brother. To Mr. Bennet’s
+acknowledgments he briefly replied, with assurances of his eagerness to
+promote the welfare of any of his family; and concluded with entreaties
+that the subject might never be mentioned to him again. The principal
+purport of his letter was to inform them, that Mr. Wickham had resolved
+on quitting the militia.
+
+“It was greatly my wish that he should do so,” he added, “as soon as his
+marriage was fixed on. And I think you will agree with me, in
+considering a removal from that corps as highly advisable, both on his
+account and my niece’s. It is Mr. Wickham’s intention to go into the
+Regulars; and, among his former friends, there are still some who are
+able and willing to assist him in the army. He has the promise of an
+ensigncy in General----’s regiment, now quartered in the north. It is
+an advantage to have it so far from this part of the kingdom. He
+promises fairly; and I hope among different people, where they may each
+have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent. I have
+written to Colonel Forster, to inform him of our present arrangements,
+and to request that he will satisfy the various creditors of Mr. Wickham
+in and near Brighton with assurances of speedy payment, for which I have
+pledged myself. And will you give yourself the trouble of carrying
+similar assurances to his creditors in Meryton, of whom I shall subjoin
+a list, according to his information? He has given in all his debts; I
+hope at least he has not deceived us. Haggerston has our directions, and
+all will be completed in a week. They will then join his regiment,
+unless they are first invited to Longbourn; and I understand from Mrs.
+Gardiner that my niece is very desirous of seeing you all before she
+leaves the south. She is well, and begs to be dutifully remembered to
+you and her mother.--Yours, etc.
+
+“E. GARDINER.”
+
+Mr. Bennet and his daughters saw all the advantages of Wickham’s
+removal from the ----shire, as clearly as Mr. Gardiner could do. But
+Mrs. Bennet was not so well pleased with it. Lydia’s being settled in
+the north, just when she had expected most pleasure and pride in her
+company, for she had by no means given up her plan of their residing in
+Hertfordshire, was a severe disappointment; and, besides, it was such a
+pity that Lydia should be taken from a regiment where she was acquainted
+with everybody, and had so many favourites.
+
+“She is so fond of Mrs. Forster,” said she, “it will be quite shocking
+to send her away! And there are several of the young men, too, that she
+likes very much. The officers may not be so pleasant in General----’s
+regiment.”
+
+His daughter’s request, for such it might be considered, of being
+admitted into her family again, before she set off for the north,
+received at first an absolute negative. But Jane and Elizabeth, who
+agreed in wishing, for the sake of their sister’s feelings and
+consequence, that she should be noticed on her marriage by her parents,
+urged him so earnestly, yet so rationally and so mildly, to receive her
+and her husband at Longbourn, as soon as they were married, that he was
+prevailed on to think as they thought, and act as they wished. And their
+mother had the satisfaction of knowing, that she should be able to show
+her married daughter in the neighbourhood, before she was banished to
+the north. When Mr. Bennet wrote again to his brother, therefore, he
+sent his permission for them to come; and it was settled, that, as soon
+as the ceremony was over, they should proceed to Longbourn. Elizabeth
+was surprised, however, that Wickham should consent to such a scheme;
+and, had she consulted only her own inclination, any meeting with him
+would have been the last object of her wishes.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“With an affectionate smile”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Their sister’s wedding-day arrived; and Jane and Elizabeth felt for her
+probably more than she felt for herself. The carriage was sent to meet
+them at----, and they were to return in it by dinnertime. Their arrival
+was dreaded by the elder Miss Bennets--and Jane more especially, who
+gave Lydia the feelings which would have attended herself, had _she_
+been the culprit, and was wretched in the thought of what her sister
+must endure.
+
+They came. The family were assembled in the breakfast-room to receive
+them. Smiles decked the face of Mrs. Bennet, as the carriage drove up to
+the door; her husband looked impenetrably grave; her daughters, alarmed,
+anxious, uneasy.
+
+Lydia’s voice was heard in the vestibule; the door was thrown open, and
+she ran into the room. Her mother stepped forwards, embraced her, and
+welcomed her with rapture; gave her hand with an affectionate smile to
+Wickham, who followed his lady; and wished them both joy, with an
+alacrity which showed no doubt of their happiness.
+
+Their reception from Mr. Bennet, to whom they then turned, was not quite
+so cordial. His countenance rather gained in austerity; and he scarcely
+opened his lips. The easy assurance of the young couple, indeed, was
+enough to provoke him.
+
+Elizabeth was disgusted, and even Miss Bennet was shocked. Lydia was
+Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless. She turned
+from sister to sister, demanding their congratulations; and when at
+length they all sat down, looked eagerly round the room, took notice of
+some little alteration in it, and observed, with a laugh, that it was a
+great while since she had been there.
+
+Wickham was not at all more distressed than herself; but his manners
+were always so pleasing, that, had his character and his marriage been
+exactly what they ought, his smiles and his easy address, while he
+claimed their relationship, would have delighted them all. Elizabeth
+had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat
+down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the
+impudence of an impudent man. _She_ blushed, and Jane blushed; but the
+cheeks of the two who caused their confusion suffered no variation of
+colour.
+
+There was no want of discourse. The bride and her mother could neither
+of them talk fast enough; and Wickham, who happened to sit near
+Elizabeth, began inquiring after his acquaintance in that neighbourhood,
+with a good-humoured ease, which she felt very unable to equal in her
+replies. They seemed each of them to have the happiest memories in the
+world. Nothing of the past was recollected with pain; and Lydia led
+voluntarily to subjects which her sisters would not have alluded to for
+the world.
+
+“Only think of its being three months,” she cried, “since I went away:
+it seems but a fortnight, I declare; and yet there have been things
+enough happened in the time. Good gracious! when I went away, I am sure
+I had no more idea of being married till I came back again! though I
+thought it would be very good fun if I was.”
+
+Her father lifted up his eyes, Jane was distressed, Elizabeth looked
+expressively at Lydia; but she, who never heard nor saw anything of
+which she chose to be insensible, gaily continued,--
+
+“Oh, mamma, do the people hereabouts know I am married to-day? I was
+afraid they might not; and we overtook William Goulding in his curricle,
+so I was determined he should know it, and so I let down the side glass
+next to him, and took off my glove and let my hand just rest upon the
+window frame, so that he might see the ring, and then I bowed and
+smiled like anything.”
+
+Elizabeth could bear it no longer. She got up and ran out of the room;
+and returned no more, till she heard them passing through the hall to
+the dining-parlour. She then joined them soon enough to see Lydia, with
+anxious parade, walk up to her mother’s right hand, and hear her say to
+her eldest sister,--
+
+“Ah, Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a
+married woman.”
+
+It was not to be supposed that time would give Lydia that embarrassment
+from which she had been so wholly free at first. Her ease and good
+spirits increased. She longed to see Mrs. Philips, the Lucases, and all
+their other neighbours, and to hear herself called “Mrs. Wickham” by
+each of them; and in the meantime she went after dinner to show her ring
+and boast of being married to Mrs. Hill and the two housemaids.
+
+“Well, mamma,” said she, when they were all returned to the
+breakfast-room, “and what do you think of my husband? Is not he a
+charming man? I am sure my sisters must all envy me. I only hope they
+may have half my good luck. They must all go to Brighton. That is the
+place to get husbands. What a pity it is, mamma, we did not all go!”
+
+“Very true; and if I had my will we should. But, my dear Lydia, I don’t
+at all like your going such a way off. Must it be so?”
+
+“Oh, Lord! yes; there is nothing in that. I shall like it of all things.
+You and papa, and my sisters, must come down and see us. We shall be at
+Newcastle all the winter, and I dare say there will be some balls, and I
+will take care to get good partners for them all.”
+
+“I should like it beyond anything!” said her mother.
+
+“And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters
+behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before the
+winter is over.”
+
+“I thank you for my share of the favour,” said Elizabeth; “but I do not
+particularly like your way of getting husbands.”
+
+Their visitors were not to remain above ten days with them. Mr. Wickham
+had received his commission before he left London, and he was to join
+his regiment at the end of a fortnight.
+
+No one but Mrs. Bennet regretted that their stay would be so short; and
+she made the most of the time by visiting about with her daughter, and
+having very frequent parties at home. These parties were acceptable to
+all; to avoid a family circle was even more desirable to such as did
+think than such as did not.
+
+Wickham’s affection for Lydia was just what Elizabeth had expected to
+find it; not equal to Lydia’s for him. She had scarcely needed her
+present observation to be satisfied, from the reason of things, that
+their elopement had been brought on by the strength of her love rather
+than by his; and she would have wondered why, without violently caring
+for her, he chose to elope with her at all, had she not felt certain
+that his flight was rendered necessary by distress of circumstances; and
+if that were the case, he was not the young man to resist an opportunity
+of having a companion.
+
+Lydia was exceedingly fond of him. He was her dear Wickham on every
+occasion; no one was to be put in competition with him. He did
+everything best in the world; and she was sure he would kill more birds
+on the first of September than anybody else in the country.
+
+One morning, soon after their arrival, as she was sitting with her two
+elder sisters, she said to Elizabeth,--
+
+“Lizzy, I never gave _you_ an account of my wedding, I believe. You were
+not by, when I told mamma, and the others, all about it. Are not you
+curious to hear how it was managed?”
+
+“No, really,” replied Elizabeth; “I think there cannot be too little
+said on the subject.”
+
+“La! You are so strange! But I must tell you how it went off. We were
+married, you know, at St. Clement’s, because Wickham’s lodgings were in
+that parish. And it was settled that we should all be there by eleven
+o’clock. My uncle and aunt and I were to go together; and the others
+were to meet us at the church.
+
+“Well, Monday morning came, and I was in such a fuss! I was so afraid,
+you know, that something would happen to put it off, and then I should
+have gone quite distracted. And there was my aunt, all the time I was
+dressing, preaching and talking away just as if she was reading a
+sermon. However, I did not hear above one word in ten, for I was
+thinking, you may suppose, of my dear Wickham. I longed to know whether
+he would be married in his blue coat.
+
+“Well, and so we breakfasted at ten as usual: I thought it would never
+be over; for, by the bye, you are to understand that my uncle and aunt
+were horrid unpleasant all the time I was with them. If you’ll believe
+me, I did not once put my foot out of doors, though I was there a
+fortnight. Not one party, or scheme, or anything! To be sure, London was
+rather thin, but, however, the Little Theatre was open.
+
+“Well, and so, just as the carriage came to the door, my uncle was
+called away upon business to that horrid man Mr. Stone. And then, you
+know, when once they get together, there is no end of it. Well, I was so
+frightened I did not know what to do, for my uncle was to give me away;
+and if we were beyond the hour we could not be married all day. But,
+luckily, he came back again in ten minutes’ time, and then we all set
+out. However, I recollected afterwards, that if he _had_ been prevented
+going, the wedding need not be put off, for Mr. Darcy might have done as
+well.”
+
+“Mr. Darcy!” repeated Elizabeth, in utter amazement.
+
+“Oh, yes! he was to come there with Wickham, you know. But, gracious me!
+I quite forgot! I ought not to have said a word about it. I promised
+them so faithfully! What will Wickham say? It was to be such a secret!”
+
+“If it was to be a secret,” said Jane, “say not another word on the
+subject. You may depend upon my seeking no further.”
+
+“Oh, certainly,” said Elizabeth, though burning with curiosity; “we will
+ask you no questions.”
+
+“Thank you,” said Lydia; “for if you did, I should certainly tell you
+all, and then Wickham would be so angry.”
+
+On such encouragement to ask, Elizabeth was forced to put it out of her
+power, by running away.
+
+But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible; or at least it
+was impossible not to try for information. Mr. Darcy had been at her
+sister’s wedding. It was exactly a scene, and exactly among people,
+where he had apparently least to do, and least temptation to go.
+Conjectures as to the meaning of it, rapid and wild, hurried into her
+brain; but she was satisfied with none. Those that best pleased her, as
+placing his conduct in the noblest light, seemed most improbable. She
+could not bear such suspense; and hastily seizing a sheet of paper,
+wrote a short letter to her aunt, to request an explanation of what
+Lydia had dropped, if it were compatible with the secrecy which had been
+intended.
+
+“You may readily comprehend,” she added, “what my curiosity must be to
+know how a person unconnected with any of us, and, comparatively
+speaking, a stranger to our family, should have been amongst you at such
+a time. Pray write instantly, and let me understand it--unless it is,
+for very cogent reasons, to remain in the secrecy which Lydia seems to
+think necessary; and then I must endeavour to be satisfied with
+ignorance.”
+
+“Not that I _shall_, though,” she added to herself, and she finished the
+letter; “and, my dear aunt, if you do not tell me in an honourable
+manner, I shall certainly be reduced to tricks and stratagems to find it
+out.”
+
+Jane’s delicate sense of honour would not allow her to speak to
+Elizabeth privately of what Lydia had let fall; Elizabeth was glad of
+it:--till it appeared whether her inquiries would receive any
+satisfaction, she had rather be without a confidante.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“I am sure she did not listen.”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth had the satisfaction of receiving an answer to her letter as
+soon as she possibly could. She was no sooner in possession of it, than
+hurrying into the little copse, where she was least likely to be
+interrupted, she sat down on one of the benches, and prepared to be
+happy; for the length of the letter convinced her that it did not
+contain a denial.
+
+     /* RIGHT “Gracechurch Street, _Sept. 6_. */
+
+“My dear Niece,
+
+     “I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole
+     morning to answering it, as I foresee that a _little_ writing will
+     not comprise what I have to tell you. I must confess myself
+     surprised by your application; I did not expect it from _you_.
+     Don’t think me angry, however, for I only mean to let you know,
+     that I had not imagined such inquiries to be necessary on _your_
+     side. If you do not choose to understand me, forgive my
+     impertinence. Your uncle is as much surprised as I am; and nothing
+     but the belief of your being a party concerned would have allowed
+     him to act as he has done. But if you are really innocent and
+     ignorant, I must be more explicit. On the very day of my coming
+     home from Longbourn, your uncle had a most unexpected visitor. Mr.
+     Darcy called, and was shut up with him several hours. It was all
+     over before I arrived; so my curiosity was not so dreadfully racked
+     as _yours_ seems to have been. He came to tell Mr. Gardiner that he
+     had found out where your sister and Mr. Wickham were, and that he
+     had seen and talked with them both--Wickham repeatedly, Lydia once.
+     From what I can collect, he left Derbyshire only one day after
+     ourselves, and came to town with the resolution of hunting for
+     them. The motive professed was his conviction of its being owing to
+     himself that Wickham’s worthlessness had not been so well known as
+     to make it impossible for any young woman of character to love or
+     confide in him. He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken
+     pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to
+     lay his private actions open to the world. His character was to
+     speak for itself. He called it, therefore, his duty to step
+     forward, and endeavour to remedy an evil which had been brought on
+     by himself. If he _had another_ motive, I am sure it would never
+     disgrace him. He had been some days in town before he was able to
+     discover them; but he had something to direct his search, which was
+     more than _we_ had; and the consciousness of this was another
+     reason for his resolving to follow us. There is a lady, it seems, a
+     Mrs. Younge, who was some time ago governess to Miss Darcy, and was
+     dismissed from her charge on some cause of disapprobation, though
+     he did not say what. She then took a large house in Edward Street,
+     and has since maintained herself by letting lodgings. This Mrs.
+     Younge was, he knew, intimately acquainted with Wickham; and he
+     went to her for intelligence of him, as soon as he got to town. But
+     it was two or three days before he could get from her what he
+     wanted. She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery
+     and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be
+     found. Wickham, indeed, had gone to her on their first arrival in
+     London; and had she been able to receive them into her house, they
+     would have taken up their abode with her. At length, however, our
+     kind friend procured the wished-for direction. They were in ----
+     Street. He saw Wickham, and afterwards insisted on seeing Lydia.
+     His first object with her, he acknowledged, had been to persuade
+     her to quit her present disgraceful situation, and return to her
+     friends as soon as they could be prevailed on to receive her,
+     offering his assistance as far as it would go. But he found Lydia
+     absolutely resolved on remaining where she was. She cared for none
+     of her friends; she wanted no help of his; she would not hear of
+     leaving Wickham. She was sure they should be married some time or
+     other, and it did not much signify when. Since such were her
+     feelings, it only remained, he thought, to secure and expedite a
+     marriage, which, in his very first conversation with Wickham, he
+     easily learnt had never been _his_ design. He confessed himself
+     obliged to leave the regiment on account of some debts of honour
+     which were very pressing; and scrupled not to lay all the ill
+     consequences of Lydia’s flight on her own folly alone. He meant to
+     resign his commission immediately; and as to his future situation,
+     he could conjecture very little about it. He must go somewhere, but
+     he did not know where, and he knew he should have nothing to live
+     on. Mr. Darcy asked why he did not marry your sister at once.
+     Though Mr. Bennet was not imagined to be very rich, he would have
+     been able to do something for him, and his situation must have been
+     benefited by marriage. But he found, in reply to this question,
+     that Wickham still cherished the hope of more effectually making
+     his fortune by marriage, in some other country. Under such
+     circumstances, however, he was not likely to be proof against the
+     temptation of immediate relief. They met several times, for there
+     was much to be discussed. Wickham, of course, wanted more than he
+     could get; but at length was reduced to be reasonable. Everything
+     being settled between _them_, Mr. Darcy’s next step was to make
+     your uncle acquainted with it, and he first called in Gracechurch
+     Street the evening before I came home. But Mr. Gardiner could not
+     be seen; and Mr. Darcy found, on further inquiry, that your father
+     was still with him, but would quit town the next morning. He did
+     not judge your father to be a person whom he could so properly
+     consult as your uncle, and therefore readily postponed seeing him
+     till after the departure of the former. He did not leave his name,
+     and till the next day it was only known that a gentleman had called
+     on business. On Saturday he came again. Your father was gone, your
+     uncle at home, and, as I said before, they had a great deal of talk
+     together. They met again on Sunday, and then _I_ saw him too. It
+     was not all settled before Monday: as soon as it was, the express
+     was sent off to Longbourn. But our visitor was very obstinate. I
+     fancy, Lizzy, that obstinacy is the real defect of his character,
+     after all. He has been accused of many faults at different times;
+     but _this_ is the true one. Nothing was to be done that he did not
+     do himself; though I am sure (and I do not speak it to be thanked,
+     therefore say nothing about it) your uncle would most readily have
+     settled the whole. They battled it together for a long time, which
+     was more than either the gentleman or lady concerned in it
+     deserved. But at last your uncle was forced to yield, and instead
+     of being allowed to be of use to his niece, was forced to put up
+     with only having the probable credit of it, which went sorely
+     against the grain; and I really believe your letter this morning
+     gave him great pleasure, because it required an explanation that
+     would rob him of his borrowed feathers, and give the praise where
+     it was due. But, Lizzy, this must go no further than yourself, or
+     Jane at most. You know pretty well, I suppose, what has been done
+     for the young people. His debts are to be paid, amounting, I
+     believe, to considerably more than a thousand pounds, another
+     thousand in addition to her own settled upon _her_, and his
+     commission purchased. The reason why all this was to be done by him
+     alone, was such as I have given above. It was owing to him, to his
+     reserve and want of proper consideration, that Wickham’s character
+     had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been
+     received and noticed as he was. Perhaps there was some truth in
+     _this_; though I doubt whether _his_ reserve, or _anybody’s_
+     reserve can be answerable for the event. But in spite of all this
+     fine talking, my dear Lizzy, you may rest perfectly assured that
+     your uncle would never have yielded, if we had not given him credit
+     for _another interest_ in the affair. When all this was resolved
+     on, he returned again to his friends, who were still staying at
+     Pemberley; but it was agreed that he should be in London once more
+     when the wedding took place, and all money matters were then to
+     receive the last finish. I believe I have now told you everything.
+     It is a relation which you tell me is to give you great surprise; I
+     hope at least it will not afford you any displeasure. Lydia came to
+     us, and Wickham had constant admission to the house. _He_ was
+     exactly what he had been when I knew him in Hertfordshire; but I
+     would not tell you how little I was satisfied with _her_ behaviour
+     while she stayed with us, if I had not perceived, by Jane’s letter
+     last Wednesday, that her conduct on coming home was exactly of a
+     piece with it, and therefore what I now tell you can give you no
+     fresh pain. I talked to her repeatedly in the most serious manner,
+     representing to her the wickedness of what she had done, and all
+     the unhappiness she had brought on her family. If she heard me, it
+     was by good luck, for I am sure she did not listen. I was sometimes
+     quite provoked; but then I recollected my dear Elizabeth and Jane,
+     and for their sakes had patience with her. Mr. Darcy was punctual
+     in his return, and, as Lydia imformed you, attended the wedding. He
+     dined with us the next day, and was to leave town again on
+     Wednesday or Thursday. Will you be very angry with me, my dear
+     Lizzy, if I take this opportunity of saying (what I was never bold
+     enough to say before) how much I like him? His behaviour to us has,
+     in every respect, been as pleasing as when we were in Derbyshire.
+     His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but
+     a little more liveliness, and _that_, if he marry _prudently_, his
+     wife may teach him. I thought him very sly; he hardly ever
+     mentioned your name. But slyness seems the fashion. Pray forgive
+     me, if I have been very presuming, or at least do not punish me so
+     far as to exclude me from P. I shall never be quite happy till I
+     have been all round the park. A low phaeton with a nice little pair
+     of ponies would be the very thing. But I must write no more. The
+     children have been wanting me this half hour.
+
+“Yours, very sincerely,
+
+“M. GARDINER.”
+
+
+The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits,
+in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore the
+greatest share. The vague and unsettled suspicions which uncertainty had
+produced, of what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her
+sister’s match--which she had feared to encourage, as an exertion of
+goodness too great to be probable, and at the same time dreaded to be
+just, from the pain of obligation--were proved beyond their greatest
+extent to be true! He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken
+on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a
+research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he
+must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently
+meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe the man whom he always
+most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to
+pronounce. He had done all this for a girl whom he could neither regard
+nor esteem. Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. But it
+was a hope shortly checked by other considerations; and she soon felt
+that even her vanity was insufficient, when required to depend on his
+affection for her, for a woman who had already refused him, as able to
+overcome a sentiment so natural as abhorrence against relationship with
+Wickham. Brother-in-law of Wickham! Every kind of pride must revolt from
+the connection. He had, to be sure, done much. She was ashamed to think
+how much. But he had given a reason for his interference, which asked no
+extraordinary stretch of belief. It was reasonable that he should feel
+he had been wrong; he had liberality, and he had the means of exercising
+it; and though she would not place herself as his principal inducement,
+she could perhaps believe, that remaining partiality for her might
+assist his endeavours in a cause where her peace of mind must be
+materially concerned. It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that
+they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a
+return. They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, everything to
+him. Oh, how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she
+had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards
+him! For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him,--proud that
+in a cause of compassion and honour he had been able to get the better
+of himself. She read over her aunt’s commendation of him again and
+again. It was hardly enough; but it pleased her. She was even sensible
+of some pleasure, though mixed with regret, on finding how steadfastly
+both she and her uncle had been persuaded that affection and confidence
+subsisted between Mr. Darcy and herself.
+
+She was roused from her seat and her reflections, by someone’s approach;
+and, before she could strike into another path, she was overtaken by
+Wickham.
+
+“I am afraid I interrupt your solitary ramble, my dear sister?” said he,
+as he joined her.
+
+“You certainly do,” she replied with a smile; “but it does not follow
+that the interruption must be unwelcome.”
+
+“I should be sorry, indeed, if it were. _We_ were always good friends,
+and now we are better.”
+
+“True. Are the others coming out?”
+
+“I do not know. Mrs. Bennet and Lydia are going in the carriage to
+Meryton. And so, my dear sister, I find, from our uncle and aunt, that
+you have actually seen Pemberley.”
+
+She replied in the affirmative.
+
+“I almost envy you the pleasure, and yet I believe it would be too much
+for me, or else I could take it in my way to Newcastle. And you saw the
+old housekeeper, I suppose? Poor Reynolds, she was always very fond of
+me. But of course she did not mention my name to you.”
+
+“Yes, she did.”
+
+“And what did she say?”
+
+“That you were gone into the army, and she was afraid had--not turned
+out well. At such a distance as _that_, you know, things are strangely
+misrepresented.”
+
+“Certainly,” he replied, biting his lips. Elizabeth hoped she had
+silenced him; but he soon afterwards said,--
+
+“I was surprised to see Darcy in town last month. We passed each other
+several times. I wonder what he can be doing there.”
+
+“Perhaps preparing for his marriage with Miss de Bourgh,” said
+Elizabeth. “It must be something particular to take him there at this
+time of year.”
+
+“Undoubtedly. Did you see him while you were at Lambton? I thought I
+understood from the Gardiners that you had.”
+
+“Yes; he introduced us to his sister.”
+
+“And do you like her?”
+
+“Very much.”
+
+“I have heard, indeed, that she is uncommonly improved within this year
+or two. When I last saw her, she was not very promising. I am very glad
+you liked her. I hope she will turn out well.”
+
+“I dare say she will; she has got over the most trying age.”
+
+“Did you go by the village of Kympton?”
+
+“I do not recollect that we did.”
+
+“I mention it because it is the living which I ought to have had. A most
+delightful place! Excellent parsonage-house! It would have suited me in
+every respect.”
+
+“How should you have liked making sermons?”
+
+“Exceedingly well. I should have considered it as part of my duty, and
+the exertion would soon have been nothing. One ought not to repine; but,
+to be sure, it would have been such a thing for me! The quiet, the
+retirement of such a life, would have answered all my ideas of
+happiness! But it was not to be. Did you ever hear Darcy mention the
+circumstance when you were in Kent?”
+
+“I _have_ heard from authority, which I thought _as good_, that it was
+left you conditionally only, and at the will of the present patron.”
+
+“You have! Yes, there was something in _that_; I told you so from the
+first, you may remember.”
+
+“I _did_ hear, too, that there was a time when sermon-making was not so
+palatable to you as it seems to be at present; that you actually
+declared your resolution of never taking orders, and that the business
+had been compromised accordingly.”
+
+“You did! and it was not wholly without foundation. You may remember
+what I told you on that point, when first we talked of it.”
+
+They were now almost at the door of the house, for she had walked fast
+to get rid of him; and unwilling, for her sister’s sake, to provoke him,
+she only said in reply, with a good-humoured smile,--
+
+“Come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know. Do not let us
+quarrel about the past. In future, I hope we shall be always of one
+mind.”
+
+She held out her hand: he kissed it with affectionate gallantry, though
+he hardly knew how to look, and they entered the house.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“Mr. Darcy with him.”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mr. Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation, that he
+never again distressed himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth,
+by introducing the subject of it; and she was pleased to find that she
+had said enough to keep him quiet.
+
+The day of his and Lydia’s departure soon came; and Mrs. Bennet was
+forced to submit to a separation, which, as her husband by no means
+entered into her scheme of their all going to Newcastle, was likely to
+continue at least a twelvemonth.
+
+“Oh, my dear Lydia,” she cried, “when shall we meet again?”
+
+“Oh, Lord! I don’t know. Not these two or three years, perhaps.”
+
+“Write to me very often, my dear.”
+
+“As often as I can. But you know married women have never much time for
+writing. My sisters may write to _me_. They will have nothing else to
+do.”
+
+Mr. Wickham’s adieus were much more affectionate than his wife’s. He
+smiled, looked handsome, and said many pretty things.
+
+“He is as fine a fellow,” said Mr. Bennet, as soon as they were out of
+the house, “as ever I saw. He simpers, and smirks, and makes love to us
+all. I am prodigiously proud of him. I defy even Sir William Lucas
+himself to produce a more valuable son-in-law.”
+
+The loss of her daughter made Mrs. Bennet very dull for several days.
+
+“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with
+one’s friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”
+
+“This is the consequence, you see, madam, of marrying a daughter,” said
+Elizabeth. “It must make you better satisfied that your other four are
+single.”
+
+“It is no such thing. Lydia does not leave me because she is married;
+but only because her husband’s regiment happens to be so far off. If
+that had been nearer, she would not have gone so soon.”
+
+But the spiritless condition which this event threw her into was shortly
+relieved, and her mind opened again to the agitation of hope, by an
+article of news which then began to be in circulation. The housekeeper
+at Netherfield had received orders to prepare for the arrival of her
+master, who was coming down in a day or two, to shoot there for several
+weeks. Mrs. Bennet was quite in the fidgets. She looked at Jane, and
+smiled, and shook her head, by turns.
+
+“Well, well, and so Mr. Bingley is coming down, sister,” (for Mrs.
+Philips first brought her the news). “Well, so much the better. Not that
+I care about it, though. He is nothing to us, you know, and I am sure I
+never want to see him again. But, however, he is very welcome to come to
+Netherfield, if he likes it. And who knows what _may_ happen? But that
+is nothing to us. You know, sister, we agreed long ago never to mention
+a word about it. And so, it is quite certain he is coming?”
+
+“You may depend on it,” replied the other, “for Mrs. Nichols was in
+Meryton last night: I saw her passing by, and went out myself on purpose
+to know the truth of it; and she told me that it was certainly true. He
+comes down on Thursday, at the latest, very likely on Wednesday. She was
+going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on
+Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
+
+Miss Bennet had not been able to hear of his coming without changing
+colour. It was many months since she had mentioned his name to
+Elizabeth; but now, as soon as they were alone together, she said,--
+
+“I saw you look at me to-day, Lizzy, when my aunt told us of the present
+report; and I know I appeared distressed; but don’t imagine it was from
+any silly cause. I was only confused for the moment, because I felt that
+I _should_ be looked at. I do assure you that the news does not affect
+me either with pleasure or pain. I am glad of one thing, that he comes
+alone; because we shall see the less of him. Not that I am afraid of
+_myself_, but I dread other people’s remarks.”
+
+Elizabeth did not know what to make of it. Had she not seen him in
+Derbyshire, she might have supposed him capable of coming there with no
+other view than what was acknowledged; but she still thought him partial
+to Jane, and she wavered as to the greater probability of his coming
+there _with_ his friend’s permission, or being bold enough to come
+without it.
+
+“Yet it is hard,” she sometimes thought, “that this poor man cannot come
+to a house, which he has legally hired, without raising all this
+speculation! I _will_ leave him to himself.”
+
+In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her
+feelings, in the expectation of his arrival, Elizabeth could easily
+perceive that her spirits were affected by it. They were more disturbed,
+more unequal, than she had often seen them.
+
+The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents,
+about a twelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again.
+
+“As soon as ever Mr. Bingley comes, my dear,” said Mrs. Bennet, “you
+will wait on him, of course.”
+
+“No, no. You forced me into visiting him last year, and promised, if I
+went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters. But it ended in
+nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool’s errand again.”
+
+His wife represented to him how absolutely necessary such an attention
+would be from all the neighbouring gentlemen, on his returning to
+Netherfield.
+
+“’Tis an _etiquette_ I despise,” said he. “If he wants our society, let
+him seek it. He knows where we live. I will not spend _my_ hours in
+running after my neighbours every time they go away and come back
+again.”
+
+“Well, all I know is, that it will be abominably rude if you do not wait
+on him. But, however, that shan’t prevent my asking him to dine here, I
+am determined. We must have Mrs. Long and the Gouldings soon. That will
+make thirteen with ourselves, so there will be just room at table for
+him.”
+
+Consoled by this resolution, she was the better able to bear her
+husband’s incivility; though it was very mortifying to know that her
+neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before
+_they_ did. As the day of his arrival drew near,--
+
+“I begin to be sorry that he comes at all,” said Jane to her sister. “It
+would be nothing; I could see him with perfect indifference; but I can
+hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of. My mother means well;
+but she does not know, no one can know, how much I suffer from what she
+says. Happy shall I be when his stay at Netherfield is over!”
+
+“I wish I could say anything to comfort you,” replied Elizabeth; “but it
+is wholly out of my power. You must feel it; and the usual satisfaction
+of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me, because you have
+always so much.”
+
+Mr. Bingley arrived. Mrs. Bennet, through the assistance of servants,
+contrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the period of anxiety
+and fretfulness on her side be as long as it could. She counted the days
+that must intervene before their invitation could be sent--hopeless of
+seeing him before. But on the third morning after his arrival in
+Hertfordshire, she saw him from her dressing-room window enter the
+paddock, and ride towards the house.
+
+Her daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy. Jane resolutely
+kept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy her mother, went
+to the window--she looked--she saw Mr. Darcy with him, and sat down
+again by her sister.
+
+“There is a gentleman with him, mamma,” said Kitty; “who can it be?”
+
+“Some acquaintance or other, my dear, I suppose; I am sure I do not
+know.”
+
+“La!” replied Kitty, “it looks just like that man that used to be with
+him before. Mr. what’s his name--that tall, proud man.”
+
+“Good gracious! Mr. Darcy!--and so it does, I vow. Well, any friend of
+Mr. Bingley’s will always be welcome here, to be sure; but else I must
+say that I hate the very sight of him.”
+
+Jane looked at Elizabeth with surprise and concern. She knew but little
+of their meeting in Derbyshire, and therefore felt for the awkwardness
+which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time
+after receiving his explanatory letter. Both sisters were uncomfortable
+enough. Each felt for the other, and of course for themselves; and their
+mother talked on of her dislike of Mr. Darcy, and her resolution to be
+civil to him only as Mr. Bingley’s friend, without being heard by either
+of them. But Elizabeth had sources of uneasiness which could not yet be
+suspected by Jane, to whom she had never yet had courage to show Mrs.
+Gardiner’s letter, or to relate her own change of sentiment towards
+him. To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused,
+and whose merits she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive
+information, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted
+for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an
+interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as
+what Jane felt for Bingley. Her astonishment at his coming--at his
+coming to Netherfield, to Longbourn, and voluntarily seeking her again,
+was almost equal to what she had known on first witnessing his altered
+behaviour in Derbyshire.
+
+The colour which had been driven from her face returned for half a
+minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to
+her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and
+wishes must still be unshaken; but she would not be secure.
+
+“Let me first see how he behaves,” said she; “it will then be early
+enough for expectation.”
+
+She sat intently at work, striving to be composed, and without daring to
+lift up her eyes, till anxious curiosity carried them to the face of her
+sister as the servant was approaching the door. Jane looked a little
+paler than usual, but more sedate than Elizabeth had expected. On the
+gentlemen’s appearing, her colour increased; yet she received them with
+tolerable ease, and with a propriety of behaviour equally free from any
+symptom of resentment, or any unnecessary complaisance.
+
+Elizabeth said as little to either as civility would allow, and sat down
+again to her work, with an eagerness which it did not often command. She
+had ventured only one glance at Darcy. He looked serious as usual; and,
+she thought, more as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire, than as
+she had seen him at Pemberley. But, perhaps, he could not in her
+mother’s presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt. It was a
+painful, but not an improbable, conjecture.
+
+Bingley she had likewise seen for an instant, and in that short period
+saw him looking both pleased and embarrassed. He was received by Mrs.
+Bennet with a degree of civility which made her two daughters ashamed,
+especially when contrasted with the cold and ceremonious politeness of
+her courtesy and address of his friend.
+
+Elizabeth particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the
+preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was
+hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill
+applied.
+
+Darcy, after inquiring of her how Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner did--a question
+which she could not answer without confusion--said scarcely anything. He
+was not seated by her: perhaps that was the reason of his silence; but
+it had not been so in Derbyshire. There he had talked to her friends
+when he could not to herself. But now several minutes elapsed, without
+bringing the sound of his voice; and when occasionally, unable to resist
+the impulse of curiosity, she raised her eyes to his face, she as often
+found him looking at Jane as at herself, and frequently on no object but
+the ground. More thoughtfulness and less anxiety to please, than when
+they last met, were plainly expressed. She was disappointed, and angry
+with herself for being so.
+
+“Could I expect it to be otherwise?” said she. “Yet why did he come?”
+
+She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to
+him she had hardly courage to speak.
+
+She inquired after his sister, but could do no more.
+
+“It is a long time, Mr. Bingley, since you went away,” said Mrs. Bennet.
+
+He readily agreed to it.
+
+“I began to be afraid you would never come back again. People _did_ say,
+you meant to quit the place entirely at Michaelmas; but, however, I hope
+it is not true. A great many changes have happened in the neighbourhood
+since you went away. Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my
+own daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have
+seen it in the papers. It was in the ‘Times’ and the ‘Courier,’ I know;
+though it was not put in as it ought to be. It was only said, ‘Lately,
+George Wickham, Esq., to Miss Lydia Bennet,’ without there being a
+syllable said of her father, or the place where she lived, or anything.
+It was my brother Gardiner’s drawing up, too, and I wonder how he came
+to make such an awkward business of it. Did you see it?”
+
+Bingley replied that he did, and made his congratulations. Elizabeth
+dared not lift up her eyes. How Mr. Darcy looked, therefore, she could
+not tell.
+
+“It is a delightful thing, to be sure, to have a daughter well married,”
+continued her mother; “but at the same time, Mr. Bingley, it is very
+hard to have her taken away from me. They are gone down to Newcastle, a
+place quite northward it seems, and there they are to stay, I do not
+know how long. His regiment is there; for I suppose you have heard of
+his leaving the ----shire, and of his being gone into the Regulars.
+Thank heaven! he has _some_ friends, though, perhaps, not so many as he
+deserves.”
+
+Elizabeth, who knew this to be levelled at Mr. Darcy, was in such misery
+of shame that she could hardly keep her seat. It drew from her, however,
+the exertion of speaking, which nothing else had so effectually done
+before; and she asked Bingley whether he meant to make any stay in the
+country at present. A few weeks, he believed.
+
+“When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley,” said her mother,
+“I beg you will come here and shoot as many as you please on Mr.
+Bennet’s manor. I am sure he will be vastly happy to oblige you, and
+will save all the best of the coveys for you.”
+
+Elizabeth’s misery increased at such unnecessary, such officious
+attention! Were the same fair prospect to arise at present, as had
+flattered them a year ago, everything, she was persuaded, would be
+hastening to the same vexatious conclusion. At that instant she felt,
+that years of happiness could not make Jane or herself amends for
+moments of such painful confusion.
+
+“The first wish of my heart,” said she to herself, “is never more to be
+in company with either of them. Their society can afford no pleasure
+that will atone for such wretchedness as this! Let me never see either
+one or the other again!”
+
+Yet the misery, for which years of happiness were to offer no
+compensation, received soon afterwards material relief, from observing
+how much the beauty of her sister rekindled the admiration of her former
+lover. When first he came in, he had spoken to her but little, but every
+five minutes seemed to be giving her more of his attention. He found her
+as handsome as she had been last year; as good-natured, and as
+unaffected, though not quite so chatty. Jane was anxious that no
+difference should be perceived in her at all, and was really persuaded
+that she talked as much as ever; but her mind was so busily engaged,
+that she did not always know when she was silent.
+
+When the gentlemen rose to go away, Mrs. Bennet was mindful of her
+intended civility, and they were invited and engaged to dine at
+Longbourn in a few days’ time.
+
+“You are quite a visit in my debt, Mr. Bingley,” she added; “for when
+you went to town last winter, you promised to take a family dinner with
+us as soon as you returned. I have not forgot, you see; and I assure you
+I was very much disappointed that you did not come back and keep your
+engagement.”
+
+Bingley looked a little silly at this reflection, and said something of
+his concern at having been prevented by business. They then went away.
+
+Mrs. Bennet had been strongly inclined to ask them to stay and dine
+there that day; but, though she always kept a very good table, she did
+not think anything less than two courses could be good enough for a man
+on whom she had such anxious designs, or satisfy the appetite and pride
+of one who had ten thousand a year.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Jane happened to look round”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits;
+or, in other words, to dwell without interruption on those subjects
+which must deaden them more. Mr. Darcy’s behaviour astonished and vexed
+her.
+
+“Why, if he came only to be silent, grave, and indifferent,” said she,
+“did he come at all?”
+
+She could settle it in no way that gave her pleasure.
+
+“He could be still amiable, still pleasing to my uncle and aunt, when he
+was in town; and why not to me? If he fears me, why come hither? If he
+no longer cares for me, why silent? Teasing, teasing man! I will think
+no more about him.”
+
+Her resolution was for a short time involuntarily kept by the approach
+of her sister, who joined her with a cheerful look which showed her
+better satisfied with their visitors than Elizabeth.
+
+“Now,” said she, “that this first meeting is over, I feel perfectly
+easy. I know my own strength, and I shall never be embarrassed again by
+his coming. I am glad he dines here on Tuesday. It will then be publicly
+seen, that on both sides we meet only as common and indifferent
+acquaintance.”
+
+“Yes, very indifferent, indeed,” said Elizabeth, laughingly. “Oh, Jane!
+take care.”
+
+“My dear Lizzy, you cannot think me so weak as to be in danger now.”
+
+“I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with
+you as ever.”
+
+They did not see the gentlemen again till Tuesday; and Mrs. Bennet, in
+the meanwhile, was giving way to all the happy schemes which the
+good-humour and common politeness of Bingley, in half an hour’s visit,
+had revived.
+
+On Tuesday there was a large party assembled at Longbourn; and the two
+who were most anxiously expected, to the credit of their punctuality as
+sportsmen, were in very good time. When they repaired to the
+dining-room, Elizabeth eagerly watched to see whether Bingley would take
+the place which, in all their former parties, had belonged to him, by
+her sister. Her prudent mother, occupied by the same ideas, forbore to
+invite him to sit by herself. On entering the room, he seemed to
+hesitate; but Jane happened to look round, and happened to smile: it was
+decided. He placed himself by her.
+
+Elizabeth, with a triumphant sensation, looked towards his friend. He
+bore it with noble indifference; and she would have imagined that
+Bingley had received his sanction to be happy, had she not seen his eyes
+likewise turned towards Mr. Darcy, with an expression of half-laughing
+alarm.
+
+His behaviour to her sister was such during dinnertime as showed an
+admiration of her, which, though more guarded than formerly, persuaded
+Elizabeth, that, if left wholly to himself, Jane’s happiness, and his
+own, would be speedily secured. Though she dared not depend upon the
+consequence, she yet received pleasure from observing his behaviour. It
+gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in
+no cheerful humour. Mr. Darcy was almost as far from her as the table
+could divide them. He was on one side of her mother. She knew how little
+such a situation would give pleasure to either, or make either appear to
+advantage. She was not near enough to hear any of their discourse; but
+she could see how seldom they spoke to each other, and how formal and
+cold was their manner whenever they did. Her mother’s ungraciousness
+made the sense of what they owed him more painful to Elizabeth’s mind;
+and she would, at times, have given anything to be privileged to tell
+him, that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of
+the family.
+
+She was in hopes that the evening would afford some opportunity of
+bringing them together; that the whole of the visit would not pass away
+without enabling them to enter into something more of conversation,
+than the mere ceremonious salutation attending his entrance. Anxious and
+uneasy, the period which passed in the drawing-room before the gentlemen
+came, was wearisome and dull to a degree that almost made her uncivil.
+She looked forward to their entrance as the point on which all her
+chance of pleasure for the evening must depend.
+
+“If he does not come to me, _then_,” said she, “I shall give him up for
+ever.”
+
+The gentlemen came; and she thought he looked as if he would have
+answered her hopes; but, alas! the ladies had crowded round the table,
+where Miss Bennet was making tea, and Elizabeth pouring out the coffee,
+in so close a confederacy, that there was not a single vacancy near her
+which would admit of a chair. And on the gentlemen’s approaching, one of
+the girls moved closer to her than ever, and said, in a whisper,--
+
+“The men shan’t come and part us, I am determined. We want none of them;
+do we?”
+
+Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with
+her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough
+to help anybody to coffee, and then was enraged against herself for
+being so silly!
+
+“A man who has once been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to
+expect a renewal of his love? Is there one among the sex who would not
+protest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman?
+There is no indignity so abhorrent to their feelings.”
+
+She was a little revived, however, by his bringing back his coffee-cup
+himself; and she seized the opportunity of saying,--
+
+“Is your sister at Pemberley still?”
+
+“Yes; she will remain there till Christmas.”
+
+“And quite alone? Have all her friends left her?”
+
+“Mrs. Annesley is with her. The others have been gone on to Scarborough
+these three weeks.”
+
+She could think of nothing more to say; but if he wished to converse
+with her, he might have better success. He stood by her, however, for
+some minutes, in silence; and, at last, on the young lady’s whispering
+to Elizabeth again, he walked away.
+
+When the tea things were removed, and the card tables placed, the ladies
+all rose; and Elizabeth was then hoping to be soon joined by him, when
+all her views were overthrown, by seeing him fall a victim to her
+mother’s rapacity for whist players, and in a few moments after seated
+with the rest of the party. She now lost every expectation of pleasure.
+They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had
+nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side
+of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself.
+
+Mrs. Bennet had designed to keep the two Netherfield gentlemen to
+supper; but their carriage was, unluckily, ordered before any of the
+others, and she had no opportunity of detaining them.
+
+“Well, girls,” said she, as soon as they were left to themselves, “what
+say you to the day? I think everything has passed off uncommonly well, I
+assure you. The dinner was as well dressed as any I ever saw. The
+venison was roasted to a turn--and everybody said, they never saw so fat
+a haunch. The soup was fifty times better than what we had at the
+Lucases’ last week; and even Mr. Darcy acknowledged that the partridges
+were remarkably well done; and I suppose he has two or three French
+cooks at least. And, my dear Jane, I never saw you look in greater
+beauty. Mrs. Long said so too, for I asked her whether you did not. And
+what do you think she said besides? ‘Ah! Mrs. Bennet, we shall have her
+at Netherfield at last!’ She did, indeed. I do think Mrs. Long is as
+good a creature as ever lived--and her nieces are very pretty behaved
+girls, and not at all handsome: I like them prodigiously.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “M^{rs}. Long and her nieces.”
+]
+
+Mrs. Bennet, in short, was in very great spirits: she had seen enough of
+Bingley’s behaviour to Jane to be convinced that she would get him at
+last; and her expectations of advantage to her family, when in a happy
+humour, were so far beyond reason, that she was quite disappointed at
+not seeing him there again the next day, to make his proposals.
+
+“It has been a very agreeable day,” said Miss Bennet to Elizabeth. “The
+party seemed so well selected, so suitable one with the other. I hope we
+may often meet again.”
+
+Elizabeth smiled.
+
+“Lizzy, you must not do so. You must not suspect me. It mortifies me. I
+assure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an
+agreeable and sensible young man without having a wish beyond it. I am
+perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had
+any design of engaging my affection. It is only that he is blessed with
+greater sweetness of address, and a stronger desire of generally
+pleasing, than any other man.”
+
+“You are very cruel,” said her sister, “you will not let me smile, and
+are provoking me to it every moment.”
+
+“How hard it is in some cases to be believed! And how impossible in
+others! But why should you wish to persuade me that I feel more than I
+acknowledge?”
+
+“That is a question which I hardly know how to answer. We all love to
+instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive
+me; and if you persist in indifference, do not make _me_ your
+confidante.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Lizzy, my dear, I want to speak to you.”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LV.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A few days after this visit, Mr. Bingley called again, and alone. His
+friend had left him that morning for London, but was to return home in
+ten days’ time. He sat with them above an hour, and was in remarkably
+good spirits. Mrs. Bennet invited him to dine with them; but, with many
+expressions of concern, he confessed himself engaged elsewhere.
+
+“Next time you call,” said she, “I hope we shall be more lucky.”
+
+He should be particularly happy at any time, etc., etc.; and if she
+would give him leave, would take an early opportunity of waiting on
+them.
+
+“Can you come to-morrow?”
+
+Yes, he had no engagement at all for to-morrow; and her invitation was
+accepted with alacrity.
+
+He came, and in such very good time, that the ladies were none of them
+dressed. In ran Mrs. Bennet to her daughters’ room, in her
+dressing-gown, and with her hair half finished, crying out,--
+
+“My dear Jane, make haste and hurry down. He is come--Mr. Bingley is
+come. He is, indeed. Make haste, make haste. Here, Sarah, come to Miss
+Bennet this moment, and help her on with her gown. Never mind Miss
+Lizzy’s hair.”
+
+“We will be down as soon as we can,” said Jane; “but I dare say Kitty is
+forwarder than either of us, for she went upstairs half an hour ago.”
+
+“Oh! hang Kitty! what has she to do with it? Come, be quick, be quick!
+where is your sash, my dear?”
+
+But when her mother was gone, Jane would not be prevailed on to go down
+without one of her sisters.
+
+The same anxiety to get them by themselves was visible again in the
+evening. After tea, Mr. Bennet retired to the library, as was his
+custom, and Mary went upstairs to her instrument. Two obstacles of the
+five being thus removed, Mrs. Bennet sat looking and winking at
+Elizabeth and Catherine for a considerable time, without making any
+impression on them. Elizabeth would not observe her; and when at last
+Kitty did, she very innocently said, “What is the matter, mamma? What do
+you keep winking at me for? What am I to do?”
+
+“Nothing, child, nothing. I did not wink at you.” She then sat still
+five minutes longer; but unable to waste such a precious occasion, she
+suddenly got up, and saying to Kitty,--
+
+“Come here, my love, I want to speak to you,” took her out of the room.
+Jane instantly gave a look at Elizabeth which spoke her distress at such
+premeditation, and her entreaty that _she_ would not give in to it. In a
+few minutes, Mrs. Bennet half opened the door and called out,--
+
+“Lizzy, my dear, I want to speak with you.”
+
+Elizabeth was forced to go.
+
+“We may as well leave them by themselves, you know,” said her mother as
+soon as she was in the hall. “Kitty and I are going upstairs to sit in
+my dressing-room.”
+
+Elizabeth made no attempt to reason with her mother, but remained
+quietly in the hall till she and Kitty were out of sight, then returned
+into the drawing-room.
+
+Mrs. Bennet’s schemes for this day were ineffectual. Bingley was
+everything that was charming, except the professed lover of her
+daughter. His ease and cheerfulness rendered him a most agreeable
+addition to their evening party; and he bore with the ill-judged
+officiousness of the mother, and heard all her silly remarks with a
+forbearance and command of countenance particularly grateful to the
+daughter.
+
+He scarcely needed an invitation to stay supper; and before he went away
+an engagement was formed, chiefly through his own and Mrs. Bennet’s
+means, for his coming next morning to shoot with her husband.
+
+After this day, Jane said no more of her indifference. Not a word passed
+between the sisters concerning Bingley; but Elizabeth went to bed in the
+happy belief that all must speedily be concluded, unless Mr. Darcy
+returned within the stated time. Seriously, however, she felt tolerably
+persuaded that all this must have taken place with that gentleman’s
+concurrence.
+
+Bingley was punctual to his appointment; and he and Mr. Bennet spent the
+morning together, as had been agreed on. The latter was much more
+agreeable than his companion expected. There was nothing of presumption
+or folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into
+silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric, than the
+other had ever seen him. Bingley of course returned with him to dinner;
+and in the evening Mrs. Bennet’s invention was again at work to get
+everybody away from him and her daughter. Elizabeth, who had a letter to
+write, went into the breakfast-room for that purpose soon after tea; for
+as the others were all going to sit down to cards, she could not be
+wanted to counteract her mother’s schemes.
+
+But on her returning to the drawing-room, when her letter was finished,
+she saw, to her infinite surprise, there was reason to fear that her
+mother had been too ingenious for her. On opening the door, she
+perceived her sister and Bingley standing together over the hearth, as
+if engaged in earnest conversation; and had this led to no suspicion,
+the faces of both, as they hastily turned round and moved away from each
+other, would have told it all. _Their_ situation was awkward enough; but
+_hers_ she thought was still worse. Not a syllable was uttered by
+either; and Elizabeth was on the point of going away again, when
+Bingley, who as well as the other had sat down, suddenly rose, and,
+whispering a few words to her sister, ran out of the room.
+
+Jane could have no reserves from Elizabeth, where confidence would give
+pleasure; and, instantly embracing her, acknowledged, with the liveliest
+emotion, that she was the happiest creature in the world.
+
+“’Tis too much!” she added, “by far too much. I do not deserve it. Oh,
+why is not everybody as happy?”
+
+Elizabeth’s congratulations were given with a sincerity, a warmth, a
+delight, which words could but poorly express. Every sentence of
+kindness was a fresh source of happiness to Jane. But she would not
+allow herself to stay with her sister, or say half that remained to be
+said, for the present.
+
+“I must go instantly to my mother,” she cried. “I would not on any
+account trifle with her affectionate solicitude, or allow her to hear it
+from anyone but myself. He is gone to my father already. Oh, Lizzy, to
+know that what I have to relate will give such pleasure to all my dear
+family! how shall I bear so much happiness?”
+
+She then hastened away to her mother, who had purposely broken up the
+card-party, and was sitting upstairs with Kitty.
+
+Elizabeth, who was left by herself, now smiled at the rapidity and ease
+with which an affair was finally settled, that had given them so many
+previous months of suspense and vexation.
+
+“And this,” said she, “is the end of all his friend’s anxious
+circumspection! of all his sister’s falsehood and contrivance! the
+happiest, wisest, and most reasonable end!”
+
+In a few minutes she was joined by Bingley, whose conference with her
+father had been short and to the purpose.
+
+“Where is your sister?” said he hastily, as he opened the door.
+
+“With my mother upstairs. She will be down in a moment, I dare say.”
+
+He then shut the door, and, coming up to her, claimed the good wishes
+and affection of a sister. Elizabeth honestly and heartily expressed her
+delight in the prospect of their relationship. They shook hands with
+great cordiality; and then, till her sister came down, she had to listen
+to all he had to say of his own happiness, and of Jane’s perfections;
+and in spite of his being a lover, Elizabeth really believed all his
+expectations of felicity to be rationally founded, because they had for
+basis the excellent understanding and super-excellent disposition of
+Jane, and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and
+himself.
+
+It was an evening of no common delight to them all; the satisfaction of
+Miss Bennet’s mind gave such a glow of sweet animation to her face, as
+made her look handsomer than ever. Kitty simpered and smiled, and hoped
+her turn was coming soon. Mrs. Bennet could not give her consent, or
+speak her approbation in terms warm enough to satisfy her feelings,
+though she talked to Bingley of nothing else, for half an hour; and when
+Mr. Bennet joined them at supper, his voice and manner plainly showed
+how really happy he was.
+
+Not a word, however, passed his lips in allusion to it, till their
+visitor took his leave for the night; but as soon as he was gone, he
+turned to his daughter and said,--
+
+“Jane, I congratulate you. You will be a very happy woman.”
+
+Jane went to him instantly, kissed him, and thanked him for his
+goodness.
+
+“You are a good girl,” he replied, “and I have great pleasure in
+thinking you will be so happily settled. I have not a doubt of your
+doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are
+each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so
+easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will
+always exceed your income.”
+
+“I hope not so. Imprudence or thoughtlessness in money matters would be
+unpardonable in _me_.”
+
+“Exceed their income! My dear Mr. Bennet,” cried his wife, “what are you
+talking of? Why, he has four or five thousand a year, and very likely
+more.” Then addressing her daughter, “Oh, my dear, dear Jane, I am so
+happy! I am sure I shan’t get a wink of sleep all night. I knew how it
+would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not
+be so beautiful for nothing! I remember, as soon as ever I saw him, when
+he first came into Hertfordshire last year, I thought how likely it was
+that you should come together. Oh, he is the handsomest young man that
+ever was seen!”
+
+Wickham, Lydia, were all forgotten. Jane was beyond competition her
+favourite child. At that moment she cared for no other. Her younger
+sisters soon began to make interest with her for objects of happiness
+which she might in future be able to dispense.
+
+Mary petitioned for the use of the library at Netherfield; and Kitty
+begged very hard for a few balls there every winter.
+
+Bingley, from this time, was of course a daily visitor at Longbourn;
+coming frequently before breakfast, and always remaining till after
+supper; unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough
+detested, had given him an invitation to dinner, which he thought
+himself obliged to accept.
+
+Elizabeth had now but little time for conversation with her sister; for
+while he was present Jane had no attention to bestow on anyone else: but
+she found herself considerably useful to both of them, in those hours of
+separation that must sometimes occur. In the absence of Jane, he always
+attached himself to Elizabeth for the pleasure of talking of her; and
+when Bingley was gone, Jane constantly sought the same means of relief.
+
+“He has made me so happy,” said she, one evening, “by telling me that he
+was totally ignorant of my being in town last spring! I had not believed
+it possible.”
+
+“I suspected as much,” replied Elizabeth. “But how did he account for
+it?”
+
+“It must have been his sisters’ doing. They were certainly no friends to
+his acquaintance with me, which I cannot wonder at, since he might have
+chosen so much more advantageously in many respects. But when they see,
+as I trust they will, that their brother is happy with me, they will
+learn to be contented, and we shall be on good terms again: though we
+can never be what we once were to each other.”
+
+“That is the most unforgiving speech,” said Elizabeth, “that I ever
+heard you utter. Good girl! It would vex me, indeed, to see you again
+the dupe of Miss Bingley’s pretended regard.”
+
+“Would you believe it, Lizzy, that when he went to town last November he
+really loved me, and nothing but a persuasion of _my_ being indifferent
+would have prevented his coming down again?”
+
+“He made a little mistake, to be sure; but it is to the credit of his
+modesty.”
+
+This naturally introduced a panegyric from Jane on his diffidence, and
+the little value he put on his own good qualities.
+
+Elizabeth was pleased to find that he had not betrayed the interference
+of his friend; for, though Jane had the most generous and forgiving
+heart in the world, she knew it was a circumstance which must prejudice
+her against him.
+
+“I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!” cried
+Jane. “Oh, Lizzy, why am I thus singled from my family, and blessed
+above them all? If I could but see you as happy! If there were but such
+another man for you!”
+
+“If you were to give me forty such men I never could be so happy as you.
+Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your
+happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very
+good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.”
+
+The situation of affairs in the Longbourn family could not be long a
+secret. Mrs. Bennet was privileged to whisper it to Mrs. Philips, and
+she ventured, without any permission, to do the same by all her
+neighbours in Meryton.
+
+The Bennets were speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the
+world; though only a few weeks before, when Lydia had first run away,
+they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One morning, about a week after Bingley’s engagement with Jane had been
+formed, as he and the females of the family were sitting together in the
+dining-room, their attention was suddenly drawn to the window by the
+sound of a carriage; and they perceived a chaise and four driving up the
+lawn. It was too early in the morning for visitors; and besides, the
+equipage did not answer to that of any of their neighbours. The horses
+were post; and neither the carriage, nor the livery of the servant who
+preceded it, were familiar to them. As it was certain, however, that
+somebody was coming, Bingley instantly prevailed on Miss Bennet to avoid
+the confinement of such an intrusion, and walk away with him into the
+shrubbery. They both set off; and the conjectures of the remaining three
+continued, though with little satisfaction, till the door was thrown
+open, and their visitor entered. It was Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
+
+They were of course all intending to be surprised: but their
+astonishment was beyond their expectation; and on the part of Mrs.
+Bennet and Kitty, though she was perfectly unknown to them, even
+inferior to what Elizabeth felt.
+
+She entered the room with an air more than usually ungracious, made no
+other reply to Elizabeth’s salutation than a slight inclination of the
+head, and sat down without saying a word. Elizabeth had mentioned her
+name to her mother on her Ladyship’s entrance, though no request of
+introduction had been made.
+
+Mrs. Bennet, all amazement, though flattered by having a guest of such
+high importance, received her with the utmost politeness. After sitting
+for a moment in silence, she said, very stiffly, to Elizabeth,--
+
+“I hope you are well, Miss Bennet. That lady, I suppose, is your
+mother?”
+
+Elizabeth replied very concisely that she was.
+
+“And _that_, I suppose, is one of your sisters?”
+
+“Yes, madam,” said Mrs. Bennet, delighted to speak to a Lady Catherine.
+“She is my youngest girl but one. My youngest of all is lately married,
+and my eldest is somewhere about the ground, walking with a young man,
+who, I believe, will soon become a part of the family.”
+
+“You have a very small park here,” returned Lady Catherine, after a
+short silence.
+
+“It is nothing in comparison of Rosings, my Lady, I dare say; but, I
+assure you, it is much larger than Sir William Lucas’s.”
+
+“This must be a most inconvenient sitting-room for the evening in
+summer: the windows are full west.”
+
+Mrs. Bennet assured her that they never sat there after dinner; and then
+added,--
+
+“May I take the liberty of asking your Ladyship whether you left Mr. and
+Mrs. Collins well?”
+
+“Yes, very well. I saw them the night before last.”
+
+Elizabeth now expected that she would produce a letter for her from
+Charlotte, as it seemed the only probable motive for her calling. But no
+letter appeared, and she was completely puzzled.
+
+Mrs. Bennet, with great civility, begged her Ladyship to take some
+refreshment: but Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely,
+declined eating anything; and then, rising up, said to Elizabeth,--
+
+“Miss Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a little wilderness
+on one side of your lawn. I should be glad to take a turn in it, if you
+will favour me with your company.”
+
+“Go, my dear,” cried her mother, “and show her Ladyship about the
+different walks. I think she will be pleased with the hermitage.”
+
+Elizabeth obeyed; and, running into her own room for her parasol,
+attended her noble guest downstairs. As they passed through the hall,
+Lady Catherine opened the doors into the dining-parlour and
+drawing-room, and pronouncing them, after a short survey, to be
+decent-looking rooms, walked on.
+
+Her carriage remained at the door, and Elizabeth saw that her
+waiting-woman was in it. They proceeded in silence along the gravel walk
+that led to the copse; Elizabeth was determined to make no effort for
+conversation with a woman who was now more than usually insolent and
+disagreeable.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“After a short survey”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+“How could I ever think her like her nephew?” said she, as she looked in
+her face.
+
+As soon as they entered the copse, Lady Catherine began in the following
+manner:--
+
+“You can be at no loss, Miss Bennet, to understand the reason of my
+journey hither. Your own heart, your own conscience, must tell you why I
+come.”
+
+Elizabeth looked with unaffected astonishment.
+
+“Indeed, you are mistaken, madam; I have not been at all able to account
+for the honour of seeing you here.”
+
+“Miss Bennet,” replied her Ladyship, in an angry tone, “you ought to
+know that I am not to be trifled with. But however insincere _you_ may
+choose to be, you shall not find _me_ so. My character has ever been
+celebrated for its sincerity and frankness; and in a cause of such
+moment as this, I shall certainly not depart from it. A report of a most
+alarming nature reached me two days ago. I was told, that not only your
+sister was on the point of being most advantageously married, but that
+_you_--that Miss Elizabeth Bennet would, in all likelihood, be soon
+afterwards united to my nephew--my own nephew, Mr. Darcy. Though I
+_know_ it must be a scandalous falsehood, though I would not injure him
+so much as to suppose the truth of it possible, I instantly resolved on
+setting off for this place, that I might make my sentiments known to
+you.”
+
+“If you believed it impossible to be true,” said Elizabeth, colouring
+with astonishment and disdain, “I wonder you took the trouble of coming
+so far. What could your Ladyship propose by it?”
+
+“At once to insist upon having such a report universally contradicted.”
+
+“Your coming to Longbourn, to see me and my family,” said Elizabeth
+coolly, “will be rather a confirmation of it--if, indeed, such a report
+is in existence.”
+
+“If! do you then pretend to be ignorant of it? Has it not been
+industriously circulated by yourselves? Do you not know that such a
+report is spread abroad?”
+
+“I never heard that it was.”
+
+“And can you likewise declare, that there is no _foundation_ for it?”
+
+“I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your Ladyship. _You_
+may ask questions which _I_ shall not choose to answer.”
+
+“This is not to be borne. Miss Bennet, I insist on being satisfied. Has
+he, has my nephew, made you an offer of marriage?”
+
+“Your Ladyship has declared it to be impossible.”
+
+“It ought to be so; it must be so, while he retains the use of his
+reason. But _your_ arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation,
+have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family. You
+may have drawn him in.”
+
+“If I have, I shall be the last person to confess it.”
+
+“Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such
+language as this. I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world,
+and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns.”
+
+“But you are not entitled to know _mine_; nor will such behaviour as
+this ever induce me to be explicit.”
+
+“Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the
+presumption to aspire, can never take place. No, never. Mr. Darcy is
+engaged to _my daughter_. Now, what have you to say?”
+
+“Only this,--that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he will
+make an offer to me.”
+
+Lady Catherine hesitated for a moment, and then replied,--
+
+“The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind. From their infancy,
+they have been intended for each other. It was the favourite wish of
+_his_ mother, as well as of hers. While in their cradles we planned the
+union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be
+accomplished, is their marriage to be prevented by a young woman of
+inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to
+the family? Do you pay no regard to the wishes of his friends--to his
+tacit engagement with Miss de Bourgh? Are you lost to every feeling of
+propriety and delicacy? Have you not heard me say, that from his
+earliest hours he was destined for his cousin?”
+
+“Yes; and I had heard it before. But what is that to me? If there is no
+other objection to my marrying your nephew, I shall certainly not be
+kept from it by knowing that his mother and aunt wished him to marry
+Miss de Bourgh. You both did as much as you could in planning the
+marriage. Its completion depended on others. If Mr. Darcy is neither by
+honour nor inclination confined to his cousin, why is not he to make
+another choice? And if I am that choice, why may not I accept him?”
+
+“Because honour, decorum, prudence--nay, interest--forbid it. Yes, Miss
+Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or
+friends, if you wilfully act against the inclinations of all. You will
+be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone connected with him.
+Your alliance will be a disgrace; your name will never even be mentioned
+by any of us.”
+
+“These are heavy misfortunes,” replied Elizabeth. “But the wife of Mr.
+Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily
+attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause
+to repine.”
+
+“Obstinate, headstrong girl! I am ashamed of you! Is this your gratitude
+for my attentions to you last spring? Is nothing due to me on that
+score? Let us sit down. You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came
+here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose; nor will I
+be dissuaded from it. I have not been used to submit to any person’s
+whims. I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.”
+
+“_That_ will make your Ladyship’s situation at present more pitiable;
+but it will have no effect on _me_.”
+
+“I will not be interrupted! Hear me in silence. My daughter and my
+nephew are formed for each other. They are descended, on the maternal
+side, from the same noble line; and, on the father’s, from respectable,
+honourable, and ancient, though untitled, families. Their fortune on
+both sides is splendid. They are destined for each other by the voice of
+every member of their respective houses; and what is to divide
+them?--the upstart pretensions of a young woman without family,
+connections, or fortune! Is this to be endured? But it must not, shall
+not be! If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to
+quit the sphere in which you have been brought up.”
+
+“In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that
+sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are
+equal.”
+
+“True. You _are_ a gentleman’s daughter. But what was your mother? Who
+are your uncles and aunts? Do not imagine me ignorant of their
+condition.”
+
+“Whatever my connections may be,” said Elizabeth, “if your nephew does
+not object to them, they can be nothing to _you_.”
+
+“Tell me, once for all, are you engaged to him?”
+
+Though Elizabeth would not, for the mere purpose of obliging Lady
+Catherine, have answered this question, she could not but say, after a
+moment’s deliberation,--
+
+“I am not.”
+
+Lady Catherine seemed pleased.
+
+“And will you promise me never to enter into such an engagement?”
+
+“I will make no promise of the kind.”
+
+“Miss Bennet, I am shocked and astonished. I expected to find a more
+reasonable young woman. But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I
+will ever recede. I shall not go away till you have given me the
+assurance I require.”
+
+“And I certainly _never_ shall give it. I am not to be intimidated into
+anything so wholly unreasonable. Your Ladyship wants Mr. Darcy to marry
+your daughter; but would my giving you the wished-for promise make
+_their_ marriage at all more probable? Supposing him to be attached to
+me, would _my_ refusing to accept his hand make him wish to bestow it on
+his cousin? Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with
+which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as
+frivolous as the application was ill-judged. You have widely mistaken my
+character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these.
+How far your nephew might approve of your interference in _his_ affairs,
+I cannot tell; but you have certainly no right to concern yourself in
+mine. I must beg, therefore, to be importuned no further on the
+subject.”
+
+“Not so hasty, if you please. I have by no means done. To all the
+objections I have already urged I have still another to add. I am no
+stranger to the particulars of your youngest sister’s infamous
+elopement. I know it all; that the young man’s marrying her was a
+patched-up business, at the expense of your father and uncle. And is
+_such_ a girl to be my nephew’s sister? Is _her_ husband, who is the son
+of his late father’s steward, to be his brother? Heaven and earth!--of
+what are you thinking? Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
+
+“You can _now_ have nothing further to say,” she resentfully answered.
+“You have insulted me, in every possible method. I must beg to return to
+the house.”
+
+And she rose as she spoke. Lady Catherine rose also, and they turned
+back. Her Ladyship was highly incensed.
+
+“You have no regard, then, for the honour and credit of my nephew!
+Unfeeling, selfish girl! Do you not consider that a connection with you
+must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?”
+
+“Lady Catherine, I have nothing further to say. You know my sentiments.”
+
+“You are then resolved to have him?”
+
+“I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act in that manner,
+which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without
+reference to _you_, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”
+
+“It is well. You refuse, then, to oblige me. You refuse to obey the
+claims of duty, honour, and gratitude. You are determined to ruin him in
+the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.”
+
+“Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,” replied Elizabeth, “has any
+possible claim on me, in the present instance. No principle of either
+would be violated by my marriage with Mr. Darcy. And with regard to the
+resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former
+_were_ excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment’s
+concern--and the world in general would have too much sense to join in
+the scorn.”
+
+“And this is your real opinion! This is your final resolve! Very well. I
+shall now know how to act. Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your
+ambition will ever be gratified. I came to try you. I hoped to find you
+reasonable; but depend upon it I will carry my point.”
+
+In this manner Lady Catherine talked on till they were at the door of
+the carriage, when, turning hastily round, she added,--
+
+“I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your
+mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.”
+
+Elizabeth made no answer; and without attempting to persuade her
+Ladyship to return into the house, walked quietly into it herself. She
+heard the carriage drive away as she proceeded upstairs. Her mother
+impatiently met her at the door of her dressing-room, to ask why Lady
+Catherine would not come in again and rest herself.
+
+“She did not choose it,” said her daughter; “she would go.”
+
+“She is a very fine-looking woman! and her calling here was prodigiously
+civil! for she only came, I suppose, to tell us the Collinses were well.
+She is on her road somewhere, I dare say; and so, passing through
+Meryton, thought she might as well call on you. I suppose she had
+nothing particular to say to you, Lizzy?”
+
+Elizabeth was forced to give in to a little falsehood here; for to
+acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “But now it comes out”
+]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The discomposure of spirits which this extraordinary visit threw
+Elizabeth into could not be easily overcome; nor could she for many
+hours learn to think of it less than incessantly. Lady Catherine, it
+appeared, had actually taken the trouble of this journey from Rosings
+for the sole purpose of breaking off her supposed engagement with Mr.
+Darcy. It was a rational scheme, to be sure! but from what the report of
+their engagement could originate, Elizabeth was at a loss to imagine;
+till she recollected that _his_ being the intimate friend of Bingley,
+and _her_ being the sister of Jane, was enough, at a time when the
+expectation of one wedding made everybody eager for another, to supply
+the idea. She had not herself forgotten to feel that the marriage of her
+sister must bring them more frequently together. And her neighbours at
+Lucas Lodge, therefore, (for through their communication with the
+Collinses, the report, she concluded, had reached Lady Catherine,) had
+only set _that_ down as almost certain and immediate which _she_ had
+looked forward to as possible at some future time.
+
+In revolving Lady Catherine’s expressions, however, she could not help
+feeling some uneasiness as to the possible consequence of her persisting
+in this interference. From what she had said of her resolution to
+prevent the marriage, it occurred to Elizabeth that she must meditate an
+application to her nephew; and how he might take a similar
+representation of the evils attached to a connection with her she dared
+not pronounce. She knew not the exact degree of his affection for his
+aunt, or his dependence on her judgment, but it was natural to suppose
+that he thought much higher of her Ladyship than _she_ could do; and it
+was certain, that in enumerating the miseries of a marriage with _one_
+whose immediate connections were so unequal to his own, his aunt would
+address him on his weakest side. With his notions of dignity, he would
+probably feel that the arguments, which to Elizabeth had appeared weak
+and ridiculous, contained much good sense and solid reasoning.
+
+If he had been wavering before, as to what he should do, which had often
+seemed likely, the advice and entreaty of so near a relation might
+settle every doubt, and determine him at once to be as happy as dignity
+unblemished could make him. In that case he would return no more. Lady
+Catherine might see him in her way through town; and his engagement to
+Bingley of coming again to Netherfield must give way.
+
+“If, therefore, an excuse for not keeping his promise should come to his
+friend within a few days,” she added, “I shall know how to understand
+it. I shall then give over every expectation, every wish of his
+constancy. If he is satisfied with only regretting me, when he might
+have obtained my affections and hand, I shall soon cease to regret him
+at all.”
+
+The surprise of the rest of the family, on hearing who their visitor had
+been, was very great: but they obligingly satisfied it with the same
+kind of supposition which had appeased Mrs. Bennet’s curiosity; and
+Elizabeth was spared from much teasing on the subject.
+
+The next morning, as she was going down stairs, she was met by her
+father, who came out of his library with a letter in his hand.
+
+“Lizzy,” said he, “I was going to look for you: come into my room.”
+
+She followed him thither; and her curiosity to know what he had to tell
+her was heightened by the supposition of its being in some manner
+connected with the letter he held. It suddenly struck her that it might
+be from Lady Catherine, and she anticipated with dismay all the
+consequent explanations.
+
+She followed her father to the fireplace, and they both sat down. He
+then said,--
+
+“I have received a letter this morning that has astonished me
+exceedingly. As it principally concerns yourself, you ought to know its
+contents. I did not know before that I had _two_ daughters on the brink
+of matrimony. Let me congratulate you on a very important conquest.”
+
+The colour now rushed into Elizabeth’s cheeks in the instantaneous
+conviction of its being a letter from the nephew, instead of the aunt;
+and she was undetermined whether most to be pleased that he explained
+himself at all, or offended that his letter was not rather addressed to
+herself, when her father continued,--
+
+“You look conscious. Young ladies have great penetration in such matters
+as these; but I think I may defy even _your_ sagacity to discover the
+name of your admirer. This letter is from Mr. Collins.”
+
+“From Mr. Collins! and what can _he_ have to say?”
+
+“Something very much to the purpose, of course. He begins with
+congratulations on the approaching nuptials of my eldest daughter, of
+which, it seems, he has been told by some of the good-natured, gossiping
+Lucases. I shall not sport with your impatience by reading what he says
+on that point. What relates to yourself is as follows:--‘Having thus
+offered you the sincere congratulations of Mrs. Collins and myself on
+this happy event, let me now add a short hint on the subject of another,
+of which we have been advertised by the same authority. Your daughter
+Elizabeth, it is presumed, will not long bear the name of Bennet, after
+her eldest sister has resigned it; and the chosen partner of her fate
+may be reasonably looked up to as one of the most illustrious personages
+in this land.’ Can you possibly guess, Lizzy, who is meant by this?
+‘This young gentleman is blessed, in a peculiar way, with everything the
+heart of mortal can most desire,--splendid property, noble kindred, and
+extensive patronage. Yet, in spite of all these temptations, let me warn
+my cousin Elizabeth, and yourself, of what evils you may incur by a
+precipitate closure with this gentleman’s proposals, which, of course,
+you will be inclined to take immediate advantage of.’ Have you any idea,
+Lizzy, who this gentleman is? But now it comes out. ‘My motive for
+cautioning you is as follows:--We have reason to imagine that his aunt,
+Lady Catherine de Bourgh, does not look on the match with a friendly
+eye.’ _Mr. Darcy_, you see, is the man! Now, Lizzy, I think I _have_
+surprised you. Could he, or the Lucases, have pitched on any man, within
+the circle of our acquaintance, whose name would have given the lie more
+effectually to what they related? Mr. Darcy, who never looks at any
+woman but to see a blemish, and who probably never looked at _you_ in
+his life! It is admirable!”
+
+Elizabeth tried to join in her father’s pleasantry, but could only force
+one most reluctant smile. Never had his wit been directed in a manner so
+little agreeable to her.
+
+“Are you not diverted?”
+
+“Oh, yes. Pray read on.”
+
+“‘After mentioning the likelihood of this marriage to her Ladyship last
+night, she immediately, with her usual condescension, expressed what she
+felt on the occasion; when it became apparent, that, on the score of
+some family objections on the part of my cousin, she would never give
+her consent to what she termed so disgraceful a match. I thought it my
+duty to give the speediest intelligence of this to my cousin, that she
+and her noble admirer may be aware of what they are about, and not run
+hastily into a marriage which has not been properly sanctioned.’ Mr.
+Collins, moreover, adds, ‘I am truly rejoiced that my cousin Lydia’s sad
+business has been so well hushed up, and am only concerned that their
+living together before the marriage took place should be so generally
+known. I must not, however, neglect the duties of my station, or refrain
+from declaring my amazement, at hearing that you received the young
+couple into your house as soon as they were married. It was an
+encouragement of vice; and had I been the rector of Longbourn, I should
+very strenuously have opposed it. You ought certainly to forgive them as
+a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their
+names to be mentioned in your hearing.’ _That_ is his notion of
+Christian forgiveness! The rest of his letter is only about his dear
+Charlotte’s situation, and his expectation of a young olive-branch. But,
+Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it. You are not going to be
+_missish_, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report. For
+what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them
+in our turn?”
+
+“Oh,” cried Elizabeth, “I am exceedingly diverted. But it is so
+strange!”
+
+“Yes, _that_ is what makes it amusing. Had they fixed on any other man
+it would have been nothing; but _his_ perfect indifference and _your_
+pointed dislike make it so delightfully absurd! Much as I abominate
+writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins’s correspondence for any
+consideration. Nay, when I read a letter of his, I cannot help giving
+him the preference even over Wickham, much as I value the impudence and
+hypocrisy of my son-in-law. And pray, Lizzy, what said Lady Catherine
+about this report? Did she call to refuse her consent?”
+
+To this question his daughter replied only with a laugh; and as it had
+been asked without the least suspicion, she was not distressed by his
+repeating it. Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her
+feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh when she
+would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her by
+what he said of Mr. Darcy’s indifference; and she could do nothing but
+wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that, perhaps, instead of
+his seeing too _little_, she might have fancied too _much_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“The efforts of his aunt”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVIII.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as
+Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able to bring Darcy
+with him to Longbourn before many days had passed after Lady Catherine’s
+visit. The gentlemen arrived early; and, before Mrs. Bennet had time to
+tell him of their having seen his aunt, of which her daughter sat in
+momentary dread, Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed
+their all walking out. It was agreed to. Mrs. Bennet was not in the
+habit of walking, Mary could never spare time, but the remaining five
+set off together. Bingley and Jane, however, soon allowed the others to
+outstrip them. They lagged behind, while Elizabeth, Kitty, and Darcy
+were to entertain each other. Very little was said by either; Kitty was
+too much afraid of him to talk; Elizabeth was secretly forming a
+desperate resolution; and, perhaps, he might be doing the same.
+
+They walked towards the Lucases’, because Kitty wished to call upon
+Maria; and as Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern,
+when Kitty left them she went boldly on with him alone. Now was the
+moment for her resolution to be executed; and while her courage was
+high, she immediately said,--
+
+“Mr. Darcy, I am a very selfish creature, and for the sake of giving
+relief to my own feelings care not how much I may be wounding yours. I
+can no longer help thanking you for your unexampled kindness to my poor
+sister. Ever since I have known it I have been most anxious to
+acknowledge to you how gratefully I feel it. Were it known to the rest
+of my family I should not have merely my own gratitude to express.”
+
+“I am sorry, exceedingly sorry,” replied Darcy, in a tone of surprise
+and emotion, “that you have ever been informed of what may, in a
+mistaken light, have given you uneasiness. I did not think Mrs. Gardiner
+was so little to be trusted.”
+
+“You must not blame my aunt. Lydia’s thoughtlessness first betrayed to
+me that you had been concerned in the matter; and, of course, I could
+not rest till I knew the particulars. Let me thank you again and again,
+in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced
+you to take so much trouble, and bear so many mortifications, for the
+sake of discovering them.”
+
+“If you _will_ thank me,” he replied, “let it be for yourself alone.
+That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other
+inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your
+_family_ owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought
+only of _you_.”
+
+Elizabeth was too much embarrassed to say a word. After a short pause,
+her companion added, “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your
+feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. _My_
+affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence
+me on this subject for ever.”
+
+Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of
+his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not
+very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone
+so material a change since the period to which he alluded, as to make
+her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances. The
+happiness which this reply produced was such as he had probably never
+felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as
+warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth
+been able to encounter his eyes, she might have seen how well the
+expression of heartfelt delight diffused over his face became him: but
+though she could not look she could listen; and he told her of feelings
+which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection
+every moment more valuable.
+
+They walked on without knowing in what direction. There was too much to
+be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. She
+soon learnt that they were indebted for their present good understanding
+to the efforts of his aunt, who _did_ call on him in her return through
+London, and there relate her journey to Longbourn, its motive, and the
+substance of her conversation with Elizabeth; dwelling emphatically on
+every expression of the latter, which, in her Ladyship’s apprehension,
+peculiarly denoted her perverseness and assurance, in the belief that
+such a relation must assist her endeavours to obtain that promise from
+her nephew which _she_ had refused to give. But, unluckily for her
+Ladyship, its effect had been exactly contrariwise.
+
+“It taught me to hope,” said he, “as I had scarcely ever allowed myself
+to hope before. I knew enough of your disposition to be certain, that
+had you been absolutely, irrevocably decided against me, you would have
+acknowledged it to Lady Catherine frankly and openly.”
+
+Elizabeth coloured and laughed as she replied, “Yes, you know enough of
+my _frankness_ to believe me capable of _that_. After abusing you so
+abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all
+your relations.”
+
+“What did you say of me that I did not deserve? For though your
+accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour
+to you at the time had merited the severest reproof. It was
+unpardonable. I cannot think of it without abhorrence.”
+
+“We will not quarrel for the greater share of blame annexed to that
+evening,” said Elizabeth. “The conduct of neither, if strictly
+examined, will be irreproachable; but since then we have both, I hope,
+improved in civility.”
+
+“I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself. The recollection of what I
+then said, of my conduct, my manners, my expressions during the whole of
+it, is now, and has been many months, inexpressibly painful to me. Your
+reproof, so well applied, I shall never forget: ‘Had you behaved in a
+more gentlemanlike manner.’ Those were your words. You know not, you can
+scarcely conceive, how they have tortured me; though it was some time, I
+confess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice.”
+
+“I was certainly very far from expecting them to make so strong an
+impression. I had not the smallest idea of their being ever felt in such
+a way.”
+
+“I can easily believe it. You thought me then devoid of every proper
+feeling, I am sure you did. The turn of your countenance I shall never
+forget, as you said that I could not have addressed you in any possible
+way that would induce you to accept me.”
+
+“Oh, do not repeat what I then said. These recollections will not do at
+all. I assure you that I have long been most heartily ashamed of it.”
+
+Darcy mentioned his letter. “Did it,” said he,--“did it _soon_ make you
+think better of me? Did you, on reading it, give any credit to its
+contents?”
+
+She explained what its effects on her had been, and how gradually all
+her former prejudices had been removed.
+
+“I knew,” said he, “that what I wrote must give you pain, but it was
+necessary. I hope you have destroyed the letter. There was one part,
+especially the opening of it, which I should dread your having the power
+of reading again. I can remember some expressions which might justly
+make you hate me.”
+
+“The letter shall certainly be burnt, if you believe it essential to the
+preservation of my regard; but, though we have both reason to think my
+opinions not entirely unalterable, they are not, I hope, quite so easily
+changed as that implies.”
+
+“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly
+calm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a
+dreadful bitterness of spirit.”
+
+“The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. The
+adieu is charity itself. But think no more of the letter. The feelings
+of the person who wrote and the person who received it are now so widely
+different from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance
+attending it ought to be forgotten. You must learn some of my
+philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you
+pleasure.”
+
+“I cannot give you credit for any philosophy of the kind. _Your_
+retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment
+arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of
+ignorance. But with _me_, it is not so. Painful recollections will
+intrude, which cannot, which ought not to be repelled. I have been a
+selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a
+child I was taught what was _right_, but I was not taught to correct my
+temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride
+and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only _child_),
+I was spoiled by my parents, who, though good themselves, (my father
+particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable,) allowed, encouraged,
+almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing, to care for none beyond
+my own family circle, to think meanly of all the rest of the world, to
+_wish_ at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with
+my own. Such I was, from eight to eight-and-twenty; and such I might
+still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not
+owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most
+advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a
+doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my
+pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
+
+“Had you then persuaded yourself that I should?”
+
+“Indeed I had. What will you think of my vanity? I believed you to be
+wishing, expecting my addresses.”
+
+“My manners must have been in fault, but not intentionally, I assure
+you. I never meant to deceive you, but my spirits might often lead me
+wrong. How you must have hated me after _that_ evening!”
+
+“Hate you! I was angry, perhaps, at first, but my anger soon began to
+take a proper direction.”
+
+“I am almost afraid of asking what you thought of me when we met at
+Pemberley. You blamed me for coming?”
+
+“No, indeed, I felt nothing but surprise.”
+
+“Your surprise could not be greater than _mine_ in being noticed by you.
+My conscience told me that I deserved no extraordinary politeness, and I
+confess that I did not expect to receive _more_ than my due.”
+
+“My object _then_,” replied Darcy, “was to show you, by every civility
+in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped
+to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you
+see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes
+introduced themselves, I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half
+an hour after I had seen you.”
+
+He then told her of Georgiana’s delight in her acquaintance, and of her
+disappointment at its sudden interruption; which naturally leading to
+the cause of that interruption, she soon learnt that his resolution of
+following her from Derbyshire in quest of her sister had been formed
+before he quitted the inn, and that his gravity and thoughtfulness there
+had arisen from no other struggles than what such a purpose must
+comprehend.
+
+She expressed her gratitude again, but it was too painful a subject to
+each to be dwelt on farther.
+
+After walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know
+anything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that
+it was time to be at home.
+
+“What could have become of Mr. Bingley and Jane?” was a wonder which
+introduced the discussion of _their_ affairs. Darcy was delighted with
+their engagement; his friend had given him the earliest information of
+it.
+
+“I must ask whether you were surprised?” said Elizabeth.
+
+“Not at all. When I went away, I felt that it would soon happen.”
+
+“That is to say, you had given your permission. I guessed as much.” And
+though he exclaimed at the term, she found that it had been pretty much
+the case.
+
+“On the evening before my going to London,” said he, “I made a
+confession to him, which I believe I ought to have made long ago. I told
+him of all that had occurred to make my former interference in his
+affairs absurd and impertinent. His surprise was great. He had never had
+the slightest suspicion. I told him, moreover, that I believed myself
+mistaken in supposing, as I had done, that your sister was indifferent
+to him; and as I could easily perceive that his attachment to her was
+unabated, I felt no doubt of their happiness together.”
+
+Elizabeth could not help smiling at his easy manner of directing his
+friend.
+
+“Did you speak from your own observation,” said she, “when you told him
+that my sister loved him, or merely from my information last spring?”
+
+“From the former. I had narrowly observed her, during the two visits
+which I had lately made her here; and I was convinced of her affection.”
+
+“And your assurance of it, I suppose, carried immediate conviction to
+him.”
+
+“It did. Bingley is most unaffectedly modest. His diffidence had
+prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but
+his reliance on mine made everything easy. I was obliged to confess one
+thing, which for a time, and not unjustly, offended him. I could not
+allow myself to conceal that your sister had been in town three months
+last winter, that I had known it, and purposely kept it from him. He was
+angry. But his anger, I am persuaded, lasted no longer than he remained
+in any doubt of your sister’s sentiments. He has heartily forgiven me
+now.”
+
+Elizabeth longed to observe that Mr. Bingley had been a most delightful
+friend; so easily guided that his worth was invaluable; but she checked
+herself. She remembered that he had yet to learn to be laughed at, and
+it was rather too early to begin. In anticipating the happiness of
+Bingley, which of course was to be inferior only to his own, he
+continued the conversation till they reached the house. In the hall they
+parted.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+     “Unable to utter a syllable”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“My dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to?” was a question
+which Elizabeth received from Jane as soon as she entered the room, and
+from all the others when they sat down to table. She had only to say in
+reply, that they had wandered about till she was beyond her own
+knowledge. She coloured as she spoke; but neither that, nor anything
+else, awakened a suspicion of the truth.
+
+The evening passed quietly, unmarked by anything extraordinary. The
+acknowledged lovers talked and laughed; the unacknowledged were silent.
+Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth;
+and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather _knew_ that she was happy
+than _felt_ herself to be so; for, besides the immediate embarrassment,
+there were other evils before her. She anticipated what would be felt in
+the family when her situation became known: she was aware that no one
+liked him but Jane; and even feared that with the others it was a
+_dislike_ which not all his fortune and consequence might do away.
+
+At night she opened her heart to Jane. Though suspicion was very far
+from Miss Bennet’s general habits, she was absolutely incredulous here.
+
+“You are joking, Lizzy. This cannot be! Engaged to Mr. Darcy! No, no,
+you shall not deceive me: I know it to be impossible.”
+
+“This is a wretched beginning, indeed! My sole dependence was on you;
+and I am sure nobody else will believe me, if you do not. Yet, indeed, I
+am in earnest. I speak nothing but the truth. He still loves me, and we
+are engaged.”
+
+Jane looked at her doubtingly. “Oh, Lizzy! it cannot be. I know how much
+you dislike him.”
+
+“You know nothing of the matter. _That_ is all to be forgot. Perhaps I
+did not always love him so well as I do now; but in such cases as these
+a good memory is unpardonable. This is the last time I shall ever
+remember it myself.”
+
+Miss Bennet still looked all amazement. Elizabeth again, and more
+seriously, assured her of its truth.
+
+“Good heaven! can it be really so? Yet now I must believe you,” cried
+Jane. “My dear, dear Lizzy, I would, I do congratulate you; but are you
+certain--forgive the question--are you quite certain that you can be
+happy with him?”
+
+“There can be no doubt of that. It is settled between us already that we
+are to be the happiest couple in the world. But are you pleased, Jane?
+Shall you like to have such a brother?”
+
+“Very, very much. Nothing could give either Bingley or myself more
+delight. But we considered it, we talked of it as impossible. And do you
+really love him quite well enough? Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than
+marry without affection. Are you quite sure that you feel what you ought
+to do?”
+
+“Oh, yes! You will only think I feel _more_ than I ought to do when I
+tell you all.”
+
+“What do you mean?”
+
+“Why, I must confess that I love him better than I do Bingley. I am
+afraid you will be angry.”
+
+“My dearest sister, now be, _be_ serious. I want to talk very seriously.
+Let me know everything that I am to know without delay. Will you tell me
+how long you have loved him?”
+
+“It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began;
+but I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds
+at Pemberley.”
+
+Another entreaty that she would be serious, however, produced the
+desired effect; and she soon satisfied Jane by her solemn assurances of
+attachment. When convinced on that article, Miss Bennet had nothing
+further to wish.
+
+“Now I am quite happy,” said she, “for you will be as happy as myself. I
+always had a value for him. Were it for nothing but his love of you, I
+must always have esteemed him; but now, as Bingley’s friend and your
+husband, there can be only Bingley and yourself more dear to me. But,
+Lizzy, you have been very sly, very reserved with me. How little did you
+tell me of what passed at Pemberley and Lambton! I owe all that I know
+of it to another, not to you.”
+
+Elizabeth told her the motives of her secrecy. She had been unwilling to
+mention Bingley; and the unsettled state of her own feelings had made
+her equally avoid the name of his friend: but now she would no longer
+conceal from her his share in Lydia’s marriage. All was acknowledged,
+and half the night spent in conversation.
+
+“Good gracious!” cried Mrs. Bennet, as she stood at a window the next
+morning, “if that disagreeable Mr. Darcy is not coming here again with
+our dear Bingley! What can he mean by being so tiresome as to be always
+coming here? I had no notion but he would go a-shooting, or something or
+other, and not disturb us with his company. What shall we do with him?
+Lizzy, you must walk out with him again, that he may not be in Bingley’s
+way.”
+
+Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet
+was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an
+epithet.
+
+As soon as they entered, Bingley looked at her so expressively, and
+shook hands with such warmth, as left no doubt of his good information;
+and he soon afterwards said aloud, “Mrs. Bennet, have you no more lanes
+hereabouts in which Lizzy may lose her way again to-day?”
+
+“I advise Mr. Darcy, and Lizzy, and Kitty,” said Mrs. Bennet, “to walk
+to Oakham Mount this morning. It is a nice long walk, and Mr. Darcy has
+never seen the view.”
+
+“It may do very well for the others,” replied Mr. Bingley; “but I am
+sure it will be too much for Kitty. Won’t it, Kitty?”
+
+Kitty owned that she had rather stay at home. Darcy professed a great
+curiosity to see the view from the Mount, and Elizabeth silently
+consented. As she went upstairs to get ready, Mrs. Bennet followed her,
+saying,--
+
+“I am quite sorry, Lizzy, that you should be forced to have that
+disagreeable man all to yourself; but I hope you will not mind it. It is
+all for Jane’s sake, you know; and there is no occasion for talking to
+him except just now and then; so do not put yourself to inconvenience.”
+
+During their walk, it was resolved that Mr. Bennet’s consent should be
+asked in the course of the evening: Elizabeth reserved to herself the
+application for her mother’s. She could not determine how her mother
+would take it; sometimes doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur
+would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man; but whether she
+were violently set against the match, or violently delighted with it, it
+was certain that her manner would be equally ill adapted to do credit to
+her sense; and she could no more bear that Mr. Darcy should hear the
+first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her
+disapprobation.
+
+In the evening, soon after Mr. Bennet withdrew to the library, she saw
+Mr. Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on seeing it was
+extreme. She did not fear her father’s opposition, but he was going to
+be made unhappy, and that it should be through her means; that _she_,
+his favourite child, should be distressing him by her choice, should be
+filling him with fears and regrets in disposing of her, was a wretched
+reflection, and she sat in misery till Mr. Darcy appeared again, when,
+looking at him, she was a little relieved by his smile. In a few minutes
+he approached the table where she was sitting with Kitty; and, while
+pretending to admire her work, said in a whisper, “Go to your father; he
+wants you in the library.” She was gone directly.
+
+Her father was walking about the room, looking grave and anxious.
+“Lizzy,” said he, “what are you doing? Are you out of your senses to be
+accepting this man? Have not you always hated him?”
+
+How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more
+reasonable, her expressions more moderate! It would have spared her from
+explanations and professions which it was exceedingly awkward to give;
+but they were now necessary, and she assured him, with some confusion,
+of her attachment to Mr. Darcy.
+
+“Or, in other words, you are determined to have him. He is rich, to be
+sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane.
+But will they make you happy?”
+
+“Have you any other objection,” said Elizabeth, “than your belief of my
+indifference?”
+
+“None at all. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but
+this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
+
+“I do, I do like him,” she replied, with tears in her eyes; “I love him.
+Indeed he has no improper pride. He is perfectly amiable. You do not
+know what he really is; then pray do not pain me by speaking of him in
+such terms.”
+
+“Lizzy,” said her father, “I have given him my consent. He is the kind
+of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse anything, which he
+condescended to ask. I now give it to _you_, if you are resolved on
+having him. But let me advise you to think better of it. I know your
+disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor
+respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband, unless you looked
+up to him as a superior. Your lively talents would place you in the
+greatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely escape
+discredit and misery. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing
+_you_ unable to respect your partner in life. You know not what you are
+about.”
+
+Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply;
+and, at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the
+object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her
+estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that
+his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many
+months’ suspense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities,
+she did conquer her father’s incredulity, and reconcile him to the
+match.
+
+“Well, my dear,” said he, when she ceased speaking, “I have no more to
+say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with
+you, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy.”
+
+To complete the favourable impression, she then told him what Mr. Darcy
+had voluntarily done for Lydia. He heard her with astonishment.
+
+“This is an evening of wonders, indeed! And so, Darcy did everything;
+made up the match, gave the money, paid the fellow’s debts, and got him
+his commission! So much the better. It will save me a world of trouble
+and economy. Had it been your uncle’s doing, I must and _would_ have
+paid him; but these violent young lovers carry everything their own
+way. I shall offer to pay him to-morrow, he will rant and storm about
+his love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.”
+
+He then recollected her embarrassment a few days before on his reading
+Mr. Collins’s letter; and after laughing at her some time, allowed her
+at last to go, saying, as she quitted the room, “If any young men come
+for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.”
+
+Elizabeth’s mind was now relieved from a very heavy weight; and, after
+half an hour’s quiet reflection in her own room, she was able to join
+the others with tolerable composure. Everything was too recent for
+gaiety, but the evening passed tranquilly away; there was no longer
+anything material to be dreaded, and the comfort of ease and familiarity
+would come in time.
+
+When her mother went up to her dressing-room at night, she followed her,
+and made the important communication. Its effect was most extraordinary;
+for, on first hearing it, Mrs. Bennet sat quite still, and unable to
+utter a syllable. Nor was it under many, many minutes, that she could
+comprehend what she heard, though not in general backward to credit what
+was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a
+lover to any of them. She began at length to recover, to fidget about in
+her chair, get up, sit down again, wonder, and bless herself.
+
+“Good gracious! Lord bless me! only think! dear me! Mr. Darcy! Who would
+have thought it? And is it really true? Oh, my sweetest Lizzy! how rich
+and how great you will be! What pin-money, what jewels, what carriages
+you will have! Jane’s is nothing to it--nothing at all. I am so
+pleased--so happy. Such a charming man! so handsome! so tall! Oh, my
+dear Lizzy! pray apologize for my having disliked him so much before. I
+hope he will overlook it. Dear, dear Lizzy. A house in town! Everything
+that is charming! Three daughters married! Ten thousand a year! Oh,
+Lord! what will become of me? I shall go distracted.”
+
+This was enough to prove that her approbation need not be doubted; and
+Elizabeth, rejoicing that such an effusion was heard only by herself,
+soon went away. But before she had been three minutes in her own room,
+her mother followed her.
+
+“My dearest child,” she cried, “I can think of nothing else. Ten
+thousand a year, and very likely more! ’Tis as good as a lord! And a
+special licence--you must and shall be married by a special licence.
+But, my dearest love, tell me what dish Mr. Darcy is particularly fond
+of, that I may have it to-morrow.”
+
+This was a sad omen of what her mother’s behaviour to the gentleman
+himself might be; and Elizabeth found that, though in the certain
+possession of his warmest affection, and secure of her relations’
+consent, there was still something to be wished for. But the morrow
+passed off much better than she expected; for Mrs. Bennet luckily stood
+in such awe of her intended son-in-law, that she ventured not to speak
+to him, unless it was in her power to offer him any attention, or mark
+her deference for his opinion.
+
+Elizabeth had the satisfaction of seeing her father taking pains to get
+acquainted with him; and Mr. Bennet soon assured her that he was rising
+every hour in his esteem.
+
+“I admire all my three sons-in-law highly,” said he. “Wickham, perhaps,
+is my favourite; but I think I shall like _your_ husband quite as well
+as Jane’s.”
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+“The obsequious civility.”
+
+[_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LX.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elizabeth’s spirits soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr.
+Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. “How could
+you begin?” said she. “I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when
+you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first
+place?”
+
+“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which
+laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I
+knew that I _had_ begun.”
+
+“My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners--my behaviour
+to _you_ was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke
+to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now, be
+sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?”
+
+“For the liveliness of your mind I did.”
+
+“You may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less.
+The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious
+attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking,
+and looking, and thinking for _your_ approbation alone. I roused and
+interested you, because I was so unlike _them_. Had you not been really
+amiable you would have hated me for it: but in spite of the pains you
+took to disguise yourself, your feelings were always noble and just; and
+in your heart you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously
+courted you. There--I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it;
+and really, all things considered, I begin to think it perfectly
+reasonable. To be sure you know no actual good of me--but nobody thinks
+of _that_ when they fall in love.”
+
+“Was there no good in your affectionate behaviour to Jane, while she was
+ill at Netherfield?”
+
+“Dearest Jane! who could have done less for her? But make a virtue of it
+by all means. My good qualities are under your protection, and you are
+to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me
+to find occasions for teasing and quarrelling with you as often as may
+be; and I shall begin directly, by asking you what made you so unwilling
+to come to the point at last? What made you so shy of me, when you
+first called, and afterwards dined here? Why, especially, when you
+called, did you look as if you did not care about me?”
+
+“Because you were grave and silent, and gave me no encouragement.”
+
+“But I was embarrassed.”
+
+“And so was I.”
+
+“You might have talked to me more when you came to dinner.”
+
+“A man who had felt less might.”
+
+“How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that
+I should be so reasonable as to admit it! But I wonder how long you
+_would_ have gone on, if you had been left to yourself. I wonder when
+you _would_ have spoken if I had not asked you! My resolution of
+thanking you for your kindness to Lydia had certainly great effect. _Too
+much_, I am afraid; for what becomes of the moral, if our comfort
+springs from a breach of promise, for I ought not to have mentioned the
+subject? This will never do.”
+
+“You need not distress yourself. The moral will be perfectly fair. Lady
+Catherine’s unjustifiable endeavours to separate us were the means of
+removing all my doubts. I am not indebted for my present happiness to
+your eager desire of expressing your gratitude. I was not in a humour to
+wait for an opening of yours. My aunt’s intelligence had given me hope,
+and I was determined at once to know everything.”
+
+“Lady Catherine has been of infinite use, which ought to make her happy,
+for she loves to be of use. But tell me, what did you come down to
+Netherfield for? Was it merely to ride to Longbourn and be embarrassed?
+or had you intended any more serious consequences?”
+
+“My real purpose was to see _you_, and to judge, if I could, whether I
+might ever hope to make you love me. My avowed one, or what I avowed to
+myself, was to see whether your sister was still partial to Bingley, and
+if she were, to make the confession to him which I have since made.”
+
+“Shall you ever have courage to announce to Lady Catherine what is to
+befall her?”
+
+“I am more likely to want time than courage, Elizabeth. But it ought to
+be done; and if you will give me a sheet of paper it shall be done
+directly.”
+
+“And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you, and
+admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But
+I have an aunt, too, who must not be longer neglected.”
+
+From an unwillingness to confess how much her intimacy with Mr. Darcy
+had been overrated, Elizabeth had never yet answered Mrs. Gardiner’s
+long letter; but now, having _that_ to communicate which she knew would
+be most welcome, she was almost ashamed to find that her uncle and aunt
+had already lost three days of happiness, and immediately wrote as
+follows:--
+
+“I would have thanked you before, my dear aunt, as I ought to have done,
+for your long, kind, satisfactory detail of particulars; but, to say the
+truth, I was too cross to write. You supposed more than really existed.
+But _now_ suppose as much as you choose; give a loose to your fancy,
+indulge your imagination in every possible flight which the subject will
+afford, and unless you believe me actually married, you cannot greatly
+err. You must write again very soon, and praise him a great deal more
+than you did in your last. I thank you again and again, for not going to
+the Lakes. How could I be so silly as to wish it! Your idea of the
+ponies is delightful. We will go round the park every day. I am the
+happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so
+before, but no one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she
+only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that
+can be spared from me. You are all to come to Pemberley at Christmas.
+Yours,” etc.
+
+Mr. Darcy’s letter to Lady Catherine was in a different style, and still
+different from either was what Mr. Bennet sent to Mr. Collins, in return
+for his last.
+
+     /* “Dear Sir, */
+
+     “I must trouble you once more for congratulations. Elizabeth will
+     soon be the wife of Mr. Darcy. Console Lady Catherine as well as
+     you can. But, if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has
+     more to give.
+
+“Yours sincerely,” etc.
+
+Miss Bingley’s congratulations to her brother on his approaching
+marriage were all that was affectionate and insincere. She wrote even to
+Jane on the occasion, to express her delight, and repeat all her former
+professions of regard. Jane was not deceived, but she was affected; and
+though feeling no reliance on her, could not help writing her a much
+kinder answer than she knew was deserved.
+
+The joy which Miss Darcy expressed on receiving similar information was
+as sincere as her brother’s in sending it. Four sides of paper were
+insufficient to contain all her delight, and all her earnest desire of
+being loved by her sister.
+
+Before any answer could arrive from Mr. Collins, or any congratulations
+to Elizabeth from his wife, the Longbourn family heard that the
+Collinses were come themselves to Lucas Lodge. The reason of this
+sudden removal was soon evident. Lady Catherine had been rendered so
+exceedingly angry by the contents of her nephew’s letter, that
+Charlotte, really rejoicing in the match, was anxious to get away till
+the storm was blown over. At such a moment, the arrival of her friend
+was a sincere pleasure to Elizabeth, though in the course of their
+meetings she must sometimes think the pleasure dearly bought, when she
+saw Mr. Darcy exposed to all the parading and obsequious civility of her
+husband. He bore it, however, with admirable calmness. He could even
+listen to Sir William Lucas, when he complimented him on carrying away
+the brightest jewel of the country, and expressed his hopes of their all
+meeting frequently at St. James’s, with very decent composure. If he did
+shrug his shoulders, it was not till Sir William was out of sight.
+
+Mrs. Philips’s vulgarity was another, and, perhaps, a greater tax on his
+forbearance; and though Mrs. Philips, as well as her sister, stood in
+too much awe of him to speak with the familiarity which Bingley’s
+good-humour encouraged; yet, whenever she _did_ speak, she must be
+vulgar. Nor was her respect for him, though it made her more quiet, at
+all likely to make her more elegant. Elizabeth did all she could to
+shield him from the frequent notice of either, and was ever anxious to
+keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might
+converse without mortification; and though the uncomfortable feelings
+arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its
+pleasure, it added to the hope of the future; and she looked forward
+with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so
+little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and elegance of their
+family party at Pemberley.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXI.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got
+rid of her two most deserving daughters. With what delighted pride she
+afterwards visited Mrs. Bingley, and talked of Mrs. Darcy, may be
+guessed. I wish I could say, for the sake of her family, that the
+accomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of
+her children produced so happy an effect as to make her a sensible,
+amiable, well-informed woman for the rest of her life; though, perhaps,
+it was lucky for her husband, who might not have relished domestic
+felicity in so unusual a form, that she still was occasionally nervous
+and invariably silly.
+
+Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her
+drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in
+going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.
+
+Mr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth. So near
+a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to
+_his_ easy temper, or _her_ affectionate heart. The darling wish of his
+sisters was then gratified: he bought an estate in a neighbouring county
+to Derbyshire; and Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source
+of happiness, were within thirty miles of each other.
+
+Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with
+her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally
+known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a
+temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia’s example, she
+became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less
+ignorant, and less insipid. From the further disadvantage of Lydia’s
+society she was of course carefully kept; and though Mrs. Wickham
+frequently invited her to come and stay with her, with the promise of
+balls and young men, her father would never consent to her going.
+
+Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily
+drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet’s being quite
+unable to sit alone. Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but
+she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no
+longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters’ beauty and her own,
+it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without
+much reluctance.
+
+As for Wickham and Lydia, their characters suffered no revolution from
+the marriage of her sisters. He bore with philosophy the conviction that
+Elizabeth must now become acquainted with whatever of his ingratitude
+and falsehood had before been unknown to her; and, in spite of
+everything, was not wholly without hope that Darcy might yet be
+prevailed on to make his fortune. The congratulatory letter which
+Elizabeth received from Lydia on her marriage explained to her that, by
+his wife at least, if not by himself, such a hope was cherished. The
+letter was to this effect:--
+
+     /* “My dear Lizzy, */
+
+     “I wish you joy. If you love Mr. Darcy half so well as I do my dear
+     Wickham, you must be very happy. It is a great comfort to have you
+     so rich; and when you have nothing else to do, I hope you will
+     think of us. I am sure Wickham would like a place at court very
+     much; and I do not think we shall have quite money enough to live
+     upon without some help. Any place would do of about three or four
+     hundred a year; but, however, do not speak to Mr. Darcy about it,
+     if you had rather not.
+
+“Yours,” etc.
+
+As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in
+her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind.
+Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford, by the practice
+of what might be called economy in her own private expenses, she
+frequently sent them. It had always been evident to her that such an
+income as theirs, under the direction of two persons so extravagant in
+their wants, and heedless of the future, must be very insufficient to
+their support; and whenever they changed their quarters, either Jane or
+herself were sure of being applied to for some little assistance towards
+discharging their bills. Their manner of living, even when the
+restoration of peace dismissed them to a home, was unsettled in the
+extreme. They were always moving from place to place in quest of a
+cheap situation, and always spending more than they ought. His affection
+for her soon sunk into indifference: hers lasted a little longer; and,
+in spite of her youth and her manners, she retained all the claims to
+reputation which her marriage had given her. Though Darcy could never
+receive _him_ at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth’s sake, he assisted him
+further in his profession. Lydia was occasionally a visitor there, when
+her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or Bath; and with the
+Bingleys they both of them frequently stayed so long, that even
+Bingley’s good-humour was overcome, and he proceeded so far as to _talk_
+of giving them a hint to be gone.
+
+Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy’s marriage; but as she
+thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at Pemberley, she
+dropped all her resentment; was fonder than ever of Georgiana, almost as
+attentive to Darcy as heretofore, and paid off every arrear of civility
+to Elizabeth.
+
+Pemberley was now Georgiana’s home; and the attachment of the sisters
+was exactly what Darcy had hoped to see. They were able to love each
+other, even as well as they intended. Georgiana had the highest opinion
+in the world of Elizabeth; though at first she often listened with an
+astonishment bordering on alarm at her lively, sportive manner of
+talking to her brother. He, who had always inspired in herself a respect
+which almost overcame her affection, she now saw the object of open
+pleasantry. Her mind received knowledge which had never before fallen in
+her way. By Elizabeth’s instructions she began to comprehend that a
+woman may take liberties with her husband, which a brother will not
+always allow in a sister more than ten years younger than himself.
+
+Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew;
+and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of her character, in
+her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him
+language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time
+all intercourse was at an end. But at length, by Elizabeth’s persuasion,
+he was prevailed on to overlook the offence, and seek a reconciliation;
+and, after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt, her
+resentment gave way, either to her affection for him, or her curiosity
+to see how his wife conducted herself; and she condescended to wait on
+them at Pemberley, in spite of that pollution which its woods had
+received, not merely from the presence of such a mistress, but the
+visits of her uncle and aunt from the city.
+
+With the Gardiners they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy,
+as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever
+sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing
+her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.
+
+                            [Illustration:
+
+                                  THE
+                                  END
+                                   ]
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diff --git a/experiments/text_sources/upload_to_ceph.sh b/experiments/text_sources/upload_to_ceph.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..289db826
--- /dev/null
+++ b/experiments/text_sources/upload_to_ceph.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# write bash script that loops through the pwd and upload all txt files to ceph rados pool with key as the filename
+# and value as the content of the file
+# use rados put to upload the files
+# use rados -p pool_name put key_name file_name
+
+# get the current directory
+current_dir=$(pwd)
+
+# loop through the current directory
+for file in $current_dir/*
+do
+    # check if the file is a text file
+    if [[ $file == *.txt ]]
+    then
+        # get the filename
+        filename=$(basename $file)
+        # upload the file to ceph rados pool
+        rados put -p ndp $filename $file
+    fi
+done
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/faasm_cpp_config.ini b/faasm_cpp_config.ini
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f87a65b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/faasm_cpp_config.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[Faasm]
+invoke_host = worker-0
+upload_host = upload
+invoke_port = 8080
+upload_port = 8002
+all_workers = worker-0,worker-1,worker-2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/faasmloadbalancer/ILoadBalanceStrategy.py b/faasmloadbalancer/ILoadBalanceStrategy.py
index 35ae7396..3d5ca03a 100644
--- a/faasmloadbalancer/ILoadBalanceStrategy.py
+++ b/faasmloadbalancer/ILoadBalanceStrategy.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 class ILoadBalanceStrategy(ABC):
     
     @abstractmethod
-    def get_next_host(self, user, func_name):
+    def get_next_host(self, user=None, func_name=None):
         pass
     
     
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/faasmloadbalancer/MetricsLoadBalancer.py b/faasmloadbalancer/MetricsLoadBalancer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b59d7ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/faasmloadbalancer/MetricsLoadBalancer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+from faasmloadbalancer.ILoadBalanceStrategy import ILoadBalanceStrategy
+
+class MetricsLoadBalancer(ILoadBalanceStrategy):
+    def __init__(self, workers):
+        self.workers = workers
+
+    def _request_load_average(self, worker):
+        
+        pass
+        
+    def get_next_host(self, user=None, func_name=None):
+        
+        # Get the UNIX Load Average for each worker
+        # load_avgs = {worker: self._request_load_average(worker) for worker in self.workers}
+        
+        # On the Faabric side - we need to handle this message that is passed to the worker and return based
+        # on getUtilisationStats() in the worker
+        
+        # Select the worker with the lowest load average
+        # selected_worker = min(load_avgs, key=load_avgs.get)
+        
+        # return selected_worker
+        pass
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/faasmloadbalancer/RoundRobinLoadBalancer.py b/faasmloadbalancer/RoundRobinLoadBalancer.py
index 445d6464..915b4d34 100644
--- a/faasmloadbalancer/RoundRobinLoadBalancer.py
+++ b/faasmloadbalancer/RoundRobinLoadBalancer.py
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import itertools
 from faasmloadbalancer.ILoadBalanceStrategy import ILoadBalanceStrategy
-
+import threading
 class RoundRobinLoadBalancerStrategy(ILoadBalanceStrategy):
     def __init__(self, workers):
         self.workers = workers
         self.worker_iterator = itertools.cycle(workers)
+        print("Creating RoundRobinLoadBalancerStrategy with {} workers".format(len(workers)))
         
-    def get_next_host(self):
+    def get_next_host(self, user=None, func_name=None):
         return next(self.worker_iterator)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/faasmloadbalancer/WorkerHashLoadBalancer.py b/faasmloadbalancer/WorkerHashLoadBalancer.py
index 998e4f82..baa9d861 100644
--- a/faasmloadbalancer/WorkerHashLoadBalancer.py
+++ b/faasmloadbalancer/WorkerHashLoadBalancer.py
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ class WorkerHashLoadBalancerStrategy(ILoadBalanceStrategy):
     def __init__(self, workers):
         self.workers = workers
 
-    def get_next_host(self, task_id) -> str:
+    def get_next_host(self, user=None, func=None) -> str:
         # Calculate the hash of the task ID
-        hash_value = hash(task_id)
+        hash_value = hash(user + func)
 
         # Get the index of the worker based on the hash value
         worker_index = hash_value % len(self.workers)
 
-        # Return the worker ID
+        #Return the worker ID
         return self.workers[worker_index]
+        
diff --git a/faasmtools/__init__.py b/faasmtools/__init__.py
index 24b3cf65..a517c684 100644
--- a/faasmtools/__init__.py
+++ b/faasmtools/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1 @@
-# flake8: noqa
-from . import build
-from . import docker
-from . import env
-from . import git
+# flake8: noqa
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/faasmtools/endpoints.py b/faasmtools/endpoints.py
index c492ad41..02c59306 100644
--- a/faasmtools/endpoints.py
+++ b/faasmtools/endpoints.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from configparser import ConfigParser
 from os.path import expanduser, join, exists
 
-FAASM_INI_FILE = join(expanduser("~"), ".config", "faasm.ini")
+FAASM_INI_FILE = "/code/cpp/faasm_cpp_config.ini"
 
 DEFAULT_KNATIVE_HEADERS = {"Host": "faasm-worker.faasm.example.com"}
 
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 DEFAULT_INVOKE_PORT = 8080
 DEFAULT_UPLOAD_PORT = 8002
 
+def get_all_worker_addresses():
+    parser = ConfigParser()
+    parser.read(FAASM_INI_FILE)
+    return parser["Faasm"].get("all_workers", "").split(",")
 
 def faasm_config_exists():
     return exists(FAASM_INI_FILE)
diff --git a/faasmtools/env.py b/faasmtools/env.py
index a6618df2..656f66c1 100644
--- a/faasmtools/env.py
+++ b/faasmtools/env.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 VERSION_FILE = join(PROJ_ROOT, "VERSION")
 LLVM_VERSION = "10.0.1"
 
-
 def get_version():
     with open(VERSION_FILE) as fh:
         ver = fh.read()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1ad6238e..af296920 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ black==22.3.0
 flake8==4.0.1
 invoke==1.7.1
 requests==2.25.1
+aiohttp==3.9.3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tasks/__init__.py b/tasks/__init__.py
index 1f7a8c0b..c06a59a0 100644
--- a/tasks/__init__.py
+++ b/tasks/__init__.py
@@ -14,12 +14,14 @@
 from . import libfake
 from . import libffi
 from . import zlib
+from . import benchmark
 
 ns = Collection(
     clapack,
     docker,
     format_code,
     func,
+    benchmark,
     git,
     install,
     libc,
diff --git a/tasks/benchmark.py b/tasks/benchmark.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0268334b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/benchmark.py
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+from invoke import task
+
+import asyncio
+import time
+import aiohttp
+
+from faasmloadbalancer.RoundRobinLoadBalancer import RoundRobinLoadBalancerStrategy
+from faasmloadbalancer.WorkerHashLoadBalancer import WorkerHashLoadBalancerStrategy
+from faasmloadbalancer.MetricsLoadBalancer import MetricsLoadBalancer
+from faasmtools.endpoints import get_all_worker_addresses
+from . import func
+import threading
+
+WORKER_ADDRESSES = get_all_worker_addresses()
+ROUND_ROBIN_BALANCER = RoundRobinLoadBalancerStrategy(WORKER_ADDRESSES)
+WORKER_HASH_BALANCER = WorkerHashLoadBalancerStrategy(WORKER_ADDRESSES)
+
+
+selected_balancer = ROUND_ROBIN_BALANCER
+
+@task
+def test_load_balancer(ctx, user, rados_func, input_data, load_balance_strategy, n, async_toggle, forbid_ndp):
+    
+    number_iterations = int(n)
+    
+    # create file to store results
+    fp = "./experiments/results/" + time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") + "_" + load_balance_strategy + "_results.csv"
+    results_file = open(fp, "a")
+    
+    with open(fp, "a") as results_file:
+        results_file.write("Input data" + "," + input_data + "\n")
+        results_file.write("user" + "," + user + "\n")
+        results_file.write("function" + "," + rados_func + "\n")
+        results_file.write("async toggle" + "," + str(async_toggle) + "\n")
+        results_file.write("forbid ndp" + "," + str(forbid_ndp) + "\n")
+        results_file.write("load balance strategy" + "," + load_balance_strategy + "\n")
+        results_file.write("iteration, latency\n")
+        for i in range(0, number_iterations):
+            print("Iteration: {}/{}".format(i, number_iterations))
+            latency = func.dispatch_function(ctx, user, rados_func, input_data, load_balance_strategy, async_toggle, forbid_ndp)
+            results_file.write(str(i) + "," + str(latency) + "\n")
+
+async def dispatch_func_async(session, url, data, headers):
+    start_time = time.perf_counter()
+    async with session.post(url, json=data, headers=headers) as response:
+        end_time = time.perf_counter()
+        await response.text()
+        return end_time - start_time
+   
+async def batch_send(data, headers, batch_size, load_balancer):
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
+        tasks = []
+        for _ in range(batch_size):
+            with threading.Lock():
+                worker_id = load_balancer.get_next_host(data["user"], data["function"])
+                url = "http://{}:{}/f/".format(worker_id, 8080)
+                tasks.append(dispatch_func_async(session, url, data, headers))
+            await asyncio.sleep(1/batch_size)
+
+        responses= await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+        return responses
+
+@task
+def throughput_test(ctx, user, rados_func, input_data, load_balance_strategy, n, async_toggle, forbid_ndp):
+    
+    results = []
+    
+    if load_balance_strategy.lower() == "roundrobin":
+        selected_balancer = ROUND_ROBIN_BALANCER
+    elif load_balance_strategy.lower() == "workerhash":
+        selected_balancer = WORKER_HASH_BALANCER
+    elif load_balance_strategy.lower() == "metrics":
+        selected_balancer = METRICS_LOAD_BALANCER
+    else:
+        print("Invalid load balancer strategy: ", load_balance_strategy)
+        exit(1)
+        
+    print("Getting load balancer: ", selected_balancer)
+    data = {
+        "function": rados_func,
+        "user": user,
+        "input_data": input_data
+    }
+    
+    headers = { "Content-Type" : "application/json" }
+    
+    if async_toggle.lower() == "true":
+        data["async"] = True
+    
+    if forbid_ndp.lower() == "true":
+        print("Forbidding NDP:")
+        data["forbid_ndp"] = True
+    
+    ITERATIONS = int(n)
+    for i in range(1, ITERATIONS):
+        latencies = []
+        start_time = time.perf_counter()
+        print("Running a batch of size: ", i)
+        latencies = asyncio.run(batch_send(data, headers, i, selected_balancer))
+        end_time = time.perf_counter()
+        print("Time taken to run batch: ", end_time - start_time)
+        
+        result_dict = {
+            "batch_size": i,
+            "mean_latency" : sum(latencies)/len(latencies),
+            "median_latency": sorted(latencies)[len(latencies)//2],
+            "time_taken": end_time - start_time            
+        }
+        
+        print("Result: ", result_dict)
+        results.append(result_dict)
+        
+    # Save results to timestamped file
+    timestamp = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
+    with open(f"./experiments/results/{timestamp}_{rados_func}_{load_balance_strategy}_{forbid_ndp}", "a") as f:
+        
+        # Write header containing all metadata
+        f.write("User,{user}\n")
+        f.write("Function,{rados_func}\n")
+        f.write("Input Data,{input_data}\n")
+        f.write("Num Runs,{num_runs}\n")
+        f.write("Load Balance Strategy,{load_balance_strategy}\n")
+        f.write("Async Toggled,{async_toggle}\n")
+        f.write("Forbid NDP,{forbid_ndp}\n")
+        
+        
+        f.write("Batch Size,Mean Latency,Median Latency,Time Taken\n")        
+        for result in results:
+            f.write(f"{result['batch_size']},{result['mean_latency']},{result['median_latency']},{result['time_taken']},\n")
+        
+@task
+def gather_loads(ctx, user, rados_func, input_data, n):
+    load_balancer = METRICS_LOAD_BALANCER
+    
+    pass
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diff --git a/tasks/func.py b/tasks/func.py
index 22d9f081..f54de2d0 100644
--- a/tasks/func.py
+++ b/tasks/func.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from shutil import rmtree
 from subprocess import run
 import requests
+import time
 from invoke import task
 
 from faasmtools.env import PROJ_ROOT
@@ -10,12 +11,14 @@
     get_faasm_invoke_host_port,
     get_faasm_upload_host_port,
     get_knative_headers,
+    get_all_worker_addresses,
 )
 
 # Load Balancer imports
 from faasmtools.compile_util import wasm_cmake, wasm_copy_upload
 from faasmloadbalancer.RoundRobinLoadBalancer import RoundRobinLoadBalancerStrategy
 from faasmloadbalancer.WorkerHashLoadBalancer import WorkerHashLoadBalancerStrategy
+from faasmloadbalancer.MetricsLoadBalancer import MetricsLoadBalancer
 
 FAABRIC_MSG_TYPE_FLUSH = 3
 
@@ -23,10 +26,11 @@
 FUNC_BUILD_DIR = join(PROJ_ROOT, "build", "func")
 NATIVE_FUNC_BUILD_DIR = join(PROJ_ROOT, "build", "native-func")
 
-WORKER_ADDRESSES = ['worker-0', 'worker-1', 'worker-2']
+WORKER_ADDRESSES = get_all_worker_addresses()
 
 round_robin_balancer = RoundRobinLoadBalancerStrategy(WORKER_ADDRESSES)
 worker_hash_balancer = WorkerHashLoadBalancerStrategy(WORKER_ADDRESSES)
+load_average_balancer = MetricsLoadBalancer(WORKER_ADDRESSES)
 
 def _get_all_user_funcs(user):
     # Work out all the functions for this user (that we assume will have been
@@ -107,13 +111,11 @@ def upload_user(ctx, user):
 
 
 @task
-def invoke(ctx, user, func, input_data, mpi=None, graph=False):
+def invoke(ctx, user, func, input_data, mpi=None, graph=False, forbid_ndp=False):
     """
     Invoke a given function
     """
-    # host, port = get_faasm_invoke_host_port()
-    host = "worker-0"
-    port = 8080
+    host, port = get_faasm_invoke_host_port()
     url = "http://{}:{}/f/".format(host, port)
     data = {
         "function": func,
@@ -132,22 +134,25 @@ def invoke(ctx, user, func, input_data, mpi=None, graph=False):
     if graph:
         data["record_exec_graph"] = True
         data["async"] = True
-
+    
+    if forbid_ndp:
+        data["forbid_ndp"] = forbid_ndp
     # headers = get_knative_headers()
     headers =  { "Content-Type" : "application/json" }
     print("Headers: {}".format(headers))
     print("Data: {}".format(data))
     
     response = requests.post(url, json=data, headers=headers)
-
     if response.status_code != 200:
         print("Error ({}):\n{}".format(response.status_code, response.text))
         exit(1)
-
-    print("Success:\n{}".format(response.text))
-
+        
+    print("Response: {}".format(response.text))
+    print("Latency: {}".format(response.elapsed.total_seconds()))
+    print("-----------------------------")
+    
 @task
-def dispatch_function(ctx, user, func, input_data, load_balance_strategy, mpi=None, graph=False):
+def dispatch_function(ctx, user, func, input_data, load_balance_strategy, async_toggle, forbid_ndp, mpi=None, graph=False):
     print("Running function: {}_{}".format(user, func))
     print("Initialising load balancer")
     
@@ -161,8 +166,8 @@ def dispatch_function(ctx, user, func, input_data, load_balance_strategy, mpi=No
     
     host, port = get_faasm_invoke_host_port()
     
-    balancer = get_load_balancer("roundrobin")
-    worker_to_run_on = balancer.get_next_host()
+    balancer = get_load_balancer(load_balance_strategy)
+    worker_to_run_on = balancer.get_next_host(user + "_" + func)
     print("Running on worker: {}".format(worker_to_run_on))
     
     port = 8080
@@ -185,24 +190,37 @@ def dispatch_function(ctx, user, func, input_data, load_balance_strategy, mpi=No
         data["record_exec_graph"] = True
         data["async"] = True
 
+    if async_toggle.lower() == "true":
+        data["async"] = True
+    else:
+        data["async"] = False
+        
+    if forbid_ndp.lower() == "true":
+        data["forbid_ndp"] = True
+    else:
+        data["forbid_ndp"] = False
+        
+    print("Async: {}".format(data['async']))
+    print("Forbid_ndp: {}".format(data['forbid_ndp']))
     # headers = get_knative_headers()
     headers =  { "Content-Type" : "application/json" }
     print("Headers: {}".format(headers))
     print("Data: {}".format(data))
     
     response = requests.post(url, json=data, headers=headers)
+    
+    print("Latency: {}".format(response.elapsed.total_seconds()))
 
     if response.status_code != 200:
         print("Error ({}):\n{}".format(response.status_code, response.text))
         exit(1)
+    
+    print("Success!")
+    print("-----------------------------")
+    
+    return response.elapsed.total_seconds()
 
-    print("Success:\n{}".format(response.text))
 
-@task
-def test_load_balancer(ctx, user, func, input_data):
-    for i in range(0, 10):
-        dispatch_function(ctx, user, func, input_data)
-        
 @task
 def update(ctx, user, func, clean=False, debug=False, native=False):
     """
@@ -270,6 +288,9 @@ def get_load_balancer(strategy_name: str):
     elif (strategy_name.lower() == "workerhash" or strategy_name.lower() == "worker_hash"):
         print("Using worker hash load balancer")
         return worker_hash_balancer
+    elif (strategy_name.lower() == "metrics" or strategy_name.lower() == "metricsloadbalancer"):
+        print("Using metrics load balancer")
+        return metrics_balancer
     else:
         print("Invalid load balancer strategy name: {}".format(strategy_name))
         print("Returning round robin load balancer by default")